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Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03
wANrED-MALE HELL.

WANTED. privilege men for twenty weeks
opening a. Hastings. Neb., May 80. X.
dress quick, Capt. b. Collins, Hastings,
. Neb. B-Mf2 A.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

NINE. GYLMER, genuine pslmist. s5 s. is.
S-492
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

GREATEST money maker Of the age for
agents, street men, vendors who attend
stupidest, dullest amongst you can make
a fortune. Agent sold 537 in one day at
DALLAS fair. The Resurrection Plant, lives
forever. Rich green foliage Samples l5c,
$3.50 per 100 delivered. Circulars, ~lnstruc.
tons, pointers. Summit County Green
J-S91 Sx
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

LIFE insurance solicitors. railroad men
and others, as local agents; lucrative work
for capable men with references, Albert
Chapelle & Co, Ltd, Trust Bldg, Los
Angeles, Cal. R-3T sx
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

Our business Is strictly confidential. No
disa greeable questions asked of your en-
ployers. When you need q little money
call and see us. X
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

so WEEKLY easily earned position per
manenU distributing circulars, samples,
Commercial Advertising Association,
Philadelphia. Pa. BEL Sx
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

WANTED. a w~lde-awske energetic man 70
solicit business; salary or commission:
state agency TO rigbt man; no member-
ship fees, The International Law and
Collection Co. Dayton. Ohio. B-SlO Ok
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

WANTED. organizer for fraternal society
with recent successful. record. lt21-is9 La
sale St, Chicago, B-SlS SIX
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

WE WANT an energetic. hustllng man in
each county to take Jobs Of painting
roofs, barns, iron fences, etc, In both
town and country with Elllott's Durable
Asphalt Coating and to sell the material
TO those who do their own painting. IL
you are not afraid of work write and see
how profitable this is. We are the largest
makers OF Pure Asphalt Paint in the
United States. Our goods are we'll known
and easily sold. Elliott Narnish Works,
Chicago. J-366 3x
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

MADAME LUCRETIA, medium, 1909 Cali
fornia st. S-MGOi Ma
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

THE STAR LOAN COMPANY,
Room ga Paxton Block. Telephone F-229S.
II you have a permanent salarted position
you can borrow from us on your plain
note, without mortgage, security or In
dorser. Semi
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19
IN
Hanged to a Telegraph Pole
and Then Burned. Y

Belleville, Ill. June Sc. II.
Wyatt, a negro who Saturday after
loon shot Superintendent of Schools
Hertel because the latter had refused
to renew his certificate as a teacher,
was taken from the Jail at 1880
o'clock Saturday night by a mob Of
more than 1000 furious men and
lynched. Wyatt was probably beaten
to death in the fight at the Jail, but
the limp body, terribly distigured,
was dragged through the streets, the
recipient of kicks and blows, to the
public square, where it was strung
up to a telegraph pole.
Meanwhile some n in the party
suggested burning the body, and oil
was hastily brought. The corpse was
cut down, placed on a pile of inffam-
mable material, thoroughly %saturat-
ed with oil. and set on fire. When il
had burned to an unrecognizable
crisp the mob quietly dispersed.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19
THE CRISIS PASSED,
Nc Further Rise of Water Mt Enst Sc.
s~Ouis-Flood Losses in
Kansas.

East ST. Louis, ILL.,, June 12.-That
the crisis. of the flood situation in East
st. Louis has passed so far as this city
IS concerned is generally accepted as a
fact by the citizens. Since the disas-
trous break in the Illinois Central levee
the flood has made no dangerous
breaks, although a portion of the Bal
tlmore & Ohio embankment gave way
Wednesday night, and the flood area
was further increased by seepage
Thursday. No one could be found with
anything like a definite idea of the
property loss. Vague mention of mil
lions of dollars" was the nearest even
the best-informed citizens could come
to it. There was a general disposition,
however, to accept minimum reports
of loss of life, rather than the stories
originating in the excitement Of the
moment, when the food poured in.
One prominent undertaken averred
that there had been ECO loss of Life di-
rectly in the flood, although there had
been deaths later due Indirectly to the
overflow. There were no reports of
drownings Thursday, nor were any
bodies recovered.
Topeka, Kan, June s.-Kansas
has suffered as a result Of the recent
floods more than any other state.
No exact figures of the loss sustained
can, of course, be given. but those
who have an intimate knowledge of
the floods have been making esti-
mates. and the conclusions that they
have reached may be considered fair
" reliable. The damage done in the
principal cities and towns is estimat-
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19

their money by mail to be cured by any
process4.hey choose.
Have you.seen in recent issues o. a
Chicago mail order paper an adsertise-
ment Of a magic gold dip needle thai :
ands hidden treasures for ten cents?
one OF the lucky
hox" scheme of Lynn, Mass. francls
parker manufactured a little wooden
nv with a brass ring in which were
stamped three stars. ltscost him from m
one to FIVE cents, and he sold it for "
cents, Everybody who bought the box
became lucky, said Parker's adyer.lse-
msnts: zone broker made $4,000 IN
ane hour after buying the lucky box;
: sinister won a lover; a woman wa
e,Ted Of rheumatism ;agentlemanh ,
h,ed in on crutches; got a box; walked q
~ with crutches under his arm.
~. advertisements ran ] giarlng
,h aa and nobody in%terfered with
parlar,s business until the authorities
nat;ced his enormous mail. When the
nosS Office inspector appeared at the
i po xboxfactorysParke fed. twenty
ssvan thousand letters were Wal',ns
for him at the Boston post once WIN
7,oo5 money orders that day; ~
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19

quietly pack up and go-no ono ...-
knew that the person with 49, e' -
dealt was the post Office ]inauaa+n -.
himself. Inspector
The biggest frauds BY all odds bav.
been in the get-rich-quick lines. II =
such an old scheme, but it is a,wars
toe1ng worked again. The plan is veyy
slmple-the same as in the case ~ ~
notorious Franklin syndicate in tho
east. Some 'con-man' starts to adver.
Use mat ne will pay enormous profits
On lnvestments-two, three, five or ton
per cent. a week. When the suckers
oegln to send their money, he actually
pays out the dividends. A man NAV
sena sloo and before long lie has s2o1
PACK. de tellshisfriends, and theyte tel
others. Pretty soon the money rolls
into the Golfers of the ]sinanc;.r, -,
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
Excessive rains Throughout the
South Have Caused Great Dam
age to Growing Grains.

Washington June 1o.-The weather
bureaus weekly summary of crop con-
ditions is as follows:
Excessive rains in the lower Mis-
souri,, central Mississippi and Ohio val
leys, Tennessee, the Carolinas and
Georgia have interrupted farm work
and caused great damage to crops, es-
peclally in the central Mississippi and
lower Missouri valleys, the flood stage
IN the Mississippi river at st. Louis be-
ing the highest since 1858, and that in
the Missouri river at Kansas City since
ls44. The protracted and probably un-
p~recedented spring drought continues
unbroken in northern New England
and in eastern New York (the weather
map OF June 9 shows light rains have
fallen over much of this drought area
in the "a hours ending eight a. m. of
this date). Portions of the upper lake
region. central and west gulf states,
North Dakota and Montana are in need
of rain.
Much corn remains to be planted in
the Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio val
leys, where the early planted.is great
ly in need of cultivation, and much had
drowned. Planting was resumed in
Nebraska and Iowa during the latter
part of the week, where under the most
favorable future conditions the acre
age will be reduced. Under more ia
vorable. conditions planting in the mid
die and Atlantic states has been fin
ished.
Spring wheat continues in very
promising condition in the Dakotas
and generally in Minnesota. On the
North Pacific coast spring wheat,
while needing rain, is doing well in
portions of Washington.
The general outlook for apples in
New England and the middle Allan
tic states, except in Pennsylvania, is
promising, and favorable reports are
also received from Tennessee, Iowa
and Wisconsin. Excessive falling has
impaired the outlook in Ohio, Indiana
and Missouri and a short crop is in
Dictated in Arkansas and Nebraska.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19
MISS N A BRIDE.


Cleveland, o.. June. lin intrinsic
beauty and. interest the wedding on.
Wednesday at high moor Of Miss Ruth
Hanna and Mr.. Joseph Medill McCor-
mick, Of Chicago. excelled any similar
function ever held in, Cleveland. st.
Paua7s church was decorated Withgthe
H utmost magniic enae.
just before the Lohengrin wedding
march was played to herald the APP
proaeh of the bridal party, President
Roosevelt catered with Mrs. Hanna on
his arm, followedsby Miss Alice Roose-
welt with other members Of the. brides
family.
Among the ont-of-town guests at the
wedding breakfast were the.folloming:
President Roosevelt, Miss Alice Roose-
velt, Postmaster General and Mrs.
Payne, with their niece; Miss Jones,
Adjt.. Gen. and Mrs. Corbin, Senator
andgMiss Kane, his sisters Senators
Beveridse and Hale, Senator and Mrs
Wetmare. and Senator and Mrs. AID
/! rich,
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19
BOAT CAPs1ZED.
Five Persons Plunged Into h Des
Moines River ii Frazer, Ia,
md Drowned.

Fraser, Ia, June give persons
lost their lives here Monday in the
Des Moines river. The victims were:.
Thomas Coleman, Andrew Marchona,
Steve Cormadine, Carria Megatia and
Nicholas Grometine. All but Cole
man are Italians and were employed
in the Fraser coal mines. Shortly be
fore the noon hour Monday they
crowded into a small boat to- row
across to Fraser. The boat reached
the middle of the stream safely, but
there it was caught in the current,
whirled around and capsized. The
men struggled in the water for a
few seconds and then all disappeared.
Coleman, who is also an employee Of
The mines, a short time later at
tempted to swim the river. He had
gotten part of the way across when
he sank from sight.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19
viii Modify Climate.

Agent McChesney of Rosebud be-
lieves that he will be able to bring a
change to climate conditions on Rose
bud reservation through the location
of dams yer the reservation, which
are both a part and an incident to
the road work which is being done by
the Indians. DR.. McChesney is firm
in his belief that a~rtesian well waters
and dams on the different water
courses throughout the state will
bring a material change to climate
in South Dakota, and go a long way
toward preventing drouth and attend
ant crop failures. When the work is
completed there will be hundreds of
reservoirs scattered ove Rosebud re-
servation in the northern part. All
these reservoirs which were con-
structed last year are now full of
water, and the number will be in
creased every year..
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19
"Ap." THAT CAUGHT THOUSANDS.

the thousands. OF course he pays the
interest out of the capital. When he
has accumulated enough the crash
comes. The financier disappears, the
money is gone.
"Fully 100000 was sent to Chicago
in the last IL months in get-rich-quick
schemes of this character. The VIC
Tins have been of all classes, city peo-
pie no less than villagers and farmers,
women as well as men, rich and poor
alike.
Land and improvement swindles are
being worked to-day on an enormous
scale. Do you remember the U. S.
Land Co.? We hunted that scheme
down and punished it. This company
owned some practically worthless land
in Tennessee, way up in the noun
tains, where we could hardly get at it.
The fake oil, rubber and gold-mining
companies have secured millions-yes,
millions of dollars-for land not worth
a dollar an acre.
Lottery and gambling schemes are
brought to our notice month after
month. There are hundreds of thou
sands of people ready to give up their
cash again and again when a lottery
of some kind is advertised, and we
can't always nip these fakes in the
bud"
In the last year something has been
done to put a stop to "diyine healing"
absent treatment by mail and one of
the most successful quacks in the lot
Francis Truth, of Boston,-who it was
said was doing a business of 100000
a week, was stopped blythe law. Mean
while others who do only $4,000 q
month continue to flourish, and by a
court decision recently made, nothing
can be done to prevent people sending
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19
ORDER FRAUDS.
,.,.r,ss for Bleeding Guilt
=, newspaper Readers.
-.ou of Inspection Kept
)h'es .,;ratins All Sorts Of
honest and Allur-
ing ads
.chicago letter.

.r,.cjal Chicago Lettef.i
pTared frauds in the post of
IL NV 'snartment now being aired
''T u,luing,on are supposed to
a snndrtes of thousands Of dol,
e., ,nole country was surprised
inc armous sum-$10,o 900 here,
tns rs-were mentioned as frac-
\. me supposed corruption fund:
IL is but a bagatelle compared
d., as simply 81 gigantic frauds inves.
4 every year by the 1nsPectlon OF
E. sa'n aggregat:ng s15,ooo,o 900 to
y @o are unearthed every year by
EoSt office inspectors. and proven
t., Thefts by letter carriers or
rtG clerks constitute only a
snr,iop of this. The greater part
! frauds is perpetrated by So
business men, who use the mails
t,smes that draw the dollars out
/ nockets of gullib1e folks month
Month. year after year, by the
! old schemes.
EARNS of 200 inspectors, as species
[seial detectives, is employed all
F,bs country hunting down these
oilers.
! most office bureau of inspection
divisions. By far the largest Of
| has its headquarters at Chicago.
Stuart, Inspector general here, has
under him and investi-
4 last year 10000 cases of alleged
ds. New York city, the second
pst, had 10000 cases, handled by 16
pctors. The enormous work of the
ago department. is due partly to
fact that the city handles more
than any other.
;e closed up the business of thou
$ of swindlers right around Chi
last year." said Chief Clerk r. ].
les, Of the Chicago department..
no exaggeration to say that the
dlers got several million dollars
# the pockets of the people,"
$ also no exaggeration to say that
are going on at this very
lie to the amount of hundreds of
lands of dollars. Fake" oil COM
investment schemes, "sure ten
propositions, ETC., ETC., are
advertised in the papers and are
more than ever. The post
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19
PASSING OF THE ALLIGATOR.
IT'S Former Abundance inF1orida De-
sc-ibed by One Who Has
Hunted 1t,

".HI... -4.E .r...H .- ..
"In July, 1879, near my home in Polk
county, Fla" said Cyrus Balcher, &C.
cording to the New York Sun, II was
mi of a party Of nine men who joined
in an alligator hunt on what was
known as the Hooker Prairie, but in
reality was a chain Of bayous. Within
an area of less than one mile around
we dispatched 224 alligators. They
ranged in size from three feet to IL,
the average length being seven feet.
IL came north 20 years ago and did
not go back to Florida until last win
ter, when I visited my old home. When
l expressedia wish to go out and bag
a few alligators folks looked at me in
surprise, and told me there hadn't been
years, and people around there had
almost forgotten what an alligator
looked Like,
Hunting the reptiles for the leather
market had caused them to become ex-
tinct where they had once been almost
as plentiful as the flies that covered
them as they basked in the sun. And
with the departure of the alligators,
they told me, the flies had also almost
entirely disappeared.
II remember once, in those good old
alligator days, a party of us were out
deer hunting. Ourdogs started a deer
and took it to the river, into which it
plunged, to swim across.
1T never got across, though. 1t was
captured by a big alligator and lugged
back to the river bank. When we fol-
lowed the dogs to- the spot we found
that the alligator had whipped them
Oft and had the deer half devoured. We
lost the deer, but got the alligator.
"Once another man;and myself pulled
a ten-foot alligator from a burrow in
the bank by running a long-handled
boat hook into the hole, which the al
ligator seized in it's jaws and held on
to. This was the. same alligator that
had come out Of the. bayou the day
before where an old darby named
Gabe Doan had fallen asleep while
fishing, and bitten the old. chaps leg
off at, the knee.
IT would no doubt have had the rest
of old Gabe, too, if two other fisher
men hadn't heard his yells and hast
ened to the spot. When they APP
preached, the alligator slid.into the wa
ter, taking Gabe's leg along with it.
The men carried the darby home and
he got well, and I saw him stumping
around on the wooden leg that took
the: place of the one the alligator bit
off.
"On one alligatoring trip alongHook-
er Prairie I myself killed 16 big alliga-
tors and destroyed more than two bar
relssof alligator eggs"
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19
Two BANKS suspend.

Birmingham, Ala, June 1s.-The-
Bessemer Savings bank and the Bank
Of Commerce at Bessemer, Ala, sus-
pended business Thursday as the re-
suit of the shortage and fight of T. j.
Cornwell, president of the former.
George H. Stevenson and Thomas Q.
Smith were appointed receivers me-
spectively. The savings banks 1iabili-
ties are placed at s2s5,ooo, $500 Q
being deposits, and assets at $4,000.
The liabilities of the Bank of Conn
merce are s43 900 and assets $67,eOoN
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19

ice Inspector gets some Of them into
uft and prosecutes. Occasionally
federal court sends a culprit to the
nl'entiary, but the majority of them
Eape III the fines that do not repre-
~ ten Per cent. of the money they
We made in their schemes.
here's an advertisement:
puR LIES FATE in love. business
"a + marriage. Photo of future husband or
n.y. ". b'Ithstone pin and life's chart for ID
,s and birth date.
lhls is the advertisement. with the
'Ae omitted, as it appeared this
stk IN many of the mail order papers.
showed WV the clipping to an employe of
.hicago bureau of post Office in
P%ection.
., rs this a fraud or isn'tit?" 1 asked.
mat remains to be proven" was the
I'm reply. The way to do is to send
. zen cents in reply to the ad and then
~ louf complaint here if you think
:. %r nave been defrauded."
NJ VIII you prosecute them?"
70 sAe explanation was that it required
saen complaints to establish one
h. sse aor an investigation. And.fnally
ol'lelal came out with the bold
these ten-cent scheme. don't
reu uunt to much," he Sid. eve are
|rv %inehaously busy here on big cases,
ar xs 10 put a stop.to thousand-dol.
[en, sSlndles. Better save your ten
[o n@ by not writing for the photo q
p m future wife"
|e, rne e task of the post ONCE inspec.
[be ,Aoeed yery-dificuit one and
aeyia .n TO Prosecution smore than
menus ,uas. a strict law prevents the
,pec,a OF any private mail 81 81.
,ert t.ofs or others. No matter how
n government may be that .
anper with under any circum.
ces' So the inspectors must, Is.
oms 70 many tricks to get proof
lmes they go ont into tic
he ~ and send in their money t.
,gonah suauient firms until they have
,roof 1e'ters to establish positive
tha II the swindlers get an ink.
,ns. a post Office inspector is try.
HER ~ lead them on they may hide
or "a s.nemes and throw the inspec
n ~ me track. Girls are often useo
,yia ae guise Of stenographers to gei
hemss's Sometimes the detective,
usnea. get positions ii q arn
nethaae OF frauds. Many othe1
,ost ots ! Know, are used, but thu
iva oal,ce department is very secre'
Iuist,. Iheir inspectors work more
nd y than any other detective,
"Aen they finish their case. they
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19

The very lowest estimate that can
be made of the loss done to crops is
$4,000 600. Owing to the lateness of
the season and the condition of the
soil, it is very doubtful if any profit
will be drawn during the remainder
of the year from the farms which
were inundated. AS a consequence
there will be a great deal of individ-
ual want and suffering among farm
ers, upon whom the blow fell heav-
lest.
Dallas, Tex, June ia dispatch
to the News from Ell Paso, Tex, says:
Twelve bodies of flood victims have
been recovered at Clifton, Ariz.,. but
the death list generally is placed at
81. Many of the bodies will never be
recovered, although hundreds of men,
including many of the striking miners,
are engaged in the search. The rush
of waters bore most of the bodies
from Chase creek into the San Fran
cisco river. So fierce is TIE current,
that the bodies will be carried far down
the stream or will be covered by wreck
age. narrowing tales Of death are
brought in by people living along
Chase creek, one man reporting that
he counted 10 people struggling in the
water, and believes that all of them
were lost. One Mexican oma lost
five children, who vel swept away
with the w%reckage of her hut. non of
the bodies having been recovered,
Every available able-bodied man has
been pressed into service clearing away
the wreckage in the hope that the bod.
les of missing may be recovered
Clifton hadher hero on horseback, sim
liar to the man who rode down the
valley of Johnstown, Pa, on horse
back and warned the people of the
impending danger. The Clifton hero
rode at breakneck speed five minutes
ahead of the torrent, and shouted te
the settlers to flee. to higher ground
His warning sawed hundreds of. lives
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19
PHOTOGRAPHIC THE DEAF.
and Ia Seldom. Satisfactory
In Results.

If deaf people had.the same dread of
photographers that photographers
have Of them, they would not often
have their pictures taken. The artist
dislikes them, not because of their in
trinity, but because they take poor
pictures, says the New York Times.
.Why do they show up SO badly in
a Photographic" asked the visitor in
whose presence such a complaint had
Just been made.
81 don't know why" was the reply,
.but they do. Judging by their express
sion at that time they must be expect
ing the camera to go off at the critical
moment with a Fourth-of-JulY racket,
and they are all on edge to hear it.
Their eyes neyerr look like other peo-
pies eyes, nor their noses like other
peoples noses, nor their mouths like
other peoples mouths. I suppose that
is partly due to the dificultyin making
them understand Instructions. l may
pose a deaf man before the camera
aver so artistically, but before I get
five feet away heis dropping, overagain
in the most detected attituda.-
Hold your head up,'' I shoat at
him.
lie opens his mouth wide and en-
circles his ear with, his, palm.
Whats thatH he says.
II go back. and jerk him into shape.
We repeat that performance half a
dozen times. BY the timertha poor fell
low gets an. inkling of the require
ments of a Photographic subject, he is
in a state of nervous collapsethat does
not add to hisphysicar attractiveness
But after all that preparatory tussle
we do not like to postpone the great
event, so we taka,a pictures, Naturally,
LIN is not . good one. Tha$nan issnot
satisfied;Sneither am I, bnt it isgnot
much use tozrepeat the performance,
forshe is not, likely to geta bettersone
Altogether, there is a strained,
tense look on the pictured facesof q
deaf person which notsexen the pencil
Of the retoneher can soften, andsifft the
photographers. art were ,togbe judged
by that small p~ortioniof his work hi
would soon uifer SO imreputationtha1
he would have toz shut mp shop"