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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09
WAR STILL ON IN OHIO.

Peace and harmony were &c come
out of Ohio, but the peace dove has
been slain. The republican factional
fight in the buckeye state is still red
hot and so it promises to continue for
some time to come. And, although
the republican state central committee
representing the last state convention,
has declared for Secretary Taft for
the presidential nomination, Senator
Foraker still intends to make fight
and apparently fierce one. Senator
Foraker contends that the endorse
ment of Secretary Taft by the twenty
one republican committeeman has no
binding effect whatever upon the par
ty of the state at large, since that
committee is remnant of a by-gone
convention and can not speak for the
people in view of new conditions
which have arisen since that commit
tee was appointed.
Senator Foraker has found in the
newspapers demand for Taft's en-
dorsement because he is the only Ohio
presidential aspirant. Foraker takes
exception to this contention, claiming
that he has not announced himself as
yet but inferring that he is just as
much a presidential candidate as is
Taft.
Senator Foraker has taken a strateg
ic position with one respect in his
fight. He has lined up with President
Roosevelt as against Secretary Taf
in regard to the tariff, and from his
letter it may be expected that upor
the stand pat issue as against revision
of the tariff the factional war in Ohio
will be fought out.
Secretary Taft said when he was II
Norfolk last spring, and he has ofteI
said before, that he is in favor of re
vision of the tariff. President Roose
welt holds that, while 1t may be pos
sible that there are some features o
the tariff which have been outgrown
it is nevertheless too dangerous mat
ter to tamper with the sacred doc
trine of protective tariff to begin Of
few unfit portions. He clings to tn
doctrine which made William McKin
ley the idol Of American labor-th
protective tariff and the full Dime
pail.
And to back up his position, Senate
Foraker points to the fact that labo
was never in the history Of this cour
try so we'll employed or at such hig
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09
S1OO Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages. and
that is catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh be-
ing a constitutional disease, requires q
constitutional treatment Halls Ca
tarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system, thereby de-
stroying the foundation of the disease,
and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and as
sisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith In its
curative powers that they offer one
hundred dollars for any case that IL
fails to cure. Send for list of testimo-
malls.
Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo.
o.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
! patton
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09
WOULD DEAL FOR NEBRASKA.

Mayor Jim Dahlman of Omaha
would like to deal the cards in Neb-
raska, but to deal ON the square, with
out slipping any aces off the bottom
for his own hand, he wants 10000
white chips per annum as salary.
At least that is what report sent
out from Omaha has to offer. Omaha
apparently isn't taking the matter
any more seriously than Nebraska at
large, though Mayor Jim Is getting n
good deal of valuable space. The re-
port says that Jim and Bryan have
shaken hands on mounting buckskins
and going out on next falls roundup
Jim to rope the Nebraska governor
ship and his friend Bryan the presi-
dency. But Jim and Bryan may find
the animals already burned with the
brand of some other ranch. Perhaps
a plain "R" will be found on the sides
of both the gubernatorial and the pres
idential steers.
Mayor Jim says he couldn't be
honest in the governors chair unless
his salary was 100000 Otherwise he
would have to graft. And this point
In Jim's interview, while little strong
is not so bad, The governor of Neb
raska Is not we'll enough paid on $3.50
per year, Perhaps the salary SHOULD
be $4,000. At all events the state
ought to be able to pay its officials
enough to make the offices worth hav
ing for an unmoneyed man as wei
as one who can afford the luxury.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09
THE BIGGEST FINE.

Judge X. NJ. Lands on Saturday af-
ternoon imposed upon the Standard
Oil company the largest fine recorded
in judicial history The penalties
came as sentence in the cases in which
that company was recently convicted
of using illegal railroad rates.
When, under indictment secured q
year ago the Standard Oil company Of
Indiana was found guilty Of violating
the anti-rebate law, the fixing of the
fine for that offense devolved upon
Judge Lands, and as he had free
hand in assessing any fine between
$1,000 and $4,000 on each of the l.
462 counts in the indictment, he was
confronted with a rather difficult prop
osition. He did not know how much
punishment the company could stand
and this was the reason he summoned
John d. Rockefeller and others prom
inently connected with Standard Oil
affairs, so as to learn some of the fl
its counsel were unable or unwilling
to tell. The fine assessed of $20,340,
900, was the maximum possible under
the law. The only excuse for not as
sessing the maximum fine would have
been the judges belief that clemenc!
was justified or demanded.
The case will so to the United
States supreme court. The STANDARD
Oil company will undoubtedly CLAIM
that it is entitled to protection unde
that section of the federal constitu
ton which says that excessive fine
shall not be imposed.
And in the meantime many other in
dictments against the company for Vi
olations of the Elkins law will b.
pushed to trial. Some Of these II
northern Illinois are about as volumi
nous as that on which the recent tria
was based.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09
HOW THE CROPS ARE.

There is JOY abroad IN the land, or
at least there ought to be. For the
crop is going to be bumper one. And
a bumper crop spells prosperity to the
nation in general.
The wrinkles of worry caused by
late spring have been rubbed away
by the hands of warm and contin-
uous sunshine for several weeks, and
as a result the American farmer is
about to pocket a mighty volume of
coin of the realm. Prosperity for
the American farmer means prosper
ity all the way around and so the
public Is wearing a smile from ear to
ear. In fact news that the Standard
Oil company had been fined twenty
nine millions of dollars sinks into
insignificance, so far as the countrys
genuine interest is concerned, beside
the official news that big bounteous
harvest is on the way.
Reports from editors of farmers
papers all over the country have just
been assembled by G. R. Erwin, presi-
dent of the Lord and Thomas adver-
Using agency of Chicago, and the
reports are gratifying. Mr. Erwin
asked particularly after the wheat
crop, the oats and the hay. He re-
ceived replies telling him about the
corn crop, the cotton crop and the
tobacco crop as we'll as those for which
he enquired.
Corn seems to be the only crop
about which there is much cause for
alarm and the middle west is fortunate
in this regard, since it is the middle
west that will produce bumper crop
of king corn. 1t is from New England
that reports are received indicating
injury to the corn by the late spring
and that shortage will only tend tc
put the price higher on one of the big
est crops Nebraska has ever known.
Practically nothing but cheering
news has been heard from the all i'm
portant wheat crop. Kansas will
harvest 6O0,O00,0OO bushels this veal
and good returns are expected from
other states of the middle west.
Reports from western states are
of interest and will bring confidence
in the coming winters business which
was not possible two months ago
Following are some of the summaries
North and South Dakota. - Condi
lions were never surpassed, with tn,
possible exception of the low lands
There the crops have suffered slight.
on account of the unusual rains, blu
elsewhere there will be at least an ay
erage wheat crop, If nothing better
The yield Of oats, barley, and fax will
/ stand high In comparison with recen
I years, especially when the acreage l
) taken into consideration.
Iowa.-In most sections the crop
} are better than they have been Il
years. Late rains did some damage
: but not enough to affect the genera
5 outlook. Corn, the big Iowa croI
3 will be above the average. and on
= expert has boldly declared the yiel
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09
THE NORFOLK WEEKLY NEwsJoJRNAL FRIDAY AUGUST g. 1907

within the state will be over 100000
900 bushels. There will probably be
normal yield of oats, amounting to
about l50,0OO,00O bushels.
Kansas.--A wheat crop approximate
ing GOOOOO,OOO bushels spells prosper
ity for this state beyond doubt The
farmers are as happy as they have
been in n decade.
Nobraska.-One of the largest corn
crops Nebraska has ever known is
confidently predicted At first It
seemed as IL the yield would be short,
but good, steady weather around the
first of July did the work, and now a
bumper run is in sight With an in.
creased acreage of wheat, there will
be an average crop, and the yield OF
alfalfa will also be great. The ranges
are reported in excellent shape.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09
COAL FAMINE WARMING.

Coal famine alarms continue to
come. The increased demand for fuel
and the fact that there will be ire
mendous car shortage are assigned as
causes of the coming famine in fuel
which Is to be felt in the west next
winter And for that reason the rail
road people are advising the public
to early lay in the supply of coal
which will be needed. An inter-
view given out by julius Kruttschnitt,
director of maintenance of the Harri-
man lines, is the latest word of warn
ing to be issued in Nebraska and it
may be interesting to the coal-consum-
ing public as warning.
IF any one has space now to store
coal, say let him get his winters coal
put away as soon as he can" said
Mr.. Kruttschnitt.
IL do not want to be considered an
alarmist, and am in absolute earnest
when l give out that advice. l am
fearful that there will be coal fam
Inc in the west this winter, but / shall
hope that no actual suffering may en-
sue. The consumption of coal In the
country Is increasing faster than the
production. The Union Pacific alone
has increased its consumption 40 per
cent in one year. One can readily see
what it means If ali branches of In
dustry find the same condition true.
THE Union Pacific is doing and will
do all it can to prevent coal famine
We are anxious to build spurs to coal
lands in any part of our territory and
we tell the holders of the coal lands
so. Several spurs are now in course
of construction. One of them l saw
the other day at Kemmerer, Wyo.
where at the request of coal land own
ers we are building line eight mile.
long.
There will be a shortage of cars
too. That comes as regularly as tn,
crop movement, and 1t is not surpris
ing in view of the fact that everybod!
wants to move his grain at the sam,
time. l believe the situation will no
be as serious as it has sometimes been
and as far as our lines are concerne,
in this matter, we are contributing
heavily toward tightening the burdel
of the shipper.
1--WE learned a lesson last yeal
Look along the Union Pacific any
where in Nebraska. You will see ney
cars standing on the sidings. In tn
last year we have built upwards c
1000 freight cars and have bought hui
dreds of engines, having secured will
in seventy-five of the number we O.
dered. The sidings have been length
ened and division and terminal yard
have been extended, so that with n
: more cars than the road had last fal
, it would yet be more efficient"
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09
TREES FOR WEST.

The forest service has just issued a
circular devoted to the interests OF
forest planters in the western portions
Of Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma,
northwestern Texas, eastern Colorado
and New Mexico.
This entire region is practically tree
less. Here and there, Of course. trees
have been planted, but forest planting
has in no way kept pace with agricul
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

quest on the part of railway and ex.
press companies to increase their
cream rates into the cities from the
country They claim that the rates
are too small to give them a fair pro.
fit for their work and that the present
rate on butter fat Is the same which
many years ago applied to skinned
milk thus making it legitimate that
the butterfat rate should be higher,
since butterfat Is many times as val
liable and involves several times the
responsibility in carrying, as milk.
An increase in the rate would mean
that Omaha and Lincoln creameries
would have to pay more for their
cream shipments from the country
Rates into smaller towns, such as
| Norfolk, would not increase since they
are high enough now As a result
the Omaha creameries and the Nor
folk creamery would be put on equal
footing in buying cream and the Nor
folk creamery with a large exclusive
territory of its own and by virtue Of
the fact that it could get the cream
while 1t was still perfectly sweet,
could build up an extensive business
at the expense of the metropolitan
institutions.
The cream rate from Bonesteel into
Norfolk is "a cents and the distance
120 miles; the cream rate from Bone
steel into Omaha, a distance of 240
miles is only As cents. The discrim-
ination in favor of the Omaha cream
cry and against the Norfolk creamery
is apparent. And it ought to be cor
rected by the state railway com
mission.
The big creameries claim that the
Industry, in order to be economically
operated for the good of the producer,
ought to be centralized and that
therefore a discriminatory railroad
rate favoring the city creamery is in
the interests of the public Compar.
alive figures, however, show that the
little town creameries are paying more
to the farmer for their cream than
are the centralized institutions.
The big creameries claim that to in.
crease rates now would be like in.
creasing grain rates into Minneapolis
In order that the wheat would have tC
stay in the little towns for grinding
Regardless Of the points for or a
gainst Capitalization in many indust
ries, however, the fact must be borne
in mind with regard to the butter and
cream business that long shipments
make sour and therefore unhealthfu
butter.
For the good of the whole public
it would seem that competition should
be maintained in the creamery bust
ness and from the figures introduced
at Lincoln it is apparent that competi
ton today is scarcely possible.
The state railway commission
should investigate the cost of hand
ling cream by express and railroad
companies, should allow them fai
profit for their work and then, in fix
. ing the rates, should see to it tina
the little town creamery gets fair play
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09
GROUNDS OF OPPOSITION.

The opposition has finally disclosed
the alleged foundation of it's objec-
lions to the denomination of Judge
Sedgwick. 1t would have the voters
believe that they should be governed
by the silly and unjust criticism Of
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09
SUOULD NORM pARTNNRsHIP,

People living just outside the city
limits OF Norfolk ought to 20 into
partnership with Norfolk Benefits
for both parties would result.
In the FIRST place people living Just
outside and getting many benefits
from the city, ought to be doing their
share in helping TO pay the taxes with
which Norfolk is maintained, And
in the second place, they ought to
be enjoying all of the privileges ana
advantages which would accompany
such partnership
Norfolk has good many actual
citizens who have never been counted
in an official federal census because
they chance to live outside an Inn
aginary line which runs around the
center of the community. Some years
ago the junction joined into partner
shin of this kind and both the Junction
and Norfolk have been glad ever since
There are a good many reasons why
the city limits of Norfolk should be
extended and ut once.
The city council could take the nee
ossary steps without any difficulty and
the whole matter could be finished In
very short time.
Both the people inside the city and
those outside are entitled to such an
arrangement. 1t ought to be done
now.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who said that horse able
to roll over twice was worth 5000?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UMPIRE


Two cases OF monster Importance
and both based on the same contention
in defence, will now come before the
attention Of the United States supreme
court for final decision. One Is the
case in which the Standard Oil com
pany has just been fined more than
twenty-nine millions of dollars, and
the other is the case emanating from
North Carolina over passenger fare
law. All of which goes to show that
after all 1t is the federal government
and the federal court that holds the
reins.
In North Carolina passenger fare
law Of 21s cents was enacted. Fines
an injunction from the federal court
restraining the state from enforcing
the law until after it had been tested
as to constitutionality. The governor
contended that the law was law until
proven unconstitutional and declared
the railroads would have to obey. A
couple of railroad agents were Jailed
and an effort was made to fine the
railroads refusing to comply with the
law. The fines would amount to 9
couple of million dollars day for one
road and more than a million for an
other. A weeks fines would eat up the
profits of all the railroads in thai
state. The railroads, therefore, con
stitution which provides that lex
tend that the fines can not be enforced
and the law is unconstitutional be
cause of the clause in the federal con
cessive fines shall not be imposed.
1t will be for the United State.
supreme court to determine whether
the fines are excessive and the Law
constitutional. Meanwhile, it has beer
agreed that the railroads shall give tt
each ticket purchaser a rebate good
in case the law is upheld for the re
funding of the money paid in excess
of the new reduced rates. A goot
deal of fuss was kicked up by Cover
nor Glenn in a pyrotechnic way as t.
which court should prevail. The re
suit would have been the same il
any event the case would have t.
go to the United States supreme cour
for it's final test The only differenc
is that, pending the decision, the raj
} roads will not suffer the enforcement
of what may be declared unconstitu
: tional law. And in case the law
upheld, the public will get it's none
back, where in the other manner o
procedure the roads would have sus
tanned that much loss.
In the Standard Oil case it is no
probable that the fine will be Declare
as excessive as that imposed by tn
: North Carolina law. For the STAND
: ard Oil company's profits has bee
) so much larger that it's case is quit
| distinct.
1t seems hardly probable in view G
: public sentiment that the Standar
; Oil company, if the fine is sustained
would dare advance the price of OF
l as has been generally feared.
, CREAM RATES.
r Ont of the cream rate investipatiO
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

We issue The Globe a little earlier
than usual this afternoon; there is a
travelling man in town and we are
anxious to sit down with him, and
hear his jokes.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

Every young man is full Of
schemes" Every old man has tried
a lot of schemes, and lost confidence
in them.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

This is what daughter usually
thinks about father: That if she were
mother she'd make him stand around.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

After winning a triumph over an
enemy the next battle to fight is
against an inclination to look it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

The smaller the town woman lives
in, the more she knows about laying
out a corpse. We don't suppose there
is a woman in New York City who
knows how to lay out the dead.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09
AROUND TOWN.

1t was water gas for sure in the new
drainage canal.
Pick out your choices and wait for
the primary election.
Here's one case of trying to break
into the insane hospital.
What sort of brainstorm will that
Bristow man try to prove?
Does the approaching primary cleo.
ton have anything to do with these
storms?
You should have seen the people
yawn who ventured down town Satur-
day night.
Norfolks races and carnival just
got under the wire before the rain
flag was rung up.
Don't blame hay fever victim for
things he says.
How are the crops? That's a pert
inent question.
Some mothers are not regretting the
approach of school.
How can Norfolk bother with pri-
mary election when the circus is COM
ing to town?
1t is being demonstrated in Norfolk
that an automobile is no good excuse
for not having wife.
1t might reasonably be charged that
some teachers apply in Norfolk for the
express purpose of getting their names
changed.
It's hard lines for the small boy
when his summer season has to be
interrupted by the announcement that
school will begin in less than a month.
It's pleasanter to withstand a sum-
mer's heat than to suffer from a sum-
mer cold.
They're not all dead yet. The fell
low is still at large who asks if it's
hot enough for you.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09
ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS.

If you are lazy, there isn't any use
lying about it.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

There is no place or occasion where
time passes more slowly than while
waiting for a reply over the telephone,
the period between a death and the
funeral not excepted.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

Here's one case of trying to break
into the insane hospital
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

They're not all dead yet. The fell
low is still at large who asks if it's
hot enough for you.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

1t is all right to lay off for the
funeral of first-degree kin, but when
man lays off for as far away as a
fourth-degree kin, 1t is nothing short
of shiftlessness.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

What sort of brainstorm will that
Bristow man try to prove?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

It's pleasanter to withstand a sum-
mer's heat than to suffer from a sum-
mer cold.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

It's hard lines for the small boy
when his summer season has to be
interrupted by the announcement that
school will begin in less than month.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

1t was water gas for sure in the new
drainage canal.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

Pick out your choices and wait for
the primary election.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

Does the approaching primary cleo.
ton have anything to do with these
storms?
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

1t might reasonably be charged that
some teachers apply in Norfolk for the
express purpose of getting their names
changed.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

People living just outside the city
limits OF Norfolk ought to 20 INTO
partnership with Norfolk Benefits
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-08-09

You should have seen the people
yawn who ventured down town Satur-
day night.