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Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-23
Counties.
Firemen,n Tournnment.

The big feature of the the state fire.
mems turnament at Clinton, June 10 to
20, this year will be race between the
champion fire teams OF Iowa and Illinois.
Lincoln now holds the championship fire
team OF Illinois and Des Moines the
championship team of Iowa. The
Illinois tournament will be held before
that in Iowa, and the race will be on the
last day of the Iowa tournament between
the championship teams of this year.
Jack and Jack. the champions of the Iowa
tournament, will be in the race again
this year. Clinton has organized an as
ISOLATION for the purpose of taking care
of the tournament with prominent BUSH
ness men hlling the Offices. 1t is under
stood among the fremen that Council
BLUFFS will not only attend with Its
famous team Midnight and Dynamite,
but viii have a second team. There is
considerable mystery as to this second
team and some of the departments in
other cities have the impression that the
team is decidedly fast and likely to prove
winners
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-23

For the accommodation OF readers OF The
Bee these patterns. which usually retail at
from Is 10 50 cents each, will be furnished
at the nominal price Of 10 cents. A supply
is now kept at our once, so those who
wish any pattern can get Il either by call
ing OF enclosing 10 cents. addressed Pat
fern department. Omaha Bee, Omaha. Neo
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-23

Chicago Cottage Organ, four sets Of
reeds and octave couplers. eleven stops
high top. walnut case. Price, $22.
Estey organ. four sets. OF reeds nine
stops, high top walnut case. Price s25.
Schultz organ, four sets OF reeds, eight
stops, octave couplers. high top, with big
mirror. walnut case. Price t33
Farrand & Votey organ, four sets of
reeds, eleven stops, octave couplers. high
fancy top. with mirror, oak case. Price SS5.
schultE organ, four sets OF reeds. eleven
stops, octave couplers, high fancy top
with, mirror. Price, SS7
SCHNEIDER & Mueller Organ, four sets OF
reeds. eleven stops octave couplers. vox
humane, high fancy top with French
plate mirror Price, Ns.
Sold for cash or payments OF 50 cash
and 80 cents per week.
sCHMoLLER & MUELLER PIANO Co,
Phone SIS. 500 Broadway, Council BLUFFS.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-23
Nay BE Muntered ont.

General Thrift has issued an order serv-
ing notice on the First Signal Corps com
pany OF the National Guard, located in
in this city. that unless there Is a marked
Improvement IN the eompany's work at
once the company will be mustered out
Under the new methods OF the depart
men companies are rated as excellent, very
good, good. fair and subject TO muster
out and the old method OF rating COM
panies by per cent has been abandoned.
The First Signal company OF this city
served In the PHILIPPINES.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-23

\. I, Piumb,nE Co Tsl - Might, "a
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-23

Norway ana Swedish Imported goods.
finest delikatesse anchovis, s5c key Nor
wegian smoked sardnes in olive oil, the
finest and cleanest sardine put up l5e a
can. Norwegian sennep or mustard, the
finest mustard made, zoe can. Imported
Swedish summer sausage, per b. Sc. We
guarantee these goods TO be strictly i'm
ported goods. J. Olson, 7S9 and IA w.
way.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-23

We never fail 10 give absolute satisfae-
ton. Carpets cleaned by our sanitary
process are thoroughly cleaned. We take
them from your floor and relay them. You
have no trouble or annoyance Call up
SIC ana see how cheap We do II. The coun-
ell Bluffs Cleaning and Rug Mfg. Co. 81 n.
Main St
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
BurrOS Lack Sense.

WASHINGTON, July 10.-Some time
ago the insular bureau of the war de.
partment embarked on the experiment
on sending into the Philippines a few
American donkeys, known as
''burros," for use among the Spanish
speaking people. Many advices from
the islands now state that seven, or
about halt of the consignment, were
drowned in the %torrential rains of the
''wet" season, the animals being
caught out in the open and not know.
ing how to shelter themselves, like the
native beasts of burden.
The natives, who are q little afraid
of the animals, declared that the
burros had been drowned because they
did not have sense enough to come in
out of the rain.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
To Survey boundary Line.

WASHINGTON. July 1O.-Secretary
Hitchcock has authorized H. b. Car
penter of Cheyenne, to complete his
survey OF the boundary line between
Montana and Idaho, Of which some
two hundred miles remained uufn.
ished for lack of funds last year. Mr..
Carpenter will receive SIS 900 for his
work, which amount was appropriated
by congress to complete the boundary
survey. The Wyoming mans work
will take him into the crest of the
Rockies. While the survey of this
particular section is not so perilous
as the ground covered by him up to
that point, Mr., Carpenter will never
theless receive $50 for every mile he
surveys. One hundred dollars per mile
was paid him for his work up to this
point.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
oregon Land Fraud Trials.

PORTLAND, July 1.-THE first of
the land fraud trials will begin next
Monday before Judge Hunt. There
will, however. be preliminary skir.
mishing, forcing defendants in DIFF.
ferent cases to plead and arguing of
demurrers during the present week.
The first trial will be that of Henry
w. Miller, Frank E. Kincart, NJ. G..
Hoge and Charles Nickle, on an in.
dictment charging them with conspir-
acy to defraud the United States by
inducing about 100 persons to make
illegal filing on valuable tracts of
timber lands in southern Oregon and
thereby acquiring the same.
Hoge is a Medford, Oregon, lawyer
and Kincart and Miller are timber
cruisers, both of whom have been I'm.
der arrest several times in connection
with alleged fraudulent land operators
il southern Oregon and northern Cali
fornia. Nickel lives in Medford and
is q man of some local prominence.
He owns the Southern Greg onian, pub.
lished at Medford, and the Democratic
Times, published at Jacksonville.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
Peculiar and Pertinent.

England is today the virtual ruler
OF $500, 600 square miles OF African
territory.
Only two American vessels have en-
tered the harbor of Bordeaux in 10
years, and those YER private yachts
which sought refuge during the Span.
ish-American war.
Consul Miner reports that 50 per
cent of the laces manufactured In
Calais, France, are exported to the
United States, the value Of which av.
erages 81 900, 600 annually.
An investigation by the Belgian
government OF the theft OF leather mail
bags in the kongo Free State dis
closed the fact that natives in the pos
tai service took them, u out the
bottom and ave them to their wives
to be worm as clothing.
More nearly than in the growing OF
any other crop the United States has
a monopoly in supplying the world $
cotton demand. In 1904, when tht
greatest cotton yield was produced, O
the total of 5,5Os, 900 bales the United
States supplied l3,55',Ooo bales a.
the other cotton areas of the worlC
producing less than 2,OOO,o 900 bales.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
The Red Flag In Russia.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 9.-Political
demonstrations during which the
crowds carried red flags and sang
revolutionary songs, occurred in
many places in St. Petersburg yester.
day afternoon and last night, neces.
stating the interference of the police
and military patrol. Street cars were
held up and their occupants compelled
to uncover and salute the red aags.
The most serious affair happened
near the Moscow railroad, where an
officer later identified as Lieutenant
Tom, made a revolutionary speech to
a crowd of 1900 people. A detach-
ment of police attempted to dispense
the assembly, but the people armed
themselves with tones dug up from
the streets and beat Off the police and
a squadron of Cossacks. Eventually
the Cossacks were re.enforced and
fired a blank volley in the air. where.
upon the rioters fed to a neighboring
court. Only a few persons were
slightly injured. Lieutenant Tom
was arrested and taken to the fort.
reSS.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
Where Four States Meet.

The United States is the only cour.
try in the world that has q flour
that is to say q place where
four states meet. Look at your atlas.
Gays the Chicago News, and you will
see Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and
Arizona touching each other. AT no
place on the globe do four states, ter.
ritories or provinces unite to form
such a junction.
The spot is on a spur Of the Carlo
mountains, and few tourists visit it,
partly because it is not easily accessi.
BILE and partly because comparatively
few people think about it. A monu'
ment marks it, however, erected by
the government surveyors. The poin,
is reached bv a trail leading from the
road from the Nauajo springs in Col
orado, in the Ute alton, to the
San Juan river.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
british Are AstOunded.

LONDON, July lO.-The Britishers
who have been so virtuous recently
over the Chicago meat packing revela.
tons Were confronted today with the
annual report Of the inspector Of fac.
tories and workshops, which shows
that the conditions here are quite as
revolving as anything alleged of the
western packing ceuters. Dirty fac.
tories and disgusting methods seem to
be the rule instead OF the exception.
am factories, bakeries and sausage
makers are all censured as being
equally filthy and the description of
one fits mos of the others. Here is
the report of a typical jam factory:
The boiling room lay between the
yard aLd the stable and the horses
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
FENCING THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

1t is IL sure shot that Judge Hunt
would have sent Joe WOOlmau to
the lookup two years ago for so ven.
ial as transgressiOu rs fencing the
public domain. That he did do this
last week is one OF the many indlca.
tions that are popping into view all
over the country, that we are in the
throes of u reconstructive period that
is disturbing, if not appalling in its
radicality, says the Yellowstone Jour.
nal.
Long ago the law of the land made
it illegal to fence the public domain.
Some people whose interests lay the
other way, did not want other people
fencing it and the ethics being against
selfish appropriation the law vent on
the books and for a good many years
that is about as far as it could 90.
Sturdy General Longstreet it was who
beat an incontinent retreat from the
serried ranks of illegal fencers Of the
public domain in Nebraska, only a
few years ago. He was duly accredit.
ed from the interior department to
rescue and restore to public use vas,
tracts Of public lands that had been
included in the enclosures Of certain
reputable and influential gentlemen
down that way. He went about his
Task with fhp same pnhrvy and
sincerity of purpose that had char
acterized his whilom raids on the fed.
eral forces in the days OF the big war,
but as soon as his purpose was under.
stood by the people his campaign Hat
tened out because OF his transfer tl
other and important fields
There is nc criticism implied in this
II was simply the way matters of ,hi,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
THE EORTY-SlNTH STAR

According to Leslie's Weekly the
new state of Oklahoma authorized by
congress at the recent session COM
prising the territory Of that name and
Indian territory, will start Out with
more than 1900, 600 population. This
is four times as many inhabitants as
any previous territory or territories
had when admitted to statehood.
Virginia, which vas by far the largest
of the original II states, had less than
half this population when the first ma
tional census Of the government was
taken. On the roll OF states in 1906
Oklahoma holds the twenty-second
place in inhabitants. Population has
been rushing into Oklahoma at the
rate of 1000 a week. Statehood will
increase the inflow. The opening,
Don to take place, of the kiowa and
Comanche pasture lands aud wood
reserve in the southwestern part of
Oklahoma proper, will bring in thous.
ands Of settlers. The 81, 900 Indians
il the Indian territory end of the
state are all civilized. Moreover,
they are outnumbered five to one by
the whites IN that community.
Both ends Of the new state have
schools, churches, newspapers, farms,
mines, factories, mercantile houses,
banks, aud the rest OF the accompani-
ments of an advanced and well-bal-
anced civilization. They have in
combination, 5000 miles Of railway,
and are in direct and constant com.
munication with all parts of the Unit.
ed States. More railway mileage is
being built in the new state than in
any other part Of the country. The
Indian territory part is particularly
rich IN coal, iron, lead and zinc lands.
Its wealth in coal has recently been
brought out conspicuously by Senator
La Toilette and others IN the legisla'
ton relating to the five civilized
tribes. The corn and cotton prOduc'
ton of the new state is large, and Is
increasing with great speed. Ever!
agricultural product of the temperate
zone thrives there.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
Important Wool Decision.

BOSTON, July lO.-The decision of
the board of general appraisers in the
case of Stone 4 Downer, wool i'm.
porters, against the United States,
that the mixing of woods to secure a
lower rate of duty subjects the wool
to a double duty, is upheld in q de-
cision handed down today by Judge
Colt oflthe United States circuit court.
This was q test case designed to de.
termine the rights of wool importers
and is considered of general import.
auce to the wool trade as laying down
the law as to Customs duties.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
A Million Immigrants.

NEW YORK, July l0.-More than q
million immigrants entered the United
States through the Ellis Island station
during the fiscal year ending June 30
last. The exact number was 1,062, 054,
an increase of 1919, 075, as compared
with the preceding year. The largest
number of immigrants came from
southern Italy, the number being 3d.
COG. The Hebrews were second, with
$4,000. The immigrants brought with
them a total of $40, 600, 900.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18

reached the latter through the boiling
room. The sanitary accommod alton
was hardly separated from the rooms
where the fresh fruit and uncovered
jam were kept and the floors were dirty
and undrained.'
Another factory inspector found jam
pots being washed in ''liquid like
dark soup, which smelled abomin.
ably" The manager informed the in
spector that the water vas changed
"about once q week." When fished out
OF these evil smelling tanks the pots
we're allowed to stand until dry, when
they were considered to be ready to
receive fresh installments OF pre-.
Sorcps
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
THE SENATE'S ROBINSON CRUSOE.

The senior United States senator |
from Montana is the subject Of a
character sketch by a writer In the
Saturday Evening Post, who refers
to him as the Robinson Crusoe of the
senate. The writer says in part:
William Andrews Clark, senator
from Montana, has an income of $780,
600 a day. That is u mere bagatelle
of thirteen millions q year, and then
some. And he has less fun than any
man on earth.
Clark is the richest man in the SEN
ate. Indeed he is one OF the richest
men in the world. Ii Is quite likely
that he has more ready money than
John D. Rockefeller-cash on hand
although he is not so rich rs Rookie.
Teller by Il great many millions. He
built a railroad from Salt Lake City
to Los Angeles recently and he paid
for it in cash, mile by mile. Nobody
else in this country or any other ever
did a thing like that.
y AluS ANNOUNCED tlbV IN 4 NV
be a candidate for reelection to the
senate. He is out of place. Every
body looks on him as a man who
came to the senate because he Is rich
which is more or less true: and he
is given grinding illustrations of the
fact, known to all those who know the
senate, that the dollar gets nowhere
in the upper house of congress unless
it is coupled with some legislative
ability. There are rich men in the
senate, plenty of them: but those SEN
atOrs who are senators because they
are rich, and for no other reason, are
pathetic figures in the greatest DELHI
erative body in the world. Notwith
standing the various gentlemen who
are decrying the senate, there never
was and never will be a success Their
not backed with brains.
Nor must it be thought that ClarI
has no brains. Far from it. He has
as fine a commercial mind as evel
discovered how to make two or
dozen dollars grow where one grew
before. Still, the commercial mint
and the Legislative or the legal min,
have different convolutions and get a
things in different ways. Clark know
all about how to develop a cope
mine, but when it comes to u bit 0
constructive craftsmanship a do2e1
men in the senate who are Worrying
along on their s96.l5 a week max
him look like an abandoned claim.
1t would seem that a mar who i
worth q few hundred millions migt
afford q few friends. Clark, appa,
emily, has nome. He is as solitar
as Pixies Peak. He is as lonesom
as Robinson Crusoe. To be sure, h
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
RECLAMATION FUND INCREASED
Five Million Dollars Received During
Last Fiscal Year.

WASHINGTON, July l0.-The half
century mark is gradually being at.
tanned by the national reclaim alton
fund. Today upon close study of his
books an official at the interior de-
partment announced that the fund had
reached the enormous total of 49,, O76,-
900. About $500, 900 was added to
the fund during the fiscal year ending
June 30 from the sale of public lands.
Asked to explain the increase over
last year, this official said:
1.-THE department has restored to
entry over 1000, 900 acres of land that
had been withdrawn from entry under
the reclaim alton act for examin alton.
AS coon as a project is declared I'm.
feasible the land is restored to entry.
In that way much land has been
thrown open to the homesecker, and
many dollars added to the reclama-
ton fund.-
There 10 an unexpended balance of
a little more than g., 000,0 900 in the
fund, but according to my informant
no new projects will be taken up for
the time being; indeed not until the re.
turns are received from some of the
projects in Arizona, New Mexico and
Nevada that r about completed.
Another source OF great worry to the
reclamation service has been the labor
problem, according TO its officials.
Wages r high and labor is scarce.
This combination, it is said, has
caused the department to revise so few
of its estimates in building irrigation
projects in the west. Should this stu.
alton continue much longer it is feared
that work under the Carey act will
come to a standstill in a few more
wears
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18

is surrounded by a lot Of secretaries,
but they are secretaries and get no
further. Beyond that, there is moth
ing. Everybody says "Howdy-do:''
to him, but nobody says. "Clark, old
man, I'm glad to see YOU"
He tries % be congenial, at that.
Occasionally he gives u dinner and in.
vites as many as will come. They go
and look him over and eat his food
and drink his wine and come away.
Nobody pays the slightest attention
to him in the senate. He works hard,
too, attending committee meetings and
keeping up with his correspondence.
Once in a session he makes q speech,
usually on some mining or land topic.
He reads from manuscript, with amaz.
ing crescendo and diminuendo effects,
and his own papers in Butte and Salt
Lake tell of the great forensic effort
Of the distinguished statesman, and
not another paper in the wide, wide
world carries a line of it.
Clark wanted to be q good senator.
He had ambitions to serve his country
and he tried faithfully. He couldn't
do it. In the first place he was not
cut out for senatorial success, and in
the second he came with the handicap
of mere money. The senate has re-
spect for money-too much, some PEG.
pie say-but it requires the right kind
of q man to be hitched to the money.
Clark Is great in his way, but he is
not a senator, and he knows 1t.
He has four designations: His
whiskers, his house in New York, his
pictures, and work. Two Of these are
the direct outcome of his money. BY
means of the third he got the money,
aud he could have the whiskers if he
didn't have a cent. Such is the prod
igality Of nature.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
THE INSURANCE HOLDUP.

From all parts of the country come
protests against the action Of the fire
insurance combine, in raising rates OF
insurance to meet the losses incurred
in the San Francisco disaster. 1t is
the general belief-a belief sustained
by knowledge of the large profits made
in the business-that former rates
were unnecessarily high, and any ad-
vance in premiums il nothing less
than hOldup.
The plea that the extraordinary
losses at San Francisco have wiped
out the reserves of a number of com.
panies is not sufficient reason for the
proposed advance. The reserves were
amassed to pay just such extraordi-
nary losses. The property owner OF
the country had already borne that
burden of risk when they paid pre-.
miums sufficient not only to meet or
binary losses, expenses and profits on
insurance capital, but also to provide
against extraordinary losses.
Fire insurance in the United States
has long been q source of enormously
rich profits. The Statistical Abstract
of the United States government shows
that in the IA years from 1890 to 1903,
inclusive, the fire and marine insur.
ance companies operating in the
United States collected twice as much
as they paid out to the policy holders.
Within in that period they collected
the %stupendous sum of 1859, SIS, SCI,
and paid out to policy holders only
s 1852, $50, $40. Ia the single year of
1903 they collected S257,974,619 and
paid only Sll2, 642, S2l. They collected,
therefore, in that single year $l45,.
33l ,S4S more than they paid out to
policy holders, or nearly enough to
pay their entire losses Of the San
Francisco fire.
In Montana alone, according to otii.
cial reports made to the state auditor,
the fire insurance premiums collected
annually by the various companies
amount to nearly $500, 900 more than
the losses sustained-an exhibit which
indicates a very profitable insurance
business in this state. With q % per
cent raise on some Of the risks, these
handsome profits will be largely in.
creased.
The holdup methods OF the insurance
combine should suggest to the legisla-
tive assembly the desirability Of en-
c%ouraging u ystem of mutual insur.
ance among citizens OF Montana,
Legislation to that effect has been en-
acted in many OF the states, and Mon
tana certainly needs a similar method
OF relief,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18
London Wool Prices Decline.

LONDON, July 10.-A large number
OF buyers attended the opening Of the
fourth series of the 1906 wool auction
sales here today. Cross.breds and
secured slipes yer in immediate de.
mand at 5 aud 10 per cent. lower:
Cape of Good Hope woods were in
good dem and, at an average decline
Of 5 per cent.
The home trade bought cross-breds
and slipes chiefly, while continental
buyers took medium scoureds and fine
merinos. American purchases were
confined to a few lots of good greasy
combines.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-07-18

This bank solicits accounts, and
offers to depositors absolute security,
prompt and careful attention, and the
most liberal treatment consistent with
safe and profitable banking. Buys
and sells foreign exchange, drawing
direct on all principal American and
European cities, and issues Its own
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid on time deposits. The
highest cash price paid for approved
state, county, city and school bonds
and warrants.