Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1903, Page 22

PROPERTIES MANAGED. W. FARNAM SMITH & CO. Manage Estates and Other Properties Act as RECEIVER, EXECUTOR, GUARDIAN AND TRUSTEE fog CORPORATIONS, FIRMS, INDIVIDUALS. and fiscal agents of CORPQRATIONS. 1320 Farnam St. Tel. DRESSMAKING, 1064, THE OMAHA DAILY B EE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1903. LEGAL NOTIOR. descrived real estate, subject to all legal taxes against the same, to-wit: Lots seven, eight and nine, blook four- Dwight Lyman's ' Addition to a. one, three, four, five, six, seven and’ nine, 'ten and eleven, biock twenty-five, Wilcox's Second Addition to Omaha; lots ten and eleven, block one, Wilcox’s Addition to Omaha, Nebrasks. WILLIAM A. DEBORD, Recelver of N. W. Cereal 4 NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEET- Notice is hereby given that the regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the South Platte Land Company, will be held at the office of sald company in Lincoln, Ne- braska, at 11 o'clock a. m., on the ith day of March, A. D. 1903, = By order of the board of directors. C. H. MORRILL, President. A, B. MINOR, Secretary, Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 1, }I‘bfi F3 s0td RAILWAY TIME CARD, RS Ladies Talloring College. Bnits Douglas block, 16th and Dodge. lnyder, Mgr.” Write Zor booklet LADIES' talloring parlors, 2283 Seward St. i Fis vill take a Ad- "LASS dr few more customer; dress W 66, Bee. maker or fine gowns. A firet-class dressmaker will take n fow | ‘more customers for fine gowns. Address | W 66 Bee. 622 5% AL R IE— 1 CARPET CLEAN AND LAYING, A_K._JETT, 215 Cuming 8t. —o) MUSIC. THOS. J. KELLY, R —— CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. J L. SPITZBART. Tel. F-206. 2523 Lake. —M119 F13 — ML HAY, GRAIN AND COAL. oice. Davidge Block. £ M. LONDON, 2302 Cuming. Tel. A2, Zies ¥ —— COAL AND WOOD. HALD & RICE, 506 8. 16th St. Tel, 123. ~MIl5 13 prasESokanir Ok, 3 SCHOLARSHIP, JSINESS college scholarship for sale at a bargain in one of Omaha's leading com- merclal colleges; life acholarship. Address 8 47, Bee o —M716* e —————————— PATENT OFFICE DRAWINGS, E PATENT DRAWINGS, application blanks, deeds, ete. Bues & Co., Bee Bldg, Telo: phoné 1623, Mo+ o Kl 2.l STAMMERING AND STUTTERING, CURED, Julla Vaughn, 4% Ramse Bidg. MASQUERADE COSTUMES, THEO. LIEBEN, 1018 Farnam, costumes D17} e — et MO SHIRTS TO ORDER. OMAHA SHIRT FACTORY, 1916 Farnam. —MT0 IS —_— i CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. A J. PIERSON, 20th and Burt, Tel. L-2536, = ==, GRAVEL ROOFI! BARRICK Roofing ¢ 1616 Cumi 3 Tel, %1. A " e ———— SEEDS AND POULTRY SUPPLIES, E. H. ULLERY & CO., 161 Howard St, —M742 _— UPHOLSTERING, CARLSON & CO., 2121 Leavenworth. Tel. 2818, —i6 PETERSON & Lundbers, 115 8. 17th. Tel. 12368, ~KT4 —— HARNESS. EARNESS made to order and repaired. Old harness taken ‘n trade, 13th and Leaven- Mt 2 R e TAXIDERMIST, J.E. WALLACE, o6 8o, 13th Bt. —&%6 ———— e NEEDLEWORK, ENEROIDERY and lace taught free. 3ira k BALE TIES, OMAHA Hay Bal Tie Co., 811 North 16th. —576 GARBAGE. onopoly Garbage Co., cleans cess- and vaults, removes’ garbage and ead animals at reduced prices. 621 N. 16th. _Tel. 17, —n _—— - TICKET BROKERS, CUT RATE railroad tickets everywhere. P, H. Philbin, 1605 Farnam. ~Phone 1. P —_— DETECTIVE AGENCY. CAPT. THOB. CORMACK, private detect- “Felephone A-25%2. ive. 517 Karbach block. @ —318 e AUTOMOBILES. ELEC. automoblles. Deright, 1119 Farnam. 871 S PHONOGRAPHS AND SUPPLIES, ALL MAKES talking_mac : talogue. Omaha Bicycle Co., 16th and lcag 18 B —— EXPERT ACCOUNTANT. tnes; send for G. R, Rathbun, Room 15, Com'l Na :;m: _— STORAGE, OM. Van Stor, Co., 1311% Farn. Tels, 1559-86. - EXPRESSEMAN'S Del. Co. Tels. llfi-ll& —~03 D PRINTING BRIEFS, ETC. WATERS PRINTING CO. Linotype com- position. Tel. 1. i ELECTRIC TREATMENT. DOUBLE parlors. Call at 1616 Wel 398 _——— ANNOUNCEMENT. W. C. RUSSELL moved to 015 So. 15th. 316 _Mcha PR LA e a0 N MASSAGE BATHS, Mrs. Davis, 1621 Howard; baths; attendant. 99 25% —_— GN PAINTING. BCHROEDER Slgn Works. 20 8, 17th. W also ship signs. Write us. —3i6 Junes e — s ACCORDION PLEATING, UNION STATION=10TH AND MARGY, Unfon Pacifie. Leave. verland Limited ihe Fast Mail Pacific Expre Eastern lkxpress........ The Atlantic Express. The Colorado Special Chicago Speclai Lincoin, Beatrice Stromsburg Exprees 0 Express. 4 Minneapolis & ul Limited. neapolis & St Express . Chicago Local Chicago Expr Rocky Mountain L't'a. Lincolu, Colo. Springs, Pueblo an: . i Blufts Chicago & Northwestern, “Tne Northwestarn Line. Fast Chicago.. Ma Local Bloux City Daylight St. Paul Daylignt Chicago. Local Chicago. Local Carroil, Fast Chlcllal Chicago, Milwaukee Chicago Daylight Chicago Fusi Express. Chicago Limited Des Molnes Express. Chicago Lo Masnouri 8t. Louts Expres: K. C and St L. E: WEBSTER DEPOT—15TH & WEBSTER Elkhorn & Fremont, Valley. Leave. a Black Hills, Deadwood, teive 3:00 pm 2 6:00 pm Wyoming, Casper unc Douglas Haytings, York, David &y, Buperiar, Geneva Exeter and Sewara....b 3:00 pm Bonesteel, Lincoin, Nio- ‘brara and Fremont....b 7:30 am Fremont Local. : 7 Misnourl Pacific, Nebrasks Local, Weeping Water. Lead, Hot Sprin 4:00 pm- ¢ 5:00 pm b 5:00 pm b10:25 am a10:55 am Twin City Sloux City ¥ land Loca b Dally except Sunday. o Dally except Saturday, e Dally except Monday, ¢ Sunday only, BURLINGTON STATION=10TH & MASON Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Chicago Fast Matl Burlin Wymore, Beatrice and Lincoln Flyer . Lincoln Fast Fort Lrook and Pl outh . Bellevue & Pacific Joi Bellevue & Pacific Jet Kausas. City, St. Joseph & Counmefl Blafts, Kansas City. Day Ex..a 9:15gm a 6:05 pm 8t. Louls Flyer..... 1 a11:05 am Kansas City Night Ex.a10:3 pm_a 6:15 am sTEAMSHPS, NEW YORK Via BOULOGNE. Balling Wedneaday st 10 A. M. L Feb. Db Btatendam ... Rotterdam Mar. 4|Rotterdam | Amsterdam .. Mar. 13| Noordam . Holland-America Line, 39 B'way. N. Y. Harry Moores, 1401 Faroam st.. 3. 8. McNally, 1333 Fervam st, H 8 Joues 1003 Far Louis R A Capitol ave.. Chas. Marvs, 513 w Kostorys. 600 So. 13th st.. Omaha, agent Ryndan CONNUBIALITIES, A Missouri girl who got married g few days ago 0 & young man who told Her he lord has found out that he imposter and wants a divorce. Senora Marla Francescade La Guerra, a Mexican woman residing in San Franc has been sentenced to a term of one d imprisonment in Ban Quentin penitentiary for bigamy. She has had elght husbands during the past twenty-four years. The oftense committed was in wedding the eighth man before his predecessor in her affections had died. Rumor has hinted for several weeks that Governor Balley of Kansas was to wed a Ransas City widow. Gossip confessed con- viction when it was learned that Mrs, Weed, the woman whose name has been mentioned in connection with the rumor, resigned her position as saleswoman with & leading Kansas City firm last kriday and since that time has been ordering gowns and making other purchases the magnitude of which led to the belief that she was se- curing a bride’s trousseau. Joseph Market, a citizen of Marion, Ind., aged ® and sald to be worth $iw,.um, mar- ried Miss May Davis, aged 2. Market was a widower and has four children. He did not wish to marry a woman who wanted him only for his estate and to insure him- self good treatment made a contract with the young woman eetting forth that she is not to get any of his estate at death, but is 10 recelve .00 a year as long as she takes g00d care of him and keeps him alive. A Chicago man advertises for & wife, uad then sues far divorce with the following allegations against his present spouse: That she had broken his nose with hep fist; cut his throat with a broken teacup; blacked his eyes frequently: knocked out & tooth for him: threatened him and the children with death; sold their son's clothes to buy some for herself; got drunk and beat him with a botile and a shoe.\ What the man needs 18 a sense of humor He seems (o have not the remotest idea of how (o take & joke. Assoclates of the bridegroom at a Phil- wedding hired “un It hand to play appropriate airs in front of the bridal home from § o'clock till mid- ‘The organiat earned hig money “Mamie, Come Kiss Your Honey Boy" was WRECKS CAUSED BY ERRORS Grand Trank Oellision Reocalls the Mistake of a Train Dispatoher, DISASTER AVERTED BY ALERT CONDUCTOR An Inetdent 11 Re. & Some of the tes Rew Upon the ‘Who Manipulates the Telegraph Key. The Grand Trunk wreck, for which the operator, Carson, s held to be responsible brings to light many stories of rallroad life from the technical viewpoint, some of which excite much sympathy for the op- erator, whose life, while at times excoed- ingly dull and uninteresting, situated as he often s at some small, Out-of-the-way place, with little else than the moaning of the wind on the wires to keep him awake, is, on the other hand, so fraught with responsibility and need of a good, clear head that the wonder is thai more wrecks do not occur. An experienced rallroad operator, in speaking of Carson in the St. Louls Repub- Ne, sald that his sympathies were with the operator and that he would wager, could the real facts be brought out, that Carson's story 1s nearly correct. “I was working in a train dispatcher's office on the Baltimore & Ohlo,” sald the narrater, “away back in the '70s, and as the road as it then existed was a single track, with tuncels and bridges every few miles, the task of keeping trains moving was a difficult one. Engines in thase Jays were not perfected as they are today, and they would often go wrong In spite of every effort by those in charge; they would steam badly, get ‘cranky’’ and what not, causing the train to fall behind time, and then or- ders must be glven for special .meeting points. Moreover, if a passenger train happened to be heavily lodded the grades in that part of the country often made the achedule time an impossibility when the track was bad. Belated P “It was a passenger train of this char- acter that fell behind schedule time on the night 1 have in mind. It was running as No, 7-and contained eight cars, all filled with passengers, a great many of whom were congressmen and others on their way to Washington for the reassembling of con- gress after the holldays in the winter of '76. “At the same time passenger train No. 10 wae running on orders and bound fo: the west, the two meeting at a siding between a station called Salem and the dispatcher office, which was named Central. No. 7, the eastbound train, was twenty minutes late, and, as she had no right of way, It meant that No. 10 would not' wait at the meeting point after a given time. To ob- viate delay, the dispatcher decided to ad- vance No. 10 to a siding tea or a dozen miles west, where she could meet and pass No. T “‘Call Sa,’ said the dispatcber to me as he heard No. 7 blow for Central, which was our office, ‘and tell him to put out red light for No. 10." “Red light meant ‘hold for orders,’ and the light was at the top of a twenty-five foot pole, inclosed in a small box with glass doors on each side. Inside the glass doors were two red curtains or slides, con- trolled by a cord leading to the ‘eperator’ table inside the office. These slides were kept up all the time, showing a white light, except when the traln was to be held, in which event the curtain was dropped, which e the light red. ‘Sa’ answered at the first call, and In reply to my Ipstructions sald, ‘0. K.; go ahead,’ which meant that he had dropped bis red curtain on the side from which No. 10 would approach, and that he was ready to copy the orfler for her. MeCabe Burned the Wires. “As No. 7 was at that moment standing in front of our office, under our own red light, which bad been dropped in her faco, meaning that she must get orders from us, I naturally ‘made the wire hum' in sending to ‘Sa’ The operator there, whose nams was McCabe—Frank McCabe—was a star; nothing was too fast for him, and when he repeated an order to our office I knew mighty well that it meant hard work to copy bim with a stylus. The air was cold and frosty and as the engine outside my window was ‘popping’ furlously I was obliged to place my ear very close to the sounder in order to read McCabe's fusillade of dots and dashes, 8o as to mot have to break bim, thereby delaying the work. “As soon as the order had beem re- peated and ‘. K. given I handed the coples to Captain Armstrong—Billy Armstrong; peace to his ashes—who, in turn, handed them, to the conductor and engineer and told them to ‘pull out’ As they left the office Captain Armstrong followed them, lantern in hand, and walked quite some dis- tance away from the office as he chatted with the conductor, who swinging onto the steps, waved the engineer to ‘go ahead.’ And the train started to pull out with her safety valve still popping, the engine bell clanging, the steam from her' cylinders hissing and the exhaust from the stack throwing huge clouds of smoke and cinders. “Notwithstanding all the noise and al- though 1 had walked across the room for something or other, I heard ‘Sa’ calling nger Train, came the dots ao fast, so furlous, so frantic and swift that\l knew by instinct that there was ‘something doing.’ And, although the caller had never stopped to sign his own office letters I knew it was McCabe, as no other man I had ever known could put the same fire into a call that he could. “Rushing to the key, I answered, in order to be quick, by simply saying ‘I' ‘No. 10 did not stop; she got no orders,’ came the warning, and T can safely say that, although twenty-five years in the business, 1 had never heard the num- ber of words done in the same length of time by sny mortal from tbat day to this McCabe was a bright, intelligent and fairly well educated boy and he knew his business tHoroughly; lives depended upon action at that instant and he did it. “Although credited with being a star operator myseif, I must confess that afrald to trust my own ears at that critical moment. T must make sure; so I repeated back, equally furious, but by no means 10 has gone without orders? “Yes, yes, came the quick response. “I saw the lights glimmering from the then rapidly passing coaches of No. 7 as she was pulling out and away to certain destruction; saw the stream of sparks belching from the smokestack of the en- gine as more and more steam was being let into the cylinders; I heard the clang! clang! of the bell, growing dimmer ahd dimmer as the fast moving train seemed to slip away from me. And I seemed to be first played twenty minutes without any notice from inside the house. ‘Ihen the musiclan switched to I Loves You, My and from that to “The ° “The Girl with GOLDMAN Pleating Co., 2% Douglas e LEGAL NOTIOk. Notice is luuiucfia lh- he und 0! ven the ler- at n'n o'clock m. on the will day ot Februsry. at the east 2f the Douglas county court in the city of ha. Nebraska. for the sale of the following here's Only One yed a dozen times at lesst until ip hig distraction the groom emerged from fhe front door and t to drive the Itallan away. The musician said he was playing for the man next door, and refused to move. The concert went on and the strect became populated with chiidren. To prevent further saliles from the groom the committee on annoyance from his piace led the front and back doors standing still! 1 felt paralyzed. | was posi- tive in my own mind that I could not move a muscle! “As a matter of fact, however, I had run across the room, which was a large one, had cleared at ingle bound a counter which extended dround the inver door and which was about four feet high, two feet wide on top snd so close to the wall that I never could tell how I went over it without failing to light on my feet. But get over it T did; out the inner door, across the ball, out of the outer door and dow as perfect, for I, was excited. ‘You say No. | the platform a good twenty steps, 1 flew to where the dispatcher stood. “‘Stop this train!’ 1 cried—screamed, as he afterward told me. “The last car—the sleeper, of course— was in front of us. The engineer was in his cab, looking ahead; the fireman was busy shoveling coal into the glaring fur- the conguctor had disappeared into the smoker. Not a living soul was in sight! Comductor Hears Thelr Cries. “Captaln Armstrong did not ask me why 1 wanted the train stopped: there was no time for explanations; my word was suffi- clent. He instinctively started to run to- ward the last end of the sleeper, as he thought to jump aboard, a feat which would have cost him his life, however, as the train wes already under full swing. The start he made, however, proved lucky, for by some providential occurrence the Pull- man conductor opened the rear door and looked out. He sa‘'d later that.he had mo object in view whatever; he just walked back and opened the door without knowing what for. ‘Pull the bell, for God's sake!' the dis patcher called out, at the same time rals ing and lowering his lantern. “As every one knows, the Pullman con- duetor has nothing whatever to do with the running or controlling of the train which hauls his car, and this man seemed to pay absolutely no attention. He made no move that we could see toward reaching for the bell cord; he just stood like a statue in the doorway of that Pullman car until the dark- ness hid him from view. “A few hundred yards below the station the road curved sharply to the west, and almost before we knew what had happened the train was lost to view. “And there was mo telegraph office be- tween ‘Sa’ and ‘Cs’! “Captain Armstrong turned to me and lifting his lantern so that it threw a glare of white light into my face, he looked— just one look, and then, dropping his arms to his sides, exclaimed, ‘God help them!® “He had seen my face—that was enough; the trains would collide. He read it'all in my ashen face “ ‘Whew! w-h-e-w! W-H-E-W!' came the hoaree echo of the engine whistle a mile or more away from the station, which meant that the Pullman conductor had rung the bell; the ¢rain was coming back! ‘The strain had been too much for me; 1 sank to the platform utterly collapsed. And there T lay in the snow for fully two minutes. The very snow and cold revived me, however, and as soon as I could speak T could think of nothing more than ‘Thank God." We took the special orders away from No. 7 and sent her oft with the understand- ing that she was to run by book, as was also No. 10, “Poor McCabe, dear old Frank, what-of him? He was blacklisted—discharged and blacklisted; he was never allowed to even enter an office of the company afterward, and I have not heard from him since, ex- cept that he went up in the northwes somewhere. X “Although official investigation showed that McCabe was entirely to blame, that he failed to see that his red curtain really did drop over his light when he released the cord, and all that, I felt at the time, and have always felt, that he entirely blameless or almost entirely blameles “He told us that he dropped his light and that It showed red after No. 10 had passed without stopping, but No. 10 r ported that Salem showed a white light. “As a matter of fact, although I did not feel justified in saying so at the time, T always believed that McCabe dropped his red curtain all right enough and that he thought he felt the weight of the curtain mechanism ferk the cord when he released it, but that the mechanism caught in some way, holding the curtain up or partly up, until the engine passed under it, when the. jar of the train released the slight hitch and let the curtaln drop—too late. “Caleulations showed that had No. 7 got- ten away from the dispatcher's ofice with speclal orders and No. 10 without them, the two heavily loaded passenger trains would have met near a wide curve and at the top of an embankment, where both would have plunged Into a swollen stream of water, ice and boulders, in which no living thing could have survived many minutes; it would have been the most appalling dis- aster in history. “And yet it was averted by the quick wit of the man who bore all the blame.” COMMON HAZARDS TO HEALTH Undue Exposure to Winter Weather Exceedingly Dangerous to Life. * The majority of persons in the tem- perate zone, says the New York Herald, delight in winter because of its sports and amusements. It brings with it, however, great hazards to health and & train of dis- comforts, some petty and others serious, but none of which is generally recognized as affecting the health, yet their allevia- tion and cure are often difficult. It would ralse the average of health significantly if the vast importance of pre- cautionary measures could be impressed upon tbe, public and attention drawn to the fact that these so-called petty discomforts are a menace to health. There 1s a misunderstanding as to the benefits which cold weathet confers. If In autumn and spring’ persons took the me amount of exercise and breathed as deeply as cold compels them to in order to walntain the normal heat of the body, they would find these seasons congenial to health. Most people know that freezing ts as inimical to life as burning, but they seem to think that any degree of cold short of freezing is benefictal, and one hears perniclous talk about its stimulating offect, pernicious because it Induces many persons to do foolhardy things. ¢ Cold is beneficial only when, through the demand of oxygen to feed internal fires, the lungs are stimulated to their full duty. The circulation of the blocd should be cor- respondingly accelerated, and it is as long as the body is kept warm. But the mo- ment the hands, feet, DoSe or ears becoms stingingly cold, harm s dome, and if through Insufficient clothing-this chill fn- volves the limbs and extends to the shoul- ders or other parts of the body, the danger is proportionately increased and may be the inciplent cause of pneumonia, fevers or other disease. A chill disturbs the capillary circulation, and In women_this is 80 sensitive that its slightest distirbance may cause cutane- ous disorders. Frequently the seeds of a winter's , discomfort are sown during the first frosty evenings of autumn. Many take keen delight in the sharp tingle of the alr, but the benefit of its stimulating ozone 1s lost unless the body Is protected from chill. Often the hands or feet become stingingly cold and within twenty-four hours a burning irritation is felt jo some part of the limbs. Because the hands are more commonly exposed than the feet, the frritation is usually felt first in the upper arms, extending to the wrists or invo ing the thighs and ankles in exact measure to the exposure. ——— The B of Japa The Japanese have no ear lobes. This atacovery’ has apparently been made for the first time py Dr. Von Der Heyden, director of, the public hospital in_ Yoko- hama. Even if he was not the first to aiscover it, he is certainly the first to draw public attention to ft. The absence of the ear lobes, he claims. fs in some respects the most marked distinction bejwean the ese an ans, and he maintains et "the Drobalile reason why (he Iatter have lobes is because their ancestors for | many generations wore heavy ear CONDITION OF ONAHA'STRADE Volame of Business Last Week Rather Light Owing to the Storm. SUGAR MARKET A TRIFLE LOWER Slow Movement of Farm Produce to Be Retarding Collections Quite an Extent, but No Ser! ous Trouble is Expected. Unfavorablé weather last week caused both wholenale and retall trade to siacken a trifle. The falling off was noticeable in all branches, but taking into consideration the fact that at least two days’ trade was taken out of the week the total volume of sales was fully as iarge as could be ex- pected.' No one, however, is doing any complaining, for it Is expected that the de- ficlency of 'last week will be more than made "up thie week. Advices from (he country are to the effect that a large num- ber of merchants will be in the city this week and that large orders for apring lines will be placed. Special raflroad rates will be in force, which always brings a crowd of buyers. The only disturbing element In the trade situation seems to be the slow movement of farm produce. Very little grain is being shipped out of the country and as a result farmers are short, to some extent, of ready money. That has a tendency to ‘cut down the voiume of retall trade out through the country and alsouo retard collections, This, however, Is only a temporary condition and, within_a very short time it is thought grain will be moving eastward at a rapid rate and that collections wiil show a_big improvement. The outlook for the future is considered very encouraging and jobbers in_all lines predict the heaviest run of spring trade that has ever been experi- enced and unless there should be a crop fallure fall business will aiso be a record- vreaker. The markets have not fluctuated to any extent this week and in fact there have been very few quotable changes worthy of mention. Prices are firm all along the line and goods are hard to get from the manu- facturers. That is partly due to frelght congestion, but more especially to the fact that manufacturers heve more orders than they cén fill. Sugar Market m Little Lower. The grocery market as a whole may be said to be in a very strong position, but this fs the season of the year when the consumption of sugar shows a marked de- crease. This year is no_exception to the general rule, and as a result prices have eased off a little. The decline for the week amounts to about 10¢ per 100 pounds. Raws are also lower. Several of the New York refineries have closed down for the annual clean up. The bean market s also a little easier and may be quoted 6@7%c lower than a week ago. The cold snap, however, may have a tendency to advance prices. Tha cheese market is very firm and fancy October made goods are rapidly growing ecarce, so that the market is in a very stzong position. Trade in canned goods was rather limited last week, as buyers only bought in small quantities to nugvly thelr immediate wants, The market, however, is firm and any important increase In consumption would doubtless advance prices. Dried fruits are also without materlal change so far as quotutions are concerned, but trade is reported on the increase. The rice market showed-new additional strength last week and prices have been marked up %@%c on best grades and %c on cholce. Rope, both sisal and Manila, is a little lower than it was a week ago. Other staple lines of groceries carried by Omaha jobbers are selling in just about the same notches they were a week ago. Dry Goods Market Very Firm. There was not any great rush of buyers on the dry goods market last week, owing probably to the eevere siorm. With any- Thing like good weather this week, how- ever, the city will be full of buyers and jcbbers expect to do & rushing business all the week. The market situation has not changed materially since last report, but at the same time as the season advances it be- comes more and more evident that there is a bIg scarcity of desirable lines of cot- ton, woolen and silk goods. Buyers who have recently returned from New York say that many of the best lines are entirely sold up, and that they cannot be bought at any price, Even the orers that were plaved early 'in the season wre not being filled promptly, o that fobbers are having & hard time filling thelr orders. This is true particularly of such lines as fancy gingbame. Jobbers fear, however, that the shortage next fall will be even more pro- nounced than this year if good crops are harvested.” When ‘such _conditions exist prices are naturally very firm. The cost of raw material has also been steadily ad- vancing, 8o that the outlook for continued firm markets for some time to come Is considered very favorable. Hardware Not as Aetiv The hardware market was not partic- vlarly active last week, but jobbers think |1t was largely owing to the severe storm, which put a stop to all out-of-door work. In a short time, however, spring business will be in full swing and the general im- pression is that there will be & demand for all_the goods that jobbers can secure. The difficulty that they are having In getting goods Is the only thing that is euuslnfi them any great amount of worry, but all other markets are in the same fix. It looks now as though there would be considerable bullding done In_ the territory tributary to thie market, and if so there will be a big demand for bullders’ tools énd supplies. There have been no changes in ring prices during the week under review and no important changes are predicted for the immediate future. The market, however, is in a good, strong position, with the de: mand fully equal to the suppi No Change in Rubbers. There has been no material change in the rubber situation. So far as local jobbers have heard there has been no price-gutting golng on. Retallers, however, are #till in- clined to hold back their orders in the hope that there will be some reductions later on. Those who are best posted on tue situation sy, however, that retallers will be disap- pointed, as the rubber goods market Is in a more secure position than it ever was be- fore and that the chances of lower prices are very remote. The leather goods trade was also a little qulet last week. Very few merchants were in the city and travellng men also sent in comparatively few orders. With more favorable weather, however, a more lively market is expectéd. Wholésalers are be- ginning to send out a few of thelr advance orders, but it la still a little early for them to ship any great amount. ¥Fruits and Produce. There was quite a brisk city demand last week for fruits and vegetables, but the country demand was rather limited. Tt was, of cours cold to make shi menlts of per Green atuff is now beginning the market Quite freely, such as beets, onion., radishes, arsiey and lettuce. tons wili Be Touna in another column. “There was quite a demand last week for apples, but there was no material change in process. Oranges are in better supply than they were a fhort time ago and prices are lower. The quality is also sald to be better. The receipts of eggs were quite Wberal last week, but prices did mot show much change. Poultry, however. was in mod- erate supply and as the demand was quite fieral prices firmed up consiierably. The butter market was very quiet, the demand being rather light for even this time of the year, and as a resul. prices are weak WEARE COMMI/ 110-111 Board of Trade, Omaha, Neb— Telephone 1516, CHICAGO, Feb, 7.—WHEAT—Wh: been influenced mostly by forelgn news. Paris was Y%@%c higher, Liverpool and London up a traction. Exporters reported offers freely accepted over might. Private LAverpool cables reported the tendency up- ward becuuse of scarcity of Argentine wheat. Wheat here advanced 1jc and at San Francisco went to %c. There has been & broader commission trade, with market too big for any one nfluence. The assump- Hon was that Armour sold on the advance through commission people. World's ship- ments will be around 8,000,000 bushels, with £00,000 to Europe. An Increase on passage expected; a decrease of about 500,000 Vistble. English visible decreased 1,150, bushels; clearances. 195,00 bushels. Pri- mary receipts, 506.000 bushels, against 340,000 Jast year; In northws I cars, against 259 a year ago. Local recelpts, & cars, Contract. Estimate for Monday, 3 ca CORN-—Market has bee broad commission trade. Go point and the feature of the day wi the 'exhaustion of the 4 supply. The was more or less profit-taking by local There was some selling of corn_on dvance by the provision element. The New York for prompt shipment Cash corn was ¥%c higher. receipts, 1 cars, with none con- Estimates for Monday, 376 cars. was no contract corn out of private houses. Clearances, 9.0 bushels. Pri- mary recelpis, 15,000 bushels, against 242,000 ON COMPANY. t has last year. Primary .shipments, 304,00 bushels, agalnst 30,000 g year ago OATS-May advanced to 38c and cash market I8 up fully a cent. There was & large increase in the commission buying and prices moved up in spite of some profit- {aking by hoiders. 'Comatock led the buys ing, taking. 600,000 bushels or more. [t iooked as if Howe & Patten did some eell- ing on the swell. Receipts, 106 cars, with 12 contract. Estimates for Monday, M0 cars. Clearanc 000_bushels, ROVISIONS—The market bpened steady. Cudahy brokers were buying in_a small way. Local trade generally bearish, but not enough trade (o keep market down. There were 23,000 head of hogs; market 5c lower. "Recelpts for the week, 172, against N8700 head aame week Tn Shipments for the 3 35,026 head same weck last for Monday, 46,000 head; for week, 210,000 head. Hogs In the west, 51,400 head, 92,800 head last year RE COMMISSION COMPANY. ST LOUIS, ¥ No. 2 cash, elevat Tobpe: July, CORN. A% G4 OATS Nye; hard, 2 cash, 41%¢; track, A 42%c; July, 41'gc, nominal. ftigher; No. I cash, ii%e; track, , $8%e: No. 2 white, 3Nige. Firm, 10%c —Qulet; red winter patents, $3.45@ 356; extra fancy and stralght, $.16@8.40; clear, $3.0068.15. SEED-_Timothy, steady, $3.00G0.60. CORNMEAL—Steady, $.%0. Scarce, strong; o0 Higher; N. M sacked, east Imothy, firm, $10.00G15.00; pratrie, IRON COTTON TIES-$1.0 BAGGING o7 1-16c. wine, TONS--Pork, unchanged: jobbing, $17.10. Lard, weaker, $9.3 ate, stendy; boxed, ' extra clear ribs, $9.12%; short ALS—Lea, firm, 89974, quiet, $4.80 POULTRY—Weaker; chickens, keys, 16c; ducks, 1%c; geese, Sc BUTTER — Steady; creamery, dairy, 17@20c 160, EGGS—Lower; Recelpts. Shipments . 5,000 6,000 29,000 58,000 119,000 85,000 591214 clears, $10. M Spelter, 11e; 19G2%c; tur- fresh, Flour, Wheat, Corn, Oats, Dbbls bu bu bu Kansas City KANSAS CITY, Feb. 7.—WHEAT-—May, e, July, 66%@eNc; cash, No. 2 hard, 4 @6i34c; 3, 64@e6c; No. 4, 5i@e2c; re- No. 2 red, 68g8dc; No. 2, CORN—April, 38%¢; May, 38%c; July, 38 cash, No_3 mixed, 35@#%c; No. 2 while, . 3, de, white, 36c; No. 2 mixed, 3. $9.00. BUTTER—Creamery, 19G23c; dairy, 1%c. EGGS—Fresh, 16c. Wheat, bu. Corn, 'bu. Oats, bu. Philadelphia Produce Market. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7.—BUTTER— Steady, fair demand; extra western cream- xtra nearby prints, 28c. EGGS—Dull and_1¢ lower; fresh nearby, 20c, at mark; fresh western, 20c, at mark; fresh southwestern, 19@20c, at mark; fresh southern 15@19 CHEESE—Unchanged. Minneapolis Wheat Market. MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 7.-WHEAT—May, 71%c; July, 77c; on track, No. 1 hard, 70%c; No. 1 northern, Tc; No. 2 northern. ic. FLOUR—Steady; firet patents, $4.00@4.15; 90@4.00; first clears, $3.50; Receipts. Shipments. 30,400 56,000 500 25,000 second patents, gecond clears, h.m? 2. BRAN—In bulk, $14.50014.7. Milwaukee Grain Market. MILWAUKEE, Feb, 7.~WHEAT-—Market bigher; No. 1 northern, Hic; No.'2 northern, T p@s0c ay, N 5 R stendy: K. 1 Bisse. BARLEY-Dull; No! 4 6iios sample, 46 @33, - CORN—May, 49%c bid. Duluth Grain Market. DULUTH, Feb. 7.—~WHEAT—Cash No. 1 hard, 7i%c; No. 2 northern, 74%c; No. 1 northern, 78c; May, T8%c; July, T8%c. OATS—May % Cotton Market, NEW YORK, Feb. 7—~COTTON—Futures opened firm and quite excited at an ad- vance of 3@7 points, and immediately de oped still_more pronounced strength and activity. March contracts, . which had closed at 9.0lc, showed 9.12c. The rapid ad- vance here was due chlefly to unexpected strong public and private cables. The lat- ter stated that the foreign strength was due to the strong statisucal figures of last night cabled from this side. Egypti speculators were reported to have re-en- tered the Liverpool market as active buy- ers. The spot situation at Liverpool was calied particularly strong with spinners ariven to purchase of the more remote fu- ture deliveries in an effort to secure a call on supplies needed against orders for goods l|rBl(f)‘ in hand or expected. The soulh was an active ver at New York. The western -~ grain contingent also bought freely. It was rumored that the late bear leader had finished covering his shorts and now stood heavily long of the market there was still buying by spot houses, and exporters took March and May, while the ublic demand showed a preference for uly and August. Traders showed Indif- ference to bad weather reports from the south and also to heavier estimated re- ceipts for Houston and other points. The selling here was chiefly by partles who were disposed to secure profits. but this proved insufficlent for the Increasing d mand and the market showed a strong undertone. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 7 —COTTON—Fu- tures firm; February. 8.9c bid; March, 9.01 9.07@9.05c; May, 9.14@9.15 9.24@9.%c; Au! A B) ri - nEpot 7,00 bales; ord low middling, 9 7-1 bales c: good ordinary 8 iadling, Sc: €ood middling, middiing fair, 0tc; ' receipts, 756 stock, 360.206 bales. ST.' LOUIS, Feb. OTTON—Firm, %o higher: middling, 16c; sales, 513 bales; recelpts, 2,819 baies; shipments, 3,413 bales} stock. 2,781 bales. GALVESTON, Feb. .—COTTON—Firm at 9 1-i6c. Suga: YORK, Feb. fair refini N steady. centri- fugal [ ; No. 10, : powdered, 4.7c; es, 4.90c. : open kettle, good to New' Orleans, open kettle, o cholce, 32oc. NS, ' Feb. . 4.75¢; MOLASSE3—Quie cholce, 32@40c; good ORL hate 3 B6c; centrifugal, 6G18c. Evaporated Apples and Dried Frait NEW YORK, Feb. 7—EVAPORATE] APPLES—The market for evaporated ap- is_weak under freer offerings, but prices show no_ further change. Common Bre held at 4@6c: prime, Si@iSke; cholce, Gl4@6M4e; fancy, TG@T%e. CALIPFORNIA “DRIED FRUITS-Spot runes are a little more active, owing 1o a etterment in export requirement, and prices were firm. All grades cre quoted at from 34@7c. Apricots, unchanged at T%@ 10c in boxes an e in bags. Peaches remained unchanged, 18c for peeled and 6% @sc for unpeeled. Wool Market, NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—WOOL~Quiet; do- mestic fleec 32 ST. LOUIR, Feb. 7.~WOOL—Steady to firm; medium’ grades and combing, 17@2ic; light fine, 16@19%c;- heavy fine, 13G16c: tub washed, 190729 LONDON, Feb. 7—Trading in wool has been moderate since the auction sales closed and a good portion of the withdrawals have been secured at prices in buyers' favor. The arrivals for the second séries of sales amount to 135,05 bales, including 6,500 for- warded direct to spinner on Rosin, OIL CITY, Feb, 7.—OIL—Credit balances. ; certificates, no bid; shipments, 73.356 average, 74,430 bbls.; runs, 81,35 bbis. average, 8143 bbis AH, Feb. firm, Rosin $1.90; NEW 3 7.—OIL—Cottonseed, steady; prime crude, nominal. Petroleum, steady! refined New York, $8.20; Philadel: hia and Baltimore, $5.15. Turpentine. Brm, 6dis@estuc. Rosin. fArmer; strained, common to good, $2.10G2.15. 1 of New York for this week were valued at $12.180371. The total exports of specie from the port of New York were 458 siiver and B4R goid, The totaf imports of epecie at the port of New Tork this week were 35,70 silver and $31.735 gold. Bank Clearings. OMAHA Feb. 7—Bank clearings for the week ending today show an increase of S8 FEM over those of the corresponding week of last year. The fgures read: 1 Monday o Wednesda Thursday Friday Baturday . BERS8S Totals . CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—Clearings, 123,32 804; balances, $1,516,683; New York exchange par; forelgn exchange unchanged, with sterling posted at $4.55 for sixty days and at 4.8 tor demand. NI ~Clearings, $239,369,« W YORK, Feb, ; balances, §11,230, PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7.—Clearings, $21.- | 524,086; balances, $2,000,447; money, § per ‘cent. |, BALTIMORE; Feb. 7 -Clearings, $3.40, 274 balances, $468,998; money. § per. cent HOSTON, 'Feb.' 7.—-Clearings, $23,638,461; balances, $3081,604, CINCINNATI, Feb. 7.—Clearings, $2621- 900; money, 4@ per cent and In good de- mand; exchange easy at 3c discount. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 7.-Clearings, $5.722,048; balances, $976,251; money, steady, H@ per cent; New York exchange, 20c dlscount. Forelgn Financial, LONDON. Feb. T.—There was active de- mand for money in the market today, al though the pressure was slightly lighter. Discounts were firm. Business on the Stock exchange was fairly cheerful and ufet, owing to ‘operators being engaged In the preliminaries of the mining contangoes. Consols were slightly harder. Home ralls | generally . were Jower on the dividends showing Improvement. Americans opened dull, owing to the possibility of a bad bank statement, and closed quiet. Grand Trunk was firm and active on account of consid- erable purchases, especlally ordinary and third preferred. PARIS, Feb. 7.-Business opened quiet on the bourse today. Forefgners were con- spicucusly heavy and Turks were easter on the news of the mobilization of Turkish troops for ‘. demonstratjon in_Macedonia. Prices were generally ir. Buez ocanals were In brisk demand. ‘rading at the close was qulet and ere firm. The pri- vate rate of di 213-75 per cent. BERLIN. Feb. 7.—Home funds were firm on the bourse toda. Some foreigners were gasier and locald were heavy on realléa- tos St. Joseph Live Stock Market. §T. JOSEPH, Feb. 7—CATTLE—Recelpts, 198 head; nafives,' $8.75G5.65; Texas and westerns, $3.354 85; cows and helfers, §2.00 4.35; venly 52502650 bulls and atags, §2.50 4.40; yearlhgs and calves, $2.75@4.3; stock- 2,954, 5. THOGSRecelpts, 624 head: light and 1ght mixed, $6.50G6.8; medium and heavy, G700, FSHTEP AND LAMBS—Recoipts, 100 head; Colorado lambe, $6.25; wethers, $.15; ewes, .40, Whisky Market. CHICAGO, Peb. 7.—WHISKY—Steady at }1.30. PEINCINNATI, Feb, 7 WHISKY—On the basis of high wines, $1.30 ST, LOUTS. Feb. 7-WHISKY—Steady nt 1.3 PEORIA, Feb. 7.—WHISKY—For finished goods, $1.30. THROUGH THE NILE RAPIDS Experience of One Traveler While Canoelng on Egyptian Waters, Willlam Gage Erving carries the readers of the February Century on an exciting trip from Khartum to Cairo in his Adi- rondack canoe. Of one adventure he writes: ‘When my falthless pilot told me that ths cataract was passed he deliberately lled. 1 had gdne barely a mile, proceeding in the very middle of the stream without a thought of danger, when just ahead a long white line appeared, spanning the entire river. In a few seconds.this had developed into a barrier of spray-capped billows from which there was no escaping. In a twink- ling 1 found myself at the top of an in- clined plane of water, where the river shot over the underlying ridge in one unbroken sheet, as water gver a dam In time ot flood. Down this/the canoe rushed with the speed of a race horse, rose sharply on the billows beyond, hurled itself seem- ingly through space, and fell upon ihe top of a chaos of foaming waves with a crash the 1ips of my boy as he frantically grasped the gunwales. a mass of water drenching him from head to foot. For a few moments the canoe tossed wildly about, kept head on to to the waves only with the great- ost difficulty, and then plunged madly through foam and eddies into the smooth water beyond. This lasted but a short distance, and scarcely had I recovered my breath ‘when a new danger confronted me. Not a qua: ter of a mile abead a ridge of rocks ap- peared, extending across the river, a mas of black boulders'amid foam and spray ot dazzling whiteness. Nowhere in this roa ing inferno upon which 1 was being rap- 1dly borne could 1 discover a sign of even the narrowest passage. Absolute destruc- tion of the canoe seemed inavitable when, catching sight of a great flat rock the front of which, thirty feet in width, rose above the brink of the fall, I seized the last chance anc headed directly for it, sheering sharply to the left when not six feet from ' the granite barrier. As, almost grazing its stony face, the boat sped alongside towara the maelstrom beyond, I caught up the long painter coiled at my feet and made a fiying leap, landing on the sloping sur- face of the rock, worn smooth by long action of the water. Fortunately, my bare feet did not slip, and by bracing my- self the canos was brought up with a sharp jerk. Sulelman, who throughout had be- baved splendidly, sitting motionless in the bottom of the boat with both hands)grasps- ing the eldes and his eyes never leaving my face, now rolled out, and la a few sec- onds canoe and kit were high and dry on the rock, and I was running to the brink to cool my feet, blistered from toe to heel by the scorching stome. Our desert islo stretched some three hundred feet Gown the stream, and below It the rapids ap- peared less dangerous. Herp, then, we launched the canoe, and at length reached smoother water. The terrors of the Mograt lay behind us. FILLED WITH LEGAL LORE Virginia Mountaineer Studies Law in Ja Wins Out on Ap 7. 0. Terry of Halifax, Va., convicted In the United States district court of carrylng raw material to a disgillery, supposed to have been of the moonshine kind, and also charged With having occupied his talents in defrauding Uncle S8am of liquor revenues, today had the judgment of the court r versed by Judge Goff in the United States circult court of appeals. Terry argued his owi case, noted exceptions to the rullugs of the district judge and appealed to the higher court with the result announced. He prepared and submitted his own briefs in the appeal. The man is & typical moun- taineer, and never had a day's schooling in bis life. He taught himself to read and write, and studied law while confined in jall. When brought to trial some months ago he declined to employ & lawyer. Thers were three charges against him. By skill- ful manipulation he succeeded in baving two quashed. He was convicted on the third and given sixty days in jail. He took an appeal, and today went fre Terry is plcturesque in appearance. He Dry NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—DRY GOODS-The market continiies Airm for all descriptions of cotton goods in th's market. Print clot are quiet, but strong. Cotton yarns are firm, with fair demand. Woolen, worstea, Iinen and jute yarns are firm New York lmpo NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—The total imports of merchandise and dry goods at the port wears the broad-brimmed hat and flannel shirt of the mountaineer. In the court room he is perfectly at his ease, and is a mater hand at cross. plain to see ns can't be mistook, have started tellin’ me How very young 1 look. -Philadelphia Press,