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Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-08
AT THE THEATERS

Several hundred tickets for the Play
ers' Country club minstrels, TO be Civ
en- Tuesday and Wednesday after
Moons were soh yesterday afternoon
at the Belasco matinee. Members Of
the Burbank and Belasco stock COM
panies who will take part in the min
strel show ppeared in costume and
makeup in the foyer of the Belasco
and button-holed every person who
had been attending the matinee, with
the result that many dollars were add
ed to the fund with which 10 furnish
the new country club.
The minstrel show will be partici-
pated in by members of local stock
companies AS the performance is for
such a worthy cause, it undoubtedly
viii be patronized literally.
Prior to the opening Of each matinee,
TUESDAY and Wednesday, the minstrel
men will parade downtown. A. Byron
lBeasley and Lewis Stone will be first
In line. Then will follow Henry Stock
bridge. Richard Vivian, Charles Rug
giles, Frank Camp, James SWinnerton,
Edgar Temple, and forty others.
In honor of George Fuller Golden.
their presid ent, the White Rats, the
association of vaudeville artists, Will
(hold a scam per at Levy's at II o'clock
tonight The function will take the
form of a dinner to which every Rat
here. visiting or resident. is invited,
together with a few newspaper men
and other representatives,. There will
sbe music by the artists in Levy's cafe
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-08
coNFEssEs THEFT

While listening attentively to the eNhora-
tions Of the salvation Army workers and
drinking in every word against sin and tempta-
tion Albert Durant 15 years old was arrested
by Detectives Hosick and Zegler last night,
and at police headquarters admitted he was
the youth wanted for the theft of a $50 check
and s2s in cash from Walter Armacost, pro
nrIetor of the Armacost nursery, sixth and
Rose streets, Ocean Park.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-08
STORM KILLS CATTLE

GREELEY, Colo, April 7.-Driving
before a terrific wind, before which
they were helpless, $50 head of cattle
were swept into the Riverside reser-
voir and perished during the storm
which swept this county last week.
According to reports from Green city,
over 1000 head of cattle perished in the
storm in eastern Weld county
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-08
TO TABOO "BERDoo"

SAN BEFsNARDINO, April THE local
parlor of the Native Sons Of the Golden West
last night adopted resolution condemning
the practice of termng san Bernardino as
'Berdoo' and other kindred expressions The
snnnort of various civic and fraternal organ
izations is asked by the Native Sons, who
are TO conduct campaign against the use OF
the authorizations now in common use.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-08
RICH LuMBERMAN DEAD

ST. LOUIS, April 7.-William Gray
son. millionaire lumberman, died sud
denly today of heart disease. He was
65 years old. William Grayson' Jr.,
one Of his four sons, Is owner and
nresident Of the Louisville American
association baseball club.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-08
CROSSED IN LOVE; ENDS LIFE

GLOBE, Ariz,, April Louis Gays
a bartender committed suicide In TINS
city this evening by shooting himself
through the head with revolver. He
died instantly. Gays has been despond-
emf fod several days, supposedly as the
result of a love affair, and is thought to
have taken his life while suffering from
q fit of melanchOlia.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-08
ITINERARY VAGUE

WASHINGTON, April Whether
Lord Kitchener will visit the national
capital during his stay in this country
is not known at the British embassy
here. The embassy has no knowledge
of his American itinerary.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-08
SHIP FIRE AT SEA

BEACHY HEAD, England, April The
steamer Cairnrona, which sailed for Portland,
Me, yesterday returned to Dover today win
fire in her coal bunkers after transferring 9Oo
passengers at sea to the steamer kanawha'
which answered distress signals. The trans
fer was made without accident.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-08
MINNESOTA IN TROUBLE

YOKOHAMA. April 7.-The steamer Mime
sofa, Seattle to Hong Kong arrived today
with an eighteen-foot hole IN her potion ana
,'a,,ing lost her rudder. She Will proceed to
Hong Kong for repairs.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-08
ASKS TO FLOAT BIG LOAN

PHILADELPHIA, April THE
Philadelphia Rapid Transit company
today asked permission of the city to
float a new loan of $2,500,00O
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-08

1t,s as easy TO secure bargain in used
automobile, through want advertising as 1t
used to be-and stlll is-to secure a horse
and carriage.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20
PERSONAL NOTES.

New York has woman who saw the
French in retreat from the Russians at
Moscow.
Frank Stanton does not deny the soft
impeachment that he is the Atlanta poet
who has become a bank president.
Florence Nightingale on her ninetieth
birthday though in infirm health, is free
from suffering" One who has done SO
much to relieve others should herself be
immune.
Numerous warnings have been issued
based upon the fact that Mark Twain and
the late King Edward used tobacco. Some
how these do not seem deeply impressive,
so many men are free from the habit and
die earlier
Still active and in good health. Charles
II. Cramp head of the famous Philadelphia
shipbuilding company founded by his
father, celebrated the eighty-second ami
versary of his birth at his homo in the
Quaker City.
The movement to obtain a safe and sane
Fourth will do a great deal toward saving
the country IL 1t will encourage as a sub
stitute for firecrackers and the toy pistol
the od-fashioned oratorlcal fireworks
which used to accompany the reading of
the declaration of independence.
Prof. Henry c. Emery Of Yale, chair
man of the United States Tariff commits
sion, and absent on leave from the uni
versity sailed from New York for the pur-
pose of investigating the tariff commits
sions of Germany and Austria He goes
alone, and expects to be absent until July /.
Mrs. Johanna Downing of East Boston,
together with her daughter, Mary Ellen,
and her son, John, will soon be reunited
to her husband, Patrick j. Downey of
Caldwell, Idaho, formerly of Portmouth, N.
H., from whom she parted after a quarrel
forty-two years ago, and from whom, until
recently, she had not heard since their
separation
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20

Of this appears when we consider that
while these reports include the big
coal-carrying roads, most of the min
ers in the bituminous coal districts
were idle during April, thus cutting
down the traffic extensively and also
that during April the cotton transpor-
tation in the south, whose railways are
embraced in this tabulatlon, was seri-
ously crippled. Other traffic, there
fore, was so large that it was able to
produce 16-per cent gain in gross
earnings.
The fact is, as shown by complete
statistics, that railroad earnings thus
far in 1910 are larger than they have
ever been in the United States. 1t will
be difficult to evade the force of these
figures when shippers are asked to
submit to the demands of the railways
for a general raise in the level of
freight rates in addition to the con-
tinuous edging up under cover of re-
classification.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20
Improving railroad Business.

Railroad gross earnings reports for
April show a continuation of COM
parative increases, rejecting the gen
eral stability OF business throughout
the country. While net earnings fail
to sustain the same high level, they
still leave margin enough for generous
gains in incomes. But gross earnings
form the most accurate index to bus
mess activity. Net earnings are influ-
enced from within, as in the present
case. by such factors as wage increases
and expenditures for betterments
whose advantages are permanent and
are of benefit to the public only as
indicating the relative income and cost
of operation.
Railroads comprising a mileage OF
1923 miles, more than one-third the
total in the United States, for the
month OF April reported gross earn,
ings as S6O.7e1,75S. which was a gair
over the same month in 1903 OF nearly
16 per cent. The greater Significance
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20
A Practical Explorer.

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, the
British explorer who has come nearer
than any other man to reaching the
South pole, proposes to turn his ad-
venture to practical account by going
in search for coal in the antarctic
regions of the south where he saw
evidences of deposits on his recent ex-
petition.
The world will at once be seriously
impressed by this announcement be-
cause Sir Ernest has gained the right
to a hearing by his conduct with ref
crence to his polar excursions, making
no improbable claims that had
to be subjected to the test of
scientific demonstration for proof, nor
has he sought to use his experience
purely for commercial purposes, but
rather to promote scientific research
and material progress in navigation
But with all the interest in polar
discoveries, the world will manifest a
keener concern in finding new sources
VI luSl anu IL OH bIuSSJ can bCCOU-
plish this mission he will be entitled
to almost as much gratitude as If he
had discovered both poles The
worlds supply of coal is limited, that
is those sources that are known to
exist and can be reached. Lieutenant
Shackleton believes a tract of 1000, 900
square miles within the far south
regions contains rich deposits of coal,
for on his way south he perceived it's
outcroppings. He is now determined
on an expedition within a year to
verify his supposition.
The world may some day find other
kinds of fuel to supplant coal, but until
it does it will have to conserve it's min
eral resources and develop new ones
as rapidly as possible. The next prob
lem after discovery would naturally
be that of transportation, but that,
difficult as it may at first seem, would
be solved in due course.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20
Our Birthday Book
May 20. 1910.

Marion Butler, once populist United
States senator from North Carolina, was
born May 20. 1853 in Sampson county OF
that state. He was chairman Of the popu-
list national committee for three cam
paigns.
Clark f. Carr, lawyer, author, diplomat
and friend of Abraham Lincoln, is cele-
brating his seventy-fourth birthday. lie
was born in Boston Corners, New York
and has been prominent in Illinois poll
tics, He was minister to Denmark under
Harrlson's administration. and was presl-
dent Of the Illinois commission for the
Omaha exposition.
George A. Hoagland, lumberman capl-
talist and one OF omaha's pioneers, was
born May 90. 1913. in Bonneville, Mo. The
Hoagland block stands on the site OF the
residence he and his family occupied for
many years Mr.. Hoagland Is also great
devotee of hunting and outdoor sports.
Court S. Carrier, city ticket agent OF
the Chicago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul rail-
way. is celebrating his fifty-ninth birth
day. He is a native OF Pennsylvania, and
was ticket seller at the Union Pacific de-
pot In Omaha from 1873 to 1888. when he
assumed his present position.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20
JOYS OF GARDENING.
Chicago Post.


Ny neighbor has garden; four weeks ago
he plowed
And narrowed, ere no planted with expec-
tations proud.
He put I'm his potatoes. his lettuce and his
corn
Since then he's watched the garden by noon
and night and morn.
Today ! heard him calling, with quick ana
joyful shout:
Say, bring the ice pick, mother; the beans
are getting out!'
Footwarmers on tho cornhills arc making
them feel fine,
Hot water bags are coaxing the water
melon vine, , -,
A pipe runs from his furnace through his
tomato rows -.
He sprays il with hot water from an
asbestos hose. 49,,
Today his voice showed plainly tho shat
o. bring the ice pick. mother, the beans
are getting out!'
watch him in his ulster, his earmuffs and
At work within his garden; eontentedly no
Ger his cold-storago elephants. hear his
anxious hum.
When he discovers somethns mat IAN
guishes quite numb.
But what delight was thrilling each &C
cent of that shout;
Say, bring the ice pick, mother; the beani
are getting OUT!
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20
A Few Acres Still Left,

Before going prematurely into sack
cloth and ashes over the belief that all
the farming land in the United States
has been occupied, the people of the
overcrowded sections should cast their
vision westward and take courage.
Here is one writer enlightening his
readers with the lugubrious statement
that no more wheat land can be found
in this country, when as a matter OF
fact in the Panhandle of Texas alone
there are fully 100000 acres that
only need the touch of the pillow and
the seed of the sower to produce mil
lions Of bushels of good grain. Esti-
mating that this land would yield no
more than ten bushels to the acre,
we would have 100000 bushels,
enough to keep the wolf from the
door little while longer.
But it is not necessary to confine at
tention to Texas; other states in the
west, Nebraska, fof one, have still
vast areas of available wheat land
which 1t will require years of coloni
cation to exhaust in settlement and
occupation. Some of the sweeping
ranges of Nebraska and adjacent states
never used for other than pasturing
purposes will some day be turned into
wheat and corn fields, probably as
soon as their need for such becomes
apparent.
1t is idle for uniformed people to
indulge in pessimistic prognosticationt
about agricultural conditions so Ions
as they do not take the time to famil
iarize themselves more thoroughly with
all the facts and this is not the easiest
thing for them to do. 1t is exceed
ingly difficult for the easterner to
appreciate the immensely of the west
to understand that there are single
counties out here larger than severa
of their states. Some Of them do mo-
even realize that it is the west tc
which they have to look for their food
supplies.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20
RAILROAD ROLL OF HONOR.
Unique Record of safety in Passen-
ger Transportation,


New York World.
With the fiscal year ending June 30. 1909,
according to the annual report OF the
bureau of railway news and statistics
seventeen railroad companies of the
United States completed a six-year term
without a passenger killed, ninety-fve
companies a five-year term, III companies
a four-year period, 22S companies three
years, PSI companies two years, and S47
companies. out OF 1868 reporting, one year
OF immunity.
This gain in safety was accomplished
along with tremendous increases of track
mileage and with Il multiplication Of risks
through additions to train schedules. The
mileage OF the death-immune American
roads OF 1909 was 159, 657. Only twice in
half a century has the Mortality record
been made on the railways OF Great Brit
ain, which have now, according to the
bureau report, mileage of 23,O0o.
These figured facts of safety on the rail
are in gratifying disagreement with "a
popular idea. AS explaining contrary i'm
pressons, we have to remember that
whereas most train wrecks get into the
news, nothing is said of day-to-day trips
without event. The bureau statistics seem
to demonstrate that railroad managers and
employees are taking increased care and
that the mission of the block signal is be-
ing perfected
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20
REGULATION HELP RAILROADS.
Significance of Foreign Demand for
Securities.

significance OF Foreign Demand Tor
Securities.
Philadelphia Record.
Financial organs continue to admonish
us that we must not legislate regarding
railroads and other corporations, or make
any critical remarks about them, because
It would dry up the streams OF capital
But we have recently had occasion to no.
tice that the railroads were getting nearly
the amount of capital annually that James j
Hill told us some time ago they needed, and
the Paris correspondent of the New York
Journal of Commerce says of tine pend
ing sales of something like a hundred mil
lions OF American securities: IAN the large
French banking interests are without ex-
ception cordially cooperating TO make the
new movement a success. The list OF
American loans ready to be launched shows
total of nearly 900 francs. which
are TO be publicly offered before the end
OF the month" The Chicago. Milwaukee
& 81. Paul will issue a loan Of $4,000 900
and other large loans will be put out by
the Cleveland, Cincinnati & st. Louis, the
ST. Louis & San Francisco. the New York
Central and the Baltimore & Ohio, The
truth is that a good deal OF railroad man
agement has been such that governmental
regulation Is welcomed by investors.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20

This list at any rate will afford some
idea of what may be expected from the
initiative and referendum. Presuma-
bly, no scheme is too hair Drained or
too preposterous to fail of the neces-
sary number of petition signers in
Oregon to put 1t on the ballot, and il
is reasonable to suppose that the mum
Der of measures submitted for popular
vote will increase from year to year
rather than decrease.
Comparing the two states it is not
out of place to ask what really desira-
BILE legislation Oregon has secured
through the initiative and referendum
that Nebraska has not secured without
1t. Nebraska has had direct primaries
as long as has Oregon, and has now
also the Oregon system of choosing
United States senator's, Nebraska has
had local option law for thirty years
and 1t has worked fairly well. Ne
braska has stringent anti-pass laws; II
taxes common carriers at good, stiff
rates; it has increased the number OF
supreme judges to accommodate grow
ing litigation, where Oregon has failed
to do so. Nebraska had a corrupt
practices act long before Oregon. and
its State university, instead of havins
to go to the referendum to get 1925,
900 year, enjoys an income of nearly
| 100000 year.
OF course, it might be desirable t.
have an initiative and referendum OF
moving the state capitol or relocatinl
the university, but public sentiment
in Nebraska has never FULLY
crystallized behind any measure anC
kept after it persistently without real
izing on it, without waiting for an in
itiative or referendum. In othel
words, Nebraska has so far maintained
representative government, which
while it has gone wrong occasionally
has on the whole responded we'll t.
popular demands whenever enforce,
by real majorities. And the peopl,
will continue to rule in Nebrask,
whether they do SO by initiative anC
referendum or by electing their law
makers as heretofore on the curren
issues of the day.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20

The problem Of making an unin-
creased income meet an increased cost
of living is acute. The public is ask
ing more and more for quality, value
and fair prices.
There has never been a time in re-
tail merchandising when a merchant
can So thoroughly establish himself as
to quality and prices as at present.
Mr.. Merchant. you know that your
goods are of the highest quality, that
your prices are based on values and
service, and are therefore fair. Are
you telling the public about it, the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20
Talks for people who sell things

public that wants to know, that is ask
ing and looking for Just this sort OF a
store?
Through the advertising columns OF
The Bee you can tell over 10000 IN
terested readers about your store,
your methods. values, qualities and
prices. You can talk to them three
times a week for year in a four-inch
space at the cost of s611.52 a year,
only $51 month.
Our help and advice is at your serx,,
ice. We can also offer you a9.fdydg
Using Service written and illIstratodI
especially for your line Of busiuoE
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20
BRYAN AND THE HOME FOLKS.
How the Democratic shindy IL
Viewed Rt-LOng Range.
PittsblIrf Disnatch

Pittsburg Dispatch.
If reports from Nebraska are correct, Mr..
Bryan no longer needs to come east to in
vado "the enemy's country" He can land
right in 1t by stepping out of his own yard.
From all accounts his neighbors in his
homo state are rapidly getting over the
habit OF letting him do their thinking.
His procurement on prohibition six
months ago seems to have caused the
trouble. His subsequent explanation that
he had no intention of considering prohi-
bition as a national ISSUE but merely re-
ferred to the propriety OF the principle OF
local option did not mend matters. What
over the Nebraskans may think of local
option enough of them object to it's being
made Bryan issue to cause halt. Where
upon Mr.. Bryan discovered another issue
and Immediately began a campaign for a
special session of the legislature to pass an
initiative and referendum bill. Instead OF
rallying to this call many OF the demo-
cratic leaders replied that not only had
they failed to observe any urgent necessity
for a special session to pass such an act,
but that they were equally unable to see
why they should vote for such bill at any
session.
All this following disastrous attempt to
secure a dollar each from fifty democrats
! to file the nomination of Mr.. Bryan for
United states senator before he returned
home seems to denote that the Bryan star
is rapidly declining in its home bailiwick
The prospect that Mr., Bryan will wage war
upon the recalcitrant Nebraska democrats
who refuse to follow his leadership is hailed
with delight by the republicans who assert
that the row in the democratic ranks will
lead to the election Of republican legis-
lature and a republican senator.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20

After all, the greatest tribute yet
paid to Britain's late monarch is that
offered in the visit of hundred thou.
sand of his faithful subjects from
every walk OF life to his bier to cast
one fleeting glance upon the face OF
Edward. This stream of humanity
that poured through Westminster hall
past the catafalque from early morn,
ing until late at night is the testi
monial that counts.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20

The initiative and referendum is
now Mr. Bryan's paramount issue
transcending all others. including free
silver, free trade, Emperor Mckinley
deposit guaranty. trust extinction, in
come tag and government by injunc.
ton. Fortunately, he still has woman
suffrage and the Henry George single
tax TO fall back on when he needs an
other paramount.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20
Baseless Assertions.

The charge is made that the girls of the
country smoke cigarettes in secret and
are more addicted to the practice than are
boys. This is on Z par with similar
charges which break out every now and
then from some irresponsible source about
the general practice by women of smoking
and drinking which proves to be without
foundation save in the ever active imagin-
atoms of the accusers, generating in sweep
ing fashion from few individual instances
brought to their notice.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20

Much is being made of the fact that
DR.. Hyde plays cards with the "ordi,
nary" prisoners to pass the time. II
guilty, why should man who takes
human life consider himself above one
who steals a chicken?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20

The Union Pacific will spend in i'm.
provements in Omaha within the next
two years at least 100000. The
men vested with the management Of
this great property evidently have no
lack of faith in Omaha's future.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20

The work of taking the census is
now complete so far as the counting
goes, but the tabulation is yet to be
made. In the meantime the situation
most resembles the period that elapses
after an election between the closing
of the polls and the announcement OF
the result.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20

OF course, it should be explained
that many men have seen strange
things in the sky before this comet
came. Some folks have seen two
moons where there is but one.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20

Another $4,000 of park bonds will
be floated to enable the Park board
to develop Omaha's park and boule-
ward system. Fifty thousand dollars
a year in addition to more than that
in regular revenue from taxes and
road fund ought to make tangible
showing
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-20

If the Ballinger-P inchot investiga-
ton could have been conducted with
less display of malice and personal
spleen the outcome might be antici-
pated with more satisfaction.