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The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16
Will BUY SILVER
GOVERNMENT RESUMES PuR-
CHASE FOR COINAGE.
BULLION TENDERS INVITED
Stock Of Bullion Exhausted More
Than a Year Ago-Has Bought No
Silver for Thirteen Years-Price
Will Probably Rise.

Washington.-For the first time in
thirteen years the government an
nounces its purpose to purchase silver
for coinage purposes. Tenders are in
vited at the office of the director of
the mint in this city on Wednesday. the
cry Wednesday thereafter until further
notice. These tenders are to be for
delivery at the Philadelphia, New Or
leans or Denver mints, settlement to be
on the New York basis of bullion
guaranteed 999 fine.
The average requirements OF the
treasury throughout the year will prob
ably not exceed 100000 ounces per
week, and 1t will be the policy Of the
department, while keeping reasonable
amount In hand, to SO distribute its
purchases throughout the year that its
demand will be uniform and not an
element of uncertainty in the market.
The stock of bullion in the treasury
was exhausted more than a year ago,
and since then no bullion has been
available for the subsidiary use.
The stock in the treasury had be-
cording to the department, that the de-
mands of constantly enlarging trade
could not be met without additional
coinage.
The United States government has
been in the past an important factor in
| the silver market. In preparing for
the resumption of specie payments and
the redemption of the fractional paper
| currency issued during and following
the Civil War, 1t began in January.
| 1875, a series of purchases ending in
February, 1878, which aggregated 81
| 603 ,905 fine ounces, which cost S37 .571,-
| 14S in gold, or an average of $1.lSS pe'
| fine ounce.
| The next appearance of the govern
ment in the silver market was under
| the Bland-Allison act of February 2S,
1878. The first purchase under this act
was made at s1.21 SIG per fine ounce,
and the total expenditure for bullion
under this act was $308,279, eco. The
total amount of bullion required was
| 291, ,272, ,01S fine ounces, or an average
price for the whole of $1.05S.
The Bland-Allison act was succeeded
by what is popularly known as the
Sherman act, approved July IA, 1890,
which enlarged the purchases of the
government to 100000 ounces per
month. The total purchases under
this act amounted to 16S,674,6S2 fine
ounces, costing $153, 1881 .S02, or an ay-
erage of $0.924 per ounce.
The last purchase under the act OF
1890, made on October 80, 1893, was at
72 cents per ounce. From that date
until the present the government has
been out of the market for the pur-
chase of silver expect as the agents of
| the Philippine government in the pur-
chase of 13,500,000 ounces; costing ST.
376,995, or an average of 541a cents.
The lowest price for silver was
touched on December 3, 1902. when the
price on the London market was equiv
alent to OATS per fine ounce; the aver
age for last year on the London mar
ket was 61 cents per ounce, and for
the month of July last, &C cents per
ounce.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16
Ebert County Tribune
). E. Pope. Editor and Publisher.
ELBERT. COLORADO.
The spoIIIno OF Sweet Corn.

Who that has enjoyed tho delights
, ~ peas, beans and sweet corn. picked
in the morning with the dews Of the
summer night still upon them and
cooked while you walt" will not
agree with the Tip OF the Tongue Man
In The New York Press. who Is speak
ing of the difference between really
fresh vegetables and those which have
been gathered even recently? This
10 what Tip says: Ny Jersey farmer
tells why the green corn we get in the
market here tastes like field corn.
~The sweet corn loses its sweetness
before it reaches the table because of
the condition in which 1t has to be
brought to the market" writes my
farmer. 1T comes in large truck
loads, piled high and packed down.
Stand in the market at night when
the wagons from the farms come in.
II you take the cover on load you
will see sort OF steam rising from It.
That is the sweetness going up" I
nnd that my farmer is right. Sweet
corn, beans and peas are vegetables
that will not bear prolonged wait
between the field and the pot Neither
Delmonico nor Sherry can furnish
such peas as the humble man may
pick fresh from his own little patch
In the morning-the ideal time to
pick vegetables. 1t is the same with
corn. / have raised many bushels of
1t. but confess / never took an ear to
market A friend OF mine who has
done SO assured me that IL you lift
the cover from load OF green corn
after 1t has arrived in the city and
thrust your hand in your hand win be
made uncomfortably hot. The process
OF fermentation seems to lave set in
already. 1t seems to me little In
genuity and experiment would give us
better corn in the market-if not real
sweet corn. at least something which
would not resemble field corn SO close
ly that man would have to investi-
gate its history to know what he was
eating.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16
Here is comfort for the self-respect

Here is comfort for the self-respect-
ing American. says the London Times:
Americans may dismiss the idea, If
they ever entertained it. that the peo-
pie of this country regard them all as
in the same boat with the beef trust.
the Standard Oil company, the dishon-
est railway managers and the people
who control the yellow dog funds.
There are Pharisees and foolish indi-
viduals in all countries. We have
some among us. and as they are gen
orally very ready to talk they prob
ably do some mischief. But the mass
OF the people understand very well
that the mass of the American people
are very like themselves; and that in
America. as here and elsewhere. So
Getty is held together by the Saving
remnant of which our correspondent
speaks-tho quiet. inarticulate people
who believe in probity and honor. and
who try to do their duty and TO fulfill
their obligations honestly"
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16

Philadelphia, doctors are taking bal
loon trips in the hope of discovering
something that may be OF service in
the treatment of lung troubles. 1t
isn't the first time that doctors have
been up in the. air on the question of
.he cure of disease.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16

Notice of the dissolution of the Ii
mon State bank has been filed in the
office of the secretary of State. The
notice says that the bank has been
sold out to j. NJ. Bailey and ]. NJ Nc
clure, who will continue the business
as a private bank The institution was
capitalized at $4,000.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16
Sheep,
Grain.

Wheat, choice milling, per 100 lbs,
s1.10. Rye, Colorado. bulk, per 100 lbs,
s1.0O. Oats, bulk, Nebraska, No. 3,
white, s1.30; same in sacks, s1.35; Col
orado white, in sack, S1.50. Corn, in
bulk, s1.02; in sack, s1.10. Corn chop,
sacked, s1.10. Bran, Colorado, per 100
lbs, $1.10.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16

Everybody works father for the
summer vacation, and he labors
around all day in town to procure the
means to let his family enjoy itself In
the country.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16
Hay.

Upland, per ton, s12.5O@13.00: sec
ond bottom, $S.50@9.O0; timothy,
S11.0O@12.00; timothy and clover,
$1,000; alfalfa, prime, SS.00@S.50;
straw, $5.0o@5.50; South Park wire
grass, $1,000.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16
DENVER MARKETS
Cattle.

Comparative Receipts
Month to August 10th. ........ 2,o67
Same period last year ...... 1927
increase. ....--.-...---... ooV
Year 10 date ..................17 .17O,747
Same period last year. ........- .170, 400
Increase. 347
The following quotations represent
the range OF prices paid on this mar
ket:
Beef steers, corn-fed, good
to choice. $4-754 5.z5
Beef steers, corn-fed, me-
dium to good ........... 4.25@475
Beef steers, grass finished.
good to choice. ....... 4.oo@4.75
Beef steers, grass finished,
medium to good ........ 3-25@4.O0
Cows and heifers, corn-fed,
good to choice. ........ 3.65Q4.00
Cows and heifers, corn-fed,
medium to good ........ 3-25@3.66
Cows and heifers, grass-fed,
good to choice .......... s.oo@3.4o
Cows and heifers, grass-fed.
medium to good -. 2.25@s.oo
Gamers and cutters ...... 1.2542.0O
Calves, veal, good to choice 3.75@4.35
Calves, veal, fair to good. 3.00@3.75
Bulls. 1.75@2.5O
Stays. .................. 2.00Q3.55
Feeders, f. P. R., good to
choice. .............. 3.OO@3.75
Feeders. F. P. R., fair to
good. 2.50@3.OO
stockers. F. P. r.. good to
stockers. F. P. R., fair to
BOOu. S.foVo.VV
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16
Hogs.

Comparative Receipts
Month to August 10th. ........ 6,S4O
Same period last year. r......... 6,079
Increase. 761
Year to date. .12S, ,553
Same period last year. -131, ,249
Decrease. ................. 2,696
The following quotations represent
the prices paid on this market:
Choice heavy ............ $5.S5 6.OO
Light and mixed packers. 5.95@6.15
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16

There is n shortage of small bills. .
complains Washington dispatch.
Yes. and that isn't the worst of 1t.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16
Live Poultry.
Butter.

Elgin. firm. ............ 21%
Creameries, extra, Colo :. 24@ 25
Creameries, extra, eastern 24Q 25
Creameries, firsts, Colo
orado and eastern .. 90
Process and renovated
goods, lb. .............. $50 10
Dairy, fey single make, ID. 16@ II
Roll. lb. ....... 15@ 16
Packing stock, fresh ..... 12W 13k
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-29

As John ID. Rockefeller did not visit New
York to see the new baby. the enterprise Of
the paper that snspshotted him in the act
becomes all the more remarkable.
An aeronaut announces that he lie about
to fly from Denver to Washington in forty
hours. One OF the acknowledged accom-
plishments Of the modern aeronaut is the
ability to announce,
Representative James A. Tawney Of Min
nesota, chairman of the house committee
blacksmith OF Mount Pleasant township,
near Gettysburg, Pa.
The condition of Helen Keller, whose
health broke down some time ago is much
improved, but she is still unable to do any
work. She Is living at the home OF her
teacher, Mrs sullivan-M in wrentham,
Mass
Justices Harlan and McKenna Of the
United States supreme court. play golf to-
gether. There's McKenna," says Justice
Harlan, commenting on his colleagues
game; "he has magnificent form, but he
can't hit the ball"
George Howard Darwin, second son OF
the late Charles Robert Darwin, has ar
rived in New York. He comes to this
country to attend the twentieth anniver-
sary OF the birth OF Benjamin Franklin
which is to he held in this city on April II.
One Of Senator Beveridge's favorite ex-
pressions is that he or she contributes to
the ''gayety of nations" Wise book folk
say the phrase was hrst used by johnson,
who, in referring to the death OF Garrick
said: His death eclipsed the gayety of
nations and impoverished the public stock
OF harmless pleasure"
Certainly the courts cannot be hard on
the Brooklyn man who married a second
wife when he thought his first was dying
and would be dead before he returned from
his wedding trip. 1t was not his fault that
the sick woman got we'll. He acted on his
best Judgment. SO what more could a good
domestic man do? 1t all comes from the
narrowness of our institutions in limiting
man to one wife at time, regardless OF
his willingness and ability to carry an
assortment.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-29
THE NAN AND NOT THE CORPORATION.

THE MAN AND NOT THE CORPORATION.
II is not necessary to go the full
length of Senator Tillman's. extreme
views on all points in order to agree that
there is substance in his depreciation Of
1.-THE tendency to- punish the man OF
straw, the corporation. without paying
attention to individuals" The penal
sections OF the antitrust, the Interstate
commerce and the conspiracy laws
would lose most 'of their force IL they
could be applied only to corporations
and not TO the men through whom alone
corporations act. A corporation, apart
from the men who act through It, is, of
course, incapable of intentional crime,
neither can 1t be penned up in prison
nor is II susceptible of the shame and
mental suffering which are among the
most grievous consequences OF guilt.
AS corporations are merely form Of
action the inherent sense OF justice re-
volts at any result by which the men
who under that form design and cOnsum-
mate lawless acts escape the legal pen
alties. The very necessity OF the case,
emphasized by the recent moral awaken
ing as well as by the increase OF law
less corporation aggression, requires the
enforcement OF the criminal penalties OF
the law upon the law-breakers who act
for and through corporations the same
as upon those who not connected with
corporations commit like offenses
How serious are the practical diff
culties In the way has Just been illus
trated by the failure Of the indictments
sgs inst the Beef trust men. It is a ques-
ton, not alone OF administration, but
also OF legislation. For the president I'm
that case had pushed with vigor in line
with public demand to apply the Grim
inal penalties, and II as the laws stand
this Is practically impossible the laws
must be changed so that punishment
shall reach the officers and agents OF
lawless corporations equally with other
violstors
The public win not and cannot permit
hnel failure a. criminal justice as to
thpse who are responsible for corpora
lions whose scope now covers so vast a
part OF the aeld OF life. To do so would
be virtually TO confess the failure of all
lax. for IL such Offenders are 70 go free
thers would pc No justice an Furnishing
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-29

Without regard TO the question Of fact
at issue between Governor Cummins
and Senator Elkins, as 70 the propriety
Of the treatment OF the former when a
witness before the senate interstate com
merce committee at Washington nearly
a year ago. the governor has been quick
to make adrolt use Of the controversy in
his own interest as candidate for re-
nomination for third term in the Iowa
governorship.
Unfortunately for himself Senator
Elkins is conspicuouslE identified in
the public mind with those who
are out Of sympathy with and at heart
hostile to the great popular movement
for regulating railroad rates and sub
jecting corporations to Irresistible rule
Of the law. the very policy with which
Governor Cummins is endeavoring so to
connect himself as to enable him to
break down the strong force Of anti
third term precedent. His retort to
Senator Elkin's impeachment of his
veracity is skillful appeal TO the popu-
lar sentiment to which the senator's
name is offensive. and to this end the
Iowa candidate notably illustrates the
resources OF the trained and astute con-
troversialist
II is, under the circumstances, rare
feat by which a candidate under hot fire
has the address to relegate the immedi-
ate point of attack to a secondary place
and at the same time to make It the
means of effective appeal in his own be-
half to public attention. the more espe-
cially since Governor Cummins' personal
experience before a senate committee at
Washington, whether it was in fact
what he or what Senator Elkins says It
was, has little legitimate relevancy to
the Iowa gubernatorial contest.
But>the circumstance does suggest the
vulnerability in the sensitive court of
public opinion OF those who have
aligned themselves. or who are sus-
pected Of having done So to Illustrate
the paramount purpose Of the people
with respect to corporation control
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-29
sENA TOR ALDRIO8 FOR DELAY.

SENA TOR ALDRIOH FOR DELAY.
1t was by no means hasty action when
Senator Tillman, who has formal charge
of the railroad rate bill, rose in the SEN
ate Tuesday to suggest the desirability
of securing an agreement upon a day
for a vote on that measure. Four
months have now passed since the SEES
sion began. The subject was before
congress during the whole session a year
ago. The senate interstate commerce
committee was charged with the duty of
considering the subject and acquiring in
formation during the long recess be-
tween the present and the last sessions
Of congress The whole subject was
deliberately discussed in the committee
of the house before 1t was acted upon by
that body, and 1t certainly should have
been likewise concurrently considered
in the senate, as it was all the time by
the country at large
But It was not less natural that Sem
ator Aldrich, the head and front Of the
oOhotC AOANNS AOcIAC W NhN PuiPocC VI
the measure, should object to and de-
feat agreement at this time to fix date
for a vote. The public will not regard
as material what grounds for his action
it may have pleased the Rhode Island
senator to state before the senate. His
real motive will be construed to be hos
tility to the bill.
The refusal Of the leader Of the oppo-
sition in the senate may have at least
this reassuring significance for the adj
vocates of public control of railroad
rates, that he fears the result Of vote
now or soon, and can do no better than
resort to dilatory tactics in the hope that
something may turn up later to help de-
feat OF emasculate 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-29
IrsrIELARLr REsENrNENr.

Candidates for republican nominal
tons for the city council, whose names
do not appear upon the ready-made
slate promoted by the Benson machine,
have a right to resent the charge made,
without exception or qualification, that
they are ali cats paws of the "allied
corporations" This charge. circu-
lated in a special campaign sheet
s0CtpE out in the interest of Benson, ac-
cuses eighty-six out Of ninety-eight can
didates filing for the official primary
ballot of being parties to a conspiracy
concocted by the corporation managers.
AS one of the incensed candidates puts
it in letter addressed to The Bee:
This document makes the general charge
that the corporations concocted a scheme
OF getting as many as possible Of omaha's
favorite sons to run in each ward, so as
to weaken the Fontanelle candidates l am
a candidate for the city council. / am also
proud to say that / am a son of Omaha
and hope / may be termed a fsvorite son.
and l want TO say to those responsible
for the publication Of that sanderous
NaN'sAe NAoA ~ Aoh as dit OpAlNNlh OA ~ %
absolutely false. No corporation asked me
to run for the council and I am not con-
nected with nor am l asking or receiving
support from any corporation. 1 entered
the race because l wanted to and because
my friends wanted me to. consider the
charge an insult to myself and to every
other respectable son Of Omaha. and I
trust the people will give me an opportunity
to make a good record in the council for
my constituents and myself.
The attempt of the Benson managers
TO label every one who is not hitched
up with their candidate as a corpora
ton tool or dummy is altogether too
presumptuous, especially in view of the
fact that Benson has linked with him
as active hackers. or associate candi4
dates, some of the most notorious cor
poration cappers ana hirelings who
ever infested the community. Unless
we are badly mistaken, the republicans
Of Omaha are too intelligent and too
well Informed to be misled by such cam
paign fakes and the effort of the Ben
sonites to brand all the other candi-
dates with the corporation stigma will
react upon themselves.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-29
LEFT A HANDKBRoHIEF THERE.
Sunset Magazine.

Sunset Magazine.
She went to a store where she'd traded
before,
And left a handkerchief there;
She gayly went wheeling, or automo-
And left her handkerchief there.
For this sweet little maiden was minus
And even a chain for her hanky to lock it:
So wherever she went, like the trail of a
She left a handkerchief there.
If she went to the park for stroll about
She left a handkerchief there;
And cen at prayer meeting, she left as
her greeting,
A dear little handkerchief there.
Oh her trail i was strewn' as buds are
with hanlSys she left and with hankys
For wherever she went, she always sue
oeeded
In leaving a handkerchief there.
Though she'd left a handkerchief there
Her parents both wept for the maiden
who slept
And "Oh," cried her mother, 81 know I
shall find her;
She's certain to leave me one little re-
All the way through the mist l will find
them behind her,
The handkerchiefs she has left there"
Oh, niaidens, dear maidens, just keep on
Your hsndkeTchiefs ever in calling or
Like seeds that you're sowing for reaping
Mayhap in the future we'll know where
you're stopping
Kerchiefs that
You leave there.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-29
Gr.ndrn RockfeIIer,r JOY.
Portland Oregonlan.


The human side of John d. Rockefeller
has come TO the surface. II discloses him
sitting at the telephone awaiting, as anx-
iously as any laborer about the grounds
would do under like circumstances, news
from birth chamber that would proclaim
him again a grandfather and fulhll his
long-deferred hope OF an heir that would
perpetuate his name. Happy? OF course
the aged and much troubled millionaire
was happy. since he could be forgetful, Cor
brief time at least, of the harrassing
conditions incident to great wealth ac-
cumulating by dishonorable methods and
allow the human in his nature joyful ex-
preston. No one will grudge the feeble
harassed grandsire in hiding the real Joy
which quavered in the message: kiss the
little rascal for me-" Little rascal"
Wise men tell us there is a great deal in
heredity. and little rascals," as all the
world knows, have a way of growing into
big rascals."
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-29
RELIC. OF IMPEACHMENT DAYS.
Ex-senator Thayer's Death Recalls
Historic Trial.

The death Monday of ex-United States
Senator John Milton Thayer at his home
in Lincoln, Neb., removes one OF the few
surviving members of the senate which
tried President Andrew johnson on the
articles of impeachment preferred against
him by the national house OF representa-
tives. The senate then consisted Of nifty
four members, and nearly all Of them have
passed away. According to our recollec-
ton. the following seven are the only ones
of them now surviving: John CONFESS then
senator from California, who now re-
sides in this city; Edmund Gibson Ross.
then a senator from Kansas, who now re-
sides in Albuquerque. N. M; John Brooks
Henderson then a senator from Missouri,
who now resides in the city OF Washing
ton; william Norris Stewart, then a sena-
tor from Nevada, who now resides in Car
son City, New; George Henry Williams,
then a senator from Oregon. who now re-
sides in Portland. Ore; William Sprague,
then senator from Rhode Island. who
now resides at Canonchet r. l., and George
Franklin Edmunds. then n senator from
Vermont, who now resides in Philadelphia.
The youngest Of these seven survivors is
william Sprague, who was born on Sep
TENDER u, 1890 and the oldest is John Con-
ness, who was born on September 20. 1921.
The survivors were all republicans at the
time of the impeachment trial, but two OF
them-Henderson and Ross-voted against
conviction. The trial was in 1883, and the
friends OF President Johnson claimed that
Nebraska, which was admitted into the
union in 1867, was admitted on purpose to
give the republicans the requisite number
of votes in the senate to convict him. At
the time of the trial the senator from Ne
braska, other than Thayer, was Thomas
w. Upton. who, in 1872 supported Horace
Greeley for president and who remained a
democrat the rest OF his life. OF those who
voted TO convict the president one besides
Tipton-namely Lyman Trumbull OF I'LL
nois-afterwards became 8 democrat Sena-
tor Ross, one OF the republican senators
who voted against conviction. afterwsrd
affiliated with the, democrats. Ex-senator
Henderson is a radical anti-imperialist,
and probably is now more OF a. democrat
than republican. Ex-senator rhayer, who
has Just died. was native Of this state.
having been born in the town of Belling-
ham.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-29

other offenders. Such fiasco as a
hnallty is not to he thought Of.
rho struggle which has only begun for
subiecting this class OF offenders to the
legal consequences Of their guilt will go.
on to success with rcdoubled vigOr at
each successful attempt on their part to
bafiie the execution Of the law. And in
the face Of an aroused public sentiment
nothing could be more foolhardy than
TO persevere in lawless and law-evad-
ing courses.