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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1924)
Alleged Passer of Counterfeit Money Identified St. Joe Authorities Say Man Held Here After Arrest at Columbus Has Long Police Record. James J. Keith, who is in the county jail following his arrest three weeks ago in Columbus, Neb., on a counterfeit charge, has been identified positively as one of three gun men who participated in the holdup of a ■oft drink parlor at St. Joseph, Mo., last May, according to information from St. Joseph police. ' Keith was arrested by Traffic Offi cer Wegint of Columbus after he is alleged to have passed worthless money at the American Express of fice there. Federal Operative D. W. Dickinson of Omaha says federal officers have found that Keith had been arrested eight times in Kansas City in connec tion with bank robberies, holdups, for carrying concealed weapons and other counts, but indicated that he had suc ceeded in%escaping conviction on any of the serious charges. Now come" ttie’additional information of the iden tification of Keith by tha St. Jqpeph police. A letter from the chief of police of St. Joseph, Mo., states: ' "He (Keith) was positively identified as one of the men who held up and robbed William Scudder in -a soft drink parlor at 2534 South Sixth street on May 20, 1923, in this city. His ac complices were Charles Bradley, who later was killed in Kansas City, and Wayne Edwards, who was convicted hero November 2, 1923, for this job and sentenced to the Missouri state penitentiary for 12 years. We have a good case on him and In event he is turned over to this department, we be lieve we can convict him on this charge." ~i fl believe that they can convict Keith at St. Joseph for highway rob bery and give him the sama sentence which was imposed an his accomplice anttif the United States attorney here consent* to such a move I will tn the next week or 10 days turn Keith over to the St. Joseph authorities,” said Dickinson. Irish Sheriff Champion at German Card Game Columbus, Neb., Feb. 27.—A county ‘‘skat" tournament will be held here. Skat is a German card game which is being revived here. One of the unique features of the game is that the player who takes the greatest chances Is thS winner, rather than the one with the higheet score or the best hands. The fact that Dan Kava naugh, an Irish sheriff, won the city tournament last week, has resulted in an urge to try a tournament on a county basts. Overheated Radiator Scalds Nebraska Tourist Columbus, Neb., Feb. 27.—D. J. Os burne, #8, Dakota county, retired farmer, suffered scalds about the face, qhest and hands when the cap of his automobile radiator blew off just be fore he finished unscrewing it in an effort to permit It to cool, following a dWve from Sioux City to Columbu^ He and his wife are on their way to Stpend the remainder of the winter In Hina._ ii„ Geneva Wins Debates. •j^ieneva. Neb., Feb. 27.—Two prac tice debates have been won by the Geneva high erhool debating team. Dt; the debate with Nelson, the de cision of the judges was 3 to 0 in ligvor of Geneva, and with Fairbury, 8: to 1. Two of last year’s team ere Abating this year, with John Gaveke tilting the place of Donald Warner. tbh° was graduated from the high difcool last year. The question for dlljrussion this year is "Resolved, that IltKmigration should be further re atricted." ADVERTISEMENT. Important to All Women Reader* of This Paper II: - ibjThousands upon thousand* of *tamen have kidney or bladder trou W and never suspect It. Women'* complaints often prove to be nothing else hut kidney trouhle, car the reauli of kidney and bladder •feast. i.:If the kidneys are not In a. healthy (tiindltion, they may cause the other fggans to become diseased. ,|You may suffer pain In the hark, Mltadache and loss of ambition. . Poor health makes you nervous. 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Prevention Is nl , ways easier, better and less ex pensive than a cure. >, Zonlte—the remarkable, new antiseptic — has the unique power dt destroying germs without harming the dellcnte tissues that germs thrive on. • It Is several times ns powerful a* pure carbolic acid—yet non Irrltatlng and absolutely non* . poisonous. At your druggist. Plans for Missouri River Bridge Ready Pierre, S. D. Feb. 27.—Drafting of plans for the Missouri river bridge at Chamberlain will be complete this week and ready for the four week's period of advertising required by law. according to J. E. Kirkham, bridge engineer. The work has been pushed steadily ahead in response to readi ness of financing nnd other features necessary for construction operations. Mr. Kirkham declared that plans on the bridge site had aroused no un easiness over prospect? for gaining a firm footing for the bridge. The dis cussion about absence of a rock foun dation on which to build is ground less, he said. Ex-Indian Scout Tell? of Tragedy Skinning of White Murderer Alive Gave Rawhide Creek Name, North Declare?. Fremont, Neb., Feb. 27.—Capt. E. H. North of Columbus, pioneer Paw nee Indian scout, speaking before the Fremont Chamber of Commerce, told how Rawhide creek, east of Fremont, was given its' name. The story of how Indians skinned- a white man alive heretofore has bean more or less of a myth. North that he was personally (fctfuslnted with the Pawnee chief who supervised the killing of the white man for the pur pose of revenge. The details, he said, had been related to him by this chief. The white man, a tenderfoot from the east, had promised his companions "to kill the first Indian we meet.” While the party of easterners were camped an Indian maiden was seen sitting on a log. The man kept his word. An Indian boy, who had wit nessed the murder, carried word to the Pawnee village. The Indians ap proached and demanded the slayer be surrendered, with the threat of a wholesale massacre if their demands were not obeyed. The man was surrendered. He was taken to the banks of the Rawhide creek where he was skinned alive and tortured, according to the story re lated to Captain North by the Indian chief. Captain North told of many other incidents in connection with his ex periences of the early days. The Pawnee council of Boy Scouts of Fre mont were honor guests. County Sunday Schools to Meet at Hebron1 Friday Hebron, Neb., Feb. 27.—The an nual Thayer county Sunday school convention will be held Friday In the Bethel Brethren church. The pro gram begins at 9:30 In ths morning and closes at 9 at night. Dinner will be served in the basement of the church. An attendance contest will be held, the Sunday school sending the largest delegation to the conven tion to be awarded a prize. Officers of the county association are: Del .1. Tripp, president; Mrs. M. E. Voight, vice president; Miss Bessie McGrath, secretary. Holder of Walking Record at Norfolk, Neb., Is Dead Norfolk, Neb., Feb' 27. — Z. H. Bateman, the man who had the long est walking record of any Norfolk man, Is dead. For nearly half a cen tury, Mr. Bateman made hi* living by peddling bills from house to house. He knew the location of every vacant house in the city and wa* the author of many interesting local statistic*. From receipts ef bill peddling alone, this old man made enough money to buy his own home and to live com fortably in his old age. i _ r 'x Nebraska News Nubbins _✓ Columbus—The construction of- a new railway depot at North Bend is expected to get under way within the next 90 days. Fremont—William TJngle. Fremont, we* sentenced to 90 days In the coun ty jail^or failure to support his wife and small children. Beatrice—Mr*. Jennie Shaver. *«. old resident of Odell, died at her home. The body was brought to Beatrice and will be taken to Illinois for bur ial. • Columbus—Mrs. Anton Doll, 81, died at St. Mary hospital of pneumonia, iihe was horn In Bergstadt, Austria. In 1875 she came to America to join her father, Joseph Rothleltner, who had homesteaded In Platte county. Besides her husband, she leaves one stepson, Jake Doll, and two brothers, Frank Rothleltner of Kilgore, Neb., and Albert Rothleilner of Douglas, Wyo. Beatrice—Neatly 300 was realized by the home talent minstrel show at the Gilbert theater. It will be turned over to the Beatrice State league ball club, for whose benefit the show was given. Beatrice—Mr*. Ella Wright, 86, died at her’fn/me at FUley. Nine children survive. Lincoln—The Lincoln High school debating team was defeated here by the high school team from Geneva. Franklin—John Irvin, former ga rage man, has Interested the engi neers of the Detroit Ford plant In an overhead rum shaft he lnv<4itc<f and lias been called by telegraph to that place. Lincoln—Mrs. Ethel M Widllck, widow of the slayer of District Judge Morning, entered suit. In district court against. Peter McCann, who she ul lages has some of Will lick's property, Including a phonograph. I.ineoln—"Church week" In the Uni versity of Nebraska here was closed with a banquet by about 200 students connected with the Methodist, Chris tlan and Episcopal church**. Lincoln—More than BOO telephones were out of order In on* Lincoln resi dence section when melting snow filled a manhole and noaked a large cable. 1 Lincoln—Charges brought hy s min lster against C. F. Durham, for per forming common labor on Sunday wars dismissed In police court. Western Nebraska Towns Get Phones . —.» Banquet Held at Thedford in Celebration of Completion of 60-Mile Line. Thedford, Neb., Feb. IT.—Opening of file Mullen-Broken Bow long dis tance line recently completed by the Northwestern Bell Telephone com pany, which gave Mullen, Halsey. Thedford and Seneca telephone con nections with the outside world} was cflebrated here with a banquet, long distance talks and motion pictures. Work on the project was started December 12, 1923, and was completed February 4. The longest conversations over the new line, were held by Orvat Poph with his brother, William Poph, at Camp Vail, N. .!., and by Mayor W. .1. t,ynch with Ferdon Shaw at Brain tree, Mass. O. B. Winter, editor of the Thomas County Herald, talked with E. E. Miller, editor of the Buf falo Voice at Buffalo, Wyo. Other conversations over the new line were held with Chicago, Omaha and Bin coin." Ex-Senator Frank M. Currie of Broken Bow, who has devoted much of hia time for several years toward getting long distance lines extended to these towns, spoke on "Telephone Pioneering." Other speakers were P. T. I.ewellen. county commissioner; Mayor Lynch, Fred B. Butt, district commercial manager, and C. A. Phil lips, district plan - chief, both of Grand Island. New copper wire, about 220 miles of it, wns strung from Broken Bow to Mullen, and over 1,500 new poles were set along 60 milea of the new line. Conversation from any of the towns along the line with nearly any place in the Vnitod States can now lie carried on because of a telephone repeater at Grand Island, which re stores feeble vojjpe currents to their original strength. Bees Back on Job. Newcastle, Neb., Feb. 27.—Even though it has been comparatively cold in this locality for the last two weeks, harbingers of spring appeared when a large number of bees gathered on the edges of a terrace along the side walk here. The sun, melting some of the snow, caused the water to seep through the leaves on ths lawn and run down tho edges of the terrace. It is believed that the bees sensed this process going on and came from their winter quarter* to this place, from which they are able to extract honey to tide them over until huds and flower* appear later. 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Realizing this SO years ago, W. H. Hill de termined to develop a quick acting scientifically correct cold and la grippe remedy. ' Year* of research brought success. Mr. Hill discovered a most remarkable for mula. He bucked it with energy, faith; integrity and a name that meant “satis faction or money back.” Today more than 4,000,000 families— one-fifth of America's population—use and recommend Hill's Cascara Bromide Quinine. The formula has never been changed in a quarter century. What Hill’s has done for millions, it can do for you. Demand red box bearing Mr. Hill's portrait. All druggists, 30 cents. CASCAul^OillNINE *• HILL CO. BtTSOIT. MCN Firm and Constant Growth Is the Record of Wholesaling Business -in Nebraska, the State whose ' products have an unending market. • • • • • Here’s one reason why Ne braska and the other central west will continue to grow and increase in population. The Nebraska University bulletin, issued 1923, says: “Because of comparatively cheap feeds, Nebraska can produce dairy products at a lower cost than states farther east.” This branch of Omaha’s commerce —just starting fifty years ago reached the tremendous total of $484,000,000 in 1923. That’s $1,300,000 daily. i There are now 570 wholesale firms with headquarters in Omaha. The number of such firms, and the volume of business they do, show two things: That Omaha is well equipped to handle the wholesale business of its vast territory, and that merchants of the territory find it to their interest to do busi ness here. 0 The growth of this business has " been a tremendous growth, but sure and steady, not spasmodic. It has been a logical growth, be cause of Omaha’s location in the center of the world’s richest agri cultural territory, which is growing every year. It is a growth which will continue indefinitely, as the great agricul tural district which Omaha serves, will continue to develop and in crease in population. s % The Omaha success and growth in wholesale business, which is such a general business, is undeniable proof of city growth, both present and future. Our Program for City and State For Nebraska— To let the world know Nebraska has the largest Loesa soil area—which is the best soil on earth. At least five dairy cows on every farm. Increased production by use of the best seed, better grade stock and crop rotation on every farm. Development of the alfalfa, potato and beet sugar industries. A state system of hard-surfaced roads. For Omaha— To preserve and develop Omaha's beautiful river front New union depot. More factories, especially those using agricul tural and live stock products as raw material. 'River transportation. Hard-surfaced roads from all the surrounding territory. ___ OMAHA REAL ESTATE BOARD the Realtor* of Omaha | | ___ __ _