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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1918)
13 THE BEE: OMAHA." TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1915. FEWER CASES OF "FLU" REPORTED THAN WEEK AGO .Street Car Men Fail to En ; force Order Against Over crowding; Manning May Use Police. The Abandoned Room By Wadsworth Camp -' Twenty-six deaths in Omaha from Spanish influenza in the 48 hours ending Monday morning were re ported to the city health conunis- sioner. This is slightly lower than ,the record for the first two days of last week. City Health Commissioner Man ning sent a letter to the street rail way company Monday calling at tention to the fact that conductors are not preventing crowding on street cars. I'nless the order is com plied with. Dr. Manning says he will enforce it through police. Dr. Manning also received re ports that some of tiie moving pic ture houses paid no attention to the 'every alternate row" seating agree ment. He notified the movie men that this must he done in order to avoid a more drastic plan. The number of new cases report ed Sunday was about 175, a falling off of about 75 cases from the daily leport of Friday and Saturday. BLUFFS COUNCIL CANCELS FLU CAR SERVICE ORDER j Following the order by Health Of ficer Manning in Omaha, that cars should carry only such passengers as they could seat, the same order was placed in force in Council Bluffs. . The Board of Health of Council Bluffs rescinded that order at a meeting Monday night on the rec ommendation of Dr. S. H. Bovver, health director. Doctor Bower said it was the opinion of the 700 doctors who met in Chicago last week, that orders of this kind were of no use, andjhat it was useless to interfere with people who wished to go to and from Omaha by keeping the order in force. Two Youths Are Held Charged With Robbing Gas Filling Station Frank Daniel, 25 years. of age, and James McDermott, 18 years of age, both giving their home as Omaha were hound over to the district court in the Council Bluffs police court Monday charged with bur glary. They waived preliminary ex amination and their bonds fere fixed at $2,000. Thejr were arrested shortly after midnight by Police Officers Weimar and Wood, who allege they were robbing the filling station of the Standard Oil company at Broadway and Seventh avenue when cap tured. Police were put on the trail ot (he "yeggs" following the burglary of the Standard Oil filling station at-Bjroadway and Union streets. After blowing the safe the burglars took $148. When captured Daniel and McDemott had $146 in their possession, and McDermott was carrying a revolver end is held to answer a charge of carrying con cealed weapons. Not Red Light in Window, I s but Merely For Rent Sign Mrs. Edna E. Nicholason, 2617 Harney street, plaintiff in a damage suit being heard before Judge Wake ley in district court, testified that Sergeant Russell and Detectives Cunningham, Chapman and Ander son of the morals squad, entered Iter home on the night of August 25, wearing heavy shoes. She is suing the morals squad for $5,300 damages on account of al leged unlawful entrance. ' Mrs. Nicholason denied that she maintained -a red light. in her win dow, but that instead she had a per fectly respectable "for rent" sign. She admitted having been in the em ployment of Stella. Marquette at 420 South Thirteetitrffitreet. , When the policemen sought en trance by ringing the, door-bell 12 time? she stated that she wrapped herself in a quilt after advising the visitors of her sartorial condition. Mrs. Nicholason testified that she had seven ca'ses of beer in her base ment. . Price Lists Discontinued ' by Food Administration J While the Nebraska food admin istration has rot gone out of busi ness, or closed its office, it is not likely that the price fixing committee will issue any more lists, showing at what pricts foodstuffs will be sol.' it retail. ; According to the food adminis tration,' grocers and other dealers at food products have been told that in the future they will charge jnly a fair price for their goods and wares. At the same time, purchasers have learned the prices at which goods should be sold. Many Telephone Girls Are ? Kept from Work by "Flu" The influenza epidemic is causing serious inconvenience in the opera tions of the Nebraska Telephone icmpany, whose operators have been affected from 15 to 20 per cent. The , company is doing its best to naintain the service to as high a Standard of efficiency as possible. The Careful Observer has sug gested that if telephone users would reduce their calls to a minimum, eliminating useless and unnecessary calls, the general situation would be substantially improved. New Troops Come to Guard Quartermaster's Depot Here A detachment of 20 soldiers, mem bers of the 20th infantry regiment, stationed at Fort Riley, Kan., ar rived in Omaha Sunday night to guard the quartermaster depot at Twenty-second and Hickory streets. The men are in charge of Lt. Nor man H. Foley. I This detachment will replace the 20 soldiers of the 26th battalion of the United States guards who have been on duty for the last few months , . , ' j CHAPTER XXVII. An Unexpected Visitor. Bobby called on his reason. His grandfather stood before him in flesh. With the old man. in spite of Paredes' ghastly hint, probably lay the solution of the entire mystery and his own safety. He was about to speak when he heard footsteps in the upper hall. His grandfather elani-cd inuuirinelv throueh the stairwell, asking: "Who's that up there?" I The sharp tone tone confessed that tear ot the Cedars was active in the warped brain. "The district attorney," Bobby answered, "a detective, probably Hartley Graham." "What they doing here?" He indicated Paredes. "What's this fellow doing here? 1 never liked him." Katherine answered: "They've all come because I thought I saw yau dead, lying in the old room." "We all saw," Bobby cried angri ly, and Paredes nodded. Blackburn shrank away from them. The three men descended the stairs. Half way down they stop- "Who is that?" Robinson cried, ped. Graham's face whitened. He braced himself against the banister. "Next time, Mr. District "Attor ney," Paredes said, "you'll believe me when 1 say the court is full of ghosts. He walked in from the court. I tell you they found him in the court. Silas Blackbun.'s voice rose, shrill and angry: "What's the matter with you all? Why do you talk of ghosts and my being dead? Haven't I a right to come in my own house? You all act as if you were afraid of me." Paredes' questions had clearly add ed to the uncertainty of his man ner. Katherine spoke softly. "We are afraid." The others came down. Robiu- kson walked close to Silas Black burn, and for seme time gazed at the gray face. "Yes." he said, "you are Silas Blackburn. You came to my office Smitlitown the other day and asked for a detective, because you were afraid of something out here. cried. "Of course it is Mr. Black burn, yet it couldn't be." "What you all talking about? Why are the police in my house? Why do you act like fools and say I was dead?" They gathered in a group at some distance from him. They uncon sciously ignored this central figure, a. if he were, in fact, a ghost. Bobby and Katherine told how they had found the old man, a black shadow against the wall of the wing. Faredes repeated the ques tions he had asked and their strange answers. Afterwarti Robinson turn ed to Silas Blackburn, who waited, trembling. "Then you did go to the old room to sleep. You lay down on the bed, but ,you say you didn't stay. You must tell us why not, and how you got out, and where you've been dur ing this prolonged sleep. I want everything that happened from the moment you entered the old bed room until you wakened." "That's simple," Silas Blackburn mouthed. "I went there along about 10 o'clock, wasn't it. Katy?" "Nearly half past," she said. "And you frightened me." "He must tell us why he went, why he was afraid to sleep in his own room," Graham began. . Robinson held up his hand. "One question at a time, Mr. Graham. The important thing now is to learn what happened in the room. ou re not forgetting How clls, are you?" Silas Blackburn glanced at the floor. He moved his feet restlessly. He fumbled in his pocket for some loose tobacco. With shaking fingers he refilled his pipe. "Except for Bobby and Kath erine," lie quavered, "you don't know what that room means to Black burns; and they only know by hear say, because I've seen it was kept closed. Don't see how I'lif going to tell you" "You needn't hesitate," Robinson encouraged him. "We've all exper ienced something of the peculiari tiees of the Cedars. Your return alone's enough to keep us from laughter." "All right,", the . old man stumbled on. "I was raised on stories of that room even before my father shot : jiimseu mere, i.ater on i saw ts.ain- erine's father die in the big bed, and the place unless I had to. The other night, when I made up my mind to sleep there, 1 tried to ten myseit all this talk was tommyrot. I tried to make myself believe I could sleep as comfortably in that bed as any where. So I went in and locked the door and raised the window and lay down." ' "You're sure you locked the door?" Robinson asked. "Yes. I remember turning the key in both doors, because 1 didn't want anything bothering me from outside." ' They all looked at each other, un able to forecast anything of Black burn's experiences; for both doors had been locked when the body had been found. Granted life, how would it have been possible for Silas Black burn to have left the room to com mence his period of drowsiness? An explanation of that should also un veil the criminal's route in and out. The tensity of the little group in creased, but no one interposed the obvious questions. Robinson was fight. It would be quicker to let the nrotaeonist of this unbelievable adventure recite its details in his own fashion. Paredes ran Ins slender lingers gropingly over the faces of several of the cards he Had picked up. ' "When I got in bed," Silas Buack- burn continued, "I thought I d let to the room to take the evidence from Howells' body became active in Bobby's memory. "There I lay with my eyes shut." Silas Blackburn went on in his strange, inquiring voice. "And yet I seemed to see those dead people all ar und me, - J I th- ught they were in pain auain aiH were mad at -ie because I didn't do anything. 1 guess maybe J must 'a' been dozing a litlte, for 1 thought- " ' He broke off. He raised his hand slowly and p nted in the direction of the overgrown cemetery where t'.-ey had seen his cofii i covered that tuon. His' voice was lower and haroher when he continued: "I I thougln I heard them say that things were all broken out there, and and awful so awful they couldn't stay." His Voice In anie defiant. "I ai..'t go' g to t.-ll you w'lat 1 d- imcd. It wa too horrible, but I made up my mind I would do what I uld if I ever escaped from that room. I I x afraid they'd take me back with them tindcrr nth those broken stones. And you you stand there trying to tell me that tl i did." I.e pa'i:. d again, looking aror d with a more defiant glare in his bloodshot eyes. He appeared to "e surprised not to find then laughing at him. What's the matter with you all? South Side ' e i ( u nai s iiir. niaui nun juu an; the candle burn for company s sake, , ,,e cHed WUy ain-t yQU making There's no question," Graham ! after that I never cared to go near I but there was a wind, and it came in the open window, and it made the queerest black shadows dance all ovr the walls until I couldn't stand it a minute longer. I blew out the candle and lay back in the dark." He drew harshly on his cold pipe. He looked at it with an air of sur prise, and slipped it in his pocket. "It was the funniest darkness. I didn't like it. You put your hand out and closed your fingers as if you could feel it. But it wasn't all black, either. Some moonlight came in with the wind between the curtains. It wasn't exactly yellow, and it wasn't white. Afier a little it seemed alive, and I wouldn't look at it any more. I he only way I could stop mvself was to shut my eyes and that was worse, for it made me recollect my father the way I saw him lying there when I was a boy uoa grant none ot you will ever have to see anything like that. Then I seemed to see Katy s father, too and I remembered his screams. The room gotthiek with things like that with those two, and with a lot of others crime out of the pictures and the stories I've heard about my family." His experience when he had go.ie jmsami Don t let. your 1 11 wneeis SlOW u D A ' HERE is big work to be done. New markets wait for those who can deliver the goods. Keep your factory wheels turning and your goods moving. The future belongs to those who act quickly. Pierce -Arrow trucks kept many a fac tory running bringing raw materials and carry ing finished products to market without delays. Pierce-Arrow trucks are available now to do their part. 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Room 318 at the headquarters building has been set aside as an operating de partment and at 5 o'clock each aft ernoon doctors will be on hand to "shoot" the arms of officials and employes. Trained nurses will be present to assist. in vaccinating as an influenza pre ventive, Union Pacific doctors will take three "shots" at their patients at intervals of 10 days each. SON OF INVALID SOUTH SIDE MAN KILLED BY AUTO Nine-Year-Old Boy Struck on Way from School; Dies on Way to Hos pital. Rudolph Kroywet. 9 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Kroywetz. J510 L street, died Mon day noon of injuries received half an hour earlier, when he was cross ing Twenty-fii'tli ami I .. The boy had just hcou dismissed from the South Central school and was at the end of the line of chil dren who marched out. Miss I.. Gross, principal, had warned the children about playing in the street and the little boy had kept to the crossing.' lie was in the middle of the crossing when he was hit hv a Kuick car driven by an unidentified man. The man stopped and picked the boy up and carried him to Miss Gross, according to her story. Miss Gross then accompanied the man to Rudolph's home, which is about half a block from the school. She had difficulty in obtaining a doctor, so the man volunteered to go after a doctor in his car. "I never saw him again," said Miss Gross. Finally a man driving a truck was hailed, whose name Miss Gross does not know, and she went with him after a doctor. Rudolph was taken to the Mae Hospital in an ambulance, hut died before the hospital was reached. The litle boy is survived by his parents. He was an only child. His father is an invalid and his mother is employed in a tannery. Miss Gross said the child had attended the school since the first part of November. Leonard Conley, South Side Boy, Killed in Action, Oct. 27 Leonard E. Conley, a South Side boy, was killed in action October 27 in France. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Yiret Conley, 4211 South Twentieth street. He received his education in the Hawthorne j school and before he was drafted in to the army in September 1917, he operated a stock farm near Papil lion. He was sent to Camp Funston, where he was a member of Company C, One Hundred and Twentyveighth infantry, Thirty-second division, which was sent to France in April of this year. Private Canley was wounded in action August 1 and sent to camp hospital 15 to recover. i December 2 hi parents received a telegram from the Adjutant-General ; saying he had conipletey recovered : and had returned to duty. Six days later, December 8, they received a telegram saying he was killed in at.'Vm Ostober 27. j Besides his parents, Private Con I ley is survived by two sisters, Flor I ence and Stella and two brothers Viret and Sheldon. He was 26 years of age. Laura Long. Laufa Long, 3716 P street, diecP in St. Catherine's hospital Sunda4 mormne of Spanish mnuenza ?li i 22 vrars of aec. Sh is survived by two brothers, Aloysi nne ant Hnctav. Funeral service! will be held in St? Mary's church Wednsday morning at 9 o'clock. In lerment will be in St. Mary's ceme terv. South Side Brevities Mm. Mary n Rickegher, 6119 South Twenty-ninth avenue, reported to the po lire that lecemlier 16, a pocketbook con taining 1:14 In bills was stolen from her lining room table. Later the puraa wa found In her yard. IN THE DIVORCE COURT. A divorce action filed hy Orayce raln Henry Hegermann charge! the. husband with desertion. They were married In Oklahoma, October 17. 1917. t'lara Day alleges that her husband, Union VV. Pay, deserted her and four minor children on July 0. 1915. In a, di vorce petition filed In district court ah charges nonsupport, stating that Vny is now in France. Stomach -Headache, Indigestion! 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