Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, January 09, 1905, Page 5, Image 5
THE OMAHA DAILY HEE: MONDAY. JANUARY 0, U'or,. B AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA City Council to Take Up Question f Extending 8fwer Bjitim. COMMITTEE SEES ANDREW ROSEWATER IKlalatarc to Be Anked for Leclala. tloa Which Will Enable City to leave Boada to Carry on tke Work. An extension of the city itwer system will be one of the matter to be considered by the city council at the meeting to be held tonight. On Saturday afternoon a committee composed of Mayor Kouteky, City Engineer Beal and Councilman Ad kins, QueenaA and Klewlt called upon Andrew Roeewater, city engineer Of Omaha, to tali over the matter of a complete ewer system In South Omaha. In talking last night of his visit to Engineer Rose waer. President Adklns of the council said: "We called upon Mr. Rosewater, know ing that he Is an expert on sewer engi neering. The committee was well pleased with the result of the Interview, but it would hardly be proper to give out any Information on the subject until a report Is made to the council Monday night. It Is the Intention of the committee to meet on Monday afternoon and prepare a report. Until this report Is made up and signed the members of the committee will not be In a position to make any public declara tions. Mr. Rosewater told us that he was f.tmlllar with the sewer system in South Omaha, having gone over the ground not long ago on Ma own account. Just what will be done with the committee's report cannot be. told until the council takes aC.lon." It Is the Intention of the city authorities to proceed as rapidly as possible to make estimates of the probable cost of a new sewer system and to request the legislature to frame a law so that the city may Issue bonds to pay ths cost of the work. An extension of the present sewer system Is certainly needed and property owners all aver the city are asking that something be done to provide sewers for recently erected residences as well as bualness places. Tardlaeaa la Schools. The blue pennsnt which Is permitted to float over a school building where no tardiness Is reported for a month Is caus ing pupils to take a pride In punctuality to classes'. In some of the schools that strive hard for the pennant it goes hard with a boy who comes in tardy and Is marked as being late on the teacher's report. In the Albright school the puplla are working hard for the blue flag and during Decern ber more than one youngster was given Ms "trimmings" when he got out on the playground during recess. This "trim mlng" exercise la practiced at most alt of the schools among the younger boys and it is having a good effect. The result Is that there Is scarcely any tardiness re ported at any of the buildings. With today the "trimmings" will commence again after the holiday vacation. There la not so much attention paid to absentees as to tardiness. Pupils wTio are absent must bring excuses from parents, but tardiness Is something that the boys In the schools will not over look. Of course, there Is no rough treat ment, but Just enough Is passed out to re mind the pupil that he must be on time when the bell rings. Want More Live Stock. Last week's receipts of cattle at the five leading-markets showed a decrease as com pared with a year ago. Commission men aay that there docs not appear to be any great shortage of fed cattle in the country, but the decline In the prices paid by the packers had a tendency to put a stop to shipments. The statement was made yes terday that the coolers at the packing houses were running low of supplies and If this Is true live stock commission men say that the packers will more than' likely boost the market enough to get In some stock. Shippers who have visited South Omaha market within the laat week de Clare that It Is the low price offered that la holding the stock back. There Is plenty of feed all over the territory tributary to this market, but shippers want more money for their stock than Is being offered now. Country butchers are buying a great deal of stuff that was formerly sent to this market and of course this cuts Quite a figure In packing house circles. A member of the exchange said last night that Just as soon as the buyers would pay the price atoca waa worth it would come to market Condemning; Taaafe Buildings. Building Inspector Wlnegard has a list of buildings that he Is prepared to declare unsafe and condemn. In accordance with the Instructions of the city counoll the In pector must take such steps as the city attorney declaies proper. Inspector Wlne gard aald yesterday that he hoped to se-cu-e the advice of the city attorney some day this week. As soon aa the Instructions are issued from the legal department ths Inspector will go ahead with the condem nation proceedings. Some of the buildings mat it is desired to condemn are consid ered unsafe and should be torn down. In other buildings about the city the doors re to be changed so as to open outward. Magic City Goaalp. Tne city council is to hold a meeting MIf J'' "J,1?011 18 vl8IUn- relatlvea at Sheboygan, Wis. Miss Orace Gerrte has returned from, a win, rrinuvn in I BnaQ&, Chsrlle CHne of Snauldlng Is In the city for a day or two, the guest of James It Bulla. Patrick Coyle, one of Cudahy's foremen returned yesterday from a business trip D. D. Ringer, a member of the police force, is spending a few days vacation with relatives in Iowa. riaudn, the ryear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Uui K. Ixng. 1218 N street, died last night, funeral notice later. Grant Sweeney left yesterday afternoon for the western rart of the slate to look after some business mutters. Tha grading of I street from Twenty- If you -,use unsweetened chocolate and breakfast cocoa, try Ghirardelli's Ground Chocolate for a change. It contains all the nutriment the tissues need the sweetness the palate yearns for, and the content ment the appetite craves. It has all the good of other cocoa preparations with a belle rnieot of its own. fourth to Twenty-fifth street Is abont com pleted and the road is open to vehicles. Rev. Andrew Renwirk delivered an Inter esting sermon lest night at the t"mt-d Presbyterian church on the subject "Train ing a Man." Mr. and Mrs. Henry ElsfeMcr entertained a largw t.arty of friends at their home, lu.t North Twenty-sixth street. eter1ay. It w reunion of the relatives of Mrs. Els felder. 8. C. Shriglev writes from Ran Diego to friends here that he is enjoying life there, but expects to moe to Ix Angeles about February 1. Mr. Phrigley Is undecided about the ciate of his return to South Omaha, The rubllc schools will open today. The new training school system Is supposed to go Into effect and an effort wl.l be made to ensign about a score of tenchers, who ore to serve without pay In order to get experience before being placed on the fay roll. BILL CODY'S BIG ENTERPRISES Coat Mlalaa-, Tearlat Hotels, Irrlga tloa and the Wild West Shaw. Colonel Cody, looking as hale and hearty as ever he did, was sen at the Merchants hotel last evening. lie was ac companied by his daughter and her hus band, IJeutenant Plott, who has been stationed In the Philippines -for the past two years, and Is now on his way to Chlcamuuga park, where his rrglment Is at oraaant. Colonel Cody Is here looking after the Interests of the Cody Coal Mining com pany, which has a large mine located near Cody, In the Big Horn basin. The com pany has ordered a large amount of min ing machinery. Colonel Cody says the company will be shipping a train load of coal a day Inside of ninety days and that the Burlington railroad Is building tracks t. the mine. This Is only one of the many mines that will be developed within the next few months In the vicinity of Cody. Mines are being struck regularly mines of all kinds, but in order to de velope tjiem It will take tfvp mining, the same as In Colcrado. Owing to the difficulty of transportation, the expense of getting the ore out of the mountains has served to keep eastern capitalists out of this district, but now the Burlington has built through the country, nnd the Northwestern will build Into It during the summer, the difficulty will be removed. The government has called for estimates upon the Immense reservoir to be con structed near Cody for the purpose of Irrigation. Canals running from the res ervoir will furnlh water for 200.000 acres of land. To show th9 value that the government places upon the land a law has been passed Which makes it impossible for a person to homestead anything larger than an eighty-acre" tract of land. It is thought that this onnal will be com pleted within the next four or five years. Colonel Cody was the builder of the first Irrigating ditches In the Big Horn basin. They cover a tract of 40,000 ncres of land. The colonel Is also organising a circuit of hotels to extend from C-dy through the great Yellowstone park. These hotels will be placed 'at Intervals of about every twenty-four mllea along the road that has been built from Cody through the park. This road is built along the most beauti ful part of the pyk and the hotels so placed aa to be at the end of a good day's ride. Buffalo Bill's show will open In Parts on April 2. About 100 Indians will be sent across the water to Join the show some time In March. Colonel Cody will go to Paris about tha middle of February to superintend the opening of the show. STORY OF STOLEN SUGAR Four Mea Locked lp on Suspicion that They May Know Semet bin About Saeka Foond In Street. Pat Carrol, living at 1S20 North Twenty, first street, was arrested laat night shortly after 10 o'clock as he was about to pick up a sack of sugar that was lying In the gutter on Nicholas street, between Thir teenth and Fourteenth atreets. Pat said that he had been down to tha Union de pot and waa on his way to call on a friend living at Eleventh and Grace, and was taking a short cut up the railroad track. When he got to Nicholas street, on the Minneapolis & Omaha tracks, he glanced down the street and saw tlHs sack of something lying In the street and thought that he might as well have it as somebody else and so went to get It Officer Brady, who waa watching for some person to come and get this sugar, thought that Carrol had better go to the station and tell the Judge about it In the morn ing. William Kenka was walking along Nicholas street and saw the two sacks of sugar lying In the gutter. He reported the matter to Thomas Baker, who keeps a grain and hay store at Thirteenth and Nicholas streets. Baker notified the police and Dan Baldwin and Brady were sent to Investigate. When they got to the place, where the sugar was, Brady con cealed himself and .waited, while Baldwin tried to find where It came from. Soon after Baldwin left Carrol appeared on the scene and was arrested. Later in the evening ' Frank Benleh. Thirteenth and Nicholas; Frank Mayj Twelfth and Itard, and Charles Brunerj Seventeenth and Clark, were seen driving about this place and seemingly looking for something. They were arrested bn the suspicion that they might know something about the uffalr. The police were unable to And where the sugar came from, but they think It was probably taken from a car. aaVaW eta. ntsBMsaa&Aalii Bald-Headed Men Want Ualr Cut. The secretive, taciturn barber waa finally induced to talk. He remarked: "I've noticed one pecu.larlty about my customers that I could never quite explain. The less hair a man has the more attention he pays to it. "There's a real estate agent who emits In here nearly every week for a hair cut. and If I shaved him clean irom the back of his collar to his forehead you'd never know that I'd touched him. He's got a short, light colored frlngo that plays around under the rim of his hat. like the soft, fluffy fringe you see on those shawls the women wear over their shoulders, but you'd think, to hear him, that he could braid It and do It up In coila. Wants me to be par ticular and trim It cloae on the neck and around the ears. I humor him, of course. I take a handful of somebody else's hair and sprinkle It on the cloth I put on him. and then I snip the air gently for ten or fifteen minutes and make a great ado whan I whisk him off. .' "And when he leaves the chair and un he mustn't let It grow so long again I say It waa pretty long. I hope the Lord will rorgive me. rvine out of every ten of the bald heads are that way. but men who've got plenty of hair will keep away from here until tney look like the edges of an old fashioned hayloft It's curious, and. as I saia, t never could account for It." Prow. dence Journal. When lb Mills Grind. Patience What do you think? Patrlc I'm sure I don't know. Patience Why. that Husclna airl wa. married nearly a year ago! Patrice I never knew It! Patience No; nor I. either, until today. Patrice How did you find it out Patience Why, I saw an announcement of her divorce In the papers! Yonkers Statesman. The World's Largest and Most Popular Brewery The Anheuser-Busch Brewery, St. Louis, U. S. A. Covers 125 Acres Equal to 65 City Block5 5,000 Employes, More than 1,250,000 visitors, representing people from all parts of the world, passed through this great plant during the World's Fair, all of whom will attest the grandeur and magnificence of the buildings, the prevailing cleanliness and the excellence of its product. Sales for 1964 1357is Barrels of Beer of which Bud wen o ser "King of Bottled Beers" scored 130,388,520 Bottles stfcj DEVELOPMENTS IN DURE CASE Eixtj Thousand Dollars in Secsritiee Ftund on Patient Taken to Hospital. Be Want Ada axe tha Best liulneas COMMITTED AT REQUEST OF FAMILY Papera How in Handa of District Attorney, Who la Looking; Into Case Duke Waa Married One Month Abo. NEW-YORK, Jan. 8. Announcement was made tonight on what seemed to be author itative Information that the district at torney'a office will in all probability take up the case of Brodle L. Duke, who yester day was placed In a sanitarium, after hay ing been separated from his wife whom he married a few weeks ago. For several days numerous detectives have been work ing on the mysterious case and sensational developments are promised. District Attorney Jerome said today that he would do everything in his power to clear the entire matter. Rev. W. W. Coe. Dr. Parkhurot's first assistant, who performed the wedding cere mony, said tonight that he did so know ing nothing of Miss Webb's antecedents and making no Inquiries about thsm. He said also that at the time Duke mani fested "no signs of mental disturbance, although tha clergyman admitted thatln the excitement of the ceremony Duke gave answers In the wrong place at tlmea. The statement waa made, tonight that George H. Mallory, Mrs. Duke's attorney, had severed his relations with the woman, although this could not be confirmed. Woman Trlee to See Attorney. Incidents followed each other quickly to day In the affairs of Brodle L. Duke. who was committed to a sanitarium Saturday on account of hit mental condition. They culminated tonight In. the siege of the house of George H. Mallory. Mrs. Duke'a attorney, by a woman who said she was the lawyer's client. He refuted to have her admitted and for five minutes she tried to gain an entrance. The Iiellevue hospital authorities have deposited with District Attorney Jerome bonds. Mocks, notes and checks said to huve a fac value of $60,000 found In the pockets of Mr. Duke, wht-n he waa taken Intt custody at the lima nee of his rela tive on Uie ground that be waa not men tally competent to manage his own affairs. Mr. Duke's commitment to a sanitarium was signed by Justice Wyatt of the court of general sessions and Dr. Gregory, acting superintendent of Bcllevue hospital, said today that Duke was s filleted with a type of dementis George H. Mallory. a lawyer, snld he had been retained by Mrs. Duke In connec tion with some contracts In Texas lands in which she was Interested before her marriage. Tonight, however, he declined to admit to his house a woman whom the servants said gave the name of Duke. Mr. Mallory was averse to entering into anydlbcusslon of the transactions. There are among the papers In the temporary custody of the district attorney's office three promissory notes for $5,000 each, said to have been made on December 6, last, by Mr. Duke to Miss' Webb, four days before their marriage, and due In three, four and five months. Mr. Mallory said he had an Idea they were to be used In connection with the financing tf the Texas-Cuba Tobacco company, of which Mrs. Duke waa president before her mar riage. geearltlee Found on Mr. Duke. Mr. Mallory aald he had no information as to the list of the securities found in the possession of Mr. Duke. Among them were bonds of the cities of New Orleans and Durham, N. C; stock of the Common wealth Cotton company and various bank atocka in Durham and other southern cities. The face value of these securities waa HO. 000, with notes and a check bear ing a face value of 110,000 additional. Among the documents in the case Is the prospectus of the Texas-Cuba Tobacco company, which is said to have thousands of acre of arable land at Nacogdoches, Tex. In connection with 'this enterprise further capital seems to have been neces sary. Among the effects of Mr. Duke were found letterheads of this concern, which Indicate that It had the confidence of certain persons to whom the company announces it refers by permission. The references of the corporation are: E. A. Blount, president of the Commercial National bunk of Nacogdoches, Tex.; G. B. ghaw of the National Life Building of Chicago, and F. L. Webster, cashier of the First National bank of Van Wert, O. Mrs. Duke and her associate, Mrs. Agnea Desplalns, left the I'ark Avenue hotel to day and are now at a hotel in the upper part of the town. Both the women were served with subpoenas today, ordering them to appear before the gn.nd Jury to morrow, tut Uie reason for (his move waa not made public by the district attorney's office. Identity of Mrs. Duke. CHICAGO, Jan. 8. In marrying Brodle I.. Duke, who was pluccd In a sanitarium on Long Island yesterday, Mrs. Duke, who resided In Chicago before the wedding, gave up a remarkable business career In this city. Before the wedding Mrs. Duke, who is tho daughter of William II. Webb, a well known Chicago business man, had aided in the promotion of several large in dustrial concerns and at the time' she be came the wife of Mr. Duke, which was less than a month ago, she was president and secretary of the firm of TaVlor, Webb & Co., a prominent Investment company In La Salle street, j She was understood to be wealthy before marrying Duke. by the professors of the modern liberal schools. BERLIN HAS LARGEST SCHOOL Year Book of I'niveralty Short e AI moat Eight Thousand Persona on Holla. BERLIN. Jan. 8.-(Special Cablegram to The Bee.) The year book of the University of Berlin gives statistics which show that this Institute is the largest In the world. The number of matriculated students at present attending lectures Is 7,774, the lec tures on theological subjects are the worst attended of any. There are altogether only 236 divinity atudents in the university. The , faculty of law has 2,766 students, that of , medicine 1,111 and philosophy 3,572. In ad dition to students from every German state the Berlin university contains 413 Russians, 130 Austrlans, 102 8wlss, 81 Hungarians, 39 British, 35 Roumanians, 26 Bulgarians, 24 French and smaller numbers from every other European country, Including Turkey and Montenegro. America sends 123 stu dents, Asiatic lands 17, Africa 8, Australia 3. In addition to the matriculated stu dents, 1,330 persons have received permis sion to attend the lectures. It Is curious to ; note that the decline in the number of theological students Is not confined to Ber lin university, but is observed in every ' other German seat of learning. Tkis de cline has been so rapid during the last j ten years as seriously to alarm the leaders of the church. Since 1&6 the decrease has been nearly 60 per cent. Two reasons are l given for this: First, the superior attrac ' tlcns offered by commerce and Industry slme Germany becsme a great manufac turing country; and, secondly, the decay of belief mainly owing to the destructivi trllicUm of the Bible and religious dogmas DIAMOND GROjJND IN BORNEO Place Discovered by Man Forced to Leave and Company Re. celves Secret. LONDON, Jan. 8. (Special Cablegram to The Bee.) The fascinating element of ro mance rarely enters Into the prosaic pro ceedings of a company meeting In the city, but the shareholders of the British North Borneo company sat spellbound the other day while their chairman. Sir Charles Jes sel, toldi remarkable story of a diamond valley. On May It, 1904, the company received a tetter. In which the writer referred to some discoveries which he made "many years ago," before leaving British North Borneo. "They are always flashing through my mind," he wrote, with an unconscious touch of pathos, "and not knowing how to make use of them I may aa well let the company have the benefit of them." Then came the revelation of the secret that had become a burden to him. After leaving Ktmberly, South Africa, he went to Borneo, where he was engaged by Mr. Van der Hoven to survey his tobacco estate on the Labuk river. "It Is there that I found real diamond bearing ground," he stated. "It la Identical with the Kimberly blue clay, with all the pieces of carbon and burnt garnets In It. Anybody who haa seen diamond ground will notice It at once; It sticks out In huge boulders as If thrown up by some erup tion." Returning to the camp on the night of hts discovery the writer found that he was not wanted on the estate any longer. "I never had the fortune to return." he added. The company was skeptical, but It sent out In structions for samples to be tsken. The samples arrived only a few days ago ana were found to be of true blue ground. Identical with that from which the dia monds are extracted in South Africa rnlqae. We observed on the streets of Indian apolis a middle-aged man, about whom an Immense crowd of excited Hoosiera had collected. "And what Is this?" we asked our guide. "That, sir," he tuld us, "Is Silas Swamp root." "And what has he doneT" "Done? Why, hts the only man In Indiana who la not a candidate to succeed Fairbanks!" Chicane Journal. TROUBLE IN BAKU OIL FIELD Six Striken Wen Killed in Tight with f uaoki Thursday. INCENDIARY FIRE DESTROYS MANY TANK More Disorder is Expected and Telephone Service Is Interrnpted .-Employers Ofler to Com promise. ' BAKU, Jan. (. A big Are, presumably of Incendiary origin, today destroyed six teen tanks on the Nobel company's and several adjoining properties. There has been no actual fighting sine January B, when a collision occurred be tween strikers and Coaeacks, and alx work men were killed and two Cossacks and thirty workmen wounded. The strike haa been in progress since December Z6. The original dispute was over hours and wages. The first few days of the strike there waa no trouble, but on December 29 crowds threatened the guards stationed about the refining works and Coasacks were called out. Many peraons were Injured In des ultory' fighting between strikers and sol diers at various places. , The managers have expressed a willing ness to meet the strikers part of the way. The hour question has been conceded to the workmen, who are granted a nine and a half hour day, with an eight hour day preceding holidays. The train service, which was Interrupted, was resumed on January 2. The wage question still remains unset tled, the men demanding $10 to til. 50 a month. A big meeting which decided to continue the strike led up to the fighting on January t. Big trouble is brewing and telephone service is again interrupted. Perils of the Past. Coming down one of the breakneck cable railways of Swltserland tha other day the following conversation waa overheard, ac cording to the London Globe: Woman Does the cable ever break, con ductor? Conductor Yes; mademoiselle, some times. Woman (anxiously) And what would happen to us then? ( Conductor That would dipend on yesa? past Ufa, msdamolselle.