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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1917)
rr THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1917. OMAHA GOLD WOULD MAKE AHUGE PILE United States Now Has Half of the Visible Supply of the the Entire World. NEBRASKA DROPS ARE BEST By A. R. GROH. Sera piles oi $20 gold pieces, each pile ii high as the City National bank building. That's approximately the amount of gold com in Omaha. The seven piles are worth $5,000,000. I have this estimate from J. H. Millard and W. H. Bucholz, president and vice presi dent of the Omaha National bank, as to the amount that I figured out the height of the piles myself ten gold pieces to the inch, 120 to the foot and so on. "The weight of $25,000 in gold is . about 100 pounds," said Senator Mil lard. 1 recollect bringing aown mat sum in gold dust from Virginia City, Mont., right after the Civil war. it was all I could carry. I was on the way thirty days. It began leaking out of my satchel, hut at Salt Lake I got some leather bags and carried it the rest of the way in them." All the Gold in the World. ' All the gold coin and bullion in the world would make a cube only sixty feet in each dimension. You could set this block in the street in front of The Bee building. It wouldn't be half as long as the-building and it wouldn't be high .enough to reach even to the third floor. .j;Yet the credit of all the world- rests on this little block of metal. Every thing you own has its value based on that block. The billions of national debts as w.II as the price of a news paper are measured by it. . Cut the block in halves. We, the 100,000,000 people of the United States, own one half. ' The 1,600,000, 000 other people in the world own the other half. When the big war started we owned only one-third of it. Uncle Sam may toot be "much to look at" in his striped pants and chin whiskers, but he surely is a rich guy. During the Civil war gold became very valuable. It first sold at a pre mium in January, 1862. It reached its highest point in January, 1864, when it sold at 285. In other words people had to pay $285 in currency for $100, in gold coin. It didn't get down to par again until December, 1878. Gold Producers. Africa is the greatest producer of gold, with North America a close second. Last year the Transvaal, Cape Colony and Natal, S. A., pro duced 8,395,000 ounces of gold. The United States produced 4,573,000 ounces. The third country was Rus sia with M83.000 ounces and the fourth Australasia with ' 1,233,000 ounces. In the United States, Colorado pro duced the moat, 933771 ounces. Cali fornia came next with 622,591 ounces and Nevada third with 553,728 ounces.. Texas weighs in at the end of the col umn with a total gold production; for the year of just eleven ounces, enough to make about ten $20 gold pieces. - Nebraska, of course, produced Done at all. But it produced golden grain and other soil products worth just about five times the value of the total gold production of all the United States. What's the use of digging down into the ground for gold when you can grow it on top at such a tre mendous apeear Fire Loss at the Owl Drug Store is Estimated $25,000 The loss to the Owl drug store, Sixteenth and Harnev streets, result ing from the fire Tuesday night, is now estimated by Charles K. Sher man, president of the company, to be well on toward $25,000. This is one of the Sherman-McConnell stores. The fire is believed to have started somewhere in a side room off the prescription department in the base ment It spread rapidly and when the fire department came it was nec essary to go in with axes and do some smashing and tearing out to check the progress of the fire. The damage from fire, water and firemen's axes piled up rapidly. "The place is all shot to pieces." says Mr. Sherman. Otis Williams, a waiter in the lunch room in the basement, sustained se vere burns on the face, hands and arms when he rushed repeatedly into the flames attempting to rescue some furniture and other valuables of the lunch room. "Look at me! See what I got out of it," said the colored man as he chanced to meet Mr. Sherman on the sidewalk while the firemen were still at work inside.- Mr; Sherman did not know the man, so badly was his face blistered and swollen. Woman Says She Expected Husband to Support Her When Ida Bennett was married to Albert Bennett she expected him to support her, was the "startling" fact set forth in a petition for divorce filed with the clerk of the district court. But, she alleges, ever since her wed ding day her husband baa forced her to supporterself by working as cook and jaoitress. So she rebelled and de cided that as long as she had to work anyway, ahe might as well be rid of her spouse. -' . -v-. Reka-Viola Harman McCornuck as serts that William L. McCormick was cruel to her and she wants a divorce. She asks; custody of a 3-year-old daughter,. Billie Burke McCormick. Peter Peterson complains of -violent temper of his wife, Iona Peterson, arid seeks a decree, on those grounds. t Susie Cottrell in her petition filed against James H. Cottrell, alleges cruelty. . ,--. Cruelly is the allegation made by John H. 'fimperley against Ethel Timperlry. i Many Land Seekers Are - Headed for Douglas, Wyo. Assistant Immigration Agent Fee of the Burlington came in from Chi cago, accompanied by a party of thirty land seekers, and was joined by S. B. Howard, head of the company's immigration department here.' who had twenty land seekers ready to start west. With the fifty men the two Burlington land men started for Wyoming, where filings will be made in the vicinity ef Douglas, .all of the parties taking land under the pro visions of the'-Faris law, recently passed, This permits the filing upon 640 acres by each applicant. Can They Untangle 'Em? Dollar-for-Dollar Proviso Spurs On Farmers to Rebel Steps are being taken by the good roads committee of the Nebraska Association- pf Commercial Clubs to pre pare a .legislative bill which will put Nebraska in position to use some of the federal money appropriated for good 'roads in the state. The com mittee of this state body met in Lin coln yesterday. It is understood in Omaha that the committee has the draught of the bill nearly completed. Since the government has decided to make Omaha headquarters for the administration of the $8,500,000 road fund to be expended in four states, including Nebraska, the committee took on renewed vigor. ; Before any of this money becomes available for road work in Nebraska the legislature must appropriate dollar for dollar. When the bill passed in congress it was looked upon as a great boon to these states and little opposition was looked for. However, -opposition has developed, particularly in the , farm ers' organizations, which hope to de feat any effort of the legislature -to appropriate money for hard-surface roads. v Judge Orders Mother to Bring Children to Court ' An echo of a Minneapolis divorce case was heard in Douglas county court Wednesday, -morning when Judge Crawford issued a writ of ha beas corpus, ordering! Mary C Kin ney to-appear before, him with three children,-. J.F. Kinney, jr, 15 years old; Katherine Kinney, 12 years old; and Margaret Kinney, 10 years old. The habeas corpus action was brought by J. F. Kinney of Minne apolis. . The Kinneys were divorced in Hennepin county, Minnesota, last December. The father asserts he was given custody of the three children, Mthn arp - now with the mother in Omaha. He wants the chiliren re turned to him. There is a fourth older daughter, Madeline Kinney, 17 years old. I Self-Protection is Excuse OfManWhoShotKahldr "A bunch of fellows Jumped on me and I didn't shoot until I had to do it to protect myself," said Joe Sesto, who waived preliminary examination if police tourt Wednesday morning When arraigned on the charge of shooting with intent to kill Fred Kahler. FARM DE LUXE FOR GOuTiTYPRISOMS Commissioner Jardine Plans Workhouse with "Gym," Vineyards, flower Beds. MAT VOTE ON BONDS The general plan has been com pleted, and all that is now necessary is the issuance of sufficient bonds to establish a workhouse and work farm in Douglas county. A handsome landscape drawing and architectural sketch, in colors and neatly framed, is at the Commercial dub rooms. It is a drawing made by an architect under the direction of City Commissioner Walter Jardine. The plan contemplates a farm of 1,920 acres, with suitable quarters tor the prisoners, an auditorium, a gymna sium, a church, chicken houses, barns, cattle sheds and hog sheds and pens. It contemplates a reservoir to supply water to the various buildings. It contemplates vineyards, celery beds, potato patches, strawberry beds, flower beds, apiaries and many other features that go with intensive farm ing. Mr. Jardine believes the buildings could all be constructed by the pris oners as they have been in other workhouses that have proved a suc cess, notably at Minneapolis. He ad vocated acquiring cheap land, perfer ably rough land, maybe along the Platte river. He believes with the in tensive methods possible on account of the abundance of labor, a rough farm of this kind could be fertilized and made highly productive, while the clay hills would be just the thing to furnish material for brick making, and sandbars, which he is highly de sirous of acquiring, would furnish the necessary sand for the building pro gram. A bill is being drawn in the munici pal affaira committee of the Commer cial club to be introduced in the legis lature this winter, asking for author ity for Douglas county to issue or vote bonds in a sum sufficient to acquire a work farm and workhouse. Same Rates to the Coast As Prevailed Last Year General Passenger. Agent Basinger of the Union .Pacific is back from Chicago and asserts that it ,will be the middle of February atf least be fore the representatives of the West ern Passenger association meet to line up- the rates for next summer. While he is not making prediction on rates thai will apply, he ventures the opinion that they will be substan tially the same as last season. Highly Valued Sow Comes . Into Queer Court Case One registered Hampshire sow, which Ray Fisher, owner, valued at $500, figures in a suit which Mr. Fisher has filed against the Burling ton railroad. The complainant says that he shipped the sow by the Bur lington road from Omaha to Lincoln and that daring -transit she was, per manently injured, reducing her value from $500 to $35. Mr. Fisher asks for $465 damages, the difference be tween the two values of the sow. Mayor of Sheeley Is Not Even Seen By the State Demos Something is wrong with the demo cratic party. Nicholas Dargaczewski severely indicts the party of Wood row Wilson, Keith Neville, Edgar Howard and E. E. Howell. Mr. Dargaczewski as mayor of Sheeley has been a hewer of wood and drawer of water within the ranks of the democratic party for these many years. In season and out of season he has weathered the political storms in Sheeleytown, which has been his particular habitat. In cam paign times his name has been a name to conjure with among the Polish American voters. He aspired to be an assistant ser-geant-at-arms during the present ses sion of the legislature. This job car ries a remuneration of $3 per day during the session. Mr. Dargaczewski thought he was making a modest claim upon his party for tried and true fidelity and fealty. When the democratic legislative caucus met and considered the patron age, the Omaha man was lost in the gloom of ingratitude. . "There is something wrong with the democratic party when they can't give even one Polish citizen a job as assistant sergeant-at-arms," was the plaint of Mr. Dargaczewski when he called on Mayor Dahlman to tell of the sting of ingratitude. He intimated that a day of reckon ing is coming for the democratic party of Nebraska. Dr. and Mrs. Brown Have Returned to Their Home Dr. Mortimer J. Brown and Mrs. Brown returned New Year's evening to their home in Niagara Falls after spending the holidays with Mrs. Brown's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George G. Wallace. In the spring Dr. Brown and Mrs. Brown will remove to Perth Amboy, N. J., on lower New York Bay, where Dr. Brown is to take charge of a new plant for the manufacture of chemi cals, which is now being erected by the same concern for which he is head chemist at Niagara Falls. Floyd Fuller, Murderer, Will Be Called Thursday Floyd Fuller, who shot and killed Dorothy Rader-Carberry in front of the Leonard apartments, Twenty fifth and Farnam streets, on the night of December 21, 1916, will be ar raigned before Judge Sears of the criminal court Thursday morning. An information charging Fuller with first degree murder has been drawn up in the office of County Attorney Magney. Fuller is held without bond in the county jail Driver of Auto Which Hit Little Girl Gets Heavy Fine Homer McLaughlin, driver for Dr. T. J. Dwyer, whose auto Saturday struck Mary Foltz, 9-year-old daugh ter of Dr. C. P. Foltz, 3504 Webster street, white the little girl was coast ing on California street, was Wednes day fined $50 and costs in police court. The girl, whose leg was broken and head lacerated, is at Lord Lister hospital, where her condition is re ported as favorable. FILM IS PASSED BY THE LOCAL BOARD Omaha Censors View New Pro duction and Put Seal of Ap proval On It. SEVEBAL OBJECTIONS HADE "Passed by the Omaha board of censorship." Words to this effect will supersede the usual seal of the national board when "Shadows and Sunshine," fea turing the child actress, Mary Os borne, is shown on the children's movie programs sponsored by the ed ucational committee of the Omaha Woman's club. A "li.ttle" board of censors, named by Mrs. W. S. Knight, head of the Woman's club committee, has passed on the picture at the Strand theater. But the movie film was not "passed" without demur. Fifteen censors pres ent, all prominent Omahans, regis tered exactly fifteen different opinions. "I don't like that scene where, the father and mother are estranged. That's a bad thing for children to see," remarked one Woman's club member. Several Objections. "Not only that, but it is forced. It isn't natural for a man and wife to live in the same house and not speak to each other for five years," seconded another. "I don't like that scene where the man lifts a glass to his lips. It might suggest drinking intoxicating liquors," objected Mrs. George B. Darr. ' ; "It's a clean picture, but melodrama tic. It's not the sort of picture I like for children," said Mrs. E. M. Syfert, president of the Woman's club. T. F. Sturgess, president of the Welfare board, stepped into the role of "the great compromiser." "Children are only interested in the fanny antics of the child actress. They wouldn't even notice the father and mother's estrangement oc the drink ing scene. It would pass right over their heads. Children don't look for the same thing in pictures that grown ups do," he said. On , the strength of endorsements by Superintendent Graff, Mr. Stur gess and K. F. Schreiber, the women's objections were overruled and Man ager Thomas was authorized to pre sent the film with the local censors' approval. Rotary Club Has a New Stunt at Its Luncheon For its latest stunt the Rotary club at its regular weekly luncheon at the Fontenelle had half of its members entertained as guests of the other half. Arnold S. Borglum was the presiding officer of the day and Dr. J. B. Fickes served as headliner with an interesting talk on the origin and purposes of dentistry, incidentally disclosing sev eral hitherto secret chapters of his own personal career, appropriate to the humor of the occasion. Manager Letton of the hotel supplied compli mentary boutonieres and each mem ber walked off with a New Year's greeting calendar embellished with .the portraits of President E, C. Henry and Secretary Dan Johnson. . ' ' si wmuumuaammm h 1B1811BI1IQ A rich, hot cup of -INSTANT i POSTUM with sugar and cream is a most delicious beverage. Try it! particularly if you are one of those with ' whom coffee disagrees. A dozen years ago POSTUM drinkers were com paratively few. Today, this table drink is served on railway trains, on ocean steamers, at leading hotels and restaurants, and millions use POSTUM instead of coffee at home. POSTUM has become popular because it is popu lar to be healthy. "There's a Reason" I'f I H m