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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30
Wyoming Lands
Worth Million
to Be Cancelled
Coal Property in Lander District
Found to Be Involved in Con-
spiracy by Officials.

WASHINGTON, Jan 29.--official dis
closures made today are that more than
$'OOo,O00 is the estimated value of the
coal lands In the Lander, Wyo., district,
which the Interior department is making
an effort Is have cancelled on the ground
as 1t alleges, that the lands were entered
pursuant to a conspiracy, whereby title
was to vest in corporation. In addition
500 tons of coal day, it is asserted will
be saved If a temporarily injunction
restraining the Owl Creek Coal company
the transferee of the various entrymen,
fom opeating its mine upon cetain of the
lands involved in the case is made perma-
nent. Hearing was set for February 1.
All the entrymen in these cases resided
in New York, while the principal movers
in the alleged conspiracy have been in
dicted by the grand jury in Wyoming The
criminal cases, If convictions are secured,
in the opinion of the Interior department
officials will have a salutary effect in
checking similar operations.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30
BLACK HANDLERS TO PRISON
Eleven Members of Toledo Gang Are
Given Stiff Sentences.
CASE AN IMPORTANT ON
Relieved to he BEGINNING Ot
End of italian BIackhnnd
Societies in This
Country.

TOLEDO, Jan, 29.-Heavy penalties were
imposed by Judge r. w. Tayler in the
federal court today on the principal mem
ber of the Ohio band of black hands found
guilty Of conspiracy to use the malls to
extort money from Italians living in Ohio
and indiana. The jury reported this morn
ing.
Salvatore Lima of Marion the chief of
the band, was sentenced to sixteen years
Imprisonment. Sebastian Lima his brother,
and Giuseppe Ignoffo his brother-in-law,
were sentenced to 10 years Imprisonment
each. All of these lived in Marion, where
the headquarters were maintained.
All of the defendants were found guilty,
but the court granted new trials to Agostinl
Marfisl Of Dennison, Vincenzo Arrigo Of
Cincinnati, both fruit dealers, and Salvatore
Ri7zo, section hand living in Marion. The
others were sentenced as follows:
Sevario Ventola of Coiumbus. two years,
Salvatore Demma of BeIefontaine. two
Antonio Vicario Of Dennison, two years.
Cologaro Vicario of Bellefontaine, two
orazio Runfbla of Pttsburg, six years
Rippino Gaibo of Meadville, Pa, four
Salvatore Arrigo Of Cincinnati four years.
Francesca Spadare Of Cincinnati, two
years.
Prisoners Start for LeaVenwOrth.
All the sentenced prisoners except An
tonic Vicario started early this afternoon
for Leavenworth prison in charge of eight
deputies. Vicarlo will be taken to Elmira.
In sentencing Lima, Judge Taylor said:
"You seem to have been the moving
spirit in this nefarious business, Sebastian
Lima seems to have borne a somewhat less
ia RI than his brother and IRnoffo has been
a part of the heart and center"
The court said that while suspicious
circumstances pointed toward Marfiisl, he
could hardly let the conviction stand in ac-
cord with his sense of justice, He said the
evidence was similarly weak as to Rizzo
.........
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30
Many Changes
on Burlington
Promotion for E. P. Bracken Makes
Much Shifting in Operating
Denartment.
Uepartment.

ALLIANCE, Neb., Jan. 29.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-E. p. Bracken, general superin-
tendent of the Wyoming district of the
Burlington, with headquarters at Alliance.
has been transferred to the lines east as
assistant general manager. with headquar-
ters at Chicago He will be succeeded here
by e. e. Young. at present superintendent
Of the Sheridan division, with headquarters
at Sheridan, Wyo.
F. G. Robbins, superintendent of the
Sterling division. will take charge at Sheri-
dan and c. ID. Peckenpaugh. at present
trainmaster on the Sheridan division, will
succeed Mr.. Robbins at Sterling. Colo.
This will make complete change In the
head operating officials of the Wyoming
district In the last two months, for on De-
cember l w. NJ. Weidenhamer, the present
superintendent of the Alliance division,
succeeded j. c. Birdsell, who resigned to
enter private business
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30
Syndicate May
| axe Southern
if Suit is Lost
RumOr if Hartman Merger is Dis.
solved Rockefeller and Morgan
Will Buy Road.

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-Mr. Lovett and
other representatives OF the Hartman
lines declined today to comment on the
decision of the federal government to pro-
ceed with the suit against the Union Pa
cific and Southern Pacific system.
The defendants will open the case in
this city on February 25
Wall street today heard a report that
II the government wins its suit to dis
solve the merger a syndicate composed of
John d. Rockefeller. through the National
City bank; ]. p. Morgan, through the First
National bank, and Kuhn, Loeb & Co
will take over the Union Pacific's holdings
of Southern Pacific bonds and stock
These are said to amount to SIPS COO OOO
The report could not be verified.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30
MORE FUNDS FOR INDIANS
Secretary Ballinger Asks Money fol
Their Instruction.
oMAHAs HAVE LONG SESSION
DIR. PiccOtte Says They Ask Only
for White Mems Treatment
Special Duty for Cap
tain Buchan.
(From a Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON Jan. 29-(Special Tele-
gram.) )-Secretary Ballinger today submitted
a request to congress for an increase in
the appropriation allotted to pay salaries OF
formers to instruct Indians in the practice
Of agriculture from $125OOO to $4,000.
THE department has come to the con
clusion." says Secretary Balllnger, THAI
the practice of agriculture among Indians
should be encouraged. Need of increasing
funds is apparent. With a territory OF
5S, 100000 acres of land, most of 1t agricul
tural in character, the estimated wortf
$265, 100000, with $6OO0OOOO in trust fund,
held for Indians available for improvement
Of their allottments and with the possibility
Of beneficial use of these million of acre.
of allotted lands there is great necessity
for an increase in the force of IndiaT
farmers and stockmen."
The delegation Of Omaha Indians now
in Washington is not here to protes
against wise regulations of the interior
department, as laid down in the Indlar
office but against its administrative
features" was the way Dr. Susan Pccott,
OF the delegation voiced the mission of tn,
Indians today.
What the Indian wants is to enjoy tha
which is his. / have yet to hear an In
uidl plotebt against paying taxes Tor the
Improvement of his farm. but he does OBJ
ject to having the government pay taxei
! out of moneys which the Indian ought t
be permitted to handle.
THE omahas are a progressive tribe anC
the government should permit them L
take their places in the world. We don
object TO educational features surroundinl
experimental farms. What we do obiec
to, is the everlasting red tape and involved
propositions growing out of administrativ,
regulations.
I'VE are fit to look after ourselves ant
we want the government to give us wha
belongs TO us. II there is any money t
pay we want to pay 1t. II things are to b,
done, looking TO our better condition, WI
want to participate in doing It and no
have some petty clerk do il for us.
"All we ask is for white mems treat
ment, to be permitted to handle our prop
erty in our own way-to lease It or sell 4
to pay taxes and generally 10 live lIk
Continued on Second Page)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30
Creighton Heirs Defeated
in Another Court Ruling

Attorneys for the heirs OF Count creigh-
ton were defeated in district court when
they led fight TO have modified the re-
cent ruling OF the court with respect 20 the
amount OF the residue Of the estate to go
10 the working girls home.
The three Judges or the district court
figure IT out that the proportion due would
come to SS4s76 Crhis besides the t5O.OOO In
specific bequest)
The attorneys for the heirs contended
that the amount should be $50 2S2. The
question turned on what the phrase whole
estate, as used In the WILL means. The
attorneys asserted that this meant the
estate after the charges for administration
and debts against Il had been deducted.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30

The judges said the whole estate meant
all Count Creighton had when he died.
II the charges are deducted from the
total then. Of course. the proportionate
part OF the residue which goes 10 the
working girls home Is smaller and the
amount left for the heirs is larger.
The dispute came In the fixing up OF the
formal decree following decision OF a
few days ago. and Judge Estelle. who sat
with Judges Redick and rroup. was moved
TO remark:
1T seems sometimes as II It took longer
to fix up decree than 10 hear the law
suit"
The significant announcement was made
by attorneys for the heirs that they intend
TO fight the whole case to the last ditch.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30
Companies May Be Barred
from Prosecuting Frauds

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Jan. 29-With } ].
Keen and Timothy O'Leary under bondA II
5000 each and Patrick ]. Nee1ham still In
jail, all under charge OF having defrauded
additional interest has been injected into
the case by the question as TO whether
even though IL be proved that they have
wilfully robbed these insurance concerns
they can be held criminally liable.
So far as named all OF the companies
which have been hit by the operations Of
the grave yard swindle" are ineligible to
do business in the state OF Kentucky. II
It can be proved the policies in question
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30
Protest Against Highness Not Con-
fined to Laborers.
WAR OF WORDS CONTINUES
Packers, Wholesalers and Retailers
Are Blaming Each Other.
MORE TALK ABOUT TARIFF
Wholesalers Say Canadian Beef is
Sold Cheaper in London Than
Western Beef r. in
New York.

NEW YORK Jan 29.-Slx hundred repre-
sentative manufacturers, mostly men of
wealth, ate dinner today at the Machinery
club OF nothing but vegetables and fruit.
There we're no speeches, but an informal
discussion of the advanced cost of living
Indicated that the universal protest Of the
nation has the support Of businessmen as
well as laboring men.
There were further slight recessions in
price today in the butcher shops, but quo
tations on the whole seem to indicate that
demand and supply are beginning to ap-
proach an adjustment,
The war of words among the packers
the wholesale dealers and the small re-
tailers continues with the injection today
of a new issue wholesalers are agitating
for a repeal of the duty on Canadian, Ar
gentine and Mexican beef
Look at the London market" said one
of them Free competition with beef from
Canada, the Argentine and even from
Russia rules there, with the result that an
Englishman can eat Canadian beef, grown
just across the border from us, cheaper
than Americans can eat their own western
steers"
A mass meeting at Madison Square, at
" which movement in imitation of the
Boston tea party was to have been
/ launched against meats by the National
Progressive Woman's Suffrage union, was
postponed owing othe weather At the
next meeting of the union a resolution
will be presented calling upon the legisla-
ture TO limit the period during which meat
may be kept in cold storage.
Eat no meat" in large letters. was
pasted all over the West Side today. on
shop windows and in many private houses.
Twelve of the posters are in butcher shops.
PITTSBURG, Jan. 29.-The price on pork
has dropped cents in the last twenty-four
hours, according to stock yards quota
tions Meat dealers now admit they are
feeling the anti-meat boycott.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30

were written in Louisville and not in New
Albany, Ind, as agents OF the insurance
companies claim, It is thought the com,
panies cannot prosecute.
Il is reported that several large eastern
Insurance companies have paid out large
sums OF money on falsely drawn applica-
uohs here.
President Charles ID. Renick OF the In
diana National Life Insurance company
told OF investigating the policy written for
Mrs. Lyon OF Louisville an aged woman
He showed policy bearing what purported
70 be her autograph. She told him she had
never written q line In her life.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30
Woman Dead
on Gas Stove
Evidence that Mrs. Alice Van Seandt
Was Murdered is Found by
Police.

CINCINNATI, o., Jan. 29.--Her clothes
saturated with oil, pieces OF lace curtain
tied tightly about her neck, another piece
binding her feet, the scorched body Of
Mrs. Alice Van Seandt was found lying
across a gas stove in the kitchen at her
home. 6S4 Richmond street, today. Every
indication points to murder, the police say.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30
FLOODS IN COSTA RIGA ARE
BLOCKING BANANA HARVEST
Bridges Are Washed Out and Miles
OF Track Inundated by Heavy
Rains.

PORT LIMoN, Costa Rica, Jan. 2s-In-
cessant and heavy rains are still falling
throughout the republic. The Northern
railway is practically out of commission.
There has been no train service with the
interior since the latter part of Decem-
ber.
The entire district as we'll as the
banana zone of the upper lands near
Reventtazon river is under water and the
cutting of fruit for shipment Is difficult
and dangerous. Three slides are reported
from Las Lomas Sunday, endering the
chances Of communication with the capi-
tai more remote.
The Baltimore bridge, built in 1908. dis
appeared a week ago. This iron struc-
ture over the Chirripo rive connected the
Zent distict with some valuable banana
plantations and no fruit can be brought in
for shipment until the rain ceases.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30
DEDUCT INCOME ON STOCK
Attorney General Wiclersham De-
cides Point In Application of
Corporation Tax.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham has decided that the
dividends received by corporation as a
stakeholder of any other corporation of
the character to which the act imposing
a tax of 1 per cent on net income
applies. should be deducted from its gross
Income. regardless of the amount of the
net income Of such dividend paying cor
poration.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30
With the Automo-
bile Show nearly
here, Inte re st IN
automiles is at its
height.

Besides pushing their 1910 mod
els. dealers are making some at
tractive offerings in used machines
to move them quickly.
On the first want ad page
today, under the classification
AUTOMOBILES" is a large
list of bargains offered by
Omaha and Council Bluffs
dealers.
Have you read the want ads to-
day?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30
ENGINEERS AFTER MORE PAY
brotherhood ThreRtens 10 Join De-
mand of other Bodies for
Increase.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2s.-Coincident with
the negotiations, now in progress between
the Brotherhoods of Conductors and Rail-
way Trainmen and the thirty-two controll-
ing railroad companies east Of the Mis-
sissippl and north of the Ohio and Chesa-
peake, it was said here today that the
grand lodge Of the Brotherhood OF Loco
motive Engineers is preparing demands to
be made upon some roads
Heretofore the engineers, who form one
Of the strongest unions in the country,
have refused to join the other railway
unions In demands for more pay.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30

Continued on Second Page)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-01-30
WEATHER FORECAST.

For Nebraska-Colder,
For lowa--Snow.
For weather report see page ?
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-10-13
The Good, the Bad, the Otherwise
and a Eerv Luc01Ucs

The way those Pennsylvania peo-
pie are treating the Colored Brother
is scan'lous. After lynching couple
a short while ago, another one has
just been sentenced to two years for
stealing banana. Death and life
Imprisonment will probably be the
lot of the one caught stealing chick
ems.
Oh, be joyful! A rich New York
man has married a French actress
with mell-to-heaven-past, and the
papers are full of it. It's such a re-
lief to read this sort of international
matrimonial affair, we've been sur
feited with male titles and American
women money bags.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-10-13
POPULISM is ALIVE.

"My profound conviction is that
Populism was never so much alive
as it is today" says Tom Watson in
WatsOn's Magazine for October. GAS
a political party the Populist organi-
zation is dead. But the principles
for which we worked so hard in the
years gone by can never die. They
represent the aspirations of the hui
man race for good government and
happy homes, and they can never
pass away as long as the human race
survives"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-10-13
SHARE OUR PROFITS

ITO publish our weekly paper, The JEFFERSON
IAN, and WATsoN's MAGAZINE, we have re-
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put up own building, and give The JEFFER-
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machinery, presses, cutters, binders, stitchers,
linotype, electric motors, and thousands of dol
lars worth of type, belong to The JEFFERsoN1ANs.
Now, if YOU wish to belong to The JEFFER-
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property, you can do SO, to the extent of ten dol
lars or thousand dollars and we will pay you
SEVEN PER CENT. interest for every dollar
you put into it.
If you are interested in two good, clean publ
cations; if you believe in better government and
a higher standard of political Righteousness if
you opposed to graft and robbery; if you want
the money you have saved to earn fair rate of
interest, and yet be perfectly secure join The
JEFFERsoNIANs, and help us to make them power
for good in this trust-ridden land of ours.
Write to us at once for information about our
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-10-13
IGNORING THE TRIPLES, AND
THE RESULT.

nA be toward better times"
U many of us are still afflicted
az with that inconvenient all
ment known as "shortness of money
In many families there will be prac-
ticed for many days to come rigid
economy in many ways, and the very
hardest for the housewife is economy
in foodstuffs.
Recently the authorities in many
cities have become more active IN
their inspection of the weights and
measures used by grocers, fruit deal
ers, druggists, merchants, and milk
dealers.
That the average American has been
shamelessly swindled for years, has
come to be a proven fact.
All sorts of schemes have been re-
sorted to by the dealers; false bot
toms to the wooden measures; ditto
to the tin measures for liquids; lead
and wax skilfully let into the under
side of weights, all served faithfully
to enrich the dealers using them, and
to defraud the trusting customer who
received from twelve to fourteen
ounces when he was paying for six
teen.
The result of the agitation has been
to make many men and women look
more closely into the matter of food
buying, aside from the question Of
weights, and discussion will start for
and against the merits of buying Gin
small quantities, versus, buying in
wholesale lots
The woman who has been buying
sugar 'by the quarters worth,
-four, meal, rice and the like, in the
same way, is the one who has paid
heaviest tribute to the short-Weight
dealer. "a quarters worth Of any
thing was an elastic system of meas
urement to the dealer whose con-
science had been blunted by sand in
the sugar and water in the syrup.
To save her money and provide
her family with the best Of food, it
would pay every woman to system
atically read the market reports
which nearly every daily paper pub
fishes.
In these reports will be found the
wholesale prices for every commod-
ity; and it's wise woman who will
learn to buy accordingly.
In a small city outside New York,
where the heads of the families work
ed in New York City, a number of
the women discussed very earnestly
the question of providing good food
at reasonable prices.
While the town was close to New
York, the prices for foods were, in
some instances, almost third high
err; for pater-familias to lug the
family provisions out in a market
basket every day was, of course, out
of the question, and not until coun-
try man had offered to sell half
carcass of mutton did the solution of
the problem come. The woman to
whom the mutton was offered, speed
lily canvassed her neighborhood and
found three others who would take
part of the meat. And as this had
been so successfully carried out, she
suggested the idea of their buying
their groceries in wholesale lots and
dividing at the home of one.
Sugar was bought by the barrel,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-10-13

as well as hour; rice was bought in
a fifty-pound sack; laundry soap and
starch was bought by the box; kero-
sene was bought by the barrel and
butter was bought by the tub.
The equal division was not hard,
and the saving to the six families
who "clubbed" for the venture, was
satisfying enough to have them keep
it up for years. Of course there
were removals from time to time,
but so well known had the scheme
become, the six were always found
to "show up in time to order the
new supply.
Two excellent objects were gained
by this method-the retailers profits
were cut out, and the assurance of
honest measure was given.
Also, the provisions thus secured
were of fresher vintage than those
which they would have secured in
the ordinary way.
Several Of the families formed
clubs of two and three for their
vegetables and fresh meats; potatoes
were bought by the sack, other vege-
tables by the crate, and a half-car-
cass of lamb, mutton or pork was
frequently divided in this way.
Domestic economy is thought
worthy of "chair' in many institu-
lions of learning, but the brand east
ly practised by the housewife is
learned readily and it's worth is soon
apparent.
And while "hard times" are still
with many of us, it may be some will
benefit by the facts and reason herein
exploited.
'Scuse us, but does The Colonel
know anything about that father of
fifty siX-children in a Virginia prison
asking for a pardon?
'Squeer, isn't it,, but all these
citizens deemed worthy an ed in the
daily paper, leave large wads of sin
tul lucre and many acres to a sor-
rowing CD world.
Ha! Here's the Mobile skirt to
blame for another broken leg; nope
wasn't the woman who wore the
skirt whose leg was smashed, but a
man who turned to look at the said
skirt"
HOW the world do move! Here's
Boston, the sacred, cultured, beany
place of the universe, sending "boost-
ers" from it's chamber of commerce
to drum up future inhabitants-and
they're actually gone to Texas to tell
the Woolly Ones what fine place
Boston is!
Maryland is going to try for new
marriage laws and expects to- lower
her divorce rate and the percentage
of criminals and imbeciles, when
more stringent laws are in effect And
many another State should enlist I'M
der the banner with Maryland.
1t must have cost the Salvation
Army lot of time and money to
ferret out the fact that 100000
people live on the profits of thievery
in India. Like statistics for the U.
S. may be compiled from Brad
streets.
It's lead pipe cinch that the
women designers of mems clothes
will never be able to evolve anything
for the male animal which will come
up to the hats and skirts which the
men designers have evolved for this
years styles"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-10-13

Awful brand of booze they have
in Buffalo, N. Y. Man went home
under the influence" put all his
clothes in bed, and then tried to
roost on the gas fixtures; set the
house on fire, and the judge fined
him S..