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At fK BEE: OMAHA, SATTTRDAY. .TUTiT 22, 1011. I I Council Bluffs- Council Bluffs Council Bluffs Minor Mention The Ooancll Bluffs Office of Th Omaha Bee is at IS Bcott Street. Both rhones 43. MANY SMALL LARES DRY UP jHoad Supervisors Will (let Hude Jolt 'oome mat nave aoi ncen oo 101 xuijr Years Have No Water. BIG LAKE IS BICYCLE SPEEDWAY Pavls. drum. WXdir. silver at Trf-ffrrt'a. , '.'orrtssn's un1ert niters. Phones J3. For authority on watches see I'rt. Pr. Cleaver. Hell-phone only. No. 147. 1 FAI-8T I:KEH AT ItCKlKRS' BfFFET. awl Cutler, funeral director. Phone 97. 'ooIr!ni? Undertaking comiany. Tel. 3BD. PVKK QOL.U WliDIMNU KINGS LEF FUIU'S. Tall 12 for a case of Ound's Peerless ter. J. J. Klein Co.. ddlstnhutors. Misses Lena ar.d AuciMa Wallw.ty have Bon" to Kxcelsior .s.Tliiga to spend a month's vacation. (ir.Kinut nntlt-e m a Hint for divorce was Mid yexlerdii)' ly J. H. Ferguson against ; Kn 1. FerKuson. The buds of the action 1a dei alleged desertion. Mrs. D. K. L'tithank left yesterday for Des Moines. Albla, and Colfax Springs. "O be gone for alx weeks If her hUHband. tha deputy city clerk.ldoee not become too lone oine. The Board of County Supervisors will meet this morning for the purpose of re ceiving the supplementary report of the checkers, whose work has disclosed so much looseness In the methods of keeping accounts In the auditora otflce for the terms preceding tha Incumbency of Auditor Hannan. They will be In session but a few hours. C. Hafer. head of the Hafer Lumber company, Is enjoying a visit from hla aged father William Hafer, whose home Is at Chambeishura:, Pa Mr. Hafer I; 81 years old He has previously visited Council Hliiffs and fallen so much In love with the environment In which he found himself that he Is seriously contemplating making It his final abiding place. ' anrmint of the tiavlnir which Is being Rata Scurry A lion t nn Its Smooth Bed - Spoon l.aUe la TSott a Mere .addle Minns Very Lore. Big lake hns lost Its preMlse. Its name Is a misnomer and It Is no longer entitled to the distinction of being called "Big." Boys, mounted on bicycles were yesterday riding over what was formerly nine-tenths of the area covered by water. The surface they rode upon was ns firm and smooth as asphalt pavement, with here and there great cracks yawning, disclosing unknown pths of dry earth. The dimensions of the lake have been restricted to a small area Immediately, around the boathouse, with sufficient depth to float nothing weightier than a fence plank. It Is tha first time In the history of tha lake that Its waters have vanished under the stress of long drouth duration and the fierce heat of the aun. The boya and girls of today, with good memories will be able to recount half a century hence the "extraordinary dry sea son of 1911 when Big lake went dry." Tha little spot of water that remains Is de rived from the never-falling Mynster springs, and It fills the little depression where the deepest water of the lake once was. All of the remainder of the surface Is dry. Boys have found amusement pick ing up the remnants of fish and other aciuatlc creatures whose existence was done on Broadway the atreet ca""" painfully terminated by the long drouth. .cUoTpear Even . 'crawfish have become d.acour- of the lowness of the street. One of the aged and have abndoned the deep wells cars went down aooup o cioc. nu umc . tnpy na(1 gunk earlier In the period of ab- Ne w Law to Be Invoked and They Are to Be Haled Into Court for I Laxness. ! at 11. delaying trartte ior a connusraui length of time, but finally they were put Into operation by the car men. Mra. John Nolan, accompanied by her three children, lett yesterday for Kan Fran cisco, where she will sail to rejoin her hus bund In China. Mr. Nolsn Is engaged In Important mining enterprlaes there. Mra. Nolan will be accompanied by her sister, Miss Louise Tholl, as far as Salt Lake City. At San Francisco she will be met by a Japanese nurse, who will accompany her the remainder of the way to asutst In car ing for the children. K W. Bushnell. sheriff of Mills county, 'and R. VV. Brother, clerk of the district court there, were In the city last evening n route home from the convention of the Mate Associations of Mhenlts. Clerks and Recorders at Fort Dodge. There were thirty-eight sheriffs at the meeting, and ' nearly as many clerks and recorders, but Sheriff Bushnell said that nothing what ever wu done but having a good time. He was rather disgusted at the lack of purpose of the associations. Hickory camp, Modern Woodmen of America of Omaha, haa extended an In vitation to Ilaxei camp 171, Modern Wood-. ; men of America, to pay them a visit on Tuesday. August 1. at their hall on Twen- ' ty-fourth and Lake streets. Omaha. There will be many Omaha members and teams present to participate In the opening of . their hall. All members are requested to " be present on that date. There will be a smoker, also the initiation ,of candidates. The 14-year-old daughter of John Haille was reported to be missing yesterday, and Probation Officer Herner was called upon to help find her. The young girl has been . staying at the home of Mrs. Ooldsberry. who has charge of the Pe Long mission on Avenue D. Her sudden disappearance cre ated a good deal of concern. Officer Hor ner early discovered that she had bought . ticket for Fremont. Neb., and a tele phone message disclosed the fact that she was there tha guest oi a-pear relative. Mlsa Mary Harden. Ml Fall-view avenue, was taken 16 Mercy hosaltal xesterday and underwent an operation for ' appen- . (Ileitis. Miss Hayden graduated thla year from the Iowa atate university, after tak '. Ing a four-year course, especially fitting herself for a teacher. She haa been elected to a responsible position In the high school at Leavenworth and Is spending the sum mer at the home of her parents. Mr. and ' Mrs. John Hayden. She withstood the operation well and la expected to recover speedily. Neal Cassady and Mlsa Ida Rushing, both of South Omaha, applied to Deputy Clerk Roy Hardest y yesterday for a marriage license. They appeared to be In great baste. and gave other evidence of Immaturity that strongly convinced tha official that tl.ere were Impedimenta In the way. Tha youth had a suggestion of down on his upper Hp. and the young woman looked aa if ahe were wearing her first long dress. Two beardless youths who offered to be . come witnesses added nothing to tha evl i tience In favor of granting a license and It was refuser?.. The practice of railroad companies ap propriating coal shipped by customers . whenever It Is needed for use In handling the trains Is to have another try out In the district court here. O'Neill Bros., lo cal coal dealers, began a suit against the Northwestern Railway company to recover 1:23.81 for a car of coal received by the ' Northwestern from tha Illinois Central , on January 30, last, and appropriated by tha former company. A similar caae was tried In tha district court last winter and a ver diet for the full amount returned to tha plaintiff. The case was appealed and la still In the supreme court. Preparations for opening the O'Connell department store on Saturday morning have been completed. Schloss Broa., the Detroit Jobbers, wno purcnasea me siock, nave placed It In the hands of the Harper Ad justment company of Chicago with ordera to cloae it out In the Briefest possible time. The stock has been replenished where needed, and all arrangements made for what the managers say will be a sensa tional sale. The stock Invoiced at nearly tOO.Ou and waa sold for $28,000. All of the old clerks have been enacrod for the aale. Messrs. Wyntan and Matthews of Chicago nave charge oi the sale A carload of material for ' the electric light conduits, which waa received on Wednesday, was being put under ground with remarkable rapidity by Contractoi Wlcknam. He had men at work as thickly aa they could be spaced for a distance of two blocks dinging the trench and others laying the conduit. The work was com pleted on Broadway from the Methodist ch'irch to the Ogden house during the day and the block beyond that point nearly finished. He experts to have the conduits all In place on Broadway by the close of the week. The delay In the arrival of the material waa due to a wreck which dam aged tha car and made It necessary to de lay it i or repairs. Charles Hackmlller.. yard officer for the rdortnwestem railroad, la confined In an Omaha hospital by a crushed foot. The accident ana me reiusai oi his doctor to permit him to leave the hospital made It necessary to postpone the hearing of the Austrlans captured In the raid on their camps ias ounudy morning until next week. Hackmlller was the chief witness lor tne prosecution in the cases, and with out his testimony the state's case would have lacaea some substantial facts. County Attorney Canell decided to ak continuance for the week, by which time Hackmlller win do aoie to leave the hoa. Dltal.. Ha offered to come yesterday tiro vlded an automobile waa sent after him and when arrangements to comply with his request were reported to the hospital physicians tne patient waa ordered to keep hla room. Seven of the cases were dismissed yesterday afternoon by County Attorney Capell on account of lack of evi dence. Some of the men were li hem tort on . bond and the hearing of one, Peter '4 omnia, waa partial ly completed. E. ' Hummer, a Council Bluffs youth ' 18, found himself la a peculiar predicament yesterday morning when he waa arraigned In police court on the charge of the thett of his mother's piano, and waa unable to make any explanation sufficiently reason. able to prevent Judge Snyder holding him to the action of the grand Jury. A year ' aKO Mra. Hummer went out of town on a visit, leaving her home In the care of her thrifty aon. During her absence tha vournr man Invited Aba Qilltnsky, second-hand man. to visit the premises, ana succeeded In striking a bargain with him by which Gtlltnaky waa given posseaalon of the fam ily piano In consideration of the payment of tUS. Mrs. Hummer located the missing Instrument In the poeeslon or tJUi.niikv who was a wholly Innocent purchaser. Oil husky patiently bided hla time until youn Hummer, who remained conveniently ab sent for some time, returned to the city 1 hen he procured hla arrest. Tha teat I monv lit police court yesterday waa con vlitring. and tha young man was held to the grand Jury under J00 bonds. normal dryness. They have' populated the little speck of water until It has become overcrowded and yesterday they were mak- ng a long and dusty Journey that Inter vened between the lake bed and the body water known as Gilbert's pond, de signed for Ice production and filled by water from the springs. Many Poada In Dry State. Ponds In other parts of the river bottoms surrounding Council Bluffs where the boys ave gone . swimming for two generations are dry for the first time. 'Spoon lake," whose bottom has been concealed for fifty years by nearly twenty feet of water, has been reduced to a little puddle. "Big Weedy" and "Little Weedy," where only strong swimmers could venture, have not a drop of moisture In their bottoms. Hunt's pond," which never failed, and which certain eminent local hydraulic en gineers were Insisting a year ago should be used as tha source of the city's water supply, has gone into the Invisible aqueous vapor of tha atmosphere. Pastures on the surrounding farms and grass on the hills In , the vicinity of the city Is dried to Its furtherest roots, and the hillsides would be as brown aa they are In December wero It not for the shrubbery and trees. These have lost none of tholr freshness and green, and seem to be un touched by the drouth. Lake Manawa has reached Its lowest ebb. Never In Its history has Its water level been as low as now. There are very few places where the water Is deep enough to prevent wading. Operation of the boats outside of the dredged channel between the pavilion and the kursaal Is almost Im possible and the , larger boats are finding difficulty to secure enough deep water to swim In. Despite the unfavorable conditions corn and other field crops continue to look well and promise a good yield.- The seventy-five or more road supervisors of Pottawattamie county are due to re- ( eclve a jolt within the next few days that ' will caute them to sit up and take notice I of the fact that the Iowa legislature last j winter parsed at least one ilaw that they snould have familiarized themselves wltn. . The Board of County Supervisors will this morning be asked to order the arrest I of every road supervisor In the county with I the exception of those In Crescent town- I law requiring the use of the road drag. Crescent Is the only township In the county that has complied with the law. The sudden Invoking of the law will be due to the action taken last night at a meeting held In the Commercial club rooms when an effort to revive the Council Bluffs Automobile association failed for want of a quorum' and was turned Into a good roads meeting. There are elg4ity charter members of the automobile association, but the last meet ing held by the association was on August 10. a year ago. The call Issued by Secretary Tcwne of the Commercial club for a re organization meeting last night waa re sponded to by an Insufficient number to legally do business, and, on motion of H. W. Searles It was changed Into ' a good roads meeting. Dr. Macrae was made chair man and O. B. Towne. secretary. The first action taken was calling upon the county board to procure enforcement of the road drag law, and a committee of three, con sisting of Robert B. Wallace. H. W. Searles and Fred ' Empkle was appointed to wait upon the supervisors this morning and ask them to order the road work required by law to be done under penalty of arrest. Secretary Towne read a number of let ters from automobile and good roads asso ciations In various parts of the state call ing attention to' the wretched condition of roads around Council Bluffs. Discussion about permanent road con struction recalled the fact that there Is lying Idle In one of the local banks $2,441 of the carnival fund set aside .for such use. and It was urged that some action be taken to make use of this money. Dr. Macrae favored the Improvement of the roads Im mediately adjacent to the city, either by oiling them and constantly using the road drag or by covering the surface with some suitable material. Mr. Searles said there was a ledge of shale a few miles south of town that affored Ideal material for per manent and cheap road surfacing, and Sec retary Towne was Instructed to make In quiries to discover how much It would cost to bring It into use. Dr. Macrae urged that whatever work Is undertaken should be on the roads most used by the farmers and gardeners In bringing their products to town. Doctors Inquire ; Into Phone System Management Insists Change to One System Cannot Possibly Be Made Before First of Year. . At the meeting of the Council Bluffs Medical society Thursday evening the doc tors took advantage of the opportunity to kick about the requirements' and condition of tha present telephone service. All of the physicians who are members of the society were found to be using both tele phones and they held an earnest discussion concerning not only the necessity of ha v. Ing to use them, but also of being required to pay for both. They either did not read or were not satisfied with the explana tion of the situation made by Manager Frank Elgan in his letter to the Commer clal club, In which he pointed out the Impossibility of doing more than is being done to hasten the actual consolidation of the two systems. The physicians appointed a committee to Investigate, and this com mlttee Is going over to Omaha to have a heart-to-heart talk with President Tost. Manager Elgan yesterday again explained to the doctors the present conditions and showed how utterly Impossible It was to make connections until the new switch board arrived and la installed. The proposition that Is now being made to the company and Insisted upon by some of the telephone users is to pay for only one telephone, although both are being used. This is urged for the reason that both companies are under the same owner ship. The company, in reply, says there haa been no change in ' the service and can be none until the old , Independent office on Main street can be closed by the removal of all Its wires to the new building of the Bell company on Scott street, and that It costs Just as much now to maintain the Independent service as It ever did, that the demand would be equivalent to a request jt the Independent company to furnish free service or refund tolls collected for the last year it waa In business. City Solicitor Kimball, who has looked up tne matter, says there 4a no question about the authority of the company to collect for Its service from both telephones until the two systems are consolidated, Ihe only question being one of diligence in effect ing the consolidation. It required more than a year to do this at Des Moines and the statement was made at the beginning mat a similar period would be necessary nere. uiaases max nt. at Leftert'a tha hla Jewelry store, where you get the beet for your money. Marrlaste Lloemaea. Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to tne following named persons: Mama and Residence.- Age. o. A. usenoaugh, Lincoln, Neb ....21 Anna Williams, Uncoln j Thomas W. Bowles, Omaha fl Julia Ekwall, Omaha 9 Perry Anderson, Council Bluffs 13 Bessie V. Guilford. Council Bluffs 1 John E. Christiansen. Mlnden V t mma M. l)u. MJnden 14 y if NO. 7M Saturday Extra-Special $3.50 for $2.00 From our Bummer furniture we have aelected this handsome' Kaltax rocker strong of runners, broad of seat, high of back and finest of quality and placed It on sale for Saturday only at $2.00. It has sold all summer for $3.50. This special price will last only Saturday. Cleaning-Up Prices on Linoleums Price cutting has been a feature of our July sale, buj we never were so bold as whan we marked the concessions on printed and inlaid linoleums for next Monday. These goods with their amazing prices are positively the best bargains we could offer. You may see the goods in our south window now. Look at them and remember the prices printed below you will agree with us "they are positively the best bargains we could offer." Our entire stock of dropped patterns in linoleums goes on sale Monday at these practlcally-factory prices. 65c Printed linoleum, per square yard 39J 75c Printed linoleum, per square yard 49 85c Printed linoleum, per square yard 59 91.45 Inlaid linolnem, per square yard SI. 10 91.50 Inlaid linoleum, jTor square yard $1.25 91.05 Inlaid linoleum, per square yard $1.35 91.75 Imported Inlaid, per square yard $1.50 Miller,Stewart & Beaton Co. TAG POLICY FURNITURE Established 1884. 418-15-17 South Sixteenth Street Real Estate Transfers. Real estate transfers as reported to The Bee July 20 by the Pottawattamie County Abstract company of Council Bluffs: C. P. Stevenson and wife to William and Lucy M. Reynolds, ne of 12-75-38. w. d iiT.MA Mary Etta Alexander to Elmer E. Alexander, part lot S, Auditor's sub., ne4 ne 12-75-40, w. d 1 Two transfers, total ...$17,601 TEAM SCARED BY AUTOMOBILE Driver of Car Which Caaaes Accident at Grtswold, la., Rons Away, bat la Captared. ORIffWOLD. Ia,, July 21. Special. )- Coley Mitchell, a farmer living west of Grlswold, was driving home from town when he met an automobile. His team be came frightened and ran away. He was dragged several feet and was badly bruised and his arm was broken. When the team became frightened the driver of the automobile turned and went In the opposite direction, not stopping to see what damage had been done. 'Mr. Mitchell's wife, who was with him, had the presence of mind , to take the number of the machine., The constable started In pursuit of the man, but was unable to overtake him. He telephoned the police authorities at Carson, and the driver was arrested when he reached Carson and ia now being held. There were two persons in the machine, a man and a woman. It was a Nebraska machine. Woman TTncomacloas Three Days. IOWA CITY, Ia.. July 21. (Special.) After lying In a state of unconsciousness during a period of sixty-five hours Mra Charles Toms, the wife of an Iowa City business man, has quite recovered and her nervous attack which preceded the state of coma has disappeared entirely. Doctors believe her trance will prove helpful to her. Her husband found her unconscious In a chair and ahe showed no signs of awakening until marly three days after wards. -ii n yfyV(iiiMtff.,ti Siih si-ftssig isVMt ii am i asssaaasear ifihmW i Peat Bed om Kir. MASON CITY, Ia.. July 21.-BIg areas of peat bed lying north and west of here are on fire. A large number of men from all parts of this district are making efforts to check the fire and guard property, which owing to dry weather is in danger. Iowa News Notes. CRESTON Eighty-five out of the 120 taking the teachers' examinations at the normal, held ' here in June, have been granted certificates to teach. KENT Charles Thomas of Kent haa an nounced hla candidacy for atate senator on the republican ticket from the Fitth district, composed of Union, Hlnggold and Decatur, counties. CRESTON State Superintendent of In struction A. M. Deyo waa In thla city yesterday consulting with Superintendent Pickett of the Creston schools and the local achool board, relative to placing tne normal course of Instruction In the Creston High achool thla year. No definite action waa taken, but the matter will be decided later. CRESTON Word has been received here Of the critical condition of former Con gressman Kred E. White at his home near South English. While unhitching hla team from a mower he waa kicked In the breast by one of the horses and. the report saya, he Is In a helpless condition. Mr. White is the father of Mrs. W. H. Robb of this city and served the Sixth district aa rep resentative In congress a number of years ago. Later he was the deroocratlo nomi nee for governor. Go to Colorado Ip and Play Take your camera, fishing rods, tennis racquet, golf club9, your riding clothes take your tired, jaded self to the "top of the world." Rest your eyes and your brain. The Rockies are nov? in their best "bib and tucker." Take a Rocky Mountain air bath. Feel your blood quicken. Come home with new ideas and cash them in at more than the cost of your vacation. There is no train providing such facilities for reaching Denver, Colorado Springs or Pueblo as the Rock Island's, de luxe Rocky Mountain Limited , -Omaha steeper, with stateroom and berths, ready for occupancy at 9:3 O This train of trains leaves Omaha 10:47 p. m. daily, supplies every travel luxury, and reaches Denver and Colorado Springs in time (or luncheon next day. Other fast trams every day for Colorado, Yellowstone Park and the Pacific Coast with sumptuous Pullmans, steel coaches, superb mealfi and all the little things which mean so much. Leave home morning, noon or night and reach Colorado at convenient hours. Let me tell you about the very low fares. Illustrated booklets free for the asking. We can provide the accommodations you want. J. S. McNally, Division Passenger Agent 132a Far nam Street, Omaha !VrXl MMI51 All leading bars sell Old Lager Anheuser Busch Beer. Uoaenfeld Liquor Co. N. T. Plumbing Co. tel. 130. Night L-1701 Te Key to the Situation-Bee Want Ads. IF YOU WANT Relief From Hay-Fever AND ALL ITS TORTURES Write to P. Harold Hayes, M. D.,' Buffalo, N. Y., asking tor Bulletin B-11J pott free for 2c stamp. iLaodl Bopeao Lean VThtrt It's Best to Farm ThlAklnK about boytag laadT Want so know taa ooll and dlmaU beat salted tor car tain farmlngt Oar Land Bureaa glvasj (raw Information about oil. climate), conditions l& all part ot the country. Wa have gathered data and caa tell 70a what ton desire to learm. Write) tha Land laformatloa E area a. The Twentieth Century Farmer. Omaha. Neb., today and your auestlona will gat prompt attention. , FVee InSoFrnation "Looking Backward" at This Day in Omaha Thirty years ago v .1 . Twenty years ago Ten years ago From day to day in The Bee A column of pungent items com piled from the files of The Bee tell ing what was going on in Omaha on the same date of each decade year. . The items are specially selected with a view to their interest for pres-, ent day readers, and illustrate graphi cally the life '.-of :'the 'community of which we are apart at these different stages of its career. Hnw Inn have vou been living in 'Omaha? If you were here thirty or twenty or ten years ago, The Bee's r "T .rnlrind Rarlrwarn will rfrnll. tr i; you vividly what was then taking place and refresh your memory of the people who were prominent, in the public eye. Are you a comparative new comer to Omaha? If so, "Looking Back ward" will give you pen pictures of ; the city now your residence in the early days, identify the part played by your friends and neighbors with the growth of Omaha. An instructive as well as entertain ing feature that is sure to repay many fold the time, devoted to it. V Read the "Looking Backward" column for a few days scrupulously and you will not be content after- ; ward unless you read it eyery day... " Looking Backward; through the years at ' ; This Day in Omaha Daily in The Bee