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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1920)
r THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1920. Wife of Eckman Gives Details of Deathbed Will Doctor Testifies That Omahan Was Suffering From Disease; Apartment Owner Says Man "Liked Booze." , Thee signing ,oi a wilj by the late K. W. Eckman, as he lay upon f his deathbed in a summer cottage near Minneapolis, was related on the wit- nei stand in county court yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Clendola , Petty Eckman. Mr. Eckman married the1 nurse wliile the two of them were on a motor trip through- Minnesota. He died August 9, -just a month and a week after he married her. He made a will, leaving his entire $75,000 es tate to her. His two stepdaughters, Mrs. Em met Hannon and Mrs. F. C. Her.ry ure seeking to break the will. Taken Violently .Hi. Mrs. Eckman said her husband was taken very ill on August 1. At 2;.50 ;.he morning of August 5, he awoke n terrible pain, called for a doctor nd for B. T. Dawnes. He dictated a will to the latter and signed it. A hypodermic injection was given him right after he signed the will,, bin not before he signed, Mrs. , Eckman declared. '' ; Dr. G. W. Dishong. who' examined Eckman four months before his death, testified that be Was. then suf fering from a social disease but that he might have lived for years if he had taken care of himself. Met Eckmin as Nurse. " M. Tuchman said that' ."Eckman liked the booze," and R W. Elwood, owner of the Elwood apartments, told of being invited to drink with Eckman. ' -H. Mrs. Eckman testified ' that she is 36 and -, EcWrnan was 46 years old. tixiu mi iirvr I IK' M ,n w ri as his nurse during illness at his palatial apartment in the' Elwood, '":f,!th piul Podge streets, where he lived with a Japanese servant. Their mmrriage . she said tool place at Worthington, Minn., in the course of a nietor trip from Omaha to Minneapolis. '..' f Eckman sold a new compound called "Killabug," on the way, she :iiu. lie mjiu sunn, ,u. tiM-rn.iv, ,nc kuuissoii hotel. - St. 'Paul, .Minn., where they jStoppel. , Tiasoline Output Record Was Broken in September Washington, Nov. .22. All gaso line output records were broken dur ing September, the bureau of mines announced. Refineries produced a daily average of 15,000,000 gallons, making the output total for the first nine months of 1920 3,500,000,000 gal tons as compared with 2,900,000,000 'gallons during the same period in ' 1Q!0 . ; :' Consumption ana exports connn i) ued hijh, however,, the bureau said, so that while storage tanks on Sep tember 30, held'3P8.0QO,000 gallons, the amount ott hand then was actual ly less than that on' hand August 30. ' To please the South Sea Islanders, a girl must be tatooed sky blue and wear a nose-riijg. ; , More Truth Than 'Poetry By JAMES J. MONTAGUE - r FOREVER AND EVER As long as the world rolls around on its axis, As long as about it the blue Heavens bend, The public will ante the annual taxes Which light-hearted grafters will joyfully spend. We'll froth at the mouth when we hear how they spent 'era, We'll call 'em a crooked, burglarious lot, But wjll we rise up as one man to prevent 'em - From doing it over again? We will not! . j Although now and then, in an access of fury, Whenyped out of most of our dearly earned kale, We call in the aid of a special grand jury In hope they will-hasten the grafters to jail, They don't go to jail; for their lawyers won't let 'em, And, though they may dig up a f jne now and then, They usually stall till the people forget 'em, , Then back go their hands in our pockets again. We have not a doubt that at this very minute Some fat little graft has been planned to put through, And none of the light-fingered gentlemen in it Will ever meet up with the fate that's their due. We'll learn all abouFit a year or two after j ... A few million dollars are stolen and spent, But, that will not worry the opulent grafter; ' He'll ke,ep right on grafting it's us who'll repent Of course we'll get huffy and put up a holler; Of course we will say it's a hideous shame That twenty-five cents in the average dollar , ' tl Are all that we usually get In the game. , But will we permit such a thing to continue, , To let thieves and plunderers take f rpm our till The Coin that we've earned with our muscle and sinew You'll win if you bet your last cent that we will ! t ijpCjyOl ' ..." . '.. EVER READY i Perhaps if Mr. Harding will not take the job in case Mr. Wilson follows Mr. Bryan's advice and resigns, Mr. Bryan can suggest the name of a man who will. . v ' BIRDS OF A FEATHER. We'understand now why so, many crooked base ball players went to work for the Emergency Fleet corporation. ' WISE OLD BIRDS. 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