Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 7, 1909, Page 19

Royal Party BARON EUCHI SHIBUSANA— HARRIMAN HAT the women of Japan may not be averse to visiting Amer- fca and coming In their native costumes, the five noted women who are in the party of Japa- nese who will visit Omaha No- vember 13, are wearing their native cos- tumes. They say that thousands of women of Japan would like to come to America to visit and see the sights, but they have @ shyness over what to wear. They want to pave the way for others to follow. America looks good to the Japanese, They are not afrald to say so, and say it in no unstinted terms. They come as Japanese business men to effect a more OF JAPAN. perfect understanding between thelr coun- try and the country which showed them the way to a world's commerce and opened the gates of Japan Members of the commission have made various purchases in the cities they have visited and they may make some pur- chases in Omaha if the committes on en- tertalnment does not insist on occupying all thelr time. The women like to visit the big stores and look over and buy the pretty things. This is a small matter from & monetary standpoint, but it shows that America -has beautiful things in its stores which attrack these royal digni- tarles from the Flowery Kingdom. They ENTIRE PARTY OF JAPANESE COMMISSIONERS will take back these trophtes of com- merce and they may attract thelr coun- trymen to buy more American goods. PR Supreme Importance of Visit. The supreme importance of the commis- sloh's visit here from the corpmercial view- point may be read In the statement of the trade relations of the two countries. Our exportations to Japan for the year 1908, according to the official reports of the United States government, were valued at $41,315,454, besides $1,663,113 to Korea and a good trade with that large section of Manchuria, where Japanese interests are paramount. The largest single item was cotton and cotton goods, totaling 811,428,578, Next to this come iron and steel products. The main items of this schedule are steel ralls, $1,348,471; 496,008; locomotives, electrical machinery, $1,- 77,570, all other en- gines, $4,098,116; structural steel,” $514,468; builders’ hardware and tools, $268,631; wire, $109,930; agricultural implements, $101,665; nalls and spikes, $572,766; pipe and fittings, $1.408296. We sold 339,381 worth of ears, carriages, automobiles and other vehicles, not counting $98,084 worth of bl- cycles. Brass manufactures brought us $20,643; copper, $27,300; clocks and watches, $18,492; sclentifio instruments, $507,286. — Flour and Bread Stutfs. Another class of goods which comes home to us is flour and breadstutfs. We receive for the former $2,00,260 and for the AND WOMEN. rest $719,692; paper and products fetched $316,372; leather goods, $360,04; meats and dairy products, $788,373; naval stores, $114,24; mineral olls, refined, $5,046,- 497; paraffin and paraffin wax, $626,9%; to- bacco, 40,867; woodware, $394,007; soap, $49,40; books, maps and engravings, 481; chemicals, drugs and dyes, $225,984; fertilizers, $232,110; fish, $7,450; fruits and nuts, $34,442; Indla rubber wares, $364,775; inks, $61,182. The United States bought from Japan last year goods valued at 368,107,645, be- sides $3,046 worth from Korea—a balance of trade against us of nearly 17,000,000, Less than one-fourth of our Importations were dutiable. The overshadowing item was $8,00,000 in silks. Next come mat- tings, nearly $5,000,000; in earthenware and thereof BARON NATBU KANDA, JAPAN'S LEADING EDUCATOR. fibers, nearly $1,500,000 each; rice, $1 over $1,000,000 worth each of copper ucts and camphor. 50,000 prod- The Commercial club of Omaha and the business interests will leave no stone un- turned to seo that the Japaness enjoy their visit to thig city and will endeavor to show them somethings which they have not been able to see in other places in this country. Omaha women prominent in soclety are making plans to entertain the women of the party. Mrs. Gould Dietz is arranging for one breakfast with fourteen guests. These pretty little Japanese women have the native instinct of Inquisitiveness and they have been known, on this American tour, to go awry of some of the well lald plans of soclety folk in various cities. ¥or instance, In one packing oity where they Were to be entertalned in formal style while their husbands were being shown around the dirty and fll-smelling packing plants, they Insisted on passing up thelr soclal engagements and taking In the stinking packing houses with their hus- bands. “We came over to see the United States,” they said Of course they won't do that In Omaha. Pierce County ARMING In Plerce county has become a_four-horse enterprise. The marvelous ingenuity of the farm implement genius has rele. gated to the shelf of ancient history the old-time plow, and the up-to-date farmer rides a “‘sulky” while tilling his fields. This era of inventlon lifted the sturdy husbandman out of the furrow and placed him on & spring seat. It came none too soon, for it brought not only comparative case in the discharge of farm dutles, but a much greater efficiency, materially enhancing ‘he farmer's indi- vidual capacity, and Tescuing the “knight of the soll” from the arrogant clutches of , “the hired man, thereby increasing his independence. The Plerco county farmer today, more. than ever before, represents the stability of the nation. In the earlier days the settlers in Pierce county encouraged and hailed the emigrant because of the fact that he made one more consumer for the product of the eoil for ‘which there was but a very limited local market. In contrast with that condition of affairs we find Plerce county hailing and encouraging Immigratio very different grounds. The present son for desiring immigration being more. laborers are required that the soil may yleld its full harvest and that the demand of fur away markets may be sup- plied. It has been brought about by the transportation facllities, which have en- tirely removed the necessity of depending upon local markets by making accessible to the farmers of the west the markets of every country on the glob 1t is an Interesting fact that the great raliways of this country follow very closely along the old Indian trails, and fthat the red men, in their turn, followed the trall of the buffalo. Engineers surveyed routes across the continent, laying out lines for the rallways to follow, but, after all, it was the buffalo, guided only by natura instinct, which “blazed the way A remarkable train of events spreading over many years and following each other in rapld succession have been unfolded in Plerce county. Forty years ago there was #till very much the matter with this part of Nebraska, as with other western coun- ties. The territory where now stands was hanging perilously near the edge of the western frontier. The antelope, as well as the buffalo, were stil furnishing excellent sport for the hunters. But today they are farming the buffalo range and the broad grain fields have driven the antelope beyohd the former frontier. For 100 years the supremacy of the Indian and the Hud- won Bay Fur company were undisputed Then the homesteader lald the hand of ipdustry oo the broad praivies, possessed upon rea- that COUNTY , COURT themselves of the richest soil nd located their mills, bridges and highways. They built villages, towns and citles so far be- vyond the pale of civilization that for sev- eral years they had no local existence upon the land map of the state and the vergent soll that had slirped unbroken amid ever- lasting sllence was for the first time in all the ages upturned to the dew and sunshine. They were the men that followed the dim and wending Indian trail until it broadened into a highway of civilization. , The hotels and banks of Plerce are now recelving thelr patrons upon the very ground where not many years ago the wolf and the bear prowled and the wild deer and Indian roamed undisturbed. There is & strange combination of wildness and order, of age and newness in this county’ It speaks of the long ago and yet brings one into such close contact with the time in which he lives that the dawn of & new era is breaking into view There may be said to be two general classes in northern Nebraska—those who are anxious to see & sturdy class of farmers and home-makers come Into these counties, thereby bullding up & population and con- tributing to the health and strength of the communities; and those who do not desire this kind of development, but, on the other hand, want the great tracts of grazing land to remain in unbroken areas, allowing f.= HOUSE, PIERCE. the arranging of cattle in immense herds and dlscouraging all of the more intensive styles of agriculture. Plerce ,county was created by an aet of the territorial legislature in 189. Qn the 5th of February, 1§75, the boundary was read- Justed, making the county square and mak- ingsixteen townships, or 368,640 acres. Plerde county is composed of valleys end upland In about equal proportion. The North Fork valley averages from two to four miles In width and extends from the northern to the southern boundary of the county. The principal kinds of native for- est trees found here by the early settlers were the elm, willow and boxelder. The first settlements in the county were made in the fall of 188, by a portion of the German colony from Wisconsin which settled mainly on the North Fork of the Elkhorn. Among them were H. J. Hueb- ner, August Nenow, Christian Huebner and others. In 1870 and 1571 much of the choice land in the southern part of the North Forlf valley was taken, and some of that along its tributaries. In 1870 R. S. Lucas and J. H. Brown started a settlement Willow creek, the present town of Plerce, and in 1571 Willlam B. Chilvers located at the head of Dry creek, where the town of Plainview now stands The county seat was located at the first election held in the county, July 26, 1870. on PUBLIC SCHOOL, PIERCE. The town of Pierce was then laid gut and the Inhabitants immediately set about building & court house. On March 31, 1871, the county voted $15000 bonds, but the bonds were never needed.’ At this elec- tion there were but forty-six votes cast in the county. Plerce county has voted bonds at different times in rather large amounts to different raliroad companie: In the year 1§70 J. H. Brown was au- thorized to eall & speclal election for the purpose of organization of the county. This election was held July 2, 1570. J. H. Brown elected clerk, H. R. Mewis was treas- urer and Albert Brisso sheriff. In 1579 Plerce county contained a population of 684, In 1880, 1,214 Plerce, the county seat of Pierce county, is favorably located at the junction of Wil- low creek with the North Fork o the Elk- horn, the latter furnishing excellent water- power for the city. The first house buflt In the vicinity of Plerce was a slab and sod house on the bank of Willow ecreek bullt by J. H. Brown, early in 1570. For a "time this house served the purpose of & dwelling, postoffice, court house and hotel The second house was a frame one, built by R. S. Lucas, one and a half storles high, on the land adjoining Mr. Brown's. The school and court house were both built in 1872. Plerce county is one of the very few countles of the state that has been free from a county seat fight. A store bullding was erected In 1574 by H. R. Mewis. The postoffice was established In 18790, with A J. Babeock the first postmaster. The first school taught was by Mrs. Robert 8. Lucas, in her own house. She afterward taught in the public sechool house bulilt in 1872. The Pleroe County Call was established October 6, 1877, by J. B. Sharot & Bro thrifty cities of the county. The first settier here was Willlam B. Chilvers, June 1, 1871. The postoffice was established in April, 1872 and called Roseville, in honor of Charles Rose, who was appointed first postmaster. In 1574 the name of the postoffice was changed to Plainview. The first hous Plainview is one of the bullt was in the fall of 1§71, by Star Rose, Schoonover and Dean, the settlers-living in the meanwhile in wagons and tents. The first frame house was built in April, 1872 H. R. Mewls built the first store bullding in December, 157. The town was platted October 30, 1880. Let us now turn to Plerce county of to- day and see what it has accomplished In bullding up & commonwealth. In the first place Plerce county has a valuation of §20,- 000,000, and this amount has been taken from ‘the soll. It has a population of 14,- 000 people that will compare avorably with any people for thrift and intelligence in any part of the west. The county has §9% miles of railroad, with seven good, thrifty rafl- road stations: It also has one excellent water-power, located at Plerce, and Is one of the few counties of the state tthat has & first class Independent creamery. The county also has an excellent steam flour- inig mill located at Plainview. Plerce county is also blessed with ten state banks, twelve grain elevators and twelve free rural routes Plerce county has one of the best farms in the state. It is owned by Robert Lucas, at Foster. The farm is located in one of the best agricultural sections of Nebraska and contains 2,200 acres. The farm is valued at more than $100,000, and Is stocked with 1,600 3-year-old white faced cattle The dwelling house Is modern in every respect and cost over $12,000. den valley is without any doubt one of the cholcest farming sections of the state and is located in the extremé northwestern part of the county, while the extreme southwest of the county has one or two townships devoted largely to sandhill and stock range. Plerce county, for its size, is one of the most productivé counties of the state, It is not only one of the substantial dalr sec of Nebraska, but it takes high rank in the live stock industry. Last year the farmers of this county sold and shipped out 14,000 beef cattle, 3,600 fat hogs and 700 mutton sheep. Besides raising enough grain to fatten this immense amount of stock, these farmers sold and an Example of Un-to-Date Farms and Farming LOOUST STREET, MAIN STREET, PIERCE. shipped out 588,000 bushels of corn, 2,600 bushels of wheat and 67,000 bushels of oats This county is paying more integest to the dairy industry each year. At the present time these farmers have 1,100 acres seeded to alfalfa. This accounts for them keeping 8,600 head of cows on thelr farms last year and using hand separators. From this beginning of the dairy industry these farmers marketed last year 76,00 pounds of butter and 146,000 gallons of cream. These farmers produced on thelr farms in 1908, 89,000 acres of corn, 2,400 acres of winter wheat, 1,300 acres of spring wheat, 6,600 acres of oats and 4,000 acres of rye. Plerce county from the very start has been taking a deep Interest in their publio schools, and it is doubtful If mny county in _the state has given freer of its time and money for educational purposes than this county, and the results are in the high- est degree entirely satisfactory. This county, at the present time, has seventy- four school districts, requiring 108 teachers. Eight districts have two more school houses. No disirict has less than six months school during the year, and the average term is a little over elght months, over or No district recelves a share of the statq ald, and last year only three districts levied the limit of taxation—twenty-tive mills, The average school fund levy Is eleven mills. There are 3,685 children of school ago In the county. There are thirty-six children attending the town school under the free high school law. The school prop- erty, such as bulldings, furniture, books, etc., amount to $103,50.00. Last year the average female teachers was $44.34, and male teachers It was 5.0 The salary paid this year will average from $3 to §7 higher than last year. Superintendent O, R. Bowen, of Plerco schools recelves the highest salary, §1,200 Over % per cent of the teachers showed their professional spirit by enrolling at the North Nebraska Teachers' assoclation, meetipg at Norfolk. Frank Pilger is serv- ing hik sixth year as county superintendent of schools. He draws & salary of $1,200, He is also the managing editor of the School Nows. The schools and churches have had & salary pald to to (Continued on Page Four)