Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-12

this city. where the girl is supposed to be
dying. She has been at the hospital for
some weeks and lately grew worse. Hooyer
was sent for and when he learned she was
not likely to live he at once made arrange
ments to marry her. DR.. D.. G. Menden-
hall, who is attending the young woman.
went to the court house today and secured
the license and they were married this aft
ernoon. 1t is understood that they had in
tended to be married at about this time,
and both refusf ! to allow her sickness and
improbable recovery to stand in the way.
Millionaire After Daughter.
Fred M. c. Choate of New York, a mem
Der of the famous Choate family, is in
Des Moines seeking to secure possession OF
his little daughter. The wife left him and
brought the little daughter, a tot of 6 years.
to this city, where she Is staying at the
home Of DR.. and Mrs. r. E. Lambert at
1924 Kingman boulevard. Mr.. Choate fol-
lowed and, failing to induce his wife to re-
turn to him, swore out a writ of habeas
corpus yesterday to secure the child. To-
day, in Judge w. H. McHenry's office,
they started to fight out the case after
Judge McHenry had made an effort to
reconcile them without success.
Kern Visits Des MOines.
In accordance with his own request, no
effort was made to entertain Hon. John
w. Kern, the democratic nominee for vice
president. when he reached this city last
night, nor again when he came through
here tonight. He passed through last night
to Indianola to visit the scenes OF his boy
hood, and returning tonight took the Rock
Island for Lincoln, Neb. He was met both
times at the depot by enthusiastic demo-
Gratis.
Democratic Conference.
A conference OF democratic leaders with
the state and congressional candidates and
the members of the state committee will
be held Thursday Of this week In this city
at the committee headquarters.
DrOuth Insurance roPosed
"Td like to start a drouth insurance COM
pany. II would be simpler and safer than
hail insurance or tornado insurance or the
accident business" So said Ora williams.
I've been interested a dozen years or
more in a line OF work that means
exactly that thing. This year. has lemon
strated, as never before. what a great field
there is for this work. You recall how the
news came from the west early In the sea-
son about the long rainy spells, and how
everybody said they wouldn't have any
drouth this year. That is where everybody
is wrong, The other day the papers con-
tained dispatches from Chicago and New
York telling how wheat prices went soaring
on the markets, because OF reports of dam
age to grain from the excessively dry and
hot weather in the northwest. New York
dispatches said wheat went up one jump,
8 cents, and the market was highly ex-
cited over stories that the northwest crop
was as badly damaged as. in 1904 That is
no wet season story.
1T is true that all over the west, In every
state and territory, and in Canada. wheat
has suffered terribly from the drouth this
year. and II followed a season that was re-
garded as very wet in the earlier weeks.
Now all this damage from drouth ought
to have been avoided, and II could have
been IL there had been such knowledge
among the grain farmers of the west as Is
possessed by at least a few advanced think
ers and workers. Out on the North Platte
experiment farm OF the Nebraska station
they got a crop OF about sixty bushels OF
wheat 10 the acre. while all around the
wheat crop was very poor. Prof. Burnett,
the director, recently went on record as
saying that for three years they have got
an average OF forty bushels to the acre,
and that did not include the big crop OF
this year. They did IL by farming right.
Now what Is the secret7 At North Platte
they have been following. Just as near as
they can. the teachings OF Prof. II. w.
Campbell OF Nebraska. / have been as
ISOLATED with Campbell for fifteen years
and know what he has been accomplishing
He has shown how, by intelligent cultiva-
ton OF the soil and preparation for farm
operations. the water which usually IL per-
mitted 70 go to waste may be saved and
stored In the lower soil layers to be used