Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 24, 1903, Page 7

AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA More Railread Improvements to Come About First of December. ¥ OMAHA DIRECT OVER NORTHWESTERN Former Now Enters Stock Yards Over Missouri Pacific Tracks, but This Will Be Unnecessary in the Future. South Omaha is to have more rallroad improvements about December 1. A rall- road official sald yesterday that negotia- tions had about been completed for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha rallroad to run its trains direct into the South Omaha yards over the Northwestern tracks. All but a few details have been ar- ranged and the expectation is that the new arrangement will go Into effect a week from tomorrow. ' Heretofore the business of the Omaha road has been handled by the Missouri Pa- cific on & switching basis. Continuing, this officlal sald that the change In arrange- ments means the openitng up of a country ‘which . has heretofore been tributary to Sloux City. The Omaha, so it is stated, now intends to haul to this market a great deal of Mve stock and to haul out of South Omaha packing house products. Besides live stock the Omaha will handle a great deal of lumber from Wisconsin. This, it is stated, will be & great advantage to South Omaba. The change will mean more work for the yards here and arrangements are being made for the expected increass in busiiess. With the rapid increase in busi- ness there is naturally a demand for more trackage facilities and rallroad officials are casting about for every avallable plece of property that can be used for trackage pur- poses. The building last summer of three addi- tional tracks from the Belt line iInto the stock yards on the west by the Union Stock Yards company relleved the congested por- tlon of the lower yards to some extent, but as business keeps on growing more tracks are needed. How to secure these additional tracks is a proposition that is confronting raliroad managers at this time. May Ci Rumors were rife at the Live Stock Ex- change yesterday about the recommenda- GIFTS are synony- mous terma. Aé& of genuine Dorflinger Glassware s certainly “ILJ tion of the Natlonal exchange in relation to abolition of traveling solicitors and of sending shippers telegrams. As the delega- tion from Fort Worth did not arrive home as expected the detalls of that portion of the session could not be learned. In talking about the matter yesterday some commission men appeared to favor the cutting down of expenses by doing away with solicitors and shippers tele- grams. Others inclined to the opinion that the present system is all right and held that If a commission dealer wanted to In- crease his business by keeping traveling representatives on the road he ought to be permitted to do so. The same feeling pre- valled as to the sending of telegrams to shippers in order to keep customera ad- vised as to the condition of the marxet. The object of cutting off traveling men and telegrams lessens expense. This mat- ter came up In the exchange here about two months ago, but the members were about evenly dtvided. It was then decided to let the matter drop for the time and bring the question before the National exchange. Several commission dealers expressed the opinion that if the question is brought up at this exchange again the proposed change in the rules will carry. At present thirty- nine commission firms are doing business at the exchange here. ; Bonds Sell Toumight. Tonfght is the date set by the city council for the salo of the issue of $21,000 refund- ing bonds. These bonds bear 5 per cent in- terest and run for twenty years. Clerk Shrigley has secured about a dozen in- quiries from brokers and bond buyers and the councll expects that the bidding will be lively. Bids will be recelved by the clerk up to 8 o'clock this evening. This is the issue for which eastern brokers advertised the bonds for sale be- fore the advertisement for the sale of the bonds had expired here, the object belng to secure a customer before making A bid. In this way the broker had a chance to make & neat commission without in- vesting any money. High School Bids. According to published advertisements the Board of Education will receive bids tonight for the construction of the high school bullding. Architect Latenzer has estimated the cost of the bullding at 75,00 and all bids must be under this figure. South Omaha citizens are interested in the letting of this contract, as so many are anxious to see actual work on the bullding commenced. Contractor Munshaw will complete the excavating today. While $100,000 was voted for a high school bufld- ing the building is to cost not more than 76,000, the balance to be used for interior turnishings, etc Redeeming Assignments. When J. L. Brandeis & Sons, bankers, bought -the $70,00 overlap bonds the an- nouncement was made that this firm would take up the assignments of employes of the city for August pay. A great many of these assignments were turned over to the bank. Since the money arrived and is being disbursed only & few of the city employes have redeemed thelr assign- ments. Cashier Clark of the Brandels bank would like to have those who have not redecmed their assignments call at the bank as soon as possible in order that the transaction may be closed. Magie City Gossip. Mrs. James Wear has gone to California to spend the winter. ns. 0 years, is seri- ously Il at the South Omaha hos) it is fea ¢ he cannot recovar " "4 The lease for the city hall bullding ar- rived from the east yesterday and. will be_presented to the council tonight. n‘fit by the police drunkenness. THE OMAHA DAILY B TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 24, 1903.” UNioy pactF\© California o Oregon DAILY TOURIST $25.00 EVERY DAY UNION PACIFIC DAILY TOURIST CARS Double Berths $5.00 Accommodations provided for all classes of passengers BE SURE YOUR TICKET READS OVER THE UNION PACIFIC. Full information cheerfully farnished on application to assoclation will give a dance this evening at Workman temple. Division No. 3, Ancient Order of Hiber- nians, will give its fifteenth anuual ball at Workman temple Tuesday evening. \ Andrew Harbin and Douglas Rice, both colored laborers, will be arraigned in police court today for having takes a couple of shots at Nick Roper. Heals as by Magic. If a pain, sore, wound, burn, scald, cut or plles distress you, Bucklen's Arnica Balve will cure It or no pay. 2c. For sale by Kuhn & Co. FAVOR MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP Chicago: in Mass Meeting Say Olty Should Own Means of Trans- portation, CHICAGO, Nov. 22.—While the negotia- tlons looking to'peace in the street rallway strike were In progress today a monster mass meeting was held at Tattersall's to plan assistance for the strikers. Nearly every union in Chicago was represented and it is estimated that fully 15,000 people were present at the meeting. The men formed in procession in different sections of the city and marched in bodies to the hall in Sixteenth street where the meet- ing was held. Several sections of the parade crossed the lines of the Chicago City Rallway company which were in operation, but there were no disturbances or acts of violence and the paraders reached their destination without mishap. The meeting was addressed by Clarence 8. Darrow, attor- ney for the strikers; Judge Prentiss, Presi- dent Mahon of the Amalgamated Street Rallway Employes' association and sev- eral other labor leaders. Resolutions were adopted askiug Mayor Carter H. Harrison to withdraw the police from the cars of the Chicago City Rallway and declaring for immediate municipal ownership of all the fines in the city. * Teamsters Deeply Inve N The teamsters have become more deeply involved than ever in the strike of the street car men. At a meeting tonight of representatives of all the locals of the union In Chicago the stand taken last week, when the drivers employed by the Chicago City rallway were ordered on strike In sympathy with the trainmen and all teamsters belonging to the union were notified to cease delivery to the plants of the traction company, was approved. When the order was first issued it was declared by the associated teaming Inter- ests of the city to be in direct violation of contracts, and an ultimatum was presented yesterday to Cornellus Shea, president of the International Brotherhood of Team- sters, demanding that the order be re- scinded or the employers would abrogate every contract existing between them and the Teamsters' union. Tonight's meeting was to consider this ultimatum and the result was a refusal to comply with the demand. President Shea advised the team- sters against antagonizing the employers, but his words were unheeded and the de slon to ignore the ultimatum of the em- ployers was almost unanimous. It was decided to call a strike of the teamsters employed by the R. H. Jones Transfer company, who have been making delivery to the Chicago Oity Railway com- pany. This action, together with the stand taken on the ultimatum of the employers, may result in a lockout of the 30,000 team- sters employed throughout the city. The employers will hold & meeting tomorrow to decide. on what action will be taken. While none of them would discuss the mat- ter tonight, still the impression was given out that the teamsters would be summarily Oity Ticket Office, 1824 Farnam St. 'Phone 316, TALES TOLD BY TOURISTS Bome of Federal Gourt Witnesses &pin Good Ones at Hotels. HOW THE JUDGE TOOK THE BOUQUETS Life of Justice of the Peace Wild Nebraska in the Good Old Ploneer Days Inted, “Any of you fellows who were in the southwestern part of Nebraska a few years ago certainly knew Judge G—," remarked Sam Tate, one of the witnesses in attend- ance at federal court here this week. *“Well, the old judge had his pecullarities and was particularly distinguished for his sturdy bluntness and unvarying integrity. When he retired from the bench a number of lawyers out at Red Cloud conceived the idea of giving him a hanquet. The judge was there, and during the proceedings a serles of very elaborate resolutions com- mendatory af his career were introduced and the mover of them had not finished ‘eading wheq the judge stopped him With the observation: ** ‘Gentlemen, there 1s use of your proceeding further with this foolishness. You will adopt these resolutions possibly, but there is not a man of you that believes one word of them. 1 too old to be flattered by such tomfoolery. You may pass these resolutions tonight, but to- morrow when you see me going down the street there fs not one of you but will say 10 vourselves, there goes that old fool Judge and 1 don't care iIf he goes straight to hell, where he belongs.’ “A death-like quietude prevailed over the rest of that banquet, and the resolutions were by common consent tabled,” no YThat reminds me of one,” put in Tom Fiynn, a traveler from St. Paul, who was sitting in the lobby of the hotel. “We were banqueting a friend of ours one night, and every one of our party tried to outdo the other in soft-soaping the guest of honor. When it came time for the guest of honor to deliver himself of his expres sions of appreciation he got off this one: “ ‘Gentlemen, you have so overwhelmel me by your compliments that I scarcely know how to reply, but I don't know but that T feel a good deal like the old woman who got & jar of lovely fruit, put up in alcohol, from some of her friends. She sent her thanks and sald: “I never was much on fruit, but I appreciate this because of the spirit in which It is sent.” ' " “I run across a family once down In ASTHMA Medical authorities mow concede that under the system of treatment if by Dr. Frank Whetzel of Chicago, l:.c.T”'A Mul BE CURED, . C. D. Knott, Lebanon, Ky.; Dr. ¥, E. Brown, Primghar, Tow 7 Curryer, 8t Paul Mino Dr. M. L Crafiey, St Louis, Mo.; Dr. C. ¥, Beard, 8. Framing- ham 'Mass, bear witness (o the eff of bis treatment and the permanency the cure in their own cases. Dr. Whetzel Kansas,” said Tom Burke, an agricultural implement salesman, “that originally hailed from England. The name was Balley, and they had been in the country a good many years, having lived some time at Concor- dia. To the Balley family Concordia was a little the most important place on earth. While I was at their house a fruit tree salesman came there and wanted to sell them some grape plants or vines. He w elaborating on the beauties of the Catawba, Delaware and Concord varletles, when Old Lady Bailey spoke up and asked if he had some real Concordla grapes. ‘Yes,' he sald. The old woman insisted that he could not fool her about ‘Concordia’ grape she knew all about them, as Concord srapes originated in Concordla, Kan., and that was how they got their name. Well, he loaded enough ‘Concordia’ grapes on those people to stock a nursery.” “There was an old doctor In our town, back in York state,” sald Charles Holt of Syracuse, at the Paxton, “who had a rather wayward son named Matt. The boy all of a sudden began to profess a $pirit of contriteness, and began attending churc pretty regularly. 8o, at least, he gave his father to understand. However, he gen- eraliy came home pretty late, and his un- steady steps indicated that he was partak- ing pretty freely of the communion wine, and simultaneously the store of liquor in his tather's office, that was used exclusively for medicinal purposes, began to diminish. The old doctor grew a little suspicious, and concluded he would lay for Matt. 8o the tollowng Sunday moreing the doctor asked Matt what church he intended going to that morning. Matt replied, ‘the Second Methodist.” Matt went away, presumably to church, and along about church closing time he put in an appearance at his father's office, went to his accustomed jug, and found pinned to the handle a slip of paper on which was written in his father's handwriting: ‘Tt's all right, Matt, but the Second Methedist is closed for repairs this morning.' It only required a gentle shake of the jug te indicate to Matt that it was completely emp! “The multiplicity of the postoffice suits brought in the federal courts here In Omaba, as an outgrowth of the Hastings andal,” sald W. H. Purdy of Hayes ounty, “recalls the time that I was a jus- tice of the peace out in the Btinking Water region some elghteen years ago. The cou try was new then and I happened to be about the first justice elected in that sec- tion. One day there was a fellow named Denny living over on the Frenchman who got into & scrap with some adjoining cattie- men about trespassing on their range and he brought suit in my court over the mat- ter. About all the cattlemen and settlers for a radius of twenty miles were sum- moned as witnesses. The case was a little too big for a justice court, so T bound the offender over to the district court. He fur- nished bond. Scarcely had I got this case out of the way when about everybody !that had been summond as witnesses be- gan clamoring to bring suit against his neighbor for some trivial nelghborhood quarrel or petty misunderstanding. “You see there had néver been & justice of the peace in that section up to this time and all the old sores that had accumu- lated there since the country was settled had to be aired. I was up against it good and hard and didn't know just how I was to get out of the avalanche of suits until finally the happy thought struck me to have all the litigants give security for costs. Well, none of them could give satis- factory security, as it devolved on me to decide whether the recurity suficient, %0 by that means I got out of the scrape. But not until the gang had drank up my last barrel of water and nearly eaten me out wells there then and had to haul water about five miles.” “A justice of the peace in Hays county in those days,” continued ‘'Squire Puidy, ad a little of everything to do, from & school to preaching with an oc- caslonal job of marrying. I was called upon one Christmas ove to officiate at a wedding way over in the sandhills, The folks were Indlanans originally and had just settled there. A married sister of the bride-to-be had her own notions as to just | how the affair should be pulled oft and 1 was informed that I was expected to open the proceedings with prayer. That was a stumper, but I had my gall with me and when the couple stood up before me I started in on the prayes, and as soon as I got warmed up I couldn't see just where to stop. Oh, I think I prayed and preached half an hour anyway. Then the mistress of ceremonies insisted that we must sing a hymn and she led off with ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee.' We sang all the verses and I could see that the bride and groom were getting o little weary, so I Insisted that the ceremony should begin. I made It just as solemn as I could, and then another song had to come, It was an old revival hymn with a dozen verses or more. This finished my part of the proceedings. Then the mistress of ceremonies announced that the bride and groom would ‘mow recelve the congratulations of friends, so the whole crowd flled past and shook hands No, T didn’t kiss the bride, for her husband was a blg six-footer and carried a gun. In the meanwhile the presents had been ar- ranged on a table In another part of the room, and then the mistress of ceremonies announced that ‘the bride and groom would now come forward and view the beautiful presents.’ They did so, and the bride, after viewing them, turned to her friends and making a low curtsey said, on being prompted by her sister: ‘Many thanks for the many beautiful presents.’ “Aside from the presents in the house were a couple of pigs and a cow outside. The affair took place in a sod house and I want to add that notwithstanding the drollery of that homestead wedding I never ate a finer meal in all my lite than that wedding supper.” GERMAN'S DAY TO CELEBRATE Anniversary of First Lt ng of Ger. mans Observed by Men from that Country. NEW YORK, Nov ~With music and gymnastic drills sad dancing at the Grand Central palace today the ted German socleties of New York celebrated German day, commemorating the first landing of Germans jn this country., Dr, H. T. Ane cerson, president of the ited German £ocleties, made an address in which he defended the demand of the Germans for the teaching of their native tongue in the public schools and pleaded for the unliy of Americans of German descent In the defense of the modern spirit of liberality. — IOWA BOY ESCAPES EXECUTION Nathan Haworth, Sentenced Shat, Will Go te Prison for Life, to Be SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 2.~The State Board of Pardons has commuted to l:fe imprisonment the sentence of death passed upon Nathan F. Haworth for the murder of Thomas Sandal, & guard, In an attempt to escape In 18%. Haworth was to have been shot to death December 11, but his father, J. A. Haworth, of Webster City, Ta., interested Senator Dolliver in the boy's behalf and the latter made an appeal which moved the Utah board o merc The board also gruited pardons to or commuted the sentences of a number of other prisoners who rendered material as- sistance to the penitentiary guards in pre- venting a wholesale delivery of prisoners during the recent cutbreak. [ ———————— END OF CONVENTION CLOSE American Federation W Frobably Adjourn Its Present Session Monday Evenin BOSTON, Nov. ~After two weeks active business the delegates to the annual convention ot the American Federation of Labor, spent a quiet Sunday today. Sev- eral conferences were held, but these were of an informal nature and pertained to matters of jurisdiction which will come up for action tomorrow. The convention will probably adjourn tomorrow. WIFE HELPS PRISONER ESCAPE e in n Saw with Which Albert Bigler and Companions Cat Way to Freedom, TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 23.—Some time dur- ing Sunday night Albert Bigler, Grant Jones, Joe Dwiggine and Hayti Wetherly, state prisoners, sawed the bars of the city prison and escaped. Hayti Wetherly was recaptured this morning. He sald the wife of Albert Bigler slipped in a saw with which the work was accomplished. All of the men had thelr cases set for hearing at the present term of court, Baby Mine a mother should be a source of Every mother feels o great dread of the puin and danger attendant upon the most critical period of her life. Becoming y to all, but the suffering and danger incident to the ordeal makes its anticipation'one of misery. 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