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Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-14

mile thick at its base-nothing more or
less than a big, easy hill squarely across
the valley. 1t is neither the largest nor
the most spectacular dam ever constructed,
but when you stand there and look It over
it seems like pretty big proposition. That
pile Of rock and earth will have a head of
only eighty-five feet of water against It,
and that for but about 500 feet of its
length, but 1t will hold a lake, the area
of which will be over 1874 square miles.
Right in the middle of the valley, and,
incidentally, of the dam, rises small hill
of rock-Spilway hill, they call 1t, because
here a concrete-lined rock cut will take
care of the surplus water which the rivers
pour down during the rainy season. The
spillway is to have a channel 300 feet wide,
designed for a run-off capacity of 1900
cubic feet second. That is about finished
the cut has been completed the concrete
floor is down and the walls themselves
are well under way.
Gatun Dam.
West of Spillway hill little work on the
actual dam construction has been done
that's because there has got to be some
place for the rivers to run until they can
be turned through the spillway itself. But
OH the east side a good deal is going on.
They started out by dumping two parallel
lines of rock, about 1900 feet apart, from
the lock site at Gatun over to the hill in
the center of the valley. On the outside
of the rock was dumped indscrimlnate
stone and dirt. They got those two lines
pretty well up, like two separate dams,
and then began filling in the space be-
tween with impervious material pumped in
by dredges The rock toes" of the east
ern half of the dam are about up to their
full height, but the pumping work is still
going on--contlnuous streams of watery
mud pouring in day and night. The water
rains off and the sandy clay settles, dry
, ing slowly and packing itself so hard by
its own weight that it becomes almost as
solid as concrete.
When they get that finished-and it won't
be long-theyll level things off and rip
rap the surface where wave action will
come, and then the work will be ready
for business. The dam will stand thar, :
feet above water. Its top will be 100 feet
wide. At the lake surface II will be 39S
| feet thick, and down at the bottom over
2OO0 feet through. The slopes are so gentle
that the water pressure will practically all
be down, not out,
I why" said one Of the engineers, that
won't be dam. It'l be a small noun
| tain"
Although the dam at Gatun is no par.
| ticular record-breaker, except in the one
point of being safer and more heavily built
for the work 1t will be called upon to do
than any similar construction ever at.
tempted the locks-and they are the same
throughout the canal-are the largest ever
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-14

ules to parties that have been missed by
the cnumerators.
Suits to Recover indian Land Rentals
The United States as guardian and trus-
tee for Ws-tae-we Reese Harlan, an Omaha
Indian. has brought suit in the circuit
court OF the United States against Thomas
l.. Sloan to recover 50, AGA for land rentals of
property alleged to belong to the plaintiff
since August 4, 1903. The petition alleges
that on or about August 4. 1903. the defend
ant seized upon the property of the plain
tiff, now in litigation, without any right
in law and has since continued in possess
sion of the property and has appropriated
all profits and proceeds from its use to his
use and benefit.
The timely use OF Chainberlain's Cough
Rarnndu will nrevent rILelIrnnnla-
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-14
On Gatun Lake.

Now you're on Gatun lake, and the cap
tain gives the full speed jingle, because iii
wide, clear channel. with but an easy
turn here aud there, and long, clear
straightaways in between, and the ship
keeps on thus for twenty miles or more.
Then hills loom up ahead, and the channel
narrows from 1000 feet to 500 and then
TO 800 and then at last you ease
along for the nine-mile passage through
the backbone range of the Ameri-
can continent - Culebra cut, If you
choose-where the channel gets down to
its minimum width of 300 feet, enough for
two vessels to pass in comfort and with
lots to spare. but not enough for a twenty
knot clip.
You are through before you know 1t, and
into the Pedro Miguel lock, which let's the
ship down thirty feet into little lake OF
basin a mile long at the far end OF which
are the two twin locks of Miraflores, com
plotting the descent 10 the sea. And Their
it's a run of nine miles through a straight
broad lowland channel-most OF that, too
has already been dredged-and you are Out
in the Pacific. That's all. The bulk of the
canal length lies in Gatun lake. right
through Culebra cut 10 the Pedro Mige
lock, a distance most OF which can be Gov
cred at fun steaming speed.
The canal work itself may be divided
into three parts; the sea level entrances
the cut through the divide OF the Cordll
leras at Culbebra, and the dam and loci
construction at Gatun, Pedro Miguel and
Miraflores. Each Of these brings in worl
OF a different character.
on the Atlantic side the canal will con
sist OF sea level channel 500 feet broaG
and forty-one feet deep, extending from
deep water in the Caribbean to Gatun
seven miles inland, This portion OF tn,
work has already been practically com
pleted. and is put to daily use by the tug
and cement barges running into Gatun
Although the rest OF the canal will have ,
| minimum depth OF forty-five feet, tn
Atlantic channel has been given only
forty-one- foot depth on account OF tn
fact that the average oscillation OF the It'd
is only about foot, six inches above an
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-14
TRUTH ABOUT PANAMA CANAL
A Comprehensive Summary Of the
Progress of the Work.
FACTS FOR THE LAY READER
Army of Twenty-Five Thousand Men
Pushing the Enterprise Toward
Compile tiOn--Culebrn Cut
and Gatun Dam.
FACTS FOR THE LAY READER

A gratifying variation from the spirit OF
fault finding manifested by Panama canal
investigators is presented in The Truth
About Panama Canal" IN the May num-
Der of the Columbian Magazine. Gerald
Mygatt, the author, put in three weeks
looking over the great work in March last
and sketches conditions as they are at the
present time. His aim is to give the reader
a comprehensive view of the progress Of
tale national enterprise, free from technical
details.
The salient facts of the article follow:
The Panama canal to all intents and
purposes will not be a canal at all, but a
lalke-a broad, fresh-water lake, thirty-two
miles long and with an area of 164 square
miles, a lake which will flood the country
in some places far beyond the ten-mile
limits of the canal zone, from within seven
miles OF the Atlantic to a distance of but
nine from the Pacific side o. the Isthmus.
Most persons do not realize that, They
picture the waterway as big ditch, which
It is not For only nine miles through
Culebra cut will the work be very much
like what the average mind seems to have
conceived And when it is finished, even
that Culebra section will form part of the
lake itself. Provided you're going from
New York to San Francisco by boat five
years from now, this Is what will happen
when you get to Panama.
At Colon, on the Caribbean side. you will
run into a broad deep channel, which has
already been dredged out Of the soft, sea
level swamp land for seven miles, in to
Gatun. There you will see ahead of you
low gently-sloping hill. stretching for a
full mile and a half from one side of the
valley to the other. That will be the Gatur
dam-but It won't look like dam at all
because the whole slope will be as easy as
| that Of a sea beach. At the left is triple
{ flight of locks-part Of them is built already
to lift your steamer up to the level of th'
lake, eighty-five feet above the sea. You
may pass another boat going down, for the
locks are in pairs TO permit Of traffic II
| both directions at once
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-14
Death from RIood poi,on

was prevented by G., w. Cloyd. PUNK, Mo.
who healed his dangerous wound with
Bucklen's Arnica Salve. PC. For sale by
Beaton Drug Co
Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-14

The timely use OF ChaInberlains Cough |
Remedy will prevent pneumonia.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-16
Graft Charges
at Albany Will
Be Fully Probcd
Disclosures in Allds-Conger Scandal
Will Lead to Complete Legis-
lative Investigation.

ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 15.-1nvestIgation
Of legislative corruption in every possible
form and at any time since the organiza-
tIon of the New York state government Is
the program Of the republican leaders to
satisfy the public demand arising from the
Conger-Allds bribery scandal
A resolution introduced in the senate to-
day by Senator Wainwright of Westchester
county provides for the appointment Of a
joint committee of three senators and five
assemblymen who shall be given an ample
appropriation and practically unlimited
powers. The measure is supposed to repre-
sent the views of Governor Hughes and
his advisers and its sweeping provisions
reveal how desperate these men consider
the situation.
When Senator Conger returned to the
stand today he identified the stub of the
$1,000 check which originally represented
the alleged bribe fund. 1t was dated April
%, 1901. He said his brother Franks
check book was delivered to him in 1909
by Hiram G. Moe after Franks death.
The stub, he said, was in Noes hand
writing. The presiding officer ruled that
the Identification would have to be proved
by Moe and the admission of the check
book evidence was postponed.
Conger testified that the two unnamed
legislators who Conger and Moe say
shared with Aids in the $4,000 corruption
fund are not now officeholders under the
state government
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-16

The now rate will put dressed beef and live
cattle on par as far as the Omaha market
is concerned. The new rate sheets have
been printed in Chicago and are now on
their way to washington to be filed with
the Interstate Commerce commission, so
that within thirty days after that filing
the new tariff will be effective
That the rate will adversely affect the
packing houses and the stock yards at
South Omaha is very easily seen. Putting
the dressed beef on a parity with live
cattle simply means that the live cattle
will be sent to Chicago without being
stopped here for slaughter and dressing
The Chicago lines most interested in this
are the Northwestern and the Burlington,
each of which would have a better chance
at the long haul on cattle from the west
as their lines run through to Chicago
with bridges at Blair and Plattsmouth
But the other lines have consented to the
raise and, so far as is now known, none
will enter objection
At Kansas City the Alton held out against
the increase and later the Wabash Joined
it, so the new rate will be put on down
the river.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-16
CLAWS STILL ON STAND
Admits "Clear List Order" Was Sus-
pended When He Protested by Wire.
WILL LOOK INTO "FRAME.UP"
witnesses who Have Knowledge of
Finding Letters I'm Claws
Effects Are SummeFed
from Seattle.

WASHINGTON, Feb 15.-The Ballinger-
Pinchot inquiry dragged weariy along
through two sessions today without any of
the striking incidents or features that
marked the interesting sessions yesterday
Louis r. CLAWS continued on the stand
under cross examination by John J. Ver-
trees attorney for Secretary Ballinger.
Mr.. Vertrees examined the witness al
most wholly upon the documentary evil
dence and 1t was necessary TO read much
of this anew in order that he might prop
erly frame his questions. This required
much time and made the proceedings de-
cidedly dull.
Mr.. CLAWS continued his tactis of yester-
day OF always coupling his answers with
long explanations. Counsel for Mr.. Bal
linger protested once against this discus
siveness of the witness, but CLAWS appealed
to the committee and it was decided that
he~Gould make his explanations, however,
he desired whether they were relevant or
not
CLAWS speaks with a decided drawl and
some hesitation and his long statements
seem greatly to irritate Mr. Vertrees, while
Attorney Brandeis, representing the prose-
cution sat by with a contented grin the
whole day long.
ber of witnesses, announced, would give
testimony as to the finding of twenty-four
official letters, which had been missing in
boxes left by Mr.. CLAWS in the grand jury
room of the federal building at Seattle
Mr.. Vertrees devoted a large part of the
day to bringing out the fact that when
CLAWS protested against the clear listing
of the Cunningham claims by telegram or
January o. 1908, the order for clear listing
was Immediately revoked without waiting
further explanation from CLAWS and thai
this state of affairs has continued dowr
to the present time.
! The inquiry will be continued tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock.
Witnesses from Seattle.
SEATTLE, Feb. 15.-A. Christensen che1
of the field division of the land office
United States District Attorney Elmer e
/ Todd, and Assistant Custodian G. w
| O'NeI of the federal building, who arr
alleged to have discovered important CLAWS
| documents in store room In the building
refuse to discuss the discovery except u
say that they have seen the papers. Chris
tensen and O'Neil will be called to testify
in Washington.
Miss Ella M. Shartell, who also has beer
subpoenaed, is stenographer in Christen
| sens Seattle office w. w. Barr, also sub
poenaed, is a lumberman, who is said t
have ben friend OF CLAWS, when the lat
ter had headquarters here.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-16
PRESS FOE TO IGNORANCE
Victor Rosewater Gives Charter Day
Address at University.
PART OF MODERN NEWSPAPER
Speaker Discusses Influence of Pub
Hcity in Combat Against
Error and i'm Ala of
Science.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)

LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 15.-(Special)-
Victor Rosewater, editor of The Bee, de-
livered the Charter day address to the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln last
evening. He took for his subject '"The
Combat with Ignorance" with special
reference to the part OF the modren news
paper.
Mr.. Rosewater opened by saying that 1t
Yas hardly necessary to fortify the declar-
alton that a worldwide combat with ignor-
ance is constantly waging around us, and
that the progress of society is marked by
the steadily advancing outposts of know
ledge and truth. Continuing, he said in
part:
I'm this great combat many forces are
actively enlisted to dispel ignorance, to
correct error and to uncover and pene-
trate still unknown realms. Foremost
among those forces are the great educa-
tioual phalanxes made UP of our schools
colleges and universities, closely supported
by the huge institution whose capstone Is
the modern newspaper.
'If the establishment Of a language hac
stopped with the production of intelligiblt
speech, humanity could never have gotter
out of it's swaddling clothes and all oul
efforts to fathofn the workings Of nature
to teach law and morality to inculcat'
religion, to extend the bounds of science
would have been so handicapped as to re
tard our progress to the proverbisl snaili
pace. BY word OF mouth primitive MAJ
could learn to communicate with his fel
lows, but only In one another's actus
presence. The thought, or Idea, could b.
made to span neither time nor dlstanc
without the help of a living messenger t.
transmit II. The art OF writing was needle,
to give permanenoe to spoken language
IT, as Max Muller aptIy says language 1
our Rubieon which no brute will dare L
cross. the art Of printing is the bridg
which invites humanity to pass over tn
abyss Of ignorance in safety.
Printing Preservative of knowledge
I'VE know almost nothing OF the life o
activities of the human race up to the tim
of recorded written language, and nothin
| of human thoughts and aspirations beyon
what may be inferred from the physica
environment and CLEANED from meage
remnants of archaic handlwork Since tn
invention of printing little that would b
a positive contribution to the progress O
mankind has been lost to those to whor
printing has been available and the road
accessibility OF the results previousl
achieved has enabled each new expeditlo
against Ignorance to start out from tn
Continued on Second Page)
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-16
Predicted Cold
Wave at Hand
Long Range Forecast of Government
Weather Bureau Proves All
Too True.

The predicted cold wave arrived. The
mercury did a slide for the bottom yes
terday, which was fairly rapid and most
persistent 1t was "a degrees above zero,
when most people found their way down
town yesterday morning and by p. m.
the temperature had descended 20 degrees
or to above. There did not seem any
likelihood that it would stop at the 5
mark.
Five degrees above zero is not an unbear-
able temperature, when one is used to
IT, But the cold of yesterday afternoon
and last evening seemed as severe to
people as when the thermometer showed
many degrees lower. There was a wind
from the north which simply sliced
through every thickness of clothing and
"cut to the bone"
1t was colder out in the state than in
Omaha at the same hour last night, but
not any great range of temperatures was
recorded The coldest place heard from
was Valentine, where 1t was minus 2 at
Z -. m.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-16
Col. Tanning Has Climbed
Pyramid with Dahlman Flag

Dahlman Democracy floating from the
apex Of one Of the pyramids, while the
Omaha travellers are waving their arms
in ridiculous fashion at the foot Of the
ancient pile. Apparently they all slid
down after the daring colonel who never
wore his uniform had scaled the height
and fixed the flag-"or had some agile
Egyptian fix il for him." as Tom Flynn
remarked.
THAT statue in the front there seems 70
have been the center of a political riot. ."
also observed Mr. Flynn. indicating the
Sphinx. 1T looks just Hike Governor
shallenberger may be expected to look
after the primaries next August"
on a card to City Clerk Butler Louie
Metz writes: II am now 1900 miles from
home and get lonesomer every day. Fan
ming is eating hasheesh and dreaming bug
house things Fears he has lost soma
paving contracts"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-16

The latest word received from Colone
Charles E. flaming, now prowling about
Egypt, comes in the form Of two kodak
pictures sent to Mayor Dahlman and Presi-
dent Flynn of the Dahlman club, One pic
ture shows Colonel Tanning leading a
brother or sister OF Mlnnemascot up a
steep activity on one OF the pyramids. lie
is apparently having some trouble with
tho donk, and In the rig he sports
In the way OF clothes no one IN
Omaha would recognise him, Behind
Tanning Louis Metz has almost buried a
second small donkey beneath his subsan-
ual form. sun further back Mrs, John
Mcdonald Is pictured on a dizzy looking
camel, with her husband holding ths beast
by the head In dutifUl fashion. The woman
appears trlfle dubious as TO the seeurlt
of her position
The second ; cture shows the flag OF the
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-16
Mrs. Roosevelt on
w ay to Khartoum
She and Daughter Ethel Will Meet
the Ex-President There
March IA.

NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt and daughter Miss Ethel. sailed
today on the Hamburg-American line
steamer Hamburg for Naples enroute to
Khartoum, where on March IA they will
meet Colonel Roosevelt and return with
him to Europe on his way back to the
United States from his African hunting
trip Colonel Roosevelt will reach the
United States between June and June 10.
Alderman johnson today introduced a
resolution in the Board of Aldermen pro-
vi6ing to set apart the day on which former
President Roosevelt arrives in this city
from his journeyings as "a day Of rejoicing
for his safe return" The resolution also
asks that the governor of the state desig-
nate the day as a state holiday. The
resolution was referred to the committee on
rules.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-16
Third Parliament Opens;
Members Are Taking Oath

LONDON, Feb. 15.-The third Parliament
OF King Edward assembled this afternoon.
The ceremony was Of the simplest char
aotsr all the royal pageantry connected
with the state opening being postponed to
February n and the interim devoted to the
swearing In OF members and the clearing
away. II possible, OF the difficulties con-
fronting the government
These difficulties are due not only to the
divergent interests actuating the various
parties which constitute the coalation ma
jOrity, but to the divisions within the par
ties themselves over the best means OF
graphing with the great issues brought
about In the recent appeal to the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-16

interest attached to the opening of the
legislature and seldom have the problems
involving the success or failure OF the gov
ernment threatened to be so difficult OF
solution even to the most capable OF the
members OF Parliament.
The result Of recent election is so con-
fused that even the staunchest press sup
porters OF the government admit that proof
that the government will have a majority
TO act drastically upon the dominant is
sues and be established only after the
House OF Commons has settled down to
work and the nationalists and laborites
show their hands in the course OF the de-
bate upon the speech from the throne.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-16
Union Pacific Handles All Asiatic
Traffic from River to Portland.
OMPETITIoN IS MINnMIzED
System Practically Controls Oriental
Business in Its Territory.
WATER ROUTE IMPRACTICAL
Freight Cannot PrOfitabIy BE Sent
from Omaha to San Francisco
Via Boat from
Portland.

NEW YORK, Feb. 15-Evidence of
minimized competition and practical con-
troll OF the Astatic freight traffic moved
west of the Missouri river to Portland and
San Francisco, by the Union Pacific
Southern Pacific railway system, since
the merger of the two roads in 1901, was
brought out today with the resumption of
the hearing in.-the suit Of the Federal
government to dissolve the merger. John
c. Stubs, general traffic manager of the
Hartman lines, occupied the whole day
as witness before Sylvester c. Williams,
the special examiner by g. A. Severance,
counsel for the government that the Union
Pacific had stock ownership OF the Oregon
Short Line, which gave the former road
a direct line from the Missouri river to
Portland.
Yes, that is So" the witness replied
On request, Mr. Stubbs produced figures
showing the decrease in New York freight
over the Sunset Line from 70 per cent of
the total in 1891 to 80 per cent in 1901, the
year OF the merger. The government con-
tends that only a small part of this was
dueN to Legitimate competition.
status of Southern Pacific.
Mr.. Stubbs described the Southern
Pacific as an Intermediary carrier, which
depended very largely upon it's connections
with the Central Pacific.
clfic to make q rate to San Francisco by
way of Portland was impracticable and
against the interests of the company. This
was because the distance to Portland from
Omaha was greater than that from Omaha
to San Francisco and for this reason
water transportation from Portland to
San Francisco would not serve cheaper
the haul and certainly would lengthen the
time in transit.
No shipper, he declared, would use this
route, unless he got compensation in re-
duced rates, which the competitors of the
Union Pacific would not permit. He had
never known the Portland-San Francisco
water route to be operated as a through
route, he said except possibly spasmodic-
ally
Part Water Route LmpracticnbIe.
Mr.. Stubbs declared the Central Pacific
officers certainly would resent an effort
Of the Union Pacigic to, establish the Port
| land-San Francisco water route and If the
! Union Pacific did not stop would retaliate
on 1t. Mr.. Stubbs said he did not think
there was enough business to justify the
! Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and
| the Canadian Pacific in organizing sep
| arate lines of steamships to get to San
Francisco by water. There was a senti-
mental reason declared Mr.. Stubbs, why
these water routes were impracticable and
that was because of the regard in which
the people of California held the Southern
Pacific.
THE Southern Pacific" said Mr.. Stubbs
"ls Callfornia's baby. 1t pets that baby
more than anyone else and it spanks It,
! too, sometimes"