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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-24
CANNOT HEAR FROM MANILs

Filipino Junta In Europe Cut on From
Communication.
LONDON, March q. "A goncillo, the
agent Of Aguinaldo, and the members
Of the former staff Of the Filipinos at
Washington, have gone to Paris In or
der to confer with the Filipino junta
Neither body has received news from
the Philippine islands during the past
eight days. They say the. Americans
have discovered and stopped their
means Of sending news from Manila. Il
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-24
PARTICULAR ABOUT POSTAGE.

Tons Of American Mall Delayed at skax.
nay Because Of American stamps.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 22.-The Call
10 informed that the frequent failure Of
letters from the United States to reach
the Klondike is largely due to the fact
that contractors who bargained to carry
the postal matter from Skaguay tc
Dawson refuse to handle any mail
which does not bear the. Canadian post.
age. It is alleged that mail matter from
the United States is thrown aside when
it leaves the steamer, and at the present
time it is said that about twenty tons Of
mail matter bearing American stamps
ispiled mp In heaps at Skaguay. s.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-24
Fsneral ef Bsir,o,n Bi,, Her.ehell.

Fsneral OF Baron Herschell.
81 LONDON, March %. Funeral services
over the remains Of the late Baron Her
echell, who died at Washington on
March !, took place in Westminster
Abbey. Lord Churchill, the lord.in-
waiting to the queen, represented her
majesty, and there were also present
representatives Of the Prince Of Wales
and tha Duke Of York.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-24
ISSUES FOR 1900.

Jerry simpson Says Anti Expansion and
3.'.s Antitrust win Predominats.
WIcHIrA, Kan, March 22.-Jerry
Simpson, who is in town, expresses the
opinion that the Democratic campaign
IN 1900 will be anti-expansion and anti.
trust, with the money question subor-
dinate' third.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-24
Severe Weather in Epcland.

LONDON, March 22.-Severe weather
continues throughout Great Britain. Ir
Leicestershire 20 degrees of frost have
been reported. Great loss has occurred
among the livestock and London has
experienced the heaviest snow fall of
this winter.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-24
st. Paul Union stock Yards.

oss 1SUA UNION 6tOck xer0os
SOUTH ST. PAUL, March 81.
HOGS = Market Sc lower. Range
Of prices, &3.60@37O.
. CATTLE-Market steady and active.
Stockers and feeders lower.
Sales ranged at %. 75@4 SO for stockers:
2 65@4.4O for steers; "a. 2.sO@S.6O for heif-
ers; s2.75@3.S5 for cows; s47o@575 for
calves.
SHEEP-Good sheep and lambs in de.
mand; not many here.
Sales ranged at $4.0O@4.10 for ewes;
D. 25@5.OO for lambs.
Receipts: Cattle, 800; hogs $500; sheep
100: calves, 600.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-24
Invented a Beet H.rv,.ter.

WlNoNA, Minn., March .2.-W. w.
keenan,, mechanic employed at the
plant of the Winona Wagon company,
has invented machine for harvesting
sugar beets that he estimates will re-
duce the cost Of harvesting about 80
per cent. Mr.. Keenan, has applied for a
patent,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-24
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

Salt Lake City is to have salt palace.
Montana Democrats have been in
dicted for soliciting a campaign fund.
It is stated that Senator Penrose of
Pennsyl ylvania will resign and Quay be
appointed to the vacancy by the gov.
ernOr. I4...s.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-24
Minneapolis Grain.

IL. yL5 MINNEAPOLIS, March u.
WHEAT-March closed at 6711c; May.
671Sc; July, 677sc. On Track No hard,
6Sasc; No. Northern, 6796o; Nos North.
ern, 6511c.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-24
Cable to 1loiio and 1sa.toiosJ..

Cable to lIoiI6 and BastoIos. I
New YORK, March 2O.-The Com
mercial Cable company issued the fol-
lowing notice: 1--WE are advised that
direct telegraphic communication has
been re-established with Iloilo (Panay)
and Bastolos (Negros) with the same
restrictions as for Manila
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-24
Heavy Adriatic Gale.

TRIESTE, March 22.-The heaviest
gale which has swept the Adriatic sea
for years is now raging and has caused
a suspension Of all shipping.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-03-24
LATEST MARKET REPORT.
Duluth Grain,

rtH- u Duloth Gr11ns
57aA .ss.r DULUTH. March II.
WHEAT-Cash, No. hard, es1@o; No.
Northern, 67Sc; No. Northern, 65Mc:
No. 8, $50. To Arrive-No hard. 6SsSc;
No. Northern. 66ssc. On Track-No. i
hard, 6s9sc; No. I Northern, 6695c; May,
67Hc; July, $3.50. .s
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30

diton TO the national wealth as have
been made during the last three years
and in this all classes of the people have
shared
VIII any fair-minded man deny that
this is largely due to republican policy2
And the republican party has the same
policy today that 1t had three years
ago. when Colonel Bryan was telling the
people that ruin and disaster awaited
them if they restored the republican
party to power. 1t is still the party of
protection and sound currency, of pub
lie and private honesty; the party that
believes in maintaining the national
credit, in building up the home market
for American producers and in develop
ing industries for the benefit of Ameri-
can labor. There Is not an issue before
the country as to which the position OF
the republican party is not entirely de-
fensible. Colonel Bryan underestimates
the popular intelligence when he tells
the prosperous farmer, the workingman
who has full employment at good wages
and the business man whose trade is
active that their interests are antagon-
lied by the position of the republican
Darty
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30

No matter what Colonel Bryan says
about the drawbacks of Imperialism he
cannot evade the responsibility arising
out of his active support Of the anneXa-
ton treaty at the time 1t was pending
in the United States senate. The treaty
would not have been ratified except for
the influence of Bryan on his populist
friends. The truth is Colonel Bryan
political issue without regard to the
threatened cost of subjugatng the
islands to complete recognition of Amer
lean authority.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30
AUpACJ0Us rg,,tnLs B,cGns


The brazen attempt of the popocratlc
machine to override the law directing
the placing of party nominations on the
official ballot Is n piece of political
thlmble rigging as audacious as any ever
attempted by the most unscrupulous
partisan manipulators.
Although the law expressly states that
the first position on the ticket belongs
to the candidate of the political party
polling the highest number of votes and
it is conceded that the republican party
has regularly polled more votes In Ne
braska than any other party. yet the
populist secretary of state defiantly re-
verses the legal order and the popo-
cratic managers are asking for n man
damus in this county to compel tile
clerk to ignore the plain letter of the
law, alleging that for this purpose the
fusion candidates are entitled 10 count
as their own the votes cast by all par
ties in opposition to the republicans
In word, according to this conten-
ton there are three separate political
parties in the fusion fold so far as hold
ing state conventions is concerned and
labelling nominees with three distinct
party names but only one political party
when it comes to add up the votes. The
party for which the claim is set up that
it polled the highest number of votes
is the fusion party, but no "fusion"
state convention has ever been held, no
"fuson" certificate of Nomination ever
fled no 'fusion" state committee ever
! appointed.
The only case on record that COM
pares Mt all with this for monumental
| jugglery is that in which the local
popocratic organ sought to secure legal
! advertising on claim of largest cilcu-
lation for paper it called the Daily
World-Herald, which had no existence
! in fact and OF. which not copy could
! be produced, but for which Il perjnred
| circulation was sworn to by adding to-
! gether the circulations to two separate
papers, one morning and one evening,
and setting it up against the circua-
tion of The Omaha Evening Bee.
The republican party stands every
where for free ballot and an honest
count, while the popocratic combination
represents the suppression of the negro
vote by force, the perpetration of the
recount frauds, the manipulation of the
official ballot and every species of cleo
tion trickery and fraud. In this county
the popocrats have appealed to one court
to compel the acceptance of fraudulent
certificate of nomination for one can.
didate who wants to use the populist
name as that of n distinct political party
and to another court to declare that nc
such party exists, but that it is only 4
part of the fusion" party so that their
candidates may demand the place on the
official ballot that belongs to their cp
ponents. To what greater depths could
the self styled forces of reform have
fallen in their Reputation of all politica
principle and decency to promote the
mad quest for patronage and plunder
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30
Personal AND OTHER WISE.

Fred j. Mauren, who looks after Uncle
Sans mails at Portland, Mich, is the young
est postmaster Of the presidential class in
the United States, being only 80 years old.
The anonymous donor of the $4,000 library
to Sunderland, Mass, whose name is not to
be made public until the dedication OF the
building next spring, is said to be Senator
Hoar. who has always been deeply interested
in Sunderland affairs,
J. l.. Reilly, aacity councilman of Cleve-
land, o., who stopped a runaway team in San
Antonio, Tex, four years ago, saving the
life OF John Wallace wealthy farmer, has
received notice that Mr.. Wallace is dead and
has left him legacy Of SS0,O0O
Herr Hopffe, a millionaire of Germany has
been sentenced to four years and nine
months imprisonment for misapproprlating
25O,0o0 marks of the funds OF charitable
organization Of which he was the treasurer,
Herr Hopffe has held high official position.
William Haggard, a son Of Sir Francis
Haggard, brother of the present peer OF
that name and related to half the nobility
of England, is living the life OF a recluse
near Salem, Ind. He fell in love with his
mothers maid, insisted upon marrying her,
eloped to this country and was cut off by his
father and family.
Someone asked a friend OF Alfred Belt how
much the South African Millionaire was
worth? He probably could not get out
more than thousand million now" was the
response, "but II he would let the price of
rough diamonds go below from 2s to 80 shil-
lings per karat no one knows how much he
would realize. For no one else except
Rhodes knows how many barrels of diamonds
they have salted away down there to keep
the market steady"
The city council of Atlanta, Ga, passed an
ordnance making 1t unlawful to bet on horse
or other races in that city, and Mayor Wood
ward vetoed it, He said that the ordinance
as constructed was liable to be used malic-
iously, and incidentally he referred to the
evils Of bucket shops and said that the in
jury accomplished by the betting on horse
| racing amounts TO practically nothing when
compared to legalized and respectable gamb-
ling known as futures.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30
ANNOYING WAR TAXES.
Correction of the LAW Needed to
EIuaIize the Burden. .
Boston Transcript.

Boston Transcript.
1t is time for the business world to take
some action looking toward the correction
of certain peculiarly vexatious features of
the war revenue act. There is so much
uncertainty just at present as to the future
revenue needs Of the government that un-
less the business interests of the country
make themselves distinctly heard congress
will be inclined to leave the whole internal
revenue system just as it is. This is to be
regretted. Certain of these stamp taxes
are annoying far out of proportion to their
revenue-yielding qualities. While all taxes
are unpleasant some forms of taxation are
SO petty and proftlees as to be less excus-
able than others. The maximum Of rev.
enue with the minimum of discomfort is
what should be aimed at.
While the new law as whole Is giving
general satisfaction, certain of it's features
ought to be promptly corrected. What
these are will occur to every man of affairs
The requirement that express and railroad
companies shall give a receipt on every
little package occasions vexatious delay
and much Inconvenience in many lines of
business. The tax itself is not so objection
able as the method of its collection. II the
express companies were put upon the same
basis as the telephone companies, and this
feasible, there would be less objection.
The telephone companies, 1t will be re-
called, are required each month to make a
sworn statement to the collector of inter-
nal revenue as to the number of messages
or conversations transmitted over their
respective lines, and on each message for
which they charge fifteen cents they are
taxed one cent. The telegraph companies
might also pay their taxes in the same
way. This would be a great convenience
to the public even II the amount of the
stamp tax were directly added by the ex-
press and other companies to their regular
charges
Some such changes in the method Of COL
lecting various war revenue taxes are
about all that can now be expected and
upon this point the business world might
to advantage focus its attention. Unless
the war in the Philippines Is seen clearly
to be ending-and congress Is not likely to
take the prediction of Adjutant General
Corbin as absolutely conclusive on this
point-there Is no hope Of any immediate
cutting down in the stamp taxes. So long
as the war lasts the government will have
need of its present resources and there is
theory always prevalent In Washington
that the lid cannot be lifted from a revenue
law without taking out its entire contents.
Congressional leaders, as soon as they meet
in December. will ayow their unwillngness
to make detailed changes affecting the
revenue until the whole of the new law
can be carefully pruned. But 1t would
seem entirely feasible to change the meth
DDS OF administering the law from vexa-
tious ones to those which were not, pro-
yided the volume OF receipts was not dis
turbed This Is a direction In which rep
resentativee of business constituencies can
we'll bend their energies.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30

When the returns of the first days
registration in Omaha We're made public
showing an overwhelming majority of
republicans among those who stated
their party affiliations the fusion man
ayers answered that all the republicans
had been registered on the first day and
that no more would be forthcoming on
the succeeding registration days. The
second day, however, brought out nearly
than 1,5OO more fusionists, while the in,
crease of the no-answer column may be
taken to measure the number of voters
still in process of conversion to the re-
publican party.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30

If the fusionists ever had any doubt
that the republicans intended to make
the present campaign "A warm one that
doubt has been dispelled within the last
week. At present the opposition fences
are down in so many directions that the
great Bryan has been sent over the
state on n special train to fix up some
of the gaps Like the great industries
the fusionist machine is short of help
and is willing to pay almost any price
to secure workers that will make the
wheels go round.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30
SONG OF THE CAMP.



"Give us n songn' the soldier cried
The outer trenches guarding,
When the heated guns of the camps allied
Grew weary of bombarding.
The dark Redan, in silent scoff,
Lay, grim and threatening under
And the tawny mound of the Malakoff
No longer belched its thunder.
There was a pause. A guardsman said:
I'VE storm the forts tomorrow;
Sing while We may, another day
VIII bring enough of sorrow
They lay along the better's side,
Below the smoking cannon;
Brave hearts, from Severn and from Clyde
And from the banks of Shannon.
They sang of love, and not of fame;
Forgot was Britains glory;
Each heart recalled a different name,
But all sang Annie Laurie"
Voice after voice caught up the song,
Until it's tender passion
Rose like an anthem. rich and strong
Their battle-eve confession.
Dear girl her name he dared not speak,
But, as the song grew louder,
Something upon the soldiers cheek
Washed off the stains of powder.
Beyond the darkening ocean burned
The bloody sunsets emberS,
While the Crimean valleys learned
How English love remembers.
And once again a fire of hell
Rained on the Russian quarters,
With scream of shot, and burst of shell,
And believing of the mortars!
And Irish Noras eyes are dim
For a singer dumb and CORY;
And English Mary mourns for him
Who sang of annie Laurie"
Sleep, soldiers! still in honored rest
Your truth and valor wearing;
The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30

The war in South Africa has brought
out anew thd snihe difficulty about Sc
curing news from far-off countries that
was experienced during our war with
Spain. The first. reports of skirlnishcs
and battles are necessarily meagre and
repetitions with more amplfied details
keep coming in Ivy cable three and four
days afterward. 1t will be weeks be-
fore the mail stories arrive, when a full
and acucrate idea of the exact situation
may be secured.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30

Registration returns of the city of
Omaha show to what depths the populist
organization in this community has
been brought by the policy of the state
house machine. Two days of registra-
tion dlscloses only 2S5 voters who still
wish to profess the popullst name, when
Ave yeaN ago nearly 1000 populists
We're registering their votes for populist
candidates. The swallowing process
seems to have been pretty effective in
Douglas county.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30
WONDERFUL RAILROAD nurLpiSo.
sample Instance of Activity In Trans
portation Circles.
New YORK w OF

New YORK World.
Orders were given last week for no less
than S05,000 tons OF steel rails. one railroad
company alone calling for 105, 200 tons
This happens at a time when the price
OF rails. already much higher than for years
past, has just been advanced by another 50
ton. 1t means a still further extension
of our railroad system, though that system
already covers more than $4,000 miles
against all Europe's 100000 miles. We built
221S miles OF railway during 1898 and are
building more during the present year. with
prospect OF still further increasing the
mileage of extensions for year to come. in
spite Of the really excessive price OF rails
and other materials.
Yet this is not boom" extension II in
no way resembles the wildcat railroad ex-
pansion that has several times brought dis
aster to the country and bankruptcy to rail-
roads built before they were needed. For
the returns show that our railroads were
never before so prosperous and the extern
sions now in contemplation have been con-
servatvey planned to handle traffic that
actually awaits them.
There is here another and a most gratify-
ing proof OF the countrys extraordinary
prosperity
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30
The Worlds Wheat Crop.

Broomhall's estimate of the worlds wheat
crop is 2,496, 100000 bushels, a decline CT
800, 100000 bushels as compared with the
yield of last year. Other European experts
made the decrease as against last years
crop from 2S1 100000 bushels to 377 ,OGO 900.
1t may be taken for granted that the yield
this year will be below 2,500,C00,0O0 bushels,
or, say, $3.50 O00,0 900 bushels below 1898 and
$4,000, ,OG0 bushels below 1897. The falling
off in the Americas is about 170000,0O0
bushels as compared with 1898, and the crop
this year is about equivalent to that OF
1897.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30
Tax ON vanderbiIt, millions.


The Vanderbilt estate promises to pay
about 11a million dollars to the national
treasury as an Inheritance tax. The sum
looks large, but it is perhaps half of a
single years income from the estate and
1T is equal to about one days receipts of
the national government The justice of
the inheritance tax has been well estab-
lished and 1t is destined to become an
important source of revenue, both to the
national government and to the states,
many of which have adopted this form of
taxation in recent years.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30
TIP for Insurance Men.
Minneapolis Tribune.

The courts continue to decide against life
insurance companies which contest poll
cies in cases of Suicide, until it would seem
that the principle is we'll enough estab-
lished to be accepted as a finality. The
family of a man driven to suicide by ill
health business reverses or like cause,
ought not to be deprived of the provision
he made for them when prosperous and in
good health -.-e b. N ...r. ..i... ..-..
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30
POINTED REMARKS.
prosperit!


Detroit Journal: We do not believe a
young man and young woman should not
marry until she knows how to trim her
own hat and he is prepared to admit that
the baby gets its snub nose from its
fathers folks
Chicago Record; Prosperity brings
"Thats so: the man next door Is so busy
now that he comes home at night too tired
to practice on his cornet."
indianapolis Journal: Never waste time
in denying ISLANDERS" said the Cornfed
Philosopher. start new slander about
some one else and yours will be forgotten"
Chicago Tribune: Come on" said Noah,
looking at his watch. ITS time we were
getting into the ark"
you'll have to wait a minute" replied
Mrs. Noah from the top of the stairway.
I'm not, going out without my rainy day
skirt on
Wa; Washingtqn e Star: Are you generals
ITO a remarkable degree" answered the
Filipino commander. I'VE haven't tried to
assassnate each other in more than three
weeks"
Chicago Post: How sad October seems"
said the poetic young woman.
vest pockefT of ead e pemeis man wsn
at both ends IT'S kind of slow. You see
it's little too late for sea serpents and
little too early for election majorties."
Detroit Journal: When this peasant dis
covered that his. goose was laying golden
eggs he was much troubled
He saw no way out of it except to kill
For" he argues, 'if the British were to
would at once insist upon coming over here
and bestowing the blessings of liberty upon
men'
The fable teaches-but possibly that IL
none of our business, after all.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30

South Omaha was a fusion stronghold
in years of business depression and idle
workmen. Now, however, that is one of
the busiest and most prosperous cities of
the state and the republican party
should carry it by good safe majority
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30

The new registration law possesses one
great advantage, at least. In this com
munity the result of the publication of
the party preference of majority of
lican victory and precludes fusion
from claiming everything upon
the eve of every local election. They
must know by this time that they are
badly beaten and ought to have sense
enough to keep still.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30

If the railroad companies of Nebraska
want to SOW the wind by an arbitrary
blanket advance in freight rates in the
natural products of this state they may
expect as an inevitable result to reap
the whirlwind in the shape Of restrictive
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30
Too Many Cooks.

Tripartite government in Samoa must al
ways prove a failure. The proposition to
divide the islands between England, Ger
many and the United States is a wise one
and should afford an easy solution of the
continuing troubles in that quarter. The
disposition of the natives to mix things up
by keeping an oversupply Of kings has not
been more unwise or impractical than the
three headed protectorate established by
three of the greatest among civilized powers.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-30

Emperor William wants to increase
his navy by the addition of enough bat
tleships and cruisers to make respect
able navy all by itself. The German
kaiser knows that the war of the future
must be fought on sea as we'll as on
caught unprepared.