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The broad ax., 1909-11-06
CHATEAU RINK NOTES.

The Halloween Party rendered the
many patrons At the Chateau Rink last
Saturday was witnessed by the largest
crowd of the year. Among the winners
in the races were Miss Maggie Perrin.
Miss Sadie Henderson, Mr.. J. Watts,
VIM. Chiffon and o. Outley. Messrs.
Chiffon and Outley were ties and will
finish the race this evening. Come out
and witness this great contest.
Something new at the Chateau De
Plaisance. The Famous Eight Regi-
ment Band will give a grand rehearsal
every Sunday evening. Don't forget
to attend this grand rehearsal Skat-
ing, dancing and good time for all.
The Skating contests at the Chateau
Rink are becoming more popular than
ever among the many skaters.
So
Prof. Caves Orchestra is making
quite hit at the Chateau Rink. Come
out and listen to some of his latest
song hits.
Come tonight, bring your many
friends and have the time of your life
at the Chateau Rink tonight.
The broad ax., 1909-11-06

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It is with extreme pleasure that we
announce the recent marriage of Mr.
Chas A. Olson. to Miss Celia A Nil
Ter. Mr.. Olson, has for many years
been the genial and well known general
sales agent for John J. Dunn, the
wholesale aud retail coal merchant SYST
street and Armour ave, and Mr.. o.
son and his charming bride have just
returned from their honeymoon trip
abroad, and while absent they visited
all the principle cities on the European
Continent and they are now at home to
their hosts of friends at 5000 Calumet
avenue.
The broad ax., 1909-11-06

to make the IRE In the furnace burn
more quickly and bightly, and In or
to do so. she made a mistake and
threw gasoline on IT instead Of kerO-
sene. and the blaze severity burned
her face, but she win recover from fits
effects without leaving scars.
The broad ax., 1909-11-06

The Skating contests at the Chateau
Rink are becoming more popular than
ever among the many skaters.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28
Helgren for City Comptroller.

The republicans present to the vet-
ers of Omaha as their candidate for
the responsible Office of city comptrol-
Ter John s. Helgren, an expert &C
countant of tried experience, fully
qualified to perform the duties.
Mr.. Helgren is a steady, reliable
man, who by reason of his previous
employment in the city treasurer's
Office and in the Office of the county
comptroller. has had an insight into
the methods of bookkeeping and &C
counting for public institutions and
the checking of public Offices that
would make him perfectly familiar
with what is required Of the city comp
troller.
Mr.. Helgren is also representative
of that class of our citizenship of
Swedish birth or descent who consti-
tute an important and substantial ele-
ment Of the community and should
have recognition in the management
of our municipal affairs.
The comptroller's office, in particu-
lar, is one in which an occasional new
hand at the helm is most desirable. 1t
is time for a change and no mistake
will be made by electing Mr.. Helgren
city comptroller.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28

in n way reflect the conditions Of the
state. II is and always has been noto-
rious that only a small portion Of the
chattel mortgages filed are ever re-
leased when paid, ard particularly is
this true of the vast number which in
dividually represent small amounts,
but in the aggregate mount up to an
immense sum. They are given as a
rule by people lacking in business ex-
~perience, who. when the debt 10 AN
celled, make no effort to clear the title
to their property by having it released
of record. Good judges have often ex-
pressed the opinion that the paid and
unreleased chattel mortgages of the
state in the aggregate would amount
to a greater sum than the entire value
of the personal property of the state
II all the old records were compiled.
That such a condition Of affairs is a
great drawback to the state Is
acknowledged, but neither penalties
nor any other means yet tried have
been able to correct the evil OF fall
ures to release chattel mortgages
when paid.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28
Relief for shippers.


Gradually. but surely. the relations
Of shippers and the carriers and the
rights OF each are being evolved under
the rulings Of the Interstate Commerce
commission and the courts. One of
the most p%erplexing has been that of
the recours the shipper had when
rates were found to be unjust. The
elapsed time between the making Of a
rate I'M the determination Of it's just
ness is necessarily considerable and in
the meantime, II the contention Of
the shipper is sustained. large sums
have been extorted from him. The
commission has decided that when a
rate il determined to be excessive all
amounts over and above a fair rate
must be refunded whether paid under
protest or not.
This decision does not cure the dis
turbance to business as between points
where there may have been dlscrim-
nation, but IL goes a long way toward
meeting the equities of the situation.
States. by legislation, have sought TO
go farther by preventing the ignoring
OF commission and statutory rates
pending q court decision on their rea-
condolences. but with no success The
ruling OF the commission in this in
stance rests on a different proposition
of law, recognizing hat the shipper
has no choice about accepting the rate
temporarily, and that. therefore. he is
entitled to be reimbursed when 1t is
found excessive, whereas the roads
would nave no recourse so far as it
related to goods already carried in
case a rate was subsequently held nom
remunerstive. it being impracticable
to bring action against a multitude Of
shippers.
Honest differences of opinion will
always exist between shippers and
railroad officials regarding what cen7
stitutes Just and reasonable rates, but
in the past the reasonableness of a
charge has not always been its meas
ure, but rather the question has been
determined on what the traffic would
bear. The certainty of having to re-
fund excess charges will cause railroad
traffic men to be chary of putting this
class OF rates into effect. A refund
order on any considerable amount OF
trafic after the earnings had been dis
tributed in dividends and otherwise
would be an embarrassing feature,
which the managers of roads are not
likely to court by establishing rates
about which there is genuine doubt,
or, as sometimes occurs. absolute GER
tainty of their holdup character.
This decision, while in line with
others previously rendered, goes much
farther than It's predecessors and is
likely to prove a landmark in railroad
rate regulation.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28
Boosting South Dakota.

An unsuccessful effort was made at
the last session of the legislature of
South Dakota to induce that body to
make an appropriation for the purpose
OF presenting the advantages of the
state to prospective settlers. Organ
lied commercial bodies of South Da-
kota, however, are raising a
fund to carry on the work. The build
ing of new railroad lines into unde-
veloped portions of the state has
opened up large tracts hitherto given
over to the cattle ranges and even in
the older settled sections there is
much unimproved land which is soon
to be made productive.
Omaha as a neighbor and bene-
ficiary in large measure of the trade
OF that section has an interest in the
success OF the enterprise and will re-
joice at the arrival of the day when
every tillable tract of South Dakota
land will be under the pillow. In the
rush to newer and better advertised
sections the opportunities of South Da-
kota have beef overlooked in recent
years by settlers, but the advertising
given to the opening OF Indian lands
has directed attention that way, and
now IL an opportune time for our
n~eighbors to the north to push the
good work along and settle up the va
| cant places.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28
INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGES
Baltimore American.

Baltimore American.
They are thronging the walks Of the tito
mart,
Our young girls. fresh and fair,
With their girlhood bright and their trust
iug hearts,
And free from every care.
The tsrnish which lies on titles old
They see In II no snare,
For they look for love and happiness
When they put on their COLDS repair.
Then comes the quick awakening.
In the lands across the sea, f
OF the gold that's all and the hearts that
naught, ,.t. 'a
And the Rilded misery.
The highbor contempt for plebian wives,
TIL the blood In the veins born free
Grows hot with the sordid title sale
And rebels at indignity.
But still they come and the ranks are
sweiled, l M
Spite of lesson and woe and ban,
The eager wish for titled name
They seem but to spread and Fan;
But some day our girls will wiser grow,
And American pounds will scan,
For a husband. learning the best of mata
Is not a name but a MAN,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28
PERSONAL NOTES

Some New York smugglers have Of
fered $3.50 900 as a compromise settlement
for an attempt to bring In $4,000 worth
of Paris gowns without paying the duty.
Mr.. Hartman is going abroad under or
ders, to get away from his business In
terests. It will be possible for him to
travel in Europe without passing over one
of his own railroads.
Lieutenant Calvin p. Titus. Fourteenth
United States infantry. who as y bugler,
was the first man over the walls OF Pekins
when the American troops relieved the lesa-
ton from the Boxer seige in 1900, will
turn chaplain.
Colonel Isaac Taylor. the conceIver OF the
iakes-to-gulf deep water way idea, died
at Peoria. ILL.,, at the age Of "a years from
an attack OF heart failure, brought on by
~overexertion in the recent city campaign.
Colonel Taylor was then elected assessor.
Mrs. Hannah Boone Wilson. srandniece
OF the famous hunter and frontiersman,
Daniel Boone. recently died at her home
In Portland, Ore, after a brief illness. In
the death OF Mrs. Wilson the passing is
marked of one OF two direct descendants
of Boone.
Hamilton Holt. one OF the editors OF the
New York Independent, was born In Brook
lyn, and is a graduate of Yale. Yet when
offered a glass of buttermilk by e. w.
Howe. in Atchison. Kan. he said he had
never heard<o of buttermilk and did not know
what is was.
Mrs. Rose r.. Jameson of Colorado has
applied for appointment as district water
commissioner in Pueblo county. The board
of county commissioner certified her APP
pIication and Governor .shafroth. though
expressing his surprise, declared that there
seemed to be no good reason why a woman
should not have the office. and he prom
ised to give her application proper osnsid-
GRAFTON. Mrs. Jameson is a widow. runs
her own ranch and supports her two small
children and her aged mother.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28
Towards Compliments to the VIII.
Columbus Telegram.


the governor refused to be frightened
Suppose Governor Shailenberger had
yielded to the intimidating delegation which
went TO Lincoln on the bre very combine
special. why. if he had been the kind
OF coward those fellows wanted him to
be, every issue Of the WorldlHerald would
now contain double-column laudations Of
the coward who would bow to the dictates
of those same influences which control the
editorial policy Of the World Herald as alb
solutely as a Missourian controls his own
coon dog.
II erieves us to observe the trend Of
Nebrasks's only metropolitan daily demo-
cratic newspaper toward the embettled en-
campment of the Cracker trust. and kind
red evil e-ncampments. The Telegram has
been accused by this same world-H Herald
on charge Of breeding discord in the DEM
ocratic ranks, and all because we refused
TO see virtue In a stock yards senator.
godlinees In the brewery trust. or sanctifi-
cation in the cracker trust. But we enter
tain no sentiments OF evil desire in the
direction of the Omaha world-Herald. Our
prayer Is that the gods may be able to
the company of the commercial harlots
with which he n now swhoring.
And II the gods shall refuse to graft
the divorce, II will stlll be our province
AYE our privilege. our pleasure and our
duty to borrow a bit of uncouth construc-
ton and say to the frayed and frazsled
Omaha organ OF the criminal combinations
Forget IT,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28
Nebraska Mortgage Statistics.

The statistics of Nebraska mort
cages present some interesting fea-
lures. Az compared with the previous
year, so far as the farms are con-
cerned. the record shows an increase
OF t4,34S.27s in the reduction OF the
mortgage debt and also a decrease of
about 10000 900 in the amount filed.
As during both OF these years the
farmers were prosperous and had no
reason for going in debt to meet ex-
penses. the mortgages. with compare
lively few exceptions, represented the
unpaid portion Of the purchase price
Of lands. The decrease in the amount
OF mortgages filed would indicate,
therefore, that the high price OF Ne
braska lands had in a measure
checked the buying for the sake of in
creasing the holdings of landholders,
while the payments demonstrate the
soil has been doing its part to lift the
debts existing. The figures also indi-
cate the Third and Sixth congressional
districts are at present the scenes OF
greatest activity In real estate.
City property shows just the re
verse condition to farm realty. Al
Of the six congressional districts of the
state show an excess OF mortgage,
nled over those released. which is 4
reflection. not only OF the activity o
urban real estate. but of the grea
amount Of building which is now beinl
done not only in Omaha. but in ever,
city and village of the state. From
practically every city comes the repor
there has never before been so mucI
building as in the past e and Il
prospect for the present. AS in al
comparatively young communities. thi
is in a large being lone o
borrowed capital. but with the reeOr
of profitable Investment in the pas
there 10 every ground for believin
the income will ~extinguish the debt.
Unfortunately the statistics OF cha
tel mortgages nled and released do nc
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28
False Expectations.

The whole procedure for acquiring
the water works by compulsory pur-
chase. as engineered by the marooned
mariner, has been built up on a sue
cession of false expectations.
When the compulsory purchase act
was passed in 1903 the people of
Omaha were led to believe that they
would get title to and possession of
the water plant within six months.
Needless to say that six years have
elapsed, while the Water board, in
stead of fighting to get possession of
the plant. is now in court trying to
avoid getting possession of 1t.
When the compulsory purchase act
was passed the people were led to be-
lieve that the water works could be
bought within the 5000, 600, for
which bonds had already been voted,
and that at the worst a few hundred
thousand dollars more might be
needed to take in the outlying areas.
But when the appraisers award came
in it was for $6,263,2s5.49.
The people were led to believe that
the courts would reject the appraise-
ment without giving it the slightest
consideration, but instead the federal
court of appeals approved 1T, leaving
our only hope in the United States SUI
preme court, where the case is now
pending.
The people were led to believe that
the water rates could be reduced at
once without waiting to complete the
purchase and the Water board at two
| different times issued schedules of re-
ducsd rates, but the courts refused to
uphold them and water are
paying now the same rates they did
before.
The people we're led to believe that
the city could evade payment of its
hydrant rental bills and that we could
have our fire protection without pay
ing for it, but the courts, likewise,
knocked this expectation in the head.
The people we're ed to believe that
the Water board was in earnest when
II hired experts to make plans for the
construction Of a new waite plant and
insisted that a better water works than
what we now have could be built fol
less than $4,000. 900. but nothing
whatever has come of 1t.
The people were led to believe thai
the Water board would never give
countenanee or consent to the $6,26S,
295.4s appraisement, denounced al
fraudulent and excessive. until a couri
order from the highest judicial tribu
nal should require 1t to do so. Blu.
now the Water board is asking thu
people to vote a bond issue of $500,
600 to pay the company all the ap
praisers awarded without waiting 70
the court decision and knowing tina
paying that price will prevent any re
lief to the people in either taxes o
water rates.
With such a record Of false expects
tions cOnjured up to deceive them. |
: ii any wonder the people of Omaha ar
skeptical about the boasts of the waite
bond boosters?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28

II there might be granted to the Tele-
gram this morning a license to employ a
bit Of slang, we should instantly suggest
to the Omaha world-Hersld the advice:
Forget IT,"
We grant that the emotional and hysteri-
cal official organ OF the brewery, stock
yards and street railway syndicates in
Omaha has made a gallant fight In recent
days in behalf OF the interests which 1t
represents. We grant that the able editor
OF the Stockyards supplement displayed
marvellous ingenuity in the work of hiding
from the public eye that clause which the
stock yards and street railway people did
Donahoe bill. We grant that the hysterical
editorials Of our metropolitan friend were
enough to scare any ordinary governor
into a veto of the daylight saloon bill, as
demanded by the brewery combine. But
granting all this. we still feel impelled to
urge our editorial mentor to forget It,"
These remarks are made necessary by
the recent vicious attack Of the Omaha
Stockyards newspaper upon Governor
ShallenbeTger. The attack was brought
out by a grapevine report from Beatrice.
alleging that in a public address the gov
ernor had referred slishtingly to those
people who were transported down TO Lin
coin on the brewery combine special train
transported there to make the governor
afraid 70 sign the daylight saloon bill. All
the grief now displayed by the brewery
oombine newspaper is due TO the fact that
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28
ORGANIZATION IN FARMING.
Ii May bring Aboat "a New Era In
Agriculture.

Charles Dillon, in the Outlook.
Organization is about to assure the
farmer a larger share in the returns of
his labor and a smaller proportion for tho
commission broker. Modern invention L.
making easier the labor Of the field, and
the churnlng and washing that made pal
faces and weary backs and arms In thf
homes. II will take time to mske mer
AXE advantage OF all these blessings foi
themselves and their. families, but thes
eventually will DO It. The children, re
turning from the state universities or the
colleges, are the hope OF the future. foI
they take TO the homes new ideas: Ideas
that may be antagonistic to the old folks
perhaps, but ideas OF much value that arr
to run the farms in the next decade or
two. The girls, frightened by their course
Of domestic science, are telling theii
mothers OF better ways to do things; they
are insisting on system In women's work.
SC that time may be given to ~self-improve-
ment and TO social pleasures instead of
making life a dreary round OF toll.
Farming in the next generation or 81
win be more and moF scientific; the agri-
cultural colleges are bringing that about
where properly conducted. Modern meth.
DDS OF cultivation will mean smaller acre
age and larger yields. with improved quail.
ity Of product. AS the value OF land in.
! cresses farm communities will become thu
rule-that is to say. farmers will hol'
smaller properties from which the profits
will exceed those now realized by hap
hazard cultivation OF large tracts. wher'
weeds eat up the earth's food. Scientific
farming. ss II must some day come TO be
will put farm families into groups. an
that will mean the woman's emancipation
Farmers will live In towns or cities an
go TO their fields as a business, just a
any business man OF skilled laborer nO'
goes TO his work. 1t Is 50 today In severa
PARTS OF North America. One such com
munity Is New Cambria. Saline eounts
Kansas. where one may see the farmer
starting out every morning for their field
leaving families that are happy ana cor
tented because they are near one anothe
and permitted 10 indulge the human spir
OF sregariouAneI
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28
PASSING P%LEAsANTRIEs.

w will teach those trusts a thing or
two said the statesman.
Don't do It," answered Senator Sor-
ghum; my observation Is that the trusts
never learn anything new without making
Is a source OF further profit!'-Washing-
ton Star.
THE detective found one thing which
threw a light on his character"
What was that?"
"A dark lantern. New York Times.
The Girl lin grand stand)-"They cali that
man a pitcher, do they? Why don't they
call him a %thrower?'
The FRn-"Well, when he throws a game
they do.'-Chicago Tribune.
You've been struck twice by Iightning7
] thought lightning never struck twice in
the same place"
at doesn't, so far as I know. / was in a
different place when ] was hit the second
time. '-chicago Tribune.
Brown-Green Is going to Europe for his
sealth.
!. White So? How did he lose his health ?
Brown-Earning the price of a trip to
Europe.-Chicago News.
Milkman-our cows are all blooded stock
Customer believe you Blueblooded.
N one may judge by the appearance OF
the milk.-Cleveland Leader.
HAS the son you sent away to college
got his degree YETI"
1T should say so. Why. he. wrote last
week that the faculty had called him In and
given him the third degree. That boys
ambitious. "-Philadelphia Ledger.
Grandmother. Why is the baby so
happy?
Nurse. oh, his mother and father are
coming.
GRANDMOTHER. I don't see them?
Nurse. Nor 7, ma'am. But abe child's
nose is very keen. He smells the automo-
bile. ma am.-Harper's Weekly.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28
CONNECTION
In THE
HOSPE. STORE

Mr.. Hospe reports that in
thirty-six years of picture
business he has never seen
such enthusiastic crowds of
picture buyers as filled his
store yesterday.
No store in the country can
boast of such beautiful water
colors, such choice oil paint
ings by famous artists, such
rare artist proof etchings,
as well as multitudes of the
very best in reproduced prints
and such a complete line of the
choicest framed pictures.
When such "a store holds
such a price smashing sale it
is bound to cause commotion
in the art trade. Both large
and small dealers, buyers for
hotels, clubs, schools and
homes, all flocked to the
Hospe store and combined to
make yesterday the greatest
day the art business has ever
seen in the west.
Tomorrow 5000 new pic
lures, comprising regular
stock and salesman's samples,
ranging in price from $500 to
$500, will be sold in the bar
gain square on the third floor
at 19c, Acc, 78c, s8c and $1.98,
to be sold at one-tenth to one
twentieth of the publishers
prices.
Is it any wonder all Omaha
is identifying their honest
You cannot imagine such bar
gains unless you actually see
them. You should look over
the Hospe stock, even though
you do not care to purchase.
A. HOSPE CO.
1913 Douglas Street.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28

Castro is reported to have left his
fortune buried in the back yard at
Caracas. which accounts for his great
desire TO I 10 his native land. II
ne will only furnish a diagram Of the
financial cemetery there are doubtless
plenty OF people who will attend to the
disinterment for him.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-28

Missouri had TO wait for a repub-
hean legislature to secure an anti-pass
bill. States which still cling to democ-
racy, II they desire TO get abreast with
modern ideas. should take notice and
follow the lead OF Missouri.