Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 11, 1903, Page 10

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1903 FOR TAX RIDDEN PROPERTY City Treasurer Gathers Statistios to Bhow | that Relief is Noeded. DELINQUENT TAXES IN EXCESS OF VALUE | Mr. Hennings Favors Enactment of | Law to Clear Property and Re- | store It to Revenue Producing W City Treasurer Hennings has been gath- ering statistics to show the necessity for | devising a way to collect a part of the $2 000,000 delinquent taxes duo the city Omaha. Thousande of lots are encumbered | by unpald taxes greatly iu excess of thelr value, and as fllustrations he presents five striking examples, using the fair cash val- uations as made by Tax Commissioner | Fleming for the 1903 mssesement. A lot valued at $250 has $516 In taxes standing against 1t; another plece of property worth | $9,375 has taxes against it to the amount of $10,690.16, and there is one small lot which $160 would buy that has $615.96 marked up in delinquent taxes. The city treasurer has been greatly inter- ested In the proposed fegislative measures designed to secure, not only the collection of back taxes in Omaha and the placing of the property in position where it may yleld | regular revenue, but the state as well. | Present Law Inadequate. “It 18 estimated that there are from 000,000 to $10,000,000 state, county and city taxes delinquent In Nebraska,” he says. “Probably one-third of the property con- cerned never could be redeemed under tho present laws. We should get a bill through | the leglelature to clear up this property and to get it paying taxes again. “Besides the benefit of a large amount of back taxes which we could collect under | the so-called scavenger bill, It would de- | erease the levy for taxes In future years. Of course, under our present constitution this can be mccomplished only by regular court proceedings. f “The best remedial legisiation proposed that I have seen 18 a bill in the hands of a representative from a western county, which he proposes to introduce into the Rouse this week. From my point of view, after careful consideration, it 18 a measure that should be passed, and I believe it should evn the hearty support of the Douglas unty delegation.” | Synopsis of the New Bi Mr. Hennings has a synopsis of this bill as_follows The county treasurer shall prepare a complete delinquent list of taxes each year and this shall be bound and Kept as a permanent record similar to the present Bales Record.” This record shall have suitable columns showing the kind and amount of every tax against each tract, as well as the total amount due. It ehall have columnas for the entry of payments of taxes and Te- demption from tax sale, the name and address of the purchaser and his assignee, as_ well as other columns for entries of orders of court, etc. The record shall have a formal statement attached to it and shall be filed with the clerk of the district court. It then be- Comes & petition and is the commencement of & suit to enforce the taxes. Notice af the fillng of the petition and | of the amount duo on each tract is then published four weeks. Those who wish to contest the taxes must | fle anewers by September 1 A default | decree is entered against all land when no | contest is made. Lands defaulted are sold under an order of court, after advertisement, in November cach year ‘When less than four years' taxes are dolinquent lands must bring full amount of taxes, interest and coets, but when four Or ‘more years are delinguent lands may Le $0ld to the highest bidder regardless of the amount due and without appraise ment. Tn the latter case the bid may be raised | by any rson within elghteen months by fling Whh the gounty treasurer an offer of premium. The hig) bo_accepted. Bales draw interest at 12 per cent per annum. The period of redemption is three years for the ordinary sale and two years for the sale where four or more years are included. hest premium must county or any city may be- come purchaser where their taxes are in- volved and are not required to advance money. All such sales may be assigned by the treasurer to any purchaser at any time. When taxes are contested the court enters a decree after a regular trial. The it has right of way over all civil Lusi of the court and several pro- vislons are found in the act to get an early decision. The owner and occupant of every tract of land is served with notice by the sherift (or by publication) that the time of re- demption will expire on a certain day. 1t there is no redemption application made to the court sale is confirmed and dee¢. made under the court's order. This deed 18 an absolute title to the property. There are provisions dllcourl’ln‘ the filing of contest or appeals solely for delay. FIGHTS IN TILLMAN STYLE Livery Stable Employe Uses Pitchfork in Encounter with Forem: Steve O'Brien, an employe in Homan's Harney street livery stable, was angered yesterday when George Border, his fore- wan, awakened him at 7:30. O'Brien selzed a pitchfork and made & number of pasdes at Border. Some of the lunges were effect- ive and some were not, but considerable blood had been spilled when the officers arrived. The punctures in Border included one in an ear, one n his hand, several ‘in the left leg and arm and a few in the body. No vital parts were reached, however. O'Brien was locked up, charged with as- sault and battery, to which he pleaded nct | cestry to particularly boast of and no other | | bailift edged over to within reaching dis- | | body reached under the bench and the tune | one know what was doing, and everyone got guilty. A more serious accusation will be filed Wednesday. DOG PLAYS THE STAR PART Does Musieal Tarn Court and Then Starts Commotion in Corridor. In Judge Fawcett's court room yesterday morning o plain black dog with no an- distinguishing appurtenance toriety and attention in a whole lifetime. got more mo- | than most dogs get | The spanfel belongs to John A. Rylen and is the one charged with having bit lttle Dorothy Wyville, whos father is suing Rylen for $10,000 be- cause of the incident, alleging that the little girl's nervous system was affected | by the attack When the dog was brought in, to be put in_ evidence, the court officers all looked dublous. They had seen dogs before and they knew there was no telling what sort | of commotion might be precipitated HII“-"‘ Morgan slipped out to the janitors’ room | and got a club. Just when things got golng well the dog | remembered his musical education and | began to vocalize softly, under the wit- nesses' bench. The court frowned and the The dog grew melancholy and took the miserere. Some- tance. the high note from ewltched to “Brush By, White Man." Pro- seedings temporarily came to a stop, and the court sald: ‘“Take the dog into the corridor.” | Then real trouble began. An old colored | man asked somebody what the dog was do- ing there, and the somebody answered that | it had bitten a small girl. The delegate | from Dahomey fuferred that the canine had | the rabbies, and he started for the other | end of the hall. As he went he let every- | busy. Never since the smallpox scare has there been such a hurried clearing out in | the temple of justice. The judge was expected to lesue a re- straining order forbidding the dog to “in- terrupt, interfere with or in any way mo- | lest the district court in the discharge of its natural duties, or to in any manner an- noy or intimidate any officer thereof or any person legally entitled to be in or about the courthouse of said county, or to exact from any such person any portion or fragment of such person's enatomy as such person may be reluctant to part with or may wish to reserve for his or her own dog.” ROCK ISLAND AGENTS MEET They Are Being Instructed as to New Relations with Southern Pacific. A Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific pow- wow was in progress in Council Blufts yes- terday. At the Grand hotel was a meeting of all the agents of the Iowa division of that road with the chief men of the operating, trafic and auditing departments. A half dozen of the high officials were out here to instruct the agents in various topies relat- ing to their respective departments. It is said that the most important feature of the meeting was a discussion of the new phases of the work of the ropresentatives of the road that have just arisen as a re- sult of the recent alllance of the Rock Island with the Southern Pacific rallway. Head men in the Qifferent departments of the railroad Instructed the agents thor- oughly in the complications and ramifica- tions that result from this relationship. The officials present at the meeting were: H. J. Sliter of Chicago, general superintendent; C. L. Nichols of Fairbury, Neb., division superintendent; W. J. Law- rence of Des Moines, division superintend- ent; H. Gower of Chicago, assistant freight traflc manager; W. H. Burns of Chicago, freight trafic auditor. Some fifty agents were in attendance at the meeting. It began at 10 o'clock yes- terday morning and continued all day long. It was a memorable occasion for the agents of the Towa division. Pneumonia. This s one of the most dangerous and often fatal diseases. It always results from a cold or from an attack of the grip. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy quickly cures these diseases and counteracts any tendency toward pneumonia. It is made especially for these and similar allments and can al- ways be depended upon. Brewers Win Law 8t A jury in Judge Slabaugh's court has found for the defendant in the suit of Walter Moise & Co. against Willlam Krug for $1,100, alleged to be due on the ac- counts of John Goodfellow and Willlam McAvoy. Willlam Krug took out the license for the saloon at Twenty-fourth and Nicholas streets and furnished the tenants their beer. Goodfellow bought 3600 worth of liquors from the Molea company, and McAvoy, who was a later tenant of the bullding, bought §00 worth. Neither, it was alleged, had pald their accounts and the Moise company sought to collect from Krug, aMrming that the occupants of the saloon were his agents. Krug showed that while he had taken out the city license for the place, Goodfellow and McAvoy had each taken out a government license in their own names. Railway Notes and Personals. J. A, Munroe, trafic manager of the Union Pacific railway, has gone to Minne- apolis. E. H. Wood, general freight agent of the Unlon Pacific rallway, has gone to Chicago. The Wabash rallrcad has just completed plans to unite the eastern, northern and western Gould lines in Toledo, O., with a ‘cross-town line which will Involve the building of & new union station ap well The new line will join_the Wabash with | the Wheeling & Lake Erle line and with the Ann Arbor line. Several million dol lars “will be spent iIn the line and the station. MRS. J. BENSON. White Waists in Basket Weave, Damask, See the Grape, Patterns. AT ALL GOOD DRUGGINTS. New Shirt Waists Etamine and Canvas, ed or plain, Acorn 4 Follage New Silk Walsts in black and cel- ored mings. An embroidery and oth egant lin, 1k Petticonts. trim. Black © PRICER-~$4.87 UP to §17.00. | teature will BOILER MAKERS MAY STRIKE|TALK OF TELEPHONE SERVICE Men on Other Harriman Lines May Join Union Pacific Strikers. DECISION OF EXECUTIVE COUNCIL DUE Loeal President Kennedy Expects to Hear Within Twenty-Four Hours Whether Fight is to Be Extended. B. F. Kennedy, president of the local unfon of striking boiler makers, is confl- dent that within twenty-four hours it will be known whether the Union Pacific strike I8 to be extended to the other Harriman lines. Ever since the brief and decisive conference between President Burt of the Union Pacific and the general committee of strikers’ representatives two weeks ago the burning question has been: “Will the men be pulled out along the Southern Pa- cific and the other Harriman lines?" Mr. Kennedy expects this to be answered this morning, and As a conse- quence there is a decided spell of hushed anticipation over those favored few of the men who know that the crisis approaches. From the start there has been no hope of the machinists on the other lines belng pulled out, as there have been several rea- sons why they could not and would not work. But with the boiler makers it has been different. They can and will come out any time they are ordered to This has been known and admitted all along, and it has been merely a question of the order being given. When President McNell of the Interna- tional Association of Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders left Omaha ten days ago to go to his headquarters at Kansas City it was to settle this matter. He placed the question before the executive council of the association. This confprises six members, scattered over the United States. The affalr was one of correspondence, and took time Vote of Direct Question. The only question on which the council was asked to vote was, “Shall the men on the other lines be taken out?” Since then Mr. McNell has been walting in Kansas City for these replies. He has not gone out over the Southern Pacific, as an- nounced in his plans, for it would be use- less to go out there without knowing where he stood. Finally the votes bave commenced com- ing in. Two have already reached Mr. Mc- Neil. The others are expected soon. When the decisive vote arrives he will telegraph President Kennedy the result. Monday he wired Mr. Kennedy that the matter was very near a conclusion, and that a decision could be expected any time now, probably not later than Tuesday night. “FAINTING BERTHA” AGAIN This Time She is Arrested on Charge of Steal Diamond Brooch. Bertha Liebbeke, known to the police “Fainting Berthy was arrested in this city yesterday by Sergeant Rentfrow and Detective Murphy of Couneil Bluffs upon the charge of having robbed an Illinols woman of a valuable dlamond brooch. Bertha was recently arrested in this city and taken to Council Bluffs, where she was given Into the custody of the officers there and was to have been sent to the Iowa asylum. The following day, January 28, she returned to Omaha and boarded a train for Chicago. While enroute to that city she made the acquaintance of an old woman from Galesburg, Ill, who was re- turning home after a visit here. To her Bertha gave her name as Jennle J. Wilson and said ehe resided at 428 South Seven- teenth street, in this city, belng the daughter of Mrs. J. F. Wilson. When the aged Illinots traveler arrived in Chicago she discovered her valuable diamond brooch missing. She reported the theft to Sherifft Hurburgh of Galesburg, who has since been in communication with Chief Donahue. He was sent a photograph of the Liebbeke woman by the Omaha chief, which was shown to the Galesburg woman, who positively identified the picture as that of the person whose acquaintance she bad made on the train. Bertha returned to Omaha yesterday morning. Wor Best Pile Cu Why endure tortures from piles till you contract a fatal disease when Bucklen's Arnica Salves cures, or no pay? 25c. For sale by Kuhn & Co. BENNETT SALE IS POSTPONED Trustee Hastings Will Dispos of Bankrupt Company's Proj erty February 21. The sale of the property of the W. R. Bennett company, which was to have taken place yesterday, was postponed until Saturday, February 21. The postponement was caused by the fact that in the first order the notes given by the Bennett Build- ing company to the mereantile company were not included as & part of the assets to be €old, and in order to include them it was necessary to give ten days' addl- tional notice. The sale will be held at 10 o'clock in the morning at the federal bufld- ing by E. E. Hastings, the trustes in bank- ruptey. Announcements of the Theaters. One of the big movelties of the Elks' masquerads ball and entertainment will be a miouet, In which twelve couples will participate. Judge Dickinson will be seen in this stately dance, as well as a number of other prominent citizens. The costumes | will be the most elaborate possible to pur- chase. The style of the costumes will be the plcturesque King Louis XV. Another be Jubtlee Singers, who will render the best of the oldtime coon songs. This quartette is composed of Quinton Mil- ler, John Brennan, A. W. Kroeger and Thomas Swift The Black Patti has rallied round her Troubadour banners about all the talent worth having in the colored world of comedy and song and dance. Her success bas been so great that she has been able to create a sort of monopoly and plu- tocracy of @ jet tint. Her company for this season, the seventh of her great suc- coss, numbers over two score of white teeth and shiny-eyed male and female funines and funsters. The company will be scen at the Boyd Sunday matinee and night Masonic Library Association. At the meeting of the Masonic Library assoclation Monday Willlam Cleburn was elected president to fill the unexpired term of W. W. Keysor, whose resignation, caused by his removal to St Louls, was accepted.” John D. Howe was elected vice president and Frank 8. Hayes was elected representative of ‘St. John's lodge on the board. The library now has about 600 vol- umes on Masonic subjects and a librarian is in charge from 7 to § o'clock each evening except Baturday and Sunday. All Masons can draw books from the library for terms of two weeks. @ B 0 Principal Tople at Meeting of ecutive Committee of the Commercial b, Telephone service was the principal fea- ture of the discussion at the meeting of the executive committee of the Commercial club, although the epecial committee to which the matter had been referred was not in & position to make any definite re- port. M. Wulpl, chatrman of the committee, sald that during the week the members had conferred with persons familiar with the local situation and had entered into correspondence with two telephone experts, who are to be in the city the latter part of the week for the purpos of making an investigation of the local situation; that pending the arrival of the experts and their report the committee does not desire pub- licity to be thrown around its actions a8 it may ba thus hampered in fts work He further sald that une result of the work of the committee had been to bring from the telephone company a tentative propo- sitfon looking to a reduction of the exist- ing rates, but such reduction is not to stop the work of the committee, as it desires to arrive at an exact knowledge of the true state of affairs. There will be a meeting of the jobbers of the city at the club rooms Wednosday to take action in regard to the proposed advance of charges on excess baggage, and at the same meeting there will be pre- sented for consideration a set of resolutions offered to the committee by the Western Hardware Dealers' assoclation, in which that organization protests against increas- ing the powers of the interstate commerce commission. E. A. Benson, representing the press Special Bargains Today in Basewment committee of the Nebraska Real Estate Dealers’ assoclation, told of the work of One big table of One big table of 13§ yard One table of rem- the organization in advertising the state in fine drapery Swisse: lengths of carpets, Brussels, | nants of Art Burlaps, newspapers and magazines of the east, and all sizes of dots, 36- | Velvets, Moquettes ‘Wiltons, | {n plain colors, worth upon his request the committee donated inches wide, go at— | etc, worth up to $1.50 a yard| 26c a yard, go at— $20 toward the expenses of the work Twenty-one persons were admitted to xo for ‘he membership as follows: G. M. Hitcheook, C yd. |at whole ‘ : yd. A. R. st!mson. John C. Drexel, Thomas [ !‘rjp Baker, George L. Fisher, P. J. Boysen, George W. Sues, H. F. Curtls, 0. B. Will- fams, J. H. Blotchett, C. 8. Elgutter, E. F. Serviss, F. H. Dunlop, R. B. Haaker, A. Mandelberg, F. Richardsop, A. R. Edmiston. J. W. Holmquest, F. A, Castle, W. E. Mor- riss and B, J. Drummond. A Thoughtful Husband cured his wite of fainting and dizzy spells, weaknet headache and backache with Electric Bitters. Try them. 50c. For sale by Kuhn & Co. GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON Collector Stephenson Returns from Capital with Talk of Mercer and Others. B. B. Btephenson, collector of internal revenue, returned yesterday from a visit to Washington and a short trip to New York, where he went to see D. B. Thomp- son started on his journey to Brazil. “I fafled to see Mr. Thompson off,” he eald, “because the boat on which he was to sall did not leave until Monday at noon. It was due to leave Saturday morning, but was delayed because coal for the voyage could not be secured in time. At the time five other large liners were waiting in New York for coal. “There is much talk of the appointment of Congressman Mercer to a position un- der the federal government, but it is hard to tell what it will amount to. Mr. Mer- cer has many friends in Washington who would ke to see him get something, but he is only ome 'of 'mgny who are retiring from congress from time to time, all after something as gobd, it not better. When the Washington Habit once gets a man it 18 hard for him to recover. There are sen- ators and representatives, men strong and weak, gll struggling for appointment at the expiration of their terms of office, and, while some of them are entitled to posi- tions, that fact alohe does not prompt them to enter the lists. No doubt, President Roosetelt is considering the qualifications of several of these men for positions for which they have applied, and he is espe- clally looking for good material for the canal commission. “It looks to me as though the bill to cre- ate a second federal judicial district in Ne- braska may pass at this session, as there is little or no oppoeition to the measure. 1t 1s understood in Washington that the ap- plication of Mr. Munger of Lincoln for the position of United States district attorney is simply made for the purpose of showing that he will accept the position in case Mr. Lindsay cannot get it. He has already in- dorsed Mr. Lindsay for the place. Mr. Munger was in Washington with me, but #o far as I know the matter of his appli- cation was not considergd at that time.” A BALD NE PAPER MAN. \ Getting a New Crop of Hair, and Has No More Dandruff, Everybody In the northwest Colonel Daniel Searles, the veteran jour- nalist and publicist of Butte. 1900, the colonel writes: of bottles of Newbro's marvelous results. The dandruff disap- peared; a new crop of bair has taken root, and the bald spot is rapi being covered.” Herpicide is the only hair preparation that the scalp In scales as it burrows its way to the kils the dandruff germ that digs up root of the halr, where it destroys the vi- tality of the hair, causing the hair to fall out. Kill the dandruff germ with Herpi- cide. HALF RATES Via Wabash Rallroad. Mobile and return, $28.35; New Orleans and returp, $29.50; Havana, Cuba, and re- knows January 10, T used a couple Herpicide with Watch Our Watch Our blue and white, at fine and heavy ribbed, all sizes, wort! Immense lots of very fine embroidery and dainty patterns, in all width go at, yard One lot of huck and all linen knotted offer them at each size, go, tomorrow at, each... of our 35c and 50c¢ lithograph them tomorrow at 25c each. art department on third floor... we offer No. 25 for 124c & yard, at, yard.... it tomorrow at, yard. .. Biggest Shoe Sale we ever held. Ladies', “Dollar" Wrappers, 45c Your choice ors, made large sizes, on main floor at 45c each. 75C CORSETS 39C 1,000 fine corsets in short and medium lengths straight front, also French batiste tape girdles, all sizes in pink, 15C HOSIERY 6iC One large bargain square with hundreds of dozens of ladies’, misses’, children's and boys' fast black hosiery in plain, 15C EMBROIDERIES AT 7iC Special Towel Bargain—15c Towels 7c each are regular 16c towels, for tomorrow only we 35¢c Towels at 15¢c each—One big lot of 35¢ knotted fringe and spoke stitched huck towels, they are all linen and very large C 50c Lithograph Pillow Tops, 25¢c each—To close out illow tops quick, we offer hese are in our Special Bargains at White Goods Counter--For tomorrow only % imperial long cloth that generally sells Special India Linon Bargain Tomorrow—Our No. 74 India Linon is our regular 12¢c kind and 32 inches wide—we offer Visiting Cards Printed While You Wait, 100 vigiting cards in Seript or Old English type with a pretty illuminated card case.... {BRANRPFIZ: of our $1.00 wrappers in dark col- and full, ruffled and braided, in all h 16c, go at, pair and inserting In neat 1 fringe damask towels, they 7¢c all the the balance 25c¢c i ic 49¢ $60,000 worth Shoes on sale tomorrow. Soothes the Throat and Cures the Cough HOWELL'S ANTIKAWF Z6c a bottle at Howell Drug Company, 16th and Capitol Avenue. 2c Allcock's Plasters, we sell ....2 for %c $1.00 Ayer's Halr Vigor, we sell . e 51.00 Bromo Seltzer, we sell . Toe B0c Colgate's Pansy Blossom Ex tract, we sell, oz, Boclete Hyglenique Soap, we sell.. 25¢ Brown's Bron. Troches, our price secesssasdes 25¢ 29¢ 19¢ our price 1 Pound Seed .. . 3¢ Castoria, we sell e Cuticura’ Salve, w 31.00 Duffy's Malt Whiskey, We Extract Beef—Marshail's, * Process”—(NOT genuine 1 TP RS TR Mixed Bird we sell 5 . 10c Genuine Liebig's size, we sell g 5 Fellow's Syrup, we sell Small Garfield Tea, our price Jap Rose Soap . ¢ Humphrey s 17 SLOO W etter’ price ...... AR 50c_Horlick's Malted Milk (small) ... $.% Horlick's Malted Milk (hospital [P e R A A 2c Kondon Catarrhal Jelly, §1.00 Pepto Mangan Gude, we sell ... £1.00 Kilmer's Swamp-Root, our price .... PR vesssaes Tde Write for our 100-page Catalogue of D Rubber Goods. DO YOU KNOW... Any place where you can buy drugs at prices quoted below? c! ftor our . 8%¢ |50c Kilmer's Swamp-Root, | price | $1.00 King' w Discovery, OWF DPIOC. c.ciciey sesssceses TBE $1.00 Listerine (Iarge), our price G6e 26¢ Listerine (small), our price.. 1fe c Laxative Bromo Quinine, our price lic %c Mistletoe Cream, for ..... $1.00 Mother's Friend, we seil 2c Brandreth's Pills, our price ........ 19¢|i¢ Moellner's Cod Oll, we sell e > Carter's Pills, we sell . 7o.s Jho| W86 Menmen’s Taloum Pow %e Chamberlain's Cough, we sell . c| . our' price . cee ee $2.00 Chichester's Pen. P! | $1.00 MoEiree’s Wine of | " dui, our price ... We Omega Ofl, we sell . 5 | #1.00 Newbro's Herpicide, BEEN® o'k« s vaiianainsn s . $1.00_Pinkham's Comp., we sell . e Packer's Tar Soap, we sell . 300 Peruna, we sell Gk :\m Plerce's Medicines, ‘we ‘seli ... 1.00 Paine's Celery Comp., we sell ... % Plerce's Pills, we sell we Pond's Extract, we sei Sc Pyramid Pile Cure, we sel 3$1.00 Scott's Emulsion, we sell S0e Syrap of Fi, our price . $1.00 Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, for .. Te 317 8. 8. 8., our price ... 114 $1.50 Vin Mariani, our price . 3100 $1.00 Kirk's Dandrufft Cure, we . .. e 50c Willlams' Pink Plils, our | price 3 o cseces Slhe ) White Ribbon Liguor Cure, «s 7B |26c box (3 cakes) Benzoin and | Buttermilk Soap, tor ... Chemicals, Medicines 12¢ and rugs, Patent Sherman & McGonnell Drug Co., CORNER_16TH AND DODGE STREETS, OMAHA, NEB. The Best and the Very Best for the Cure of Chapped Skin COURT RULES FOR CHILDREN turn, $62.86; sold February 17 to 22. Half rater one way and round trip (plus §2) | Participation by Adultsin Mock Tea Parties to many points south on sale the first and is Held Rational third Tuesdays of each month. For full in- e tormation call at Wabash office, 1601 Far- nam street, or address Harry E. Moores, G. A. P. D, Omaha, Neb. Mortality Statistics. The following births and deaths have been reported to the Board of Health Births—Henry W. Plass. 1110 Bancroft, boy: Henry Christiansen, 3416 Decatur, girl} Patrick Dougherty, 213 Caldwell, b Joe Slizewskl, 2364 South Twenty-eighth, 'giri Richard Christine. 1524 South Twelfth, girl: John A. Metealf, 2547 Chicago, boy; David Milbourn, 1424 Military avenue, girl; Wal Freeman, 84 North Twenty-third, " gi Sam Mornsky, 1215 South Eighteenth, Robert Mensles, 4237 Lake, girl; Antonia Payne, 38 North Tenth, girl; Carl Elving, 219 wuth Twenty-third, boy; Willlam Crandall, 414! North Thirty-seventh, boy Death: Anna Tordy, Second and Plerce, #; J. V. Martin, Eighteenth and Young. Ninth and . 7 months; James Joseph's hospital, Davenport, 57;: Mary Avenue J, East Om: McDonald, died in home at Fremont, Net it o Worse. Always true of constipation. It begins many maladies, but Dr. King's New Life Pills cure or no pay. Only ec. For sale by Kuba & Co. Repairs at BDeals School. The total sum of the insurance awarded on the Beals school hullding, $2.080.9, has been paid to_the secretary of the Board of Education. Four carpenters, a glazler and @ number of laborers went out to the school Monday 1o begin repairs on the onc small building that was not completely destroyed. 1t will be ready for use by the kindergarten and lower grade puplis within & few days, JUDGE HIMSELF LIKES TO *‘PLAY HOUSE" Faet that Woman Took Part in Chil. dren's Amusements is Held Not Suficient Proof of De- ranged Mind. the protested will yesterday Judge In admitting to probate of Margaret A. McCoy Vinsonhaler ruled that participation by adults in children's tea parties does not prove incompetency of mind, and that con- stant reading of the bible is equally in- sufficient as such proof. Mrs. of Battle, Wyo., was the protestant against the probating of the will, desiring to break it on account of the bequest of $500 to Bishop J. M. Thoburn and Dr. Baker “to he expended ip procuring bible readers for the Zenani people in India.” The protest- ant alleged undue influence and incompe- A delicious Cereal Coffee L] Kuhn's 25 Cents Per Bottle. McCoy's son, Alonzo A. McCoy, now | FiGPRUNE CEREAL filycefula of Roses Ask for it. { tency on the part of his mother, and it was to sustain this latter allegation that | evidence was introduced to show that Mrs. McCoy had spent much time reading her bible, and had also given considerable at- tention to the process of correctly “setting { the table for children's mock tea partios, and had participated in them. The judge said ““This court is not in a position to con- | cur in the opinion that such conduct proves | tncompetency of mind. Indeed, if it doe not only this court, but the greater and the better portion of the population of this country is deranged. This court unhesitat- ingly confesses that It has sat with all the dignity and decorum possible at tea | tables mo larger than a sheet from the court docket, and on which the only viands were apples of 0o tender age and crackers About whose age there could be no doubt at all. Moreover, the court has deliberately and willingly connived in an effort to hav pure cold water served as tea, at such functions, and has even consented without protest to hold & doll in its lap and com- ment on the decoration of such doll's bon- net.” Publish you: legal notices in The Weekly Bee. Teelphone 238 made of choice California fige wnd pruncs and grain—absolutely free from artificial matter, SOLD BY ALL GROCERS Schmoller & Mueller's Great Wreck Sale of . . . PIANOS Now in Full Blast, THINK THINK THINK Think of buying a standard make plano only slightly marred on the case at i cents on the dotiar of the regular value. The people of Omaha braska are allve to their terests, and by the way taking advantage of this pianos from those four will be left Saturday night Planos that sell regularly at $250, 8300, 360, $400, $450, $500 and up to $70 are being sold rapidly at $125, $160, $175, §200, 322, $250, up to $975. EASY TERMS $1.00, §1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00 to $250 weekly payments secures your choice of these axceptional piano bargains. Out-of-Town Customers ehould write at once for full de- ecription, stating the amount they wish to Invest, and we guarantee a genuine bargain. All correspondence given our tm- mediate and personal attention, Write at once. SGHMOLLER & MUELLER 1313 Farnam $t., Omaha , 502 Broadway, Council Bluffs { | and Ne- plano in- they are sale few carloads HAVE YOU SEEN our big display of Valentines? Tha pret- tlest line (not fh _Omaha—that's old) you have ever scen. Prices are just makin them ‘move—can't help it! See ‘em. DI§ you know we are seliing a good Bath Cabinet, all complete, and a pint of wood alcohol 'thrown In, for $2.00, and another one for $4.50, which can not be beat for the money. AN ONYX FOUNTAIN FOR BALE—ALL ETE, WITH FINBD DISPENSING COUNTER, NEW COPPER WORK_BOARD, BABE, BTC.—MUST BE SBOLD BY APRIL 18T, Wae_are having new fixtures made and a BRAN NEW SODA FOUNTAIN I8 M- ODA ING and we've got too much stock to move, So we're going 0 have a stock re- ducing sale. Watch this space—it will save you money. THIS WEBK WE ARE CLEARING OUT S0AP! 1 dozen cakes soap for 60c, which sells rcgularly at 10 per cake. Jtubber goods are also going fast and the prices are doing it 360 Maryel Whirling Spray Syringes..§2.00 WRITE FOR PRICES-NOT CATALOGS. DRUG STORRB OPEN ALWAYS. Two Phones—747 and 707. & W. Cor. 10th and Chicago Everything is uncertain. Why, ome-halt of “life” 18 it You want to have a $35.00 MacCarthy suit or overcoat made for $28, or a pair of our $0.00 trousers for $7.00. You think you'll come in “‘tomorrow." Better do it now. Maybe you won't have time to- morrow. Just four more days left. Offer ends Sate urday at 9 p. m, MacCarthy Talloring Company, 1710-12 Farnam St. Phone 1808 Bee Building, Court House is opposite. 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