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THEN 91.00 A WEEK
Freo Otool, Free Scarf and Free Delivery
Are th Inducement wa ar offering until May lit to piano buyers of Omaha and clnlty. Not wnt
risked navtll th pUno fa tried. We are overstocked and to more without delay fourteen carloads of pianos
have decided to offer a '
00
Cabinet Grand Upright Piano, Regular
Value $350.00, at the Unheard of Price
Terms to ault yonr convenience. Thla piano Is admitted by Omahi
most musician to be the greatest piano value on earth. Call or write for freo
catalogues and further particulars. We also Include our entire stock of Bteger, Hardman, Mlin, Emer9on,
fhaae, McPhasl, and the well known hand-made R hmollrr A MoeUtr PHano, sold from factory-to-home,
eliminating the agenta and small dealers' profits in this free trial offer.
SCULLER & MUELLER PI10 CO.
The oMest and largest piano house in the west. Established 1S. Operating 6 stores and a factory.
Pianos rented $3.00 a month. Expert moving Tuning Repairing.
Steinway and Weber Representatives
1311-1313 Farnam Street. Phones Doug. 1625; Ind. A-1625.
COAL MEN RESIST ADVANCE
wholesaler Will Protest Increase of
Bates by Railroads.
TO APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION
Object to Dlatnrhlna; the Rale from
St. I.onls that Hu Been la Kt
feet far Mnetfft
1 ear..
Police Think They
Have Clever Set
of Impostors
tlon secured will be gone over thoroughly."
The railway communion has Just bought
a 3.000-pound motor cycle to be run on
railroad tracka, and. aavMr. Cowgllt la
the heftiest man on the commission. It
will be hla Job to lift It from the rails
when a train comes in sight from the oppo
site direction.
11k;- Have Them to Get, but Are
Xreping a Sharp Lookout
for Them.
. 1 1 m i- looking baby- buggy, a sickly
munt. a forlorn appearing girl of 14 and
in apparently care-worn woman of 40. may
ie the elements of a decidedly "touching"
harlty play that has perhaps been pro
luced time and again.
An employe of one of the express com
panies, whose name the police did not
earn, telephoned the police station that
Wednesday lie contributed Jl toward help
Vig buy medicine for the sick baby and
railroad fare for the family to meet their
husband and father at Denver. Thursday
ie learned that the supposedly destitute
another and two children had a husband
ind father in Omaha, and that the quartet
rnjoyed a handsomely appointed and ex
pensive dinner at one of the city's best
cafes.
With the telephone message to Police
Captain Mostyn, came a mind telegram to
him that recalled the fact that he had
passed on the street Just such a mother,
baby buggy and two children as the ex
press employe had described, and that with
thrnt a sleek, well groomed man had been
However, they wore not hungry, sick or
forlorn looking, perhaps because no one
but Captain Mostyn, In plain clothes, was
around.
"We haven't been up thla street yet,"
Captain Mostyn says he overheard the
man remark to the woman. Thinking no
more about the matter at that time, he
last saw them going south on Fifteenth
street from Dodge.
On the grounds that the people about
whom the report was made, may be pro
fessional beggars and charity swindlers,
or, at least, common street begging va
grants, Captain Mostyn has directed that
Jhe matter be looked into and that the
quartet be held by any patrolman who
sees them, until It can be determined
whethers or not the story is genuine.
RALWAY COMMISSION LOOKS'
FOR MANY AT RATE HEARING
t on all! "ays It Expects Lnrsre in
fer r ot Skippers oa Classifi
cation Matter.
"The date Railway commission expects
a large number of shippers at the hearing
on the application of the western traffio
bureau to Install the latest rate classifica
tion In' Nebraska," said W. H. Cow gill,
member of the railway commission, while
In Omaha Friday.
"The eomnilnsion has sent out notices to
a large number of persons who shauld be
Interested in the rates and before taking
action on the request all the inform.
Refuses to File
in Tripp County
J. C. Holt Says Good Land is Taken,
but Frank Planck Will
Pile.
Roses do not bloom In the Ttosebud
country, according to J. C. Holt, and he
returned from Tripp county, 8. D., without
filing on a piece of land whrfh the number
he secured In the recent land drawing en
titled him to.
Mr. Holt had a number In the 1,800 class
and there are 1,700 supposedly good claims,
but he says the Indiana got most of the
good land first, then town sltea were taken
Dut, and what good land that was left was
set aside for the state's school fund.
Nothing waa left but sand hills and he did
not care to sacrifice his right to file on
government land by taking one of those
claims.
Frank Planck, bookkeeper In the office
of the city comptroller, accompanied Mr.
Holt to the Rosebud country, having a
number 200 higher. Mr. Holt was to have
filed Friday at 2:46 and Mr. Planck's time
to file la at 8:10 Saturday afternoon. When
Mr. Holt left, Mr. Planck declared he
would fllo on a homestead and live In
peace and plenty ever after. Mr. Planck in
tends to lose no time In improving his
property and took with him from Omaha
large bundles of elder berry and red baw
bushes. His companion brought back the
report that 'Mr. Planck attracted consid
erable attention on the streets of Dallas
with his bundles of bushes ever with him.
but the latter did not seem to mind the
"guying" he received.
parties, several of the plats containing an
acre or more of ground each. Borne of
these larger plats probably will be sub
divided. Cnough applications are no en
file to use all the ground listed to date and
the secretary of the charitable organiza
tion, hopes that the use of irany more
vacant lots can be had. Garden tools are
also needed.
A Remarkable Lace Curtain Deal.
Miller, Stewart & Beaton have purchased
the entire surplus stock of one of the larg
est eastern importers of lace curtains at
a great sacrifice. The entire stock will go
on sale Monday, April 3.
ENOUGH OF VACANT LOTS
Also Safflclent Amount of Seed It e
celvrd by the Associated
Charities.
Several vacant lota and all the seed hat
can he used already have been donated to
the Associated Charities for the use of poor
people in making gardens this year. The
donor of the, seeds did not wish his name
mado public, but Miss Jontz, secretary, has
been advised that all calls for seed will be
filled In any amount. Vacant lots nave
been turned over to the organization by
three real estate companies and two prlvai
WHERE TO REGISTER
SATURDAY
Polls open from 8 a. m. to 9 p. in.
First Ward.
1st Dlst. 1203 South Sixth f!
2f DlKt.-snt Pacific St.
3d Dlst. 1703 South Tenth Hi.
4th Dist. 19 Bancroft St.
Second Ward.
1st Dlst. 2365 South Twenty-ninth St.
2il Dlst. 2023 Vinton St.
Sri Dist. 1523 Vinton St.
4th Dlst.-1704 Vinton St.
5th Dlst. 2:W South Sixteenth St.
Third Ward.
1st Dlst. 1519 Webster St.
2d Diet. 318 South Tenth St.
3d Dlst. 313 North Fifteenth St.
4th Dist. 410 Houth Thirteenth St.
5th Dlst. 508 South Thirteenth St.
Fovrth Ward.
1st Dlst. lrtll Davenport St.
2st Dlst.-422 South Eighteenth St.
3d Dist. 718 South Sixteenth St.
4th Dist.-31 South Twentieth St.
5th Dlst. 2301 Davenport St.
Fifth Ward.
1st Dlst. 3004 Sherman Ave.
2d Dlst. 2fCir Sherman Ave.
8d Dist. 2iS01 Sherman Ave. (barn).
'4lh Dlst. 1846 Sherman Ave.
5th Dlst. 1138 North Sixteenth St.
Sixth Ward.
1st Dlst. 2419 North Twenty-fourth St.
2d Dist. 1716 North Twenty-fourth St.
3d Dlst. 2004 North Twenty-eighth St.
4th Dlst.-iil22 Military Ave.
Seventh Ward.
1st Dist. 2719 Leavenworth St.
2d Dlst. 1525 Georgia Ave. (barn,
rear.
3d Dlst. 1338 Park Ave.
,4th Dist. 2106 South Thirty-third St.
(barn, rear).
Kiahth Ward.
1st Dist. 1.104 North Twenty-fourth St.
2d Dlst. 1909 Cuming St. .
Sd Dlst. I Cass St.
4th Dist. 2415 Cuming St.
lnh Ward.
1st Dlst. 2579 Cuming SI.
2d IMst. 3227 Cuming St.
3d Dist. S(04 Davenport St. (barn, rear.)
4th Dist. 211 South Thirty-sixth St.
(harn, rear).
Fifth Dist.-2914 Farnam St.
Tenth Ward
1st DII.-1018 South Tenth St.
Jrt Dlst. 1521 Leavenworth St.
3d Dlst. 2121 Leavenworth St.
4th Dist. 14. South Sixteenth .fit.
5th Dist. 1448 South Thirteenth St.
Eleventh Ward.
1st Dlst. W8 Hamilton St.
2d Dlst. 392S Farnam St.
3d IMst. 3430 Leavenworth St.
4th Dlst. 705 South Twenty-seventh St.
Twelfth Ward.
1st Dlst. 4418 North Twenty-fourth St.
2d Dlst. 3P24 Ames Ave.
3d Dlst. 30l5yCorby St. (barn, rear).
4th Dist. 299 North Twenty-fourth St.
Wholesale coal dealers of Omaha will file
a protest before the Interstate Commerce
commission through the traffio bureau of
the Commercial club agatnst the advance
in coal rates from East St. Louis to Omaha,
amounting to 30 cents per ton over tlis
present rates.
The coal dealers say the contention of
the railroads that the advance to Omaha
amounts to only 3 cents per ton Is true
when compared to the rates in effect be
fore the fight of the roads east of St.
Louis over a year ago, but the proposed
advance Is exactly 20 cents per ton over the
presaut rates.
"EveSohla would not be so bad If It
were not for disturbing the rate from 8t.
Louis to Omaha a rate which has been
the maximum rate to Omaha slnca 1SV
said E. B. Carrlgan, wholesale coal dealer.
"The rat from southern Illinois fields
to East St. Louis was 67 cents from the
outer district and 43 pents from the Inner
district. The rate from St. Louis to Omaha
has been 11.80 for twenty years, except for
one or two years when It was $1.56. The
rate to Omaha is made up of ths rate on
the eastern roads plus the rate from St.
Louis to Omaha, which was 12.22 from the
Inner and $2.37 from the outer fields of
Illinois. When the eastern roads got into
a fight they reduced these rates from the
fields to St. Louis to 25 and 40 cents re
spectively, making the present rates to
Omaha from the fields $2.05 and $2.20.
Aon West ltoads Advance.
"Now the western roads, the Burlington,
Missouri Pacific and Illinois Central pro
pose to make an advance of 20 cents in tho
western rate from $1.80 to $2, which will
make the rates $2.26 and $2.60, -or just S
cents higher' than they were before the
eastern toads cut their rates, butMt means
a distinct and absolute advance of 20 cents
per ton on the western rate, the rate we
do not want disturbed.
"If this advance is permitted, we have
no assurance that the eastern roads will
not restore their old rates, which would
add 17 cents more per ton to the rats from
Illinois to Omaha."
The coal dealers say they object not only
because the roads want to advance an es
tablished tariff rate which has been in
effect twenty years, but because the ad
vance is made by the Missouri Pacific and
Burlington to Omaha and not to Kansas
City. The Missouri Pacific even gives Ne
braska City the $1.80 rate from St. Loula.
but hands Omaha the $2 rate. The dealers
say the $1.80 rate Is sufficiently high, as It
Is lite tariff rate and as everyone knows
has not always been collected. The protest
also because It is proposed to permit In
llana and Ohio coal to move to Omaha for
$1.80 per ton from St. Louis, but collect the
$2 on coal originating In Illinois. This, say
the coal dealers. Is a violation of a prin
cipal which the railroads have advanced in
the Missouri river and other cases, and
should not be tolerated by the Interstate
Commerce commission.
At tho "Now Kind of a Women's Suit store"
ON SALE
100 stunning Spring Style Suits, in two and three-piece models of panamas, serges, wor
steds, plain or fancy colorings, arrived too late for Easter business, are now on sale here
At 50 Less Xtian Standard Frlccs
To the woman who has not at yet bought her spring suit, this sale should
prove of great Interest.
One hundred of the very latest spring models in a variety of new shades and
colorings, which should have been here ten days ago. have Just been received.
And for this reason, have placed these beautiful suits on sale at a reduced
price which price is Just half of what the retailers sell at.
Ordinarily our prices are 33 to per cent to 40 por cent less than others, for the
reason that "VK BULL AT THE MAKKKS' rRICKS" the middlemen's profits are
jour savings when you buy here and at these prices:
$20.00 Spring Suits-on sale, $10.0
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20.00
Orders by mail must be accompanied by check or money order.
PRINCESS CLOAK & SUIT PARLOR
Management of The Goodyear Raincoat Co., Cor. 16lh and Davenport Streets
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$23.00 Spring Suits on sale,
at
$30.00 Spring Suits on sale,
at
$35.00 Spring Suits on sale,
at
$40.00 Spring Suits on sale,
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JIMS PLAY TO QUERIES
Buy Street Cleaners, Then Load Down
Fay Roll with Brooms.
DB0P MACHINES FOB CAMPAIGN
SUNDAY CONCERT BY
SIXTEENTH INFANTRY BAND
Proa-ram of Special Music Which
1 Will Be Given by Thla
Organisation.
The Sixteenth United States Infantry band
will give a special sacred concert next Sun.
day at Fort Crook at 4 p. m., under the
direction of Ernest G. Fischer. Following
Is the program:
March Rellgioso Domlnlcale Chambers
Overture Celestial Prendivllle
Ulorla from Twelfth Mas Rnbaudi
Sacred Fantasia Galea of Heaven. .DeVllle
Chorus The Heavens Are Telling. ...Haydn
Secular concerts of popular music will he
given Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
from 1:45 to 4:45 p. m.
Is the name of a new style, yet an old
style furniture. It originated In a province
of that name composed of a part of Hoi
land. Belgium and northern France. It was
made at the close of the 16th and first
half of the 17th century.
we announce the arrival of a special
showing of Flanders furniture which will
be on display Monday morning. It Is ar
tistlc In design, beautiful in color of finish
and upliolstering.
Sea window display.
Kxhiblt main floor.
ORCHARD & VII,HE1M,
414-16-18 8. 16th St
Bos riynn More Thai Doohles His
Force Mayor Tacks Hla Elec
tion Banners on Street
' Carts.
"Yes. and three years more of dirty
streets. They ought to have added that to
the placards."
So spoke an Omaha business man when
he noticed tacked on one of the city's
street cleaning carts, engaged in cleaning
a pottlon ot a downtown street, a huge
placard on which wa printed:
"Three more year of Mayor Jim."
The mayor's picture and the names of
other Jlmocratlc nominees also were placed
on the card, and the campaign documents
have been tacked to all the city'a street
cleaning machinery and hung in several
windows In offices In the city hall occupied
by Jirrocrats.
Mayor Dahlman at a meeting of civic or
ganizations held In the council chamber
of the city hall a week or ten days ago
told General Manderson, who presided,
that he would have the streets clean oh
election day. This he Is now attempting
to do and has Instructed his appointee,
Boss Flynn, street commissioner, to put
to work as large a force as possible and
get the streets clean for the first time In
his administration. As the mayor laugh
ingly said: '
"If the streets are clean when the boys
go to the polls to vote, they will forget
about the other times."
Despite the purchase of three $1,000 flush
ing machines, the street commissioner
clings to the old hand brooms, because
more men may be employed that way and
consequently more votes can be secured.
"We have used the new machines only a
few hours on a few days, and, therefore.
have no idea whatever of the amount of
work they can do," said George E. Jewett,
timekeeper in the street commissioner's
office. The machines were bought three
weeks ago.
"We are employing about fifty men on
the streets, ' I guess," said Mr. Jewett.
"while a month ago the street commis
sioner's payroll contained the names ot
but twenty men. But a month ago the
election was farther off. Now it la but a
little more than a week before election
and the Jlmocrats wfint 'Three more years
of Mayor Jim.' "
Jim Connolly
Becomes Dentist
Legislator Forsakes Political Palls
for Tooth Pulling; in a
Month.
Within another month and a little more
"Hon." James Connolly, who represented
the democratic party in the late legislature
from Douglas county and who aspires to
be a representative of the same party on
the' Board ot Fire and Police commis
sioners, will have little use for political
pulls.
The legislator will by that time be grad
uated from the Crelghion Medical college
and hla pulls will be limited to molars and
eye teeth and such the like. During the
session of the legislature the member from
Douglas was given the title ot doctor with
out watting for the aid or consent of the
Crelghton Medical college or any other
college.
ALL IS WELLjOUT IN PLATTE
Crops tiood In Prospect and People
Happy, Sara Senator
Byrnes.
"Everything is all right out In Platte
county, and so far as I have heard the
whole state Is in good hape for crops and
the people are all happy," said former
Slate Senator Byrnes of Platte county,
who was In Omaha Friday on business.
Omaha FiYemen
Go to Panama
George Tanner Last One to Gel
Good Position on the
Isthmus.
Geoige Tnnner, driver for Assistant Fir.
Chief Simpson, leaves this - evening tot
Panama, where he has secured a posltlor
on one of the government fire departments,
a civil service appointment.
He will be accompanied to the tone bj
Mrs. Olson, wife of Captain Ole Olson, .
formerly with hook and ladder company
No. I, and Mrs. Livingston, wife rf Albert
G. Livingston, formerly driver for Chief
Salter. They will Join their husbands, who
resigned February 1 to take positions with
fire companies in Panama.
Mrs. Tanner does not know as yet in
what district he will be assigned.
Quick Action for Tour Money You get
I that by using The Bee advertising columns.
who anrsT kkoistzb.
There ara three classes of Toters
who must register Saturday in or
der to yots at the spring election,
May 4. -
Those who have moved Into an
other precinct since the last elec
tion, those who have beoome of age
since the last election and ..hose
who hays moved to tha city since
the last election. Those belonging
to the last two classes, even if they
voted in the recant primary by
swearing In their votes, most regis
ter Saturday to be able to vote la
tha election. '
Toters who hare moved to an
other, preclnot must go to ' their
formsr polling places and secure
removal blanks, take them to the
new polling place and register.
kegiatratlon booths will be open
in all precincts from o'clock In
the morning until t o'clock In ths
evening.
Sturdy oaki from little acorns grow
advertising in The Bee will do wonders for
your business.
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There always have been soda crackers
There always will be soda crackers
But
There never were and never will be
any other Soda Crackers to equal
Moisture Proof
n
70- (CM
The Soda Crackers of
National-Biscuit-Goodness
Sold only in vo
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NATIONAL
BISCUIT
COMPANY
JUDGE DODGES QUESTION.
"DID YOU THROW ROCKS?"
Lawyer Admits He Did as Boy,
i Heply.
"I used to throw rocks myself, end prob
ably the court did, too, when a boy," urged
Attorney John M. Macfarland to Judge
Bears.
"I am glad you have grown up to be
more law-abiding," answered the court,
deftly side-stepping the question as to
whether he himself ever shied a pebble at
a delivery wagon driver or "old do" man.
Macfarland was urging leniency for Wil
liam Clawson, a youth of JO years, who '
during Ak-Sar-Ben week caromed a piece
of brick off tht head of Officer William
Coffee. Coffee had playfully beaten up a
companion of Clawson Just previously.
A charge of assault with Intent to com
mit great bodily injury was preferred, but
this waa modified to assault and battery
Friday morning, when Clawson pleaded
guilty. Macfarland tried hard to get tho
young man, whose previous record Is good,
off with a fine, but Judge Sears decided
on a Jail penalty.
John Keck, a clothing dealer caught with
ImmoTal post cards in his possession and
charged with having them for sale, pleaded
guilty and was fined b0.
Bud and George Weatherford, the broth
ers who escaped some days ago because
John Vrooman was still fighting the bst
tles of the civil war and the boys are the
sons of a veteran, will coma up for trial
again Monday. ' Vrooman hung the first
Jury.
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