Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 13, 1903, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, 18, 1903. Pringle, however, Is a Curtis man by virtue of Instructions received from his constit- JANUARY lEPER CoLONY Iy HAWA“;“M. and will be obliged to use his influ- Senate Oommittes Recommends Federal | Curtis is now In the lead in the number of votes pledged, with Stanley a close second o:m'l"f.““m“"' and Long third. The Curtis men have a of all of these public sertice companies materially, but onlygone of them appeared before the Board of Review asking & re- duction of assessment. This corporation was the Nebraska Telephone company whose original return called for an as serement in the sum of $5,000 on real es- tate and $38,00 on peevonal property The figures for the personal property had | of this decrease is to be accounted for by pared with other mercantile establish- ments. To do this we endeavored to follow out the intent of the law by ascertaining the real value of the shares of stock for each institution and deducting the real estate asseased. The total of bank as- sessments is, therefore, consalderably lower BOARD OF REVIEW REPORTS It Bamrarises Its Work for Information of City Oonnci', THAT MAKES SOME TIMELY RECOMMENDATIONS Comprehensive Statement of the Ob stacles Met in Reviewing Assess- ment Roll and the Manner of Dealing with Them, A report of the been filed with the ms mitted to the city Board of Review has or and will be trans council to dav. It 18 signed by Victor Rosewater, cuairman; Willlam Fleming, tax commissioner, and W. J. Hunter, and reads as follows The aggregate of the a made up by the tax commissioner and placed fn the hands of this board and the aggregate after the changes made by th 00AFd werg Incorporated into shown in the following tabl ssme oll as ax Commissioner. .8 72,428,02% Board of Review TReal estate.. 72,206,165 Personal Total As Just year the paramount questic fore the a #sing authorities involved th valuations to be placed upon the property of the franchised corporations, so this year the most important work turns upon the valuations placed upon the property of the raflronds having terminals in Omaha Notwithstanding the fact that the state conetitution expressly declares that whers municipal corporations are vested by the tegislature with the authority to as: s and collect taxes, “such taxes shall be uniform In respect to persons and property within the jurisidiction of the b imposing the ' a provision had been inserted in the ity charter requiring the tax commissioner in ‘making up nis assessment roll for mu- niclpal taxation to take as the valuation of the rallroad property included in the right of way within the corporate Jimits the assessment fixed on such property by the State Board of Equalization, Question of Railway Valu 1t the basis of authorities and assessment by the city the state authoritles were approximately the same the injustice fiicted upon the other taxpa¥rs of the city would not be so noticeable, but when er the tax commissioner system the basls of municipal assessment of private property was raised first to 23 per cent, then to 40 per cent and this year to 100 per cent, the discrimination enjoyed by the railroad ' property becume so flagrant as t amount to almost complete immunity grom city taxes.' Even if the assertion were true, that the valuable terminal factlities n this city were properly distributed along the entire mileage of the roads within the state and were taxed for state and county purposes outside of Omaha, that would still_afford no justification for exemption from an equitable share of the burde municipal government whose advantages are enjoyed by the raiiroad propert Cqually With other property In this juris- dletion. s Acting upor legal advice to the effect that the charter provision relaMng to the as- wessment of raflroad property within the right of way was in conflict with the guar- ty of the constitution that all taxation hould be uniform within the taxing dis- trict, and was, therefore, null and void the tax commissioner undertook to assess the terminal property of the railroads within the city of Omaha independently of the State Board of Equall; upon basis more in conformity with the basls of assessment of other property subject to city taxation. Kach of the rallroads concerned entered protest with this boar against recognition by It ‘of the assess- ments wo made by the tax commissione and agaln objected to the jurisdiction of n this board to act upon complaints filed by | George T. Morton as a taxpayer, alleging that the assessments made by the tax commissioner were too low, and requesting at they be raised. This board, acting also upon legal advice, overruled these abjections, and after entertating hearings upon tho ‘complaints fixed tho valuations of raliroad property as they now upon the assessment roli in the light the best evidence _obtainable as to thelr cost of construction, earnings, capitaliz; tion and salable value. As a result the rallroad _properties within the city of Omaha, which were assessed by the State Board of Equalization at $229.118.40, and by the tax commissioner at $13.617,860. ‘are now listed for taxation at $26.067,253.60. The representatives of the railroads have intimated that ey will contest the action of the city authorities in undertaking to assess their properties independently of the State Board of Equalization by appeal to the courts If necessary. We belleve the ntiment of the great mass of the tax- Deying citigens of Omana s in favor of defending the right of the city to have all property within its boundaries assessed for taxation on the same basls of uni- formity. The tax which the rallronds would pay upon the state board's valun- tlon of 323911840 would, If the ity tax rate were 12 mills, amount to about $2,790, whereas should the assessment fixed by the Board of Review stand the test of the courts, the tax will aggregate some $260,000. With %0 much to gain and so little to_lose we feel sure that your. honorable body will endorse and uphold the course pursued by this board. As to the Franchised Corporations. 8o far as the franchised corporations are eoncerned, which a year ago monopolized the attentlon not only of the Board Review, but also of the Board of Equaliza- tion, there seems now to be no contentlo The tax commissioner increased the returns BLOOD, HUMOURS Skin Humours, Scalp Humours, Hair Humours, Whether SImpl—sScrotuMus or Hereditary Speadily Cured by Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills, When All Other Remedies and Best Physicians Fail. COMPLETE TREATMENT, $1.00. In the treatment of torturing, disfig- uring, itching, se: 1y, crusted, pimply, blotchy and serofc lous humours of the #kin, scalp and blood, with loss of hair, Cuticura Soap, Olutment and Pills h been wonderfully successful. Even the most obstinate of constitutional hu- mours, such as bad blood, scrofula, in- berited and contagious humours, with loss of hair, glandular swellings, uleer- ous patches In the throat mouth, sore eyes, copper-colored blotches, as well as boils, carbunc scurvy, stles, ulocers and sores arising from an im- Eun or impoverished condition of the locd, yield to the Cuticura Treatment, wllxl-n all other remedies and methods tall, Aod ater still, if possible, is the wonderful yecord of cures of torturing, disfiguring humours among infants and children. The suffering which Cuti- cura Soap and Olotnient have alleviated among the young, aud the comfort they have afforded worn-out and wo ried parents, have led to their adoption in countless homes as priceless cura- tives for the skin pud blood. Infantile and birth humours, milk erust, seal) head, eczemn, rashes and every form of itching, seuly, plmply skin and sealp humours, with foss ~ hair, of infancy sud childhood, ure speedily, pern nently and economically cured when all other remedles suitabie for ehildrea, aud even the best physiciaus, fail, s of | of been raised by the tax commissioner restored to the amoint returned by It While the officers of the company fail to furnish all of the information reque position to estimate the valye of the prop- erty more accurately & decision reached, which we think fatrly the taxable value of the property. From the information adduced it appears that the Nebraska phone company is capi { talized at $1.798,000. all in stock certificates | drawing 6 per cent annual dividend. It is the conteniisn of the company that thi figure representing th stock which sells at 18t be taken to repr the company’s pro does throughout thr | lem before us then proportionate value sat on the market riy, extending as it states. The prob- was to determine of the property - cluded in the Omaha exchange. The offl- | cors of the campany made an estimate { the value of its tangible property through- out the entire territory In which it operates, crediting Omaha $30,000 for th plant located here. They figured that the difference between the tangible property and. the capital stock represented the In- tangible franchise value and undertook to distribute this over the the system in the same ratlo as the distribution of tangible property. We could not see our way clear to accept this method of arriving at the value of the intangible property in Omaha, but preferred to estimgte the franchise alue on a basis of earning capacity. Giv- ing the company the benefit of all possible deductions and exemptions, Its gross earn- ings exclusively within the city of Omaha aggregated for the year §240,000, while the gross earnings of the entire system was for the year 191 $757,000. The proportion chargeable to Omaha then Is approxi- mately six-nineteenth of the, total. Ap- plying tnls ratio to the capitailzation and deducting the real estate already taxed glves us the figure $4%0.42, at which we have fixed our final assessment of its per- sonal property. Pacific Express Company. The most perplexing puszle presented by the attempt to enforce the hitherto disre- garded provision of the statutes relating 10 the listing of capital stock of companies incorporated in Nebraska and having their headquarters in this city has grown out of the assessment of the Pacific_Express company. This company is & Nebrasku corporation with a capital stock of $6,000,000 . | worth at least par, the stock being held entirely by three rallway corporations, to which it was {ssued In exchange for serv- ice contracts, The company made a return of 1ts capital stock and of its real estate holdings in this and other states, but inas- much as {t does business in twenty-two states and fs taxed In some of them upon the basis of earnings, in some upon the basis of property, in some upon the basis of mileage, und In others not at all, it was maniféstly impossible for It to show upon just how much of its capital It has been paying taxes elsewhere. The officers of the company were cited to show cause | why the assessment should not be raised to $5,5 being the amount of its capital stock, léss the real estate holdings outside of Omaha. They responded with such in- formation as was in thelr power, and after considering the matter the Board of Re- view, by a majority of its members, voted to assess the capital stock of the company Tepresented by a capitalisation of the carn- ings on its Nebraska business. The tax commissioner dissented and recorded him- self in favor of making the assessment | $5,537,627, for the purpose of inviting a test in the courts of the right of the city to tax this company upon its entire capital stock with deductions for property taxed elsewhere. We submit the question to your honorable body and leave it to your judg- ment whethei the assessment shall be still turther increased. Mereantile Extablishments, In the matter of assessing mercantile es- tablishments upon their capital stock and stocks of merchandise, the board has en- deavored to fix -assessments that would work substantial justice under the re- quirement of the law that property of all kinds should be subjeet to uniform taxa- tion. It has been asserted that on the whole mercantile capital has heretofore been assessed much more leniently than real cstate, and the plea has been made for a continuance of this discrimination on the ground that to remove it would work hardship especially upon corporations and firms with headquarters here, but dolng business outside of this ity in' competition with merchants and jobbers of other cities. It Ias been urged that moblle property should not be taxed 'to the extent ‘of driv- ing it out of the taxing jurisdiction and thus destroying it as a_source of further revenue, and there may be somg reason for the argument that whatever encourage- ment is given to mercantile establishments in the form of lighten¢d burdens of taxa- tion redounds in a measure to the benefit of the owners ol real estate and such other institutions as inherently belong here whose value depends upon the maintenance of & growing population. Acceding to these pleas, however, would make it simply a question of how much advantage, If any, should be given to mer- cantile capital as against capital invested in real estate/and other fixed Interests. Representatives of some of our jobbing houses urged before our board that If real estate were assessed on a basis of 1100 per- cent mercantile capital should not be ‘wesessed on a basis higher than 50 per cent and that if they were permitted to PAY an 8 per cent only of the capital they ad invested they would be contributing thelr full share toward the cost of mu- nicipal government. We have been unable to see how any falr interpretation of the | law would permit us to do_this. We have no doubt that several business firms will appear before your honorable body, when sitting as a board of equali- zation, to complain against the assessments which' have been fixed upon them by this board. It may be well, therefore, for us to remind the equalizing authorities in ad- vance that we have preferred to err, It at all, on the side of lentency in all of these cases rather than the reverse, ‘al- though we have refused to accept the logle of the argument that business houses should be nssessed only nominally here because competitors in other cities,” where the expenses of government are much smaller and the profection afforded far leas adequate. are taxed still less, To admit the valldity of this argument would be to allow the authorities of other cities to fix s for Omaha. For aught we know essments in other cities have been pulled down by the eame argument in Feterence (o low taxes in Omaha. so that it would bé merely a matter of time hefore all the different competing cities and towns would be remi(ting taxes upon mercantile capital nltogether becauge gome . business houses in small villages paid no taxes at ail. v Special Dificulties Encountered, In fixing the assessments upon certain mercantile establishments the greatést dim- | calty encountered has arisen from the. fact that their cwners neglected or refused to give accurate information for the guldance of the hoard. They seemed to prefer to #end their lawyers as missionarles to in- struct us as to our duties in the premises | and the ‘methods we should pursue. and when the suggestion was offered that the toard preferred information to advice they refused to furnish the information. com- pelling us to secure the necessary facts from such sources as were avallable. It wan disclosed by our inquirles that the patd in capftal stock of our business houses affords no invariable indication of the real amount of capital invested or the stocks of merchandise carried that shoyld be listed for taxation. Many mercantfle con- cerns whose assessments for personal prop- erty may appear low are paying taxes also vpon real estate in this city as well as | elsewhere and in some cases upon personal vroperty In other taxing jurisdictions. The board made it a rule to require sworn statements in all cases cting personal property because it was compelled to act 7 information furnished by the owners he property under review. In other cages the capital stock figurex were found to be too low because the institutions were much a part of their canitalization as the face value of the fes of stock. The greatest difficiity ‘experienced in get- ting information as to surplus and undi- vided profits. and the presumable reason the information desired by the board was not furnished In these cames is that if | furnished it would have justified still larger arsessments than were finally fixed by us. On the other hand it is only fair to say that by far the rreat malority of firms and corporations cited by the board came forward promotly and courteously with the information desired and did all nower to assist us in arriving at fair valu- ations of their property. also that these establishments feel satis- fled with the treatment accorded them by us and will not be among those beleagur- ing the Hoard of Equalization for reduc- tion of their assessments. The National Hanks. The yea pose national banks have in previous complained that because of the ex- condition of their capital stock and assets, being compelied to make periodic sworn otatements to the comptroller the currency, they were being taxed on a much larger proportion of their cagital than capital Mvested in other mercantile pursults. We believe we have arrived at an assessment of the banks which is sub- strntially equitable to them. not only with respect 10 one another, bui &lso as com- 1o 00 and the company asked that it be | has taken place in the interval Other property has been given precedence eport because we estate by the board with a view to placing us in was | represents value of its capital | nt the entire value he | cirrying permanent surpluses which are as in their You may be sure of the reduction of bank papitalization over real estate in this | believe that as & whol | Asscssments were in more the real atisfactory con than assessments other property Heforms Hecommended. would like to call at- upon { In conclusion we tention to several public consideration. Th first Is assessment roll. The rank of Omaha alongelde of other American cities is fixed largely by the assessed valvation of | property subject to taxation within its boundaries. It is unfaiv the city to have a valuation go forth to the world | which represents only a part of its actual | property values. The present grand total, gratifying as it ls, by no means 8o large as it should be, since it does not include the property which Is exempt from axation for various statutory reasons be- | eause of its use for public, charitable, edu- cational or religlous purposes. The law, it seems to us, entitles this property to ex- emption from taxation, but not to exemp- tion from assessment Without attribut- ing the omission as A fault to any one, we would advise that provielon be made for the future to have this overlooked property included 1n the assessment list and later exempted for purposes of taxation. We would then know more accurately what the true valuation of all the E:flrerl in the city is and also realize better how much assistance in the way of remission of taxes is being extended to all these public_institutions. “Becond—We do_not belleve our citizens realize the excessive cost of their taxing machinery which {s multiplied by duplica- tions of assessing functions in different bodles. The outlay for making two sep- arkte assessments of property within the same corporate limits each year, one for the county and one for the city, is only a part of this cost, the expense of time on the part of busy business men in aking up tax schedules and appearing before as- messing Loards at frequent intervals entall- ing an_equally heavy burden. Time Is money for business men and this waste of time should be prevented if possible by consolidating the assessment machinery of city and county. Third—Complete new nassessment of real estate each year s no longer necessary in- as much as real estate valuations have be- come fairly settled. In some states real estate I8 assessed only once in three years, changes being entered in the interval only where improvements are made or complaint preferred of Inequality, and then only upon notification of the owner with an oppor- tunity for a hearing. Some provision for less {reuurnl assessments of real estate at intervals, say of three to five years, would work bstantial economy for our taxpay Ing scitizens, although personal property, which varies from year to year, must necessarily be reassessed for edch tax levy. Equalization Board to Weet. The city councll will enter upon its du- tles as a board of equalization this morning and there are now on file at the office of the city clerk between 95 and 100 applications for reduction of assessment In a majority of these cases remonstrances were filed with the Board of Review, but they were not reached owing to the time Iimit placed by law upon the sitting of that body. Only a few of these pending applications are from business firms, nearly all of the property owners of that class having gohe over the assessment of their holdings fully with the Board of Review and accepted the judgment of that body. Many of them are filed by real estate and rental agents as representatives of owners of real estate, and a number of others are from individual real estate owners. P PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. 3. L. Megriman of Chadron Is In the city on business. Mr. T. Broud of New York is registered ® the Schiltz. Mr. A, B Carr of 8t. Louls is registered at the iler Grand. Mr. John Mattes, jr., of Nebragka City is in the city on business. Mr. G.'B. Fletcher of Kansas City is in the city for a short business trip. Mr. R. A. Krause of Alblon, a prominent days. Mike Elmore, a prominent railroad con- tractor of Alllance, Neb., is In the city for a few days on a busincss trip. Captain H. E. Palmer left last even- ing for Washington on business connected with the Soldiers' Home committee. Ike Greenbaum of Louisyllle, Ky. Wilcox of Lincoln, J. B. Murray of ho, Neb., are registered at the Hen- J. E. Cochran, one of the well known ranch owners of the west, is In the clty with_his family enroute home from a trip to Chicago. Mrs. H. V. Burkley, who has been sick at the home of her parénts in Council Bluffs since Christmas, has returned to her home in this city, fully recovered. At the Dellone—H. T. Miller, Kansas City; W. Morse, Friend, Neb.; A, Sands, wiiber; V. Newman, Oaklarid; Mrs. Sayre, Des Molnes; M. Hildrich, Tobias, Neb. N. C. May of Reno, Nev.; 8. A. Foster of idncoln, 8. E. Cobb of Emerson, Neb. Mr, and Mrs. Henry Rawe of Blair, Neb. M, R. Mathews of Peru, Neb., are regis- tered at the Mlillard T. R. Lombard of Coronado, Cal; J. B, Ashton of Salt Lake City, J.'A. Allen of San Francisco, D. Richardson of Dubuque, Mr and Mrs. . B, Read of Ogalalla, Neb.; Willlam_Smiley of Lemont, Neb., and G. B. McWilliams of Waterloo, la., are reg- istered at the Paxton. Among those who were fegistered at_ the Murray hotel last night were Mesara E. €. McCormack and Charles Church of Daven- port, Ia.; B. E. Jennings of Sfoux City: 8. P. Delatour of Lewellen, Neb.; T. J. Hitte of Shenandoah, M. J. Berry ‘of “Hastings and G. H. Koon, also of that city. Mr. W. N. Dill of Decatur, 1l.; Mr. and Mrs. M. McCoy of Upton, Wyo.; Mrs. Harry Lodor of Norfolk, Neb.i Mr. J. H. Cripps of Salt Lake City, Utah: . Mazor »f Kansas City, Mr. John Osterburg of St. Louis, Mr. G. B. Jackson of Des Moines, In.: J. N. Bepedick of Norfolk, Neb., are tegistered at the ller Grand, Mr., Charles Tong of Sheridan, Ky.; J. R. Edgehfll of Bait Lake City, Utah; 'G. Lucius of Kansas City, George Wertz of Schuyler, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Shreves ol Orient, Neb.: Mr. and Mrs, Charles Miars of Orfent, W. R. Hann Joe Young of 'Lelgh, Neb.; A. of Stanton, W. E. Johnson of Akrom, C. F, Searle of Lincoin, A. M. Armstrong of Oakland, Ta.; W. E. Ingraham of Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs, L. N. St. John of Kearney, D. Morgan of Verdel, J. C ordon, P. Bronson of Cheyenne, Bacon of Elm Creek, Neb.; Coffee of Chadron, Neb.;' B. M. Fox | Lewellen, E. E. Sagel of Spencer, F. M Moore of Prairle City, F. R. Loomer of Wisner, . M. Noble of Harian, John F. Kaufman of Lincoln, F. W. Barber of Franklin and G. R. Willlams of Elk City, Neb., are registered at the Merchants. LOCAL BREVITIES. Frank B Wyo.; Hibbard has filed .80 estate to his Aancee. The first Information filed by James P. Fuglish as county attorney was one drawn yesterday against Dan J. Ryan for the [un‘lné' of C. Bahnsen. $350 for alle, tered into Schuyler, $o0 week. A new jury venire was drawn yesterday Neb., eight weeks for ginning February 2 may not adjourn until tomorrow or next day, aithough last Baturday wa set for adjournment. . Jens Knudsen sues for Ulrika Sophia, mark ' April 27, 1883, and who, abandoned him July 4 order giving him thg custod: fren and preventing® the wife erinz with them. The Monday club ysterd: question of ~“Federation, The of the cbil- from inter- the Chrietian presentation of a_paper on the subject by ev. W. B. Crewdson of Council Bluffs The lay the subject next week An attempt Is being made to have Indlan bureau of the Interior department include Omaha delivery in its dru surgical contracts which will be lssued this spring.. Twice before has the attempt been made unsuccessfully, and Omaha jobbers In these goods have been placed At a great disadvantage. than for the year 132, but more than half lhnl' dition as returned by the tax commissioner classes of matters which deserve with reference to the grand total of the city's the hardware dealer, is In the city for a few ! H, | Jordan of Charles ot the will of his son, Henry S. Hibbard, who leaves his from the person of Benhard Boris Predmestky sues A. Rosenberg for breach of the contract en- une 25, whereby the plaintiff WAS to run & store for the defendant at per for the first three weeks of the term be- October term the date divorce from whom he married in Den- he avers, 1900. He asks an y discussed the ministers expressing their views after the members of the club will discuss the nd URGES CHANGE Senators Feel that She Has Equitable Rights, met today to receive the report of the Hawallan islands Mitchell (Wash.), (Ky). {Ore.), Cockrell Burton (Mo.) (Kan.) the recommendations, six. September and during which were held and 176 witnesses were interro- gated. The investightion was general and cov- covered twenty-five days, the laws. local and federal, and their execu- tion; the public lands, labor, the planta- tions, the barbors, taxation, the leprosy settlemer®t, Queen Liliuokalani's claims and other subjects. The condition of affairs in the leper set- tlement on the {sland of Malokai excited the liveliest interest. The committee made a quite thorough Inquiry concerning this settlement, which 1s under territorial control, with the result that it recommends that the management of the colony be transferred to the Marine Hosepital, service, with headquarters in Washington, and that a general leprosaro or retreat for all the lepers of the United States be established on that island. At the time of the visit of the committee there were 848 leper patlents In the settle- ment. The opinion i expressed that there are many hundreds of other cases of leprosy in the territory. In the last year on the Molokal settlement there were 144 deaths and sixteen births in the colony, elght of the children born being fllegit- imate, " Much djversity of opinion was found:in the territory as to whether the control'of the settlement should be retained by the territorial government. Though all the territorial officers were found to be fa- vorable to such retention the committee takes strong grounds in favor of a change, and in this connection freely discussed the conditions with reference to moralfty which prevailed, rayiog: Your committee has been somewhat sur- prised to find that under existing manage- ment of the leper settlement indiscriminate iegitimate and Wlegitimate cohabitation is permitted In the settlement. Marriages are suffered to be celebrated between leprous men and women, regardless of thelr phys- ical condition. Children are born In the settlement of leprous union and as a result of concublnage, and, strange as it may ap- pear, the eading officlals seem not only to regard all this as permissible, but pro- test vigorously aginst a system of segre- gatlon that would prevent it. Further along the committee says that unrestricted illegitimate assocfation is per- mitted by the authoritles and adds; The only attempt, seemingly, to abate or minimize this evil is by counseling and earnestly advocating marriage on the part of lepers, even going so-far In this matter A8 alding divorce wherewaleprous man or woman has & wife or hueband outside of the settlement, %0 that- the band of wife- thus released fromthe marriage ob- \igation might again be married. to a leper or inmate of the leper séttlement. The committee finds thaf Queen Liliuoka- lani had no personal interest in the crown { lands which only an official interest during her refgn. Such interest would have entitied her to the rental of the lands, and the committee finds that from the time of the dethrome. would have amounted to $432,375. In view of all the circumstances the com- mittee recommends that, as an act both of justice and - national grace and wisdom, late Queen Lilluokalani, now a loyal pri such reasonable provision for her facts here presented may seem to justity. The committee recommends the disallow- ance of claims made by other persons pro- fessing to be members of the late royal family 6f Hawall. Marshal for that State Are Se- leeted, senate: (‘t\lleclor of customs the ‘district -of Arizona. erlbll: A. Hadsell, district of Wyoming. States attorney: Timothy F. Burke, district of Wyomin Postmasters: Illinols—Fred R. Brill, Hampshire; Charles W. Vedder, North Chi- cago. lowa—Charles C. Burgess, Cresco; Henry T. Swope, Clearfield; Henry Barnes, C. Hill, Mediapolis. Kansas—James J. Evans, Hartford; Jacob D. Birschler, Hills- boro; Joha Gilman, Madison. KANSAS HAS NEW GOVERNOR W. J. Bailey is In pital with A Ceremontes, ropriate TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 12.—The inaugural ceremony of Governor-elect W. J. Bailey and other new state officers took place at at 12 o'clock. Governor W, E. Stanley, as retiring ex- the inaugural address of the new governor. W. A. Johnston, the oath of office. An immense crowd witnessed the cere mony. be glven at the state house for the incom- ing and outgoing offictals. clde on house officers will persons will be recommended: tem, C. D. Jones, Norton Mason, Neoshs sergeant-at Cave, Haskell; chief doorkeeper, J. H. Mc- Farlagd, Lincoln; chaplain, Rev. A. C, Pye. Leavenworth; postmistress, Mrs. Bradford, Cloud. This is a Leland-Long- Stanley factional victory, they agreed on the slate at chief clerk, W. P. morrow noon. will be done until it is disposed of. Stanley and Congressman Chester 1. Long leading candidate of the opposing faction by the caucus elegtion of J, T. Prifigle 0 a eal extent the sentiment WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The senate com- mittee on Porto,Rico and the Pacific coast | b- committee Appointed at the last session of congress to Investigate conditions in the | This subcommittee consisted of Senators | Foster and Blackburn | The last two named did not visit the | Islands, but Senator Blackburn joined in numbering twenty- The visit to the islands was made last time forty-three meetings ered all questions with which the govern- ment possibly could be concerned, including ave been claimed for her, but ment, in 1893, to September 1 last the rental the senate consider with favor, on the lines Indicated in this report, the claim of the vate citizen of the United States, and make the WYOMING MEN ARE NAMED nd United States Attorney WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The president today sent the following nominations to the Edwin Baker, for Frank United Elliott; J. Ken Mathews, Mediapolis; Henry urated at the the auditorium today, beginning promptly ecutive, made a brief speech, followed by who today became chief Justice by reason of seniority, administered This evening a public reception wiil The republican legislative caucus to de- be held this afternoon ot 4 o'clock and the following Speaker, J. T. Pringle, Osage county; speaker pro rms, Steve Evelyn having an after-dinner | The Kansas legislature will convene to- The sendtorial fight will be the feature of the session and little else The Leland faction is divided between Governor while Congressman Charles Curtis is the The Leland faction organized the house speaker and this is regarded as showing of the house oo the sematorial question. Speaker | that the man was evidently wealthy, compact organization, while the sentiment IN THE CONDITIONS of the Leland faction is divided between Long and Staniey OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 12 ton legislature convened today. Dr. W. H Hare, republican, of' Yakima county was elected speaker of the house and Dr. I J Smith, republican, of King county, presi dent of the senate. | LITTLE RQCK, Ark, Jan. 12.—The Ar- kansas legislature convened today. The election of a United States senator will not take place for several days. Ex-Gov- ernor James B. Clark Is the democratic | nominee and there is no doubt of his elec- tion to succeed Senator James K. Jones. SALEM, Ore., Jan. 12—The Oregon leg- islature met today. George C. Brownell was clected president of the senate and L. T. Harris speaker of the house. Both men bad the support of C. W, Fulton, one of the leading candidates for the United States senate. SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 12.~The ffth blennial session of the Utah state legisla- ture met today. The republicans cogtrol both branches by heavy majoritics.' In the senate F. M. Allison was chbsen presi- dent pro tem. Thomas Hull of Salt Lake was chosen speaker of the house DENVER, Colo., Jan. 12.—The legislature today canvassed the vote on state officers. | The vote for governor stands James H. Peabody, republican, 87,774; E. C. Stimson, democrat, 80,816; Frank Owens, | populist, 6,463; scattering, 6,324 | The only democrat elected Is Mrs. Helen | M. Grenfelt, superintendent of public| schools, who received 87,013, against 84,942 cast for Mrs. A. B. Branst, republican. Mrs. Grenfelt was Indorsed by the popu- list state convention After the joint session the senate met and adopted i{s rules. A seusational fea- ture was ‘one making reports of the com- mittee on elections undebatable. Another was a rule providing that if the president of the senatc at any time refused to submit a question to vote the secretary of the senate should, upon the request of any mem- ber, supersede the president until‘the ques- tion was disposed of. The senate is strongly democratic, while the lieutenant governor is a republican. STEADY DECLINE IN IRELAND Population Al ~The Washing- tlon—More Marriages, | Children. To the old and painful story of the steady decline in the population of Ireland are added in the registrar-gencral's return of births, marriages and deaths only two cheerful foatures—a marked diminution in the death rate and in the number of emi- grants, Apart from these two clements, in one of which there is reason to feag the improv ment is only temporary, says the London | Express, the statistics detract nothing from | the disquieting effect of the reports of the | past decade. | " 'The number of births, which in 1591 was 108,116, fell last ycar to 100,476, or nearly | money ! | | | =3 g &’ THROAT-TICKLING It’s first, the throat; Then, the bronchial tubes; Next, the lungs; At last, Consumption. There’s nothing so bad for a cough as coughing ! There’s nothing so good for a cough as — is in the throat. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. than ever. completely cure mo. 1 have used th THE HASH OF BYGONE Royal Feed for, Indian Ohiefs, Explorers and Hunter: DAY Paleface PEMMICAN APPLAUDED IN BORDER ANNALS Sample of the “Dreakfast Fo [ of the m the Aretie Circle with Poexy and, Evergreen Reminiscence, On the cold wave of Christmas time, bearing 4 pungent odor as penetrating as the freeted breath of Calgary, came a,relic famous in the days of indian primacy in the west and orthwest It was a tiny | sack of reindeer pemmican, encased in holi- day gilt und bearing the greeting and good will of the Winnipeg Free Press. The sample received at The Bee office was a robust one. Dark brown in color, it re- sembled the remnants of a bygone feast skilfully macerated by a kitchen artist, and generated an odor that would give a de- rted fish market a hard run for first There was strength jn every fiber of the mess. Although it had traveled from beyond the Arctic circle to Winnipeg, a distance of 2,678 miles, and from Winnl- peg to Omaha, in all kinds of conveyances and in all kinds of weather, it seemed ¢o 5,000 less than the average of the ten years Marriages, 22,564 in number, were slightly | ! over the average, and deaths totaled 79,119, | ns compared with 85,099 in 1891, and 90611 | in 1892, and a deccnnial average of 83804, | The number of emigrants, which ten | years ago was 50,323, fell to 39,613, as com- | pared with a ten years' average of 43,353; | but the decrease in the population is never- theless as much as 17,756, though something has 10 be set off against this on account of immigration, of which no official record has been obtained. The situation will be better understood by comparing the population figures cal- culated to the middle of last year with those of Ireland’s perlod of maximum popula- tion and the figures for 1524, when the col- lection of vital statistics was first systo- matized. These returns show the following results: Year, 1824, Male. +.3,471,820 1 e 4.083,043 4,212,018 19010 2,194,716 2,250,014 From these figures it will be seen that the population in the middle of last year was 2,632,610 less than it was seventy- elght years ago, and if the estimated pop- | ulation in the middle of the present year— 4,425,000—be compared with that of the maximum year, the diminution in fifty-six years will be found to reach the astonish- ing figure of 3,870,061 Two or three other points in the regis- trar-general's return are worthy of notice. The excess of births over deaths was 21,- 857; the loss by emigration amounted to 39,- 613; the number of fllegitimate birthe was 2,503, or only 2.6 per cent of the total, as against 4 per cent In England and Wales, and 6.5 per cent in Scotland. Deaths from homicidal violence numbered only fort and in the whole of Ireland there were but two persons hanged; while of the total of 79,119 deaths only 1,253 were attributed to insanity. 3 These last sets of figures satiefactorlly dispose of a good many semmational state- ments which have been made with regard to “diminishing Ireland.” On the other hand, the returns relating to pauperism show but few hopeful features. The number of workhouse inmates Is given s 42,386, an Increase of 504 over the pre- vious year, and the number in receipt of out-relief was 67,670, or 473 fewer than in 1900. Ten years ago the figures were 41,744 and 62,528 respectively. The average prices of provisions show littlg variation ffom the mean of the ten years. Female, 3,606,320 R Gunbo LONDON, Jan. 12.—In connection with the recent protest of Great Britain against the passage through the Dardanelles of four unarmed Russian tcrpedo boat de- stroyers, the British authorities have been quite at sea regarding the whereabouts of the vessels In question. It is now believed that nét one of the vessels has yet passed through the straits. Catholic Foreste The following officers elected to preside over the affairs ¢ Creighton court, Catholic Order of Fores- ters, for the coming year: Chief ranger, James W. Martin; vice chief range Michael N. CGreeley: past chief range: Noah P, Plant; recording secretary, Arthur . Kennedy; financial secretary, J. H. Cal- lahan; treasurer, W. J. Culken: trustees, P. 1. 'Brennan, P. X. Kennedy and Anton Linneman; delegate to state convention, M. N. Greeley; alternate, Dr. B. M. Riley; spiritua, director, Rey. J. W. Stenson! asenior conductor, John Pinault; junior cop- ductor, Thomas 8. Kennedy; {nside sen- tinel, J: B. Foley; outside sentinel, Ed- ward Daughton, Jr. The installation wf officers will occur on Sunday, January £, at 2:3 p. m. Electlon, were yesterday Carpenters Hol INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 12.—The ex- ecutive committee of the United Brother- hood of Carpenters and Jolners met here today. Among the members present are Henry Meler ' of San Mateo, Cal, and Charles Wellman of Kansas City Meeting. Miners Crashed to Death, WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Jan. 12.—Hilllard Probst and Ira Birten' were crushed to death today while digging coal. The two men went {nto a small private mine to di coal for their families when a roof cave , | n, killing them. * s n Omeha Man? A telegram was recelved last ni Portland, Ore., stating that W had attempted suicide in that cify and that his shirt bore an Omaha trademark There is no W. H. Watt in the last Omah+ directory. The Portland telegram stated fit from 1. Watt | their was enough lett to have lost but little of its fragrance, for atisfy the curious Pemmican was the royal dish of the aborigines, the favorite standby of paleface voyageurs. Longfellow mentions it in “Hia- watha,” Parkman, in “The Oregon Trail, tells hom A wooden bowl was set before me filled with the nutritious preparation of dried meat called pemmican.” In the early days of buffalo hunting on the plains pemmican made of buffalo meat was the hunter's chief rellance. The flesh of the buffalo was cut into slices, dried and beaten or flalled into powder. It was then packed In bags of rawhide, into which hot, boiling fat and marrow of the buffalo carcas was poured. Thus it became alr proof, and without salt or other preservas tive, the bag being closely sewed up, could be thus kept for year When the Buffalo Disappeared. With the disappearance of the buffalo the making of pemmican wae transferred to the far northern posts of the Hudson Bay company, deer's meat being used in place of buffalo meat, and #he total quan- tity made yearly amounting to little in comparison to the great stores of pemmican made in the days of the buffalo hunts Pemmican |s still made every year at those | Hudson Bay company's posts for use by trappers and voyageurs who penetrate be- yond the Arctic circle, and whom the out- side world thinks of, when it thinks of them at all, as being neighbors to the Esquimaux. To the average person now- adays, pemmican is known only as a thing read of. It is a word bringing to mind something of the romance of the fur trad- ing days as plctured in Ballantyne's stories or in the pages of the writer of “The Lords of the North.” One assoclates it, t00, with the search for the pole. It is as remote from ope's everyday life as the Esquimaux is his kyack amid the Arctie hurgs and floes. The Free Press pemmican was prepared by an old trapper who has been for many years in the Hudson Bay company's serv- ice, and who in his time has made many hundreds of pounds of buffalo pemmican. Fort McPherson, the Hudson Bay com- pany's post, where it was made, s on Peel river, a few miles from its junction with tha Mackenzle river. To be exact, Fort McPherson is between parallels 67 and 68 of morth latitude and a short distance east of the 135th meridian. It is sixty-five miles within the Arctie circle, and eight five miles from the of the Arctic ocean. From North to South. The pemmican was brought from McPherson down the Peel river to the Mackenzie, and up the Mackenzie in the Hudson. Bay company's steamer Wrigley to Great Slave lake, across that lake and up Slave river to Fort Smith, a distance from Fort McPherson of 1,299 miles. From Fort Smith it was taken by the company’s steamer Grahame up Slave river, across Athabasca lake and up, the Athabaska river to Fort McMurray, a distance of 303 miles From Fort McMurray flat bottomed boats, or batteaux, usually in a brigade of twelve, carried it 252 miles—some ninety miles of rapids, which neceesitate many portages, being encountered on the way—to Atha- baske Landing; from which point freight Fort RISING BREAST No woman who uses Doctors first prescribed this nearly 60 years ago. They know its ingredients. gested membranes and overcomes inflammation. about using this medicine for colds, coughs, and all lung troubles 1 had & terrible cough last spring, and it took just one bottle of Aye: medicine in my famil Aycr’s Cherry Pectoral The best time to take it is when the cold first comes on, when the trouble Throat tickling, throat colds, throat coughs are all easily controlled with They use it more today They understand how it heals con- Ask your own doctor J.C. AYER 00, Loweli, Mase. Cherry Poctoral to for many. many years.” DANFORTH, St. Joseph. Mich, Mis. J —_———e 0 | 15 packed by trail ninety miles to Edmon- ton. From Edmonton to Calgary by the Edmonton cxtension of the Canadian Pacific rallway is 194 miles, and from Calgary to Winnipeg, on the main line, is $40 miles. The total distance traveled from Fort Me- Pherson to Winnipeg is thus 2978 miles. In the winter the distance from Ifort Mc« Pherson to Edmonton ls covered by dog trains, a regular packet service being main- tained along the entire line of !hv Hudson Bay company's pcsts, or “forts,” as they are still called. Aftar leaving Fort Me- Pherson the dog train comes first to ifort Good Hope, then to Fort Norman, and next to Fort Simpsen, which is the head post for thé Mackenzie river district. Leav- ing Fort Simpson, the following ure the Aifferent posts in the order in which they are come to Fort Providence, Fort Rae, Yort Hay River, Fort Resolution, Fort £mith, Fort Chipewyan, Fort McMurray, and thence, following a different route from that taken in summer, Fort Lac Ia Biche, Fort Victorla, and up the’Saskatchewan to Edmonton. An Aretle Luxury. This reindeer pemmican is procurablo only in the far north. The pemmican car- ried by Arctic explorers who outfit their ships at thelr port of departure is, as de- scribed in “The Rescue of Greeley,” by Schley and Soley (page 132), “made from the round of beef cut in strips and dried, then shredded or mixed with beef tallow and gurrants.”” As will doubtless have oc- curred to the reader, pemmican of the far Canadian north and biltong of the Boers on the South African veldt are cousins. Doth contain the largest amount of nour fshment in the smallest space. As for the palatablencss of pemmican, whether eaten just as it is or cooked, thera is nothing that can be sald that will begin to make as lasting impression upon the reader as an actual test. The late bishop of Saskatchewan declared before a distin- guished audience in London that eating pemmican was like chewing a tallow candle. It should be remembered, however, that pemmican s a thing to which the Latin proverb about hunger being the best sauce has a pre-eminent application. Fine Testimo Of many testimonials that might be cited take this from Fonseca's ““On the St. Paul Trail in the Sixties:” “After some hours of steady traveling, as the sun stood high in the sky, the welcome stop took place. * ¢ * The kettle was soon sjmmering. While this was occurring the Red river bannock was in course of preparation. It was simply flour, water and salt. The dough was kneaded on a bag spread out on a buffalo skin, the cakes were flattened and baked in a frying pan over the fire and were soon ready. When the water had bolled in the kettle the pemmican bag was broached, a quantity of it was stirred into the boiling water, flour and salt were added and thus resulted the celebrated rubaboo,’ as it was called. When the mixture was thickened [t then was calleé ‘rowschow,’ but for the journey the former was preferable. Hot bannocks and piping Lot ‘rubaboo’ were served around, the lattet in cups, and the tea in tin cups, soon began to disappear among the hungry company. The appetite, stimulated by fresh air and exercise, was surprifing and a dyspeptic being looking on at such a meal would turn green with envy, * ¢ ¢ “The afternoon journey was usually con- tinued for about twelve or fifteen mil when the cheerful word, both to man an¢ beast, was glven to halt for the night The cuisine was agaln put Into operation though the menu was somewhat changed Instead of ‘rubaboo,’ ‘re-chaud’ was served commonly corrupted ‘row-schow,’ ‘from the Latin ‘re’ and the French ‘chaud,’ heated over. Pemmican cooked in a frying pan, s little grease, pepper, salt, with a trace of onlons and potatoes, added, constituted this a dish to set before a king. If the night was clear and the moon flooded the prairie with its silver light robes were spread. The sound of the fiddle invited the dance. The Red river jig was struck up and one after another exercised himself to his heart’s content, as the shouts of the audi- ence stimulated him." 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