THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, VJ12 BBBnnnnM.MMaanaBBBmaaBBaBBmBBaBBBBBBMnBBaBWaaaaBMBa Nebraska. i 1 HART GOES TO MICHIGAN Horsethief Will Be Taken Back on Release from Prison. KORTH PLATTE RIVER fflGH Water Manning: So Swiftly that Ja Impossible to (lose Head Kates of Irrigation Ditches. It Nebraska. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Aug. 6.-(Speciul.)-The gov ernor of Michigan has asked for extra dition papers for Gilbert Hart, now serv ing time in the Nebraska penitentiary on a charge of horse stealing, having been sent up from Dodge county. Hart is a man of 50 years of age and was paroled from the Michigan peniten tiary. The charge against him in that tate was also for horse stealing. He violated his parole and jumped the state, coming to Nebraska, where he was un able to withstand his admiration for good horses, and Inconsequence landed in the Nebraska prison. Governor Aldrich has signed the papers and a special deputy will arrive and take Hart into custody when he walkR out of the penitentiary on completion of his term Thursday. The railway commlslos has again taken up the hearing on the valuation of the Burlington railway-. North Plntte Too High. "Too much water in the North Platte river," Is now the cry. There has been so much rain up In the irrigation dis trict in the northwest portion of the state that the irrigation ditches are full and the North Platte river flowing so high that work on the new bridge at Bridgeport is delayed. It is said that the force of the water through the irri gation headgates is so strong that the (fates cannot bo closed. Xew Military Academy. The Black Hills Military academy is the name of a new corporation filing its articles with the secretary of state this morning xne capital stock of the new institution is $25,000, divided ino shares of $100 each. The headquarters of the academy will be in Lincoln, but the school will be in South Dakota. The in corporators are Russell D. McNeill, Lu- cien E. Wallace and D. B. Temple. IVnche I nilor Dan. that contractors who fumis'ii supplies for the state may need watching Is evi denced by the fact that Colonel Teeters, commandant of the Soldiers' home at Mil ford brought to the food inspector some sample cans of peaches furnished the home and they failed to come up to tne required test. The peaches are required to contain 25 per cent syrup, but those furniHhcd the home and which the sam ples were taken only tested 5 per cent. Form Pnyine Well. Land Commissioner Cowles announces this morning that the receipts from the Grand Island Soldiers' home farm will aggregate $12,000 this year, which does not include sales from any of the live stock. Treasurer George is on a trip to Kear ney to look up a land appraisement for the state and' investigate the Institution there., ', . . . ' Omaha Firm Land. The contract for the new Lincoln Higli school building and two grade buildlnys was let last night to Gould & Son, Omaha contractors for $546,073. There were eight contractors bidding for the job, but the Omaha firm landed it. Among the other bidders were Betts, Topeka; Henberg. Chicago; Lee, Oklahoma City; Swenson, Kansas City; Shaul, Lincoln; and 'Harte of Omaha. KpTvoith Calls for Help. It Is evident that politics cuts some Ice as regards the religious side of life. The owners of the Epworth assembly, which is holding its annual session at Epworth rark, a short distance from Lincoln, are complaining that the attendance Is not up to par. At least they have published an appeal to the people of Lincoln to come out and attend and show that they appreciate how much the assembly means to the city. However, Lincoln has been in the Whirlpool of politics the last week or so, three conveneions being held, and it is not at all strange that Lincoln peo ple feel that they have been highly enter tained without paying so much per at the gate. Smith Free Onee More James Lane Smith, the most frequent visitor at the penitentiary as an inmate was released this morning fro the sixth tirn. His last stay at the pen was for five years and he says this morning that iou aint gwine to see me no mo.'' Kinitl. n ot, ... , leceivea at tne pene imuary in to serve fiv picking pockets in Omaha. iippearance was in March up rrom Lancaster county fa hi i sentence beins one mp Notes from Beatrice and Gage County BEATRICE, Neb.. Aug. 6.-(SpecIal.)-At a meeting of the Board of Education last night Miss Lottie Sackett and Miss Helen Jones resigned as city teachers, and Miss Josephine Reynolds and Miss Luclle Bloodgood were granted a leave of absence for, a year. Miss Lorena ' Lewis was elected a teacher. Miss Jessie Pyrtle, county superintendent, has been granted the use of the high school build ing for the Teachers' Institute to be held here the week of August 19. A little boy named Wheeler was bitten in the lip by a bull dog owned by Mike Morrison in front of Tom Floyd's barn on East Court street. Although the ani mal was muzrled,' an ugly wound was Inflicted by the dog's teeth. It was killed soon after biting the child. Mace Goble of this city and Miss Nellie Hissing of Hastings were married at Grand Jsland Sunday. They arrived in Beatrice yesterday to make their home. Eva Stevens instituted suit for divorce in the district court yesterday from her husband, Frank Stevens. She asks that she be given the custody of the minor choldren, reasonable alimony, the house hold effects and such other relief as the court may order. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens were married at Ashland, Neb. March 28, 1S92, and for eleven years have been resi dents of Beatrice. The German Nursery and Seed company of this city has filed articles of incor poration. The capital stock is $100,000, $72,000 of which is paid tip. The incor porators are Carl Sonderegger and his fcur sons, Charles, Fred. Ernest and Arthur. - " H. I). Walden, who has been serving his second term as county judge, has tendered his resignation to the county commissioners because of falling health. Judge W.. S. Bourne, who formerly held the office, will be named as Judge Walden's successor. DEE BONUSES WERE PAIDINebraskansHave Prominent Part in Investigation Into Letting of South Omaha Paving Contracts. KENNEDY CONDUCTS PROBE Former Mayor Tralnor Brands as False Statement that llrlbe Money Was Received and Split Anions City Offlelnls. Veterans Gather in Central City CENTRAL CITY. Neb., Aug. 6.-( Spe cial.) With a registration of ninety vet erans,' the largest for the opening day in the history of the institution, the fif teenth annual session of the . Platte Val ley District Reunion association convened at the city park today, this evening H. G. Taylor, editor of the Nonpareil, de livered the address of welcome, and W. H. C. Rice, county attorney, as a com rade made the response. Many' old sol diers who have signified their Intention of attending have not yet . put In an ap pearance and it Is believed that before the week is over the registration will exceed all previous records. . Governor Aldrtch made an address today and on Wednesday Floyd E. Barlow, as repre sentative of the Curtis Exhibition com pany will make an aeroplane flight under the auspices of the Commercial club. Denials that they were ever pa!J bonuses or remunerated In any way for letting paving contracts to the National Construction company or others, were made by former Mayor P. J. Tralnor and former Councilman Swan Larson, George Hoffman ana Mat Peterson, in the SoutnBPmaha paving case before Judge Kennedy yesterday afternoon. J. B. Watklns denied that any money to be used in Influencing the officials was put into his hands. City Engineer George Roberts denied that he was unduly Influenced In favor of Sarco pavement, the pavement pushed by the National company. Former Mayor Tralnor branded as false tha statement of James Parks, formerly a member of the National company, that the company put up 3 cents a yard to Induce the officials to award it contracts. Larson, Hoffman and Peterson expressed the v same opinion of Parks' testimony. On cross examination Peterson admitted that he received four barrels of Sarco paving material. He said it was fur nished him that he might test It on tho roof of his house. He made no test, but sold it to C. M. Lefler. He said ho did not know who shipped the Sarco to him, but he believed it came from Kansas City. Larson said that when he was a mem ber of the city council competition was wide open and no contractor had an advantage. Talked A bunt Paving. After denying that 3 or 4 cents a yard bonus was put up in his hands to influence, the city council for Sarco, J. B. Watklns, on cross examination, was asked if on one Sunday last year he did not hold a conference at the Henfthaw hotel with members of the National Con struction company and City Clerk Frank Good, Good having with him records from the city clerk's office. Watklns admitted the conference, but said no National company men were there. He said he, as an official of the Commercial club, talked a ho (it paving but nothing was said or done which was not perfectly proper. "Didn't , you know you were followed to the Henshaw and seen there in con ference," asked W. R. Patrick, counsel for Alonzo Wright and others, who are attacking the paving contracts. " did not." "I don't mind telling you that you were followed," said Patrick. City Engineer Roberts said he first heard of Sarco through former Mayor Koutsky, He said Koutsky came to him and Introduced to him a man named Loverlng and another named Howe, who was a representative of Armour & Com pany. They talked to him about the good quality of Sarco and the result of Danish Ceremony AALBORG, Aug. 6. Ti. inaugura tion of the Danish-American National park in the Reblld hli'.s of Jutland took place today. The park was presented to the government of Denmark by the Danish citizens of the t'nited States. Dr. Maurice Francis Egan. American minis ter "to Denmark, was the speaker, lie said: "We Americans owe to the Danes;, win have elected to become Americans, the constant examples of religion without bigotry, of culture without weakness, of a simplicity without coarseness, and of a frugality without meanness. "The Danes came to the I'nlted States,' not because of tyranny in their own lands one of the most liberty loving of all natlons-but because they saw a wider opportunity for the exercise of those abilities which they had cultivated in their own land." King Christian, In oehalf of Denmark, expressed the nation's thanks for the gift of the park and warm appreciation of the love of their native country of the Danes in America which It had proved. Dr. Max Henlus of Chicago, chairman of the committee, then read a cablegram from President Taft. He also read con gratulatory cablegrams from the Danish associations of Chicago. California, Ne vada and many other pHccs. . Count Carl Moltkc, Danish minister to the United States, delivered an address on "The Gift and Our. Obligations," which wa received with much applause. The day's program Included the sing ing of national hymns by the students' singing society, a prologue read by Carl Hansen of Chicago, an address by C. Brun. governor of the province of Aal torg, Denmark, and the singing of the "Stars and Stripes" by tho whole audience. Other features were an address on "The Danish Born American and the Second Generation," by the Rev. C. P. Hoebjerg of Nysted, Neb., the singing of "Falles daad" by Iva Klrkegaard of Racine, Wis., an introductory poem by Povl Holmstrup of Blair, Neb., the "Reblld" song by Michael Solomon of Seattle, greetings from the representatives of the Danish-American sisterhood, the Danish American brotherhood, the Daulsh-Amerl-onn United Young Men's association, the United Danish Societies of the United States and the Society Danla of Cali fornia. The exercises concluded with the singing of "My Country 'Tis of Thee," by tlie audience. Z3E st-". in Now For Our Annual Mid-Summer fearing Sale L'oO of tlio finest Uprights, Grands and Playor roof in tho entire middle west, go on sale Monday, prices ever offered. Pianos ever at the most gathered under one sensational bargain In keeping with the policy of our store for the past eight years, August is the greatest Piano Bargain month of the year. All stocks for fall and winter are bought early in the spring, and by August 1st find it necessary to dispose of all our high grade makes of Pianos, Piano Players and Grand Pi- we anos, regardless of price. We cannot afford to store pianos in a warehouse. We simply must move all stock on hand to make room for the new spring styles and makes. For these reasons wo have for the past eight years made August reductions so deep that no one can afford to overlook these bargains. Every item genu ine; every piano a bargain; just come and see. Choose From These Famous Makes at Sale Price: Steinway, Weber. Steger & Sons, Emerson, Hardman, McPhail and our own Schmoller & Mueller. Also a full line of Aeolian Player Pianos, including the Steinway, Weber, Stuveysant, Wheelock, Steck and Technola, and our Schmoller & Mueller Player Pianos, made in seven different styles. You are well acquainted with these makes of Pianos; you know their reputation, their prices. Now we offer them to you at a price to fit every purse and at terms that no other Omaha firm is willing or able to offer. Can you afford to hold back now? No money down. 30 days' free trial, free stool, tree scarf, and free life insurance. In addition to the above, we offer the following slightly used Pianos in six different lota, first-class condition and fully guaranteed to give entire satisfaction. All in Property Owners of Kountze Place Are Up in Arms Property owners of Kountze Place arc thoroughly aroused over what they con tend Is a violation of the building re strictions in that addition and are talk- I-OT i Kimball U)T 2 Singer Former price, $250, Erbe Fornur price, $275 Estey Now $112 Booth Bros. Now $138 Davis & Son I ; LOT 3 Weber LOT 4 Kurtzman Former price, $300 Hacklev Former price, $325 Cote Now $148 gffrS" 1 Now $168 KSSon LOT a Chase LOT 6 J. & C. Fischer Former prlca, $400 Adam Schaff Former prl:e, $450 Steger & Sons Now $178 Chlckerlng & Son Now $198 Schmoller & Mueller I la ri CUT PRICES ON PLAYER PIANO MUSIC For one week only, we will sell all regular 75c, $1.00 and $1.50 Player Piano music rolls, both 65 and 88 note, at 15c, 20c and 555c per roll. You hav a 3,000 rolls to select from. The above Is the most liberal offer ever made by us and we want you to know that every word con .ained in this advertfsement is true. Bring it with you and we will conform ,to every word it contains. If unable to call, write for free catalogue and free Information. SCHMOLLER & MUELLER PIANO CO. i :tl 1.13 Karnam Street. Omaha. Manufacturers, Wholesalers, Ketailei-s. V V Note from Ravenna. RAVENNA, Neb., Aug. 6.-(8pec!a!.)-James L. Motslck, a druggist at this place, was handling a shotgun yesterday and it was accidentally discharged, blow ing away the entire index finger of the left hand. No other, part of the hand was touched and Mr. Motsick was other wise uninjured. Albert Skochdopole, bookkeeper for the State Bank of Ravenna, entered in the athletic events of the Bohemian Turner society in their state tournament held at Crete during the last few days, and won third place in the third division. His success this year places him within two points of the winner of the general sweepstakes. the talk was that he went to chicag0 'nJ t'os and damage suits against nit; Auuiilta UHU xt?uun it imi with them to see how the pavement was working there. Foster Succeeds Courtney on the Board of Education W. A. Faster was elected last night to succeed C. Ft. Courtney as member of the Board of Education from the Fourth ward. Foster is a republican. Mr. Court ney resigned on account of the press of private affairs. George Cott, who intends to move te Sioux City in the spring, secured a leave of absence for three months to make ar rangements for his removal. Bequest from County Superintendent W. A. Yoder for the use of the high school for the Douglas county institute, which will be held the week beginning August 26, was referred to Superintendent BIr Picnic at Dnnbar. DUNBAR, Neb.. Aug. 6.-Dunbar will hold its annual Citizens' picnic here on Thursday, August 22. This Is a Citizens picnic, and not confined to anv Dartleular i - " , , . ' - . . society, but gotten up and supported by!0"'1 w"ln v"ner , the business men of Dunbar. A big pro gram Is being provided, and there will be all kinds of clean amusements. Hon. John A. Magulre, congressman from this district, will be the orator of the day. 'round hyar It the years for His next 1901 being sent !' burglary. After that Wheat Burned at Central City. CENTRAL CITY, Aug. 6.-(SpeciaU-Yesterday afternoon a field of wheat east of the city belonging to Harvey Petee become Ignited by sparks from an en gine on the Union Pacific tracks and before the fire was ohecked eighty seven shocks were consumed. The hur ried plowing of a fire break was all that saved the remainder of the field. was one continuous wrrnrmm.. i. the burglary line, each time, three in all. from Douglas county. He lays his hard luck to "booze." but s?ays that he will not be caught that wav nv m, ho."s i" v.ofk now and will preach Sun-1 five bushels an acre. o-x io nis lormer associates In Omaha trying to. lead them along the right path. ew An tea of Oxford. . OXFORD, Neb.. Aug. 6.-(Special.)-A soaking rain of one and one-half Inches fell here Monday nlshtT This is the fourth rain within two weeks and there promises to be the biggest corn crop In this section that there has ever been. Corn is earing heavily and that which has been kept clean could not be in bet ter condition. Ka!fir torn and other fodder crops are immense. Threshlns is In progress throughout this region He Island wheat Is going from five to twenty- CHANGES IN NURSING STAFF AT HOSPITAL IN KEARNEY KEARNEY, Neb.. Aug fi.-(Special.)-M ' the State Tuberculosis hospital charges have been made in the nursing f-ieff. and beginning tomorrow none hut aged women will be employed. The yeuns girls . i training in file Sta.e Oitluopcdic hospital at Lincoln will n !r.n.r he 'forced to serve a three months period ut the tuberculosis hospital. Tbl fianue comes about at the instigation it is said, or the superintendent, who finds the young girl, unsatisfactory and es l'.cla!ly that the work I, distasteful to iijcm. ,nna M-as'.iburn Island, a nurse of several ' Fer.ence. nas been employed for the nig.it work and will take up the work at W. G. Springer, cashier of the First National bank; with his family, has just returned from an extended trip to Chi cago, points In Wisconsin and a visit to relatives In Des Moines. A request from residents In. the Wind sor school district for a new annex was referred to the superintendent to investi gate the need therefore and report to the board. Resolutions objecting to the opening of the Tlnley Rescue home at Fourth and Bancroft streets were presented by ' Fos ter and unanimously adopted. This pro test will be forwarded to State Superln denl James E. Delzell. Otto Dlckman, janitor of Walnut Hill school, was transferred to the Edward Rosewater. Protests against his continu ing at the Wainut Hill school had been received. W. T. Bou, ke, secretaryofficiated at his first meeting In his new position. President Holovtchiner announced the appointment of Clark Noble to act as teller to the board, the former teller hav ing resigned. The board adjourned to meet Friday night and take up the matter of letting contracts for supplies. The bids have been received and will be presented in tabulated form Filday night. original owners of the property. When the lots in Kountze Place were sold, there was a condition In each deed, providing that no residence of the value of less than 12,500 should be erected. This was adhered to and as a result the addition has been built up with flue modern homes, scores of them costing from $5,000 to $30,000. A year ago that portion of Kountze Place, lying directly west of Kountze park, was platted, O. C. Redk k heading the tales. These deeds contained the regulation 12,500 building restriction, but a few days ago paities who bought a lot at Twenty-second and Evans streets commenced to erect thereon two little cottages that surrounding property owners say will cost not to exceed $1,000 each, and which, it Is urged, will ma terially decrease the value of adjacent property and Injure the character of th? entire addition. Dozens of petitions are being circulated and signed. These, In turn, will be presented to the Kountzes and Redlck, who will be asked to take action to P'cvent the construction of the houses. If this relief Is not secured, sometiilMS like 109 property owners of the addition say they will at once Institute damage suits. The W CLUTCH A leather faced Cone Clutch on which the leather is stretched over the face of the cone and fastened without the use of rivets. Any warping or stretching of leather is instantly taken care of and the entire clutch mechanism needs no attention from owner. Bullet Fired Point Blank Makes Only a Nick in Negro's Head The The Inn i lUi a J Clutch Never Slips Clutch Never Jerks Tlie advantages of this clutch are numerous to the man who owns a truck and pulls heavy loads out of bad places. They are equally pleasing to the owner of a pleasure car. The smoothness with which you start and stop forms part of the pleasure derived from motoring. l-ltthtnlnir Kills Farmer. CLAY CENTER, Neb., Aug. 6.-(Spe-cial.) Arthur Swamon. a' young man about 25 years of age, was struck and Instantly killed by lightning dur.'ns a severe electrical storm here late last night. He was on a rack loaded with bundles driving toward the threshing machine when he was struck. The bolt set fire to the bundles and Swanson was only prevented from burnin? up by a Jman getting on the wagon and throwinT nim on. tie leaves a wisow and child, of Grand years' ex- one 'ri'hir' MADISON, Inxtltate at MailUon. Neb., Aug. 6.-(SDeclal.l- Madison county's institute opened Mon day in the high school building. The In structors are Superintendent J". H. Price of Tilden, Superintendent I. F. Carney of Battle Creek. Prof. Reese Solomon of Norfolk. Mrs. C. H. Brake of Warner vlll. and IVof. George Crooker of Lin coln. Dr. C. L. Carlson of Norfolk de livered a lecture Monday ino- involution of i nursaay afternoon Rev Edaar Man U 111. EDGAR,, Neb., Aug. C.-(Specia!.)-Ralph Jackson, a son of W. H. Jack son, a prominent merchant of Edgar, lies sick at Wymore with typhoid fever and the physicians' say he cannot live. He has been unconscious for several days and his father and other relatives have been In attendance at his bedside for the last two weeks. ORIGINAL REPUBLICAN DIES ON BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY KANSAS CITY. Mo., Ausr. .-!ra Ha worth, known as the "grandfather" of the republican party In Illinois and a personal . friend of President Abraham Lincoln, died at a local hospital tonight, a charity patient. He was 85 years old ytoday and friends arranged to celebrate the event with a dinner. Haworth was one of the six men who attended the flist republican meeting In Illinois "In 1856 and later Was on? of the delegates who .voted for the nomina tion of Lincoln for president. In I860 Lincoln sent Haworth a gavel and a cane made from a rail which he had hewn for a fence. These Haworth treasured greatly and always kept them locked in a chest. Former President Roosevelt recently invited Haworth to come to Chicago to attend the convention of the progressive party there and was asked to bring the gavel and cane. His inability to at tend the meeting caused him much worry during the last few days of his Illness. Despite he was struck by a .OS-calibre bullet fired from a gur, only a foot and a half away, and received the bullet squarely on the frontal bone of his skull, H. L. Anthony, the negro burglar shot by H. B. ("Boob") Mlider last Saturday nfternoon, will live says Pollca Surgeon Harris who 13 attending him. According to the physician, the case of j Anthony is a remarkable one In medicine. Ordinarily even a glancing bullet from I a smaller calibre fun Tired a hundred j feet away would cause a bad fracture I and the fact thai, only Anthony's skin j was broken and a bid hrulss resulted has I dumfounded not only the hospital at ! t ndant. but many surgeons who have I rnfcde special trips to Si. Jo?ph'a ! hospital lo see the phenomenon. Dr. Harris says that co far there e?ms I to be no chance for Anthony to die un ; less Infection sets in. In that extent. meningitis or paralysis might follow. At miu.iiKni jam nignt Anthony v. as con scious and WMted to get up and go away. White 30, with Starter and Electric Lights, $2,500. PM TAW 2503 FARNAH STREET , I EdlL 1 viN Phone Doug. 3301 1 IB H Chicago I n JLflimKed I . nmnfe if I lJ-iij JI Sleeper and Diner ready 6:00 P. IX : &s&wrrm'-m'--'f'"- , LI s ? r taucation," and on Father Muenlch Severe Electrical Storm. CLAY CENTER, Neb., Aug. -(Special.) About three Inches of rain fell here last nlglit In one hour. Considerable damage to corn was caused by hall. Lightning struck In several places. Cecil East, a farmer west 01 wwn, nau e.gm f Madison will address the institute. J stacks of wheat burned. Rain l.ntc in Fillmore. GENEVA, Neb., Aug. 6. (Special.) A shower this morning and a fine rain this evening made a fall of 1.19 inch. This is the first rain of any account since June 12, when 2.10 Inches fell. Some corn is already past much help. Deaprrote shooting; pains in t.ie chest require quick treat ment. Take Dr. King's New Discovery for safe and sure relief, 3Cc and $1.00. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. Aecnued of Car Rohlierv, GTNEVA, Neb.. Aug. 6.-(Special.)-On complaint of William C. Heaton, Fred Davis and Frank White were ar rested at Fairmont and brought here, charged with taking merchandise from a freight tar on the Chicago, Burlington & Qulucy railroad. They appeared be fore Judge W. R. F.ulton yesterday and waived examination and were bound over to the district court In the sum of 509 each, In default of which they will re main In the county Jail until November. "Were all medicines as meritorious as Chamberlain' Colic. Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy the world would be much bettr off and the percentage of suffer ing greatly decreased." writes Lindsay Scott ot Temple, Ind. For tale by all dealers. ' & Concentrate your advertising in The Bee. There is a Bee in almost every home.