Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 16, 1909, Page 9

PART TWO EDITORIAL PAGES 1 TO 8 A PAPER FOR THE HONME OMAHA BEE YOUR MONEY'S WORTH THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. OMAHA, VOL. XXXVIII-NO. 48, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Silk Brocade Corsets $1.00 La Grecque, Du Barry, Kabo, R. & G. and Warner's Monday we ci Damasks ¢ Towels Bleached Table Damask, 75 and 04-inches, any plece in stock, worth to 60c, Monday. 38¢ Towel Hemstitched and hemmed huck Tow: egular 26c goods, Monday, each 19¢ = 'Illl, lll linen, 18-inch, vnrle(y of xoodfin!r 00 WASH DRESS GOODS 36-inch MUSLIN WEAR_SALE One table laden with fine Corset Covers, Drawers, etc., beau: titully trimmed, all values, 89¢, 50c and §o¢, for 280 Women's Drawers — cambric and nain- sook, 12 styles, lace and emboirdery Another table contains Gowns, in new slip- over style, short sleeves, lace and rib- bon_trimmed, values to 86c, at .89 Ohilaren's Drawers, | to 13 years, made right and of the best One {mmense lot of new checks, stripes, etc., In light grounds, for sufts, waists, coats, girls’ wear, 50c materials for Here's a lot of very fine French Anderson's Scotch Gingham, plain scttes and mercerized materials, and 50c, for tural Pongee Linens in and dark boys' and <190 hams, Linens valuss .90 large line of these Many of them are all are daintily lace an up a very very fine grades of corsets genuine whalebone stayed trimmed and shown in the most wanted styles; ol welihty white, pink, blue; velvet grip hose support onday Spe- attached. On the bargain table—corsets Gin terns, worth $1.50 dozen, at 18-ineh Linen Crash red border, & MONDAY-—Sale Manufacturer's Stock Drap- clal, at serviceable quallty, always 1ic vess 80 worth $3.50 and $5.00, | 3 L ae We Bought 9,000 yvds. New Pongees and Rajahs 143 Pieces—9,000 Yards—32 New Shades—All Pure Silk Pongees From LEADING PATERSON NEW JERSEY SILK MILL Value is the compelling force back of this incomparable silk sale. I ‘The fact that these are cholice, new silks- this the magnitude and variety and the HALF-PRICE inducement makes it a power in local retailing circles. Everybody knows how these Pongees, Tussahs, and Rajah silks wear. has brought them to perfection now. Buy them for Princess Dresses, Tallored Coat Suits, Auto Conts, Waists, Children’s Coal Mouse Plum Hyacinth Irench China Catawba Marine rtle the most popular of any shown for... ery Samplos and Mill Lengths. he greatest and most important silk purchase and sale of recent years. over any counter—gives prestige and lustre to the occasion. Aside from All $1.26 and $1.35 silks for 69c. Everybody wants them this year. Improved machinery These don't get rough and are smoother and softer in texture than formerly. Traveling Coats, Evening Gowns, Etc. 32 new shades— 28 inches wide—Half-Price. Reseda Nile Light Blue Pink Black Cream White Gold e SN White Goods, Sheets, Sheetings Duplicating Last Week's Wonderful Underpriced Sales India Linons—50 pleces, perfect |Cotton Blankets for summer— goods, regular 6%c quality 3¢ regular Persian Lawn—46-inch, 39c quality, yard.. o French Lawn—48-inch best line, imported, yard..... Cotton Suiting — 36-| nch grade, yard..... Long C]oth——aslnch our quality (12 yards 90c), yd..8¢ Muslin—Cambric finish, e 25¢ ur 111 36- lnch. fine and soft, 10c quality, yd T¢ $1.39 quality $1.26 quality Bleached Sheeting— “lufil brand, 2% yards wide, 30¢ grn(l<_ for .. Aurora Sheeting—2 yards wide, 29c grade, Monday Bleached Sheets—81x90 N. Y Mills Muslin, $1.10 grade @O¢ Bleached Sheets — 72x950, well worth 60c, Monday Gracler Walnut t rd me-not A 8w Roy Rosewond Hartensia Bellerose ot Majoram Blue Nationsl Blue EMBROIDERY SCOCP A sensational imbroideries mever before so cheaply priced. You save as you never did before here tomorrow. EMBROIDERIES—Several thousand yards new wide handsome Swiss and Nainsook edges, bands, Insertions, galoons; 9 to 12 inches; als beautiful match sets edges and insertions up to 9 inches ‘9 wide, worth to 36c, choice for C ALLOVERS AND FLOUNCINGS—Fine sheer quality allovers for wals dresses and combinations, worth to 7b¢; also 24 and 27-inch flouncings, worth 59¢, choice, yard SHIRT WAIST FRONTINGS—And Barred Corset Cover new and exquisite patterns, barred/Swiss with beadin edge, values to 98¢ yard; choice Monday VALENCIENNES LACE—Table full dainty delcate Val Edges and insertions; values 10c and 12%ec, choice, yard Embroideries, Our Great May Rug Sale, Entire Stock Reduced An annual event watched and waited for by hundreds of ilies. prices lower than we have ever known them. 30 Rugs, room size mitre rugs wonderful values. 11 foot 3-in. by 13 ft. Brussels Rugs 11 ftx6 ft. 9-in. Brussels Rugs... 12x9 feet Brussels Rugs. 12x10 feet 6 inch Axminster Rugs 12x9 foot Wilton Velvet Rugs. 13%x13 ft. Wilton Velvet Rup 2 000 Sample Strips rug made. 6x9 ft., $16.50 $27.50 Wilton Velvet R .98 .48 $30.00 Sample Axminster Rugs. $30.00 Axminster Rugs, Draperies Damasks and Tapesteries ‘We-bought a maker’s entire stock at a very in- sjgnificent price. Yours for “a song” tomorrow. Plain and Figured Reps up to yard lengths for up- holstering and pillow tops, choice ded Tapestries up to 3 yards long, worth $1.5 Bro: & yard, at, per plece... 19¢ --95¢ Bordered, Fringed Portieres and Flsured Tnpontneu up to 8% yard plecen, very rich effects, at, per plece $1.45 Sample Portieres, rich qullllles and effects, values to $11.00 pair, choice, each $1.98 Couch Covers—2 big lots, $1, $1.50 and $1.75 kind for $2.00 to $3.50 kind for Short Lengths rep upenry, all Lawn Mowers, Garden Hose, Screens, Paint, Etc. Ohallenge,” adjustable, 14-inch ball. 14- incit, four speelally tempered knives, bearing Lawn Mower . “Atlentic” ball-bearing Mower, Monday, each bearing Mower, 14- .Pllln 8 $a.98 free with any mower 12 98¢ OMOTTOW. lllfifi an'lnnod Garbage Cans, I O alvanised ‘Garbage Cans, gallon, for .. TYPE OF THE WESTERN MAN Incidents of the Stirring Life of Ne- vada's Noted, Senator. WIDE RANGE OF HIS ACTIVITIES Making and Spending Fortunes Easily Gained—Recollections of Scemes in Mining Camps and in Washington. evident from the probate court pro- codings in Washington that the noted Ne- vada statesman, Willam M. Stewart, closed his career with very little more ma- orlal possessons than he brought Into the world. He was known to have made and spent two fortunes, but the third for- supposed to have been made at Bull- t0g, one of Nevada's newest camps, has nat materialized. His estate 18 trifling, corgisting chiefly of stocx m wmines of no particular value at present. In his elghty-four years of lfe Stewait's sctivities Included that of farmer, Yale student, Tagian fighter, miner, specuiator, lawyer and United States senator—'Si King" (o the feature writers of Washiog- ton and “Sage Brush Bill” to the wiing camps of Nevada, was remarkable in muny respects, o wonderful old man. There are few of his day and time left now, and when the last one is gome there will be nohe to tell first-hand stories of what was in many wuys the most picturesque period of Amerioau history, the days of ‘43, when the gold fever in the west was at its height The ol¢ senator's very appearance was a8 provocative of interest as his life story. The writer remembers seelng him once lelsurely walking down & street in Wash- ington under the broad-brimmed “‘western' hat that he always had the good sensc to wesr till his dying day. A derby hat would have looked foolish and‘absurd on Senator Stewart and & silk tile ridiculous. Marik T'waln, the famous writer, and the senator -48¢ colors for pHIow ..5¢ Oak, like cut 25 lhm N $2.26 Galvanizéed Garbage Cans, gallon, for .$1.50 Rubber Hose, er foot, . .18¢, l!c lnd 10¢ Elgin Lawn co With any coil Screen Doors, any size and style, each . $1.85, fl.wm."! Hinges d Trlmmlngn free. Bcreen Frames, adjustable. 69¢ Galvanized Wash Tubs 7%¢ Galvanized Wash Tubs 88¢ Galvanized Wash Tubs Sunshine Paint, per gallon . Kashmir Room Rugs most durable cheap 5.08 939 ft., $8.98 9x12 ft russels Rugs, room size.. THIS CHAIR-—Solid Our entire Spring Rug stock is involved. It's a grand clearance with at actual cost to $15.00 all wool art squares 37 50 $6.50 granite art squares. .. $2.98 Mitre mats, 45 to 54-inch vel\ets Brusaels, Ax- minsters, etc. e ‘e Oriental l(ug\e—small sizes, clear; 120 only. -+ $9.9% 6.48 | ugs g 5.5_)8| 16.5 choicest goods-— Monday s Furmture Economies New Sanitary Couch, guaranteed; like cat $3.25 Chiffone five drawers, ..85.00 Carload chitfoniers and dressers, all solid oak— Chiffoniers, $8.75; Dressers, $0.25 $20.00 Dressersg for $15.00 PORCH FURNITURE Swings, complete ready to hang—- $2 50 i $3.48, $5.00, $6.00, $13.00 , like cut; e o1 piece Suite, roeker, chair and Bettee ........00 -$9.50 Tub Dresses Stylis neat and dressy House Dresses of standard grade wash materials, plain and fancy and made with rare taste, assortment in_town, $4.50, $2.76, $2.25, $1.75 and $2.00 Waists, 81.25 A_score of richly designed white Lingerfe Waists many of them new, again this week, lace and em- broldery trimmed, tailored lawr with Dutch neck:'also black values to $2 Carter's White Lead, 100 Double Stamps on' P Brass Nickel Plated Wall $1.25 kind Brass Nickel Holder, 76¢ kind, for . 86c Slab Soap Dish, for 40c Nickel Towel Bars, Poultry Wire, in full foot, at ... Screen square foot’ Double Stamps on .87.35 pap Dish, Big Bargains on shades, at fabrics, plain and fancy pongee ‘860 ana Boo trimmed, PICK OF THE STOCK SALE TAILORED SUITS. Values to $50 00 by - One of the greatest suit seasons ever enjoyed by any Omaha store has already been recorded at Bennett’s. has been phenomenal. clearing up time. Our success Now comes a We still have over 300 magnificent suits that sold upward from $35.00 to $50.00. These must go. Monday Sult In our ~uuk Unrestricted choice any colored cloth is yours for $25.00. Tajlored A grand sweeping clearance of our high class. clusive models, one of a kind suits—many of which have been in the house less than four weeks. Superb three-piece models; most distinguished Wooltex styles included, absolutely most refined ultra fashionable shades of the day. Never modes and vas a more timely sale held in town—and such values. Suitg that you may have heretofore considered out of your reach in price now down to a popular figure, come Monday for first pick. Jos. Brown & Co. Bankrupt Stock CUT GLASS Continuing greatest Sale in our history—2,000 pleces 80 per cent under actual value. CHINA DEPT. SPECIALS Decorated Platters—Cups and Saucers, Jugs, Plates, Bak- ers and Bowls, closing 10¢ Johnson's English White China Cups and Saucers, per pair Footed Glass Punch Bowls and six sherbets complete, set -81.25 Glass Candle Sticks—Eiectric or Mission style, 8-in., 25¢ $25.00—but muslin, 18e, 20c, 950 and teseeess 300 at .360 Phenomenal Jewelry Sale ‘The sale of the Jos, Brown & Co. $40,000 bankrupt stock created unbounded interest. Such & sale was never before heard of in Omaha. Prices are revolu- tionising iu the jewelry trads. Biggest crowds cver attending a sale of jewelry, Diamonds, Watolies and Out Glass in the west were here Saturday. ‘The mi interest at Friday and in of this ‘ [Riv Reat all wed windows on THE WATCH SALE Men's 7-jewe! sale price Men's 15-jewel, sale price ... .. Men's 15 or 17-jewel $20.00; sale price . Men's 20 and Dueber, $30.00 watches; salo price WOMEN'S WATCHES 20-year gold filled, 7-jewel, 20-year gold filled, 15-jewel, 20 year gold filled wafches, $16.00 watches. .. .00 watches. . nse will keep up the All goods as advertised antil’ oloned out. ..88.95 worth $10.50 -year goid filled ‘watches, Boss, Crescent, Faye cases, America’s best movements; actual ....89.95 ..$10.95 N e B e Monday for Coffee, Teas and Groceries of All Kinds Bennett's Golden Coffee, and 40 st Bennett's Teas, adsorted, Ib. and 7b stamps. Bennett's Capitol Pepper, and 5 stamps. Burnham's Clam Chowder and 20 stamps, Tvaporated Peaches, 1b. entucky Blue Grass Se ite Clover Seed, Ib. Vegetbale and Flower Seeds, Filet of Herring in sauce . can.... Martha Washington Breakfast Food. per package . 10¢ and nlumDs Toasted Rice Biscults . and § stampi Japan Rice, 10¢ quality, 4-Ibs. ...86c California Ripe Oliyes, large can 30¢ Rex Lye, three cans for and 10 stamps. Oyster Shells for chickens, 1b. Bone Meal for chickens, 1b. Wheat for chickens, 1b. Hartle Stollw 1b. cake Migonette for .. Batavia Burnham’s C Large s Pure Fruit Jams ck’s Premium - Chocolate, for .. and 10 stamps Marrowfat Peas, 8 cans Salmon, can and 10 stamps. m _Boulllon, ..40c—and 20 sta; +.80c—and 10 stan 10c—and dlum t+1 5 stamps were great friends. Mark used his name and fame freely in his writngs, and it is even said that the humorlst wrote a great part of “Roughing It" in Scnator Stew art’s room at Washington, where Twain wandered in one day and calmly made him- selt at home Old Comstock Days. Mark, in telling of the old Comstock Lode days, relates how mining stock was given away by friends at casual meetings, in the same way that a man with a bag of apples on meeting a friend would hold them out and say “have some.’ “Very often,” sald Twain, “it a| good idea to close the transaction in- stantly when a man offered a stock pres- | ent to a friend, for the offer was only good and binding at that moment, and if | the price went to high figure shortly aft- | erward the procrastination was a thir to be regretted. Mr. Slewart—senator w from Nevada—one day told me h would give me 20 feet of ‘Justus’ I would walk over \to his offic It worth % or f10 a foot. I asked him make the offer good for the next day, as I was just going to dinner. He said he weuld not be In town; so I risked it and | took my dinner instead of the stock Within a week the price went up to §i and afterwar to $160, but nothing could make the man yleld. I suppose he sold that stock of mine and placed the guilt proceeds in his own pocket The old senator once sald he had spent twenty years am mining camps where only mig vight, where desperadoes stalked fairly itching for a fight and men each other for the most trivial off and fmaginary insuits, he never had a personal encounter the whole time. His in- | variably good humor and affability carried him through many a tight situation with- | out the necessity of viclence. He used to boast, too, that though at one time he was an executive officer of the vigllantees, he never hanged a man, but was the means of saving several whom the vigllantes had condemned. Stopped a Lynchi It is told of him that one day while | was w he ok it | was | to that though | ng the | was | ound | Killea s | | gestures | was | know." | well riding his law clrcuit he entered & mining | dlately organized and started In pursuit of camp in which there was an ominous stir| him. He was overtaken and part of the and bustle. As he dismounted at his slull-l missing money was found on him and ping place he saw a distant group whose | identified. He and attitudes could indicate only [ hanged. The Englishman was turned loose thing—somebody was about to be | with apologies for any seeming discourtesy. strung up. In front of a shack that served for a hotel, Stewart came across a small, | wiry man, whom he aft rd learned was | a Texas desperado named Jack Watson. } The little man wore a look of disgust on | his face and Stewart asked him what nm; one Reception for the First Woman. An incident which Stewart relating afterward was made use by Mark Twain. While he and several other companions were mining at Washoe, an agltated of the party came run- ning in y with the startling formation that he had seen flutter from within a passing emigrant wagon. Not a man jack of them had seen a woman in three and the informa- tion immediately created a great commo tion. Picks and shovels were drop; forthwith and the whole bunch went hooting country after the wagon, giving vent to whoops of joy. The wagon exan looked up at Stewart keenly, | V4% found drawn, up at camp, but the the hilt of his “gun” and ex.|OWNer somewhat belligerently denied that - e e B he had any woman with him. None was i b MR tn sight, and the emigrant looked (0o crusty the lttle Texan grasped his| o 470 Wr any poking %o the 25 o ey enaiug | PATtY withdrew much cast down into the crowd, where the noose | L ¢ !N¢ more they talked about it, th Iready being propared. “Here, boye, | WOF tey felt they must se that woman Stewart, “before you go any further | 0° Or'8inal inferman: was positive mto this a little bit her, 2o atter sad as well sure about it, cussed, it was decided to to the emigrant and his could be Induced to show herself. hands enthusiastically chipped in till fund of $2,000 in gold dust was raised was fond of member one d trouble was about. The reply was to the effect that a man was about to be hanged, a stranger, an Englishman, who had come into camp the night before. Some money ad been stolen, and the Englishman being convenlent, it had been decided hang | him for it. The Texan added that in his | opinion the man was not gullty. Stewart | thereupon remarked that if thepe was any doubt apout his gullt somebody ought intertere The grasped claimed: | to years to| cross Stewart whereupon arm their ast, around. said le might out way means were dis- it & purse wife if only Just case be You you pres she Al a There was some demur, but Stewart was known to many in the crowd and ready to listen. Stewart sol- declared court convened on the appointed offictals and called W, to the stand. He selected himself as judge, prosecuting attorney and counsel | for the defense. One of the first questions | he asked was whether all of those who| Quitk Action for Your Money—You get had slept in the hotel the night before were | bag and mentioned that a small jackpot still around the camp. Several witnesses | had been created which would be presented admitted that one man had left camp on a to the lady if only she would veveal her- mule ecarly that morning. self to their staring eyes. “That man's the thiet," “Sally,” he called Into the wagon, Stewart, with conviction, and forthwith|Out an’ show yo'self. The declared court adjourned. It turned out|&oin' ter hurt ye. that the departed man was unpopular in fur ye." the camp anyhow, so a force was imme-| A feminine face appeared shyly at the they emnly sp were their urgont desire to see wife. The husband dropped his hostile manner when the spokesman held out his that by using The Bee advertising columns. the emigrant's announced ome boys ain't a They've got somethin’ Back they went to the wagon and stated | was brought back and duly | | covered in what was then Utah, | lawyer went to look | the | he saw | corroboratea by | involved in the rear of the wagon. presented the bag of dust with a profound bow. The woman took it, thanked the party awkwardly and scooted for the wagon again. The assembled party then threw up their hats and gave threo cheers, thanked the emigrant for his kindness and departed for thelr camp again, much up- lifted and comforted by the first sight of a woman In three long years Features of His Public Life. In his “Reminiscences,” Senator Stewart in- | told the story of his life in the first per- a petticoat | son But for the fact that they are Amply the testimony of friends, of the would some life with eem almost unbellevable. a glant of a man. Tall, muscles like and supple, [ & lmbs, way to hold his own that dominated border ward, He iron, quick he was in every in the rough Californta and states before the To the day of his last illness, he kept his helght and erectness, and his tan- gled thatch of beard. While acting as district attorney in 1854, moved to San Francisco and formed a law partnership with Henry, 8. Foote, who had been a senator and Eovernor of Mis- sissippl. A year later Stewart married Governor Foote's daughter Afterward, when the mous Comstock lode was dis- the youhg and became tellowship the other it over, Indlan fighting, which was waged furlously that far west. Whe took & leading part in the management of local government. over new ized into the it was in territory of Nevada, Stewart the following year, 1561, that his fortune of $:0,000 swept away in a night by a flood that carried away his mings machinery. Nothing daunted, he tramped over the mountains, 300 miles, to San Francisco, where on his good name he succeeded In borrowing $50,000. In 1864 came Stewart's election to the United States senate, Nevada having been erected into a state by congress because the northern leaders saw that its votes incidents of his early frontier | fitted | war and after- | portion of the | : | Mrs western Utah was organ- | MT T Stewart advanced ana well formed, | would be required in the adoption of con- stitutional amendments to be proposed when the rebeliion should be quashed. He 4ld not go to Washington entirely un- | known. Already his name had been as- | sociated with some of the most famous litigations of the west. He had a ehare in the Challay a4 Potits contrryersd, Asting | the best known that gathered around the Comstock lode, and many another. But, after all, his legal fame rested most securely upon the mining laws which he framed and which stand today practically unchanged, an eternal monument to his keen intellect and broad knowledge of the | fleld. | Benator Stewart was a close friend of | | Benator Zach Chandier of Michigan, and he | was one of those to whom Chandler pro- | | posed his scheme for the invasion of Can- | ada In revenge for Great Britain's assist- | ance rendered to the south in the civil war. | According to Mr. Stewart, thirty senators | were pledged to help in carrying out the plan to throw an army of 200,000 veterans across the border, but the assassination 6f President Lincoln prevented the realization of the idea. Last Letter from Lincol rhaps not generally known that wart was said to have been the man who received the last written word of the war president before he was shot. He | wanted to introduce a friend to the presi- dent on the evening of the day he went to Ford's theater. An usher brought out a | card from the president on which was written ! Senator $ “1 am engaged to go to the theater with | Lincoln. It is the kind of an engage-q ment [ never break. Come with your f tomorrow at 10, and I shall be glad to se you, A. LINCO As Senator Stewart was walking out of | the White House entrance, President Lin- ¢oln was helping Mrs. Idncoln into & car- rlage. He turned to the senator from Ne- | vada and extended his hand cordially. It was the last time they met. Later that evening, Mr. Btewart regelved word of the attack on Seward, and with several other senators rushed to the secretary's house. The doctors would not admit them, and they started for the White House. On the nd way they met & White House attache, who | tlon of this tail is not | ser told them President Lincoln had been shot in the theater, SACRED FISH OF THE BAHAMAS | A Hammer for Speed, with Crashing Jaws and & Whiplike Tail. Among the many strange inhabitants of the great' deep one of the most pecuflar and Interesting is the whippores, or whipra; This curlous fish probably takes its name from its slender, whiplike tall, which s six feet long and but a quarter of an Inch in diameter its entire length. The exact funce known. It is un- armed, though the body s provided with four formidable daggers of from four to six Inches In length Another fish, somewhat like the poree, called the stingaree, has & similar tall, which s provided with two fangs, and it protects itself by switching the tafl through the water with extreme rapldity and it is a very dangerous weapon. The body of the whipporee is drab, with beautiful colored markings. The head is shaped like that of an immense bird. The roof of the mouth and tongue are covered with bone half an inch in thickness and e to ctush crabs and other shellfish, upon which the animal subsists. The fin or wings, are very powerful and it is a swift swimmer, easily distancing its nat- ural enemles, the sharks. It Is claimed that the whipporee is strong enough to tow 4 three-masted schooner. This may or may not be true. One off Key West was har- whip- | poone€ near shore and struck out for deep water, towing an launch three tired enough allow itrelf pounds and to tip of its fins. It is very difficult to catch the whip- poree owing to its great speed, and, as its mouth easily crushes a fish hook, the har- n is the only efficlent weapon. It feeds ostly In shallow water and draws crabs and other small shellfish from their hiding places in the rocks by suction, the water passing through the gills. Among the Conchs, or natives of the Bahamas, the whipporee s considercd sacred—Philadel- phia Record. elghteen-foot naphtha miles out to sea before it was to come to the surface and to be shot. It weighed 400 measured six feet from tip