THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JULY 22,. 1916.
RIVAL
FACTIONS ON
EDGE FOR SET-TO
Demo Political Caldron Warms
Up as Jacks and Jims
Sharpen War Knives.
cvitf MEET SATUEDAY
The Jacks and the Jims are sharpen
ing their battle blades (or a political
set-to today. Each side claims
a benediction from above and each
charge, the other with all sorts of
sinister and ulterior motives.. With a
wild west show in town, and two
democratic county conventions sched
uled, there should be plenty of enter
tainment for the week-end revelers
on the morrow.
The Jims, attaches of the House1
of Dahlman, will hold their session at
Washington hal' at 2 p. m. Officially
this will be known as a meeting of
the democratic county central com
mittee, called by Chairman Bennett,
to select a new central committee, a
chairman and 150 delegates to the
state convention to be held -t Hast
ings next Tuesday.
Jacks Meet in Evening.
On the sixteenth floor of the City
National bank, building at 8 o'clock
Saturday evening the Jacksonian club
will hold its own county convention,
name a county committee and chair
man, select state convention delegate
ana transact such other business as
may properly come before the con
vention." This Jacksonian convention is being
called "in the interest of decency." as
Chairman F. L. Weaver stated in his
public notice.
This will give Douglas county two
delegations to the democratic state
convention and will add somewhat to
the political interest of this commu
nity. ,
Her is a pronouncement by H. L.
Mossma, a Jacksonian leader, active
in arranging for their convention:
"Our purpose is to take the county
committee out of the hands of the
machine. ' It means the beginning of
the end of Dahlman, whose feet are
now slipping. There is no regular legally-constituted
county central com
mitted at this time. We do not repre
sent any faction, but represent the
democracy of the county. We have
asked that ward caucuses be held in
the regular way, but at our convention
we will not shut out any ward if it
has not held a caucus. We are dem
ocratic in every way. We are demo
crats" ; .',, :. ii..;.. '
- Statement by Jims.
T. j. O'Connor and J. P. Butler, au
thorized to speak for the Jims, made
this statement as one man: "Our
methods, have prevailed for ten years
and are approved both by law and cus
tom. . We wilt ignore the Jacksonian
club convention and will not attempt
to stampede" their little party, not at
all, not at alt. We represent the dem
ocracy of the county and do things in
in orderly and legal manner. When
Frank Weaver was chairman of the
county committee the affairs were
handled just as we are now doing. He
has no Icick coming. As a matter of
fact, we do not believe the Jacks will
send a delegation to the state conven
tion. : It costs too much money and
we don't think they will pay the mon
ey to bo to the convention. ' .
Mayor Dahlman will be named as
the new chairman of the county com
mittee by the Jims. Frank L.. Weaver
in all probability will1 be named by
the Tacks. '.
Harmony Dove in Republican Camp.
for the .republican convention
which meets in the big court room in
the court huose, harmony with a big
H is supposed to be- scheduled.
Everybody , is agreed upon Frank S.
Howell for. the new county chair
man, and the new county committee
and state convention delegation are to
be made up with a representation of
all elements, the lists being under
preparation by the subcommittee
commissioned for that task at the
meeting of the county committee two
weeks ago.
Cooler Weather and
Showers in State
According to yesterday's report to
the railroads, light showers were quite ,
. i i . i. i .1 wn.
general inrougn norm auu buiuiwmi
Nebraska Thursday night, the precipi
tation being one-fourth to. one-half
inch. Out in the 'state the weather was
much cooler, yesterday morning, up
through the sand hill country the tem
perature being down.around 60 to 70
degrees. ,' , i. -,
In the Black Hills the temperatures
during the last twenty-fur hours have
been the most erratic of any place in
the west --According -to railroad re
ports, in Deadwood and Lead Friday
the temperature was up to 110 degrees
above zero. Yesterday morning there
had been a drop of 50 degrees, with a
northwest wind blowing.
Write Him a Letter
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'SOMEWHEIlE EVERYDAY?'
' MEXICO
Auto Hits Train;
Occupants Saved "
By Mud Puddle
Mrs. Elmer Weber, wife of a Sarpy
county farmer, living a few miles
south of Papillion, had a remarkable
escape from death or serious injury
Thursday afternoon when she and
her two children attempted to drive
their machine across the Rock Island
tracks ahead of an eastbound passen
ger train.
The fore part of the machine was
struck by the speeding engine and
the hood was wrenched loose and
thrown seventy feet, The car and
its occupants were spilled into a gully
at the side of the track.
Mrs. Weber and her family were
returning home from Papillion.
An embankment hides the approach
of a train from the west, and not
hearing the whistle Mrs. Weber, who
was driving, started to cross.
All three were thrown cleat of the
demolished vehicle and landed in the
water and soft mud.
Aside from minor injuries and a
severe shock and fright, the trio was
uninjured. The machine was a total
wreck.
After Many Motor
Troubles Doctor
Lands In Court
Continued Warm
Weather is the
Local Prediction
' Omaha's maximum temperature
went up to 86 again Thursday. Cool
ing off a good deal during the night,
the thermometer was down to 72 at
7 a. m.
The noon temperature yesterday
was 85, while that of Thursday noon
was only 79. The thermometer rose
twenty degrees from 5 a. m. to noon
today, from 65 to 86.
The hottest point in the corn and
wheat belt was Valentine, Neb., which
registered a maximum of 96 degrees
yesterday. Temperatures of 90 to 96
degrees were common in the wesfern
and central part of the state Thurs
day. Broken Bow got .60 of an inch of
rain and Oakdale got .15 of an inch.
MISSOURI PACIFIC
PLEADSPOYERTY
Claims Can't Slake Both Ends
Meet Under the Two-Cent
Fare Law,
STATE FIGHTLW THE CASE
Pleading poverty and nonsupport.
the Missouri Pacific railroad is pre
senting its case before Frank H.
Gaines, as referee, and an array of
legal talent and railway commission
ers in the federal building.
J. A. C Kennedy, attorney for the
Missouri Pacific, won a victory for
his road several months ago, when he
secured a temporary injunction pre
venting the enforcement of the state
2-cent fare law on the Missouri Pa
cific's 390 miles of road in Nebraska,
claiming the road wasn't making
money. Since then this road has been
charging 3 cents a mile.
The present bearing is to secure a
permanent injunction. Attorney Gen
eral Willis E. Reed, with his assistant,
Charles S. Roe, and State Railway
Commissioners Hall and Taylor and
the commission's expert, Powell, are
uardtng the, interests of the state.
, A. t. Kennedy ot umaha and
ailtev Waggoner of Atkinson, Kan.,
are presenting the case of the rail
road. Testimony introduced by the rail
road was that it has lost money in
Nebraska in many years; for exam
ple. $218,737 in 1914 and $189,304 in
1915.
Claims Operating- Lou.
The road states that for every $1
received from passenger traffic in Ne
braska it pays out $1.08 for operating
that traffic.
Controversy arose between the road
auditor and Expert Powell on the
manner of writing off depreciation.
The auditor stated that on a car cost
ing, for example, $8,000, a certain sum
is charged up to passenger expenses
each year for depreciation. When
this depreciation fund reaches the
cost of the car it stops. If the car is
rebuilt the rebuilding expense is also
added to the passenger traffic ex
pense account.
It was held by the state that this
was not proper because the car in
many cases is still in existence and
an asset after its total cost has been
written off. -
New North Platte Depot
Is Nearing Completion
The Union Pacific passenger depot
being constructed at North Platte,
which replaces the one destroyed by
fire last spring, is well along toward
completion and will be ready for oc
cupancy this fall. The structure is
practically fireproof, modern in every
resoect and one of the best passen
ger stations on the system. The old
depot at North Platte contained a
hotel. The one being erected will be
used only for railroad purposes.
Dr. Charles F. Shook had consider
able trouble with vehicles Thursday
evening. When he Started out with
his seven-passenger touring car he had
proceeded about a block when a tire
blew out. Returning home he es
sayed a second trip in the electric, but
it apparently was tired and couldn't
be persuaded from the garage.
It being warm for the limousine, Dr.
Shook climbed into his roadster,
which ambled along at such a rapid
rate that he was haled into police
court on a golden rule summons for
speeding. .(Explaining before Judge
Kubat that he was attempting to ne
gotiate an urgent professional call, the
physician was discharged. L. Ches
ter, Z6ZJ Hamilton street; U U. Will
iams, 2219 Binney street; N. S. Dick-
2963 Harris street: f. L. L,e-
naueh. 3817 L street, and L. B. Bas-
ford, 2568 Douglas street, were each
fined $2.50 and costs for traffic vio
lations, jf - '
Street Car Company Sued for
Alleged Assault on Passenger
Ledare Galloway, through his
father, , Charles C. Galloway, has
brought suit against the Omaha &
Council Bluffs Street Railway com
oanv for SI. 000 damages.
Galloway, who is 12 years old, ;
claims to have been assaulted by a
conductor while a passenger on a
streetcar.
7
TS GO!
The Biggest and Best
Frontier Day and Round Up
Sbow with Lariut Collection of WILD WEST Artists mr uumblxl
''..'' at til .;
Douglas County Fair Grounds
July 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd
-Under Auspices of AK-SAR-BEN
I V TWO PERFORMANCES DAILY
Afternoon at 2:15 . Evening at 8:00
j i .. I, ,. ,.
Reaarrad Suh an aala at Boston's Drug Storo, 15th and Farnam,
- ' ' and Marritt's Drug Co., 20th and Farnam Straets.
warn
EXTRAORDINARY VALUES
TODAY IN OUR
July Clearance Sale
..I
Qver 3,000 Suits for men and young men. These
Suits were not purchased purposely for a sale, but
all our regular stock priced for quick clearance.
3f1 ALL NOW
ABOUT
IT II trio cn.il H
$13.50 I 1 77
SUITS now iy
1 $7g0 g)
mm 1
m
$15.00 and
$18.00
SUITS now
$9.50
$20.00and
$22.50
SUITS how
$12.50
ttStlge
PRICE
Blue) or Gray
Srgs, 1 Worel
d, Caectmores
and CbaT.ote, in
all this aeon's
wan tad colors
and stylos, many
baing suitable
for oarly Fall
wear.' Siias for
all man up to Sd
Inch chost maas-
re jii
)25.00and
$27.50
SUITS now
$14.65
SPECIALS IN COOL CLOTHES
FOR HOT DAYS
Genuine Palm Beach Suit, $7.50 rallies, now.... $4.75
Cool Cloth Suite, gray or tan, $10.00 valuea, now, .$6.75
Priestley Mohair Suite, $15.00 grade, now. .... .$9.95
White Duck or Khaki Pante, special $1.00
Shirt Sale
All $1.50 and $2
Shirtsj also '.
- Sport Shirts,
88c -
$5.00 Tub Silk
Shirts , '
' $3.45
Striped effects
- and the new
Solid .Colors.
Men's Summer
, Union Suits
Reduced
75c kind ...48c
$1.00 kind .68c
$1.50 kind .98c
'All Sizes.
Athletic, also
Long or Short
Sleeve Styles
All Straw Hats
1.-3 Off
Panamas
Excepted.'
.' $3 Panamas,
$1.98.
$8 Panamas,
$3.45 ;
$7.50 Panamas,
' $4.M ;?:'..
1 Broken Lots, ,
But All Sizes.'
Honey-Dew Melon, Hybred
Fairy Food, Now On Market
Honey-dew melons have arrived on
the local market. Sounds like the
food of nymphs and fairies, but
they're intended as food for regular
human beings. They are large as
cantaloupes, smooth-shelled and
white. They are a cross between
pineapples, cucumbers, cantaloupes
and casawba melons. They are very
sweet and come from California. You
can acquire title to one for 40 or 50
cents.
Blueberries, nice, bis: ones, are on
the market, coming from the wilds of
Michigan.
Blackberries and red rasobernes are
on the down grade.
Cherries and currants are nearly
gone, strawberries and gooseberries
have vanished.
But other thing's have come to take
their places and gladden the taste of
men. Here are Bartlett pears, big
and sound, from California.
And here are sraDes. Malaga cranes.
from the vineyards of California.
reaches are here, both from lexas
and California. They won't be very
plentiful this year because in most
places there is either no crop or only
half a crop. Plums are plentiful.
Mew apples are getting more abun
dant every day, not good for eating so
early in the season, but line tor pies
and apple sauce.
Watermelons I Um, but they are
fine now, red and juicy, luscious and
sweet and good to eat. Very reason
able in price, too. Cantaloupes are
also still in their heydey.
In the line of vege'bles, as Frank
Tinney calls them, you can get almost
anything, with the exception of toma
toes. The latter are very scarce. A
few of the vanguard of the home
grown crop have arrived, but they're
not at all abundant yet.
Corn is now within the reach of al
most everybody, and retails around 20
cents a dozen.
Who Will Help
Clear This Debt?
Who will help raise ?98 more
needed to clear the mortgage from
the Negro Women's Christian home,
J029 Pinknev street?
This institution is being conducted
as an infirmary for aged negro women
by the Negro Young Women's Chris
tian association, the property having
been bought two years ago tor
of which $798 was carried as a mort
gage. The women have raised $700
and want only $98 to enable them to
clear the whole debt.
Secretary E. F. Denison of the
Younn Men's Christian association
has consented to receive contributions
and apply them to the purpose.
AGED MAM HANGS
SELF FROM RAFTER
John Simonson, Pioneer Among
Danish Citizens of Omaha, .,'
Was Mentally Deranged,
DAUGHTER FINDS BODY
John Simonson, 80 years old, 2723
Spalding street, hanged himself short
ly before noon yesterday in the base
ment of his home. '
The body was discovered suspended
from a rafter by Mr. Simonson's
daughter, Mrs. E. S. Cole of St Louis,
who has been visiting here.
The dead man had been mentally
deranged for some time and had
threatened to kilt himself on several .
occasions, members of the family said,
He was a pioneer among the Dan
ish citizens of Omaha. ' - .'
He is survived by five children, :
Louis, Nonnie and Ida of Omaha;
Mrs. E. S. Cole of St. Louis, and Mrs.
G. Johnson of Kansas City. . ' ,-,
Coroner Crosby will hold an in
quest. ' .' -.
PERS0NALPARAGRAPHS j
Mr, r. A. MeCormick nd dauihUr,
Ula Allc. of the VoluntMt-a of America,
hav raturnvd from tw wik , vacation
in St. Louis and Chicago. .. ( ,
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warn
It Will Pay You to See Our Mammoth Stock and Get Our Prices Before You Spend
a Dollar for Furniture,; Rugs, Etc , , .
CONVENIENT MONTHLY PAYMENTS GLADLY ARRANGED.
A VERT SPECIAL ROCKER VALUE
HaailT iram la mad of calaeUd hard
wood: a eat and back uphoUtartd In high
irada guaranteed imitation leather; iprlng
construction below teat ; built for aolid
comfort onijr; positive! r
a wonaenui Bargain
thli very low price-
ELEGANT SOLID OAK, FOUR-POST
COLONIAL BED Mad of eeleoted wood
beautifully finished in a-olden. The
arttitiealfy turned poet measure II int.
METt. run else onir.
Fully worth $20. A
very remarkable value
at tttla low priee. , ..
, in aura wm
$10.89
"yi
JjJgSggfl Y r
y ' Sjjya tore, but you
t m ' r5y W UB't buy bet
1 sjejBBBaBBBaswjMR 1 1 tar furaltur.
mm
Complete 1
Lamp I s. Sh
Shade I fried with
S feet ef I FlawerasJ
Silk Corel. I CraUoe
A SANITARY WHITE ENAMEL LINED
REFRIGERATOR BuiU on scientific prin
ciples, has roomy provision compartment;
one wire nickel shelf; heavy double-wall con
struction; patent drip tup, ate; 26 -lb. ice
capacity; lor small apart
ment house use this box
cannot be duheated. our
low price ,
A WONDERFUL SPECIAL IN AN
ELEGANT WICKER TABLE LAMP
Finished in baronial brown; stands
10 Inches high) shade It 11 inches
wide and lined in fancy flowered cre
tonne: complete wim
five feet of cord
socket at this
heard of low price.
fancy iiowerea ere-
$195
A DECIDED BARGAIN lU
WELL MADE DRfiBaE R
Koomy bate la fitted with two
larsre and two small drawers ;
Urge slaa French bevel plate
mirror i mad entirely of Ameri
can nuarter sawed imitation ostk t
finlihed (olden: highly polished,
an extremely weu
made dresser spa
tially quoted for ..
tomorrow, at.
$7.85
!lltllle
eie ; so -id. ice
$6.25
48-INCH PLANK TOP LIBRARY TABLE
Built of selected hard wood and highly polished
in golden ; note trie artntioaiiy shaped pun
neavy pjana up xittea witn
secret drawer: roomy maa-a-
sine shelf below; an unusual
bargain at oniy..,,f..
iy aiiapeu pitiars;
$10.96
Let Hart man
Feather
Your Neat.
HANDY SOLID OAK
WELL MADE TELE
PHONE STAND Complete
with stool, slides under
stand when not in use, con
venient shelf for telephone
book i neatly finished In
lumed, spe
cie! lor Sat
urday's sell-
ing, oniy,
y iinianea in
$1.35,
HIGH BACK FIBRE REED
ROCKER Made of high grade
material and elegantly finished In
the natural; haa full roll seat,
broad arms and ta extremely well
maae; suite Die zor
Indoor or outdoor
use: priced
dally for tomorrow
MASSIVE ..0-INCH TOP SOLID OAK IT
TENSION TABLE Made entirely of selected
wood; has heavy eight-Inch octagon cedes.
tali, supported byvheavy scroll colonial base;
top catenas to six loot;
finished in golden only;
; our vary low price, at
only ,
cruii swiwniau Mil ;
12.75
a . . . ijwaaswgii see w
BUS A MONTH
SANITARY COMFORT
KITCHEN CABINET I
B oil t of solid oak !
throughout; hai roomy
compartment for dishes i
metal flour bin with
sifter; handy bread box
and silverware drawer;
entire cabinet oil rub
finish on of our very
best oiiere lor tomor-
roars
selling , '
only -at...
MBtt J a Jr
tin aur vudius -
$13.95
1414-16-18 Douglas Street
A FULL StZI TOLL
MAN BHD .BABY
CARRIAGE Hu luary
tubular stMt frsm,'.lt
inch whnl. f Itu4 Witt
heavy rubbw ttrMrUa
lr . Oni.h.d In , dtkar
baronial brown or nat
ural; Interior lined with
upnoisMnnc to ataua,
a a.-
valua,
at....
$13.95
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