Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-10
SHOW UP or SHUT UP.

The Bee Publishing company hereby
offers TO pay to q. NJ. Hitchcock or any
charitable institution which he may name;
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS that The
Omaha Evening Bee can prove over 1000
more bona hde subscribers in Douglas
county than The Morning world-Herald.
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS that The
Omaha Evening Bee can prove up 5000
more bona hde subscribers in Omaha, South
Omaha and Douglas county than The Even
ing world-Herald.
FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS MORE. or
81 for every bona hde subscriber the World
Herald can prove up In it's circulation In
Douglas county over and above 5000 for its
morning and evening editions combined.
The period to cover average daily carrier
delivery and mail circulation for the month
ending December s, 1902.
/ hereby name Thomas Fitzpatrick, Robert
s. Wilcox, G. A. Eindquest. William Hay
den and A. Hospe as referees.
e. RosEwATER.
The World Herald accepts the above offer
on two conditions:
First-That the test be bona hde oircu-
lation'' in Douglas county as defined by the
supreme court Of Nebraska in the case Of
Rosewater against Pinzenscham, including
bona hde average SAFES as we'll as carrier
delivery.
second-That the period covered be the
average circulation for the past six months.
THE woRLD-HERALD.
If you mean business, show up; if you
mean bunco, shut up.
You claim for The Daily Worid-Herald,
by which you designate your morning
and evening editions combined, a bona
fde circulation of about 1900 in Doug
las county. The Bee stands ready to
pay ONE DOLLAR for every bona fde
subscriber served by. the World-Herald
morning and evening, in Douglas county
owe and above the number Of 5000.
To facilitate the transfer of the dollars
The Bee will place in the hands of the
committee above named the names of
1890 carrier delivery subscribers to The
Morning world-H Herald in Omaha and
South Omaha and $50 names Of carrier
delivery subscribers to The Evening
World-Herald in Omaha and South
OI1dud. III duulllOh InCLCbO a. win uiSO
credit The Morning World-H Herald with
211 mail Subscribers and The Evening
world5H erald with II mail subscribers,
or a total of 7,442.
1t should be as easy as rolling of a
log for the World-Herald to hand in at
least 1000 more names to the committee,
and If on veriication the additional
names are found to represent bona fide
| circulation you will have no trouble in
raking in $4,000 before Christmas.
To get the fifth thousand dollars you
have simply got to produce the subscrip-
ton list of The Morning World Herald
in Douglas county, and If The Bee fails
to produce a list five times as large fol
it's evening edition it will confess judg.
ment and pay over FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS. If the World-H Herald will
produce its bona fide subscription list
for the past month and The Bee fails tC
cover it with the names of 5000 more
bona flde subscribers in Douglas county
than, the World-H Herald can produce fol
its evening edition, it will confess judg
ment and pay over another FIVE HUN
DRIED DOLLARS.
Talk about the Pinzenscham case anC
sales outside of carrier delivery ant
mail circulation is merely throwing dusr
into the eyes of the uninitiated. Countel
sales to- newsboys, who return papers
for the rag man, and papers handled by
railway news agents, whose circulation
is on trains outside of the county, do no
meet the requirements of the law as bon,
fde circulation. Even I n that field, how
ever, The Bee can double discount tn,
World Herald, just as It does on circula
ton in the principal towns in Nebraska
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