Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 21, 1903, Page 10

OMAHA DAILY B WEDNESDAY. W00D WORKERS FORM UNION Prepare to Wage Their Strike Against Union Pacific Systematically. PIECE WORK CUTS DOWN MEN'S EARNINGS | President Conn Says for Builling a New Seale Re- ot ess Than | duces Pay from Fift Three Dollars, wood workers and steam Union Pacific sho day because an attempt was made ework upon them have already 24 permanent organizations and have made all plans to carry on thelr strike in & systomatic manner. Already the men of both trades are just as determined as any machinist, boller maker or blacksmith that they will never accept the premium scale system. Yesterday of the shops all but one seven men who had remained in Monday. So they now have a total of fifty men, and this with the twenty pipemen makes soventy new men on strike. The company will, it fs un derstood, take men from the car shops to do the locomotive carpenters’ work, but the Iatter say the scheme will never do, es the ‘work on the engines Is so forelgn to that of the car men that they will be unable to do it. Permanent organization of the locomo- | tive wood workers was completed Monday | night at Labor temple. C. E. Conn was made president, George H. sr., vie president; C. A. Walker s y and Fred Flsher treasurer. The title chosen was tho | Locomotive Wood Workers of the Union | Pacific Railw, A press com ttee of threo was appointe Locomotive ters who teft the form the wood workers of t took out To Already this organization has arranged for admission into the American Federation of Labor, and that will soon be brought about. The lodge Is thought to be the first of its kind anywhere. It has fifty members and a widespread organization of this trade may follow from this lead “We had known for some time that they would try plecework on uas' eald Presi- dent Conn. “Last week Whiteford, Burt Plecework organizer from the east, was around our shop ‘all the time and Saturday came the announcement in the papers that the new rules would come Monday. We had never been organized, as they had let us alone, but It was time to do something, ®0 we held a meeting Saturday night in O'Nelll's hall at Sixteenth and Cuming streets. There we effected a temporary | organization and determined not to submit to plecework. “At the meeting Saturday night there | were forty-four present t night we | had fitty. We took out the three over at | Council Bluffs and we have wired the men @&t Cheyenne and North Platte that we have gone out and will write particulars. They will doubtless stand with us, as the road will try to put plecework on them also. Federation, How Premtium Scenle Works, scheduled for | us is something awtul. e a few ex- amples: I am a pilot builder, and it takes me five days to make one. That is $15 In | wages. On the plecework scale they | offered $2.70 for one pilot. You could | hardly carry the lumber in for that money. Agaln, they give 50 cents for taking off the | pllot. That job takes three men two | hours, or 8% cents cach an hour i “I understand they have taken some of | Nef's men and some car repairers to do | our work. They can't do it, anyway, but I don't like to see the car men go in like | that, When' they struck last summer the | roud tried to get us to do their work, and | we retused. They should not be willing | ta do ours now." | Among the leaders of the boiler makers | #nd machinists the new strikers are wel- | comed, of course, but arc not regarded as of great significance 14 one official “The main way these strikes help us is that they cheor up the men who are already out and have been so long. And I don't doubt that it will embarrass them at the shops considerably.” St. Louls' gift to the nation. Cook’s Im- perial Extra Dry Champagne. Don't fail | to try it. It will give you pleasure. o N The iuventory of stock not being fully eompletcd, the store will not be OPEN FOR BUSINESS TODAY. You are requested to watch the columns of The Bee and World- Herald for regupening aunouncement. E. HAST Bennett Company. 38, Mortality Statistics. The following births and deaths were Feported at the office of the Board of Health in the course of the twenty-four hours closing at noon Tuesday Birthe—Simon Rosenthal, 194 South Tenth street, girl; Joseph A. LaChapelle, 2316 Bouth' Thirfeenth street, boy; Walter N Ha 1041 South ‘Twenty-third street, Ezra Hayes, Lake streel, boy; ! hris Clausen, outh Twelfth street, boy; Michael E. Schin 2 South Fif- teenth street, boy; George s, 924 North Forty-second’ street, boy; Matias Klug, Grant street, boy Deaths-Cha Twenty-fifth st Boyts aged 3 weeks: avey riv-eighth and Martha streets, aged § months. -— ood, 930 North | ars; Cherry Champagne wins gold medals at inter- pational expositions; but better than that, it wins its way to the hearts of the people by its purity, high quality and moderate price. The ideal wine for the home. PLEASANT VALLEY WINE CO., Sole Makers, Rueims, N. ¥ Bold by all respectable wine dealers. ° A N | vent at | lett 1t !in | $300,000 from the tour. | erly so famous. | full value, | which tn |w HOLDS BABY UPSIDE DOWN Experience as “Family Man” Gives Lawyer's Dignity a Severe Jolting. Attorney John J. fled and diffdent mily n every Boucher, dainty, digni has had an experience as that makes him shy to one side time he sces a baby. Busineas called him Monday to the con- Fifteenth and Castellar streets. To return to his office he went a block west to catch the car from South Omaha. Miss- ing one, he had to walt for another and in the interim there arrived at the corner a woman who had a babe in her arms, a milk | bottle fn her hand and typ youngsters tug- ging at her skirts. Boucher smiled at the baby and It cooed. The mother Immedi- ately resolved that the attorney was an honest man who could be trusted and the grew acquainted to the extent that each said It was a nice day. Presently the car came at great speed and the motorman was forced to apply the | brakes with vigor. Everybody who has ever ridden a South Omaha car knows what o was thus created. The chil- dren on foot grew alarmed and started. to run away, each in a different direction Thelr mother hesitated a moment and then shoved into the astonished barrister's arms the baby and the milk bottle, while she gave cl to one of the others, The perepiration started on Mr. Boucher's brow. He grew confused and held both the baby and the bottle upside down. The stop- per came out of the baby and it spilled screams that could be heard two blocks. The stopper came out of the bottle, also, and It spilled milk that will gpmain on Mr. Boucher's overcoat and trousers for two years. When the mother had corraled one of the youngsters she brought it back and with Mr. Boucher while she chased fhe other. This made matters worse cause the screams and the long delay of the car had brought all the passengers to the windows to look on and make remarks about a man who would let his wife do the “run- ning down."” Cventually when all had been corraled and loaded aboard, the perspiring Mr. Boucher thought the incident closed and was glad of it their mother, an ample German woinan, on one side of the car and seated himself on the other, hoping thus to Intimate to the sort of nol | other passengers that he ‘had been acting only as a receiver aad not as a partner. But the conductor spoiled the whole effect and drove Boucher to the back platform by ringing up four fares out of the quarter Boucher gave him and passing the woman | and children by, as though their fares had been paid, Now Mr. travels only in the company of men. Laxative Bromo-Quinine Cures a Cold in One Day. Cures Grip in Two Days. PATTI WILL SING IN OMAHA Manager Burgess Secures the Famous Singer for a Date in November, Manager Burgess of Boyd's theater has just secured for Omaha a November date the forthcoming American tour which Mme. Adelina Patti will take next winter under the direction of Maurice Grau. The terms under which Patti is to enter upon this tour are perhaps the most liberal ever granted a performer. She is guaranteed $5,000 for each performance and need not sing more than three times a week, or twice a week It she prefers. There will be sixty performances, or a total profit to her of Nor has she any expénses. Her steamship fare and state- room expense is paid to America; here sh 1s glven a private car, servants and a phy- sicion in constant attendance. Patt! will sing in the roles for which she was form- The exact day of the Omaha appearance is not set, dut It probably will be late in November. The company will be small and will give seleetions from the dir- ferent operas. New Cure for Weak Lun, Dr. King's New Discovery for Consump- tlon cures all coughs, coids, grip and lung troubles or no pay. Sue, $1.00. by Kubn & Co. RAILROADS TRY TO DECEIVE! S0 Charges the Real Estate Exchange in Its Latest Tax Bulletin, The Omaha Real Estate exchange has issued “Bulletin No. 2" on the subject of railroad taxation, which 18 intended as an answer to a recently printed interview with Attorney Baldwin of the Unfon Pacific. The iden of the bulletin is to prove that the sessment of railroad property by a city for local purposes does not reduce the amount of county aud state taxes distrib- uted between the counties through which the road runs. The bulletin says: When the raflroads argue thét if raflroad property within. metropolitan cities is as- sessed and taxed for city purposes at fis like other property within the would deprive counties through road runs of a part of the rail road tax, thex are now getting, they know they are not teliing the truth. They know they are trying to deceive. They know they hre not honest. For the truth ls and the railroads well know It, that t city tax on raliroads does not affect count taxes on them at all. If, for example, the Burlington road were assessed in Lincoln for Lincoln city taxes at §1,000,000, or at $1 this would not make the taxes it wou pay to the state or to any county through which it passes one penny the more or one penny the less. The raflroads know this Do they believe anyone is so dull as to be deceived by such false arguments? clty, it For Rent—$-room strictly modern house at 135 North 324 Ave, turnished. Apply to John Sylvan Brown, 517 First National bank build'ng Publish your legal natices in The Weekly Bee. Telephone 238, o s L o 0K HREE N To Take Homan's Places, President Theodore H. Johnson of the Board of Education has announced the fol- lowing appointments to fill out the com. mittees left incomplete by the refusal of R. Homan (o serve as assign Maynard, chairman of the finance com- mittee; Stubbendorf, member committee on heating and ventilating; Cermak, bound- arfes. and J. J. Smith, rules. Mrs. J. Benson January Clearing Sale All ehtldr Colored Cloaks just half former Remember we are making 20 to 40 per cent reduction on Knit Underwear. Children's flat weave Vests and Pants, part wool or all cotton; regular price of these goods was %c to $1.00, according 1o size, $5.00 French; Flannel Waists for $1.87 $3.00 and $3.50 Waists for $1.38 ow all sizes in Vests and Pants lbc One-fourth oft all Dress Trimmings bythe yard All-overs in dofted swiss embroidery, hemstitched tucks, one-third Mussed and solled Linen Handkerch Walking Dolls, were $1.00, now Soe. 3ady Dolls, were 3$5.50, §4.50 and 8. embrofderyy, insertion and tucking, with lace and oft tormer price fefs reduced 30 to 40 per cent. 50, according Lo size, now just balf price. g | He placed the children with | Boucher walks or | For sale | Furnished or un- | Mr. | | COMMERCIAL Restaurant Problem s Solved by M Oontract with Willinm Buthorn, GRAIN MARKET PROMOTERS SEEK - AID Chalrman Appoints Standing Commit- tees of the Club to Serve During the Ensuing Year—Bureau of Statisties, | The executive committee of the Com- | mercial club met at noon at the club rooms | A contract was made with Willlam Buthorn | to run the club dining rooms after Febru- ary 2 and it was decided that after that | Ume the privilege of eating there would be confined to the members of the club and thelr friends | The matter of a bill to be introduced in | the state legislature providing for the es- tablishment of a state bureau of statisties, as advocated by the Nebraska Real’ Estate exchange, was referred to a committee. The bill was apparently looked upon with favor and the indications are that the Com- | merctal club will ald 1t with its endorse- | ment. | On benalt of the grain men of the city | who are endeavoring to establish a grain | market in Omaha, W. C. Sunderland and 8. A. McWhorter addressed the committee and asked assistance in the matter of grain | rates into Omaha. They declared that the | city was being sldetracked and discrim- | inated against in favor of Kansas City Thelr cause appeared in a light favorable | enough to have It referred to the trans- | portation committee for Investigation. | Names Standing Committees, The following standing committees were named for 1903 | . Finance—Charles T. Kountze, M. Wulpt, M . Rob mpster. S McGiiton, C. 8. Mont- | Cornish. Mem red Paffenrath, F. E. San- born Kuhn, John Steel, H. K. | Burket, H. 'S, Weller. | .2 ¢ Juclid Martin, W. 8. Popple- . Yates, J. F. Carpenter, C. C. D. Judic gomery 0. Kiplinger, . Kuhn, D. D. Miller, red Paffenrath, George Kilpatrick Arthur E Robert Dempst W. Kelle Real (e—C. George H. Payne. Public Prees—C. D. Thompson, Mel Uhl. Transportation—W. S. Wright, C. Pickens, Gould Dietz, E. E. Bruce, Willlam Hayden, M. C Peters, C. F. Weller, T. C. Byrne, . P. Kirkendall, W. M, Bufgess, J. B, Rahm. irrigation i Bruce, W. 8. Wright, | €. H. Pickens, E. M. Andreesen, J. F. Carpenter, J Baum. Banking -G, W, Wattles, Victor Caldwell, Alfred Millard, Arthur Brandeis. Insurance—C H. Pickens, Euclid Martin, Charles T. Kountze, E. E. Howell, Al Hospe, C. C. Belden, 'Charles N. Robineon. Jobbers and Manufacturers—W. M, Glas Charles N. Robingon, E. E. Bruce, W. Burgess, P, E. ller, Charles Metz, M. C. Peters, F. W. Judson, Edgar Allen, C. F. Weller, E. V. Lewls, C. 8. Hayward. Packers and Stock Yards—R. C. Howe, *. K. Urquhart, W. J. C. Kenyon. Entertalnment — H. ' 8. Weller, Miller, C. M. Wilhe:m. Auditing—F. P. Kirkendall, C. N. Robin- son. Thomas Kiipatrick. Meetings—John Steel, Gedérge H. Lee, Fred Paffenrat Memorial—F. E. Sanborn, C. D. Thomp- { son, J. H. Dumont. Property and Rooms—H. K. Burket, F\ W. Judson, Gould C. Diets. EIGHT-HOUR DAY FOR POLICE Chief Donahue is Preparing to Adopt Three-Shift Plan at Last. | \mas Rome Chief Donahue s formulating a new schedule for the policemen which will reatly facilitato the work of the depart- ment and also result in giving the men muéh easier hours. The ohef intends adopting the three-shift plan. Under this arrangement the first shitt of | patrolmen will report at roll call at 5 In [ the morning and will be at their posts by 8 o'clock. They will work until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The largest of the three shifts will be the second, which will report for duty at 4 o'clock) the third shift work- | ing from 12 o’clock at night until the fol- | i lowing morning at 8 o'clock. The new schedule will not affect the captains, ser- geants, police station detail, patrol wagon | men or the detectives. o “The new plan will do much toward cut- | ting down the number of hours the men are ! now working,” said the chief, s they are now compelled to be on their feet contin- ually for twelve hours at a stretch. These hours are too long and, in my opinion, are | the cause of considerable of the sickness which at present prevails on the force. We will not adopt the new schedule until the men appointed by the police board Monday night are given their uniforms. Though we | should have more men on the department :b?!orl\ adopting this arrangement, we can do very well with the present compiement.” PHELPS IS NOT A CANDIDATE Captain of Company at Schuyler Does Vot Seek to Head Second Regiment. Captaln E. H. Phelps of the Second in- fantry, Nebraska Natlonal Guard, stationed | at Schuyler, writes to The Bee to deny the report that he is a candidate for colonel of the regiment. He has also written to the adjutant general denying the report. As the election is to be held on Friday of this week Captain Phelps is anxious that the guardsmen get this information at once. | Low Rates South, Southwest and West, On January 20 and February 3 the Bur- | lington offers spectal low one-way and | round trip rates to many points south, southwest and west. City ticket office, 1502 Farnam st., tele- phone 250, or at passenger station, 10th and Mason sts. LOCAL BREVITIES. Kdna Viola Pergerson asks divorce from Grant, alleging cruelty, They were mar- ried in Des Moines in November, 1895 T. J. Mahoney will lecture on “Jurisdic- tion ‘of Federal Courts” at Patterson hall, Seventeenth and Farnam streets, Friday evening, January . The lecture will be glven under the auspices of the Omaha School of Law The fire department made a run to 2215 Farnam street yesterday evening, where sparks from the chimney had eet fire to the shingles of the house occupled by Albert Nichols. A bunch of shingles wil Tepair the damage caused e railroad grading contracting firm of McShane, Elmore & Co. has been dissolved and the business of the firm will be con- ducted in the future by Michael Elmore. It is understood that the old firm of Mc- Shane & Co. le to be revived. Flora Thomas, a colored woman living at il South Kleventh street, was arrested yesterday evehing and ls supposed to have taken $6.75 from Henry Bartell while he was asiecp in his rooms in the basement of the bullding at 201 North Ninth street. Russell H. Conwell, who lectures at joyd's theater Thursday night under the spices of the Young Men's Christian as- clation, will in all probability not hesrd many more tmes in Omaha. His subject will be “The Herolsm of a Private Life." Many who have heard Mr. Conwell declare this’lecture to be his best. Extra seats will be provided and arrangements made to take care of the large crowd that night The Paxton & Vierling Iron works held its seventeenth annual meeting Monday and re-elected the old board of director and ‘officers. The directors were W. A. Paxton, Robert Vierling, Louls Vierling, A J. Vierling and-W. A. Paxton, ir. The officers are: W. A ‘Paxton, president; Robert Vierling, vice = president; Louls Vierling, secretary and treasurer; A J. Vierling, managen CLUB AFFAIRS |NEL . George. R. C. Peters, | LIE PRINCE PAYS CASH es For Fars Sald to Have Been Stolen from Omaha Store—Prose- cution ix Abandoned. Mrs. Nellle Prince, who was arrested and was being held in Chicago on a charge of having stolen $500 worth of goods from the store of Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. in this city, has pald for the stolen goods and the | case against her has been dropped. Last Sunday a representative of Mrs. Prince came from Chicago to Omaha and on Monday sought an Interview with Chief of Police Donahue with a view to settling the case out of court ‘The Chicago calle: sald the chief, “told me he did not come as the repr sentative of Mrs. Prince’s counsel, Kern & Fuller, but as the representative of Mrs. Prince herself. complainants would drop the prosecution provided restitution was made for their loss. 1 told him that the city had a very strong case against Mrs. Prince, while as & matter of fact our evidence Is eo slim that 1 doubt that the Chicago judge would Eave ruled to return the prisoner to Omaha. After making it as strong as I could with the Chicago man, I referred him to the county attorney's office. ““The county attorney and Mr. Cowell of the Kilpatrick company had a conference at which the latter expressed himself as being willlog to accept a cash settlement, after the public prosecutor had given it as hie opimion that the evidence against Mrs. | Prince was insufficient to assure a convic- | tion. Therefore the proposition to drop the prosecution upon the payment of $500, the | value of the stolen goods, to the Kilpatrick company was made to the representative | of the accused woman. He eagerly ac- cepted, pald the amount and returned to Chicago with an agreement to dismiss the case and a receipt for the cash. It would have cost the county about $300 to prose- cute the case. “This s the first time that Mrs. Prince has ever sought to procure her freedom from any charge that has ever been made against her by paylng for the property which she was sald to have taken." Chlef of Detectives Dunn ,who went to Chicago after Mrs. Prince, has been notified ~f *h~ settlement and will return to Omaha at once. SOFTNESS OF SEALSKIN. Is Rivaled by Human Hair Where | Dandruff is Eradicated. Sealskin {s admired the world over for its softness and glossiness, and vet the human hair is equally as soft and glossy when healthy, and the radical cause of all hair trouble Is dandruff, which is caused by a pestiferous parasite that saps the vitality of the hair at its root. Newbro's Herpicide s the only preparation that fs fatal to the dandruff germ. Without dan- druff no falling hair, but a luxuriant growth of glossy, soft hair is certain. Scourlng the scalp won't cure dandruff. Kill the dandruff germ. Thousands of women owe their beautiful suits of hair to Newbro's Herpicide. PET CAT GUARDS DEAD MISER A Supposedly Wealthy Merchant's ‘Widow Starves in a Dilapi- dated Home. Coroner Weisendanger of Yonkers began an investigation yesterday of the death of Mrs. Patrick McDermott, 95 years old, widow of a New Yotk merchant, who was found dead from exposure and starvation in a dilapidated cottage at North Pelham, in Westchester county. For two weeks, reports the New York Tribune, the aged woman had been b weak from illness and lack of food that slie was unable to leave her home, and as a result she slowly starved to death in her lonely hovel. Her body was almost & skeleton. Nelghbors say that Mrs. McDermott was insane over money, and would never spend a cent for food. Michael McHugh, a neighbor and an old friend of her husband, gave to her a supply of food for a Christ- mas present, but she hid most of it. It 1s sald that she had considerable money hid in the rafters of her old tumble down | home, and today & earch will be made for secreted wealth. When the coroner arrived at the house he found Mrs. McDermott on a pallet of rags, while near by a cat that had been | her pet sat moaning, as she guarded her dead mistres: The cat refused to move and was taken away by force, biting and scratching at ifs captors. Twenty-five years ago, when the McDer- motts moved to Pelham, Mr. McDermott had considerable money and purchased sev- eral Houses and lots there. Several years ago the property was sold by the West- chester sheriff to satisty a judgment ob- tained against Mrs. McDermott's son Fran- | cfs for debt. Mrs. McDermott, it is sald, did not know until recently that her home had been sold over her fead and then began to pine away. Announcement of the Theaters. The county commissioners from through- out the state formed one of the largest and manifestly happy theater parties of the season at the Orpheum last night. Where most of them live vaudeville forms no part of their entertainment and with the relish of novelties they received every act gnthu- sastically. The bill this week has made an impression that is serving to draw very large audiences. One of the pictures shown by the kinodrome, “A Trip to the Moon," is of special interest to meny Omahans. It is a reproduction of “Skip” Dundy's, (a former Omaha man) Coney Island shows The regular midweek matinee will be given tomorrow. Tailor Shops Robhed. Monday eveni:.g several tallor shops and other places of business were victimized by a party of three men, who managed to take away bolts of cloth and other goods under the eyes of the shop men. The three would enter a place and while one of them talked to the clerk the others made away with something which was on display. Frank Henning of Council Bluffs, "Jim Miles of Perry, la., and James Murphy claimin home, have been arrest thefts. 1608 Leavenworth street and lost a bolt of cloth, has positively identified Henning as one of the men who entered his place. Hc cannot say whether or not the other two were also in the shop. Chicago as his Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses were issued yesterday Name and Resldence Age. George_Hughes, Omaha Helen Pokoreky, Omaha . George Gunia, Omaha . Katle Kurtz, Omaha He wanted to know If the | and held under suspicion of the | 24 Field, who has a tailor shop at | AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA | Charter Bill Fails to Moot with Favor in the Legislature. :FiGHT ON ANNEXATION MEASURE ALSO Proposition 1o Consolidate Omaha and | somtn Kindly Re- ’ eeived by Some Husiness | Men of Magle City. Omaha Not There seems to be considerable fuss over | the charter revision bill which was drafted at the instigation of a mumber of eitizens and drawn by City Attorney Murdock. From advices received from Lincoln the revised bill does not seom to meet with any favor among the Douglas county delegation and it may be that the amendments will be dis- carded entirely. What the Douglas county delegation appears to want is an entirely new bill. It is openly asserted that the amendments were juggled with after hav- ing been-approved by & committee of the [ whole. At any rate, the delegation seems to want some better authority for changlug the charter than the mere handful of citi- zens who appeared at the council chamber from time to time and listened to reports tramed by a fow. “One of the important changes needed, sald a member of the clty government yes- terday, “is an Increase in the fire fund. At { the present time the city is fmfted to $13,- 000 & year for fire purposes. The amended { charter, as it was supposed to be sent to | Lincoln, called for an increase of $7,000. This increased sum will hardly pay the | overlap in the fund and will leave nothing | for an additional hose company, which is | badly needed. 'Chief Etter says that $10,000 "r‘mlll‘ well be epent in securing additional fire apparatus. A truck is needed as well as a hose company. There is also some talk of a steamer. This subject has been brought up before and is really getting tiresome. Each one of the packers wants the steamer, if one is purchased, housed at his frent doors. The city officlals do not want to do this and consequently there is discord on the subject. | “With an income of $20,000 it is thought | that the department as it now exists could | get along without any overlap, but no im- | provements could be made. An addition is also asked for in the police department, but | the main object of the committee which visited Lincoln yesterday was to impress upon the minds of the members of the Douglas county delegation the necessity for giving the fire department more money." The anti-annexationists are also alive and they propose to fight the Ten Eyck bill, which pretends to consolidace the city and county governments, but which, it is stated, by those who have carefully read the bill, merely means the annexation of South Omaha to Omaha without a vote of the people. South Omaha business men assert that all they want is to be left alone. The bonded debt in South Omaha 18 not growing, s0 It is stated, and the district indebted- ness s being decreased gradually by the payment of taxes. Those who are fighting annexation say that what South Omaha needs Is a city nall bullding, a new high school and in increase in both the fire and police departments. Temple Bullding Association. The Anclent Order of United Workmen Building association met Monday night at { tho office of B. E. Wilcox and elected these | officers: C. W. Miller, president; D. J. Farrell, vice president; G. H. Brewer, treas- urer; B. E. Wilcox, secretary. The new building 1s nicely under way and contracts for the heating and plumbing were let to local contractors. Seats to the number of over 400 were ordered for the auditorium. As for the seats in the gallery no arrange- mente were made. Under the contract the temple was to be completed by March 1, but cold weather has interfered and so the committee now thinks that the struc- ture will be ready for occupancy about the middle of April. James A. Hall was em- ployed by the assoclation as solicitor and colllestor. Hastings Wants Information. City Clerk Shrigley received a letéer yes- | terday from the clerk of the council at | Hastings msking for information about. the Carnegle library to be located here. It ap- pears that Mr. Carnegle has agreed to donate $15,000 for a library at Hastings and the officials there want to know what to do. Clerk Shrigley sent to Hastinrs by last night's mail a copy of the ordinance | passed by the ity council of South Omaha | and some recorde which_ have a bearing on the matter. Council Bluffs offictals are also looking to South Omaha for infcrmation on the same subject. Still Investigating Maxwell. N. M. Ayres, grand master of Masons in Nebraska, with headquarters at Beaver | City, was here yesterday. In company with | a number of prominent Masons, Mr. Ayres | visited the city jail and interviewed Wil- | llam Maxwell. The confinement is telling {on Maxwell and he is not appearing as {jaunty as he did when first incarcerated. Mr. Ayres made arrangements for the re moval of Maxwell to Bridgeport, Neb., as | soon as his term in jail here ends. Max- | well 1s a Scotchman and he claims to come | of a good family. He refuscs to divulge | his real name, preferring a term in jail. | Local Masons who have been deceived by | him seem to think that after the lesson ;muxm him here he will leaye the country. willlam Fitzgerald Dead. Word came yesterday by letter to James Pitzgerald, city tax commiseioner, announe- ing the death on Christmas morning of his father at the family home in Ireland. Of the children of the deceased two reside in South Omaha, James and Jeremiah. Michael and a daughter live at New Haven, | Conn. At the time of Bis death Mr. Fitz- gerald was 86 years of ag Magle City G ». e ¢ tet will sing at the revival M Pierce, wife of Policeman Plerce, is | quite sick at her home, Twentieth and O streets Miss at the le ettle Harrington is agaln on duty postoffice after an illness lasting & of | has sor successfully \st of teachers. Weiner has returned to Chi- a visit with Mr. and Mrs. M. Twentieth and | streets. cllman Welsh spent yesterday in Jking after some of the proposed | amendments to the city charter. The Magle City King's Daughters will meet on Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Don C. Ayer, Twenty-fifth and E streets. Mre. G. W. Wescott and Miss Kittie Clark FiGPRUNE CEREAL A delicious Cereal Coffee made of choice California fige and prunes and grain—absolutely free from artificial matter, SOLD BY A LL GROCERS. DABNE Pays fitteen per cent on par of one do This stock advances to §1.50 a share Fe safe government bonds. Dividends paid from proce Y O.L STOCK Checks received monthly. A bona fide Investment, ds of sale of oll. 0fl llar annually bruary 1st fields at McKittrick, Kern Co., California, in the heart of the greatest oll pro- ducing country on this coutinent. M. J. GREEYY, Further information from Broker, 414 Bee Bldg., Omaha, Fhous L3 | have gona to Creston, Neb., to spend the balance of the winter with relatives It s reported now that an effort is being made to secure ground in Albright for the erection of an independent packing house. Ed Charington, a well known character in police court, was yesterday sentenced to ninety days in the county jall for beating his wife. Y The live stock receipts at the yards here show an increase over last year in cattle and eheep, but there is rtill decrease In the receipts of hogs, lowa stockgrowers state that South Omaha Is the best market for thelr stock. as the prices pald are considered better than at other marke Roy Hornback of Maynard, Neb., drifted into the city with what 'he sup- posed was m: Inspector Jones de- clared it smallpox and sent Hornback to the Emergency hospital. There does not seem to be any Inclination on the part of the members of the Board of Education to remove at this time any of the teachers who have appeared as wit- nesees in the recent school board trials. Lady Wants Position. | A young lady with exceptional reference and ability wishes a position with good house as cashifer or office employe. Moderate salary If advancement is promised and position permanent. Address T 63, Be'1 office. Cunchden’s Second Recltal, Robert Cuscaden last evenin, second of a serles of five concerts at the First Congregational chuj under the direction of the musical. department of the | Qmaha Woman's club. The success of the first entertainment was repeated and a iarge audlence proved the popularity of the serles, An excellent and difficult program | was rendered, in which Mr. Cuscaden gave further evidence of his mastery of his art. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. General Batos left yesterday for Burling- ton. Nat Brown of the Murray left yesterday for an eastern trip. Colonel F. R. Fredman of the New York | National Guard is at the Iler Grand. | Fdgar Brown of Blue Springs, Neb., is in the city for a few days’ business. C. P. Bheehan, a prominent stockman of Rawlins, Wyo., 18 registered at the Mer- chante. F. W. Knapp and wite of Denver are stopping at the ller Grand while visiting in the city. C. B. Horton of Denver is in the city for a few days’ visit. He is registered at the Millard. G. E. Harding, representing the railroad department of Berry Bros., Chicago, is reg- istered at the Millard. F. M. Schumacher, trafic manager of the Oregon Short Line road at Salt Lake City, is_registered at the Millard. 1da E. Pyle asks divorce from Philip A., | on the ground of extreme cruelty. 'They were married in Omaha in October, 1598, Attorney L. I. Abbott, who was to have addressed the State Asedelation of Commis- sloners and Bupervisors, is in Lincoln on business. John C. Wharton of Omaha has been ap- pointed delegate to the eighth general council of the Reformed Presbyterian churches of the world, to be held at Liver- pool, England, in June of next year, Mrs. Robert Gilmore, who was taken serfously ill Saturday evening at her apart- ments in the Millard hotel, is reported considerably better and mending as rap- idly as could be expected, thought not, per- haps, entirely out of danger. Jacob Hauck, draftsman in the county surveyor's office, 18 _partially incapacitated by a wound in his right hand, from which bluod polsoning has resulted. Shortly after New Year's day he accidentally probed his tad with a very sharp pencil and from it has resulted a swelling that affected his whole arm and has forced him to retire from duty temporarily. 'What Shall We Have for Dessert ? This question arises in the family every day. Let us snswer it to-day, Try a delicious and healthful dessert, in two minutes. No boiling! no Paliag! add boiling water and set to eool. Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Rasp- berry and Strawberry, 'Get a package at your grocers to-day. 1Io cts. Get What You Ask For When You Buy Drugs Beware of the salesmgn—or druggist— who falls to glve you what you ask for. The reason they seek to sell you something else is because they don't have what you want—or cannot make the profit they desire gn it. Insist on getting just what you ask or, §1.00 Scott's Emulsion $1.00 Norweglan Cod Liver Oil. $1.00 Stearn's Wine Cod Liver Ofl gave the | 20c Mennen's Talcum Powder for. $3.50 Marvel Whirling Spray Syringe . 1.00 Swamp-Root (Kilmer's), we sell WHITE RIBBON LIQUOR CURE 50c Neale's Catarrh Tablets, we sell.... 40c $1.00 Newbro's Herplcide, we sell, Tic WE GIVE YOU WHAT YOU ASK FOR. Bc Syrup of Figs—genuine—we sell. 3o e Mistletoe Cream, we sel 100 Bc Agnew's Catarrh Powder, we sell $1.00 Wine of Cardul, we sel These are Sherman & McConnell prices. Small Garfleld Tea for.................. 1 100 Pure 2-Grain Quinine Pills for ... . $1.00 Peruna for. The above is t! strip label. $1.00 Listerine (Lambert's) for. §o Stewart's Dyspepsia Tablei 25c Shrader's Fig Powder for. $1.00 Plerce's Medicines for. %e Laxative Bromo-Quinine. e Cascara-Quinine -..... 200 You cannot buy these goods eisewhere at these_prices, One Pound Mixed Bird Seed for. e Grave's Tooth Powder for. §c Mull's Grape Tonic for. $1.00 Coke Dandruff Cure for. 2%c Kirk's Juvenile Soap for. True Violet Soap, box 3 cakes, for. %c Brown's Bronehial Troches for. e Willlam's Pink Pills for 9 2%¢ Orangeire for...... 3 19¢ Write for our catalogue of Drugs, Per- fumes and Rubber Goods. Sherman & McConneli Drug Co. Wholesale and Retall Druggists. Omaha, Neb., Cor. 16th and Dodge. WINDOW 6lc 200 200 &c 150 dc 12¢ 100 40c 10c e 19c We SellIt. We Set It. | Fuller Drug & Paint Co. 114 S. 14th Street. Tele. 349. Investigate A car load of PIANOS which should have been here 30 days ago arrived YESTERDAY These in addition to our pre-invemor.y sale now in progress af- fords the very best Piano opportunity of January. In many in- stances better than wholesale prices will be made to close these out quickly. Investigate SCHMOLLER & MUELLER Manufacturers, Wholesale and Retall Dealers. (313 Farnam Street, Omaha, 502 Broadway, Council Bluffs, “PACHKAGES INTACT” NUMBERS ERABED, WRAPPERS TORN OFF, BTAMPS REMOVED, PACKAGES STAMPED WITH DRUGGISTS' NAMES, etc,, etc.; what is the meaning of all this hubub about the sale of patent medicines? It means just this: We are selllng & num. ber of PATENT MEDICINES, AS WHLL AS OTHER DRUG ETORE ' COMMODI- TIES, at less than druggists pay for them At Wrolesale, ‘and, thote druggists nhave been sending their CAPPERS, STOOL PIGEONS AND ERRAND BOYS to our store to BUY UP these goods for the double purpose of saving themseives money and causing us to lose money; BUT when hey get the goods, they find them all stamped in indelible ink with our name (THE NAME WHICH MAKES THEM ALL HAVE A HEADACHE—SHAEFER) and they don't ltke to advertise us Ly sell- ing goods thus slamped, so they KNOCK and try to make their customers think we bave IMITATION GOODS! Why don't they come out and state facts and thelr cus- tomers will think a great deal more of them, and ko will the public. We started the cut price ball rolling in Omaha drug circles and are still cutting the corners all around the ocher fellows' prices, and we propose to o continue, whether they like ‘it or not. 3 SCHAEFER’S 5iia"Srore OFEN ALWAYS, Two Phones—! 47 und A3335, 8. W. Cor. 16th Chicago 8 CURED BY WHIIE hibBuN REMEDY No aale. NO OUOL. Ll s Kivel i Klass of waler,- lea, OF coffce Without patients Kuowiedge. . White iibbon Remedy will cure or d stroy the diseased appetile for aicoliolie imulants, whether he batient ‘s a con: iirmed lnebriate, u “Lppler,” mocial drinkel of drunkard. impoes.bie for anyone (o have an appetite Lor aicoholic LQuors after using White Ribbon Kemedy. Indursed by Members o W, Mrs. Moore, press superintendent of mun's Christian Temperance Union, Ve ture, California, writes: 1 have tested White Tibbon ftemedy on very obsuuaie drunkards. and the cures have been many. In many ~ases the Remedy was given ma- eretly. ) cheerfully recommend and indorse White Ribbon Remedy. Membeis of our Union are delighted to find an economical treatment to ald us in our temperance work." Druggtsts or b; tree by writing ears secretary of a Womau's Christian Femperat ce Unlon), 215 Tremont St Bos: ton, Mass. Sold in' Omaha by CUT PRICE SCHAEFER’S §il/:: Phone 747, 8. W. Cor, 16th and Chicago. Goods delivered FREE to any part of eity, NEW PUBLICATIONS, BEST DRUGS AT LOWEST PRICES LATHROP’S PRESCRIPTION PHARMACY Cor, 24th and Hamilton. Phone Al42 %c Laxative Bromo Quinine . 1B Lathrop's Cold Cure (guaranteed) 0 %ic Chamberlain's Cough Syrup 20 Lathrop’s Compound Cough 8 (guaranteed).......... o e ©c mail, §l. Trial pack: Mrs. A. M. Townsend (for B¢ Syrup of Fig $1.00 Peruna........ ’ canees Other goods at similar low prices. Nothing Like it for Chapped Hands, Face or Lips, HOWE LL'S ANTI CHAPPIN Ask your druggist forit. 25c a bottle. : _ rougn Sty KURD'S For sale at Kubn's Drug Store, Clycerole of Roses Fifteenth and Douglas Streets,