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4 CURRENT THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, O1 | in New NEWS OF IOWA. COUNCIL BLUFFS. CUP STATS AT LAKE MANAWA | convention and will be il Blaffs Defeats Helen of §t. Joo. WINS TWO RACES WITH GREAT EASE| Loses a Third on a Foul by Collision | at the Start — Van Hrants | Determined (o Try ndover of Cous o [ Lo Elapsed | Sart Fing Time ndover 11:15 D 5 elen 1l 08ii Wils Becond race: Helen wins on a foul at the start Third race: Sl psed Start. Finish. 1ime ndover 4004 BT AT Telen 4307 biAlin Wiss The Manawa challenge cup will remain at home. With a stiff breeze blowing at Lake Manawa Sunday Andover easily defeated the challenger from Lake Contrary, winning both races that were sailed, while a second race went to the Van Brunts boat by rea ®on of a foul at the starting stake. And over proved itselt by far the faster saller of the two in a stiff breeze and aslmply walked away from Helen in both races. Messrs. Van Brunt, while disappointed at to eecure them for Council Bluffs. Dr J. Waterman is a district delegate to the accompanied by a strong delegation from this clty to work for Council Bluffs, unte, The Woman's Christian assoclation will have a business meeiing and public re ception this afternoon at 2 o'clock in Royal Arcanum hall The graduating exercises will follow at 3:30. A clags of four nurses from the association hospital will receive their diplomas. They are Misses 8| Dement, Richardson and Carney. Miss Penny, superintendent, will present ‘he class and give a short review of their work, Prayer will be offered by Rev. J. W. Calfes, pastor of the Broadway Methodist church. and Rev. W. 8 Barnes of the First Presby. terian church. Drs. Macrae and Hanchett will address the graduates and students and Chancellor L. W. Ross will talk in the Interest of the work of the hospital the association in a general way. Interspersed will be a number of songs and instrumental numbers by Mrs. L. P. Hypes, Ned Mitchell, Miss Jessica Wal lace, Miss McCabe, Miss Ellis, Miss For- syth and Mrs. will be served. Ray Bixby. Refreshments Urges a Con Lengue, Mrs. L. H. Addiogton of Portland, Ore. natlonal organizer and superintendent of the labor department of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, spoke last night in the Broadway Mthodist church to labor organizations. An appreciative au- dience listened with much interest to her talk on the sweat shops and child labor. the result of their second attempt to wrest : . : s the cup from the local yachtsmen, are not | A% & ’I"‘""h"'"""’ Ll LD Ll i iscouraged and will make another effort | Mmended the formation of a consumers' league, the members of which would pledge in the spring or early summer. Helen will Do placed in winter quarters hero and its |themselves to refuse to purchase goods er these conditions. She urged . t rately light Made under th ndition owners bellove that In a moderately NRht o ", ganization of such a league In this wind it can beat Andover. In a stiff breeze they concede that nothing could possibly beat Andover except a boat built on ex- city. This afternoon and evening Mrs. Addington will speak In the First Christian actly similar lines church. She will leave Tuesday for Des The first race was sailed at 10 o'clock in Momes. - the morning, the time limit belng one hour | cyes Counetl Sched for Tonight. and five minutes, as before. The wind was blowing strong and the yachts crossed the | The monthly session of the city council line almost togetber, but from the start |18 slated for tonight, when Important mat- Andover assumed the lead and maintained | ters are to come up for action. City So- it throughout the race. Salls Torn and Ma; The second race was marred by Andover fouling Helen at the starting stake. And- over's crew sought to get the windward berth and as & sudden and strong gust of wind arose they lost control of the boat and a collislon followed, In which Helen Bad its bowsprit broken, headsails torn away and mainsail torn. The wind car- | ried the two, locked, with Andover's bow across the stern of Helen, almost 100 s before they could put about and get | ntangled. J. C. Wallace on Andover | ‘went overboard during the mixup. The rlem ‘was glven to Helen on the foul. | It took two hours for the Van Brunts to | Tepair the dam to their boat so that the third race could be sa'led. In the third race four seconds after the gun was fired Helen crossed the line. | closely followed by Andover, which over- uled the challenger within 200 yards and kept the lead until the home stake was reached. Van Brunts $till Determined. Before leaving for St. Joseph last night J. T. Van Brunt sald: “While naturally we are greatly disappointed at our fallure to take the cup to Lake Contrary, as we bad hoped, we are far from being discour- aged and will make another attempt next spring or early summer. With this end in view we will leave our boat here in winter quarters. We feel that we ha a Kkood boat in Helen and while we belleve nothing cculd beat Andover in a stiff breeze except & boat bullt on exactly similar lines, we think that Helen can take care of Itself and give a good race In a moderate wind. Baturday's race showed this to be true. Andover s undoubtedly a wonder and about the fastest saller of its class I ever w. We go back to St. Joseph more de- termined than ever to get that cup some day, even If we have to build a new boat. We want to get the Manawa yacht on Lake Contrary.” ' Davis selle glaas Rain Spoila Automobile Tr Tha rain yesterday finterfered with the sutomoblle run to Crescent City and the chaeffeurs were compelled to turn bacl when but three miles east of the city. The road was good, but none of the horse- le carriages were provided with tops and the occupants preferred abandoning the trip to getting a thorough drenching. The start wi announced for 11 o'clock, but an hour's delay wi aused by a mishap to L. A. Casper's carriage, due to a broken water glass. Four automobiles were in line, owned by M. Woliman, L. A. Casper, Dr. T. B. Lacey and W. H. Van Brunt. Dick Stewart was unable to make the trip, owing to illness. Two hundred per. sons gathered on Broadway to wutch the automobiles start. If the weather is fine & run will be wade to Glenwood and back nut Sunday. Davis sells paint. Brotherhood to Leave Tipton. A special convention of the Modern Brotherhood of America will be in Sioux City October 22 to select permanent head- quarters for the order. The headquarters at present are at Tipton, but are to be removed from there, and members of the order n this city will make a strong efiort m—— Woodward' Ganymeds Chocolates end_Opera Bon Bons Made By John 6, Woodward & Co. ndy Men.'" he Counell Hlufl lowa. Towa Steam Dye Works | 304 Broadway. Make your oid clothes look like new Cleanin Dnlul and R-nnlrln LEWIS CUTLER Funeral Director Successor to W, (. PHARL STREET, FARM LOANS 674+ in Eastern Mebrass James N. Casady, jr, t.. Councll Blufts. I Repairing, dress n'o':i 'g‘ ol- MAIN STREET, | port on the alley between S licitor Wadsworth 1s to hand down his opinion In the matter of the bids for brick sidewalks, In which the questlon of the cost of grading arose In connection with that for the laying of the sidewalks. On his report will depend whether the con- tract for the four-foot walks will be di- vided between L. C. Besley and John P. Weaver or be awarded entirely to the for mer. The committee of the whole will re- tt and Sixth streets north of Broadway and the foot- bridge over Indlan creck on Eleventh street. For Robbing a Box ( Chappie Jones, a negro, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Officers Weir and Busse for breaking into a Wabash way | car In the local yards and stealing a quan- the the tity of clothing belonging to crew. Jones was seen leaving train car . with the clothing and word was sent to the police statlon. After a search the officers discovered the negro and five white men fn «n empty box car on a sidetrack near the Wabash crossing. As soon as Jones saw the oficers he jumped from the ca but was overhauled by Detective Weir in a corpfleld. Part of the stolen clothing was found on him, the rest in the box car, The men in the car were placed under ar- rest as vagrants. Chambers’ Damcing academy, Royal Ar- canum hall, reopens for begiuners Tues- day, October 1; children 4 p. m., adults § p. m. Complimentary reception to past pupils and their friends, “adults,” Frida: October 4. Clreulars at Whaley's drug store. N. Y. Plumblog Ca , telephone 250. Two Girls Lenve Good Hom Bdna Tyzack and Pearl Davis, 16-year-old girls, who fafled to return to their homes in this city after visiting the carnival in Omaha, are still missing. The girls have been mlesing since September 17. Both glrls had good homes. Gravel roofing. A. H. Read, 541 Broadway. MINOR MENTION. Davis sells drugs. Stockert sells carpets and rugs. Metz beer ut Neumayer's hotel. Gas fixtures and globes. Bixby & Son. Wollman, sclentific optictan, 400 Broadway, Born to Mr. and Mrs, W. L. Thickstun yesterday, a son. Miss Rachel Trafford of Boston is guest of Mrs. Fred Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Woolsey left yester- day on an eastern trip. For Rent—Modern 7-room residence. In- quire at No. 231 Maln street Missouri ouk body wood, $6.50 cord. Wm. Welch, 23 N. Maln st. Tel. 125, The Knights and Ladles of Security will meet Tuesday night to install officers. Wedding presents given s B. Alexunder & Co., 338 Broadway. The Board of County Supervisors will convene in adjourned session tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs, Frank L. Brown have gone on & wedding Journey to Buffalo and New York It pays for itself—Cole’s Hot Blast he pecial attention. e tor, For sale by Cole-Brelstord Hardware Co., 418, Maln, Mrs. B. . Windsor of Mount Auburn, 111, Is visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. H Carter, South First street. Judge and Mrs. 8. H. Sornberger of Wa- hoo, Neb., are guests of Mr. and Mrs. E, D. Hen 030 Sixth avenue, Miss hircot of Salt Lake City Is Kuest o and Mra. J. W. Kelly, She will proceed tlon. 1158 Maude C who has been visiting ¢ parents, Mr. and Mrs. T, E. Cavin of Park avenue, returned yesterday to Wash- fngton, D. ¢ Mrs. John P, Davis, trea Federation of Woman's from Des Moines, where excoutive hoard. Contractor Wickham has began plowing up the old cedar blocks on North Sixth paratory to repaving it with brick from Broadway to Washinglon avenue. to the Pan American exposi- wer of the lowa Clubs, {3 home she met with i Principal E. Cl f the lowa School for tha Deaf ed home to- day from Monmouth, Til, wi he was cailed by the death of his Rev. Henry DeLong will leave for Chi. g0 tonight to attend the ninth annual conference of he officers and missionaries of the Amerlean Sunday School union Mre, Grapt Smith has gone to Sloux City to attend her husband, who was hurt in A _runaway accldent, suffering fractures oF the eft wrist, shoulder and showder: blade. “Two Merry Tramps,” Wood & Ward's big farce comedy, |8 not an experiment, but an assured success, as demonstrated by a forty-three weeks' tour during the last season, Frank Johnson, Johnson noo aged 19 years, son of Hazel Deil township, died of typhold fever after an weeks. The funeral will be morning at 10, with burlal in cemetery Tuesday Grang Cut Prices on Millinery PENNELL MILLINERY, 641 Broadway, Cosnel Biufe and | VIGILANT AGAINST CONTAGION State Beard of Health Plans Campaiga te Defeat Diseass. SMALLPOX REAPPEARS EARLY IN SEASON etermined to Enforce School Bonrd Vaceination Reguniations=Demo. cratic Apathy Throngh the State. (From a Staff Correspondent) DES MOINES, Oect. 6.~ (Special.)~~The State Board of Health is preparing to for- tify itself the coming winter in the matter of contaglous diseases and it is expected that a greater effort than ever before will be made to secure rellable information in regard to smallpox, diphtherla and scarlet tever, to the and that all possible measures | shall be taken to prevent a spread of these diseases, The fact that numbers of new cases ha | been reported recently in the southern part | | of the state indicates that the contaglous | disease season may open early. Smallpox | 1s prevalent in several cities of the state. | The reports indicate that school boards {are more vigilant than ever in excluding pupils who have not been vaccinated. The recent letter of State Superintendent Bar- rett to the president of the school hoard | in Stoux City, making it plain that school boards in lowa have the power to enforce | compliance with all reasonable regulations | of the local boards of health and that vac | cination is regarded as a reasonable regula- tion, has done much to encourage action | 1ooking to prevention of contaglon | Secretary Kennedy of the State Board | of Health reports that during 1599 and 1900 | diphtheria appeared in 335 towns, town- ships and cities of the state, scarlet fever in 600 places and smallpox in 300, The | deaths reported in the two years were | Diphtheria, 315, scarlet fever, 112; smali- | Pox, twenty-four. But the secretary inti- | mates that there were at least twice as many cases and deat in the state as weroe reported. Some of the places where con- tagion was greatest were not recorded at | all. Only seven counties report that they | had no smalipox during the two years. The number of deaths from smallpox is small considering the number of cases reported, a total of 4,702, Democratic Tickets Incomplete Seven countles of the state have no dem- ocratic candidates for the legislature. No nomination papers were filed from Adair. | Butler, Guthrie, Hardin, Mitchell, Sac and | Story. The democratic conventions mom- inated in Adair, Guthrie and Story, but for some reason the candidates or county | committees did not take sufclent interest in the matter to have the nomination pa- pers flied and the names of the candidates cannot therefore go on the officlal bal- lots. In some of the other counties nomina- tlons were not made at all. The democrats hope to elect from a dozen to fitteen members of the leglslatura, chiefly in the river countles of the eastern part of the state. In some of these coun- tles vigorous campalgns are being carried on, but no preparations have been made by the democrats for agy general campaign in the state. To Push Towa's War Claim. It 1s expected an agent of the United States Treasury department will come to | Des Moines soon to check over the ac- | counts in the claim of the state of lowa presented to the secretary of the treasury for a refunding of expenses in ralsing the money with which to equip lowa soldiers for the war of the rebellion. The claim was formally presented to the secretary of the treasury some weeks ago by Gov- ernor Shaw. An agent of the department |18 to come here to go over the books and agcertain the correctness of the figure: before any further proceedings are taken. The claim aggregates $455,471.61, divided | as follows: $214.85; sale and expenses of agents, $1,494.11; to state on account of discounts In of the bonds, $22,680; sums pald as ex- change or premiums for gold with which to pay interest on the $300,000 of bonds, $414,353.28; interest upon warrants lssued, $16,367.25. The claim will be pushed vigorously be- fore the Treasury department by the at- torney general of iowa. Carnival and Morse Show. The Des Moines carnival will take place this week, with the usual street attrac- tions and sho and In connection there is to be a horse show a part of the week. The entries for the horse show ludicate that it will be one of the best ever held in the west, with horses from many states and a fine display of prize animals. Combine to Uphold Insn The Des Molnes insurance agents have formed an assoclation to miaintain insur- ance rates and the organization will be | perfected at a meeting tomorrow. Some of the companies doing business in tho state have given their agents authority to cut rates and disregard the rates which {are being made by a representatives of the underwriters, and as this {ndicates a gen- eral rate war the combine has been effected In Des Moines for the purpose of regulate ing rates among the companies. The recent decislon of Judge McPherson [ on the Nebraska anti-combine law Is taken ‘ln mean that the Towa agents have no fear Cost of preparing the bonds, expense of advertising bonds for loss nce Rates. of the penalties provided In the lowa law of similar import and the Des Moines men are perfecting thelr organization much after the fashion in voguc before the law was passed PRS, oninl Bligibles of New York with Big Bank Accounts, The severe {liness of 8 Howland Rob- bins, who has been at the Presbyterian hospital for some weeks and who has been for years assoclated with Lenox life and known as one of the best of raccnteurs. calls to mind that there are very few good story-tellers or witty dinner men now in soclety, relates the New York Times. The race seems to have run out. James V. Parker (s ~oneidered today ahout the wittiest man in New York so- clety, and he is met more frequently at Newport, where has a summer home, than in town. Like Mr. Robbins, Mr. Par- ker 1s a bachelor. In fact, he Is the dean of the bachelor contingent in society, al- though perhaps he is not so old as Peter Marle, but on account of his long white locks he has a much more venerable ap- pearince. Mr. Parker is one of those men who do not believe that the rules of the game of whist Include one for absolute sllence, and mwany times at the Newport | rending room players are kept convulsed by the running fire of comment which Mr. Parker keeps up during the progress of a game, though never missing a good play. It is told of Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt ) that some seasons ago, having heard ft | frequently regretted by the very clever young women he knew that there was a particular absence of clever men, she In- | | Those Which Forel, vited four very remarkable self-made men, who were extremely brainy and who were trom the west, with new ideas and plenty A8 #ay, to meet four of the cleverest women York society. Mrs. Vanderbilt is quoted as baving sald that she would never repeat the experiment. There was some thing wanting and the women, although extremely cultivated, woll read and very brillfant, would almost have preferred men for thelr dincer partners who could talk only about the goeeip of the day—gossip such as prevailed alone in the sets in which they moved Thomas C. Meyer 13 today probably the oldest unmarried member of the Union club. He is a graduate of Columbia. of the class of '40, bas an independent fortune and has for many years been a man of lelsure. One of Mr. Meyer's fads {s to wear his hat al- ways on one tide of his head. and he usuaily selects top hats which are not of the latest tashion. As he walks each dav on Fifth avenue down to the club--he is as regular as clockwork—he resembles one of the character sketches made by Thackerav for the dandies of the period of Pendennis, and 18, indeed, not very much unlike Mr. Foker Mr. Meyer is a great favorite in soclety and goes to Newport regularly each season The Schermerhorn family has several un married male members. Among these are Willlam B. Schermerhorn, who is a gradu- | ate of Columbia, 1863, and Frederick Au- gustus Schermerborn. Wliliam Schermer- | horn belongs to the Union. Frederick Au- | gustus Schermerhorn is a_member of num erous clubs, including the Unfon, the Knick erbocker, the Metropolitan and the New | York Yacht. Fe lives at 101 University Piace. His sister, Mrs. itichard T. Auoh- muty, livas in the same house, which is one | of the fes examples of beautiful old New York manstons that have not been pullad down. It is near Martin's restaurant and | the University Place Presbyterian church. | Mr. Schermerhorn leads one of the most delighttul of existences. He has a country estate at Lenox, which he keeps open for only a few wecks every year, a vacht on which he entectains handsomely, and a beautiful residence at Whitestone, L. 1 He und W. W. Stow have glven Whitestona ite Country club. Isaac lselin {s the one bachelor in the Ieelin family, although there are a number of younger members now just coming into socfety. Isaac Tselin {8 a cousin of Adrian jr., €. Oliver and the other orothers. His brother John Iselin dled some vears ago | and one of his nieces married this spring A son of Mre. Frederick Goodridge Mr Tselin fs much sought after for dinners. He tells very witt$ storles and has an almost inexhaustible stock of them and very much entertaining gossip. He 1s a hoon at coun try houses and s & member of the Univer- sity and Metropolitan clubs Another bachielor who 18 extremely pop- ular in socloty, who lives in his own house and who glves the raost delightful Mttle Qinners, 1s John Cadwalader. He 1s a| member of sixteen clubs. including the | Knickerbocker, Union and Metropolitan } | | the trinity to which the majority of fash fonable clubmen belong. He Is a Princeton graduate of the year 1858 and a bhrother of Mrs. Jokn Hone. As his name implies, he comes from Philadelphla. He goes abroad | each year and now and then goes to Lenox | or to Bar Harbor for a short season. He Iy a lawyer by vrofession Henry Parish, wiio is also unmarried, be« longs to the Metropolitan club. He is one of the most precise of men in hie dress and one of the most punctilious, even to de- tafls. Alwaye in fair weather or foul he carries an umbrella, after the English fash- ton, and can often laugh at (he fmprudence of others fn not following his example in this very uncertaln climate. Mr. Parish wae graduated from Columbla In 1849, There is one bachelor in the Oelrichs family, Henry Oelrichs, a brother of Her- man and Charles. He lives at Newport. | His health has been slightly impaired and | he fs seldom seen in New York soclety these daye. He Is the youngest of the three brothers. Creighton _“'Phh is the unmarried mem- ber of the Webb family, but there fs no bachelor in the Vanderbilt, the Astor or the Belmont family. In the Astor collateral line there {s Matthew Astor Wilkes, and perhaps Willlam K Vanderbilt, being now matrimenially free, might he regarded as a bachelor. — EXPRESSIVE GLISH PHRASES, | ners Coming to America Learn to Use First. What are the most expressive phrases fn colloquial English? Of the dozens that slip off English-speaking tongues in the course of a day, says the New York Tri- bune, some must be better suited for their purpose and more characteristic of the race | that originated them than others. When | forelgners come to this country they catch | certain cxpressions almost immediately and long before they can attempt to speak the | language have made them part of thefr vo- | cabulary. It would seem that these phrases must be most expressive in English and | that they are peculiar to the language and “fll a long felt want' since foreigners selze 80 eagerly upon them. Every man or woman who lands in this country is saying “Hurry up” in two | months. In whatever quarter of the city one may walk, Itallan or German or Jewish, mothers will be dispatching thelr offspring on crrands, using their native speech, but closing their orders with the magle “Hurry up!” How delightfully characteristic of the nation is the phrase! It Is not to be wondered at that the newcomers from the slow-moving old world find that they have brought over nothing to equal it. UAIL right” rivals hurry up,’ not be- cause forelgn tongues lack similar expres- slons, but because there {s a folly, hatl- fellow-well-met air about “all right" lack- Ing in other phrases of the same character. Then, too, “all right" takes the place not only of “govd,” but of “ves" and “I un- derstand” and of a dozen other phrases which In other languages require separate | expressions. The third phrase which alone shares the popularity of the first two Is “It's nice." This should be inferesting to purists who | wish to restrict “nice” to its first and orig- | fnal meaning of “exact.” No owrd of an- cestry sufficiently aristocratic to please them takes the place of “nice in its col- | loquial meaning aund forelgners clasp It | with joy, wholly ignorant of the fact that | they are outraging the feelings of anybody | by so doing. Other phrases besides “Hurry up,” “All right” and It's nice’ captivate the fancy of the newly landed, but these three me | of Sacred Theolog ZANESVILLE, 0., Oct. 8.—There was a notable gathering of Catholic clergy and lalty here today to witness the conferriug of the degree of doctor of sacred theology on Ri. Rev. L. F. Kearney, provincial of the Domini er. Dr. A. V. Higglns of New Haven, Conn., the venerable prelate of the order, conferred the degree, assisted by Blshop Moeller of Columbus, who cele- | brated high mass. Cardinal Martinelli, lh(" papal delegate nt Washington, telegraphed his congratulations. Fifty prominent clergy- men were present from various sections of the country Clark A. Place, MILWAUK Oct. 6. —~Clark A. Place thirty years paymaster of the Chicago, Milwaukee & 8t. Paul raliroed, died today, aged §4 years Famine In Island of Panay. TACOMA. Wash. Oct #-Steamer nd- vices say the fsland of Panay in the Phil- fppines, “which heen afficted by the plague. s now visited by famine. One hun- dred and fifty deaths from starvation are reported to have oecuiTeC Gt Capize alone To prevent the spread of the piagna Manila jas Insugurated u war sgainat rats. paying 2 centa per rodent dellvered to the Hoar | o Health, | llustration | torests, | of | resolution | Swine | tortal | lucern; notes on some western Kansas wells and | | thelr water supply; COBURN'S WORK FOR KANSAS Recognized as One of Loading Authorit: cn Farm Statisties INTERNATIONAL REPUTE HAS ATTAINED All Kansans Are Prond of the Work of the Agricultural I of the Stnte~Warld.: Ser! prrtment amed s of Repor As suggestive of the manner In which an institution may expand from an humble be- | ginning to a foremost rank the Kansas De- | partment of Agriculture affords a striking work of the agricultural department of the state. Ite present high standard is due to the good work of Secretary F. D. Coburn, who {a recognized as one of the leading authorities of the country on farm statistics Mr. Coburn was born 'n Jeflerson county Wisconsin, in 1848, His paternal ancestory were of the stralght stock, yet his maternal ancestors belonged to the ploneer stock that hewed down the drove back the Indians and made | the land smile between the frowns of the Rockies and Alleghenies. He has followed | the pursuits of a great many strong men of | his generation taught a country school, borne arms in defense of his country in two unfon regiments from Illinois as an en lsted man, been a farmer, split rafls and edited newspapers—-the Kansas Live Stock Indicator especially, for six years. He be- came secretary of the Kansas State Board Agriculture in 1881 the first time; he was a farmer and stock r county, Kaneas, beginning there as a farm hand, upon his discharge from the army, while yet a boy of 20. He was for three years president of the Roard of Regents of | | the State Agricultural « | tour ollege, and has been times elected secretary of the State Roard of Agriculture—on the last two oc- casions by acclamation. At the recent na- tional corn congress in Chicago, called to promote the wider use of cern in this and forelgn countries, with reprosentatives from twenty-five states, he was unanimously | chosen its president When President McKinley was looking | about for a man for secretary of agriculture the friends of Mr. Coburn enthusiastically urged his name for the position. He was endorsed with practical unantmity by stockmen and farmers of the reglon for that position in the cabinet Among these endoreements was a personal tetter from every republican representative In the Kansas passed unanimously, of polltics, by Breeders’ assocfation, the Breeders’ asxoclation, the Oklahoms Stockmen's assoclatlon, the Kansas City Live Stock exchange, the Kangas State Bdl- assoclation and the Kansas State Board of Agriculture. Prac Helpful Literature. While no radical change in conducting the legislature, Kansas work of the State Board of Agriculture was | made by Mr. Coburi upon assuming the duties of secretary in 1894, yet the niath | biennial report differed somewhal widely from its predecessops, his aim belng to make it more nearly a practical, helpful agricultural work for Kansas people, rather than %o especlally an immigration docu- ment. His first quarterly report, issued in September of 1894, contained the agricul- eural and live stock statletics for the year, but was otherwise devoted to a single, and at that time a very pertinent subject, “Feeding Wheat to Ferm Animals"—the first investigation ever made along this line. The volume was In great demand and the edition was quickly exhausted. This publication was the firét of a serles of quar- terlies which has given such wide fame to the reports of the Kansas board, commonly known as the “Red Line Series’” Previ- ously the quarteriies, although of great ex- cellence, had with few exceptions, posscased no special identity, but beginning with that {ssue each one ince has been individual- ized. At this time wonderful Interest was evinced in the introduction of the alfalfa plant, which was halled by the people of the western two-thirds of the state as a great promoter of prosperity. In Novem- ber an edition of 10,000 copies of a quarterly devoted exclusively to the culture, uses and worth of alfalfa was exhausted within a week after its printing. From that time until the present the varfous Coburn books have met a hearty reception from Cork to | Cape Town, by farmers, stockmen, millers, grain dealers, boards of trade and other commercial bodles, besides universities, col- leges, experimental stations and sclentists, Unlike most reports on agricultural sub- jects, they are interesting as well as in- structive, on account of the peculiar stamp of criginality with which their author marks them. World-Famous Series of Reports. Below I8 a detailed list to date of the quarterly reports of this world-famous series, together with a synopsis of thelr objects and contents “Feeding Wheat to Farm Animal its practice in Kansas, and something of its bearing upon agriculture and stockraising; 208 pages, elght Illustrations. “Alfalta Growing; history, character- fstles, cultivation, worth and uses of al- falfa; discussed by sclentific observers and practical growers in the twelve alfalfa-pro- ducing states and territories of America; 230 pages. “Alfalfa, Irrigation, Well Water Supply and Subsoiling;"" a discussion of alfalfa, or irrigation as applicable to Kansas; subsolling and the nat- ural dstributions of roots in sails; 225 pages, ten {llustrations. “Corn and the Sorghums.” Part 1—Corn, its cultlvation, utilization, ~ost and values, more especially from a Kansas standpolnt Part 1[—The sorghums, their cultivation and value for forage and grain, estimated by Kansas growers and feeders; 230 pages, thirty-two illustrations “Cow Culture;" devoted to the of dairy inte the importance, products and possibilities of the cow, and counsel as to her selection, promotion breeding and management; 264 pages, thir- ty-six illustrations. “The Beef Stee: (and his Sister) '--Beef methods of its masters in Kan- and its close relation 282 pages; 43 illus- production; sas and elsewbere, to Kansas prosperity trations. “The Plow, Cow and Steer."—Davoted to soil and crop culture, as found most suit- able In Kansas, together with information as to better utllizing the cow and her pro- duct, the more profitable production of beef, wool, mutton and poultry and a higher order of homemaking. 200 pages. “Pork Production”-A discussion of mod- ern swine, swine rearing and economical and profitable pork-production, particu ularly under conditions existing in Kansas 228 pages; 42 Hllustrations, The Modern Sheep'- Devoted to in- formation upon the rearing and manage- ment of sheep for wool and mutton, and the advantages and possibilities of sheep husbandry In Kansas. 264 pages; 37 illus- trations. “The Horse Useful"—Devoted to the in terests of those who hrr;d care for, use and appreciate the horse, and to the horse himself-—his improved breeding and more humane treatment. 244 pages. 45 illustra- tions “Forage and Fodders'—A discussion ot All Kansans are proud of the | New England Yankee | er In Franklin | senator and | regardiess | the Kansas Improved Stock | State | °sts, a better appreciation of | the production, uses and values of various pasture and fodder plants. especially those found best sulted to the purposes of Kan sas farmers and stockgrowers. Treated under the one general term “Grass,” and from tae standpoint tha all flesh I8 grass.' 304 pages; ilustrations. Dairying in Kansas Devoted to dairy- ing in Kansas and its prospe with sug- gestions for the best management of the cow and her product. 4 pages, 21 {llustra- tlo In 1855 the remular decennial census of the population of the state was taken and compiled under the direction of Mr. Co- burn, and while its inquiries and returns were not nearly so much In detall nor comprehensive as those of the United States census, the results were among the most satisfactory ever achleved in a strictly state census, Today the Kansas Department of Agri- | | culture is probably the most highly re- | garded institution of fts kind tn any state it not {n any country. Not only is this | true, but it {s recognized as such by prince | And plebetan allke the world over, and com | plimentary letters, | work have been received from various dig- ! nitartes abroad as well as at home | %o satistactory has been the Kansas sys. tem of organization for the advancement of the agricultural interests that other states are frequently asking for facts concerning 1t and constantly endeavoring to effect the adoption of a similar plan. Except in a few instances the principal work of similar departments in other atates 1s the conduct of a state falr, little particular effort to ald the individual tarmer being made. The &tates of Indiana, Illinots, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohlo employ approxi- mately the same methods as those of Kan- sas. Town also founded hers on a eimilar basls one year ago, after overcoming many difficulties, the story of which was related by Hon. John Cownie during his recent | visit to Topeka to address the thirteenth annual meeting of the board. He said in part: “For the last dozen years I have | | been before the committee in the Towa leg. | islature endeavoring to have our laws changed and only last winter succeeded | In making my argument before the com mittee, after {1t had voted unanimously | not to change the old law, I went before | them myself with all the reports | could | get of your hoard. 1 had my arms filled | with them and lald them down, and beside them 1 latd our lowa agricultural reports, | and showed how they compared. Some one | of the members, when | got through, said | of a trotting horse association. 1 don't know whether it was my eloquence or Mr. Coburn’s reports, but I got a unanimous report from that committee in favor of a state board of agriculture founded as this | one 1s, and we have today Instead of a state agricultural soclety whose whole scope and alm Is to hold a state falr, a state Board of | Agriculture, und I blush to say we are fol- | lowing where you led." | Kunsna Reports for Text Bookn. The state universities of Wisconsin, Ohlo and Minnesota, Cornell university of New York and the agricultural colleges of Michigan, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Colo | redo, lows, Texas, Oregon, Kansas, North Dakota and South Dakota are using the Kunsas reports In their classes In agricul ture, dalrying and animal husbandry, the books being furnished to the limited extent possible at their special request. The ap- plicants, in justification of thelr request, generally explain that these works are the hest authorities obtalnable upon the respec- tive subjects treated. While the population of the state has | been constantly Increasing and the volume of work required from this department has been constantly expanding there has been no corresponding adequate increase elther in the actual working force of the | office or the printing of publications. Al- though the board was, more than twenty years ago, allowed the aervices of four regular assistants and extra clerks upon occasion, the office work {8 now performed by the secretary and three assistents. It would appear that in view of the growing | interests and increasing duties the sup- port is not altogether adequate. According to the latest official state cen- sus more than 54 per cent of the total number of inhabitants engaged in all oc- cupations are following the pursuft ot agriculture. From this it will be readily scen that scar. one farmer in twenty i3 | able to secure the benefit of theee publica- | tions, in their restricted editions, no mat- | ter how hard nineteen of the twenty may | | | strive. Of the man who has done most to achieve | distinction and win added laurels for the Kansas department during the last decade |of work. To a brain naturally endowed with depth and originality he has added teristic. His unfalling perseverence is for tangible results—to accomplish and to | benefit; these are the prime objects and alms of his labor, CLAY POT WORKS ARE BURNED | Fire Destroys Two Blocks of Pltts- burg Company's Factory at Allegheny. Pittsburg Clay Pot damaged the plant to the extent of $280,000, injured six men and enforced an ldlenc of several months upon a force of 1 workmen. ‘The injured men were firemen, who were on the root of the boiler house when the | WMl fell, and they were carried with it, None of them will die. The fire originated | In the botler room from an unknown cause | and quickly burned its way through | the upper floors, used as a drylng room | &nd kept at a high temperature. there it communicated to block No. 3 and it was soon reduced to ruins Secretary MeMillin, The Immense gas tank of the Philadel- phla company, recently erected 5,000,000 cuble feet of gas, was within 100 feet of the flercest of the flames and pro | explcsion. Mine at Evanaton Afire, EVANSTON, Wyo., Oct. ccal mine, twelve miles from here, is afire in the lower workings. The mine 1% down 500 feet and the fire has been raging for several days. A new shaft has been opened and operations have heen resumed. Chivago Warehouse CHICAGO, Oct. f.—The six-atory building at the foot of Michigan avenue, used by the Rarry Bros. Traneportation company as a warehouse, was destroyed by fire today. Toss on bullding and contents, $100,000 6.-~The Lezeart Cotten Denler Diea Suddenly. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 6.—George R. Robinson, for fifty years a prominent merchant in 8t. Louis, was foun! dead in bed at his bome in Old Orchard today. He was 75 years old. At one time he was reputed ‘o be one of the clty's wealthlest men. Mr. Robinson represented the cotton bagging trust in this territory. He was well known to cotton raisers and dealers in the states in which that product grows. 50 containing expressions | of the highest anpreciation of the board's | N | that our report was nothing but an account | the | transmissonrl | it may be sald he l& « master in his ltne | untiring industry-~his predom!nant charac- | PITTSBURG, Oct. 6.—Fire today In the | works in Allelh!ny" into | ¥From | secretary and general | | suprintendent of the company, estin the loss at between $260,000 and §2 The works were bullt in three divislons, | known as blocks No, 1, 2 and 2. Block No. 1 remains intact, but the other two are completo losses, together with the | machinery. containing | Aiglous efforts were made to save it from | :(jl'EER THINGS IN TRUNKS Comedy at & 8ale of Reven Hundred Piec s of Unclaimed Baggage. IS WORTHLESS MUCH OF 1T TRUMPERY Cartosity Hriskly ventory Prompts Parchasers to Bid Prices And Vay o of Suratogn that Costs Nuyer Almost Doilars. on A man stood in an auction room North Sixteenth street, where an auc with a stentorian voice and a stock of su- perannuated vaudeville Jokes was selling | unclatmed baggage A trunk wrapped with clothesline was on the dock and the au tioneer wanted to kuow how much he was offered “Two dollars!” sald the man faintly “Two dollars! Two dollars! Who'll make it the three? Who'll make it the three?” Somebody “made It the three” and the | man had to bid $4 and finally $4.85 before the Saratogn was finally knocked down to him A porter helped him carry it into an adfoluing alley and thore the man declared [nis intention of opening it. A delivery | wagon was waiting at the curb to convey 1t IVI\ his home, but he couldn't walt for that | curlosity burned In bis blood Ifke a fever. He cut the rope with his pocketknife, pried off the hasp and a moment later the con- tents of the box were revealed to his hungry eyes Here {s a partial inventory These, with Ot r Things. Three y {re of ragged trousers pounds of olled linen t flled with something soap grease iwel that | 100k: klass farn containing preserved | p! that had fermented and burst the tops off. | An ax, a hatehet, a blind bridle and a toe- clip for'a bicyel #v\ mnes of window glass, b Hl cracked, & Chatn, shaped 11k, that had Wk entitled A Dairor kit e A paper box of starch gnawed by mice. The major por! A peck of hic A horse collar An alarm clock, A womuan's summer roses on it A blacksmith's rasp hams. been fon of a gasoline stove & loose in the till hames e with hat artificial ‘ A lenther pocketbook containing recipes for making lanc mange, chocolate cake | ana cottage pudding A poll tax recelpt These and other | upon the things were laid out cobble stones of the alley and | fondled lovingly and the man sald he was well satisfied with his purchase. This scene will be repeated scores of | times every night this week in the alley | Just outside the Sixteenth street auction house, for the annual public sale of un- claimed baggage of the Union Pacific rail- rond company fs on and purchasers are not permitted to open thelr “prize package in tho sale room. More than 700 pleces are plled in tiers along the walls. There are trunks, valises, shawlstrap bundles, bundles | wrapped in bedquilts, telescope grips, um- brellas and every other possible form of luggage—the flotsam and jetsam of travel- ors’ personal property, collected from all the ramifications of the Unfon Pacific sys tem during one year's time. It has been advertiscd, to comply with the law, and now it is being sold under the hammer. To buy a plece of this baggage I8 like buying a ticket in a lottery. Every trunk 18 a yirgin mine and every valise a prize package. The purchaser may draw a blank, but ho will at least enjoy the thrill of ex- citment that accompanies the opening process. Trunks Have a Personality. The American trunk is the home of the American mystery. Many good prople live in thelr trunks and some are put in trunks after they are dead. It was only a short time ago that the newspapers contained heads like this, “‘Another Trunk Murder," from which one might Infer that someons had used a Saratoga as a “blunt instru- | ment,” but those who had kept In touch I‘\'Ilh current events knew that the trunk | had been used simply as a means of getting rid of the bod, A trunk s rich In its potentialities of | wealth and dark, forbidden lore. The au- thor of “Treasure Island” realized this when he concealed the key to the buried £0ld In a trunk, and had his sailors singing n men on a dead man's chest— -ho, and a bottle of rum! A trunk 1s the custodian of its owner's | secrets and tho repository of his most sacred chattels. It contains the quintes sence of his personal property. The man | who buys such an article buys the open | sesame 1o a storchouse of private informa- | tion and the right to lay bare the very soul | of its former owner. And this, no doubt, 18 why the auction rooms are crowded every night. It seems incredible that such mountains | of unclaimed baggage could accumulate in a single year at the stations Of a single rallroad system, but the general baggage | agent says this collection is rather below the average as to quantity. When there is nothing but n brass tag to bridge the chasm between a man and his luggage, he says, there is apt to be a slip somewhere along the line unless he looks well to his connec- | tlons and is willlng to pay storage. St. Joseph Milllonatre ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Oct. 6 ~John J. Toi- tle, a ‘young muitl-milifonaire “of this clty, #on of the late Milton Tottle, {3 serlouniy | 11 with typhold fever at oital in Co'- | orado Springs. He has b death's doo -, 1 will be brought wsible to this clty 220 BEE BUILDING OMAHA, NEB. 'Phone 1116 Re-No-May Powder telieves and cures all disorders of the feet Que to excessive pecwpiration. 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