CANAL ConstructIon Will l About Thirty Thousand Men lIon Washington April Walk Walkers Walkers Walkers ers estimate of the tho number of at men mell mento mento to be employed on the Panama canal I when the tho United States formally shall have havo entered entend upon tho the project Is For Por all practical purposes this govern government ment now Is engaged In the tho construe construction construction tion of the canal canul Under the agreement ment signed May tay Ia 3 by Secy See Hay and ancl Mr r Cromwell the American representative of at the new now Panama Canal company the tho work of construction was to be con continued continued continued by h 1 Jhc ho he new now canal ranal company wit the tho exchange of ratification of ot the canal canai treaty with the tho understanding that the tho United States Stilt Ill should pay hay for tor or such lIuch con construction construction work The Tue men nten now engaged on the canal construction work are arc principally all Ja Jo Jamaica maica negroes As s they are Inured to the Central American climate they do donot donot donot not suffer sutter seriously from the diseases prevalent on the Isthmus One Ono of the purposes of ot a n I lt to the Isthmus soon to be Iw made of a 1 subcommittee of the tho present canal commission Is to study the labor question as ns It itro re lates bites to the construction 01 or me trw water waterway way with a view lev of ascertaining a Il source from which additional labor pup cup cupply up ply pi may ma be obtained Tho Tue local labor supply Is Insufficient to meet the de tie demand demand mand band It Is I probable therefore that la ha laborers horns borers will be drawn wn by b tIme the from the southern BOuthern states and the time 1 of ot the tho West As tho the labor bor supply Is controlled by a n company organized for tor the purpose It 11 Is quite likely that many man Chinese Chines and Japanese laborers will bo be Imported for or I work on the canal They Tile are excellent workmen and are III tilted fitted by nature for tor I work of that kind and In that climate Nebraska i fill Omaha April i elections were hold held In nil all the cities and lown of at Nebraska today with the exception of Omaha nod and South nuth Omaha both hoth of which work under tinIer special charters Party linen hues were drawn In but few tel In Instances stances Republicans were successful In most of ot the time towns heard from up to midnight In lIfO A Vi i m rn I Republican candidate for mayor maor and the whole Republican ticket wore curo ro eec cd ed Fire nt RI rev Sm rican Reno Nev Nes Ne April TA iA Verdi to the Gazette Curette nys At A t 1 this morning destroyed a it block In the tle center Cint r of the Iho town The Tue blaze blazo started In the rear of ot Sees saloon burning the tho Western and Union hotels two sill on I Rays store lore The Southern depot was wall on O tire at lit one time lime but bul the Ihl total lo lOts loss s was WitS small The Sunset tI fl phone office wan totally destroyed T Te e enre fire wits was of ot origin There were no