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The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

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sick with typhoid fever.
The New York Racket is offer
ing free tickets for Ringing Bros.
Circus on $1,000 purchases on Show
Day.
Born-To VIII Hanley and wife,
a son, at their home near Malta
Bend We suppose viii is very
proud OF the boy as he has been
needing an engineer
Word from MI. and Mrs. Hayden
.Colvert say they are both getting
better and like the place where
they r real we'll
Mrs. o. M. Robinson returned
Tuesday from Kansas City, where
she had gone to visit her sick sis
ter, Miss Kate Cunningham, who
has improved very much.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. Forman OF Nap
ton are entertaining this week Miss
Mamie Shelton, of st. Louis, Mrs
Robert Martin and daughter, e.
len, and son, William OF Higgins
vile.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

3. c. Merrill informs us that w.
II. Collins, Of near Gillian, took up
his stray horse advertised In the
Republican last week.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

Mrs. Ed Thompson is recoverin
from a serious illness.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Elem Holloway re-
turned from MAYHEM Sunday wher
they have been visiting relatives.
Mr.. Holloway left Tuesday morn
ing Tor Kansas City where he will
start off a party of land buyers to
Alberta, Canada. Mr.. Holloway
thinks it is a great place for farm
Ing.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09
Our Sick

Mrs. w. w. Haines has recoYeFed
from an attack Of b~ronchitis and
plenrisy.
Mrs. Ed Thompson has been quite
sick the past week.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09
Local Items.

Will Hulse, the bus man, is very
sick with typhoid fever.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

H. ordway has had his threshing
machine fixed up in fine shape, and
to see how it would work. Tues
day afternoon he threshed out 4
small loads of wheat at his place
which made 81 bushels and 8 sacks.
He thinks that is pretty good for
this year.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

Schuyler Barnett, of south of
town, kindly remembered us this
week with a jar of fine honey. He
knew We needed something to
keep us sweet" this week.
The Marshall republican., 1909-07-09

Mr.. Solomon, OF South Salt Pond
says the purse he found recently
was never claimed. 1t contained a
snug sum. Some poor fellow
would be ahead by reading a coun-
ty paper in this case.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
William A. Povnter.

The death of Ex-Governor William
A. POINTER comes as a shock TO the
people of Nebraska not only by reason
of it's suddenness. but also because of
its tragic character. Although his de
mise is due to entirely natural causes,
the fact that he was stricken while
pleading for a law promoted by the
temperance advocates. will surely en-
velope him with an atmosphere of
martyrdom.
Looking backward. William A.
Poynter secured his prominence by
elevation to the high office of gov
ernor or the wave of ~populism that
swept over Nebraska in the early
nineties, and he was the last of the
%populist governors before the wave re-
coded. AS governor Mr.. Poynter filled
the position to the best Of his ability,
but left no deep imprint on the legis-
lation or administration of the state.
Since his retirement to private life
he has been but little active in politics
and public affairs. He had made few
enemies and will be mourned by many
friends.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
Sample Railroad Financiering.

The proposed plan of reorganization
of the Chicago Great Western railway
is a fair sample of the present day
system of railroad finance. The road
went into the hands of a receiver for
the sufficient reason that it could not
meet its obligations. 1t is now pro-
posed to pay $40, 900 OF the $13,-
600, 900 OF the floating debt by an as
sessment upon the holders of the de-
benture bonds, scaling the amount of
preferred stock slightly and increas-
ing the amount of common stock. The
substitution in small part of common
stock for interest bearing debentures
and a reduction in total capitalization
of 5000, 900, or from $4,000, 900
to $102, 600, 90, represents the sum
total of the water which is to be
squeezed out in the bankruptcy court.
The New York Commercial, one Of
the best authorities in the country,
figures that on this basis for the best
year in its history the company would
have been able to pay only 20 per
cent on its preferred stock, which is
entitled under the terms of it's issue
to 5 per cent. and nothing on it's COM
mon stock, which is to have a face
value OF 45,252.665. Even this small
return is on the basis of a mainte-
nance charge OF only 1895 per mile on
the main line and $500 per mile on
the subsidiary lines.
Instead of squeezing the water out
of the concern now when there is a
chance, the r~eorganizers propose to
continue the capitalization of future
prospects with stock, whose only
value is to be manipulated by specula-
tors. while the public foots the bill.
So long as railroads can make a show
ing of nondividend earning capital just
so long will the courts stand as a bar
under present rulings, to the readjust-
ment OF rates to a figure demanded
by the public. In addition, the over
burdened companies are not only I'M
able by reason OF financial weakness
to give service to communities which
| they serve, to which they are in JUS
tice entitled, but also unable to exert
any effective competition on other
raiIroada
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06

from the south. Here, as in previous
conventions, the percentage OF officials
was much higher than in the north
for the good and sufficient a that
to eliminate the federal office holders
In the south is to eliminate a
large per cent of the re-
publicans OF that section who have
Influence and character sufficient to
entitle them to membership in such
a convention. With the delegates from
the south altogether eliminated, Mr..
Taft would have had votes more than
enough to nominate him and thus is
removed even the slightest foundation
for the charge that he owes his po-
sition to the federal brigade.
The committee tool time enough to
make its Investigations 10 enable IL to
reach an intelligent conclusion and the
report is made at a time sufficiently
removed from the campaign to free
it from the suspicion even of political
expediency. even IL the character Of
the membership were not such as to
render 1t above such a suspicion. The
election established the wisdom of Mr..
Tsft's nomination and an unbiased in
vestigation has indicated the man
ner in which the nomination was made.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
Un Against It.

We are really sorrs for Governor
shsllenberger because be has been put
up against II so hard by the action of
the legislature in sending to him the
daylight saloon bill and hen adjourn
ing, so as to load him with the full re-
sponsibility for its final enactment.
The lawmakers have left the governor
between two hres and he is sure to be
scorched whichever way he turns.
During the campaign last fall, The
Bee emphasized the fact that Governor
Shallenberger's success in soliciting the
support OF the liquor interests and the
anti-saloonists at the same time was
bound to result in disappointment to
one or both. The Personal Liberty
leagues organized by the liquor peo-
pie went valiantly to the front for the
democratic ticket and we're REINFORCED
by the dsstardly attacks OF the anti
s%sloonists upon Governor Sheldon con
tanned in the Elmer Thomas letters.
In the meantime, MIR. S~hallenberger
was appealing for votes on two plat
forms-one under the populist label,
promising county option, and the other
carrying the democratic brand, pre-
senting a home rule clause for the
Personal Liberty lesguers.
The governor, doubtless, felt secure
in the belief that no county option bill
would ever get past the legislature to
make him decide which promise he
would keep and this expectation he has
realized. But while escaping the
county option puzzle. the daylight sa-
loon bill has sent him to an unlocked
for Scylla and Charybdis.
Governor shallenberger is entitled
to deep sympathy.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
TECHNIQUE

J. w. Foley in New York Tiines
| take a little bunch of words and set en-
in a row,
| take a little bit OF ink and mark en-
down just so;
/ take a little time and pains and then
have a verse
That starts about as this one does OF
maybe slightly worse,
And then | go back TO the start and cris'
and cross and scratch.
! Naccinate my words until | find me somt
that match
The pretty thoughts that dart about lik,
silver fish and shine.
But need a patient, watchful hook to get
'em on the line,
My thoughts melt into words sometimes
not always-now and then,
And | can feel 'em coming down my arm
and through my pen,
| only have to push II DER the paper and
IL spells
For you and all my other chums the things
my fancy tells:
Just like a boy with building blocks.
move my words about
When 7 have something in my mind ana
try to work IL out,
Until i'm orderly array ! get 'em in a row
Just ms I think they ought to be and write
EN- down just so.
And so just with some words | paint the
pictures that I think
The boys and girls who live In me and
set EN- dow i'm ink,
And sometimes there's a tear In II, anG
sometimes there's a smile.
And there Is many a grassy bank anc
many a vine-grown stile;
And many a lane that you would know II
you could he with me.
To look right where my pen is now and J
could help you see;
! merely take a lot Of words ana place en-
in q row
And build such pretty things N ! can get
'em down Just So.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
The Two Horns of the Dilemma
st. Paul Republican.

While the democratic press of this state
is tearing its linen in trying to see which
can say the meanest things about Howell,
Ransom, ct al. whom they claim have Sc
duced the Nebraska legislature. and made
Of 1t a legislative body which did the bid
ding of the corporations. let us see what
causes might have prevented this.
1t was often said during the last cam
paign that if Bryan were elected president,
he would be able to manage ongress.
Bryan himself in his speeches declared that
the effect of the election would be such
tina IL he were elected congress would
bow to public opinion and allow him to
ave his way. This was the argument
on which he based this claim for cleo
Well, the election went that way in the
state OF Nebraska. Here the party of
which w. ]. Bryan is the head, and which
he absolutely bosses In this state, elected
q Legislature. Surely II Bryan could handle
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
Unsolicited Advice to Omaha
Kansas city Journal.

A rumor comes from Omaha that that
municipality Is considering the ACCESSIBILITY
Of acquiring and operating its water sys-
tenn. Mayor Crittenden has been asked
to tell what he knows about Kansas City's
experience in the water works business.
and he has gracefully sidestepped
He turned the matter over to the city comp
%troller, who says he will report that the
experiment OF municipal ownership in Kan
sas City has been a good thing.
The average citizen of Kansas City will
smile grlmly at any attempt to set up the
local water works system as a model in
vestment, especially in face Of the bond
election within a few weeks TO vote $500
600 to keep the system in half way decent
shape. Ever since the Kansas Cit water
plant was purchased, in September. 1895,
at a cost of 81, 100000. IL has been a con-
tinusl burden which has drained the city
treasury and the pocketbooks OF the citi-
zens without interruption. Soon after the
first bond issue Of 100000 the city was
compelled 10 issue more bonds to get con-
troll OF a lot OF old and practically worth
less mains in Westport. which town had
been taken into the city. A few years after
the Westport bond issue the city put out
81, 100,OO 0 Improvement bonds. which
brought the total bond expenditure to
81, 5000. The last report OF the water de-
partment shows that the total bonds re-
deemed amounted to &7S8,0OO, which leaves
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06

a balance of bond Indebtedness Tor water
purposes OF SO, 1900. When we add the
81 100000 which the city Is expected TO vote
this spring 1t makes a total water works
Indebtedness OF S4,sa2,OoO.
Bad as is the above showing. Il does not
yet exhaust the melancholy record OF debt.
An annual tax levy has been made for ten
years to provide for = sinking fund and
to pay interest on the bonded indebtedness
Of the plant. The levy started in 1893 at I
mill. In 1909 it was 2 mills. and the last
report shows that the levy is now ~,
mills. During all this time the plant was
being improved and extended, and in the
nature OF things It should have been pay
ing its running expenses at least. But no.
While the city was paying the annual in
terest upon a huge debt and issuing bonds
from time to time to keep up the plant.
the system was losing money and the in
surance companies raised their rates be-
cause OF the poor service.
A private corporation. properly regulated
would have given the city decent service,
extended that service to all the outlying
districts, paid the interest upon its own
bonds from Its revenues and at the same
time have given the people OF Kansas City
an abundance of water az less cost than
now. That is the answer to the Omaha in
quiry. II Omaha is looking for trouble, It
should buy its water works by all means.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
PERSONAL NOTES.

Judge Sulzberger of Philadelphia enter
tains the idea that pedestrians have rights
the chauffeurs are bound to respect.
Mr.. Newberry, the last secretary of the
navy under President Roosevelt. has
achieved popularity in Michigan by saying,
when offered a high place In the diplomatic
service, n plush pants for me-
Several persons claiming to he the kid
mapped Charley Ross have bobbed up in
various parts Of the country. each dis
playing strawberry marks to prove their
identity. The detectives employed in the
famous case evidently did not sequester all
of the Ross family estate.
Jacob Nj. Dickinson, secretary OF war.
will be the guest Of honor at the Hamil-
ton Clubs Appomattox Day banquet at
Chicago, April Q Among others who will
attend are Governor Deneen, General Fred
erick D.. Grant, Senator Borah of Idaho.
and Senator Smith of Michigan.
Thomas A. Edison has been presented
the Adelskiold gold medal for his inven-
tlons in connection with the monograph
and the incandescent light, by the Royal
Academy at Stockholm. The medal is con-
ferred only once in ten years. II was
handed to Minister Graves for transmits
sion to Mr.. Edison.
Phlladelphia papers say that gossip in
railroad circles there has ii that John p.
Green, first vice president OF the Penn
sylvanis railroad, who recently retired
VIII receive a pension Of 3lS, 300 annually
for the rest of his life. Mr.. Green had been
in the Pennsylvanis's service for forty-four
years and retires under the 7O-year age
init established by the company.
That the best way to get rid of a blue
law is to enforce 1t is the idea Of the mayor
or an Ohio town, who. when urged to
stop certain business and newspapers on
Sunday. went the limit and ordered all to
be marked for arrest who worked on sun
day for pay, including singers and organ
lists In the churches, street car men and
telephone operators. In short, he made a
clean sweep.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
Where the West Need, influence.

OF the thirteen members of the rivers
and harbors committee of the last
house of representatives six failed OF
reelection to the present house, all of
the latter being republicans. There
is keen rivalry for the vacancies on
this committee and the west particu-
larly is active in the effort to secure
representation that will offset the
domination of the seaboard and lake
states.
The action of the last congress- indi-
Gates plainly that II the upper Mis-
souri, river is to ecu anything sub
stantial its friends must assert them
selves inside the committees. The last
appropriation for the entire river,
which is 1900 miles long, was only
$685., 900 and the bill was SO worded
that it is apparent the intention was
to expend practically all OF that sum
on the comparatively short reach of
the stream from it's mouth to Kansas
City. This was accomplished through
the efforts of Congressman Ellis of
Kansas City, who failed of reelection
to the present house. Not only does
the wording of the rivers and harbors
bill reflect this purpose, but the re-
moval of the engineers office from
Sioux City. where it had been for
years, to kansas City. confirms the
suspicion.
The tendency of water traffic is
strongly directed toward the gulf ports.
In total value of exports and imports
Galveston and New Orleans now out
rank all OF the Atlantic ports except
New York, having passed Boston,
Philadelphia and Baltimore. This is
practically all delivered by rail at pres
emit. With the improvement of river
navigation a large portion will go to
tidewater by boat and increase from
year to year. The gulf Is the natural
outlet for the exports and inlet for
the imports Of the great central val
leys. The west is entitled to full con-
sideration in the work OF the general
government for the improvement Of
waterways and can secure it in only
one way-by the influence OF strong
representation on the rivers and har-
bors committee. which practically die
tates the distribution of the appro-
priation.
Knowing the situation confronting
US. the upriver cities must see to it
that they are not left out In the cold in
congress. With navigation possible to
st. Louis and Kansas City and the
embargo of a vagrant channel from
there on up, Omaha, Sioux City and
other towns would find their trade
territory cut from under them by the
superior advantages in rates offered
by water competition at the down
river points. II these northern cities
and territory tributary want the ad-
vantages of water transportation they
must equip themselves with an arm
on the committee long enough to reach
into the appropriation.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06

During his recent visit to Nebraska
number of people here waiting on him
with reference to the tariff bill, in
which they are interested. In other
words, while Nebraska is pre-eminently
an agricultural state, it already has
the beginnings of great manufacturing
industries. If Nebraska could trans
form the bulk of the raw material it
produces into the finished product II
would double and treble the value of
its annual output.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06

the legislature of the United States, he
would be able to easily handle the legis-
lature of one little state, and his home
state at that.
But the democratic press over the state
says and claims that Ransom, Howell, ct
al, have controlled the legislature and de-
livered IL, soul, body and britches to the
corporations.
Has Bryan handled IT? If he has. then
the claim that Bryan is a man opposed to
corporations is wrong Has Bryan failed
to handle his own party in his own state?
Then he certainly would be entirely unable
to handle his own party in the entire
country.
People can believe either OF the two
things that they wish. They must believe
one of the two. Our own idea Is that
Bryan did handle this legislature. and that
he handled it through Ransom, Howell,
eli al.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
VIII the Women Rise Tn.

Boston Transcript.
II the women OF the country rise up as
one woman against the glove and hosiery
schedules of the tariff bill they may, with
out achieving a direct victory, cause a
great deal of unpleasantness later. TO
nave Kid gloves as cheap as possible is
one OF woman's rights which intelligent
statesmen respect. Presidents ought To
favor concession, for the discomfort of
housewives with the Mckinley bill is gen
orally understood to have had much to do
with the democratic landslide in 1890.
Wicked democrats are said to have made
the most Of their opportunities by sending
through western states pedlers whose wares
were marked up to prohibitive prices ION
account of the Mckinley tariff" The
amazed and indignant housewife immedi-
ately became an active agent for tariff
revision"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
The weak AEaIns1 16e mighty,
Springfield Republican.

The revolt OF Crazy Snake against the
government OF Oklahoma seems a pic
turesque, almost mirthful, episode TO the
vast majority OF the American people, bul
no one. however gifted, could write a COM
'plete and entirely truthful account OF
Crazy Snakes uprising without reviewing
the history OF the United states, particu-
larry that part Of il that deals with the
frontier. during the past century and q
quarter. The old redskin has a certain
historical significance and he is, after all,
a heap sight bigger historical figure
than most Of our aldermen or mayors,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
Judge-Mnde Judges.
Boston Herald

DV9NgV TTNTuIW
II had been confidently expected that
Mr.. Taft's administration would be con-
%spicuous for the wisdom shown by the
executive in nominating federal judges,
but It had not been supposed that senator's
would so soon and so sharply be told by
the president that they need expect no
sharing by him with them or with con-
gressmen Of his responsibilities In the
matter. The people will welcome this dec
laration, for it shows that we are to have
judge-made judges, not political or class
sppointees.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
A Campaign Canard Refuted.

In the campaign preceding the nomi-
nation OF william H. Taft for the
presidency by the republicans, oppo-
nents in his own party made much of
the charge that his nomination was
being forced by federal office holders
Welt. The charge was reiterated so
often II is fair to presume some who
made II brought themselves to believe
II and doubtless convinced others who
had no means of knowing the truth,
The National Civil Service Reform
league set about investigating the re-
ports and the conclusions of its in
vestigating committee have Just been
made public. They constitute a COM
plete vindieation OF the Roosevelt ad-
ministration as TO coercion and also OF
the charge that federal officials die
tated the nomination OF Mr.. Taft.
In the language OF the commission,
Evidence to sustain the charge Is
wholly lacking" On the contrary, APP
pointments preceding the campaign
were made precisely as they had al
ways been, in the unclassified service
on the recommendation OF congress
men and senators and in the classified
service as usual entirely independent
of political influence. In. the repub-
lican national convention the ratio OF
federal office holders, as compared
with previous conventions, was small.
The only exception was in the delegates
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06

Few people realize how big tile
creamery interests at Omaha nave
grown in the comparatively short time
that the centralized stations have been
doing business. An Omaha butter ex-
change and an Omaha butter market
with price quotations recognized all
over the world will eventuate before
many more years roll by.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06

The number on the rear end Of an
automobile is a good thing in its way,
but a man who has been run ove by
a machine weighing upward of a ton
must have irst-class recuperative pow
ers II he comes 10 in time to recognize
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06

Federal statistics show hat the
wave of prohibition which has swept
over the south has brought in its train
an increase in activity by makers of
moonshine whisky. When the law
attempts to interfere with the time
honored custom OF the southern noun
taineer of filling up and shooting holes
in his neighbor it is undertaking a
large-sized contract.