Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 17, 1909, Page 1

. ' - ¢) THE OMAHA BEE goes to the homes—Is read by the women—sells goods for advertisers. _—_— " THE OMAHA DAILY- BEE WEATHER FORECAST. ‘ For Nebraska——Falr; warrier. For lowa-Falir; warmer For weather report see page 2 TROOPS CALLED T0 WRECKED MIN Sheriff at Uherry_.—ll—l.. Asks Governcr“' Deneen for Militia to Guard En- trance to Burning Shaft. | wd FEAR DEMONSTRATION BY MEN Small Guard Will Prevent Any Ill- Advised Move by bliners. GROWING Spread of Blaze Prevents Further Effort at Rescue, | FIRE IS HOTTER | ALL MEN BELOW ARE DEAD It Will Be Seve Days Before Any Bodies Cun Be Recovered—Supers intendent Taylor Talks of Conditions in Mine. CHERRY, 1L, Nov. 16—~Troops ha been called for to prevent any untoward demonstration at the St. Paul coal mi | when the bodies of the 30 men, entombod | by last Saturday’s disaster are brought to the surface. Sheriff Skoglund of Bureau county, with authority from Btate's Attorney Eckhart, | telegraphed to Springtield, 11, late today asking Governor Denepn to send several companies of state militia. S far there 4 has been no violence dispMyed as a result of the ('saster and State's Attorney Eck- hart hopes by the presence of a small guard to prevent any (ll-advised move on the part of the-miners, whose feelings have Yeen wrought up by the loss of their com- | rhdes. “We want the troops at once: that's all there Is about {t. We will take no chances,” | declared the state's attorney. When the bodiex will be brought to the #urface s doubtful. None of the officials believe any of the 300 entombed men are alive. Fire Grows Hotter, Fire In the mine today was even more intense than it was when the men wero entrapped three days ago and no efforts | could be made to enter it. Fire Chief| Horan of Chicago arrived with assistance and supply of hose and chemlcal fire ex- tinguishers. The 1id, or seal, over the mouth of the shaft was perforated and ft| was intended to force water and chemicals down through - pipes. A thermometer plunged into the sand scattered on the top of the seal showed a temperature of 110 degrees, indicating that the heat fin the Interior of the mine must have been intense. 2 Chief Horan inspected the condition and shook his head. “Its no use,” he u‘d, “to lift the ld to- @y would mean that the whole mine would blaze up aud there would be no possibility of reeovering the bod The coal de- posfts would take fire, the timber supports would erumble in and it is terrible to ple- tur what would happen. Perhaps another | The body OMAHA, WEDNESDAY \ ‘or Swings o Eternity Turdered Four v You.g New Yorker Who Killed the Christie Family is Executed at Aberdeen. ABERDE 8. D, Nov. —(Special Telegram.)— "May God forgive my sins and bless you all.” With those words uttered just before mounting the scaffold, Emil Vicior, 19-year-old murderer of the Christie family and Michael Romsyne at Rudolpn July 3, bade farewell to an assembied crowd of about fifty people and was exe- cuted at 8§ o'clock this morning. Vietor maintained his nerve to the last and slept soundly all night and had be awakened for breakfas. He ate hearty meal and/betrayed no signs of nervousness or fear, and as he stood on (he gallows, he faced the spectators with- out flinching. No relatives were present. will be buried here, the parents having sent money to defray the expenses. Two clergymen of the German Lutheran church held services in cell before to a wne | the execution. Victor, formerly of East pald the penalty for t cilme In the history of South Dakota, the wanton Kkilling of four persons. His vic tims were J. W. Christie, a grain buyer at the little town of Rudolph, Brown county; Mrs, Christie, Mildred Chrisile, aged 19, and Michael Ronayne, a young man who was employed by Christle. the crime was robbery Norris Thinks Cannon Fight Will Continue Nebraska Congressman Unable to Give Definite Program, but Be- lieves One Will Develop. Aurora, N. Y., most horrible The motive of (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 16.—(Special Telegram.)—Representative Norris' of the Fifth Nebraska district with his family has arrived in Washington for the coming session of congress. Judge Norris was somewhat loath to discuss politics either national or local. Regarding affaire polit- leal, ‘at home,’ Mr. Norrls confessed he was considerably in the air. He be- Hleved Mr. Bryan would be a candidate for the United States senate. When questioned whether there is on foot any tangible program on the part of insurgents to clip the wings of Speaker Cannon, Mr. Norris said: “As to any pro- gram 1 do not think it has at all taken concrete form yet. However, I/ rather sus- pect there will be an early effort made to get all forces who oppose Cannon lined up for the purpose of again assaulting him and his rules. Just what strength the opposition to Ganmen. may develop, and how effective it may be, fs entirely prob- lematical. 1 cannot forecast. > by the Bell company has been in progress | Bell }BILLION DOLLAR | WIRE COMBINE | Bell Telephoné Interests Secure Con- l trol of Western Union Tele- .graph Company. | |NEW CORPORATION IS FORMING | It Will Take Up Stocks and Bonds of Constituent Companies. |GOULDS SELL THEIR STOCKS | Transfer Makes Absorption of Tele- graph Company Possible. VAST INTERESTS ARE AFFECTED Property of @ompanies in Combina- tion Sald to Mave Physteal V tion of Over Six Hundred Mir BOSTON, Nev., Nov. 16.—A long stride toward the complete control by one cor- poration of all wire communication in the United States was made today In the ac- quisition by the American Telephone and Telegraph company of the control of Western Union Telegraph company. In order to make the absorption com- plete, the incorporation of a new billion dollar company, it is said, will be neces- sary to include $£92,475,400 of bonds and stock of the American Telephone com- pany, known as the Bell company, and the outstanding $165000000 of bonds and stock of the Western Union. The acquisition of the Western Union for about six months and only a sufficient amount to insure eontrol, sald to be 5l per cent, was taken over. The offices of the telephone company believe that the merger will save the | company $75.000,00 in new cqnstruc- tion, while it Wil also enable the utiliza- tion of wires for both telegraphing and telephoning. Companfes TInterested. Some of the associated corporations en- gaged In the telephone business, the ma- jority of whose steck rests in the treas- ury of the parent concern, are: New York Telephone company, $0,000; New England Telephone and Telegraph com- pany. $31700000; Bell telephone of Penn- sylvania, $31.160,000; New York and New Tersey Telephone company, $25.400.000; Southern Bell Telephone company, $21,400,- 0%; Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph company, $18000000; Chicago Telephone company, $17500000; Western Telephone and Telegraph company, $16.000,000; Bell Telephone company of Canada. $12.000.000. The telephone system annually transmits 5.0°6,800000 messages, Whhe the Western Union handles 680,063,00. The telephone eysiem has 8,008,679 miles of wires and the Western Union 138250 The total prop- jerty value of the' telephone company Is $i45 045,000 and that of the Westesn Union 124,086,020, Goulds Sell Stoeks. NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—Anngunced In Boston, confirmed in New York and com- MORNING, CABINET MEETS PRESIDENT|BI | Executive SUGAR FRAUDS MENTIONED | Matter in Charge of Seeretary Mac- Veagh and Attorney General Wicke NOVEMBER 17, 1909—-TWELVE PAGES. COPY TWO CENTS. Vagaries of Winter THE COLD WEATHER inmnm HIM HE MUST ORDER i‘o“ BN ., L2 Z % b 5 //// O g THE COAL DOESN'T COME THE NEXT DAY SOME GOES OVER THE BIN ONCE MORE, - 3 Y . WAVE Comme| GOES THE FOLLOWING )8, & e AFTER AWEEW \OF COLDWEATHER IT WAR UP ~HE LETS THE lr.u;x Go our-g:o C{;::“ N "%~ €OAL From the Minneapolls Journal, COURT DISBARS I J. DUNN Omaha Lawyer Indefinitely Sus- pended from Practice of Law. eached Flour Held for Trial Back to Owners Judge McPherson 'Orden Samples Taken of Seized Shipment for Use as Evidence. DES MOINES, la., Nov. 16.—Judge Smith McPherson, in’ federal court hers today, ordered 1/Ms sacks of bleached flour, which and Advisors Discuss Message to Congress. CHIEF JUSTICE SCORES HIS ACTS Declares His Brief im Comstituted Abuse, Not Criti- elsm and that Attitude Since Haus Been Defiant. Robinson Case ersham——Situnildy Catistno- tory te President. BANKER SQUIRMS AT CROSS-QUIZ T. W. Dallew, Missouri Millionaire “Mike,” Tells of Being Separated from Money by Mabray Gang. iNOT HAPPY ON EXAMINATION {Counsel for John R. Dobbins Gives State's Witncss Unhappy Time. HINTS AT VISIT T0 A WOMAN Hotel Call and Railroad Trip Come Up and Denial Entered. |PET NICKNAME | —— [Man Who Was “Milked” Ca “Buck-'Sm-All" Ballew by Nelghe bors with Whom He Worked Fiercely and Lon COMES OUT T. W. Ballew, the banker Princeton, Mo., prineipal witness In the | prosecution of John R. Dobbins, went on |trial himselt whew Emmet Tinley, attor- ney for the defense, took him up on cross examination In distriet court at Counell Bluffs yesterday Ballew told his story with ease and grace direct examination, but was |subjected to the greatest discomfort un- der cross-examination. A most unhappy man was he. Consclous that he, twice a millionalre, was sitting before the ae- cused and a court room full of curlous people, the banker found it hard to make the admissions demanded by the defenss in searching out the motives that made the schrewd financier a ‘“Mike: The unhappy man of millioins sat blink- ing and squirming in the witness chalr. His eyes shifted rapidly under a frown that grew darker and darker. Notwith- standing his: pertuberation under fire, his volce remained calm and his answers, sometimes halting, quite deliberate. His recital on direct examination had been a steady recital but little Interrupted by questions from H. W. Byers, attorney gepieral, who Is conducting the examina- tion of witnesses for the/state. Emmet Tinley on cross-examination at once jumped into a gripding, searching serles of questions relathg principally to the motives which had actuated Ballow in getting Into the “race” which eventu: ated so unhappily, and to the cost of $20.000. Asked to ‘\ollne “Honest Man. “Can you define an honest man?' asked Tinley in his most exquisite sarcasm, “Yes, T guess T can safd Ballew. “Didn’t you say that the reason that {you came to Council Bluffs was to help Dobbing start life over again?' asked Tin- ley. | “Mr. Dobbins told me In Kansas City | that it would be @ great help to him it I {would come up and help them get the money from the ‘millionaires.’ He pleaded poverty and sald that he would pay me a bill of $400 he owed for furniture bought at Princeton."” “‘Mike" fron had been seized by federal officials Suring the last summer, released. But the court ordered samples retained to be used when the flour {s put on trial at Council Bluffs, January 15, next. Plerce Butler of St Paul, named by Attorney General Wicker- sham to represent the government at_the hearing which had been originally sched- uled for today, made a llvely proiest to this. He declared that tne millers had manufactured the flour In question know- ing It would be seized. He sald they had not used as much adulterant iIn it as they ordinarily use. Judge McPherson was considerably surprised at this statement and declared that if such 1s true the case would be further Investigated. A band of Tama Indians went the federal grand jury today supposedly on cases involving the sale of liquor to them contrary to the federal siuute. CHASED MORSE WITH GUN lce ~Denler Tells of Enmity with Banker Head of Alleged Trust. ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—Mémbers of the |cabinet after the first meeting since the adjournment of the special session of gon- gress declined to discuss this afternoon | what had been done in the meeting. With regard to the Sugar trust frauds at New York, it was said by one cabinet member. that there was no necessity for the cabinet to consider the situation. At- torney General Wickersham and Secretary ! MacVeagh are entrusted with the investi- gation of the frauds, and it was stated that the situation is satisfactory to Mr. Taft. The cabinet session lasted for twa_hours and forty minutes. President Taft's mes- sage to congress, especlally with relation | to the proposed amendments to the inter- state commerce and antl-trust laws and routine business, so far @s could be learned, were considered. Congress to Investigate. | From remarks let fall by congressional {callers at the White House today there seems little doubt but that a congressional | committee will be appointed to investigate |the sugar frauds and customs house cor- {ruption In New ¥ It seemed to be taken for granted that the first day of the coming “session will witness the Introduc- tion of resolutions calling for an investiga- Postal Telegraph company, would become |tion and that it would not be HKely that general manager of the Western Union. ny great opposition would be shown to James S. Brailey, jr. reputed to be a |the passage of some one of them. Jarge buyer of independent lines, would| No official notce will be taken by the not commit himself as to whether -the | Treasury department at least for the pres- Postal company was his financial backer | €0t of the controversy between former in his recent purchase. .. Harry Thaw Creates Scene (From a Staff Correspondent.) nl fhis answer Ballew was, referring to LINCOLN, Nov. 19.~Special Telegram.) |® conference In Kansas City with Dob- I 3. Dunh, deputy city attorney of|bins and one W. H. Wilson, Who is al- Omaha, was Indefinitely suspended from "rfifl‘ mhhuw taken part In the “‘miking" the practice of law by the supreme court ."“l‘ B ‘t’l‘k_?r-' > this morning and subjected to a severe 01d thém that T would give my pres- scoring by Supreme Justice Reese not only | 1°° 8t the race and they could make out for his statements in his objectionable :‘I“fw“ ‘:‘]:":‘“"'::‘ ;*_:fi:::l'd- ng-we'rca Bal- brief, but because of his attitude since be- | ' " m’; {u:‘xx-- lhul‘lrnpil‘::-’:d 0;‘ cu&l— ing summoned into court to answer for the | i 4" L% ANEE (R BOTO mm:“"‘; writing the document held to reflect on the |Gy on €0t (4 EG CEE O reament SOUR, elin Mol he costy | PAYMENL Of 10 per cent of the total amount f":’:" v‘;::!;;‘:’ :r’"‘":“"“; pay the CoSIS | het on the sure race as payment for the of the oce : Mr. Dunn was cited for contempt of luse of his “presence” as a man of money court for writing a brief in the case of {to give the *millionaires” confidence in |the race. He sald that Martin guaranteed Robinson against Omaha, in which he at- tacked severely a member of the eourl, hat not less than $15,000 would be staked, | thus giving §1,500 as a percenta Ballew and, when| called before the court yester- (at first asked $2600 for the use of his day for an explanation, Mr. Dunn's atti- tude was such there was no alternative | presence. 2 lled “Buck-"Em-AMN" by Nelghbors. than to punish him, so the chief justice said. In addition to being disbarred, Mr. | “Buck-em-all” Ballew was the name nalled jupon the banker witness through the cross Dunn was severely criticised by the chief | examination yesterday. Justice, and a portion of the justificaticn I° “Is It not true that the people of Prince- he presented to the court was denounced |ton call you ‘Buck-em-all' Ballew?" asked as not being in good faith and not fit to be | Tinley, offered to intelligent people. Mr. Dunn| “I guess not," replied the witness, was not called upon for any statemen. following the announcement of the chief “Guess again.” “Well sometimes they try to kid me that justice, and offered none, but was appar- ently very much surprised when the sen- | way,” came the reluctant reply. tence was pronounced. | “Is 1t not a fact that the reason for it Chief Justice Reese called up the Dunn is because you got into rivalry with the |business men there and they started a matter immediately after the court con- | lumber yard in opposition to you, 80 you started a department store to fight them?" (Continueds on Third shaft would have to be dug to recover the remains of the men."” George §. Rice of Pittsburg, chief of the field work of the United States geological survey Also was positive that the re-enter- ing of the mine would have to be post- poned. Orphan Born ce Disaster, In making the rounds of the miners’ homes, Duncan McDonald, president of Dis- triet 12, United Mine Workers, discovered that a new baby had arrived at a home which lost a father und a son. The mother was kept lgnorant of the disaster. Eighty- six of the homes visited were, with the ex- ception of children, without male mem- bers. Only the most frantic of the women Who | lost husbands ventured to visit the shaft ind these crying for lost ones, had to be mented on with interest everywhere, an- other $1,000,000,00 merger became a reality in the financial world today with the prae- tical absorption of the Western Unlon Tel- egraph company by the American Tele- phone and Telegraph company. The Western Union, one of the pet prop- erties of the late Jay Gowig, has been in the Gould family for a generation, and it was by the sale of Gould stock today that the merger was accomplished While the report has been Turrent that the Mackay companies, sontrolling the Postal Telegraph company, will uliimately be included In the plan of reorganization, no confirmation of this could be obtained in New York. Officers of the Postal were emphatic In thelr statements tnat the com- pany would remain on an independent basis. Stocks of the Western Union fell 3 points on the Stock exchange on news of the passing of the control. Official denial was given this afternoon | of repprts that Presiden: Clowry and As- slstant General Manager Barclay would re- sign from the Western Union. Tt was re- | ported that Willlam H. Baker, formerly vice president and general manager of the Raices a Disturbance in Dispute as to Where to Eat Luncheon. NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—Harry K. Thaw, who was brought here today from the asylum for the criminal insane to testity in the sult of Dr. A. McL. Hamilton to recover from Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw $.000 for professional services, created a scene at the court house over the question as to where he should eat luncheon, The officers in charge were taking him to a restaurant near the court bullding, but Thaw insisted upon Eoing to a place in the financial district, where he lunched trequently before the killing of Stanford White. He became so noisy that a large crowd coiiected and, Dr. Baker of the asy- lum was obliged to interfere. The sult of Dr. Hamiiton was called be- fore Justice Dowling, who sent Thaw to Matteawan, but the discovery of a clerical error in.the papers to the sult caused a mistrial, and the court ordered the trial stopped. Thaw was not called upon to testify. before umost foreibly taken back. Frequencly puff of smoke lssued from a crevice In e cover over the shaft. This was taken as an evidence of the fire raging within. Outdoors the mourners experienced the tensest cold, an foy wind sweeping over prairies and about the superstructure of the mine with the fury of a gale. Probable Location of Bodie Speculation was rife as to the location of | the bodies In the mine. Upon this will be determined the immediate cause of the men's death—whether it was fire, suffoca- tion by smoke, or the falling in of parts of the mine, It is the opinion of veteran @/ Wine workers that in time of danger & miner will remain near the hoisting shaft untll driven to remoter parts in search of alr It the bodies wre found near the shaft It was declared it will indicate the men perished Wy fire. If they are found In the more distant gallerics the opinion was held that suffocation by smoke or gas | was the cause. The repeated sealing up | of the mouth of the mine, necessary to| stop draught and smother the fire, it Is held, was sufficent to generate enough | gas to kil the men in any part of the| VERMILION, 8. D. Nov. 16.—(Special ming. Telegram.)—It is now believed that Albert ‘The location of the bodies will indlcate | Nelson, at whose house the tragedy of about when the men died, for the noxious |Yesterday morning oceurred, will live gases in the mine Ald not become fatally | though he s very weak from loss of blood dense until some time after the firgt fire | The murderer of his wife, after slashing was eonsiderably subdued. her throat from ear to ear attempted to Two hundred- and fifty pine boxes In | fire the house pouring Kerosene over the which are to be buried such of the bodies bed clothes and touching & match to it as are recovered, arrived in @ covered |The tramp must have inhaled smoke fumes traln and were stored near the mine, and was suffocated before making a get- though the fact of the presence was care- away. There are no indications that he fully kept from the afflicted families |was killed or committed suicide. On the Funerals of eight of the miners Who |razor handle is carved the mame of L. G were killed Saturday wehe held today.|Jackson. His body will be brought t l NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—John M. Briggs, an ice dealer of Coeymans, N. Y., created @ densation in court today when he testi- fied in ansier to the questions of counsel for the American Ice company that he had felt so bitterly towards Charles W. Morse, former head of the company, that he at one time chased him for two weeks with a gun. Briggs said he had lost heavily in speculation with Morse. (Continued on Second Page.) Victim of Tramp May Recover continued the lawyer. “Well I'm fighting 'em back all right,” |#ald (he witness with his first show of | happiness since the trial bega) Atorney Tinley referred to the euphon- eous “Buck-em-all" with glee frequently To the patrons of Bee advertisers: |z iz -t Two comparisons an Omaha hotel under the name of A. Hollister, a manager in charge of one of bis numerous business houses in Missouri, P D R T T SR When pressed for a reason by Tinler he Local Display Advertising. Omaha Ree. . e 2,681,670 agate ‘World-Herald ... . +2,421,190 agate Page.) Steamer Lost, Crew Perishes Boat Loaded with Wheat Goes Down | on Lake Superior with All on Board. Albert Nelson, Attacked in Home by Tramp, is Getting Better. First Two Weeks in November, Local Display Advertising. vyode. 112,042 agate + . 141,190 agate . 20,148 agate 1909, sald that he In that way avoided being . troubled by traveling men who bored him with their acquaintanceship. “Now were you not a bit ashamed of belug In a fixed race deal?’ asked Tinler. isode ut Hotel. “I didn't want everybody to know about said Ballew ‘As & matter of fact, when you left that hotel you went to Sixteenth and Farnam streets and stood there about ten minutes and then went to another hotel and sent up your card to a room and did not come back to Martin at your room for two hours and a half, did you not?" “No 1 was back in thirty minutes, Ballew Then Tinley set off his bomb with & ques- tlon embodying an accusation that Ballew | has visited a woman in her room at the ond hotel he lady you Kansa¥ City and lines lines WINNIPEG., Man., Nov. 16.—The steamer | Ionic, owned by the Northern Navigation company and loaded with wheat, ‘is reported | to be lost off Passage island, Lake Su-| perior, with all hands on board. The crew | is believed to consist of twenty men. | CHICAGO, Nov. 16.—The lonic was for- | merly known as the Cuba, launched in 1572 as the property of the Northern Naviga- tion company ot Ontario, limited, and halls fiom Collingwood, Ont. Its tonnage is 1000 and its length 28 feet. | lines lines Bee lead 160,460 agate lines Foreign Display Advertising. Omaha Bee. . ... 624,960 agate World-Herald . .. 513,282 agate World-Herald lead lines vertising. Foreign Display Ad o 33,152 agate lines | lines World-Herald lines lines ++111,678 agate lines Beelead........0o000.... 3,034 agate lines Two dled while carring on rescue work. | Vermilion. Part of the squad of miners on duty at| the shaft left their work to follow t processions to the Oemetery and thea X\ hurriedly returned in hope of helping to recover other bodies. All Men Below Are Dead, The bellef was expressed by Mine Man- ager Taylor that the men in the mine were G€RA soon after the disaster on Sa urday: Taylor has repeatedly risked his life to et Wit the mine and yesterday was all | but macriticed when he wandered 200 foet from ghe main shaft and returned Jus | fu time to see the rekindled flames e Ing their way tow the cage which w his only means of escape. “Bvery man in that mine was put sleep ov the day of the fire, d Tay- lor. “There I no reason in the world why anycne should try to arouse false hopes In the minds of these poor people. “The men in the mine are dghd. They cennot be alive. To make these poor peo- . ple think that when the mine s opened their loved ones will bo found in some re- mofe portion of the mine is cruel. & mistaken iden that the entombed could have hastened far ont in the # (Continued on Second Page.) Most newspapers do not advertise the fact when a comparison is not in their own favor. 'Frank Dinuzzo Now Up for Violating.Sunday Law | Readers of The Bee probably miss the adveftisements of certain firms, or wonder why 1 the space of others has been curtailed. | The Bee has always carried far more advertising than any other Omaha paper. The reason for the change in the comparison since November 1, is that on that date The Bee raised its advertising rates from 84 cents per inch, to 98 cents per inch. Advertisers whe are withholding their copy possibly hope that concessions will be made them. said helped on the train at whom you saw’ In the sleeper on the way to Omaha,” said Tin- |ley in a soft explanatory voice, “I dld not see any woman at the hotel; I did not see any woman on the sleeper and 1 did not help any woman on the train at Kansas City,” replied Ialiew, The explosion did not jar oim in the least. His denis calm and qulet, ‘Well, then all' poor old A. Hollister did not have to stand for that Kkind of disgrace, did he?” sncered thé law- s The cross-examination in its details pointed the efforts of the defense (o {#how that Dobbius was not connected with “mieking It was made clear in the grilling of Ballew | that another tack of the defense will bp to contest the charge of larceny on technigal grounds The defense Is satisfied thus far that Lite 1o 8ad ana full of woss far Dinuaso. Put out of business and fmed by tie courts for keeping open his saloon afier s p. m., Dinuzzo then goes into the barber business. Whereupon the Barter's wnlon |, "y warrant of arrest. decides” that the members of that eidfi| pyg ) fated twelve line up as follows: shall comply with the Sunday closing law | Paxton hotel shop, A. Ashmore, 48 South and no longer trausacf business on the | yThirceenth sireet; 8. #, Stewart. 418 South Sabbath. The union appeints & commiltes | Pifeenth; Peter Grandrosso, 8 North 10, see that its rule and the state's law are | Sicteenth; Dick Owens, tenth floor of obeyed. This commit makes the New York Life bullding; Roy Kinsley, rounds Sunday and finds seve hnights | 1406 Farnam; Frank Dinuzso, 153 Harney; of the razor still dolnz busines: &t the |Olin Salsbury, ller Grand hotel; E. Scran- 0'd stand. |ton, 320 North Sixteenth; John Leight, 3% Among these, the committee asseverates. North Sixteenth street; Ray Baum, 1219 » Coivnel Dinuzzo. Farnam street, and Greggs Davidson, 1219 Comes now D. M. Copas, chalrman of | Farnam street Frank tils committee, Wwno first being cuy |sworn deposes and says twelve of his tellow craftsmen did lather the lather and | shave the face on last Sunday and for each {and every one of these nine he procures a complaint upon which the police judge is- | The Bee was the first paper in this part of the country to establish a ‘““‘flat rate”’, charging all advertisers the same rate without exception. That we are losing business in order to maintain this principle is the best assurance to our advertisers that no diserim- inations are, or will be made. The stores which are buying this costly experience of learning the value of the trade of Bee readers by doing without it, are making our space all the more valuable to adver- | tisers, who have the benefit of the failure of such fivms to compete for this vast volume of { business. With but a few exceptions, the business men of Omaha today recognize the fact that your trade and that of other readers of The Bee is worth cultivating, just as you and these business men appreciate our fairness in firmly refusing to allow any advertiser an advantage over his competitor, by showing favoritism. the as an aceompiice early i A -