Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1909, Page 2

EAST BLOCKED BY BLIZZARD Traffic from Philadelphia to Maine Tied Up by Snow. ENOWN DEAD NUMBER FORTY | Street Car Line in Phila- | s Open and Milk Short- Threate City—An- other Storm Expected Only On elphi age The Christm fzzard, the mseverest storm experiondA @' fn the east In twenty vears, tled up foedl traffic this morning in | cities from Perifisyivania to Maine and | disarranged €M schedules throughout | half a dozem stades. Conditiond, hgwever, are rapldly ing and rafftoads and muncipalities are to- day bending every effort to move Inter- city and wgal traffic. There Is reason to | belteve' conflitions will be normal again by | Tuesday ni#ht wher another storm is ex- | pected fram the west. | At len#t forty persons have met their | dsath through exposure or accident, five | in Philaflelphia, elghteen In New York and at leasy 'fifteen in New England. In Bhiladelphla general business this mornMig” was practically at a standstill i All gheeukh trains were late, only street ear line was running and the eity is suffering from a shortage of milk. | Washington did not suffer severely, but pommurtigation with Boston Is maintained | only with' difficuity. The storm In New | England seems to have been worse In the | vicinitys ofi New Bedford, Providence, Fall River,\ Ngwport, Pawtucket and Woon- socket. 4. In Newi¥ork City, 7,00 men are at work cleaning, thejtreets, ' Eighteen,Dead in New York. W YORK, Dec. 27.—Elghteon persons in and néa?” New York perished In the Christmas dtokmi or from accidents caused by it. Six dfediffom exposure afier being caught In sBoWw | drifts. Others were drowned and sevérdl were killed by trains Today New YAl was rapidly digging itself out from undbr cover of the ten-inch snowfall. By noon- traffic conditions ap- proached normal as the result of the la- | bor of nearly 10,00 men in the employ of | the city and the traction .lines, whil steam railroad conditions also were rap- fdly improving. Wire communication, which was badly Interrupted during the worst of the biow, was again fairly good today, except to New England points. Blockades on railroads created a short- age of food supplies and a consequent in- crease In prices, which contributed to the hardships of the poor. Shipping felt the storm's ously. While no heavy los from any one wreck, man sutfered damdge, Uragsin and being driven gshoro. Tae wrecking of | the freight steamer Thurman off Toms | river, New Jersey, and the sinking of the | schooner Mary Ann Kirby in Long Island sound were the worst wrecks, but neither | was attended with loss of life. While incoming-Transatlantic liners re- Pott hard, weathér, none scems to have been badjy delayed. ‘Fifteet 1 riléa In New England. BOSTON, Dee.- 21.—Up to noon today fiftseni lives " wore known to.have been lost in New Fingland by yesterday’s storm, threa'in Chelseasand Everett and twelve | through the wyecking of the five masted schooner Davis Palmer off Bostdn harbor. The loss of the Davis-Palmer with all on board, was. the. first of the fatal marine ascidants e b Mported.. Wreckage| from the, vessel, yaa picked up on the beach st Hull. According to the shipping agents in this clty, the Palmer carried a crew of cleven men beside its captain, Leroy McKown of Malden. Five million, dollars loss is the estimate | made goday of the havoc wrought in and | around Buyoll by the blizzard ‘which yes- terday swept New England and drove a | record tide oyer the coast. Thirty-two citi¢' and towns which last night were plunged in darkness owing to | the cutting off of the elcctric light service | hope to have their lighting facilities re- stored by tanlght. The storm was easlly the greatest that New England hi¥ experienced in eleven yearf. Al dlofig ‘the coast phenomenal tides’ Were rEpo/tid! “In many places sea walld werd batlercd 1o picees, boulevards | razed and’ “curls ark Rt s along the | shore destroy d, 4 In "Boston’ the "tide ‘swept over the whatves, across”Atluniie avenue and as | fai"{nlan@ ‘as the' Chivmber of Commerce. | It 18 estimated ‘that the damage In this Improv- one effect Is sert- reported il craft their. gnehors szction Wil reach $500,000.* | The worst' damage wrought by the storm’ ‘was fif Chelsi and Everett, where, 1t {s bullevea, it Wil be several weeks be- fore the tide ‘gaté on the Island End river caii bo Yepaired ahd the flooded district re- claimed. . Hatlrig ' escapsd throught the scantily” olad and muny of them bare- fuotedl, tho residents of the submerged sec- tion of Chelsa had tv stand for hours in the blizeard waiting/ for wagons to take | them to- shelter Hundieds of the home- less ‘were taken daré of in rellef stations blished“in public 'schools and churches. | No' further - damage resulted tide ‘late’ last night. The water rise @s high s 0 the forencon. PITTSBURG, Dec. 2.—After @ night of the greatest ‘activity on the pirt of the vallfoad officisls trains east and west of Pittsburg on main ' lines were moving slowly today. - Although a light snow con- tinued to 'fall aiid the roads were badly congested through trains were straggling into the Union station here from thirty minytes to elght hours late. Branch lines throughout this dlstrict were ou‘xl gqact\g‘!:;mwon,, trom did the not 88 thé officlals were dlrected towi ppdqiryp thiough facilities, the branch ‘lines helng. tedporarily abandoned. Pi DELPHIA, Dec. 21.—While rall- roaditekiegio. and street car service are still 1n a?Pad way and general business ls seri- ously wlisturbed as a result of the severe “nowglefm, conditions this afternoon were o1 t improved over those of the ear) rning. H s of pafily. & other- establish- men¥k BmployliE. thousands of people were Mther shut dowh or working with as low w 'rz:n"of.«mdr normal force of | s A he Street ear service remalns in n Milk Trust | dnd Genalne \fong (obfielals expect that an LTED MILK Al Ages. | ways snow— | THE BEE through trains will be running practically on or near scheduie time by tonlght, but suburban traffiec wil not becote normal for a day or two. WASHINGTON, Dec., 27.—Little incon- venlence was felt In Washington today as A résult of the Christmas storm beyond the late arrival of trains from the north with belated Christmas gifts and mails and the presence In the oity of four and one-half inches of snow and fcy pavements. Trafflc conditions on the trunk line rafl- were such that President Taft thought it advisable to cancel engagements in New York which he had made for to- night, although little difficulty was antie- ipated by rallroad officials in the move- ment of their trains northward today, In fact, Washington escapsd the full effeot of the storm. Street rallways are running on schedule time. Hopeful conditions were held out this morning by the authorities at the weather bureau who said that the storm, which began on Christmas eve had passed out to sea off the Maine coast and everything scemed clear in the east. Another disturbance, however, ia coming from the west and moving eastward, but this, they say, will result in only & little snow. . Child Rébs Bank of Fifty Tl}ousand Italian Bank is Vigtim of Crippled Daughter of Owner—Eight Others are on Trial, CHICAGO, Dec. 21.—An" unusual story was outlined in the criminal court here to- day in the opening statement in the trial of eight Itallans who are accused of con- spiring with crippled 17-year-old Angeline Schlavone to rob her father, an Itallan banker., In his argument Assi ‘m State's Attor- ney Fleming told the jury that Franciseo Schiavone, uncle of Angéline, three years ago told the girl to get all the money she could from her father's bank, to bring it to him and ho would save it for her and when she had a snug amount she could marry his #on, Michael. ” The girl was employed in her father's bank and It 1s alleged that her thefts ag- gregated $30,00 before she was detected. When money from the bank was found in her possession she told her object in taking it and dsclared that, being erippled, sho feared she would be unable to marry and so had tried to win a husband with her father's money. Michael Schlavone is lame and is five years the senfor of his cousing Angeline. The elght defendants to the -conspirhcy charged are all relatives of Pasquale Schiavone, the banker. Angeline was also indicted and will have a trial separnte from the. relatives. 'NEAR PANIC ON STOCK MARKET (Continued from First Page.) cerned In last week's speculative movement in the Rock Island deal moved very fever- ishly. Rock Island collateral 4s sold at 8 In a block of 500,000 and then slumped to §3. The Wabash refunding 4s sold at 78t and then ran off to 77%. Wabash pre- ferred dropped § under Friday's closing price. One ‘hundred and fifty-five thousand shares of Rock Island common were traded Andurlog the first hour. . MOFFAT ROAD 18 NOT SOLD Owner Denfes that it Has Been Ac- auired by Rock Island. DENVER, Colo., Dec. 27.—D. H. Motfat, president of the Denver Northwestern & Pacific raliroad, known as the road,” this afternoon emphatically denled a story published in a local paper to the effect that the Rock Island system had acquired control of the Moffat road, The report was based on an assertion that the stock of the James Peak tunnel project had been withdrawn. This was a §6,00000 corporation, the object of which was to drive a bore through James Peak, thus reducing materially the heavy grades on the east end of the Moffat road. “There's not a word ef truth 1n it,” sald Mr. Moffat to the Associated Press. “The Moffat road Is not sold and it 1s not golng |to be sold. There never was but 32,600 worth of stock of the James Peak tunnel project lssued, anyway, and that is in the safe of the Moffat road. It's going (o stay there. No one from the Rock lsland system has ever seen about the possible — of the road, and 1 do nt ex- pect anyone to sec me. ‘ S MPS TRACK, ONE DEAD' Hoy Also Has Hand Crushed and a Score of Other Persons Are Injured. [car 1u DETROIT, Mich.,, Dee. #.—Frank Ken- dall, %8 years old, of Plymouth, Mich., was crushed to death, Richard Roe, ‘7 years old, of Detroit, suffered the loss of one hand and Is In a critical condition and.a score of other passengérs weré less aeri- ously hurt as the result of an tnterurban car on the Detrolt United rallway jumping the tracks last night four miles north of the village of Wayne, P Otferings for Janunary on Edi- won Records. Excellent in varlety and quality of se- lections, both vocal and Instrumental, the Edison Amberol and Standard Recofd Lists for January deserve more than ordinary mention. The Amberol list offers ‘“Wash- ington Post and the, Bohool ‘Cadets Marches,” (one. record) Sousa’s band; Redhead,” sung by Jones; “Ring o'Roses,” the popylar d m She “The Dollar Princess,” ¥ by Wheeler and Harry Anthony; ic. from Mile. Modiste, '§ by Victor Herbért and his orchestra;- ‘flobble-Duet - from The Mascot,' " bY Whee and_ Anthony ‘Monte Cristo Waltst' By the Fobda-Roca- bruns quintetts A for al!Wits" o clever race track’ sketgh by Adé Jones and Len Spencer; “Flow Geitly, Swget Afton," by the Metropolitan quartet, and. “De:- ceuse de Jocelyn,” :a ocello ¥lo by Jean Schwiiler. There also o voewl rec- ords in Hebrew and' three fn Italiap, In the “Standard. Mst age found Summer Girl,” by Soua's band: “IU'f Hard to Find a R Nice Man® by Hessie Wynn; “OrlentaliMardh," by “Vietar Her. el Megtiey of Irish Solo by John Kiuwa- *“The ble; Sunbeam;'* “Ril; night Sons by AT heart's a Protty the raliroads have been made lmpassable. MEN OR MONEY “Mottat | — PINCHOT Chief Forester Says Conservation Has Become Moral Problem, | — Service Just Declares Attacks in Bitterness on crease s Serviee Decomes More Effective, NEW YORK, Dec, 26.—"Special inter osts have made repeated attacks on the United States Forest service and those attacks have Increased in. violence just in proportion as the service has offered effective opposition to predatory wealth,’ sald Gifford Pinchot, chief of the United States Forest service, 'n a speech today before a number of prominent publishers at the University club. Mr. Pinchot took as the subject for his speech at the Peo- ple’s Forum “Conservation and Equal Opportunity.” Mr. Pinchot sal “The American people have evidently made up thelr minds that our natural re. sources must be conserved. That is good, but it setties only half the question. For whose benefit shall they be conserved— for the benefit of the many, or for the uso and profit of the few? The great conflict now being fought will decide. There is no other question before us that begins to be so important—or that will be mo difficult to straddle— as the great question between epecial interest and equal opportunity; between the privil- eges of the few and the rights of the muny; between government by men for buman welfare and government by money for profit, between the men who stand for the Roosevelt politices and the men who stand against them. This is the essence of the conservation problem today Conservation Moral Issue. “The conservation lesue s a moral issue. When & fow meh get possession of one of the necessaries of life, either through ownership of & natural resource or through unfair profits, as in the recent cases of the sugar trust and the beef packers, they injure the average man without good reason, and they are gullty of @ mojas Wrong “I belleve In one form of government and I belleve In the Golden Rule. But we must face the truth that monopoly of the sources of production makes it impossible for vast numbers of men and women to earn a fair living. Right here the conser- vation question touches the dally lite of the great body of our people, Who pay the cost of special privilege. And the price is heavy, That price ‘may be the chance 10_save the boys from the saloons and the corner gang, and the girls from worse, and to make good citizens of them instead of bad, for an appalling proportion of the tragedies of life spring directly from the lack of a little money. Thousands Qaughters of the poor fell into the hand of the white slave. traders because their poverty leaves them without protection. Thousands of families, the Pittsburg survey has shown us, lead lives of brutal- izing overwork In return for tho barest ltving, People Victims of Plunder. “The people of this country have lost vastly more than they can ever regain by gifts of public property, forever and with- out charge, to men who gave nothing in return. It is true that we have made su- perb material progress under this system. but it J§ not well for us to rejoloe too freely in the slices the special interests have given us from the great loaf of the property of all the people. “The.people of the United States have been the complacent victims of a system of plunder often perpetrated by men who would have been surprised beyond measure 10 be accused of wrongdoing, and many of them in thelr private lives were model citizens. But tHey have suffered tfrom curfous moral perversion by which it be- comes pralsesorthy to do for a corpora- tion things which they would refuse with | the loftiest scorn to do for themselves. Fortunately for us, all that delusion Is passing rapldly away. Bitter Attacks on Service, “It is the honorable distinction of the |forest service that it has been more con- kn!uhfl)‘ more violently, and more bitterly |attacked by the representatives of thespe- |clal interests In recent years than any lother government bureau. These attacks have increased in violence and bitterness just In proportion as the service has of- fered effective opposition to predatory | wealth. The more successful we have been {In preevnting land grabbing and the |absorption of water power by the speclal |interests, the more ingenious, the more |@evious and the more dangerous these attacks have become. A favorite one is to amssert that the forest service, in its seal for the public welfare, has, played Bress. “The fact s, on the contrary, that the service has had warrant of law for every- thing it has done. Not once since it was created has any charge of illegality, despite the most searching investigation and the bitterest attack, ever led to reversal or reproot by elther house of congress or by any congressional committee. Attempt to Curb Publicity. ‘‘Another, and unusually plausible, form of attack, is to demand that all land not now bearing trees shall be thrown out of the national fore “Still another attack, nearly successful two years ago, was an attempt to prevent the forest service from telling the people, through the press, what it is accomplishing for them, and how much this nation needs the forest. “Since the forest service called attention to the rapid absorption water power sites and the growth of a great water power monopl. the attacks upon It have increased with marked rapidity. I anticipate that will continue to do so. Still greater position s promised In the near future There Is but gne protection, I mean, pwakened public opinion. That fs why 1 Bive you the facts.” {FUNERAL OF STEBBINS A. TEAL Veterni ' Union Pacitic Bogineer st Rést 1o Counell, Bluffs Cemeter. of the WATERLOO, Neb., Die. 27.—(Special.)— The funeral of the late Btebbins A. Teal, ern at Missourl Valley and an old-time engineer of the Unlon Pagific, who died last Thursday, was held at the family resi- dence ‘In Waterloo Sunday afterncon at 1 o'cloek, Bervices were eonducted by Re David L. Miller, jr, of the Presbyterian chyrch and members of Waterloo lodge No. 226, Anclent, Frée and Aoccepted Masons, ©of Which Mr, Teal was a member. A large number of friends and - nelghbors w present, as were relatives from Omaha and Counch Blutfs, | The body was taken (o Councll Blufts merning for burial in: the family lot there, being accompanied by the widow, Mrs, Elegta’ Purchase Teal, a. sister, Mrs, Chepman of, Fremont, Dr, and Mrs. Hor- aee. Hoyerstoek of Council Bjutfs, Mr. and Mrs. €havies, LAverstock of Omaha, Dr. and Mes,F. F, Teal, also of Omata, and otlier, telgtives of . Counell Bluffs present 'at the burlal Stebbius A. Teal was born in New York state and came west In the early ‘60s, being OMAHA :GREAT QUESTION OF FUTURE| of | ducks and drakes with the acts of con- | public| threatening | they | op- | former master mechani¢ of the Northwest- | were | TUESDAY, DECEMI one of the early settiers of Counell Bluffs and running out of that elty as an engineer on the Union Pacific as early as 1568 He was for years connected with rallrond | work then at Missouri Valley and | retired from active duties about five years ago, when he and Mrs, Purchase of Water. loo, friends of long standing, were married, | since which they have resided at Water- |160. Mr. Teal helped cut walnut logs to bulld a bridge over the Elkhorn river on | the Mflitary road about 1865 | | only (ONGRESS OF CACKLERS GPEN (Continued from First Page.) 4 — ent off the top of ™ barrel and will occa- | slonally lay an egg in return. George Lee of Omaha Is showing some of the fanefest of "Leghorns, those birds famed for laying “country fresh” eggs and | srowing big red combs. | The dog show is taking shape and assum- | ing an end in the : gencral nolsgumaking function. The pups are coming in from all | ends of the surrounding states | The “Merry Widow" ‘dog i i the show. {Irvin 8. Finn of the “Merry Widow" com- pany has entered this Boston terrier, the most admired bit of pudgy-nosed caninin- in_\' at the show. ningest little sweater, known as “Pat. “Toddy Bob," a pet bull, seventy-one pounds of muscle, who likes children and eals litle dogs at a gulp, Is shown by C. | W. Hill of Walnut, Ta. Toddy Bob's tra- veling companion at the show is “Jack Wonder,” an English bull terrier, milk ‘v\mu\ in color and bldcker, than Captain | Kldd's flag in disposition. Jack oniy | weighs fifty-one pounds, but he has put | Toddy Bob to the bad so often they don't | fuss any more. There isn’t room for argu- | ment now | A flock of aachshunds, shown by Howard | Goulding of OmabW, is snarling a chorus of | Jeers across at fhe bull degs. The dachs- |hund s a long, thoughtul looking beast, | bearing the genera) appearance of a vesti- | buled train’ ergased with an earth worm. Silky-haired ‘Scotch collies, the happy family of Rockdale Floss, belonging to V. E. Hall of Omaha, were established at the | show_last night. These wise Collies are | the direct descendants, of “Squire of Tyt- [ton,” the world's greatest Collle, worth $10,000. W. Colfax, a dog fan from Bassett, Neb., came to town last night not knowing that |the show was on. He happened to have | three prize hounds with him, however, and they will be entered at the show. Prince and Ring are his much admired Russian stag hounds, great powerful beasts, trained [to chase thelr quarry across miles of the tromen wastes of the north. Mr. Colfax will also enter two fine pointers, particularly | well known among the sportsmen of eastern Nebraska. J. A. Bush of the Cudahy Packing com- pany 18 to be judge of the pigeon entries Mr. Bush alko has an exhibit of fowls at the show. too. His Nibs is DEATH RECORD. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Birchard. Mrs, Elizabeth M T. Birchard 6f 4735 North Thirty-ninth | street, died Monday morning. The | funeral will' take place at the home at |8 o'clock Tuesday aftérnoon. The burlal {will be at Marshalltown, Ia. The burial ard was a graduate of the Pratt Art in- stitute of New York. She was married August 14, 1895. She leaves her husband, two children of her own and two step- children, Mrs. Birchard was born in Gans: voort, N. Y, and after graduating was superintendent of the art work in the Marshalltown,, schools. In this depart- ment she hAQ great ability and her own homé is decorated with many beautiful works from her own hand. Upon her mar- riage she moved to Norfolk, Neb., and came to Omaha in 1900. She was an ac- tive and faithful member of the First Congregational church. Oyrus B. Richmond. IOWA FALLS, Ia, Dec. 27.—(Special.)— Cyrus B, Richmond, one.of the best known and most popular young men of this city, | died at his home Sunday morning about 5 o'clock. -Mr. Richmond was taken sick Diecember 1 and a few days later typhold fever in a light form developed. getting along nicely until Christmas night, when he was taken worse and gradually | grew weaker until his death, yesterday morning. MY. Richmond had for vears been assistant cashier of the State National bank’ of this city and was a very popular official with the public as well as with the management of the institution, John C. Lowery. John C. Lowery, ™ vears old, a veteran of the civil war, who died Friday at his home, 4211 Erskine street, was buried Sun- day afternoon. The funeral services were held from his ho at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Rev. M. Kersey, pastor of the First Christian church, conducted the services. Burial was in Forest Lawn cem- etery. Mr. Lowery is survived by two sons, H. E. Lowery and Fred G. Lowery, and | a aaughter, Mrs. John O. Burger, all of whom live in' Omaha. Mrs. Lila Egbert. Mrs. Lila Egbert, 65 years old, widow of the late Augustus R. Egbert, died Monday morning at a local hospital. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock this afternocon |from the Cole-McKay chapel, Rev. E. H. Jenks, pastor of the First Presbyterian | ekurch, officlating. Interment will be In | Forest Lawn cemetery. Mrs. Egbert lived in Omaha for the last twenty-two years and Is well known. Her late husband was |a leutenant in, the Second United States | intantry. | Willlam Abner Eddy. NEW YORK,' Dec. 27.—Willlam Abner [Eaay, well known as a kite fiying expert, |dica today at Bayonne, N. J. He was born |in New Jersey in 180. Many of the observa- |tlons made by Mr. Eddy in his experi- ments with kites are of eat benetit to sclertists. He was the first person In this | country to take a protograph from a Kite in mid-air and he also made extensive experiments In taking upper alr current temperatures and in atmospherie electrioity. Second Woman Physiclan, ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 2.—Dr. Sarah R. A. Dolley, aged §1 years, the second | woman to take a medical degree from an | American coflege, dled at her residence | here this morning. At the age of 23 she was graduated from the Rochester and | 8yracuse Medical colleges and was ap- | pointed interne in the Blocksley hospital, | Fhiladelphia. For many years Mrs. Dol- ley practiced in Rochester. HYMENEAL. MeCarty-Stralt, Miss Cora Strait and Willlam McCarty were united in-marriage at the residence of the bride's sister, 2306 North Twenty- sorenth street, Synday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Sorenson stood with the bridal pair ‘as witnesses of the cere- mony. Rev. Charles W. Savidge was the officlating clergyman. “Yusk Hunters Busy. ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Dec. 21.—(Spe- | clal.)~Word from the blg game country south of the Yellowstone park states that tusk hunters are at work, and a large number of elk have been killed for their tusks, Game wardens have gone to the scene in an effort to capture the tusk hunters and put a stop to the unlawful slaughter of blg game It ihas just the very cun- | Birchard, wife of P.| He was | elght | bert Potter, SER 28, 190y, I Woman’s Work Activities of the Organized Bodies Along the Gines of Un- Qertaking of Comeers to Women. | The Young Women's Christian assocla tion is arranging several unique features In combination with its annual New Year's reoeption, to be held from b to 8 o'clock {New Year's day, in its new buliding |Among these will be a demonstration in the school of domestic science, conducted by Miss Margaret Coffin of that depart- ment. The equipment will all be on ex- hibition and also the result of the fall term's work In preserving frults. An- other Interesting exhibit will be a table | properly set for a dinner and another a | properly balanced breakfast for one. This | exhibit will include the cost of the food |and its nutritious value. Still another in- | teresting feature will be a demonstration |in making simple pastry. Members of the committée In charge of | this department will be there to receive | during the reception hours. The commit- tee Includes: Mrs, Clement Chase, Mrw. G. W. Wattles, Mrs. 8. D, Barkalow, M Howard Baldrige, Mrs. O. T. Eastman, Mrs, Charles T. Kountsze, Mrs. C. C George, Mrs. C. W. Hull, Mrs, Arthur Crittenden Smith, Mrs. Victor Caldwell, Mrs. J. R. Scoble and Mlss Mary Wallace. | The aglitation that for several years past {has been directed againat the wholesale cutting of youmg evergreens for Christmas trees has become sufficlently goneral to | warrant club women devoting their atten- | tlon to other abuses incidental to the | Christmas season. More Intelligent giving, especially by churches and charitable or- | ganizations, has received not a little at- tention’ from club women, and the investi- gation that has attended their efforts has converted them to the wisdom of the plan of the Assoclated Charities. There is noth- Ing spectacular about this system and, though many are prone to regard it as too practical and cold, as a matter of fact, it is doing more to foster the real Christ- mas sentiment than the old wholesale plan of Indiscriminate Christmas giving to chil- dren, Several Omaha women who have worked [in the various missions of the city tor many years have recently conducted & private, but fairly general investigation among (he children they have touched through these classes and a.l are agreed that there Is need of closer co-operation among the organizations that supply Chrigtmas gifts and Christmas dinners to the alleged “poor” of the city. It is not their intention, however, to withdraw from the mission work, but to devote their ef- forts to a more Intelligent charity. The Young Women's Christlan assoclation sthrough Its school of domestic science and extension branch will teach food values, cookery, how to buy provisions and cloth- ing and other household arts. Plain sew- ing, dressmaking and millinery will be taLght by experienced women volunteers frem the churches and various organiza- tiens and the principles of nursing, first |aid and sanitation will be taught by others. | The women belleve that the same moral |influence may be exerted through the social |side of such classes as s now in classes of less practical nature. The social settle- ment has afforded an admirable fllustra- | tion of the wisdom and the benefits of in- telligent, discriminating - effort and the | women have not been slow to recognize the better system. - Club women of Loulsiana through their representative, Miss Jean Gordan, who is the only woman factory Inspector in the state, are making vigorous protest against an effort on the part of New Orleans theater owners to exempt first class theaters from the provissions of the child labor law. The New Era club, the largest woman's organization of Loulsiana and one of the most prominent In the United States, s especially active. Its member- ship includes a majority of the represen- tative woman of New Orleans and it has been instrumental in bringing about many reforms in the city and state. Cleaning Out Leopold’s Court |New King Accepts Resignation of Grand Marshal—Fortune $3,000,- 000 to $8,000,000. BRUSSELS, Dec. 2.—Baron Goffenett, private secretary of the late King Leopold, on being examined today before a notary at the nstance of the daughters of the late monarch, gave evidence indicating that Leopold's private forunts was between $3.000,000 and $8,000,000. King Albert today accepted the resign tion of Count Oultremont, the grand marshal of the court. This step is regarded |as the precursor of the retirement of the |late king's entire entourage. The king and Queen Elizabeth will take up their residence at Laeken Castle next | weelk. }‘MISS FAITH POTTER WEDS HUGH H. C. WEAD eremony Performed at Home of the Bride’s Parents by Dean Beecher, A pretty wedding of the hollday season was that of Miss Faith Potter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Potter, to Hugh H. C. Weed of 8i. Louis, which was celebrate: last evening at § o'clock at the hpme of the bride's parénts, Thirty-third and Dodge streets. Dean George Beecher of Trinity cathedral officlated and Mr, Wil- lam Little of Bt. Louls served as best man, The rooms were brightened with Christ- mas decorations. A profusion of holly and follage tled with bows of red ribbon, il slon and red Christmas bells was ef- fectively used. The same color scheme of red and green was also used In the dining room. The marriage linés were read in drawing room and the ribbons were stretched by the three brothers of the bride, Messrs, Aubrey, Cedric and Cuth- the The bride was attended by Miss Wesd of Connecticut, sister of the groom, Alld' | by two college friznds, Siss Shattuck of Boston and Miss Moore of Kansas City. | The bridesmaids were gowned allke in white net over white satin, and each car- rled a shower bouquet of red roses. The bride was charming In a gown white crepe majestic, with trimmings of real lace and embroldered with pearls, She carried a shower bouquet of lilles of the vajley. After a wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Weed will reside in St. Louls. Miss Potter won the eity tennis cham- plonship In singles for women last year and was the runner-up this year at ""l tournament. She has also been prominen: | in the soclal settlement work and In the | of iBig Companies May Leové Iowa Des Moines Commercial Club Di turbed Over Attitude of Corpora- tions on State Tax. l | (From a Statf Correspondent.) DES MOIN Dec. (Special Tele- gram.)-The local Commercial assoclation has been making Investigation as to the amount of filing fees due the state from various trusts and large outside corpora- Uons and not pald because the state of ficlals have been powerless to force pay- ment. It appears that eight of these com- panies doing business in lowa would have |to pay $366,600 for incorporation. This in |cludes the Glucose, Tin Can, Linseed Oil, | |Oatmeal, Cracker, Glass and Gypsum com- panies, all operating plants In lowa with- |out having complied with the laws. It is feared they will withdraw from the state {unless the law is changed to permit them |to pay a smaller fee and an effort is to be made to have this done. Attorneys In the recent case In which the lowa supreme court held that the civil rights law of lowa dld not require that at a pure food show coffes should be served free to negroes, have usked for |rehearing and base it largely on the faot that the court Intimated that even in the case of soda fountains it might not be llegal to discriminate. The attorneys con- {tend that the modern soda fountain is in fact a place where refreshments are served {and the law covers it just as much as & |cate or & hotel. Buried Alive, But Saved TOWA FALLS, la., Dee. 21.—(Speclal.)— | Rescued in the nick of time, John M. Crea- gan of this city is thankfully able to te the sensation of being burled allve. Mr Creagan was at work in a sewer ditch here and was In the bottom of a twenty-one- | foot excavation when the dirt caved in on | one side completely covering the workman Help was quickly summoned and the dirt removed from his face before he smoth- ered. Two men then set to work in the narrow ditch to relieve the awful pressure on the burled man's body. Finally a rope was placed under his arms and he was pulled from the loosensd dirt that en- veloped him. As he was taken from the ditch he collapsed. Physiclans were sum- moned and an examination proved that while no bones were broken, his body had been badly bruised by the squeczing from the pressure of the dirt about him. Barely Escapes Rsphyxiation. BOONE, Ia., Dec. 21.—(8peglal.)—Edward Alexander, a well known young man of this city, had a remarkable escape from sphyxiation while doing some work for the Boone Gas company yesterday. He was summoned to the plant of the Boone Blank Book company to put In a meter. In the basement where the meter was being placed he was suddenly overcome by gas which was escaping from a pipe near by. A workman in another portion of the basement happened to glance over just as Alexander fell. He rushed to the rescue of the young man and pulled him from his perfious position. Arrested for Whipping Pupil. OAKLAND, Ia., Dec. 27.—(Special.)—This place Is somewhat stirred up over the ar- rest of Prof. V. L. Mangun, superinten- dent of the Oakland schools. The trouble grew out of the punishment of Rodney, son of Loman Roy, In school. Prof, Man- gun left Friday evening to spend the Christmas vacation at his home In Mt. Vernon, Ia, At Avoca he was Inter- oepted by a constable and placed under arrest. Mr. Mangun soon procured a bondsman, and continued his journey. Towa News Notes. CRESTON—News has beeh _recelved in the city of the death of Mrs. Mike Lee, Who left several months ago for Parkdale, Colo,, in the hope of benefitting her health. Her death Is attributed to consumption. She has resided in this city for many years and arrangements have been made to re- turn the body and make the interment here, CRESTON—A negro {s being held in the county jail In this city awalting identifi- catlon from the police department of Kan- sas. City. He was arrested last Thrusday evening and answers closely to the picture of a colored man wanted at that point for the murder of another negro. MASSENA—Walter 8, Hancock, agent for several years for the Burlington road at Bridzewater and Masena has boen re- Meved of his position at Massena upon the algged showing made by the aceountants who checked up his books and found him over $560 short. Hancock was a mere lad of 11 three veurs aco when he was iven the station at Bridgewater and upon hi good showing at that peint he was ad- vanced to the office at Massens. ELDON—Through the prompt action of the fire department the coal shutes of the Rock Island at this point were saved from a destructive fire which started in the sand drying house. a frame building adjoining thé shutes. The drying house was destroyed and it was only by the hardest kind of work that the other bullding was saved. SIDNEY~Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Fnglke two of the enterprising older resldants of Sldney. took affairs into thelr own hands sovernl daye ago and planned and carried out thelr own golden wedding anniversary. They invited thelr children and carried the entire affair out as a surprise—not on themselves— but on their friends and chil- dren. They have been residents of the county sinse 153 and were married fifty years ego In a little log cabin standing on one of thelr farms near the eity. BOONE-—No more drug store whisky In Boone. Not that the stores have heen guilty of flagrant violations of the law. but thev have been remiss in filing with the county auditor the requests and signa- | tures, They wera enjoined from further selling liquor and the stores without a murmur gave up thelr permits. No fines were assessed, as it was plainly evident to the court that there were absolutely no in- tended violations of the law. JOWA FALLS—The case of M. Hogan of this olty is now apparently ol bas returncd to this city, hav clared sane by the county board of com- missloners which held two sessions to eon- slder Mr. Hogan's case. Tt will be recalled |from dlspatches to this paper that Mr. Hogan has been confine’®n an asylum for | the insane at Dubuque. The Knighth of Pvthias lodge of this cfty Interested it- self in the case, Mr. Hogan being mem- ber of the order. resulting In ral lewal | parries in Dubuque and & final agreement | by the interested partios to submit the case | to the board of insanity commissioners In this county. — i TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets ists refurid money If it falls to cure. s slanature (s on each box. e \TEACHERS FOR THE INDIANS Loulse Lindsey and Minnie Dev Rot burn Named to Gide Instruction in New Mexican Schoo) (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINATON, Dee. #1.—(Speetal Tele- gram.)—Loulse C. Lindsey of Bantes, Neb., has been appointed teacher at the Tohotohis Indian school, New Mexico, and Minnie Dev Rothburn of Lancaster, Neb., at Santa Fe, N. M. on the recommendation of Congressman Kendall, Dr. C. N, Hyatt has beeri appolnted pension examining surgeon at Albla, I vice 8. M. King, deceased. The following rural carriers have been appojnted: Nebraska—Fremont, route £, George Keeler, carrier; né substitute. Iowa—Chelsea, route 8, C. E. Boyer, car- rier; N, F. Boyer, substitute. Greene, route 1, Bdward Shultz, carrler; P#ilip Bchuits substituts. Manchester, routs 1, R. E. Deelton, carrler; no substitute; Manley, Collegiate Alumnae assoclation, and her many friends regret that her marriage will take her to another city to resid route 1, B. C. Reindl, earrier; J. W. Reindl, substitute. Oakland, route 1, C, I. Palmer, Thompson, route 1, L. L. Cora M. Curley, substitute Postmasters appointed: Nebraska son, Sherldan county, Henry Surber; | 8B Smith, removed. | South Dakota-Lance Creek. | county, Thomas J. Fritts; Fritts, restgned Mabra_v’s Pal Taken in Texaes R, E. L Woodard Arrested at Fort Worth on Advises from Omaha, Curley, carr vice 8tan w. J “R. B tederal rieing FORT WORTH, Geodard was arr theritles her | Mabray “fak Tex. Dee. ted by th nnection wrestling and teets, which It s claimed orlginated | lowa. He was arrested on advices fro Omraha, Neb., and gave a bond of $20% for appearance in court here next Tuesday GORDON NAMED FOR SENATOR h Misstasippl Governor Appoints with Understanding He Wil Not Run Agaln. JACKSON, Miss,, Dec. vernor Nosl today anncunced the appointment of ol James Gordon of Oklona as United States senator from Miselssippl to succeed the late Senator A. J. McLaurin, The appointment is temporary until the legislature can elect a senator for the un- expired term and 1s made with the under- standing that Senator Gordon will not be a candidate for this term, Port. VICTORIA VICTORIA BAN FRRANCISCO. LONDOR QUEENSTOWN QUEENSTOWN 97.—G \ NTS OF OCDAN STEAMSHIPS. Arrived. Satied Ning Chow.... orlent... v Korea Marquetie Celtle. Umbria. 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NE Cure AMUSEMENTS, K R u THEATER ~—PRIOES— Tonight, Matinee Wednesday WILDFIRE With PAULINE HALL, THE BEAUTIFUL and WILL ARCHIE, THE ORIGINAL ‘‘BUD"’ Thursday—ST. ELMO, CHICKENS ANDDOGS At Auditorium NOW OPEN All Day and Evening Admission, 25 cts. and 15 cts. TONIGHT Matinees Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday. Henry W. Savage Offers THE MERRY WiDOW oxt Sunday—TIM MURPHEY, N GAYETY L Ve TWICE DAILY, ALL WEEK, () day Night, RICE & BARTO Big GAIETY Co. Extravaganza and VaudeyiMe, dust the Show for Hollday Week. Ladies' Dime Mat. Dafly at 2:15, Wext Sun. (6 Days) Clark's Bunaway Girls UG 404 . INDAI40~ ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE Matines, 2:116—Every Bvening, 8:15 This woek-Valeris Bergere, Tuscany Troupadours, Etelling and Revell, Town Hall *Minstrels, Charlene and Charlene, Misn, Violet King, Meyers and Rosu, Th Kingdrome and The Orpleum Concert Orchestra. ¥rices 100, 250 and 606. John Says: “Wotieo the wmil .on Omaha men to- dsy? That's beoau: of the “Irust Buster elyars they got for | (aristmes, Gooa | smoke—gotting b tor all the time, too. .60 each.” Central Cigar Siore carrier; Thomas Palmer, substitute. 321 South 16th Sireel, ik,