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IRDMAN ATTEMPTS ESCAPE!
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Wita Anittuet of Another Prisoner
. Ben Are Sawed Awty.
! WgHT 15 THE KICK OF TIME
jnirs Tlan Visitors Ars Tftsaght
t Have laxlM awe lata
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fe. tkc Jail Diriif fle-
f rest VI: i.
New Hupp "32" Roadster
Frank Erdman. wuo la In. the county
Jail pending retrial r.'.r the alleged at
tempt to dynamite r.ome of Tom
Xtonntson In Jun;, 1-. . and Roy Jordan,
wh la held to H .(itl grand Jury (or
Implication in lav alleged araault on
Ryltis KenzU a. -he Millard l.otel laat
month, mabe o unsuccessful attempt to
a their way out of the county jail
Fildajr night
Two solid Iron bar had been sswed
oft sad another wss sewed almost
through and bent outwards. One ot the
pr Sonera waa half way out of the cell
when apprehended, by Night Jailer Henry
Bchroeder. They were placed In another
cell and three raws were taken from
their thea '
Ylelted by Yaag IVaasra.
The prisoners occupied the s-iiue cell
and war Tinted by three young women
Friday afternoon, at wblth time It It
supposed that the smaU troa saws
wer smuggled Into the Jail. About mid
night Jailer Schroeder heard a scraping
aaund, but thought l was made by the
wind. The nolie continued tor almoat
two hour and worked oa the Jailer's
serves until he nude aa Investigation,
Arriving oa the second floor, which
overtook a shed adjoining the cell.
ekhrseder found a man half way out
of the window. Two Iron bara were lying
oa the ttune floor of the cell) The Jailer
quickly unlocked the door and pulled the
man ta.k fronl the window. He thea
called a deputy sheriff from the office
and the two Ru-n were searched. Three
small iron saws were fcund concealed In
their celthes. " ' '
Shrrirf Make Denial.
Sheriff Methane and Ills chief deputy.
TV. A. Foster, denied any knowledge of
I l he attempted break, while Chief Jailer
! -oho Cah.ll said he had heard about It,
but knew nothing of the circumstances.
H owner, a report of the attempted
break was made by one of Mcflhan'
, fores to I'nlted ftatea Marshal William
V. Warner. .
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banked streets and read of blUzards here.
busying, himseif with moarinc his team
and picking lemons and oranges.
- Ha announced that ha would begin
work on membership Immediately so that
Initiations may be started early in June.
Knight of Ak-Sur-Ben activities usually
begin the first Monday in June. There are
now Kg paid membership.
New model of the Ilupraobtle "32" that W. I Huffman, the agent, will
have about the 1Mb. of April.
CAPTAIN BELL IS FINED
FOR HIS WHISTLING STUNT
Because of his whistling proclivities
'captain Bell will labor for th city thirty
days. Captain has been loitering about
Twelfth street and Capitol avenue, says
t, the officers, and when policeman ap
proaches he begins whistling "Mister
Brown" and other ragtime airs. In a
varlatJag way. The variations are signals,
ao th coppers say and as the result ths
officer have been unable to arrest any
one In that neighborhood tor some time.
Now that Bell and his whistle are behind
bar lb police expect to clean out that
neighborhood. ,
COAST GETS TONS OF MAIL
DELAYED BY THE HIGH WATER
AN FRANCISCO, April l-Te' first
thraueh eastern mall to arrive hare In
several days cam today on a special
train. More than 3 ton of mall, In
cluding 3s pouch of British mU far
Ksw Zealand, was rushed across th bay
and distributed la record tint to watt
ing train and steamtr. Th flood In
th Mississippi and Missouri valley
caused the delay.
Denver Autoists . " ' '
Coming to Omaha
When President Allison fltoeeker of the
Denver Chamber of Commerce was In
the city Isst week he submitted to the
Commercial club some of th detail of
the endurance and sociability run from
Denver to Xew York City and left the
matter to be paaeed on by the executive
committee this week. This trip win be In
th nature of a contest and will be prin
cipally for th purpose of Inducing auto
moblllsts to make th cross country run
as a .means of .popularising automobll
travel. The management of th dub.
whose members have not -forgotten how
In - tW7 the -trad - ex curat on lata were
treated In Denver, will aea to It that th
Denver party Is met at. the city limits
or beyond and . given a hearty .welromo
and royal entertainment. Just what this
will be hat been left to th club' good
roads committee, ot which J. A. Sunder
land la. chairman, t act-In conjunction
with the various automobll clubs, - Th
Denver party will be representative of th
City's. best Interests. . '.. ,
DEATH RECORD
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' an, wlasleHets Uwlss, ' '
. It la learned' that Mr, illnal'e Heth
Lawton. who died of peritonitis after a
brier Illness at Hancock. Mich., on last
Wednesday morning, was burled yester
day at Lawton, allrh..a th tormer'home
of her husband. . '
Th' sudden death of this estimable
woman wis the closing of a happy and
highly useful Ufa 8b waa well known
Irt Omaha, where' sh lived fur many
year, end has left a targa number of
warmly attached friends. Mho was the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Heth,
her father having been an early Ne
braska pioneer, - prominent In th life
and affair of Nebraska city, and later
holding a position at. Fort Kearney,
where illnnle. th only daughter, waa
born.. In Omaha she married William
r. Valll, cliy passenger agent' for- th
Burlington railroad, after whose death
sh was united to her surviving husband.
Charles U Lawton. nephew of General
H. W. Lawton of the United State army,
and now a mining txpert at Hancock.
Mich. ,
' Through her girlhood and moreresture
lit sh possessed character , and at
trarilr personality, being gifted with th
genial, generous qualities which attract
and hold friends firmly during' life, and
cau their alncere sorrow when death
comes. A daughter., wife and mother,
duty and cheerful service wer her pleas
ure and her unfailing guide. he was an
earnest and devout member of th Prot
ectant Episcopal church-activ and teal-
foua la Its worship and work wherever
ah was.
Stockton Heth, treasurer of the Omaha
Water company. Is a surviving brother
and her mother has lived In Omaha fcr
many years past. Her only child. Heth
Valll. la being educated at Vaasar col
lege. Mrs. Matilda Welka.
Two week ago Mr. Matilda Welke.
aged 27 years, of Wood lake. Neb., brought
a little son her to be operated upon for
spinal disease, t'non her arrival In Omaha
th eh lid became better, but the mother
became. 111. Saturday . morning sh , died
In a local hospital after being- con
fined to bar bed a week. Th child haa
almoat recovered Ita sickness, however.
The body win be taken to Woodlak
8unday night, where th funeral will be
held Monday, She I survived by F. J.
Welke, husband, and two smsll children.
Mia r.llaabeth Merre.
Upon th grounds where sh played as
a little girl Ilia body of Miss Elisabeth
Noyce, aged U years, who died Wednes
day ' In ' Otackton, Kan., will be burled
Sunday afternoon at ' Irrlngton. iftss
Noyc was born near Irvlnston upon the
old Noyce homestead, which waa settled
upon by her parent In ISST. Sh had re
sided there since, with th exception of
brief period wtih relatives In Kansas.
Sh went to Stacktoa before Chrtstma
and suffered a stroke of paralysis, which
eaused her death. Sh Is urvlved by ten
brothers and three sisters. Rev. J. C.
Noyce, pastor of a church In Irvlngtun,
I her brother,
J eases R. Kennedy. . .
James K. Kennedy, manufacturer of
passenger and freight elevators, with a
factory at 104 North Thirteenth street.
died Fridsy at hi home. Wit Davenport
treat, Dundee. He had been III only a
short time.. II I survived by a widow
and fiva children. The funeral will be
held Monday afternoon at 1 'clock.' from
ths residence, with Interment In Prospect
Hill cemetery. Rev. Fierier will officiate.
He had resided In Omaha and vicinity
for twenty-eli years.
Mrs, Charlotte M. Da via.
Mrs. Charlotte M. Davis, aged il years,
wlfs of M. R. Davis, an Invalid, living at
lit North Forty-third avenue, hied Friday
Miwr mn Minr.oi nv montns. Sh I
survived by a husband and an axed
mother. Th funeral will be held Monday
morning at 1 10 o'clock from St. Cecelia's
church, wtlh Interment In Holy Bcpulcher
cemetery,
PENFIj LD COMES HOME
.. FOR AK-SAR-BEN WORK
' Secretary H. J. Penfold . returned to
Omaha yeeterday to begin th work ot
th new Ak-Kar-Ilen year. Hs ha spent
two months on hi flvs-acrs lemon ranch
south of San Diego and between .times
has studied th pictures ot Omaha's snow-
Paving Operations
to Start Monday
Street and building op m a lions will
begin Momiiy with several hundred men
at work- Hugh Murphy and C. E. Fan
ning, parliii; contractors, will begin lay
ing pavemeiita. Extension of the street
' tracks to Forly-sixtii street will
start. The city asphalt, plant will be in
operation Monday. Three Sanaa on re
pair work- under the supervision of the.
engineering department, will also begin
their labors. The work on the Eleventh
street viaduct Is well on the way to
completion and the viaduct will probably
be finished on contract time. April li.
Son Dying, Mother '
Insane from Grief,
Attempts Suicide
Insane from grief because ot a telegram
from Missouri Valley. la., saying her son
wss dying from ptomaine poisoning, Mrs.
Louise Eldge. who Bres In the rear of
til South Twenty-second street, made an
unsuccessful attempt - to commit suicide
last night by swallowing a handful of
bl-chlorkle of mercury tablets.
Folic Surgeon Hibbard was notified
and In a few minutes he had her out of
danger. The woman haa been raiting
friends here for tha last few weeks and
Is deeply attached to her b-year-old son.
who last Monday was poisoned by eating
canned corn. Her parents, who are promi
nent m Missouri Valley, were notified.
Sbs is separated from her husband.
Des Moines Secures
90rCent Rate on Gas
Dea Moines has won its W-cent gas fight,
according to a private telegram received
last night by Prof. William D. Marks,
who was brought to Omaha by the city
to appraise the local gas plant lu connec
tion with the effort to seure a lower price
on gas.
The Des Moines case was referred to
the federal court and It waa referred by
Judge Smith McPherson to a maMer In
chancery, and that official decided the
case yesterday. Attorney General Dyers
waa counsel for the corporation and
Judge Hugh Brennan represented the city
ot Des Moines. , .
Mayor Jim Spends
- Evening Talking
Mayor Dahhnan was busy sjian last
night, ho attending four meetings In th
Interest of his candidacy for coromls.
atone.-. Th first -maeting was th
Deaf and Dumb lnstttutc which was j
non-political gathering. He spoke oq
Horn Bule." The next plaoo was at
a session of the Moulders' union at Six
teenth and Cuming streets. Tha next
one was before a gathering of colored)
voters st Twenty-fourth and Burdette,
and ths last on before toe Dahlman
Democracy club.
At all of these meetings Mayor Jim
contained himself snd except for a few
allusion to th Citizens' union ind other
alato nwklng orders pyrotechnics were nil.
Key to the' Situation Bee Advertising;
ELECTRICAL ASSOCIATION
MEETS HERE THIS MONTH !
Th Nebraska Electrical association
will hold a convention In Omaha April li.
it and It. Manager K. V. Pnrrish of th
publicity bureau ot the Commercial club
will issue Invitation snd programs for
ths meeting In a few days. W. J. Dean
f the General Electrle company. E. A.
Bullock of Norfolk, President H. A. Honi
ng. Vic President F. H. Brooks and
Secretary 8. J. Bell ot th Union Electric
Light and Power company and Wal
demar Mlchaeleen will be ' among the
speakers. More than 131 electrical men are
expected to attend ths convention, Th
Loyal hotel haa been decided upon as
their headquarters and a big banquet will
be given there, probably the laat night.
Th electrician will make an automobll
Inspection over the city.
ASHLAND BRIDGE STANDS
SOLID AGAINST THE FLOOD
Secretary Whit of th Ashland Platte
River Bridge company In axplaintng why
the automobile bridge over the Platte
river east of Ashland, withstood the flood
aaye: "It waa because the spans were
1 feet apart and ths pillars supporting
ttiera were sunk to a depth ot forty to
forty-five feet In ths river, below the
normal water line." ' ' ' -
Secretary Whit adds that ths bridgo
wa not awerved an Inch out ot line by.
th Ice. The bridge I owned by a stock
company, capitalised for gU.OM. Th
bridge cost KS.OOs. most of th capital be
ing furnished by residents of Ashland. '
SALOON KEEPERS WARNED
TO EXCLUDE ALL MINORS
Juvenile court officials have Issued or
ders to parents and saloon keepers warn
ing them not ' to allow little . chap to
enter saloons. A hVyear-old boy was be
fore ths court yesterday and sentenced i
to tha Industrial school for "rushing the
ran" and mingling with ths habitues of
tha liquor dispensaries. Tha sentence waa
suspended during good behavior.
Juvenile mhn n,b Hmhiiu . - I
th object ot a crusade by Juvenll offi
cer. On led wo ntencd to th De
tention home for Masking cigarette. 'To
bacconists will be watched and If caught
In th act of selling tobacco t boy com
plaint will be filed against them. -
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