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TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK
GE
YOUR SHARE
$50
lew Hotel Project Now Seems to Be
Up to Her.
HAVE NO FEAR OF LAND BOOM
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The following merchants are offering special inducements for you to visit their stores.
In each advertisement the merchant offers a valuable prize (in some cases several prizes) to the person who solves the rebus in his, ad and brings
it to the advertiser's store in the neatest condition, before Wednesday, August 14th, at 5 o'clock p. m. Everybody has an equal chance and $50 is
surely worth working for. Get busy at once. No one connected with any of these stores will be allowed to compete. Correct solutions of the puzzles
will be announced in these advertisements Sunday, August 18, 1907.
in
Ural F.atate Mn Declare taluea Are
on Unnndrr Raala Than f'Ter Rr
fore, with o nuiiirr of
Inflated Values.
prizes
Get Your Share
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: 'AUOTTST 4, 1007.
$50
In
prizes
Get Your Share
Although Peter Her aHld a short time ago
he would not build a hotel, the matter of
Initiating a project for one seems to be up
to him. One day last week he Invited sev
eral business men to !inrh to meet A J.
I"ean of Knnsa City, who was to lease
the botet Mr. Her once planned to build,
but which he later Rave up. Mr. Dean said
he was ready to take up the management
of a first class hotel In Omaha when It
' should be built, and Mr. Iler said lfe was
ready to transfer his arrangement with Mr.
rean to any man or syndicate which might
want to put up a hotel on his property at
Flxteenth and Howard streets. He offered
to take stock In the company as part of the
purchase price. The business men who
were l tho luncheon are awaiting a call
from Mr. Her for a meeting, and they aay
there la a probability of results If Mr. Hot
will make a reasonable proposition.
f. D. Wead has had such success in leas
ing the apace In the two store buildings he
and his associates have erected on Farnam
street, one at Eighteenth and one at Twen
tieth, he Is encouraged to consider the er"c.
tlon of a building at the southwest cornet
of Seventeenth and Iodge streets, where
the old Campbell homestead stands. He
will take a vacation soon and when he re
turns he and the other menjbers of the
Syndicate which owns the corner will talk
, over the proposition.
The demand for space In the buildings of
the Wead syndicates on Farnam street Is
remarkable In view of the fact a few years
go It was very difficult to rent stores In
the neighborhood. "Five years ago, " skid
local agent, "It was a big struggle to
rent the store rooms In the Bachelors'
building and they brought hut $25 a month
esch. Now they rent readily at f50 to '0
a month each. Inside rooms In Mr. Wead's
building are leased at 1125 a month, I un
derstand, and the corners bring more. The
little storea on the south side of the street,
near Twentieth, afford a revenue of $75 a
month. This Is one evidence of Omaha's
expansion."
The other day Judge A. C. Troup of the
district court delivered an address before
the Omaha Real Estate exchange on present
conditions In Omaha. He advised the mem
bers not to boom, but to continue boosting,
lie told them to lay out additions as fast
a the clty'a growth required It, but not
any faster, .Lest ttjey should Imagine that
he was chiding them for something they
bad done he remarked In conclusion that
never In the thirty years of his residence
In Omaha bad he seen renl estate values on
a sounder basis than they are at present.
Judge Troup lost considerable money In
realty In the panic a few years ago and he
ought to know what he Is talking about.
Jlowever, the realty men told him they had
no Inclination to start a boom, and could
not hasten the Increase of prices If they
tried.
"The boom spirit Is a disease, flue to a
ertti which floats In the air." sild K. A.
Benson. "In no other way can I satis
factorily account for It. A boom comes
In a day and It goes In a dnv. One morn
ing In the '80s Council Bluffs awoke and
found there wrs n boom on. All the
storea were closed; the merchants were
out buying real estate. They had sud
denly caught the disease. One day Council
Bluffs awoke and found that the boom had
passed. The germs had taken wing and
flown away between two days. The next
day we heard they had reached St. Joseph
and a boom had started there."
Rose Hill la In trouble. Rose Hill Is a
little addition Just west of the. Country
club grounds and It Is the site of several
fine suburban homes built a few years ago.
The street railway rnrapmy built a line
down Rose Hill avenue to store cars for
rush business from Kruff park, and the
Rose Hill people didn't like that. Then
the Country club built Its carriage and
automobile sheds on Rose Hill avenue, and
the people didn't like that. And now the
Btnson Board of Kducatlon is about to
dd the lust straw by letting a contract
for the erection of a two-room frame
school house on a lot on the avenue. The
people of the Hill are now trying their best
to Induce the board to make other ar
rangements for a school house.
The biggest real estate deal In Omaha
for several weeks was the sale a few days
ago of the Burwood theater by VV. J.
Burgess to Bulllvan & Consldlne. The
consideration, which Is given out as $60,000,
of course Involves something more than
mere ground and building, aa the estab
lished name and reputation of a theater
ar valuable assets. Negotiation for the
transfer were begun a couple of months
ago, but the money changed hands only
last week.
South Omaha cannot have a park on
the big vacant lot at Twentieth and J
streets, for commercialism has laldhold
on It and will soon convert It Into a place
of stores and dwellings. The city council
bad a deal on for this property, but It
fell through. Edward Cassidy and Ed
ward Phelan sold to J. W. Murphy, who
will plat It and place It on the market.
It la a ten-acre tract and It brought $10,000.
"What a fine place for club houses Capi
tol avenue would have made If it had only
Sot started as a club district," said a
realty man the other day. "It is a flue,
broad street, with s good slope and plenty
f trees, and I cannot Imagine a better
site for a club house than up the avenue
toward the high school. But the clubs and
fraternal buildings are scattered; their
wnsra apparently did not recognize Capl
tnt avenue's advantages. The Omaha Club
building at Twentieth and Douglas, the
Elks got a alts several blocks south of the
city hall, the Masons bought near the
Omaha club, and the Eagles are the only
organisation that located on Capitol ave
nue. In the southeast corner of Eighteenth
street and Capitol avenue, which the
Eagles bought, they will have an admirable
site for a home."
George N. llkka iulU attention to the
cheapness of property on Capitol avenue,
between Seventeenth and Twentieth streets,
as compared with that on Farnam between
the same cross streets. He cites the fol
lowing sales made In the last twelve or
fifteen months: 8outhwest corner Eigh
teenth and Farnam, $51,000; near southwest
comer Nineteenth and Farnam, $t0,000;
northeast corner Twentieth and Farnam,
nearly $26,000; corner Nineteenth and Dodge.
$31.000; southwest corner Seventeenth and
Podge, $46,000. In contrast with these sales
Is that of the corner of Eighteenth street
and Capitol avenue to the Eagles for flS.000.
It makes a poor working man sick with
snvy sometimes to think of the easy way
In which the real estate dealers make their
money. But think of the risks they take.
A year or so ago Harrison Morton talked
some of ths Campbell homestead, at the
ttulhwenl eerBr of seventeenth and Dodge
City In
Wisconsin
petitors have tried to follow, but we think we hae
most of them guessing.
We will give to the first five people who bring to us the correct
answer to our rebus, a 25-cent bottle of Egyptian Lotus Cream, a most
elegant toilet requisite which nearly eveVy one knows all about. Bring
answers to all stores.
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PRICE
SCHAEFER'S
Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts., Cor. ICth and Chicago, OMAHA. NEB.
Corner 5th Ave and Main St., COUNCIL BLUFFS.
Corner 24th and N Sts, SO. OMAHA, NEB.
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A city in
California
First
A City
I. Ilt.kt-.- rant the benefit of our eusy nayment plan, which
11 MlCnlgan '"an that we will accept M. 5, 6 to 10 on
" the balance due.
SCHMOLLER H MUELLER PIANO CO.,
Thone Douglas 1638
streets, as offering a possibility for a finan
cial coup. One morning It was offered to
Mr. Harrison at J3S.00O and he put up $500
as on option on it at that figure. Here was
the risk; he had a good chance to lose his
0O0. But he and Mr. Morton organize a
syndicate, sold the lot to the syndicate and
won. They bought for 3S,C00 and sold for
$46,000.
"I could rent fifty $15-a-month houses In
side of two weeks If I Oiad them on my
list," declared W. H. Russell at the meet
ing of the Real Estate exchange last week.
"We till have a few $40 and $50 houses for
rent, but I would like to know how many
of you have any for $10.''
"Not a one!" came the chorus.
"How many 115 houses have you?"
"Not a one!"
"How many J'JO houses?"
"Mighty few, I'll tell you."
"Well," continued Mr. Russell, "the num
ber of people In this city who can afford
to pay tiO or r,0 for a house Is compara
tively sniull. What about th? mass who
can pay but about J15. Any man with a
little capital who would put up twenty,
thirty or fifty small houses to rent for $15
would bo conferring a. lasUng benefit on
these people and at the same time he could
make a little money for himself."
Henry B. Payne of Payne, Bostwlck &
Co. has a, puzzling problem to work out
and he would be alad to have any real es
tate man offer him a solution.
"There la a man who haa some money he
could invest, but every day or two he says,
"Oh, I won't buy now; property Is too
high. I'll wait until It conies down a lit
tle. One day that man comes In and wants
to list at 15,000 a house that Is worth about
3.600 or M.000. You see. It makes some
difference whose property Is offered for
sale whether It is too high or not. Now, If
you tell him his property Isn't worth fhat
much he will say he never heard you talk
that way before and he will also say ha
will go to some agent who has faith In his
town. If you tell him the property Is
worth the money and take It on your lst
he will soon be on you with both feet be
cause you don't advertise It. What can a
fellow do?"
That Omaha offers today for half the
price four times the Inducoments It offered
twenty years ago Is the statement of
George O. Wallace. According to his ob
servations, only the downtown lots are as
high In price as they were twenty years
ago, while the majority of residence lots
are only half the price they were at that
time, and lots farther out only one-third
the price. He says residence lots will
never be lower In Omaha than they are at
present.
In this connection Mr. Wallace tells of
what he considers an Injustice on the part
of the city. In the late 'ijOs Mr. Wallace
sold to customers a number of lots In the
neighborhood which Is to be cut through
by the northwest boulevard. These lots
declined In price with the advent of tho
hard times and are Just now beginning to
climb upward asain. The ciiv I.
lng the lots and taking them at a price
which Mr. Wallace does not thank at all
adequate, in view of the fact that the
neighborhood la developing rapidly. The
property is in Clifton Hill.
THIEF CAUGHT REd'hANDED
Steals 1. amber front Neighbor, Who
Catches Him, hat Makes
No Arrest.
W. B. Long, contractor and builder,
caught a man stealing lumber from two
houses he Is building at Twenty-third and
Pratt streets. For the last few days he
had been missing his lumber and he de
cided to lay In wait In the hope of land
ing the thieves. With a companion, he hid
himself near the buildings snd about II
o'clock Friday night was rewarded for his
vigilance by catching ths man In the act
of carrying ths lumber away and placing
it In his cellar nearby. Mr. Long and his
companion accosted the man, who did not
deny his guilt. He was compelled to carry
back the lumber and also some which had
been taksn previously and which was found
stored In the cellar. Mr. Ixmg has decided
not to (Us a complaint against his neighbor.
This Is a "gnc" ad page and we know that
much business is being; transacted In neary every
line of business on a kucsh basis.
It haa always been our aim to keep as far
away from guessing abmit anything in the conduct
of our business as possible. You can't successfully
guess In the drug business, you must know. We
believe that the majority of the people In this com
munity do know that we were the originators (not
followers) of live and let live Drices. Some com
DRUG
STORES
A birthday present or wedding gift is ofttlmes remem
bered. For this and other occasions I have an as
sortment of Diamonds, Fine Jewelry, Sterlings, Silver
wane, .Watehes and Cut Glass, guaranteed to please the
most fastidious. You know my reputation Is not the
growth of a year, but has been built up by thp efficient
and conscientious service I have rendered my patrons.
In other words, my stock Is of the best and my word on
an article Is an .absolute guarantee of Its reliability. To
the person bringing the neatest and most attractive an
swer to my rebus, 1 will present free of charge a nobby
stickpin valued at 12.00.
N. P. Stilling.
Manufacturing Jeweler and Diamond Setter
Room 1 and 2 Paxton Block.
Payment on a Piano Free
To the five persons sending us the name to our
rebus, In the neatest and most attractive manner,
we will deliver by mall, or otherwise, an order on
our house good for 125.00, that amount to be ap
plied on the purchase price of any new piano In
our mammoth stock, selection to be made any time
within six months from date. We Invite Inspec
tion of our pianos, for We are strictly a ''one
price house, and that the lnweat w win .i.
1311-1313 Farnam Btrsst
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THE WIRELESS IX ALASKA
Remarkable , Achievement by Army
Signal Corps Engineers.
SOLVES NORTON BAY PROBLEM
Climate and Conditions Make1 Wire
Line Imprurt Icablr, So Captain
Wlldman Devises Sucraafal
Wireless System.
One of the most remarkable achievements
In practical commercial wireless telegraphy
Is the Installation and maintenance by the
United States army signal corps of wireless
communication across Norton sound,
Alaska.
Norton sound Is a great bay, at the
mourn of the Yukon river, 107 miles wide
between the points where the wireless
stations stand. One ef these, Bt. Michael,
j on the southern skit of the bay. Is the
j terminus of the land lines, which run 1.300
miles southward to Fort Liscum, which Is
In communication with Seattle by a cable
1.600 miles long; the other, on the northern
side, la at Safety, near Nome, the most
Important center In the northwestern dis
trict of Alaska. It had (been found Im
possible to maintain a Cflhln nernaa tho
j gulf on account of the Ice, and the abso
lutely barren and snow-swept nature of the
c.iast made ah ordinary land line around It
almost Impossible. Aa Nome Is the center
of a large fishing and gold mining district.
It was essential to provide telegraphlo com-
( munlcatlon, especially ss the usual means
or communication are only available dur
ing a very few months of the year.
Wireless Lin Acroaa Bar.
The I'nlted States army therefore decided,
after three years had been wasted In fail
ure of some commercial companies to pro
vide a service, to establish wireless com
munlrstlon through the agency of the sig
nal corps. Captain Ionard D. Wlldman.
mho designed the stations, ami .superin
tended their erection and working, has fur
nished numerous drawings and descriptions
which have been embodied In almost all
the recent treatises on wireless telegraphy
and In the government reports. Jn b,ls- re
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iLS we will give a certiiicute
A Town In New
York famous for Ihe
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lars and Culls.
ous Graphophones.
Disc and Cylinder Machines, $7.50 to $239.00.
Gold Mould Cylinder Records. 2S Certs Best Cyliaier R-etrdi Mile.
Columbia Phonograph Co.,
1621 Farnam Street.
Only Exclusive Talking Machine Score In Omaha.
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Home of
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HOME OP HERBERT I. GANNETT.
port the chfef signal officer of the United
States army for 1906 said: '
"In August, 1903, a wireless section of 107
iplles across Norton sound was established
through the professional skill and excep
tional ability of Captain Leonard D. Wild
man, signal corps. This Is the only long
wireless system In the world. It Is believed,
that la regularly operated as a part of a
system handling commercial business. On
August 6, 1904, It completed sa year of un
interrupted service over Its course of 107
miles. It has handled dally and uninter
ruptedly the entire telegraphic business of
Nome and the Seward peninsula, which,
togetlier with the. official business, aver
ages several thousand words dally. More
than 1.000,000 words were sent during the
year, many thousand being commercial
code words, In which no error has ever
been traced to this , section. In a single
hour there have been transmitted over this
section 2,1X10 words without error or repetl-
: tion. The successful installation and oper
ation of this unique work by the officers
and soldiers of the American army afford
an added Illustration of their Intelligence
and aptitude."
Her vice lllarhljr Successful.
It should be borne in mind that this
unique record has been accomplished at
stations, one of which was built upon a
glacier and both on a coast only accessible
during about three months each year. To
continue the quotation:
"The wireless work was done by an al
ternate current. 6W volts, sixty cycle, three
kilowatt generator: a six-horsepower
j gasoline, single cylinder engine, with spe
cial governor; a small grid at masthead
with only two connecting wires, snd largo
ground capacity. The dynamos, built to
Captain Wildmar.'a plans, were provided
with specially heavy Insulation about the
armature colls and collector rings.. The
switchboards were of home manufacture.
Electric storms gave little trouble, and
weather or Ice conditions had no material
Influence. The receiver was of the De
forest type, modifying by signal corps In
ventions. Captain Wlldman found many
opportunity for the resourceful minds of
himself and his subordinates. Broken
Leydcn Jars were successfully replaced by
air condensers, the spark was muffled,
currents shunted.-and many other Improve
ments applied. Captain Wlldman thinks
duplexing possible to a certain extent, and
caJl-Ui, ' device probable. Sergeant Mo-
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person bringing to us
good for Five Dollars, which
can be used as part payment
on one of our "World Fam
A Woman's Glory
la her hair to sonic. In other people's opinion It's
her teeth. Nothing looks more beautiful, cbiiner and
fresher thnn a set of pearly teeth. 1 understand how
to make the mouth beautiful, as thousands of people
In Omaha can testify, and the cost Is a moderate
one In comparison with the benefit. The examina
tion costs you nothing. To the person sending us the
name to my rebus in the neatest and most attractive
manner, 1 will present an order for a Solid Gold
Crown va.ued at $5. (JO.
Matthews.
Original Palnlnsi Dentist.
Room 4. Bushman Blk., 16th and Douglas Sts.
It Shouldn't Be a Puzzle for You to Fill Your Wants
Other people find positions sell furniture and automobiles dispose of real
estate and rent furnished rooms and houses through Bee want ads. It's easy
in Architecture
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Klnney devised ay key that Increased the
sending capacity from fifteen to thirty
words per minute."
Only Two Days of Trouble.
Captain Wlldman, who Is at present chief
signal officers of the Department of the
Missouri, and In command at the signal
station of Fort Omaha, is under orders to
be transferred to Fort Leavenworth, where
he will have charge of the signal school.
He will leave Omaha for Fort Leaven
worth, August 10.
He has Just received a telegram from the
officer In charge of the wlreltss signal
station In Alaska, above referred to, In
response to an Inquiry, which states In
the last three years, there was but a part
of two days, December 10 and 11, 1906, In
which the line was defective. Messages
could, however, at that time be sent bul
could not be received. The interruption
was only temporary and was attributed to
meteorological causes. Since December
11. 1906. there has not been the slightest
Interruption In the transmission and re
ceipt of messages.
NEW WEEK AT LAKE MANAWA
rromlxe of Much Pleasure Is Held
Out at the I'rrttj- Resort
Across the Itlvcr.
With weather most propltlons, and the
week one of unprecedented success,
Manawa starts August, the third and last
month for Its lf07 season with the hopeful
prospects of the most successful finish In
Its history.
Despite the cool evenings of late, bathing
at Manhattan beach has been well
patronized. This resort continues to be a
drawing card for the women, many dainty
maids taking a plunge every afternoon.
Tho two expert swimming teachers are kept
busy Instructing patrons In aquatic arts.
Prof. Andrew will make his usual balloon
ascension and Miss Pauline Courtney will
Introduce at the Casino the beautiful and
popular Illustrated song "Good Hye. Sweet
Maryland." '
The big roller coaster, miniature railroad
and all other attractions will be In readiness
for today's anticipated crowd.
$M.0O In fre prises. Oct your share. See
page six, editorial section.
' Bus Want Ads Are Busluess Boosters.
'"SI 'ill
A CUv in Michigan
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Till
What Is
this .
Woman
Doing?
About Buying Shoes
The principal thing In buying Shoes is to get fitted and
suited. Never mind the size get fitted. Never mind the
price get suited. Many of our most particular pntrons ray
only $3. B0. for their shoes. Others prefer to pay $4.00. Wa
have shoes to fit every foot and suit every purse. We have
the same perfect fitting styles nnd will give you the same at
tention aeM satis'irtioii in fitting you with a pair of $2. B0
shoes as V do I you my 11.00. A son foot make a sore
head, Let Mryker help yon to forget It. To the person bring
ing li the i nrcct solution of this rebus In the neatest way,
1 will give free ten boxes of "2 In 1" shoe polish.
Stryker Shoe Co..
312 South I6th Street.
find lost articles through their use.
not putting your ad in the Bee
NO ADS FROM CLAIRVOYANTS
Bee Refuses to Take Money from
These Fortune Telling EaKirs.
WILL MAKE COLtJMNS CLEANER
Palmists and Other' Charlatans of
Thesr,CIaii Are Not Considered
Desirable fltlsena liy
the Police.
Some months ago the managementof The
Bee adopted the policy of excluding from
its columns all objectionable medical ad
vertising, and since then no medical copy
Is accepted; that la, not subject to editing
by the publisher. This policy met with
the enjire approbation of the readers of
Tlie Bee and the effort to publish a ctvan
paper, h,oth In Its advertising and news
columns, seems to be appreciated.
Another move has Just been made In the
same direction; in the future no advertise
ments will be reerelvcd from clairvoyants,
palmists and fortune tellers In general.
While it Is true that most of the people
who patronize t li in clues of charlatans are
willing victims, the petty frauds which are
carried on are so persistent that. In the
aggregate the amount which they receive,
without giving any return, Is a very con
siderable sum.
It is surprising thut so many victims
should fall Into their hands. As a rule,
most of the clairvoyants and fortune tell
ing fraternity give only too visible evidence
of the fact that If they have the power
they claim, they have not used it for their
own benefit. If any of the people visiting
tfeem would stop to think a moment, they
would readily see that If any one could
foretell the future, a few days of specula
tion on the stock market would put them
beyond the need aid squalor In which
most of them live.
One Itnnchman's Kxperlnce.
There Is a class of Itinerant clairvoyants,
who travel from town to town, and while
this class of people Is constantly under the
surveillance of the police, petty crimes of
all sorts and sometimes more serious
charges are brought to their door.
Not long ago, a Wyoming ranchman came
Into town and called on one of the clair
voyants, whoso advertisement he had read.
He suid that he had an Important matter
about which he wanted to consult him and
asked what his fee would be. He was told
that the fee would be from 'l to 5.
"Well," said the ranchman, "I am will
ing to make It ft0. providing you will
satisfy me that you can do the things that I
yju claim In your advertisement. In the j
first place, you might as well tell me what
my r.ame is."
The clairvoyant suggested that they could
get In communication with the spirits by
his writing his name on one of the pair
of slates, which would be tied together.
The ranchman Immediately became furious
and said that "he had seen that game
worked before." The clairvoyant Insisted
that nothing could be done when he was
so much out of accord with the spirits and
that he must get himself Into the proper
attitude before the spirits would com
municate through their favored medium.
"What I want you to do," said he, "is
to sit down here quietly for a few
minutes, close your eyes, think of nothing J
In particular, so that you will not be In an
antagonistic spirit when I come hack Into
the room; do exactly as I say."
Uot Ills Papers.
After leaving the ranchman alone for ten
or fifteen minutes In the darkened room
the clairvoyant told him to arise, keep bis
eyes closed and to pluce his hands on his
shoulders. When In this position tiie clair
voyant abstracted a package of letters
from the ranchman's coat pocket snd then
told him to sit quietly, with his eyes closed,
for a short period longer. Leaving the
room, the clairvoyant got sufficient Infor
mation from the letters and repeated the
proCtas, replacing the letters In the ranch
man's poefcet. lie then proceeded to tell
him some things that seemed positively
miraculous to the, ranchman about his pri
vate affairs, and not ouly did lis get ths
K rffZfffcl,
CLr "
$M from the ranchman, but the westerner
was sufficiently Impressed by Mb powers
that he sent him other victims.
"The practices of clairvoyants and for
tune tellers," said Chief of Police Donahue,
"are proof that there are a great many
weak-minded people. They don't know It, ,
n't know It, .
lish and aroi
K'omcn fakliW
.ders of the'
of course, but they are foolis
easily duped by tho men and wc
who pass themselves as readers of the'
'past, present and future.' Of course, the
whole fortune telling business Is all non
sense. Most people think this and for that
very reason all clairvoyants are a menace
hard to get at, for when people are duped
by them they are ashamed to complain.
There have been many, moBt of them
women, who have come to me with the
complaint that they have received unfair
treatment from some fakir, but when I
suggest filing a complaint In police court
they shrink from muklng the matter public,
Are Vndenlranle Cltleens.
"The trouble with the fortune tellers Is
not that they are really dangerous crimin
als, they are merely undesirable citizens.
Most of them are transients and operating
under assumed names. Whenever one
conies to town I ask for references and
whenever I can pot at them I make them
leave town. We don't want them If we
can be rfil of them. If I had my way
about It, they would never be allowed to
advertise in the newspapers.
"Thy do very little harm by telling their,
patrons dungerous lies, for it Is their busi
ness to have the subject leave their pluce
In a more pleasant frame of mind than he
came. Women are their victims much
more than men. Jealousy Is the trouble
that usually prompts them to seek 'the
fakir's advice and they aro always assured
that In a short time everything will come
out all right.! For such assurance ths vic
tim Is always willing to pay a reasonable
price. The clairvoyant gets possession,
however, of a great number of domestic
secrets by these interviews and the victim
Is easily persuaded that the money paid
for reading la well spent. When a foolish
person Is cajoled Into a happy frame of
mind by a fortune teller and led to think
that he has received some very valuable
arivlqe he will usually repeat the call.
"For the pas! two or three years there
rTave been no fortune telling swindlers In
town, but they exist In great number and
we have to be on a lookout for them.
Their usual scheme Is to sell an absolutely
worthless charm to some dupe, who pays
a big price for It, thinking that he Is
getting safety from all sorts of perils. We
don't want the fortune tellers because they
extract a great deal of hard earned money
from the superstitious and give nothing
In return. They are parasites on the
weak-minded portion of the public.
FEDERAL COURT OPENS EARLY
Fall Term Will Brain Over a Month
He fore It laaallr
Does.
The fall term of the federal courts will
now begin over a month earlier than here
tofore. lTn1 r the old law, before the
division of the district, the fall term at
Omaha began In November. Under tho
new law the term will beifln the fourth
Monday In September, or on Monday, Sep
tember 23. A grand Jury will be drawn for
the term, as well as a petit Jury.
"We expect to begin at once on the open
ing of the term In the trial of the land
cases still remaining on the docket and
dispose of them as quickly as possible,"
said District Attorney floss. "Then wo
will take up the safety appliance, and
twenty-eight-hour law cases against the
several railrnuds, of which a number aro
now pending In" the United States district
court. Hitherto the railroads have been
disposed to compromise on the twenty,
eight-hour rams, which relates to the time
In which live stock In shipment may be
kept on the cars without rest, food or
water, and confessjudgment in the mini
mum fine of $'00. However, the Department
of Agriculture, which Is back of ttuss
cases, refuses to make any further com
promise and Insists upon the railroads
being fined the maximum of ro fr ea, h
ir.omuon or tne law. This, of courss ths
railroad, will resist, and h.nca the ,.11
win bav, to go to UiV"
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