Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 27, 1902, Page 8

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, APRIL o= 27 NEWS OF INTEREST FROM IOWA. BLUFFS. MINOR MENTION. Davis sells drugs Btockert sells carpets and rugs Wollman, scientific opticlan, 408 B'way. Take home a_brick of Metzger's eream. Vanila, %c; Neopolitan, 3ic J. C. and W. Woodward, architects, room 8 Everett block, Councll Bluffs, Ia New goods and outfits for pyrographlc work at Alexander's Art Store, &3 B'way. Go to Morgan & Kleln fc slstering, mattress making and feather renovating. 122 South Main street. 'Phone S For sale, excellent building lot in Central sub., size 44x12. This is a bargain for some one, for cash sale or will e pay- ment plan. Lot ls located on Avenue B, Within several blocks of good school, Call or address E. F. Watts, bee office, Councll Bluffs _ John Mulqueen, sr., has gone to Bprings, Mo., for the benefit of b W. O. Letton, mannger of th hotel, has gone to Clayton, N visit. Miss Mankey of Newell, la., 18 the guest f her sister, Mrs. C. W. Pember of South irst street. Excelsior Masonic lodge will hold a spe- elal_communication this evening for work in the third degree Justice J. W. Ferrler went (o Ottumwa esterday on business connected with the nights of Pythias. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Plerce are home from Texas, where Mr. Plerce went to 100k after his oil land interests. 3 marriage license was lssued yesterd to L M Bhaw, aged 27 and Dertha Mer- rill, aged 20, both of Underwood, Ia. Millinery reduction sale at Mrs. A. ¥ ter's, 321 Broadway. All trimmed hats reduced to cost price for Saturday only. The windstorm yesterday blew down the billboards in all parts of the city poster Nichols estimates his loss at § The Juanita Glee club of Chicago will ve a sacred service at ‘Lrinity ethodist church Sunday morning at 10:%) o'clock Harry Nicholson complained to the police pesterday morning that while he was call Thg on his sweetheart Thursday night some one carrled off his bicycle. Willlam Babrick, the {tinerant mender of umbrellas who tried to dispose of express money order recelpts, representing they were bills of lading for goods he had pur- chased, was fined $5 and costs in court yesterday morning on a charge of general vagrancy. The Grand Hotel company has decided upon a number of _{mportant improv ments, The dining room will be change from the sixth to the ground floor, nece sitating a complete change In the arrange- ment of the rotunda and office. The room now used as a dining room will be kept for dancing purposes and as & meeting hall. The meoting of the Council Bluffs aerfe. Fraternal Order of Eagles, last night, af which between forty and fifty businoss men were to have been initiated, had to ycn oned on account of the hall being fce up ooded by the rain, which poured down through the _roof.” The roof had been artly torn off during the windstorm on Vednesday and the repairs had not been completed. Judge Wheeler has overruled the motion for a new trial in the suit of H. L, Ti ley, administrator of the estate of Leo Btein, against the motor company. and en- tered’ judgment for the plaintift in the sum of $2,00. Leo Stein, the young son of Jacob Stein, was run down and killed by a motor car on Broadway. 'The case was tried in May, 1901, and resulted In the jury giving the plaintift a verdict for §2,000. A telephone message was recelved at noon yesterday at the effect that there was a dead man in a boxcar on the Burlington tracks on Elev- enth avenue. Detective Murphy was d. tafled to Investigate. Instead of a corpse be found a tramp sléeping oft drunk. Al efforts to arouse the fellow proved futile and it was two hours after he had been locked up at the city Jall before he sobered 4p sufficlently to give his name as Mike wald. Go-Won-Go Mohawk, the Indian actress, will appear at the Dohany theater tomor- row night in Lincoin J. Carter's border melodrami “The Flaming Arrow."” Miss Mohawk s support includes a large cast of white actors, a band of full-blooded In- dians and four finely tra'ned horses. As White Eagle, the hero, Miss Mohawk is ven the opportunity fo handie a rather ificult_male impersonation, and to do credit to herself. She s given numerous opportunities to deliver some very thrilling lines and to participate in many exciting and sensational scenes, Plumbing and heating. WBixby & Son Imagines He in K The fact that Chris Johnson labors under the hallucination that he is the king of Bweden and not the son of Nels Johnson, a well-to-do farmer of Pottawattamie county, of Sweden. has induced h's father to file an informa- | tlon against bim, charging him with being mentally deranged, and the commissioners for the insane will investigate the ca this morning. A few weeks ago while young Johnson was boarding at the Chicago house in th eity, he showed signs of mental derange- ment, and at the request of his parents was placed in St. Bernard's hospital. His condition improved and he was taken to the home of his parents In Garner town- ship. Within the last few days he has mgaln become posscssed of the fdea that ke 1s Sweden's ruler with purple blood flowing through his velns, and his actions became such (hat his family feared for their safety, so they decided to apply to the commissioners to have him committed to the state asylum in Clarinda. Gravel roofing, A. H. Read. 541 Broadway. N. Y. Plumbing Co., relephone 250. Tighte: Mayor Morgan yesterday instructed the police to see that all saloons are closed tight at 12 o'clock at night on week days and 6 o'clock in the evenings on Sundays. The order is to go Into effect today All of the saloon keepers Iu the city were notified of the mayor's order last night, and but few of them raised auy objection to closing at midnight on week days, but most of them protested against being com- pelled to close down Sunday evenings at 6 o'clock. They assert that it will drive thelr patrons across the river. The mayor also instructed the police to Tigldly enforce the order prohibiting the opening of front doors of saloons on Sun- days, it being reported that a number of saloons in the outskirts of the city violated this rule. ng Up on Saloons. Davis sells glass. Davis sells paiut, DOHANY THEATER:: Sunday, April 27 In a Plcturesque Western Play, Tha Flaming Arrow 40-Big Special Cast—0. See the ex- citing horse race. the cclipse of the moon, the counci fire the ghost dance, the flaming arrow. the altack on old Fort Reno, and the wonderful horses, W y and Buckskin SUITS CLEA! @8 Dyed and pressed. Special attenfion given indles garments. Also chenille Surtains neatdy cleaned. dyed and ressed. ‘Phone A-&21 lowa Steam Dye orks, 34 Broadway. LEWIS CUTLER —Funeral Direc'or- (Buccessor to W, C. Estep) 88 PEARL STREET. 'Plo; Bl | olice headquarters to | 1s said | APPRAISE OFFICER REALTY| Valuation of $19,207 Placed Upon the Por- | tion Remaining Unsold. FARM IN HARDIN TOWNSHIP IS SOLD | This, with Money on Hand, Makes Enough for Another Dividend to Creditors of Twenty Per Cent, The real estate holdings of the Thomas Officer estate, to which the creditors of the defunct Officer & Pusey bank look for payment of their claims in part, is worth $1 0, according to the report of the appraisers flled yesterday. The appralsers, who were appointed at the request of Ad- ministrator Stewart, are: J. R. McPherson, | 8. G. Underwood and H. Ouren. The real estate belonging to Thomas Officer remain- ing upsold conslsts of lpts in the city of ! Council Bluffs, including the homestead on Willow avenue, valued by the appraisers at $8,250, one lot in Bayliss’ second addition is appralsed at $3.000, another in the same ad- dition at $1,800. and one in Hall's addition at $1,600, while the rest average about $100 | each | Since Attorney Stewart was appointed ad- ministrator in place of Charles T. Officer, he has completed the sale of what was known as the Hardin township farm belonging to the estate, for $17,442. Of this amount Officer had recelved $2,000, and had included it In his final report. Officer turned over to | Administrator Stewart $14,749.84, which, with the proceeds of the Hardin township | farm, makes a little over $30,000 in Mr. Stewart's hands, The receivers of the bank | have about $25,000 in their hands and to | this will be added the amount owing by | Miss Julia Officer, which is between $1,000 ' and $5,000. This added to the funds in posseesion of Mr. Stewart will enable the | payment of another dividend in the near future of about 20 per cent, thus making 65 per cent that the creditors will have | recelved on their clalms against the bank. The remainiug assets outside of the mines in Colorado of the Thomas Officer estate will not exceed $3,000. The value of the mines in Colorado {8 problematic, but in order to acquaint himself with the prop- | erty there, Administrator Stewart will leave next week for Colorado, in order that he may be able to make a report to the cred- | tto Homes for All For sale at low prices and easy payments, homés In all parts of the city, Including some of the nicest: residences and those of moderate size. Also dwell- | ings and business property in Omaha. Farms bought and sold. It will pay you to see us at the abstract office of J, W. Squire. DECLARE FOUNDRY A NUISANCE Residents Will Enjoin Sprague Iron Works from Occupying New Loeation. The Sprague Iron Works company, which has sold its interest in the foundry at Twelfth street and Tenth avenue to W. I. Walker, has announced its intention of starting a foundry in the bulldings for- merly occupled by the electric light com- pany as a power station on Third avenue between Eleventh and Twelfth streets, and in consequence the residents and property owners in that vicinity are up in arms. When it became known yesterday that the Sprague company intended transferring its foundry from its old location to the {old plant of the electric light company {on Third avenue there wae a scramble on the part of adjoining property owners to iconuull their attorneys with a view to bringing Injunction proceedings in the | courts to restrain the creation of such a “nulsance” In their midst. It s expected that one or more such suits will be begun in the district court today. The law provides that a nulsance, such as a foundry is claimed would be, cannot be created In a residence district to the annoyance of adjoining property owners and residents. Residents in that nelghbor- hood put up with the electric light plant | as long as they were compelled to, but | néw that the plant has been abandoned and | the machinery all removed, will resist to | | the last the installation of a founndry, with its Incessant ncise, in their midst. W. I. Walker of Rock Island, who ha purchased the property of the Sprague | Iron works, plans to move his implement specialty manufacturing plant from that | eity to Council Blufts. For the operation | of his plant here Mr. Walker figures on forming a new company, with a capitaliza- tion of not less than $150,000, and expects to materially increase the output of his plant. The Sprague company will retaln po | session of its present premises until Oc- tober 1, but In the meantime proposes to proceed with the remodeling of the build- ings of the electric light company for its future use and to begin the erection of a now foundry building on this property Property owners in the viclnity, however, say that mot a brick of the new foundry | will be lald until its right to do so has | been tested in the courts. BECK OBJECTS TO FREEZEOUT Declares His Intention of Fighting 1t Out on This Line If it Takes All Summer. —_— | Colonel Beck, who during the short lite of Manawa at an incorporated town, W | its mayor, has declared his intention of fighting the otor company to the bitter end if it persists in what he terms its game | of treczeout. Colorel Beck is proprietor of a cafe, which is located directly opposite what last year was the maln entrance to the Lake Manawa resort. The motor com- pany having changed grounds (his year, by enclosing Mamawa park and moving its fence to the far sid of the street, will practically shut off ac- | cess to Colonel Beck's place. This is mot to the liking of Manawa's erstwhile chief executive and he s consequently up In arms. He has declared his intention in the event of (he motor company persisting to build its feuce directly in tront of his place of business, of appealing to the courts to enforce the law and prevent the sale of liquor at the company's resort, and to turther enforce the law prohibiting public eatertaipments on Sunday. The colonel states he is in the fight to stay and that the injunction proceedings begun in the district court by himeelf and two other property owners at the Jake is but the commencement of the trouble which the motor company will bring on itself it it | persists in its game of freezeout. | DI Tax Mouey. County Treasurer Arnd turned over to | the abstract, title and loan office of J. W. (university is $3,000. the plans of lts' municipality's proportion of the tax collec- ! tions for March. Of the amount $56,496.74 represented regular taxes and $8,506.35 spe- clal assessment taxes. | Treasurer Arnd is sending out the quar- terly remittances to the school treasurers of the county, amounting to $129,040.77. The &chool tax is distributed quarterly among the | country districts, but the proportion of the independent district of Council Blufts | is pald monthly, that for March, which was turned over yesterday, amounting to $52,367.67. The road money derived from the road fund tax, will be distributed this week to the township clerks, amounts to $13,916.89 for the quarter. Treasurer Arnd reports that the tax col- lections for the first quarter of this year are above the average and more than $50,- 000 over those for the corresponding period of 1901. The collections for the quarter ending March 31, this year, were $356,388.20, as against $208,175.67 for the first three months of last year. The collections for the month of March this year amounted to $270,047.16, as agalnst $264,504.59 for the same month in 1901. Recelver for Ogden House. Judge Wheeler of the district court | handed down his decision In the application of Charles E. Kimball, the recent purchaser of the property, for the appointment of a recelver fot the Ogden hotel. The court bolds that Kimball is the owner of the property, with a probable right to imme- diate possession and that the property is likely to suffer through lack of proper care and repairs. Frank T. True is appointed | receiver with power to collect the rents, make the necessary repairs and conduct the hotel as he deems best for the interest of | the owner. George W. Matthews, the pres- ent occupant, who claimed an equity in the property, on account of money alleged to have been expended by him in keeping the hotel open, s permitted to retain possession of the rooms he and his wife now occupy tor a period of thirty days. Real Estate Transfers, These transfers were filed yesterday in Sauire, 101 Pearl street: Thomas D. Metcalf and wite to J. W Bell, lot 17 and e 5 feet Jot 16, block 2, Turley & White's subdiy, w. d.... Joseph Somerville to C. R. Tyler, swij nwig 20 B, w. d...... A Lida Belvey and husband to Minerva Moss, lot 10, Hanthorn's add, Love- land, w. d....... Total, three transfers . Sues Illinols Central. CEDAR FALLS, Ia., April 26.—(Spectal.) —The action started by the city council three weeks ago to compel the Illinols Cen- | tral to run lts trains from Mona Junction | to this city may result in the roadbed of | the Lyle branch of the Central being changed The company which buflt this branch was organized in Cedar Falls In 1858 and the road when bullt was known as the Cedar Falle & Minnesota. Owing to the prices asked for land over which the road- bed was bullt the company avoided the city limits by one mile and no trains stop here and the improvement started by Cedar Falls | capital became a benefit to Waterloo and was the primary cause for the location of the shops there. The articles of Incorporation state that | the road shall enter the city limits and 1t | is on this point that the case will be based. | The company made a survey of the pro- posed changed route a year ago and esti- mated that the improvement would cost $35,000. Two Blazes at Shemandoah, SHENANDOAH, Ia., April 25.—(Special.) —At 4 o'clock yesterday morning fire de- stroyed the house occupled by S. P. Clift in the west part of town. The family had Lot yet arisen, and the origin of the fire is unknown. Tke house was entirely de- stroyed, though the greater part of the contents were saved. Wednesday morning @ hog house owned by A. J. Swanson, north- east of this place, was discovered on fire. The house and eleven hogs were burned and it was only by persistent effort that Mr. Swanson's big barn was saved. Towa Keeps Its Professor. IOWA CITY, Ia., April 26.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—The board of regents of the Univer- sity of Towa today met the offer of Western university for Prof. Harvey Sanger Rich- ards of the law faculty and he will remain. A dinner. was given the retiring regent, Harvey Ingham of Algona, and resolutions adopted recounting his useful service to the university. The board determined to erect three modern medical bufldings In a group for the College of Medicine. The purchase of ground and selection of an architect was [ left to the building committee. Northwestern Wants Iowa Professor. IOWA CITY, April 26.—(Speclal.)—The Northwestern university school of law has extended a call to a professorship to Harry Sanger Richards, professor of law in the college of law of the University of Iowa and secretary of the law faculty. Prof. Richards has taken the matter under ad- visement and will make known his decision next week, He will probably accept the offer. His present salary is $2,100 and the salary tendered hm by the Northwestern Wisconsin Sheriff Gets His Man. I0OWA FALLS, Ia., April 26.—(Speclal.)— Henry G. Smith of Phillips, Wis., was ar- rested here last evening, charged with seduction. He is a young man and was at work with & fence gang along the line of the Des Moines, lowa Falls & Northern road. Deputy Sherlff Hunt of Price | county, Wisconsin, left last evening for Phillips, the prisoner walving requisition papers. Poor Health Causes Sulelde. SHENANDOAH, Ta., April 26.—(Speclal.) —Warner Hooker of Walla Walla, Wash., son of P. R Hooker of Eesex, this county, | committed suicide by taking polson. Mr. | Hooker was well known in this section and | his parents and his wife's parents reside in Essex. Mr. Hooker was in poor health for | some time and It s thought despondency | caused his act. He carried $3,000 life in- surance. e | Library Site Hard to Choo | IOWA CITY, April 26.—(Special.)—The | site for the Carnegie library bullding in Iowa City bas become the leading theme in Towa City. One location was selected by the library board opposite the University hospital, but the city council defeated it by a strictly party vote. The library board has recommended another site in the same block @s its Orst recommendation, Republicans Couvene at Eldora. I0WA FALLS, Ia., April 26.—(Spectal.)— { The republican county convention con- venes at Eldora today to mominate dele- | gates to the Third district congreesional convention at Waterloo May 1, when Speaker D. B. Henderson will be remom- inated for another term. Delegates to the state and judiclal conventions, which have not been called as yet, will be named Forty uspended. | BALDWIN. Kan. April 2. -Forty stu- dents ‘of Baker universily here have been | suspended for breaking into the gymnasium Thursday during a basser ball game be- les’ teame of the college y the offenders can be re- tween tw The officla 97, | the city yesterday $65,008.09, belug the | instated only on pelition to the faculty. | the rallroads have made | to an early trial LINDT PICKED FOR WISNER Opinion Expressed He Will Be Unani- mously Elected Commander of G. A, R. PREPARATIONS MADE FOR A BIG TIME Hull Recommends Me- tmaster at Des Moines, the Deputyship i Troublesome. Congressman (From a Staft Correspondent.) DES MOINES, April 26.—(Special.)—"It is certain that John Lindt of Council Blufts will be elected the next commander ot the lowa department, Grand Army of the Republic.” This statement was made today by Commander George Metzger of Daven- port, who arrived in the city last evening for the purpose of getting out his final or- der relating to the state encampment, which 1s to be held in this city May 20, 21 and 22. Lindt is an enthusiastic Grand Army man and has before been a candi- date for the high honor of state com- mander. It is the general feeling of prom- inent members now that he should recel the unanimous vote of the delegates. Contracts have been made for the dec- orations for the encampment. About $1,200 will be expended by the department for the beautitying of the streets and the halls where the meetings are to be held. This, with the private decorations, will un- doubtedly make the greatest showing of any similar gathering ever held in the state. It is expected the attendance will be gratl- fying to the local committees, inasmuch as concessions re- garding the term of the special rates that will give the visitors nearly a week in the | elty. 1t has been arranged on the opening day to have a public reception in the executive chambers at the state house at 4 p. m. and another in the evening at the conven- tion auditorium. At the latter will be given an address of welcome by Mayor Brenton, a welcome on behalf of the state by Governor Cummins and a response on behalt of the organizations represented trom Commander Metzger. Among the campfires arranged for the | most notable Is Wednesday evening, when General Dodge will read a paper giving personal recollections of General Sherman. General Willlamson and other prominent Iowans will also contribute to the enter- tainment, besides there being a musical program arranged. This will be given at the Auditorium and the public is invited. Another campfire will be held by the vet- erans of the Spanish-American war, at which the principal speaker will be Hon. Claude Porter of Appanoose county. Examination of Law Studen Arrangements are now being made for the semi-annual examination of law stu- dents for admission to the bar. The ex- amination begins May 13 before a state board appointed by the judges of the su- preme court and will be held at the state capltol. A class of about thirty is ex- pected. Had it not been for the change in the rules laid down by the court requir- ing that students now take a three-year instead of two-year course, as formerly, there would have been 100 or more in the class. As it is, many are now going east to take the finishing touches required by the Jowa examiners. Governor Cummins today made an ap- pointment of the commissioners for the riverfront improvement In Cedar Raplds, authorized by an act of the last general assembly, giving special charter cities of certain population control of meandered streams passing through such corpora- tlons. The act affects only Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa and as the result those cities will make great improvements in the ap- pearance of this portion of thelr clties. It was ascertained today upon apparently reliable authority that Congressman J. A. T. Hull has written a letter to John M Kay, sr., informing him that he had se- lected Mr. McKay as the successor of Post- master Lewls Schooler and has so informed the president. No public announcement has been authoritatively made, as yet, for the alleged reason that the deputyship is occasloning considerable dificulty, Mr. M- Kay desiring that County Chairman Lay- man, deputly treasurer, be glven the place and the congressman being unwilling to unseat George Van Dyke, the present in- cumbent, unless he is able to procure an equally satisfactory position for him, It 1s sald Secretary Shaw has been approached with a view to make a place for Mr. Van Dyke, and that the dificulty be adjusted in this manner. Mr. McKay is now serving his second term as county treasurer. Prior to his election to the treasuryship, he had served two terms alderman. He was manager of Congressman’s Hull's re- cent campalgn, and scored a success in the face of determined opposition. Selects a Postmaster. r 8 a Mystery. It is now apparent that the Peterson mur- der case is destined to go down into bis- tory as another mystery, & parallel to the Mabel Scofield case. The various suspects taken into custody by the police have been released from time to time until at last the detectives announce they have ex- hausted all clues, and will henceforth pur- sue a walting game, hoping against bope that the murderer or murderers will event- ually grow careless and betray themselves in some manner. Approximately $2,000 re- ward has been offered for the apprehension of the gullty person or persons. Helps Out Army Post. The seeming Interminable wrangle over the Des Moices army post passed an- other mile-post today when Judge McVey of the district court refused to dismiss the injunction proceedings instituied with a view of releasing $50,000 that has been tied up by soclalists, at a time the money was most needed for the purpose of laying water mains to the site of the post. Just as the mists that have enshrouded the post for two years seemed to be clearing away and by speclal act of the legislature the money for the waterworke seemed available, John M. Work, the socialist candidate for maydr, filed an injunction sult, preventing the transfer of the fund, on the ground that it had originally been raised for an- other purpose It was conceded that the action was brought by the socialists merely as a dilatory proceeding, and that when the matter came to trial, it would result in dismissal of the injunction. But the soc ists refused to permit the case to come It was thereupon deter- mined to file a bond Indemnitying the city suditor against damages, and thereby en- able him to transfer the sum immediately Upon learning that the socialists would in- stitute another injunction sult against this proceude, the friends of the post has- tened to bring such sult first, test case, and submit it to lmmediate trial. Hearing was had today. The socialists in tervened, alleging that the injunction pro- ceedings was brought through collusion and with the intentlon of defrauding the social- tsts. McVey late today ruled that there bad been no collusion and refused to grant the injunction. It is therefore probable work on the army post, so long delayed and so often postponed, will be resumed st an early date as a Negligee Shirts Getting in new designs and patterns as fast as they are pro- duced by thres of the best manufacturers in Ame Monarch, Wilson Bros. and Gold and Silver, at— 50c, 75¢, $1.00 and $1.50 Men’s Shirt Waists Don’t wait, as you did last year, until the lines are broken, but come in and select your pattern early—from the swell- est line that will be shown by any house in the west—from It You Have Them From Us, They're Right.” WORKERS IN IRON CONVENE Every Train for Wheeling Filled to Over- flowing with Delegates. FIGHT IS TO BE OVER THE WAGE SCALE No Objection to the Sei to the e Itwelf, Which Manner in Officers of Federation Sign I WHEELING, W. Va., April 26.—Notwith- standing an overcast sky, cooler weather and occasional showers, the union iron workers of the tri-state radlus are coming to Wheeling this morning by thousands. Every traln s filled to overflowing and the delegates from Pittsburg and Youngs- town districts and from Cumberland, Md., are notable for their size and enthuslasm, while the nearby towns of the Wheeling district are dumping their population into the city almost enmasse. The parade occurs at noon and the indi- cations are that there will be 10,000 men In line 1f showers do not interfere with the turnout. Following the parade the crowds will assemble at Wheeling park, where addresses are to be made by Gov- ernor White of West Virginia, Congresa- man B. B. Dovener, J. W. Slayton of New- castle, Pa., a labor leader; President Shaffer and Assistant Secretary Tighe of the Amalgamated assoclation and others. No sesslon of the assoclation s being beld today, but on Monday the recom- mendations of the several committees will be made to the convention, after which several pretty contests will be inaugurated upon the floor. Foremost among these will be that on wage scale. The majority report of the committee, that the action of the national officers In signing up the scales in advance of the convention be endorsed, probably will be adopted, but not without a strong fight for the adoption of the minority report, which takes no exception to the scales In themselves, but reglsters constitutional objections, Late information is that the federation of labor representative, F. H. Flynn, will not be accorded the floor of the convention for making an attack upon Shaffer in re- turn for the latter's strictures upon Gompers. If Flynn is not accorded a hear- ing it is sald Gompers will make a public statement through the press of his attitude during the 1901 strike. HARRIMAN CROWDS THE WORK Removes All Obstacles from Comple- tion of Salt Lake-Low Angeles Line, LOS ANGELES, April 26.—As a result of E. H. Harriman's visit to Salt Lake and his Inquiry into the cause of delay in work on the Oregon Short Line's extension to Los Angeles, it is now given out from a rellable source in this city that all obsta- cles to construction have been removed and the new rallroad between this city and Salt Lake will be completed and in operation before the end of the present year. Orders have come from New York and the engineering department of the railroad will rush the work of surveys. Materfals ere ordered and are already arriving snd workmen are being employed wherever (hy can be found and are sent to several camps on the line of the road. There remains less than 300 miles of new road to be built to complete the line. About the same mileage of old tracks will be relaid with heavy steel ralls and 110 miles of road southwest trom Salt Lake forming the cut-off through Garfield beach and into the Tintic mining district will be .constructed to shorten the dlstance covered by the present line. The order contemplates a complete rebullding of the raflroad from Salt Lake and Callente, the present southwestern terminus of the Oregon Short Line. The new line is surveyed from Callente to Ludlow, on the Santa Fe, and it is semi- officially announced that a joint trafic agreement with the Santa Fe has been made whereby the Short Line will use Santa Fe tracks from Ludiow to Los An- geles. FAILS TO GET THE ESTATE| Young Phyw His Late a 0 ix Denied Title er's Property Money. KANSAS CITY, April 26.—In the clrcuit | court today Judge Teasdale held that Dr. Leon Rosenwald was not entitled to the eetate of his late partner, Dr. Charles W. Adams, valued at between $50,000 and $75.- 000. Adams was an eccentric physician, aged were no known heirs Dr. Rosenwald, 28 rs old, brought suit to secure the entire state, contending that Dr. Adams had verbally promised him that if he (Rosen- wald) would become his partner and care for him in time of sickucas he should have all his property at his death. Furth rmore Rosenwald alleged that he and Adams had agreed to make wills, each bequeathing his property to the other. Dr. Rosenwald made his will in Adams' favor, but Dr. Adams failed to will his belongings to his partner. BROTHERS Defy Reckle powered by Cltizens. LAND IN Authorities JAIL Do Shooting, but Are Over- Kan WICHITA, Kan., April 26.—Homer Lan- ham, a ranchman, went to the city of Meade, in southwest Kansas, last Wednesday and the | | both headings. | one When he died he left no will and there | 416 BROADWAY. SMITH % BRADLEY, New Styles in Chandeliers and gas fixtures for halls lors, reception rooms, bedrooms. We nave handsome designs. By having your gas fit- ting done by us mechanical perfection and gas fixtures that are up-to- date and reasonable in cost. J. C. Bixby & Son, 202 Main St & 203 Pearl St., Tel. 193, COUNCIL BLUFFS, 1A libraries, dining rooms in a par- and multitude of you secure Telephone 314. of the Shirt That comes from our Laundry sweet lay of joy and gladness, 80 pure and clean. Collars and cuffs join in the chorus and you this summer symphony if you become a customer. BLUFF CITY LAUNDRY Wallace & Grout, Proprietors. 22-24 North Main Street, Council Blutfs, is one 80 sweet, can became disorderly. He sought the marshal with a threat to kill him. He met the offi- cer and shot him four times. He hit a young man named Ed Kragh, who will probably dle. The marshal grappled with Lanham and took his gun from him and aimed a bullet at his heart. His life was saved by a book in his breast pocket. He was arrested and put in jail. The next day Jesse Lanham, a brother of the prisoner, came to town with & revolver and defled tne authoritles. A public meet- ing was held and R. W. Griggs ordered Lanham to surrender, but instead he fired his revolver recklessly and the first bullet grazed the cheek of C. B. Campbell, who sat in the hotel parlor near by. He was finally disarmed and is in jail with his brother. IN MEMORY OF GENERAL GRANT Eightieth Birthday Anniversary Natlonal Hero Commemorated at His 0ld Home. ot GALENA, I, April 26.—The eightleth anniversary birthday of General U. Grant was celebrated in this city today under the auspices of the Grant Birthday assoclation of Galena This marked the tenth observance of the day. The orator of the day at the first cele- bration in 1893 was Willlam McKinley, fol- lowed in succeeding years by orators of national reputation, including Luther Lat- lin Mills of Chicago, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Emory Smith and others. The speaker of the day, Hon. Willlam T. Calhoun, arrived from Chicago shortly after noon, accompanied by many distin- gulshed visitors, who joined with thou- sends from this and adjoining counties in the celebration with marked enthuslasm. Special trains were run from various points, bringing In numerous visitors to ewell the throng. The commemorative ex- ercises were held in Turner hall and Mr. Calhoun's address was warmly received. ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP TUNNEL Plot Discovered to Wreek Power operty of D at Naga BUFFALO, N. Y., April 26.—A special to the News from Niagara Falls says: As the night shift went to work last evenlng In the tunnel of the Canadian Power company discovery was made of an attempt to wreck the tunnel and kill the men, thirty in num ber. working 160 feet below the surface of the earth The shaft leading down to the tunnel is 160 feet deep. The boftom of the tunnel runs north and south and men work at The blasts are dlschargel by means of batterles, which are operated at the foot of the shaft, the wires extend- ing to the headings One of the “nipper” boys discovered that of the batteries had been cut and a cartridge cap connected and placed In a stick of dynamite. The dynamite had been placed between two boxes of dynamite con- taining seventy-five pounds of material Had the exploslon occurred the havoc wrought would have been fearful. No mo- tive can be ascribed for the plot IS STRANGLED TO DEATH Man Accused of Wife Murder Hangs Himsell to & Door Knob. CLEVELAND, 0. April 26.—Martin Lynch, who was arrested a few days ago, | charged with the murder of his wife at the home of the couple, 803 Tod street, com- mitted suicide early today in his cell at the county jall by hanging himself from the door knob. The knob was mot more than three feet trom the floor. Lynch had carefully tied a sheet to the knob and then the other end about his neck. In order to accomplish his purpose It was necessary for him to sit down on the floor of his cell and slowly strangle to death. High Grade Fountain Pens, 75c, $I1, $1.25, $1.50. In DeLong's Stationery Department for a tew days only. We have just made arrangements with the Waterman Fountain Pen Co. to handle their pens for the mext two years, and under the terms of the agree- ment we must at once dispose of all pens of other makes mow in stock. To make them disappear quickly, we have declded to cut the regular prices squarely in two. exclusively $1.50 Franklin Fountain Pen. $2.00 Wirt or Parker $2.50 Wirt or Parker $3.00 Wirt or Parker $1.00 ..$1.26 $1.50 Each in box, with filler, complete. Ten cents extra if ordered by mail. Satisfas- tion guaranteed. Lun Sl 307 Broadway, Council Blufts A Constant Stream Of delicious drinks will fountain beginning this morning (Sunday) flow from our and will be kept going through the entire summer months. This means that you can get your choice out of about fity different flavors of the finest. Summer Drinks That Flow From Any Fountain in Council Bluffs. We invite you to come In and compare our delicious drinks with any others served in this city. It means that you will give us the verdict of keeping the best to be bad anywhere and they are not only de- liclous, but pure and wholesome—that means a good deal GEORGE W. FLETCHER'S Drug Store. TELEPHONE 275, 106 BROADWAY, COUNCIL BLUFF5