Hmmmmmmm k nwMt t.timtq-qpniMitrt-,tli- m ,i HASKELLSTEPS OUT Treasurer of National Demo cratic Committee Resigns. Dklahoman Declares He Doei Not De Ire to Be Responsible for Any Em barrassment to Democratic Party by Retaining Place. C. N Haskell resigned as treasurer If tho Democratic national committee. His resignation was announced by himself threo hours after his arrival In Chicago from Guthrie, Olila., and after ho had conferred with officials of the Democratic national headquar ters here In Riving out his decision. Mr. Haskell, In response to a qucs- ' CHAKLES N. HASKELU Hon, declared lid did not doslro to bo responsible for nny embarrassment which might resvdt to the Democratic party by hla retaining tho offlct of treasurer. Text of Resignation. Tho resignation of Governor Has kell, as forwarded to Chairman Mack, reads: "Slnco tho president and hla cabinet huvo Joined forces with Mr. Heaist and three Wull street brokers to niako a personal tight against me, notwithstanding the president, hi his answer to Mr. Brwun, abandoned his chargo about Ohio Standard Oil cases, yet by all tho means at tho command of the government and the millions of Hearst and his Wall street allies, they persist In vicious, unwarranted and untruthful attacks on me personally, 1 welcome th'olr attack and Hhall meet It with nil the vigor nt my command. I shall treat them all as private cltl sens 'and subject to the penalties of the law wlilch they merit. "In this I know 1 shall have tho aid of my neighbors nt home for all proper purposes; but my time must be free from other demands here. Again my hoart Is full of hope for tho election of Uryan and Kern. Honest Koverninent and rule by the people Is the stake- Important beyond the polls In tho lust generation la tho pending contest. I would not for one moment consider remaining In any way con nected with tho i'ii nmltteo, therefore hereby tender. m r ilgnatlon ub treas urer of the Democratic national com niltfeo, that not the slightest contest of my own could 1 1 anyway be used by the president to cloud the sky uud shield our opponents from discussing tho real issues and laying bare tho Re publican duplicity to the people." Herman llldder, proprietor of tho New York Staats Zettuug, was appoint ed treasurer of tho Democratic na tional committee. SENATOR FORAKER IS BITTER. Issues Statement in Which He De nounces Hearst, Taft and Roosevelt. Senator Foraker or Ohio Issued a statement replying to the recent charges made by William It. Hearst and Piesldcnt Roosevelt. He bitterly assails Hearst, Tuft and the president, charging Taft with con sorting with the Standard Oil mag nates himself, and declaring that President Roosevelt's actions Indi cate a guilty conscience. In the opening pnragraph Mr. For nker declares that tho president showed bias in accepting as true all the charges. He denied that ho acted' Improperly In accepting emplovnient from the Standard OH company, aays there was no secret about It and pro duces letteis to prove that alter the government began Its attack upon tho Standard Oil ho declined to accept a retainer from them. DU PONT RETIRES FROM PLACE. Resigns as Head of Speakers' Bureau of Republican Committee. Chairman Hitchcock 01 the Republican national committee announced that General T. Coleman Du Pont of Dela ware, head of tho bureau of campaign bpeakors of the national committee, bad resigned as head of that bureau fcnd also as a member o( the executive committee or the national committee and that his resignation had been ac cepted. In an elaboration of the announce ment Chairman Hitchcock said: "Gen eral Du Pout and I had u personal con ference concerning the matter, hi which he liuUtod on tht acceptance of Ms ratijpiatlon, feeing that thu t n.. ii( y of the wilt of the government U'-i.it tl' powder coninau) with v . 'i lie lo miniated might be in 1 1 1 ij o'ii !',n in. ui to the InLjjr- ia. L-anpalfji. Hi resignation, therefore, has Le aictpted." r rr; 0 r t r 1 j j DROUGHT IN EASTERN STATES. Heavy Lojse In Pennaylvanla, Ohio and West Virginia. With losses or many million dollars from forest .Ires and hoav damages to crops and 11 0 stock, the roportou lois of a number or liven, due to lighting tlmbur conflagrations; tho euiorccd Idleness of thousands of workmen, owing to the suspension or manufact uring establishments bee. use or lack of water; the health authorities antic ipating u serious epidemic ot conta G'.oub diseases, and many small btreams dried up, and practlcnilj ob literated, the drought or 1908, which has held western Pennsylvania, east ern Ohio and West Virginia in Us grasp for more than two months, re mains unbroken, each uuy gradually Increasing the serlousnehs ot the un precedented situation. While In the Pittsburg district the water supply is sufficient to carry on all business, the low stage of the riv ers has caused u congestion of much coal in this vlelultj. Every available barge and float has been loadi'd with coal and nt present, with almost tvven ty million bushels In the Pittsburg har bor, tho river coal mines have been, compelled to shut down lor the want of shipping facilities. There nre about 15,000 miners employed In the river mines along the Monougahela valley. This gieat fleet of coal is for supply of points In the west and the south and thi probabilities are theie will be a coal famine experienced, especial ly in the noithwest, should conditions prevent the shipment of the coal be fore cold weather sets iu. In West Virginia lumber plants, glass factories and iron and steel mills located along the rivers nre closed on account of in sufficient water. In eastern Ohio tlie samo conditions prevail and It Is feared tho great Iron and steel mills at YoiuiR8town, 'employing over 20,000 men, will have to suspend operations unless the drought Is speedily bioken. TRAIN COLLISION FILLS 21. Northern Pacific Passenger Strikes Freight Near Billings, Mnot. Twenty-one persons were killed, sev eral fatally Injured and about thirty more or less hurt In a col lision between passenger trntn No. 1C. known as the eastbound Burlington tlyer, and a westbound freight train at a siding known as Young's Point, about thirty miles west of Billings, on the Northern Pacific rallrond. The pusseuger train, running about fltty miles un hour, crashed Into the ft eight just entering on the siding during a blinding snowstorm, the engineer of the passenger falling to see the signal tlag of the brakeman of the freight train iu time to avert tho collision. Both locomotives were wrecked and the smoker and baggage cars were telescoped. Only three persons riding In tho smoker are known to have got ten out of the wrecked car ullvo. Many of the killed wore terribly man gled, some of them being ground to bits. The dead: Colonel Bodson of Utah; John Cawlan, Billings; Lon Anderson, Haidy, Mont.; Lorenz A. Stewart, Dean, Moiit,; H. C. Gemble, Mtnlstnn, la.; H. h. Eymock, Denver; D. H. Barnes, Seattle; G. L.. Konsick, Ana conda; Oia Babcock, Billings; S. Chlngdon, Chlco Springs. Mont.; Charles E. Johnson, Denver; George Battlerock, Anaconda; John ltyau, Cushlng, Okla.; Mllo Halloway, Bill ings; threo unidentified eo.il miners. IRRIGATION CONGRESS OPENS. First Session is Devoted to Intro- ductory Business. The national irrigation congress con vened In Albuquerque Tuesday. Tho at tendance of delegates at the opening session was about 1,500. This session will bo notable for the number of act ual workers In the field who are pres ent to take part In tho proceedings. There is almost an equally noticeable absence of men known In political life, who have been present at former ses sions. This afternoon's session will bo devoted to Introductory business, the opening address of President Frank C Goudy of Denver, addresses by h. Bradford Prince or New Mexico and William H. Smith of Utah, and an address by General J. Franklin Bell, chief of stan United States army, who Is attending the congress as u repre sentative ot the war department The attendance of foreign delegates is u notable featuro of this congress. The electlou of officers of the con gress will take place Friday Georgo H. Baistow, vice president of thU con gress, Is the only man prominently named tor the presldencj. SHIP SINKS; TWENTY DROWN. Loch Flnlas Is Wrecked in Gale Off Coast of Tasmania. The British ship Ioch Flnlas, from Port Plrle, South Australia, for Callao, was wrecked off Foster island at day light and twenty of thq crew of twenty-four wero drowned. The four men were picked up by a passing steamer Foster Island lies a short distance oft the northeast coast ot Tasmania, and It Is surrounded by dangerous shoals. The residents of the Island ob fcerved a large ship in distress. A gale, accompanied by a high sea, waa blowing and the voesol soon struck the reef. The ci'w could be soon trying to lower the boats, when suddenly the ship sa.uk. To attempt a rescue from tho shnitt was impossible on account of the heavy sens, but a t earner In the distance had sighted the wreck and tviM'e a'l ueed to whtie the kRlp ba 1 gono down. Only foui taea wer found. They were oliagiug to au m tumed buau TUejr reported thai & aerund mate '. ecame Insane durlastb? storm and jumped overboard. BANKERS IN SESSION ' .,.... . ! AfjairiSt POStal Savings and Guaranty of Deposits American Association Begins Sessions Upon This Theme Minority Tries to Prevent Action on Insurance of Deposits, but Is Voted Down. , The most Important discussion In the savings bank section of ttie Amer ican Bankers' association occurred at the opening session In Denver Mon day, when the questions of postal savings banks and the guaranty of bank deposits were taken up. While it was evident that the sentiment was practically unanimous against postal savings and overwhelmingly against the guaranty Idea, a respectable mi nority tried to prevent action on the latter question, contending that It was a matter for the convention of all the members of the association to decldo upon, and not for a single section. John Schuette of Wisconsin was the only speaker In favor of the guai nnty of bank deposits. He opposed the establishment of postal savings banks on the ground that it would es tablish 18,000 banks, in the country to compete with the other banks of the country. He favored the guaranty bank deposit plan In order to nvert the establishment of the postal sav ings banks and declared thai the bank ers of tho country would have to face one of the other of these Issues. Herrlck Offers Resolution. Former Governor Myron T. Herrlck or Ohio then offeied the following res olution: "Whereas, This savings bank sec tion or the American Bankers' associa tion represents tho savings people ot the United States, and "Whereas, The record of these banks for conservatism, stability and unselfish devotion to the Interest or their depositors Is unparalleled in any country In the world, and "Whereas. The loss to their depos itors has been so small as to be abso lutely a nugatory quantity, theiefore, be It "Resolved, That Inasmuch as any plan or scheme to mako each or these banks responsible by taxation or as sessment for the acts of one another or to connect them with the national banking system, Is economically un sound In system, Is economlcallyun- sound In principle, confiscatory in j form and Inimical to the best interest I or its depositors, stockholders and j hoi rowers. It would discourage Indi- viduul Initiative, the best product of , the American mind. It Is a specious I form of paternalism and socialism, j It would tend to encourage specula- tlon and an undue expansion of credit. Therefore, be It "Resolved, That we enter tho most solemn protest against enaction Into Inw, either by states or nation, of any principles so subversive to sound econ omics and so 1 evolutionary in charac ter." Substitute Is Voted Down. After a heated debate, C. R. Brock enrldge or Iirt Smith, Ark., offered a substitute, to the effect that action on the resolution be deferred until atter the question came before the general convention. This substitute was voted down, 32 to 49, and Governor Herrlck's resolution was then adopted After u discussion of postal savings banks, a motion was carried placing the savings batik section in opposition to the establishment of postal savings banks and asking the support of tho American Bankers' association In this opposition. J. P. Johnson of Detroit was elected president of the savings bank section, and William R. Creer, first vice presi dent, and William Hanhort was re elected secretary. The clearing house section also held Its convention. Besides the report of tho secretary and routine business there were several addresses and tho matter of bank guarantee was also brought up and condemned. The following officers "were elected: President, F. C. McDougal, Rochester; vice president, Sol Wexler, New Or leans; secretary, Fred F. rnrnsworth. Order of Foresters Enjoined. Buffalo, Sept. 29. Justice Brown In tho supreme court Issued au Injunc tion restraining the Independent Or der of Forebters from enforcing the Increased assessments on the old mem bers until the suit to test the validity ' of the Increase is settled. Over 100, 000 members are affected by the In crease While tho Injunction stands Foresters can pay their assessments at the old rate. Seven Drowned In Calumet River. Seven men were drowned Sunday In the Calumet river at One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, South Chicago, when the pleasure launch Lemon ttrtick one of the supports of a rail road bridge and sank with all on board. The owner of the launch sue teeded in swimming to the khore tnd 1. us the only one saved. Eastern Drought Is Broken. Plttbhurg, Spt. 0. The long pro tracted drought In western Pennsylva nia, euatem Ohio and Wast Virginia Ik ttlTecluali) broken. The rainfall was geimrai throughout the stricken torrlloo Forest Firas Extinguished, Glen KIIh. N Y.. Sept 2S The fortut tiit-a thai have been ragiug lit the luotttiUa iif the Adirondack la thh option t;r attverala Wf'ka, wre uii.uiihid b hi-uvj tains. FIND NEW "MIRACLE" WHEAT." West Virginia Cereal a Great producer. Growing 100 Bushels to the Acre. Topekn, Kan. Sept. M A new "miiucle wheat" has just been dt.cov ered. this time in West Virginia, and the promoters are trying 10 dispua of the wheat to Kansas rarmcis F. D Colmru, secretary of the Kansas boaid of agrlcultuie, has been Invest! Katinp It. The miracle wheat Is a great producer, growing 100 or more bushels to the ncie, but, accoidlng to Mr. Cobuiu, no miller would buy i for (lour making, and that Is what counts In the wheat raising industrv Nations Join In War on Tuberculosis. Washington, Sept. 29. Medical sci entists representing ever.v civil. ted nation united with their biothe. '. America in an effort to solve the prob lem of how best to cope with tjberc" losls The occasion was the official opening of the sixth triennial r.terna tionnl congress on tuberculosa The great auditorium of the National tmt seum was filled with men, who have consecrated their best talents to the study of tuberculosis, representative or the sovereigns or the foreign cour. tries., and high officials of tl.e govern ment. Throw3 Herself In Front of Train. New Yoik, Sept. 29 In the pres ence of a crowd of women Fhoppcrs waiting ior an uptown train at tho Fourteenth street station of the Sixth avenue railroad, a well dressed woman threw herself in front of a moving train and was so terribh injured that she died a few moments later The tragic act created almost a panic In the crowded platform. Colonel Stewart in Washington. Washington, Sept 29 Colonel Will- lam F. Stewart of the coast artillery, commanding the ungarrisoned post at Fori Kraut. Ariz . who is to annear befoio a retiring board to determine his nhvsleal fitness for further ser- vice on the active list, reported to tho war department. No date has yet been set for a meeting of the board Lake Steamer Wrecked. Marquette. Mich.. Sept. 29. Losing her bearings In tho dense smoke and fog the steamer Neshoto, bound down with lion 01 e. ran ashore on Crisp Point, eastern Lake Superior, and was broken to pieces by the gale. She Is a total loss, The crew was rescued by llfesavera. American Party Names Ticket. Salt Lake, Sept. 29. The American party, the anti-church organization, nominated a state ticket and adopted n nlntlonn which charges that polyg omy is m.111 actively practiced In Utah by prominent Mormbn chinch officials Kern in Chicago. Chicago, Sept. 29. John W. Kern, Democratic candidate for vice presi dent, arrived here to confer "with the speakers' bureau of national head quarters relative to his tour through Michigan and tjie south. Kills Burglar With Rifle. Chicago, Sept. 29. A masked burg lar, armed with un open knife, was shot and Instantly killed with a rill by Dr Adolph Uehrimiiiu, 3810 Ellis avenue. Shot In Class Fight. Delphi, Ind'.. Sept. 29. At a class fight between the classes of the high school, Larry Coblf, president or tho junior class, was seriously injuied by a shotgun. CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS. Features of the Day's Trading and Closing Quotations. Chicago, Sep't. 28. Wheut prices on the local exchange were dragged dowu today by bearish statistics, the prin cipal feature of which was an unusual ly liberal increase in the available stocks ot wheat in the United States and Canada. The close was almost the lowest point, at net losses ot c to X.:'tC. Corn and oats weie wtak, and piovlslons weak. Closing prices: Wheat Sept., U9!hc; Dec, $1.03'tf 1.03.jf; May, J1.00,"s1.00k.. Coin Sept., 79c; Dec., G.V,'c. Oats Sept.. 4&?.c; Dec.. 49',SH9'bc. Pork Sept.. $15.25; Oct., $15.25. Lard-Sept.. $10.27'..; Oct.. $10 27'... nibs Spr.t.. J10.00: Oct.. $9.90. Chicago Cash Prices No 2 hard ueen convicteu are some or tne great wheat $100.l-ul!kJ; No 2 coin 7UH. I est rpointlons In the United States, fi-bc No i white- oats, 47&.50c at 'or Instance the Ameilcan Sugar company, the aggregate line actually South Omaha Live Stock. ' paid being more than $150,000; Swift South Omaha. Sept. 23.-Cattle-Ro. ' & 9:' Armou.r. Pacli,nB company, tho celpts, 7.300; active to 10c highei ; na live fcteers, $4 005 7 25; cows and heir eis, $3 004 23, western steers, $3 25 igcci, Texas steers, $3.004C0. can-j ners $2.00g?2 80, stockists and reed-1 ers. $2.75(04.75. calves. $3.00'i00; ! bulls, stags, etc., $2.25(fJ3.ao. Hogs, Receipts, 1.700; 5c lower; heavj, $.C0! C80; mixed, $G.G0C70; light. $0.53 I C75: pigs. $5 00G 00; bulk or hales, j $G.C06 7O. Sheep Receipts, 21.000; J 10$U5c higher; yearlings, $0.75&7 40; woihers. $3.253.75; ewes, $3 00, S40. lambs. $4.50(fJ5.G0. Chicago Live Stock. ( Chicago, Sept 28 Cattle Receipts., 22.000; stoadj; steers, $1 40(87G0; cow. S3GS&6 25; holferk. $3 00 4 2s, bulU. $2 50(6-4 50; calves, $3 5u8 00; ' k tocUor and tdrs. $2.bu j w nogs ! Receipts, :!. )); stead ; chouc- I heavy shipping. $7 157 25; butchers $7 (?72.5: light. $.706 80. choice lifiht. $6S5S7 ); packing. $7o$ C9Q: pits. t'J"5.!5; bulk of aalea :.70G6S5. 8h-p Receipts. Stuuo. neady. Kkvn. $SS0Q480, laiatk $I25$5 25; .'UilihiSi, Jt-OOfc 1.25 PRESIDENT TO BRYAN! Tells What Has Been Done To ward Curbing Trusts. Prea'dent Takes Another Shot at Governor Haskell and Blames Ne braskan for Setting Up Standard'of "Law Honesty." President Roosevelt made reply to W. J. Bryan's recent Bpeecu In which he maintained that the Democratic party and platform were not getting a square deal iu the campaign. The president's leply deals principally with Mr. Bryan's assertion that the admin istration has been neither sincere nor effective iu prosecution of trusts. Mr. Roosevelt combats this charge with characteristic emphasis and sets forth In detail what has beeu done under his direction toward curbing the tend ency or capital to centralize with a view to destroying competition. The president's letter, In part, follows: "Dear Sir: I have seen your letter published In the morning papers. As 1 to most of what yoti say about me per 1 sonally I do not regard rnv answer as I necessary When you t. iv that I am I unfair to your platform, ou reiterate . certain opinions as to which I had , quoted, with my h.aitj approval, Gov I ernor Hughes In my first letter, and ' these, therefore, it Is also unneces sary to answer. You have not answered the Hughes speech and, In my judg ment, you do well not to make the at tempt. You say that your platform declares in favor of vigorous enforce ment of the law against guilty trust magnates and ollleials and that tho platfoim 11p1.11 which Mr. Taft stands makes-no t h declaration. It was not necessary. That platform approved the policies of ' this administration '"d piomised to continue them, and uero, as us-iai, 1 nave oniy to com pare your w nds with the deeds of tho administration and of Mr. Taft. You merely promise iu your platform tltat you intend to do just what this admin istration has done and is doing. Compares Records. "To show the difference between deeds and words I will compare the record of this adminlstiation with the record of one or your most prominent supporters at the moment, Mr. Olney, attorney general under the last Demo cratic administration. While Mr. Olney was attorney general no cases, whatever were brought under the anti trust law, against combinations of capital, the only new case3 which he brought bciilg diiected against combi nations of worklngmeu. In that en tile administration the only cases brought under the anti-trust act were four in number, two or which were un- : successful, one or the two being the case which was decided by Judge Taft In favor of the government. "Under this administration a mass of such cases have been brought, in cluding the case against the Northern Secuiitles company, against the beet packers, against the Fedeial Salt com pany, against the General Paper com pany, against the Otis and other ele vator companies, against tho American Tobacco company, against the powder trust, agalnbt the Virglnia-Caioliua Chemical company, against the Stand ard Oil company and others, in a number of these cases the government has already succeeded by Injunctions and otherwise. Some of the cases are now pending. In hardly any Import ant case against great law-breaking corporations has the government yet suffered final defeat. Suits Against Railways. "As legards suits to suppress rail waj abuses under the last Democratic administration there wete no indict- f ments against shippers ror receilvng rebates or secret rates. Under my ad ministrations there have been forty nine indictments ior secret tebates, resulting In eighteen convictions, and In only four cases have these indict ments failed. The other twenty-seven cases aie still pending. Among the railroads which have beeu convicted are the Chicago and Alton, Chicago, Burlington and Qulncy, the New York Central, Chicago Rock Island and Pa cific and Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, while ucores 01 cases are still pending against other leading rail roads. Among the shippers that have Cudaliy Packing company, Nelson Morris & Co., each or whom was fined $15,000, and the cases have now bqeu carried to the supreme court. Tho Standard Oil case is ntlll pending. This is a record of actual achievement and beside it mere promises are empty indeed; and they would not be made now with any possibility of per formance resulting If It were not for tho achievement above recited. Pays His Respects to Haskell, "I now come to the Important part of your letter, your attitude toward Mr Haskell. You state that Mr. Haskell has voluntarily resigned from the uom- mittoe You speak hlghl of the pub- He service which he has rendered and pioteat agulust any condemnation or him except such as may come in a court, uut or jour own mouth you nrp condemned. You therebv mm up that ktandant of Maw uont-t which link be?u tbt bene of thU people iu ondcav tiring to get equity nd fair dealing as thfcty abould obtain among high minded man from great busl-UPS- n -poratiooa and froai individuals like Mr Huakell." Try My Flour and vou won't have anv more worry about your bread. My brands of xt and Cow are not excelled anywhere in this country, and ladies who have used them aro my best advertisers. Phont Ha. 71 Ret. Phone He. 95 J. ROWAN THE FLOUR AND FEED MAN We have a customer for a large modern house. tie will pay a good price for it, but wants the best. Do you want to sell yours? We at so have several cus tomers for small resi dences Nebraska Land Co. Phone 2SI--Alliancce Natl. Bank Blk. KALDAL BROTHERS Contractors, Builders A.VI1- Brick Manufacturers ALLIANCE. NEB. Q. W. ZOBEL DRAY LINE Office at Geo. Darling's Store Phone 139. Residence Phone 570. GEO. V. ZOBEL. H. NELSON, Painting, Paper Hanging and Kalsomining Phone 641 Alliance, Nebr. When you plan your home remember the importance of Good Plumbing I do sanitary work and rriiar- antee it. I install Standard bath room fixtures. Steam and Hot Water Heating- with modern, up-to-date Ideal Boilers and American Radiators right in my line. FRED BRENNAN vm. James, Exclusive Dealer in COAL & ...WOOD 'Phone No. 5. Alliance, Nebraska. When You Buy uvj 1 .i nunu. The Hm Merchants mprit your support. thev are the mainstays ot the community. And when yon buy oi Home Merchants. S -mw nuv UUVCUUCi A