Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 22, 1909, Page 10

] e W oo e % All Sizes All Styles All Widths All Lengths 30 P. M. ALEXANDER 6th Floor Paxton Block ASSESSING NEW PAVEMENTS Board of Equalization Will Take Up Work on June 2. SEVENTEEN PIECES OF PAVING Improvements Are to Cost in the Ag- gregate Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars and Be Done This Year. ‘The new Board of Equalization of the new city council will be called upon.at its first meeting on June 2 to equalize assess- ments ,on seventeen pleces of street im- provement. The papers have been prepared by the enginering department and embrace &rading on elght streets, the opening and extending of five streets, paving on two alleys and laying of sewers on two streets, The work will cost nearly $25,000. The streets to be graded and the esti- mated cost of the work are scheduled by the engineering department as follows Brown street between Florence boulevard and Twenty-fourth street, $1,343.60; Wakeley street between Forty-sixth and Forty- elghth streets, $1,343.23; Thirty-fifth avenue between Mason and Pheific strects, §900.95; Webster street between Thirty-eighth and Fortieth streets, $818.91; Decatur street be- tween Thirty-elghth and Fortieth streets, $#42.19; Lalrd street between Florence boulevard and Twenty-fourth street, $343.36; , Twenty-third street between Saratoga | avenue and Brown street, §227.%. ¥ The streets to be opened, together with the estimated cost of the work, are as follows: Nineteenth avenue, between Jones street and Bt. Mary's avenue, $10,827.60; A street, between Twentieth street and Hoctor boul- evard, $3410; Sixteenth street, from C street to the south city limits, $400; Eighth street, between Dorcas and Arbor streets, $35360; Seward streef, hetween Military and Forty-first avenues, $276.2%, The alleys are to be paved. One Is be from Marcy street to Leavenworth street and the other is between KEighteenth and Nineteenth streets and runs from Harney to Farnam street street The' paving on the first will cost §1,920.70, according to the estimate, and on the other it will cost $1,70.20, One sewer {8 to be bullt on Twenty fourth street, between Dodge and:Daven POt streets, at a cost of $661.7, and the other on Hoctor houlevard and Twenty third street a cost of $6 4 AGED PATIENT CELEBRATES 014 Man Responds to Spring’s Beck- oning Call to Come: and Have a Time. The gladsome springtide so Charles Avison, an aged inmate of the county hospital that he determined to celebrate. Even the attractive green fields could not hold him at the hospital, where he had heen all winter, and Thursday he left the place and came “‘to town." That Is; all he remembers except that he took “one or two drinks.” He is trying to recall ithe fun he had, riow that he is in jall. He i being held by the police until the county authiorities can take charge of him again, affected Small Towns Oppose Fast Train Schedules fly lot at Andrew, la., Sunday, with im- ; g pressive ceremonies, in which a delegation Object to Passengers Going Through | ot the fowa legislature and the lowa His- i Without Stopping at Their torical soclety will take part. , Stations. The lowa legislative committee, with } Y Mr. Dunham, were the guests of Mrs. Briggs at luncheon at the Paxton after Rallroad traffic managers are meeting | their return from the cemetery with considerable opposition in their ef- forts to improve the train service of the west by adding numerous better equipped trains. Especlally is opposition being met on the runs of the Burlington and Union Pacific from St. Louls to Denver, where a lack of two hours in the running time has been taken up under a new time card which will go into effect May 23. To make this long run in two hours less time it has been found necessary to hasten through some of the smaller towns where stops have been made. These towns do not like to be passed up. The officials say it Is necessary and that the towns are not injured because the new trains will take care of all the business at the smaller towns. The speed with which some western rail- were not decided upon until quite recently, the folder is now out and ready for dis- tribution. The folder map has been re- vamped and extended to include the coast territory, making it a map of over half of the continent. This was necessary be- cause so many of the Burlington through trains now continue thelr journey on to he coast. | Through business to the Seattle exposi- {tion has started, for the reduced rates went into effect May 2. The Burlington had an extra sleeper out on the first day and L ——— SLawr AR aana 10WA HONORS ANSEL BRIGGS Removes Remains of First Governor from Omaha to Old Home. WILL ERECT MONUMENT THERE Only Surviving Pall Lald Away Bedy t Years What was left after its twenty-eight years of interment of the body of Ansel { Briggs, the first governor of lowa, Wwas isinterred at Prospect Hill cemetery Fri- day noon, placed in another casket for re- interment at Andrew, la. | The disinterment was made under | direction of a special committee of | Thirty-third general assembly of consisting of State Senator James W Bllis of Manquoketa, State Senator C. G, Saunders of Council Bluffs and State Rep- | resentative Henry Brandes of Hancock, Pottawattamie county. Others present at the disinterment were Mrs. John §. Briggs of Omaha, daughter- in-law of the late Governor Briggs; Mar- tin. Dunham of Omaha, the only surviving pallbearer of the funeral of Governor Briggs, which took place in May, 1881; G. G. Baird of the undertaking firm of Baird, Longnecker & Beland of Council Bluffs, | which had charge of the. disinterment, a | reporter for The Bee and Superintendent D. C. Callahan of Prospect Hill cemetery. the the Towa, Little Left of Body. Little was left of the body but the skull and a few of the limb bones, the whole having fallen into general decay and merged with the original casket. These were ‘gently removed from the grave, wrapped in cloth and placed in the new casket The remains will be reburied in the fam- | “You'd scarce expect one of my age SHIRTS - NECKWEAR The $2.50 The cemetery in which the late Governor Briges will be burled at Andrew, la., was donated to that town by Governor Briggs many years ago. To speak in public on the stage-- About our famous $2.50 Panama-- “Hatty, can you hat the fatty? Hatty, can you hat the lean? | can make the fatty-—natty— Hatter His Active Career. Ansel Briggs was born in the state of Vermont, February 3, 1808, and his wife, Nancy Dunlap, was born on the same date. He came to lowa in 1838 and settled on Anq other hats made of finest straw.” BLACK 109 So. 16th, Omaha The lean and those who are just between.”’ lande where .ne town of Andrew now stands. He was engaged for several years in establishing stage lines, some times personally driving his own stages. In 1542 he was elected to represent Jackson county in the lowa territorial legislature, and in 1846 became the first governor of the new state, and served as such until 1850, after which he returned to his old home in An- Looking for the Bank Robbers National Surety Company Man Comes roads do business s shown by the w i the Burlington was able to g:t! :u[ ‘fi‘.i drew and engaged In general mercantile to Consult the Police of issue of its new folder showing all the | business, later establishing a newspaper Omaha. time-card changes which are effective | there. During his tenure of office as gov- May 23. Although some of the changes |ernor he lost his wife by death, December by Foping to interest the Omaha police in a close search for the Cairo bank robbers in Omaha, R. A. Aigire of the National Surety company was in the city Friday and called at the police station. He 'has just finished adjusting the loss of the Cairo bank and says the early reports of the amounts Involved were substantially cor- 80, 1847, Governor Briggs continued to make An- drew his home, but while visiting his son, the late John 8. Briggs and family in Omaha in 1881, he was stricken and died in Omaha, May 5. He was buried In Pros- pect Hill cemetery May 8. His death was mourned all over the country and Ppar-|rect About $1,600 is offered as a reward ticularly In his home state of Towa. The|for the arrest and conviction of the four day following his death Governor Gear|men who are supposed to have done the tssued a proclamation reciting his services | work. b to the state and ordered half-hour guns| An unusual feature of the case is pointed !has an extra car arranged for the next|to be fired and the national flag to be|out by Algire in the fact that no breast- {four days. This is the opening of a busl- Lplaced .at half-mast on the state capitol | works or temporary efense of any kind ness which is expected to reach enormous |on the day of his funeral. 1 re the summer is very far ACTRESS DORA KELLY MAKES BIG HIT IN POLICE COURT chocolate drop, Friday sumed a decidedly mellow-dramatic pose, hurled her empty traveling bag—otherwise known as a “handbag,” although It will carry a small trousseau—to the floor and exclaimed “How can I pay a fine when dey tuk all muh money away fom me?" Of course Dora knew that she would get back everything taken from her at the time she was searched, and would be well | able to pay her fine out of the proceeds of her dramstic activities, but the chance ‘x""' a little hit was too great; she just Leouldn’t pass it up. morning, Dora as- Physicians state that an orange eaten before each meal will so regulate the system as to make the call of a doctor a rare occurrence. Oranges promote the action of the gastric juices —aid digestion—act mildly on the liver and are wonderfully cooling in cases of fever. The choicest, ripest and most luscious oranges that reach the market are ‘‘Sunkist.” Ask Your Dealer for “‘Sunkist’’ The California Fruit Growers' Exchange label the choicest oranges from their 5,000 groves ‘‘Sunkist.” The delicious flavor of this perfect seedless fruit makes you keen for more of its kind, Ask your dealer for ““Sunkist” Brand. Hot lemonade made from lar, (sweetened with Served hot, it opens the pores of the sk be broken up in juicy California lemons Boney preieised] will bieak up 8 eold. . A severe cold mav one night if given this attention promptly. expresses in a limited degree only, the magnificence of the scenery In the Canadian Rockies viewed enroute to the ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSTION Stopover without extra char, Banff{—Lake Lou This “Land of Enchantment” ge at the famous resorts: —Glacter. * is reached only by the Canadian Pacific Railway Through trains to Seattle from St. Paul daily Low Bxcursion Pares from al Sound cities and return. and return from steamers. Send for “Challenge of the Vancouver $66, Tickets for sale U: t 10:30 . m Il places to Seattle and all Puget by Can. Pacifie agents of all raliways. ountains” and Alaska folder. - A. C. Shaw, General Agent, Chicago. were_thrown up around the bank by the men who guarded the place against sur- prise while one or more other robbers blew and rifled the safe. It is thought that the robbers may be ap- prehended when they attempt to use the State te Honor Him. The Ploneer Lawmakers Assoclation of Iowa passed resolutions urging that the state honor the memory of Governor Briggs by bringing his body back to the money they secured, for much of it s Rat Not Big Enough to Beat the |State. These were supplemented by similar | thought to have been mutilated when the Fakte Five resolutions of all the ploneer assoclations | sate was blown. of the state of Iowa. Senator James W. Ellis, of Jackson |C|TY 'NSPECTORS ARE BUSY Dora Kelly, 8 member of the Ninth|COURty, was the introducer of the bill in street colored dramatic club, is quite an |the Thirty-third general assembly pf the ) Scully and Wolfe Swear to Four Com- actress. She never misses an opportunity | State of Towa, which provided for a suffi- plaints in the Police for an effective bit of “business.” 8o |Clent sum to bring back the body Court. when Police Judge Crawford fined her | Of the late governor to the state he had ——— and Lucy Burns, another Third ward served so well. This was supplemental to At the instance of two of the eity in- a similar bill by Senator Lambert In the |SPectors having offices in the city hall previous session of the general assembly. | f0UT complaints were filed in police court The historical snciety of Jackson county |Friday morning. M. L. Elifott, Fourteenth took an active part in the matter, and in |20 California streets and working for J. addition ® the expense necessary to re- J. Hannlgan, is charged by Boller Inspector Wolfe with operating an engine without an engineer’s license, while at the Instance of Health Officer Scully these men have been charged with selling impure milk: J. M. Camenzind, living north of Benson; H. C. Hrabeck, llving on South Thirty-sixth street near Gilmore, and A. F. Anderson, living at Fifty-ninth and Grover streets. NEWS OF THE ARMY POSTS Cudahy Gets Contract to Supply Sev- enty Thousand Pounds of Bacon, The Cudahy Packing company of Omaha has been granted a contract for 70,000 pounds of bacon for the United States army by Lieutenant Colonel F. F. Eastman, purchasing commissary. Lieutenant C. C. Allen, formerly alde-de- camp on the staff of the late Brigadier General T, F. Wint, but nowyan aide on the staff of Major General A. L. Mills, ar- rived in Omaha Friday on his return from the Philippines. He will remain here a few days visiting Omaha friends. He will shortly joln General Mills at Atlanta, Ga., who has been assigned to the command of the Department of the Gulf. Private James Mahan of Troop D, Second cavalry, has been detafled on speclal duty as a clerk at headquarters Department of the Missouri. Leave of absence for two months has been granted First Lieutenant James W. Riley of the Sixth field artillery. the regular mrmy have been granted Ser- geant Claude W. Davis, Troop E, and Blacksmith Luclan P. Jones, Troop F, Sec- ond cavalry; Sesgeant Ira F..Markham, Company Sixteenth infantry; Private Honorable discharges by purchase from | Elvin R. Lee, Battery C, Sixth fleld artil- lery; Trumpeter Robert L. Bchroeder, Troop M, Fourth cavalry, and Private C. E. Har- rock, Troop M, Bighth cavalry. BOTH SIDES ASK REHEARING Danish Brotherhood and Guaranty Company Put Up Unique Proposition, A motlon for a new trial was filed Fri- day morning by Weaver & Giller in the sult of the Danish Brotherhood of America agalnst the United States Fidelity and Guaranty company. The other side, which lost In the hearing of the case before Judge Day, had previously urged a new trial. The plaintifts asked for $19,00 and secured a verdict for $9,700. The spectacle of both sides urging a second hearing is without precedent in re- cent time in district court. The plaintiffs hope to recover a large sum. OVER TWO HUNDRED GRADS Large Naumber Will Compose the High School Class This Yea June 18 is the date set for the gradusting exercises of the Omaha High school. The exercises will be held In the evening and probably at the Orpheum theater, where they were held last year. The number of graduates cannot be determined at this time, but it will be between 200 and 2%0. Seven hundred and fifty pupils from the grades will enter the high school next year, Most Wonderful Healing. After suffering many years with a sore, Amos King, Port Byron, N. Y., was cured by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. %c. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. Horse Seller is Held by Police Will Smith of Clarinda is Suspected of Dealing with the Wrong Animals, Charged by the police with having sold some horses, buggles and harness for which he was caring. in Council Bluffs and which belonged to other men, Will Smith, who says Clarinda, la., is his, home, was arrested by Officer Lahey Friday morning. He I8 being held as a suspicious char- acter until a complaint_is filed against him, Seyeral horses, with equipment, are said %0 have been entrusted to Smith in Council Bluffs by men who wanted their animals broken and cared for. It is sald that Smith so0ld one of the horses to Jamgs Griffin, 910 Eighteenth avenue, Council Bluffs, and an- other . to A. R. McCrary, 224 Douglas street, The latter ru lvery b 3 this city. THIRD DEATH IN ONE YEAR Mrs. Catherine son Third Mem- ber of Family to Die in That Time. Mrs. Catherine C. Clason, for twenty-fiva vears a resident of Omaha, died Friday morning at 1 o'clock, the third member of her immediate family to succumb within a year. A year ago her husband, Louis P. Clason, died, and last June her son, Charles, dled. Bhe leaves an unmarried daughter. The funeral will be held Batur- day afternoon at 3 o'clock from the resl- dence, 3420 Patrick avenue. turn the body to lowa, an additional appro- priation of $150 was made for the erection of & monument to the memory of Governor Briggs. This monument will be dedicated and unveiled in September of the present year. It will be = plain granite shaft twenty- eight feet and eight inches above the | 8round and will have a weight of 3,000 pounds. The base will be of concrete and the pedestal from which the shaft will ascend will be carved with a map of the state, and lettering describing the services of Governor Briggs to the state, with the dates of his birth and death. A portrait of the governor will also be carved on one of the facades of the pedestal. will be sold on Saturday at Crcig-hton Case Appeal Ample and should cause a furore. So Rule Judges Redick, Estelle and Troup, Who Deny Motion i p ham and Swiss Curtains rid to Dismiss. tinghams 29¢ each; Swiss at Judges Redick, Troup and Estelle ruled Friday morning that the appeal n the Creighton case is sufficient in itself, and denled the motion of the attorneys for the heirs to dismiss the appeal. The three equity judges had previously decided that the appeal could not be thrown out on account of alleged fault in its certification and the case will now go forward on its merits. The case Involves, paragraph of Count regular value. quality or styles. Our own primarily, John A. Crelghton's will, which includes the bequest for a working girls’ home., The executors have now perfected their appeal from the decis- ton of County Judge Leslie, who ruled { against the bequest, and decided that the $160,000 should be distributed among the sixteen heirs, among whom are the exec- utors. the tenth The Benson & Thorne Co. of 1615-1517 Douglas St. offers boys' $8 washable suits for $1.46 tomorrow. See announcement in today’s paper. & Permi W. F. Jacubzick, 5112 North Twenty- fourth street, frame dweliing, $2,000; J. W Griffith, 38% Cuming street, frame dwell- ing. John Pochhotf. Forty-fourth avenue and Douglas street. frame dwell- ing, $,000; Quinton Moser, Thirty-first and Marcy streets, frame dwelling, $2,600; Sun- derland Bros., Twenty-fourth and Taylor streets, brick stable, 33,000, H. Tavender, Twentieth street and Ames avenue, frame dwelling. $2,500. Try the Illinols Central on your next trip to Chicags | Kilpatrick’ We have shown for several days in our West window, a lot of jewelry which represents a recent purchase from an importer. The lot was purchased at a very low price and 10 A. M. at figures which must impress you as being very low. We do not carry a full jew- elry stock, but only such trinkets and knick-knacks as are usually found in a well appointed dry goods store. miss this sale for really the prices border on the absurd Don’t In our Upholstry Section—A small lot of odd Notting- iculously low to clean up. Not- 15¢ each. There is a great pick in some instances; sale prices will be less than one-fourth Men will be interested in a sale of very choice colored Shirts; choice patterns and very choice materials. pay most any price for a custom shirt and not excel the You can prices, indeed, were $2.00 and Thomas Kilpatrick & Co SUPPLEMENTARY—A few eleventh hour items—handed in at the last moment, announcing rare values at toilet section—for Saturday only: Bacabelle pure olive oil Castile Soap, regularly 10¢; will sell at 5¢ a cake; Century Perfume Extract, Lawson Pink, Venetia Passion Violet, usually 25¢ per oz., Saturday 10c an oz. Batha Sweet, a rice powder which adds a delightful softness and exquisite odor to the bath, usually 25¢ can, Saturday 9¢ per can. On Saturday evening at 8 o’clock at the Glove Counter—to those only who read this ad. Your choice of all that is left of our fine imported lisle washable gloves, all staple colors and most sizes, formerly sold up to $1.00 per pair, at 19¢ a pair—absolutely the biggest glove value ever offered by us. Thomas Kilpatrick & Co,, s Saturday Specials 2.50; on Saturday at 10 A. M., $1.59 each. Backward sea- son and cool weather furnish the only excuse or reason for selling them Saturday at $1.59 each. Men—don’t miss look- ing at any rate—’twill be a little revelation to you, good dressers, in shirt pricing. Saturday in Hosiery Section—Women’s gauze lisle, full fashioned, foreign stockings, dainty shades, at 35¢ per pair. A very timely offering. We’ll sell a moderate lot of dollar quality, embroidered lisle and novelty weaves, in choice hosiery at just half price—50c a pair. It may not be amiss to mention a few particulars anent the jewelry sale—for the benefit of those who did not see Here are Hat Pins, Belt Pins, Belt Buckles, Dutch Collar Pins, Brooches, ete. No. 1—Worth up to 35¢, at 9¢ each. 2—Worth up to 85¢, at 43¢ each. No. 3—Worth up to $1.50, the windows. Four Lots: at 69¢ each. No. 4 Worth up Just in for Saturday selling—a lot of new Dutch Col- lars and Jabots—priced at 50¢ NO. to $2.50, at 98¢ each. and 25c.