TIIE OMAITA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 1906. n w o 77 ment of Phonograps r-- mm Received b h Carload of Victor and Edison Talking Machines 50,000 New Records to Select From Big Ship Western Headquarters for the Edison Phonographs and Victor Talking Machines Direct Representatives of the Factory. See Us Before Buying 1906 Mddel Edison or Victor Phonographs $15.00 to $100.00 Victor Talking Machine Concerts Daily 2? 7 ' w Pi i; J. I FARM: LANDS IN NEBRASKA Why the Farmers in the Antelope State Are All Getting Rich. ! ,i II, - STATE'S ATTRACTIONS AND ADVANTAGES Great Procreaa of a Pew Years the, Aeeult of Matnral Condltioaa that Are Onlr .UelaDinir tn Be I'aed. Up to this time there has been enough fresh fertile Unda to supply the place of all glands which 'have been rendered unfertile M by bad usage and by erosion from torren tlal rainfalls In the eastern, middle and Vsouthern states. But we have now nearly reached the limit of arame lands for sale or for giving away by the government of the United States. The population of the republic has doubled about every twenty, five years. If this Increase continues at the same rate it Is safe to say that In fifty years from this time the United States will have a nonulatlon of 900.000 000 neoDla, ' Meantime the acres of arable la ft da will, than Increased that Is to say, the supply of farm lands will be much less than we now possess. Holding- that the relation of supply to demand Is the sole regulator of vnln. It la I.I. In jtnnftltlriA t Vl. t ftpmlnff lands In the United States, well located, will be worth, fifty years from this lime, an average of from 200 to tXtO per acre The farmers who have the moat Individu ality In the way of industry, frugality and judgment nearly all believe In a future of high prices for agricultural lands. Where Will the People Got The papulation of Iowa (1900) is 2.S1.8S3; the population of Minnesota (1900) is 1.7U, S1. The present immigration approximates 600,000 yearly; the annual natural Increase raises the grand total to 2,000,000 a year, or ' a yearly Increase sufficient to settle a state like Iowa. Where are the ten states like Iowa for the next ten years to be found or the twenty-five for the next twenty-five years? It is bound to be westward, and Nebraska will be the great center. The United States government's report for 1906 showed Nebraska to have held place among the great agricultural leaders, second only to Minnesota in average of spring wheat, second in sverage sere pro duction of corn and fourth In average acre production" of onts. In summary It might be stated that the agricultural products during the last three years have Included 9 000,000 tons of hay ' and foraa-e. 18.000 000 . bushels of potatoes and 1.034.1JT 637 bushels of grain. The prob. able value of all products for the period Is toOo.OOO.Ow). Nebraska's Maay Crepe. Wbeat has become not only a common and sure but a particularly profitable crop since the discovery that the hard red win ter rarieties are particularly adapted to Ne braska's sod and climate. Ten years ago It was a spring wheat state. The yield for the last three years was 13,OGO.0u0 bushels, or which more man luur-nnns was winter wbeat. Nebraska's shipments during the last three years were 10.080.000 bushels. Normally Nebraska Is the third greatest corn producer tn the union, notwithstanding Its jouih snd the vast area It gives over to erasing, which is not possible in Illinois or Iowa, the corn leaders. In 190t-'ut Ne braska raised 72.00O,0l bushels, giving It marketable surplus of more than 100,- too.0) bushels The lleld of oats for 190 was 0,090.000 bushels, for 1901 It was O.V00.009 bushels and for 1904 reached To.Ooo.000 bushels-, Barley eaa he raised la almost every portion of 'the state, some of the western counties being especially adapted 'to its ' production. The yield for 1901 was a little more than 1000,000 bushels, while that for 1904 was almost three times as much. Rye makes large yields per acre when raised for grain. Its acreage is increasing and the yield for the last three years was about 8,000,000 bushels. Alfalfa has proved one of the most valu able crops raised on the American conti nent and Nebraska has proved there Is not another alfalfa state as good. The acreage In 1905 was 236,321. From three to four cuttings are made every year, yielding an aggregate of four or Ave tons per acre, to sell at a price . varying from 14 to 19 per ton. The more alfalfa Is understood the more extensively it is adopted, and there can be absolutely no doubt about Us putting hundreds of thousands of dollars Into the pockets of Nebraska's fat cattle raisers, swine raisers and dairy and poultry men in the Immediate future. Hebraeka a Dairy State. As a meat maker alfalfa leads, while as a muscle maker the native prairie grass of Nebraska has to be given the crown. It averages about one and one-half to one and three-fourths tons to the acre. The state acreage approximates 1,700,000. It has caused Nebraska's output of butter to Increase about 60 per cent since 1900, and Omaha has become the largest market in the world for dairy products. The state has about 800,000 more milch cows than In 1900. Nebraska has moved up from thir teenth to tenth, and possibly ninth, place among the dairying states of the union. and the value of its annual dairv output has increased nearly (3,000,000. In J897 there were about 600 hand separators in use in the state. Now there are very nearly 20.000. Analysis of the statistics disclose that the average yearly dairy production per cow In America approximates tlfi. it, but In Nebraska thla figure is doubled and tripled, with the further advantage of a minimising of the cost of maintaining the cow or herd. Nebraska's Poaltry. Nebraska's poultry won a first prize, three second prises, seven third prises, four fourth prises, three fifth prises and nine sixth and seventh prises at the World's fair, St. Louis. It has attained no great prominence ss a fancy poultry state, yet only the better breeds are used, and their productiveness is great. The South Omaha psckers have engaged extensively In the fowl and egg business, so that Nebraska now has a convenient, permanent market. The Industry haa taken on a new and greater Importance since the various pack ing companies began buying fowls and eggs at nearly every Nebraska railroad station, on the eame extensive scale that they buy cattle and hogs. Eventually the packing companies trausport the packed product to remote markets even to Europe thus in suring a considerable demand for all that Nebraskana can produce Live Stock latereats of Slate. In the last three years tbs stste has marketed Il.t74.es4 animals, with a value of SlMi.uOO.OuO. When the farms of the state combine crop growing with stock raising, they insure the maintenance of soli fertility. Many states have depleted their soil by neglecting this Important principle. Nebraska farmers have ob served It, and are reaping rich reward. There are also many thousands of acres of cheap grazing land which are rich in grasses, and the mildness of the winters in the western portion makes It possible to keep stock with a very small amount of feed. Railroad facilities are such that when the finishing period comes the ani mals can be transported quickly to the central and eastern portions of the state o be fattened on the abundant corn, hay nd forage crops which these sections pro duce. The (reat stock market at South Free to All Music Lovers. Visitors are not asked to buy or in any way obligated. Those who realize that a VICTOR (price only $17.00 and upward) gives a family practically its own OPERA TROUPE of the finest voices in the world; including Melba, Caruso, Sembrich and 20 other stars, as well as its own CONCERT ROOM, may secure an instru ment easily under the remarkable offer given below. Frederick Innes, the Great Bandmaster, says: The Victor Talking Machine, as I heard it, is a human noice not a reproduction not a machine, but the voice the voices in all their original glory and splendor of the world's greatest artists. Here is an enjoyment for the most cultured musician, a lesson of incalcuablo value for every vocal student, and a royal pleasure for every one. SEE THIS GREAT OFFER. - NOTHING DOWN We offer to sell to you an Edison or Victor Talking Machine on the condition that you pay for the records only, and begin to pay for the VICTOR 30 days later. ! STARTLING REDUCTIONS. Owing to the improved methods of production, records are now 35c. 50,000 Records to choose from. We prepay all express charges on all retail orders. Write for catalogue. Omaha make the shipping charges to the finisher of rough stock art easy proposi tion. In 1860 Nebraska contained 87,000 cattle of all grades, Including 12,600 work oxen. In 1S70 this number bad grown to 80,000, or more than double. In 1880 after the Im portation of many high-grade cows from the east had had an effect. It contained 740,600 or nine times as many as in 1870. In 1890 the total reached 1,726,439, having doubled two and one-half times In ten years. In 1900 the total was 1,176,242, valued at 2S2.500.000. In 1902, 8,600,000; In 1903, 8,800. 000; In 1904, 4.286,338. Nebraska takes rank below three of the forty-five states In the union In the num ber and value of ber swine. In 1900 there were in the state 4,128,000 hogs; in 1902, 4,900.000; In 1903, 4.400,000; in 1904, 4,728,000; In 1906, over 6,000.000. The exact number of sheep tn the state is bard to determine. The 1900 census offi cers found 611,271. The number estimated to belong in Nebraska In 1901 was 649,810; and In 1902. 600,000, but when it is re called that the shipments for 1902-8 amounted to almost 1,600,000, the numbers given above seem too small. In production of horses Nebraska claims seventh place and is raising many very su perior animals for draft and coach pur poses, but is not concerning Itself gener ally with breeding for speed, believing that the largest returns upon the smaller in vestment of time and money are realized by the breeder of utility animals. In 1860 Nebraska had less than 6,000 horses; in 1870, 80,000; In 1880, 920.000; in 1903 .almost exactly 1.000,000; and in 1904. 1,086.800. The shipments In 1901 amounted to 46,390; In 1903, 48.649. Vegetables to- Market. Irish potatoes are - very sure crop in Nebraska and the state's total production for 1906 was considerably above t.OOO.OCO bushels and the state average per acre, 125 bushels. The Quality is excellent and the price commanded very fair. Thousands of acres in the western part can Ije made to produce potatoes and every acre will give a net Income of from $30 to to0 yearly. The Income from some is S&0. Sugar beets are suited to Nebraska and give return of ISO and even ICS and 870 per acre. Irrigation has given great impetus to their raising In western Nebraska. The Grand Island factory alone contracts for about 8260,000 worth of beets for a single season's campaign. The price for beets varies from $1.60 to $6 per ton, with an average of about $5. The yield averages eleven and twelve or more tons per acre, with some sections yielding twenty tons. OtheV vegetables, including melons, sweet potatoes, onions, cabbage, peas and, tn fact, practically all the root crops anl garden delicacies, yield abundantly, and are of fine Quality. Onions will run 1,000 bushels to the acre. Sweet potatoes are particularly succeaeful in the Loup and Platte valleys, yielding 2uQ bushels per acre. Celery growing Is one of the newly developed industries of great promise. The peculiar sandy soil of the Platte bottoms, and the Islands of the Platte river are well suited to the growth of a delicately flavored, high-grade product. The amount produced on an acre is from one to one and one-half carload. Celery is always quoted by the dozen stalks, and the price In car lota 10 to 80 cents a dozen. A car generally oontalna about 1.600 to 8.000 dozena, and "s worth $2u0 to $300. ell til RalafalL ' Nebraska is fortunate in having a soil unexcelled by that of any state In the union in the qualities necessary for the production of good crops under varying conditions. Owing to the wonderful ab sorptive quality of the soil It Is peculiarly adapted to the productions of good crops under the extremes of either wet or drouth. In time of heavy rains the moist ure sttpe through the sell to its lowest NEBRASKA GEO. E. MICHEL, 15th and Harney, Omaha, llh Broadway, Council depth, and Is there 'held In reserve until needed, when It unfailingly comes up from below to supply the needs of vegetation, f hese facts were fully demonstrated dur ing the unusually 'dry season of 1301, and the extraordinarily wet season of 19u2 and 1903. Nebraska can raise enormous crops on a precipitation pa limited . as to pro duce drouth and complete crpp failures in the eastern states. Furthermore, the na ture of the soil is such that farm work is taken up Immediately after . rain ia Ne braska, whereas in states farther east there must be a long wait for the drying, Nebraska's drinking water is exception ally pure snd wholesome and the supply ' Is Inexhaustible. ... , Health of State. Climate and health statistics show Ne braska a leader. 8ome authorities declare Nebraska more healthful than any other state in the union. Others place It second to only Idaho, and all give It rank among the first four. The regular government re ports place Nebraska first among staUs free from lung diseases, showing its rate of deaths from . consumption and pneu monia to be 1.32 per 1,000, whereas the next lowest rate is Idaho's, 1.62 per 1,000. In New York state the death rate is 18. and from these two lung troubles alone 128. On the north, Minnesota's death rate is 9.71, on the south, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina each has a death rate of 13. Nebraska's own neighbors have a much higher rate than it. This contrast is not accidental, but is the result of Nebraska's greater purity of water, the clear air of its greater altitude. Its abundance of sunshine and this is said seriously its peculiarly healthful soil. Nebraska's Preseat Poattlon. On the authority of the state bureau of statistics, it ia announced that Nebraska has established Itself as third In the pro duction of corn, fourth In the production of wheat, fourth In production of oats, fourth in production of cattle, fourth in production of hogs, seventh In production of horses, tenth among dairy states and third among the meat packing states. The man ufacture of beet sugar haa given its growth a further impetus and it is fifth In the pro duction of that commodity and has the only sugar beet syrup and refining plant In the haa less illiteracy than any other state in the union and the mortality sta tistics show it to be as healthful as any other state, not excluding those which are mountainous. There are In Nebraska 33,000,000 acres of deeded land outside of the cities and towns. This land is worth on an average of Ji to $30 per acre, hence the value of farm lands Is In the neighborhood of $OuG,0O0.0uo. Live stock is worth $150,000,000 snd agricul tural implements are valued at $22,000,000. It is Impossible to get a close approxima tion to the value of other personal prop erty belonging to Nebraska farmers, but It Is safe to place it at $30.0u0,000. Thus the total value of farm property In Ne braska assumes the Immense proportions of $1,212,000,000. This Is about ten times greater than it was. In 1880, more than twice what It was In 1S90 and nearly twice what it was in lno. That farm property has almost doubled In value during the past five years Is the most emphatic proof of Nebraska's agricultural excellence that could possibly be provided. Homeaerkera' Eiearilsai EVERT TUESDAY. Via the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE A ST. PAUL RAILWAY. To points In Minnesota, North and South Dakota. F. A. NASH. Gen'l. western agent. 16C4 Famara street, Omaha, Neb. Men's, boys', children's clothing, hats adies' sulia. skirts, millinery, etc.. easia or uuii. i auuu a ttuure. Ms aaa s Singer We have on oar floor a full line of each in all styles. Sold for cash or easy monthly payments. f Special Bargains in Used Machines. Below will be found a list of slightly used Sewing Machines whicK will be placed on sale this week. , , They have all been erhauled and put in first-class shape. . OPEN SATURDAY EVENING ' Wilcox & G Drop Head, for 22.50 New Home Drop Head, for 12.00 White Drop Head, for 12.00 New Royal Automatic Drop Head, good as new, for 16.00 Household, good as new, for 21.00 White, D. H., Shopworn, for 22.00 Standard Drop Head, for 23.0 J Second-hand box top machines from $3.00 to $9.00. All complete with attachments and guaranteed, and while they have been used, yet are in condition to give first class service. We rent machines for $1.00 per week, or $3.00 per month, keep and sell parts for all machines. CYCLE COMPANY. PETTY THIEVING AT HOTELS Heary Losses Sustained bj Practice of Some Guests in Taking Souvenirs. NUISANCE THAT S . HARD TO CHECK Towels, Soap, Cattery, Stationery ssi Other Small Articles Are Car. sled Away by WeU Meanlat: Patrons. "The professional hotel thief is not the only person who manages to make the life of a hotel clerk and proprietor miserable in the matter of taking things from guest chambers and even other parts of the es tablishment," remarked an old-time Omaha hotel clerk, who is still In the business. "There Is no use In saying we do not know who commit these petty thefts, for It is easy enough to locate them by the room from which the articles are missed. Yet these people are our patrons; are good pay, and the trifling loss that may come through one Individual is not sufficient to make a fuss about and at the same time lose his patronage and make a mortal enemy of him ever thereafter. "The chief loss to the hotels by petty pil fering comes through the tourjsts who stop at the hotel but for a day and are then gone forever, but generally manage to carry with them a souvenir from the hotel as an evidence that they had once been there. This Class of pilferers will take anything from a napkin to a sofa cushion, or any thing else that they can pack In a trunk. Theatrical People the Worst. "Theatrical troupes are the worst people we have to contend with in the disappear ance of towels and soap. Towels, of which there are a great many varieties used in snd about .hotels, are so easily packed away in a grip, pocket or trunk that these people make no scruple in appropriating (hem without stint. The same is true of toilet soaps. They need these articles con stantly In their business and I will venture the opinion that over half of the towel and soap supplies of an ordinary traveling the atrical troupe are thus obtained from the hotels at which they stop. They do not take these things with a view to actual theft, but a towel or piece of soap here and there Is of so Insignificant value they do not think the hotel will be out anything by It, and so they appropriate these articles whenever the mood seizes them. We ex pect It and of course make no kick. Tonrlata Alao Are Bad Ones. "Tourists do more valuable pilfering from hotels than any other class of people. They do not hestltate to take anything that itrlkea their fancy. I have known Instances where they have taken pictures from the walls of their rooms, frames and all. We have also frequently lost valuable bed spreads and, ss a rule, they take only the most valuable towels, even though they are marked with the hotel name woven Into the material. Nor do they confine their pec ulations to their rooms. In one instance I have known them to take sofa cushions en tire, and it is not an unusual thing to lose valuable sofa cushion covers. "The most exasperating thefts from which hotels suffer are the taking of sil verware from the cafes and dining tables, Knives, forks, tabla and teaspoons are fre quently taken, but the chief loss is in the small coffee, tea, orange on bon-bon spoons, which are so easy to bide away In a sleeve or pocket. As these people never expect to return to the hotel sgaln we never can re cover the stolen silverware. Stationery Gees Too. "All hotels supply their guests with eta . tlonery and writing material free of oust. 7 IVe Se The Well and Wheeler & Wilson Manager Bluffs. 625 No. 2klh, with the special view that It Is for the use of the guests while they remain at the hotel. Yet during the year we have great quantities stolen, not alone by guests, but by others, up to within a year or two it was the custom to place abundant sta tionery on the writing tables in the reading snd writing rooms for the guests to uso at leisure. But it soon became manifest that others than our patrons were availing themselves of the free writing materials, and it was next to impossible to keep a supply on hand at the writing tables for the accommodation of our patrons, so that plan has been abandoned. Now when a guest wishes writing material he asks for It at the office and Is courteously supplied with all he needs. Chagrin of a Cneat. "A number of years ago I was clerk at the Murray hotel and on one occasion a traveling man came to the office and asked for some stationery. I handed him several sheets of paper and envelopes and he seemed Incensed because I did not give him more. I then handed him out a considerable bunch of paper and envelopes and inci dentally remarked: 'Take some along with you, so that you can write on the train.' He flaw into a passion tnstanter and said: 'I want you to understand that I do not write on hotel stationery on a train, nor do I 'carry it about with me, nor do I propose to be Insulted, sir. You may send for my baggage, sir, and I'll leave your hotel, air, and go to one where they know how to treat a man as a gen tleman.' "Well, he was mad clean through and would not take any sort of an apology, so he paid his bill and the bell boy was sent for his baggage. The lobby was in the meanwhile crowded with other traveling men, all of whom were Interested In the little episode, and the irate patron was still fuming about being insulted. I felt cheap. Just then the elevator came down and the bell boy carrying my friend's two grips stumbled as he stepped out of the elevator and the grips flew across the floor. One of them burst open and out of It rolled enough stationery to stork a fair sized hotel for a week. There were letterheads from nearly every hotel In Minneapolis, Bt. Paul, 6L Louis, Chicago, Dea Moines, Kansas City, Bloux City and about every place else. Well, Providence wss on my side for sure, but I really did pity that poor fellow from the way the other traveling men guyed him. He gathered his station ery up with the assistance of the bell boy and crowded It back into his grip, and Just as he was about finished one of the other drummers handed him a few sheets of the Murray letterheads, and advised him to take a few as souvenirs. He left the hotel without even saying goodbye." Woman la the Case. Another old hotel clerk who had grown gray In the service and Is, by the way, one of the most popular clerks In Omaha, told of some similar and dissimilar experi ences. "A woman came to our hotel a few weeks ago who belongs to the souvenir fiend class. She was frank enough," he said, "to tell another woman guest, one of our permanent patrons, that she hud Just returned from California and had the loveliest collections of hotel souvenirs in the oountry. These souvenirs consisted of sliver spoons from nearly every prominent hotet on the Pacific coast from San Diego to Seattle and from San Francisco to Uen ver across the country. And still this woman In gloating over her collection of spoons never thought she was nothing more or less than a common thief. "Less than a year ago function was held at one of the Omaha hotels that was to be arranged regardless of expense and flowers of the costliest kind were to be provided- Now, ordinarily the flowers pro vided at hotel banquets belong to or are rente by Uie few tall ed ae la fio Wise Known South Omaha the property of the banqueters; they are simply a part of the decorations. It hap pened to be so In this Instance. In the floral arrangement of the table It was necessary to use several small silver plated vases. They cost considerable money and were In thla Instance bought for this particular event. Well, at the close of the banquet over half of the vases had disappeared as well as all of the flowers, the total cost of which was really more than we received for the entire ban quet Matches Cot Bis; Flsrnre. "Bometlmes I think the hotels supply half the city of Omaha with matches. You would be surprised to learn the size of the match bill of a hotel In Omaha for a month. Of course we expect to give matches awsy In almost any quantity our guests desire. But the guests do not take one-fifth of the matches taken from our desks. Whenever anybody wants a match he walks Into the hotel and fills his vest pocket with them, without even saying thank you. "About a year ago a New York traveling man came to our hotel and after register ing handed me a bundle' of money wrapped up loosely in a piece of newspaper and asked me to take care of it for him. I put the money In the safe and he went out and Immediately proceeded to get on a big drunk. He went down Into the red light district and eventually wound up at the police station. There he complained that he had been robbed of a big sum of money. He telephoned me to come down to the station to get him out or rather testify to his respectability and I did so. He came Into the hotel shortly afterwards and wanted me to endorse a check for him on his New York house for 860. I then asked him why he wanted to draw on his house when he had money. He denied having a dollar. Then I asked him if ha remembered leaving a bundle of money with me. He had forgotten all about it- Well, I re stored the money to him and be was man enough to telephone down to the police station and report that he had found his money and to release the suspected parties from arrest. Woman Finds the Diamond. "Another case happened with me not long afterwards. A Chicago couple stopped over at the hotel enroute from the Pacific coast and just before leaving In the morning the woman reported that she had lost a val uable diamond pin that she was sure had been stolen from her room. ' They did not want to mako a fuss about It, but asked that we would try and locate the thief and recover the pin. They went away and we made a very careful search of the rooms occupied by the codple but found noth ing. In the meanwhile one or two of the house help were held under suspicion and we were about to discharge the suspected parties when a telegram came from the man staling that his wife had found the pin. In preparing her toilet the morning she left the pin was brushed oft the dresser and managed to be caught In a part of her dress, to which It was still adhering when they reached Chicago." Splendid Heeord. Dr. King's New Life Pills havs made a splendid record by curing headache, bilious ness constipation, etc. 25c. Try. For sale bb Sherman A McConnell Drug Co, Have Root ptint It. New PostoMlce Clerks. Francis J. de la Vega, 8s36 California street, and Emil F. Baudhauer, I'jiJ North Fifteenth atreet, nave been appointed reg ular clerka In the Omaha poaturtlce to fill existing vacancies, The following substi tutes clerks have also been appointed: Frederick Good. 2648 Capitol avenue; linry O. Duhraen, fetation B; Ray bliort, 16. North KlKhleenth atreet, and Miss Cather ine B. Cory of Clay Canter. These appoint ments became effective Saturday morning. 1 APJULj liUtrUsi 1 0fc--SaJiolm, Jeweles