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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1914)
4 A THE 0AIIA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY lfl, 1914. WOOL GROWER FACE CRISIS Editor Poole of Chicago Says Mut ton Famine is Coming. TARIFF WILL RAISE PRICES Sheep .Men Slilpplnn ItrecdlnR Stock to Market Ilccnnxe of Threat of Cheap Meat from Abroad, Which Mar Not Come. AWAYWITH To the Bur gess-N ash Company, on the occasion of the formal opening of their new retail store in Omaha, we extend our heartiest congrat- We welcome to the re this new firm of pro representative Omaha men and wish them great success in their enterprise. ulations. tail field gressive, J. L. Brandeis & Sons. MYSTERIOUS MAN IN MURDER CASE NOW IDENTIFIED (Continues rrom Fage One.) out as peculiar characters by her sister, the housekeeper at tho Havens hotel. Late Wednesday night, tho housekeeper asserts that tho men returned from an automobile ride and that they Invited hor to go out with them to a famous hostelry and have a drink. She refused to do so and they then went up to their rooms. Upon that same afternoon an automobile belonging to Arthur Kalnbak of the auto filling station. Fort Calhoun, Neb., was stolen from In front of the Brandeis building and has not yet boon recovered. An automobile ran oclonglng to the machine was found Friday nUornoon by Kay Boyle, 12-year-old boy, 2213 "Webster street, on the East, Omaha road. The youngster brought It to the police station and it Is deemed possible ty tho police that the bandits aro In possession of the stolen machine. Bends Word to Hotels. Chief of Detectives Maloney has issued orders to all his men to visit the hotels and rooming houses that are liberal In housing questionable characters and notify the proprietors that he win prose cute them under the Albert law if the practice is not discontinued forthwith. , Thre Suspects Held. A dragnet, made up of Detectives 8ul Jlyan, Kennelly, Lahey, McDonald, Rich and Dunn, landed three suspects In con nection with the McVey resort murder early yesterday. The men were ar rested and gavo their names as Joe Smith, Tom Mackoy and Charles "Wil liams. They have no definite addresses. Word was sent out Friday for the resort to close and as a consequence most compiled, although several raids were made, Including the place conducted by Oertle Bloomfleld on Douglas street. Amons those who closed were Maggie Miller, Ellen I'age. Eatelle Marquette, Jentle Williams, Birdie Love, Dolly a re en, Mlna Whitney, Buck Tremane and Mamie Keller. Mr. and Mrs. Tully Bontaln, SU North Fifteenth street, and Fred Bykcs, Can .ada, who were arrested by the authorities Friday, on suspicion of knowing some thing about the MoVey resort murder, was each sentenced to sixty days in the city Jail on a charge ot vagrancy. The police are ot tho opinion that the trio will be needed as more light Is shed pn the affair. Offer Reward. Circulars offering $300 reward for In formation that will lead to the arrest ot those guilty ot the murder were sent out this afternoon by the officials of the police department. The reward money is to be forthcoming from their personal pockets and the money Is to be placed in the hands of a local bank or some reputable business house for claimants that may arise. Coroner Crosby will hold an inquest intf the death of Henry E. Nlckell Monday afternoon nt 2 o'clock. Through Information furnished them by the proprietor of tho Havens hotel on North Fourteenth street, tho police have obtained a minute description of the three men responsible for tho murder .and robbery brought about at 414 North Fourteenth street, Thursday night, when Henry E. Nlckell was killed by one of' tho trio. The men's actions Friday nfternoon, where they obtained the weapons with which they held up their victims, and A partial identification of the murderer with past crimes sums tho total of valu able tips divulged to them through this mnn. A week ago two of the men nppcared tho office of the hotel and checked a grip which Tuesday remained unclaimed. Tht afternoon they again appeared at the hotel, engaged and paid for a room for a week, and taking tho grip repaired to tho room, where, after locking the door for n period of five minutes, they emorged and returned the grip to the office, checked It again, and left. Thurs day nfternoon, accompanied by a third Individual they called and inform the proprietor they did not wish to be ills turbed under any condition. That any one coming to the door should rap thro times. Loot Tiled Upon Tied. A maid unaware of their demand, bringing towels to the room, opened the door with a pass key and discovered the trio seated about the bed with the con tents of tho grip, a pile of currency, two revolvers and a dirk knife, heaped on the counterpane. The men laughed when the girl picked up the dirk and with n shud der fingered the edge and boastfully told hor that they had left the grip with 11,700 In It below In tho office for three days. "Where did you get all that money" sho Inquired. To which one of the three answered he had won It gambling In South -v V. I A half hour later, carrying the grip with them, tho thrco left the hotel. The proprietor upon reading ot the tragedy in tho morning paper suspected his lata guests and at police headquarters the de scrtptlons he furnished tallied exactly with those given by the Inmates ot Haxel MoVey'a resort, of the three highway men. The smallest ot the three, who did the shooting, corresponds with the police records ot the men who held up the late Joe Sonnenberg In his Jewelry store on lower Douglas street a fen. years ago. Detectives sent to the hotel searched the room and found the sheath ot one of the dirks togather with a copy ot "Diamond Dick." ( The sheath was later Identified as be longing to one ot two dirk knlwta taken with 'four .S3 caliber revolvers and four flashlights from Max Kaplan's pawn shop at 41GV4 South Tenth street, which was broken Into tho night ot Jan uary 12. Department la Active. With this evidence the m;ro detective department worked lost night under the personal direction ot Chief of Detectives Maloney and up untlt a lato hour Com mlssloner of Police John Ryder remained at the station active in the direction ot the work. RYDER OFFERS TO LET KU6EL HAVE THEPOLICE OFFICE (Continued from Fage One.) Made a New Man of Him MR. THOMAS RILEY. Thomas Riley. 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Y. ducement to Its passage was that by putting its enforcement Into tho hands of the county attorney the chanco for graft by tho police would be removed. Yet it gives the county attornoy neither power nor money to mako good. County Attorney's necorils. "The county attorney's offlco records will show numerous cases brought thcro from tho police station. Tho present chief of detectives was for months as signed to this work by Chief Donahue and myself, when Judge English was county attorney. We closed every placo this MoVoy Joint among many others. (And some of these places are so located that some folks think they might ovon hide from Cod therein.) "But whore thcro Is a demand thero will be a supply. All of those women must live somehow. They will 'sneak at overy opportunity. They have no other business. Under certain conditions they have as muoh right to occupy a build ing as anybody else, high or low. "I am not a prosecutor, by training or by law. I refuse to be a persecutor of tho victims of society. And on that Is suo I am ontlrely willing to go before the voters of Omnha at any time. "BUT (Mr. Editor, please let me emphasize this): If the klckors and critics will pro vide a place or stand for tho expense to provide such a place to take care of the unfortunate and desperate victims of the Albert law, 1 will guarantee to round them up or a large majority of them and deliver them to a court for sentence, for I want to show up the ar rant hypocrlcy back of some peoplo's talk. No Valr Trlnl Not. "You will noto I do not say for trial. Thero can be no trial In a police court conducted as Is that of the city of Omaha; and It Is no different from that of many othor cities, except that our police magistrate absolutely refuses to hold afternoon sessions. "Some people think John Ityder should bear all the burden of the community's ins; and to carry out their Ideas they go so far as to He about and libel me. I havo as many weaknesses as most men and some of them necessitate a oon tlnual fight to koep reasonably olean but profess to be neither a bulldozer or & coward. If those vindictive critics xot' me, they must come clean and mako good their charges. "So, If a man, or act of men, can offer a scintilla of cvtdcnco of 'protected' vlco In, Omaha, with a grand Jury about to organize, thoy can execute their design without much troubles, I defy them. And when I say that nelthor the council nor anybody else orders me what to do, I mean It. That's the agreement, made, when the assignments wore made. I sumo lull responsibility for the police department; and I assert that, man for man to the limit of its numbers It is a department the citizens ot Omaha need not be ashamed of. The men are brave. competent and willing; but thero are not enough In number to put one man at every suspected place, to say nothing of effectively policing twenty-four squaro miles of territory. We have a really good city or we would have a desperately bad one." Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey is made for use in the home, hospital and sick room free from the harmful els tnents of the ordinary beverage whiskey. Tiiousaium or uoc- ncvT tors reiy upon purry-s because oi lis pumy. it can ue im pended upon for indigestion, stomach trouble, coughs, cold, bronchitis', grip, pneumonia, catarrh and throat and lung trou bles. It strengthens and stimulates. Now'a the time to use it to prevent a breakdown of forces during winter when you need the greatest vigor. Sold by most druggists, grocers and dealers, 11.00 a large bottle. Write for free medical booklet. Vreteet yonrMlf against pcssibls refilling; when bottle ts mHT, WhU HI TUs Baf f y Halt Whiskey Co., Xoobtstsr, V. T. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 17. The work of the United States bureau of animal Industry was described by Dr. R. A. Ramsey, chief ot field Inspection of the Agricultural department, beforo the National Wool Growers' association con vention today. The speaker laid em phasis upon tho value of proper breeding In order that tho flockmasters might competo successfully In an open market. Tho convention was to end late today with the election of officers and tho selection ot the place of mcotlng for next year. Predicts Mutton Famine. J, E. Poole, editor of the Chicago Live Stock World, in an address tr the dele rntnn. underfed that th rocklefia rnnrlf t- . I Itig of lambs In tho west waa going to cause a mutton famine. Mr. Pdole said that for the last five , years the west had been marketing ewo lambs In the same reckless mannor as It sent holfcr calves to tho butcher from 1900 to 1910. Good authorities, he said, estimate that 0 per cent of the ewe flocks of the west aro over-aged and that a bad winter would scatter their carcasses over tho ranges, thus precipitating a mutton scarcity that. In any event, cannot long be delayed. "Ono short lamb crop," said Mr. Poole, "would put both lamb and mutton in tho same category as lobster and terrapin." Ilomt for MnRailne "Writers. Mr. Poole took Issue with certain mag- lazlno writers who have minimized the cost ot raising sheep and who have, he assorted, erroneously said that the west ern sheep raiser had an easy tlmo of It; that sheep on the ranges required no shelter; that nature had done everything In tho provision of food supply for the shesp, and that the government had done much to help nature In heaping benefits on tho sheep grower. "An organization composed of meat retailers has enunciated, somewhat per sistently, tho same chimera," said Mr. Poolo. "During the compilation of tho present tariff bill Its representatives mado themsolX'es distinctly audible In Washing ton demanding that th western grower bo deprived of hh 'bonanza' by legisla tive enactment and the markets ot the United States thrown opon to the pro ducers of the world. Admit Cnnadlan sheep and South American and Australian frozen mutton, they clamored, and cheap meat will be assured. "But results show that this measure merely defeated the object aimed at. In stead of Increasing prospective supply, It precipitated liquidation ot a wholcsalo character. Doth cast and west ot tho Missouri river timid growers, needlessly alarmed at threats of Invasion of the do mestic market by Canadian sheep and frozen mutton from tho antipodes, sac rificed their holdings. llreedlnir Stock Killed. "All through the summer of 1912 a pro cession of breeding stock trooped to the stock yards, glutterlng the market and demoralizing prices, until at the Inception of tho free trade era tho native sheep Industry had been almost as effectively, crippled as It was by tho Wilson bill ot the eighties. Meanwhile Canada, Instead of mitigating tho consumer s condition, has been actually purchasing mutton in the United States as 75 per cent of the cheep killed in western Canadian prov Inces lost yiar were grown south of the International boundary. "Cheap abundant foreign mutton had proved an iridescent dream and all of the free traders have accomplished Is to put crimp in domostlo production. 'A prediction not open to serious dis pute Is that mutton supply Is diminishing and consumption Increasing all the world over. For years the process of llqulda tton has been In full swing both In North and South America. In the United States a production con dltlon has been reached where the east dependent for at least nine months of tho year either on sheep and lambs finished west ot the Missouri river or bred there and finished on a short grain feed In the cornbelt. "Outside Kentucky,, Tennessee and Vlr gtnla, the native sheep industry, In con tradlstlnctlon to western bred stock, in no single state is oapablo ot furnishing the country with mutton a single day. Between diseases, dogs and tho tree trade theorists the native sheep industry, term popularly used east ot the Missouri river, has been crippol, with scant prospect ot early recuperation." A revision of the valuation clauses In railroad contracts for the transportation ot sheep was urged by Charles A. Butler ot Chicago, who declared that nearly all the live stock contracts he had seen were contrary to the federal laws. RYDER MAKES A STATEMENT (Continued from Page One.) bought new stuff. That they are not old or experienced thieves is proved by their very boldness anad failure to make any attempt at disguise. They are strangers 10 umana, ana so couia go about with out suspicion. They did not frequent saloons or other public places, so far as we can learn, but stuck closo to their room, where they read dime novels and newspapers, Tho leader and a chop who ailcarcu 10 oe quiei ana gloomy at first. fame last Sunday or Monday. The third uoy, ana cviuenuy me most dangerous of uio uuncu, arnvea inursaay. If the hotel proprietor, to whom the cnamuermaiu toici wnat sne had seen and heard, had Informed the police, we prob ably wouia nave had a killing, or at icasi a snooting maicn, at that hotel, since me oanaiis were always on th alert; but the tradegy on Fourteenth street woum not nave occurea. I feel sure we will get these boys sooner or later, but It was late Friday afternoon before we secured a descrip tion that was at all accurate. The men nem up wtre as rattica as tne women. As one man expressed It. 'All I could see was those two swinging guns,' The murderers may or may not bo In Omaha yet, but no chance will be overlooked to round them up, here or elsewhere. Chronlo Constipation makes life mlrerable. Dr. King's New Life Pills regulates your bowels and re lieves the engorged liver. Sc. All drug gists. Advertisement THE GOODS PRICES OUT TO THE LIMIT No FIRE SALE or other Emergency Sale of the past ever caused good, dependable furniture to be swept out of any store at such a terrific sacrifice. Some of the oldest, residents of Omaha tell us that it is posi tively the most sensational slaughter of prices that they have ever heard of in all their lives. MONSTER MONEY-RAISING SALE A destructive fire last August burned our warehouse stock. We ordered immense quantities of goods of the makers, but unfortunately these goods could not be gotten to us until after the Fall selling season was over. Now these great lots of goods must bo turned into CASH. Tho good3 are going for almost any price they will bring for CASH, of course, as that is the object of the TERRIFIC SACRIFICE we are now making. Dress ers Dressers in overy finish, all at sur prising sac r 1 f 1 co. Prices begin at $0.75 and $7.50, and run upward. Good dressers at $8.75 and $10, also unusual values at $12.75 to$lD. Won derful bargains at $24.75 and also at $27.50. Very elab orate drossers at $31 to $35 less than half regular selling prices. (We accept a loss on these goods, as tho stock is so im mense). Also some very magn 1 f I cent pieces, in genuine mahogany and Cir cassian walnut that were from J75 to $150, now at $35 and $75. A terrif ic sacrifice ill II m w j inn mi w cca U III II HMJJ XT Never Before Such A Sacrifice of. You can buy a brass bed during this sale at a price that will amaze you at a price you'd .never dream a brass bed could bo sold. Three carloads on sale at next-to-nothlng prices. Big, elegant beds at $0.05, $8.75 and $10, massive, handsome beds thot would ordinarily sell at ?30 to $35, go now at $14.50 to $18.75. Extra flno massive beds at $24.50, $27.85 and $31. Positively the smallest prices at which brass beds were ever sold beforo in Omaha. Now for Another Week of Growds and Enthusiastic Buying Como Expecting Great Things Tho Greatest Slaughter of lrices You liver Witnessea Daven ports These are Duofold and Unlfold Daven jrts long Daven ports and short ones made in different woods and finishes In different up holstorlngs all guaranteed all priced at sensation al figures, at amaz ing prices. Parlor Suits Wonderful values In parlor suits, such a sacrifice you would never expect; prices that will make you open your eyes. BRASS BEDS DRESSERS TCIfe-inf Holld nak well made1 and finished French bevel mirror, ono of the many designs at leas than half value special now at BUFFETS 'A tremendous stock of Buffets, solid oak and quartered oak and ma hogany, some magnifi cent pieces, some me dium grade and soma the inexpensive kind. The sacrifice prices be gin at $8.95 think of it, $8.95 and run up ward. Borne at $10.50 and $12.75 at $H.75. $10.60 and $19.25 won derful values at $24.60 to $27.50. also at $29.76. Massive cases at less than half at $32.50 to $40.00. SEE THEM. Dresser, ROCKERS These are overstocked Turkish Leather Rock ers ahd wood seat rock ers some in golden oak, some fumed oak, some early English and a large line in, mahog any. Prices are less thin you could hope for look like leas than act ual cost to manufacture. If you need a rocker, BUY IT NOW. Never such bargains before that's a positive fact. inn Si BUFFETS Good, durable Buffets, roomy and well arranged sensational figures a terrlflo t-acririce this lot, mJ i m SQ75I ARMY GRAFT SCANDAL STIRS GREAT BRITAIN (Continued from Page One.) sary to add otner names 10 uio im ui those accused here. At the same time several officers aro being dealt with by military tribunals. Turned Over to Clvtl Courts. The war office took the initiative in the investigation of reports as to graft in connection with tfrmy supplies. Borne weeks ago it was announced that a gen eral courtmartial had been convened to try five quartermasters, with a view to testing the accuracy of statements made in various quarters as to the existence ot a system ot bribery and corruption. rwfoen the courtmartial was about to con- vmm the law officers of the crown nou fled the war office authorities that the Saved After Years of Headaches and Misery nir having my eyes fitted with glasses Dr McCarthy, lie gives clentlflo ex ur. ' aminatlona and fits your eyes wun m8 proper glasses at prices within th reach of every one. Don't put it off come now. If you have not the ready money you can man age to pay as ypu are able. Remember, he Jiaa served our peo ple for over 15 years, and satisfaction 14 guaranteed in every case he takes on the eye and ear. SSS, UeO&STXT St MeO&XTHT 11X1 W. O. W. Wff, Office Hours, 8t30 to Sl30 Sundays, Until 1 r.x. Jurisdiction of such a court was too lim ited for the action that might be neccs .iv nii fh TiroceedlnKs of the court- martial were accordingly suspended. The war office committee then decided to ap ply to the police for summonses against the accused, as the investigation had shown that the corruption was more ex tensive than at first suspectea. n. D. Mulr, tho prosecuting counsel, mentioned accidentally today that the main charge against the civilian defend ants waa directed at them individually, rather than at the firm of Llpton, lim its wh which they were connected. xiintn. the civilian defendant -- who was unable to appear owing to, ill ness, occupied an anonymous poiun. it. n n. director of the firm in the proper sense of the word and took a very important part in its uusmess. mt. remarked: "I hope his cure will be japiu .i tu.t t.a win km the advisability of am hiu. coming within the Jurisdiction of the court so that it will not oe that he is a fugitive from justice. Sympathy for Officers. r-tnMritdn svmDsthy has been ex officer concerned. The position of quartermaster is usually held by men promoted irora me nuwn after long service, and they assume tho rank and dignity under a heavy handicap, mv dnea not allow them to support themselves in the stylo of other officers of the same rank, even if they are single, inii th uritlsh soldier who stays with the colors for many years generally marries and has a family. When he at tains his new rank he becomes anxious to give his children an education corre mnndln with his station, and. not hav- jlng any private means, as havo most of his brother officers, soon unus iucu in desperate straits. Hence tne tempia i miiiiM canteen funds. Several papers have expressed the hope that the ens- will opn the eyes ot xno umonu to the iniquities of the present system and lead to a reform whoreby the quarter masters will be paid according to the im portance and responsibility ot their work. BLUE BEARD OF GERMANY IS SENTENCED TO DEATH FRANK POUT - ON - MAIN. Germany, Jan. 17 Sentence of death was pro nounced here today on Carl Ilopf, a local druggist nicknamed the "Blue Beard of Germany," on a charge of murdering his first wife and attempting to murder four other persons, Including two of his chil dren and his second and third wives, in order to obtain their Insurance. The prosecuting attorney described Hopf as "the most dangerous and un scrupulous sclchtlflc murderer in his tory." Hopfs favorite weapons wero so lutions containing the baccllt of diseases such as cholera, typhus and diphtheria. CONTRAGT AWARDED FOR THE NEW HOTEL (Continued from Page One.) day, when the present directors will probably be re-elected. The Interstate Hotel company ot Ne braska has leased the Fontenelle for twenty years, at an. annual rental of six per cent ot the cost, or about $54,000. At this rate tho leases will Just about pay for the hotel property by the time their lease expires. William R. Burbank of Syracuse, N. T.. Is president and managing director of the operating com pany. The plans as adopted Include elaborate ball room, banquet and dining, rooms, con vention hall and bar. Manager Burbank plans to make the Fontenelle the centra of all big social affairs. Figures on the cost and value of tho hotel property, as given by Secrjlary Reed, are as follows: Contractor, $S40, 000; architect and engineers, $45,000;. ex cavating, bonding, organization and operating expenses of Douglas Hotel company, $16,000; value of building site (donated), $200,000; total, $UOO,000, making the Fontenelle really a million dollar hotel. LEAVES HALF OF FORTUNE TO FOUND BREAD LINE NEW TORK, Jan. IT.-Harry M. Geschardt. a lawver whn died in nr.. day, left $150,000. half his fortune, for the --4.l.1f1 ... csiuuuBumcni or a Dreaa-nne, and stipu lated that every loaf distributed should be stamped with his name. According to the terms of the will, made publlo to day, this money Is to go to the Trinity church corporation, provided it will carry out the provisions, otherwise the bequest will pass to Five Points' House of In dustry and several hospitals. Key to the Situation-Bee Advertising. If Kidneys Feel Like Lead or Your Back Hurts, Take Salts We eat too much meat, which clogs Kidneys, and they need a flushing occasionally. No man or weman who eaU meat regu larly can make s mlstaks by flushing the kidneys oocs-to-sily, says a well known authority. Meat forms uric acid which clogs the kidney porea so they sluggishly titter or strain only part of the waste and poisons from the blood, then you get sick. Nearly all rheuma tism, headaches, liver trouble, nervous ness, constipation, dlrrinces, sleepless ness, bladder disorders come from slug gish kidneys. 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