Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 12, 1901, Page 8

THE Davis sells gla Davis sells drugs “Mr. Riley,” G-cent cigar ¥ine Missour! oak. Gilbert Bros. s fixtures and globes at Bixby's Fine A. B. €. beer, Neumayer's hotel Wollman, sclentific optictan, 409 B'd'y Sehmidt's photos guaranteed (o please Muore's stock food kills worms, fattens. W. J. Hostetter, dentist, Baldwin block Leffert, jeweler, optician, 206 Broadway Born, to Mr. and Mrs, T. Kelley, a son Drink Budweiser beer. L. Rosenfeld, akt Miss Anna Moore is confin with grip Pleture 83 Bro W, 1 101 framing. C. F dway Graff, undertaker a ath Main street. Phone Get vour work At the Iaundry, 124 Hroadway. 'Phone Mes. O, 1 M 01 guent of Mrs, W, 15 Fish Morgan & KIin, uphols repairing. mattress making. 8. Mr: Albert € ole has been kept bed for the last week with cong the 1 and Mr tion o B. Crewds Fred Juhl was gra Trene Jubl by Jude trict court yestorda Stage Manager Bert Brown of the Do. hany opera house 15 confined to his home on Third avenue with gr Willlam Wallaco of Des called 1o thix clty by the his father, W. W, Wallaee Charles R. Hannan, pr Natlonal bank. nas beer By the fline hi brother The distriet court grand jury been In xexslon since lust Tuesday, | pected to report this morning Mr«. Champler, mother of Mrs, N. (. Philly serfously fill at her daughter’ home it Seventh street Tha of W. W. Wallace las night ) be somewhat better, alth Vi critleal state A want ad In The Bee will bring results The same attentlon given to a want ad ir Council Bluffs as at the Omaha office G. 11, Jennings, attorney of Shenandoah wias in Councll Blufte yestorday_or iness conneteed with the federal court Sheridan alwiys us Al alsinfector, tone spular B 1 ity of Vine treet Main st ty tion ¢ Loe 1ents i £ their daughter, Gammon of Pacific Mrs ted a Thornell of the Moines has boer 1t of the [ Aition sal, o koot Fenlon & F Lin who Las been the Albert Cole of ! her home yvesterday Dr. A. V. Stephenson hi by th Board nsultation in three case Woman's Christian of Mr. and Mrs rih avenue, returned to 19 been allowed Supervisors of smallpox a Assoctation George Crofts of Beatrice. merly pastor of the Congregatlo of this eity, has been called here by serfous {liness of his friend, Willlam Wallace of Bluff street The Houschold Economic department the Council Bluffs Woman's club will m this afternoon at the club rooms. M Harrlet MacMurphy of Omaha will delly an address on the pure f stion Joo Green, a colored man, is unde at the ity ‘Jail on suspicion of b rected with some of the recent en pecimens of pou otor company had a larg aring the snow off Y md by evening n swept elean its train servic thix afternoon. “The annual m; Grape Growers' Shipping bo held this morning in unty courthouse. has been deelired business will ba pald at this meeting. The case against . B. Dowers, with selling a stolen horse to Ja a saloonkeeper, has been set for next Mon day in Justice Forrier's court. Dowers ha been releas m the county jail on bul in the sum oF 0. Vitcor Jansen, the supposed insane mar picked up by the police Thursday ni wan sed yesterday morning. = Afte: night's rest lils condition was much im proved and as he sald he expected to go (o work cutting lce in_ Omaha the police de: cided not to detain him any longer The patrons of the Dohany theater wil be eatertained next week by the Kilfol Stock company and 1t 15 said it {5 one of th best repertolre companies on the road. ' will here Sunday evenir he comedy-drama, ‘Our Stephusband le company, it is sald, pays a royalty on Its pleces presented and has the Rola HE! to play them, +0 that the publlc in attending the performances can expec womething new. Some exc promised. N. Y. Neb,, for. 1 churel the W e thefts of assoclation wil Farmers' hall a A divide Plumbing Co. telephone cents, at Met 250. Elgin colored shirts, calf’s prelnventory sale Tee Man May 1 James L. Paimer, an employe of Council Bluffs Coal and Ice company, seriously injured in an accident yester- day morning while loading ice cars into the company's storage house ai the Union Pacific transfer. Supports the chute gave way and several blocks of fee, estimated to welgh in the neighbor hood of half a ton, fell on Palmer, break {ng his right leg and crushing his foot, Palmer was conveyed to his home at Six teenth avenue and Tenth street in wolice ambulance. It foot will have to be amputated Ten-dollar winter suits, $7.00, at calf’s preinventory sale Mot al Estate Transfers. The following transfers were filed Friday w. In the abstract, title and loan office of J Squire, 101 Pearl street ¥runklin eman D Wiy & & feres, Bheriff 1o 14 \«l~ W :l.\lll Vi q Graw and wife ‘o 1ians lots 7 and & block 2, H W d Sohno gl Tov s, nad, w. V. Barchet and”wife' 1o ethodist Enlscopal church, Turley's subdly DNy rewsurer %, block 11, Potter tax . a wite Thedl, ex: Poter ward ind wir block 11, ¥ tter & Cobh's Trinity lot 16, rr, lot Cobh's 1 Mtal six transters $10.3 Gravel roofing. A. H 541 Broadway. You Think... When you see §3 shoe. ed for 83, and $! Does it seem rear 1?7 Were they §3 or or is it humbug iver- for \ble tn shoea 1t you think it s, SARGENT Whero there Is just one price, and as good as can be bought for the money on earth. try —0 LOOK FOR THE BEAR-THAT'S ARM LOANS otlated Bastern Jown. N 36 Main 8t Council Bluffs Save Your Money:: SAVINGS, LOAN AND BUILDING ASS et, Couneil Blu: ¥ 3 1 to her home xander & Co., wgle the irniture divorce from 1 dis- First called to Detroit which has for hos- ix wald to have raflled off ng of the Counell Bluffs which as a result of last year's charged Pinell, sht, resenting heavy llent spectalties the was from the of the is possible that his Inv .~-unl With the DL NY INSOLVENCY OF BA\]\ Receivers' Attorneys Allege That No Account is Taken of Individual Estates. PUSEY AND OFFICER FUNDS MAY SUFFICE 1 Walter Credito Tho Unal xpert Accountant for . Testifies Before Judge ¢l That Bank Was Lo e (o Meet Liabilities, " According Walters, expert creditors of Offic over the funct firm court yesterday to the testimony of C countant employed by the r & Pusey's bank to check and books of the d s given by him in the district the banking co-partner: ship formed by Thomas Officer and W. It ] M. Pusey in Council Bluffs in 1856, had been insolvent since 1883, and was so at the tine of the appolntment of the recelvers, Accountant Walters Is the chief witness for the creditors, who filed a petition of intervention, alleging that the bank was insolvent at the time they made their de- | vosits and that therefore their claims | #hould be preferred, the hearing on which | | accounts was commenced yesterday afternoon before Thornell. Walters was on the wit- stand all of the afternoon, and his cross-examination had not when court adjourned for the day. His testimony related entirely to what he had | discovered by his examination of the bank" | books and accounts, and he gave it ae his opinion that the bank had at no time from | 1883 the time of its dissolution been able to meet its liabilities His figures, as adduced from his examina- i [ tion of the books, showed that in April, 1883, the Mabilitles of the firm exceeded its assets by $54,960.08; in November, liabilities exceeded the by $100, 102.11, and that in January, 1896, the a sets tell short of the liabilities by $211,- 504.59. The condition of the bank at the date of the appointment of the receivers ) | bas already been made known Accountant Walters offered in evidenco reports showing an itemized statement of the assets and liabilities of the bank at the dates mentioned, also statements show- ing what portion of the assets his investi- 7 | kations had led him to classity as worth- » | less. Tudge ne to 18 ; assets t Assets Said to Be Worthless. These figures are taken from the testi- mony offered by Mr. Walters. In 1883 the assets adjudged as worthless by him were Bills recefvable “agh short Suspended 1ist Value of real estate overestimated OVErdrafts ....ccooeeeanns Total 386,793.01 The total liabilities of the firm at that date were $402,232.85 and the assets reck- oned as good were $2 showing a discrepancy of §54,960.08. In November, 1502, these assets of the bank are given by Mr. Walters as worth- Tess: Bills receivabl Suspended account Shortage of cash.. Judgments Overdrafts Value overesiimated ¢ ( t f 1 Total . $156,454.08 At this date the total liabilities of the bank amounted to $568,730.01, while the good assets figured by Mr. Walters were $450,627.90, showing a difference between the assets and liabilities of $109,102.01 1| In January, 1896, Mr. Walters estimated ! [that assets of the bank in the amount of ,950.31 were worthless, as follows ills .13 4 10,000.00 o t receivable short stimate of value of real e 10,000.00 accounts v Scott mine Overdrafts .......... Total Yy The llll|l|l|lh-1 n! the firm 1806, were $587,270.02, against which, ac- cording to Mr. Walters' figures, it had only assets that were good to the amount of $325,765.43, thus leaving the liabilities $211,604.59 in excess of the assots On cross-examination, Accountant Wal- ters admitted that in estimating the sol- vency of the bank he had mot taken into account anything except the assets of the firm, as shown by the books, and had not included any of the property owned in- dividually and separately by the members of the copartnership. o Call Private Estates, “rom the tenor of the cross-examination of the witness by counsel for the receivers it was evident that the latter will claim that as the estate of the partners were liable for the debts of the bank, the lat- ter's lasolvency cannot be determined until it is shown that the private estates of the late Thomas Officer and W. H. M. Pusey are insufficient to meet the claims of the creditors of the firm A number of the creditors who have | filed prefered claims filed yesterday sep arate answers to the petition of interven- tion of Day & Hess and J. K. Cooper, the case at bar, in which it is alleged that the petitioners were simply general depositors in the bank at a time when it was doing | business in an ordinary and usual manner and was meeting its firm's obligations prompt and was not being pressed by any of its creditors, The answers deny the of the petitioners to have claims prefe 3| The result of the present hearing is being awaited with much interest and the court room was crowded with attorneys and the ereditors of the bank. in January, t t Dance tonight at Hughes' hall Fifteen-dollar Metealt's winter preinventory RAL suitg, $10.75, at sale, INQUE oN ROAD'S VICTIM, | Coroners Struck N | Coroner Treynor held an inquest yester- | day morning over Bugene Antonio i Cesare, | | the man supposed to have been run down and killed by passenger train No. i on the Northwestern tracks about a mile north of Honey Creek, Tuesday night. The jury, composed of J. C. Rhodabeck, H. J Palmer and F. Flick, brought in a verdict to the effect that the man came to his death by being struck by Chicago & North western passenger train No Tuesday night The witnesses examined were J vitt, engineer, and Allan Purdie, fireman, of train No. 5. Devitt testified that while running about sixty miles an hour Tuesday night & few minutes before 11 o'clock he suddenly saw some object in the air. He at once suspected he had struck some- thing, although he had not noticed any thing on the track ahead of his train. He opened the window of the cab and looking back noticed some object 1ying on the east track. He said he thought he had struck |a calt, as the object lying on the track Aid not look to bim like & person. He felt uneasy about the matter, however, and on reaching the Broadway depot in this city notided the operator and asked him to P. De block the outgolng tralm at Crescent City | out them. The work of the office is bound B 4 | been completed | right | | mer Sherift | Mr the OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, J and have the crew search the track. He looked his ne and finding no marks on it came to the conclusion that he | must struck n it it had been an animal there would have been marks of hair and skin on the cowcatcher. The evidence of Allan Purdie, the fireman, corroborated the testimony given by En glueer Devitt The body was buried yesterday by Under- taker Estep in the county burying ground. over en have ome pe as Howell's Aoti-Kawt cures coughs, colds. | Pifteen-dollar Metcalf's winter preinventory suits, at sale. Dance tonight at Hughes' hall. Ten-dollar winter suits, call’s prelnventory sale. at Mot- NORE VIEN BOND, nken in the Cose Township Hufts, advice of County Attorney ard of Supervisors yester- ignore bond filed by Ovide V who belloves that under the wording of the Titus amendment he has a right to hold on to the office of justice of peace for another term. The same action was taken by the board fn the matter of the bonds filed by A. M. Huff and J. ¥ Huft ot Valley township, who have emulated Vien's example and are trylng to hold over as justice of the peace and township clerk respectively The board appointed a number of justices of the peace and constables to fill vacancies caused by the persons clected last fall either declining to accept the office or hav- | ing failed to qualify. They are Justices of the Peace—Boomer township, | J. M. Axtell, Carson, Z. T. Linville; Center, A. D. Putnam; Crescent, N. Swarm; Garner, L. Prouty A. D. Bills; Hazel Dell, W. W. Harris Creek, Willlam Schultz, D. & Frank; E. C. Thompson; Lewis, W. I. Richards; Lincoln, J. W. Burckholter: Macedonia, John Rayburn Pleasant, Adolph Daustran, A. C. Borgman Rockford, Henry Lowe; Washington, J. K. Currie; York, U. McLain, Willlam Ive Constables—Belknap, D. Crofts; Boomer, A. L. Burbridge; Center, Fred Hack- ott; Grove, (. J. Pender, W. Putnam; Hardin, Robert Keating; Hazel Dell, Alexander Val- lier; James, Walter Busse; Keg Creck, I G. Silvey, J. J. Misscr J. Livings- ton; Layton, John Fraser, jr.; Lewls, Otto | Dryer; Lincoln, A. Young; Macedonia, G. A. Summitt; Minden, W. P. Rosch; Ploas- ant, B. A. Dergman; Rockford, William Crooks; Silver Creek, W. A. Wilbur; Wash- ington, W. L. Cheyne; Waveland, L. B. Bogue, D. W. Leonard; York, Peter Danken. | The men thus appointed must qualify on or before February 1 Contracts for furnishing medical attend- ance to the poor were entered into in all the townships except In Crescent, Hazel Dell, Norwalk and Minden townships. No blds had been recelved from those town- ships, and the appointment of county physi cians in these townships was referred to Supervisor Hansen with power to act. Dr. A. V. Stephenson of this city was appolnted county physician for Garner, Kane and Lewis townships at the following remuncra- tion; Garner, $0; Kane, $232; Lewis, $9, making a total of $250 for the year. The contract for burying the pauper dead was awarded to Undertaker W. F. Graft of this city at $8 per person. Killpack, day decided to the Grove, Keg Layton, Knox, One Asnessor % n Raise. The salaries of the township assessors were fixed at the same rate as pald in 1899 except in the case of Assessor Everest of Council Bluffs, who will be allowed $2,500, which is $700 more than his predecessor received. The assessors will also be al- lowed $2 a day for each day they may be | 1led upon to attend before the local hoard | | by a threemonth review provided that continued attend- ance be not occasioned by the assessor's neglect or failure in the performance of his duty. This per diem allowance will be paid on the authority of a certificate | from the town or township clerk, as the case may be Clerk of the District Court Reed was allowed an extra $100 for clerk hire dur- ing 1900. His commission for collecting costs due the county was fixed at 10 per cent for the years 1899 and 1900 and 15 ver cent for all years prior. To the committee of the whole was dele- gated the duty of checking up the a of the county officers whose terms fust expired, the report to be made at the Aoril session of the board. The com- | mittee on accounts was instructed to check the reports of County Recorder Smith for | the term ending January, 1901, and to re- vort at this meeting. | The bill of Township Trustee H. H. Rounds of Belknap township for attending a meeting of the trustees at which he was elected to fill a vacancy was rejected on the recommendatin of the county attorney. In a_communication to the board Presi- dent N. W. Ells of the motor company, re- zarding a vetition to have a consent high- way established through section 24-74-14, calls attention to the fact that by recent decisions of the court all of that portion of the south half lying west of the thread of the main channel of the Missouri river orior to the cut-off in 1551 has been ad- judged in the state of ska and the title auieted in C. £ Lefferts, whose as- sienee the motor company fs. The board expects to take up the mat- | ter of the proposed compromise with fors Morgan this morning and to adjourn this afternoon ounts have Train service to benefit of skating parties will be resumed this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Trains every hour from Pearl and Broadway. Last train will return from the lake at 10:30 p. m Lake Manawa for the Fifteen Metealt's tollar winter preinventory suits, sale. $10.75, at Dance tonight at Hughes' hall SUE COUNTY CLERK NIRE, Recorder Smith Determines force Min Claim on the Cao As u result of the Board of County Su- pervisors refusing to allow his bill for hire, County Recorder Elmer E. Smith yesterday dispensed with the services of his two assistants. This will leave the work of the office to be performed by the recorder and his deputy, William Larsen Smith will bring sult against the county to enforce his claim for clerk hire. Under the law the county recorder permitted to retain $1,500 per annum out of the fees of the office as salary and he further allowed one deputy at $500 a r. Recorder Smith the work of office cannot possibly kept up by himself and one deputy this 1s gen- erally conceded to be the fact by the county officers, but the wording of the statute puts a stumbling block in the way of the board allowing the recorder think for clerk hire Last year Recorder Smith paid for cleri- cal work $1,458, just $52 short of his full salary. On an average over [00 instru- ments are filed for record each month, all of which have to be copled Into the records and compared. This, It is clalmed ore work than the recorder with the assistance of one deputy can possibly perform, Speak- | ing of the matter yesterday, Recorder Smith said: T do not intend to work longer for the glory of the thing, and have | laid off both my assistants and the ofice will have to get along as best it can with- to clerk 1s ye M and any- any broke open eral meeting today. to get behind and the public will be the sufferer, but I cannot help it Until the board sees fit to allow me sufficient to pay for the necessary clerical help the office will bave to do without ft 1 have gnit paying for it out of my own pocket." On the part ot the county board it fs id that it would be perfectly willing to allow the recorder all the help necessary it it could see its way to do go legally. Recorder Smith expects to file his suit against the board in the district court to day, and the court will be asked to set an early date for hearing it Dance tonight at Hughes' hall. Eigin colored shirts, calf's preinventory sale. cents, at Met- Self-Government Not a Saccess. The Girls' Literary society of the High school Eeld a public meeting vesterday afternoon at which the question, “Resolved, That Sclf-Government Will Be a Success,’ was debated. Fredericka Dorland and Fan- nie Davenpcrt spoke on the afirmative and Edith Butler and Jennie Benson on the negative. The negative was decided to have won the day iyl Kendle gave a reading “Prue_and 1" and Marian Benton recited “The Inventor's Wifo. 7 cents, Elgin colored shirts calf’s preinventory sale. at Met- Davis sells paint. Ten-dollar winter suits, calf’s prelnventory sale. Commonwealth 10-cent clgar. FIRE IN THE CUDAHY PLANT City $7.50, at Met- Sioux Jan. 11.—(Special Tele the fourth floor of the company's plant gave the hard fight this morning, 10 damage. Socinl Interpretation of Chri GRINNELL, Ia., Jan. 11.—Prof. Herron will not become the head of a socialist college, as has been stated in several papers He has no connection whatever with either educational or colony schemes. For some years J. S. Wilson, his brother, B. F. Wil- son of William H. Wise, all pastors of prominent churches in Indiana and Illinofs, have been living communistic lives and leading a movement called the social cru- sade, and Dr. Herrom has taken this move- SIOUX CITY, eram.)—Fire in Cudahy Packing fire department but did only § Ta | ment and organized it into a soclal aposto- late, using these young men as a nuclens around which to form a devoted band of active workers for soclal Christianity. The members of the apostulate are to be sent out over the country, following the plan of the old circult riders, to preach & social interpretation of the teachings of Jesus Christ. Dr. Herron will begin the crusade course of Sunday after- noon lectures in Chicago. Roommaten. FORT DODGE, Ta., Jan. 11.—(Special Tele- gram.)—An uaknown thief committed a robbery in the American house in this city this morning. Owing to lmited facilities, six men occupied one room in the hotel. Ono of the occupants arose early and made off with the property and money and cloth- ing belonging to his bedfellows. All of the men in the room lost something and the thief sccured $50 in money together with clothing of some value. He has thus far eluded detection. The men robbed were all in the city on business conmected with the meeting of the grand jury. Stnte Sunday School Association. CLINTON, Ia., Jan. 1L—A. D. Galleo, state superintendent of the Iowa Sunday school assoclation, has been in the city for a few ¢ nd says he has been in- formed that the committee on location had decided to hold the next amnual meeting here, June 25, 26 and 27. As this society was organized here thirty-five years ago, it 1s the futention of the association to make this the banner meeting. It expected that 500 delegates will be present, coming from all portions of the state. moke Nenrly LEMARS, Ia., Jan. 11 children, aged 6, 4 and Heigner, narrowly ped asphyxiation this morning. Their mother left them in a room and they set a large horsehair chair on fire. The smoke from the burning ma- terial rendered the children unconscious, in which state their mother found them on her return. Prompt action on the part of a physician saved their lives. hokes —(Spec g 1.)—Three , of August en Get the Freight, Jan. 11.—(Special.)—Thieves two Chicago & Northwestern cars standing ou the sidetrack at this sta- tion last night and stole and destroyed a lot of groccries and clothing consigned to local merchants. There is night service at | the depot, but the thieves managed to get in their work without being discovered There is no clue to the robbers. Thi ONAWA, Ia ation, 11.—(Special.)—The Lemars Loan and | ation held their annual gen- The old officers of the retained for the ensuing are: I Struble, presi- dent; G. A. Sammes, vice president; W. 8. | Freeman, secretary; W. G. Bolser, treas- | urer. | LEMARS, Ia., Jan. stockholders of the Building asso ompany were vear. They Canvassing Nn ONAWA, Ia, Jan ~(Special.)—Th supervisors of Monona county are work- | ing bebind locked doors, with two minis- ters. three lawy and one all-zround prohibitionist pi investigating the al- leged saloon consent” pe- titton, not finish the canvass Petition, ors nt frauds of the They may of names for several days « Grows Teeth in His Old Age. CHEROKEE, la., Jan 11.—(Speclal.) John Stevenson of this city is growing a| new set of teeth in this, his 78th year. | Is an inveterate tobacco chewer, b Add to Commereinl ¢ TOWA CITY, Ia, Jan, 11— The University of lowa s planning for | courses in higher commercial education next year BAILEY TO BE INVESTIGATEDE l Wi p cetion Texsns erl Ll Waters-Iiere Jan. 11.—The houss of the » today ordered the appoint- a committee of seven to investigate charges preferred inst Congressman J. W. Balley, that he was interested in secur- ing a refssuance of a permit to the Waters- | Plerce Ol ¢ to do in| this o after that company's charter had | been annulled. The resolution calling for investigation ralged considerable dissension, | but {t was finally dified as to the charges and adopted. The investigation will be be- gun at once evelt A v Colo. 1. —Colonel and his hunting compa here this morning for Mecker in a four Norse tallyho. On their arrival at Meeke the hunters will at_once start with John Goff, t gulde, for Coyote basin, where the with AUSTIN Texas legislatu ment of . RIFLE. Rooseyeit . in. | Theodore tons lert | campaign of 1889 and a magnificent banner | day had roast pork, m. | week ANTIARY 12, 1901 JOHN BENO % CO.’S Tast two days LESS, Al departments will Silks Linens Our Is still ou and everything in Win REAT REMINANT SALE On FRIDAY and SATURDAY, This Week. The remuants in all departmients, accumulated during our holiday business, will by of this week Al put on sale IN MANY the T ABOUT HALLE CASE be represented Embroideries French Flannels Dress Goods Corsets Aud All Other Lines, Clearing Sale n I OI' REGULAR I'RIC AND ter Goods « bought at discounts ranging from 20 to 50 per cont $10 and §: Capes and Jackets, sale price Saturday plain and crushed Plush $3.95 $1.50 to $15 Cloth Capes, on sale Saturday.... $3.95 AND RIGHT HERE WE WANT IT POS! Bosion | Stor ' WHITELAW & GARDINE AND SIIITS On Saturday Our entire line of Ladles' Jackets, Capes and Suits, ranging in price from $7.50 to $27.50, will go in one lot and one price $3.95 ITIVELY UNDERSTOOD THAT CHOICE OF OUR ENTIRE $7.50 to $27 tadies’ Box Front and Aut- emobile Coats, on s3 95 sule Saturday $10 to $25 ladles’ Tailor-Made Suits in good assortmont of colors, Saturday on sale at ITHING OCK. IS RESERVED. YOU HAVE THE Council B.ufts NEW TIPPECANOE BANNER Tt is to Oirculate Among Towa Gounties That fhow Republican Gains. PEN TEACHES HOW TO LIVE CHEAPLY Actress Tries to Get Hoguwx Policeme That is U anti der Quar- DES MOINES, Jan. 11— (Special)—A | new Tippecagoe banner is being prepared for the famous Tippecanoe club in this city which i in reality a state club. The oid Tippecanoe voters, or those who voted for Benjamin Harrison for president and al voted for his grandfather for the same office, concelved the idea of having pre pared a fine silk banner to go to the county which showed the largest republican gain, or gain in republican majority each yea county to hold it one year and the banuer to be awarded each ye his was in the new banner is be- will bear on it the ounties of the state nuer and the years was prepared. Now tng prepared, which names of the various which have beld the they were entitied to it The banner has circulated about deal. Here is its record: Win county, 188%; Clay, 1860, and in succession the following countles: Dubuque, Scott, Plymouth, Scott, Howard, Scott, Decatur, Scott, Monona last year and this year again Monona. Scott county got the banier four times by manifesting great fickleness in voting. Monona made great gains iwo years In succession, as it was the only populist county in the state and the pop ulist party went all to pleces a few years ago. a a good ebago Cheap Living in low That cne may live on 15 cents a day or less for food 1s being demonstrated at some You spend half your lifetime Why stand the aggravation of dirt able elevator service—bad light and There is no office building in the town kept The Bee Building The best is none too good for you, and you will find it a good business investment to take a half hour and look at the three or four vacant rooms. We keep them filled. Why? R. C. Peters & Co., Bee Building, Rental Agents, Ground Floor. MANHOOD RESTORED bio Vilalizer, the prescription of a {emous French phy i Vous or diseusen of Lo ke it K [ N in your office. and cold—of mis ventilation? like 'CUPIDENE® Tis krent Vegata; )R Tskes by ARy oF /1% torrhaen and ail the horrory run,xi:-mnnnn 1101 c11 60 by Doctors is beeause 90 per cont are troubled with IPrastatitss. e rctar Ad testimuta 1 By Cenion i & rIen S eknruied 16 S ke 41 baxs tor 4R “ MEDICINE CO., P, 0, "ox 2076, San Francisco, Ca. FOR SALE DY MYEHRS-DILLON LRUG CO. 10TH AND F‘AINAI. “HE THAT WORKS EASILY, WOI;!-KSW SUCCESSFULLY.” CLEAN HOUSE WITH SAPOLIO of the lowa institutions. The report of the penitentiary at Fort Madison of the food account of one week in the month of De cember shows that the inmates are being fed very cheaply and that they have good | ¢ food. In fact, their food is the anl given them in abundance Fort Madison kitchen report for one show total cost for materials of $520.01; the average number of persons fed, 471; aver- cost per week for each person, $1.11; average cost r day for each one, 15.924 cents he fare good For instance, one Sunday dinner was made follows: Beef, suc- cotash, canned corn, coffee, chicory gingersnaps, graham bread, butter beefstseak. A sample dinner on one shed potatoes beef, ginger stage plank, sugar and milk for coffec white bread, dumplings. apple pie, bucter. oranges aud apples. The report for the school for the deaf shows that the cost of the materials used in the kitchen for one of the month of December was average number of persons fed average cost per person per week, cost per person a day, 12481 best The week a is up as yruy and Tues roast coffee, graha chicor bread, $269.82; 08 162 ST.%8 cents; Des Moin The people of Des Moines have not taken much interest in the until today, when it was discovered that the fifteenth case had just broken out in the lowa hotel. A chambermaid was taken | ¢ i1l with the disease vesterday and the Board Health ordered the closed and everybody in it to vemain there under quar ine. The house been hi business and was well filled traveling men were under telegraphing to customer An amusing incident w with the efforts of an o to get the leading lady pany playing at his hou tine, He ome persol carly this morning disguised as y and they were taking Miss M away bodily when the regular covered the ruse and went the a her would-be abductors all ba hotel to remain. A belng deserted by the from all over the st smallpox epldemi has ing a good A great many ty of dates. connection the ne canceling in ra house th out te manager of tock com of quaran n sent leerm Hosm police th 1 college 1 commer tudent te, and everal hun game s to be found. dred have goue away. None of the cases in | Des Moines has proved fatal, Board of Hea every day to watch the progre | their cities taken in Bedford the count as t | sus gain expected of Wallace ver gural March 1, mas similar the the who de municate the MacLean Wy tel their dition was after a hollday visi in the but the local tings practically f the epi OHANY THEATER.C COMIN( The Kilfoil Stock cumpany Week, SUNDAY Opening it G edy-Drama Qur Step- Hushand ™ VILLY ‘VHV-‘ N Pricen1i wnd be ndmitted free with edeh patd holds me lemic. n itistied € in Two Cities. with the unoficial have been and Newton. In Bedford n by 0 newspaper showed the federal cen- 5. There was a slight not much as | N census returns in reconnts n of twenty or a totul of in Newton also, th bu by ACTS carries 81X BIG VAUDE- To At making w continuous per. sident Macl has re Donald of Towa parade at The s meeting of the invitation other Inaugaral, wn of the 0 Lean owa colved M rey W matter invitation from to have the Uni ented the tnau hington, D. €., on will be referred to a tudents for a A has been extended to itles and large colleges of 1 of the who the tuden lady will e teket BARTEL & MILLER ity in univer A ity ral hould com to President univer nding inaug and ire to join the Called (o Co Wallace A1 Bluis, Mrs. J. H called by o 1 illuess of | | was sud. | FRUIT= Sialte Plum 1214 srehage of th | Koods' in Wallace portl n W. J and his sister, Bluff the eritl Hace Mr irprise wife Just he heallh v Apr Tho to children ho and returned home Centerville Goal he ve of May He Brother of Lord itol SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 1%.=The cont o letter found an the effeet Abraham dle that th And coal from t t mines in the country, Also har and wood Prompt delivery is our motto, Transfer Line Between Council Blufis and Omana. Office, il Blufr e Omaha_ Offic Telephone 1 gilsh | Connectior Trel I'r Counel No, 23 North Main South 12th Strees wade with South Omuky p time of . o i | WILLIAM WELCH, ¥ il at the morgue.