Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1909, Page 3

OMAHA, SATURDAY, MAY 15 1509 NEW EXPERIENCES Have You Profited by Our Great Boy’s Suit Sale b 2 If not it {8 because you haven't come in to investigate, The sale now in progress at this store is not to be confused with the weekly peclal Sales” about town. Every garment of- ferred 1s of our regular stock, greatly reduced in price because they have proven such good sellers as to leave slightly bro- ken lines which we desire to close out pecting your p $3 TO 85 SUITS SOME WITH 2 PAIR KNICK. ERBOCKERS. $7 TO '$11 SUITS EVERY ONE HAND TAILORED Things to Consider The suite we sell for boys are not to be considered in comparison with those =old in most store, vet we sell them every day in competition with the various nes about town. The reason is simple, our high quali- ties and low prices are apparent to all. Consider then the savings we offer to all who visit this store in the s behalf. Spring Oxfords We certainly have some great shoe values here—and a diversity of styles and lasts not at all like what you’d expect at a clothes store, in fact, it would have to be a pretty husky shoe store to show a greater line of styles and lasts. Our Benoh' Made Oxfords at 85 display all the finest points of high- class shoe building. Our $3 Oxfords uppeal particu- Hlarly to men accustomed to paying $4. Our Little Gent's Shoe and Oxfords —sizes 9 to 13-2 are a quality never sold in Omahe for less than $2.50, yet our price is $2.00. O. AWAIL = (— THE atronage. But the methods used TS THE SAVINGLY-INCLINED AT THE NEW ansop HOME OF QUALITY CLOTHES by us in buying enable us to faithfully fulfill our mission. | doubt our statements are the ones who don’t come Listen to our spring suit argument Price and Value---the Basis of Clothes Buying Price is what you pay. If the price ont- weighs the value they don’t halance and you are the loser. The fact that nearly all clothing is much alike in appearance ac- counts for so many people selecting inferior grades. The aver- age man buys a couple of suits g-year and can’t be ex- pected to be a judge—has to take some one’s word for it. Consequently many people accept the claims made for in- ferior clothes under the helief they are saving money. We claim to save you considerahle money-—hut don’t ask you Ntn take our word for it. Your money hack if it isn’t so. FSOTA Siring 27 S>:ia3 Suit Prices and Values that balance according to King-Swanson’s standard of value giv- ing. That means a decided saving in dollars and cents—for our standard of value-giving compels us to pile on the value instead of the price. Being the largest clothing store in the middle west it is only natural that we have the largest assortment—that lt is 80 is plainly evident to any visitor. We classify our Suits according to value rather than price, and our salesmen show prospective buyers wherein we save you $3 to $5. We eliminate all guess work on your part by assuming all the risk. Your money is payable on demand if your clothes don’t suit. Value is what you get. | This Store has a Mission to Perform It is to supply the people of ‘Omaha and vicinity with quality clothes at prices lower than the same grades in dther stores. If we had to sell our goods at the same prices others stores charge for like qualities we wouldn’t have a very valid excuse for ex- The only ones who Half-Minute Store Talk / We claim to be pretty selling industrious—we the best our guarantee beats us. It are busy business day clothes in But backing We sometimes bit of some, too—but guarantee it is working every minute, every day, every year and has the steadiest job in town. Faithful Ally, that guarantee—protects our reputation by protecting our customer's welfare every world overtime s working for our reat! up every claim we make take a our clothes rec eleop never quits Your Spring Hat \‘fifi will disappoint you if you come to this store for it. We want you to be particular when you come to us——we are particylar when we go to the hat makers— everything about our hats must be right when we buy them in order that they will be right when we sell them-— Chase Hats ..... .$4.00 Stetaons $3.50 to $12 Others down to ¢ and, lest you forget, the best hat, beyond ques- tion ever sold in Omaha for $3.00. not Time to come out in Spring Haberdashery The season is too far advanced to permit of you neglecting the little nice- ties of your attire—and this store’s repu- tation for furnishings is too well estab- lished to permit of you neglecting our in- vitation to come in and look. Classy Ties 50c and up Shirts This fs often called the shirt store of Omaha Manhattans, $1.50 up $2.00 up some wiully stunning patterns at $1 and $1.50 Underwear § It is safe to change now and your comfotr demands it Union Suits, §1 to 810 Shirts or Drawers— 50c to $2.50 ;l_. Nebraska this stale. He argued also that the board should value the property strictly on what | the property is worth and on the same basis Its freigfit rates should be fixed. After deducting the outside holdings, he sald his own company was capitalized on a net valuation of $53,610 a mile, market value. In Nebraska he sald the boar dhad ixed the actual value of the main line at $107,50 a mile, and the branch lines at $46,000 a mile. Mr, Seribner's Comparisons. | In comparison with this valuation in Ne- | braska, Mr. Scribner filed the following, | | showing the value of other roads in other | states: lowa—Burlington matn lins, $60,000 per | mile, all double tracked; Chicago & North- western main line, $62,800 per mile; Chicago, | Milwaukee & St. Paul, $44,000 per mile; Rock Island malin line, $45,200 per mile. Ilinols—Burlington, 840 miles, of which Nebraska TAX LAWYERS GET HEARING -Scrihner and Polleys Appear Before | State Equalization Board. ASSERT ROADS PAY TO00 MUCH Tax Commissioners Make Some Inter- esting Comparisons in Endeaver to Keep Down Valuations of Railroads. 1 a Staff Correspondent.) May 14.—(Speclal.)~The B nrl of quallzation held its first meeting today to listen to the arguments of Tax Commissioner W. Scribner of State open Nebraska' 518,723, and which had been assessed (actual value) at $25,20,755. Land Valwes. His table showed the following compari- son of the sales value and the assessor's value of the land in question by countles: Averege Assessor Boone .. Buffalo Butler Cheyenne Colfax Custer Dawson Deuel Dodge Douglas Gage Howard Kelth 23 miles is double tracked, actual valuation per mile, $47,35%; Northwestern, 467 miles, Kimball 2| where the weeds grow and must be pulled | the Union Paclfic and T. A. Folleys of the Omaha & Minneapolis railroads. Both tax commissioners made showing in an attempt | of which 266 miles is double tracked, actual | Lancaster . | valuation per_mile, $47,365. | Lincoln Wisconsin—Buriington main line St. Paul | Madison Nebraska dence and the double cross, ala the liberal element pf the state, has decided to quit working at the Lincoln Insane dsylum. Mr. | Parker, so he tells, was promised a job at the head of the asylum laundry at $70 a month and keep and his wife was to take a minor position at $36 and foun | 80 he was very happy and contented. Then along comes a letter from the superin- tendent telling him the place at the head of the laundry did not wash put his way and another had it and he was placed in the kitchen, thougl the $0 a month wa | to go with the new job. Then Parker made a mistake and got sick. When he reported he was offered a job out in the garden, | 8o and where the pay is $35 a month | and Parker has decided to nurse a grudge quit it all, State Experis at Banquet. Governor Shallenberger and 1jatant General Hartigan went to Fairbury this | afterncon to attend the annual good roads On account of the backward season we are compelled to sacrifice profits to unload our big stock of high grade Spring and Summer Woolens. In order to make a quick clean-up we offer you unrestricted choice of our e - = = pan 2 e s A te Chicago, which 18 outlet for' Great North- | Merrick ern and Northern Paciflc business, actual | Nance value 360,000 per mile. | Platte other property in the state, an dthe Union | Kansas—Santa Fe main line, 48 miles, of | poik Pacific endeavored to show that its road | which 200 miles is double tracked. actual | gaypy was assessed out of proportion to other | value 178 per mile; Unlon Pacific main | gouniers |Tine n Nebraska, actual value $107,600 per | ghunders roads In other states. | mite; Union Pacific and Omaha & Repub- | 1ateis Mr. Scribner Ipsisted that the state of | Jjcan Valley, 428.8 miles, actual value $46,000 | Yalley .. Nebraska was realizing taxes on property | per mile. Of Wis road to which it was not entitled. | Mr. Scribner argued that other property Tie tement that the Union Pa- | had not heen assessed on the same basis stock in auxiliary companies | gg had raflroad property and he filed with property of the Unlon Pa- | yng hoard a statement of land saies with amount of MTIGAD, In- | 1o gegessment of the land named in the (nenis in stocks of the markef value of $254,686,008, bonds to the value of §31.823,- | 4eeds to show that the aseessment 20, making & total holdings of $365,566,246 | Pelow the sales value of the land. His comparison was on 112150 acres trans owned outside of the railroad property. He | terred, which was sold for a total of §u.- $30.00 anll $35.00 suitings for one week only. v ' 22.90 We guarantee the fabrie—linings—styles—fit and workmanship to be the best ever offered by any tailoring concern in the husiness at anywhere near the price, or you need not accept the garments. Kvery garnient to be cut, fitted and made in our own daylight workrooms by expert Omaha tailors. to prove to the board that their roads banquet to be held in that city tonight. were assessed too high compared with The governor will speak n good roads for{ the country and the adjutant general will | talk on good roads for the town. Fair- bury has builded one mile of model road, the city paying half of the cost, and the government one-half, the work being done | | under the direction of a government ex- | vert. Showing by Mr. Polleys discussed at length the vari- ous methods of arriving at the valuation of a raliroad. His statement closed with ] the following recapitulation: It has about been declded that (1) AB computed by the formula de-|of Lincoln will not get its scribed for the capitalization of gross earn- | high scho6l bullding under the ings, net earnings and maintenance charges | ociiis ‘The bonds may have per mile, the average commercial value in p they may have been defeated mad iite ov High School Bonds Muddled. the city side much- cific proper to the X late was ection carried and the work of insisted amount was not assessable in Ladies’ $5.00 and $4.00 Oxfords: This is the chance of the season to buy first-class prices. , made-to-measure suits at late season No excuse to wear hand-me-downs while such prices prevail. Make your selection now—take them at your convenience. been ma- 1909 of all the raliroads of the United ates (over 230,000 miles) is about $4,000 | the election boards being so badly mixed per mile. ot yet been figured out (3) As computed by the same formula | P that it has not ye b e the average commercial value in 1909 of | how matters stand. For that reason it Is the 40,000 miles of railroad comprised in | thought now no éffort will be made to the seven rallway systems whose iines | e S soecihl alaatien’Rad partiy lle in Nebraska is %2642 per milo. | 00 b pands yuti) & pacis) mmpmm by the same formula | held the uverage commercial value of the eniire | 1n the meantime Robert Malone has not Qmaha rallway system in 1909 is 345,232 Per | yet started his contest to prevent Don Love (4) Based upon a joint consideration of | from serving as mayor. As the Love relative track density and relative gross |jority was only fort-seven, Mr. Malone con- earning power per mile, the rallroad eys- | cluded he would like to have the votes re tem of the entire state of Nebraska (com- . rediesq ek ey prising something more than 6,000 miles) is | cOUnted 5o that he would feel satisfied fairly worth per mile in 1%8 about 91.10 | was either elected or defeated. It Is under- per cent of the average commercial value | stood, however, that he will start his pro per mile of the entire 40,000 miles of ra s e road contained in the seven systems wi cesdings shortly lines extend into Nebraska; that is to sa 9110 per cent of 32,642 per mile, Indictments in Federal Court. | mile for the entire | 1909 of the lines of | 8.3 per cent which ( produces $47,97 per mile as the fair market | value of the entire railroad system of Ne- braska in 1909. (5) Based upon a similar consideration | of relative track density and relative gross earning power per mile, that portion of the Omaha system which' lies in Nebraska cannot be fairly sald to have a commercial | value in 1808 of more than & of the average ommercial value per mile of the entire that is to say 83 per cent of $45,- | 7,642 per mile. commercial value per mile in the ia system in Nebraska (337,642) o of only to the av ommercial | value of the entire railroad system of the state, $47,97 per mile. Justice requires that our assessed value should be proportion- ately no higher than our commercial value and yet, in 1906, the actual value pe placed by this board upon our lines was per cent of the hverage per railroad system of the | state. Ail Leathers Ali Styles All Sizes All Lasts 532.50 Sampleshoeman Alexander Sixth Floor Paxton Block | valuation. (1) By no possible method of railway based upon facts and either recognized In practice or sanctioned by reason, can the Nebraska lines of the Omana system be fairly declared to be worth today as much as the $41,440 per mile at which they were valued last year b this board. The laws of Nebraska do nc contemplate nor are they meant to perm! the assessment for taxation of the prop- erty of any individual or corporation within the borders of the state at more than its full market value. The refusal of this board to this year grant & material re. ductivn in the assessed value of the Omaha company’'s property braska will be not taxation, but comfiscation. Parker Sorely Disappolnte Big batches of big troubles are looming up for Governor Shallenberger and the un. fortunates of the state will saffer along with the O'Neill governed executive. F. 8. Parker, the victim of misgulded confi | were Eleven indictments and four not true biils returned by federal grand jury which reported to Judge T. C. Munger at | the conclusion of its three days' deiibera late Thursday afternoon. But on of the Indictments was made known, the | others being held because the indicted per sons have not yet been apprehended The one made known is against Fred A. | Belt, a traveling man for an Oklahoma | yi City firm, charging him with fraud. Belt's manner of working, so it is alleged by the government, was to solicit legitimate orders for his firm, and then pad the orders for future shipments in order, to get extra com missicns. the tions revenue ckages. He lating the internal ing cigars from broken pa tled the matter with the was released from custody set- Big W. 0. W. Iaitiation. Three thousand members the ien of the World will invade Lince One of the cases under investigation in | day afternoon to be present at the class which no indictment was returned was that against Isaac J. Benzaquen, charged with | Mitiation of the order, which will be held i ? X " " {in the auditorium Saturday evening. About 1000 candidates .will be taken into the der. A speclal train will be chartered from Omaha stre been planned by the start at 7:30 o'clock Wood satur- local committee Can’t Charged with Chila-Beating: Tell | PAXTON, Neb,, May 14.—(Special.)—A re port was circulated in the country about | ten miles south that Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Barrett were mistreating a little girl of 4 years whom they had taken Into their fam | liy. Several of their neighbors, with their how WELL you feel 10 days after quitting COFFEE and using | wives, gathered there to investigate and 1 |1t is asserted. found the child so badly | beaten that they took it away, filed & com and | Mrs. Barrett arrested and brought to town, the The plaint before the justice and had Mr “There's a Reason"” | where they pleaded not gullty to | charges and asked for a continuance. laws by sell- | government ani | for next Tuesda et parade which has | | will | ojal.)—Orlando | Jail in this city for safe keeping. | Herzog Tailoring Co. ' HOTEL LOYAL BLDG. 219 No. 16th D. H. BECK, Mgr. has been in ill health ror some time and this is thought to have caused him to loose his mind. When first noticed this morn- Ing he was running across a nelghbor | fleld in his night attire. He is under the delusion that a number of persons are pur- suing him. He s carefully guarded in jail here. He is an old resident of the county and is well known and highly respected. justice put them they obtained unde: ¢,000 bond, which and ir preliminary set Hotel Gordon. Neb., May 14.—(Special Tele- contract for th tion of a brick hotel was let today to W G. Traub, the price being $22 The hotel is being bullt by a stock com- ny composed of the business men of the wh, Big GORDON gram.)—The two-story contract Rebekah Lodge Meeting BEATRICE, Neb, MBay 14.—(Special.)— The seventeenth semi-annual district eon on of the Rebekah lodge was held yesterday afternoon and last evening cgates were In attendance from Blue Springs, Wymore, Odell, De Witt and Be. atrice. The afternoon was devoted to dis. Old Resident Loses Mind. NORTH /PLATTE, Neb., May 4. -(Spe Murphy, & middle-aged bachelor living about three miles north of Sutherland, became violently insane early this morning and was brought to the county Murphy (Continued on Fifth Page.) AYER’S AIR VIGOR Hair falling out? Troubled with dandruff? Want more hair? An elegant dressing? Ingredients: ushur, Gprerie:, Quisie. | Sodi rfiv-—: We believe doctors endorse this_formula, or we would not Does not Color the Halr