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Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-18
IVES GIVES OMAHA Low RATE
Vsba.h sets bioago & Atoms Tariff On
Packing House Products.
OMAHA ON LEVEL WITH KANSAS CITY
Latter'r Proximity to the Gulf VIII
Not, Under This Schedule, Give
IL Advantage over Ne
braska Metropolis.

d. o. Ives. freight traffic manager of the
Wabash, again has stepped into the breach
and demonstrated that he knows Omaha is
on the map and that his road has line
which gives it a haul from Omaha to Buff
falo on the products of this state destined
10 the eastern ports when he met the rate
OF the Chicago q Alton on packing house
products, putting Omaha on the same basis
as Kansas City on export business.
Some trouble has existed for a long time
on the equalization of rates on export pack
ing house products from Omaha to those
OF Kansas City. January /, all roads re-
stored the rates to the former basis OF l31s
cents to the Mississippi river and So cents
from the river to the coast, a total of 4Sh
cents, as against a required rate OF 81
cents The Alton has Just put in reduced
tariff from Kansas City on these export
packing house products and now Mr.. Ives
announces that his road will put In the
same rate from Omaha, thus giving this
city an even break on this vast business.
Nearer the Gulf
Tho reason Kansas City has had the
better Of Omaha on export business Is be-
cause IL is nearer to the gulf. Effective
December 81, all eastern lines cancelled
their low rates on provisions, deciding to
ignore the gulf competition.
This is Of course stronger on Kansas
City business than on Omaha and when
the east and west roads realized they were
getting no business they began to recede
from their former position and reduced
rates to old figures in an endeavor to re-
gain what was lost. This was just on Kan
sas City Now comes Mr.. Ives and gives
omaha the advantage of tho Kansas City
rate.
This gives the eastern lines an actual
advantage over the gulf roads from Omaha,
much more so than from Kansas City. The
rate is 30 cents from Kansas City to gulf
and 80 cents from Omaha to gulf. From
Omaha to New York 1t will be 10 cents, a
reduction of 3ta cents, all on the western
lines. from which it is seen that Omaha
is at a disadvantage Of cents on packing
house products exported via the gulf. whilo
IL has on even break to the east.
Lines east of the Mississippi river advanced
January from % to IS cents and the other
reduction is taken care of by the western
lines.
The business is not covered by standard
tariff but the tariffs will be published as 1t
moves
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-18
6RANDElS, BOSTON STORE


because he made the rate from Omaha east
TO apply through Hannibal, thus cutting
out Chicago and st. Louis.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-18
Marriage Licenses.

Diamonds, Frenzer. 18th and Dodge SITS.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-18

Xxx wedding rings. Edholm. jeweier.
MsrTitt's Phar.. - a Doug. open ali night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01
MAKING DENATURED ALCOHOL.
Bulletins Issued by the Department of
Agriculture

TIL Department of Agriculture through
DR.. III. w. Wiley, chief of the bureau of
chemistry has undertaken to educate the
natured alcohol. Two bulletins We're issued
today devoted to the description of the
sources from which industrial or denatured
alcohol may be obtained the method of
manufacture and to some uses to which It
NAV be put as well as statistics showing
the possibilities in the development of the
industry.
Fom Dr. Wiley's discussion of the sub
iect the conclusion is reached that the
manufacture of alcohol on small scale is
not likely to prove profitable. Because of
would be required to conduct his still II he
engaged in the manufacture, II is evident
that he must be content with producing the
raw materials and that he cannot look for
ward to becoming a practical distiller.
1.-The principal uses of Industrial alcohol
are illumination. heating. motive power and
the manufacture of lacQuers, varnishes,
smokeless powder, medicinal and phar-
maceutical preparations, vinegar, etc.
When Industrial alcohol is made at a price
at which is can compete with petroleum
and gasoline, IL doubtless will be preferred
for the purposes above mentioned because
OF It's greater safety and more pleasant
odor. Under the present condition 1t is not
probable that industrial alcohol can be Of
fered upon the market at much less than
40 cents a gallon of % per cent strength"
DR. Wiley expresses the belief, however,
that by paying attention to unused sources
of raw material and with improved methods
of manufacturing and denaturing this price
can be diminished.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01
Old Carpet Pieces.

What on earth are you going to do
with those bits of carpet?" asked the fam
lily friend who had just dropped in to
find the housemistress making up a bulky
package of odds and ends Of floor covering,
chiefly the results of refittings occasioned
by the October migration.
Going to have them made into rugs"
replied her friend, poking a recalcitrant
bit Of Brussels back into the bundle. I've
discovered a man who makes the most be-
witching ones you ever saw out Of just such
bits as these-or out of old carpets, either.
provided they are not rotten or moth-eaten.
He first unravels the welt of the carpet,
and then weaves it up again in hit or miss
fashion. and the results-as the phrase goes
simply 'beggar description Why. Mrs.
B. has a nursery Sug that he made for
her out OF odds and ends such as these, and
it's really beautiful, besides being delight
fully thick and warm. In act, it's Just
like a new carpet.
you've no idea how artisticafiy the blues
and reds and yellows and moss greens
blend when they are wsven together with
out any regard for pattern. And d course
as the pieces are of absolutely no use for
anything else, it's practically clear gain
especially as the cost OF making is hardly
more than that Of weaving rag carpet"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01

terms OF such units. the output from the
colored schools OF Washington has been
creditable; when considered in connection
with the sacrifice and struggle undergone.
these results will challenge comparison
with the exceptional in school history Tho
difference between poverty and wealth
makes a great difference in the resistance
TO be overcome and the energy to be ex-
pended In most OF our mundane achieves
ments. And there is spectacle to move
the heart OF a cynic in the smiling faces OF
many of these dusky school children with
their burden-bent, air-starved and hope
starved little bodies, eagerly straining after
the goal and courageously fulfilling the last
requirement tthe very lasO in the public
school course. Nowhere else in America.
and certainly in no other country OF the
globe, Is II possible to witness schools
wholly OF African descent with such num-
bers and such uncomfortable persistence
and enthusiasm struggling TO the very end
or the prescribed course. Surely, the colored
people of Washington have a very passion
for education, and IL In the mind of the
hostile skeptc 1t amounts to fetch. IL
cannot be denied its element of pathos In
the light of what 1t costs and of what IL
contains of faith and hope and works.
If the colored schools are not efficient.
they cannot be excused on the ground OF in
difference on the part OF their pupil ma
terial to the advantages Of these schools. IL
regularity of attendance and reasonable
degree of receptvity and willingness to
learn be the basic requirements on the pupil
side, it only remains that these qualities be
met by skilled educators, apt to teach and
patient to understand. To the honor OF the
American people be II said that the federal
government has never permitted narrow
ness or stingtness to characterize its pro-
vision for the common school training OF
the colored people of the District of Column
bia, and 1t is safe to say IL never will. In
the recent school legislation OF Congress.
which In general bestows benefits upon all
the teachers of the service, the Fifty ninth
congress appropriated four of the twelve
higher departmental salaries Wi cIal
designation to the higher work in the coll
ored schools. This furnished an unprece-
denied opportunity to secure for these
schools educators the most capable, the
most devoted, the most eminent to be found
In the whole country. Given these two con-
ditions of the problem, there is every reason
TO hope that the coored schools OF Wash
ington,. so interesting in their history and
so pregnant with possibilities. may truly
become models of educational triumphs and
monuments of the nations realization Of its
own generous ideal to give instruction TO
those who cannot procure 1t for them
selves JOHN l. LOVE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01
Labor Litigation Discontinued.

The Burns faction of the Knights of
Labor has discontinued the eight suits
pending in the District Supreme Court
against the Hayes faction of that organiza-
ton. The suits were proceedings in quo
warranto filed against the several officers
claiming under the Hayes wing of the
order. The object of disseminating the
suits is said to be to avoid technicalities
that have arisen by reason Of the expiration
of the term Of office to which some of the
defendants have been elected.
Attorney r. Golden Donaldson, who filed
the orders Of discontinuance, declined to
say whether this action would terminate the
contentious in the order. The current
rumor around the city hall. however. Is
that the controversy is not at end. and
that new proceedings in the near future
may be expected
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01
TIGER KILLS PYTHON.
Battle in Storm on Deck of Steamer
Gives Big Cat a Meal

From the New York Sun
Any one who has never seen the biggest
python ever brought to this country can
find that snake on board the steamship In
drasamha, which arrived here recently from
Yokohama, Singapore and other ports east
of Suez.
Capt. Wilkes. master, says the snake is
= feet long and 3 feet in circumference
No one took the trouble to measure him
yesterday. but he looks every inch of the
size the captain gave
There were four other big pythons when
the lndrasamha sailed from Singapore on
July 10, besides royal Bengal tiger that
was the champion man-eater in those parts
before he was captured and sold. He looks
still as if his appetite might be good if he
only had chance to spread himself
If 1t hadn't been for the tiger the five
pythons would have arrived intact The
tiger killed one of them after a terrific bat
tie.
Each of the pythons was in a separate
box on the main deck amidshps, and the
tiger was in his cage not far away The
Indrasamha ran into hurricane. 1t wasn't
an everyday affair by any means, but one
of those that sailors tell about for years
afterward, the kind where the seas tower
mountain high the weather bow and
turn the decks into a regular Niagara when
they break and spill their tons OF green
water on the quivering fabric she labors
barely able to keep her head to the sea;
the kind that sweep aft, carrying everything
movable before them, and end up by going
overheard astern in a swirl that resembles
the weeks wash in boiling odron OF
SoapSudS.
Anyway, 1t was blowing some, and the
did come aboard. There was one par
ticulariy tall, gray-headed fellow that got
over the side and kicked up old Nick. This
sea hit the box of one of the pythons, and
the box turned over. The weight of the
python did the rest, and before any one
knew just what had happened there was
some twenty feet of snake at liberty.
Now, the python didn't seem to know
just what to DO under the circumstances.
There were other waves coming along, and.
while perhaps he did not have hydrophobia,
he was averse to a wetting The nearest
pace of safety seemed to be the tigers
cage, and the python made for that. or
course there were members Of the crew
who could have told him. but the crew was
busy doing other things just at that time.
There are always things a well-ordered
crew may find to do when there is twenty
feet more or less, of snake crawling about
the decks and the seas are rolling aboard
mountain high.
But the royal Bengal didn't like the inter-
roper, and as the pythons head came
through the bars he swatted it, The python
came to in a minute so, and started for
the tiger. The tiger kept his port and star
board forward paws as busy as Joe Cans,
and it wasn't long before the python was
out Then the tiger pulled him into the
cage and made his Sunday dinner on about
six and half feet of the snake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01
COMING TO SEE PRESIDENT.
Secretary of the w. C. T. U. Will Visit
Washington.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
OTTAWA. Ontario. November Miss
Agile Slack, honorary secretary of the
Worlds Woman's Christian Union, is here
and shortly goes to Washington to see
President Roosevelt.
She has carried on remarkable work along
the lines of Christian temperance in con-
junction with Lady Henry Somerset, Lady
Carlisle Mrs. Stevens and others. My
visit to Canada and the states" she told
The Star this morning, is the earnest
invitation of the Montreal and Ottawa la
dies. My mission to this country was 10
speak at the Worlds w. c. I. L. conven-
ton, which concluded on October y In
Boston.
No, it is not my first visit. for / was
here in 1897 at the invitation of Miss Will
lard and spoke at the convention in Toronto
and later in Quebec. l had a personal invi-
tation from Lady Aberdeen to stay with
her at government house. l regret very
much that my present stay cannot be-
longer"
Miss Slack, who is a sister of Sir John
Bamford Slack, recently knighted for his
political services, has played a most impor-
tant part in the worlds temperance move
ment. She has addressed meetings in all
the great cities of three continents. In
Paris a congress of scientific men listened
attentively while she addressed them in
French. and in Geneva she presided at one
of the largest meetings which ever gath
cred there.
Last year there came call from the tenn
perance organization of the South Africa
colonies, and she labored with untiring zeal
and the increased interest was largely due
to her efforts.
One union was established in Bloem fon-
tain and later another in kronstadt
My program" she said in conclusion, lis
an exceedingly busy one; | leave for Troy
tomorrow night and then go to New York
to speak In Washington Heights Church.
the largest in the city; later to Baltimore:
on Tuesday, when | go to Washington
where | shall have the honor of meeting
President Roosevelt, and leave on Novem-
Der 10 for England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01
OCEAN STEAMSHIP MOVEMENTS.

LIZARD, November steamer Nieuw
Amsterdam, from New York for Rotterdam
was reported by wireless telegraph sixty
miles west at 6:30 a m. today Will probably
reach Bouogne about 2:3O am. Friday.
QUEENSTOWN, November 1.-The steam
er Arabic, from Boston for Queenstown and
Liverpool, was reported by wireless tele-
graph IT'S miles west at $40 am. today
VIII probably reach Queenstown about 5
pm.
HAVRE, November ARRIVED: Steamer
La Savoie from New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01
EFFECT OF CUBAN REVOLT.
Big Falling Off in the Sugar exports
in Septembebr

The disastrous effect of the Cuban revolu-
ton on the exporting of sugar from that
island to the United States is treated in
bulletin issued today by the Department of
Commerce and Labor. The imports fell in
September to 93,OO0,OO0 pounds, against go
100000 pounds in the Immediately preceding
month and 1I2,0000O0 pounds in September
OF last year. Ordinarily Cuba supplies
about two-thirds of the sugar coming into
the United States from foreign countries
but for the month of September she sup
piled a little over one-third.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01
Origin of Croquet.
. London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle
The origin of croquet is certainly involved
in mystery. Some authorities are of opin-
ion that it is founded on the old game Of
pale maille." or pell nell. from which We
have the street Pail Mall. This is described
by Cotgrave in his dictionary as "a game
wherein a round box bowie is with a mallet
struck through high arch of yron." and
a picture of this In Struts Sports and
Pastimes' shows that these had strong
resemblance to the cro1uet implements OF
today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01
OF Course,

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
"A woman may not love her female
enemies" began the man who emits occa-
sional gobs of wisdom.
Say on commanded the other half of
the sketch.
But she can always be trusted to eff
fusively kiss them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01
Trouble Around Vesuvius.

NAPLES, November 1.-The eruption or
vesuvus of April last is still causing de-
vastating. effects. heavy storm which
prevailed here during the last twenty-four
hours has caused large avalanches of mud
to fall from the sides of the volcano, carry
ing off part of the Vesuvfan railway, block
aiding trains along the seacoast and burying
large sections of ground in the vicinity of
Vesuvius The Inhabitants of the Villages
were greatly alarmed. especially as the
storm was accompanied by earthquake
shocks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01

LONDON. November Winston Spencer
the colonial Office, is going to the West
Indies at about Christmas to study the re-
sources of the islands, especially the pros
poets of extending cotton growing, with the
view point of possible government aid. The
Duke of Marlborough and Sir Alfred Jones,
president OF the Liverpool chamber of COM
merce, and others interested in the islands
will accompany Mr.. Churchill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01
Bids Exceed the Appropriation.

All the bids recently received at the Navy
Department for the construction of the first
building for the proposed experimental sta
ton at the Annapolis Naval Academy were
In excess OF the mount available for that
purpose-$1I2, 000-and the Secretary of the
Navy is now considering what shall be done
In the matter. 1t is not unlikely that it
may be necessary to call for new bids.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01
Measure of Efficiency.

The ultimate measure of the efficiency of
a school or a system of schools is the total
efficiency of it's pupil product. Reckoned in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01

~ If you want to buy or sell a dog,
~ advertise under Dogs and Pets" &c,
~ in The Star. One cent a word three
times. *
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-01
Hopeless Task.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Georgei'
"Well?"
You ought to try to save money"
whats the use? 1 couldn't do that
when was single.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-08-02
Wants to be Governor.

Columbia county not only has a can
/ didate for auditor general in William
/ Il. Greasy, named on several tickets,
but in James d. Harris, of West Ber.
wick, "A veteran ana a working man,
| there blossoms forth as an mdepend.
/ cut candidate for no less an office than
| governor of the Commonwealth. Mr..
| Harris does not believe in doing any.
/ thing by halves. He has already been
an independent candidate for congress
and while the number Of votes that he
pulled made no apprcciable inroads on
the other candidates yet he comes
back merriIy into the fight-this time
higher aspirations.
Ajr Harris on Wednesday gave cvid-
once of the carnestncss of his Guber-
material aspirations by opening an
Office on the third floor of the Dickson
building, Berwick The rooms hc will
occupy, by a strange coincidence, are
those of the William r. Hearst club.
He viii cause a large American flag
to be strung across the street at that
point and from now on will boom his
candidacy so that others may know
that there is another candidate in the
field besides Stuart and Emery
Mr. Harris platform is Tax re-
form, the Roosevelt policy and the
strict enforcement of the constitu-
tion Mr. Harris is emphatic in his
declaration that he viii work in the
interest of Uhe people and he believes
they viii support him for governor.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-08-02
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In Role of SteepIe Climber.

ID. G. Williams, the well-known
slater. Monday assumed the role Of
stceple climber. He is making repairs
on the tower Of St. Hubert's Catholic
church and IN order to reach the bronze
bali on the spire it was necessary to
perform a feat in climbing that was
nothing short of thrilling.
Rising above the first division of the
stoeple in which the bell is fixed, is
another and narrower section, which
in turn is surmounted by the spire bear
ing the bronze ball and the gilded
cross, the whole being some eighty
feet in height III making the repairs
no scatfolding was used, ladders solely
being employed. To reach the two first
divisions of the tower was a compara-
lively easy task, bur when it came to
making the repairs on the spire and
reaching the big ball quite different
problem presented itself. 1t was this
part of the work that Mr.. Williams
had IN hand Monday.
\ long ladder was dragged up the
steeple and. made secure at the base,
was leaned against the spire, enabling
the climber to reach every part of the
latter along with the ball under
meath the cross. A cool head, nerve
and much experience is required in
performing a job such as this is and
while scaling the steeple the workman
attracted much attention from the
street
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-08-02
SOME INFORMATION
AS TO TAXES


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