THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY,- DECEMBER 9, 1!XT9.
TO IMPROVE CITY'S UCMS
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The Christmas Number
OF
The Ohaha Sunday Bee
WILL BE PUBLISHED
IVet Sunday
It will be replete with interesting and seasonable
reading matter and typographically one of the hand
somest newspapers ever published.
The advertising columns will offer more sugges
tions for the holidays than ever before.
Merchants will find it to their advantage to pre
pare their most attractive advertising for this issue.
It comes at the Very height of the shopping season,
when everyone is watching the advertising columns of
The Bee, as a guide to their Christmas shopping.
Readers will find it a great help in deciding what
to buy and the best places to make Christmas purchases.
Sunday, December 12th.
Flan in Formation to Bring About
Beform in Street Illumination.
DECORATIVE SCHEME EJ VIEW
Eleetrlelaa Mlchaelsen Irtfl Ceaaetl
to Mikt Stnrt Movement Fa
trr by Bliliru Mn, Sara
Coaaollaiaa FlikkoiHt.
Will English Go
t After M ess at
County Hospital?
If it is Brought to My Attention
I Will Act," Saya County
Attorney.
Recent afaflrs at the County hospital
will receive the attention of County Attor
ney English, according to a statement he
has made.
"If the matter shall be brought before
ma in any way." said he, "I shall cer
certalnly Investigate."
"Do you mean." be was asked, "that you
will wait for some one to make a formal
complaint?" '
'If for any reason I come to believe that
a crime has been commltteed at the hos
pital." replied the prosecutor, "I shall look
into tha matter thoroughly. Just at pres
ent, I am In tha heart of the Frankland
murder case and cannot devote time to
anything else J ,
E. R. Seaaongood, the deposed hospital
druggist, visited the office of the Board of
County Commissioners, following publica
tion in The Bee of the likely finding by
the commissioners. Seaaongood button
holed Fred Brunlng. and was closeted with
him for a long time. Seasongood ia under
stood to have been pleading not so much
(or himself as against some one else.
While the new lighting contract Is pend
ing In city council a movement Is Incubat
ing to bring Omaha into line with other
progressive cities In the matter of im
proved street lighting. If the men who
are beginning the agitation can work up
sufficient sentiment thej will endeavor to
have the council Join In the endeavor to
get established a permanent p. an of deco
rative lighting for several main thorough
fares. The general plan as at present contem
plated would put new and better Ug.its.
probably on hih ornamental posts, alonj
Tenth street from the depots to Farnam,
on Farnam to Eighteenth and on Sixteenth
from Cuming to Leavenworth.
City Electrician Michaeisen has urged
the council to make a start on such a
scheme, but his recommendation was made
under Che supposition that the occupation
tax paid by the electric light and the gas
companies would go Into the lighting fund.
The city aitori V has held that every cant
of the occupation tax goes into the general
fund, hence Mr. Allchaeisen'e proposal had
to be filed.
Councilman Funkhouser says several bus
iness men of Influence have spoken to him
In favor of an advance in lighting fix
tures for the streets of Omaha.
"They want even better than the Ginger
block scheme," said Mi. Funkhouser, "be
cause it is understood the business men of
that bluck are now somewhat dissatisfied
1th the posts they selected. Undoubtedly,
with a little effort, the existing sentiment
can be organized sufficiently to bring
about a condition of lighting on our main
business streets that would put us In line
with cities like St. Paul. Dea Moines, Min
neapolis and others and we ought to go
ahead of them, profiting by their experi
ence, as we can."
".aw, which Is, we understand. In course of
appeal to a federal court from a state
decision. If In the final eventuality the
law should not be upheld, the money paid
In now could be recovered; and that la all
there Is to tha matter."
Watches FREEZER 15th and Dodge.
PROTEST JUST A FORMALITY
President Wattles Says Report of
Planned Attack oa Corporation.
Tax Is t'nfoaaded.
President O. W. Wattlea of tha Omaha
Street Railway company says there Is no
foundation for the report that tha public
service corporations are combining for an
attack, on the eceupatlon tax ordinance.
So far as this company Is concerned
there la no foundation for tha report,'
said President Wattles. "I do not believe
that any other company has such an In
tention. Tha payment of tax under protest
Is an everyday occurrence, to protect any
rights the person or corporation paying
,iy have If in the future the law should
fee declared invalid. There Is the Lincoln
for Instance, involving a similar
PASSING OF OLDER WORKERS
FOR GOVERNMENT IN OMAHA
Vetera as at Federal Batldlng Begln
alsg ta Feel Weight of Tears
Under Hard Work.
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An Oslerlzatlon of the publlo service, pur
suant to the policy of the government at
Washington. Is being felt In the public
service departments In and about Omaha.
This Is noticed more particularly about the
federal building, where the older men will
sooner or later have to give way to younger
blood. Several of the aged employes about
tha federal building are beginning to find
that the work exacted of them la gradually
attacking their diminishing strength to a
degree that they cannot meet. It la possi
ble that two or three of these old veterans
must soon retire from the publlo service
voluntarily.
'We much dislike to realise that we must
soon dispense with the services of these
good and faithful men,'' ..aid Postmaster
Thomas, "but human endurance has Its
limit. The- old veterans cannot stand the
work much longer, and it Is their desire to
give up the arduous work exacted of them
rather than the disposition of tha govern
ment to displace them."
Ice Man is Not
All Too Joyous
He Refuses to Begin Counting' His
Next Summer's Million
Just Sow. .
The demand Jor this land has been so great that the price will advance to $20.00 per
j acre cash after Saturday December 1 1th,
Nech&eo Valley, iritis! Colombia
Not tho cold. Canadian climato, but having tho mild
balmy air of tho Pacific Coast
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CVhat'g the use of dreaming while grrat erenti are trans
piring all around yon? Wake np! Live In the present. Golden
orportonltlee are offered to yon on all aides. Grasp them now
TODAT. Otir proportion should appeal to yon as the easiest
way to make a start and surest promise of substantial returns.
Wabe Up!
TWO R0ADSOUT OF SUIT
Oregon Short Line Sow Sola Defead
aat 1st Wlacoaalai Tattle Cam
I paay'a Aetloa.
The Cnlon Pacific and the Chicago. Mil
waukee Paul have been discharged
as defendants In the suit brought In dis
trict court by the Wisconsin Cattle com
pany. This leaves the Oregon Short Line
as the sole defendant.
Judge Redlck. In directing a verdict for
the two roads named, said that this ruling
did not prejudice the right of the Oregon
Short Line to recover from the Union Fa
clflo and the Milwaukee if the Short Una
la a loser by the verdict in the present
case.
The two roads which escaped are happy
because a decision otherwise and against
them would have produced a great many
mora suits of similar nature In the future.
For stiff neck there la nothing better
than Chamber lain' s Liniment.
No Man is Stronger
Than His Stomach
A strong man is strong all over. No man can be
strong who is suffering from weak stomach with its
aaaeaquaat inUigestioa, or from soma other disease
ml tha stomach and its associated organs, which im
pairs digestion and nutrition. For wheat tha stomach
ia weak or diseased there is a loss of tha nutrition,
aoarainad ia food, which is tha so urea oi all physical
strength. W ben a man " doesn't feel just right,"
wbea ha cUteta t sleep well, has a uncomfortable
feating ia tha stomach after eating, is languid, nervous, irritable and desaonsV
at, ha ia losing tha nutrition needed to make strength.
SmM m mmm mhmmH as a Dr. Plmrfm Gosfe Mudlcai
.Dlacmrtni. it Mti cMs eases tie mtoimtcM aaaf other
rtfaae mt iftlm aaeT matrttiom. It artchtm tbm mlood,
lMvliormtaa fa liver, froatfrlkesia faa afafaeya, momrlakem
aerrs. aaeT a. GIVES HEALTH AMD STRENGTH TO
THE WHOLE BODT.
Yon caa't afford ta accept itcrrt nostrum as a substitute for this non-
alooholio medicine op inown composition, not even though tha urgent dealer
may thereby make a little bigger profit. Ingredients p noted on wrapper.
No local Ice dealer will estimate, at this
time, how much of a bank account he ia
to accumulate by reason of the present cold
snap. It may mean millions, or it may
mean only a few hundred thousands.
Men who deal in ice are not full of so
much Joy as the ordinary patron of the
summer ice wagon would think at this
particular season of the year. The below
sero hours have laid a fine foundation for
next year's profits and two or three days
more would assure a good crop, perhaps.
Still the Ice gatherers do not enthuse over
the prevailing conditions so that their
Santa Claua guffaw is noticeable. All the
Streams and ponds are covered with snow,
which fell on a wet Ml r face and the com
bination does not make good ice. Later and
better weatner must be? awaited before the
companies that harvest ice for household
use can get busy with their marking plows
and their tutting crews. Ice being made
these coldf nights will do for packing and
storage purposes, however.
Newest Last and Best West
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT EXPERTS SAY ABOUT IT:
"The soil everywhere is of the richest quality. In previous reports I have described
the Nechaco Valley as the best and greatest farming district in British Columbia. All
reports go to show that the Nechaco is one o f the most greatly favored by nature in the
whole Province of British Columbia. Its advantages are many, the soil is rich, the land
is level, the climate mild. The demand for every product of the soil is great and ever
increasing..
This is the laat new country, the last great chance to make a fortune by buying land. You do not need to improve
it or even to live on the land in the Great Northwest along the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, now building
across the continent through the Nechaco Valley to Prince Rupert to own it.
This same wonderful, productive valley, as rich as the farm lands of Eastern Washington, Oregon and California,
will be traversed by this road within two years at the outside, according to its contract with the British Columbia
government. When the road reaches the Nechaco Valley EVERY ACRE OP IT WILL SELL AT FABULOUS PRICES.
You know what the land around the Yakima and Wenatchee valleys is worth, from $200 to $750 per acre. While
the valleys about the Yakima and Wenatchee valleys is a sage brush land, the famous Nechaco Valley is covered with
wild grasses that will cut five to seven tons per acre. You know the crops of fruit, grains, grasses, vegetables and
other products that grow in the Yakima and Wenatchee. The Nechaco valley that the Grand Trunk opens up is as pro
ductive as this and does not require irrigation an overwhelming advantage. All it needs to make it double in value
from time to time is transportation and this is sure. No costly irrigation works are necessary
The government reports show that all of this section of the country known as the Nechaco Valley is dotted with
lakes and small streams and is beautiful At the present time this land is 150 miles from modern transportation. This
is why it can be purchased for $16.00 an acre and this is why every acre of it is not under cultivation at this moment.
Think what it will mean when the railroad runs through the very heart of it. What will you take for your farm
when you can see the trains passing your front door?
WE HAVE PERSONALLY EXAMINED EVERY QUARTER SECTION of these lands and can safely recommend
them. Purchase a farm and be a wheat king, or live in luxury upon the income from a few acres of fruit trees.
Wealthy farmers of Nebraska and Iowa did not have such a chance as this.
16 an Acre, S3.50 Cash Payments at O Per Cent
GRAND) TRUNK PACIFIC LAND CO.
Capital Fully Paid 3250,000.00
JAMES CTHtTESON. President. 411 New Yerk Life Building.
REFERENCES Omaha. National Bank, Omaha; Itexter, Hortoa & Co., Seattle; National Bank of Commerce, Seattle.
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Can too tell tha S books, the
10 books, the 25 books, the 60 books,
the 100 books that are consult" red the
best of all those published! Yet that is
something you ought to know.
ffbe UUi:VNniiW fc hare published a
nuioue booklet containing these lists, and we will rive a copy
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Too wfQ be pleased to learn the
many charming- combinations that
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COLONEL FANNING WOULD
AVCID THOSE DEAD ONES
Trembles oa Eva of BsTTatlaa Tour
Leat Psinws'i Sfamaaiea RtrlTS
Loss r.rsoctta Fright.
Colonel Charles E Fanning;, while pol
ishing up his side arms preparatory to
packing his uniform for the proposed trip
to Egypt, found wrapped around his trusty
sword several copies of the Indicator, once
Issued by Butler & Mahoney, political pro
moters. One of the first items he ran across In the
almost forgotten publication told of a
scare he got one night at a political meet
ing held in an undertaker's office. During
the conference It was necessary for Colonel
Fanning, then a plain mister, to retire for
a consultation. With another man he
stepped into a rear room. When a light
wu turned on he was shocked to the
marrow to And a dead colored man lying
on a slab alongside him. Fanning moved
out quick, not having his hoodoo chaser
with him, and since then has been careful
to know what is in any dark room he
enters.
"The thought has occurred to me," said
the colonel, as he polished off a spot on
his weapon, "that in Egypt they have
corpsea laying around promiscuous, that
were laid out several years ago. This
thought has led me to wonder If I want to
go to that country, after all.
"I wish the bent there Is to every person
who has gone ahead, but I am not In the
least partial to cadavers. To study in a
medical school never was one of my
hunches, and unless I can be assured that
we may dodge the mummy caves, John
McDonald will have to go to the old
stamping ground of Cleopatra alone.
"I'd rather go to Lincoln than to a place
where one stumbles over dead people at
every step. Of course, there are dead ones,
and dead ones, but the defunct of the an
cient days would get on my nerves worse
than those sewer diggers on Eighteenth
street. M'ybe Omaha will suit ma this
winter, with an occasional side trip to
Pigseye."
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FOOD PRICE CHEAP NO MORE
Commodities Will Always Be High,
Says -Willott M. Hays. ,
ttatiti TIMES TEST A KLOOF
Assistant Secretary of Aajrtc-altare
Cornea from Wualsftea to Di
rect Meeting of America
Breeders' Assoclatloa.
A Horrible Death,
results from decaying lungs. Cure coughs
and weak, sore lungs with Dr. King's New
Discovery, ooc and tl.OO. For sale by
Beaton D.'ug Co.
DIETRICH IS NO BETTER
Farmer Senator Still la Grave CeadL
dltioa, bat a Rally Is
Heea Far.
Senator Dietrich continues about the
same at the Methodist hospital. At noon
It was stated there was no change In bis
condition, which for the last several days,
U Is reported, has been of an alarming na
ture. The attending physicians are hoping
for a rally which will bring the statesman
past the critical point.
"Food prices will never be cheap again,"
said Willett M. Hays, assistant secretary
of agriculture and president of the Ameri
can Breeders' association, which opened
its session Wednesday afternoon at the
Rome. Mr. Hays came directly from Wash
ington. "When foodstuffs stood up under
hard times with an abundant market and
a small amount of money, as they d A dur
ing the recent hard times. It Is certain that
we will never see the time when the prod
ucts of the farm will be as cheap as they
"We expect to have quite an attendance
of our association here In Omaha, although
many are college professors and have to
come a long ways, and you know college
professors and breeders have not as much
money as bankers, although they are deal
ing In bigger things. Banners cannot get
as large returns on their Investments as
breeders. Our returns vary from 1 to 10
to 1 to 100 on the money Invested and you
can figure that that Is an Increase of
10.000 per cent. Soma enormous profits al
ready have been made by scientific breed
ing off a very email investment.
How to Ceaserve Fralt.
"The men who are working at animal
and plant breeding In the United States
saw a striking way of making food cheaper
at little cost, that is, by creating new and
better breeds by which the production In
this country could be Increased. Some
crops could be Increased 10 per cent by
having a better variety, and most of us
ho are studying plant and animal breed
ing believe that the entire crop and animal
production In the United States could be
Increased from S to 10 per cent. This com
bined production' last year was 8.790.0O0,0flO,
and the increase mentioned would be val
ued at about IMO.000,000. This would In
crease the profits of the farm and should
decrease the prices to the consumers for
food and clothing. We are not louking
far too big s reduction, for we will never
have cheap times ag Un. J. J. Hill sounded
that key note when he said we were not
produc.ng enough and that the amount
per acre should be Increased.
I "This Idea of better breeding Is sure to
be taken up more when It is understood.
It coats much less to breed seeds well than
to play well. We are trying to get all the
agriculturists at work along the breeding
lines and we want to bring the scientists
to develope plant and animal life. We In
tend to start a paper and It may be
launched at this meeting."
at Temple Israel, in which the children
will chiefly figure. The program will be
announced later. . ,
Marshall Man
Asserts Dignity
Officer of Little City Lets District
Judge Understand Who He is,
"By Gum."
Aaron Marr of Florence la some pump
kins and a few hills of corn In that munici
pality. So when a mere Judge seemed to
reflect upon Mr. Marr, his outraged dignity
force him to reply.
Mr. Marr was filing an Information in
county court and Judge Leslie casually In
quired: "Are you a constable up there?"
"I am chief of police," responded Marr
with hauteur.
The Information was laid by Marr, who
is marshal of Florence, against Paul Clay
comb and Burley Leldy, two Florence men,
accused of breaking Into and entering tho
home of Theodore L. Klngwalt. Their al
leged booty consisted of s basket ball and a
telescope.
Laos Caaatea far Free Hemeeteaaa.
Tea a few elegant free homesteads can
still be had In Mexico, where many
Anerleana are now locating. Tou do not
even have to go to Mexico, but are re
quired to have five acres of fruit trees
planted witnln five years. For Infor
mation printed In English regarding
Mexican homesteads, address The Jan
tha Planataion Company, Block 49 Pitts
burg. Pa. Tou can have your trees planted
and your land worked on shares, so a
to bring you a thousand dollars a year
The health conditions are perfect and the
cl.mate grand.
JEWS OBSERVE THE HAUNUKA
Keep Feast af Lights la Celebration
af Jaelaa Maeen bens' Victory
Over Syrians.
The celebration of the Jewish festival
of Haunuka or Feast of the Lights
being observed yesterday In the homes 'ot
the Jewish people. It ia a home festival
and la the celebration of tha victory of
Judas Maccabeas ever the Syrians aae
tha re-dedication ef tha temple In Jauaalem
following that great victory for mono
theism. Tha features of tha observanoe
.he lighting of candles la the homea.
The festival will bo fallowed by a more
formal Joyous festival Sunday afternoon
TEN NEW IMMENSE MOGULS
High SaTd LoeaaaattTea with Ft ft em
Consolidate. Freight Bag-laea
oa tho northwestern.
Ten new type high aweed passenger en
gines and fifteen consolidated freight en
gines hare been added to the equipment
of the Northwestern lines. The immense
passenger beauties built to combine speed
with power of hauling heavy loads are
seventy-seven feet eight Inches long and
weigh 191.089 pounds, each. Comparing the
new locomotives with the enes that have
been used for years, tha the old ones are
puny Indeed, with their flfty-twe feet
length and 163.000 pounds weight.
The freighters are seventy-etie feet long
and weight &S2.900 pounds. The eld-style
engines were fifty-three feet In length.
Iovvan Looking
for Wife is Easy
for Brothcr-in-Law
0. B. Penderg-ast of Seymour Lets
' Go of Big- Boll to
Clever Shark.
C. B. Pendergast of Seymour, Ia., who
has been stopping In Omaha for a week
or more. Is eligible to full-fledged mem
bership in the "Mikes," having been
trimmed to the tune of 1130 or liM by a
smooth stranger, who told Pendergast he
would provide him with a true and loving
wife." Pendergast admits he bit easily, but
says he had every reason to believe the
sti anger was sincere. The tale:
Pendergast rooms at the Oral hotel. The
other evening he met a roughly dressed
stranger In a saloon and during the con
versation Pendergast let it be known he was
sligle and not averse to taking unto him
self a wife. Then the stranger showed
his hand.
He informed PendeTgaat, so the victim
told the pence, that he had a nlee s.ster
whiwn, he was confident, would consent to
change her name to Pendermaat and sug
gested that he and Pendergast go to the
letter's room to talk it over. At the hotel
Pendergast, by way of Impressing tne
stranger as to his ability to provide for a
helpmate, pulled out a ' rail of currency,
checks and drafts from his pocket and pro
ceeded ta ceuat the greenbacks.
"Halt," said tha stranger, "you are not
counting that money right. Let me count
it?"
The gu'lelees youth from Iowa without
a murmur turned over the money to his
wouid-be brother-in-law, who then an
nounced he would call up his wife, mother
and sleter ar.d have them come to the
Oma to meet Pendergast. Excuetng him
self, but falling to turn over the money,
the stranger left the room, ostensibly for
the telephone, leaving Pendergast to wait.
Maybe he couldn't get central.
Buy Red Cross
Christmas Stamps
Take the Little Newsy's Advice and
Don't Be a Tightwad on
This Matter.
"Awe, loosen up, don't be a tight wad.
youie guys, buy some of de Utile red
stamps and stick 'em on your Christmas
letters."
It was a little newsboy taunting several
well-groomed men who were gazing Into a
drug store window at the Red Cress Christ
mas stamps and Jingling coins in their
pockets.
These little stamps have been placed in
many stores down town and will be placed
In more; In fact, they will be placed In
every block, so tnat people will have no
reason for r.ot buying them.
And they only cost 1 cent each.
The proceeds? Oh, they go to fight tho
while plague. Laudable enough, Un't It?
There Hula stamps give a Christmas air
and cheer to the mail that goes out now
approaching the happy Yulettde; thea don't
pay postage, but they don't add mica to
It, either.
Clocks rREXIER- 15th and Dodgs.
rIFTY YEARS FOR HEAVEY
Set tha Kind Sam Get, Bat Fifty
Yeara of Active Dety
are Ills.
Patsy Hcavey. desk sergeant of tha police
department celebrated bis fiftieth blrthdiy
anniversary Tuesdsy. Sergeant Heavey is
working at night during the month of De
cember, but wns absent from duty and
spent the entire day with his family. The
member" of the police department pre
sented him with a box of cigars as a token
of their friendship.
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