Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1909, Page 1

wwsseemo) "T'HE OMAHA SUNDAY B OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1909—SIX SECTIONS—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. REPORT AGATNST DR. COOK'S CLAIM Troliminery Examination of Records Does Kot Show that He Reached the Pole. DATA SUFFICIENT Pcpular Opimion at Copenhagen is Undergoing Change. KEMBERS OF FACULTY ANGRY RBegret Expressed that Report Was Made Pablic. PEARY EAS FNOTHING TO SAY Commander Aeked 1 Smiles Broadly When - Cook a Statement Remains Silent—Dr. SN Missing. —The Associated reached the North preliminary report made by xamining committee at a secret session of he consistory of the university tofay.. The consistory listencd t which provoked an animated discussion. It ap- pears that the d 15 mot held sufficient claims. The result of Tequest o the the commiitee cont 1t versity body will leave 1o proper the matter of mak the results of their inquiries In the meantime announced by ax official of the the consistory will not make pu any communication based op Information received orally from the committee at today's meeting. Popular here appears undergore & gradual change. F ginning of the controversy the populace of Copenhagen has decidedly pro-Cook Patriotism has strengthened this sentiment Recent developments however @isuppointing &nd today the general pression prevails that Dr. Cook's papers, as submitted, do not constitute proof that he @iscovered the North pole. Report is Kept Secret. The report was presented by Reetor Torp. but its pature was carefully guarded from others than members of the tory. The latter pledged to It was admitted that thus far accomplished animated debate Ticials. To the newspapes ctor Terp ssid: comamtiee s © ol SPRSL yet fla. fshed. 1 cannot tell how lemg ft will cons tinve, but 1 hope that chersesalt’ can made puble before N Year's Poth the members of the sunsistory and the coms mittes have boen fortidder 1y 1o make! public anything regar has been Bocomplished thus far invest 1t the angr the pole was the the report, a 80 far sub to establish the tred explorer's today s discussion was a k. The uni- estigators & public later ue we opinton to have the be- been have been 1m- consis- secrecy. the work provoked an university of- are however Lad wmong the w b i that consistory prel expreseing a learned university several members of €y are eport. regret that the not waited umtil Dr reached the pole pnoring him. xceed e inary one ty * Cook's that pad been ved before 1 Peary Smiles, but is S§ NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—Commander Rob- ert E, Peary smiled broadly today when informed that @ Copenhagen dispatch had been recetved quoting & paragraph of the University of Copenhagen in its prelim- inary examination of Dr. Cook’s records, and fafling to find proof that the physi- clan bad found the North pole. And that smile was the only answer that Commander Peary made to the information when im- parted to him at the Hotel Imperial “Absolutely nothing to say,” said Com- mandey Peary. Efforts to Jocate Dr. Frederick A. Cook. renewed today, were frultiess. His former counsel, H. Wellington Wack, declared he had neither seen nor beard amything of Dr. Cook since November 22 “1 beileve, as 1 have from the first, that Dr. Cook s in Burope,” sald Mr. Wack. Geographical Society to Aet. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—Intense interest was manifested here today by officials of the National Geographical society in the preitminary report of the committee of the University of Copenhagen that it had falied to find proof substantisting Dr. Cook’s claim that he had found the Neorth Pole April M. IMS Nome, however, would permit himseif ¢ ted As soon =8 officlal announcement is made of the conclusions of the university's com- mittee, the National Geogpraphical society will take prompt bring to en 1md the worll-wide controversy as to the tinding of the pole demar. Sing trom Dr. Cook absotute proof of his claim. Falling to recciye © Ing proof the cicty will proclaim mander Peary as he discoverer of the pole Yuletude Cheer for Europeans be g measures 1 North by ‘ver Seven Million Dollars in Postal rders Sent Acvess Atlantic This Month. W YORK. Duec Never before has sue across people of other lands this year., accarding to the s complied since December 1 by Post- master E. M. Morgan. Outgsing steamers Bave carried awsy orders nting $,500.92, incr of $2.21% over the = o Nearly bered @l vas At as figu ant was sent year 000 went e pe in to Breat were sifts, Briwaun remem- lurge and - Italy's with §1.7TRIR, sain MINDEN L A58 over IMS MAN IS BADLY "HURT usser Falls from Train La Porte and Breaks . Les. LA PORTE. Ind., Dee. 18—(Special Tele- Eram)—While alighting from a Lake Shore traln last night L M. Slusser of Mingen, Neb. siipped and fell. His leg was broken by the fall which, with interna) lusuries, qmakes bis condition eritical Mr. " Minden Grand Aruy of the Republic post the | mber of money orders there | vlrury Indicts Both Doxeys for Murder of Erder lumbus Doctor is Arrested on & Bench Warrant After True Bill is Voted. Dec. 15.—Charged with mur- in the firet degree in commection with the death last July of Willam J. Erder Dr. Loren B. Doxer of Columbua Neb and his wife, Dora E. Doxey, aré tonight keld in oty Jail communicatior may pass between them except ng and that enly after the jailer has approved the missives. They are charged with respons: the death here on July M, last. of William J. Erder, who died sfter a brief iliness Mrs. Doxey, it 1# charged, was married to Erder a few weeks before hir death Analysis of Erder's viscera revealed con- siderable arsenic therein of the circuit attorney Doxey wes brought here charged that Erder was given his food The court's action applicgtion of Harry Rosskopt. ait attorney, who appeared in open ced that indictments had and Mrs. Doxey the warrants ¢ the indictments would soon as th and verified. This wil wrtt y for The information which Mre £ Nebraska pous was taken on the e been He iesued. adding th be returned int had been drawn up take several days | Both prisoners t nocence of the charges them. They added nstructed As the Missour access court as e ¥ asserted lodged their against them not to discuss the case statutes do not recogmize erime as such. Dr. Doxey being a principal. although Louis when Erder was srzed w n was n taken 1l The circuit torney’s office asserts that evidence Will be produced w that be was in communication with Mrs Doxey while she, nccording to the charges, was ministering to Erder as the latter's wife | Mise Kate Erder, sister of the dead asserted that efforts » solve mystery brother's death will of her n. cense 1 will do all iIn my Power t eviderce needed by the prosecu Miss Erder. “When I first reported matter to the Dolice 1 was told that the burden of proof was on me 1 have pro- duced the proof thus far and 1 will suil ;u\ke part in the case” Howell Reported | To Be Slated for | Job Held by Goss i { Present 1 said the District Attorney Finds Ne- _wereska Senstors Limed Up for Another Omeha Man m & Btafl Corsespondent) % 1NGTON, Dec. 15.—(Special Tele- ®rr )—Charles A. Goss, United Stateg dis- triet attorney for Nebraska, who is looking after his reappointment to the position he now holds and which expires early in Jan- uary, is not meeting with the success he anticipated. He has ascertained that Sep- al. Brown is backing F. £ Howell of Omauha for the place, and Sesator Burkett # nof enthusiastic in his behalf. 1ln view of the parly adjournment of congress for the holidays. mo nomination is anticipated intil early in the nes year but whem the nomipation comes in, those who are wise predict that F. S. Howell will be the man named. £ R. Rush, who has prosecuted the land fraud cases in which Bartiett. Richards and | others have been convicted. said today he in Washington for the purpose of go- j was 1 | ing over the records in the Oklahoma land | cases. \Parker in Eul -gy }lu' of Supreme Court Meets and | Adopts Resolutions of Respect. { | WASHINGTON. Dec. 1%—With Judge Alton B. Parker of New York. presiding and delivering the principal sddress of eulogy, the members of the bar of the supreme court of the United States met in the supreme court rooms &t the capitol shortly after 11 o'clock today and | adopted resolutions on the death of Rufus W. Peckham. associate justice of the su- preme court, The assemblage of distinguished members of the bar was called 10 order by Solici- tor General Lioyd W. Bowers, who moved the selection of Judge Parker to priside Judge Parker announced the appoint- ment of & commitiee of twelve members the bar, with Uniled States Senaior Root as chairman, o dra?t resolu- of respect. The resolutions were presented later and paid & high com ment to the late jurist | “The mfiuence of his life. r and the effect of his work bave contributed powerfully to promote wai respect for law and for the courts {of our country which underiies all institurions concluded the esolutions. ve of our tn | that their attorney had | > furnieh | of Justice Peckham| CONGRESS MAKES | G0OD PROGRESS |More Business Transacted Prior to Holiday Recess Than is Usual: MANY BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Army Bill and District of Columbia Bill Pending in House. TWO RAILROAD ACTS PASSED Omnibus Pension Bills, Carrying 467 Claims, Go Through House. OPPOSITION TO MANN BILL Minerity Wil emning File Vigerou e “White Slave” Measure Uneconsti- tutional. assietant N se is better — Par legisl WASH b STON, Dec. 18 being made with than was anticip convened. it was predicted be little or act holiday urnment and but a small probably characterize neress that amount of th ap business would ntire session Since the bouse convened however, a great numl bills and resolutions heve heen introduced two important measures have been passed and ber of others have been reported and nre under comsideration in the house Tn all a total of 1666 house bills, 188 house resolutions a ve been on December er of important tions and twenty-six comcurrent resolu- tlons troduced. Two measures for railroad regulstion. bearing the mame of Representative Esch of Wisconsin, have pessed the bouse. Two omnibus pension | bills, carrying a total of &7 claims, have also passed Two important pleces of legielation are now pending. the District of Columbia apr on bill and the Penama cana government reorganization measure The army appropriation bill carrying upwards of §100.0000, is out of the military mittee &nd the immigration preparing to report its bill white slave” traffic There will be a vigorous minority re- port by four democratic members of the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce on the Mann “white siave” bill which was practicaly acted on by a ma- lority of that committee today. The mi- nority report, which will be written by Rep- esentative Richardson of Alsbama, will issert that the whole matter is one to be andled by the immigrition committee that the Interstate Commerce ¢ mmission has no jurisgiction whatever and that the Mana bUl, which aime at the suppression of the traffic by means of regulation of interstats commerce, s unconstitutional And & gross violation of the Tight of states to_regulate the mormis of their own in- habitants, The minority report wil be signed by Representatives Richardson of Alabama | Battiett of Georgla, Adamson of Georgla and Peters of Massachusetts “This plece of legisiatio: sentative Richardson today. as the worst plece of cant that has lately - com- committee is regulating the l sald Repre “1 characterize and hypocrisy been perpetrated by the republican party. Because the m: be lHeves that in relation to a subject uper which we dare t offer objection to any kind of reguiation, they purpose tc enact & law that lets down the bars as fa as invading the rights of states are oon cerned. It this bill becomes a law, the federal government can go to any ext in | enforcing the regulation of the morals and health of any state.” Car Service Code Endorsed. Recognizing the great benefits to be de rived from uniformity in car service regula- {tions, the Interstate Commerce commissior. today sdded its influence to the mew code of rules recently adopted by the Nationa! Association of Rallroad Commissioners. In & statement issued, the commission | savs | “We enSiorse the rules adopted by the national association and recommend that they be made effective on Interstate trans- portation throughout the country action is, of course, subject to the right of the commission to inguire into v or reasonableness of any rule or rules which may be made the subject of complaint” WALSH ATTACKS Chicago Banker Files A Writ of Certiorari Supreme Court. it is { VERDICT jeation for from | WASHINGTON, that Dec 18 —Compla ning the verdict In his case was “repug because of the fact that a number of the counts against him in his trial ix the United States courts of Illinois were {based on the same transaction, the Chicas banker, John R Walsh, today filed in the preme court of the United States petition for & writ of certiorarl, which, granted, would have the effect of bringing the record in the case 10 the supreme court for gyneral review A fotion for the allowance of the petition probably will be entered in the court Mond: The pressntation the matter AIHI have the effect of staying the execu- tion of the orfer of imprisonment his next | | 1 | ‘ Victims A gang of young desperadoes. or maybe | they were only “playing Indl . vas bombarding the sudience on ihe parquet of the corn expositioa ball with shelled corn. A detall of justy policemen were sent o Quell the mischief-makers of this children's day riol The brave officers were Dut to rout by a voliey of the stinging grains ! The phalanx of braves, armed with pea shooters. heid thelr lofty fortress in the top box above the crowded balcony. The | mighty battle was fought in view of thou- |sands of iaughing people and the police were ingloriously repulsed, baffied and beaten. General Dempsey. in charge of the at- tacking foroe, sitting at headguarters, re- ceived the report of the courlers bringing fioor Siusser | ings of defest with a mighty oath and | marked Sergeant Dempsey i & years old und commander of the & frown like the one that made the duke of | to the Dolice station where he | Wellington famous. Kids on Warpath Make of Show Police “Turn, boys, turn,” he commanded, head- ing the squad on the way back Just then he received & stinging peliet in his ear and turned in time to see & scout from the juvenile enemy taking to cover im the wheat field behind the wifalfa house. The tiny cabin was surrounded and, afier a siege which lasted four whole minutes the lone defender stood against General Dempsey's foroes. ninety-five jéint reso’u- | This | ! | |{RED MEN THEMSELVES FOR IT | ‘lw:u place all those lands on the tax list of { i | heir ! Meanwhile Detective Walker, with rare | and intrepid Garing, wingle handed and armed only with a strong voice, had re- duoed to quistude the raging scene about | | the upper box in the expositon hall The battle was over. Prisoners were ex- | ehanged and the children declared a truce | ~until more mischief turned up. | *Lot of fun for those little rascals.” re- when bhe got could hide \his swmiies p | i | Cheyenne the Cleveland Plain Dealer 1as ‘‘Grouch’’ BILL TO TAX ISDIAN LAND Senator Brown Will Soon Introduce Measure Fully Approved. enator Gamble Interviews Secretary Ballinger Unallotted Lands on Disposition in Da- kota Reservations. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, De al Tel gram. ator Norris Br he Omah dians ae people of Thurston county e taxation of Indian lands he will introduce a wh well ab On Monday bl ich, if enacted 1510, taxes 10 be paid out of the proceeds from Jands if the Indlans themselves neglect authorizes {the secretary of the interior to pay these or refuse to pay them. The t taxes out of moneys i his hands or sub- ject to his order which bas come from rentals. The bill has the approval CicPp. chairman of the senate commitiee o Indian affairs, as well a5 the approval o Assistant Secretacy of ih: interior Plerce John Gennon of Pender and H L. Keefc of Walthis, now In Wasuingics, have alsq sppraved of it “While at the Omaha reservation Iast sum- mer, Assietant Commissioner Fred H. Ab- boit attended & council &t which 5 esding members of the tribe spoke were unanimous in oring taxation jands. They declared that the in crease in value that would come in the development and opening up of the reserve- tions would more than compensate Lhem taxes they would have to pay. Protest Against Consolidation. The dub of Wal 10day protested ag aation mahs and Winnebago age: and appointment of but one superintendent However, the department has fully decided to have but one administrative office aft Jaruary 1 Senator Gamble with Secretary of regarding his bil and disposition tted lands in the St River Indy South Dakota Semato that Major McLaugt with the Indians looking to & thelr consemt to & terms of several bills, &nd Secretary Ballinger will doubtiess Accept the sugges- tion and assign Major McLaughlin to the task The following fourth-class postoffices be- come presidential offices on January 1 mext with salaries of postmasters as indicaied Nebraska—Arcadia, Campbell, Clarkson L0 Bethany, es 0day the s of the Interfor Ballinger rizing the sale surplus and unal- nding Rock and rescrvations in Gamble suggested be assigned 0 treai »{ these reservations & Crofton, Decatur Hemingford Creek, Wa Bradshaw, Dillon, Giltner, Hay Springs. Rising City, Shelby er Wauneta, Western, §1100 Grant. Herman, Maywood, Niobrara, Re publican Utica ide, Wolbac 11060 Jowa—Conrad Massena, New Springville, T Cambridge. Cariville, Ear Dako City Garden Oxford .00 Edgewo Grov Sneffield a mar, Deita .00, Frederick. Marion, Tripp. 1,500 Burke Hecla, Her mot. $1,100 Alpena Lemuel postmaster braska, Frankfort Willow Lake, Wil Garretso: Kennebe. Bar E Leola, Oacoms app £1.000 B was today Bo c Ne. Kunkle, vice M resigned The want ad pages are particularly in- teresting to Christ- mas shoppers Before you start out on your shopping tour leok over the classification ‘‘Christmas Hints,”” on the first want ad. page. There you will find a large number of Omaha mer- chants, who are offering sug- gestions of things, which they have, which are appropriate for Christmas presents. Many little things, out of the ordi- nary, are mentioned there. Have you read the wasnt ads, yet, todar? believes that the white | are in favor of of Semator of the had & conference 1 | | | Nile win | ! Jewish Woman Who | Kiev, | Asquith, ! moene | Roosevelt and Party Leave for Hunt in Uganda {Trip Will Take Them Into Wildest| and Most Dangerous Field of Exploration. NATROBL Today the A expedition the second Bri er ish East Africa, Dec. 18— ican Hunting and Scientific what may be termed as of its journey interior of Africa. The cbjective point s Gondokera, U a, W it is expected will be reached on February 17 Colonel Roosevelt and his associates were iven a cordial send they boarded ain at moon for Kisumu. Arriving port tomorrow the party wiil boa: the steamer Clement Hiil and cross Vie- torfa Nyanza to Entebbe. With *he passage of the lake, the Ameri- cans will have left behind them British East Africa and enter the Uganda pro- tectorate the wildest and most beautiful perhaps the most dangerous and certainly the most interesting field of their explora- tione. Al were In the best of health when they set forth today in search of hew copguests. At Entebbe, Colobel Roosevelt and Kermit wili ve enteitamed st the home of the governor, proteeding oh Thursda) by motor car to Kampala, at the head of the lake, where they will rejoln the thers of the party, who in-the meantime | have arrived at that place by steamer At Kampala the hunt will be organized and on December [, the invasion that will bring them into the province of ihe be begun. Her Oldest Grandchild 1s Seventy began age off as Was Born in Russia 115 Years Ago Dies in New York PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 18—Born in the eighieenth century, In the province © Russia, Mrs Brayne Makedensk dled at the Jewish Sheite: Home las night at the age of 115 years Mrs. Makedenski had nineteen children several of whom are xiill living, and is sur- vived by ebout 10 descendants ered world, but most of them lving in United States. The oldest grandchild He is Abraham Makedenski of New Tk £ sca Makedenski dften spoke of an hon wed up Czar Nicholas 1 of Russia, when he gave her a sovereign seventy-five Fears ago when her parents t an inn. The Csar stopped at the inm 1 urs one day and was so pleased his treaiment that he gave Mrs. Make- denski 8 medal Mrs Makedensk America twen er b 1 and her family moved years ago POET WATSON IS IN HIDING Sald to Bride Have Disappea Because of Asquith Attack. NEW YORK Englist Deg. 18.—William Watson. his Irish bride have disappeared and. beyond the fact that they have left the hotel where they registered th arrival bere & few weeks ago, none of their friends here know what has become of It is said the Doet was yed by the spotlight of publicity which his explanation identifylng Mrs and Miss and daughier of the British a5 the persons attacked in his centered upon him poet them premier. poem into the | SALOON LICENSES REVOKED Henshaw, Rome and Windsor Bars Closed by Police Board. ‘AC‘K'IOH FOLLOWS COURT DECISION Judge Redick Demles Injunci Commission Shuts Up Salooms— Chief Donazme Called Before Governor. | | sitting as a license board Saturday after- noon, Msyor Dahlman and Police Com- missioners Hunter and Wappich revoked | the maloon licenses of Rome Miller, T. J O'Brien, Lents & Willams and Louis Rentfrow, as a. consequence of Judge Redick's decision The revocation is to be enforced “at once,” according to the resolution adopted, which further provides that the chief of police is at once to proceed to notify the parties coneerned. The chief sald he would at once serve the notice jo close and this waps dope. Miller's license was for the bar in Hotel Rome, O'Brien’s for Hotel Henshaw, Rent- frow's for the Windsor hotel. on Tenth street. and Lents & Williams for 1408 Far- nam street. | Before the resolution for revocation was offered Mayor Damman madd all parties | had agreed that the decislon in one case should govern in all. The board had at that time expressed itn determination to set immediately on the court's- decision being rendered, and was now prepared to do w0, “As menm of homor. we bave but one ocourse to pureue,” sald Commissioner Wap- pich, and Commissioner Hunter agreed Thereupon Commissioner Wappich offered the forroal resolution and it prevalled by the votes of the three members of the | board present. ’ Commissioners Hoye and Karbach were | Getained from the special meeting by busi- ness, it is understood. Redick Denies Injumetd | | Judge Redick handed down his decision in the momming, dissolving the order previously issued to restrain the pelice \MN and denying a new order that would | prevent the board from taking action. Briefly stated Judge Redick's decision s as follows The only urisdi question involved is that of the jon of the police court and this on point that the statute orders penalties eater than the amount provided for the wolice court to impose, or the sum of $100. It is argued by attornmeys for the de- fendant that revocation of the lcense, “h. h i= ordered 1o ensue, is a penaity |and te punishment additional to the fine | of f200. | Judge Redick declared that the police 1(‘(\.(: does not revoke the license and that | the license 15 not revoked until the board acts “Furthermere,” sald the court, *It was inot the intention of the legisiature to re- voke the license s+ part of the penaity and punishment, but as a measure of protec- tion to the public in the future.” € | [ | | | Court Weads Decision. Judge Redick read from a written de- cision in announcing his decision. 1n ad- ditdon to the points stated he referred to t arguments of the defenda: that he supreme court and other courts have | freque: used the word “penalty n & colioguial sense and Implied that the | consequ of a c iotion are part of the penalty” or punishment therefor “This is Dot nevertheless, sald the court, “an exact and precise use of the word the ‘consequences’ are not neces- {sarily the legal ‘penalty’ which the cour may impose. The actual peneity which the poice court does and did impose in these particular cases was the fine of §100 While the C. M. Lents case was the one really argued before Judge Redick, his rul- ing was on the Rome Miller case, for this i wihezdia v | | | | (Continued on Second Page) Mrs. Martin Hysterical When Arraigned in Court EW YORK. Dec. 1i—Mrs Caroline B. Martin, mother of Ocey Snead created a fn the Tombs police court when she was arraigned today on & charge of mar- aer Denied permission to fake & statement, Mrs. Martin, who was Tot represented by declared she meant to have her rights, and resisted the court officers’ ef- forts to quist her. She was led screaming out of the room. Mrs Martin and Mrs Mary Snead mother and aunt, respectively the Bast Orange bathtub victim, were both ar- raigned The prisoners both manifestly dreaded the ordesl. It was known that recent revelations have convinced Prosecutor Mott of Essex county, where Ocey Soead, the counsel young vietim of the tragedy met her death, that he will have no difficulty in securing thelr extradition This evidence is largely that which the |Dr0m.lbr has unearthed the tin boxes | Which Mra. Martin left with the clerk in the Hotel Bayard, where she was arrested Every document, the prosecutor Iinsists | strengthens his conviction that Mrs. Snead was not a suicide He lays stress on the fact that not one of the letters supposedly in Ocey Bnead's | bandwriting found among Mrs. Martin's | | effects had been malled. All are written |on fresh motepaper and spparently had | been lttie handied. Mr. Mott declares careful comparison bas satisfied him that if the mote found with the coithing of the bathtub victim was in her basdwriting these letlers Were mot, 1 S Bairicng | these | American WEATHER FORECAST + Nebraska—F r alr, warmer e page 2 SUCCESS CROWNS OLD KING CORN Gates Close on Third National sition, Ending Two Weeks of Activity. PEOPLE'S VERDICT IS WELL DONE Five Governors and Other Notables Voice Words of Apyroval. JACK FROST FOE OF KING CORN Frigid Weather Kept Down Attend- ance to Certain Degree. MANY IMPORTANT CONVENTIONS Breeders. River Boosters Hald Scsions—\ initors from Wide Range of Ter tory Come to Omaha. Implement Dealers, Corn exposition Mding 18 is being Ais- »ducts of a m An A the A weeks whe it Durt Omaha saw 1 ent corn show to entertain ugh as the Botels wecks the corn ex- lnrge e the with the eountry, Dealers® River Navigas £ g5 Al Omaha a busy € 1 ) weeks of the A called & host of pe. and bee crowds have ra of upon been steady xed for there and all the Not o an attra have been but held auring Firet beer, three came Breeders’ association, all over Iroplement the Missour w large od weeks bave b sssociation and ticn congress n tweo Great mer have epot en attracted to Omalk n exp Ana an ¢ show was great Neo able Me Hin nes H Say “Well of Done.” r trans- nd his ation L Northern how merits and lers of the were joud In their praise the good it was doing for #01 Willett M. Havs, agriculture, sta in attendance assistant secrotary of €d In Omaha nearly & week at the corn show and the Breeders' association, and said that he never saw a show waich was se bighly educational. He said that it was | really a short course which no farmer who could possibly reach Omaha could afford | %0 miss. Governors of five states have been to the Corn show and each was liberal in the mreasure of ‘pratse expressed for the work that had been dome by the directors of the show in gathering a splendid arfay of the Pproducis of the sofl and of the speeial work being done by the unfversities and the ag- ricultural colieges and experimental farme to better the yields and the conditions of the farmers. Five Govermors Praise Show, Governor John Burke of North Dakota said he was glad he had come and that h marveled wonderful exhibits that hed been Governor Vessey of South Dakots sald be never drea: such an educational ex- hibit could be gathered together under the head of an agricultural display. Govermor Shafroth of Colorado was plesed and was not afraid to say so, and he went back home and hustied up a F10W ©ats trophy which his state had promissd for the best display of osts. Governor Brooks @4 no! visit Omahe afier the show opened, but was here a short time before, and said he would do all pas- fble to boost the show. Wyoming was on hand with splendid exhibits. Governom Shallenberger of Nebraska made the rounds of the Corn sbow 2nd seid thet he had learned many things which he would use to advantige when he re- turned 1o the farm one but the hizhest compliments could be heard for the show itself, for 1t was as erfect as is possfble. It was a fin- ished show, with the exhibits of twenty- five states, in comparison with twelve last vear e Nebraska nad Jows roads, how- were against the attendance, and, combined with the extreme cold kept thousands away who might otherwise have come Wintry Blasts Hurt Atten The first four days of were about as disagreeable as weather ever gets in Fri- day and Saturds ast week of the show opened and thousands of farm- haa P thelr minds to come to Omaha the winter blasts were again turned loose from the far morth f the es bad Could you Nebraska. It warmed slightly but when the ers made and this section was again visited by about as could ne. blame the farmer for not leav- ng the stock at home her? It was disagree r ¥ men, wh vel im. In zero wea ble the o even tr on the street cars has been re- 4 considering the extremely isagrecable weather,” said gess, general manager of th m ex on. “There has 8 dzy thet the thermometer iging around the zero balls and alsles have i, surprising thousands in spite of There i a hotel In meha but that has been crowded durf the entire weeks of the Hundreds rooms were supplied agency of the information Young Men's Christisn as- ok the aitendance been scarcely bas not mark an. been fair st ur is fr wenther part that so many de ot ne two Corn show. Wattles “orn g0 ricultural fieid nee it great “J. 3. Hil the show was splendid and the assistant sceretary of agriculture and all the govers essed the sa: opinion and their opinfon must have co siderable welght” sail Mr. Wattles. *Tt was indeed a finished show that con- tained more good things than most people were able 1o discover in the time they pent In looking at different exhibits The weather was, unfortunately, against us or we would have filled Omah with visitors as it has never filled before. There meems to be no doubt but that Omaha has collected the best show of its kind that was ever gathered to- getber; I mean the greatest agricultuigs show along educational lines, president of the Na- tion, sald that a show ) many experts iz wit exception ex t prono said e exp the b