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Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-02

There has been a growing belief for some
time that with keen political sense senator
Cummins has foreseen the impossibilitv
Of defeating President Taft for renolnina-
ton In 1912, and that while not yielding on
the principles Of radicalism he has deemed
1t wise to maintain good relations with the
administration both for the purpose OF he
coming a greater power in the senate ana
OF improving his chances in 1916. In this
respect the course which Cummins has
adopted has been in somewhat marked con-
trast to the gratuitiously belligerent atti-
ture Of Senator La Toilette, and Washing
ton opinion inclines to the belief that Cum
minis has been the shrewder of the two.
There are those who even go so far as to
predict that Cummins will be the recog-
nized leader in the senate in the next con-
gress and that Taft will acquiesce in his
leadership. This seems an extravagant
picture. But there are various reasons
for expecting the Iowa senator to be on
increasingly good terms with the admin
strauon, provided the reciprocity agree
ment and its fancied injury 10 the agricul-
tural interests OF the west does not result
in fresh falling out
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-02

According to reliable advice. Count
de Lesseps has quit his high flying
since his marriage.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-02
Mr., Taft s Policies

Aggressive Moves Of the Ad-
ministrntion aud Their Inn
portance 90 the Nation.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-02

Welcome to our city. Mr.. Ground
hog.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-02

That New York subway discussion
has led to lot OF underground talk.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-02

Mercy help us! Here is a states
man pleading for Goldfish. Let him
have Il.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-02

Hurrah for San Francisco and the
1915 Panama exposition!
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-02

City Clerk Dan" Butler boasts
with pride that the receipts of his
office last year almost doubled the
amount expended for salaries, books
and stationery. If he had only been
permitted to collect a fee of 81 for
every certificate OF special registration
or transfer issued during the bargain
counter rush before primary and cleo
ton day what a magnificent showing
his office would have made.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-02
San Francisoo's Victory

San Francisco's selection by con-
gress as the Panama exposition city
is practically assured by the vote of
the house. 1t is the logical result of
the keen competition waged by the
Pacific coast metropolis and New Or
leans. Without disparaging the Queen
City of the south, we believe San
Francisco is better equipped for hold
ing such a mammoth worlds fair and
we believe it's holding it will satisfy
and benefit much larger number of
people and greater diversity of in
terests than for New Orleans to have
held it. San 'Francisco's claim may
not be paramount to that of New Or
leans, but its inducements for it GER
tainly are superior.
But the greatest exhibit that can be
made to the people of other nations
as well as our own will be San Fran
cisco, itself, city that rose from the
ruins of a $5OO,OOO.O 900 conhagration
and builded itself into a marvel OF
modern municipalities. This will be
calculated to impress thinking men
and women far more seriously than all
the other exhibits that could be made.
And then there is the magnificent va
Tiety of scenery and natural attrac-
tions all over that and other western
states, with climate to add to the
comforts.
San Franeisco's victory is also the
vests On the threshold of a new
era of growth and progress, the west,
every state of it, should derive vast
benefit from this exposition. Could
hundreds of thousands of people from
other states and lands passing
through our gates. over our fertile
plains and hills. fail to find here ire
sistible attractions? Tremendously
should this current of migration slim
ulate our prosperity. And there is
work for every state to do in the mat
ter of counting these advantages.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-02

The Washington correspondent OF the
Springfield CMassD Republican. in review
ing recent events at the White House and
In congress. thus sums UT their effect as
measured In Washington:
Few weeks in the entire history Of the
TAFT administration. whether Il consists
OF one or two terms are likely to prove
more important than the week now ending.
Tho submission of the Canadian reciprocity
treaty has, Of course, been the chief event;
bu. In ABOLITION. there has been the public
appearance 81 the progressive republican
league which, Icy the luke-warmness OF its
reception, now appears to have emphasized
rather than hiudered the administration 8
growing strength. OF minor Importance.
when compared with these twV main de-
velopments. there has come from the ways
and means committee OF the house, in an
swer to the wishes and activities OF Mr..
Taft, unanimously favorable report upon
a bill creating permanent tariff commits
sion in close accord with the provisions
which the president deems desirable as to
its details, The disclosure of the presi-
dents intention to veto, II necessary. any
increase in pensions which might work
havoc with his PR gram Of federal economy,
Is also 20 be mentioned as a further indica-
tion OF the more determined and agrees
sive stand which Mr. Taft appears to be
taking as time goes on
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-02


II is now clear that the Insurgents could
hardly have launched their progressive re-
publican league at a worse moment. So
far as Washington is concerned II had
already fallen flat owing to the transpar-
ency Of the individual political ambitions
chiefly responsible for IL, when the publi-
cation Of the Canadian reciprocity agree
ment condemned it to a still lower rank
in Importance and completely oyershad-
owed 1t for at least the time being, Never
theless, ii Is worth while to briefly refer 10
the league because of the activities which
1t may show in the future, and because
OF the further indications of its controlling
impulses which have been revealed within
the last day or So The league appears
upon close scrutiny to be even more a
creation for the political ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Of senator La Toilette than had been
earlier suspected, although no doubt this
statement would be furiously denied bv
some of those identified with the league.
II has been matter of considerable com
ment that a comparatively large number
of the insurgents in the house of repre-
sentatives were not solicited to becone
members of the new league, and conspicu-
Gus among those thus overlooked have been
insurgents from Iowa, followers of Senator
Cummins. In fact, 1t would not be sur
prising IL the activities of Senator Cum
minis in the league should prove TO be
somewhat moderate, although the sincerity
of his adherence to the leagues principles
is not open to question in like degree with
that Of some other members
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-02

Altogether It has become evident that
the administration Is Cooking up" Mr.
Taft Is gaining in confidence as well as I'm
experience and a considerable period has
now elapsed since the occurrence of any of
the breaks" or blunders which came to
be SO associated with his administration in
its earlier days. While Mr.. Taft will never
be clever politician. II must be said that
he has ventured on pretty thin ice and
done it successfully, since the present ses-
sion began. His interest in the Lorimer
case has brought upon him the charges Of
improperly interfering in a matter in
which he had no legitimate concern Yet
as the whole malodorous affair is further
aired In the senate, there is undoubtedly a
growing justification for his having urged
contain senators that they give the matter
their most careful attention, on the ground
that having been induced to study the
record himself he had become deeply i'm
pressed with the gravity OF the situation.
That this word from Mr. Taft came at a
time when there appeared serious danger
that the vhltewashing report of the in
investigating committee NIGH go prac-
tically unchallenged, is recognized by those
who have been in close touch with de-
velopments behind the scenes In prac-
tical effect, therefore, the president would
appear to have rendered an important
service to those who are back Of the effort
to~unseat Lorimer and to clean-house in
Illinois politics 1t would be a gross mis-
Interpretation Of Mr.. Taft's character to
suggest that he took his stand from any
Interior motive. But It may be pointed out
that he has deserved the gratitude Of an
important and influential faction in the
middle west, and that while there is no
suspicion whatever of any bargain, the
course OF things as here described makes
1t appear not unlikely that he will secure
important and influential newspaper sup
port from Chicago in his campaign for re-
nomination and reelection. The fact that
from this same quarter there has of late
come notably vigorous impulse for pro-
gressive politics would make such support
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-02

The clock struck nine. l looked at Kate,
Whose lips were luscious red
AT quarter after nine l mean
To steal q kiss" 1 said.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-08-12
FIGHT FREE RANGE LAW.
A Test Case at Public Expense Id Har-
ding County.

While there has been more or less talk
Of the homesteaders raising funds to
bring the Free Range Law" to a court
test, and subscription papers were circu-
lated for raising such fund, it now sp-
pears that the test will come at public
expense.
In Harding county, where there has
been no attempt to bring the question to
q vote as whole in the county, the res.
idents of several townships at their
town meetings voted upon the question,
and decided against free range. One of
the townships, fillmore, instructed their
town officers to construct pounds for the
care of tresspassing animals, and to take
up and hold the same. Such action has
been taken into the circuit court by the
ranchers, who are the ones to stand the
expense, and that of the settlers will be
at the expense of the townships inter.
ested.
The hearing will bring out all the
points of contention, and whatever the
decision of the circuit court, the final
adjustment of the case will be brought
to the supreme couft, and just what
standing the old law will have will be
tested out.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-08-12
OMAHA MARKET LETTER.
UNION STocK YARDS, |
So. Omaha, Aug. 8, 1911. :
Receipts this week with comparison
CATTLE

The increase in receipts this week has
been attributable to the western rang
ers although fewer are coming than at
this time last year and 1t will probably
be along toward the latter part of the
month before very many good range
beeVes show up. Demand has been Wig.
orous all week for both corn fed and
grass beeves and prices have been the
highest of the season. Choice natives
have sold up to $7.15 and best western
rangers have brought $5.S5. The tone
to the trade has been healthy and strong
throughout and the close was strong at
the advance. Cows and heifers have
been in rather liberal supply and prices
have suffered decline of fully Is a. 25c.
This has been especially true of the fair
to medium grades while choice heifers
and common Gamers are very little diff
ferent from = week ago. Most of the
butcher and beef stock is selling around
1915 "a $4.65. Veal calves are 25c "a,
SOC off for the week and bulls, stays, etc.
25c lower, particularly for grass stock.
A very fair volume of business has been
done in stockers and feeders. But
heshy grades have held up in fair shape
while medium and common grades have
declined Is a. 25c and closed weak az
the full decline.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-08-12
A COUNTRY IDYL.

"Have you dug your grass?" asked the
city chap
OF the staring farmer man,
For he thought he would not crush the
swain
Beneath his social ban.
Glow was your crop when you dug
your grassP
Did the weevils hurt your peas?
And did the canker-worm destroy
Your young cucumber trees2
II love, good sir, the country air;
From the town vain would fee
And lose myself in rural dreams
Meath the potato tree.
I would pluck the turnip from its vine,
Through the parsnip meadow push,
And rest at noon beneath the shade
OF the bending cabbage bush.
ooh, 1 would fain be simple swain
And drive my yoke OF cows,
And rest at noon beneath the shade
Of the rutabaga boughs,
Oh, I'd hunt the woods for the cocoanut
bush
The whole of the live-long day,
Or start at morn with the rustic hoe
To dig the hills for hay.
"And if at MONDAY l grew faint
With my labor's strain and rush,
1 would milk the milkweed's luscious
milk
With the mushrooms luscious mush
/ would pluck the pineapple from the
pine
But why has your color fed?"
But the farmer fell with q sickening
thud-
The farmer man was dead.
Buffalo News.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-08-12
South Dakota Redistricted.

The State of South Dakota was redis
tricted by the twelfth session of the leg
islature in anticipation of the reappor
tionment bill. The state is now divided
into three districts, two east of the Mis-
souri, and the third including all of the
counties west of the river and the Black
Hills district.
District No. consists of the following
counties: Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule,
Buffalo, Charles Mix, Clay, Dawson,
Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson, Jerauld,
Lake, Lincoln, Miner, Moody, Mime,
haha, McCook, Sanborn, Turner, Union,
Yankton.
District No. 2 consists Of the following
counties: Beadle, Brookings, Brown,
Campbell, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel.,
Edmunds, Faulk, Grant, Hamlin, Hand
Hughes, Hyde, Kingsbury, Marshall
Mcpherson, Potter, Roberts, Sphinx,
Sully, Alworth.
District No. 3 consists of the following
counties: Bennett, Butte, Corson, Gus
ter, Dewey, Fall River, Gregory, Hard
ing, Lawrence, Lyman, Meade, Mellette,
Pennington, Perkins, Shannon, Stanley,
Todd, Trip, Washabaugh, Washington,
Ziebach.
Under the new apportionment South
Dakota will gain one member of con-
gress.-Sioux Falls Argus-Leader.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-08-12
Comfort at the State Fair.

The management of the South Dakots
State Fair have announced that they
will leave nothing undone to provide
absolute comfort for all who are in at.
tendance. Several hundred com Portable
settees will be placed about the Fair
grounds at convenient points, for the
use of the visitors. The Woman's Build.
ing, the Beadle County Building, the
W. c. T. U. Rest Co....ge, and other
buildings will be amply provided for tax.
ing care of any who become fatigued
with sightseeing.
A large nursery will be provided, pre-.
sided over by a competent matron, who
will be in charge of small children who
are left with her. This announcement
will be most gratifying TO many moth.
ers who might otherwise hesitate to at.
tend the Fair with their children. They
can leave the little folks at the nursery
and visit the numerous attractions, free
of care.
Plenty of pure water will be avail.
able at numerous points on the grounds
in addition to the regular hydrants.
Visitors will not be obliged to drink
artesian water unless they so choose.
Ample water service is extended to all
parts of the grounds, for the use Of
campers.
The grounds will be policed by the
State Militia, assuring absolute protsc.
ton from intruders of every sort. The
militia will also furnish a free emer-
gency hospital, with one or more expert
physicians.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-08-12

That was fine tribute paid to the
late ''Scotty" Philip by his friends and
neighbors of Pierre, Fort Pierre and
surrounding country. All business was
suspended in the two towns and from
far and near people gathered to do honor
to one of the pioneers of the State, and
q man of rugged integrity and large
heart. Those who have called Scotty
friend will remember him while life
lasts, for his was an impressive char
acter. His charities were broad and all
embracing, knowing no restrictions as to
creed or sect. To engage his assistance
all that was required was to show that an
object was needy and deserving. His
grave is made on the home ranch in the
heart of the range over which he roamed
for years. Peace to his ashes.-Rapid
City Journal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-08-12
A Miners Safe.

If fate forbids you ice, try A Miners
Safe. 1t is wooden frame with solid
top and bottom, shelves fitted inside
and an outer covering of burlap, nailed
on SO carefully there is neither crack
nor crevice for flies to crawl through.
Set food on the shelves inside, and be
sure the whole contrivance is in an airy
shady place. Upon top of it put bowl,
which must be kept with water in it.
From the bowl let strips of flannel run
down so as to touch the burlap sides.
The water will seep through them and
keep the burlap damp enough for con-
slant evaporation to make the safe very
cool-cooler even than d cellar. Dakota
Farmer.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-08-12

The Hot Springs Star comments on
the fact that the Guide, of Rapid City,
one of the strong democratic papers of
the state, has endorsed Judge Gull, Re-
publican candidate for gubernatorial
nomination, and says: 1t takes pretty
good man to win the approval of mem
bers of an opposing political party in a
political campaign those days but that
is what Judge Loomis s. Gull of this
city is doing, since his friends have pro-
posed his name as candidate for GU
bernatorial honors. Being on the side
of the G. o. P. we are prone on many
occasions to think our brothers of the
other faith are on the wrong track, but
this time we will have to modify our
views. Judge Gull, although a Repub-
lican candidate, is a man who makes
friends of every one with whom he is
acquainted. He plays no favorites and
is q real man at all times.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-08-12
Care With Fire Rules.

The District Forester at San Francisco
has drawn up a set of simple rules. If
travellers in the mountains would OBJ
serve these rules, the fire record would
be less than half as bad as last year, for
many of the worse fires last year were
started by hunters and campers. The
"Care With Fire Rules" are as follows
l. Be sure your match is out before
you throw it away.
2. Knock out your pipe ashes or
throw your cigar or cigarette stump
where there Is nothing to catch fire.
8. Don't build campfire any larger
than is absolutely necessary. Never
leave it even for short time, without
putting it out with water or dirt.
4. Don't build campfire against a
tree or a log. Build small one where
you can scrape away the needles, leaves
or grass from all sides of it.
8. Don't build bonfres. The wind
may come up at any time and start fire
you cannot control.
6. If you discover fire, get word OF
it to the nearest u. s. Forest Ranger, just
as quickly as you possibly can.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-08-12
CUSTER

the lot, and are carefully sealed up ir
envelopes, giving date Of delivery, mum
ber and denomination of piece enclosed
and amount of the delivery from which
they are taken. The envelopes are de.
posted in pyx-practically a safs-un'
der the joint care Of the Superintendent
and Assayer, neither of whom can have
access to il without the other. Every
quarter the contents of the pyx are
shipped to the Philadelphia mint, where,
with the coins taken at random there,
they are sequsstered to a similar pyx,
and reports are duly forwarded to the
director of the mint at Washington.
In February every year along comes
the Assay Commission, empowered by
law to do practically anything it deems
needful to determine whether every
solitary one of those sample coins is up
to standards of weight and finsness.
Usually the Commission divides itself
into committees Of counting, weighing,
and assaying, practical expert weigh er,
like Mr.. Fischer of the Bureau of Stand
ards, attending to the actual tests with
the hair-balance scales when it comes to
any 500 gold-piece his fellow members
think worth while testing, and man
like George R. Comings, the Assayer of
the New York assay Office, overseeing
the acid tests of fineness.
Every single coin, pyxed for every
day, or week, at every mint, is itemized
in the report. And samples tested are
reported on, showing deviations from
standard weights in the gold coins az low
as one-hundredth of a grain and none
higher than twenty-tw oone-hundredths.
At the San Francisco and Denver mints
repeated instances show where the coins
are delivered standard" that is, so per-
fectly true to the weight required by law
that human skill fails to find even the
fraction of grain wrong in them.
And the Sacred One Pound? Well, it
goes right along, protected by its
chamois setting, its chamois hook and
It's ball-bearlngs, supreme above all sus-
picion. But the secondary brass pound
the one used to standardize all the
other weights that regulate our coinage
lis correct within one.p part of 100000,
and three separate pounds, built up of
the common working weights of the
mint, were found to be
within one part in 5O000.-Phil-
adelphia North American.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-08-12

Threshing machines now are at work
at numerous points in the State, thus
removing the necessity for any further
speculation as to what sort of a crop
has been raised in South Dakota this
year. While the yield, as told by the
threshing machines, in some localities
is very small, the general yield of small
grain is far ahead of what was hoped
for during the excessively hot and dry
weather during the first portion of the
growing neutrality-suspicious..
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-08-12
CONDITIONS WEST OF RIVER
Not SO Bad as Have Been Described
Settlers Hold on to Land.

An Argus-Leader correspondent hai
just returned from quite an extended
trip west of the Missouri River, taking
in part of both lines Of railroad. 1t il
the same old story of all newly settled
countries. The poor homesteader with
barely means enough to pull through
from one year to the next under favor
able conditions, finds himself stranded
and either has got to leave or starve.
That class is pretty numerous and 1t has
made a great thinning out in those
parts. But the few thrifty ones left had
In many cases old hay put up when
grass was plentiful, with perhaps patch
OF alfalfa that has never failed of one
crop a year in the very driest parts.
Then again we saw wheat harvested
that will thresh three to five bushels
per acre raised on land that was plowed
deep after being first broken.
Corn will make good fodder wherever
it was planted on lands that have been
plowed deep and we'll cultivated. 1t has
been pretty thoroughly demonstrated
that alfalfa has never failed one crop
wherever tested in this State, and if
every settler would have had 30 to 80
acres of alfalfa we'll started there would
have been few to leave the country.
We saw stock of all kinds in fine
everywhere. Another feature
was very noticeable, that there was not
4 settler with whom We talked that
would consent to sell his land at a sacri-
ice, and we have stopped every mover"
We have seen leaving, as well as those
who are remaining, on that subject. :
Sioux Falls Argus-Leader.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-08-12

Automobiles to be Cared for and Guarded
at State Fair.
A monster automobile enclosure will
be constructed on the State Fair grounds
to accommodate the hundreds who will
motor to the Fair. Guards will be in
charge to check all machines and every
possible attention will be given for the
convenience of automobile owners.
This system will enable drivers to
leave their cars in safety while they
are sightseeing. 1t will also prevent
unnecessary accidents by the crowding
Of machines on the roadways of the
Fair grounds.