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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-02-27
THE LAND FRAUDS.

Though telegraphic dispatches have
ress of the land fraud cases of the
west coast that are now attracting ma
tIonal interest in consequence of the
high station Of those implicated, the
tendency is to lose sight of the source
of the widespread movement to get
land from the Federal Government
without returning full value. The ma.
tioual land laws are so liberal 1t would
seem men ought to be satisfied to
keep within the law. The get.rich.
quick spirit however, has been abroad
in the land beyond the confines ana
alliances of Wall street, where all evil
things are supposed to originate.
The source of the west coast land
frauds Is the increasing demand for
timber lands on account of the cream
of the timber having been taken from
the forests of the middle west. When
Il became known that eastern capital
was in search of timber lands there
was a general rush to obtain owner
ship Of the great strips of virgin for.
only around the edges. A speculative
craze possessed the people and some
of them forgot the law In their rush
20 make fortune.
The land frauds now being probed
In Oregon, the frauds in which It Is
alleged Senator John II. Mitchell and
Representative Binger Hermann are
implicated, were perpetrated very
largely under the homestead law.
though the object of the land thieves
was to acquire title to timber lands.
The principal operators In these
frauds. as recently shown in the Ore
gon courts, were S. A. ID. Puter and
Mrs. Emma Watson. These people.
with several accomplices, conspired to
acquire title to twelve quarter sec
tions of land located within the Cas-.
cade forest reserve, well up toward
the summit of the Cascade Mountains
The land was not valuable in itself.
as II comprised principally rocky
mountain crags and boulders. But.
being within a forest reserve, II had
a value equivalent to an equal area OF
the best timber land in the United
States, since Its owners would enjoy
the right OF reiinquishing their noun
tain lands to the Government ana
getting In exchange an equal area OF
cholce public timber land elsewhere.
the fraud In these cases was In OBJ
tanning title TO the almost valueless
mountain lands by means OF false am
davits and dummy entries.' Putei
and MS associates hled homestead en-
tries covering Twelve quarter sections.
me entries were made In the names
OF nCtltlOuS persons, the names OF the
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-02-27

"For Sale" cards At Bulletin office.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-02-27
BUILDERS COMMITTEES.

The following standing cimmittees
OF the Board Of Directors Of the Build
ers and Traders Association have been
appointed:
Membership Directors - Marston
Campbell (chairman), f. r. Bath
Stanley Stephenson, A. F. Clarke and
a. Gartley.
Rooms Directors-James Mott, Jr
(chairman), A. +. Clarke, John Dude
kirk, Thomas Sharp and Il. II. Bath.
Arbitration Directors-L. L. Pink,
ham (chairman), S. Stephenson, G. f.
Bush, Marston Campbell and A. Cart
ley.
Finance Directors A. Gartley
(chairman). l.. T.. Pinkham, A. F.
Clark, G. F. Bush and Thomas Sharp
Legislation Directors - Marstor
Campbell (chairman), James Mott, Jr.
L. T.. Pinkham, Stanley Stephenson
and G., +. Bush.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-02-27

IS Haw. C. & S. Co. $4,000; 100 Ka-
huku, $1,000; 10 Onomea. $500; ~
Oahu Sugar Co., $4,000; so Kahuku,
$500.
Sales-10 Ookala. ss.75; 20 Kinei,
$14.0O; 100 Olaa, 5000; 40 McBryde.
$1,000; 100 McBryde, $1,000; $1,000
Haw. Sug. Co. 6s. $1,000.
Latest sugar quotation, 5.0625 cents.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-02-27

Miss L. Macfarlane, Miss De Larthe.
Mrs. Craig. Anthony Lotus, Mr.. Prior,
J. De Larthe, Daniel Craig. Miss
Makee, Miss Schaefer. Miss Holloway,
Mrs. Holloway, Grace p. Anderson,
Miss A. Macfarlane, Miss r. Fox. Miss
L. G. Davies are booked to leave on the
Kinau tomorrow for the Volcano.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-02-27

The Legislature is expected to amend
the Sunday law SO that 1t shall meet
the liberal demands of the present day
and not be subject to a variety of in
terpretations changing to fit the whims
OF changing officials.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-02-27
Especial to The Bulletin.l

Waikiki, Maui. Feb. 25.-The Maui
Lodge OF Masons held a meeting on
Thursday night for the purpose OF
third degree work. This being their
first meeting for this degree. the at.
tendance was large.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-02-27

The makeup OF the joint committee
on the County bill is such that the
law is not in the hands of known
enemies who would hesitate to keep
their promises
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-02-27

1t Is proposed to affiliate with the
National Association Of Builders OF
America.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
THE UNIVERSITY PROBLEM.

The management of the University of
Nebraska is up against the same prob
lem that is perplexing the managers of
business as well as educational institu-
tions namely. that of holding its pro
fessors at established salaries against
the admitted increase in the cost of liv-
ing and the tempting offers of more
favored competitors. Much as the uni
versity might suffer for the time being
bg the loss of faculty members whom it
would like to retain, still it must deal
with these matters according to some
general policy and with due regard both
to the financial limitations on its re-
sources aud the relative claims of the
individual components of its instruc-
tional force.
That this is serious problem-in fact
the most serious problem that confrOnts
not only our state university, but other
uI.iN ersites as well-gOes without say
ing. That Nebraska. for some time to
come. at least will have to content
itself. as in the past with the more
moderate salaries of the educational
world and as Il consequence lose from
time to time stellar lights as they be
come able to command larger salaries
offered by the big privately endowed
universities with almost limitless reve-
nucs also goes almost without saying.
Whether our state university has
reached the point now where it must
raise the salary scale for the head pro-
fessors is something for the regents to
consider most carefully, but no matter
what the decision, no material change
can be put into effect until after another
legislative appropriation, because the
last appropriation on which the work
was blocked out for two years did not
contemplate any such advance.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
TIE PRESIDENT ON CHILD LABOR.

TIE PRESIDENT ON CHILD LABOR.
President Roosevelt has shown great
interest in the subject of child labor and
is in hearty sympathy with the move
employment of such labor He referred
to it in his annual message of year
ago and in his last message he renewed
the previous recommendation for an in
vestlgaton by the Department of Com
mCrCe and Labor of general labor con
ditions, especial attention to be paid to
the conditions of child labor and child
labor legislation in the several states
How the president feels on the subject
is shown in the following from the mes
sage: I'm such a republic as ours the
lect is the problem Of ming out de-
cent citizens. The future of the nation
depends upon the citizenship of the gen
erations to come; the children of today
are those who tomorrow will shape the
destiny of our land; and we cannot af-
ford to neglect them He notes the
fact that the legislature of Colorado has
recommended that the national govern
ment provide some general measure for
the protection from abuse of children
throughout the United States.
The Importance of this matter will be
realized when it is stated that about n
million children are employed in the va
rlous industries, very large proportion
of them at an age when they should be
at school and most of them in an en-
virOnment that tends to demoralize
them. Investigation has shown that in
the south and in some of the states of
the north tens of thousands of children
employed in mines and mills and facto-
ries are wholly illiterate. have bad little
or no moral training and are subjected
TO many abuses. The movement for re-
forms respecting child labor has had
good results. 1t has brought about leg
/ islation that has rcmedied some of the
evils and abuses. But there is room for
| further Improvement and this con be eff
| fected only after a more thorough
| knowledge of conditions IL obtained
/ The very best agency for securing such
| information is the Department Of Com
merce and Labor and congress should
not hesitate to give that department the
! desired authority. Meanwhile those who
are working to ameliorate the conditions
of child labor and put stop to the evils
and abuses incident to it will find en-
enlargement in the position of Mr.
| Roosevelt regarding it.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Mr.. Langworth is SO past Miss Roose-
welt is nearing %,
Revised topical song of the season: "Ev-
erybody Works Poor Father"
The thin, decrepid feel of ones purse
these days is good sign of short winter.
Nine Ohio bankers are in Jail and three
more await trial. Mrs. Chadwick appears
TO be in the company of her friends.
If they are wise the bachelors cast for
the role Of Santa Claus will put away the
cotton and put on asbestos whiskers.
Who ever is projected into the presidency
of the Steel trust should provide himself
with armor plate and sidestep the New
York rialto.
Webster Davis has returned TO Missouri
but his fearful voice is not sufficiently COM
posed to answer the question, Where did
you get it?"
Every admirer of the foot ball game who
witnesses the Christmas shopping rush Will
readily admit that the rules need revision
and refinement,
A Chicago editor made wise by expert
ence, says that after you have had the
grip once or twice you are enectually cured
Of desire to joke about 1t.
Notwithstanding reports TO the contrary,
an Indiana judge declares that the lid is
| not on SO tight In this state that man
| cannot blow his nose without being accused
of public flirting"
\ Chicago woman seeks a divorce on the
ground that her husband mussed her spit
curls with a bowl of currant jelly. The
unfortunate man in the case admired lu-
minous locks and used the only available
means 70 secure his ideal
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
CONSULAR REORGANIZA TON.

The very great interest shown by
President Roosevelt and Secretary Root
in the subject of consular reorganization
cannot fail to impress itself upon the
country and upon congress. When Mr..
Root accepted the position of secretary
stood that one of the most important of
his duties would be in connection with
reforming the consular service in accord
with the views of the president as re-
peltedly expressed.
In his last annual message Mr.. ROOse-
Welt said: "Our consular force should be
classified, and appointments should be
made to the several classes, with au-
thorlty TO the executive to assign the
members of each class to duty at such
posts ms the interests of the service re-
quire, instead of tie appointments being
made as at present to specified posts.
There should be an adequate inspection
service, so that the department may be
able to inform itself how the business
of each consulate is being done instead
of depending upon casual private infor-
nation or rumor. The fee system should
be entirely abolished and due eQuiva-
lent made in salary to the officers who
now exc out their existence by means of
fees" Another suggestion of the presi-
dent is that sufficient provision should
be made for clerical force i'm every
consulate. composed entirely of Ameri-
cans. instead of the insufficient provision
now made, (which cOmpels the employ
ment Of great numbers of citizens of
foreign countries whose services can be
obtained for less money
These requirements necessary to the
| Improvement of the consular service
are provided for in the Lodge bill now
| IN the hands of the senate committee on
! foreign relations. This measure, care,
| fully framed and comprehensive in It's
scope, would place the consular service
OH a new basis and remove it from poll
| tics Appointment 10 the service would
| depend upon ascertained qualifications
| and fitness, while advancement would
/ be determined 10y merit A consular
official who performed his duties capably
and faithfully would be sure of promo
| ton whenever a vacancy should occur
! and this would be an incentive to zeal
Gus and faithful performance of duty
/ An important provision OF the bill IL thai
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
DISPENSERS OF SUNSHINE.
Promoters of Laughter CIassed as
Public BencfactOrs.

Baltimore American.
A nation does not realize what it owes to
it's humorists. Its philosophers may point
out profound truths; it's sages may teach it
the wisdom of Solomon; its philosophers
may advise it that the only way of meeting
the inevitable is to submit to it.. 1t is the
humorist who helps it to bear what other
wise would be an intolerabe strain by
turning it's tragedies into jokes, by making
the Responding, nerve -paraly2ing emotions
pass off in a laugh, who strengthens the en-
ergies and mnimizes troubles by the cheer
full inspiration which he gives. Gloom set
ties on hopes and effort and energy like a
pail; it stiles activity and is like an an
esthetic, luling to lethargy when a strong
and bracing tonic is needed to fit men and
the times for the conflict with the powers
OF evil
Nearly everyone has I'm his own personal
experience realized the tonic qualities of a
good, hearty laugh. Nearly every man and
every woman has experienced the power
given to meet and combat the worries of
the day by this good hearty laugh and
how genuine enjoyment has minimized the
everyday Affections and worries of life. Just
as everyone has experienced how continued
gloomy reflection on troubles has increased
their mschievous influence to fetter en-
ergy and to paralyze effort.
Humor Is essentially an intellectual quail
ity. Hence the nation which has the keen
est and the quickest sense of humor is the
moss intellectual. Humor cannot go with
stupidity and self-conceit and eXaggeration.
/ Its influence is always toward proper bal
| ance. 1t saves men and nations from the
! fatal mistake of taking themselves and
| events too seriously. II throws into such
| strong relief the ridiculous side of things
/ that where serious concot would take alarm
at hurt self-vanity, humor laughs away
| the dangers of the situation.
In this sense humOrists are public bene-
! factors. They teach the most useful and
I the easiest of all life's PHILOSOPHERS. They
! smooth away the rough places and hearten
! life with cheerful inspiration They mellow
| the understanding and broaden the heart.
! They are negatively, at least, an aid TO
virtue, for vice cannot grow in an atmos-
phere of cheerfulness. True religion is the
deadliest foe to pessimsm HumOr is such
a powerful aid that one can understand
why the Al-Wise Creator made It part of
! the superior human equipment for the fight
| against evil.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
WINTER.


John Kendrick Bangs in New York Sun.
What though thy kiss be cold. Oh winter
Thou bringest much the heart of man to
cheer!
The rich red holly berry midst the green:
The cracking of the glowing logs at cen;
The hills and dales in purest garb Of snow:
The tinklng of the sleighbels as they go
Adown the road with maids of merry
mood,
With roguish glances peepng from their
hood
The gallant SWANS to tease set up behind
The frisklng steeds that speed them like
The clear, clean sweep of skaters on the
ice;
The crystal flakes so wondrous in device;
The cold, calm heavens brilliantly alight
With friendlier stars than on summer
night
In that they closer come and seem to be
Just twinkling neighbors unto you and me-
And in the wood-what lovely scenes are
there,
When. clad by fairy hands and frosty air
The limbs and branches of the sleeping
Are woven into silvery fiagrees!
What music in the chimes that ring out
clear
Acres the crisp of winters atmosphere!
What grandeur in the swelling harmonies
OF winter winds, and what tranquilities
In winters silenCes.
And for the soul of man, what sweeter
thrill
Is there than in the message of Good viii
That in the darkest hours of winters day
Doth warm the heart as with splendid
ray
From out the sun. east west and south and
north
When Christmas morn from frosty night
springs forth!
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
SERMONS BOILED Down.
Weeds are a call to work.

Weeds are call to work.
Tact is touching with love
The immovable hearts move the world
The blue heart always has black sky.
The empty faith is usually made OF sound
ing brass
one does not get welded to truth by flirt-
ing with doubt
The devil is always willing to play dead in
a war Of words
The only work without honor is that
which helps no one
A man who is honest for policy will he
dishonest for promotion.
He is blessed with fortune who has
learned to bear misfortune
The losses of truth are more profitable
than the gains Of trickery.
Many deacon who is long on coat tails
will be found short on wings
loving heart is like summers day: IL
never needs to advertise itself
You cannot look constantly on dirt and
keep your windows free from dust
Nowhere does money create a more dis
appointing mirage than in a moral desert.
Many of us want a God with keen ear
for our prayers and dull eye for our prac-
tees.
Many n fly is ready to die in the pan IL
his epitaph shall read, He lived in the
cream"
If you are the salt of the earth you must
not complain II you get good shaking now
and then
It's no sign that you will get along with
the angels because no one can get along
with you here
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
SECULAR SHOTS At tue PULPIT.

Brooklyn Eagle: Cardinal Merry del Val
Is to have President Roosevelts speeches
and message translated into Italian. for the
pope to read 1t is safe to say that the
gentle Italian language will be put into an
uncommonly hard canter to do justice to
Mr.. Roosevelt.
New York Tribune: Rev. George C. Rich
mond of st. Johns Episcopal church. STAN
ford, Conn, says, with little credit to him
self, that THE corporation officer who takes
more than $4,000 year salary is a thief"
Somehow this definition recalls a saying of
Anatolc France: 1T is only from a barrel
or from a shop that one may dominate the
grandeurs Of this world"
Philadelphia Record: 4 clergyman objects
to sermons on graft for the curious reason
that they make the hearers feel like going
out and wrcaking vengeance on high flnan-
ciors instead of waiting until Christ comes
to right the wrongs" If the sermons move
the congregations to go forth and vote
against grating officials we should suppose
their utility needed no higher evidence.
New York Post: Political methods have
surely got into the church, now that ono
brother at an election of wardens and
vestrymen has accused another brother Of
stuffing the ballot box and then hit him in
the eye and knocked him down on the
church floor. II is satisfactory to know
that both knocker and knockee are eligible
for the National Federation of Churches
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

necessarily much reduced under existing
conditions There Is still in the country
considerable reserve of gold, but this
is really nothing more nor less than Dor
ruwed money and cannot be used be
cause of the large amount of outstand-
ing notes. If the government should be
forced. rs seems probable. to announce
its inability to meet its obligations the
effect would be calamitous and would
not be confined to Russia. 1t would be
severely felt in every European money
market and could not fail TO cause IA
widespread monetary disturbance. The
Russian financial situation is of far
greater interest to most of the world
than are the operations of the revolu-
tionary elements.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17
NERRASEA EnR My

The billboards in every city are deco
rated with portraits of Henry George
pointing to sign on which is inscribed
II am for men," That sentence should
be the keynote of the dominant party of
Nebraska in next years great campaign.
Nebraska's most imperative want is
men i'm public life, aud unless the repub-
lican party responds to the demand for
men through its state conventions, con
gressional conventions and legislative
conventions. it will be repudiatcd and
pulled under by the great mass Of Ne
braska citizenship.
The popuist uprising fifteen years
ago was "A revolt against corporate CON
troll of the dominant party and the low
standard Of public men foistcd into posi-
tions Of honor and trust. Instead Of
profiting by the disastrous lessons the
party had shirked its responsibility and
abdicated its prerogative i'm the choice
of candidates to n political cabal whose
highest ideal of public service was sub
serviency to the mandates of the corpo-
rations, and this experience has again
had partial repetition in the last few
years.
As natural sequence. Nebraska has
been Inundated and disgraced by the in
ferior class of men whom it has raised
to positions of honor and trust. Men
have been sent TO represent Nebraska in
national conventions, who were utterly
unknown outside of their own counties
or towns and could not in the nature Of
things exert any influence whatever in
gathering composed of men of com
handing positions in national councils.
Thus we have had men foisted into ex-
prerequisite qualification for creditably
discharging the functions of their re-
Spectivc positions. Worst of all. our
nominating conventions and legislatures
have been corrupted and debauChcd
chiefly because the people were repre-
scented by dummies and graftcrs instead
of men of approved business integrity
and moral stamina.
With the Irresistible wave of reform
| that is sweeping the continent Nebraska
| can no longer remain dormant or indif
ferent TO the movement for higher stand
ards in public life and for more eXacting
enforcement of official duties and obi
cations.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

no person who is not an American citi-
zen shall be appointed in any consulate
general or consulate to any clerical po-
sition the salary of which exceeds one
thousand dollars year. At present
there are hundreds of foreigners en-
ployed i'm the consular service of the
United states and it is scarcely neces-
sary to say that these men are not as
careful to promote the commercial in
terests Of this country as our own cit-
zens would he.
The business interests of the United
States have for years been urging con
gress to take action for recognizing and
improving the consular service. They
desire that it shall be made as efficient
as possible for promoting the extension
of our commerce. In this respect great
improvement has been made under the
present administration, but a yet higher
standard of usefulness is attainable.
This will he reached if the Lodge bill
becomes a law and congress should lose
no time in enacting that measure.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

Postmaster General Cortelyou's sug-
gestion that the Thanking privilege is ac-
countable for the postoftice deficit is
good so far as it goes, but excessive
rates charged the government for rail
road mail transportation would also ac-
count for a big part of it. If the free
list were to be suspended and the mail
contracts let at the same time on basis
somewhere near what is charged ex-
press companies and fast freight lines,
the postoffice deficit would be speedily
transformed into surplus.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-17

Nearly 100000 freight cars in the
United States are still unequipped with
air brakes or other automatic safety de
vices. notwithstanding repeated prom
Uses of the railroads and successive post
ponements at their request of the date
when safety appliance laws We're to 20
into effect. There is no reason what
ever why single piece of rolling stock
should be in use on an American rail
road today that does not fully comply
with all the legal requirements as to
safety appliances.