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HAPPENINGS IN
THEJMAGIC CITY
Unusual Activity in the Build
ing Line Expected to Start
in the Near Future.
BRITISH SOLDIERS
NOWJN BAGDAD
London Paper Report Great
Advance Made in Meio-
potamia.
Biggest Timbers Ever Used in Building in Omaha
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MUCH WORK IN SIGHT
ARAB TRIBES HARRY TURKS
THE OMAHA SUNDAY REE: MARCH 11. 1917.
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Real estate and building operation!
are "looking up" after the usual win
ter slackness. Real estate men say
that considerable activity is develop
ing, which promises much in connec
tion with announcement of plans for
a new hotel of fifty rooms, the begin
ning of work on ten new homes and
rumors of considerable magnitude
along building lines.
A deal has been closed for the erec
tion of a modern fifty-room hotel on
vacant property at 4921 South Twen
ty-fourth street, just a few steps from
the center of business at Twenty-
fourth and N streets. It will be three
stories high, cost at least $30,000 and
be modern in every respect, according
to Henry Ehrman, president, and Lee
Bailey, secretary, of the South Omaha
Investment company, which is han
dling the deal. A cafe will be oper
ated in connection with the new hotel.
Rumor has it that a syndicate is
now forming to buy the northwest
corner of Twenty-fourth and O
streets, near the new hotel, and erect
a fine business block there. Rumors
are also gaining increased publication
that the much-talked-of new Live
Stock exchange building, to cost per
haps $1,000,000, may soon become
something more than talk.
A new double front of brick con
struction near Twenty-fourth and O
streets will be occupied March 15 by
the United Provision Mores.
Other New Buildings.
Cnntractj have been let to Collins
brothers for the erection of ten five-
room residences near Forty-hrst and
I streets bv the South Omaha In
vestment company Foundations have
been completed for two of these and
the others will b,e built as soon as
ihe first two are completed.
John Riha. plumber, is now building
a $13,000 brick veneer house at Twen
ty-fifth and A streets, .which will be
his home. .'
L. C. Gibson, a South Side' resident
for thirty years, and a real estate
man, says he expects a lively summer
in real estate and building circles. He
says modern five and six-room resi
dence property in gooa locations is
'scarce and much sought after. As
they would be good investments for
either rental or sale, ne says ne De
lieves many will be built soon.
B. E. Wilcox and Henry Ehrman,
real estate men, assert that during the
last week thev have had more in
miiries to buy than to sell property.
Offers have also been made to trade
farms for residence property, they
say. ..
Will Raise Potatoes. '
With potatoes now selling at 70
sent or more a peck, C. A. Kirk,
3"wenty-fourth and P streets, has de-tided-
to raise spuds next summer,
guring his spare time. With that idea
in mind, he has purchased two lots
in Homestead addition, near Forty
ninth and R streets, from the Home
stead company, through B. E. Wilcox.
Kirk plans to move to that neigh
borhood soon, having already ar
ranged to rent a house next to the
lots he bought.' No more H. C. of L.
for him. he savs. Next summer his
outdoor exercise outside of working
hours is going to bring him a profit
as wen as neaitn.
Saloon Keepers Are Caught.
After viewing a blood-thirsty melo
drama movie Ihursday evening, Joe
O'Connor and six new-found friends
were thirsty for the something more
than water or ice cream soda.
O'Connor tipped the others off to
the fact that he was chief suds slinger
at tne saioon at 3Ui in street, oper
ated bv Mike Sweenev and lim Oir.
coran. Soon the thirsty seven were no
longer thirsty and expressed happi
ness that the South Side was not a
total desert, even though it was 10
p. m.
Just then Officer Potach, on that
beat, spied the men in the saloon and
called tor help from the police sta
tion. But before he and Caotain
Briggs and Sergeant Sheahan could
break in the birds had flown.
However, warrants were served nn
O'Connor and the two saloon keepers
Friday morning and the facts were
explained by the foam dispenser.
Sweeney and Corcbran were dis
missed by Police Judge Madden, who
assessed O'Connor $10 and costs for
keeping a disorderly house.
McCarthy Brothers to Meet.
For eleven years Mike McCarthy,
desk sergeant at the police station,
has not seen his brother, C H. Mc-
cartny ot Memphis, a locomotive en
gineer on the Frisco system. But
Mike is now on his way to see his
brother! and is happy as a lark.
I he other McCarthy is in Excelsior
Springs, Mo., taking treatment for
rneumatism ana in none too good a
state of health. While Mike is gone
Paddy Rinn, central station emer
gency officer, will take his place.
On his way to the Springs, Mike
will stop off at Kansas City and visit
his old friend, Jack Revencamp, who
walked a beat in Omaha with Mc
Carthy twenty years ago, and is now
a sergeant on the Kaw City police
force. McCarthy is on leave from his
desk here for a week.
Hedge Hopper Makes Mistake.
Being an amateur florist, gardener
and landscape artist, Captain Vanous
appreciates beautiful lawns, hedges
and other embellishments around a
residence. This appreciation seemed
to be lacking in Floyd Davison of
Hutchison, Kan., who distributes
samples of breakfast food. .
So when young Davison tramped
across the pretty front lawn and over
"a neat hedge at the home of John
ilclntyre, 4213 South Twenty-fourth
street, the food peddler was promptly
"called" by the owner. Abusive lan
guage caused Mclntyre to inarch him
to the nearest policeman, Officer
Potach.
Captain "Tony" failed to exhibit
any sympathy for the hedge hopper
and let him languish in a cell on the
charge of disorderly conduct and
trespass until bond was forthcoming.
Mirlr Cltf OoMlp. '
Bvsry purchase suarantaM as represented
at Phltlp'a Dept Store, Twsnty-founh and O
lireeii. South side. Advertisement.
Advance notice of the Greatest Sale of
Enamel and Granite Ware to be hold to
day at Pnlllp'h Dept. Store, See our
wlndo-"" and Friday's paper for full partleu-
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What is said to be the biggest tim
ber ever hauled into Omaha for build
ing purposes passed up Sixteenth
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Pacifists Begin
Active Campaign to
Keep U.S. Out of War
New York, March 10. The emer
gency peace federation began an or
ganizd campaign today to keep the
United States out of war with Ger
many. Prominent pacifists have beon
summoned here to direct the move
ment. More than $4,000 has been
raised to meet the costs.
The money was subscribed last
night at a mass meeting. Mrs. J.
Sergeant Cram headed the list of
pledges with $1,000. Resolutions were
adopted declaring that the country
could not allow itself to be drawn into
the war nor enter upon relations of
"veiled hostili.y likely to lead to war."
The resolutions advocated the ap
pointment of a "joir.t high commis
sion" to endeavor to settle the ques
tions at issue between this country
and Germany and urged President
Wilson to summon all the great pow
ers to discuss plans for peace.
A message from William J. Bryan,
read at the meeting, stated Mr.
Bryan's opinion that "an overwhelm
ing majority" oi the American people
favor keeping Americans off belliger
ent ships and would exclud: arms and
ammunition from all American and
neutral ship, carrying passengers be
tween the United Stales and Europe.
Mr. Bryan said he did not believe the
government shoulti arm vessels carry
ing munitions.
Omaha Bar Association
Holds Annual Meeting
The Omaha Bar association has
held its annual election and meeting
and selected officers and committees
as follows: .
President, Raymond G. Young;
vice president, VV. W. Slabaugh; sec
retary, J. T. Dysart; treasurer, Frank
P. Matthews.
Executive Council W. W. Sla
baugh, chairman; J. J. Boucher, Frank
L. Weaver, C. S. Elgutter and Sidney
W. Smith.
Judiciary Committee Charles A.
Goss, chairman; J. A. C. Kennedy, Ed
P. Smith, F. A. Brogan and Halleck
F. Rose.
Legislative Committee J. P. Pal
mer, chairma. , R. C. Hunter, J. I.
Negley,.L. J. TePoel and R. M.
Crossman.
Inquiry Committee Frank L.
Weaver, chairman; Edward F. Leary,
Thomas Lynch, Charles G. McDonald
and Sidney W. Smith.
Membership Committee Stanley
M. Rosewater, chairman; S. A. Hig
gins, Arthur C. Thomsen and W. L.
Randall.
Memorial Committee John W.
Battin, chairman; John A. Rine,
Charles Battelle, Charles E. Foster
and Amos Thomas.
Entertainment Committee W. C.
Fraser, chairman; Guy C. Kiddoo,
Clinton Brome, R. M. Switzler and
George W, Briigs.
Committee on Juries J. L. Kaley,
chairman; E. R. Burke, Thomas B.
Murray, T. B. Dysart and Kelso A.
Morgan.
Auditing Committee Wymer
Dressier, chairman; William A. Hor
ton and W. J. Hotz.
Moderate Temperatures
Predicted for Coming Week
Washington, March 10. Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Sunday, March 11, issued by the
weather bureau today are:
Plains states and upper and middle
Mississippi valley: Fair, although lo
cal rains or snow are probable in the
northern portion Wednesday or
Thursday. Colder weather Sunday
will be followed by rising tempera
ture Monday and Tuesday and mod
erate temperature thereafter. '
Rocky mountain states and plateau
regions: Generally fair weather ex
cept snows are probable first half of
week in northern Rocky mountain re
gion, normal temperature.
Allies and Neutrals
Face Shortage in Wheat
Paris, March 19. France and its
allies' and neutral countries this year
must economize or replace with other
cereals from 34 to 38 per cent of their
requirements of wheat, according to
estimates made in the Chamber of
Deputies today by Victor Boret, pres
ident of the agricultural committee.
M. Boret produced expert estimates
for the wheat crops of 1917 as fol
lows: Por.Krance a yield of from ISO.OflO.OO to
100,000.000 bushels: requirements, deduction
being made for the Invaded terrlt ry. S17,
000.000 buehela, leaving a deflalt of 137,.
000.0)0 bushels.
The requirements of France's allies and
neutrala are from 60,000,000 to e70.000.000
buahels. The surplus available from over,
aces countries is from SeO.OOQ.Ooo to 170,
000,000 bushels, leaving a deficit for the
entente allies and neutrala of from ISO,
000,000 to 216.000,000 buahels.
ASTOUNDING REPORT
FOR OMAHA
The wife of a merchant had
stomach trouble so bad (he could eat
nothing but toast, fruit and hot water.
Everything else would sour and fer
ment. ONE SPOONFUL buckthorn
bark, glycerine, 'etc., as mixed in
Adler-i-ka benefitted her INSTANT
LY. Because Adler-i-ka flushes the
ENTIRE alimentary tract it relieves
ANY CASE constipation, sour stom
ach or gas and prevents appendicitis.
it lias UUlUrvbai action of any
thing we ever sold. The Sherman-
McConnell Drug Co., 16th and Dodge. !
and The Owl Drue Co.. !6th and ,
12x18 inches in size and weighed 30.
000 pounds. There are four such
sticks and they will be used in build
ing work at Fort QmaforhjMimjcrs
Socialists of
The Allied Nations
Drop Conference
Paris, March 10. The conference
of socialists of the allied countries
which was to have taken place in
Paris from March 15 to 18, has been
abandoned. The administrative com
mittee of the French socialist party,
which originated the idea of the con
ference, has given up the plan as the
result of the refusal of the British
labor party and a great part of the
Russian and Italian socialists to par
ticipate. '
The heads of the British socialist
party vigorously protested against
the holding of the conference, on the
ground that it would give an oppor
tunity to the pacifist socialist minor
ity to create a possible schism in the
socialist ranks. The British leaders
contended that the pacifists, although
in a marked minority, might be able
to spread a false impression abroad
in regard to the attitude of the allied
socialists in general.
Central High Debaters
Win From Springfield
Springfield, Neb., March 10. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Omaha Central
High school debaters won a unani
mous victory last night over the
forensic team of the Springfield High
school in a preliminary district con
test, in the annual state debating
tournament The question was, "Re
solved, That the United States Should
Abandon the Monroe Doctrine." Sup
porting the negative side for Omaha
were Herluf Olsan, Max Konecky and
Sol Rosenblatt, who made such a
good impression on the judges, that
the latter all agreed in favor of the
visitors from the metropolis. Spring
field's team on the affirmative of the
question consisted of Lucile Mundell,
Louise Fiegenbaum and Fred Hon.
Admits That He Controls
' Million Bushels of Spuds
Chicago, March 10. While food in
vestigators were endeavoring yester
day to verify rumors that a million
bushels of potatoes are in storage at
Blue Island, a suburb, E. Percy Miller,
a commission merchant, admitted that
he controlled 1,000,000 bushels in dif
ferent sections of the country.
Mr. Miller, added that he was prob
ably the largest holder of potatoes in
the country. He said there was no
corner in the vegetable.
Oemetral and Romonoff
Wrestle for Two Hours
T ne A-noelea Pat M,h 111 Wit-1
liam Demetral of Chicago and Con
stantine Romonoff, heavyweights,
wrestled two hours and ten minutes
tonight without either securing a fall
and the match was finally declared
a draw at the request of the audience.
Both men appeared weak from their
exertion. Romonoff appeared to have
the advantage from a scientific stand
point, especially in using his legs,
but Demetral was the stronger of the
two.
Mexican Consul at Chicago
Gives Germans Many Passes
Chicago, March 10. An unprece
dented number of passports to Mexico
nave been issued recently by the
Mexican consul here, it was learned
at the consulate today. In the last
seven days 110 passports were issued
and of these it was said half were to
Germans.
Heavy Snowstorm Strikes
The Capital of Germany
Berlin (Via London). March 10.
The heavy snowfall which has covered
central turope for the last seventy
two hours struck Berlin yesterday.
The 'bus lines discontinued their
trips and the subway made a new
record by hauling 400,000 passengers.
HaU
Out
Boston. Maroh 10.
Nathan Hall of this
city, who had already clinched the national
amateur billiard cbamplonehip at 18.1 balk
Une, tonight rounded out bla reoord for
the title tournament without defeat, when
he acored 400 to Set, In play against the
five-times former champion. Edward W.
Gardner of New York.
Millard Hotel
THE PLACE OF COMFORT
11 A. M. to 2 P. M. and
S to 8 P. M.
50c SUNDAY DINNER
Good Miuie WhiU You Ett
MENU
Chicken Broth with NoodUt
Sliced Dill Fleklei
Fried Sprit. Chicken,
Country Style.
Brelied Tenderloin of Beef
Mushroom Seuce
Rout Stuffer Gooie,
Apple. Baaee
Root Yount Turkey
Celery Dmtini -Cranberry Btuet
Prime Roast Beef, au Jut
Baked Stuffed Spring Chicken
Mashed Potatoes
Boilad Potatoes
Bueeotash
Read Lettuce Salad
F rench Dressing
Apple Pie Pear Pie
Banana Cream Pie
Corn Starch Blane Mange,
Whipped Cream
lee Cream and Cake
Tea Coffee Milk
came from Oregon. - Each was cut
from a tree about 200 years old. They
were unloaded at Fortieth and Leav
enworth streets, but were hauled
Murderer of Wife
Demands Sanctuary
In Chicago Church
Chicago, March 10. John Buckley
made a determined and menacing ef
fort to revive the ancient "right of
sanctuary" here today. He chose the
chancelry of the Holy Name cathe
dral to exercise this right.
Yesterday, Buckley, being served
with a notice of divorce suit by his
wife on grounds of cruelty, went to
her father's home, where she had
sought refuge, and shot her to death.
The police searched all night for
him without avail, until word reached
them that a man with a pistol was
threatening priests and others con
nected with the cathedral with death
if they interfered with his right of
"sanctuary."
When the police arrived they
learned that he had left the place, but
had promised to return, as he was
going only a short distance to get a
cigar alight, the officers pounced on
him and at the station it was learned
that he was Buckley.
Robbers Get Away With
Weekly Payroll of $1,400
Chicago, March 10. As James C.
Robertson, cashier of a North Side
mail order house, stepped from a
cab today to enter his establishment
with the weekly payroll of $1,400,
another automobile stopped at the
curb, directly behind his machine. Its
driver and three other men leaped out
and surrounded Robertson, each pre
senting a revolver. Snatching the pay
satchel, they jumped back into their
car and speed away.
Tulsa, Okl., March 9. A robber en
tered the Planters' State bank here
today, forced the cashier and a custo
mer into a vault and escaped with
J2.625.
Officers and Men Guilty
Of Sinking German Ships
Florence, S. C, March 10. Eight
officers and men of the German Hansa
line freighter Liebenfels, which began
sinking in Charleston harbor on the
night of January 31, were found guilty
of sinking the vessel in a navigable
stream by a jury in the United States
district court here late today. They
were acquitted, however, on one count
charging conspiracy to sink the
steamer,
Sentence will be pronounced tomor
row. Daughter of Wealthy Man
Of Walnut, la., Admits Theft
Chicago, March 10. Miss Mary
Siebels, daughter of John Siebels, mer
chant of Walnut, la., admitted in tes
timony today that she helped Joe
Cherry rob the home of Mrs. Anna
Verhoff, Chicago, February 17. Jewel
ry and clothing valued at $500 was
stolen. Miss Siebels is 20 years old.
She testified that her father was
wealthy. Judga Dolan intimated that
he would place her on probation.
House Opposes Secret
Committee Work on Bills
Lincoln, March 10. (Specials
Representative Fred Johnson pro
posed in a house resolution to hold no
more hearings before committees, but
to have all bills hereafter considered
by the committees in executive ses
sion. His idea was to speed up the
work and get action on more bills.
However, the proposal did not appeal
to the house and it was voted down.
Colonels Oet Thorpe.
Louisville, K)r.. March 10,-eJames Thorpe,
Indian athlete, hae been obtained by the
Loulavllla American assortntlon club In a
deal whereby Pitcher Mlddleton was sold
to ths New Tork Nationals, according to
a telegram from Athens, Qi where the
lulsvllle team la training. Thorpe played
with Milwaukee last season.
Duffy's is Good
For Old People
Duffy's
Pure Malt Whisky
is invaluable for the agrd and run -down
because everyday experience shows thst
a good tonic -stimulant properly used will
do much to keep old people healthy. A
tablespoonful of Duffy's before meals
and on rettrim rently stimulates and
invigorates the system. The wholesome
ness, purity and rich malty flavor of
Duffy's Pur Malt Whiskey permit it
to be retained by the most delicate
stomachs when other foods are rejected
"Get Duffy's and Keep Well"
At most dmprvlats. grocers and
dealers, .00. If they can't supply you,
write us. Useful household booklet free,
THE DUFFY MALT WHUKEY CO
Rochester. N. Y.
around by Sixteenth street to avoid
grades on Twenty-fourth street. They
were brought here by the Independent
JUtinbfjrompany aw mllllllBIIMI IIM
Hotel for Working
Women in Center
Of New York City
New York, March 10. Plans for
the erection of an apartment hotel in
the heart of New York's shopping
district, where unmarried working
women may rent rooms for $4 a week,
were announced today. The struc
ture will be twelve stories high and
will contain 400 rooms.
Provision for the hotel was made
in the will of Charles Bertram Web
ster, for many years head of a de
partment store, who set apart $3,125,
637 for that purpose.
All the directors of the hotel be
lieve that marriage is the ultimate
goal of all single women, and it is
their intention "to give all the young
women who live in this hotel an op
portunity to be courted."
QUIT MEAT IF YOUR BACK HURTS,
FLUSH YOUR KIDNEYS WITH SALTS
Meat forms uric acid, which clogs
Kidneys, Irritates Bladder or
causes Rheumatism.
When you wake up with backache
and dull misery in the kidney region
it generally means you have been
eating too much meat, says a well
known authority. Meat forms uric
acid, which overworks the kidneys in
their effort to filter it from tha blood
and they become sort of paralyzed and
loggy. When your kidneys get slug
gish and clog you must relieve them,
like you relieve your bowels; remov
ing all the body's urinous waste, else
you have backache, sick headache,
dizzy spells; your atomach tours,
tongue is coated and when the
weather is bad you have rheumatic
twinges. The urine it cloudy, full of
ONLY
OT
Ttrrfffln ' " - " pra
If you take the trouble
to count the grease cups on
comparable cars you will find
as many as forty to sixty.
And if the owner or chauf
feur neglects them power
goes to waste, wear sets in,
and trouble lies just around
the corner.
The Marmon system of
oilless bearings and auto
matic chassis lubrication are
an object lesson in simplicity
that the newer automobiles
m
SAYS CONDUCTOR
SHOT HI IN ARM
Youth Tells Police He Was
Victim of Shot Without
Warning.
STORY OF TROLLEY MAN
Edward Sternad, 16 years old, 1015
Homer street, was shot through the
fleshy part of his right arm above the
elbow last night about 9 o'clock. The
story he told the police was that he
and a companion were waiting for a
street car at Thirteenth and Dor
cas streets, on their way to a
movie show. Without any warning, he
said, the conductor of the street car
pulled out a revolver and took a pot
shot at the two, one of the bullets
lodging iu his arm.
Police were unable to locate the
conductor. They believe that the boys
in the neighborhood had been trying
to gang the conductor or were throw
ing stones at the car, and that the
street car man shot, trying to scare
the gang away. Jimmy Hudacek,
Twelfth and Dorcas, was Sternad's
companion.
Police later arrested the conductor
and are holding him for investigation.
Hi name is George Lippert, J866
Leavenworth street. He says the boys
have been bothering the street car
men, pulling off trolleys. He said the
boy he shot was particularly annoying
in this way.
"1 just shot to scare the boys," Con
ductor Lippert explained. "Until
later I didn t know that I had shot
one of them. I did not intend to
do so."
He was released from jail under
bond arranged by the street car com
pany and will be tried next Saturday
on the charge of unlawfully dis
charging firearms, unless a more seri
ous charge is pressed by the injured
lad or hts friends.
sediment, channels often get sore,
water scalds and you are obliged to
seek relief two or three times during
the night.
Either consult a good, reliable phy
sician at once or get from your phar
macist about four ounces of Jad
Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass
of water before breakfast for a few
days and your kidneys will then act
fine. This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice,
combined with lithia, and has been
used for generations to clean and
stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to
neutralize acids in the urine so it no
longer irritates, thus ending bladder
weakness.
Jad Salts is a life saver for regular
meat eaters. It is inexpensive, cannot
injure and makes a delightful,, effer
vescent litliia-water drink. Adv.
4 GREASE
only is the Marmon
f era cra
i ed era I
MERMOH M
lighter, and far more economical in
fuel and tires than any car of equal
size and power, but its refinement in detail
eliminates incessant attention.
are showing a tendency to
emulate. There are, on the
entire car, but 4 grease cups.
The Marmon's rapid ac
celeration puts the owner at
an advantage in city traffic,
and its luxurious riding-ease
.on country roads is an ex
perience that motorists never
realize until they ride in this
" scientifically constructed car.
' Call or telephone for dem
onstration while we can stillv
make delivery.
Phone
Douglas
London, March 10. The Daily
Chronicle says today that it is vir
tually certain the British troops now
are iu Bagdad and that official con
firmation of this may be expected at
any moment.
The latest Russian, dispatches re
ceived here reporting the withdrawal
of the Turks from several far apart
points in western Persia are regarded
as showing that the Ottoman troops
nowe are in general retreat.
New York, March 9. The British
advance in Mesopotamia which has
covered more ground in a short
period than almost any other move
ment of the war has been assisted
materially by extensive defections of
the native tribes from Turkish rule,
according to private mail advices re
ceived in New York from Asiatic
Turkey.
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money changes hands, and
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terest rates on new investments.
Many investments from $100
and up ara being changed from
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