Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 17, 1909, Page 8

THE BEE OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS UNTIL 10:30. WE MAXE ALL ALTERATIONS FREE OF CHARGE Your Choice of Any Suit Miller Stock Saturday . OMAHA, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1909, Men's $2.50 Hats, in all colors and styles, Satur- day, at— $1.50 $10 From the Tomorrow the final clean up of the Miller Suit Stock. These Suits were expresed eastern buyer last Friday. to us from Baltimore by our He bought them at about 60 cents on the dollar. The styles are the very latest, the colors are the newest, and strictly hand-tailored throughout. They would sell from $18.00 to $22.50 but for this fortunate purchase, On Sale Saturday Men’s Cravenettes $10 See Shew Window We Close Out 125 Cravenettss at a Very Close Figure. They Go on Sale Saturday: Cravenettes made to sell at $10.00, Satur- ss 50 . Cravenettes made to sell at $13.50, Satur- day, at .... RAIL REFUND IS PERMITTED Commission Aids Dietz Lumber Company. Interstate SHIPMENT TO DAKOTA INVOLVED Lamber Sent Out Before Tariffs for New Line Were Published and Confusion Rewnlts—Burling- ton Freight Kills-Man. C. 8. Elgutter has secured a ruling from the Interstate Commerce commission which permits the Northwestern railroad to make a refurid on several carloads of lumber for which they overcharged the Dietz Lumber company and which also shows that South Dakota is enjjoying greatly reduced frelght rates because of the passage two years ago by the Ne- braska legislature of the Aldrich carload treight bill, which reduced frelght rates in Nebraska 15 per ceht Tn July, 1907, the Dietz Lumber company shipped six carloads of lumber from Omaha to Gregory, 8. D. The Bonestecl line had just been completed as far as Gregory and no tariff had been lssued glving rates. The general freight agent of | Harriman the Northwestern told the shippers they could have the same rate as to Herrick, | which was 195 cents. On the day the lumber was shipped the railroads published a rate of 17 cents to Gregory and Herrick, the Aldrich bill tak Ing effect that day. When the rallroad company collected on the lumber it churged 4 cents, or the old Herrick rate, plus the lo to Gregory. The commis- slon insisted that it could not grant the ra of 19.56 cents, as that rate had never been published, though it saw the Injustice of the higher rate. A speclal ruling was made in the case that the rallroad would be permitted to refund the difference be- tween 24 centy and 19. cents. Burlington Freight Kills Man, Louls Walker, residing at Fourteenth street and H avenue, Council Bluffs, was killed Thursday night at the quarry switch near Cedar Creek, Neb., by a Burlington freight train, and his companion, William Wilson, was severely injured. Walker and Wilson were ovidently walking along the track when they were hit by the freight. The first intimation the train crew had of the accide® wos when two hats were found on the I Investigation ational that Williams had both legs cut off and his head split open and Wilson was severely injured. They worked in the stone quarries at Cedar Creek. The coroner is holding an nquest at Plattsmouth this afternoon. Burt Wanta G. W. in Chicago. Horace G.=Burt, president of the Great Western, desires to move the general of- fices of the company from St. Paul to Chicago, but lack of means and the re- ceivership stand in the way. It has been announced that within three or four months the road will be out of the re- celver's hands and at that time the move will be made, as Mr. Burt will then be in control. E. C. Browne, clerk in the office of Gen- eral Manager Mohler of the Union Paciflc, is confined to his home with a severe at- tack of grippe. N. F. Harriman, engineer of tests for the lines, with headquarters at Omaha, has gone to Chicago. Tariffs are out announcing that Omaha i# to be given long deferred rights and after May 15 all tickets reading through Omaha in either direction will permit of a ten-day stopover. FELLOW ENJOYS LIFE ON CHECK THAT IS WORTHLESS He Would Please Several Persons by Sending Them His Present Address. Enjoying a cozy room and home cooking for a few days and paying for the comforts with & worthless check, from which he secured some real coin in change, is said | to be the little game of a man who has | attracted the police to his operations. | Mrs. Harvey of 213 Cass street is ported as being his latest vietim and the | police say he has swindled other house- | wives and keepers of bearding houses in | a similar way. 1 The name of the check artist, according to the paper he has been distributing, is | Fred Mansuer. That name appears as the | person to whom they are made out on tho | various checks passed by the stranger. W. B. Barker is the signature used as the signer's. | The man who is being searched for by the police is said to be 3 years of age, five feet six inches in height, welghing m' pounds, and with sallow complexion, two gold front teeth, dark brown hair and light brown eyes, and neat brown striped othes and black soft ha re- | | business district and | are Married, but Not Telling It Jefferson, Ia., Couple Little Worried Over the Legal Status of Their Union. Mahlon Head and Fern Wood of Jeffer- son, Ta., wers married in Omaha, April 12, by Justice Altstadt, but according to a letter received in Omaha Friday they are not exactly boasting about it; rather are they denying it. Head was divorced a shprt time ago by his wife whom he deserted as well as three young children. By the terms of the decree granted Mrs. Head he was forbidden to remarry within six months and an Towa statute forbids it anyhow for a year. Whether he has come within the statute or is in contempt of the Jefferson court is a question, for his second marriage has taken place outside the jurisdiction of Io The point Is believed to be a new one. TREE PLANTING SEASON IS ON Nurserymen Are Reaping Harvest Through Sales of Shoots and Slips to Omaha Resldent Tree planting season is at hand and all over Omaha trees are being transplanted and new trees and shrubs set out. Several nurseries have secured vacant lots in the are doing a flourish- ing business, the tree planting season In this section being from about March 20 to June 1. The governor has set aside April 22 as Arbor day, out the people of Omaha not waiting for that, but improving thelr lawns now. ‘White birch is a great favorite in Omaha and can be seen on all sides. Among the shade trees are birch, boxelder, elm, maple, sycamore, poplar, chestnut, heavenly tiees, mountain ash, cedar, weeping willow and linfen. The cherry is the most popular of the frult trees in this section, with peach |and apple running a close second Many people are making excursions to Florence and the wild woods and bringing down some of the wild shrubs with which the woods are filled. Desperate Shooting pains in the chest require quick treatment with Dr. King's New Discovery. Prevents pneumonia. e and $1.00. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. b | lowing subjects are suggested: CREIGHTON IN ESSAY TEST Students of Local University Are In- vited to Write for Prizes. CASH AWARDS ARE OFFERED Pig Business Firm Backs the Enter- prise to Encourage Stady of B ubjects by Young 4 Women, ness Men | | Crelghton university students have re- ceived an invitation from Prof. J. Laurence | Laughlin of the University of Chicago and other educators to compete for the prize essays offered by Hart, Schaffner & Marx to encourage the study of business subjects. The competition for 1909 is now under way and will end the coming June. Subjects for 1910 have just been suggested by the cominittee us follows: The effect of labor unions on international trade. The best means of raising the wages of the unskilled. A comparison between the theory and the aclual practice of protectionism in the United States. A scheme for an {deal monetary system for the United States. The trie relation of the central govern- ment to trusts. How much of J. 8. Mills' economic system survives? A central bank ms a factor in a finan- clal crisis. The contestants are divided into two classes. Class A includes any American without restriction. Class B includes only those who, at the time of competing, are undergraduates of any American college. A first prize of $600 and a second prize of $400 are offered for the best studies pre- sented by class A; a first prize of $300 and a second prize of $200 are offered for the best studies presented by class B. Any member of class B, however, may com- pete for the prizes of class A. Women in C Class. Men or women who have not had a col- lege training are eligible to compete under class C, to which a prize of $500 is offered for the best essay, and for which the fol- The most practicable scheme for begin- ning a reduction of the tariff. The value of government statistics wages in the last ten or fifteen years. Opportunities for expanding our with South America. The organization of the statistical work of_the United States. Publicity and form of trust accounts. The winning essays will be published in book form at the discretion of the commit- of trade tee, which, in addition to Prof. Laughlin, consists of Profs. J. B. Clark, Columbia uni- versity; Prof. Henry C. Adams, University of Michigan; Horace Wright, esq., New York City, and BEdwin F. Gay, Harvard university. The papers are ‘o be handed in by June, 1910. NEWS OF THE ARMY POSTS Major MecCarthy May Be Retained in | Chief Quartermastership of Mis- souri Department Till June, Tt is possible that Major Daniel E. Me- Carthy, chief quartermaster of the De- partment of the Missouri, may be retained in that positinon until the end of the fiscal year, June 3. Brigadler General Morton has made this request of the chisf quarter- master of the army, with some prospects of success. General Mgrton desires that Major McCarthy may joln with him in a visit of inspection to the different posts of the department hefore the close of the fiscal year In order to compile estimates,) for post improvements and miscellaneous quartermaster supplies. Sergeant Harry Cook of the hospital | corps has been relieved from duty at De- {partment of Missourt headquarters and | transferred back to his old station at Fort Leavenworth Private Wilmer Viackett of Company L, Sixteenth infantry, has been detailed to duty as clerk at department headquarters. Honorable discharges from the regular army. by purchase have been granted | Privates Carl C. Bike, Company G; Louis | Sickendick, Company F, Sixteenth infantry. Fort Crook, and Thomas J. Alexander, Battery F, Sixth field artillery, Fort Riley. | Leave of absence for two months has | been granted Major R. M. Blatchford, | | Bleventh infantry, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo. | The annual target practice for the troops | stationed at Fort Crook will begin Saturday at the Ashland range. The Second battalion of the Sixteenth iInfantry will leave for Ashland Baturday morning, and after one month's practice will return to Fort Crook and the Third battalion will take a month's trick at target shooting. First Lieutenant Willlam McMillan of the medical reserve corps will act at medi- cal officer during the target season at Ash- Because they’re the Nation’s Choice ational Because Baking Perfection ap- proved by the whole Nation made Uneeda Biscuit The National Soda Cracker At the “New Kind of a Women’s Suit Store ON SALKE! 100 stunning Spring Style Sulits, in two and three-piece models of Panamas, Serges, Worsteds, plain or fancy colorings, arrived too late for Easter business, are now on sale here. » LESS THAN STANDARD PRICES woman who has not as yet bought her spring suit, great interest One hundred of the very latest spring models In a variety of new shades and colorings, which should have been here ten days ago, have just been received And for this reason, have placed these beautiful suits on sale at a reduced prica-—which price is just half of what the retailers sell at. Ordinarily our AT THE MAKX rices are " PRIOES here and at these prices: $20.00 Spring Suits, onsaleat..... $25.00 Spring Suits, (08 1 F SRR e $30.00 Spring Suits, ORBRIG B i ssiscuned $35.00 Spring Suits, onsaleat.... $40.00 Spring Suits, PRBRIS Rt o covssi0y . this sale should prove of 14 % to 40% less than others, for the reason that “WE SELL the middlemen’'s profits are your savings when .$10.00 . $12.50 .$15.00 . $17.50 $20.00 you buy Orders by mail must be accompanied by check or money order. Princess Cloak and Suit Parlor MANAGEMENT OF THE GOODYEAR RAINCOAT CO, 16TH AND DAVENPORT STS. States Set Aside Money for the Corn Exposition Nebraska Takes the Lead aad May Be Followed by Sister Com- monwealths, Nebraska people think enough of the Natlonal Corn exposition to appropriate public money to make it a success, the al- lowance of $,00 made by the regents of the University of Nebraska Thursday, mak- ing $2,000 which the state invests directly or indirectly in the coming show at Omaha. The legislature appropriated $1,000 for the Corn Growers' association, which will assist in the holding of county contests and a state show. The success of these insures the success of the National Corn exposition. Then the regents appropriated $1,00 for an educational exhibit of the experiment stations and the school of agriculture at the national show. This investment of $2,000 by no means represents what the Nebraska exhibits will cost, but the $2,000 of public money 1s more than any other state In the United States has yet appropriated for the National Corn exposition. Missour! is seriously considering appre- priating a large sum for an exhibit at the Omaha expositfon, while North Dakota's commissioner of agriculture has the power to spend 1,000 or more for bringing exhibits from his state to Omaha. It is thought he will send a large exhibit, as Governor Burke has interested himself in the ex- position. GREAT WORK OF GILA DAM Project Will lon in Put Over Half a Mil- Acres of ILmnd Under F. E. Blles of Prescott tered at the the east. “The big government across the Gila river but the work 1is being rapidly,” sald Mr. Biles. “When finished the irrigation project will put over 500,000 acres of land under profitable cultivation. “The Clla dam Is about midway between Prescott and Phoenix, and is one of the largest pleces of work undertaken by the government reclamation service. will be thrown open for entry as soon as the work is finished, which may be a year or more. “The land will produce all fruits grown In California. The bullding of the dam has already in Ariz., is regis- Rome, enroute homeward from irrigation dam not yet compiete, pushed on it the eitrus Sold only in The land | duced a llvely immigration into the coun- try, and Arizona is now on the up grade of prosperity. It is largely a mining sec- tion, but with frrigation it will become one of the richest sections of the southwest.” STREET RAILWAY WINS CASE, BUT AFTER A BAD SCARE is Out Nearly All Night and the Company Feared =a Compromise. A verdict for the defendant was regis- tored Friday morning by the jury which heard the suit of Mrs. Lilly Turner for $5,000 against the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Raflway company. The jury debated a long time before it reached its conclusion, having been out all Thursday afternoon and until 1:30 Friday morning. The defense was consequently somewhat concerned lest a compromise had Jary { been reached. Mrs. Turner's sult was tried first a year ago before Judge Troup, Judge Kennedy hearing the action just over. In the first trial simllar verdict was reached, but Judge Troup, fearing lest an instruction had been misapprehended, himself ordered a new trial General Cowin and Weaver & Giller had the plaintiff's case, with W. J. Connell de- fending. Mrs. Turners accldent occurred Twenty-third and Cuming street The plaintiff's version was that she was thrown off in attempting to leave the car, while the defense asserted that she fell off through her own negligence. THEATER MAN IN TROUBLE Arrested on Charge of Being Fugl- tive, but Denies It and Offers Explanation. at On the charge of being a fugitive from Justice C. A. Quintard of New York City, a theatrical manager, Is being held at the police station. He was arrested Friday morning on advices from Sheriff C. B. Hall of Osceola, Ark., who states that Quintard is wanted at Osceola on a felony charge. Quintard explaine the matter by saying that he was forced by circumstances to borrow money from a banker at that town and he supposes that the banker fears that Quintard has skipped the country with the intention of evading the payment of the loan, PRESIDENT TAFT AT HOME Trip from New York to Washington i» Without Unusual In- cident WASHINGTON, April 16 —President Taft and his military alde, Captain Butt, re- turned to Washington at 7:12 this morning. Mrs. Taft remained in New York for a brief visit. The trip was without inciden employed New School at Florence; Teachers Raised Board Lets Contract for Building and Increases Most of Salaries, Florence public school teachers are have more salaries and a new building it which to earn them. The Board of Bducation at its meeting Thursday night Increased salaries on level of about 3 a month and let the con tract to H. Armstrong of South Omahu for a building to cost, furniture and all $25,000. The contractor's bid was $15,8%2. The board elected Miss Annie M. Diet rick, at a salary of $% per month; Miss Viola J. Meyer, at $70; Miss Maggie B Wright, at $70, and Miss Susan DeGrafl supervisor of music and drawing will put in two days a week at $3 per month. Miss David, Miss Sidner and Miss Shepard will also teach the coming year, having last year signed two-year contracts. Miss Josephine Carr resigned and Miss Edith B Derry of Plerce was elected to the va- cancy at a salary qf $65 per month, Miss Flint will conttnud as manual tralning teacher two and one-half days a week at $37.50 per month. The board rejected 10 per cent of the brick delivered for the new building as not being up to the contract, which called for 108,800 brick at $9 per 1,000, f. 0. b. Florence They were furnished by Fort Calhoun people, who are disposed to fight the ac- tion of the board, saying brick is as or. dered and refusing to make any allow ances. The board will meet next Thursday even ing to approve the bond and contract of Mr, Armstrong and to rearrange the classss for the coming vear. As there are forty (o sixty pupils in a class about the only solution i& to add one or more teachcrs FIVE FOR CITY ENGINEER Andrew Rosewater and William Aycrigg File Their Petitions for the Place. now A Andrew Rosewater, city William city fol engineer, and Anderson Aycrigg have filed for engineer. This makes five candidates the office, the other three being J. P . assistant city engineer; M. J. Lacy in the enginearing department and Thomas Shaw. B. J. Keegan, 2001 Vinton street, is the thirty-elghth candidate to file for the Board of ¥ire and Policé Commissioners. Quiel Actlon for Your Money—You get that by BISCUIT Moisture Proof Packages '