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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1917, 5 'JUDGE H. K. DEEMER OF IOWA IS DEAD Oldest Supreme Court Justice in Point of Service Dies at Red Oak. ILL FOR SEVERAL WEEKS I Kcd Oak, la., l--b. Jo. Judge Hor ace E. Deemer, 58 years old, oldest member in point ot service of the Iowa supreme court, died at his home at 2:20 this morning alter an illness of three weeks. Several times during the last two weeks all hopes for the judge's re coery had been given up. but each time he rallied enough to take nour ishment, recognized members of his family and physicians entertained hopes for his return to former health but yesterday his condition took .. sudden turn for the worse and he c. pired at 2:20 o'clock this morning. The funeral will be held ;it . home at 2 o'clock Wednesday an. noon. Judge Deemer had been a tueniUi ot the Iowa supreme court since serving as chief, iustice during the years of 1898, 1904. 1910 and 1915. He was re-elected for a six-year term last November. v Three Times Chief Justice. Horace E. Deemer was probably the best known jurist in the state, having in addition to being a member and three times chief justice of the Iowa supreme court, been largely interested in socialvcivic and charitable institu tions. He was born in Marshall county, Indiana. September 24. 1858. When 8 years of age he came to Cedar county. Iowa, and attended the public schools of West Liberty aiwl later entered the collegiate department of the state uni versity at Iowa City. Upon gradua tion he returned to the university and look up the study of law, graduating in 1879, and receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1880. He was for some time a member of a law firm in Lincoln. Neb., but abandoned practice there and moved lo Red Oak. Ia., where he remained until his death. He was elected district judge in 1886 and re-elected in 1890. When, in 1894. the legislature increased the number of judges of the supreme court to six Justice Deemer was ap pointed tov the supreme bench by Frank D. Jackson, (he then governor of Iowa. In 1898 he was by order of rotation chief justice and again in 1904 and and in 1910. Was Active as Citizen. Although Justice Deemer was well known among lawyers and judges throughout this part of the country for the brevity and clarity of his opinions as a justice of the supreme court, he was popularly known as a. participant in social, scientific and civic activities' covering a wide Irange and of considerable scope. He was largely responsible for the creation of the state historical department and throughout the existence of that de partment, as a member of the board of trustees, played an important pWrt, hotlfas an executive officer and by reason of private, individual co-operation, particularly in the held of his torical research. He was virtually alone in the selection of the volumes which make up the present state law library, admittedly a moat complete compilation of legal opinions in the United States with the exception of the congressional law library at Washington. Aside from these activities he took active part in the affairs of the Iowa Society for the Prevention of Tuher clulosis. American Forestry associa tion, State Association of Charities and Corrections, State and American Bar associations, American FVee Art league. American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Political and Social Science associa tion, National Association for the Promotion of Industrial Education and the Art Institute of Des Moines. As a rnember of the American For estry association he was closely asso ciated with Gifford Pinchot. former chief forester of the I'nited States, and former President Theodore Roosevelt in assisting to outline the conservation policy of the second Roosevelt administration, which at tracted nation-wide attention through the prominence given by the press of 1 lie country to the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy. Star College Pitcher. Among his claflsmates at the state university Justice Deemer enjoys the distinction of having been the first pitcher in college base ball to use the curve ball. At frhe time Judge Deemer was star pitcher and captain of the college base ball team, and it was just at the time the base ball rules were changed to allow pitchers to use the thrown ball instead of "pitching" the hall, not allowing the hand to rise higher than the pitcher's waist line.. Deemer developed his curve after reading accounts of curve balls thrown by the big league pitch ers of that time. On' July 12. 1882. Justice Deemer married Jeanette Gibson of Red Oak. Deceased was the author of numer ous books on legal subjects, including a number of law monographs and svllabi for law lectures. Mrs. W. C. Billiard Dies Monday at Kansas City 1 Mrs. Harry Shedd and Mrs. D. K. Ellingwood' and Billy Bullard ar rived in Omaha Monday evening with the body of their mother Mrs. YV. C. Bullard, whose death occurred Mon day in Kansas City. Mr. Bullard and his daughters have been with his wife in Excelsior Springs for five weeks, until last week she was re moved to Kansas City. Her condi tion seennM so much improved that Mr. Rullard returned to Omaha at that time. No funeral arrangements have yet been made. Cops Nab Nels Nelson, Who Would Aid Pearl Waters Nels Nelson. David City, and Pearl Waters, Des Moines, were fined $2.50 and costs on vagrancy charges. Nel son was arrested in front of the po lice station Sunday afternoon when he sent wi 'a friend to post a bond for Pearl Waters. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS N'oirl Tym of thfl Unrein StHU- .Toirnnl, fpent the week-end with hi (larfiitn., .Mr nd Mr. R. C. Tym, and returned to Liu ola last night. NOTED IOWA JURIST DIES AT RED OAK HOME. ( V I HORACE E. DIMMER. Battle in Court; , ' Miss Smith Hits Pipkin On the Jaw A free-for-all fight nearly started in the police court when Jennie Smith, 710 South Sixteenth street, swung her pocketbouk on the jaw of Detective Pipkin. Court attaches quelled the battle before it had made much head way. ' Miss Smith was arrested Sunday morning with live other persons at 710 South Sixteenth street, charged with being one of a gang of shop lifters. She was just about to get her freedom when she thought she heard someone call her a name. The near est person to her was Detective Pip kin and she swung at him. She was given the maximum fine of $100 and costs. She went to jail. W. H. Wells pleaded guilty to 1he theft of all the goods, about J.illO worth, taken in the raid. He was sentenced 'to thirty days. Marie Sut ton, Millie BranifT, K. H. Van Ho sen and A. BranifT, also, taken in the raid, were freed Husband Tries to Cremate His Wife And Two Children Worry over the crisis ith Ger many is believed to have so unbal anced the r ind of Frank Koback, Eleventh and Seward streets, that he tried to set his home on fire early Sunday morning and cremate his wife and two grown children. Koback was arrested and will be taken before the insanity commission. Neighbors say that Koback has worried considerably over the war question recently. He comes from Austria and is said to have a brother and a number of relatives on the Aus trian side. For the last year, it is said, he has been incapacitated for work, because of constant worry. Neighbors prevented him from car rying out his plan. Plans Approved For Elevation of Belt Line Tracks City Engineer Brucereceived from Chief Engineer Hadley of the Mis souri Pacific Railway company ap proval . of plans for the Belt Line track elevation at Famani, Douglas and Dodge streets. "This is the last formality between the company and the city on this long-delayed matter," stated the city engineer. "I confidentially expect that as soon as the frost is out of the ground the company will begin work on this improvement. The money has been appropriated and plans ap proved. There will be no further de lay," he added. Mayor Objects to Board Meeting at Omaha Club Mayor Dahlmat is in doubt as to the propriety pf the City Planning commission meting at the Omaha club, which was done last Saturday ;.tcrnoon. The commission decided to engage George B. Fjrd of New York as ex pert for this year, to assist in district i,.0' work, the compensati. .1 to be $3,000. Last year the commission di vided $4,500 between three experts. Districting of the city -'ill be the big work of the commission this yeai One class of districts will be for resi Lnnces only, another class lor resi dences or business places and the third class for residences, business or industries. Give your Want Ad a chance to make good. Run it in The Bee. Druggist Says - Black-Draught Best M. R. Flowers, druggist, of South Creek, N. C, writes this letter: "I havt been afflicted for many years and have tried many sorts or kinds of medi cine for indigestion, but the Black-Draught excels all medicines I evet tried. I went to using your medicines when I ate anything It would soon Feel as though I were loaded down with rocks In my stomach . . . A'ftei using your preparation my stomach feels like a new one." If you suffer from Indigestion, from a stomach that seems "loaded down with rocks" aftei meals, this druggist's experience must carry conviction of the merit of thli purely vegetable preparation, Thed'ord's Black-Draught. Mr. Flowers used many remedies and then says: "Black-Draught excels any I have evei tried," Why don't jou try it? At all druggists 8S cents a package. fcvl Don't Pay Freight on 00 seeds to all points Id Iowa and nearby points In other states. Our catalog shows fust what the seed will cost delivered to you. No extra charges for bag or freight or postage. Said an Aapreval. Everything la sold subject to roar own teat and approval. VYour money's worth or your money bark." Prices right and quality guaranteed. Write for special price! and samples on any thins you are interested In. Catalog and Seed Sanaa Fraa.- Write for free Seed Catalog and little papfr ?'(! -Ttnr Bnv Iowa grown saeda and quit worrying. HENRY MU SEED CO., .Bos 22. Shenandoah, Iowa. HAM AN READY TO OPEN THISTUESDAY Real Estate Men May Form a Syndicate to Build On the Continental Corner. BERG SEEKS A LOCATION While real estate men are negotiat ing for a syndicate of buyers lo ac quire the continental property and build a big store and hotel building there, insurance men arc busy adjust ing the losses from Friday's lire, the firms burned out are going through their records, which were recovered, damp, but otherwise intact from the vaults' buried in llic wreckage, and wreckers arc leveling the walls and clearing the site. Retail business oi the Mailman Furniture company, one of tlic heavi est losers, wiil be resumed ibis morning with a large slock oi new goods at their warehouse. Thirteenth and Jones streets, until another lo cation is secured. Manager Harry Fcllheimer savs they have the largest stock of new goods in the firm's his tory, which escaped the blaxe because it was in the warehouse instead ol the showrooms. The entire , sales, office and warehouse forces are be ing retained for the resumption of business. Will Sell Corner. Admission is made by Warren Breyfoid and F 1'. Marquis of Kan sas City, representing owners of the Continental properly, that the prop erty will be solcTto an Omaha syndi cate, if a satisfactory price can be arranged, rather than rebuilt by the present owners. It is understood that the price desired is at least $.100.0011. No temporary salesroom for the Berg Clothing company has been announced, but offices have been opened in the Karbach block. O. K. Berg says that iiis company will re sume business within three days after securing a temporary location. A $50,000 stock of spring and summer clothing and furnishings for men. women and boys is at the depots, and the employes of the company will be, taken back as soon as the location is secured, he says. Record.; Recovered. Records of the Berg company were recovered from the vault with no dam age except dampness, but the firm's safe has not yet been recovered and opened. Mr. Berg declared that the records so far recovered verify his early guess that the Berg loss would total $275,000 to $300,000, with $225. 000 insurance. Hotel Keeper in Jail; Couldn't Pay His Fine Frank Magna, proprietor of the Berlifi hotel, who was arrested Sun day evening charged with running a disorderly houe, was tined $100 and costs, the limit in the police court. Magna has been arrested many times before on a like charge. He failed to pay the fine and was locked up. Hopes Women Will Adopt This Habit As Well As Men Glass f hot water each morn ing helps us look and feel clean, sweet, fresh. Happy, bright, alert vigorous and vivacious a good clear skin; a nat ural, rosy complexion and freedom from illness arc . assured only by clean, healthy blood. If only every woman and likewise every man could realize the wonders of the morning inside bath, what a gratifying change would take place. Instead of the thousands of sickly, anaemic-looking men, women and girls with pasty or muddy complet ions; instead of the multitudes f "nerve wrecks," "rundowns." "brain fags" and pessimists we should see a virile, optimistic throng of rosy cheekbd .people, everywhere. An inside bath is had by drinking, each morning before breakfast, a glass of real hot water with a tea spoonful of limestone phosphate in il to wash from the stomach, liver, kid neys and ten yards of bowels the pre vious days indigestible waste, sour fermentations and poisons, thus cleansing, sweetening and freshening the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. Those subject to sick headache, bil iousness, nasty breath, rheumatism, colds; and particularly those who have a pallid, sallow complexion, and who are constipated very often, are urged to obtain a quarter pound of limestone phosphate at the drug store which will cut but a trifle but is sufficient to demonstrate Hie qumk and remarkable change iit both health and appearance awaiting those who practice internal sanitation. We must remember that inside cleanliness is more important than outside, be cause the skin docs not absorb impur ities to contaminate the blood, while the pores in the thirty feet of bowels do. Advertisement. Seedt-urc'h' trans- charites Commissioners Hold Up Sheriff's Claim for Feeding the Prisoners Clark Forced to Borrow Money With Which to Pay the Grocery Bills for the Jail Inmates. PRISONER WRITES LETTER Trff old jail-feeding row has broken out afresh. Sheriff Clark's claim for the feeding lot prisoners in county jail for twen ty-seven days in January, amounting lo $1,427.20, is being held up by the county commissioners. The claim was presented before the board Feb ruary 2. In the meanwhile the sheriff has been forced to borrow $1,000, and use practically all of his salary and other moneys coming into his othec lo pay bills for foodstuffs and meats j for the jail. The sheriff's claim was for I.1..1SO. meals a. the 32 cents ; day allowed by law . i Memb'Ts of the loiiuly board de clare they will not allow the claim in its present form, adding that ihey want the sherill to bring in his bills and he paid for wh:U il ; dually cost to teed the prisoners. AMERICAN CHICLE COMPANY at,.u,s,p.!.o Sherill Clark, when asked how the bills were paid, following the boaid's holding up of the $1,427.20 claim, reached in his pocket and pulled out j a couple of dollars. ' "That's all I've got now. Nearly all of my last month's salary, be sides $1,000 I borrowed and which I will have to pay interest on, were used to pay the bills incurred lor supplies for the jail." The sheriff said he would slick to his pre-election statement thai he would oppose no legislation regard ing the feeding of prisoners, but would base hiclaims on the 32 cents a day for caclr prisoner allowed bv law. He added that 'foodstuffs have advanced in pnee from 50 to 100 per cent, adding that if the claims of for mer sheriffs were compared with Ihose of his, he would welcome a comparison as to the quality and quantity of the food used in the jail. A hue angle to the jail-feeding row was the filing with the commissioners of a petition signed by more than 100 prisoners and former prisoners in the county jail in which the board is asked'lo investigate' conditions in the basiile. This petition, the signatures on which are headed by one Harry CHICLE ilv KITTY GORDON says: Adams Black Jack: is a favorite with me. The licorice. flavor is simply immense. Royce, says thai the prisoners are suffering the pangs of agony of gnaw ing appetites and empty stomachs." It continues that "an investigation at meal time 12 o'clock or 5 o'clock will conclusively prove our conten tion of insufficient food, both as to quality and quantity." Sheriff Clark laughed when he was told of this petition, declaring that he would welcome an investigation on the part of ,-fnyoue as to the quality ami quantity of food served to the prisoners. "Absurd," remarked the sheriff. He asserted that the Royce whose name appears at the head of the peti tion wound up his career as an in male of the jail by going down to the boiler room when he was released and stealing the clothes of the engi neer and firemen. Dr. Karl Connell Talks On Preparedness Problems Dr. Karl Connell of New York, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Council of this city; Dr. Crile of Cleveland and Dr. Carrell of France Saturday addressed for two hours the members of the cabinet, senate, house committee and advisorvboard of the council for na tional defense on medical problems of preparedness. This is a signal honor for so young a man, but it is only one of the noteworthy things which this young Omaha man is doing. Friday evening Dr. Connell was the dinner guest oi Major General V. C. Gor ges . Auto Show Visitors Tax ' Capacity of All Hotels' "Doubling up" was a popular pas time at Omaha hotels Monday morn ing. The great inffux of guests for the big auto show taxed all hotels to the utmost. Several men were frequently assigned to one room, and cots were resorted to. in efforts to accommodate all who registered. Reservations for rooms during auto show week ex ceeded the normal accommodations more than a week ago. and since then many more requests for reservations have been received by the hotels. TODAY'S BEAUTY TALK I You can enjoy a delightful shampoo j with very little effort and for a very I trifling cost, if you get from your ' druggist a package of canthrox and 1 dissolve a teaspoonful in a cup of hot 1 water. This makes a full cup of shampoo liquid, enough so it is easy to apply it to all the hair instead of just the top of the head. Your sham poo is now ready, Just pour a little at a lime on the scalp and hair until both are entirely covered by the dain tily perfumed preparation that thor oughly dissolves and removes every bit of dandruff, excess oil and dirt. After rinsing, the hair dries quickly, with a flufhncss that makes it seem heavier than it is, and lakes on a rich luster and a softness that makes ar ranging it a pleasure. Ad.