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Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
And Bryan
Has a Secretary
Of Agriculture
Commoner Introduces an Innovation
in the Economy of the Amer
lean Farm.

Bryan has a secretary Of agriculture.
Asked to Join in the ''millionarie's class
of the National Corn exposition and EXHIBIT
products from his farm in contest for
prizes on the condition that none of the
products be plowed by the owner of the
land, the commoner replied, that he would
take the matter up with his secretary Of
agriculture.
This is the latest innovation in farming
and shows the improved methods encour-
aged by the National Corn exposition and
such enterprises.
A few years ago the man who got up
at 8 a. M, and did the milking, curried
a team OF mules for his own use and a
span OF horses for his boss, then worked in
the field until s p. M, was called the
hired man"
But in these days of s1.25 wheat; corn at
70 cents; telephone, electric lights, rural
free delivery and wireless telegraphy, COM
mon farmers near to the people like w. j..
Bryan, employ a man who is addressed
as the secretary of agriculture"
my dear secretary says Mr.. Bryan.
9TH servants have your ham and eggs
ready. will you have them bring the break
fast up or will you do me the honor OF
dining with me In my study?"
II the secretary OF agriculture happens to
be in good humor he may descend and be
bothered by the talk of the boss while
he eats the eggs ana sips his Java.
No alarm clock for Bryan's secretary OF
agriculture: no orders punctuated with
cuss words and enforced with a neck yoke
for the man on Bryan's farm. Written on
paper of regulation size, which will en-
able the secretary TO keep the correspond
ence with convenience, the orders are ad-
dressed to Honorable Secretary of Agrt-
culture, Falrview. Lincoln, Neb."
After a certain amount of red tape It is
said the secretary of agriculture does the
blowing providing his knowledge Of chem
istry tells him the soil is in the right con-
dition TO disturb. Otherwise the order gets
a pocket note.
Anyway Bryan has a secretary OF agrt-
culture" whether he is president or not,
but in his letter to the National Corn ex-
position, he remarks, Il don't know
whether l will have anything fit to exhibit
or not"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
Slocum at Head
of Harvard Clubs
New York Man Made President of AS
ISOLATION and Cleveland Gets
Next Meeting.

CINCINNATI. May 2s.-The Associated
Harvard clubs, in their morning session
that convened at 1890 o'clock, elected
Thomas w. Slocum of New York, class of
80, as president. The following vice presi-
dents were elected:
Eastern division, Walter C. Baylies of
Boston, class of "a; central division,
Mitchell D.. Follansbee of Chicago, class of
'92; southern division, Henry NJ. Atkinson
OF Atlanta, Ga, class OF 's4; western di-
vision, Z. M. Grossman of st. Louis, class
of 90; Pacific coast division, Herman
Chaplin of Seattle, class of 70.
Cleveland, o., was selected as the next
meeting place in May, 1910.
Harvard must become a great national
university or It will not fulfill the purpose
which we entertain" This declaration
formed the keynote of an address by Presi-
dent Lowell of Harvard at the session yes
terday OF the associated Harvard clubs.
President Lowell's address was also q
plea for a broader policy in dealing with
the freshmen. it being laid down by him
that the social life OF an educational in
stitution is fully as important as the in
tellectual side. While President Lowell
was speaking former President Charles w
Eliot came in and he was given an ova
ltion.
Governor Augustus E. Wilson of Ken
lucky protested against what he termed
a disposition of the east to attempt "a
control Harvard affairs and declared that
while the associated Harvard clubs had
been organized as a western affair, there
seemed to be a disposition to easternize
IL. He said what was wanted was q
united Harvard club"
The application OF the New England
federation of Harvard clubs for member.
ship in the Harvard associated clubs was
referred to a committee. to be reported
on next year.
One important change for the benefit OF
the organization, adopted unanimously, II
an amendment dividing the constituent
clubs into the following five territorial
groups:
Eastern, including ali clubs east OF tn,
Appalachian mountains and north Of tn,
Potomac river.
Central, including all clubs between tn,
Appalachian mountains and the Mississippi
river and north OF the Ohio river.
Southern. including all clubs east of tn,
Mississippi river and south OF the ohit
and Potomac rivers.
Western. including all clubs between tn,
Mississippi river and the Rocky mountains
Pacific, including all clubs west Of tn
Rocky mountains.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
DOES THE FUNNY BoY ACT
Asks for Quarter TO Complete the
Anou,t ~ NE Maud

Asks for Qunrter 20 Complete the
mount of HIS Bond.
Wont somebody loan me a quarter I
need Just that mach to make out my bail, 3"
laughingiy remarked D. w. Woods, sup
posed to be the leader OF the alleged ban
dts, when he heard that his bond had
been fixed at $4,000.
Sure, here IL is ventured United
States Marshal Warner, and the suspects
laughed and enjoyed the Joke as much as
anyone q
Woods is quite a joker and kept himself
and his guards in mirth during frequent
spells throughout the morning.
II looks like a Chicago policeman 1
used TO know said Police Captain Henry
Dunn of Woods when the three men were
looked over at the city jail about noon
Saturday.
Jaw. ia make a hi OF a lot better
cop than any Chi bull you ever knew"
Woods responded quickly and with a note
Of fun, either real of feigned. that was
remarkable.
Whats your trader" asked Captain
Dunn.
Butcher" replied Woods.
You certainly butchered that hold-up
job" remarked w. T.. Canada Of the Union
Pacific.
Well" spoke up the supposed leader Of
the gang, slyly smiling, II can make a
T steak out of a brisket, and that's more
than any of you can DO"
Throughout the interview Captains Saw
age and Dunn had with the prisoners, they
continually meddled with their handouts.
Woods especially seemed uneasy and sew
eral times he asked II he could not be re-
lieved Of them while in the police station.
The officers refused to do so.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
Florence Canal
is Completed
Drainage Ditch in North Bottoms is
Finished at Cost of Three
Thousand Dollars.

The big drainage cana through the Flor
ence bottoms was finished Saturday and
Assistant City Engineer Crick and Council
man Brucker OF the Fifth ward went out
during the afternoon to inspect the work
and report to the council on its final ac-
ceptance. Ed Turner was the contractor
and the work was done for something less
than 5000.
The canal is $500 feet long and extends
from Twenty-tourth street, where II crosses
Spring creek. northeasterly north OF Miller
park to the river, the outlet being north OF
Beemer avenue. The canal is II feet deep
IS feet wide at the top and so feet vide at
the bottom. The earth taken from the big
ditch was piled on one side and a high
turnpike will be made Of this pile OF earth.
A bridge is being built across the cana
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

When ordered to prepare for Bertillon
measurement the three prisoners declared
they did not know what to do and had to
be told to remove their coats, vests, shoes
and stockings. The police thought they
were merely pretending ignorance.
Woods was the first measured and Is
now numbered 1909 in the local rogues
gallery, his picture having been taken i'm,
mediately afterward. He is 80 years OF
age. weighs l67 pounds, is five feet ten
inches in height and has a rudy face
medium complexion, sandy mustache, light
chestnut hair and a curved cut scar in the
palm of his right han He is somewhat
bald on the top of his head.
Fred Torgensen, number 200, is 80 years
of age, weighs Lei pounds, is five feet SIX
inches in height. has medium complexion
several cut scars on his left thumb, a piece
of his upper left ear lobe bitten or cut out
and is also somewhat baldish on top Of his
head. He asserts he is a cook.
James Gordon, number 2,101, said he was
% years of age and a shingler and car
penter by trade. He weighed LAG pounds
is five feet nine inches in height, has me.
dunn complexion and a heavy head Of
dark chestnut hair. There is a pit scar
below his right eye and scars on his
fingers.
Information, for the Identification of the
men in other cities. including their Ber
tillon measurements and photographs, vii
be sent out all over the country as soor
as possible by the police. II is expected
that the three suspects will be proved
much wanted persons in other cities fol
crimes similar to the one FOR which the!
are now held.
The postoffice inspectors are confiden
that the fourth man of the bandit quartz
will be landed before many days. 1t seem:
to be a pretty well settled conviction thai
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

Kemper. Hemphni 4 Buckingham.
All Kinds OF Plating.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

and complaint covers the life imprison-
ment clause penalty.
County Attorney English said:
There will be no conflict of authority
between the state and federal government
In these cases. All that we can hope to
do is to see that the accused men. IL con-
victed, shall be adequately punished. 1t
appears that the complaint just filed is
sufficient. and / guess the federal govern
ment will take ample care of the case.
The state has not yet taken up the matter
Of .indicting the accused men. l do not
know what we may do later"
Officers Take NO anc
After their arraignment the three ban
dts were walked to the police station at
Eleventh and Dodge streets from the fed
eral building. Each was handeuffed to an
officer, and United States Marshal Warner,
whose prisoners the men now are; w. I.
Canada, chief of the Union Pacific secret
service; Chief of Police Briggs Of South
Omaha and other officers and deputies &c
companied the party.
Throughout the walk and the subsequent
proceedings none of the prisoners was al
lowed to remain without cuffs" on his
one wrist, even when he was surrounded
by officers in an office or partially I'M
dressed to be measured. Part of the time
their hands were handcuffed together.
Efforts were made at the police sta
ton by the old hands there, including Cap
tains Dunn and Savage, to name the men
or at least recall something about them.
But beyond making a few faint sugges-
tons of no consequence as to whom they
might be nothing was accomplished in that
line. Captain Savage thought at first the
man calling himself Woods might really
be Long john Williams, a notorious and
desperate criminal.
well, that's just another one OF my new
names" remarked Woods, with his usual
chuckle.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
EFFORT TO ARRANGE THE MAIL
Job of Getting Il Into Tangible Form
II Big One.

II Big One.
The postoffice inspectors are rushing TO
get the recovered wrecks of the mail INTO
some tangible shape. There is a great
mass of all kinds of stuff that has been
torn from the rifled mail packages the
robbers had.
Among the mass is a bunch of refundinE
bonds of the city of Seattle. Other Of the
debris consists of money orders, packages
Of merchandise, instruments, knives, silk
shlrtwaists, mems shirts, legal documents,
clothing, photograph apparatus and about
everything conceivable that can be law
fully transmitted through the mails.
Notices are being sent out to the differ
ent postoffices in which any of the mail
packages originated and two or three
weeks will have passed before the tangled
mass of stuff can be Strengthened out.
Some of the merchandise packages are yet
unopened, but everything that locke as
II it might contain anything of value was
torn or cut open by the robbers. Very
little money has been recovered from the
NAH thus far by the inspectors.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

HAtaa NV uAAAg hhA AhhN
Wood was the first Of the prisoners ar
rsigned. He pleaded not guilty TO the
charge. Gordon and Torgensen entered
similar pleas. Commissioner Anderson then
asked the men IL they were ready for trial
or preliminary hearing.
Il would like to have a few days, your
honor, to prepare for a hearing" said
Wood.
Il would like to have a few days, too,
lust like Mr.. Wood said Torgensen.
Gordon was asked a second time IL he
las ready for trial and then stood up and
.shtd for a continuance for a few days
Il will fix your bono at $500 EACH" re-
marked Commissioner Anderson" and will
aet the preliminary hearing for 10 O'Clock
Wednesday morning, June 2. 1 suppose
none OF you is ready to furnish bond"
The accused men replied negatively and
were then remanded to the custody of the
United States marshal.
The prisoners were again handcuffed tc
their guards and taken to the Douglas
county Jail.
Law Makes Life Possible
The law under which the accused are
arraigned is section SAP of the revised
statutes Of the United States. This pro.
vides that any person who shall attempt
to rob the United States mails shall be sub,
ject to a minimum penalty of five years
or a maximum penalty OF ten years ini
%prisonment, and II he shall wound, put ir
Jeopardy or endanger the life of any per
son having charge of such mail, by means
Of a deadly weapon, the penalty shall bt
Imprisonment for life.
1t will be observed that the arraignmenI
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

the fourth man in the automobile picture
taken at Denver is the man wanted. His
picture is a good one and the original
could be identified readily.
A man answering his description was an
interested spectator in the court room dur
ing the arrsignment OF the three bandits
Saturday morning. The likeness was so
striking that his arrest Is likely to follow.
The postoffice men and the Pinkertons
have him under surveillance.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
Monday Will
Be a Holiday
Observed by Private and Public Bust
ness as Day of Homage to
Soldiers.

Monday will be recognized as a general
holiday throughout the city. Most Of the
business houses will close during the day,
as win the banks and all public offices.
District court will be adjourned for the
day and the holiday will be observed in ali
the federal departments.
The postoffies will observe the usual hol-
iday rules Of the general delivery, remain
ing open until 10 o'clock ana then close for
the day. The money order and registry de-
partments will be closed all day. There
will be but one carrier delivery during the
day in the residence districts and but Two
In the business districts.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
MISSOURI HAS EARLY RISE
Occasioned by Rains in valley and
Not by Torrents I'm Montana
Mountain

The Missouri river was at the same stage
Saturday morning as Friday, though Thurs
day a rise OF one and two-fifths OF a foot
was reported. Blair and Plattsmouth re-
ported the change Saturday, though Sioux
City showed a rise of two-tenths Of a foot
Friday the river was two inches higher
than Thursday, or one and one-half feet
higher than normal
Weather Forecaster Welsh says that this
rise in the Missouri cannot properly bs
called the annual June rise, and that It ID
occasioned by rains up the valley, and not
by the annual rush OF water in the noun
tains Of Montana.
n-- -An n.AI..A.-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30
a Cure

for diseased condition of the teeth with
out extracting them for those who wish
to preserve their looks and health, is a
wise conclusion.
There is a general tendency to put off
tooth troubles from day to day until IL be-
comes almost unbearable. then you go 10
the Dentist with your nervous condition
in a deplorable state. 1t takes longer TO
reach desired results under these circum-
stances and it does not do your pocket
book any good.
TAKE THEM IN TIME. An examina-
ton will not cost anything and a Dentist
can frequently show decays in your teeth
that you would never guess were there.
Some have been unfortunate in their de-
lays and lost one or all their teeth. I
have the best method for replacing them
without the use of plates or bridgework.
A system when once put in will be strong,
permanent and last for years. Gold and
Porcelain Crowns from $500. Filings of
all kinds, priced according to material
and size of cavities. Nerves of teeth re-
moved without pain. Loose teeth made
as solid as a rock. Where extracting Is
necessary, l do II so that It will not
HURT you.
For references, l have many patients
within a stones throw of where you live.
Hundreds of Business Men in every walk
OF life.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

at Twentieth street and Beemer avenue.
This will cost about $1,000 and is being
built by the city engineering department.
The city and county join in defraying the
expenses of digging the canal and building
the bridge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-30

to the form, force and effect of the statute
Of the United States, and against the peace
and dignity OF the United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-26
THIS FARM SURELY PAID WE'LL.
Paid Over $4,000 in Two Years Above
Interest on Investment.

Atchison. Kan, Aug. 26.-George
Hutchinson sold his farm of 455 acres to
John Jesch of Everest for $4,000 In
the last four years this tract has made
two men wealthy. Three years ago
James Murphey sold the farm to G. w.
Searles of Atchison for SIS an acre,
having become discouraged about the
scarcity of farm hands. Two years ago
Hutchinson for 800 an acre, clearing
$11,375 on the deal. The two crops
taken from the land by Searles netted
him $1,000.
When George Hutchinson bought the
farm he had only $4,000 to pay down,
but had forty years in which to paw
the balance. Hell kill himself paying
interest," many people said of Mr..
Hutchinson when he first made the
purchase. But Mr.. Hutchinson is well
and hearty and has prodted wonder
fully. by the investment
Last year he made $1,000 from the
land and will make $4,000 this year.
When he turns the deed to the new
owner next March he will have made
SIS, 900 above interest in two years.
During he last four years this tract
has increased in actual value from $34,-
600 to $50, 1000 and produced crops worth
SAL, 900.
The life story of John Jesch, the new
proprietor of this farm, is the story of
what energy can do in northeastern
Kansas. Jesch was brought to this
Vicinity by lis poISutS years
ago. He was then but years of age
and his fathers fortune amounted to
$500.
Twenty years ago, with only poor
team in his possession, Jeseh rented al
eighty acre tract. He was able to buy
his first farm, eighty acres, eighteen
years ago. He now owns $40 acres
which does not include the Hutchinson
farm just purchased by him. He made
part of his wealth by raising stock. He
realized the best profits on hogs. His
wife died several years ago and he and
his 17-year-old son live together AMI
are their own housekeepers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-26

been voted in Sherman county and
the road has been surveyed from
Goodland to the north line of Greeley
county. The conditions of the bonds
are such that the railroad must en-
ter and pass through the corporate
limits of the town mentioned in each
county. More than one-half the legal
voters have signed the petitions, and
while there is some opposition in the
different counties to the proposition
of voting bonds. the first election of
the bond proposition carried more
than four to one in favor.
The railroad is being financed by
eastern people, and it has been in
corporated directly by Kansas men.
1t is expected that the survey will
be completed within the next six
weeks, the right of way has nearly all
been secured in the two northern
counties by the company, and the
dreams of the north and south rail-
road in western Kansas seems to be
nearing the real thing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-26
SENDS ROBBERS FLYING.
Woman Yields Hat Pin Effectively
on HoId-Up Man.

Chicago, Aug. 26.-While her hus-
band, barricaded behind an umbrella,
attempted to parley with two high
waymen, Mrs. Charles F. Thrill, scorn-
ing the fraiI barrier, sprang upon the
startled robbers and welded a hat
pin with such telling effect that only
an instant elapsed before the bandits
were in full flight The attack
occurred in front of the board of
trade building.
You take the little fellow, dearie, -
called Mrs. Thiu as she leaped at the
taller of the men, I'll try and look
after this one
Surprised by the suddenness of the
attack the robber was hurled to the
pavement and quick as flash the
long hat pin was jabbing him.
The robber was fighting losing
battle when he was rescued by his
comrade. who felled ThiH with a blow
and then turned on Mrs. Thrill. An
instant later the men disappeared
down an alley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-26
CAN'T GET HIMSELF OUT OF JAIL
Predicament of Lindsborg Lawyer
Confined for Contempt.

Mcpherson, Kan, Aug. 26.-J. F.
Hanson, an attorney of Lindsborg, is
still in the county Jail here. He will
remain unless he decides to answer
questions and pay his fine or unless
the supreme court releases him. He
has, however, commenced habeas
corpus proceedings in the supreme
court and says that after his release
he will sue Judge Sward for $4,000
damages.
He was subpoenaed to appear as a
witness in the probate court and to
bring with him such accounts and rec
ords as might be in his possession re-
lating to the case of Anton Under
holm ct al VS.. the estate of Hannah
Linderholm. He was sworn. When
questioned he refused to answer and
to produce record and was fined SIS
by Judge Sward. He refused to pay
and was then committed to Jail
Hanson asserts that Mr.. Johnson. an
attorney, questioned him about mat
tiers outside of the case. Mr.. Hanson
said he would not testify in that case
while on the stand in another hearing.
Judge Sward holds that Hanson re-
fused to testify in the case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-26
FOR NORTH AND SOUTH ROAD.
Residents of Western Kansas Jubilant
Over Prospects.

Tribune, Kan. Aug 26.-The new
railroad proposition for the western
portion of Kansas seems to be a, sure
go. Petitions have been circulated by
the citizens of Sherman county, Wal
lace county, Greeley county, Hamil-
ton county, Stanton county, Morton
county. Stevens county and Seward
county, asking the county commits
sioners of each county to call a spec
iaI election to vote $4,000 bonds for
each mile that the new railroad runs
through the county.
The conditions are that the rail-
road is to be completed and put in
operation, and as soon as this is done
then each county is to take $4,000
worth of stock in the company for
each mile of road that is operated.
The railroad is to run from Goodland,
Kan, to Liberal Kan, passing
through and connecting eight county
seat towns. which include Goodland,
Sharon Springs. Tribune. Syracuse,
Johnson City, Richfield, Hugoton and
Liberal.
This new railroad will connect the
Rock Island at Liberal at the south
side of the state with the main line
of the Rock Island at the north side
of the state. Bonds have already
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-26
BIBLE STORIES OLD.
Are Founded ON Tradition Says Chi
cago Professor of Divinity.

Chicago, Aug. 26--The Bible is not
original with its supposed compiiers.
according to the opinions expressed
by Prof. Gerald B. Smith of the
faculty of the divinity department of
the University of Chicago. 1.-The
story of creation and the deluge ap-
peared long before the Bible was
written the speaker declared. Both
of these stories were traditional in
the early literature of the Babylon
ians.
1.-The theologian of today is ac-
quainted as the theologians of former
days were not, with the reality and
vitality of non-Christian religion, and
in the investigation of the Old Tesla
ment religion it has been found that
many of its elements were derived
from Israels contact with Babylon.
'"The history Of christianity reveals
the fact that Christian beliefs have
grown and changed as christianity
has met with the secular forces of
its history. There are elements in
every pagan religion which every
Christian is compelled to recognize
as truth"