Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, December 08, 1906, NEWS SECTION, Page 3, Image 3
i TTTK OMAITA" PATLY BEE: SATTTiPAY. PTTEMBETC S, lf05. If YOU ARE UNDECIDED WHAT TO GIVE HIM LOOK AT OUR 13th ST. WINDOWS CORRECT DRESS FOR MEN AND DOYS 8 in ... . v ''.mm.r.v. Si if A . PA V'. 4" V. Hav . r..v-v. sy : 'i k. .,,.1 V."-f . jf fi-er S 1 V , if That Christmas PRESENT FOR HIM. SHALL IT BE A SMOKING JACKET or a RODE? Make your selection early and be assured of s """Vv r netting Just what you want It surely awaits you x here. 33.50 to 315.00 ," 33.50 to $.0,00 LOUNGING ROBES $5.00 to $35.00 aberdashhw rot aw, Plenty of things here to serve as gifts and being a men's store you are certain that whatever you select would be just what he would choose for himself to wear. Gloves That fit the hand, fit the occasion and fit the purse' i $1 and up Fur Caps They reach the top notch of useful gift giving $2 to $10 HOSIERY Why not give him a box of "Everwear" hosiery, with an absolute guaran tee for six months. $1.50 Box of 6 Pair HANDKERCHIEFS Linen, silks and fancy; every novelty of the season 20c to $1.50 V --.v. . . ;. t a IF YOU DON'T BUY CLOTHES At BergSwanaon' during December You Don't Duy CLOTHES RIGHT That Is. you don't get as much value for your money as you are entitled to. ' MEN'S SUITS AT 15:2 SILK Handkerchief AND TIE TO MATCH Almost any color you might fancy and you are certain he never received a set before. SI the set Suspenders In dainty boxes expres sive of Christmas cheer. 50c 75c $1.00 $1.25 $1.50 Neckwear The beautiful In neck wear Is a gem always" worth giving Our's are gems. 50c 75c $1.00 $1.50 and up to $3.50 Collars Give' him one of our cer tificates. Its an order on us for one dozen fine linen collars of the style he may thoose unique Idea, Isn't it? $1.50 . SPECIAL We've Just purchased 2,000 pairs of MEN'S PANTS Made to retail at $3.50 ON SALE SATURDAY $2.50 An extra pair or two will cost little and give variety to your ap parel as well as save the pair that matches your suit. 10 ft llllllli 1 NEWS 1 1 : Almost unlimited In variety of cloths and styles every one the products of some top-notch clothes maker with a name that means something In the clothing world positively suits of equal merit would cost you $2.50 to $7.50 more at other stores. YOUNG MEN'S SUITS In greater assortment than any other Omaha store can show and the savings are as great as the variety. S7.50, $10, $15 BOYS' KNEE PANTS SUITS Our good clothes actually cost less than the ordinary "thrown together" sorts better come here and let us demon strate our superiority as boys' clothiers. $1.75, $2.50, $3.50. $5 GOOD OVERCOAT WE BOUGHT THE SURPLUS OVERCOAT STOCKS OF B. KUPPENHEIMER & CO. and GRANERT & ROTHSCHILD Or CHICAGO.. TOGETHER WITH THAT Or DAVID ADLER AND SONS. MILWAUKEE In all over 1 300 overcoats at a decided reduction the new grays. Oxfords, blacks and blues all the newest torm-deflnlng'models. medium and extra lengths. We positively guarantee a saving of 25 to 40. 15 Our enormous overcoat selling of the past tour weeks made this purchase possible. We thought we had too many when the seaaon started, but we misjudged the number of men who wanted good overcoats and found them here. . Every new conceit in boys' outer garments BOVS OVCrCOEXtS 1 here at whatever price you wish to pay. $5 and Up i m s i mmm BID ODOR FROM THE KORMAL Charst Salarits Art Paid to Those Who Have Little or No Work to Do. TO BE CALLED TO SHELDON'S ATTENTION Xlcaalal Report of Auditor Shows m ' Bcdactlon of 34,T:w 61 la State Dtltl, Laritlr Thmsk tht Sheldoa Bill. (From a BlafT Correqtxmdent.) LINCOLN, Dc. 7. (Special.) Charges of uch a serious nature have been made acalnst the management of the Kearn. y jN'ormtl school. Implicating some meml.e.-s ct the Normal board, that a legislative In vestigation seems imiwraUve, to te de manded either by the management or by those who have made the charges. The matter will be laid before Oovernur-elect i Bheldon upon Jits return home and he will be asked to make a personal Investigation . f the affairs of the school.. It Is chaiged, and the charge Is made In writing, that persons In large numbvrs have been employed at fat salaries at the Normal school merely for political purp s s. It Is charged that engineers and firemen were employed during the summer months and paid good salaries merely to attend po litical caucuses and to help carry out Sup erintendent Thomas' reported statement that he Intended to run the politics of Buf falo county. One man. It in charged,, who was employed to work around the Normal school campus during the summer did noth ing at all but water the trees occasionally evnd attend political meetings, yet drew a good salary. It Is charged many persons were employed whose names do not uppear on the vouchers, but who were paid out of 'What is known as the dormitory fund.. . So far as the records at the stilt house are concerned no Itemized slatemont Is on file aa to how much money has been col lected at the school. The money Is merely Sent to the state treasurer and depjs.ted In a lump ss a dormitory or cash fund, "nether the items are previously clucked Up and audited by the buttrd an Investlga ' Uon probably will show. Another matter concerning this school hlch will be looked Into and to which Mr. Bheldon' s attention will be called, Is the contract for the Normal school building. Architect Berllnghof reported unfavorably tipon accepting the building, holding it did gtot conform to the specifications' in the contract, but the rmtlon to accept it and to pay the last Installment of the contract prlos was carried by a major. y vote of those present, but without a majority vole af the entire board. It was publicly stated at that meeting by Treasurer Mortensen tht at least' Mem ber Qregg of the State Normal bcarl owned Stock in the cement company which made the blocks of which the school vsi con structed. Another report Is that Qregg trtd bis stock, or pretended to sell It. upon ba Ing appointed a member of the bjard. Th's Company was organised by Kearney men and It was stated at the board meoting that the company lost about IT . on the oeat owing partially to Berlinghofs good work In trying to make the work come up to the contract specifications. Gregg's con nection with a hardware firm which had a contract to furnish supplies In this line to the school will also some In for an airing. Bward Messbers Oat City. Both Treaaurt Mortensen and Superin tendent McBrlen, members of the board, tnjl ei the dt anil n iuforiuaiUn could be secured from them regarding these charges, but' at least Mr. Mortensen has not been backward about saying the school Is not being managed as It should be. It is understood he could give some valuable In formation to an Investigating committee. L. P. Ludden Is secretary of the board and It Is presumed he keeps the records of the board at his home. Mortensen has always been the leader of the minority faction of the board and the majority has made no bones about running over him rough shod whenever he- got In the way, and he has open on numerous occasions quite a stumbling block. Inasmuch as the normal school wants to double Its capacity by building an addition tJ the present building, there Is no doubt a thorough Investigation will be made Into all the charge nied against the bonrd and the superintendent, as several legislator have expressed themselves aa being op posed to giving Kearney an appropriation until the board and the superintendent give a good account of the last appropriation and show conclusively that not a penny of It was spent except for legitimate pur poses. Redaction of State Debt. The biennial report of the state auditor for the two years ended November 30. shows the warrant Indebtedness of the state to be 11.918.6S3.. 11. a reduction during the blennlum of $3tS.730.fil, the debt against the general fund at the beginning of the blennlum being SZ.2S3. 1.91 The only other Interest bearing debts are those against the temporary university fund. At this time the outstanding warrants against this fund amount to tTi9.446.47, while at the same time two years ago this fund had standing agalnrt It Interest bearing warrants to the amount of IS1.399. These warrants, how ever, usually do not run more than a month or two. The bulk of the reduction Is due to the Sheldon 1-mlll levy, which brought Into the treasury tT3, iH6.nl. Without the Sheldon act, under the present conditions, the re duction would have been only $73,7M. How ever, there Is due the general fund prac tically I'a.iOO from the Burlington and I'nion Pacific railroads of their taxes for the three years Just passed. This Is based on 30 per cent of the total taxes levied, the two railroads having paid SO per cent to the various county treasurers. This Is the amount due the genersl fund only on the 4lfc-m.ll levy, while figured on the 7-mlll or touil levy for state and school purposes the two railroads are behind with the state treasurer tliT.B'O. The suit to prevent the collection of this amount, however. Is still In the hards of the court and It may or may not be decided In favor of the slate. An analysis of the Interest br-aring debts stems to show that the la"t legislature, nxtead of holding down the appropriations In order to permit the Sheldon act to per form that for wliii h lis author Intended It, made the appropriation with the Idea that the Sheldon act would prevent a farther Increase of the debt only. I nlaw PaelSe W las. On rehearing" of the case L'nlon Paclllc Railroad company, plaintiff In error, against Henry Frickenscher and others, the Judgnent heretofore entered Uy the supreme court Is vacated, set aside and the Judgment of the district court reversed and the cause remanded. Frickenscher was one of sev eral defendants who sued the railroad com pany for damage br fire which. It was alleged, was caused by the negligence ot the railroad company. The court says the misfortune of the plaintiffs la nut being able to produce evidence to prove who caused their damage. The plalatifTs must so trace the origin of the fire, as to showj that It was caused by the negligence of the railroad company. If the evidence shows several prairie Area of different origin, each of them originating several miles from the place of damage. It Is not sufficient to show that It Is more probable that the fire started by the railroad com pany was the one that caused the dam age. The verdict cannot be supported by probability and conjecture. Point In Scavenger Law, The Judgment of the case of the state against several parcels of lund, appeal from Douglas county. Is aftlrmed, the court hold ing: The purchaser at a Judicial sale at which certain apparent liens have been duly certified and deducted In the appraise ment is a purchaser subject to such Hens and Is estopped after confirmation with out objection to dispute their validity, and the rule Is equally applicable to the Judg ment plaintiff and to strangers. A stipu lation that the supposed liens are In fact void is not a waiver of the estoppel. This Is an action In the name ot the state to foreclose the supposed tax Hens pursuant to the so-called scavenger act of the last legislature. A grantee of the purchaser at the foreclosure sale was made de fendant and answered denying the validity of the alleged taxes on account of which the foreclosure was sought, and It was stipulated before the trial that the said supposed taxes were wholly void, but the district court nevertheless entered a de cree of foreclosure and sale. Widow Gets Verdict. A Judgment of 13,000, given In the district court of Platte county In favor of MInnte Edmongscn, administratrix, and against the I'nion Pacific Railroad company, has been affirmed by the supreme court. The Judgment was for damages by reason of the death of Cameron Edmongson, a brake man, who was thrown from the top of a freight car by the sudden stopping of the train, said to be due to defective air brakes. Glbsoa So Paid. In the case of the State of Nebraska et al., appellees, against the several parcels nf land and C. Gibson et al., the su preme court held: "The evidence exam ined and held Insufficient to support a find ing that appellant, Gibson, was paid a con sideration for s.gning a petition for local Improvements." The question at Issue In the caso was whether Gibson was extoppei from questioning the validity of a special assessment for grading. A written state ment was produced In the lower court signed by Cash Bros., who had the contract to do the work, saying In consideration of Gibson signing the petition there was to be refunded to him an amount equal to the special assessment against him. A warrant for 3u0 Issued to Cash Bros, was produced and upon Its face was stamped the following: "Alignment to R. A. Car penter, city clerk: ptild April 10. l'JOO. F. A. Broadwell, city treasurer, South Omaha." Stamped on the back were these words: "Presented and registered for payment April, 1. Not paid for want of funds. F. A. Broadwell." There was also written n ink across the back of the warrant. ishi. nmw i.jnawf .sin ijMli!i Cold Hixnds aid Feel aro often caused by cpffee driakiog poor circulation. POSTUM MAKES WARM RID BLOOD "Tsere'i a gessoa" T i-rffTtlrr-" "L. C. Gibson." The court says: "It does not appear that the order referred to was delivered to Gibson or acted upon by him. The order was dated prior to the awarding of the contract to Cash Bros, and not disclosed. There Is no evidence the warrant was delivered to Gibson nor that he received the proceeds therefrom." Joarnal Company Mast Answer. The case of J. E. Cobbey against the State Journal company, error from Gage county. Is reversed and remanded, the court holding that section 65 of the code applies to corporations aa well as Individ uals, and If an action is rightly brought In one county, summons may be Issued to another county for se. vice upon a corpora tion. Mr. Cobbey brought suit In the dis trict court of Gc-ge county against the Journal company and O. M. Stonebreaker and others to recover damages for an alleged unlawful conspiracy by them for the malicious prosecution of an injunction suit to prevent Mr. Cobbey from receiving an appropriation from the state for printed copies of the statutes sold the state. Stonebreaker was the only defendant served with summons In that county,- but his summons was Issued to Lancaster county and served therein upon the other defendants. These defendants, the State Journal company and the Nebraska Slate Journal association are corporations or ganised under the laws of this state, each having It place of business In Lancaster county and having no place of business In Gage county. The corporations ap peared separately and objected to the Juris diction of the court over their persons. The objections were sustained and the suit dismissed as to them. This Judgment Is now reversed. Cause remanded. No Damajres for Baker. Oreely Baker will receive no damages from Swift and Company, packers, on ac count of Injuries he received while em ployed at the packing house In South Omaha. After the men hud quit work In the hog killing department Baker with others was washing preparatory to leaving the premises, when a colored boy turned a hose on him and badly scalded him. He clulmed his Injuries were due to the care lessness of a fellow servant. The testimony was to the effect Baker and the boy had had trouble during the morning, and. while the court said the company may be cen sured for employing a 14-year-old boy, "the evidence showed he was well developed and appeared as old as the plaintiff. The lower court took the case from the Jury and rendered a verdict for the defendant. This the supreme court held was the proper thing to do. to payment of taxes. As yet Mr. Sage has taken no action In the matter and Is evi dently awaiting; Instructions from his employers. DECREASE IM YIELD OF POTATOES Blight Affects Crop In Many Portion of the State. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Dec. 7. (Special.) The report cn the yield of Irish potatoes In Nebraska Ipsurd today by the state bureau of labor and statistics shows a total production of 5,981.221 bushels, which were produced from fd.928 acres, giving an average yield of "3.94 bushels per acre. A severe blight has affected the potato crop In practically every section of the state, which hoa resulted In a far below normal crop. This blight cauped a decrease of n per cent In the av erage yield, which, combined with a de crease In acreage of S.l per cent, or 8.S43 acres, makes the 1906 crop 2,317,982 bushels below 1905. Sheridan county, aa usual, leads the state In acreage and total production, having an acreage of 5.326 and a production of 835.638 bushels. Box Butte county takes second rank with 4,867 acres and 2&7.961 bushels produced. Dawes county ranks third In acreage with 2.72 acres, but Is passed by Scott's niuff In production, the latter hav ing produced 243,360 bushels. Wayne and Thomas counties are credited with the largest average yield, having 13 bushels per acre, although the latter only had an acreage of thirty-three acre Eleven other counties have an average yield of 100 bushels or over, vis.: Boone, Cedar, Chey enne, Cherry, Cuming, Dixon, Knox, Madi son, Rock, Scott's Bluff and Wheeler. Douglas county had an acreage of 2,221 and produced 188,786 bushels, or an average yield of eighty-five bushels per acre. Lan caster produced 185.500 bushels from 2.650 acres, with an average yield of seventy bushels. The farm value of the crop Is placed at I2.SS1.688.40. Aver- Av Per ag. Acre, Bu, Madison 3 Merrick 482 Nanoe 4i7 Nemaha ' 53 Nuckolls 691 Otoe 1, Pawnee 620 Perkins 3'2 Phelps 481 Pierce 743 Tlatte l.oat Polk 466 Red Willow 934 Richardson &s Rock 5: Saline 747 Sarpy 1.2" Paunders 1.2V1 Scott's Bluff 2.028 Seward 1.391 Sheridan 5.3K Sherman 6L2 tloux &' Stanton Thayer M0 Thomas S3 Thurston 21 Vulley 6! Washington 1,25 tavne 8)0 Webster 891 Wheeler 0 York 1.066 120.00 84.00 91.00 72.00 91.00 66. 00 76.00 6S.O0 50.(0 81.00 82. 00 70 ) 67.00 60.00 115 0) 57. 00 82. D 95.00 120.(1) 72.00 63.00 63.00 81 on 97.00 58.00 3:. no 97.00 i.no 76.0) 12T.00 9U.00 118.00 63.00 8.76 ,4K 37.e7 42, AH! 53.7M 70.310 39.520 a. s.'M 24.".' 6D.183 86.110 32,5V) 63. 2 41. m 67.8'0 42.579 v8.'i' 122.61D 243.31 100.152 33"i..".l 39. 16 43.57 49.0'? 48.72" 4.1?', 27, 7 47,770 96.1i lol.S'o 63.400 36.KIU 66,628 Totals .80.928 73 94 6,964.221 BlItLIXiTOS VK WAIMZ IIKHIQ Fear Sajlae Conaly Men Iloao4 Over to DUtrlrl Conrt. WILBER, Neb.. Dec. 7. tSpeclal Tele gram.) In the county court this afternoon Messrs. Davis. Hlmes, E-i wards and Wor rell, respectively Burlington agents at Wllber, Crete, Dorchester and Friend, waived preliminary examination and were held to appear In the district court, forth with, on their personal recogulxance of $JU each. County Treasurer Bowiby has been noti fied by telegraph that an order has been is sued by Judge Munger In federal court to restrain him from collecting taxes for IS 4 from the Burlington railroad and from In any manner Interfering with Its agents or officials In attempting to make such collec tions. BEATRICE. Neb., Dec. 7. (Special Tele gram.) -'ounty Treasurer Barnard left to day for Blue Springs, Wymore and other points In the county to serve papers on the Burlington agents similar to those served o, L. B. S, agent at this place, relative County. Adams Antelope .... Banner l:l-i!ne Boone Box Butte... Boyd Brown Buffalo Burt Lutler Cass Cedar chase K2S 119 1 141 4.8;7 6(0 7r 1,112 74J 1,243 738 W2 197 Cherry J.Oi Cheyenne 6W Clay K7 Colfax 821 Cuming 4 Custer 1 811 Dakota 2 212 Ihiwes 2,726 Dnwson 865 Iteuel S"- Dixon 678 IodKe 1.4"-S Douglas 2.2-f Dun.lv S91 Franklin 71! Fronller 72 Furnas 7rt Oage 1.22S Garfield Gosper 472 Grant 6 Greeley 876 Hall &9 Hamilton M Harlan 7X3 Haves T5 Hitchcock ) Holt 1'1 Hooker ?o Howard 9M Jefferson 'H Johnson 622 Ke.rney 642 Keith 244 Keys Paha l Kimball 13 Knox 1 2 lncaster 2 6V Un.-oln 1.158 l.onan H Loup 141 Ou.CO 95.00 83.00 91.00 110 00 63.00 67. 'U 82.00 56.00 89.00 75.00 82.(0 116.00 66.00 PO.iO liC.OO 63.00 66.00 108.00 1.00 72.00 78. (O 68.00 84. V) 114 00 90.00 85 00 63.00 42.00 4.00 63. (81 62.00 63 00 41.00 61 00 64. 'O 66.0) W 30.00 64.00 64 no W.oo 60 00 er.io 43 00 60.00 26. W 68 0) 67 0 49 00 l"l. 70 00 46. Ol 76 00 C.uO Produc tion. Bu. 49.680 ll.SoS 16.109 .'tfl 12 960 267 y 42 S0 67.561 82.272 06.127 93.225 i.51 99.92 18.715 0.8O 68.136 23.761 46.976 99.7V2 lfc 66i 1W.2K4 212.5.V) 58,820 26. 8W) ff892 128 970 lWi.785 V0.723 19 9"H Sv6. S7.1' 6M.96'! 19.133 19.3T.2 56.0M 69.331 72 "-i 23.490 24.0 21 6" i 184.6'.)1 3 6Ti. 928 29 84 27.32"! 22. 47 14.16' 23."7f 7 KV9 13".' 1 1.6 62 IK 9.044 .447 CORK GROWERS AMD COOKS MEET Voaaa People of Dodsre Conaty Hold Ijirae Convention. FREMONT, Neb., Dec. 7. (Special.) The annual Dodge county boys' and girls' corn growing and cooking contests and convention was held here today. The corn raised by the boys and the food cooked by the girls was displayed In the -corridors of the court house and the equity court room and overflowed Into the dis trict court room. There were over 400 en tries and about every exhibitor was on hand. About seventy-five youngsters came In from Dodge and Snyder. The morning trains also brought In a good many. A hayrack appropriately decorated and con taining twenty from Rosedale school dis trict attracted considerable attention on Its arrival In the city. Each young corn grower received a yellow ribbon badge bearing the legend "Corn Is King." and each competitor In the cooking contest a ribbon of white with the words "Cooks are Queens." There was standing room only and fully a third of the children were unable to gain admittance to the district court room when the meeting was called to order for the transaction of business at 11 o'clock. The boys were a little backward In elect ing officers. Robert Thomas of Leavltt and Willie Schuler of Scrlbner were nomi nated for president. Willie was not pres ent and though he was ably championed by a small black-haired youth Robert won out. Ernest Eberhart of Hooper was elected vice president, Myrl Carlton of Ames secretary and Byron Forbes of Hooper treasurer. There were a good many aspirants for honors among the girls and the following officers were chosen: Eva Nichols, Ar lington, I resident; Charlotte Scllley, Ames, vice president; Charlotte Monnlch, Hooper, secretary, and Lillian King, Ames, treas urer. Love's opera house was filled at the meeting this afternoon. After singing by the eighth grade girls of the city schools County Superintendent J. M. Matsen ex plained the object and plan of corn grow ing and cooking contests. Miss Rosa Bouton delivered an address on "The New Home Movement" and Prof. E. G. Mont gomery of Lincoln on "Corn Culture," In which he gave the boys some good Ideas about corn raising, the necessity of good seed .etc. Deputy State Superintendent E. C. Bishop told them of the statu contest and convention to be held later In Lincoln and urged them to compete In the con tests. Mr. D. V. Stephens spoke briefly, congratulating them on what they had done, after which they were entertained by moving pictures. A large number of city people visited the exhibits this afternoon. Burarlar Caesht In Store. BLUE HILL. Neb., Dec. 7. (Special Tel egram.) A burglar was detected In W. C Frahm's store Sunday by John Ray, man ager of the store, and Frank Baker, and while one ttood guard the other secured assistance and the thief wttv taken In charge and landed In Jail. He was given a preliminary hearing Monday and bound over to the district court under I&00 bonds and, being unable to furnish them, was taken to Red Cloud Tuesday by Marshal Durdln and turned over to the care of the hertff. Fremont Poultry Show Closes. FREMONT, Neb., Dec. 7. (Special.) The Dodge County Poultry association's an nual show closed this evening. Some Of the highest grade birds Ui the slate ware (Continued on Fifth Page.) JV Cured by Dr. Bull's Cougb Syrup. This dangerous throat dlseaae has often ld to more serious and lata) lio;utes through nei loot to cure It lit lu first stages with DR. BULL'S COUGH SYRUP "I have lust gotten oer a severe ease of bmn ehltls. which I coulracUvl from riding on the Surface ears which were so crowded, compelling nmtoeituidop the platform. I was unuble to eiieak for several days, and I owe my complete jsooverr solelT to lir. Bull's Couth hrrup." Jessie richuie. VJjI Lexiugton Ave., Kew York. sample: sent free to all readers. We want you to have absolute nonfljenoe In Dr. Bull s Couuli Hrrup and. to that end. will send you a sample free. 11 you will write for It end mention this paier. Address A, C. MfcYLK t CO, Baltimore, Md. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. The siibetltote which a dealer mar try to sell you on the merits of Dr. Bull's Oouga frruplssirnpi a ery cheaply put up cough, mixture that part him a better profit, (m. dr roux fewJlU. OttOJtlf Utw4(ilUe iU. fcuil aUmgabjrup. Viki.tM,tuu.SUMk