THE OMAHA DAILY PEE; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1007
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Saturday Morning we will begin one of the Greatest Piano Sales
that has ever taken place in this part of the country.
What is more appropriate for a Christmas present for your wife,
daughter, sister or sweetheart than a beautiful Piano?
Ve are going to reduce the price on every instrument on our
floor. Nowhere will you find such a grand assortment of high
grade pianos as we will display during this sale. These instru
ments will be sold for cash or on the easy payment plan just as the
purchaser desires. This is a great opportunity for prospective
piano purchasers. Pay us a visit, take advantage of the low prices
that .we dre making in this cut price sale, select the piano and have
it set aside and we will deliver it to you Christmas eve.
Look over the following list and see if there is not something you can use:
One Upright Linderman. $70.00
One Upright Vose . . . $75.00
One Upright Emerson $80.00
One Upright Kurtzman $85.00
One Upright Stoddard i .$90.00
One Upright "Wegman, used one year. . . .$100.00
One Upright Kimball $125.00
One Upright Franklin ...... $127.50'
One Upright Marshall $129.00
One Upright Smith & Barnes $132.50
One Upright Everett $138.00
One Upright Bailey $142.00
One Upright Ivers & Pond $165.00
One Upright Behr Bros $107.50
One Upright Fischer, used two years . . . .$175.00
One Uprgiht Estey, used six months $190.00
One Upright Kingsbury .$135.00
New Interior Piano Players $275.00, $300.00, $325.00, $37 5.00, $450.00, $500.00, $675.00 $1,050.00. Cabinet Piano Play
era $50.00, $65.00, $85.00, $00.00, $125.00 and $150.
We carry a complele line of both upright and grands in Knabe Sohmer, Chickering
.Bros., Fischer, Estey, Smith & Nixon, Wegman, Ebersole, Schaffer. Price & Teeple,
Haines Bros., Brewster, and Smith & Barnes.
Write for catalogue, terms and prices.
1AYDEM OIROTIHiEjRS
PIANO DEPARTMENT
. VICTIM OF SHOOTING DEAD
Mrs. Nethaway Succumbs to Woundi
Inflicted by Her Husband. :
CLOSE CALL FOE SENATOR ALLEN
Daughter Rcwili Untoafe of Koit
. Left Her by Her Father and Barns
It Remain Loral to Her
Mother's Memory.
NORFOLK, Neb., Deo. 6. (Special Tele-gram.)-Mrs.
Nethaway succumbed today
to her husband's shots. It was Nethaway's
vlih, In a letter he left, that the two
traeedy victims be burled together. It
transpired today that former Senator Allen
narrowly escaped death at Nethaway's
hands twice this week. Monday and Wed
nesday Nethaway sat In district court,
just behind his wife with a loaded re
volver In Ms pocket. He resented Senator
Allen's efforts to secure alimony for the
woman. It Is believed, had the case come
to trial, Allen would have been shot. Th
daughter, Sophia Nethaway, will get $10,000
life Insurance. Nethaway left three death
messagel, one for the daughter and two
for ' his 'Sister, Luly Nethaway, who is
traveling In' the state with a theatrical
troupe. These have not been opened. E.
Nethaway; father of the dead murderer,
says th second shot was undoubtedly in
tended for Mrs. Fred Harder, who sat with
Mrs. Nethaway,- and whose hat was shot
off. Mrs. Nethaway died In the city hall.
It has not yet b-;en determined whether
V.P. Nethaway and his wife will bo burled
sld by side or not. Nethaway's parents
desire it but the daughter is not favorable
and, It is thought Mrs. Nethaway's rela
tives, expected soon, will object.
Sophia Nethaway burned the note left by
her father to her. In it the father urged
the girl to graduate from a convent and
become an accomplished woman. He told
her not to fall Into her mother's errors.
This angered the child and she threw the
letter- Into the- kitchen stove. She remains
loyal to her dead mother. In a letter to
his Bister Nethaway refers to his wife as
the meanest woman that ever lived. Mrs.
Nethaway was saleswoman in Miller &
Palne's store, Lincoln, recently and also
worked at the Insane hospital at Hastings.
It developed today that Mrs. Nethaway's
parents, the Dalley's of Ord. Neb., objected
to her marrying Nethaway.
Witnesses to the murder of Frank Jar
mer by Herman Boch here last spring
were all witnesses to this wife murder. The
women were en route to Madison to renew
their bonds as witnesses when the shoot
ing occurred. Mrs. Nethaway's basis for
divorce was cruelty.
Man Stabbed at Seata Bead.
SOUTH BEND, Neb., Dec 6. (Special
Telegram.) Homer Foster was found be
tween S and o'clock last night lying on
the street here with numerous cuts on his
person, on of which, en his temple, bled
so profusely that he was nearly dead from
loss of blood when found. He has been
working for Dan Phelps, a farmer. Tues
day he went to Omaha. He returned In
company with another man who as yet is
unidentified. They grew mutually suspi
cious and finally engaged In a fight. He
was still alive at noon. His home Is in
Fowler, Kan.
.1 LOSE. YOU Will
"A suit at your own - price" idea
proves papular in Omaha.
It Is an old and proven saying that what
Is one's loss Is another's gain.
This is most clearly shown every day at
th sal Dresner la holding In his tempor
ary headquarters at lull Famam Street.
Dresher is losing from 30 to 60 per cent on
every suit or overcoat he sells and the
dozens who have, each day since the sals
opened, availed themselves of the oppor
tunity to purchase a top notch tailor-made
suit or overcoat for less than the price of
a ready mad suit, are rejoicing over tbelr
good luck.'
. Th old location of Dresher, th tailor. Is
out of commission and he I la th tempor
ary location at 1E11 Farnam street.
He Is disposing of his enormous stock
at ridiculously low prices, so that he may
go into the newly finished store with a new
stouk.
"I am In business to stay, and it I failed
during this sale to live up to my reputation
f or fine tailoring I would be ruined," Is the
answer to the (Question. "Can yotf give the
am high 'grade workmanahlp during this
sal that you have always given T"
'Every man making a purchase during
this sale, I expect to develop int a regular
euslivner,, and this can b don only by
giving superior quality and workmanship
right straight through. So rest assured on
that iH)tnt."
Every on buying during this sal will
be given th samd service as If full prices
were charged, but the early ones bar the
lsrgest assortment from wV.lch to' select.
Th temporary location Is 1511 Faruara.
Thirty Dare far Larceny.
. BEATRICE, Neb.. Deo. 1 (Special Tele-egramJ-Joha
Kuhl and James Hohlman
pleaded guilty to th oharge of petit lar
ceny today and wero sentenced to thirty
days in Jail. They are th young men who
stole a lot of Unrobes and whips from a
number of fanners In Sicily township on
the night of October 21. during- a school entertainment
Attendance at Normals.
KEARNEY. Neb., Dec . (Special.)
Officers of tha Kearney Normal school
objeot to the statement that the attendance
In th normal classes of the high schools
exceeds that at both state normals. They
say th former totals 1,103. while the at
tendance at both normals Is 2,461, counting
each student one only.
Beatrice Mast Robbed.
BEATRICE, Neb., Dec. (.-(Special Tele
gram.) I EL Bloodgood, a prominent far
mer living east of Beatrice, was robbed of
his clothing and $68 at th Windsor hotel
at Omaha last night. He was enroute to
Huron. 8. D.. but returned to Beatrice
today, after discovering that he had been
robbed.
Use Bee want ads to boost your business.
EXPENSE OF STATE'S WARDS
Heads of Institute! for the Deaf and
for the Blind Beport to Governor.
ATTORNEY GENERAL KEPT BUSY
Railway Commission. Haa Two Cases
In Ills Hands Involv-ln- Enforce
ment of Its Decrees Test
las; Elevator Law.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, Dec. ,-(Speclal.)-Tho per
capita cost for maintaining the Institute
for the Deaf and Dumb for the six months
ending November 30 was $M.34, according
to the report of Superintendent White.
Officers' salaries amounted to 130.28 per
capita; employes' wages per capita, $13.87;
maintenance, $40.06 per capita. The total
amount expended for officers' salaries was
$6,420; employes', wages, $24.5; for main,
tenanoe, $7,171.16. For repairs and Im
provements. $1.12i.24 was expended. Farm
products consumed were valued at $56.65.
The total amount, expended by this Insti
tution for th six months (exclading re
pairs, was $ It, OT8.60.
Th total coat of running the Stat School
for the Blind at Nebraska City for th
last six months was $7,447.84. a per capita
cost of $137.L For general repairs, addl
tlon to the main building and a tubular fire
scape. $6,834.31 was spent. This Is shown
by the semi-annual, report of Superintend
ent J. T. Mbrey, filed with the governor
today. An addition to the main building
cost $3,701; general repairs, $1.433.$1; fire
scap. $800. Of the appropriations of 1906.
$7.06$ lapsed Into ths state treasury. The
Institution rented two acres of land, ex
pended $11 for rent and seed and raised
$57.60 worth of vegetables, berries and cane.
From the broom shop, whose machinery
and materia! is valued at $580. there was
sold $86.62 worth of brooms.
Salt Against Telephone Company.
The State Railway commission today
authorised the attorney general to file
suit against the Nebraska Telephone com
pany for violation of the commission lw.
The tltphone company admitted It hd
furnished to Burlington railroad em
ployes telephones at a cheaper rate thn
the rate charged the general public. Thl.
th commission holds. Is a dlsc-rinilnutlou
The company said In return for the re
duced rate made the rallread employes
thr. company collected the rent for the
telepone company.
The opinion of the attorney gener&l
holding It was a discrimination for the
Nebraska Telephone company to sell
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Omaha's Santa Clans Store
DIG SALE SATURDAY
TOYS! TOYS! TOYS!
!l.f? Cjrts. llo to $1.88: Patrol Wagons. 88o t
$1 88; Magnetic Toys. lOo to 4lo. Meohanleal
Joys, lOo to 81.85; Automatic Toys, too lo 8c:
Mas la i Lantern 24o to $4.65; fiteam Engines, toe
to ll .95; Doll House. Iho to $4.5; Stalles, J5o to
$I M; Pianos, tlo to $4 88; Tool Chests, 26o to
! ..:Frlrrtl,," f ". 8 to $.&, Drum. lOo
t II 85; Horns, 6o to $1.88; Oemea, 6o to $1.88:
Blocks. Be to $185; Tops, ho to 4So: Banks. 5c to
88c; Painting 8ets, 10c to 8c; Tricycles. $3.48 to
$8 85: elocipedee. $1.4$ to $3.85. Bureaus. 10c to
$18; Bedsteads. ltc to $8 85; Chairs. lOo to $2 $5
fcofaa, KHo to $188; leks. 48c to $4.85; Noun's
Arks. 10c to $1 88; Animals In Boars. Mo to 88c
fcijjress WdjDiu, 74o to $4 85; Wheelbarrows 10a
. .?oi J5wofd,' ' to c; Lead Soldiers. lOo to
!i,!t; TlV- !6u " '" '' Trousseaus.
44c to $3 85. Bring tie Calldrea la Bator.
coupon books containing $120 worth of
service ror iioo was adopted this after
noon by the commlaainn. Thl. win
mlt the telephone company to discontinue
practice, u ne question came op whea
the telephone company asked permission
to stop selling the coupon books.
Stock Yards Be Called.
Attorney General Thompson has about
completed his petition to be filed In the
supreme court asking for a mandamus
to compel the Union Stock Yards com
pany of South Omaha to file its schedule
of rates with the Railway commission.
This suit involves the right of the com
mission to exercise jurisdiction over the
stock yards and the decision will settle
that question.
Inspecting- Railroad Tracks.
The members of the Railway commission
will start out Monday to again Inspect
the Missouri Pacific tracks. This Is to
be the final inspection, and If the company
has done as the commission think? it
should have done In the way of repairs
the slow speed order will be rescinded.
Tax Sal Law Assailed.
The heirs of William H. Trainer of New
York, In a brief filed In the supreme court
today, attacked the conetltutionallty of
those sections In the revenue law relating
to the giving of a deed by a county treas
urer upon the surrender of a tax certifi
cate any time within two years after the
certificate had been Issued. The case came
up from Box Butte county and Involves
the deed to a quarter section of land nsar
Alliance, valued at $6,400, which was pur
chased at a tax sale for $3.92, by the Mav
erick Loan & Trust company. The lower
court held the deed valid. The taxes were
for the year 1902 and not being paid on time
became delinquent and In the course of
events the property was sold and bought
in by the Maverick Loan & Trust com
pany, to Whim a deed was iau.1 hv tha
county treasurer after two years. The
original owners of the property sought to
pay the company the amount of taxes and
Interest as provided In the old revenuo
law, but their offer was refused. They
then sought to pay the amount to the
county treauurer and have him cant-el tli-j
deed but he refused. In the brief filed it
la argued1 that this deed should have been
Issued in accordance with tho old revenuo
law, as the taxes were due before th
enactment of the 1908 revenue law. Under
the old law, the brief contends, It was
necessary before a deed Issued for fore
closure proceeding to .be' brought, while
under the 1003 law, after two years sub
sepuent to the Issuance of a tax certifi
cate It Is only necessary for the holder
of the certificate to notify the original
owner and unless the latter pays up within
three months he secures his deed from the
treasurer upon the surrender of the cer
tificate. This law, the brief contends, is
not constitutional, because It deprives a
person of property without due process
of law; to secure a deed it Is not neces
sary for any court order; but the matter
Is wholly within the hands of tho pur
chaser of the tax certificate. Were this
law to ba held valid it would be possible
for the legislature to shorten the time for
redemption and make new laws retro
active, which power the legislature, the
brief says, does not possess. The brief In
sists that the supreme court reveerse the
lower court.
' Klevater Law Challenged.
In their brief filed In the supreme court
today in support of their appeal from the
decision of the district court of Cajs
county, in the case of the state against the
Missouri Pacific railroad. Involving the
levying of a $50 fine on the company be
cause of its refusal to furnish a place on
its right of way for the erection of an
elevator by the Manley Co-Operatlve Grain
company, the attorneys for the railroad
deny the tight of the court to hear the
case and attack tha constitutionality of
the Ramsey elevator law. After the grain
company had been refusal a site on the
right of way for Its elevator th building
was ereoted off of th ritfht of way and
then application was mad for a sidetrack
to l ooostrucud to th elevator. This
Overcoats
Evrry man who baa Ylsited this store lately has Ixvrn
surprised at our overcoat stock not only at the
number of overcoat we show, bat at the moderate
prices we ask for them
Every Garment Here
Is a quality product by reputable makers whose
names stand for quality. .Don't you think it would
be to yonr interest to get a good overcoat, esperially
when the price is no more than you are asked to pay
for an ordinary coat?
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Men's Suits of Quality
We've always preached quality in suits because it
costs no more if you know where to go the new
customers we gain every day is proof positive that
lots of men are learning the advantage of wearing
quality clothes.
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their Christmas shopping thr is a big- a
vaatas; la baying MSlsn Oarlstnaas present
at a men's stor It will b Just what h
would bay If h were baying It a ad th priees
no mora quality oonsldered than prevail at
fensral stores.
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Weok-wear Boo up
Mufflers Boo op
Ct loves .. fl.OO.ap
fancy ajaspenders. . , .BOo op
Hendkerohieis 1 io up
raney Moslsry S5o up
Umbrellas .91. 00 up
Smoking Jackets and Leunging Robes
No present quite so acceptable to the average man and no store
in Omaha shows such an assortment of styles and prices as this store.
Don't neglect your own interest by neglecting us.
Smoking Jackets, S3. SO Up
Dattt Robes, 83. SO Up
4 - v Lounging Robes, $98 Up
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request was denied and the elevator com
pany went Into court and a penalty of $600
was levied against the railroad. In the
meantime the elevator company applied to
the tSate Railway commission for an order
compelling the railroad to construct the
sidetrack and the case is pending before
that body.
In the railroad brief it is contended that
both the railroad and the Manley Co-operative
Grain company are engaged In Inter
state traffic and therefore come under the
laws enacted by congress for the control
of Interstate business. The state, the brief
contends, has no power whatever to regu
late the trafllo of these two companies and
In support of this contention numerous
quotations are made from the decision of
the supreme court of the United States and
from the Interstate Commerce act as well
as from sayings of Presldont Roosevelt,
whose utterances they say are directly In
line with thelr'arguments. In the matter
of the constitutionality of the elevator
act under which the penalty was assessed,
the brief says the constitution says all per
sons shall receive equal facilities from
the railroads, while the statute provides
the elevators to which th railroad shall
run side tracks must have a capacity of
16,000 bushels, which the brief says Is
clearly a discrimination against the smaller
elevator. It also contends that to compel
the railroad to furnish a portion of Its
right of way for an elevator Is confertng
the right of eminent domain upon a
private corporation, which the legislature
has not done.
retltlon Wren si Party.
Petitions are still arriving at th office
of Governor Shaldon, calling upon him to
enforce the anti-treat law. Until the
county attorneys of the state refuse to
act In the i atter it is not up to the gov
ernor. I has been suggested that as the
petitioners say the law Is being violated
dally It la up to them to furnish their evi
dence to the county attorney in the county
In which they reside. If that official re
fuses to act then the call on the governor
to act would be In season. It Is probable
the governor will take no action In the
matter as It now stands.
RAM.Y OP THIS MOUKKV WOODME
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Plans Are I.ald for HI Gathering of
Members of Order.
CENTRAL CITY. Neb., Dec. . (Special.)
Thursday, December 19. will be a banner
day In the annals of Modern Woodcraft in
this section of the state. If the big silver
snnlversary class adoption and rally which
the Modern Woodmen of America are plan
ning to pull off on that date in Central
City takes place as planned for by those
who have the matter In charge.
The Woodmen camps at Archer, Palmer,
Chapman, Clarks, Sliver Creek, Msrquetto,
Polk, Stromaburg, Osceola, Shelby an J
Central City will be represented, and It Is
the aim to have a class of $00 candidates,
and from prerent prospects this mark will
be reached.
District Deputy Charles Q. Nelson haa
charge of the preparation and tha work of
securing members, and the Central City
Commercial club has put up $60 to be used
as cat I' prises. A prise of $20 will be given
to the camp bringing the largest ciaas of
candidates for adoption; $30 will be given
to the camp making the largest per cent
of gain by having their candidates here
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Clear the voice. Allay tba
irritation caused by cpub
i8v'. U$o when required.
for adoption; $30 for the camp having the
largest delegation In th line of ths parade
at p. m., and District Deputy Nelson will
give a prise of $10 to the camp having the
best uniformed team in line at the parade.
Central City will be excluded from all the
prises.
The street parade will take place at I
p. m. and Immediately after State Lecturer
J. M. Leldy will speak at the opera house.
The Initiation and floojr work will be held at
the opera house In the evening.
Special deputies are at work In the lo
calities of the various camps to be repre
sented In the rally, and the business men
of the town are making especial preparation
to entertain the crowds which It is ex
pected will be here.
to the usual standard. Cash payments are
still limited, but with th certificate ar
rangement all demands are being satisfac
torily met.
Inspecting- Normal Schools.
KEARNEY. Neb.. Dec. C (Special Tel
egram.) Superintendent Fullmer of Bea
trice, Miss O'Connell, principal of tho Ash
land schools, and Superintendent Dodwell
of Norfolk, state Inspecting committee on
normal schools, was In the city today and
attended the chnpel exercises and during
the balance of the day visited the differ
ent Darts of the school. Th mmmlllu la
expected to visit the Kearney and Peru
normals and with them as a standard see
that the smaller normals which are opened
and held within the state keep up to the
mark with these two schools.
Chances on New Road.
SEWARD, Neb., Dec . (Special.)
Vice-president Wlllard of th Burlington
railroad and a number of other officers
were at this place Tuesday on a special
train. They came In over the new Mllford
line, which they Inspected, and as a result
all freight trains were sent over the Ger
mantown line until some changes can be
made. Passenger trains are ordered to be
run only ten miles an hour over some
points. Extenslvo changes will be made
between here and Tamora.
Reports Good at Hastings.
HASTINGS, Neb.. Dec. 6. (Special.)
The official statements of the Hsstlngs na
tional banks reflect a highly flattering oon
dltlon. The aggregate of deposits Is larger
than a year ago by approximately $60,000.
All banks show an Increase In cash re
sources. For the last tea days banking
operations In Hastings have been fully up
Nebraska New Note.
BEATRICE Scott Conner and Mrs.
Martha Studley, both of Cortland, were
married here yesterday by Judge Spafford.
YOR A. C. Hull of New York City, trav
eling aecretary for the students' volunteer
movement, visited the college on l-'rlday,
addressing the students In the chapel.
SEWARD Three days' rummage sale
conducted this week by the women of tho
Congregational church netted $75, and pro
vided many people with comfortable cloth
ing. SEWARD Mrs. A. IL Ehlam died at her
home in Soward, Monday, and was burled
Tuesday. Funeral services wero conducted
by Rev. Philip Smith of the Methodist
church.
YORK B. J. Brown, stenographer to
District Judge Evans, has accepted ap
pointment as court stenographer to Judge
Letton of the supreme court and will move
to Lincoln,
HARVARD Corn gathering was com
pleted with pleasant November weather
and farmers will have little to do till spring
opens, giving them opportunity for a much
deserved rest.
BEATRICE H. T. Beals yesterday fin
ished gathering 100 acres of corn, which
yielded thirty-five bushels to the acre. He
sold 1.100 bushels to local dealers for 4J'4
cents per. bushel.
BEATRICE County Treasurer Barnard
yesterday made his settlement with the
state and will turn ever the sum of $13,323.74
to the state treasurer as collections for the
month ef November.
BEATRICE The failure Of the National
Bank of Commerce of Kansas City raino
as a surprise to the businuss men of Beat
rice. Not one bank In Beatrice carried
deposits with the institution.
PAPILLION-Rlchard F. O'Brien was
tried before the district court sad jury
yesterday for selling llnuor at Manawa In
Barpy county and acquitted, as the state
failed to prove it was In Barpy county.
HARVARD Carl Parker has bought sn
Interest In the electrlo light plant and ha
assumed local management arid is building
tip the business by placing many lights
In business houses and homes of our city.
BEATRICE A secret service man who
visited Beatrice a few days ago had his
grip stolfn at the Rock Island depot. The
officers sre working on tha case, but have
not succeeded in locating the guilty party.
BUR WELL The Burwell house was set
on fire by some children playing In one
corner and the blase was under good head
way when the alarm was given, but the
fire company responded and in a few mo-
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ilLLH BELOW COST
200 BEAUTIFUL DRESS HATS in
1 black, brown, white, blue, leather and
navy, worth $10,00 and 5lSOO
$12.50, Saturday
Absolutely Every Hat in tho
Houoo Dclow Cost Saturday
Douglas S..-EU2RM