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THE BEE: OMAHA, TOPMAST) AY, DECEMBER 29, 1900. yRSEF CITY NEWS , J909DECEMDERI90 ELECTRIC STREET LIGHTS New Contract for Three Year- Will be Made by City. r Some Things You Want to Know tu mom ul wiO "u i 31 NOW! The Holy Land The Plain of Sharon. V. 3 12 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 II t 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 232425 J. 27 28293031 Have Kout Frlut It. . 1. Bwouoda Certified Aoctrantant lighting IMxtarei, Bargest-Qrandea Co. ftinthart, rhotog-rapher, 1 St h & Farnam. Heyn, photo, removed to Ititli & Howard. Chambers' new classes Jan. t. Doug. 1 S 7 1 . fequlteble X.lfs-r'o1loleH sight drafts at maturity. H. D. Npely, manager, Omaha. "Try Vm rirat for Fu?l." Nebraska Fuel Co., 1414 Farnnm Ht. Moth "plionBS. 1850 national Life Insurance Co 190 Annuity, Kndowmcnt, Life. Term Policies. Charles K. AJy, General Agent, Omaha. ateu.bers of lloyal Achates don't forget the Christinas tree tonight. Bring the a "l.li n. BiirUlit s lisll, Nineteenth ana num. w r Wag: Earner the monthly repay- 'Vt plan of home loan ! surest, cheap 'aet, qulrkeat. Nebraska Savings and Loan Ass'n. 106 Board of Trade building. Illegal riauor Selling- Cliarg-td Mr. H. S. Perkins. mnnuger of the Lange hotel. was arreiited Tuesday aftarnoon charged with illegal liquor selling. The joomplalnt was aworn to by Jamea H. Mo Donald. The prisoner was released on bonds. JTlms to Plan Haw Tear's Program ", evening ' there will be a meeting of the Dalilirian Democracy, at the club 'rooms, to arrange the details of the pro- gram for New Year's day, when the club '"Will keep open house for Its members and 'their friends. Mr Horace Commercial Club Member Shcrmaft Saunders, Flunk Taylor, C. Vin cent, It. 1. Morsmtin, Victor Died. W. B. Hughes and Kir Horace Plunkelt were elected as members of the Omaha Com- merclal club at the meeting of the exec utive committee Tuesday noon. Cantata at Vsarl Memorial Under the (training of Director C. P. Daniels, the loholr of Pearl Memorial church, Twenty 1 fourth and Lailmore. has DreDared a can- iur pi eneriiuuun mis evening. fa work la entitled, "The First Chrlst . -"Iks." bv Coombs, and is nulla nr- . yuMvuo ui'uci lanui, in me iiiuoiuni line. Wo sTew loioi to Suggest The special committee of the Omaha Commercial club, having In charge the matter for new quar ters for the club has reported unanimously that new quarters are needed and that they should be secured at an early date. The committee, however, reported that it was not prepared to recommend a new location and the matter was continued over until next year. JUpleytn to Oct Baggies Carl O. Nel son, trustee in bankruptcy for Byron Ingle hart, has filed In district court a petition In Intervention In the replevin proceedings brought by the Michigan Buggy company against Inglehart. The Michigan Buggy company seised ,S0O worth of vehicles and Nelson Seeks to . have these turned over to him with other property for the benefit of all the creditors. ' Keeping Tall on Occupation Tax law The Omana Commercial club is keeping track of the movement to amend the law for he national corporation tax which Im poses a tax of 1 per cent on tho entire net earnings ve 15,000 of all corporations controlled by stockholders. Three objec tions are offered, to the law . that makes undue and unnecessary publicity, the shortness of the . time In which to file schedules .and the, unnecessary Inventor ies. 7onr Hew Commercial Club Members TV. H. McFarland, H. W. Plcrpont. George D Tunnlciiri- and Bert C. Fowler, four employes In the office Of George tk Co., have been - presented with member ship In the Commercial club by the firm. Sir. George says he appreciates th value of a membership In tha club and Ms firm has the highest per. cent of membership for th number employed in the office of any firm In Omaha, The United States National bank has nine memberships and McCord-Brady has seven.. Veteran Mall Carrier Improves J, 11. Tebhena, ' 827 South Twenty-eighth street, who fell and broke two ribs a week ago, Is slowly improving. Mr, Tebbens is one of the oldest mall carriers In the country; 'he Is 70 years of age, andd has been In the mall service In Omaha for mora than thirty-five years. Because of his age his friends have been particularly apprehen sive of him. lie was going up his cellar j wr, w uvn jiu lost ins oaiauce sum ion backwards. He is sow able to alt up and with utmost care, will, bis family hopes. aeon b up and about. i E1U '.lass for OonTerts "A converts' Bible ' . -l.s" has been organised at bin? t.ij iitiKBiuii vj iwrni mwii, ail u& . . V. .. . .. ..... V 1 . L- ! . I. I .. . thirty days. Many of the twenty have recently experienced a good deal of the ' seamy side of life and a few are Just out of Jail. The enrollment Includes W. H. Hyau, H. Newton, H. Holfort, J. T. Bon Dell. L- E. Lauyon, O. Wolf, J. M. Mc Donald. L. R. Clarke, W. A. Phillips. J. R. jryant, ,W. H. Weston, R. J. Healy, B. C. Ltpper, E. Fox. W. Carson, F. Heisch, E. Sheldon, J. Lewi, a (Smith. C. E. Drake, J. A. Woods. MartUc to BsmoAel Koantse nets John Mardis A Co., building contractors. have beeu awarded the Job of remodeling the Kountie Cats, at Nineteenth and Bt, Mary's avenue, , Thar are eight old-style flats in this row, three stories In height They win be entirely remodeled Into a set of modern apartment houses, at a total oust of about Iti.OuO. This will Include heating plant, lighting equipment and In tei Ue furnishings. The cost of making over Jive building alone will be something like ftt.000. Ueorgs B. Prlns is the architect of the new arrangement, and promises a fin ished building tharwUl be a credit' to ths city in every respeut. SKIN GRAFTING IS SUCCESSFUL Twe ornewra Give Part lose ef Catlcle to , Bely rr4 Baualck Opera. ; tiaai CaooeasfBl. A successful skin grafting operation was performed at tha Omaha General hospital upon Pullce Qiaaffaur Frwl Bausnlck yes terday, when coticle from two brother offl rs was grafted on the chauffeur's hands, which were badly burned at tha time of the polios auto ex pi onion and fire six waeks ago. Officers Chapman and Emery gave up portlans of their akin to bo graftal on Bauanick's hands and last even ing a report was given out that the opera tion bad bees highly sneoeaaful. There still remains a large portion of Bauanlck'g body upon which skin must be grafted, and tha (Teaier portion of the week will Ukoly ba required properly to do the work. I ", Fasurfal lUaskttr if deadly microbes occurs when throat and vmg diseases are treated with Dr. King's w Discovery. 60s and .00. For sals by aton Drug Ce The Plain of Hharon la a narrow green ribbon stretching along the Mrdlterraean shore of Palestine from Mt. Cnrmel south ward to the hills of the Philistines. It Is nowhere more than seven miles wide and It la only about fifty miles long, and of all the land of Canaan, promised to the children of Israel as the land of plenty, this plain only still flows with milk and honey. Under the patronage of the Ger man emperor a great highway was pro posed to be built stretching from Jaffa northward through the Plain of Hharon to Cnrmel, whence It was to turn eastward to Nazareth. Only a few miles of this road was oullt, and It Is the only road In all that section of Palestine, with the ex ception of perhaps a half a mile of Roman paved road near the castle of Athllt which was repaired by the Crusaders and which still U In fairly good condition. The traveler starts out from Jaffa over this macadamised highway with a light heart. The sun shines, the breezes blow, the scent of oranges and pomegranates is In the air; on one side Is the green-gray fringe of olive treea outlined against the barren while hills of the Interior, and on the other side Is the enow-white lace of the breakers, and beyond the blue of the Mediterranean. The road runt between grove of oranges, fortified behind Im pregnable barriers of cacti. Here and there one sees the white-washed house of a thrifty German settler who has come to the Holy Land In obedience to a faith which teaches that all Christians should repair to the home land of the Savior, and who has remained here to make the desert blossom as the roue by the substitution of European thrift for Arabian Indolence. But after a few miles the Influence of the German colonists and of the Jaffa orange market wanes. The orange groves give way to ill-kept vlnuyarda. The white farm houses are no longer seen and In their sttad are the mud-walled villages of the Syrian natives, livery evidence of what we are pleased to call the progress of modern civilisation is left behind. The country Is given over to grain fields tilled as they were tilled in the days of Herod. There are no trees, no houses, and all too suddenly the highway cuds, and one's wsgon rolls out on the green velvet of the Plain of Sharon. Although the traveler has seen Jaffa and Its market places, although he has mar velled at the wonders of Jerusalem, al though he has worshiped at the sacred shrine of Bethlehem, although he has al ready visited the many holy places of his torical fame. It Is here on the Plain of Sharon, In the open air, far beyond the voice of chanting priests and unconflned by temple walls, that he finds the Holy Land of his imagination. This Is the coun try in which Jesus lived, through which Jesus walked and where Jesus taught. Other thlngr have changed. The cities He knew have been rased to their foundation atones and have been rebuilt time and time again since He walked and talked; but 'he country of the Plain of Sharon is Just as He left It. The forests which covered the hills of Judea, Samaria and Galilee In the days of Christ have disappeared before the twin assaults of axe and torch, the fertile valleys have been deprived of the gathered moisture of the hilltop woods, and the land which was flowing with milk and honey has been laid waste, and Is now, for the most part, a barren desert. Not so the Plain of Sharon. Every drop of rain that fails - in the great ' central range of hills w hich divide the deep valley 'of the Jordan from the seacoast Is conserved In tiny streams which 'drop Into subterranean pas sages to well up again beneath the soil of Uils narrow level strip along the coast. And how thankful Is the land! Nowhere In the world Is there a more beautiful stretch of country than the plain laid out from the foot of Cartnel. The grass of the waste places grows almost as green as the wheat and barley of the corn fields. And the wild flowers add the tribute of color to the poem of praise. The Plain of Sharon Is as a green carpet spangled with figures of scarlet and of purple. Here one finds a deserted field grown up with lilies of the valley, enough to be worth a king's ran som In an American florist's shop, and there one sees a wilderness of crocus and narcissus and oycl&men. But the glory of the plain Is Its profu sion of scarlet anemones. Millions of them Alfy Gwynne's M ission a Puzzle Young Vanderbilt'a Mysterious night to Wyoming Causes Much Specu lation as to Purpose. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbllt is headed toward Omaha on another mysterious visit to the northwest. His private car. "The Wayfarer." will pass through the city Thursday morning enroute to Cheyenne The Advertising Record Display advertising last week Bee 3,737 inches Nearest competitor 3,443 inches BEE LEAD 294 inches Dec. 1, 1909, to Dec. 27, 1909 Bee ; 24,312 inches Nearest competitor 23,073 inches BEE LEAD 1,239 inches January 1, 19(9, to Dec, 20, 1909 Bee ..274,090 inches Nearest competitor 257,655 inches BEE LEAD 16,435 inches Remember: That the jibove record gives the competitor credit for space occupied by indecent and other advertising r?fud by The Bee; and for slathers of space traded for pianos, automobiles, jewelry and merchandise. That merchants, who buy for cash bo much more epaoe in The Bee, do so because they have learned the value of a clean paper that goes to the homes in every part of the city and state a paper that tries to print only facts and has the confidence of its readers. spread their glorious faces to ths sky, and one Is not surprised to learn that these are ths flowers of which Jesus said: "Con sider the lilies of th field, how they grow, they toll not, neither do they spin: And yet I ssy unto you. That even Solo mon In all his glory was not arrayed like one of theae." It Is the Rose of Sharon, the Illy of the field, and It grows today as It did when the Canticles were written and when Jesus preached His sermon on the mount. And then, as If to complete the delusion and to force on to forget that this Is the twentieth century, there are the people. The wagon makes Its way across the road Ices plain. A companion sees a deer In the distance and wonders at the abund ance of wild game In this old country. But his wonder ceases when the driver stops to chat with two men armed for the chase with sprwrs. Think of men seri ously carrying spears as weapons of sport and defense In the year 199! The wagon halts for luncheon at a well In the plain. There Is a small village hidden by mud walls at the crown of the hill, from whence come the girls down to the well to get water. They are dressed In flowing robes of yellow and green and carry great earthen water Jars on their heads, Just as did Rachel when she won the heart of Jacob of old. They come down to the well, which Is a hole twenty feet square and thirty feet deep, and walk down the steps built Inside to the spring flowing at the bottom, where they fill their vessels with water. They are not disturbed by any notions of modern life and they greet the Europeans with wide eyed astonishment. At sunnet one sees a shepherd bringing In his flock from the day's feeding. He has piloted his obedient charges In the narrow spaces between the fields of growing corn, he has kept them from trespassing upon the grain, and now he brings them In to put them In the fold that they may be guardod during the night against the dep redations of the wolves and Jackals. He stands with his crook at the double door of the mud walls of the fold and divides the sheep from the goats. One looks on and wonders anew at the pastoral sim plicity of the parables of our Dord. Occasionally the ancient simplicity of the country is varied by a ruin which at tests the departed glory of the wrangling nations which have fought to possess this fair land. One sees at the very edge of the ocean a cluster of ruins which have lost al! semblance of their original form, all that Is left of the onoe mighty city of Caesarea. This was ths placs where Herod, by grant from the Emperor Au gustus, built a breakwater and made an artificial port,, which was the only rival Jaffa has ever known. It was a prosperous city In the time of Christ, although dis tinctly Roman and not Jewish. The ruins of Its amphitheater are a'J that now can be seen. It was In this city that Paul delivered his famous oration before the Roman Governor Felix, and here he de fended his religion before Festus and that King Agrlppa, who was "almost per suaded," to be a Christian. And It was from here that Paul appealed to Caesar and from here that h sailed for his last Jour ney to Rome and martyrdom. Occasionally one sees In the plain, a ruined building, whose Gothic or Roman architecture Identifies it as a relic of the Crusades. Such were the hospices bui:t along the road from St. Jean of Acre, to the holy sepulchre at Jerusalem, to, serve for the shelter and entertainment of the pilgrims from Europe , who visited this country during the two centuries of the troubled reigns of the Christian kings of Jerusalem. Most of these are now quite deserted, but one or two serve to house a village of natives. . . The Plain of Sharon, with its carpet of green and scarlet, with Its mud walled villages, IV ancient wells, Its shepherds and their flocks, preserves today the es sential features of ths life of the people, of Judea in the time of Christ, although the grandeur that was Rome, lies burled in the ruins of Caesarea, and tha Knights of the Crusades rest In their gravea be neath the Inscription: "His Sword is Rust; His Bones are Dust; His Soul Is With the Saints We Trust." Mr nu-isio jr. xabxxbt. Tomorrow TU XOXjT LAVS. XX. A Modem Sloa. and will return east again after tarrying but a few hours in Wyoming. There Is much speculation In railroad circles as to Mr. Vanderbtlt's visits to the west. Last Thursday he was whisked through Omaha in his private Pullman to Cheyenne, where he spent Christmas day and then hastened back to New - York. While in Omaha he refused to make known his errand to the public. ' There is talk, however, that the scion of the famous Vanderbllt family Is heavily Interested In asbestos beds near Douglas, Wyo. His private car, however, was not taken any further than Cheyenne. Bee want ads are business boosters. GARBAGE MATTER UNSETTLED City Coemell Committee of the Whole Listens to l.nnsr Dlsenseloa and Comes to No Con elnalon. The city council In committee of the whole succeeded In getting action on a few pending pieces of city business Mon day afternoon. The garbage situation con tinues. The street lighting contract, amended In a minor particular, was agreed upon to be passed at the meeting tonight. It carries provision for a three-year agree ment with the electrlo light company, and on the basis of the present number of lights means an average cost per lamp per year of $S7.7S. The committee also gave Its countenance and support to the agreement with the No braska Telephone company for the In stallation of a new fire and police alarm system. The cost, $10,030 a year for five years, will be paid from the funds allotted to the Fire and Police board. At the end of five years, if the city desires to buy the plant, it can do so for 60 per cent of the original cost of Installation. The new agree ment calls for men operators instead of girls. The three ordinances providing new regu lation for ths use and storage of com bustible liquids by stores, garages and dry cleaning establishments were laid over for one week to give those Interested an op portunity to be heard. tse for Old Market Mouse. City Engineer Craig asked the council to be careful about accepting bids for the Capitol avenue market house. He said he had made some figures on its possible value to the city, If torn down, and tho material put Into a service building, on some other site, for the engineer's depart ment. Council agreed to go slow. It Is the city engineer's Idea that the material can be used to erect a new structure wherein can be placed the asphalt repair plant, the stone crosswalk foundry and also to house all machinery used by his mon. Mr. Craig also asked the committee to consider ths advisability of buying a large automobile for the use of council commit tees and himself. The proposal was met with favor, several members expressing themselves to the effect that the city would soon save the cost of a machtne by cutting out team hire, now necessary In getting about the city to attend to urgent business. The finance committee will ascertain If money enough remains In the general fund to buy the machine from the present year's revenue. Damage Claims Cot Down. ' Claims for damages for a large amount because of the proposed Dodge street via duct were cut by the committee on viaducts to $7,250 as being about right. Three pro tests were filed, but received little atten tion. The committeemen thought Dundee and certain territory Immediately surround ing the location of the viaduct should pay part of the damages, but the city attorney doubted If this plan could be carried out. Finally the committee oh- viaducts was directed to confer with the county com mit slonerg and ascertain If they will be agreeable to standing part of the expense. Plans for a proposed vladnct over the tracks of the Great Western at Mason street were approved and the council will pees a proper ordinance for av'permanont viaduct at thst point Rome Miller, T. J. O'Brien, Harry Fischer, Fred Fitch, 8. Arioit Lewis and several councilmen had a merry time argu ing what ought to be done with the garb age, ashes, tin cans, glaB, old shoes, fish bones, ancient hat shapes, discarded ao.x, soggy paper, cobwebs and other things that are accumulating about the purlieus of the city. Dr. Connell, as the official adviser on garbage and Its concomitants, also took a modest part in the tossing of boquets. Mar Yet be Solved. The clock . went around once. And once again, while the talk flowed on. The com mittee had nothing before it to act on and at the end the seething question rested Just where it was left a week ago. After the meeting dissolved the councilmen quite agreed. In an unofficial way, that the only method of solving the puxxle, temporarily, la to proceed to receive bids for garbage gathering In eight districts into which thj olty will be divided for one year. During the twelve months it 18 hoped to reach an agreement for a permanent system of gathering and disposal of garbage and refuse. ' Big results from little Bee want ads. LIGHT FINGERED ONES GET CLAMPS ON CASH Several Robbarlea Heported to Police If. B. Banning; Gets His Money Back. Ols Larson, living at SOT Bouth Twelfth street, complained to the police last night he had bee"h ' robbed of SU0 In currency, but when, where and by whom he wa unable to state, due to a heavy cargo of ,liquor he carried. . Credence to lila story was lent by the fact one of his trousers pockets had been torn out. But what pus sled the police was that $160 In gold and (3.15 In silver had been overlooked by the robber. Larson was locked up on a charge of disorderly conduct, but in tne mean time the robbery story will be lnveslsated. While Nels Samuelson, 3Goy Seward street, was walking on Capitol avenue, be tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth sireeu, ariy last evening he was knocked down by a negro, who robbed him of his pocket book containing 7. . The person who" robbed Mius C. Greger son, 2-U2 Parker street, a clerk at the Brandeis store, of her perse ytsterday afternoon was considerate In that he or she returned the empty pocketbook. Miss Qrejenon placed her purs beneath the counter where aba worked and late in the afternoon discovered It to be gone. Shu reported It to the police, saying the purse Contained, among other things, a diamond ring, valued at f-U In some unknown manner the empty purse wss left at tha Bennett store, and was reiurr.ed, still empty, to Mlas Gregerson. The poller have teen notified and art. working oh the case. N. B. Bonnlng, living at the Brunswick hotel, was robbed of his pocketbook by two women at 110 last night at the cor ner of Thirteenth and Capitol avenue. He Caught one woman and got tht wallet back by choking her. Lame back may be cured by applying ChamborlaiD's Liniment two or three times a day, with a vigorous rubbing at each ap plication. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS Carl Vtsaard. son of John Vlsxard. spe cial officer for the lnlon Pacific, is dan gerously 111 with typhoid fever at the fam ily home. 2417 North Twenty-second street. Mr. and Mra F. M. Powers ef Chadron H. P. Padler of St. Paul, W. T. Well. 0f Mutt a U. C Jensen of Lyons, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ayer of McCook and L. c Grimes of Callaway are at tha Loyal. ON SALE Read AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA Ordinance Introduced Dividing City .-""Into Seven Wards: NEARLY ALL SAME TU AREA Inquests Held Over Bodies of Two Mem Hurt In Same Way, Dying at Same Moment. An ordinance dividing the city Into seven wards was Introduced last night at the adjourned session of the council. By this ordinance the boundaries of the new wards are fixed as follows: First Ward On the south by N, on the west by Twcnty-rourth. north of N to F, north of F, Twenty-first street. Second Ward Extends south of N to U streets and is bounded on the west by Twenty-fourth. Third Ward Includes all the district aouth of U and west to Thirty-third. Fourth Ward Bounded on the north by L, on the west by Thirty-sixth, on the south by Q from Thirty-sixth to Thirty third and east of Thirty-third, the southern boundary is U street to Twenty-fourth. Fifth Ward Bounded on tho south by L street and on the east by Twenty-seventh. Sixth Ward Lies betwsen the Fifth and First wards. Seventh Ward All the southwest section of the city south of L and west of Thirty sixth and the additional part of all south of Q street, between Thirty-third to Thirty sixth street The wards are all nearly the same in area and are thought to be about the same In population. Precinct divisions are as follows: In the First ward, all east of Twenty-first makes the First precinct. In the Second ward, all east of Twenty-first Is In the First precinct. In the Third, all east of Twenty fifth is in the First preclnot. In the Fourth, all east of the railroad tracks Is the First precinct In the Fifth, all east of the tracks Is the First precinct. In the Mtxth, all north of F Is In the First. In the Seventh, all north of U Is the First precinct. Each of the wards is divided In two pre cincts. A petition was received for a sewer for Hoctor Terrace and for the pavement of I'uullne avenue. Ths ordinance for the grading of O street from Twenty-sixth to the city vllmlts on the east was recommended for passag and placed on aecond reading. A. number of special ordinances levying special assessments for grading sidewalk and paving improvements were recom mended for passage. Dan Hannon bought I1.S90 worth of grad ing bonds offered at public auction. He was tha only bidder. booth Omaha Keeds Creche. Miss Maude Cloud, local representative of ths Associated charities, declares that South Omaha Is In need of a creche, or a place where ehiJdren of women, who must tarn their living, may be left during work ing hours. Such a place should be like those places now operating successfully In Omaha. Miss Cloud said, "I think much of the harshlp could be avoided In these cases where mothers are compelled to make a livelihood. If there were a place where at moderate cost the children could be safely left. Many a mother who has lit tle children now has to depend an charity entirely because she can not leave smsll children and go away to work. The chil dren could In these eases be cared for at very small cost and the mothers could be Independent and comfortable by their jwn earnings." Story Starts Proeenaloa. A falsa report that ths mayor would eee to It that a large force of men were put on cleaning snow off the walks and open ing tha blockaded streets Monday morn ing caused fifty or mors men to line up TO At All Jtctvjjlandj, tLMtv, "' lit m ' l I.!-II 'lit .1 It BAYS before the mayor's office Monday asking for work. The mayor was obliged to turn down all the applicants, much to their dis appointment The mayor said It waa with difficulty he reached his office In the city hall. - He admitted, however, that there was need both for clearing the sidewalks and the streets, and If the city funds were available he should have been glad to hire the applicants. Inquest Over Two Men. Coroner P. C. Heofey conducted inquests over the bodies of Gua Farnholm and Fred Millett yesterday afternoon at the offices of the Brewer undertaking parlors. The same Jury heard the evidence In each case. The two men were each victims of injury Inflicted by falling downstairs. Millett was hurt Friday night, December 24, and Farnholm Saturday night. The skull In each case was fractured. Each died at the same minute, 4 a. m. Saturday morn ing. Millett was hurt on the back stairs of Richard Cheshire's saloon, Farnholm at Its South Twenty-fourth street. Millett had a wife and family, but has been di vorced from ills wife. Farnholm was a single man, superintendent In the salt cel lars of the Omaha Packing company. The funeral of the latter will be under the auspices of the Independent Order of Vik ings. The members of the order met last night to make arrangements. The time of the funerals of each man have not been announced. Magic City Gossip. Dr. C. N. George, Osteopath, 703 N. 34th. Mrs: N. D. Mead has gone west for a xniple of days. Colonel BUI Doty has returned from a hree weeks' trip in the south. James Belt wan sentenced t thirty days yesterday for resisting an officer. James Stewart who has been vorlouily ill for a week or more, Is Improving. J. F. Hftllum was fined $10 and costs yesterday in police court for disturbing the peace. Mrs. William Lehrner, who has been serl oubiy 111, is reported butter and slowly Im proving. The South Omaha police are looking for Elmer Thompkins, who Is wanted under the charge of wife abandonment. The Shamrock club will give a masque rade dancing party Wednesday evening. Many valuable prizes are to he offend The advanoe sale of tickets lias been large. Word has been received by relative of Dumont Clarke, president of the American Exchange National bank of New York City and a director of Swif'. and .'ompiny, that he died of pneumonia Sunday in New York. The F.pworth league of the First Metho dist church will give an oyster supper Fri day evening while watching tho old year out at the residence oi Miss Heisie Dare. 713 Njrth Twenty-third street. Service will begin at 8 o'clock. NOW MR. JONES IS SHELTERED Man Who Skat Ills Wife and Babe Oat In the Cold Is Locked Up. i " ' It was the nlKht before Christmas that Mrs. Newton Jones,- a colored woman, found herself end tiny baby out In the snow. Her unruly husiiand had slammed the door on her back. .She was literally out In the cold, cold world. At the police station Mrs. Jones found shelter. Tuesday morning Mr. Jones found shelter there, too. His presence Is enforced by the service of a warrant for abusing his wl.'e. 15c MONEY ORDER INTERCHANGE Arrsagemeat Made for Quicker 8e vice In Sending; Caak to tha .. British. Isles. , .......... Arrangements have been completed be tween ' the Western Union Telegraph com pany and the British postofflce authorities . for ths Interchange of money orders by telegraph and cable between the different cities of the three countries. This arrange ment goes Into effect Jajiuary 1. The British government owns tht tele graph system of the British Isles. A great saving In time will thus be made In the transfer of money between 1 the cities of the two nations. It is considered this ar rangement will be particularly valuable to tourists. Waltham Watches are sold in every country in the world, but they are a result of a com bination of American brains, American labor and American capital. Always buy a watch from a recognized watch maker or jeweler. Watches are different from ordinary merchandise. T. B.-When baying m Waltbmtn Watch aJwmyg oak yoar Jeweler for one adjnated to temperature ttud position. A Svtll Affair Toothache Gum 6tops any toothache. 'Prevents fur. tker decay. Does sot melt la Ibe aioutii. It whole strength isreUlaed and goes right to the pot. There art Imiuuoos. tost yes set l.f TaeifeMke . At all drussKte, It mil, or by alL Dcni's Corn Cam cl"tl C. S. DENT CO.. Dstralt. Mich.. v-sra p) Engraved Stationery lis a ..... . 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