THE OMAHA DAILY HEE: MONDAY. JANUARY 0, U'or,.
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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
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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.
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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.
