Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 16, 1910, Page 1

» 'NEWS SECTION PAGES1 TO 8. VOL. XXXIX-NO. 31 PRESIDENT TAFT, VEXED AT CRITICS #Khief Executive Has Reasons for Wishing to Secure Co-operation of Party Leaders, OBJECTORS IGNORE rM{'m Legislation Can Only Be BSecured with Aid of Congre BREACH WOULD CAUSE DEADLOCK All Officials Must Work Together if Pledges Are Kept. DIFFICULT SITUATION TO MEET Demagogues Who Are Tr What They Call “Aldrichism’” Are Playing Into Democratic Hands, (From a Staft Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—(Special Tele- gram.)—It 1s no longer a secret that President Taft and his advisers have be- come somewhat vexed at the prevalling character of criticlsm tnat is sweepng the country, In and out of the republican party, eriticism that is aimed at the co-operation that the president s trying to establish between himself and the leaders of the party in the two houses of congress and which must be established if there Is to be any forw p during the that Is now under way. This criticlsm, as the president and his friends see it, loses sight of all the funda- mentals In the existing state of affalrs. The position taken by the president and his advisers s, it may be stated, accurately set forth In the following review of the situation: It isn't a question of whether President Taft likes Senator Aldrich and Speaker Cannon, and their assoclates In congress, or whether they like him or approve his politics. e might entertain for all of them & profound dislike personally and officlally and yes, If the present sesslon of congress is 10 do anything to give the country the legislation it is demanding, he must work with these men and they must work with him. Failure to do this would bring the present session of congress to an in- glorious end on the eve of a political cam- paign, the party pledges unfulfilled, the president more or less discredited with the people und pave the way to election of democrats to the house in November. Play to Democratic Party. The demccrats could ask for nothing Detter than that the president listen to the advise of many of his well meaning but misguided friends all over the country. and biing un w breach between himsélf and the congress leaders. Such a course would result |a legislative stagnation dur- ing the remainder of the Sixty-first con- gress, continue the same throughout the Sixty-second congress, under the beneficent management of a demdgratic house and bring the Taft administration to a close #h 4, 113, with a record of nothing e, 0 ¥ he foregolng are the plain facts, and the president Is anxious to have all his friends In the country understand this As he sees the case a break between him and the leaders of either house of con- no matter how much seem to think they would be pleased to ses it brought.about, could only result in party disaster: And so he has made up his mind to disregard the criticlsms referred to and to work with these leaders in the most cordlal sort of way, to the end that the present session of congress may have to its credit legislation that will appeal to the country by showing a 'real intént on the part of the republicans to carry out thelr platform pledges. Difticulty in Present Conditions. President Taft realizes that he has come into that high office at a time when the difficulties wurrounding it are very great. Some of this difticulty has been caused by hi# political enemies, much of it by wmen within the republican party, whe are mis- Informed and not In position to pass judg- ment on the things of which they speak. Many in this latter class sincerely wish | him well, and would be glad to help in any way possible, but others of them are under the influence of the wo-called ultrasinsur- of the house and senate and there- ts. E“ hardly in 2 position to do him justice, n when disposed to do so. To all these critics the president has one reply: that they are demanding that he do something which he hes not the power to do, except by assoclating with the republican party and the men who lead it in the house and senate. The general feeling of these administration oritics, as the president sees it, 1s that he should enact laws without any party, and reach affirmative results by the unalded power of this good right hand. The president be- lieves that the absurdity of this view will ultimately be recognized by the people, al- though there Is a possibility that this will not happen untll after the republican party has been defeated two or three times, and the utter Who are now trading on what they call ‘Cannontsm” and “Aldrichism" clearly sroved Fresident Must Use Comgress. It is, of course, obvious that all the president cen do is to do the best he can to make the government as good as he oan and to secure us much legislation as he can in the right direction. It should \lso bp obvious that in doing (hese things 10 mist use these Instruments which are malepensible to the passage of laws. This statement Is elementary, and the president falls to understand why his triends do not understand it. The truth ish and he and his advisers have been quick to realize it, that the United States Is now passing through a period of supreme hyproerisy in which the man who makes the protestations of hatred of mo politica cor- ruption and boss! & great advant- age. The person who is at disadvantage 1s the person upon whom fall the necessity for atfirmative actlon and the ensctment of beneficia! legislation, These responsible ones are free to formulate their ideals, and make mouths before the public in faver of them, and then blame others for mot com- ing up to those ideals in practice. This has frequently been the case In American politics, and President Taft re- that his fate is not different from t of men Who have been president be- ‘Ore him. But he s anxious that those beople who are sincerely desirous of his Sucoess and that of the party whose leader he is, should remember that he {» laboring Continued o8 Becond Page.) oL some people | emptiness of the demagogues ! Wom.n Arrested as Accomplice of Lamphere Mrs, Eliza Smith, a Negress Impli- cated by Confession, is Held to Grand Jury. LAPORTE, Ind, Jan. 15.—Mrs. Eliza Smith, arrested as the result of a confes- sion of Ray Lamphere to Rev. A. O. Schell, now president of the Iowa Wesleyan uni- versity, today was released on a $,000 bond.. The negress, who was implicated by the confession in the murder of Mrs. Belle Gunness and her family, denied all the charges made by Lamphere. The grand Jury will be in session next week, when it is expected there will be a resumption of the investigation Into the Gunness case. The Truelson confession may yet play an important part in the case. This con- fession was made in May, 1908, by Jullus Truelson of New York, now serving a term for forgery in the Texas state prison and it was fully investigated by Albert F. Smutzer; then sheriff of LaPorte county. Truelson claimed to have visited the Gun- ness farm before the fire and he told much about the case. For a time the officers were incluined to belleve he was an ac- complice, but later it was concluded he was a romancer and told the story in order to be taken from Texas and brought to LaPorte. It is possible Trueslon may be brought here because there are features of his con- fession which bear striking resemblance to the Lamphere confession made pubiic by Dr. Schell. Postal Declares Its Independence Telegraph Company Denies it Has Been Merged with West- ern Union. NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Viee President Charles C. Adams of the Postal Telegraph Cable company today vigorously denled that there was any plan on foot to merge the various telegraph' interests and asserted that the keenest competition would still continue between the Postal and Western Union companies. The following statement was made by the Postal Telegraph-Cablé company: “The Postal people vigorously deny that there is any truth in the statement that the change of the name of the Postal Tele- graph-Cable company to Transcontinental Telegraph compdny has ‘any connection with any plan for a merger with the Bell Telephone comiany or the Western Union Telegraph company. They state that the change of name is solely to enable their focal company in New York state, known as the New Engiland Telegraph company, to transact its business in New York state in the name of the Postal Telegraph-Cable company and they declare the simple change has nothing whatsoever to do with the telephone interests or the Western Unfon interasts. The Postal people say they have been independent and will con- tinue to be indépendent and that they have nothing to do with the tefephone company or the Western Unlon and don't propose to have." POSTOFFICE INSPECTORS GO Charles E. Llewellyn of Nebraska and Jamen E. Bennett of Wyoming Send Resiguations. / (From a Staff Correspondeht.) WASHINGTON, Jen. .15.—(Speéial Tele- gram.)~The Postoffice department today announced the resignation of Charles B. Liewellyn of Nebraska and James E. Ben- nett of Wyoming, postoffice inspectors In the office of the postmaster general. The secretary of the interior has af- firmed the dec'sion of the commissioner of the general land office in the case of Rob- lert P. Willlams against Mary C. Givens in holding for cancellation her homestead entry located i the O'Nelll land district. Rural carrierc appointed are as follows: Nebraska—Wausa, route 1, Willam R. Ozbun, carrier; no substitute, Tows—Butfalo, route 1, Louls C. Wells, carrier; Willlam 8. Wells, substitute; Law- ler, route 1, Willlam F. Sullivan, carrier; James R. O'Ncill, substitute; route 3, Danlel V. Murphy, carrier; no substitute. South Dakota—Postmasters appointed are: Monroe, Turner county, Burton J. Ellls, viee J. J. Kippes, resigned; Vale, Butte county, Henry O, Massie, vice A. O. Fas- ser, resigned. |POSTAL RATE HEARING SET Pablishers Will Appear WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—The question whether periodicals and magasines are pay- |ing a sufficient postal rate as second class matter will be elucidated at & public hear- |Ing of the house committee on postoffices and postroads on January 2. The an- nouncement to this effect was made by Chairman Weeks of that committee. It is expected that a number of publishers wiil appear to state thelr reasons for opposition to the proposed increase in thelr postal rates. OMAHA, SUNDAY WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska-—Local snows. For lowa—Cloudy, warmer For weather report sce Page 3. MORNING, COPY FIVE CENTS. NINE DEATHS DUE | T0 STORM IN EAST Total Fall of Snow in New York| City Exceeds Fourteen | Inch STREETS ARE BADLY BILOCKED Eighteen Thousand Men at Work Clearing Away the Snow. MAYOR GAYNOR AT CITY HALL Executive Little Worse for Experience in Snow Drift. His NEW DISTURBANCE IN THE WEST Area of Depression Now Hovering on Coast and May Sweep Eastward ~——Missinsippl River Way Down NEW YORK, Jan. 15—Nine lives were lost and six persons injured in one of the worst storms that ever visited New York City. The total snowfall at 10 o'clock this morning, when the skies cleared, was l4% inches, second only to the blizzard of | 189, when 15% inches fell, and of 188§, In which Senator Roscoe Conkling lost his life, when 209 inches fell. Eighteen thou- | sand men have been put to work clearing | the streets and it Is estimated that the cost of removal will exceed $500,000. Mayor Gaynor appeared at eity hall to- day quite as if he had not fought for his life in the storm last night. Sald the mayor: “We went through hard- ships that I would not willingly encounter again. 1 very much regret the injury to my triend Mr. Shephard.” Mr. Shephard, who fell off a railroad trestle, while fighting the storm with Mayor Gaynor, Is serlously 11l tonight. His left leg and ankle were broken, and he suffers from shock and exposure. He Is 68 years old. During the afternoon traffic conditions began to approach normal again, though there was still much congestion. Transat- lantic liners all reported savage weather at sea. The thermometer began to fall tonight and a cold wave Is predioted. Thus far the snowstorm, though heavier than | that of last Christmas, has caused le suffering because the weather has been milder. Whitelaw Reid’s Narrow Escape. The American line steamship St. Louls, which has been anchored off Sandy Hook since Thursday night, reached its dock to- day after much difficulty. It was closely tollowed by the Cunard liner Lusitania, which arrived off the Hook last night. Whitelaw Reld, who had rushed across the ocean dn the hope of mttending the funeral yesterday morping of D. O. Miils, bis father-in-law, wag a passenger on the | St. Louls. Passengers on the 8t. Louls, which wus three days overdue, reported that Ambas- sador Reld narrowly escaped injury when & huge wave swept by a tremendous sea mounted the vessel last Wednesday even- ing. Mr. Reld was in a steamer chair on, the promenade deck with his secrotary, Miss Rogers, when the wave struck the ship. Carrylng a large section of the port rail with it, the wave washed back and car- ried most of the passengers, Including Mr. Reld and his secretary, quite a distance down the deck. They were drenched. The Lusitania reported being struck by a giunt wave last Tuesday, which did much damage. Some of the crew declare that the wave was sixty feet high. It smashed through the bridge and broke in a part of the wheelhouse. The two quartermasters operating the steering and engine room ap- paratus were knocked from thelr posts, but were not hurt. ‘The wave seriously deranged the steering gear of the wheelhouse. The ship was compelled to reduce its speed until the storm had subsided and the damage re- paired. d Indications of c\'elrlns weather were welcomed. today. New Disturbance in Went. WABHINGTON, Jan, 15.—A strip of cold wave that marks up zero In northern New York and 10 below at Greenville, Me., In the extreme northern tier of New Eng- land, scores today's lowest record In the | country. The snowatorm that swept over this section two days ago Is passing to s on the New England coast, and In its waki all along from the Ohlo and Mississippi valleys to New England the weather Is clear or clearing, with warmer days in ht. What the weather sharps call a ‘depression,” a disturbance that has mean- dered over from the Pacific coast, Is mark- ing time In the northwest today and caus- | ing speculation as to whether it will de- | velop into & storm and travel eastward, ) IDAWSON IS OUT OF THE RACE Congressman from Second Yowa Dis- triet Will Not Be O date Again, WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.~Representative Albert F. Dawson of the Second Iowa dlis trict will not be a candidate before the primary next June for renomination. His declsion Is announced In a letter which he | sent today to former Representative Lane, chairman of the district republican com- mittee, Complaints have been made to Mayor Dahiman by the elevator operators and As- sistant Street Commissioner Tom Davis against certain actions of Assistant Gas Commissioner Butler. The kickers assert that Butler has been making experiments, both in the basement of the city hall and in his laboratory, with 8angerous explo- sives. | 'The protest against Butler's experiments have gone so far that Custodian Wabl- strom may be compelled to secure new ele- vator operators, on one side of the city hall at least. Wkenever Butler gets on the east elevator with his beakers and other paraphernalla containing, as the kickers allege, dangerous fluids, the ele- vator boys refuse (o taks on other passen- gers, and they make the assistant gas com- missioner stand &8 far back in the cage as possible. One sxcited operator the other lwmnflhfl.‘l‘uwwlom -;‘Joe” Butler on Carpet Before Mayor Dahlman his materials so carclessly. Engineer Foley has gone so far as to bar Butler out of the basement. Tom Davis registered his kick with Com- missioner Flynn, who felt obliged to carry it to the mayor. “The' assistant gas commissioner some- times comes In here and sets a vial of nitro-glycerine or something that looks like it, on our counter,” sald Davi “He may be talking to a friend, or have some business here, and I decidedly object to having that stuff laying around this shop at any time. If he wants to blow up his own end of the bullding, let him, for il I care, but he is entirely too careless in mak- ing his experiments. What does he know about exporimenting, anyway? And, be- sides, he's a single man, but most of us about here have families.' Mayor Dahiman will give Butler a hear- ing within & day or twe. A6 From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. ‘‘Gee, there’s Pop. (OAL DEALERS T0 MEET KING Date of Meeting' to Be Changed Because of Ak-Sar-Ben. THREE THOUSAND MAY BE HERE All of Delegates to Northwestern Convention Will Be Initlated Into Mysteries by the Knights. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, Jan, 15.—Special) —G. ©. Reeves, secretary of the North- western Retall Coal Dealers' assoclation, today announced a change in the dates for the big meeting at Omaha in June that the visiting coul dealers might be initiated into the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben at a reg- ular initiation. Between 2,600 and 3,00 coal dealers will attend the meeting in Omaha, according to Mr.- Reev The dates selected for the meeting in Omaba were June g1, 22 and 2. but on learning today that the coal dealers could see the Ak-S# Ben Initiation if they changed the dates to June 20, 21 and 2 Mr, Reeves announced the change. A campaign for membership s being waged In Kansas and many new members are being secured In fowa. and Nebrsska, Two men sre at Work In Kansas,:giving all thelr Wme to securlig new members and urging all to attend the coming meet- ing at Omaha. As these members are near to Omaha, every member secured means another man for the Omaha meeting and another man for S8amson, the Ak-Sar-Ben chamberlain. “The coal dealers will not stop by Invit- ing members,” Mr. Reeves told Wil A. Campbell of the Omaha Commerclal club | today. “We are getting out a new red | book of retall coal dealers, It will contain 10,00 names and we are golng to urge every man to go to Omaha and learn what the Northwestern Retail Coal Dealers’ as- soclation means. It Is golng to be an a soclation which means much to the trade and above criticism from the authorities. We will not do anything which is not morally and ‘legally within our rights, but| we are golng to bulld up a great organ- ization and are counting on accomplishing much at the meeting in Omaha.” The convention was secured for Omaha by the bureau of publicity and promo- tion of the Omaha Commercial club, which is also furnishing much advertising ma- terlal for the coal trade papers. Mr. Reeves will have the program out this month and keep It running continuously in the coal trade papers from the time it is ready for publication untll the meeting in Omaha in June. CRISIS CREATED BY ARMY Premier Moret of Spain Amnounces This Convietion—Big Strike MADRID, Jan. 15.—Premler Moret today announced his gonviction that a erisis had been created by the military agitation against the government. The A. B. C. declares the number of discontented of- ficers exceeds 2,300. FERROL, Spain, Jan. 15—Two thousand workmen engaged In the rebuilding of the Spanish navy jenal here, struck today. Troops and gendarmes have been con- centrated in the vicinity, as trouble Is feared. Gary WIill Continue Dry. LAPORTE, Ind., Jan. 15.—Four months more the “'steel eity’’ of Gary will continue “dry” and by the rule of a mllluhly of only seven votes. Judge Tuthill of the superior court today handed down a de- cislon in favor of the Anti-Saloon league in a sult brought by saloon keepers of Gary to contest the result of an élection held twenty months ago. Do you want a girl for housework? Phone Douglas 238 and get one. That is the ‘“Want-ad Num- ber.”” If you are without help, go do it now. No use drudg- ing this cold weather when you can get help so easily. Girls looking for work know that The Bee publishes practically a com- plete list of people who want help, 80 they look to The Bee Want-ads when loking for a place. Better step to the "phone and put in the ad. ‘e Yale Students Boycott Flowers for Prom Week Agreement Signed by Undergraduates Arouses Indignation of New Haven Flori NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 135.—The pledge which Yale men signed and which aroused the indignation of local florists, was made public today. It in part say: “We agree, that the ladies whom we entertain shall wear no flowers at any of the festivities of ‘Prom’ week." The various entertainments beginning with today's theatrical are then enumer= ated, and the pledge further says that by affixing names, mutual conflidence in the sincerity of the agreement not to have flowers worn by the ladles, is inspired. It has been the custom for juniors to bedeck the rooms of their guests with flowers, present their sweethearts with huge masses of violets and to see that the ehaperone has all the flowers she can conveniently carry. Russia is First as Wheat Raiser United States Loses Its Place as Greatest Producer in World. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—The United States has lost its place as the greatest wheat producing country in the world and Russia has won that distinction, Even theugh last year the total yleld of wheat in the United States was next to the largest in'the history of American agriculture, the crop of 1901 only having exceeded It, Russia last year produced the remarkable harvest of 763,000,000 bushels, which constitutes the largest crop ever harvested by any country and 2,00,000 bushels greater than that of the United ‘States. The great yield of Russia for 1009 exceeds by more than 100,000,000 bushels t..2 previous record of Russia. Only twice has the wheat production of Russia surpassed that of the United States, the first in 194, when the crop here was a partial fallure. About one- fourth of the Russian wheat crop Is ex- ported. Last year rye was grown on 72,000,000 acres in Russla. Returns recelved by the Department of Agriculture from a dozen countries which in the preceding year produced more than four-fifths of the so-called world's wheat crop, exclusive of the mid-season crops of Irdia and the southern hemisphere, show In the aggregate & net gain in 199 of 387,- 000,000 bushels, or nearly 18 per cent over the yleld of the same countries in 1908. This would ‘ndicate that the so-called world's production last year was approxi- mately 2160,000,000 bushels. All but three of the countries heard from report an in- crease. Those with short crops are Ger- many, Hungary and Bosnla-Hersegovina. The condition in which the new crops entered winter is satistactory except In Great Britain and Russia. An official crop report from Rissia rates the crops as * be- low average’ in provinces that contaln 63 per cent of the rye acreage and 41 per cent of the area of winter wheat. GRASTY BUYS BALTIMORE SUN Reported Deal of Former St. Paul Newspaper Man D by Paper. BALTIMORE, Jan. 15.—Reports are in ciiculation here today that Charles H. Grasty, formerly managing editor of the Baltimore News and later connected with the St. Paul Dispatch, had purchased the Baltimore Sun from the A. 8. Abell estate, Mr. Grasty refused to discuss the report and at the Sun office the report was denled BURKETT ENTERS PROTEST| Voice Raised Against Action With- holding Patronage. HIS INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT Two Nebr Reappdintment ka Senators to Agree Postfasters at Lyons, Decatur and Humphrey. (From a Staft Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—(Special Tele- gram.)—It has leaked out that Senator Bur- kett one day this week had a heart-to- heart talk with the president over the ru-| mored position taken by Mr. Taft in with- holding patrpnage from the insurgents because of their fight against Speaker Cannon and his rules. Senator Burkett protestéd against such action on the ground that if carried to the limit Senator Aldrich would be classed as an Insurgent, as he fought and Is still fighting postal savings banks. Several persons were in the room at the time Senator Burkett had the Interview with the president over the patronage mattter and the say the Ne- braska senator was emphatic in his protest against the rumored course of the chief exccutive, as it might Involve an attack upon policies very dear to Mr. Taft and make impossible the carrying out of plat- form pledges, which would be disastrous to the party. One or two others present also particl- pated in the discussion. It Is understood the, president has modified his position as to withholding patronage from house in- surgents who ate quarreling with the speaker and will resort to extreme meas- ures only when the administration is at- tacked. This accounts In a large measure for the truce that has been declared be- tween the regulars and so-called progres- sives over next week's caucus, at which time four republican members of congress will be chosen to Investigate charges growing out of the Ballinger-Pinchot con- troversy. New Powstmaste Senators Burkett and Brown today jolned in recommending the following postmasters, all being reappointments: Timothy B, Calnon, Lyons; James H. Chapin, Decatur; Henry Gietzen, Humphrey. Congressman Kinkald today had an inter- view with the secretary of war and the quartermaster general in behalf of his bill appropriating $50,00 to help the city of Crawford construct water works to protect it agalnst contamination by water polluted by sewerage of Fort Robinson military post, the ecity of Crawford being farther down stream than the post. Mr. Kinkaid thinks the prospects good for securing the endorsement of the War department on & bill for $50,000 or a lesser amount. The Second Iowa dlstrict 18 a close one and the announcement made today that Mr. Dawson will not run again may mean the election of a democrat. The announce- ment caused much surprise in the lowa delegation and in the house generally, for Mr. Dawson is one of the most popular men in the lower branch of congress. He was formerly private secretary to Senator Allison and a newspaper man, Governor Brooks of Wyoming, accom- panied by W. E. Mullin, attorney general, and C. T. Johnson, state engineer, are in Wachington to attend a conferences of governors which assembles here next Mon- day. Approximately 100 farms embraced in the third unit of the Umatilla irrigation pro- ject, Oregon, will be open to homestead entry under the provisions of the reclama- tion act on and after 9 o'clock a. m. Feb ruary 10, 1910, at the local land office, La- Grande, Ore. Under public notice issued by the secre- tary of the Interior all entries made here- after for any of the lands under this unit, whether for lands not heretofore entered or for lands covered by prior entrles which (Continued on Second Page.) [Lonsdale is Among Last to Desert Cause of Dr. Cook COPENHAGEN, Jan, 16.—Walter Lons- dale is the most recent of the former as- soclates and employes of Dr. Frederick A. Cook to admit & distrust of the man whose claim to the discovery of the North pole was rejected by the University of Copen- hage! Lonsdale was private secretary to United States Minister Egan up to the time of the arrival here of Dr. Cook, with whom he then assoclated himself in a similar confi. dential capacity, He accompanied the explorer to the United States, made the typewritten dup- licate of the polar records and brought the data here for the examination by the Untversity committee. He has remalned loyal to his employer until now, when he says he Is boginning to doubt him. Lonsdale states that he received a letter from Cook under date of December M and malled from a city in southern Spain. Aec- cording to this letter Cook was on the sea from Deceiaber 14 to December 24 and accordingly was not acquainted with the decision of the examining committee when the letter was written, Since the receipt of this letter Lonsdale says he has heard nothing from Cook, though he has ad- annml soveral telegrams to him at a point whére he thought the explorer could be reached. Lonsdale estimates that Cook cleared §60,- 000 from the exploitation of his arctic repu- tation, ~ WHERE WEALTH OF NATION IS Nebraska's Farms Produce More Riches Than Gold and Silver Mines of the Union. EVEN COPPER KINGS MUST BOW State's Grain Exceeds in Value Pro- duction of Greatest Mineral. COAL MAN HAS THE GOODS Mined Fuels Are Closest of Corn's Cempetitors for Lead. SOME CHANGE IN PETROLEUM Crude Of1 to the Amount of One Hune dred and Thirty Milllons Outs put for Year—Dollars in Sandbanks. From the office of the United States geological survey has just been issued a tabulated statement giving in great detail figures on the mineral production of the country for the year 1908 The table shows that the price per ounce of silver declined from 67 cents in 108 10 64 cents In 47, and to 53 cents In 1%8. Total production of siiver during 1908 amounted to 52,440,800 troy ounces, having a value of §28,00,60. Of gold the produc- tlon was 4,574,340 troy ounces, having a value of §4,560,000. Thus the t ! value of gold and sllver for 198 was $122,610,00. For the same year, |by government figures, the corn crop of Nebraska was worth, “on the farm,” $104,- 941,00. Fed Into hogs and cattle, the corn crop of this state undoubtedly exceeded the value of the gold and sliver production of the year. From another angle, compari- son with Nebraska products makes the gold and silver plles look quite modest, for in 1%8 the value of the live stock in Nebraska was $135,065,58. Stuff that glit- ters Is not the real wealth, after ali. Copper production for 198 more than equaled gold and silver together. The pro- duction totaled 942,670,721 pounds, having a market value of $124,419,3%. Nebraska corn and wheat for the year had a value of $120,565,740, and yet certain speculators and stock boomers succeeded In conveying the impression that copper was incomparable for investment about that time. Iron Ore ana Corn. Iron ore, with about all sources of supply In careful financlal hands, reached the high-water mark In 1907, when 51,720,619 long tons were produced, with a value of $181,996,147. For 1008 the production was ,08,33 tons, with a value of $5L846,78, belng §7,458,974 less than the value of the 1908 corn crop of Nebraska. Pig iron makes @ hevy nolée, but corn smothers it, Production of lead and zine is falling orf as production of farm crops grows. Krom 365,166 short tons in 1907, with a value of 38,707,506, lead fell off to 310,762 tons in 1908, with a value of $26,104,008. From 223,145 short tons produced in 1907, with a value of §26,401,910, zinc fell oft to 190,749 tons in 108, with a value of §17,- 930,408, Thus lead and zinc production for the whole country, during 1908, just about equaled the value of the hay and spring wheat crops of this state, which together footed up In value close to $44,000,000. Coal the Real King. Owners of the mines containing prectous | metals throw on a lot of “dog” where they {are known and win considerable reverence from the unthinking. The coal mine own- ers are tho real thing, though, when hefty sums of money are being named. Of bitu- minous coal 332,673,044 short tons were dug out In 1908, having a value of $874,1253.8. Of Pennsylvania anthracite 74,847,102 long tons were put above ground, with a value to the producers of $158,178,849. The two sums total $82814,117. Before the ccal is burned into ashes it probably costs the consumers nearly twice as much. The year's production of coal comes migh.y close to equaling the total value of all the crops, live stock and manufactured products of Nebraska, indicating that if King Corn wanted to visit King Coal he would have to make the first obesiance. 011 and Clay Products. Now we come to Jondee Rockefeller's little preserve. The oll wells produced petroleum in 1508 to the amount of 179,672,479 barrels of forty-two gallons each. The value {s set down at $129,706,258. This prob- ably refers to the crude oll, for if the man without a digestion and a sensitive con- | sclence cannot pick up more than $130,000,000 or 50 In & year he will have to take a back seat for the cltizens drawing income from clay products. In this latter class of minerals the pre= duction had a value of §183,197,762 for 1908, showing a considerable reduction from the previous year. Adding the value of cement, lime, sand-lime brick, slate and stone, the total value of structural materials pro- duced was $161,757,145.for 1908, against $306,- 863,719 for 1%07. This vast difference may possibly be accounted for by the greatly increaseéd use of steel for bullding pur- poses; and there is no more striking way of showing the forward movement of steel construction and the widespread use of steel in & hundred new ways than to set these totals against one another. All the bullding materials comprised in the valuation of 306,858,710 fell $46,562,799 short of equaling the value of the grain crops and live stock of Nebraska for the same year. Millions for Mineral Water. Mineral water production reached a value of §7,287,260 in 1908, based on reported sales of 56,108520 gallons. This s better than 4,000,000 gallons In excess of sales for 1907, but the price of water fell with pro- ductlon, contrary to experlence in other things at this particular time, for the smaller quantity of we sold In 1907 | brought $4,244 more than .~ increased sparkling aqua of 1908, Production of alum was less in 1908 than In any year since 1004, amount being 11,162,000 pounds, with a value at Pittsburg of §2,434,600. In the days of hand composi- tion in newspaper composing rooms the printers used about three-quarters the quantity row produced, according fo & veteran “comp.” wheat is a small erop In Ne- but fts value each vear Is just about the value of the alum grop of the whole country Spelts More Than Jewels. Preclous stones produced in the United States do not eut any great figure in the total of our mineral wealth. In 1907 they were valued at ¥1%,00, which included pau.uu for pearls fished out of the sives B