TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1907.
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WHEN OCT Or TOWN.
ahaeriher leaving th city tarn
orarlly shoald have The Be
a ailed then. Aaareea will be
ckang4 as often mm reqaeetedu
Secretary Taft ha been showing
the MlBsourlana. ...
Thou million-dollar rains can come
In August as well as In April.
Nebraska farmers are busy building
bins to bold the crops that the green
bug overlooked.
George Bernard Shaw says
three meals a day are excessive,
expensive these days.
that
Also
.Possibly Secretary Root U down at
Muldoon's place for the purpose of
learning to play tennis.
The Roosevelt Record is a new pa
per in Oklahoma. It appeals to the
support of all good citizens.
If it is true that Boston is sinking
into the ocean they will not dare in
vite Secretary Taft np there again.
While Mr. Root is taking lessons in
wrestling, most of the other presiden
tial aspirants are taking lessons in
fencing. ,
"Why," asks the London Gentle
woman, "are men better looking than
women f" The only answer is, they
re not.
The empress dowager of China in
sists that she has not yet had any con
firmation of the rumor that she is
going to abdicate.
The telegraph companies and the
operators seem to have, settled down
for an endurance test, the burden of
which Will be borne by the public.
"The people , of Illinois are bard
headed and thrifty,' says the Chicago
Tribune. Sounds like the opening
sentence of a biography of Speaker
Cannon.
Governor Hughes is to make a tour
of the county fairs in New York state.
The report that he Is not a presiden
tial aspirant may prove to have been
premature.
Wall street is coming up a little
groggy after each round and is show
ing some symptom of inability to hold
out against the prosperity of the rest
of the country. . .
A man named Noel has been noml-
' cated for ' governor of Mississippi.
While the country does not know him,
It Is satisfied that he will be an Im
provement over Vardaman.
Judge Alton B. Parker declares that
"the power of the nation is limited."
The Judge may have made the error
of basing the power of the nation on
th sice of the democratic vote.
'Mr: Bryan is going to Oklahoma to
reply to Secretary Taft's speech. Now
if th secretary will raise some new
Issues In Hong Kong, Guam and Ma
nila it may result la luring Mr. Bryan
out of- the country for a few months.
Messenger boys at Pittsburg went
on a strike because the soulless cor
porations that employed them refused
to furnish pie for luncheon. The
country is safe so long as the youth of
the land Is ready to fight for their in
alienable rights.
Only forty men went to Kalamaioo
' the other day to attend the reunion of
the men who captured Jefferson Davis.
The small attendance is pusillng, In
view of the fact that some 10,000 men
have filed, claims, to participation la
LUe capture of Davis
BAMPt t OF titan TXXAKCE.
The public utilities commission ap
pointed by Oovernor Hughes to exer
else control over the franchlaed cor
poratlona of New Torn City has just
uncovered one of the most amatlng
swindles In the history of the metrop-
oils, furnishing a striking illustration
of some of the methods employed by
the captains of high finance who are
very busy Just now abusing President
Roosevelt and accusing him of at
tomptlng to ruin the country by as
saults upon "vested Interests."
- The utilities commission has been
investigating the history of the Twenty-
eighth street railway in New York
City. This was a horse car line, less
than three miles long, chartered under
a provision requiring It to turn over to
the city 29 per cent of its gross earn
lngs. The line was built at a cost of
less than $200,000, but it never paid
and was sold a few years ago for
$25,000. The purchaser was the Met
ropolltan company, and In a very few
weeks the line purchased for $25,000
was bonded for $5,400,000. This was
a little demonstration of high finance
alchemy, the component parts being
200 parts water to $1 of the original
Investment. To complicate conditions,
the utilities commission has discovered
that the books of the old company
were deliberately burned and that the
record does not show. what became of
the $5,875,000 "profit", made -in the
reorganization of the three-mile line.
Now the Metropolitan company is
complaining that its lines are not pay'
ing. They cannot pay and ought not
to pay, under such monstrous debt
burdens. The people who bought the
inflated stocks were cheated and the
public,' which Is expected to pay the
Interest on this watered stock, Is being
robbed to that end.
Such exposures serve a good our
pose in convincing the public, by ac
tual demonstration, that the presi
dent's policies are not injuring the
genuine invested Interests, however
damaging they may be to men engaged
In manufacturing wildcat certificates
and selling them as gilt-edged securi
ties. DEVELOPMENT OF THE FlLiriNO.
Statesmen who have been Insisting
that the Filipinos will not be ripe for
independence and self-government for
many years may have to revise their
opinions. Reports through official
sources from time to time have shown
that the native of the Islands has been
making rather remarkable advance
ment In many lines. He Is learning
to use modern implements and modern
methods In farming and is adopting
up-to-date systems In commercial af
fairs, . The schools are flourishing 'find
the natives are adopting many Amer
ican methods in various activities of
life. The most, convincing proof of
fered, however, of the Filtplao,upUft
is found in a card Issued by a native
candidate for office In the recent Phil
ippines election. The card, copied
here from the Manila Times, 'is as fol
lows: - '
First Indomitable patriot and Fillpinlsta
till death.
Second Intellect of the first order: high
est culture. . . .....
Third Magnificent, refined, manly and Ir
resistible eloquence.
Fourth Daring bravery, unrivalled firm
ness.
Fifth His works surpass his werds.
Sixth Llon,-hearted, fearless sou.
Seventh H fears not death and hopes to
conquer It.
Eighth Allv or dead, h will struasie
for the emancipation and honor of the
worktngmen.
Ninth1 He loves the people more than he
love himself -and he would sacrifice every
thing for the liberty and Independence of
th Philippines and the Filipinos.
No candidate for office anywhere
has more thoroughly caught the spirit
of patriotism and egotism that marks
the true office seeker. This Flllntno.
of course, may be above the average
In his assimilation of American Ideas.
but if there are many like him in the
islands the Contention that the Fili
pinos are not Intelligent enough for
self-government will soon be knocked
higher than the late Mr. GUderoy's
kite.
A OOVERNOR lit EX ILK.
Former Governor William 8. Taylor
of Kentucky la again being made a
factor in the political , campaign In
Kentucky. He has been injected into
the controversy through the Caleb
Power trial, in which he Is wanted as
a witness. The state authorities have
made a request for the presence of
Taylor at the trial and have guaran
teed him Immunity from arrest, and
the privilege of returning to his pres
ent refuge in Indiana. Governor Tay
lor has replied to the promise, inti
mating that he is not wanted so much
ss.a witness as for the purpose of
making political capital for the demo
cratic machine of the state. He calls
attention to the fact that his deposi
tion has been taken In the case and
that he could add nothing to the In
terests of justice by appearing in per
son. The dispute between Taylor and the
Kentucky authorities furnishes further
proof of the contention that the Caleb
Powers trial has degenerated into a
Judicial farce, kept on the boards for
purely political purposes. Powers, who
wss arrested In connection with the
murder of Governor Goebel, has been
three times convicted, only to have the
Judgment reversed by the aDDellato
court for the state three times. Taylor
fled from Kentucky after the murder
and has been protected by successive
governors of Indiana, who have re
fused to honor requisitions for him on
a charge of complicity In the con
spiracy for the murder of Goebel. There
Is nothing in the evidence to furnish
the state authorities hope that Powers
may be finally convicted, but every
thing to indicate that he is being kept
tn Jail and before the courts for po
litical purposes, a fact wholly discred
itable to the good name of the state
of Kentucky. In the meantime, Gov
ernor Taylor is probably wise In re
fusing to return to Frankfort, for
while the promised Immunity from ar
rest may be In good faith, there are
other matters to be considered. There
are some mighty good sharpshooters
In Kentucky who might not understand
the meaning of the word immunity.
THE COfAT COUPTROLLERSR1P.
The newly created county comp
trollershlp for Douglaa county will be
filled for the first time at the coming
election. This office will be one of
the most important offices In the
county, eventually absorbing the office
of city comptroller, which Is to be
merged with it by self-acting opera
tion of the law at the end of the term
of the present incumbent of the city
comptroller's office. The county
comptroller to be chosen this year will,
therefore, have the double task of or
ganizing the auditing department Of
the county as a separato branch of the
county government and also of adapt
ing to It the auditing department of
the city government when that Bhall
come under hia authority.
The law creating the office of county
comptroller fixes the qualifications in
general terms." It says that "he shall
act as general accountant and fiscal
agent of the county;" that he shall
exercise "a general supervision over
all officers of the county charged in
any manner with the receipts, collec
tion and disbursement of revenues;"
that he shall be "a competent book
keeper and accountant," and sets out
In detail what his work Is to be. In
a word, the first county comptroller
will have to be not only a competent
bookkeeper and experienced account
ant, but he will have to have creative
ability to organize the whole depart
ment and put It in good running order.
Of the candidates who are asking
for this nomination on the republican
side one stands out pre-eminently as
qualified above all the others. This
one Is Emmet G. Solomon, whose com
petency as a bookkeeper Is not to be
questioned, who has years of experi
ence as an accountant and who Is In
addition familiar with the workings
of the connty government and es
pecially Its financial operations,
through previous service In the audi
tor's office. With Emmet G. Solomon
as county comptroller, thero would be
no experimenting and no guessing.
The office would not be given as a re
ward for , work done somewhere else,
but purely in recognition of special
qualifications for the position.
.As a protection, to themselves, the
taxpayers of Douglas county should
see. to it that Mr." Bolpmons'ftoml-
natea ana elected county comptroller.
The most ominous sound of the
final disintegration of populism is to
be seen in the resurrection of a former
populist leader of the legislature, more
familiarly known as "Crook-neck"
Taylor, to announce publicly that he
Is supporting Judge Loomls, the dem
ocrat, for the fusion nomination for
supreme Judge Instead of Judge Al
bert, the populist. Taylor used to be
a power In populism. It remains to
be seen whether his edict can transfer
the whole populist vote over to the
state democratic machine.
The Lincoln Journal advises the
people of Nebraska that, if they want
to stand up for the 2-cent fare law,
they can do It effectively by coming to
the State fair In such numbers that
they will overflow the grounds, and
blast the claim of the railroads that
the new law will "kill the fair" which
formerly had the benefit of excursion
rates. That is one way to do it. An
other way 11 to attend the Ak-Sar-Ben
festivities at Omaha next month in un
precedented numbers. ,
Lincoln newspapers are again tak
ing shots at Omaha at every possible
opportunity, seemingly afraid of
Omaha's position as the metropolis of
Nebraska. But If the Missouri river
should cut out of its banks and carry
Omaha over to the Iowa side, it would
not make Lincoln one bit bigger or
stronger. One thing that keeps Lin
coln small as compared with Omaha
is the smallness of its newspapers.
The new state wide direct primary
is to be on trial In Nebraska in its
operation for the first time next Tues
day. If the people show enough In
terest to attend the primary and
participate in the choice of party can
didates, the direct primary will be here
to stay. If not, there will be a chorus
of "I told you bos" and the direct pri
mary will have to fight for Its life at
the next session of the legislature.
The paving contractors are
respectfully admonished that Omaha
hopes to entertain a large concourse
of out-of-town visitors, paying homage
to King Ak-Sar-Ben, in about four
weeks, and that they would like very
much to have the streets in passable
condition In that time.
Th Department of Agriculture has
ordered a manufacturer of patent med
icines to use acetanllld instead of
acetphenitldln in one of his com
pounds. That is perfectly proper.
Persons who buy patent medicines are
entitled to know what they are taking.
The democratla World-Herald de
clares that the republican state treas
urer, auditor and secretary of state
are "entitled to credit" for their firm
stand In the matter of requiring uni
versity vouchers to be filed the same
as vouchers for other state expend!
tares. The local democratic organ
however, may be depended upon to In
vent some reason to arge why these
republican officers should be turned
down when they ask for a popular let
ter of credit In the form of a re-elec
tion.
The present school board has done
reasonably well In the management
of Omaha's public schools. The mem
bers of the board, however, are not
charged with the duty of filling the
places of those whose terms have ex
plred. Their only. Interest should be
that men of good repute be selected as
their associates.
A New , York man claims to have
been robbed of $300 within an hour
of his arrival In Chicago. He does
not explain how he happened to get
out of New York with that much
money.
Colonel Bryan has discovered that
the president "yields to the entreaties
of the railroads." Funny the rail
roads have not discovered the fact.
It Would Hart Oar Feel I a as.
Chicago News.
Surely no European nation would be so
ungentlemanly as to pick a war with us
while we were parading our navy on the
other side of the globe. - '
Some Clothes Left.
Indianapolis News.
Though Mr. Bryan la far from satisfied
with the president' railroad policy, It
must be a satisfaction to him to find that
none of his own original Ideas have been
cribbed for It.
Looking; for Firework.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Those Nr.braskans who sat up half the
night to see the mill and furnace fires of
Pittsburg had a royal spectacle. They will
not carry away the Impression that this
region Is losing Its supremacy In Iron and
steel manufacture.
Death "core . Too High.
Cleveland Leader.
Only 1T54 persons are known to have
perished as the result of Fourth of July
celebrations this year. The aftermath of
lockjaw case was surprisingly small, but
the credit belongs to the doctors, not to
the S.OOO victims of more or less serious
accidents.
Retaliation that Doesn't
Brooklyn Eagle.
Pay.
The Missouri railroads which cut the
baggage limit to 100 pounds, In retaliation
for 2-cent fare legislation,' have decided
to go back to 150 pounds. This Is wisdom
Annoying the traveling public is not tho
best way to meet hostile public, sentiment,
Molasses catches mora flies than vinegar.
Agree on One Point.
Indianapolis News.
It was hardly ,to be expected that Mr.
Bryan would approve, the speech of Secre
tary Taft. And yet ha ' ought to be flat
tered to be .virtually nominated for the
presidency by. the. secretary of war;, He
was recognised as the tone and only .leader
of the democratic party,', as Indeed tbe only
democrat really -worth, considering. Surely
this part, at leastptiof ' the secretary's
speech must meeVVw the cordial ap
proval 'of MY; Bryant rf f
; a; '
TIM HI
TO
CALL A HALT.
f
Federal Court Owe- Some Respect to
Stat Coatt.
Springfield (Moss ) Republican.
The North Carolina trouble .should have
been Instructive not only to the railroads
but th lower federal Judges. But the
similar "rebellion" that has broken out In
Alabama shows that neither the Southern
railway nor the federal judges of that sec
tion have learned anything from the North
Carolina case. Against enforcement of the
new Alabama law reducing passenger rates
to 214 cents a mile, ,he Southern railway
appeals to a federal court for an Injunc
tion Just as It did in North Carolina, and
Judge Jones Is as prompt as was Judge
Piitchard In Issuing a writ. But the state
officers are sworn and paid to enforce the
state laws, and manifest a disposition to
do so, as might be expected.
The natural consequence is the develop
ment In Alabama of, as acute a clash of
federal and state authority as 'disturbed
the nation In the North Carolina case.
Judge Jones of .the United States court
charges the grand Jury, In a stump speech,
to Indict state officers who undertake to
enforce the stats law against his Injunc
tion, and Oovernor Comer replies that he
will give the railroads until October 1 to
obey th rat law, and if they then refuse
he will call the legislature In session to
uphold the dignity of the state and enact
even more drastic laws.
Whatever may be the result of this con
flict, some things ars already obvious, as
they were before It arose. The railroads
claim to desire the good will of the com
munities through which they operate. Can
they expect to obtain It by defying laws
whose effects upon them they cannot pos
sibly know beforehand T And, more espe
cially, can they expect to cultivate the
good will of a state by seeking refuge
against state law In a federal court before
they have tried the stat courtsT Fur
thermore, may It not be worth while for
the lower federal Judges to consider
whether the power and dignity of these
courts, and popular respect therefor, are
likely to be enhanced by this extreme
readiness to set themselves up against a
whole state and encourage Initial appeals
to them la controversies against a state?
The United States supreme court has at
times sought to discourage this bumptious
and too previous disposition of the lower
federal' courts. It practically rebuked such
procedure as Judge Jones Is now conduct
ing In the case of Fltts against McGhee,
which came up from the sams state and
Involved precisely slmllaa matters. Th
railroad company, th highest court said
In effect," should first have fought the mat
ter out In th stat court, which was com
petent to determine a question so raised,
under Its obligation to be guided by th
federal constitution as the supreme law of
th lund, and th railroad could then have
appealed from the state to th United
State supreme court If It could not get
Justice In th stat court.
Federal Judge Ilka Messrs. Jones and
Prttchard demand that respect be paid to
tbelr court. How can they expect It from
states and state officials . when they pay .
no respect to state powers and state
courts? They ought to discourage this
tendency of railroad and othor corporations
to rush to th federal courts on every ques
tion of stat law or policy effecting them,
but Instead they are giving it all th en
couragement possible. The result has been
to make railroads and th lower federal
courts appear as though a recognised al
liance existed between the two; and a
popular Impression to some such effect
was not weakened any when th railroads
fought so strenuously for "court review"
In the rat bill enactment of the last con
gress. Let us )isv from the lower fed
eral judge more respect fur Hi right
and powers of th status. ,
STATISTICS or RAILROAD.
Stocks, Bonds, Mileage and Earning
Shown la Poor' Mannal.
Th fortieth annual Issue of Poor's man
ual. Just published, la In many respects
the most complete volume of the series,
embracing l(u pages of statistical In
formation concerning the railroad, street
railway and Industrial corporations of th
t'nlted States
The operation of various federal and
state laws regulating transportation com
panies whets public Interest and makes
accurate Information on the subject timely
and valuable. To all seeking light on this
many-sided national problem the Manual
for 1907 will prove an Illuminative mine of
Information.
According to the Manual the total length
of steam railroads completed on December
31, 1908, was 122,635.1$ miles, as agnlnst
2K.341.03 miles at the close of 1906, an In
crease of MKH.ie miles. The actual con
struction during th year was 5,61 70 miles,
but the net Increase was smaller owing to
mileage abandoned, transferred to - side
track, or equipped with electricity.
The average receipts per passenger per
mil In 1WW was 3.011 cents, as against 1.028
cents in 1906.
The average revenue per ton ner mile
in 190 was .7S cents, as against .784 cents
In 1905.
The average Interest rate on railroad
bonds during 1908 was S.9 per cent, as
against .7 per cent In 1906, and the aver
age dividend rate on all railroad stock was
363 per cent, as against 3.27 Der cent In
1005. These low avera rot.. .....
Invested in railroads are highly Instructive
as bearing on the question of the reason
ableness of railroad rates In this Country.
The Increase in bonded debt durlna- 19M
was 34a5.846.S77. the total funded debt of the
steam railroads of the United States be
ing $7,861,107,778 at the close of 1MB. as
against $7,425,261,901 at tho close of 1905. The
increase In capital stock was- $364,462,161,
total stock at the close of 1908 beino- tJ.inn..
.78, as against $6,741,968,825 at the close
of 1905. Th total Increase In liabilities of
nil kinds, Including stock, mortgage bonds,
real estate and equipment bonds, and
floating debt, was $1.1!,615.367.
The total assets of the itmm rn..
of the United States at the close of 1908
was $17,534,381,633, an Increase of $1,241,800,810
The surplus of assets over liabilities was
$768,014,237, an Increase of I41.88S u
1908. "
The following table show. ......
liabilities of all the steam railroads of the
United States at th ir. nr inna.
Dimes at tn close of 1908:
Capital stock..
1906.
1905.
$8,741,968,823
7.425,261,901
806,01. 216
92.646.608
109,332,266
630,720,098
18I.8SS.229
724.128,794
$7.Mf.. 408.976
Other bond obllga- ''0W'1O7'77g
tlonH ujfj y rwva
Misc. liabilities 124,319,942
mm Lurranr
accounts o s...
pln.fun2'; ,te""
front and loss 7M.u M7
Total liabilities . t17 Mi qi m
$16,292,880,823
Cost railroad and
Qllpmfnt . ... . iii-taaas...
security. v,:u"i:-"f nz.ns.w.551
3,644,368,862 2,360.408,416
iwai estate
Other Invent rv. - .
Cash, bills, etc.....'
761,413.476
941,399,320
182,636,263
128.691,860
177,141,625
79,096.005
674.808.481
772,844,670
Materials and sup-
lIU.
Other assets
Sinking funds
Profit and loss
14S.413.351
104.816,480
119.226.016
73,308,978
Total assets...
..$17,634,381,633 $16,292,880,823
Oross
earnings of r.ii.j.
iraffle statistics, earnings, etc.. emhr.cinl
ZW.633.83 miles, amounted to $2,346,640,286, an
increase of $234,442,516 during 1906. or .rnor
than U per cent. Net earning, from opera
tion were $790,187,712. an Increase during
1906 of $104,723,224. or more than 15 per cent
The following table shows
account, of tho American railway system
as a whole for th ... -inr
with 1906: " " con,Parea
Passenger
Frrluht
1906.
'..$ 621,231.337
1, 659. 9S6. 64.1
166,43,306
$2,346,640,288
expenses. 1.556,462,674
1905.
t 486,420.902
1.478.187,248
147.609.623
Other
Total .
Operating
$3,112,197,779
1.426,738.882
Net earnlnsa
790,187,713
100.292,369
tOT, 480.081
8,1,833
269.926,396
18.107,169
226.601.245
79,806.024
39,612,179
27.739,680
16.042,783
Other receipts
6S8.464.4RS
80,927.669
Net Income
Taxes
768,892.147
54,668.620
Z47.1W.897
12.968.348
198,763,860
59.S56. 67
31,716.778
22314.000
22.206.8ij0
Interest on hnnd
Other Interest
Dividends on stork
Miscellaneous
Mentals
Interest
Dividends
Mlscellan's rentals..
Total payments' 7" r na
BurPlu 161.474,'773
644,616.133
121,876,014
Interesting traffic statistics
follow:
1906.
215,607.92
1908,
220,633.33
Miles operated
Revised train
mileage
Passenger ...
Freight
Mixed
.. 488,564,20
608.824,539
467,270,447
669:434.688
26,715, 4!X
yr,7ii,86i
Total ..... 1.124 Kan ia
1.053.420,624
746.446,641
23,906, 43),668
1.486,321.748
187.876.621,637
Passengers carried 816,774,118
Passenger mileage 26,842.462.029
Tons f'ght moved. 1,610,W.8!9
freight mileage ..216,653,746,606
THE3 LABOR SHORTAGE.
Production Restricted Beraoa Hands
Are Not Available.
Philadelphia Record,
The shortage of labor In this country ap
pears to be hardly a less distressing Inci
dent of th prevailing industrial situation
than th shortage of capital to carry on
great projected undertakings. The short
age on the farms la partly explained by
the fact that the urgency come and goes
with the planting and gathering of th
crops, being redundant and Insufficient by
turns.
But tho farmers are not the only suffer
ers. There Is a scant supply of labor In
nearly all the other Industries. This Is par
ticularly evident In mining operations. The
Record noted the other day the Importa
tion of Australian coals on th Paclflo
coast for consumption on th Harrlman
lines of railroad because of Inability to
keep up the usual outturn at mines owned
by th railroads. Large European orders
for anthracite and bituminous coal for de
livery at Philadelphia -and New York hav
been declined because of a lack of a full
force of miner In Pennsylvania collieries.
Never before was labor In th United
State In greater demand and never before
were wage higher.
It Is true that the cost of living has ad
vanced In correspondence with th rat of
wages, but the time seems Inopportuns for
reviving the outcry against an Increase cf
the labor supply as a result of Immigration.
Every able-bodied man who comes Into th
country willing to make his living by
skilled -or unskilled labor Is a benefactor
and not an Interloper.
Demand (or Immunity Baths.
Baltimore American.
Th number of persons who appear to
be willing to win a position on th Im
munity band wagon by turning state's
evidence in th coming Pennsylvania graft
scsndal trial Indicates that, after all,
there Is very little honor among thieves.
The desire to blam It on th other fellow
seems to spring eternal in th human
breast, and gaining one's freedom by
ndlng th fellow-culprit to Jail I a
method that unfortunately haa a number
Of precedents,
INTEREST RATES ARE H1GIIER
Go to Six tr Cent en City Property
in Lait Tctr.
WILL ALSO EISE ON FABMS
W. n. Thomas ays Demanda of
Rasaoljan War and Antl-Cor-po
ration Legislation Art
Two Casset.
Interest rates In city property loan have
been raised from I per cent to per cent
In th last year and now th big money
loaning concerns ar seriously considering
raising the rat on farm loans to per
eent.
W. II. Thomas, who represents the
United States Mortgage and Trust com
pany of New York, th Connecticut Mu
tual Llf Insurance company of Hartford
and th Mortgage Bond company of New
York, says he doesn't know of a single
agent In Omaha who Is loaning money on
city property at less than per cent. H
has made Just two I per cent loans since
th first of the year, on of $95,000 to Sir
Horac Plunkett on several pieces of local
realty and on of $25,000 to another man.
Though Mr. Thomas Is uncommunicative
on th subject,, U Is generally known In
local financial circles that he ha nego
tiated a loan of $136,000 on the new Cotin
building on North Sixteenth street and
that this was at an advanced rate.
Dae to Several Can sen.
A year ago, though a tendency to stiffen
rates was beooming apparent, numerous
loans wer made at 6 per cent, which had
been the usual thing for several years.
"The condition Is due to several cause,"
said Mr. Thomas. "It required a lot of
money for the Russo-Japanese war. An
Immense amount of wealth was destroyed
In the San Francisco earthquake. Again,
antl-corporatlon legislation has 'made In
vestors - a little uneasy about letting tho
corporations hav their money, while th
corporations must have It and are paying
from 6 to 7 per cent. Once they could have
obtained the money from Europe, but re
cent legislation has made European cap
italists chary of American Investments.
"So the profitable rates the railroad and
manufacturing Industries have been com
pelled to Offer are drawing th money Into
these channels and real estat naturally
has to pay an Increased rate.""
Advance oh Farms, Too.
"Rates on farm loan are stiffening up,"
said . C. Peters of the Peters Trust com
pany. "The Insurance companies are no
longer anxious to place their money at 8
per cent, even on the very best of black
Nebraska soil, and though no formal ad
vance has been made, It Is hard to get
the money. I have here a letter from one
of the big eastern life Insurance oompanles
Instructing me to make a certain small
loan at 5 per cent, but telling me In an
other paragraph of the likelihood of rais
ing the rate to 6 per cent. Five per cent
has been the Current rate for a long time,
and not very many years ago consid
erable money, was placed on farm property
as low as 4Vi per cent.
"Bonds and other securities In the east
are paying remarkably , well now, and as
they offer Investments of fifteen or twenty
years' time the 'Investors prefer them to
real estate, unless they get better than
th 6 per cent rate."
BIG LOAN ON C0HN BUILDING
Hundred and ,Trty-Flve Thousand
Dollar Taken on New Sixteenth, . .
;. . . v fjtreet -trnctore.
On of the largest loans that has been
made In recent years has Just been mads
on th hew Cohn building on North Six
teenth treet. It is reported that W. H.
Thomas, representing an eastern Insurance
company, has advanced $136,000 on this
property.
Th only loan larger than thl. In the last
two or three years, was (150,000 made In
1904 to James Neville on several pieces
of downtown real estate. Ninety thousand
was loaned, on the Wright A WUhelmy
building at the time Its new addition was
erected and something like $100,000 was
placed on the Webster-Sunderland building
at Sixteenth and Howard street. Another
recent big loan was on th Parlln, Oren
dorff V Martin warehouse. -
WAY FOUND T0JTIX" METERS
Bat Man Who Worked Scheme tn New
Tork Now Face the- Pen
itentiary. " i i
NBJW TOR1C. Aug. 2 Henry Barth. an
electrician, Is under arrest here charged
with making and selling a device which has
been applied to the meter of a company
furnishing electric power tp make them
give fraudulent reading. The compsny, It
Is claimed, has been swindled out of thou
sands of dollars by th us of th device.
To contradict cetain tdm
and to put the consuming pub
lic in possession of the; ttvthf
we say in plain words that no
one in this town can sell as
good coffee as Afbtictles1
Afiosa for as little money.
Misbranded and make-believe
Mocha and Java, or coffee sold
loose out of a bag or a bin, is
, not as good value for the monev.
nor can it be sold at as narrow
profit, nor reach the consumer
under as favorable conditions.
When you buy Arbuckles
Ariosa Coffee you get more than
16 net ozs. of straight, wholesome
Brazilian coffee from the largest
coffee firm in the world, with that
firm's direct assurance that they
are giving you the best coffee ia
de world for the money.
vpUCtaJ6 BROl N.w jerk at '
PERSONAL XOTKS.
Mulal llafid will have to go ami -. t ,
reputation before the powers cun r, ,
nlae him as being In the sultsn cln.
The popular Impression ronoerntn
Moor la that he Is a wild-eyed tunn wt
loose, flowing garments, a turban, a t:l:t
gled besrd, snd a perpetual grouch
John W. Gates will not make hi I ,
In England In the future, as lm. ' .,
Stated. He says he Is In Knglnml i.
for recreation snd will go from t r
r i
,'ti: ;
rl,
I tie
fk J
France, where he has leased t
preserve, and will then return t,
William J. Wllgus. vice prcsl.l.
New Tork Central railroad, has v . ,, .,
to go to Chicago by Mayor :.:..
suggest a plan for the clcctri:., ,
railroads within the city limits
view to removing the evil of tnaii,, s
Mr. Wllgus evolved the plan l ..
New York Central trains ara brit: t
New York by electric power.
A strange link with the hlatorl
of the past Is recallM Dy the d . ,(''
eral days ago In California, of r,
i:,Hl
i'Mlel
I. tit
Robinson. On the night that l'n
Lincoln was assassinated It wm i n;,.,, t
Robinson who saved the life of V.'!M: ,
H. Seward, secretary of state, f,r v x
he received the thanks of the A:t:. iu-.,n
people through congress and was ow. rl.j
a gold medal.
Some one Interested In statistics ha cun
plled a list of the names of the ioi ,rs
Of th 100 largest fortunes In the wnrUl.
John D. Rockefeller heads" the list, an,! la
followed by Belt and Robinson, the S,,nih
African millionaires. Of tho 1-Xi hr& st
fortunes It Is found that fifty-one of them
belong to the United States, twelve to v.ug.
land, six In Russia, six In Austria nn1 ix
In Germany, with the rest scattered over
the globe.
WHITTLED TO A PU1.T.
"He seems to be a good man, but In
chests in a horse trade. How tan lie re
concile that with his conscience?"
"My dear. sir, when a man trades )ir,i
his conscience always goes to sU'eji."
Chicago Tribune.
"I wonder why this gun kicks so," rum
plained the amateur sportsman, after miss
ion another easy shot;-
"Maybe," suggested the guide surcnntl
cally, "It's- kicking at your hard luck."
Baltimore American. '
Fanny I think Slabber Is perfectly grand
as a pitcher, but I can't see why he ever
married such a homely girl.
Fred Don't know, unless he was struck
on her curves. Kansas City Times.
"What did that Englishman. say when hs
saw Niagara falls?"
"He said, 'By Jove, but wouldn't they
make a Jolly big fountain If you could
turn 'em over?' "Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Do you think that horrid- story about
Beatrice Is true?"
"It must be. I heard It, from her dearest
friend." Life.
"What."
queried tho young man, "Is tha
between wMLe. lies and black
difference
Hear
"White lies," answered tho home-grown
philosopher, "are the. kind we sell; black
Ilea sro the kind we hear." Chicago News.
"Folks out our way," snld Hncle FJien,
"Is gettln" mo' an' mo' hesitations 'lout
'lectin' a man to office simply because ho
kin stan' up befo' a crowd an' make an
entertainln' speech."
Keep Cool.'
Oh, never mind, heiw hot It Is,
Keep cool! t
Just wear a pleasant, smiling phis,
Keep cool! '
Don't fret and fuss and kick and stew
As If the Joys of life were few.
This weather Is good enough for you. rT
Keep cool! "
Philadelphia Ledger.
RUDDER STAMP. HUMOR.
"". 'New Xprfc rMaJI. ,. , ;,r
If couples mated but for love;
If women all were perfect Conks:
If Hoosler authors wrote no books;
If horses always won;
If people In the flat above
Were silent as the very grave;
If foreign counts were prone to save;
If tailors did not dun
If automobiles always ran
As advertised In catalogues;
If tramps were not afraid of dogs;
If servants never left;
If comic songs would always scan;
If Alfred Austin were sublime;
If poetry would always rhyme;
If authors all were deft .
If offlc boys were not all cranks
On base ball; If the selling price
Of meat and coal and eggs and Ice
Would stop Its mad Increase;
If women started saying "Thanks"
When men gave up their seata In earf
If there were none but good cigars
And, better yet, police
If there were no such thing as boose;
If wlfey's mother never came
To visit; If a foot ball gam
Were mild and harmless sport;
If all the presidential news
Were colorless; If there were men
At every mountain, seaside, glen,
l River and lake resort I
It every girl were fair of face;
If Mr. P. C. Knox's boom
Were bigger than a, furnished room
If all these things were true.
This earth would be a pleasant place.
But where would people get their laughsl
And whence would. . spring the para
graphs?
And what ' would th Jokers do?
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