Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 13, 1901, Page 3

THE OMAHA DAILY HEE: SUND 1901 Great ELLEY, STIGER & COMPANY Be Continued Another Week January Discount Clearance Sale PER CENT PER CENT ALL WINTER PER CENT GOODS PER CENT 20 Silks, Dress Goods, Linings and Skirtings, Blankets, Flannels, Etc. Oue-Fifth Off Marked Prices. ‘Previously reduced prices stand T'hus all and remnant 65¢ Black Taffeta Silk will sell at ...... 44¢ $1.00 Black Taffeta 27-inch ..... sesesss 80c $1.00 Pure dye Dress Taffeta.... ...... S80c §1.00 Peau de Soie ... ... sssssssssssass 80C $1.25 Peau de Roie $1.00 §1.00 Warranted PLEV) vy Gaassies 80c $1.00 Crepe de Chine, 24-inch, w Il H('II M 80c b dine, 44-inch, will sell at ..81.40 s in the above departments included. $1.00 Foulards, all colors (cut from 8 T5e Taffeta, all colors (cut from 85 $1.00 27-inch Taffeta, all colors ... He) now 60¢ new K80e One-Fifth Off All Black Dress Goods. 40¢ I'rench Serge, all wool, now selling at 32¢ 60¢ French Serge, all wool, now selling at 40¢ 60¢ Henrieta, all wool, now selling at.... 40¢ T5¢ India Twill, 46-inch, now selling at.. 60¢ ¢ Nun's Serge, now selling at.. ...... 60¢ g 20 Per Cent Discount Off O0C™ Hanviettan, oW « . Y isbiusi svive . 40e 49¢ Miscellaneous Dress Goods (85¢ val) 394c 100 CHEVIOUN, NOW. (s tvsrinvesssnins ROe Linings and Skirtings, 20 Per Cent Discount. 10¢ Perca 8, NOW 8e 35¢ Hair Cloth, now .... ...... seneveve WBD 15¢ Percalines, now. 12 50c Morreens, NOW....cceeecvccecesees 40¢ w0¢ Perealines; NOW .oveev soovss sssses 7106 40c¢ Mercerized Satin, now ous «s ofc 15¢ “Nilesia, now 12¢ 25¢ Near Silk, now . ceces oo 20¢ 20¢ Silesia ,now 16c $5.00 Astrakhans, (cut tn w now.... ..$3.20| EUC ORDVAS, NOW ¢ vsnims sovs . 16¢ Petticoats, 20 Per Cem Dnco #8c Sateen Petticoat, will cost now.. Toe $1.25 Sateen Petticoat, will cost now $1.00 $2.26 Mercerized Satin, will cost now. .$2.00 All silk Petticoats, Morrein, ete., all per cent. In Men’s Furnishing Department 20 Per Cent Discount, On all cashmere socks, flannel night robes, underwear, sin- gle garments and union fuits. 20 Per Cent Discount, On all ladies’ and children’s underwear, also the celebrated “Munsing” and “Ypsilantl” suits and serapate garments. 20 per cent off on our entire stock of women's, boys’ dren's cashmere, silk and cotton hosiery. chil- $1.00 Satin Duchesse waist silks. .. 80¢ $1.35, $1.25 and $1.00 1 (cut to BYe), NOW cove voue ssives eees 484c ¢ VELETS and VE lth-‘lL , (cut from 75c and $1.00), now.. ....... .. 28%c $1.00 VELVETS, BLACK and ((DL()R\ now . e sese sees sene sesees 80C $1.00 Mountain .\orgo, 52-inch, selling at 80c¢ $1.00 Poplin ($1.25 value) now selling at.. 80c¢ $2.50 Crepe Novelties (cut to $1.49) now selling at...co eoee cercvcnnes sonness . $1.20 All Colored Dress Goods. $1.00 Broadcloths, now .... «..covvve... S0c $1.50 Venetians, now .... ceceveceirnees $1.20 Yarus, One-Fifth Off. 20 PER CENT OFF YARNS. unt. Germantown, Saxony, Spanish, German Knitting, Ice Wool Angora. Blankets and Flannels 20 Per Cent Discount. On our entire stock of wool blankets, cotton and wool | mixed, and cotton blankets, (white, red, gray or natural), all robe, lounging and crib blankets. ONE-FIFTH OFF all French sacques. Embroidered flannel. blue flannels, Flannels, fancy flannels for Plain white flannels. 60¢ Red and | Sale Extraordinary in Cloak Dept. 50 per cent discount. Jackets for ladies,” misses and children. Suite—man tailored suits. Mackintoshes for ladies and misses. All Plush Capes. NOTE. It alterations are desired on any of these garments a nominal charge will be made. $3.75 Mlases' Jackets, $1.87%. $5.00 Ladles’ Ji $2.50. $5.00 Ladies’ Man-Tailored Suits, selling at $4.00. $10.00 Plush Cape, now selling at $5.00. now selling at ots, now selling at now — 1 PER CENT 1 338 DlSRCOUNT 338 All our Furs, Flannel| Waists, Silk Waists, Golf| Capes, Astrakhan and| | Seal Capes. ONE-THIRD OFF- moderate price furs. COLLARETTES—Mink, | Seal and Marten. All our high grade and Persian, Lamb, Extraordinary Linen Sale The rapid selling of the last twelve days has caused Napkins, without cloths—cloths without napkins— these have been remarked regardless of cost. many broken lines in our stock. remnants, etc.—to effect a speedy clearing, 50c Table Linen at 38¢—All our 2-yard wide, Homespun Table Linen, worth 50c, at 38c. 65¢ Table Linen at 4 48¢ yard. $1.10 Silver Bleached Table Linen at 79c— Damask, regular price $1.10, at 79¢ yard. $1.50 and $1.65 Bleached Table Linen at $1.00— worth up to £1.65 yard, now $1.00 yard. —All our Bleached Irish ] All our v able Linen, the regular 65c¢ kind at ery best grade Silver Bleached All our very fine Bleached Table Linen, Pattern Table Cloths—All our fine Irish Table Cloths 2x2 yards, $2.25; 2x24 yds. $2.75; x3 yards $3.25 each. Great Clearing Sale of Laces, Embroideries, Inser- tions, All-Overs, etc., Regardless of Cost. We have culled out all our broken sets—odd lots—short lengths - and soiled laces and em- broideries of all descriptions, and have reduced them to prices that will close them out quickly. Sheets, Sheetings, Muslin, Pillow Cases and Pillow Casings at exactly cost price. All our Unbleached Muslin at cost price—all our Bleached Muslin at cost price, all our Pillow Casing at cost price. Ready-Made Sheets Good quality, 1 yards, kind at 47c each—2%x2% yards, regular 66c kind at 52%c each. Pillow Cases 42x36-Inch, regular price 15¢, at 11c each. ~45x36-Inch, regular price 16 each—60x36-inch, 13¢ each. Hemstitched Pillow Cases | 42x36-1nch, regular price 19c, at l4c each 45x36-inch, regular price 22c, at 15c each. Napkins 3c, at 12%¢ regular price 18c, at $3.50 Near Seal Scarf, now selling at | 2.93. $1.50 Seal or Coney Muff, now selling at $1.00. FLANNEL $1 WAISTS— Flannel Walsts, now selling at | | s5c. 8 French Flannel Walsts, Ing at $1.90. $5.00 Silk Waists, now selling at $3.32 $10.00 Golt Capes, now selling at $5.66. now sell- Pure linen dinner size Napkins now $1.00 | dozen . $2.00 Napkins for, dozen . 52 Napkins for, dozen seveeeen 8145 | $2.50 kins for, dozen $3.00 Napkins for, dozen $3.75 and $4.00 Napkins for, dozen. $5.00 and $5 regular 60c | Napkins for, dozen 50| | Towels | 200 dozen Kitchen Towels at, each.... 2%0 81-3c Towels for ........ . be 1284 Towels for 81-3¢ 15c Towels for . 10c [162-3 Towels for 1234 30c Towels for . 18¢ 86c Towels for 25¢ e 290 |m Towels for, each [ Bed Spreads Largest size Crochet Spreads 98c each. | Best quality and largest size Crochet Fringed Spreads, worth $1.85, now $1.50 | each. | Satin Marseilles Spreads, grade, now $2.95. Extra heavy Marseilles, worth $3.50, at $2.60 each. Fringed Spreads for single beds at $1.39 regular $3.00 William Liddell’s Fine Hand Woven Table Cloths Less Than Cost. 2x2% yards—48.00 Cloths for $4. and $10.00 Cloths for $6.00 each. 2x3 yards—$5.50 and $9.00 Cloths for $6.00; $11.00 Cloths for $6.76; $12.60 Cloths for $7.50 each. £14x2% yards—$9.00 and $10.00 Cloths for $6.00 each. 2%x3 yards—$13.00 Cloths for $7.60; $14.00 | Cloths for $5.85 each. White Goods Three Speclals— Long Cloth, worth §1.85 bolt, at $1.45 bolt. India Linen, the 200 kind, 36-in. wide, at 15c yard. Check Dimity, regular 20 quality, at 150 yard. 5 $0.50 Annual January Clearing Sale of Muslin Underwear, Skirts, Gowns, Drawers, Corset Covers, Etc. Corner Farnam and EDITOR PUTNAM A SUICIDE be done directly or citizen verform any act not mon law or equity, threats \induce an; After a Long Night's Bleep He Puts a 8hot- gun to His Forehead, of this state or Fifteenth Streets. 5 | or seek to obtain, money or other valuable | Methodist people refoice that they com- [the county fail to await trial on the charge consideration, or shall cause the same to indirectly, from any compel them to consistent with com- or who shall by such itizen of N ka to mence the new century with their edifice entirely free from debt and thelr organiza- tion ta a prosperous condition. BEET SUGAR FACTORY CLOSES vt surrender anything of value or relinquish | $tandard Company Shuts Down Until any right, gugranteed by the laws of Ne- Next Sall-Business Koo PRESSES THE TRIGGER WITH A POKER | braska. in consideration of the withdrawal of Dast Sensen, - of sald threats, shall be deemed guilty of blackmail and shall upon conviction be| FREMONT, Neb., Jan. 12.—(Speclal.) For Vears confined In the penitentiary not more than | The Standard Beet Sugar company welghed but Lat fifteen vears nor less than five years in its last beets for the season yester- Leaves Conmidvrable The bill also provides that any person |day and by the middle of the week will and a Son In Omaha, who shall enjoln or seek to enjoin the law- | shut down until next fall. The quantity this state. | tul issuing of bonds of whatever nature in the payment of the same upon of beets obtained has not been as larg: was expected, being In round as numbers KEARN . Jan. 12.—(Special Tele- | maturity. or the payment of Interest|50.000 tons gross and 39,000 net. The gram.)—C. Putnam, cditor of the Gibbon | thereon, for the purpose as declared, of [amount of first gra granulated sugar Gazette, committed suicide shortly after S | axiorting or demanding money or other | turned out was 5,000,000 pounds—enough to o'clock this morning at his home at Gibbon. | vajyable consideration, shall be deemed |fill about 150 freight cars of ordinary ca- and when he wag alone in He slept late, gullty of blackmail and upon conviction | pacity. There has been employed during bis bedroom he aroso from the bel and | ipereof. shall be confined in the peniten- | the season an average force of 460 men, in- pressing a shotgun to his head pulled the f yj5py not more than ten nor less than | cluding office clerks. With the exception trigger by means of a poker. Like every- | goo voars, of the office force and weighers they thing else he attempted this was 1 o worked in two twelve-hour shifts seven plocned, his death being lustantaneous. | TATE'S ELECTORS ORGANIZE | duvs o weck. Astde tram o fow laborasory Putoam assumed the editorship wt the bovs the lowest wages recelved by men in Gibbon Gazette October 18, 1960. S@ne say the factory were be professed to be an infidel, but e late told hic friends his sayings and gpclons of the past year had been rash. He’was well educuted and peculiar, yet his intimate trionds say a more honest and consclentious man could not be found. He spent Friday eveniog with friends down town and when Seeretary—AdJo Monda The Nebraska with Governor Dietri; be left them bade them goodby. In 8| businees letter to a friend he sald he had |to Monday been contemplating suicide for years, and Omaha was chosen c the r on given was that he tr life. e was 65 years old and le wife and four children, a son, T. 0. Putnam, Iving o Omaha. He moved to Gibbon in | April, 1871 He leaves his widow and con- siderable property He left about twenty pages of foolscap, closely written, the contents of which can Bot be made public at present. Mr. Putnam | & Monday. Whoever is chosen | braska electors will | emphasize They will leave Line was a member of the old ttlers’ colony ’unl \\ln have two vote | BILL COVERING BLACKMML‘I s e Neb,, ager i The Hastings Comme enalties officers this werek Not Now Conten | Mark Levy; secr | treusurer, N. B, Tri Willlam Dutton, J. W 12.—(Special.) viding penaitics for blackmall kindred felonies has been A bill pro extortion and introduced by | mitt Cramer, Oswald Olive matter Senator Edgar of county in which sev- | meeting in regard to the location of the|A- A. Henry S. Summers; third veil, Alex- | the city this week testing the plant. It is| eral polnts ot at present carried by the [ goCl R 0 FIEEC IO e e Ancient | ander M. Rose; second veil, Joseph K. | belleved that as soon as Mr. Ford's report s statutes ure sald to be provided for. The | ¢ rdcr of Uni-«d Workmen. M. Arnold, dep- | Baker; first veil, Christian Rupp. made to the elty council the pla will be bill provides that any person who enjotns | CEID TG TERAREC o SO0 ent | WYMORE, Neb., Jan. 12.-(Special.)—At | oficlally accepted or soeks to prevent tho payment of any bill | - H a meeting of Reigle court No Tribe of and stated that there were 400 local lodges | No. 26, | Conre ¢ in Several Countlen, :‘;f\-”lvm:-‘l';lx::r ’:l(l.;k"::l.‘h(,,’:;,r,,T,‘ oS petu: | in the state, with 50,000 members, and that | :"I"I‘.“'l""': Wl e Ty “:“ ont Oedae 02| “qcpany an. 12.—(Special.) Y 3 P he grand lodge meeting every two yeurs | UNited IRER D8l FEUIAY SVORIGN: 1D [ aqge g welfth judicial dis- furnished 1o the state of Nebraska or to any |y 2 iy cgates, | (01OWIng officers were installed: L. H. < \ - as an attendance of nearly 1,000 delegates. | € g 9 , Ml trict has prepared the following court cal- county, township, city or ward therein, The grand lodge meets mext Muy and de- | EV8ne. P. C. of H.; Mrs, Sarab Miller, C. of | o &t 542 P e same baving been contracted for by grand lodge m SREMAR (§RATGe | [TARL S SERLE MR AT dlier, € endar for the terms of court during this h ¢ | sires to locate or choose a permanent lo- 3 ! i Mre |year: Buftalo county, May 6, September 9, awfully constituted authorit with ¥ Teraple, teacher: Mrs. Minnie Coffin, seribe (e ation and bullding. The matter was thor 4 5 _ December §; Custer, February 11, May intention of exactlng or extorting money oF | oughiy Wiscuasod and & commdittee appointed | W™ M+ B. Wilkon, K. of T.j L. W. All- |gertimor b, Custer, Febiuaty &, M 24 other valuable consideration frem the owner y PP e, chaplain; Robert Knowles, guide e 8 e of such bill on the promise of "‘“"““‘“"";:-lrlmlrnx[‘\';-rm:‘.-‘;::‘m):’;:: or the actual withdrawal of said fnjunction | prootuite broare the or othier proceedings 1n estoppel of sald bill | [yor oee shall b deemed guilty of blackmall and extortion and upon conviction shall be confined In the penitentiary not more than three years for each offense. The bill further provides that any per- son who shall directly or indirectly, under threats of exposure for orimes, misde- meanors, indiscretions or seandals, fancied or real. extort or demand money or other valuable consideration, Will Dedicat BLAIR, Neb., at a cost of $800 and evening of January sacred cantata, he | Make Kennedy Chairman and Nesbit presidential | ater perfecting an organization adjourned noon. John L. sbit of Tekamak secretary to carry Nebraska's vote will be chosen | s an escort his seven coll | been arranged that the entire the Importance of importance came Jan. 12 cently the members uf the copal church purchased a “The Holy rendered by local talent, assisted by Omaha 16 cents per hour and except to foremen, ally skilled laborers was the highest, and espec ver hour With the exception most of the be shave. About 12 by rall and the tory in wagons purn Untll Next weighers 20 cents ¥y N of a few carloads, & were recelved in good 000 tons were shipped In balance hauled to the A good many of the em vloves live in Fremont, going to and from their work in a special on t which has made a round trip to the factory and back every morning and night. The company did not have the beets this season eclal Telegram.) electors met ch at noon today and Kennedy of and John F. The messen- hairman messenger will have gues. It has | they wanted. Next year they will pay a body of Ne- [flat rate of $4 and freight on all beets g0 to Washington to|under 14 per cent and 25 cents for each the victory. | ner cent above it, and expect to get enough oln on lesday night | beets to run the factory to its fullest ca- weeks to deliver the | vacity A few men will be employed around the factory this winter and tte i coming summer to do some repairing and Hendauarters. keep things In shape, Jan. 12.—(Special.)— | relal club elected new Lodge OMcers Installed, WE; Siroc have ST POINT, Neb. chapter No. 46 held their ins follows: Presid William Loww mble; executive com N. Clarke, A, H, | installed the St. Johna, A | P.'M. Moodi up before the | Daniel C. € Jan. 12.—(Spectal.) Royal Arch tallation ceremonics and following officers: E. H. P., 8., J. A. Blackir; C. H., frert; P. 8., Ludwig Rosenthal; I members here and way for some tangible o to the grand lodge of : Mrs, P. B. Moore, 1. G. K.; U. R. Wilson, 0. G K. After the installation refreshments wer served e New Organ. (Special.) —Re- Methodist Epis- flne pipe organ will dedicate it on the 22, at which time the City,"” will be Jan. 1 s of the Johnson County Sunday School association b arranged to reor- ganize the district Sunday school associa- tions and have called a convention to meet in the Methodist church in Vesta today to reorganize tle First district. The presiden of each district or who shall cause | musicians. Prof. J. E. Butler of Trinity Aptoclation ‘will besome & or advise the same to be done, from any [ cathedral will preside at the organ, with|).°® President of the county assoclation citizen or resident of Nebraska shall be [ Miss Annle Hungwte, .soprano; Miss Annte | | ¢®110E the work of organization at the deemed guilty of blackmall, and upon con- | Bishop, coutralto, and Wil McCune, tenor, | * 514 meetiog a good program will be vicition ‘shall be confined in the peniten- [ Theso will be supported by a chorus of fifty g tlary for not more than fifteen than five years for each offens Sectlon § of the bill provides that any peraon or persons who shall by threats, in- timidailon, coerclon, extortion, injunction, oonspiracy, deception or subterfuge, obtain nor less | volces who have musical event organ. been sonal direction of Prof. W, L. made a trip to Chicago and purchased the Rev, J. L. Vallow of Colorado was sent here at the last conference and the |ored man named drilling for the Tries to n I The whole is under the per- | PLATTSMOUTH, Neb., Jan. 12.—(Special.) Jobnson, who [ —john DeLong, a special agent for the Missouri Pacific Rallway company, arrived in the city, bringing with him a young col Thomas, who was lodged 1a Elkhorn, | Corner Farnam and Fifteenth Streets. |of burglary. Thomas was trying to dis- | pose of an overcoat at a pawnshop in Omaha when arrested, which, it is believed, he had stolen from a waycar at Weeping Water last Tuesday. The coat belonged to Con- | ductor J. W. White, k and dy to Cat, eb., Jan. 12.—(Speclal.)—It nothing happens to interfere with present plans M. S. Rawlings will commence harvesting his ice next Monday morning and 100 men will be given employment at £00d wages, if that number can be secured. The fce is of excellent quality and ten to twelve inches thick. The Rawlings plant has storage capacity for 5,000 tons and he has contracts for 10,000 tons to be shipped to varlous parts of the country. Ice Th WYMORE, New Bank at Benedict. BENEDICT, Neb., Jan. 12.—(Special.)—It seems that Benedict is to have a second bank. Butler Crownover, at one time cashier of the Bank of Benedict, is one of the prime movers in the new organization, and if the new bank starts he will probably bo its cashier. C. A. Pyle, who recently purchased stock of W, A. Taylor and was to be cashier of the Bank of Benedict, sold his stock back to Mr. Taylor. ~t Ansembly. an 12.—(Special.)— 8 of the Epworth Nebraska con- city Thursday to location of their assembly ommended that the assem- t Lincoln when the state meet- ing of the worth league 18 held in Au- gust. The proposition will bo submitted to |all local chapters and churches. KEARNEY, A meeting of the mem league cabinet of the W. ference was held in th decide upon th The cabinet re bly be held Mills in Biast. b., Jan ~(8peclal.) 1 mills are running full o force of workmen. The ection a telegram was president of the com- the wheels of the mills in nd they were started. Recently e cousignment of cotton was received by the mills from Fort Smith, Ark. The Kearney cott blast with a lar, day after the recelved Inst from the to start pany | ! pal Light for eb., Jan. Mr. Ford of St. Louis act as consulting engin, Hastings and to make municipal electric wtingw. 2.—(Special.)— | who was selected to r for the city of the final test of the light plant, has been in | Octobe | October | herman, January 23, June W L peclal.) The Cuming county Board of Supervisors organized for the term by electing J. E. L. Carey, democrat of Bancroft, as chalr- man. Willlam Dill, supervisor from the city district, was appointed purchasing agent The personnel of the new board is four democrats and three republicans. Legislators Out of Town, LINCOLN, Jan. 12,—( )—80 far as leglslators are concern: ity 1s pretty thoroughly deserted today, the majority of | the senators and representatives having goue home to spend Sunday, only a few re malning in the city De, Moise & Co, M'COOL 'ION, Neb., Jan (Spe clal)—Sherift Lancaster served an attach ment on saloons at MeCool Junction and | or Benedict and reports that the wet goods of both establishments only invoiced $94. Wal- ters, Mcise & Co., wholesale liquor dealers of Omaha, had the attachment served on A. P. Adams of tils place, who is, they claim, indebted to them in the sum of $500. It is reported that one of the saloons had dally sales of $40 to $60. Souvenir Seekers. Jan. 12.—(Special)—A formerly the property of Com- modore Decatur, 18 in the possession of Francis Fisher of this place. The ne was presented to the commodore by the women of Baltimore in 1812 as a testimonial of his brilllant services in defending that city during the war. Tho cane has an ivory head and has & gold band around the top engraved with the commodore’s initials. At the death of the commodore, who was a bachelor, his effects were sold at auc- tion and Francls Fisher bought the cane. It remained in his possession for a number of years and was then bequeathed to his son Francis as a souvenir of one of the most distinguished admirals of the Ameri- can navy. The present owner, however, has con- fessed that so rare a relic should not be in obscurity and is entertalning proposi- tions from prospective purchasers, sword cane, y irculation is Brisk. LINCOLN, Jan. 12—W. J. Bryan an- nounced tonight that the first issue of his paper, the Commoner, would appear Wednesday, January 23. The printing will be done by contract, but the mailing and all other business details will be under Mr. Bryan's supervision. The first two floors of a large building have been leased for business and mailing rooms, Mr, Bryan said the circulation, which was quite satis- factory, would be announced with the initial 1ssue. Dem| Feast., BEATRICE, Neb., Jan. 12.—(Special)— The annual banquet of the officers and stockholders of the Dempster Mill Manu- facturing company was held tonight at the Paddock hotel. It was the most largely at- tended and successtul ever given by the company. Traveling representatives of the firm from all parts of the country present citizens of Beatrice. ant of the Omahns, PENDER, Jan Word was brought to Pender today on, Monday No Knife, Indian tribe, dled at the Mathew Tyndale, on the age of 115, He was belleved to be the old- est resident of Nebraska, He had never been ill within the memory of any living relation or Acquaintance. No Knife, that the Iast chief of the Omaha last home of his son, Att »t OGALALLA, Neb. gram.)—An aftempt rob the Exchange Ogalalla Bank, , Jan ~(Speclal Tele- as made last night to bank here. Entrance | was wmude by tunneling under a brick wall into the vault, open the safs bank s prot company of D but the thieves falled to which has a time lock. The oines, Ia. To Nehruskn Newspaper Men, The conductor of the Round Table sec- tions of the program for the annual meeting of the Nebraska Press association, to be held at Omaha January 22 and 23, makes these requests: That members of the as- soclation who have country correspondence departments in thelr papers, or who feel interested in tho tople, confer with hm at the Murray hotel as soon as they arrive at Omaha, and that they bring with them coples of any Instruction sheets or pamphs lets that they send out for the guldance of correspordents. That members also bring with them sample pages from any spectal books that they may have had prepared and n,.y would be of nterest in the discussion the bookkeeping topic; that they also bring samples of any job envelopes or job were | also a large number of the leading | reservation, at the | *d by the Casualty Insurance | tickets they may be using in their offices for estimating and recording job work. It would be a special favor if members would mail any of the above samples in advance to the conductor, using this address: Frank 0. Edgecombe, Geneva, Neb. GREAT REAL ESTATE DEAL ct ot & Northern Pacific Disposes of T North Dakota Land Consist of 1,500,000 Acres. ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 12.—What is sald to be the largest real estate transaction ever made in the northwest was closed today, whereby the Northern Pacific Rail- road company disposed of the entire re- maining portion of the federal land graut of 1864 to a syndicate composed of Man- kato and St. Paul capitalists. The pur- chase price runs into the millions, but the syndicate is not yet ready to announce the exact figures. The lands lie in North Dakota between the Missouri and James rivers and embrace a tract 9,000 square miles, with an acreage of 1,600,000 The transfer has been under consideration for two years, but the terms were not arranged until_an option was given on November 27. This option was covered today and the deal closed. The lands are mostly wild lands, but include some of the finest ranch property in the west. Settlement will be pushed at once and already applications have been received from over 700 familles desiring homes. This sale disposes of all the lands held by the Northern Pacific ex- cept those lying in the land grant of the St. Paul & Duluth, FORECAST OF THE WEATHER alr and Warmer in Nebraska with hwesterly Winds Today and onday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. Sunday and Monday For braska and South Dakota—Falr | Bunday; warmer in eastern portion; south- easterly winds, | For lowa—Fair Sunday—variable winds, becoming southeasterty; Monday occdsional rains in northern, falr in southern portion. For Missouri—Falr Sunday; warmer in | the west, southerly winds; Monday falr | For North Dakota—Fair and warmer | Sunday; southerly winds; Monday local | snows. For Kansas —Forecast for Fair Sunday; warmer in | ncrtheast portion; southerly winds; Mon- day falr. For Wyoming—Local snows Sunday; warmer in central portion; Monday generally falr For Western Texas—Fair Sunday; generally northerly; Monday fair For New Mexico—Fair Sunday, with rain in northern portion; variable winds, gen- erally northerly; Monday fair | For Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Ar- | kansas—Fair Sunday; variable winds; Mon- southerly winds; winds Fair Sunday; varlable winds, becoming southerly; Monday generally fair. OFFICE OF OMAHA, Ja atur corre IR BUREAT, record of temper- ompared with the st three years 1901, 1600, 1899, 1808, Maximum temper 049 49 Minimum tempers 13 & & can temperatur .20 42 cipltation W 0 Record of temperature and precipit | 8t Omaha for this day and since March 1, | 190, Normal temperature xcoss for the diy Total excess since March 1 Normal precipitation Normal pr tlon Total rain March 1 Excess sin ch 1 Deficlency for perfod, 1900 Deficlency for cor. period, 159, I, A Local Fogecast Officlal, T indicates trace of y J ¢ ol ARE ORDERED TO SICN IT Ohinese Peace Commissioners Reosive Courts’ Oommand to Go Abead. JOINT NOTE OF POWERS NOW ACCEPTED Instruction Comes from Authoritative Source, Making Ching and Chang Free to Afix Signat on Behalf of China. PEKIN, Jan. 12.—~The Chinese peace com- missioners have recelved orders from the court to sign the joint note of the powers. OCEAN TELEPHONING NEXT Bell Company Pays $200,000 for the Rights Under Dr. Pup Patent, NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—The Electrical Re- vlew, published today, announces the pur- chase by the American Telophone and Tele- graph company (the parent Bell company) of the patents of Dr. M. L. Pupin of Co- lumbia college, which, it states, covers the art of ocean telephony and which enable telephone messages to be sent over any length of land lines. It further states that the sum of $200,000 has been paid to Dr. Pupin for the Invention, with an annual salary to him during the life of the pat- ents of $7,600, “GOLDEN MEDICAL DlS(OVE“Y 5 MAKES THE BLOOD PURE AND PREVENTS DISEASE. arcHW T GIVES STRENGTH TO THE STOMACH AND LIFE TO THE LUNGS, 1S NOT A WHISKEY MEDICINE.,