Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1909, Page 8

OMAHA THURSDAY, CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS Claim for Library Site Lodged by a Man from St. Louis, REPORT ON STREET CAR STRIKE n Fin Which Re- Serviee Specinl Committee Brin and Recommendations flect on Company's and Ave Promptly Filed. N.tiee was given to the city councll Tues- Qay evening that a claim is to be advanced in the courts for ownership of the two lota on which the Omaha Public library stands The notice was sent in by W. W. Slabaugh and John W. Battin as attorneys for Au- gustus Behrens of St. Louls, In the notice to the council it is set forth that Behrens s the only child of Barnett Dehrens, whose widow died recently In Omaha; that he is the sole heir to the interest of his parents In the library lots; that one of sald lots was held by the father through adverse possession, and that the other was transfexred to ‘im by war- ranty deed in 1577; that in 1886, Mrs. Behr- ens gave a quit claim deed to the lot heid by adverse possession, but that no deed was ever glven to the city or to anyone else for the other lot. Hence, uniess the city makes a proposition in regard to said olaim, legal proceedings will be begun to secure possession of the property, which s desecribed as lots 16 and 16, block 20% of the ofty of Omaha. The ctty legal depart- ment will Investigate the matter for the gutdance of the council. Report on Street Car Strike. Councilmen Kugel, Bridges, Schroeder, Hummel and Davis, the special committee appoited to examine Mto and report on the causel of the streot car strike, and how such strikes In future, sub- report. They found that the wap not giving the best service ut the tme of the strike, and that the service at present s unsatisfactory; also that/ it would be 1dle to go into causes and posdible remedies at this time. The com- imittes recomménded that ordinances be prepared and put through to compel the comipdny to Increase its service during the busy hours morning and evening. And the council recelved the report and placed It caretully on file. Suit on Garbage Comtract. A resolution was passed, on motion of Councliman Berka, instructing the city at- torney to Investigate the garbage contract held by Guy L. Axtell, and If a suit at aw will ‘lie to compel the carrying out of its terms, then such sult to be instituted. This action was taken after & communication had been read from Axtell offering to sur- render the contract and hold the city blameless for failure to live up to its terms, 1¢ the city would also consent to hold him blameless for any failure to carry out his greement. Mr. Axtell insiated the oity hi not properly protected him, and that the existing situation is deplorable and dan- gerous. A communication from. Health Commissioner Connell also dwelt on the fallure to gather any garbage at this time. Protest is Withdrawn. A communication was réad from Casper E. Yost, president of the [Nebraska Tele- phone company, which dtated: ‘Having gone through the courts on the question of tax on gross receipts, and having been beaten at every point in the courts, I wish, on behalf of the company, to withdraw the protest”” This letter referred to a prctest filed by W. A. Pixley, auditor of the com- pany, last Saturday. The withdrawal of the Telephone com- pany’s protest will' have the effect of relea ing for use by the council all the money thus far pald In under the operation of the 0é- cupation tax ordinance, all other protes having been already withdrawn. The clity engineer will proceed to paint the names of streets on poles adjacent to all cornérs, the council putting through an ordinance to that effect by unanimous vote. By a formal vote of record, 8 to 4 all to prevent mitted a company the ordinances having in view lower street | car fares were ordered on flle. The same four, Berka, Bridges, Kugel and Schroeder, voted against filing, while all the other counclimen voted In favor of that action. Not a speech was sprung, nor a word of comment. New specifications for paving, repaving, curbing and guttering Were approved. They comply with the requirements of the HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY How To Save $2 On Cough Medicine by Making it at Home Cough medicines, as a rule, are mostly syrup. To make the best syrup, take a pint of Granulated Sugar, warm water, and stir about 2 minutes. Get two and one-half ounces of Pinex (50 cents worth), put it in a clean pint bottle, and /fill up with the Granulated Bugar Syrup. This makes a full pint of ualed cough syrup, for about 54 cents. perfeotly. You couldn’t buy as much cough syrup for $2.50. home-made remedy is pleasant to nd usually stops even the most cough {n twenty-four hours. It did, also, for colds, whoopng cough, bronchlal ailments, et teaspoonful every one, {wo or th 'he Sugar Syrup {s an excellent sed- ative. The Pinex is the most valuable concentrated compound of Norway White Plne Extract, rich in all the healing ele- ments of Norweglan pine, the real Pinex itgelf. Your drugg it or can easily get it for yow Strained honey can be used instead of the syrup, and makes a very fine honey and pine tar cough syrup.—Adv, t has How to Make Good Bread | One day a plece in & paper I read; It was telling how to make good bread, And this was the whole of fts secret ower: 'Twas only to use “Pride of Omaha" Flour. . ~Mrs. G. A. Smith, Tekamah, Neb. ‘Would Please the S8hah On all the border of the west, In porth or south or east, It would crown a goodly feast And would please a poet, peasant, king, Ana cen the mighty Shah: But wouldst thou know of what I sing? “Pride of Omaha. H. M. Mtlburn, Mrs. 2504 Spalding St, Omaha, Neb. Santa Olaus Will Fill 'E The "Pride of Omaha” comes around Each; Wednesday 1o our doo We hail itsa coming with def And always wish for more. It gives us’ health, it gives us weaith, And sweetest comfort, too. If_ever its supply should cease, 1 don't know what we'd do. Tis 01d Santa Claus will be here soon; We'll dust each sack out clean And Lang it by the fireplace Just where it can be seen. 0la Niek will turn his glasses, And with & smiling facy Say, “Ha! Ha! this Is i I'm sure this is the 111 Ferill the "Pride of Gmana’ To prove their judgment true, And tle a ribbon 'round the top To prove that t's trus biue." F. Bailey, Mrs. C, Falrfield, Nel Bread a King Would Eat The most excellent flour milled in our da; B ride of Omaha the cosks say. ts made from the finest and cholosst wheat And It inakes a bread a king would eat Mrs. “John Austia, 531 Charles Bt, Omaha, Neb. add’ % pint | Be sure to use | 1f one will take the. trouble to ask the next ten men he sees what grain erop gives the greatest yleld of grain in bush- ols, five of them probably will answer in- stantly, “Corn.” Two of the others will guess “Wheat" and two will say “Rice.” The tenth will be in doubt, but he will say it is ome or the other of those three crops. Yet every one of them will be wrong. Premlership in world prbduction belongs to oats. The world's crop of oats leads that of corn by 260,000,000 bushels, ex- ceeds the production of wheat by nearly 400,000,000 bushels, 1 nearly three times as grest as the production of barley and more |than double the yield of ‘rye. Even rice, |the principal dlet of Asiatic millions, does {not show as great a bushel yield as oats by 500,000,000 bushels. Oats, King of grain crops, showed a world yield of more than 8,600,000,000 bushels In 1908, | r. Samuel Johnson id oats were eaten | by men In Scotiand and horses in Englend. |“Yes,” replled a canny Scot, “and have you observed that Eggland is famous for its horses and Scotland for its men?' What wheat Is to the Amarican, rice to the Japa- nese and Chinese, that Is oats to the ta- bles of millions of Hropean families. In- {deed, KEurope, which produc only an elghth of the world's corn and half of its wheat, produces two-thirds of its oats. Crop concentration is one of the most interesting things that relates to the world's food supply. While North America reduces nearly 80 per cent of the, world's |corn, Europe grows 06 per cent of iis oats |#nd Asia 98 per cent of Its rice. North America furnishes eloven out of every nineteen bales of the world's eotton, while Europe ylelds nine out of ten bushels of its potatoes. While oats furnishes the big- gest grain crop, cotton the biggest floer crop and cattle the biggest meat orop, it remalns for potatoes to furnish the bl gest of .all crops which enter into the diet of man. Nearly 5,000,000000 bushels were grown in 1%7, and, while the potato s distinctly & plant of American ancestry, the Americans produce less than one bushel of potatoes where Hurope produces & hundred. In point of quantity oats is the second grain crop grown In the United States, although wheat outranks it in weight and in value. It'is first among the grain crops of Canada. The yleld of oats in the latter country is practically equal to that of corn, wheat and barley together. In 1908 it was equal to all these, with all the smaller grain crops thrown In for good measure, Its prestige in Canada is due mainly to the fect that It Is one of the hardiest of crops, and will start in northern climates late enough in the spring to escape the ending winter, and mature early enough in the fall to escape the cold and frost of the be- sinning winter. It 18 also one of the most imirune of all the crops from diseases and pests, thus assuring a good average yleld. Likewise, its straw is much more palatable to dattle and other live stock than is that of any other of the grain crops. It has been estimated that the demands of the American people. for cereals as breakfast foods has multiplied & hunrded- fold In a single generation, and that while oats was first on the ground as a claim- ant for favor, and has been hard pressed by the vast advertising campalgns con- Qucted in the interest of corn and wheat preparations, it: still holds first place as the cereal of the breakfast table. It used to be belleved that oats contained a stim- ulant principle like caffiene In coffee, It was named “avenin.” But the most Al gont search In the chemical laboratory kas falled to leolate {t from the other properties of the oat grain. Liberty Hyde Balley, the great agricul- tural expert, who has written & long list of books on the farm and the farmer, and who . headed the Roosevelt Country Life commission, Is authority for the statement that the domestic specles of oats may have sprung from the wild oats of Europe. | Many botanists believe that it has come idnwn unhybridized for generations from a | Tartarian species now lost and extinct. That its native heath is eastern Europe is generally believed. There is sald to be no Some Things You Want to Know | King of Grain Crops. reference to oats in the Jitérature of Chine, India, or any other part of southern Asla. Some think it originated in Persia, or Mesopotamia, where it was found growing as a volunteer crop on the banks of the Euphrates. It ia not mentioned in the Bible, though barley and wheat are. Though the word ‘“corn” Is seldom used as meaning oats, it 1s applled to nearly all of the other grain erops of the world An America it means malge, to the Scotch it means oats, to the Englishman wheat, and to the Soandinavian a ‘‘eorn fleld" means a field of rye. “Corn" is a word that applied to all graln crops, but It Is used usually by & people to' designate their principal crop. The Englishman would no more think of calling maize corn than the Amerioan would, think of speaking of wheat as corn. When the Savior spoke of the “corn of wheat' He meant the same that we mean by a “head of wheat,” and the Englishman by an “ear of whea To \Scotland the world owes its first ac- quaintance with oats as a food fer the human raco. In generations gone by thou- sands of people lived for years with oats and milk as the principal article of diet. As rice converts the Japaness Into fight- Ing machines with an endurance far be- yond that of the Buropean and American meat eater, so oats produces a race of strong people able to endure much, and glves point to the declaration of the 8cotch that England is famous for its horses and Scotland for its men. The tables of the world's production of oats and other grains reveal some wondor- fully Impressive and significant facts. Europe and North America, with a land area only one-fourth as great as the re- maining continents, produce four times as many bushels of grain, Including rice, as all the other coitinents together. Reckon- ing on the basis of population it will be found that one-filth of the human race grows four-fifths of the cereal crops of the world. Europe and North America grow 12,000,000,000 bushels that represent a normal world crop of gathered grain; of which crop oats constitute nearly 24 per cent. It is difficult for the human mind to concelve the immensity of this yleld of grain. It would fill & bin a mile long and a mile wide, with & helght of about 420 feet, or 100 average oity blocks piled over 400 feet high. There are some seventy different varletics of oats grown In America. That the yield may be increased to a remarkable extent by the seleotion of seed s shown by the experiments of Prof. Zavity of the Ontario Agricultural college. One part of a plat of ground was sowed with oats each grain of which was selected by hand, and only the plumpest chosen. From these seeds he gathered a harvest of oats which showed a yield of 77 bushels to the acre. Using light grains for seed on the other part of the plat he found that the yleld was fifty-elght bushels per acre. He believes that the average farmer can, by selecting his seed, increase his yleld at least 15 per cent. This would, he concludes, mean & gain of per- haps $0,000,000 on the American crop. The Department of Agriculture has been interested in the Introduction of new varl tles of oats from Europe, One of them is the sixty-day varlety, which is supposed to reach maturity in that length of time. The Swedish Select and the Tobsk are two other varieties which have demonstrated thelr great advantage ever many .of the home varieties. Smut Is the worst enemy of the oat crop, and the plant disease ex- perts estimate the loss caused by it at 36,600,000 & year. It is also a serious dlsea: of wheat, the ann damage bill being placed at $14,000.000. ‘I'hese experts estimate. that plant diseases as & whole cost the people of the United States hundreds of millions of dollars. The Department ot Agriculture is not a very enthusiastic friend of king oats as a profitable crop. Prof. W. J. Splliman, agriculturist in charge of farm management investigations, notes in a recent report to the secretary, that oats acreage shows & tendency to fall off in many states. FREDERIO J. HASKIN. Tomorrow—8OCIAL SCIENTISTS' MEET- ING. Hummel ordinance, and the city engineer |and eounciimen regard them as in many respeets superior to the old specfeations. What Cesgrove Learmed. ity Comptroller Lobeck submitted a long detalled report from Deputy Comptroller Fred H. Cosgrove of his recent trip of in- vestigation to other cities to examine into thelr systems of accounting, with special relation to collection of occupation taxes and royalties. Mr. Cosgrove reports that Des Molnes has many very attractive feat- | ures embodled in its accounting system, and that its physical features have been greatly Improved in recent years, He says further that his investigations have put him in a position to present a system ot munieipal accounting for the ety ot Omaha, in & concise manner, and on the lines adopted by the United States census bureau. He further says that “the bun- gled charter under which the. city of | Omana operates its. several functions ot municipal administration has developed a system of accounts pecullarly Its own," and proceeds to Ulustrate by comparison Wwith other systems. He finds that money | Pald to the treasurer of Omaha ocannot be gotten out for any crokked purpose without & jimmy, but suggests that in-many de- talls the local system is not the best. | Mr. Cosgrove's conclusion 1s that for the coming year each cf*v department be re- quired to make request for apportionment of fynds on blanks to be furnished by. the | comptroller's office, as a start toward a | more complete and up to date method of | transacting ety business. {GYPSY VOLUNTARILY GOES TO COURT, FIRST CASE IN STATE Milan Merino Asks Judge Leslie to Name Guardian for His Two Children. For the first time In the history of Ne- braska, and, perhaps, of the middle west, | gypsy has come voluntarily into court. | The Romanytes prefer to adjudicate thelr | own aitferences of whatever kind. | Milo Merino, an “Egyptian” of the tribe | encamped near Florence, has appeared in | county court asking that Judge Leslle (name a guardian for his two youngest | ehlldren, Merino says in his petition that his wife 1s insane and confined in an asylum from | which she can never emerge cured. Merino declares he has three older children of whom he can and will take care, but that he is & poor man at best and wishes the court to name John Marks guardisa of Angelino Merino, aged 3 years, and John Merino, 11 months. His three older ehll- dren are called Marlo, Saritia and Drage Merino. R H. Olmsted, who prepared the peti- tion for Merino, asserts that the gypsy will acknowledge s far as the guardianship and the children are concerned the sov- erelgnty of the state, & concession Eypsies are loth s a rule to make, John Marks is declared in the petition 0 be & fit and proper person, “all parties being of the race commonly called gyp- sles,” Marks is a famous member of the roving race. His home, 80 far as he has one, is Leavenworth, but of late he has been at Florence. Here he found his daughter kidnaped two years ago and taken to the far northwest. _Why he is willing to adopt Merino's children or what may be back of the agree- ment has not appeared. The possibllities are numerou: MRS. TILDEN IS RE-ELECTED Woman'’s Christian Assoe| Otficers tor Yenr. At the annual meeting of the Women's Christian association held yesterday after- noon, Mrs. George Tilden was re-elected president; Mrs. G.. W. Clarke, first vice president; Mrs. R. 5. Wilcox, second vice president; Mrs. J. W. Gibbs, recording secretary; Mrs. Edward Johnson, corres sponding secretary, and Mrs. 8. K. Spauld- ing, treasurer. The assoclation, which s the oldest char- itable organization in the olty, conducts the 0ld People's Home at Twenty-fourth and Wirt streets. The following women were elected to sérve as trustees of the home with the general officer: Mrs. A. K. Gault, Mrs. Cadet Taylor, Mrs. W. B. Taylor, Mrs. J. W. Bedford, Mrs. A. B. Jaquith, Mrs. B. O. Looml Mrs. B. R. Sherman, Mrs. John Steel and Miss Emily Bolts. Mrs. P. L. Perine, Mrs. L. L. Boits, Mrs. L. O. Coman, Mrs. M E. Eillott and Mrs. J. J. McLean are hon- orary trustees. Twenty residents are in the home at present and of these, three are boarders There have been three deaths during the last year. Rev. M. V. Higbee addreased the women, his pubject being, “Others’ Miss Russell McKelvey sang, and Miss Ella Fearon gave a recitation. MRS. JIM PHILLIPS | IN CITYl Wite of Self-Contessed of | Marsh C. Hamil Back | Omaha from § Paul, Mrs. Jim Phillips, wife of the self-con- fessed slayer ot Marsh C. Hamilton of | Florence, has returned to Omaha from St. Paul. Mrs. Phillips answer to her hus. band's charge that he killed Hamilton be- | ocause the dead man, he alleged, had rufned | his home, is, “I'll not lie to save any man” Mrs. Phillips, nevertheless, may testify that she belleved that Phillips was crs from brooding over insane jealousy. This version of the “unwritten law" defense s about the only one now available for Phil- lips and his attorneys can contend that it makes no difference whether or not Ham- fiton was gullty, the question being, Did | Phillips think him so, and was Phillipg| crazed by this bellef? Slayer Mrs. Phillips is living with her husband's | auality mother, at 323 Lake street DECEMBER Uneeda ssouit are more than mere spda lif:c“l::rs. They are a distinct, individual food article made fror.n1 special materials, by specmd methods, in specially constructe eries. . e They are sealed in a gpecxal way which gives them crxspnegsix cleanliness and freshness whic «crackers” from the paper \;alg always lack. They are the Na- tion’s accepted soda AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMABA Postal Receipts Show Gain of Fifty Per Cent in Eight Months. EARLY ICE HARVEST IS GOOD Cudahy Company Will Nearly Fill Ita Houses with Ten-Inch Product of Jack Frost—Maglc City Gosslp. Judging from the record of the South Dmaha. postoftica, the city has every reason to be atisfied with its degree of prosper- ity. The, postal receipts of 1909 show an increase of 50.7 per cent over 18. To get this'rate elght months were compared, be- ginning with April and including Novem- ber. | 'Buch an increase will mean a sub- etantial addition to the salary of the post- master. The month of November showed in actual cash received $14,076.71, as compared with $9,55671 last year. This is an increase of 68.5 per cent. One reason for the large increase is that the Cudahy Packing com- pany, which has had its general offices in South Omaha since April, has bought all its supply of stamps at the local office. The postage for this cumpuny alone amounts to $2,000 or more each month. The postmaster is well pleased with the showing of the local office. The Christmas malling season for pack- ages 1s at hand and the postmaster wishes to call to the attention of patrons that only the registered packages are likely to reach their destination promptly and safely. The other mall packages are subject to the dejays of the crowded season. A hand receipt will be given each purchaser of the registry privilege. A duplicate recelpt trom the parties recelving the package will show that it has arrived safely. Lee Pike Injured by a Plke, Lee Plke, Thirtieth and V streets, was seriously injured by the thrust of a pike pole in the hands of a fellow workman at the Cudahy ice houses yesterday evening. He and several others in the gang were using plke poles to drive the floating fce along the run, when one of the workmen slipped and his pole with a sharp barb plunged into Pike's leg, tearing the flesh and splintering the bones of the shin. The Injury was painful and the wound bled seriously. The man was taken to the South Omaha Lospital In an ambulance. After examination the doctors thought that the wound would cause little more than a temporary disability. lce Harvest Under Way. The Cudahy Packing company has begun the annual harvest of ice at Seymour lake. The men have been cutting since Mon- day morning on an ice field of the finest of ten and eleven-inch lce. The weather conditions have heen exception ally good for so early a point in the winter season. The ice houses were made read; before the first suggestion of winter. Many men are now employed and it Is estimated that over half the crop can be harvested In two weeks. The first cutting of the available ice at Seymour lake does not usually fill the houses. It will come near doing it this year on account of its good thickness Congregation Israel Election. The Congregation of Israel held a largely attended and lively meeting Sunday after- noon at the synagogue, Twenty-fifth and J streets for the purpose of electing officers. Harry H. Lapidus was elected president; H. Kozlowsky, vice president; Jacob Rad- usiner, treasurer; M. L. Goldenbers, secre- tary; M. Lipofski, warden; L. Moskovitz, M. Chaicken and J. L. Cohn, trustees. The congregation is prospering splendidly and the outlook is §ood for & very strong or- ganization. A public installation of offi- cers will be held Sunday, January 5. The outgoing president, George Wright, will be preserited with a tokem of apprecia tion for the splendid work he has done dur- ing his term of office. The Jewish Ladies’ Ald soclety, which is an auxiliary to the general ocngregation, also elected officers as follows: Mra. G. Wright, president; Mrs. M. Gold:nber vics president; Mrs. B. Handler, secretary; Mrs. A. Katakee, treasurer. Mrs. Harry H Lapidus, Mrs. A. Levy, Mrs. M. Chaicken and Mrs. Sam Meyerson the trustees. Union Stock Yards Eleotl The annual election of officers of the Union Stock Yards company held on the afternoon of December 13 resulted in no change In the personnel of the executive officlals and only one of the board of directors was not re-elected. This was Samuel McRoberts. The officers of the present year are therefore R. J. Dunham of Chicago, president; John D. Creighton, vice president; Colonel J. C. Sharp, sec- retary and treasuber, and Everett Bucking- ham, general manager. The directors are R. J. Dunham, Lee W. Spratien, John D. Crelghton, F. H. Davis, Thomas B. Me- Pherson, G. B. Robbins, V. B. Caldwell, R. C. Howe and C. F. Manderson. The financial repott of the sompany was very favorable and although the expense for permanent Imrpovement and repair was large this year the stockholders found much room f.r satisfaction. The manage- ment under Everett Buckingham has been careful, economical and tempered With §00d judgment. The market shows an in- creass In popularity and the margin of prices between South Omaha and Chicago has been considerably cut. The live stock has brought prices 10to 15 per.cent nearer the Chicago market than ever before, Maglce City Gomsivp. Jetter's Gold Top Beer delivered to any. part of the city. Telephone 'No. §. For Rent—Three large rooms, 113 North | Thirty-ninth avenue. Phone South 1619. Mr. and Mrs. Canaday of Minden, Neb., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. N.' D. Meéad for a few days. The Presbyterian Brotherhood will meet Thursday evening at the United Presby- terlan church. The funeral of Mrs. Anton Novak will be held at 9 a. m. today at the Church of the Assumption, Joseph Zeleny, 20 yesrs of age, employed in the raflway department of ‘the Unlon Btook Yards company, died Tuesday even- ing at the home of his parents, 267 South Twenty-first street. The funeral will be held from the home Friday and will be in_charge of the Modern Woodmen. Willlam O'Brien was sentenced to ninety days in the county fail yesterday for break- ing his parole. He had been sentenced for abusing his family, but the sentence was suspended on his godd behavior. The members of Duncan castle No. 3, Royal Highlanders, will enjoy & card party this evening at Odd Fellows' hall. Rev. D. G. Horn of West Plains, Mo, | preached last evening at the Christian | church. He will speak again this evening. Frank Henry, who recently returned from a sojourn In lowa, was given a surprise rty ‘Tuesday evening by a number of oung folks. Misses Mabel and Lililan Dimock enter- tained the Christian Endeavor soclety of the Presbyterian church last evening. Offl- cers were elected. Mrs. Collins, 330 North Twenty-sixth street, reported her daughter, aged 7 years, disappeared yesterday after school. The girl left the school grounds with the other chilaren. You can’t afford to ignore the Unrivalled Opportunities FOR the Farmer, the Merchant, the Manufacturer in the Big Horn Basin The Big Horn Basin now furnishes the greatest opportunities in the world for farmers, and especially farm renters to secure fine irrigated farms at the mere cost of the water—cheaper than paying rent in any locality. Crops are certain, and often a single crop can be made to pay for the farm. The Big Horn Basin has more water power than the state of Massachusetts; plenty of timber for the settlers; enough coal to supply the needs of the west for generations, and this mostly underlying government lands that may be bought at the government price. It has an almost unlimited supply of sulphur, mica, asphalt and cement materials; also copper mines, silver, gold and lead mines, oil wells producing the highest grade oil produced in the United States, and enough natural gas is already developed to supply the needs of several cities—all these together with the Burlington’s New Main Line to the Northwest now being built through the heart of the Basin, will make this country the greatest wealth produc- ing region in America. This new line is now completed from Frannie to Kirby, and construction is rapidly progressing to Thermopolis, thence through the beautiful Wind River Canon. The Basin is yet in its infancy, but its towns are more up-to-date and offer greater possibil- ities for the manufacturer and tradesman than the small towns of the middle states. Perhaps these facts will interest you. COWLEY—A new ofl refinery has just been completed. LOVELIL—Already famous for the quality and quantity of sugar beets raised in its vicinity, BASIN—The county seat, a modern city which already has city water works, sewer system, electric lights, natural gas, etc, WORLAND—One of the youngest towns in the Basin, which will shortly be completely modernized, s natural trading center in the Basin. KIRBY—Great shipping point for the large coal mines in that district. GREYBULL—The future industrial center of Wyoming. An immense supply of Natural Gas has been devel- oped. Has great beds of shale for use in the manu- facture of brick and tile; also extensive beds of gyp- sum for the manufacture of cement. THERMOPOLIS—Here are located the famous Big Horn Hot Springs, which will eventually make it the most popular health resort in the West. Several new towns will be located along the new line within the next two or three months, between Thermopolis and the Powder River. The time to think about making your selec- tion is now. ' 8pecially prepared literature describing the great natural resources and golden opportunities in the Basin in detail, sent free on request. ‘Write me today, or call. Bulinoto Route + | D. CLEM DEAVER, General Agent, Landseekers’ Information Bureau, Room 5, ‘‘Q’’ Building, 1004 Farnam Street. OMAHA, NEBRASKA,