Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 4, 1894, Page 8

FRANK WILCOX CO Bhoes that Speak Are Never Found--Prices, Though, Are Talking Big This Week. AT 1515 AND 1517 DOUGLAS STREET Many Come Farly and Take Their Own Time—Others € ¢ h for These Three Dollar Shoes, The reason why we expect to sell g0 many of these #3.00 shoa is because they are such elegant value for #3.00, the former prices for some of them being a8 high as 00, . We offer tomorrow to shoe the entire Come one at & city at reduced rates. time or in pairs and we will willing to fit you properly, and that's half the battle. Welts and turn shoes at this sale will bo as cheap as machine be here, sewed at other times. $3.00 SHOES WILL LEAD. $3.00 will buy any pair of five different stylesof $5.00 welt and turn shues, patent trimmed or plain. A $5.00 button for $3.00 tomorrow. A man’s $3.00 congress shoe that has always been $5.00, all widths, all sizes. The best value ever offered for $3.00. This shoe was made in Newark, N. T., and is one of the best in the country, and cannot fail to be a trade winner at $3.00. Our children's and misses’ shoe de- partment was never so filled with bar- gains, Some lines are cut right in the middle to move them in a hurry. Ladies’ sizes of spring heel shoes is a great department with us. Comoand bring the family tomorrow. FRANK WILCOX CO., 1515 and 1517 Douglas St. —_————— REAT FORC SALE. The 09 Cent Store Foi ng Down Prices to Clear Stock. ing down prices on tinware. Forcing down prices on crockery. Forcing down prices on glassware Forcing down prices on woodenware. Forcing down prices on everything. VALENTINES! VALENTINES! Comic and sentimental, the lurgest variety and lowest prices in Omaha. Visit us for bargains Monday and all next week. THIE 99 CENT STORE, 1319 FARNAM STREET. e w European Hotel, terday noon the new Hotel Ox- at southwest corner of 1lth and Farnam streets, was opened to the public. The building is nearly new and a thorough overhauling and renovating has taken place. A compiete new restaurant has been put in and the entire establishment has a new, fresh and inviting air aboutit. The Hotel O: ford will be conducted by Seymour & Wilkins in a first-class manner. Rates will be #1.00 per day and upwards. Fore ford, ety il Stationery, books, news, ete. W.T. White & Co., 113 North 16th street. LR RN R Tickets on salo at Hospe's musie store for the Sulmon piano recital Monday ove, February The ure. A Lehigh washer is a new depart- Seo it. e S A CI ap Trip to California. he Burlington route is now seliing round trip tiekets from Omuha to San Fran Los Angeles and San Diego at 8 about a cent and a half a mile. Isn't that reasonable? Tickets, berth, time tables and adver- tising matter at 1324 Farnam street. W. I. Vaill, agent. Gloves. Mrs. Porter, 1624 Douglas street, wishes to announce the arrival of a fine line of party gloves, 12 and 16 button lengths. All heavy gloves and mittens at cost for the next 30 days. Gloves cleaned by an entirely new process, 10 cents. LA R The Salmon piano rceital Monday evening. Fobruavy 5, at Y, M. C. A. Conceert hall. AL i Read the Lehigh washer adv., page 4. —— . Vodicka, merchant tailor, an- nounces to his patrons his removal to 1220 Douglus street, Millard hotel block. il Patten, dentist, removed 1522 New Grocery. R. 1. Weleh & Bro., in connectiod with their 16th St. market, have adden a complete stock of staple and fancy groceries, fruits and vegetables. Remember place, 16th and Capitol ave. S e Douglas. New attractions in men’s clothes mado of the finest woolensat Frank J. Ramgo's. TO CALIFOK % Via Denver and Salt Lake City. Patrons of the Great Central route weekly excursions to California via thoe Union Pacific can have their tickets read via Donver and Salt Lake City without additional expense. Send for folder giving details und advantages offered. I, I2. SHEARER, Manager, 101 South Clark street, Chicago. E. L. LoyMax, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Omaha, Neb. oo Valentines, stationery, books, ete. W, T. White & Co,, 113 North 16th street. Ll Every housokeeper wunts the Lohigh washer. Read adv. on page 4. e Best flour made, Sleepy I i e SPECIAL LOW RATES vo Cream, ‘To the Mardl Gras, Via the Wabash R. K, Commeneing today and continuing until Febraary 5 the Wabash will sell round trip tickets to Mobile and New Orleans at vory low rat For tickets, sleoping car accommodations and further information call at Wabash oftice, 1502 Farnam street, or write . CLAYTON, Ag't.,, Omaha, Neb, Ll . opp. postoftice. For interrupting you, but you may pos- sibly be going ecast. If so, there are a couple of trains you should really bear in mind. These ave ‘“Northwestern Line” Nos. 6 ard 2, ieaving union depot daily at 4:05 and 6:3v p. m., respectively, weriving in Chicago at 8:16 and 9:30 next worning. City ticket office, No, 1401 Farnaw st ‘THE_OMAHA_DAILY BE Something of Interest to Doectors. From time immemorial dectors have practiced medicine and drugs have been used, but the American drug store as it existe today is an institution of compar- ative modern growth. In the wood old colonial days there were apothecaries’ and chemists’ shops, in which were com- pounded prescriptions, and in which wera vended the few old-fashioned rem- edies that people had to be satistied with in those days, but the drug stores of today, with their large and varied stocks of drugs, as used by the various schools of medicine now in existence, wore then entirely unknown. Every day science is adding to its extensive list of remedies, and new discoveries in medicine and surgery, rendering it im- perativa for the druggist who hopes to keep abreast with the times to maintain a stock that was never dreamt of by the old-time druggist. There are, of course, a good many drug stores in our city, but it would be hard to find a more fully equipped esta- blishment of this kind than that owned by the Aloe & Penfold company, who, owing to the rapid increase in their business, have found it necessary to move to larger and more commodious premises and who will now be found loeated at 1408 Farnam street, opposite the Paxton hotel. Here can be procured, in addition to the staple drugs, numerous rave chem- jcals, a full line of patent medicines, a lurge assortment of all kinds of surgical instruments, physicians and hospital supplies, invalids requisites and pretty nearly everything that is needed in the instrument line by architects and sur- veyors, "his firm has also an optical depart- ment, which is in charge of W. L. Sey- mour, a duly certified optician, who is always pleased to test eyesight fre The facilities of this firm for filling difficult prescriptions are unexcelled anywhere. o gan A Seventy-Two Pound Rail Is the kind of a rail the Burlington ronte’s tracks are laid with. Every one knows what that means— the safety, smoothuess, comfory it in- sures: the speed it admits of. Tickets to Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis and Deadwood via the Jurlington route costs no more than via other lines. City ticket office 1324 Farnam s s s e o high washer office, 15 Barker block. e ey BUILDING AND LOAN. of Items Concerning Associutions, ARAPAHOE, Neb., Feb. 1.—To The itor of The Bee: About seven months ago I took five shares of stock, $1,000, in the Ocei- dental Building and Loan association of Omaha, with the intention of getving a loan to pay off an old mortzage, and their agent assured me that there would be no trouble it getting the loan in sixty days, as they had pleaty ot money. After carrying the stock seven months there seems to be no more prospect of getting a loan than there was at first, and Lam informed from a reliable per- son that the total of their loans in the state is but #0,000. Aud I understand also thut the state banking board about a year ugo passed resolutions barring out all” building and loan companies who were located out of ate. And this was done, in_my opin- 10, at the instigation of the ' building and 1 sociation of this state, as they did not want outside competition, which ineans choape If these associations were able, or willing, to do business themselves I would not enter wy protest. But Ido protest if the state hanking board is going to assist them to act the “dog in the manger.” Possibly I may be doing the board an injustice thinking as 1 do, but if T am right this matter ought to be thoroughly ventilated through the col- umns of The Bee and all other leadiug paper the people in these distressing times need cheap money and plenty of it. M. I REYNOLDS, [We know nothing of the manner loans ave mado by the association referred to. Ac- cording to the published report of the condl- tion of the association on December 31, 1503, first mortgage loans amounted 1o §28,8%0 and stock loans $2,2:5. he assets amount to which inciudes tae item of ‘“ex- penses and taxes paid,” #,757.78, equal to 12 per cent of the total. Tt is the common practice of share solicitors to muke false promises in order to effect a barguin, for as 4 vule their “‘commission” is the initiation fee of 81 a share. Mr. Reynolds' assertion that foreign associations were excluded from Nebrasku at the instigation of state associations, so as to prevent competition aud “cheap money” 15 without foundation. “The truth is tho foreign associations re- fused to comply with the state law, and the banking board could not do otherwise than refuse to issue certificates. The plea of “cheap money” has been industriously spread by agents of excluded associations for the purpose of evoking sympathy. It is false pretense. Experience demonstrates that loans by this class of associations in- variubly cost the borrower from 15 to 30 per cent more than a like sum from 4 wmutual association. Tho excess in cost is due to the nccessary oxpense of examining security at a distance, in- creased losses occasioned by insuficient se- curity, large salaries of ofticers and exces- sive office expenses, all of which, us shown by officinl reports, absorb from 10 to 25 per cent of the actual receipts. reet. A Bate perative Mutual associa- tions, on the contrary, confine operations to their’ immediate vicinity, incur no ex- pense for examination of security, and liave few saluried oficers. Profits are there- fore much greater than those of the former class, and, #s each member shares pro rata in tho profits, iv follows that stock matures carlier and loans cost less,—Id. Bee. ] e CURRENT NOTES, The Livingston of Platismouth is rapidly forging ahead. Subscrintions to its eleventh sories are coming in rapidly. The attorney general of Illinois has ren- dered an opinion to the effect that reserve or contingent funds ure not authorized by stuto law. In most states reserve funds are r quired by law. "The annual meeting of the stockholde the Omaha will bo held next W evening at the association’s oftice in ‘e Boe building. Three directors are to be chosen aod the aunual reports submitted. ‘The Nebraska of Omaha reports paid-up capital, $57.248.50; first mortgage loans, $4 700.84; stock loaus, $2.723.60, The intere: receipts foot up §47,784.50, and premium £10,051,65, of which$19,000.83,was d. The assots of the associution amount to 160 506,14, and taxes paid, $.900.81, State Auditor Gove of Illinois is making a thorough investigation of the busisness of Illinois_ ussociations, pursuant to the law passed by the lust logisiature. Besides the American and National, heretorore exposed, thie Atlasaud Templo of Chicsgo have been found insolvent and ordercd to make their deficits good within sixty days or the state will wind up thei affaies, The Ord (Neb.) association has collected and disbursed $22.857.21 in four aud a half years and expects to’ mature two years more. The ofiicers elevted are: €. B. Colla, presid . B. Getter, vice president; K. P. Clement urer; J. H. Capron. secretary, and a board of directors consistiug of J. H. Carson, J. F', Colby, M. Coombs, Frank Koupal, Lioyd, H. J. Lounsbery and Frank Misko, —— Maken to the Federal Court, Tho case of William Holmes, guardian of Jucob Vaverka, against the G. H. Ham- mond Packing company of South Omaha, hus been transferred from the district to the United States court, where it is slated for trial Vaverka was an employe in the packing house of the defendant and atleges that on September 1, 1801, while he was obeying the orders of the foreman and pushing o beef truck along a narrow track, the truck tipped over. He was thrown to the floor, some distance below, falling upon his head. He ut once became jusane and has been out of his mind ever since the fall. ‘The guardian sues for §25,000 damages, placing tho cause ol the injury upon the defendant and alieges a lot of lmperfect machivery, the series in BUCKING OF THE BEAUTIFUL How Monster Snowdrifts Are Oleared from Railroad Tracks in the West, USE OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC APPLIANCES Has Taken the Place of the Old- Time Shovel Plow—Very Few Have the Hardihood to Accompany ® Bucking Gang. Rotar; Technically speaking, In western railroad vernacular, clearing the track with plows is called “bucking snow,” and this name comes from the use of the old style shovel plow, by which the snow is literally “bucked oft the track. The old plow has now been superseded on most roads by the more scien- tific and effective “'rotary,” @ sort of gig: tie, inverted sausage mill, that chews the snow up and throws it out of a large funnel; vet fighting drifts on the railroad will prob- ably be known as “bucking snow” to the end of the chapter, such a hold do familiar phrases have upon us. Travelers who ride in comfortable drawing, room cars, passing for miles between waM§ of snow, have little idea of the work, hard- ship and even loss of life by which he is en- abled to do so. Since railroads were first built the snows of winter have interfered greatly with trafic. In former times, after heavy storms, it took armies of men days to shovel out the snow drifted into the deep cuts and open the roads to traffic. Heavy freight trains were snowed in and aban- doned, and whatever live stock they car- ried perished. Now there is but little in- terruption of traffic, for nearly every road is equipped with plows, and the tracks are kept constantly open. The suspension of traffic formerly so common would not no be endured. The pioneer in the work of fighting snow systematically was the Cen- tral “Pacific. When the route across the Sierra Nevadas was first proposed it was declared impracticable by many because of the great depth of snow that falls on the summit and remains from November till far into the succeeding summer. In the vicinity of Summit station I have seen the snow thirty feet deep on the level in Jan- uary, and even in June I have observed patches of it in shaded places by the side of the track, while it lay in mases in neighboring canons. The greatest danger from drifting but the masses that continually slide in resistfess masses t continually slide in resistless avalanche down the steep mountain sides. Against this defense is made by snow sh HOW SNOW SHEDS ARE CONSTRUCTED. Snow sheds are made of heavy timbers and iron rods, and are so constructed that their slanting roof forms a continuation of the slope of the hill above the track. An avalanche of snow that would otherwise bury the track from ten to forty feet deep or possi- bly carry it away to the bottom of the hill, is thus continued in its course unobstructed, and glides over the roof of the shed and dow! the mountain. Snow lies on these mountain sides to a great depth, until cleaned bare by a slide, and the roof of the shed must be strong enough to support a heavy weight. On the Central Pacific the deep snow belt extends for ninety miles, and for half that distance the track is protected by sheds, at an original cost of $10,000 per ‘mile. One streteh of one and one-half miles near Don- ner lake cost $75,000. Yearly there is a great expense for repairs. Snow sheds are @ succession of short wooden tunnels, through the semi-darkness of which tho traveler glides with little ap- preciation of the fact that over his head lies a deep bank of snow heavy enough to crush an ordinary structure. They are built in short stretches along the base of steep hills, none being required where the track crosses little mountain valleys or Is some vards distant from a stecp grade. In surn- mer they are very aggravating to one who delights in the beauty of the mountain scen- ery, since they are constantly sliding a_dark green before his eyes, with the tantalizing effect of an occasional absent board or an interval of a few yards. Especially in pass- ing along the side of the mountain overlook- ing the beautiful ‘Donner lake is one pro- voked into impatience, which is dispelled somewhat later as the train rounds the face of Cape Horn, and from the opposite side of the car the eye rest upon the rugged beauty of the American river canyon. These sheds are constantly guarded by watchmen, for fire often damages them, and occasionally sec- tions are prostrated by storms, and trains run into the debris and are wrecked. En- gines equipped for fighting fire ‘are kept in constant readiness to hasten to any point of danger. ON THE CENTRAL PACIFIC. _ The Canadian Pacific has followed the ex- ample of the Central in constructing long and expensive lines of snow sheds. In the Selkirk mountains is found the greatest liability to avalanches. At one time one of these slides covered the track to a depth of fifty feet for o distance of a quarter of a mile, and at another time an avalanche 200 feet deep struck the track and carried it down the mountain, across the valley and up the other side almost opposite its former position, and there the disjointed rails and ties were found when the snow melted in the spring. One can well imagine the fate of a train that might be in the pathway of such an avalanche. The sheds of the Canadian Pacific are very strong. On the side of the mountain above the track a crib of stones is constructed, while on the lower side of the track is built a timber trestle. the crib to the trestle, four feet apart and having the same slope as the mountain. These are covered with four-inch planking, and the beams are braced on elther side from the trestle and the crib. The distance of the roof from the center of the track is twenty-one feet. The longest shed in the Selkirks 1s 8,700 feet. This road also has sheds in the Rocky mountains. Other west- ern roads have a few snow sheds, but no extensive system, local conditions not re- quiring them so urgently. The Great North- ern has just completed the few it deems necessary on its new line across the Cascades, For the most part “bucking snow” to roads depend upon keep thelr lines open. Where the heaviest work of this kind is done Is on the Central Pacific in the Sierr Nevadas, on the Southern in the Sacramento and Siskiyou mountains, on the Union in the Blue mountains and in the Columbia river gorge, on the Northern Pacific and Great Northern In the Cascades and the anges of northern Idaho and Montana, and on the Canadian through the three parallel ranges of Gold, Selkirk and Rocky moun tains. Even in more level districts the the _snow plow is often in demand, but there the l work is easy and-free from dan com- pared with the mountain service. Probably the hardest job of rallroad clearing eve done was in the gorge of the Columbia river ten years ago. Ior days a blizzard that had lost its way in Montana somewhere and had started for the Pacific, blew down the gorge, piling up the snow in great heaps, and loosening huge masses of it on the steep mountain sides. Avalanche after avalanche tore down the sides of the gorge and piled At upon the track. This alone would ave been bad enough, but the many waterfalls that plunge over the brow of the cliffts and fall in beautiful spray upon the rocks beneath, and 8o charm the eye of the traveler as he s whisked by them in the summer time, added their contribution. he wind blew this spray far down the track, mingling it with the snow In one solid ley mass. It was use less to attempt to buck such a combination with plows, and for several weeks the track was closed untll an army of shovoler: opened it. For a quarter of a mile below one of the falls dynamite was used to break up this fcy mass so that the shovelers could handle it. SOMETHING ABOUT SNOW PLOV The first snow plows were diminutive af- fairs, resembling somewhat an ordinary plow with a double share and mould board, for turning a furrow in both directions, Grad ually the size was Increased, until at length immense plows standing as high as the locomotive's smoke stack were Intro duced. It was with such implements as these that “bucking snow' as a work re quiring great skill and herole fortitude made its greatest record, No one moving steadily on behind a grinding, spouting ‘‘rotary,' can conceive the nerve it takes to plunge into & thirty-foot snow bank with all the force Strong timber beams are laid from: l NDAY. FEBRUARY of six fifty-ton engisres going at forty miles an hour. That was f'bucking.’ w it 1s simply “grinding." The old method of)working Is very much Iike the flying wedge in a football game. Six powerful locomotives; attached to a huge plow, take a run of msquarter of a mile and attain a speed of forty or more miles an hour by the time they plunge into the solid wall of snow. The snow flles in great masses on efther siderof the track, the plow being brought to a fall stop in from fifty to 200 feet, sometimes completely buried. A large gang of men shovel out the rear engine, which is uncoupled jand run back, followed in the same way by alkthe others and the plow, Then comes a second plunge, and in this way the bank is bucked until a passage is made through it. Where gnow lles but a small depth on the track one engine with a plow can run through it steadily. It is only in the drifts and slides where this heavy and dangerous “bucking’’ |s required. Engines are often derailed and collisions sometimes ocour. Scarcely a storm In the mountains 18 fought successfully without injury to some of the combatants. This branch of rallroad service is not very eagerly sought after, except by those daring spirits who love the exhilaration of the sport and the spice of danger that attends it. NOT ENJOYED BY THE TENDERFOOT. Outsiders seldom ask the privilege of going with the snow plow gang to enjoy the nov- elty of the sport, nor are they wanted. They are in the The experience of C. K. McGlashon, editor of the Truckee Republi- can, on such a trip during the great storm of January, 1880, should be enough to satisfy all inquisitive persons that snow plowing is safer when done by proxy. A hurricane was blowing and the snow was drifting into cuts and the ends of sheds. Everywhere the sheds that had withstood the elements for ten years were threatened with collapse. ~ An express train plunged into a slide near Yuba pass and seriously in- jured the engincer and fireman. A freight train was wrecked by colliding with a sec- tion of a fallen shed and three men were buried. Five hundred feet of shed fell at another point, and the entrances to other sheds were blockaded, so that trains could not move. This was the condition of af- fairs when McGlashon concluded to go out with the snow plow from Truckee and have a little excitement, They rushed on with six locomotives, plowing their way steadily. At Cold Stream were wood sheds where it was intended to ‘‘wood up.” Just be- fore reaching that point, the plow- ing being so heavy, the leading engineer signaled full power, and the throttles of the six engines wore thrown wide open. They dashed through the drift, clear through the long line of sheds and far down the track before the momentum could be over- come. As the plow was clogged with snow and could not be backed without de- railment, it was uncoupled and the engines backed to the sheds for wdod and water, the snow gangs meanwhile going into the interior of the plow to kep warm, accompan- ied by the editor. Only the forward en- gineer aware the plow had been de- tached, and when the signal was given to g0 ahead, the other five cngineers, thinking they had begun another trip, started ahead full speed, and the six locomotives bore down upon the snow plow with frightful rapidity. In vain did the head enginer sig- nal for breaks. a down grade and the track was slippery now. When the men in the plow frighttul col- lission was about they rushed through the door at the rear, but could not escape because the snow banks on either side, cut just the width of the plow, were abrupt and solid and from four to six feet high. The only thing they could do was one at a time to climb the iron ladder in the rear of the plow and then jump upon the bank. There were eight of them. One climbed straddle the safety rope in the plow and clung ta it to withstand the shock of collisions The other seven made for the ladden Six of them jumped into the snow in safety, the last one being partly hurled by the shock as the leading engine struck the plow. The seventh man was the editor. His grasp was upon the last round of the ladder when the crash came, and he was hurled to the ground with great violence, after striking some portion of the leading enging. Jammed, twisted and dragged along in the narrow space between the locomotives and the. solid bank of snow he was in constant peril of being thrown under the wheels and crushed. It was so intensely dark -he.could see nothing, but realized that by lying perfectly still he might escape, yet knowing that at any instant some ~ projection of the iron monsters moving over him might strike him and carry him under the wheels. When the train finally stopped he was lying under the third engihe. The fourth was the only one that had a pilot. Had that reached him he would have been crusked. The last en- gine was reversed and had a small plow on the end. Death by that would have been certain. Beside the shock and a few bruises, he was uninjured, though the wheels had torn his overcoat and cut off a piece of the cape and a_corner of his sailor's cap. The plow was broken, and it was well it was, for not far away was the section of fallen sheds, buried in snow.” Had the great snow plow train dashed Into that debris, under full head of steam, scarcely a man would have been left to tell the tale. The lesser accident averted a greater. This was not McGlashon's first trip with the snow plow, but it was his last. A DARING FEAT. One of the most daring feats on record was performed during a heavy storm on the section between Emigrant Gap and Blue canyon. While the plow with five engines was within two and three-fourths miles of Blue canyon the rear four engines ran off the track. 1t was storming fearfully, and fully two feet of snow lay on the track. Three passenger engines lay at Blue canyon, but no help could be expected from them pull the locomotives upon the track unless the track was cleared. The ouly. vesource was to open the track to them with the single engine re- maining on the rails. Steam was nursed up to 130 pounds, and the neer was told that*he must clear the rack or land his en- gle and plow at the bottom of the Ameri- can river canyon. The throttle was thrown wide open and the fifty-ton engine, with: the forty-ton plow in front, started upon a race where an accident meant death. They were under free headway when the first drift was struck. On they flew with irresistible force at the rate of nearly a mile a _ minu dash- ing great masses of snow nearly fifty feet in the air as though it were the mers spray. Around the sharp curves they swept, on the very brink of the canyon, to the bottom of which they might be plunged at any instant to certain death. Not once was speed slacked, and three minutes trom the time they started, they dashed into Blue Canyon and upon the side track Kkept open for them to prevent a collision with the pas- senger train lyings there. When the news of their e arrival was flashed back by wire to the anxious men by the disabled locomotives two and a half miles up the track, they: cheered lustily for the men who had performed such a daring feat and even the seventy-five stolid Chinamen present mingled their shrill “ki-yis” with the more substantial hurrahs of the Ameri- cans. These are but simple incidents. On every road and every winter devotion to duty are s0 common as to call for no special record, for no braver and more falthful men can be found in amy portion of the habit- ablo globe than those who dally risk their lives on our Ameriean railroads HARRY L. L The Finameial Situntion, Bronnan, Love & Co., Paxton block, yesterday receiyad instructions from their eastern coppespondents to aceopt all good Omaha loans offering. to WELLS vy the Sleepy Eye Cream flour, 1601 -SIXTEEN IN SCANDINAVIAN ~ CIRCLES Improvements that Have Been Made Re- cently at Washington Hall, THEATRICAL DANISH SOCIETIES Loeal Stage Talent t Amateur—Actors Elect of Surprising ¥ About Individunls, Riges Above the OMcers - Tramp pour Notes Tho theater in Washington hall has been furnished with new sceuery and machinery, and is now one of the best outtitted Scandi- navian theaters wost of Cnicago, The scen- ery, which s very pretty, is painted by a Danish artist hero in Omaha. The appara- tus for chunging the scenes and lowering the drops is of a new model and works very quietly. It was put in place by tho two well known carpenters, Messrs. Rask and Lehman, Tho theater, under the management of Mr. Mathiescn, superintendent of the city hall, is occupied most every evening, and several good American companies that never would play before in Washington hall have lately performed on the beautiful livtle stage that is the pride of its owners, ths Danish association. The Danish Theatrical company played last Saturday the well known drama, “ather and Son,” for the bencfit of the Women's Aid association. There was a ver tendance, and the play was a greay success. Especially good was Mr. H. Schul as Old Blum. There was a sound, but often somewhat hard, realism in Mr. Schul's acting, and he was, in the last touching he play. the yery picture of sad s tehedness. Mrs. Ziran did some splendid acting as Mrs. Blum; Balrius, the old, cynical miser, found a good personator in Mr. Madsen, whose makeup as an old J fect and artistical The : company played well. Especial mention must be given to Misses Larson and Thomsen and Mr. H, Neble as the extrava- gant son who ruiis his old. honest father. The actors who play this year at Wi ington hall form one of the strongest an - theatrical companies that eve played in Omaha. Several of the I actors and actresses are artists of high rank and have performed at_the Royal theater at Copenhagen previous to their engagement for the Omaha theater. The actors held a business meeting in Washingten hall last Tuesday evening and clected the following offisers for the remain- ing part of the season: Manager, M I Neble; cashier, Mr. Tof 0 sen; stage manager, Mr. Wi h- Tramp Who Had Tal Mr. H. P. Ropensyerna, the Swedish me- chanic, haa a singular experience with a tramp who culled at his house the other night and asked for something to cat. Mrs, Ropensyerna showed him into the kitchen and gave the hungry and ragged but di tinguished looking man a good square meal, The tramp was very thankful for this kind- ness and said he wculd do what littie he could to pay for the meal. From his bandlo he got out a big sketch book and a piece of crayon and asked the surprised Mrs. Ropensyerna to pose for her portraiz. With a few masterly strokes he made a splendid likeness of the lady, tore the sheet from the book and presented the picture toher with a courteous bow. Mr. Rope the gifted artist to remain over nizht and promiscd to get him a good job the next duy. But the man would not stay, saying he had made a high bet with some millionaire in Mew York that becould tramp from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean having no other resources to rely upon than the well known hospitality of the American peonle for worthy but poor subjects. He had come this way all the way from New York and he bud suffered but very few privatioas yet, and he was sure ne would reach his destina- tion, the Golden Gate at San Francisco, all right. It was his rule always to pay for a kindness shown him with a sketeh of some kind. Among Local Scandanavians. Becker, ex-president of “Danebo," Council Bluffs has started to run his ex- press and parcel delivery business again, Mr. Becker intends to sell out this spring and go to Denmark with his family. The Scandinavians in Council Bluffs seem not to feel the bard times very much. Many of them have built themselves new and cle- gant homes. Rev. Dahlbom, minister of the Damsh Evangelical Lutheru church in this city, is takiog a course in medicine at the Omaha Medical college. Miss Thuresen, the well known nish school teacher, is also study- ing at the college and expects to graduate next summer. Mr.James Matzen, Scandinavian,assistant in Gray's photographic studio, intends in the near future to start in business for him- self. Ms. Anders Hansen of Council Bluffs, who met with a serious accident last summer has now recovered from his long illuess and is working again at his old place The young Dan’sh soldier at Fort Omaha who wits run over by a motor car and had bis leg broken, is reported to be very ill and the doctors fear for his life. Dr, Riis is_very sick with disease of the heart. He intends assoon as he recovers to go south to a milder climate. Miss Andressen has arrived in from Winnipeg. Mr. Sofus I'. Neble, proprietor of the Danish Pioneer, started last Wednesday on a hunting trip to Weston. Mr. ble has some vory expensive hounds and is one of the most successful and experienced amateur hunters in Oma ‘fhe Danish Athletic club gave a public performance and a grand ball m Washing- ton hall last Saturday. The drilling was very good and of greai honor to the club's popuiar leader, Mr. Nyguard. Especially fine was the fencing match Mr, 1 Bomanson is again in Omaha, Mr. Bom 18 acting as Scandinavian notary public and advertising agent for the Danish Pron he Danish Mr. this city Pioneer has bought all the new Job printing machinery that belonged to Jolkeblader Danncbrog in Council Bluffs, “This paper has removed its oftico from Scott to Main street. Mr. Johu Heinse, the popu- lar author of “From Dyppel to'San Iran- cisco,” is still editor-in-chief of Folkebladet Dannebrog that now belongs to an incor- porated stock company. Mr. Mynster is resident, Mr. Jens Jeunsen, jr., cashior; Mr, Larsen, secretary, Mr. Tiraw, who used to have a lavge pack- ing house in Dlinois, has sold out and re- turned to South Omaha, where be has taken up his old position with' the packing house here. M Scandinavian Glee club will give its first annual ball and concert at Washington hall February 24 Mrs. Ryan, the well known soprano, will assistand a play will be performed by home taleat. The Scandi navian Glee club is under the management of Ernst Nordiu, first violinist at Boyd's theater, who used to be leader of the Swed ish Singing association Norden and won the championship for this club at the convention In Sioux City last year. There is some talk among pavians about 1nviting the Damsh philoso- pher and author, Dr. Phil Georg Brandes, to come to this country and deliver lectures in the largest Scundinavian settiements, M, Brandes is one of the greatest modern thinkers and is well known to the iearned world, It was thoughu that he would ling Scandl Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair, *PRIGE’S Cam Baking SPowder. The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder.--No Amwonia; No Alum. Used in Millions of Homes—2s0 Years the Standard: styerna asked >AGES, accept the chair at the Chicago university that was offered him about a year ago, but he refusod for reasons unknown, The young and well known Danish journal- ist, Mr. H. Gudme, who used to bo secretary with TFolkebladt ' Dannebrog in Council Bluffs, has returned to Denmark 1o continue his studies of ancient languages at the Uni- versity of Coponhagen. _Mr. Gudfie has re- cently pubhished a book called “Of the Muin Road." This book g1ves an admira and interesting account of his traveis and adventures in this country and contains one chapter devoted to the deseription of social life among the Scandinavians in Omaba and Council Bluffs, Mr. s that ho at no othor plsce in America found so many intetligent and highly cultured countrymen as ho did in the twin cities. i TAX CERTIFICATES STOPPED. asurer Irey Will Walt for Ad- tlonal Clerieal Help, The parties who bought Douglas county Jands and city lots at the last delinquent tax sale will be surprised to learn that County ‘Treasurer Trey has called a halt on the is- suance of certiticates and that for the pres- ent no moro will be issued, Mr. ITrey stated yesterday t he had dis- continued the issuance of cortificates and that it was impossible to tell when he would again begin the work of making out the cer tificates for the property bought at the time of the annual tax sale. According to Mr. Troy's statement, the work has been dis- contiuued for the reason that the clerical force of the oftice is insufficient to carry on the work. Prior to the 1st of the present month there were eight clerks in the office, but by a reso- lution adopted by the county commissioners two of the men have been discharged, leav- ing but six available clerks. 'These men Mr, Irey states, are kept busy ail of the time in keeping up the routine work, thus leaving no time to be devoted to the muking out of tax sale certificates. So long as the present rush of work continues, Mr. Irey states that the sale matters wjll remain un- touched and that parties who own property that has been sold und on which the certifi- cates nhave not been issued, can settle by paying the principal sum and’ the accumu- lated pevalty and interest. In round numbers, the matter of sales on which the certificates have not been issued, aggregate 4,000, representing a tax of from §75,000, to §100.000, which is unpaid I'he commissioners in speaking of the n ter said that they had received no noti that tho treasurer had discontinued the suance of certificates, and that they take no action in the premises until the; been oftic notified of the fact. said that they had no desire to cur working of the office, but were of the opinion that the treasurer could get along with the present focce of clerks and at the same time get his sales out of the w They The settlement of the cstate of John C Shea, dece Is taking the time and at- tention of the probate court, with several lawyers assisting in the procceding Shea died a couple of years ago and a few months later his widow married a Coun- cil Bluffs man by the name of Murphy. Some of the creditors are now making a fight, claiming that Jane a the executrix, paid out’ estate money without first securing an order from the court instructing her to disburse the funds. In so doing, they claim that she has left unpaid certain claims which were ordered paid. They also claim that she has used estate money to pay off her private debts and that she has used the money of the estate to pay the expe of her family since her marriage with Murphy. Closed by Creditors, The shoe house of J. W. Shoeply at Douglas street Is in the hands of the credi- tors. Friday night Shoepy mortgaged the stock to Lillie Over and Nellie Sheeley, the papers showing the consideration to be 1415 Under this mortgage the mortgagees at once took possession, holding the stock un- til yesterday, when the Willlams-Hay- ward Shoe company attached. RO % Little pills for greav uts: Do} Barly Risers. AR R A Y Chinamen Slow to Be Gearyiz Of the seventy Chinamen who posed to make their habitation in Omaha only two have registered up to date. The local internal revenue oflice has received in- telligence, however, that the Six Companies of San Francisco have sent out notil to their countryméen advising them to register, 50 it is expected that the celestials will all gel i line before May 1. gt i g The Salmon piano recital Y. M. C. next Monday eve. i itesLivtle are sup- | verified. Pianos tovent. A. Hospe, 1513 Douglas | — ] MAKING THE TAXES‘STIVCK Oounty Oommissioners Docide Kountze Mema orial Ohurch Must Pay Toll, OLD SOLDIERS AND THE CHARITY STORE Goods There on Orders of Rellef Com Doctor Bills for Outsido Poor Cat by @ Half— Busin They May Get sslon Other 88 At the county commissioners meeting YeRe terday aftornoon the request of Allen Koch, as treasurer of Kountze Memorial Lutheran church, for cancellation o 1802 taxes was ro- fused on recommendation of the judiciary committee. Iu thew report upon the matter the members found that there was no au- thority to grant tho request, the petitioner having failed to make complaint at the propes time beforoe the bourd, of equalization. “The refusal was also for tho further reason thut portions of the lots belonging to the chnrch are used for otlier than re- ligious pur Tho pruyer of taxpayers and residents of the Second ward fora cancellation of 1893 taxos against lot 82 and another small strip of ground adjoining in Hartman's addition was granted The Soldiers' Relief commission in a come munication asked and was granted authority t0 Issue orders for provisions on the county charity store, where they will be filled the same as county orders, monthly payments for them to be made ab the order of the relicf commission and the warrants drawn in favor of the proper fund, the county reserving the right to terminate such contractat any time. The further provision is also made that only such things as are kept at the charity store shall be furnished and then upon special order blanks, roquisition for which shall be made upon Clerk Sackett Chairman Steaberg cast his vote against this proposition, believing, as he said, that it_would be humiliating to men who had served their country to £0 to the same store with the county’s poor ind obtain necessary provisions and this in the face of the fact that the legislature had created u special act by which taxcs were levied for just such purposes. The revenue so devived was turned over every year, By furnish orders on the county charity store the old soldiers were treated the same as other des- titute persons, and if such was to be mado a practice, the legislative oct would to o ce tain extent appear nullified. A number of contracts to furnish prov sions for the charity stores were entered into. The claim_of the meals furnished juro sum of 300, < DOCTOR BILLS CUT IN TWO. ¢ committee, ina_report upon ms presented by physicians re- siding in suburban villages' for services vendered the poor. recommended that a reduction of 50 per cent be made in the sums asked for, and that they then be al- lowed. Bofore talg a vote upon the recommendation Judge Stenberg arose and d that & bad precedent would be estab- lished if the boara concurred in_this. Such action would lead other medical prac tioners to also present vills and ther no telling where this would stop. By a vote of 4 to 1, however, the report was adopted. B. Morris was appointed as justice of the ce for Elichorn precinet. The mayor and city cleri of South Omaha asked the beard to refund a certain amount expended in the removal of election booths, which communication was referred. County Judge Baxter apprisea the come missioners that ex-judgoe Llier had now his possession the claim register of the county court and refused to turn it over un- loss reimbursed for extras, which e elaimed to have expene.’ 1 in the opening of the new book. The matter was referred. George B. Stryker's bond in the sum of 1,500, with Janies Walsh and M. O, Mauf sureties, was anproved A somewhat exhaus over the matter of passing the pay sheet for the luborers who have been given work at grading at Benson. Major Paddock was a stickler and wanted the' amounts properly In order to please him, the ooard took a fifteen-minute recess, while the char- ity committee authenticated the claims, warrants for which are drawn upon the 1891 bridge fund. Beforo adjournment Mr. Jenkins an- nounced that a session of the committeo Merchants hotel for was allowed in the discussion arose on charity would be held next Tuesday at 10 ® o'clock a. m. o hear tho charges preferred by the Central Labor union against County Physician Lanyon. WITHERS NAME ? THAT SEE Ile makes the Dbest set of teeth, He is the best dentist, Expert assistants, New Set Telephone 1775. Pull your TOOTH Dr. Withers’ Rooms 400 to 405 Brown Block, 16th and Douglas BUY .YOUR VALENTINES OF ——= W. T. WHITE & CO., 113 North 16th St : | | | 1 - STATIONERY. BOOKS, NEWS, MAGAZINT NOTIONS, POCKET CUTLERY. DON'T FORGET YOUR VALENTINES Best New Goods and Lowpst l’riflops Chas. -Shive rick & e FURNITURE. A complete assortment of all grades of furniture, from the plainest to ths most expensive, duced market prices, 1206-1208 Douglas St.’ recently purchas:d at the res 4 -~ -