THH OMAHA DAILY BEEt TUTKSDAY, SEPTOfBER 2$, 1903. Tht Cmlil FHihtng Clmfv, IMS, Her Brother's Letters A man lets his sister see the emotional affairs of girls and women through a man's eyes. The first letter appears in The October Ladies' Home Journal 15 Cent9 at All News-Stands THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENTS NOT BARRED Omaha Exchange Oonnecti with Many of ' Them Threnghoat Uebraska. MANY COMPANIES HAVE ACCESI TO CITY General Manager Lane Gives Detailed Eahtblt te Cervect Ml.leadlagr Iaapresaleaa of the robllo. I am asked almost daily why It la that tha NehstieMa -Telephone-comparty does not allow the different Independent companies In the. state to come Into Omaha over its lines andwhen I answer the persons mak ing this inquiry that at this time there are 21,475 subscribers ' to independent telephone companies in Nebraska now getting serv ice throughout the territory and to all points reached by tha lines of the Ne braska Telephone company and reached by the Unas of its associate companies they are very much surprised. In connection with this matter I hava to say that there ar over 100 Independent tel ephone co ipanles in the state of Nebraska connected directly with our lines and en joying all the facilities that our system af fords In precisely the aame manner that aubscrlbers of the Nebraska Telephone . company enjoy them. Below la given the names of the compa- nles that connect with us: ' Number of Name and Exchange. Subscribers. Ualblon Telephone Co., Albion Alvo Telephone Co., Alvo 160 Archer Telephone Co., Archer SO Battle Creek Tel Co., Battle Creek 176 Braver Valley Tel. Co., Danbury 225 Nelden Tel. Co., Helden 125 Belgrade Tel. A Imp. Co.. Belgrade W Bennett Tel. Co., Bennett 260 Bl-County Tel. Co., Arapahoe 40 Butler County Tel. Co., Bralnard 200 Camp Dewey Tel. Co.. Wausa, Crelgh- ton. Verdlgre, Niobrara. Lynch 1,000 r.nirai ti Cn.. all Dolnta in Custer county " Cherry County Tel. Co., Valentine 2f0 Citizens' Tel. Co.. Oxford 1W C.arks Farmers' Tel. Ass n. Clarka 60 Coleridge Tel. Co., Colerwge iib f'mi. rwhmt-A T-l Ca I,wlaton. Crab Orchard -vf ' Craig Tel. Co., Craig 200 norcheeter Tel, Co . Dorchester it ,.., Tal ri . FArar 175 Ewlng Tonlo Tel. Ass'n. Ewlng 100 Seward County Cos. Seward Co 2o0 Farmers Tel. Cc. of Dodge Co., Dodge Snyder, Ames, North Bend, Scrtbner, Webster, Pleasant Valley 600 Farmers' Tel. Co. of Neola, Neola, la.. 76 Fullerton Tel. Co., Fullerton 2M Oreeley County Tel. Co., Greeley 600 Hamilton County Tel. Co., throughout Hamilton county 2,000 Havana Tel. Co., Indlanola 2W) Holt County Tel. Co., O'Neill Howard County Tel. Co., Holt Co 600 Humphrey Elec. Light and Tel. Co., Cornlear Lindsay, Humphrey, Crea- ton BOO, Inavale Tel. Co., Inavale 20 Interstate Tel. Co., tpencer, Butte, Stuart, Atkinson 1,000 Keya Paha & Brown County Tel. Co., Alnsworth 30 Lawrence Tel. Co., Lawrence SOO Lowell & Mlnden Tel. Co., Mlnden 60 Madison Tel. Co., Madison 200 Meadow Grove Tel. Co., Meadow Grove 160 Murdock Tel. Co., Murdock 160 Mutual Tel. Co. of Clav Center. Clay Center t...- 260 Nebraska Clark Automatic Tel. Co., Al- , len. Carroll, Dakota, Kmerson, Homer, Jackson, Laurel, PUger, Randolph Wlnslde 1,000 Octavla Tel. Co.. Octavla 80 Ocalalla Keystone Tel. Co., Ogalalla. 60 Ohiowa Tel. Co., Ohfowa 810 Ord Independent Tel. "Co., Garfield, Loud, and Valley counties z.wo Osmond Tel. Co.. Osmond 20 Mllford Mutual Tel. Co., Mllford SO Panama Tel. Co., Panama 180 Peru Tel. Co., Peru 200 Byron Tel. Co., Byron 120 Pierce Tel. Co., Pierce ISO Plalnvlew Tel. Co., Plalnvlew ) F. C. Scott. David City Sno Sherman County Tel. Co., Sherman Co.- 200 Stanton Tel. Co., Stanton 10 Sutton Tel. Co.. Sutton 826 Tekamah A Farmers' Tel. Co., Teka- mah J. M. Van Auken. Western Ware Tel. Co.. Ware W. H. Watson, Bancroft Wayne Tel. Co., Wavne Wray Tel. Co., eulbertson ana otner points There are many other independent com panies connected directly with us that wa could mention, but I think I have named enough here to show that the Nebraska Telephone company la not opposed to con necting up with Independent telephone companies on any reasonable basis com patible with reasonable business usages. I can aay further that this company has sold out many of Its exchanges at less than their actual value to Independent IN) 75 25 2N) 860 sno companies operating In towns where our exchanges had been established many years prior to the establishment of the lnde pendent systems In order to relieve tha cltlsens of thesa particular towns from the burden of two telephones. Among the towns that were sold out for this purpose I will name you Ord, Neb.; St. Paul, Neb.; Madison, Neb.; Wayne, Neb.; Stanton, Neb.; Oxford, Neb., and many other points. The real reason that we are unable to get mora Independent companies to connect with us is that most of tha Independent companies in the state belong to what Is known aa an Independent Telephone asso ciation, which association is fostered by the larger promotera, tnd the agenta of tha concerns manufacturing Independent telephones and apparatus; therefore to protect their sales there Is among the Jules of this association one that any Inde pendent company connecting with tha Ne braska Telephone company Is a traitor to the Independent cause and in the event that that company connects with our lines It is immediately dropped from the asso ciation. It seems to me that If these facta were generally known tha business men of any community would bring such pressure to bear on the independent companies aa would compel them. If they want service Into Omaha, to enter into a reasonable con tract with the Nebraska Telephone com pany and not permit them to attempt to saddle the burden of a dual telephone sys tem o ntha citizens of Omaha the only ad vantage of thla system being to enrloh tha promotera of aame. H. VANCE LANE. St. Paul and Itetara (1260. DULUTH, ASHLAND AND BATFIELD and return , 21160. PEADWOOD AND LEAD and return $11.71. VERT LOW RATES NOW TO ALL POINTS EAST via Tha Northwestern Una. City Offices 1401-1401 Far nam street. OMAHA MEN AND THEIR HOBBIES Tha Indian never Ulead work but ha wanted his squaw to get well as soon as boeclble so tat aha ooold do tha work V . .2 I . 1.1m hunt, therefore ha dug pupoos. root or lur, for that was their great remedy fur female weak- 1 tfiAP-ywu. : a' functional alitnrbaoee. Da. ' Dr. Pierce ases tha same root called Blue Co hosh in his" Fa vorite Prescrip tion skillfully combined with other agents that make It Was ere effective aiKl protect sue stomach from ft PlXRCX'S F1TOMTS PBMCarTIO Doteoi ever waa apawn meaiciue. ut It 1 tha eareiuui thoroughly tested, caul prasortpMon ol t rani phviiata la a reru the carefully wrought out and prasor pe i mwadL fw'riami'i nanaralleled aucoeaa with this remedy was such that more wanted to use it than any oca doctor ouuld attend to In 4 private practice. Thla Induced him te manufacture it u a auffieleatly liberal scale to meet the demand. ta hi. in arjeslal procaeaea. be ex tracts, comet net and preserves the medi cinal qualities ol the several Ingredient sea ren- women clnal qualities of tea several inr without the use of alcohol (using Ipally tare g'yearlae Instead), the 4Wlng It absolutely safe tor any a of any see and la any condition to use Freely. Tha aameaoi the Ingredient are; af Blipaar rpS 'ca tesws iwv Joora rwt. Blue Cohaeh root acvd Uea BaaTreot. Aanae,Kw Vera CUT. Treaaur VaiV ProjreaftiTa C!a. wrt II ! hU kedele. kfkwM, aad was varr aerwus suatoely able K sleep sore taaa twa h0rt at a nua. 1 was wnm r Lr. f terqe'a rarie PreacrntM. en 2olUktjrwlta taa resvlt. W lu.la a we aa i Mpkl r..lortwl. OuafVnoed a.ng Ut I c M4 Uiao t ataoa ravvmta '. ta every oaa" . rBilnatlda altHnazk a IttUa (T1. aa- fta big ones 11 negleoaed. Dr. Ptareea I iiaae' V.lfe tetaxivtre eaawUyaUaev. aa vita aa result. Wlu.la a week I oiib T twr. 9 Uv ' for eirht wV. an a toot a. lur 1 was vntmm w. iaoa tLa roar stotaakaa Ma it frrUrMua,' too. I reaaauaaad I Q Siy :0UNIY ASSESSORS TO COME Tiryocs yTho Eandltd Sallrotd Atsat mat Will Tsitif ia Tax Case. HORRIS IKOWN WILL ISSUE SUMMONS B8tate Aadtter Wratea Sara He Taaaaht Lead Iatereeta Were Hot Asseeaeel at Fall Valee. At the hearing of the Vnlon raclflo pro test on tta state assessment Wsdnesday morning Attorney General Brown gave no tice of his Intention to summon every County assessor In the state handling rail road assessments before the hearing closed. The taking of testimony In tha tax matter was resumed before 8peclal Examiner Pear gall In the north court room of the federal building Wednesday morning, wth ex Auditor of State Charles Weston on the stand, and terminated with Prof. Albert E. Davidson 6f tha .University of Nebraska. The entire morning waa consumed In the examination of Mr. Weaton. Hla evidence was, In effect! - I waa a member of the State Board of Assessment and Equalisation in IMS and 1904. The assessment of the Union Paciflo property In lftJS at 26,223,360 did not then. nor does tha assessment on tha aame prop erty for 104, represent the actual value of tha property. Tha railroad waa assessed as all other property, but not at full value. All property waa assessed practically uni formly. The values were placed on tha basis of tha evidence furnished by the schedules of the railroad company and such other sources of Information as tha board had. I do not think there waa any par tlcular Increase of value of the tangible property in 1904 over that of 1903, at least that la my recollection. In making up railway assessment tha atate board made no personal investigation; that was left to the local assessors. We applied the same basis of uniformity in 1903 on all properties and fixed tha value of the Union Paciflo In round numbers at 86,000,000. This was on a basis of from one-fourth to one-twentieth. This rule was not applied In the assess ment of 1904, when the valuation waa placed at not leaa than one-fifth. Seconded Marsh's Matloa. "I seconded the motion of Mr. Marsh. asking a reduction to 310,600 per mile In the Union Paciflo assessment, but the motion waa lost. "I moved that all roads be assessed aa a unit and tha value be distributed over all mileage, but that motion was also de feated. My motion waa to make a uniform assessment per mile after ascertaining the main line and branch mileage. In his cross examination by Attorney General Brown, Mr. Weston said "Without reference to the 3400.000.000 grand assessment roll, it waa the earnest desire of the board to ascertain the actual value of the railroads and assess them fairly. "Personally I was not at all Influenced by the clamor of public demand or the press. I do .not think any member of the board permfttod his political fortunes to be influence) by his action as a member of the board. Representatives of the Union Pacific came before the board of equal isation and wanted the assessment lowered. The valuations of all property were made by tha assessors. The valuations were raised in twenty-four out, of the ninety counties of the stat, but none waa lowered." Not at Aetna! Value. John N. Baldwin, in his1 redirect examina tion of Mr. Weston, asked him If he would swear that all lands In Nebraska were as- aessed at their actual vaUe. Mr. . Weston replied: . . it vi.'i I will not swear that .Nebraska lands were all assessed at their actual value aa originally returned by the assessors. My private opinion la that the lands were not assessed at their actual value." The wltneas had no recollection that Gov ernor Mickey bad said he would favor the Marsh resolution were he assured It would not operate to reduce the railway assess ment below $46,000,000. It now begins to look aa if the taking of testimony In these cases will be con tinued indefinitely. Attorney General Nor rls Brown said at noon Wednesday he In tends to summon all the assessors in the state that had anything to do with the assessment of railroad property, and that the examinations would be held here at the federal building In Omaha. Mr. Baldwin said the examination of tha assessor would. In his absence in the east, be undertaken by C. L. Dundy. The examination was resumed at t o'clock Wednesday afternoon, with Prof. Davidson of the state university on the stand. Davidson's Land Valaes. Prof. Davidson estimated the value of the lands of the state of Nebraska to be 3300,- 000.000, of which the cultivated lands repre sented 3800,000,000 and tha uncultivated lands 3100,000,000 This value he placed In the lands In 1904. He had received reports from svery county In the state and had person ally visited sixty of them. The total value of the products of the lands of the state In 1904 was approximately 3160,000,000. Upon his cross-examination by Attorney General Norrta Brown he aald: My information relative to the value and acreage of corn in 1904 waa received from representatives In the field, about three men to every county. These were mainly elevator men who were In close touch with the farmers. In estimating total values the rule waa to figure It as about 20 per cent of the gross producing Income xf the lands. Mi Fall Furnishings for Women Women'g medium walght ribbed cotton YMtg and pants. In rru and natural. . high neck. Ions sleeve rests.... Women's fine qnallty combed Egyptian cotton combination suits, early fall weight, htrh neck, long sleeves, ankle length, silk trimmed ,neck, at Heavy ribbed black cotton hose for boys and girls, any style rib, site 6 to 10, best wearing hose made, the "TOM SAW V Kit IUIAND, i pair for 26c pair 25c cotton t. htrh 1.00 15c Women's new style of lace and embroidery trim med corset covers, late, pretty patterns, P cut full and perfectly finished, at JLDG Women's fall styles In silk and patent leather belts many new and exclusive styles, rich col orings, also black and white A.ftt regular 76c and $1 values at. ....... tOC Women's new "kid" gloves, special dollar and 75c values In tan, bran, white and black, all sites. lot resular 59c Agents for the "Gentcmcri" High Grade Kid Gloves, $1.50, $1.25 and $1.00 1 5th and Farnam Sts. 15th and Farnam Sts. CHARLES Y. DYBALL-StinW 'Em Up. BOY GOES R1CI TO KEARNEY Roy Parker Katnrned from Dliioii hj Requisition on Dtneei. GETS PROMISE OF HOME ON RANCH Meeta Cattleman on Trala Who Wants Trial at Reforming; Him When Schoal Gets Throngs,. Probation Officer Bernstein of the Juvenile court returned Wednesday morning from Chicago, bringing with him Roy Parker, the 14-year-old boy, who violated his parole from the Kearney reform school. Parker has been recommitted to the Kearney In stitution. The boy was arrested In the first place for burglary and Judge Day of the juvenile court sentenced him to the reform school. Me was later paroled and given employ ment at 31.75 a day. After working a few days he Jumped to Chicago, That con fronted the authorities with an unpre cedented case, namely whether or not a Juvenile offender could be transferred from one state to another under the provisions of a requisition, such as operated in the case of an ordinary fugitive. Througn Judge Day, a requisition waa made upon Govenor Deneen of Illinois for the young fugitive and the governor honored the de mand. Word of thla action waa trans mitted to Omaha and Officer Bernstein went to Chicago for his captive. Returning from Chlcsnro with the boy. Officer Bernstein says they met up with a cattleman on the train from western Ne braska, who became interested In the boy's case. After probing him with questions by which he learned all about his anteced ents and present predicament, the cattle man gave the child his name and address and told him to write him aa soon an his term at the reform school waa up and he would send for him, take him to hla ranch and aee what he could do toward making a man of him. The cattleman omitted to give Mr. Bernstein his name and address. i i t I I fin, A pure, fragrant and cleansing toilet soap. 3 Made from the purest vegetable oils. 9 Has the delicious re freshing odor of natural flowers. 9 The universal favorite for toilet and bath. ' 9 Especially recom mended for sensitive skins, on account of its mild and soothing qual ities. JAMES S. KIRK & COMPANY. A BELL BOOMERANG. "TELEPHONES AT FIFTT CENTS PER MONTH." "To the Cltlsens of Plattsmouth: "Tha Nebraska Telephone company has been In business in Plattsmouth for many years. It has Invested at different times considerable sums of money, and hence is entitled to fair treatment from the people of Plattsmouth. For soma time prior to September 1 thla company charged for busi ness telephones 32.60 per month and for residence telephones 32 per month. Thesa rates were not too nign lor tne company to make a fair return on its Investment. Tne manager or the water works mo nopoly in Plattsmouth has decided to go Into tha talcnhnn. h,l..M rA h.. trA I telephone service at rates lower than the Nebraska Telephone company has been charging. The Nebraska Telephone com pany Is In the telephone business to stay. We will not be 'outdone In kindness to the public, and from October 1 this company will enter Into one or two-year contracts to furnish first-class telephone service in business houses for 31-25 per month and In residences at 60 cents per month. The aoove prices are less tnan cost and are i only made to protect our Interests. If de siring service from our company please notify our agent In Plattsmouth and he will call on you. Respectfully, "NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY, "C. B. Tost, President." (Extract from Plattsmoutb Post Septem ber, 1898.) The above notice "to the citizens of Plattsmouth" appeared in the Plattsmouth ; Dally Pbst in September, 1898, and speaks i for Itself. Mr. Oonden tells you that Independent telephone competition has never forced the Nebraska Telephone company to reduce rates. The Nebraska Telephone company began giving service in Plattsmouth for 60 About 21,000.ono acres of lands were re-! cents per month on October 1, 1898, and turned for taxation, all of which were ; have continued that rate for the past seven practically cultivated or Improved lands, years and are today giving service to their leaving aome 17.000,000 of uncultivated or Plattsmouth subscribers at 10 cents per unimproved lands." j month. There are dosena of other cases in The examination of witnesses waa con- thla state where independent competition eluded for the present with Prof. Davidson's has had this same effect. Let an Inde- testlmony and the hearing adjouraed. sub- penaent company enter umana and you will Ject to a call by agreement of counsel for the examination of the assessors to be summoned. Cheap Rates to Clear Lake aad Retara. VIA CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN RAIL- WAT. Tickets on sale every Saturday. Final return limit the following Monday. Good fishing, boating, bathing. Reasonable hotel ratee. For further Information apply to 8. D. PARKHURST. Oeneral Agent. 1513 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. see the Nebraska Telephone company fur nishing service at any old price. Just aa they do in Lincoln, Topeka, Kansas City, Minneapolis and hundreds of other cities where competition has forced them to cut ratea. Party ol Jolly FIskerfolk. k lolly party of fishermen, composed of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Burgess, J. W. Thomas and Miss Thomas, Fred Schamel and Mr. Snyder of Kansas City, left Wednesday for Lake Washington. Mr. Hnyder has a new Idea on fishing whirh he caught at the re- rent production of "Fantasma and he says that he will use It with guaranteed reaults on the bass of Lake Washington. Tr.aici Power over constipation, biliousness, etc. Is shown In the marvlous cures made by Elect rlo Bitters. 60c. Guaranteed. Bold by Bher. man ai McConnell Drug Co. Harry B Davis, undertaker. Ttl iSX DIED. Sept. 27. 1906. aged 30 beloved wife of 3j W DOR AN Anna E. years, months. 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