EDITORIAL SECTION.
Pages 9 to 16.
The Omaha Daily
Bee.
Carpenter's Panama Letters,
Next Sunday's Bee.
ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871.
OMAHA, SATURDAY MOItNIXO, MARCH 11, 1905.
SINGLE COPY THREE CENTS.
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OMAHA WEATHER ItEPOHT
Saturday Fair and Warmer.
Bennett's Great Grocery
Bargain Offers lor Saturday.
Prlete of Hrnnflt'i Floor Special.
Sixty (WW) Oreen Trading n 1(1
Stamps with 90-pound sack....
Forty i4(M) Green Trading f
Stamps with 48-pound sack.... M.W
Twenty (2.Wi) Oreen Trading 4lr!
Stamps with 24-pound Bark vjvw
Forty 4.00) Oreen Trading Stamps
with three pounds finest 1 fill
Java and Mocha Coffee ,,uw
Thirty ($3.0ii) Oreen Trading Stamps
with pound Tea (any fHn
kind) uow
SWEET CARNATIONS.
Several thousand of these beautiful
flowers will le placed on sale
Saturday, commencing at k O&f
a. m., dozen ''
.wna early to avoid disappointment
..nLWDKOID-a perfect wash- OClp
li.g compound. Six pars iUW
'leu Ui.uv; Ureeu trading Stumps.
Bennett's Capitol Creamery
(fun welBiit), one pound
Fresh Country Uuitur, pound 2uc
Strictly rcsli fc.gg l.o
Ten" Ul.W) tireen Trading Stamps with
quail ineuiuiu oour 1llr
Picktea ,u"
Ten (l.uu) Oreen Trading Stamps with
two jars Diamond S. i-ure 0 if-.
Fruit i'reMei ve "v
Ten tfl.Ou) Ureen Trading Stamps w.ih
can Diamond S. OUn
Fruits
Ten ttl.uu) Green Trading Stamps wan
three package Keniieii'a 2"C
Capltoi Mincemeat AiUW
Pitt. MO SPECIAL.
Several hundred 10-pound boxes Ba-
tavia Prunes just received. Delicious
truil.
forty (H.CO) Oreen Trading tiflc
Stumps with lu-pound box "-'w
Twenty (W.ou, Ureen Trading Stamps
with Aluminum Coffee '"r
M a ker . . . . . . . .
Several dozen IGo cans Grapes, to
clone out, only, can 10c
Several uosen liuo cans Peeled
Plums, to close out, only, can...li'V4c
Ten (1.K) Green Trading Stamps with
can Gay Island il
eum........ IsSsW
Fifty (Jo.ou) Ureen Trading Stamps
with live pounds very hue 'iac
Japan Klce uu
Ten 1.00J Ureen Trading Stamps with
three packages Shredded
Cod FihH acw
CllUKSB SPECIALS.
Ten (11.00) Green Trading Stamps with
pound Muinater O'ln
Cheese :....'
Ten U1.0U) Green Trading Stamps with
pound finest Sage 21lC
J, llCtfflO
Ten ($1.00)' Green Trading Stamps with
pound New York Full 2(lc
Cream Cheese
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Btampsffr
with Jar MacDaren's cheese.... vrv
Ten ($l.o) Ureen Trading Stamps with
with two-pound brick '22.C
IJutterlne
Ten ($1.0U) Green Trading Stamps Cr
with pound Sultana Raisins $CV
Ten $l.ui)) Green Trading Stamps with
eight bars Bennett's 2Sc
Bargain Soap saew
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps 10tc
with can Royal Peaches a-v
New Vegetable and Flower Seeds.
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading 2Sr
Stamps with lOpkgs., assorted
Tm Ui.wn) Green Trading Stamps with
pound can Diamond S. 22c
Balmon
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps with
three cans Rocky Mountain ORn
Cream :
MK.N SETT'S CANDY SECTION.
SATURDAY SPECIALS.
Ten ($UK Green Trading Stamps with
pound box Bennett's Special Optc
Chocolate Creams s-cw
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps (Ec
with pound Shell Mixed
Five (60c) Green Trading Stamps (Sc
with pkg. Iiomon Drops
Salted .Peanuts, pound 10c
Sheet Music
aivd Parsifal
LIBRETTOS FUOM TAUSIFAL,
COMPLETE STORY OF THE
PLAY IN ENGLISH AND GER
MAN, ELEGANT
PRINTING, sale price tO
FREE BOOKLETS ON rARSI
FAL RELATING TO TIME
OF PLAY AND I 'LAYERS.
"Buttercups and Daisies," a
beautiful novelette, by the
composer of "Navajo, very
good an a teaching piece,
and the harmony In U Is
beautiful. Hear It 1Af
played. Sale price lUw
SECOND FLOOR MAIN AISLE.
' Art Specials
Saturday Only.
ETCHINGS framed In solid oak,
white mat, fine new CQ
subjects, Hale price J.C
"A Lullaby,' latest comic picture,
framed In dull oak, a regular
$1.00 value, Saturday ' TQ
special O JQ
Our Big Special Outfit, regular
$3.00 value, sale 170
price I J
Fifty ($3.00) Green Trading Stamps
$1.40 Dresser Clft
Boxes JOC
00c Photo HCI
Boxes OJC
COc Glove "IQ
Bojes. . t J JQ
30c Frames for f Cl
burning 1C
Odd lot Oval, and Circle Frames,
values up to 75c, sale f CI
price VJC
See us for Picture Framing. See us
for fine Art Pictures. Fyrography and
Artist Material Headquarters.
Bennett's Great
Meat Section
CHICKENS. CHICKENS.
Freh Dressed Hens or I 1 1 r
Springs pound lav
Fresh urensed Roosters oir
per pound OJI
LEAF LARD
A 16-pound basket Leaf 1 00
Pork JfOinaW.' ' , fLr
pound lv
Pork Shoulder Roast K3P.
pound "tW
Rib Boiling Beef eight ln
pounds for ow
Rib Roast rolled all bones out, f()r
pound
HAMS. HAMS.
Cudahy's best Diamond "C." 03r
brand Hams pound 4
Double Green Trading Stamps on all
Hams, Bacon and Rendered Lard till
12, noon.
FISH. FISH.
SPECIALS FOR LENTEN SEASON
A full line of salted, smoked, spiced,
picked, dried and cured.
HERRING. HERRING.
New Holland Herring In kegs En
guaranteed per keg " U
30 ($4) Green Trading Stamps with keg.
Bennett's Great Store
Is rapidly getting itself into shape
tor the greatest spring business in
its history. By closing the light
well we have secured almost kOO
additional square feet of space.
Our especial pride is our second
floor, made brilliant by the new mil
linery and the enlarged Chinaware
sections the carpeted aisles, the
abundance of daylight and the
matchless bargains all around.
See it Saturday!
The Third Crockery Crash ,t Week
New lot of best Nickel Lamps for reading or sewing large Crt
round burner and white shade, complete for I. Jvl
Thirty ($.1.00) Green Trading Stamps. . '
100 pieces of German China, a new shape and beautiful neat decora
tion, all gold traced, very special, a 1385
Two Hundred ($20.00) Green Trading Stamps.
HANDSOMELY DECORATED FOUR PIECE GLASS SETS, consisting
of covered butter, sugar, cream and ppoon holder, 98 C
Twenty ($2.00) Green Trading Stamps.
White China Bre1 and Butter Plates pretty neat shapes tf
Saturday, each IUI
Three (30c)) 3r?n Trading Stamps.
FANCY CHINA PLATES All sizes, and several different decorations,
many styles to choose from, values up to $1.00, ?n
for each JUC
Double Green Trading Stamps.
Odd Lots of Glass Sugars. Creams and Spoon Holders, to lf
close out Saturday, each 1UC
Millinery! Millinery
E T T ' S.
A GARDEN OF MILLINERY AT BENN
This entrancing new section is fast getting into perfected shape, the fnost sumptuous and best
stocked millinery parlors west of Chicago. We have the largest importations. We are show
ing the fullest ideas of the season's modes. Our milliners can give you the most intelligent and re
liable advice because they have been identified with th millinery trade of Omaha for years, and are
acknowledged experts in the great fashion centers of London, Paris, Vienna and yew York.
Saturday Specials
A Horse Hair Turban, a
down-to-the-hour style,
ready-to-wear, TQ
Saturday l.Jl
Allover lace hats In turbans
and dress shapes, with hair
braid edge, ready to trim,
worth $2.1)8 Sat- ' JO
urday, at IT
Street Hats
A straw high back turban,
pointed .front, trimming of
velvet and quills, an exclu
sive "Sinclair" QO
style, Saturday JO
A smart, close-draped straw
turban In greens, reds, vlo-
IffU," all popular, shades,
I with large pearl cabl
chin trimming, an exclu-
iie "Sinclair" style, worth
If8.08, Saturday,
it
2.49
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Bennett's Great Shoe Section
JdU' Saturday Sale
uF . ' &r J Fifrppn new strips
y,-Vtr I fords, Gibson ties
tlliU pUUlJIO) 111 1V1
kid, patent kid, tan,
r 4- nt Til a o lr
all sizes, all. widths.
Short lines of Dorothy Dodd and Helming Mc-
Kenzie fine shoes among them $4.00 and
$3.50 patent colt button and lace y fl O
stylish shoes at . . ..... sfiuO
Fifty (?o.0Q) Green Trading Stamps.
Boys' and girls' box calf and vifi kid, patent tip
lace shoes, worth ?1.50 and $2.00, J 23
Thirty ($3.00) Green Trading Stamps.
The best men's Goodyear welt wqrk- y CA
ing shoes made, worth $3.00, for. 03
Men's sample'shoes, worth $3.50 1
and $3.00, at. JJ
Fifty ($5.00J Green Trading Stamps.
MAIN FLOOR.
A big display of trimmed
hats, every conceivable
lda, all this, season's de-
1 ii
signs, many of them dupli
cates of fine mod- yl C.C
els, Saturday
Flowers, buds, sprays,
foliages in bewildering pro
fusion. See the handsome
new plate glass cases lit up
with the flower maker's
genius. 2d Floor.,
A Imaging Sale in Nickel
Plate Ware.
Saturday irv Bennett's Great
Hardware Section. .
Thirty ($3.00) Green Trading
Stamps with any .Copper
Nickel-plated Tea or Coffee
Pot, price up Cftn
from...... :. JUv
Double Green Trading
Stamps with any Brass Nickel
plated Bath Room Fixtures,
all qualities. guaranteed, all prices 'way down.
100 ($10.00) Green Trading Stamps with any
Coffee Machine, $8.95, $8.25, $8.00 y g j
Double Green Trading Stamps on all Taints
and Varnishes Saturday only.
BASEMENT.
No. "
Late Copyright fiction
SI.08 Books...
"The Call of the
Wild," by lndon;
"The Wings of the
Morning," by Tracy;
"The Main Chance,"
by Nicholson: "The
Gray Cloak," by
MacGrath
"Fortunes of Fifi," by
Seawell, and 500 others in
their original $1.50 bindings,
all beautifully illustrated
and printed in large clear
type on the very best book
paper.
Book Stalls Main Floor.
Furniture,
Carpets and
Draperies
250 Roman Seats,
100 ($10) Given Trading Stamps.
Made of Golden or Weathered
Oak and Mahogany finish,
strongly put together and top
neatly upholstered with choice
velours or tapestry, oh sale Sat
urday only. No C. O. 1). orders
received on this item.
Clothing Section.
New yp-to-Date Suits.
Saturday Only Mcn and Young Men's Suits, value f A AA
to $10.50, at lU.UU
Saturday Only Men's and Young Men's Suits, value 7 PA
to $13.50, at DV
Saturday Only Men's and Young Men's Suits, value C AA
to $9.50, at JaUU
Double Green Trading Stamps.
The last call on Winter Overcoats, Men's and Young f C AA
Men's $30.00 Overcoats, at ' U.UU
Nine Hundred ($90.00) Green Trading Stamps.
Men's and Young Men's $10.00 Overcoats, 5 00
Three Hundred ($30.00) Green Trading Stamps.
Men's Trousers, values to $5.50, PA
at Z.JU
Fifty ($5.00) Green Trading Stamps.
All Men's Fancy Stiff Bosom Shirts, value to $1,50,
One Hundred ($10.00) Green Trading Stamps.
200 dozen Men's Four-in-IIand Ties, value to 50c, 25c
Ten ($1.00) Green Trading Stamps.
Men's Fancy Cotton One-Half Hose, value to 25c, f J?
at j..iC
Two pair fj
for ZjC
50 dozen Kady, President, Rough Rider and Crown jJA
Suspenders, at, pair. )UC
Fifty ($5.00) Green Trading Stamps.
Complete new line of Children's Suits $1.00 to $7.50 at a
saving of 50c to $1.50 a suit.
The best $2.00 Hat value on earth "THE BENNETT
SPECIAL" See hat man. MAIN FLOOR.
Victor Phonograph Concert,
Saturday Evening from 8 to 9.
SECOND FLOOR
Twenty especially selected pieces, popular and classic.
Very interesting program. '
Victor Phonographs took the first prize at St. Louis.
New Records for March on sale.
MARK TWAIN'S NOBLE HOUSE
The Bmiling Philosopher Knock i the Bark
Off Eii Geneologioal Tree,
VARIOUS GRADES OF TIMBER REVEALED
Wonderful Collection of Ancestors
nrousrbt o Utrnt nd Con
victed of Nenr and Re
mote Relationship.
This "autobiography" of Mark Twain la
reprinted from a little pamphlet printed
thirty-three years ago, found by chance
by a New York book collector and re
produced by the New York Timea So rare
ts It that when It was submitted for In
spection to Harper Brothers, the publishers
of Mark Twaln'a works, a representative of
the house said that they had no record of
It. Mark Twain himself examined the
pamphlet with much Interest, amllel and
sail: "Yes, I believe I. did write It. but I
had quite forgotten all about It."
Two or three persons having at different
times Intimated that If I would write an
autobiography they would read ' It when
they got leisure. I yield at lust to this
frensled public demand, and herewith ten
der my history.
Ours Is a noble old house, and stretchea
a long wa back Into antiquity. The ear
liest ancestor the Twalns have any record
of was a friend of the family by the name
of Hlgglns. This was In the eleventh cen
tury, when our people were ttvlng In Aber
deen, County of Cork, England. Why It Is
that our long line has ever since borne the
maternal nsme (ectpt when one 'of them
now and then took a playful refuge In an
alias to avert foolishness). Instead of Hlg
glns, la a mystery which none of us has
ever felt much doslre to stir. It Is a kind
of vague, pretty romance, Vnd we leave It
alone. All the old families do that way. ,
Arthour Twain1 was a man of considerable
note- solicitor oo the highway In Wil
liam Rufue time. At about the age of SO
he went to one of those fine old English
places of resort called Newgate, to see
about something, and never returned again.
While there he died suddenly.
An Early tlr.
Augustus Twain seems to have made
something of a stir about the year 1160.
lie was as full of fun as could be, and
lived to take his old saber and sharpen It
tip. and get In a convenient place on a
dark night, and stick It through people as
they went by. to ave them Jump. lie was a
born hurmirlot. Hut he got to going too
far with It. and the first time he wis
found stripping one of theae parties the
authorities removed one end. of him and
put It up on a nU's high place on Temple
liar, where t could contemplate the people
and have a good time. He never liked any
situation so much or stuck to It ao long.
Then for the next HOD years the family
lie shows a suceewlon of soldier noble.
high-spirited fellows, who , always went
Int3 battle singing, light behind the army,
and always went out a-whooptng, right
ahead of It.
This is a scathing rebuke to old dead
Frolseart's poor witticism that our family
tree never had but one limb to it, and that
that one stuck out at right angles, and
bore fruit winter and summer.
Early In the fifteenth century we have
Beau Twain, called "the Scholar." He
wrote a beautiful, beautiful hand. And
be could Imitate anybody's hand so closely
that It was enough to make a person laugh
his head off to see It. He had Infinite sport
with his talent. But by and by he took a
contract to break stone for a road, and the
roughness of the work spoiled his hand.
Still he enjoyed life all the time he was In
the stone business, which, with inconsider
able intervals, was tome forty-two years.
In fact, he died In harness. During all
those long years he gave such satisfaction
that he never was through with one con
tract a week till the government gave him
another. He was a perfect pet. And he was
always a favorite with his fellow artists,
and was a conspicuous member of their
benevolent secret society, called the Chain
Gang. He always wore his hair short, had
a preference for striped clothes, and died
lamented by the government He was a
sore loss to his country. For he waa so
regular.
Some years later we have the illustrious
John Morgan Twain. He came over to
this country with Columbus in 1432 as a
passenger. He appears to have been of a
crusty, uncomfortable disposition. He com
plained of the food all the way over, and
waa always threatening to go ashore un
less there wns a change. He wanted fresh
shad. Hardly a day passed over his head
that he did nut go Idling about the ship
with his nose In the air, sneering about the
commander, and saying he did not believe
Columbus knew where he was going to or
had ever been there before. The memorable
cry of "Land ho!" thrilled every part In the
ship but his. He gaied a while through a
piece of smoked glass at the penciled line
lying on the distant water, and then suld,
"Land be hanged; It's a raft!"
When this questionable passenger camo
on board the'shlp he brought nothing with
him but an old newspaper containing a
handkerchief marked "B. a." one cotton
sock marked "L. W. C.."' one woolen
one marked "D. F." and a nightshirt
marked "O. M. R." And yet during the
voyage be worried more about his "trunk"
and gave himself more airs about It than
all the rest of (he passengers put tugether.
If the ship was "down by the head," and
would not steer, he would go and move his
"trunk" further aft. und then watch the
effect. If the ship waa "by the stern" he
would suggest to Columbus to detail some
men to "shift that bngguge." In storms
he had to be gagged, becuuie his waitings
about his "trunk" made It Impossible for
the men to bear the orders. The mun does
not appear to haye been openly charged
with any gravely unbecoming thing, but It
Is noted In the ship's log as a "curious cir
cumstance" that albeit he brought his bug
gage on board the ship lnia newspaper, he
took It ashore in four trutqes, a queensware
crate and a couple of champagne baskets.
But when he came back Insinuating In an
Insolent, swaggering way that some of his
things were missing, and waa going to
search the other passengers' baggage, It
was too much, and they threw him over
board. They watched long and wonderlngly
for him to come up, but not even a bubble
rose on the quietly ebbing tide. But while
every one was most absorbed in gazing over
the side, and the Interest was momentarily
Increasing, It waa observed with consterna
tion that the vessel was adrift and the
anchor cable hanging limp from the bow.
Then In the ship's dimmed and ancient log
we find this quaint note:
"In time It was dlscouvered yt ye trouble
some passenger hadde gonne downe and
got ye anchor, and toke ye same and solde
It to ye dam aauvage from ye Interior,
saying yt he hadde founde It, ye Sonne of
a ghun!"
A Noted Clvlliser.
Yet this ancestor had good and noble In
stincts, and It is with pride that we call to
mind the fact that he was the first white
person who ever Interested himself in the
work of elevating and civilizing our In
dians. He built a commodious jail and put
up a gallows, and to his dying day he
claimed with satisfaction that he had had
a more restraining and elevating Influence
on the Indians than any other reformer
that ever labored among ( them. At this
point the chronicle becomes less frank and
chatty, and closes abruptly by saying that
the old voyager went to see his gallows
perform on the first white man ever hanged
In America, and while there received In
juries which terminated in his death.
'itie great-grandson of the "Keiormef
flourished In1 sixteen hundred and some
thing,, and was known In our annals as
"the old Admiral," though In history he
had other titles. He was long in command
of fleets of swift vessels, well armed and
manned, and did great service In hurrying
up merchantmen. Vessels which he fol
lowed and kept his eagle eye on always
made good fair time across the ocean. But
if a ship still loitered in spite of all he
could do, his Indignation would grow till
be could contain himself no longer and
then he would take that ship home where
he lived and keep It there carefully, ex
pecting the owners to come for It, but they
never did. And he would try to get the
Idleness and sloth out of the sailors of
that ship by compelling them to take in
vigorating exercise and a bath. He called
It "walking a plank." All the pupils liked
It. At any rate, they never found any
fault with it after trying It. When the
owners were lute coming for their ships,
the admiral always burned them, so that
the Insurance money should not be lost.
At last this fine old tar was cut down In
the fullness of his years and honors. And
to her dying day, his poor heart-broken
widow believed that If he had been cut
down fifteen minutes sooner he might have
been resuscitated.
Vuh go - to wan - wah - pukketekeewl
(MlKhtV IIunter.wlth..ltrir.l.'val Turnin
i adorned the middle of the eighteenth cen
tury, and aided General Braddock with all
his heart to resist the oppressor, Washing
ton. It was this ancestor who fired sev
enteen times at our Washington from be
hind a tree. So far the beautiful romantic
narrative In the moral story books 1" cor"
rect; but when that narrative goes on to
say that at the seventeenth round the
awe-stricken savage said solemnly that
man was being reserved by the Great
Spirit for Fome mighty mission, and he
dared not lift his sacrilegious rifle, against
him again, the narrative seriously Impairs
the Integrity of history. What he did say
was :
"It ain't no (hie) use. 'At man's s
drunk' ho can't stan' still enough for a
man to hit him. I (hlc) can't 'ford to fool
away any more ani'nltton on him!"
Working; I niter Aliases.
I will remark here, in passUig. that cer
tain ancestors of mine are so thoroughly
well known In history by . their aliases
that I have not felt it to be worth while
to dwell upon them, or even mention them
In the order of their birth. Among these
may be mentioned Richard Brlnsley
Twain, alias Guy Fawkes; John Went
worth Twain, alias Blxteen-Strlng Jack;
William Hogarth Twain, alias Jack Shep
pard; Ananias Twain, alias Baron Mun
chausen; John George Twain, alias Cap
tain Kydd, and then there are George
Francis Train, Tom Pepper, Nebuchad
nezzar and Baalam's Ass they all belong
to our family, but to a branch of It some
what distantly removed from the hon
orable direct line In fact, a collateral,
branch, whose members chiefly differ from
the ancient slock In that, In order to ac
quire the notoriety we have alwas s yearned
and hungered for, they have got Into a
low way of going to Jail Instead of getting
harmed.
It is not well, when writing an auto
biography, to follow your ancestry down
too close to your own time It Is safest to
speak only vaguely of 'your great-grandfather,
and then skip from there to your
self, which I now do.
I was born without teeth and there
Richard HI. had the advantage of me; but
I was born without a humpback, likewise,
and there I had the advantage of htm. My
parents were neither very poor nor con
spicuously honest.
But now a thought occurs to me. My
own history would really seem so tame
contrasted with that of my ancestors that
It Is simply wisdom to leave It unwritten
until I am hanged. If some other biog
raphies I have read had stopped with the
ancestry until a like event occurred, it
Would have been a felicitous thing for the
reading public. How does It strike youT
CITY'S LISTED REAL ESTATE
Tex Commissioner Fleming Gives His Own
Explanation of Sitnation.
ERROR PERPETUATED . FOR MANY YEARS
Work of Correction Commenced at
the Earliest Possible Moment
and Now llelns; Pushed
with All Speed.
Mortality Statistics.
The following' births and deaths have
been reported to the Hoard of !U-alih dur
ing the twenty-four hours ending at noon
Friday:
Births-Tom Liikowskl, 3U07 Frederick,
boy.
Deaths Kthol Harrington, 1702 Clark, 1;
Willie U. C1au4i, M'i Kansas avenue, 8;
I'hoebe M. Neuilng. :tl9 Hlnney, 6t; David
Moylan. Omuiiu, y; Willie Jt-nklna. Mur
ray, Neh., 7; M. D. Cook. 1411 Vinton, bit;
Minnie W. Kunltit. MlVj Snutli Nineteenth,
i'j; Velma M Harris, li Msndsrson, 2;
1'atrlLk V- C-iulou, Omaha, 4s.
Tax Commissioner Fleming is unwilling
to have the publio believe that he has beun
assessing property belonging to the city
without doing ail he could to prevent such
assessments as were developed in the scav
enger law proceedings. In a written state
ment which he has given out he throws
' more light on the chaotic condition of city
records regarding the ownershln of life
property. He says: I
The article In Thursday evening's Issue
as to me city ownership or lots ana strips
of streets, etc., ottered for sale under tne
scavenger law, while perhaps not so In
tended, makes the Impression that the tax
department Is seriously to blame. This, I
think, is hardly fair to the department. 1
admit It is surprising o learn so large a
number of cases as staled were necessary
i in i'T3 tiiio w ci vi mo uiijr ill Bdtvpil,r
! suits. It is explained by Die fact that up
! to the establishment of a tax department
I by tne city In 1897 no knowledge of absorp
i tlon of property by the city for many years
' preceding (except such as came through
', deeds, which waa a rare exception) came to
the register of deeds of the county. There
j fore many pieces of property remained on
me KO.K tint ui uifl l-uuiliy, UJ1U tut up 111!
I;i7 the city tax lint was a copy of the
county, the errors were perpetuated, and
naturally would be until knowledge of such
error or suspicion of them, at least, de
veloped, no puBt owner being Interested In
the taxation. The deficiencies of tne sys
tem have been noted, and between one and
two years ago the department obtained
copies of such actions of the city as uffect
taxation, and the remedy Is being applied.
Making a Correct List.
The particular deficiencies appearing so
prominent under the scavenger law
developed last fall, but It was impossible
to work the corrections Into the assessment
being then made, neither time nor force
being adequate, owing to the extra demands
the new revenue made on the department.
Immediately after the making of the levy
In February last, I put a clerk at wora
on this particular feature and have asked
the co-operation ct the City Abstracter and
legal department to the end we may have
a correct and reliable list of property owned
by the city. If this department is not
required to make another assessment before
the ottlce is abolUhed, this will be the work
of the year. If however, th department
Is called upon to make the asxessment for
llrni, while the special work of correction
of records will not be ahanrloned It will
have to look to other departmmts for a
larger share of the work. The City Ab
stracter has promised to take hold of this
matter with me and It will require more
or less of the co-operation of the city en
gineer's (Th e and legal department.
After It is once gotten right nn.l a full
accurate Inventory of city real estate had,
It should be kept up by some one depart
ment de-signaled and some system adopted
that will put the department In oosneKslon
of fart that when certified to iiy the head
of the di purtment that the city has ob
tained full ownership of certain properties
other than by deed. It sliill be iree from
taxation on and after certain dale. This
Is necessary because as it Is there are times
when l lakes several years to fuily estab
lish through the courts and by condem
nation, city ownership. During such
procedure it is necessary to continue to tax
the property, otherwise the city would lose
thin for several years. The litigation on
account of city Interests In odds and ends
of strips of land, etc.. Is the result and
penalty of an Incomplete system still exist
ing to some extent, but particularly during
the many years when city assessments was
a copy of county ansessment, the proper
officials of the county not being Informed
as to actions of the city in the way of ob
taining property.
DOLLAR AND COSTS AT FIRST
Price for Spitting on Sidewalk la
' Set Low, but Will De
liaised.
Don't spit on the sidewalk. The police
.'o.ro and Judge Bcrka are endeavoring to
impress upon 'the public the fact that there
Is an ordinance prohibiting such practice.
Samuel Moore knew It and forgot, and
Charles Erlcson knew It and forgot. The
consequence was that both of them were
fined $1 and costs In police court Friday,
.vlien they pleaded guilty to the charge of
violating the ordinance. A. McSweeney said
"not guilty" and his case will be tried
Monday morning. -It Is quite possible that
he may come before the court not without
company, for all policemen are keeping
theJr eyes open for expectorators and have
orders to bring them to the station.
"People must learn not to nplt on walks
and cross walks," said Chief of Police
Donahue. "If a II fine in police court Is
necessary to impress the matter on their
memories, then they must be fined. The
order to arrest violators of the ordinance
against spitting Is a standing one, and
they will be brought In as often as they
are caught. It Is not a hard matter to
learn to step to the gutter at the side of
the walk when it is necessary to spit.
There Is no sens In having the walks cov
ered with filth."
COMMERCIAL CLUB CAFE BUSY
Pryor Finds His Hands Full in Taking-
Care of the Com
pany He Has.
The Commercial club commenced Its
table d'hote dinners Thursday even
ing very successfully. Members of the
club with their wives formed u very pleas
ant party at the tables and listened to
the music of piano, violin and harp, and
ate a course now and then. The numbers
of meals served at midday has been run
ning around 1&0 last week and this. The
club Is serving many theater parties, now
that the attractions at the play houses
are such as to draw out large audiences.
M. C. reters has a party of fourteen for
this evening after the play. "I'arsl'al"
will make the cafe busy, as there is hardly
time between the first and second acts for
the worshipers at the place of art to go
home. Twenty-five people have notified
Caterer Pryor of their Intention to use the
club cafe and lie expects at least as many
more to call on him.
MISS M. V. FAV, WKSTHOHO,
Mass., says: "I suffered agony with ee
scnia, until cured by Cutlcura."
FLESH AND FOWL NEGLECTED
L'jnten Days Bring Sorrow to the Ia
poveriahed Paoking Trust.
ICHTHY0L0GICAL FOOD IS IN DEMAND
Fish Dealers Find Heady Sale for All
They Have to Offer, and Offer
Some Very Tempting; Bar
gains In Their Line.
The beautiful porterhouse steak blushed
with mortification yesterday, the Iamb
chops did not sell chop-chop at all, and
the pigs feet shook their flats; to ail of
which the pickerel and the pike, the Whllo
fish and the bluck bass returned a glnsxy
and freezing, or rather frozen, stare. The
first Friday In Lent of a particularly good
year, Is not the busy day for the packing
house product.
Omaha meat dealers and Omaha caterers,
while they may devour roast beef and
pork sausages, appreciate the fact that a
large portion of the eating public demands
the fish. The provide are therefore ready.
The restaurants served planked white
fish and fried pike and fish balls, at least
three selections at noon and for evening
promised two sorts of fish. In some of th
meat markets during the morning, the Hull
Jobbers were called up for additional con
signment While some markets proferscd
to have done little additional fish business,
others said they had sold more than they
naa soia or meat. At any rate a b
crowd hung over the fish departments
morning.
One protest Is being made by the flail
against the treatment they are receiving In
Omaha. The fish, of course, are practi
cally all frozen fish now, and they say
the Omaha people do not treat them al all
as should be done to ensure firm solid
meat. The fish argue that a frozen fish
should be treated like a frozen ear else
It will dangle In the same senseless and
unnppetlrlng manner. The fish are not to
be thawed until Just before they are to
be used. The fish belong to the up-to-date
school of physical culture and domand a
bath of cold water, In which to do their
thawing nothing warm to be used at all.
Also, the fish object to being left In the
water a minute after they are thawed out
that makes them soft and mushy. Last,
the fish want a bed of crushed Ice In whlcli
to wait for the broiler.
Among she markets Is to be found almoi t
everything desired. The nice little percit
come from Michigan to the Omaha pan.
The Mississippi eels are very scarce und
high priced. The cattish now In town are
lake catfish. 1 he river cats go south for
the winter arid have not yet registered
In. The salmon are from the Columbia
rlvr and wholesale at 11 cents. They
are a rapid fish, hanging around all tint
fast places In the river. In fact, they are
regular Chluooks. The halibut is here
fro.n the ocean at cunts wholesale and
tin) red snapper Is here from tba gulf at
10 cents.
busy
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