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Daily "O TATA JUi!. New 'Hhone Number Att Dprlmnt OMAHA UEI TYLER lOOO WEATHER FORECAST. Tor Nabraslia Cloudy; cooler. For Iowa Fair; rooler. For weather report st-e page 2. f7 1 VOU XI. NO. 44. OMAHA, TUESDAY . MORNING, AUGUST 9, 191G-TWELVE PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. IIAJION MAKES SERIOUSJJIIARGE Man Accused ty Senator Gore Says Congressman C. E. Creager ' Solicited Bribe. Hundred Thousand Templars Throng Chicago Streets Earl of Euston, Consin of King Ed ward and Head of Order in England, Arrives. The Omaha The New Ratio WHEAT COMES 6- IN EARLY RUSH Receipts at Omaha Are Greater Than at the Same Time in 1909. : ASKS H'MURRAY FOR BIO LOANS NEW CROP IS SCORING HIGH MAY SIDETRACK HUGHES' PLAN Timothy Woodruff is of Opinion that Compromise on Primaries Will Defeat Direct Nominations, HE MIGHT AGAIN BE CANDIDATE aMBa Thinks Republican State Chairman's Job Thankless One. LEADERS ARE FOR CONVENTION Taft and Roosevelt in Accord on New York' Situation. . ;i 1 1 n! A i X 1 1' Request Comes After He Introduce! Bill to Validate Claims. INDIAN TELLS OF CONTRACTS Choctaw Says McMurray Paid Him Collar for Each Signature. HE SECURED TEN THOUSAND McMurray Will be Called to WH n'eas ti4 to Tell el Ilia Rela tion nllh Conwreiwntea , Mad Senators. lI AtiasTEK, Okl., Aug. 8.-A charge that Congressman C. E. Creager of the Third Oklahoma district had solicited "sums" of money from J. F. McMurray, holder of ths Indian land contracts that are being subjected to a congressional In vestigation, was made by Jake L.-Hamon before the special committee appointed by the house of representatives today. The charge developed in connection with the inquiry into Senator T. P. Gore'e declaration that he had been offered a 25,000 or $0,000 bribe to help "put through" congress the McMurray deal, by which, he asserted, McMurray and his associates would be able to secure $3,000,000, or 10 per cent, as attorneys' fees in the sale of 450. 000 acres of coal, asphalt and timber land now belonging to the Indians in this stats. Senator Gore said Hamon had offered the bribe In McMurray's behalf, and Congress Asian Creager also had testified that Hamon liad "suggested" that he (Creager) might seoure an 'Interest" in the contracts if he helped to remove all opposition to their approval by congress and President Taft. Appearing before the committee today, Hamon made the counter charge against Creager. He said the congressman had . solicited money from McMurray during the pendency In congress of a bill which had been drawn tip by McMurray and which Creager Introduced. Tbls bill pro vided for the sale of the surface lands to private individuals and for the sale pf the mineral wealth to the government. Al though the McMurray contracts were not referred to In it, the bill Hamon said, was so termed that MoMurray might have been nabled to put in a claim for the attor ney's fees. The measure, however, was not passed. "I want Mr. Creager recalled to the stand to answer these charges," said Hamon. "1 . want ilm ttk explain jy Just nf tet- ae in troduced that bill he went to McMurray and under the guise of loans demanded from McMurray large sums of money. 1' think It will throw considerable light on the Indian land situation at Washington If Creager la recalled and asked about nls repeated demands of money from McMur ray." On being Informed by Congressman . Charles H. Burke, chairman of the com mittee, that It was doubtful if Creager would be recalled, Hamon asked to be alt lowed to Introduce witnesses to testify as to his charges. His request was taken under advisement. It was 'Indian day" at tha hearing; Many Indians testified they had signed the McMurray contracts allowing 10 per cent attorneys' fees becauae they had been im patient at the government. As the gov ernment's wards, they said, they had con cluded they had to employ attorneys to fight the government in order to secure what money had been promised them. It was pointed out that 86 per cent of the Cboctsws and Chlckasaws had signed the 10 per cent agreement. Ths represented a large porton of the 110,000 Indians In tills state, which contains mcto than one-third of all the Indians in ths United 'States. That McMurray's agents had gone among the Indians and asked them to sign the contracts and to send telegrams to Presi dent Taft urging him to approve the sale of tha land on a 10 per cent "attorneys' fee" basis was the burden of most of the Indians' testimony. "We have become used to the 10 per cent Idea," declared Parke Anderson, a Choctaw, "Most of the Indians in ehls state have to pay 10 per cent on all debts and borrowed money. We have become so dependent on attorneys that they have a hand In almost everything w do." "Do you mean to say that to sell your land you ars willing to give McMurray $3,000,000 or enough to hire all ths lawyers in Oklahoma T" asked Congressman C. 11. Millar. "Yes. We have waited so long for the government to act that wa would give 23 per cent If that would cause a quick sale. Wa need the money to develop the land on which we live." " It was estimated by C. C. Choate, another Choctaw, that if thla land was sold through the McMurray contracts, ula share would be $5,000, with a reduction of $j00 In fees. "Now," he said, "I would rather have $4,500 while I am living thn wait until tho gov eminent acts and get $3,000 when I am dead." .' ' . Why la It that while you have attorneys paid on a regular salary and approved of by the government, that you employ spe cial attorneys?" "Because our regular attorneys get paid whether they work or not, while the spe cial attorneys, on a contingent fee, work because they expect to be paid." A singular appearand wus presented by Charles Lallore, a Choctaw, who aa cap tain of police had figured in many a battle of ths plains. He had only one eye, three of his fingers were shot off, and his body was covered with bullet wounds. Asked about the activity of McMurray's agenta, lie related that he had been approached by George W. Scott, acting for McMurray and had been Induced to sign a telegram, the wording ef which he I . olf had not dic tated, this being a tc'.egram addresed to Richard C. Adams of Washington, an at torney and a Delegare Indian. The sub nunc of th telegram was that the In dians approved of ths contracts and asked Adams to call on President Taft and urg him to sell th land without delay. "Who did you think Adams was?" "Why, I thought he waa somebody with powerful Influence, who could go to th president and to congress and tell them what w wanted. W were not so anxious to give up 10 per cent, but we thought It would be better to sell on that basis than Continued oa Second Page.) GO, Aug-. . Right Hon. Henry arl of Euston. cousin of the king ind. Moil Eminent Supreme Pro- aater of the Great Priories of the - Templar of England and Walee, Ved her today to attend the thir tnclave of tho order In the United ' i f trolna to arrive on aohedule . 1 task of the eacort committee! ! ..'Some delegations were left to (u ,.-devtces temporarily. An escort of 200 local knlghta under com mand , of Eminent Sir Benjamin B. Wllaon met the distinguished delegates from abroad. They were taken to the Congress hotel, where Acting Grand Master Melish and the earl greeted each other cordially. CHICAGO. Aug. 8. -About 100,000 knights arrived today, arrayed In full uniform for the thirty-first triennial " conclav which was opened officially Sunday with divine services in Orchestra, ball. . Workmen at dawn turned over the refurnished and gaudily arrayed city to th waiting and wondering throngs and all day long as yesterday th tread of marching feet, the flash of light on scarlet crossed chapeau and cross-hllted sword and th waving lines of glistening white plumes told of tha coming of additional guests. The day was given over to reception of the- Incoming knights, open house by the commanderles now located, and at 4 p, m. tha annual dinner of the grand recorders and correspondents was given at the Chicago Athletic club. Each evening dur ing the week a sacred concert is to be given In Grant park. Tomorrow will be the first of the big days, beginning with the biggest parade ever engaged In by Knights Templars. It will require two hours to pasa a given point. Headquarters officials today estimated the guests to number 600,000. Six Thousand Rifles Seized at Bilboa, Spain Arms' Were on Board Tug, Which Had Been Chartered to Go to San Sebastian- No Disorder. BILBOA. Snaln. Aug. S.-S1X thousand rifles wer seised by tho authorities today an -boara""S"tugr which- had- been-: chartered to go to San Sebastian, where the great anti-governmental demonstration waa pro posed to be held yesterday-bef or tha cler ical leaders abandoned the' manifestation. Local authorities i at San Sebastian had held that the Carlists wer. planning, to lake advantage of the Catholic manifesta tion to start a movement against th gov ernment. No statement, however, la mad to which party to the conflict chartered the tug and loaded It with arms. SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain. Aug. 8. Th city' continues tranquil, no further attempt at demonstrations having been made Since a group of ' the more hot-headed clerical adherents yesterday gathered on th street with shouts of "death to Spain; long live the pope." The troops, however, will re main in the summer capital for several days. . The authorities express th greatest con' fldence that the fiasco of the antl-govern mental manifestation marks the end of Carllsm and of 'any attempt at an insur rection in favor of tha pretender, but they are plainly nervous, as they fully realize the blind devotion of the peasant popula tion of the basque provinces, who had been told by the priests and monks, with which the country swarms, that H was their religious duty .to support the pope against the Spanish government in the pending con fact. Sixteen priests and monks were among the persons arrested Saturday on charges of attempting to provoke disorder, Fire in Armour Branch House Storage Plant at St. Joseph is Dam aged Nine Thousand Employe Injured by Live Wire. ST. JOSEPH. MO., Aug. S.-Flr which started from an unknown cause In tha swltchbox of the electric, elevator of jarmour & Co.'s new branch house, gutted the second floor and caused dam- age to the extent of $9,000 to the structure and contents. Frank Shultes. an employe, sustained painful burns to both hands by contact with a live wire on th roof of th build lnr just before the fir was dlacovered. The offlcea of the company on the first floor, the refrigerating rooms and coolers and stock of fresh meats on the first floor and the basement were not damaged, th blase being confined entirely to th second story of the building. Two Women Kill Fierce Rattlesnake Two undaunted women vs. a monster rattlesnake and the women won out. Mrs. Ella Duncan and Mlsa Fanny Perry, both well known Omaha women, have taken up homesteads in South Dakota. Their two homosteads ar adjoining and their houses are close together. These two women, without th aid or presence of . a men, have taken up their residence In these two homesteads and In tend to stay until th required fourteen months' residence ha been completed. They hav been holding down their land sine March L But to get back to th rattlesnake. A short time ago. and up to a few days past, the two homesteaders had been visiting friends in Omaha and had left their hornet closed while they wer away. They returned PRESIDENT STATES VIEW AGAIN Believe la LeaTla Nomlnntlehs on State Ticket to' Party Gather- '.,' ; .Favor Primary Vote aa Senators. - BEVERLY, Mass... Aug. 8. Tlmothv. L. Woodurff, republican state chairman of New York, talked politics with President i att for more than two hours and a half today. Mr. Woodruff Is optlmlstio over the outlook In New York' state, and de clares that a compromise' will be reached: on the primary question. He significantly? remarked before he left for home that clr cumstances might arise which would cause him to be a candidate to succeed himself as state chairman. " Mr. Woodruff, who- has' naa thetjob for four years, says K. is a' mantciess Job, but he may try It again. ine comparison, which "Mr. Woodruff said would be reached'on the primary ques tion, means a defeat of Governor Hughes' plan for direct nominations. " Mr. ' Wood- run said that the party leaders In tha state would not stand for th elemlnatlon of the convention principle.' He aald Presi dent Taft and Theodora Roosevelt are In' accord as to New .York politics, and that neither waa "disposed to force his own views aa to any man or thing." i Just how far .Colonel Roosevelt will go In the coming campaign in fighting for the direct primary system has not been stated. President Taft stated his position anew today. H also believes In the con vention Idea as to state tickets, although he probably would approve of a direct pri mary vote as to assemblymen, congressmen ana united tlSates senators. President Taft and Mr. Woodruff were old friends at Yale together. Mr. Woodruff said today that he talked to the president of many things. It was too early, he said, to speak with any degree of accuracy about candidates or general conditions. ' "But I am willing to be quoted as saying that the condition of the democratic party In th state, to say the least. Is not Inspir ing.". "To th republicans?" was suggested. "It was not inspiring to th democrats and therefor Inspiring U ua. republican,'1 laughed tha state chairman.,! ' President Taft also had a talk today with Secretary of State Knox. The president and Secretary Knox are using their good offices to bring about an early settlement of the boundary dispute between Ecuador and Peru. ' , Wendling in St. Louis Jail Mrs. Munea Makes Murder Suspect Retract Statements He Made ; About Their Friendship. ST. LOUIS, Ma. Aug. 8. Joseph Wend ling, the Louisville church 'Janitor, who was arrested in S&n Francisco charged with the murder of Alma Kellner, Is still In Jail here, awaiting departure for Louis ville. No time has been set for leaving the city. Mrs. Cora Munea, the Missouri mil liner, who aided detectives In capturing Wendling, expects to return to her home at Hume, Mo., tonight. She came here1 to identify Wendling aa Henry Jai-quemln, the man who had mad love to her In Hous ton, Tex., and to make him retract state ments ha had made about their acquain tance. "When I accused Wendling of telling un true stories about me," said. Mrs. Munea today, "he aald 'Never mind.' I do mind. I told him. I made him acknowledge to the officers that we were never engaged and" that ha never hugged and kissed me but one and then onlf for minute when ha took me by surprise the evening he proposed to me. "Wending shook his head when I asked him if I did not tell him I wouldn't marry him. Ha acknowledged that when be brought a ring to me that I threw It In his face." Mrs. Munea will not go to Louisville to claim a shar of th $8,000 reward. She said Detective Carney will attend to that for her. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Aug. 1 A lawyer re tained by Mrs. Madalene Wendling for her husband's defense telegraphed his client today as follows: "To Joseph Wendling. Car Captain J. P, Carney, St. Louis. Mo. : Inslnt on being brought to Louisville at once. Public senti ment In your favor. People on the whole believe you Innocent. Have no fear of mob vlo'ence. People here civilized and law abiding. . Slarned. J. REGINALD CLEMENTS, Chief of Police Llndsey returned from St Louis today, but would make no statement regarding Wedllng's return here. with Clubs to South Dakota last week and a letter re ceived Sunday tells the following thrilling story: When Mrs. Duncan stepped Into her kitchen th first object which caught her eye waa an Immense rattlesnake colled In tha center of the floor. She called her neighbor, Mlsa Perry, to assist her in th fight. Armed with -clubs the two women valiantly attacked th marauder. When the battle was won and th last rattle had died Into alienee th victors slsed up their victim. Eleven rattles and a length of over ten feet waa th result of th count and th measure. As a result of th victorious battle Mrs. Duncan will hav a unique watch pendant in th shape of eleven rattles and Miss Perry will soon b th proud possessor of a pair of genuln snakeskln gloves. .From the "Washington Star. S.S.PETERS CALLED TO REST Old Soldier and Member of The Bee , T: Staff Passes Away. VETjJEIAN OF MANY . BATTLES Was wit r Ml Sheridan an His Fa. moaa Ride and .Toole Part ia Several Indian Win In ' : tho West. , - Samuel. S. Peters, a member of the reportorlal staff of The Bee, died at his homo, 1111 South -Twenty-eighth street, at 3:65 yesterday ' afternoon of bronchial which originated .v;'R r'isuinonia which tie suffered last- sprinaxJe. had. ben Jilck a" little more than anonlh,. , The funeral Service, wUl be held at the home under-the auspices -at Grant Post, O. A. R., to which . he belonged, probably Thursday. - The exact time .to be deter mined this morning. .t, 1 Mr. Peters was born April. .17, 1847, at Columbus. O. His father, J., L.. Peters, was one of the California argonauts who crossed the-plains of 1849 and served as a member of the famous Vigilance committee in San Francisco. The family remained in Califor nia until lSo, returning to Ohio. Samuel Peters entered the Union army a volunteer drummer boy in the. Second Ohio Infantry. April 19, -1861-and served throughout the cjvil war. After three months' of service he enlisted with a de tachment of recruits of Which ,Alna R. Chaffee, now lieutenant , general, . retired, was one, Joined a regiment of the Sixth cavalry at Frederick, Md and continued with it as a 'member of company C until the war closed. He participated. In nearly all the largo battles of .the Army of the Potomac. He was at Gettysburg and waa one of the detachment that escorted Gen eral Sheridan on his historic ride down Winchester pike at the battle of Cedar Creek. He was discharged after the grand re view at Washington in May, 1SG5. Imme diately he re-enlisted in; the Eighteenth in fantry and proceeded with the regiment to the western plains, where he did frontier service, engaging in some of the most mem orable Indian warfare of the age. He was pierced by an arrow at Craay Woman's Creek, Mont., July 20, 1866, and was the last survivor of that terrible day's fight ing, when he and eighteen other white men combatted 300 Indians. Five of the whites were killed and all the rest wounded. ' At Fort Kearney-Massacre. Mr. Peters waa a member of Captain Ten Eyck'a relief party that went to th rescue of Colonel Fetterman's command at th massacre of Fort Phil Kearney Decem ber II, I860. Ha was on of three men who rodo S00 miles through hostile Indians 'to carry the news of the massacre to Fort Laramie. He rejoined his old Sixth cavalry In Texas In 18 and went through the Co manche Indian campaign. He finally left the arrny service July 20, 18T5. ' Mr. Peters joined with his old leader. General Francis C. Carrlngton. and a hand ful of comrades to celebrate In 1908 the maasacrae at Fort Phil Kearney and aid General Carrlngton In preparing the' book containing the narrative of the Indian war- (Continued on Second Page.) Everybody Reads Bee Want Ads Everybody uses Bee want ads. Reliable employers have found out that they secure their most re libale help through The Bee. Good servants have learned to look In The Bee for advertisements of the moat reliable employers. Whatever la that is worth while Is found in the want columns of The Bee. If you can't come down to the office, call Tyler 1000 and tell the want ad man what you wish, lie will prepare your ad and give It proper classification and It Is no more trouble to you. Tyler 1000. World's Congress of the Deaf at Colorado Springs Delegates . from Three Continents Welcomed by Governor Shafroth Bluffs Man to Get Office. . COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.. Aug. 8. Five hundred representatives of the deaf of Canada;- Austria, Germany. China; Eng land and America gathered here today for the first session of the National Association of the Deaf and third world's congress of the -deaf. " " ' - '-' An address' of welcome was read from Governor John F. Shaffroth of Colorado and Mayor it.' F. Avery " of Colorado Springs, extending the freedom of .th city. 'Addresses were made by L. Yung Yew, Chinese consul at San 'Francisco; Henri Gaillerd of Paris, Albin Watsullk of Alten berg, Germany; Rev. Francis Haginn of Belfast, Ireland and Sir A. H. Farbalrn of London. ' " . Election of officers will take place this afternoon. 'Indications' point to the elec tion of Olof Hanson of Seattle aa presi dent, O. . P. Regansburg of Los Angeles, Secretary, and J. Schuyler of . Council Bluffs, la., as treasurer., , , . , Payne-Aldrich Bill Brings Cash Customs Revenue Greater by Seventy- Five Millions Than Any Previous Year Save One. WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. The Payne- Aldrich tariff law has produced in its first year a revenue greater by $75,000,000 than the sum collected in any previous year In the country's history except the banner year, .1707, according to Treasury depart ment figures issued ' today. MURDER AND SUICIDE IN KANSAS CITY, MO. William DitIi of Braymer, Wealthy Farmer, Kills Mrs.' Hattle 'O'Del and Himself. KANSAS CITY. MO., Aug. a-Wllllam Davis, 69 years old, a wealthy farmer of Braymer, Mo., shot and killed his brother-in-law's widow, Mrs. Hattle Odell, In a rooming house here today and then killed himself. Davis leaves a widow and son in Bramer. Mrs. Odell was 39 years old. Davis had been visiting Mrs. Odell here at frequent Intervals during the last nine years. A'nlece of iMrs. Odell, who lived with her, said she did not know Davis had a wife. Florence Trultt, he T-year-old niece of Mrs. Odell, ran screaming Into the room upon hearing the shots. Davis, Bcforo shooting himself, fired one shot at the child. Sh received a flesh wound In the left leg. It is not serious. Portugal is on Verge of Rupture with 11 e Vatican LISBON, Aug. 8. Portugal, like Spain, Is almost on the verge of an open rupture with the Vatican, due, among other causes, to friction over the governmental censure of the Roman catholic archblsnop of Graga for auppressing a .Portuguese franclsran newspaper without submitting the ordor. to the Portuguese government for approval. Since the Issue of the royal decree July 12, nullifying the action of th archbishop, the clerical forces, Inspired, it is charged, by Cardinal Merry Del Val, the papal sec retary of state, have been conducting a bitter campaign against ' the ' government on this account ' At the same time th Vatican has been raising difficulties about the refilling the diplomatic vacancy caused by th death of Fenhor Martins D'antaa, the Portu guese ambassador to the Vatican. The Portuguese government retaliated by de citing to allow tha post to remain vacant SUSPECTS IN JOHNSON CASE Two Men Arrested in Connection with Cashier's Holdup. CITIZEN SAW ONE NEAR SCENE Victim Recovering; Slowly and Will , 7 Be Given Opportunity Today to State Whether Men Are Ones Wanted. - Two suspects have been arrested In con nection with the holdup of Cashier W. A C. Johnson of the Packers' National bank Saturday night They will be taken to the Wis hospital today to lve Mr. John awn A-hnce to Mentify them. , on of the men, arrested Sunday bv Detectives Heitfeld and Jonohoe, Is Tom Picer, living, In South , Omaha. . He, was placed In Jail with r a number of other prisoners and a cltisen . whose name the police still retain picked him out of the lot as ope of two men he had seen walking near the corner of Thirty-third and Farnam streets .Saturday, night shortly before the shooting at that spot Another suspect, arrested yesterday, gave the poilce the name of Jones, but his rea name Is "Doc", White, also living in South Omaha, When taken a loaded revolver was found on his person. Mr. Johnson believes he will be able to Identify one of the men who attempted to hold him up and his condition fa such that the opportunity will be given him today in the case of the two suspects. Johnson Recovering. While W. A. Johnson, the South Omaha bank cashier, who was shot by a hold-up. man Saturday night lies in a serious con dltlon at the Wise Memorial hospital, his fiancee whom ha was to have wedded in June Is traveling through Europ after two previous unfortunate happenings had conspired to delay the wedding. Friends and relatives of the unfortunate young man decided not to telegraph th news Of the latest misfortune which has fallen upon him, when they learned Monday morning his condition had improved vastly and he was likely to recover. Dr. J. P. Lord dressed the Injured man's wound In the morning and reported that unless com plications should set in, the patient un doubtedly would survive the shot. As the date of Mr. Johnson's wedding ap. proached, and Misa Alice McCormlck, whom h was to marry, was In Chicago with her mother and sister, Katherine, purchasing a trousseau for tha forthcoming event, Mrs. McCormlck suddenly died of heart trouble and heat prostration, the death causing the first delay of the wedding several weeks ago. Thought of carrying out the wedding later was postponed Indefinitely again when Miss McKatherine McCormlck suf fered a serious falling as the result of her mother's death and It became necessary for th young woman to take a foreign trip. She and her sister, Alice, thereupon de parted for Europe. Meantime Mr. Johnson took up his residence In the McCormlck home pending the return of the family. lte.l.t. Smaller Men. Though his attending physicians did not permit Mr. Johnson to talk much Monday the. wounded man was able to give a fur- (Continued on Second Page.) for the present, and tha mln'ter of Justice has drafted a bill providing for a civil register of births, deaths and marriages. Aa thia 'threatens a large source of Income to the clergy, a big meeting of ecceleslas- tics was held here today to protest. The danger also threatens the government from the side of the republicans on account of th refusal of th king to make good the promise mad by th government of an amnesty for political offenders, Including the members of the snciet societies In volved In tha assassination of his father and brother. The government has been trying to ap pease the republicans by appointing prom inent members of the party to important positions In the provinces. The monarch!! press fears that this policy will enable the republicans to turn th election machinery of the government against Itself In future elections to th cortes. Oats Are Better Color and Also of High Ouality. ' INSPECTOR POWELL IS PLEASED Shipments of Corn Slow, but Big Increase Expected. r OMAHA LEADS AS CORN MARKET Covernment Cron Report Say th Condition of the Corn Cron ta hnt Three Point Vndar Tea- 1'ear Average. ; Wheat la coming into tha Omaha market In relatively greater quantities than at this " time last year, while corn la a little lea due to the fact that the Nebraska farmer has been holding his corn tor hope ol higher prices. The farmer, rather than ths commission man, is doing the speculating this year. Receipts of wheat by th Omaha grata exchange were nearly 100,000 bushels mort last week than the corresponding week In 1909. The total figures are 448 cars, as against 297 cars, or &37.000 bushels to 3M.401; bushels. Receipts .of corn were 1,094 cars,, as against 1.111 cars. "Wheat is perfect," said George Powell, chief grain Inspector, of the Omaha ex change, "and bats show a brtter coloi' and higher quality than last year." There Is no complaint either about the quality of corn being received. When prleea rose some weeks ago the farmers shipped In great quantities of this grain. Then th price broke and shipments .dropped off al most entirely for a few days. Now corn, shipments are beginning to pick up. and, when the new crop moves, they will bt enormous. ., With respect to corn, the Omaha dally . receipts keep way ahead of all others in th country except Chicago, and th dullest times show a bl lead over St Louis, which Is generally third In corn receipts. GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT Corn Less Than Three Folnta Vnde Ten-Year Averaate. WASHINGTON, Aug. a The average condition of the corn crop on August V aa estimated by tha corn crop reporting board of th Department of Agriculture, made public, at 2: P- tn with the general crop monthly report, was 79.8, aa compared with, 83.4 last month. 84.4 a j'ear, agof ..andi W-J.51 the average on Auguef A for the last ten years; "' ''-' v ' . Comparisons of conditions for Jmportanl states follow: States. 11U- wxr. av, Illinois Iowa Texas Kansas Missouri Nebraska Oklahoma Indiana 1 Georgia 1 Ohio Tennessee 84 H W 84 78 78 60 74 , 82 " SO 66 82 67 78 87 k t7 '87 86 85 , 87 83 i 84 85 91 8 , SI ' 7 85 86 , 89 79 1 94 81 86 83 , 86 8 89 83 76 82 ..82 - 81 88 85 .......70 Si Kentucky Alabama : Mississippi North Carolina , Arkansas Louisiana South Carolina South Dakota Virginia Michigan Minnesota Pennsylvatia Wheat Crop la Larscr. . Preliminary returns Indicate a winter wheat yield of about 1C.S bushels an acre, or a total of about 4S8.2S4.000 bushels aa compared with 16.8, and 448,808,000 bushels respectively as finally estimated last year. The average quality of the ; crop Is 92.6, against 90.8 last year. Details for Important winter wheat states follow: s States. Tield. production. Quality. Kansas 14.1 fttt.U'JZ.OIIO 92.0 ftl.O Indiana ' 15 6 Illinois 15.0 Nebraska 16. S Ohio HI Missouri 19 8 Pennsylvania 17. t Oklahoma ltl.O 40.S1,0U0 32,085,000 33,230, 0U0 81,4'J3,000 26.1:10.000 27, HOT, 000 24.8M.UU0 J8.7S0.0U0 ' 19.01O.0U0 10,200.000 15,381.000 10,080.000 13,816.000 ' 9.367,000 12,858,000 92 96 91 .81 fl 04 , W.fl fti.O 91 89.V ' M. a. 88.4 not Texas Vt.O California 17.6 Tennessee 11.6 Michigan 17.7 Virginia 12.8 Maryland 17.4 Kentucky 12.8 Washington ,.20.6 The average condition of spring wheal on August 1, was 41.0, as compared with) 616 lust month, 91.6 last year, and 81.9 the ten year average on that date. Comparison for Important spring wheal States. 1910. 10-Yr. Av. North Dakota 34 71 Minnesota 77 8 South Dakota 70 81 Washington 62 ,81 Oats Off One Per Cent. The average condition of the oats crop on August 1 was 81.6, as compared with 821 last month, 8R.6 a year ago, 76.8 In 1908 and 82.6, the ten-year average on that date, Comparisons for Important states follow:1 1910. 10-Yr. Ar. Illinois Iowa Minnesota Nebraska 90 93 65 7H 81 71 81 SI M i M M M 3 Wisconsin Indiana 2 Ohio North Dakota 27 Michigan 0 South Dakota 67 New York , 4 Kansas 92 Pennsylvania 97 FlKurrs on Minor Crops. Th average condition of tobacco on Au gust 1 was 78.5, a compared with 85.S last i.ioi th, 83.4 a year ogo, 85 8 In inog and 82. J, the ten-year average on that. date. The condition In Important tobacco states was: Kentucky, 77; North Carolina, 74; Virginia, 85: Ohio, 90; Pennsylvania, 8 Tennessee. 86: Wisconsin, 60; South Caro lina, 73; Connecticut, 85; Florida, 82. The condition of other minor crops on August 1, as reported by the crop report Ing board, is as follows: 1910. Hat-ley 70 0 Kuckwheat 87 While potatoes 76 S Flax 61.7 Itlce 67 6 11 I V 83 0 Apples 47. S 10-Yr. Ar, 91 i 841 88.4 89 I 87 1 65.4 Th preliminary estimate of the area ol rye harvested Is 1.7 per cent less than last year. The preliminary estimate of ytel A