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, 1907-09-05
Kansas Stock Salt.

We have coming a car load of Kan
sas rock salt in Jumps. Should be
here in a few lays.
Cosgriff Bros. Co.
, 1907-09-05
Utah Sheep Salt.

A car load of Utah sulphur and
sack salt for sheep is on the road and
expected every day. Sheepman
please take notice.
Cosgrif Bros. Co.
, 1907-09-05
Notice of Sale of Real
Property for Unpaid Taxes

County of Carbon.
Notice is hereby given that on Friday, the 9th day of
September, A. D. 1907, at the front door of the Court House, in the
Town of Rawlins, County of Carbon, State of Wyoming, a sale of real
estate for taxes due and unpaid on the same, will take place between the
hours of "a IN and 5 I. m. Said sale will continue from day to day until
all of said property is disposed Of The real property to be offered at said
cribed as follows:
Owners Name Taxes up to Penalty Total
and and including Costs Amount
Description of Property 1905 Due
, 1907-09-05
Wanted Buy Hay.

Wanted.-To buy $50 tons of baled
hay. Call on or address,
Ell. E. Owen,
8-29-2w. Saratoga, Wyo.
, 1907-09-05
Notice.

Any N wishing to get a home at a
very desirable point on the S. & E.
road, can do so by applying to the
Sun office.
, 1907-09-05

To check a cold quickly. get from
your druggist some little Candy Cold
Tablets called Preventics. Druggists
everywhere are now dispensing Pre-
ventics, for they are not only safe, but
decidedly certain and prompt. Pre-
ventics contain no Quinine, no laxi.
tive, nothing harsh nor sickening.
Taken at the ''sneeze stage" Pre-
ventics will prevent Pneumonia,
Bronchitis, LaGrippe, etc. Hence the
name, Preventics. Good for feverish
children. 4S Preventics 25 cents,
Trial Boxes Sets. Sold at Prices
Drug Store.
Mothers with little children need
no longer fear Group, colds or whoop-
ing cough. Bees Laxative Cough
Syrup tastes good. 1t work off the
cold through the bowels, clears the
head. Guaranteed. Sold at Prices
Drug Store.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-02
TAFT AND THE PRESIDENCY.

While the public accepts the sim
cerity of Secretary Taft's formal state
ment that he is not seeker for presi-
Dental nomination. that he does not
expect to be the republican candidate
and that he anticipates multiplication
of objections to his availability as
result of his continued discharge of
official duties, it by no means follows
that he is debarred from public con-
sideration because he has no organ
lied political machine behind him In
ohio or elsewhere or because he is
not an adept in political manipulations
or even because they are distasteful to
him. These points are being much in
sisted upon in some quarters as con-
elusive against the chances Of the sec
rotary of war. but such a view either
must proceed from hostile interest or
ignores a change that has profoundly
affected the public attitude toward
party expediencies.
There has as yet been no definite
TSSOlullOn VI TSpuDllCdn iuu6nChS AS
garding the head of the ticket in 1908,
but it should be clear that the candi-
date will not be selected by machine
manipulations and combinations that
have been too common In all parties.
Indeed, 1t can be now foreseen that
conspicuous employment of such meth
DDS IN behalf of any aspirant may be
injurious and even fatal to his chances.
The fact remains that Secretary Taft
Is one, and by no means the least, In
the number of public men whose per-
sonalities, abilities and records are
such as to cause them extensively to
be considered for party leadership in
the next national contest. While party
opinion is still in formative state,
the statesman, be he Secretary Taft or
some other. who shall be evolved in
deliberate and untrammelled popular
estimation as flttest to take the sue
cession to Theodore Roosevelt will be
made the candidate, though he may be
backed by no elaborate machine and
even though he may be opposed by
the Vaccinations of all the bosses in
combination
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-02
TAXES ON INHERITANCE.
60 the Public Revenue
I'm Twenty-Five States.

81. LOUIS GiOUG DeiIONho~
The census bureaus inquiry shows that
twenty-five states tax inheritances, and
the aggregate amount which they received
in the latest year from which complets
figures have been obtained lie little over
100000 New York got ts,SOO,OOo from this
source, Pennsylvania, 81. 23i,0O0; Illinois.
S5OSOOO; Massachusetts,, 5000; Connecticut
$4,000; California, $4,000 Missouri, t22soO
and the other eighteen states received
smaller amounts. The, census authorities
believe, however. that the T,Oo00OO ON
tanned from this tax in the year from which
they have complied the figures will be $le,-
100000 or $l2,0OO000 in 1905
In some Of the states, IL will be noticed,
the Inheritance tax is rather important
item in the revenues, 1t is easy to see that
New York would dislike to surrender this
S330OO0O a year TO the federal government
which It will have TO do II the presidents
proposition for an inheritance tax should be
adopted Pennsylvania, Illinois, MISSOURI
and the other states which have this tax
in any phase probably would like to hang
onto 1t. This is a sentiment which will tell
against the proposition II 1t come up in
congress in a practical way.
Assuming that the twenty-five states
which tax inheritances get, in the agsre-
gate ABOUT $l@VVV'VVV AiOii Ni40'' SNNiNO ."
1906, the addition OF the other twenty states
to the roll OF inheritance takers would
bring this form of revenue up to $16,O0lOO0
or s1S,OO0,OOO in a year. But there il reason
to believe, from England's experience. that
a United States inheritance tax would
yield much more than this sum. AS we are
now running up surplus which Will BE-
likely to amount to $60,0OO,000 or more for
the twelve months which end next June.
congress will not be in hurry to enact
any new forms of taxation Secretary Shaw
puts the treasury surplus for the present
fiscal year at s5S,OOoOOO. but his estimates
have usually been below the mark. The
present Indications are that the states win
be allowed to retain their revenue from f."
herftap cea
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-02
A BLUsHINa eyes"
The Peerless One Hesitates, Though
willing to Consent.
Naw York SUN

New York Sun.
The Hon. William Jennings Bryan will
not protect himself with a lightning rod.
In words that reveal his hitherto unsus-
pected talent for diplomacy, the Wanderer
wells a blushing yes:
while / have not yet announced that
would be a candidate, have not stated
that I would not be a candidate. Such a
high honor as the presidential nomination
Is something that no American citizen
should decline
An honor not to be declined. Mr.. Bryan
doesn't say that 1t should not be sought
He amends the axiom Of Mr. Lowndes OF
South Carolina
Mr. Bryan's bashful expectancy Is no sur
prise. He will get the nomination, IL he
can. OF course. But can hef In spite OF
his scheme Of government trunk railroads.
his plan for the election Of federal judges,
his horror OF government by Injunction.
Mr.. Bryan seems too slow-paced for these
rapid times. Not that he has grown con-
servative, as some OF his apolosists would
make the country believe; but others have
grown more radical and more hercely rad
ical. There are more active and thorough
going If not better soldiers OF socialism
than he.
At any rate, II the lightning ever hits
that fine head OF political melodrama, there
will be no thunder with the stroke. II
has been all used up
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-02

SENSA TIONALLz1NG NEGRO OFFENSES.
Negroes have right to complain of
the sensationalism which Is almost
daily exploiting mere disorderly mill
tary incidents in which negro soldiers
are concerned. There is no reason
whatever to believe that there is more
disorder among them lately than there
was previously, when no special pub
Lefty or exaggeration was caused by
such circumstances. The impression
naturally created by such systematic
and persistent sensationalism is thus
as grievously unjust to negroes in the
military service as 1t is inconsistent
with the good record which in general
they have made.
Among white and black soldiers
alike petty offenses, brawls and disor-
ders are to be expected II there is to
be an army. and there would be some
excuse for sensationalism IL they were
suddenly to cease. There may be ex-
traordinary violations of military dis
cipline occasionally among either the
black or the white soldiers, but this
fact is no palliation for the outrageous
discrimination of which the negroes
are now being made the victims, and
which calls for prompt return to 'the
square deal"
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-02
NO WORK, NO PAY.
A Business Proposition worth Trying
on COnEressmen.



Some sneering and sarcastic persons may
be disposed to say that the average con-
gressman might better be paid than
"docked" for absentlng himself from his
place In the house. That is a matter Of
opinion respecting which there VIII be diff
ferencea
But as a matter Of ordinary business It
really seems that the legislator who gives
no attention 10 his duties ought not to
draw pay. Representative John Wesley
Gaines thinks so and, what is more to the
purpose. he has hunted up an old statute
which says so. There is consequently no
need for new law ON the subject. The
enforcement OF the old one will meet the
situation.
Members OF congress are not to be treated
like railroad lAborers, going to work at the
sound Of the whistle and locked" for any
time that they are IDLE. II Is equally clear
that congressman ought not 10 be paid
for congressional duties which he ma
GRAVITY neglects The man who cannot give
his time and attention TO his legislative
functions ought 10 resign his seat
There IL nothing funny about Mr. Gaines
proposition 10 enforce the statute q 1855.
II u a commsndable business proposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-02
THE PARDONIEG POWER.

The searchlight of publicity on the
extraordinary list of pardons, commu-
tations and paroles chargeable to Gov
ernor Mickey raises several points re-
garding the pardoning power, which
seems to have been so shamefully
constitution trainers and of our law
makers was to distinguish sharply be-
tween pardcns, combinations and pa
roles and to limit the exercise of the
pardoning power under strict, regula-
tons imposed by law, It has come about
that practically no difference exists be-
tween these various ways of exercising
executive clemency, except that 1t re-
mutation than to grant garden and
no formality at all to secure parole.
The intent of the law, by any rea-
sonable Interpretation, is that the gov
ernor may issue pardons upon applica-
ton and public hearing after due no
tice by publication, 80 as to. prevent
snap judgment and dark chamber
alterations. The power of commuta-
ton was never intended to be a sub
stitute for the pardoning power, but
simply to enable the governor to give
convicts the benefit of good behavior
in reward consisting of curtailment
of their sentences by the prescribed
number of months in each year def
nitely fixed by law.
The most fragrant abuse of the COM
mutation power was, of course. that
which freed BARLEY, the great embez-
zler, without so much as notice of in
tention. and this vicious precedent
seems to have been followed without
questioning by Governor Mickey. The
parole business, on the other hand, has
degenerated into a species OF peonage
and forced labor on one side and con-
ditional pardon without any effort to
enforce the conditions on the other.
This bad mess calls for legislative at
tention and a revision OF the laws gov
erning pardons, combinations and pa
roles in Nebraska that will prevent its
repetition should we unfortunately
again have a weak or corrupt man in
the executive chair.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-02
RAILROAD BETrERMENrs.
Extensions and improvements that
Are Planned for the Year.


New York Commercial.
The authorization OF large stock issues
by the Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern not only indicate great extern
sions and Important bsttsrments In the
railroad properties in the territory cul-
tivated by these companies. but they sug-
gest a struggle for new business such as
marks an era of great national prosperity
The Union Pacihc's very prosperous out
look with its enormous resources and the
Milwaukee systems characterization stock
Increase available for extensions to the
Pacific coast will make these lines very
active in the development OF new business
In the remoter vest All these do not
necessarily mean anything beyond the TAX
ing advantage Of prosperous times to open
up and develop regions that will be per-
manently and bounteously tributary to
the lines penetrating them. Still. there is
a suspicion of competing fight for new
business in the air.
Colncideut with these far-western ex-
tensions and betterments there is going
on In the eastern and central states a
development more gradual, less striking,
but none the less sure to modify and COM
plicate the transportation problem. We
refer to the strongly defined tendency to
make the electric traction lines. such as
are found so abundantly in states like
Ohio. Indiana and Illinois, auxiliary TO the
steam lines in handling freight and express
matter.
The present car shortage, the coal famine
in the west, and the inability of steam
railway carbuilders to overtake their or
ders all emphasize the need Of additional
aids to the present transportation facilities
of the country. That the trunk lines Of
railroad and the smaller steam lines al
ready see the vantage-point achieved by
connecting systems Of trio roads Ii
shown by the favor with on interchange
of transportation Is regarded.
To make these electric fractions lines
feeders and auxiliaries TO the steam roads
is really less difficult as a problem than II
would seem to many, and the solution of
many knotty. transportation problems IL
likely to be found along this pathway.
From, now on the foresighted will keep
an eye on the understandings arrived at
bstween the greater, railway systems and
the parallel and interesting electric lines.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-02
Personal NOTES.


Doubtless the Sage millions win be dis
tributed after the probate court has passed
upon the will of Mrs. Sage.
King oscar of Sweden is one Of the most
remarkable OF European monarchs. Be-
sides being a voluminous writer he Ia a
frst-rate musician, an expert linguist,
good speaker and an all-round sportsman.
Although James Bryce. the new British
ambassador to this country, 10 So years old.
he has not by any means exhausted his
physical energies or his fondness for exer-
else in the open His favorite recreation
is mountain climbing and he Is president
Of the English Alpine club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert A. Johnston Of NIL
waukee have made gift OF 10000 for the
construction and equipment OF a new home
for Marquette college. to be erected In their
city. The trustees Of the college offered to
change it's name to Johnston college, but
the Johnstons prefer II should continue to
bear the name Of the famous missionary.
Recent announcement in a press report
to the effect that 5000 was paid for
copy of the early laws of Connecticut,
known also as the blue laws" OF Con-
necticut, has brought to light the possible
fact that the only other copy in existence
Is In possession of Mrs. G. Z. Laverty OF
Louisville Ky. II has occupied a place
in her library for fifty years.
The japanese government has sent It's
chief railway. engineer from the island
of Formosa to spend six months in the
United States and six months in Europe
studying the latest methods in railway
construction. His name Is II. Inagaki
He has just arrived in San Francisco
where he will remain month. He IL a
young man in the early thirties.
Dr. George F. KunE. statistician on pre-
eious stones for the United States geo
logical survey has retired. Originally an
annual review OF the precious stone in
dustry in the United States was pub
lished, but Dr. KunE has extended this Of
late years to cover discoveries and devsl-
opments in precious stones and ornamental
stones in all parts OF the world.
A. A Robinson, until recently president
of the Mexican Central railroad. will be
made manager OF all the railroads con-
troIled by the Mexican government. He
was very close TO President Diaz during
the ten years he was at the head OF the
Mexican Central Ar. Robinson was raised
on farm and from childhood until he
reached his majority he was engaged in
farm labor. except for one year, when he
was clerk In a general store. HIS work
on railroads began In liza
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-02

RAILROADS AND WATER COMPETITION
The result Of Commissioner Gar
fields investigation into the effect of
water transportation on railroad rates
will challenge public attention to a
point which has heretofore been re-
garded as quite secure. IL has. been, a
comfortable popular habit TO look to
deep water, whether ocean, lake, river
or canal. as a regulator of transporta-
ton charges which could be resorted to
when all else failed, 1t comes as
shock, therefore, to be advised through
a careful investigation that this safe
guard has been impaired, or at least
msnaced.
It is shown conclusively that In
some important directions the rail-,
roads have neutralized water compeu-
ton. 1t is we'll known that the deca-
dence of commerce on the Mississippi
and its main tributaries has not been
altogether due to the superior railroad
facilities or rates. but very largely by.
manipulations and determinations,
whereby the public has been arbitra-
rily deprived of natural advantages.
The commissioners report reveals an
elaborate system by which similar re-
suits have been brought about to some
extent in lake and even in salt water
competition, in part by terminal man
agement and in part by outright own
ership of water freight agencies.
One Of the most serious features is
opportunity for far-reaching discrimi-
nation developed by the roads under
the excuse OF water competition, for at
the same time that they were stealthily
neutralizing It they have exaggerated
fits effect as a cover for abuses that
have long been expressly made Grim
inal by law. The original interstate
commerce act in 1887 thus made pro-
vision whereby the long and short haul
clause could be annulled to meet water
competition, and in this and many
other ways on the same excuse the
roads have steadily extended the field
of discrimination, until today the prac-
tice raises one of the most intricate and
difficult problems under the policy of
government control.
The tremendous expansion OF indus
try and its centralized control under
existing capitalistic methods have ma
terially changed the conditions in
which water transportation was indeed
the efficient freight regulator. The
question Of its restoration and safe
guard, however, is pre-eminently one
for national control, which has already
gone to the length of providing for ex-
clusion of railroads from other fields
of enterprise. 1t is certain that they
cannot be permitted at once to destroy
water competition and to use its pre-
tended effect to maintain elaborate dis
elimination abuses.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-02

IIHItEN0IIIIIII
We are doing something in an educational
way for the little brown brethren in the
Philippines. There are S,166 primary schools
in the islands, with an average attendance
of 1854 pupils. Seven hundred American
teachers and 6294 Filipino teachers are en-
ployed. There are 2,454 primary school build
ings in the islands owned by the munich
palities. On the theory that as the natives
become educated they will more readily
enter into our scheme of benevolent assimil-
alton the money expended for education is
well spent. But IT II quite possible when
they shall become At to govern themselves
they may more .strenuously insist upon hav-
Ing the opportunity, or, II. that be denied
them under the flag, seek for It outside Of
the American jurisdiction. "A little learn
ing is a dangerous thing"
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-02

Written In the homemade copy books Of
half a century and more ago was frequently
found this statement; Rust consumes
faster than labor wears" The statistieian
who seeks to verify statements OF extreme
longevity finds proof OF the truth Of this
assertion in the active outdoor lives that
very aged men and women have lived not
infrequentiy to four-score years. II has
further been shown by these researches
into the causes that govern the time allot-
ment Of man that the full exercise of the
various powers OF the mind and body IL
conducive to great age. Hence anyone
desiring abnormal length Of years need not
be afraid OF wearing himself out by labor
since upon this high authority he Is assured
that his action is life-inaction decay.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-02
DREAMS OF CHILDHoop.
Kansas city Journal.

Kansas City journal.
Pleasant recollections, happy memories,
Songs OF summer warblers in the willow
Turning lies book over. page by golden
At the hreside dreaming
OF golden agei
Come. ye little figures; come, ye visions
Faces tanned and frsckled. brown and bare
Turn the BOOK OF living page by golden
page
At the Preside dreaming ~
OF a golden agel
OF an age resplendent with the hopes Of
-. life
Free and bright and careless of the human
Down the rifted chimney winter winds may
rage
Naught can mar the dreaming
OF q golden agel
When the heart was wholesome with the
innocence
OF the wildwood rapture. freedoms recom-
Turn the book of fortune, but the sweet
Tells in hours Of dreaming
OF the golden assi
Tells OF childhood pleasures. tells tho
In the happy spirit OF a happy boy.
Winds around the chimney rage ana rage
Making sweet the dreaming
OF golden agel
Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-02
oUR INCREASED MONEY! srooKs.

The statement of the secretary of
the treasury that the money in actual
circulation in the United States, exclu-
sive of the amount in the treasury
vaults, has increased s2O5, 100000
within a year shows the possibility of
considerable currency expansion under
our present system. For this 10 not an
imitation of paper issues, S145,000,000
being gold and $50. 900 national
bank notes secured on government
bonds, good for gold. The gold incre-
ment. being for the most part availa-
BILE for bank reserves, is thus basis for
a vast additional credit.
Fully two-thirds of the gold increase
was secured through importation, ac-
CELEBRATED by the facilitating operations
of the treasury. which in substance
made the gold instantly available here
upon engagement abroad, virtually
saving interest in transit. while the
government lost not penny, which 1t
would have had II the facilitating OPP
erations had not been made. In short,
assuming a suficient treasury surplus
and a higher demand here than
abroad. our currency expansion mainly
depends upon attracting gold from the
boards in the chief foreign centers or
new gold as it comes from the worlds
mines.
Obviously the currency expansion is
not cOuntervailed by equal facilities for
contraction with shrink OF demand.
The maximum retirement of national
bank notes under the law is only
IS, 100000 per month, while there is
no means of facilitating international
withdrawal OF gold like those which
were employed by the government last
year TO bring It In.
The defect of our monetary arrange
ne1fs, however. In this respect is not
likely 10 be felt the coming year, al
though no legislative alteration. is
made. because 50 vast are the business
and industrial movements TO be
financed that all the cash resources
will be needed ana probably more. : II
may well be, too. from conservative