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Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

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a magnet does iron, is there, papa?"
Nothing but an innocent ~bystander."-
Houston Post.
Rumor came from abroad that an Ameri-
can woman had been secretly married to a
prince.
Catch a woman keeping such a secret
az that!' sneered society, rejecting the
runner as a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ledger.
"How's de game. Chimmie?"
De home teams got two men down.
Say, OATS tough"
"G'wan. One of EN- is de guy dat made
de home run off us, and de udder one is
de umpire. Puck.
Colonel" asked the campaign manager,
what are the prospects down in your
county?'
GOSH" the prominent citizen.
IF we don't have rain pretty soon Their
won't be corn enough to keep the blamed
crows from starvin' Chicago Tribune.
II always hate to see the staff poet go
off on a vacation" said the managing
editor.
You consider his work valuable to the
paper?'
fires all the other near-poets in town with
tho idea that we need assistance, Biz
mingham Age-Herald.
II don't believe in kicking a man when
"Of course you don't. 1t might stimu-
late him to get up again."-Philadelphia
Ledger.
Angry Customer-These shirts aren't
mine. You've brought me some other mans
bundle, and | reckon he's got mine.
L~aundryman-Its mighty lucky for me
you've told me about It. The other man is
the one that would do the real kickin'
about it, you know.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

On account of the advance in price
this years corn crop will be worth
about $4,000, 900 more than the
crop of 1907. The ~cornhelds refuse
to 60 democratic.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Mr.. Bryan wal too tired to reply to
President RooseveIt's letter on Has
kell. The Peerless Leader will prob
ably be even more fatigued before the
incident Is closed.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

The Standard OIL company insists
that it is nonpartisan, Looks like it
was trying to be bipartisan, with pref
udice in favor of the democrats.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Senator Foraker says that part of
that Standard Oil money was sent to
him for legal services. This may sug-
gest to Mr.. Bryan an explanation of
that $4,000 sent to Nebraska in 1904
by T. Fortune Ryan.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

The Omaha dOuble-ender is shout
ing itself hoarse in an effort to de-
ceive the people as to the real issues
of the present campaign. Nebraskans
are not nearly so much interested in
Mr.. Bryan this year as they are in
securing a continuation of a state ad-
uinistration that has proved wise. ef-
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

hcient and economical. Governor
Sheldon and his associates at the state
house have handled the affairs of the
state so ably that they are easily en-
titled TO the endorsement they are
certain to receive from the voters.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25
Overworkinr the Chief Recorder.

washington Post.
If it ever becomes necessary for every
would-be candidate to state how much he
is worth and how he got it,, the recording
angel will find It necessary to increase his
staff Of perjury experts In the shorthand
division.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Anybody else TO notifyH" asks the
Richmond Times-Dispatch. Sure! Mr..
Bryan is TO receive the notification
that usually comes to him on the
morning after election.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

A caller at Oyster Bay tooy away
Mr.. President Roosevelt's hat by mis-
take. Mr.. Bryan might drop in at
Oyster Bay in his effort TO get into Mr..
Roosevelt's shoes.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

The national debt of Japan is $780,
600, OOO larger than that of the United
States, and that's another reason for
postponing the war between the two
nations.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Mr.. Hartman says he does not care
who is elected president. In other
words, he is willing to have the cam
paign committees of both parties look
upon him as an undesirable citizen.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

In the meantime, Mayor Jim" is
jumping from stump to stump through
Illinois, while his faithful followers
at home are secretly sharpening
knives for his good friend Shallenber-
ger.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25
A Mission that Failed.

Kansas City Star.
AS for the Hon. Joe Sibley of P~ennsy7-
vania he is able to prove that even If he
did intercode to urge the president to stop
the Standard Oil prosecutions, his inter
cession was absolutely barren of results.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

According to Mr.. Hearst and some
court records, Governor Haskell, treas
urer of the democratic national COM
mittee, is oil right.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

The government might save a little
money by buying round-trip tickets for
the American soldiers who are to come
home from Cuba in January.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Emma Goldman is going on a six
months lecture tour of Australia and
we haven't a thing against Australia, at
that
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

The eyes of thousands turn daily to look
for the time where they used to get II
from the Fifth Avenue hotel clock in Madi-
son Square, and many are the specula-
tions as to whether, when the new build
ing is finished on the old hotel site, the
clock will be replaced.
After Tiffany moved up town from
Union square the business firm that moved
into the building found 1t advantageous to
put out a clock with the firms own sign
on it to replace the one so long familiar
TO travellers when the jewelers. occupied the
building. Many hundreds, II not thousands
Of persons thus were practically forced
to read the name OF the newer occupants
of the building.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Sleeping quarters entirely out OF doors are
not confined to invalids, mountain camps
or hospitals. There are many OF them on
top OF private houses In New York City.
One such may be seen from Riverside
drive, not far north Of One Hundredth
street. 1t looks like a shed built on the
roof, with side walls only about four feet
high. That is quite enough to shut off the
view of passersby, but II one should take
a balloon ride over the house he would
see, inside the breeze-swept enclosure, a
comfortable bed, close to which is a door
leading into a warmed and thoroughly en-
closed dressing room.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

St. Louis Times.

ST. Louis Times.
Foraker and Haskell will waste time if
they attempt to explain. All the people
want from them is silence or absolute proof
of innocence.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Good bye, Bill, take keer O. yer
self" will go on the morning of No
vember 4, regardless of the results at
the polls.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Ak-Sar-Ben starts off with splendid
promise and even the weather man
agrees to help out. =
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Creditors are causing trouble by in
sisting that the Oyster trust should
shell out.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Evidently the weather man is no
friend of the umbrella makers.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

4 MIR. Bryan is spending more time on
the rear platform than on the Denver
platform.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Democrats might forgive Mr.. Hearst
If he hadn't caught so many of them
with the goods.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

"Auto-suggestion" is the latest fad.
1t is probably an invention of the 60
devil.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Philadelphia demands faster street
cars. For the accommodation o.
transients?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Judge Parker continues to make a
noise like a 1912 possibility.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city tenn
porAFiIy should have The Bee
mailed TO them. Address will be
changed as often as requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Chicago proposes to make war or
smells. Society had better reform.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Anyway. William Randolph Hearst
is a cure for political apathy.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Umbrellas we're introduced In
1772," says an exchange. Yes, and
disappeared in the fall of 1908.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Chicago f~inaneiers are all in a stew
over the failure of the Oyster trust.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Net total 1,1o5I4eA
Daily average 5B,sBs
GEORGE B. TZSCHUCR,
Treasurer.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this LIST day OF September. laos.
(Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

STATEMENT OF
State Of Nebraska, Douglas County. s.:
George b. T~zschuck, treasurer OF the
Bee Publishing company, being. duly
sworn, -ays that the actual number OF
full and complete copies of The Daily
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month OF August. 1908. was as
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25
LINES.

There's nothing which attracts lead like
a magnet does iron, is there, papa?'
Nothing but an innocent bystander."-
Houston Post.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25
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GOLD DUST does more than clean-it steril-
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Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Catch a woman keeping such a secret
az that" sneered society, rejecting the
runner as a canard.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25

Rumor came from abroad that an Ameri-
can woman had been secretly married to a
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-25
THE OMAHA DAILY BEL

Entered at omaha pOstoffee as second
class matter.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-23

prosecution while he was sup
posed to be at dinner, or, possi-
bly,, with the belief that he was
occupying the room Immediately
above the vestibule The plot.
miscarried by scant hairs
breadth, for Gallagher was in the
adjoining room. If he had been
in the front room over the bomb
he must inevitably have been
blown to atoms, for here the full
force of tfrc--cstpfosIon was di-
rected, and the walls of the room
were burst asunder and shivered
into splinters of kindling wood
and bits of plaster. The room in
which Gallagher and his wife
were dressing was badly wrecked
also, but the walls did not col
lapse, and although both of the
occupants were hurled from their feet.
neither was injured beyond the shock
of the explosion and the fall The
stairway leading from the first hoor 20
the second was demolished and Gala
CHER was obliged to lower his wife to
the ground and then leap down him
self.
In the dining room. which Is In the
front of the house and just TO the left
Of the vestibule. were Schenck and his
wife. Miss Georgia Schenck. Miss Anita
Schenck, Harrison Schenck. aged =. and
Lieutenant Brown. who was q guest
OF the family.
Dinner was just over when the ex-
plosion occurred Mr. and Mrs. CAL
lagher had finished their meal earlier
than usual and had retired to their
room upstairs. Lieutenant Brown and
Miss Georgia Schenck had arisen from
the table and were standing near the
front wall discussing an Indian watch
fob belonging to Brown The force OF
7:sO o'clock Schenck also had arisen
from the table and was standing In
the opposite corner from his daughter.
Mrs. Schenck. Miss Anita and young
Harrison were still seated around ths
table. All were hurled from their
chairs and thrown part way across the
room, while the heavy table was split
from end to end The boy. Harrison.
terrified by the shock. leaped from
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-23

OAKLAND, April Y. = a
dynamite bomb completely
wrecked the residence of w. H. h.
Schenck, brother in law of James
L. Gallagher, at 1870 Nineteenth
avenue, this evening, while the
former president OF the San
Francisco board of supervisors
and his wife were dressing Tor
the evening in a room just above
and TO the south OF the vestibule
where the explosion took place.
The Gallaghers had been living
there several months.
The force of the explosion tore
away the whole front of the
frame house, rent the sides, split
completely in twain the dining
table, around which Schenck and
the members of his family were
gathered, hurled pillar from the
porch on the side of the house a
distance of $50 feet, and shivered
every window in the residence of
G.. NJ. Mcdonald, which adjoined
the scene of the disaster on the
south, also badly damaging
Thomas M. GARDENERS home to
the north. By strange freak OF
fate, not a person in the Schenck
house was injured, although Miss
Georgia Schenck and Lieutenant
Guy Brown of Company A, Fifth
regiment, national guard, were
standing next to the wall in the
dining room, only about 10 feet
from the spot where the dynamite
was placed.
1t is the theory of the police
that enemies of Gallagher, who
concluded his testimony today in
the trial of TREY L. Ford, the in
dicted chief counsel for the United
Railroads of San Francisco, placed
an internal machine in the vesti-
bule, with the purpose of destroy
ing the chief witness for the graft
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-23
Attempt on GaNagher's Life Shows Hands
of Mdnapers Active IN Graft Cases
Corporation Bribe Giivers Would Cease to
Fear Punishment if Witness Died

While the slightest has been gained identity
of the of the dastardy Gaghe m every
circumstance connected with the affair points straight
cusion-hat the work of hired by
dread of Gaaghes testimony the graft Supporting this
the parallel of the kidnapping attempts and the efforts do away
of former trials
Gallagher completed his testimony witness the Ford
yesterday On the night before former Supervisor Tom Lone
gan was Ford
testimony most important, bold attempt made by
agents Railroads dnap him. Lonegans suspicious
that time and he reported it to William Burns
caught the would be kdnapers their
to spirit Ixonergan defeated the plan.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-23

Shortly after, when 1t was under
stood that Ruef was to be put on the
stand as a witness against Ford. plans
were laid for another kidnapping plot,
the details of which were brought out
in testimony before the grand jury.
Ruef himself was q party to the orig
inal scheme, which contemplated taking
him by force from an automobile after
overpowering his guards, but rumors
of the plot were noised about, Ruef
became frightened at the prospect Of
possible danger to himself, and the af-
fair was dropped.
WILSON PLEADED MISTAKE
Again when former Supervisor An
drew M. Wilson was called as a wit
ness in the first Ford trial he directly
contradicted HIS own testimony as for
merly given before the grand jury, and
by SO doing materially weakened the
case of the prosecution. Afterward
he admitted that he had made mis-
take" in testifying. but positive evil
dence was placed in the hands of the
prosecution to the effect that he had
been reached through the powerful in
fiuences allied with the hfgherups and
controlled by the political machine that
kept him In the Office of railroad com
missioner after he had confessed his
crimes.
In the light of these desperate at
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-23

tempts to reach witnesses, or, failing
in that, to spirit them away, last
nights attempt on Gallagher's life Is
deeply significant II 1t had succeeded
the guilty corporation bribe giyers of
this city might have ceased to fear
punishment for their crimes Cal
lagher's testimony in the Ford case
yesterday was damning, and he prom
ises to be an even more important wit
ness against Abe Ruef These facts
were sufficient to make his. life forfeit
in the eyes of the desperadoes who
have been intrusted by the defendants
with the prevention of their convic-
tions. and at their door the RESPONSE
bility OF this crime has already been
laid by the police officials who are in
vestigating the attempted assasslna-
tion.
HENEY DRAWS PARALLEL
Knowing only few of the facts
concerning this attempt on Gallagher's &
life, I am not In q position to discuss
the matter" said Francis J. Heney
last night. "Only one thing is appar-
ent. and that is the parallel between
this attempt and the kidnapping
schemes which were tried during the
progress of the earlier cases. Gala
CHER is an important witness against
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-23
Call and City Engineer Marsden

Call and City Engineer Marsden
made by Mr.. Hornick were confirmed by
Senator'S Perkins and Flint. who were
questioned by the president.
San Francisco will agree to provi-
sion that the city will mot impound
nor cause to be impounded, divert nor
cause to be diverted" any of the water
normally running into the Tuolumne
river during the irrigating season, un-
til the bitches of the Modesto and Tur-
lock systems are first filled, even If
these bitches are enlarged sufficiently
to carry all the water claimed by those
feet
HAMMoND'S OFFER TO CITY
A telegram from John Hays Ham
mond TO Forester Pinchot was turned
over to Secretary Garfield today. Ham
mond offered to transfer to the city,
free of charge, certain reservoir sites
controlled by him. He did not name
them in the telegram, but they are
supposed to be on the Cherry creek
drainage, just west of Yosemite ma
tfonal park II the city should accept
this offer, 1t will not need Hetch
Hetchy. But Secretary Garfield has de-
cided to go ahead anyhow and grant
Hetch Hetohy and Lake Eleanor, leav-
ing to San Francisco the decision of
utilizing them or some other source.
Garfield believes that the city should
have official assurance that 1t can have
Hetch Hetchy If 1t so desires. thus CIV
ing 1t an advantage in dealing with
Spring Valley or any other corpora
ton. II Spring Valley shows a dispo-
sition to come to reasonable terms the
president and Secretary Garfield will
feel that their action in behalf of San
Francisco has not been in vain.
The Importance of placing San Fran
cisco in q position to construct its in
dependent system was forcibly pre-
sented to both the president and Gar
field by Mr.. Hornick, and they ex-
pressed hearty sympathy with the city.
NOT BOUND TO CONDITIONS
AS soon as Secretary Garflelds or
der is made City Engineer Manson will
telegraph to San Francisco. urging i'm
mediate Official acceptance of all the
conditions. The city will not be bound
by this acceptance to construct a Lake
Eleanor or Hetch Hetchy reservoir. but
will have the absolute right to do so
against any other interest and may
trade its lands outside of Hetch Hetchy
for land in that valley. These rights
will be permitted to stand indefinitely,
thus giving the city plenty OF time to
deal with Spring Valley and to make
provision for bond issue in case
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-23

DYNAMITE OUTRAGE
Dynamiters wreck the Oakland home of former
Supervisor James L Gallagher chief witness for
the prosecution in the San Francisco graft cases.
Gallagher and sevrn other occupants Of the house
marvelously escape deapth Page 1
Attempt on Gallagher's life shows hands OF
kianapers in graft cases, by which guilty
poration bribe givers might expect to escape
punishment. Page L
Gallagher says his life has been threatened
frequently and that he has long been under
veillsnce OF strange men Page
Police and detectives hold TO theory that i'm
mense quantity OF dynamite used in internal
machine and that undoubtedly the object the
assassination OF former supervisor. Page
Patrick Calhoun says outrage on Supervisor
Gallagher is act of anarchists or thugs. Page
Chief Biggy offers Oakland police all assistance
necessary to ferret out who blew up Gal
lagher's house Page
FLEET
Fleet committee has warm debate over the
propriety Of inviting Patrick Calhoun to the
banquet to Secretary Metealf and the officers
Of the warships. Page 5
GRAFT
Nonchalant boodlers confess their crimes at
the trial Of TREY L. Ford and. while defense
shows minor discrepancies, their tales are un-
shaken Page 16
Ach fights Aard to retain former convict on
Jury to try Ruef and proposes to ask change OF
venue to delay trial. Page 16
POLITICS
with the organization Of the thirty-n ninth dis
trict club tomorrow night the Lincoln Roosevelt
league viii complete fits preliminary work in
this city Page I
Registrar Of Voters Zemansky is taking e1-
tensive precautions to prevent colonization of
CITY
Charles P. Richard to take as his bride Miss
Isabelle KnowIton of Los Angeles In that city
on May 6. Page o
Husband is granted divorce because his young
wife insisted on his making over to her all mis-
property. Page
Union of interests effected between the West
national and the Metropolis trust and saw
ings bank. Page
SUBURBAN
Jury finds wilkins guilty and imposes death
penalty for the murder Of Mrs. yernie Car
min. Page 4
Stanford students affairs committee bars from
university former editor Of sequois track cap
tain and another student accused of drunk-
enness Page
COAST
Pinkerton detectives esptur. wire t.ppers
Vallejo. Page
EASTERN
Secretary OF the Interior Garfield VIII issue
an order today granting to San Francisco sbso-
lutte rights 10 the waters Of Hetch Hetchy and
Lake Eleanor. Page I
Senate adds s12.oooooo to pensions bill as
provision for soldiers widows. Page 10
FOREIGN
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman. former Brit
ish premier. who died yesterday. VIII have
public funeral Page
SPORTS
Rain stops Oakland Portland game with the
score TO in the eighth inning Page o
Rubric wins the MENDOZA handicap at
Emeryyille. Page o
Berry Maid, California Ally. snnexes the
Arverne stake at Aquedrct. Page 8
MARINE
Schooner Rosamond. rensured at IS per cent.
arrives safely at calIao ard local Spectators
who played the vessel Ito arrive clear hand
some pcoA& Page ID
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-23
SAN FRANCISCO
WATFRPROB[FM
FINALLY SOLVED
Garfield Decides to Grant Hetch
HetChy and Lake Eleanor
to This City
Secretary of the Interior Will
PrOmulgate the Order
Today
Government to Confer Absolute
Rights to Great Reser-
vOir Site
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

: WASHINGTON, April 22.-Secre-
tary Garfield decided definitely today
to grant Hetch Hetchy and Lake
Eleanor to San Francisco as reservoir
sites. The official PRONUNCIATION of his
order probably will be made tomor-
row. His action was taken after a
conference with the president, who
heartily approves of the granting of
the rights to San Francisco, in view of
the strong showing made by General
Manager Charles w. Hornick of The
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-23
Explosion Wrecks Residence of
Main Graft Witness
Eight Occupants Of the Dwelling
Marvelously Escape Death

The house of James L. Gallagher in Oakland dyna
ited last night effectively that the occupants including
Gallagher narrowly missed death
The identity of the dynamiters is unknown-as yet
Who are they? Who hired them and why?
Irresistibly these questions suggest another: Who
would be benefited most by the death of Gallagher?
Irresistbly speculation seeking the answer to these
questions turns first the vital and prominent fact that
Gallagher is the chief witness for the prosecution in the
cases of Ruef and the higher ups of San Francisco graft
Beyond that there seems to be need to go.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-23

20 10 the primary polls
~ on May 5, republicans,
and break Herrin'S
grip on California.
Herrin will have a ticket
of "Push"-a cOHfroHabIe
deIegafe-in each assembly
district. You can beat that
fickef-dO III.
The Lincoln Roosevelt
league will have in each as
SembIy district a ticket
composed of men owing al
Iegiance TO nobody but the
people. You can elect that
fickef-dO ii.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-23

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The San Francisco call., 1908-04-23
INDEX OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO CALLS
NEWS TO-DAY
rELEPHoNE KEARNY ss
rHuRspAY. APRIL %. lgo8
WEATHER CONDITIONS
YESTERDAY-R

EESTERDAY-Rain. trace; southwest
winds; maximum temperature, SO; minimum, IS.
FORECAST FOR ToDAx-cloudy, with occa-
sionsl showers: fresh southwest winds Page Is
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