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The Omaha Daily Bee CIrcukiicn Cccfcs Cprn to Any Ad.erii::r WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Fair and warmer. For low Flr; cold. For Ti rerx" Pf VOI XXX LX NO. '134. OMAHA, Fill DAY MOKXIKO, DFCKMr.KU 10, 1!9 TWELVE PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. COOK'S SILENCE ADDSTOJIYSTERY a y for the Explorer Discusses Uaustal Silence of His Client. IE 71315 BUSINESS RELATIONS j oaaaBBBen Doctor ii Advised to Seek Legal ' Advice Elsewhere. IlCHS ATTACKS 05 VERAC1TT Navigator Says He Compiled '" -plete Set of Observa . WILL EL SENT TO COPE. Ir. Torp Says Th r j TTI F.nmliH A Ion a- with Dr. I w Record HfrwUff Drain Air Collosloa. C 1, c NKW YORK. Pec. . Dr. Frederick , C ok's personal lawyer, Henry Wlllinp1t.i" Wsrk. h severed relation with hi ct'ent. Mr. Wack refnswd tonltrht to con firm or deny hi withdrawal, but it can be affirmed on competent authority that, after a consultation with his partners, Mr. Wack wrote Dr. Cook o long ago a November SO that be must beg him to seek Icpal advice elsewhere. "I have not the remotest Idea." said Mr. Wack tonlgrrt, "where Dr. Cook is keeping himself, or why he persists in 'elusion when hi presence la vital to bis on w Interests and his friends. I read that he 1 In Brooklyn. In a str.ltarlum. In Maine, in a Philadelphia apylum. but per sonally I Incline to the bellefe that he is abroad. One thing la certain, 'there 1 agreement tonight for the first time among those who have always believed that Dr. Cook discovered the north pole. fhoee who havo never believed and those who have waited to be Informed on disinter ested authority. Broker Bad Xaelcator. "Partisan and skeptic alike now con cede certain cardinal facta which admit of no argument, namely. Dr. Cook haa sent his record to the Unlversitv of Copenhagen for the Inspection of a com mission. Two man. on a broker who cay he acted aa go-between and one a skilled navigator, have sworn that they upplled the doctor -with a complete set of fabricated observations, covering hi trip northward, step hy step, to the pole, in agreement with hi narrative aa origi nally published. These twnrn statements carry with themselves their own proof or disproof. That is to say. If the paper row In the hand of th University of Copenhagen contain any considerable por tion of tht boreal observation which Cap tain August Loose says be worked out by the reverse routs no farther narth thaa the Cramatan Inn lo Bronivlile. In K York, the deduction I that Dr. Cook felt no orifleno Jn thffmlqi(7 of niK own' proof. If. on the contrary, the Copenhagen records tbow that Dr. Cook mads no efficient use of the deduction Cap tln Ioofe say he supplied it will be fair to assume that he accepted them only as checks on hi own data. The inquiry will then revert to Its first status are ths r'tr'nul observations of Dr. Cook suf ficient? Last night Dr. Cook's friend. Charles Wake, confessed to me that hs had not the faintest Idea where the doctor now ia and that he had not heard from him since Tuowday, November IS. x My very urgent letter to the doctor lavs remained unanswered, although they demanded a reply rfom any man solicitous for hi own affairs." . Mr. Wack, however, did receive a letter from Mr. Cook on December 6. dated De cember 4 and posted December S, In Brook lyn, asking him to discontinue all ex penses on the doctor's account and tof or ward certain papers which Mr. Wack, un derstood to be affidavit bearing on the doctor's disputed asoent of Mount McKln ley. These affidavits the doctor had orig inally Intended to take with him to Europe, . where they could be available for the Uni versity of Copenhagen, if desired. Story of Captala Loose. Others of Dr. Cook's friends granted to nUrht that Captain Loose consulted freely with hun and even occupied room's adjoin ing bie at the Gramatan Inn. Whether tliia propinquity served as an opportunity fur co-operation merely, or for collusion. Is a point on which not even Captain Loose cared to, pronounce positively. The captain, however, went freely Into his own motives this afternoon. "I went to Dr. Cook." said Captain Loose, thinking that I might be of some assist ance to him, but I never expected when I approached him to do such exteudld work as I bare done. A short talk with Dr. Cook coovlDoed me that he knew almost nothing about navigation. Hs was Ignor ant of soma of the eskantlala of the science. "At rirst I considered It at least likely that Dr. Cook bad got near the pole, say to degrees or witliin sixty miles of the pole. Even his observation would have given him that accuracy. Later 1 waa forced to change that opinion. "A person not especially accurate might Lave thought himself at th pole when only within sixty mile of It; but as I got deeper into the matter I began to suspect ll at Dr. Cook mas never out of sight of land. "llitase notice that I have never aald that It. Cook la about to submit my cal culaUon to the University of Copenhagen as hi sow n observi tiona. Dr. Cook never Intimated sucn to me. I waa working for pay then and waa Indifferent on that point. Now t have cut received my pay. I don't express an opinion about when or bow Dr. C ook wrote up Kla record books. "Dr. Cook never allowed me to inspect his original record or, Indeed, any .-nor of them than he I'.' published ln the :eu .papers." Based ea i'Ullna. COPENHAGEN. lec. .-Dr Torp, re , e,t of the University of Copenhagen, ail tt.at the charges published in the New York Times against Dr. Frederick A. Cook are taeed on pure fiction. Never- ttieiee. he anad be would accent the ofisr to examine the document prepared by Louse and Dualie. which the Times l as agreud to semi to Copenhagen. WaJU-r LunsdaJe, secretary to Dr. Cook, v l.o brought ths explorer's records to vr.haseo. slso declared that the accu-J Uo.-ui published la New York and Lun 1.i V'ainst Dr. Coo were totally ua J lie aald that the . paper de- i i liis l nivertlty : of Copenhagen 1 the oMgieal observations made Cuok duricg tbe expedition, with- (Contlnued from Third Page) . Rumor Zelaya Will Retire is Not Believed Washington Also Doubts Story He Ha Ordered All Captured Americans Shot. WASHINGTON. Dec . The statement telegraphed from Nicaragua to London that the United States had demanded the resignation of President Zelaya and that he had Indicated hta purpose to retire by the end of the preaent month 1 d?clared at the State department to be without foundation. The story from Iwnama via New Orleans that Borne time ego President Zelaya had Issued an e-dex that all American cap- ii red while serving with the revolutionary my should be put to death la dlscnd d here. The offlc ala do nt believe sident Zelaya would thus court hU ewn ' lng and the certain overthrow of hit -nnient by armed force of the Vnlied by Issuing su?h an oraer. .tic Miller and T.J. O'Brien Guilty Magistrate Crawford Declares These Two and Lewis Rentfrow Sold Liquor After 8 P. K. Thomas J. O'Brien, proprietor of the Hotel Henshaw; Rome Mllier at ths Hotel Rome and Lewis Renfrow of the Windsor hotel were found guilty yesterday after noon by Tolice Magistrate Bryce Crawford of violating the 8 o'clock closing law and were fined I HO and cost each. J. J. Ful- liven, who conducts a saloon on North Twenty-fourth street, was found not guilty. All the cases were tried last week, but the closing arguments In the O'Brien case were not made until yesterday morning. At the afternoon session of court Judge Crawford said the evidence warranted his declaring the trio guilty, and his dis missing the case avslnst Sullivan. ' Appeal bonds for the carrying of the cases to the district court were at once filed, the bonds being fixed In the sum of S230 each. At the conclusion of the four rases the trial of the case against Cbarles M. Lentx, who runs a saloon at 1420 Famam, and who Is accused by the Anti-Saloon league of violation of the law October C, was begun. A similar case against P. H. Phllbin of the Schllti hotel is set for Thursday of next week. JOE SLYCORD ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF MURDER Yoaasr Maw Llvlaa; Sear Grla: Arrested for Crtase ta Sortk Dakota. ell , GRIXNELL, la., Dec a (Special Tele gram.) Joe Slycord was arrested on a farm DfaritMn city Ssarorday, December' 4. by City Marshal Khahaa of Grtnnell for the tfinrfler of Frank Batesole near Carrtarb-n. N. D., on November 11. Ely cord eonfasoed the crime but pleads that the blow was In self defense and without thought of mur der. W. W. Batesole and L F. Batesole. father and brother of the murdered boy, came tday from MarshaJHown to identify the prisoner, wlth-them was J, A. Kleesple, who knew Slycord welt having worked near him in North Dakota. Slycord Is J known to a number of people here as he worked In a lumber mill here last winter. Identity of the prlconer and confession of the crime are complete. Sheriff Adam of Foster bounty. North Dakota ha wired that he will be here Saturday. HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR HOGS; Eight Dollars aaa Forty Teats a Hea drest for Sixty-Seven Head. Sixty-seven hogs were sold at South Omaha Thursday morning at the hlgest price ever, paid for hog on the Missouri Valley. Jim Murphy, a hog buyer, bought from P. C. Peterson of Weston. Ia., hogs which averaged 275 pounds each. He paid at the rate of SiltO a hundred, which ia the record price. KANSAS CITY, Dec Two car loads of steers from Maple Hill. Kan., sold at JlO.aft a hundred pounds at the Kanfaj City stock yards today, the higheit price ever paid on the open market here. The cattle were Herefords, I years old, and weighed an average of l.MS pounds. ST. JOSEPH. Mo.. Iec. S The highest price ever paid for hogs at the St. Joseph n-iarket. probably the highest ever paid at a Missouri river markei. is ss per hundred, paid today. TAFT GOES TO INDIANAPOLIS Preeldeat Proailors to Attead Meetlas; of Coaservatloa CoaTeatloa la Kebraary. WASHINGTON, Dec t. President Taft today accepted Invitation to attend the conservation convention to be held in In dianapolia some time In February. Whan the president goes to the Indiana city, he will likewise make brief vis) is to Louis ville. Cincinnati and Nashvlle. Hook Worm Does Not Affect Work of Army WASHINGTON, Dec . "la spite of its sequent enlistment only IS pe' cent were vast economic Importance la ths southern states, ths hook worm diea&e Is believed not to affect greatly the health , and- ef ficiency of the army." That la the conclusion Surgeon General Torncy cf the army baa reached after an lnveeUtatlun iLito the prevalence and seventy of the disease, as it appears In the army. He makes the disease the sub ject of considers tKn in his annual re port, submitted to the secretary of war todsy. All the observer have noted, aays Gen eral Torney, that in many cases the affec tion has not evident effect on ths health or t4pearanoe of tbe Individual. Micro-, scopic examiiistluns are necetary to re veal the disease In nuld caes. The duas. Uua of the disease was one of the fea ture Uh the military lnvesilg.tors sought to bring out. Observations made by Major Ch.mberlaln at Jackson Bar racks. Ml ahuwed that out of forty four soui;iera-bred recruits 6e per cent were Infected, out of ftfty-Mrven southern brtJ soldiers la frist. nlistment 4 per cert er Infected arid out of thirty-four southern-bred eoldicrs la second or sub- RIVER MEN AT WHITE HOUSE Committees from Ohio and Mississippi Deep Channel Association! Call on President. FORMES PROPOSITION ENDORSED Promoters Are Told They Are in Condition to Show Congress. OTHERS TOLD TO KEEP BUSY Ken from Mississippi Association Giren Encouragement. CALL OH CA5K0H AXD SHERMAN fseaker Is Hot Enthaslastle, Says Prelect Will Receive Care. fal Coaslderatloa frosa Coaarew. WASHINGTON, Dec 9. Assurances that uteps of an Important character toward the development of a system of waterway im provement In the heart cf the couniry would b! taken by the present congress j v. ere glvea by President Taft to cl!egn txns which he received In ths east room uf the White House this afternoon. To pi rhaps Sno committeemen, representing li e Ol lo Valley Improvement association, the I.rsident promised to bring what Influence he could In f avof of the Improvement of the Ohio river and later to the committee of 600 from the Net Orleans "lakes to gulf deep waterways" convention, he U that "Something Is iSoing." and that tbe Interest of those In congress who here tofore have turned a cold shoulder to the entire subject of waterway Improvement had been aroused. Ohio ProBoaltloa Good. Mr. Taft expressed to the Ohio dele gation regret that his remarks before the rivers and harbors congress yesterday hXJ cast a "wet blanket" over the convention and said that he had only Intended to help the gathering along by pointing out the practical method of accomplishing tbe object desired. "When you approach congress with a proposal for the issuing of bonds," argued the president "you are going to arouse great opposition, which rise up and de mand why, and they will demand an tnewer not In general expresslona, not In resounding oratory, but they will want facta and estimates and a statement of something definitely useful into which thej are going to put the money, which they may even have to borrow In order to carry through ths enterprise. You in U.e Oh'o valley have aa enterprise In respect to which you can give tbe sufficient answers.' The object of the Tlsit of the Ohio valley delegation to the White House was to enlist the president's support for a nine- foot chjtnnel- from Pittsburg to; Cairo all the year round. Its spokesman was Alexander Dempster ef Pittsburg. The president's reysponss was to those In lh delegatloa most encouraging. xfisalMlpwl River Cosasslttee. Four governors and two ex-governors beaded the committee of SQB which had been charged by the New Orleans convention to present to the president resolution asking for a fourteen-foot channel for tbe Mis sissippi river. They were Governor Ansel of South Care Una, Sanders of Louisiana, Deneen of 1111 nols and Hartley of Missouri, and former Governors Francis of Missouri and McMil lan of Tennessee, and for each one tfie president had a hearty greeting. Governor Deneen presented the resolutions, and the president replied, saying. In part: "I hope that we are all engaged in a work in which we stand shoulder to shoulder, without respect to a particular locality, and that if you gentlemen who are Interested In a particular Improvement find that your view may not be entirely met and that your particular project may not be the first one taken up In a sub stantial way. It will not prevent your wel coming a step by congress' that, wbn takn, means the embracing of every Im provement that ought to commend itself to those who are familiar with congress." Caaaoa and Ffcerasaa. Earlier n the day the committee invaded the capltol and paid visits to Vice President Sherman. Speaker Cannon, Senator Foe of the senate committee on commerce and Representative Alexander of New York, chairman of the house rivers and harbvrrs committee From none of these leaders did the committee receive much encouragement-Vice President Sherman contented him self with shaking hands with the commit tee. Speaker Cannon said rather pointedly that it was one thing to propose and another to select from a host of projects and legislate for their Improvement. aI the same time he said he had no doubt that the project represented by the com mittee of middle' west business men would receive careful dbnalderation from the com mittee on rivers and harbors. He said be had voted for every river and harbor bill since 1SKS. whether his party was in power or not. Infected. In an examination of southern recruits at Fort Slocura, N. Y.. and at Jacksor. barracks by Captain Slier and Majji Chamberal,. 19 Infections were found iu lti men examined. , Taking a square hit at the annual Roosa vll physicial teots for array officers. Surgeon General Torney in his annual re pcrt made public today asys It is believed that the present test not only falls In 'hs object It sought to attain a physlcial con dition, which would enable them to be elm ays "fit for active field service." but resulted In serious damage to elderly tif fin ra. The defect of the requirement, as It appears to General Torney, Is that it require officers to be fit omy onoe a year He wast them to be fit all the time General Torney eould Induce field offices to ride regularly by having the government provide mour.ta and orderliea for tbem. btrever stationed. He deems It unjurt to require officers not with troops to take regular rides during the year. Hs advocate that the teat ride ebould swt be required of tbot eerting in the tropics or uf thus officer bo has roacaed as year I From the New York World. CREW ADRIFT IS OPEN BOAT Thirteen Ken Abandon Vessel During Lake Storm. ) y SIX RESCUED, TWO ARE DEAD of Mrs Takes Off Blula Boat, oat Efforts to R toe (Mkm la I.f fesoot mails.' CLEVELAND, Dec S Two men lost their lives and the fate ef thirteen othere is unknown as a result of the burning ef the steamer Clarion near Point Pelee, in Lake Erie, early today. Six members -of the crew were taker from the Clarion by tbe steamer L. C Harms and brousjht here. . They eer rushed to a train and sent to Buffalo ths headquarters of ths Anchor Line com pany, which owna the Clarion. Aocordlng to the statement ef the sail ors, all attempted to leave the Clarion as soon as It was ascertained that she -.could not be saved. CaDtain E. J. Bell of Ogdena- burr. N. T.. and twelve other members cf the crew took to the life boat. It Is feared they may starve or freese1 before rescued.' High seas are running owing to the recent storm. The mate waa frosen to death. A vain effort waa made by the six survivors ,to enter snother lifeboat. One sailor fell over board and was drowned in his efforts to launch the lifeboat. The men were forced to remain on tne Clarion. Later they were picked up by the steamer Hanna and brought here. Tbe Clarion Is a 1.700-ton steel boat. It was bound from Detroit to Erie, Pa., to lay up. when fire broke out. During the night a burning ship was reported by wire less by the steamer E.P. Bope, but no definite Information could be obtained until the survivors reached here. The cause of the fire la not known. DETROIT. Mich.. Dec . The tug Pack ett left Amherstberg last night to go to the relief of he steamer reported afire on Lake Erie, but returned thla morning, the storm having prevented It from making progress beyond Colchester. Freighter Stake, Ktve D reward. BUFFALO. N. Y Dec .-The W. C. Richardson, a big steel freighter, sank early today at a point five miles up the lake from Buffalo harbor and five mem bers of the crew were drowned. Captain Griesser and the life-saving crew went to the rescue and saved tb other members of ths crew. Corn Exposition visitors will find The Bee advertis ing pages a handy guide for their shop ping while in the city. Do not overlook the adver tisements on tbe want ad pages nnder the classifieation of "Christmas Hints". Our Omaha merchants are offer ing many suggestions to help you with the problem of what to buy. You will always find something worth while if you read the want ad pages of The Bee. Have yoa read ths wait ads, yet, today? V 5 On the Anxious Seat, i Independents Hope to Enter Chicago Woods of Lincoln and Day of Council Bluffs Directors of Telephone Organization. CHICAGO, 111.. Dec. ..(Special Tele gram.) With the closing last night of the convention here of the International In dependent Telephone association, ar.ucuoc ment was made that arrangements had been completed for securing entrance Into Chicago for an Independent corapafcy, so ibey can compete for Chicago business. An Independent company with 'tlO.eoo.WW capital la to be organised. The capital haa already been subscribed and the Illinois runnel company's underground system will ae ured for. carrying It wires. F. H. Voods, Lincoln, Neb., and E. F. Day, Council Bluff, were elected directors of nternational associations. 3A6E BECOMES BROTHER OF HIS OWN FATHER ; Lesral Adoptloa hy Craadparrats Pats Chicago Child Is ttaeer Po.lt loa. CHICAGO. Dec. . Joseph Waldo Dux Jr., 7 months old. legally became the brother of bis father here today, when Judge Petit In the circuit court signed - decree of adoption, giving the child to it grund parents, Joseph Dux and his wife. The child's mother is dead and his father lives with the older Dux, who Is now the legal father of his son's son. GENERAL CONDITIONS IN OHIO This Is What Charles P. Taft la DIwbhIbc la W.h taaTtoa. WASHINGTON. Dec. . Charle P. Taft. who la here as a guest of the president, said today: 1 have been exceedingly buy smce coming bere. but the question of the atnatorshlp from Ohio has not been tcuched upon In any ay. ' I am just letting tlat drift. We have discussed generally the political situation in Ohio, but that la slL" FORTY-FCUR MILES IN BIPLANE Maartre Farm a a Makes Record Cross. Coaatry Fllaht la Qalrk. Time. j'Arcis, uet Maurice Hrmn, a brother of Henry Farman, the aviator, made hat is claimed to be a cross-coun try flight in a straight line of record length today. Ascending at a suburb of Versailles in a bi-plane of his own con struction, Farman flew to Chartres a dis J distance of forty-four mllea. In IX minute. He maintained a height averaging feet. Eighteen Below at Norfolk, River Frozen Over at Ponca While the temperature in Omaha ha descended to S degrees be'.ow a?ro reach ing that point this morning at 7 o'clock that registration has been beaten In other point In Nebraska. Lincoln bas bad it 12 below and Nor folk U. Weathet Forecaster Welsh gives that same sweet consolation that "it will begin to moderate tomorrow." The absence of wind durng this cold spU has been a re deeming element and has taken the keenest rdx off the cold. LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. . Twelve degrees below aero wa the temperature recorded at th weather bureau at t a. m. todav. At T e'elork tht mercury stood at U de grees below. Hay cannot be purchased at any price, and the roads are so bad that none can ba delivered.- Coal dealers and merchants find It almost Impossible to make de li vertea. -NORFOLK. Neb, Doc S Th g overs - DUR4XD MEETS CENSUS MEN Director Plans to Give Personal Instructions to Supervisors. ONE MEETING HELD Iff OMAHA Party of Thirty Sadisms Act aa Hosts for ladlaa ComnaieetoBer Val entine aad Aoslstaat - - Abbott. ' ' ..-. fFmm a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. D. C. Dec -(Speelal Telegram.) Census Director Durand will bring nearly all the tX census supervisor In personal relation with himself and his chief officers through series of conferences which he has arranged to hoM here and In certal notber cities during thie month and January. It Is believed these meetings will give the supervisor clesrer comprehension of their duties and will result In closer co operation between them and the census bu reau. The supervisors for the First, Sec ond. Third. Fifth, Sixth. Seventh and TVnth districts of Iowa have been In structed to meet Director Durand and Wil liam C. Hunt, census chief statistician for population at Chicago, Monday,, Decem ber IS. The Nebraska and South Dakota super visors are to be requested to confer with Director Durand some time In January, the date not yet having been determined. Indians Act as Hosts. Indian Commissioner Valentine and As sistant Commissioner Abbott tonight wers guests of some thirty Indian school super intendents, who have been In Washington j several day In conference with their chief, on Indian school matter, at an oyster roast at one of Washington's most noted restaurants for "seafood," and sub sequently atended one of J.he capltol' most noted playhouses In a party. Participating were Superintendents Dsvls of Genoa. Mr. Mclntire of Santee, Major Beerman of Pine Kidge. House of Rapid City. Rastall of Pierre, Campbell of Pipestone. Dr. James W. Goets of Omaha la In Washington on a sight-seeing tour. Haral Carriers. Rural carriers appointed: For Nebraska, Berwyn, route No. 1, John R. Mitchell, car rier; David W. Crowther, substitute. Litch field, route No. S, William Garnett. carrier; W. C. Harrla. substitute. South Dakota: Postmasters appointed. Lynn, Day county, Nels O. Munson, vice J. Syversten, resigned; Wakpala. Corson county. Floes Godfrey vice K. Lease, re signed. Blaekkars't It r.lsaatloa la. WASHINGTON. Dec. . It w a off dally announced today at the War departm nt that former t-eiiator J. C. S. iiiackbu-n bad respited as a member of the Isthmian Canal oi mmls! jn and lhat his rKbrnU n had been accepted by tne prea.dni tf fecllve December 4. ment thermometer registered 18 below sero here this morning, the coldest ever known so early in the winter. The wind changed to the south today and It was expected that the teaupu atwie would rise. SIOl'X CITY, I.! Iec .-The tempera ture rrcorded at tbe weather bureau af 1 o'clock this n.on.li.g was 10 below, the coldest of the reason. PONCA, Neb.. Iec 8peclL Th weather baa been sever all this weV Every iay sinca Aunday the temperature has been at S o'clock in th morning from S to 10 be-low till last night at ( o'clock It was 10 below. Tbe mercury came up to aero today, but lute no higher. The Mbjrourl r's-er is frosen over, suf ficiintly to be p'ct!y safe, crossing on f ot. Charlea V a. son of Ponca wa!kti e.croa from I".!k Point. S. !.. this morn ing. It is a 'ol mtcny yeers since the fiver was trcx-ia over so early In U.e HILL GOES FOR BEST PRIZE EAR Northwest Magnate, Who Speaks at Exposition, Sari He Will Raise it Kext Year, j FRAISES DOMESTIC SCIENCE WORX Tells Miss Besack Her 's is Most Im portant Pirt of Show. BRINGS MESSAGE TO THE FARMER Cannot Support Coming Population or Present Acreage Yield. MUST INCREASE SOIL'S POWERi Mr. Hill Gaest of City, aad Macaat. t'oaeladea Ha.y Day with a Baa tatl at the t'owiBierclal Clao. James J. Hill, railroad builder and farmer, stood looking at the best ear of corn In the world, grown in.lndUna. "So that Is the best ear of com in ths world." murmeied the' father of the Great Northern. "Well you can know right Bow thai I am going after that next year." WitK this decision the grim old rulr of the great northwest announced hi. position and bean to inquire about the details of the making of this the world's best ear of corn. "It alii probably take a better car than this to win next year," chuckled the farmer-railroader. 'It Is fine corn, loo," he added fondilng that SX.0U0 prix winner. Mr. Hill was the center ef an indicated tbrong at the National Corn exposition, af ter his arrival Thursday morning. Hs had arrived on his spesl accompanied by bis son. L. W. Hill, prtsident of the Great Northern, 1. C. Oilman and J. H. Beek. assistants to the president's stsff. at the Burlington station at 11:30 o'clock. Mr. Hill's party was met at tne station by Q. W. Holdrege and other Burlington offi cials, by General Macderson and W. I. Kierstead, chairman Omaha's standing re ception committee. Mr. Hill u bundled Into an automobile and rushed to the corn sl.ow. the real object of his visit to Omaha. A luncheon at. the Omaha club followed and then tb party returned to the exposition, where Mr, Hill was to me his address. It was in tlie domestic science department that Mr. Hill especially distinguished him self in his hasty look about the show. Strung with the Ladles, Miss Jessica Kesack, who ha charge of till ueparimect, sallied forth on -tlr.g the raiiroad magnets near her eiall:a ment. "Too must aee our part of the show," she indicted. "Most ctrtalnly, Mtss Bessck," replied Mr. Hill, offering his arm wiib ths grace of a younger gsilsnt. ... . "I want to rerbaxkr tfcary6iirV' ts teaily the beet part of all ths show," asserted Mr. Hill, pausing at the entrance to tbs "nruffln factory." "lucre have been mere homes ruined by bad bread and the lac: of domestic science than by ail tr.s war the world has known.". In and about the domestic science de-partinc-tH Mr. Hill spent a carte pari of bis time atking questions here and titers thai denoted real liiieiest. He even parsed to toku a generous bile put of a fluffy corn muffin. Mr. Hill spent some Interested minute looking over th exhibit of his road, ths I Great Northern, and the 'alfalfa palace" "Some fine tail &rasa." be remarked, siz ing up the exhibit witb the calculating eye of a good farmer. At the end cf the hurried journey about the exposluon graund Mr. lliil wa taken to tbe Omaha club fur a luncheon, where he wa entertulned by ths official of ths Burlington. Hs ftMd paity were entertained by Omaiia and the Continental club laot night. President Hill Iatereated. L. W. 11.11, president of the Great North ern aud aon of ths liluatrious James J. Hill, spent most of bis time In the moraine at the exhibit of his road. "We took a goodly share of the prizes in the open to the world class with entries from the Hill zone," be said proudly, dis playing a schedule sheet bearing tbe names of the prize winners. "You aee I have checked them off her?. We have pulled down about 70 per cent of the prize of fered for sbtaf grain. "We lav hi least demonstrated that corn cen be trouu in the northern tier of ststes br our entries in this show. Why, see here." he urt;d. turnout excitedly. "Hers is corn from way up at Sweet Grass, a station rU;ht against the northern boundary. jf course It is not prize-winning com, but it is good corn just the same. -"Lest fcr 1 dropped In to hoe this show and they made remarks at me about u not being In line. I replied at that tint that I d snow the folks here some corn, stid I pructeCed to tuke It up with every body on the line. Now, here Is the corn to show for it. We furnikbed the seed fur a lot of this. "The Dry Firming1 exhibit have been brought down here from killings congress and eipohiliou to slow mure of what 1 being done up our way. That dry farm ex ponltiou was too small for u and we bad two annexe theie. We would have had an i.M. ex here, too. If all had worked out just as we wanted It lo." Mr. -Mill's Me... Ke of the Farm, In Hie expoiiiun tuditorlum Mr. lliil was Introduce! by 1'rt . dent Wa.tle of the Na tional C rn expo. tlou. He l ad a la:g", animated audience lu face ..J he was given much tui.tUM, his zudiiuew' follow-iug cloiely eveiy word that feh from his llrs. li he said. "After all 1 am Just a fsrm,r," and tlie audi, noe apparently kept that In mind. In the course of nl address Mr. Hill ea.d: "Thc-ie can b. no more appropr.ate ob ject about which Jo gather an ir(.ltl..n of the ac tivity of tht middle west and an a.-i-tmb.aEe of it representative Uiouxht ti.d liue.i.gent purpose than the grain w 1.1 ch stand fir.t among lu staple pro duct. Corn is one of Ui great gifts of this continent to the world. In tjuailty and ejuanilty th yield of the a:iu1al plain cf out centtal valley surpasses that tf any other sectlun or any oilier cowuiy. Within the last generation thin Las become the most valuable single fjod product tf the United htatea. 'It 1 les than forty years sluoe our corn crop reached l.ftuu Win no bushels. It I new well over l.uuu mi.VJt annually, ar.d should suortly nlntaln itself at I '., "JO.Oivj bushel or more. Th Unlitd btate fur nishes nearly to per cent o the e-;rn erup of the world.' While Its Jit Id has been mul tiplied by throe, lb average farm price
