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Omaha daily bee., 1908-04-05


taxing out an equal number of building per-
nlts, but not allowing values of city prop
erty to depreciate dollar or making sale
for less than was asked for the same prop
erty a year ago, Is the remarkable record
rade by the real estate dealers of Omaha.
ding to the imposslbility of securing mort
money during November and Decem-
Utr of 1907 and January of 1908, the real es-
tate transfers in Douglas county have been
SbOcc0l less during the first three months
OF the year than during the same months
last year. That the transfers were less
because of the small amount of money
which could be secured with which to buy
property is shown I'm the report of the
amount of mortgages filed ON city prop
erty. During January, February and March
az 1907 $S4S.S7 In city mortgages were filed.
During the first three months of the pres
cnt year the mortgages amounted to but
$590,OOo. or $25s.2s2 less than last year.
Not only in the west, but in the east Il
has become the regular and proper thing
for business man buying property to nay
but a part OF the price in money and nut a
mortgage on the property for the balance.
paying the low rates OF interest and using
The capital-the same boTrowed-to make
many times the amount paid on the mort
gage. Large as well aus small buyers Sc
cure property by the mortgage method
One OF the recent city property sales ag-
gTegatng $4,000, to man with plenty Of
money and capital. was made with $500
cash and the return of $4,000 mortgage
at SO per cent.
When the panic was felt in the west last
fall II caught the savings and loan asso
Citations with large amounts contracted
which they had agreed to furnish builders
II made the directors cautious and they all
ordered that no new loans should be made
until those contracted were completed. No
Omaha real estate dealer pretended to
know what the east would be able to do
when New York suddenly announced a
panic and they preferred to play the safe
side in everything.
Insurance companies of the east natur-
ally refused to make western loans and it
was impossible for mortgage money to be
secured from that source. SO the dealers
OF Omaha waited maintaining prices and
rents in such a way as 70 encourage a
speedy resumption OF normal investments
in Omaha city property.
And at the end of three months the good
business judgment OF the real estate deal
ers OF Omaha has been vindicated. With
the beginning Of April mortgage money Is
easy ana during the three months past
thousands OF dollars have been invested in
Omaha city property by outsiders and the
people at home because they saw there was
no possibility OF decrease in values.
From the beginning OF the financial
furry the real estate situation In Omaha
has been the wonder of the eastern finan-
cisi press and the financial agents OF the
Insurance companies loaning money on
Omaha city property and the farms of Ne
brakka. Thirty days after the panic was
declared on by the bankers OF the east.
the following was the condition reported
jn real estate circles, according 70 the
financial eaily papers at the time:
Omaha daily bee., 1908-04-05

=
IA of business in Omaha about
I which little has been said is
Us2o cited in the expense account
of the Humane Horse Collar COM
pany. This company eighteen months
ago bought a gallon of black
ing, used to blacken the edges of the
leather which goes into Humane col
lars. The little black gallon bucket
is still in the paint room of the COM
pany, but beside it are two barrels, for
that is the way the company is buying
blacking now. From a dozen or so
collars a day eighteen months ago the
capacity OF the company has increased
to 500 day, and there are no collars
stacked up in the shipping room walt
ing to be sent out They are shipped
out just as rapidly as they are manu-
factured While the company man
ager Says the growth of the business
has been phenomenal in the past, the
future looks even brighter, with the
end of the growth never in sight.
The Humane Horse Collar" is for
he use of humane" horse owners.
is the invention of j. d. Whipple
u! i it represents fifteen years of hard
work and deep and constant study.
Il IS nothing like today the collar Mr..
Whipple invented fifteen years ago.
From the crude half-baked article he
first tried on his own horse he has de-
veloped a collar, used and recon-
nended by some of the big horse own
ers of the country. The Humane col
lar is the outgrowth of study on the
part of it's inventor of the breast har-
ness 1t works on that principle. It's
inventor had the shoulder blade of the
horse in mind when he worked on his
patent He figured that the upper
part of the shoulder bone of the horse
is covered with very little flesh, as is
also the lower part, and he wanted a
collar which would so fit the horse
that the weight would be against that
part of the shoulder blade covered
with the greater flesh. The collar
fastens over the neck of the horse, but
there is no weight pulling on the neck.
The collar is as different from the old
time collar as day is from night. Two
pieces of leather made to fit around
the fleshy part of the horses shoulders
fastened together below the shoulders
with an adiustible iron tube into
Omaha daily bee., 1908-04-05
bic Hero nf Honetoun.

At the confiagFation that destroyed
part OF John Temples woodshed the other
evening 1t was generally remarked that
sam Stockbrdge did all that could have
been expected OF any man. He rescued a
wash tub and fell off the roof. ana would
have done more II the connagration had
not been squiTted out.-Hopetown (Pa)
Banner.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-04-05

is fair demand for all classes of business
and residence property at slightly reduced
prices, few new buildings are being erected
and rentals are slightly lower.
Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas
and Colorado, (from Van Nordens Maga.
zine, a New York financial authority;
Business is not very active on account of
the widwinter season, but not greatly de-
pressed because of general conditions.
There is money for all local needs. The
farmers are prosperous and are buying
property. Extremely cold weather has pre-
vented selling and renting property, This
section is I'm better condition to maintain
prices and rents and renew activity in
real estate than almost any other section
of the United States"
The reports of the register of deeds Of
Douglas county bear out the reports of the
condition of the realty business in Omaha,
The amount of the transfers for the two
years compares as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1908-04-05
Omaha Real Estate Men See Only Days Ahead the

ASSING through a panic which
made mortgage money impos-
sible for a period of over ninety
days, releasing more city and
farm mortgages than during
the first three months of 1907,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-04-05

HOUSE without a chimney
A house with plenty of artl-
ficial light and heat, yet with
out bit of fire. No coal. no
ashes, no SCOT, no dangerous
gases.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-04-05

DtCItdbt IA dHOuHI OF CIIy WOIIBA3ts
filed, s259, ,2S2.
But that the people of Douglas county
have not been pressed for money with
which to meet obligations and take up the
mortgages on homes and business houses.
is shown by the releases of city mortgages
for the first two and a half months of the
wear.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-04-05

The city mortgages filed show the i'm
possibility of securing money on city prop
erty during the first two months of the
year, the comparison of the records for
the two years following:
Omaha daily bee., 1908-04-05

Totals. $780, ,595 SS43.S77
Decrease IN amount Of city mortgages
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
The Cane Crop.
Louisiana Planter.

Louisiana Planter.
The general complaint through
out the sugar district is of wet
weather, too much of it to allow
blowing and planting to pro
gress as rapidly as is desired.
While it cannot be said that any
actual harm is being done from
the enforced delay yet the plant
ers would be greatly relieved if
they could get sufficient dry
weather to enable them to prop
erly work their lands and get the
balance of their seed cane in the
ground. From every other point
of view the season is very prom
Using and the ratoons are already
showing up, and will soon mark
the row.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
TUEDAY. FEB. IS. 1908.
THE SECOND MORTAL SCHOOL

The general assembly at it's
next meeting will in all proba-
biiity establish a second Normal
School to meet the great demand
for trained teachers.
LAFAYETTE is undoubtedly the
place for it's location and If it's
claims and advantages r prop
erly placed before the members
of the Legislature it is practic-
ally certain that this city will get
the school.
And there is need for the
people of Lafayette to be active
in the matter, for two towns
have already announced their
purpose to endeavor to secure
the school.
One Of these towns is Jackson,
and among other inducements
they expect to offer is the fact that
they have the Centenary College
buildings ready to give the
school a commodiouS home.
The other town is Opelousas
and, according to the Clarion Of
last Saturday, an organized ef-
fort is to be made to vote a tax
to offer for the establishment of
the school.
It is "up to" Lafayette to be
ready with the facts and figures
when the Legislature meets
The Normal School is within
our reach because this city is the
proper place for it, and we must
not sit down and let some enter
prising neighbor come along and
get it because we are too slow.
We want to get busy, very, very
busy.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
COTTON PICKER
Said TO be a Success Invented
by Prof. Thomas of Baton
Rouge.
100000 Company to Be Organ.
lied to Place Picker on Market
Next Season.

Baton Rouge State.
Prof. Thomas, superintendent
ofthe Baton Rouge public schools,
recently gave an exhibition of
his new cotton picking machine,
which he invented several days
ago, and the working model of
which he has completed. The
machine takes the cotton out of
the bolls fast, takes nothing but
the cotton, and leaves the boil
empty on the bush. There is
little doubt about the invention
being a successful one. All cot
ton-picking machines that have
been invented in the past have
been built upon the suction prin-
ciple. and they have been render
ed impractical because of the
fact that the picker drew off boil,
leaves and even drew up dirt.
The picker that Prof. Thomas
has invented works upon a differ
ent plan entirely. Wirelike
prongs project a revolving wheel
which takes up the cotton, throws
it into a pipe, through which it is
forced by air to a basket. The
who have seen the cot
ton picker declare it to be simple
and its operation practical and
successful. A company with
one hundred thousand dollars
capital will be organized by Prof.
composed of Northern
and Southern capitalists. and will
place the picker on the market
by the opening of the cotton pick
season next summer.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
IN THE MATTER OF DIET.
Case Where Individual Must Be a Law
Unto Himself.

There are very few of us who do
not delight in reading essays and dis
cussions on dietetics with the same in
terest that we scan directions on
How to make \love," but in either
case nc n is guided by these disqui-
sitions, because SO much depends on
the individual in either affairs of the
heart or gastric affairs. One author
ity says Eat this" another, Don't
eat that" But who can follow any
others advice? One enthusiast pro-
poses that all the world make apples =
part Of their daily fare, whereas we
know Of one instance in which an ap-
pie stirs up such an interior eruption
that apples should always be tabooed
SO far as he is concerned. DR.. H. s.
Gridley, professor of general chemis-
try at the University of Illinois, has
issued a paper in which he rehabili-
tates meat as a continuous article OF
diet after 1t has been almost put on
the run by the vegetrians and the
semivegetarians. Vegetables, he says,
are always less digestible, while meats
offer no obstruction to the natural
conversion of food into products
capable of being absorbed by the
blood. While reluctant to talk in the
tone of the school physiology and even
to discuss 'inwards" as a topic of
light literature, we must protest
against classifying vegetables in n
general category of indestibles. 1t all
depends on the vegetable and On the
person who undertakes to assimilate
it b~enevolently or otherwise. Boiled
cabbage may Stay it's tens Of thou
sands while others walk the earth to
three-score-and-ten, their health unas-
sailed by constant indulgence in boiled
cabbage. Fried onions killed Napo-
leon, where raw ones might have pre-
served him to scatter new terror in
Europe. In exile on a barrel island
may eat onions as he likes, and
some who are too careless and too
lacking in ~self-restraint may deserve
such Punishment. Stewed peas gave
a certain prominent Californian an at
tack of appendicitis every time he at
tempted them, and a young woman is
seized with fainting spells whenever
she nibbles at almonds. So we see
that no general rules for dining can be
established any more than general
rules for making love. Each must be
. law unto himself and all directions
are valueless.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
Clark nOves to Nashville

ST. Landry Clarion.
Mr. George A.. Clark. railroad
builder, who has in charge the
building of the Eunice, Lafayette
& Abbeville road, and the Ope-
lousas-O akdale road, has moved
his headquarters from Eunice to
Nashville, Tenn.
This step was made necessary
by the continued illness of Mrs.
Clark, the immediate cause of
which was ptOmaine poisoning
from eating canned food shortly
after the removal of the family to
Eunice.
Mr.. Clark announces that he
will continue his railroad work
in Louisiana.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
Notice.

The business heretofore known as
the Lafayette Transfer Co., and man
aged by the late F. 0. Cornay until
his death, will in the future be con-
tinued in the name of the Lafayette
Transfer. Mrs. F. o. Cornay will be
assisted in the management of the bust
ness by her brother, Mr.. CASTOR
G~ueriniere, All business entrusted to
her will receive her prompt and care
full attention. She takes this oppor-
tunity to thank the public for its kind
patronage in the past and solicits a
continuance of the same. Phone 227.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18

Bears, unless hungry or abused, are
good-natured animals, and make anus
Ing pets. When l was in the revenue
service at Alaska" said a lieutenant.
we had a pet bear on the boat. and
we called him Wineska. He used to
climb to the cross-trees, going up hand
over hand by the ratlines. One day he
ventured out on the yard-arm, and
there he stayed. We had to get a rope
and haul him down. Once he vaulted
over the head Of our Chinese cook
and went into the lockers, where he
helped himself to sugar and butter.
We had a tackling made for him,
much the same as a harness Of a pet
pug, and we would drop him over
board, with a rope attached, to take
his bath. Once he landed in a native
boat and nearly frightened the occu-
pants out Of their wits. He was as
playful as q kitten and, althouh he
sometimes disobeyed, he was never
tr~eacherous or unkind. When he was
lost, or hid himself, as he often did,
would look In the dark till we saw
two little balls Of fire. These were
his tyes and gave him away every
time"
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
THOSE NEW ORLEANS BOSSES

IlOSE NEW OkkEAI<S
The st. Helena Echo. fails to
see where the primary election
law has improved matters in the
city of New Orleans and ex-
presses itself thereon as follows:
The bosses still reign supreme in
all the wards, and we noted in the
Picayune just after the recent primary
the pictures of three newly created
bosses, before whom the common herd
must hereafter bow like the Pagans
before their Idols. The country
people have long been chatting under
this CALLING yoke, and if the relief
does not come to them that vas looked
for and expected under the new pri-
mary election law, then there a be
but one result, and that will be a
solid country arrayed against a solid
city, and when that time comes it will
not be the best for New Orleans.
These bosses can tell you just as ac-
~curately now who will be nominated
on the 18th as if the returns we're al
ready inand counted. Some of. these
days the people will wake up and then
there will be something doing.
The bosses may feel greatly
battered at the high opinion of
their abilities in political fore
casting expressed by the Echo,
but their well-known modesty
will hardly permit them to claim
so much credit. However, the
successful manner in which they
delivered the city vote to Mr.
Sanders and others will possibly
permit them to mildly believe
that they still have a gentle voice
in State affairs, Notwithstanding
the primary allows the people to
express their untrammeled
choice. Yes, indeed.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18

MAPPING and Blue Printing. Estimates
and Specifications on Pipe Lines. Earthern Tanks
and Oil Land Surveys a Specially Jefferson street
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
CLERKS OFFICE IN DANGER
GUS CONDITION.

The condition of the clerks
eGce continues to grow worse.
In addition to many large cracks
in the walls Che outer wall on the
west side has begun to fall away
from the inner walls and a con.
siderable space separates them.
AS to how long the building will
stand it IS not possible to tell,
but its condition is now such as
to be dangerous and it is full
time something was being done.
To build q new clerks office
would be somewhat expensive,
and as we badly need q new
cart house, the evident thing
Ter the Police Jury to do would
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18
The Swine and the Flower

Oh me! I saw a huge and loathsome sty,
Wherein a drove of wallowing swine
were barred,
Whose banque- shocked the nostrl and
the eye,
Then spo'.-a voice, "Behold the source
of lGrd!'
I fled, and saw a field that seemed at first
One glistening mass Of roses pure and
white,
With dewy buds mid dark green foliage
nursed;
And, as 1 fingered DER the lovely sight.
The summer breeze, that cooled that
Southern scene,
Whispered, " Behold the source of
COTTOLENE!"
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-02-18

be to at once take up the matter
OF building a new court house,
providing ample room for the
clerks office in it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-07
CIGARETTE LIGHTED BOMB.
Gilverstein Tells Why he Failed
Knew Berkman and Goldman.


NEW YORK. April deputy Police
Commissioner Woods has a statement
Of some length which q policeman sue
ceeded in getting from Seiig Silverstein.
the Union Square bomb thrower, Friday
morning when Silverstein seemed to be
in good spirits. Silverstein. in answer to
a question, said that he could see with
his right eye and that he knew the police
man.
The policeman asked him then what he
had made the bomb of, and Si!verstein
said that the casing had been made
from the brass knob of bedstead. This
had been filled with quarter of a pound
Of nails, over which he had put quarter
Of q pound Of gunpowder. then nitro
glycerine and then some more gunpoWder
II walked to the park" said Silverstein,
and there I saw the policeman who had
beaten me a week before. I carried
lighted cigarette with which to light the
bomb. but when I put 1t to the bomb
put 1t in the wrong place and the bomb
went of too soon.''
did you know Hildebrandt?" the po-
Hceman asked.
mo, 1 never saw him at ALL" replied
Silverstein. He said that he knew Alex
ander Berkman and also Emma Goldman.
He had made one other bomb, he said. but
when questioned about 1t be became
sullen and refused to talk further.
Silverstefn was conscious last night, but
his temperature was above 1O4. His lower
limbs are paralyzed. and that he still lives
is considered remarkable at Bellevue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-07
Some interests in close touch "


Quotations given below are for large
lots. Jobbers' prices are higher.
EGGS: Nearby fresh Virginia, IAN
west Virginia and southwest Virginia
ID; Tennessee. IA; duck eggs, "a.
BUTTER.-Creamery. fancy. 31has2
Process. fancy. 25a2e: fair to good. 22s
%. Store packed, fresh, 19a2O.
CHEESE. New York state factory
new. large. 1914 all.
PoULTRY.-Chickens spring. per lb.
2sa30; chickens. winter. 18a22: mems, pel
To-. Il; ROSTERS. per h.. Z: keats, pei
TO-. ~: turkeys. toms: per lb.. 15ale
h.. l3a14.
per h., 10: roosters. per H., las
chickens. per h., 1sa20: ducks. per 10.
1Sa16; turkeys. hens. per h.. 17afo: tur-
keys. toms, per h., 16a17.
No. l. 1.6Oa225; per bu.. a5a0O; No. 2
per Dbl. 50a1.oo: sweet potatoes. pei
bbl.. 30oa5.Oo: yams per Dbl. s5oa4 90
cucumbers. Fla. per basket. 2.boa4.00
onions. per Dbl. 2ooa2.25; onions. POI
bu, 90; peppers. Fla. per carrier. 1.5oa
a2.25; cauliflower. per basket. 5Oa2, 25
kale. per Dbl, 2oa23: spinach, per Dbl
6oa1.OO; eggplant. per crate, l.76a2.50
squash. Fla. per crate, 2:o0a250: snap
beans, Fla. per basket, 2.0Oa3.5O; new
beets per bunch, 3a6; lettuce Per tas-
ket, 1.O0a2.50; okra, per carrier. s.50a
400: celery. per bunch, 60a1.O0; celery.
Fla. per crate. 2.0Oa2.75; brussels
sprouts. per qt., 8alO: tomatoes. Fla.
per crate. l.50a2.75; parsley. Fla-. per
S SSosa; 1'a2'; peas Fla. per Basket
GREEN FRUITS. = Apples, Der Dbl.
25Oa5.OO; oranges. Fla. per box. LISA
800; navels. Cal. per box, 2.E0a3.25;
grape fruit. per crate, S.0Oa5O0; tanger-
ines. per strap. 3.5Oa6.O0; pineapples,
per box. 2.OOa2.5O: cranberries, per bbl.,
7OOa1O.OO; strawberries. Fla, per qt.,
15a3O.
HAY AND STRAW. - Hay. western,
No. 1, 17.OOa1750; No. 2, 1e.Oeal65O
mixed. 14ooa16oo. Straw. rye. bundle,
$50: wheat, 6.5oa7o0;> oat straw, Ter
ton. 9.OOa95O.
DRESSED MEAT.-Pork. small and
neat. per cwt., 500; large, 7.50as.O0.
LIVE STOCK.-Cattle. extra. per cwt.,
6O0a6.5O: butcher. per cwt. 5.00a5.5O:
ordinary. per cwt. 250a3. 90. Hogs. per
5a5H: fall lambs, choice, per IT,, " as;
spring lambs. choice. per h.. 1Oa1l.
Calves, choice. per h.. SASH: medium.
per h.. TAIN.
BEEF cUTS.-Ribs, No. 1, per h.. IS:
No. 2. Ia; No. 8. IL. Rounds. No. 1, per
lb., 1871; No. 2. 9; No. 8. 8. Lotns. No I,
per h., IA: No. 2, ID: No. 8. IL. Chucks.
No. 1. per h.. 8; No. 2. g.: No. 3. Z.
WOOL AND HIDES-wool. washed,
free Of burrs. per H., rs: unwashed, 1sa
81. Hides, green, per h., 8; dry. per h..
Gall. Sheepskins. green. each. 50a75
dry, each, 25a6O. Mink. each, 2.0Oa2 so
raccoon. 25a75: red fox. 1.25al.5O: skunk,
25a75: opossum. 1Oa15: gray fox, 35a6O;
muskrat, 15a27; muskrat kits, 8; rabbit
skins, 1. Calfskins. green. each. 1.0Oa
1926; dry flint hides. per h., 8; dry
sailed hides. g.
GRAIN.-Wheat, per bu, 81aa5 Corn,
shelled. new. 7Oa75; ear. 8.25a3j0. Oats,
western white. No. 2, per bu.. 6Oa65 ;
Middlings, per ton, 30.00a32-OO.