THE UKK: OMAHA. FRIDAY. .TANUARY 20. 1011
BRIEF CITY NEWS, i AD CLUB TO ADVERTISE OMAHA
stooi Print It.
9. 3. Or', ri at Bon Coal.
Tak Tour Filntlng to tb Tim.
Fate Phlllippe Watc'.ie. Kdonlin. .leweler.
Oe, Slectrle fixtures. Barg ess-Qrandea.
Slamoud of Quality- Kdholin. Jeweler.
Id) snooty earn no dividends. Invest
ni'nn In Ilie Neli. Saving Loan Assn
pay 'i per annum. 1 bOa r'arnam aiue:.
board of Trail Building, Omaha.
Yon Can't Bobbed if your valuable
i In our burglar proof vaults, A private
afe for SI per year. Oitikbt bar Deposit
A Trust Co. rJnttance, Ibi4 Karnain Hi
Burglaries StUl Continue line lo four
bin siarlc ar reported ver uj. i.e
wiee In time and gel burglary insurant e.
I'lione Crelgh, Hsldiige & Co.. Doug. .
kala Coata We have them that ara a
lot more stylish and serviceable than the
a-called top coats. The jmalia Kubbercr ere not crowded between S and
o.. L. H. Hpreguc. President; 1US Har-1 o'clock Is not worth living In. O. W.
street. -Just around the corner. wattle startled hi hearer as a ieaainj
, speaker of the occasion. Mr. Watties
talked on the subject of "Good and Bad
Aged People Decide
to Marry to Care for
Their Grandchildren
I Old Neighbori See the Need of Look-
ins After the Young-er
Generation.
Recsus their tlnrc grandchildren need
some one to care for them: because they
wsnt to keep the family together, and be-
Litteni to Five Addresses by From
inmt Speakers.
WATTLES TELLS OF HIS CARS
Rockier In.Hes Ihr (lab to lalt Ike
Land hots' ei MoiiiIii Kea-
lag Inl Italian I
rented.
Five speakers In tori entertained Ad
club member to the number of about ISO J ran they love each other. ' Keltce Scalso,
men. and an ontlln
STRAIN TELLS ON MRS. SCHENK
Defendant Collapse and Trial it Tem
porarily Suspended.
DEFENSE SCORES ONE NEW POINT
Utrlora Idarilt roUnn Had Keen
t.l.esi a Medicine and that l ead
ralavnlng Mi) lleault
from Kerptln.
for the coming year n made In a lunch
eon at the Mentha hotel rathskeller at
noon Thtirsdsy. II m planned that the
rlub'i attention shall be gl en foremost to
the advertising of Omaha through news
papers, periodic and street car signs.
I'eclartng that a town In which the street
tiey
Oospl Berries The students of the
Tieslterlan seminary are lioluinK dam
erte each evening at o'clock, except
Ssfnrdsy, at the I ntted tfrethien churcn.
Nineteenth and Lothrop streets
la th Dlvorr Court Judge A. L. Sut
ton hu continued the hearing ol the Hull
divorce case until February I, In order t
Hive the Uef-ndanl. i'. W. Hull, time to
file an answer .o the allegations of cruelty
set forth In the petition of Mrs. Hull. Mrs.
Hull la now In the Hattle Creek sanitarium.
Hauls Creek, Mich. She will come to
umaha February 1 to testify at the hear
ing. Iim for a Crashed root A suit to re
cover tJu.UOU personal damages against the
Northwestern railroad was filed Thursday
morning by Anaatantoa Ootsls. In his
petition jot His hm that while working at
the railroad's roundhouse at Missouri Val
lev, la., October 24. his left foot was
crushed by the turntable, which Is used
for placing the engines In their proper
stall. Ootids alleges that the turntable
was defective.
Large Termlt Iu4 A permit for the
construction of a three-story building at
ill South Thirteenth street was Issued by
Building Inspector Wlthnell Thursday
morning. The Independent llealty com
pany took out the permit. The Improve''
menls, which will cost Ill.tWO, will be store
room's on the first finer and living room
on the second and third. The building will
replace a one-story building which has
been a landmark In Omaha. A permit was
also Issued to K. Hansen for repairs on
a frame dwelling at 7 South Fifty-first
street. The alteration will cost 1600.
fcuaoa Cars oa the Union Paolfli
"Lunch cars" that will erv aa diners lor
the coach traveler and homeaeeksrs may
be added to the equipment of Union Pacific
train when the rush of travel open next
spring. For year, ever slno the Idea of
bomeaoeker specials have been In vogue,
........ t l.n it f i ..J I t m lha middle itlajcs
traveler ha been one that puaaled the rail
road officials of western roads. People
travel for several daya and not all of them
have tbe money to eat In a diner and some
of them travel on ticket which do not
admit them to the use of the dining oars.
Otm BTTio Bsamrnatlona The United
St a tea civil service commission announces
an examination on March I and , 1911, at
all th principal cltiea of the United State.
for securing a Hat of eligible from which
to make selection to fill position In th
Philippine teaching service. Th places to
which between sixty and 100 will be ap
pointed for next achool year are high
school position, a teacher of English,
mathematics, history, science, domestic
science and home economy. Industrial and
manual training subjects, and supervisors
of the mora than 4,000 public school taught
by over S.0U0 Filipino teachers
Seat from It Campaign Thg campaign
of educational advertising being instituted
by the Union Paclflo 1 becoming of real
educational Interest in different part of
the world. Several school authorities In
eastern part of thla country, Canada, and
even In England, have written to Omaha
to the road making for Instructive book
lets on the western part of th United
State. On wa received Thursday from
Milton D. Cole, secretary of th Board of
Education oi niegmeu, ra. in educational
advertising system cover th state
Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, Utah and
Colorado.
Aged Shoemaker Burned John Henry,
aged 73 year, who uvea alone In a oue-
foom cottage at Twenty-ninth and Doug
laa, waa badly burned by an explosion of
his gaaolln atov shortly before 1 o'clock
The hair wss burned from his head and
the back of hie hands are badly blistered
lie was attended by Police Surgeon Ulsho
and removed to SL Jasepb' hospital. 11
1 In a serious condition, but will live.
Bash X.sr tor BnrteaaiOBV Sylvester
R. Hush, spuclul asslstam to the United
Statea attorney general, returned Thurs
day from Lincoln, wher he went as a
member of a committee appointed by the
Dundee Improvement club, to lobby for the
extension of the time for the payment of
the paving levy. He wa accompanied by
J. E. George and W. 8. Belby. The com
mittee presented a bill to the committee
on cities and town In th aenat and th
house, asking for an extension of the levy
from four and one-halt to ten years.
of the dobs actl'it v r- years old the fsther of Antonio Scalzo.
the father of the chl dren. and Mis Carml
nelln Pane, the mother of Mrs. Angela
rtoa Pane Scalzo. the mother of the chil
dren, will be man led this week. Father
Stenon will pronounce the ceremony.
The romance wnlch will culmlrate In the
matiiage of the grandparents began ten
years ag. when Antonio 9cslzo died, leav
Ing his wife and three children. Although
Mrs. Rosa Scalio hss had suitors In the
last ten years, who. It Is said, would like
to have become the stepfather of her ohil
dien, she wss always opposed to a second
msriiage.
ne nsa ueen married to the younger
Pcalzo since July 14. IW2. and after he died
had too much love and respect for his
memory, she ssld, to accept another pio-
posal of marriage. o It came about that
her mother saw the need of the children.
The father of th deceased Scalto also saw
the need.
Advertising." II pointed out that certain
Inconveniences In street car service
are Impoeslhle of complete solution, ind
In fsot are really a. Rood a an of a cite
prosperity. He explained ti e comparative
fscts concerning Omaha's service and that
to be found In othrr itie. and sought to
show that this city ranks imnni! the must
sdvsnced in the country In regard to th
street railway fs'ilitles.
The street railway man remarked that
the iMibllf Is subjected to Walts, doliivs and
j Inconveniences In luajiks and other busi
ness establishments, and that therefore It
should not be considered a great burden
for th ieople to encounter Inconvenience
times on the street cars. He promised
the best efforts of his company to serve
the people of the city with good transpor-
atlon.
ft. J. Buckley, director of entertwlnment
f the Omaha I.tcnd bIiow, delivered an ad-
ress, pointing out the purposes and ac
complishments of the show. He extended a
hearty invitation to the club to attend the
how In a body Monday night, which shall
be observed at the exhibition as Ad Club
Ight. The Invitation was aa heartily ac
cepted.
Mr. Huckley pointed out how mercenary
motives In the ahow project were dlsre-
arded In the example of the management's
rejection of the New Orleans and California
xhlbits, whereas It might have gained
money by accepting the exhibits. He ex
plained that the show has the sole purpose
of exploiting the west and not exploiting
any enterprise exclusively relating to a
single city or state outside of that section
R. It. Manley talked on the subject of a
forthcoming debate upon the commission
form of government. Mr. Manley remarked
that a long search had failed to reveal
anyone who chose to condemn the com
mission form of government Idea, and that
therefore the club committee had decided
to advertise for such a champion.
Other apeakers were Ralph El Sunder
land, former president and H. O. Fitzgerald.
wss taken to the county Jail, where she
became violently 111 and showed mptotns
of fainting. !
A county physician was suiiimoned It
wss fifteen minutes before sle wss shle to,
return to the coui t room and she seemed
weak slid ncivous during the short Inter
sl before adjournment for the day.
Attorney O'Hrlen announced tonight be
fore adjournment that every ph sldnn In
the Wheeling district will he summoned
by the defense. It Is the purpose of the
defense to show none sold poison to Mrs
Schenk.
The defense apparently scored for the
first time sine Dr. Hupp was on the stand
enrlv last week. Throuah Derslstent cities-
Laura Farnsworth Sehenk collapsed todav ,,onin of mnv physicians summoned by
the state It was brought out that Pchenk
" 1 had been attended by many of them and
An
WilKF.I.IXtl. W. Va . Jan. n.-Mrs
JOHN SHEEHAN LOSES MONEY
Is Held I n and Hobhed In Front of
Ills Boardlnar House by a
Thief.
John Sheehan. living ai Tenth and Daven
port streets, wss held up nd robbed of 110
by a lone highwayman with a gun In front
of the rooming house where Sheehan live
at about 10 o'clock Wednesday night. There
Is no trace as to th Identity of the holdup
man.
4 Dasgrroa. Wnan4
rendered antiseptic by Bucklen's Arnica
Palve, the healing wondor for sores, burns.
piles, ecsema and salt rheum, ISe. For
sale by Heaton Drug CO.
under the ordeal of the trial In which
Is chsrged with administering poison
her wealthy husband. John O. Sehenk.
hour before the usual hour for adjourn
ment, she had to b led to her room In
the'jall. unable to withstand the strain.
Court took a recess and the trial was tem
porarily suspended.
Throughout the trisl and since Mrs
Schenk's arrest on Novemlwr 9. . the lias
displayed remarkable calm. When ap
parently damaging testimony was being of
fered against her. It failed to disturb her
beyond a slight exhibition of nervousness.
She smiled as doctor after doctor, called
to teatlf.v. declared that John o. Sehenk
was 111 because he drank poisoned water
and displayed apparent Indifference when
expert chemists told that the mineral water
Klven the patient was deadly with arsenic,
that other medicines were charged with
lead poison, and when a detective nurse
testified that the accused offered to pay
her I1.O10 to administer a poisoned pill. Mrs.
Pchenk met the glances of the witness
with sneers. ,
Nothing of a startling nature was
brought out In court today, only physicians
being examined.
Mrs. Pchenk had not been lookinir as
well all day. as on previous daya of the
court sessions and suddenly toward the
closing hour she leaned over IB Frank
O'Brien, one of her attorneys, and asked
him to get her a glass of water. She
gulped It down and It was but a few mo
ments before she said to another attor
ney: "Jyor God's sake get a few minutes'
recess."
The request was granted and Mrs. Sehenk
that many drugs had been prescribed.
The drugs Included bichloride of mer
cury, arsenic and several others, and.
while given In small doses, through skillful
cross-nuestlonlng It was shown that ome
patlenta are more susceptible to their ac
tion than others and that lead poisoning
may result from absorption as wen ss tan-
Ing directly Into the stomach. ,
Whooping Cough
CROUP ASTHMA COUGHS
BRONCHITIS CATARRH COLDS
A aisislt, hbs ctt'ctits m.ifstnt for tiros
Vapsriled Crete-
rkiil trouble., idint 0lU(. V apsrtxe
Itnt topi I ho ptroir.au ( Whooping CeotW and
relip Croop it man. It I. s n .ret.
from A.ibno. Tb sir tsscltrocl strootlj niit.o
ile, latplrrcl with wr fcrostk, at.kt. bn.tklrg
raa oootbea ISO mtm inrvoi uo oiops cos cokh,
si.urint rntfal sight.. II u tsttlwbu to sieiiicrt
-sith young chlldreo.
tend a. pootsl for dcrlntl bnoklei.
ALL DRUGGISTS. I Jr '
TrCr.l. jKtlitfth J ffto)r
tkr..i r.U.ti for the W M,'tl
irritated threat. Thee
are lfnpl,trTectht and
asiiacptic. Of year
drsgglM at froal aa, toe
In sumps,
Vspo Cretotais Co.
2 CertliaM St.. N. V.
We Welcome All Visitors to the Omaha Loml
Show and Invite Them to Attend Cur
HALF-PRICE SALE
l
of Men's Suits and
Overcoats
After each season we hold a Half
Krlcti Pale on atl th? rrmginlng gniall
lots of our auperb Suits and Overcoats,
In order to dispose of them Inirucdi
tly. The season Just finished has
been a very successful out? with us.
so we commenced this sale with a bet
ter assortment and bettor qualities
than have ever been offered In the
than have ever been offered In the city.
Even though we have already fitted
out hundreds, there are yet hundreds
of garments from which lo make
YOl'R choice. Every winter style,
shade, pattern and site in
Our $7.50 to $35 iuits
and Overcoats
toL $3.75 to 17.50
9Mra4 fiagfoifgifigGa
"Til BOUBB Or KIOK BlBlT"
Persistent Advertising is the Koad to Big lieturns
Tho Hee'o Advertising Column." Are That Ko;ul.
Short Line Plans to
Spend Over Seven
Millions This Year
Budget Show Vast Expenditure, in
Improvements All Over West
New Depots and Track.
Seven million dollar will be spent by the
Oregon Short Llna railroad In th coming
year In extension of that part of the
Harriman system and more money. In
definite in amount, will be spent in im
provement at Pocatello, Idaho, and In
double traok work.
Thl information I contained In th
annual budget of th Short Line, which has
Just been Issued. All of the appropriation
have been authorised and work on th
extension and improvement will begin
early In the spring. In addition to the new
work to be undertaken the company 1
finishing track laying on the Bliss-Rupert
cutoff and the Burley-Oakley line, and It
ha Just finished the Aberdeen branch and
the line from Vale to Brogan.
Following are the Improvements author
ised In thl year' budget:
Boise yard and terminals, platform ex
tensions, etc., lY.OtlR.
Track to be laid on grade, Caldwell to
Homedale, 11.1 miles, estimate $114,46.
Extension from Klchfield to lilgh Prairie
summit, 67.1 miles, estimate $1.68ri,MU.
Extension from Burley to Kelton sum
mit, traversing the Haft river project, "S
miles, estimate 12,046.000,
Lay track on 11 le, Aahton to Drlggs, 17.5
mllea, eatlmate SVU4.S67.
Kx tension Buhl to Salmon river crossing
mllea, eatlmate .X.tW6.
Kxtenalon from Nyssa east toward Home
dale, !M mllea, estimate f77i,60.
Stolen Loot Found
Sewed in Mattress
Detectives Search Boom and Discover
Plunder Taken from Several
Different Houses.
T'pon searching th room occupied by
two men uspected of burglary, Iietectlves
Dunn and Fleming recovered loot etolen
from a doxt-n houses, sewed up in a mat
tress Wednesday night. The detectives ac
complished the discovery In the arrest of
Fred Ianlels and . Q. Fuller.
The plain clothes men had been In th
quest of tbe two men for several days,
and. -upon locating their room, made a
audden raid, catching both asleep. The
officers ransacked the room for a halt
hour, falling to find a trace of any stolen
goods. Finally Detective Fleming chanced
lo notloe a suspicious looking hump In the
mattress, and feeling It, discovered that
a number of different object were se
creted in It. Th mattress wa ripped open
and 00 worth of loot was disclosed.
Th discovered loot Includes valuable
stolen from the homes of Oeorge Coulter,
75 North Nineteenth street; C. J. Corkhlll,
Pratt trec-t; C V. Pace. SsH North
Nineteenth afreet, and Jesa lavls, tiZl
spencer atreet.
The family of George Coulter came home
about S.14 o'clock In the evening. Just In
time to hear the burglars making their
escape through a rear window. Th prowl
er were making away with two suit caaea,
but dropped one in the yard.
Councilmen Decide
on Apportionment
of Grading Funds
South Sixteenth Street is to Get a
large Share on Its Exten
sion South.
Provision for the disposition of 111,000 of
the 17,:j09 appropriated by the city council
Tuesday night for general grading purpose
ha been made.
Nine thousand four hundred dollar has
been set a ilde to i ay one half the cost of
grading South Sixteenth street from Spring
avenue to th city limit; $1,200 will be used
to pay one-third of the coat of grading
Cass street and tM for the grading of an
alley In the Tenth ward.
Thla leavea lit.500. which will be divided
among the First, Sixth Seventh and Elev
enth ward. Councilmen Schroeder, Berka,
Funkhouser and Sheldon are to report at
th next meeting the agreement for th
division ef the amount.
"I had besrj troubles with constipation
for two years and tried all of :lie best
physician in Bristol, Teun., and they
could de nothing for me," writes Tho.
t. WUHainV Mlddleboro, Ky. "Two pack
a of t'r.ra')irUi V Btouiack) aui .vler
Tablet cured ue. ' l i sa'e lv si clcal
ei a
Th Key to th Situation Be Want Ada
PEGG'S TEST SCALES SHOW
WRONG WEIGHT ON COAL
Partrldae-Sbell)-! komana Make a
Clear fkanlag Before Jasge t'rsw
ford la Tkrlr Case.
The charges against the Partridge-Shelly-Thomaon
company and Its pres
ident. A. P. Thomson, for selling short
weight coal, were dismissed thl morning
In police court by Judge Crawford. Th
charge were filed by John Orant Pegg,
Inspector of weight and measures.
Th testimony In the case established the
fact that the coal sent out by the firm waa
of full weight. an) that the scale on which
It was weighed at the instance of the In
specter were Inaccurate.
A stellafcl rsi Kedleta.
1 a valuable family friend. Foley's
Honey and Tar fulfills thla condition ex
actly sir a Char Is Kiln. N. Sth St..
Kaaton. la. slate: "Several members
ef my family have bean cured of bad
sough aad cold by th use ef Folsr'a
Honey and Tar and 1 am never without a
bottle In th house. It soothe and re
lieves the Irritation In tbe throat and
looaene up th cold.! I hav always found
It a reliable cough cure." bold by all
druggists,
The Largest Fire Insurance
Company in the Middle West
A Western Company as Good as the Best, Surpassed by None, and That Meets
Its Obligations Fairly and Promptly
Eleventh
H
Annual
ii miM it fi mni7rii niniii i n i r 11 tri fru n n ij
Statement
of Omaha, Nebraska, December
of
31, 1910
Net Premiums from Organization to date $4,111,270.59
Losses and Expenses 3,044,784.(it
Premium Gain : . '. .$1,066,485.93
Interest Earnings $273,218.11
Less Dividends Paid Stockholders 102,000.00 171.21ft.ll
Total Premium am Interest Gaiu . .$1,237,704.04
Deduct Items not Listed as Assets 44,281 .SO
Total Net Gain $1,193,422.24
Capital Stock 20U,0 0.' i''.
Net Assets This Date $1,393,422.24
ASSETS
First Mortgage Farm Loans $870,675.00
Municipal and School District Bonds. . . . 197,152.23
School District "Warrants 3,259.62
Cash: '
In Banks 122,426.06
In Off ice 2,712.7a
Bills Receivable (Farm premium notes
not matured) 160,970.11
Premiums in course of collection. (Written
subsequent to October 1) 34,502.93
Accrued Interest on Bonds, Mortgages
and "Warrants 23,230.37
Total $1,414,929.07
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $200,000.00
Due Agents and Others 2,761.96
Reserve required by law for the protec
tion of outstanding risks 976,012.73
Reserve for Taxes 10,000.00
losses Adjusted and Unpaid NON1 1
Reserve for Estimated Unadjusted
Losses 18,744.87
Net Surplus , 207,409.51
Total $1,414,929.07.
SECURITY TO POLICY HOLDERS : . $1,283,422.24
The losses and expenses of this Company from organization to date as shown above have been 74 of
premium income.
The losses and expenses of fifteen of the largest American and foreign companies for the past nine years
(not including the year of the San Francisco conflagration) have been 88.6 of premium income.
The Columbia is the one Company that has always given the utmost publicity to its assets, showing the
exact location of every loan and describing in detail every form of security owned, making it possible for it 3
patrons to verify its statement in their own way at an.' time.
The foregoing proves that a western fire insurance company can be just as successful as one located else
where, if properly managed, the same as with a bank or any other business proposition.
OFFICERS:
D. E. THOMPSON, President.
C. D. MULLEN, Secretary and Treasurer.
C. E. YOST, Vice-President.
C. O. TALMA GE, Assistant Secretary.
STATE AGENTS AND ADJUSTER-:
Nebraska E. G. Bohanan, Lincoln.
Kaftsa C. H. Searle, Topeka,
Iowa John F. "Weible, Des Moines.
South Dakota- George L. lies, flioux Falls.
Oklahoma .1. II. MeXew, Oklahoma City.
North Dakota - Frank Harris, Bismarck.
Horn OfficMrchant$ National Dank Dldg., Omaha, N Phone. Doug. 431