THE OMAITA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1004. STREET CAR MEN HELD UP Hinacom Park Lin f raw Victim! of Two Uutid Bandit. HAVE LITTLE TO OFFER FOR CONTRIBUTION AnilW Oanertaalty Oftrel niti Had a rigkt Had te Cendaeter or Matornaaa Either at Tnens Been Aratl, fwo men with handkerchiefs over their faces for masks, Thursdsy night entered a street car standing at the weit end of Haneoom par, with drawn revolver In their hand. Covering- Conductor P. B. Turner and Motormnn James Peterson with the revolvers the highwaymen marched them off the car to the aide of the road and took all the money they had In their )ockets. From the conductor the robbers ijot about 16 and from the motorman 40 cents. Then they ordered their victim back on the, car and disappeared. Turner and reterson had a good chance to sise up the men who robbed them, hut could only give the police the following general description: One man about 6 feet 10 Inches In height, the other half head shorter; both wore dark overcoats, dark trouaer and black derby hats. The atreet car men express the opinion that the rob fccre are young men, also that they had been hanging around the end of the line until they found a car crew alone and wait ing; on the switch for the time to start beck. A telephone mesage from a drug store, here Turner reported It. wa 'the first notice Captain Hitt and hi men received of the holdup. Then he had to send men out to catch the car and get deacrlptlons of the robbers, who by this time had got Kafely away. Detectlvea Drummy and Ma loney at once started out on a search for the bandlta, but the chance of catching them seems very slim. When the robbers had searched Turner and found only a small sum of money they accused him of having hid some of bis money In the car. As a bluff one rob ber threatened with oaths to search the car and to kill Turner If he found any money In It. The conductor again assured the man with the gun that he had no more money, and they let It go at that. Admits He Was Seared. Motorman Peterson, when asked to give a description of ths holdup men, told the detectives that he really could not give a description that would be worth anything. "I was so rattled when that gun was stuck In my face that I could not see any thing else. To tell the truth, I thought I would fall down before I struck the ground. Anybody else Is welcome to the experience. I don't want any more of It In mine. They allowed me to keep my watch, and for that I am thankful." Just before the bandit entered the car the conductor and motorman were discuss ing holdups, and on looking out of the rear windows of the car Turner exclaimed: "By , here they come now!" He caught a glimpse of the two men hurrying toward the car with the plstola in their hands, and said If he had been armed he could easily have opened fire on them before they mounted the steps. When they had been marched off the car one of the rob bers went back to pull the trolley off the wire, and a second opportunity offered to make a fight, but aa the street car men wore unarmed they hesitated to start any thing. In this connection Captain Hase recalled how, In the days of the old horse cars. Officer Wooldrldge,' then a atreet car con ductor and a driver combined, killed a man named Martin who tried to hold him up. "If street car men were armed, and would uae their gua, "said Captain Haze, "we would not hear of so many street car holdups." About an hour after the street car holdup the police got a telephone message telling of a holdup In South Omaha. Two men answering tke general description of the street car bandits entered the saloon of James Harold. Thirtieth and L. streets, and with drawn revolvers forced him to give up $ In change that waa In the cafh regis ter. Harold was formerly In the saloon business In Omaha, at Twenty-fourth and Leavenworth. Twe Sasneets Arrested. Police Officer Ring and Detective Maloney rrested this afternoon two men who an swer In a general way the descriptions of the two hold-up men who have been com mitting depredations In the southwest part of the city. The men gave their names aa Edward Hamilton and George Morgan, with addresses 1312 Douglas street and Hammond, lnd., respectively. They were arrested coming out of a saloon near Eleventh and Davenport streets and each hsd several pairs of trousers tucked under his coats. It Is known to the police that the men have Just disposed of their re volvers at a second hand store. The men deny being Implicated In any of the recent robberies, but as yet have not given a satisfactory account of their movements to the police. The various street car con ductors, motormen and others who recently have been stopped by highwaymen will be asked to call at the police station and Identify, If possible, Hamilton and Morgan. At the same time Chief of Detectives Dunn Is looking Into the movemets of the men since they came to Omaha. AFFAIRS AT SOUTH 0MAI1 Effrt to Open Sorth Twenty-fifth Itr U Connect with Boulevard. KRUGS WILL BE ASKED TO DONATE LAND sBnBa Small Strip that Saw Blocks Way I Owaed fcy Brewers, Who Arc Said to Be Willing Give tke Groaad. DRUNKEN MANABUSES FAMILY r. J. Lewis Taken Flaked to Jail oa a Oft-Repeated Charge of Beat lag Wife aad Children. Frank Lewis, a machinist living at 713 South Twenty-seventh street, Is again locked up at the city Jail on the charge of abusing his family and disturbing the peace of the neighborhood. This Is the fourth time within two weeks that Lewis has been arrested on the same charge, the laat time being last Saturday night, when he de stroyed the glaas in a drug store door in trying to get at two of his children who had taken refuge In the store. Next morn ing In police court his lawyer, Elmer E. Thomas, succeeded In having him turned loose without punishment because of hia family of three little children. The lesson of his arrest seems to have been lost on Lewis, fer last night the patrol wagon was summoned by two or three dif ferent parties, who reported he was beat ing his wife and children. Patrol Conductor Andy Fahey la as good-natured as he Is big and strong, so when he found Lewis In bed, stripped naked and bluntly refusing to be arrested, as he said on the advice of his attorney, Fahey spent a long time arguing with the drink-crazed man, without avail Finally the officer, with the assistance. of Patrolman O'Connor, had to forcibly put pair of trousers on Lewis and wrap him In quilt. In this condition he was taken to the station, struggling and cursing the po Ucemen every foot of the way. Once in the station Lewis kicked off the one garment the officer had succeeded In getting on him and persisted In going naked to his cell. Lewis had one shoulder bound up as If a surgeon had been at work on it, and also had a bandage around his abdomen. He Insisted he had a broken arm and a dislo cated kidney, but It was noticed that he was using the supposed broken arm pretty freely for gesticulating, and the misplaced kidney waa not giving him much trouble, Mrs. Lewis said last night that she would appear against her husband this morning In police court and endeavor to have him punished aa a matter of selfprotectlbn to herself and children. UNION PACIFIC . "The Overland Route" Is the most direct line to all principal points west and offer a more diversified route to select from tlmu auy other Trant-ConUueiitai Una, Evtry Butineu InUrett it to b$ found along itt Lint FOR THE MINER The great mountains of the West wait out the opening to become the souro at Urge fortunes .... FOR THE FARMER Tnonsand of acres of rich agricultural lands axe yet opeu for settlement .... FOR THE STOCK-RAISER Immense area of excellent grazlug lands can yet be secured FOR THE BUSINESS MAN The growing eltles sod towns of the West are dally offering unequalled opportunities for lnvestmeut of eaplul and location of Industrie which are unsurpassed by older section of the fulled State Jnouir at Ctty Ticket Ofllee, 1824 Faraam aa aitt. SH A BOY in every town to sell our new Saturday Bee. It contains 18 pages of special magaiine features, including 10 colored pages with BUSTER BROWN COMICS, altogether pages, and is a big seller everywhere on Saturday afternoon, when the fanners are in town. We will send anj boy the first 10 COPIES FREE. Four week ago wa sent Clifford Hans, Oermaotown. , Neb., ten free eoplea, and be U now sailing 10 copies every Saturday afternoon, from which be gets f cent reBt Yeu caa da a well If you try. ' for Full PartieuUrs Write to The Omaha Bee, Om&in. Nebraska. Another effort Is to be made to have Twenty-fifth street opened to the boule vard. This time It Is expected that with buslnes3 men at the back of the scheme there will be no difficulty about securing the necessary ground. Twenty-fifth street runs to A street and then It stops against a bank. There la a piece of ground nft feet In width and about the same number of feet running north and south that I owned by the Krug Brewing company which Is a barrier to the street being made continuous and connecting with the boule vard. An effort is now to be made by city officials and property owners on North Twenty-fifth street to induce the Krugs to donate this piece, of property for street purposes. All that Is required Is the per mission of the Krugs that this piece o ground be graded and dedicated for street purposes. Some of the city officials have held conferences with the Krugs, and It Is understood that the property In question can be obtained for a very small sum provided the city of South Omaha does the grading. From present Indications It look as If a few property owners In the city would make up a suitable purse and pay for the removal of about 1,000 yards of dirt and pay for the cindering of the roadway opened. As It is now a person driving north on Twenty-fifth street with the in tentlon of going to Hanscom park or that neighborhood has to turn to the east to Twenty-fourth and then drive to the boule. vard. All that prevents a continuous road way la this piece of ground, which though small la quite valuable, but will more than likely be dedicated for street pur poses when the city officials present the matter to the owners In the proper light Changes May Come. It was reported around the city halt yesterday that when the police board meets on next Tuesday evening several stars may fall. Just what patrolmen are slated for dismissal Is not known, as the members of the board decline to talk Officer Tangeman has been suspended for a violation of department rules, and It Is given out that some of the men who walk beats will be called on the carpet to explain where they spend portions of their time when on duty. It was thought that when the city went to the expense of In stalling police call boxes that the force would pay attention to business and least pull the boxes ofi time. There Is so little system at the city Jail where the calls come In that If the jailer Is busy the call is ncy marked down and In cases where an officer la late In leportlng al most any excuse seems to go with thel man on duty who Is supposed to keep in close touch with all men on beats, The trouble seems to be that there are not enough men to go around and that one officer la frequently called upon to take two beats for a short period, thus breaking the official call record. "South Omaha certainly needa more policemen," said business rrran last night, "a the territory to be covered is large. Arrangements should be made for at least tro mounted men, but it seems that the levy Is not sufflolent to pay for this sort of protec tion." Another business man declared that It would do no harm to make some changes among the men who walk beats. In anticipation of coming changes sev eral applications have been received at the city hall, but these have all been re ferred to the police board. Postofllee Figures. Postmaster Etter1 yesterday Issued I statement showing the receipts at the office here for November, 1904, and a comparison with the same month of a year ago. Stamp sales the last month amounted to $8,748. November, 1903, the sales were 10,300. This shows an Increase for the last month of 12,448. Up to the close of business on No vember SO the postoffice here has Issued $06,287 In domestic money orders and 125,376 In International money orders. This makes a total of $91,664. For the same period of time the domestic money orders paid here amounted to $105,146 and the International orders paid $3,913, a total of $106,067. Making; Good Headway, Contractor Dan Hannon was pleased last night by the Information that he had 100,000 paving brick In sight. About' 40,000 brick were laid on the Railroad avenue paving yesterday, and unless wet weather sets in the work will keep up. Mr. Hannon stated that cold weather would not prevent the laying of the pavement, as the sand was on the ground. Should there be a wet snow the sand will be made useless for the time and work will have to stop. Yesterday's work was devoted to paving some of the curves. From now on the paving will be straight work and can go on at a rapid rate, providing the weather does not In terfere. The last piece of work to be done will be the laying of the pavement where the switches are located. Not until these switches are taken up and the track Is laid with heavy steel rails will the Walnut Hill cars run to the county line. Anderson's Golden Wedding;. Cards are out announcing the golden wedding celebration of Mr. and Mrs. David Anderson. The reception will be held at the Ancient Order of United Workmen temple, Twenty-fifth and M streets, on the evening of Tuesday, December 11 Farced Bale. In order to close out stock before retir ing from business I have decided to cut prices. You will be surprised at the bar gains. $18.00 Suits for torn $15.00 Suits for , I? en $10.00 Bulls for r $18.00 and $15 00 overcoats for $700 we nave a rew corduroy suits worth $1150, will go for $5.60; $3.60 rubber boots, at $2.25; $1.C0 shirts for 45c; 75c shirts for 36c; $2.50 hata for 95c; $3.50 shoes for $2.15; $2.00 suits for $1.10; 76c sweaters for S9c; $2.50 sweaters for $1.26. I Trunks and valises at such a reduction you will buy whether you need one or not. come early. D. MICHAEL, 2607 N street. Mag-la City Gossip. A. J. Anderson has bought the FrusharA store ai zdis n street. WOMAN III CLUB AND CHARITY The Woman's Club of the Railway Malt Service held its November meeting en Wednesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. J. W. Nash In Dundee. Mrs. J. W. McConnell presided during the brief busi ness session, which was followed by a program given by the Household Economics section. Mrs. J. D. Hart gave an Interest ing and instructive paper on the ue and abuses of meats, and Mrs. I. O. Phillips talked of the value of fruit as food. A gen eral discussion followed. After the pro gram a social hour was enjoyed, the hostess serving a New England luncheon. She was assisted byv her daughter. Miss Msrlne Hart, Mrs. Gregory and Mrs. Cook. The disbanding of the Omaha Equality club early In the fall gave this city less representation at the annual meeting of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage association, which convened this week at Geneva, than ever before, and Mrs. John Dempster, the state treasurer, who Is a resident of Omaha, was the only one cf the former officers who attended from here. The disbanding of the Equality club Indicates no decline In the Interest of the Omaha women. On the contrary, more general and active work Is being done along these lines thsn ever before, through the various other wom en's organisations of the city. A prominent member of the Equality association said, In reference to Its disbanding: "Excepting the strength It gives to the state organisation, the local club was accomplishing little be yond what almost all of the other women's as we are all practically striving for the clubs of the city are already doing, and same end now it seemed advisable to Carry on the work through the organisations against which there was not much preju dice." The Social Science department of the Woman's club has Issued a printed outline of Its work for the year. The program of the two meetings past have been on in dustrial topics, and that of December ( will be miscellaneous. The next two meet ings, December 19 and January 16, will be devoted to woman' property rights In Nebraska and a comparison with others. January 90 and February 13 will be educa tional meetings. February 27 there will be a reception to the teachers of the city, and the next three meetings, March 18, 27 and April 10, will be devoted to civio im provement. April 27 will be a public meet ing and April 24 a program on education and the schools. Mrs. E. B. Towle of South Omaha is leader of the department this year. The Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs has established a new scholarship fund, from which any deserving woman may borrow to flt herself for a profession. The beneficiaries are not restricted aa to the college or training school they shall at tend, but are privileged to use the money In any state or in Europe. The money bor rowed is to be paid back In small install ments and no interest asked. While Wis consin Is but one of many state federa tions that maintain scholarship funds, the liberality of the conditions it imposes are certainly unsurpassed. There are now sev eral hundred women In this country who have obtained or are securing advanced or special training through the scholarships maintained by the club women and yet there are still those who ask, "Why the woman's club?" Mrs. John D. Sherman of Chicago, cor responding secretary of the General Feder ation of Woman's Clubs, has been offered the position of instructor in parliamen tary law In the John Marshall Law school of Chicago. Mrs. Sherman has recently completed a scries of lectures on parliamen tary law before the women students of the school, and In her new position she will lecture before the advanced classes of both men and women. Mrs. Sherman Id one of the best authorities on parliamen tary law and one of her books has gone through the fourth edition. OVER A MILLION FAMILIES RELY UPON PE-RIH1A To Protect tho Homo Against tho Terrors of Winter. W&l 4P& - y!jjf ST ffP DE-RU-NA is a 1 fiflfstiyiinrrl t n 5U o v the home. It is a wall of security. " It guards tho health and happiness of many a fam ily. The winter's sudden changes in temperature, the inevitable exposure of man, woman and child, makes colds and coughs, bronchitis and pneumonia, acute catarrh and chronic catarrh inevitable in this country. Peruna should always be kept in the house. ' A bottle of Peruna stands as a silent guardian of the health of the household. Millions of households have already realized the benefit of Peruna. Millions of households still neglect this valu able precaution. A few doses of Teruna at the right time work wonders. Its value as a prevention is far greater than the wonderful cures it is constantly making. From Colorado Home. "My children were fully restored. The whole family is in perfect health, thanks to Peruna." Mrs. Bertha Binkert, G19 N. Wahsatch Ave., Colorado Springs, Colo. From Governor's Home. "I have had occasion to use Peruna in my family for colds, and it proved an excellent remedy." W. M. Lord, Governor of Oregon. From a Massachusetts Home. "Accept my thanks for your kind advice Feruna will always be found in my house." W. E. Richmond, 40 Cody St., North Adams, Mass. From Washington Home. "All the members of our family use Perun.i when sick with a cold and it keeps our health in good condition." Harris F. Parks, 60& Seventh Ave., Seattle, Wash. ' From H n Illinois Home. "I always keep it in the house and it saves me a great' many doctor bills." Lida Rowland, 2160 Grenshaw St., Chicago, Ills. From a Missouri Home. "Peruna has been my favorite and only house hold remedy for nearly five yearn.' Mrs. Carrie King, Darlington, Mo. Ask Your Drugglstfor Free Pe-ru-na Almatiacfor 1905 bers. and while most of the contests were spirited and close, good feeling prevailed throughout. Just how the tie in the sec retaryship will be settled has not been de cided, but will be today. AN APPRECIATION OF NOAH Last month the city building Inspector Is. sued permits to the amount of $11,300. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rnvor Seventeenth and J streets, a daughter. A daughter waa born yesterdav tn Mr and Mrs. Patrick Corcoran, Fortieth and T streets. Superintendent Bheehy of the Cudahy company Is back from a business trip to Chicago. CoaJ-J. B. Watklna Co. Tel. SL C. K. Urquhart, manager of the Omaha packing plant, returned yesterday from an eastern trip. Henry Bauter and wife announce the birth of a daughter at their home. Twenty third and Q streets. Principal Orahara of the high school stated yenterdy that the high school re port cards would be sent out today. Try Gooden'a antiseptic barber shop for flrst-cUsa work. 3,10 N street. James Mrataaters, one or the early set tlers In South Omaha, died yesterday at his home. Thirteenth and Missouri avenue. The Kpiwopal guild entertainment at Workman temple last night was a sueoeas - every way. -f he attendance eu-eideA t---ctntions omrrr Tangeman Is taking a few days' Vintlon. having Lean suspended by Chief RrlKgs for violating sums of the rule el Lbs department. NOVEMBER BREAKS RECORD Mildest of Eleventh Months In Thirty Four Years Known to Omaha Weather Bureau. Of course, Omaha people know full well that the month of November was famous for Its fine days, its sunshine. Its rare ozone and mild temperature. This Is true to such an extent that It has been (quailed or excelled In the matter of temperature but four times In the laat thirty-four years and yet November furnished "ideal Nebraska weather." Local Forecaster Welsh Is so proud of his record that he has compiled his sta tistics In larger figures than usual and following the example of politicians, he "points with pride" to the fact that there has been less than one-tenth of an Inch of rain; that practically every afternoon of the month was favorable for shopping or society functions and unfavorable for the coal men and sellers of woolen blank ets, although there have been a few days when the mercury flirted with the freezing point, spaces in tne report devoted to light, heavy and killing frosts are marked with blanks. Workmen have been ab'e to earn their wages at outdoor employment just as In July or August. While Novem ber was decidedly long on temperature. waa short on rain and this fact the farmers of Nebraska deplore, though they look for the early snow to make up the lack of precipitation. The shortage In precipitation Is represented by (.91 Inches, while the excess heat for the month was t degrees. In summing up for the eleven months the figures show that the year to ate has been shown a deficiency of over 209 degrees of heat, making an average of six-tenths of a degree dally. The mean average temperature fur the month was 44.1 degrees, the minimum average S4.6 and the maximum 66 degrees. From the standpoint of a weather expert November was a month to be proud of nd one that Nebraska people will tell about In the years to come. Eagles Hold Election. Following Is the list of officers elected at the annual meeting of Omaha aerie, No. S", Fraternal Order of Eagles, lust night: Worthy president, Pavld H. ChrUtle; vice president. William A. Messlck; chaplain Bam W. Scott: secretary, tie vote bat ween C. E. Allen and p. W. Cannon: treasurer, Charles E. Black; conductor, Charles Hill; Inside guard, H. Asher; outside guard, Jo seph Hubanks; trustees, Joseph Sonnen berg. A Q. Btephan, Lee Green; physicians, B. W. Christie and Dan W. Lee. The meet ing was attended by upward of fuO mem- Belated Tribute to the First Captain of Industry that Ever happened. Frof. M. V. Millard, a resident of In dianapolis, lnd., has returned to this coun try after several years spent In Egypt, where he has been making excavations In many places along the Nile. Prof. Millard Is an eminent archeologlst, and from the investigations which he has made he has deduced the following facts concerning ! Nonh: i I Haa located the exact spot where the I ark was bullded. That noah laid out (500,000 In building the ark. That he was assisted In this work by a large crew of ship carpenters. That Noah was one of the greatest kings of the world and a multl-mtlllonaire. That Noah built the great pyramid of Qlxeh. That Noah Was a giant in stature. These are Interesting facts Indeed. Noah, then, waa the first captain of Industry who ever happened. He was the first moneyed man of the world. He must have possessed considerable tact In Inducing ship carpen ters to work on the ark for him, inasmuch as it was a project in which they had no Interest or sympathy. Chances are Noah departed from the usual custom of cap tains of Industry who have come after him by paying his workmen union wages. The people jeered at Noah as he pro ceeded to build the large scow. But Noah paid no attention to their Jibes he merely cost his weather eye around and predicted that It waa going to shower, and it did. Noah was the greatest weather prophet of all time, bar none. Noah predicted the con tinuous rain 120 years before It came. He seemed to have an ability in this direction that is not possessed by our weather clerks of today. It hustles a modern weather clerk to predlot a hower twenty four hours ahead nowadays, and hit It. Prof. Millard does not tell us by what means Noah accumulated his vast wealth and became a millionaire. We know that he formed the first shipbuilding trust and that he watered the stock at that. Can It be possible that here Is where J. Plerpont Morgan got his cue? Why Noah should hav'e built the great pyramid of GIteh la more than we can im agine. He must have been hunting trouble. Possibly he desired to leave behind something which would make posterity re member him once in a while. Or, again, like Carnegie, he may have been afraid of dying rich and planted his money in a pyra mid as an easy means of reducing the sur plus. If he had gone abort establishing free libraries he would have done more good in the world. But Noah did have the greatest menagerie which was ever col lected together, we must all admit that When the late P. T. Barnum advertised that he had "the greatest show on earth" he was hardly fair to Noah, whe had him skun going and coming on animals. Boston Post OUR LEADER. Use It. Nut, $5.75; Lump, $6.00 DPD TflV , a a-.A a wn. G0SS-JOHNSON BROS. 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