THE OMAITA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1903.
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CURRENT NEWS OF IOWA
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COUNCIL BLUFFS
U ImM M. Tea. 4.
OS? BID FOR WATER WORKS
Wickham Only One Who Submiti Pro
posal for the Entire Plant.
ABOVE ENGINEER'S ESTIMATE
Plana Sabmltted and Approved for the
JVew Central Fire Station Wick
kia Stands by Propoaal to
Erect Balldlng.
But one complete bid for the construction
of the proposed municipal water works
plant wn recelvrd eterdsy. This was
from E. A. Wickham of tale city, whose
bid aggregated 1631.635. The Alphonse Cis
todls Chimney Construction company of
New Tork City submitted four bids for the
construction of the ohlmney of the power
plant, the figures ranging from $1950 to
W,0. The bids were referred to the city
engineer and the committee on water works
for tabulation, without discussion.
Mr. Wlckham's bid In detail la as follows:
Power plsnt, or pumping station
Bottling reservoirs
Distribution system complete....
High service reservoir ,
.tim.sno
. 93.785
. 897.50
. 21.760
Total ISU.S3B
City Engineer Etnyre's estimate was aa
follows:
Pumping station' $111'.M0
Settling basins 9.750
retribution system , 35S.7B7
High pressure reservoir 24,130
Relaying pavement 21,766
Real estate 8.000
Financing 30.000
plans and the program which Is now sub
mitted to the public. The executive com
mittee, W. F. Parrott, O. E. IJehty, Fred
Langley. F. J. Elghmey, B. B. Red. TV. M.
Law, C. YV. Mullen, C. D. Kern, O. A.
Feeley, J. E. Wllllama, B. F. Bwlsher.
Other commltteea are "equally strong.
Eleven hotels have been secured and ac
commodations are ample for all who are
expected to be present. The auditorium will
seat t,000 people.
Total ' $643,902
Bid Above Estimate.
It will be seen that Mr. Wlckham's bid
Is considerably higher than the city en
gineer's estimate. To Mr. Wlckham's fig
ures must be added the $8,000 for real estate
and the $30,009 for financing and they
would bring his total to $669,535.
While Mr. Etnyre estimated W.000 for real
estate, the general opinion Is that the
ground tor a , pumping atatlon, settling
basins and high pressure reservoir could
not be bought for anything like $8,000. The
probable cost of the necessary real estate
la placed aa high as $30,000.
The presence of several supposed con
tractors and representatives of contracting
firms In the city led the city officials to
expect several bids. It turned out, how
ever, that the supposed contractors were
merely representatives of supply firms and
that they were here to' furnish figures to
Mr. Wickham. ,
City Treasurer True In his report on the
city finances relative to the Issuance of
bonds for the construction of a water works
plant submitted to the council in the early
part of 1a at month said:
If the law Is such that we can Incur an
Indebtedness equal to 6 per cent of the
actual value or our laxaoie property ior
the purpose of building a water works, I
would state thst trw value of our taxable
property Is J16.R61.2W. and 6 per cent of thla
amount would be S42,66S.
Deducing from this amount the present
net debt of JlfiO.OOO. It would leave a bal
ance of $692,663 that would be available
to apply upon the purchase or building of
a water works system so far as a bond
Issue Is concerned. In addition to this we
.have in the "water' works sinking fund
$14,903; this added to the $592.66$ would make
a total of $'V)7.". available from both
aotircea at thla date.
We have levied and under collection
funds that will 'educe our bonded Indebted
ness this yesr approximately 120,000. also
a lew thst will give us an additional sum
of $7,600 In pur water works sinking fund,
which one year from now would, with the
amount available at this date, give us
$634,908.
Itock rile for Vagrants.
Major George II. Richmond, chief of
police, announced yesterday that he had
decided to put the municipal rock pile In
commission again. It being about the best
known panacea for the tramp evil.
With the advent of summer the hoboes
and tramps of every class are on the move
and Council Bluffs has always been a
favorite resting r)ace for these most un
desirable nomads. The railroad yards
swarm with them arid they form regular
camps along the railroad tracks In the
north part of the city.
The city has plenty of rock on hand as
well aa the necessary hammers for break
ing It up. - Further supplies of rock and
hammers will be procured If needed.
"The presence of these men Is a menace
to the community," said Major Richmond.
''They have no work and would not work
If given employment. They must eat to
live and .most of them live merely to eat.
To secure food they must either beg or
steal and they do both. I have determined
to take stringent measures to rid Council
Bluffs as far aa practicable of this clsss
of men. The officers will make regular
roundups of the railroad yards and other
plaoea where the hoboes and tramps con
gregate and they will be given regular em
ployment on the rock pile. As soon as It
becomes generally know that the rock
pile awalta them In Council Bluffs, the
tramps. I believe will give this city a aide
berth or at least will not make It a 'stop
over place."
The city council last night authorised Ma
lor Richmond to employ three additional po.
llcemen for a stated period. These special
officers will be assigned to the task of
rounding up the tramps.
IOWA COXGREGATIOXALISTi MEET
Sixty-math Annual Session Convenes
r at Waterloo.
WATERLOO, la., May 19. (Special.) The
sixty-ninth annual session of the Congre
gational association of Iowa will open In
this city tomorrow and continue until Fri
day noon. The porspet Is for delega
tions from all the leading churches In the
state of this denomination, and an excel
lent program has been prepared. At the
same date will open also the twenty-second
annual meeting of tha Women's Home Mis
sionary union.
The program for tha two organisations
will be as follow :
TUESDAY. MAT 19-MORNINO.
Welcome, Rev. W. H. Rollins. Waterloo.
Response, Retiring Moderator Hon. W.
t. Evans, Hampton.
Sermon, Rev. W. I. Tenney, D. D., Sioux
City.
Communion service, C. A. Moore of Dav
enport and F. I. Hanscom of Rockford.
Hymn, written by Rev. William Salter,
D. D.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20 MORNING.
Prayer aervlce, Sidney Patey, Dubuque.
Reports of officers and standing com
mittees. Devotional, led by Mr. Ladd, Red Oak.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
Report of Sunday school work, Superin.
tendent Henry W. Tuttle, Grlnnell.
"Co-operation of Sunday School and Pub
lic Library," Miss Duren, Waterloo.
"The Country Sunday School and Its Pos
sibilities," Mrs. Hill. Harvey.
"The Fruit of a City Mission Sunday
School." Miss Mulford. Muscatine.
"The Ault Bible Class," George H. Lewis,
Des Moines.
"How to Build Vp the Sunday School,"
Mrs. Frances Allison. Dubuque.
"The Field, tho Work and tha Need,"
Rev. J. H. Olmstead, Clarion. ..
Missionary hour. ' W. B. M. I. and X. W.
H. M. U.
"The American Missionary Association,"
Rev. George H. Moore. ,
"The American Board." Rev. E. C. Part
ridge. Western Turkey.
"The National Home Missionary Society,
Rev. Dr. T. C. Dougles. Grlnnell.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Mrs. Abble Snell Burnett, In her Imper
sonation of a high caste Hindu woman.
THURSDAY MORNING.
"Future of Congregational Polity," Rev.
William J. Cady. Charlea City.
Devotional hour, led by Dr. Friable, Des
Molnea.
Discussion of revision of polity, to be led
by Herbert J. Hinman, Cresco. and E. S.
Carr of Cherokee.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
President's message. Rev. George L. Cady
of Dubuque.
Reports from Rev. P. Adelsteln Johnson,
Rev. T. O. Douglas, Rev. J. O. Thrush,
Rev. C. A. Moore, treasurer, and Mlas An
nie D- Merrill.
THURSDAY EVENING.
' "The Layman's Part In Progressive Con
gregationalism," Frank Byer, Chicago, eec
jetary Congregational Brotherhood.
"The Social Service of Congregational
Ism," Naboth Osborne. Burlington.
FRIDAY.
"The Theory of a Progressiva Church,"
Rev. H. N. Daecomb, Grlnnell.
"The Evangelism of a Progressive
Church," George E. Wllllama, Keokuk.
Tuesday, May 19, the executive meeting
of the Women's Home Missionary union
will be held. In the afternoon greetings
and addresses will be given by Miss Lydia
A. Finger and Miss Miriam L. Woodberry.
Wednesday morning reports of association
secretaries will be given, followed by the
question box, and a children's rally will be
given In the afternoon.
. Waterloo to Have Convention.
WATERLOO. I., May 19.-(Speclal.)-Waterloo
Is to entertain the state repuolt
can convention June 24, and the committee
on arrangements has appointed the various
committees, and In co-operation with the
cltlsena every detail will, before the date,
fee In perfect adjustment. Th,e committee
appointed a week ago, consisting of W, W.
Marsh, W. F. Parrott. C. W. Mullan, 8. B.
Heed and J. E. Wllllama, has outllnod the
Iowa News Notes.
AMES A 13x60-foot addition to the Car
negie library here has been voted by the
Library board. Thla will almost double
the present available floor space and will
greatly add to the library facilities of the
city.
IOWA FALLS There waa much rejoic
ing In this city Saturday when the press
dispatches from Washington conveyed the
newa that eongresa had appropriated $7,t0
with which to purchase a site for a gov
ernment building in Iowa Falls.
AMES At the recent meeting of tho State
Homeopathlo association. Dr. A. C. Aplln,
a well known physician of this city waa
elected aa one of two delegates from this
state to the annual convention of the
American Institute of Homeopathy to be
held at Kansas City June 22.
CRESTON A. D. Coleman, an Orient
druggist, has sold his business to H. H.
Hamis, an experienced prarmaclst of
Qulncy, who will move to Orient about
June 1 to take charge of the bualneas. Mr.
Coleman goes to Farragut to be near his
agea parents, wno are in feeble health.
CRESTON Fred Rltter. an Afton lad of
U years,, had an experience recently he
doesn't care to repeat while watching two
large dogs engaged In a fight. The dogs
suddenly turned on him, knocked him down
and trampled him, but before either dog
had fastened a fang In him help arrived
and the dogs were beaten off. The boy suf
fered nervous prostration from the shock
for several days.
WATERLOO Sunday the new Christian
church of this city waa dedicated. The
sermon wss preached by Rev. Q. A. Hesa
of Charles City. The cornerstone of the
new Evangelical church waa laid In the
morning arid an Interested audience listened
to the sermon by Rev. C. C. Pfund, D. D.,
of Pea Moines. Dr. Frank Cole of the First
Methodist .Episcopal church of this city,
snd the pastor of the Evangelical church.
Rev. J. . Bauernfeind. had part In the
services of the afternoon.
IOWA FALLS Mra. Nancy Lowden, the
widow of K O.' Lowden a pioneer resident
of this county, snd mother of Congressman
Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, died here Sat
urday afternoon. Mrs. Lowden had been
sick several months, suffering from heart
trouble, but the last few weeks had been
much worse. Mr. and Mra. Lowden were
pioneer residents of Minnesota, having re
elded many years at Sunrise City and Tay
lors Falla. They were married in leM and
six children survive Mrs. Lowden, these
being: Hon. Frank O. Lowden of Chicago,
Mrs. Hammer of North Dakota, Mrs. Shel
don of North Dakota. Mra Alice Bammls
of Seattle, Wash. Miss Isabella and Miss
Eleanor Lowden of thla city, the latter
being a member of the faculty at Iowa col
lege at Grlnnell.
CUMMINS PLAYS BIG CARD
He e ting at Dei Moines Intended to
Offset the Dolliver Bally.
OUT FOE PROUTY AGAINST HULL
Taxation Reform Leaarno Plaaaras;
for aa Active Campalsrn as Boon
as tho Primaries Are Oat
tho War.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
DES MOINES, May 19. (Special Tele
gram.) The widely advertised Cummins'
meeting and probably the last big meeting
for either side to be held In Des Moines
this campaign, was held tonight In the
auditorium, which was well filled. D. C.
Chase of Webster City, Attorney General-
Byers of Harlan, Judge Prouty and Gov
ernor Cummins of Des Moines were the
speakers. Judge Prouty, who Is a candi
date for congress against Captain Hull,
paid some special attention to Senator Dolli
ver and the railroad rate question, and at
tempted to prove that-every year the Inter
state Commerce commission In Us report
asked for legislation for ten years got none
because, ho alleged, Dolliver was asleep on
the question. He pointed out that though
In every congressional campaign It Is
claimed that a new congressman cannot get
appropriations for his district, yet the con
gress now In session has given Dan Hamil
ton, a democrat and congressman from
the Sixth district, a larger appropriation for
that district than for any other district In
lows.
In the campaigns that have passed Gov
ernor Cummins has been friendly to but
has never taken the stump for Prouty. To
night for tha first time, and that In opening
his remarks, be advocated Frouty's election.
His speech was devoted mainly to the legis
lation enacted sines he has been governor
and declared that he had not said and
would not say a word during the campaign
against the character of Allison.
Reform In Taxation.
Iowa will go deep into the question of
taxation as soon as the primary election
Is over with and between that and the
convening of the legislature next January
the Iowa Tax Revision association will have
speakers visit each of the principal cities
of the state and discuss the subject of a
revision of the taxation and assessment
laws. The association is now arranging
these dates and Is In communication with
the business men of Des Moines In the hope
of arranging soon to have a speaker visit
this city.
The business men of Des Moines have al
ready become Interested In the matter them
selves and have made arrangements to have
the expert who engineered the revision of
tho assessment lawa of Ohio so as to put
Cleveland on an Ideal basis so far as taxes
were concerned, come to this city and de
liver an address upon the subject some
time In about three months.
There Is already a strong sentiment In
Des Moines and slsewhere In the state,
especially. In the larger cities, to have the
laws revised so that there will be no tax
ation of monies and credits and mortgages.
When the legislature met In 1907 there was
an effort made by the business men ' of
Sioux City, through their representatives
In the legislature, to get this change made
and w'nen they failed an attempt was made
to get the appointment of a tax revision
commission. This failed also and members
of the legislature with some city officials
formed "Iowa Tax Revision Association,"
with tho avowed purpose of securing from
the legislature a revision commission and
ultimate revision of the laws. Political
campaigns have been occupying the public
mind, but following the primary election
en June S an effort will be made to have
speakers address the commercial clubs of
the various cities and other organisations
with the view to agitating for sentiment
In favor of revision.
Agnes Keating; Dies.
Miss Agnes Keating, the 17-year-old high
school girl of this city, who disappeared
and was found by her parents only after
she had been badly burned at St. Cather
ine's Home In this city, died at the Metho
dist hospital here last night. The girl dis
appeared from home and It waa afterwards
learned by her folks that she went to
Omaha. She returned but Instead of going
home went to St. Catherine's home, a
boarding place, where It Is claimed she
accidentally set fire to her clothes, while
curling her hair.
Three candidates are, In the field for the
position of commander4 of the Iowa depart
ment of the Grand Army of the Republic.
They are ex-Lieutenant Governor MUllman
tf Logan, Hon.' Mike McDonald of Bayard
and Hon. H. A. Dyer of Mason City. The
annual encampment will be held next
month.
Road to "Ions City.
.Articles of incorporation of the Des
Moines and Sioux City Railroad company
have been filed with the secretary of state
with a capitalisation of. $30,000. The ob
ject of tha company la to build an electric
railroad from Des Moines to Sioux City.
8. M. Elwood Is president of the company.
Tbs other officers are: M. H. Miller, vice
president; A. O. Anderson, secretary; E. N.
Bailey, treasurer. The board of directors
are J. H. LaGrange, W. C. Edson, A. O.
Martin, C. 8. Hopper, M. A. Miller, H. H.
Felge and 8. M. Elwood.
UPS IT
Five minutes by the watch.
There will be no Indigestion
if you use Pape's Diapepsin.
Heartburn, gas and pain in
stomach, eructations of sour
food, nausea and other upset
feelings vanish.
Some folks just eat one or
two triangules while at the
drug store and feel fine before
they get home.
Pape's Diapepsin
FOR INDIGESTION
Caady-JUlU Trlanjulct. Any Drug Store.
C efS .
IT WILL PUT YOU
on you re st.
A. A. CLARK Cl CO.
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LOAtl MONEY Oil HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.
AND ANT CHATTEL &ECVJUTJ AT ONE-HALS' THH VSCAX RATES.
Twenty Team of lliarrsesful rTniiliirss.
OORXKH MACT AND UKOADWAT, OVER AMERICA! EXPRESS,
No connection with the fins o&Ulcg taeaaaarene Tae Clark Mertsagw Co.
both 'ruas3 sii. jxa . xialTr. xu.
Storm Spoils May Festival.
AMES, la,. May 19.-(Speclal.)-Ae a re
suit of the heavy ralnatorm, which passed
over Ames Friday afternoon, the May day
featlval, which had been so long in th
making and which had been looked forward
to with so much expectation by the stu
dents, waa cut short before It was scarcely
begun. However, a few of the numbers
were given before the rain came 'and were
witnessed by a great crowd of spectators
seated about the beautiful campus. Miss
Lillian Storms was tho May queen, and as
ahe lasued forth from Margaret hall and
came acroas the campus under the richly
made canopy which as upheld by her
beautiful attendants, accompanied by scores
of pretty May maldgns dressed. In gorgeous
colors, she presented a most charming pic
ture Indeed. The festival was given In
honor of the "8enorltaa," the May queen
being on of their number. The Ames cam
pus affords a very pretty place for such
festlvala, especially at this time of the
year, when the trees are all In leaf and
the flowers are blooming among the fresh
green grass of the campus, and tt Is to be
regretted that the exercises could not have
been completed, especially after the careful
preparation which had been made to make
the occasion such an attractive one.
Ch least o Boy Hart la Creston.
CRESTON. la.. May !. (Special Tele
gram.) Walter Dunham, a 14-year-old Chi
cago boy, lies in the hospital here with a
fractured leg resulting from attempting to
board an eastbound freight train. In com
pany with another boy ho had beaten his
way from Chicago to Omaha and back
hers when the accident occurred. '
A Blood r ACalr
is lung hemorrhage. Stop It and cure weak
lungs, coughs and colds with Dr. King's
New Discovery. 60c and $1.00. For sals by
Beaton Drug C
4.
We Pay $2.50
For the Beans Now Used in Van Camp's
We told you we paid $2.10 per bushel for beans, but the price has
advanced. You are eating so many of Van Camp's that the finest beans
We now must pay $2.50 for the grade which we demand.
are scarce.
The tremendous demand for Van Camp's beans has had its
effect on the bean market.
Some beans still sell for 30 cents per bushel.
But such beans as we use are getting so scarce that we now
pay $2.50 per bushel.
That means, in the first place, Michigan beans, grown on a
soil extremely rich in nitrogen.
Then those choice beans are picked orer by hand, so we get
only the whitest, the plumpest, the fullest-grown.
Such beans now cost us eight times what some beans cost.
Yet our prices are not advanced to you.
Our tomato sauce, too, costs us five times as much as other
sauce would cost ready-made.
But the cheap sauce is made from tomatoes picked green, and
ripened in shipment. Or of scraps from a canning factory.
Ours is made sorely from whole tomatoes, ripened on the
vines. Picked when the Juice fairly sparkles.
That superlative test, which adds so ranch to oar beans, is
due to this natural flavor.
These are times to be careful.
Poor beans are so cheap, and good beans are so costly, that
there is every inducement for pushing the poor ones.
Salesmen are paid high commissions for this purpose.
Grocers are offered special inducements.
. Some charge our prkes for inferior brands. Some charge
a little less, yet make a larger profit.
For this is the condition: Beans can be had for one-eighth
what we pay, and tomato sauce for one-fifth.
So you may, to protect yourself, need, to Insist on Vaa
Camp's.
POEsKS:
We have shown you how good baked beans can be. But remember their
food value, too. They are 84 per cent nutriment as nutritious as meat
Yet cheap and delicious, and ready-prepared. Why not serve them often?
Van Camp's have attained this enormous demand, beoauM
people have learned their goodness.
You were accustomed, to home-baked beans. They were
hard to digest, so you served them but once a week.
You baked them in ovens not half hot enough. The particles
were not separated so the digestive juices could get to them.
So the beans fermented, instead of digesting. And the fer
mentation formed gas.
You have now learned the difference. ' Van Camp's are
digestibie because we heat our ovens to 245 degrees.
nnnsnnnwannsnj awaa M
Your home-baked beans were mushy and broken. Crisped
on the top and half baked in the middle.
That was because you baked in dry heat.
You have learned that Van Camp's are nutty, mealy and
whole. ' And that is the way you like them.
You added tomato sauce as a dressing. We bake it into the
beans, and get that delicious blend.
Don't treat Vaa Camp's Hke home-baked beans.
They are hearty, yet most digestible. They are appetizing,
delicious, and all people like them.
They should be a daily dish, not an occasional.
Beans are Nature's choicest food. More nutritious than meat
or eggs, or cheese. Yet see how many you get for ten cents.
The same food value in any other form costs more. - So the
more you serve the more you save. .
Then Bote the saving in labor the hottest of hot-weather
labor. Every can in the pantry means a meal all cooked.
You will find that your people don't tire of Van Camp's.
Let them have all they want.
pin.
e Three sizes -10, 15 and 20 cents per can .
i
Van Camp Packing Company, Ea Indianapolis. Indiana
NEBRASKA FROM DAY TO DAY
daaiut and Cartons Featnres of Life
In a. Rapidly Growing
State. (
A Base Blander We never did believe
the story that Gentleman George D. Melkls
John wore a corset, but If he does, and If
the report Is true .that he Is soon to Join
the benedicts, he will soon be buying them
two In a box. Elgin Review.
Well, Really, What Does the Editor Refer
Tp? We have faith In Beaver City and
faith In her people. And we have faith
that we will all bite on the next graft that
comes along. "Now Is the time to sub
scribe." Beaver City Times-Tribune.
Extra Numbers In a rumpus at a dance
given at a private house north of Battle
Creek laat Saturday night, Pat Richardson
was badly slashed about the body with a
knife. His Injuries were painful, though
not serious. No arrests have yet been
made. It being hard to Identify the parties
who used the weapon in the dark. Battle
Creek Enterprise.
Not So Terrible iA farmer living near the
west line of Merrick county was drawn as
a district court Juryman and on his ex
amination as to his qualifications, testified
that he had lived in thla county twenty,
alx years, did not take a Merrick county
paper and had never heard of the Smeltser
assault case, which occurred at Archer
within a few miles of his home. He ought
to make a good Juryrtian. Sliver Creek
Sand.
It Will Not Down The old rivalry be
tween Grand Island and Hastings, of which
there had been little sign of late, has
broken out In aa unexpected manner. A
Hastings man married a wife at Omaha.
Returning borne by way of Grand Island,
the Hastings man and his wife stopped for
the night st the latter place. The groom
went out on a business errand and when
he returned the bride was gone and could
not be found, although several suspects
were searched. It Is clearly up to Grand
Island to clear her aklrts. Good natured
rivalry la admissible always, but It should
not become necessary for a Hastings man
to lock up his wife, nail down the transom
and carry the key In his pocket In order to
Insure her safety. Grand Island, Individ
ually and collectively, should have has
tened to establish an alibi. Kearney Hub.
Common Complaint The "Neighborhood"
dance at A. W. Nicholson's place on the
8th was well attended and everyone Is com
plaining more than ever of having a good
time. Even If the musicians were rather
late arrivals, the Intervening time was em
ployed by social chat and phonograph en
tertainment. Lemonade was at command
all evening. A bounteous lap supper and
coffee was served after 12, and was relished
by all, but we have not learned the name
of the song thst was sung en route home.
Whistle Creek Items, Alliance Times.
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It relieves palnrul
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nervous feet and In
stantly iBke til
sting out of corns
and bunions. The
anost wonderful com
fort discovery of tue
age. Try it today
85o
at any druggist
CACTUS Corn Cal
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certain cure for corns,
bunions and callouses
at any druggist,
for tM.
t vnnr drusrrlst
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EX-MAYOR SHOOTS BURGLAR
Former Official of Terre Haste, Ind.,
Kills Negro Who Was Prylna; Open
Window of His Hoaae.
TBRRH HAUTE. Ind.. May l-Ex-Mayor-,
Edwin J. Bldaman late tonight shot and
killed a negro who. It is alleged, waa at
tempting to gain an entrance Into Blda
man'a home at Sixth street and Maple ave
nue for the purpose of robbery. . Mr. Bld
aman waa aroused by a noise and upon In
vestigation found one of the windows being
pried open by some unknown person, where.
upon he dre-ar a revolver and killed the In
truder. The dead man has not been Identified.
EPOCH IN IRRIGATION WORK
Government Provides Agent to Di
Tect Best Land for Pros
pective Purchasers.
A representative of the government will
meet your party at Powell, Wyo , and give
them all the Information possible concern
ing the government Irrigation work.
This message received by D., Clem
Deaver, head of the Burlington Iandseekers'
Information bureau, from H. M. Savage,
supervising engineer of the government
'work, marks a new era In the Irrigation
work In the west. 'Heretofore the govern
ment men have maintained a degree of
secrecy concerning the work, and for over
a year Mr. Deaver has been working with
the government to get it to assign a man to
show prospective buyers over the field.
Canada has been able to advertise that
government agents would show the land
and ell the truth concerning It. Now the
state of Wyoming can advertise the same
thing.
Mr. Deaver left Tuesday for the Big Horn
Basin country with a party of forty-flvs
prospective settlers who go to look over
the newly Irrigated sections.
"O'Neill haa a new Industry which is
keeping quit, a number of men busy," said
Mr. Deaver, who returned Monday from
O'Neill. "Daniel Burr, who formerly lived
In Omaha, Is now located at O'Neill and
has a cement block factory which has more
business than It can do. Located on the
railroad near a gravel pit. Mr. Burr Is
making cement blocks for all aorta of pur
poses and they are being used In that sec
tion of the country In place of lumber, be
ing cheaper. He haa ordera ahead suffi
cient to keep his plant going for seven
months."
The homeseekera train for the southwest
on the Rock Island left Omaha la tae sec
tions Tuesdsy. i . .
SHARK BALKS AT COURT DOOR
Money Loaner Pursues Victim from
California, but Eschews Trial.
STOPS WEEN FIGHT IS SHOWN
Falling; to Get His Man He Tackles
His Employer, Who Welcomes
Test and Finish Comes
Abraptly.
Following his victim half way across the
continent with an alleged assignment of
wages, F. A. Newton, chattel loan
man of Oakland, Cal., has se
cured a default Judgment In district
court against John R. Holley, formerly an
engineer for the Bemis-Omaha Bag com
pany, and Holly, In an attempt ' to get
away from the exactions of the money
loaner, has left Omaha. The Judgment
gainst him was secured without any de
fense on his part. The Bemis-Omaha Bag
company was originally a party to the suit,
but as it showed fight the esse againat It
was dropped and Judgment taken against
Holly.
Holly until recently worked on a through
dining car between here and San Francisco.
Becoming hard pressed for cash, he bor
rowed, according to his story, $13 from
Newton, signing a number of blank salary
assignments as security. He says he sfter-
Ward paid back $4. Then he came to Omaha
and went to work for the Bemis-Omaha
Bag company. Not long ago the company
received a salary assignment which had
been signed by Holly In blank, the name
of tbe firm having been filled In later. Ac
companying It was a letter demanding $48.
No attention was paid to the salary assign
ment, and, through T. W. Blackburn, his
attorney, Newton began suit In Justice
Cockrell's court. Judgment was rendered
In favor of Newton there and the case
was carried to the district court, where
it was dismissed as to the Bemis com.
pany.
In the meantime. Holly' had thrown npT
his Job and left the city. He was not pres
ent In court to defend against the action
and Judgment was rendered by default.
The Bemis company threatened to make It
a teat case and thla was tha reaaon the
case sgainst It was dropped.
Mr. Blackburn says he dropped the case
against the Bemls company because he
did not cere to make a test case out of
It for a client who has no business Inter
ests here. He disputes Holly's claim as to
the amount involved and says Holly
originally borrowed S24. He also says Cali
fornia has no usury law and the account '
was a valid one there.
Kidney complaint kmc nwre people than
any other dlaease. This Is due to the dis
ease being so Insidious that It gets a good
hold on the system before It is recognized.
Foley's Kidney Cure will prevent the de
velopment of fatal dlaease If taken In time.
All druggists. '
TheHigh Instep
Tf your instep Is high, see well to
your shoes here's a point often
overlooked. Insteps vary, like all
other parts high insteps hurt un
less fitted with care. But there is no
need to suffer with a foot like
this there are Crosse tt
models cut on lines which
accommodate insteps un
commonly high.
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