Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 28, 1903, Page 12

Mayor Doesn't L!h ldu of Having Oity Funds Run 8hort. SAYS RAILROAD CASES ARE UNCERTAIN Wis Honor {4 of the Opinton that the The annual levyifor city taxes for 1903, with the unprecedented low rate of 6.45 mills, Ay have td be made over again. Mayor Moores is of the opinion that it is too lowy 18 dlssatisfled with the manner in which it was computed and while he will not whether he will yeto the ordinance, It is probable that he will take this action. He signed the levy ordinance for the school fund,’ fixing 4 rate of 2,3 mills, yesterday morning, and it was returned to the city lerk at noon. His honor has fefrained from attaching his signature to the ordi- ance for the city taxes, however, and 15 making a thorough Investigation of wha 1t will mean If used. Mayor Moores {s inclined to take the position that the city cannot afford to have every fund exhausted when the year Is little mors than three-fourths expired, in order to leave the way open for the possi- ble addition of taxes to be raised on the Tallroad ‘assessments, now held up by fed- eral court injunction. He sald: “I will nat sign the ordinange without mature. delfberation. The finances of the city, #o far as the present year s con- carned, are in a chaotic condition and we eannot afford to make mistakes, I am g0ing over each fund, item by item, and it I find that the levy of 6.456 mills is too fow to run the various departments, the chances are I will attach my veto and re- turn the document to the council, where 1 understand Councilmen Lobeck, Hoye, Trostler and Zimman are in favor of a larger lovy, Polnts Out the Shrinkage. ““The method of making the levy, understand it, was like this: The rate was made on the total assessment, but with the knowledge that the levy will apply on the aggessments minus the two larger rail- roads, or on $105,776,885, inetead of on $129,- 233,735, thereby causing the amount actu- ally produced in each fund to be from one- fifth to one-sixth less than it would have been had mot the injunctions been fssued. “It seems to me that it is much more important to make a levy that will put an amount in each fund sufficient to earry the partments - through the year, than to leave each fund depleted so that if the in- creased railroad taxes are authorized by the courts they may be realized in tho treasury. The fight in the courts is bound to be a long one and a hard one, and while I have serious doubts that the people will win, in any event the gity government has got to go on as before. That is certain, and It {s equally certain that money will Be needed. The realization of.the raflroad taxes is uncertain at the dn trylng o decide the questiom toward the opinion that it will be“betterito provide sufficlent funds éven though the P way sessments are blocked dut. ff is pot’this year's takes that are being foulhi/ for, but the principle and its application in future.” ottt v - /Don’t Cough All Night. follows use of Dr. King's the best lung cure in the no pay. b0c, $1.00, For sale by Kuhn & Co. T ATTEMPTS TO TAKE MgHPHINE Former Po 17.--- ot Cedar Raplds, leavors to Kill Himself Here. as 1 H. E. Myers of Cedar Rapids, Ia., yester- day afternoon attempted to take sixty He put the morphine which he was about to drink, when he was pfevented. Myers came to Omaha a few days ago and has been employed in Stoddard’s shbp, Fourtieth and Nicholas streets. He is paper hanger and painter by trade. Thurs- day evening he informed his employer that he intended returning home and was given $5. Nothing more. was seen of him until yesterday morning, when he walked into Fred Arndt's saloon, 1324 Douglas street. Upon walking to the bar he threatened that he would take his own life, but this was taken as a jest. When his drink was placed befure him he took a sixty-grain bottle of morphine from his pocket and threw the contents Into the liquor. Just as he was about to swallow the drug the ba tendgr, H. C. Edwards, knocked it from his hand. Sergeants Dempsey and Cook were summoned and Myers was taken to the po- lice station. When searched a letter was found upon him writtén to his wife, who resides at 1007 South Eighth street, Cedar Rapids, In it Myers told her that he would be dead when she recelved the missive and that neigh- bors bad caused the trouble which led him to end his existence. Myers threatens to kil himgelf before Monday morning. He is .an ex-policgman of Cedar Rapids and about 46 years of age. ASK YOUR GROCER FOR Walter Bakers BREAI(FAST THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1908. PR —— ooy Troublesome. Recent reports of activity among ladrones and brigands in the nelghborhood of Manila, under General San Miguel, recalls to an officer now on the staff of General Bates the attempt of the army in the northern part of Luzon to capture this officer, one of the few of the force of Aguinaldo who ped. o ' “The country around Manila will be the sceme of activity on the part of the law- less natives for a generation or more,” said this officer, “as it is composed of a succes- sion of mountains and morasses in which @ large numbers of men can hide. We had a general ‘drive’ there under Generals Hall and Lawton after the district had been cleared of regular insurgents. Our reports showed that there must have been at least 1,000 men in the Fa-ds which Infested the district, but we #w- >l not more than a dozen and capturcc only those who vol- untarfly surrendered. The natives In- habit land which in other districts would be a wilderness, and the ladromes can keep in supplies by terrorizing the peace- able, who are out of the immediate care of the government forces. “When we had driven the large number of the ladrones into the secret places and dispersed the larger bands, General San Miguel escaped, going to the northern part of the fsland, Inhabited principally by the aboriginal negrites. He was later heard trom in southern islands, and a Spaniard on the island of Mindora saw him. He 'told the Spaniard that he Intended to go to China and leave the islands forever. That was the last heard from him until the late reports of his presence in the provinces surrounding Manila, and #t 1s not going to be easy to capture mp 1t he remains in that part of the island.” BOYS MUST QUIT POOL ROOMS Chiet of Police Insists on Proprietors Excluding Their Youthful Patro The crusade which Chief Donahue re- cently fnaugurated agalnst the pool and billlard room proprietors who are permit- ting minors to beecome visitors at their places has resulted in the officers taking into custody several owners who are al- leged to bave ignored the warning out by the chief. After making the first investigation Sergeants Cook and Rent- frow recommended that several arrests be made, but another chance was given the proprietors. Some of them falled to make the desired change in the conduct of their business and warrants were issued for their arrest. George Palmtag, whose pool room is lo- cated at 1835 Vinton street, was the first one arrested on the charge of permitting minors to visit his place. Palmiag was rralgned before Judge Berka yesterday and fined $20 and costs. Henry Rubin, whose parlors are at 2408 Leavenworth street, was also arrested and arraigned In the police court yesterday. His hearing was set for Saturday morning: R, C. Cooper, for whom a warrant was about to be issued, made & hasty trip to Chief Donahue’s office and pledged himself to obey the chief's mandate, and the pro- ceedings against him were suspended. PROUD OF OMAHA’S TAX RATE City. Treasurer Hennings Se formation to New: per at St. Paul, Minnesota. City Treasurer Hennings recelved a letter from a St. Paul newspaper the other day asking for information concerning Omaha's assessment and tax rate. It was stated that assessments in St. Paul were made on & 40 per cent valuation and the rate is 31 mills, which s believed to be the largest of any city of similar size in the country. The treasurer replied as follows: Answering yours of February % will say fhat for the year 198 Omaha city property ed upon its fair cash value at the 6.45 mills and 2.3 mills for school purposes, or a total of 8.7 mills. This is, of course, considerably less than the St. Paul tax rate of 3l mills on 4 per cent of the actual value. It is a well known fact that taxes are very much lower in Omaha than in any other city of similar size in the Unitod States, and we are proud of HELPS THE OMAHA JOBBERS Change in T1 Chicago ©f Frelght Trains on & Northwestern Ratlroad, ly ¢ change In the time of its freight trains the Northwestern rallroad hes re- moved a discrimination agalnst Omaha in western Iowa, which has been the cause for complaint for many months. Heretofore freight shipped out of Omaha for points on the Northwestern between Turin and Ode- bolt, Ia., was two days on the road, while shipments from Sioux City would be de- livered withing one day. By the change in time goods shipped from Omaha in the evening will be delivered at stations be- tween these two points the next morning. The change is expected to deflect much trade, particularly in the grocery and hard- ware lines, to Omaha. Adams & Kelly Company Takes Out Permit for Ten Thousand Dollar Structure, The Adams & Kelly company secured a permit from the city yesterday to erect its new factory bullding &t Twelfth and Nicholas streets for the enlargement of its present brick, three storles high and 66 feet wide by 157 teet long, and will be erected on ground recently acquired from the city, ad- jacent to the present . factory. Thomas Hurd bas the contract for the building, which is to be completed within three months. Begins at Bed Rock. Health, strength and vigor depend on digestion. Dr. King's New Life Pills makes it penfect or no pay. Only 2c. For sale by Kubn & Co. Railway Notes and Pers John Eyler the Burlington lve agent, has returned from the east. H. Marlay, travelthg passenger agent of the Michigah Central rallroad, with head- quarters at Kansas City, is in Omaha. Buperintendent Baxter of the Nebraska division of the Union Pacific rallway, with headquarters In Omaha, has gone west. C. F. Annett, assistant superintendent of telegraph of theé§lilinols Central railroad, with headquarters at Chicago, is in Omaha. als. stock cific rallway at Denver, the east Fi A Nash, general western Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pa with headquarters in‘Omaha, ha from Chicago. On No. 3 Thursday the Burlington ried west a special carload of twenty- of the mew Moftatt road in Colorado. E. D. Brahen, assistant payma the Burlington, with headqua Omaha. was married last Mies Mildred Welght at her home, Valley, Dr. Roy, chiropodis, moved to WILL BUILD NEW FACTORY tacilities for manufacturing. The new buflding will cost $10,000, will be of General Agent Griffin of the Union Pa- passed through Omaha enroute to his headquarters from car- r Italians, to work on the construction gangs o tor Wednesday i 1508 WiLL WORK BY THE MINUTEI Btreet Oar Employu Time Will Be Counted | to Finest Point. | COMPANY SAYS IT IS FAIR TO M[N“ | New Minute Rates Are Dedunedd Di-| rectly from the Hour Rates I Now in Force—Effect- | tve March 1. 1 i It 1s traditional that magnates and mil- | lionaires figure the value of their time by the minute, but-hereafter some half a thou- | sand street car conductors and motormen | in Omaha will base their services on the | same lordly plane. Beginning Sunday, March 1, these men will be paid by the | minute for the work they do on the cars | of the Omaba Street Rallway company. | A third of a cent a minute fs what the | first year men will make, seven-twentieths | of a cent will be the remuneration of the | second year men and eleven-thirtieths of | a cent that of the veterans, three years' service or over. This schedule 1s deduced | directly from the present basis of paying, which is Yespectively 20, 21 and 22 cents for | an hour, according to the 1éngth of service. | The minute system is in vogue in many | other of the principal ¢ities, and Is to be introduced here by Superintendent F. A.| | Tucker because he says it 1s fairer to the | | men: Under the present system a man | | who works elght hours and seven minutes | gets paid for elght hours flat, while the one | who works eight hours and eight minutes 18 paid for eight hours end fifteen minutes. | A man e paid for the quarter hour it he | works more than half of it. ‘Thus the man | who works seven hours and fifty-three min- | utes draws just as much for the day's labor | aghie who works elght hours and seven min- | utés, although his day is fourteen minutes | shorter. The minute system obviates all this. | Every man will be paid to the minute for | what he does. Mr. Tucker says it will | cause no great increase of labor in figuring | wages, a8 the pay day comes but once a | month, anyway. Either method was equally satistactory to the company, for it evened | up under the quarter howr system, m-klnx’ on one man what it lost on another, so that the new system will mean no reduction | in the size of the pay roll, and no increass, | BUSY IN JOBBING DISTRICT Many Buyers Come Omaha onl Second Spring Trade Ex- cursion. to The second spring trade excursion of the Omaha jobbers is in full progress and will close Monday evening. The number of buyers in the city is large, but not so many come on the fare and one-fifth proposition as come upon the regular spring offer of Omaha merchants to refund fare upon the purchase of a certain quantity of goods. For the first time in the history of these excursions & woman has been sent out as | the representative of the Western Passen- ger assoclation in the person of Mrs. Coe of Chicago. So far about 200 tickets n-n\ been countersigned by the agent of the as- | soclation and the number will probably be | increased before the close of the excursion. A larger number of the visitors are buying dry goods than on the first excursion. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Testify to the Efficacy of the New Scientific Dandruff Treatment. A. E. Lanier, Denver, says: “Herplclde has made my hair grow rapidly.” Mrs. A Guerin, Great Falls, Mont., says: “I find Herplcide an excellent dandruft cure.” H. Greenland, Portland, *“Newbro's Herpleide talling out.” J. D. Israel, Dayton, Wash., says: ‘“‘Her~ plcide has completely cured my dandruff.” Charles Brown, president First National bank, Vancouver, Wash., says: ‘“Herplcide is excellent for keeping the scalp clean. Ore., says: stopped my bair's Announcements of the Theaters, A$ the Orpheum a matinee &nd evening performance today will bring the week to a close. The “Girl With the Auburn Hair” bas proven a big drawing card, for the al tendance has been large every night, with sbnormally large matinee audiences. For next week a nicely adjusted varlety of vaudeville has been arranged, including the headliner, Filson and Errel, presenting a comediette entitled “A Daughter of Bac- chus.” Fields and Ward will contribute stories and parodies. Music 1s the spe- clalty of Les Frasettls, who are accom- plished on the harp, violin and xylophone. El Zobedie is an acrobatic equilibrist, while Collins and Hart in a buriesque heevy- welght lifting act, have something out of the ordinary. The Tanakas are Oriental jugglers and necromancers. The kinodrome pictures will be entirely new. LOW RATES VIA BUELINGTON ROUTE Round Trip and One Way. March 3 and 17. To many points south, southwest and west. Burlington Ticket Office, 1502 Farnam Street, Telephone 250. NOTICE—AIl dissatisfied policy holders In the Northwestern Life and Savings com- pany of Des Moines, Ia., please call or send name and address to Robt. B. Haaker, care Regent Shoe company, 205 8. 15th i, Omaha, Neb. Fitsger Case Hold Judge Munger, in the United States cir- cult court, has filed an opinion in the case of the Continental National bank of New York against Mary Fitagerald and others. in which case the plaintiff seeks to have deeds given by the late John Fitzgerald to the principal defendants set aside. The case came up atgthe last term of the court at Lincoln on & demurrer to the bill, in which the defendants alleged that the pleading showed that the dgeds In question were glven before the debt of the bank was contracted. The judge holds that as the deeds were not recorded until after the debt was contracted that the action ls rightly brought and overrules the demur- rer, letting the case go to trial on its mefits. Their Root. Many dangerous diseases begin in im- pure blood. Electric Bitters purifies the blood and cures or mo pay. Only Sde. For sale by Kuhn & Co. strike: Mortality Statistic The following births and deaths been reported to the Board of Health: Birthe—Samuel Adeison, 2411 Ames, girl: E. Smith, 1217 Plerce, girl; M. Farls, 1024 have 0il Cloth Wreck Sale Monday {BRANDRIZ: Linoleum Sale Monday GREAT SATURDAY SALE Sample Sprmg Suits Today we will put on sale a huge consignment of ladies’ ish sample suits for spring. styl- We secured the sample lines of three of the largest suit wanufacturers of New York. They are the suits shown in the great display rooms and are superior the usual Sstock show all different cloths and @lors. in ev garments, styles, y to They shapes, In case you are not ready to purchase just now we invite yau to comg and get posted on the negw styles. 4 small deposit now will securea new suit of yolr choice until you cve ready to take it. $19 Sample Suits at $12.50 $25 Sample Suits at $14.85 $35 Sample Suits at $24.50 $50 Sample Suits at $35.00 Sample Skirts worth $10.00. . 6.98 Sample Ski "orth §15.00. 998 Sample Ski *wortn $2000 12, 50 Sample Skirts 24.50 werth $35.00 Ladies® $17.50 Spring Suits at $10. High grade suits, 20 different styles, many sam- ples worth up to $17.50, at ............... $10 $7.50 Walking Skirts at $4.98 + .175 walking skirts, all the new cloths, every new color, side pleag, panel front, button trimmed, worth $7i50, L AE RS S BASEMENT SPECIAL—Good heavy melton walking skirts, with or without flounce, stitched and button, worth $2.00, at 4.08 98¢ $25.00 Pattern Hats at $2.50 Just purchased from Howieson, 38 W. 33d St., imported model hats. materials, felt hats. N. Y., 240 These hn‘,s made of the very choicest b&ntimlly tailored, chiffon, maline and French ver before priced lower than $25. Saturday we offer these hats together with any winter 2.50 Nearly everybody In Omaha knows the value®of our boys' $1.80 school shoee—but if your boy has' never worn a pain bring him to our store any time Saturday and let us show them to you. ‘We can fit any boy— no matter how small or how big he is—just so he 15 & boy—with these $1.50 shoes. They're made from good solld leather from sole to top, and will stand more hard knocks than many a shoe that you would pay twice as much for. We have the same ehoe in light calf or heavy kid for girls. DREXEL SHOE CO. Omaha’s Up-te-Date Shoe Hous: 1419 FARNAM STREET. ar———————————— PROGRAM. CECILIAN PIANO . PLAYER RECITAL Saturday Evening, Feb. 28 at C. M. B. A. Hall, same floor as Piano Player Co. Parlors, Arling- tgn Block, 1511-13 Dodge Street. E-Minuet .. Paderewski Fifth Nocturne :....... ..Leybach §—Hands Across the Sea— March 4—Rondo Capriccloso. . 5—Home, Sweet Home .....Thalberg 6—Yale Boola—March .Hirsch T—Le Cloches du Monastere ...Wely §—Hungarian Rhapsodle, No. 2.Liszt $—Kammenol-Ostrow Rubinstein 10—Bohemian Girl—Then You'll Remember Me Balfe 11—The Last Hope tachalk 12-La Chasse au Lion—Galop Brillante .........s Kolling MR. PHILLIP GAHI, Performer All music lovers are cordially in- vited. Seats are plenty and free. The Cecillian Club is adding new members dafly, and may be ready to organize before the time set—April 18 Those who intend joining should lose no time; the sooner the re- quired number is secured the sooner will the drawings begin. Members are urged to talk with their friends and get them to join. ‘The Cecillian Club enables anyone to secure a Plano Player or plano upon $2 a week payments. See us about it. Piano Player Co., Arlington Block,1511~13 Dodge-st. Bouth Thirteenth_girl; Jultus M. Erlenbarn, 1320 South Eleveath, boy; August C. Bchoemer, 8339 Ames avenue, boy. Deaths—Mrs, Hattle Long, 1208 North Twenty-sixth street, aged 40; Anderson Bell, Ninth and Fort, aged 64; infant McGuire, 3011 Franklin, 1726’ North Twenty-third, ON TRIAL FOR GRAND LARCENY Roy Greem Answers to Charge of Having Robbed Farmer from Towa. Roy Green 1s op trial in the criminal court charged with' grand larceny. Theo- dore FredrickBon, a farmer of Atlantic, Ia., is the complaining witness. Freder- ickson came to town with his pockets filled with money and stayed at the Kilondike hotel. When he awoke in the morning 4580 was gone. Suspicion fastened upon young Green, who was an Inmate of the same hotel, and who appeared to have con- siderable cash the next day. The evidence that has been prepared by County Attorney English is purely clroumstantial Co.!. L1 L and FigPRUNE CEREAL Tastes like Coffec—Better than Coffee. the perfect NM»( and roasting of fruit and graia. SOLD BY ALL GROCERS. The sccret is @ l. worih it» SHERIDAN NUT substitwle for hard coal in your baseburner, ctor White. 1603 . Farna.mJSt. ’l‘el, 137 NO POISON Has Ever Been Found in the Enamel of If substitutes are offered, write us This trade-mark is on wery p|ece of genuine Axfle Department and House: Send for mew Booklet. W YORK BosTON DENTIST 312 Paxton Bik. CLOTHES FOR MEN in men’s, boys , dren’s suits and Saturday, Feb. 2 Saturday is our opening day, We will place on exhibition a most exclusive dis- play of all the latest fashiens in men's and boys’ stylish ready-to- we# gaxments. All the best resources haviy been*put into force in the selection of We can say with all due where in this western spring styles. odesty that no-* country is there a’ gathering of clothing for mefi and boys. that is more complete than Wi, ares show- | ing, Nowhere have such unlimited pains' been taken and such powerful forces been: brought to bear on the forcing up'of qttal- ity and down of prices. In our F; window we have displayed sa am: St. of the goods we intend to sell this 3prlfig. and on these goods we anticipat the Keaviest spring business this store has ever known. We extend to every man, woman and child a cordial 1nv1tat10n tol inspect our new spring lines, Whethér you arg pre- pared.to purchase or not, you are we Ieome, BAILEY THE glve you the benefit of fPes of charge. w: HAVE PRACTISED DEN®'STRY. nearly twenty years and will our expe! ence by making an examination o{ your monuth and‘giving an est GREAT BAR Wae have about a dozen or more of the latest improved standard makes, which have bee; and bright_as those taken right from the s Those we have decided to close out a go0d opportunity té get a FIRST- SR machiie at an un P. E. FLODMAN & CO,, h scuffed Up somewhat and do. A tust ONE: uAflxr':r"& wfing muh!nu of as "‘.IEVIQ.!IS 1814 Capitel Purely Vegetable Eantirely Harmiess Mild in Action. « full quarts, $4; case of 12 full quarts, $10; keg of 5 full gallons, $15 —express prepaid. A Household Whiskey Becauseof its purity—age 5e. uality — pe mellowness and txqu ite flavor, HILLER'S OLD PRIVATE STOCK— is considered by all good judges as essen- (|BI to th medicine chest and sideboard. EXOEPTION — We prephy express charges on ane gallon or more, excegt 1o ataies "west of Nebraska, when or- ders . must call for § gellons or more to be Preputa. HILLERS ani()h Xy ou, axpress e bottle for §1.00. ist National Bank, Omaha. HILLER LIQUOR CO., 1509 and 1311 Warnam St., Omaha Neb. Neb. 1s fou what it costs is our business and the kind of ness, BUT, people are not looking for soda water kil are not in style. dies which we GREAT ¢ GUARANTE: wo s come get your money. $1.00 Peruna foc © §0 Temy Sation Fonic. e g 5 L ¢ $2,763.42 about the figure WE THINK our new untain will cost when It gets here; JUST soda water we'll dispense is your busi- n duck weather, but for good cold everybody's got' a cold; If not they | e have all the rem ather drug atores huve, Bl have JINACETOL, = THE COLD KiLLE box—we sell it for 3c—by mail this, and If you no like ‘em— lers also Ty Texas Cat nh"cun—on- ures catar Famers Kidney C Butler's Fem Can you duplicate these prices? CUT PRICE CHAEFER’S 5iicsiore Two Phones—747 and 707, 8 W, Cor, 10tk and Chicage Sta, The Best Shoes for Boys andGirls Nearly everybody knows about our $1.50 shoes for boys—that it's the best shoe in the. city for the price; that it gives longer wear and more comfort than any other §L60 shoe made. Our girl's §1.50 shoe is just as good value as the boys. We also have & grest lne of $2.00 shoes and girls, made of -#h de leather and put tog n'! stropgly but neatly wade on a 'stylisl easy last. Whatever youiwant for boys aud girls, have 1t and a easy prices.