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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1908)
TTTE OMAHA' DAILY JtEE: WEDNESDAY. MAHCII 25. 1003. IV p C Inyeiton, Home Baildert and Specu- latori Buj. MVMNIMG po T Has a larger paid circula tion than any other weekly publication in America. The edition for last weeli was A 9 COPIES . .i1' " .......... This is, by far, the largest circulation ever achieved by any weekly magazine in this country. Exactly nine years, to a day, since George Horace Lorimer became Editor-in-Chief of The Saturday Evening Post, an average increase in its circulation of a hundred thousand copies a year has proved its editorial quality and conse quent popularity. v President. Five cents the copy ; $1.50 by the year. Our Boys Are Everywhere The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pa. NEW KOUNTZE TRACT PLATTED Old Exposition Graaidi In .North Part of the City in B Offered te Horn . BaUdera Soon. DIUEF CITY NEWS stave Root Print IV Frees Brick, 150 kinds. 'Sunderland Br on. Coal 5 Coutant Squire, Tel. . Klaehar. photographer,' 18th & Farnam. Bowman, 117 N. It..'. Douglas shoos, Il.oO. rataUa aoeo an ton t-a alitor, a. F. Swoboda, Thomas W. Blaokbnrm for .congress Adv Toloa culture, Dotmore Chenejr, Boyd Thr. r Bomjrka for Quality cigars. II 8. 16th. Spring alts, 935 to f 30 Perfect fit MacCarthy-Wllaon Tailoring Co., lot S. 16th. Wa always have Rock, Springe ooal. Can tral Coal and Coka company of Omaha. 16th and Harney streets. . . Trnfortnaat the Kan who has nothing saved. Better begin at once your aavlngs account with the City Savings bank. popular Prloea at tha Slav Oread Cala white wattera; first-class serving. Open a. m. to 12 p. m. Raohman'a' orohetS-a, Alma Jackson Company The Alma Jack- son, Bon & Co. 1s a new livestock com mission company which haa filed articles of Incorporation with the county clerk. The capital stork la 120.000 and the mem bers of the new corporation are C. ' IL vjHmS too ' ( I PI ' TIIE PROPER DEVELOPrJEFiT of correct garments la a matter worth great tudy -and one. that wa glTa great atony. Tha flril atep necessary la to secure an artist. We have gone that. Our Ur. Juhn.on la beyond any and a.l uueailon tha beat cutter that thnaha knows. The second atep la to obtain expert tailor. sewing hand. Our. are tail or, that we have sent aa far east aa New York for. We've brought them to Omaha and they are another rea.oa why we are producing suntrler gar menta than Diuiu 1m ever l:fro eten. The last atep la to purchase fine fabrics. Our London buyer enables us to net the beat. We make rrood auts for from 825 o $50 x MscCarlhy-Wilson Tailoring Co. B04-8CMJ SOUTH IdTH ST. Near Bouthwe Corner 16th anil J'arnain be a. Phone Douglas 1KOS. Fish, B. F. Gordon, Truman Jackson and Alma Jackson. ' Sot Has Expensive Taste The taste of Dan Clifton's dog for human flesh selected from the leg of Harry Rotkop. a peddler, cost Clifton (5 and costs in police court Tuesday. Rotkop was bitten by the dog ten days ago at the home of Clifton, 1411 South Seventeenth street. Colossi Barrows a Orandae Colonel B. 1L Barrows of the Omaha custom house Is unapproachable on account of prldo over the news just received that a big, nine-pound baby girl was born Monday to Mr. and Mrs. WUlard Barrows of Hastings. WUlard Barrows Is the son of Colonel Barrows. Complaint for Blows In Pace James V. Sweeney, proprietor of the Nebraska Mar ble and Granite worka, had a complaint aworn out Tueaday for the arrest of Adolph Hubert, a barber In the shop at 213 South Sixteenth street. He chargea Hubert with striking htm In the face during au altercation Monday evening. Balph Kitchen Btlll Administrator Ralph Kitchen, administrator of the estate of Jurats B. Kitchen, will continue to serve as such. County Judge Leslie has overruled the motion of Mrs. Joseph Kitchen, widow of the late James B. Kitchen, to have htm removed. Judge Lea lle held that the matter of discrepancy, as alleged by Mrs. Kitchen, could be brought up at the final settlement. Complaint for Kla Patron M. I- Woolf son, a grocer at 1439 North Nineteenth atreet, secured a warrant for the arreat of 'Michael Uolden. SOS North Tefflh street. He saya Uolden repreaented that he was employed by the Union Pacific railroad at a good salary and upon this representation secured credit for groceries to the sum of 180. Ptnsd for Lifting tha X.ld George Henry, bartender for Hermann Schaeffer In his saloon, S24 South Thirteenth street, was fined $100 and costs by Police Judge Crawford for selling liquor on Sunday. Two polloemen inplin clothea bought the beer at Scheffer's saloon on Sunday, March IS, and there waa no controverting of their testimony. However, Schaeffer filed a bond to appeal the case to the dis trict court. Arrest Ov.r Catting Bod Stella Mohler, 3524 South Twentieth, avenue, secured a warrant Tuesday for the arrest jf J. J. Taylor on the charge of cutting and re moving sod from a vacant lot which she owns at Fortieth and Spragua street. The lot had a beautiful growth of blue graas last fall, but when she went to see it Monday ahe found it stripped of its verdant clothing and learned that Taylor had taken the gra.a. Held for Obsoena Letter William A. Mumaugh waa arraigned before United States Commissioner Anderson Tuesday afternoon on the charge of aendlng an obscene letter through the United States malts to a Miss Electa Hedelund, at pre. ent an Inmate of the Good Shepherd's home. He waa arreated Saturday evening by the United States authorltiea and bound over la $600 for his appearance Tuesday afternoon beforo the federal court. Oroom Beads the Cigar The receipt of a box of cigars at the office of the chief clerk of tha railway mail service Tus- ITY PROPERTY IN DEMAND Activity In Omaha real estate will be at s highest point In two weeks, the number of Inquiries and sales pending now exceed ing In number those of last year.' City prop erty will move to Investors, home buyers nd dealers who buy for speculation. For Investment, F. C. Darling, an jwan, haa bought the three story brick building at Fourteenth and Jackson streets from John Hockstrasser, for $27,500. The aale was made through George A Co. The building Is just two blocks cast of the new Rome, opposite the Oma hotel and well located. It will be remodeled before new tenants are secured for the building. Within a few weeks the Kountxe estate will file a plat of a new division west of Kountse park and east of Twenty-fourth treet, between Plnkney and Pratt streets. Hastings A Heyden will handle the prop erty and only the lota with a south front along Plnkney street will be sold In the early spring. There will be more than fifty new lots added to the available build ing sites In the north part of the city. Trcet Held hr Park Board. Some time ago the Kountse estate platted the east end of the old exposition grounda between Nineteenth street and Sherman avenue and between Plnkney and Pratt streets. Sixty well located lots were offered to home builders, but the Park board has held up the sale of lots by proposing to ay out the "Bluff boulevard," which would probably pass through the property. Many Inquiries have been made for the lots, but the dealers cannot dispose of them until the Park board reaches some decision about the "drive." M. B. Atkisson Is having plans drawn for St. Louis flat to be erected on Emmet street, between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets, and which will cost $6,000. The flat la to be novel In that It will have a gable roof, exposed rafters and asbestos shingles. Ground has been broken for a frame St. Louis flat at Sherman avenue and Emmet street. Two lots In Kountze Place were sold Tuesday by Hastings & Heyden, both being on Emmet atreet, one Just west of Eigh teenth and one between Nineteenth and Twentieth, to Jams W. Ellwood, the con stderatlon for the two being $1,800. ' Given Up to Die. B. Spiegel, 1304 North Virginia street, Evansvllle, Ind., writes: "For over five years I was troubled with kidney and blad der affections which caused me much pain and worry. I lost flesh and was all run down, and a year ago had to abandon work entirely. I had three of the best physi cians who did me no good and I waa prac tically given up to die. Foley's Kidney Cure was recommended and the first bottle gave me great relief, and after taking the second bottle I wss entirely cured." Why not let It help you? For sale by all drug gist. ..... allowed to go his way unless the Colorado authorities took him at once. Sheriff Hackley Is expected In Omaha to get Preston within a day or two. BOHEMIANS WRITE TO ROOT Omaha, CoaamKta Sends secretary of tat a U.( Letter of y rrote.t. Acting on a supposition that the Inter view purporting to have been had with Secretary Root by the correspondent of a Vienna newspaper Is correct, the committee appointed by tha Bohemian cltlsens of Omaha haa addressed a long communi cation to the secretary. It sets forth at length the number and quality of Bohemian Immigrants and their cltlsenahlp In the United States. In the first place. It Is pointed out that of the more than 1,000,000 Immigrants to the United States last year only 12,000 wore Bohemians, a little more than 1 per cent of the total. Illiterate persons to the number of ?,20 came Into America from Europe In 1906, or eleven and one-third In every thousand. Of the total number only eight were Bohemians, or two-thirds of a person per thousand. It Is also shown that for, that year a very large number of the Bohemian Immigrants were skilled workmen, over 38 per cent having trades knowledge and skill. Thai tha Bohemians continue to Improve their condition after coming to America Is shown by experience In Nebraska, and sup ported by the number of students In the state university, the public schools, and tha general Interest taken In the work of education. The commercial Importance of Bohemia aa a part of the Austrlsn empire Is also cited ,and supported by figures from official sources. The address con cludes: Whatever standpoint you take to view the situation, you can not possibly maintain successfully the Idea that the Bohemian immigrant belongs to the undesirable class. Wherever he la known he haa the reuu- ftatlon of being honeat, law-abiding. In dustrious, frugal and prosperous citizen, In every way equal to the beat. On behalf of the Bohemians of Omaha, by whom we have been elected In a public meeting, we are yours most respectfully, JOHN ROSICKY, VACLAV BURKSH. EM1L CEHMAK, i , CHARLES STEIGER, i F. VODICKA, REV. B. FILIPI, V. DU8ATKO. SHRIVER HAS PLENTY OF WOE SAVIDGE WANTS A CREMATORY Preacher ia Working; V Movement for On In Omaha at an Early Data. "I am working to establish a crematory in Omaha," says Rev. Charles W; Savldge, "and I am getting good support. I have Just received a letter from the Bohemian Freethinkers union of Omaha, and while the members of It look at the subject from a different angle of my viewpoint, they agree with me and are willing to help me get a crematory in Omaha. I take the position that when my body dies the spirit departs from It, and the freethinkers say my body never had a spirit In It. But that Is neither here nor there, the fact is these people are with me. K. W. Bartos Is president of the freethinkers and F. J. Janan secretary. They have Informed me that Joseph Pacas of Burwell, Neb., has written to them that he will contribute toward a crematory." Mr. Savldge's plan la a stock company affair. day morning, with instructions to place them where they would do the moat good, waa the first Intimation that Railway Mail Clerk A. G. Long gava his associates of his marriage. Tha event took place over In Iowa Monday, the bride being Miss Tyler. Mr. DeLongs run la on the Omaha & Chadron division of the railway mall service. Bead Mas on Ped.ral Grand Jury Ger ald Dillon of Jackson, Neb., who was drawn aa a member of the federal grand Jury Monday afternoon for the Omaha di vision, will be unable to serve and can not b reached by a subpoena. Mr. Dil lon has been dead for aeveral week and did not leave his address. Seven alter nates were drawn for the grand jur to meet the emergency of absentees, and apt of these seven will be substituted for the late Mr. Dillon. Oold and areas Pnrniture When tha Myers-Dillon company bought the $12,000 soda water fountain, which ia being In stalled, P. B. Myers, president of the com pany, saw be had to get some elaborate furniture to match the fountain, so b gave( D. F. Corte of the Miller-Stewart-Beaton company orders to get the best to be had. . He did. It is now on exhibition In the window of the furniture company on South Sixteenth street. It fs finished In green and gold and comes from Germany. tutoaad Hollers for Help Though Berthena Cooper married Jobe when he was 1$ and she waa 42 and they have lived together sine 1887, Berthena failed to mske Jobe contented and happy, and Tueaday afternoon he filed a petition ask ing the district court to let him loose. He says his wife has been cruel to him; has pulled his hair and pinched him, and be sides that she was 43 Instead of 10 year old when she took hint unto herself, as she claimed. As for himself, he says he was a mere child at the time of the wed ding, being only It years old. Prisoner Baa Poor atamo&j George Neal, who said he had been "just working around" for the laat two years, waa sen tenced to ten days In Jail for selling a big bag of new tinware. He had offered the tin for aale at the bargain price of SO cents. When asked where ho got his stock, Neal explained in police court that "a party left If with him. He had for gotten who the party waa. When the court offered to amend sentence If Neal at any time during his Incarceration should remember the name of this party. It brought no algn of hope to hla face, oroom Kelps Bride It for Bond- Charles c. Street and Mrs. Mary Jen. en were married Tuesday afternoon by bounty Judge Leslie and started on the road to happlneas and prosperity. The groom took on domestic habits when the entrance to the court house was reached. There he and his bride-to-be stopped and the groom fixed the veil and pinned the flowers on his sweetheart, while , she pinned a big red rose to his coat lapel All this wss done with most of the court house attache running over themselves to get a peep at the couple. They will reside In Omaha. County Assessor Xfnat Do Work Which Railroads Failed to -Perform. v.-.-.i- . "County Assessor Shiver ha-Ms work marked out for him. All the details of the Job are set out in the terminal ,tax law. And he will have to do a lot more than Is set out. While all the railroads, with the excep tion of the Northwestern railroad, sent In blue prints, with their reports of locally owned property, none of tho roads placed a value on the real estate. The. law provides that this shall be done by theroads. When they failed, however, Mr. Bhriver said the only thing for him to do was to do that work himself, and he Is now preparing to get busy at the Job. He was a little put out Tuesday when the report of the Missouri Pacific came In with 25 cents express chargea annexed. While he disliked ' to pay the quarter on general principles, ne was more an noyed over the fact tha road failed to place a value on Its property. The law provides that these reports shall be filed by March 1. but owing to the fact It was practically a physical Impossibility to do this, the Stale Board of Aaaeasment has said through its secretary that it will not Insist upon a penalty being paid by the railroads. Bhriver is having trouble getting hi books from the printers, which Is causing him some delay on the preliminary work of the assessment. Ho Case on neeora, There Is no case on record of a cough or cold resulting In pneumonia or consumption after Foley's Honey and Tar haa been taken, as It will stop your cough and break up your cold quickly. Refuse any but the genuine Foley's Honey and Tnr In a. yellow package. Contains no opiates and Is safe and sure. For sale by all druggists. D aas.it. Wsocka Buildings as completely as coughs and colds wreck lungs. Cur them quick with Dr. King's New Discovery. bOo and H- sal by Beaton Drug Go. Vole Husky f Throat Soref Try Red Cross -I- Cough Drops. 6c per box. "HOLD PRESTON TILL I COME" Telea-ram Received from Sheriff Hackley of Brighton, Colo., He grardias; Mysterious Man. - "Hold Preston until I come." , Thus read a telegram received by Chief of Police Donahue from Sheriff C. L. Hack' ley of Brighton, Colo. Preston has been held at St. Joseph's hospital now for three weeks under police gusrd night and day because the Brighton officials thought maybe he waa the man who tried to rob the poatofflce the night of March , and when discovered shot the night marshal dead. Sheriff Hackley was here to Identify Preston. He failed to do ao, but secured Preston's promise to go to Denver without requisition papers. Since Hackley left ten days ago nothing had been heard of him and Chief Donahue tele, graphed Monday saying Preston would be Ladies Oxfords in the Uleti Spring Style. $2.50 At this price we offer you Oxfords thfct are com monly sold at $3 to $3.50 Made on the) newst lasts every style distinctive patent corona colt. In lace, button and blucher styles, also Christy two eyelet and pump styles, and Christy two eyelet ties In tan Russia calt all Goodyear welt sewed soles all sizes and widths C t V, a hiiat V D 1 1 1 o a va have ever offered, at 2L We have Regal Shoes for women at $3.50 and $4.00 Ladies Kid Belts Made to sell at $1.50 tvnd $2.00, Special at $1.00 New spring styles, in light blue, grey, white, brown and tan gold or gun metal trimmings you'll have use for one of these belts- better buy It now, at. . . $J00 Ladies' Elbow Length Kid Gloves Positively e, $4.00 VeJue The celebrated "Ccntemeri," made In white, pink, $f29fl colors tomorrow, at. . . gfr r- '-''''in in? 'n , , ' : '- -"" OTTBE ROAD TO HEALTH LiWn - - TO - - Sulphur Springs, Ark. "THE BEAUT. SPOT OF THE OZARK" H PLANS FOR NEW SCHOOLS BaUdlng Are Proposed for Omaha View and Forrest and Dl ensaed by Board. Plans for proposed new school buildings for Omaha View and Forrest schools were discussed Tuesday afternoon by the Board of Education committee on buildings and property with the leading architects of the city. Report of the conference will be made by the committee to the whole board at the time of Its next meeting. Hereto fore the board haa engaged an archltest to draw Its plans, but a motion was made at the last meeting to ask for bids for plans for the school houses. O. D. Rice, member, objects to the asking for competitive bids on the ground that the best architect ob tainable be secured to draw the plans for the school houses, as It Is very Important that ventilation and light be absolutely all right, which cannot be assured In competi tive bidding. New $50,00 Kihlberg Hotel will open Juno 1st. $100,000 in improvements now in progress will afford modern accommodations at this Ail Year 'Round Health Resort WSITB TO FSSa XUTBTBATED LtTrRATTRB 8. G. HOrKIXS, D. P. A.. K. C. S. Ry TEXAKKANA, TEXAS. S. C. WARXEIt, G. P. A., K. C. . Hy., KANSAS CITV, MO. SECOND SHERLOCK HOLMES Offlcer Hudson Jumps Into the Class . of Great Ones with On Leap. Officer Hudson Is following close in the footsteps of the great Sherlock Holmes. Monday night, when he found the screen cut from a window of Friedman's pawn shop, 211 South Twelfth street, he followed out his theories. Looking around for a clue, he found a butcher knife lying near the window. Plainly this was the instru ment with which the screen was cut. The officer also found a footprint In the soft soil under the window. He made a diagram of the print and turned it in with his state ment to Night Desk Bargeant Marshall, who entered Into the spirit of these care ful Investigations and registered the time of the discovery of the burglary exactly at 5:52'4 a, m. Fourth Torpedo Flotilla. WASH INQTON, March M.-The fourth torpedo flotilla waa established today by placing In commission the Farragut. Fox and Davia, torpedo boat built on the Pa- clflo coast. The flotilla will operate in those waters. THEORY GENERALLY ACCEPTED AND SUCCESS IS UNIVERSAL L T. Cooper, Whose theory that the human stomach la the cause of most 111 health and who created a furore In Chicago, St. Louis and other weatern cities. Is meet ing with the same remarkable success with his medicine throughout the east. Cooper haa convinced an immense number of neo ple that his theory is sound and his medi cine will do what he claims. Perhaps the most Interesting features of the discussion this young man, is caualng, are the statements made by responsible people who hsve taken his medicines and have become enthuslsstlu converts of his beliefs. Among statements of this character, the folllowlng, by Mr. August Wlttner, 1041 Rockwell Court, Chicago, la characteristic of the wide spread faith In Cooper, which has grown up In a comparatively short time. Mr. Wittmer ssys: "I would take $1,000 and be In the condition I waa three weeks ago. I waa practically an Invalid for four teen ycara and think I had about all of the diseases known. My stomach wss weak, and at times I would have aa enormous t appetits, and then again none at all. Pie and cake made me sick, and I almost al ways had a sickening feeling In my atom aoh. I was nervous, and for weeks at a time could not sleep, and then again could aleep eighteen hours at a at retch. Bleep, however, seemed to do me no good, and I would awake tired and more exhnuated than when I went to bed. "I was constipated, hid pains in my back, and fluttering and pains In my heart. I waa unable to work with any regularity, and took no Interest In anything. I tried all kinds of medicines and doctors, but none benefited me. I had no energy and no ambition, and had about concluded to give up when the Cooper medicine waa recom mended. Thanks to It, my health aeems completely restored and I feel like a new man." Cooper medicines have created the great est sensation of anything of the kind ever before Introduced. We sell them, and will be glad to explain the nature of them to our callers. Beaton Drug Co. torn Line and PdoQ&OIhl There arc three trains a day to St Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth via ThoQorthUos leaving the Union Station, Omaha, at 7:50 A. M., 3:50 P. M. and 8:28 P. M. The equipment includes parlor, cafe and observation cars, dining cars and Pullman Standard drawing-room sleeping cars. 8:28 P. M. train electric lighted throughout The Best of Everything For rates, tickets and full informa tion apply to TICKET OFFICES, 1401-1403 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb. Going to Move Your Office? It you are thinking; of moving, now la the time to make your selection of office. Moat people wait until May or June and tben find very few, from which to choose. We have one or two large office and aeveral handsome small offices. THE BEE BUILDING haa an organisation built upon many yeara of experience. It has Its own electric lighting plant and maintains a corps of competent engineers and mechanics to keep tike mechan'cal and eleotrlcai rvlce of the building la good order. The building Is in perfect repair. It has all the advantares of . a brand new building and has nous of Its disadvantages. - " I Tha janitors and elevator men are well trained, courteous and accommodating. In charge of the whole bulldlns is a ' superintendent, whose office It is to keep this organisation constantly at tha service of tenant. Now Is a good time to see if we have what you want In the way of office accommodations, for office space ap ply to R. W. BAKES, Supt. i Room 105, Bee Buil.'ing.