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THK OMAHA DAILY BKE: THUUSDAY OCTObER 22. 1f(, TRIBUTE TO DEAD JUDCES lows Superior Court Make That the Pint Buiine-i of Session. IOWA KAN BOOMED FOE SPEAKER Bask Examiner Says Carroll Hank, HgM Prnll'lt Commuted Sol-s-IAo, Is Nltut and all Claims Will Be Paid la Kail. (From a Stiff Correspondent.) DK8 MOINE. Oct. 2L-(ftree.laJ.)-Tr.e Iowa supreme court wiuitm Us sittings today for tbo dptmbr term and at tha opening gava over , two houra to a memor ial aarvlca for thraa distinguished Judges. Resolutions wara spread wpon tha court records eoramamorativa of tha life and services of Joslah Olven. Gojusha Parsons and Charles A. Bishop. Glvt wn a dis tinguished aoldlar of the Mexican and civil wara and was chief Justice of Iowa five tims. Parsons was long a leader of the bar, btit went to Portland. Ore., a number of years ago. and died were recently. Bishop recently died suddenly . while at tending a stata bar meeting. He was one of, tha youngest of tha auprame Judges. Addressee wara made to tha court by C. C. Cola. Crora Bowan. Charles Powell. Carroll Wright and others. Tha court listened to arguments In favor of a reheartng in tha ease of Mrs. Cain, whese husband commit teed suicide after killing a prominent eltlsen. She was left with six small children and a controversy arose over her property and Ita Illegal use for sale of liquors and as a result she was left destitute. The court refuaed to reverse the court In Bcott county In tha cae Involving a Judg ment of I20.CO0 for damages to Baggageman O'Conner, who was Injured In a Rock Island accident. The Judgment was com phiincd of as excessive. The court reversed a wife desertion rase on the ground that the lower court had stated too strongly the duty of the hus band to support hla wife and family In a 'Uioine suit able to their condition In life." Court derisions today: ' Laura Miles, appellant. against Otto Renerik; Woodbury county; affirmed. James Wlirams. nijpe'lant. against Chicago, Mll waukoe f-- St. Paul railway : Keokuk ennntv; affrmed. K. M. Parker against city nt flrd'ord. appellant; Taylor county; affirmed. T. .1. O'Conner against Chicago. Hock Island ft. Pacific rallwav, appellant; Bcott co"n(v: affirmed. State against John F:. Pto t. appellant; Cedar county: reversed. , T. W. McCray. appellant, agalnat Lake City Klertrle Light company; Cal houn county; affirmed. Iowa Man for Speaker. Sentiment among the republican candi dates for congress appears to be gathering for th selection of an Iowa -man for speaker of the next cor.erress. Two of the candidates have pronounced themselves as positively In favor of Judge Walter I. Smith of Council Bluffs for speaker to succeed Cannon. The first suggestion wns from Congressman Dawson, though the Idea was not new with him. Immediately Frank P. Woods. candidate In the Tenth district, formerly chairman of the republican state gommlttee, declared himself In favor of Smith as a candidate for speaker. It Is txpected Hull, Good. Hubbard and other Itrong men of the Iowa delegation will also lo the same. Hard Blow at Backet Shopper. In the district court today a fine of C30 sas laid against O. M. Olsen upon his plea f guilty under Indictment for running a upket shop In Des Moines. Judge McHenry tlso warned him to leave the Mate, and t Is understood he Is under agreement to rave at once. Olsen Insists he Is bctng lersecutert by the regular exohanges or lersons In their sorvlce. Carroll Bask la All night. Examiner Show took charge of the First Catlrnal bank of Carroll this morning and I hasty examination of the books showed hat the bank is entirely advent and there trill be no losses. Of the $1jO,000 capital lock all but 11,000 was owned by Culhert n, Macomber and Coburn. The autcldr f President Culbertaon was not In fact a, urprlso to the people of Carroll, as It was inown he had lost heavily and most of hla brmer wealth waa gone and that he was lesponCert. He had been closely watched or a long time. He lost heavily In western ends. Baptist In Convention. IOWA FALLS. Ia.. Oct a.-(8peclal.)-'he annual Iowa State Bapttat convention pened at tha First Baptlat church In Dts city last evening, with a big attend rice of dlegates from all part of the tats. The first evening was devoted' to b pernor's conference and after a song ervlce and tha appointment of commit ees, the principal address of the even ng was mado by Dr. Scares, professor of omiletlc In tha divinity achool at the Tnlveraity of Chicago. The convention roper opened with the forenoon session oday and the program for the day in luded addresses by several prominent embers of the denomination In the orthwest, including "Some Neglected teglected Points in Ministerial Traln ng" by H. C. Howlands, D. D. ; "Prob ims of tha Psstorlass Church and the The General Demand ( the Well-Informed of tho World hi Iways been (or a simple, pleasant and fficient liquid laxative remedy of known hi tie; a laxative which physicians could auction for family use because its com ouent parts are known to them to b rholesome and truly beneficial in effect, cceptable to the system and gentle, yet ronipt, in action. In supplying that demand with ita ex client combination of Syrup of figs and tlixir of Senna, tho California Fig Syrup b. proceeds along ethical lines and relies n the merits of the laxative for its remark ble success. That ia oue of many reasons why yrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is given a preference by the Well-informed, b get ita beneficial effects always buy ia genuine manufactured by the Call irnia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for salt y all leading; dmggif Price (ifty cents. Br bcttle 2TO. NIGHT Ys, GflOR'PHIKE s-4 rtfcer drag kNa are positively oared by UaiTIMA. tor krr)eraile or Insarnal mil leatpis sent ear Jn katiHa by sail. Res-slar rt t Sv per bottle a SCO Mr drags' or by saall la Blaia wrapper. Mall Orders Filled Uf JUYUt.N BKOS., OMAHA, NEC a Churchlesa Pastor" by Bev. Howland Hansen; "The Minister aa an Executive" by Rev. J. W. Peacock; "The Minister and Hla Recreations" by Rev. H. P. Chaffee; "The Minister and Hla Reading" by Rev. Walter Fowler; "The Minister and Church Benevolence" by Rev. K T. Oor man. Rev. Dr. Mullln of Louisville, Km., addresses the convention this evening, his subject being "Tha Authority of Christ." child nr.sriED from a cistern Mother and Sevea-Vear-Old Girl the Reseaers. BOO NX. I a-, Oct. XI. (Special Telegram.) The ll-monthe-old daughter of Mrs. Wal lace Toaer fell Into a cistern containing five feet of water. The mother leaped In. groped about the bottom, found the daughter and pitched her out of the open ing. Helen Roche, 7 years old, seeing the accident, rushed to the cistern, took Mrs. Toser's hand and held her up while she screamed for help. Two women nearby rushed to the cistern and pulled the un fortunate woman out. Much praise ' Is being heard for the 7-year-old miss for her presence of mind. The attention of the Carnegie Hero commission will be brought to the case. BOONE MAN MAKES A ' MISTAKE Deaoneea Roosevelt and Ia Hlaeed Oat f Hall. BOOJTE, Lv. Oct. (Special Telegram.) When Attorney General Byers - of Iowa was being Introduced at a big republican rally . this evening the . chairman of the evening. Colonel H. Canfleld, mentioned something about tha grand and good achievements of President Roosevelt a man In tha hall arose and shouted so : every person present could hear that Roosevelt was a "damned fool." H was hissed out of the armory. The next mention of Roose velt's name was greeted with vociferous cheering. Wilson nnd Hepbarn nt Creeton. CRIESTON, . Isl, Oct. .-(Speclal.)-A large and enthusiastic audience greeted Sec retary Wilson and Congressman Hepburn at Temple Grand last night, where each spoke for over an hour on the vital Issues of the campaign. Secretary Wilson Urged the undivided support of the entire repub lican ticket. He spoke along lines of na tional Importance and In closing paid a glowing tribute to Congressman Hepburn, urging his return to congress from tho Eighth district. The Lincoln club, a fea ture of the evening, numbered several hun dred of the gray-haired men who stood by Lincoln with their votes during the stormy period of his administration. Colonel Hep burn was at his best last night and gave a strong talk that was well received by his constituents. lews fTews otes. LOOAN The first one here to receive notice of the result of registration In the Rosebud land contest is Frank D. Stearns. He will Investigate hla newly acquired tract of land. LOOAN Harrison county waa vlatted by a furious windstorm yesterday and seven tenths of an inch of rain fell last night. A mall amount of damage to fruit arxl forest trees is reported. IOWA CITY-Mrs. Volutla Price, a lady well known and much esteemed In Iowa City, passed away- at her home here Sun day after an Illness of over a year and a half. She waa 78 years of age, having come to Iowa City In 1862. FAIRFIELD Declaring that the - sock rush Is naughty the faculty of Parsons col lege has forbidden the traditional form of scrap between the freshmen and sopho mores this year. A revised form of con flict Is being Invented by the "profs" which win not contain trie removal of hosiery. MARSH ALLTOWN Captain I. L. Smith, a prominent business man and politician of Nevada. Is,, waa killed by being struck by a street car In Kansaa City today, ac cording to a tslegram received In Nevsda this afternoon. Captain Smith and his wife were In Kansaa City visiting. No details of tho accident were given in the telegram. MARSH ALLTOWN A. O. Gllok. secre tary and treasurer of Brlttaln A Co., pork packers of this city, was elected a member of the executive committee of the American Meat Packers' association, which met In Chicago for its annual meeting last week. The association 1 composed of practically the meat packers snd allied businesses In the country. It has a membership of 700. IOWA CITY A mnla for stealing bl oycles has attacked the petty thieves In Iowa City and many of the students, mem bers of the faculty and townsmen have been victimized by the robbers. The fa vorite trick Is to sell the wheel to an Inno cent purchaser. Mark Catlln, coach of the university foot ball teams, found hla bi cycle In the hands of a third party who said he purchased the wheel from a horse buyer. MARSHALLTOWN Mrs. Sarah McCord, widow of Rev. J. S. McCord, an early Iowa minister of the Methodist church, and the mother of Rov. C. W. McCord. pastor of the Presbyterian church of this city, will become the wife of Dr. T. L. Haxard, a prominent physician cf Iowa City, at Iowa City, Tuesday. Mrs. McCord's home Is In Mt. Vernon. Dr. and Mrs. Haxard will live In Iowa City. IOWA CITY-Hardly able to swallow water for three months Mabel, the r-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Shonka of this city, suffered terribly from tetanus, but with a marvelous show of vitality and strength, the little child has won the race with lockjaw and la now con valescing rapidly. A splinter In the ball of her toe caused the blood poisoning. MARSH ALLTOWN With the arrival of the vanguard of the delegates preparations for the annual nieetlr.; of the grand lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Iowa, grand encamr ment and Rebekah asFemhly, which la to be held In this city thia work, were rapidly taking form to day. A number of the giand officers ol the Odd Fellows and state officers of the other branches arrived on the early trains. IOWA CITY Mrs. Samuel J. Klrkwood, widow of Iowa's war governor, has pre sented her laie husband's splendid library, embracing aeeral thousand volumes, to the Stats Historical society. Valuable corre spondence of Governor Klrkwood when President Uarfleld's secretary of the Inter ior la contained In the collection. A biog raphy of Klrkwood will soon ba started by the historical society. CRESTON-J. M. McPartland. for the last three or f ui years freight inspector tor the Iowa district and located at Burlington, died at hia nonw In that city Sunday night. He was a little past middle age, and It la believed hla Illness waa of short duration, as no word of his slckntts lied been srnl here, wnere lie was ao well known. For a number of yeora he held the position of saslsta.nl superintendent of the Burlington division of the Burlington railroad. CRKBTON A tag day la being arranged for the benefit of the rest room by the women of the Federated Clubs uf this cliv. At the recent annual business session of the Federation Saturday the affairs of tha rest room were found to be In a flourish ing condition and a good financial allowing waa made. The club members are much encouraged over their first year's venture In this illn-ctlon. Mrs. Phoebe lielaney was selected as matron for the coming vear to aucceed Mis. BtanchtieM, who resigned. MARSHALLTOWN Fires resulting from sparks from engines alighting In dry pas tures, corn snd clover ftelua have done more damage In central Iowa this fall than In many yars. Owing to the lack of rain corn fields, which were very weedy. hav become exceedingly dry. aa have also the ktubhle and t lover fieida. Twenty aires of corn on the Charles Carr farm near earing were burned over and the crop waa totally destroyed. On the Frank lxr farm west of this i-lty a clover field was tgnltid and twenty-three acres burned over. Much of the time of section crews is spent In fighting fires. WOMEN TO MEET IN SEATTLE Neat Contention of Saffraae Astoria, tlon to Bo Held In tits- Un Paset Soand. BUFFALO. Oct. Jl The fortieth annual convention of the American Woman Suf frage association closes tomorrow. With ono exception all of last year's officer were re-elected. An Invitation to hold next year's convention In Seattle was extended by Mrs. Emma Bmlth DeVoe, state prrsi dent of the Washtrtgtou 8uffrage associa tion, snd the Invitation was accept.'!. Our Letter Box Contributions on tlmelv topics Invited. Write legibly on one side of the paper only, with name and address appmurd. Unused contributions will not be re turned, letters exceeding 300 words will be subject to being cut down at the discretion of the editor. Publication of views of correspondents does not com ' mlt The Re to their endorsement. Bryan and free Trade. OMAHA. Oct. 51-To the Editor of The Bee: Chairman Mack says It is a crime for anyone to state they will shut down their factories In the event of Bryan's election. Mr. Mack should have said It would be a crime for anyone to vote for Mr. Bryan, with his ideas on free trade and the repeal of our protective tariff laws, as the repeal of these laws would close the mills and factories, throw the people out of employment with hunger staring them In the face. If Mr. Bryan should be elected, with a democratic con gress, the tariff laws would be repealed and the crime of 1893 would be repeated. A party la known by Its acts, and not by Its promises, and free trade destroy op portunity for labor by closing the mills and factories. Millions of men, women and children In India, China, Japan, Africa and other foreign countries earn from 10 to S6 cents per day In our money and exist. These people are poorly fed and clothed,' and are the people that rule labor under free trade. -Mr. Bryan Is now preaching free trade; that he Is In favor of placing on the free list lumber, logs and pulp and all articles controlled by a trust, which would Include also, sugar. Iron, tobacco, salt, cotton, harvesters, plows and thousands of other articles. Any Inventive Individual can be come a trust, as Mr. Bryan says anybody or anything that controls 40 per cent of any article is a trust, so we have thousands of Individuals that are a trust In them selves In controlling patents and devices. These are stronger than corporations, so far as trusts are concerned. A man will protect himself from being robbed or murdered, and why should he not protect himself from starvation? He knows free trade is starvation, and worse, It Is a crime, and as Mr. Bryan Is In favor of free trade, It Is certainly a crime for anyone to vote for him. Live and let live should be the motto of every voter willing that all should be permitted to labor when In health. I believe a majority of our people are sane and sound. They believe In having plenty and being happy and contented, and knowing this, I do not believe they will vote for Mr. Bryan and his false theories. H. N. JEWETT. Let Bryan Have Hla War. OMAHA. Oct. 20. To the Editor of The Bee: Mr. Bryan said In his speech Satur day night that "If elected together with a democratlo house the senate will not dare refuse to pass measures recommended by him and passed by the house." For the benefit of those democrats who advocate th election of Bryan merely because he can do nothing as long as there Is a re publican senate I would say that the lead ers of the senate should make It known at once that If Bryan and a democratic house are elected the senate will give them what they want In the way of free trade. Bryan Is a free trader at heart and will give It to us If he has an opportunity, and free sliver with It. If he Is placed In th position that Cleveland was In reference to the gold re serve there Is no question but what Bryan would pay our obligations In silver rather than in gold where he could legally do so. Tours truly. W. Travel! Men nnd Bryan. COUNCIL BLCFF8. Ia.. Oct. 14.-To the Editor of The Bee: Among the continued reports from the . democratic camps that the majority of the commercial traveling salesmen are supporting the Peerless Leader, Is a report of which 75 per cent of the old veteran commercial salesmen are objecting to. A few of the old veterans are the same that drifted through thoee strenuous times of 1898 to 1897, when the merchant did not come to the train to give his order, and after you had spent a half day to sell a few Items, it was a question If you would get your money for the goods as easy as you had sold them. A few of the young bloods might b Influenced by theories and false premises, that are Impossible to fill, but the man that Is working for his own Inter est and the best interests of his house can readily see that such unsound methods will not assist either him or his house. Thay remember Mr. Bryan's error cf Judgment In 1896, when he stated that the only relief the people hsd was a dishonest dollar, and even goes so far now as to say that a change In the monetary system at that time wns a myth, or, In other words, that If he had been elected, and If he would have passed the It to 1 bill. It would have ruined the country. Why did he not talk free trade In 1896? No, Mr. Bryan is too smart a man for this. He knew that If he had mentioned free trade In the face of the populace who were living on soup diet, caused by this identical free trade measure that he Is talking today, that his proteges would have taken him out and mobbed him. Time has softened the minds of his standard bearers In twelve years, and after trying to he come president on every Issue that he could think of. he has fully decided that frca trade Is the panacea to cure all human ills He Is not sure of this measure to do the business, so he states in that great speech of his, the cream de lux speech of the cam paign delivered at Des Moines, when he stated that as we elected our congress every two years and our president every four, and that if It didn't work, we only had to bear It four years at the most. Bui, thanks to Mr. Bryan, soup Is all right for one meal, but would get monotonous 1,460 days successive. Mr. Brysn Is also an advocate of low prices and smaller profits on all ccmmodl ties (barring lectures and subscriptions on political magasines) so he states In this same speech. Here are his exact words: "A reduction of the tertff will reduce the extortion that la now practiced becauso of the high schedules. A reduction In price will enable more people to buy, and this larger demand for the gcoda will put more people to work and Increase the number of induatrlea, a lower price will greatly stimulate exportation and manufacturers who are crippled by a tariff upon what they use will be better prepared to enter the contest for supremacy in the world's trsde." Here he contends that prices on all com modities are too high; that If tlK-y were sold for less money more people would be able to buy. This Is the same contention that Cleveland made and put in force In lf2. But were the people able to buy? Prices were never less and there was never a time when more people went hungry In the history of this country. But this Is not the Impression Mr. Bryan would like to have you take of this. He would like to leave the Impression with the fsrmcr h should get tl a bushel for his wheat, and at the same time have the shop laborer think he should only pay W cents a sack for his flour; that milling trusts are thieves. If you will stop and sum up all his theories to a fine point, you will find about the same Judgment In all cf them. It Is a naid matter to convince a com mercial sales max. that hi h-Us or factor)', a It may be. Is robbing the public, or hla prices are out of pi-orwrtlon to the value of other commodities. He might admit that business Is better, profits nre better, and his firm Is In a better condition than ever be fore, but thet does not Infer they are a set of robbers. They are turning their Invest ment ten times to where they turmd It onre twelve year ago. Mr. Brysn attacks the Steel trust, claim ing they mske ino per cent profit on their Investment. One per cent on their gross sales would not look big. but supposing they turned their stock 100 times a year is not supposing to much. The larger force they work the mere work they can turn out. hut there has to be a demnad for their product or their percentage of profit will be curtailed. As far as extortion In prices Is concerned. In my estimation there la not a firm In the United States that sells their product as reasonable as th 8teel trust, and when this mighty firm closes Its shop doors thousands of work men will go begging In the streets. When It comes down to a matter of prices, there Is not a salesman on the road that wants to see a decline In prices. They are In keeping with the evolution of the times, and no one Is complalng cf them except a few pessimists that can't see the doughnut for the hole. J. E. SCHLOTT. Voters Are Thinking. OMAHA. Oct. 20.-To the Editor of The Bee: In the "tall end" of every presiden tial campaign we read of democratic pre dictions as to the probable result. ' It seems that the democratic national committee se lected Chairman Mack to outdo all previous chairmen In the matter of predictions. He Is certainly earning his salary. He Issued a statement yesterday which was published In a local paper, which Is about as absurd and ridiculous as anything I have yet read com ing from a democratic source. No doubt others will follow. Chatrman Mack knows now If not he will know early In November that Mr. Bryan has no show whatever of being elected president. "Bluff talk" doesn't in fluence thinking men, men who understand, men who know, men who keep In touch with the affairs of the nation. The day has long since passed when voters can be Influenced by "blow and bluster." This Is an era of reading,' thinking and ' acting. Never before has it been so manifest as now., Just watch the voter when he goes to the polls. His mind will be made up as to Just what he Intends to do. He will need no advice. He will accept none. Ticket ped dlers will be out of a Job and a quiet, peace ful election will result. Watch the expression on each man's face as he goes Into the voting booth. You can almost count the votes, and you will find that Douglas county and the state of Ne braska will give Mr. Taft a good safe ma jority beyond a question of doubt. W. B. TAYLOR. VALENTINE. Neo.. Oct. 20. To the Edl tor of The Bee: Both republican and demo cratlo county committees have posted liberally lithographs of their favorite candidates for the presidency. The re-, publicans happened to have one each of Taft and Sherman In the district court room of the court house, the democrats omitting to. 'When the democratic rally, with Mr. Shallenberger and Judge West over aa orators, gathered. Judge Weatover delivered a lecture to the republicans re sponsible for posting political pictures In the court room and ordered the sheriff to Immediately remove the lithographs, which order was obeyed, he being the pre siding Judge. With Taft and Sherman, no longer per mitted to look down upon the deliberations, by order of the court, equanimity was restored and ' oratory turned loose. Tha question then arises: What possible objection can there be to hanging th pictures of the candidates of one party In a public court room, par ticularly when the objecting party occu pies It at will for no other than political purposes. , Also, can. the pictures of the candidate of any party for the high of fices of president and vice president ba out of keeping in any public building, especially where owned by the public and for public use? If Judge Westovsr Is to succeed Judge Klnkald In congress he must receive close to 2,000 republican votes; and should there be any republican who for any reason is considering changing to Judge Westover, he Is most respectfully requested to first decide for himself whether or not any wrong was committed In hanging those pictures that should call down the wrath of the court and an order of removal. If so, what business had the Judge holding his meetings there? C. H. CORNELL. GRANDSTAND JSJLOWN DOWN Twenty-three Foot Ball Player front High School at Savannah, Mo., Injured. SAVANNAH. Mo, Oct. 2L-One foot fall player severely Injured and twenty-two others hurt, some of them seriously, is the result of an accident here at 5 p. m when the grandstand at the ball park, In which the players had taken shelter, was blown down during a tornado. All of the boys are high school students and were at foot ball practice. Rain started and they took seats high In the granstand, which blew down a few min utes later. All were precipitated to the ground, the heavy timbers falling on them. Walter Warner suffered concussion of the brain and was Internally hurt. Ho faled to regain consciousness during the night. There Is little hope for his recov ery. All of the others suffered Injuries about the body and severe sprains, the most seriously hurt being Cleve Chronlster. George Gore, John McDonald and Virgil Kline. RUMOR OF FIGHT IN BALKANS Seventy Bnlaarlana and Ten larks Reported Killed In Conflict On Frontier LONDON, Oct. 21.-A dispatch to a news egency from Athens reports an engage ment between Turkish and Bulgarian troops at DJumla on the frontier. Accord-li.- to this report seventy Bulgarians and ten Turks were killed. There is no con firmation of this from any source. A dispatch to the Times from Belgrsde says that the (Servian government upon Austria's Insistent demand has apologised and paid an Indemnity for an attack made on trorps there Ix-loncirg to Austrlans. The premier also hss personally apologised to the Herman minister, says the dispatch, for the arrest of the German military attache as a spy. UNION PACIFIC ELECT OFFICERS Board of Directors Meet and All Officers Are Chosen for Another Term. NEW YORK. Oct. a.-Dlrectors of the Union Pacific railroad and of the Oregon Short Line today re-elected their officers. Including E. H. Harrtman as president of Karns Gees to Warthy Maa. PONCAf Neb., Oct. 1 (Special j Peter Swift of Ponea who drew the second piece In the recent Tilpp County land drawing Is a young man of 21 years and a farmer. He has no property and Is considered by everybody a worthy young man and well deserves the second choice and wtll make good his opportunity. The opinion ex pressed, Is that these lands should ail go I to such deserving men. . N mk VU Only ) soon ssos. cMitseo. luf -t.t-'i soo4 TO SAN FRANCISCO, Special through Tourist AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA Local Candidate! Addresi a Meeting of the Bohemian voien. TWO SPEECHES IN OWN TONGUE RtT, William E. Nichols of BelleTue Critically III at Soath Omaha Hos pital' One of Series of Afflic tions on the Family. The local candidates mail their bow to the Bohemians of South Omaha last night at Bartons hall. Joe Koutuky. O. H. Brewer, Thomas Holllster and other local candidates spoke. Tielr efforts were crowned by two speeches delivered In the Bohemian tongue, which pleased the audi ence greatly. One of these wss by local talent and the other was by O. L. Kolar of Chicago. Mr. Kolar discussed the Issues of the campaign from a Bohemian labor er's standpoint and emphasised the attl t,,H. of Mr. Taft and the republican party as the best hope of labor, because both always Intended fair tratment tempered with reason and Judgment. lie praisea Mr Taft for not allowing great popular pressure to lesd him from the Justice of tha cases he dealt with, ror in standing for the absolute right In the case he had shown not only that labor had Its limits, but Its rights as well, snd he had made th. rnurii effective In handling the cor porations In numerous esses, as well as having decided against some anempia o iihnr which have since been found too un just and too radical. "The laboring mm want to stsnd before the people prouaiy nA rlilm with iusttce behind them that they mean to be right to all men and they are glad to have Mr. Taft s word oenina them to the effect that It Is right to or ganise unions, to stand up for them and secure their rights even to the necessity oi striking for them, and using all Influence to gain their end short of violence." Buch was the assurance of Mr. Kolar to numer ous plessed working men Ust night. It Is planned by the Taft club of South Omaha to make the meeting Thursdsy evening the big one of the week. O. C. Peterson of Chicago, who wss to have spoken Mondsy evening but was deterred on account of the rain, will be one of the speakers. W. T. Thompson, tht republican candidate for attorney general, wllk also be present and make a speech. EJward B efore ever has an American magazine reached the distinction of a Seven Hundredth Number Are we celebrating? Ask your dealer for the big jubilee number you'll get the best woman's magazine ever published the November WOMAN'S HOME COMAgION LOS ANGELES AND SAN DIEGO, THROUGH DENVER AND SCENIC COLORADO. Sleepers start from Omaha. Reserve berths ahead of the final rush. J. D. REYNOLDS, City Pass. Agent, 1502 Famam Street, Omaha. Ieeder of Omaha and other local candi dates will be un the platform. It should be the duty of the voters to get ac quainted and this opportunity is urged by Chairman P. J. Tralnor. The meetings In South Omaha have shown up well so far. The meeting of the central committee at the republican headquarters tonight is one of much Importance, as squads for election day will be discussed and ar ranged for. It will also have the duty of looking after the last day of registration to see that all voters get on the books. IteV. W. El. Nichols Critically HI. Itev. William K. Nichols of Bellevue.has become a patient of the South Omaha hospital, where he was operated on by lr. Bets of Bllevue for appendicitis yes terday afternoon. The operation Is said to have been a delicate oi. Mr. NichoU had been sick only a few hours, hut the disease Is said to have become far ad vanced, so much so tl at he will have to battle for his life. The operation was said to have been successful. If no Infection results all may be well. He Is a son of the late Itev. H. 8. Nichols of Kcllevue. Thu family has been exceedingly unfor Noses Like These Made Straight L t9 "Mark the nose which la most like and mall or bring It to us. We will giadly advise you how your noss can M cor rected, as shown by the dotted lines." Our stmole methods for the correction of lmnerf,-t r,,r- -V- k. r .,it of study and practical experience. It Is not; It Is very cheap. If you have pimples, blsckheads, blotchy skin, red nose, fslllna hslr, dand ruff freckles, cesrse pore-, warts and moles ar fsclal blsmtshes of any kind, writs or csll todsy for full Information about Our sclsntlne ir..tm.. Con.uit.. lion csnnoeniiii ana wiinoui cnarge. Consultation Is Free Bather Personally or by Letter." H So S. 1th St.. Douataa. Karbsch Block, Office ia Boor. Biute lis. Dtui. a a. OMAHA, NEB. auadays, 10 At All News-stands, tunate. The younger brother. Just at the point of graduation last spring, one of th athletes of the school and a splendid scholar, waa taken 111 In almost precisely the rame way and after three days' Illness died at tho South Omaha hospital. Thf family In Bellevue always maintained s, most estimable position In the community. Relief Corps Eilesai Thanks. Phil Kearney post and the Woman's Re lief corps have been raising a fund for the benevoknees of tho Orand Army of the Republic and one of the functions was hel? last week at Workmen tainple. TtM wcmti were so well pleased with tha results thai they adopted the following resolution st their regular meeting last Saturday night: Resolved. That the sincere thanks of the Women's Relief corps be extended ts ttr. 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