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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Bluffs rescinded that order at a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
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me out a fool? You seen something
in that room, too?" ,
"Go on," Robinson urged. "What
happened then? What did you do?"
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
Union Pacific Employes Are
to Be Shot Against "Flu"
As a disease preventive, Union
Pacific employes are to be vaccin
ated with influenza serum. 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.
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