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THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1910. iillLDlXCS FOR THE NATION Chairman Barlholdt Report! Omnibus Measure. K ORRIS SECURES HIS SHARE Fifth Nebraska Conirrnmn Itpmrm bred nllh Mnetr-t'lve Thoi aad St rod orr What Other States Hccclve. (From a 6taff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, V. C, June 19. (Special Telegram.) AfW week of consideration. given to the demands of congressmen fur sites for public buildings In their districts, Chairman Uartholdt, of the public build in (ti and grounds committee of the house. reported Saturday the omnibus public build lng and grounds bill which will be taken up Monday for consideration, carrying an ' appropriation of' 1,2S,50 with $3,005,000 for continuing contracts. Chairman Uartholdt has had numerous conferences with the president and cabinet, as to the need of the departments of government for In creased housing. What to do with Norrls of the Fifth Nebraska district was a question which net the chairman early In the preliminary consideration of the bill for Judge Norrls had been a former member of the com mittee and a most efficient member. lie fot off the reservation and the question arises In the minds of some people, whether he would have a look In on Mc Cook. But the bill as reported today shows that Norrls had his wires out, and having secured a site for the public build lng In a former congress, there was nothing left but to give him $35,000 for a building for the postofflce, and courts hav lng to bo accommodated. Nebraska received In the bill the fol lowing: ' Heat rice An increase of $12,000. For Bites Alliance, $15,000; Aurora, $6,000, and Falls City, $6,000. Total for Nebraska, $134,000. Iowa received for buildings: Sites Secured Denison, $50,000; Fort Madison, $65,000; Iowa Falls, $50,000 Le Mars, $50,000, and Red Oak, $75,000. For site and building at Perry, $00,000. For Bites Only Charles City, $10,000 Grlnnell. $8,000; Maquoketa, $5,000, and Washington, $10,000. South - Dakota Increase limit of cost at Lead, $20,000, and Sioux Falls, $100,000; fo building at Brookings upon site already secured, $70,000, and at Rapid City $100,000. Wyoming For Casper, $56,000, and Doug' las, ttB.000, upon sites now owned by the government. Halt Million In Capital. The bill makes liberal provision for plans for new and imposing public build lngs In Washington City, where the gov crnment now pays over $500,000 In annual rentals to private property owners. Among the items of $50,000, or more, provision la made for the construction of new build ings on sites heretofore acquired as follows; Grass Valley, Cal., $55,000; Greeley and Orand Junction, Colo., $75,000 each; Poca tello, Idaho, $100,000; Duquoin and Harris burg, 111., $00,000 each; Rochelle, 111., $55,000; Abilene and Concordia, Kan., $70,000 each; Belolt, $50,000; Ottawa,' Kan., $65,000; Chllll cothe and Poplar Bluff, $65,000 each; Mar shals, $60,000; Boonvllle and Rolla, $50,000 each; Kingfisher, pkl., $45,000; Rapid City, S. D., $100,000; Brookings, S. D., $70,000; Brownwood, - Tex., $70,000; Marshall and Weatherford, Tex., $C5,OU0 each; Olympla, Wash., $100,000; Casper, Wyo., $56,000; Doug las, Wyo., '$46,000. Increases In Limits. The following Item Is an Increase In the limit of cost of building: Oklahoma City, Okl., $130,000. Items for the enlargement and remodol lng of present buildings are as follows: St. Louis, Mo., $100,000; Guthrie, Okl., $125,000; .Parli, Tex., $100,000; Galveston, Tex.. S90.000. For new sites and new buildings the bill carries the following: Eureka Springs, Ark., $50,000; Newport, Ark., $55,000; Berkeley, Cal., $180,000; Chicot, Cal., $100,000; Hanford, Cal., $75,000; La Junta, Col')., $50,000; Illinois Beardstown, $000; Canton, $85,000;, Colllnsvllle, Ed- warUsvllle, Macomb and Princeton, $70,000 each; Mount Vernon, $75,000; Sycamore, $60, 000; Urbana, $80,000; Perry, la., $60,000; Kan sasArkansas City, $75,000; Garden City, $60,000; McPherson and Osage City, $50,000 each; Missouri De Soto and Fulton, $60,000 each; Webb City, 0.000; Miles City, Mont., $75,000; North Dakota Mandan, $56,000; Wllllston, $100,000; Oklahoma Ardmore, $150,010; Ulackwell, $50,000; El Reno, $100,000; Luwton, $152,300; Oregon Medford, $110,000; ' The Dalles, $80,000; Texas Bryan, $50,000; Ennls $50,000; Longvlew, $50,000; Uvalde, $50,000. For the purchase of sites provision was made as follows: Chicago, $600,000 In addition to $1,250,000 heretofore authorised; United States sub treasury at St. Louts, $300,000; El Paso, Tex., $65,000; Seattle, Wash., $200,000. For future expenditures authorlrations ' were made as follows: Austin, Tex., $26,000, ultimata limit, $210,- 000; California San Francisco, $25,000, ultl , mate limit, $500,000; Pasadena, $26,000, ultl mate limit, $200,000; Hllo, Hawaii. $25,000, ultimate limit. $200,000; Muskogee, Okl., au- . thorlsed to Increase cost by $360,000. FALLS CITY BUILDING BILL Senator Durkett Secnres Favorable Action on Measure. (From a Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON. June IS. (Special Tele gram.) Senator Burkett today secured , favorable report on his bill appropriating $75,000 for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building at Falls City, Neb. Representative Martin of South Dakota left Washington tonight for Deadwood to attend the wedding of his daughter, Lois, to Sherman Fisher of Mount Vernon, la. i At the urgent request of Judge Klnkald, ' Chairman Hull of the military affairs com mittee,, of the house will call a special meeting of his committee on Tuesday, for the consideration of the bill providing for the rellof of Crawford, Neb., said bill pro tecting the town against sewage waters ' from Fort Robinson, these waters causing ' an annual epidemio In Crawford. The bill passed the senate some time ago. Chair man Hull has agreed to give consideration of the bill at thin session. -' Jtidge Klnkald is also laboring to secure consideration of h.s bill for the relief of oivU and .Spanish war . soldiers, who are Interested In homesteads. The bill seeks to give these veterans of two wars credit for the time of their service', even when , this has' been one dtshonrrable discharge, standing against one honorable discharge. This bill follows the line of former laws on the question of pensions, and -seeks to nir.ke the regular equipment In cases where there Is a pensionable status, and as affect ing homesteads. The First National bank of Lincoln has been approved as reserve agent for the First National bank of Decatur, Neb. Uural rarrters appointed for Nebraska aim: Nemaha, route I. Richard, R. Knapp, 'carrier; Kola Morton, substitute. Riverdale, route L P. O. Dennis, carrier; Carrie A. Iannis, substitute. South Dakota postmasters appointed: Collon, Minnehaha cou rSiiBEuIliKiS IN NEBRASKA vice W. G. Fuller, res Cord county, Sallle O. Babcock, vice L. M. Sander, resigned. The First National bank of Chappell, Neb., has been authorized to begin business with ir.,000 capital. Fred Sudman la presi dent; John R. Wertx and T. M. Johnson, vice prenldents; 8. L. Habcock, cashier. Cupt.iln James E. Normoyle, quarter master, will proceed to Fort Leavenworth for duty, relieving Captain William H. Davis, quartermastei In charge of con ctructlon work at that point Captain Edwin D. Wlnans, Fortieth cavalry, and Captain Edgar T. Connolly, Fifteenth infantry, are detailed for duty, with the organized mllltla of Pennsylvania, during tho encampment at Gettysburg, August 11 to 20. First Claoj Privates F. Black and John R. Shadon, signal corps. Fort Omaha, will be sent to Honolulu for duty. First Lieu tenant Douglas Potts, Eighteenth Infantry, will report to his regimental commander for consignment for company and regiment. New York Swept by Storm After Welcome Parade Metropolitan District Suffers Severe Blow in Which Panic Reigns and Three Are Killed. NEW YORK, June 18. On the heels of the reception to Theodore Roosevelt today came the deluge. Two hours after the parade that escorted him up Fifth avenue had disbanded the whole metropolitan district was swept by the most violent storm In months. In twenty minutes six-tenths of an Inch of rain fell, while the wind at times attained a velocity of fifty-eight miles an hour. Three deaths were reported early tonight. four other persons are believed 'to have been drowned In the capsizing of a fishing smack off Long Island, while scores of others had narrow escapes. Base ball games were abandoned, and for a while panic threatened under the tents of a circus showing In the upper part of the city. The storm broke almost without warning, preceded by a gust of wind that uprooted trees and Bent street signs flying. Then came the downpour, almost a cloudburst In violence. In a moment streets were flooded and the crowds still lingering down town were soaked and bedraggled. For an hour and a half the storm continued .caus ing great damage. ' Racegoers at Sheepshead Bay were nearly thrown into a panic when they saw a bolt of lightning demolish the Jockeys' board and plow a furrow 100 feet long through the earth. In Brooklyn, Frank Rons was Instantly killed by an uprooted tree. Another tree In Flushing, L. I., was struck by lightning and Julius Joska, who had sought refuge under Its branches, was killed. Only the coolness of performers and em ployes of the Forepaugh & Sails. Bros.' circus prevented a panic In the tents spread on Manhattan field. Another victim of the wind was Mrs. Elizabeth Gerhardt, 45 years old, of Brook lyn. She was In a row boat on Jamaica bay with her husband and two other men, when a squall overturned the cockleshell. The woman could not swim and drowned before her companions could reach .her. John Dick was struck by a falling pieee of plate-glass In Brooklyn and died of his in juries tonight. No Plans 'Made "for Busting Up Trusts Frank Kellogg Confers with Roose velt, hut Merely Discusses Matters of Mutual Interest. NEW YORK, June 19. (Special Tele gram.) "Trust-buster" Frank B. Kellogg of St. Paul was a fellow passenger of Colonel Roosevelt's 'on the Kalserln Auguste Victoria. They had many con ferences on the voyage over. Indeed, Colonel Roosevelt appeared more Intimate with the "trust buster" than with any other of the passengers. 'Plans, plans, we made no plans," said Mr. Kellogg tonight. "We merely dis cussed the things in which we are mutually Interested." WEDDING OF GERMAN ' COUPLE MOST ELABORATE Largest One Held In Shelby Conntr Celebrated After Fnshlon of Southern Germany. HARLAN. Ia., June 18.-(Special.)-The largest wedding ever held In 8helby county was held yesterday when Mias Anna Book and Mr. Carl Luttlcke, prominent young people of Westphalia township were united in marriage at St. Boniface's Roman Cath olic church at 8:80 o'clock. Rev. Father Brom.uenschenkel, the parish priest, cele brating the mass and saying the cere mony. The couple were attended by Miss Dora Book, sister of the bride, and Joseph Schmtts, as bridesmaid and groomsman. After the ceremony the wedded pair, the relatives and the Invited guests repaired to the home of the bride's parents In West phalia township where a largely attended reception was tendered the wedded pair, and an all-day and much of the night sea son of merry-making was had, after the manner of such occasions in the original home .of the older people in southern Germany. From 150 to 200 families had been In, vlted and almost all of them accepted the invitation. More than 1,000 people called during the day and spent considerable time In participating In the feast and the amuse ments provided for them. Dinner was served from 12 o'clock until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Three large tables were set in the house and two In a large tent outside. Covers were laid so that nearly 200 people could be served at one time. During the meal 900 pounds of beef were served, fourteen hams, 100 pounds of "wlenes." 100 pounds of bologna, 200 pies, 2,000 buns, fifty loaves of rye bread, 100 cakes, fifteen bushels' of potatoes, be sides a large quantity of miscellaneous relishes. A large dancing pavllllon was built and here the young people danced during the day and evening. Upon another part of the grounds a bowling alley had been erected, and many found amusement there. SENATE GETS L0RIMER CASE Committee) on Privileges and Elec tions to investigate Charge of Bribery, WASHINGTON, June U.-Charges that bribery of members of the Illinois legisla ture figured in the election of William Lorlmer to the United Btates senate will be Investigated by the senate committee on privileges and elections. A decision to that effect was reached by the committee and Chairman Burrows reported a resolution Instructing the committee to proceed to conduct the Inquiry Cuium tbs vacation of congrtrs, . t , Farther Light on the Early Doings of White Pioneers. ALBERT WATKINS ON SUBJECT Eminent Historian litres Information Concerning Certain Points that Are Sot Definitely Estab. Untied br Records. LINCOLN, Neb., June 3.-To the Editor of The Bee: Prof. Munsterberg and other psychologists have been at great pains of late to prove and Illustrate the unrelia bility of human observation and testi mony. The Incidents of frontier history are, for obvious reasons, peculiarly liable to this Inaccuracy; and because but little critical examination has been given to the early history of Nebraska, many of the most Important events attributed to It are either wholly apocryphal or materially ap prehended. As a matter of course, then, some mis statements of this sort crept Into the very enterprising story of early Nebraska his tory, which was printed in The Bee. The approaching centennial anniversary will af ford a much needed opportunity to give i corrected version, so far as may be, of these early events; and the preliminary dls cusslons of the subject of the celebration also offer such an opportunity, because they are read with unusual attention. The State Historical society has lately been giving particular attention to the collection of facts relating to the early history of the Nebraska country and to their careful au thentication; and it is in pursuance of this object that I, representing the society, am submitting this communication. "Why the Whites Came. It Is generally known that the first white people who came to Nebraska were here for the purpose of exploring, trapping and trading with Indians. These operations were first conducted, so far as we know, along the lower Missouri river, but grad ually extended to Its upper aters and to Its confluents. Probably we shall some time gain much more accurate Information about this early occupancy than we now have. We know, however, that the Lewis and Clark expedition found all along the Missouri river various places with French names which seemed to have been firmly fixed. In the eighteenth century the French were very bold and enterprising explorers 'and colonists In the upper lake and Mississippi region, and it appears that they were familiar with the Missouri valley also, though they apparently had no fixed posts or settlements there. They had regu lar trading posts along the lower part of the river. From the time of the Lewis and Clark ex pedition our knowledge of this occupancy of the shores of the Missouri becomes more definite and accurate. That great expedi tion naturally gave a fresh Impetus to the enterprise of the traders and trappers whose base of operations was at St. Louis, at this time a French town with a popu lation of from 1,000 to 2,000. Soon after the expedition iarge companies were formed to carry on the fur trade whereas, before this time, It had been conducted In the main by Individuals or smaller partnerships. The two greatest of these companies were John Jacob Astor's American Fur company and the Missouri Fur company which for twelve years was dominated by Manuel Lisa, a very remarkable cltlcen of St. Louis. These companies were organised In the same year, 1&08. As tor had already be come a great probably the greatest fig ure in the fur trade in the United States. In 1810 he formed the Pacific Fur company, and Intended to operate In the northwest and particularly to gain control of the Columbia river country. Winter of 1810. In the fall of 1810, the Paclflo Fur com pany sent out its expedition, composed of the most notable trappers and traders of the Mississippi valley. It was stopped by Ice on Its way up the Mississippi river at a point a little above the site of the present city of St. Joseph and spent the winter In a camp on the Nodaway rivers, near Its mouth. It made its real start from this camp April 21, 1811. On April 28, the party camped on the Iowa side nearly opposite the site, which afterward came to be known as Bellevue. , While Astor s American Fur company was giving particular attention to tho Oregon country, Lisa's Missouri Fur com pany established itself on the Missouri river above and below the Platte; to that. while we do not know accurately when the Missouri Fur company first established it self along the present Nebraska shore line, It began its operations there before the American Fur company. The neighbor hood of the Council Bluff of Lewis and Clark was in those earlier years the favorite place for the posts of the traders, and in or near the year 1812, Manuel Lisa established the first post of a permanent character five miles and a half below the Bluff and some twelve miles above the present city of Omaha. We do not know when the fur traders first established themselves on the site of Bellevue, but It is Improbable that there was a post' there or very near when the Astor expedition went up In 1811. All we can say is that In the early part of this century the 19th traders and trappers established them. selves quite promiscuously and without permanency at many points along the shore line of Nebraska above the mouth of the Platte. Settlement at Bellevue. While It may be fairly said that the first white settlement In Nebraska was made at Bellevue, yet It Is Inaccurate to say that this settlement was established at any par ticuiar time. Bellevue was a growth, not a creation. Moreover, It is not known when It first came to be called by that name. Substantial and permanent trading posts were established there by the principal companies between 1820 and 1830, and the seat of the Indian agency for the local er domeatio tribes was moved from Council Bluffs to Fort Atkinson to Bellevue some time during that period. These two events were the main contributors to the founding of Bellevue and marked Its permanency as a white settlement The statement has been many times repeated that the Amerl can Fur company established a station at Bellevue In 1810, but no authority has yet been given for it. The treaties concluded with the Omaha and Oto and Missouri Indians In March, 1E64, whereby those tribes ceded their lands to the United States, were the beginning o fthe end of Bellevue; for as a result of the treaties, the Omaha were removed to the reservation they now occupy, and the Oto and Missouri to a reservation on the Big Blue river. As a result of the removal Bellevue naturally lost the agency of these tribes and of the Pawnee (In 1SS8 and ISM) and the choice of Omaha as the capital of thl territory In the early part of 1S5S, completed Its undoing. "Bellevuen" was organised as a municipality by authority of the first legislature March 15, 154 though the first postofflce In the territory was established there January IS, 1K55, under the orthodox sepelling, Bellevue. The first postofflce at Omaha was established May I of the same year. It Is frequently stated that a postofflce was established In Bellevue In 1849, but this Is Incorrect. An office called Nebraska was established In that year at the place commonly known as Trader's Point, lUuxlcd Juat HSIOM. tbt river In Iowa, nearly opposite Bellevue. It was placed on the east side of the river and at a less Important point than Belevtie presumably because the territory on the Nebraska side had not yet been ceded by the Indians to the United States. Called Council lllnffs. This Nehraska-ln-Iowa was really a proxy of Bellevue or Council Bluffs, and the greater part of Its business originated at the busy Nebraska post Both the bor rowed name and the close proximity of the Iowa adjunct suggest he Importance of its principal. Bellevue was always called Council Bluffs or Council Bluffs Agency In the reports of the Indian and other federal officers until the agency of the Omaha, the Otoe and Missouri, and the Pawnee Indians was re movedIn 106-67. The name of "Nebraska" postofflce was changed to Council Bluffs In 1850; this name was in turn changed to Trader's Point In 1852. The office was fin ally discontinued December 15, 1S54, because the territorial organisation of Nebraska had made way for a postofflce at Bellevue, and Kanevllle, which took the name Coun cil Bluffs when Trader's Point lost It In 1852, had superseded the ferry landing In Importance. Bellevue was never the capital of Ne braska and no preliminary legal steps were taken to make It so. Acting Governor Cum ing took the first step toward establishing the capital of this commonwealth by calling the first legislature to convene at Omaha, and that body took the final step by declar ing Omaha to be the permanent capital. The year 1810 was a very Important and significant one to the Nebraska country. Astorlans, whose great expedition was or ganised in that year, discovered and trav ersed the great part of the Oregon trail on their return fro mthe Columbia river In IS12-13. This very remarkable explora tion stimulated, if it did not cause, the movement which colonized the Oregon country with Americans, In antagonism to the British Invasion, and finally secured It to the United States.- The story of the ev olution of the great highway, which trav ersed Nebraska and discovered Its Interior to the world, is very fascinating. The trail was practically opened and used by the fur traders nearly twenty years before the great tide of Oregon emmlgratlon, which gave It its name, set In, In 1842. The 23d of June, the date of the organi zation of the aPclflc Fur company, Is there fore very properly chosen for the centen nial celebration of the beginning of Ne braska. No doubt a great deal of very In teresting and Instructive Information about that momentous epoch will be heard at the celebration. ALBERT WATKINS. Watklns an Authority. Mr. Watklns Is a recognized authority on the history of Nebraska, having succeeded the late J. Sterling Morton as edltor-ln-chlef of the most exhaustive and authorita tive work we have on the subject, "Mor ton's History of Nebraska." It Is there fore of Interest to compare Mr. Watklns, as editor of the history mentioned, with Mr. Watklns, as challenger of the accuracy of the statements made in the article printed In The Bee In regard to Bellevue and the early settlement of Nebraska. The chief points In The Bee's story which are questioned by Mr. Watklns are briefly summed up as follows: That the Astor station was not estab llshed at Bellevue In 1810 that the date of such is a atter of doubt. (See Page 67, Morton's History of Nebraska, wherein it Is stated that the Pacific Fur company (Astor's) was organized in 1810.) That Manuel de Lisa's appearance at Bellevnue Is a matter of uncertain date, and that there is no -definite knowledge as to theo rigin of the name of Bellevue. (See page 64, Morton's History of Nebraska, wherein It is stated that tradition Is to the effect that Manuel de Lisa reached Bellevue in 1905 and that he gave the palce Its present name.) That Bellevue was never the capital of Nebraska. (See page 163, Morton's HlBtory of Nebraska, .which says, quoting a letter from Armlstead Burt, son of Governor Burt: "The governor's Intention was to convene the first legislature at Bellevue. As to locating the capital I heard him say that he wanted to choose a place that would be the permanent seat of govern ment." Also see page 17$, Morton's History of Nebraska, where the following para graph occurs: "When the first governor arrived In this territory, he found only one place entitled to the name of village, even, anywhere north of the Platte river. The town of Bellevue, the first townslte north of the Platte, was the place where It was known he intended to locate the capital.") This is substantially an extract from an extended discussion of the capital question, and while it Is true that the first session of the legislature was held in Omaha, as stated not only In Nebraska histories, but also by The Bee in Its Belle vue article. Governor Burt, according to all historical authorities, considered Belle vue the seat of government during his very brief reign. Although other reference works were used to some extent, the main dependence of The Bee In its Bellevue story was Mor ton's History of Nebraska. While, accord' Ing to history, the Astor fur station may not have been in actual operation at Belle- vue in 1810, all histories agree that it was organized In that year hence the fitness of holding the Bellevue centennial in 1910. HOMESTEADERS IN TROUBLE Settlers Report that Cattlemen Made Spite Deal for School District. Homesteaders of Cherry county want to know who signed the application for school district which takes the school from the part of the county in which the set tlers have made their homes. They claim It was only a further attempt on the part of certain cattlemen who have been mak lng things disagreeable for them ever since they took up their homesteads, to drive them from the county. Charles Harms, of Survey, Neb., was in Omaha Saturday morning and he told how the settlers were oppressed. The settle ment lies near the southeast corner of the county. As soon as the settlers became firmly established their first consideration was a school district for the education of their children. A district was mapped out six miles square. wiiiie ue seiners werei working on their district another district was map ped out and applied for. extending about fifteen miles north of the Ut ile eiueiueui aim uming in JUSt one mile of the district marked out by the settlers. Also it was the plan of the ap plicants for the new district to place the school about ten miles from the settle ment. Nothing can be done In the matter until fall, as the school law does not provide for the creation of school districts during the summer months. Mr. Harms will stop In Lli.cola on his return to Cherry county and will take the matter up with the state superintendent. Conser-rntlon of Mature' Resources Applies as well to our physical state as to material things. C J. Budlong, Wash ington, R. L, realised his condition, and took warning before It was too late. He says: "I suffered severely from kidney trouble, the dlaeasa being hereditary in our family, I bave taken sour bottles of Foley's Kidney Remedy, and now con sider myself throughly cured. This should be a warning to all not to neglect tkln Foley's Kidney Remedy unu it la tea Ui"r-Byld by. all dlu!lU . -. - BOOSTERS AND BALLPLAYERS These Will Be Special Guests of Samson Monday Night at the Den. LIMIT ON THE MEMBERSHIP Samson Says 2, la All lie Will De Able to Handle This Year Dls; lroraiu for Last Monday Klght. As Monday Is an off night at the den It Is planned to make It a Boosters' and bnsc ball night, Inviting the Omaha Boosters and the Topeka base ball club, w hich is playrhg a series with Omaha. It Is the desire to have every member of the Boosters' ex cursion party present and everyone else who cares to help things along by their presence. The board of governors. Issues a special Invitation for the Commercial club to get In the game and make Booster Base Ball night the biggest ever. At Its last meeting the board of governors placed the 1910 membership limit at 2.000. The total up to date Is 91 and It Is ex pected that this year reach 1,000 by Monday night, tho third meeting of the year. Names have been coming In with a rush and at the present rate it will not be long until 2,000 have been enrolled. "There Is still time," said Secretary Pen fold, "for those who have been hanging back to get their names on the list, If they do so at once. But If they wait too long there will be several hundred good, loyal citizens left out." Samson Has Mere Office. Samson's new office at 1717 Douglas, In the new Brandels building has been fitted out ready for business, and all knights and friends of Ak-Sar-Ben are invited to drop In and look things over. If visitors like the looks of the place they are expected to say so. Up until the end of last week the office force was Just about covered up with work, trying to keep up the names of new members as fast as they came In. Commencing the first Monday In July there is something promised for every A Drink of Colorado's The Rocky Mountains are now in their gentlest mood the on which Nature is incniMtlnn m,t Vw-. , , num. Colorado is a good way, I i Rock Island Lines -direct to both Denver and Colorado Springe Let me tell you how little money it takes to have an outing- in the Rockies. I will tell you about short trips or comprehensive tours. 1 will give you rates at hotels and boarding houses, perfect the details of your trip and spare you the annoyances of ordinary travel. Splendid Fast for Colorado, Yellowstone Park and the Pacific Coast. Specially to the delightful resorts of the Golden West. Let us send illustrated literature and suggest 1 the vacation or write today ROUND fSTve ry LowTL Ml Rates all Iff- - I fa Summer Ti' ,:... Liu Mis MflSOi 41.85 and 43.20 u New York City $m60 and 44.60 U Boston, tlass. $l035and 46.35 4fi Portland, fie. $0900, 33.C0 and 34.00 ad Buffalo, N. Y. $yinT0ind 41.00 qu Atlantic City 9Q60, 32.00, 33.00 and 34.00 " Toronto, Ont. SOKOO Montreal, Quo. $QO00, 33.C0and 34.00 6d Hiagara Falls Tickets on sale daily. Ticket Offices 1401-1403 Farnam Strut Omaha, Net. mum of Imllstlons. The genuine Kseley treatment Is administered In this state only at tHl KECLET IST1TUTB. Both and Cass Streets. OMASA, MSB, Monday night until the end of the season. A number of contentions will be held In the city and each In Its turn Is to partake of the hospitality of Ak-Snr-Hen. Aside from convention nights there will be special Mon day evening features and by tho time the summer Is ended few will there be who have not had an opportunity to' reap the benefits of a Monday evening at the den. Monday night, June 27, will be Military and Elks' night, and with such a combi nation, things will be doing. The officers of the Fourth Infantry will then learn of King Ak-Sar-Ben. Other special nights for the near future have been arranged for, but programs have not yet 'been completed. However, as Ak-Sar-Ben Is noted for being able to put on a program In less than It takes to tell, no one la worrying. M. E. SMITH SALESMEN TO HOLD A CONVENTION Annual Affair This Week, When Some of the Salesmen Will Come from Afnr. The second annual business convention of the traveling salesmen, department managers c." M. K. Smith A Co., Omaha's big wholesale dry goods house, will be held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Every representative of the company will be present at the sessions, and at least 100 will participate In the proceed ings of the convention. Some of the men will travel over 2,000 miles In order to meet with their fellow salesmen. Among the' arrivals from distant polnte are: E. J. Bussey, Seattle, Wash.; R. W. Smart, Spokane, Wash.; Sam McMullIn, San Francisoo, Cal., W. It. Butler, Salt Lake City; John C. Brlce, Denver; P. II. Dawson, Boise City; II. F. Duncan, Chi cago, and C. F. Egan, Phoenix, Ariz. Thursday afternoon the men will be given an automobile ride about the city, for two hours, terminating at the Meld club, where a banquet will be tendered them by the house. , Foley's Kidney Remedy may be given to children with admirable results. It does away with bed wetting, and Is also rec ommended for use after measles and scarlet fever Sold by all druggists. Take Vintage Air skies are srreat canvases V painting with a different A fc f ... V siny way oi getting to but the best way is the r 1 13 Trains Every Day low round trip fares all summer of your life. Call, phone S .... --i ii'-l 3 ! , J. 8. morally Division Passenger Agent ISIS Farnam St. Omaha, Neb. -'-a- ' 1 j&'Mi1)lti,.: TRIP Liberal return limits and favor' able stopover privileges. Fast trains atJ convenient hours make direct con nections in Chi cago with all lines east. PLAN YOUR TRIP NOW VIA 1 HI KWliM Jus. DRINK AND OPIUM 1J Habits cured by a thorough and sclentlflo course of treat r 1 ment. which removes the craving or necessity (or liquor or drugs. Imparts new strength to every organ, and builds up the general health. Proven efficacious by 10 years' use and the cure of more than ItO.OuO patients. Baware Ncal Institutes Aro Real Homos With All Of Tito Comfort Of Homo AMiilo IWiiiK CuiiMl of Tho Drink llnhit. After taking the Neal Three Day Drink Habit Cure at one of the Institutes a p tlent, writes State Senator Bruce, Atlan tic, Iowa, said: "Go to the institute for your treatment, by all means, where everything Is home like, convenient and where you get the best of results from your treatment. (Signed) " The Neal Is nn Internal treatment that Is given In W-drop doses, no hypodermic In jections, that effects a perfect cure of the drink habit In three d:iys, at the Inctltute or In the home. No Curr, No Pay. It Is the moral duty which every drink ing man, his relatives, friends or acquaint ance owes to himself, family and society, to call, write or 'phone the nearest Real Institute today for free copies of guar anteed Bond and Contract given to all patients, as to the permanency of the euro, booklet, references to banks, and prominent men, relative to the merits of the cure, financial standing and personnel of the company. Address The Xcal Cure. Institute, O. B. ir02 8. 10th street, Omaha, Neb., also lH'.i Moines, Davenport and Sioux City, Iowa. This is one of the best prepara tions made by the American Drug gists Syndicate at its laboratory In New York, and It has proved to be the greatest tonic for the hair ever compounded by modern phar macy. It Is guaranteed to contain noth ing that Is In any way Injurious to the hair or scalp, but Is simply a scientific preparation which, when faithfully applied, does away with dandruff, cleanses and heals tho scalp, strengthens tlio roots, stim ulates the growth and ads beauty and lustre to dull, dry, lifeless hair which is fading In color and slowly dropping out. A. D. S. Hair Reviver aims to prevent baldness by removing the disease germs which affect the roots and vitality of the hair. In short It revives. It acts as a nour ishment as well as a germicide, and has a tendency to produce a thick head of beautiful hair, full of life and color, which greatly adds to the attractiveness of any man or woman, A. D. 8. Hair Reviver Is not an experiment it is not an ordinary mixture of merely pleasant smell ing ingredients it is not a wash which removes the dirt and grease and stops there, but it Is a medici nal remedy which protects the hair through Its antiseptic action upon , unit? and scalp In which they grow, and it is sold to you by the 12,000 responsible druggists who compose tho A. D. S., withthe distinct understanding that if it disappoints you your money will 1 y refunded. You can get A. D. S. Hair Re viver at anv A. TV S. drug Ktore. Look for I this Sign U(V. In the l IIEvft Druggbl'a' I fl siii ! mil Window ASSOCIATION Tinwiw WliK 12,000 Oilier Pmgstos Schaefer's Cut tilCB Vims tftores, lita and Douglas. Echaefer's Cut Price Drug 6 tores, Xtt North 16th Street , i Echaefer's Cut Price Drug Stores, 2401 N Street, South Omaha. Beaton Drug Co., 15th and Farnam. 11. S. King, 24th and Farnam. Haines Drug Co., ItiiO Farnam. Walnut Hill Pharmacy, 40th and Cuming. Earatoga Drug Co., 24th and Ames Ave. J. H. Merchant, lClh and Howard. Jno. J. Freytag, 1814 North 24th Street. The Crlssey Pharmacy, 24th and Lake. Johnson Drug Co., 24th and Spalding. S. A. Eeianek, 1403 South ICth Street C'has. E. Lothrop. 1324 North 24th Street. H. Lv. Prlbbernow, 13114 North 24th Street. Forest & Fenton Drug Co., 36th and Q. Streets. South Omaha. Hemplng Drug Co., Florence, Neb. Special Homeseekers1 Rates Southvest To Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas, Kansas. Tickets on sale first and third Tuesday in each month. Stop overs allowed on both the going and return journeys. THPS.T. GODFREY, Pass, and Ticket Agsnt. 14B3 rarnam BL Omaha, or Union station, Omaha. GOOD FOR We. nd nervous mem uuuu ,WR who rind their power to NFRVFK work and youthful vigor J111VC' ,on, a. a result of over, aork or mental exertion should take GHAT'S NfcKVB FOOD PILLS. The will make you est and sleep and be wan scal'i. 1 Bos S ncses ta.SO My snail. 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