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VOL. XXXVI-NO. 11.
OMA1IA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, 190(J.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
DECORATIONS OF THE HOME
Pictures That Show Progress Made on Two Prominent Omaha Blocks
COUNTRY WOMEN IN CLUB
Beauty and Comfort Combine with TJm,
Farmers' Wives Hear Aihl&nd aid South
Bead Hare Ideal Orcaniiatioa.
DOES GREAT AMOUNT OF GOOD WORK
At ' Aaaaal Plcale In Wartmaa'a
Grave, lm Mllea from Aahlaad,
Old aad Toisg Have
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Aa the art of building- has developed
through the varioua stages from the crude
primitive ahelter from tba elements dug In
the hill side or rudely fashioned from
boughs or atones, to tha great variety of
modern day structures built for every uaa
and equipped with every device that human
Ingenuity can devise for the convenience
and. comfort of men, tha combination of
beauty and utility haa been mora and more
accentuated until today there la aoaroaly a
device In the whole catalogue of such con
venlencea that la not In some degree
ornamental. The conveyance of every
utility that la Introduced Into the building,
that la exposed to view, the lighting, tha
heating or the .plumbing muat to meet
modern approval be a thing of beauty. The
neoesalty of a knob or a lock la made the
occasion for some decorative attachment,
while the real hinge upon the door swings
la effectively disguised under some fancy
hinge plate that la purely a aurface at
tachment and serves only aa ornamental
purpose.
And not satisfied with merely concealing
the necessary unattractlvenesa of the con
veyances of thaae utilities, the modern
builder drmanda that each and all of them
ahall enter Into a general harmonious
acheme that In turn muat follow aome gen
eral atyla of architecture employed In the
building, or at leaat In the room where
' auch fixtures occur. From theae larger
fixtures that afford opportunity for a more
elaborate working out of the ornate to tha
smallest details of the minor fittings thla
. harmony of decoration It carried out to an
extent that has come to make tha hard-
ware, heating, plumbing and light flxturea
among the moat Important and costly de
tails of the building, especially of the
modern residence. It haa been estimated
by a practical builder that these supplies
consistently uaed will aggregate about one
sixth to one-tenth of the coat of tha
real d once.
And In no part of the houae la profes
alonnl Judgment more essential than In the
election of theae fittings and flxturea.
. Conalatency la tha main essential and only
j educated Judgment can be railed upon to
r secure this. Htnjr a handsomely finished
i . room haa been hopeleasly marred by an in
consistent chandelier or Inappropriate hard-
ware. More than almost anything else will
WWi aort of discord destroy the harmony of
a room and the selection of these furnish
ings la aa much an art as the aelectlon of
the draperies, the furniture or the wall
decorations, for they are the auntie touches
that can cheapen the handsomest Interior
finish beyond redemption or reeoue even an
Inferior room from commonplcceness.
. The person who lariats upon installing
fixtures merely because they are handsome
or costly doea e at great risk, such things
are net to be considered Independently, and
It Is their careless selection that Is often
responsible for ths .hopeless cheapening of
many a home that haa coat enough to have
aeoured better results.
Conalderlng the time, the money and the
Intelligence that la expended on tha produc
tion of thla branch of interior decoration,
there aeema little excuae for anything but
perfect harmony, and some small idea of
thla expenditure may convey to the average
person a better appreciation of Its value.
It doea not occur to everyone for Instance,
aa he puta his hand on his front door knob
for which, with the lock he tmv have niM
Jfv' - from fl-M to 12. that the design on that
knob and elate together with lta nrndurtlnn
represent an outlay of all the way from
$1,000 to $10,000. The designing- of almost
anything Is an art, and of hardware par
ticularly. Is an art that has to be well
paid for. That is the first item; and when
the design has been worked out It has to
)be applied and the article costs In propor
tion to thla design and the material upon
' which it la uaed.
' One deaign or pattern may be modified
. . for use on every bit of ornamental hard
ware employed In a room the door knobs,
plates and hinges, the window lifta and
locks or the drawer pulls. There Is a gen
erous variety of patterna to ault every style
of architecture, and the person who can
not make a selection from among these,
for an ordinary house, may rely upon it
that the fault Ilea with hla own taste.
Not Infrequently, however, theae trimmings
are especially designed for certain uses as
In soma of the more coatly lodge and fra
ternity houses, for Instance, where the In
signia of the order or some of Its emblems
are employed In a general decorative deaign.
There are to be had at leaat a doaen dif
ferent atylea of colonial flxturea for combi
nation with colonial architecture. The
delicate graceful French designs are also
to be had In as many different patterns and
periods while the Italian and Greek, and tha
Gothlo In French, German and English, af
ford a variety that leaves no possible ex
cuse for discord. .
Theae varioua dealgna are carried out In
from ten to a dosen different finishes and
metals. There are the wrought steel, the
east Iron, the wrought bronae. the cast
bronse, brass and even glass, and these are
Jreated to a variety of finish. The detail
work ot the cast flxturea la necessarily
finer than that of the wrought aa that
process admits of stronger relief. In conse
quence they are more expensive.
But whether the moat coatly flxturea be
need or the very plainest, there la no need
nowadaya for Inharmonloua effects.
LAST CHANCE TO DRAW OUT
Monday Candidates Wis Wait
Get Oft Ticket Cm ItlU
Do .
County Clerk Ilaverly will keep his office
pen the greater iort of the day Monday
In order to enable candidates who have
filed tor plaoea on the primary ticket to
withdraw if they desire. Monday was the
last day named for withdrawal, conse
quently the efflce will be open, In aplle of
the fact It la a legal holiday. Mr. Haverly
said Saturday he would permit withdraw
als until the copy Is given to the printers.
This probably will be early Tuesday forenoon.
Mrs. Weave Hart.
Mrs. J. D. Weaver was slightly Injured
.at Tenth and Howard streets Saturday
a fnornlas by ths collision of a runaway
Jf burse and a motor oar. Mrs. Weaver was
on the car when the horse ran into the
car. She was able to proceed to her home
In the Dunsany Oats. The horse belonged
to Frank Btratbexg ar, a gardener living In
Kast Omaha.
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MONEY AND MUSCLE IT WORK
lta Iranoiioo Biilns: from tht Boini u
Ftst u EsMotiaU Uu Do It
LABOR IN DEMAND AT HIGH WAGES
Able-Bodled Male Bearsara Ordered
te Go te Work or Oe Hanary
How the Vadeaervlaaj Prey
I'poa Charitable.
According to the report of the clearing
houae, Ban Francis oo reached sixth pluce
in tha commercial world the aecond week
in August, for the first time in the history
passing Pittsburg. Heretofore Oakland baa
had no clearing houae and all the trade
of the 200,000 people In the cities across the
bay have gone unrecorded, but since the
Are In Ban Francisco the Oakland b&nka
have formed a clearing houae, and aa this
business la closely allied with commercial
operatlona of Ban Francisco, tha reports
from there rightfully Indicate the true busi
ness conditions about Ban Francisco bay.
Taking this as a basis the ca)artngs of the
week ending Thursday, August U, for tha
cities about the bay, amounted to a total
of almost (18,000,000, as ths San Franolsoo
clearings were H3.8U.H7, while those of
Oakland were ftMCtt. .
The demand for skilled labor In the build
ing trades, and also for ordinary labor. rs
In construction work on the railroads and
street railways, as well as farm laborers
In the oountry, continues. Through Its
eastern bureau, established In . New York,
the California Promotion committee Is en
deavoring to have people of theae claaaea of
labor fully understand conditions In California,-
and reports from the bureau show
that hundreds of people are making in
quiries about conditions, both in ths build
ing 1 trades In 'Ban Francisco and In the
hop and fruit fields of the state. Thousands
of people could find employment in the
vlneyarda and orcharda of California now,
and the demand In Ban Francisco has not
abated In the leaat,
Tha work fcf removing debrla from the
streets and from lots in San Francisco Is
progressing much more rapidly than was
the case up to the beginning of August.
Many of the large buildings which were
damaged 1 by the Ore, but not destroyed,
are now being placed In condition for re
building' and all thla debria la being carried
away In addition to that from the streets
and lota. Conditions are improving con
stantly, and there Is an Increasing Im
provement to the general tone of the busi
ness ot the city. All evince a feeling that
the rebuilding of the burned section of
Ban Francisco Is a matter of but a yeur
or so, and while the work Is going on ths
commercial interests will not suffer In the
least.
Prosperity General on Ceaat.
From all parts ot California come reports
of increasing business. It Is reported from
the Interior cities that business has In
creased greatly beyond that before the hre,
and this general prosperity Is felt to be
the reflex of conditions In the metropolis.
Crops of fruit, especially grapea, exceed
thoae of yeara past, and the prices of
grapes have been materially advanced ow
ing to the destruction of vast quantities of
wine In Ban Francisco.
Hotel accommodations are good, and in
creasing. With ths opening of the new
Palace on Leavenworth and Poat atreets
on September 1. will come material addition
to the accommodations, and with ths com
pletion of other botela ot a mora perma
nent character, which are now under con
struction. Ban Francisco will soon win back
her old reputation as a hotel city. Aa It Is
now, no ons need hesitate about coming for
fear of Inadequate accommodations.
The freight blockade, which haa hindered
work on bulldlnga and In atorea for aeveial
weeka, haa been lifted, and now all freight
la being unloaded aa fast aa It arrives. All
claaaea of building material are In ample
supply, and with ths coming of more men
of the building trades the advance In build
ing will be marked.
Assess? the Refasrees.
. Conditions smong the refugees in Ban
Francisco have improved so materially that
It has been decided to niove all those who
are dependent upon the relief fund into' one
camp and feed them from kitchens Instead
of distributing supplies. Ths number who
will require this attention is now so small
that It will not be a difficult problem. Those
who are able to work will be placed where
they will not be able to obtain auppllea,
and It la thought that this procedure will
materially affect conditions In the camps.
At tha beginning of last week a new
policy was Inaugurated by tha relief board
for tha purpose of ridding the relief camps
of able-bodied male Idlers. A large num
ber are Included In this class. They are
constitutionally opposed to work, except the
work of getting to the front of the line for
provtalona. In thla work they ahowed un
common enterprise. But every suggestion
of working for a living was promptly
spurned. "In the camps under miliary
control." said a relief officer, "when an
able-bodied man fefuaed to work, whether
at as. 11 led or unskilled labor, he wua driven
from the camp. But In the outside ramps
they did about what they pleased about
working or not. As an instance, the United
Railroad company sent Its agent to me and
said he wanted it laborers at O a day.
A canvass was made ot all the camps, and
not mora than 1,000 men found who would
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work. Tfiere are probably 5.000 able-bodied
men who would prefer to enjoy the Bum
mer aunahine and continue to be fed." The
policy of "No work, no bread." will relieve
the atraln on the relief fund and contri
bute aome husky muscle to the upbuilding
of the city.
Personal Investigation conducted under
Rudolph Sprecklra' management haa
brought to light that many hundreda of
families which should be well supported by
men earning from $1 to $8 a day hfive been
not only accepting tftelter in the relief
camps, but constantly applying for meal
tickets. . These men have sent the women
membera of the family to procure the
tickets, which they would aell to the meal
kitchen men or their representatives at dis
counts ranging from 100 to 200 per cent.
Thoush labor never waa In so great de
mand In San Francisco, wages never so
hifi'i, and almost ten thousand free shel
ters have been provided, between 16,000 and
17,000 meal tickets are being Issued each
day; and this Is in addition to the Issu
ance of 200,000 raw rations a month.
Cheap Bates for Workmen.
Because of the local demand for labor
in San Francisco and throughout Califor
nia, the Southern Pacific Railroad company
announcea low passenger rates 'from all
parts of the country to the Paclflo Coast,
good until ths end of October. Tha rate
from New York will be SS0, from Chicago
$33, from Omaha $25, and otfter polnta In
proportion. No mechanic and no unakllled
laborer need fear that he will be idle after
he reachea San Francisco. For akllled
laborers, brlcklayera, stone masons, car
pentera and plumbera the demand will con
tinue for several years at wages which
range from J6 to S3 a day.'
. Determined effort has been begun by the
Board of Publlo Works to clear' Market
street of dirt and debrla and to compel
property owners to reconstruct sidewalks.
Lack of sidewalks has been the greatest
Impediment to rehabilitation of the main
business .thoroughfare. Many merchants
have moved Into temporary stores along
Market street, from Van Ness avenue to ti'ie
Ferry Building, but certain blocks below
Kearney are practically given over to
debris, and no business has been resumed
there.
Added to all her other troubles, San
Francisco now has the "servant problem"
In its most acute form to wrestle with. The
housemaids, who fled from the city at the
time of the earthquake, have not returned.
Probably they have all been kidnapped In
the outlying aervantleaa regions.
ROUTE OF THE MILWAUKEE
Coarae of Road from Missouri River
to Washington Is Now
Outlined,
ST. PAUL, Sept. 1. W. B. Dixon, north
western passenger sgent of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, today gave
out the first official statement as to the
route to be followed by that railroad in
building its extension west from Glenham,
8. D., to Butte, Mont. From Qlenham tha
road will paaa through Bowman and
Boftnasao counties in South Dakota and
cut through the aouthweat corner of North
Dakota in Hettinger and Bowman counties.
From there It will run Into Cuater county,
Montana. The road crosses the Northern
Paclflo at Terry. Mont., and parallela that
road and the Yellowstone river to Miles
City and Foray the; then It stdkes off In a
northwesterly direction to the Musselshell
river, to Yellowstone county, following the
river to Harlowtown and Lombard. Here
the Montana railroad, already In operation
from Lewtstown to Harlowtown, will con
nect as a feeder. From Lombard the main
line will croaa trie mountalna to Butte,
which Is as far as the line Is definitely
located.
SPOKANE, Wash., Bept. 1. Contracts for
the building of the Chicago, Milwaukee ft
St. Paul from the Bitter Root mountains
to ths Columbia river have been let - to
Seattle contractors.
The route followa -wlown tha St Joseph
liver from ths Idaho line to a point below
Ferrell, or St. Joe, Idaho, then goes on to
Tekoa, Wash., paaaea on to Rosalie, along
the souSf sidn of Rock lake, thence to
Lind on the Northern Pacific,
From Llnd tha line will follow the aur
vey of the old Northern Pacific cut-off from
Llnd to EIleD.'uurg.
GAIN IN BUILDINGS RECORD
Aaguat Ihowf Ip Eleven Per Cent
Stronger 'Jhaa ana Month .
Last Year.
, August In tha city building department
shews a gain of U per rnt in the value
of construction authorised during the
month over August ot 1906. The number
of permits Issued was 119, or twenty-nine
more than during the same period last
year, and tha total estimated value waa
$471,750 against $CS.!s5, or a gain of 4S.7S.
The largeat permit Issued waa for tha
Cai-penter Paper company's new seven-story
brick building, which will cost $12S,P00.
A permit haa been Issued to A. M. Foots
for a $3,300 frame dwelling at Twenty-second
and Fowler avenue.
Fire Leae I aarrvea Merchant.
KANSA8 CITY, Sept 1. Arnold Lieber
man, owner of the stock of dry goods In
the building st Anuourdale, Kan., near
here, that waa destroyed yesterday, the re
sult of an explosion, and for whom the
police were looking, waa found last night
lie had gone to bed unnerved by Cils loss.
Lleberman denied that he had anything to
do with the explosion, lie was not ar
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TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK
Waee of the Banter Dn to Dearth of
Available House.
DEMAND FAR EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY NOW
Omaha's Population Grows Faster
Than the Capacity to Heaee These, '.
Despite the Great Activity
la Balldlagr.
"People are awful pernickety about their
houses these days." said a woman the
other day as she walked out of a real es
tate office, unsuccessful in an attempt to
rent a house tor herself and family.
"What's the matter T' asked a friend,
sympathetically.
"Well, you can't get a house without
recommendations, that's all I I went to
five or alx offlcea before I found a house
at all and when I did And one for rent
that waa suitable the agent asked me a
hundred questions. He wanted to know
how many there were In the family and
how old each of the children were, what
kind ot furniture did I expect to put In tha
houae and would I ever take boarders or
allow my relatives to live with me. Then
be wanted to know where my husband
worked and how much his wages were and
if he drank, chewed tobicco or atayed out
late nights. After I had answered all
these questions to his satisfaction he Said
I could have the house if I paid rent in
advance, provided . I would eret ev state
ment frcm a banker, lawyer or grocer to
the effect that I was honest and Indus
trious." "Well, I never," said the other woman.
This might have been an exceptional
case, but the Incident actually happened,
and it is true that landlords are more par
ticular than ever before about the sort of
tenants they get They have a right to
be, and It paya them to be, for there
seems, to be about three or four families
after every house In town which is for
rent and the landlords are in position to
take their choice. If a man doesn't want
a tenant who stays out nights he doesn't
need to have him, for perhaps the very
same day another will come house seeking
who stays by his own fireside after sup,
per. A renter of Omaha property in the
year 190$ has to have someone to vouch
for his good character and his ability to
pay or he doean't have any house.
The realty men are making the predic
tion of a severe famine in dwelling houses
this ' fall. About September 10, when
gardena are a thing et the past, people In
the city will begin to seek new locations,
and about that time also, numerous wage
earners from the country and small towns,
attracted by the advantages of the city, will
begin to pour In. From that date on to
the middle ot October Is always the busy
rental season. That the famine In houses
this fall will be more aevere than last year,
the real estate men assert, and everybody
knows conditions were bad enough then.
At the present time the demand for cot
tages is much larger than can be supplied,
and when the rush Is on the real estate
men will be subjected to all sorts of wor
ries on the subject of rentals.
Omaha need more houses, say the realty
men, in ehorus. Its population Is growing
faster than houses are being built to accom
modate it Thla year haa been one of
great building activity, houses having been
erected in all parts of ths city in large
numbers, but It. haa also been a year 'of
growth In all Unea, - and there are more
people In town than a 'year ago, 'when
houaea were not any too numeroua for the
population. , The demand . la greatest for
modest cottages, say Ave rooms, -with no
modern conveniences but city water, the
rent being from $11 to Hi a month. The
majority of renters are wage earners, and
they cannot afford to pay more than this
much for a horns. Houses ot this sort rent
quickly, and they pay the , builder as large
a per cent on his Investment as tha more
pretentious ones.
Sines the Western, Real Eatate Trueteea
ot Boston bought the northeast corner of
Seventeenth and Capitol avenue, not long
ago, John L. McCac;ue of the McCaaue In
vestment company, which Is agent for the
Boston people, lias made casual Inquiries
regarding tha price of several other busi
ness corners, practically all of them occu
pied ty bulldlnga. Mr. McCague la supposed
to be getting a line on the. asking price
of a list of good properties with ths Idea
of suggesting them to his eastern clients
for Investment As long as ths Boston
people have Invested In the property by the
poatoffice, after bavins; been inactive In
Omaha property since their Investments of
the tO's. It Is generally thought that their
purchaaea In this city will be numerous,
as they were In the earlier days.
Even some of the men who were very ac
tive In getting the poatoffice building at ita
present location are now doubtful as to the
wladom of their Idea. One ot tbem re
marked a few daya ago that as far as ha
could see the postoffice hsd done nothing
to Increase property values along- North
Sixteenth street though the object In get
ting the building where It Is waa to help
values. This man said he realised now
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that the postoffice In a large town does not
attract retail trade in anything like the
measure It does in a smaller place. Another
man who had taken no hand in the poat
office light remarked that the appearance
of the city would have been improved much
more by the structure if it had been placed
on Farnam street somewhere west of Six
teenth. "You can aee now that the talk of a
paasenger atatlon on Davenport street
amounted to cothlng." said an official of
the Northwestern railroad, Just after the
recent announcement that two freight
depots would be built between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets, reaching from
Davenport north for more than 700 feet.
"As we said in the first place, the ground
was bought for freight houses and side
tracks. A paasenger atatlon at that place
would be literally off the map. As long
as the Northwestern expecta to compete
with other roada for the passenger busi
ness which the Union Pacific and other
western lines bring into Omaha, it will
have to do business st the Union station
or very close to It, as the Burlington does.
People object to long transfers between
depots."
The weekly meetings of the Omaha Real
Estate exchange will be resumed with a
session at the lunch hour next Wednesday.
President Green has been busy with the
fall program for a week or two, and he
promises some lively seaalons.
The stockholders'' meeting of the Real
Batata Exchange Building company last
week waa barren of results, aa the num-
ber present lacked four ot enough to make
a quorum. .Sentiment waa general for a-flve-atory
building. Another meeting will
be called this week.
A. L. Root, with N. P. Dodge & Co.,
reports the following sales within the last
ten days:
House and two acres of land In Benson
Heights, north of Krug's park, to T. W.
Maran for a home, $1,600; two three-story
brick fltts at Twentieth and Spruce atreets
to Ella M. Tsschuck for an Investment
$3,800; houso and lot at 20a Miami street, to
Peter Jessen, Jr.'. for a home, $1,600; house
and lot at 4328 Burdette street, aa an in
vestment to O. F. Adams, $2,800; house
and lot at 2E30 Decatur street, for a home,
to B. A. Ehrlnburg; two houses,, 8413 and
8437 Jackson street to W. H. Becker, as
an Investment, $1,700; house and lot at 2560
Cuming street for a home, to S. Katelman,
$2,000; house at 2666 Cuming street to Armtta
Root as a rental Investment, $2,000; vacant
lot at Thirtieth and Lake streets, to P. H.
Nellson, $600, as a building site; vacant lot
on Lake street as an Investment to Dr.
J. H. Cummlngs; five acres in Benson
Heights, to James Robinson, on which he
will build a home.
BOHEMIAN TURNERS TO MEET
Hamdrede of Athletea from Kansas
and Nebraska to Be la
oath Omaha.
Hundreds of Bohemian Turners from Ne
braska, Kansas and California are arriving
to attend the second annual tournament of
the western division of the Bohemian Na
tional Gymnastlo association, to be held
under the auspices ot the Tel. Jed. Bokol
at South Omaha September 1, t and t The
events will be held m the Bohemian Na
tional hall at Twenty-first and U streets.
The railroads hsve granted a rate of one
fare and a third for the round trip from
polnta within 800 miles. The tournament
Is. open to women as well as men and a
number of classes and indlvlduala will par
ticipate. The tournament will open at I o'clock
Sunday morning' and last during the day.
In the evening a' theatrical performance
will be given. Monday a parade of Bohe
mian societies will be started at 1 o'clock.
This will - be . followed by addresses by
Mayor Hoctor and Otakar Charvat Th.e
tournament will be concluded by a gym
nastic exhibition and a grand ball will take
place In the evening.
The local committee In charge
event Is as follows:
Joseph Bterba, Leo J. Hart D.
J. J. Ohnesorg, Joseph Vonaaek,
of the
Hlavka,
Frank
Kubln, Frank Derlo, Frank Benak, Joseph
Mucba, Frank Radii, 8. Oourada.
BURGLARS ARE RATHER BUSY
Pat la Active NUM la North Omaha,
' i bat Are Poorly
Paid. N
' Burglars got busy out In the north end
of town Friday night, but failed to make
wages. Entrance was gained to the resi
dence of W. Q. Maxfleld, 2811 Templeton
street, and $1.50 taken. W. A. Naugle, S311
Fowler avenue, contributed $4 and a watch,
while at the residence of Q. K. Shukart
$20 Larsmle avenue, nothing was secured.
Mr. Shukart wakened and made a noise like
a priseflghter and tha burglara ran. En
trance at each place waa through a win
dow. More Hlsht-oi-wsr.
The Omaha, Lincoln A Beatrice company
has acquired another strip of right-of-way
lust outside South Omaha. The land is luo
fet wide and the transfer waa made Sat
urday at the office of the register ot deeds. I
It Ilea brtween tha Burlington tracka
and Military avenue. C'healey D. Layton
and Maria Iyton were the grantora and
the consideration named waa iL
life,
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ICE MEN FINED IN COURT
John A. Doe and Hit Company Funiihtd
fof Giving; (hart Weight
NO TROUBLE TO PROVE CHARGES
Two Witnesses Show They Were
Cheated on Parchases from
Omaha lee and Cold
Storage Company,
John A. Doe, the Iceman, was fined $28
end costs on two counts, and the Omaha
Ice and Storage company, of which he la
president was fined $26 and costs on thu
same counts, making $100 which will have
to be paid by the company and lta presi
dent for dealing In ahort welghta.
The fines were administered by Acting
Police Judge Cockrell Saturday morning.
To make his case, Tom Lee, city prose
cutor, had only two wltneses, but they
were good ones, Mrs. C. W. Ackermnn,
8636 Lincoln Boulevard, and C. L. Ransom,
8320 Lafayette avenue. Each had filed a
complaint against the company and Its
president the former Charging aha had
been sold thlrty-ons pounds of Ice when
she had paid for fifty pounds, while the
latter received aeventy-three pdunda lu
atead of 100 pounds which he had paid for.
John A. Doe, president and General Man
ager Todd of the company were put on
the stand for the defendant and each
testified the drivers had been Instructed to
sell full weight. Each testified the scales
used by the drivers were - corrected and
tested each week. Each testified It was
against the orders of the .officers of the
co'mpany for any driver to sell short
weights. r , -
Driver . Ref ases to Welsh. '
' Mr. Ransom said he told the driver when
the ice was delivered to him that It d:d
not weigh 100 pounds. The driver, dis
puted the atatement. Ransom aaid, and re
fused to weigh the ice again. After the
driver had gone Ransom said he chopped
the Ice In two pieces and weighed the
pieces on his house scales, and found lie
had been defrauded out of twenty-seven
pounds of loe. Nelson C. Pratt attorney
for the Icemen, tried to show by the wit
ness his acalea were no good, but Ransom,
who Is a civil engineer, held to it they were
Just as good as any other scales.
Mrs. Ackerman waa good at repartee
and the Icemen got little aatlafactlon when
Mr. Pratt cross-examined her. She bad
testified to reporting to the ice company
the receipt ot ahort weights.
"Did the company do anything about
it?" inquired Pratt.
"No, sir, It did not," answered the wit
ness .
"How do you know It didn't?"
"Because I kept getting short weights."
quickly replied the wltnesa. ' .
"The officers didn't tell you they had
ordered the drivers to give short weights,
did they?" asked Mr. Pratt n
"No, and neither did they tell me they
had ordered the drlvera not to give ahort
weights." answered Mrs. Ackerman.
"Well, now, Mrs. Ackerman, you don't
really know whether the company did any
thing after you made your complaint, do
you? They might have done something,
you know."
"Well, If they did." answered the wit
ness, "it failed to help me."
City Prosecutor Lee asked for a convic
tion under the ordinance providing a pen
alty tor short weights and measures, and
with very little ado Judge Cockrell as
aeaaed the fines and the loe company and
Its president appealed the .case.
SUITS FOR DEATHS SETTLED
Three Families Compromise fer
Lives Ioat at Lake
Settlement for three ot the deaths caused
by the disaster at Lake Manawa July $
haa been made in probate court by the
Marawa Amusement compnny. In each
case Jl,6 waa paid the parenta of the
young women who loat their Uvea. Ad
ministrators were appointed and receipts
showing tfils amount of money had been
paid have been died by William Hlland, a
motorman, father of Miss Bessie Hlland;
Dennis Sheean, father of . Mary Bheean,
and Jerry J. Looney, father of Mary !.
Looney. ' Miss Bheean and Miss Looney
were cousins. , .
In some of the other cases suit for 86,000
has been started in Barpy county and for
larger amounts In J ha court at Couni.ll
Bluffs.
DOG AND BULLETD0 WORK
Hadsea is Bit la Oae Hand aad that
la Other, hat Still
la Hla.
Not content with having one hand tied
up from the effects of a mad dog bite.
Officer Hudspn of the police department
Friday night fired a shot through his other
hand and now haa both of them tied up,
though be Is still at work.
Hudson was cleaning his revolver, which
became dirty by reason of lis discharge a
half doaen time at the mad dog. The ball
Juat grazed tha fleshy part of hla hand and
made only a auperflclal wound. It waa
aerloua enough, however, to wrap a ra
around.
Juat what a woman's club may mean to
a community waa admirably demonstrated
last Wednesday by a plonlo given by the
Fair land Country Woman's club In Wort
man's grove about six miles from Ash
land. The club Is made up of wives and
daughters of farmers living In the vicinity
of Ashland and feouth Bend and It Is Us
annual custom to give a plcnlo sometime
during August.
Last Wednesday's gathering was the
aecond out-of-door affair ot which the club
has been hostess and the farmers for half
a dosen mllea around suspended their
work and laid care aside' for the day to
bring their families and participate In the
festivities. Between 200 and 100 men,
women and children enjoyed the outing
and all day long the grove and the field
adjoining rang with shouts and laughter
of old and young. While the crowd was
gathering between 11 and 12 o'clock, a
program was presented by club members
and club sons and daughters. A platform
hsd been built in the grove and an organ
Installed and Mrs. O. J. Wortman, presi
dent of the' club, presided. There was
musio by the glee club, the boys' quartets
and the girls' quartete, organ solos, re
cltationa and readings .and at tha cloae
Mrs. Wortman" spoke . briefly, explaining
the purpose of the monthly meetings of
the club was to bring the women of the
neighborhood together for the discussion
of things pertaining to the home and for
some literary study. She Invited all tha
women who were not then membera to Join
the organisation and bring to It what help
they could. And then the baskets were un
packed and the luncheons such as only
farmer's wives can provide, were spread
upon. the cloths under each trees, several
families uniting at each spread. Later,
while the women cleared away the rem
nants of the feast, the men sat about in
groups discussing crops or stock, while tha
young people made ready for the garnet
scheduled for the afternoon.
Flag: Drill by Little Folk.
The first was a flag drill by a num
ber of little people who went through sev
eral intricate figures to the Inspiring strains
of "Marching Through Georgia" furnished
by a mouth harp.
A basket ball game by the young women
came next, the teams being uniformed In
simple short blue calico dresses and 'little
black caps. A suitable clearing was made
and the baaketa fastened to trees and the
spectators sat about in the buggies or
wagona or stood about the edge to watch
the game. As the immediate neighborhood
afforded no suitable clearingthe whole
party adjourned to a nearby pasture for the
base ball game. A seml-clrcle of carriages
and wagons, drawn up about the diamond,
afforded a grand-stand from , whloh the
women and girls cheered the game while
on either side the soft sod served as
"bleachers' for the men and boys, who
rooted lusUly. The two teams were uni
formed In ' fresh overhalls, black shirts
and black caps. A base ball game between
the girls' basket ball team and a team of
young men was the closing event of the
afternoon, and It was well toward sun
down before the plcnlo broke up. That It
was a success was the general verdict
but. us one of the club members said, It Is
a 'juostlon If it waa generally realised what
hi id made a gathering possible. .
Mrs. Wortman Founder.
Tho club was organised two years ago
by Its present president, Mrs. O. J. Wort
man, who had been a prominent member
of the Ashland Woman's club. A farmer's
wife herself, Mra. Wortman had come '
through experience to realise the narrow
ness of the busy life of the average woman
on the farm and determined to Institute
some diversion by which the women of her
community might profit The Falrland
Country Woman's club was the outcome
and It is today a thriving organisation
of about thirty-five members, its meet
ings being held every fourth Thursday at
the homes of the various members. Aside
from an Initiation fee of 30 cents there
are no club dues, the expenses of the or
ganisation being met by giving enter
tainments that serve the double pur
pose of raising funds and promoting ac
quaintance and good feeling among the
people of the neighborhood. Borne of the
members hsve to drive six or eight miles
to the meetings, but regardless of the
weather the attendance la Invariably good
and thla has In no way tended to limit
the membership or the Interest
Meetings All Samsser.
Unlike the crtty olub, the meetings . are
oontlnued through the summer, which,
though they are held only every four
weeks, gives almost as many meetings to
the year as other clubs have.
An especial effort has been made to Inter
est the young women and so suoceeaful
has It been that the club has been aaked
to oontrlbute to the program of the earning
convention of the Nebraska Federation of
Women's Clubs, a talk or a paper on how
to gain and hold tha Interest of young
women. Concerning the olub Mrs. Wort
man said Wednesday I
"The women of the cities or even of the
smaller towns have no Idea how muoh our
club means to us. It Is practically all we
have In the way of diversion or recreation
or opportunity for an exchange of Ideas.
Before we had the olub comparatively few
of us even knew each other. We do not
all attend the same churches and, having
little time for celllngi had no chance to
meet. There are so many things In the
country that might be so different If peo
ple only knew each other better."
How well the club haa served this pur
pose is shown la the fact that since Ita
organisation ths neighbors are better ao '
qualnted tl.an for twenty years and em
brace every occasion for coming together.
The club will bold Its annual election of
officers In November and In February gives
Its annual social. The social and the plcnlo
are the two big events ef the year and the
Indoor gathering last winter wss scarcely
less interesting than Wednesday's plcnlo.
It was an evening gathering and theea in
attendance ranged In age from months
to W years. . The club Is at present of
ficered by Mrs, O. J. Wortman, president!
Mrs. T Ci Parks, vice president i Mra. D.
C. Craig, treasurer! and Mlaa Jennie
bailey, secretary.
Wife Desertion Charged.
Mrs. C. B. Bertlason filed a complaint
tUturday morning aarulnst her husband,
who she claims rax the last three yexrs
has failed not only to live with her, but
to contribute to her support. Wife deser
tion Is the charge- The woman said alia
was employed at the Meriiam and sui
ported ber two children. The husband, she
said, was working; sojusatbai-e la toa
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