Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 28, 1902, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY JUNE 28 STOCK YARDS LAWYER BALKS Throws Obstacles in Way of Compremise of Personal Property Assessment. WANTS REALTY FIGURES LEFT UNCHANGED Packers Equa Appe Before tion amnd Talk Prin pally About What They Do Not Board of Own. At the afternoon Equaligation raised the aseesen the packers, all the and the etock creise being $1,602 session the oBard of nts of all franchise corporations Attorney J. H. Meln tative of the Real E: ney F. T. Ransom, s the represer the Unlon Stock Yards company Manager Robert ( Howe, as o Sentative of Armour & Co W. L the representative of Swif A. Creigh, as ahy and Omaha « oeh, as t presen tative of General repre elby, as and Company; T tative of the Cud- mpanies, and A. L. Sutton as the representative of the Hammond com- pany, talked all forenoon with the Board of Equalization as the representative of the taxpayers of Douglas county. The result was that when the board adjourned at 12:30 for Junch there had been no vote taken on any assessment and affairs stood apparently about where they did when the tete-a-tete began. Commissioner Hofeldt was absent Attorney Mcintosh tried to get the board to act immediately on the packers and stock yards, accepting the tax eommittee's compromise figures, but Commissioner Con- Bolly informed him that the body “is able to transact its business” and preferred to do #0 in its own way Mr. McIntosh and Mr. Ransom were a unit in urging board that if the stock yards' personal as Sessment is ralsed to $400,000 (the figure which the tax committee had announced as Baving been agreed to by the company) its Teally assessment must remain as returned by the aseessor, which is $107,700 on yards proper and $15,000 on lots Omata, the total being $122,700 O'Keefle Makes a Motion. the represen the in South O'Keeffe approved this and moved that if | anything was added to the realty assess- ment a similar amount be deducted from the $400,000 personal, but Chairman Ostrom beld this motion out of order and balked on the whole proposition. He said he had un- derstood from Mr. Mclntosh that the $400,- 000 had been agreed upon as the personal | and that the personal should mot cut any figure with the realty if the board decided 1o raise the latter, which was not improba ble, he said, in view of the fact that com. plaints have been filed egainst the latter. The discussion closed with the decision of the board to consider the realty assessment before acting on the personal. Attorneys Mclntosh and Ransom were not & unit the agreement between the tax commitiee and the stock yards company. Mr. Ransom Taised the voice of & holy and outraged however, on men to inform the bourd that he had, by | & glance through the assessors’ books, d covered that therein are entered assess- ments of many men and firms of Omaha who have scheduled not one-sixth of the real value of their property, but only one- fortieth, and he said that his company had ngreed to the proposed raise upon the condition that all other taxpayers be raised to & valuation equally fair. Mr. McIntosh, standing at the justice-champlon's elbow. spoke up with equal vigor to flatly deny his statement, and to inform the board that the stock yards' agreement had been without qualification. The exchange of denials continued some minutes without ending anywhére in parficular. Packers Have Thelr Say. The representatives of the packers were certaln about the things their companies didn't own, but woefully ignorant of the things they did. In eubstance, Mr. Howe sald that the value of the Armour com- pany's personal property in the county is $487,000; that the plant has a capacity of 7,000 hogs and 1,200 cattle per day, but kills on an average only 2,000 of the former and 200 of the latter; that he doesn't knmow what insurance the company carries and couldn't easily find out, as the Insurance clerk is resident in Chicago; that all cars used by the company belong to a separate company in Chicago; that he hasn't any idea of the nmumber of cars in use by the local plant April 1, and that he had never agpeed to any assessment figure, but had told the tax committee to first see If its figures were acceptable to the board To this last statement Mr. Selby added that huis only agreement with the tax com- mittee was based on its figure of $262,000 for the five, and that individual figures had B0t been mentioned. Chairman Ostrom called their attention to figures in an editorial in The Bee, showin that in the census report the companies investment was given as $15.635,418, but they attempted 1o explain this by saying that the figures must represent the accu- mulated investment of all the companies had been in business, while much of the machinery, for instance, represented in the total of §1,225 869 had been worn out ed long ago. ked if the South Omaba figures were given by Mr. replied that they were Commissioner Fitz- gerald's. Chairman Ostrom said it had been de- ATTENTION ness, physical and mental slug- gishness, prompt atten- tion should be given to the condition of the diges. tive and mutritive sys- tems. Not all these symptoms will occur st once or in any single case, but any one of them indicates a disordered condition of the stomach A pt cure of these conditions will be efiected the timely use of Dr. roe's n Medical Discovery. It heals dis- cases of the stomach and yardgrompany, the total in- | ate exchange or- | the wording of &ho | Howe and the latter Creigh under oath. The gentlemen re- sented this mildly because the jobbers were |not sworn, and Mr. Howe left. Chairman {Ostrom sald be would have him recalled {and placed under oath Mr. Creigh said that $470,000 represented the value of the ‘4“Adllh‘ plant; that its capacity was about \tht same as Armour’s; that it has 200 cars {150 of which are assessed elsewhere than |Douglas county. The Omaba plant, he eaid, in generalising, could be rated propor- tionately with the others. ‘ Mr. Selby, being eworn, said that $400,000 represented the fair value of the Swift plant that fts capacity is 4 per cent less than | Armour’s; that t owns no cars and that he knows nothing of its insurance Attorpey Sutton, also placed under oath, pleaded that the Hammond plant contains not a dollar's worth of personal property, a1l having been sent to St. Joseph. The bollers and engines, he thought, would be | rated as realty, because they are bricked into the walls. When all had testified the board adjourned, instructing them to call at 8 o'clock in the afternoon, when the board promised to pass on the assessments of | their companies. REPORTS FOR TWO MONTHS County Tremsmrer Shows Collections =nd cided to swear all parties, and put Mr Disbursements for April May. Report of G. Fred Elsasser, county ‘treas- urer, showing the whereabouts of county funde May: 1, 1802 Balance April 1 Collections for April Total | Disbursements in Aprii £106,3 146,41 account money On_Deposit in Banks Merchante' National U. 8. National Commercial National Firet National Packers’ National Omaha National Union National 1 otal Balance May 1 Report of Treasurer Elsasser showing the whereabouts of county funds June 1, 902 Balance May 1 Collections for May Total Disburseme; Carh in draw Checks in drawer Postage account Protest money On_Deposit in Hanke Merchants' National... U. 8. National ’ Commercial National First Ni : LEEd 44 2% 2248 3z H Omaha National Union National Total . Balunce June 1 AK-SAR-BEN HUSTLERS’ Committee Will Hold Session on Mon- day Evening Prior te Den Exercises. 8 The hustling committee of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben will hold the last meeting of the season at Balduff's Monday evening, when the final reports of the subcommit- tees will be received. The hustling com- mittee has done great work this season, re- turning as many applications by the last of June as were returned last year by the middle of August. It has now been decided by the members of the committee to give the members of the soclety an opportunity to do a little hustling and it is said that if each member of the order will devote one day during the coming month to securing one applicant the record for membership will be broken. There i no special work on for Monday | night at the den and Omaha will be given | another night for its citizens. It ex- pected that invitations to be present at sub- sequent meetings of the knights will be ac- cepted by W. H. Thompeon, fusion candi- date for governor, and other candidates on the different state tickets will be asked to meet the knights at the den and devote one evening to pleasure during the campaign KAPLAN MUST SHOW COURT Grocer Accused of Slapping His Sis- ter-ia-Law Durin, s ble. a Family Albert Kaplan, a grocer, is out under $400 bond to appear before Justice Altstadt July 5 and tell why he struck Mrs. Minnie Kap- lan, prove that he did not strike ber, or take the comsequences. Two days ago a daughter of Albert Kaplan went to ber aunt, Mrs. Mionle Kaplan, at Eighteenth and Leavenworth streets, and told her that | & special sale was going on downtown and that she would do some purchasing for the aunt. The girl was given a dollar, but failed to return when the aunt thought she should. Mrs. Kaplan then went to the grocery store of Albert Kaplan on South Thirteenth street to see about it. When she went in the store, she said, Albert shut the door and gave her a whipping. Albert denied the woman's story. He was arrested and released on $400 bond. LINEMAN TAKES A LQNG DROP Harry Moore Painfully Hurt by Ae- et While at Weork on Pole. Harry Moore, & lineman, fell a distance of thirty feet at $:§0 a m. yesterday trom a telephone pole at Ninth and Dodge streets. He received a compound fracture of the Jeft wrist and his back was_ badly | sprained. Moore was taken to the police | station, and after his injuries were hastily attended to he was femoved to the Clarkson hospital. At the time of the accident Moore was On & oross-bar of the pole, and the buckle on his belt gave way, causing him to lose his balance and fall. He resides &t 413 North Fifteenth street and has been in Omahbs only a few days, having been em- ployed out in the state by dl telephone company for a number of years. His in- juries are pot thought to be serious. ANOTHER TOOK HIS WIFE Why E. A. Cooper Sues H. F. Schicus- * for Twenty Thousand Dollars. Bdwin A. Cooper has filed in district court a petition for $20,000 judgment againsi }Henry F. Schleusner, whom he accuses of alienating his wife's affection and carrying ber away with him. He relates that Henry took Mrs. Cooper from her happy home at Little Falls, Mion., Jsnuary 20, and has since bad her with bim in New York. Chi- cago and Omaba. Low Rate Eastern Excursions. On July b to 9, inclusive, the Nickel Plate Road will eell tickets at on. trip to Portland, Me., final.return Mmit August 15th st City Ticket Office, 111 Adams St., Chi- cago. The Milwaskee Bafiway, bas on its Noe &t Yorkshire, la, 31 miles east of Omabs, & beautifi! grove and picole srdund. Committees on location will do well to see this location. Call st City Ticket Ofice, 1504 Farnam St, for par- ticulars. GEQ. B. HAYNBS, . City Passenger Agent mmfh"fly Bee Telephone 58 UNION PACIFIC PLANS CUT 'Will Bhorten Line Into Balt Lake to Meet New Cempetition. SCHEME IS TO RUN DIRECT FROM ECHO Alr Line from Denver to Mormon City is Considered Impracticabie on Account of Mountains— Railroad Notes. The Union Pacific 1s credited with a new Il«‘ht-mt for meeting the competition of the projected Moftatt short line from Denver to Salt Lake City. Reports from abroad indicate that the Union Pacific will build a line almost parallel with that to be con- structed by the Denver capitalist and known as the Denver, Northwestern & Pa- cific. That the Harriman road will meet the competition of its new rival is not denied by executive officials of the company, but that it will meet it by this means is em- phatically denied. The Union Pacific has another route or eut-off in mind. alrealy surveyed, and which probably will be adopted when the time comes. It could be constructed in half the time, or less, neces- sary to complete the Moftatt short line, and consequently work upon its comstruction need not be started for some time yet This cut-off contemplated by the Uslon Pacific is from Echo straight into Salt Lake City, which would obviate the trip to Ogden and reduce the mileage considerably. But, as a matter of fact, the reduction thus accomplished would be insignificant as compared with that made by a bee line from Denver to Salt Lake City, if such a thiug were possible. Railroad officials de- clare it is not; that in order to run a con- tinuous track from Denver to Salt Lake City it would be necessary to plow through some of the highest and most rugged of the Rockies, forming one solid tunnel for miles that would cost in many places several milifon dollars a mile. The scheme is pronounced absolutely impracticable by the Union Pacific Bee Line Impossible. Nor will the Moffatt people be able to do this. Their route will extend from Denver to Salt Lake City not on a bee line, but will be run to the south and have to zig-zag through the mountains so much that in the end it will not have gaired much in dls- tance over the present route of the Union | Pacific. And after the latter has reduced | its course by building the cut-off from Echo down to Salt Lake City it will be in a still better position te compete with the short line. The Union Pacific has the route from Echo already surveyed and it ls understood that while on his recent trip over the sys- tem E. H. Harriman approved this route The Moffatt faction announces that they | are not entering the field to fight any other road, but as a matter of fact they will have very good vantage ground should they de- cide to become a little pugnacious in the future. Since the projection of the Moffatt line a number of surveys have been made in ter- | ritory of that section and among these is one by the Union Pacific from the terminus of ite spur through the southwestern part of Utab. The terminus i Calientes, Nev., and the plan is to extend this branch straight into Los Angeles. This could be accomplished and give the Harriman people good competition with the new Clark-Hill road which soon will traverse that country. With the completion of this route the Union Pacific would have a diagonal line almost without any detour whatever into the southern California metropolis. The whole scheme back of the Union Pa- eific projects is sald to be Harriman's reso- lute determination to make bis road a long link in the transportation chain which is to unite European ports with those of As It is conceded that this dream of commer- clal expansion and railroad supremacy can be realized in no other way than by laying the route from the two great continents through America. Sebastia is Promoted. The local Rock Island office yesterday re- ceived the announ. ment that John Sebas- tian, for fifteen years gemeral passenger agent of the Rock Island railrosd and one of the best known officials in the west, has been promoted to the position of passenger trafic manager effect at once and his office will remain in Chicago. This change will have no effect in the matter of promotions on any local Rock Island men Fate of Passenger Associa Discussion continues as to the fate of the Western Passenger association. It is main- tained on some hands that its dissolution is threatened by the collapse of the mmi- gration bureau, but local officisls laugh at this view. Ope prominent Union Pacific i man is not endangered in the least by the recent failure of the immigrant bureau or that there is any reason whatever for doubting the ability of the passenger association to pull through what minor differences exist among its membership or officials. The passenger association is a much older organization than the immigration bureau and was pever dependent upon the latter for its success or existence Rallway Notes and Personals. meral Manager Holdrege of the Bur- lington has returned from an official trip & far west as Denver H. 8. Gray, commercia! agent at Kansas City for the Central of Georgla road, is making the rounds of business in Omahs. A. C.Shaw, general passenger agent, and 3.¢. Thompson, traveling passenger agent for ‘the Boo line at Chicago, are in the eity ARRESTED AS A DYNAMITARD Former Prisoner Acts Suspiclously at Rear of Chief Do Home at Night. What was thought to be an attempt to blow up Chief of Police Donahue, and all his belongings, or to rob his residenc frustrated &t an early hour yesterday by Officer Dunn, who arrested Fred Lee in the aliep in the rear of the chief's house, 812 North Seventeenth street. Lee was seen to enter the alley by the officer and was arrested while standing in the rear of Chief Donahue's house. After being taken to the station he was identified as a man who had been released from Jall last Wednesday after having served a term on & charge of beating & woman and robbing Ber. A careful search was made in the alley for explosives, but nothing was found to incriminate Lee. He denied that he had any intentien of dging harm to the chief He recently came to Omaba from Penn- sylvania. - HELPS ELECTRICAL WORKERS Bullding Trades Council Decides to Stand by Lin in Their Trouble. The Building Trades council has indorsed The appointment will take | was | i uthority for the statement that the | in session at the Iler Grand hotel yesterday permanency of the passenger association is { Work on the new | erected by the Nebraska Telephone com- | sald a representative of a Chicago factory GLORYOF AGOOD NAME A, Prominent Chicago Woman Writ- ing to Mrs. Pinkham Says: ! 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PIxguax : —I feel it my duty to write and let you know the good you and your Vegetable Compound are doing. I had been sick ever since 3 born, and at the birth of my second, my doctor, as well as myself thought I should never live through it. my first baby tion never came regular and when it womb and ovarian trouble. send to suffering women. 1 hoj E. Pinkham’s Vegetable mission. phone and telegraph companies persist in not recognizing the linemen's demands building soon to be pany would be affected, it is claimed, by the combined action of the unions if the griev- ances are not settled. SOAP MEN IN CONFERENCE Manufacturers Will Endeavor to | Unite on General Advance in Prices. The Western Soap Manufacturers' asso- ciation, which includes representatives of | the leading soap factories of the west, was for the purpose of reaching an understand- ing as to the sale of soap in the western | territory. About a dozen men are present from Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Minne- apolls, St. Paul and other cities. | “Soap is entirely too low at this time,” “The prices of all of the ingredients of | soap have advanced. We are paying more | for tallow, more for potash and more for | the wrappers. We had made practically | Do advance in the price, at least nome in| comparison to the advance in material, and some of the factories are facing a time | when they must run at & loss or advance prices. The representatives here today, may bave no power to make this advance, but they can make recommendations to| their houses and such recommendations | will have considerable weight “The soap men are geiting together. | There was & time when they would not co- operate, aud during that time the premium plan of pushing business grew, until today there are people who will not buy a cake of soap unless they have an ultimate | chance of getting & grand piano or a house and lot. There is no reason Why soap makers should be expected to give house- | hold goods and musical instruments to the people who buy their goods, and there are many reasons why soap should sell as any other product, upon its merits. It s to| discuss all these things that the meeting is being held.” 1 INCREASE IN SCHOOL CENSUS | n from Elght of Enumerating ete Return the Eighteen Districts. 1 Eight of the eighteen enumerating dis- tricts of the city have been heard from and the returns show & gain of 274 children of school age over the corresponding districts of a year ago. For the purpose of enume tion each ward is divided into districts, known as the north and south or east and | west districts. The returas thus far re- | celved are as follows North district of Second ward Bouth ‘district of Becond ward. .| 2 orth district of Third 4 orth district of Fourth ward Bouth district of Fourth ward the grievances of the electrical workers and | North district of Seventh ward will etand by the linemen in their present difficulties. This is taken &5 an omen of success to the linemen, who clalm that certain work is mow in progress over the city ‘would be completely tied up If the members which | Bighth ward is due to the fa 1 West district of Fifth ward 1 1 North district of Eighth ward. .. 1 Totals 16,70 Increase The falling off in the south district of the that the students of Creighton university were not of the trades council were to strike, & con- | counted this year. as bas been done in the tingency quite probable in svest the tele- | past. The faculty explained Lo the enumer- | A friend of my husband's advised him to get Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for me. faith in it, but now nothing could induce me to be without it. Menstruation has become regular and I feel like a new woman. Your medicine is & God- this letter will lead others to try Lydia ‘ompound. MCKINKY, 28 Pearl St., San Francisco, Cal. If there is anything in your case about which you would like special advice, write freely to Mrs. Pinkham. Address is Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free. REWARD. — We have deposited with the National which will be paid 10 any person who oan fiud that the above testimonial | are not genuine, or Were publishsd before obiain: ydin E. Pinkham Med| received from the | volver. benefited. I have used Lydia E. ‘ou have hosts of Mrs. May Browx, 57 Grant Place, After that menstrua- came I suffered terribly. I also had At first I had no Yours truly, Mgs. MILDEED (March 16, 1901). ity Bank of Lynn, $5000, the writer's special ine Cou. Lyna, Mash ator that that institution received none of | the public money, and that, moreover, many of the students were non-residents, so de- clined to give the usual data. It is thought that the school district of Omaha will not | e in & position to demand this information, | since the faculty are neither the parents | nor the guardians of the students. | Last year the school district of Omaha | state $42,414.87 as its | ehare of the state school fund. The first half of the present fiscal year shows an increase over the amount paid for the first half of the last fiscal year of $1,360.70, and, at this rate, the total increase will be about $2,600. The amount of taxes paid | the district hy the state is in proportion to the number of children of school age in the district, each child increasing the amount by approximately $1.50. TALK OF PROPOSED CATHEDRAL Dise No Definite Bishop and Pri but Make Pl Subject, The annual retreat of the Romen clergy- men of the diocese of Omaha came to & close Friday evening. Yesterday morning at Creighton college there was held & synod of the diocese at which the prieste of the jurisdiction were present, including secular and regular. Matters relative to the rules of the diocese were discussed, but nothing done of interest to the laity The proposed cathedral was discussed at the retreat by Bishop Scannmell and the clergymen, and it is understood that the building will certainly be constructed, al- though the bishop is not ready to make any positive announcement as to the time 1t will be started LOCAL BREVITIES. The office of the city treasurer will be kept n Saturday afternoon until o'clock to accommodate those who are un- able to call earlier in the day to pay their taxes. June 25 is the last Saturday before the city taxes become delinguent. Julge Munger of the federal court has named the first day of the October term of court as the time for the memorial services to be held in respect to the late Senio M. Lambertson. This will be at on Monday, r 6 time the resolutions rawn up by & committee appotnted by the court will be read and speeches made by prominent attorneys of Nebraska Clyde Johnson, a colored lad of § years, shot himself in ‘the right hand st 1 p.im. yesterday while playing with a re- The ball entered in the palm of the pd and broke one of the small bones. Johnson was near Twelfth street and Capi- tol avenue examining the revolver when it was discharged. He was taken to the fice station and the wound dressed by Ibe police surgeon. He lives at Eleventh and Davenport streets PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. J. H. Shields of Fort Margan, Colo., is in the city Dr. Charles Bitzar and wife of Bt are in the ity Dr. 1. H. Dillon of Auburn the Merchants ‘Spud”’ Farrish _ returned yesterday from the south, where he has been for several months on account of his health. For a time he was at Hot Springs, Ark., and from there went to Texas, where he remained for & momth or more. While in the south his life was despaired of and it was only by the most careful attention that bhe was able 1o raliy. At the present time he is able to attend to his work and will report for duty st the city hall Moanday WOrning. Louls Neb., is at ' TWENTIETH CENTURY NEWSPAPER. There is no newspaper in the United States published in a city of less than 150,000 inhabitants that ranks with The Omaha Bee, as complete, up-to-date and well edited newspaper. 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