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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-04
HALL GOES TO SEE RICHARDS
Attorney for Indicted 0attleman Visits
Germany on Legal Business.
CLIENT NOW SUBJECT OF KMsER's NATION
Will Make that His Future Home
and Therefore Wishes to Con-
suit with Lawyer About
Matters Here.

r. S. Hall. attorney for Bartlett Rich
ards and w. q. Comstock, whose de-
parture for Europe was announced few
days ago, is now said to have gone over
the ocean not SO much in search for
health with which he is already richly
blessed, as to consult with Mr.. Richards,
who, with ComstoCk, is under indictment
on the charge of conspiracy to defraud
the United States out of titles to public
lands.
Mr.. Richards is in Germany, was there
when the last federal grand jury indicted
him, has remained there since, far as
anyone here pretends to know. and is
said to have evowed his purpose of maxi
ing that his future home.
II has been ascertained that Mr.. Rich
ards renounced his American citizenship
and is now a subject of the emperor Of
Gt rmRny, which was made necessary
through his marrying a German wife. 1t
is likely that peculiar question will arise
over the extradition of Mr.. Richards.
should he feel disposed to take advantage
of his German citizenship, as the offense
with which he is charged is not extradi-
table. 1t is thought that Mr.. Halls visit
TO Europe may have something to do with
the untangling of the dilemma.
Names to COnjure with.
For years the names of Richards and
Comstock have been conjured with in cattle
matters in Nebraska and the west They
were once convicted in connection with
land frauds and turned over to the custody
OF the United States marshal for a period
of six hours, aside from being fined. 1t
was this case which resulted in T. L.
Mathews losing the position of United
States marshal.
! Richards was indicted with Comstock by
the last federal grand jury for conspiracy
TO defraud the United States out OF title
to public lands by procuring fraudulent
filings on lands within the Spade ranch
enclosure in Sheridan and Cherry counties
! The indictment was the largest in the mat
| ter OF specifications ever brought In the
I federal courts in the Nebraska district
comprising over 500 pages Of closely type
I written matter. The case was carried over
/ until November IL Of the present year Mr.
/ Comstock appearing for Mr.. Richards and
going on his bond for 5000, with other
sureties, Mr.. Comstock giving a similar
bond.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-04
NOTREES WORCESTERSHIRE
Timber is Absent from Land Set Aside
by the President.
REPORT or FORMER GolERNMENTsERVAN7
He Says Roosevelt Has Been Deceived
Into Believing the Reservation
Contained Wooded
Sections.

A former attache OF the government
service who, for obvious reasons, requests
that his name be not published recently
returned from the North Platte forest re-
serve country in Thomas county, said Fri
day morning at the federal building:
Il have traversed the entire length Of
the North Platte forest reserve, have
crossed It at intervals in the interest OF
settlers, and am in a position to say there
is no timber whatever on that reservation,
the only exception being a few isolated
trees ordinarily box elder about water
tanks, and one or two trees set out years
ago about ranch houses. There is not any
natural timber in the country. This tract
OF over 10000 acres was declared forest
reserve by proclamation OF the president
dated March 10, 1905. on the basis that
the president had been informed that the
reservation was covered in part with tim
ber.'
The settlers in that locality were sur
prised that such a statement had been
made to the president, when the reverse
was true. My impression is that the vast
area OF land was badly wanted by the
cattlemen in order that they might lease
II for grazing purposes, and / understand
that nearly every acre of the reserve is
under lease. Representations have un-
doubtedly been made to the president that
there was abundant timber on these lands.
In the meanwhile efforts are being made
by these same parties to have parts OF
Mcpherson. Grant and Hooker counties de-
ciared forest reserves. when, in fact, there
is no timber on these lands, scarcely q
plum thicket. The scheme appears to be
to have these lands segregated from public
entry In order that the cattlemen may
lease them under the forest reservation
laws and thus keep homesteaders out
Settlers are going into the country now
and are being told that these lands are
about TO be made forest reserves and can
not be settled upon. Since the cattlemer
have boon compelled to remove their fences
they are now working the forest reserv,
> lease scheme.
with the Dismal River forest reservt
Il - different, as there is considerable
timber along the Dismal river. which would
bring that section within the pale OF IN,
forest reservation laws"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-04
FLYNN FREE WITH MONEY
New Street Commissioner Has Only Eleven
Thousand polla1s in Fund.
OF APPROPRIATION sPENT
Question at City Hall is How Mr..
Flynn IL Going to Make the
Balance Meet the
Demand.

With seven months of the year gone, only
81. 600, or under one-third the whole amount
set aside for the purpose, remains In the
city street repairing department, the fund
from which all betterments to unpaved
streets must come. The expenditure OF
this fund is in the hands or the street
commissioner
June 10. or about the time Commissioner
Flynn took hold, a credit of 81, 26S remained
In the fund out OF the total appropriation
available of $S55OO. August only Sll,O05
was on hand, showing that Mr.. Flynn has
succeeded in disbursing about $4,000, or
about one-thrd OF the whole fund, In
something like a month and a half
naturally, it was expected democrats, so
long kept from the pie counter, would be
ravenous, but expenditures at this rate
were hardly thought of. II has been the
talk for some weeks that the street com
missioner had an abnormally large force
at work, but there was no idea that the
revenues We're being tapped to the extent
revealed by inspection of the comptrollers
books.
II has been the practice Of the preced-
ing street commissioner, Joe Hummel, to
husband the yearly appropriation and try
TO make it last throughout the year IIad
TO cut all the weeds in the city and do
all the grading and repairing necessary
without applying 70 the council for an
other dollar. Commissioner Flynn already
has put up a plea for several thousand
dollars TO cut weeds. but the council could
see no way to produce the money and
turned down the rest How the commits
sioner proposes to worry through five
months with only Sll.0Oo is matter that
the new council nor anyone else clearly I'M
derstands
The ordinances require the street COM
missioner to make monthly reports 10 the
city engineer showing the expenditures in
his department for all purposes, number OF
men and teams employed and such other
information as required for the keeping OF
a complete record. Nothing OF the kind
has been done by Flynn, and the little
matter Of the report has been neglected
in the zest Of spending $4,000 in month
and half.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-04
Se OF Imperial was an Omaha

Judge Burke OF Imperial was an Omaha
visitor Friday.
There is a large Rosewater sentiment
in Chase county. bu. I think we will elect
a delegation for Miles for governor and
try not TO instruct for any one for United
States senator" said the Judge.
On conditions out west he said: 1.-THE
crops of Chase county never looked bet
ter than they do now. The fall wheat will
give from thirty to forty bushels to the
acre and the spring wheat from fifteen to
twenty-five bushels. The corn is in good
shape and good crop is insured. For nine
good crops without a single failure Tile
country Is filling up with good settlers,
Germans predominating.
The citizens of Imperial recently have
raised $500 to go toward building a new
church building for the Catholic parish"
II is stated that a caucus OF the Douglas
county delegation to the democratic state
convention Will be held next Friday to
frame up the sentiment Of the bunch re-
garding gubernatorial candidates. and other
matters and to decide upon who shall be
backed as a local candidate for railroad
commissioner Two candidates already
have shown up, one being Benjamin H.
Hayden, an insurance man. The other IS
Epaphroditus ]. Porter, a physician spe-
cializing in obstetrics and diseases OF
women and children. Mr.. Hayden has been
putting forth considerable effort in his own
behalf.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-04

Now rs the time to take a vacation, get
out into the woods, fields and mountains
and visit the seashore, but do not forget
to take a bottle of Chamberlains Colic
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy along with
you II is almost certain 10 be needed ana
cannot be obtained on railroad trains or
steamships. II is too much OF a risk Tor
anyone 10 leave home on a journey without
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-04

Building Inspector Withheld has won in
his enort TO compel fruit stand at Six
teenth and Harvey streets to move back
on the street. AS soon as the building is
ensconced on private property he will start
proceedings 70 have IL removed or de-
stroyed because II violates the hre limit
regulations on frame structures.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-04
70 the siIth ward RepubIican,

The annual election of officers OF the
Sixth Ward Republican club will be held
Saturday evening. August T. at Linwood
hall, Twenty-fourth and Burdette streets.
All republicans are requested at attend.
II. f. OSTROM, President.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-04
a7.s5 10 Minneapolis and Return Via
Chicago Great WeHfern RniIun

Account Of G. A. r. encsmpment. August
18th to 18th. Tickets on sale August IIht.
18th TO 18th. Tickets on sale August nth,
18th and 18th. For further information
apply TO H. II. Churchill. @. A. 1912 Far
nam St, Omaha.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-04
one Way Fare PIus $500 for Round
Trim Fare

Grand Trunk Railway System TO many
summer resorts in Canada, Toronto and
East, and in New England
Particulars Of dates OF sale. limits. stop
over privileges, etc. can be obtained by
writing Geo. w. Naux. A. c. p. & T. A..
1876 Adams St, Chicago.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-04
CUSTER COUNTY FOR CURRIE
VIII stand by It's FnvOrite Son for
Senator, Says James
whitehead.

Captain James Whitehead. formerly reg
lister of the land office at Broken Bow, is
a guest at the Arcade.
Everybody up our way is for Currie for
United States senator" said Mr.. White
head 1--WE will hold our county conven-
ton Saturday and probably will instruct the
delegation for him without serious opposi-
ton EVERYBODY up there. as far as I know,
is also in favor of the state convention
nominating the senator, and is opposed
TO inviting any more deadlocks by re-
ferring the senatorial selection to the leg
islature"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-04

wATcHEs-Frenzer. 18Th and Dodge ST.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-04
MortaIitv Statt.,tc.

The following births and deaths have
been reported 70 the Board of Health dur
ing the twenty-four hours ending at noon
Friday;
Births-Edward Schuck, 24ss South
Eighteenth. girl Peter KoOpman, 2l02
South Eighteenth. boy.
Dea ths-Robert Ayers, county hospital,
So; Edwin r. Blackwell. 400 North Twen-
ty-eighth, So: Thomas A. Werlich, $40
North Twenty 80.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21
cTOLE A NEWSPAPER.

A Paris letter contains one of the
most interesting Of the many interest
ing stories that have come out of Rus
STA during the last few months. It
concerns the publication, on the presses
Of the conservative Novoe Vremya, st.
Petersburg's ultra-respectable paper, of
an edition of 50, 900 copies of the most
radical of radical sheets, the Iswestiya.
This is the way the story is told:
One morning the manager Of the No
voc Vremya, NJ. Bougdanow, was at
his desk when a number of strikers
forced their way into his Office. They
demanded permission to use his plant
in the preparation and publication of
the revolutionary organ. Naturally,
NJ Bougdanow didn't like the notion.
To gain time he asked permission TO
communicate with the owner of the
Novoe Vremya-
The latter sent an editorial writer to
treat with the strikers. The personal
representative was promptly seized
and overpowered and locked into his
office. Then the strikers went to work.
prepared their editorial and other mat
ter, placed it in type and ran off an
edition Of $4,000 copies. AS a final
touch, they printed a line above the
heading Of the paper, Printed by
Courtesy Of the Novoe Vremya''
After the Iswestiya had been gotten
out and distributed among the news
paper vendors, the imprisoned editorial
writer and the manager were released
with profuse apologies. The story real
ly sounds too good to be true. It may
be entirely false, but if it is, as all good
fiction should, it is made to seem posi-
bic. That very thing might happen in
a newspaper Office if all the employees
except the heads Of departments We're
in sympathy with the movement.
And what a cruel joke it was on the
good old Novoe Vrenya for the strikers
to give it credit for an act of "cour-
tesy."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21
COLD STORAGE FOOD.

Some weeks ago in the Journal Of
the Maryland Medical Association
DR.. John H. Hemmeter, who holds
high rank as chemist, discussed the
practice of placing fowls, game and
fish in cold storage for weeks at q
time without removing the viscera.
No amount of freezing. in the opinion
Of DR.. Hemmeter, is sufficient to pre-
vent putrefaction under such circum-
stances. He attributes many Of the
digestive and other ills to which the
people Of the country are subject to
the failure to clean fowls. game and
fish before placing them in cold sto-
rage.
The cold storage men declare that
the moment the freezing process be-
gins all decay ceases. They say there
is no possibility Of putrefaction in
properly managed cold storage ware
houses, regardless of whether or not
the perishables 50 handled have been
cleaned. Most people, however, would
rather have the word of a disinter-
ested expert on this subject.
The dealers naturally want the stuff
they sell to weigh as much as posi-
bic. The greater the weight the more
money they receive from the public.
They are not interested particularly
in preserving human stomachs and
human health. Yet they should be,
for if all human stomachs were in
first class condition the sale Of food
products would increase amazingly.
In any event, the practice of storing
fowls, game and fish as reported
should be stopped. If necessary let
the dealers charge enough more per
pound to make up for the loss sus-
tanned by the removal of the viscera.
Newspapers and medical journals
are suggesting the passage of laws to
put an end to the practice and the
appointment of inspectors to see
that the laws are rendered effective
Nobody wants to work any hardship
on the cold storage men, but by the
same token they must not be permit
ted to do anything to endanger the
public health.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21
TO-DAY
The VENEZUELAN SITUATION.

= France says that President Castro of
:. Venezuela must apologize for his cav
: alier treatment Of the French ambassa-
!. dor. He must also make amends for
b. FORGETTING the franchises of the French
!. Gable company, the latter to be in the
3 form=of an indemnity. Likewise, some
other French claims must be paid If
I. Castro fails to apologize France will
: Institute a blockade of Venezuelan
: ports or seize a custom house. If the
& latter plan is adopted, and it seems, in
. deed. the more feasible way. it is pro-
posed to secure an Impartial, disinter-
ested received who viii divide the
moneys taken in between Venezuela's
= creditors. -.-,.
: The peaceful blockade proposition
S seems out of the question. France ap-
6 parently recognizes this fact, for a dis
: patch from Paris says it is feared there
: that if a sb1ockade'is declared and COM
merce stopped Castro might take ad-
vantage Of the situation TO repudiate
all of his obligations. This would be
most distastefu1 to the other creditor
nations. The custom house seizure will
q. probably be the plan adopted, in the
event that Castro continues obdurate.
It is difficult to see how a blockade
Of Venezuelan ports by French war
ships could be considered other than as
an act of war. 1t would be tantamount.
Aindeed7~toa declaration of war Now a
war between France and Venezuela is
out Of the question. The conflict would
be altogether too one-sided. Most OF
us would not be sorry to see Castro get
a trouncing. but in a war too many in
nocent people would suffer. The GUS
= tom house seizure is the only way out
--of the difficulty. France has acted with
the greatest moderation throughout the
difficulty. and she may be depended
upon to observe every well settled prin-
.-cipIe of international law to the end.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21
-roNDoNEs THE MURDER.

= The cause Of socialism in this country
- cannot be very materially advanced by
1.-THE Chicago Socialist, if it very often
zprihts such opinions as it expresses re-
,garding the assassination Of former
Governor Frank Steunenberg Of Idaho.
After charging the man who is dead
= with having sold out to what it Is
pleased to call ''the money power" the
Socialist continues:
I'm his campaign against the work
@ers. during their desperate struggle he
adopted all the tactics of a Russian
satrap and numerically treated all who
would not abandon their affiliation with
the unions. The capitalist press claims
that it was some Occur d'Alene victim
THAT placed the bomb where it brought
to a close the life of Ex-Governor Steu-
Enenberg and gave it a true Russian
ending When the capitalists
adopt despotic methods and override
every constitutional right as they have
done in Idaho, Montana and Colorado
for years, they should not be surprised
If they reap the inevitable result Of
despotism and tyranny"
This comes very close to an attempt
at justifying the butchery of Steunen-
berg, and is so utterly at variance with
the principles Of socialism, as they are
commonly understood. that we must
decline to believe the Chicago Socialist
has any standing with the body of be-
levers Socialism, we have often been
told. is not anarchism. Yet the Chicago
Socialist breaches the reddest sort of
anarchy when it condones the killing
of Steunenberg. But all the preach
ments that may come from such sources
will not lead any considerable number
Of union miners to endorse murder or
consort with ass2ssins.
What Governor Steunenberg did in
the Occur d'Alenes is a matter of too
recent history to repeat here. Briefly
it may be said that he doomed the
reign of dynamite and substituted
therefor thssreign of law. That injus-
tees were done by Steunenberg or men
acting as his representatives nobody
win deny: that some innocent men suf-
Eered with, the guilty is undoubtedly
true. <steunenberg's rule was over
harsh. perhaps. but the man was sore
ly tried.
( Murders had been done, property had
been destroysd, there was no order, no
law in the Occur d'Alenes. From this
chaos Steunenberg drew order. pre-
served the peace, made property and
life safe And the best test is found
in the undisputed fact that for six
years the Occur d'Alene country has
prospered as it never prospered before.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21

vaudeville as q rare transfer from the
smart set to the stage2
nka has the individuality for the
double roie-a hiEh-bred bearing for
the outset Of her act in a fashionably
sumptuous evening gown worn as
though she were accustomed to IL, and
an abundance of skill for the rest of
the performance. Now, we have O. wide
range of variety houses with different
audiences. The one where Virginia
Earle locates her debut is IN and Of
the Tenderlotn. but the one where uka
Palmay introduces herself is supported
gators-that is, as intelligent as they
are respectable, but not sophisticated
in theatrical affairs Of g rakish sort
/ watched them while they watched
1lka. The show here is censored, and
nothing impolite is done; yet, although
nudiues are never permitted 10 be per-
nicious. acrobats are of course In their
usual toys, even when women, and
dancers are allowed to be short enough
Of skirt to show how their legs work
But when Ilka, known to them only as
the Countess Kinsky, changed her
trailing society gown for the knee-high
one of a French saucybrette, to sing
Irritation ballads in character, there
was G. stir Of surprise; and when she
next came out in the neck-to-toe skin
tight garb Of a fanciful soldier, to give
martial song, there was real excite
ment. I wondered If they thought the
smart set women undressed like that
when conViVial
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21

Its mineral output has increased ire
mendously. it's workers are prosperous
and contented. In the face of these
facts it i'll becomes any organ of any
faction under the stars and stripes to
even in the vaguest manner or in the
mildest way condone the brutal Staying
of the man who IS responsible for the
existent happiness in the Occur
d'AIeues
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21

Our esteemed weather sharp, DR..
Hyatt, just got busy and pulled all the
He evidently wanted to give the Oldest
inhabitant a charee to say: IT amt
seen a storm like this since January,
1S49"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21

We venture to say that there are
more Chinese than negroes in Salt
Lake. If it was necessary TO appoint
a negro policeman to handle the negro
element, why is 1t not also necessary
to appoint a Chinese to handle the
Chinese?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21
TWO cRIseAoE QUESTIONS.

To The Salt Lake Herald:
Will you kindly find space IN the next
Issue Of The Herald for the answers TO
the following questions in cribbage?
(a) A says that a triple run Of three
three aces. a two and a three. makes
Is and B says "a. Which is correct, and
why?
Cb) What is the highest hand that can
be made in cribbage?
A READER.
Minidoka. Ida. Ian. Il
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21

A contemporary seems to think that
foreigners would buy more American
goods if they were carried in American
ships. Isn't it more rational to sup
pose that the foreigner will buy wher-
ever he can buy to the best advantage,
regardless of the flag that floats over
the ship carrying the goods?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21

Stage trivialities, if they are good
ones. are as hard TO make as substan-
tialities. Coming Through the Rye"
has been changed with new things 10
bring into Broadway, and among them
is burIesque of The SQuaw Man,
the current drama representing the So
cial problem of an Englishman's duty
to the sQuaw whom he married because
she is the mother and he the father or
the same little boy. I don't think 1t Is
a good thing for a serious play TO be
burlesqued, especially one with
theme like that. The white mans red
wife is a pathetic creature, stoical by
nature, almost dumb through ignor-
ance of English, graceless physically,
yet with a mute love of her child 10
render her pathetic and to make an
audience grieVe at her suicide when
the youngster is taken away from her.
Of course, it is theatric to have her
walk slowly. silently through the scene
at various pertinent times, accompanied
always by Indian music played plain
lively low; yet the sight of her thus
parading her sorrow would remain in
my memory of pitifuI characte s-f l
hadn't seen Alice Fischer in the bur-
lesque. with six feet Of stature instead
of the others five. stiff and grandiose
instead of limp and woeful, stalk across
the stage to the same tune played for
a, noisy march.