Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 1

LINCOLN DAILY NEWS THIRTY-THIRD YEAR. NEBRASKA, A A NOVEMBER 22, PRICE TWO CENTa WILL MAKE TWO RATES FOR ELECTRIC CURRENT Traction Company Announces Intention to Make Tariff for Cooking Purposes Less Than half Lighting Figure. The Lincoln Traction company has adopted a new rate on electricity if the product la used for cooking purposes. It proposes to sell the current anywhere in the city for 5 cents per kilowatt, the minimum bill not to fall Jl a month. Discounts are allowed on this rate which makes the flat charge for current, so long as it Is used for cooking just 4 1-2 cents per kilowatt.

Consumers who make contracts for current for this purpose, will have an extra meter installed by the company, and will thereafter be paying two rates ofr electricity. If they are among the many consumers who use twenty to twenty-five kilowatts of current a month for lighting, they will be paying 13 cents per kilowatt for the current directed Into the lighting bulbs, and 5 cents per kilowatt for the current, coining in over the same wires, out used for cooking. Discount considered the consumer will pay 11.7 cents per kilowatt for light, and 4.5 cents per kilowatt for cooking- current. The gas company does not join in this new rate. In the past few years It has been charged that a gentlemen's agreement exists between the two companies, whereby there is but slight variation in the schedules of the two.

While the younger was invading the territory and build'ng up a business a rate w4r existed, particularly affecting- the large consumers. Some of the resulting- contracts still are in force, although there is an effort, on the part of both companies to cancel them and Inaugurate a higher rate, that is, the standard rate published. In the case of th's cooking rate the Sas company would, by installing a rate to coax the use of electric current for the purpose, be merely transferring revenue from one department to another. If it sold electricity for cook- Ing purposes it would be cutting down the consumption of gas. Stockholders of the company putting Into effect this new rate are not all wrreed as to its advisability.

There has been constant minority insistence among the directors in years past for a readjustment of rates the difference between that offered--tne large and that charged the small consumer would not be so marked. At the present time the trnnge '4s 3 cents per kilowatt to 13 cents kilowatt An adjustment was marta. The larger consumers were not given the very lowi rate of the. past! except for a -fewj of the heavy business rate consumers. to 13 cents.

i failure to farther reduce the rate Is said by many, including' private corporation stockholders, to be responsible for the agitation for municipal lighting, and this fact was recognized enough by the city In passing the ordinance which embarks it upon commercial lighting. It merely Intended to care for the small consumer, the man who uses less than forty kilowatts of current a month. Some officers of the private companies argue that the 13 cent rate is justified when applied to the consumer of $2 or less worth of current a month. They say the investment in plant, wires, and transformers, the loss of current in transmitting to distant parts of the city, the cost of reading meters, keeping the books, making the collections, and doing what gratuitous work is demanded, makes the 13 cent rate anything but profitable. Now the one company proposes to take current manufactured and delivered at the switchboard at the same price for cooking and lighting, transmitted over the same wires, the same distance, meeting the same loss in transit, and to sell it for 40 per cent ol che rate on lighting current in the same residence.

The report of the president of the Lincoln Transit company made this week showed an average cost of manufacturing- current at the switchboard of the plant for a year was 1.62 cents per kilowatt One fighting company official figures the loss of current In transmission over wires and transformer at 25 per cent. The householder whose current consumption is twenty kilowatts a month uses an average of two-thirds of a kilowatt of plant capacity. The theoretical cost of the electric plant is said to be $150 per kilowatt of capacity. To this is added the cost of wires, poles, trans- "rmers. service wiring and meters.

The private companies maintain that the charge of $1.75 per month flat as interest on total investment for each consumer is a fair and equitable 'offer. The 4:5 cent rate for current to be used for cooking is defended -on the ground that it takes up some current that would not otherwise be used; "that any such company has certain overhead charges anywa3" which are not affected by a moderate increase in consumption, and that the investment in wires, poles, plant equipment and transformers is already' there. The sales, they say, of extra current even at a very moderate profit is a justifiable venture, as it spreads the overhead charges and interest on plant investment over a larger consumption, and reduces the share charged to each kilowatt manufactured. Some others who have commented on the new rate wonder how the corporation can sell current In. a particular STREET CAR PATRONS MAKING SOME THREATS Will Carry Protest About Service to Railway Commission and Will Tear Up the Track If They Have to.

THE POT AND THE KETTLE --BOTH PRETTY BLACK The small at "'and again' at the 11-7 cent rate, discount figures, out, and still justify the two rates. I Wheat Has acer Mining Backed Off Map as an Industry Many a Nehraskan has plunged into the frozen wastes of Alaska after the elusive placer mine. To all those who have rushed, shivered and lost the following comparison, compiled from fig- tires on file in the office of the state board of may prove interesting. Since gold mining began in Alaska the gold placers of Alaska have yielded 7,48,491 ounces of fine gold. The value, of the output is fixed at $154,800,875.

This has been the total output of the mines from 1880 until fie present time. Till Nebraska wheat crop of 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913 sold for 21S. In other words the wheat crop for a four year period would pay for the entire output of the Alaska gold mines and there would be a balance of in favor of Nebraska. The wheat wealth comes from the surface of the ground. The placer mining is conducted under conditions most distressing.

Fhe gold must be taken from the frozen earth for the Alaska climate is such that a few feel the surface the frost is eternal, lu Nebraska competency, ability and industry count in the wheat raising industry. In Alaska finding the gold is a matter of chance. Even after a paying mine Is located the supply mav ntn out at any minute. The wheat crop offers a comparatively sure thins: with odds in the favor of the hustler. The cold miner i chants the rainbows and the moon-' booms with no premiums in sicht for industry.

between Erie and Cleveland was 65 cents. Then the Federal Telephone and Telegraph company, an. independent organisation, entered the field and forced the Bell to cut its Erie Cleveland rate from 65 to 30 cents. FINDS COMFORT IN ROW BETWEEN OIL MAGNATES of What Administration Thinks IS Behfed Mexico Will Help Its Plans. WASHINGTON, Xov.

22. Because Washington through John a the rival oil interests in Mexico are I Nelson O'Shaughnessy, charge d' Af- and Sunday; cooler Sunday and in north THE WEATHER 1 a.m 2 a. ni. a. m.

4 a. m. 5 a. m. 6 a.

in. 7 a. m. Today's Temperatures, JG i a. 46 -15 45 44 a.

43 44 a. 44 11 a. in 47 12 noon 51 The state railway commission will bo asked to take a hand In the Bast fetroet car controversy If tho city commissioners do not take immediate action to secure more satisfactory service from the Traction company. Such was the ultimatum delivered to Mayor Zehrunp- at the city this morning 1 by E. IX Beach of 2846 street, spokesman for the East patrons, and one of the Kast Lincoln citizens who circulated a petition for better service.

The petition was presented to the city commissioners at their meeting last week. It contained tho signatures of 33S persons. Mr. Beach said that he had come to the city hall to find out whether or not tho commission, had made any move. The East street car matter was not a second gas case and they were not going to let the matter run along without any effort to remedy conditions.

If the city commissioners do not take action they will appeal to the state railway commissioners. If they could not get a remedy In that way he did not know what would happen. Some of the people out there were in a bitter enough mood to tear up the track but they did not want to sec any thing like that done. They wanted to get relief by lawful means. Mayor Zehrung assured Mr.

Beach that he had had a conference with Manager Bramletto and that Mr. Bramlette had promised that the Kast patrons will be given a fifteen minute service. "By the way of Omaha?" ask Mr. Beach. He declared that a fifteen minute service around the loop as the cars are now run will not satisfy street patrons.

He said It would be Just as sensible to ask the mayor to go to Hastings by tho way of Omaha, as to ask them to ride sixteen or twenty blocks and then be just two blocks from home. The present arrangement even -with a fifteen minute service will not satisfy either the East street patrons or the patrons of the Vine street line. He said that when the Citizens' company operated the East street Una they had three cars running on that line. The traction company cut them down to two but they gave very satisfactory service. They connected the Vine and street lines, took off the Vine street car and tried to make two cars do the work of three.

Ho declared that the East street line Is being abandoned by patrons of the line on account of the bad service. Tho fact that Manager Bramletts had promised to give the commissiofL- ers a detailed report of the riding oh the line, the speed of the cars and other information he promised Beach said, did not very much. The report would not i as a good basis for their because the 6 street line Is not carrying nearly as many passengers now as It did before the change. Mr. Beach said be got on the Xhutt street line a few days ago and after a ten minute ride.

of twenty-two blocks, he was at Twenty-seventh and streets.or four blocks from home. At the last meeting of the dty commissioners a resolution was posed calling for a meeting within a few to consider the traction matter. The mayor conferred with Manager Bramlette yesterday and after his report made the meeting will be called. Commissioner Hensley said that some cms called him up last night after ha.had gone home and wanted to know what he had done about the 8 street matter. 1 p.

m. 2 p. m. to in the open assaulting each other part on the minute ob- Mitchell Likely Not to Make Race for Presidency of A. F.L.

through the newspapers the administration was hopeful today. It was felt the attack made on Henry Clay Pierce by Lord Cowdray. owner of the big British oil trust, would greatly aid this government's plan of forcing Huerta servations 1 of American military attaches with Huerta's army, and later on the report of secret agents. One report stated that Huerta was in the! habit of drinking- champagne with his breakfast and topping it cff with Forecatt Till 7 p. Sunday.

For Lincoln and vicinity: Fair tonight and Sundayr -colder-tonight. Nebraska: Generally fair tonight ami Sunday; cooler tonight and In southeastern portion Sunday; moderate westerly winds. Illinois: Unsettled tonight and Sunday with possibly showers in north portion this afternoon or night; cooler In north portion tonight and in north and west portions Sunday. Missouri: Unsettled weather tonight and west portions tonight. Iowa: Unsettled weather tonight and Sunday, possibly showers tonight; cooler tonight and in southeast portions Sun- North Dakota: Generally fair tonight and Sunday; not much change in tera- sponsible for the continual warfare in SEATTLE, Xov.

i Mexico comes from men who want the final session of tHe American fed-j benefit their own pocketbooks. The situation at Tuxpam is much improved. Admiral Fletcher's durt gates were looking forward to the an- not to General Aguilar that he would out. The better class of Mexicans, the cognac, president and Secretary Bryan believe In pursuance of the fixed policy of will realize that much of the finan- I the American government of keeping cial strength of the men who are re- the situation clear and avoiding ery eration of labor began today, the dele- held for nual election of omcers scheduled to be take place late their attitude when they announced their determina- (general sent word that property rights personally responsible this afternoon. Despite damage" to any of the enormous wells when they announced, there brought instant The rebel lion to elect John Mitchell president there is now considerable doubt whether the "insurgents" in the- convention will make a fight for the former leader of the miners' union.

Apparently a compromise has been reached, whereby Alitchell's supporters will withdraw him from the race against Samuel Gompers. In return, the Gompers faction will not oppose the electipn of John P. White as second vice president- as well as human rights would be protected. And it is now believed there will be no immediate necessity for landing marines. There is, great interest in the proceedings in the Mexican congress.

The fact that Colonel Victor Corral yesterday adjourned the chamber on the eround of no quorum was reported by Charge O'Shaughnessy. He declared that the count indicated that the act- i ins; speaker was wrong and that a The address of John Cannon. Illinois quorum was present. Could this pro- delegate, during the discussion of the ceedins: be gone through with for three Mexican situation at last night's session, was the subject of considerable comment among- delegates today. He denounced.

Harrion G. Otis and Will- consecutive sessions under tho constitution the house would be automatically disolved. But it Is not believed hero that any such plan Is under con- Li rst for Oieir attitude to federation. It is believed that the de- vrard the whole Jlexican problem. av was because of the order to pre- Denounce "War Manufacturers." vent Huerta being compelled to show his hand on the proposed oil conccs- possible chance of clashes, John Lind today advised' Professor Tosser, the Harvard archaeologist, against proceeding to Mexico City with his wifo.

and advised him to drop his research work for the present. Nipped Conspiracy in Bud. AUSTIN, Xov. conspiracy to' release the Mexican ammunition smugglers held in the San Antonio pail and a movement for a general uprising- certain Mexican classes, is believed today to have been unearthed upon investigations by the state rangers sent out by Governor Colquitt, following receipt of a threatening telegram. San Antonio authorities have a Confession of J.

A. Hernandez, alleged leader, and also aijent of the I. "IV. W. and the Mexican liberal party, which asserts that the Mexicans have roiled a $225.000 fund for the defense of tho McXamaras.

The authorities have also manifestos signed h- Hernandez and' others urging- an uprising to help liver the smugglers, with if necessary. It states that the nccroos will aid the Mexicans and help repel the whitess. "These men." said he. "the editors of ig newspapers, have vast holdings in Mexico Jiy virtue of the support they Porfiro I'iaz. They now demand All received early today in- dioated tranTuillty in Vera and More Evidence of Greed by Telephone Trust at Hearing CHJCAG4.

Xc-v. 22 -telephone here toJay In in the jrovernTTKut's of the Anwacan Telephone and -OfflD'anv. that comjctJt)nn In the TiaJ rf-dueod TTMTPS and anil instances in proof. E. P.

Scha.br-, manacr-r of J.TI company at N. that the "K'-ll' inl-r-sts met 4" rents In ecmparr for lone distaTM-e convr- ti Pittslvirch. TVu1 arid no American intervention in an effort to I retain Control of their land and They would sacrifice the lives of Amer- ican soldiers to protect their interests." I The resolutions adopU-d by th" con- ventions. endorsing President Wilson's policy of peace, condemned beins- nj.ode by American foreign corporations certain jinco newspapers to force armed intervention lv th- 1'nited States." The federation refused to adopt a Mexico City. Generally fair tonight and Sunday: colder in east portion Sunday.

not drink very much after the games, but larife crowds rush into the saloons and get pretty boisterous. He patroled a street in front of one of the saloons at the time of the- Minnesota victory, and though considerable number of etuclonts went in they did not seem to mueh. Mr. King oos not believe, that minors are allowed, by tho saloonkeepers to enter with these crowds. He had heard rumors to this effect, but had sf-pii nothing of the kind.

He said it was hard, however, to distinguish between a boy of twenty and one of twenty-two or twenty-three. It was not 1 localise minors were entering these places he asked to have them patrolled, hut because tho presence of a policeman has a good effect on older people. Child's Death May Cause Restrictions Women Flock in Droves to Hearing of Sun Worshipper CHICAGO, Nov. 22. Women formed almost all the crowd that flocked to the federal building today, hoping that the taking- of testimony would be started in the trial of Ottoman Adusht Hanlsh, high priest of the cult of sun- worshippers, charged with having sent indecent literature by express.

In examining the today Hnnish's attorneys indicated that be will plead in defense that the "Inner life" and the "green book" are religious works and that his teachings were as fit for circulation as passages In the Koran, the Christian Bible or the Talmud. The jury was completed this afternoon and court adjourned until Monday. when opening statements will be made. Nearly every man in the panel is past forty years of nge, the government having peremptorily challenged several younger talesmen. able betting was going oft.

It wma announced that $3,000 had placed before noon. The highest bet was for $500. One Iowa supporter put It up against $350 of Nebraska money. This big bet was the only one which had gone up during the morning on odds. The rest had been even wagers that Nebraska or Iowa would win.

Shortly after noon. It was said that odds began to break, with Iowa, on the long end. One fair sized bet want up at ten to seven. Glad dings for Howard from the Kingdom of Abha State Auditor W. B.

Howard felt more cheerful this morning when he received in his mail a letter from H. A. MacCutcheon, 1314 West Twenty- eighth street, -Minneapolis, secretary, containing glad tidings of the kingdom of Abha. It is fully explained in the letter that Abha means the glory of God- The letter asks the auditor to do all he can for international peace. At present the auditor Is engaged in a war with the state Insurance board.

The letter closes: "We beg God. through Abdul Baho. the center of the covenant, to Mess and guide you and Rive you the courage- and the power to Jo his will lit all times and under all circura-stancos." oondemninc en- lion on KroiJK3 that such intervu- tton i-n Job Insurance Is Proposa 1 Now Made by a Minitare Man Will Meet Again. r'lTY. Xov.

cham- was to meet aimln this and there was though th towns bttwe-j. th- rate i5 '-twn two J.unr rtwn i IT K. of i i stale writ- jtn sp'-culation as to what would happen. The session yesterday wjis adjourned after a few minutes, the speaker do- clarinsr there was no quorum. adverse to General Huorta 3erlareJ privately that a quorum was present, but they voice their protests oil the floor.

law provides that a 0:1 thr'-e c-orifviitive continued to the relwl tiillon.iiJs1 vieio-jos were most in- Hucrta Drinking Heavily. OJT T) Jeut Of 1h-- Tn1f3 i An ill jminat'ntr -plni-iaHon compl-i'eprv of J'nt Wilson V.v 'Impart men in fonnf-rfon with situation vras College to Furnish Training for Bellhops Very Much Needed CHICAGO. Xov. death today of three-year-old Balke. at swallowing arsenic tab- iriistakinir them f-r aiily.

caused Coroner Hoffman to that he will draft a liiil for at the of th" providing all poisons yhall sold in )oUi-s. so fornvil that 1h'-v c.iii IM- from orrtmarj Hoffman's bill CHICAGO. Xov. -College trained I will ftirtli-r 'provide a tattles n.n- 1 i i poisons with patent that Betting Some Real in Sale of Poisons; Money on Outcome of Today's Game Start Investigation Into Cruel Treatment of Insane Patients l-eil hops. chiun)-er maids, chefs, waiters and stewards is 'he pjaii of th international steward" Jo M.

Hy. presl) nt of the M-jn'-ic normal srhool. f-cational art ami here today million dollar wltli hotH for will 'luilt at tiile-tJ. sm'J Tlx- kind in chomislry of he th Students Danced Boston and Were Unafraid; No Calls over outcome of the football pome Is the i'-st of the- f'-otl'all season. Iowa rooters came in this morning laden with m'-ri'-y which they were more than aiu.ioiis place on Couch Hawley's apin-'-salion.

Net'raska rooters and r-am- in with money and iliis 10 the money offered by the inxiy just about corn'rel all Jowa in slcht. At on" stor--. whrc CHPICAOO. Nov. 22--A state Investigation of the charge that of tho state hospital for the Insane at Dunning are cruelly beaten and the facts kept from, the public by a conspiracy of silence among the attendants was expected to follow the death of Charles Hoenicke, an Insane patient, who died from a beatinr, according to charges filed, with the police.

The Inquest today was eorpected to result in fresh Pending a verdict, four employes of the Donning hospital are being held by fbe police. They are: George SandtMfcy and Jacob Miller, attendants, and Frank Fardnhn and Rudolph Bchll- hauser. night watchmen. All four men were to testify at the Inquest The police ssy. they found blood on Sandusky's underclothing.

but he vehemently denied rnnpncislMl Ity for Hoenlcke's death. Federal University, Biggest in World, Now Being Planned COLUMBUS. Nor. a movement is on foot for the establishment of the largest university In the world, in the university of the tTnlted States, a federal Institution to be located at Washington, D. C-, became known here today through Dr.

W. O. Thompson, president of Ohio state university. With Dr. Thompson, presidents Edmund James.

University of Illinois, and Brown Ayres. University of Tennessee, composing a committee appointed to draw up plans for the school. The movement Is approved by President Wilson and an initial appropriation of will be asked of congress at the regular session this winter. Facilities ofr hicher education for which American students now go abroad is the object of the proposed university. Tho move Is backed by the national association of state universities.

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