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i Till: UMA11A SUNDAY. I'.KK: Al'UIL lfi. 1011. A .7 4; : NO MORE WAGE ASSIGNMENTS On Advice of City Attorney Comp troller Will Not Recognize Them. PAY TO WHOM MONEY IS DUE ' ririir mjm Only the lran la Wkow Favor Warrant is Draw a Tan (ollrrt Taronah HI Office. Assignments of wage by rlty employes w'lll not be recognixed by the rlty comp troller In the future and warrant will be paid to the persons in whose favor they are drawn, Irrespective of whether the anl srles have been a?ilcnd. flurh announcement was made Satur day morning by Fred Cosgrove. rlty comp troller, following an opinion which he re reived from John A'. Rlne, city attorney. an to whether he can be forced to file and handle assignment. The rlty council, upon a motion by John Son, recently requested the city attorney to hand down on opinion on the legality of assignments nnd suggest methods of slop ring the practice of discounting the sal aries of city employee by loan sharks. Rlne told the city comptroller that he did not have to recognize these assignments and that he can disregard them and pay the money to the person whose name appears 7 ' anthe face of the warrant. "Hereafter, this office will handle no as signments." said Mr. Cosgrove. "In the future assignments will be totally" disre garded. Warrants will be paid to the em ployes. In whose favor they are drawn. "Attache of the office have been notified of the change. In the future. If money lenders attempt to file assignments here ' they will be directed to take them to the city clerk, the same as all other claims. ' Then they can be referred to the city coun ' oil and It can take any action It sees fit. ' If money lenders persist In the practice of discounting salaries, they will have to take their chances. What the cltv council will do with such Instruments, I do not know.. "We have been bothered In the past by lenders who have made this of.lce the medium of their operations. More than one-half of the time of one man Is re quired to file the assignments and turn them over to the assignees. Hereafter we can use his time to better advantage." , THRILLING BATTLE WITH LION Woosdfd Aultnal Flays with llanter j mm n Cat Woald with a Moaae. . For several days the ostrich camp near e. Sir Alfred Tease's homestead at Athl river. East Africa, had been worried by lions, and as that gentleman had Just arrived by the steamship Guelph. in company with Ills sons and Mr. tirev. Ilie newa tn kinl was heartily welcomed aa affording most opportune snort. A nartv u nmmntw nr. - ganlsed, consisting of Sir Alfred Penae 11 Grey. Howard and Edward Tease. Captain Slater. Mr. Clifford and H. H. Hill. The hunt started on Sunday morning, January .. The plan of campaign was to divide Into two parties, one consisting of Sir Al- ' fred and Mr. Hill. ' After about half an hour s ride, In " drawing a donga. Mr. Hill espied two big male lions making off about half a mile ' to the right, and the party of two gal ' loped after the quarry endeavoring to keep them In sight. Sir Alfred followed the bigger and slower animal and Mr. Hill the leader, which was some 0O or 600 yards to his left. The object of the hunters was to turn the game Into a donga, thus giving 11 for the r'Bt of ,he Vr.y to come up, ' ffoptng that Mr. Grey would be given the opportunity to open the shoot. That sports i man has a fine reputation for high courage, and 1 no novice at big game. Vnfortu- nately, the second party had no opportunity or learning the tactics that had been agreed - upon by Sir Alfred and Mr. Hill. v Mft Grey seeing the game put his horse - to the gallop and practically started to course the brutes. His companions were Immediately alarmed at his foolish temer ity and endeavored to warn him of the terrible danger he was courting. They .- were doubly alarmed at seeing one of the lions preparing to charge. Mr. Hill thereupon dismounted and fired a quick . shot at the biggest lion In the hope of at . trading his attention from Mr. Grey The ,. bullet unluckily fell short and the llon f churged Mr. Grey, who Jumped off his s ' ,onv nd awaited the onslaught. At uiim tw.nty yards he fired and the shot , 1 the shoulder, but without stoppln, :! .. d a lly charge. He got in another shot at t about five yards, bitting the brute In the .. mouth, breaking two of his murderous . fangs and Injuring his Jaw. The lion flung Its victim to the ground and commenced to worry him Just like a cat would a mouse. Meanwhile If. Tease jr had followed Mr. Grey and the party waved him to come up on the Tank. They then covered the 300 yards between them t and the llon and his victim at top speed. When some fifty yards off the llon noticed his fresh antagonists and ceased to maul Mr. Grey. At twenty-five yards the party dls- mounted and ran In. The beast Imme diately made toward them, and at this awful moment of peril Mr. Hills rifle Jammed, and he, too, wra out of action Almost simultaneously Kir Alfred and H Pease fired and the balls entered the lion's ribs. The thrice, heavily wounded animal then returned to hla victim. The horri fied relief party scarcely remember what happened during the next brief few mo ments, further than that the llon was on f top of Mr. Grey and animal and man were so mixed up that it was most difficult to distinguish the former's head from the lattera body In order to get In a deadly head shot, which waa found Impossible to place until the llon was almost lifeless During the deadly fray the other lion was distant only about 100 yards, growling and lashing his tall. In spite of the double . danger threatening them, the hunters. , who had only two .266 rifles, paid no at tlon to the second animal, being Intent on relieving their comrade. Mr. Gray s wounds are very numerous ( The llon severely clawed his face and , head, bit his arms, hands and thighs and inflicted nasty wounds on his back. fter being nscued from his deadly peril Mr Grey wm perfectly collected and quietly Instructs his anxious friends how they could bat handle his laceraUd body -Kan . . Africa Standard. A Total tCelliwa of the funottou of stomach, llYer. kidneys and bowels Is quickly disposed of with Klectrlo Bitters. 60c. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. The Keyless l.oek. Locks of every Imaginable kind have been Invented, but there I. now on the market a key Was doorlock that Is raiddlv taking the place of the lock of the old stvle " These keyless locks do not appear at a f lilc!0 d'rf'r rreatly from the ordlnarv lock. They have a fancy plate and knob, ana they can be placed on anv door Instead of the key and keyhole, however there Is t. particular bit of mechanism be neath the knob, with four to six little levers, which can be pressed or raised to unlock the door. The owner or persons who have a right to enter can be given the combination, and the lifting of one or more of thee little levers, one or more times Just a- may be arranged, will release the ImiIi and the door will open. The closing of the door will lock It. and a certain lever aill release It If It Is worked from the In side Numerous combinations may be had. and these ran be changed at any time Harp er s Weekly. BRIEF CITY NEWS star Moot Frlat XU Oaa, Zleotri natures. Bnrg ess-Qraneea, Times, Printing. Communion and Becspttoa of members at 10 .10 a. m. at the North Presbyterian church. Nineteenth and Ohio. Muster serv ice In the evening at 7:30 o'clock. Idle Money earns no dl blends. Invest ments In the Neb. Paving A. Loan Ann. pays t"B per annum, lmfi Fat nam Street, Hoard of Trade Hulldlng. Omaha.' atrs. Smith Oats Divorce Ailelia Smith was granted a divorce from Harry M. Smith In district court Friday after noon. She was given the custody of th two children. OUtaer Discharged In Bankruptcy Charles ft. Glltner of (Imuhi was dis charged in bankruptcy In Re 1'nlted States district court by Judge W. H. Mungcr Saturday morning. Army to Bny Beef HI. is have been ssked for on 2o,0no pounds of frozen beef for the armv at Seattle. Wash. Bids are to be opened at the subslstrnce office of tin Department of the Missouri on May 1. Shoplifter Is Sentenced For pilfering from the store of llavdcn Hros. Joiiii ilr.iU ford was Saturday sentenced to fifteen days In the county Jail. Hradfoid Is said to have discovered some fine liquor In the basement of the store. Co ad Inheritance Tag Paid The cliy and county exchequer was enriched $3 4T.2.33 Friday afternoon, when the adminstrator of the John V. Coad estate paid that amount as the Inheritance tax, due from the estate. The sum Is based on 1 per cent of the estate, save an exemption of $10,000. Ooart House Clocks Purohaaed A con tract with the Hall Automatic Clock com pany to furnish the new court house with clocks at a price of ll,:.'4 was awarded. Lynch and Klsasser voted against Its ac ceptance, saying that the county was not yet ready for the voting of any such elaborate fixtures. Carlson Oets Damages A verdict of $1,248 was returned by a Jury in district court Saturday morning In favor of Carl Carlson and against the Nye-Schnclder-Fowler Grain company. The plaintiff was siting for $5,O)0 damages for' injuries he sustained In a fall from the company's building In May, 1910. Pleads Mot Onilty W. G. Leslie, ar raigned for obtaining money under false pretenses, pleaded not guilty before Judge Kstelle Saturday morning. He Is accused of writing a check on the First National bank to pay a board bill at the Henshaw hotel when there was no money to his credit at the bank. The check was for $35. Places for Omaha on Tour The Boston Chamber of Commerce has wired the Commercial club that two reservations are being held for any representatives that Omaha may have on the Kuropcan tour being arranged for June 12 to August 23. The message states that any Omaha busi ness men wanting to Join the party 'will have to notify them at once. X.ahey Grabs Pickpocket Quick work or. the part of Dan Lahey, plain clothes man, Friday resulted In the capture of Albert Smith, an alleged street car pickpocket, aX Twenty-fourth and Cuming streets. Smith, In company with two other men, was operating on a Twenty-fourth street car. when George Powers, mall carrier, de tected one of the men with his hand In the pocket of a passenger. Powers struck the thief, but failed to hold him. The three Jumped from the car and as they did some one pointed out Smith to Lahey, who placed him under arrest. Smith was charged with being a suspicious character. He Is being held for Investluntion. MAKE MAN A I N FACE Surgeon. ty Remarkable Operation Sate Patleat from Frlsjhtfnl Dlaf lacaremeat. Surgeons at 8t. John's hospital. Unn Island City, almost finished building an entirely new face on a patient. They have been at work on the task since May last, and they hope In several more months to send their patient into the world a fairly good-looking man. They expect to have the patient In such condition that, despite a terrible accident he suffered, he may mingle with his fellowmen feeling that he looks like other mortals and Is not an object to make even his friends shrink 1 1 mo signi or mm. The man who Is getting a new face, after almost having lost one, Is Timothy Martin, of 40 Willow street. Corona, Long Island. Martin was hurt when employed by the Ferguson Construction company In the Bunnyslde yards of the Pennsylvania rail road. He fell, face downward, Into cog wheels, and before the machinery could be stopped his face practically was ground off. His mouth and nose were gone and the muscles of his face were cut so badly he could not eat or talk. He was taken to the hospital In what wa thought to be a dying condition. Martin did not die. Instead, he displayed remarkable vitality, and gained In strength so faat that vha surgeons were presented with a new problem. The question was how the wounds should be treated, and whether the face should !be permitted to heal and be almost shapeless. Dr. John A Itodlne and Dr. Frank C. Smith. Dr T f Daly and Michael McMahon of the hos pital held a consultation. They decided to do their best to make a new face for Mar tin. because they realized what a terrible thing it would be to send him out Into the world with features that would make him repellent. The first step was to make a new mouth and to build muscles around It so that Martin could learn again to talk and eat The process was slow, and the surgery delicate and difficult, but the doctors worked patiently, and MarW was cour ageous and hopeful. Gradually the new mouth was shaped, the surgeons adding muscle, taken from other part, of the body and knitting them to the muscles of the fac-. Slowly the muscle, grew strong nd by degree. Martin learned to use them and was Joyful n being able to speak to the surgeons. Martin got finally so . coul(, ?h? "".H ,aJ" "m't " we" "r. the accident. Skin was grafted to the mouth and the ,.heek. wlth M that the lower part of the face. I. I. ,aid almo.t the same as that of an ordinary The next and final 'step was to provide new no... The man's left arm was fixed rigidly to the upper left .Me and face Ini that0,, tH "U'e r nd that finger was .!,, lengthwise and freshly opened flesh was ,,, ln th, no,ow of the face where the nose formerly was The plan was ,o let th. fin.er grow fast In It. place and when cohesion ha. become sufficiently strona to atnm.t.t. - in ungeri :"d..:ru' .,h ot -! ,,....ew lor(t rrtta Haehelor'a Herlertloaa. A girl practice, smiling before her-look-Ing glaaa. but doe. It much better before a man. Mealing much money seems to be able less"" mor ''"t'nctloii than saving A man will cheerfully pav $3 for a dol lar s worth of food downtown, but he wants five dollars worth for 60 cents at home. New York Preas. I UNITED ACTION FOR SAFETY Railroad Employei Organized for the Prevention of Accidents. COMMITTEES ON THE WATCH sterna He Method ml Inspection the i:rtire nf the More Hltsn. tin I Hesnlts Ktnrrteri fir Lenders. I Km.nye safety committee have been : nrcanirrd by the Chicago A- Knrthwest , eiti railroad on nil the divisions, and In J, 'he various shops and division s.ifetv com mlttces composed of division officers also, j The employes committees Investigate con jditions that may cause accidents and make recommendations to the division safetv ; committees for their removal. There Is I also a central safetv committee, to which I the reports nnd recommendations of the division committees go. It. C. Richards, general claim agent. Is Its chairman. The committees that have now bepn formed have a total membership. Including officer The method nf work followed hns bepn 1 for tho division safety committees and employes safety committee to malce In spection rips over the divisions at fre quent Intervals. A special train Is pro vided, and the party, which usually con si sts;downfcl pose, ol tains fifteen to twenty people, ordinarily rides In the superintendent's business car. The members observe the condition of tracks, structures and equipment as they go along, and make frequent stops for more careful Inspection of stations, shops and yards. The committee Is often accom panied by division officers not belonging to It. For Instance, by road foremen ol engines, bridge foremen, etc. Sub-committees are appointed to Inves tigate different matters. For Instance, one suh-commlttee Is assigned to Inspect track; another roundhouses: another equip ment; another to See if operating rules are being disregarded by such conduct as going between moving cars, failure to set cars so as to keep side tracks clear, etc. In the appointment of these sub-committees, ' on which one or more of the division officers sometimes serve, a point Is made of not selecting men to Investi gate things they are concerned with In their dally, work. A track man, for ex ample, Is not put on a track committee or a shop man on a shop committee, The track man Is put on the shop committee and the shop man on the track committee. The Idea is that employes are more apt to notice shortcomings of plants or meth ods that they do not coma in contact with constantly. Inspection Trips. An Inspection trip over a division takes from one to four days. When It requires more than a day the committeemen usually sleep on the car. At the end of the trip a dinner at a hotel Is arranged for. at which all sit down together. The sub-commit tees then make their reports to th full committee, and the matters tin y lg up are discussed and necessary aiti, iken. V -.Mies of members of the employes' 'ummlttee are posted on the bul let i. oards In the roundhouses, shops and other places where the men congre gate, and employes are asked to make whatever suggestions and complaints oc cur to them to. the committeemen. The members of the committees' wear a spe cial button. , The central safety committee has rec ommended that the employes on commit tees be rotated, the term of office to be not less than six months nor more than twelve. At first employes were a little loath to serve on the committees and hesitated to freely criticise at meetings with their superior officers. The officers, however, have received all suggestions and criticisms in such good spirit that employes are getting ambitious to serve on the committees, and their members are losing all reluctance about making suggestions and criticisms. It Is being found that the employes committees con stitute a very Important Intermediary be. tween the management and emulovea In general, because an employe will report matters to a fellow employe on one of i uie committees that he would not think of reporting directly to an officer. - The work of the safety committee has brought out numerous suggestions for changes In .plants and operating methods, which the central committee has recom mended' to the general officers; and many of the suegestlcns made have been favor ably acted on. The following ore some ex amples: One division committee recom mended that side curtains In engine cabs SUFFERED TEN YEARS WITH CATARRH OF THE STOMACH. When All Efforts Failed Relieved By Pc-ru-na. h-i . Peruna a Household Remedy Mr. Henry Krhroeder, Kstey, Mich., I suffered for almost ten years with ln was nt avail I .u ..i. k. . .,i,.Ji,, . j my hiiuirnUua" Could Not Eat Anything, Mr. W. It. Callahan, proprietor and mock raiser of Hi Hill Farm, and prom inent fruit grower, It. F. V. 1, Balem, Va,, Writes: "I write to express my klndneas toward you and your good medicine. I'eruna. "I had a ery bad spell of slcknesa and could not eat anything at all. My read, aiomach. In fact, my whole body ached, and It looked aa thouKh nothing would do me any food. I had almost given up. "I decided to try a hotlle of your Pe luna and before I lial taken half the hotlle ir. V appetite came to me an. I my head became all rlKht. in fai t, 1 w as ail right alt over. I'eruna cured me." I be placed inside the gangway, and experl I ments are being made to see to what ex tent this con be done. It lias been found I that numerous accidents occur In the un ! coui'luii of hose, nnd It hps been rei'oni rmnded that the nianaseinent consider t the adviraMllty of annulinn the rule re ! (lulling men to go between cars to un 1 couple ail hose on freight cars and In future permit the hose to be uncoupled i by the action of the cars In parting. The attention of the central committee was j called by several division committees (o the inadequate lighting of various roundhouses. engine houses and coal heds, and the ' central committee referred the matter to the matuigement. calling particular atten tion to the conditions at certain places. It was found that ai a good many places the mir lighting was due to the fact rhat tho windows had not been kept properly cleaned, and where this was the case Im mediate action was taken The Inade quate lighting tended to prevent the em ploves from working as rapidly as they otherwise could and also rendered their work Irss safe. Additional Safeguards. ADDITIONAL SAFUGITARDB Some o'her recommendations that have bcin received from division committee" Mnd favorably acted upon by the central safety committee are, that Investigating be made to see If It Is not practicable to put another handrail In vestibule cars to make It safer and easier for passengers to get on and off; that Instructions be given to employes of the car department to remove to a safer distance drawbars and other things taken from cars; that tha motive power department be asked to make arrangements lo overcome complaints about blow-off pipes; that action be taken to reduce the number of accidents to tres passers and to bring the matter before the different state legislatures for action; that the general purchasing sgent, the general storekeeper and the engineer of . teats be requested to Investigate thoroughly the quality of oil being purchased and used; that the general managers take some ac tl( n which will cause private Industries to unload their material far enough from Irackh to prevent accidents and that cer tain of the departments of the road be Bsl ed to do likewise: that the engineers of maintenance be requested aa soon ae turntable s require re-covering to Increase the width of the platforms and cause all planking between the rails on turntables to be removed, and railings to be provided at the -sides. RISING TO DIZZY HEIGHTS Thrilling Hnckyarrt Iteacne of a Woman from Top of Seven ty Klve Foot Pole. After defying her neighbors, the law of gravitation, her husband, and everything else which came to her mind, Mrs. Arthur ,Homan climbed to the top of a 75-foot pole In the rear of her new home at Canarsle, Lorg Island, only to go aground at the top and find herself unable to work free. She was rescued by her husband, who drew her Into the rear window of the apartm. nt across a clothesline which she heraelf had fastened a few minutes before. Mrs. Homan's Idea was to stretch a heavy line with a pulley at each end from her window to the top of' the pole. Strictly speaking. It was her Idea to have her husband do It, but the project was not In line with Homan's policy. He wouldn't climb a pole unless It was greased and had a dollar on the top. Ro Mrs. Homan fastened one end of the rope arrangement to the window, and, go ing down Into the courtyard, fastened the other end about her waist and began the ascent. To the huge delight of Catnarsle and the neighboring towns, she reached the summit by mins of the spikes set in the pole and made the rope fast to a ring at the top. Then she reached a foot down for the first spike, but the spikes were set man', distance apart and she couldn't find it. She tried for half an hour, with everybody shouting encouragement and In struction, then felt herself getting dixiy nnd began to murmur for help. Mrs. Homan Is not the kind which ever does more than murmur, but Mr. Homan knows what the murmur means, and he came to the window. In a few well chosen words he told her to fasten herself to the rope, which waa then In the form of a pulley belt. She did It, and, with amaz ing nerve, swung free from the pole and1 dangled seventy-five feet ln the air. It was then a simple matter for Mr. Homan to haul her Into the window. The nelith- bors cheered loudly and are now trying to find out where the Homans buy clothea llnes of that strength. New York Herald. Mr. Henry Schroeder write.": catarrh of th I'1 mumann ana SU cloctor- ui roruna ana t wo vo of Manulla and am "' thla dleeaae. It is Bowel and Stomach Trouble Mr. W. J. Tempi. 352 Union St., lel aware, Ohio, writes: "About Ihreo vaura ne" fc n i ii ici , i was taken sick with bowel and stomach "One doctor called It ulceration of the bowels, another called It colitis. Another doctor helped me temporarily. "Then a druKa-lat recommended I'eruna and I followed hla advice. I took altoetl'er five bottles and 1 consider myself a well man. , i "before using I'eruna, It waa utterly i Inif osxl'jle f.ir me to do a day s work, but i L-an tiu lariu worn wimoiil tile least trouble or fatigue. 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