THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, ATOIL 2, 5 BRIEF CITY NEWS i 3ae loot mat It. 0, Blaetrle Flxtnraa. Mnrfaaa-Oraaaea. Tlmae, PrlntUf. . KatUnger Will rild The will of Ooir M. Natlingpr, lata nvcrrlary of th Omaha Building and Loan association. Iai an estate which Is valued at alKitit M." to his widow. Harriet E. Mr. Nat ilnger riled March 10. Ail Wall ta China A cablegram tins been tecelved by C. N. IMeti, dated .Hon a; Kon. rirll reading: "Arrived all well. Take Trans-Slberla. Arrive Paris' not later than June 11. Leave -here for Shanghai Satur day, plarned. Gould DleU." Two DtToreaa O ran tea Two decrees of divorce rre k run led In dlKtiict court Monday as follows: Mable Casey from Milton J. Casey and Myrtle O. Field from Oeorge W. Field. The decree. In the' case of the latter provide for MO a month ali mony. Vlnety Pays for Assault Ninety day In the rounty jail was the s-ntenc- re ceived by Joseph Zadtma Tuesday morning from Judge Estelln. Zadlma was tried on a charge of asxault on a little Pouth Omaha girl.. The Jury found him guilty only on a charge of assault and battery. "You got off mighty lurky. young man." raid the judge as he pronounced sentence. Tslarram Tells of Accident A tele gram was received Monday afternoon by County Attorney English telling of a se rious accident to Arthur McFarland. It years old. In Waverly, la. Thmeasage said that McFarland lived at 2102 West Tblrd avenue, but efforts by the police failed to locate friends or relatives there. The telegram was sent by W. H. Wahr n lecher. AUTOMOBILE MAKER SAYS CONDITIONS ARE GOOD II. II. Franklin "tons Off In Omaha fop a Visit Tells of Commer cial Vehicles. H. U. Franklin, president of the Franklin Automobile company was in city Tuesday aa a stop In a trip through the middle west In the interests of tha company of which he la tha head. This la tha aecond trip taken by. Mr. Franklin thia spring, he having traveled across tha country two months ago while on a visit to tha Agen cies of his company on tia Paclflo coaat. On his first trip Mr. Franklin found trade conditlona excellent and he became very enthusiastic ."On my trip to tha coast," ha said, "I found prospects bright In every city. There la every Indication that th coming year will aaa a good mount of Automobile business. There will be a lot of cars sold in Omaha, for trade conditions here are not surpassed by those in any other town. "The fasilr. of apprehension In some quarters at tha beglnnlnir of tho 19U sea son has proven unwarranted and the sea son haa been very aucoessful. We have had a very good asle on pleaaure cars this season, Indicating that tha market is sural In food condition throughoot. , ' "In connection with tha sale of pleaaure cars, It might be well to say that tha com mercial car aa a factor in trade la just be ginning to be felt. The production of these Is being Increased In every factory and in tho Franklin factory alona there are now being turned out threa times as many trucks as there were a year ago. Omaha has shown a great iriterestfh tha eomrasr cia car proposition And that olass of vehi cle will increase rapidly here, as western cities are qulok to Adopt new and mod ern features." CROPS IN NEEDjJF MORE RAIN Railroad Iteports Show the Rest Pros per ts for A Fralt Crop la Many Years. Rain la needed all over Nebraska, ac cording to tha reports of tho Burlington and Northwestern railroads, for the last week. Tha railroad reports cover practi cally tha entire etate, find in very fsw places do tha farmers state that there has been enough rain. General condition of tha oil la food, but tha new planted seed atda mora moisture. - About one-quarter of an Inch , fell on Furlington lines. Oxford to McCook; one half Inch from McCook to Wray, And scat tering rains on tha Imperial divisions and Ksiisaj lines of that road. light and scattered ralna wore reported on tha North western from Cresco to Dallas, B. p., but mora rain la needed Wheat Is making little progress because of tha cold weather In some parts and the need of moisture. It Is in good condition In all tv'etrka and ' the prospect are for big harvests. Oats and small grain, have been planted all over the state and are doing very well. In some plants they have not sprouted, and ' thia will make a late crop. ' I Alfalfa wintered well, and short grass pastursa ra In good condition, but not making progress as ia general each spring. Plowing for corn has been Jon over tho whole state, but no planting as yet. Fruit prospeots are tha beat In years, with the lata spring, and tha blesaoma not out on most of tha trees. When they come out nW there should be no sole weather ta chill the blossoms and kill the fruit germs. INSURANCE MEN HOLD BACK (Mr "till Waltlaa; for Kids ea tha JsisrasM of tha City Ball. Won't somebody submit a bid for fur nishing insuranca for the city hall and Its contents T Threa weeks ago the city clerk was Authorised to Atlvertlaa for bids, but ntry an lnsuranc great in the city wanted the contract. Not a single bid was received last Tuesday plant when they were sched uled to be be opened. Another resolution will be Introduced tonight- The failure to (ft bids la said ta be dua to combination of Insurance agent, the membera of which have Agreed to out the contract up among them. A verbal understanding haa been reached. It la said, whereby bids will be submitted under the new revolution and the insurance divided among half A dosen local conoerna. The city wants W00.000 on tho building ani sjB.uw on me content. PAN CLUB GIVES APRIL PARTY Chambers' Aeadrmy Seeao of a Jolly Catberlac mioaday Kerala of the ( lab Members. Tba Pan club held it annual party at Chamber Monday evening. About twenty-five coupl.s were present. Mualo waa ruralahed by Whaley's orchestra. Tboee present were; Messra. and ales dame V. O. Roberta, Allen Pudley. O. O. I.leben. A. T. Cajaoob, O. c. Hainan, B. A. Hose, W. B. Tsgg, C. J. Bulla. f. O. Siier wood. R. E. I-ajiadon. Glenn A tvti. cox. ateaata. U U. UliUspU. F. M. Sher- eood, pr. Anson, Jamea; Trimble, W. H Chk. N. O Bowlby. Howard 8m. rt W. Cmley, pr. Delaney. O. J. Ststek. Rob ert Koi-sn. Misses Beatrice Cole. Nell Howard. Myra Wlddea. eai WMit.n l.Da Jacubken. Annea Cooler, Elisabeth Hehreni Mrcl Smart, Trees Robbtns Helen Rlepen. Hell field, Grace Hempel, tds Qw)Ane. Sioux Falls Boasts Youngest City Treasurer in Country John M. Toohey. city treasurer of Sioux Falls, without doubt Is the youngest city treasurer In the etate or northweet, and so far as known Is the youngest city treasurer in the I'nlted States In cities of 17.000 ami upward. He wss born In Sioux Fslls In IMS. and therefore Is only 21 years of age. He was appointed to his present position on June 8. 1910, and is one of the most efficient attaches of the present commission administration of Sioux Falls. He was educated In the public schools of the city and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Toohey, pioneer resi dents of Hloux Kails, his father be ing a local bUMinss man. The younK treasurer Is under bond uf $1.UX, and each twelve months his office handles city funds to the aKgregate amount of about t-MO.ouu. I'nrttr his efficient administration as city treasurer the Interest charges uaalnst the city are month by month being reduced by reductions in the outstanding flrtatlnir warrants and other financial liabilities. mnnwiwTOT lihin.i in, ...I in m i e n JOHN M. TOOHEY. IDENTIFIES MAN WHO SHOT Officer Brinkman Positive Hiler it 1 Han Who Wounded Him. POLICE ARE AITER THE OTHERS Think They llavr I. mated the (inns; Whlrh Mas Bern Terrorising the People of Omaha on the streets. After having positively Identified the pic tures of Harry Carter and Henry Hlllcr. alias Richard Frltsch. as those of two of the quartet who shot and wounded him last Friday night at Sixteenth, between Webster and California avenue. Police Of ficer Edwin lirinkman at his home. 1324 Arbor street. Identified Carter as one of the men who shot' at h;m. Carter, who ha been under arrest since the shooting, was taken to the home of Officer Rrlnknmn by letertlvea Fleming and Dunn. At alsht of his assailant the wounded officer restrained himself with difficulty. Carter, durinn the Identifica tion, shrank from the sight of his victim and begKCd the detectives to take him away. Hiller and Warren and another whose name Is unknown are being sought by the police. Lottie Henry, a companion of the men. was Tuesday sentenced by Acting Po lice Judge George C. Cockrell to sixty days BORN RICH.DIES AT POOR FARM Woman Accustomed to Luxury Dies Here in Poverty. WAS MOST HIGHLY EDUCATED For the Last 81a Tears Mrs. Grace I.elss Has Been Dependent V'pon Coaaty for Snpport Friends Bnry Her. Fifty-three years old, enfeebled by want and sorrow yand driven Insane by worry. Mrs. Grace Lelss died at the county hos pital several days ago. She was born In Brooklyn, N. Y., of English parents and reared amount surroundings j of great luxury, tier education was receivea irom private tutors and she waa accomplished in muslo and art and the other branches of an aristocrat lo training. Ch married A. Lelss, a piano merchant, and Invested her share of the family estate In his business which was established at Lincoln, Neb. After a few years, mis fortune ruined his business and ha be came A bankrupt. Not long afterwards he persuaded his wife to leave him on the pretext that her absence would make htm fonder of her and while sue was gone divorced her and married a piano operator In his own atora. This left her without support, as her means has been Invested in the ruined busi ness. With $1,600 she went to Kansas City and undertook to run a fashionable board ing house, work for which aha was very poorly fitted, and In a few weeks her mtney was gone. A friend in Omaha who had known her in affluence cared for her In Omaha for a year and then, when con tinual worry and suffering had begun to enfeeble her mental power, put her In Mother Lee's home at Fourth and Bancroft. Taken to Connty Farm. 81 x years ago she waa taken from this home and placed In the, County hospital, and aha haa been there since. She forgot In her recent years All of tha luxury and comfort to which aha was accustomed and took her simple fare and comforta at the poor farm without complaint. She asked continually for her husband, asking why he did not come to her, and accusing the attendants of keeping her separated from her own people. (Jlnce her death it has been learned that her husband 1 living with hi second wife In Kokomo, Ind. Tb only other relative she had In ' thia country waa a aecond oousm who died recently in Avon. New York. The executore of the estate of this eousln refused to advance money for her burial, and the fact that she is to be burlad in West Lawn cemetery was due to the help of the friend In Omaha, who cared for her when she first became dependent The funeral waa held at t.'JO Tuesday morn ing from an undertaking establishment LATENSER SAYS TIME IS UP AAvlses Connty Commissioners that Tonrt Honse Bhoald Be Com-' Dieted by May 1. A letter from John Latenser, architect on the new court house:, haa been received by the Board of County Commissioners, which advises them that the time limit of twenty months, within which the contract with Caldwell & Drake calls for the completion of the building, expires on May 1. The communication also states that ac cording to tbe contract, Caldwell & Prake must stand all the additional expenses caused by any delay after that time, and reoommenda tbat tha board take action at Once. Among the Items, ha says, that call for more immediate attention are renta and Inspection. He recommends that his own salary and that of D. L. Shane, who is tho other inspector, be deducted from the money paid Caldwell A Drake, beginning May L aa tha beat way of collection. Tha letter waa read before the board in its meeting Tueaday, but no definite action waa taken upon It at the time. A Viper in the Stomach la dyspepsia, complicated with liver and kidney trouble. Electrlo Bitters help all such cases or no pay, too. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. Ulrtba and Deaths. Births Frank and Anna Pesek. 270 South Twelfth street, boy; 8. and 8 Hronso, 1201 South Twelfth street, boy; James and Nettie Murray, S318 Decatur tieet, girl; Joseph and Jessie Riley, 1717 outh Eleventh street, girl. Deaths Airs. Maria 8. Anderson. eS veers 1: 40 South Twentieth street; Mons N. Nel son. Immanuel hospital; Maud Kellogg, 49 years, Glen, Neb.; Andrew P. Melter, 48 years, M8 South Twenty-fourth avenue Lucy McCormlck 4 years, 9f4 Davenport street; Dorrls Bohwaab. 4 years. U10 South Twenty-ninth street. Jobbers Complain of Freight Rates Attack is Made on the Rates from Omaha to Colorado Com mon Points. Alleged unreasonable and unjust class freight rates from Omaha to Colorado com mon points were attacked Tuesday in a complaint filed with Interstate Commerce commission at Washington by the commer cial clubs of Omaha. Sioux City, St. Joseph and Kansas City. The Joint complaint is filed against the Santa Fe and other com mon carriers. Edward J. McVann, manager of the trafflo department of the Omaha Commer cial club, says that the commission is re quested to adjust the rates on an equitable basis, as between Chicago and St. Louis and Missouri river points. "The purpose of the complaint is to obtain for the jobbers along the Missouri river the same reduc tions that were made by the Interstate Commerce commission to St. Louis and Chicago in tha Kindle case. The commis sion made for these cities a reduction of 25 cente on first clans and corresponding reduction in other classes of freight, and the Missouri river jobbers are asking for the same concessions. FATHER KNOCKS DOWN MAN WHO INSULTS DAUGHTER Sal vn tore Gnlsseppo Is Ronchly Handled by Irate Father Who Appears on Scene. Caught in the act of Insulting; 14-year-old Alice Nachtncbla of 606 Woolworth avenue. SaJvAtora Oulaseppe, an Italian, whs knocked down And severely beaten by Jo seph Nachtneble, father of tbe girl, at Rlxth and Pierce streets, Tuesday morn ing. The police arriving on the scene locked up both men, Guisseppo as a sus picious character and Nachtneble as a com plaining witness. Gutsseppe was Injured to such an exteni that Police Surgeon T. T. Peppers had to dress his wounds. Joseph Nachtneble. the father of the girl, said that the Italian had attempted to assault the girl Saturday last, but was driven away by her cries for assistance. This morning, while the father was in the house, Alice went out into the alley, where Qulsseppe was. He again began to annoy the girl, who called her father. Nacht neble overtook the fleeing Qulsseppe and gave him a drubbing before the arrival of the police. BOARD OF EXAMINERS FOR ELECTRICIANS PLANNED Assistant Cltf Attorney Is Preparing Ordinance at Request of Cltyi Electrician. An ordinance creating a board of ex aminers for applicants for electrician's permits, is being drawn by Clinton Brome, assistsnt city attorney, at tha request of City Electrician Mlchaelsen. Tha measure also will provide for a board of appeals, to which disgruntled applicants can carry their troubles. The city electrician wishes to avoid a repetition of tha Starr case, where he waa forced by mandamus to Issue a permit. Ills ordinance will do away with the pres ent board of examiners and create a nenr one composed of practical electricians. The ordinance also provides a license fee of tl for journeymen permit. WARRANT FOR EMPLOYE IN TREASURER'S OFFICE Joseph Morrow Alleges He Waa As aanlted by R. G. toakltn and Aska Ills Arrest. Joseph Marrow, bailiff in Judga Redick'a court, haa sworn .out a warrant for tha arrest of R. Q. Conkllng, employed in the office of the city treasurer. M.. .. leges that when he went into tha offico on some pusiness ne waa assaulted. Tho lou4 Sleep, .f Go4 Health Can not be over estimated and any ali ment tbat prevents it Is a menace ta health. J. L. Soutbara, Eau Claire. Wis says: "I have been unable to sleep soundly njghta. because of palna across my back and soreness of my kidneys, sly appetite waa very poor and my general condition waa much run down. I hava been taking Foley'a Kidney Pilla but A Short time and cow sleep aa aound a a rock, my general condition la greatly improved, and I know that Foley'a Kidney pills have cured a For sale by All drugglatA Si la Needed Wow, and tho Best Is Hood's Sarsaparilla e Which purifies, enriches and revitalize the blood as no other does. 40,366 testimonials of cures, in two years. Get it in usual liquid form or tablets called Sarsatabs. In the county Jail It was at the home of the Henry woman's mother at Flfleenth and Webster streets that tetectivae Flem ing and Dunn found He trail of the gang who for ionie time have been terrorising late wayfartrs on tliu streets. M tn Hate tome from Meal. The gang is said to have come to Omah from l.lmoln. Nearly all the members of the band have criminal records throughout the country. Carter, thouah he is said to he of fiood family, has In n Implicated In a number of ilespeiate scrapes end burglar ies. Henry Hlllcr. whose rt:ht name Is Kit hard Frltsch. another member of the sar.g. has served time in the tSreen Hav reformatory and in the Weupon peniten tiary. Somt years ago Miller came to Omaha, where he represented himself as the son of a rich brewer of Pt. Paul. Me railed at the local offices of the coin psny. Indulged In wild orgies and auto rides, and finally wss arrested for for gery. Miller was sentenced to three )oars In the penitentiary at l.ln.oln. Since his release he has again forigdthered with thugs and dexperadors and Is said to have come to Omaliu. from IJiiccln in roiiiiun with the Henry woman. For soreness of the muscles, whether In dured by violent exercise or Injury. Cham berlain's Liniment is excellent. This lini ment Is also highly esteemed for the relief it affords In cases of rheumatism. Bold by all dealers. Get your Permit to Smoke. Rfiallu NoBoasti TIP-TOP BREAD Makes "Hp -Top" Toast n . 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