Tin: m;r:.- oat aha, nmuv, august 2, inir.
WORTH HIGH SCHOCL
FAYOREDBY BOARD
Chairman Coweil of Finance Com
mittee Eeporta Sentiment for
New Building-.
CENTRAL OUTGROWS CAPACITY
k north aide public high achooMs
being considered by membere of the
nosrd of Education with considerable
earoestneM. The "rtiatt'ef' baa' been
mentioned before, but not until the
present time baa It assumed a serious
phase.
Robert Co ell. chairman of th. flnanoe
ommttte of the Board of Education.
ritpruMlnc 1h forthcoming ml f fiiOo.flOl
I
school bond. 14: "Th north side hleh .
school proportion grown in my my mind
the mor I hav ot)Bldrcd this matter
end have dtscueied it with ether memtan
of tfce board. Th Idea prem to be
favored by th board."
! this connection Mr. Cow II take nolo
of tt.e rarM rrowth of tha north part of
th clr. H confldenilatly believe It!
will b a matter cf comparatively a short
time before riorenc will become a pert
of Greater Omaha. He say Central High
school Is rapidly cuUrowlnf. Itl rapacity.
Wail4 (! Tor llar Tit'
The proposed . north aid hlprh rhool
would not be pretentious a Central
High, but It would b aa well equipped.
It la estimated that 13W, would rover
the coet of building and alte.
Thla matter will b discussed by the
flnane and building and grounds com
mittees and later by th entire school
board In committee of th whole.
In the event that board should decide
upon this north man school, tn wora
rould not be completed before the opening
of school In September next year.
Th finance commute as well as the I
building and ground committee have
beea looking over proposed sites from
which several win be selected when th
tends shall bav been sold.
SUBMARINE SINKS
A BEITISH LINER
WITHOUT NOTICE
(Continued from Pag One.)
hlts Star liner Arabic, on lis way
from Liverpool to New Tork. . Early
thla evening, when nine hours had
f lapsed since the sinking of the steam
shiji ih fate of the 423 persons on board
was unknown. .
The latent word from Queenslown was
thai It was feared there had been a great
ln-s' of life. On th othr hand, dis
patches received by two news attend In
Totidon. mid hat apparently the greater
part of those on board bad been saved.
Main hope was pinned 'on the report
that a steamer was proceeding to Queens
town with about iQ persona on board.
A n port from the British steamer Mas-
noil said that the British s tec. "nnhip (
Uimly also had btn torpedoed, but .
that some .time after the Arabic went
down It waa atlU afloat and was picking
up survivors. " .. ..
The Initially left liverpool yesterday
for Boston. It U i vessel of about 8,000
tons gross and was therefor of sufficient
Is te . aooommodat the persons on
board the Arabic.
Captain W. Finch, ' lieutenant 'In th
royal navy reserve, waa In command of
' the Arable. II la a veteran skipper,
having aalied the Pacific for year out
of Han Francisco.
NEW JfOnK, Aug. 19.-Th Whit Btar
line received word at 1:) o'clock thla
afternoon from Its Liverpool office that
h ilner Arablo had been sunk by a
lierman submarine at B:H o'clock thi
morning off th enouth coast of Ireland.
lres dispatches from London bad told
of th eslnking an hour before.
Almost at the aame moment that the
cablea were telling of the sinking the
line received a meMage from London an
nouncing that th vessel had sailed from
Liverpool yeeterday afternoon, nils waa '
followed In a few minutes by another
meiwg stating that th steamer bd
aiiuatd Vi) r?ln paaeengers and forty-
five in th steerage. For nearly an hour
this wee the only Information that the
line could give to th hundreds of In
quirers who beslegej th office In person
and by telephone for news. -
('a Thrwwaki glowlr.
Ti,r, ih. ,h - ,
at a tin. riftu boatloads of gur- !
vlvors. an early dispatch, aald, were on '
their way to Qunto-n. Nearly four
hours after th firt message a cahl-
gram wa received conveying th In-
.tHVnc that r5 survivor had been ;
1 landed at Queenstown, that only forty- '
eight wer to be accounted for and that
the captain of the liner. Will Finch of
1th royal navy reserves had wired that
his l,i . toi pedoed without warning
and mwi la ivca nuuuU.
At clock the Un had the nam of
cuy ona survivor. Mr. I Lorrlmer of
Canada, son-in-law of tb. Canadian
minister of marin. ,
war time scrcy cloaks all sailings
fix.ii British ports until the vessels x
welt tn thtlr wy out of th tlernmn
war Xnfie. tsicinwrs ai!i in and out of
BrltlKh ports unheralded with darkened
, iinrm. and ahroudvd purtholes and atean
at top epeed through th war son, boat
swuiig outwsrd in momeutary readlnes
for a rfoith blow, tb line' repreaonta
uve explained.
Flfteea Asaerlfaaa Oa.
ht-Hly ftr o'clock piiMie diapatche
frm tnMiia contained the Information
Uikt tho Amcikon embasty bad reoelvcd
word that there were fifteen American
Oil the khl.
Tf White rUr line here had no word
k- to who tfity were or whether they
w re saved.
1. A. S. Franklin, receiver of the In
tcrnoU...!.! Mt-rvatitile MrVu company,
L.U fciuttti the While Etar line, cu
bli J iji Liverpool a.etita f the l.ne
av.i:g tht all puasibla speed be used
iu f.j -varuing tho n.riir of paaneugsr
u N. w York., fntll the receipt of the
--vi....-r Iim, tne vftii'lals of th line
;o i;i i,,, is. n-iun of only one passcngcr'a
.'' . -Vr. t Ltirrliiier of Canada.
Itt !vLi;f-f nn-iMift Mr. Franklin aaked
li e I.:ct(jo4 stents to send at omw
tfo i -i:nj c.f Aniriican abroad.
'I ' - i.r:e ajjpureritly wa unprepared
fur I.- cf tl.e sinking of the Arabic.
Vvi'l .u t: o laat three in HUrij there have
t- u tu(in, ncn'ii ahly ttiuae of tte
Ad; :
the
ii t,
ii!U still the TinlvH.
.Nr York fcciit vl Jlic
l iif hs' e hh nt many
Hm ti-i ir v.. m la ncar.'d
u I li-.-y-, im! but rirni,toup
' in Liliiin liiat h rmun
i:- lmrd thi- -.,i.!, t,r
v.;t r.r jh.ni off the
I,-.!
t . r v a 11,
1NIW TEIlfCIPAL OF THE COM
MERCTAL HIGH.
cemlng th Arablo'. fat. It not
jvei known officially her that It had
left Liverpool till after the word cam
the' It had been sunk, and no psengr
list had bean prepared here for publica
tion , ,
The Arabic waa on of the largest of
the few British vessels remaining In the
Trans-Atlantic service. On Ita recent
trip It has carried far fewer pansengere,
especially Americans, then In times of
peaoe. When It sailed from this port,
July 2. It was shielded so far as pos
sible against gunfire which might de
Btfiy tho steering gear, by bags of sand
Piled high abov It. .
LARCH? AMOUNT OP MAIL.
Consists of nearly Three Tfcoasaatf
, It t laid.
NEW YOrtK, Aug. 19.-Th mall aboard
th vessels. It wu said at the Whit
Star Hue, consisted of 1,800 bags of let
ter.! and 136 bags of parcel post matter.
A re present at lv of tho tin pointed out
that the lifeboats would hold a maximum
of fifty to sixty persons each. Tho early
report that fifteen boat wer making;
for Queenstown waa considered an Indi
cation that many person bad . been
saved. Fifteen boats. It U pointed out,
would 'hold from 7T0 to 900 persons tf
filled to capacity.' Tho total number
aboard the Arable waa placed st ap-
proximately '423. '
The Whit Star line announced late to
dsy that the captain of th Arabia lis
reported to th line t' Liverpool that
in vessel had been sunk without warn-
ing,
It waa also announced that V survivor
had landed at Queenstown. .
' tig Loaded.
The announcement mad by tho line
read as follows;
"A cable message from tho Liverpool
offlc sttd that 175 survivor had been
landed at Qiienstown and that forty
eight are yet to be accounted for. Th
commander of th slih wire that th
ship wsa torpedoed without warning.. Th
ship sen if in aiven minute
"Among tho landed wag Mr. Do Lor
rinier of Canada."
ARABIC HIT BY TORFF.DO,
Wait star Steamer ttroek Ity Tor
pedo Off Irelaad.
LONDON. Aug. 19.-Tha Arhl w..
'nl th8 bottom by & torpedo front a
v",rmn suDmarine. Th torpedo struck
!' n" atkiwo at 1:15 o clock thU morning,
Tha rrea association states it la funul
a Urge number of passenger have been
lost Th me sags to tha Press associa
tion says i , ;
"Hlevet, boats got away and It la feared
a large numlter of passongers wer lost."
Th Arablo is reported to hav mn t
1,1.. v-.. . -
wwnj in ivn minutes.
M WhU BUr lln'r AraNc, which
!V l'!-!' frm Uv,rIool for New
. . " nt t0 tU bttofn off
" "V s" ln ,ouln comel or Ireland.
" i wnicn id lu. ,
U,?' Wnk by atM"'l" i
, .7 " wr" vWa In Losv-
f..ii I?. "'ted that a
numbr th 410 person on board
may hav been lost. Th first report!
wer that all of th passenger, and cr.w
naa oeen rescued by another steamer,
ouuOTMumiiy. nowever, U waa reDerted
"Ven
k tb' ",w,l0 wh-th-'
W?d h.v b" P""11"- all
nn mum m n ft h-i.f
... .,,m vi i,-i lima.
A message to th White Star line left
this question open, it said that fifteen
or alxteen boatloads wer making for
Queenstown, and from this the company
inferred that the greater part of the
passenger and crew wer saved.
Th Whit 8ir Un. after first an
nouncing that there were 410 baasemrara
1 ooara. later gave out a corrected state.
mem giving Ui total number at tX.
Ther wetw ltd second cabin paaaanger.
forty-r.ight In th stcerag and 3 mem
ber, of the crew.
According to thla account a periscope
aas aihtJ as the ateamer went Into
St. George a channel, and It .oon became
obvious that hosUl submarine waa In
pursuit. Th' Arablo put on full ateant
and out distanced the aubmersiuw,
Draaanlt fader Sett.
On th oocaslon of the apparent atUmut
to dynamite th Arablo laat month, th
exploaiva,' which waa discovered by a
private detective, wxs conceevled under
a settee in the women1 parlor In th
cet.in amldshlp. A thorough search of
the llDr waa made by detectives before
it sailed un Us last eastward trip on July
2. but no expllve wer found.
On It reount trtpe th Arable haa car-
rim far ft. wer paaaeiujer than on normal
voyage, tr. times of pear. Thr were
i'.e, iMtsjaanger In the cabin, of whom ftv
were American, and elglity in the tw
aae on Uie last voyag to UverpooL
The AikUc haa been utilized to tarry
give? quantities of war munitions pur.
nai in th l nlted Htnira fr CIr.at
llr:ia!n.
l-"atnet. cif which the .tbic ts re
; orn-d to have gone down, lies c'oae to
the lane of stvauiahlp traffio betaaca
tiucland and America It Is about forty
milus west of old Head of KUisala, near
a hi. h the LmMiAula, was aunk, Gsrnuui
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a i
7
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submarines have hen active In theae wa
ter sine the declaration by the German
government In February of naval war
one around th Prltieti Idle.
The Arahlo, a twin screw steamship, ar
rived In New York on Ita maiden trip on
July S, 1103, having ten launched at Pel
faet on fterember 1 of the previous year.
At thet1!m It waa one of the Isrgest
steamship cngigod In trans-Atlantic
trad.
Fear Hs)4re4 Prreaaa Aarl,
liONUON. Aug. 1 Th Whit War
company snnounned that th Arabic had
on board 170 herond and third clsse-pss-senger.
and no first das paengrs.
There wer 39 men In th orew, making
a total of 410 prraona on board. It
sailed for Liverpool at I o'clock yester
day afternoon.
Th Arabic's tonnage la li.Ol gross and
10.0V net. It Is 0 feet long, 65 feet
beam and ft feet In depth. It we built
in Belfast In IM3 by Ifarland Y Wolff.
On it last eastward trip the Arable ar
rived In Liverpool on Augiiet 6 from New
Tork.
Following th reoelpt of a cablegram
announcing its safe arrival, the bureau
of combustible of New York City al
lowed the fact to become known that two
sticks of dynamite had been discovered
on board on July V, the night before
It sailed from New York.
Oonce before, since the beginning of
the war, tho Arablo had a close call. A
cab! message from London on March j
H said th steamer had been pursued
by a Osrman submarln in th Irish Be..
on the voyage which ended on that day.
BAILRD
LATH
WKO.IEIDAY
Report to New York May I tllad
ITS Passengers.
NEW YORK, Aug. Id. The White Star
line announced thla afternoon that they
had received a message stating that th
....
tite after th on announcing th vessel
had sailed contained the Information that
tha Arablo had aboard U0 cabin peasen
gera and forty-five In th steerage. Thla
meaeag contained no reference to th
reported sinking of the vessel.
The Arabic, one of the few large Whit
Ktar vessels remaining In the trans
Atlantic servtoe, sailed on its lsst out
ward voyage from this port on July
it lasL It had aboard 1SS peasengcrg and
approximately 16,000 tons of cargo, almost
all of which waa war supplies. Aero
plane and automobiles formed the chief
portion of the cargo.
, Attack by a Oerman submarine ap
parently was feared when the vessel left
New York, for around Ita steering gear
ther were piled numerou sandbag aa
a protection against gun fire. .This also
was taken as an Indication In cam it
were sighted by a U boat the big liner
Intended to take a 'chance at getting
away, trusting to Its speed.
The crew usually consisted . of about
310 men. It was assumed today that It
had, this number aboard when It left
Liverpool yeaterday.' All' the crew, It
was said, wer of. foreign cltlsennhlp.
Captain Will Finch commanded the ship.
Fifteen boat, load of the Arabic's pas
sengers and crews hav been saved,.' ac
cording to a cable dispatch received here
at !; p. m. y the White Star line. Th
dispatch follows:
'"Tho Arablo sailed -Wednesday after
noon with a cargo and mails and ITS pas
sengers and was gunk by a Oerman sub.
marin at o'clock thla morning off
th south .coast of Ireland, Hopeful that
all passenger and crew have been saved,
aa fifteen boat loads were rescued."
HURIOANE TOLL'
OF LIFE NEARLY
FOURHUNDRED
(Continued rrom Page One.)
of vessels that wer out In th gulf when
th hurricane struck were yet unreported
and other tug and steamers were known
to hav been lost, although no Informa
tion aa to loss of life on them waa avail
able. That Oalveaton did not suffer a worm
fat than liy th atorm of fifteen years
ago wag ascribed by it cltlacna to th
costly aea wall built by th city. .
The velocity of the wind that struck
Oalveaton Monday afternoon la mid to
hav gon aa high a 130 miles on hour.
'Firm caused I&0.000 damage In Gal
veston, but at latest report wer under
control.
' Th atorm had greatly abated today
and had passed inland. Th wathr
bureau at Washington reported It bad
iad northeast with greatly diminished
strength.
. mvv, t.( u, .
Tha total number of persona killed
In Texas by the atorm of tha laat few
days will approximate 400, according
to Cfc.arIe.g B. Hayden. correspondent
0 tha Llaht. wh returned todae
from Ilouatoa and Oalveston. j
The dead in Galveeton may reach
from 250 to 300, Mr. Hayden said.
However, the exact number may
rever be known. The heaviest lose
ot Ufa waa austalned on tb shipping
la the bay. Up to noon yesterday
tnly fourteen bodlea had been recov
ered in lh city of Oalveaton. ,
Thousands of peopl. who remained In
QalfMton left their home. Monday night
and sought refuge In th big building
in th heart of the cltv. The Tramnnt.
Itoyal. Panama and Galves hotels were
crowded to capacity, while the upper
floors of the fcauta t station. National
bank building .nd th ftoeenburg library
also held their thouaands.
Wall Holds back Sea.
It la estUnated that the property loss
at Galveston, may reach llO.wo.ooO. but In
tha fact of this the citUco are Jubilant,
for th ea wall, built at a tremendous
coat, following tha great etoria f IMu,
did It duty and stand Intact. Great
hole wer torn in the pavement of the
boulevard Just Inside th sea wall for
practicably tha entire distanc from
t-ev, nth to Nineteenth strevta and is
places the a all Itself unJerimaed.
Alinoet as great damage to property in
Oalvsto sraa created by tb atr
ahlth flowed ia from lha hav M.,.Uv
aftwiMMMi. rrom oue-alf to two-thirds of 'bt' "uht ?tx" ,n he hotl two"
tbe buUdlngs which lined this front hae.',opy J structure. Th motonnaa
wrecked u most of th. b.uldlog. M"? d I''?, .
about th. do.k. .r- i,fMa hi i., fh.-i "About S S o clock Tuesday n.omlng."
ruinaTh.a.hwo.r.U.ttrUu.t.(JaUd.i"1, Keft '"'.V J".- 10
as f'e vlhrif en ankch tbuao bulldius
ere erected it'll ftauif. Uck of the
sa wall, to tbe iiliiUy of Tremont
.rta et toe :alr (raia ln!dine
l.at L'n wrecked or wrenched ftviu
tbr'.r f-uiiiiaUoaa All bath ttouaas, to
gctber. with pir. atetidlD out loto tb
gulf, fcsve bean washed away a ad a big
tourukaete4 .choener, bur tad la rroaa the
gulf, lies half way across th ea wall.
All th sailors from this vessel wer
rescued by soldiers at Fort Crockett.
Tare Bla- Fir.
Thsr were three dlsaelroue fires In
Oalveston elm- the storm. The first of
these. whl-h broke out In a laundry near
the Penta Fe depot, occurred eerly Tues
day morning. This block, with the one
adjoining, wsa burned to th ground.
Iter a fire started In the store of the
Oalveston Dry Goods company and at
noon Wednesday there was a fir In th
wsrehoue of th Direct Navigation com
pany. ' It was estimated that tries three 1
fire alone caused damag of approxi
mately KSO.OOO In excess of that created
by the storm. Late report received
at Texas City stated that tb fir
was subsequently gotten under oontrol
by the us of engine pumping water from
th streets. The greatest need of Oal
veeton now and the 20.000 or more people
who remained In Oalveston during th
storm I food and fresh water. At noon
Wednesday it was reported there waa
scarcely enough water to last another
day and much of thla would be required
for baking bread. Nearly all th stores
of groceries wer wster soaked, packages
of cracker being sold for M cents each.
Both ends of th causeway wer
washed out and It will b several weeks
I before direct rail connection can be re-
gaged In clearing th railroad tracks of
th debris which la piled oa them between
T,XM at '""0" Teiag City. Tha
"renouso ana aoca peopi ot itxes
f P flllUa at th
disposal of a commute) of Oalveston
people and a soon aa rail communica
tion can be made ample aupplie can be
aent across the bay In barge and United
states transports.
Moaasaeata Blown Atreu Street.
Th storm broks over th. city at
o'clock Monday afternoon. The wind
blew water In from th bay, Hooding th
streets and cellar. Bualnea men con-
Ulnued to work until nearly o'clock re-
moving goods to places of safety. At
that hour th . water wa four to six
feet deep In Market atreet and all who
could sought refug In th higher floors
Th wind flowing from th north, con
tinued to increase it velocity until a'bout
i o'clock. At that hour. It 1 estimated, It
bad reached a velocity of from 90 to 121
mile .an hour. Meanwhile It had veered
from tho north around to the oast and
then came directly tut of the south. It
waa thla south wind. Bending in th
waves from the gulf to break against the
sea wall which did th damage to the
western part of th city and to th
boulevard. At no time, however, gay tho
who spent tha night In th Hotel Galves,
did tho sea run clear across tha wall. Tha
breaker thundered against It, sending
th spray high In th air. and tho wave
broka over tha wall with terrlflo force.
So great was thi fore that the two
granlta monument which were placed
at th foot of Tremont atreet to commem
orate the storm of 1W0. were blown clear
acrosa thi boulevard, a distance of more
than fifty foet. ,
DALLAS ESTIMATE 19 LOWKR
Deatk Rol lat All Polata Is Lea
Thaa Two Ilaadred.
DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 19. With informa
tion from Oalveston and other point on
th Texas southeast gulf roast slowly
sifting through. It seemed certain early
today that th terrific tropical storm
of thla ' week he .4 exacted only a com
paratively .malnoa of life, and that
th loaa of pit)fSy in th city of Gal
veston at peat, wag email, a compared
to the atorm of 1900. According to re
porte, the great 12,500,000 ma wall saved
the city of Oalveaton from even a worm
horror than that of 1900, According to
available reports, tha total of Uvea lost
throughout the storm district I leas than
210.
The damage In Oalveaton thla week,
based upon meager reports, 1 placed at
13.000,000, with the loss of fourteen lives.
In 1, 8,000 person met death and the
property o reached $15,000,000.
Earlier report placod the damage at
Oalveston as high as 115.000,000. but this
apparently waa disproved, by later ad
vices brought out by newspaper men and
other persona.
While a large taction of tha storm dis
trict Is yet to be heard from, the num
ber ot deaths, based on th best ob
tainable Information, follows:
rss City
3alveton
Villi cnU Point
Patlon
Morgan's Point
Hitchcock
Lauorte
S31 Lynchburg
Mtreahrook
3
ltlUouston
llti'Vlnlmn 1
Port Arthur 5 J
Report, from Beaumont aay fifty-six
war loat whan th dredge, 6am Houston,
went down In Galveaton by. Thirty per
aon. who boarded a steamer at Port Boli
var lighthouse ar thought to 'hav. per
ished when th vessel brok from It
moorings and drifted Into the gulf, ac
cording to refugees at Beaumont from
Port Bolivar. ,
Fires, which have been raging In Gal
veston, wer reported under cent rol lsst
night, thla, item of damag alone having
been estimated at In excess of tXO.0.0.
There wa no train .ervto out or Into
th. city, and the telegraph and telephone
facilities, destroyed early Mondsy nlghC
still wrre out of commission, with proa- 1 1
poet, or their restoration within th. next .
twenty-four hour very doubtful.
Th only mean of transportation there
ws by boat.
Report ot looting by negroes and th
killing of several of th looters have not
been confirmed, and It I stated th city
waa placed under martial law as an act
of precaution.
Th exact condition at .mall coast
town and many other points In th
storm', path near th. roast was not yet
known, these point, being Isolated from
wire communication. Crippled teleirraDh
service, with Houston shut out Monday
night, waa maintained during laat night,
with prospects of Increased facilities
today.
Vinci ia poi.'vr hotel falls
Fcarteea rrabably Perlaheel Wkia
Balldlaar CUaeel la Stars.
HOUSTON, Tea.. Aug. 1.-Dtween
fourteen and fifteen person. It Is feared
mar hav perished la th collp of a
hotel at Virginia Point, according to Kev.
T. J. Bloao of Houston Heights; and
Snertf f C D. Kenip of Whartan, who
arrived her lat Wednesday.
Sloan and Kemp said they wer pas
senger ou Oalveaton Interurban train
which stalled on th causwey dur-
l,n lo ,lorm ono' . r"rl- AU V-
ou u. MHnn ionr-
. 1 1-. ... ,i n 1 1 , ' i v. u Him h riar. anu
In a irtomvnt those Inside wer ftru.gllng
in tte wetars wbkh surged ever the
causeway. Twenty members of the party
never were accounted fr, but It 's iveal
CU turn of tham iM dea'Ji."
W. C rtafadale ef Houston, a traveling
salesman, .obnflrtDed : the story ot the
hotel collapee. '
"V lth several .roupanluia I left th
hotel ten minute before It collapsed."
mid Ragsdale. "We swam la eight feet
of water surrounding the tructur.
Arming these Inside were nine women
and two rhildren. Four of the women
were saved, but th two children were
loaf
COP) R tlRAD AT BEAl'MOJT
Pewslr-
at - Jekataon's Bayow
Take
Kernar la Trrrfaps.
BEACMONT, Tex.. Aug. 13. New
from tho stirm-strlckcn district adjacent
t' Beaumont early today waa meager,
but no more fatalities wrre repotted. So
far as known here, nearly a ecore of
persons are dead, with a number re
ported as tulMlng.
Heports from Bablne and "nbln Pas.
Tex., and Johnson's Ilayou and Lees
burr, La., where heavy loss of Jlf was
feared, declared that all persons at those
place wer saf.
Many narrow cprs from death hav
been reported. Th 400 resident of John
son's Bayou saved their lives by taking
irefug in tre top, loevlng their home
,to be washed away,
A man drifted Into Port Bolivar
Wednesday on a bale of cotton, to which
h had been clinging since Monday night.
If was nesrly dead from exposure.
Thousands of cattl In th motion below
Beaumont hav boon lot.
XIXETEEW DBOWJT AT BRAZOS
EiesnlosUI Wm Tak Rafaae In
Mfe Marina; Station Killed.
FREE PORT, Tex., Aug. .-Nlnetn
person wer drowned at th Bracog
United States Ltfeaavlng station In th.
torm Monday night, according to report.
received her.. The only known dead,
most of whom are .aid to be excursion
ist, wer the wlf and child of Captain
John P. Stelnhart. keeper of tb station.
Allies Declare
Cotton Contraband
to Protect Market
WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.-"Th allloj
government have agreed In principle that
cotton la contraband of war. Tho exact
data when this announcement .hall be
made la still under consideration, a well
as other details connected with the pro
clamation." Thi statement was authorised today at
th. British embaaey. , ...
Aa soon as th official announcement
ia made. It will be disclosed also that
th allied government, hav. prepared to
stand behind tho market to prevent ruin
ous depression of price, and. minimize
hardship to planter.
DEATH RECORD.
, If. S. Foller.
CRETE, . Neb., Aug. 19. (Special.) H.
8. Fuller, for mora than forty year a
resident of this city, died suddenly Tues
day at midnight at hi. residence In this
city. Mrs. Fuller wa president of th
City National bank of this city and on.
of the pioneer business men of Nebraska.
Two of Mr. Fuller' sons live In Cali
fornia and upon their arrival funeral ar
rangement, will be completed.
The above 1 a picture of C 8. Wort-'
man, hi year old. Gold front teeth. I
Had on dark trousers, coat and vest, j
Disappear!! August sth. No trace hss
wen ruiinu or mm. It may hav
drowned In the Platte or Missouri rivers.
A reward of 1100 for his body. E. W.
Klrliarde. Ashland, Nebraska,
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Our assortments
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It's Moving Right Along
That Bargain Sale of
Gas Fixtures '
We must admit that we underestimated the ability of
folks to recognize good opportunities. When we announced
our Sale of Gas Ranges and Lighting Fixtures we feared we
would be classed with some who are always and forever of
fering "bargains." But there are good reasons behind this
sale, and people quickly realized it. Moreover; we are grati
fied to know that people have faith in what we say.
Here's Are Some
HEATING STOVES
A Xo. 4 Reznor heating stove, 23
Inches high, 12 inches wide, cop
per heat reflector, equipped "with
nice art screening to prevent chil
dren getting burnt or clothing
from catching fire. Six feet of
rubber hose comes' with' stove
Free. Stove made of nicely fin
ished aheet steel. Reg- JJO CA
ular price $5.00, now apOeOvF
These stoves are Just dandy for
such weather as this. All you
have to do is ret it down, attach
the hose, light the gas and presto!
the cool room ia eoon a warm one
because these stovea warm up
rapidly. There are many beating
stoves, all sizes and styles. They
have been used on our sales floor
'to demonstrate n and that's the
only reason for the reductions.
-- DOMES ' " "' "
To describe one: It is made of
beautiful art. glass of subdued
tone to harmonize with most any
room, and the glass is ln-laid or
set in dull brass wrought into an
artistic design. It ia 27 Inches in
diameter and was regularly priced
tt $14.50. though it is CIO
now only V
There are other domes, . to be
sure, different sizes, and designs
and colorings to suit most all
tastes. They certainly are desir
able to hang over dining room
tables.
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Specimen Values
CABINET . RANGES r v
Eclipse Cabinet Range, elevated
fully three feet by four legs so as
to leave room for cleaning under
neath; big, full aized oven, warm
ing closet, four burners, full en
ameled finish. Regular $43.00
value, but-it's shop-worn, JOC
therefore : p-aJ .
That's Just a sample of .the.
good values offered.. Some art
shop-worn, others were used a lit
tle while, having been sold on
payments and had to be taken
1)ack after a short -time by de
fault. But they're every one per
fectly good ranges and corking
good values. They are selling
rapidly so If you want a gas rang
better come right away quick.' else
the beat bargains may all be gone.
; ' FIXTURES
One style ia a combination gas
and electric hanging fixture made
of brushed brass In pretty design.
It has one Inverted Welsbach gaa
mantle, and .one electrio light
aocket. Now marked J Q 7C
btff price, which is. . O
There are many, many fixtures
of all kinds and styles. And lis
ten; every fixture is new, never
been used, though we're seUliLg
them all at half price because they
are shop-worn.
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