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Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
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n UNION PACIFIC SHOULDREEPFAITH
When the Union Pacific railway man
ayers appealed to the mayor and council
for an amicable settlement of the long
standing differences between the city
and that corporation, The Bee voiced
port of the proposed adjustment. Under
the compact made between the contract
ing parties the city of Omaha made n
generous grant of right-of-way to the
Union Pacific by vacating a large num-
Der of streets and alleys and the Union
Pacific bound itself to construct and
maintain permanent terminal machine
shops and repair shops, equipped with
modern machinery, at Omaha.
1t was clearly understood between the
contracting parties that the recon
structed machine shops were to include
all appliances for the construction or re-
pair of locomotives and cars, including
foundry work, which had for years been
maintained and operated as part of the
old shops. The summary abolition of
the foundry and the transfer of the
foundry work to Chicago has very
naturally created the impression that
the Union Pacific railroad is not acting
in good faith.
While no specific provisions are en-
bodied in the contract for the main
tenance and operation of the foundry
as part of the machine shops, the COM
pany could with equal propriety aban-
don any other of it's shops without tech
meal breach of the contract. The APP
prehension that such a policy could or
would be adopted at any time in the fu-
ture is within itself a menace to the
prosperity of Omaha.
If the abandonment Of the shops was
really contemplated before the contract
was entered into it would have been but
right and proper for the representatives
of the Union Pacific who negotiated the
joint agreement to have so informed the
mayor and council. While no positive
announcement has been made that the
closing down Of the Union Pacific foun-
dry is to be temporary or permanent, 1t
Is to be hoped that the Union Pacific
managers will set at rest all conjecture
and doubt in the premises. The Union
Pacific cannot afford to break faith with
Omaha n more than Omaha can afford
to break faith with the Union Pacific.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
The NatiOn'S Growth
Washington Post.

washing
Outside of such wild fctions as those
OF CULVER, Munchausen and w. s. Gill
oerts opera hbrettos, It would be difficult
to find more astounding statements than
the cold facts published by the Treasury
departments bureau of statistics showing
the progress of the United States in it's
material interests In the nineteenth CEN
fury. In 1SO0-three years before expan-
sion began-the area Of the republic was
s27.s44 square miles. The population was
6,30S, S43-a total now excelled by each OF
several states and much less than double
the aggregate of a single city. The popu-
lation per square mile was al. The pub
lie debt was $50, 976, 2s4 and the net revenue
only {10.S4s, 749, scarcely sufficient to run
a single third-class city Of these days for a
year. But 1t met all the wants Of the ma
tion, for the net ordinary expenditure was
E,411,37O Of which $3.50, $40 was for the
army, $3.44S, 716 was for the navy and $64,-
131 for pensions, Exports were worth $780,
81, $50, imports $91, 252, 1888. American ton
mage in the foreign trade was $685. tons.
The number Of postofices 90S, with re-
ceipts Of $3.50. SO4.
New York City requires annually for it's
government more than twelve times the
cost of the national government in 1900,
and the police department of a 1rst-class
city now calls for more money than our
army and navy cost a century ago.
In 1900 our area, exclusive of Alaska,
Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines and
other insular acquisitions, had grown from
s27, S4 to 3,025, 600 square miles. Popula-
ton had limbed to rs. 1903, 1857 and popula-
ton per square mile to 25.22, leaving plenty
Of room for Increase. The estimated wealth
in 1900 was s94,O 900, 900, 900, but it is i'm
possible to make a reliable estimate on
that subject. The general opinion is that
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

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this is too high, but It is not improbabl
that 1t is too low. At any rate, the figures
are too huge for comprehension by any
class of citizens except astronomers. The
public debt, despite great reductions from
the maximum figures, stood in 1900 at 81
1876, 96l' 092. The net revenue had increased
to 1857, 24O, 1852, the net ordinary expendi-
ture to $447, 553. 44s, of which s134. ia. 1853
was for the army, 500, 953, 07S for the navy
and $l4o,S77, 1916 for pensions. Exports In
1900 were worth 1884, 8 ,0S2; imports,
$S4s, l.1S4. American tonnage In the for
elgn trade was S26. 6e4 tons. The number
of postoffces was 6,6SS and the receipts
therefrom were 31O2, S54,579.
We know of no better inspiration to pa
triotism than the comparison presented in
those statistics. And to those who believe
in special providences 1t should be an in
SEPARATION to devout gratitude to see what
God has done for this most favored land"
But there are some items of great interest
as showing the country's growth which
did not exist or were not reported in 1900.
Upon the estimate Of $4,000. 900. 900 as the
total wealth, the average wealth Of every
man, woman and child is 1925. There
are 6,107,O S3 depositors in savings banks,
who have 81, 449, SAT, Ss5 deposited. and there
are besides $2,50s. 24S, sos of deposits in ma
tional banks, exclusive of deposits with
trust companies, state banks and private
banks. The money in circulation was ST.
055, $50, 99s, averaging $26. SO to the in
dividual citizen. Gold was produced to a
value of $79, III 900, silver to a value OF
$74. 5SS, 495. 1t adds to the m~arvelousnes
of the story Of this republics growth since
1900 to remember that for four years dur
ing that century we waged an enormously
destructive civil war.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

rience. Hundreds Of dollars went TO the
doctor and the druggist. / was simply
a walking medicine chest and a phys
icn wreck. My sister residing in Ohio
wrote me that she had been cured OF
womb trouble by using Lydia F..
Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and advised me TO try 1T. L
then discontinued all other med icines
and gave your Vegetable Compound a
thorough trial. Within four weeks
Yearly all pain had left me l rarely
had headaches, and my nerves were in
o much better condition, and l was
cured in three months, and this avoided
a terrible surgical operation. Mrs.
EcKIs STEVENSON, $50 So. State St.,
Salt Lake City, Utah.-S5o0o forfeit n
aboVs testimonial is not genuine.
Remember every woman Is
cordially invited to write to Mrs.
Pinkham if there is anything
about her symptoms she does not
understand. Mrs. Ptnkham's
address is Lynn, Mass.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

Alliance, situated in Box Butte county,
northwestern Nebraska, on the Billings line
Of the Burlington. 361 miles from Lincoln.
is the marvel OF all visitors and commercial
giant of the western half Of Nebraska.
Founded In 1883 on unsettled prairie table
land. IL has today 5000 people and unlimited
prospects for further advancement.
Such progress is a mystery to the stranger,
but easily accounted for by the citizen who
knows this development is made possible
by railroad interests ever v~lgilant for the
towns welfare. and the natural adaptable
ity OF the country surrounding Alliance for
stock raising. The quality OF potatoes and
hay raised is exceptionally fine and the
shipments Of these large. Alliance has,
briefly: Accredited schools with an enroll
ment Of over 700; nine church organizations,
six OF which have their own edihces: water
works; electric lights; telephone system;
$4,000 opera house; newspapers; pressed
brick works; steam laundry; planning mill;
secret societies galore; substantial business
buildings and many comfortable homes.
Most important are Burlington interests
at this general division, and junction for
the Denver and Guernsey lines. Here are
located car. machine and repair shops and
general ohices Of the company. The Bur-
ilngton employs In the various branches
here about 900 men. the monthly payroll
easily reaching 5000 These men are an
industrious class, and It Is a fact that nearly
30 per cent more of them own homes in AL
lance than do the company employees OF
other towns in the state. Freight and pas
senger receipts at Alliance station have in
creased three-fold In the last Ave years and
now amount to over $50, 900 per month. Here
all cattle from the south via Denver, or
from the east and southeast by way of ST.
Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and Lincoln are
unloaded for feeding and inspection. The
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
Live Nebraska Towns
Alliance = Marve Of the West.

stockysrds have a capacity Of 125 carloads,
with good water. excellent quality OF hay
and all conveniences. Alliance Is to have
the largest coal wharf on the Burlington sys-
tenn. and a large car shop is also to be con-
structed. The value OF company property
is now placed at 5000, 900, and this city Is
destined without doubt to become the largest
railroad center in the state. with the single
exception Of Omaha. This will be made pos
sible by the extension Of the road from
Guernsey to Salt Lake. the building from
Billings to Great Falls and connection with
a narrow-gauge road into British Column
bia, making a direct line from st. Louis,
and by the construction OF a line from
O'Neill to Alliance, giving a direct route
from Sioux City and northeast to Denver,
Salt a. and the southwest. The realiza-
tion Of these plans are all strong probable
tiles for the immediate future.
The property valuation of Alliance for
1901 is believed to have been 81, 1926. 900.
With the bringing into the limits Of con
tiguous territory. the figures for 1902 win
reach a round 80, 900, 900. The amount Of
business transacted is ranch
trade coming a distance OF seventy Ave
miles, and many Of the rsnchmen making
this city their homes. The field for invest
ment is unlimited and the returns derived
from rentals offers to capital an inviting
field. One OF the urgent needs OF the city
In a sewerage system. The climate is
ideal and %healthful. residents being espe-
cially immune from pulmonary and other
disorders so prevalent in the lower lati-
tudes. This thriving young wonder Of the
west offers advantages in the educational
and social line that are unsurpassed in any
city Of its size. It invites attention ana
challenges comparison as a typical, hust-
ling city whose march forward is bound 10
keep 1t in the van Of all in the great north
west. HARVEY ]. ELLIS.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

Minneapolis journal.
The dispatch with which a cold-blooded
murderer in Detroit was hurried to prison
for life sets an example that cab we'll be
followed in other cities. Now land then
there are criminal cases in which the evil
dence is so nicely balanced that the ac-
cused is entitled to every delay that can
possibly be wrung from the laws. But, on
the other hand, there are many crimes of
a fragrant nature, where the guilt of the
accused is certain. that the ends OF justice
and public order are best attained by the
utmost possible celebrity.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
Rural Made Boxes Hung Up.
Philadelphia Record.

"FhIIadeIphia RECORD.
Rural free delivery has a department
string to it in the guise Of an order COM
polling the ruralists to buy one out Of four
teen specified mail boxes, or in default
thereof to suffer exclusion from the free
delivery privilege. Each jolly farmer must
have an iron mail box and must buy It
from one or another Of the favored fourteen
manufacturers This is regarded by the
department officials as a benehcent ar
rangement all around, but a senate amend
ment has upset 1t and the fur will fly in
conference committee accordingly. Think
Of making the free delivery privilege con-
tingent upon a reluctant purchase Of some
petty contractors patented mail box!
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

The contention before the United
States supreme court over the Great
Northern and Burlington merger recalls
forcibly the contention over pro rata be-
tween the Union Pacific and Burlington
railroads years ago. Whenever an effort
was made to pass a pro rata bill
through the legislature the Credit
Mobilier lobby at Lincoln would insist
the redress must be sought through on
gress and not through the Legislature.
Whenever the pro rata bill was brought
before congress the Credit Mobilier lobby
pointed to the legislature as the only
tribunal to enforce the right Of the Bur
lington to make reasonable traffic con-
nections with the Union Pacific. And
this game of shuttlecock and battle
dore continued until the Burlington had
secured an outlet Of it's own. Just
now the same tactics are being
pursued with regard to the Northern
Securities company merger. When the
Minnesota legislature was in session the
lawyers of the Jim Hill syndicate de-
clared that the only tribunal that could
deal with the question was the United
States supreme court. Now that the
case is before the supreme court they
claim that the only tribunal to deal with
the merger is the state legislature.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
stirrIns Up the Mo..backs.

Philadelphia Record.
British self confidence has been given an
other severe shock in the appearance of
American enterprise and capital to finance
the London underground railway project.
This means more than the mere floating Of
the undertaking financially. It means the
use of American material In the building
and equipping of the road. 1t becomes an
American enterprise, in short. and the Lon
don newspapers are again busy trying to
harmonic the situation with their claims
that British commercial and financial SUI
premacy has not been shaken very re-
Gently.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

Representative Ray of New York,
chairman of the house committee on
judiciary, to whom was referred the
resolution calling upon the attorney gen
erah for information relative to the
prosecution of the Beef trust, confidently
believes that the attorney general will
Immediately probe the matter Of the al
legged Beef trust to the bottom. We APP
prehend that IL will take several X-rays
and the searchlight of publicity TO eX-
pose the skeleton OF hat Stalled bovine.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

, As an argument against dispensing
with kin~dergartens the Chicago Chron-
icle cites the fact that insurance Stats
tics show that a large proportion of fires
are started by children who are neither
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
THE FAMILY MEETING.

Charles sprague.
We are all here,
Father, mother,
Sister, brother,
All who hold each other dear.
Each chair is filed; we're all at home,
Tonight let no cold stranger come.
II Is not often thus around
our old familiar hearth we're found.
Bless, then, the meeting and the spot;
For once be every care forgot;
Let gentle Peace assert her power.
And kind Affection rule the hour.
We're all-all here.
We're not all here!
Some are ~away-the dead ones dear,
VINO thronged with us this ancient hearth
And gave. the hour to guileless mirth.
Fate, with a stern, relentless hand,
Lookd In n thinn'd our little band;
Some like a night-fiash passed away,
And some sank lingering day by day:
The quiet graveyard-some lie there
And cruel Ocean has his share.
We're not all here.
We are all here!.
Even they-the dead-though dead, so dear
Fond Memory, to her duty true,
Brings back their faded forms TO view.
low nieIllke. through the mist of years,
Each weil-remembered face appears!
From each to each kind looks are cast;
We hear their words, their smiles behold;
They're round us, as they were OF old.
We are all here.
We are all here,
Father, mother,
Sister, brother,
You that / love with love so dear,
This may not long of us be said;
Soon must we Join the gather,d dead
Some other circle Will be found.
oh! then, that wisdom may we know,
so, in the world to follow this,
May each repeat in words Of bliss,
We're all-all here!
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

The squatter governor OF South Da-
kota has been appointed United States
commissioners for Gregory county for
the purpose Of accommodating the new
settlers who are expected to locate on
the Rosebud Indian reservation during
the coming summer. Nebraska's squat
ter governor, the lamented Pearman,
has passed over 60 the happy hunting
grounds, but II he were still in the land
OF the living he might also have taken
a hand in the distribution OF the Indian
land That was his favOrits pastime.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

The secretary of the Omaha CONNER
cial club and keeper Of the Omaha In
dian supply depot, so-called, are now in
Chicago to witness the opening Of bids
for Indian supplies, but their presence
at the ceremony will have about the
same effect as the pope's bull against
the comet.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

When Tomas Estrada Palma came to
this country twenty-five years ago he
Travelled in an emigrant car. Palma's
return journey as president-elect of the
Cuban republic is made in a palatial
private car.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
A Case of Must.
indianapolis Journal.

After many statements to the contrary
the commissioners Of the ST. Louis exposi-
tion have finally decided to postpone 1t till
1904. The decision is caused by the impos-
sibility of completing all the buildings by
1908. and by the general Discrimination OF
foreign governments to participate in the
fair before 1904. The postponement ought
to result in more thorough and satisfactory
prOpara(iona.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

The commissioners of Douglas county
are making a tour of observation over
all Of the country roads with a view TO
a~scertaining what repairs and improve
ments will be required during the pres
ent year. We are assured that the COM
mlssioners started out with a firm re-
solve not to sanction any additional
work this year aside from what is now
mapped out Although this is the mid
die Of April, we must class this resolve
with the new years resolutions, which
are usually broken before a change of
the moor. 1t may be safely predicted
that the commissioners will not be able
to Withstand the heavy pressure for po-
litlcal grading and bridge work that al
ways comes just before election.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
Hirh Tide OF Heroism.

Chicago 1nter-Ocean.
Mans chivslry toward woman has seldom
been more beautifully or more h~eroically
eXemplihed than in the case Of Louis
Hanck, who jumped into the Chicago river
to rescue a drowning woman without wait
lag to get a report from the health depart
ment on the condition Of the water.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

While the attorneys of the Taxpayers
league are bombarding the supreme
court 1t viii not do to lose sight of the
precinct assessors who are quietly at
work listing property for next years as
sessment roll.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

Iowa has captured another juicy plum
from the federal pie counter in the APP
pointment of General J.. S. Clarkson as
surveyo OF customs for the port Of
New York. II there is anything Iowa
wants all she has to do is to ask for it.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

Henry Watterson still insists that the
future of the republic is imperiled by
the man on horseback, and yet Thomas
Jefferson, the great patron saint whom
Henry Watterson swears by. was the
only American president who came on
horseback to be inaugurated.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

II President Roosevelt keeps up his
fight on the trusts he may force the
democrats to take the plutocrats under
their protection.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

An all rail route through the heart
be constructed this year and summer
hotels near the north pole will become
the fashionable resort at no distant day.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
Another "Air" Line Road.
Brooklyn Eagle.

A great national highway. 5000 miles
long. extending from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, would be a glorious achievement
and a perfectly feasible one. We want one
good road in this country. and that ought to
be IL.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
The Marin of Rhode.

chicago chronicle.
Rhodes tombstone, as unimpassioned pos
terity will inscribe Il, will perpetuate his
only sentence now remembered: Every
man has his price and have the price"
That was the fundamental maxim Of Rhodes
craftsmanship.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
Joy DOR smoked Hand.
Philadelphia Press

fnllhuelphld EIess.
Some people are not bothering so much
about the price Of meat since the cost Of
cigarettes is being reduced. All kinds of
living are not dear.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
Coming Events Casting shadows
indianapolis Journal.

Indianapolis Journal.
Nebraska democrats who claim to know
say tha William Jennings Bryan will be
the fusion caAdidkte for governor in that
state next fall. You can't lose William j.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

The open season for hunting ducks
and geese is closed, but the season on
political canards and r~oorbacks has
lust oDened.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

When all other sources of revenue are
exhausted John Bull can always fall
back on the income tax.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

-
New York Sun Jaggles-Is there less
riage?
W~aggles-There seems to be, II you have
manageable daughters. | haven't vet
heard of a girl clipping with a chauffeur.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: 81 see that the
chorus girls in a comic opera company
have struck because the manager wanted
them to pay the expense of having their
"Well. well. And. there seems to be so
little to wash, too
Philadelphia Press: Leading Tenor-I
love to sing that drinking song in the
second act.
Soubrette-Why so?
Leading Tenor-There's a rest almost at
every bar.
Washington Star: 81 am writing a story
of a struggling inventor
1T won't do" answered the abruptly
critical friend. Inventors don't struggle
nowadays. They let the people who are
eager to buy stock do the struggling
Chicago Tribune: "What are Won in
prison for, my friend?"
stealth Il pin, ma'am.' r.Hl- ,
What" ...
That's right, ma'am. 1t had a diamond
fastened at one end of It,"
Ohio State Journal: Hello, buddy!" ex-
claimed the, sprouting blade of grass to
Please don't shoot!' exclaimed the bud,
In mock alarm.
Philadelphia Press: Tess-He told me I
had a complexion like a peach.
Jess-How mean of him!
Tess-Mean?
Jess-Yes. he told me the fuzz on a
peach made his blood run cold.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
The SURGEONS KNIFE
Mrs. EckiS Stevenson of Salt
Lake City Tells How Opera
lions For Ovarian Troubles
May BE Avoided.

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM!-I suffered
with inflammation of the ovaries and
womb for over six years, enduring aches
and pains which none Fan dream Of but
those who have had the same expe-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
Mighty slow In one Trims.
PHILADELPHIA Ledger

Philadelphia Ledger.
The British Pacific cable has reached the
Fiji islands, on its way from Australia to
Canada. h indications are that 1t will
BE- finished and At work before this country
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

has finished talking about who shall build
the one proposed for our use between the
United States. Hawaii and the Philipplnea.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

David Bennett Hill hungers for har-
mony with n big II.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

Omaha needs a garbage crematory
very much. The only question is where
the money is coming from.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

State of Nebraska, Douglas County, S.;
George y. Tzschuck, secretary Of The Bee
publishing Company being duly sworn
complete copies of The Daily, Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month of March. 1902. was as folloRs:
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

Members Of the Moulders' union call
1t a lockout. Other people call it a freeze
out.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

They have a few more anarchists in
Russia.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16
LAUGHING

Judge: YES" says the philosophical per-
son. wealth brings its disappointments."
After we lose it puts In the material
istic man.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-16

"
Net total sales. .................. o 7,613
Net daily average................. 20,277
GEO. b. TzSCHUCK.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this 3lst day of March, A. i.
1902. GEORGE RASMUSSEN,
(Seal) Notary Public.