Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 13, 1903, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAILY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1 | hemdquarters Murray had charge of the | work. He was a carpenter by trade and worked off and at the business for several years after he came west. The buld- Another of Omaha's Pioneers Joins the |ing was originally put up for hotel pur- Bilent Majority, | pases. At the time about 75 ——— 5 years old, although there is no one DEATH COMES TO M UNEXPECTEDLY | o3 at present who knows exactly how q THOMAS MURRAYHAS PASSED on old he was, OMAHA SUBURBS. Florence, Miss Dora Caskey of Big Spring is visite ing Mr. and Mrs. Charles Townsend. Mrs. E. T. Gllbert and children of Coun- cll Bluffs are visiting friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Paulte spent Sun- day In Omaha the guests of relatives. Frank Fiske of Wakefleld is spending a week viulting the family of L. C. Ducker. Miss Bmma King of South Omaha spent Sunday. here visiting her parents and | triends. Willle Crosby, em western rallway at vacation. the early fifties and was one of the earli- |'\(ii; 808 Mry Bam Lewls of Bancroft are est residents of this eity. During the |J. A. Thirtle. early days of his residence here he en- | Jasper Smith, proprictor of the Florence waged in the junk usiness, attending | (1€ flore, 1s Visiting friends in Milo, Ia., public sales and bufing anything which | ye* S8 VUEE <o 4 ppomes of Omaha was offered. He nevef made much mofiey |spent Sunday visiting at the home of in & business way, but/acquired econsider- | Thomas Ritchle. able real estate when it was cheap, the [ Mr and Mrs James Buchanan of Omaha Sunday o fnerease In value of which made him ;';4",’,'.'"":,':,: N e v the gussts ot My, shd worth at one time aboltt $400,000, according | Mr. and Mrs. 8. Seidner of Fremont are to the estimate of T. J. Mahoney, who k‘\"r;;r\’ighlnt’lmfl; daughter, Mrs. W. A. was his attorney. The first financial mis- | * 2oCT: for & few days, ' 0O om a months’ visit with rela- ing of the hotel which still bears his name, | tives in Philadelphia and Baitimore, at Fourteenth and Harney streets. When § b};v and Mrs. J. Weber, jr., :gym Sunday be began work on the building his for. |1 Omaha, the guests of Mrs. Weber's par- tune was at it§' “helghth, He p«\suessml’ ents, Mr. and rs. John Bondessen. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Nichols ve a part; little ready mone, but all of his real Seeday Dight estate holdings were practically free from at their home, Hylo Place, Tuesday night incumbrance, A large amount of money for the benefit of 8t. Mark's church. was borrowed to complete the building, The Ladies' Ald soclety of the Ponca church will hold a special meeting Wednes- and after it was finished more loans were negotiated to conduct the business. In day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Carrie Deyo Mrs. E. D. Calahan and Mrs. P. A, Johan- that manner the bulk of his real estate |:'i"(,',".",f",:,,,'."D“,":,‘I‘c,‘,'."fim.:,‘,’{.d‘ [ et e became plastered with mortgages, which | Deyo. gy d he was unable fo meet. Several years ago | Se¥eral of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. E. the holders of the paper began foreclosure | Huturdss aigrs? Foo (hem at their home proceedings, and for a long perlod the most of his business consisted in getting from under his obligations in a legal way. He could not save the day and practically Ha een Alling Some Time, but Did Think His Iliness and Refused to Have a Physicla fom Murray, known fo residents of | Dmaha for nearly fifty years, died in the cottage of Mrs, Johnson at Thirteenth and ' WFrederick streets, at 1:30 Sunday after- noon. Mrs. Johnson was formerly em- ployed by Murray I his palmy days, be- fore his fortune ligd declined and his financial sun had set. Murray came to Omaha from Boston In loyed by the North- aha, Is at home on of his death he was AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA Improvement Olubs Demanding Fire Hydrants and Btreet Lighta NO MONEY IN SIGHT TO PAY FOR THEM Chiet ot Police ues Orders that All Suspicious Characters Be Run in as Soon as otted. The improvement clubs all over the city keep after the city council for more lights, more fire hydrants and better pavements. As far as the unpaved streets are con- cerned the people seem to be satisfied, as the streets this year have been kept in better repair than for a long time. There 1s no money on hand to supply more hy- drants or electrio street lights and con- sequently nothing will be done this year in this line. One thing is being done at the request of the improvement clubs and that Is the laying of sidewalks and cross- walks. The street department is kept busy these days laying something like elghty crosswalks ordered some time ago and two-plank sidewalks are being put down in all of the outiying districts. In the laying of walks and crosswalks especlal attention is being pald to the localities near school houses in order that puplls at the schools will not have to wade through mud in order to go to and from school. Mayor Koutsky proposes to have the side- walks and the unpaved streets in first-class shape by the end of the month. In this work he is being assisted by City Engineer Beal, who fs devoting all his time these days to the needed improvements. Since the mayor has done away with a street commissioner several thousand dol- lars has been saved to the city, as the work is now being done by the city en- gineer and the mayor. It is the usual cus- tom for the mayor and the engineer to look after all complaints about sidewalks or washouts personally and this has re- sulted In a big saving to the taxpayers. The laying of permanent sidewalks is still Syrup. Why of Figs the best family laxative It is pure, It is gentle, It is pleasant. It is efficacious. It is not expensive. It is good for children. It is excellent for ladies. It is convenient for business men. It is perfectly safe under all circumstances, It is used by millions of families the world over. It stands highest, as a laxative, with physicians. If you use it you have the best laxative the world produces. Because Its component parts are all wholesome. It acts gently without unpleasant after-effects. It is wholly free from objectionable substances. It contains the laxative principles of plants. It contains the carminative principles of plants. It contains wholesome aromatic liquids which are agreeable and refreshing to the taste, All are pure. All are delicately blended. All are skillfully and scientifically compounded. Its valne is due to our method of manufacture and to the orginality and simplicity of the combination, To get its beneficial effects — buy the genuine, Manufactured by (hutroRia fia rror ¢ San Francisco, Cal. New York, N. Y. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS. Louisville, Ky. be in Washington. The fact that he was elected from this district brought forth the idea that the headquarters of the associa- tion would be in South Omaha. Until Mr. SURE OF BURT'S RE-ELECTION | about to make a aem for shorter hours and more pay. nd upon the company For several weeks the movement which is sald to represent a membership of 6,000 employes GOSSIP OF THE POLITICIANS 4oing on and more will be laid before cold weather comes. The laying of these solid walks will, it is expected, prevent In’ a great measure damage suits on account of personal injuries occasioned by persons faling Into holes on wornout plank walks, Arresting All Suspects. At roll call at police headquarters last night Chiet Briggs gave orders that all suspiclous characters should be arrested and brought to the station. Several small Baturday night. The evening was spent in games of various kinds and refresnments were served Rev. Camp, former minister of the Pres- byterian church here, spent a couple of everything which he possessed went down in the financial storm. L J. Dunn, who has been his attorney @uring the last five years, sald last night that the Judgments against\ the estate days visiting old friends before leaving for Chicago, where he will take a course in would more than consume all the equity in ft. has been on foot, and the Pacific company 1t is said, has been eelectod to be used as | starter so that in case the demand goes through, it will be tried on the other companies. The Pacific company operates PRESIDENT AND KELLY 60 TO SALT LAKE | (0 eands of miles of road in the west and southwest, including the Gould and Harriman lines. The officers of the ex- press company are James Eggleston, presi- ' dent and Frederick C. Gentsch general superintendent and the offices of the Cunningham returns from his vacation it will not be known where his Headquarters will be. Railroad Men Say His Endorsement by Direotors is Oertain. Oity Oengral Oommittee Moets to Act on Bohool Board Nominations, ONLY TWO CANDIDATES SO FAR ON FILE Democrats ds Nome McCormick seminary. Thomas A. Marriott of the Allls-Chalmers company of Milwaukee, who §s here super- intending the installation of u pump at the pumping station, was called to Chicago Tuesday evening on acc g A 5 ount of the death of Magle City Gossip, There will be no meeting of the Board of Education this evening. Fréd Ingersoll, 8i1 North Twenty-second ® street, 18 on the sick list. Board Will Consider Matter of Estab- J. W. McKay leaves today for Syracuse, Neb., to look after property interests, lshing Double Track from Omaha to Ogden at F. J. Btter and wife have gone easts for a two weeks' stay with friends and rela- West Ambler. Mrs. Kidd is entertaining her father and mother from Dayid City, * Mr. and Mrs. Nickien are contemplating removing to North Omaha. Men Named by Upright and Honest. My, Murray was a man of few friends and practically no confldants. There are féw people who knew him as he really inees for School Board Sur. prised to Learn of the Action, Mr, Allen and family were the guests of Mrs. Lena Darling last week. Mr. and Mrs, I. Syas are entertaining relatives from North Platte this week. The Ladies' Aid society met at Mrs. Bone- witz' on Thursday last, and nearly com- pleted a quilt. Ed Dawson and family and Will Aughe and wife were the guests of their fathers during carnival week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Syas are entertain- ing their uncle, Isanc Hegabone and wife, from Southern Nebraska. Mrs. Hinsman and daughter, Miss Mary, are nicely housed in their new home at Forty-sixth and Pacific streets. Miss Anna Mikesell, primary teacher in Council Bluffs, accompanied by her sister, Miss Lyda, were guests of Mrs, J. E. Aughe the last of the week. rs. R. M. Henderson was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Nelson Pratt, Monday. Mre. John' Gants and dsughter, M Anna, have returned from their month's was. Those who have been connected closely with him in a business way say he was honest and upright in all his deal- ings. He was very close and exacted everything which was due him, but ‘wronged no man out of a dollar, He was & man not well understood, but lived in his own pecullar way, not molesting any- one, providing they did not molest him. The principal pa¥t of his rea! estate hold- ings consisted ‘of the Murray hotel cor- ner, and the corner opposite; a block of land across the wstreet south from the ecourt hou 160 acres of land in the vi- ainity of Riverview park, and about 1,000 acres of farm lands In the western part of Douglas county. He also possessed some other property ‘about the city, but at the time of his death all of it stands "5!'15.".{'3&‘.‘3"57.‘. R raarl suspeived lael He had been living of late in an old builg. |} t which now bplongs to Herman Kountze. | for seven years. They returned home Bun- During the last six months he had com- plained of not feeling well, but no one thought he was in a critical condition. Sate urday evening he ealicd at the residonce.| ast Sundsy visiting with Tricnds In of Mrs. Johnson and.complained of feeling | son worse than usual. The woman wanted to [ M send for & physician, but he would not hear of it, and went to bed. About 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon he became unconselous and Mrs, Johnson sent for Dr. Eskildsen. It was t0o late, however, and Mr. Murray died about twenty minutes after the ar- rival of the physiclan. His dlsease was pronounced - tuberculosis. About three months ago he fell and injured himselt severely, and it is thought the accident The only relatives known which survive : the the deceased are a aister who resides in ;.'r..'fi:d. S e Bl B the vicinity of Boston and two mephews, | The postponed business mesting of the one of whom, Charles Lindsay, is now at | Epwort] 4 some point in Bouth Dakota, and the other, | Goror ot the” sontersnce ~ To.n6 on ac Willfam Yi Mirrayy lfyés in this city and §s S A e R T Hekmen? S employed by ithe ‘elgotric light company |gf her the Nk-Bor-B y laying oaBles. The, body lies at the under. | Saderen hame the middle of the Woek. taking rosms of: theyMaul-Davis company. No arréingements had been made last night in n.udhn: J::'-‘lnnernl, and none will| W. 1"\“".‘: probably-be made until the nephew now |NeSs lest week. in Bouth Dakota canbe heard from. He | nice: agias. Jonscn, are. the Eocats of Mrs. ‘was pever married. W, 8. Curtls. Hero of Many Tales. olre. R Rush has returned trom hor to n| l, Muny taled have been told In Omaha re- mfi Sy Poers de 8 garding Murray, most all of which deal | Pysiness trip to the east. @ ow being laid with hia eccentricity of character and his | on ‘parta of Forty-ninth street. = indispu During Ak-! n week the Dundee cars, e o o upanny were | with thelr extras, were run o their fullest he sarler dava o¢ tho cly's hatory. Tt | “Sa: Frapk Htchinsen S bro. Fronk . ra. an can Be truthfully sald that in most of them |Bwan of Bloux City are visiting Mrs. P, M did not come out second best. But | J; Bart Their husbands are expected here in parts of the city whore he hus | "Mt "D! L Johoson and Mre Q. 8. long famillar Lea represente: e Dundee oman's u“m'm MRASEIEILS dhe Tte gt Bl club at the Btata Federation held In Fre- mont last week. antiquated steed.which he was in the | Rev. Thomas K. Hunter, the new pasto Babit of driving will be missed. of the Dundee Presbyterian church, h During the bullding of the Unfon Paolfic Benson, spent n- and Mrs. Otls of Californla are the ts of Dr. and Mrs. McCoy. Mrs. Otis is a sister of Mrs. Mc(‘n;.l o N A attsmouth spen Mrs. D. B. Smith of last Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. G. W. Steiger, and took in the street falr, Harvey J. Grove returned home last week from his visit in the east. Mrs. Grove and children also returned from Ashland, where th‘fy were_visiting. . B. Bomers and Thomas J. Hull of this place were elected as president and treasurer respectively of the Douglas county _convention. Dundee. was out of town on busi- 't:::m- again after a moved into one of the houses on Daven- port street, near Fiftieth street. robberies have been reported lately and the chief thinks it advisable to arrest all sus- pects as soon as they arrive in the city. One thing the chief is going to stop 1s the congregation of officers at Twenty-fourth and N streets. After 11:30 o'clock It is hard to find an officer on kLis beat, as they are all waiting for the midnight whistle to blow, when they go to lunch. The chiet will insist that hereafter officers take turns about in going to lunch and that a portion of the force will be on duty during the usual lunch hour. Ready for Roof. Bruce McCulloch, president of the South Omaha Library board, said last night that Contractor Weise had reported to him that the structure was ready for the roof and that all that was needed now was the steel trusses. It is expected that these trusses will be placed in position within the next ten days. Then the roof can be placed on the bullding. So far only $20,000 of the amount given by Mr. Carnegle has been expended. The lfbrary board thinks that the bullding will be under cover before winter comes and that the interior work will be completed early in the spring. The contract calls for a completed build- ing by January 1. This will hardly be pos sible at the rate the work is going on. Just as soon as the board Is reorganized some books will be bought. Up to the pres- ent time no books have been selected. Cusik Getting Better. Casper Cuslk, who was run over and seriously injured by a Burlington train at the crossing at Thirty-eighth and L streets late Saturday night, is still at the South Omaha hospital. He was reported as get- ting sowe better. Since this accident has occurred the attention of the mayor and city council has been called to the need of a watchman at this crossing and it may be that at tonight's meeting the company will be ordered to place a watchman there both day and night. A number of accidents have occurred at this crossing in the last tew years and & watchman is needed. Counell Meets Tonight. When the city council meets tonight there will be no action takep on the viaduct or the street vacating ordinances. Action on these ordinances has been deferred on account of the restraining order from the district court. The hearing in these cases comes up on Saturday of this week. A number of sidewalk ordinances will come up for second reading and one or two on third reading. There will be little busi- ness before the council unless something transpires today. Cunningham Still East. Frank H. Cunningham of South Omaha, who was recently elected president of the Rural Mail Carriers’ Assoclation of the United States, is still in the east. No one in South Omaha seems to know just where Mr, Cunningham is, but he is supposed to tives. The woman's auxillary of the Young Men's Christian association will hold a fc social at the association pariors on street Tuesday afternoon. C. A. Melchor and wife have returned from Atlantic, Ia., where they spent a few days Vvisiting relatives. Magle City lodge No. 80, Fraternal Union of America, will give a baked-bean supper at Workman hall tonight. The Century Literary tclub will meet on Tuesday afternoon at St. Martin's gulld hall, Twenty-fourth and J streets A R. Kelly, former mayor of South Omaha, arrived In the city Saturday from the west. He will return to Deadwood, S. D., today. THINKS BOARD WILL YET WIN Omaha Grain Man Looks for Bucket Shops to Lowse in Spite of Court Deciston, “Notwithstanding this = declslon,” said Mr. Ward of Ward & Barnes, in the Board of Trade building, ‘‘which dissolves the injunction made by thié lower federal court in Missouri preventing the Postal Tele- grpah company from ,delivering Chicage Board of Trade qyotatigns to the Christio Grain and Trust compapy,of Kansas City, 1 belleve that the Board of Trade will win in its fight against the hucket shops. The board is vearly spending large sums of money in this fight to protect its quota- tions as property and until this decision the courts have gemerally conceded the property right. “I see the Chicago papers say there are no bucket ehops in Omaha. This is, of course, untrue. About a year and a half ago they were excluded from the Board of Trade building, but that is the only step taken locally against them. The principal fight made by the Chicago board has been against this Christie company in Kan City, for it is that concern which supplies quotations to the Omaha amd Lincoln bucket shops. Christie has so far managed to get his quotations and no one has been able to say how. As common ecarriers, the telegraph companies cannot refuse to lease him wires, and, of course, have no inter- ference with what goes over them, but if it can be discovered where he gets his quota- tions, It is thelr business to cut off that supply. “The fight made on the shops has made it much more difficult and expensive for them to get the quotations. The New York Stoek exchange will undoubtedly take up the fight when the Board of Trade has won ita part, and that will cut off the stock quotations, which are the principual de- pendence of the bucket shops, Works Wonders for Women, Electric Bitters invigorate the female system and cures nervousness, headache, backache and constipation or no pay. 6lc. For sale by Kuhn & Co. Its Meeting. President Horace G. Burt and General Counsel W. R, Kelly of the Union Pacific have gone to Salt Lake City to attend the meeting of the directors of that road. Alex Millar of New York City, general secretary of the Harriman lines, joined the party at the depot here and will also participate in the meeting which takes place today. Among the important matters to be con- sidered by the directors is that of establish- ing a continuous double traclk from Omaha to Ogden. Some double-tracking has been and is being done and It is the purpose of the company to have the entire route dou- ble-tracked as soon as it can possibly do so. Other tmprovements of the route and road- bed are under way and will be considered at this meeting. It is said that the old board of directors will be re-elected and that the administration of Mr. Burt will be endorsed and his election confirmed for an- other period. Rumors About Baxter, In raflroad circles considerable gossip is being spent on the probable plans of R. W, Baxter, whose resignation as superintend- ent of the Nebraska division of the Union Pacific becomes effective Thursday. It Is known that Mr. Baxter has received more than' one substantial offer from railroads. Before his resignation he was tendered an offer from the Rock Island, which, after some consideration, he dld not accept. Rumors are aflont about one or two other offers made to him, but Mr. Baxter has not intimated publicly any- thing of his plans. Some of his railroad acquaintances are responsible for the state- ment that he means to retire from active service, having a competency which might casily permit him to do so, and make his home In Oregon. Mr. Baxter's own state- ment that he intends to remain in railroad service, however, would seem to discredit this latter rumor, Cars for Great Weste The Chicago Great Western has ordered thirty-six cars for passenger servic eleven first class, seven cafe observation, five milk, four chalr, four buffet, three baggage and two mall cars from the Pullman company at Chicago, delivery to be made in February and March of next years. The coaches will be G0 feet long 10% feet wide, and 14 feet 6% Inches high over all. The observation ocars will be 70 feet long, milk cars 5 feet long, chair cars 6 feet long, buffet cars 63 feat long, baggage cars 50 feet long and- the mall cars 60 feet long. The special equipment for all will include Sterlingworth break-beams, Westinghouse alr-brakes, Chicago couplers, Forsyth cur- taln fixtures, pantasote curtaln materlal Symington dust guards, Miller platforms, and standard steel wheels. Expressmen Want Increase. Employes of the Pacific Express company, to form the WORLD'S MOST PERFECT FOOD. NEW READY BITS g - ENGLAND STAMINA is best sustained by Puritan-pure the fresh and crisp New England-made ambered whole-wheat cereal. “Ready Bits Is the highest expression ql food science.”” At all grocers. 'brotherhood of expréssmen are in Chicago. KILLED BY FALL. FROM CAR Skull of John He Dies Shortly Afterward at Hospital, Y John Nelson, a 8:15 o'clock last night. noon. He was on a northbound south end of the back of his head. unconscious and ness. 8, one. wards. Nelson was a about 3 years of age. Flagrant Infringement Case, the publle from infringers and will be glad to hear that the courts ha lately punished one offender severely. imitating thelr labels and Walker, who seemed to think that junctions don't “in- him $1,00, with directions that he be con. release ordered by the court. Los Angeles, C The Missour! Pacific rallway will sell tickets to Los Angeles or San Francisco and return at the very low rate of $i0. Tickets on sale from October 8 to 17, In- or the company or clusive, For further information call address day agent of Thomas F. Godfrey, passenger and ticket agent, 8. E. corner 14th and Douglas sts., Omaha, Neb. elson is Fractured and laborer residing at 2022 Plerce street, dled at Clarkson hospital at Nelson was on his way downtown about 5:3) yesterday after- South Omaha car and when the car reached the Sixteenth street viaduct he fell off in some way, allghting on the When picked up he was the patrol wagon was called. He was removed to the hospital, where attentfon was given him by Police Surgeon MacDiarmid and the hospital phy- sician. Nelson never regained consclous- His skull was fractured at the base. Conductor L. Frank and Motorman A. J. Mead, who were in charge of the car, No. stated after the accldent that Nelson must have been pushed off the car by some- At least that was the only way in which they could account for the fall, as they did not belleve the car was running fast enough when the man fell to throw him off. He was standing on the rear step at the time the accident happened and just as the car rounded the curve he fell out- married man and Manufacturers and dealers who are in- terested in the protection of the trade and imitators Some months ago the Liebig's Extract of Meat Co., Ltd., obtained an injunction in the Circuit Court of the United States, restraining one J. T. Walker from further packages. 80, kept right on selling Extract of Beef in packages and wrappers resembling the genuine Liebig Company's Extract of Beef, till the court recently adjudged him guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to ten days imprison- ment in New York County jail and fined fined in prison till the fine is pald or his nd San Francisco, The republican city committee will meet Tuesday night in room 23, New York Life buflding, to consider the matter of Board of Education nominations. -Thus far only two candidates have filed, Irving G. Baright of the Sixth ward and J. W. Maynard of the Ninth ward, a memmber of the present board. If no mofe than five have filed by the time the committee meets it will be incumbent upon the committee to declare these five the regular nominees, but if more than five have flled thelr names as candidates, the committee will have to call a convention for Friday to make nominations. All candidates must file fees with Treasurer Morgan of the committes not later than today noon. Subsequent developments show that the democrats were not altogether happy in their choices of nominees for the school board. One of the number, Alfred Millard, who lives at 2505 Farnam stroet, in the Fourth precinct of the Fourth ward, is registered as a republican. . Mr, Mjllard was observed Monday in a charge on the New York Life building, his object being to find out the identity of the chalr- man of the democratio ey tommittee and te present his resignation. George B, Lake, another nominee, who, alse Jlives in. the Fourth ward, is not gffillated with any party, according to the showing of the reg- istration books, James B. Sheehan, the raflroad attorney, has had no agpersions cngt oh his party loyalty, but has intimated that he will not pose as a candidate, as he has no inclination or taste for the office. “As & matter of fact it would not sur- prise me if al) the nominees except Judge Lake resigned,” sald a democratic leader Monday. “Lake {s the only man I am sure of that will stick on the ticket.” The registration place in the Fourth dis- trict of the Fourth ward has been changed from the tent at the northeast cormer of Twenty-fifth and Farnam streets to a barn at 266 Douglas street. This is the only amendment made so far to the list pub- Iished Saturday. In order to strengthen his candidacy for the district bench, Judge Dickinson Monday filed papers which provide for his nomina- | tion by petition. | Judge Dickinson is the regular nomince of the democratic convention. The yomina- tion by petition is a matter personal to Judge Dickinson, The papers filed In- clude the name of 276 voters, Punished for Contempt of Conrt, BLOOMINGTON, TIil, Oct. 12.~Whiam O'Nell, arrested last week for alleged at- tempt to bribe the lawyers Lr the defense in & Chicago Board of Trade suit, was given a hearing today for contempt of court, fined $100 and sentenced to sixty fl? In Jail, The crimiiial sido of the case be handled by the grand jury