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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1920)
THE BEE! OMAHA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28,-1920. OMAHA TO GAIN BY RELEASE OF WYOMING LAND Signing of Oil Leasing Bill Means Rapid Influx of Men and Capital to Trade Territory. , A rapid development of more than 1,000,000 teres of Wyoming oil land, which will be a direct benefit to Omaha, it predicted by Burling ton railroad officials as a result of the signing of the oil leasing bill by President Wilson Wednesday. The Wyoming land opened by the signing of this bill is located in the Big Horn Basin, ir northwest Wyo ming and in the vicinity of Lander and Casper, according to S. B. Howard, colonization agent for the Burlington. Practically all of it is in Omaha trade territory. Release $5,000,000 Depoeta. A rapid influx of men and capital to this territory is anticipated by Burlington officials. The land re leased includes all withdrawals made by the government in the past, or about 1(1S1,629 acres. The opening of this land will also result in the release of about $3,000,000 put op as deposits on withdrawn land by developers, which will be largely used in irri gation projects in Wyoming, Mr. Howard says. John L. ' McCague, chairman of ' the oil development committee of Jie Chamber of Commerce, said: Omaha Wants Crude Oil. "The oil leasing bill will release a number of producing wells now controlled by the allied oil interests. Itwill also make it possible for in dependent operators to find new oil deposits. This may so increase the output of oil as to overcome the capacity of the allied oil interests' refineries, and the logical result will be the establishment of a pipe line to Omaha. "What maha wants is crude oil. It is logically situated for a pipe line, as its altitude is lower than that of the oil fields and there are no mountain ranges intervening." It is understood here that 2,500 acres is the largest tract accessible to one corporation for development. The total area of oil lands thrown open for lease under the bill is es timated at more than 6,700,000 acres. Olcfer Employes of The Bee Present Watch To Victor Rosewater Victor Rosewater ha a. handsome watch, presented to him Thursday by seven of the older employes of The Bee, heads of departments, who wanted to keep him always re minded of, the cordial and intimate relation that had exisOrd between them. 1 Mr. Rosewater, replying ' to the few words of T. W. McCullongh in presenting the watch, said: "My greatest regret in severing my connection with The Bee is , breaking off the close touch with those whose friendship has been built up through a long ieries of years. The greatest asset I have had has been the loyal and efficient support of those who have worked with me to make The Bee an in strument of service. "I have not tried to conduct The Bee as a great profit-producing en terprise, but more to represent a principle, and to help build up the community and the region it served. I feel a deep sentimental regret in giving up the institution that has so long been connected with the fam ily name, just as I feel the end of the daily communication with those whose loyalty and abiliy I relied I pon for so long a time." R. W. Clark, New Sales . Manager for Nicholas Co. A change in the executive staff of the L. V. Nichoks Oil company bring R W. Clark, formerly with the J. C. Blair Paper Produce com pany, to Omaha as sales managei for the oil company. O. L. Roberts, who had occupied that position, will remain with the company. Mr. Clark was a representative of the paper company in the northwest and . south for 11 years. Previouj to that connection he was chief freignt solicitor for the New York Central lines. My HEART and My HUSBAND Adele Garrison's New Phase of Revelations of a Wife What Lillian : Underwood Did When She Examined the Alice Holcombe Letters. Before I answered, Lillian' ques tion, I walked up to her, took her by the shoulders and held her at arms' length away from me. "You wonderful woman 1" I said fervently. "Who else in the world could have gotten me out of that cross-questioning, with no one sus pecting your real reason for taking me away?", "You did a clever stunt in signal ing me, yourself if anybody should happen to ask yon," she retorted, "and it struck me that you. didn't particularly care for the line of talk they were handing out." "I didn't mind that lso much," I said, "but I was wild with impa tience ,to show you these." ' Before I could get the brown pa per package from the pocket of my motor coat, she had pulled two low chair close together, put a towel over the keyhole and was taking down her knitting bag from the nail where it hung. Light Words. "Nothing like setting the stage," she said dryly. , "Remember, you're to have taught me that new stitch by dinner time. Luckily nobody knows what particular stitch I meant, so I'll just set up something I know how to do. Go ahead. I can think better with these things in my hands." ' s She sat down in one of the chairs and the long, polished needles began to flash through the brightly col ored wool which she had taken from the knitting bag. "Thi is a lovely mid-Victorian picture," I said dryly, "but I am afraid I shall have to spoil it.for I want you to look at these things, I never could explain them to you orally." "Easiest thing I do," she" said lightly., "Just a minute till I fin ish this setting up." She finished the thing she wished to do, laid the bright wool and shin ing needles in her lap and looked up at me placidly. "Ycu may fire when you are ready, Gridley," he said with a distinct twinkle in her eyes. For a Vninute I. was nonplussed. It isn't like Lillian to treat so lightly an appeal from me for advice or help. The answer came to me quickly, however.' She, of course, had seen that I was under high ten sion, and this half-mocking non chalance was her way of calming me. "I'm not half so upset as you imagine," I said demurely. She glanced up at me shrewdly and laughed outright. An Absorbed Moment "Aren't you the psychic person, though," she said, "but nevertheless, notwithstanding, you're like a tense violin string, and I never did like to hear one snap. So you must par don my persiflage I'll put it in words of one syllable. Do-not-take-things-to-heart-so-much." Her smiling comprehending eyes caressed me and quited the nervous ness that I subsequently knew was consuming me. I felt my nerves relaxing, as they always do under the influence of Lillian' steady common sense. "I'd defy anyone to have nerves with you on the job," I retorted lov ingly. "But I think you'll agree with me that these are enough to upset me." I handed the anonymous missives to her. She glanced at the super scriptions of all of them first "Clever work," she commented. "This has been done on One of those folding typewriters which can be carried around with you. A per son can have one of those and no one but himself know it, while a big one is always very much in evi dence. It will be hard to trace the authorship of these, for those stamped envelopes can be obtained at any postpffice, and I see he has mailed them each from a different place, and always at night. Prob ably dropped them in corner boxes." "I notice you say, 'he,'" I ven tured, for she had not yet shut her mind away from everything and everybody, as is her way when studying a problem, and I was sure the interruption wouldn't annoy her. "Oh, I've no doubt it's that un speakable private detective again 1" she returned.. 4"He's certainly doing a fine see-sawing job,, trying to frighten first one and then the other of you two girls to death. 1 sup pose you heard from Miss, Hol combe today about these?" "Katie told me shortly after I came home," I said. "I telephoned her from the drug store, and then took her to Mrs. Wynne's tea room, where she gave these to me." ' "I see." The words were perfunctory, and I taw that the was fully absorbed in the contents 'of the envelopes which she was examining carefully in the order of their sending, as Alice Holcombe had marked them. When she had finished the last one she dropped them in her lap and looked across at me, her face flushed with anger. "I'd like to have the lynching of that lad 1" she said. "I've always been opposed to mob law, but I don't think I could keep my fingers off a rope if he were the lynch-ee." (Continued Monday.) For Colds, Grip or Influent and a a Preventative, takt LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablet. Look for K. W. GROVE'S signature, on the box. 30c. Kan Found Dead. Topeka, Feb. 26. An unidentif!o4 man was found dead in the ytrdt here today. ' To Heal a Cough -Take HAYES" HKALINO BONIT. NEW YORK ... OMAHA SIOUX CITY LINCOLN For Saturday, CONANT HOTEL BLDG. SIXTEENTH STREET Our Initial 1920 SALE of SPRING ii ii . t ii i r An announcement of this sort, so far in advance of the Spring season, not only exemplifies the constant activity this store exercises to present to the women of Omaha the new fashions as quickly as they are released by the manufacturers, but it means economy as well, which to many is far more ' important. WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON BEING , ABLE TO QUOTE ' THE FOL LOWING LOW PRICES, FOR WE FEEL THAT FEW WOMEN EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO BUY A NEW SPRING SUIT SO THOROUGHLY REASONABLE. New Spring Models Worth Up to , $79.50 $45 $65 Every One a Wonderful Value The strictly tailored model is well represented and shows graceful lines and finest workmanship; semi-tailored styles that have their severe ness relieved by neat treatments of embroidery; novel vests, braid trim ming and binding, buttons cleverly applied. Straightline, blouse, and ripple effects are shown in many diversities. There are Tricotines, Poiret Twills and Mannish Serges in all sizes for Women and Misses. SUIT SECTION SECOND FLOOR Final Clearance Sale Fine Furs Drastic Reductions on Every v Fur in Our Stock! Many Reduced 38ft to 50 A FEW OF THE MANY BARGAINS: $129.75 Marmot Coatee; very youthful -model, ZQ C( collar and cuffs of natural raccoon. pOy jU $350 finest quality French Seal Coat; 86-inch long, (Ni nn full shawl collar and wide cuffs, long belt P 1 O U $695 Genuine Scotch Mole Coat ; large shawl collar 3 Q fr and deep cuffs of natural squirrel 4)J 7 J $595 Hudson Seal Coat; large shawl collar and (2CA , wide cuffs of natural squirrel, long seal belt 4)JJU ' $495 Genuine American Mink Cape-Coatee, cape (tQC back, stole fronts with pockets and belt, beautiful. $s3 $225 Skunk Marten Stole, finished with pockets Ji 1 OCQ and trimmed with beautiful tails, spendid value 11 L $150 Genuine Scotch Mole Set, long handsome stole n f with large canteen-shaped muff to match, sacrificed . . P J $45 Brown Wolf ..Animal Scarf; wonderfully (t'' Cf beautiful entire skin with head, paws and tail-w. jU Numerous Others ' Priced Very Low! FUR SECTION SECOND FLOOR. For Saturday, a Sale of New Spring Model Hats Very Specially Priced at 1000 and 1250 . r There are beautiful novelty straw braids combined with latest novelty importations; many very distinctive and : unusually smart combinations of straw and cire, taffeta, hair braid and maline; also very dainty combinations of flowers and various materials, often veiled with maline, that fairly breathe SPRING in appearance. Unusually Good Designs and Patterns in New Spring Veils and Veilings All New cl fro All New Colors Pl UL $0 Meshes MILLINERY SECTION SECOND FLOOR. A Splendid Assortment of New Spring Dresses Showing Many New and Attractive Styles andColorp. Very Specially Priced for Saturday's Selling, at ; $24-75 ; Included Are Very Smart Taffetas ' i , Dainty New Georgettes Extra Quality Satins Tailored Tricotines Smartest Style Serges Attractive Combinations , Exceedingly smart are these pretty Frocks for every occasion. They are exceptionally Well made and much , artistry is shown by the correct trimming touches that . takes them far out of the commonplace and gives them in- . dividuality. v DRESS SECTION SECOND FLOOR. . '