Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 14, 1893, Page 3

B coverer can o [ | Grand Mid Season Display of Bargams it ‘ Ladies' Silk Waists pring Jackets Ladies' Gingham Waists Capes and Suuts. To make guick work of closing out our entire stock of ladies’ spring jackets nnd capes, we will offer them Monday at the following prices: At $3.95. All cur eapes und jackets, ran, prico from §5 1o $7.50, choice, §3 $7.50. All capes and juckets ranging in price R from §8.50 to $11, choice ) $10. Al capes and juckets ranging in price from $12 to $16, choice $10, $15. Ali capes and jackets ranging in price frcm $16 to 22 Choice $15 $20. B All capes and juckets ranging in price b from $22 to $35, choice $20. $8.75. Ladies’ suits, in blazer, Eton and but- terfly styles, in blue, green and tan shades, our regular $10, 812 and $11 suits, choice $8.75. $15. Ladies’ suits in blazor Bton shapes, in all the new cloths, our regular prices $16.50, $17.50, $18 ana $20, choice $15. Wrappers. Special values in ladies’ wrappers at 1.25, $1.85, $1.50, $1.65, $1 and $2. | + A eundless variety of patterns, choice | w Ladies'Satine Waists Ladies' Lawn Waists Ladies Percale Waists ‘We have received our full line of dies’ T waists for summer wear and will open the geason with some exceptional values, 100 dozen ladies’ waists made in the best of style, eight small pleats in front, joke back with three box pleuts and an 50¢c. 85 dozen ladies’ waists made of per- cales, satines and lawns, price all new goods w5 _and choico patterns, 750, Sl .00, worth Ladies’ silk walsts made of china sill, tandem style, the latest, only $4. Ladies’ black silk waists made Roman eash style, price $5.50. worth $7.50. Special line of fine china s1lk waistsin pink and cadet blue, with handsome polka dot ruflle to match, price $7. h $10.00. Ledies’ King waists, laundered, in all the oaew meterials and shapes, prices from $1.50 to £3.50. Ladies’ linen waists, beautifully fine white lawn and India immed with fine embroideries, prices from 75c to $3. ' BLHGK SHHN DUGHESSE worth 81, s,. on sale Mon- $1 oo day .. Creat Bargains In MOURNING ~ DRESS GOOD3. All Wool Batiste at.... (~‘im- I'mnvl\ :prgn 46-1nches 750 Jufllm h\flhlon Hop Basks ing iy $1 25 b4-inch \crk«u Bargnins in llull Goods lhupormr ;,r.\de ch;mn, a bargain . Fashionable and Serviceable SUNMER FABRIGS. PRINTED SATIN. Exquisite Frence Wash Fabric. 300 35¢ Pigured Mull, black with rich colorings. ... .. 35¢ Printed Olm\ndxm finvst 40c 50c¢ Figured Broch Organdy........ gradeare ST Swiss Ovgandies, lyem.uhxl du- signs, Creme, White, Muize ground. Black India Mull, for a cool and pretty dress, the tinest article fosat e et O CHALLIS. GHALLI. We have added many new styles Lo our ulreidy cnormousassor- MITTS, MIHS TS, Tan, Purple 118, all wuol Extraordinary ;,uud \uluq n Spun Sitk Mits. . " 25¢ Good Opportunity to Buy Some PRETTY DRESS GOODS AT BARGAIN PRICE. 65c. Very neat checks, pretty brown and tan effects, genteel and pretty stripes, in brown effects, 40 inches wide. 60c. See our French serge, 40 inches wide, all colors in stock. 75c. | Our English twills, in all seasonable shades. Don’t miss this bargain, 40 inches wida. Exquisite oflchts, silk and wool plaids, changeable. very rich, 50 inches wide, $2.00 French checks, neat and pretty, well adapted for tailor made suits, 48 inches wide, $1.25. For Traveling Press: Reliable diagonal suitings, pretty and serviceable shades, 50 inches wide, $1.25. cy weaves and tweed suitings in gray mixtures, 31 35. Changeable sou.,cn. 50 durable and stylish, 48 inches wide, $1.35. $1.15 For Capes. We have all the pew shades in this exta fine cloth. For traveling dress and . capes, just the thing: argains in :Silk and Wool Dress Goods For Pretty ar\d Cool Wa Creme grounds with small designs, pure silk . Wash silks for waists, worth 75¢, sale price Monday. i China and Japanese mlnlod silks, 24 inches wide, former price $1 and $1.25, sale price Monday...... . neat, 69c 50¢ 69¢c 85¢c 39c¢ Changeable armures at...... goc (hz\ngon\l)lo satin luxor $1 25 [i§ Inmlus\lk 29 inches wide, any shade. 85¢ Black Japanese silk at China and Japaness figured silks, former vrices 85¢, $1 and $1.25; on sale Monday.... Printed Chinasilks. the best Poungee, natur: nl culor, sale price. . ..ui Grenadine. A pretty plain mesh, very durable. 25 inches wide, $1.15, Striped grenadine, so stylish and eer- viceable, $1.2: The Hernani grenadine, $1.35. We have now on display our fine im- ported grenadines in very handsome styles. os grain, any shade, at 85c. Faille francaise, any shade in stock, $1.15. This is very a superiorsilk and o ;:rem. burgain, Velvets. Velvets Any shade in stock at popuiar prices: Violets, emeralds, mousse, myrtless browns, modes, tans, grays, etc 13 ful effects in uh.\ngvnhh‘ velvets; ri valvet plaids; superb effects in s!.ru)ud | velvets, ete. N 65¢ | 59¢! | go relable, 1210 KELLEY, STIGER & CO, New Laces New Laces Another large invoice just received. Rich all silk laces in black creme au beige, comprising «Point de Bourdown, Point de Gene, Point de Venise, Point de Irlande, Princess Olga, Dentella ('hnnlflly‘ Rich, delica te and soft finished Fine Cotton Laces in white, creme, ecru and beige, com- prising Point de Gene, Point de I lande, Point de Paris, Point Applique, Point Urnuv Fin 4’ Sici i, Louis XIV Velvet in all the fashionable widths. &% Theso have all been marked at prices that will sell them quick. Al the latest noveltios in veilings just received. Rich new ribbons for dress trimmings in every conceivable shades, including | the new greens, lilacs, heliotropes, pur- ples, browns, ete. Bring your samples. we can matceh them for you in Rich double faced velvet and satin ribbons in Rich velvet ribbons (linen back). Rich sutin and gros grain ribbons, Rich double faced satin ribbone. Rich faille francaise ribbons. Rich plaid and changeuble glace rib- ' bouos for hat ribbons. Latest novelties in belts, over 40 di ferent styles to select from, comprising gilt, silver, Persian, silk and velvet,with rich filigree metul buckles, from 50c to 85 each. The new ribbon bodice belts (some- thing very new) in bluck, creme and col- | or: s, Ladies’ shopping chatelainesand trav- eling bags in all the lutest shapes and new leathers, from 75¢ up to $8 each. Latest novelties in purses, card cases, combination pocket booke, portmonies, and small coin chatelaine: ‘We are showing the finest line of fine silk umbrellas ever exhibited in Omaha. Made of the best materials, in the best manner, in all the newest designs, in fancy dresden and natural wood handle: Special values for Menda, Ladies 26 inch umbrellas at $1.00, $1.50, $2.00. $2. and $3.00. They are worth from $1.50 to $4.00. er Fa Streets. Ladies’ Underwear. 420 Gowns. 20 dozen gowns in all g1zee; all fresh, new goods with plun(ml )oke and nn} ished with pretty embroidery, regular 75¢ quality; choice Monday, 4lc. 58c Gowns. 14 dozen, better quality, with hard. some tucked yoke and teimmed with pretty hemstitched embroidery, regulae Qe quality; choice Monday, Bie. 50¢ Corset Covers. 12 dozen fine qualities of corset covers, odd sizes, regular value 75¢, 850, up to $1.25; cholce Monday, 6'c. 45¢ Drawers. 10 dozen fine muslin drawers, with 8 fine tucks and wide embroidery; regular 60c quality; Monday, 45c. 50¢ Corsets. Ladies’ strip corsets, regular 75¢ qual= Monday, 60c. Summey Corsets 50c. Ladies’ Silk Mitts. Extraordinary values in Ladies’ Silk Mitts. 50c Theso goods will remain on sale until these lots are closed, after which we shall be obliged to get 25 per cent more for the same grades on account of*the marked advance in raw silks. The same argument applies to our silk gloves. We have now in stock the Knyser patent tipped finger silk gloves (double end fingers), which we shall continue to sell at the old prices until closed out. ‘White Chamois Silk Gloves Nothing more comfortable or stylish for summer wear. These gloves are ble and very desirable. Sale price $1.00. actual value 86c. ot 1— ufl(h)lon ladies’ black silk mitts at.. actual value 50c. 5(ltimcn lndlcs blm-k sillk mitts at.. L ot 3— 100 dozen ladies’ blxuk silk mitts at. actual value 750, rnam and Fifteenth CALLING. ROBBERS TO. TIME World's Fair Abuses Being Attended To by the Management. RESTAURANT EXTORTIONS TO BE MINIMIZED Bouthern Slave Driver the Pink of Polite- Compared with the Columblan Guard — Some of the Other Abuses Complnlned OF. Cnicaao, 11, May 13.—[Special to Tne Bee.]—Some oue, somewhere, somo time or other, expressively delivered himself of a statement something like this: thing here is taxed except air,” The indig nant outburst of exaggeration must have been to this same writer wholly inexpressive of his feclicgs if he chanced to be contem- plating the magnificence of the Columbian exposition a week or ten days ago, At that time the fair directory had not granted any concession for breathing privileges and the multitude was filling its lungs with a some smoke, too—fres of cost, tis there was anything else thereabouts that wasn't taxed from 200 to 300 per cent its dis- win almost as much honor as Columbus kimself by reporting his find to an aggrieved public. Assuredly the article would be entitled to a distinctive rank among the features of this big show. That was tho condition of things people found who c: here about the time the button was pres 3 A mighty protest soon began to arise against the odious extortion. The American people, in the words of the lare Mr. Barnum--who . knew them passing well—love to be hum- bugeed, and yot they also love to kick pro- dh{‘munli' when suflicient cause presents itself, Before they had seen a fraction of Juckson park they” set up a furious kicking, The director general, admitting that the fair was never designed as an institution for the promotion of affuence among the own- ers of restaurant and other privileges, but rather for the benefit of the public, set avout to investigate. Peters from Paris taxed you 10 cents for the use of his knive: and forks while ) ite, & piece of barefaced fmposition so autdacious that the directory hasn't yet squelched it Paul from bury for a caviare san from Bagdad Mouchod” you for 75 cents for a plate of roust mutton, and so ou all the way down e line until you must cither bea million- aire rh“dnllnup!sl or an insane pauper to indulge in such a luxury as an appetite while yet within the es of Jackson The ‘“‘concessionnires,” us they are called, plastered on a dosé too thick ut the start, and have been called to time by the appointment of a special com- mittee of inspection to which they must sub- mit their bills of fare before they can do The effect is to reduce the rob- te it, as there are still many harging, A caveful exeursion- ake his way through without being sandbagged, just us he could before, by careful financiering. There are plenl%o! rostaurants where a first-class meal may be had for 76 ceuts, and that is what & person wust hay when traveling anywhere. Aman of less cultured tastes may gorge himself in any of the catering compun, restaursuts for halfa dollar. If he is e nomical he can buy 25 cents worth of lunch outside the grounds und by the expeuditure of an additional 10 cents at one of the coun- ters can regale himsolf with a cup of good hot coffee, The matter of food at the fair is like many other things, @ot yet perfectly rogulated. As every one who is here know the fairis far from complete. 1f you post pone your visit until the widdle ‘of June or the first of July, when verything should be in spick-and-span unh-r, many abuses will have been abuated and regulations imposed that will have the effect of making the fair what it was intended it should be—a great l;op-uur institution, a pleasurable ufi jonal establishment for the benefit of the Freat mass And the use of that word masses leads to a fruitful topie, Suuday opening—there's the buge prob- em in which the common people are inter- ested. Will the fair be opened to the toilers who have no other holiday. or are the blue laws to obtain and the hundreds of thou- sands to be turned away—not back to their homes, but into vicious haunts the gates of which gapo for their prey, whose promoters are abroad with lariats to draw the unwary into their gilded palaces of iniquity. The common people are pounding at the doors of Jackson park. ‘They were there doing it literally last Sunday 100,000 of them. But the gates remained barred and the crowds went elsewhere, ‘Where! To be robbed by the thousands of fakirs whose cstablishments surround the grounds. To the gambling dens maintained under the special protection of Carter Harrison—one of them is run within a stone’s throw of the main entrance on Stony Island avenue under the pretense of & dime museum, and you may secure any kind of a game from mumblety-peg to “brace” faro, To the tinsel mansions whi 1y a good man's life hus been wrecked with soft prat- tle and siren smile to the accompaniment of popping corks and vigorous ic. The saloonkeepers, the di and the fakirs would gladly fund equal to the total of Sunday admissions and turn it over to the exposition company if it would keep closed. But the clamor continue until it assumes the of a rebellion, Then the gates may be opened. Some Jif they 10t thrown open by due process of luw, sxposition compuny will find itself called upon to put up new turnstiles, because our American people are impulsive at times, Put that same crowd outside the gates that jammed in front of President Cleveland May 1, and how long, think you, would they reniain closed? Not twominutes, were there -{’u ml:o more Columbian guards to keev them acl OMcloustoss and Iguorance of the Guard, A word about these agricultural tin war- riors—those Columbian sold n their martial habiliments, their bits, their souvenir swords and their superable officiousness. By comparison the gia slavedriver was the veriest Chester- avity and decorous i W48 @ WOrse nuisanc A eatables extortion, because you could stifle hunger and you can't stifle the inborn freedom of an American. 1f you are & Russian or a foreigner who has been under constant espionage the guard would not keop you on an imaginary flooring of needle The guard for the most part comes from rural baunts, is unlettered and unman- nered. The blue uniform fills his stomach with a sense of authority no crowned ruler ever dreamt. He must assert himself or he will be overc ome by his feelings. You ask and he will tell you “over nm e, pointing in an indefin- ite direction us he strikes a theatrical pose. He will tell you the St. Gaudens Diana on the ag cupid, that the peristyle is the midway plaisance,’ that the administration bumlding s the service, that horticulture is agriculture, and if you trust him you will go home with o dim and hazy comprehension of what you have sc ut the fai While the “smoke ordinance" was effective it was then the guard was in- tolerable. If you didn’'t happen to know the rule, and was proudly puing a fine Ha after a comfortable lunch, he would ady in o peremptory fashion uud yell at ut out that clg If you were not quick enough to suit him he would assail you w: epithets and follow you for three to impress his authority upon your soul, The anti-smoke nuisaunce was absurd and pro- voked a storm of indignation. It was re- cently decided to allow people to smoke out- side the bulldings, The order has limited the powers of the guard, and though he is at o great disadvantage he sull wmanages to make himself obnoxlous enough. Here 18 an Agreeable Contrast. The young and scholariy appearing indi- vidual wno furnishes the propelliug power for the rattan chairs in which people are wheeled about the grounds, for a considera: tiou, offers a striking contrast to bis brother employe who wears the badge of military authority, He is generally acolleg who finds this a clever way of sccing the because he gets §1 a day and 10 per cent eceipts, Any woman will fina this a pleasant way of making the trip when she grows tired of walking. The guides are well informed. Some of them actually con- found you with their knowledge and their classical chatier. There is one here and who cam deliver a discourse upon will mythological and modern art, the architect- l ure of every structure and the name of the author, He will tell you the grand lagoon is broader and more beauti- ful than that of Venice; that this buildin is Corinthian, Elizabethian, Pompelian or Romanesque; give you an accurate history of the discoverer's ex- vloits; give you statistics about space occu- pied by the ‘various buildings, and fill you with information that makes you feel w fully ignorant. He will do all this for 50 1 hour, and you don’t have to tip him, use be scems ibove that. Some of the guides who are willing to receive gratuities are complaining that they don't average a up per diem. *‘People get robbed so much, you see,” one remarked to me, ‘“that they don't jar a cent loose unless they are forced to.” In this connection it must he said in justice to the ‘‘concessionsives” that they are not wholly to blame for the ex- orbitant rates that have prevailed. The ex- position company assesses them 25 per cent of the gross rece and they expect to muke the public pa o indircetly the exposition company is overcharging. = But the in y out, and U is probably rou must purchise a H-cent ticket before you can avail yourself of the luxuries of a toilet room. There are said to be some of these places on the grounds which are free, but no one ¢iv you a guide to them and I haven't had a view of one ina two weeks jaunt about the park, Shrewa Advertlsing Scheme, The Thomas imbroglio, made the subject of an inquiry by a subcommittee named from the national commission, is really a teapot tempest. after all, and yet it has only demonstrated the shrewd methods manu- employ nowadays to put them- s conspicuously in the public eye with- out the payment of the usuuladvertising rates, An amusing commentary is offered in the advertisement published recently by the piano firm which has been involyed in the Padergwski-Thomas row. It in the Evening Post, the newspaper which has h ampioning the cause of exhibitors nst the ‘“sandabagging” piano firm in N A A 4 solemnly humor- ous fashion that it (the firm) was in no way responsible for the publication of the article in the Post; that ‘n justice to the Post it (the firm) feit called upon to deny that the articles were inspired for advertising purpo: ana coucluding with an invitation to investigate the piano at the firm’s ware rooms, Thie main complaints about the fair man- agement have been summarized here, The public has another complaint—excessive hotel rites—but that is something over which the exposition directory has no jul diction. They are high enough, of course. Everybody in Chicago expects to make money out of the fair. Ina large measure the fair is & Chicago institution, the hotel proprietors D ;_oml lluuk; and kun\\ hnv\ I.u use it. b 3 less do not need thousands of furnished rooms in locations all over Chicago. They can rented for 815 a month or less for a single room up to $500 a month or more for a suite, There ure more ways than one of living here, and it can be done at a reasonable cost. at huh-l« Murriage Licenses. The following marriage hcenses ued yesterday by County Judge Name and address. {John O, Anderson, Omaha. ... 1 Mutilda Chiristisnsen, Omahia ) James Rybin, South Omiha 1K ab, South Omubi. I\llunn. Umllh-l . Wilirot, Omabia. § Swan Johnson, s 1 Minniv Erickson, Ouali yJohn Johnson, Owaha i Christina Chrls § Henry Chuuka, Omaha 1 Mary Voksa, Owuha § Martin E. sealander, Omaha, 1 Hannah Thompson, 'Omuha were ls. Catholie Church Chang Bavrivone, Md., May 13.—Cardinal Gib- bous has received a cable from Rome an nouncing the election of Bishop Kain of Wheeling to be coadjutor to the venerable Archbishop Kenrick of St. Louis, with the right of succession, and the erection of Du- buque to an archiepiscopal see with Arch- bishop Henunessy, the present bishop, as first archbishop; also the translation of Bishop Burke from Cheyenne to St. Joseph, OF PREHISTORIC NEBRASKA When Monsters Mightier Than the Mastodon Moved Over Douglas County. OLD OCEAN ROSE AND FELL ON THE LAND Then This Glorlous Pralrie State Was an Estuary of the Surging Sea—Geolog= Ical Evolution of the Site of Omaha, One of the papers read av tho “scientific conversazione” at Creighton college Thurs- duy evening was on prehistorie days in Ne- braska. It possessed an interest that will appeal to a wider cirele than enjoyed it that oner Fur and his treatment of the ructive subject was tresh and entertain- ing. Maps,specimens and pictures lent ma- terial aid to the in elucidating his paper. This is the paper in substance: The earliest or first era of geology in N braska is wanting. So, too, are the silurian and devonian ages. Before the carbonifer- 4 was occupied by an arm of the ocean; over the fertile plzins of today rolled the sea, thousands of fathoms deep. With the beginning of the carboniferous pe- riod the eastern und southern portions of the state underwent a change. Douglas county was alternately d above and lowered below sea level; during this time deep scas and shallow seas, quiet seas and turbulent scas, swamps and bogs predomi- nated. The carboniferous deposits occupy the eastern portion of the state. Thus far only one thick marketable bed of coal has been developed in our carboniferous meas- ures. This is in the western part of Richard- son county. Other coal beds exist in this region at & geologically higher horizon, b nowhere have yet been found of suff thickness to Justif. opment. The Union Pact ion well struck the lower boniferous and we have suffc authority to state that they reached the coal horizon, The artesian well at Lincoln struck a 80-inch bed at a depth of W9 feet, At Ponca coal was encountered 415 feet thick at a depth of 574 feet, and at Brown- ville a feet. Most of my audience will remember the excitement of 1886 when coal was struck at 540 fect at what is known as “ller's well, ‘T'his is smdoubtedly the bed struck Pone: have here the borings u( the “ller well.” At a depth of 540 feet u #1g-foot coal vein of fairly good qus Swas struck, underlaid with sandstones aud differe utly colored lime- stones, impregnated heve aud there with soda. These borings indicate that while the upper carboniferous measures are ba the lower beds wmight be and probably will be worked. lity Douglas County In Carboniferons Era, An ideal view of the carboniferous period of what is now Douelas county would show no Capitol hill, no Walnut hill, no bluffs, no Missouri ridge; all was a marshy forest teeming with vegetation. Some of the trees of the time were extremely beautiful. The sagillarias, with trunks like Hluted Corin- thian columns, ornamented with seal-'ive impressions in vertical ks, with » few arge branches und long needlelike, taparing ves, were unfit for anything but to riinis- * o the beautiful and make coul. Animal life from the preceding ages was still abun- dant. - Cereal e Gpal age p.sm-u away and was suc- ceeded by the vermiun. We have the rec. ords of the earlier part of this aze, but not the latter, because Nebrasks reached such an elevation that its seus became drained and there was no place left to stow away the debris and worn out life of the times, but while it lusted there was no lack of moisture and vegetation, In Nebrasia the western boundury of the permian jasses a little east of Liucoln, extending to Heatrice and thence 1010 Kapsas. The most cmarkable product of this age were 1t remackable Lmestones. Here are found the blue. under! low and then a grayish ¢ There are no known depos part of the permian and of the triassic jurassic periods in the eastern half of N braska. This region was a land surface dur- ing that time. All geologists agree that these periods must have lasted 315,000 years. The imagination alone can fill in this last page of our geological history. Nebraska then drained westward and its land animals were carried there from the river bottoms where they had perished. Among these is probably the largest animal ever found in the rocks of any age, the atlantosaurix im- manis, The gigantic proportions of this animal put to shame the wastodon of more modern times. aid with ye! Nobraska's Native Monsters, Imagine such an animal in this hall, his horny back touching the ceiling and extend- ing the length of the halland through the corridor to the front of the college. _Another large animal was the dimosaur. These ani- mals were probably the largest land animals Godt ever The thigh bone of the dinosaur measures from six to eight feet: its head measures four fect and was armed with x horns like a rhinoceros. For un- se land reptiles floundered on s ns. The closing pe well represen fod of the reptilian age is in Nebraska. During this stern west side of the the M uri above Culhoun extended into Towa and Minnesota. This sea swarmeda with fishes, somo of which were most rapucious. iles, too, were abundant. The icth of the erocodile character. The s large and produced into a long and pointed snout, resembling that of a crocodile, except that was larger and had the nostrils close as in the whale, and not near the end of the snout, T'he jaws were furnished with arge series of powerful teeth, The fish- Lthe four paddles, and especially the powerful tail, made the icthyosaurus active in his movements, The plesiosaurus had the head of a lzard, the teeth of a crocodile, and a neclk of enormous length, re- sembling the body of a serpent with the trunk having the proportions of an elephant and the paddles of & whale, It swam upon the surface, arching back its long neck likea swan und occasionally darting down at the fish. Large tortoises were found here, Some had a spread of cxpanded flippers fifteen feet in extent. Here also have beel found the largest of flying reptiles. The pterodactyl messured twenty-five feet from ip to tip, with a long snoutel head and neck much resembling that of a bird, bat- like wings and a small trunk and tail. These wing-fingered lizards were long a puzzle to anutomists. The s nd form of the claws show that the pter pable of perching, birdlike, on of "hanging against perpendicular surfaces, or of stand- ing on the ground and hopping 1 The bird life also y 00k of the reptile. ‘These birds disputed the empire of the air with the huge fiying reptiles to whom they were more or less distantly related. When Old Oceun Vacated. The mesozoic age was brought to a close by the upheaval of the rocky ruts. The whole plains sympathized with this movement, which so elevated the continent and ext i nated the sea that Nebraska has ne since been subject o the sway of the oce The first eocene epoch of th wanting in Nebraska. I’ at that the eocene and part of the miocene passe sy before Nebraska was again submerged into a fresh water sea, T'his sea of the plains, called the White river basin, extended across the western part of Nebraska, through Dakota and far into Mauitoba, While the western part of Nebraska was a lake bed, the eastern par as dry land. The vegetation of this epoch as thick and luxuriant. Animals roamed around the shores of the great wiocene lake in countless numbers phants and mam- moths, those living mountaios of flesh, were represented by several species. The mam- moth was an immense animal. Its height was from fifteen to seventeen feet, while its length, including its tusks, measured from twenty-five to thirty fect. Had we lived then in what is now ( ha and started westward on & journey we would have im- agined ourselves in one of the paradises of the tropics. The climate wus congenial in It elevation was so an eminent degree. (iroves of sequoias, oy- press, dates and palms were inlerspersed witd wagnificent savaunabs. ‘Ihe songs of | 10,000 birds, many of them of the most beau- tiful plumage, would have greeted our cars. rto our buffaloes, would huve sten cropping the g At other Points hierds of elephants, mastodons and even the large megatheriums would be seen quietly proceeding to some stream to indulge ina bath. More curious than all, those won- derful three-toed horses_ would have ¢ vated the young people of our party. Rea ingz the great western Nebraska lake, a dino- saur micht have been seen wallowing in its waters, while thousands of water fowls rode the gentle waves. It wasa phy paradise, for violence, repine and -murder were the exception nd not the rul imal life is generally happy w and this was especiully the case dur pliocene times. Then Came the Ice and Left the But the glacial epoch was at h temperature became low. The snows winter accumulated too rapidly to be re- moved by the summel rmth. This tinally resulted in the glaciation of Ne- ins. Buton retir h its greatest deposit is Its value for agricultural purposes exceeded nowhere, 1t pre Is overat t three-fourths of the ska, ranging in thickness S 150 feet. It is readily seen how the earth was being prepared for man. Al forms of animal life have their culmination and highest expre sion in nim. modified the plauts of the ¢ guidance the grains and lnd o high perfection, Light, electricity become his obedicnt servants, his scientide investi out limit, But it When Adam and F they had only their bare hands with which to cke out an ex- engenuity was sadly taxed for wi 4{?0“'41(]’ off nd defense. This closing view is the idea of sowe artist of the first appearance of man, Clothed in skins and armed with his stone hatchet man comes upon the scene, The people of Nebraska have a wonderful inheritance of wealth, beauty and power in their fine chimate and rich lands, and as they become couscious of this they will more and more lend u helping hand to the processes of nature for the development and utilization of the material wealth of Nebr; 5 is of N five to Pollce Paragraphs. Wilky Wilson, who is the posses a dozen aliases, is badly wanted by the iff of Solano county, California, for the mur- der of the night watchman at Rio Vista, in that county. He is said to have lived in Omuha. A'reward of $300 is o¥ered for his arrest B. V. Goul is accused of having tried to ay payment of u $15 board bill at the Mercer hotel by letting hus trunk down nto the alley by means of 4 rope, his obvious in- tention being to escort d trunk to purts unknown. Mr. Goul languishes at the sta- tion. J. M. Dougherty aused the arrest of 5 son and others for cutting sod wise trespassing upon tho property of John A. Creighton in the vicinity of HaBcom park. Mr. Dougherty been troubled in this matter for two years past und thinks he now has the re- sponsible parties Saloonkeeper Michael T. Burke was sentenced Lo pay a fine of $100 and costs of triul for keeping his place of business open on Sunday. Antonio Rosseeau, with $41.65 belonging to an Italian barber on Twelfth “sureet, between and Douglas, in whose employ au was, is supposed 1o be in Chicago basking in the swiles of bis vietim’s siste-in-law, who departed for the Cattle City yt-ulvl‘tln( at the same time that Rosseau bid adieu to Omaha, Mrs. Moore's heuroost at 4727 North Thirty-eighth street was entered last night and twenty-seven choice Plymouth Rock chickens stolen, —_— Died in the Senate, Owmana, May 12.—To the Editor of Tus Bee: Will you kindly state whether a law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes was passed by the last legislature and if so wlwlhur this law will go into effect on July 17, *** Such a bill passed the house with practic- ally no opposition and went Lo Lhe seuale, but was never heard of more, has ALL TALKING WATER POWER All Along the Platte River They Are Looking Into It. GOTHENBURG IS THE BEST MODEL Some of tho People Who Have Been to that City to Invostigate and tho Im- pressions They Obtainod — Opine lon of an Emincut Engineer. A number of prominent people inter- ested in water power in Nebraska went to Gothenburg on the last excursion run by Mr. Green to that city. Among them Hon. L. D. Richards of Fremont I, Ainsworth of Council Blugs. Ainsworth is one of the best known engfineers in the west, having had charge of the ., E. & M. V. R. R. sur- s and construction fora number of were and J My Mr. Ainsworth was seen yesterday at his residence in the Bluffs and asked his opinion of the water power at Goth- enburg, he stated that he had gone there simply as a sightseer, and not to make a thorough examination of the canal and reservoir, so0 that as professional man he would like to go on record ving that the splendid water power was all that itis claimedto be by the Gothenburg people. The appearances, however, were all dicative of a large and permancnt water supply. The res- ervoir was large and at the power house the “head” appeared such as would be expected in a plant where there was & considerable fall, “There is a dredge now at work at the mouth of the canal wid- ening itand they tell me it is to be made about double its present width all the way to the head. “We mere at the head and all along the canal, and there is no question but what if the supply of water can be maintained the rmanent power will be sufficient to conduet a great many manufacturing es- tablishments,” Mr. Ainsworth is a conservative man who would authorize no statements as coming from him that would in any way mislead people, but it will be seen that the impression he od was much the same as that all visitors to Gothenburg receive, A number of Omaha people will go on the next excursion which leaves Omaha Thursday, May 18, - Touched by Thieves Vincent Dervois, residing on Farnam streets, had from him, Mr. Sam Cotner, in the Board of Trade building, mou the loss of 4 valuable me Ur- chaum cigar holder, valued at §25,which w stolen from one of the drawers of his dc,xsk Friday. A pearl scurf pin is what Frank E. Smith of Eighteenth and Dodge streets lost Friday night while on the motor from South Omaha, He thinks some thief abstracted it from his v ep. ¢ in man is some- what shaken this morning, Yesterday the doctor, who resides on Seventeentb and Capi- tol avenue, handed his hired man 4 $10 pill 1o get it changed. He went, but up to noon he had not returned. While Mrs. Ferguson of Pifty-second and ANIes AVENUe was on i bn..rmuu expendition to Bennett's store she had her pocketbook, containing § in money, snatched out of her hand by two young :uls iu front of the store, after which they made haste to get out of sight. A valuable overcoat was George Cnatfield of St. Joseph. Mo., yesters day at the annm Pacifio depot. Thirty dollars and costs was the fine ime posed upon Jumes Dale for vagran Zleventh and $33 in money stolen stolen from