Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, January 01, 1905, Page 4, Image 20
January I, 1906. TIIE OMAITA ILLUSTRATED1 BEE. Novel Colony of J1 ONE OP THE JAPANESE FOREMEN. Photo by a Staff Artist. P TO the nd of July, 1904, the subjects of the mikado Mutsihlta were seldom torn within the boundary lines of the Magic City. Now not lean than 160 Japanese U live and work In South Omaha. The packing; house strike caused the im portation of Japanese from Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. When It becam-e a question of getting laborers Manager Urquhart of the Omaha Packing company contracted with an agent for thirty-five Japs. These were taken Into the plant and It was not long before a like number was sent for. Then General Manager Murphy of the Cudahy company decided that he would try some Japanese labor and he sent to the Denver aged of t .Taps for help. The re Odd Things that Happened Last Year Sentenced by Hla 1'acle. f N Christmas eve. In Meridian, I I Miss., Dstel Moore, convicted of I J manslauekter several months ago. was sentenced to serve twenty Ave years in the penitentiary by Judge Coohran, who Is an uncle of the con victed man. In delivering the sentence the aged Judge was overcome by emotion, and said that had he listened to the dictates of sympathy r considered the ties of relationship he would 1st the young man go free, but since the jury had found the man guljty he felt that there was nothing for him to do but to sentence him, although It almost broke his heart to do so. "I Intend to do my duty, God helping ma," he said. Moore killed a friend In a Quarrel over a flrl. "Goodnight" statloa.. According to a story In the Louisville Courier-Journal the passengers in a sleep Ing car which was rolling through Okla homa not long ago that la, those of the passengers who had not been In that sec tion of the country before were startled at the announcement made by the conductor one morning Just as they were getting Into their clothes In that brief and narrow slot by courtesy termed a berth. "Goodnight!" roared the conductor as he passed through the car. "Goodnight!" "Not on your life good night," cried three or four of the pas sengers. "It's good morning', for It's been a bad night." "Goodnight," called the con ductor In all faith, for of a truth the name of the next station was "Goodnight," which town Is located In Logan county on the Cimarron river. Jail Love. Walter Lorraine, who live near Buffalo, N. Y., in May brought suit for $2,000 dam ages against Miss Du Clam of Niagara Falls. It seems the young woman, carried away by her affection, hugged him hard enough to fracture a rib. Almost at the same time Miss Carrie Hugln of Janeavllla, Wis., was so tightly clasped by her sweet heart that two of her ribs became inter locked. Lord Flncastle, one of England's bravest men, three times decorated for heroism in battle, was married last January and was so nervous at the altar that his bride had to prompt all his responses. After seven years In the cloister Sister Annette of Burlington, la., applied for a dispensation from vows that she might marry on of her music pupils. Jury Service la Hamsll. Not long since a native of Kail. Hawaii, cheated a neighbor out of a small sum of money. The community was Indignant, and determined that the guilty party should be punished. The day of the trial came, the testimony was conclusive, the judge closed his . charge, reminding the Jury that "It takes nine to convict," for a three-fourths majority was required. Instead of a unani mous Jury. It was thought that the twelve might decide In the box, but the Hawaiian likes form, and they gravely withdrew to the Jury room. They were gone an uncon scionable time. At length the judge, im patient, sent to find put what in the world was the matter, and discovered this predic ament: All twelve were for conviction, and no three could be Induced tiT vote for the deftadant. Youth tm T reared r. Angered by what he thought an unjust reprimand from his teacher, Walter Dale, a 14-year-old pupil In the Denver schools. In January took a dose of carbollo acid and died In the mldat of hla companions. When the remulns of .J. J. Burnside, one of the victims of a snowsllde at Alta, Utah, In February, were found It was dis covered that death had come not from suffocation or cold, but . heat. The man had been pinned against a stove by the rush of snow. "Hold the line and listen. I'm going to kill Pearl and myself." With this advloe over the 'phone to a friend James Gar field of Minneapolis committed murder and ukide last January. Attle His Bavin Bank. Before th heirs of Reuben Umstad, who died in Frederick township Pennsylvania, . i- , " "' Japanese1 at work in sult was that at one time during and after the parking house strike about 350 Jape were employed In the packing houses. Since the strike wns declared off the num ber of Japs have dwindled until now only about 1B0 remain here. IIoalnn the Japs. When the Japs first arrived In South Omaha and went to work In the packing houses they were housed at the Omaha, and Cudahy plants. The confinement wore on the little men and on September 10 an effort was made to rent the old Wisconsin house on Twenty-slJfth street. Just north of N street, for a lodging house for the Japs. The first payment on the rent was made and the Japs started to move In, but the agent returned the rent paid and told the Japs to clear out. So back to the packing houeee they went At the Cudnhy plant about 130 Japanese are now employed and those who de.lre to remain at the plant are given quniteri". The Omaha Packing company has only eight or ten of the little yellow men there now. Make OoodWorkmen. In ipeak!ng of the Japs yesterday General Manager Murphy of the Cudahy Parking company said: "We have about 130 working would consent to the filing of an adminis trator's account a search of the garret had to be made. They Insisted that not all of his money had been accounted for. The attic was ransacked and $2,9C0 In gold, silver and hills was brought to light. During the auditing of the estate Mrs, Umstad Riild her husband had often told her he had money In an old chest In a closet in a corner of the gnrret. Ke often showed her the key, and told her the chest had a peculiar lock: that the key had to be turned to the right three times before It could be unlocked. "Reuben never spent a cent; he didn't have to. He was a very savin' man," she said. After this attestation of Umatad's fru gality the heirs prosecuted the search, which resulted in disclosing the hidden fund. Life's Little Ironies. Jermlah Harrlgan of Hockseasin, Del., es caped the clutches of the hangman after the gallows had been erected upon which he was to die. A few weeks later he died from the effects of a badly frozen foot. William P. Steele of Princeton, Md was killed while setting up a monument over his wife's grave. The stone fell upon him, crushing head and chest. It was suggested to the authorities of TSevllle, Spain, that the city should do some thing to help tho Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The Idea wns en thusiastically adopted and a monnter bull flght held In the organisation's behalf. After fruitlessly wandering over the hills' of Utah for years, Patrick Sullivan, an old prospector, died of heart (allure upon dis covering a rich mine near Park City. PoUoned by a Peacll. Marie Love of Baltimore, the 7-year-old daughter of William Love, died December 24 from blood poisoning caused by the punc ture of a lead pencil In her palate. She was working out an arithmetical problem at her home and, desiring to ask her grandmother to help her, started to run from her room to that of her grandmother. She fell with the pencil In her mouth. The pencil point stuck In her palate and blood streamed from the wound. Some of the long graphite point of the pencil broke off In the flesh. The wound would not heal and it grew worse until blood poisoning developed. In less than thirty-six hours after the accident happened the child was dead. Freaks of Llarhtnlas;. Jerry Crandelt, who live near Saratoga, ' f ' ' I KXA8S OF MOT. OMAHA 11 Japanese 4- J inn fCfV the canning department at ctmAHTB-nxx sus Jutut. for us now andvwe find that they are excel lent workmei.. They are deft and If ehown how to do a thing once they do not forget. Most of the Japs here at this plant are em ployed In the canning room, the tin shop and the box factory. One point in favor of the Japs is that they work all of the time and do not Btop to gossip. So far their work Is entirely satisfactory. While we are housing some of the Jap here at the plant yet, we are advocating their getting out and seeking other quarters, but there terns to bo some feeling against them and they prefer to remain by themselves." Superintendent Patrick Shehy of tha Cudahy company said In regard to the Japs that they were particularly clean. "We had to put In shower and tub baths for thae fel lows, and they take a bath every day when they quit work. After their bath they wash their working clothes and the next morning put on another suit so that they report for work every morning In clean clothes. In washing clothes the Japs lay their work ing chfthes on the floor and after using plenty of soap scrub the garments with a brush, rinse and hang up to dry. As far as their conduct in the plant Is concerned, their deportment is excellent" Continuing hi lalk In a general way Su perintendent Shechy ppoke of a recent cele bration of the Japs They BBked for half a day off and It was granted. A banquet was served in their quartern In ljonor of the mikudo's birthday. "It wns a great feast," 'said Mr. Sheehy. "There was a lot of things to eat that people here know nothing about. And as for speeches, there was lots of talk that nobody but themselves could understand. Even- after a celebration last ing twelve hour-c every Jap In the plant showed up for work the next morning look ing as bright as a new pin." Interpreter Handle Them. AH of thejiuslness transactions between . the management of the Cudahy plant offiTlJ clals and the Japs are done through an In-.. terpreter, Okijlml by name. This Inter- preter looks after the men, directs their N. Y., avers that one afternoon In May, during a thunderstorm, a bolt of lightning ripped through the kitchen floor of his cot tage, set fire to the woodwork and smashed a big Jar, the water from which put out the flames. While G. C. Rothwell, candidate for Levy court commissioner In Wilmington, Del., was about to vote at the September pri maries lightning tore down one of his political posters from a telegraph pole and knocked the ticket from his hand. He was defeated by a large majority. Mrs. W. A. Redwlck of Cooperstown, N. Y., was carrying a lighted lamp downstairs during a storm when a bolt tore the lamp from her hand.' putting it out at the same time, ripped open the woman's shoes, but left her personally uninjured. Dollars and Divorce. Because her husband acquiesced In every thing she suggested and never argued with her, Mrs. Jessie Bryning of Kansas City applied for divorce. A. W. T. Lawrence, a convict serving In th penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo., cleared 140,000 by operating In the February cotton market through a broker friend. While nine grown ohlldren were assembled in his house to help celebrate his golden wedding, Christian Trllcks of Louisville en tered suit for. divorce, Frank E. Towl of New York City tried to dlvorca his wife last October because she played so poor a gam of poker as to keep him "always in the hole" trying to pay her losings. His application was denied. Death in Trifles. Jacob Harlem of Union City, Ind., dreamed on night last January that his father had bean killed In a runaway acci dent His terror brought on a chill whloh resulted In death. An ill fitting sho, rubbing th heel t HTQH EC7IOOL REUNION HELD AT . . 11 b.I if Laborers ' V sc THREE OF THE LITTLE FELLOWS by a Staff Artist work, collects their wages and acts as a general- guurdlan. Okijlml speaks English quite well, is well educated and Is pretty well up to the tricks of the "Melican" man. Three nights In eaoh week 'Okljlmt holds night school in' the quarters at the Cudahy plant and teaches his pupils English. It is Benjamin Ady of Baltimore was the cause of his death. The doctor called it blood poisoning. A Vlneland (N. J.) contractor, Feaster by name, died of fright at the sight of the surgical Instruments laid out preparatory to an operation upon him. Four Footed Friends. In the stomach of a steer brought from Nebraska to the Pittsburg stock yards was found an Issue of Mr. Bryan's Commoner undigested. United States Senator Ankeny of Wash Igton state was an invalid in January, all because his pet dog was so glud to see him that lie upset the politician in their greeting and the latter broke his arm in the tumble. A mall train on the Illinois Central road was wrecked In January by striking a cow. ' The body was hurled against a switch and In some manner opened, it, ditching the train. ' A pointer dog. sent from St. Paul Into North Dakota for hunting training, was frightened by the noise of a mowing ma chine and ran all the way home to his owner 3o6 miles. Chance. The steamship Alaskan, whloh reached New York In August from Honolulu, made nearly $30,000 for Its owners by being de layed three days In a storm, during which time th price of sugar, with which tha vessel was loaded, rose considerably. In April last A. J. Gonder, a brakeman employed by the Ontario Western road, predicted he would meet death while coupling. His prophecy was foot six days later. ' A gam of aeven-up broke an election deadlock in Monongahela, Pa., last Feb ruary, Clark Boyd, republican, and James Hendlakson, democrat, each re- V ft ' 1O THE HOME OF MR. AND MRS. O. T. MORTON LAST TUESDAY. Working ... 1 mCXJO UOUWB,- 4..r w wv; IN THEIR WOBK1KO CL.OTHJMJ.-f now said that the class Is getting along nfbaly. To Tomlto Is another Interpreter who Is In charge of the so-called club house at th Haskell building. Thirty-seventh and N streets. Some of the Japs thought that by banding themselves together they could n- joy themselves more and subsist at a less r ' ceived 113 votes for register assessor and played cards for a decision. Th democrat won. James A. Jennings, a New York elec trician, was run over by a train and killed the morning after he had dreamed that h was dead. Fiction Outclassed. Harry Lehr attended a Newport theater one evening In July wearing a bright red tie with hut evening clothes.' The Missionary society of the Kenosha (Wis.) Methodist church refused to accept a legacy of $75,000 because the donor had met his death while attending the theater. On January 15 a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Leroy of Louisville, Ky., being their fifth boy born on that day of that month since 1900. Frank Brooking of Macomb, 111., ' while tearing out a sparrow's nest, found a $3 bill among the straw. With, this as rent money he put back th birds' horn and they are again living with him. The Gentler Sex. "No mother should be weak enough to allow her baby to scream oft the key. Sh hmi 1 (1 porpv a tun In 17 f nr r an1 tvti t V- child Is about to begin a prolonged howl should give It the proper note." That Is the recipe for domestic harmony which Miss Amelia Weed Holbrook gave the Profes sional Woman's league last June. The manager of a New York City theater solved the theater hat question In March by posting the following notices) "Ladles win please remove their hats. Old ladles, liable to catch cold, are not bound by this re quest." All hats came off. In February Miss Bell Cox of Morris town, N. J., slipped on the ice and brok her leg. In May she fell from a ladder and broke It again. In July she made a mis step from a car and for th third time broke th same leg. if1 -. J x 1 A 1 , u w m in South Omaha it r-"f'5-v WHKRr ItANT OF THE JAPANESE 1JVE. cost than by remaining at OklJImi's place. Tomlto cast about for a "club house" and rented the Haskell property, which is better known as the Home of the Good Shepnera. About fifty Japs live and eat there. Cleanly and Carefully. The first thing that was done after rent ing the 'Haskell house was to give It a thorough scrubbing from top to bottom. Men were detailed to do the cooking and care for the bul'.ding and rooms. A certain sum per week Is paid by each resident of this house. While rice is the principal food, meats and vegetables are also consumed In moderate quantities. An Inspection of the quarters of the Japs shows that they are fond of liquors of all kinds. At the Tomlta house the Japs have In their 'rooms quantities of liquors from champagne down to beer. Cordials are to be seen In abundance and "bottled In bond" and "bottled in saloon" whiskies are to be seen In almost every department. After working hours the Japs, after th"v have washed their clothes, taken their h and supped, enjoy native games of uhance. They are great gamblers and often remain up until early morning hours playing games Curious and Romantic Mighty Close Call. FTER keeping r.U head through an exciting chase, H:riry H. Lumley lost It at a critical mo ment and cam within an oce of A marrying the wrong woman, He held ths nana .or tne aiirs iiuin;iy that he wanted for a sister Instcady of he nan(j of the Miss Liberty that he wamea for a wife whn the justice negan me wedding ceremony. And it was ths prompt action of th bride that prevented the catastrophe. Mr. Lumley's home Is ln Jollet. He is a business man there, and a' prominent one. Mis Harriet B. Liberty Is the daughter of a Jollet merchant. Mr. Lumley and Miss Harriet B. Liberty had' been engaged for a year. They left Jollet the other morning Chicago was their destination, and Mis Margaret Lib- erty. lstr of th bride, their only com panlon. Th next train carried a dozen mn and women, friends of the bride and groom. Th young men of Jollet wer at th en ' trance of the Sherman hous when tha bridal party left As the carriage drov down Clark street th dozen friends entered more carriages, and as th bridal party halted at the jus tice's office the bridegroom looked out and saw his friends. Then began a chase. The bridal carriage dashed down Clark street 'and, the carriages containing the friends followed. The bridal carriage turned Into Jackson boulevard and the carriages that followed turned the same way. There was a dash down Michigan avenue, aud up Wabash. The chase con tinued, out Jackson boulevard and into Adams street What's th user" queried th excited bridegroom when be saw that he could not get rid of his friends. "None," answered th bride, and th car riage turned up Clark. "Maybe we can hav th ceremony per formed before they catch up," volunteered the sister. They tried. They arrived at Jutlc Caverly's offlc. A moment mors and they were In his offlc. "Hurry It up," said th bridegroom to th justice. "Before anyone comes," added the bride. "W want to beat them," volunteered th sister. "Join hands, ' he said as h began to read the ceremony. And the bridegroom, bent only upon beat ing hi friends, caught a woman's hand. And the woaian, bunt only upon having the ceremony concluded before th an Lai of the friends, did not notice. "Do you take this woman to be your wife?" began the Justice. The "yes" was on the bridegroom's lips when he htard a woman shriek. He tun .$ and behind him stood Miss Harriet Liberty, the woman that he wanted to marry. And at his side etood Misj Murgarot Liberty, the woman, that he wanted for a sister. Tha delay was lata). Tim three carriage and the dozen friends ur.lved. They wit nessed the ceremony and they threw rice. A MUsourf Weddlnc. The Booster of Brlmson, Mo., describe the first wedding eel.-bruted in that metrop olis as . follow: , "Th first wedding of a' Brlmson person In Brlmson occuired Mon day evening, when Miss Mary Saiyars and John Mack were married at the le idenoe of . the bride's parent in North ilannuh avenue, Brlmson, at high 7 o'clock. They were married by tho bountiful s.l.er d liar ceremony, the pre ldl g ofnVer, Judge Sey mour Oyler. instructing th groom p-e-sent that much of the fee to lh" br de. The bride wore a blue d.ess wl.h skirt 01 three gores, tastefully trinm.ed in brass buttons, und later entertained the eumpun, by singing, unaided, that lea at f ul ballad entitled "The Boy Who Broke tlio duuuui.. and Got Into the PeniteulUry.' The bride has lived here only a snort t.me a d haj made many friends. The g:oi m is a.) In du trlous young man, and the iioo.iL wishes them g.eat happiness. Taey a.e visiting at 'J'lndall, but Mr. Muck may Join his fatliei-in-luw In in blacksml lii .g bus jeu here." Taxing I) .clelor. An old project of taxing baclukrj has recently been revived. When-the Indiana legislature meet at Indiajiupolis In Janu ary, It will be asked to pass a bill intro duced by Gibson county member levying a tax of 10 cents on every $100 s.Uary earned by an ablebodled buchelor of mor than 86 who receive luur than II.OuO annually. It ' A - - Photo by a Staff Artist of various kinds. Reserves ( to Fight. Some of the Jape employed here during the fall belonged to the first reserves of th Japanese army. When the call came for the first reserves about a dozen left South Omaha bound for their native land. Those who remained made a pool and secured quite a sum of money for the men going home to fight for the mikado. There was a great ado when the squad of first reserves left the packing houses and many In th second reserves expressed a deslr to go also. All of the Japs now In the city be long to the second reserves of the Japanese army and they do not look for a call to re turn home, but state that in case a call Is made they will respond willingly. Each Jap here has a little money laid away In antici pation of a call and is ready at any time to quit his work In the packing house and start on his long Journey across the Pa cific to Join the army of Japanese now la the field. The Interpreters Tomlto and Okljlmt hav little to say regarding the war except to their own people. They do express the opinion that the Japs will ultimately win. Features at Weddings Is proposed to apply 10 per cent of this rev enue to the school fund and 90 per cent to tha maintenance of the various orphans' homes ifl" the state. Indiana la not a state In whloh bachelors are unduly numerous. By the last census there were 9,KS unmarriea men in inaiana between the ages of 46 and 66, 4.J1S between 55 and 55 ,nd 2 jj above 66, a total of 16,- 284, exclusive of 21,636 bachelor between St and 45 who are to fall within the provisions of the bill, though generally bachelors be tween 36 and 46 are not deemed totally In corrigible and hopeless. : How many of th 37,000 bachelors In. In- i diana earn more than $1,000 a year and how many of them are ablebodled are question which could not be decided offhand. But that many of them, perhaps as many of them as 10,000, would fall within th pro visions of the proposed law seems prob able, and the school fund of th state and the orphan asylums would, by tho adoption of this act, be considerably enriched. In New York state there axe 100,000 un- married men between 85 and 45, 40.0UO be tween 46 and 66 and 18,000 between 66 and 66. There are, moreover, candor compels and feminine neglect accentuates the admis sion, 9,800 bachelors over 66 absolute Incor rigible. Perils of HI Feet. Big toes are usually small factors In most love affairs, but the one that belonged to Miss Adeline Welsh had a large part In shattering the romance of Robert Lucky, who lives in Kentucky, for his clumsiness, which cost the young woman her toe, cost him her heart. And it cost her mother about $50 recently In settlement of a court caja to which this tangled tale of wos about a heart and a toe led. It was all Lucky's fault, declared the two women. His fault cost him dear, for on has only to see the girl to understand that his name belies him. She la tall and very good looking, scarcely 18 years old, and with- all the fire and dash that Is generally associated with a Blue Grass belle. When Lucky learned that his chances of winning the hand of Miss Welch bad vanished he demanded back the money h had paid a surgeon to repair th damag he had Inflicted upon her foot. Not only did he obtain Judgment, but the marshal attempted to levy upon the piano at Mrs. Welsh's home and was prevented from carrying out his plan only by th arrival of Mrs. Welsh's attorney. The case was reopened and after Judg ment was set aside Mrs. Welsh paid th doctor' bill, which Lucky paid originally, sh says, over her objections, and th Inci dent Is considered closed. Mrs. Welsh, who Is an artist of some re pute, comes from Wllllamstown, near Lex ington, where her family has long been fumed for the beauty of Its girls. She is tall, statuesque, of the' blonde typ. and her daughters she has two resemble her greatly. The two girls for several years had been attending school in Kentucky. Lart summer Adeline was visiting relatives In WIlllamBtown and was ardently courted by Lucky, who Is a poet when not running the general store. One night while at a party Lucky brought the heel of his shoe down on Miss Welsh's toe. Now, this toe had long been a tender point with the young woman and at th moment cf contact she promptly fainted She was taken home and Dr. Menefee th village surgeon, feared that blogd poison ing would set in. Lucky was distracted and outdid hlnve'frfn providing for the patient's comfort. When she was able to walk he 11 "" p'ir ' wort slippers h rvuiu iimu. out hi nT next dunce 'he found greater pleasure In the n-irtr." rren. "Hp of other This hurt Liiekv. pa-tl. ulnt lv as he had ins'sted on mc tl- g the .loctor's fh,. Ittionir h Mrs. sent Welsh hud written t hUVA tho I. til to her. tVhei she return..! . York he begun suit before Judge Tlerney in the B-onx for the phjultl m's bill ulu. the rteet cf the sHimers. ' . 1 'J nrnr Mrs. Welsh r.l'.d to an-wer.the summons and the esse went Ly d-f-.ult. V;e .,. learnei the real mem.lng of the action however he haHten.d ,o employ the strvl lee, , f James 1 Orayblll. She Irld b.for. he court a letter from Dr. Menef. ,ho Ing that hi. charge, had be.,, only " in" stead of th. $ peIfied by Lucky It 1. thought that th. plamtlff h.d consider th. additional t a. b.ln, ta J compensating damages, ntux of hi H