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THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY. .JULY 15, 1911. DOGS AND DIAMONDS COSTLY Compete Report of County Attestor it Interesting. AUTOS ASSrSSETAT SU3 APIECE Kor thr Klrst Tlmo the tnlor of Tax able rmyrrlr In Itaoglas (oeatr (on Dt)oml Tiv II end red Million Dollars. Tor tht first time the total value of tax able property In Itongiaa county a re turned by the assessor goes ocr the $:', (WOO mark. Aa shown by the final rtport, which W. Q. Ehriver. county assessor, turned In to the mate Huanl of .ii.ai)S.. t!n yesterday, thv tuliil la j01.;:.J.n2 l.a. year it was t1W.4K.it.Ja. The tax Is levied on only one-fourth of the total, or t4C,2iO... l,ast year the state board railed the assessed value of the county' property $22.0NO. The assessor's report showi some Inter esting detail. There are 601 dogs In Uoun laa county, whose assessed value Is fc36, making their actual value 11,080. The assessed value of the diamond! and other preclbus stones In the county on the one-fifth basts is UVmS. I.at year It was $21,410. Atonaoblles liaised. Automobiles show a surprising Increase. This year there are 1,108 machines at an assessed value of one-fifth, worth $175,7JS. or $154.66 apiece. Last year there were only 3 machines at an assessed value of $104,910. The difference Is due In part to the fact that this year there were four men detailed to automobiles as their special . work. According to the assessor's report the pianos are not very tar behind the auto mobiles In value, 1,4.79 of them being placed at an assessed value of $135,603. The total personalty at the one-fifth as sessment value la $14,689,165. I-ast year It was $12,48,741. TIM greatest Item on the real estate side Is the Improved city lots, with an actual total value of $,15,672.9." and an average value of $1,294. Unimproved city lots total an actual value of $14,243,266 and an average value of $23. There are 27.554 Improved lots and 60,226 unimproved lots. , The country lands, of which there are 178,146 acres, total an actual value of $11, 131,440, or an average value per acre of $64.48. The Improvements on the country lands are estimated at $1,793. $60, or $10.06 per acre. Slashed with a Rasor, wounded with a gun or pierced by a rusty nail, Bucklen's Arnica Salve heals the trouble. Guaranteed. 25o. Tor sale by Beaton Drug Co. Omaha the Center ' of Good Roads Move Early Part of Week Start to Be Made from Here to Lay Out the Omaha to Denver Route. According to reports emanating from the office of B. A. Starl. vice president of the Omaha-Denver Good Roads association, Omaha Is to be the center oil Monday and Tuesday of next week of a hlKh pressure go d rnad movement. Beginning early on Monday the gospel Is to be preached with out erasing until the start of the associa tion's cit sn-N'cbraka surveying expedition on Tuesday. If rresent plans materialise, a large num ber of automobile owners will come to the city in their cars on Monday for the good roads session at the Den on Monday night and will move on that historic edifice In an automobile parade, which Is to form at Hlxteenth and Far ham streets early In the evening. The expedition which Is to set sail on Tuesday Is SKnsored by the Iowa Publish ing company, which have been employed by the Omaha-Denver road boosters to make a survey of the route. The party will consist of an engineer, who will sketch the route In detail; a newspaper man to "write up" the route, a photographer, a good roads lecturer and a number of men prominent In the Oood Roads association or In automobile clubs along the route. Mr. Searle has received Information from the company that H would be glad to have some one Join the party here to help with I ho speeches and distribute literature ad vertlslng Omaha along the route. Mr. !earle will take the matter up with the Commercial club. VETERANS ARRANGE REUNION Donates Coanty Pioneers to Meet at Florence Katsrdsy to Perfect Their Plans. A four-day retmlon, wtth annual exercises and festivities, will be held at Florence by the Douglaa County Veteran' associa tion beginning Tuesday, August 15. The veterans have put the affair In the hatMs of a committee, of which Charles W. Allen is chairman, and a meeting to further ar rangements will be held at Florence Satur day. The speaker for the special days have not yet been definitely chosen, but there will be several prominent men. Saturday following the four-day session the veteran will retire for the county pioneers, who will contlnne the affair In their own name with the same arrangement. Detfj Suits IVIc The Best You Ever Saw and Without an Equal! Describes Our Grand 18th Semi-Annual .ilLsul TCD irac tin " wwm f fi 1 Xliat Commences -July lGthi As the original leaders and greatest sellers of Men's Clothing in Omaha, we naturally have more to interest you than anyone else more styles, more patterns, more clothes. From the great houses of "Kuppenheimer, "Stein-Bloch," "Schloss Bros., "Society Brand," "Hirsch Wickwire," nL. Apt & Son," "David Adler," "Garson Meyer," "Sturm Mayer," "Oohn Bros. Union Made Clothes," and "Cambridge Clothes Union Made" come the magnificent garment, that, together with our mod ern ideas of merchandising, has made this popular store famous and without one serious competitor. This sale is not composed of wind, but good, honest, reliable, healthy and substantial facts, and the facts comprise prac tically our whole mammoth stock of fine clothing, with hundreds of patterns to choose from. Our huge windows, filled with rich, handsome homespuns, wool crashes, blue serges, fancy mixtures, dainty worsteds and mohairs, in themselves display more choice styles and patterns than some clothing .stores carry in 3tock, and it's certainly a rare treat lovers of good clothes will get for their money in this GRAND HALF-PRICE SALE OF THE BERG CLOTHING COMPANY. $35.00 SUITS $30.00 SUITS $25.00 SUITS $22.50 SUITS $20.00 SUITS $18.00 SUITS $17.50 $15.00 $12.50 . $11.25 $10.00 $9.00 S15.00 SUITS $12.50 SUITS $10.00 SUITS DON'T LET YOUR NIMBLE NEIGHBOR BEAT YOU TO $7.50 $6.25 $5.00 THIS SALE. A DROP IN STRAW The late rains had their effect and the price of straw is dwn We have cut off the profits and then gome on our Straw Hats and If you are as interested as we are, they will all be sold by Saturday night. Stiff Straws Yachts, 8ennet, China Split, Milan and Swiss Braid. Soft Straws Pencil Curls, Turbans, Snap Brims and Optimo, in Mackinaw, China Splits, Shingkee, Split Palms, Milan and Combinations. 3.0O HATS 3.50 HATS 2.RO HATS $1.50 HATS w!E-fi? t3So?-g?Ts &7L iK-8? $2.75 $2.00 $1.50 50 BOYS' SUITS GREATLY REDUCED All broken and short lines of Boys' Suits, in fact, nearly all we have, has been divided into three prices, and you will now find values that you will never be able to duplicate again. They are all fresh, this season's garments, and you ran find pretty near what you want at a great saving. All styles, sizes and materials, including Blue Serge LOT NO. 1 L.OT NO. 2 IX1T NO. 3 $1.95 $2.05 $3.95 Worth up to 2.75 Worth up to $3.50 Worth up to 18.00 Some good medium weights for early fall. i VH ti 4 it i :tt: l:...-i II Saturday is Special Shirt Day All our makes are reduced for Saturday and Its a splendid opportunity to get Manhattans, "E. to W." Star and Kxcello Shirts at cost and less. ALL OP OUR $1.50 SHIRTS .$1.15 ALIi OP OUR $2.00 SHIRTS ... . Sl.tt8 ALL OF OUR $2.50 SHIRTS, ALL SIZES . t ns i SI. 88 an Us. v r rxvT -Lmm niiM HE RAISES AFAMILY ON $500 Swiss Farmer Shows What a Small Capital Can Do. HAS MONEY IN THE BANK NOW .Henry Daprrtals Wins Snceesa hr In vestlnsT Three Haard Dollars' . Is LomM-Oft Lsa4 In . Le.iv la Cosstf. CHEHAL1S, Wash., July 14. 8peclsJ.) "What can a homeseeksr accomplish In westsrn Washington with a cash capital of $1,000?"! I a moat Interest Ins story a 'secured hy Secretary E. R. Merrell of the Cltlsens1 club of Chehall from Henry Dnpertuls, a well known farmer living near Adna, on a farm about six and a half miles west of Chehalls. The story follows In part: x Mr. Dupertuta .was born in Switzerland, in the French speaking; canton of Vaud. There the family farmed nine acres of mountain land, a fair sised farm In that densely populated district, where all tilla ble land waa overcrowded In some In stance a frugal family existing from the produce of less than three acres. From a friend, who had emigrated from Swlter land to Kingman county, Kansas, the Dupertuls learned of the broad and fertile acres available In the middle west of the I'nlted State. In April, 189, they left Swltserland and located In Kansas, moving In 1891 to a homestead claim in .Oklahoma, at Bel mont. Meve te Washtavtoa. Finding the hot climate of Oklahoma un healthy for them, and learning of the milder climate pf western Washington, they bought ticket to Seattle and stopped off at the city of Chehall, December JO. 1900, where they looked for fertile land low enough In price to be bought with their 1600 caah capital, remaining from expenses ot their Journey from Swltserland to Kan sas, Oklahoma and across the continent to western Washington with their family of fourteen person. They bought the 100 acre of cut-over timber where they now reside for 1300, which waa the pries in 1900 of cut-over land that was literally oovered from sight with tree tops, old log and fir and cedar stump. Mr. Dupertul rented small residence nearby and proceeded to clearing his land. The 1 300 remaining from the purchase of the land provided temporarily for living expense; while Mr. Dupertul and the elder son worked In nearby lumber mills forVesdy money to pay for team and tools, seed, berry cane and plants, but mad the clearing of their land the main work, putting under cultivation each square rod as soon aa It was cleared. In garden truck and berries. Beeoaataa Self-Seeeorttaar. - In a few year they got under cultiva tion garden truck, raapberrlea, blackber ries, logan berries and strawberries, enough to maintain the family and to build a comfortable residence and large bam and other build In ire, and to plant an Suffered With Diarrhoea For two days I suffered terrible agony with Diarrhoea and Or! ping pain., when a friend recommended Wakefield's Black berry Balsam to me and I sent oat and got a bottle. The effect It had on me was wonderful. It quickly relieved the pain. quieted me and I went to sleep soon after conunenclng the Balsam. When I woke up I was cured and have not had an at tack of the trouble since. I have been subject to bowel trouble and have tried a good many other remedies with no satisfaction, hut this one I Just what I needed and I take pleasure In writ ing you this letter telling of my .experience with It. Very truly yours. R. STACK. S8th and Buffalo Ave.. Chicago. Hundred of people (grown people and children) are living today who owe their lives to Wakefield's Blackberry Balsam. It ha cured hundred if not thousands of cases of Diarrhoea and summer bowel troubles In the past sixty-five years after other remedies have failed. J&o every-lere. orchard of apple and plum trees that are bearing fine fruit. They have cleared and have under cultivation seventeen acres. On the remainder of their land they sowed graa seed and raised good pasture be tween the stump and log. The underbrush waa burned over and a band of Angora goats kept down further growth of underbrush, and at the same time producing some Income from fleeces of mohair, The pasture, land -at. present feeds eleven dairy ' cows, which adds ma terially to tbe Income from the farm. Thus Mr. and Mrs. Dupertul have dem onstrated what can be. accomplished with less than $1,000 capital In western Wash ington, where . fertile soil and the long growing season of our mild climate will produce, without irrigation or . the use of commercial fertilisers, enough produce from seventeen acres properly, cultivated to comfortably maintain a family of four teen persons and leave a surplus for de posit ' In the savings bank. Day of Opportunity Not Over. Mr. Dupertuls states that any healthy. Industrious man can accomplish what he has on cut-over Lewi county land. Cut over land equally aa fertile as his farm and accessible to established highways and good schools and within two miles of railway station, can now be bought for from $16 to $25 per acre, without any Im provement. Mr. Dupertul says market price for all produce are better now than when he com menced his farm In 1900. He says the cli mate ha agreed with himself and wife, and they have raised an even dosen of boy and girls, some of whom are engaged In teaching and professional occupations Mr. Dupertuls says he could not do bette: were he to live his life over again. Opening and Sales of Indian Lands C1 00 Snake River Valley Crops Looking Well Jane Rains Put Things in Fine Shape and Some Large Yields Are, Anticipated. IDAHO FALLS, Idaho. July U-CSpecUl.) Splendid rain fell throughout the upper Snake river valley during the month of June and orop 'conditions are excellent. The dry farm, which are making this part of Idaho famous, are assured of an abun dant harvest. The yields of- wheat on these farms will run from twenty-five to forty-five bushels per acre and a very ex cellent quality. It Is estimated that 300.000 bushels of dry farm wheat will be shipped out of Idaho Falls and 1,600,000 bushels off the dry farms la the entire upper Snake river valley. In addition to thl there are LMv.000 acre of land ' under Irrigation, all of whioh will produce crops of wheat ranging from forty to sixty-five bushels, oat seventy-five to US bushels, barley seventy-five to 10O bush els, potatoes 250 to COO bushels, sugar beets fifteen to twenty-five ton and alfalfa four to six tons The farmers are busy cutting the first crop of alfalfa which is of excellent quality. The -dry- farmers will begin harvesting about July X) and with their large com bined harvesters and threshers, seven men cut, thresh and sack from seventy-five to lot acres of grain per day. The largest of these machines out a swath of thirty five feet In width. Grain 1 cut and threshed with these machines for about T cents per bushel. The splendid rains have made the range excellent this year and the sheep and cattle men will market very fat stock this tall. Farmer get ft per ton for sugar beet and Indications are that the very heavy crop of potatoes produced in this valley thl year will bring a good price. Paeltlttee Beta ttaaaed. i GOLDEN DALE. Ore., July la The Gol dendale Fruit and Produce association ha established a free bureau of Information and employment office for the benefit of the farmers and fruit growers of the Klick itat cal'ey. Information relative to the cultivating Cud caring for of orchards and the growing of crop of all kinds will be furnished. The association la arranging to maintain permanent exhibit of Klickitat products at Seattle, rortland, Spokane and Lyle. ' The Kay as in bit us Hop ham Waot Ada- Will secure the 1911 Owners' Free Kxchange Book, which contains ail the opening and sales of Indian Lands, as given by the United States Land Office, with names and location of lands as follows: Blackfeet, Montana: Chippewa, Minn.; Cheyenne River and standing Rock, S. D. and N. D.; Coeur DAlene, Idaho; Colville, Washj Crow, Mont.; Flathead, Montana; Lots Fronting on Flathead Lake, Kurt tter thold, N. V.; Fort Hall, Idaho; Fort Peck, Montana; Pine Ridge. 8. D.; Red Lake, Minn.; Rosebud (Mellette and Washabaugn Cos.) S. 1. ; Shoshone or Wind River Reser vation, Wyo. There are over 5,000,000 acres of these lands. It gives every acre of homestead and pub lic lands, with a grand total of 711.9tni.4oO acres and numben of acres in each county, land district, and state. All V. B. Land Offices, land laws, rules, fees, where, how and to whom to make land entry, with de. scriptlon of the land, as given by the Records of the General Land Office, Wash ington, D. p. It gives the wage scale of carpenters, ma sons, plasterers, painters, barbers, farm hands, day laborer, and other classes of labor In many towns and cities of the Western states. The wages of clerk, book keepers, stenographers, and school teachers (both in city and rural districts) of almost every state In the Union. This ajone no wage earner can afford to be without. It gives the June list with names and ad dresses of over 100 men who wish to buy or exchange for Western or Northern lands or merchandise, and deal direct with the owner, thereby giving you a chance to make Immediate mile, without having to Pay one cent commission. Why Owners' Free Exchange? Because every buyer who wants to buy direct from the r wner or ha something of value to ex change, la Invited to have his wants put on this monthly list free of charge. And every owner or purchaser of this book who wishes to sell, can secure this list free each month of 1911. by sending self addressed stamped envelope for same, making the best medium rassible of selling what you have to aell or uylng what you want to buy at the right price, and securing the highest wages ob tainable for your labor. This bOOk IS a Volume nt Infnnrnillnn compiled at a great expense and is cuaran- teed to be as reDresenteri nr mnn r-i..,4 ed. It la worth many times Its cost to every farmer, business or laboring man. and will be sent postage paid to any ad dress for only $1.00. Adores OWms1 nil UOBivns O. O, Bank Bldg. N Des Koines, Iowa. ADVERTISING PLANS ASSAILED Traffic Expert Says Parsaers Are At tracted by Resources with Which They Are Fasalllar. PORTLAND, July 14. (Special.)-Declaring that Oregon la not getting It share of the immigration movement of the country. D. O. Lively, in a letter addressed to C. C Chapman, manager of the promotion com mittee of the Commercial club, criticises the method used to advertise the resources of the state. He say that a rightful share of Immigration Is not being attracted to Oregon's vacant acre "simply and solely for the reason that Oregoa Is known almost exclusively tor its superiority in apple pro duction. ,' There la," he adds, "at present a ten dency te direct attention to general agri culture, which includes stock raising, but effort along that line are chiefly used a a tan of the apple kite. Mr. lively, says: "The new settler gen erally goes to a aew country In which the same line of farming can be carried on. te which he ha been accustomed. Thus the Immigration from the middle western state preferably goes to Kansas. Oklahoma, Mis souri and northern Texas te engage In gen eral farming tor small grain, corn, forage plants, rattle and hog ralatng." Mr. Lively appeal to Mr. Chapman in bia .capacity aa immigration commissioner for Oregon to help to "relieve the railroads of some of the difficulties under which they new labor In securing settlers.' We must look to the middle estates for a large share of our agricultural population," he saya, and adds that these people will not go Into the business of orcharding. He conclude by saying that "stock farming la the moat popular, the most profitable, the heat un derstood and the moat widely prenftnod part at American, hgrssa&ur. n fin JU 1 Sole of Pianos is noy going on, and many people are taking advantage of this excellent opportunity and purchasing pianos for their homes. This is the first time in the history of the piano business that an absolutely new and fully warranted piano has been offered for $11 1.95, with stool and scarf. Every instrument on our floor will be included in this great clearance sale of pianos, and price will.be entirely, disregarded. Below are a few of the many bargains that will be offered: . , Kimball ....$50.00 Singer : .$93.00 Fischer $140.00 Singer $145.00 Wellington .... $149.00 Krakauer ......... ..... ....... . .$149.00 Schubert $150.00 Chickering & Son (used) ; .$165.00 Do not miss this great sale of Pianos at Bush & Gerts V. . . $169.00 Estey $179.00 Ivers & Pond .$197.00 Shaw ....... . . . .$198.00 Weber .$199.00 Knabe (used) .'.$200.00 Kranich & Bach ................. .'.$250.00 Hardman (Grand) ....$325.00 fTn iru MSB STATISTICS TO BE GATHERED Eapid Strides Made in Farming in Vi cinity of Great Falli. ALL CE0FS ABE IN FJNE SHAPE Following Close of First Cattlag of Alfalfa Harrestfag ot Winter Wheat (roe Haa Been Ceaaeseel. BT OLIVER M. HOLMES. GREAT FALLS, Mont., July U The Board ot Commerce ot this dty has been inaslnc a systematic Investigation of the crop conditions ' of Cascade county, and finds that all linos of Brasses, (rains, fruit and vegetables are In the finest condition with bumper . crops practically assured. The first cutting of alfalfa is conpleted, the season for It being about two weeks late on account of the cool temperatures that have so far prevailed during the sea son, but tbe cutting has been very heavy and the quality especially fine. The board estimates that there are over 100,000 acres of hard wheat in the county that win yield aa average or tnlrty husneia to the acre, but Is now having a systematic can vas made of the county to secure the exact acreage In wheat, oals, barley, flax and rye, alfalfa and timothy, the farm development throughout the county during the past year and a kali having bean so rapid that this work Is deemed necessary to prove the wood erf ul strides thai have been made Is such abort time. This part of the country has received Its average prednttatloa np to the present time and haa aot had any of the bet' weather that has vtattad the middle and eastern statoa. though, such Tiattalfciaa, and especially for more than a day or two, are rare In this state. Following the clote of the first cutting of alfalfa, ' the harvesting of the hard winter wheat Crop has commenced, and with the completion of this, the spring wheat fields will be ready for the harvester. Bey Seoata at Coooer'e Grove. COOPERSTOWN, N. T.. July 14 -The Boy Scouts attending the first national en campment of the organisation, marched from their camp grounds on Lake Otsego this morning to the grave of James Fenl more Cooper, the great scout novelist, and passed around the grave in slugle file, bareheaded. SHO-NOT Yrlthoiit lines II HIV SS' Lens v st km' 8INGLK IN APPEARANCE, 1K)LRLK IN PIKPOSK. happily describes our "ho-KoV Lenses. No lines of cement to col lect dust or give annoyance. Twtt eoatfort and effUttoaey. hies ta aad let as aaew yea. Huteson Optical Co. 21S Boath 10 th Bt. aiSSSIS ItStOd. 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