HIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JULY 2(1, 1007.
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The Omaha Daily Bel
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VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas county, ss:
Charles C. Rosewster general manager
of Th Bee Publishing Company, being
duly sworn, says 'hat the actual number
of full and complete copies of Th Dally,
Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed
during th month of June, 1WJ. was as
follows:
1 3fl,630
11 36,480
1 86,490
1 86,480
20 86,310
11 86.330
11 36,610
31 88,730
14 36,300
li 86,680
26 36.6C0
27 36,670
St 86,470
2t 36,860
SO 85,980
35,600
1 36,820
4.
3t,0
3S.410
3.aio
. . 3S.S30
3M00
. . 38,900
36,6t0
. . 36,930
It..
It..
11 36330
11 36,940
14 36,930
It 87,170
38,800
Total... 1, 094,830
Less unsold and returned coplea.. - 10,388
Net . total 1,083431
Dally avsrag 86,187
CHiLJ3 -. ROSEWATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me tbla let day of July, 1907.
(Seal) M. B. HUNG ATE,
Notary Public
when out er town.
Sabaerlbera leavlas; th city tea,
porartly shoald hav Tb Be
mailed to tbeaa. Ad area will be
changed as attest mm requested.
The Coreyans of Pittsburg are being
snubbed like the Coreans at Seoul.
There Is a suspicion that Colonel
Watterson'6 dark borso Is a victim of
spavin.
A low tax rate In any city la always
a drawing card for capital seeking In
vestment. 1
The government la advertising for
experts on railroad books. What a
chance for Mr. Harrlmaa.
Alfred Austin announces a book-of
his poems will soon be on sale. It Is
kind of him to give proper warning.
Former Senator Peffer explains that
he wears his whiskers tc please his
wife. Some women are easily pleased.
Up to date the south has not taken
Jesse Grant's presidential boom se
riously enough to shut It up or lynch
tt
Omaha's triumph as a convention
city only waits more ample and better
hotel facilities to take care of big
crowd.
' L very Inch of human skin contains
3,500 perspiration pores," says the
Chicago Journal. And all of them
working overtime.
Japan and Corea have made a new
treaty. The latest report from the
emperor of Corea Is that he .has be
come a walking delegate.
This world-wide Theatrical trust
may become popular In America If It
will only send most of our stage at
tractions to foreign countries.
Considerable concern Is felt over the
ilsappearance of the son of a Pittsburg
millionaire and his automobile. The
automobile was an expensive one.
Denmark refuses to consider a prop
osltlon to sell any of Its islands to
the United States. This country has
some islands it might sell, at reduced
prices.
Several inches of snow fell in
Sweden last week. King Oscar's ap
peal for his wandering subjects to re
turn home Is being supported by the
lements.
Lieutenant Colouel Ayres has been
retired from the army, but It was Mrs.
lyres who sassod tlij commandant at
'Vest Point and who shows no symp
onis of retiring.
August Belmont says the Balarles
paid lu this country are too small. He
aiust figure that if salaries were larger
i would take In more money at the
luoierous race tracks.
, It would be Interesting to know
what that customs board which ruled
hat Canadian geese are not birds
vould decide to be the proper classifi
cation for lame ducks.
Mark Twain Is home with a ut de
gree and a bunch of relics, but It Is
loped he, will not spring any English
lokes on the country, at least until
he weather gets cooler.
Colonel Bryan's admission that
"government ownership is not an
issue," makes It unanimous again ex
cept for Mike Harrington, Edgar How
ard and Harry Bromo, who constitute
the Nebraska Government Ownership
)eagu.
STATE OR rEDKRAL JURlSblCTluX.
The clash between the state and fed
eral authorities in North Carolina over
urlsdictlon for the adjudication of
railway laws Is so marked by pyro
technics and personalities that submis
sion to even-handed Justice demanded
by the merits of the case can only
come later. The sharp conflict In
North Carolina, however, should em1
phaslze the points at issue so that in
he end there will bo no escaping a
determination of the questions
squarely and unequivocally. Whether
the state or federal courts are to be
paramount is not to be decided either
by Issuing injunctions or proclama
tions, or by calling out the militia or
the regulars. The dispute in North
Carolina Is only part of a much larger
problem whose solution is being
worked out in many other states, as
well as where the railroads are seek
ing refuge in the federal courts to
escape or nullify regulation by state
authority.
The North Carolina cases spring from
state legislation reducing passenger
fares to a maximum of 24 cents a
mile and providing penalties for de
manding more. A ticket agent of the
Southern railway was arrested and
sentenced by a state court to Imprison
ment for violating the law. Judge
Jetter C. Prltchard of the federal court
Issued a writ restraining the state au
thorities from enforcing the law and
also granted an application for habeas
corpus, releasing the convicted ticket
agent from custody. The state au
thorities, supported and directed by
Governor Glenn, are Ignoring the or
der of the federal courts and arrested
the railway officials defying the state
law. Connected with this conflict are
charges against Judge Prltchard,
promises of Impeachment proceedings
against htm and lurid talk about call
ing out the militia to enforce the or
ders of the state authorities and the
decisions of the state courts.
Under such conditions the danger Is
that the real Issues may be largely
lost sight of, which are to define the
lino of demarkatlon between the
powers of the state and of the nation
to regulate railway traffic. Up to this
time It has always been assumed that
federal Jurisdiction is exclusive for
Interstate commerce and state Jurisdic
tion exclusive for trade between points
wholly within the state lines, subject,
however, to the guaranty of the federal
constitution against confiscation of
property.
When congress was discussing the
rate regulation law, the railroads
played up the duty of the states' to
regulate, but now that the states have
undertaken to exercise their functions
In a manner distasteful to the rail
roads their clever lawyers have con
cocted a theory that action by con
gress bars action by the states. If the
furor precipitated by the disturbance
In North Carolina hastens the proceed
ings that will give us a final decision
by the United States supreme court, It
will not be without producing some
good.
EFFECT OF PASS ABOLITION.
Atlantic City has been filing a bill
of grievances against the people of
Pittsburg and a passenger official of
the Pennsylvania railroad files a cross
bill which throws an illuminating light
on the effects of the abolition of the
railway pass upon railway passenger
traffic, particularly during the sum
mer months. Atlantic City's sustenance
comes from the tourist traffic and the
observing citizens and officials of the
town have called attention to the fact
that during the present season less
than 1,000 visitors to the seashore re
sort have registered from Pittsburg,
whereas In former rears from 20,000
to 30,000 Plttsburgers landed at At
lantic City during the height of the
season. Atlantic City wants to know
why, and the Pennsylvania railroad
official furnishes the answer.
The Pennsylvania runs tralnsfrora
Pittsburg to Atlantic City. Pittsburg
is the home of many stockholders of
the road, the home of many of the
company's biggest patrons and ship
pers and the political capital of the
western half of the state. In the old
days, the Plttsburger who failed to
carry an annual pass over the Penn
sylvania did not amount to much. The
Pennsylvania used to run daily ex
cursion trains from Pittsburg to At
lantic City every hour, during the
heated term, for the accommodation of
the passholders. With the abolition
of the passes this year, the tourists
from Pittsburg find plenty of room on
the regular trains without crowding.
The saving on special excursion trains,
which were run without revenue from
tho passengers, has been a big item
and the railroad company has prof
ited, even If the effect has been dis
astrous on the resort keepers at At
lantic City.
This railroad spokesman admits that
the 2 -cent fare, established by law In
Pennsylvania, looks like a gold mine
product compared with what the com
pany used to receive on Its business
between Pittsburg and the Beashore.
What the company has lost in the
favor of former passholders it has
more than made up by the saving of
the operation of special tratr.s for
the accommodation of deadhead. The
railroad companies, as well as the
fare-paying patrons, are profiting by
the abolition of the free pass system.
With the gates thrown open a pain
to fusion it is the privilege of any can
didate for office to seek a nomination
on any or all party tickets. Four
years ago three republican candidates
for district Judge in this district played
the game so as to get on the democratic
ticket on th pretext of "nonpartisan
ship." If the democrats run short of (
material again they can, no doubt, find
republican patriots willing to serve
under their banner.
ROGVE8' UJLLKRT RECORDS.
Simple Justice to innocent men ac;
cused of crime Is provided In an act
rassed by the New York legislature
and signed by Governor Hughes, pro
viding for the removal from police
records of photographs and Dertlllon
records of persons acquitted of crim
inal charges against them. The adop
tion of the Bertlllon system of meas
urements of persons arrested on crim
inal charges was due to the claim,
long accepted by police officials, that
a man once a criminal Is always a
criminal, and the system has been of
wonderful aid to the police authorities
of the world in the apprehension and
Identification of old offenders, of whom
detailed descriptions and photographs
are supplied to the rogues' galleries of
the police departments In all large
cities. Dut the police have gone to the
extreme on the theory that a man once
charged with crime Is always a sus
pect and have subjected every accused
man to measurement by the Bertlllon
system and to having his photograph
taken and filed for future reference.
Tho number of persons charged with
crime, however, who are Innocent of
either crime or criminal Intent is nat
urally very large and there can be no
excuse for retaining the photographs
and measurements after Innocence has
been established. There is no good
reason why such records should be
kept with their possibility of future
annoyance of the man or the humilia
tion of his family. The New York law
was passed as the result of an agita
tion started by Roland B. Mollnoaux,
once sentenced to death for murder,
but afterwards adjudged wholly Inno
cent. Upon his acquittal he demanded
the removal of his record from the
books of the police, but was refused,
and his persistence led to the passage
of the law now In force. As a matter
of common Justice to Innocent men
wrongfully accused, a similar law
should be placed on the statute books
In every state.
1 7TB LAW OF AUTOMOBILES'
Automobillsts who have been re
cently arrested in Omaha for violating
the rules of the road are trying with
remarkable regularity to beg off on
the ground of innocent ignorance of
what' is required of them. While the
drivers of self-propelling machines are
presumed to know the law, it may not
be amiss to remind them of the con
ditions upon which they are permitted
to run at large by edict of the last
Nebraska legislature:
1. Every owner of a motor vehicle
must have the same registered with
the secretary of state and take out a
license costing $1 per year.
2. The registration number assigned
by the secretary of state must be dis
played conspicuously on the auto
mobile. 3. Maximum rates of speed are:
Ten miles an hour "in the close-built-up
portions of the city, town or village;"
fifteen miles an hour "elsewhere in a
city, town or village;" twenty miles an
hour "outside of the city, town or
village."
4. Upon approaching or traveling "a
crossing of intersecting public high
ways, or a bridge, or a sharp curve, or
a steep descent," the driver must keop
his machine under control at a rate of
speed less than previously specified.
5. On a signal by putting up the
hand from a person riding or driving
a restive horse, or other domestic
animal, the motor vehicle must be
brought immediately to a full stop,
and, If traveling In the opposite direc
tion, remain stationary long enough to
allow the horse to pass, and, If In the
same direction, must use reasonable
caution in passing the horse or animal.
6. Every automobile on the public.
highway must exhibit one or more
white lights In front and a red light In
the rear "during the period from one
hour after sunset to one hour before
sunrise."
Violation of any of these rules con
stitutes &. misdemeanor punishable for
the first offense by a fine not exceed
ing $25 and for subsequent offenses by
a fine not less than $2 5 nor more than
$50, "or Imprisonment not exceeding
thirty days In the county Jail."
The wise automoblllst will obey the
law.
It Is planned to tak Mr. Fairbanks for
an automobile ride during his vtslt In
Lincoln, August S. But, for goodness
sake, keep him off of O street, unless you
wish to behold the spectacle of a dizzy,
seasick vice president. Lincoln Star.
So there are other cities beside
Omaha that have street pavements that
resemble most the billowy waves of
the ocean.
According to evidence before the Ne
braska State Railway commission, a
physical valuation of the express com
panies would show wide discrepancy
between money invested in the business
and stock issues floated on Wall street.
Pity the poor express companies
which, should they be compelled to
submit to rate reduction in Nebraska,
might not be able to distribute a 200
per cent dividend more than once in
four or five years.
"I concern myself very little about
President Roosevelt," says Governor
Vardaman. ,"I concern myself not at
all about Governor Vardaman," says
the president. Looks like a tie. Bet
ter shake stain.
Every department of city govern
ment will spend all th money which
tho mayor and council may place at its
disposal. It is the duty of the mayor
and council, however, to Impose taxes
only for what is really needed, no
more and no less, and give the tax
payer the benefit of every doubt.
Now that he has decided that the
democratic candidate for supreme
Judge may bear two party labels, fusion
organs may give Judge Sedgwick some
credit for determlr.lag cases on the law
rather than to promote his own per
sonal Interests.
The anti-slot machine order of the
Board of Fire and Police Commission
ers not only stands, but stands with
the additional endorsement of two
Judges of the district court. The slot
machine operators had better let it go
at that.
Tho opening of Twenty-fourth Btreet
seems to have struck a snag in the
form of a technical defect In the ordi
nance as passed by the council. It is
better to find the technical defects now
than later.
The Elks must be in training to
see how much heat they can stand be
fore the clock strikes eleven. After
their Philadelphia experience, they
have decided to try Dallas, Tex., next
year.
I .
Shirting; the Wreath.
Portland Oregonlan.
For the present tho country will shed few
tears at the sight of Bryan removing the
white wreath from the resting place of free
silver and laying it on government owner
ship of railroads.
Promoting; Competition.
Indianapolis News.
Instead of being a combination, of course,
Ithat arrangement between the Western
Union and the Tostal to divide' the profits
on certain telegraph business may be
merely a shrewd scheme, according to
modern business Ideas, to foster competi
tion. Boost for the Home Grown.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The health department sounds a warn
ing against the advisability of eating
home grown vegetables when one goes to
the country. To the many people who
have gone Into the country and been fed
exclusively on canned goods this warntng
will seem superfluous.
Look That Way.
Kansas City Star.
Judge Munger of the United States dis
trict court for Nebraska refused to grant
an injunction sought by the express com
panies to enjoin the enforcement of the
new law reducing express rates In Ne
braska. From this it appears that a court
does not have to grant a temporary in
junction unless It wants to.
On a Firm Foundation.
New York Herald.
The country Is all right. It was going
ahead a little too fast, and the halt In
speculation and this year's drastic reduc
tion In the market valuation of those
"highly decorated pieces of paper" In Wall
treet have put on the brakes without In
terfering with the basilar development In
the country's prosperity.
One Question Start Another.
. Springfield Republican.
Justice Brewer 'of the United State su
preme cou-t has put this question In the
course of an address the last week: "Sup
pose through such laws as Missouri passed,
the railroads should- actually lose money
on carrying freight and passengers, will
the state make the loss good to them?''
That is a searching 'inquiry, yet not more
so perhaps than this: Suppose the rail
road should raise rates above the require
ments of a fair return upon their capital;
will they make good the loss to their
patrons?
BRYAN'S LAST DELIVER ANCH.
Kept In the Air.
Now York Times (Ind. dem.)
Mr. Bryan's latest explanation Is that
federal ownership of the railroads Is not
to be a special object of the democrats
campaign, but to be a sort of perpetual
sword of Damocles hanging over the heads
of the American people. It Is to be ne
glected as an Immediate Issue, but to be
kept In the air. Nevertheless, tho rail
road question Is Mr. Bryan's chosen Issue.
Not a word of the tariff.
Where la the Tarty Nonl
Washington Post (Ind.).
Mr. Bryan now Insists that the demo
cratic party la the only mechanism that
can regulate the railroads. In bis latest
pronunclamento he carefully refrains from
describing the democratic party, or giving
any clew to what It la. He does not betray
his hiding place, nor does he Indicate by
what marvelous process it will regulate the
railroads while remaining itself the most
unregulated Institution on American soil.
He merely describes it as "the democratlo
party," and lets It go at that
Some Pertinent Question.
New York World (dem.).
Since the Madison Square Garden speech
Mr. Bryan has taken up a new political
toy, the Initiative and referendum, which
he made a cardinal Issue of democratic
faith In his Jefferson day speech at Brook
lyn. He advanced It again In his "What
Is a Democrat?" letter to the World, while
carefully Ignoring the government owner
ship Issue for reasons now better under
stood. What new popullstlo or socialistic.
issue he will have by 19o8 for the demo
cratlc party to subscribe to Is beyond the
ken of human foresight.
But In view of all the circumstances th
World may be pardoned if It repeats two
questions which It asked In Its editorial
of August 30, 190. entitled "Mr. Bryan's
Blind Pool":
If the American people considered Mr.
Bryan unsafe in 1896 and 1900, wherein is
he safer now?
In what respect Is he a cooler counsellor
or a wiser leader than he was then?
Bark to the Tariff.
Washington Herald (Ind.).
We regret that Mr. Bryan devotes so
little attention to the tariff question, which
presents some very live aspects at the mo
ment". W would like to hear from him on
the problem of the treasury surplus and a
to th desirability of federal taxation In
order to curtail th redundant revenues of
th government. A etlritrg manifesto on
i hi topic would, we are sure, arouse en
thusiasm among many wavering follower
of Mr. Bryan, who still cling to old-fash
loned notion about the wrongfulness of
overtaxation and the wisdom of economy
In public-expenditure. 1'pon what theory
of governmental functions, may we not
Inquire, Is It more Important to reduce th
revenues of th railroad than to lower
thoa of the government? Why should the
government hammer down railroad rates
when tt 1 Itself filching nearly lp,W,00C
a year from the pockets of the peopl.
without rendering any sort of service thr
lor?
BITS OF WASIUKUTO LIFFi.
i
Minor Deenes and Incident Sketched
on th Spot.
"Our dog Pete," the scrappy purp of the
Wblte House, whose exploits have pro
voked considerable shirt-sleeve gaiety, has
broken out In a fresh spot. Just for a
change and for dental .exercise. Since the
president vacated the While House for the
summer Pete has made his home with a
doctor, who guaranteed three square meals
a day. This ought to have satisfied any
ordinary dog, but Pete has lived too long
within range of "his master's voice" to be
a mollycoddle pup. He preferred nice, fat
politicians and personal representatives of
royalty to alley cats.
Last Friday a lineman in the employ of
one of the telegraph companies . dropped
down In Pete's particular back yard to
connect up a wire, but about the only con
nection he made was with the dog's teeth
In the calf of his leg. First aid was ren
dered the Injured man, be was sent to his
home, and to Oyster Bay was telegraphed
the news that gave Pete tho "double cross."
The lineman procured a stout club, which
he intended to break over the dog's back,
but so securely and finally has Pete been
removed from Washington and Its environs
that even Marshal Collins, with a spy
glass and a warrant from the mayor, could
not locate blm. (
As soon as the president became cogni
sant that Pete had added another crime to
his already long list he ordered Charley,
the negro footman, to go over to Washing
ton to secure the dog and convey him to
parts unknown. It was at first decided by
Mr. Roosevelt that the dog must die, but
Archie's pleadings were so urgent that
the president reluctantly commuted his sen
tence to life Imprisonment.
Charley arrived In town on Saturday, and
Monday Pete, with the stub of bis tail
drooping pitifully, the fire and fury gone
out of his eyes, his protruding teeth cov
ered by an extra strong musxle, was con
fined In a steel cage and put aboard a
train and has by this time begun the ex
piation of his many crimes and misde
meanors. The bureau of corporations hopes to have
completed by the time congress meets Its
report on the Inquiries Into the business
affairs of the following Industrial combl,
nations: Oil, tobacco, steel, lumber, har
vester, telegraphs, canals, coastwise traffic
and cotton exchanges. Within two weeks
the bureau will make public another re
port on the Standard Oil company. This
one will relate to prices and profits of the
oil business and will enable the publlo to
understand why the stock of this corpora
tion commands such an enormous figure.
This report will be followed by another,
giving the result of a special Inquiry Into
the new oil field In the Interior state
and In the California district. Lastly,
there will be a report on the foreign trade
of the Standard Oil company. Agents of the
Department of Commerce and I-abor are
still abroad studying the field In Europe,
the orient and Africa.
Information as to the operations of the
Harvester trust will be used by Attorney
General Bonaparte In determining whether
a successful prosecution of the great cor
poration can be maintained. It Is said
now that the attorney general will not be
able to make up his mind In th harvester
coses until fall, as he has Just started ton
a long vacation, which will occupy him at
least two months.
The Investigation of the general sub
ject of patent rights Is the latest Inquiry
undertaken by the bureau. It Is to have
particular reference to the abuse of the
right of patents by officers of the govern
ment who have perfected their Inventions
In the laboratories and on the time of the
government, while occupied In' their official
duties.
The work of removing the piers of the old
Long bridge has progressed" steadily In the
last two weeks, and now all the piers are
down to low water and two dredging ma
chines are at work removing the draw pier
and the piers on each side the channel down
to the bottom of the river. The contract
for the removal of the old wooden Long
bridge called for the taking down of the
stone piers on the shoal water on each
sldo the channel to low water, and In deep
water they are to be removed entirely.
The tearing down of the woodwork of the
bridge was started In the early part of
March last and the contractors have had a
large force of men continuously on the
work since that time. In addition to mov
ing the piers, the stone causeway which
formed the approach to the bridge on the
Virginia shore Is also being blown up and
removed so that the river tides can have
full flow past the Virginia shore.
"I have been somewhat amused, " says
United States Treasurer Treat, "to observe
the newspaper criticism of the new ten
dollar gold certificates. It has been de
clarod that the similarity In appearances
of the new note and the $30 gold certificate
Is so striking that persons are making the
error of handing out tens for twenties. I
have heard no complaints from persons
who have had 0 bills forced upon them
Instead of tens.
"Really, I cannot understand why the
new gold certificate should be criticised.
The points of difference between It and
the $30 note are so marked that no one
should be deceived. The decoration and
lettering are wholly different. One bears
the portrait of George Washington and
the other the portrait of Michael Hlllcgas,
the first teasurer of the United States.
Certainly no one ought to confuse the
likeness of the father of his country with
that of Michael Htllegas."
FEItSO.VAL XOTF.S,
A New York swindler arrested after a
long series of successful operations declares
that his city Is "dead easy."
A monument has been erected to Anna
Holxel In the Schlossgarden at Mannheim,
Germany. She Is th wife of a carpenter,
who, in ITS, saved the poet Schiller from a
debtor's prison.
The sultan of Turkey has Anally overcome
his opposition to th telephone, and has or
dered that the ministry of communications
work out a project for supplying Constan
tinople with telephones.
The prlnc of Wales spends most of his
leisure tlm In reading and pasting stamps
in a stamp album. He has on of the
finest private colectlons In Europe, all of
which he has classified and pasted himself.
The man who raptured Santa Anna's cork
leg, the most Interesting relic of th Mall
ear war, 1 still living at San Rafael, Cal.
His name Is Edwin Elvln Elliot, and he
was a member og the Fourth regiment of
Illinois infantry.
The people of Clearmont county, Ohio,
are forming plans for the erection of a
tablet to the memory of General Grant at
Pt. Pleasant, where he first saw th light of
day, April 27, HC2. Th vent 1 to be in
connection with the Cincinnati homecoming
In September. It. Pleasunt. the birthplace
of Grant. Is a little hamlet on th Ohio
river, about twenty-five miles above Cin
cinnati. It's ripping story of Clemenceau. fit
for Immortality, they are tailing In Parts.
Perhaps Ha merely an adaption of a very
old one. As sent by one of the correspond
ents. It reads: .When the lunatic Mallle
fired upon President Pallleres as he was
returning to the Klysee jlare after th
review of July 14. the presidential secr
tary, Jean Lanes, exclaimed with emotion.
"Two balls!'' Clemenceau, with S pleasant
smile, bowed gracefully to President
, r'alliere and .aid. "tin for ach of us."
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GARFIELD AMAZED AT STATE
Secretary of Interior Pronounces Na-
bratka Kingdom of Wealth.
W. H. MAKSS PRAISES IT, TOO
Industrial Commissioner of Burlln
ton and Cnblnet Officer Complete
Trip Over Thl Portion of
Great West.
"The greatness of the state overwhelmes
me; I had no Idea Nebraska was such a
vast kingdom of wealth. The crops are
astounding."
This was the utterance of Secretary of
the Interior Oarfield after he had com
pleted a tour across Nebraska.
"I figure the crops of Nebraska wtll be
on a par with those of the bumper year,
said W. H. Manss of Chicago. Industrial
commissioner of the Burlington road, who
has Just returned from an extensive trip
through Nebraska and Wyoming with Sec
retary f Interior Garfield. "The corn of
Nebraska has grown a foot and a half In
the last two weeks, the alternating hot
days and night rains being Just the thing
for the crops.
"The country around Sheridan never had
so much rain as this season, the crops are
great and never looked better. The Big
Horn Basin country Is turning out to be
the greatest country in the world for the
raising of sugar beets because of tiie
nature of the soil which seems to put so
much saccharine In the beets. We thought
the Colorado country was good with from
18 to IS per cent of saccharine, but around
Billings there Is from K to 22 per cent and
In the Big Horn country It runs from tt
to 24 per cent. It Is so good that an or
ganlxatlon with 1100,000 capital has been
formed, known as the Seed Breeders as
sociation to raise seed and to test all kinds
of seed for breeding purposes.
White Pine Timber.
"Another good thing which Is being over
looked Is th large quantities of white pine
lumber In the Black Hills country. There
are hundreds of thousands of acres of this
timber land, which th cinch bug has In
tested and spoiled th trees of which by
eating away the bark, but the lumber Is
still good and the government has given
permission to out the timber. Two camps
already have been started and there Is
room for many more. In this day when
white pine Is so scarce, her la a splendid
opportunity.
"In many sections the wheat crop Is
most surprising, especially th macaroni
or Durhain wheat. Around Bedford it
wtll run 40 to 45 bushels to the acre.
"Secretary Garfield was a most
thoroughly surprised man as he Journeyed
over Nebraska, He said ho had no Idea
of the great agricultural resources of th
state and was more than taken back at the
Immensity of the corn fields and the crops
which are being raised. H predicted a
great era of Intensified farming for th
the western part of tho state and the Irri
gated portions of Wyoming.
Demand for Information.
"Never since I have been connected with
this work has the demand for information
been as great as at present by persons
who are looking for locations, both for
Industries and homes. The west Is growing
so fast It Is hard to supply the demands
for building material and I have Just been
arranging for the location of a cement
factory In the northwestern portion of th
state to provide that material, which Is
used so extensively In Irrigation work and
building.
"We visited the coal mines at Oebo and
I think that coal Is better than the Rock
Springs coal. We had the Burlington geo
logist along and examined the mines olosely.
We found a solid bank without a seam,
which was 6 or 7 per cent higher In grade
than the Sheridan coal and 6 per cent less
In moisture."
Secretary Garfield did not return with
Mr. Manss, his duties taking htm a differ
ent route.
Mr. Manss came to Omaha for th pur
pose of looking at Seymour park, whr
Shimer Chase propose to establish an
Industrial city. The Burlington line runs
through the park. Shimer St Chas say
they are In communication with a number
of manufacturing enterprises which may
be secured for Omaha when proper trans
portation facilities have been assured for
Beymour park.
ONE CAR OF PERFECT WHEAT
Grades No. 1 Hard nnd Weighs Slaty
Pour Pounds to th
Bushel.
One car of wheat is In Omaha from which
one can take a handful of 600 grains and
fail to find a single imperfect grain among
them. The grain grades No. 1 hard and
weighs sixty-four pounds to the bushel, a
phenomenal weight. No better grain I
grown anywhere, say the dealers. The
wheat was raised at Plymouth, Neb., and
was shipped to Omaha to the Hamilton
company. The same concern received from
Gladstone, Neb., a car of wheat grading
No. 1 hard and weighing sixty-three pounds
to the bushel. The J. F. Twamley & Bon
company has received a car which weighs
sixty-four pounds to the bushel. It Is said
by th grain men that a large amount of
this fine quality grain was grown this
year In the southern part of the state.
Two-thirds of the present wheat receipts
at Omaha la new grain, and It is averag
ing about sixty-three pounds.
OMAHA TO IRRIGATION MEET
Commercial Club Is Asked to Sand
Delegate to Congress t
Sacramento.
The Omaha Commerlcal club has received
an Invitation to send delegate to the fif
teenth National Irrigation congress, which
will convene at Bacramento, Cal., Septem
ber t to 7. The club Is asked to send two
delegates. Mayor Dahlman will be entitled
to appoint ten men to represent Omaha,
the county commissioners five to repre
sent Douglas county and Governor Sheldon
may appoint fifteen to represent the stats.
All countlu may have a representation
and all the larger town may send dele
gates. H. H. Andrews of Callaway, Neb.,
Is one of the vice presidents of the organ
isation and W. R. Akers of Scott's Bluff
Is a member of th executive committee.
Simultaneously with the congress there
will be held at Sacramento an Interstate ex
position of Irrigated land and products and
forest products. The California state fair
wtll begin September 1.
Arbuckles Ariosa Coffee
U cleaned, roasted and packaged by machinery
without the touch of a hand. A machine,
constructed in our own hop, packs the coffee,
weighs it, wraps.it, and seals the wrapper
automatically. It reaches the cup the cleaned,
moat wholesome and cheapest good cof f e la
th world.
XUHJCiaS aUbOflw Nw Tfk Ot
August
Fiction
Number
McClure's fiction is always
distinguished for its quality
and sheer human interest.
The August fiction number
is no exception. Although
introducing a number of
writers new to the magazine
world, the stories are of the
sort that will later bring fame
to each. It seldom happens
that a magazine has the op
portunity of presenting so
many new writers with such
distinguished work. Note
the list and the new names :
TIIE GREAT NORTH ROAD
By MARY S. WATTS
EZEKIEL IN TRANSIT
By LUCY AGNES PRATT
AN IDYL OF TIIE YARDS
By MAUDE RADFORD
TIIE TOWER OF TIIE DOG
By M. GAUSS
THE KNUCKLE-FUSIIER
By V'lIX, ADAMS
THE LONG SHIFT
By EUGENE RHODES
ALI KARA v
By JAURS noiTEa
Besides this splendid fiction,
the August number offers
four articles of unusual im
portance :
TIIE PHYSIOGNOMY OF
LINCOIJM
By TRUMAN 11. BARTLETT
This Is a singularly uplifting and illumi
nating study of Lincoln, written by a
frrc-at sculptor and Illustrated with por
traits and life masks. At a presenta
tion of Lincoln tho article it a worthy
companion to Miss Tarbell's "lie Knew
Lincoln."
HIE AUTOBIOGRAPHY'
AND CONFESSION OF
HARRY ORCHARD
Only a fragment of the story Is to ba
oea In evidence against the three offi
cers of the Western Federation of Miners,
but the complete autobiography will bo
printed in McClure's.
HOW MRS. EDDY'S
HUSBAND WAS INDICTED
for an alleged conspiracy to murder.
How the case created a sensation in
Lynn and in Boston, but was nolla
prossed and never came to trial.
CAN AMERICANS AFFORLU
SAFETY IN RAILROAD r
TRAVEL ?
This Is the most important contribution
to a subject of more than national inter
est that has yet appeared in print,
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FLASHES OF FUN.
"It's a funny thing;, but that sexton
looks like a lot of people I know about
here."
"It Isn't a bit strange; he Is rlna-or for
the whole town." Baltimore American.
'1 notice that you writers use a groat deal
of tobacco. Ios is stimulate your brains?'
"I don't know. Rut It makes you forget
that you're hungry." Cleveland Leader.
"I tell you. young man, we want brains
in this business."
"I know you do; your management shows
it." Washington Herald.
"Jinks Is an undoubted genius."
"Hut he acts like an ordinary man."
"Well, all geniuses have their little eccen
tricities." Laoulsvllle Courier-Journal.
Merchant I though you told me he was a
man of very good churacter.
Quibble I gues you misunderstood ma.
I said he was a man of good reputation.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Whnt would you call the color of Mrs.
Bwlftley's hair?"
"I think Id call it fickle." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
"Papa." said th fashlnnsble daurhter,
"I muKt have my appendix cut out. All th
girls are doing It now."
"All right." responded the old ninn, "but
In that rase I'll cut out the automobile
you've been talking about."
As he went downtown tho girl was think
ing It over. Philadelphia ledger.
TUB FOOLISII MAID.
Baltimore American.
A fair maiden sat In her bower alone.
Sing ho for a lover, sing high!
Her Teauty It sparkled like stars In th
night,
Her laugh It was merry and gay.
And knights came afar for her hand,
But she only laughed on at each new,
luckless klght, ,
For love was hers to command.
Sing ho for a lover, sing high!
"Why should I heed Iov when be kneels
here my slave?"
Sing ho for a lover, sing high!
"I send htm away with a toss and a wave,
And never he dares say nay.
And then If I beckon, he flics to my side.
And kisses my feet for a look;
So why yield him rule?" said the maid In
her pride.
"Why should I the rule of Love brookT"
Sing ho for a lover, sing high!
But time, the old traitor, the maiden's '
youth stole, oi
Bins ho for a lover, sing high! y
And then he demanded her beauty as toll,
Next thing, ha was taking her away.
And once more she slis In her bower alone,
For Ixi ve has grown tired and Is gone;
Though all sh will promise, forever h'g
flown,
And left her, lost chaees to mourn.
Sing ho for a lover, sing high!
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