Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1903, Page 7

i i /7 ( ) ABANDON COOKING SCHOOL Board of Education Decides to Put Off the Domes io Boience Department. ECONOMY HAS A BRIEF TURN AT THE BAT $School Board Backs Up on a Co of Frills for the High Sehool and Will Save a Little Money Thereby, Domestic science will have no place in the hlgh school curriculum during the school year about to open, according to the action taken last night by the Board of Bdueation, on a resolution offered by Member Homan. It was decided to postpone the installation of the course for one year, at least. Mr. Homan explalned the grounds for his fegolution, saying he considered it unwise to make the expenditure with the school fund in its present condition. The resolu- tion met with considerable opposition, and carried only by a'vote of seven to five. Member Btubbendorf sald It would cost from $600 to $800 to equip & room for the course. Friends and acquaintances of Miss Jeanette Boyd, a teacher at the Lake #chool, who was released at the last annual election of teachers, sent In two petitions, one asking that she be reinstated, and re- clting her merit as a teacher, and the other requesting that sho be given a heaiing be- fore the board in executive session. The latter request was granted, and the teachers' committee instructed to make the arrangements. Miss Boyd has taught In the Omaha schools for about fifteén years. Some Teachers Res Beveral teachers resigned for varlous reasons, among them being Laura B. Pteiffer, head of the high school history department. She gave up the place, she sald, in a communication to the board, to become an instructor in history at the University of Nebraska. , A Mr. Bracelin teacher in history, in the Lincoln High school, and a graduate of the University of Nebraska was elected to replace her at & salary of $110 per month. Myrtle G. Smith resigned a position as teacher to marry, and the board congratu- lated her in a vote of mcceptance. Amy Watts Fetterman, withdrew from duty, glving no reason, and Amella Farnsworth Treadway because she had changed her residence to Kansas City. Verna C. Blythe of the Mason school was granted a year's leave of absence. For Coach Convenlence, Member Christie brought up the matter of a tentative embargo on the Saunders school, located at Forty-first and Cass streets. He sald that many parents resid- ing within the tributary boundaries of the school had secured transfers for their children in the past, giving them the privi- lege of attending the Columbian school of Thirty-elghth avenue and Jones street. This had interferred with the classes in the Baunders school and hampered the work. He said he proposed to Investigate the matter and stop the transfer system, if possible. Member Homan added that a year ago, after school was well under way, he had investigated similar complaints and found thirty-eight transfers had been granted to puplls who should attend the Saunders school. The cause he attributed to the fact that no pavement runs to the Saunders school. The neighborhood is an aristo- cratic one and many of the children are driven to school in luxurious carriages. ‘The coachmen object to driving in the mud Jend preferred to go a longer distance and keep out of the ruck. He urged Dr. Christie to proceed with his opposition to the discrimination. 2 . No Forges for High Schoeol. The manual training department, as well as that of the proposed domestic sclence, recelved a setback last night, when {he board declined to appropriate $1.3% for In- stalling twenty forges at the high school and adopted the report of the committee on buildings and property. The report said further that the question of putting in twenty blacksmith forges in a school in- tended for qulet study and recitation was a serious on the noise and confusion will be considerable.. Unless further action 1 taken the forgds will not be forth- coming and & few thousand dollars will be saved, The board rejected the proposition to buy certain land adjoining the Kellum school. That agitation is under way to pave three streets surrounding the high school with asphaltum was shown in a resolu- tion adopted which authorizes the signa- ture on behalf of the school district for asphalt on Twentieth street from Dodge to Cass, Dodge from Twentieth to Twenty- seventh and Davenport from Eighteenth to Twenty-second, provided the work 1s to be finished before November 1. A special examination for those who wish to become eligible to teach in the Omaha #schools was ordered for Seplember 1. A resolution was adopted re-employing Truant Officer Parker for the school year from September § at & monthly salary of $53.33. A communication from the deputy commissioner of labor agked for the truant officer's assistance In enforcing the compulsory education law. ‘The contract for cadet uniforms was warded to Pettibone & Co., the price for & complete suit being $i4. Supert; mt Pearse's Report. Superintendent Pearse submitted his an- nual report. Of the cost of the school sepv- fce he says in part: The cost of education—that ls, the cur- rent cost for the school year to educate each child in average dally attendance— for the year wi for the year just closed, .82 for the vr‘cedlns year it was $3.58 hese figures are upon the form of financial report adopted E¥ the rt- ment of Superintendence of the National Educational association; they show in- creased cost of 74 cents—an Increase of about 2.8 per cent on the cost for the pre- vious year. The {tema of expenss which show an in- crease over the Dr!cedlalg year are: Teach. ers, $4.478; janitors, $2.691; fuel, §1.299: mis. cellancous supplies, §2.645; other current ex- Ppenses, $2,613. The Items of expense which show a de- crease are: Te lboakl.:lfl: ordinary re- pairs of bullding, ete., $8.707. The largest single increase is in the amount paid to teachers; this was $4473 more than the amount for the preceding year, which was $86.621; the largest pro- rtfonal increase was in the amount paid nitors—this was $2,891 more U the Hair Vigor Turning gray ? Why 10t have the early, lark, rich color re- stored? It's easily lonewith Ayer’s Hair Vigor. A splendid Iressing, too. isires: THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY AUGL T 18, 1903 ount for $32.620. He praises highly the wark and efficiency of Truant Officer Wil Parker, and says: Without any arrest or prosecution of par- ents and without any complaints flsd. in court against children for incorrigibility or misdemeanors, he succeeded In getting into the schools, at the least calculation, some 20 or 30 children who had before been upon the streets or at work when they ought to have been in school. His report Shows that during the elght months he was employed he looked up about 1,600 cases of truant or non-attending children The superintendent calls attention to the necessity for establishing a special school for delinquents and Incorrigibles, and while making no recommendations, urges consid- eration of the matter by the board, pointing out that active work by the truant officer serves to make the need more acute. Pleads for Manual Traini Much space is glven up to arguments in favor of manual training, and he states that “during last year the need of better equipment and greater opportunities for manual training in the high school has been recognized.” Addttional rooms for bench and lathe work in wood and mecHanical drawing have been equipped, and the capacity of the manual training facilities doubled. He speaks with pleasure of the proposed Installation of third year, or forge work, and the domestic sclence department. 4 Concerning his contention that there is need for more supervision in the Omaha schools, the superintendent produces a long argument, interlarded with statistics, showing that each teacher in 103 had 2.3 more puplls in average dally attendance than in 1588, He goes on to say: “The increase in average dally attendance of pupils is § per cent; the increase in num- ber of teachers required is 79 per cent. From this it may be seen that in 1%03, ex- cluding from the estimate the kindergar- tens, for which, even it he wished to do £0, he could not escape a share of respon- sibility and oversight, the superintendent of Instruction, who recelves the same sal ary as was paid to that officer in 1585, is required to supervise and direct the work of § per cent more pupils and 79 per cent more teachers than was required of the superintendent in 1888 He says that with the policy of employ- ing as far as possible Omaha sirls in the schools the need of supervision is further demanded, because it has been necessary to “train them—to gulde them until they could acquire the necessary degree of akill and certainty in performing their work." The superintendent says that about 41 per cent less for the supervision of each teacher was paid In 1902 than in 185, and about 4§ per cent less for the supervision of each pupll. He points to other citles in vindica- tion of his course. Some School Statistics. The following statistics are among those presented in the report, which is volum- inous: Population of age ¢ to 2L years) . o .. W57 Population’ subject fo compuisory at- tendance (7 to 14 years) 14,59 Enrollment of pupiis, 7 to 14 years .. 10,487 Enrollment— In high school (grades 9, 10, 11, 107 1,639 In grammar grades (, 6, 1. § In primary grades (1, 2, §, In kindergarten h in night schools . Average Number Belonging: In high school In _grammar grades Jn kindergarten ear, which was school and primary n night_schools (No. 138). Avenfa Daily Attendance— In high school 1,800 In grammar and primary . _ grades 12,160 In kindergartens ... In night schools (No. iii) Number of withdrawals during th p year ... 4 Number remaining June 19, 1808 ...... 15,287 ‘hite 18,616 'olo P 461 Number of In high school In 5""""" and primary grades . In :l dergarte it schools (No. 7) teachers (supervisors). Financial Statement. Secretary Burgess presented the follow- ing statement of the amounts apportioned for the various departments for the year ending June 30, 1904, the amount expended during July, 1%8, and the amount remain- ing August 1, 1%8; also, a comparative statement of the expenditures for July, 1902, and July, 1%3; condition of the High School Bullding fund August 1, 1903, and the general fund warrants outstanding August 1, 1908: oned. pended. maining. 100 § 14.00 § 86 ,500.00 A‘)Wr- Ex- Re- i Advertising ......3 5 $3 music sup g Election expense Electric power... Examining com- mittee ges £E 58 ket o B B%a 838 82 & 13 £8% $= S38 SR HSABNS FE3 838 £F 8 B ol Furniture & fix- tures .. 4 Improvements Insur, premiums. Int. & exchange. TN el s, el gas. I(.n:pl. charts and bes 3 o Printing . 2 Plluu.r rent and un! z 2 B3 13 = i3 B2: B3 R3RAI8 BRS 2 g2 g 38 ore s » B E38 33 EoR 8% BUSSAR Repairs " Salaries officers & clerks .. . Special taxes ... Stationery & sup- plies .. s Bites Teachers X Prem. on’ treas. bond .. Miscel. ‘{tems ' of expense ......... Bc'm redemption 52 .88 8 %ep 85 xiien Bep it § 22,370.60 50,000.00 L 1,000.00 850 §13,881.42 §686,768.68 Lass amount ax. ™ 3 " 7.nded mnot In estimate ........ 200.00 697,850 §12,861.42 $55(,908.58 Comparative statement of expenditures for July, 192, and July, 196: g July, 192 July, 1903, 4B H Advertising .0 Supplies .. . Efectlon expense ectric power . amining com g‘l‘vfu- and freight 2 3588 Improvements ..... [nsurance premium nterest & exchan Janitors ......... Light and fuel ga: Maps, charts & ¥ Printing ........ Plano rent’ & tuming g’ pat 5y epatrs |11 Bal ofpers & clorka.:. tatonéry & sdpplles . gE%entE SSLILEBRLEARER: ‘ehchers ...... . . Miscellaneous items. .. Prem. on treas. bond.. o August 1, . 127, R outstanding Warrants Cash in (reasury August 1, i Defich August 1. Balance ia High 8¢ fund Afgust 1, 1808 Bullding FPermits uilding permits have been issued to Al i, custodian st the ecity hall for an frame dwelling at Twenty-fitth and gr-ln M“l.-nuv'. and rm D. ‘0. lrl s ln; Y on fo a frame dwe! at North Etghteenth stroet. o » —— Detroit Takes O'Leary. DETROIT, Aug. 17.—Mauager Barrow of (e, Detroi’ base ball elub’ has ' signed ent- Charles O'Leary of the Des Molnes orn league team to play shortstop next year. UNION PACIFIC INPROVEMENT Plans for a Great Tunnel Through Sierra Nevada Mouataina, FORTY MILLIONS WESTERN BETTERMENTS Campaign for Changes as Outlined Includes Work All Along the Line from Omaha to San Francisco, The Union Pacific will bufld a tunnel through the Sierra Nevada mountalns in California along the line of the Central Pacific. This tunnel will do away with the forty miles of snow sheds and cost from 5,000,000 to $7,000,00. Engineers have been sent into the country there to make surveys and report on their work as soon s pos- sible. E. H. Harriman is sald to have de- termined on this plan, having satisfied him- self on his last trip to the coast of its feasi- bility. This information comes from & source that is believed to be entirely reliable, if not authoritative. It is understood that while the engineers of the Union and South- ern Pacific are at work on the proposition Harriman has had outside experts go in and investigite the situation. This is only & part, probably, the culmina- tion of the general campalgn of improve- ment of the Southern and Central Pacific on which the Union Pacific entered two years ago. At that time it was decided to devote $40,000,000 to improvement of these two lines which fell under Union Pacific control with the advent of Harrimanism. What part of this amount has been used up already is not definitely known by the general public; it took about $7,000,000, it sald, to construct the Lucin cut-off across alt Lake, which will be completed by Sep- tember 1. Then for some time leveling of grades, reductions of curves and general improvement of roadbeds have been ex- tensively carried on. This work seems only to have begun, 80 that no estimates of its cost are avallable. Pursuant to original plans, it is unders stood that the Southern Pacific improve- ments are belhg paid for out of current earnings of that read and that the latter are not being used by the Union Pacifio for dividend purposes. Lengthen Road, but Reduce Grades. As to the Sierra Nevada tunnel the sreat- est advantage to be gained is not curtail- ment of distance, for it will slightly lengthen the road; but it will reduce the terrific grade and abolish those abominable snow sheds, which is the chief end sought. The reduction of grade will bring down the maximum to sixty-five feet per mile and obviate the necessity. of liftimg every car that runs from Sacramento to Truckee 1,600 feet in the air. It is estimated that the altitude will be lowefed about 500 feet on the summit, which will save at least 1,100 feet along the river. ; At present very cxtensive plans are being executed by the Union Pacific for the re- Guction of its ourves and grades. Bquads of men are scattered elong the road from the Nebraska line to Ogden, so that when all this work is completed, the Lucin- Ogden cut-off across Salt Lake and the great tunnel through the Sierras in opera- tion the Unioh Pacific will be {n a position to materially shorten its time to the Pa- cific coast. One arduous and expensive feature of the proposed tunnel s that it will necessitate blasting for forty miles. In addition to the extensive improve- ments and betterments being made by the Union Pacific slong the Southern Pacific the former road is also about to construct » large ofl storage house for the' Orégon Short Line at Pocatello, 1daho. Chief En- gineer "J. B. Berry of the Unlon Pacifie, with other engineers of the Harriman sys- tem, have plans formulated and the entire plant mapped out. The general use of ofl instead of coal for lccomotive fuel by the Southern Pacific has rendered it necessary for Harriman to organize &and incorporate a separate company for the supply of oil, This company has cssumed legal title to the $3,000,000 worth of exploited ofl lands of the raflroad in California and of the §2,000,- 000 of its ofl wells in Texas. Elghteen hun- dred Southern Pacific engines now are burning ofl, and the remaining 600 will be transformed into oil burners. The com- pany, it is said, is saving §70,000 a year by this process. Cook Another PillL The persstent rumor that the Chicago Great Western has been bought or will be bought by the Milwaukee road is laughed at by raflroad men. “What would the Milwaukee want with the Great Western?" asks a prominent railroader. “The two lines are parallel nearly all along their courses. What could the Milwaukee gain by buying the Great Western? What gate would the Great Western open to the Milwaukee? The Great Western gets Into Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago and the Twin Citles, but so does the Milwaukee. No, I think the man who originated that story has snother puft coming.” But this gentleman takes the general idea that the Great Western is for sale and that the Goulds are either dickering or will dicker for it. “The Gould's could use the Great West- ern In fine shape, sald this gentleman. “The Stickney road would afford Gould a splendid entrance into the Twin Citles and it would be a fine feeder for the Wabash west of Chigago." While no authoritative or officlal state- ment has been unearthed it is thought that the gossips will certainly have the Great Westérn sold before long, if it is not al- ready. South Dakota Editors, The BSouth Dakota Press sssoclation, numbering forty or fifty delegates, will ar- rive in Omaha today on different tralns and mobilize for & tour of the west, going as far as Salt Lake City. From Omaha the delegates travel over the Union Pacific. On thelr arrival in Omaha they will be taken in charge by the Tri-City Press club and entertained until their departure west &t 11:30 p. m. They will lunch at the Com- mercial club, be given drives over the city and visits to the parks in the meantime. They go to Sait Lake from here and will leave Balt Lake returning, Saturday, be in Glenwood Springs Sunday, Colorado Spring: Monday, Denver Tuesday and leave Den- ver for Omaha Wednesday, leaving here for their homes Friday. Glenn M.\Farley, editor of the Madison Outlook, is secretary of the association. and has charge of the excursion for his contemporaries. ARRESTS IN WADSWORTH CASE David Hill, Ba worth Locked U, with Swindle, David Hill, a bartender, Mving at the Dewey hotel and Mrs. Anne Wadsworth, residing at 314 South Thirteenth street, were arrested last night. HiNl s charged with being a suspiclous character. No charge has s yet been plaged against Mrs, Wads- worth. It is alleged by F. P. Miller of Bona- parte, Ia., that Hill is the party who played the role of lawyer, and Mrs. Wadsworth is the woman who signed the bill of sale, which is sald to have been bogus, In the transaction by which MNler lost $300 in a fonfidence game last week. Miller came te Omaha from PFort Dodge Ta., where he had been running a shooting gallery, in \ company with George Glerke, whom he met In the lowa town and who brought him to Omaha with the undetstanding that they were to purchase a saloon In partnership When the deal had been consummated Hill appeared on the scene of the transaction, in Mrs. Wadsworth room, and acted as an attorney in drawing up the bill of sale Mra. Wadsworth, who It is sald in reality owns the place of business Miller and Glerke were buying, signed the bill after it was made out. When Miller calied at the place of business, which he supposed he had purchased, for the purpose of tak- ing possession the following day, he was informed by Henry Wadsworth, husband of the woman who signed the papers, that the check which Glerke had given for his share in the deal had been returned unpaid, and consequently Miller's money was for- feit unless he could raise the balance, amounting to about $400, to make Glerke's part of the trade good. Miller's cash was paid over to Mrs. Wadsworth. The po- lice now belleve that they have all the parties to the transaction as Wadsworth and Gierke were arrested last week. IN OLDEN TIMES People Were Content to Take Things Easier Than Now. 1t our forefathers could behold the mod- ern locomotives, automobiles and electric cars, they would hold up their hands in astonisitment. The stage coach was fast enough then— people were more content to take things easy. They used to be satisfied with any sort of a hair lotion that came along—if It did not prevent baldness they thought it was because baldness could not be prevented. It's different now. People know that germs ‘cause baldness and that Newbro's Herpicide kills the germ, thus curing dan- druff and preventing baldness. Bold by leading druggists. Send 10c dn stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., Detrolt, Mich. Sherman & McConnell Drug Co. special agents. TO LOOK INTO IRRIGATION Washington Correspondents Wil Make a Tour Through the Sub-Arid, West. The Washington correspondents, repre- senting leading newspapers of the country, are coming west for a trip to the moun- tains, to take a vacation and to study land and irrigation conditions in Kansas, Colo- rado, Wyoming, Idaho and other states. They will start on September 5, and reach Kansas City and Topeka on the Tth, where they will rest and be entertained. On the Sth they will visit the experiment station at Hays City and see the works of the United States government and the state of Kansas in the direction of agricultural ex- perimental work, and then cross the west- ern part of the state, where the agricul- tural growth has been great in recent years, owing to deep plowing and other improved farming methods. The grazing districts of eastern Colorado will be crossed the same day, and the party will stop over and be entertained at Denver on the 9th. The 10th will be spent at other points in Colorado and the 1ith at Greeley and Cheyenne. The National Irrigation congress will be attended at Ogden, Utah, on the 15th and 16th and Sgit Lake City and the Utah lake national irfigation site visited. A stop will be made at the Fort Hall Indlan reserva- tion in Idaho before going to Butte, where the party will be on the 19th, and from there it Is expected they will return through Montana and stop over at the Custer battle fleld and come east through Wyoming and Nebraska by way of Omaha. Duyring this trip the Washington men will have a chance to get some good fishing and see the great mining camps and the sites of the proposed rational irrigation works and pass over millions of acres of public lands and reservations. They will talk with many practieal western people and get a great deal of information concerning the actual conditions and concerning subjects affecting western development, The correspondents who will make up the party are: J. A. Breckens, Denver Repub- lcan, Salt Lake Herald, Cheyenne Leader John M. Carson, Philadelphia Ledger, New York Times; Otto Carmichael, Detroit Jour- nal, Minneapolis Times, Cincinnati Commer- clal Tribune, St Louls Post Dispatch; Arthur W. Dunn, Assoclated Press; E. G. Dunnell, New York Herald; Thomas F. Dawson, Assoclated Press; W. S. Danlels, St. Louls Republic; Richard Lee Fearn, New York Tribune; H. Glison Garduer, Chicago Journal, St. Paul Globe, Los Angeles Herald, St. Joseph Press; Albert Halstead, Brooklyn Standard-Union, Phila- delphia Telegraph, Nashville Banner, Louis- ville Post; Henry Hall, Pittsburg Times; Charles A. Hamllton, Rochester Post-Ex- press, Syracuse Herald, Troy Times, Buf- falo Times; Austin E, Helss, Pittsburg Dis patch; James 8. Henry, Philadeiphia Press; Frank H. Hosford, Toledo Bee, Saginaw News, Grand Rapids Post; E. C. Howland, New York Mail and Express; W. W. Jer- mane, Minneapolis Journal, Seattle Times; R. H. Lindsay, Kansas City Star; Edward 8. Little, 8an Francisco Bulletin, Los An- geles Leader, London Morning Leader, Montreal Star; N. O. Messenger, Washing- ton Evening Star; Guy E. Mitchell, The Home Maker; John P. Miller, Ealtimore Sun; Charles C. Randolph, Arizona Re- publican; John 8. Shriver, Cincinnati Times- Star, Baltimore American; Edgar C. Snyder, Omaha Bee; Fred F. Schrader, Kansas City Journal; Reginald Schroeder, New York Btaats-Zeltung; Ernest G. Walker, Wash- ington Post, Lewliston' Jeurnal; J. D. Whelpley, Los Angeles Express, London Daily Express; Ira’ S. Binnett, San Fran- elseo Chronicle, New York Sun; Alfred J Stefer, jr., Syndicate Letter Press; Watter- son Btealy, Loulsville Courler-Journal, Birmingham Age-Herald; Dr. Edward Bedioe. —— e HAY FEVER'S CONQUEROR Breathe Hyomel a Escape This Dreaded Summer Visitor. By the use of Hyomei, you can save an expensive trip to the mountains and es- cape weeks of suffering. This remarkable remedy for the cure of hay fever, kills the germs of the disease, soothes and heals the irritated mucous membrane, if used two or three weeks before the time of the usual appearance of hay fever will prevent the attack. The complete Hyomel treatment consists of a neat pocket inbaler, through which Hyomel Is breathed, a bottle of Hyomel, and a medicine dropper. The air taken into the lungs In this way is filled with healing balsams and forms a perfect safe- guard against attacks of hay fever or rose cold. Those who bave had hay fever, know how little help can be gained by stomach dosing in this disease. Hyomel is the only sclentific yet common sense treatment for the trouble. 1t is easy enough for any one to say that & remedy will'give satisfaction, but Sher- man & McConnell offer to refund the mone; if Hyomel does not do all that is claimed for it, certainly inspires faith in the treat- ment. Hyomel really gives you In your own home, a change of climate, and hay fever sufferers know from past experience that this has been the only thing that afforded them relief. By breathing Hyomel a fow times daily, you can save the expense and trouble of & mountain trip and avold all danger of hay fever. AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA Oity Oouncil Takes Action on the Water Oompany's Fravohise PROVIDES ROYALTY TO CITY HEREAFTER Demand for New Viaduet Al Street s Recognised by Offering of Ord ce Declari Its Necessity. With only four members present last night, the city council transacted consid- erable business. Welsh and Smith were ab- sent. Under the head of ordinances on first reading came one extending the franchise of the Omaha Water company ten years from October 17, 194, This ordinance was introduced by Queenan. The terms are the same as now, with the additional proviso that for the year 1903 the water company shall pay the city an annuity of $1,00. For each subsequent year during the life of the franchise a royalty of $250 will be pald each year. The ordinance is short and states In plain words just what is wanted. There was no discussion on the ordinance and it was referred to the judi- clary committee for a report. This same proposition was brought up about a year and a halt ago, but falled to carry. When the former proposition was made the coun- cil demanded that the city be pald a royaity and this the water company refused to do, 80 negotiations were dropped. Now that the city is to have a royalty it is inferred that the franchige will be extended. When the water question had been dis- posed of the council took up the question of building a viaduct across the tracks. A long petition was presented, signed by a large number of people who have business at the stock yards. Following the reading of the petition came an ordinance declar- Ing the necessity for the construction of a bridge across the tracks from Twenty-sixth and O streets to the western limit of the multitude of tracks. Only the Unlon Pa- cific Railroad company and the Union Stock Yards company are interested in the ordinance. This ordinance glves the two companies mentioned the authority to do whatever grading is necessary at O street for the making of an approach and the building of abutments. Another directs the city engineer to prepare plans for a suitable viaduct across the tracks at O street and to submit the same to the clty council as soon as possible. Ap- pralsers are to be appoinfed to estimate the damages, if any, 1o the property abut- ting on O street where the proposed via- duct 1s be constructed. Nothing in the or- dinance defines the style of viaduct or the material it shall be constructed of. This ordinance was sent to the judiclary com- mittee for investigation. All of the resolutions ordering cro walks In varlous parts of the city were reported on favorably and the council voted the money. These resolutions call for the immediate laying of fifty-elght crosswalks. Mayor Koutsky sald that the work would commence as soon as the ma- terial could be secured. section | Five bids for the laying of a sewer in the alley between Twenty-sixth and Twen- ty-seventh streets and from A to F' streets were handed to the street and alley com- mittee, Owing to an error in the adver- tisement which confiicted with the city charter all bids were rejected and the city clerk was directed to re-advertise. The crdinance for the improvement of C street was passed. F. N. Clark, representing Brandels & Sons of Omaha, reported to the mayor and council that the firm he represented had #0ld the $§70,000 overlap bonds to W. J. Hayes & Bons, of Cleveland, O., requested the council recognize a (ransfer of the bonds. Hayes & Bons deposited with the city clerk a certified check for $3,000 as an evidence of good faith and the councll, by a vote of all of the members directed that the mayor and clerk certify to the transfer. Mr. Clark said that te bonds were all right and that he expected that the money would be here to take u, the bonds as soons as the blank bonds are thographed and signed. A communication was read from a com- mittee from the Ancient Order of United Workmen asking permission to fence in Twenty-fifth street from L street to M street for the purpose of holding a car- nival at the time the new Workmen temple 1s to be dedicated. Queenan moved that the request be granted and the motion carried without any opposition. The dates for the fencing in of this portion of the street hold good for two weeks commenc- ing September 18. More Sheep Coming. Monday's receipts of sheep at the stock yards numbered 13,20 head. All were housed without difficulty and without tax- ing the resources of the big sheep barns in the least. On account of the late arrival of the trains carrying sheep the market was indifferent. The late shipments have been sorted now and today it is expected that the market will be lively, and possibly prices will be higher. Most of the sheep arriving came from Nebraska feed lots and from the Idaho ranges. South Omaha is now being looked upon as one of the best sheep markets in the country and as there is a steady demand here for mutton the packers generally pay good prices. Re- ports from the west show that more sheep are enroute and that this week will be a big one in the matter of sheep receipts. Davis Acquires Bees. Yesterday afternoon Dr. W, L. Davis left his buggy standing in front of his office at Twenty-fourth and N streets while he went up stairs to secure a satchel of In- struments. When he returned to the street he found that a swarm of bees had taken possession of his buggy. As quickly as possible the doctor unhitched his horse and left the bees in possession of the rig. Nets, boxes, tin pans, etc. ere produced by friends of the doctor and the swarm was captured after about an hour's work. The capture of the bees attracted quite & crowd and there was considerable amuse- ment, especlally when some one would get stung. Petitioning for Viaduet. Another petition for & viaduct across the tracks was circulated at the stock yards and the exchange yesterday, Becretary Guild had the pefition in charge and he had no difficulty in securing the signatures of nearly everyone in the exchange bufld- ing. This petition, like a dozen others will be presented to General Manager Kenyon of the stock yards company and the same old reply, “We will take the matter up later” 1s expected. Viaduet Lomber H The car of lumber for the repairs to the Q street viaduet arrived yesterday morning, and W. 8. King, the engineer in charge of the repairs to the bridge, stated last night that work would commence today. Should the weather remain favorable the viaduot can be opened on Thursday or Friday of this week. Mr. King wants to push mat- ters and open the bridge just as soon as he can. A large force of men will be put to work today .laying the flooring in order to complete the task as soon as possible. Assume Contrel Thursday. The South Omaha members of the Anclent Order of United Workmen and the Degree of Honor will meet Thursday evening at the temple to inspect the bullding and to assumé control. On (his evening the con- tractors will turn the bullding over to the PAPA-Oh, what a pain! I belleve I have a fever in the heart. MAMMA-Nonsense, It 1sn't your heart, it's your stomach. Every time you eat this hot weather, you get a sour stomach full of hot gases and acids, and you swell up until your heart hardly has room to beat. If you were not so obstin- ate, you'd take my advice and keep your insides cool by taking a CASCARET Candy Cathartic every night before going to bed. They work while you sleep and keep you regular in the hottest weather. assoclation after the inspection is com- pleted. A program is being prepared for the occasion and refreshments will be served. Still Sampling MiTk. Inspector Jones was at work yesterday testing sixteen samples of milk taken from wagons about the city. He reports that with one exception the milk is above the standard. This one exception was 50 far below the standard that the inspector will visit the dairy today in order to ascertain what s the matter. Only a few days ago a general test was made, and one dealer was warned to sell better milk or else his license would be revoked. Since the warn- Ing there has been a general Improvement in the quality of sweet milk sold by dairy- men to familles and to depots. Magle City Gossip. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Bobien, Thirty-fifth and U streets. On account of the Jack of quorum the Board of Education did not meet last night. Officer Edward Plerce has tendered his resignation to Acting Chief of Police Els: felder. Hon. B. E. Wilcox and Joseph Koutsky are in Lincoln today attending the state convention. Mrs. Rollo Beavers, who was recently operated on for appendicitis, is reported to Willlam Groff, Forty-second and F streets, is lald Up with a serious case of blood poisoning. Local grocers report that the vegetables is remarkably scarce time of the year. John Kiewit, jr., has man lodges here wit flag for the new temple z E. W. Kane, G. D. Gravenson and L. L. Kellogg will leave today for a trip through California_and New Mexico. G. W. Taylor, who died Sunday at his residence, Twenty-ninth and U streets, was buried yesterday zfternoon at Laurel Hill cemetery. Mrs, A. 8. Jewett and Mrs. George Brown, Twenty-third and F_streets, have gone o Bancroft, Neb., to visit friends for a couple of weeks. '\ The Ladles' Ald soclety of the Presby- terian church will meet Wednesday after- noon with Mrs. McKee, Twenty-fifth and E streef FIND THE PAVING ALL RIGHT cilmen Investigate Twenty- First Street and Cannot Sub- stantiate the Charge, | be doing nicely. supply of Yor "this resented the Work- a handsome silk Go A committee composed of Councilmen Hoye, Back, Evans and Bchroeder, Comp- troller Lobeck, Assistant City Engineer Cralg and Chief Clerk Grotte of the bulld- ing department last week Investigated the charges by J. W. Shaw that the brick pav- ing on Twenty-first street, from Spencer to Pinkney had not been properly laid. They found the charges to be unsub- stantiated and a report to this effect will be made to the city council. Shaw charged that Contractor Charles Fanning had used less concrete and less cement than the specifications called far. The paving, which was put down this year, was ripped up at three points to ascertain whether or not six inches of concrete had been placed under the brick. At one point the required depth was found; at another a good five inches, while quite close to it seven inches of concerte had been laid, showing that there had been no attempt at short measure. The report of the inspector on the work is relled upon as evidence that the proper amount of cement was used. Mr. Shaw s chief clerk at the Henshaw hotel. He lives on Emmet street and wil] be slightly taxed for the improvement. When requested by the committee to go out with it on the inspection, he declined, saying that he had signed the paper at the request of someone he did not know. Mr. Shaw had this to say regarding the above last night: *In order that I may not be placed in a false lght I would like to state that 1 was only one of a number of property owners who signed a petition suggesting an investigation of this pave- ment. 1 was not the first who signed it. The petition was brought to me after many others had signed }t. I dld not make any personal or specific charge as to the defi- cleney of the paving and do not wish to be 0 understood. As to going ouf to Inspect the paving with the committee from the council, the paving inspector came to my place of business one day when I could rot possibly get away from my work. I wanted him to set a day for us to go out, but I find that he and the counclimen went out when not a person whose name appeared on the petition was there."” NEW INDUSTRY FOR OMAHA Large Sheep Feeding Establishm Will Be Started by Two Denver Men. R. T. Hobart and Harry T. Trowbridge of Denver are in the city, perfecting the organization of the Hobart & Trowbridge Live Stock company. Thirty-twe acres of Seymour park have been purchased by Messrs. Hobart and Trowbridge from Dr. George L. Miller. The ground is situated at the jynction of the Burlington and Missouri Pacific rali- roads south of SBouth Omaha. The bullding of grain elevators and sheds and the drilling of artesian wells will be started immediately, and within a short Baby Mine time the new company will have one of the largest sheep-feeding establishments in the west In operation. Accommodations will be provided at the start for 10,000 sheep. Mr. Hobart has been in the sheep busi- ness for elght years and Mr, Trowbridge twenty years, and they are now operating large sheep ranches on the Burlington, east of Denver. THey will both move te Omaha with their families this fall. GOSSIP OF COMMISSION ROW Biggest Market of Season and Evem Flies Laugh at Move ing Loeation, Officlally Omaha’s market was located in the now market house on Capitol avenue Monday—at least, so far as the com- mission men, market gardeners and ped- dlers had been informed. But not even & fly with a microscopic eye could have dis- covered anything green about the new location except the lumber, or anything fresh except the mortar, So the files con- tinued dofng business at the old stands on Eleventh, Howard and Jackson streets 80, too, did the gardeners and the other market people, and to such an extent that it was the largest market so far this sea- scn. It {s now announced by the city that the market will be moved to Capitol ave- nue next Monday. Whereat the files and the market people simply say, "It is to lavgh.” They belleve the' city will be undertaking a bigger job in such a move ing than it has in acquiring .the water works, and declare there will be some doings in court and elsewhere before the market is moved, though admitting that the stalls may be sold and occupled by hucksters and others catering to small trade. The first Nebraska cantaloupes were on the market yesterday morning and sold at 15 cents. There will be plenty of them in a few days. Watermelons from Missour and elsewhere are still high, ranging ace cording to size, and promise to continue 80 for at least a few days. Pears are held at $2.25 to $240, but a car of Colo- rados on the way may bring them down & notch. Plums are $1.65 and peaches con- tinue to cling around $1 and $1.10. Potatoes are scarce and are snapped up un first appearance at 66 and 70 cents. It is simply a case of the supply not belng equal to the demand. Apples are fairly plenty and from 80 cents to §1. Corn was more self-respecting in every way and sold at 10 cents per dozen, while beans, which were a drug on the market Saturday, brought Up to 2 cents a basket. Bweet potatoes, homé grown and with the soil stll! tlnging to them, are §1 per basket; tomatoes are fair sellers at 2 cents per basket, and cucumbers at 0 cents per bushel. Go: Advice to Travelers. ‘Whether going to the mountains or sea shore or taking a journey on business or pleasure never icave home without a bottle of Chamberldin's Colie, Cholera and Diar- rhoea Remedy, 1t is worth magy ‘mes its cost when needed, and may save life, Buy it now ., UNRELIABLE RUMORS. Electrie Light Company Warns Pablic t Rumors in Clreu- Aation, It has come to our notice that those in- terested in preventing thls city substituting electric lights for gas ‘and gasoline stroet fllumination, at a saving of many thou- sands of dollars per year to the taxpayers, are resorting to many methods to deceive the public and thus array Omaha's citizens agalnst such & proposition. We urge our citizens to bear in mind that no proposition from this company has been made to the city, consequently all of the idle stories mow in circulation sre based solely upon rumor and not upon faet, September 1 the couneil will receive bids from the electric light company and the gas company. Thus it will be seen that any discussion of this matter at this time is not only premature, but is entirely based upon conjecture. Therefore we caution our citizens to pay no attention to statements of parties inter- ested in defeating a proposition of great ine terest to the city, and regarding which we court the fullest investigation as to its merit and utility, We are confident that a public investiga- tion of the methods of strest lghting which have prevafled in the past when compared with the system we propose will result in an overwhelming sentiment in favor of our proposition, OMAHA ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY. LOCAL BREVITIES. Mrs. Hanousek, living at 1254 South Four- teenth street, was arrested last might for disturbing the peace. Bamuel Bussey of Council Bluffs was ar- rested last night and is locked up, charged with belng a suspicious character. a secret meeting yesters day afternoon discuss the matier of paving specifications. Nothing was dis- closed as to the proceedin LIGHT AND Every mother feels a great dread of the puin and danger attendant upon the most critical period of her life. 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