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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1912)
THE BEE: OMAHA, "WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1912. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT THURSDAY WE OFFER Every Woman's and Misses' Suit in our store, including all blue serge suits and some of our white serge. suits Final Clean Up Sale Price Thursday . . . . Extraordinary Waist Sale Thursday 1C& All our regular $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 waists will go Thursday at VW fncluded in this sale will be waists worth up to $3.50, some being slightly soiled and mussed. Our entire stock of higher priced waists will be offered at JUST Y2 PRICE. ORKIHS' 1510 DOUGLAS STREET STORE 3C BEIEF CITY NEWS t Boot Print Iv ', Sltotrlo Tans Bargess-Graaaea Ce Stack-raleonar Co., 24th and Harney, undertaken, embalmers. Douglas s7. Omaha Plating Co. Established 188a. t. 2536. Baraoai to Hold Fionlo The annual picnic of the Tri-Clty Baraca union will be held at Miller park next Saturday afternoon. A ball game and a program of athletio features will be carried out MoYann Goes to Llacola E. J. Mc Vann, manager of the traffic bureau pf the Comirfercial club, will go to Lincoln Wednesday to attend the hearing on the revision of Nebraska freight classification. , Motorcyclist Break! Leff Joe Zifc mund, 131 Pine street, broke bis right leg when he turned the corner of Four teenth and Pine streets and the motor cycle he was riding swung into a tele phone pole. , Thinks Bon followed Show Mrs. P. Knetter, 851 South Twenty-first street, has asked the police to locate her son, Phillip, 15 years of age, who ran away from home Sunday. She thinks he left town with 101 Wild West show. New light System Going Up As fast as poles can be delivered city employes are Installing them preparatory to dis carding the old lighting system on the downtown streets for the new ornamental lights. These lights are now being made and will be delivered as soon as all the poles are in. Workmen are now placing posts down Farnam street. Union Pacific Fast Train in Collision Ne&r Green River CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 30.-Seven persons are reported Injured In a head on collision of Union Pacific train No. 3, west bound and an east bound freight near Mondell, Wyo., 1 125 miles east of Green River. A special train carrying physicians has been sent from here. No. 8 Is known as the China and Japan mail, Chicago to the coast. Captain Dempsey Was Once a Famous Leader of the Band C --" Wt: TS.MIKfJ A'OiMltaor Just fifty-five years ago today Police Captain Michael Dempsey took his first ook at as much of the world as could be seen from a little window In a tiny home at Plttston, Pa. The outlook evi dently was not very pleasing to little Mike, for he is said to have set up an Immediate howl. A green curtain hang ing upon a heavy stick was the first object that took his fancy. His tiny hands hauled it down, and to this day he has stuck to green and to the club too, for It was not so ordained that one with such a true Hibernian spirit should be lost In any other occupation but that of police work. Little Mike's disdain of Plttston cropped out on the day of his birth, and to get even with the inhabitants for living In such a town, he took up the study of some kind of a horn. It was either a fog horn, or a six-cylinder trumpet, the neighbors say. Mike called it a cornet and other people had a number of names for It. That It was not a jewsharp Is conceded by all. . After a thousand or more years of practice, the neighbors say. Mike evi dently considered himself a finished musician, for he organized the Plttston brass band. This band Is said to have been noted for two things. Its members each voted three times on election day and they were In universal demand at wakes. Then Mike left Plttston to Its own devices and came to Omaha and he's here yet. Everybody who knows the Captain is glad except Henry Dunn, Dempsey's brother captain of police. Dunn also took to music at an early age to get even with some folks, and the fact that he has been unable to square all ac counts Is noted every Monday night at Sampson's den, and because everybody knows this, Dunn finds himself almost wishing that Dernpsey had stayed In Plttston. " COPEIITIONRAISES PRICES Such is the Situation in the Ready Print and Plate Matter Business. MAY BE ADJUDGED A TRUST According to the advices received by General Manager Scott of the Union Pa cific, no one was injured in the collision occuring at Mondell, Wyo., Monday night when No. 3, the China and Japan mall, and an extra freight met head-on. No. 3 had orders to pass the freight at Mondell, which is a siding, and had slowed down to five miles per hour. The freight was at the east end of the switch and had not had sufficient time to get into the clear when No. 3 came along and bumped It. The freight was In the block and it is the opinion of the local officials that the engineer of the passen ger must have disregarded the signals. According to the reports at headquar ters the engines were somewhat damaged, but no one, not even the men on the engines, was injured. George A. Joslyn Returns from Washington, Where Western Newspaper I nlou Case Has Been Heard. JIM WILL CRACK POP BOTTLE Official Ceremonies Will Mark Dredging at Carter Lake. LAGOON IS TO BE CREATED Uses Brass Knucks on His Inamorata George Wright was arrested for the fourth time in three months for abusing and beating Julia Carr. He was fined 15 and costs. Although Julia Carr has bien turning over regularly her earnings 'during the last few months for his support he has attacked here several times and taken all her money. Monday afternoon he as saulted her at Twenty-first and Izard streets with a pair of brass knuckles and took her pocketbook containing $7. Officer Jensen, attracted by the woman's screams, caught Wright after an exciting chase, during which he cached the money and knuckles. Officer Schwager found the hidden property under a board walk. Baby Camp Could Care for Some More Many of the mothers who take their '' little ones to the Baby Welfare camp In Elmwood park and receive instructions in baby tending from the trained nurses there, cannot speak English, but they smile appreciation for what Is being done for them and their infants. Head Nurse Carrie Kalarlk says that Caroline, Josephine and Harry, the three babies who have been at camp almost every day since It opened and who were very 111 at first, are greatly Improved and are getting fat. About six babies a day is the average at the camp, but more could be cared for by Nurses Kalarlk and Harrington. THR0EN PASSES THROUGH OMAHA 0NHIS LONG WALK Harvey Thoren. the globe trotter, who is walking from San Francisco to New York and back on a wager, arrived In Omaha Monday night on his way east He carries plenty of credentials and makes an average of twenty-five miles a day. He carries letters to Mayor Dahlman as well as to Mayor Gaynor of New York. In all probability the price of ready prints and plate matter, both news and feature, sold to the country publishers wUl be advanced in price very materially within a short time. This condition Is to be brought about by reason of the fact that the Western Newspaper union, a concern that has its principal offices In Omaha and publishing and printing bouses In the large cities all over the country, is to be adjudged a trust by the supreme court. George J. Joslyn, head of the Western Newspaper union and who for more than a year has been fighting the attempt to have the business declared a trust, has returned from Washington, where in or der to have the matter settled, agreed to the entering of a decree which will be signed Saturday of the present week and given to the public next Monday. The contended trust feature as applied to the Western Newspaper union Is dif ferent from any that has heretofore arisen and was a puzzler to the attorney general, for there was a reduction, rather than an advance in the prices to the ultimate consumer. Some years ago when Mr. Joslyn took over the ready-print houses scattered about the country and consolidated them under his management, he dropped the prices some 10 to 15 cents per quire to publishers, preferring to make his money out of the foreign advertisers, rather than the hundreds of thousands of country publishers whom he supplied with the printed Insldes and plate matter. A year or so ago some parties In some of the eastern cities, believing that there was money in supplying ready-prints and plates, went before the attorney general and filed, charges, contending that by putting the prices so low Mr. Joslyn was preventing competition and consequently was fostering and maintaining a trust. Mr. Joslyn took Just the opposite view and while he' did not lay any claim to being a public benefactor, he alleged that he was making a fairly good profit and at the same time was saving large sums of money to country publishers all over the United States and was satis fied to continue along the same line on which he had started. Testimony was taken and the facts were found to be as Mr. Joslyn had al leged, but It was also found that if small concerns desired to start in the ready print business there was no profit for them if they met the prices of the West ern Newspaper Union. Their position seemed to bear weight with the govern ment's legal department and hence the decree is to Issue, with the result that it is looked upon as being very probable that as soon as the competition begins, ready-prints will go up to the prices of some years ago. Commissioner Hummel Has Started to Dredge Fourteen Acres of Land to Beautify Municipal Breathing Spots. The Persistent and Judicious Use of Newspaper Advertising Is the Road to Business Success Commissioner Hummel has started to dredge fourteen acres of land bordering on Carter lake. From seven to nine feet of earth will be removed and a lagoon created. Around the lagoon a retaining wall will be built. One dredge Is now at work on this pro ject and on other improvements at Carter lake. Within ten days the new orange peel dredge will be assembled and It will be used chiefly to dredge the way for this lagoon, which will include all the swamnv land in North Omaha addition bordering on the lake. . Commissioner Hummel took Commis sioners Ryder and McGovern on inspec tion trips over the proposed boulevard around Carter lake and showed them the Improvements planned. Other commis sioners will also Inspect the work. Mr: Hummel will push the work on this Improvement. When the orange peel dredge is assembled Mayor Dah'.man will break a bottle of pop over Its bow and dedicate It to the good work which it will be Immediately set to do. Build Retaining V11. This dredge has a fifty foot reach and the mud excavated will be spread over the low-lying ground. The lake will b dredged at several places and retaining walls built. There are 510 acres In the tract owned by the city about Cartor lake. A boulevard will encircle the entlro lake. , Commissioner Hummel had called improvements until he secured an opinion from the legal department on the ques tion of paying for street Improvements out of the park maintaining fund, which has been depleted to about $28,000. Hum mel asked for permission to pay about $25,000 for paving at Happy Holly, on Thirteenth street. Wool worth avenue and Twenty-fourth street, out of the park bond fund, only a small portion of which has been spent. The legal department has declared the park bond money may be so spent and Hummel has arranged to pro ceed with the Carter lake improvements. off McGovern Fires ThreeField Men Councilman McGovern of the depart ment of public improvements has dis charged three field engineers. He found the three engineers, who had been de tailed to Inspect work being done by con tractors. In the back room of a saloon en grossed In a quiet game of cards. The commissioner dropped around at I o'clock Monday afternoon to see how the work was progressing. When he couldn't locate the field men he visited th niimt saloon. He told them thev were no Ion atop on the city payroll. The men were young' fellows. , ADVANCE OF RATES CHECKED Interstate Commerce Commission Suspends Proposed Lumber Raise. CHANGE SET TOR AUGUST FIRST Delay af 120 Daje Is Made to Give the rommlsKlon Time to 1 n Ymtiaate the Increase the Railroads Want. Unofficial reports from Washington say tho Interstate Commerce commission has suspended the proposed advance in yel low n'r.e lumbar rates from 23 to Sfti cents, the suspension to last the usual 120 days to give the commission time to investigate. This is one point scored for Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs in a contest which has lasted several years. In 1908 the railroads advanced the south ern pine rate 23 and 264 cents to the three cities, whereupon the traffic bureau of the Commercial club asked for a re duction. The Interstate Commerce com mission reduced the rate, to 25 cents, the reduction to go Into effect August 1. 1910. With the decision the commission awarded South Omaha, Council Bluffs and Omaha reparation for money collectt-d by the railroads in excess of the 25-cent rate for the two preceding years. As all decisions of the commission hold good only two years, the 25-eent rate will expire July 31, this year. The railroads have Issued orders for a raise tn rate to go into effect August 1. but on application by the traffic, bureau of the Commercial club to the Interstate Com merce commission to suspend the tariff, the advance will not be made, if the re ports from Washington are true. Annual Sensational Bargain Event ale of IhQ)e FOR WOMEN, MEN AND CHILDREN 3 Days, Beginning Thursday, Aug. 1st A First Arrest Made Under Golden Rule A. J. Jackson, undertaker at Seven teenth and Leavenworth streets, was the first to be arrested under the new golden rule policy of tne police. He was stopped at Sixteenth and Harney streets Monday night by. Traffic Officer Wright and served with a summons to appear in police court yesterday morning where he was discharged. Ous Metz. 1730 Cass street, was also arrested under the same plan, charged with beating his wife and disturbing the peace. Ills case was continued until Wednesday. City Appeals from Water Tax Decision Assistant City Attorney Lambert filed an appeal In district court Tuesday from the action of the county commis sioners, who decreed that the city must pay taxes on property of the water plant in South Omaha, East Omaha and Flor ence. The case will be contested on the proposition that the water plant, being municipal property, Is exempt frpm taxation. Panel Same Eevived With Bitter Result Minnie Bart, colored, was bound over to the district court under $700 bonds in police court on the charge of robbery ..She and her paramour, William Nely, are said to have stolen $100 from George : H. Nelman. According to Nelman they worked the old panel game on him in a rooming house on lower Douglas street. Nely will be tried Wednesday morninc. MRS. HERMAN C0HN TJ REACH OMAHA THURSDAY Mrs. Herman Cohn and her two sons, Walter and Loyal, arrived In New York from Switzerland Tuesday on the steamer Kronprinssessin Cecille. She was met at the dock by Mrs. Arthur D. Brandets and Mrs. Irving Stern. It Is expected that she will arrive In Omaha Thursday morning. Following the death of the late Hugo Brandeis, Mrs. Cohn, his sister, was noti fied by cablegram and, in company with her two sons, she immediately started for Omaha. HART. STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS, DIES HERE Schuyler Hart of Albany, Neb., In poor health and with no money, disowned by relatives and sent to a brother In Omaha, was stricken with paralysis on the way to this city. He was taken to St. Joseph's hospital where he died yesterday morn ing. Hart was M years old. If You Know Your A B C's And don't mind using them; If you are willing to be entertained to the limit by the best all-round magazine in the world, get the August number of EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE and just dig into it any where. You will emerge satisfied and happy and much obliged to us for the suggestion. IS Cents a Copy $1. SO a Year THE RID6WAY COMPANY, Publishers Key to th Situation-Bee Adverting. I Toothache Gum STOPS TOOTHACHE Instantly Uted by Million the World Over. All dnif tttm or by mail, I Je e. S. Dint 4 Co.. OrrnoiT, Mich. Thousands of Pairs of Good Uo-to-Datc (T l Shoes, in all Styles and all Sizes-Made to Sell at $242.5043, On Sale at.,... I MAIN FLOOR-OLD STORE oo GAMBLING INJOUIH OMAHA Testimony About the Game Brought Out in the Ryan-Pivonka Suit. WITNESS KICKS WHEN HE LOSES Former Pol't-e Officer, Nels Torn qnlst, Telia of (he Different Thing He San Concerning Commissioner Hyaa. Further testimony of liquor law viola tions and testimony of gambling in South Omaha under the administration of Fin and Police Commissioners John J. Ryan and Joseph Plvonka occupied yesterday's sitting of the hearing of the Ryan Plvonka ouster suit In the court house Cross-examination of O. U, Mallen, a meat Inspector, hy Ed. P. Smith of counsel for the defense, enlivened the sit ting and laughter resulted from the wit ness' admission that he did not become anxious for the suppression of a certain gambling house until he had lost money there. Mallen on direct examination by As sistant Attorney General Avrcs said that on several occasions during 1911 he gambled In rojms conducted by Dolesal and Kaley over Mike Brennan's saloon, a block and a half from the South Omaha police station. He gambled and bought drinks there the night of Septem ber 5. he said, and the mxt day lie com' pla ned ega nst the place to Commissioner Ryan, Mayor Tralnor and Chief of Po lice John Brlggs. Tralnor told him he had Issued to the chief an order to close all fuch places and showed him a copy of the order. Brlggs offered to go to the place with Mm, but he refused to go, say lug he had no further business there. Ryan told him he would see about It and see him later. A few days later be Called the matter to Ryan's attention and the commissioner told him he had for gotten all about it and had done nothing. A Horary Knows Poker. , When Attorney Smith esked Mallen for details as to how he played poker in the p'ace, the witness, tired of answering questions and said: "Well, It was poker. I guess you know how draw poker is played." "Yes, I know," admitted Smith and dropped that line of questioning. When asked on direct examination if he ever had seen Ryan intoxicated Mal len said he would rather not answer. When the court told him he must he said he had Been him when he was feeling pretty good, but never when he was un able to handle himself. "You never saw him In such a condition that he couldn't do business, did you?" "That all depends on what kind of business you meap," was the answer. Ous N. Pearson, a Cudahy employe, for merly In the eaVion business, corroporated the testimony of Nels Turnqulst, given the previous day, that Ryan was under the influence of liquor in W. J. lake's saloon one forenoon early In May.1 He .aid Turnqutst was present, playing cards. Addition to Omaha Club is Assured Building of the addition to the Omaha club is now practically assured.. The votes comtng in from the members now show a decision for the addition by four to one. ' Not all the votes are tn, but enougn nave ueen receivea 10 assure me addition. This will be a basement and one-story building, but the foundation will be made to carry a structure the size of the pres ent club house, A large card and dining room, a lounging room and squash courts with galleries, will be on the first floor of the addition, while the basement will be equipped with showers, lockers and storage rooms. tyhen your child ties whooping cough be careful to keep the cough loose and expectoration easy by giving Chamber lain's Cough Remedy as may be re quired. This remedy will also liquify the tough mucus and make' It easier to ex pectorate. It has been used successfully In many epidemics and is safe and sure. For sale by all dealers. . ,,wMte,,, '''M'M rrt j Tririin i vasisMjSMMAwe l&tf .Qreen fa fffim : m 1 I J-" mmmmmmm mmmm fplli U U A 1 1 1 i Minnie PI IS M Us" Wednesday, July 31st ....at tho.... Firemiym 1417 Harney Street This means double Red Letter day stamps instead of the usual ten. 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