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BRIEF CITY NEWS. I
are o1 Print I.
yes Titl Tm Kan Jewelry Co.
Oii, Slaetrla futures, anrfess-arasgea.
Tim, rrlnUmr.
Tn Xeb. Barings ft Loss Ass'a. hs
made It possible for many families to own
their home, lflns Farnam Street, Board
of Trade Building, Omaha.
Taa ankers aaelngs and Loaa Associ
ation have moved to Ihalr tiiw quartara la
tha Douglas block. Sixteenth and Dodge,
and ar ready to make loans to home
buUdera.
Oonoart at Council Bluffs Tlia Con
rordla Ladles' Singing society of Omaha.
In connection with Arlon Maennerchor of
Council Bluffs, give a concert at lohany
theater. Council Bluffs, Monday evening,
, March 30.
Travelers Will Blaot The annual meet
Ing of Omaha Post A of the Travelers'
Protective Association of America will be
held Saturday night, Alarch M. at the Com
mercial club. New offlcera will be elected
and delegates to the state and national
conventions chosen. Refreshments will be
served.
arnea Street stall way Company John P.
Waller of Council Bluffs has begun action
In United Statee circuit court against the
street railway company for $10,000 damages
for personal Injuries received In Council
Bluffs last October. He claims that the
motorman of the ear he was about to
board started before he was firmly on
the platform, throwing him to the pave
ment and Injuring him permanently.
Men Sell Goods
Without Right
For Omaha Firm
Iniut on Collecting; in Advance
Letter from Western Buyers'
Association Furnishes Clue.
AFFAIRS ATJOUTH OMAHA
Authorities to Prevent Congestion of
People in Houses.
SANITAEY OFFICER MAKES TRIP
Discovers 1 nasaal (oiJHIea Pre
vailing. Wklrk Preweilor Will
Try to Hemedy "tonek Hit
s by Meat HoaU.
lire that thieve had entered his house at
:l North Nineteenth street and stole
moner, a SS-rallber revolver ana mm out
coins. Kntranre was effected by the rear
door and the thieves appeared to have used
a skeleton key by which the back door was
opened.
RENO, Nev.. March 10.-(8perlal Tele
gram.) Sheriff Harris returned from the
north on last night's Tuscarora stage with
R. C. Hall and R. Vincent, who claimed to
represent the "Western Buyers' association
of Omaha and who were selling groceries
for future delivery and collecting cash for
the same. They passed a worthless check
and were arrested at Mountain City.
Km aping from the of fliers in the night,
they started on foot toward the Idaho line,
but the sheriff found their trail and fol
lowed them to an old cabin In the moun
tains about ten miles distant, where they
were In a freezing condition three days
during a tremendous snowstorm without
food. They willingly surrendered in the
face of death.
When searched about $7W In money fend
checks was taken from them. Whenever
they sold a bill of goods they demanded
and received payment In full.
A letter from the Wentern Buyers' asso
ciation at Omaha says the company does
not know such a man as II. C. Hall, but
described R. V. Haller, who worked the
same game through Kansas and Colorado
The deacrlptlon fits Hall perfectly. Cards
bearing the name of K. V. Haller were
found on Hall. Hall is about 33 and Vin
cent 30.
Clvde Rock of the Western Buyers' asso
ciation, Omaha, says the company had
trouble with Haller In Pueblo and at one
time tried to prosecute him. He sold goods,
collecting In advance. He was never In
any way connected with the company.
Mr. Rock thinks the sheriff of Keys
rnha county has a warrant for Haller for
disposing of a carload of potatoea without
right. .
Root President of
Carnegie Endowment
First Meeting; of Board of Trustees
Results in Steps Preparatory to
Beginning Active Work.
WASHINGTON. March W.-Stepa Initial
to beginning Its active work In further
ance of International peace were made by
the Carnegie Endowment for International
Teace at the first meeting of the board of
trustees of the body held here today.
Senator F.lihu Root was chosen preal
d'nt of the Endowment, Joseph II. Choate.
vice president; James Brown Scott, secre
tary, and Walter M. Gilbert, treasurer.
The executive committee will consist of
H'-nator Root, Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia university; John W.
Koster. former scoietary of state; An
drew J. Montague, former governor of
Virginia; Henry K. rrltchett, president of
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teachers, and Charlemagne Tower,
former American ambassador to Austrla
Jlungarv. Russia and Germany.
The finance committee will be (leorge W.
I'erklns, Robert A. Franks and Samuel
Mather.
Action Is about to be taken by the city
authorities to bring about better conditions
of living In certain districts of the city In
habited by foreign colonies of laborers and
colored people. It has long been a wonder
to those acquainted with life as lived here
that the overcrowding, which It is now
aimed to prevent, has been allowed to con
tinue, and it Is hoped that the steps now
about to be Initiated will have the effect
of changing a state of things which Is not
creditable to the city.
Chris orlna, sanitary officer, has had
notices made out for service, as a start
in the carniUgn, upon ten owners or rent
ers of property to relieve the situation the
sanitary officer has found to exist. The
complaint Is that there la overcrowding,
that the general state of the dwellings la
unsanitary, that the houses are not suffi
ciently heated and that they are In a damp
and dilapidated condition. The people
against whom the law is being put In force
live In the vicinity of Twenty-sixth and
M and N streets and Thirtieth and R
streets, and the houses are occupied oy
Bulgarian. Austrian. Lithuanian and Greek
laborers, as well as colored people.
"I have found," said Officer Pertna, "as
many as eighteen or twenty-four living In
a five-room house and one can Imagine the
sanitary state of living under such circum
stances. What with from ten to a dozen
people. If not more, sleeping In one room,
the city Is forever In danger of an out
break of disease. In many of the places
there are no beds; the men He on mattresses
on the floor and In some places they have
not even this accommodation they lie on
the bare boards, and probably their clothes
are never off them from one week to the
other." ..
City rrosecutor McNally stated that he
Is determined that the law shall be en
forced, and what should lead to energetlo
action is the fact that smallpox has ap
peared In several parts of the city. "Such
conditions of living," said Mr. McNally,
"are a menace to the public health of the
city and we will try and have them
remedied."
Htrark with av Meat Hook.
Because he asked Pat Meehan, who has
charge of the elevator In the aweet pickle
department at the Armour packing house,
to hurry, Thomas Stonek, another worker
there, was felled with a meat hook and sus
tained a severe scalp wound.
The elevator was ascending as Stonek
came to the door with his truck. He
shouted to Meehan to hurry, and the fiery
tempered Irishman evidently resented the
tone In which the request was made. The
elevator was not long In returning, and
Immediately Stonek proceeded to enter he
was struck with the hook and knocked to
his knees. He made a grab for the weapon
as Meohan attempted to strike him, and,
although his hands were badly lacerated,
he succeeded in getting It away from hta
Infuriated assailant.
By this time the row had attracted the
attention of other workers and the men
were separated, Stonek taken away to have
his wounds dressed and the police in
formed. Captain Dworak soon arrived and
arrested Meehan, who Is charged with as
sault and battery.
Meehan, In Justification of his conduct,
states that Stonek accompanied his re
quest to hurry with insulting language.
He lives at Twenty-fourth and S streets
and Stonek at Twenty-sixth and Q streets.
Mlalmim Wg Bill.
A meeting In behalf of the minimum
wage bill was held last night In the Hav-
erly hotel, and Rev. James Aherne. Rev.
lr. Wheeler and Jerry Howard were ap
pointed a deputation to go to Lincoln
Tuesday to advocate its adoption.
School Board Panda.
The report of City Treasurer Glllln, ex-
offlolo treasurer for the school board, for
the month of February shows that the bal
ance to the credit of the general fund.
March 1. was SB, 247.89, against t5..ll on
February 1. The balance to the credit of
the interest fund March 1. was 1188.25, and
of the sites bond fund, $124.51. February 1
It was $374.61.
Ma In City Gossip.
Oscar the Tailor, real good clothes msker.
J. V. Vacek has gone for a trip to New
Omaha May Get the
Next Conservation
Congress Wallace
Head of the Conservation Congress
Says This is Ideal Place for
Convention.
Conservation of soli fertility and not the
protection and development of natural re
sources will be the chief material for de
liberation at the 1911 Conservation con
gress. Henry Wallace says so. He adds
the suggestion that Omaha Is an Ideal
place In which to hold the convention, ex
plaining that this city Is the pivotal point
of the greatest agricultural producing area
In the world.
"Why not hold the next meeting In
Omaha," declared Mr. Wallace.
"The executive committee of the con
gress had a session In Washington re
cently, but the next meeting place was not
designated," said Mr. Wallace. "Person
ally. I prefer the west for the reason that
emphasis will not be on conservation of
resources by the government, but by the
states, especially as to the conservation
of soil fertility. President Taft's attitude
positively settles that argument, and It is
perfecly satisfactory to Glfford Plnchot as
well as the rest of us.
- "There Is no reason why Omaha should
not bid for the coming convention. There
seems to be no doubt but that it will be
held somewhere In the west, and tha only
western city that will be In the field will
most likely be Kansas City. Cities along
the Missouri river are especially desirable,
and Omaha would be the best of all to at
tract the greatest number of persons In
terested In progress and soil fertility.
"We do not expect to have a political
jamboree at the' next convention such as
characterized the St. Paul meeting. There
will be no politics In It at all If I have
my way, and I think I will. What we
want to do la go right to the heart of
things that should Interest the farmer,
for upon his success depends the success
of the nation. His prosperity depends on
fertility of the soil, and on this propo
sition the west has prior claim on the
next convention. Washington, D. C, and
Rhode Island both want the next meet
ing, but I prefer to come west. If a
convention place should be selected out
this way the convention would probably
be held In September, while Washington
would wait until February of 1912.
BOWMAN ACCEPTS PRESIDENCY
Secretary to Carnegie Foaodatloa
Will lie louaareat College I'rral.
drat in I'nlted States.
;:Y YORK. March 10-Jolin Gabbroth
Bowi mn. secretary of the Carnegie founda
tion, will be the youngest college president
in the United Mates, so far as statistics
how.
Mr. Bowman, who Is S3 years old, ac
cepted the presidency of the Iowa State
university today In a letter sent to the
(e lowa riate nnara oi ruueauon.
J Mr. Bowman Is a graduate of the unlver
slty whose affairs lie will direct. He came
to this city In l!ot, took a post graduate
routse at Columbia university and was up
pointed to his present position In 19. The
lowa State university, which has nearly
1 StiO students and 100 Instructors, sent him
cull to the presidency several weeks ago.
it H Is Just
J. W. WHEAT0N MAY DIE
OF WOUND IN HIS HEAD
Found at Twelfth and Harney and
Doabt Thrown on Manner
of Injury.
The most stylish spring suits, over
coats, cravenettes and "slip on
raincoats that will be shown this season
are now displayed at this store. And,
were looks their only claim on your in
terest, they'd still deserve more much
more than ordinary attention, a
In the selection of these garments wc have
carefully considered the many requirements of
each individual taste, and have prepared a collec
tion s choice, s complete and to widely varied
that every man and y-ung man in town can find
nt ne, but a dozen garments tnat wiH ex
actly suit him; and this at any price he prefers.
Possibly YOUR choice is made for style alone, for fabric,
for pattern, for fit, for service or for price. Or more than
likely you demand ALL of these qualities. Then you may
feel certain that, whatever garment you do choose, the 'Ne
braska" label is a guarantee that it will not be found lacking
in any of these qualities. .Will you allow us to furnish you
with proof! Today T
New Spring Suits, $10 to $35
Spring Overcoats, Cravenettes and
"Slip-on" Raincoats, $10 to $25
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"Tho House of
Hif3h Merit?
Your Now
Spring Hat
Is Now Ready
What will you choose this sea
son? Will It be one of those Tery
nobby, new, high crown, curl brim
telescope shapes They're shown
In a dozen different light brown
and gray shades that are brand
new this spring. Or, If you pre
fer the medium or darker shades,
we've any number that you'll
fancy.
Perhaps you'd like one of those
very new and fashionable Derbies
similar to the one Illustrated.
They're made with a medium
crown and wide brim, "all the go''
back east. Come In anyway and
see.
"Stetson's"
Stylish new spring models In both
soft and stiff shapes, at
$3.50 to $12
The "Rutland"
Is our own pet brand. We'll put
It up against any $3.50 hat In
town, and let you say which Is
the best value Only
$3.00
The "Asbury"
Has been the best $2.60 hat la
town for so many seasons we've
lost count. The proof is here at
$2.50
Bleeding profuxely from a wound at the
base of his skull. J. W. Wheaton, 32 years
old, a railroad switchman of Toledo, la.,
was found at 8:30 o'clock last night lying
In a dying condition on the sidewalk at
Twelfth and Harney streets.
The man was hurried to St. Joseph's hos
pital In the police ambulance, attended by
Dr. O. C. Bishop, where It wa found he
was suffering from concussion of the
brain. Little hope is given for his recovery.
Whether Wheaton had been slugged and
robbed and left lying on the walk or
whether he stumbled and fell, hitting his
head upon the curbing. Is a mystery.
Weight Is added to the latter theory by
the fact that the man wore a wooden right
leg.
No valuables or money was found on his
person.
Michael Pappas of 609 South Thirteenth
street stumbled over Wheaton's form In
the dark. Pappas said at first he thought
the man Intoxicated and started to walk
on, when he noticed blood flowing acrous
the sidewalk. He notified the police.
Dr. Bishop estimated that the man had
been lying In that condition for more than
halt hour before he was found.
HUNGRY CHINESE STRIP
TREES OF LEAVES AND BARK
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Consul General at Shaaabal Reports
Horrors of famine to Mate
Department.
KENDRICK CONSIDERED FOR
MISSOURI PACIFIC HEAD
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table Message Said to Have Ilcea
Kent to VI re President of
Santa re.
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biewed ai
KW VOUK. Mar-h 10 -Now that
T'oward Elliott has refused to nrcept the
presidency of the Missouri Pacific to suc
ceed Geotge ;ou!d It became knuvtn today
thai one of the men under consideration
fr the p.lllon Is John W. Krndrtck of
Chicago. lc president of the Atchison.
Topeka A aii'a Ke. Mr. Kendriek U In
Kure on a leave of absence and It Is
Understood that a cable tnensage has been
nt offering him the position.
Other names under con der.itipn are
Julius Kruttschnltt. vice president of the
Vnlon Pacific; Henry Miller, vice president
at d generiU manager of the W'atiasii. and
Stimuli Felton, president of the Chicago,
Ureal Western. .
Store Itollrlooa Hark Brer.
bank on one absolutely genuine
in Omaha. THAT'S STOitZ-
lit It. sod there la more of it
and said than any oUer in the
city, on draught Marco and thereafter.
In bottles from C1U4. &TOUZ. Phones:
Veb. lO, hid. D VM.
Orleans
That Htetson shoe for men
L saved to you. Cressey.
The annual entertainment of Bee Hive
aikBonic loage win te held March a).
'Phone Bell South HfiS Independent K-lKAj
lor a case of Jetter Hold Top. Prompt da
livery to any part of city. William Jetter.
I'ror. Paul H Urumman a lectures on
"Mi dern Literature" begin Monday in thu
IIIKII SCHOOL
A Fpeclnl meeting of Winona lodsa No
JJiM, Modern Hrotherhood of America, will
uc neiu i ins evening.
Bee our big girls' button shoes, special
vaiues at i ia ana cressey
The women of St. Martin's church will
have a fi-exli filed cake sale at lout North
i wenty -set-end street Baturaay.
The funeral of I very Thompson will be
held this afternoon at 2 o 'clock from
Brewer s chapel to Laurel Hill cemetery
The King's Daughters of ths First Prea-
nyterian churcn meet this afternoon with
Airs. v
street.
Our boys' shoes are great values this
season. Cressey.
MIhs HI la Tawney of Cedar Rapids. Ia
la vlfitliig with J. W. Cress. She is a sis-
tr ot Congressman J. K. Tawney of
aiiiinesoia.
The new Lutheran church at Twenty
fifth and K streets will be dedicated hun
auy, tile special cervices being held at 11 a.
in., o p. ni. and . p. iu.
Just received: Ladles' fine button veloose,
also hiKh tan button shoes; see them. We
sell them a little below others. Cressey.
Kev. C. C. Itnlllt of Minneapolis, secre
tary ui wis nixin Missionary department,
will he the special preacher In Nt. Martin's
church Sunday eening. The public la cor
dially invited.
Saturday afternoon Miss Alfreds Powell
will tell the Bible story at the Children a
Hour for the children of bt. Martin's
church. The subject of her talk will be
Two Chums."
Ixw shoes are all the go for ladles this
season. See our nobhy anklet In suedes
and patent, also the new two strap and
button suedes. Cressey.
Miss Anna I.innetnann of Bellevue died
yesterday in St. Joseph's hospital, aged
29. The funeral will he held Sunday at t
o'clock at the I'nlon church. Sarpy county.
The burial will be in the Bailey cemetery.
The funeral of James Hilburn, who was
for twelve ears connected with the com
mission business at the A nion Stock Yards,
will b held this afternoon at 2 o clock from
his late rtsidence. Twenty-third street and
Avenue C. Council Bluffs.
Services will be held this evening In St.
Martina church at 7:30. when the rector.
Kev. A. 11. White, will deliver the second
of the series of Lenten addresses on the
suhject of "The Uelation of Our Lord to
Human Society." The topic for rVlday
niKht will h "Conventionalities of IJCc '
The following births are reported: H. B.
Beriui8t. boy; lillo llackenholl, Twenlv
eetenih and J erf arson streets, girl; Wil
liam Miller. T enty-slxt h and L streets,
girl; Junius Kender, Mi A street, boy;
John Vimiacka. l'ort -fourth and J streets,
boy. Ky r'ord. 13 North Twentieth
street boy; Thomas Moore, 1! A street.
Kill; D. H Sullivan. Thlrty-slith and W
streets, boy; Robert Fletcher. So0 L street,
girl; Albert lioldsmlth, lsU Missouri ave
nue, girl. William Smlls, Twenty-fourth
and M streets.
A. T. Black yesterday reported to the po-
W'ARHINOTON, Marcn 10 More stories
of the horrors of the Thlnese famine
reached the State department today from
the consul general at Shanghai, who sums
up conditions at the beginning of Febru
ary. One traveller reported passing fifteen
dead bodies in fifteen miles on the road.
The missionaries tell of the natives eating
rakes made of leaves and stems mixed
with millet chaff which they buy with the
allowances from the government of S
cents apiece. The trees had been stripped
of bark, which had been eaten.
Dr. Cochrane, an American Presbyterian
missionary, said that In the whole afflicted
region there were 2.000.000 starving people.
In one village of 100 families one-third were
dead of hunger and pestilence. Snow was
falling and many were without proper shel
ter or clothing.
The missionaries have attacked the work
of relief with the greatest system and directness.
The Housewife's Telephone
"I don't know -what I would do without my tele
phone," said the busy houswife, when her husband
called up and told her he would have a friend for
dinner. ,
'When I need something for the kitchen in a
hurry, it'eaves me a lot of trouble and worry; then, too,
it helps me out of numerous tiresome tasks every day."
A Bell Telephone in the home saves the time,
nerve force and physical strength of the housewife.
It runs her errands, shops for her, goes to market and
makes her social engagements, and is useful in a
thousand other ways.
NEBRASKA TELEPHONE CO.
A. F. Mc Adams, Local Manager.
MASONS END CELEBRATION
(rent Brotherhood Banquet Held In
Aadltorlom of Masonle Temple by
Scottish Hill Members.
Reunion celebrations of the Scottish Rite
Masons were brought to a' close last night
by a prodigious brotherhood banquet In the
auditorium of the Masouiu temple, Six
teenth street and Capitol avenue.
The principal speech of tha evening wss
made by W. N. Davidson, superintendent
of schools. Mr. Davidson talked on Ma
sonry. C. K. Herring acted as toastmaster.
Those who responded to toasts were Judge
R. E. Evans of Dakota City. Grand Mas
ter Harry E. Cheney of Crelghton, Neb.;
the Rev. John F. Poucher of Stanton, Neb.,
and Judge Charles Morgan of Bassett. Neb.
Some splendid music was offered by the
Peter Tan quartet and the Shook's orchestra.
Dental "octettes' Officers.
IOWA CITY. la.. March 10 (Special Tel
egramsThe Dental Faculties Association
of American Vnliersltles, which has been
mietinr. in Iowa City for the last two
days, closed its Be salon here today by
electing tha following officers for the en
suing term: President. Dr. James Sharp,
California; vice president. Dean E. Smith
Harvard; secretary-treasurer. Dr. E. C.
Kirk. Fennayl ania: executive committee.
Dr. N. Hoff. Michigan; Dean W. 8.
lUsford. Iowa.
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Mrts rr'anaoas Bw Beer
In bottles on and after March t Guaran
teed to be the only genuine Bock Beer
brewed In Ouiaha. Family trade supplied
by Wra. J. Boekhoff, Retail Dealer, phones
Douglass lis; Ind. A-211
Bahonle Plngno Near A may.
AMuY, March 10 A severe epidemic of
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Ml Merchant!
Why not make your show windows work 18 hours
. a day instead of 12?
People have more time after dark to examine the
displays in your window than they have during
the busy daylight hours.
A well arranged, well lighted show window is like
a handsome picture in a frame. That is why peo
ple stop to look at it at night, although they pass
it by in the day time. BUT THE DAY THEY
COME IN AND BUY.
Modern electric show window lighting brings in
creased public esteem and increased patronage.
Let our contract department explain the small cost
of good show window lighting and how it is done
Omaha Electric
Light &. Power Co.
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The Cigar which, if you Once
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Ask the Man who has smoked them
3 for 23 cts. and 10 cts. straifht, according to alza
McCORD, BRADY CO.
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the bubonic plague Is reported at KioWhe
a village of the Interior on the west side
f the lAing Klang and fifty miles from
Amoy. Blokhe Is the scat of a mission sta
tion of the board of foreign missions, a
Reformed church In America.
Tenants renew leases in best
known office building in city
Therefore they must get perfect satisfaction. Few
vacant offices indicate that the accommodations
please the tenant. Elevator service, light, heat
und janitor attention are the best.
THE BEE BUILDING
Select from these offices at once as
they will not be available long:
gOOM 660 Fronts on Fsrnam street and Is partitioned to afford two of
fices. Thin is one of the most desirable offices in the building, as It
has a good south light and Is almost In tront of ths elevators. Tbs
room Is UxlK1 feet and tenia per montn lor
BOOM 806 Is a large slxed office on ths sixth floor, having a south and
went exposure. This room could be partitioned so as to suit tenant.
There is a fire-proof vault in connection, and with three large win
dows, there is sufficient light for any purpt.se. Ask to ses this mora
if you i eed as much as 420 square fuel. Price per month MO.O
BOOM 646 is one of the few small outalde offices having a vault In con.
iiectlun. Tl Is room faces 17th street and is particularly desirable for
a small office. Bent per mouth $16.00
aXTZTS 636-38 An elegant suite of rooms on the north aide of ths build
ine; 6j is partitioned, making two rooms. These rooms will be
rented In suite or separately. They would mike good architect's
quarters, or would be oesirabl for anybody wishing a north light.
Kent for suite per mouth 642.M
New tlevtor$ will It inntalled within $0 dyi.
The Bee Office Building Co.
De Business Office.
17th and Farnam Sta.
The Bee Prints the News
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