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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1912)
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: . AUGUST 4, 1912. , r:: I ;i r : i-1 i.! Is !',t I" f l. I. J. IS. . it' tfuf i VIZ .1 (I." 1 ., i ' S3 I -si !".-. '1C '. ? i; - t' AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA City Treasurer Forced to Cash Check Drawn by School Board. GILLIN COMES OFF HIGH HORSE His Own Attorney Point Oat SUtnte Which H Was ot Obey Ins In Keenins Money 1 Ob Fond. A. C. Pancoast. attorney for the school board, and James P. Sullivan, secretary of the board, forced Ctty Treasurer Glllln yesterday to cash & check for $900 drawn on the building fund and turned down last Saturday by Gillin on the score that registered warrants should be mid first. Incidentally, the attorney for the board brought to light the (act that the city treasurer has disregarded the law of keep ing the school money in separate funds as laid down by one statute. The treas urer tried to escape his difficulties by lay ing the blame on Secretary Sullivan, but Attorney Pancoast made Glllln admit that the figures used by Glllln were taken from Secretary Sullivan's division of the funds. Gillin has lately endeavored to assume the same status towards the school board as be bears to the city council The mem bers of the school board however can not see the importance of the treasurer and have called bim at every turn. Saturday when John Winters, contractor far the new Corrigan school addition, presented a cheek for POO upon the building fund Gillin refused to cash the amount on the score that the registered w&rranu should have precedenoe. In consequence of the refusal to pay the contractor called off his men and the building has been de layed. Refusing to enter into further dispute .with the treasurer, Secretary James. Sulli. van put the matter in the hands of At torney A. C. Pancoaat. who immediately pointed out the statute which commanded the treasurer to keep the school money in separate funds. Secretary Sullivan showed by his books that there was money in the building fund and that the treasurer thould have cashed the warrant presented by the contractor. It was moreover shown that while there was over 119,000 school money drawing i per .cent in the Live Stock bank, the school district was paying out per cent on every warrant that could not be cashed for lack of money. The treasurer bad re course to his attorneys, Smyth, Smith & Schall, who In the presence of Attorney Pancoaat advised the treasurer that fee must keep the school money in different funds as provided by law and not in on fund as might be dictated by convenience. The, mult was a complete backing down of the treasurer, who now faces the pos. sibiUty of being sued on his bond for the daratg that will be sustained by the chool district as a result of hie refusal to cash the check presented by the con tractor. City Value Raised. Testerday marked the final sitting of toe board of equalisation and review for the current year, The sessions closed yesterday afternoon and last night the ctty council put the final touches to the work. The council also 'passed the ap propriation ordinance and prepared the levy for the new year, The work of the board of review, raised the valuation of South Omaha property by 1200,000. The total valuation of the city property will reach t25.2GO.000 and for the 1300,000 ap propriation will, necessitate something in the way of a U-mlll levy. Hose Company Paid. It waa voted to pay $2,200 to the Man hattan Hose company for fire hose pur chased by the city a year ago, and 6S0 for voting machines with express charges or J7 at a meeting of the, city council, - These decisions will settle deala whloh have been in dispute for many months. By actloij of the council all balances in municipal funds are to be transferred with the exception of ,S85, which will be used for the Installation of sanitary catch basins in the man hole of the Mud creek sewer, which have been closed with dirt by Irata. cltlsens. , Tax Commissioner Fitzgerald reported that the total valuation of assessable property in South Omaha is $28,600,000, an Increase of $1,000,000 since last year. The council signified its intention of attending the regular Monday night fes tivities of Ak-8ar-Bou at least twice a month and on these occasions will meet on some other week night to make this possible. , , John Kinceid Goes Free. The big policemen who brought John Kincald and his wife before Judge James Callanan yesterday morning said they were vagrants and hinted at heavier crimes. As Is the wy 0f the men down in the country where h i born the Judge gave the woman chance, Hut the man -well-both the City Attorney Henry Murphy and the Judge agreed that he waa quit worthies and bad made up .their mind that, a long term In jail would help him when the unkempt, weary-looking girl-wife shocked both officials by throwing back into their faces the clemency which they had ex tended her a moment before. "I don't want to go free,' the woman said. Sho waa Uttle more than a, girl hut she held up her ring before the faces of the judgo and city attorney and told how she had been married to John Ktncaid, the pris oner, for four years. "I don't care what (becomes of me," she told the court, "but don't be hard on my husband he ain't atrong." '.', The police had found the two commit ting the heinous crime of sleeping In a school porch or maybe it was an empty barn anyway it was a crime and they dragged the unfortunate young man and hi miserable girl-wife into jail. The court and the prosecutor In voices that were ausplotously huskly gravely reconv mended that the two be liberated. Church Services. Brown Park Mission Bible school meets at s:45 a. m., at Twentieth and s streets. Bible school at Hillsdale wis:on, Forty- third and I streets, meets at 3:10 p. m. First Baptist Church, Twenty-fifth and H Streets, Rev. C. T. llsley. Pastor Bible school at :45 a. ra, Morning war- snip at u o ctoca. - union vesper services at 7 p. ro., on the Methodist church lot. Twenty-fifth and B streets. Rev. J. M. Bothwell of the First Methodist church will give xno soar, .....,. St Luke's Lutheran Church. Twenty. , fifth and K streets. Rev. 8. H. Yerian. I Pastor Sunday school at I:t5 a. m. Church services at 1L Mission at J p. m rise lesson suojeci is, "Ainca. First Methodist Church. Twenty-fourth nd M Streets Bible study in all depart ments at 9:45 a. m. Morning hour of ' worship will be devoted to a - summer irally- with special, musio, . by. - Baker's enoir. tpworin league meets at e:tf p. au.. w ' i av .j. - v no ..c The United Presbyterian Church Twenty-third and-L- Sweets. Rev: w: A. Pollock, Pastor Bible school at 9:43 a. m. . Public worship st 11: the subject is. "God's Plan for Hi Children.'' Young People' Cbrtstiau union meets at p. m.; the subjee is, "Temperance." MIks Hulda Madsen - will preside at the meeting. First Christian Church. Twenty-third and I Streets, Rev. J. A. Hastte, Pastor -tutu scnooi at w a. m., snarp, Every Danish "Hurrah for de Danske Amerikanerel", This will be the cry that will resound in the Reblld hills of Denmark August '5, when the Danish-American National park Is dedicated and King Christian X of the Danish kingdom, through his representa tive, formally accepts the park, the gift of Danish-born Americans. When this park is opened to the Danish public it will be the reallaatton of an age- long dream of Dane everywhere. The park comprises 400 acres of historic heath In the Reblld hills on a little plateau on the Jutland peninsula. Money to pur chase it was donated by . Danlsh-bern Americana In every one of the forty-eight states of the union. At the opening of the park two flags will be raised side by side, the Btar Spangled Banner and the Dannebrog, and they will flutter always side by side, for that la the decree of the Danish govern ment, made out of respect for America and the Danes who have made this coun try their home. A great crowd will gather at Beblld hills for the dedication, for at this time of the year the bloom Is on the heather and the Happiest season of the year is In full swing. It will be Denirark' great holi day week, the "stavna." or "old home week," and thousands of Danes will have gathered from every part of the world and family reunion will be hold In every corner of the kingdom. Reblld hills will echo with the sound of music and orators of international repute will speak. Addresses will be made by the following; C, Brun, governor of the province of Aalborg; Dr. Max Heinus one welcome at this service. Morning worship and sermon at 11. The paator will use for his subject, "The Divine Reciprocity." Will Join in union with the vesper services held st Twenty-fifth and streets In the evening. Magic City ttemip. Dr. M. L. King and family have moved to Seymour Lake Country club, where they will spend the remainder of the summer. The slot machines are still doing btwl ness it Is said, despite a recent resolu tion of the city council ordering them out of the city. ; The autopsy on the body of Fred John son, who wss found dead, showed that the man had committed suicide by tak ing carbollo add. LONGS FOR WILD WEST . -GETS INTO DIFFICULTY Phillip Kneeter, B7 South Twenty first utreet, got the "wild west" bee In hie bonnet several days ago when he saw the 101-Ranch show, and yester day he had to explain several things to the Juvenile court. He has given the Juvenile authorities trouble before. Last Monday he stayed away over night after he had secured a revolver from his fath er's place of business. In Juvenile court he denied that he got all his wild west Idea from the show an he had tome of them before it came to town. He prom ised the Judge he would not carry a gun again. He will be held In Rlvervlew home for a while. URGES BUSINESS MEN TO INSTALL EXTINGUISHERS Fire Warden Ed Morris will urge all business men and even the owner of large houses to Install chemical fir ex tinguishers. A' fire in the Llnlnger Im plement company's plant yesterday was extinguished by chemical extin guishers after it had leaped up the ele vator shaft to the fourth floor. "I have been urging manufacturers and business men to Install chemical fire extinguishers," said Mr. Morris, "and many have don so. There are others unprotected and they ought to Install The highest point of woman's har plneaa it reached only through moth irhood, in the clasping of her child within her arm. Tat the mother-to-be la often tearful of nature'! ordeal and ehrlnka from the guttering Inci dent to Us consummation. But for nature's Ills and discomforts nature provides remedies, and la Mother's Friend is to be found a medicine of treat value to every expectant mother. It is an emulsion for external application, composed of ingredients which act with, beneficial and sooth ing effeot oa those portions of the system involved. It is intended to prepare the system for the crisis, and thus relieve, in great part the suffer ing through which the mother usually passes.' The- regular use cf' Mother's Friend will repay any mother in the comfort it affords before, and the help ful restoration' to hearth and' strength it brings about after baby comes. Mother'a. Friend, is ' for ' sale ' at drug stores. Write for our free book for expectant moth- .---- era which contains orach valuable Information, and many suggestions oJ helpful nature. Biinimn icihratoi cfiziit..i..f.i; American National Park Dedication Occurs on - tt - of Chicago, who has had charge of the I collections; the official representative of King Christian; Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, American minister to Denmark; Rev. C. P. HJobJerg, Nysted, Neb.; Rtv. H. O. Frlmodt Molleter, Aarhus, Den mark; Carl Antonsen. Chicago; Count C. Moltke, Danish minister to the United States. Poetry , will be recited and songs will be sung. Adam Dan of Chicago will sing "The Stars and Stripes," and the audi ence and the orchestra will assist. "Fal lesdaad." national song of Denmark, will be sung by Ivar Kirkegaard of Racine, the audience and the orchestra Joining In. Jeppe Aakjar of Denmark and Johannes Fonss will recite poetry and sing. Michael Salomon of Seattle will render "The Rebild Song." Povl Holmstrup of Blair, Nob., will read an introductory poem. "My Country 'Tis of Thee" will close the program and the entire audience will Join in the singing of this song. Many Americans will be present and will sing with ardor the "Fallesdaad" as the Danes will join enthusiastically in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner." President Taft " will send the Danish king his congratulations and felicitations them at once. The expense of Installs, tlon would be slight compared with the possible damage a fire would do." BAKERY WAGON DRIVER SCARES AWAY BURGLARS A. F. Bachman, a driver for the Wag ner Bakery company, prevented a drug store robbery yesterday" morning at 3 o'clock when he frightened away a couple of thieves from the apothecary of Matthew C. Floto, 524 North Twenty- fourth street. Bachman was out on his morning de livery and was driving along Twenty fourth street. When he reaohed California street he noticed a couple of prowlers trying to gain entrance through the front dpor of the drug store. The burglars started away, firing a couple of shots at Bachman in their flight. Bachman re sponded by flinging a loaf of bread after the miscreant. .Scncf CajR Orders for LUXUStoAnycfthe Following Distributor: AV! h V "fe I YNvV Brewed and bottled by the m .r "u-- m-w - ik ':wv.::.::i;:rr' j-t m mm s s v m mm A T ' Kim csmsnmx orihui nd King Christian will gratefully say his thanks by cable to Uncle Sam. The opening of the national park will be made an occasion to emphasise the good will existing between Denmark and this country. ' Rolf Rasmussen of Chicago, represent ing the Danish-American Sisterhood and the Danish-American Brotherhood, and Jacob Petersen of Ban Francisco, repre senting the Danish-American United Toung People's society and the United Danish Societies of the United State, will carry the greetings of the majority of the 200,000 Danish-born Americans In this country. A surprisingly large per cent of these 200,000 Danes in America have arranged to be in Denmark for the dedication. This park is located on a lonely pla teau, but a picturesque place. There are many legends connected with It and Danes have for years desired to reserve It as a "bit of the old Denmark" for It Is most like the Denmark of which the Norsemen were the. pioneers. It was on this peninsula, so the skjalds of old sang, that the Vikings wandered, burled their dead and watched the fog wreaths, from the Cattegat for omens of good or evil. And later the Norsemen came and left their share of legends, legends that have grown dim In the thousand years, but have not been forgot ten.. Still later the melancholy shepherd ruled over the wide demesne of heather, watching from his calm his flocks as they foraged over the unsettled country. Other portions of Denmark were sooner or later made subject to the farmers' needs and the heather gave way to the oultlvated plants, but Reblld hills are still wild, and beautiful and covered with the heather through which the Norsemen are supposed to have trampled. Hiller Liquor 1SOO Famain Street Phone 1). 1241 "hone InL A-8241 1 jiraiazs V t w mJPJ A.AHHUS, DENMARK XfA t 4a i , W United Stiles Wnlst&t ioZezuaaiA COWT CARL IlOZmS Ttaxisb Minister Mllfeskmflot It was not legend alone that inspired the Danes with a desire to reserve these hills for the playgrounds of their children and their children's children. Need of such a park has long been felt, but, the Danes of the fatherland were unable to raise the money to purchase the land and maintain the park. It wasi not until the need was felt by the Danish-born Amer icans that the dream became a possi bility. When the call for funds was made several years ago the Danish-born Amer icans quickly began to respond. The money was not raised in large sums, but in small amounta given by thousand and thousands of Danes all over this country. Co. Courtney & Co. John Nittler 17th and Douglas Sts, Phone Douglas 647 Phone Ind. A-1215 Monday JBZV. C.JP,2T0BXEJR(? Vysrso, HE8KASKA The fund grew gradually and at last waa sufficient to warrant the purchase of the 400 heather-clad acres on the Jutland peninsula. This park will be a token of the re spect in which the Danish-born Amer icans will ever bold the fatherland, for It was there they were taught the first lessons that have meant for the majority of them a satisfactory success in the land of their adoption. They are proud of Denmark and will rejoice without hesi tation In the celebration that will be held when the Danish-American National park is opened, for the uprightness of Den mark's national life has never been impeached. Money Available to FightBig Muddy (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Aug. ...-(Special Tele gram.) Eight thousand dollars is to be expended under the direction of the War department upon the dikes of the Mis souri river near Decatur, according to the recent recommendation of Major Schultz. the engineer in charge. This sum will be set aside from the appropria tion of $73,000 for the upper Missouri con tained in the river and harbor bill. The high water and spring did great damage to former Improvement work near Sioux City and Decatur and the recommendation of Major Schultz to the War. department is made after an ex amination of the situation. The bureau of immigration has recon sidered its order to deport Guiseppe Simpatia, a young Italian boy detained 0i at Ellis Island on his way to his foster father. Mr. Palma of Omaha. Representa tive , Lobeck interested himself in the case! and upon a bond being furnished and an agreement that the boy should have two years in school, young Simpa- ( tla will be allowed to proceed to Omaha. Sharper Juggles Money in "Change" Because be refused to heed the warning Of his wife. H. Helm, traveling represen tative of the Upraan-Wolfe company of Portland, Ore., is out just $36. While passing through Omaha in a tourist car on the Union Pacific railroad he was swindled by a confidence man. A well dressed young man entered the car during the short stopover at the Union station and asked Helm if ho would give him a $50 bill for that amount in small bills. Being of an obliging na ture Helm handed over the required bill in spite of the fact that his wife waa kicking him on the shins as a warning not to do so. When he counted the bills after the man left the car he found only Hi in the roll. HEAT ENDANGERS LIVES 1 Sickness and Misery follow Inattention to the Minor HI. , Older people should be especially carefui of their health during the hot months, as high temperature has a peculiarly enervating effect that tends to disarrange the entire digestive system. The slightest indiscretion in diet is almost sure to bo followed by bowel trouble and indigestion, but if care is taken to keep the bowels open by using a gentle laxative stimu lant at the first sign of any irregularity, a great deal of the misery and distress can be avoided. Strong, harsh and drastic physics should be avoided because of the shook to the system following their use. An excellent laxative, and one that Is easy and natural In Its e'fect on the stom ach, bowels and liver, is Sound in Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, a compound of simple, laxative herbs with pepsin that is pleasant to the taste and positive in its action. By cleansing the bowel tract and removing the foreign matter that irritates and Inflames the tissue, a dose of Syrup Pepsin will quickly check the summer diarrhoea that is so prevalent. Dr. Cald well's Peostn Syrup is sold in drug stores for fifty cents a bottle; large, famllys size, one dollar. A free trial bottle will be sent, postpaid, If you will write to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 406 Washington St., Mon tlcello, Illinois. Diarrhoea Wakefield's BlacKberry Balsam Quickly stops Diarrhoea, Dysen tery, Cholera Infantum and all bowel troubles without constipating. No opium nor other habit forming drugs. Accept only Wakefield's. It I cures after other remedies fail. 35c : or 3 bottles for $1.00. Everywhere. Phone Douglas 1889 Phone Ind. F-1377