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"Ot.'NDKD BT EDWARD ROSEWATER.
I VICTOR ROfiE WATER, EDITOR.
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j failed STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION,
vi that "t of" Nebraska. Douglas county, aa:
3 T i Charles C. Rosewater. general manager
t AJrt, 1h. R iiii,nhln I'ammny. being
th Inly sworn, says that the actual number
Of i tr' full and complete copies of The Dally.
Ti,itr,rninir. Evening and f unday Ba printed
f!Wlng the
month of June, 1907, was aa
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20 4. 36,810
21 36,830
22 36,310
21 88,720
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16., 86,680
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2T 36,870
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2 86,890
nd It ' 30,840
a bait 36,930
lags, f 5 8T.1T0
mad( 33,800
Total .
.1,004,880
10,388
Gran-eas unsold and returned copies.
Net total 1,083,831
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on ' CHARLES a. BnfiirwiTirn
'Catclj Oeneral Manager.
AusC nunsrriuea in my presence ana sworn to
n-.jftf"" me this 1st day of July. 1907.
W . Notary Public,
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WHEW OUT Or TOWN.
Sahscrtbera leaving; the city tem
porarily ahoald busts Tha Be
wallad to farm. Addreaa will bo
third aa altsa mm roajaMwtod. , ,
to m ; "
The edvaataje of tho gutomobJle t
Lei) ht It does not shy at a bunch of flre
worirackera.
Ma , .
Pretxu aro s good as fa?ts for
tfonJ111 Pculator8. when they want to
.aha end the market up or down.
Stn; ' ' -
uU Mark Twain, will, bring bla white
jj,ult nom tTom KurPt hut ho win
j t lave an Oxford tie added to It.
Dav . ;
tor There will be no protest from the
Wallroa6 if UrlB ,B mhi tn. para.
Tiunount S8ue ,n tne nex; campaign.
Oral -Hai
Senator Foraker was born on July 5
wjind that was the only time in hlo llfo
fhat he was late for tho fireworks.
The small boy has' hope that the
lovernnaent will not put the powgaf
rust out of business before Thutsdar-
ught. ' ' ' ".
iu "Letter carriers nif.'Walk out," Bays
' Tk disnatch from SiV.
; '"4JrJri several times each day In
OmahaJ'
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fitS "Lightning did many strange things
Jjiere." says a dispatch from Pittsburg.
tV iCven the lightning cannot act natur
I illy in that city.
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The Youjg Men's Christian aesocla
. . (I ion building fund campaigners have
uaken an extension to make sure of
Ignore expansion.
Ralsull, the Morocco bandit, says ho
Asia not coming to America to go Into
tVfvaadevUle. Perhaps be sees better op-
U
ortunitles in Wall street.
:Rn .MrV Totter Palmer lnsisU that she
jjjloes not even know the man to whom
'14 he yellow journals are marrying her.
TAs If that made any difference. .
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f?B Vina- Edward haa mil. . Vrl.ht n
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"the author of "Mikado." That should
culo
aonporve to divert the attention of Japan
f'JJjrom San Francisco for a time.
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J Teledo must bo a pleasant' place to
J Rive, after all. They adjourned a mur-
-rt.iMer trial the other day to allow tho
af court and the jury to attend a ball
tjarae.
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nj Willie J. plorpont Morgan Is In Eu
n ope adding tq his collection of works
it art, John D. Rockefeller remains at
n?'?iiome adding to his collection of aub
i oenas. - .
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Railroads "would complain less about
l-ihe custom of municipal authorities of
v,t5 ordering vagrants to "movo on'' Jf tho
tagrants did npt uso tho railroad trains
n obeying th.; orders,' ; t
Governor Hoke Smith of Ooorgla
tmenda Colonel Bryan's definition of
ft democrat by excluding tho negroes
from tho "rule of tho people." An
itrbltratloa committee is In order.
It is refreshing to hear from Fre
uout that the Platte river power canal
la sure to be some time built." We
tope so but an ounce of performance
vould bo worth a pound of promise.
The man who Is to command tho
)sttlehtp Nebraska has been selected.
Before taking charge of our namesake
He should come out this way and get
acquainted with the real Nebraska.
Governor VardamaQ haa been con
verted to religion and says ho expects
to go to heaven when be dies. His
sincerity will be demonstrated by his
euautuct If he finds uy negroes there.
is it r.TDirnre Lr.aiii,ATiox i
Although the disinterested motives
of Collier's Weekly are not to be Im
pugned, its editor continues to hold a
brief for the railroads in the "matter
of 2-cent fare laws of the same order
as put out by the subsidized railroad
publicity bureaus which Collier's hss
properly exposed and denounced. Fol
lowing up Its declaration that all the
railway legislation recently enacted by
the states springs from vindlctiveness,
it says:
Of those who have brought about a 2-rent
fare law In various states man were poli
ticians hurt In a tender spot by the aboli
tion of passes; many more were dema
gogues to whom a popular passion Is cap
ital; the ones who must be credited with
sincerity can hardly have had any motive
more Intelligent than tha principle that a
lick against the railroads Is never amiss.
It la true this statute will not be hurtful
to the railroads In proportion to their up
roar, for tha economic law of increased con
sumption following a drop In price muet
have Its effect; but this argument cut no
figure in the debates. It was vindictive
legislation, not founded en any. Intelligent
adaptation of statutory remedy tor corpora
tion wrong.
Speaking again only for Nebraska,
we beg to take an exception, although
knowing full well ft i wM ' .not' satisfy
tho railroad managers who have per
suaded tho editor o'f Collier's that they
have been grossly abused. "
In tho first place, the Nebraska leg
islature did not enact the 2-cent fare
law pelj-mell, but gave successive, and
respectful hearings to the ' railroad
representatives, listening, patiently to
all tho arguments which they could
advance in opposition to the proposed
reduction. Those, however, who were
disposed to regard a flat reduction to
2 cents as questionable were brought
into line for the law by the admis
sions of the railroad men themselves.
The assistant general passenger agent
of the Union Pacific publicly declared
that their official statistics shjbwH .the
average return for hauling a passen
ger on his system the preceding year
to have been 1.88 cents per mile, and
the voluntary offer by alt the roads of
an Interchangeable mileage book at
Z cents a mile for the benefit of the
commercial Interests gave their case
completely away. .
Neither was ' the vindlctiveness
about which the railroad lawyers now
complain In evidence in other laws de
nominated by them as "hostile legisla
tion." There could have been noth
ing vindictive in prohibiting the issue
of free passes which the railroads as
serted had .been already abolished and
tho exceptions permitted . almost all
run for the benefit of railway em
ployes and their families.
The same Nebraska legislature that
enacted the 2-cent fare law killed all
the reciprocal demurrage bills pre
sented for its consideration because
not thoroughly convinced that they
would give the railroads a square deM.M
Tho , same
Nebraska - legislature
which enacted th.-2-eeht", fare law
killed a blllreqtilrlng corporations to
pay therremployes at least twice.
month on representation of the rail
road spokesmen that It would make
unnecessary labor for their auditing
departments. ,
The same Nebraska legislature that
enacted a 2-cent fare law put a law
npon the statute books at the request
of and for tho benefit of the railroads,
making it a punishable offense to steal
a ride upon their trains.
Even with reference to railroad tax
ation, where tho reft-sal of tho rail
roads to pay their taxes furnished am
ple excuse for retaliation, all the Ne
braska legislature did was to provide
for the local taxation of railway ter
minals, after modifying the original
proposal so as to retain a pro rata
mileage assessment of rolling stock
and franchise values a generoua con
cession to tho railroads.
Does Collier's regard the removal
of the $5,000 limit for death damage
vindictive legislation, or does It in
clude the extension to intrastate rail
roads of the terms of the employers'
liability act adopted by congress?
Legislative remedy of any long
standing abuse, which' the Tarrroads
had been successful In staving off for
years, is no necessary sign of vindlc
tiveness. Wo submit' again that , the
vindlctiveness has been manifested In
Nebraska by tho railroads endeavoring
to make tho now laws odious by over
rigid enforcement of tortuous con
structions and appealing to the federal
courts to help them defy the provisions
of the law they cannot otherwise
evade.
AW ALABAMA TAKOLK.
.An ora of low political barometer
confronts John Hollis Bankhead, ap
pointed to succeed the late. John Tyler
Morgan of Alabama In the United
States senate. When Bankhead was
defeated for congress bf Richmond
Pearson Hobson, his name was placed
on tho primary ballots of the- state as
"alternate senator," enabling him' to
hold a proxy to step Into the shoei
of Senator Morgan, when he should
die. Senator Morgan, died and Bank
head was appointed by Governor
Comer, pending tho action of the state
legislature which meets, this mo nth T
Baakhea claims that his "alternate"
election gave him title to the Morgan
auceessorship for six. years from March
4, 1907. But there Is a general claim
that tho call for tho election of alter
nates was not legitimate ao that an
other primary ought to Ubtheld. Con
gressman Stalling and John W. Tom
linsoo. a prominent Birmingham law
yer, bavo declared their candidacies for
tho senate and aro demanding another
senatorial primary. In the meantime,
Governor Comer haa a senatorial bee
of his own and Is disposed to overrule
the Bankhead contention and call a
primary.
Without reference "to Bankhead's
qualifications or his rights in tho case,
another election should be called, If
the senator is to represent the popular
choice. The election of an alternate
United States senstor finds no justifi
cation In the laws of the state and,
aside from tho legal aspect,, was an
open Insult to Senator Morgan, leaving
him In the attitude of a marked man,
with an ambitious understudy follow
ing him around and waiting for him
to die. If Bankhead Is tho popular
choice of the voters of Alabama for
United States senator, he haa nothing
to lose by submitting his case to a
new primary. If he is not the choice
of the people now, however popular he
may have been when elected as an
"alternate," his refusal to submit his
claims to the decision of the voters
leaves him In the attitude of demand
ing an office to which his credentials
are open to suspicion.
3 Hg STAKDA BD'S Ff.VES.
The refusal of Judge Landls of the
federal court at Chicago to grant the
plea of the Standard Oil company for
the selection of a specific count, upon
which the punishment for violation, of
the anti-rebate law might be admin
istered, must have an ominous portent
to its officials. Judge Landls has In
sisted that the officials of the main
company and of the "holding com
pany" affiliated with it must appear
in court' and furnish Information as to
their financial resources. The company
was found guilty on 1,416 counts,
which makes possible the levy of a
fine. aggregating $29,000,000. The de
cision carries with, it the Intimation
that the fine to be Imposed by Judge
Landls will bear some proportion to
the resources of the company and will
be heavy enough to be felt, even by as
long a purse as that posessed by Stand
ard Oil.
Heretofore great corporations have
taken fines lightly, promptly arranging
to make good the loss by placing a
new burden upon the consumers. Un
der the leeway allowed Judge Landls,
the fine to be Imposed may be large
enough to have a salutary effect upon
the corporation. The government's ex
perts, who have been Investigating the
Standard Oil business, claim to have
positive data showing dividends and
surplus earnings of the Standard since
1896 In excess of 1400,000,000, or
more than 40 per cent a year on capi
tal stock. An enormous fine might be
Imposed without Impairing the capi
tal stock In the least and without re
duclng its dividends below a normal
basis. -
The clamor for an imprisonment sen
tence in the Oil truit cases cannot be
effective in the present case. This was
brought under the Elklns law, which
provides penalties only by fines. Tho
BOca1led"Hepburn hill restored tho 1m-
priBonment clause, but the offenses tor
which the Standard baa been convicted
were committed before tho enactment
of the Hepburn law.
'The Standard'will' undoubtedly use
every form of litigation possible to de
fer the payment of whatever fine may
be imposed, but the new law provides
for expediting such cases and the
courts appear to share the temper of
the people in holding offenders to a
strict accountability. The Standard
must furnish the Information sought
by Judge Landls or leave him free to
fix the fines on his own judgment. It
is a case in which customary tactics
of evasion or deflanceof the law will
avail nothing and a welcome revela
tion to the country that even the rich
est corporations may be compelled, un
der existing laws, to give the people a
square deal.
The demand of tho local popocratle
organ for a municipal gas plant is
funny aa well as amusing. "Two or
three years ago the editor of the same
democratic sheet tied up with the
manager of the local electric lighting
monopoly to beat the bond proposi
tion for a municipal lighting plant.
The explanation then given was that
acquisition and ownership of the water
works must take precedence of all
other municipal activity. Aro tho pro
ceedings to purchase the water works
still pending?
The monthly statement of State
Treasurer Brian Indicates that all tho
state money has been checked out of
Omaha depositories except about $20,
000 as a result of the refusal of the
Omaha banks to meet his demand for
Increased Interest. As the whole
amount of cash on hand In tho state's
strong box figures only a little over
$$00,000. the loss of these accounts
1b' not likely seriously to affect
Omaha's standing In the list of clear
ing bouse cities.
0 al aa npAltAliaO BS II f I ft IISN
VIIUI Diiitn-ncisi jy "ivi a SB "a
remedy for San Franclsco'B Ills. He
suggests that honest men bo employed
to act as an auditing and publicity
committee and make weekly reports on
the work of the city officials. While
ttrere is evident merit In tho plan, it
might bo batter just to elect honest
city officials In the first place and save
tho expense and worry of the auditing
committee. .
- Omaha Is getting returns from tho
hospitality extended to tho Nebraska
and Iowa postmasters In convention
by appreciative acknowledgmenta in
a number of papers whose editors
combine tho functions of printing
newspapers and handling tho malls.
It pays an enterprising city to enter
tain conventions of this sort and the
more of them the better.
- Someone has discovered that tho
grading In progress for tho Union Pa
cific cut-off south of this city compares
favorably with Isthmian, canal ork.
Why go so fsr from .home when the
trenches dug by the' new telephone
company In the main streets of Omaha
furnish such forcible reminders of the
Panama canal?
The local democratic organ wants
to redeem the dollar gas promise of
the last city campaign by voting bonds
for a municipal gas plant. The dem
ocratic mayor wants . to redeem the
same promise by passing an ordinance
making It a misdemeanor to charge
more than a dollar for gas. This sets
safe limits for an Indefinite debate.
There Is a possibility of shsrp com
petition fof nominations on the repub
lican state ticket this year, notwith
standing the fact that the offices to be
filled aro of comparatively minor con
sequence. On the democratic side it
will probably be a hunt to find some
one to run.
The Pennsylvania and the Erie roads
are having a lively war for the passen
ger business between Chicago and New
York. Both roads have shortened the
schedules of their limited trains and
are hot after the traffic which their le
gal departments are trying to convince
the courts Is a losing proposition.
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Mr. Harrlman's. lawyer, John N.
Baldwin, makes proclamation that the
railroads must fight the people and
fight to a finish. If they must fight,
however, they must take the chances
of getting whipped as well as of win
ning out.
Mr. Bryan will lose no sleep over
the refusal of the Pennsylvania demo
crats to indorse him. Senator Quay a
long time ago taught the Pennsylvania
democrats to take their orders frord
the republican mathine.
The report that Major Goethals Is
going to resign his position as chief
engineer of the Panama canal may
be set down as a canard. Major Goe
thals is a soldier and has learned to
obey his superior officers.
The Filipinos are not so much after
all. While two of them won the high
est class honors- at Yale, no Filipino
has yet won a place on the Yale crew
or the YAl'e" football team. "B.ut wait
till theyget back to the Yalu. .
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Sow Yon're Whlapertna;.
' ' St. IxmtB Globe-Democrat.
Itansas, Missouri and Nebraska wilt unite
m an Interstate show of dairy products
this fall. It la unnecessary to add that the
ahow will be a world curdler.
Time tor Knjormtat.
Boston Globe.
Thla la the high tide Of the year; enjoy
it while you may, for presently the flood of
new life will halt, all verdure grow rusty,
and another measure of your existence,
another one of your ' bountifully given
chances to do something to warrant your
being on thla good earth at all, will have
gone forever. ,"
The Jalr Meloa.
' ; BprlngfleldJ Itepubllcan. '
July dividends and interest disbursements
at New York Will aggregate over tlS2.880.000
exceeding all previous reoords by above
$18,000,000. It la for the class In political
economy to answer why such an outpouring
of funds Into the hands of Investors will
not itself enable the railroads and other
corporatlona to market an equal amount of
new securities right off.
Overlooked Teapot Tempests.
New York World.
According to Ambassador Bryce the lot
of the United States la a happy one com
pared with that of the states of Europe,
because we "have no external enemy to
fear and need no vast fleets or armies" for
protection. Haa the ambassador pot been
reading foreign dlspatahea? la he unaware
that "grave issues" Involving the modus
Vivendi In the fisheries dispute menace
our peace with England and that Japan
may make a descent on our shores? Haa
he not noted tha new tempest in tha Ban
Francisco teahouse?
. Expediting; Koretain Trade.
Boston Tranacrlpt.
Major John M. Carsonfchlef of the bure&u
of manufactures, Department of Commerce
and Labor, thinks that a really fast freight
service between the east and San Francisco
would greatly facilitate tha expansion of
our trade with China. Aa Major Carson
asserts that an exporter at any eastern
point shipping goods to China must allow
sixty days for his consignment to reach
Ban Francisco, he seems to have an argu
ment ready at hand. Express trains, as
we ara frequently told by the preas, always
"thunder along," but transcontinental
freight traina scarcely more than crawl.
FINE HOW IMPENDS.
Baakere' Aboat to Tackle the Express)
MosMtDOly.
Minneapolis Journal.
The express monopoly la now to be at
tacked from a new direction. The American
Bankers' association has enlisted for war
agalnsj; the express companies and their
encroachment on the legitimate field of tha
banks. The business of buying and selling
exchange, both foreign and domestic, haa
always been an Important feature of bank
ing. It Is a form of accommodation for the
transaction of business and for the con
venience and protection of travelers that
belongs naturally to the banks. There Is
a reasonable profit in It, a profit which
commerce Is quite willing to pay. The
bankers have watched with growing appre
hension the Invasion of this field by the
great expresa companies, and now they
mean to oiake a fight for the retention of
the business.
Tha business of.the express companies, aa
a matter of fact, la entirely made up of
encroachments on the prerogatives and
functlona of other agencies. They are para
sites living upon tha railroads, tha banka.
the government and the public They dis
charge the most proMtahJa functlona of the
rallroada aa common carriers of high class
package freight. Their contracts are so
arranged that they make tremendous profits
on mis Dusinr&s wiin romparauveiy small
ind Inexpensive 'equipment. The railroads
get the small end of H, but seem well satis-
fled for the most part, because the favored
Inner circle of stockholder and offlrere are
mi., i- .i a . a. v.. ...
companies are eompetlng wltn the govern-
ment for tha money order busineaa.
gnd ara using the capital of tha banks to
carry on thla and the exchange bualneas.
They are gouging the, public, by charging
(xoeaalva and monopolistic rates for pack
age carrying, as. revealed by the recent
melon-allclng operations of the Adams cor
ner of tha trust.
The espreaa bubble haa become-o large
and Imposing that the next congress will
fee railed on to puncture It.- A parcels poet
law will put as end to It decisively.
AHMY UO8IP IK WASHINQTO.
fCr-reajt Rventa Gleaned from the
Army mmi Navy Register.
The situation In the army Is plainly a
serious one and It Is quite evident that
something must be done to Induce re-enlistment.
There Is a growing appreciation
that, so far as tha Infantry is concerned
at least, there must be a modification In the
requirement of practice marches, regnrd
less of tha fact that there la in Influential
quarters the belief that that form of activ
ity la an Important contribution to military
efficiency. Then the demand for labor and
the "prices paid In civilian employment has
diminished the attractions of service In the
army where extra duty performed while
on foreign service does not mean the extra
duty pay which Is given at home. Still an
other condition which cannot be corrected
short of legislative Increase of the army Is
the fact that most regiments destined for
duty In the Philippines will not hereafter
have much more than two years' respite
at home that Is, unless there is a chance
to bring the troops home from Cuba, of
which event no one la In a pysition to pre
dict with any certainty.
The attention of the War department has
lately been attracted to certain dishonor
ably diwkarged soldiers who are making It
their business to abuse the service and dis
courage recruiting. A report of this condi
tion has been received, and It appears that
some men who wereput out of the servioe
have been looking up possible applicants
and seeking to convince them that it Is a
mistake to go Into .the army. It Is prob
able that some action will be taken to
prevent this conduct, which In In the ' na
ture of a malicious Interference with cer
tain government functions of the Unlts4
States. It Is believed an Injunction may
be obtained and should the conduct con
tinue that there should be proceedings in
contempt. Such cases as this Will be
turned over to the Department of Justice.
There are twenty-two vacancies In the
Junior grade of the army medical depart
ment and there are twenty-three applicants
who have signified their desire to take the
examination, which will be held on July
29. Thla examination will be held at the
army posts In the vicinity of the homes of
the applicants, and boards composed of
army medical officers will shortly be
designated to conduct the examination.
The candidates who are reported aa quali
fied will be admitted to the army medical
school on September 15 with the eight quali
fied candidates who passed the preliminary
examination of May.
Arrangements will probably ba made be
tween tha War department and the repre.
aentatlvea of the various atatea concerned
in anticipation of encampments which re
quire Interstate militia movements. In the
Joint encampments which have taken place
since the act of 1903 became operative none
of tha states has objected to tle passage
through their territory of the organised
militia of other states, nor has there been
Objection to the militia of one state taking
parti in an encampment occurring In an
other. While ft' is highly ptybable that no.
objections will be raised to the pract'.oe In
the future, It Is considered wise, out of an
abundance of caution, for the War depart
ment to advise the governors of the atates
concerned of the nature of the operations
which It la proposed to undertake during
the approaching encampment season in
which troops of the regular army and of
the organized militia of the several states
are to take part and to obtain their consent
in advance of the encampments for such In
terstate movements as may be necessary.
The secretary of war has no authority tn
the matter beyond designating' the place
where the encampments shall be held and
Inviting the governors of certain1 states
and territories to send portions of their
organised mllltla to take part in the en
campments. .
A vast amount of work -is being carried
on at army posts under the direction of the
quartermaster general of the army. The con
struction represents an expenditure of
nearly 110,000,000, or 19,7fi5,88. to ba exact.
The principal work la that at Fort Benja
min Harrison, where nearly 11,000,000 Is
being expended In barracks, quarters, roads,
administration building, post exchange,
pump house, water and sewer syatema, etc.;
at Fort D. A. Russell, where work to the
extent of $706,000 will be carried on; at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan., where extensive. Im
provements and new construction will re
quire an expenditure of $804,000; at Fort
Mackenxle, Wyo., where tha improvements
will cost $444,000; at Fort Monroe, Va.,
where the government is spending $304,000;
at Fort Riley, Kan., where quartere and
barracka, drill hall, road work, etc., will
mean $390,000, and at Fort Robinson, Neb.,
where a like sum la being disbursed for
quarters, barracks, stables, guard buildings
and veterinarian's atable. The most im
portant project Is that at Fort Sam Hous
ton, where the contracts which are now
being awarded will amount to $1,035,692 and
where the new construction Includes a hos.
pltal, post exchange, roads, bowling alley,
quarters and barracka, atablea and store
house. The statement of the amount of
work being carried on under the quarter
master general will be a surprise to most
people who have probably not realised the
extent of army construction.
The quartermaster general of the army Is
having plans made for an automobile con
veyance for us by the signal corps In
transporting and housing wireless field tele
graph sets. It Is desired to produce s
vehicle with a trsvel range of from 100 to
1 miles on one charge of fuel.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Tosemlta tourists, recently held up by a
highwayman, yielded a considerable sum,
Plainly, they were going into the park and
not coming out. ,
The poatofflce at the naval station at
Guantanamo, Cuba, has been officially
named Bagley, after Ensign Bagley, who
was killed In tha Spanish-American war.
, One of tha most valuable relics of the
great hunter, Daniel Boone, is his powder
horn, which Is now In the possession of
Charles O. Shanks, a resident of Clays
villa, Ind. The horn has been handed
down in tha family and Its history Is well
established.
Darwin P. Klngaley, the new president
of the New York Life Insurance company,
Is a Vermonter. Ills early llfo was spent
on a small farm bordering Lake Cham
plain and Ms early education was ac
quired In the district school, - By hard
worK at n(ghts and holidays he aaved
! ,Mfflcient money to educate himself and
! graduated at the University of Vermont In
j
' John Qulncy Adams Ward, foremost and
oldest of living American sculptors, waa
' 01(1 on BO"- w'a
j " "" ev"r- l ''""
eauestrlan statue of General Hancock.
j which la Intended for Falr,raount park
As a youth he worked In a pottery at
I'Dibrla, O., where he formed a love for
molding which led him to his chosen pro
frssion. A Safe Predlctloa. '
Washington Star.
Some of the very men loudly clamoring
for a more safe and sane observance of
the Fourth will be found In the broiling
aun cherring on tha home team In a los
ing base ball game on that day .
For the strongthat they
may keep their strength. .
For the weak that they
may regain their strength.
For the young that they
may grow in strength.
Uneeda Biscuit
the most nutritious food made
from wheat.
Clean, crisp and fresh.
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NATIONAL
NEBHASKA Pit KSS COMMENT.
Hardy Herald: The bankers of Omaha
and Lincoln give out that they will boy
cott the state because the treasurer wants
8 per cent Interest for the state funds, the
present rate being t per cent. All right,
gentlemen, this only calls for a little -more
legislation, and state will remedy the evil
by handling Ita own funds.
Kearney Hub: The Increase In the assess
ment rolls of the many counties In Ne
braaka la runnin far beyond the dreams of
avarice. Wa note, for lntance, that the
Increased valuation In Douglas county la
$7,000,000. If the atate assessment board
adopta tha former levy the state treasury
will have money to burn, but It can reduce
the levy and still leave the foundation oX s
handsome surplus.
Beatrice Bun: The new law making tha
office- of aheriff a salaried office Instead of
one depending upon fees-would have been
a good thing for Sheriff Truda last year,
but not this. The services rendered dur
ing the next three months under the scav
enger law will bring a whole year's salary
to the office, which the sheriff must turn
over to the county. Heretofore he has not
been able to collect enough fees to pay a
decent salary. The new law took effoct
Just as a lot of fee business cams in.
Aurora Republican: State Treasurer
Brian has already saved mora than the
amount of his salary for two years by de
manding t per cent from the banka for
the use of the atate'a money. Of course
some of the banks do. not like it, but Mr.
Brian politely informs them that he la
working for the people of Nebraska and
that It Is his business to get aa large re
turns for the people's money as he can.
Even the bankers, the most of them, will
be glad to doff their hata to a public of
ficial of Mr. Brlan'a type.
Fremont Tribune: Wa are pleased to
note the sustained Interest of Omnha busi
ness men in the proposed Platte river
power canal projects. A committee of the
Commercial club of that city recommends
that if these projects fall Omaha will bond
Itself to build ' the big canal. Fremont
prefers to manage the financing of Ita own
canal, but it would much prefer Omaha
ownership to failure. Tha canal Is sure to
ba some time built and the agitation ahould
continue until that consummation Is
reached.
Sterling Sun: Next Monday the new laws
pasted by the last legislature will be In full
force. AS yet, no copies of the session
lawa ara obtainable and' with but few ex
ceptions, nobody knows what the laws are.
We may ba criminals and subject to heavy
fine before we know It. The legislature
passed several fool laws that we know of,
and there may be a few others we do not
know of that may get us In limbo. There
aeema to be such an increasing desire on the
part of some lawmakers to govern some
body, that a man will ba but little more
than a machine, if there la not a change.
Too much government haa a tendency to
create anarchy and disrespect for even Just
laws.
Ttlden Cltlien: The aen'tenca awarded
Tom Huntington for paying men to commit
perjury In order that he might with more
aafety steal thousands of acres of public
land gives color to the common assertion
that wa have one law for the rich and an
other for the poor. For these crimes he
has been condemned to pay a fine of $1,000
and to spend three months In the Douglas
county Jail. If, Instead of being a rich
banker, tha son. of the chancellor of Wei
leyan university, the intimate of politicians
and others who have accumulated wealth
by criminal methods, he had been unknown
and poor; and If he had been guilty of Biot
Are
Prepared
OR the glorious Fourth! Maybe you need a nice,
cool outing suit, and the little necessaries iu
haberdashery that go to make up the dress
for these hot eumm-er days, and a f traw hat to
top off with. If you do, this is the place to get'
the right thing at the right prices.
Two-piece suit, $15 to $25. Outing trous
ers, $3.50 to $6.50. White duck trousers, $2.00
(our own make). '
Negligee ehirts in a bewildering array of beautiful ef-
fects, $1.00 to $6.00, Summer neckwear, 50c to $1.50.
Light and cool Summer Underwear, 50c to $5.50. .
Light weight Hosiery, in beautiful assortment, 25c to.
$3.50.
Straw lats in soft and yacht shapes, in a variety of
stylish braids, $1.00 to $7.50.
If you are going away on your vacation you had better
look over our line of trunks, suit cases and bags. The most
select line in Omaha.
Our store will be closed all day July 4th.
Browning, Ming S Co
17. S. WILCOX. Manager
moisture and
proof packages
BISCUIT COMPANY
more than a hundredth part of tha wrong
doing for which he la to be placed In nom
inal confinement and be forced to disgorge
Pawnee Republican: Fred Cummins,
formerly of this city,' eon of Mrs. Alice
Cummins, now living In Omaha, waa
awarded the Edward Rosewater scholar
ship of technology for highest scholarship
In the Omaha High school. His expenses
In attending the college will be paid by
the estate of the donor. The friends of
the young man In Pawnee, where he was
born and attended school until removing
to Omaha with his mother several years
ago, will be gratified to hear of his success
in the contest. He . is the grandson of
Jerome Shellhorn of this place,
a trifling amount of his dishonestly obtained
money, he would have been treated as a
common felon and sent to the Institution
provided for the reformation of perjured
thieves and scoundrels. The place for such
malefactors Is the penitentiary. The facta '
that a man la wealthy, well educated and
of good family are simply aggravations of
hla Crimea and auch a criminal deserves
even harsher punishment that Is merited by
one whose environment 1n early life may
have been less conducive to the inculcation
of common honesty and a proper respect
for the lawa of the state and nation.
SMIl.l.NU LINES.
"Wilder aaya he intends to repair hla
mistakes."
"Yes, when a man Is all broken up, ha
begins to think of mending his ways,"
Washington Herald. .
"Why did you run away?" was asked of
Sanderson et al, over long distance.
"Run away!" was the reply, "We did
nothing of the sort. We absented ourselves
because the tendency to talk scandal haa
become positively Indecent." Philadelphia,
Ledger.
"When I was your age,'1 said the severe
fiarent, "I was compelled to earn my own
ivlng."
"Sir," answered the complacent youth;
"I know too little of the circumstances to
attempt to defend my grandfather."
Washington Star.
"Yes, he reads the most imaginative
poetry Indulges In the wIMest statements
loves the brightest colors, and absolutely
doesn't know the value of money."
"I see; he's an advertising man for a dry
goods store." Puck.
Bronson My wife writes to me every few
days from the mountains for more money.
Woodson Well, I gave my wife all the
money I had before she went away, and
now I have to write to her when I want
some. Harper's Weekly.
His Wife If you are not going to take
any vacation this year, why do you spend
so much time reading summer resort book
lets and circulars?
Mr. Meekun It makes me realise what a
self-denying hero I am, my dear, to stay
at home tn order that you and the girls
may go away and havu a good time.
A ATI' HE K4KI.
John Kendrlcks Bangs In Harper's.
Oh, I am a bold Nature Faker. '
With a bubbling fountain pen.
I write up the beasts of my Maker,
And tell what they might have been.
I've told strange tales of Pink Monkeys
Who talked o'er a telephone.
And yarns of green-violet Donkeys
I've met In the Torrid Zone.
My atory of "Curly the Boa,"
Who sat on a Sausage Ltnka,
And hatched out some seventy-four
Small caddies with black, woolly-klnks ,
Is now In Its hundredth edition,
And makes other Naturalists blue.
Although 1 must make the admission.
It isn't quite all of it true. .
But now I am filled with repining.
With worry and trouble and fear.
The President's ripped the gold lining
From out of my ebullient career.
He's sent me a Lemon so mellow
It's laid me out frigid and flat.
And worst of It all, though It's yellow,
it'a not a real Lemon at that.
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