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VOL. XXXIX NO. 215.
OMAHA, THUKStUY MORNING, FEUHUAIiY 24, 1010.
SINGLE , (X)FY t -TWO CENTS.
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M'COYEiIn HITS WAfER board
Intjj'lnces' Resolution Callinj it 'a
- yeless txpetii." '.
THESIS It TIME F0H SOME ACTION
People Am Nick of Mitinlnlnlnar It In
Office jtist to Draw Salaries . '
and Pay ,((ornfi
Fee a.
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"unrllmnn Mnfiove-m . horrified some of
hi colleagues Widnecday morning at the
adjourned meeting of . th ctty council by
Introducing this resolution:
"Whereas,; The Omaha VTater board, ,aa
constituted 'and elected by the people 'of
said city, ! charged with many and oner
ousaditlfs; and,
"Whereas,' The aJd,VeUr board. In-the
performance of Its Mid burdensome and
oneroiiM duties, la In all thinits superior
and paramount to tho mayor and city coun
cil, and can receive no advice or assistance
from any source excpt In tho matter of
providing means for the payment of run
ning expanses; and, -
"Whereas,' The (aid Water board has
labored long and faithful')- In the discharge
of said duties and lino accomplished much
In the way of draw Inn: salnrirs, employing
'rttorneys afid othtr nesrMuntV but nothing
else to siak if which is visible to the
naked eye; therefore, be it ,
. "Resolved by the city council, the mayor
concurring. That the city attorney be, and
& hereby authorized and directed, to peti
tion the Water bord for permission at
once to dismiss all ' litigation now pending i
between lho(cUy of Omaha and, the Omaha
Water company, at tho expense of the city, 1
and that a copy of this resolution be for
'warded to the Water board, with the re
quest that kald board at once Inform the
city of Omaha of the dismissal of such lit
igation and of the Issuance of bonds here
tofore authorized by vote f, the' people ,to '
be issued, and of the taking possession of
the Omaha water plant in the hams of the
city of Onisha."
Fdnkhouar Rita' IlnWn. '
When McGovern moved the auspenslon
of the rules and the hdobtlon of the reso
lution Councilman Kunkhouner was at ono.o
on his feet, moving that the resolution be
plnced on file. ' '
"The Water tsSard does not want such a
resolution as this,1 said ' the councilman
from the Eleventh, "and does not want the
council to buft Into Ita business in any
warr ' .' , i
"ijliiV councilman from the Eleventh ward
does not seem to know what his constitu
ents and the people generally want," r
torted Mcdovcrn. "There Is a demand
throughout, this city that something be done
and ever since It was created the Water
hoard has been simply a useless expense.
1 insist that this resolution go to the com
mittee of the whole." ' - ' I .', , v
This motion prevailed?' after Councilman
i Johnson had pleaded. that .the Water aboard
be left In peace and quiet, and Councilman
Ei'dgea had shot in a warm remark about
continual promlsea from year to year, .with
nothing done. 'j . , .;: ,
Harlow Makea aVrHiatennt. '' '
M. T. Barlow, president or the Water
board, when apprised of the resolution In
troduced lu council by Councilman Mc
Govern looking to a dismissal of the pend
ing suit and the taking over of the plant
by.. the city, said:
-ffm Water board will certainly give due
consideration to sfny expression of opinion
from the city counpll, the same as it would
to anything adopted by the Commercial club
or any other clvlo body. Those things are
merely the opinions of a certain number of
gentlemen," whoever they may be.
"There afe business men and others In
Omaha who think that to dismiss the suit
now In the 'United States supreme court
would be the best thine to do. That' would
mean tho .ientry of Judgment against the
city, and when the Judgment was paid the
, plant would be taken over as a matter of
. courSe. That's one view. There are many
others who do not aatee with It; but, as t
say, . these), expressions are all matters of
opinion, peicular to whoever may be utter
ing them."
KICK ON TUB CITY AUTO PRICE
Complaint U Made by Colonel George
Roarers.
City Comptroller Lobeck cauied some
stir among the city councllmen when he
brought up the matter at Wednesday's
meeting of raying for the recently pur
chased automobile. He said his deputy
Vbd Informed him that Colonel George
fHogr, who Is not on the governor's staff,
had said that the city auto was discarded
to H. E. Fredrlckson for $l,0CO. The latter
was alleged to, have speqt only 1300 on the
machine for repairs and the city agreed to
pay 12,250. Ti.a ccir.ptrll- sJd he felt It
a duty to call the council's attention to
theso rumora before paying the money.
Councilman Hummel, Johnson and Brucker
constituting tho committee that bought the
jilne said they had tried out every
machine offered ,4hey got hold of; that
the one offered by Rogers and his partners
was not placed -at their disposal, and that
a purchase ' hoA been recommended only
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Use Three Tubs for Washing
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ONE FOR TABLE. LINEN, on for bed and body,
linen, ond one for aoiled towel end cloth.
WET THE CLOTHES, ruh Lenox Soap olution
over the tolled parts, fold end roll each piece
by itself, pack In tub, cover with 'warm toapy
water and let Hand over night.' .
TO MAIU SOAP SOLUTION i TaKe a
caHo of Lnoi Soap, cut It Into email piacaa,
dissolve thaeo In tHroo quart of bolllnrf
water. Kp watar at boiling point until a
olutlon I formed.
LENOX SOAF ; SOLUTION doe better worK
than oapi and I more economical, because
there I no waste. ' '
Lenox Soap-Just fits the hand
after they had ascertained everything pos
aible. relating to the machine In question.
The?; had 1 been told the . machine was
turned bark to F.edrlcksoo at H.rOO. be
cause 8tor wanted a different kind - of
machine and Frederlrkson had thrown" IS
all extras necessary to completely equip
the machine before the bargain had been
dosed. , . ' '
'Why dtm't the kickers come before the
qouhcll. If they have any fault to find?"
a:kr4 Councilman Hunmiel. "Here Is the
plaeM te fllr- any protect, not on the street
corners br to Some employe of the ctty."
The city comptroller told the council he
was satisfied and that the warrant for the
auto would be paid.
MAY WAUT TO I.VU'RB blTV ff ALL
Twenty-Two Bid, Are In for That
roller of f2no,ooo.
' Twenty-two . bids Were received by the
council for the privilege of Insuring the
city'hall and contents for J&O.OOO. The bids
are tendered In great detail as to time,
percent of value to be Insured and allow
ance 'of co-ordinate Insurance.
. Ootfnlman Funkhouser, , Who Is himself
Irl the Insurance business, said It would re
quire a careful tabulation, which the clerk
was directed to make, before the best bid
could be decided on.
Dr. Connell, commlrsloner of health.
asked, the council to abolish the office of j
city veterinarian and dairy Inspector.
This office is at present held by Dr. Q. H.
Young, and It Is understood considerable
friction exists between him and the com
missioner. In his letter to the council the
latter says flatly that' the dairy Inspector
has hampered all his efforts to secure pure
m'lk,' and that he. would tlierefore much
prefer to handle the dairy Inspection di
rectly than to hav? the present n.rranse-
ment continued. The recommendation was
sent to the committee of the whole.
t.'ity IClectrldian ' Mlchaelsen sent In a
communication showing the city will have
this year for lighting purposes l(i.00O. and
that each councilman can have four new
arc lamp-?, or their equivalent In gas lampa.
It was ao ordered, with a recommendation
by McGovern that Councilman Sebxoeder
of the Seventh have the lamps not needed
by ! Councilman Burmester In the Third.
The council passed- over the mayor's veto
jthe resolution ordering. President . Bur
mester to. recognize the city Clerk and the
newspaper men as part of the city govern
ment when he gives his reception and ban
quet. The president accepted the action
of the eouncll gracefully, with a promise
to make good at a date In the near future.
APPRAISEMENT
OF
PROPERTY
estimates for Openlnar Twenty-Second
Will Be Mnde Under Ordinance.
Appraisement of property for the open
ing of Twenty-second street, from Howard
to Dodge, will be proceeded with under an
ordinance passed by the council, which was
Introduced by Councilman Johnson. ' Tho
work will be split Into two districts, to
keep within the amount allowed by the
charter for any one district.
V Bishop A. L. Williams of the Episcopal
Olocess of Nebraska, asked permission to
use part .of Dodge street sb, originally
platted for the purpose of constructing the
new building the diocese is to erect on the
site of the old. Clarksort hospital,' between
fetventeenth and .Eighteenth; on Dpdge.' A
committee. wilt cqnslder the request. "V
A communication was received from the
Federation of Improvement Clubs asking
that the city hall offices be kept open on
Saturday the same; as any other day. It
was placed on flle. . ,
An ordinance was Introduced to permit
the Northwestern road to build, a track on
Twelfth street In the wholesale district.
It went to the committee on railways and
viaducts.
An ordinance to license and regulate bill
boards was Introduced. It has been pre
pared along the lines of the decision made
recently by Judge Estelle that thev other
ordinance, which was taken Into court; was
too broad. The committee of the whole
will give It consideration. ,
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FAITHFUL DOG LETS NO ONE
; TOUCH HIS OWNER'S CLOTHES
Guards Thynt Even In Tailor Shop
w Till Master ia Sent For, .Then
' Surrenders the Fort.
"Jim,'' an ordinary looking dog, belonging
to T, J. O'Brien, proprietor of the Hen
uliaw, has exhibited some traits his owner
did not know he hod.
Jim followed a porter with two suits of
Mr. O'Brien's Into Dresher's the tailor,
next door, to have them pressed. Some of
the employes noticed the dog lying on the
floor, but supposed it was a tramp dog
that had come In out of the blizzard.
After the clothes had been there for two
hours the porter at Dresher's tried to take
the suits to the rear to have--them cleaned
and pressed. Hero Is where Jim got in.
He would . not let anyone approach his
master's suits. The men thought the dog
waa crazy or mad.
An hour afterwards Al Dreaher appeared
and was told of the "mad" dog. Mr.
Dresher at ( onrp recognised whose dog' It
was and called him by name, but still he
would not permit the suits to be touched.
The only solution was to send - for Mr.
O'Brien. When the faithful dog saw his
master he wagged his tall and surrendered
the fort.
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WOMEN IIAVE FURIOUS FIGHT
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Two Sistcrs-in-Lmw Lock Room and
. ' Hare a Rough-and-Tumble.
ONE BEATEN TO INSENSIBILITY
Ther Smash; Furniture In Their
Fierce Combat and Tarn Room
lug House Into Veritable
Pandemonium.
Locked In a room together to prevent In
trusion Margaret Williamson and Charlotte
Williamson, sisters-in-law, ' prepared to
fTght to the desperate end at their rooming
houpc, IS15 Case street. They had strug
gled and battled as only women can. when
a newspaper man broke down a door and
the fight was ended. Margaret Williamson
was lying unconscious on the floor. The
other woman dashed out the door and
down' the street, only to be captured by
another reporter.
; The unconslous warrior was revived by
emergency treatment by a police surgeon.
An automobile load of officers answered
the hurry call and - both the combatants
were taken to the police station.
An examination of the premises showed
a carefully laid design to carry the strug
gle to the end. Each door was roped shut
and every window fastened down.
Both women' had been in police' court in
the morning before to answer charges
originating with the first chapter of the
low. Margaret Williamson had been fined
$20 and Charlotte was discharged. James
Williamson, the husband of Charlotte, was
fined $10. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harvey,
proprietors of the rooming house, appeared
at the police station to make complaint.
"They have broken up the furniture and
It's In a regular pandemonium," declared
Mrs. Harvey. "I'm afraid that when they
Get done with the furniture they'll start on
me and my husband."
Women Go to Police Station.
The two women left the police station to
gether, while. James Williamson left to take
up his day's work. At the rooming house
on Cass street the two women got together
and went at it again, with the room locked
that they might go to the finish.
The battle raged back and forth across
the room;- dishes and furniture crashed
and screams pierced the air. When the
reporters reached the house It was close
to the finish. The sound of a cry for help
came In a feeble voice.
Then the door was broken down and
Charlotte Williamson dashed out with a
baby In her. arms. When she was caught
and arrested she refused to talk.
The Williamson family group Is believed
to have come to Omaha from Sioux City.
Under A cellar door In the flooring a col
lection of literature comprising solicitors'
blanks from "a number of Omaha concerns
was found. These people had been In the
city but a few days. Their neighbors know
nothing of the source of the m ghty quarrel.
Margaret , Williamson was taken to the
emergency hospital at the police station
for treatment. . There It was said she
.would ' probably reoor' without difficulty.
Ier yister-lriUaw Is . Irl ' Jail. The police
have- rio, beeri (able' o fltld the husbands
or ine oaiuuig; women.
Billboard Kid ) L
Finds Business ;
Man Easy Mark
Hands Him a Buffalo Talk for S37.50
and Draws Off Check for
Sixty Dollars.
''Please, mister, I :need $37.50 to get my
stock of papers and magazines,"' cald the
youthful grafter known as 'The Billboard
Kid' to a certain business man of Omaha.
"And as security for the payment of the
money, If you let me have It, I'!i bring up
to your barn my nice little horse and
buggy, Just as soon as I get the 'check
cashed Jnd can get home."
"What are you to get with so much
money?" cautiously inquired tho business
man, -who, himself, has sold paper and
hustled against hard fate In other days.-
The bright boy with the billboard ad
dress went, Into details, giving U; number
of different papers and periodicals he had
to have In order to do business at his dream
stand and the list came to exactly $37.50.
Having figured his needs to the penny, the
lad elaborated on the way his parents had
gone lck on his hands, how his nice
horse was hungry and cold, how his air
ship hit a barb wjre fence and made It
lieoesaary for him to buy new posu. and
how his fiancee had not enjoyed a mixed
drink and a fancy sandwich at his ex
pense for about a day. and a half.
. "Here," said the cautious business man,
after carefully listening to the buffalo
story of the bright-faced urchin. "I !n.
going to give you this check for $60, and
yu get your parents all they need In the
way of medicine oud food, and you keep
your horse and buggy at homo, rriy boy.
You pay me as soon as you can, and I am
very glad to help you."
'Tm sure you're much obliged." smil
ingly repift-.d the slippery kid. talking vol
apuk so as to save the feelings of. his
benefactor. , .
He cashed the check In the outer office
and Is spending It somewhere that Proba
tion Officer Bernstein cannot locate.
TRYING HANSC0M PARK CARS '
ON PAY-0N-ENTER PLAN
Street Railway Company Will Bay
Twenty-Five New Conrhea Wben
Experiment i Concluded.
Experiments are being made by the
Omaha & Council' Bluffs Street Hallway
company In transforming some of the
largest cars of the type used on the' Twenty-fourth
street car line, into pay-s-you-enter
cars. ; As' soon as the experiments
are completed, twenty-five new cars of the
typo will be ordered.'- An effort isbeing
made to find a car with less platform be.
hind which raay be used, because lof the
'difficulties in such long ears.
Th company has bought, an autpmoblle
truck, which Is uelng equipped with- a wire
tower for emergency calls, and with thla
expects to make a considerable saving in
time In wire repairs. ,
Quite a problem confronts the company
on Fort street, from Twenty-fourth to
Thirtieth. A sewer la to be built on this
street V' ummer, which will take the
center of the road. There Is no other street
the company could use temporarily; for Its
Florence line, as ears cannot be ruii under
the North Western bildge On ' Thirtieth
treet. .
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Is famout
for lis cure of coughs, colds and croup.
This car, as well as the Mother
two of the Mitchell line, contains more 1
real automobile value than any other car now on
the market, and you will be given every oppor- ?
tunity to prove it for yourself.
vThe fact that motor cars began ,
with almost prohibitive prices, and many
of them still linger around the high-cost mark,
has created the belief in many minds that it is
impossible to build a low-cost motor car that i3
really high-class. Yet to the student the belief i
has been disproved by the existence of many, low
cost cars which supply all the, essential features of
the high cost cars, and these cars are steadily advan
. cing in public estimation because of their consistent ,
performances year in and year out.
The excuse for a medium-priced
6ix-cyinder car is the public, demand, and
the six cylinder is just "as easy of accomplishment
as the four cylinder providing the factory produ
cing it is capable of building a good motor of any
power. A six requires a little more material than
a four, but it does not follow that it runs into
materially more t money save from the purely
superficial standpoint of "get every penny you
can for what you do. ',' ' 1 ;
Take, for instance, the Mitchell
Six-cylinder, new, this year. It is a de
velopment the Mitchell Four of 1909. Two
extra cylinders have been added and' the frame
and wheel base lengthened, but the Mitchell
Company found that the cost of this development
in a factory so thoroughly equipped as theirs was
T.ie Mitchell Line
ere on Exhibition
at the Auto Show
February 21-26.
rATT A TTTATTAmi W-PA- 11t1 Vr
SPEAKERS FOR THE LAYMEN'S
MISSIONARY MOVEMENT HERE
Mat la Selected and War Preliminary
Meetlaa; Will De Held Sunday
Afternoon.
Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs
pastora and lay committeemen, some 6O0
in all, will meet Sunday at S;S0 p. m. at the
Omaha 'Young Men'r Christian association
to prepare for the convention to be held
In Omaha March 17 to JO to further the
national campaign of the Laymen's Mis
sionary movement. 'This convention la In
terdenominational and will consist 6f lay
men .from eastern Nebraska and south
western Iowa.
Meeting with the pastors Sunday after
noon will be the central co-operating com
mittee and the missionary committee of
he three cUtea and U U expected 600 dele
The Low-Cost, High-Glass Car
Silent as the Foot of Time
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"Jl long, low, rakish craft" which carries so much classical
beauty that it will open the eyes of those unenlightened ones who
still cling to the fallacy that high price proves intrinsic merit
UCCISOSS
gates will be present. t)r. F. II. Sheets
of Chicago will b one of the speakers.'
An effort Is being made to have every
church In the district represented by Its
leading laymen and to have lay members
of the missionary committee In attendance.
Churches are expected to have five laymen
present for each 100 members. The move
ment 'Is ' men's" movement.
Some of the leaders In the missionary
movement of the country will attend as
speakers and the following list will show
the high character of the speakera already
secured for work In connection with this
convention: 1 . ' v- ' ' ' '
George fcherwood Rddy, natlonnl secre
tary Young' Men's Christian 'association,
India.
S. Earl Taylor, New York City, general
secretary Laymen's Movement Methodist
Kpiscopal church,
, Dr. W. B. Anderson, Philadelphia, as
soolate secretary Board of Foreign Mis
not sufficient -to warrant any change in the orig
inal price of the ! Big Four, so they made( no
change in the price, when they created the, Six.
, Thus there .springs into existence the medium'
'priced six'cylinder car, which , is so good in every
particular that it raises the pertinent question:
"Why do other makers insist on such radical dif
ference in price between a' four-cylinder car and
a six-cylinder car?".
The medium-priced Mitchell
Six-cylinder car contains the same excellent
materials as are used in the high-cost cars they
show the same careful workmanship, the same
power, the same. speed,, the same design and the'
same finish and equipment. Why is it then that
one factory can produce a six-cylinder car at
$2,000 which will give perfect satisfaction and
please the taste arid comfort just as well, while
another concern insists upon $6,000, or three times
as much, for a six t,hat is no better in any particular? ,
The answer is that the public has been educated to
believe in high prices, and the makers of high
cost cars are content to let the public remain in .
its unenlightened state.
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There is a growing tendency,
towards the six, .ancj.vyhaf becomes popu
lar in this country must be produced. It is the
enterprising maker who immediately begins to
figure on how the cost of the popular vehicle may
be reduced while" )he; "standstill," maker, .vvh'o is
anxious to get rich quick, tries to see how much he
can increase his profits, and he depends wholly on
the public's lack of mechanical knowledge to get
away with if ' - '.' y J
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sions United Presbyterian church!
Dr.. E. V. Allen, Cincinnati, secretary
Hoard of Foreign Mlrs'bns Christian
church.'
Dr. Charles Edwin lirudt, secretary
Board of Forelga Mlssjon Presbyurlan
church, (."lilted States of America.
Homer C. Brunts, New' York City, corre
sponding secretary Board of Foreign Mis
sions M thoalst..,Kplseopsl cliftrch.
M. P. Eubank, M. ft. missionary, Nan
king, China.
George Het.er 'Jones, missionary,' JCorea.
John E. Merrill, missionary,' Turkey. '
In. John Aberly, mlSHlonary, India.' ' '
Rockwell Clancy, missionary, India. " '
' J. L. iJeerlng, missionary,' Japan.
W. C. Isett. missionary, China. " '
Dr. C. C, tolllt, secretary 'department
domestic and ktreign missions of the Prot
estant Kpiscopal church.
Isaae Taylor IIadland, Peking, China.
Bishop W. 8. Iwla, Foo Chow, China,
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Paris Branches:' ,
R119 de Til sitt am
Avenue MacMahari
Prion Donsleis
"'Tliomug Mrody, mlcsfonary, Africa.'
I'-lsihoo John Ij. Nuflsen, Omaha.
Itt. Kov. Arthur L. Wfillams, Omaha,
blbbop of. NebiBBka. , '
STEWART CASES THIRD TRIAL
Salt in Mhloh Krriian Got Mlaed
I'p la Buck In the District
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The suit of Robert A. Ptewsrt against
the Omaha & Council Bluffs street Rail
way company ia In district court for It
third trial. At the1 first, hearing the court
took the case from the' Jury, The plaintiff
S'-cun d a new trial from tho supreme court.
This serond trial took place liift June and
resulted In a hung Jury. , The cas thea
beefcme famous because of the charges' of
l'ii y tampering, which resulted In the In
dictment of Al Kenan.
rite wart seeks $Lr,onO. '