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Omaha's Electric
Light Rate Will
Remain at 6 Cents
Expert Prei Down Figures
On Estimated Revenue In.
cre for Power Company
Under Ure Ordinance.
Omaha mut still stagger along
without a new electric light ordin
ance. Alton D. Divii, expert accountant
employed by the city to aolve the
ordinance problem, has come and
ain (a about to depart at the
tity'i expense, according to Corpor
ation Counicl Lambert.
Mr. Adams met with the special
committee of light ordinances, head
ed by City Commissioner Zimman.
yesterday. He announced that his
tormer estimate that the Ure
light ordinance would increase power
co.-any revenues SJ07.000 might have
lecn a trifle high.
Estimata. Shaved Down.
His new cstinte, based on new
(lata, on the Increase the Ure ordi
nance would afford the company was
J21 5,000. Five minutes after the
meeting started he had shaved down
this estimate to $205,000. At the
dose of the meeting Mr. Adams ad
mitted there might be "some truth"
it: the claims of W. S. Robertson of
the power company, who asserted
the Ure ordinance would result in
practically no increase in company
revenues.
The outstanding fact brought up
at the conference seemed to be that
the small residence consumer is still
paying 6 cents per kilowatt hour,
Pioneer of Grafton
Celebrates Birthday
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Fairmont. Neb.. Nov. 11. fSce-
ciai.; John bhort ol Orafton cele
brated his 81 it birthday anniversary
at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Lou V. Fraicr, in Fairmont. Two
other daughters. Miss Hattic Shoff
and Mrs. W. A. Thomas, and his
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Shoff
ot Orafton, assisted in entertaining
40 pioneer friends.
Mr. Shoff was born in Gurnsey
while if the Ure ordinance were in ! county, Ohio, Octoher 27, 1840. His
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laiiu-r uiL-u wnen ne was a and tn
I860, with his mother and brother,
he moved to Keokuk, la. He enlisted
for service in the civil war in Com
pany H, 33d Iowa volunteers, August
14. 1862.
After his discharge he returned to
h 1 C inrvtlifir'a KNm. - - ' .
'"" iiu.ut anU was married
to Miss Martha Taylor at Mount
Pleasant, November 25, 1866. He
took up a homestead near the present
site of Grafton in April, 1871. He
opened the first postofhee in Grafton
in 1875 and served in that capacity
effect he would be paying only ,5 1-2
cents.
New Rate Not Contemplated.
"The council committee consider
ing this question of electric power
rates has not had in mind estab
lishing a new rate for the latter
part of 1921." said Commissioner
Zimman. "We are endeavoring to
ootam trom Adams information re-
specting the effort the . Ure or
dinance would have oti the revenue
of the company, . . ,,
"The committee was not prepared
to announce what rate will be pro
posed. After Mr; Adams has made
his report the committee will con
fer with other city commissioners to
formulate an ordinance regulating
future rates."
Asked what had been accomplished
by the meeting yesterday, Cor
poration Counsel Lambert said:
' I don't know."
Asks for Figures.
Mr. Robertson asked that 'Ac
countant Adams furnish hiri with
figures to show how he arrival at his
conclusions. Mr. Adams refused to
give the company blue prints of this
data on. Hie ground that the ordi
nance committee had not asked for
them, ' .: r-,(, i . '
"Adams admits he didn't take into
consideration many 'things which
greatly 10ui4 reduce bii estimates,"
declared Mr.' Robertson.? V'For in
. stance the; Ure ordinance gives
wholesale consumers Van,1 option of
three rates, the, present ordinance
gives them but one rate. It is cer
tain that .. this class of consumers
would choose a rate that is lowest to
them and thus decrease our revenue
by about $40,000 under Adam's esti
mate. . .-' ;
"Theii the Ure ordinance made a
more liberal allowance for peak con
sumption,' which would result in
many users regulating their con
sumption to hours when the peak
load did not exist, thus taking ad
vantage, of a discount provided in
the Ure ordinance and cutting about
815,000 from the estimate of in
creased revenue made by Adams."
' Lowers Gas Estimate. . .:
Adams estimated that the increase
in revenues from the Citizens Gas
and Electric company would be $40,
980. He shaved this by $10,000 this
morning, admitting that he had
based his estimate on assumed data.
A further reduction of $10,000
should be made in Adams' estimate
on this one item, according to Rob
ertson, because thre are no large
power users in Council Bluffs to
make up the reduced revenue in resi
dence lighting caused by the Ure
ordinance - -
A spal clause in the Ure ordinance
regulating rates to wholesale con
sumers, according to coal prices, also
would materially change Adam's de
- ductions, according to Robertson.
"We'll submit an authentic state
ment to' the ordinance committee in
a few days, applying the Ure ordi
nance to the 1920 business of the
f company," said Mr. Robertson. "This
statement will show that Adams' has
not applied necessary data in the
proper manner. 5
Mr. Adams is to leave for the east
-.tonight.- He will return m two
weeks "if necessary," he says.
Breach of Promise Suit
' For $30,000 Reinstated
The dismissal filed a few days ago
'in the $50,000 breach of promise suit
of Gertrude M. Craig against Joseph
Leopold, Omaha grain man, and
later repudiated by Miss Craig's at
. torneys, was explained by Walter E.
Child, Leopold's attorney, yesterday.
"The facts are," said Childs, "that
Miss Virginia Craig, a sister of the
plaintiff, brought a copy of the dis
missal to my office stating that the
original had been filed. Before going
to the court house to verify this I
found the dismissal had been filed
with the purported signatures of Miss
Craig's attorneys affixed, and which
I did not for a moment doubt were
genuine. Later 1 learned that plain
tiff's attorneys denied having signed
it and I consented to a reinstatement
of the case."
Lonesome. Tired,
Banker Writes,
Then Slays Self
"I Love Everyone, But Am
Worn Out," Joplin Finan
cier Says in Suicide
. Note,
100 Marine Will Arrive
.This Week to Guard Mail
One hundred of the 200 marines
assigned to Omaha to guard the
mails will arrive the middle of next
week from Cjuantico, V. Ya., Super
intendent J. H. Musgrave of the rail
way mail service learned yesterday.
Twenty-five will be detailed at
once to the postoffice, the Harney
street station and registered mail
truck. The other 75 will go on
duty at the Union Pacific transfer
and on mail trains out ' of Omaha.
Lntfl they arrive mail trains are be
ins: Euaifted by ex-service men ob
tained thfcugh the-American Lesion?)
I turn they arrive m:
ma; guarded by ex-:
tained tli fcugh the-A
Joplin, Mo.. Nov. 12. Amos Gib-
Son, president of the First National
bank of Joolin. and a former Kan
sas City banker, was found dead in
his room at a hotel in Mexico City,
iex. yesterday, accordmg tQ a dis
patch received by the Joplin Globf
last "night. . ,
According to the dispatcha revol
ver was clutched in his hand, and
there was a bullet wound in. his
right temple.
Directors of the First Nations!
bank, in a statement late last nisrht.
that a notice would be posted upon
the doors ot the bank today, an
nouncing that because of the death
of Gibson the bank would be close'd
today and would . remain jclosed
"pending action of the comptroller
ot currency at Washington."
"Lonesome and Tired."
A note left by the financier, as
quoted in the dispatch, read in part:
"I am absolutely worn out. Have
never done anything wrong, but am
lonesome and tired, so must quit."
''My bank in Joplin is absolutely
all right in every way.
"I have more than $85,000 in this
hotel. Cashier, send $75,000 to C. B.
McCluskey, Midwest Reserve Trust
company. Kansas City. Send $10,000
to .embalm my; body; ship me to
Kansas Lity. Wire daughter, Mrs,
Wallace Wilson, Joplin. Balance of
my money use to pay damage to
hotel.
i love everyone, but aitr worn
out."
Student's Wife Killed.
Dcs Mo:nes la.. Nov. 12. Pinned
between a truck and an automobile
in which she was riding here to
night Mrs. J. J. Baird. 36, was so
badly hurt that she died in a nearby
residence shortly af:cr the accident
occurred. Besides her husband, a
student at Still college. Mrs. Baird
is survived by two children Jack, 5,
and Kenneth, 7, and three sisters
and one brother, all of Toledo, O.
Omaha Shippers Await
New Rail Rate Schedules
The new tariff schedules covering
freight reductions ordered by the
Interstate Commerce commission on
October 20 and which will go into
effect November 20 have not ' yet
been issued by the railroad compa
nies, pending a final, conference with
the commission next Wednesday, it
was announced yesterday.
Omaha shippers are awaiting the
new schedules, which will cover
whatever reductions in freight rates
are finally agreed upon. The reduc
tions will range from 10 to 40 per
cent on different commodities.
Ex-Service Men Sought
By Red Cross Office Here
Valuable information awaits the
following ex-service men at the Red
Cross office, 210 Kennedy building
20a South Nineteenth street: J
Fred Reynolds, Julius Lafson,
Glenn Trent, Carl Johnson.. George
Wagoner, Thomas Cross, Henry
Estabrook, Earl H. Tiffany, Chester
W. Hanna, Ernest .-M. Linn, Ray
rrank Lucas. James Bailey, George
Nitz, Edward B, Peterson.
Louis J. Piatti Will
Leaves $40,000 to Wife
Will of - Louis J. Piatti, former
Omaha lwyer, leaving hi entire es
tate, estimated at $40,000, to his wife,
Mrs. Minnie Piatti, has been filed
with thi clerk of the county court
It narles Mrs. Piatti executrix.
and Johtj D. Wear, law partner of
the cecesVed, executor. ." i
Baron Takahashi
Is Named New
Premier of Japan
Former Minister of Finance
Under Hara Studied Eng. .
lish in U. S., 1867
To 1868.
Tokk, Nov. 12. Baron Korekiyo
Takahaihl, minister of finance in the
6 A
Hart cibinet, was named premier to
day. -
Toklo, Nov. 12. Bsron Takahashi,
who succeeds th murdered Jiara at
the hesj of the Japanese government,
is 67 years of sge. He speaks Eng
lish fluently, having studied the lan
gusfe in the United States during
186 and 1868. ,
While in America st that time.
Takahashi is said to have been held
In state of near-slavery for several
months through the machinations of
a guardian.
Teacher of English.
After his return to Jspan Taka
hashi became successively teacher
of English In clan school st Ka-
ratsu, principal of the Osaka EnglUh
school, and later an official of the
department of agriculture and com
merce.
Following thi first step up the
rungs of the political ladder, he wa
promoted to the presidency of the
patent bureau, which he resigned in
18V0 to engage in a silver mine ex.
ploit in Peru. The project failed and
Takahashi again came back to his
native land and took up finance in
the Bank of Japan.
Rise Rapid.
His rise in the business world was
rapid and in 1906 he became vice-
president of the Bank of Japan and
president ot the Yokohama Specie
bank.
Mother and Daughter
Accused of Perjury
Mrs. Ludmila Strilkt .and her
daughter, Marie Seemes," J528 V
street, were charged with perjury
by attorneys for Louis and Gait Mar.
golin in hearing for new trial be
fore District Judge Carroll O. Stauf.
fer yesterday.
Several weeks sgo Mr. Strilka
obtained a verdict of $5,200 againn
the two men for alleged misrtpresen.
t.ition in the sale to her of the Loyal
motion picture theater, 2410 Cald
well street
She represented herself at that time
as t widow and her d4ughter cor
ruborsted her testimony.
Lawyers for Louis and 0 ail Mar.
golin this morning put witnesses on
the stsnd who testified th.it Mrs.
Strilka hat a husband, Joseph, living;
that he hat been working in South
Omaha packing plants for two years,
and that although divorced from Mrs.
Strilka, he has been living with her
at her home.
Judge StaufTer took the motion for
new trial under advisement at noon.
An inventor has designed a shell
for bast drums with a door in one
tide to permit smaller drums and
other articles to be carried inside it.
Bee Want Ads Produce Remits.
Paul Skinner .and Family ,.j
Sail for Europe Dec. 10 J
Paul Skinner applied tor passports
for hiiimlf, hit wife and danijliter, ..
Virginia, at the emigration office in !
the federal building yetterday for a
short businett and plaure trip to f
Europe. They will sail on the v
Olympic, December 10. j
Missionary Meeting. !
The Omaha dutrict imniritinml I
meeting oft he Women's Missionary '
society ot tne uetnodist church will
be held in Walnut Hill Mrthodist
church, Forty-first and Charles
streets, next Friday st 10 a. m. Re-
ports of the national convention will
ne given. , ,
JOHN A. SWANSON, Trss.'
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WM. L. HOLZMAN, Treat.
A Showed of Gold Pieces Free!
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Gold Pieces
Free
with Individual
eth purchases of
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tkronghost oar
storeshop on a
transfer.
An Avalanche of Values
A
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Monday This Most Wonderful 36th Anniversary Event
Starts Anew With Renewed Energy and Enthusiasm
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Gold Pieces
Free
with Individual ,
cash purchases of
$."0.00 - or more
throughout onr
store shop on a
transfer.
Every Man
And young man who attends is astonished at the
remarkable double savings prepared for this
greatest of all selling events in recent years.
EXORMO US SELECTIONS V , -OP
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And miss is. talking about the money savings
available in the 36th Anniversary Celebration at
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full and half belted mod
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Finest Overcoats in the World, $60, $65. $75
Boys' Warm O'coats
Amazing Selections of .
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$10 $12.50 $15
Boys' 2-Pants Suits
Another Great Surprise in Value
Giving .
$10 $12.50 $15
Dresses Worth to $39.50
Such a furore of excitement
has never been experiened by
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selling history. The- values
outclass anything ever seen in
years at double the price. Se
lect yours early Monday.
Choice of the House
, Women's and Misses'
All Wool $1395
Sweaters . -a'
Tuxedo, cardigan and slip-over styles, in
black, navy, brown, tan, copen, green,
red. Any sweater in the house at $3.95.
Buy men's and boys' warm sweaters, underwear, shirts, neck
wear, gloves, night robes, pajamas, hats, fur caps, cloth caps,
shoes. Supply all your winter needs in winter clothing and
wearing apparel in the 36th Anniversary.
Extra Special
500 pairs Women's Moire Heatberbloom
Bloomers. Nary, black, brown, green, pur-
pie, red. Close fitting. Reinforced seat y
Ankle length. Most wonderful value ever
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Souvenir with purchase of $25.00 or more. Get a $5.00 Gold Piece
Anniversary Souvenir with purchases cf $50.00 or more.
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MAS GIFT-GIVING IN THE SiTH ANNIVERSARY
GET A GOLD PIECE FREE.
Special Note The $2.50 gold pieces are now at a premium in seme cities, the price
being $2.75 to $3.25, owing to the fact that the United States Treasury department
has discontinued the coining of gold pieces of this denomination.
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