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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1906)
THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: MONT) AY. JANTAHY 1. 1!06. 8 OUR GREAT JANUARY CLEARING SALE BEGINS TUESDAY, JANUARY 2 Our Annual Clearance Sale of Ladies' Suits and Men's Clothing is an event looked forward to by thousands of customers. Their anticipations this year will be more than gratified, for never have such values been offered in Omaha before. JuL-Au IP ifiUVJS THE RELIABLE STORE. Specials in Dry Goods for Tuesday t Greaf Hfjf p Sae of yyomens The saving opportunities in our great January Clearing Sales are truly exceptional. A very prosperous year has left us with many lines of winter goods which must be closed out at once to make room for new goods, hence these extremely low prices. Two Rousing Silk Sales Tuesday AO pieces of Priestley's Black Dress Goods, Panamas, Cheviots, Prunellas and other fine weaves in black, prices from CQ $1.50 to $3.00 a yard, on sale at, a yard JL 5 bales of bleached Muslin, regular 8l2c goods, will go on sale at 10 o'clock as long as they last, only ten yards to a C customer, at, per yard ;7) dozen Linen Huck Towels will go on sale at 1 o'clock, they are our regular 10c and 1220 goods, as long as C they last, each vrw At 3 P. M. "We will place on sale 200 pieces of full stand- 1 ard Indigo Blue Prints, worth GV2c yard, will go at, yard. 2 oQ pairs of our $1.23 Cotton Blankets on sale at 79c Fifteen other specials in the Domestic Room In Percales, Prints, Flannelettes, Linens, Towels, Etc., at ridiculously low prices. Special Announcement! I "We have purchased from one of the largest manufacturers in the country their entire line of Embroideries, Insertings Bead ings, Allovers and Corset Cover Embroideries at Fifty Cents on the Dollar Koine of the goods are Bllshtly polled on the ends, but otherwise perfect. ThlH frtock will be placed on Bale Wednesday morning, January 3, at 50 CenW on the Dollar. Our Annual Kmbroldery Sale haB always been a grand bargain evrut. but this will eclipse all other sales In variety, quality and extreme low price. Watch Tuesday Evening Papers for Prices. Sugar is Down iWe have made arrangements with one of the largest sugar fac tories iu the world to sell their sugar exclusively for them in Omaha. This is the finest Pure Cane Granulated 4i g f Sugar. Tuesday we will sell 22 Pounds Pure Cane II Q B I B . Granulated Sugar for SJP We Have Completed Our Inventory in Groceries. Watch for the Big Sales All This Week. Garments Continues All Our Immense Stock of Ladies' Coats, Suits, Furs, Waists, Skirts, Etc., Go in This Sale at Half Price and Less. The greatest selling sensation of the season The bargain climax of the greatest year in the history of our Cloak depart ment. Remarkable Fur Specials One Persian Lamb Coat, regular $90.00 value; Tuesday QQ Four Krimmer Coats, regular $75.00 value; Tuesday '37 50 Blx Beaver Capes, made of finest Alaska beaver, $100.00 values, tjQ QQ Eleven Astrakhan Capes, with Fklnner satin lining, sold at $80.00, C Art choice I.UU Fourteen Astrakhan Capes, thirty Inches long, regular $15.00 values, Cf . . I mJf 37.50 17.50 .7.50 10.00 15.00 special at, choice Eight Handsome Near Seal Coats, regular $75.00 values; at, choice Elegant Orera Coats, regular $45.00 values, greatest bargains ever offered, at Women's $15.00 Coats, Jn plain colors and fancy mixtures, choice Women's $20.00 Coats, in fine imported kerseys, satin lined, all the newest styles; at, choice , Yunr Choice of Any $;$0.00, $35.00 or $ 40.00 Coat in the House Tuesday 5.00 CHILDREN'S COATS. Choice of 1,000 High Grade Coats at Half. $6.00 Children's Coats, 7 AA In this sale .UU $10.00 Misses' and Child ren's Coats, at OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF WO MEN'S SLITS meets the same fate as the rest of the stock everything at Half. $12.00 Women s Suits at..$ 0.00 $20.00 Women's Suits at. .$10.00 $25.00 Women's Suits at. .$12.30 $30.00 Women's Suits at.. $13.00 HANDSOME EVENING GOWNS AT HALF. $40.00 Gowns at $20.00 $50.00 Gowns at $23.00 $75.00 Gowns at $37.50 $100.00 Gowns at $30.00 Women's $5.00 Skirts at... $2.08 Women's $8.00 Walking Skirts at $4.08 Children's Dresses In plain and fancy colors, fully worth double at $3,08, $2.08, $2.50, . $2.00, $1.50 and $1.00 Women's $5.00 Eiderdown Bath Robes, at $2.08 Women's $2.00 Eiderdown Dressing Sacques at 08c Women's $2.00 Moire and Sateen Underskirts at 08c TUESDAY HOUR SPECIALS. From 8 Till 0 A. M. Women's 75c Dressing Sacques at. . . .RDo From 8:30 TiU 0:30 A. Itt. Wo men's $2 Long Kimonos at 80c From 9, Till 10 A. M Women's Flannelette Dressing Sacqes 60c at, yard. From 9 to 11 a. m. Louisine Checks, Fancy Mt-ssalines, Taffetas, Peau de Cvgnes in a large collection of colors and patterns. Silks that are good for Spring Suits and Waists. For these two hours all these choice $1.00 and $l.'-!3 silks, CO Only one pattern to a Customer. From 3 to 5 p. m. 30-in Taffeta in black, 27-in. Taffeta in colors and black, Feau de Soie in black, 30-in. and 27-in. color Messa lines, Fancy Silks in new styles. Our C Q 70f $1.00, $1.25 and $1.75 for two hours only, at. . . . OJm $ J All day Tuesday we offer C. .T.Uonnet Black Taffeta in 3G-in. wide at $1.25 a yard, and C. J. Bonnet 27-in. flQn Black Taffeta, at. Pre-lnventory Sale of Furnishings Unmatchable bargain opportunities in all kinds of Men's, Ladies' and Children's Furnishing Goods Saturday. Don't miss these specials. Men's Woolen Underwear, in all sizes, single or double breasted, sold reg ularly up to $2.00, snap H C Saturday, per garment, at. . . Men's Shirts and Drawers, heavy fleece lined, regular 50c and 75c TCp values, at 45c and Men's Heavy Woolen Hose, regular 25c value at.... Men's 39c and 50c Cashmere Hose 15c special Saturday, at 25c Men's and Boys' Sweaters, in good winter weights, wool or cotton, worth up to $2.00, In three J P lots, at 75c. 50c and UC Men's High Grade Shirts, such as Cluett, Monarch, Star and other well known brands, worth 1 AA regularly $1.50 to $2.50 1.UU Mens Shirts from C. H. Frederick and our own stock, Bllghtly soiled and mussed, worth up to $1.50, on sale at . DC Men's nigh Grade Linen Collars, In all sizes and styles, and best known brands, worth regularly from f fn 16c to 25c, at, cholco IUC Men's Neckwear from the Frederick stock, all newest styles, worth reg ularly up to 50c, at, fil choice IUC Ladies' Vests and Punts, heavy fleece lined, worth regularly up to $1.00, In three lots, for this sale, at 50c, 39c and JC Ladies' Wool Vests and Pants, Swiss ribbed or flat wove, In gray or scar let, great snap, at per 1 garment i J Ladies' I nion Suits, good wool gar ments at $1.50, 98c and Ladles' Fleece Lined Union special at 98c, 76c, 50c and Ladles' $1.50 Vests and Pants, in silk and wool, special.,.. Children's Union Suits, wool worth double the price, at 75c SulU. 39c 98c lined, 75c MANY FEDERAL ACTIVITIES Every Departmtnt of General Govenment Locally Represented. ter handled weighs more than 60,000 pounds each day. During the year Postmaster H. B. Palmer caused Improvements to be made In light ins and the protection of windows which will save $1,000 In lighting bills and 1500 In fuel annually. The postofflce was painted inside and much Improved In appearance. Tv.ntv.fnn. Inn. .Un. 1 1 OMAHA IMPORTANT POINT FOR UNCLE SAM taught the business without the publlo be ing; aware of It, complaints being very few. Millions of Dollars Invested and Hun dreds of SI en Employed In look ing After the Federal Interests. The United States government has rec ognized Omaha's Importance, as every branch of the federal government's or ganization in represented here by an Im portant bureau. The postofflce building, which contains most of the government bureaus and departments, ranks sixth in slse and cost of the federal buildings In the country. It was completed In 1904 at a total cost of 11,845,000. In another costly building the headquarters for the Department of the Missouri of the army and two forts are maintained, besides the department staff. At Fort Crook, a few miles outsldo of the city, a regiment of infantry is stationed at all times. Fort Omaha, at the north limits of the city, has been ronvcYted into a signal corps station and training school. More than $500,010 will be expended by the government in constructing new quarters and repair ing buildings. As a signal corps station several companies of this arm of the ser vice will be stationed thoro and interest ing experiments made. It will be one of the several Important posts of the kind In tho United States. for years the government has main tained hero a large Indian supply depot and warehouse. The quartermaster's do uot has separate buildings. In the main federal building are the federal district 1 and circuit courts and the district head- J quarters for tho Internal revenue depart- : ment, district attorney. United States marshal, weather bureau, western vision of the rural free delivery sorvtce, railway mall service, secret service branch of the treasury Immigration bureau and the central postofflce. Army and navy recruiting stations are maintained here the year round in rented separate quarters. Federal Courts. Headquarters for the United States cir cuit anu district courts for Nebraska are located at Omaha, together with the com plement of clerks, United States district attorney and United States marshal. Hon. 1 W. II. Hunger Is Judge, It. C. Hoyt Is clerk of the district court and George II. Thummell is clerk of the circuit court. The former handles most of the criminal and the latter most of the civil cases. In the district court during the year! 113 cases were filed, lu3 of them being of a criminal nature. During the same time there were fifty-seven criminal and nine civil cases closed, sixteen trials by Jury and eighty-three Indictments returned by two sessions of the grand Jury. In the circuit court twenty-one eases were tried by Jury. New cases filed dur ing the year numbered 189. Post office. The Increase tn business at the postofflce In 1V6 indicates distinctly the growth of the city. In every respect the business han dled has advanced over 1W4 and preceding years. In the registry department 168,401 more packages were handled than in 1904. The money order business showed a gain of fcira.i:: !5. and the stamp sales t4S.S31.43. The totsl number of employes in the postofflce In VjC4 was ninety-six, and the present number Is 106. Five city carriers were added, making the total 100. Through thf Omaha ftVe are now paid 33 clerks, curlers ur.il .rn'iHtitu'es: 900 rural carriers, K7 rallwuy :.bil clerks and 13 station clerks, the total cullli.c for disbursement in IS of $1,060,000. The number of letters cancelled In and out of the Omaha postofflce now averages lU,0uO (UU. and (be amount oX dH mat- The following showing was prepared by the postmaster: REGISTRY STATISTICS. 1904. 1005. Letters and parcels registered. 44. 6M 61 .XF letters and parcels delivered. 65.4P1 70,3'O Registered pouches received.. 18,537 15,3ri3 Registered pouches dispatched 11.252 15.51 Packages dispatched In same.. 242,278 262,!H5 Registered packages handled In transit 822.493 260,3fil 88,390 2.85 8S.3S4 6,748 1.006 Total number of registered pieces handled 497,041 603.810 LOCAL. STATISTICS. Window deliveries, main of fice ffl.030 Window deliveries, stations... 1,660 Carrier deliveries, main offlce 29.042 Carrier deliveries, stations 3.799 Rcpistored by carriers on routes 1,052 lOH.SKt more packages handled In 1905 than In 194, notwithstanding a loss to our credit of (1:1.13,1 registered packages handled In transit by reason of the new system of Jacketing five or more packages Into one, so that really there were lt',8,401 more pack ages handled in the registry department f the Omaha postofflce during the year 1906 than during the year 1904. MONET ORDER BUSINESS. Money 1905 1904 Orders. No. Amt. No. Amt. Issued 7;t.W5 $ 639.341.57 f.S.112 $ S.P."? Paid 294,918 2,529,306.01 2S6.907 2,447,629.11 Remlt's received. 30,323 4.115,973.42 27,167 3.576.845.98 87,284,21.00 80,611,199.96 Sale of stamps, stamped envelopes. postal cards, etc., for lfloG $539,559.23 Amount collected on second and third class matter for 1905 4(IW33 Pox rent for 1906 J.OOO.OO porting seven insane persons, two for other causes and two because they were brought to this country for immoral pur poses. Eight Chinese were arrested and four convicted of violation of the Immigra tion laws and ordered deported. Twenty cases, Including those of the four Chinese unaccounted for, are now pending. Secret Service Department, The United States Secret Service de partment for this section comprises the states of Nebraska and Iowa, with Cap tain John Webb In charge. The speclul function of this department is to look after counterfeiters, recover counterfeit money, eta. Captain Webb secured the arrest of four counterfeiters during the year 1906 tn Ne braska and four in Iowa. Of these two have been disposed of and two are still pending in Nebraska, and four have been disposed of In Iowa. The total amount of counterfeit money recovered In the district of Iowa and Ne braska during the year was IS4.40. Of this amount only about $90 were taken up in Nebraska, the balance being taken up In Iowa. The money Included counterfeit gold and silver coins, raised and counter felt notes. In addition' to this amount about 850 remains in the hands of prose cuting officers for evidence in pending cases. fnlted tatee Marsbal. The United States marshal for the dis trict of Nebraska is W. P. Warner of Da kota City, who succeeded T. L Matthews In December. There are Ave deputies con nected with the offlce. The financial showing for 1905 was as follows: DISBURSEMENTS. Salaries, fees and expenses 83.737 31 Fees of Jurors 16.3il 50 Fees of witnesses 12.348 09 Support of prisoners 8.5I5 85 my or bailiffs 1.024 25 Miscellaneous expenses 2,343 63 manufactured spirits, comprise the force of the establishment. The receipts of taxes at the Omaha offlce of the United States internal revenue col lector, whose collection district is the state of Nebraska, will show an Increase of about 8R0.O0O as compared with the calendar, year 1904. This Increase Is In the collec tions on spirits, beer, cigars and smoking tobacco end came during the last six months of the year. In making up the subjoined statement, fraetlons of a dollar were omitted. 195. 191. assess- $ R.SS7 2S2.7S4 1i;?m , 77 X73 5.7 Usts (sundry mental Beer stamps Snlrlt stamps.... Clitar stamps ... Tobacco stamris. Preclnl tnx stamps KT.W Benovated butter stamps 10,39." Mixed flour stamps 7 roetimentarv stamps.... 2 Playing card stamps 6 S 8.4"fl 3e6.K99 1.91S,B9 S1.KP9 6.324 ft 315 3.261 1 8 Total 8tAi,609.56 Stamps sold amounted to 8iM6,609 56 In 1905. airalnst $r.57,078.1 In 1904, a gain for 1305 of 18.631. 42. Railway Mall Service. The Omaha district of the railway mall dl- ! service covers the main line of the Union Pacfio from Omaha to Cheyenne and branches; the Chcago & Northwestern from Omaha to Bonesteel and from Omaha to Hastings, and the Missouri Paclflo to Auburn. The district Is in charge of Hor ace O. Shearer, chief clerk. During 1906 the amount of registered mall handled Increased 20 per cent and the Increase in the other matter was greater. The force of clerks on the road Increased 15 per cent and those at the transfer sta tions 60 per cent. The number of road clerks belonging to the Omaha district is now 135 and the number of clerks on duty at depots and stations In Omaha is seven. Of this number 110 of the railway clerks run on the Union Paclflo, seventeen on the Northwestern and one on the Missouri Pacific. Customs Tloase Receipts. The value of foreign goods received tn Omaha nnnually Is about 812,000.000. Local Importers are learning gradually that It la cheaper to have their goods billed direct from foreign ports to Omaha and handled In the large bonded warehouses provided here. During the last twelve months there has been a considerable Increase, particu larly In European goods. Much tea is Im ported direct from China and Japan, and cigars from Cuba. ' Coffee, also. Is brought direct to Omaha from South America by the local wholcrsl rs. The calendar year shows an increase ur 1904, but exact figures are not available for the fiscal year ending June SO, 1906. These figures shew Importations cleared through the Omaha warehouse to the amount of $349,801. For the preceding fiscal year imports amounted to $536.6M and for the year end ing June 80. Itu3. $511,698. Benjamin II. Barrows is collector of the port and custodian of the federal build ing. Immigration Barenn. The United Slates Immigration Bureau maintains a department at Omaha, in charge of Inspector W. R. Mansfield. Dur iiig 19uS the Omaha offlce f uxucde4 la de- EARNINGS. January 1 - March 31 , April 1 - June 30 , July 1 - September 30 October 1 - December 8 $38,320 63 . $1,247 S3 . 1.918 82 . 1.742 71 ., 1,735 45 ' $6,639 30 Excess of earnings over expense for salaries, fees and expenses... $2,901 99 Tfavr Recruiting Station. The United States navy maintains a per manent recruiting station in Omaha In the federal building, it having been established October 24, 1906. Between that time and the close of the year it enlisted about seventy young men in the naval service. Following the advice of Admiral Dewey that the success of the navy Is assured If the gun crews come from the northwest, the department Is trying to get as many men from this section of the country as possible. The average of those enlisted at Omaha is considered particularly good, the youth of this seotlon usually being possessed of self-reliance, energy and am bition, sccordtng to the officers. The recruiting station at Omaha Is In charge of Lieutenant Commander M. 11 Slgnor, ' who was appointed to the Naval academy by Congressman O. W. E. Dor sey In 18S6. The medical examiner Is As sistant Surgeon C. K. Winn. The petty officers attached to the station sre: Chief Machinist's Mate J. II. MUstead. Chief Yeoman W. C. Wood and Chief Hospital Steward F. R. Crooke. A substation at 448 North Twenty-fourth street. South Omaha, Is In charge of Chief Boatswain Samuel Canavan. Internal Revenue. The Internal revenue department for the District of Nebraska occupies a handsome suite of rooms in the southeast comer of the second floor of the federal building. This department has charge of all the in ternal revenue collections in this district and issues the necessary revenue stamps exacted by the government on liquors. spirits, beer, tobacco, manufactured prod ucts of tobacco,, renovated butter, mixed flour, documentary, playing card and spe cial stamps. Elmer B. Stephenson of Lin coln as collector of Internal revenue Is the head of the department. Edward W. North la deputy collector and John A. McCabe revenue agent. A force of about a dosen clerks Is employed In the offlce and three gaugers, whose special business Is to look after the testing aij ineurjnDU of Total $2,332,799 $2,406,462 Indian Mnpplr Depot. During the year vast quantities of every kind of supplies for the Indian nseneles and schools pass through the Omaha In dian supply depot, which Is located at 815 Howard street. The depot Is In charge of R. C. Jordan as superintendent, and he Is assisted by a force of four helpers. Sup plies,, which are furnished by contract, consist of bacon, canned meats, hardware, pipe work, stationery, dried fruits, flour, meal, oat meal, soap, lard, oils, paints in fact, every conceivable product. Most of the stuff Is bought by contract in Omaha and shipped direct from the manu facturers to the agencies, as was the case In the recent shipment of 6,000 mattresses from the Doup Mattress factory, and 600,000 pounds of laundry soap from the Cudahy establishment. Very little of the supplies are kept in storage in the depot, as goods are sent out to the agencies and schools almost as fast as received. Shipments are made to Wisconsin Indian agencies as well as to those in the west, as far as Arlxona, California and Washington. Tho aggregate value of the annual shipments from the Omaha depot will exceed two and a quar ter million dollars. A very considerable proportion of these supplies are purchased through Omaha contractors. Regular Army Herrnltlnar. ' The regular army recruiting depot bas been established In Omaha for many years, and is at present located at the corner of Thirteenth and Douglas streets. Colonel Egbert B. Savage Is In charge of the re cruiting station. A force of four enlisted men is connected with the station, "and aside from the local station there are substations located at Lincoln. Grand I Island and Sioux City, which require an additional force of four men. The number of accepted enlistments during the year 1905 at the Omaha station and substations was 3C4. Of this number more than two-thirds were enlisted at Omaha. During the year 1,111 applicants were rejected. The causes of rejection were general unfitness, under age. Intemperance, moral disqualifications and vicious habits. AH of the recruits now enlisted at the Omaha station are sent to Jefferson Barracks. Mo. One enlistment the early part of December was mude for the hospital corps of a graduute from a German medical school, who also holds a diploma from a Chicago medical college. The Omaha station ranks about tenth In the sixty recruiting stations of the country. The most enlistments are mado during the months of January, February, March and April. Blent Inspection, Connected with the Department of Agriculture, under the immediate super vision of the bureau of animal industry, is tho work of meat inspection by spe cial arpolntees of the government who are elected fur their special qualifications for the work. A force of sixty-five of these Inspectors Is employed to look after the inspection of the products of the Omaha packing houses. These are divided Into three groups, as follows: Inspectors, 18; taggers, 35; stock examiners, li la addi tion to these eighteen girls are employed in the microscopic department. The whole force Is under the immediate charge of CWt Inspeotor Vr, ob C. jr, who has three clerks to assist htm In the office work. The headquarters of the bureau is In the postofflce building at South Omaha, occupying the entire second floor of the building. The work of the microscopic, division Is to make tests and examinations for trichina in pork products. The Inspection of oattle Is made both of the living and slaughtered animal, and applies not only to meat products for foreign shipment, but for tho domestic trade. The slaugh tered product Is stamped by the govern ment showing that It has passed through the hands of the government Inspectors and is fit for food. Each packing estab lishment has Its official number and all Inspected products from that establishment bear its number. The stock is both inspected in the stock yards and In the packing plants, different inspectors being employed in the different locations. Eevery head of live stock re ceived at the Omaha stock yards Is In spected, as Is all products that go out from the packing houses. The Inspection bureau has been established here about fifteen years. Fort Omaha and Signal Corps. During the year 1905 the old military post at Fort Omaha has been rehabilitated and reoccupled as a United States military gar rison. It is to be made the principal signal corps station of the United States army, with all the necessary appliances for in structing soldiers In military signaling. Thus far during the year, for rebuilding Fort Omaha. $318,000 hrs been expended, in cluding existing contracts. The new build ings consist of the complete remodelling of the old administration building Into a handsome double barracks building, with a fine mess hall; several new officers' quar ters, a new hospital, two additional bar racks buildings, wagon' shed, two quarter master's storehouses, new guardhouse and all the old buildings remodelled and mod- ernly equipped. The new barracks, hospital and officers' quarters are now complete to the roof, and with ten days more of fair building weather all the buildings will be under roof. A new railway spur has been run Into the grounds to facilitate shipments of supplies. The fort has also been equipped with modern fire fighting apparatus, and two government automobiles are used be tween the post and city and for general field and signal service. The fort Is at present garrisoned by Com panies B and D, Signal corpa. United States army. Major Eugene O. , Fechet, chief sig nal officer of the Department of the Mis souri, Is In command of the post. The other officers are Captain H. S. Hathaway, First Lieutenants L. P. Butler and E. Al exus -Jeunet, Company B; Captain Otto A. Nesmlth, Company D, and Contract Surgeon James 8. Kennedy. Department of the Missouri. The military Department of the Missouri is comprised of the states of Iowa. Ne. braska. South Dakto, Wyoming (except that part Included In the Yellowstone park), Kansas and Missouri. The following mili tary posts are in the department: Fort Crook, seven miles south of the city of Omaha; Fort Omaha, within the corporate limits of Omaha; Fort Niobrara, near the town of Valentine; Fort Robinson, near the town of Crawford, all in the state of Nebraska; Fort Des Moines, la.; Forts Leavenworth and Riley, Kan.; Forts D. A. Russell, Washakie and Mackenzie, Wyo.. and Fort Meade, S. D. In addition to these Is the big quartermaster depot at Omaha. The official staff of the department is as follows: Brigadier General Theodore J. Wlnt, U. S. A., commanding the depart ment; Major Charles R. Noyea, military secretary; Major M. G. Zalinskl, chief quartermaster; Lieutenant Colonel John C. Muhlenberg, chief paymaster; Major E. O. Fechet, chief signal officer; Captain Wil liam Q. Doane, judge advocate; Captain Theodore B. Hacker, chief and purchasing commissary; Major Richard W. Johnson, acting chief surgeon; Inspector of small arms practice. First Lieutenant Charles C. Allen, the latter being also aide-de-camp on the staff of the commanding officer. Offi cers of the pay department In duty at de Qoarterntaater'e Depot. A very Important military establishment connected with and laJd the city ymits of Omaha Is the quartermaster's depot, occupying an extensive tract of land at the Intersection of Twenty-second street along the Union Pacific railway tracks. The depot comprises several large buildings equipped with every modern convenience for handling stores and supplies of every character for use of the United States army. Here Is assembled military sup plies except ordnance for the entire de partment, both quartermaster and com missary. These supplies are being con stantly received and shipped out to the various military posts of the department and elsewhere throughout the country. The depot is In charge of Captain Thomas Swobe, quartermaster, United States army, and he has with him a large force of em ployes to assist In the care and shipment of the supplies. The depot is enclosed with a high brick wall and suitable guards are kept there for the protection of the ex tremely valuable government property. PostoMlre Inspector's Department. A branch of the Postofflce Inspector's de partment Is located In the federal building. Its representatives are Donald J. Sinclair, who has charge of the 8011th Platte dis trict, extending from tho Missouri river to the western line of tho state, and A. J. Moore, who has charge of the North Platte district, comprising all that part of the state lying north of the Flatte river. Both Inspectors are constantly In tho field and have been rather busy during tho last year and numerous small offenses against the postal laws have been Investigated by Inspectors Moore and Sinclair and Indict ments secured. Weather Conditions for 10O5. A general summary of weather conditions that prevailed In Oniuha and vicinity dur ing the year 1905 shows that the year was In no sense remarkable, unless It was Its near approach to being a normal or average year. It is a fact well known to meteorologists that any year, throughout which exurtly normal or average conditions were maintained, would be considered an abnormal or most remarkable year. There were no wide departures during any period of the past -ear, either In temperature or ralnfull. It Is true that there were de ficiencies In precipitation during the months of June and July, but the rains that oc curred during those months were so timely and nicely distributed that no Injury to rrowlng crops resulted from the deficien cies. The average temperature for the year was slightly above the normal and the total precipitation was less than one Inch below the normal. The lowest tem perature recorded was 25 degrees below rero on February 2, and the highest re corded was 95 degrees sbove on July 16. The most noteworthy disturbance occur ring during the year was the wind squall on the evening of July 13, when the wind blew from the southeast at the rate of sixty-four miles per hour for five minutes, and the actually quickest mile at the rate of seventy-five miles per hour, being the highest velocities ever recorded at this sta tion. Another inlstorm of great vio lence occurred on September 15. when a velocity of fifty-four miles per hour was recorded. The wind squall on the after noon of May 3 will be remembered as the one during which the Coffin factory, lo cated In North Omaha, collapsed, killing three persons and Injuring six others. The warm weather prevailing during the first few days in March wah remarkable, a temperature of 79 degrees wan recorded on the 3d, being the highest recorded within the first ten days of any March. A table showing the norma! ar.1 monthly mean temperature and the Vjtal monthly precipitation is furnished herewith: Temperature. Precipitation. normal, aiean. r or mal. Total January ... February , ., March April May June July August ... September Octoler .. November December 19 .. 25 .. 3 .. 61 .. t2 t tm .. 76 .. 74 .. 65 .. 53 .. 37 .. 29 14 17 4i 6" On 73 7 t2 o2 43 31 0 611 0 79 15.) 3 13 4 37 6 1.7 4 75 3 34 2 91 i!.47 1 Or. 0.74 1 13 1.3 0 70 8.43 3 40 1 70 2 36 8 03 6 94 3 97 2 72 0.14 change In tho offlce force has occurred within the past year. In April Mr. Charles D. Reed, first avslptant observer, was as signed to duty at Sioux City, la., in charge, and Vincent R Jakl, from the New Or leans station, was assigned to this station to fill tho vacancy. Tho present office force Is as follows: Lucius A. Welsh, local forecaster, in charge; Miller V. Robins, first assistant observer; Vincent E. Jakl, assistant observer; George II. Johnston, messenger. rir4flrhas.'Tjft.jEMAj ANARROW Clupeco Shrunk Quarter Sizes, with tie loop 15 CENTS EACH; 1 FOB A QUARTER CLUETT. PEASODY A. CO. Mimii ut Lluktt uii IIuuabcuShibts DRINK THE BEER YOU LIKE TELEPHONE 420 FOR A CASH CHARGES LESS THAN ALL OTHERS For the first twenty-two days only. The local office of the United States weather bureau was first established in Omaha on November V W 9aly one DR. McGREW, SPECIALIST Treats All Forms of Diseases of ' MK. OMT, Thirty Years' Experience. Twenty Years in Omaha. The doctor's remarkable success has never been equalled. 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