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SWISS BANKERS WILL COME Promise Omaha Visit on Way Back from West. NOW LOOKING INTO NEVADA MINES ®. Gyr, Bank Party of Ef on Overland. Omaha Thursday vada, where they morning enroute to Ne are to look over mining properties. On returning to the cast they have promised F. Jaeggl, the Bwiss banker who & furnishing capital for the Loap river power canal, that they will stop Omaha and look over the city as well as | his power propesition Those in the party are . Gyr, banker, | Zurich; Oskar Manz, Hotel St. Gothard, Zurich; Ingr Buhler, engineer, Zurich; Benzinger of insiedeln, manufacturer of Catholic art goode; Father Langle of Riex- lern, Bayern, Germany; {acome Trumpy, capitalist Bergame Hans Bauder, of Bouder and compan Chicago. E. Gyr, banker and friend of Mr. Yaeggi wired the Omahan Wednesday evening that the party would pass through Omaha for the west on the Qverland Limited, but Mr Yacggl did not get the message until Thursday morning after the Limited had gone westward. He telegraphed at once his regret at not meeting the party in Omaha ana will later join them in the west Mr. Gyr suld “Will stop in Omaha on return from | west. Muchi interested in water power proposition of yours.” Arrangements will be made by (he Com- mercial club to show the Swiss bankers everything of Interest in the city and around it Mr. Yaeggl has already re- celved a number of letters from railroad promoters and others who want his friends to look over Investment propositions, in- volving everything from pearl buttons to interurhan railroads, The party is visiting America with a view to looking over a large class of in- vestments and making a report on them for the gu dance o' not only thems lves, but many other Swiss capitalists, who are seck- ing Investments in American industrial and mining stocks which are gilt edged. Wife, Too, Tells of Bribe Offer Mrs. Hydock Says Franek Tendered Them Money for Testimony Against Mrs. Doyle, Mrs. Anton ‘Hydock reinforced Thursday morning tfie $tatement of her husband that John Franek, defendant in the damage suit brought by Mrs. Ellen Doyle, had offered money to them to swear that Mrs. Doyle was intoxicated at the time she fell and broke ‘her. ankle. Mrs. Hydock declared that Franek visited them ' three, times, once spoke of money, another thme hinted raising a mort- gake, and, ised them four month’'s rent free. Hydock testified Wednesday afternoon. The case is being heard by Judge Day. Scalded by Steam or scorched s sapply Bucklen's. Ar- nica BRe" P\xé%fi too, And the worst sores. Guaranteed. 2c. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. TWO CAUSES FOR GRATITUDE Nebraskans in Beirnt Are Spared Per- mecutions and Presented w Their First Born. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Anderson of Beirut, Syria, are safe; they have not been m, lested by the recent uprisings. And that is rot &ll for which they are giving thanks— they have a son, the first born. Sam Anderson Is an Omaha boy, Anderson’s home is in Lincoln. Sam An- derson went to Beirut five years ago and he is financlal secretary of the Beirut col- lege, a Protestant institution that is doing big work In the old world where natives have been killing each other and their for- slgn nelghbors. But Mrs. Anderson has been there but three and a half years, for It was then they were married at Lincoln. Mr. Anderson has written his mother, Mrs. James Anderson, 2216 Miami street of thé advent of their son and their safety and good health. He says that serious dis- turbances went on 100 miles from them, but that they have not been molested. A doctor and nurses have been sent out from the hospital at Beirut to give relief to suf- terers In the riots. Mrs, in another conversation, prom- | 'Danes Go Home | © to Celebrate Independence | Party of Thirty-Five Carries Ameri- can Fireworks to Observe July 4 With, Thirty-five Danish-American citizens | from the viecinity of Dannebrog left for July velebration which will he held during | the exposition in progress in the mother | country. They departed over the Mil waukee in a special car for New York | earrying with them American flags and all sorts of fireworks which they | the celeoration. They have also been | hearsing patriotic airs which they | sing in chorus on that day Rev. Jens Christian Pederson. together "\\HI‘\ his wife and daughter, head the party ! which includes the following | en, wife &nd daughter; P. O. Petersen, wife and three children: Mr. and Mrs, J. P. Kjeldsen. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Nelson, John K. Jacobson, wite and daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Hermansen R. B Nelsen, Paul T. Matsen, Misses Marie and Carrie | Sorenson, Miss Mary Dall, Mr. and Mrs | 0. Hanisch and family, Miss Anna Jacob- John Hanson and others. i won 8T. PAUL, Neb, May (Special.)- A party of thirty Danish-Americans from Dannebrog and vicinity passed through here this morning over the Union Pacific in | a special siceping car | to mother country participate in the great will take place at the enroute on a where - they tour Aarhus expe ition on | July 4 which has been dedicated as { “American day." Al the members of the | party will spend more or less time at the | places of their nativity, | over northern Europe 'ELKS HOLD SERVICE OVER | BODY OF EDWARD R. SHAW and in traveling Exalted Ruler Cole Presides Chaplain Knickerhocker M the Address. and kes The beautiful ritualistic services of the Elks were sald over the hody of Ed R | Shaw, the broker who was Kkilled Saturday | night, the services being held in the Elks' chapel in their lodge rooms Thursday after- | noon. The body was taken last night to Aramosa, Ta., for burial. Many Elks and | other friends attended the services W. W. Cole, exalted ruler of the lodge, | presided and the other officers filled their inr‘cunnmvd stations. Rev. A. E. Knicker- | lhorkn. rector of St. Mathias' Episcopal church and chaplain of the lodge, officiated nd made the address. Robert Patrick, esquire, read the eulogy and George P. Cronk read “Thanotopsis.”” which is a part of the Elks' service. posed of Clinton Miller, John Jamison, Mrs, Leo Hoffman and Mrs. M. Hart sang “Come Ye Disconsolate,’” Abide withh Me" |and “Lead Kindly Light. The casket was draped with the Stars and Stripes and on it rested the Bible and the antlers. Banked around the casket | | pathizing friends. The body was taken last the Northwestern train No. 8 leaving at 9:10, to Anamosa, la., the birthplace of Mr. Shaw, where it will bs interred In the fam- ily lot. The widow and her one son, Fred, & young man about 18 years of age. ac- companied it. Frank L. Weaver also ac | companied the body as a special emissary of the Elk Rt IR Probably evening on Mrs, “Shaw and ‘her sor cwil?) make their future home either in’Anamoda or Cherokee, Ta. The family lived In the |1atter eity prior to coming to Omaha. These were the pallbearers: A. W, Ruf, | Frank Walters, G. W. Wickersham, J. P, | Fallon, F. L. Weavers, James Alnscow. COLORED MEN SUSPECTED OF RUNNING POKER GAME FREE | Hauled Into Court, but Dismissed by Deputy County Attorney for Lack of Evidence. “This pig sticker.” said Sergeant Cook in poiice court Thursda: holding up & large pocket knife, with the blade open, “was in front of the dealer, ready for business 1 guess it was part of the regular poker ontfit." He was telling what he and several other police officers found at 1310 Jackson street one night last week. when the house was raided on suspicion that it was a gambling joint. V. Graham, the colored proprietor. and a dozen or more other negroes were packed Into the auto and booked at the police station on charges of “keeping a gambling house” and ‘“gambling,” re- spectively. After a hearing in police court Thursday missed the cases on motion of the deputy county attorney, who thought there was a lln-k of conclusive evidence, Henry morning, sitkc millions. These are the gloves whic! women fail to get them because they don’t look in the hem, | When gloves are mark- ed ‘'Kayser’ you gre get- ting the genuine. The poorest gloves cost no less. Short Silk Gloves S0c, 75c¢, $1.00, Long Silk Gloves 75¢,$1.00, $1.25, $1.50 JULIUS KAYSER & CO., Makers NEW YORK 1.28 Gloves Your Mothers Wore Kaysers have been, for 25 years, the silk gloves of the Every woman knows their exquisite finish, their durable fabric and their perfect fit. guarantee. Fach finger has our patent tip. goes through fifty operations before we send it out. & Each pair contains our Every glove h all women want, but some will use in | Hans Peter- | celebration which | A mixed quartet com- | were great heaps of flowers sent by sym- | morning Judge Crawford dis- | [HILL CES THE PRIZE CORN |Secures Kernels That Won in Exposi- | tion and Will Plant Them. |THEY GO TO HIS MONTANA FARM | | President of the Great Northern Rail. | road of Wil Redeem Geal | Bleak State as His Father | b | Did the Horses Eight Swiss capitalists passed through Dénmark to take part in the Fourth of | [ W. Hill, president of the Great North- | ern raflroad. has at last falien heir to the prize corn of the 18 Natlonal Corn ex-| | position | Mr. Hill is already heir to a few rail- | vads and a | institutions lot | seed corn addea | things in this life Many years ago, | and the aistingu | president a railroad financlers called “Hill's folly." the horses and cattle on the great ranges were run down straine. They needed to his string of the Great which and eattle | degenerating on In the herds which had been the Great Plains and cattle he could secure and apportioned | them among the rancners of Montana | He infused blood into the herds | buying prize stuff. It is a coincidence that when Montana is taking its agricultural many J. Hill corn pure place as vears later his son, the a to the experi- mental stations of Montana, and thu an in world to send no- terested. E. E. Faville, editor and pub- lisher of Successful Farming. had bought the Grand Champion corn, as well as some 32,000 worth of other first prize seed. Recently Mr. Hill took the matter with the exposition and asked for but few kernels, if he could secure them, the Grand Champion corn. These ears contained Mr. safe, giving them out now and then some trusted friend. When he learned Mr. Hill wanted to use some of the corn for up a of | 10.0M grains of corn. | seed he counted up and found he had 690 | cost They him $1%, but the days in which to plant eorn and Mr. | Faville sent the 6,000 precious grains to Mr. | Hil with the compliments of Successful | Farming. From Mr. Faville and the Nebraska Seed company of Omaha, Mr. Hill has also se- cured the firsts from Wisconsin, northern | Ohio and Iliinois, as well as some cholce Nebraska corn and some Minnesota sec- onds | Al these varieties the railroad president |18 to grow on his various farms and show the results of his experiments at the com- ing National Corn exposition in Omaha. ' Tuberculosis Ward Keeper a Victim grains. |are few Andrew Nelson of County Hospital Dies of Disease with Which He Worked. Andrew Nelson, attendant of the tubercu- losis ward at the county hospital, sue- | cumbed to the disease himself Wednesday, |after being a consumptive for about two | vears and having had connection with that | department for about ten months. He was | % years of age and was married, but with- out children. The Danish brotherhood will | have charge of the funeral, which will be héld at the Jackson undertaking rooms, 1705 Leavenworth street. Definite arrangements for it have not been made. JUDGE TELLS LAWYERS THEY HAVE HOT AIR IN THEM Estelle Punctuates the Prolonged Wrangle by Stoat and Baldrige Over Bennett-Baum ¢ John F. Stout and Howard H. Baldrige, lawyers, wrangled before Judge Estelle in | district court all morning until the soul- weary court was moved to exclaim, “I don't want to be rough, but 1 think there is & good deal of hot air in both you fel- lows." The contention was over the date for argument the referee's report in the Baum-Bennett case and the proper way in on out. “How long," argument last?" ‘Oh, perhaps two days,” answered Bald- rlage. “The last I heard it would be two hours,'" declared Stout “I don’t propose to be limited.” Baldrige, turning in Stout’s direction obody is limiting you, Mr. Baldrige," said Judge Estelle i “I was not addressing my remark to the | court,” waid the lawyer. Argument was finally set for Tuesday inquired the court, “will said |IN MEMORY OF VOLUNTEERS | Thurston Rifies Will Comrad Killed Philippines. Sanday Honor in the Memorial services will be conducted Sun- | day afternoon by the Thurston Rifles at | the monument in Prospect Hill cemetery | by Company L, First Nebraska volunteers, | in memory of members of the company killed in the Philippines. The services will be at 2 o'clock and the public is invited | ‘The address will be delivered by Captain | P. James Cosgrove and a quartet com- | posed of Miss Lols Brookfield, Miss Ali ! Chandler, Hosex Johnson and Louls Knet- | tle will sing “Lead Kindly Light" ana Vacant Chair." Miss Chandler will sing “Shall T Be Forgotten," Following the services a firing squad | from the militia company will fire three | volleys and taps will then be sounded. | | THREE THUGS ROB MAN ON CAR Pickpockets Take Money from Cawley at the Uniom Depot. | ieorge Three pickpockets worked George Cawley. 8434 North Firty-sixth street. for $12.75, on a Farnam street car, at Union station | Wednesday afternoon. They have not yet | been arrested, but detectives and police men have descriptions pf two of them and hope to land them in jail Cawley was on the car and the suspects Patent Finger-Tipped | Silk Gloves ; I nam | boarded it at Thirteenth and F streets on the way to the rallway station At the depot they jostled and crowded | Cawley and when he felt to see if he had lost anything. his pocketbook and the men were discovered missing { of directorships In other | as well as to a few sections of | fine Montana land and several experi- | |/mental stations, but he now has the pr(‘uli of good | when Montana was new | hed father of the present | Northern had built | the blood of fine bred and big-boned horses | TJames | | 7. Hill bought carloads of the finest horses | by | state the successor of James 18 securing the hest seed | culate the grain of the state with “pure | bred corn.” Only at Show Few Hours. | Mr. Hill spent but a few hours at the National Corn exposition and became in- Faville had them locked in his to which a bill of exceptions should be made | | by | 10 cents per nlloi ( | { | | | | so little current, aren’t you? ‘ Y. M. C A Bldg. LIST MAYOR MAY SEND IN|'Touch No Tree in Seymour Park Orderto Workmen Six Men Dahlman is Expected to Name Next Tuesday. FIVE OF THEM ARE HOLDOVERS Love and Amusement Buildings Will Spare Them. Conneil is Expected Mérbly to Refer the List to Judiclary Commit- tee and Act on It at & Later Meeting. Two construction gangs began work in Seymour park Thursday, one to erect a dozen buildings and another to make boule- Street Commissioner—Thomas J. Flynn. | vards about the lake, thus converting the Health Commissioner—Dr. R. W. Connell. | former home of Dr. George L. Miller into Plumbing Inspector—Harry McVea, |an amusement park. ! Boiler Inspector—Robert U. Wolf Not a tree s to be touched, the instrue- ‘V City Flectrician—Waldemar Michaelsen. tion of the company to the landscape gar- | City Prosecutor—Thomas F. Lee. dener being that the walnuts, oaks and | These are the names of the appointees 8 well as the frult trees, have al for the six offices created by charter provi- | FO% “::Yl:’dm‘::":::‘r‘d;fl:nc\::c::“m:g:! sion which Mayor Dahlman will send to 10 deturéincs " (0" tHe: Wiah n} DriAiies “; the council for contirmation next Tuesday |, T IERET M0 0 F ot 0 r of tree [ night, according to the bellet of nearly all| “g TUUEE B TR A e oe Wil be {the democratic officeholders In the eity | IECNE S pen places. muat hall. Al of them except Lee are the| ..., po gelected where bulldings can be present incumbents, erected without cutting trées. Mayor Dahiman refuses to affirm or| mne boulevards which are to be macad- deny that he will appoint.these men, eX-| jmized aiso follow for the most part the cepting Tom Flynn, of whom he said|drives jald out by Dr. Miller, who aimost shortly after election that he could not|thirty years ago planned to make the park | well get along without. Mr. Wolfe is con-|the beauty spot and popular suuvurban resi- | sidered safe, ax he is the only man who[dence district of the city -he practically {came to the front last summer when the [founded. One wide boulevard s being cut | mayor was a candidate for governor and|along the brow of the hill above the lake took the stump for him. Mr. Michaelsen | from which all of .Omaha can be seen | 15 looked upon as being on easy street, as, plainly though the distance s more than seven miles. | the mayor has promised to appoint some | 1rrpnhl|cnnl Dr. Connell says his record | Around the sits where Dr. Miller's hand- | entitles him to reappointment, and Mr. | Some residence which was' destroyed: by | McVea Is understood to have received |fire stood will be erected a large number | of bungalows, which will be rented ‘for a S ther term. The [© b promises of :‘"‘fll":’“ :::. Lee comfirmed | POMINal sum to those who wish to live in mayor tried har — ""‘:’" i v | them. On the opposite hill a camp ground for city prosecutor three Heore A ve he ' !8 belng planned where free aites for tents for this reason party leaders | will be furnished, together with electric will be appointed again this vear lights and water and sewrage connections. Democratic leaders predict that no vote | "o & S0 T e e han e will be taken on the appointments next cided the admission will always be free Tuesday evening. They think the president | 4nq anyone is at liberty to visit the place will refer the list to the committee on any time. It will open June 12 judiciary, headed by Judge Berka, without vola, sudtnac this emmition WU S0 I Mistaken i for Train Robber On this committee with Councliman Berka, | Eastern Traveling Man and San Fran- are Hummel and Burmester and two of the | mayor's traitors, Johnson and Sheldon ciscan Hauled Up by Kear- ney Officers. The other appointive offices are created ordinance and the names of the men ta fill them will have to be sent to the council until June 16 DUVAL HEAD OF RAILWAY CLUB| J.F. Lalley, an eastern traveling man at of Board of Directors 0| the Rome, objects to being mistaken for a Who train robber. “I was hauled up at Kearney vesterday | by some fellow who protessed to be a de- tective, and t0ld that 1 answered the description of one of the robbers to & T," | ald Mr. Lalk | to string me at first, but I guess he was a © Kooser, former assistant general frelht | qeractive all right. Of .course 1 had no sent of the Missouri Pacitic, Who has | gitficulty in proving an alibi, but at the moved to St. Louls | same time another traveling man coming The club rooms are nearing completion |y, o 4oy ney from San Franciaco was put officers have selected the Wo'l| inrough the two-and-a-haif degree and was he interior decoration &nd NAVE | 0, geq with' being one” of the robbers He proved out of course and was released.’” SMALL FIRE AT THE SCHLITZ | Spark from etor ] but Little Dama ding. | A fire on the roof of the Schiits hotel ihulld\n., Sixteenth and Harney streets, did only nominal damage. but blocked traffic | &L that corner for a few minutes shortly about 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon A not frma Succeed H. B. Kooser, Leaves City. Fugene Duval, assistant general western agent of the Milwaukee, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Omaha Rallway Men's club to succeed H. and the paper and t bought the furniture for the rooms. ——————————————————————— You Have Heard of Persons Poisoned by Drinking Water ISTILLED WATER Reof Causes to the Keeps You Well— You Avold Bisk. “1 thought he was trying | Their Boughs Sacred to Dr. Miller's More Light for the Same Money or the Same Light for Less Money The Tungsten Lamp is designed to meet this demand. Listen, and we will tell you about it. The old style carbon lamp, the only commercial incandes- cent lamp on the market for many years, is now being super- seded very rapidly by the new Tungsten Lamp, which burns less than one-half the current to produce the same amount of light. You are now wondering why we recommend a lamp that burns Well, it is an improvement in the art of lighting, and it is right in line with the policy of this Com- pany to always recommend for use on its lines that which will give the best results for the smallest amount of money, and as an evidence that we have profited by this far-sighted policy, would ask you to note the electric lighting effects of Omaha and compare with what it was a few years ago. story about the satisfied customer and we want you on that list. Look for tomorrow’s “ad” in this space for more particulars. It is the old | Omaha Electric Light and Power Company Tel D. 1062, Ind. A. 1278 lNEW TORKER CETS CONTRACT Thompson - Starrett Company Will Erect Brandeis Theater Building. BID LESS THAN HALF A MILLION Curtatn Wil Rise Jn Says the Ma: Work in Competition with Many Others. For an amount under $43,000, the lowest bid made public, the contract for the Bran- deis theater and office bullding, was let to the Thompson-Starrett company of New York City Thursday afternoon. Ralph Star- rett, who represented the company, the curtain will go up in the new theater Jan- uary.1, 1910. The successtul bidder for the new bulld- ing has erected some of the finest bulild- station, Washington, D. C.; the United station.in Washington, D. C.; the United States Express building, New York City; Academy of Music, Boston; Chicago Ath- letie, Chicago; Carson-Pirfe-S8cott com- pany, Chicago, and the Gimball stores in New York City, a $11,00,00 contract. ‘Work has started,” sald Mr. Btarrett, s he pushed his pen over a dozen coples of the contract. ““The contract provides for completing the building February 1, 1910, but ‘we will pull up the curtain & month earller, New Year's day, 1 would say, off- hand.” The bullding complete will cost more than (600,000, but' the successful bidder would not give the exact amount of his contract Machinery, stene and materials will be put on the ground at once for the new bulidings at Beventeenth and Douglas streets. SEVEN DELEGATES TO REST CONFERENCE ARE HAULED UP They Are Permitted to Go, Prov They Keep Going Atter They Get Out of Town. While holding thelr annual spring con- fergnce before setting out on their summer work of tinding & living, seven harmless and respectable tramps, Messrs, Freeman, Thompson, Madden, Berry, Davis. Ryder and Pickett, were grossly abused and mis- treated by & squad of policemen, who, without provocation, burst in upon the final session of the executive council and carted them off to the police station from their open air conversation hall at Third and Hickory streets. Vagrancy wams the charge filed when they said “‘good merning’’ to Police Judge Crawford Thursday, and they pleaded not gullty. Madden and Berry promptly established themselves as shoemakers and repairers of the oulfit, and Pickett, who had & face as black as the jack of clubs erted that he was the cook and could boil water and fry oysters well as the judge. There You Make a Man Crazy With Questions This is What Foreign Witness Tells Lawyer in the Trial of Masauredis. “How far were you from the scene’ asked J. M. Macfarland. ‘About thirty melers,” answered Louls Rosenfeld, a Hungarian witness in the Marauredis trial, who does not understand Bnglish perfectly. “Well, how far was it in feet?’ demanded the attorney. “How long is a foot?" came back the wit- ness. “As big as one of my feet?" The attorney insisted on an answer and Rosenfeld, in perfectly good faith, replied: “Well, T give it up, but ¥ you want to know I go back tonight and weigh the distance. Tomorrow I tell you." Owing to the fact that the witness was not altogether responsive to questions and volunteered numerous opinions about the Greek's gullt he made a troublesome wit- ness. Finally he concluded with the state- ment. | “Oh, you make man crazy with all these questions.” | | | Photo of Wattles | Only Address | With This and “Omsha, U, 8. A" Card Comes from C. N. Dietz in Switzerland, A postal card from Geneva, Switzerland, was received at the Omaha postoffice Thursday morning which bore no written address except “Omaha, U. 8. A" A newspaper print of a middle-aged man With the Chauncey Depew variety of whis- kers was pasted on the address side. It was finally discovered that the pieture was an imaginary presentment of G, W Wattles and the postal cara was delivered to him. The inftials, D" attached to the reverse side of the card indlcated that it might be from C. N. Dietz, who Is now visiting in Switzerland, with Mrs. Dietz. Mr. Wattles pleaded guilty to being the lawtul recipient of the card and Is now fig- uring on how (o get even with “C, D" Y SIS R S SR This Athletic SUSPENDER Res. being no dispute on that question the re maining five hastened to testify as to the rlous trades they eould follow if allowed to do so Deeply, regreting that such a praisworthy association of ‘peaceful persons had been brousht into the pale of the law the judge discharged the seven delegates with the | expressed hope that they would immedi- | ately move to another eity for the remalin- | der of their convention. 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