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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BKE : DECEMBER 31. 1916.
INTERNAL REVENUE
RECEIPTS LARGER
Uncle Sam Collects More Cash
Here Than Tear Before to
. Snn His Government.
FXWEE TOBACCO STAMPS
An increase of nearly $2,000,000
over J9I5 in the internal revenue re
ceipts is shown by the annual report
og the internal revenue collector,
George L. Loomis. The large gain
is attributed to advance of taxable
commodities.
The increase was made despite the
fact that the documentary and pro
prietary tax which went into effect
December I, 1914 as a special meas
ure for more revenue was discon
tinued at midnight, September 8, 1916.
Corporation taxes, income taxes.
penalties, etc., which come under the
head of "lists" show one of the largest j
increases. In 1915 the collections un-
rler this head were $476.51.1.34. while j
for the 'year just closed they were.
$630,565.90.
The tax on beer and unfermcnted i
liquors also showed a surprisingly
large gain, though much of the terri
tory under the jurisdiction of the in-j
ternal revenue department here has
gone dry since 1915. The total gain
was $55,961. I
The most marked gain was in the ,
distilled spirits stamps, which in
creased from $1,675.6J7.92 in 1915 to
$3,462,434.52 in 1916. The complete
figures follow:
mi lilt.
Lists 471. HI (ID.tlt
BpaeM tu 14J.I1J llt.llt
TtbM. t.lM MM
Oil. 71.M 11.011
DUUIM4 spirits 1.1T1117 1.111.414
CiM iUiin I.14S l.tct
Olsamareartna, kattar. i.iii 4,441
Bear .. 1,141 ttMOl
MliW flew Kt lot
Dm. u rep. .tamps lit, 411 151,411
h iuan 14.IU 11.401
Dptass rr Unto ... til 111
Five Doelger Children to Get $54,166 Each
stal 11.110,141 IMIT,4II
Lut free working- day. vt Hwemeer not
tMtuM.
Eight Hundred Are Working
In Omaha Federal Building
The Omaha postoffice, or federal
luilding, occupies a block and cost
approximately $2,000,000. Nearly 800
men and women are employed in the
building.
As custodian the care of the build
ing comes under C. W. McCune, and
the payroll, including firemen, engi
neers, janitors, charwomen, watch
men and elevator eonductort,
amounts to about $23,000 a year.
The bnilding is administered by the
tupervising architect of the Treasury
department at Washington.
Expenditures for the upkeep of the
building this year were alightly in
excess of the expenditures of 1915.
The greatest item waa the painting of
the ' corridor at a cost of about
$4,000, , The installation of a com
pound ateam elevator coat the de
partment $2,200. Proposals for the
painting and decorating of all 1 the
' rooms in the building have been sub
mitted to Washington, bat the con
tract has not yet been awarded.
. Police Victims Yield Up -,
Much Cash, Less Cases Go Up
Remarkabl- increases in the
amount of fines, costs and bonds for
feited in police court for the first
eleven and one-half months of 1916
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mimm&MuXrt7 A -aMaaa., 'MVJjbMltir- : v
These three children and their two
brothers will receive $54,166 each as
their share in the estate of their
grandfather, Ernest G. Woerz, it has
been decided by the surrogate's
court, New York City. The grand-
father who li-ft an estate estimated
at $2,500,000, willed them J.i.lKHI each,
but their latner, tnanes r. unciKcr,
sued tu break the will and the sur
rogate has just authorized tile exec
utors to settle the action on the basis
of $54,166 for each of the children.
as compared to 1915 are shown by
figures compiled by Court Sergeant
Wilson. The increase for all busi
ness is $15,770.10, almost as great as
the total for 1915. Figures for 1916
also show that 100 less cases were ap
pealed from police court to the dis
trict court and that fifty more cases
were bound over. A comparative ta
ble follows:
llli. lilt.
PtnM 17,141.00 111,110.10
Coals 1,131. SO 1,014.00
Bonds forfeited 1.11111 10,060.11
Total. I1MI0.71 111,010 II
Cases appeaM from police court to dis
trict court: ISIS, 111; lilt, 111.
Cum bound over from police court to
district court: lilt, 141: lilt, 111.
County Engineer Reports
Year of Brisk Activity
The following is a partial report
of County Engineer Louis E. Adams
as to work done during the year 1916
on Douglas county roads and bridges:
"New roads opened, one and three
fourths miles at a cost for land of
$1,742.40. We have done 109,754 cubic
yards of deep grading at a cost of
$17,993.94, or an average of 17 3-10
cents per cubic yard. Have built un
der contract fourteen steel bridges at
a cost of $711,209.86, of which three
are over the Elkhorn river costing
$29,620.81. Have built nine wooden
bridges, costing $4,729.46; repairs, $7,
674.31: reinforced concrete culverts,
$471.08. Have sixty-seven road drags
under contract and have dragged 6,667
miles at 75 cents per mile, totaling
$5,000.80. Have side-graded with two
twelve-foot and two eight-foot grad
ers, 136 miles of road; cost, $8,477.50,
or $62.33 per mile. Eleven and one
half miles of road thrown with eleva
tor grader at a cost of $1,960, or
$170.44 per mile." .
Annual Meeting of the
Rifle Club Next Week
The annual meeting of the Greater
Omaha Rifle and Revolver club will
be held a week from today, Officers
will be elected and plans for the 1917
season made.
A practice shoot will he held on the
club's range in East Omaha today.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
OF THE
Omaha Loan and Building Association
December 30th, 1916
ASSETS .
Loans on First Mortgages ... $ 9,254,221.96
Loans on Association Shares of Stock 98,443.09
Interest due from Members 8,317.06
Real Estate Acquired Through Foreclosure 20,439.18
Foreclosures Pending 6,617.12
Office Furniture and Fixtures 1 ,504.75
Association Building. 195,000.00
Sundry Persons and Accounts 812.80
Cash on Hand and in Banks 345,576.32
Certificates of Deposit 92.027.5S
County Warrants 14,318.55
Navy Recruiting Station
In Omaha Breaks Record
All previous enlistment records
were smashed when the navy recruit
ing station accepted 211 recruits for
the year 1916. The best previous
record, in 1915, was 138.
Applicants who applied for enlist
ment were far above the average, ac
cording to Lieutenant W. W, Wad
dell, officer in charge. Because of the
stringent physical tests only about
one applicant in eight is usually ac
cepted. Forty-six per cent of the ap
plicants applying were accepted at the
station here and the three stations,
located at Lincoln, Sioux Falls, S. D.,
and Sioux City, la., which comes un
der the jurisdiction of the Omaha of
fice. Ten navy men are connected with
the Omaha station.
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City Planning Commission
Secures a Good Start
The year's work of the City Plan
ning commission consisted of Retting
a good start. The appropriation of
$7,500 was cxpevJed for office salaries
and supplies and fees of three ex
perts, Messrs. Goodrich, Ford and
Kofmison ot Aew ork. In May,
ltU, regular others were established
n the fourth floor of the city hall,
ith B. Kventld in charge.
The commission will ask the city
council h appropriate $25,000 for
1917. During the year J. E. George
succeeded George Brandcis as mcm
her uf the commission.
The commission co-operated with
the city council in working out the
helt line track elevation scheme which
was adopted by the city and accepted
by the Missouri Pacific Railway com
pany. Three tentative plans for widen
ing Twenty-fourth street, Pacific to
fuming streets, have been prepared.
This project will be taken up in a
serious manner during the new year, i
I he commission and its experts
held several sessions with the city
legal department in connection with
proposed legislation for enlarging the
powers of the city planners.
Secretary Kvenifd prepared a col
lection of eighteen data maps, show
ing distribution of sewers, street car
tracks, pavements, parks, school popu
lation and other features of the city.
A city planning exhibition was held
in the court house.
"The commission is now ready to
begin constructive work in a compre
hensive way," was a statement recent
ly made by a member of the commission.
educational department which now en
rolls 542; the girls' department, in
cluding those between 12 and 18
years, which now numbers 596; and
the physical department, which has
reached its gymnasium capacity.
Y. W. C. A. Has Great Record
For the Year Just Closed
Community work branching out
from the extension and industrial de
partment of the Young Woman's
Christian association, is the field in
which lanje things have been done in
the last year and more things planned
for the coming year, according to
Miss Etta L. Pickering, new general
secretary, who came recently to suc
ceed Miss Lilly M. Strong. One hun
dred girls in industrial centers have
already! enrolled in association clubs
through this department. A club for
girls employed in homes has also
been formed. Here social intercourse
and acquisition of the English lan
guage are encouraged.
The employment bureau and board
and room directory did splendid work
during the year. Of 1,282 girls ap
plying for work, 919 were placed in
rositions. Rooms were secured by
,007 girls. The cafeteria served 220,
000, while the traveler's aid secretary
at the Union station assisted 4,0u0
women during the year.
While there is a slight decrease In
the general membership, as well as
the Bible classes, which received a
powerful stimulus last year through
the "Billy" Sunday campaign, each
department has grown steadier and
is able to do more for its members
than ever before. The present mem
bership is 2,658, several hundred less
than last year. So, too, the Bible
classes number over 300, while there
were 500 last year. Special classes
for business girls will be formed in
1917 to bolster up this department.
There has been good growth in the
Thousand More Arrests
This Year Than Last
Almost 1,000 more arrests were
made by the Omaha police depart
ment during the first eleven and one
half months of 1916 than during the
entire year of 1915, according to fig
ures just issued by Chief H. W. Dunn.
Up to December 23 this year, 17,296
arrests were made, compared to 16,
345 in 1916. Another noticeable in
crease is in the number of prisoners
sent to the workhouse. In 1915 only
138 prisoners were sent there, while
during that part of 1916 covered by
the report 2,178 were sentenced to
terms in the workhouse. Following
is a comparative summary for the
two vears:
m. mi.
Aretdftnti reported T1 5A1
Arrests made 17, ill IS. 216
Aasaulla '1 1'
Hurclara frustrated 1 4
Rulldtnirs secured, found open 417 411
Outline; and stabbing 49 41
Unad bdls reported Ill 116
Destitute persons cared tor. ... 21 IS
Klrea attended Ill 141
Insane persons rare for 112 111
Lodgers accommodated 2,511 S.4IB
Lost children cared for 17 22
Meala furnished prisoners ...31.211 34,111;
Murders 14 IS
Calls for patrol wacon t.lBS 8,167
falls for emergency autos 6.411
Nulsancea, dead animals 111 111
Prisons taken to county Jail... '2.001 3,162
Prisoners taken to work house 2,178 138
Khootlns affray 47 34
flick and Injured taken home 2)0 :!38
Hick and Injured to hospitals 397 366
Hick and injured to station... 248 117
Htray teams cared for 28 42
Htrsy horses taken up 44 7t
8ulcldea attempted 61 r4
Hucldea reported 40 54
To Juvenile officers 197 371
U. S. Marshal Makes More
Arrests Than Ever Before
The office of the United Stales mar
shal made more arrests and spent
more money during the year of 1916
than at any other time in its history,
according to the report prepared by
United States Marshal T. J. Flynn
and Chief Deputy James B. Nicker
son. The total number of prisoners
handled during 1916 was 460, com
pared with only 384 the preceding
year. Of this number 444 were com
mitted to county jails and sixteen sent
to the federal penitentiary at Leaven
worth. The amount paid for the care and
substinence of the prisoners was $7,
485.40, while the amount disbursed
during the year for all purposes was
$86,044.76. In 1815, $81,775.33 was
the total expended for all purposes.
The total amount of expenditures
was somewhat swelled in 1916 because
of the cost of trying several large
cases, among them being the cele
brated "Arizona wild horse" case.
The increase is also attributed to
the extension of the federal taws to
cover such crimes as robbing box
cars, having "dope" in one's posses
sion and the violation of the Mann act.
Give your Want Ad a chance to
make good. Run it in The Bee.
Entering Our
Forty-Sixth Year
as Leaders in
Quality Hardware
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Wright & Wilhelmy Company
Jobbers of Best Factory Brands
Hardware, Sporting Goods and Harness.
10th and Jackson Sts.. OMAHA.
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Total Assets $10,037,278.41
LIABILITIES
Running Stock and Dividends $ 8.753.255.06
Paid-up Stock and Dividends 701 .399.52
Due sundry persons on account of incomplete loans 314.187.99
Reserve Fund 225,000.00
Undivided Earnings 10,435.84
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Hs sold tha first $10.90 cattla on this taarkst
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Total Liabilities $10,037,278.41
Increase in Assets During 1916 $ 1,453,807.98
Dividends Earned for Members During 1916 421,084.42
Dividends Earned for Members Since Organization 2,799,138.96
Reserve Fund and Undivided Earnings 235,435.84
During the past year we have made 1,064 real estate loans,
amounting to $2,298,875.00, of which 307 were for tha purpose
of erecting homes, and the others to purchase honie3 already
built, and for other purposes.
The ease and promptness with which loans are secured, coupled
with the low rate of interest and the easy monthly payrreiits,
makes our plan especially attractive to the average man of mod
erate means who is ambitious to become a home owner.
Savings Accounts may be opened at any time, in any amount from
one dollar up.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
G. W. LOOMIS, President W. S. WRIGHT, Vice President.
W. R. ADAIR, Secretary and Treasurer.
J. T. HELGREN, Ant. Seey. A. A. ALL WINE, Am. Sae-r.
r Joswph Barker Charles E. Black John II. Butler
- B. J. Dinning E. A. Parmelee Millard M. Robertson
OFFICE Association Building, Northwest Corner Dodgo and FirMaath Strati.
Sooth Omaha Office 4733 South 24th Street J. H. KOPIETZ, Agent.
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c. W. OWEN, Feadsr Bujrar.
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THIS BUNCH
Wishes all their friends and
patrons among the stockmen
of the country
A Happy
and Prosperous
New Year
Look for the welcome sign in
the office of
Byers Bros. & Co.
vl a, tibviu., tiog Salesman
He sold the first lie hogs on tbis market
OMAHA
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ROY B. GREER, Cow Salesman
Complete Organization
for Business
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RAY C. McCULLOUGH, Sharp Salesman.
Satisfactory Service
in All Departments
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