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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1907)
? i o i 8 8 Era I Wfl 1 11 A That we enjoy the full confidence of the people of Lincoln and vicinity is evidenced bv the nflllflOnCP 1 fi nilinOlS SSt BJGGE?T SELLING OF FURNITURE, CARPETS, RUGS AND CURTAINS in the 36 years UllSIUUllOU EU U UUIIIUWIU InlVVl of our business existance. Tomorrow the sale will be greatly augmented by stillgreater price reductions on many lines. We are determined to start in our new store with new goods. , - , This Iron Bed $1.69 A value of unusual merit in this all metal Bed; comes in assorted col ors, in a good enamel finish; fitted with castors and side rails; exactly like cut. On tale Monday and Tuesday only. Price each 1.69 S2I Buffet $15.85 An unusual value and a fine Polished or Waxed Finish Quarter-sawed Oak Buffet, with Linen drawer and Sil ver drawers, also double glass doors to cupboard below ; full French plate bevel edge mirror top; a neat, well finished niece in every way; well worth the regular price of $21. Special Monday and Tuesday, each 15.85 3-4 Carpets Must Be Sold Our stock of Carpets is some what depleted and we wish to close the balance at once as ihe space is very much needed for the display of other goods. There still remains a fair selection, in borders and centers to match; also Hall and Stair effects. Come early for first choice. .75c $1.20 quality 10-Vire Tapestry for, per yard $1.20 quality Moquette Carpets, QC per yard OwC 90c quality Printed Velvet Carpet for, yard 68c fl.20 quality Extra Velvet Qfl Carpet for, yard OUL gs and RUGS ai-ATTRACmVE REDUCTIONS f We are including every Rug in our entire store at reductions varying from 10 to 30 per cent. Small Rugs, Me dium and Large Size Carpet Rugs go at big reductions regardless of kind or quality. A sample of values follow: 1 Fine Wilton Rugs, 9x12 00 OA. ft., worth $37.50, for JO.OU- Meuium Axminster Rugs, g 9xl2 ft., worth $25.00, for. . . I0.4U 2 Medium Axminster Rugs, -y n 8.3x10.6 ft., worth $22.50, foilj.OU 6 Extra Tapestry Rugs, 6x9 ft., worth $8.50, for .. 0."D 2 Imperial Smyrna Rugs, 4x7 C ftC ft., worth $8.00, for D.Vij 6 Imperial and Medium Smyrnr Rugs, 8x6 ft., worth I IE $5.00, for l.4j 4 Imperial and Medium Symrr3 Rugs, 27x45 inches, worth 1 in $3.50, for i.40 Axministers and Wilton in all sizes. Also a few Hall Runners reduced. 4-4 Ingrain Carpets 228 yards best All Wool, -0 75c, per yard -OoC 150 yards Cotton Chain Car- in pet, worth 65c, per yard 4"C 320 yards Half Wool Filled Car- pets, worth 50c, per yard JVC MATTINGS AT 25 PER CENT LESS. 120 yards of China or Japanese 'I'll Matting, worth 30c, per yd LLl 80 yards China or Japanese Matting, worth 40c, per yard 76 yards China or Japanese Akr Matting, worth 60c, per yard INGRAIN AND PRO-BRUSSELS ART SQUARES. All sizes in stock are included. We mention here a few of the sizes 3x3 yards, 3x3 yards, 3x3 yards, ' 3x4 yards, 3x4 yards, 4x4 yards in' All Wool and Half Wool qaulities 10 TO 20 PER CENT LESS. $6.00 IRON BEDSTEAD $4.40 One of the most popular selling styles. Made the largest Iron Bed manufacturers in the world. Has straight drop foot with posts 1 1-10 inches in diameter: hoight of heart rail 5 feet, 5 inches; full width and length. A neat, stylish Bed; enamel finish, -with bronze trimmings: a big value at $0.00. In onr Removal Sale the price is, each ; . . VERNIS MARTIIN FINISH, $4.75. IIRT VAIST BOXES, 69c tike cut, with Padded top, covered in fancy Cretonne iiectLi imeu auu reauy lor use; no bed chamber is complete , without one; price, each Mattress Special For Wednesday and Thursday $4.00 COTTON TOP HUSK MATTRESS, $2.95. The Husk Mattress is conceded to be the most dur able and comfortable low priced Mattress on the market. We have a quantity made up in . good strong tick with 4 pounds of cotton on top; form erly sold at $4.00; for full size metal or wood beds; special Removal Sale price,, each . , . $2.95 Up to $7.00 Irish Point Lace Curtains $3,95 218 pairs of snowy white Bobbinet Lace Curtains, with dainty Applique Innertion and border effects; fine Imported Curtains mode by the peas antry of Switzerland, will be on sale beginning today and until sold; all plain centers; not a pair of Curtains in tho lot worth less than $5: others worth fO.00, $fi.50 and $7.00. Your choice oftho entire line, comprising 15 distinct styles, for choice, per pair 81.96 I TUT ear 1124 O Street $15.00 GOLDEN OAK CHINA CLOSET $11.85 A late pattern in good Quarter-sawed White Oak of Polished Golden Finish; rounded ghiss ends; Oak finished inside; large size; worthi $15.00. In our Removal Sale the price is, each. STILL MAKING A PROFIT! WE couldn't stay in business if we sold out at cost or below We are not like the merchant who could afford to sell below cost because he "sold so much." But our profit is always reasonable. This means Lower Prices here than elsewhere Ibecause our expense of operating is smaller in proportion to amount of business done. - SOME SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS We are overstocked in some lines, and in order to get rid of the surplus we are making the profit margin lower than Ever. MEN'S SUITS FROM $6 to $15 BOY'S SUITS FROM $1. 25 to $6 Got a lot of Union Made Hats, too. They are worth every cent we ask for them. Got some "Scab", too. Sell them for a dollar, but you'll have to take chances on getting your money's worth. Oodles of Union Made Shoes, Shirts, Overalls, etc. What's the matter with investigating our goods and prices? That will be all you need to do. We'll take chances on getting your trade if you'll do that. LINCOLN CLOTHING TENTH and P STREETS. CO PACE IS TOO SWIfT RAILROADS NOT ABLE TO KEEP PACE WITH THE WEST. BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR IS NEEDED That Sum Should Be Expended in Buildings of New Trackage, and a Canal St. Louis to Gulf is Suggested. Watches Hake fine Xmas presents. Pick out one we'll save it for you. As an extra inducement, notice this 7 Jewel, !j-ye;ir filled case. .$11.00 13 Jewel, 25 yer tilled case. . 1&50 17 Javvel, 25-year iilleil case. . 21.50 Examine our line of Solid-Gold Genfs Watches. E. Fleming: 1211 O Street , Governor John A. Johnson of Minne sota has received a long letter from James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad company, in which the railway magnate deals exhaus tively with the various phases of the railroad problem. Mr. Hill sets out at length what, in his opinion, is responsible for the ex isting situation and what should be done to remedy it. The western coun try has grown so fast that the rail roads have been unable to keep pace with it, Mr. Hill says, and he believes the building of additional trackage is the beEt solution of the problem. He says it would require a permanent in vestment of $1,100,000,000 a year for five years to provide the railroads of the country with means to handle properly the business already in "sight and not alowing for future growth. Mr. Hill says in part: "During re cent years the volume of business has increased and is increasing with ex traordinary rapidity while the neces sary additional trackage and terminals have not been equal to the demands upon them. The resulting situation is a freight blockade of enormous pro portions, especially at all terminal points. How to remedy this is a problem, financial, mechanical and physical. No time should be lost in applying such measures of remedy as may be possible.." Mr. Hill quotes the figures from the official reports of the interstate com merce commission to show the growth of the railroad business for the past ten years, and says: "The figures show the cause of de lay in natural traffic movement which threatens to bring industry to a stand still. Equipment is being increased as rapidly as capital and labor can do it. There are and will be cars enough to carry the country's traffic if tho cars can be moved, but engines and cars must have tracks on which they may run. The limit of service of a common carrier has been reached when it is moving at all times over its sysiem as many cars as can be run on its tracks with sufety and transferred and dis patched from its terminals and junc tion points without unreasonabla delay. Beyond that point, increases of busi ness cannot be handledby increasing cars and engines." He shows that the growth of busi ness in the west has been faster than the building of facilities to handle same, and states that it - would re quire "the investment in permanent railroad plants of $1,100,000,000 a year for five years to provide the railroads of the country with means to handle properly the business already in sight, not allowing for future growth. This is the real railroad problem of the United States. Two remedies must be found. - "The prohibitory expense now at tached to enlargement of terminals at many points and aboslute lack of avail able space at any place may be met by decentralization of traffic. A fifteen foot canal or channel from St. Louis to New Orleans would go further to re lieve the entire middlo west and south west than any work that could be un dertaken. With such a depth of water a single powerful tow boat would car ry from thirty to forty trainloads. Terminal troubles admit of a more general diffusion of business, permit ting transfers to take place and tor warding to be done where land can be secured in adequate quantities and at more reasonable prices. To this the traffic systems of the country must be adjusted. The heavy transfers must be made away from the larger cities.'' In conlusion, Mr. Hill says: "There must be a realization by the country of the embargo on business and of the fact that the cause is insufficient rail road trackage. It will reqdire the best thought and the best effort of this gen eration to avert the evil that now casts its shadow on farmer, manufac turer and merchant, to'arrest the pro gress and the paralysis that is laying its grip on the heart of commerce and to restore the wholesome circulation without which there cannot be life and growth in either individual or commonwealth." QUAKE AND TIRE LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY AT KINGSTON, JAMAICA. CITY IS REPORTED TO BE OH FIRE Lives Lost Estimated at Forty to One Hundred Disturbance Happened at 4 P. M., January 14th Re- , ports Are Conflicting. Two Men Shot By Accident. William Smith and John Jones, Eng lish coal miners, employed by the Wa bash Coa! company, were torn to pieces at Steubenville, O., by shot from a gun. Mike Bolinsky, a night watch man, was returning homo on a speeder with a loaded shotgun. He dropped the gun from the speeder on a crossing near Parlett station, and the weapon was discharged. Its contents went into a crowd of 100 people near the station, but Smith and Jones received almost the entire load. Several others were shot, but not seriously hurt. Revolutionists Sentenced. The sentencing at Chihuahua. Mex ico, revolutionists Scarabia aud Can alcs to seven years and one month, Cicente de la Toor to five years and six months, Eduradox Gonzales to three years and six months, Nememsio Teredo to two years and six months anil thirteen others to one and two years, is announced. Forty rurales are taking the prisoners to Mexico City. Most of their have appealed to the circuit court in Mexico City. The first four named will be taken to Ulua and tht others to a military prison. The sentences are considered light. Kingston, the picturesque capital of the island of Jamaica, has been de vasted by a violent earthquake.,' ' Details of the disaster are lacking, aa direct communication . with the stricken city has been cut off. The land lines had been reconstructed to within five miles of Kingston Tuesday evening and from meagre reports re ceived through such channels as were open, it ha3 been learned that many of the most important buildings have been destroyed and that there has been serious loss of life. So far as the reports indicate the fatalities number less than 100, though the hospitals are filled with injured and the list of vic tims may be materially increased Kingston and the other points of in terest of the island at this season of the year are thronged with tourists from both America and England and the greatest apprehension is felt for the safety of many persons who had re cently arrived at the Jamaican resorts. The most distinguished of these! were members of a party of English statesmen, agricultural experts and men of affairs, who under the leader ship of Sir Alfred Jones, had arrived in Kingston within the past few days to attend an agricultural meeting there. Among those in the company were Hall Caine, the novelist; Vis count Montmorres, II. O. Arnold-For-ster, Sir ' Thomas M. Hughes, Sir Thomas Shann and others of equal prominence. : The first great shock was felt about 3:30 o'clock Monday afternoon and flames immediately sprung from the wreckage to carry. on the work of de struction. Tuesday afternoon the fire was still burning, although it was be lieved to be under control. The Myrtle Bank hotel, 4he princi pal hotel in Kingston, which probably sheltered the great bulk of visitors ou the island, is reported destroyed. The great military hospital was burned and forty soldiers are reported dead. Sir James Ferguson is said to have been instantly killed, but according to London reports no other Englishman, Canadian or American Is believed to be missing. The extent of the destruction which" has been wrought in Kingston, a city: which . already tears the scars of a number of disastrous visitations 0$ fire, earthquake and cyclone in years gone by, is still, left largely to the im agination. ' ; The city is one of iow lying build ings, clustered along the shores of one' of the finest and most securely land--' locked harbors in the West Indies. The population which numbers 50,000 : is largely made up of native blacks. Many steamers carrying tourists to ; Jamaica were en -route to the island when the earthquake occurred, but it so happens, that, according to sched-, ules, none of the ships from New York ' or Boston was in Kingston harbor Monday afternoon. Santiago, Cuba, Jan. 15.; Reports have been received here that Kings ton, Jamaica, was visited by a ter-: rible earthquake yesterday afternoon -at 4 o'clock. There was great destruc tion of property and loss of life and Kingston is now. on fire. DISPUTE HAS BEEN SETTLED. " Nicaragua: and Honduras Have Re ceived a Final Decision. A dispatch says: "The dispute" which has existed several years be1 tween Nicaragua and Honduras as to , the boundary line on the north has : been settled. This question, was left to the king of Spain as 'referee and he gave Honduras all that was claimed by President Bonila, and more.'" TO AMEND ANTI-PASS BILL. Burkett Proposes to Change at In stance of Railway Men. Senator Burkett has introduced a bill amending the anti-pass clause of the railroad rate bill permitting the pass courtesy to be extended to travel-" ing representatives of the Brotherhood of - Locomotive Engineers, Order of ; Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Brotherhood of. Railway Trainmen and Order of Rail-, way Telegraphers.'. GUGGENHEIM MADE SENATOR.": Colorado Republicans Choose the Cau-. cus Candidate. Slmcn Guggenheim, republican, was"; elected United States senator to sue- ceed Thomas M. Patterson, democrat, '; by the Colorado legislature. . Simon ) Guggenheim received a majority of the votes in both the 'senate and the& house in separate sessions.- ', , . Borah is Named in Idaho. '2 The Idaho legislature elected W. E.y Ijorah United States senator to sue-. J ceed Fred T. Dubois. The two houses I int ia separate session and Mr, Borah, who was nominated for senator jjy, the "i republican state convention and wa3 assured of election, received fifty votes, as against eighteen for Dubois, who had the endorsement of the demo cratic state convention. Mr. Borah is one of the leading lawyers of the . state.