JANUARY 31,1907
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
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any paper In the great state of Ne
braska. He don't care to have the
honor lost over six months, but to
have finally bested Geo. Cross is a
great blessing.
little dissent. But It is agreed all
around that the members must eschew
all special favors under the new dis
pensation, and give undivided loyalty
and service to the public.
HERE the money goes in a rich
HAS Nebraska county with no large
cities is illustrated by this estimate of
the commissioners of Washington for
county expenses for the year 1907:
Elections $ 500.00
Jail l.ooo. on
Poor and poor farm 5,500.00
Assessors 2,500.00
County superintendent 1,200.00
Roads 10,000.00
Bridges 1G.000.00
Interest on railroad bonds 8,000.00
Attorney 800.00
County surveyor 300.00
Officers salaries 3,000.00
Incidentals 5,000.00
Soldiers relief 1,000.00
Int. on court house bonds 1,500. 0'J
Coroner 200.00
Commissioners 1,500.00
Criminal cases 1,500.00
Int. on S. C. & P. R. R. bonds.... 6,500.00
Sinking fund O. & N. W. R. R.
bonds 10,000.00
Sinking fund court house bonds.. 4,000.00
Sinking fund S. C. & P. R. R.
bonds 8,500.00
County ditch 2,000.00
Total ..$90,500.00
Of the total of $90,500 the county pays
$14,500 interest on railroad bonds and
$18,600 on the principal of these bonds.
That makes a total of $33,000 to the
railroads, or considerably over a third
of the total county expense. We won
der whether Washington county is
sure it Is not paying dividends as well
as Interest on its bonds via freight and
passenger rates.
As early as 1804 vild bees were found
at the mouth ol the Niobrara river,
later in 1840 wild bees were found on
the little Nemaha, and in 1870 a bee
tree was discovered on the Loup river,
not far from the present site of Loup
City. The early settlers of this state
brought bees with them from the coun
tries farther east and which was then
more favored, and for a time the in
dustry was confined to the farmers
and ranchmen who had settled along
the streams of this state. But as the
wild grasses were soon subdued, white
clover and other nectar producing
plants, began to take its place in pas
tures and along the roadsides, and this
industry began to grow, not -only In
amount of production but the quality
began to improve above that hereto
fore produced. The scarcity of wild
bees on the great prairies of the west
together with the absence of all pollen
bearing insects has made it necessary
to couple bee-keeping with other in-
"INCURABLE" HEART DISEASE
SOON CURED!
By the Great Specialist in Treating
Chronic Disease, Franklin Miles,
M. D., LL. B.
Will Send $2.50 Worth of His Personal
Treatment Free as a Trial.
To demonstrate the unusual curative
powers of his new and complete spe
cial treatments by mail for heart,
lungs, liver, stomach, kidney or ner
vous diseases, short breath, pain In
the side, oppression in the chest, ir
regular pulse, palpitation, smothering
spells, Puffing of the ankles, or
dropsy. Dr. Miles will send $2.50 worth
free as a trial, to all who mention
this paper.
His treatments are the result of
twcnty-fivo years of careful study, ex
tensivo research, and remarkable ex
perience in treating the various ail
ments of the heart, stomach and
nerves, which so often complicate
each ease. So astonishing are the re
sults of his complete special treat
ments that he does not hesitate to
offer all persons a trial free.
Nothing could ho more liberal. Few
physicians have such confidence In
their remedies. There is no reason
hy all afflicted persons should not
avail themselves of this exceedingly
liberal offer, as they may never have
another such opportunity. No death
enmcfl as suddenly an that from heart
disease,
Mr. A. Krortrk. of llnliiu(tti. IM . rur4
afir lhir ihj.lcUn Uiivri; Mr lr a JrW.r,
t-t Hruu.lt Ulf. cj.. fir iwvuty-l: Ja H. Wio
i nit i tr, uttrr i'orw lil iintmiuiuwti liiut
tamrabi: Mr. rank HaHh. of I'hhwgo fvr
l..tr g .hir an h.t firm hr op; Mr, Jultu
Ktit, ort'tiifatf", aftpfW-ii; Mr. It I'araar, afur
auun, fatlmt.
A thouaand references to, and testi
monials from ISishopa, Clergymen.
Hanker, Farmers and their wive
will ho sent free upon request, Send
a i-arrful description of your vase, ami
w;i f for ick. vulublo advice mid
treatment free, Address. FinnUIn
Mis. M. D, U II. !pt. I!., C01 to
(It Main St, Klkturt. Ind
dustries in order that the work of fer
tilizing might better and more surely
be carried on. In establishing the
great melon fields on the Arkansas
river In 1 Colorado it was at first un
profitable for the reason that the wild
pollen-carrying insects made their ap
pearance so late in the season that the
first blooms were not fertilized and
the crop produced was so late that the
market at that season of the fall was
unprofitable. The introduction of the
honey-bee in these mellon fields has
not only remedied this want, but has
produced one of the finest honeys ever
tasted by man, i. e., a mixture of the
nectar of alfalfa and the melon blos
som, and today melon growers would
as soon dispense mith tllair plows and
cultivators as with the honey bee in
their melon fields.
Editor E. Whitcomb of the Friend
Telegraph, whose pen is as pointed" as
the business end of one of the bees
who compete with the tripod for his
interest, prints the information given
above in his paper of last week. In
common with other bee keepers, he be
lieves that the farmers would make
money by keeping bees even if the bees
themselves never made expenses. lie
adds this further advice to Nebraska
bee keepers: "In all the country east
of the sixth principal meridian the
pastures are overrun with white clover
and the dandelion is to be found along
every roadside. As these tame flowers
push westward the opportunities of
bee keeping in Nebraska are pushing
westward Avith it. and when Horace
Greely Invited the young man of the
east to "go west," he should have
added, "Take a colony of bees with
you." In bee-keeping as well is with
all other industries the greater amount
of room is to be found at the top.
There are three essential qualifications
to a successful bee-keeper, promptness,
carefulness and thoroughness. To
neglect a colony of bees at the proper
time during the spring or summer
months means an entire failure of re
sults. It is as important in successful
bee-keeping in this state to follow a
system of stimulative feeding about
four weeks in advance of the different
honey flows which come streaming
along during the whole season as it Is
for the successful farmer to feed up
his work horses for the spring and
summer work, or to place his machin
ery and tools in order for the work.
At the commencement of the honey
flow the number of worker bees in
the hive which are less than thirty
days old are the working capital of the
up-to-date and successful beehive, and
no bee-keeper in the state has to my
knowledge yet succeeded in securing a
great amount of honey from a colony
not well stocked with bees of the prop
er ages. Young bees are the wax
makers, and older ones the honey gath
erers, and in fact they die while out
in the field gathering nectar to be
evaporated and stored in the hive
either for the use of man or genera
tions of their kind yet unhatched."
Perhaps few Nebraska boys, or men
either, know how to construct a water
telescope. Nebraska is too far from
deep water for that, perhaps. The
Syracuse Journal tells a story, how
ever, of how a water telescope for use
in the Nemaha saved a valuable piece
of property:
"Friday last, while working on the
dam just west of town, Jim Eaton loft
his gold watch in the Nemaha, Hj
got a garden rake and fished around in
the stream, which is about four feet
deep at this point, for some time, but
failed to find the timepiece. Jim
valued the watch very highly, not
alone as a timepiece, but from the fact
that It was a gift from his mother,
and pasted on the Inside of the caso
was the photograph of his deceased
wife, and he offered a good price for
the recovery of tie.' watch.
"Jas. Harding heard of the loss, and
with a piece of gasplpe and a piece of
glass attached over one end. viewed
the bottom of the creek for a short
time. He noon located the watch,
which was brought to the surface by
means of the rake.
"Mr. Eaton offered to pay Hardin
$10 for his trouble but Jim guid $i
was enough and accepted that amount.
Harding' knowledge of nubterranean
exploration Nerved him well."
Who In the Nebraska editor of long
est continuous experience on one
paper? I'ntil recently there was no or.
to dispute the honor with George ('tOM
of Fa If bury, who had engineered thl
Gazette for thlriy-seven years. I tut
he Mold his paper a short time ago.
ThereuMn the editor of the Exeter
Enterprise reiuatk: 'dee, but this
tlrkl' thin editor, lie hi been wait
ing ten years to be the oldet editor
to ,NYli.tki and thai man Cross ha
utwavtf ltotS In his way. Today, right
now. the (diti if the Exeter Enter
prise .ivj'tv- the distinction of hulim
? ered PmcM In coitttnuuu; sen tec of
"This paper has been under continu
ous management of the present editor
since January, 1878 twenty-seven
years."
There is a discrepancy here. If Mr,
Waite took up the management of the
Enterprise in January, 1878, he has
just about ended twenty-nine years'
service, instead of 27 as he figures it.
In that case the claim put forward
by Mr. Ladd in the following item is
not sufficient to establish his right to
be an editor emeritus. He says:
"Since the retirement of Col. Cross
from the newspaper business at Fair
bury. Ross Hammond claims the toga
of nestor of Nebraska Journalists, hav
ing been editor of the same publication
for twenty-seven years. He will have
to revise his claim a little, because this
writer finished twenty-seven years'
continuous service on the same publi
cation some months ago.
Former members of congress are
granted by courtesy the rights of the
floor in the chamber which they for
merly occupied. This practice gives
ox-senators and representatives well
nigh a monopoly on jobs as lobbyists.
The rule of the Nebraska senate ad
mitting only ex-ofilcials of certain sorts
to the chamber by card of members
might conceivably bring a similar re
sult. It behooves Nebraska followers of
public affairs to understand who Is
meant by Senator Aldrich. When the
rate bill was an issue last year in
congress Senator Aldrich was its arch
enemy. Senator Aldrich is customarily
referred to as the representative of
Standard Oil, the proprietor of Rhode
Island, and the boss of the senate.
This is United States Senator Aldrich
of Rhode Island. Much is heard this
winter in Nebraska of Senator Aldrich,
Senator Aldrich is a prominent mem
ber of the committee having the rate
question in charge, and he is known
as a strong supporter of rate regula
tion. Nobody has called him a boss,
or a representative of anybody in the
senate but the people of his district.
He is Senator Aldrich of Butler coun
ty, Nebraska. By observing the con
trast all risk of confusing the two Sen
ators Aldrich can be avoided.
Nobody need be surprised at the ef
forts the politicians of the past era
are now making to defeat the direct
primary bills before the legislature.
Such an assault has been expected all
along. The only curious thing about it
is the fact that it has not been made
In force sooner. The average memb:
will listen -to anything any objects o
the primary has to say, and then he
will come back and look the party
platform in the face and know exactly
what he is going to do.
Some persons may not have given
enough attention to the details of
direct primary legislation to under
stand the importance of the issue as
between the state wide primary which
the party platforms promise, and the
county wide primary which some peo
ple propose now that the elections are
over. A disinterested and authorita
tive view on this point is found in Mr.
Meyer's book on the subject of nomi
nating systems. He says: "In order
that a (direct primary) law may be
complete, and may receive a decisive
and conclusive trial, it must embrace
the entire state. This is necessary be
cause our whole political organization
centers about the central or state gov
ernment. Political combinations reach
out largely from a central stronghold,
and spread their influence not only
over one county or district, but over
the entire state. Hence, to institute a
direct primary system applying to
none but county and city officers in
all the counties of tho state, is to
apply but a partial remedy. The
abuses in our state governments would
remain u menace net only to the causo
of good government, but aho to the
successful operation of the locul sys
tems that 'machine' politician are
willing partl'.Hy to atiJij public
clamor by allowim- a compromise
county or city schem n be Inaugu
rated." The jHopl of Nebraska will remem
ber in this connection that it is state
officers who a.Siss the railroads, Mate
officers who regulate railroad rates,
state officers who enforce the ant1
trust laws, and It Is state of fleers that
It Is proposed not to allow the p.ople
of the state to choose In their direct
primary.
Tho country at large Is taking the
Increase in tho pay of member of
eoiigriss with entire composure. A
gre.it Uesl of fun Is poked ut tne Hen
ate for pieteinllltK to bo opposed to the
Increase, while a'.l the time secretly
eRRtng on ttie house to vote the ap
propriation fUM Critl. ls.ro Is also of
f red on the wny th. hou. dodk'ed eo.
If K on rei-otil in lh Mu,i!l , but on the
uerli4 uf the proportion ih- rc h very
CONNELL ADJUDGED GUILTY
OMAHA ATTORNEY I IK LI) IN COS.
TKMPT OF COURT.
THOUGHT JUDGE WAS BIASED
Trouble Arone In Trial of Coal Trnl
I'realtleiit Connell Will
Appeal to Supreme
Court.
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 28.W. J. Con
nell was today adjudged guilty of con
tempt of court by Judge Sutton for
his attitude toward the court during
the trial of S. IS. Howell, president of
the coal dealers' exchange, who was
convicted of violation of the anti-trust
Jaws.
Mr. Connell was attorney for Mr.
Howell and on one occasion during the
hearing Judge Sutton sent the jury
from the room while he lectured Con
nell on his manner of conducting tho
case and made him apologize for hla
thrice repeated insinuations that the
court was helping out the prosecution.
This afternoon Connell made a final
plea in his own behalf before the court
in course of which he declared he en
tered the contempt trial already con
victed, "Which reminds me," he pro
ceeded to say, "of a story," and he
started to tell an amusing tale of a
colored justice court in Arkansas. The
spectators were greatly engrossed in
the story when Judge Sutton broke in
with a warning and told Mr. Conned
that he would not be permitted to
abuse the court.
In concluding his plea Connell said
dramatically, "I would rather rot in
the county Jail than be unfaithful to
the interests of a client." Judgment
and sentence will be entered Tuesday
afternoon. Connell will at once tako
steps to carry the matter to the su
preme court.
County Attorney English made an
argument on behalf of the state lasting
only a few minutes. Then Attorney
Stout spoke more than an hour on be
half of Mr. Connell, and then Mr. Con
nell began his argument. The lawyer
who has been charged with contempt
because of remarks made during the
trial of the "coal trust" case was tho
personification of earnestness as he
stood looking the court straight in the
eyes and pleaded for the vindication of
his professional reputation. Several
times Judge Sutton had to interrupt
and remind the attorney that the court
was not on trial.
Coined' or Traicedy.
"The curtain is about to be rung
down on this comedy or tragedy, what
ever it may be," said Mr. Connell. "It
may be either, or, as your honor has
designated it, a vaudeville performance.
For the first time in my life 1 am
charged with a crime. For the first
time by liberty is jeopardized by the
threat of a fine or imprisonment. Foi
the first time in my thirty years' career
I am charged with conduct unbecoming
an attorney.
"I will not go to the extreme of my
counsel, Mr. Stout, and say that 1 have
never overstepped the bounds of exact
ly exemplary action before the courts.
I may have done so unintentionally at
times in the earnestness of argument.
Hut this is the first time a court ha.i
ever intimated that I was guilty of
contempt."
Mr. Connell dwelt at considerable
length upon the fact that he was al
ready convicted before the trial began.
He referred to the statements of Judge
Sutton that the Information was filed
merely to give him a chance to go on
record, and declared he was In the po
sition of the horse which entered the
race already beaten. Then he took up
the several counts ot Information.
CotiiuirUoii With It I Me,
"You can prove by the Bible thit
there Is no God. for the Bible expressly
says so," natd Mr. Connell. "But tho
statement must bo taken with the con
text, and that Is. 'The fool hath Haul
In his heart, there is no God.' in
the charges made tigalnnt tne,"
He referred to one of the counts,
where it Is charged Connell stated that
he did not believe any law h could
present would have much effect on tho
court. He showed that the court, lm
mediately preceding this statement had
said he had lost faith In the kind of
law Connell presented.
"I merely reiterated your honor
statement," said Connell. "Can the
court W In contempt of itself?' .
Regarding his remarks to the court
when the vltr-etcs, Griffith, was ex
cluded during th coal case,, Mr. ,m.
oil reiterated strongly his contention
that he had ln:d his objections t j the
x- Ui- n of che wit newt befoli thi
'"tut bad positively ordered bin, from
the witrtu fclalid.
