davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07
A COSTLY LOTTERY.
Expensive Methods OF Opening In
Indian Reservation.

AHuAah HGaNENhtlohs
Portland (ore.) Journal.
In railroad fare and other expenses $780,
600 was paid out by those who recently
played hands in the gigantic land lottery
conducted by the government on northwest
ndian reservations. The same authority
estimates that an additional 1000 900 will
be similarly expended by those who drew
prizes. Further information is that in
many cases, the and drawn are of little
value as an asset for remuneratlye en-
deavor. Thu upshot Of the whole incident
Is a wide conviction that a colossal blum
der has been made by those who were in
charge Of affairs for the government. 1t
has met, as 1t ought to, with condemnation
by the press throughout the country.
Tn enormous sum extracted from the
people makes of the process one of the
most gigantic games OF history. Eight
million dollars as a part Of the stakes. and
more than 10000 people in the list OF the
players, puts this government lottery in a
class by itself, and places the government
officials who sat as dealers" at the head
of the class in any known game of chance
II is a proceedings OF which all those who
represented the government ought to be
Ashamed. The government of the United
States should be In better business. Pri-
vate citizens accessory to a lottery Of one
t~housandth the magnitude would be sent to
Jail, or be made to pay a heavy fine. or
both. What Of the craftsmanship that
perpetrated this business upon the coun-
try? What Of the officialdom thai insists
that the only way to equitably distribute
Indian lands is to entice the people into
playing a game OF chance for them?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07
ARE YANKEES DECADENTt
Statistics Suggest a Melancholy
Thought or Two.

Statistics Suggest q Melancholy
Thought or Two.
Philadelphia Record.
In the business of multiplying and re-
plenishing the population of the country,
our native Americans fall far behind the
enterprising and industrious Europeans
who cast their lot amongst us. Some sig
nificant figures bearing upon this matter
are reported in the school registration of
~Schuylkill county. The registry In Potts
Vile shows a total of s,627 school children.
In Shenandoah, a town of nearly equal
population, there are 6,267 children regis
tered. In Pottsville, the county seat, ma
tives predominate; in Shenandoah for
eigners. This is a natal showing not I'M
common I'm other parts Of the country, as
demonstrated by birth-rate statistics. In
good times the pushing and swarming
aliens promise to overrun and possess the
land by virtue Of numerical weight and
supremacy. Is this to be deemed a new
demonstration Of the theory Of the sur
vival of the fittest? Has the Yankee be-
come decadent? Must he, in his turn, give
way to the more masterful outsider whom
he haughtily condemns and looks down
upon?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07
STANDARD OIL SQUEEZE.
Operations of the octopus in Kansas
and Oklahoma.
Topalra Canttal

Topeka Capital.
The government certainly has a difficult
nut to crack in undertaking to get for the
Indian lessons in Oklahoma a remunerative
price for their oil. Recently the Standard
monopoly reduced the price to the hereto
fore unheard-of figure of S5 cents for the
best grade. 1t is paying $I5s in Pennsyl-
vania. The government officials, after in
vestigating, think that 81 would be a rea-
sonable price for Oklahoma oil, which is
the best quality and in the greatest exist
ing oil field.
The manner in which the Standard OH
company has appropriated the Kansas and
Oklahoma oil field and prevented the peo-
pie Of this region from enjoying the wealth
which Providence placed here and which
these people discovered and developed 10 a
scandal to civilized society. 1t is a far
greater provocation to a bloody revolution
than the mild taxes levied on the American
colonies by England, since II is an ex-
preparation such as no government would
think of perpetrating, and the only reason
why there is not an armed revolt against
it is because the government is sincerely
seeking to remedy It and is unable to do
so only because of the ineffectiveness Of
it's legal machinery.
When the great oil field was discovered
here the Standard sent out it's scouts. who
Inspected the ground and m its ca
pacity. The price was then put up to $1.26
and Sl50 a barrel to stimulate development.
At these figures the profit was large and
development was as rapid as the Standard
could wish. Within a period of months the
development was complete, opening a vast
new field for the oil monopoly, whereupon
the price for crude oil was pinched down
to 70 cents, 90 cents, so and Al and now to
IS and 80 cents. The output has thus been
shut off to the requirements of the Stan
dard, the greater part of the Kansas field
being closed down. Only the best wells can
afford to produce.
Meantime the price Of gasoline, kerosene
and other refined products of the Standard
Oil company have not been reduced, but
the ultimate consumer pays the same
price as when crude oil brought 81 a barrel
and upwards.
In a word, Kansas and Oklahoma have
discovered, developed and are producing oil
as agents for the Standard oil company,
which in effect own the wells as much
as IL It had actually paid for them.
There are said to be several ways in
which the federal authorities can handle
this problem in Oklahoma. As the owners
of the lands are Indian wards of the gov
eminent, it can order the wells closed and
stop production. II can refuse It's consent
to production except at satisfactory roy-
alties. The government can contend with
the problem in Oklahoma, not through its
laws against monopoly, which might as
well not be on the statute books, but
through its authority as guardian for the
lessons OF the land.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07
PERSONAL NOTES.

While the doctors profess to know what
ails Mr.. Hartman, no layman would even
presume to pronounce the name Of the
malady.
with Dis De Bar In vaudeville. why not
also David Pinney Earle? Catchy songs,
all new costumes, beauty chorus OF melo-
dius affinities.
Mrs. Sarah f. Thompson. the only woman
carried on the rolls Of the pension office
as a soldier Of the Union army, died re.
Gently In Washington.
An English baron, recently killed in an
automobile accident, seems to be chiefly
remembered through the fact that he mar
ried a show girl after a five days court
ship.
Charles Rowell, the long-distance run
ner. died In London recently. He was in
poor circumstances, although he had won a
fortune in America, where he created many
records in running.
Miss Evelyn Mitchell, one Of the young
est women scientists in the United States,
who is now doing important work for the
government at the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, is preparing to write a book on gnsts.
Colonel John b. Rodman, retired, son Of
General Rodman, inventor Of the Rodman
gun, died in San Francisco OF a wound re-
ceived at Santiago while serving as cap
tain OF the Twentieth United States regi-
ment.
A number Of New York policemen are
to be armed with paddles. for instant use
on boys caught leaping on cars in motion.
The remedy may be applied in like cases
in other cities with assurances that it
reaches the spot.
Apparently Judge Fuller Of WilkesBarre,
Pa, believes in an age limit for persons
seeking divorce. In refusing Jane Ashton
Jones a divorce from her fourth husband,
he explained that legal separation might be
granted to a youthful applicant when 1t
would be denied an older plaintiff.
Sir Edward Hobart Seymour. admiral OF
the fleet, G. o. b, o.. M, @. e. c. Q. o.,
X. c. B.. will be sent to this country by
King Edward in command Of the British
squadron thai will take part in the Hud-
son-Fulton celebration. Admiral seymour
witnessed the battle of Manila bay.
Governor Joseph NJ. Brown continues to
surprise and perplex the old-fashioned
Georgia politicians and editors. He has
appointed to desirable offices men who
fought him in the democratic primary, and
his only explanation is that he's controlled
in his appointments by a regard for the
public interests.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07
OVER COLDS ETERNAL BARRIER
Patriotic Thrills Over the Achieve
meht OF an American,
CT To1fu Rap,b1tc

Patriotic Thrills Over the Achieve
meht OF an American.
st. Louis Republic.
Tit pulse OF every true American will
beat quicker at the tidings that a citizen
Of this republic has been first TO solve the
mystery, hidden for ages behind the
eternal barriers Of the cold" to look upon
the face OF the Spirit of the North and live.
And in view Of the charge that the great
ness OF this age is wholly mechanical he
will rejoice that the conquest Of the pole
was made, not with airship, automobile or
power sledge; not by an expedition lavishly
equipped, carrying into the wilds Of the
Arctic the exotic comforts OF twentieth
century civilization, but by the victory OF
physical endurance. dauntless courage and
trained intelligence over the darkness, the
icy sea, the hmitless desolation of the
north. This man had not even a ship. He
TOOK with him on the final march no com
panion OF his WI race. One white man,
with the smallest party OF Eskimos who
ever went north from Cape Hubbard. has
achieved the prize. II is the triumph OF
a man, not OF gasoline or aluminium or
rubber tires.
DR.. Cook is a New Yorker by birth, OF
German descent (the name was originally
koch). He was educated in the University
Of New York. He was surgeon TO the
Peary expedition OF lss1-92 and again to
the Belgian Antarctic expedition OF 1879.
He is "A years old.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07
where is the FLAG Nows

The discussion about the ownership Of
the north pole. where DIR. Frederick A.
Cook says that he raised the stars and
strlpes on April 81, 1908, is not carried on
by government officials at Washington
with much warmth The flag must have
been blown down, torn into shreds in fact.
and every thread Of It lost in the polar
ice or the Arctic currents long ago. The
Melville-B Bryant cask sent adrlft in 1899 is
supposed to phaveubeen swept past the
north pole, within 100 miles of IT, and the
.cask was PICKED up thousands Of miles
away There is no knowing where the re-
mains of a flag planted at the north pole
may be in a winter or two, perhaps on
the coasts of half q score of countries.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07
THE POLE FINDER.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

NAAaAa a ANAAA 0N&ANA
Hooray!
They say
The Pole is found
Ger frozen bay, and strait, and sound,
Where ice tides roll
That long sought goal
Is pinched, 10,
And cinched,
And run to ground!
A wealth Of praise
In cheers and lays
Greet Cookl
By hook and crook
The way he took,
Mid ice and SHOWS
Ger bergs and floes,
Until at last he proudly stood
Up where there is no latitude!
Hooray for Cook!
In the great book
OF fame
His name
In ink OF gold shall now be writ:
HE trailed the Pole and cornered IT."
Where hosts have failed he found the spot
That's what!
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

To an onlooker the factiona1 conten-
tion already precipitated in Iowa over
the eligibility OF Congressman Walter
/. Smith to the succession Of speaker
ship in the event Speaker Cannon
should fall by the wayside appears to
be queer politics, to say nothing Of
being decidedly premature. Judge
Smith is conceded to be right now the
leading member Of the Iowa delega-
ton in the house, a delegation which
has always included, and still includes,
some of the ablest and most influential
of our national lawmakers. II the
speakership we're to 60 to Iowa with
its delegation as at present consti-
tuted Judge Smith would be the one
upon whom the distinction would nat
urally fall. The ambition to be
speaker, if Judge Smith cherishes 1t,
would be a worthy one and quite In
line with the purpose TO increase his
usefulness to his own constituency
and state as well as TO the nation.
But Judge Smith has been suspected
of being on not hostile terms with
Speaker Cannon, and this suspicion
has been confirmed by his retention
of the very important committee as
signments which he holds by virtue Of
the speakers appointment. 1t is APP
parently on this accoun that the sug-
gestion at his Homecoming reception
that Judge Smith might prove Of
speakership timber has raised up a
protest, or rather a backfre, from the
ultra progressive organs, which de-
clare that rather than have Judge
Smith occupy the speakers chair they
would prefer to see it filled from some
other state. The Des Moines Register
and Leader practically comedies that,
If the next house chooses a republican
successor to Speaker Cannon he must
have the support Of Can1onp friends,
yet insists that if Judge smith should
happen to be the logical man, rather
than have him made by such help
Iowa would forego the honor. Just
where this logic would lead presents a
peculiar political puzzle. The Regis
ter and Leader agrees that a repub-
lican speaker cannot be made without
the assistance of Mr.. Cannon's friends.
1t would be against Judge Smith, or
any man, II the Cannon influence
favored him of it's own accord, but
would greet him with acclaim II the
Cannon influence could be forced to
support him against it's will.
The next speakership contest is still
almost two years ahead. The speaker
ship is the second highest place In ouI
public life. If the house is republican
The Bee will be for a western man II
there is any chance to get a western
man qualified to fill the place. He
will have to be made by a union of ali
the republican forces, and for the
Iowa progressives to say, at this stage
that no one will be acceptable who has
afiliated with the stand-patters is Just
as u~nwarranted as would be an an.
nouncement by the stand-patters that
they would accept no n but Uncle
Joe Cannon. The next speaker. If q
republican, should be, and will be, in
accord with the policies of the admin.
istration and in harmony with the sen.
timent Of the republican majority in
and out of congress. II Iowa has the
chance to furnish the speaker in the
person of Judge Smith, as it did when
it made Speaker Henderson, it will
hardly be so foolish as TO throw away
such a rare opportunity.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07
Hopeless quest.

Baltimore American.
The West Point cadets dismissed for
hazing are seeking reinstatement. Evil
IDENTIFY they do not take the presidents
seriously, but IL they are pardoned
It will end efforts to suppress the prac-
tice, which has become in its exposures,
Investigations and consequences a national
nuisance. The government owes it to the
authorities Of the war college to uphold
them in their maintenance of discipline.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07
An Exploded Mystery.
SprinRfieId Republican

There are many who will part from the
north pole with regret. All their lives 1t
has seemed the one uncomfortable salient
of natures fortress, the very synonym OF
the impossible goal Of human endeavor.
With the pole itself succumbing, the world
is no longer the same, and everything
seems within the realm of mortal achieve
ment. We must now think of talking with
Mars with more respect. The professors
mirrors may prove any day a reality.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

Havelock Ellis, the British expert
on genius. declares that the reason for
the paucity of the artists in America
is the blood-chaos caused by the radi-
cal mixture Of races. Let the blood
chaos rage. If we must get genius by
putting a limit on population we can go
without. William Randolph Hearst,
DR.. Cook and the Wrights will fill the
demand for genius for the present.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

Certain naval cadets have been sep
Srated from the service" on account OF
''inaptitude." We used TO call it fired
Tor incompetence" but the new Ian
yuage W. more ground and is really
more stylish.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

into the union. There might be a
broad question OF morals or hygiene
in the governments policy Of internal
revenue taxation. but that lie not on
Governor Haskells mind. He is put
ting a piece of obseurational. diver
s%ional, political trickery into the
papers and can make no showing Of
any other object.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07


The Dahlmanites slur the candidates
on the republican ticket, most of
whom are renominated for a second
term, for feeding at the public crib -
Here is the crib record Of Mayor Jim,
who is the patron saint OF this bunch
Of democratic pie-biters:
Mayor Of Chadron.
Sheriff OF Dawes county.
Secretary State Railway board.
Mayor OF Omaha.
Fifteen years at the public crib is a
pretty good exhibit. It was said of
the old Roman soothsayers that no
two of them could meet in the street
without laughing outright in one an
others faces. They must have been
Dahlmanites.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07
feetly horrible and uncenvenuonair-cht

fectly horrible and uncenventionall"--Chi
cago Tribune.
Your political antagonist is calling you
every name he can think Of said the
Don't interrupt him" answered Senator
Sorghum. 1T is better to have a man
searching the dictionary for epithets than
going after your record for facts. Wash
ington Star.
Brother Hardesty, how does our new
usher, the young salesman In tbs candy
store. perform his duties2"
Pretty well, but / Thought ne acted
rather queer the first time he passed the
basket. When a coin was dropped I'm Il
he turned around and made a motion as
II he was punching a cash register.'-ChI-
eago Tribune.
Lawyer-what is your occupation?
Witness-Im a piano finisher.
~Lawyer-Be a little more definite. DO
you polish them or move them?
Algernon looked at Cholly with an awe
struck gaze.
"choliy" he murmured, Augustus must
be awful rich
"WhyP" asked Cholly, with wide won
der. in his baby blue eyes.
81 saw him yesterday lending n man
s., and he's just home from his vacation!'
Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

Japanese statesmen offer to go ca
boots with the United States in devel-
oping the orient. Baron Shiburawa
frankly a y that America has the
money and they the experience. Naive
Baron.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

We look in vain for Mayor Jim's
name in the list OF delegates appointed
by Governor shallenberger to rep
resent Nebraska in the Dry Farming
congress. Wouldn't that have been a
great joke?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

Speaker Cannon's latest short speech
about the tariff is hat when maiorities
in the enc and house talk a thing
over and agree 1t can't be far wrong.
The idea is at least worthy Of consid-
Grafton.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07
Color Does Not Count.
%Phlladelphla Recon-

NTTTWWVTVWIW INNNVTW'
In a municipal convention in Montreal one
of the orators spoke Of the white and black
sheep in municipal affairs. 1t is not a
50 much OF white and black sheep
as Of the wolves and other predatory ami
mails in sleeps clothing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

The University of Nebraska is los
ms another Of fits most valued faculty
members to the University of Illinois.
The narrowness OF the Bryanite legis-
lature that would handicap our uni
Eersity by barring its professors from
hope Of retirement pensions is not
helping us to hold the men most in
demand
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

Pure food experts should learn how
the North pole Eskimos live on gum
drops and lard while keeping their
metabolism in working order. Is their
m%etabolism better than that of a food
SQUAD?
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

Impatient thinkers complain thai the
world will learn nothing important
until 1t gets over the North pole OBJ
session. 1t will learn whether the
spitball is played out and whether
Tyrus Cobb is the greatest batter in
The American league.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

The, democratic editors who belittled
and denounced Judge Dean for accept
ing an appointment from Governor
Sheldon rejected by Judge Sullivan
are now urging 1t as the one thing in
his favor. Funny, funny politics.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

When a warship is out Of date in
ten or twelve years 1t is good policy to
keep it on the go and under the tests.
For the first time in the history OF any
nation at peace the United States is
making its whole navy come up to
service standards.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

At last comes the suggestion that
Montauk be the western end Of the
combination of which Fishguard is the
eastern. With this thought goes the
other, that the regular rate to Europe
remains the same.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

When a Mexican foolishly declared
that he would not vote for Diaz a de-
taohment of rurales put him where he
would never vote at all. The Diaz
campaigns are naturally successful
under that system.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

Chinese students, when they disa-
gree with teachers strike. AS a ma
tional custom 1t will not prevail in this
country. The improved and benevo-
lent order of American parents have
rules about the showing a boy makes
for the money his education costs.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

A magazine essayist says that the
English have a wearied look. II we
lost Is much sleep over the German
navy az they do and ate five meals a
day the fatigue would show on us, too.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

John L. Sullivan is going to raise
chickens. 1t would be interesting to
see John taking biddies off the nest
and recall the day when he was paint
ing towns along the Union Pacific
and raising that voice OF his at mid
night.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

Science has been "suspending iudg-
ment" on DR.. Cook for several days.
1t does not hurt Cook as long as he is
being entertained, as Mrs. farley would
have said, BY the crowned heads and
nobility.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

The Flusser and the Narwhal have
kindled as Of yore the fire in Uncle
Jim Hill's breast The speed competi-
ton proves that revival in the money
market starts the sporting blood.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

Conservatism is given out as the
prevailing tone in business. 1t is the
best boom we will have ever had il
people 60 through 1t without spending
money like drunken sailors.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07
CHEEKY CHAFF.

Our dressmaker Is an unusually good
woman. She is a perfect example,"
That's on account OF her business"
"On account of her business! What are
you talking about?'
"A dressmaker has TO lead a pattern
life. baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

Thescountry's markets are short of
hogs and cattle, but the movement Of
grain, coal and iron ore is abundant.
The situation on the whole looks like
money for Nebraska and Iowa.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07
obscuratIon OF the river.

cleveland ram Dealef.
just at present the fame of all the avia-
tors drops back into the shadow while the
plays up the man who merely
used his legs, some dogs and a sled or
two, and walked to the north pole.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

The Dahlnan Democracy seems
willing to ROOT for the democratic
ticket, but it balks on wearing the
nonpartisan mask.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

The World-Herald's Labor day ser
mon breaches the gospel Of discomfort.
Calamity bowling is the democratic
stock-in-trade.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

Subscribers leaving the city tenn
pOr@PiIy hOuld have The Bee
mailed TO them. Address viii he
changed ms often ns requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07
Knock. the Per.lmmon.
st. Paul Dispatch

81 fbul RlHpdlCHs
Or. Cook has been offered S25O,OOO for ESQ
lectures on his trip to the north pole. The
doctor seems to have gotten hold of the
right pole with which to remove the per-
simmon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

Have you. invited your friends to
visit you whom you expect to enter
tain during the Ak-sarsBen festivities?
II not, don't delay longer.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

will cause old-timers to put their dia-
monds in storage. The has-beens will
look as they did before they left the
farm.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

To cause a subsidence of the typhoid
scare the Baltimore Sun has started a
siren trick OF singing in verse and
rhetoric the praises of the oyster.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

Might have expected this sort of
weather when Buffalo Bill announced
his intention Of pitching an open air
show here on Labor DAY.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-07

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
state of Nebraska, Douglas County, IS:
George b.. Tzschuck. treasurer of The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly
sworn, says that the actual number OF
null and complete copies of The Daily,
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of August, 1909, was
"a fOi1oUa.