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Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09
MILLS OF THE sOLONs.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
Now the mills Of legislation,
Here and there throughout the nation,
Are all running TO the limit of their speed;
Long and steady Is the grinding,
For the statesmen keep on finding
Piles of grist to jam in hoppers that they
feed.
With an earnestness surprising
Everything they're scrutinizing,
Framing bills for which there seems 10 be
no cause;
Water, earth and sky they're scanning
In the vigor of their planning
Anything will suit in grinding out more
laws.
Though each state as we'll as nation,
Gags or too much legislation,
And has laws for which there's not the
slightest need,
Still the number keeps on growing,
And the statesmen keep on throwing
Grist and push the mills TO limit OF their
speed.
Often there Is sore vexation,
And NJ times there's indignation,
But at least we TO these laws may gladly
turn; s
For when scarcer grows the fuel,
And men feel the pinch that's cruel,
They'll be thankful they have tons OF laws
to burn.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09
LOST, STRAPED OR STOLEN.

More than a year ago several "well-
defined rumors' were put in circulation
by the occupants of the fifth foot in the
city hall. On the strength Of these
startling revelations the Board Of Edu-
cation adopted resolutions requesting
the judges of the district court to call a
grand jury to investigate the well-de-
fined rumors, alleging that involuntary
contributions, tantamount to blackmail,
were being levied and collected from
gamblers and keepers Of disorderly re-
sorts, and that this corruption fund was
being divided between the mayor the
chief OF police and another party not
specifically named.
The grand jury was duly convened
and many witnesses examined, but their
testimony utterly failed to substantiate
the well-defned rumors. T%hereupon the
disseminators of the "well-deined" de-
clared that the grand jury inquisitlon
proved a failure because the victims
who had been blackmailed for alleged
protection did not dare testify to the
facts for fear of police persecution.
When the new Broatch- Baldwin police
board assumed charge of the police de-
partment 1t was confidently predicted
that the proofs to substantiate the we'll
defined rumors would soon be ~forthcom-
ing and a horrible stencil would per-
meate the atmosphere when the lid was
lifted. The reform board has now been
in full control Of the police for more
than six months. New officers in active
sympathy with the element that started
the well-deined rumors have had ample
time to scour the field and search the
innermost recesses of the prescribed dis
trict, but up to date not a trace of the
alleged levy and distribution of black
mail has turned up.
Whether the well-deined rumors have
evaporated or whether they are lost,
strayed or stolen has not transpired.
Those who have been on tiptoe for the
explosion of a bombshell are still
looking,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

Given the opportunity and the nan OF
genius win develop. This is doubtless
true Of Representative Koetter as Of
other men. Before his election to the
legislature nobody in or out Of Omaha
dreamed that he vas a profound stu
dent of educational institutions and mo-
body suspected him OF having a bent for
educational reform. But the opportunity
came TO Mr.. Koetter and he embraced it
by introducing more school bills than
all the other members OF the present
legislature combined.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

So long as Omaha and South Omaha
pay fve-sixths of the taxes in Douglas
county the farmers of Douglas county
will very naturally oppose county divi-
sion. But why should they oppose a
merger of the government Of county and
city, which would reduce their taxes
still further by reducing the expenses
of county government?
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

Referring to the agitation in various
states for more equitable taxation Of
railroad property, the Railway Age says
that ut is to be a trying winter for cor
porations and for lawmakers" SO long
as the railroads continue to evade their
Just share of the public burdens 1t is
trying on the other taxpayers all the
wear round. ,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

Omaha shippers do not relish the new
traffic policy that holds freight trains
back for full loads and slows up the
running schedule. II maximum profit is
to outweigh every consideration Of pub
lie convenience with the railroads, the
next step will be to start no passenger
train until every seal is occupied.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09
81, 1902, are as follows:


IOtal ............... 81 ,b29, 495 Il
This is an average of $162, 949.52 per
annum, or fully one-seventh of the
state tax paid by the whole state.
Four-ifths of the total paid into the
state treasury, or S1,3O3, 506.17, repre-
sents Omaha's forced contribution dur
ing the past decade toward the main
tenance of state government and state
institutions, making IN annual average
of $l3O,359.6l since 1892. This is con-
siderably more than 10 per cent of the
running expenses of state government.
1t stands to reason that a reduction
of city taxes in Omaha, which would
follow an equitable assessment Of rail
road property for city purposes, would
tend to increase materially the value Of
Omaha realty, and an increase in the
value of real estate would be followed
by higher assessment for state purposes,
so that in the end the state would gain
materially by the repeal of the law that
allows railroads 20 be returned on a
mileage basis for municipal taxation.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09
oMAHA.s FORCED Contribution.

Omaha is by no means a deadhead in
the indissOluble partnership that exists
between it and the state Of Nebraska.
On the grand assessment roll for 1902,
which aggregates $1s0,O91, 1872, Douglas
county is represented by $685. 91, 1876, and
four-tfths of that amount represents
Omaha's share of the assessment for
state and county taxation. The amounts
paid into the state treasury by Douglas
county for the ten years ending Deem
her 81 1Q0O are L. fnIInrrn.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

Omaha has an improvement club in
every part of the city and every i'm
provement club should speak out for
equal taxation Of railroad property by
the city. Relieving property here of
the taxes it has been paying for the
railroads would do more to encourage
improvements than any other one thing.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09
Some Facts Forgotten.

st. Louis Republic.
DIR. Edward Everett Hale, properly hon.
ored by Boston as a great and good map,
strenuously opposes the American senti-
ment in favor Of an increase of the Ameri-
can navy. Has the venerable divine for
gotten how earnestly Boston appealed for
naval protection in 1898, when lombard
ment by a Spanish feet was feared? A
sufficient number OF formidable American
ships are good things to have around, and
Boston keenly realized this truth less than
five years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

Word from Washington is TO the
effect that democrats are much pleased
over the result of the Colorado senate
rial election returning Teller for an
other six years, Not that they recog-
nize much of democracy in Teller, but
they know a renegade republican is
always more bitter against his former
associates than men Of opposite polit-
ical faith.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

There is nothing small about Judge
Gordon, as all the world knows. His
guide, philosopher and friend, Judge
Eller, is said to be preparing papers to
test Gordon's salary claim in the courts
for the period since Judge Berka has
been on the bench. The perpetual
claimant will never let up until he stops
drawing salaries on account of heart
failure.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

Secretary Hitchcock deserves credit
for standing pat against the frauds at
tempted by the land grab ring on the
W~innebagO agency in connection with
the Indian heirship lands. If the land
grabbers were only give free rein it
would not be long before the Indian
would be parted from all the land al.
lotted him as a means of support.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09
Rivalry in Land Grabbing.
ChicaRo ChronIcle-

OHICdBO NHTUHICIe.
With great zest for the enforcement OF
the land laws the cattle barons have taken
to killing Wyoming sheep raisers who have
.unlawfully squatted on the government do
main. The barons evidently deem them
solves capable Of doing all the land-grab-
bling that may be necessary to absorb what
is left of Uncle Sans landed estate.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09
siIIieat Waate of Timo.

New York Tribune.
The idle chatter concerning schemes for
the establishment Of a national theater in
the United States and a censorship of the
stage is the %silliest waste of words that
might readily be imagined. Congress will
never grant a subvention to opera or
drama or establish a censorship Of music
or plays in this republic. and there is no
good reason why any federal legislation Of
that kind should be asked for.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

Here is a piece of prophecy by a popu-
list paper taken not from one Of its
issues Of 1896. but from it's latest mum.
Der in the year 1908:
Mark this announcement. Before the
expiration Of five years there will be a
bimetallism established BY all the leading
nations Of the earth, and after that we
shall have no more Of the single gold
standard idiocy.
But the same authority INDUCED a
great many similar predictions during
the two free silver campaigns which
failed to make good.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

The suggestion is made that the Com
mercial club give up its top story quar-
tiers and come down to the ground floor,
where it can get nearer to the people.
1t can get nearer to the people without
changing its quarters.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

Ex-senator Allen notes in his paper
thai the future Of fusion in Nebraska
seems at this time to be uncertain. He
might add that in this respect the fu-
ture of fusion in Nebraska is very much
like its past.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

Governor Mickey has not yet begun
to unlimber his veto pen, but the
chances are good he will have to call it
into requisition before the legislature
adiourns.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09
Go-Between as a study.
Chicago News.

Quigg and Lessler having been exon
Grated, the attorney general will please
look into the case Of Philip Doblin more
closely. As a product of American political
institutions Doblin may be a profitable sub
ject for study.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

Arizona does not take kindly to the
compromise proposal to admit it to
statehood only after consolidation with
New Mexico. 1t evidently looks upon
union with New Mexico as a marriage
without possibility OF divorce.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

1t is found that the city hall roof
leaks. The giasticutuses must have lost
their ability to develop a thirst that
will enable them to absorb all the water
falling on tho roof.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

Rumors about the impending absorb
ton OF the Great Western railroad have
been aioat in New York for several
weeks, but these floating rumors may
only be part of a scheme to boom rail-
rnad STOCKS.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

The customary threats are being made
that the foreign insurance companies
will all withdraw from Nebraska If
they are made to pay any more taxes in
this state, But the insurance companies
will always go wherever they can do
business at a profit.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

Mr.. Rockefeller plainly made a great
mistake in sending kilograms to men,
bers of congress to kill the antitrust
bills. He should have wired to John N.
Baldwin,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

That Omaha is united and in dead
earnest in demanding equal taxation for
all classes of property. corporate and in
dividual, was manifested by the mass
meeting at the city hall.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

The two Dewets must come out of a
ighting mold. Having no longer a
British enemy to fight, they are said to
be fighting one another.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09
Cause and Eject.

1t is now proposed to amend the anti
football bill in the Missouri legislature so
as to place high balls under the legislative
ban. Perhaps it is the playing of high ball
by the lawmakers that has led them to see,
such evil things in football.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

Lincoln birthday banquets will again
be utilized by democratic orators to
claim Lincoln's accord with political
views he would Indignantly repudiate If
aIiva
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

A pr~otracted ex post facto discussion
of the Howell Gilbert water works bill
is scarcely necessary except so far as
the ill-digested features of the hill are
involved. That the bill is crude and de
fectiYe in several essential particulars
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

will be shown when the machinery pro
vided for is set in motion. The only
present object the measure will sub
serve is to AFFORD lucrative business for
lawyers and supply some people with
soft Jobs at the expense Of the tax
M
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09
erArEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
safe Of Nebraska, Douglas County, SIS:
George b. Tzschuck, secretary of The BEE
Publishing company, being duly sworn, says
that the actual number OF full and eomplete
copies Of The Daily, Morning, Evening ah9
6unday Bee printed during the month OF
January. 1909. Was as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

docs the learned court, in Its inteli-
gence, feel that l will be better next July
than now?" asked Ezekiel Esau Young of
Magistrate Flammer, in Jefferson Market
court the other day.
"If your honor will permit, l will relate
unto you the circumstances which brought
me hither."
Proceed" said the magistrate.
81 was strolling along Eighth avenue last
night, and my walk begat a thirst; thirst
suggested drink, the price of which, alas!
1 had not. A damsel crossed my path, and
I asked the maiden for assistance. The
appeal produced one penny. l then ap-
preached a man and requested him to give
me four more pennies, and with that
amount 1 might buy a nickel drink. He
gave me the 4 cents, and then arrested me.
He is devoid of sympathy, your honor, and
he who is without sympathy for his fellow
man is not Of the elect. l have spoken"
"You have, and, l understand, been COM
mitted Ave times" said the magistrate.
"You have been correctly informed, most
lenient judge" replied Ezekiel. land, ac-
cording to the new law, which is uncon-
stitutional, you have the power to send me
up for 100 days. But / protest. / am a
free-born citizen Of these United States,
and I crave your clemency. The uncertain
ties and possibilities OF this mundane ex-
~istepce, that"
1--WE are not dealing with futures" broke
in the court,
"But, your honor, It is to the future we
must look. Are we positive of anything?
Even you, with your intelligence, to which
1 bow, do not know that you are alive. Be
merciful. for the quality of mercy is not
strained; it blesseth him who gives as we'll
as him who receiveth. /"
This fellow will talk all day. If you let
him." broke in Smith, the bridge" ofncer;
"he's an oldtimer."
"Six months" said Magistrate Flammer,
and Ezekiel Esau Young was led away,
vowing vengeance on Smith for "buttin'
in"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

A Brooklyn electrical engineer has just
patented a device that, 1t is asserted, will
make impossible such a disaster as occurred
last week at Westheld. 1t is q signal appli-
ance that will work in connection with the
present semaphore system, and will dis
play the signal on board the locomotive
Immediately before the engineers eyes, SO
that it cannot be obscured in fog or dark
ness, and IL it is a danger signal, will put
on the airbrakes and stop the train, even
though the engineer be dead In his cab.
The signal works in three ways at the
same time. 1t displays for a danger sig
nal & red light, blows a whistle and puts
on the airbrakes simultaneously. For a
precautionary signal it simply puts on a
green light In front of the engineers eyes.
In order to make the system doubly sure,
the semaphore lights now in use may be
left on the s~emaphores, so that there will
be signals on the cab and alongside the
track. A large railway system is consid-
ering the adoption of the invention.
In the meantime, the question Of COM
pelling railway companies that are using
engines Of the type of that which caused
such havoc at Westheld, N. j., to have two
men in the forward cab is being vigorously
agitated in New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09
ROUND ABOUT NEW YoRK.
RIppIes ON the Current OF Life In h
MetropoIIs.

Four owners and boosters Of the "Infal-
lible Safety Wheat Syndicate" a get-rich-
quick swindle, have been gathered in by
the authorities and Jailed. This is the first
bunch Of scores engaged in plucking the
gullible, which the authorities have sup
pressed, and the suppression is accom-
panied by the customary announcement
OF the relentless war on the swindlers.
Every few weeks the newspapers Of the
land contain exposures of such swlndles,
yet none OF these concerns fails to obtain
thousands OF dupes and the promoters arc
usually shrewd and wealthy enough TO es-
cape punishment entirely or to get of with
light sentences.
After the exposure of the MILLER syndi-
cate" the ~swindlers who we're playing a
similar game sought cover for a while, but
during the past few months they have be-
come holder. and While there is no great
tendency now among the general public
toward speculation, the number of victims
is large enough to materially enrich the
schemers.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09

In January the authorized capitalization
Of new concerns that filed papers in the
eastern states with a capital Of Sl,000,00O
or over, as we'll as increases for companies
previously in existence, reached a total Of
S177, 800. 900. In December the total was
S97, 25O, 600; in November, Sis, 40, OOO, and
in October. S244,5 $50, 900. In July. which was
the record month of 1902, 1t was S469, $685.
400.
The increased ease in money, which per-
mitted of the acquisition Of funds for new
enterprises was responsible for the large
increase in January ever December. The
January total Of 1903 makes a good show
ing compared with hat Of 1902, when the
aggregate interpretations reached $146, $780,
900.
The total was distributed among the va
rious eastern states as follows: New Jer-
sey, S9S, 900, 900; Maine, $50, SOC, 1000 New
York, $40, 500, 900; Delaware, $12, 900, 900;
Connecticut, $1,000. 900; Pennsylvania, So
600, 900. Total, S177. 800, 900.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-07
NON UNION MEN TESTIFY
Tell of Their Troubles During
 The Coal Strike

One of the Men Says He Was Knock
 ed Senseless While Riding on a
 Locomotive which Was Dynamited
 One Witness Said Strikers Blew
 Up Dam.
 Philadelphia, Jan 7.-When the strike commission began it's session to-day counsel for the non-union min CTS resumed calling witnesses to prove that union miners were respon- sible for the alleged lawlessness in the anthracite region last year, B. c. Tiff fany of Ashley, near Wilkesbarre, an outside foreman employed by the Le- high x Wilkesbarre company, testi- fled that strikers blew up dam near the Ashley colliery with dynamite.
 Robert A. Read, outside foreman of No IS colliery of the Lehigh & Wilkes barre Coal Go, testified that he was knocked senseless while riding on a mine locomotive which was dynamit- ed.
 George w Jasper, q coal and iron policeman, employed at Stanton col hery of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Go, testified about the destruction by fire of the fence surrounding the prop erty and the partial ruin of trestle outside the fence.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-07
AUsTRIA-HUNGARY ALSO.

Constantinople, Jan 7-Great Brit aims protest to Turkey against the permission granted last September for four unarmed Russian torpedo boat destroyers to pass through the Dar- danelles into the Black sea under the commercial flag of Russian will, it is believed, De followed by similar ac- tion by AustriasHungary and by Italy. Germany and France vzts remain aloof. Gern2>ny's aIoofness s1 tal con-
 sonance with her traditional z<bIicy not to embarrass the porte, waile
 France, naturally, abstains from act ing against the interests of her ally,
 Russia.
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-07
.HAD POUDER|N HER STOCKING
Revere Chief of Police Gives lm-
 portant Testimony

On Witness Stand To-Day in the Rich
 ardson Poisoning Case-He Told
 All That the Woman Conlided to
 Ei1n When She Was First Placed
 Under Arrest.
 Chelsea, Mass, Jan 7.-Upon the re- sumption of the Richardson poisoning case ill the district court here to-day it was expected by those interested that before night the question of prob able cause on the charge that Miss Catherine V. Richardson attempted to poison her aged mother, Mrs Harley Richardson, would be decided by Judge Bosson.
 Chief Sackett, of the Revere police, upon whose invest:2 2ations depends the case against Miss Richardson and wl.o yesterday began his testimony, contin- ued his evidence to-day. He was tell irtg, last night when court adjourned, about an interview which he had with Miss Richardson ol Christmas eve, taf- te. Ter arrest. Taking up the story today he said that the woman, in answer to his question admitted that all the Richardson property had been made over to her and that. although both her mother and brother had ask tlt Ter to return at least a part of it, she had not done so. After this inter- view Mrs Richardson, the mother, came into the room. She said to the chief you are not clever enough to catch her, she is poisoning me right along but you will never be able to catch her"
 Chief Sackett said that on Decem- ber %, he delivered to pr B, F. Davenport the, powders found in Miss Richardson's stocking after her arrest
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-07
IN HEAVY HARNESS.
Trotting Races at Horse Shows To Be
 Tried That Way.

 New York, Jan Arrangements are now being made to introduce next season a new style of trotting races for testing and developing the com bined speed and stamina of the Amer ican trotting horse. Briefly stated, the plan is to have trotting races in heavy harness at the leading horse shows where the tracks are large enough, and to make such races a feature of some of the principal trot- ting meetings also.
 The men who are behind the move ment purpose to introduce races for runabouts, gigs, phaetons, breaks, coaches and other vehicles, such as commonly used for pleasure driving, with full weight up, and with toe weights. overdraw checks and all oth- CT artificial appliances barred. The horses will be required to gc various distances from one mile up to twelve or fifteen miles.