| Show WESTERN LEAGUE MAGNATES MEET They Aro Are at Omaha In Conference With Manager Rourke OFFER O DECLINED Hun W ili s eer C tutU mid Hid Did Nut No Lust L VIII III SCold Hold Omaha Nob Neb Jan Jati 8 Half a n dozen do cn Western league baseball magnates ma came Caine to town on morning trains to confer con tor with Manager Mal llOr W V A of ot this city They vero Whit Whitfield WhItfield field James Manning of ot Kansas ansas II City Thomas F l 1 of ot Colorado Springs Spring and representatives front from Milwaukee anti and It Is Ion that thai overtures been mado by President Ire l ent to Manager to coniC come Into tho the American association with his hll club find and park and has agreed to tomake tomako tomake make mako a n final reply to offer af nt after ter tot the tho conference today tollay Tho The meeting was secret and nna of or short hiort duration Van Brunt runt of ot St Joseph Ul ci that he ho would he be unable to tJ Rot Rul tit more bore and It II was ras decided to hold hohl another meeting In Kansas City elly It II was waa given out after litter tine tha meeting that while no formal action nellon hail been Jeen taken It Il was wn decided to tl keep kee tho the league ns as now constituted In Intact tact at tot any II cost ono of ot the magnates bald lit that thol President proposition to compromise would not nol he be considered and that thaI loday meeting decided dell that th t tho the Western Westum would WOIth a Il team la Ito this city President Manning rind and Hums Burns and a representative of ot Mil Milwaukee Milwaukee waukee will all alt leave Iao on afternoon trains for tor City whore they Will 11 meet fleet Von Van and tho the IndianapolIs man tomorrow |
