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VOL. 53—NO. 101. *2-- “ •S^n? OMAHA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1923.* fcJT.tt \TZ,n* TWO CENTS “ °F^>,C",‘, fSZXT
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Brute Force
Triumphs
Over Brains
Four Home Runs Feature
World Series Ball Game—
Pennock Pitches Easter
ly Ball for Americans.
Score: Yanks 4, Giants 2
By DAMON RUNYON.
By I'niversal Service.
^Poio Grounds, New’ York, Oct. 11.—
It has been written that the world
series of 1923 is a struggle between
brute force and a master mind, the
first represented by Babe Ruth, huge,
ponderous, formldlble; the second, by
-John J. McGram, pudgy, gray and
^ crafty.
That being true, It must be set down
that the acorte of the second game
at the Pool grounds this afternoon
w as:
Brute force, 4.
Master mind, 2.
Socrates, Aristotle nd all the heavy
thinkers of the ages couldn’t have
•stopped Ruth today.
Two Home Runs.
The mighty hitter of the New York
Y'anks slugged the American leaguers
to victory over the Giants with two
home runs, those runs proving the
margin of the Yankee triumph.
McGraw, sitting back in the shadow
of the Giants’ bench, thinking, think
ing, thinking, could not produce a
single thought to offset the fierce
hinges of this big fellow in the fourth
and fifth innings.
Once Kuth smashed the ball into
the upper tier of the rightfieid stand.
Again, he drove it into the lower tier.
Twice he got his base on balls, and
in his fifth and final appearance at
bat, he brought a roar from the 45,000
people packed in the green stands, by
hitting a ball so hard and so high
that it was almost lost in the mist
above the field before it settled in
Casey Stengel’s glove.
Brute force was loose in that game.
—JCothing could hold it. Ruth was
ltuth, mammoth, majestic. The think
er on the Giant bench seemed to
dwindle into nothing more Important,
nothing more impressive than a short,
a fat old gentleman.
First Win in Nine Games.
It was the first game the Yanks
have won from the Giants in nine
games played since they began meet
ing In the world series, which was
in 1321. It was their first victory
after eight consecutive defeats, with
a tie game among them.
It was the first time In this long
stretch that brute force really became
unfettered, which is surely not an
impressive record for brute force.
it was a game of home runs.
Aaron Ward, the Arkansas man, who
plays second for the Yanks, made
one. "Irish" Meusel of the Giants
made another.
These home runs were both hit into
the left field stand. They were per
haps as important In their way ns
Ruth's home runs, but they did not
evoke the same cheering.
That Is the curious tiling about
Ruth's home run hitting—his home
runs always seem more terrific than
any other home runs, though they
may be hit no farther, or harder.
Others Need Mention.
It would be Just as easy to pick
Aaron Ward's home run as the run
that won the game for the Yanks,
perhaps, counting Ruth's two home
runs as merely part of the Yankee
general score, but Ruth's two home
t^mns will be remembered long after
Ward's one has been forgotten,
That is another curious thing about
Ruth's home runs—they are always
the ones that teem to count the most.
A spidery young man named Her
boi l Pennock. a young man with thin
arms and thin legs, and not much
(Turn (a I’uka T#*n. Column Five.)
• Columbus Fair Exhibits
> Placed in Store Windows
Columbus, Neb., Oct. 11.— I. B.
Gates, Howard Clarke and George
Itrinnlrn, all of Columbus, have been
appointed to act as Judges for live
stock and agricultural products at
tlie threo-day county fair opening
here Monday, Judge* to pass on klteh
en and needlework exhibits ofered
by the women will ha appointed by
the Columbus Business Women’*
cluli. "
The phase of the fair that marks
h as unusual la the fact that tho
show windows of 45 downtown stores
will he devoted to the exhibits and
used as booths. Rach merchant has
cliurge of the exhibits In his windows
and will give prizes for the product
he shows. Only one class of exhibits
will be placed In every window.
Several livestock entries of hogs have
already been made. In f addition
there v, III hr exhibits of every type of
ill in .11 product and livestock
r i- d in the county, as well as needle
''work. art. drawing, linking and edu
rational exhibit*, i Special entertain
n.cut features will mark the In-1 day
of Hie fair.
’ Polio V ictim Dies
1
Columbus, Nell. Oct. II Infantile
paralysis claimed its first victim here,
with the death of Marguerite Phelpr
3 year old daughter of Mrs. Mat
I'helps.
Cattle Cleaned Up
in Buffalo County
Cattle are being shipped out of
Buffalo county at a rapid pace, ac
cording to F. C. Mortenson pf Ra
venna. Neb., who was on the Omaha
market with a load of stock. He said
the most of them had been shipped
out in the last five weeks.
"I do not expect feeding operations
to be very heavy in my neighbor
hood,” said Mr. Mortenson, "but hny
will be a little heavier than last sea
son. Old corn is getting scarce, but
the new crop will run heavy, prob
ably from 25 tp 35 bushels to the
acre.”
School Boy
Run Down
and Killed
Vernon Johnson, Six Years
Old, Struck While Crossing
Street Near Lothrop
School.
Driver of Car Arrested
Vernon Johnson, 6 year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Johnson, 3808
North Seventeenth street, died at the
Swedish Mission hospital at 4 o’clock
yesterday afternoon, just three hours
after he was struck by the car of
Joe Johnston, 1810 St. Mary ave
nue, at Twentieth and Lothrop
streets.
Little Vernon was on his way to
Lothrop school, where he was en
rolled in the first grade. With him
was his elder sister, Margaret, 8, and
a group of playmates. Witnesses de
clare that, when almost across the
street, the little fellow left the group
and darted back directly "Into the
path of Johnston's car. The car car
ried the boy 20 feet before It was
brought to a stop.
The small Ind, suffering from con
cussion of the brain and a fractured
skull, was rushed to the Swedish Mis
sion hospital by Mr. Johnson. The
boy died without regaining conscious
ness.
Johnson was taken from the hos
pital to the police station, where he
was charged with reckless driving.
He is held pending a coroner's. In
quest.
Carl J. Johnson, the lad's father,
is a car inspector for the Illinois
Central railroad.
Vernon is survived by his father
end mother, in addition to a brother,
'Robert. 10, and a sister, -Margaret, 8.
Ford Silent When Told
of Nebraska Support
I.lncoln. Oct. 11.—llenry Ford re
fuses to lie brought into the open on
the presidential question by a lettei
from Secretary of Stnte Pool, Inform
•ing him that his name haa been filed
in Nebraska by his supporters.
In a reply, received by Mr. Pool
today, E. fi. Leihold. general secre
tary for Mr. Ford, acknowledges the
letter, and says that his employer
was "very much interested in tho
.primary election figures of 1922,"
which were enclosed in the secretary
of state's letter. No reference Is made
to Mr. Ford's future intentions.
The letter sent by the secretary of
state reveals the fact ,that 1,828 per
sons signed the petition for Henry
Ford, although but 983 of theae were
allowed, the remainder being thrown
out because the signatures were1 im
properly written.
In the First congressional district
there were 191 petitioners, 108 In the
Second, 21.9 In the Third, 114 in th
^Fourth. 122 In the Fifth and 189 in
the Sixth.
Car Thief at Albion (»Pt*
Year in Penitentiary
Albion, Neb, Oct. II.—One year In
(he penitentiary was the Sentence
given Kenneth Wayne, following his
plea of guilty to stealing an automo
bile. I.ast August lie came to Albion,
claiming he was soliciting students
for the Norfolk Business college.
Frank Hlnane loaned him his car to
go out in the country to sec a pros
pect. He fulled to return and the
authorities were notified. He was ar
icsted at Council Bluffs, where he
was caught .changing numbers with
an IfiwR car. He was brought hack
here, and at a special session of dis
trict court. Judge Button received his
plea of guilty.
Yea: Those That
Are Empty Shall
Surely be Filled
#
So says Mrs. Cone of Thirty
first St. Her four apartments
were empty until she put a
Bee Art on the joh. Now all
four are rented.
Use Bee Classifier) Arts.
It’s results per Hollar
that count.
Rail Unions
to Demand
Wage Hike
Consequence of Granting Pay
Boost to Miners That
Exceeds Wartime
Peak.
To Hit Northwest Roads
By MARK SULLIVAN.
Washington, Oct. It.—The prepara
tion now under way for a formal de
mand by the railroad brotherhoods
for an advance in wages back to the
wartime peak, which was the highest
in history, is causing more thought
in Washington than apparently it is
In the rest of the country.
On the economic side the move is
deplored as seriously a* possible. If
granted it means a new upward
hitch in the cost of living. If denied,
it means, presumably, a strike. Aside
from these deplorable economic
aspects there is A good deal of under
standing sympathy for the railroad
men, or at least understanding of the
emotions that animate them just now.
As many see It, if the strike comes
It will be regarded as a direct conse
quence of the granting of a 10 per
cent increase to the anthracite
miners.
The miners were already at their
wartime peak. They, practically alone
among all classes of the community,
had succeeded in retaining all the
advances they had got during the
war. This unique success was due to
the determined aggressiveness of
their leader, John L. Lewis.
Bring Pressure In Bear.
When the railroad workers saw the
anthracite miners retain nil their war
time advances and get 10 per cent
more, there arose among them a
psychology that brought pressure on
their own brotherhood leader* to see
if they could not do as well as Lewis.
These brotherhood leader* get very
large salaries, as large as some city
bank presidents, and they must re
spond to pressure from the men. Up
to the time they saw the egample of
the anthracite miners there was no
Very strong inclination to demand
higher wages among the railroad
workers.
But they say that more than half
the miners will now he getting higher
wages than the railroad workers. And
the railroad workers regard them
selves as a more deserving claw and
1 letter entitled to high wages. In
their view fhey are skilled workers In
a sense that most of the miners are
not. They feel that, they are almost
all native American*. while the coal
miners Include masses of foreigners.
Aware of Responsibility.
The railroad workers think that
they have, and I've up to, a sense
of responsibility that does not at
tach to miners. For the present emo
tions among railroad workers there
l.s a good deal of sympathy in some
well-informed "Washington quarter*.
It is felt that the railroad brother
hoods and their leaders, who are men
of high quality, have been disposed
in act with a sense of responsibility
toward the government and the coun
try.
It should be borne In mind that the
railroad strike of last year did not
com® from the brotherhoods hut from
the shop workers. The ‘‘transports
tibn brotherhoods,” who are now de
mnndlng increase*, Include the engl
neers. conductors, firemen, trainmen
and switchmen.
The section of country where the
railroads will be most affected by this
demand Is the northwest. While the
railroads In other parts of the conn
try are, doing well Just now the
northwestern railroads, according to
Interstate Commerce commission
statisticians, nro earning less thsn 4
per cent.
Against this scant margin of net
earnings there are now two demands.
One from the farmer labor political
leaders, for a reduction In freight
late* on grain and some other com
modities; nnd ono from the brother
hood leaders ft>r an Increase In wages.
As between these two It Is tli» better
guess that If either wins it will be
the brotherhood demand for higher
wages.
Farmem Near (iolumlms
Will Have Power Service
('iilnmbui, Nell., Ort. 11 Hy n vote
nf two to one. farmer* In h territory
immediately north «»f t'oluinbu*. com
prising nine sections of land, decided
hi a special election to Incorporate a
rural district through the medium of
which their farms will be supplied
with electric current for light, heat
and power by tier c'nlumbns Light.
Heat and Power company. This will
he the first run I electric district In
Platte county and the second to he
organized in Nebraska under the new
state law authorising the format ion
of districts, the first being item Wn
hoo District bonds of about $ 1 T»,000
will be issued to defray the rust of
erecting n distribution system.
I Joy (I (.forfe to Niagara.
Toronto, Ont . Oct. 11.— David Lloyd
Georgs and his party hoarded their
.special train today *n routs to N'isg
nra Falls, which ths former premie?
of Great Britain hops* to view this
afternoon.
Dog, Weary of Waiting
on Mistress, Calls Her
by Honking Auto Horn
WYifoRE, Neb., Oct. 11—Mrs. H.
A. Greenwood, Wymore pioneer and
society woman, keeps a pet English
bull dog. His name is Buster, and
everywhere Mrs. Greenwood goes,
Buster goes along. He has been
trained to wait In the sedan, when it
is parked anywhere,-'for the return of
his mistress. A few days ago the
auto was parked in front of a resi
dence andremained for several hours,
while Mrs. Greenwood attended a so
cial function within, where a number
of women of the neighborhood were
gathered. Buster got tired of wait
ing, and having seen his mistress
push a certain button to sound the
horn and call some one for whom she
had been waiting, he jumped over the
front scat, touched the button with
his paw and sounded the horn, where
upon Mrs. Greenwood came rushing
out to ascertain wrhat the trouble
was.
Judge Lovett
to Represent U. P.
in I. C. C. Cases
Resignation of Chairman of
Executive Body Accepted
—More \&ork Falls on
Gray's Shoulders.
NVw York, Oct. 12.—Responsibilities
of Carl R. Gray as president of the
Union Pacific railroad were enlarged
yesterday ns tha board of directors
accepted the resignation of Robert 8.
Lovett, chairman of the executive
committee, effective January 1. Mr.
Gray v.ng placed In full charge of
the operations of the property in the
west.
Judge Lovett's action was t.ikrn on
the advice of his physicians. The of
fice which lie crates is the chief
ixecutlye post of the company.
"Mr. Lovett has, however, con
sented to continue his association
with the property and in particular
to direct the representation of the
Union Pacific's interests in railroad
consolidation matters and *n the valu
atlon of railroad properties upon
which the Interstate Commerce com
mission is now engaged," stated Carl
R. Gray.
"To this end, the office of ■ hair
nvtn of the board was created, and
Mr. Lovett was elected to it yesterday
with specific jurisdiction over these
two important matters but without
duty or responsibility with respect to
the general question of management,
although he well remain a memlirr of
the board of directors and ex-officio a
member of the finance < nwmlttre.”
Lovett Visited Ilefe.
Judge Lovett lias lieen In Omaha
and through here a number of tinie
He was guest at a dinner given by
President Gray of the lTni<ui Pacific
two years ago the Omaha < lul
The dinner was attended by huslner*
tn»n of Omaha and Council Rluffs
Mr. Lovett plans te leave for Cali
fornia in December and to spend the
winter there. President Gray Is In
New York.
"I will not resign new from the
directorate of the New York Central
or the Illinois Central," said Mr.
Lovett after the hoard meeting, "al
though T have tint decided what I
shall do after my resignation as
chairman of the Union Pacific execu
tlve committee becomes effective af
ter January 1."
Concerning the prospect of national
consolidation of railroads. h« said:
“Consolidations sre not compulsory
and can not he made so. The only
way the government could enforce
consolidation would tic to buy the
railroads, consolidate them and re sell
them. Rut that would not solve the
rail problem.
Opposes Consolidating
'•The 1'nlon Pacini is made up of j
four or five units which eventually
will be merged into one company.
The mad does not contemplate ar
i|iiislon of any other line or any ei
tension. AVe will oppose all attempts
to leave us with lean properties while
other roads trike fat one*.’’
Mr. Lovett lias generalise*been re
garded as the successor of the late
10. M. Harrimatin in the railroad
world. Me was personal attorney and
intimate business adviser of Mr liar
rinuin and. after Ids death, was ad
mlniatrator of his estate.
Mr. Lovett was a r:iilr**sd attorney
*• nly in life hut whs little known out
side of Texas, his native state, when
he w as brought to New York by Mar
riman in !!*ot and made chairman of
the executive committee and president
of the 1'nlon Pacific and Rout hern !
l’.iciflc system*. Me was made chair-'
ni.in f»f the hoard of the I nlon Pa
c if It * ia 1020.
iVliniif'Mila (!iim ict to Farr
llirft t.liargr in Nekraska
I! I ('lifud, Ne|» tirt 11 SperlaJ
A-. ent J. . hmidt of the Burlington,
left here f-n Rtlllwntfir. Minn . to take
nto custody Lee Harder, alias Fred
Itlck*. who is wanted for stealing *
shipment of eggs from s hm car In
the local yards over thres years ago.
Me has l»een serving a thres year sen
tence In the Minnesota penitentiary
| for an offense committed thsi %
There’s No End to It, Once We Begin Curing Our Economic Ills by Skin
^ Grafting
WHY PICK OK
MC EVERY TIME.
YOU HEED A L'TTlE j
\ SKIM TO CtffcFT OK I
9 COME PoDYj^J
YOU UiPNT
HESITATE TO
TAKE APIECE
I OP MY HIDE
lyihem YOUR
LIFE WAS IK |
I ^AKGERq |
Brvan. Not State.
Handling Coal
Orders Placed \\ itii (Governor
Are Minding I poll Him
a« Private Citizen..
Lincoln. Oct. 11.—Citizen* of Ne
'raska who are under the impression
that the state i* selling foal are la
boring under a misapprehension. It
is Governor Bryan’s private business.
Under the statutes the governor
no to
t-usiness as a state function. Orders
that are being placed with Governor
Bryan for coal are binding upon him
as upon any other Individual and
not upon him as a stale official, if
there are any profits or losses the
slate will not share.
It was emphatically declared in the
governor's office today that n* state
supplies and no state official.- are
being used In the prosecution of the
business. Any office expense that in
curred is being taken out of a small
profit that Is being made on the coal
to take care of overhead.
Some time ago the governor did
purchase a carload of gasoline out of
stale funds, through State I'm cl -
ing Agent Kerris, but the gasoline Is
being used by tlie department of pub
lic works. It is understood that
should the governor decide to sell
gasoline to the public he would have
lo do so privately, as he sells coal,
there la-log no statute to permit the
state to enter the filling station bus!
ness.
R is reported that the governor
now has an assistant located here and
several Weld men at the mines who
Imiiuun, the coal that Is shipped to
fit. Y«iuuC0er*.
Denie knowledge of
Plot 'n Rob Treasury
Lincoln. Oct. 11—Frank S Barton.!
Chicago actor. In the ati:te peniten
tiary her*, who waa vlalted by a
couple of po*fnl 1npp*ctor* r-irntly,
den lea that he h*a knowledge of n
propoaed nation wide plundering to
Include the auhtreaaury at SS lulling
ton.
Burton waa Interview* for an hour
or more in connection with the theft
»f honda. He declared that the poatal
Inapectora had nothing on him hut
that he waa Interviewed regarding
the I He ft of $40,000 In government,
bond* from a Chicago hank If*
••uid that Siting Deputy Hoafin In
apertur Mondell «*f <»n,uh« mid I nape*
tor .lackaon talked with him Hu ion]
paid he came 1o Nebraska in April,
10IS, and the theft occurred ehorfly
after that time, lie paid elf or peven '
men had been mealed and the ip
ppectora w*nt*d to knew of hit
Knowledge of the men.
He la perving tn priaon here for al
^ltgad pontMlon of * forged check.
UP AND DOWN AND
ROUND ABOUT OMAHA
1> nrded street car after day's work.
l.Utle/'negro girl In seat ahead in
ntly reading. Interested in know
what held her close attention and
glanced over her shoulder. Surprised
tu note she was reading "Sonnets
from the Portuguese.” in 10-cent
clastic form. Iteinind»d me of Booker
Washington's story of little fellow at
Tuskt-tee, who said. "Wes a risin’,
massa.”
It used to be a dark area way be
tween two tall buildings. Hated to
pas* it late at night. Kxcellent place
t ghosts to haunt, but knew they
didn't although had fears. Now well
lighted, with stairway growing In
creasingly popular. Light furnished
hy electric sign reading ' The Omaha
Bee.” Stairway leading to Bee busl
n< - * office. Now I know a -ghost
walks there. Have met It a couple of
times recently. Mighty welcome
ghost, too. Don't care how big it gets.
W. H Lee of Mitchell in tow n witn
eotiMsnraem of fine steers. Joy to
meet him again. Most unusual sort
of fellow is Mr. Lee. Said he was sat
isfied with |price received for steer*
and admitted that he had made a
good profit If I had been on the
night desk Mr. T.ee would hnvo ap
np pen red In front |wge Ih'x. The
unusual always make the besl read
ing.
Lx State Senator Howell, chewing
oil same black cigar he had In his
mouth at close of 191T session. In.
aisled he WHS nut of politics and then
talked It for 10 minutes Kd couldn't
be kept out when the battle opens.
Twenty-ninth anniversary of great
event comes tomorrow. Never get
over wondering how she has been
able to stand It through all those
years.
Beatrice Pair Ha* ;i7tli
Wed,ling \ niiix ersary
Ucalrlci NVb. Oet. H.—Mr. and
Mts. I. It. Clayton, pioneer residents
of (ing" county, cetabratod their
fiftyn venth wedding anniversary. at
tl -'ii home In this city, In the pres
ence of their children and other
lel.lf t\ e» The couple received a nutn
tier of presents ss i-emembrances of
the occasion. They have 15 great
grandchildren and 25 grandchildren.
Mr. Clay ion was at one time promi
nent In republican nollllce In Ilia
county, i"rvlng an' represcntatlva
and cbalrman of the county bosid of
auperv laors.
llirunt joltiison Petition*
• t irnilatcd in l.iimdn
Lincoln, Oct ll Petitions to plat #
tli*» name of Hiram Johnson. t'allfm
Ha senator, on the ballot in Nebraska
;im cundidats for president, hn\« been
in circulation In Lincoln for shout
thr** wt*#kr, John Maher. member of
tho I’ommltt^# hsr* which drew up
I hi petitions, said today.
Basket of pawpaws in fruit store
window. To be regretted that the
pawpaw- doesn't ripen the year round.
Sight of them recalled flood of mem
uric* of boyhcAd days in Missouri.
Felt a lot better rest of the day.
Young business man riding In ex
pensive limousine and getting to his
place of business at 10 a. m. Re
member when his father rode a bi
cycle and got Sown to his Job before
'• I'm still walking.
Small town stuff In the big city.
Fellow Just behind me st picture
-how insists on reading titles out
loud. Woman in front insists on
humming tunes played by orchestra.
Gum parked under chair by former
occupant.
Collided with George Brophy a few
hours ago. Gedrge now way up ofll
i in! of Cnlon Pacific. First knew him
while he was conductor of a mixed
train on the Stromsburg branch. Al
ways accommodating Would stop
train at road crossing to let a friend
off. or pick up basket of eggs to take
to town for some farm woman. May
be one reason w hy he is now way up
official.
Guest at hotel where I am stopping
taken suddenly III. Physician called
puts In hurry-up call for nurse Sax
nur«e when she came In later. Sick
ne«« h is h>st much of Its terror.
Interested lrt Tom Dennison's re
ported determination to leavs Omaha
and make his home In California. In
ili.il event am wondering what some
local politicians will do for an excuse
for one thing and another, Duks of
Argyle maintained scratching posts
for his people Removal of Tom Den
nison from our midst mean* loss of
mighty handy kicking post for some
politician*.
S i:n on South Fourteenth "Meal*
t.'i rents and up. ' 1 should tlftnk so.
Wry fond of hard rolls for break
fast Still searching for restaurant
ih.t will s.-rve more than on* thin
slab of huttvr with the rolls. l*>*tng
hope rapidly.
After s round of window shopping
nm w ondering how a middle aged,
rather portly gray haired man would
loid< in a slate colored, helled over
coat with patch pockets W M M.
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Express Is
Dynamited
in Tunnel
Engineer, Fireman and Brake
man Shot—Unaldc to As
certain Amount of
Loot Taken.
Passengers Unharmec
San Francisco. Oct. 11.—Thret
members of-the crew of the Southern
Pacific train No. 13, Portland to San
Francisco, were shot and killed, and
the mail car on the train was blown s
up by bandits who halted the train as
it was entering a, tunnel near the
Oregon-Californla line today. A posse
from Yreka, Cal., under Sheriff
Calkins of Siskiyou county, Is in pur
suit of the bandits. The train is the
southbound San Francisco express.
The train came to a jarring atop
after the locomotive and mail car
had entered the tunnel. An explosion
wae then heard. Conductor Marratt
and Brakeman C. O. Johnson, pro
ceeded to the head of the train, where
they encountered the bandits.
Johnson was shot through the chest
and died within a few minutes. The
bandits fled as the conductor ad
vanced. He continued bis search and
found the body of Engineer S. L.
Bates on the ground on one side of
the engine with a bullet through his
head. On the other side he found
the body of*Fireman Seng, also with
a bullet through his head.
The mail car was wrecked and all
of the winjiws in the nearest chair
car were shattered. No passengers
were hurt and, as far as is known,
there was no panic.
The condition of the mail car pre
vented an immediate survey to de
termine if any mail matter or mor.ey
had been stolen.
The mail car was set on fire by
the explosion, but wm quickly extin
guished. Cells for help were sent to
Ashland, Ore.. 17 miles to the north,
to Yreka and to other points A
wrecking crew cleared the track a few
houra after the holdup.
Lincoln Firm Is
Given Hardware
Job at Capitol
Lahr Company Awarded Con
tract for Furnishing Sec
tion One at Cost
of $16,500.
Lincoln. Oct. 11 —The I-ah'r Hard
ware company of Lincoln was award
ed the contra t for hardware in sec
tion 1 of the new capitol building
by the capitol commission at its meet
ing thfa afternoon. The company
submitted the lowest bid. its tic".re.
tor all hardware, with the exception
of Ornamental hardware for the gov
ernor s office and several other office*
being 115.500.
Two other firms. Rudge A Guenzel
of Lincoln, and Milton Regers A Sorts
Co. of Omaha, submitted bids,
the Lincoln firm* figure totaling
$15,804.11 and the Omaha '-oiiiparr
offering to fulfill the cotmnis- or. »
specification* for $17 950.
Sargent A Co. of New Haven, t. r n ,
will furnish the hardware to lie in
stalled by the l,ahr com pan? Tie
commission approved the completed
plans of the Guastayina company for
the decoration of the dome of the
vestibule, the approved pri e bring
$13,000. The plans call for the w -k
to be done In tile, of glaze col- :- and
gilt, according to sketches submitted
to the commission by Architect Bert
ram G. Goodhue, who was present at
the meeting.
The disputed question of the alter
nate design for the eas tand west en
trances was carried over to the next
meeting of the commission, it bring
felt that Governor Bryan should b*
present before any action te taken,
lhe governor Is out in the state on an
inspection of state fisheries.
Bids will be asked in two weeks
for special ornamental woodwork,
the architect having prepated
sketches of what will be needed Tli»
sum of $75,000 is allowed in the ot ci
nal contract to hAiidle this work. One
f the requirements of the commis
sion will he that all wots done on
the woodwork must be in the shops of
the firm to which the contract as
iw arded
After checking at .1 appro', c <a
mitnher of bids tie comic ss on
brightened when Key Cochran of tha
department of public works an
pounced that hereafter the g-.t-olinie
used in construction will be purchased
from tha state for 11 oents a g Ion.
Tics mill coin* out of th* large sup
ply recently purchased by the atats
Architect Goodhue was enthusiastic
ter the progress that has been r ta
on the building since he mi last
here Already the walla that face
on ihe court at* almost completed
1 work is V ”g pushed at rapidly
us possible
In the neighborhood of i:<& men
imployed on the stpuotura and giant
. rune# are busy all day long. hoisting
-ton* lo the rapidly i s.ng wall*.
In order that work may be carried
on throughout the winter, s’eant b-.I
ers to suivplenient those now m tha
idd state house liav* been insta si
and workmen will be able to go a In il
no matter how imkvtwp . t w > »er
may I'd.