IS JOE SOON TO BE
MAN OOTOF A JOB?
Should Stecher Win at Lincoln on
Thursday There Will Be Tew
. Left to Meet.
BOTH ARE IN FINE CONDITION
Is Joe Stecher. wrestling cham
pion of America, goon to be a man
out of a Job? .
Is the boy in overalls" so good In
Us chosen profession that he will
find himself without opposition?
Thafs what Nebraska athletic fans
seem to think Is going to happen,
and If the champion trims the Turk.
Trusslf Huscane, Thursday afternoon,
in their big match at Lincoln, there
T ill remain but a couple of men for
him to face, only two in America of
any prominence that he hasn't beaten
Frank Ootch of Humboldt, la., and
Ed Lewis, tne Kentucky "strangler."
Rteeher's future srems to fnrnl'h a
more interesting- study than his imme
diate present. Hit present is Interesting
enough because of the fact that many, J
many people still are unconvinced of his
prowess and incline to the belief that he
is a great man because of the Keneral
decay that seems to have set in all at
Tin: nF.r.i omaha. TiiruxnAY. novum p.m; i:ir..
onoe among his posslhle opponents. Those
who cannot "see" Stecher rlisht now say
that a fresh, strong young fellow is
merely plowing broadside through lot
of old, antltiuated and thoroughly passe
has-t'eens.
Wla. fairly.
Te that as It may. Stecher Is m Inning,
and winnltiK decisively, by fair means.
He Is a legitimate champion, there Is lit
tle doubt of that, and admitted to be such
through his defeat of Charley Cutler,
who was acknowledged up to July I last,
to be the American champion, sons
Uoteh. the bugaboo of Humboldt. Stecher
trimmed Cutler In Jig time, wadtn
through the Chlcagoan much as he mluht
through the veriest tyro at the game.
They all look alike to Stecher. The
Turk appears to be a formidable barrier
In his path, but at that, three months
ago, he wouldn't have looked nearly as
high a hurdle as Cutler seemed to be for
the young man from lKdKe.
If Stecher polishes off the Turk, who
will be the next one? Ootch seems to be
out of the question, for In Chicago a few
days ago he said Stecher hud been of
fered the chance and having turned It
down, would find that old opportunity
would not knock on his door ago.
That about exhausts the possible op
ponents fyr Stecher. outside of the for
elgn I. tars, and they do not look like
much. The foreigner now wrestling In
the New York tournament are essen
tially Otaeco-Roman performers and
know little or nothing about grappling
below the waist line. Kor years they
have had a srare thrown into them by
the Ootch toe hold, which has been rep
resented' to them as a bone crusher of
the worst type. Most of them scream
Catcher Weaver is
Probably Fatally
Injured at Denver
with fright when an American wrestler
reaches down to grasp them by the legs.
Frank Ootch said In Chicago the otner
night that he figured there were but two
and three men at the outside who stood
chance with Stecher, outside possibly of!
Itussane, with whom he Is matched!
Thursday. He put himself first, natur- i
ally, as worlds champion, and then I'BNVKR, Colo.. Nov. 24. Arthur
named Yousouf Mahmout and the elder j (Ilurk) Weaver, formerly catcher for the
Zybysko, should the latter ever again I vnver and Wichita Western league base
take up the mat game, which Is not at ball clubs, was probably fatally Injured
all likely. He la a prisoner of war In .today In an exploa!on and fire that dam-
the , aged the plant of the Mountain Motor
t Fuel company, of which he waa aupcrtn
pendent. Chare. IVters. a driver, also
I was seriously Injured. An electric spark
: Is N lleved to have caused the explosion.
Cracow and will tie held there till
termination of the war.
Turkey Shoot at
Carter Gun Club .
on Thanksgiving
The Carter Lake Clun club will stage a
second turkey shoot at the club's traps
"thanksgiving day. starting at 10 o'clock
in the morning and continuing all day.
Tin keys, geese and ducka in plentiful
numbers Kill be hung up as prizes. The
everts will be of fifteen targets. In ad
ill.lon to these fifteen-target events the
ifltbrnte.; game of bNtck shooting will
1 1 hi the boards part of the time. Hot
i offer, soup and eats will be provided for
the shoot trs.
The Omaha Gun club nil1 also hold n
shoot. If it Is found impossible to stae
the event at U1' grounds a' tops the river
on account of the injunction the Omaha
shooters will go to Carter lake.
Dodge County Plans
to Support Stecher
FKKMONT. Neb., Nov. Jf-tSpecial.l-Fremont
and tioilge county will send a
big delegation to Lincoln Thanksgiving
day to seo the match between Joe
Stecher. the Nebraska boy, and Hussane.
the Turk. A special train will be run
over the Northwestern, leaving Fremont
at 12:30 p. m., returning after the match.
It Is estimated a crowd of .VO fans will
take In the sport. There will be plenty
of money to back Stecher.
Bee W-a". Ads Produce Result.
tlpatlon. Foley Cthartl. Tablets keep
the atomach sweet, liver active, bowel
regular and banish biliousness, sick
headaches, sour stomach. Stout persons
welcome the light, free feeling they give.
Sold everywhere. Advertisement
All of Dodge County
to Move to Lincoln
to See Big Match
Most of the male Inhabitants of Ootl-c
county will b In Lincoln today to
v.itch the Stecher Hussane wioiliiw
match. Stecher being a favorite son of
I'ikirc cottntjr the people are falling otcr
one another to secure tickets for IV
li;ilii that will start from Dodge. Steih r's
home town.
The Northwestern trsln that will carry
the Stecher rooters will have fifteen cls.
A baggage car will be attached to cary
the money that the Stecher men will bet
n their Idol.
Interest In Omaha Is Just about as keen
rnd the match in the sole topic of con
esatlon where sportsmen gather. It
t ow looka as If the Merchanta hotel
ciai. which leaves here at 1 o'clock, will
be filled.
THORPEIAN CLUB MOVES
INTO ITS NEW QUARTERS
The Thorpelan Athletic club has moved
tut) Its new cluh rooms at 36(18 Franklin
street. The new quarters are much big
ger than the old ones and will he com
pletely outfitted with all the apparatus
i-eocssary for an athletic club. Arthur
luliln, who has been acting aa secretary
if the club, has resigned his pisltlon, and
Ken Abrahamson waa elected as his successor.
Fulton May Fight
Willard and Moran
MIl.WACKF.K. Wis., Nov. 21. Matches
with both Joss Willard and Frank Moran
are In sight for Fred Fulton, the Min
nesota glnnf, whose recent ring sne-
esses have attracted attention.
Tom Andrews, the Milwaukee promoter,
snld today he had received from Ful
ton manager, Mike Collins, an option
tl at Fulton would sign articles to meet
Willard before a New Orleans club dur
ing Mardl Oras week and to meet Moran
before the same lull some tlrqe befjre
March. Andrews la acting for Hums and
Tortorlch, the New Orleans promoters.
Fulton has not signed the articles as
yet aa he Is at Hochesler, Minn., for a
t.asal oieration. but Andrewa said hla
signature waa expected shortly.
evening at Kountre park In preparation
for the Thanksgiving grnne to he plsyel
ssalnst Wayne Normal at Wayne, Neb.
Coach lel-amatre gave hla proteges nm
of the hardest workouts of the yesr,
keeping his men on the Job until dark-
incss called a halt to the practice.
! Apartments, flats, houses and cottage
ftii n irmru ifuicniy mill II1CBHJT n
lice "For R.nt."
Detroit Americans
Sign Pat McTigue
HKTROIT. Mich.. Nov. 14 "Pud" Mc
Tigue, a left-handed pitcher, who made
a fine showing with the Toronto club
of the International league last season,
waa signed today by the lietrolt Americana.
CMAHA UNI TO PLAY WAYNE
NORMALS TURKEY DAY
The t'nlveralty of Omaha foot ball
team had Its final scrimmage Tuesday
Thanksgiving
Day
Store Closed All Day
Berg Clothing
Company
ELL-ANS
Absolutely Removes
Indigestion. One package
proves it J25c at all druggists.
O mm ai Sn si Tin osiers Ofifispimgj Ecena.eimll IS alls flop
IXIhisiiniIkoiv'Sriio---Bet11(eji IPflnomo Yotlhf IResdrvatHoo
At the Brandets.
The Birth of a Nation." D. W. Grif
fith's wonderful photo spectacle, now
playing at the Brandels theater, remains
Indefinitely.
It la being presented here in all Its
musical and electrical glory, the same
attraction that Is being seen on Broad
way and at the ranama-Paclflc exposi
tion in San Francisco, down to the very
smallest detail. Orifflths "The Birth
of a Nation" Is the first two-dollar pic
ture show. Whether or not It will ever
have a successor depends upon whether
or not another like presentation can ever
come up to Its exceptional precedent. It
has been reviewed and pictured and de
scribed in all the magazines and dis
cussed In the pi ess of every city where
It has been shown. It Is based In part
upon Thomas Dixon's "The Clansman,"
consequently it is rather warm and sen
sational of Incident and rather gripping
of narrative, but it goes back much
farther than that and extends much
beyond the end of the Plxon work.
In It 18,1100 persons compose the acting
cast and 3.0 o horses are at one time In
battle scenes. It cost a. round half mil
lion dollars to produce, required over
TSaat!r
The Most Beautiful Theater In America
deueb
mum
OFFERED
10
TO
14
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trabrssiviq8
etteh worth
Barnum &
o. n. a
aN0nennrincw9nwg
- ts M It t I
ouauuukMuuruur3
5,000
Scenes
3,000
Horses
Matinee
Daily
2:15 '
0
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AND TO
The Greatest
show on Earth!
Bailey Outdone -The Sensation of the Age!
sfiffifh'c MIGHTY SPECTACLE AND EIGHTH
9lIli.Ua b WONDER OF THE WORLD
- "l
SUMUUtMlS
18,000
- Charac
ters
Cost
$500,000
Evenings
8:15
wmr s mr4iwmm
t r
Facts About the Greatest Entertainment Ever Offered:
There are over 5,000 distinct scenes in "Hie Hirth of a Nation." Eighteen thou
sand people and .',000 horses were utilized in making the narrative. Mr. Griffith worked
eight months without a let up to complete the picture. The production cost $."00,000.
-The women's dresses of the period of ,1800 used up 12,000 yards of cloth. Over 1.),000
yards of white material were used in the costumes of the Ku Klux.Klan. Two hundred
seamstresses worked for two months to make these costumes. Five thousand works and
reports on history of the Civil war searched for authentic, data. Ford's Theater, Wash
ington, reproduced to the smallest detail. Ten thousand dollars a day was paid for the
use of an entire county in order to reproduce the wild rides of the Klansmen. A commis
sary and two hospital corps were maintained while the pictures were being taken. Not
a human life was lost. A musical score of twenty-live pieces synchronized to several
thousand individual scenes. Nearly 200,000 feet of film was originally taken. The per
formance lasts two hours and forty-five minutes, with one six-minute intermission.
Daily Matinees, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1
Evenings, 50c, 75c, 1, $1.50, $2
eight months continuous loll to make
and is freely ai'kn lwledged to be the
mightiest spe tacle ever accomplished by
man. It consists of nearly three hours
of historic tableaux, nearly three hours
of smiles and tears and warm heart
throbs and gripping; pangs of sadness, a
panorama of life and love that preceded
the first shot on Sumter, and then tne
break, the south declaring; for state
rlKhts and secession, the north as one
rr.in rr.llylnn to the fla. that Is Grif
fith's Inconceivable "nirth of a Nallon."
A groat symphony orchestra furnishes
all the splendid musical acore, which Is
so Important a part of the big show, and
all tho sound and wonderful color and
mechanical effects are Riven. Thousands
of people hsve already a-one across the
country to witness its presentation In
the IJberty theater in New Tork and at
the Illinois theater in Chicago. The en
tire lower floors and most of the balcony
of both the above theatera are held at 2
per seat, and seats are now selling for
four or more weeks In advance In both
Instances.
At the Orphenm.
An air of gratefulness pervadea the
Orpheum thla Thankaglvlng day. While
changes have taken place In. most thea
tera, and few Indeed for the better, the
only changes that have reached the
Orpheum have been for the better. The
attendance this season la larger than
last season and just about - the only
complaints the management receives are
haPBiiui 1 1 lm - I .. - -111 1 A a- .
' " " ' ' ' Ulllli.Uil Q Cl RUUU
, seats, so great la the attendance.
I The standard of excellence has lm
I proved ateadllv at the Orpheum and
greater energy than ever Is going to be
applied by director General Martin
Beck, to Improve atlll further. Not sat
isfied with the constituents of what
might be termed tit old vaudeville, Mr.
I Beck Is creating a new vaudeville. Mr.
lSeck has invaded the dramatic, grand
opera and concert- atage for talent Just
at time when most of the stars of
these fields are seeking a place, and aa
vaudeville seems to be the one big
branch of the theater business that la
open to most of the big artlata and
stars, the Orpheum circuit Iuls been
enabled to contract fur the services of
not only all that Is best in vaudeville,
but it has enrolled on its roster such a
large number of the stars from the
dramatic, opera and concert stage that
the Orpheum theater here and In other
cities represent the highest standard of
class, and are not only the providers of
! ataplo amusement for the masses, but
they are the favorite resorts of the more
refined people and the acenes of the moat
brilliant social gatherings.
Press reviewers and musical critics
have expressed amaxement at the war
tnfc of the Orpheum circuit in booking
I the greatest stars. Hut everybody joins
In this amaxement when prices of ad
mission are announced, because the regu
lar Orpheum economical admlaaion prices,
which are about one-third of the amount
theater patron have been accustomed to
pay for these stars always obtain. The
Orpheum roster in retrospect is Indeed
most Impressive. It Includes Naslmova,
Mary Shaw, Mrs. Ieslle Carter, blanche
Bates, Bertha Kalish, Sarah Bernhardt,
William Morris, Arnold HaJy, Joan aw,
yer. Joined, Elsie Huger and scores of
other big artlots. Scheduled here are
Gertrude Hoffman, Kddle Koy, Kosha
nara. Iaura Nelson Hall, Mofly Mclntyre
und many others.
Thanksgiving day will be appropriately
observed at the Orpheum. Kor pears,
for prosperity, for . the Joyousness that
emanates from clean, wholesome, artistic
and entertaining atage creations, the Or
pheum management offers thanks.
t'ol Heirarta llasy Week at Kra.
North Bros. Stock company. In play
ing "The Great John Ganton," which
opened at the Krug theater last Sat
urday and continuing all week, seems
to have met with unanimous approval.
The scale of prices at the Krug is on
THAfiKSGlUlflG
I RO G RESPECTABLE
TODAY TONIGHT
DINNER
The Croat
John Canton
Then
All Beats, MatUM Toaay. 10 Ceuts
North Bros.
5toclc Co.
Stands ra Flays "Moris Prices"
10
CENTS
10
A Few at ISO.
i .Tit nw fUllavwH
10X OrICE MOW OFIV.
MVat Week. -The TUlra Ssgres "
a "movie" basis, iiemely, must seals at
10 cents, a few at J cents and a ' Jitney'
gallery.
At the Km press.
An especially strong show hns been ar
ranged for at the Kmpress for Tiians
glvlng day. A double headline bill Is of
fered. Headlining the bill for the last
half of the week Is ' George Hoaener,"
the world's greatest character Imperson
ator, In his two best known characters.
"The IVipe Fiend" and "The Old Bol
dler." "The Paris Fashion Shop" Is the
second headline offering. I'retty girls,
new songs and dances, and the latest
dress creations from Paris, with special
scenery, will make oue of the best vau
deville novelties to t seen th's season.
vP.crt Wlggln & Oo. present their non
sensical Juggling skit. "On Joy Street."
And the bill Is completed by the-Flv,
Musical Maclarens In a "Big Musical
Surprise."
"Tho Pitfall," a modern four-act
drama. Is the photo-production for the
last half of the week. This play features
Kalem's best talent. Including Marin Sals
and Frank Jonasson. A hlg assorted
program completes the picture program.
ADMISSION
10c
RYd Seats
Phone Doug. 999
Last Time
Wednesday
Chas.Chaplin
The World's Great
est Comedian in his
Latest 2-Reel Riot
1 in i
I Slli"
I 1
Shown With '.
Every Performance
Thanksgiving and the last Halt
"Paris Fashion Shop"
A Bavy of Pretty Girts Latest Gowns
- Dcrt Wiggins & Co.
"On Joj Street"
5 rJiacLarens
Musical Surprise
GEO. ROSNER
The World's Greatest Character
Impersonator in His Two Best Characters
"THE DOPE FIEND"
"THE OLD SOLDIER"
"ThePitfall"
All Star Cast in a Modern 4-Act Drama. -Marin
Sail and Frank Jonasson.
DIG ASSORTED PROGRAM
THANKSGIVING GREETINGS
All This Week to Crowded Homes Matinee and Night Daily
EVMLYm KIESEDT.
AND
K LSFFOtE)
CHARLIE HOWARD a CO.
JED & ETHEL DOOLEY
brown & Mccormick
CHAS. a FANNIE VAN
AR N O Lr&ETK YJGR AZE R
COR RIG AN & VIVIAN
THE ORPHEUM TRAVEL WEEKLY
MATINEE PRICES NIGHT
Scats .... aP
Except Saturday and Sunday
A few at 50c
Gallery, 10c-Box, 50c; Except Sunday
2a 3 C
Week' Days, Entire Bal
cony, over 700 Re
served Seats ,
First Floor, 50c & 75c
Gallery, lOo - Dox Seats, 75c
Sunday Balcony. 25c & 50c
Sunday Prices Prevail Holidays
STAGE CELEBRITIES SEEN ELSEWHERE at $2.00 a Seat Are PRESENTED
AT THE ORPHEUM At The ECONOMICAL PRICES ABOVE QUOTED. Such Stars
As NAZIMOVA, ETHEL BARRYMORE, MARY SHAW, BLANCHE BATES
ur.K.iA AALasii, ulua NJSTHERSOLE and Other FOREMOST ARTISTS OF
THE WORLD INCLUDED.
