Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 3, 1910, Page 39

THE Some Things You Want to Know The Rural Mail Service To the 41000 rural 1ted State holiday ther letior car liday ers ¢ a legal s not merely | for meeting to and state Indey It is also di rrow will be e states the r will hold county and will held. The neet tomorrow In Colo fennessee Nasnv il Rome, North Carolina in South Carolina DeGraw, fourth eral, will vention. 1 county o fn associations res assocla da tor ndence and in " conyen t nventions ntions w.li Den g Ralelgh wherry. T nt postmaster attend North Memorial day, Thank and such other holidays as the general may decree the rural letter the purposes s ot Qustri be vdo in at a and \ in at wesistant the ‘arolinu o giving day, postinas of rest for carrier, are utili for of meeting In assoclation fgr the advancement of mutual interests AL the five state conventior uestlon of tremendous Liny be @lscussed. The t vural ‘free dellvery tuted, iy at Washington, influential men in ment, and certain) in congress, propose de y of mail o Is to say, tha muke a contract fo on each rural route, will be responsible vural letter carrier in officer of the go hired by a local contr will serve the governmeny and re from Postofice will be the agent of will be hired at whatever pri able to get. In the government retire trol of the rural mafl service the service on the contract the star mail routes now are have been. The advantage sought to be | obtained s the great saving in the of the service that would result Naturally, the rural letter carriers opposed to the proposed charge, means that they will gu out of Thelr demand for increased pay was re- fused by a narrow majority in the House representatives and resignations hav been increasing rapidly on account of the unprofitableness of the work. But on the whole, the carriers are anxlous to main tain thelr present position, trusting to the future for better pay. The maximum sal- ary of a rural carrier is $%00 a year is pald for a route twenty-four wiles long, or longe I routes less than tweniy miles in length the pay Is decreased scale of two-mile gradatic minimum to eig car rural as days t od tomorrow anc ! very ex of the e, 18 1OW cons A pow stake sriul the party meking depar at sald ° of e Pos ng to place trong suppor rural free aet m 3 and the go will That the it a L of malt the contract ernment. The no longer but 4 man o no lor officer ¢ efve a stipulated sa he contra h proposed direct ind Just as and always tor and th trom t place are for it | business. | whie fou oil to the $9 a Che letter ized and have excellent muchinery ing their opinfons known of congress. They will posed-coatract system on . They declare that Wholesals ox pansion of the star systons, W has been greatly diminished by the rise a 1%, down of six miles carviers are well organ- for mak- o members oppose the pro- everal ground T the such a « ich of to graft of enormous proportigns. In sup- re fraud vast number Toute grafting give good They assert that a merchant in the town | of small of instances of stari or star service. route failure to from bid permit wares pape groc postott deit at and addie th partme R in polt politi tact prop ratc al | that s servic The perha the go by which of & end ¢ from tor I it a The car a4 attent 1d store and ice. a T of casonabic . reveny The smal at na wor thec buslaes mai basis the erybod Nationa at ol arrie regul ®, but ne ane v ca every da fa that th means a the th and onal galn loaders among uch rural free the vernment deol ural ontract g wage tore for " e i lar Dt the parcels i ba id t % Assoclatior te fort indoubtedly proposed chauge T ) reall a rme to aa con de t an appropriation of perimental purposes. that 3 t sont restra. have been established ime until nt. Since made have October. postoftice administration Interest _of econcty, that veen to object): nited pop! routes at A price in rk to deliv wam torbidd beoription now dey to the PO cond & ser e that ided ngres; rural o tor 1 rge resuit the ne to n f to the the are ot will The reless the! g0 a nd ¢ 1ral extrac ates, itract the bind} syst carr a tight is nocessas livery lar mai 1t grew 1808, adopted time no and the addition order t the in a Postoffice would carrying 11 the service is g radiat too t er lotte: Hip en to t atpl w feit vant 0cw by ould utes mer ¥ f h in this r n aced t 3t be & nl i Ru coming meeting in Lit- agal strictly test taking active part are m ¢o and p 1 direc | pledge ng t e, iers to sa service departmen It was established in 1896, y $10,000 for e: raptdly when a pol new only e to mai several will to he 1 rs and solieit ~ nat lang and | at mo: t and the fr hole . trom Un B rura than pear depa than than that lion per terfere | the d | conpl parcels permit th andise 1dus mous | de- arcels age vere parcel | for € car- | jyra ple c pelle al it & Letter road who a pro- civil to P does orga towt ) rie a | thro! patr with tairs, pape proy of i and it of t any belleve ve the . of from the n the ley of routes exten- routes 1 in trict serv the men| alieady in existence, or by combining star route able The ing ‘ec at t $25,000.¢ t Just credite or of class more, ougat in a sistant after and delive po sunaster nomies rural 0 that a wit more than postofices discontinued. it was urged that to be credited with a large part k | the mail originating elsewhere, but destined | the rural free dellvgry service, would lead | ¢or ryra gelivery, because of the fact that | | the rural delivery has so greatly stimulated | port of this they cite the famous -“r\ the amount of mail matter going into rural | of thirty yvears ago and the ' aiiiiore monthly postmast congress go service el the last dec saving report er had service oral tiscal v ed that il gervi w0000 for the of general, received whe pi T this was was the Yexpenditure of | abant #0069 on star routes discontinued, | the rural the fourth made the report; ypto me Further- | ractic n his report urg- the postal service declared ywed & net loss of Wi “riends uns | ston mar real not tourth | cont as wite fiv al routes > retu | .| dow ! ever soon | 5 showing tended by lleved of the loss of time requir n their vieinity advance farm prices at his ow celpts agalnst disbursements. worth fight to the end agaipst the propo donment of direct service by {ssue pressed in the land of the Pharaohs, says, the alleged $25,000.000 | yage was used: “Through facilities ex rural delivery, reports recelved department show that farmers save than $400,000,000 annually by this he e being re 1 of men teams ary prior t Installation t trips which was neces ot the #ervice in making to town or village postoffices The service has helped to ast §750,000,000, n 2 o ¥ per cent More than & per of the inhabltants of econtinental ed Stutes dwell in the rural distriete en accepting the statement that the 1 service costs $28.000,000 more eadh year produces in direct revenue, it ap- s the authority of the Postoffice rtment that the service safes far more balf of the people of the country more $40,000,000 & year in expenses, aud it has added three-fourths of a bil dollars to the wealth of this cent_of the people. On rural mail service is entit] Ideration. other one agency has doue the of good roads a | tree delivery mail service. The peo wanted service, they were 4 1o make thelr roads passable nd they must further lmprov & to keep it. Then, too, the carrier must furnish horses 1 vehicles at expense, has a powerful incentive reach the doctrine of good roads. He {t. The Natlonal Apsociation of Rural i engaged In effort nize a good roads in ship and county in the country. e Rural Free Delivery News 1 organ of the letter carrier ugh its columns the rriers and 01 along the routes are kept the progress of events In postal congressional and departmental r gives much space to the good roads aganda and serves also means itercommunication among the carrlers s a vehicle of class advertfsing s impossible to reckon the true w he rural mail service by balancin Its In | to the country, material and moral, calculable. The people of the rural dis- s are foping for the time when the jce may be still further extended. lu meantime the carriers are preparing to | ed aban- | the govern- t in favor of the contract system. BY FREDEBIC J. NASKIN. i on same eho to Ing some this is d #0 much cause has the | the " to is now ety eve is the of- and thelr | in touch af. Tomorrow—The Cost of the Celebration. B ¥umor in tse Days of the Pharachs. above in the Charles John- things, the of Pharaoh's unduly op- he | “we may gather from this marriage ract: ‘I’ says lady Isis, ‘take thee my husband. Thou makest me thy | and givest me, in token of dower ~tenths of silver., 1f I discharge thee | my husband, hating thee and loving| the caption s Weekly, describes, 'among other ital of the lady n ladies were riting under { of Harpe: 3 status “That another more than thee, T shall give and |y v “cay rn to thee two and a half tenths of | silver, of what thou gavest me as my | er; and I cede unto thee, of all and| vthing that I shall acquire with thee, | third part, as long as thou art married OMAHA SUNDAY BE! JULY a Jy 1910.™ Treasure Trove BY H b M. RGBERT " the New Yok E Telegram (New York Herald All rights rescrved ening ompany). 7 of Station unbuttoned ¥ a n at his helme forchead, was leaf in Policeman Great DPelfoan, tited tanning tront of ¥ back him Browr 1t his ec from t with Cl was & sweltering day ar from the policems eht minals, S arters ba phosphate labe tor la t it palmetto neral store. and nothing was mind as the B wis, ir large tract of upon thg out inhabited by and. beyond drunkenness or duty a tho fact pine the head of a and ens of & paln o fow negro . occasional arrest nights, the pay sinecure Polfe and stre policeman wee an took & gulp of looked lazily along the stugg!ing t of shacke. The only thing that stirred was an old. shambling figure that moved unsteadily aoross some bullding lots toward a cluster of oeks nearby. Who's that old feller, Mr. Erown? asked Policeman 27, galvanized into sudden activity anger here I reckon answered Looking Smith ar him toning think wnder o walk water s0. the thos, ption 1 esterdey.”” wald up his cost of it. I seen them oake before storekeepor that 1 a ¥ lots gave 1 man, come be noticed n, T guess the And him sec b to police now 1 day never Jut 1 i O, he's onl country cracker ans “What's the matt Prison be years ered the storukeeper with his wallk? wallk" answered mistook. They to get it, and when it for keepe tonight Policeman %7 It takes vou've got Reckon 1 Ca thr it hang 't say Ive go around plac But tor here vours, id crook’d her who ¢ the store anything actions. observed peculla day under be 100k round him, would Thre had onks antly appeared successive the rtainly nave time thies stealthily to | he had his plck and shovel nalmetto ciuster, and, standing there, Lad looked round him helplesely, muttering and measur- | ing. Now he was resolved to wait t| nightfall and prosecute his quest Five days previously he had been dis- charged from the state penitentiary after | an imprisonment that had lasted five and | forty vears. In the beginning of the year 1865 Cable had been sent to prison for kili- ing & man. When the day of his freedom dawned he would not o penniless tnto the | worl Because pencil and paper were denjed him, he had carried the measurements in | his head through all those five and forty | years, repeating them until they became, as it a ritual that he could never for- | P Only cleft s he [ . where secreted in a were one thing pugzsled bim now. The apling which was the central point of | mental diagram had dlsappeared. He walked among (he oaks muttering, as the sun gradually moved down the burning ex- panse of the sky. The shadows grew | longer. All at once Cable underetood. | “By gum! What a fool I've been!" he| cried aloud ven an oak puts on a| mighty deal of growth in forty-five years. Why, that sapling must be a big tree by | now, And them's it he added, indicating trec that sprang from a single root. He cow®l hardly wait till dark, but as soon as the sun went down and the full moon appeared in the west began plying his | pick and shovel with nervous haste. After | to open it halt metal. A uncovered t diget & m spper p red with rust but still sc worked around it until »m avated. Then, bending down the braced himself agalnst the trunk nee safe. He could not ipon had te He pletely ex a4 man and strove to budg: He desisted at last and broke Into queru- childish sobs. “Ef I had had the he muttered I never found no o of & steel id and strong it the lous key! Key That / othent descended He sprang was t Policeman No. man's shoulder rl to find himself & pris Let's see what you've got sald the paliceman Inquisitively. He bent down and with a prodiglous exerciee strength lifted It from the hole, only Tt It fall back again “By Jiminy, It's been What's Inside—money ? Suddenly Cable tumbled upon his knees and caught the policeman's hand. ““There's nigh pnto a hundred thousand dollars in bills Inside pleaded. “It's half yours ef you'll hel t t. It's mine. I put it ther satety oung man. 'l " The pe eflected. the was p it his must could e hand of 1 the oid round with a of the law In that box, of [ there & long time! ¥ tor . open when 1 was a v with you The us cemar largeness of ym made his suspich The old man obably & lunatic. On the other hand Wwere true as to the amount it the proceeds of a robbery. He dly hdpe to secrete his share and ! avold detection. If he reported his discov ery it would undoubtedly mean promotion and release from tedium oppro brium of Station B. i be ha the and so e next day the following stor appeared in the ¢ After forty-five an anclent robber Porsibly recollect sensational Pelican Farmers bank Acoording to newspapers of vault of the the amoun small safe some of the older gencration may the burglary the 1865 the to a Februar that bank was entered and bil of $100,0M were extracted In whi the carrfed awa In a cart that was walting As the man leaped into the vehicle was sur prised by the night watchman. He coolly shot him dead, gathered up the relus and drove off into the pine wastes, was located and arrested on day He had fou th crete his booty, which, energetic searchi, was never recovered Yesterday an aged giving the same name—Jim Cable—as that under Which the robber had been convicted, was discov- ered by policeman No. of station B, In the act of excavating a safe from under a large oak in the vicinity of Brown's gen- eral store. When apprehended he stated that he was the robber, that he had been | released recently from state's prison after serving a commuted sentence of forty-five years and that the safe contained the pro- ceeds of his plunder “An offer to share this wealth with the policeman was indignantly refused, and Cable was conveyed to headquarters, where | he is now in custody under a technical charge of vagrancy. A dispatch from the penjtentiary confirms the statement that Cable was released last week, and it i believed that his story is true. “Policeman No. % has been transferred | to station A as a reward for his enter-| prise robher In where he the following owever, e, to se- tn spite of the most | | | | | super- | other five claimants, He dasb way ted a his paper pollee headquart demanded that t Hie and ra where he ex he safe be lnstantly he represe elng polit he and tes l n we upon the ot police forbidding the safe to be opened and ordering thut it sealed until its ownership should be declded all the e b tative " ve fused, he 1 out of served min ater, an Injuneti chief b upo On the same morning the Injunction had Insued, William Brown, proprietor of a general store, ap- peared at police headquarters with the re quest that the safe, having been discovered upon his 1and, be handed over to him as proprietor. He confronted with injunction and withdrew, muttering to file a claim with the eourts Hardly had Willlam Brown left the police statfon when a certaln Maximus Smith made his sppearance. He siated that (he land on which the safe had been foynd had been leased to him under a year's option to buy, for the purpose of cutung It up Into buliding He had just completed purchase demanded the: safe. quently too, filed a clalm courts. An Interesting legal minent, In the state half an hour after heen sole the t was cats lote, and he, nis Hubse- with the battle was now ot the debate Jim Cable's was torgotten him p i whi heat wide might be, aroused rted wh n became e whatever It path yir scription wa to afford the Ultimately, after taken, he vent his s The court duly the distr orney of Great e wed the plea that, Inasmuch had passed a resolution at the las of the council in tavor of the quisition of the I Smith property the establishment of a icipal water works, the safe, having been found yroperty, should be committed to the the city A representative of the state her vened with a claim upon the ground the safe and its contents came under classification of phosphate, and d precious mineral lands entered & little man sprang up the body of the spectators and demanded the immediate custody of the safe and Its contents, He held In his hand a formidable document, from which he read lengthy es- tracts. During the latter years of the eight- centh century, he stated, when England captured Florlda from Spain, the land upon which Gieat Pelican stood had been granted, with all manorial rights, to & certain Wi- liam de Buckley, Esq.. Gent., of Buckley- "hames, Bugland, Now, inasmuch as the land had uever been formally escheated the safe and ils contente reverted, a molety to the descendants of the sald Willam de Buckley and a molety to the Englieh crown. He, therefore, respectifully demanded that he be granted full possession of the safe. The court adjourned and animated di cussion arose among the claimants and thelr partisans, 1t was generally agreed. however, that the Pelican Farmers bank stood the best chgnce, with the Brown- Smith claims a close second. After much bartering the déscendants of Willlam de Buckley formally surrendered all his own rights in consideration of the sum of §26, contributed jointly and severally by the thereby assisting the or b st vided fo n and m his n deposity ¢ ume been ustody and had as discharged trom wa 1enod can Interp as meeting tor mu t ar of inters thay the reserved conl these claims been ¢ 1 ma m among ends of justice After a short nounced deliberation its deciston. the court an- Inasmuch as the | | partment in t ants, or the follewing atternoon dy charge k. of police and through a claimed that ra Under w the as when they tight recepta was evident gate value w which Cable police took v them [l clatmants them, Then ers the bank smil and strode out of the The state vited sach ott Maximus & how much bulldin pption. Policeman post cer at pressing in Station o presen represe amite nants. g I the sate h rt A as not had aha o electr 1 a manage led coldly v and clty e mith as hasten matter ¢t A Baehelor's Industry runaway What aute A wemar It rained w was going 10 Some people want you to can A man with a restuurant he likes The reason girl \s becaus A woman ¢ as her husba act as If (L 1o & at home tha upon friends without abuse you for were it's wonderful man when Ju pbile” 1 fascinaty make the be faly have a It money and ord %0 man e whe su nd and tiw when lowntow ple of apends it ce of the five tatives, at 4 This was aving d whi was stuffed w and dashed Into the vault the wreoked | package of bright A been pl i lay «d vears that their short of th The i . n tive ar ful of globe A [ sund hin f the Pelican lapped on his ault representativ to come and have a dri ked Willam e would give to get back & lots again and leave him only the ed away to asked a A package criep bank bills, as their before. ehlef looked his A before ke could be tr the ypent afte It sre e sui ot I held the five a Farmn e Brow ! new ne- ib re Confederate Reflection: agment ¢ or smashups to a girl m Rrocer's boy aturally ad temper ers terrapin ham and eggs better 1\ make love to & vs they do tmes satiafied to let other way he n throws it New York cranky as beat & about a goes with it out of how sald they > they in his pocket goes into because much him round bigger a dollar upon his wife looks away Press —— buildings situated ample grounds, DnBeva FBaneY. SANATORIUM Lok Tk This institution is the only one in the central west with separate in their own yet entirely dis- tinct and rendering it possible to classify cases. The one building being fitted for and devoted to the treatment of nencontagious and nonmental diseases, no others be- ing admitted. Cottage, Ly Le other, Rest being designed tor gnd devoted to the exclusive treatment of select mencal cases, requiring for a time watchful care and spe- cial nursing. “So far, the safe has defied all attempts | contents of the safe had not been exam- | [_"_-a'.v but this will afternoon with nitroglycerin, George Lorimer. manager of the Pelicun Farmers’ bank, read this item at breakfast. be effected this | ined, it announced, argument as to own- ership at present appeared superfluous. 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