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FAST ONE. NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TOTOUETEE3. i. H Omaha THE WEATHER Generally Fair VOL. XIJI-NO. if OMAHA, SUNDAY MOBNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1912-SIX SECTIONS-FIFTY-SIX PAGES. single copy lilVB Cents. 1,, SaVS STANDARD OIL COMPANY VIOLATES DISSOLUTION DECREE Charges Are Filed with Department of Justice by Attorney for the Waters-Pierce Company. , BASED ON SWORN TESTIMONY Subsidiary Companies Still Domi nated by Owners of Combine. NO 'CHANGE MADE IN METHODS -: i , . . ... ' Sew Jersey Company Still Owns a - Number of Corporations. MYSTERIOUS LOAN ACCOUNTS Archbold and Folder, President ef Allegfeel Rival Companies, Are ' Heavy Borrower (rota Standard of New York. y .NEW,. YORK. Sept 21 -Charges that both tha spirit and letter of the decree dissolving the Standard On company of New Jersey are being violated, were sent to the Department of Justice at Washing ton today by S. W. Fordyce, Jr.. counsel tor tho Waters-Pierce Oil company. The charges are contained Id a memor andum submitted by Mr. Fordyce and are based on the testimony adduced at hear ings in New York and elsewhere in the litigation Involving-the right of the Stand ard Oil to same officers and directors of the Waters-pierce Oil company, v "So far as we have proceeded with our ' testimony," declares Mr. Fordyce, "we have Shown that every subsidiary com pany Is absolutely dominated and con trolled by ' the majority owners of - tho Stock. ,c the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, and that the same men who were put In these : subsidiary companies at the time of dissolution by .the leading men in the New Jersey company were all re-elected at the subsequent annual meet ing by the proxies held by the principal stockholders of the Standard Oil com pany of New Jersey. We have also shown that there has been" no real or substantial difference in the method of doing busi ness 'of any of these companies since the llssolutloa." 8M11 a. Holding. Company. Mr. Fordyc further asserts that the tes timony has proven that the Standard Oil company of New Jersey Is still a holding company and owns - and controls many oil companies engaged In . Interstate and foreign commerce, and 'that it , has used at ' least , two companies the ., American Petroleum and Deutsche-Amerlkanlshe Petroleum Gesseilschaf tto, f. assist ... int. .. maintaining the control of tho' Texas re fineries, against, which the, TJnte4 t$tf obtained a decree. . : '"- v' ' Th'Tewu.y0'Mrl.JMr. Fordyce sets forth, were consolidated liaflef the ftsme bf tho'HagnoUA Pelrbleum company. In which, according, to .testimony, Jo,fc4 D. Archbold and H. T. Folger, Jn, areifarge stockholders, and whose ponded Indebted ness was until .recently held; by the Standard Oil company of New York. . ''It is significant,", says MrV Fordyce, "that the New York company continued to hold the bonds of the Magnolia com pany until April, 1912, when the Investi gation of the Department of Justice had . thready commenced.'' ". V ; Juggled aocounts" are mentioned by " tha attorney In connection with loan transactions involving Messrs Archbold and Folger ltt ownership of the Magnolia mpany,,-;: p " ' , " "The action of tho New York , oom nanv." Mr. Fordyc? TOntlnues, 'In lend ing money to Mr Archbold, president of vth New Jersey company, ana we raci that Messrs. Archbold and Folger, the presidents of the two most Important and most potentially competitive companies are borrowing money from the New York company on Joint account, Indicates a de . elded degree of harmony In the manage nient of these companies. . - Same Dl virion of Territory. ' "It has been proven." Mr. Fordyce fur ther charges, "thatthe marketing com panies that were formerly subsidiary to the New Jersey company, and , the New Jersey company Itself, maintain with ut most strictness the territorial division that they had before the dissolution. It has been proved that they supply their marketing stations from the refineries most advantageously located to such sta tions, regardless of the ownership of these refineries. We have also shown that the pipe lines are. managed for the common; use of all -the subsidiary com panies and no others, and. that the Union Tank line has practically Identical con tracts with all the supposedly independent companies, all executed on or about the . tamo date."" ' Other actions, which, while taken prior to the date of the supreme court's decis ion, "were intended to and did limit and to a 'certain extent nullify the effect of the decree," Is cited la the memorandum. Men Who Lent Names, to Mining Swindle May Be Prosecuted MANY READY T SIGN TAFT PETITION When We Are Under the King 2 CLEVELAND. Sent. 28. ThrA rC men said to have beentim-iV gi tfianging Sentiment results .owtttou of : j; f-HiJ, 4 Rapid Ellin of Blanks Sent officials wii i ,4S.r. a -tftSt Over Nebraska. selling SLMMpt iJaStitag stock in Cleveland and Northern Ohio, may be arrested. Several 'Clevelanders who , are alleged to have exchanged their names and Influence for stock In the McNicholas in ventures also are likely, to be asked to explain their connection with the " pro moters. This was tho statement here today of George t: Biggs of Elyria, O., the man Whose private investigations in behalf of himself and a number of the McNich olas brothers' clients,: have furnished the basis for a great deal of the government's case. Biggs claims to have sunk $20,000 In . mining stock he bought from the brothers. He declares he will, prosecute everyone connected with the case. Biggs said today that the McNicholas brothers sold stock in St Louis and Chi cago as well as in Ohio towns and even extended their operations to Germany. According to statements James McNich olas even exchanged mine Stock for apartment houses and a Shoe store and at one time Included In his activities a brick making business and a boarding house. He ' names, among other Investors, Theodore F. Myers of St. Louis, operator of a string of drug stores, and C. F. Mather-Smith of Chicago, who, lis says, took over stock valued at several hun dred thousand dollars. CIRCULATORS SEND GOOD NEWS Electors of State Declari' for Coon tinuation of Prosperity. NO UPHEAVAL DESIRED BY THEM The Weather For Nebraska-Generally fair. For low-Falr, continued cool.. A enpenitare J , SW"P at Omaha Hours. Yesterday. Deg. 12 ,. 42 ,. 42 .. 42 ,. 42 43 .. 43 ,. 44 ,. 45; , . 46 j .47 .. 47 4 Comparative Local Record. , , ; 1912. Mil. 191ft 1909". Highest yesterday....... '47 74 S5 Lowest yesterday.. SI ; H . 11- 6 Mean temperature...... 44 7S B2 8 Precipitation .J.......... .14 ,.1 , .00 Temperature and precipitation depar tures from tne normal:' - -Kermal " temperature. ...-.-.,,..'.. .. Deficiency for the. day... ..... fotal deficiency since March 1... a. m a. m.. 7 a. m.... ...... 8 a, m. ......... 9 a. m.... ... 10 a. m 11 a. m. ........ 12 m... 1 p. m 2 p. m i P. m. ......... 4 p. m.......... 6 p. m ? p. m ,..., i 7 p. nx... Judgment Against Priests and Sisters Who Detained Girl TACOMA, Wash.,1 Sept, 2S.-A suit agalntst prominent churchmen and sis ters of the Academy of the Visitation, in which Mrs. Lizzie Magnusson asked 140,000 damages for the alleged kidnaping and alienation of the affections of her daughter, Marjorie Rlemart, was brought to a close late last night when the Jury awarded Mrs. Magnusson damages in the sum of 325,000, 'The charges were against Bishop &V J. CDea of the Ms qually diocese, Father Goetham, Mother Camlllus and Sister Aloysus of the Acad emy of the Visitation and Louis I.' Le f ebre, an attorney. Marjorie Rieman, aged 17, disappeared In, February, 1911, .following her removal from tho academy by her mother, who Intended to take' her to Alaska. Evidence was produced to show the girl, had gone to the home of ."Father Goetham and tljat he had ionceiled her.1 . Father Goethani testified 1 he .had kept her whereabouts' secret because she told him her mother wtould place her In Improper environment U'-AlMki-nt-4v?-. "' ' .' Counsel for the defense said an appeal would b tajten, a ths Verdict placed a Stigma on- persons devoting' themselves to lioly work thaV must" be removed. Prefer tQ Let Good Enough Alone for Next Four Years. WHAT THE REPUBLICANS THINK James II. Woolley of Grand Island Tells of Movement Toward Taft In West and Middle West '. ' States. Says Alfalfa Eoots ;- Are; asr;Vamable;; f as Greek Eoots CHICAGO, Sept. 28.-Edward J. Tobln, county superintendent of. schools, In an address before the National Vocational Art ' and Industrial congress, today de clared there is as much culture In dis covering the ways of an alfalfa root as there Is In a Greek root 1 Mr, Tobln was explaining farm phil osophy with a purpose of driving home his argument for the development of agricultural Interests when hs made this agrarian epigram. , . , , He argued that agriculture should be taught in all schools, that nothing digni fies a subject like giving it a place In the school course. , , . ' Bride : Arrested in I Chicago Sent Home CHICAGO. - Sept 28. Love of finery caused 19-year-old Alice Murphy, a bride of a few months, to leave her home at Steger, 111., and come to .Chicago, : and terminated" in . an 'unusual ., scene , In Municipal Judge ., Wells' court , today. Bailiffs and detectives contributed money to send Mrs. Murphy to her home after she had been' arraigned on a charge of disorderly conduct Judge Wells then or dered the, girl discharged from custody, s "I . have always been poor," testified the young woman. '1 week ago I wanted a feather for my hat and my husband told tne I couldn't get It We quarrelled and I ran away from home. , "I tried to find work here, but could not , Then I met a girl on the street I told me I couldnft get It We quarreled could make money easy. We went out together yesterday and then we were arrested. - . ;-: ' . ' '" : "If only I could-get back -to my-nice little home at Steger, I would be the-happiest girl in the state." . T Auto Enns Off Bridge, - Woman Meets Death SALINA, Kan.. Sept 2S,-Mrs. W. M Pierce was killed, her husband., pastor ot a Methodist church at Ada, Kan., prob--r.bly . fatally , Injured ' and their three children, seriously- hurt, when an auto mobile, with the. Rev. Mr. Pierce at the wheel, ran off a bridge on a country road near here today. ; Petitions for Taft electors now being circulated in Nebraska are taking well and are getting many signers in all parts ot the state. Already many of the sheets, filled with names, are being returned to republican state headquarters at the Paxton hotel. Secretary Amos Thomas Is urging all who are circulating peti tions, to send them In before October 2, as, according to UAj law, the petition must be in the hands of the secretary of state by October S. James H. Woolley, an attorney of Grand Island, who Is circulating one of the petitions, writes to headquarters in part as follows. "Yes, you can depend on it, I am for Taft. I believe he is the greatest presi dent since Iincoli;: In my opinion there is less excuse for changing administra tions than there has ver been. I was recently In Wyoming, Montana, Utah and South Dakota, and also In Illinois and Iowa. I was surprised to find the lack of Roosevelt supporters in Montana and throughout the west And there are throughout the west at least two big industries tliat are strongly opposed to Wilson, the sheep Industry and , the sugar Industry. Johnson's Talking Futile. "I heard Governor Johnson at a rail way station In Iowa and. from remarks In the audience I was convinced that two-thirds of the auditors were either for Taft or Wilson and the majority in my Judgment were for Taft. You can rest assured that in spite of any boasts made by Rosevelt supporters Taft Is gaining every day, Immensely both In : Illinois and Iowa, and I feel perfectly satisfied such . is the -case in - all the western states." ' , --d, - . " ' Charles W. Meeker, an attorney of Im perial, Neb., who circulated a petition, sent it In yesterday accompanied by letter in part as follows! t . ,! ? ' , ; "I Could have secured several times ai many signatures to- this petition if I had had time to get out with it -The condi tion' in this locality is daily getting better for the republican ticket Quite a number of the signers I have on this petition were strongly for Roosevelt a month ago, but now are solid for Taft, and every day more are coming back to hlra. , SwlnalnK Buck to Taft. v;"J find that there are a 'few definite points on wnich the Taft opposition rests. First those oppoued around here charge he was not properly nominated. When we show these" people" that Taft was hon orably nominated at the Chicago conven tion, that the delegations that were re fused seats in the convention were those that Roosevelt agents went south to trump up alter the regular state conven tions had been held, and when we shov them that after all it is only, one HAn, Roosevelt, and he neither, a member ot the credentials committee nor in the con vention, who Is crying ' 'fraud .thief and 'robber,' while a few are echoing him, It causes all opposed . to Taft . to Mop and think. ' . v " ; "Another charge is that Taft Jtas done nothing. When we once sho his record and bring his achievements property be fore the people a wonderful change will be brought about before the flection In November." L. D. Richards sends his petition from Fremont saying that several others vera circulated about the town before he re ceived his, so he had already .signed cna before ba recelvd his. . - ' )"I think they got them all filled," he Writes. "It was agreeable to near tne boys with the petitions say they met w:th very few refusals." : Charles McGrew of the Live Stock Na tional bank of South Omaha, acting treay' urer of the regular, republican state cen tral committee', 1 the man who Is re- j celvlng the campaign contribution! which are Intended to further the candidacy of Taft In this state. Mr. McGrew will have charge of this work and will ' receipt all contributions. ' "' ; '; ' - ' . Ulllll'riirairai'gW ran ir. . A il HHrT Was ajfeew Old Kink I1 ': EBBS mf "C a Menar - Oil Ktak ms He 1 ffl$fflm He Called for His Floats POISON NEWWEAPQN OF MEXICAN REBELS 1" .1. . ... 1 Cyanide Said to Have Been Placed in the Water Supply of the City. STATUS OF THE REBELLION : f ' " Witnesses Tell United States SeaiU tors Orosco Would Have Won Ha Nof tlie Supply oj ? Arms Been Cat Off. Korean Conspirators ; Given Long Terms SEOUL. Korea. Sept 28.-Heavy sen tences were Imposed today. on. many 0 'made In congress. Representaatlvea here MEXICO CITY. . Sept 28,-Death, by poison is a new menace added by rebel lious Indians operating about the city f Oazaca, whose refdentsi ar to -take a"" drink of water. Chemists are. making tests for traces of cyanide of potassium In tha city's water supply. A group of rebels are declared to-have entered ' the Natlvldad mining camp In the Iitlan' district, and demanded strych nine, declaring their Intention of poison ing the drinking Water In the regions which are not under their control. They were' unable to secure strychnine, but a man who had worked In tho reduction plants of mines suggested "that cyanide was much better for their purpose. 'De lighted at the discovery the . band rode away, carrying 200 pounds of that poison. : Work of Senate Sabeommlttee. LOS ANGELES, Cal.j Sept &. Tha United States seif Ii subcommittee ap pointed to lnvest?Jrata.i relations wit Mexico completed Its work In this d yesterday, and while Its members are noncommittal it la said the report which the committee wilt submit to tha senate committee on foreign relations will hold that tha evidence adduced points to tha necessity for tha United States to inter- vena In Mexico In order that Americans and American Interests may receive proper protection. " '-, .' Speaking of the testimony Senator Wil liam Alden Smith, chairman ot tha sub committee, said: , v . , The testimony of ovary Mexican whom we Interrogated agreed upon this one point: . "That If arms,, ammunition and sup plies needed in warfare were permitted to enter the country "during the Orozoo rebellion the same as they were during the Madero revolution Orosco would have been in Mexico City lor g ago. The rigid enforcement of the law against the ad mission into Mexico of fire arms and ammunition has been Orosco'a greatest handicap." It Is said the evidence proves that no American money was used In financing the Orozcq rebellion, but tends to estab lish the claim that American funds ware used to finance the Madero-reveolatton. dtara-ea sai Connter-Chara-ea. WASHINGTON. Sept " 21 Various charges of American financial' ' aid - to both Mexican! revolutionists r have- been GEN. WOOD MS BUSY DAY Inspects Forts and Takes Luncheon at the Commercial Club. HIS ITINERARY , IS, , CHANGED From Hera Chief of Staff Goes to St. ! Pnal aad Will Then Go West ! v ta 1 Inspect' Forte Robin. i son and McKfTosle : Major General Leonard M. Wood, chief of staff of the United States army, spent the forenoon Inspecting Fort Capok nd the gartisoo thers. : Opn,faV fr'erlcW A. Smith of the Department of Missouri ac companied him., to the post At-JMon he took luncheon at the .Comwereiai club. During tlx afternoon he inspected t'ort Omaha, and made a visit to the United States army building jn Omaha. ; ; General Wood received a dispatch from headquarters at Washington ordering him to change his' Itinerary from 4ier. . He left last '.evening -ifor St vPaul ' and from there ,1s to go. to Forts Robinson and McXensie. W hen he arrived here he-expected to go from here dlrectlr to Fort Robinson and Fort McKentle. ; . ' ,vPrarednesa for War, ' "We can never arbitrate 'the Monro dootrine nor the question of As'atio Im migration. We some day must fight to de fend our stand in regard to these quest Uons." .."'; : . I These ptatements were made before the publlo affairs committee of the Commer cial club by the general In a speech which neared the aspect of a sermon .on 'Treparednesa for War.'. - "We cannot depend upon our undevel- $fd-a resources in time of war any more than we could depend upon an undevel oped gold mine In time of a money panic When we must go to war it must be on the inrtapt and there la no time for preparation." ' ' 'We are In a different position now," said be, "than before the Spanish-Ameri can war. We are not prepared to fight while there Is staring at us increased dif ficulties to the south. We will never give up the Monroe doctrine until somebody makes us and when they try, even should we win. It will cost us far mora' than If we were .prepared for battle. 1 We must have the Sandwich Island to hold our trade In the Pacific. Change Military System.' "What we need Is a change in our military, system. Instead of holding a man In tha service of the, army until he grows too old and has to ba retired we should have every .boy of a. certain age DEMOCRATIC MIX GROWS ME EE Dahlmanites Name, New Reception I Committee to Meet Wood 7 ' row Wilson. ; ' OBJECT TO THE WILSON LEAGUE Say that the Silk Stocking; Element of ,' Democracy Y Cannot " Have Everything Its Own Way .Any .Mora, n A t Now comes the anti-Wilson league democrats with a plan p their own to receive Governor Wilson when he cOnit's to Omaha, At a meeting of the executive committee of the county central commit tee and members of the state central committee Friday night a new reception commttjee was named, beginning , with Msyor Dahlmari as chairman. , This eommtttee ' will assemble at the city, hall and receive the. governor With a big open air demonstration. Later they will follow to the place of speech- making and . sit' on' the platform, coldly uncon- seclqus of the presence of any members of "the "silk stockings Wilson leaguers." J. W. Woodrough, chief guide of the Wilson league, has apologized and ex plained, but his riled brethren Of the faith have refused to be consoled. They are abiding their time to land on his league and after walking all over it proclaim as a truth ! that tha only Slmon-purt democrats are those that do not belong to the Wood row Wilson league. , " ,, , ; , Name New Committee." Following Is the committee named Friday night to receive the governor when he arrives. The 'date of tha reception (Continued on Second Page.) Peacemaker Gets - 7 Bullet in His Head .. 63 .i K ..138 Normal precipitation .11 inch . txoees for the day .03 inch total rainfall since March 1....21.M lnohe? Deficiency sinch March 1 2.84 Inches deficiency for cor. period, 1911.K.0 inchet fteflciency for cor. period, 1910.11.71 inches ACTIVE DAY IN OMAHA ; ; LAID OUT FOR PINCHOT Glfford Plnchot who will arrive in Omaha tomorrow morning for a' day of speaking, will proceed immediately to South Omaha, where he will deliver an address between -11 and 12. At noon he" will take luncheon at the University club and make a short talk and at 2:80 he will ''peak at Brownell hall. From S to t he will be the guest of honor at a 'banquet at the Omaha club. , He -will conclude ls visit with, a lecture at the Lyric the ater at S;45 In the evening. - thA , m ' Korean . prisoner charged wiuv 'conspiring against the : life of Governor General Count Terauchi. . , Baron Yuan Chi Ho, formerly a cabi net minister, and several , others of ihe more prominent among the accused were sent to prison for ten years, while vari ous terms of punishment were inflicted on all the other, prisoners except nine, who were released. The Introduction mto the Korean con spiracy trial of the names of several American missionaries, prominent among them Bishop Merrlman C. Harris of the Methodist Episcopal church, attracted world-Wide attention to the case. The trial began on June 28 and some of the prisoners, nearly all of whom were Christian converts, made confessions Im plicating the missionaries, which . they afterward ' withdrew, as - they declared they had made them under torture. The' Japanese government and the Korean officials disavowed at all times suspicion of any complicity' on the part of the missionaries in the plot They slso declared they had viewed the mis sionaries' labors In Korea -wita favor, ' of -the Orosconlsts have-been alleging tbe Madero government overthrow over threw Diaz with-American - aid -and that Madero representatives here have charged the present revolution has, beeq f lnancd by Americans who have , large interests In Sonora and Chihuahua, Names of promi nent men have been mentioned. : ' The Madero government's latest action, twice sending . troops through United States territory to operate against the rebels in Mexico and protect American Interests : in tbe northern states, Is be helieved to be satisfactory to this gov ernment and it Is generally thought here among business menthat intervention will be a step ot last resort ','' ABERDEEN, S. D., Sept 28.-(8peclal Telegram.-Charles Gorton, " a thresher, Whose home is at Custer, ,8. D., was shot and Instantly, killed at Britton by Ole i Knutson of Langford. Knutson and an other man were fighting and Gorton at-x tempted to separate them. Just then Knutson pulled a revolver and fired at the man with whom he was fighting. The bullet struck Gorton and he dropped dead. Knutson was arrested and will be held on a charge of murder In the first degree. Sneed is Locked ; Up to Await Trial AMARILLO, Tex., Sept , 2S.-Judge J.' K. Brown today denied the habeas cor pus petition of J.. Beal Sneed, charged with' killing Al O. Boyce, Jr., in this city September 14 and Sneed was remanded to Jail to await trial BABY ACCIDENTALLY HANGS ITSELF-IN SWING JEFFERSON, la.. Sept 27.-SDeclal.) A very peculiar death has Just occurred here. , In. the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Ptaschek was a little. girl 20 months old. They had another child who , was sick and Mrs. Ptascek was attending this one while the baby, was playing about Finally the little one wandered out of the house and into the jnrd and was play ing about the swing. No one knows how It occurred but, possibly, fifteen minutes after the child had. left the house the mother went out to find that the little one had hung herself. The rope was wound around her neck, and while there was signs of life When first, found before a doctor could arrive she was deeA, (Continued on Second Page.) Alleged Bank Bandit : Has Large Fund on : I" Way for His Defense ST. LOUIS, Sept. 28.-,rank West, the alleged bank robber with two aliases, who Is being held here In connection with the Canadian bank robbery, will have a fund of $10,000 here within the next two days, according to his attorney, who was employed today. The attorney said he had ibeeu Instructed .to. employ every legal recourse to prevent any Injustice being done.. iWest Is being held on a charge of at tempted murder, but If tie makes an at tempt to obtain freedom by legal proce dure, a warrant charging the alleged rob ber with being' a 1 fugitive 'from Justice will be asked. : The St Louis police are eager to send the prisoner direct to Canada and If the prisoner Is identified positively as one of tha Canadian bank robberr he will ba sent direct to Canada, regardless of the demands of 'the Chicago: police. , who have had; warrants Issued against the man... . ;; . . CHICAGO,. Sept 2S.-The local police were .informed that Lulu Wilson, a Chi cago woman, had Identified "Stacey" or "Adams" as "Doc Danxell." ;"Tott are the man who struck Lieuten ant Burns with a piano stool," she Is re ported to have said. . "I attach a lot of Importance to the Identification of Stacey by the Wilson woman at St Louis." said Assistant Chief of Police Schuetler, when he was informed ojt the matter. - ; This will enable us; to .bring him. to Chicago, and when he gets here J believe I wftf be- able, to connect him with the robbery of the New Westminster bank." AMABASSADOR BRYAN 7 . ;- - COMING HOME ON LEAVE jTOKIO, Sept 28.-Charlea Page Bryan, United States ambassador, left for Amer ica today on three months' leave of ab sence. He will travel via Cofea, Peking and-Siberia,-'.'vt ' ,, 1 SAMSON ALL READY FOR FINAL WEEK OF BIG FALL FESTIVAL Carnival it to Take on New Life with the Opening: of the Coming ' Week. FRONTIER DAY SHOW TODAY Initial Performance is Postponed Until This Afternoon. POULTRY SHOW STARTS MONDAY Auditorium is Filled with All Kinds of Feathered Fowl HIGHWAY SHOWS ALL READY Rain of the Last Week Falls to) ' - Dampen Ardor of the Showmen Who Await the Coming eg Big- Throna-s. Children had their day on the King's ' Highway yesterday afternoon and It was really the first day ot the carnival week when the sport was not marred by rain. ' Showmen had begun to be discouraged by the continued downpour, but the sight of the 'merry children cheered them up and when the thousands ot grownups fol lowed in the evening they foresaw the" better days which' are In store for tha coming week. ';:-. ""','.'." ' Everything is now In readiness for tho big week's festivities and from tomorrow morning until Saturday , night the city will teem w'th thousands of visitors, all bent on making merry, and having a good tim in Cibola, the principal .city fa Usa , kingdom of Qulvera. " Omaha has many side features to at tract thousands this year and every In- dlcatlon Is that the thousands will come, The Pioneer Day Wild West show at Vin ton park, depicting the daya when Indians . and buffalo roamed tha plains. Is a gigantic feature In Itself. ' Those who hava ' seen this show at Cheyenne are always unstinted In their praise of the wonder ful exhibition which Irwin Bros., have gathered together. Chickens at Andltoriam. The chicken show at the Auditorium , will also prove. a big drawing card to thousands as the big building will ba filled with some of the finest birds in , the entire western country. In con nection with the show 'Game Warden Miller will place on exhibition the entire collection of live wild game birds which t Is owned by the state and which Is kept' at Lincoln. The collection Includes soma of. the finest specimens of - pheasants, prairie chicken, grouse, sage hens, wild ducks, quail and also many othef beautl. ful birds. v, The parade will be much mora gorgeous this year than ever before and with tha addad attractions of the wild west show ' and the poultry snow visitors will ar range to remain in Omaha a longer length of time than on previous years. . Wool y Westerners Parade. Thirty Indians on typical Indian ponies, about i the same number of sun-tanned cowboys In full dress of goatskin chaps, , spurs, red shirts and equipped with lariat , ropes, together' with ox and buffalo , teams, prairie schooners and the whole , that goes to make up the atmosphere of the old days of the plains were 'seen on . the streets of Omaha yesterday morn- , lng when Irwin Bros." wild west show. the Frontier day crew ot Cheyenne trans ported bodily to, Omaha, paraded the . streets. Mayor Jim Dahlman, erstwhile co. Wboy In Texas, Wyoming and western . Ne- j braska, rode In tha parade. First came four mounted police. These were fol lowed by the riders three abreast, t Mayor Dahlman, Chief ot Police Dunn . and Everett Buckingham. Mayor Dahl- i mon wore black leggings, spurs and a broad brimmed white hat, as well as a, slicker to keep off tbe rain. Cowboys and Cowgirls. V Following these riders came the train of cowboys and cowgirls mounted on tha . toughest of Wyoming bronChoes. All the . men show the effects, of a. Ufa on tho plains by the fine mahogany of their , face. And they ride as though they couldn't help It Then came the double yoke of oxen drawing a prairie schooner, followed closely by the ever-present scout ' on horseback. A buffalo team drawing a , heavy cart was a feature somewhat new -to wild west parades in this section, Cos- sacks, the Russian plainsmen who are noted as the most reckless riders la tha ' world, are also among the aggregation. rmrty inaians naing in inir cnarac- teristlo single file followed, In full war paint and war bonnets. Several wagon loads of squaws and pappooses were also in evidence. ' I' .t v- - you have aT "house for rent. ' P p,.'-P--- r-you have a lot for sale. you have chickens lor eggs for sale. X;Y' - .or any ones of afthou- sana oiner inings. , ; ' Are you content to stick k- sign on the f ront gate and wait: for buyers to come to yout If you are a 'liv one" you are not. : Go to the buyers - Put a Want Ad hy The Bee, which goes into thousands of homes twice a day.