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Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-07

LEFFERTs JEwELRY store, new To-
cation, sos Broadway.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-07
PORK CHOPS DUE FOR RISE
Eight Fifty-Seven and Half for Hogs
at South Omaha.
BEATS ALL LOCAL RECORDS
Chicago Price, $500, Best, Save Once
Since the Civil war-BiE slump
in Packing House Re-
ceipts.

All known records OF the price of hogs
were broken at South Omaha yesterday
when $S.57h was paid. This was not a
single case, but the whole market was up
to the extreme record.
Frank Vofel of Richfield sold seventy
one hogs, averaging $50 pounds, for $s.57h,
which is 21s cents below the high mark for
this section of the country, a record made
a few lays ago at Kansas City.
Many loads sold as high as $S,5o. This
staggering price has been brought about
by the general scarcity in the producing
belt and the extremely severe weather of
the last six weeks, which has ipN feet been
so rigorous, that shipments from the north
ern states have been vastly lessened. The
year shows a large decrease over the same
period last year.
Along with the jump in hogs all other
livestock doomed. Cattle sold up to $3.50.
Sheep and lambs went as high as $8.S5.
Shipments were light.
Nearly Record at Chicago.
CHICAGO, Jan. Clogs sold here today
at $3.50, which, with the exception of the
summer of 1882, is the highest average
price recorded locally since the civil war.
A few of the best grades sold at 1915, Elk
ceptionally light receipts Of live hogs at
the leading western packing ceRters to-
day, following a long period of similar
scarcity, was the moving factor in the ad-
vance.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-07
Marriage

Licenses to wed were issued yesterday to
the following:
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-07

N. Y. Plumbing co. Tel. $50, Night L-l7O2.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10
The Survey for January

In the January Survey Lillian D.
Valid and Frances A. Kellor, members
of the New York State immigration
commission for. 1908, report on an au-
tomobile trip through the construc-
ton camps of the barge canal and the
New York aqueduct. 1t is not q muck
raking article. but the investigators
disclose certain intoierah'e conditions
in the camps visited. particularly in
those maintained by TIE state. Gino
C. Speranza, a lawyer of New York
city, in an article entitled 'Handicaps
ships that newly arrived citizens have
in this country and Louis Marshall,
who was chairman of the recent New
York State commission, points out rem
edies for the present evil conditions.
There is an article entitled cover
Work in which the scientific reasons
for the harmful effects of over work
are gone into in detail. The article is
based on the brief recently issued oy
Louis d. Brandeis with the assistance
of Miss Josephine Goldmark in defense
of the Illinois ten-hour law for working
women
Edward T. Devine writes on Some
Things to Do in $780, and Prof. Ora
ham Taylor in his Industrial Survey
tells of legislation that is following the
Cherry disaster and the relation be-
tween labor and industrial education.
He also reviews the Switchmen's
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10
WASTEFULNESS UNDER 1ROTEC
TlON

The wastefulness of taxes collected
from the people is not one of the least
vicious features of protection.
American customs duties have ne
Cessitated gigantic army of officials,
have increased the price of every
thing. and have added enormously to
the expenses OF the government. And
the worst of it is only small portion
of these duties, which are paid by the
American consumer in the increased
price of their necessaries of life, flows
into the treasury
A hint as to the wastefulness of the
present system of collecting import
and tonnage duties, is contained in the
report of the secretary of the treasury,
recently issued.
The country is divided into 100 dis
tricts and ports for the collection Of
duties. OF these the expenses in 40 are
collection ranging, for every dollar col
lected. from $1.5S to $409.41.
In the Alexandria, Va, district. the
government spent $1,224 to collect SO.
In the Annapolis. Mr., district it cost
1856 to collect $500.
In the Crisfield, Nd, district it cost
$3.2S6 to collect S95
In the Portsmouth, N H., district, it
cost $3,572 to collect $22165
In the St. Mary's Ga. district. it
cost S693 to collect $1525
In the Coos Bay, Ore, district. it
cost S1.464 to collect $79S1
The average cost to the govern
ment for collecting its, customs and
tonnage duties in sixteen districts
was a little more than s23 for every
dollar collected. And this report is not
as bad as last years. which showed
that in one instance the government
Lad paid two men $1,100 to collect GO
cents
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STREET FORCE
LOSES SALARY
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their work in an effective manner,
much of the refuse matter in differ
cnt parts of the city being covered
with about four inches of the white
substance.
hands of the city clerk will no doubt
prove the smallest in many months,
said Street Commissioner Champion
this morning. 1.-The present spell of
weather has been good for the city's
finances, but it is hard upon the MEN,
hers of the department, who are not
on a stipulated monthly salary, but
receive compensation only for the act
| ual time put in."
But one opportunity in several
weeks has been presented Mr.. Cramp-
ton to give the paved streets clean
ing, but that was not embraced be-
cause of the probability of a following
freeze which it was feared would make
the pavements almost unfit for traffic.
Consequently the accumulation of dirt
was permitted to remain, and the wis
or so later when the temperature took
a sudden drop. Snow fell short time
later, and since that date the streets
have been thoroughly covered with
several inches of snow.
In. case the weather does not take a
change for the better in the near flu
ture, it is not improbable that those
in the employee of the street department
will be forced to seek other employ
ment as the coal and wood bills con-
tlnue to accumulate with little or no
income with which to meet the excess
sive cost of living. The total cost of
maintaining the streets during the
month of December, as shown by the
payroll in the hands of City Clerk T.
D. S. Hart, was $36075 nearly one
third the expense for the month of
November. The largest warrant drawn
in favor of any member of the de-
partment. outside of Street Commits
sioner Champion, was $3375, and the
total of $360.75 was divided among the
dozen or so employees, some of whom
did not draw more than SIS for the
months work.
There is talk of passing an Ordl
nance providing. for the shoveling ,f
snow off the paved streets during the
winter months, in order to enable the
street men to make a living, but this
agitation is yet in the formative staSe.
thing will materialiZe.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10
Boy Shot
Woman in
HIS Play

PORT COSTA, Calf, Jan. 10.-Joe
Crowley, aged 10, charged with the
murder of Mrs Patrick Sullivan, the
mother of six children, presents the
most perplexing problem to the local
officers in the country's history
Look out, Mrs. Sullivan, I'm going
to shoot you," cried the little boy as
he pointed a rusty revolver at the
woman, as she stood upon the railway
platform.
Mrs. Sullivan, half smiling, half
frightened, started toward the boy to
seize the weapon. The little fellow
frightened his grasp on the pistol and
there was a loud report and flash
as the woman lunged forward with a
bullet in her brain. In a few minutes
she was dead.
The boy is frightened near to death.
He had been playing with revolver
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TARIFF CAUSE
OF THE RAISE


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ing to a man who is producing some
thing to sell, without forcing that man
to raise correspondingly the price of
what he has to sell
The new tariff law has cost and is
costing the American people millions
on millions of dollars, in increased cost
of living. And if the Payne Aldrich
bill had been beaten, those millions
would have been saved to the people.
The increase in import duties did not
affect everything, of course; but when
the prices We're raised by the people
whose rates had been increased, other
people were compelled to- raise their
prices in keeping. The thing started
with the tariff increases, and is in
creasing the cost of living all along
the line.
I'VE must have no legislation that
will re-enforce the combinations. Tar
ifs so adjusted as to protect combina
tions at home against competition
abroad must be lowered. The combi-
nations are eliminating competition
just as Sherman and Blaine 20 years
ago saw that they would. 1t is now a
problem of how to save our market
from being controlled by the domestic
combination, just as formerly it was
a problem of how to protect it against
control by the foreign producer.
"a lady in Washington told me- of
going to crockery store and pricing
a set of dishes 1t was $50 and the
tariff bill hadn't been reported yet.
Later, when it had become generally
known that the revision was being
made upward rather than downward,
she went back and asked about those
same dishes. The price had gone up
to s7s.
But she protested, it was only
$50 few weeks ago.
But the tariff is being revised
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10

The change announced this morning
will be welcomed by residents of the
small cities along the company's line
in Oregon not reached by any other
line, as it means to them an excel
lent accommodation for doing their
trading in this city Five hours for
shopping, with the opportunity of re-
turning on the STANDARDIZATION
flyer in the afternoon, will appeal to
those who desire to make Walla
Walla their trading point, and the
change in the running time of No. s
will come as q popular one with those
who have occasion to use the lines of
the company to reach their favorite
shopping center
Passengers from Walla Walla will
be able, under the new schedule, to
reach Spokane not later than $50
o'clock in the evening, instead of af-
ter night, as has been the rule in the
past.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10
UNITED STATES AS EXAMPLE.

David Lloyd-George, chancellor of
the British exechequer, during an
address which he delivered at Queens
hall, London, one evening last week,
quoted statistics showing that in May,
1908, while there was 30 per cent of
unemployed in New York state under
high protection, there was only seven
ger cent in free trade England.
III replying to the argument of the
tariff reformers'' that import duties
protect home workingmen, Mr.
Lloyd George might have called at
tention to the fact that the American
steel trust, beneficiary of high tariff
rates, has protected American work
ingmen by driving them from the
mills and substituting cheap foreign
labor.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10
WhitelU1Sh
Blush For
Nicaragua

PANAMA, Jan. 10.-Information re-
ceived from Managua today by the
American residents in Panama has
caused them to believe the investiga-
ton into the execution of Leroy Can
non and Leonard Groce in Nicaragua,
ordered by President Madriz, will re
suit only in the application of the OFF,
cial whitewash brush to the incident.
They say Madriz consented to an in
vestigation only to satisfy the demands
of the American residents in Nicara-
qua and place his administration upon,
firrner footing in Washington.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10
Married Today.

Mr.. Otis Brown, a travelling sales
man in the employ of the Schwa-
bacher company, of Seattle, and Miss
Christiana Mackay, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Alexander MacKay, 623
Washington street, were united in
marriage at high noon today by Rev.
w. c. Shaw, of ST. PauPs Episcopal
church. The ceremony was performed
at the MacKay home in the presence
of small company of intimate friends
and relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brown left on the 2:15
train this afternoon for Spokane, where
they will spend few days before go
ing to Seattle, Portland and other
cities on their honeymoon They ex-
pect to return in about a month to
Walla Walla, where they will make
their home.
The bride is one of the we'll known
to many Walla Wallans. who extend
best wishes.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10
January Up-To-The Times Magazine

A number of the leading contriDu-
tions to be found in the January Up
To-The- Times Magazine are notable
for their worth. 1t is safe to say that
none are uninteresting, in fact all of
From historic standpoint several Of
the articles are well deserving of pre-
servation Contributions of note in
the January number Of the Garden
City's popular monthly are as follows:
"Sidelights on Washington, d. c., by
Edward Damon Baldwin, formerly a
we'll known Walla Walla newspaper
man; Meeting of the Passing Years,
by A H. Harris; "One Of the Refugees
of the Whitman Massacre" New Year
and the Walla Walla Valley" In this
contribution which is one of the rea-
lures of the number, are to be found
wide-awake, interesting interviews
with great many prominent citizens
residing throughout the valley and who
pronounce the outlook for the new year
one that is altogether bright. -"Walla
Walla Fifty-one Years Ago." by A.
B. Roberts. Historically this is the
most valuable contribution that has
ever appeared in print in connection
with the early history of the city OF
Walla Walla. The rather novel illus
tration that accompanies this article
and which shows the city's principal
business thoroughfare as it looked 81
years ago is one that will be stored
away and priced by many. All in all
the January issue contains many other
readable articles and splendid illustra-
ticns and the issue taken as whole
is one that is highly creditable to its
publishers.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10

GIVEN POWER

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-The inter
state commerce commission has power
to regulate the distribution Of coal by
the railroads of the United States, &C
ccrding to the decision of the federal
supreme court today. The ruling was
made in the famous suit of the Illinois
Central, the Chicago & Alton, the
Baltimore & Ohio railroads against the
interstate commerce commissioners,
denying the right of the commissioners
to make a pro rata distribution of the
available coal cars. The supreme
court reversed the lower court in the
cases brought by the Illinois Central
and Chicago & Alton, and remanded
that of the Baltimore & Ohio with in
structions to dismiss it.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10
AlRSHlP FATALITIES.

The death of Delagrange, the French
aeronaut, who has been soaring
through the air for two years without
serious accident, shows the dangers
that will follow the use of the new
means of transportation until the peo-
pie who travel in the air learn to use
the means of flight with the least pos
sibility of accidents.
The airship has claimed several
conspicuous victims, but thus far it
has not Established a record for eX-
traordinary danger The number of
serious accidents compared with the
number of flights made do not justify
the belief thai more danger attends, or
are perfected than attends travel on
the rail- The point of interest is that
new source of danger has been Gre
ated.
Yet with the multiplying of occa-
sions for fatalities progress measures
for protection of life and reduction or
the causes for deaths AT present aerial
accidents are novel and spectacular,
but they are fated to take their place
with similar occurrences in other
fields of mans activity. Even one life
of a pioneer of the new convenience
for humankind. however, is heavy
toll to pay.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10
LINKING UP WITH CANADA.

During the past twenty years de-
velopment of the resources of British
North America has progressed at a
ratio of activity which has given the
Canadian provinces rating as poten-
tial factors in world commerce and
world industrialism that they did not
before possess. There are not many
Americans who are aware OF the ex-
tent to which in comparatively recent
years American capital has been seek
ing investment in Canada. The Mon
etary Times. financial journal. pub
lished in. Toronto. has gathered infor-
nation concerning American indus
trial investments in the Dominion, and
sums up the results of the inquiry in
the following table:
les companies. averaging
capital 100000 ......... S100, 500, 600
Investments in British CO.
lumbia mills and timber. $4,000 900
Investment in b. c. mines. 10000, 900
Land deals in Alberta, etc. 10000. GOO
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10
COUNTY FARMERS
HOLD WHEAT TO SPECULATE

DAYTON, Wash, Jan. 9.-(SpeciaD
Masters of the situation as far as
the selling of their grain is concerned
farmers of columbia county, for the
first time on record, are playing a bold
speculative game and according to
the estimate of H. B. Ridgley, local
agent for a grain buying firm, one
fourth of this county's 100000 bush
ell grain crop is being held in the
hands of the growers purely for spec
ulatiye purposes over 60 percent of
the crop is stored now in the ware
houses at shipping points because buy
ers and shippers are playing the same
game with the market.
This is done in the face of the fact
that local buyers are today offering
$130 for barley and s1.10 for blue
stem wheat Shipping for several
weeks has been practically at a stand
still That the coast dealers are look
ing for drop in prices soon is evin-
ced by the fact that they are refus-
ing to stock heavily at present quota
tions and are demanding scarcely 70
grain from Inland Empire points.
Two things, according to the grain
men-are responsible for the holding
Of so much grain when the market is
so strong-increasing wealth of the
Washington farmer and the encourage
Inent found in the high prices Of the
last two seasons. The pro rata capital
of the Eastern Washington farmers is
25 per cent higher than ever before.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10
strike. Bishop Bashford of the Meth
odist Episcopal church writes on Chi
nese Guilds.
Must Not peface Coins.

jewelers. of Walla Walla and else
where have been notified by secret
service men of the government that
the practice of converting gold and
silver coins into ornaments and SELL
ing them at profit is a direct viola
ton of the federal laws and must
cease or prosecution will follow. The
universal demand for the revival of
the bangle bracelets, fad of 25
years ago, is probably the cause of
the secret service men getting busy,
for many dimes and gold coins are
most cases the bracelet is made up
of coins one side of which is smooth
ed off, and the initials of some young
man who donated the coin to the
cause, are engraved thereon. Hatpins
and scarf pins also are getting many
of the coins, which go to ornament
and beautify the pin. The opinions
Of federal attorneys were obtained by
the secret service men, and it was de-
cided instead of commencing any legal
proceedings, to notify the jewelers.
that the practice must cease. 1t is
maintained by the government that
coins so mutilated may again so into
circulation, as the identity is not de-
Stroyed
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10

was the response, and things like this
are going to be higher.
Il looked up that description Of
goods 1t wasn't increased in the tar
if measure But the understanding
was out that manufacturers were in
creasing prices because of the changes
in the duties; everybody knew that
that account; and so the tendency was
to push up the prices on other things
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10
Weather Conditions.

Areas of high barometer central
over the middle Rocky mountain states
and the Ohio valley, respectively have
been attended by fair and cool weather
over the greater portion. of the United
States during the past "a hours. Rain
has fallen along the Pacific coast from
central California to British Columbia,
and snow has occurred in the north
Atlantic states. A falling barometer
on the northwest Washington coast in
dicates snow in this vicinity tonight
and Tuesday, without much change in
temperature ,1.
JOHN GROVER, Observer.
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to them that this was not his private
show. but that it would put Los An
geles on a par with Rheims if the
thing were done right. And the bust
ness men of Rheims didn't suffer.
Two days later the aggressive men
of Los Angeles had a fund of $150.OO0
at the disposal of Mr.. Rerris and his
associates, just twice as much as
Rheims had for it's prize fund.
The list of entries is as follows:
Aeroplanes - Glenn H. Curtiss,
Hammondsport, N. Y, biplane; Louis
Paulhan, Paris, France. Farman BIZ
plane; M. Maison, Paris France, Far
man biplane; M. Miscarrol, Paris,
France, Bleriot monoplane; Baroness
de la Roche, Paris, France, Bleriot
monoplane; Aero Navigation company
of America, Girard, Kan, aeroplane;
Clifford B. Harmon, New York, Cur
tiss biplane.
C. X. Hamilton. Hammondsport, n.
Y. Curtiss biplane; H. P. Warner
Beloit, Wis, Curtiss 5iplane; Roy
Knabenshue, Toledo, Ohio, aeroplane;
H. l.. Twining, Los Angeles, ornithop-
ter; j. c. Classen, Los Angeles. gyro-
plane: J.. C. Classen, Los Angeles.
monoplane; William Stevens, Los
A Los
Angeles, biplane; A. G. Gonzales. Los
Angeles, biplane; ]. s. Zerbe. Los An
geles. multiplane; H. L. Helmer, Los
Angeles, ornithopter; E. S. Smith
Tropico, Cal, mOnOplane; Paclnc
Aero club, San Francisco, Cal, mon
oplane; Grant Fowler, Tucson, Ari-
IONA, triplane; Charles Morok, New
York, noncompliance; Louis j. Bergdo \
PHILADELPHIA BleriOt Monoplane;
Ralph Soulnier, New York, mono
plane; Donald H. Gordon. Bostonia,
Cal, acceptance; J. w. Curzon, en-
cinnati Farman biplane; Dana p.
Goodwin and George A. Cohelan. San
Francisco, mOnOpiane
San Diego Aeroplane company, San
Diego, monoplane; A. M. W1lllams,
Douglas, Arizona, monoplane; La
Bait Brothers, Yuma, Arizona, ornl-
thopter; James A. ListOn, San Diego,
Cal. monoplane; s. Y. Beach, New
II
York acceptance; E. F. Rochig, San
Diego, monoplane; c. H. Loose, San
Francisco, monoplane; w. d. Water
man. San Diego, biplane; E. J. Camp
bell Los Angeles, bipiane; w. e..
Davis, Los Angeles, double biplane;
d. H. Johnson, Los Angeles, erofoll;
r. G. V. Milton. Los Angeles. biplane;
Charles F. Willard. New York, Cur
tiss biplane; Charles Scoglund, Los
Angeles, monoplane.
Balloons-C Clifford B. Harmon. New
York. balloon New York; G. T. Bum
baugh. indianapolis: H. E. Honeywell,
st. Louis j. Belts, ST. Louis; w.
Louis van Phul, ST. Louis; A. Leo
Stevens, New York; Merchants and
Manufacturers, Association, Los An
geles,. balloon Los Angeles; Richard
Ferris, Los Angeles, balloon Amerl-
ca; Capt. H. w. Slotterbeck, for the
aeronautical squad of Company A.
Signal Corps. National Guard of Cali
fornia.
Dirigib1es-Roy Knabenshue, Tole-
do, Ohio, two-passenger airship; Tom
S. Baldwin, New York, racing mill
tary airship; Lincoln Beachy Toledo,
Ohio, racing dirigible; Roy Knaben-
shue, Toledo. Ohio, racing dirigible;
j. c. Classen, Los Angeles, racing
dirigible; A. Carter, San Jose, dirigi-
BILE.
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Landslide MOVING Village.

PARMA. Italy, Jan. 9.-On the hills
between Parma and Piacenza, an i'm
mense landslide is slowly moving. 1t
is two miles in length, half mile
wide and it's depth is estimated at IS
feet. On top of the slide is the vii
lage of Scoipola, recently occupied by
thousand people. The village is
doomed to destruction and the inhab-
itants have abandoned it, transport
ing their valuables and the furnish
ings and affairs Of their church to
safer ground.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-10

ITO be honest as this world goes
said Hamlet lis to be one man picked
out of ten thousand Hamlet was
prophetic as well as reminiscent.
Times have not so materially changed
since the days of his pessimistic OBJ
servations, though, to be sure, Dio-
genes had said practically the same
thing before him.