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Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20
CANvASSING BOARD RESTS
Hopes to Finish Recount of Votes by
Monday Afternoon or Tues-
day Morning.

At noon Saturday the county csnvassing
board adjourned until 9 O'Clock Monday
morning, after having finished the recount
of all the precincts from the county, South
Omaha and the first five wards of Omaha.
IL is hoped ths recount Will be finished
Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning.
In the count Saturday morning HOLSTER
made some losses, but was still seven
ahead Of Kiusler at the close, No official
figures on the C~rosby-Brewer count We're
available, but Grosby's friends assert the
vote is now almost a tie between them.
Brewers friends, however, assert he is
several votes ahead OF his rival. The race
between ChristmaEl Butt and Wellman for
the low place on the democratic represen-
tative ticket was so close accurate esti-
mates could not be made, but Christman
made some good gains Saturday and Is
believed 10 be well in the lead Of the other
two.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20

nut ordinarily sold for 10 cents, for which
he was charged s..
Another man stopped in the same kind Of
garage to buy gasoline. While talking with
one of the men in The rear Of the shop
some one connected with the place quietly
took a wrench and loosened some of the
parts. OF course the owner noticed that
something was wrong after he had gone
on for a block or two. Quite unsuspicious
of the real cause he went back to the
garage to find out. The men lost no time
in showing him., but they did it In such a
way that he was more confused than If he
had tried to make the repairs himself. They
took off the tonneau and spread the parts
of the machine around on the floor until
the place looked like a junk shop. When
finally everything was put back in its
proper place they charged s5 for their
services and gave him to understand that
he was being let off easy, they had had
SO much trouble.
If these predatory mechanics find the
pickings better than usual and accumu-
late enough ready cash TO operate on n
large scale they sometimes try to persuade
Automobiles with uncut wisdom teeth to
sell damaged machines for almost nothing,
and II one of the partners is as enter
prising as the one just mentioned he never
misses a chance to get n private rake
off" all around. This happened in the case
of another owner whose new machine got
into a heated argument with a huge
bowlder along the roadside and came out
second best. when miles away from the
nearest town. Finding "A surly farmer,
whom he induced to haul the remains TO a
garage ten miles away by handing over
all his spare cash and by the promise OF
a house, lots and diamond rings, besides
a life annuity If insisted upon, the auto
mobllist at last reached the only place
where there was a garage.
After all this trouble he received the
cheerful information that the machine was
only III for the scrap heap.
well" said the disconsolate owner, 1T
will cost more than it is worth to ship 1t
back to New York if it is as bad as all
that"
II could use some Of the parts in repair
ing other machines" suggested the garage
man.
This led the way to negotiations for the
whole machine. and after frequent trips
to the telephone on the part OF the garage
keeper to consult with his partner, who
had gone to the next town, the automobile
changed hands for $500. But in the con-
versation at the phone, situated in a quiet
corner, the man at the other end OF the
wire was made to believe that the machine
they were buying to sell again at second
hand for $500 would cost them 500. As a
result the man who had conducted the
negotiations with the automobile owner
pocketed the extra 500 supposed to be paid
out from their common funds, besides get
ting his share OF the profits when the ma
chine was repaired and finally disposed of.
New York Herald.
DIT. Ross. Dentist. 4S Barker Block.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20
Sturdy Rustic EIemcHrt.

Besides the above minority class, OF
course, there is a sturdy, rustic element
present on the Rosebud that keeps the
plow and the hammer going. They are
Of various acknowledgements. Norwe-
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20

few weeks since, but let us not forget the
other side. The small farmer has Oeen
the strength of most nations. The lack
OF a Coney island is not altogether a de
feet Of farm life. Between the young city
dweller, however, poor, and the carer
of this successful and happy Iowa farmer
and his wife few obstacles stand, except
lack of initiative, unwillingness to work
and generally that lack of the sturdicr
qualities Of character which cause men
of weaker fiber to cling close to Coney
island and the corner saloon and seek
tie aid of phiIanthrophy.-Collier's
Weekly.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20

DIT. Ross, Dentist, 40 Barker Block.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20

walton by conveying to them, as is charged
in the information, of fire water, to which
beverage the Winnebago is sbnormally
partial. Pennyface and White We're brought
down to Omaha by Deputy United States
Marshal John Sides Friday evening in de-
fault of bail and will remain as guests of
Hotel de Bradley until they furnish $500
bail each, Commissioner Singhaus of Teka-
nah concluded that the gravity of the Of
Tense of Pennyface and White was suffi-
cient to bind them over to the United States
district court.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20
ladies' will come in for their share by the
hundreds.

hundreds.
Women Take Advantage of Law.
The world sat up and took notice of the
Rosebud girls Of four years ago. Fashion
able young women of pronounced refine
mont, many of whom had scarcely more
than attained their necessary q years, went
out into their claim shacks and complied
with the homestead law.
They made their homes on a wild piece
Of land, twenty, thirty and even forty miles
from a railroad, fearless of either cowboys
Or Indians, read popular books, played their
pianos, and otherwise passed away the
Time until the day arrived when they could
prove up on their claims and secure from
he government a patent for their farms.
rhcy had the pruverbial nerve And a
,iX-shcoter lay beside the latest novel on
ne Dunk. But The fact that these girls
could content themselves with such a life
for even a year or two is nothing less than
remarkable. Young women, go west, -
seems to nave been the prevailing rule.
Perhaps we might guess her secret because
there is where the proverbial young man
has gone, but at any rate she can he found
today on the Dakotan frontier.
Because of these facts the Rosebud
reservation Is being transformed into a
most extraordinary community. For the
introduction of advanced methods of bust
ness in the now towns, the latest improved
machinery on the farms, and tho highest
type Of development along all lines, the
Rosebud will take precedence over all
other openings of government or Indian
lands. And there will be the quickest set
tlement ever made. The people coming
here are live, up-to-date and sociable. The
most of them keep posted ON every phase
of modern life. and they get it straight
from headquarters. For instance, the num-
Der Of New York magazines and other high
class eastern publications that pour into
Gregory and Dallas every month is some
thing unbelievable. Social functions are
carried on by the women IN these border
towns that will rival IN taste and preteu-
ton those of many a more metropolitan
community. Think Of where the
coyotes yelp, touring ears as common as
on Fifth avenue, women I'm merry widows
and an occasional directoire; you would
not believe it, but that is the situation on
this particular frontier.
Sturdy Rustic EIemCHlt.
Besides the above minority class, of
course, there is a sturdy, rustic element
present on the Rosebud that keeps the
plow and the hammer going, They are
Of various nationalitles-Swedos. Norwe-
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-20
PENNYFACE NOT PENNYWISE
WinnsbagO Indians Are in Jail he
cause They Help TribesmeM
to Get Drink.

Thoma Pennyface and Thomas White
are languishing in the Douglas county Jail
because of their philanthropy in seeking
TO assuase the thirst of some Of their
tribesmen on the Winnebago Indian reser-
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-09
The Revolution of 1907

An Address the Celebration of the
of Georga's Prohibition Law. Delivered in the
Tabernacle Atlanta December 81
THE
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-09

The scene before me- the thousands of men
and women who look me in the face calls WV
idly to my mind another scene thirty-two years
ago. l had returned home from college boy.
As | stepped from the train in my native city
the shouts of great of people, assembled
in the old Howell warehouse, greeted my ears.
| followed the sound and entered the first great
Prohibition meeting I had ever attended Be-
fore l left that night | had made my first Pro-
hbition speech 1t was not an argument, not
even an appeal. l simply pledged the people of
my home town to do what | could in the span
of my life be it long or short, to drive from
our state the greatest of all evils a business
which never blessed which scatters in its path
only misery poverty and death.
| have kept the faith. Sometimes in the meth
DDS I have adopted I have differed with my
friends. I have been misunderstood but this I
know: | have always struck the blow which
| believed would be most fatal to the saloon
as an institution.
My friends, | am going to talk to you tonight
of the revolution of 1907, and in order that you
may understand the causes which brought it
about and appreciate fully its tremendous sig
nhcance, | want to impress upon you first of
all the great overshadowing truth of all his
tory.
This, then, is the central truth of history, as
unfolded plain and unmistakable by the records
of every nation of the past The cancer at the
heart of every leading nation.
The second truth which floods with light the
revolution of 1907 and reveals to us its vital
characters found in the heart of every living
nation today. What is it? Sin.
Let understand once for all that the sin
which destroys the individual destroys the state.
This is the cancer at the heart of every living
nation today. The is the state; his char
acter is the character of the state. Given ma
ton of saloonkeepers and the nation is drunk
ard Given a nation of gamblers and the ma
ton as whole becomes the embodiment of this
passion. Given nation of libertines and pros
titutes and the nation itself is mammoth mons
ter of lust The nation is what its people are
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-09
january 9, 1gU8.

eminent, lifted you in 1906 to the pinnacle of
crime, towering in proportion above every other
American city. They robbed your women of that
more priceless than life they murdered your help
less citizens.
Are we becoming race of drunkards? The
people of this Republic spend directly for liquors
annually two thousand million dollars 1t is
spent largely by the masses of the people, and
out of it poverty crime, social and political
rottenness beyond the mental grasp of living man.
Why does the national government tolerate it?
Why does the government of Washington and
Jefferson and Lincoln permit few thousand
liquor barrooms to capitalize the appettes the
passions, aye, the sins of the people to make
money out of? The answer is simple and direct:
The government revenue of $143,00O0OO out OF
the untold millions reaped from the wreck and
slaughter of her children
Are we becoming nation of gamblers?
When [ speak Of gambling | do not mean the
crap-shooting negroes whom law Furnishes,
nor yet the skull<ing slick-hngered card shark
or the newly developed whist fend. | speak of
the dangerous, deadly legions of the rich and
powerful who in stock and cotton and produce
exchanges, at race tracks and in pool rooms,
arousing spirit fatal to the integrity, honesty
and industry of the people. They toll not neither
do they spin, and yet they fix the price of every
product of labor. The crap-shooter and the card
shark take only from their willing opponents, but
the men of whom I speak take by manipulation
from the innocent who only ask to be left alone.
Toward these men, what is the attitude of Our
national government? Has it the power to close
their gambling bells? 1t has, and yet it permits
these men to capitalize the spirit of chance ram
pant in the American character, to play to the
insane mania of the people to reap where they
have not sown, and when trouble comes, rushes
to the rescue with the peoples millions y
My friends when the future historian, writing
the history of wonderful country reaches the
year whose departing we are watching tonight,
| think the chapter will be headed, "The Revolu-
ton of 1907
The key to the revolution is found in this
thought: Our governments, whether national,
state or municipal, shall not license any evil de-
structive of the manhood and the womanhood
of our country Nor shall our government per-
NIT any individual or corporation to capitalize the
vices of the people
Now, do not wish to be misunderstood in
what am going to say about the great reforms
enacted by your lawmakers in 1907. Great ques-
tons affecting transportation and trade and citi-
zenship were passed upon and settled I hope,
wisely and we'll But | declare to you the great,
the real reforms enacted are those which were
outlined in no platform or championed by no
leader, but sprang straight from the great heart
of the people.
They owe their existence as laws of our state
tonight alone to an aroused public conscience, to
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-01-09

What is the trouble with this wonderful ma
ton of ours? Something is wrong-terribly
wrong. 1t is not poverty. Ours is the richest
nation earth. Our resources, developed and
undeveloped, have never been equaled by any
nation dead or living 1t is not ignorance. The
range of our mental view is higher, broader
than of any people the world has ever seen.
Let me come to the truth at once-it is sin.
Sin that is undermining the character of the in
dividual citizen, and UP through individual citi-
zenship the body polite, the nation.
| do not believe in dealing in generalties bet
ter than all assertion or argument is concrete
example.
I hold in my hand the April number of a great
American magazine. In it is the first of series
of startling articles dealing with conditions in
our great American cties-and as | give the
facts condensed, I want you to carry with them
this further truth, that the vices which have
wrought the ruin of every dead nation are the
sins which are born in and develop in and finally
master our great cities. They the hearts of
the nations-the blood which gives character and
tone to the body polite is pumped out from
them, and it carries to the nation as whole life
or DEATH
If the facts of the article I hold in my hand
are true-to horrible trinity of evils, the con-
ditions existing in the greatest city, one, Of
our nation are directly and alone traceable to
them
During the past year three great American
cities, Chicago, San Francisco and Pittsburg,
have been swept by waves of crimes so-called
sudden and unexplained outbursts of criminal
violence Women have been beaten down.
rad pcfra he'd hv hUa
men on the thoroughfares, with all the nonchal-
ance of the wild and vacant frontier. This thing
is not new; in some cities it is constantly recur
ring-so constantly that it is questionable whether
these waves of crime" are not ordinary condi
tions emphasized by chance and the special at
tention of the daily press Why do these condi-
tons exist? What forces are there, hidden in
American cities, which are dragging them, ac-
cording to the record of their own press, into
state of semi-barbarism?
The criminal is savage, nothing more nor
less. Civilization builds tip painfully Our definite.
orderly rules of life-work, marriage the con-
slant restraint of the gross and violent impulses
of appetite. The criminal simply discards these
laws and slides back again along the way we
came up-into license, idleness, thieving and VIC
lence. He merely lapses back into savagery To
understand the matter of crime in great cities
the first step is to measure the positive forces
working continually to produce savagery there.
These forces are today, as they always have been,
greater than can easily be imagined.
Hard, indeed is it to conceive of condition
of affairs fraught with such tremendous danger
in any city of this greatest of the Christian
tions of the earth, and yet the writer declares
A. II. r
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-14
MAYOR EFFECTS REFORM
City Will Hereafter Purchase Its
Supplies on Competitive Bid
ding system.

The city in the future will purchase
its supplies on competitive bidding
system.
For several years past the heads of
departments have been purchasing
supplies from any firm they desired
and as a result the cost in many cases
has been most excessive No attempt
has been made to secure prices from
other firms and all supplies have been
bought at the highest market price
Mayor Bransford is said to have sug-
gested the new system and informed
the special auditors to work ii out
This they have done and at the meet
ing of the council Monday evening an
ordinance viii probably be introduced
covering the question.
The old system was as follows.
A head of d department desiring sup
plies made out a requisition for the
same, enumerating each item, and had
it approved by the council. Then he
went to a favorite store, purchased
the goods at any old price ami the
city footed the bills. Under the new
system when supplies are desired the
heads of departments must send a list
Of the goods wanted to several firms
and solicit quotations on them. When
these lists are secured the lowest quo
tations are accepted and the council
requested to authorize the purchase.
Forms for this new system We're re-
ceived b ythe city auditor yesterday
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-14
A DREAM.
The Awakening Reality Less Rosy.

Far back in my childhood / hold
pleasant memories of the coffee berry
in its natural state. and its grateful
aroma when roasting over the kitchen
fire" writes a venerable New Hamp-
shire lady
Although the old house is gone and
a new one stands in its place, l often
see in my dreams, the little coffee
grinder by the window, and grind
again the coffee for breakfast.
But time passed on and the pleas
ure of Indulgence in coffee was wholly
lost in the i'll effects on my nervous
system. / was troubled with frequent
and severe spells of headache which
sadly interfered with my work.
My sleep was less sound than for
merly and nightmare often disturbed
my fitful slumbers, until at last in
somnia held me in its relentless. era SD.
1 would lie awake nearly all night.
'Other troubles set in until | Nas
pronounced incurable by several of our
best physicians. They all prohibit ed
the use ~ coffee. / was indeed like one
under the spell of the drink habit. but
u obeyed implicitly my medical advis-
ters, for l had become a great sufferer.
"A friend who had been greatly BEN
Gifted by changing from coffee to Pos
tum. gave me cup of this health bev-
erage 10 Try. Iound It's flavor pleas
ant, while at the same time it agreed
with me perfectly; in fact, seemed lust
what was needed TO build me up
II ordered some at once, but was
disappointed to find mine did not taste
like my friend's-I had not boiled If
long enough. After 1 had learned this
fact and made my Postum according
to directions l had uniform. satisfactory
results.
well. to make long story short,
] seemed to have found Ponce de
Icons fountain of youth, for my
friends remarked that / was growing
young. My mind became clearer and
more vigorous. and took up the work
which J had reluctantly laid aside, and
much more with it,
eff my case was incurable, as the
good doctors had said. I had at least
found something to allay my Insomnia
sufferings, and serve for real nourish-
ment when appetite failed. Nearly
five years have passed since l drank
my first cup of Postum. and l am as
much IN love with it today as ever"
There's Reason"
Name given by Postum Co. Battle
Creek, Mich. Read THE Road to Well
silie." in pkgs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-14

heavy rainfall occurred at Victoria,
where the gauge showed 80 inches.
The local meteorological report
shows:
Temperature at 6 p. m. So; minimum
temperature, 81 at Ais p. M; mini
mum temperature, So; mean tempera-
ture, so, which is 10 degrees above the
normal Total deficiency of tempera-
ture since the first of the month, s. Ac-
cumulated excess of temperature since
Jan. 1, 146 degrees. Total precipitation,
none; total precipitation since first of
month, lao inches. which is SO inch
above normal Accumulated deficiency
since Jan. 1. .3S inch Relative humid
ity at p. m. IS per cent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-14

AIS O'Clock in the afternoon. The min
imum was IS, and the temperature all
around was 10 degrees above normal.
Somehow or other it seems to be i'm
possible to keep the below-zero mark
off the map. Winnipeg came to the
front again yesterday with a minimum
of s below. MOorhead had a minimum
of 6 above. and the record at Duluth
was above AS a rule, the temper
atures were higher. Old Yuma made
bid for first place-for heat yesterday,
and won, hands down. 1t was SO in the
shade in the famous hotbed of heat.
At Phoenix it was So.
There were storms in the British
Northwest and rain fell in Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Montana. A
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-14

Their season temporarily closed last
night, according to the official state
ment. The reason why this region is
going to have rain or snow and that it
will be colder is because of the storm
over the north Pacific. Up there is
noted a low pressure, and it is coming
this way. Thus far the extreme high
has protected Salt Lake and its vi
entity, but the high has been showed
eastward. There is high in the south
west, however, and low over xhe lake
region, and when all these factors get
to work there may be some weather.
Yesterdays weather in Salt Lake
was perfection. The maximum tenn
peTature equaled the previous record
for the season, marking 81 above at
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-14
SOUP HOUSE PATRONS.
New York Offers to Send 1000 Idle
Bowery Boys.

The fame of the Salt Lake soup
houses seems to have gone abroad
Two thousand idle men right from
the far-famed New York Bowery ara
anxious to come to this land of plenty
according to a letter received yester-
day by Governor Cutler. The writer
is Louis Klopsch, head of the Bowery
mission and editor of the New York
Christian Herald.
He says that he understands that
conditions in Utah are much better
than in New York, where there are
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-14

thousands out of work He offers TO
deliver. transportation prepaid. 1000
BOweryites to any part of Utah
The governor has not decided wheth-
er the local soup houses can care fer
this additional number of men and
will not answer until he has made a
complete Investigation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-14
Beautiful New Millinery

The Millinery section is APP
preaching a season of unprece-
dented popularity. The store new
er carried a wider range of styles
never such nobby, inexpensive
hats.
A feature for Saturday is line
of beautiful turbans, daintily
trimmed and new sailors. Shown
in all the desirable new shades.
browns, navy, burnt, green and
black. Trimmed in quilts, wings
and ribbons. Special value $3.50.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-14
SNAPPY SPECIALS FOR BUSY MEN

Or if you prefer extra quality then pure linen hand
kerchef-20c 3 for
Shirts-Nice Spring patterns-just arrived. Blue, TAM
white and dotted 75c $1.O0 and $1.25.
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Second floor. Take one of the
elevators.