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The daily Alaskan., 1907-08-09

Special Dispatch -o Daily Alaskan
 Chicago. Aus. . N.ae hundred tel. eEra"a o.sra.5r, a. midnight .a- .e.- ac.s aat rs.a,.a 10 hau4.s mes sa4es .ha- came oa. Q. the ..-s A~-e..s oacas na.a ner-w.ca operators .a." been sma.o. . .r sh. places a. t.. .r.r. ...r...r- who w-ro recent y Q.
The daily Alaskan., 1907-08-09
HIS DEATH MAY
 DEFEAT JUSTICE
BRIBE GIlER LYING NEAR DEATHS DOOR WHILE COURT WANTS TO TRY HIM
 FOR HIS CRIME

Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskan)
 San Francisco, Aug. 9-Theodore Halsey, the telephone official who was to have been tried for bribery in con- nection with the telephone franchise scandal in this city,was operated on last night for appendicitis and the hOspita l reports state that he is dying,
The daily Alaskan., 1907-08-09

San Francisco Aug 9-The supreme court has decided that the primary election law which provides that voters when registering must state their constitutional affiliations is legal This will have tendency to make it more difficult for Japanese to acquire real estate in California; proposed legislation which will prohibit anyone but citizen of the
 United States from owning real estate in California will be given strength by this decssion.
The daily Alaskan., 1907-08-09
TELEGRAPH KEYS l8E ID-E
 THROUGHOUT COUNTRY

strike -.a day force are expected 10 ... ...- .-.rayaa Reports from the .-..s !. New York to ,he Chicago ..,.a.s ar. chat sas operators in tha,
 city wi. follow tac example of the w....r. -aLa.-a7aars aua tha, ua aN -..... ... extend from the Atlantic %
 .r. m.c.tc vi. result.
The daily Alaskan., 1907-08-09
TURKISH T2.BES.E. A8E
 5-5y5HTE8..5 THE JEWS

the greatest religious war Europe has ever witnessed is now beginning. A panic prevails iu many European center- where fears are entertained of a broH which will involve au the count ries of Europe.
The daily Alaskan., 1907-08-09

srec.a, Dispatch to Daily Alaskan
 Tsu-.-rs, Aug. g-Iuturiated tribes men are pGlagtug farming settlements and s,augh,rr.ng the Jewish residents of Morocco. The indications are that
The daily Alaskan., 1907-08-09

Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskanl
 Montgomery, Ala. Aug. 9-Ths rail roads doing business in Alabama have surrendered to the state and agreed to abide by the laws recently passed, which make operative at once, a two
The daily Alaskan., 1907-08-09
RAILROAD WILL
 COMPLY WITH THE LAW

and one half cent passenger rate, max mum freight rates and the observance of the Jim Crow" law. For several days the railroads have been outlaw corporations and their acts were un- lawful under the statutes of this state.
The daily Alaskan., 1907-08-09

The best dining room, the bes. hotel ac- cmm0jaJiOns, the most comfort at the Fifth avenue
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19
OUR RopE-rHRoWING MAYOR.

If anyone in Omaha were in danger
of forgetting that we have a cowboy
mayor in the city hall a forceful re-
minder would be found in the whoop
just issued by Mayor "Jim," presume
bly, to help the Young Women's Chris
tian association along in its campaign
for contributions to its building fund.
Mayor Jim" has wound his lariat
up into a coil and hung it from the
pommel of his saddle and gone in for
peaceful pursuits. This is a grand
work." he says. Thousands of peo-
pie haven't given red cent, hundreds
have been seen, others written to, but
no response. Loosen up!"
AS If this elegant, if not forceful,
language were in danger of missing
the bulls eye, Mayor Jim" continues:
why not get your chips in the center
of the table. Lots of you will shake
dice for either of those amounts, spend
that much over the bar or do some
other fool thing to burn up your
money. The game closes next Tues
day night. Why not help on this?
You will never miss it, and when you
see the building and the good 1t is
doing you will always feel happy that
you helped just little. Jar loose!"
If this prayerful appeal does not
touch those who are accustomed to
''see the mayor" and go him one bet
ter, the proverbial generosity of this
class of citizens must have been
greatly exaggerated. If some of them
thoughtlessly drop red or blue chips
into the box instead of real money,
Mayor Jim" will doubtless be able to
tell where they can be cashed in.
In the interval, what do self-respect-
ing people anxious to have Omaha
stand high at home and abroad think
of such performances by the chief ex-
ecutive of their city?
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19
NEW TREATY WITH SANro DOMINGO

NEW TREATY WITH SANTO DOMINGO
President Roosevelt has sent to the
senate a new treaty with Santo Do
mingo free from several features of
the old treaty so Objectionable to the
democrats and a few of the repub-
licans of the senate for which ratifica-
ton has been withheld for nearly two
years. The new treaty is much sim
pier than the old and does not bind
the United States so closely, although
1t still places upon the United States
the work of collecting the revenues
for the payment of the Dominican
debts.
When the old treaty was presented
to the senate, in the early days of the
present congress, the president ex-
pected that it would meet prompt rati-
fication and he started out to enforce
it's terms az once. The senate refused,
favorable consideration of the meas
ure, contending that the United States
had no right or call to go into the
business of collecting bad debts for
| impoverished countries in the western
/ hemisphere. The president, however
held justification for preventing for
| eign countries from collecting debts
| by force. While the senate held up
| the treaty, the president allowed, un-
der a modus vivendi, American repre-
sentatives to take charge of the Do
minican customs, reserving SIS per cent
of the collections to go into a trust
fund for the payment of the country's
debts to foreign countries. Under
this plan more than $2,300,0O0 have
been placed in the trust fund and the
Dominicans and their creditors are
wholly pleased with the plan and de-
sire it's continuance. This is proposed
and provided for in the new treats.
The new treaty provides that $780,
00O,OOO Dominican bonds shall be is
sued and the United States simply
! guarantees to maintain order in the
islands and supervise the collections ot
the customs until the required re-
demption fund has been raised OPP
ponents of the treaty object that its
adoption would mean the American
occupation of sahto Domingo's Gus
toms houses for fifty years, although
the bonds contain a clause giving
Santo Domingo the right to retire
them at the end of twelve years. The
foreign debt of the country is now
about s17,OO0,OO0. Senator Bacon.
who is leading the democratic opposi-
ton to the treaty. argues that Ameri-
can occupation of the island for fifty
years would mean eventual annexa-
ton, to which proposition he and a
majority of the democrats are unsIter-
ably opposed. Advocates of the treaty
reply that the United States does not
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19
Personal NOTES.

There are 1890 practising lawyers in
Greater New York. Perhaps a hundred of
them are known outside the city.
II had letter few days ago." said Con-
gresham Hale of Tennessee, from a
constituent who asked me to send him the
rules and regulation of congress" Did
you do it?" Yes; 1 sent him a photo
graph of Joe Cannon"
Six northumberland Madison
Jackson, Polk Buchanan "a bachelor) and
McKinley-left no children. Two-Jefferson
and Monroe-left daughters only. Presi-
dent johnson had two sons, but both died
before he was president.
Speaker Cannon was talking of the pro-
posal to increase the salaries for members
Of congress. Il have spent twice my sal
airy Of $1,000 a year." he said. "since l have
held my present Job. but am not anxious
to give it up. The fact is, like It,"
A commission, of which Secretary Taft is
president, has selected a site at Connectl-
cut avenue and N street one Of the best
in Washington, for the statue to the poet
Longfellow. Congress has appropriated
$1,000 for the pedestal for this statue
A resolution to exclude railroad lobbyists
from the Kansas legislature was neatly
strangled by Senator Bailie Wageoner For
years past MT. WaggCner mas been legal
adviser for the Missouri Pacific, and could
not stand by unmoved when the branding
iron was brought in.
Rockefeller's genius for combining busi-
ness with educational philanthropy Is deep
and abiding. Observe how quickly the price
OF oil was pushed up notch when he an
nounced his last donation. Thus DO con-
sumers of standard products enable "Rocke
old boy" to get reputation.
Chicago's reputation for generous under
pinning Is well established, but that ar
fords no warrant for an observing
preachers declaration that the coming
generation will have feet as big as hams"
No good end Is subserved by centering at
tontlon on a community's extremlties.
Pennsylvanias republican governor has
invited two democratic lawyers. A.
Stranahan OF Harrisburg and J. A. Scarlet
of Danville-to appear for the state at the
Iegisla tive investigation Of that remarkable
expenditure Of millions OF dollars on the
furnishings and adornments of the new
state house.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19
GOOD ADVICE.
Baltimore American.

Baltimore American.
If you want all folks to like you and 10
greet you with smile,
Don't butt in.
If tbs pleasant to hear people cry, Don't
CO. but stay awhile"
Don't butt in
If tbs nice to hear them say Of YOU, Hes
square unto the bone
And when you sec him coming you don't
have to give a groan:
He Just minds his own business and lets
your affairs alone"
Don't butt in.
If you're craving to be popular and asked
out everywhere,
Don't butt in.
If you'd Ike TO feel no plans complete OF
pleasure, you not there,
Don't butt in.
If you'd like to know you are n man whom
every one will trust
And all be glad 70 lend a hand IN now ana
then you're bust"
And IT, i'm short, you would be 1T" with
sinners and the Just
Don't butt In.
But If you'd like to be the man whom
every one will shun,
just butt In,
II you want TO go through life and never
have a bit Of fun,
just butt In.
Tell everybody how TO do II they don't
want TO fail;
Into ali the private business OF tho folks
you meet, Just SAIL
II you want 10 raise a wild desire to ride
you on a rail
Just butt I'm.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

The first reform in our divorce laws
should be a provision making Il i'm
possible for outsiders to come to Ne
braska for the express purpose of pro-
curing marital separation. Before
we have any change in the law, how
ever, the judges should take 1t upon
themselves to throw out of court all
cases which are palpably and notori-
ously imported. There is no good
reason why the people of Nebraska
should be saddled with the expense Of
maintaining costly court machinery
for the benefit of outsiders afraid to
submit their claims to courts that
have rightful jurisdiction.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

~ " AfhA M
The letter carriers at Butte, Mon
tana, who have resigned because they
believe they can not afford to work
for the 1926 a year allowed them by
the government are, unfortunately for
them, attempting to win their case by
overturning the whole system under
which the Postoffice department is con-
Quoted because 1t does not take local
conditions into account. In notifying
the department at Washington that
the twenty-nine carriers in his office
had rendered their designations. Post
master Irwin of Butte declares Butte
is the highest-priced city in the
United States as well as the strongest
labor union town. The scale here for
common labor is SO a day and the cost
of living is so high that the salary now
paid the carriers will not afford them
more than a decent living"
The pay of letter carriers, under
the laws of congress, is based upon
the earnings of the postoffice to which
they are attached. The highest salary
that can be paid a carrier in an office
where the annual receipts are less than
$4,000 is 1926 per annum, although
the postoffice appropriation bill now
pending proposes to increase this pay
to $500 per annum. First Assistant
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
! racop,p,ondod that Tho danortnapt no
allowed to use discretion in the adjust
ment of pay of clerks and carriers in
second class offices, in order to meet
emergencies. But the department has
no such authority now and it is doubt
full if Mr.. Hitchcock's request will be
granted by congress.
The postoffice has become such a
gigantic institution, expending more
than $200,0O0,000 annually in man
aging the nations postal affairs, that
IL would be well nigh impossible to
change the system to allow an adjust
ment of salaries to meet local condi-
lions at any postoffce. Such change
would result mutually in a flood of
claims that would swamp the depart
ment. High rents,d to local boom,
scarcity of coal due to a car short
age, fancy prices for ice, and a thous-
and and one things affecting the cost
of living in different localities would
at once be urged as cause for a read
justment of salaries. Just as soon as
one town had secured increased al
lowance for carriers, every other town
of similar size in the country would
demand similar treatment or discrim-
ir alton.
Conceding the claim of the Butte
carriers that they can not secure more
than a decent living on their present
pay, there is little danger that the mail
service will long be hampered ser
iously by their designations, The SER
vice offers attractions that assure
plenty of applications for all vacan-
cies. The hours are short, the work
demanded reasonable and the pay suf-
ficient to prevent any large number of
carriers from surrendering their posi-
tons on account of the more lucrative
pay offered for common labor in Butte
or elsewhere. 1t Is even possible cit
liens of Butte may have to go to the
postoffice for their mail if the carriers
really strike, although such an out
come is hardly probable.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

How People with IA Reputation for
Business Acuteness Give In.

Chicago Chronicle.
Is there any limit to the gullibnity of
men who pride themselves upon their BUSH
ness acuteness? Why should the gold
brick operator waste his time in the rural.
districts when the cities present a harvest
ripe for the sickle?
Mrs Cassie Chadwick, temporarily In ro-
trement, already is classed as antiquated
in her methods. Keely of motor fame was
bungling compared with the contem-
porary opponents of the gentle art of eff
fecting a separation between business men
and their money.
A Philadelphia banker hands over $4,000
in exchange for a tin box supposed to con-
tain the formula for purifying large bodies
of water instanter. The box upon being
opened reveals nothingness, vacuity. Two
retired capitalists of New York, who have
now retired again, pay $4,000 in cash and
as much more in negotiable securities for
an inexhaustible storage battery, which,
once charged, Is to go on forever. The
sample battery, being dissected upon the
disappearance of the seller, proves to be
an ordinary dry cell.
An energetic but unoriginal person re-
wives the historic scheme for extracting
gold from sea water and gets money for
It from divers Massachusetts yankees.
The Spanish priest" with his letters tell
ing of buried treasure, is doing business
in California. No returns are at hand from
Chicago, probably because when the Chi
cago man picks up hot one" he takes
his medicine instead of going to the police
and advertising himself. No recent sales
of the Masonic temple to Indiana visitors
are reported.
But IT is a significant fact that In all the
achieved the greatest success. 1t is more
significant that the victims in every case
cited have been not bucolics nor villagers
but the very sophisticated of the cities.
The meaning of it all may be that our
money captains are losing their shrewd-
ness, but the more likely reason is that the
prevailing greed for easy money has
blinded otherwise astute men to the obyi-
GUS considerations of common sense.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

attempt force to collect its debts from
foreign powers and that the occupa-
ton Of santo Domingo for an indeh-
mite term will give Europeans to un-
derstand that their dealings with
American republics can not be fol-
lowed by the use of force for the col
lection of debts.
Prospects for the ratification OF the
treaty at the present session are, new
ertheless. improving. A canvass
shows but two democratic votes re-
quired to carry and it is now believed
that these will be forthcoming.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19
MONEY IN WEEDS.

Experts of the Agricultural depart
ment at Washington have been con-
Quoting some very interesting investi
cations which indicate that the Amer
lean farmers are throwing away mil
lions of dollars each year by destroy
ing weeds that have a high commercial
value. Secretary Wilson expresses
surprise that wide-awake and re-
sourceful farmers have not gone in
for drug plant cultivation, making use
of many of the common weeds now
considered pests which hold sources
of great revenue. The United States
last year bought $64,000,000 worth
of drugs and dyes from foreign coun-
tries and Secretary Wilson insists that
every dollars worth of this material
could have been secured from plants
and weeds grown at home.
Accepting the findings of the ex-
perts as true, the average American
farmer has riches lying unnoticed
about his fields in the shape of noxious
weeds now destroyed or allowed to
iInpoyerish the soil. 1-e profit from
this source may be considered as
sured from year to year. for the weed
crop, immune from the ravages of
pests and of the blight of drouth. is
never a failure. Belladonna, for in
stance is a standard drug, always in
demand at a good price Experiments
conducted at the agricultural depart
ment at Washington show that the
plant will grow luXuriantly in any soil
that will yield wheat or corn. Last
year the United States imported $3,-
5O0,00 pounds of paprika, valued at
100000. 1t is prepared from the
pods of a slender plant grown almost
exclusively in Hungary. One man in
South Carolina last year raised $500
pounds of this pepper on three acres
of ground and marketed it at nearly
81 a pound.
The department furnishes long list
of weeds commonly regarded as nuis-
ances and worthless that may be cul-
tivated to commercial advantage.
The despised and lowly Unison weed
supplies drug dealers with both leaves
and seeds and its cultivation, accord
ing 20 the experts, will pay better than
wheat or other staple crops. Phyto-
lacca Americana sounds expensive
enough on the druggists shelf and
proves so when served on prescription
but is only the medical alias of plain
poke root, the war for whose extermi-
nation mas caused many farmers boy
to leave home Burdock and yellow
dock are now imported because
American farmers do not take the
trouble to dig them and send them to
market. Wormseed is worth about 81
pound and, in fact, most of the
weeds filling the fence corners and
fallow lands of the ordinary American
farm rossers commercial value when
properly ueatcd
Many possibilities of profit at little
outlay og time and labor are opened
up by the departments report, even
If it chances conditions by relieving
the farmer who fails to cut his weeds
from the scorn and contempt of his
neighbors,
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

The consolidation OF the Offices of
city and county treasurer and of the
city tax commissioner with that of
county assessor effected by the last
legislature has proved mineatly sat
isfactory as a step toward the merger
of our city and county governments.
These consultations should be fol-
lowed up by the present legislature
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

The paid lobbyists of the railroads
are working at Lincoln all the time,
night and day, week days and Sun
days. Members of the two houses of
the legislature who are there to rep
resent the people will have to keep
their eyes open to avoid the pitfalls.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

Senator Beveridge is determined to
have the cost of meat inspection paid
by the packers instead of by the gov
eminent. In that case, the consumers
would pay the cost directly instead of
using the government as middleman.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

If the story be true that Postmaster
General Cortelyou has a series of po-
litical scrap books, indexed as Truth,
Nearly Truth" Almost Lies" and
Gust Lies" it is easy to guess which
requires the most shelf room.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19
For Club Women Only.

One OF the most eloquent speeches that
have been delivered before any of the leg
islative committees was by Mrs. Johnson
of Alabama, IN behalf of the reformatory.
This is the only thing in this agitation that
we deplore. 1t has developed a lot OF
female speakers who feel it their duty to
leave their husbands at home and spelbind
the brethren. II the establishment OF this
much needed institution will give US women
speakers We would be better on without IT,
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

by merging the city and county au-
diting departments and providing for
a consolidated tax receipt A com
plete merger of city and county gov
ernments is sure to come in time. al
though we may have to take it on the
installment plan.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19
Pride .Provokes a Fail.
Raltlmore American

History is continually repeating itself.
The story OF the Athenian who voted for
the ostracism of Aristides because he was
tired OF hearing him called "the just" has
his modern parallel in a Michigan police
man who shot his superior because he
was tired of seeing the latter strut about"
After all, the dislike to having some one
else the whole show is as old as the In
vent.on OF human nature.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

A full-blood Creek Indian is a can
didate for the United States senate
from Oklahoma. If he gets to Wash
ington he will discover scalping meth
DDS that would have been the envy of
his ancestors.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

Reports from different states indi-
cate that the Standard oil company,
in addition to monopolizing the oil of
the country, is apparently monopoliz-
ing the time of the grand juries and
the courts.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

Rabbi Hirsch of Chicago says there
will be an end to the war spirit when
suffrage is extended to women. The
rabbi must have overlooked the re-
ports of the doings of the English suf-
fragettes.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

''Look out for lower prices in Wall
street." says New York financial pa
per. Lower prices at the grocery
store would suit more people.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19
working the Wrong Lead.

Several excitable people are boring for
oil in the vicinity of Lincoln, Neb. 1t
would be a safer business proposition to
spend the money ripping the ice from the
top of a few lakes and laying 1t by
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19
No Competition In His Line.

The advocates of exclusion will have to
get up early in the morning in order to
explain away the case of the Chinaman
who raised a check for IS to a check for
S, 900 and cashed II. There is no danger
that talent Of this kind will ever come into
with the honest American
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

The sentiment for Greater Omaha
is practically unanimous in both
Omaha and South Omaha, with the
exception of few office seekers pres
ent and prospective in the last named
city. The kickers may make a loud
noise, but investigation of them will
disclose a personal interest in nine
cases out of ten.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

Chicago wants to know why passen-
ger trains leaving that city are run
faster than those headed for Chicago.
Perhaps because the railroads try to
suit the wishes of the passengers.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

Caruso has signed for another
season with Conried and Joe Dolan
has signed with Pa Rourke, so we
have a first tenor and a first base
ready for the festivities.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

The town of Avery is again on the
postofice map for Nebraska. 1t will
complished by the postoffice authori-
ties depriving the people there of
postal facilities for more than six
weeks
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

The right thing for the Omaha Com
mercial club to do would be to get to-
gether and rescind the resolutions pre-
pared at railroad headquarters and
surreptitiously ornamented with the
clubs seal
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-19

While the fusionists have less than
a fourth of the representation in the
present Nebraska legislature, they
seem to take up about three-fourths
of the legislative time with their
speeches. Here is room for a reappor-
tiopDonnf