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An Excelling Clothing Sale
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STORY OF FIGHT WITH SNOW
Council Bluffs.
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Graphic Description of Death of
Eugene Snod?ras in Northwest.
WANDERED FROM WIRE IN STORM
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msamxmr wrrw maiai
Fallhfal Hat '" Alarm to Mpn
Two Miles Off, hmt They Ild ot
I ndemtaad mu4 Made No
Attempt tn Brtff.
A N letter was received yesterday
from Mrs. Eugene flnodgrass. nee Mias
Clara Botiham. of Council Bluffs. giving
detailed account! of the Incident leading
tip to the death of her husband In the wilds
of the Rrltish northwest country, miles
from the nearest railroad and 800 miles
from the Vnlted States.
The letter came to her parents. Mr. and
Mrs. A. M. Bonham. 220 Harmony street,
and Is the first written word that has
rt mr to them since they were notified by
Ire of the death of the young bride's hus
band, which was received by telegraph on
Ipcember 17. I
The letter verifies In all details the story
of his death from exhaustion and cold
while discharging his duties Wconnectlon
with his telegraphic work for the Canadian
government near Haselton on the fkeena
river, a tributary of the Yukon. It alsu
verifies the story that the news of his
death was kept from the young wife and
the shock softened as far as possible.
The letter tells of a frightful snowstorm
and blizzard that prostrated the telegraph
lines and of young Pnodgrass leaving his
home twenty miles from Hazelton on Sun
day evening. Pecember 11. at 7:30 o'clock,
going to the next camp, two miles away,
and starting along the line Monday morn
ing at o'clock. He was never seen again
alive. When he failed to report It was be
lieved he had reached a tost camp ten
miles away, and the search for him was not
begun until Wednesday, when men follow
ing his tracks through the snow found his
body. He was last heard from at the test
cabin, where he talked with Hazelton at
U o'clock Monday,
Dog Tried to Give Alarm.
The narrative of Mrs. Pnodgrass tells of
the faithful dog, I'no, that accompanied
his master, and when the latter fell from
exhaustion how the dog returned to Me
thod's camp Monday at t o'clock and
Bi light In every way to enlist help.
The letter says: "The dog scratchod and
barked at the door and when let In sprang
upon the bed Eugene had occupied the
right before, crouched In It for an Instant,
howling mournfully, then rushed for the
door, barking furiously and trying to lead
the men to follow him In the direction
where he had left his dying master." The
men did not understand and the dog then
ran down the trail to the camp where Mrs.
Bnodgrass was living. In her letter she
says: "I happened to open the door and
aaw Uno coming dawn the trail. He
atopped and crouched when he saw me, and
when I called him he came running Into
the house, sprang upon ma, and I never
aaw anything try so hard to talk aa he did.
When I couldn't understand him he laid
down in the middle Of the floor and I never
heard auch mournful howls In my life."
The tracks showed that young Snodgraaa
wandered fourteen miles In the snow and
cold before he atlffened In death. There
were two trails leading to the teat cabin.
In going Snodgraaa had followed the river'
route, the easier one, but ln returning,
searching for the broken line, he followed
the wire through the dense woods. He had
become nearly exhausted and had stuck
his axe In a tree and hung his canvas ooat
and tools upon It. then he attempted to
walk across to the river route. The anow
was from nine Inches to four feet deep,
but In some places In the forest the ground
waa bare.
The I.t jNtrascvle.
Underneath a cedar and Cottonwood tree
where the wind had swept away the anow
he had made his last struggle. He had re
moved his sweater and stocking cap and
plunged again into the snow. The tracks
led fifteen feet beyond where the body was
found. The arms were outstretched and
the man lay partly on his side aa If asleep,
with not a trace of suffering on his
ctuntenance.
Death evidently came after his dog left
him Monday afternoon. If the faithful
animal oould have made his friends under
stand the boy would have been aaved. The
dog's tracks led straight from where the
body lay to McLeod's camp, only two miles
away. The camp from which he started Is
Andlmaul, twenty mile, from Hazelton.
Mrs. Snodgraaa waa not notified, of the
tragedy until Friday, and was first told
that death had come mercifully by electric
ahock.
The letter of Mrs. Snodgrasa la accom
panied by a map of the route showing the
location of the camps and the course taken
by her husband. There can be no trans
portation facilities secured until after April
1 when river navigation opens. The mall Is
carried WO miles by dog sleds and no at
tempt Is made at more than one trip a
month.
Hayden Bros.' January Clearance Sale Excels
and Undersells Any and All Sales
This sale is not an innovation or a spasmodic occurence, but a sale that has been a feature of this store since its organ
ization. Its saving possibilities are known throughout the entire state, and candidly this January Sale excels by far all
previous efforts in the matter of value given.
A special invitation is issued to the wary buyer, the cautious, questioning customers to take a "look-in" at this sale, for
the most dubious investigator will become the most elated purchaser. It will happen every hour in the day.
The best of advice Become a purchaser of a Hart, Schaff uer& Marx Suit or Overcoat at the prices we offer them and
pocket the difference. Remember we stand back of every garment we sell during this sale. Your pocket-book will find this
to be a mighty interesting bit of news, and here are the prices:
13.75
for a Hart, Schnffncr & Marx Suit or Uvereo U.
as well as other makes that are sold as high
as $22.00.
All our $23.00 to $27.50 Hart, Schaffner & Marx Suits and
Overcoats go in this clearance sale at
All our $30.00 to $32.50 Hart, Schaff ner & Marx Suits ami
Overcoats go on sale for
All our $14.50 to $lb".50 Suits and Overcoats in Saturday's
nale at
All our $10.00 to $12.50 Suits and Overcoats
at
$17.75
S21.75
$9.75
7.75
This offer holds good not for Saturday only, but for as many days
as it requires to clear up the entire winter stock.
"We call particular attention to our all wool black Kersey
Overcoats at
$7.75
$9.75
S. B. Wadsworth Dies
at Home in City
Expires After Illness of Sixteen
Months of Paralysis Prominent
Member of Local Bar.
Our long 50-inch Coats, with velvet and Presto collars,
worth double, at
The late arrival will be able to get a better bargain in this sale than
anywhere else in Omaha. The early buyer will get the best bargain in
clothing to be had in America. v 1
Be Here at the Opening of the Sale
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Consent Petition's
Validity Will Depend
Upon a Technicality
Objections Kaiaed to Enough Names
on Withdrawal Petition to
Dispose of It.
8. B. Wadsworth died last evening at
his residence, 311 South Eighth street, after
an illness of sixteen months, of paralysis
lis lacked two months of being 60 years
old.
Mr. v adsworth was one of the best
known clttsens of Council Bluffs and for
years was a prominent member of the lo
cal bar. He arose to his position at the
bar by the sheer force of his strong char
cter. When he first came to Council
Bluffs, more than twenty years ago, he
engaged in the real estate business and
was very successful. While engaged In
that work he completed his law studies,
and when he became a member of the
Council Bluffs bar few of his fellows had a
better foundation for a successful career.
Ur. Wadsworth was active tn political
matters and was frequently called upon to
lead his party when the hope of victory
was moat forlorn. He waa twice elected
county attorney and served one term as
city tollcitor, making splendid records In
each office. The social characteristics of
his nature male him prominent in the af
fairs of local fraternal organisations. He
was always popular in the membership of
the Masons, Odd Fellows, oWodmen of
the Werld, Redmen, and was one of the
charter members of the Council Bluffs
lodge of Kike.
Mr. Wadsworth Is survived by his widow
and one son, Paul E.. and one daughter,
Mrs. Glen K. Ree4, who both reside here.
It la probable that a meeting of the bar
association will be called today to give
fitting expreaalon of the regret that will be
felt by his fellow lawyers. Arrangements
for the funeral will be announced later.
Beat rock and rye for medicinal and
fatally iim. Battled to two slaea. Roaenfeld
Uquor Ctv. 119 South Mala.
Around a table piled high with greasy
and well worn manuscripts, upon which
were scrawled names of more or less Illegi
bility to the number of 6.000, the Board of
County Supervisors spent all day yester
day in the heavy task of determining
whether the required majority of qualified
voters In Pottawattamie county had signed
the saloon consent petition.
The board remained in session until after
( o'clock and still the task was not com
pleted. All of the work, however, was done.
with the exception of reaching a decision
upon the number of the names on the with
drawal petition to be considered as fulfilling
the purpose prescribed by law. This de
cision will not be reached until some time
today, althouKh the board waa partly In
clined last evening to'hold a private con
ference for the purpose of expediting matters.
Yesterday was the hardest day the new
board has encountered. Thero was a con
stant colloquial battle between the op
posing attorneys, prompted frequently by
the suggestions of the Interested parties
on both aides. The whole day was spent
upon the withdrawal petition. The hurried
manner In which it had been prepared per
mitted much carelessness and It was pre
sented In a very ragged condition. Spe
cific objections were made to sixty-four
names and eight more were technically
objected to. Messrs. Tinley and Hess, coun
sel for the consent petitioners, called for
the application of the rule agreed to on
the previous day, when it was insisted upon
by the other side, cf rejecting all names
that were technically defective, and the
battle waa fought on these groands..
There were several coplea of the with
drawal petition that bore no date after
many of the names, and others where the
year had been left out after the first sig
nature, but carried down to the end of the
page by a string of ditto marks. These
were all objected to. i
In their summing up, the attorneys for
the consent petitioners asked the board
to refuse to consider all of the withdrawals
when signed under headings that were
HkewUe explicit, as for example, where
the heading stated that the withdrawals
were "from a petition heretofore circu
lated," but falling to tell when by giving
the year. In others the defective headings
stated that the withdrawals were from
"a petition circulated In Pottawattamie
county and filed on the blank day of blank.
It 10." Nearly one-half of the withdrawals
were defective In this respect, and the at-
i toraeys for the saloon men asked the board
to reject all auch.
" Lawyer Turner for the anti-saloon fac
tion contended that the Iowa statute, fall
ing to specify the precise manner in which
the signer should proceed to get his name
removed. It left him the widest latitude
for the exercise of a personal right.
The objections to the anti-consent peti
tion were finally crystaltzed Into these
words, dictated by Atyorney lleas: "Ob
jection Is snade to each and every signa
ture on the withdrawal petition fur the
reason that they are not sufficiently spe
cific; that they do not refer to the peti
tion filed on December 10. 1M0; that the
said signatures are not Identified In the
manner prescribed by law and are not
verified by proper affidavit; that the affl-
! davits which purport to have been made
have no reference to the signature except
in a few Instances; tnat they are mostly
on upaiate sheets of paper which are not
Identified aa a part of the petition to which
the algna'uiea were signed and are In no
way a part of the 'Withdrawals.'
A number of other technical objections
were made which were put Into writing for
the consideration of the board. if these
contentions are sustained and the full ap
plication of the rule agreed upon the day
prevlons, enough names will be. excluded
from the withdrawal petition to defeat It.
If only those objected to on mope definite
grounds are excluded the number will not
be sufficient and the consent petition will
fail, and for one year at least there will
be no saloons In Pottawattamie county
outside of Council Bluffs. No matter has
aroused such Intense Interest throughout
the county for years, and the newspaper
telephones are kept ringing by those seek
ing Information and residing In various
parts of the county. It has been positively
declared that If the board falls to sustain
the consent petition an appeal will be
taken to the courts.
WOODMEN INSTALL OFFICERS
Coancll Camp Will Meet In Hearnlar
gessloa Tonight for This
Purpose.
Council camp No. 14, Woodmen of
the World, will meet in regular session,
Friday night, at Danish hall. A large at
tendance of membership Is expected to wit
ness the installation of the officers of the
camp for the ensuing year. The Installing
officer Is t'"arl A. Morgan. The officers to
be Installed are: Charles H. Qrim, consul
commander; Fryer, adviser lieutenant;
A. C. Lane, banker; V. G. Morgan, clerk;
, watchman; Aiken, sentry; Lauter
wasner, manager.
The election of delegates and alternates
to the head camp, which meets at Dubuque,
during 'March, will also be of Important
interest to the membership. Council camp
being the largest in the state, by 200 mem
bers, will have the honor of seating eleven
or twelve delegates to represent them at
the head camp.
On this evening the handsome diamond
ring, presented , by the sovereign com
mander, will tisu be given away to some
member who has aided Council camp to
attain a" membership of 900 and thereby
making It the largest and most prosperous
camp In the stats of Iowa.
Council Bluffs.
Minor Mention
The Council Bluffs office of The
Omaha Bee Is at IS Boot street.
Both phones 43.
"The'Newlyweds and Their Baby," after
winning enormous success In most every
large city in the east, Is now heading our
way and will be shown here at the Dohany
theater on Sunday night. Sixty and one
half people are incorporated in the pre
sentation of this big song and fun feast.
N. T. Plumbing Co. Tel. 360. Night.
Encampment No. 8, Union Veteran Legion
and auxiliary No. 14, will hold a joint In
stallation at 2:30 p. m. in the Danish hall.
Refreshments and a short program, which
will include an original poem by Colonel
L. Tullys dedicated to these two orders.
All members expected to be present,
K. M. Slyter yesterday appealed to the
district court against the paving assess
ment filed against his dwelling house prop
erty on Third avenue and Eleventh street,
listed as lot 6. block 17, Bayliss' Second ad
dition. The counsel charged mm MMj.m, and
falling to get a material reduction by
application to the council, he decided to go
into the district court.
Mrs. Rose Margaret Eveiry, aged 43, wife
of Charles Everly, died at their rooms over
421 Broadway, at 6 o'clock last evening oj
iimi i uincaH. one uuu uen in lur eoina
time. She is survived by her husband, four
brothers and three sisters, all of whom re
side out of the city. The funeral will be
held Saturday at 2 o'clock from the res.
dence. He v. J. M. Williams of the Broadway
Methodist church officiating. Burial will
bejn Walnut Hill cemetery.
Ethel Carpenter Instituted a suit In the
dUtrlct court yesterday, asking a decree of
divorce from her husband on the grounds
of extreme cruelty. They were married in
Cedar Rapids, la., on July 11, 19U7 and re-'
sided together there until July 15, 1910,
when they came to Council Bluffs. In her
petition she alleges that his treatment be
came so bad that she was compelled to
leave him on July 28. She asks only the
custody of their 2-y ear-Old boy and what
other relief the court may give her.
Judge Green yesterday Issued two de
fault decrees In divorce suits. Lliile Bot
tomley was given freedom fro the matri
monial bonds that tied her to John Bottom
ley. The record shows that she Is 22 years
old and her husband but 2U The divorce
was baaed upon cruelty. A similar decree
on the same grounds was granted to Mrs.
Agnes Denham aeainst James Denham
with the exception that habitual drunken
ness was added to the cruelty charges.
Mrs. Sarah Williams died yesterday of
paralysis at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Timothy Kelly, 70 Hlxth avenue. tine
was born in Newark, England, seventy
three years ago, and had lived in this
country many years. She Is survived
by four brothers and six sisters. The fun
eral will be held Saturday morning at 9
o'clock at Bt. Francis Xavier's Catholic
church. Requiem high mans will be cele
brated by Rev. Father McManus. The
body will be burled In Walnut Hill ceme
tery by the side of her hUBband, who died
several years ago.
Robert Henderson left lat evening for
Des Moines to-be present at the preftml
nary gathering of politicians who will
mould the course of. the legislature, this
winter and give the prevailing tint to the
political complexion that will be the fash
ion during the session. Mr. Henderson's
Interests lies in the selection of the man
who is to occupy the office of state printer
for the next two years. Although Mr. Hen
derson's candidacy for the office Is only
a week old, It had reached a stage of
healthy growth, and strong support is be
ing given him in all parts of the state.
This Is encouraging his friends In Council
Bluffs and southwestern Iowa to redouble
their elfort to bring the growing boom
to the flowering stage.
When Officers Gilllsple, Richardson and
Lane were making a hurried search
through Fairmount park Wednesday even
ing In the hope of finding the gang of hold
up men who stuck up four citizens and
robbed them in the Immediate vicinity of
the south entrance of the park, they ran
into one of the members of the park soo. It
was the big gray wolf that is kept chaineJ
in the rear of the bandstand. For the frac
tion of a minute the officers had an Inter
esting time. Thei first Intimation they had
of any danger was the specter of two fiery
eyeballs gleaming out of the darkness, in
stantly followed by the rattle of a chain.
The wolf was on the far aide of his tether
stake and had to travel twice the radius of
his chain, but he was coming with the
speed of a meteor. The officers fell back
just as the wolf reached the end of h s
chain, which Jerked him high in the air. His
teeth snapped viciously almost in their
faces. Park Commissioner Graham would
have been short one wolf if, the chain had
been four Inches longer and at least one of
the officers would have been oaring for a
sore place,
Elmer L. Fehr had a very unpleasant
half hour with Judge Green In the district
court yesterday afternoon. He was haled
into court to answer to charges of con
tempt that had been preferred against
him In connection with his failure to turn
over about S4i,0(x of money in h.u posses- i
slon when he was removed from the guard
ianship of three minor heirs, the Jones,
Bishop and Means children. The court
told the deposed guardian that he had
been granted three continuances for the
purpose of being given an opportunity to
pay the money to the new guardians and
had made but a few very slight payments,
scarcely worth considering, and that If he
did not arrange for the payment by 9
o'clock this morning Judgment would be
pronounced, which would mean a jail sen
tence. Fehr held a consultation with the
attorneys representing the heirs and an
agreement was reached that he would sign
a deed of trust covering some Interests in
farm property near Oakland and property
in Omaha. Fremont Benjamin appeared as
prosecutor and N. A. Crawford as counsel
for one of the guardians, Sarah E. Means.
Attorney Benjamin objected to Mr. Craw
ford's appearance In the case in that ra
pacity, charging that he really represented
Mr. Fehr. He was put on the stand and
admitted that he was looking after the in
terests of Mr. Fehr, and he was excluded.
learainie'
Ss P3ow in Force
, Omaha has seen many a sale sensation many a
jewelry event but NEVER so strenuous, so all in- ,
elusive a sale of diamonds, watches and jewelry, as
is in evidenced here.
No matter HOW ridiculous impossible these
reductions MAY seem the are BONA FIDE reduc
tionson "jewelry store jewelry" at that. It's the
jeweler's legitimate clearance time and OURS must
be a HUGE clearance.
STEBTTKIHO In this
stock redm-ed except
Gnrham Silver and
Howard Watches
(contract goods).
BRACELETS A lot
of f.0 gold - filled
bracelet, worth from
$7 to SI2, go during
sale, each 95.00
ctrrr btjttows aoo
pnlrs of s-nld-filled
cuff button", worth
$1 F.0 to 12.00. nt.
pair 75o
COMBS 50 ladles'
hack combs, worth $5
to fin each, In thin
Felling, at $3.00
siamoho mziros
worth 75, at.. 956.25
diamond mnras
worth 50, at..C37.50
DIAMOND miNOS
worth 120, at.. 918.75
DIAMOND STUDS
125 kind $18.75
DIAMOND CUTF
BUTTONS $10 kind,
at 97.60
DIAMOND lOll?
PINS 15 kind.. 910
DIAMOND X AS
KINGS $25 kind,
at 918.75
DIAMOND X.O0KBT8
$10 kind 97.50
OAJTDX.B STICKS
Brass, $2 00 to $5.00
kind 91-50
BAG'S LadlesrMwath
er liRKs: fine ones;
worth $25 to $35, to
gn In thin selling at,
each 95.00
KNIVES and FORKS
In fine silver plate,
six of ouch; lot In
worth $4,00, but pop
at 93-50
BAGS 2 fine leather
traveling baps, with
10 silver toilet pim-en,
$:iu vniue, at l4 orr
FRAMES Sterling,
for pictures. $! kind
at 93.00 and the $1 50
klndn go at 750
WATCHES $20 gold
filled, at 913-50
WATCHES Gold, $25
kind, at 918.75
BROOCHES Gold, M
kind, at 93-00
CHAFING DISHES
$10 kind, at.... 97.00
RINGS Signet. $2
kind, at 91-00
CTMBSELLAS $10
kind, at 95.09
RAT PINS Worth to
$3, at, each 75o
SCARF FINS Worth
tn $2. at 6o
DISHES Baking, $10
kind, at 95.00
PERCOIiATERS A
few choice on In
copper or nickel, to
K while they n-e
here, at orr
CUT GLASS Vhowt
875 iilfthcM srHite
pleren are offered
during this xilllnu
at orr
ELECTROLIERS '
rhol electroliers,
worth $25, tire offered
In thin snlo. fit . . .915
EYEftLA"SE8 OR
SPECTACLES (Kye
tets free! resrulur
gold-filled $5 kind
gn at .93.00
MESH BAGS Worth
to t.i, at 910
FOBS Men's, worth
to $10. at 93-60
C A V A X. L IXRXB
Worth to $20.. 96.00
FOUNTAIN PENS
0 at HALF FRICB.
BELT BUCKLES Of
all kin. 1b. at . . H OFF
CHAINS For ladles,
$5 and $10 kinds, ro
at 93.60
BROOCHES $Z and
$3 kinds, at 78o
B T Brush and
comb, $11 klndn, o
at 900
BAGS Ladies' Vel
vet, $16 kinds, at 910
Cash Only During Sale
To move a gigantic stock of "luxuries" such as
these goods really are AFTER the holidays means
that PRICES must be reduced 6REATLY1
There are reasons WHY this stock must be
moved money must be forthcoming to pay bills an
enforced season of tame-business is not a pleasant
thing to comtemplate. But in THIS store for one, the
jeweler's usual "rest period" will be changed into a
season of MUCH activity.
Everything EVERYTHING excepting only
two "contract lines" has been heavily REDUCED.
A few specimen values are given here. And remem
ber CASH ONLY during this clearance
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