1EE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 16, 1918.
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OMAHA LIVE STOCK
Cattle Prices Are Nominally
Steady; Hogs Strong to 5
Conts Higher; Sheep Role
' Lower for Week.
Omaha, June 15, lilt.
Cattle. Hon Sheep.
Recalnta were:
Official Monday . .
Official Tuesday . .
Official Wednesday
Official Thursday .
Offlolal Friday ...
Estimate Saturday
, T.T4I t.191 4.147
, 8.611 11. 4S5 1.814
1.950 1J.S79 2.76S
6.184 11.889 1.646
1,16 7.060 4.170
656 4.700
Six days thla week 11.174 61,008 17.710
Sam dayi laat week.. 11,882 67,134 21.741
Sam days 1 wks. ago.18,234 41,104 SO, TOO
lame days S wki. ago 83.661 71.847 28.603
Sam daya year ago.. 16, 613 44.515 16.116
Receipts and disposition of live stock at
the Union stockyards, Omaha, Neb., for 24
hours ending at 1 p. m. yesterday:
I RECEIPTS CARLOADS.
Caftle. Hogs.
Wabash
Missouri Pacific
I'nlon Pacific
C. A N. W.. east
C. A N. W.. west...
C, St. P., M. & O...
C, B. A Q., east
C, B. & Q., west
C. R. I. A P., eaat...
C. R. I. A P.. west...
Illinois Central
Chicago Ot. West
Total receipts 25
DISPOSITION HEAD.
Hogs.
.... 652
....1,167
....1,743
....1,114
.... 742
Morris A Co
Swift A Co
Cudahy Packing
Co.
Armour Co
T, W. Murphy
Totals
.5,428
Cattle Receipts for the day were 556
head, or 16 cars. Including 10 cars billed
direct to packers, and with hardly enough
on sale to test the market, prices were
nominally steady with yesterday. For the
week trade Is fully 25c higher on the beat
beef, quotable from $17.15 to $18.00, the lat
ter price being paid on Thursday for prime
load ot pulp-fed steers. The outlet l.as
been very broad for anything In good flesh,
but the medium grades are In about the
same notches as a week ago and 1,000 to
l,100-Tound steers are quotable largely
from $16:00 to $17.00, and on down for he
common Inferior grades. Best yearlings
are steady with last week from $16.60 to
I $16.50, but the general run of fair to good
yearlings are 5075c lower, running from
' $11.50 - to $15.61. Butcher stock for the
week Is strong for anything carrying good
flesh and lower on the grass cows. Feed
ers are 60e $1.00 lower than a week ago,
with a very weak undertone to the trade,
due to the arrival of plentiful supplies on
the southern market.
Quotations on cattle: Good to choice
beeves. 817.2518.00; fair to good beevea.
$16.00017.00: common to fair beeves, $12 50
16.76; good to choice yearlings, 816 60
16.50; fair to good yearlings, $18.2515 00;
common to fair yearlings, 89.6013.00;
good to choice heifers, $12.00 15.00; good
to choice cows, S12. 00014.00; fair to good
cows, $J.7611.76; common to fair cows.
$7.7605 50; prime feeders, $12.00(3111.00;
good to' cholra- feeders, $9 60011.00; fair
- to good feeders, $8.0099.25; common to fair
feeders, $7.608 60: good to choice stock
ers, $10.0012.0(l; stock heifers. $8.00
10.23; stock cows, $7.769.25; stock calves,
$8.00910.50; veal calves, $8.60(913.75; bulls,
stags, etc., $10.00 13 00.
Representative sales:
Hogs There were 6$ loads of hogs here
today, estimated at 4,700 head, making the
run for the week 69.008. With a light sup
ply on hand there was a much better feeling
- on the market this morning and a clearance
being made In fairly good seaaon at strong
to io higher prices, with the emphasis on
the (o higher. The bulk of the sales ranged
from $16.40 to $16.45, with top $16.55. The
market opened the wk a trifle lower, but
showed a little strength about the middle of
the week, and has worked steadily higher,
closing around 30 Q 3 So lower than the mer
kst s week ago.
Sheep There were no sheep received here
today, the run for the week bing 17,780
had. This is a trifle less than last week,
and about the same as a year ago. The
market opened the week with a 15o advance,
but this was lost on Tuesday, but thereafter
the market has continued at about steady
prices, closing the week a little If any lower
on Iambs. A string of Idsho lambs of very
Onoxce' -quaiiry soia nere naay i vtv.jv.
equaling the top on spring lambs. On aged
tuff, the market shows a loss of possibly
15c, with, a weak undertone.
Quotations on sheep: Shorn umbe, choice
light, $16.76017.35; shorn lambs, fair light,
$16.25916.50; fair to choice wethers, $11.60
14.60; 'fair to choice ewes, $12.60911.60;
sprint lambs, $16.00920.26.
Kansas City Live Stock.
Kansas . City, June 15. Cattle Receipts,
$00 head; market steady; prim fed steers,
$17.25911-00; dressed beef steers, $13.50
17.00: western steers, $14.0017.80; cows.
$6.76914.60; heifers, $9.00916.26; stockers
.and feeders, $8.00916.50; bulls, $8,009
11.00; calves, $8.25914 00.
' Hogs Receipts. 1,00 0 head; market
steady: bulk of sales, $81.$0916.50; heavy,
$16.40 9 16.65; packers and butchers, $16.30
16.66; light, 116.25916.46; pigs, $16.25
16.76.
Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 2,506 bead;
market steady; lambs, $16.00920.00; year
lings, $14.08017.80; wethers, $12.0016.00;
ewes, $11.00914.00.
Chicago live Stock.
Chicago, June 15. Cattle Receipts, 1,000
head; half direct, prices unchanged from
yesterday.
Hogs Receipts, 7,000; 10 to 16c above
yesterday's average; bulk, $16.40916.70;
butchers, $16.45916.75; packing, $16.00
16.40; light, $16.66916 80; rought. $16.60
16.65; pigs, $16,16916.76.
Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 7,000 head;
market practically all direct; quotations un
changed; week closing with very bearish
feeling, especially on heavy sheep; several
shipments of western range stock In sight
for next week's market and freer movement
of Tennessee and Kentucky lamb Indicated.
St. Louis live Stock.
St Louis, Jon 16. Cattle Receipts, 600
head; market steady; natlv beet steers,
$11.50917.60; yearling steers and heifers,
$1.60 9 15.60; cows, $7.60(911.75; stockers and
feeders, $$.50 9 12.00; fair to prims south
ern beef steers, $10.60916.60; beef cows
and heifers, $6.00911.50; natlvs calves, $7.76
14.00.
Hogs Receipts, 1,000, hsad; market
higher; lights, $16.46916 65; pigs. $16,009
16.40; mixed and butchers, $16.25916.60;
good heavy, $16.10916.46; bulk of sales,
$16.159 16.65.
Sheep and Lambs No receipts; market
nominally steady; lambs, $17.002.35;
swes, $12.0014.00; cannera and choppers,
$7.00910.00.
Sioux City live Stock.
Sioux City, June 164 Cattle Receipts 600
head; market steady; beef steers, $11.00
17.00; fat oows and heifers, $6.75914.00;
cannera, $7.6098.60; feedings cows and helf
r. $7.409.00.
Hogs Receipt. 6,000 head: market 10
16o higher; light, $16.60; mixed, $16.50;
heavy, $16.46; bulk of sales, $18.40916.65.
Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 100 head;
market steady.
St. faol live Stock Market,
St Paul, Minn., Jun 16. Cattle Re
ceipts, $00 head; steady: steers. $7.50
17.60; cows and heifer, $$.0014.60; veal
calves, $7.00914.25; stockers and feeders,
$4.60 9 18.60.
Hogs Receipts, $00 head; steady, range,
115 66916.10; bulk. $16.00916.10.
Sheep Receipts. 15 head: steady: lambs,
$10.00918.00; wethers, $7 00914.60; swes,
$5.00914.6.
Comparative Local Record.
191. 1917. 116. 115.
Highest yesterday ..99 77 72 81
Lowest yesterday ..71 46 61 56
Mean temperature ..86 60 66 70
Precipitation 00 .00 T. T.
Temperature and precipitation departure
from the normal:
Normal temperature 72
Excess for the day , 14
Total excess since March 1 613
Normal precipitation '. 16 Inch
Deficiency for the day 16 Inch
Total precipitation since March 1 7.11 inchea
Deficiency since March 1 .'...,..4.25 Inches
Excess for cor. period In 1917. ..2.09 Inches
Deficiency for cot. period, 1916.. 4.60 Inches
St. Joseph Lie Stock.
r,n-rierrlnt. 250 head: market
steady; steers. 512.00017.76: cows and
heifers, $7.00Jl.0O; calve, $7.0014.00.
Hog P.ccelpts, 2,000 head: market high
er: top, $16.60: bulk, I16.35S16.4S.
. Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 200 head;
narket steady; iambs, $15.0020.00; ewc,
t?.0014.000.
Dry floods Market,
. NfW Tork, June 14. Cotton good nd
, yarns todag war nnleter with prices
atAjtrfv - PriittH fcmrrir&n wnnls wr-r--
AuieiU-iu mill. XU silk l.as Xlfimr.
GRAIN AND PRODUCE
Little Interest Displayed in
Cash Corn; Demand Light;
Prices Unchanged to 2
Cents Off.
Omaha, Jons 15. 191$.
Arrivals of grain today totaled 11$ ears
and consisted of 16 cars of wheat, 71 cars
of corn, 26 cars of oats and 6 cars of
barley. No rye was reported la.
Very little Interest was displayed In ths
cash corn market and as a result scarcely
halt of the receipts of this cereal were dis
posed of. The demand was very light with
the spot quoted unchanged to lo lower.
No. 1 white sold at $1.70 and $1.71, No. 1
yellow at $1.56 and $1.5$ and ths No. 1
mixed at $1.60 and $1.52.
Oats were strong, all grades advancing
He. The demand for this article also was
rather limited. Standard oat brought 75 Mo
and the No. $ white, 75c No. 4 white and
sample oats sold at 74o and 72c respectively.
Nominally, rye was firm and. barley about
steady. No ale of either cereal were re
ported. Clearance were, wheat and floor equal
to 67.000 bushel; corn, $4,000 bushels; oat,
none.
Primary wheat receipts were 182,000
bushels, and shipments 41.009 bushels,
sgalnst receipts of 610,000 bushels, and ship
ments of 177,000 bushels last year.
Primary corn receipts were 801,000 bushels,
and- shipments 136,000 bushels, sgalnst re
ceipts of 944,000 bushels, and shipments of
520.000 bushels last year.
Primary oats receipts were 633,000 bushels,
and shipments 173,000 bushels, against re
ceipts of 671,000 bushels, and shipments of
8:6,000 bushels last year.
CARLOT RECEIPTS.
Wheat Corn. Oat.
Chicago 1 161 128
Minneapolis 226
Duluth .... 6
Omaha 16 71 26
Kansas City 4 34 II
St. Loul 4 37 67
Winnipeg 182 ... ...
These sales were reported today:
Corn No. 1 white: 2 cars, 1.76; No. I white:
1 car, $1.72; 1 car, $1.70; No. 4 white: 1 car,
$1.67; No. 5 white: 1 car, $1.60; No. 6 white:
1 car, $1.32; sample white. 3-6 car, 85o; No.
3 yellow: 2 cars, $1.58; 1 car, $1.66; No. 6
yellow: 2 cars, $1.40; No. 6 yellow: 1 ear,
$1.30; No. 1 mixed: 1 car, $1.52; 1 car, $1.60:
No. 4 mixed: 1 car, $1.41; No. 6 mixed. $1.37;
No. 6 mixed: 2 cars, $1.30; sample mixed:
1 car, $1.05. Oat Standard: 2 car. 7514c;
No. 3 white: 1 3-6 cars, 76c; No. 4 white: 3
and cars, 74c; sample white: 1 car, 72c;
oats and barley: 1 3-5 cars, 72e. Wheat
No. 2 hard winter: 2 cars and 1 bulkhead,
$2.12; sample hard winter: 1 car, $1.98;
No. 1 northern aprlng: 1 bulkhead, $3.15;
No. 1 mixed common and red durum: H car.
$2.11; No. 2 mixed common and red durum:
1 car, $2.11; No. 4 hard red winter: 1 car,
$2.06
Omaha Cash Prices Corn: No. 1 white,
$1.76; No. $ white, $1.70 1.72; No. 4 white,
$1.67; No. 5 white, $1.50; No. white, 81 32;
sample white, 85c; No. 8 yellow, $1.66
1.68; No. 6 yellow. $1.40; No. yellow,
$1.30; No. 1 mixed, $1.501.52; No. 4 mixed.
$1.41; No. 6 mixed, $1.37; No. mixed,
$1.80; sample mixed, $1.05. Oats: Standard,
754c; No. 1 white, 75o; No. 4 white, 74c;
sample, 72c.
Chicago closing prices, furnished The Bee
by Logan & Bryan, stock and grain brokers,
316 South Sixteenth street, Omaha:
Artlclej Open High Low I Close Yet
Corn.
July 1 4IVt 1 46H 142 H 1 454 142
Aug. 1 45ft 1 48 144 1 47 144ft
Oats.
July 70ft 72ft 69 70
Aug. 64 66 64 65 64
Pork.
July 41 10 41 90 41 10 41 85 41 26
Sep. 41 75 41 10 41 76 41 1 41 60
Lard.
July 14 15 24 61 24 16 14 61 24 12
Sep. 14 40 24 77 24 40 24 77 24 17
Ribs.
July II 40 11 80 21 40 21 It 23 12
Sep. 22 82 23 25 22 80 22 25 22 75
CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Corn Shoots Upwards ft Hot Winds Re
ports Corns From West) Oats
Strong; Provisions Advance.
Chicago, June 16. Corn ascended rapidly
In value today owing to reports of hot
winds In the west Government sdvlces
said the temperature was considerably
above the normal. Opening prices, which
howed to lo advance with July $1.42
141 and August $1.44 91-46, were
followed by a decided additional upturn.
Oats displayed Independent strength.
Complaints of dryness in Montana and
Canada bad a bullish effect After open
ing 9e higher with July 970c,
the market scored material further gains
Provisions reflected the advance of
cereals. Besides, largs shipments of meats
were reported.
Cash quotation; Corn Nos, 1, 1 and 4
yellow, nominal.
Oats No. t whits, 77978c; standard,
7878c.
Rye No. 1, nominal.
Barley $1.001.35.
Timothy $6.0098.00.
Clover Nominal.
Pork Nominal.
Lard $24.80.
Ribs $22.17923.67.
Omaha Stocks and Bonds.
STOCKS Bid. Asked.
Deere A Co., pref. , 90 92
Commonwealth Mort Co., pfd.. 17 42
Commonwealth Mort. Co., cmn.. 11 12
Harding Cream Co., 7 pet pfd.. 100 102
Douglas Hotel Co., pfd., bonus.. 70 80
Lincoln T. A T., common 97
Nebraska Power Co., 7 pet pfd.. 99 100
Omaha A C. B. St Ry.. pfd.... .. 67
Omaha St Ry at B., pfd 52
Orchard A Wllhelm 7 pet pfd.. 100 101
Union P. L. Co., 7 pet. pfd. ...100 100
Union Stock Tarda Co., Omaha.. 100 101
BONDS
Booth-St Louis C. S. 6s, 1931.. .. 100
Callaway, Neb., 6s, WW, 1925.... 99 100
Columbus.Neb., L..H.&P. 6s,1924. 94 95
Newfoundland 6s, 1926 99 100
Galveston, Tex., 6s. 1926.1947.. 99 100
Hardy Neb., 6a, WW, due 1926.. 99 100
Iowa Portland Cement Co. 6.. .. 100
Lincoln O. at B. light 6. 1941.. 10 81
Mitchell, S. D. 6, Aug. 1, 1928.. 99 100
O. at C. B. St, Ry 6s, 1928.. 64 86
O. A. C. Bldg., 6. 1120-32.... 99 100
Omaha, 4s, pvg, July, 1914.. 97 98
Oakdals, Neb.. , WW, 1923.. 99 100
Manitoba, Can., 6, Feb. 1. 1920. 96 97
Puget Sound T., L. A P. 7s. 1921. 97 98
Seattle, Wash., 4s, June 1981.. 96 97
Omaha Hay Market,
Receipts of prairie hay and alfalfa,
light; demand, fair; market, steady with
prices unchanged; eat and wheat straw
are some higher.
Choice upland prairie hay, $19.00; No.
1 upland prairie hay, $16.00918.00; No.
1 upland prairie hay, $11.00914.00; No. $
upland prairie hay. $6.00 1.00.
No. 1 midland prairie hay, $15.50918.09;
No. 1 midland prairie hay, $10.50914.00;
No. 1 lawland prairie hay, $10.00 12.00;
No. 2 lowland prairie hay, $7.008.PO; No.
S lowland prairie hay, $5.006.00.
. Choice alfalfa, $24.00; No. 1 alfalfa,
$19.60921.50.
Standard alfalfa, $16.00919.00; No. 2 al
falfa, $12.60916.00; No. S alfalfa, $10,600
13.00.
New York Honey.
New Tork, June 15. Mercantile Paper
Four and six months, 6 per cent
Sterling Sixty-day bills. $4.72; com
mercial 60-day bills on banks, $4.72; com
mercial 60-day bills, $4.71; demand,
$4.75; cables, $4.76 7-16.
Francs Demand, $5.71; cablss. $6.70.
Guilders Demand', 61c; cables. 61o.
Lire Demand, $8.96; cables. $8.90.
Rubles Demand, 13c; cables, 14c, nomi
nal. Bar Silver 99c; Mexican dollars, 77c.
Bonds Government, steady; railroad,
steady.
Chicago Produce.
Chicago, Jun 16. Butter Higher;
creamery, 16042c.
Eggs Receipts, 18,492 cases; unchanged.
Potatoes Unsettled; new, receipts. 60
cars; Louisiana and Texas sacked Triumph,
$2.50 2.76; do white, $2.002.36. Old, re
ceipts, 27 car; Wisconsin, Michigan and
Minneapolis bulk, $1.4091.65; do sacks,
$1.6091.60.
Poultry Alive, lower; fowls, 27c.
Former Omaha Hotel
Now Industrial Plant
The Omaha Sanitary Supply com
pany has bought the Savoy hotel for
$125,000 from Charles E. Fanning,
who has owned it for several years as
an investment. The hotel recently was
gutted by a fire, which was kept under
control before it had a :hance to ruin
the walls, which are said to have been
among the most substantially built
in Omaha.
The new owners plan to remodel
the structure and to"Hse the lower floor
for its business and to rent out the
tnpr " 'Drs to small manufacturing
j COIICCIUS.
NEW YORK STOCKS
U. S. Steel Taken in Large Lots
Continues to Advance, Trad
ing: Confined Mainly to
Speculative Issnes.
New Tork, June 16. Speculative stocks
contributed the chief percentage to to
days dull and contracted trading, stasia
equipments, motors and tobacco ever
shadowing the Investment group. United
States Steel was again steadily accumulated
In large individual lots at a net advance of
1 points to 106, Repnbllo Iron gained 1
points and Crucible. Mldval and 81os.
Sheffield steel. Baldwin Locomotive and
New Tork Air Brake rose 1 to 1 points
General Motors forfeited part of Us i
point advance, but other automobile ahares
and their subsidiaries were 1 to 1 points
higher.
Royal Dutch was again the striking fea
ture of the petroleum division, holding
virtually all Its 7 point gain, or a net ad
vance of almost 11 points In twe days.
Ralls and other Investment stocks were
steady to firm, Reading starting with a
demonstration of strength, but yielding
toward the close.
The heavy shifting of loans te meet
Income tax paymenta was reflected In the
bank statement, actual loans expanding by
$10$, 600,000, cash holding of member
bank In the local federal reserve institu
tion Increasing almost $36,000,000 and
excess reserves showing a gain of about
$26,600,000.
The bond market was narrow and feature
less, Liberty Issues absorbing the greater
part of the dealing at nominal recession.
Total sales, par value,' aggregated $1,176,000
United States bonds (old Issue) were un
changed on call during the week.
The following quotation, which ar up te
1:30 p. m., eastern time, are furnished by
Logan A Bryan, members New Tork Stock
exchange, 115 South Sixteenth street:
Opening 1 :10
Prices. P. IS.
1st Liberty bonds 99.61 ....
2nd Liberty bonds 94.66 ....
3rd Liberty bond 97.44 ....
Union Pacific R. R 122 122
Southern Pactflo R. R. ... 94 84
Missouri Pacific Ry 28 13
C, M. A St. P. Ry. , 48 4
C, R. I. Pao. Ry 2$ 21
Illinois Central Ry 16 96
Wabash Ry 41 41
N. Y., N. H. A H. R. R. R.. 41 41
N. T. Centual R. R. 72 71
Pennsylvania R. R. Co.... 41 44
Baltimore A Ohio R. R. . .. 66 66
Reading Co 90 91
Lehigh Valley R. R. Co.... 16 15
Cheaspeake Ohio R. R.. 67 67
Southern Ry 24 14
Missouri, Kansas A Texas.. 61 61
U. 8. Steel Corporation, com.103 105
Republic Iron 4 Steel .... 88 90
Colorado Fuel A Iron .... 48 49
American Locomotive .... 64 65
Baldwin Locomotive Works. 89 89
Anaconda Copper Mining.. 66 66
Chino Copper 17 18
Nev. Con. Copper 11 23
Utah Copper 80 80
Butte A Superior 15 25
Amer. Smltg. A Rfng 77 77
National Lead 68 68
Mexican Petroleum, Ltd.... 95 95
Westlnghouse Electrio .... 44 44
Amer. Telephone Teleg'h. 97 98
Brooklyn Rapid Transit... 43 43
Central Leather Co 67 67
American Can 46 46
Goodrich (B. F.) Co 44 44
General Motor Co '.183 135
Willys-Overland 20 20
Studebaker Corporation ... 45 46
Amor. Beet Sugar Co 112 112
Kenencott Copper 66 66
Allls-Chalmer pfd 84
Maxwell Motor Car 28 28
Sinclair Oil 28 18
Supulpa Oil 8 9
Wright-Martin 10 10
Angry Mother Shakes Fist
In Face of Juvenile Judge
"It's a frame up to take my daugh
ter away from me," shouted Mrs.
Dora Stephens, North Seventeenth
street in juvenile court Saturday
morninc ghalnnc hr fit in T4
- , .... ... ... J -"BjV.
Troup s face.
Mrs. Stephens and her husband are
former circus performers and their
L-"-Ji4l a . .
Hume is saia to nave Deen raided a
number of times by the police. The
husband is now in jail for having
dope on the premises. The juvenile
authorities were considering placing
15-year-old Marie in a home where
the surroundings would be better for
her, but the mother's pleading finally
prevailed and Marie was left with her.
Three small negro girlA and their
mothers appeared in court, one child
complaining that the others, her play
mates, had entered her house and
cut her clothes to pieces with a pair
of scissors.
Oleary Fled in Old Clothes,
Declares Federal Prosecutor
New York, June IS. Jeremiah A.
O Leary, the New York lawyer and
Sinn Fein leader under indictment
here for complicity in two German
espionage and treason plots, left New
York for St. Louis May 7, attired in
old clothes "so as to look like a bum."
This assertion was part of Assistant
District Attnrnv Rim..1
statement at the trial in federal court
today of U Leary'a brother, John J.
O'Learv. and Arthur T. T.vnn.
charge of conspiring to thwart jus-
"j utiyniK nun escape.
O'Learv fled nn tho v n( hi.
for publishing alleged seditious anti-
consenpnon articles in the magazine
Bull, of which he was formerly
editor.
Towl Declares War Upon
Those Who Stop Up Sewers
CitV Commissioner Tnwl f
public improvements department an
nounces that hi will mii-cio .
- 1 - - ..... uou, m
of resistance against persons who dis
pose ot grass and leaves into gutters,
or wno ourn tnis rubbish on asphalt
pavements.
"This rubbish is carried to sewer in
lets and we have had much trouble
with stoppage of sewers on this ac
count,", he explained. "Burning this
material on asphalt pavements is de
structive and materially reduces the
life of pavements. "We are going to
file complaints against offenders and
wish to serve notice that the ordi
nances on this subject are going to be
enforced by our department."
Former Pupils of School
Teacher Act as Pallbearers
Funeral services for Mist Emma
Gross, former eighth grade teacher at
Walnut Hill school, were held at 2
o'clock, Saturday afternoon at Brailey
& Dorrance's chapel. Miss Gross
died Thursday night following an
nneration. She? hart firn reMnt
of Omaha for the last IS years.
Kev. H. jenks officiated at the
services. Six former pupils of Miss
Gross acted as pallbearers. They
were: Harold Payne, Byron Gagne
bin, Herman Hayman, Emerson
Westgate, Victor Nielsen and Albert
Stilling.
Postmaster, as Hotel Owner,
Made Defendant in Big Suit
Postmaster Charles E. Fanning,
as owner of the Savoy hotel, Fif
teenth and Jackson streets, is made
defendant in a damage suit for $25,
500, following the filing of a peti
tion by Jesse W. Stewart in district
court Saturday Stewart alleges in
the petition that the hotel was a "fire
trap" and that he was permanently in
jured in the fire which partially de
stroved the Savo hotel April 16
CAR SERVICE IN OMAHA MUST NOT
BE INTERRUPTED DURING PERIOD
OF WAR IS UKASE OF MAYOR SMITH
Company Officials Ready to
Confer With Men, But Bar
Representatives of Any
Union.
Officials of the Omaha Street RaiV
day company declare they are willing
to discuss grievances of their em
ployes individually or collectively, but
they refuse to hold a conference with
the men as representatives of a union.
This is the text of a communication
which has been posted in all of the
street car barns. It is authorized by
President Wattles.
The letter makes it plain that any
conference between disgruntled em
ployes and officials of the company
must be attended only by individual
employes or committees consisting of
employes, and by no representatives
of a labor organization.
Street railway officials declare an
other wage increase is outs of the
question. Three increases in wages
have been made since January 1.
January 1, the wage scale in Omaha
was boosted 1 cent an hour; on May
1, 2 cents an hour, and on June 1,
5 cents an hour, making a total boost
of eight cents an hour in the last six
months. Trainmen now are receiving
35 and 40 cents an hour.
The three increases, officials as
sert, will total $250,000 to $260,000 dur
in the year. Overhead expenses also
have been increased 25 to 100 per cent
during the last year, they say. As the
revenue has not increased, they de
clare no further pay increase can be
made.
Western Smelting Firm
Has Record Year's Business
The Western Smelting and Refining
company, with a plant at Seventh and
Douglas streets, incorporated in 1915
with $50,000 capital, has just com
pleted its fiscal year.
A report of the year's activities
shows that the company has done a
phenomenal business, both in jobbing
and manufacturing. Since the estab
lishment of the concern the sales of
its entire output have developed cus
tomers in every state of the union.
The company specializes in the pro
duction of babbit metal and produces
what is considered the best connect
ing rod bearings for automobiles on
the market.
The company has made plans for
the doubling of the capacity of the
plant, which- now occupies a build
ing 60 by 135 feet. As soon as the
ground can be cleared in the rear of
the refinery and smelter a new
building 60 by 135 feet, running from
the alley to Dodge street, will be
erected and a battery of furnaces for
the reclamation of dross, with other
machinery, will be added.
The new improvement will call for
an investment of $75,000 or more and
will establish a new reclamation pro
cess in Omaha, making this one of the
leading cities of the west in the pro
duction of synthetic metals, in which
brass, copper and bronze are utilized.
Kansas Girl Weds Long Island
Man Over Telegraph Wire
New York, June IS. Dots and
dashes of the telegraph code took the
place of spoken words in the mar
riage last night of Lydia Pearce of
Lyndon, Kan., and Private Leo Stroh
tagel, an artilleryman at Camp Mills,
whose nuptial vows were flashed by
wire between Emporia, Kan., and the
Long Island cantonment.
The ceremony was performed in IS
minutes. An army chaplain officiated
in the telegraph office at Camp, Mills,
dictating to a telegrapher his -questions
and the answers of the bride
groom, and at Emporia a magistrate
interrogated the bride. V
Two Alien Enemies Taken
East by Marshal Quinley
Lubbe Juergens, Coleridge, Neb.,
and Heinrich Hennmgs, Aberdeen,
S. D., alien enemies, were taken to
Des Moines Saturday afternoon by
Deputy United States Marshal Reed
'of Iowa, who .will add a prisoner of
his own to the party and take them
into Chicago in time to catch the
"alien enemies' special" out of Chi
cago Monday morning for Fort Ogel
thorpe, Ga., where the passengers
will be interned under the watchful
care of Uncle Sam.
MAYOR APPOINTS TWO WOMEN
Executive Establishes Precedent by Nam
ing Mrs, N. P. Feil and Miss McHugh.
ON PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD
In announcing the personnel of the
Public Library board, which will be
reorganized July 1, Mayor Smith es
tablished a new precedent by appoint
ing two women: Miss Kate McHugh,
formerly principal of Central High
school, and Mrs. N. P. Feil, who has
taken an interest in library work. W.
C. Fraser. an attorney, will be another
new member of the board. C. N.
Dietz and Lucien Stephens of the
present board will be retained. A
sixth member is yet to be announced.
R. M. Brown, general engineer of
the city building department, has re
quested City Attorney Weaver to
require the contractor who repaired
the city hall roof to correct defects in
his work. Mr. Weaver had a similar
experience with a roof at his home
and is in full sympathy with the com
plaint of Mr. Brown.
City Commissioner Ure of the ac
counts and finance department, dur
ing an investigation of delinquent city
licenses, discovered that J. Milder &
Son, junk dealers at 1107 Davenport
street, have not paid a city license for
six years. Mr. Milder is the father of
"Boob" and Morris Milder who have
been identified with what has been
known as "Third ward politics."
Samuel Fried, city license inspector,
has announced that h will hecrin nn
rMonHav morninc tn fil r-nmnlsinl
against persons who have been op
Failure of Either Side to Be
Reasonable Shall Not Inter-.
fere, Declares City
Executive.
"There is not going to be any in
terruption of street car service in
Omaha during the period of the war,"
Mayor Smith. '
The mayor said he would run the
street car system if it became neces
sary to take such a drastic step, but
he does not believe that such action is
probable.
His comments were in connection
with several visits of a committee of
the Street Railway Employes' union
to his office, asking him to arrange
for a conference with President Wat
tles of the traction company.
The mayor wrote a letter to Mr.
Wattles asking that representatives
of the company confer with the men
to arbitrate the differences.
The men told the mayor that they
are asking for this wage scale: 35
cents per hour first year, 374 cents
the second year and 40 cents
thereafter. The present scale is 35
cents per hour the first year and an
increase of 1 cent per hour for each
year until a maximum of 40 cents per
hour has been reached. They also
ask for recognition of their union.
"I am not in a position to pass upon
the merits of either side of the con
troversy," the mayor added, "but I
do know that I am going to see that
the failure of either side to be rea
sonable will not interfere with street
car service in Omaha."
The mayor also stated that the fed
eral government has indicated that
there shall be no "enforced change of
policy during the period of the war."
meaning that it the union has not
been recognized, then recognition
shall not be an issue in settling differ
ences; and, on the other hand, if the
union has been recognized, such
recognition may not be violated as a
part of any new settlement of differ-,
ences.
New Prohibition Attempt
Washington, June 15. Another at
tempt to force the prohibition issue
was made in the house todav by Rep
resentative Randall of California.
18 Years Navy Limit
Washington. June IS. The navy
department will admit no exception to
its regulation requiring apprentice
seamen to be at least 18 years old.
Social Service Notes
Preparations for the big annual pic
nic are in full sway at headquarters
of the Volunteers of America. There
are 300 families on Major McCor
mick's regular list and, in addition
to this, the South Side settlement has
asked him to accommodate 100 more
families. Last year they had 100
loaves of bread, 20 dozen of eggs, a
barrel of cooked macaroni and other
provisions in like proportion donated
and they will have to have even more
this year. The date chosen for this
picnic is July 9 and the place will be
Elmwoodpark.
"My uniform is most worn out,"
said a little Boy Scout the other day,
"and I don't know whether I can get
another or not. It costs so much and
it doesn't wear very long any more."
Scarcity of the khaki cloth from
which the uniforms are made has
caused the organization to omit the
coat from the list of required gar
ments, and it looks now as if some
arrangement would have to be made
in regard to the balance of the uni
form. Tuesday, June 18, is the date chosen
for the annual picnic that is given for
poor children by the City Mission and
Westminister chapel. The picnic will
be held at Manawa this year, and
those in charge say that they have al
ready begun praying for pleasant
weather.
C. M. Tipton, examiner in charge
of the free employment bureau, main
tained co-operatively by government,
state, county and city at the court
house, finds that there are firms with
in two or three blocks of this bureau
who never heard of it. He has placed
the situation before the Commercial
club, who are supplying him with 10,
000 posters, which will be placed in
store windows. The bureau is an ex
tremely busy place, the women's de
partment alone having found work
for 43 women one day last week.
erating various businesses without
licenses as required by law. He has
located many secondhand dealers, em
ployment agents, pawnbrokers, ped
dlers and others who have not com
plied with the law.
Nell Malone, formerly secretary in
the mayor's office, will start on Mon
day as chief clerk in the building in
spection department.
City Commissioner Zimman is plan
ning to have the health department
offices moved from the second floor
to the basement of the city hall. The
city clerk's office will be transferred
from basement to the department of
accounts and finance.
Charles, Walker, detective has re
signed to accept a position with a
mercantile establishment at Seattle.
Peter J. McGuire, traffic officer, will
leave the police department to enter
military service.
Harry Silverman, secretary in the
office of superintendent of police, was
summoned to Des Moines on Satur
day on account of illness of a relative.
Alfred E. Lindell of 3059 Curtis
avenue, has been appointed superin
tendent of garbage, to succeed Joseph
McDonald. Mr. Lindell has been
with the Omaha Posten for 15 years
and for two years he was in the,
county treasurer's office, J
BUY-YOUR-HOME
DRIVE SUCCESS
FOR THIS FIRM
George & Company Report
Sales of Homes and Lots
Where Homes Will
Be Built.
George & Co. report that the "buy
your home" campaign has greatly
stimulated the real estate market in
Omaha. It has helped to bring people
to a realization of the fact that it Is
better from every standpoint to be
your own landlord.
The scarcity of good houses for rent
at this time proves conclusively that
there is a shortage of homes and until
more are built this condition will exist.
It seems to be the opinion of builders
that it is not going to cost any less to
construct a house for some time to
come. Therefore, people are taking ad
vantage of the situation and buying
homes before prices go higher. George
& Co. report the following receni
sales:
ElKtiferoom modern houi and lot at MSI
California treet, from Allan Farmsr aatata
to Lwla C. Lurien, 16.200.
Svan-room itureo, modnrn houaa at 8110
Burt atraat, from Robrt R. Tabor to Elisa
beth Molat, Id conjunction with Olover
Spain. H.SttO.
Eight-room modern houi with (arac. at
SOOT Webittr at rent, from Emma T. Prior
to O. H. Meyer, 17.260.
Six-room houi and lot at Fortieth and
Hamilton, from C. B. Herring to George' P.
Stebbtne. 12.250.
S.vnn-room modern houaa with garage,
at 6010 Underwood avenue, from Julia M.
Jaeger to R. J. Southard. 14,760.
New atucco, l-room modern houae at 4111
California afreet, from P. W. Carmlohael to
Jamea A. Bender, (8,760.
Six-room bungalow at 4(41 Douglaa atreet,
from Ed J. Wolfe of Milwaukee to Jo
ephlne Marflal, 14,750.
Corner lot at Plfty-aeeond and Davenport
atreeta. from J. E. Oeorge to R. P. Hamil
ton. $4,000.
South front lot on Capitol avenua between
Fiftieth and Plfty-flrat, from Dundee Realty
company to Auguat C. lltrte, $1,800.
Eaat front lot on Fiftieth atroet, Juat
aouth of Dodge, from Dundee Realty com
pany to Erneat S. Holmei, $l.S0O,
Eaat front lot on Fiftieth atreet, between
Dodge and Parnam from Dundee aRalty
company to Charlea B. Poiter, I1.S00.
Eaat front lot on Fiftieth atreet, between
Dodge and Farnam, from Dundee Realty
company to Gertrude E. Haney, $1,600.
Lot at Ftfty-flrat avenue and Farnam
afreet, from Dundee Realty company to
Oeorge I. Parker, $2,100.
omahaHaltors
to leave today
for convention
Fifteen or more realtors, members
of the Omaha board, will depart on
the 4:20 train over the Burlington,
Sunday afternoon, for the purpose of
attending the convention of the na
tional association, which will be held
at St. Louis, Mo., June 17 to 20, in
clusive. Aith the exception of a few mem
bers who are going to the Missouri
metropolis overland in touring cars,
the trip by the party will bo made in
a special car. The following are the
members who will attend:
E. A. Benson, of Benson & Car-
michael; C. F. Harrison, of Harrison
& Morton; C. G. Carlberg, of Carl
berg & Co.; Harry Christy, of W.
Farnam smith; ha Mater, ot fayne
& Slater; Fred Creagh and wife;
James Lyons, secretary ot the Lon
servative Building & Loan associa
tion; Wilford R. Gibson, Payne In
vestment Company; Fred W. Shot
well, of Porter & Shotwell; Byron
Hastings of Hastings & Heyden; Ed
ward F". Williams, secretary of the
Omaha Real Estate board and mem
ber of Williams & Co.; C. Dean
Glover, of Glover & Spain; P. J. Teb
bins: George Tunnicliffe, of George
& Co.; John Brownlee, Occidental
Savings & Loan association; D. G.
Cary, of Shuler & Cary.
Omaha Building Owners
Will Attend Convention
The following members of the Oma
ha Association of Building Owners
and Managers will attend the nation
al convention at Chicago, the com
ing week:
Murray Randall, Bee building;
Howard G. Loomis, Omaha National
bank building; Ernest Sweet, Hamil
ton apartments: J. H. Rogers, First
National bank building; R. C. Streh
low, Strehlow building; R. C. Streh
ell, City National building; Byron
R. Hastings, Edward M. Slater and
Clare R. Nelson, of Payne & Slater;
W. A. Corey, Otis Elevator com
pany; J. A. Lyons, Conservative
Building & Loan association; BJ.Kru
ger, Drake Realty company; George
T. Porter, of the Porter & Shotwell
company; M. F. Powell, Brandeis
building; H. A. Ragoss, World-Herald
building.
Messrs. Randall, Loomis and Jew
ell will be accompanied by their
wives.
Two Hundred Own-Your-Own-Home
Essays Art Selected
Two hundred of the best essays on
"Why You Should Own Your Own
Home," which were submitted In the
contest have been sorted out from
among the 3,000 articles on this sub
ject submitted by as many contes
tants. All of these essays were written by
school children of Omaha and many
of them are of real literary merit and
meaty with convincing irgument.
The task of selecting 200 of the best
from among the 3,000 submitted was
nirfrrtnpH hv a committee under the
direction of the chairman. Byron
Hastings.
R a nrni-fs nf elimination that 200
will be cut down to 100 for the pur
pose ot awarding tne casn prizes ana
the writers of the remaining 100 es
says will receive honorable mention.
Byron Reed Company Moves
To Farnam Street Location
The Byron Reed company and the
United States Trust company moved
last week. from quarters at 212 South
Seventeenth street, in the Brandeis
building, to 1612 Farnam street. The i
building now occupied has been re
modeled and decorated and the fix
tures for the main offices are of the
most modern sort.
Nebraska Buick Company
To Build $150,000 Plant
A bulding permit for a six-story
structure at Nineteenth and Howard
was taken out by the Nebraska Buick
company last week. The structure is
to 'cost $150,000. Excavation work
on the building has been completed.
TOWL PROMISES
TO PLACE SIGNS
ATEACHCORNER
City Commissioner Reports to
Real Estate Board That
$5,000 Fund New Is . ,
Available. ' .
A year ago th,e Omaha Real Estate
board made an effort to persuade the
city commissioners to put up suitable
location signs at the intersections
of streets in the city. " "
Omaha was one of the ;few metro
politan cities devoid of this public
convenience, and when the city com
missioners failed to take up the matter
or give it any encouragement, mem
bers of the board went down into
their own pockets and in a limited
way tried to remedy the defect, spend
ing $250 in so doing.
Roy Towl, one of the newly elected
city commissioners and an associate
nrnmber of the Omaha Real Estate
board, was requested to make an ad- '
dress to the members at the last reg
ular meeting.
Fund Now Available.. '
Mr. Towl was one of the those who '
felt Omaha was backward in the j
matter of not havinsr street sicna'anrt
he told the board that there waa now
$5,000 in a fund to be used for this
purpose and that the work of paint
ing the signs on telephone. and other
posts at st-eet intersections would
start immediately. - - . - i
Another thine that Omatia la teA.
lent in, and which is remarked upon
oy visitors to tne City, is the rack of
public drinking fountains. Such foun ,
tains are liberally distributed about '
most metrotjo ltan eitieal aa a matter
ob public convenience, pn many of
the main atreeta nf tarcr ' ! nl-
tary fountains are distributed through
out tne ousmess sections as otten as
one to a block. .' - .,. . . .
The matter of having a number of
sanitary drinking fountatna placed ...
along Farnam and other streets of the
downtown district may be taken. up by
the Real Estate board in the near
luture. .- , ....
A .. W ---J-.. '-..' f.l '
So that he cart absorb some of the '
Snirit ot the nrrtaneritv nf the
Transmississippi country, and see the
condition oi tne crops on the way,
Wilford R. Gibson of the Payne In
vestment company is making a trip
to the St. Louis convention of the
National Keal ; Lsate board, which
meets next week there, in his car. ' ' . .
Receive Certificate, :, v
The new certificate of membership
in the National Real Estate associa
tion, of which Omaha is a unit, was
received this week. It certifies that
the members of the local organisa
tion, are affiliated with the, national
body. The certficate will be hung in
tne rooms of the board.
McConney Buys Heme.
Joseph C,rMcC6nnehas jjfurcha'sed
the property at .1133 South Thirty
first street from Lucy C Lindsay,
Ontario, Cal. The consideration , was,
$3,900 and the sale was made through
the agency of J. H. Dumont & Co." .'
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Leary Buys Home. ; v, '
Edward F, Leary, a prominent at
torney of Omaha, last week purchased
through the Byron Reed agency, the
house of Mrs. Eliza M. Fay, 491l.Far
nam street The- consideration wa
$10,000. ... .. . ', . .. ; , '
Robinson Joins Board.
R. L. Robinson, president of the
Bankers' Life Reserve comoanv. was
elected an associate member of the
Omaha Real Esate board last week. .
Settlement Needs Fan.
The heat wave has reached " tti
Social Settlement, 2827 .Q street, and -settlement
workers and instructors .
breeres of an electric fan. Anyone"
desirous of presenting a fan to the
settlement is reauested to call South
281 and to ask for Mrs. Caldwell. - t
Home-Owner
Loam
Up to 607o on residences
less than fi:e rears old.
M'inthly payments. '
Specialprivihgesand term.
Also straight loans at semi'
. annu lintertst.'
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