Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 13, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA 1 )AILY BEE: TUESDAY OCTOBER 1 OMAHA DAILY BEFt ROBEWATER PUBLISHED EVERY TERMS OF Daily Bee (without Sunday) Dally Ree and Sunday. One 1lustrated Bee, One Year 'nmlu(f Bee, One Ye Baturday Hee, One Year Twentieth Century Farmer DELIVERED BY C Daily Bee (without Sunday), Daily Bee (without Sunday) Daily Bee (including Sunday), Bunday Bee, per copy § Evening Bee l'l“lmll Sunday), per week 6 Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per woek .. s Complaints of irregularities in #hould be addressed to City Circulation partment. OFFICES Omaha—The Bes Buflding. South Omaha—City Hall Building, Twen- ty-Aifth and M streets. Council Bluffs—10 Pear] Street Chicago—1640 Unity Bullding New York—284 Park Row Building. Washington—801 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE, Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, pavable to The ilee Publishing Compiny Only 2-cent stamps accepted in payment o Aecou Omaha or _THE BE STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska Doug'as County EDITOR MORNING SUBSCRIPTION Ye One ARRIER per copy per week per week. De 17, Personal checks, except ol atern exchanges, not accepted PUBLISHING COMPANY e B. Tzachuck, secretary of The Bee Pusiiaime: Company, being duly sworn, #ays that the actual number of full and Morning, rinted during complete coples of The Dally Fvening and Sunday Bee ihe month of September, 1903, was as fol. gEEnERRERE. Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales.. Net averago sales. GEORGE B. TZBCHUCK. Subacribed in my presence and sworn to ember, D'for‘ me this 30th dl)‘ ul Se, . 1908, M. GATE, B, HU I‘ll Judging by the Hitchealf organ, Rose- ‘water is again running for all the offices from supreme judge to constable, CEEEE— It must not be overlooked that the significant part of the republican county convention was the absence of a walk- out. That base ball player who vented his murderous insanity upon his nurse must haye thought he was up against the umpire, 'The Tillman case will go to the Jury this week. The general public will ex péct the prisoner to go to the pen when the verdict is in. E—— The democratic school board ticket is exceptionally strong, but the strongest meén on the democratic school board tigket are republicans. ‘1f Jersey is to be afflicted with floods a8 well as wosquitoes, it is likely to ac quire a worse reputation than Kansas as a place for abiding. Some people would like to know why thi¢ ordinance authorizing the issue of bonds for the purchase of a municipa eloctric lighting plant has been thrown on' the Milwaukee side track. “The best Ak-Sar-Ben week we ever of the But that is no Ak-Sar-Ben had” is the universal business men of Omaha. reason why next year's wshould not be still bigger and better. ——————— ‘From the way the democrats verdict back yard. The . republicans have crossed ranks. They must not forget, however, dbat the enemy also has its forces fairly well In hand. If Judge Barnes is good enough to be twice appointed to the supreme cour commission by unanimous vote of al the judges of the supreme court, he is good enough. to be promoted to the sppreme bench itself. The next great forward step in -the campalgn for tax reform is the election of Harry D. Reed to the position o county assessor. upon whom will nue law into operation, —_— The Honorable Artillery company Tendon has been taking in Nlagara. o I will be next in order for them to shoot the rapids on the St. Lawrence, particu larly as that is as close to shooting a hey are apt to come during their pres- ent tour. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, whil in Paris, will sleep In a bed forme used by poleon. If this makes i rest any casler it will develye French hospltality to present him wit 1he furniture in his room and let him take it home with him. . — In the passing of Tom Murray goes unigue character among Omaha ploneers and at the same time one to whose ex terprise Omaha s greatly succeeding wealth was ment. He deserved better of fate, —————————— The fusionists in Nebraska thwough the old farce of conducting double cawpaign through two separat committee organizations in behalf of single ticket bearing a ’u.mmmn-mmm«n 1his hrpect Year.$4.0) 100 deiivery Omaha express or postal order 28,030 28,910 28,870 ..28,800 26,445 28,880 S, 880 28,530 28,780 are ignoring their former friends and allies in the makeup of local tickets the only inference is that the populists are in- vited henceforth to play in their own the threshold of the campaign In Douglas county in solid phalanx and unserried de- | volve the task of putting the new reve. upon indebted. With all his peculiarities, Tom Murray was a useful citizen- one whose poverty due to over- confidence rather than mistaken judg- are golng hyphenated Jaiel. In the early days of fusion this nasgrernde doubtiess fooled some peo- ¥t | fo OHIO POLITICAL SITUATION There general interest Oho campn which is belng waged by both parties. Per dlified to judge is very in the is w most vigorously haps no one is better g of the prospect than Senator Foraker and he predicts the election of the re { publican ticket by from 60,000 to 100,000 | majority, with a republican legislature | naving a wajority of from thirty to forty on joint ballot. The senator said there is not the faintest likelihood of a democratic legislature and added: “I cannot sec where there is the slightest foundation for some of the storles that ave floating around that Tom show for election Johnson will snowed under, and snowed under for good, too.” This strong expression of confidence in the résult may be fully warranted. The election to the governorship of Ohio of a man with such views as those of Tom L. Johnson seems hardly possible and there ought to be no doubt of his defeat by an overwhelming majority. Yot it will be well for the republicans of the Buckeye state not to allow con- fidence to make them apathetic, for Johnson 1s likely to receive nearly if not quite the full vote of his party. It is i | probable that he does not seriously ex- pect to be elected, but he will omit no - | effort to win and the fact of his having heen twice elected mayor of Cleveland, normally a republican city, shows that he is a resourceful politician. Colonel Herrick, the republican candi- date for governor, appears to be making A good impression upon the people, while Senator Hanna is working with his characteristic zeal and earnestness. In- i terest in the campaign among republic- ans outside of Ohio has reference chiefly to the re-election of Senator Hanna. Y been Johnson has any be f THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF HONOR. A member of the Chicago Board of Education has been asked to resign be- cause he is vice president of a plumb- ing supply manufacturing com- pany. It appears that the pub- lic schools of Chicago use large amounts of plumbing supplies, which are furnished by plumbers who buy of the manufacturers. It is stated as a fact that by far the largest part of the goods used in the schools are made by the firm of which the member of the board is an officer. The point of honor arises as to whether he is justified under the circumstances in holding his seat on the board. “It is interesting in this connection declares the Record-Herald, “to consider the standards of honor in English cities. An illuminating case is that of Alder- man Higginbottom of Manchester. He was partner in a firm which manu factured cranes and portions of cranes. In the ordinary course of business his firm sold goods to a company holding contracts with the Manchester corpora- ticn. There was nothing to show that he knew personally of the transactions nor that he had any thought of personal gain. He was a man of high ability and character and his ten years’ service as alderman was about to be crowned with election as lord mayor. A city in- vestigating committee nevertheless held that Alderman Higginbottom's action ‘had been altogether improper and such as they could not justify, having regard 1 to his position on the electricity com- mittee, the gas committee and as a member of the city council” After this censure the alderman had no alternative but to resign.” While the glish municipal corpora- tions act does not prohibit such trans- actions, there have been many instances in the last three or four years to show that public sentiment in English cities is becoming much stricter than the law, The predominating factor in this de- velopment of public opinion in Great Britain is largely due to the extension of wunicipal ownership on public utill- ties In English cities. The point of honor raised against the Chicago school board member for being Indirectly in- terested in the sale of materials and supplies to public schools has seldom troubled the conscience of metwbers of the school board, members of the council or county commissioners even where such transactions are expressly pro- Dhibited by lav n t 1 ASlA TAKING BREADSDUFFS. There is a growing demand for our breadstuffs in the Asiatic markets, giv- ing promise of a very extensive trade in this line in the near future. According to the latest statistics the exports of breadstuffs to those markets during the eight months ending with August aggre- gated in value over $11,000,000, against about $4,000,000 for the corresponding period of last year. Two-thirds of this export was in the form of flour, showing that the people of Asla are rapldly ac- quiring a taste for wheat bread. When the vastness of the population in those countries is considered, it eannot be re- garded as extravagant to assume that not many years hence the demand from that source for our breadstuffs will take all the surplus. As shown by the statistics, our flour exports to countries bordering on the Pacific have gained upward of £5,000,000 for a petiod of cight months' In the short space of two years. They are rather more than three times as great as they were two years ago. The significance of this, observes the Beattle Post-Intelli- genver, as affecting the entire wheat- growing industry of the United States, i- | should not be overlooked. “Contrary to the predictions of many,” says that paper, “the market for American bread- stuffs is expanding enormously in Asla and Oceanien. It is already so large as to conswwe n very large share of the surplus product of the Pacific coast states. entire surplus product of these states, for the amount of the new area which can be put into wheat in the future is not very large. The time is now within 14 f t s o y s h a " cexsity result in a higher price for bread stuffs in Europe, to the profit of Ameri enn farmers With a rapidly growing Asiatic market for our breadstuffs the outlook for American wheat producers is certainly most promising THE NEW There are hending u possible defe: ists in New York City and the restora- tion of Tammany to power. In the first place there is not entire harmony among the former, some more or less influen- tial politicians who had been with the fusionigts having deserted and gor to the oppogition. Then there are cer tain financial and business interests, it is said, which are not satisfied with the stralghtforward and honest policy and methods of the Low administration and are assiduously working for its over- throw. The lawless element, by no means insignificant in numbers, wants a restoration of Tammany rule, preferting to be blackmailed rather than subjected to tb ad:ministration. Furthermore, undoubtedly are many democrats who two years ago supported the fusion movement who now feel that with a presidential election next year duty to tueir party requires them to stand with it this year. That the restoration of Tammany to power would be most unfortunate will be admitted by all who are familiar with the record of that political organization. Mayor Low has given New York an ad- YORK Cl1¥ some reasons for appre- t of the fusion CAMPAIGN. over It will very soon consume the easily measureable distance when none of the wheat produced on the Paclfic coast will be marketed in Europe and the withdrawal of this amount of wheat must of ne- ministration which, while not wholly free from mistakes, has in the main fulfilled the promises made and given that city better government in all re- dent, enough however, should be considerate to his proclamation at s0 as to give time for junketing ssmen enjoying trips abrond to lome and answer roll call, issue one congr con How the Shearing is Donme. Indianapolis News. The revelations In the case of the United States Shipbuilding company ought to give the public a pretty vivid idea of what it means to be In on the ground floor. Cause and Effect. Boston Transcript The English invasion of American uni- versities is as remarkable as the American invasion of British markets, and the move- ments probably stand in the relation of g6 and effect: J Soothing the Aficted. Detrolt Free Press The vice president of an Towa bank who embezzlod $13.000 will be compelied to spend thirty days in the county jail. It §s to be hoped that the hard hearts of the authorities will soften sufficlently to glve him a comfortably furnished cell. Prospe napolls News, ss manufacturers have made an- other reduction in the price of glass with a view of “reclaiming all the business that forelgn manufacturers have been able to secure in this country during the last two or three vears." Evidently they are waking up to the fact that there is a limit to the weight of the burdens that pros- perity can car: Wil the G ers Boston Transcript. It is possible that the wily excited the irascible little Jap to the wild- est pitch of indignation, Is now smoothing him down with his claws and saying: “Oh, come now; don't let us fight each other, but let us rather conjointly steal the Corean honey. We can then plead as an excuse that we had to take it in order to nite? spects than it had known for many years before. In his letter accepting a renomination, Mayor Low points out the beneficial changes that have been ef- fected fn the last two There has' been a saving of millions in public ex- penditures, without in the least impair- ing the efficiency of the public service. Indeed that service has been much im- proved in all departments. This Is notably true of the police service, which has never been more efficient than now. An interesting fact stated by the mayor is that the death rate has been consider- ably reduced, due to the improved con- dition8 in the tenement district. 1In a great city like New York the work of the health department is of the utmost importance and it bas been carried on under the Low administration with in- telligence and zeal, producing highly sat- igfactory results. Mayor Low truthfully says that “un- der Tammany the condition existing in the police department two years ago may be fairly described as one of or- ganized lawlessness. The police force had been converted into an instrument for the collection of money paid for the privilege of violating the law.” And he asks: “Is the eity willing to chance the return of such a state of things be- maintain peace?” Crafty old Bear! Difference in Congressm Cinefnnati Enquirer. The salaries of congressmen can never be fairly and equitably arranged. Some mem- bers are well worth $5,000 a year and others are not worth 5 cents. Some look upon a seat In the house of representatives and the salary as means of getting and saving more money than they can make in their business gt home, while others are willing to pay more for a nomination and election than their salary for two years amounts to. No means can be devised of paying statesmen “by the plece.” So it must rest with the voters In each district to get the best they can for their money Compound New York World Sir Frederick Bramhall has offered $250 to the British assoclation to be invested for fifty years, the proceeds then to be paid as a prize for the best obituary on steam power, which will then be dear, Sir Fred- erick thinks. The association doubts the legality of the gift. It would amount to about $1,125 by 1938, Tn 1798 a Swede named Thelusson left an estate of $2,500,000 to be divided among his great grandchildren, or if there were none, the proceeds were to be applled to the national debt. sham was a descendant of the eccentric Swedg. Thelusson's will was probated, but caused the passage of a special act Iimiting deferred legacles to twenty-ope years. So it was plainly illegal to offer, as another chap did recently, 360 to be put at com- cause the snake hus now been scotched, or will it make assurance doubly sure by continuing in power those who have 8o far successfully grappled with these gigantic evils?” The success of Tam- many would certainly revive the evils, perhaps in more aggravated form than before, and is to be deprecated by law- respecting citizens throughout the coun- try as well as in New York. Omaha is not the only city in the coun- try where grafters flourish and do- nothing supernumeraries are carried on the pay rolls of city and county. St Louls and Minneapolis have each suc- cessfully prosecuted hoodlers and pried loose grafters from their city and county pay rolls and Chicago making an effort to follow their example. In one day last week the Chicago papers turned the searchlight of publicity on the most flagrant phases of municipal grafting, compressed in the following terse head lines: DAY'S GRAFT DEVELOPMENTS. Evidence of graft in ‘“overtime” pre- sented to council committee and sweeping investigation started, Written charges presented by Carl Lier- man of collusion between detectives of the Desplaines street station and thieves. Chief O'Neill files charges against De- tective Sergeant John Rohan, Deputy building commissioner charged with attempt to make builders adopt fire- proofing devices on which he holds patent Charge against health department em- ploye that he used city supplies in his undertaking business. Deputy boller inspector charged with grafting on A H. Vilas company. If these irregularities had occurred in Omaha the sham reform organ of democ- racy would have charged them up to the republican party, but, although the mayor of Chicago 18 a democrat, no fair-minded person will accuse the demo- cratfc party with being made up of grafters and public plunderers. Boodlers and grafters are not confined to any party. The United States court of appeals rendered a decision Saturday on the old federal law that telegraph companies are common carriers and must serve all alike without discrimination. While the case under consideration originated in the Chicago Board of Trade, against the bucket shops of Chicago and Kansas City, the principle involved affects all classes of telegraph patrons, as well as telephone patrons, and is therefore of the utmost importance to the general public. m— John Redmond is advising the Irish landlords with reference to complylng with the new land act “not to be stub- born.” We were under the impression that stubbornness was one of the race characteristics of the Irish—if so, it will take an extra effort to follow Redmond's advice. ep—————— Another marquis of Balisbury is to have a place in the British cabinet. He wjll have to distinguish himself with more than ordinary ability to hold up even a passable record compared with that of the last cabinet minister wear- ing the same name. for the pound interest for the city of Birmingham for 99 years. At 3 per cent it would amount to a trifié’of $204,495,000,00. To be richer than Rockefeller is a perfectly sim- ple matter. Only it takes o long. TALK OF THE STATE PRESS, Stanton Picket: There is no longer a populist press in Nebraska. Populism as it was originally discovered meant some- thing more than a contest for spoils, an insatiable desire for office. The press which was formerly populist has gone democratic by an overwhelming majority and the minority which insist that princi- ple is paramount to office is hitting the center of the pike regardiess of all ob- stacles. Wayne Herald: The law which restricts the expenditure of money for campalgn purposes by parly nominees is one of ex- cchent merit, acknowledged to be such by eversb That legislative act, added to the restrictions guaranteed by the Austra- Bear, having | Lord Rendle- | ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Current Ripples on the the Metropolis. The tax department of New York is do- Ing the traditional land office business Taxpayers trooped to the cashier's wicket last week, taking advantage of a deduction offered as a premium for prompt payment The huge sum of $10,225,000 was paid in the first day. All this money was bundied in & rickety one-horse cab and taken to a Wall street bank. The money was wrapped in brown paper parcels and distributed over the bottom of the cab. Guarding the for- tune were four policemen, two of whom got up on top of the vehicle with the driver, while the other two wero inside, using million-dollar packages for footstools Among the largest amounts received were: W. Astor, $357,650; J. J. Astor, $283,052; W let, $195,014, and the estate of Cornelius Vanderbilt, $115,797. ot Criminal prosecution of the officials of the Sugar trust, for the alleged theft of $525,00 worth of city water used at its eastern dis- trict plant, is likely, according to Deputy Commissfoner Robert Van Iderstein of the Brooklyn Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. The big bill is considered to be a political trump card for the fusion administration, though it was not played with any such Intention. The dlscovery that the company owed the city $525,000 was made in the course of a general investiga- tion as to water waste In that borough, in- stituted over a year ago. Further Investi- gation as to the quantity of water alleged | to have been used by the Sugur trust free | of charge may send the city's bill up to the million dollar mark. One of the most important accomplish- ments of the Low administration has been the improvement in the conditions that surround the tenement house life of the metropolis. When the new tenement house law was passed, it was predicted that all bufldings of tenement houses in New York would cease because of the radical changes made by the law, but in the year 1902 some- thing like $20,000,00 was expended for new law tenements, while the amount to be ex- pended this year will be over $40,000,000. The new law tenements have proved suc- cessful from the tenants' polnt of view be- cause many tenants for the first time have been able to get apartments with light, air | and sanitary services. They have been successful from the landlords' point of view because they have been fully occu- pled from the time of completion at re- munerative rents. The whole lower Bast Side {s belng rapidly rebuilt with new law houses. No house that is built under the present law contains any room that is not adequately lighted and ventilated. This 1s in striking contrast to the old law houses, in which ten rooms out of fourteen were almost totally dark and without ventila- tion. A tenderloin detective who succeeded in securing evidence against certain blg and fashionable gambling houses by mixing with the Waldorf crowd is so much elated over the ~xploit that he has issued a list of eight commandments, the careful ob- servance of which will insure an entry to the chosen circle. All you have to do is: First—Arrive with a labeled steamer trunk, take a room and bath and besparticular as to its location. Second—Stay in your room until 7 o'clock in the evening and then ap- pear fn evening clothes. Third—Have'a roll of $300, with a hundred-dollar bill on the outside and the small ones tucked inside to make a front with. Fourth—Keep up your front with good clothes, spend a little money and you will soon be hail fellow well met with the gilded crowd. Fifth—Loaf around the billlard room, buy drinks and have your nafls manicured for four days. Sixth—8crape acquaintance with the mil- llonaires that are loafing around, which is easily done. Beventh—Keep changing your small bills (ives and tens) for smaller ones and your roll wiil look as though it were increasing in size. Eighth—Remember that it is easler to get acquainted with the Wal- dorf crowd If you show monéy than it is to scrape acquaintance In any of the bil- Hard halls and cafes along Broadway. The women who mange the Bide-a-Wee Home club are of the opinfon that there are others called to attend to the sick bables and homeless and hungry children of New York, while it is their mission to take care of the sick and homeless cats and dogs. The home they have provided for vagrant curs and abandoned backyard cats would seem a place of rest and comfort for many homeless orphans. Rut none of these can get in, as they did not have the luck to be Han ballot law, elevates our system of vot- tng and helps free it from the trammeling, in‘imidating and eorrupting influences that were often potent forces in elections in the rly days. North Platte Tribune: Tn a few things at least Nobraska stands at the head. The largest alfalfa field, 5,000 acres, in the world, is at Ames; the largest barn in the United States is in Dodge count the largest county in any state Is in Nebraska, and no state has as many miles of any one river as has Nebraska in the Platte river. It can also be sald that in western Nebraska the quality of sugar beets and alfalfa grown stands at the head. McCook Tribune: The promise of Presi- dent Stickney of the Great Western rafl- road to make Omaha a graln market and afford an oportunity for Omaha to establish a board of trade of its own threatens to stir up a railroad row of lively proportions, with the Burlington and Northwestern in the forefront. Just why Omaha is not en- titled to the same considerations In the matter of grain rates and regulations that Kansas City enjoys s not made plain. the incident suggests the parody: he hand that controls transportation in Amer- fca rules the roost.” St. Paul Republican: A ticket made up of men who believe in radically different principles is an snomaly. It cannot rea- sonably be expected that the several in. dividuals who compose it will take a fraternal interest in each other's welfare and work for the success of all. This is the reason why dark hints are be, ginning to be heard in regard to unfaith. fulness on the part of certain fusion can- didates toward the balance of the ticket. The conditions under which such an al- liance exists are abnormal and in them- selves Invite disaster. Pender Republic: Republicans are being asked to vote for Judge Sulllvan on the ground for making the supreme court non- partisan. But republicans must remem- ber that Judge Bullivan was nominated by partisan conventions. He accepted partisan mominations and has become “nonpartisan’ for palitical purposes only. And this only in the minds of his political advocates. Judge Sullivan is the same partisan he ever has been. Democrats and populists will vote for him as such, but unwary repub- licans are supposed to be entrapped by nonpartisan flop-doodie. Well, hardly this year. Kearney Hub: That's a pretty kettle of fish down at Omaha. After using the al- leged Vinsonhaler agreement. denied by Vinsonbaler, with which to club Rosewater at the republican primaries, it turns out now that The Bee was right and that Vin- sonhaler failed to recognize his own signa- ture. This is now admitted by those who were against The Bee previous to holding the primaries. All of which makes Judge Vinsonhaler's title to the nomination some- what leaky and certainly does not help him %3 a candidate. The incident was seized on by Rosewator's epemies and used ~effec- mv ‘What are they m to do about it born mangy dogs. ‘The home is located two miles from Yon- kers, a northern suburb of New York. There are already over fifty inmates, and there will be more when the news is spread abroad that all outcasts of these two tribes are made welcome. The woman managers do not think it right to kill, even In a pain- less manner, a dog or cat that is sick or injured. Instead, they doctor them up and let them lle around in ease and comfort, and make themselves a nolsy nulsance for all that neighborhood. After conference with the managers of the various steamship lines running across the Atlantfe, formal announcement has been made that the agrecments of the North Atlantic couference, which estab- lished the minimum rate for first and second cabin passengers traveling on the steamers of the lines bound by the agree- ments, will be annulled this week. Here- after cach company will be at liberty to make whatever rate it pleases, and a rate war may follow. One of those who at- tended the meeting went far as to declare that rate cutting will begin im- mediately, and that it will be the greatest and sharpest thing the country has seen ip some time. P There are weird and wonderful spots In the lower quarters of New York where the student of forelgn manners may satisfy his longing for the bizarre and sensational. If the slummer wants a'real sensation let him take his party to the Battery, walk up through Washingion ~street, thence across Broadway to State, up through the winding thoroughfares to Roosevelt, across Chatham square to Mott, around into Pell and Doyers, finishing there for the first evening's sport. ‘He will have traversed no less than nine dlstinet and separate countries and rubbed elbows with as many nations, and wherever a bright window surreptitious conversations that could in no other way have been had. There Is abso- lutely no danger of being detected, and the fascination grows with the use. He argues that it is the modern method of making dates, and that thousands of men and women have been brought together in this way who, had they been left to letter writing or a personal arrangement In ‘direct conversation, would have re- mained merely acquaintances. PERSONAL NOTES, The six factories turning out the tooth- pick supply have combined, and we hope the new trust will make the article so dear that it will be less in evidence in public Seven hundred and twenty-three fires started during five months in Chicago from “unknown causes.” Persons should avold starting fires in this manner. It prejudices the insurance. Dr. Belisario Sasa, geon of Lima, Peru, has started for New York, to study the latest advances In medicine and surgery, and then report his observations. James Putnam Stewart of Louisville, a direct descendant of General Israel Putnam of revolutionary fame, has many relics of his distinguished ancestry, and- is busily engaged in writing out the lineage oi the family. Prof. R. L. Garner, the monkey man. has gone to the West African coast again to study the simlan tribe and learn their language. It is suspected that there is a good deal of *“monkey business” about Garner's work. Senator Fairbanks is not a candidate for the vice presidency on the republican ticket a prominent sur- nounced in Washington by Representative Hemenway of Indiana, a close friend of Senator Falrbanks. The late Chief Justice McCollum of Penn- sylvania owed his election to a singular accident. He was nominated for the vacant judgeship by the democratic state con- Vention of 1888 in opposition to James T. Mitchell, the republican candidate. =There was then no chance of his election, But the death of one of the justices made another vacancy on the bench, and both Mitchell and McCollum were chosen. Lots were then cast for seniority of rank, as thelr commissions were to expire at the same time, January, 1910, and McCollum had the further luck of drawing the prize, and so succeeded to the chief just next year, and will not be. This was an- | at a small cost ! last just about as long as you would expect to keep a stove. Price—oh, we will satisfy you. Call and see Jewels. We recom- mend them. 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