'TTTB OMAITA DAILY BKEi TUESDAY, JANUATIY .1, JfK7.
WednesdayThe Event All (Omaha Has Been Awaiting
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IT SHATTERS ALL BARGAIN RECORDS!
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The astonishing, unheard-of bargains
in this sale will take the city
by storm A sale that is positively
without an equal.
Not a yard or piece of winter goods will
be spared Hundred of things
you need right now at lets than it will'
cost you later in the season
Clearing Sale of
MILLINERY
All our fine $5 hats P -rt
must go new desir- H jj
able styles J
at.
All our $25 hats, elaborately
trimmed with ostrich plumes,
fine ribbons,
breasts, feathers P
and flowers
at
Choice of our $2.50 and $3.50 wool and fur
felt untrimmed hats, velvet
shapes and silk shapes to
I clear them away at ........
i Silk Chiffon All our. 50o and 75c double
width silk chiffon, all colors of
' the rainbow in millinery de
partment, yard.
Veils Our 50o embroidered net
face veils, black and white
clearing sale price, each
WA lUU A M
50c
f5c double
10c
10c
Visit Our Great Sale of
MUSLIN UNDERWEAR
Monday,. January 7th
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Wonderful Clearaice of Imported Gowns,
Costumes, Ladies' Furs, Cloaks, Suits, Waists, Skirts, Etc.
Our business for" the past year in these departments has been enormous but we
have a large number of our finest garments which we wish to dispose of at once. We
have reduced the prices far below the profit line. Imported apparel will be sold at only
a fraction of its cost to land in America.
NO BARGAINS SUCH AS THESE WERE EVER OFFERED BEFORE IN OMAHA
Same of this apparel which has been on display in oar show windows has created no end of wonder and com
ment. Sale begins Wednesday.
A $300 Imported Gown......
A 125 Spangled Gown.......
A $125 Spangled Gown
A $150 Imported Velvet Gown.
A $125 Imported Tailor Suit...
A $95 Imported Tailor Suit....
$89
$35
$25
$25
$39
.$25
A $150 Imported Velvet Carriage Coat... $50
A $160 Imported Real Lace Coat... $35
A $350 Imported Evening Coat... $125
A $85 White Broadcloth Coat $27.50
A $5Q Imported Waist $9.93
A $35 Imported Waist $9.98
A $65 Imported Petticoat. . J ....... $22.50
A $50 Imported Petticoat $22.50
A $35 Marabout Boa $15
$35 Crepe de Chine Gowns. ....... .$16.50
$27.60 White Opera Coats $9.98
$29 Broadcloth Coats $15
$27.50 Fur Lined Coats $14.85
$29 Silk Persian Blouses $13.85
A $39 Marabout Boa.
$15
$9.08
$7.50
$5.98
$4.98
$3.98
$6.98
$5
....$10
$14.85
$10 Ladles' Skirts at $4.98
$8.60 Ladles' Skirts, at $3.98
$27.60 Plaid Silk Dresses....
$15 Black Broadcloth Coats..
$12.50 60-inch Mixture Coats.
$10 60-lnch Mixture Coats...
$8.50 60-inch Mixture Coats..
$16 Ladles' Tailored Suits...
$25 Ladles' Tailored Suits..,
$26 Ladles' Tailored Suits..
$35 Ladles' Tailored Suits...
$5 Ladies' Skirts, at.... '...$1.98
$200 48-inch Blended Squirrel Coat $125
$225 Persian Lamb Blouse $125
$98 Russian Pony Coat.. ....$49
$98 Russian grey squirrel Blouse $50
$67.50 Near Seal Blouse $24.50
$6.98 Children's Coats $2.98
$10 Children's Coats .. $4.98
$4 Children's Coat , $1.98
$3 Children's Coats 08
Ladles' 7 So Knit Underskirts -35tf
Ladles' 75c Fleeced Dressing Sacques. . . .29t '
Ladles' $2.50 and $2 wool and cotton Waist 98t
Ladles' $5 Lace Net and Wool Waists. .$1.08
Ladies' $2.60 Wool Sweaters 98
$2 Child's Wool Dresses; 50
$3.50 Child's Wool Dresses 981
Great Clearance of
YlT
as . jaiX
"We have over 25,000 yards of plain and fancy
silks, marked for quick clearance all odd
lines, no matter what they cost plaid silks,
fancy dress silks, messalines, black and col
ored dress and lining taffetas, pretty fou
lardssilks that have been selling from 50o
to $1.50 yard divided into three lots at,
yard
5?c:-49cr22k
One lot of 36-inch heavy rustling black taf
feta, which sold at $1.25 yard
at, yard C
One lot of 24 and 27-iiuch satin meteor crepe
de chine, which sold at $1.50 T7Qn
yard at . C
One lot of 36-inch; colored dress taffetas,
about 15 shades, which sold at , 70
$1.25 yard at, yard C
One lot of 27-inch black dress taffetas, about
10 pieces, which sold at $1.00 CO
yard at, yard JrC
One lot of about 950 yards of 45-inch all silk
chiffons, nearly every shade, regular I P
selling price 69o and 75c yd. at, yd. WC
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Linen SaJe A Grand Clearance of Carpets and Kugs ri
. ready-to-use nil linen H&ttern' table cloths, 0 The bargains in this clearance sale will be remembered for years. In face of a sharp advance in all prices of carpets Q U IxM m. vtfwl
si.Kd . teadr-to-use all linen wittem 1 laDie ciotns,
.aph ....... ......,,, ... .08c
2 0ft Vn imnorted all linen, pattern table cloths,
each ' p
Napkins to match, dozen 8J2.25 8s
80c cream and bleached table damask, yard 18c
60c bleached table damask, yard 88c gjs
$1.00 extra, fine all linen full bleached satin dam-
ask, yard" 75c
$1.60 and $1,25 72-lnch very heavy all linen bleached p
Scotch table damask, yard 08c
$1.00 bleached napkins, dozen 75c K
$1.60 dinner napkins, dozen 91.00 U
Hemmed huck towels, each 5c p
Hemmed barber towels, each 2Mc k
26c dollies, each..-. poc
26c hemstitched all linen napkins, each 10c
85o and 40c hemstitched all linen towels, each. . . .25c
Watch for the Dig Sale of
MEN'S CLOTHING
NEXT SATURDAY
and rugs for 1907 we announce big cuts in all prices for immediate clearance. All the odd rolls of carpet,linoleum, oil cloth and
matting all the n js and carpets, the patterns of which are discontinued at the mills, in short a great percentage of our best
goods will be sacrificed without regard for original cost or real value.
stock of Wilton
27.48
Your choice of the entire
Rugs, 8-3x10-6, worth $37.50
this sale
Your choice of our entire stock of Body Brus
sels Rugs, 9x12, worth $30.00, 9 A Oft
this sale -wgeO
Your choice of all our 9x12 Koxbury Brussels
Rugs, the finest rug made, worth 1 Qfl
$22.50, this sale lOseO
9x12 All Wool filled Art Squares, A AO
worth &9.00 this sale rZJO
36x63 Axminster Rugs, fine line of
patterns, worth $5, this sale.
2.98
$30 Rusat18.50
Your Choice of & Spendld Line
WILTON, VELVET and
AXMINSTER RUGS
A 11 are 9x12 Size
ndactnally rfl fTvlCfl
worth ddIo II U UuU
130.
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Your choice of one lot of 9x12 Brussels Rugs,
worth to $20.00 f Z QO
4this sale MJZJJ
27x60 Axminster Rugs, fine floral patterns
worth $3.00 J 7ft
this sale S ZJ
CARPETS
All dropped patterns of Aiminster Carpet,
with and without borders, worth 16
$1.35 yard, this sale, yard OC
Best quality Tapestry Brussels Carpet, with
and without borders, worth $1.00 7'5
yard, this sale, yard i OC
12ic
d wai stings,
25c
r 7 Fie. vaItiah
39c
Great cut of prices to make radical clear
ing of all winter stock.
Wool plaids, waistings, Scotch flannel waist-
rngs, Scotch Sartans, eto,
regular selling price up to
50c yard at, yard
French challies and fine imported waistings,
stripes and small effects a
50o and 75c grades at,
yard
Fine all wool dress goods, regular 75c values
Panamas, serges, albatrosses,
veilings, plaids, etc.
yard
The best we have sold up to $1.50 fli
yard, black and all colors, will j) f
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J RAILROADS MARE PROGRESS
I Muok Bolldinar, Eettermenti and Enlarce-
ments oi Variooi Lines.
1 ! OMAHA GAINS AS RAILWAY CENTER
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Iaeras . la Tolaaaa of
Trmflle If ealUt(a EipuiUa of
TravaaportatlaB FacUltiea
MaiBT ' Rosda.
I Tb .normous tncreaa la lha baalnaaa
'1 or tna rkuroaaa la dui a renex or mi rrsat
F prosperity which tha entlra country la an-
Joying at tha presant time.
T ItUUlona are being apent by tha Union
T Faclflo, with two objecta In rlw, to lra-
prove the main Una and to provide feedara
tor what la already recornlsed aa the
flnoet main One In the country. To enu-
curate all the Improvement! would require
r mention of almoat every line and town
that coee to make up the great eyatem.
J Omaha haa coma In for tta ahare of Ira
f provefneota with the Lane out off, coatlng
! ai, 000, own new ahope to ooet H,M0,0u(X a
I' new oonunlaaary. a new headquarter alta
IVlth a twelve-atory . headquartara building
J to' be built ttUa year and mllea of addl-
ucxuu trackage, oonnaeraoia oc wmon u
In tha neyly made whoteaale and Jobbing
dlatiiot. , made such by the foreatght of
Vice Freeldent and General Manager
Mohlo la aeourtng the lower atreeta for
1 LfUZSuige purpoaea. Poubla tracking la
being put In aa faat aa tha at eel may be
; ( had and the line la now double tracked aa
Star aa Valley, with hnndreda of mllea being
built In Wyoming. The line from Unoola
f to Uaryavnia la being atraightened out and
;') a out oft built from Maryavtlle to Topeka.
'I, which will give a good line from Omaha
Vto Kanaaa City aa eooa ae tha line from
rOrnaha to Lincoln, tha survey of which haa
j kuw mada, la bnllt.
) 4 Jaoreaae ( Barltaartaa.
if tncraae In buainaas on tha Burlington
ft Vks Imm nh.nnm.n&J waat of tha rlvar.
ff j npeotally through tha northweat Una to
1 1 toe Junction with tha Northern Paciflo at
j I JlllSnga Tha Inoreaae la freight cara
liuiea W9m oi (lie n.er vwwr i.n cuirf-
r-ondlng month laet year for January, 1700;
nbruary. e.X1 March, 1.6J6; April, 0;
Uy, 1.600; June, l.000 July, ,00i August
1 V 1000; Bepterober, 1(00; October, 1000: Ko-
f uiitmr, 1A and December eat! mated at
1 n uodM uw af tha roul haa
been Increaaed and received In accordance
with tha Increase In business with ajme
surplus englnea. A large number of addi
tional car have b-sen ordered, but few have
arrived. The increase haa been In all
commodities' as well aa In passenger busi
ness. Statistics show that 40 per cent
more people were handled a( the state
fair than during any previous fair. New
lines have been built from Ashland to
Sioux City and from Frannle to Worland
and Immense gravity wards are being built
at Lincoln.
Balldlmar Horthweetarav.
The Northwestern la building what will
eventually be a H.000,000 frtlght depot In
the heart of Omaha and building feeder
all over the west. During the year thu
Wyoming Northwestern line, from Cas
per to Lander, a distance of 141 miles, haa
been completed and twelve stations opens,
and dally passenger and freight servlc
inaugurated. The Pierre, Rapid City &
Northwestern line baa been constructed
from Rapid City to Was La, a distance ot
forty-nve'tntlea, and further work Is prog
resiling at tha rata of one mile a day. From
the eastern portion of this Una there is
approximately sixty miles of track laid,
which Is also being operated. An exten
sion from Boneateel to Gregory, a distance
of twenty-six miles, is completed to within
two mllea south of Burke, or sixteen and
one-half miles north of Bonesteel, and
work Is progressing at the rate of one
half mile per day. This work, as well aa
that on tha Pierre, Rapid City & North
western railway, will be continued so long
as the weather will permit. Twenty more
locomotives are In service on the North
western lines west of the Missouri river
now than during the same period a year
ago, this exclusive of engines In construc
tion servtoe. During tha year local service
fur accommodation of Omaha business has
been Installed between Omaha and Oakdale,
arivlng at Omaha In the morning and re
turning after tha day's shopping. The
daylight train from Omaha to Long Pine
has been extended through to Chadron,
and the probabilities are It will be extended
on through to Lander this year.
rkaaiti aa Wafcasau
Under the new management of F. A.
Dlano, who succeeds Joseph Ramsey, the
Wabsah Is fylr.g more attention to
Omaha. Numerous side and storage tracks
have been built In Council Bluffs to ac
commodate tha Increase In freight and
tha road la being atcadily rebailasted and
shortened to make a better passenger road.
Tha passenger business from Omaha has
nearly doubled during the last year.
The Missouri Paciflo has made few Im
provements In Omaha during the last year,
although tha officials say tha hiulneaa has
Increaaed enormously. Two new passenger
trains have been put In service, which will
be a great help to the people living along the
line In gattlng into Omaha. The road had
business beyond expectation during the fall
festivities, showing the people living on
that road were Inclined to come to, Omaha
when the opportunity was offered.
The year Just passed waa a year of
hustling for business with the Chicago
Great Western, with no new lines built.
President Btlckney has still maintained
hla Interest In the Omaha Grain exchange,
which was founded on his suggestion, and
Is always looking to Omaha Interests for
the bettering of rates in and out.
Rock Islaad Expands.
During tha year 1906 tha Rock Island has
made extensive Improvements In roadway
equipment, train service and extensions,
i he main Una, Chicago to Colorado Springs
and Denver, having been practically re
built and In connection with which sev
eral thousand cars of rock ballast were
used; the Illinois and Colorado divisions
relald with new and heavier staeL Tha
Ulaaourl division between the Mississippi
river and Kansas City haa also been re
built with new ballast. This work Is being
continued during the winter months on the
Oklahoma divisions, tha company using all
tha laborers they can secure. One hundred
and twenty-five locomotives, 100 passenger
coaches and several thousand freight cars
were added to the equipment during the
year. Two new passenger trains and one
exclusive mall and express have been ad
ded between Omaha and Chicago during
the year; one new passenger train In each
direction between Omaha and Belleville,
Kan.,- one new passenger train In each di
rection between Falrbury and St. Joseph;
one new passenger train each direction be
tween Kansas City and Dallas, Tex. A
new extension between Little Rock, Ark.,
and New Orleans. La, is now under con
struction, 100 miles of which have been
completed and In operation.
The Illinois Central has been In tha lime
light because of the acquiring of that road
by Harrtmaa and deposing of President
Fish. Two moves of Importance to Omaha
have been made during tha year. Tha
freight terminals at Birmingham have been
aoquired. Birmingham la one of tha three
gateways from this territory to tha south
east and with the operation of the Una to
Birmingham in the spring another outlet
for Nebraska grain will bs established.
By the purchase of the Teuneeee Central
the Illinois Central has come In possession
of ths line from Hopkinsvllle to Nashville,
which gives tha Central Its own rails from
this territory to Nashville, another gats
way and baaing point for rates. Hundreds
of cars of grain g easfe month. Va Nash
ville. The lmpon of New Orleana hauled
by the Illinois Central to this territory
have Inoreased over 800 per cent and the
rebuilding of the wharves at New Orleans
gives that road soma of the best wharves
In the , world.
The Milwaukee has been noticeable
largely by Its extension to the Paciflo
coast. Ths Una to Omaha has shown an
lnorease In business of over 80 per cent.
This Una has recently put in reduced rates
to South Dakota points. ' which will give
Omaha Jobbers a chance to compete in that
territory and by other adjustments a large
territory has been opened for ths grain
men.
The tonnage from ths aaat to Omaha
waa 631,837 tons for 1906 and 876,766 tons for
190C The tonnage of all eastern roads from
Omaha waa 630.690 In 1906 and 708,410 In 1806.
This does not Include grain.
ARMY
EXPENDITURES
LARGE
Over Two Mlllloa Dollars Spea for
Supplies ' and at Fort
Omaha.
Ths growing Importance of Omaha aa a
military headquarters and disbursing point
for army supplies Is no better demon
strated than In ths office of the chief quar
termaster of ths Department of the Mis
souri at Omaha. In the further view of
the faet that practically all of these sup
plies and payments for transporatlon sre
purchased and made In Omaha adds ad
ditional Interest to the matter. The total
amount of money expended during the
year 1906 up to December 85, was tl.82C.
(38.04. These expenditures were extended over
ths several months of the year as follows:
January, 8159.180.48; February, fl28.064.01;
March. flW.928.01; April. 81&8. 49 96; May.
1122.867.48; June. 8137,3(.35; July, 8134.416.37;
August, 813.282.87; September, 3J97.4S3.61;
October, 1168,188 86; November, 8130.480.90;
December, 8108.936.04.
These expenditures do not Include about
8300.000 expended by tha constructing quar
termasters In tha rebuilding of For'
Omaha, and ths Improvements made at
Fort Crook during the year 1906.
The figures above given Include ths pur
chase of every character of quartermaste
suppllea excepting horses, and cover th
expenses of running the department, tran'
portatlon, the purchase of clothing an
camp and garrison equipage.
During the current year there has bee
expended also for commissary suppll
nearly 3400.000 through the office of t
purchasing commissary . of subslstenc
Captain T. B. Hacker. A very large pr
portion sf these supplies wars bought t
Omaha Jobbers and embrace food pur
chases not alone for the troops of the de
partment, but for meats and miscellaneous
supplies for tha United States army In the
Philippines. ,
During ths past year the quartermaster's
department has been In charge of Major
M. Q. Zallnskl -as chief quartermaster and
Captain David Ls Btons as constructing
quartermaster. However, Major Zallnskl
waa relieved as chief quartermaster No
vember 1, being succeeded by Major
Thomas Cruse, who Is now chief quarter
master of the department. Major Zallnskl
being transferred to Washington as post
quartermaster.
BAD YEAR F0R BAD MONEY
Geaeral Prosperity Held Beepoaatble
tor Small Amoaat of Cass,
terfeltlng.
Only three arrests have been made in
the Iowa and Nebraska district during the
year 1808 for counterfeiting. Two of these
cases were on the Iowa aide and are still
pending In ths federal courts there. The
solitary ease on this side of the river Is
of relative unimportance and may not be
brought to trial, the case being where
a party had a raised note In his posses
sion, which it Is evident he came by Inno
cently and made no effort to pass.
The total amount of counterfeit money
recovered and destroyed during the year
In the district was about 8100.
Captain John Webb, who Is In charge or
this special department of secret service
work, said;
"I attribute thla condition of affairs to
the general prosperity of the country. nd
the facilities afforded men of all ktnda who
can get good money for honest work.
Counterfeiting la moat prevalent during
dull seasons. Ths further reason Is that
the government has made It so warm for
counterfeiters that they have practically
been compelled to go out of business"
STREET RAILWAY MAKES JUMP
loss Mash Aetaal Work aai Flams
Mora for the Cassias
To keep abreast with the great growth
population In Omaha the Omaha A
luncil Bluffs Street Railway company haa
d to make giant strides during the year,
re President Wattles announces the
mnany Intends to go Into ths suburban
slness and construct two additional lines
j ths adjoining eld, en ef which Is
to be twenty-five miles in length. From
six to tea extensions In Omaha will also
be built.
Last year two principal new lines were
built, one to Fort Crook and one to For
est Lawn cemetery. In addition to these
new lines the company haa had a large
force of men at work at all timea rebuild
ing lines already down and double-tracking
some. Missouri avenus has been re
laid, as well as West Leavenworth. The
Harney street line was rebuilt for a part
of the way. About fifty new cara were
received during the year and still there la
need for more.
Tha needed improvement alao has been
decided upon In tha doubling of tha else
o4 ths power plant. At a coat of 8250,000
new turbine engines will be placed In the
power plant on the river front and tha
eleotrtclty carried at 17.000 voltage to four
substations which will bs built during the
coming summer. While the new material
la not guaranteed to arrive Inside of five
months, atill ths directors believe the new
power will be In working order for the
Ak-8ar-Ben rush next fall.
FEW REPAIRS ON BUILDING
Less Tha a fBOO Expended oa
Federal Straetare DarlasT
Paat Tsar,
The substantial character of the Omaha
nostofflce building Is shown In the fact
that during the year 1906 less than 85,000
has been expended on It, Thess expendi
tures do not really represent repairs, but
merely necessary Improvemnta. For mis
cllanaoua Improvementa of a minor char
acter 8190 was expended. Three thousand
four hundred dollars was expended for re
touching the plastering and revarnlshlng
the woodwork of the old east half of the
structure. New wlndowa were placed over
the main doors of the Sixteenth street en
trance at a cost of 850, and a complete
new equipment of window ' shades during
ths year cost f640.
Most of this money was expended In
Omaha, and ths work was all dona by
Omaha artisans.
OMAHA WEATHER FOR TUB TEAR
Htsa Teasperatara la Fifty-Ova De
crees Abeve Sera.
The following statement of weather con
ditions that prevailed In Omaha during
the year 1806 Is summarised from the
records of ths United States weather bu
reau I Tha mean temperature of the year
was 61 degrees, or a little mors than one
degree above tha average for tha past
twenty-five years, but there were some
large departures from ths normal; April .
averaged 4 degrees above, September aver
aged f degrees above, while March aver,
aged 7. degrees below tha normal, June I
degrees below and July S degrees below.
From August 14 to 83, Inclusive, the tem
perature averaged 9 degrees daily above
uie normal, ana tne nign lemperaturey
combined with a high humidity, mads thla
the most oppressively hot spell of the sum
mer. The highest temperature during ths
year was 97 degrees, on August 16, tmd tha ,
lowest was I degrees below aero, pa Feb
ruary 14. The total preclpitatloif during
the year was 26.61 Inches, or a deflolency
of five Inches below ths averaA annual
precipitation In this city. Th4 monthly
deficiency In rainfall was most marked In
May and July, the deficiency during those
two months being 8.77 Inches, To offset
this, September showed an excess of 1.08
Inches. The precipitation during ths crop
growing season was fairly well distributed,
except In the first half of June, during
which period the rainfall was Insufficient
The heaviest rainfalls during ths year oc
curred on June 18 and 19, when 167 Inches
fell In nineteen hour a and thirty-nine rnln
utea, and on Juno 86, when 1.20 Inches fell
In thlrty-slx minutes. The highest wind
velocity recorded waa at the rats of fifty
two miles per hour, from the north, on
June 80, with an extreme velocity of sixty
mllea per hour.
The following table shows ths normal
and monthly mean temperatures and tha
normal and total monthly precipitation:
Temperature. Precipitation.
normal Mean XMormai. Tot.
January
February
March ..
April ...
May ... .....
June
July
Aua-ust
September
October .,
November
December
19
25
86
61
63
71
76
74
66
63
87
.S8
3b
88
t
66
63
70
73
76
6
63
88
a
069
0.79
1 60
8l
4.87
67
4.75
3.24
2.11
2 47
1.06
1.01
09)
L7n
87
250
680
2X6
103
4.M
I M
053
0.18
For 26 days.
L A. WELSH.
Local Foracaatea,
Daaae ts Try fehaslts.
BAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 31. -Presiding
Judge Graham today denied the motion
made on behalf of Mayor Bchmits te with
draw from Judge Dunne's court the cases
now pending there on the Indictments
brought by ths grand jury and to reassign
them to another department.
Isaao liaises Wasted.
UKIAH. Cal., Dec. 31-Sherlff Gibson Of
Mendonico county wants Isaac Raines, the
forger recently arreeted at Bpokane. Hherlff
Gibson says Raines has sent bonus checks
to ths Commercial bank at Uklah for aver
1,4U0.
Baa Want Aoa nroducs reauiic ; '
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