Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1909, Page 9

Saturday morning we place on sale a lot of beautiful trimmed hats in navy, brown, green, grey and rose, Alice blue and some in black and natural at just half regular price. $30 hats, $15.00. 5 hats, $12.50. $20 hats, $10.00. $10 hats, $5.00. $5.00 hats, $2.50. Included in this lot are some of our handsomest pattern hats. Thomas Kilpatrick & Co. LIGE CRAIN RATE RULING Railroad Men Well Suited by Kansas City Defeat. OMAHA DEALERS FEEL JUBILANT Eastern Rallroad Ofcial iog Up to Way West Has Been Beating Them in Vacation Travel to Resorts. Rallroad men are pleased with the ruling of the Interstate Commerce commission in respect to the complaint of the Kansas City adjust- ment of rates on grain us betWeen the va- Kansas City claimed the advantage of more than 1 cent because of its location to the south. sustained the posi- Commercial club concerning the rious points on the Missouri river. “The commission i tion of the rafiroad general freight agent of “The all grain markets on should be on a parity when ' said C. E. Bpe the Missourl it comes shipping grain to the Mississippl river and held to this position the lines have performed a greater service than others, and regardless of the fact that some of these Missouri river markets might be nearer some distant markets than the oti- beyapd. regardless They: have of the fact that some of ers.”" tween each adjustment of grain Omaha and Kansas City other. Omaha shippers pay 1 and Kansas Clty pay does Kansas City other hand, must than on the a hundred on grain moving to the northern markets. To have decided the case in favor of Kan- sas City would have glven the Kansas Clly over have in- grain men an immense advantage Omaha and permitted them to vaded Omaha territory at will Eastern Roads Wake Up. For ten years eastern railroad officlals have lounged In“their offices and watched the western rallroad traffic officlals bulld up a summer tourist business which has Western rallroads have advertised the beauties of A the Yellow- stone park and all the other magnificent attractions which the west has to offer. They have reaped an enormous profit by reached enormous proportions. Colorado's summer climate, Now Wak- the Burlington. | raliroads have always claimed that river o rates as be- balance cent more a hundred on grain going to the south 1 cent more glving attractive low rates. Now the east- ern managers have awakened and they themselves admit they have been asleep at the switch and that they will now try to stem the flowing tide of sightseers. For years they have refused to put in attractive rates to the eastern coast sum- mer resorts, being satistied wtih the reg- ular run of travel. Now a different tack will be taken and thirty-day vacation re- Western roads are engaged in lining up these rates to join with the eastern roads, for they will catch the travelers going and coming—going to the Rockies and to the Atlantie coast. The western roads will have the added attraction this year of the big Seattle ex- position and this will materially assist in keeping the tide of travel to the west. Western cities have benefited greatly by this enormous tide of sightseers, for 1t has &iven the people of the east an opportunity to see what a great and glorious country the west really is. Rallroads are. experiencing some diffi- culty in securing permission from the In- terstate Commerce commission to put in these rates. The eastern roads wanted to have the rates effectlve In Juné to hurry the travel to the resorts, which’ are not growded until July, It takés thirty days' Totice on a'Féduced rate which runs for thirty days and that would make it the middle of June before the rates would be effective. The railroads are therefore try- Ing to get a special ruling which will per- mit them to Install the rates by June L Railway Gossip. “Irrigated land is a most valuable asset in the west at the present time, for it is no trouble whatever to sell any land which is ditch or which may be put under a ditch in the future,” sald J. F. Vallery, general a t of the Burlington road at Denver. ““The manner in which the United States government has be advertiging its irrigated lands has aroused 3 under & class of land.” The hearing of the complaint of the Up- | dike Grain company against the Burlington road has been set for next Friday at Lin- coln. The company claims that the roads | have & higher rate on wheat | from many stations in Nebraska to Oma Daniel Williard, vice president of the Bur- lington, In charge of operation, was In Omaha for a short time Friday. el S St The famous Minnespolis Symphony chestra will appear at the Boyd Saturday afternoon in & complete program. duced rates given to all the coast resorts. | the interest of the entire country in this | than flour | | pany reached or- | THE BEE: : OMAHA, SATURPAY, Steamer Coats, Top Coats | Cravenettes, Raincoats 7.50—Sale $30.00—Sale H0—Sale “Goodyear Raincoats Meign BSupreme” TODAY WE INAUGURATE OUR ) All High Grade, Well Made, Waterproaf Garments and All Marked Down to Go and in light \ -J Pri('(‘. . Price PLEASE NOTE—That in addition to the gar- ments on which prices are quoted, we also have in stock, and which are also on sale at the same reduced prices, complete assortments of water-proofed auto wearing. apparel, rubber coats, mackintoshes and linen dusters; are of this season’s makes and styles Ideal garments for spring and summer evenings’ wear. Buy Now at This Store and Save Two-Thirds of the Usual Cost weight materials. $18.00—Sale 22.50—Sale $25.00—Sale $27.50—Sale $30.00—Sale $32.50 Sale $35.00—Sale $40.00—Sale $45.00—Sale Price Price Price Price. . Pric Price. ...§ Price Price. ... § Priee. . GIGANTIC 15 DAYS’ SEASON'S WIND-UP SALE Of the World Famous “GOOBYEAR” Spring Styles, Summer Weights FOR MEN AND WOMEN (Silk Coats, Auto Coats, | Tourist Coats, Auto Capes ON SALE AT 66 2-3 PER CENT LESS THAN THE REGULAR PRICES ! Without doubt this is the greatest value-giving Raincoat Sale ever held in this grand old town. Here is a sale in which we offer the world's best rainproof garments in an almo8t infinite variety of makes, styles and shades, of this season’s styles and in a bigger, picer, and in a greater varfety tham any other store even dares to handle in a whole season-—and we offer you this splendid stock at much less than even the retailers pay for their goods at wholesale. And there's a story behind this gigantic sale—1it 1s just this: months, which necessitates careful packing and storaging of goods storage the garments we offer them all now at these unmatchable prices. Men’s Cravenettes, Raincoats and Topcoats $15.00—Sale $10.00—Sale $22.50—-Sale $25.00—Sale in cravenetted materials, rubberized silks, double-texture goods, All stores of the Goodyear Raincoat Co. usually close for the summar To properly do so takes much time and money Rather than pack and Women'’s Cravenettes and Rub- berized Silk Garments Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention When Check or Money Order is Enclosed. Goodyear Raincoat Co. THE RAINCOAT SPECIALTY STORE e e Shuberts Get Burwood Theater for Next Season “Independents” Finally Break Into Omaha Theatrical Field with Good House. “The Shuberts" have gained the entrance to Omaha they have long sought. A con- tract was closed early Friday morning be- tween the managers of the Shubert affairs and Manager Johnson of the Burwood theater whereby the Shubert companies will be played at that house next season. This means the end of the Burwood Stock gompany. It also means competition in the amusement world in Omaha. ¢ For several years Omaha has been shut out from the enjoyment of a number of really strong attractions by reason of the fact than no “independent” theater existed here. A working agreement between Klaw & Prilanger on the one side, Havlin, who control the Krug thes the Orpheum people on closed the doors of Omaha the Fiske and Belasco productions, or at least such of them as were sent on the road, and to all the Shubert companies during the time of the “war” between the two syndicates Last fall Manager Johnson made arrangements with the Shuberts and Messrs. Fiske and Belasco to play some of the *‘independent” attractions at the Bur- wood, and the result has been so satisfac- tory that the little theater will now be given over entirely to the uses of the Shu- bert shows. Manager Woodward arrived from Kansas City yesterday ahead of the Woodward Stock company, which opens at the Boyd theater on Sunday afternoon. The com- the ecity on the 6 o'clock train last eveaing, and rehearsal was held at the theater after the concert last even- ing. an the other, ters to the Bee Want Ads stimufate trade moves. Judge Has Pity,: Gives Two Years Sutton Lets Car Breaker Off Light, for He- Appears with Con- trite’ Heart. Lowell Adair seemed so really ful for his plight Friday morning Judge Sutton was easy with him after Adair had pleaded guilty to breaking and | entering a refrigerator car, whence he car- | riea off nearly a ton of meat | Two ars as the sentence, | lght, considering that Adir the penitentiary previously words helped him what, rather than his éxact \\'Ohl)(y | reason. Charles Nelson, & colored man, guilty to breaking into and entering the | residence of Benjamin A. Church. The penalty for entering a residence Is pérforce | heavier than for a warencuse or car, and Nelson got three and one-half years. Army Notes remorse- that | which was had been in Adair's own Iis manner being - the som pleaded H an by Sergeant Willlam A. Wilson, Company Thirteenth infantry, has been granted honorable discharge from the army purchase Private Christophet H. Stiles, L, Sixteenth infantry, has been transferred to the hospital corps upon the recommenda- | tion of the chief surgeon of the Department | of the Missouri Leaves of absence have granted Second Lieutenant Melvin G. Faris of the | Thirteenth Infantry for fifteen days and to Contract Dental Surgeon E. P. R. Ryan for fourteen days. The dirigible balloons and other aero- nautic equipment ordered shipped f | Fort Myer, Va., are expected to reach Fort Omaha Saturday or Sunday. The new aero- nautical experiments will not be undertaken until about ten days after the new equip- ment arrives. beéen Company | Some Losers Say Votes Were | Wrongly Counted On This Basis They May Ask that City Election Ballots Be Recounted. There is a possibility that some of the defeated candidates in the recent city elec- tion will ask for a recount, holding that the judges did not count them according to law The statutes provide that the electon wishing to vote a straight ticket can do o | by marking a eross in the circle at the top | of the column, #But this is qualified some- | what by another section that the Intent of the voter shall be considered. Many voters marked a cross in the square opposite Dahlman or Breen and the judges, in one precinct, at least. counted these for | the entire ticket on the belief that the intent” was to vote for the entire ticket W. M. Westergard, a clerk in the office | of the county judge, was a challenger in | the Bixth ward and he says the judges | counuted three ballots—two marked for Dahlman and one marked for Breen, only— for the entire ticket e in a ward would make mistakes like many more were doubtless made in the other wards,” sald of the defeated candidates, “There seems to be some ques- tion, but I believe that a cross after the name of but man should be counted for that one man, and not for the entire ticket. If this is correct, a recount might chunge the electors a like the Sixth this a great | one one ssult,” A Bloo is 'lung hemorrhage. lungs, f Beaton Drug Co. eitsin——— Quick Action for Your Money—You get that by using The Bee advertising columns. y Aftair Stop It and cure weak coughs and colds with Dr. King's | Discovery. $0c and $L.00. For sale by | | | Largest Single License to Build Is-| | her Permit Given for Court House| sued Without Cost to the ! County. The permit for thg construction of the new $1,000,00 court house was issued by | City Bullding Inspector Withnell Friday noon, Jeff W. Bedford, county commis- | sioner, applying for the big permit in his capacity of chalrman of the construction committee. The permit, which is the largest single bullding permit ever fssued in the state of Nebraska, specitigs that the court house is to be “of .fire proof constryction, five storles high and a basement. The building will cover a ground 160x250 feet, from | Seventeenth to hteenth street, between | Farnam and Harney s. By council resolution, no made for the court house pe str charge mit. OMAHA MEN IN NEW BOOK | a was Severnl Me ton 1 M er Story Army Life, by Carring- | of | Mrs. Frances C. Carrington, wife of Gen ernl Henry B. Carrington of Hyde Park, Mass., has now in the hands of publishers new book, “My Army Life Plains or Indlan Revenge and the Phil Kearny Massacre, December After Many Days, July, 1908." The work is in four parts, Bound,” *“Our ntier Home," ward Bound,” and . part four, Many Days, The Triumph of In this latter section of the Mrs. Carrington tells the story of the arrival of General Carrington and herself at Omaha, enroute to Sheridan Wyo. Bpecial mention is made of the wel- come glven them in Omaha by General Charles Morton, General C. F. Manderson, Gould Dietz and others on behalf of the Omaha club; the story of the visit to the on the Fort 1866, “Outward | “Home- “After Pea work | | ever | w 223 NORTH SIXTEENTH STREET ‘‘Specialists in Raincoat Specialties.’ 107 8. 16th St., Omaha, Neb. Gentlemen:—We beg to advise that we have decided to accept your offer on the lots of goods mentioned in your letter of pre- vious date and while this price is far below the manufacturing cost, on account of our retiring from business, we have accepted your proposition and shall forward the goods at once. Yours truly /&'o/m Brothers \ Suits, Raincoats' and Overcoats sold up to $30.00 at $15.00 Den, as the guest of the Sar-Ben, and the meeting veterans of the Indian war of whom, S. 8. Peters and escorted General Sheridan on Knights of Ak- with several of 1966-8, two Samuel Gibson, Carrington to of “Wyoming and the occasio Opened.” m———————— Don't miss our wonderful sale of high- class tallorec the greatest bargains known. page 13 for out adver- tisement ORKIN BROS. Bee Stella street, Etchinson frame aton, - Ames frame dwelling, Franklin st rd M. 8 dwelling, Franklin _street, Walter Deets, h Thirty- awolling, - £2600; s k. nty-elghth avenue, P. Slater, 343 dwelling, $2,00; Bd- Franklin street, frame Edward M. Slater, 242 frame dwelling, $2,400; \ Twenty-fourth strest and Camden aventie, frame dwelling, $1.800; H A. McCord, 9 North Eighteenth street frame dwelling, $1,500; H. A. MeCord, Twenty-seventh and Spaulding streets, frame dwelling, $1.80: H. A. MeCord. Twenty-seventh and Spaulding streets, frame dwelling, $1,800; C. G. Somers, 218 South Twelfth street, frame dwelling, §1.4x Even the young folks can remember when all soda crackers were bought from an open box or barrel. At that time they were only used because there was nothing better. But now the perfected soda crackers / NATIONAL BISCUIT - Sold only in Sloisture Proof Packages in their moisture and dust proof packages are a staple 3-times-a- day food. The fact that nearly every day in the year shows the popular appreciation National-Biscuit-Goodness half a million packages are eaten of