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Council Bluffs-
Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs
Minor Mention
The Ooancll Bluffs Office of
Th Omaha Bee is at IS Bcott
Street. Both rhones 43.
MANY SMALL LARES DRY UP jHoad Supervisors
Will (let Hude Jolt
'oome mat nave aoi ncen oo 101 xuijr
Years Have No Water.
BIG LAKE IS BICYCLE SPEEDWAY
Pavls. drum.
WXdir. silver at Trf-ffrrt'a. ,
'.'orrtssn's un1ert niters. Phones J3.
For authority on watches see I'rt.
Pr. Cleaver. Hell-phone only. No. 147.
1 FAI-8T I:KEH AT ItCKlKRS' BfFFET.
awl Cutler, funeral director. Phone 97.
'ooIr!ni? Undertaking comiany. Tel. 3BD.
PVKK QOL.U WliDIMNU KINGS LEF
FUIU'S. Tall 12 for a case of Ound's Peerless
ter. J. J. Klein Co.. ddlstnhutors.
Misses Lena ar.d AuciMa Wallw.ty have
Bon" to Kxcelsior .s.Tliiga to spend a
month's vacation.
(ir.Kinut nntlt-e m a Hint for divorce was
Mid yexlerdii)' ly J. H. Ferguson against ; Kn
1. FerKuson. The buds of the action 1a dei
alleged desertion.
Mrs. D. K. L'tithank left yesterday for
Des Moines. Albla, and Colfax Springs. "O
be gone for alx weeks If her hUHband. tha
deputy city clerk.ldoee not become too lone
oine. The Board of County Supervisors will
meet this morning for the purpose of re
ceiving the supplementary report of the
checkers, whose work has disclosed so
much looseness In the methods of keeping
accounts In the auditora otflce for the
terms preceding tha Incumbency of Auditor
Hannan. They will be In session but a
few hours.
C. Hafer. head of the Hafer Lumber
company, Is enjoying a visit from hla aged
father William Hafer, whose home Is at
Chambeishura:, Pa Mr. Hafer I; 81 years
old He has previously visited Council
Hliiffs and fallen so much In love with the
environment In which he found himself
that he Is seriously contemplating making
It his final abiding place.
' anrmint of the tiavlnir which Is being
Rata Scurry A lion t nn Its Smooth Bed
- Spoon l.aUe la TSott a Mere
.addle Minns Very
Lore.
Big lake hns lost Its preMlse. Its name
Is a misnomer and It Is no longer entitled
to the distinction of being called "Big."
Boys, mounted on bicycles were yesterday
riding over what was formerly nine-tenths
of the area covered by water. The surface
they rode upon was ns firm and smooth
as asphalt pavement, with here and there
great cracks yawning, disclosing unknown
pths of dry earth. The dimensions of
the lake have been restricted to a small
area Immediately, around the boathouse,
with sufficient depth to float nothing
weightier than a fence plank.
It Is tha first time In the history of tha
lake that Its waters have vanished under
the stress of long drouth duration and the
fierce heat of the aun.
The boya and girls of today, with good
memories will be able to recount half a
century hence the "extraordinary dry sea
son of 1911 when Big lake went dry." Tha
little spot of water that remains Is de
rived from the never-falling Mynster
springs, and It fills the little depression
where the deepest water of the lake once
was. All of the remainder of the surface
Is dry. Boys have found amusement pick
ing up the remnants of fish and other
aciuatlc creatures whose existence was
done on Broadway the atreet ca""" painfully terminated by the long drouth.
.cUoTpear Even . 'crawfish have become d.acour-
of the lowness of the street. One of the aged and have abndoned the deep wells
cars went down aooup o cioc. nu umc . tnpy na(1 gunk earlier In the period of ab-
Ne w Law to Be Invoked and They Are
to Be Haled Into Court for I
Laxness. !
at 11. delaying trartte ior a connusraui
length of time, but finally they were put
Into operation by the car men.
Mra. John Nolan, accompanied by her
three children, lett yesterday for Kan Fran
cisco, where she will sail to rejoin her hus
bund In China. Mr. Nolsn Is engaged In
Important mining enterprlaes there. Mra.
Nolan will be accompanied by her sister,
Miss Louise Tholl, as far as Salt Lake City.
At San Francisco she will be met by a
Japanese nurse, who will accompany her
the remainder of the way to asutst In car
ing for the children.
K W. Bushnell. sheriff of Mills county,
'and R. VV. Brother, clerk of the district
court there, were In the city last evening
n route home from the convention of the
Mate Associations of Mhenlts. Clerks and
Recorders at Fort Dodge. There were
thirty-eight sheriffs at the meeting, and
' nearly as many clerks and recorders, but
Sheriff Bushnell said that nothing what
ever wu done but having a good time.
He was rather disgusted at the lack of
purpose of the associations.
Hickory camp, Modern Woodmen of
America of Omaha, haa extended an In
vitation to Ilaxei camp 171, Modern Wood-.
; men of America, to pay them a visit on
Tuesday. August 1. at their hall on Twen-
' ty-fourth and Lake streets. Omaha. There
will be many Omaha members and teams
present to participate In the opening of
. their hall. All members are requested to
" be present on that date. There will be
a smoker, also the initiation ,of candidates.
The 14-year-old daughter of John Haille
was reported to be missing yesterday, and
Probation Officer Herner was called upon
to help find her. The young girl has been
. staying at the home of Mrs. Ooldsberry.
who has charge of the Pe Long mission on
Avenue D. Her sudden disappearance cre
ated a good deal of concern. Officer Hor
ner early discovered that she had bought
. ticket for Fremont. Neb., and a tele
phone message disclosed the fact that she
was there tha guest oi a-pear relative.
Mlsa Mary Harden. Ml Fall-view avenue,
was taken 16 Mercy hosaltal xesterday
and underwent an operation for ' appen-
. (Ileitis. Miss Hayden graduated thla year
from the Iowa atate university, after tak
'. Ing a four-year course, especially fitting
herself for a teacher. She haa been elected
to a responsible position In the high school
at Leavenworth and Is spending the sum
mer at the home of her parents. Mr. and
' Mrs. John Hayden. She withstood the
operation well and la expected to recover
speedily.
Neal Cassady and Mlsa Ida Rushing, both
of South Omaha, applied to Deputy Clerk
Roy Hardest y yesterday for a marriage
license. They appeared to be In great baste.
and gave other evidence of Immaturity
that strongly convinced tha official that
tl.ere were Impedimenta In the way. Tha
youth had a suggestion of down on his
upper Hp. and the young woman looked aa
if ahe were wearing her first long dress.
Two beardless youths who offered to be
. come witnesses added nothing to tha evl
i tience In favor of granting a license and It
was refuser?..
The practice of railroad companies ap
propriating coal shipped by customers
. whenever It Is needed for use In handling
the trains Is to have another try out In
the district court here. O'Neill Bros., lo
cal coal dealers, began a suit against the
Northwestern Railway company to recover
1:23.81 for a car of coal received by the
' Northwestern from tha Illinois Central
, on January 30, last, and appropriated by tha
former company. A similar caae was tried
In tha district court last winter and a ver
diet for the full amount returned to tha
plaintiff. The case was appealed and la
still In the supreme court.
Preparations for opening the O'Connell
department store on Saturday morning have
been completed. Schloss Broa., the Detroit
Jobbers, wno purcnasea me siock, nave
placed It In the hands of the Harper Ad
justment company of Chicago with ordera
to cloae it out In the Briefest possible time.
The stock has been replenished where
needed, and all arrangements made for
what the managers say will be a sensa
tional sale. The stock Invoiced at nearly
tOO.Ou and waa sold for $28,000. All of the
old clerks have been enacrod for the aale.
Messrs. Wyntan and Matthews of Chicago
nave charge oi the sale
A carload of material for ' the electric
light conduits, which waa received on
Wednesday, was being put under ground
with remarkable rapidity by Contractoi
Wlcknam. He had men at work as thickly
aa they could be spaced for a distance of
two blocks dinging the trench and others
laying the conduit. The work was com
pleted on Broadway from the Methodist
ch'irch to the Ogden house during the
day and the block beyond that point nearly
finished. He experts to have the conduits
all In place on Broadway by the close of
the week. The delay In the arrival of the
material waa due to a wreck which dam
aged tha car and made It necessary to de
lay it i or repairs.
Charles Hackmlller.. yard officer for the
rdortnwestem railroad, la confined In an
Omaha hospital by a crushed foot. The
accident ana me reiusai oi his doctor to
permit him to leave the hospital made It
necessary to postpone the hearing of the
Austrlans captured In the raid on their
camps ias ounudy morning until next
week. Hackmlller was the chief witness
lor tne prosecution in the cases, and with
out his testimony the state's case would
have lacaea some substantial facts.
County Attorney Canell decided to ak
continuance for the week, by which time
Hackmlller win do aoie to leave the hoa.
Dltal.. Ha offered to come yesterday tiro
vlded an automobile waa sent after him
and when arrangements to comply with
his request were reported to the hospital
physicians tne patient waa ordered to
keep hla room. Seven of the cases were
dismissed yesterday afternoon by County
Attorney Capell on account of lack of evi
dence. Some of the men were li hem tort
on . bond and the hearing of one, Peter
'4 omnia, waa partial ly completed.
E. ' Hummer, a Council Bluffs youth '
18, found himself la a peculiar predicament
yesterday morning when he waa arraigned
In police court on the charge of the thett
of his mother's piano, and waa unable to
make any explanation sufficiently reason.
able to prevent Judge Snyder holding him
to the action of the grand Jury. A year
' aKO Mra. Hummer went out of town on a
visit, leaving her home In the care of her
thrifty aon. During her absence tha vournr
man Invited Aba Qilltnsky, second-hand
man. to visit the premises, ana succeeded
In striking a bargain with him by which
Gtlltnaky waa given posseaalon of the fam
ily piano In consideration of the payment
of tUS. Mrs. Hummer located the missing
Instrument In the poeeslon or tJUi.niikv
who was a wholly Innocent purchaser. Oil
husky patiently bided hla time until youn
Hummer, who remained conveniently ab
sent for some time, returned to the city
1 hen he procured hla arrest. Tha teat I
monv lit police court yesterday waa con
vlitring. and tha young man was held to
the grand Jury under J00 bonds.
normal dryness. They have' populated the
little speck of water until It has become
overcrowded and yesterday they were mak-
ng a long and dusty Journey that Inter
vened between the lake bed and the body
water known as Gilbert's pond, de
signed for Ice production and filled by
water from the springs.
Many Poada In Dry State.
Ponds In other parts of the river bottoms
surrounding Council Bluffs where the boys
ave gone . swimming for two generations
are dry for the first time.
'Spoon lake," whose bottom has been
concealed for fifty years by nearly twenty
feet of water, has been reduced to a little
puddle. "Big Weedy" and "Little Weedy,"
where only strong swimmers could venture,
have not a drop of moisture In their bottoms.
Hunt's pond," which never failed, and
which certain eminent local hydraulic en
gineers were Insisting a year ago should
be used as tha source of the city's water
supply, has gone into the Invisible aqueous
vapor of tha atmosphere.
Pastures on the surrounding farms and
grass on the hills In , the vicinity of the
city Is dried to Its furtherest roots, and the
hillsides would be as brown aa they are In
December wero It not for the shrubbery
and trees. These have lost none of tholr
freshness and green, and seem to be un
touched by the drouth.
Lake Manawa has reached Its lowest ebb.
Never In Its history has Its water level
been as low as now. There are very few
places where the water Is deep enough
to prevent wading. Operation of the boats
outside of the dredged channel between
the pavilion and the kursaal Is almost Im
possible and the , larger boats are finding
difficulty to secure enough deep water
to swim In.
Despite the unfavorable conditions corn
and other field crops continue to look well
and promise a good yield.-
The seventy-five or more road supervisors
of Pottawattamie county are due to re- (
eclve a jolt within the next few days that '
will caute them to sit up and take notice I
of the fact that the Iowa legislature last j
winter parsed at least one ilaw that they
snould have familiarized themselves wltn. .
The Board of County Supervisors will
this morning be asked to order the arrest I
of every road supervisor In the county with I
the exception of those In Crescent town- I
law requiring the use of the road drag.
Crescent Is the only township In the county
that has complied with the law.
The sudden Invoking of the law will be
due to the action taken last night at a
meeting held In the Commercial club rooms
when an effort to revive the Council Bluffs
Automobile association failed for want of
a quorum' and was turned Into a good
roads meeting.
There are elg4ity charter members of the
automobile association, but the last meet
ing held by the association was on August
10. a year ago. The call Issued by Secretary
Tcwne of the Commercial club for a re
organization meeting last night waa re
sponded to by an Insufficient number to
legally do business, and, on motion of H.
W. Searles It was changed Into ' a good
roads meeting. Dr. Macrae was made chair
man and O. B. Towne. secretary. The first
action taken was calling upon the county
board to procure enforcement of the road
drag law, and a committee of three, con
sisting of Robert B. Wallace. H. W. Searles
and Fred ' Empkle was appointed to wait
upon the supervisors this morning and
ask them to order the road work required
by law to be done under penalty of arrest.
Secretary Towne read a number of let
ters from automobile and good roads asso
ciations In various parts of the state call
ing attention to' the wretched condition
of roads around Council Bluffs.
Discussion about permanent road con
struction recalled the fact that there Is
lying Idle In one of the local banks $2,441 of
the carnival fund set aside .for such use.
and It was urged that some action be taken
to make use of this money. Dr. Macrae
favored the Improvement of the roads Im
mediately adjacent to the city, either by
oiling them and constantly using the road
drag or by covering the surface with some
suitable material. Mr. Searles said there
was a ledge of shale a few miles south of
town that affored Ideal material for per
manent and cheap road surfacing, and Sec
retary Towne was Instructed to make In
quiries to discover how much It would cost
to bring It into use. Dr. Macrae urged that
whatever work Is undertaken should be
on the roads most used by the farmers and
gardeners In bringing their products to
town.
Doctors Inquire
; Into Phone System
Management Insists Change to One
System Cannot Possibly Be Made
Before First of Year. .
At the meeting of the Council Bluffs
Medical society Thursday evening the doc
tors took advantage of the opportunity to
kick about the requirements' and condition
of tha present telephone service. All of
the physicians who are members of the
society were found to be using both tele
phones and they held an earnest discussion
concerning not only the necessity of ha v.
Ing to use them, but also of being required
to pay for both. They either did not read
or were not satisfied with the explana
tion of the situation made by Manager
Frank Elgan in his letter to the Commer
clal club, In which he pointed out the
Impossibility of doing more than is being
done to hasten the actual consolidation of
the two systems. The physicians appointed
a committee to Investigate, and this com
mlttee Is going over to Omaha to have
a heart-to-heart talk with President Tost.
Manager Elgan yesterday again explained
to the doctors the present conditions and
showed how utterly Impossible It was to
make connections until the new switch
board arrived and la installed.
The proposition that Is now being made
to the company and Insisted upon by some
of the telephone users is to pay for only
one telephone, although both are being
used. This is urged for the reason that
both companies are under the same owner
ship. The company, in reply, says there
haa been no change in ' the service and
can be none until the old , Independent
office on Main street can be closed by
the removal of all Its wires to the new
building of the Bell company on Scott
street, and that It costs Just as much now
to maintain the Independent service as It
ever did, that the demand would be
equivalent to a request jt the Independent
company to furnish free service or refund
tolls collected for the last year it waa In
business.
City Solicitor Kimball, who has looked up
tne matter, says there 4a no question about
the authority of the company to collect
for Its service from both telephones until
the two systems are consolidated, Ihe only
question being one of diligence in effect
ing the consolidation. It required more
than a year to do this at Des Moines and
the statement was made at the beginning
mat a similar period would be necessary
nere.
uiaases max nt. at Leftert'a tha hla
Jewelry store, where you get the beet for
your money.
Marrlaste Lloemaea.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday
to tne following named persons:
Mama and Residence.- Age.
o. A. usenoaugh, Lincoln, Neb ....21
Anna Williams, Uncoln j
Thomas W. Bowles, Omaha fl
Julia Ekwall, Omaha 9
Perry Anderson, Council Bluffs 13
Bessie V. Guilford. Council Bluffs 1
John E. Christiansen. Mlnden V
t mma M. l)u. MJnden 14
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NO. 7M
Saturday Extra-Special
$3.50 for $2.00
From our Bummer furniture we have aelected this
handsome' Kaltax rocker strong of runners, broad of seat,
high of back and finest of quality and placed It on sale
for Saturday only at $2.00. It has sold all summer for
$3.50. This special price will last only Saturday.
Cleaning-Up Prices on Linoleums
Price cutting has been a feature of our July sale, buj we
never were so bold as whan we marked the concessions on
printed and inlaid linoleums for next Monday. These goods
with their amazing prices are positively the best bargains we
could offer. You may see the goods in our south window now.
Look at them and remember the prices printed below you will
agree with us "they are positively the best bargains we could
offer." Our entire stock of dropped patterns in linoleums goes on
sale Monday at these practlcally-factory prices.
65c Printed linoleum, per
square yard 39J
75c Printed linoleum, per
square yard 49
85c Printed linoleum, per
square yard 59
91.45 Inlaid linolnem, per
square yard SI. 10
91.50 Inlaid linoleum, jTor
square yard $1.25
91.05 Inlaid linoleum, per
square yard $1.35
91.75 Imported Inlaid, per
square yard $1.50
Miller,Stewart & Beaton Co.
TAG POLICY FURNITURE
Established 1884. 418-15-17 South Sixteenth Street
Real Estate Transfers.
Real estate transfers as reported to The
Bee July 20 by the Pottawattamie County
Abstract company of Council Bluffs:
C. P. Stevenson and wife to William
and Lucy M. Reynolds, ne of 12-75-38.
w. d iiT.MA
Mary Etta Alexander to Elmer E.
Alexander, part lot S, Auditor's sub.,
ne4 ne 12-75-40, w. d 1
Two transfers, total
...$17,601
TEAM SCARED BY AUTOMOBILE
Driver of Car Which Caaaes Accident
at Grtswold, la., Rons Away, bat
la Captared.
ORIffWOLD. Ia,, July 21. Special. )-
Coley Mitchell, a farmer living west of
Grlswold, was driving home from town
when he met an automobile. His team be
came frightened and ran away. He was
dragged several feet and was badly bruised
and his arm was broken.
When the team became frightened the
driver of the automobile turned and went
In the opposite direction, not stopping to
see what damage had been done. 'Mr.
Mitchell's wife, who was with him, had
the presence of mind , to take the number
of the machine.,
The constable started In pursuit of the
man, but was unable to overtake him. He
telephoned the police authorities at Carson,
and the driver was arrested when he
reached Carson and ia now being held.
There were two persons in the machine, a
man and a woman. It was a Nebraska
machine.
Woman TTncomacloas Three Days.
IOWA CITY, Ia.. July 21. (Special.)
After lying In a state of unconsciousness
during a period of sixty-five hours Mra
Charles Toms, the wife of an Iowa City
business man, has quite recovered and her
nervous attack which preceded the state
of coma has disappeared entirely. Doctors
believe her trance will prove helpful to
her. Her husband found her unconscious
In a chair and ahe showed no signs of
awakening until marly three days after
wards.
-ii n yfyV(iiiMtff.,ti Siih si-ftssig isVMt ii am i asssaaasear ifihmW i
Peat Bed om Kir.
MASON CITY, Ia.. July 21.-BIg areas of
peat bed lying north and west of here are
on fire. A large number of men from all
parts of this district are making efforts
to check the fire and guard property,
which owing to dry weather is in danger.
Iowa News Notes.
CRESTON Eighty-five out of the 120
taking the teachers' examinations at the
normal, held ' here in June, have been
granted certificates to teach.
KENT Charles Thomas of Kent haa an
nounced hla candidacy for atate senator
on the republican ticket from the Fitth
district, composed of Union, Hlnggold and
Decatur, counties.
CRESTON State Superintendent of In
struction A. M. Deyo waa In thla city
yesterday consulting with Superintendent
Pickett of the Creston schools and the
local achool board, relative to placing tne
normal course of Instruction In the Creston
High achool thla year. No definite action
waa taken, but the matter will be decided
later.
CRESTON Word has been received here
Of the critical condition of former Con
gressman Kred E. White at his home near
South English. While unhitching hla team
from a mower he waa kicked In the breast
by one of the horses and. the report saya,
he Is In a helpless condition. Mr. White
is the father of Mrs. W. H. Robb of this
city and served the Sixth district aa rep
resentative In congress a number of years
ago. Later he was the deroocratlo nomi
nee for governor.
Go to Colorado
Ip and Play
Take your camera, fishing rods, tennis racquet, golf club9,
your riding clothes take your tired, jaded self to the "top
of the world." Rest your eyes and your brain. The Rockies
are nov? in their best "bib and tucker." Take a Rocky Mountain
air bath. Feel your blood quicken. Come home with new ideas
and cash them in at more than the cost of your vacation.
There is no train providing such facilities for reaching Denver,
Colorado Springs or Pueblo as the Rock Island's, de luxe
Rocky Mountain Limited ,
-Omaha steeper, with stateroom and berths, ready for occupancy at 9:3 O
This train of trains leaves Omaha 10:47 p. m. daily, supplies every travel luxury,
and reaches Denver and Colorado Springs in time (or luncheon next day.
Other fast trams every day for Colorado, Yellowstone Park and the Pacific
Coast with sumptuous Pullmans, steel coaches, superb mealfi and all the little
things which mean so much. Leave home morning, noon or night and reach Colorado
at convenient hours.
Let me tell you about the very low fares. Illustrated booklets free for the asking.
We can provide the accommodations you want.
J. S. McNally, Division Passenger Agent
132a Far nam Street, Omaha
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All leading bars sell Old Lager Anheuser
Busch Beer. Uoaenfeld Liquor Co.
N. T. Plumbing Co. tel. 130. Night L-1701
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