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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1909)
THE BKE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. JULY 17. WW. CORKECT DUESH FUR MEN AND BUYS ALL STRAW HATS HALF PRICE S 1 Am Semi-Animal D ollars Waiting For You, ALL STRAW HATS HALF PHICE Ywm Mei &, ctlliitivli. CMlirei There are dollars waiting for you hore-come and get them-we are going to do things. Saturday we hold our 14th Seml-Anrmal HALF TRICE SALE and we challenge the whole clothing fraternity of .ebraska to offer better clothing at lower prices. We're going to make this sale the grandest ever held in the state-and any man who expects to continue wearing clothes or has a few boys to cover cannot altord to keep away irom this sale. The most renowned clothing makers in the world are represented in our great assortments-" Hirsh-Wick wire," "Kuppenheimer, "Stein Blooh , "Schloas Bros.," "Adler, Society, U arson Mayer, "Stum Mayer & Co.-these are theVmakes that have made us the largest retailers of ready tailored clothing in Nebraska. Our windows al-ae show more styles aud number of garments than most stores have aitogetner. As originators and leaders of Half Price Clothing Sales in Omaha and these famous branches of clothes to offer you at exactly ilAU?' you are sure or some maiveious uuigiuu. ,.., Men's and Young Men's Suits "No Alterations During This Sale" Boy's and Children's Suils S40.00 S8JVOO 980.00 $25.00 22.H0 SUITS SLITS SUITS SUITS SUITS $20 $175- $15 $121 $ll2i 920.OO $18.00 15.00 $12.00 $10.00 SUITS SUITS SUITS SUITS SUITS $10 $9 $7L $6 $5 $0R0 .. $7.80 $0.00 $.00 SUITS SUITS 6UITS SUITS SUITS $47i $42J $3LS $3 $2!!! 4.B0 $1.00 $.bo $n.o $a.BO SUITS SUITS SUITS SUITS SUITS $225 $2 $il5 $i? $e STRAW HATS AT HALF PRICE mi1""""'"1'' .BMS.MIL jJUUHJULLJtJlMPH Tiff PANAMA HATS AT HALF PRICE STRAW HATS AT HALF PRICE WESTERN UNION REPORTS Telegraph Company Finally Keoog nizes Laws of Iowa. BOARD OF HEALTH REORGANIZES Dr. Thomas Will Serve Secretary I'ntll Klrst of Year, When He V.'lll Be Succeeded br Dr. Sumner. (From a Staff Correspondent.) DES MOINES. July 16.-(Special Tele gram.) The Western Union Telegraph compuny today for the first time recog ulzed the laws of Iowa by sending in the annual report required of corporation!. For the reason that It would complicate the suit started by the Hate to oust the company for failure to comply with the law requiring corporation to file certified copies of their article of Incorporation and pay a fee, Secretary llayward refused to file the report or receipt for the fee re ceived. The report was received In the mall today from the New York office of the company and shows capital stock out standing of Ji9,817,100 with the list or direct ors. llr. Thomns U ne-eleoted.. As a move for harmony the State Hoard of Health today re-elected Dr. Thomas of Red Ouk as secretary of the board, with the understanding that he resign to take efftct January 1 next, when It Is expected that Ir. Q. 11. Sumner of Waterloo will bo elected to the place. The board dis cussed the matter throughout the fore uuuii and a committee finally consulted Dr. Thomas In the outer office and he con sented to the scheme. The split on the Soard was prevented by members who ob- THE NiCOLL FLAW S to gather together at the end of each season's trade the aurplui stock ami then to reduce Mine quIck y by addtug AN EXTRA PAIR OF TROUSERS lo your ault order without extra coat. !IT AND EXTRA TROUSERS $25 tl $45 STOCK R:0Uu NB SPECIAL Full Black or Hlue Serge Suit with extra, Troupers of same tr striped material $25 TAB'', OR WILUAM JKHHKMS- SONS. 900-11 Ho. IStli Re jected to letting Dr. Thomas out without I Home notice. Many members of the board I thought Dr. Thomas ruined his usefulness by antagonising the public, the legislature and the newspapers and for the good of the board It was thought that a change should be made, all recognising that he had been very efficient In his office management. Dr. Sumner, who is In the city, refused to allow his name to be presented unless his election was practically unanimous. Dr. Hanchett of Council Bluffs was elected president of the board. t'hnnae In Quarantine Laws. Radical changes In the quarantine laws have been decided upon by the State Board of Health. Smallpox patients will be re leased as soon as the skin peels off Instead of In forty days. Vaccinated persons will be released at once from Infected premises Instead of being retained there forty days. Diphtheria patients will be released six days after the membrane disappears. At the conference of railroad representa tives on drinking cups on trains Carroll Wright of the Rock Island suggested that the drinking cups In the state house be abolished before those on trains. The rail road men said they will put paper cups n sale on trains for the benefit of tli public as a trial. Governor Carroll today appointed Charles H. Robblns, a son-in-law of former Gov ernor Larrsbee, as Judge of the superior court of Cedar Rapids, vloe J. H. Roth rock, resigned. Charge for Extra Cans. Creameries today complained to the Rail road commlftlon that railroads have given I notice that after August 1 a charge of 10 cents will be made for ths return of empty I cream !ns. This they claim Is oftrn i times nhlf the charge for the shipment of the can containing 100 pounds of cream. They ask a hearing on July 11 and for a ruling against the new rate. Congressman McKlnley of Illinois, who has bought the lies Molnei Electrlo com pany, has opened negotiations for the pur chase of the D Moines street railway. Officials of the street railroad her deny there Is any deal on. Attorneys for Mc Klnley In Peoila acknowledge that there Is such a move on. Greek Interpreter Arrested. Oeoige Chlchls, a Greek Interpreter In he cement works at Mason City, has been arrested at the Institution of State Labor Commissioner Van Duyn charged with con ducting an employment agency without au trority or license. It Is charged that he not only charged the Greek workmen a fee for getting them employment In the oement works, but that h also charged them a monthly fee for keeping them em ployed and. In addit'on, under threat of halng them discharged he forced them to buy all their groceries and other sup plies from htm. It Is claimed that Chlchls was getting about 10 to t&O a month from these Greeks In fees besides ths profits from his grocery business. Carroll at Toledo. Governor B. F. Carroll today accepted sn Invitation to speak at Toledo, la., July IS at the reunion of the Tama County Veterans' association. Secretary James lison of the Department of Agriculture, Congressman James W. Good and Captain Kepler will also speak. HI Deavl Closed. The deal that has been acknowledged to be pending between Congressman William B. MoKlnley of Illinois and the Des Moines Klectrle company for the purchase of the Des Moines plant was closed yesterday. The local officers of the company gave out the Information and It has been confirmed by Congressman McKlnley Congressman McKlnley aii staled that be would con- the state of Iowa. This fact Is taken as particularly Important to the state. The purchase of the Des Moines Electrlo com pany, which furnishes electric light to Des Moines, is the biggest deal In the state for many days, the purchase prloe being 11,000.000. but would be purely local If it remained there. It Is said today that Mr. McKlnley and his associates will In all probability take an Interest in the building of the proposed line from Des Moines to Red Oak and that eventually It will be pushed on to Council Bluffs. Push (iond Honda. A oommlttee of five has been selected by the Greater Iowa club to serve as a good roads committee, and It Is proposed to offer a bill at the next session of the legislature that will facilitate the building of good roads In the state. Deyoe Is Candidate. Announcement Is made In the Brltt News that Prof. A. M. Deyoe, county superin tendent of Hancock county, will be a candi date for the republican nomination of state superintendent at the primaries next year. Brers Funeral. The funeral of Lawrence Marshall Byers, son of Major S. H. M. Byers and one of the professors on the faculty of the State university of Iowa, who died under an operation In London, will be held from the home of the parents in this city at 4 p. m. Sunday, July 25. The body will reach New York on the steamer Majestic, July 21. Police (kiefs Organise. At tho meeting of the chiefs of police of twenty-two cities of Iowa, held, here, an organisation was perfected by the election of Chief Miller of Des Moines as president, Olsen of Port Dodge as first vice presi dent, Vannattl of Muscatine as second vice president and Dfneen of Sioux City as sec retary and treasurer. Postmasters Elect. At the meeting of the fourth class post master held here, O. J. Perdue of Altoona was elected president, C. L. Black of Grimes, secretary-treasurer of the Des Moines division. Phillips Back. Charles Phillip, lata secretary of the State Pharmacy commission, returned lo slder any favorable tnterurban projeota In day from a stay of some months in Okla homa, where he Is Interested In the mar keting of land. LAND SEEKERS LOSE CHANCE Bell Companies to Be Merged in Single Concern Move Said to Be On to Form Tele phone Corporation with Capi tal of $970,000,000. NEW YORK, July 16. The merging of all the Bell telephone companies of the country Into a gigantic corporation rep resenting a capitalization of (970,000,000 is believed to be foreshadowed In the action taken by the American Telephone anil Telegraph company In providing for the absorption of the stock of the New York and New Jersey Telephone company. Although no official statement could bn obtained today. It Is believed the New York and New Jersey Telephone company will accept the offer of the American Telephone and Telegraph company to exchange lis stock share for share. The plan has the approval of the directors of the New York company. The Exceptional Equipment uf the California Fig Syrup Co. and the scientific attainment of it chemist have rendered possible the production of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, in all of iu excellence, by obtaining the pure medic inal principle of plant known to act most beneficially and combining them most skillfully, in the right proportion, with it wholesome and refreshing Syrup of California Figa. A there is only one genuine Syrup of Fig and Elixir of Senna and a the gen uine i manufactured by an original method known to the California Fig Syrup Co. only, it is alway necessary to buy the genuine to get iU beneficial effects. A knowledge of the above fact enable one to deoline imitation or to return them if, upon viewing the package, the full name of the California Fig Syrup Co. it not foupd printed on the front thereof Victor's Family Abandons Him Carelessness in Marking: Applications Puts Them Out. 0VEBPRUDENCE ALSO HUHTS Government Will Permit Absolutely No Mark Outside of Envelope In Which Application Is Made. SPOKANE, Wash., July 16.-Flve seconds of carelessness threatens to cost thousands of homeseekers every chance to win land on the three Indian reservations, for whloh the drawing occurs August 9. Some failed to put a postage stamp on the envelopes, some filled the blanks but failed to take the oath; in other cases no taries have neglected to attaoh their seals to the affidavits, and not a few over pru dent applicants are writing their return addresses on envelopes before mailing to Superintendent Wltten. Even an Initial marked on the envelope In addition to the printed address Is uf ficlent cause for throwing it out of the drawing. Bo careful Is the government to avoid distinguishing marks on the envel opes that the Spokane poRtofflce removed the date and hour from the machine when the stamps are cancelled. The rush to register continues today. Brother of Alleged Murderer Sends Letter to Sheriff Saying He Has No Word for Prisoner. ABERDEEN, S. D., July 14. (Speclal.) Sherlff John Arderson of this town has been In the sheriff's office, as deputy or as sheriff, for e1rt or ten years, but he had a new experience In the line of his official duties Thursday, when he received a letter from Charles Victor of Sangamon street, Chicago, concerning the plight of Emll Victor, a brother to Charles, who is In prison here or. the charge of murdering the Christie family at Rudolph, 8. D., on the morning of July 8. After his arrest, the night after the murder, Emll Victor wrote his brother and his mother, t siding at East Aurora. N. Y., begging them to come to his asslvtanc". A week passed with no reply from his rla tlves, When Victor wrote araln. Still no reply came, and State Attorney Van filyke, anxious as he 's to convict the man whom he bellcvrs to be the author of the most dreadful crime in the history of South Dakota, listened to the pleadings of the Imprisoned man and consented to postpone the pi ellinlnsrv trial until his relatives could be heard from. Rut the letters never came and neither did the relatives appear In person. In stead, Sheriff Anderson Thursday received a letter from 'harl Victor In which he Intimaud that the fix in wulch his brother finds himself does not concern him very much. He asked whether Emll has been convicted of the crime or merely charged with It, and says that If he Is convicted he will have to pay the penalty, but if he Is only sccusi-d Ki d Is proven Innocent hd leaves the matter to the sheriff. "As I know yo.i will ltkr c:o o: ,,im. I have no word for him." No Utter has yet ar rived for Victor, either from his mother or brother. DENIES OIL CONCERN IS TRUST General Mnnnsrrr of Prairie Oil Com pnny r-'l'."ils Kansas Onster I'rorrrdlno. INDKPKNDENCE, Kan., July IS. Attor ney General Jackson, assisted by former Attorney General Coleman, Is here taking testimony In the ouster suit of the state against the Prairie Oil and fias company. General Manager J. E. O'Noll of the Prairie company denied his company under hi orders had ever disconnected any tanks of producers from their lines. He said the Prairie was taking 90 per cent of all the oil offered, the capacity of their pipe line. Mr. O'Neill denied any effort to depress the market unnecessarily or any collusion with other companies. He said his com pany had paid 41 cents a barrel for oil when other companies had paid as low as 2S cents for the same grade and sometimes from the same lease. HYMENEAL. Street Pen Weddlnsj. OOALLALA. Neb., July 16 . (Speclal.)-A pretty wedding took place In the Congrega tional church In this city today, being the marriage of Miss Bess Welpton to Thomas Irwin Dutch. The church was elaborately decorated, every detail carrying out the dainty tfnts of the chosen flower. The Im pressive Episcopal service wss pronounced by Rev. Edwin F. Wright. The bride was gowned In white silk, with Irish lace and pearl trimmings, and carried lilies of the valley. The bridesmaids were dressed In the sweet pea colors and carried large bunches of the flower. A reoeptlon fol lowed at "Far View Place," the home of the bride's parents. Many out-of-town guests were present. HaWted-Ford. TECUMSEH, Neb.. July U. (Speclal.) Jesse Halsted, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Halsted of this city, and Miss Vera Ford were married in Omaha at 11:30 a. m. Monday, July 12, the ceremony being per formed by the county judge. They de parted for McCook, for a short visit at the home of the bride's father, who is county treasurer of Red Willow oounty. From there they will go to Denver and other Colorado points on a wedding trip. Returning to Omaha they will go to housekeeping there, the groom being em ployed as an artist by a sign painting and decorating firm In the state's metropolis. Koncler-Ilnmrr. KEARNEY, Neb., July 16. (Special. ) The wedding of two of Kearney' promi nent young people took place on Thursday afternoon. Miss (J race Hamer was the bride and Jaoob Kanxler was the groom; thi wedding taking place at the home of the bride's parents, Judge and Mr. F. O. Hamer on west Twenty-seventh street. Rov. L. C. McEwan of the Presbyterian church officiated and the ceremony took place at 8 o'clock. The bridesmaid wns Miss Olive Marrs and the best man was James R. Cooper editor of the Holdrege Progress. Mr. Kanxler spent the early part of his life In Kearney, but being a graduate of the University of Nebraska and a student at Columbia law school, he. has absented himself from this city of late years. At present he Is developing lumber projects In the west and he and his bride left In the evening for Bait Lake City. Osborn-Dtmlck. LAUREI,. Neb., July 16 (Special.) WU ford F. Osborn of Hartlngton, deputy oounty clerk, of Cedar county, and Miss Hazel Dlmlck were married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mr. E. V. Dlmlck of this plao. They will be at home In Hartlngton after August 1. Mis Dlmlck was conneoted wtlh the Advocate office for several years. McComber-Burllnsrame. BUTTON, Neb., July U.-(Speolal.) Mis Janette Burllngame was married yesterday at the home of her father, to W. X Mo Comber of Fairmont. Only relatives and a few intimate friends were present. They left the same evening for Fairmont, where they will be at home after August L Tnrner-Anderson. ESTHERVILLE, la., July IS (Special.) At the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Anderson, residing at East Lawn, took place yesterday the marriage or their daughter, Myrtle Bell, to Orvllla L. Turner, son of W. E. Turner, manager of the Esthervllle Brick and Tile company. Reed-I.eeper. Miss Rachel M. Lee per, daughter of Joseph E. Leeper, and M inter I. Reed, both of Pleasanton, la., were married by Rev. Charles W. Savldge Thursday at the Wind sor hotel. WUt:t&tiKr.. ;tf4xm.. 'iP I J SAl2pVQUK GROCER V, j 1