Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1900, Page 27

STRICKEN WITHOUT WARNINC Judgs Cbarles Ogden Attack of Heart Failurs, CONDITION SAID TO BE PRECARIOUS Former Suffers Chatting with ©r eemed (o He in Usunl 11 Former Judge Charles Ogden was stricken | With heart failure at the court house yester- | day morning and has since been in a critica condition. There a1 the first attack, leading Physicia to hope for but pse followed the succeeding few hours spells and periods when stre alternated. Judge Oglen tendance In ‘the court houce the attack occurred. Three worked over him tantly, but shortly before noon they were non-committal as 1o his chances for recovery Judge Ogden was taken Ml without warn fog. He came to the court pear in a case before J after attending to a few tmportance dbout the bullding he entered the court roow and joined a group of at torneys, who were chatting and telling storfes in whiling away the few moments before time for the judge to take his seat on the bench. Judge Ogden carried a OwIng to a lameness he has suffered in an ankde and a knee of the attorneys joked him about reptitude that necessitated a cane all right,’ laughed the judge my knee is bothering me pretty Oue of the group related a & story regarding & friend and an he had one when he had for Judge Ogden laughed heartily ut dote, but he stopped in the merriment, and his companion 100k of intense pain in hi nance Judge Ogden raised his hand to his chest can hardly catch my Bome one suggested that window a few feet started to the casement and fell. The attorneys lifted him into a chair in the jury box. “The judge is ill,' one of them called to Judge Estelle and the balliff 1a another corner of the court room At this time the blood had rushed from Judge Ogden's face, leaving him ghastly white and without strength to sit upright in the chalr. At the aunouncement of his i1l nees he emiled” and asked: “Do I look pale? Then consciousness left him and his 1 fell forward on his chest Judge Estelle, D. L. Johnzon and C. DeLamatre rendered what relie sible with lce water and by chaffiug the | eick man's wrists till the attorneys, who bad scurried in all directions in search of ptysiclans. returned with Dr. Bridges, Dr. Recewater and Dr. Somers. Hypodermic injections on the forearm partially restored coneclousness after there had been no pulse for a period that secmed to last five min- utes. In half an hour Judge Ogden had re covered sufficlently to converse with those about him, but there were frequent attacks of severe pains In the regton of the heart that 1gade his condition precarious. The physicMns sald that the illness is due to heart trouble. CLERKS ARE GETTING BUSY Rallway Mail Have wa vally after attending ry luring sinking gih returned was given at room physicians rtial the his and where con: house to ap- ige Estelle, and errands of minor Some the de “That's I need badly morous xperience to use ¢ timy cane 1 few days the anec midst of the observed a £4 breath he & i he sald K0 to an cpen and when he staggered away arose W was pos Railway postal clerks the postoffice and the clerks in are now feeling the welght of the Christmas Every avail- able clerk and substitute in the district bas been placed on duty, and then much of the work which has been done on through malls has to be passed along to the men on the other end of the run, as the local business makes all of the work the clerks can do, In the business registry department of the j office three additional clerks have been placed on duty until after Christmas. Sat- urday a dozen or more registered pouches, in addition to the regular number, arrived, and with distributing and recoiving the clerks are working over hours. Every avail- able clerk in the postoffice proper has been put to work. One boy Is almost constantly employed emptying the baskets which celve the bundles deposited in the chute at the general delivery very table in th office is filled with packages, and the letters are stored in odd corners. There is no way of determining the value of the registered mail which passes through the office during the holldays, but $1,000,000 1s considered a moderate estimate, tor ery onc who has used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy speaks well of it,” says Mr. Edward P. Miller of Abbottstown, Pa, Pec ple who once use this p ation are sel- dom satisfled with any other. There nothing Mke it to allay a.cough or break up a cold. It is pleasant to take, too Merrinm for Cabinet Place, WY T World from Washington say persistent rumor that ex-(i of Minnesota, now director will be given n place in the time after Malch 1 “ABright Little Boy” Would be sure of a welcome in almost any home. But what a welcome he would have in a home where the hope of children had been extinguished, What a welcome this particular bright little boy” did have in such a home, may be judged by the closing paragraph his mother’s letter, given be- low. There is no room for the whole letter, which recounts a story of fiiteen years of suffering and a perfect cure by the use of “three bottles of Dr, Pierce's Favor ite Prescription, two bottles of ‘Golden Medical Discovery,’ and some of the *Pel- lets.'” In many in- stances childless- ness is the result of conditions which are curable, It has often hap- ned that when “Favorite Pre-p scription ” has cured a woman of female weakness and the nervous condition attending it, her return to health is signalized by the birth of her | first child, " Favorite Prescription” makes weak women strong, sick women well. 1 cannot tell half that Dr. Pierce's medicine has dane for me. writes Mrs, T. A. Ragan, of Notris, Watauga Co., N C. it will do all is claimed for it—prevent miscarnage and der childbirth easy. It hay given e littie boy, and 1 would -lm‘n.n. had him o or your wonderful medicine worth its weight in goid. 1 thank God for my life, and Dr. Pierce for my health i or Merriam of the census, cabinet somé | the crowds | that | to | exposition | tentiary “Pleasant Pellets” clear the cow- plexion, HOLIDAY TRAVEL eavier for Many Yenrn menger Ho Mus 1 Than 1t An activity more pronou characteriziog any hollday se was in yesterd depots in Omaha, All thr leaving the city in every been loaded down with home (o spend Christm first date that holida, 10to effect and the | for the reduced rates hus been far in excess of what had been anticlpated The ticket agents and the rectors were not the only ed than on for ning at day t tion that cars the ins hav ushered ye mol &h t dire excursion rates went passenger di- ones, howe Who found their Jabors increased by reason | of the near approach of Christmas day Great loads of express were trucked through all of the express offices the depot, have had their largely increased Already volume of business has been far In ex of that anticipated, and if it continues as there is every reason for believing thy it will, the amount of express matter car- ried into and out of Omaha will be unprece dented Monday will of course be the great day both in the number of passengers | and entering the city Xpress busines of a up town and at working forces the g and in the volume handled. Th rate between establishing ot fots within way 00 miles of each other makes it possible | for the t frien veler who wants to visit home or 8 within this radius to leave Om late in the afternoon or evening Monday and reach his destination in Christmos morning. In the expectation the amount of travel will be record breaking all of the raflroads have arranged for extra equipment for their trains Mon day and stand in readiness to operate cial trains in case the demand of the travel- ing public necessitates such action. time CUT-0, WOLLD nE Pacific Wit Evanston t “The report that the contract of $6,000,000 tween Evanston and Sa untru officlal well Unlon UNNEC on Not sn Build nke. Pacific has lot cut-oft be not only sald a well infor n Pacif yesterday, “but it is ridicul Further than this, the report that the Pacific 1# to be identified with the new road to be constructed from Salt Lake to Los Angeles by Senator Clark of Mon t and assoclates 1s of all ndation In fact “President Burt from a for a It Lake is also devold and General Manager Dickinson have both denied the truth of any intention to bulld a cut-off from ivansion to Salt Lake, asserting that an- other Union Pacific line to Salt Lake is un- necessary, since the present line large propertion of Salt Lake's which would naot be materially by any such cut-off. T is absolutely such a line ever being have demonstrated that the cut-off in que. tion would have more grades and curve than the existing route, and the Union acific 1s not bullding any cut-offs thes days except for the purpose of eliminating curves and reducing grad The amount said to be involved, $6,00080, would mean $133, per mile for the forty-five miles involved. The Southern Pacific s the im portant connection of the Union Pacific and connection otherwise than at Ogden, as at present, would be impractica- ble and entirely unfeasible.” enjoys increased no probability of a built. Surveys any en and Personals. 1t of the Unton visitor at general Rallway No BE. R. Griffin Pacific at Der headquarters. Herb Howell, traveling of the Milwaukee, has a brief pleasure trip Howard Leonard, Pacific general passenger office, w the holidays at his home in St. Loul DeWitt ~Burgland, secretary to Clerk W. H. Marray of the Union Pa general passenger department, aceompi by his wife, will_spend the holiday season in Kansas City, St. Louls and Chicag A baby boy born a few days ago on a Burlington train entering Denver is looked upon as w ward of that system, which will probably accept the responsibility of belr the child’'s godparent. The baby's mothe I8 Mrs ry Zeleynik of Denver and sh is constdering the adoption of a name uggested by General Agent Vallery o Denver, Burlington Zeleynak LEE EXPLAINS HIS SPEECH Unite Has Ag Cuba, passenger nt ie to Chicago for te clerk in the Union A States Wil a4 with Do RT. LOUIS, Dec. General Fitzhugh Lee, who is In the city as the guest of the New England soclety, was seen this morn ing by a representative of the Associated Press in regard to the statement published | in a Chicago paper, purporting quote trom his specch made on the St. Louis Mer chants’ exchange vesterday, in which he is sald to have made the prediction that the American flag would continue to float over the fsland of Cuba. He said “The meaning I intended to convey was that the American flag would float over Cuba until a stable government was formed that will be capable of protecting life and property and giving confidence to capital The United States has promised the Cubans selt-government und will carev out its promise. Upon the Cubans will rest the responsibility of determining whether that government shall be permanent or other- wise." Under the escort of W. B. Homer, dent, and a committee from the gland soclety of St. Loulis staff, with the women of the party, this morning went to Jeferson barracks, the regular army post south of the city, The trip was in a special trol car, which returned to the city aftor the eral and his party had met the a luncheon and inspected the post. This afterncon a reception was given the dis tinguished visitors by the University clul START ANOTHER EXPOSITION a te presi- New En General Lee and mad n gen officers at x Plans Ihit to Re in 1902, Spokane tor Mining POKANE, Wash presided over by Mayor J last night and attended and mining men in At a meeting M. Comstock by thirty business t was decided to hold an pokane from June committes appointed detalls of expositio mineral wealth of Wash Oregon, Moutana and British mhia will be the featu Congress will be for tion of $250,000 and each sta represented will terested In the project are the and most prominent wining n of Spokan o governors of each rthwestern state will be given official titlemand be made members of the executive staff cf the fair. The name adopted was the Northwest Iuternational Mining expo tion November, 1 A to develop Exposition of th ngton, 1d was an 1s0 contril b and iness w Jol LOUISVILLIE Chief of Deteciives John Owens. who w yesterday nor Shiner durl nearl hou A W Sulliva [ than Ayl cars Ither th in who, past fifteen 1 of his tim: ety or ik sery ptiary. ¢ toduy thr rwarded t wor ourl penit the diseoy of Owens f Discharge Chinese Crew, FRANUISCO, Dec The elght Chinese constituting the crew of the United States transport Hancock have been dis- fed by the government and will be re- to China on the steamer Coptic The Hancock has a_crew of white men, all of them American citizens, HAN BEGINS | 0lk bound for | urday was the | of | for | THE OMAHA DAILY RBEE: SUNDAY, CRIMISALS GET LONG TERMS Instances wher under protest taxes have and in |aro countiess teen paid n rance of th val o Men Who Have Broken Law Bentenced to | Per.nenlilry Bervics, a“divorce I B1e ‘son:lllm BLUFF FAILS TO WORK‘ way { hav .“Iofi- Let O with Thirty Days ‘ | im Jmll—Fonr Years at Hard } Labo Charles | ol L ek | Willlam R. Morris were passed | Roosevelt. ris died in Colorado on July | In the case of P, W. Miller raln Growers' Mutual Hai Judge Baxter fnstructed th for the_defendant on a co | %5500, Miller sought to rec for $2.00 salary alleged t agreement of the dire president 1 mill on ever insurance CHRISTMAS TREE ON 'CHANGE Hold Give a meeting of the assoclation inJudge priate resolutions memorial to the d against th wssoelit] A long list of men who have broken the laws of th in the last six months and have subsequently been found gullty in the criminal court were sentenced yesterday worning by Judge Baker to terms in penitentiary varying from thir ten years. The court mixed a little merey trict justice and v an instance or two departed from the letter of the law to the extent of furnishing the court room | loungers with a few surprises. There was one instance where it was pretty generally | belleved that a prisoner who has the ap | pearance of a man who will not live a week | Tonger would be discharged as soon as he tep to the bench to receive his | sentence. Instead, he was given the limit penalty, seven years, | This was the case of John Sorenson, who was caught, with John O'Conner, in a close n the dwelling of F Morlarity at South Omaha one night by the police. An | investigation that the pair had | been ransacking the premises and had been | caught before they could make their escape When the @ to trial the defense of the men was that they had mistaken tho for a vacant house and had in to find a resting place for the state re allowing th dollat’s worth of days to with NEW YORK, Dec The annual cele | bration on the floor of the exchange today after the two hours of trading had been disposed of eclipsed all former records. An enormous Christmas tree had been provided and several thousand dollars had been su scribed among members of the to provide a present for every nected with the institution. Galleries were | closed to the public, having b for the use of the friends of t were admitted only by t preparations for a holiday expected to interfere with pre s of by but that case today. The of order stocks has no. been larger on any day ¢ 1 bull market. urgent demand for the exchange " one con- | " by n reserved | board, who ket. Such Celebration are the wse ¢ ener re e 8 not dwelling volu ed A lea of the rded by recorded the most impertant ning salc in Northern Paeif lock of 1,00 shares at a gain of a point over last night In other stocks the quotation ales belng made at fraction. In Brooklyn shives were recor ing An A nigh i) Sore | ing skel | parchment | when he | has to have s, The Al the on has on. the appearance of a walk His skin is the color of His limbs are mere bones and goes from cne place to another he the & of deputy Jatlers have said along would mot live till sentence but + were others who were the 1 was shamming and came by the nas- pect of a dying man by the artifice often r | employed by cunning criminals and known | St. Paul and Southern Railway 4,000 share soap-eating.” Among them was the | ach in Sugar | ;. urgent buying competition force lent advances, Sugar k418 4, Brooklyn Transit 3% 3 points and Tennessee ¢ & St. Louis and People s i tock istance e b the all da sh e opened wid h a variation of a large Rapid Transit in the first sale, i 00 shares. Such ap vi General Paul Minne from ome o the bench you to say Whon Sorenson was led befo Judge Baker said: “What have why senterce should not be passed on you?" Sorenson's reply zot audible a foot away, but by watching closely the move- ments of the n's lips the court made out | reply othing at all | Sor Giy th Limit. “Sorenson 4 Judge Baker, “if are as i1l as you want us to believe you are. you ought not to Le in the court room anothi but 1 have taken the precaution | baving you ined by competent physicians unknown to you, and we have | from 1 points in to the lon that you are fool- [ and extending to 3 points [ing us or trying to. 1 am forced to be- | tric lieve this from what honcst physicians have told and they know Now, just b auge a shamming I am golug to glve you the Mmit. I think that under ordinary circumstances a short sentence would be suficient, but I won't impose the same penalty as if you had fore me like a man, U'll give you seven years. Hard labor. If you can bluff the people down at the y ry. you won't have to work. It you are ill, you won't have to work, so I think 1 have been too Sorenson smiied deflantly and was led by to his chair. His partner in the attempted robbery, O'Conner, was given the same senter Frank Howe, the man the police caught in the act of trying b the Byron Keed coin collection at the iibrary, received the lightest sentence possible. By inquiry 1 have learned that Howe purchased the tools he used in prying open the coln box at local sto) the day of the attempted robbery,” the judge said ‘Prominent citi zens have become interested in the cas and we have learned that Howe is a man of unu 1y good family connections. Prob ably this I8 the first time he mixed in an ich vocation as burglary, and the ends of justice will be subserved if he gets a very light It will be thirty in the county Howe 15 a middle-aged man of gentle appearance. T streamed down his cheeks when the court informed him of the leniency. Four Years for Roosevelf. Charles Roosevelt, the brass thief, | four years in spite of the persistent of his attorney Roosevelt took the fournals from the Voxes of | The captured robber refuse freight cars. The railroad companies con- | hyg pame or the identity of the tend that the losses from wrecks and ac 5 Hp clxlnito (oo cldents duc he loss of these journals have than $10,000 in the arly apolis al s Gu While the buying in these stocks was re ported congi the market was broad and the demand scemed without any | aiscrimir But busine not altogether lost sight of and floor began to sell stocks to ta of the ady Impression on prices before first hour and there were sted very L tion caution en on the o advantage This made ar the end of the tlons runnin active stock n General Elec But new stocks coustantly came for and there n of what was . you as extreme ances of o rea to 2 many ward into the advance ign of a development called a holiday market. Brokers continued extremely busy and had all they could d the belated orders, which werc delayed in reaching them in the excitement of the opening dealings. Disorder about the exchange increased as the time for the festivity to begin and there was dift culty in restraining the exuberant brokers from breaking out before the stroke of 1% BANK ROBBERS' BUSY NIGHI » Rulded and Money from Two—On Caught. | wa me, you to exccute as stood b came not iree Inatitut a ol whom tor & CLEVELAND, Dec. 22.—B night attempted to rob th at Madison, 0., twenty-five miles east this city. They blew open the safe lars late lust | t| were frightened away before securing its | | | Bxchange bank & ontents. A man who discovered the b s at work #elzed and gred TULLAHOMA, Tenn., 1 of the Coffee County were blown open early bers and all the currency amounting to $5.000, stolen. discovered shortly after sfon by the town watchman, the authorities at Tullahoma place the fled on a handear. A deputy sheriff and policeman from Tulla homa met the robbers a mile from town and aftcr a short fight captured the thief with the mouey. His four companions es- caped was bound and The vaults Manches by five rob- the bank The robbery its commis who notified toward which nk today in at “000000000000000000'000000000'000000000 sente days sail was very ars robbers got ap Is axle to disclose other four from Ohio and it 1s believed that this is the gang which has been operating recently in that atate Bloodhounds have been put on the trail of the escaped robbers DALTON CITY, I1l, Dec. 22.—Between $2,000 and $4,000 was secured by a gang who dynamitcd the vault of the Dalton C| bank early today. Although a posse quickly formed, no trace of the robbe vet been found FIGHT SHY OF AMERICANS Private ibi tribute to been more st vear Rocsevelt has a boyish long confiuement in the jail shifty black eyes that shift continually giving him the cunning look of a rogue. When the lad's attorney paused in the midst of an eloquent appeal and said ok at him, your honor; look at him, only 19 years does the in his face bescem the criminal? He Is not a crimi- nal,” the spectators laughed and Roosevelt hin self smiled No, he isn’'t a criminal, spended, “he Just You've got your pretty well, Mr. galnst you was not a single bit of evidence to show that this boy has committed grand larceny,” persisted the attorney 1 differ with you,” sald th brass was found at this boy his be the barn, bra cellar. None kinetoscope face, pale from his He has dee innocence the court re- criminal things, the ¢ down but the facts are does de of Attorney PHILADELPHIA, Dec Bvery nation | that was represented at the Paris exposi tion of its exhibit to | the Philadelphia Commercial museum, and ral countries have presented their en- | oxhibit. Dr. Willlam P, Wilson, s house, There | airector of the museum, has returned from ther pieces in | parls, where he went in October 3 in the attic | donatiors. The eity had appropriated § of the pleces pay freight of the contributions | photograph of | from Pa this country. tal, but I think on | pr, Wilson stated that when he Justificd In glving hlm | 400 cases had been packed for t will be the s tion and that these, together s at other cascs still unpacke arrive in Philadelphia in The governments o countries were most generous ald Dr. Wilson, “while the hibitors were very chary. I etters soliciting donatlons from priv Iye exhibitors and received just thirteen | rdFee | angwers from manufacturers, one and all td | doclining to give to our muscum examples mat thelr work. They frankly thpy ared that in this we woull proceed to imitate them hat we would of their secrets from a They did not with wh There tion contributed a e court, “the | tire the and bro es undor to obtain maunger i s in th contained the ev four the stealing the m tence I'll be ars. That the court—four ye ten Marshall jall f Campbell it velt left Paris ansporta with mar would begin t a fortnight the ontribut private ex ent out 1 itence of hard labor days in the Shean und each was given nin county sault. J, M two years entering. I nced to two and a half Harry Floth was room o ve of Edw the atto aking and he murde but A new trial in the case till Monday morning neys the it 1 LAl country BANTER DECIDES ASSESSMENT CASE, and - learn their product us a whip and flay them later |CHINESE WANT CITIZENSHIPL | Ap | s that | ome tu Whic haon Mo has made a Suy Dollars, ruling in the against the city involves assessments nt of $1,000,000, The in of h On Baxter case of Lawrence ¢ of South (¢ for taxes lafntift contended the urth which the supre invalid which he sum of §1 ¢ this sur 1 be s in that the There aha that to the ex the instance tax for pavi has declared to be 1 paid taxes in the ruling of the court cturned to him ignorance the time of payment tax was null and void was @ demurrer by the the court. Judge Baxter took for an investigation the involved, The demurrer was turday. In his d not i win erritorinl Bill Rulin They Are Not Citlze the - HONOLULU, Dez. 14 Dec, 22.)—Chincs» hers the Hawall nst that they United base thelr which say There are nearly ruling of the Trea 1 from in Haw Twenty-fc in ha (Via an Pran shoy as he ro citizens o at republic ¢ re preparing to of the not | the peal on that all tizens ment the The city befor two week points of law ustained by ision held | uthorized purpose and | ( ore the plaintiff had no ground | judgment for the taxes paid in { ignorance of the ruling of the court inval dating the taxes. A ruling by the county were mado citizens of territorial bill section 14 of bill of republi United States ed by artment has made | upon the Hawaliau | garding | The law on these statute makes it & crime to have oplum sossion at all reed among the States | s Itizen him th that an ille that ther to recover and al hinese affe he | An torneys opium dey assault been local at w court allowing the plaintiff to recover would have caused a to the city of many hundred thousand dollars, as there it in pos- | ttorneys that this is in books | | It is claimed and generally | ! DECEMBER pied all be oth fra art fron at ot b by I wh it ply I THEF HEHE L E é fi FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS Our assortment very desirable e new of t genuine A very ,r.m pecial her =p rockers ever shown y i OUCHES— n and description rious patterns, qualities anything couches ther couches from all priced special 1900, T NO w Child ROCKERS AND should go without toys this Christmas. Somuch to please at store for little Everyone says there Omaha ours, HINA CLOS FOR GIFTS— A china closet would make avery accept able gift to mother or wife. Ouras gortment is beyond com parison in all the latest shapes, newest finighes and passed along at quick moy ing prices which are not inflated for holiday sales. Very pretty select golden oak china to oak, highly hand polished $125 has full swell front, onk shelves, mirror top, &pe between Hb) of these Lol s \'lll‘i(‘l‘ many “1'\ II'.fl the money. is no line of toys in that compares with Come early Monday. E - ] SEFUL HOLIDAY PRES U NTE IN DRAPERIES SOFA CUSHIONS— A large lot of 16 muslin covered, featber flled—each T 25c. Feather and down filling—each ARLOR ROCKERS— She. ANl down filling—each BOFA CUSHION in plok and is extra large, designs and which are upholstered in leather with ple handsc hand carved with mely back with a r mxr ™ 20,75 it $32 chal $1850, and at in prices from this up to $12 00 and on up to § inch Sofa Cushions CEESERINT UFFETS-— Our assortment most complete in buffets. These are gifts. They come in spe clal quarter-sawed oak hand polished, all the to new, odd shapes, rang ing in trom $500 18,00 and at in between prices up to $78.00, silisia covers, 16-inch only mixed filling, well filled 35¢ i B0c 75¢ ™. 90¢ 1.10 ch, only is largest stock of parlor Our largest and at the prices be serving tables and very sultable for 8.50 assortment ar (he spe sliday cannot dupli- 2.75 3.00 37.5 r 4.50 and | u\wl 1 chairs from $4.50 up to he extreme fine malogany y ok mahogany CUSHION COVERS TOPS—and covered riety PIPE RACKS. LANTE LACE PORTIER high and AND CUSHION cushions fn va of which to $1.50 under B ADIES" DESKS- T hese beautiful pieces oi furniture come in dainty designs in solid oak, bird's-eye maple and mahogany. They make an appropriate present to any lml) Some very pretty de- signs m(ulvrnh-] ¢ priced. Solid oak writing desk with drawer under writing bed, at $4.% Quarter-sawed hand polished writ ing desk of solid oak, special at $6.50, and at all in between p up to the extreme handsome mahogany pleces at $100.00 “Come Early Monday.” rchard & Wilhelm Carpet Co. 1414-1416-1418 Douglas Street. Wrought iron. NS FOR HALL AND DENS CURTAI TAPESTRY TABLE €OV in prices DIA SEATS AND STOOLS, TABORETS, ROMAN CHAIRS, PEDESTALS, MUSIC CABINETS PIANO BENCHES and Stools, Hall Racks, Hall Settees and Chairs, Cheval Glasses, Dressers, Parlor Cabinets, Foot Stools, Medal- fon Mirrors, Iron or Brass Beds, in fact w thousand different furniture pleces, any of which would make suit able and handsome presents, priced moderately in good rich attractive de signs chairs Tow A for special of of assortment holiday selections any make very desirable Epace forbids going into details f the va- wytes ana 200 but we can sup- $Q ur couch wants in from $7.00 to 5.00, genulne 2.00 to $78.00 for holiday selling. Lol SCCCOCTOSCSTCOCSOSTTORSSOSUBISCOC SO ICITITTUTT0 AR b+ 1300000000000 000000(0000000000000000000090000000000000000000 office here as arranged and received the check for $4000,00. Same Bright Record-ALWAYS FIRST. h---x; ll]:l' record of the old, Reliable Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. 10 8 For more than forty years that has irst out of Five Companies in delivering check for face of Policy."” L2 ROAGR O ORMRANAG, GENERAL OFFICES: 205 LA SALLE SFREET. CRCOIGIO N Dec. 18th, 1900, Mr, He Do Neely, Manager, Equitable Life Assurance Society, Omaha, . Nebre Dear Sir:=- I have pleasure in informing you that on receipt of the policy from Mps, Miles mailed from Longmont, Colo., I delivered same at your I think 1t 18 very creditable to your Company that although you were under the daisadvantage of being located at a distance both from the claimant, and from myself acting as her agent, you still were the first out of five Companies in delivering check for the face of the policy. was on the Armour & ( we s policies w \..\ hoare sight drafts ut maturity, take The was issued, THE EQUITABLE. I thank you very much for'your ‘attention to the' majter. Very truly youx‘s,v /(('Ibf POLICIES EQUAL TO tter tells its own story - the sam life of the late much esteemed Frank b South Omaba, Neb, This poliey the TIRST PAID. Some ot the policies SIGHT DRAFTS AT MATURITY. old story of the Equitable always first to p The above policy Miles, head of the provision department of the great plant of wus written in July, 1808, und was the lust policy taken, but, as held had been running for twenty years. Moral —1f vant quitable. At time above policy was taken $6,000 additional but Mr. Miles thought best to wait & year or two hefore taking move. H. D. NEELY, Ma ger for Neb 208 Bee Bullaing, Omaha V0000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000060000000000000000¢ flict w How the | on of ulating lawyer sale © TILDEN, am.) was made Ash 1v ot CLEVER CAPTURE OF BURGLARS Neb, A clever n Elgin, © fact The pri made some ore ey now in th olen g packed « ST miner il was_ended toda £ the the worke men. ad N par the United States laws, which | rtation and conscquently pos frug. There is no other law watter in Hawali, and It knock out the possession law will be utterly legislature makes a new TUESDAY, JAN. 1st and 15th, onlu unre Store Arrest der (Special Tele- of three burglars about midnight by and an_as t. Thieves 1 rth of dry goods the Wolt Bro: store at mile distant and notified by telephone of pture ear here WILL RUN HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS : Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Washington, Oklahoma, Indian ¢ Territory, Texas, Arizona, etc., at one fare plus $2 00 ® for the round trip. There is Government Land in Okla- homa. A new line now opens up the famous ‘‘Washita ¢ District.”” For full information apply to any Rock Island o Agent. Address 1323 Farnam Street, Omaha. :. 000 000000000 0000000000000000000 00000 s were and but are heavily armed of resistance to arrest brought to town and of the sheriff. Al in their posses 000000000 0000000000006€¢ wer sion, I “mj wih granting the demands of for extra nelp for the dump 0. 000000000000 0000900000 00000000000000, U290 1000000000000 08 0, 0.03