Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 20, 1909, Page 4

4 THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, APRIL N i Tae OMAHA DAy BEE Plea of Railroads Analyzed. |of aggression against either of the | must have attempted a corner in the el AR S In support of the railroad plea for | powers mentioned is not apparent, | love market which collapsed. | FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER | VICTOR ROBEWATER, EDITOR. Entersd at Omaha postoffice as second- class matter. TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bea (without Sunday), one year...3400 Dally Bes and SBunday, one year......... .00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Al Daily Bes (including Bunday), per week 1 Daily Bes (without Sunday), per week. . 100 Evening Bea (without Bunaay), per week 6o Lvening Pea (with Sunday), per week.. 100 nday Bec, ONe year..... f 10 Saturday Bes, one year....... . 180 Address ail complaints of irregularities in | dsiivery to City Cireulation Department. | OFFICES. 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TZBCHUCK Subscribed in my presende before me this 1st Aay 6f Apcil. 1909 M. P. WALKER Notary Public. (Sea)) WHEN 0UT OF TOWN, Suhscribers leaving tha oty ¢ pacarily should have The Bee mailed to them. Address will be cuanged as often as requ Mombasa the next station. The joy ride on the sulky plow is the one that pays. Aeronautically speaking, Omaha is booked to be a high fiver, It is no violation of the fifteenth amendment to draw the color line on oleomargarine. Mayor Jim is alwa, l;gre-x on prom- ises, but the package proves to be mis- branded when it fs opened A Pittsburg woman admits giving a man a love potion which killed him. Pittsburg cupid is getting entirely too strénuous. Yes, the siren whistle would have licenge to blow when the Commercial club passes its one thousandih mem- bership mark 4 A surgeon is now ong of the attach ments of the Detroit juvenile court He is expected to cut out some of the boys' pranks When the lawyers get through with John D. Rockefeller it is possible his fortune may look like a wool garment alter wash day Texas lays claim to having more red- headed women than any other state in the union. And thcy say the Texas aurora is worth going miles to see. Wireless telephones have been at- tached to automobiles. The sound waves will be forced to speed up if they are to catch some of the machines, A Chicago coal dealer has solemnly proclaimed that coal smoke is a bless- | enterprise | come was not so_noticeable In railroad | previous | sources, but are beyond disputation by |ing higher rates because of rate legislation and orders of the Interstate Commerce commission, the chief argument ad- vanced is that the roads lost heavily ! in revenue during the business slump resentatives differ widely as to the amount. This, however, is not perti- nent as applied to the present situa- tion 1f the railroads suffered from c the panie, so did every other business While earnings and dl\-|~i dends decreased, the absence of net in- | as in other lines and the struggle for actual éxistence not nearly so severe The real meat of the question whether present conditions justify an | advance of rates. For the months of | November and December, 1908, and | the month of January, 1909, all the | railroads in the United States showed an increase in net earnings from op- eration of $34,000,000, as compared with the panic months of the year For the month of February, | 1909, as compared with the same |V month of the preceding year the fn- crease was $11,560,000. These fig- | ures are not taken from unauthorized Is | r by ol | the railroads, for they are the returns 1n made by the roads themselves to the Interstate Commerce commission. Neither can the figures be assailed as being the earnings of favored lines, for they represent the exhibit of every steam road in the United States doing an interstate business if the raflroads can make this show- in the face of the conditions of | which they complain the plea in abate- ment must be unfounded Dickinson Off for Panama. | | ‘t Secretary of War Dickinson has | | | | | decessors in office of getting at first hand an insight into the work with which, In his official capacity, he is compelled to deal. The finaucial as well as the moral credit of the gov- ernment is behind the canal enterprise and any official charged with the duty | of carrying forward the work who | should fail, would draw upon himself merited criticism. There is nothing | like personal knowledge to enable an | official to act intelligently upon the problems presented, and in smurln” this at the outset of his administration | the new war secretary is taking a wise | step. The secretary has, of course, the reports of the engineers in charge of the work, but he also has a constant { The Irrigation Congress. | | The irrigation congress, which meets | at Spokane in August, is already at-| llrn(!lng widespread attention 'l‘lwi | west has for some time been alive to | | the importance of bringing into pro- | ductive condition the large areas capa ble of irrigation, but up to recent times has carried on alone the contest for | the development of the enterprises. | FEastern congressmen at first grude |ingly voted government aid to the ! larger enterprises, even though the plans called for the ultimate payment of the expenses out of the proceeds of the lands improved. The necessity of increasing the food-producing area of the nation is being rapidly driven home to eastern men, however, and opposition has given way to encourage- ment ing. The cup of the windy city, on that basis, is certainly full to dver- flowing. The newspapers published at coln are again terribly wrought over the dire evils that are confront- ing Omaha touching. Lin- Because he had undervalued his prope.ty in his returns to the assessor ir a Kansas man drowned himself, the habit becomes general the next nsus enumerators will have a short Jjob When the New York State Highway commiseion started out on a tour of | linked with the farms of that section up | Such solicitude is truly | There are other reasons for hoping | the meeting at Spokane will be preg- | nant with results. Not only will those | who have had to do with the work |in this section be present, but from {all over the world where irrigation is practiced there will come men rich in experience to counsel regarding the | subject. The meeting of such a body of men, backed by the approval of the tederal government, is destined to be a landmark in the development of the arid and semi-arid sections of the west. As the gate city, through which the products of a large portfon of the country to be developed must pass, the interest of Omaha and Nebraska is large, for our future necessarily y is inspection, it stuck in the mud the | tirst day. Jf the report was formu- No Entangling Alliances. lated on the spot it might need ox-| -pe Montreal Star presents to the purgating Mr. Bryan denies he has already de- clded to enter the senatorial race in Nebraska. The record of the late |2PPeAl being the expressed. foar that | pye tie legislature has a tendency Germany plans, by the building of A mn‘::‘:“ a‘iired feeling among wise | POWErTU! fleet. first ‘o wipe out the | British navy and ther. to defy thé democrats. Castro’s wile insists of Venesuela has ne intention of start ing a revolution. French government took the lead off first base. In order to ascertain the authorship of the democratic city platform thie | there is nothing surprising about rhis yvear a wsearching expedition will have to be sent out to identify the scribe the democratic ecity who wrote out platform of three years ago. friends hard up for campaign ammunition i Our democratic must to the y have tu go back advent of the “Jims something to find fault with the ex-president | Just the same the | wise course in not allowing him too long a ! be repub- lican administration that preceded the in order to find United States a direct appeal for a co- | operative alllance with Great Britain for mutual protection, the basis of the | United States and the Monroe doctrine, seize Brazil, and demclish the Ameri- | _ | can fleet | The argument of the Montreal paper | has force if its premise is Lo be ac cepted, but circumstances point rather {to the conclusion the fear is chiefly | | imaginary, The German navy, it is true, is being largely added to, but jermany is one of the great commer- cial nations of the world, with a large merchant marine and interests scat- | tered all over the globe. The weak | ness of its position without the back- ing of a strong navy no dpubt appeals f |10 the rman government as strongly | as the same situation has appealed to Great Britain and the United States. States and midst sue of such which than members majority either time. mitted at a special election, it would take a two-thirds majority to make the bond fssue valid, and this is the hazard which the water bond boosters do not | want to incur. at arch enemy an board gan sioners. then, of a States has no quarrel or any other nation, beyond a friendly, though perchance strenuous, commer- it appears as though John Bull and Brother Johna- than were both amply able to meet any situation which present conditions are likely to evolve without plunging into stream of bitterness and enmity which the suggested coalition would fal rivalry Great decidedly much less conclusive. In the second place both the United Britain are strenuous navy building program, and there is no rea- Candidly stated even though of 1907. The fact that railroad earn- | son to belleve Germany could accom: ings decreased is not denied, though | plish the object the commission and the railroad rep- |such were its program. The with Germany A Possible Reason, the esult in OMAHA, Apri he Bee: 1 ha ond propositior strikes me as good f a hearing in or eight monthe, why board have ntil next There is only one reason which we can think of which may have prompted the high-priced Water board to ask that the water bonds be voted instead of later. | the vote required to authorize the is- Water Bill No. 2, which Water hoard is supposed to be acting, contains this further proviso with erence to the water bonds voted | the acquisition under cited by The Bee ow is the such Said bonds ar par and otes cast of held fall's | #pecial’ reason? bonds issued proposition is ratified by a majority upon the proposition at a gen- eral election or two-thirds of the votes cast |In case the proposition shall be submitted 1 read n now, and the could off the election? law under of such appraiseme: to be only e not But pla yout 7, 199.~To the Editor article about the Water board's haste in submitting the you If there is no chance supreme court what not the bond proposition there R This turns on t- “for water plant | nt,” already | | e ®old for Il'Il! in case the of the started for Panama (o see for himself | at a special election what is being done there and what re-| If the words ‘general election” | mains to be done. In doing so he is | mean ‘‘general city election,” then to | but following the practice of his pre- |carry by a mere majority the bonds would have to be voted now. 1 words mean the fall election, at which the Water board chosen, then a majority carry the bonds only next fali and not at the coming city election sible that the words could be construed to mean either general city election or general state election, in which case a vote would carry vote the inly, 1 Lorolrtinig Bvlckwnr(t clamorin, no rule. litical machine, republicans. Has that Reading one g for elec would of popular government traitor to his party, scheming to pre- vent the rule of the people. The question at appointive and an ‘tive lawyers in the United of say tor six Water any T. G the f these are | would | is pos- bonds f sub- stream of suggestions, fault-finding | James C. Dahlman 1s a demoerat and be- | and adverse comment, the motive 1ur;'l°\“! in letting the people rule.~Worid- which is not always apparent. Mr, | Herald. | Dickinson is a man of capacity and n' Looking backward over a period of | tour of the canal zone will enable him |!¢8S than two months, this is decld- to see for himself wherein the trutn [©®d1Y rich. rare and racy, [)es. He fs simply one of a business | G0 back over the World-Herald files administration, going about in a busi- | {OF February and March of this vear nesslike, way to perform his duties |and you will find them full of denun- | clation of James C. Dahlman as the issue was between elective the mayor standing for the ap- pointing power and the democratic or- commis- the World-Herald, imagine James C. Dahlman was a democrat, or | that he believed in letting the people He was a tool of the corpora- tions, a spokesman for the liquor deal- ers, the mouthpiece of a despotic po- He was accused even of having made a deal with the odious | police that all been so soon forgot? Is he again a democrat in good stand- Is he now an apostle of “'Let the ing? people rule?’ The next step toward building the | keep new court house is the approval of the “H‘ will fall heavily upon milllons who bond County Commissioners to |peopie cannot or will not pay it, then make sure that the taxpayers are am- | government will lose the revenue and ply protected against every possible | people will be deprived of a cheap and| i8 a new | “helesome contractor’s Board of loophole. it. 4 What we want s up court house and not a law suit Although the water gone into court to compel the city compa to the ny ha s to buy its plant at the appraised value of $6,263,295.49, It is accused of trying | purchase it would have to do to establish to obstruct what conclusively that magnific the its desire rent price? to sell Wonder out at A lot of laws passed by the late Ne- braska legislature were so lin the crush of the final m hou utilated rs that they have already been sent to the leg- able to stand alone Governor worry over Shallenberger the World-Herald's great |thus atf {1slativg hospital and the doctors ex-'autos a minute pass the St. Regis liot | press doubis whether they will ever be | This means a continuous, dally autome i1l not show of indignation over the remarks attributed sheet will course with provocation to him at or without Beatrice. take the other end the Sixty students of a Tennessee That in due proper col- lege were expelled for going to a ecir- cus How unaccompanied thoughtless of the boy prive the faculty of an excuse for see- by the facuity ing the spangles and pink tights —_— | several officers of the Daughters of | pa | the American Revolution refused attend a tea given by the other faction tion: y affairs. —_— A Chicago woman secured a $25.000 | private bath for § The assumption that the creation of {& uew German navy is for the purpose | verdict for breach against of promise a broker in that The { Tea, from the first played an important | part in revol broker | | A SQUEEZE ON LEMONS, | P | Proposed &k to de- to | city | Governor Brown of Georgla is to wear a sult of homespun when he is inaugurated. Now If he will only let mother cut his hair he will look too sweet for anything. Putting it On Old Joe. Washington Post And now Secretary Wilson is Accusing Joseph of operating the first corner In wheat, but Joseph Is protected by the | statute of limitations. An Apt Illusteation. New York World | Theodore Parker called politics “the science of exigencies.” To illustrate the definition it is only necessary to read the great tariff debate in the congressional record. Baltimore American Trust-busting ought to become a popular | occupation. The prosecuting attorney In | Texas who won the state's antitrust fight | against the oll company I8 to get the best part of $100,00. Thus is virtue coming to get a more substantial reward than the mere approval of its own consclence | Rivalry in Perfecting Corn. Colller's Weekly. = Through the schools of a number of | western corn-growing states boys and girls | are stimuldted by prizes to plant little | patches of corn. Out of each community, | where an exhibit is held, ten prize-win- | ning ears are sent to the county exhibit.| The best ten there are entered in a state| show, and then the states compete. The | tinal winners are sifted to the best one ! ear in the whole United States. Scientitic | Interest In agriculture s growing. It is| one finger post on the road from the city | 10 the farm. CORN FROM SOUTH AFRICA. High Prices Stimulating Over-Sea Import Minneapolis Journal { Importing corn seems verily bringing Mi | | coal to Newcastle, Nevertheless, Impor- tation of America's pecullar is being seriously considered by handlers of the staple in New York the country of production, of all places in | the world, s Bouth Africa, A New York firm, Investigating the ait- uation, finds that South African farmers marketed their corn at less than 2 cents a bushel last year. Allowing 26 cents a| bushel this yeay to the Boer producer, | corn could be lald down in New York, d“‘ grain charges and duties paid, for 584 cents a bushel, as compared with T4 cents, the | price paid for the July optlon In New | York. The South African corn is reported | be of fine quality | The American consul at Johanneshurg re- | ports that corn is the staple crop of tl Transvaal. He writes ‘The greater por- tion of the crop of corn is consumed within | the country as food by laborrers in the| mines. It Is not sold by the bushel, Nll; by the muld equal to 200 poupds, and | brings $2 to $2.50 per muid. Thé cost of | production is estimated cents 1o $1.66 per mufd.” | From the consular report. it would ap-| pear that while the soll of the Transvaal | is deficlen® in lime and fertilizers are | arce, the climate of ‘the country is well | adapted for corn culture, permitting the | €rop to ripen with' hut siight danger from | frost. There is a'dearth of statistics, but | the consul estimates that 80000 acres corn about covers ghe area in the Tran. 1. 3 to range from Jal Taritf Increase a for Consamers. Baltimore Sun Tn the whole state of California thers ave less than 76,000 farmers. Of these only a small number are engaged In the produ | tion of lemons. There is an active demand n the coast for all the western them reach this side of the country. | vet Senator Aldrich's bill proposes t | crease the tax on imported lemons # per ‘(-NH over the Dingley rates, so as to give | | | And in- the few California lemon growers a mo- nopoly of the American market, the de- mards of which they cannot satisfy. The proposition Is to tax about 9,000,000 people i for the benefit of a few thousand, or, it | they refuse to pay the tax, to deprive them | of a most wholesome fruit which has coms |into such general use that it is now re- garded as almost a necessary of life. At a | | time when revenues are needed lemons are | to be excluded from the market and the | Bovernment deprived of a considerabls | revenue In order to increase the private gain of a few people. This is protection tun mad. If the people pay the tax and | on importing lemons the increased are | already burdened bevond their means. "t {the price of lemons is advanced so the the the luxury. The republicans may |86t & political lemon it they increase the | price of lemonade this summer. FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK In its Central l'oi‘lh Which he Hotel St. Regis, IS AN AUTOMOBILE BOULEVARD Ten years ago Fifth Avenue rivalled | Hyde Park in thé splendid character of | 1ts equipages; today it more than | with the Bois de Boulogne in the num | ber, elegance and variety of its motor cars. On pleasant days more than sixty Passes Vies | bile parade the world The St. Regis Hotel, with its entrance {Just off the avenue on Fifty-fifth sStre. unegtalled anywhere else in | Néw York, and to those contemplating & ;lon‘!l stay as well—the most convenient | stopping point. To this convenience must be added its other paramount features, for the Bt Regls has won merited dis- | tinction among travelers as | moat comfortable and restful hotel. Great | #o0d taste, artistic feeling and apprecia- tion, and, above all else, wide experience in catering (o people of refinement, have made this hotel whay It is, and have gained for it a reputation without flaw or blemish. [The touring autolst wio | makes his New York stop at the St Regis | finds there real comfort and rest under !jdeal conditions. Nor Is he required to dearly for the privilege. for the notel is really low-piiced when quality of serv- ice Is consldered. Its culsine is unsu | passed anywhere: yet restaurant charges are no higher than at other first class hotels. Splendid siugie rooms may be had for %5 and 8 a da or the same with a day tor 86 for two bedroom and from §12 a veople vate while for a parlor bath ihe rates are {day upw that the bicycles appear lemons that can be produced there. The cost of hauling them 3,000 miles by rail to the At-| lantic seaboard is so heavy trat few of | | = | in pointing out to s—to autolsts touring Lirough | America’s | 20, 1909. Army Gossip Matters of Interest On of the Firing i the Army and nd Waock leaned from Wavy Register. it was recently held by the comptrolier the treasury that the army could not purchase an automo- bile out of the appropriations authorized by congress because no mention of such | vehicle was made and Its use was not ab- solutely necessary. 1In view of such a de- ciston the question was raised as to whether or not five Rambler bicycles | could be purchased for use by the aignal corps linemen in the repair of military telegraph lines and by messengers in de- | livering telegrame passing over such lines. The istant comptroller holds to be necessary 1s a part of the signal corps equipment nd operation of the army telegraph lines | | and he has approved of such purchase A special board of commissary officers in periodical session at Fort Riley completed its compilation of a has nearly new army cook hook and a bakers' book The former will replace a publication which was not entirely satisfactory in that it was in some respocts too “fancy” in its The book was made up with the aid of a specially employed French chef. The new edition will em- body the resuits of the practical experi- ence of army cooks and will have recipes contemplate the use of the army ration, both in garrison and in the fleld The bakers' book will give a description of bread baking applicable to work at the post as well as in the field recipes which 1t need not surprise the people who are specially interested if the 3,000-mile wire- proposed for not built at «0 mueh oppost less station, originally tion in Washington It has been found that tion in the of the Washington monument that it would be quite as well, all things considered, If the station were not located anywhere near the national capitol, although a site at Annapolis has been recommended as suitable for the pur- neighborhood pose. At the same (ime Secretary lieyer is inclined to question whether there 13| sufficlent advantage derivable from the big station to justify the expenditure of the amount of money involved The infantry soldler of our -imy for some tlme has been without a knaprack or other receptacle suitable for carrying on his person his personal belongings. The need of some adequate means for the soldier to carry articles of this kind with bim on the march in military operations Jong been felt. In view of this fact a board of officers has been ordered Lo convene at the Rock Island arsenal Apii to consider the question equipment and load of the Infaniry afer. The board will consist of Colonel Henry A. Greene, Tenth infantry: Lieu- tenant Colonel Frank E. Hobbs, ordnance department; Major George Bell, jr. in- spector general; Captain James P. Harbe- Twelfth infantry: Captain Merch B. Eighth infantry, and Captain De Witt, Twentieth infantry disappointment awaits the four- has of son Stewart, John L. Keen teen majors and ten captains of the army | s vetired list who were advanced one giade by nations on April & The mnominatio were made as a result of an opinion of the attorney general of February 23 that “officers retired for physical contracted in the line of duty, in accord ance wiih the terms of the act of 1890 are entitled, in the discretion of the pr dent, by and with the consent of the sen- ate, to promotion permlitted the act of 1904 Tt was expected thal these officers would receive the pay of the ad- vanced grade from April 23, 1904 wae the date of the act authorizing the by the | | advancement of officers of civil war serv- | | Army officers who have been hith- erto advanced grade from the date of the law, but in the case of the twenty-four | | officers recently advanced the increase of | pay will date only from April § of this year, which deprives tb officers of the five vears’ accumulatio af increased pay, | | which they had a right to expect, under the revised opinion of the attorney gen- | “1.1\ e ! There are signs that President Taft | will at least consider the proposition to | modify—perhaps to an extent Which | {0 revocation of—the orders | amounta fastened upon the military and naval p sonnel by President Roosevelt. requiring | periodical physical tests as a demonstra- | tion of profesaional fitness of officers. | The requirements are just beginning | be felt way of keen anticipation, in the navy, where much dissatisfaction is expressed with the exactions imposed by tmental orders. With the applica- tlon of the test in the army, navy and | marine the uttter uselessness of the whole proceeding is more and more pparent. 1t is evident that the purpose of the system is not to encourage physi- | cal exercige, of the value of which | one entertains any doubt. Tts effect quite up to the purpose—that of foreing under conditions which are in some-cases, a hardship in corps no is | retirements | humiliating the signal corps of | Kas., | loca- | all. | attended the installation of the plant | on | senatorial confirmation of their nomi- | whicn | I R | | Thousands of millions of cans of Royal Bakin, Powder have been u in making bread, biscuit and cake in this country, ; and every housekeeper using it has rested n perfect confi- dence that her food would ‘be light, sweet, and perfectly wholesome. Royalisasafe- ard against the c{enp alum powders which are the greatest menacers to health of the present day. ROYAL IS THE ONLY BAKING POWDER MADE FROM ROYAL GRAPE CREAM OF TARTAR ! P, strikes ma that the tariff is & good dea | ASSING PLEASANTRIES. like the westher. No matter what Kin¢ iy et, It's pretty sure to be bad for some The way they are pushing poor ¢ business.” ~Washington Star, from pillar to post is really pathetic, _— i Yes; quite movin wa—_— | “What's become of that girl who Wwanter cen juite moving.“—Baitimore Ameri-| , career—sald she felt horself fitted to d headwork in the world? g 2 “She's doing it all right—got & good fo Fader, dere ‘e clouds of biack smoke|with @ fashionable milliner. ' —~Baltimor rolling out of der cloihing store American | inghelty effery such cloud has its gold lin- ng ! —Judge. THE DEPARTED FRIEND. |, Bronson—1 noticed your wife sitting by | | the window sewing this morning. | thought Robert Louls Stevenson | ¥0u told me yesterday she was iil Thoug? he that ever kind and (rue Woodson—8o she was, but today she's on | Kept stoutly step by step with you the mend.—Brookiyn Eagle. | Your whole, long gusty litetime throu ) gra | Be gone & while before— ¢ i y Be now a moment gone before, Girl with the Clara Morrie Eyes—I ai-|Yet doubt not; -anon the seasons sha wava feel like a fool when 1 try to talk restore i} about art . 3rl with the Viola Allen Volce~you| Y°Uf friend to you. dont necd to feel that way. 1f you lean | o has but turned a corner—still | four head a litile 1o one side when you| e pushes on with right good wil ocl¢ at & painiing. and throw in u remark | Through mire and marsh, by heugh and now and then about “perspective’ and uill, tonal values.” you can pass for an art| That selfsame arduous way. critic with the best of them.—Chicago Tri- | That selfsame upland hopéful wa; bune. That_you and he through many a doubt | —_— ful day ! “Daughter, do vou think that young fel-| Attempted still {low is the man for vou®" | “on. T know it, papa! He ts not dead, this friend—not dead How do you know it? - But in the path we mortals tread ‘He told me so himself. —Denver Post. |Get some few trifling steps ahead il o | “And nearer to the end st . {80 that you, too, once past this hend | “Hullo. old fellow, you look sort of out|Shall meet again, as face o face. th of sorts this morning | friend | ““That is not surprising: Jinx has eloped | You fancy dead. | with my wife | " He has?” Push gayly on, stfong heart. THe while | “Yes, and to think that that fellow al- | You travel forward mile by mile, * ways professed 10 be my hest friend He loiters with a backward smile, | _“Well, he proved it, didn't he?'—Houston | Tyl you can overtake, Port And trains his ey o search his wife. | Or, whistling, as he sees you thréugh th What do vou think of tariff revision?" break, ‘Well,”" answered Farmer Corntossel, “It| Waits on a stile. Qisability | | | | | others. and needless in most. 1t is un- | derstood that certain senators have inter- | ested themselves in the situation, with the prospect that they may be succes.iul | My, Taft the absurdity | | | | Syrup of Purity and Wholesomeness | e 5T The most delicious for griddle ! cakes of all makes—or any use where syrup takes. A pure, wholesome food. In 10¢, 25¢, and s0¢ air-tight tins. A book of cooking and candy- making recipes sent free on request. CORN PRODUCTS REFINING COMPANY New York Try it for breakfast with milk or cream —easily digested—strengthening and sat- isfying. | of the arrangem t | | PERSONAL NOTES. I Rhode Island is somewhat regretful that | President Taft did not select one of Its | | shore resorts tor his summer hon But | Rhode Island is a rather small state for so | | big a man | Thomas West, known as “the big In | dian,” dled last week at his home, near |———— | Kanawia. Okl, the townsite which he owned and sold fér $12,000. West was a Seminole, and came to Oklahoma in 1860, Miss Rhiea Whitehead of Beattle has just 'HOTEL VICTORIA | Broadway, Fifth Avenue and 27th St., NEW YORK.' , | BUNOPEZAN PLAN. | been made deputy prosecuting attorney for Kings county. Washington. She is an | nonor graduate of the law school of the | University of Washington In the class o | Before studying law Miss White- | | head was a steaographer | Ex-Clerk 0. J. Markle of Ohio dismissed from the War department in 1892, has put |in & claim against the government for $500000 damages. He says that because of ersecution to which he was sub jected he couldn't study, dldn't get his | Ph. D. and didn’t enrich himself with his pen | Mrs. Frances Cook Van Zandt died a | Fort Worth, Tex., #ged ® years. 8b | was the widow of Isaac Van Zandt, Texd minister to the United States and nego- | tiator of the ireaty of annexation. Sha| as the mother of General K. M. Van| Zandt of the confederate arm. e leaves | {behind her on the earth than | [wumv living descendants. | Colonel Alexander K. McClure of Phila- | | aelphia long one of the best known Jours [ists in the country and of late years prothonotary of the supreme court of Pennsylvanias has suffered a serious break- down. Coloncl MeClure recently visted the south and spoke before the boards of trade | much of an undertaking fo lyears il ) ocms. M0 rosws ik ot and cod b oo, o w4 man o0 | angus Gordon. Late Mer. of King Edward Hotel, ‘Toronto, Can s Wi vere it Thsuim e cab ture vequired %08 —n water X ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF. GEORGE W. SWEENEY, Prornisven S —a— i e i,