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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRTL 11, 1915. 0IiAHA'S CHARTER I CHANGES ARE MADE jjiai Agreed to in Senate Without , roitponitg Date of Election in Thii City. IlILOVISIOIl FOB GREATER OMAHA ! (From a Ptaff Correspondent ) LI!rOI-N', April 10.-(Hpeelal With senate approval tdday of H. It, VT. the till attending the tny charter of Omaha to ecmforra with ths Greater Omaha snovement, all plb"U' of delaying tha tmeia city election passed. Tha cotnmit 1m of tha whole approved the measure. An amendment wa made taking up ,fha consolidation period and the begin ning of tha new fiscal year at Bout Omaha ao that aufflelent fund will be provided for operation there. There will be available for public uses in Greater Omaha tXllO.008 from Omaha prope. aa compared to H. 188.009, tha expense limits et la 1911, plus tha maximum amounta ktow eet by law tof publlo eipense In South Omaha, Dundee and Florence. Tha governor will Isaua the consollds kson proclamation either Monday or Tuea tlay. He haa not decided upon a date for tha election, tie aald. ROUTE FOR ALASKA RAILROAD PICKED ANDWORK TO BEGIN (Continued from Pa One.) OFFICEHOLDERS' BILL ' 13 KILLED IN THE HOUSE 7Tom a Ptaff Correspondent.) . tJNCOLN. April 10.-(peciaL-H. R. 6, the bill to permit county officeholder ka hold four-year terms and to extend tha term of such officeholder aa would be elected naturally In IMS to 1MB waa In definitely' postponed In tha house today. The bin had been ehanared la the senate Wad the house reuld not airrea to tha Joheagea and recommended that tha whola matter eosne up before tha next letfa- condition and will be used as a base for extending tha line along TurnagaJn arm. Under the contract apprved by the presi dent tha roea la taken over free from all debt' or obltiratlon of any kind. Cost of Bnlldlaa. "The estimate cost of construction of this line from Reward to Fairbanks, Including- the Matanueka branch is X,M0.W0. The president ha made aa order directing that the work be carried on by tba Alaskan engineering commission which Is to have the general duty of preparing and adopting plans for con struction, tha employment of the force and the making of contracts for the pur chase of supplies for the work. The secretary of the Interior 1 authorised to designate on of the members of the commission, who shall he In Immediate charge of the work and have power of approval or disapproval of all admini strative matter connected with It. In accordance with thl authorisation, Secretary Lane ha designated W. C. Edes, the present chairman of tha com mission. The member of tb commission which consist of William C. Edes, chair man; Lieutenant Frederic Mears, late superintendent of the Panama railroad, and Thomas fttggs, Jr., are directed to proceed to Alaska at once. 'The chairman Is to make his head quarters at Seward; Lieutenant Hears Is la be stationed at Ship Creek and Mr. Rtggs Is to conduot survey in the Broad I'as region." latur. BULL FIGHTING FOR . THE INSURANCE MEASURE ; Arrll ia-(Speclai.-Snate flTle No. et, tha Insurance anU-discrlml-jnatloa bill, haa coma to Ufa In another form. Matter contalnod therein was to day proposed aa an amendment to JImise WoU1 No. 691, aa Insurance bill that 1 still alive. In the absence of Senator Howell today. It waa not eonalderod, but m-Ul coma up tomorrow, when tba sen ate convenes. HOUSE REJECTS BILL -FORJUDGES BY DISTRICTS 'tlNCOkN. Neb., April 10-Bpeclal Telegram) The house refused to pasa tha proposed constitutional amendment bill, providing for district election of supreme court judge. There were fifty-eight of a required sixty votes In favor of the bill. A Great Treat f 6r Bryan to Mixwith 'The Latin-Americans WASirtNOTON, " April 16,-Uop that seme mean soon would b devised to make eas'ler Intercourse between th Vnited ritates and Ceutral and Squth .America was expressed by Secretary of Ktete Bryan tonight in aa address before the Toung Men's Christian association here. Mr. Aryan said" he wanted to see uni versifies established at Panama and Porto IUio, where representative young men of the three America might gather for study, and promote friendship and In tercourse between tha two countries. ' One of th greatest pleasures of my office," he added, "is the association It afford with tha representatives of Latin America, I have never failed to find them ready to consider any rneaanre that woti'.d tr3ert!sn the Me of friendship between their countries and the United flUtea," German Eaider Eitel Is Interned at Last ', WORFOUK. Vs., April in. The Oman anxlllary cruiser Prtns Eitel Friedrtch I waa Interned lata today at the Norfolk navy yard, where It will remain until Itbe end of the Xuropoaa war. Tug and , steamers In Hampton Roads blew their elren la salute aa It slowly steamed from Newport New and took it berth near tha historic frigate, Constitution. Commander tThtertchen Immediately went to the office of Hear Admiral : Scatty, commandant at th yard, and signed an agreement not to violate American neutrality laws, lis was In formed that he, hi offloer and crew , would have tha freedom of Norfolk and Virginia, They will live aboard the Ettel Tomorrow the breech blocks v of the Ei!ia guns, part of its machinery anil Its wireless appertua will be removed. FULLER TELLS OF SHOP CONDITIONS Union Pacific Official Denies that Professional Bad Men Were Hired by Earriman Line. FEW MEN WEN OCT ON STRIKE Broom Corn Growers Object to Raise in Rates on Commodity CinCAOO, April la Shippers who ob ject to, th proposed Increase In freight rat asked by forty-one western railroad system today presented witnesses before W M. Daniels, interstate commerce com missioner, In the hearing of tha western freight rata ease. , Tha testimony oonoarned freight rata on broom corn, on which an Increase of I cent a hundred pound is asked by th railroads. The witnesses were dealer In broom corn, manufacturers of brooms end statisticians, and th testimony was largely In support of the contention that present rate should not be disturbed on the argument that the railroads' request for an Increased rate I based on too high a valuation of the product and too low a tonnage per carload hauled. Counsel for tha railroad filed a protest against replying to th list of Interroga tories relative to tha financial affair of th railroad. . Clinton R. Lee, a broom manufacturer of Lincoln, Neb., testified that th rail road valuation of broom corn waa higher than Ita market value. He said that the rats, it allowed would be paid by the manufacturer and that neither tha grower nor th consumer would have to pay th different. Ralph Rosenbaum of Atlanta, another manufacturer, estimated that tha pro posed Inorease la rate would amount to about 1 oent a doaaa broom and would b borne by th manufaoturer. CHICAGO, April 10. Allegations of lawlessness mad against strike breakers and guards employed by the Union Pacific In the shopmen's strike of 1911, in testimony before the United States Commission on Indus trial Relations, yesterday were de nied by C. E. Fuller, superintendent of motive power and machinery of the Union Pacific, when he became a witness today. A The Union Pacific, like the Illinois Central and other so-called Harrlman i lines, resisted efforts to form Ihe rarlous labor unions Into system fed erations., Nuclei of tha federations were formed on the Harrlman lines, but the company managers declined to treat with them and th strike resulted. 1 "We resisted" aald Mr. Fuller, "be cause the federation meant a closed shop, Which w believe unconstitutional and also unjust to men who prefer to re- i main Independent. Th right to compel , worker to belong to any organisation wa ' believe , questionable. Our men. Indi vidually, were not particularly Interested Irt the federation plan." i . Th witness said that two years prior to th strike the meohanlc on th .Union , Pacifio were granted a flat increase of t . cent an hour. Two thousand men ' answered tha strike call and IS per cent ' of these returned to work. Two hundred , who .applied for re-employment were not ; accepted. Tha company, he aald. did not ! knowingly ' employ professional "bad men," and he doubted' If any crept In. All ! of tha striker were not taken back be cause there was no room for them. "Ninety per cent of our present shop employes," aald Mr. Fuller, "are local men; they are not Importations." Before th strike, the witness stated. Ktt par cent of the shopmen were homo owners; the present percentage is 18 per cent Th payroll for September, 1011. when the strike was called, wa t3H,7, while last September It wa 1389,871. ' "There have been fewer train aocldenta since th strike and fewer defective Job turned out th (hop because of tha closer supervision and Success in inspiring the men," aald the witness. "Present condi tion are satisfactory and tha company will continue to meet It employe of tha respective crafts In such conference as may mutually be agreed upon." FAMOUS SCimOR IS KILLED Earl Bitter is Enn Down by Auto mobile on Broadway, New York. DESIGNED MANY GREAT W0EX3 NBTW YORK, April l.-Kaii Theodora Francis Bitter, thief of" tha department of sculpture of the Panama-Pacific ex position, and one of th best known sculptor of thl country,, died in a hos pital her today of Injur! he suffered when he and Mrs. Bitter were run down last night by an automobile on Broad way. Mia. Bitter's injuries are not se rious. lira Bitter waa director of sculpture of th Buffalo exposition aad chief of th department of sculpture of the St Loots exposition. He had executed many private commissions. Including the statu ef Carl Pckurx her and works in the homes ef Collie P. Hontlngto. Cornelius Vanderbllt and other wealthy men. He designed th Ator gates for Trinity church here , Re was a member ef the National In sttttrt of Art aad Letter and an academician of the National Academy of Design. Mr. Bitter waa 47 years old, eomtng here In in from Vienna, where he was bora. HI home was In thl city. Mr. Bitter made hie advent Into sculp ture a a skilled laborer. II wa em ployed ia this rapaolty by a firm of architectural ecorators, when he entered architectural decorator, when he entered a contest for design of the 1300.000 Astor memorial gate at Trinity church. He won the contest and with this money as a foundation, opened a smalt studla and started hi career a a sculptor. DEATH RECORD. Jaasr Roberts. Word haa been received at tha Omaha High school that Jasper Robert son. a former teacher at that Institution, died February S at Grand Bay,. Ala. He made many friend while head of the commercial department of the local schools, which position he occupied for more than ten years. Interment took place) at Portage, N. T. I HYMENEAL Parker-William. BHATRIC19. Neb., April lOt (Special Telegram.) Rosco I Paoxer and Hilda N. wnilams. both of Rallenherg, Kan., were married her today by Rev. B. F. Galther. Step That Ce tk vw, When you catch cold or begin to cough take Dr. Bell's Plno-Tar-Honey. It pene trates tha throat and lungs. By all drug gists. Advertisement. pi British Factories Are Employing Men" in the United States NEWARK. N. J April 10.-A private employment bureau service here it was learned today, has received urgent re quests from several industrial centers of Oreat Britain for more than 400 men ta take the places of workmen who are at the front. Th call 1 for American clti tens and British subject only. Th fac tories - seeking the' workmen offer free transportation and a guarantee' of at least six months' work. Two hundred Of th men already have sailed. On of the largest electrical manufacturing concerns in Liverpool haa sent a demand for 100 men, according to Information received by the Newark bureau. Rent room oulek with a Be Want Ad. Departsaeat Orders. WASHINGTON, April 10. (Specl.-U Tei erram.) Oeorge O. Urllley was appointed rural letter carrier at Campbell, and Pearl Chillegraaa at Kiaing City, Neb. John Hack of Kenel. haa been awarded the contract for carrying mall from Kenel to UaLoughlln. p. D for four yenrs. The . Merchants . National bank. Cedar Rapids, has been made a reaerve agent for the Farmer National bank, Aller ton. la. Rumors Kaiser Has Asked Peace Denied WASHINGTON. AprU 1,-Publlshed rs ports that Germany had presented peace terms to the United States attracted at tention today la official Washington, but both Secretary Bryan and Count ; von Bernstorff, th German ambassador denied that there waa any fouadatlon for such rumors. ' , - German embassy officials declined .to comment on whether the peace terms as published represent Germans view at present, beyond saying that nothing authentic oa tha subject had been received. Rent room Quick with a Be Want Ad. . Honesty built our bulnt$ . ae ef the largest aractle In Nebraska. We tell you on first v consultation Just what you need . and exactly what cost of same will be. , rAxaxzai sxTavtcnoir BY TXTAJUSna AJJa. Taft's Dental Rooms 1B1T DOVCI&AS ITUR, Sick Soldiers Lying : In Street in Mud NX WTORK, AprU l&anltary condi tion ia eastern Turkey are "unspeakable." according to reports of cities there, where the American board of missions haa hos pitals, made puUlo her today. Typhus and typhoid fever are t aging, physicians. tnUslonartea, nurses and other American have naught the contagion, hospital are overflowing, all auhool In at last o district have been closed and si' k sol diers. It said, are lying In the street la tha mud. In the military hospital thy 61 at the rat of fifteen a day la tha American beard s hopiui they ere "tuppllng over ilk tea plus," the report say. PROFESSOR L0UNSBURY MEETS DEATH SUDDENLY NH WHAVEN. Conn. April l.-Prof. ""' "uumuurf, jiruieaeor emeritus i of English at Tale university and one of the bt known English scholars In ' the country, died here suddoaly tonight. 1 TAfJGO) WILL BE BARRED FROM FRENCH CAPITAL APJS, 'April 10-A decres prohibiting the dancing of th tango and other iajflar oan.es in Parts is beiug prepared by th uiunlrtpal authiuillra U doubt Iras win be issued shortly auJ enforced with energy. m -SJaJeBajH"iT f - - "V - aJ CLOAKS, SUITS D MILLINERY southeast Coraat lth aad Douglas ftts. Heres the Best Bargain Opportunity You Are Likely to Have This Season. Z50 bamples of High Grade Spring Suits and Coats At a Third to One Half Under Value 61 Styles Included The Coats are oa sale &t 55 $75 95 The Suits are on sale at Etock Includes Covert, Gabar dine. Berne, Poplin. 811k and Chateau, bulls and Coats. . 7 fl Tke THOMPSON HOWARD AND SIXTEENTH STREETS Thompson, Belden & Co, Toma om s ; so to ico. trsrsAT, Airart, n. isis. Our Business Platform is This in a Few Words: To have a store devoted first and foremost to the in terests of those who spend money in it. To make it unlike any other in some particulars, for instance: ." to sell only true and tried goods, to the best of our ability, properly labeled. to not allow trash, new or otherwise, to be put on sale. to exclude all bankrupt, hauled-over, soiled or im perfect goods frequently used as bait to sell other stale goods in stock. to always have a large, fresh, fairly priced stock. .Thes facta ar put forth to th publlo confidently and em phatically. Neither Is there ex aggeration In our advertising. . Successful Copies of Paris 0 opies that have caught the spirit of Paris; copies that rep roduce the exquisite French hand embroidery - the . s h e e r French materials the deli cate French laces and the smart French fashions. f There are vtee of lace said organdie, lace aad organdie ool laj, . chomisUoa of aher ma terials nd lace, ae sets, and organdie seta, err pa do chine tie, lace and net ilachos. These are but a small part of the new French copies, which start In price at 50c D. M. C. V Cottons A large shipment just received, in white, ecru and colors. Third Floor. ,' BEAMLES3 SHEETS 81x90 tizc, 85o quality, made from a fine quality of sheeting, limit of six to one customer, eOo . each Tke Store for Sliirtxnaists Variety Enough for Everyone Whatever the occasion, yoa'U find tu prepared with en ample display of appropriate itylet of new blouses. OSEPB DE CHINES in plain colors, also two, three and four toned stripes. WHITE WASH SILK CREPES, very becoming, with narrow stripes of black and blue. " ATTRACTIVE LINEN WAISTS in plain colors and great numbers of striped effects. EMBROIDERED VOILE and ORGANDIE BLOUSES, also those of LACE AND GEORGETTE CREPE suitable for dress wear. Second Floor. Gloves for Immediate Wear One of the newest and most attractive styles is the Wash able Cape, ia puttysand and oyster. ' $1.75 a Pair.;; :(i .... r-v Glove Special Monday 16-button Reindeer finish chamoisettes, Paris point em broidery; $1.25 quality, Monday, for . . . $100 Women's Summer x Dressing Sacques , . A Special Event Monday . $1.25 : Quality. - - 79c All regular stock, fresh and clean. Sacques of lawn and dimity, with either long or short sleeves, some with collars, fitted belt or kiraona styles. 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HOWARD AND 5IXTEEKTH SXREET.iS As Our Easter Sale Was Such a Big Success We Have Decided to Continue the Sale for Another Week. , Inpsrtsd Ekrtz Hcsnhia C:::ry CtCAKAICTEED BIXCKU AJfD A BEAUTIFCli CAGE. Including seed and food. Real value of out- Art nr fit Is II. THIS WKEK OIO.T s3eaJO Each bird la a tested sweet warbler, sold with our writ ten guarantee. Money refunded If not nUrely aatls- factory. THJB IS A RAHH UiAKCK. Don't Mlae lti MAX GEISLER BIRD COMPANY, 1617 FABNAM ST. : M J aViKLei. BE A SWAPPER Malce swaps for profit. Look into the "Swapper Column
