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6-0 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST 3, 1913. Council Bluffs TAX LEYY ISMM READY Park Board to Certify Its Share Up to the County Auditor. PARK AND BOULEVARD PLANS Indication hat Taxes for tho Coming Trtr Will Not ne Far Below the Limit rermlttrA by Law. Council Bluffs Minor Mention Council Bluffs Offle of Til Bsc la at 14 XOSTK Main Bt. Telephone 40. Council Bluffs The park commissioners held a meet ing yesterday afternoon for the purpose of certifying the tax levy to be made for the coming year. Owing; to the ab sence of Commissioner McGce no other business of Importance was transacted. Two resolutions were presented and ap proved, one ordering the regular levy of CV5 mills for general park purposes and the other for the special park lax of 1 mill the proceeds to be used only for purchasing park lands and boulevards, Both levies will be certified to the county auditor for entrance upon the county's tax books. The tutal levy of PA mills Is the same as that of last yoar. The 1 mill levy was Authorised by the state legislature for the put pose of purchasing the site for tho now Dodge park on the river front. The present la the last year of this levy. "While this special tax has been levied It baa been Impossible for the board to levy any additional taxes for park 1m l4 provements, but for 1914 It Is probable " that a 1 mill levy will be made to pro vide a fund for the Improvement of the Dodge park and the gradual extension cf the boulevard system. The work of preparing the city levy Is now under consideration, and may come before the council within the next week. That It will be larger than last year, When the total for all purposes, Includ ing parks and library, was 46H mills, appears to bo certain. The library board has certified to the council Its levy for the coming year, asking for S mills, an Increase of 1 mill. It Is probable that IV4 mills will be asked for the equipment , of the fire department with additional automobile apparatus. The levy of ltt , mills will be the most that can bo made this year, for It will bring the total city , levy up to 48 mills, the legal limit. It Is possible the council will reject the extra mill demanded by the library board for the reasoA that under another law that was patted last winter, all un platted lands In the city limits, which have been exempted from taxation for all municipal expenses and assessed only , as agricultural lands, have been made liable for library taxes. On the basis of last year's assessment these lands will yield nearly 13,000 If the Slmlll levy only 4t Is made. This wilt give the library board about $11,000' a year. The Income 4, from the regular 2-mll tax yielded about ' mm . t . , . I ,, . . fs.wv a jcbj. ji me opinion oi many of the members of the city council that if the board has been able to conduct the library on W.W0 a year In the past It should be able to tide over affairs for the next year with f3,000 additional. With an increase of the state tax al ready made it looks as If the total levy this year will not fall much short of 110 mills on a one-fourth valuation of tax able property. This will be considerable higher, than this year. The school board levy cannot be less than last year and there seems to be no possibility o"t cut ting the general fund levy for the city. n Pind Mermaid for Carnival Lagoon 7,i V. Kohrer, Alderman Tim Flood. Jerry Walters and other members of the city engineer's office, caught a spoonbill catfish somewhere In the vlctnlty of the mouth of Indian or Mosquito creek, or at some other point In the Missouri river. It seems to have been caught In a net. or with a fish-hook baited with six pounds of porterhouse steak, or was 4 epeared with a pitchfork when It manl fested e, degree of bad temper and m threatened to leave the water and mud and attack some members of the party, Equal uncertainty prevails as to Its exact sise, and It was either thirty Inches or thirty feet long, with a spoonbill that i varies from the else of an ordinary grain (shovel to a road scraper. That its di mensions wero considerable Is evidenced by the fact that all the friends of Its captors havo been dining off fish steaks f Jor.ft whole day, leaving the framework, running gears and outer covering of the " " monster still undisposed of. At an informal meeting held late yesterday afternoon, over which Kd Rogers presided, It was decided to stuff the skin with hay and sawdust and pre- aent it to Architect Frederick S3. Cox and "i uo 4UUUM mm 10 ue;i eve it is a fresh-waur mermaid nultablo as a deni. ten of the Indian creek grand canal dur ing carnival week. K9 Davis, drugs. Vlctrols, rw. A. ITospa Co. Damon Electric company. Fa!. Bradley Electric Co. I'hos d. Corrlgans, undertakers. Phone Ut Woodrlng Undertaking Co. Tel. a. Blank book work. Morehouse it Co. FAU8T BKEK AT ItOOEIlS' BUFFET. Lewis Cutler, funeral director. Phone W. The highest grade optical work in the city Is done at Leffert's. Bee Borwtck for wall paper and paint ing. a and 211 & Main street. Scientific watch repair work, the kind that Is appreciated, at Leffert's. TO SAVE OR TO BORKOVV. dEE C. B. Mutual Bldg. & Loan Ass'n, 13 Pearl. BUmVElHEIl on diaught-The Grand. Budwrlsor In bottles at all first-class bars. J. P. Mulquecn of Bell & Mulqueen has returned from a month's vacation spent on the Pacific coast. You will be surprised how nice we can make your old suit look, dive us a trial. Cook's Cleaning Works. 23t flroadway. OAS stove plates at reduced prices; two-bole plate now I2.W; three-hole, plates now IJ.oo.-P. C lJeVol Hardware Co., 01 Broadway. Qtrls wanted for wrannlnir Woodward's Heal Butter Scotch and Woodward's Pure Sugar stick Candy. John U. VYoodwai & Co. Charles M. Cozod beean divorce suit yesterday In tho district court against his wife, Miriam Cozad. They were married at Tekamah, Neb. Bcptember 1, l-i0. and separated May 1 of this year. Tho husband alleges cruelty. A special musical np.rvlca will be clven on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock at the Second Presbyterian church. The choir, under tho direction of Mrs. Robert Mul- us, win no asisted by Mr. and Mrs. j, , uenrusicy. Claiming that he has hpld neaceable possession since June, 18S3. of fifteen acres Of farm land In Hllvnr Crpr-V town ship, Honry J. F. Klahn began a suit yosieroay against Mrs. Johanna IfTorcr to nulot title. . lie claim unon thn nron- erty comes through inheritance. Mrs. I'. C. aildnv. Ml Avonuit C. has received word of the death- of hor brother, Thomas 13, Murphie, at Dos Moines Thureday, and has gone thero. Mr. Murphy was a contractor In Des Moines for tho last twenty-four years, aR? cem thn lie was accidentally killed by a Northwestern train. The mnerai was held there Friday morn ng. O. J. Gflt.lhft.fl. 1 11 A flftUTA whn tuna at funis by a Union Pacific switch engine at 5:a0 a'.Ia.I. rpi. . t . . . ..V nmutvy unu nuu one arm cm off, died from the effects of his injuries insi niKiu ai me jsamunason nosoitai where he was taken Immediately alter the accident. ImmndliLt-.lv nft-r h win hurt he gave the address of his mother at Little Hock, Ark. Qalshan was about 33 years old. He Is said to havo a wlfo and family residing In Chicago nt an ad dress found In his possession. The body was removed to the Cutler morgue and mo relatives notified by wire. Council Bluffs council No. 14, United commercial Travelers, win hoia its an nual ptcnlo at Laka Manawa Saturday afternoon. All membors of the organiza tion, their families and friends aro In vited and n l&ririt rrnwd ! MvnAP.t-.d. During the afternoon an athletic program of thirty-four contests will be held. In cluding races, special stunts, eta, prizes for winners being donated by Council uiuiib merchants, in the evening a pic nlo supper will be enloved hv nil. follow, log which the picnickers will participate 111 wiu various punc amusements. Armed With a recutatlon nlnrklnrlr." WhlCh la ClfLMJI-d llnfl-l thA n.w Tnurn ! law as a deadly weapon. William Smith, w no main nis nmnn WM nf nnn inn nn 1 that he Is a farmer. Is being held at the t uiita aiuion ior runner examination. Smith was picked up Thursday night by Drteotlvos Arnold and Peterson. Whoa searched he had two falrlv cood witrhu and a gold bracelet on hie person. He claimed ha found the bludgeon and so- cureq me watches and bracelet In legitimate manner. Hmllh will t In ... . .. ..... w , iiuuuu nun mis morning. The Lana Construction tcrday beR&n a district rnnrf in!. ntrnn thA (Vltintt. nnnrfl Dun. . COVer J770.70 Clalrnod tn a (Iiia BtrUCtlon Work in connection with aruAf and levees involved In Honey creek drain' uko uutu eio. o, a no worn was uotie un der an oral contract mnd In IVrntihtr mz. 1'rotests wero made against allow ing tho bills submitted, aggregutlnir ll,ICS.:o, and the county board sought to force a compromise by tendering a war rant for K31.50. Suit Is brought for the dlftoronce and a writ of mandamus is asKoa 10 compel the board to nay the re malnder of the bill. In the petition filed yestorday an Itemized bill showing the numuer or nours eacn man ana team worxea was incorporated. The Store Triumphs. Omaha's fast semi-professional team, will play tho Merchants next Bunday. The Triumphs have played all the teams In this lo cality and have brought In teams from abroad, the Boston National Bloomers, tho 1 Causae City Oiants. the Chicago Union Giants, ,!! semi-professional learns, ana navo won ail out four games this season. They broke even with the Chicago Ulants lost Saturday and Bun. day, winning Saturday's gome and los ing the sunaay contest. Dei Alderman, Qeorge Graham. Harry Welch, who navo played in the western league, are connected with the Buds bunch. Alder. man or Kelley will slug 'em over next Sunday, with Crelghton receiving. Ad ams or Probst with Gillespie receiving ior inn juercnams. ino oioib ana uroae guard Crowns will be the curtain raiser, Why go out of town to buy a Victrola when ycu can get the same price and style Instrument, and as good. If not bet ter, treatment at A. Hoape Co., 407 Broad way. A complete stock of all styles and records. Aged Woman Dies; Bereft of Family, But Joy to Many Mrs. Elizabeth Allen Hover, one of the most Interesting) women of Council Bluffs, died lost evening at her humble little home, 404U East Broadway, after an Illness of only a fow days. She was ti years old, and for more than thtrty-flve years had been a resident of Council Bluffs, working patiently with her needle for her support and doing a vast amount of unostentatious charity. Wherever sickness or sorrow darkened a humble home her cheory presence was the first to bring the sunshine that helped to dissipate the clouds. To hun dreds she was a real ministering angel, bringing practical as well as spiritual assistance. Widowed near the close of the war of the rebellion and bereft of her children, nearly fifty years of her life was passed with the knowledge that nowhere in the world was there another bound to her by the ties of consanguinity, but she lost the sense of her own loneliness In the knowl edge that the whole was her kin. After her death last evening Georgo a Davis, who has known her for thirty years, and Itobert Fair, who had been looking after her comfort, went to thi humble, cottage and examined the con tents of two huge old fashioned chests. In them were found the toys of her child hood, a daguerreotype showing her In her bridal dress with the picture of her young husband when she was 18 years old, dainty little bits of needle and art work, Including pencil, crayon and color drawings of real merit, and bundles of newspaper clippings and newspapers, all arranged with scrupulous neatness and In perfect preservation. Among the newspapers was a copy of the New York Herald of April IS, 1SC3. containing the first story of the assassi nation of President Lincoln. The paper Is without a blemish, Another package comprised almanacs dating from 1864. stitched together In a volume with nu merous notations of events on the mar gins. Tho almanacs in a mcasuro contain a history of the world during tho period as she observed It. In another box wero found three paldup Industrial Insurance policies aggregating its. which she had provided for hor funeral expenses. Another package contained all of the correspon dence connected with her vain attempt to secure a widow's pension. Mrs, Hover resolutely refused to accept any aid from the county, but for the last few years received S3 a month from the Women's Belief corps. It was this little stipend eho used when her charity work required tho use of money. One of her two chil dren died In childhood and the other, a. son, went away more than forty years ago and was never heard of. Tho funeral will be held on Sunday aft ernoon at the Woodrlng chapel where the body was taken last evening. The fu neral services will be conducted by Ilov. Mr. Shilling, pastor of the local Seventh Day Adventlst church, with which she affiliated. LidgettWillis Filed for Probate Si ft: i The will of Joseph a Lldgett was flld for probate yesterday. The entire estate Is divided between the widow and the surviving ton, James Nathan Lldgett, ana tne emiaren or the deceased eon, Joseph L. Lldgett The three grandsonn, Claude, Raymond and James Lldgett. and the granddaughter. Elizabeth Lld gett, are each given &ne-slxteenth of all the property comprised In the estate, -t Th0 widow and the son are each given six-sixteenths. They are made Joint ex ecutors of the will without bond. AU of the rentals and all Income. fr0tn othei acurces Is to go to the widow for what ever use ane desires to make of the money. After ber death all of the prop erty is to be evenly divided among the other heir. No inventory of the prop erty has been filed The estate com prises farm and city property. Jinx Follows Closely -Path of Milton Clark xrouDies nave certainly not como singly for the Clark Mercantile company. a Nebraska firm, which came here last spring and opened a general store In the John J. Crowe property at Broad, way and Thirty-fifth street. Burvlara have tooted the place five times since j last AprtI, fire destroyed a portion of the largo warehouse and storage bam. creditors havo filed three attachment TOPICS FOR OAY OF REST Former Omaha Pastor to Occupy Presbyterian Pulpit Sunday. TO GIVE LECTURE WITH VIEWS Second of n Series Itlnstrated Ser mons 'WIH De Given at the Third Presbyterian Charch Sunday RvenlnK. Dr. J. M. Wilson of Wllmette. Bt., for mer pastor of Castellar Presbyterian church, arrived in the city Thursday morning to spend' a few days with his brother, C. B. Wilson. He will preach at Westminster Presbyterian church Sunday morning. The Sunday service at North Presby terian church 3105 North Twenty-fourth street at 10:30 a. m. will consist of the following program: Prelude, "Gospel Hymns" Lewis orchostra. Hymn No. 336. Choral rvinnma An,iJ.em.'. "Fvat Te Deum in E orchi0. ir!,v.:-j:a:::"A-DvBuck Trio. "I will Lay Me DXoVanrZ: iTio, "Serenade" Wldor ni ..nry1?"."' celI anoplano. Solo. "What Are These" o. B. Brown .Mrs. Thurma Ellis. Anthem. "Savior Like a Hhenh.rd OrchtV Offertory, "Andantlno"...,....T..T"iiro; HVhKU, "ark My S-'""8hency Wll lain. . tJSlVa."0,Ki A,r-.E- tnnr.v.ri. ai w ' "u"a jonnson, F wimirl. i? Darker, soprano: E 1. "T' bnM nnl director; MIkh inSr.Uo?k' rfanist. and W. L. Hether Ington, director of orchestra. Thero will be a ati-rn at the Third Presbyterlon church. Twcn- nu ieavenworth streets. Sunday ovening. Tho pictures tirABAniA1 n ha from the American Institute of Social service. Ttnr.l. Olivet Orovn. tm.i....i..l Crown TV.I.T. . .. - "i Direct and -rown t'olnt Avenue flundav nonnni it ana preachlntr Thumri a T aVanlnH a m day school at 10. Preaching a? Und & rttv. J, S. Kbersote of tho Emmanuel Baptist church will occupy the pulpit In the evening and preach on a very Im portant theme. Cavalry Branch, Thirty-fourth and Seward Bible school at 3:30 p. m.. Harry Carpenter, superintendent. Junior In dustrial school Thursday at 2:30 p .m. First, Corner Harney Street and Park Avenue. Bev. W. Jasper Howell, Min isterRev. C. P. Battershell Is minister of the Sunday school. Morning worship at 10:30 o'clock, sermon by Rev. Mr. Howell. Observance of Lord s supper and reception of new members. Sunday school at noon. No evening service. Calvary, Twenty-flfth and Hamilton Services at 10:30 a. m. and 8 p. m., con ducted by Rev. Thomas Anderson. Tho Lords supper will be observed at close of morning service. Bible school at noon, O. W. Noble, superintendent Toung Peoples meeting at 7 p. m., leader Miss Ethel Reese. Mid-week devotional ser vice of the church Wedneeday at 8 p. m. Grace, South Tenth and Arbor, E. B. Taft, Minister Sunday school at 10 a. m. Morning worship at 11 o'clock, subject, 'A Tomb In the Garden." The Lord's supper will follow the sermon. Baptist Young Peaple's union at 7 p. m. Even I?,, "eplce at 8 o'clock, subeject. "A fish Breakfast by the Sea of Galilee." Good music. Mission Sunday school 3 p. m.. at 2010 South Fourth street Emmanuel. Twenty-fourth and Pinkney. Rev. J. 8. Ebersole. Pastor Services at 10:30 and 8. Bible school at 12. Young people's meeting at 7. led by Clarence Nelson. Morning sermon. "The Cure For Worry." The Lord's Supper will be ob served. In the evening Rev. F. H. Ward of the Olivet Baptist church will preaeh In exchange with the pastor. Wednesday evening at 8 devotional meeting, led by A. E. Eaton. Christian Science. First Church of Chrlnt. SH.nttt. rrhnrMi Edifice St. Mary's Avenue ond Twenty fourth Street Bunday school at 9:43 and 11 a. m. Sunday services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Subject of lesson sermon, "Love." Episcopal. St Matthias', Tenth and Worthlngton, Rev. George S. Southworth. Pastor Sunday services: Holy communion at 8. Sunday school at 10. Holy communion and sermon at 11. Church of the Good Shepherd, Twen tieth and Ohio, Rev. T. J. Collar, Rector Holy communion and sermon by Rev. A. E. Selcer, 11 a. m. No evening service and no Sunday school. Church of St Philip the Deacon. Twenty-first, Near Paul. Rev. John Al ton Williams, Vicar Holy communion at 7:30. Sunday school at 10. Holy com munion with sermon at 11. Evening prayer at 5. St Martin's. Twenty-fourth and J, South Omaha. Rev. Harold Lin wood Ilowen, Priest Holy communion at 8. Sunday school at 11. Holy communion and sermon at 11. The Rov. A. S. Cor- bett will officiate at all the services. Lutheran. Graee English. Twenty-sixth Street. Between Poppleton and Woolworth Ave nues, Clarence N. Swlhart Pastor "The Searching Savior" at 11. Sunday school at 10. No evening service. St Mark's English. Twentieth and Burdette, Rev. L. Groh, Pastor Services Sunday: "You Are not Your Own, You Are Bought: The Sum Paid was Large" at 11. Sunday school at 9:& No ovening service. St Matthew's English, Nineteenth and Castellar, Rev. O. W. Snyder, Pastor Bible school at 10, subject. "Egypt's Plagues." Gospel song and evangelistic services at 8. Subject "The Soul's Need Supplied." Zlon English, Magnolia Hall, 2404 Ames, Rev. G. W. 8nyder, Pastor Services at 330, subject "The Soul's Rest.'' Sun day school at 2:30. The Pastor's Ladles' Aid society wilt meet Thursday after noon at the residence of Mrs. George Swanson, 3027 Larimore avenue. St. Paul's, Formerly at Twenty-eighth nd Parker, Rev. E. T. Otto, Pastor Uervlces at 10 .at Thirty-fourth and Seward. Sunday school at 11:30. Even ing sermon in English at 8 in Nor wegian Lutheran church, Twenty-sixth and Hamilton, subject "Saint Paul, the Servant of Jesus of Nazareth." . Methodist. Hirst Memorial, Thirty-fourth Street and Larimore Avenue, H. 13. Hess, Pastor Morning subject at 11, "The Value of Friendship' Evening subject at 9, "A Man's Second Vote." Sunday school at 10. Kpworth league at 7, sub ject. "The Methodist Mission in Bul garia." Leader, Miss Melllo Weeks. Hanscom Park, corner Woolworth Ave nue and Twenty-ninth Street Preaching mrvlces at 11 and 7i45. conducted by tho pastor, C W. McCasktll. Sunday school day; preaching in Norwegian and Dan ish; Wednesday and Friday, la English; d.tferent ministers from the city will preach. Presbyterlnn. North, 3103 North Twenty-fourth, Rev. F. P. Ramsey, Pastor Service Sunday will be entirely musical. Hetherlngton't orchestra. First, corner of Seventeenth and Dodge. Sov,' .k- 1L Jenko, Pastor Preaching at 10:30 by Wlllard Lamp of the University of Pennsylvania. Castellar Street, C. C. Meelt. Mlnlster Morn.ng service at 10:3a No evenint service babbath school at 12. Christian Endeavor at 8:45 Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8. Lowe Avenue, Fortieth and Nicholas, Rev. Nathaniel McGlftin. D. D., Pastor Sunday school at 10. Preaching at 1L Senior Endeavor at 7. No evening serv ice. Wednesday evening meeting at 8. Foirvlew, Fortieth and Pratt Charles H. Fleming, Pastor Bible school ut 1:45. No afternoon service. Dr. Clauda Mnson of Slam will deliver the address at S. Mr. Fanning leads the Thursday evening prayer meeting at 8. North, Twenty-fourth and Wirt, Rev. M. V. Hlgbee. D. D., Pastor The choir will have charge of the morning service at 10:30 o' clock. No evening service. Sunday school at noon. Young Peop;e'd Society Christian Endeavor at 7 p. m. Wednesday prayer meeting at 8 p. m. Third. Twentieth and Leavenworth Summer session of Sunday school at 9:30. Morning worship and addross by William Balrd at 10:45: theme, "Lost and Found." Evening worship and stereopttcon lec ture, "Social Gospel," at 8. Pictures ore from tho American Institute of Social Service. Dr. Joslah Strong, president Diets Memorial. Tenth and Pierce, C. N. Dawson, Minister Sunday school at V.4V. xrcHcninic at iu:iu. J. i'. uanny. at 3:45. Classes for all. Epwprth League state secretary Y. M. C.' A." No evcnlns nt 7. Remlnr monthly official board Monday evening at . Midweek prayar service Wednesday evening at 8. GracaC Camden and North Twenty seventh, Thomas S. W. Evans, Pastor Sunday school, 10 a. m.J preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.; K. L. C. E., 7 p. m.; morning theme, "Lessons from a Dollar." Rev. M. T. Maze will preach In the evening; theme, "The True Glory of Youth." McCabe, Fortieth and Farnam, W. H. Underwood, Minlsteo-Tho Sunday school hour Is 10 o'clock, H. G. Campbell, BUper litendent. The morning service at 11, strmon by Rev. George A. Luce. The Kpworth league at 7:30, subject, "The Methodist Mission In Bulgaria." Leader, Miss Agnca Lewis. No evening service. Norwegian and Danish, Twenty-tlfth and Decatur, R. P. Peteraen, Pastor Services In tabernacle. Twenty-seventh avenue and Lake! Sunday school In Eng lish, 9:45! sen-ices In Norwegian and Danish, 11 p. m. and 8 p. m.; English service. 3:30 p. m.; young people's meet ing, 7 p. m.; the tabernacle meetings will continue next week, Tuesday and Thurs- services. Pravor rtnitln:r Wpilnnsilav nt S. Ladles of the church will meet with Mrs. Ben Robinson. 1455 South Twelfth street, Thursday, at 2:S0. Light refresh ments. Splendid musical program Sun day evening, August 10. Miscellaneous. People's Church. 515 North Eighteenth, Rev. Charles W. Savidge, Pastor Serv ices at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.; morning subject "Working In the Vineyard; even ing subject, "Are Thieves Increasing!" Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of LHtter Day Saints, Twenty-fourth and Ohio Sunday school, 9:45 a. m.; Reltglo Literary society, 0:30 p. m.: preaching. ! p. m. The gospel tent Is located at Thlr ty-slxth and Seward, meetings every night at 8; W. E. Shakespeare In charge; summer school from 9:15 to 11:30' each morning except Saturday and Sunday; children 4 to 14 years old are invited to attend. The commencement and exhibition of children's work will be held at tha church Friday, August 15, at 8 p. m. Mission Sunday school at 3 p. m., 8318 Arbor; preaching same place 8 p. m. 1125 100 nl T?tnte Trnnfr. The following real estate transfers filed Friday were reported to The Bee by tho Pottawattamie County Abstract company: E. B. Hart and wife to W, J. Mac- Dem, tot 11, diock 14. uurn'a addi tion to Council Bluffs, w. d Interstate Realty companv to S. A. Hoffman, lot 13, block SS. Porrv's first addition to Council Bluffs, W. d L. F. Mtschler and wife to Bertha Krueger, lot 2. block 14, town of Mtnden. w. d 1.T0O I Everett and Mary L. Everett to F. Blank, lot 11, block , Burn's Wllliluil W bllllllUI lllllllfl, TV. U... tV F. Blank and wife to W. J. Macbeth, samo, w. a,.... ,, ,, ,T Five transfers, total $2,275 Thrmhlnir '-r-h'tf nnrnnl. LOGAN, la., Aug. 1 (Special,) Fire destroyed the If. Dungan threshing ma, I Chine, five wagons and 200 bushels of wheat on the F. A. Bchwertly farm north west of Missouri Valley on the Missouri bottoms Wednesday nlghL The machine, wagons and fifty bushels of wheat were covered by Insurance. Loss Is estimated at $1,100. Xovrn Nevrs Notes. SHENANDOAH The Algonquin club has arranged for the annual city tennis tournament to be held on the club grounds during fatrweek. August 11 to 16.x SHENANDOAH Tim C. Jackson, drug gist was appointed deputy state game warden, and has entered upon his new duties. He has supervision over twenty four counties, the southwest quarter of Iowa. "LOGAN Fire destroyed the Tiffany stock of harness goods and badly dam aged the shop building here Friday morning at 1 o'clock. The cause of the fire and the extent of loss could not be learned thts morning. Tho building waa not Insured. SHENANDOAH George McGrew was taken to the Inebriate hospital at Knox vllle yesterday. He received a three years' sentence in Judge Castle's court. McGrew has twice attempted suicide, the last time by hanging himself In his cell In the city jail several months ago. WOMAN'S SHRIEK SAVES MOTHER FRflM DEATH LACROSSE, Wis., Aug. L-A shriek uttered by Mrs. Frank Bradley saved her mother's life today. Eddie Balrd, 13, found a revolver, which he supposed was unloaded and started to show his mother, Mrs, Edward Balrd, how they "do It In the movies." He pointed the pistol at his mother and fired. Just as he drew the trigger his sister. Mrs. Bradley, entered the room and shouted. The cry startled the lad and suits In the last week, and Friday Mil- deflected his arm so that the bullet COME IN AND take a orlnk on us to day. MlssUone Is serving root beer and ginger ale. It's Ice cold and costs von but a amUe to sample It On salt today j there were incumbrances aggregating w ootuea at 16 cents. We have fine to- IWXQ, for 800 acres of land in Burt ma. toes, only 10 cents basket; extra large ! county, Nebraska, upon which there was ton O. Clark, the chtef owner, applied to the bankruptcy court as a last resort. Attachments placed on the stock aggre gate $2,000 and the value of It all Is less than $1,000. The store has been closed and In the hands of the creditors for a week. Yesterday morning It was dlscovored that burglars had again broken In and carried away another lot of the mer chandise. Several months ago Mr. Clark ex changed fifteen houses and lets In the western part of thn city and upon which watermelons, to cents; pears at 30 cent dozen; peaches, SO cents basket; musk rations, 10 cents. We have sliced tongue. to cents; ham, 40 cents; summer sausage, K cents pound. Try our New Tork cof Cee. only 25 cents pound. In tea we have the tea cup brand, cents package. In plokles we have mixed sweet In glass jars, only 10 cents; cbow chow, 10 cants; dill In jars, at 10 cents; blind robbing, 10 cents glass, lamb tongue, pickled. In jars, at W cents. If you want the best celery you huve tasted for some time, just order some today. S cent bunch. SarUl & Miller, Telephone 339. a mortgage of $8,000, paying $7,600 differ enct Last week he began a suit In the district court against Mayne & areenshlelds asking to have the trans action annulled on the ground of tnlerep resentatlon. claiming that the, land had Uttla value, far below tha $100 per acre which he clultns It wus represented to have, Corruicutc-d Strcl Ilooftnjr. If you have tn mind using any corru gated steel roofing, get our prices on the different styles and thickness. C Hafer Lumber company. struck hla mothera arm Instead of her heart She will recover. OVER SCORE HURT IN MINE DUST EXPLOSION ItYMBRIA, Ind., Aug. 1. Five men were probably fatally burned and eighteen others dangerously hurt in a dust ex plosion at Jackeon Hill No. 3 mine, three miles east of here, late today. It Is be lieved the dust was fired by a "windy" shot. The mine property was heavily damaged. Rescuers succeeded In bring ing out all the Injured miners. IOWA WOMAN IS FOUND DEAD IN CHICAGO HOTEL CHICAGO. Aug. 2Mrs. Bert S. Churcli, 43 years old, who registered from Cedar Rapids, la., was found dead In her room In a downtown hotel today. Beside her on the bed was a woman's mesh bag which had been stuffed with cotton sat-j u rated with chloroform. She left two notes, one addressed to her ItiiaHartA tn P... nanMa nnA a n a t. . dressed to a Chicago physician. NO. 19 Would It Profit Omaha 0 Wreck the Gas Company i ? One of tho arguments seriously presented as a reason why YOU should not favor tho. rate-reduction gas franchise is that Philadelphia capital is invested in tho gas company. Citizens of Philadelphia havo put money in the Omaha Gas Company, just as men from that and other cities havo invested money in other local enterprises, buildings and real estate. But ever since the gas company was started in 1867 one of tho two earliest utilities of tho city Omaha citizens havo owned a very large interest in tho company and an Omaha man always has been its president. Both local and outside investors in the gas com pany waited many years before they wero rewarded with even a semblance of a return. Meanwhile their money was performing an im portant part in the upbuilding of tho city. This capital was helping to create property val ues for Omaha people, and toward -making Omaha desirable as a commercial, industrial and residence location. Not only has tho company, day and night for 45 years without interruption, delivered an honestly made and a needed commodity at no more than a fair price, but BY THAT VERY ACT it helped to mako the city and assisted in tho general welfare and prosperity. It might be thought that tho money invested in tho Omaha Gas Company has worked better and more for the common good than money invested in idle, unimproved real estate. ( Profit is tho wages paid to those who supply labor, capital, energy, enterprise and ability. If you deny tho right of a man to a fair and rea sonable profit for his services, you deny his right to oristenco, and the samo is as true of a service com ' pany as of an individual. A profitless' service company is a detriment to any community. No one, in Omaha, Philadelphia, or anywhere else, will invest money in an enterprise that holds no promise of paying for the uso of the money. To servo a growing community a service com pany has to have more and , more now capital year by year. I ."When the ability to secure new capital stops, en largements and extensions to service mnBt stop also.- Tho service organization (whether owned by stockholders or by a municipality) which cannot offer fair wages for the employment of capital is a dead concern. A utility so shackeled cannot perform its proper work in the community and is forced to resort to the utmost economies to keep itself from actual bank ruptcy. Every liberal and progressive practice in the interest of customers must be abandoned. According to the assistant city attorney, it was calculated by the city commissioners that the gas company could nopossibly make, with dollar gas, more than 9 per cent return upon the value of the property as APPRAISED BY THE CITY'S EX PERT, MR, W. D. MARKS. The valuation of the gas property estimated by Mr. Marks is far too low. Mr. Marks' valuation will not stand tho test of the courts or disinterested ex perts. His valuation of tho Des Moines gas property was not accepted by the courts. In the Des Moines case the courts found the physical value of the gas property in a city much smaller than Omaha to be $2,100,000 or more than $500,000 greater than Mr. Marks' valuation of the gas property in Omaha. For years the city has taxed the Omaha Gas Company upon a valuation in excess of $3,500,000. Dollar gas, far from a 9 per cent return, will not at present give the Omaha Gas Company even bare interest rates upon the true value of its property devoted to public uso. In the Marks' estimate many important items were ignored. The gas company has had no opportunity to con test Mr. Marks' appraisal and findings. It is pre pared to do so and to prove his estimate grossly un just and unfair. Such cases require months to pre sent to a court or other tribunal. The rate-reduction franchise to be voted on August 19th is a compromise of the gas rate war. It will give gas consumers $1.00 gas at once and save them upwards of $700,000 between-now and the time the present franchise would expire, Future rates are to be regulated by. the city by short-term contracts with the company. K- OMAHA GAS COMPANY