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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1911.
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PERKINS RESIGNS HIS PLACE
Secretary of State Railway Commis-
sion Gives Up Job.
BUYS NEWSPAPER. AT AUBORO
Report thai Retlrin Officer Will
B C&aaldate for roralmwloan
to Sacrred M'lnnrlt Paper
to Be Republican.
CFrom a f-taff correspondent)
LINCOLN. Neb.. Oct. lfi (Special Tel-run.)-Clark
E. Perkins, ctcrstsry of
the State Railway commission since Itt
organisation In 190T, today tendered his
resignation to take effect as soon a bit
aueceraor can be obtained.
Mr. Perkins, has purchased the Aurora
Republican from James Schoonover and
will conduct It In the future. The retiring-
secretary Is well konnn In state
politic and was formerly secretary of
the republican state central committee.
It Is rumored here that Mr. Perkins' re
tirement Is preparatory to his making a
raco for the railway commission In 1913
to succeed H. J. Wlnnett. whose term
expires at that time.
Mr. Perkins was for fourteen years the
publisher and editor of the St. Paul Re
publican. In 19"6 he was the secreUry
of the republican state central commit
tee, In which position he wa. brmipht
In contact with most of the prominent
politicians of the state. Just before he
was appointed to his position with the
State Railway commission In 1907 he sold
his St. Psul paper and bought the Au
rora paper, which he sold in a short
time. James Schoonover. the owner,
from whom Mr. Perkins now makes the
purchase, Is at present deputy oil in
spector of the Fourth congressional dis
trict. The retiring secretary will take his
place st the helm of the Hamilton county
paper Just as soon as his place can be
filled by the Btato Railway commission
with the approval ol Governor Aldrtch.
He declares that the Aurora paper under
his ownership will be strictly republican
and that It will not be unhappily aligned
as to progressive 01 atandpat tendencies.
AURORA. Neb.. Oct. 16. (Special.)
Jas. Schoonover has been connected with
the Aurora Republican for about twenty
years, starting In as devil" in 1892. He
has edlU-d the paper for the past two
years. He nsnumed editorial control when
Frederick II. Abbott was appointed In
dian Commissioner in 1900. Mr. Schoon
over !s deputy state inspector of oils
for the Fourth distriot of Nebraska and
secretary of the Aurora Building and
Loan Association.
TRYING TO COLLECT TAX
ON BIG SCULLY ESTATE
BEATRICE. Neb., Oct 1. (Special.)
If the efforta of County Attorney F. O.
McGlrr to compel the eatate of the late
Lord Scully to pay the Inheritance tax
claimed to be due It are successful the
road fund of Gage county will be aug
mented about 110,000. Lord Scully owned
about tE.OOO acrea of land In Gaga and
Nucholia counties, and the hearing of
the matter relative to collecting the in
heritance tax on the estate waa held be
fore Appraiser H. E. Spafford during last
week. Frederick Trapp and A. A. Pick
rell of Ilneoln, III., have been here the
last few daya giving testimony In the
case.
The appraiser filed his report with the
county Judge Monday. The court then
issued a decree ordering the tax to be
extended against the real estate arid
unless the representatives of the Scully
estate appeal to a higher court Gage
county will receive $10,000 for Its perma
nent road fund.
TELEPHONE WAR AT
TECUMSEH POSTPONED
TECTJMSEH, Neb., Oct 1. (Special.)
The men who were engaged In circulating
a petition among the business men and
others here agreeing to use the Indepen
dent telephone only on and after Novem
ber 1, and to order out the bell telephones
have withdrawn temporarily from the
field. Bell officers from Omaha came to
this ctly at once upon the information of
what was going on, and it la understood
that an agreement was reached of aome
ort which caused the petition circulator
to quit. It 1b not thought that any parti
cular specified time , waa agreed upon
when the city would have the one serv
ice, but It la understood that the tale
phone men Informed the citizens that
everything possible la being done to pave
the way to a general merger of the Bell
mad Independent systems in the state, and
that the plan will be adopted the first
moment It can according to law.
NEWS NOTES FROM ASHLAND
Work Bearln on Csrieilt Llbrarr
Mr. and Mrs. Mlddletea, Cele
brate Goldea Weddl.
ASHLAND, Neb.. Oct 11 (Special.)
Work was begun the laat week on the
erection of a Carnegie library In Ash
land. The alt chosen is on lots donated
by E. A. Wlfgenhorn, two blocks north
of Silver street. The building I to hare
a basement, with ground floor 44 feet
long and SO feet wide. Andrew Carnegie,
the Pittsburgh millionaire, haa contrib
uted 5,600. while the complete structure
will cost nearly 17,000. The building la to
be of yellow glased brick, with a green
tiled roof. The city council will provide
maintenance of the library by levying IbfiO
a year on the taxable property of the
town. William R. Shankland of Lincoln
has the contract for construction.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Mlddleton
celebrated their golden wedding anniver
sary last week by a family reunion, at
tended by the following of their children:
Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Woodford of
Warm, Neb.; Charles, Bert and Mis
Grace Mlddleton of Ashland and George
B. Middleton of Bartlett Neb. Two
daughters, Mrs. Ferris of Atallsss, la .
and Mrs. Holllngswerth of Scotubluft.
Neb., could not be present Mr. and Mrs.
Mlddleton were married fifty year ago
at Parkersberg.
Lysle Petersen. 11-year-old son of Peter
A. Peterson, a gardener residing a mile
south of town, received severe burn by
a powder explosion. He extracted the
powder from a shotgun shell, poured It
into a bottle and touched it off. The
powder did not lgnlt as quick as he
expected and the lad leaned over the
bottle to get a closer look when thr
charge went off. The boy' eye was
clos-i and fare badly burned by lh
shooting flame.
Delbci t Herron and Miss Amanda Iaios
were married Saturday at the bom o(
the bridx's mother, Mrs. W. B. Luc
la AUiland. They will mak their fu
ture horn In Loa Angele,- Cai.
Nebraska
Omaha Man Buys
Hotel in Bdair
BLAIR, Neb.. Oct. lfci Special Pa
pers were signed here this morning which
closes a deal, by which the Plata real
state agency, sold to Hans Kruse of 623
North Sixteenth street, Omaha, the Clif
ton hotel building In Blair. The property
was built In. mt by the old Keeley
Institute stock company of Blair and
wss operated ns a Keeley institute, and
made thousands of dollars for th Blair
stockholders. The building and grounds
originally cost upwards of 13.(0. but
has now changed hands at a little less
thsn half of that amount. Mrs. O. V.
Walnrlght of this city is the president
of the old stock company and In making
out the deed for this property, ende up
the last of th business of twenty years
standing. Mr. Kruse will begin the
remodeling of the building at once. In
which he expects to make repairs amount
ing to upwards of 11.000. Mr. Wright, the
present ocoupsnt will renew his lease
with Mr. Kruse for from three to five
years.
HEIRS OF J. 0'DONNEL
FIGHT TO GET LAND
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN. Neb., Oct. l.-(Speelal.)
Ponderous briefs In the support of an
appeal from Cuming county, in which
the heirs of James O'Donnell are suing
Dernard Helmann and his wife, were
filed upon argument with the state su
preme court today.
The case Involves possession of a valua
ble farm In Cuming county. O'Donnell
died eighteen years ago, leaving his farm
and other property to several small chil
dren, the youngest of whom only re
cently became of age.
The administrator, following what he
presumed to be the directions of the will,
sold th land In question in order to clear
indebtedness against the ertate. It was
bought by J. G. Laaseh and was sold to
him by J. G. Hlemann. The heirs claim
that th sale waa void while the de
fendant insists on its validity. The latter
won in the lower court and the case is
brought to the higher court by the heirs.
Since the time the land was sold it has
Increased greatly th value and Is now
worth several times what It waa at the
time it was converted Into cash for pur
poses of settling alleged Indebtedness
againat the estate
Leading attorney of Omaha were In
terested In th cas on both sides and
appeared before th supreme court today
In behalf of their client.
MAN KILLED BY TRAIN ON
BRIDGE NEAR PLATTSMOUTH
PLATTSMOUTH. Neb., Oct lS.-(Spe-clal.)
John Wagner, for thirty year a
fisherman, hunter and trapper of this
city, wa found dead at the Burlington
curve bridge a mile west of Pacific
Junction early Sunday morning. The
man' body was lying under the bridge,
only his legs visible, and from appear
ance had been knocked off by a west
bound train. He had no relatives In thia
locality and little lsknown of the where
about of hla relations, If he has any.
The Mill county authorities declined to
hold an inquest or to car for the body,
but notified the sheriff of Cass county,
Nebraska, to take charge. Accordingly
the sheriff with the switch engine crew
and a ear brought the body to Platts
mouth Sunday afternoon and turned it
over to an undertaker.
ARMOUR COMPANY PLEADS
GUILTY UNDER FOOD LAW
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN. Neb.. Oct. 18. (Special.)
Pleading guilty in the county court to
having violated the pure food law of the
state with respect to the sale of lard,
Armour and company were today1 fined
$50 and costs by Judge Cosgrave. Com
plaint1 was made some time ago by E. C.
Kemble. on of the food Inspectors, that
the defendant company had sold a ship
ment of the product to a College View
firm and that they were not branded as to
their net weight and contents. The plea
followed a week's continuance which was
taken by the' defendant company.
ALUMNI OF UNIVERSITY
PLAN TO GO TO GAME
(From a Staff Correspondent)
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 16. Secretary
George Kline of the University Alumni
association, is making an effort to gather
together a large number of former stu
dent of the Institution on the date of
th Michigan foot ball gam In this city,
November 25. In response to his requests
for th presence here on that date sev
eral letter have already come In, indi
cating that a large number of th alumni
will avail themselves of the opportunity
to get back to the game and would be
here that day.
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BAPTISTS' CONVENTION
MEETS IN CITY OF YORK
TORK. Neb.. Oct. l.-(Ppeoial -Th
forty-fourth annual Nebraska Baptist
convention is In session In the First Bap
tist church of this city. Sunday morn
ing's sermon was preached by Rev. H.
W. Smith of Philadelphia, Pa. Sunday
afternoon, the addresses weee by Mrs.
R. A. Huntley of Pawnee, on "Our State
Junior Work," and Mrs. J. K. Almy of
Omaha, "Early Christian Training." The
address of the evening was by Rsv.
Walter Fowler. Grand Island. "The
Apostolate of Today."
Today's program was as follows:
"Three P's of Young People's Work."
Rev. W. E. Darrow. Peru. 'What
Should a Younx Christian rltudy and
Read. Prof. Venner. Grand Island col
lege. "Some Current Hindrance? to
Modern KvsngellKm." Rev. J. W. Cab
een. "The City Church," It. R. Waldo.
ine Town i.liurch. w. r. uenjamin.
"Patoral Work: What Why and HowT"
J. Scott Ebersole.
ToniKht: Annual sermon wss preached
by Rev. Howard R. Chapman.
SUPREME COURT SOON
TO TAKE UP DONAHUE CASE
(From a Staff Correspondent)
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct-(Speoial)-Arthur
F. Mullen, former attorney general of the
state and now representing th state
in the ouster proceedings started against
John J. Donahue, chief of polio of
Omaha by former Governor Shallenber.
ger, today filed the abstract of proceed
ings before the state supreme court
The abstract Is the voluminous document
contaiing 360 pages of printed matter
and giving In detail the evidence taken
In the case before the referee who was
appointed to hear th testimony.
The case will shortly be taken up by
the supreme court the report rendered
by Referee Evans being the matter first
to come up for action. Subsequent mo
tions In the cas will be heard before
the court
MR. BRYAN TALKS TO SYNOD
North Platte Session Adopt Me
morial to Late Jostle John
M. Harlan.
NORTH PLATTE, Neb.. Oct. 16.-Spe-olal.)
The Presbyterian synod in annual
meeting in this city held several largely
attended meetings Sunday. The morn
ing communion service was an Impres
sive occasion. Rev. Daniel E. Jenkins
and Rev. Nathaniel McQIffen, clergymen
from Omaha conducted thla service.
The afternoon popular meeting more
than taxed the capacity of the local
Presbyterian church, which seats 600.
Mr. Bryan, who Is elder In ft Lincoln
Presbyterian church, spoke for two hours
on th theme, "Old Time Religion."
With homespun stories and convincing
logic he enforced many neglected re
ligious truths. The evening service was
presided over by Presbyterian laymen,
among whom were Attorney J. II. Wooley
of Grand Island and Judge Davidson of
Tecumseh. The synodlcal resolutions
were read at this service by Rev. Ralph
Houseman of Omaha.
' A memorial commemorative of the
death of Juatloa Harlan waa read. Its
contents are a follow;
Whereaa, W have learned with pro
found sorrow of the sudden death of the
Honorable John M. Harlan, aseoclato
Justice of the supreme court of the
United States, who for many years has
been one of the foremost Presbyterian
laymen In America; therefore, be It
Resolved, By th Presbyterian church
of Nebraska that we hereby give expres
sion of our high appreciation of the ser
vices and devotion of Judge Harlan to
the cause of Christianity and to the
work of the Presbyterian church.
Resolved, Further, that we recognise
In his death th loss of a great Chris
tian statesman and Jurist both to the
church and the nation.
Resolved. Further, that we hereby ex
tend to his bereaved loved ones our sin
cere sympathy and Christian condolence.
ttraad Island Strikers Paid Off.
GRAND ISLAND. Neb., Oct -(Special
Telegram.) Th 200 men who went
out of th Union Pacific shop two week
ago war paid off for th work don to
th first of the month. There wa no
demonstration and no disorder of any
kind.
PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD
CLOSES ITS SESSION
NORTH PLATKK, Neb.. Oct. M.-(8pe-cla
Telegram.) The Presbyterian synod,
which has been In session here wince
Wednesday, adjourned this morning after
a bualness session In which the educa
tional Institutions of the Presbyterian
church wer dtscusted. Testerday Mod
erator John Pressley preached the morn
ing sermon and communion wa cele
brated, services being conducted by visit
ing ministers and elders.
W. J. Bryan spoke for two hours upon
the theme. "Old Time Religion." The
evening session was addressed by Judge
Davidson and Dr. W. W. Lawrenc of
Lincoln. The synod was regarded as one
of the most successful and Interesting
In the history of Nebraska Presbyterians.
UNION PACIFIC APPEALS
SUIT WITHJBIG JUDGMENT
LINCOLN. Neh.. Oct l.-Speclal.)
The Union Pacific Railroad company
protested In supreme court today against
th affirmation by that tribunal of a
Judgment for 19.000 obtained s gainst It
In the courts of Douglas county aa dam
ages resulting from the killing of John
Zitnik, a trackman, on January 10, 1910.
The company makes th claim that the
damage received waa excessive and
larger than hla expeotancy in lit war
ranted and waa given by the Jury under
paeslon and prejudice.
Farmers' Elevator Make Money.
BEATRICE. Neb., Oct. 14. (Special.)
The annual meeting of the Plckrell
Farmers' Elevator company was held
Saturday afternoon. Th report of Mana
ger Wilson ahowed that the elevator had
handled 150.000 bushel of grain during
the last aix month at a net profit of
M.100. A dividend of 30 per cent was
declared. Theae officers were elected
M. W. Terry, president; George Zimmer
man, vice president; J. G. Melnts, secre
tary; Ed Baumann, treasurer; M. W.
Terry. J. C. Melnts, Chris Cpllker and
George Zimmerman, dlrectora.
Mrs. Kate Dolan.
LYONS, Neb., Oct 18. (Speolal.) Mr.
Kate Dolan died at her home In Lyons
Sunday at t o'clock p. m. She waa th
widow of th lata Peter Dolan. They were
among th earliest settler in Burt county
having homeateaded Juat a mil north of
what Is now Bertha where they lived
for nearly half a century. After his death
Mrs. Dolan gave the homestead over
to the care of children and came to town
to live.
fslrl's I. ear Cnt Off y Mower.
SIOUX FALLS. S. D.. Oct. 16.-(8peclal.)
Miss Cecil Roe, th young daughter of
a Spink county farmer, hsd one of her
legs nearly severed and the other badly
cut aa the result of her horses starting
up while she wa operating a mower In
one of her father' fields. She was ad
Justing a tug, which hod become unfast
ened, and was standing in front of the
sickle bar when the horse started up,
the sickle catching her leg.
Sensible Method Of
Removing Wrinkles
(From Woman' Realm.)
If crow afeet appear prematurely about
th eyes, apply a lotion mad by dissolv
ing an ounce of aaxollte in half pint
of witch hasel. Thla la th best quickest-acting
treatment known, as It tends
to restore normal conditions. It tlehtane
and strengthen th skin, likewise th
underlying tissue, th loosening and
softening of which ar th cause of this
trouble. It also ha a tonic effect
which not only aid in th same direc
tion but by increasing th circulation,
help to bring a healthy color to th
face.
Th son solution, acting a it does,
naturally affects not only every wrinkle
and tine, but hanging or flabby cheek
and chin, a wall. Tail th druggist you
want powdered saxollte. In which form
tt 1 moat affective. When your face
wear a tired expression, bath It with
thla refreshing, reviving liquid. Adv.
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Order s com today.
Brandeis Stores
fa Show More Good Styles
I MEN'S RAINCOATS
Than Any Other Store in Omaha
We have just made a special purclmse of these practical
al-the-year-round coats.
v, Tuesday We Place 800 Raincoats on Special Sale
in Four mg Lots aid storeSecond Floor.
j(K Every coat is a sample. Every btyle is up-to-date. Every
material is waterproofed.
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when you have
Your House Piped with Gas
A well-lighted house is better to live in than a gloomy one. You get more satisfaction
out of it if you live jn it, and more income from it if you rent it. '
If you live in it you will save money and add to your comfort if you light, cook and heat
water with Gas. .if you rent it you will get more rent for it if your tenant can do theso '
things.
All new houses are Piped for 'Gas
All old houses can be and should be.
Here are the liberal terms we make to enable real estate owners to have their prop-
erties piped and thoroughly equipped for Gas.
5- roomhousa. . . $17.50
6- room house . . . $20.75
7- room house .... $24.75
8- room house . . ... $27.00
This affords the greatest increase in value for the least investment.
Our representative will gladly call upon request and explain our proposition.
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