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The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-11-24

to investigate. Contracts and combinations
in restraint of trade, false weights and
measures should be looked into What did
Detective Baxter tell Mr., Murphy about
former counci1men being interested in city
contracts?
There are none so blind as those who will
not see" 1t seemed almost incomprehens-
ible that Mr. Crawford could not and would
nit see that when he was fighting everything
in and out of sight, he was forcing what he
terms the conhscaton of his Seattle, kenton
and Southern line by the city of Seattle and
with public ownership of the street car bust
ness staring the telephone companies in
the face, it seems equally strange that they
cannot see the handwriting on the wall and
that all outraged public will not much longer
stand for the deal given the people.
The Public Service Commission which
seems to stand in with the corporations,
should be put out of business and Seattle
restored to her right of selfgovernment In
these days of advancement and insurgency
we should be moving forward instead of
back for twenty years, when the corporations
of the country owned everything. The Pu
get Sound Electric, according to its officers,
was losing money on its first established
rates. but when the water was squeezed out
of its stock and the rates were reduced, the
company still continued doing business and
I will venture to-say the line eould-not be
bought for one and a half its value.
The telephone companies are working the
same old confidence game and they, more
fortunate than the other corporations refer
red to, have the aid, comfort and support of
the commission. The proper thing to do is
for the city to buy the Independent, and
run it as it does the water and light depart
ments, and as it soon will conduct one street
car line The Independent is a good plant
proposition with reduced rate The claim
that the increased number of phones will
necessarily require an increase of rates per
phone would under some conditions be be-
lieved but not without stronger evidence
than the bare statement of the officers or
stockholders There is no use in trying to
disguise the truth any longer, for the time
has arrived when the utilities of public serv-
ice corporations must become the property OF
the municipalities within which they operate.
Bonds for the purchase of the Renton line
carried by an awful majority, but bonds for
telephone ownership would be voted by an
overwhelming vote.
Some pretty big men say that reading the
word reasonable" into the Sherman Act
destroys the efficacy of the law as criminal
measure. These big men, however, have
perhaps had but little experience in criminal
prosecuting I don't believe they had any.
Under the Federal practice, the judge may
instruct on the facts in criminal causes and
it would be very easy matter to tell the
Jury what was, and what was not, a reason
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-11-24

Some one, perhaps more than one person,
has suggested the repeal OF the law reluir-
ing Judges to wear robes. Yes, for heaven $
sake repeal it. Repeal the robes, until the
people have occasion to reform their opin-
ions of the Superior Court Judges and
courts. My ideal nisi prior judge was
Samuel. If you want to know what a judge
ought to be, read the 18th chapter of First
No one will deny that there are some very
excellent men and very excellent judges on
the superior court bench of the state, and
no one will deny that there are some who
do a great amount of harm and bring re-
proach to the judiciary The rope on the
latter make it look frivolous on the former
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-11-24

Roosevelt insists that he is not a cand-
date for the presidency and that no true
friend of his will urge his candidacy. [
don't believe it possible for Taft to be re-
elected, and | believe that Roosevelt is the
only man who can win against Wilson or
Harmon. The last weeks Golfers ever
lastngly hays Taft, and who will say it was
not undeserved? Golfers could and would
elect Roosevelt. The two biggest thugs
in the United States at this time are Roose-
welt and Golfers. They both stand for just
what they believe to be right.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
Total for Year is S6, I50, 58S, a Figure
Only Ecnpsed Dy mat tor
the xear 1909.
OTHER YEARS axe WAY BEHIND
General Average Moving Steadily Up
ward Each Twelve Months
BIG WAREHOUSE GAIN IS SHOWN
Factories Also Beat 1903 bv a Good
Sized Margin.
CHURCHES ALSO GO AHEAD
In zoos sum Of 81 ,5OO,G5O Was EN-
pended Ia Buildings, which IL
Nearly S2,OOO,OOO behind
Figures for Inst Year.

The building operations Of Omaha have
not been as extensive as they were in 1909,
but the general average is moving upward
and the record Of last year will probably
be reached again in few seasons. The
total expenditures for the year on build
,ings was s., 25O.sSS. In 1909 it was $,2Oil4O.
There were 1888 permits compared with
l., COG in 1903
In warehouses and factories there has
been a very substantial increase. In lVJ
there were thirty-siX such buildings put
up at a total cost Of s4G6 go. This last
year there were forty-siX Of them and
they cost S1,12S.4SO Churches also have
Jumped from SIG 1000 to $l6S,JOO All of the
churches We're of brick In department
houses the figures for the total cost are
Just the same for the two years, 1898 OOO'
but in 1910 there were twelve buildings put
up for that money and in 1903 only eleven.
In alterations, 1910 was the better year
as there were S54 permits for work cost
ing 1896 40, and 1909 had only 2n permits
for work costing 200
The total figures for 1910 $6,25OsSS, are
stin far ahead of any year but the one
preceding as the highest point ever
reached before that was A,59065O in 1908.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
School Attendance
for the Last Year
Shows Good Increase
Enrolment and Daily Attendance
Both Greater Than in Any
Previous Year.

The increase in the school enrolment Of
Omaha has been steady the last year an 1
there are now almost 10000 children en-
tered in all departments OF the public
schools.
The most important thing that happened
in 1910, as far as the schools were con
cerned, was the passing Of the $4,000 bond
issue at the fall election. The money will
be devoted to the following six projects
The completion of the high school build
ing, new buildings at Central Park, Miller
Park and CASTELAR, street and a new wing
at Windsor The Forest school at Thir-
teenth and Phelps has been we'll begun
and will be occupied during the year.
Howard Kennedy school at Sixteenth and
Binney is a new building of sixteen rooms.
At Miller Park, Twenty-eighth and Eli
son avenue, two two-room annexes have
been established and will be occupied In
the spring. The new wing of the high
school was finished and opened in Sep
TENDER.
Manual training is stil an important
part Of the school curriculum and has
been extended to the Clifton Hin. Beas
and the Howard Kennedy buildings.
The years enrolment has been as fol-
lows:
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
GRAIN RECEIPTS VAST AMOUNT
Nearly Forty-Four Million Bushels
Come to Omaha Exchange.
CITY STANDS SECOND IN CORN
Records for 1910 and 1909 10000
Bushels Apart, or sixty Carloads
Mondays Figures May
Make some change,

The sixth year OF the omaha Grain eX-
change will begin Tuesday morning. From
an infant market the omaha market has
grown to be the second greatest corn re-
cciving center in the world and to fourth
place as the market for all grains con-
sdered together. During the last year
43 Coz. 400 bushels OF grain OF all kinds came
TO the Omaha Grain exchange. This Is
60 900 bushels less than receipts in 1903 and
as the last three days receipts are esti-
mated the actual figures obtainable
Wednesday may show 1909 surpassed. II
is customary to count receipts OF January
1 and in the years totals and that is
why an estimate must be made. This esti-
mate is on a most conservative basis and
there Is good chance it will be found to
have been too small.
But either way 6OOO0 bushels Of grain
are not significant when the total OF 4S,
100000 or so is considered and when Il is
also considered that the early fall months
OF 1910 showed the farmers Of Nebraska,
Kansas. South Dakota and other states
which ship here reluctant to ship their
grain anywhere because of current prices.
The big receipts this December give real
index of what Omaha is as a grain re-
ceiving center. as a primary wheat and
corn market when the farmers are will
ing to sell their grain at all.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
CoRoNER'S REPORT ON DEATHS
All the Usual Causes Have helped TO
Contribute to the Long List
I'm Omaha.

All the usual causes OF sudden death are
shown In the report of those fatalities
issued by Coroner Crosby covering the
business of his office during the last year.
Fifty suicides were committed during the
year, according 10 the report. Shooting,
gas, drugs. drowning and hanging are all
methods which were resorted to by the
victims OF self-destruction.
Following is Coroner Crosby's complete
re IT:
NATURAL causes. nineteen; suicide by
shooting. twenty-one; by gas, seven by
drugs, twenty; by drowning, one; by
hanging, one; accidental drowning. three;
railroad accidents. thirty-five; murders.
eleven; street car accidents, six; accidents
on buildings being constructed, ten; ac-
cidents by falling to sidewalks, two; &C
cidental shooting, three; accidentally
burned seven; freezing, one burned by
metal tat smelter), four: falling down
elevator shaft three; run over by auto,
four; heat prostration. one; run over by
wagons two. electrocution, two. Investi-
cation into deaths from unknown causes,
sixty. CThese Investigations are exclusive
OF the figures given above).
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
Transfers Reveal Biggest Gains in the
History Of 0maha-Fgure
is $15,203,455.
FAR AHEAD OF LAST YEAR
Records Then Showed Total Of
$12,361 1888.
MORE LOANS ON MORTGAGES
Few Foreclosures in District Court
During Twelve Months.
APRIL BANNER MONTH OF YEAR
Transfers Then Were S2,32S, 900
November Lowest, with R00s,547
October strong Fall Month
The Complete Records.

Nearly 100000 is the amount OF 1910 real
estate transfers over those Of 1909, accord
ing to figures furnished by Frank w. Ban
die, register Of deeds for Douglas county.
The total real estate transfers for tho
year ending last night is Sl5,27S,55 an
average of a little more than million and
a quarter a month, and an increase over
last year. to be exact, Of S2,912.012
The record of city mortgages shows that
the total OF sums borrowed on city prop
erty during the year was ,S5S, an in-
crease Of more than n million over 1909.
This with the fact that the foreclosure
actions in the district court during tho
year were exceptionally few, indicates that
money was freely borrowed for legitmate
use and the various ventures in which it
was employed were successful.
The figures show "a slight decrease in
farm mortgages from the previous year.
indicating that farmers are finding less
necessity for borrowing.
Mr.. Bandles figures for the year just
closed 1910, compared with those of 1909,
are as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
Tale of Omahas Progress Told Only in Millions of Dollar
BANKS SHOW HEALTHY STATE
Increase of $1OO,OOO,OOO Shown in
Bank Clearings for Year.
REAL CRITERION OF BUSINESS
Total for the Year shows SS32,0T1,-
6O7 20 Have Been Cleared
Through the Banks of Omaha
and south Omaha.

Omaha's banks shoW an increase OF al
most 100000 600 in their clearings in the
year 1910 the actual figures Of the amount
Of the increase being S97,74GO39. The total
bank clearings for the year were $50
gl6O7. compared with y7S5225,56S in the
year 1903.
The steady increase in the bank clear
ings of the city are an actual proof of the
fact that business firms are doing big bust
ness and that money is in lively circula-
ton. Since the year 1900 the bank clear
ings of the city have jumped from $685.
1878 to the figures totaled this year.
The following figures from the Omaha
Clearing House association show a com
parative statement Of past years
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
Totals. .47OO ss5OOOs.s4 sO7 s4sa4, 256 80
WHAT THE CITY COUNCIL DID
Takes Credit for the ReDRvInE of the
Downtown District I'm Addition
10 Much Other Work.

The city council has accomplished much
difficult legislation during the year and
some OF its most important work has been
the campaign that has resulted in the re-
paving OF nearly all OF the down town
streets. BY some of the city officials that
is considered the most important city bus-
ness that has been contaminated In twelve
months. A trackage district in a new
section has been made possible by the per-
mission given the Union Pacific TO come
up Fourteenth street and along Jackson
and II was decided after much discussion
TO give creosOte paving a trial other inn
portant things have been done and a great
amount OF minor legislation has been gone
over.
The city clerk Dan Butler has read and
cared for 6.376 documents, which Is sixty
six less than the total number In 1908. OF
this number OF general bills there were a5I
general ordinances, 1877 for street improve
ments, twenty seven establishing grades OF
streets, uirty-three changing grades and
several hundred resolutions
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
OMAHA HEALTHY LAST YEAR
Health Commissioners Report Will
show Only Usual Amount of
Contagious Diseases.

Omaha has been comparatively speaking
a healthy city during the last year. There
has been considerable typhoid and num-
Der Of cases of serious contagious diseases,
but none Of them have had any alarming
epidemics. The yearly report of the health
office will show 1893 cases OF typhoid fever,
21s cases of scarlet fever lS1 of diphtheria,
40 OF negative or suspected diphtheria, 123
Of measles, six of whooping cough, 10 OF
chickenpox and varioloid, 10 Of spinal men
nights, of anterior polyo-myelitis and one
Of erysipelas.
The following table shows the varying
number OF cases of some diseases during
the twelve months:
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
FIFTY-SIX new INDUSTRIES
Omaha Has Again Forged Ahead with
Many New Concerns.
GIVES EMPLOYMENT TO MANY
Capital stock of the Recent AcOuisi-
lions TO the Market Town Have
Capital stock of S2T,-
31S,OOO.

More than one new industry a week is
what Omaha achieved last year. Fifty-siN
new manufacturing and jobbing concerns
came to Omaha during the past twelve
months and have taken root here.
The Commercial club. which has brought
most Of these companies to Omaha keeps
an accurate record Of all new industries
and finds that each OF recent years shows
better result than the year just previous
In 1908 ffty-three new industries came;
in 1909 ffty-five companies Joined the
grand total, and in 1910. fifty-siN.
1T should be taken into consideration Of
this matter" says Commissioner }. NJ
Guild of the Commercial club. that many
places are giving free sites cash bonuses
buildings, free light and water, taxation
exemption and other forms Of artificial in
ducements. Omaha offers none OF these
1t is not spending thousands Of dollars
annually in magazine advertising.
The manufacturing concerns have come
here in order to get nearer the field Of
consumption and away from the unfavor-
able conditions Of the east, while the
jobbing houses are attracted by the excel
lent distributing facilities Omaha enjoys.
A careful check has been made of the
fifty-siX new concerns Of 1910 and on a
most conservative basis these amount to
about $50. This means three or four times
that number added to Omahas permanent
population to be housed, clothed and fed
Unlike some cities which are after in
dustrles and which publish lists of their
newcomers, Omaha does not count or show
in its lists anything except brand new
concerns. No additions to old plants or
anything but strictly legitimate additions
are enumerated. The only satisfactory way
of showing the financial strength Of these
is by showing the capital stock of the
parent company, whether the addition to
Omaha is by a branch or the main plant.
Two of these shown in the 1910 list appear
! in the 1909 list as they we're not actually
located until this year. These are the Den
nison Manufacturing company and the
Ford Motor Car company.
The work OF the industrial committee of
the Commercial club is under the super
vision of w. H. Glass, secretary OF the
Lee Glass ANDERSEN Hardware company.
He is chairman Of the committee.
The total capital stock OF the fifty six
new industries secured for Omaha in 1910
is S27,S1s,OOO. The list of them is as fol-
lows:
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
internal Revenue
Receipts Show Big
Increase for Year
Gain of Collections of $lS9,954 is
Shown Over Preceding Twelve
Months.

The total receipts OF internal revenue for
the Nebraska collection district during
1910 Cthe last six days of December were
estimated the estimate being based on
the same period last year with fractions
OF a dollar omitted were sails 40 The
total collections in 1909 were s., 555 $50. which
when compared with 1910 receipts shows an
increase Of Sls9.s54 for the year just ended
The principal Increase" Ross p Ham
mond collector said lis on list colleo-
tons. caused by the recent tax being levied
on the profits OF corporations"
The collection for the year follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
MANY NEW PRODUCTS ON LIs1
These Help to Swell the Grand TOta
of the Year.
OLD CONCERNS SPREAD on
Some Firms Move Ahead by Leaps
and Bounds.
GOOD SHOWING ALL LINES
Packing House Products, Especially
Soap, show Mig GRins-CracI<ers
Also show Enormous Gains,
Because of New Factories.

Omahas manufacturers for the year just
over exceeded those Of 1909 by IS 100000
The gain is large and even larger than it
number OF industries are somewhat onset
10y a particularly poor year for one or two
others.
Many new manufactured products appear
on tne list ana some OF these winch were
represented by only s5OO.VVO worth or
product a year or two ago have leaped
tar forward. rake crackers for instance.
Last year Omaha made $4,000 worth. 1t
is not very long since the crackers an
nually maze mere were not worth over
%jVUVU.
Packing House Products.
Packing mousse prouucts have Jumped up
in the last twelve months. The gam mere
IS S5,JOJCUO. Soap is another leader. Who
would have thought that Omaha makes
nearly 100000 worth OF soap every year?
Omaha manufactures nearly everything.
The list runs from acetylene gas to zithers
and from artificial limbs to yeast. The
manufacturers committee Of the CONNER
cial club has compiled a list Of articles
manufactured, unuer general heads, ana
there are 45y Of thes- general titles They
could be subdivided until the list would
Oe almost endless.
The figures showing the value of manu-
featured products, as compiled by the pub
lefty bureau of the Commercial club, are
given herewith. The total this year Just
over is 500, $780, In 1903 the value of
manufactured products was 1s2,S72,OOO,
Figures for the Year.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01

nHAHA'B record for 1910 Is told In
millions OF dollars in Increase
In tho total OF commercial ana tn
dustrtal achievement. The new
year OPENS q vista OF possibility
for greater growth and the oitiHsn-
ship OF Omaha 10 alako TO its Op-
poFtunittos.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
POstofice Makes Big
Gains Over Last Year
Sale of Stamps Increases Ten Per
Cent and Money Orders
More.

Every department Of the Omaha postof-
flee made enormous gains during the year
1910 The increase in sales of stamps over
1909 amounted to $l07, 79422 or u per cent
and the sale of money orders overreached
that Of last year by $9l2,2S1SO, the sale OF
money orders going above Sl0,OOOOOO Fol-
lowing is the annual statement OF the post
office, showing the business transacted
during 1910, as compared with 1908.
nroL- O-6a- nanortment
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01

AN EMPIRE lies at omaha's
doors, looking TO the Cato City
for market service. The products
Of the great region Of unsurpassed
fertility must pass through
Omaha's gates TO reach the world.
That - why Omaha Is great and -
growing greater,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01

The attendance officer Of the Board OF
Education has been a very busy man all
the year and handles as many as forty or
fifty cases month of pupils who will not
or do not attend school. He also has
charge OF the children who are allowed TO
work.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01
Tremendous General Increase in
Wholesaling Volume During
Year Past.
COMPLETE RETURNS GATHERED
Total of $13S, 262,O 900 for 1910 Au-
thoritatively Shown.
INCREASE OVER YEAR BEFORE
Figure for 1903 Was $1s, 100000 Less
Than Present Showing.
NEW BUSINESSES ARE RECORDED
Crackers Have Gone way UP-Poul-
try and Eggs and Fruits ana
VeEetabIes Add S5,OOO,OOO
to Grand summary.

Omaha's wholesaling and iobbing business
made a prodigious increase during the year
1910 IL Increased more than SlSOOO,OO0 ac-
cording to the figures compiled by the
publicity bureau Of the Commercial club.
Nearly all this increase is due TO Increased
business A small percentage of the greater
total is due to the fact that to get figures
for the year even more strenuous ettorts
than before have been made to put every
jobbing house into the addition.
The figures are absolutely authentic and
are not anything like guesswork. The
heads of the jobbing houses submit in con-
fidence a statement OF the business they
have done for the year and the amount Of
business done by any one house is known
10 no one but the manager Of the bureau
VIII A. Campbell
All the jobbing houses in Omaha re-
sponded to requests for information except
two. and these were carefully computed.
II is known what Immediately competitive
houses do and the results were figured
from this A most conservative estimate
was made and the grand total for 1910 Is
under rather than over the actual mark.
Moreover probably few houses are not
represented, for some jobbers hide their
light under so thick bushel that no one
knows Of their existence except themselves
and their out-of-town customers.
Total f. Satisfactory.
The total for 1910 is so satisfactory that
II hardly needs comment An Increase of
$4,000, 900 in volume of business done is a
tremendous increase and the total figure,
Si33. 262, 900 is truly titanic Nearly all lines
show large increases over the figures for
the same houses in 1909 and definite post
tive proof is thus once more afforded of
how Omaha is growing steadily and rapidly
as q great distributing center.
For the first time now has been COM
puted complete figures on fruits and vege-
tables, poultry. eggs, celery and oysters.
THESE two groups run the total figure UP
a cool 100000. The poultry business OF
Omaha is enormous.
"small houses" says VIII A. Campbell
where the unacquainted would not fancy
much business done, actually handle from
$4,000 to 100000 worth of poultry a year
Lumber and coal are other businesses
the great Omaha volume of which few mer
know or appreciate"
Detail of the Trade.
The list Of tobbing mouse business fol
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01


OF this number Of pupils 54S were colored
children. The total enrolment Of 1909 was
IS, 567 and the daily average 14SSG. The ap-
portionment OF teachers is as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01

The list of jobbing mouse business for
$50 is as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01

aO'Ai '.'.'..'''''..'.....'.'...',....,.6sn5,ts0
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01

Monty order Department.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01

Increase. ...,.,.....s 2,9l2,O72

Totals. SIS, 27S455 sl2,s $50
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01

Grand total. ..,.........9 "a O56, 95l S. SIS, 1O6
Increase over 1909 5.47s, S45.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-01

Increase OF business over 1909. 1912, 2S1sO
no ri