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7 THE BEE: OMAHA, , JANUARY 15, 1917. WILL SWAT ROADS IN THE LEGISLATURE i Common Carriers Appear to Be Without Whole Lot Friends at Lincoln. of "ZOOTOMY" TALKED ABOUT (Pre a Staff Correspondent.) Lincoln, Jan. 14. (Special.) After a short recess over Saturday and Sun day, the legislature will take up its work again this week, the house on Monday and the senate on Tuesday. One day of the week will be set aside when no session will be had to enable the members to attend the meeting's of organized agriculture. There appears to be a sort of anti railroad feeling around the legisla ture and it is evident that the cor porations will fare badly at the hands of the members if some 'of the senti ments expressed are to be carried out when the laws are made. The car shortage is probably responsible for the sentiment, though there are quite number of members, as usual, who can see nothing good in the corpora tions and are here to swat them at every opportunity. . To Prote.l ''Taxpayers." It is going to be another "economi cal" legislature, especially in the house. The "taxpayer" is going to be protected even if efficiency and the real need of the state have to suffer. Of course, there are many members who are disposed to legislate for the needs of the state, even if the appro priations do run up a little higher than any previous session, but there are a lot of the other kind, who can see no good in appropriating any more I money than is needed to pay their sion and the very smallest amount which the departments can really get along with. Recalls Session of 1907. Many members appear to remember the 'session of 1907, which enacted more good laws than any session the state has ever had. To use the words of Senator Beal, a democrat, made in the senate one day last week, "The 1907 session was strongly republican in both branches and was the best aaaiAH tin, aiata ImnJ Umaa i pva-gwii issv unit, iiau, uunvvcii Wter making such a record the people snowea tneir appreciation by elect ing a democratic governor and both branches of the legislature were con trolled by the democrats and the re publicans have been entirely relegated to the rear. With this record before them many present members of the legislature appear to be afraid to leg islate for the best interests of the state for fearx the people will not ap preciate it any better than they did the session of 1907. Japan's Army of Civilians Plans to Enter America (CornopoiidoaM or The Anoclstod Presi.) Tokio, Dec. 10. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Japan's largest steamship company, lias concluded an agreement with the South American Emigration union for the transportation of 20,000 Japanese emigrants to South America within four years from 1917. The company has also decided to open a regular quarterly service between Ja pan and South America with ships of about 6,000 tons each. They will pro ceed by way of South Africa, but the homeward-bound route has not yet been selected. Baron Kondo, president of the com pany, which has just declared a divi dend of 28 per cent, issues a warning that the current shipping boom will be greatly changed after the war, when all the ships now used as mili tary transports return to the carrying trade. In the meantime, he declared, the great increase in the cost of coal and other necessities would cut heav ily into shipping profits. 1 Daring the last six months the com pany, which owns ninety-nine steam ers and has ten others under charter, has transported a cargo approximat ing 2,470,000 tons and more than 187, 000 passengers. ' , Speaking of the American service, the president said the shipments from China showed falling off, but that Japan's export trade with the United States and the shipments of steel and cotton to far eastern countries were remarkably large. . -.: Fsrmsre Wrist Broken. John Farley, a farmer living north west of this city, had his wrist broken while cranking his automobile. DMtur, III., Jab. U-Dmtw school htl 4tu eellMtM to 11 of Marly fltty-thr tona ef paper Id a wMk'i oontMt nnrf auipioaa of th Junior Sanitation leavu which alidad today. Tha paper waa aold (or ana iaa money waa divided amend lh m boo la. Ba-pp Bean at ImmiiL San FranolaoA. Jan. II. -Cammi nmi Prana Bopp of Germany reealvad official noimcauon toaay irom count von Bern lorff. German ambaaaador. of him "tamm. ary removal" followinr conviction with Vice jonau. k. ri. von scaack and othen to rton plrlnv to eat afoot an unneutral military ctnterprtee agalnat Canada. Von Schack waa aiae removea. Culls From the Wire ' Kni-ene Clancy, labor leader, convicted to the Indlanapolle conspiracy caaea, waa 11b rated from Ban Quant In penitentiary upon ordir from tha Department of Justice at Washington to attend the funeral of hti ulster in San Francisco. Clancy returned to we prison tne same niffnt. Chargee that Luc Is n S. RreeklBrtdae ae eppted fees from employers' association untie enraged as an assistant district at torney to prosecute employes for disorders in connection with tha Rest Side strikes wen presented before Chief Magistrate Mc Aiioo In behalf of District Attorney Ed- warn ewann. , , i; Atnenamenis to tne federal reserve act, deeivned to place tha United States on a thoroughly sound basks of financial prepard nose or whatever the future may brinsr dur. fns the continuance of the war and after us lerminauoo, nave peca put into definite form by tha Federal Reaarve hoard and soon win at iniroauceo in oonfreaa. Speaklnf before the Terrapin club of Phila delphia, an the complaint of the Navy de department aaslnst tha hlch bids rtivMt for warshlpa, Buyene O. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel company, aald that his tympany had determines! to make an offer to the government that If It will build- two or tne lour authorised battle cruisers In navy yards, the Bethlehem company will construct tha other two at the ascertained cost of building the shlna la the aavnm. meat yards without additional expense or commissions or any Kind. "We also will e-oii tract to have oar ships ready or eenr. ice nea 01 ins government ships," Colds Heed Attsaflai Tour aold needs Dr Bell's Pine-Tar- Huaey, It cuts tha phlegnm, ki!U germs, stops tha eettgb. Only fso.Advertlaement STATE OF ILLINOIS REGULATES RATES Landia Rules Two-Cent Fare Stands Despite Interstate , Body's Order. RAILROADS WILL APPEAL Chicago, Jan. 14. Authority of the state of Illinois to fix railroad rates within its borders was upheld in the United States district court today, when Judge Landis dismissed for want of equity, the petition of twenty-eight railroad companies asking an injunction against the enforcement of the 2-cent-a-mile passenger rate. The railroads announced they would appeal the case to the United States supreme court. The ruling of the higher court may affect ten other states where 2-cent passenger rates now are in effect. A committee of railroad attorneys and passenger traffic managers left for Washington today to apply to the Interstate Commerce commission for suspension of the order requiring the orders to put into effect on January 15 the new tariff of 2.4 cents per mile, pending the outcome of the appeal of the railroads. In order to obtain a suspension of the order before Monday the commit tee planned to ask the commission to sit Sunday and hear the petition. As a result of Judge Landis' decis ion the railroads are left in a peculiar position. The Interstate Commerce commission has ordered a 2.4-cent rate, while the state legislature de cided that a 2-cent rate shall be charged. The 2-cent rate is now in effect in Illinois. TALE TOLD OVER , AT COURT HOUSE HAS REAL MORAL (Outlawed from Paw. One.) running just as it should. Somehow or another, things were all mixed up. After a little study of the situation it was found that keeping accounts in tne treasurer s omce is not such a simple process, after all. this wasnt so nice. . Goes to Solomon tor Help. Treasurer Endrds. so 'tis said, took the matter up with ex-Treasurer Ure. but the latter was too busy to listen to the troubles of anybody. Beisel was sought out. but he. too. had other occupation. Finally, the county treas urer turned to the man he had de feated at the polls, Emmet Solomon. Solomon took the matter under ad visement and finally agreed for a con sideration to teach the Endres force how to keeD the nuhtie irrnnnla It was planned to put him on the public payroll, as a special auditor or con troller, or something of that sort. Solomon spurned this, but insisted that he be paid by the ones who would receive the benefit of hii in. struction. His terms were agreed to, and he went to work, i . ' . Solomon to the Rescue. So now the Deoole have the snee. tacle of seeing the man who waa re jected at the polls employed by the man who was chosen to give instruc tions in how to conduct the business of the office. That's all. Solomon is just instructor. He is drilling the deserving democrats in the routine of the office, so that the public will not suiter Because a mistake was made at the polls. He is getting paid for it by the men who are taking the lessons, and when he gets through the county of Douglas, the city of Omaha, the Independent School dis trict of Omaha, and the Metropoli tan Water district accounts will be straight in the office of the treasurer. Farmers' Elevator Meeting. TVtrahitr W.K - T.H iA C ciaK) The Farmers' Elevator com pany neia us regular annual meeting htri rrtHav TKs nf nmfttm fn. year were $6,757.50. The elevator han dled over 250,000 bushels of grain dur ing me last year, aoing a $S,U0O business. George Stokes and B. Reicks were elected to the board of directors tn tak tha. Af r T Carey and George Stokes, who re- urcQ. Boy Accidentally Shot. Tecumseh, Neb.. Jan. 14. (Special.) .Paul Krhrakarlr ,An nf Vf. .-J Mrs. Chris Schraback, living in the western nart nt thia dentally shot himself with a .22aliber nne. Death Penalty Steads. DuaraloM fVI. U.iu ... t . " moitw v-tiyf, Jain. J. The attempt to aboiuh the death penalty ... o-.v..vv tmiai wnm ine cone 111 U- tlonal convention approved an article pro- ... tor ireesoat patricide, premeditated murder, arsoa, piracy. "" uii 7 aim veriain military of-tenses. What Tuberculosis in Animals Costs the People of This Country Three years ago, when hog cholera was raging and swallowing a large n.rr nf It, nrnfit h tl.. i. : I ' - ,,, u, c .WII1C UUSI- ness, the Twentieth Century Farmer anr V 7 U. - . ate editors, a man who has been iden tified with the business of breeding swine for many years, out into the field to make a thorough investiga tion. Ha vi.ita.al amaMta --It!.. - ......ij awn, Liiiug on hog breeders, veterinarians, riucrs, nu city, state, county and government officials, and after months of study he wrote a series of articles later published in pamphlet form and were undoubtedly of great value in helping to get the upper hand of this once dreaded scourge, which has now become infrequent and far less deadly, just as vaccination has lessened the death toll of smallpox in the human race. The ravages of hog cholera at Its worst were slight in comparison with the loss caused today by tuberculosis in annuls. Tuberculosis insidiously works in concealment and has gained a strong loot-hold without attracting a great attention. Two years ago the Twentieth Century Farmer through Mr. Russell started to make investi gationa of tuberculosis in the same way as previously with hog cholera. Mr. Russell has visited twenty-three states, talking to hog and cattle grow j LAWYER BEING POT I TO THE ACID TEST i So Edmund 0, McOilton Tells Omaha Bar Association at I Annual Meeting. RAYMOND YOUNG AT HEAD The lawyer in his dealings with the business world is being put to the acid test, Edmund G. McGilton, an Omaha attorney and president of the Com mercial Law League of America, a na tional organization with a membership of 4,000, told members of the Omaha Bar Association at the annual meeting in the Commercial Club rooms last evening. Mr. McGilton read a oaoer on "The Commercial Law League of America ana us neiation to tne Lawyer, in which he dwelt upon the high stand ard of ethics required in the dealings of the modern attorney with the busi ness world and the ultimate success of the member of the profession who lives up to these iron-clad rules of in tegrity and painstaking endeavor to render the last word in legal service. Lawyers who cannot meet the standards ipt Hnun hv th ktat type of commercial life should with draw from all dealings with business men, Mr. McGilton declared. He men tioned me Dig tees cheerfully paid by business men uhn Umiur. .n u.. dealings with them provided real legal service. Must Take Small Fees. "But." nvrrreA Mr Htr.;it. I. closing, "no lawyer can afford to turn down an item of business because it' is small. He should work just as hard for the poor man or woman who can afford in nav hut .mall f-- 'or the big corporation with its large The bar association extended a vote of thanks to Mr. McGilton for his ant Deiore the organization. Ravmnnd V nit n O urna slsftrl n rm a I . dent of the association for the ensu ing year, formerly vice president, Mr. Yftuno hmm, nriAmnt . L. death of the late W. A. De Bord. J. i. iysari was re-elected secretary, rrancis r. maitnews, treasurer, Frank Weaver W W mk,.nh T J. Boucher, C. S. Elgutter and Sidney Smith were elected members of the executive .committee. The annual treasurer's report was read bv Anan R..vmnnH Mr A9ur submitted the report on inquiry. j iie report on memDersnip, made by Stanley Rosewater, showed forty- thre new mfmlwri Inr th la the bar association now has 288 mem bers. PAY HOMAGE TO THE MEMORY OF "BUFFALO BILL" (Coatlaood from Fas Ono.) and Grand Army of the Republic on his breast. The casket bore this in scription:' ' i ' "Colonel William F. Cody. 'Buffalo Bill."' An American flair waa draneri around the casket. The funeral Dro- cession through downtown streets was led by city policemen. Behind was the caisson on which rested, the casket. Noted Persons Present Among the distinguished citizens nf this and other states in motor cars were Julius C. Gunter, governor of Colorado: fohn B. Kendrick. onv- ernor of Wyoming; Edgar Howard, lieutenant governor ot Nebraska, the secretariea of state of Colorado mil Wyoming, legislative delegations from neoraska, Colorado and Wyoming and Elks from Kansas and New Mexico. Bringing up the rear of the cortege seventy cowboys walked. All had known Colonel Cody. Two. of the cowboys led Colonel Cody's wiimsj, i raci ivis auu Willi the plainsman's pistols hung from the saddle hprn. Several thousand nersnna fnllnwH the remains to the Elks' home, where the tuneral services were held. Sev eral hundred, unable to eain admis sion, stood two hours outside to view the Body at the close of the services. Minister Goes to Oklahoma. Tecumseh. Neb.. Tan. 14. fSnecian Rev. John H. Wolfe, who now lives on a farm near Pawnee City, but who tormeriy lived in leoumseh, serving as deputy county treasurer at one time, has just returned home from fattonsburg. Mo., where he attended a conference of the Free Will Baptist cnurcn. Kev. Mr. wolte was- chosen moderator of the association, chair man of the executive board and dean of the biblical correspondence school. The organization will purchase a fine college building at Tecumseh, Okl., and Rev. Mr. Wolfe's new duties will necessitate the removal of himself and wife from Pawnee City to the Okla homa town. ers, dairymen, veterinarians and of ficials, and gone into the packing houses where meat animals are slaughtered. For two years he has spent a large nrrtnnrltnn nf V, i . . L . . i r.r. ..v v.. IIIB i,uic in Hug siuay, and has collected much information rcgaruing it tins information he is embodying in a series of articles of fering suggestions also for the con tro of this scourge. Every stockman will be interested, as every stockman, whether he has the disease in his herd or not, is losing money on account of it. Moreover, the consumer of meat and dairy products, which means every man, woman and child in the United States, is also interested, as their pocketbooks are touched and their health affected. All ought to know that to the live stock interests of this country, this disease is more dangerous and costly than foot and mouth disease or hog cholera. No dis cussion of this subject will give more information, and more reliable infor mation, than the articles portraying Mr. Russell's investigation, especially since they are not written for the benefit of scientists, but for the producer and consumer of meat and dairy products and telkjn simple, un technical language readily understood just what everybody ought to know about this dread disease. Would Bar Roads From Settlement Outside of Court Lincoln, Jan. 14. (Special.) The right of an individual to settle any claims for damages with any railway company, including street railway HIGH GRADE Hardwood Flooring Omaha Hardwood Lumber Company Douglas 1587 Yards, 13th and Calif ornii BOILERS SMOKESTACKS Drake, Williams, Mount Company, 23d sac Hickory and U. P. R. R. Phone Pougla 1043 Oxy-Acetyleno Welding STANDP1PES TANKS SAVE 25 PER CENT Of Fuel Cost ' Let V SoWe Your Heating Trouble Economy Vapor Heating Company, Douglas 5060. Ask Your Dealer (or "Good-Wins" POLISH for Furniture, Automobiles and Hardwood Floors. M.C. GOODWIN CO., Manufacturers, 41S So. 12th St OMAHA. National Printing Company Printers Publishers Binders Printer, of Everything U All Languages. NATIONAL BUILDING, 12th and Harney Sta Omaha. PEOPLE'S ICE & COLD STORAGE COMPANY Manufacturer of Distilled Water Ice 250 Tons Daily Capacity Telephone Douglas 50 Movtuf, Pxkinr. Stortnj, Sbtpplnf f -till nana Uoufiai 3M. INSURES SATISFACTION Fireproof Storehouse Enttr. Block, tot I) t. IHh. D.yaiporl Vaults, Cesspools and Grease Traps Cleaned At Ordinance Rates or by contract Tel. Douglas 1387 The Gty Garbage Co. Manure and Ashes Romored Office, 12th and Paul Sta OMAHA, NEB. LETTERS TYPEWRITTEN BY MULTICRAPH OR TYPEWRITER In quantities or single copies SERVICE AND PRICES That Will Please You. American Letter and - Advertising Co., 614 Bee Bldf. OMAHA. -J. MUI ' in IT lrnsrTr companies, in personal injury cases will be attacked in the present legis lature by a bill which is being pre pared for introduction and which will make its appearance before the twenty-day limit has expired. It is said that certain attorneys who have been able in the past to make a little stake in personal in jury cases, but who have been pre vented from making more because persons injured have been able to set New Year for Business Omaha Is Starting Out Like a Real Winner Barely Two Weeks Old, 1917 Proves Itself Worthy Suc cessor to the Year Just Closed. BANK CLEARINGS JUMP UP Though the new year is barely two weeks old, it is already making good its claims to be successor to the pros perous year of 1916 in Omaha. Bank clearings since the first of the year show this. Bank clearings last week, show it with double emphasis, for they were larger last .week than ever before since original Omaha was platted. Although The Bee reviewed the re markable business year of Omaha at the first of the year, and although it was then shown that Omaha was doing a tremendous volume of bank ing business, this business did not end with the close of the year. It is sail ing right along, and every indication is now that many still greater rec ords are to be established in 1917. The clearings last week were more than $4,000,000 greater than the clear ings for any previous week in Omaha, and $15,000,000 higher than for the corresponding week a year ago. The clearings last week were $36, 681.907.13. When the year 1916 got well under way, or rather when half the year had slid into history, it began to be predicted that Omaha might reach the $1,000,000,000 mark in bank clearings during that year. In October, when the then highest record for a single week was established with $32,618,- A WORLD POWER Wherever commerce goes march ing on you will find the Electric Motor turning the wheel of in dustry, constantly, quietly and ef ficiently. . Electric Power is Dependable and Economical. Omaha Electric Light & Power Co. NO DRUDGERY Ironing day no longer bug-bear with the LITTLE GIANT IRONING TABLE Gives the housewife comfort, ease and health. Buy it at the department, furni ture or hardware stores. little Giant Mfg. Co. IWhy Not Install a i GAS WATER i HEATER) OMAHA GAS CO. 1509 Howard St CITY OAS IN THE COUNTRY it thi emm u.. w., eondensed and bottled for country use. You open m valvt, fill tht tank and Mm u city u, Thi time as hot, coata no mora. ' NEBRASKA BLAUGAS COMPANY 20th and Boyd Straata, Omaha TAFT'S DENTAL ROOMS NEW LOCATION 318 Rose Building 16th and Farnam Sts. Douglas 2186. m mm - r,:t &ejeoGH llfl tle with the railroads out of coutt, are behind the bill and will seek to have ft pushed through. The bill really forces every per son who may have sustained injuries to go into court to settle such claims as be may have. It prohibits tie railroads from making any effort to settle the case or in any way mak ing any attempt to settle the case. They cannot "approach, or interne?" and injured person within thirty days 817.64; and when a new record for a single day's clearings was established. The Bee freely predicted that the clearings would far surpass the $1, 000,000.000 mark for the year, and pointed out that even at that moment in October, the clearings for the year ending that very month of October would reach $1,000,000,000. which would put Omaha into the billion-dollar-bank-clearing class before the close of the year. The prediction was justified by the subsequent transactions; Omaha did go into the billion-dollar class in Oc tober, and when the first of the year 1917 arrived the clearings had actually reached $1,279,158,591. It is too early to predict what the present year will bring forth, sit is enough to note that it is starting out with a promise to surpass records again. In the matter of bank deposits the record established in 1916 will be equally difficult to surpass, though it is not impossible that the record may be outdone if the general prosperity of the Omaha territory continues. Deposits at present are $95,745,568, which is $30,000,000 greater than they were a year ago. These figures are taken from the statements of Decem ber 27, 1916, and December 31, 1915, respectively. Although the deposits have been piling up rapidly, so rapidly that there was some cry of flooding the banks with money, these institutions have had good success in finding a market for these large sums of money, and the result is that at this time they have loans aggregating $66,153,728 as against$48.196,S54 ajgwago. Telephone Douglas 6967 Western Heating and Plumbing Co., HEATING and PLUMBING SANITARY ENGINEERS - - hi i i . 1810 St. Mary'a Ave., OMAHA, NEB. WOOL SOAP For Toilet and Bath Ask Your Grocer SWIFT & COMPANY EMIS AGS Mean EST AGS. Bemis Omaha Bag Co. Best 22k Cold Crowns $4.00 Bridge Work, per tooth $4.00 But Plate, $S.OO, $8.00, $10.00 McKENNEY Dentists 1324 Farnam. Phone Doug. 2872. WASTE PAPER IS MONEY Save It Don't Burn It We Buy It Omaha Paper Stock Co., Office and Warehouse 18th and Marcy Sea. Phone Doug. 159. Omaha, Neb. 0) r 1 after the accident or procure any statement from him regarding the ac cident They cannot procure any re lease of claim or settlement i$ any way and are forced to furnish the names of witnesses to the injured. The settlement of a claim out of court is declared in the bill to be evidence of fraud and further evidence thaMhe accident occurred through the negli gence of the railroad and prohibits the roads from using any of its witnesses. WHITE PINE SASH DOORS FRAMES and WINDOW SCREENS Manufactured in Oma ha by JENSEN & JEN SEN, 43d and Charles Sts. Walnut 1058. WHITE PINE FIRE DOORS SHUTTERS FIRE ESCAPES Omaha Central Iron Works, Doug. 490. 10th and Dodge Sts. V , ECLIPSE i A ELECTRIC CLEANERS U Sweep and Clean at the J Strong vacuum, positive M gear-driven brush. Practical, efficient and durable. Guaranteed. Ask your Dealer, or U. S. 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