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Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
Acts Limitiss Supply of Meats and
Poultry Alleged.
IG MEN ARE ON LIST
Armour, Swift, Morris and Hammond
Companies Named
OFFENsE Is EXTRADITABLE
Prosecutor Gaven Says If Men In
dicted DO Not Appear for Trial
He VIII Secure RequIsi-
tiOns for Their Arrest.

NEW YORK, Feb 25-"The Beeftrust. ."
of the United States, embracing six great
packing companies and twenty-one packers.
several Of them mult-mnlionaires socially
and industrially prominent, were indicted
by a grand jury in Hudson county New
Jersey, today, charged with conspiracy in
limiting the supply of meat and poultry.
The indictment is drawn under the law
of New Jersey which provides upon con
viction maximum penalty of three years
in the penitentiary OF a $1,000 fine or both.
The offense is extrldtable, which means
practically that the meat barons must
either successfully resist extradition, or
come to Jersey City for trial
Pierre Garven, the public prosecutor of
Hudson county announced tonight that he
would forthwith notify the defendants of
their indictment, and would be ready to
force extradition in each case where the
individual concerned is not willing to face
trial voluntarily.
List of Defendants.
The defendants as named are as follows:
Corporations:
The National Packing company.
Armour & Co.
swift and company.
Morris & Co.
Hammond Packing company.
u. II, Hammond a Co,
Individuals.
L. Al. ogden ArmurThomas ]. Conners.
a, watson 4t armour F. a. Fowler.
LOUIS L. SWlft. l.. II. Heyman
Edward Y. Swift. j. E Rathgate ir
lures Il SWltt. George J. Edwards.
toward motifs. Frederick b. Cooper.
ira n. MOTIFS d. f. Hartwell.
ALlHur Meeter. Henry B. Darlington.
EuWard Iilden. A. A. Fuller
l.. y. Carton. I,emuei q pattorsor
Thomas f. Wilson.
The Indictment which bristles in its
arraignment of the men named, also refers
to divers others" as being responsible
Ihese latter, however, are not specified.
Result of Price Probe
The list of names, it will be seen repre-
sents the backbone of the great packing
industry of this country, containing as it
does two Armours, three Swfts and two
Morrises, most of them residents of Chi
cago together with less important figures
In the packing world Their indictment
brings TO climax the first concerted effort
in the east to fix responsibility for the nre-
Vailing abnormally high price of com
modities.
Jersey City is cold storage center where
Ihe packing, companies of the west main
tain vast warehouses in which countless
thousands Of pounds of meat and poultry
are stored proved a fruitful source of in
vestigatiop' More than a month ago the
inquiry by the grand jury was started. cold
storage plants were inspected, witnesses
were examined and today the Indictment
was handed up in the supreme court before
Pustices Blair and Carey.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
Oregon Roads in
Merger Inquiry
Vice President of Oregon Railway
and Navigation Company Tells
Why Lines Were Abandoned.

NEW YORK. Feb. 25.-Rlval railroad
enterprises in Oregon were the subject OF
inquiry today at the hearing in the gov
ernments Union Paclfic-Southern Pacific
merger dissolution suit
Vice President ]. T. O'Rrlen of the
oregan Railway and Navigation company,
one of the merged lines testified today
Asked about the branch line which tho
Oregon Railway and Navigation company
began to build out Of Goose Bay, Oregon
in 1907, but which was subsequently
abandoned, Mr.. O'Brien admitted that the
company refused to complete this line be-
cause the people of Goose Bay would not
guarantee it 4 per cent on the investment
over and above the cost of maintenance
and operation.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
Billion Dollars in Tobacco;
Uncle Sam Biggest Trader

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The United
States leads the world as an exporter Of
tobacco and is the second leading market
Of the world for imported tobacco, accord
ing to statistics OF the Department Of
Commerce and Labor.
Last year the United States supplied
filOOO0Oo in a total Of approximately sliO-
10000 worth Of tobacco and tobacco manu-
factures which entered international mar
kets
More than $l,OOOOOOOOO worth Of tobacco
and the manufactured tobacco have passed
through ports Of the United States since
1890, the value Of the exports IN that period
having aggregated SGl6 10000 and the i'm
ports into the United States $3.50. .OOOOlO
These figures are exclusive Of trade pass
ing between this country and It's non
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
Kids Saturnalia at Dads
Expense Nipped in Bud

Preparing for a high old time at the ex-
pense OF the stepfather Of one Of them,
was what three boys and two girls were
doing when Officers Maloney, Van Deusen
and Murphy walked into room at 4Ol
North Sixteenth street
There was champagne and cigars and
plenty to eat, while the room was furnished
with a quantity Of nicknacks evidently
the result OF a desponing expedition into
some persons drawing room a rifle was
also part o. the booty. Where II came from
the officers proceeded to investigate, and
on the way TO the station one OF the chill
dren confessed.
1T came from the house OF my step
father" ssid Jay Wyman.
Investigation proved the truth OF this.
and the discovery OF the further fact that
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
Members Take Ground that Their
Acts Are Not Subject to Review.
MEMBERS PRESENT
Their Attorney Makes Plea that Court
Has No Jurisdiction.
JUDGE RESERVES DECISION
Paper COmpany's Suit to Compel
ReOpeninE of Award Of Contract
Case Is OF Historic
Interest.

WASHINGTON, Feb 25.-The great ques-
ton OF the authority Of one branch Of the
government over another was argued today
in the supreme court of the District of
Columbia with precedents dating from the
nay OF Chief Justice Marshall The mere
Tnandamus proceedings Of the Valley Paper
company OF Holyoke. Mass, against the
joint congressional committee on printing
evolved into a contest of authority be-
tween the courts and congress and the
foundations were laid in case as historic
as any In the annals Of the judiciary.
Whether or not the printing committee can
be compelled by a court to rescind its ac-
ton on purchases of paper for the public
printing and take into consideration the
bid of the Valley Paper company is the
immediate question. Whether congress and
its members in their official capacities and
clothed with constitutional immunity are
amenRble to the law, will be the ultimate
one, counsel on each side is ready to ad-
NIT.
Senators Ignore Order.
Today the senators of the printing COM
mttee continued in their attitude to lg-
more the summons of the court on the
grounds that II was without Jurisdiction
and Gvere not present or represented by
counsel. They are Senators Root of New
York, Smoot Of Utah and Fletcher of
Florida. The members of the committee
from the house, however Allen r. Cooper
of Pennsylvania, George c. Sturgiss of
West Virginia and David e. Finley of
South Carolina, occupied seats in the front
row of the spectators and were repre-
sented collectively and individually by a
battalion of counsel. The Department of
Justice, too, was represented for the first
time today, TO contest the jurisdiction of
the court.
Contention of Committee.
The meat Of the committees plan in
answer 60 the paper company's mandamus
was that the companys bid was not the
Lowest in the best interests of the gov
eminent and that It failed to comply
with certain legal technioallties,
Upon the question Of it's relation to the
court however, the graver contention was
made that the members of the printing
committee were clothed with the constltu-
tlonal immunity conferred upon them by
their membership in congress; that they
did not act in a ministerial capacity and
that the mandamus, stripped Of It's primary
features was not mandamus against the
printing committee at all, but really a
mandamus from the supreme court of the
District Of Columbia to congress itself.
The committees plea was that as a COM
mittee It's members did the same work
which congress could do upon the floor
Of both houses If it chose to do so.
Justice Wright announced he would hand
down his decision on Monday.
This presents a situation entirely new
in American Jurisprudence, the possibii-
ties OF three United States senators being
adjudged in contempt of court and the
possibility OF a supreme court justice be-
ing accused Of contempt Of congress enter
into it.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
NAGEL WANTS FUNDS TO HELP
STAMP OUT WHITE SLAVERY
Secretary Tells Committee sIOO,OOO a
Year Would lie Well Spent
in Campaign.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The expendi-
ture Of 100000 year in stamping out the
white slave" traffic would be money we'll
spent said Secretary Nagel In submitting
to the houne a recommendation that the
total estimate for regulating Immigration
be increased from S2,4OOOOO TO $3.50. 600.
Mr., Nagel says the enforcement OF the
white slave" traffic bill, now in confer
ence between the two houses and expected
to become law in a few days, will cost
$4,000 and that the work will have TO be
prosecuted differently than the ordinary
immigration law enforcement.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26

no one was in the house when the raid
was made,
Wyman, when not elsewhere, claims the
residence as his home, and thithor, about
o'clock Thursday afternoon, according n
the police story, he took Wilber Coyne
COS North Twenty-third street. who helped
him to carry away the spons.
The other youth arrested is Flovd
Bolster, lG2i Cass street, but he saws he
just dropped into the room on his vav
home from work.
The two girls. Marie Sears and Maud
Miley are from Council Bluffs.
All are charged with entering the saun.
ders home at 1922 Maple street.
Floyd Bolster was discharged at the Fri
day session OF police court The other
members Of the Joyous party will be given
hearing on Monday,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
SEED CORN PULPIT THEME
Pref. Holden Appeals to Iowa Min
listers to Preach It.
NEBRASKA NOW ALIVE TO DANGER
Prof. Montgomery 20 Make Appeal
to Lincoln Commercial Club
Today - Farmers Are
Waking I'D.
From a staff Corresnondont.l }

DIES MONIES, Ia, Feb 25.-(Special Tel
egram.) ministers of Iowa have been for
mally asked by Prof. Holden, the state
corn expert to preach sermons on the sub
ject Of seed corn and the immense i'm
portance of taking care to plant good seed
that the crop may be good. He suggests a
number of appropriate texts which would
tend to stir up the people to the immi-
nent danger of famine from a crop failure
in Iowa. This with the work being done
by commercial and farm organizations,
it is believed, will have good effect.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
LINCOLN TO HELP IN CORN TEST
Commercial Club There CO-Operates
with Omaha in the Crusade.

Commercial Club There Co-Operates
with Omaha i'm the Crusade.
The Lincoln Commercial club. in cooper
alton with the Omaha Commercial club,
has decided to take up the matter of pub
licity to induce the farmers of the state to
use great care in the selection of their
seed corn, especially for this year. when
it has been demonstrated that but 27Jh
per cent Of the corn will grow E. c. Mont
gomery, head of the agromony expert
mental department Of the University Of
Nebraska will address the Commercial
club Of Lincoln Saturday. He has already
reported to the Omaha Commercial club
that there is cause for alarm.
BY one Of the most interesting tests ever
made the publicity bureau of the Com
mercial club has demonstrated that corn
containing from 21 to 2S per cent moisture
after freezing, or being exposed to low tenn
peratures, will not germinate.
This test is intended to show that even
the corn left in the fields had better be
tested before it is planted, for If it con-
talned an excessive amount of moisture it
will not grow.
Some corn that tested SO per cent before
1t was soaked and made to contain % per
cent moisture tested but 2S per cent after
1t had been exposed for seventy-six hours
to temperature below 20 degrees Fahren-
het. Another ear testing 81 per cent be-
fore the moisture was added and the cold
applied, fell to 4G per cent when it was
put in the termination box.
This Is Prize Corn.
The corn was obtained from John Aye at
Blair. one Of the prize winners at the Ma
tional Corn exposition. When it was tested
last week it was about the highest germl-
mating corn in the box. The ten ears were
then used for the moisture and freezing ex-
pertinent. The corn was found to contain
but 16 per cent moisture, some had to
be added. Two ears were soaked about
four hours and they then contained 22.5
per cent moisture. They were taken to the
refrigerating plant Of a creamery and kept
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26

contiguous territories, which showed in
1900 alone cigars and other tobacco brought
IN from Porto Rico valued at S5,75OO0O and
shipments Of tobacco 10 Alaska, Hawaii
and Porto Rico valued at nearly 50 0OOOJl
Second to the United states in exporta-
ton Of tobacco last year was Cuba, which
shipped S3l 10000 worth and the Dutch
East Indies ranked third with S23, 900 900
and the United Kingdom fourth with 81
10000.
Germany and the United States are the
worlds leading markets, the former i'm
porting S35OO00OO worth last year end tho
United States S50OOoOOO worth Of which
100000 worth was raw material
The tobacco crop OF the United States in
1908 was 7ls0OOOOO pounds valued at S74-
Gao Ion
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
A few days ago a
man sold a sewing
machine,

that he hadn't been able to give
always, by advertising it once in
The Bee For Sale Columns.
The machine was all right,
but none of his friends or their
friends could find use for it.
The Bee Want Ads will sell any
thing under the Sun-And they will
do It quickly.
II you pay rent on a phone It will
be all right to call Doug. 23S-
Want Ad DeDartH
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
MRS. FLAGLER KILLED BY CARS
Widow of General in Automobile
struck by Express-TwO
Others Hurt.

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Feb. 2j.-Mrs
benjamin Flagler, widow of General Flag
ler was killed, Mrs George F. Nye was
fatally injured and her daughter, Miss
Nye, was seriously hurt today when New
York Central express train struck the auto
mobile in which they were riding All were
residents OF Neiagara Falls,
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
LITTLE GIRL BURNED TO
DEATH-PARENTS ABSENT
Victim WAS stuffIng
Paper Into the Kitchen
stove.

MARsHALLTowN, Ia. Feb. 25.-Cspe-
cial Telegram l-Lucile Harrison aged g.
daughter Of Mr.. ana Mrs Homer Harrison.
living five miles from here, was burned to
death last night while stuffing paper IN
the kitchen stove. The parents We're abb
sent from the house at the time. Returning
TO the house, they found their daughter
dead on the floor
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
r NICK IGNORANT OF PLOT
sOn-in-Lnw Says He Knows Nothing
of ROOSeveIt-FOraISer scheme
in Ohio.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Nicholas Long
worth, representative from Ohio and SON
in-law Of ex-President Roosevelt, today
denied that he had any knowledge Of the
"hellsh plot" as he called It, between ex-
President Roosevelt former Senator
Foraker and himself to carry Ohio for
the republican ticket, naming himself for
governor and Foraker for senator.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
EDDY is FOUND NOT GUILTY
Jdry in BeIIe Plain Murder Case
Frees Detective Suspected OF
Ola Crime.

NlNToN, Ia, Feb. 25,-The jury in the
case OF George Eddy, indicted with Fran
oesco Guthrie for the alleged murder OF
Airs. GutfSle, az Belle Plain. ten years ago.
returned verdict this morning Of not
guilty.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
From the st. Paul Pioneer Press.
No BANK FAILURE IN YEAR
Nebraska's Financial Institutions Are
on Sound Basis.
REPORT OF SECRETARY RoYsE
Executive Head of state Department
Says it Would Take CycIOnic
Money Disturbance to
Imperil situation.
(From a staff Correspondents ,

LINCOLN, Feb. 25.--(Special. )-Secretary
Royse of the State Banking Board has
sent to the printers the copy for his annual
report Of the state banks for the last year
His report will show that not a single
failure has occurred during the year which
the report covers. The following figures
show the increases compared with the re-
port of a year ago:
TntnI r..nnnnrnan irnrnnn..l n rnn 10 40
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
Hogs NJ HiEh Notch.

Hogs High Notch.
CHICAGO Feb. 25.-Another slight ad-
live hog prices at the stock wards, the
animals selling at S97O a hundred weight
Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-26
state Banks Arc Safe,

"A careful examination Of the contents
of this report will show the banks in this
state as a rule both prosperous and safe
The spirit and letter Of the banking law is
generally complied with in a satisfactory
manner and the rules and regulations of
this department meet with very ready re-
sponse upon the part of the banks.
During the last year thehe have been
some instances of mismanagement, but no
serious consequences have followed, for the
reason that remedial measures were
promptly and efficiently applied
Your secretary believes that It is the
province Of this department to prevent
bank failures by such close supervision as
will prevent insolvency first and loss after
wards.
''The records Of the last year viii show
not a single allure under the supervision
Of this department, and not a dollar of loss
TO a deposltor While the department
claims some credit for this showing It is
only fair to state that It is a tribute to
the high class Of bank management that
generally prevails in the banks of the state
While the foregoing IS certainly gratifying
H.
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For Nebraska-Partly cloudy.
For lowa-Partly cloudy.
For weather report see page 2.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-21
Tho Lions and tho Roses.

An admirer I'm my younger days"
said woman lion tanner, "once sent
me bouquet Of red roses, and wore
them In the ring to do my act They
came near doing FOR me. / had got
my eight lions arranged I'm their pyra-
mid when the lion ut the top saw the
red roses In my corsage. He mistook
them for meat-lions have poor sight
and down he leaped He came for me
open mouthed. Though I fired a blank
cartridge In his face, he made with his
paw a sweep at the roses that ripped
me open from chin to waist. The
other lions bounded forward. They
weren't angry. They were hungry. I
had intelligence enough to perceive
that. and just as they were leaping
on me tore Off my roses and threw
them across the ring. The big brutes
left me at once. and while they shifted
the roses with disappointed growls I
staggered out of the iron door. ] was
young at the time. young and light
headed. or Ia have known better than
TO wear anything red among hungry
and nearsighted llons."-Buffalo Ex-
press
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-21
Decline of thu Muatnoha

Permission to wear mustache was
eagerly sought after in the middle Of
the last century. But now the virile
decoration is discarded. why? In
those old days the Bank of England
would not allow its employees to wear
1t md issued an order which might
have come more appropriately from n
bank Of Ireland. il was 10 the effect
that the mustache was not to be worn
in business hours! 4 lnrge drnpery
firm In London objected not only TO
the umstache. but to hair parted down
the middle There IS more tolerance
now. Men look Younger when clean
shaved. They are also more readable
without the protection given by the
mustache to the upper Up. lf hearts
can be worn on sleeves thoughts can
be rcnd'On upper lips. Hut is It always
wise 10 leave the legend unhidden?
Mon seldom like to be OWNED. as La
Rochefoucauld remarked once md for
III tme.-London Express.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-21
Wyndhsm's Debut,

II shall not easily forget my debut"
Sir Charles Wyndham. who recently
celebrated the fftieth anniversary az
his wedding. remarked TO the writer
on one occasion. lin the Grst place.
John Wilkes Booth. the assassin OF
President Lincoln. was in the same
company. We opened ut Washington.
and L appeared as character who had
to declare. L am drunk with love and
enthusiasm Having uttered the first
three words. l was seized with stage
fright and said no more This Is whnt
1 read In New York paper the next
morning: A Mr.. Wyndham represent.
ed a young man from South America.
He had better go there himself -.
london Tit-Bits
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-21
DARING WORK in A FOG.
Clever seamanshIp of Captain In .
Landlocked Harbor.

LahuioCHed 1arpor.
"The greatest piece OF seamanship I
ever saw" said a traveller, was on a
trip to Halifax. 1t was marvel, and
this is how 1t happened
I'VE were steaming along about
twelve hours out from our destination
one summer afternoon. 1t had been
clear all day. and the sea was beauti-
fully blue, but about O'Clock the fog
began to shut down-one of those
swift, dense fogs that come on that
coast and shroud a boat from sight in
less time than 1t takes to tell of It. or
course the fog whistles began to blow,
and many of the passengers got nerv-
Gus under the strain Of its continued
believing.
After dinner I went up on the
bridge and was permitted to stay. The
captain would not enter into any con-
versaton--thnt is. could not talk to
him, but in his restless pacing up and
down the bridge he would frequently
make n remark to me. 1t went on that
way for hours. the fog as thick as
steam and the whistle reiterating its
mournful warning.
AT length the captain gave sharp
order. Two points. northwest by
north he said. No. little more
that's right he finished us his com.
mand was executed. was bewilder-
&C. and my face must have shown Il
IS he passed me, for he vouchsafed
the explanation that he wanted to pass
within n few hundred feet OF a GER
tain whistling buoy near the harbor.
L said nothing. but 1 did not under
stand. Why. the night was so thick
that 1t was hard work to see from the
bridge to the rail, and what could he
mean by making a buoy1
'On and on we went, and always the
fog seemed to me thicker. could
not sleep. and most of the night was
on the bridge. When II nfnst have
been nearly morning a new whistling
began to sound on our starboard bow.
as nearly as I could Judge. II was a
fearful fog siren. and kept getting
nearer and nearer. We had stopped
whistling, and the passengers were ter
rlbly frightened. looked at one ex.
naval officer who stood with me on
the bridge, and his face was like
dead mans. Mine must have been also
Then, just as It seemed that some
giant steamship must strike us. SO
close was the whistling. the fog lifted
like a veil, and there. not $50 feet
tway, was the buoy that the captain
hNd mentioned.
almost at once the fog closed down
again. but, do you know. he took us
past two warships, into the landlocked
haroor and up to the dock in it. IL
wac magnificent. and. though we really
could not put our admiration in tan
gible form, we got together and gave
him a gold witch on the return voyage
as little souvenlr"--New York Post
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-21
An Old Alarm clooL

At schrambcrg IN the Black forest
there IS n respectable alarm clock that
warned sleepers II was time TO get M
when Charles I. was king Of England
This was made In 1850. and n IL deem
cd remarkable piece ~ workman
ship. In form Il resembles n lantern
wherein IS lighted candle. the wick
OF which IS automatically clipped ev-
cry minute by n pair Of scissors. The
candle IS slowly pushed upward by a
spring, which also controls the mech.
anism Of the clock. and at the required
hour Of waking mn alarm is sounded.
and at the same time the movable
sides Of the lantern fall. and the room
Is flooded with light.