Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1909, Page 5

THE BEE: OMAH/ 31, 1909, BRIEF CITY NEWS T 7T et primt 1 « oboda—Certified Accountant. 4t pizeures. Burgess-Grandes Co. inehart, PRotographer, L5th & Farnam. ‘Meyn, phote, removed to 16th & Howsrd. Chambery new o asses Jan. 1. Doug. 1871 Lquitadle LifePoillcies sight drafts at alurly H D. Neely, manager, Omaha “Pry Us First for Fuel” Nebraska Fuel , 1414 Farnam St Both ‘phones Hayden Bros. Store will be open till ok Friday night and closed all Yoars. 1850—National Life Insurance Co—1909 y. Badowment, Life, Term Policles, aries B Ady, General Agent, Omaha Ray B. Pye of Biair Asks Divoros—Ray E. Fys, who married Marie Fye at Blair {s suing for diverce in district court. A statutory ground is alleged. i There are Several Ways of Saving—The Nebraska gs and Loan association way, and others. Our way pays § per cent per annum. Wé Board of Trade buliding New Officers Settle Meeting Flace— 'Where the next meeling of the Nebrasia Bar associution will be heid L been determined. The Dew officers settle ti question. 2. A Wash Wil Entertain His Foros— ¥ A Nash, pres )¢ the Omaha Elec- trie Light and F ompany, will Lost at a dinner Saturday at the Henshaw 1o seventy officers and employes of the compaay. Hurly Case is Finally Settled—Judge Redick has signed a decree settling t relations of Bdward and Bridget Hurly of sSouth Omasha Separsie malalenance is granted Mrs. Hurly and an allowance of $15 s month is made. Mrs. Marriet Bebout's Pumeral—The gangral of Mrs. Harriet Bebout, wife of A. A. Bebout, is to be heid trom Brailey & Dorrance’s chapel at o'clock FPrid afternoon. Rev. T. J. Mackay of All Saints® ehurch, is to conduet the services. Burial will be “orest Lawn cemetery. Duilaes Peopie Discuss Paving—A meet- ing of the citizens of Dundee was held | at the Commercial club rooms Thursday noon to discuss the paviug question tor Dundee, It was decided (v hustle the preiiminaries so that work might start as soon as possible in uie epring. Punersl of Mrs. Josephine Willlams—The funeral of Mrs. Josephine Williams, who dted Wednesday, is to be heid from the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Ohm, 834 North Nineteenth street, Friday frernoon. Burial will be in Forest Lawn cemetery. Rev. Charles Savidge wiil con- duct thre services. Case of Stephen Egan—When a new jury is impaneiled January 10, the first| eriminal of \mportance will be the trial for murder in the second degree of Stephen E n. Egan was watchman at a pacxing plant and last April shot and killed Epos I, Daly. Self defense and the right Ject Daly will be argued in & fensc Marvesting Fifteen-inch harvest in this locality is at its height and fifteen-inch lce is being gathered. The fce, as a rule, is pecuilarly clear and good from the fact that snow had fallen early in December before the freege began, thus | brace of balky kidneys means a gloomw Jaying the dust, giving the lakes the clear- [ 0ut!00k on everything. Impure biood causes est of water, and consequently the very |Neadaches, wrecks our mental poise and best of ige. |peace of mind and makes us hate our| | neighbor. Chromie constipation often Euow Where to Find Obarley Rous WOW | ... .. ohronje rheumatism, and that means —Charlle Ross, the wanderer, Wil not be | oy ne P o missing for thirty days. Charlle, other-| ..pyguuands of people in Omaha are haif wise know to the police as ~Jimmy-the-| .\ o o¢ the ttme—droopy, tired and feel Moocher,” was found guilty of general| ... worn ut' In ninety-five cases out of vagrancy on genernl principles in police caused by nothing but SWILE ASD BE HEALTHY Eastern Stomach Expert Visiting Omaha Launches New Ideas. CALLS OVEREATING CURSE OF AGE Big. Blonde and Jolly ot Cheerfulness Bids Happy Win and Soetal \pontie Mortals 5 to Basinees 10 Suecews. - day New cooPERISM. Mappiness is the birtiright and the duty of every man and woman. ‘We must take hard knocks with & laugh o r them. Mealth hinges directly om the mental attitn In fust the same degree this rule works both ways. A bad liver means a bad temper, Chronic_stumach trouble cften ocnuses chronic rheumatism and that means & chronic “grouch.” the first station on the royal road to'success in business life social affairs, sald L. T. Cooper. eastern millionaire medicine on his fIrst visit to Omaba. his epigram with a smile merrily from a pair of steady eyes. Big, bionde and jolly, he seemed a living personification of his own optimistic dens Cooper is the man who stirred New York Chicago and St. Loufs by his oddly ex pressed views on health matters. F dubbed the “stomach man” by metropolitan newspaper men as a re his belief at most (Il health is direct traceable to stomach trouble, caused b overeating and lack of proper exercise Continuing, he crisply expounded his opin- lons as follows: ‘Happiness Is the birthright man and woman. Not pay greater dividends than any vestment, but it is absolutely our dealings with other people perform our full obligations We must smile to retain worid and to win new 1 take hard knocks with a laugh cenquer them. We must meet vexations of soeis affairs and domestic e with good humor or we are defaul in the debt we owe our Creat | “Health hinges directly on our mental | titude. Baa er, wrong thonghts, jealousy, envy or too much seif-pity result in a disordered liver, bad blood, headaches nd nervous irritability. We become soured toward the world, face it with a glum gaze, and the world, In the persons of our | friends and associates, is sure to return the sour looks, ugly glare for ugly gla with a little added venom. “In just the same degree this rule works both ways. If our phvsical bodles got of order a mental iow. ‘Overeating and the curse of ff our bod with no r be put on the p “When the stomach ! #igestive machine gets clogged and won't work. and all kinds of diseases fol-| ow. A bad liver means a bad temper. A A “Cheerfulness is or the manufacturer State po ot Cooper 1 ich pled earnest bi w tent ase be luty of 1oes it sther seary and in- n nee. n s o ends. respre We n the ng reaction s sure to fol too little outdoor e yur modern o with all the cen eat, Tee—The is overioaded, the a hundred this | court Thugsday morning. He accepted a0 0 sentence for thirty days with a grateful | BILT IS A SPHINX | heart and went to jail smiling. VAN Mortgnge Lacking Wife's Name Worth- | DER Alfy Gwynne Goes Twiece enne om Secret less—Attempt to foreclose a mortgage 8 sion. Mis- Chey- against Vaclav Novak, not signed by his wife, was abandoned in the equity side of distriet court after L. J. Platti for Novak had argued the worthlessness of | such an instrument. The plaintif? also holds @ note signed by Novak—as he as- serts, under duress—and will go to a law court on this, The plaintiff is Novak's sister-in-law, having married his brother. She asserts that Novak is the father of an infant bey shie bore. Radical Lifting of the Mercury Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt is a sphinx. Two trips from New Y Cheyenne in two weeks and nobody | why. Lounging luzily among the cushions of his private Pullman “Wayfarer,” Alfred | Gwynne Vanderbilt was compelied to spend four hours in Omaha Thursday because his train failed to make connections at Union | | station. He did not make any complaint of train service, but it was evident he was dis- pleased at missing the Union Pacific fast mail for Cheyenne. He did mention the | tact that the Overland Limited from Chi- cago was four hours | Incidentally Alfred Gwynne indulged In a little raillery with newspaper men and raiiroad officials who visited his car, but again refused emphatically to diseuss the nature of his mission In the west. Mr. Vanderbilt does not eare to be In- terviswed,” quoth the man among the cushiuns, when his visitors entered o has been traveling considerabiy of and does not feel inciined to talk.” Just then the millionaire’s s cretary en- tered the observation compartmeni with a bundle of newspapers. Here's the noon edition: bilt," he said. “They're three in Omaha.* The millionaire glanced up at his visit- ors with a twinkle in his eyes. His little game of strategem was lost. “No; there's nothing in my visit to'inter- est the public.” he continued. I was out | here Christmas day and I'm here again now, but that's my own little affair. I may come again, I may not.’ Mr. Vanderbilt then dismissed the’ sub- ject with a lrtle persifiage and refused to talk further concerning his trigy He would neither confirm &or deny the report of looking Into asbestos deposits in the west His Pullman palace car reached Omaha attached to Northwestern train No. left for Cheyenne by Union Pacific No. 3 at 4 oclock. Frank Walters, general manager, and Smmuel Miller, general pas- senger and frelght agent of the North- lnes, and Louls Beindort, passenger and ticket agent of Pacitie raiiroad. visited the car station. YOUTH PINES FOR OMAHA Robert Booth, in Faet, trom Home to This Clty. The quest of a job Is the excuse given the police by Robert Booth, 15 years, of age, for coming to Omaha aftsr running away from his heme In Dallas, Tex. Rob- ert was found on Nerth Twenty-fourth street by the peiice and has been dellvered to J. B. Carver, juvenila officer. Robert is the son of a rettred sergeant | of the signal corps, who formerly was sta- toned at Fort Omaha, and grew up in Omana. He wok $40 belonging to his father and set out for his bid home three weeks ago. Train fare and & loan which he made con- fidingly t0 an unknown friend exhausted uis money. table ric knows | Rises Thirty-Eight Degrees in Twen- v ty-Four Hours in Omaha and Condition is Genmeral. . < The mercury rose 38 degrees in twenty- four hours in Omaha. Here on the eve of the new year, the time of making good resolutions, forgive the poor, erring, weather man, for he has | relented and repemted. The i8 rising everywhere. Wednesday at 9 a. m. it was 9 below zero n Omahs, Thursday morning it was 0 sbeve. At 3 p. m. Wednesday it was 2 .« above; yesterday it was # above, eight! degrees above freezing. In North Dakota | thers was & rise of some fifty degrees, while the average rise in Nebraska was twenty degrees. And Coionel Welsh prom- | iscs to be a Detter man from now on—for & tew days, anyway. LF A DOZEN LAWYERS ARGUE THE BREWERY CASE ate M ander- rckel Half « dogen attorneys are before Judge Estelle arguing the appeal from the grant by the Buard of Fire and Police Commis- sioners of a lcense to the Metz Bros. Brewing company ‘There 15 no ovidence to be heard and the case will be quickly submitted. It is contended by attorneys for the Ant-Saloon league that the Metz com- pany In selling beer by the case to eon- sumers thereby engaged In the retall dis- tribution of beer. Thus, say these lawyers, the Metz company violated the law and ought not to have s license for the com- g year It i opposed to this that a case of beer is an origion: package and is therefors a wholesale, and not & wale at retail. Each of the half dozen lawyers engaged has & few dectsions to quote and Judge Eateile bids fair {0 hear a good deal about the uw Invo'ved—as the lawyers see it Argument will be resumed this mworn- feg, but will not last long. Judge Estelle has announced that he will give his deci- son a8 s00m as argument terminates. The ease s, by arrangement, a test one, and the outcome is deemed of the highest tmportance (o many interested parties. P —— Jesuary Lace Curtain asd Curtain Matertale. MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3D. 1 and western ety nion Union the n Rans Away e in | AY, JANUARY 3, Commences the Big Junuary Speeial Sample Furniture Saie. Furniture. The best valuéh we have ever | offered In & sale of this Rind, all aew this | season’'s designs. You can save at least one-third. QRCHARD & WILHELM | again | ana | who ha | Plain Some Things Yo * The Holy Land—A Crusader’s Castle. Peter the Hermit i the heart the desir from and the Pope Urban st Christian Burope with he holy sepuichre he infldel Moham- fan pllgrims to that might be subjected to in and extortions. The result of their premching was the Crusades. All mod- arn history and eivilization in the occident have their beginning in this marvel »us movement, Ne to rescue possession hat Ch t medans, holy shrin fignities in most ver has thers been such a pecullar mpound of psychoiogical virtue and physical vice as was exhibited by the Cru- saders. They were spurred action by sligtous seal, and for sake of Christ left their homes and thelr familles engage In most dangerous travel and most perflous fighting. Those Who “‘took the cross” literaily gave up everything to Master. But never did pre v . t Chr %0 age and a hey their emulator of t t smplet out 1t did ¥ in as in pagan cities. devastated flelds. and murdered chiidre: first great movement n June of the year torious Europeans under the knights of “Jerusalem burst through the wal Once inside, forgetl the lowly Jesus, oir pro- essions saders. Th well u heir wake, ands, n Christian as a train of ruined sutraged women max of the d one day was reac 099, whe 10 leadership Deitvered,” e Holy Cl y teaching they gave thems to murder and rapine. ad child in the o ellef in Christianity then of ves ov man, woman iid proclaim was slaughtered. And de n r hor: blood to the Church wherein they spent their knees in prayer. ast the tomb of the hands. not knights r knee deep in human )t the Holy Sepulc the enutire night on praising God Lord was After hat r B istian eight ost but they nine years the Christians ) the knightly Sala- held a portion of ths Land, and more than once regained o-lost Jer It was at Easter tide in the year 129 that the Knights Templar entered Jerusalem for the l'ast time the wing of a mighty Chinese on Persia. But lighted the Hermit and had died, and Europe wouid not o their assistance. They celebrated at the Holy Sepulchre and aban Jerusaiem the Mohammedans, » held it ever since. From June, 109 May, 129, vears, the measure of the day saders in Pa But the last axpe tion was Chinese-Persian stian invasion. The actual ds the Holy Land sted years, and the of I lem, ex the fictitious title of more than one European prince, to an actual end n 1M1 It is Qifficult for us moderns to reallze that the Crusaders occupied and governed, n whole or in part, the Holy Land for so long a time as two centuries. .If one will contrast America in 1709 with America in 190 he wilt have some notion of what two centuries means In history. But even the iveliest imagination, given food by Gibbon, Michaud. Hallam and Guizot, and given drink by Tasso and Sir Walter Scott, can- not feel the spirit of the Crusades and know the temper of the golden age of ro- mance unless he shall journey across the of Sharen to the rocky promantory at the foot of Mount Carmel, where stands the ruins of Athllt—the Cru- saders’ “‘Casttellum Peregrinorum.” For this was the scene of the last stand of the forces of the Christian king of Jerusalem; the ‘ast bit of the holy soil of Palestine over which waved the banner of the the last place where the nobie Knights Templar observed in the land of the Lord, the rites ised for them by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. The waning Influence of the Christfan kingdom under the decadent dynasty of Guy de. Lusigngn had been somewhat revived by Saint Louls and that Prince Edward of England, who afterward reigned in London as Bdward I But spirit of the Cru broken and after the death of Louls and the return of Edward to England, the Christians of Palestine he'd only the sea- coast city of Aere, and a few of neighboring ter about of Mount Carmel. This had been, 100 years befors scene of the mighty expioits great kings. Philip Augustus of France and Richard Plantagenet of England. De- spite their quarrels with each other these two knightly kings had reduced the strong- Jerusalem lin, still Holy alem. prince the fires Urban come reigned by Peter over Easte sned to was 200 of the Cru tine. a more victor: n kingdom still in the Castle 88 es had been miles tory the foot . the of the two , FRIDAY, DECEMBER | u Want to Know hold Latin t of Acre and had added > kingdom of Jerusalem less than 350,000 human lives. By the year, 128, there was no Godfrey of Boutllon, Richard of the Lion Heart to uphold the banner of the cross. Hugh de Lusignan, king of Jerusalem, claimed dominion over all Palestine, but in reaiity there was nothing left except Acre, with its cosmopoite population made up of fanatics and adventurers from every European nation These lawless Christians perpetrated such sutrageous injustices upon the Moslem ats of the nelghborhood that in the 291 a Mameluke prince of Egypt en- tered Palestine at the head of an army of %000 men and beseiged the city. The cowardly king escaped the night before the seige begun and was followed by a majority of the wretched and vicious habitants, who left the defense of the about 12,000 solds members and tainers of three military orders, the Teutonle ghts, Templars and the ospita’ers. They stood their ground it o at a cost the not no $15.00 $18.50 $30.00 ‘ $32.50 -9l w89 a0 | = 0.0 Vollmer’s Expert Clothes Fitters, Discount Sale of Clothes Suits and Overcoats were 50 | s20.00 107 So. 16th Sereet. 30 | §25.00 $22.50 | $27.50 §35.00) ~$15 ~$282 ~$ | ‘ i \ : nobly, but at the end of thirty-three days, | the Moslem army broke through the de- fenses, and ended the annais of the sades, just as they had begun turies before in Jerusalem, th a festival of murder. Sixty thousand Christians met their deaths that day at the swords of the Mam roops. Of the knights who defended the city only seven escaped. Cut off om Acre by the invading army, a small of Templars was penned up n the at Athlit, a huge pile butit | in the days of that knightly order | go Returms from Washingyon After as a € the chief house which stood ving Situasion Betere Depast- born Bar in London Temple. This ¢ and Will Now Report sver and around the Agemey. fortification which was erecte of the Lion Heart and which used as a stable by knights, a purpose to which it is devoted today by its Bedouin inhabitants. Within this stronghold knights defended themselves nobiy, but when Acre feil they knew it was hopeiess to withstand the force of tie entire army of the And so one night they and had a POLLOCE SAYS LO WILL WIN Superintendent of Omahas Says In- dians’ Interests Are Safe. two cen- luke PLANS WILL WORK OUT FOR THEM body cast paimy ch Hoi tor of built in br without the an the castle was 1218, to was later “While in Washington I put the case of the Omaha Indians before Mr. Abbott, the assistant commissioner, and Mr. Vaientine. the plans they have for thé Omaha agenc [ am convinced that in the end the re- sults will work out for the greatest bene- fit to the Omaha Indlans” said A. G ast feast, and then they went into the church and heard the last prayers, Pollock, superintendent of the Omaha and then they took to their boas and un- | aency, who was in Omaha Thursday en- | der cover of darkness escaped (o the lsland | route to the agency from Washington. of Cypress. The next day the forces of | “While I appreciate the confidence ex the Mameluke prince, Sulian Molek-el- | progsed in me by the Indians, and, while R A e Find-| yave a strong attachment for them, ing no opposition, they eatered it and de-| ., i3 not be possible for me to remain spoiled the church. Later the sultan de-| . i.p them permanently, because of the stroyed many of the bulldings to obtain | .,ngition of my health and the climate stone 10 be used in rebuilding the ruined| gome of the chief complaints the In- Acre. | dians have had were in the matter of the seven s nave|delay caused by the restriotion of the de- gone visit the C Athllt In| partment in the past which made it neces- safety and in peace. The oreakers of the | sary the superintendent to approve Mediterranean lash themselves agafnst 1is|every expenditurs of an Indian and to mighty wail and great tlakes 0f seafoam | supervise every business transaction which float through its broken arches. The moat | affected his land or money held In trust is filled sand and the bridges have by the government and in most cases for long crumbled into dust. A pic- | authority to be granted from the depart- | turesque young Bedouin, carrying a pre- | ment in Washington before the deal could ternaturaily long rifle on 2. sioulde. be consummated. meets one at the outer gate and demands | Deluys Always Irksome. backshish. His savage mein !s ameliorated ““Even with the best possible administra- by the magic of silver und he uses his|tion which we could give them at the archaie weapon only for ornament. |Owaha agency, the delays in most instances He takes one (nto the fortross and guides |have been very irksome to the Omahas, him about amidst the queer conglomera- Who have had the advantage of more edu- tion of dead grandeur and lvifg squalor. cauon and business experience than most The muserable huts of the villagers are|of the Indlan tribes of the United States. built of richiy-carved blocks of sione torn| “All of these matters were expiained to from the walls of the oid castle, but ic/Mr. Abbotl and' he is making a strenuous staggers the lmaginaton to Le called upon | effort to so amend the regulations of the to belleve that the ancestors of such as|department that business may be muci these village were able o prevail agalrs; | more easily transacted. One ruling alone | our own ancestors who builtand defended | Which he has put in effect within the last this magnificent stronghold. {few days will accompilsh a good deal in There remains today one wall of the great | 18 line. This rule is that the superintend church, silll standing more than eighty |°Mt WAy at his discretion authorize ex oot Bikh. ‘showiific Juses of the grea |PECUItures not exceeding 35, and this gothic arches which supported its aeiling, |*I0Uld cover a multitude of sina. o s he banquet hail, | ~AITAugements have been made at the a stand. But tne | PUian office enabling the clerk in charge it e i Sorour \onits Kk dsan he Omaha agency to handle most every oy SO o s 1 of businesa that the superintendent ordinarily handles and It will not be neces- sary for the Omahas to go to the Winne- crescent ess. | | And now one ma; centu since iy for wi nce * distance away ot which s on the flakes arches. he commissioner, and after discussing all | | The American who sees it today cannot tall be most profoundly impressed by the massiveness, the sirength and the antiquity of this work of his British, French and German ancestors, for as the United States, with all its w power, has not produced a oullding to com-~ pare in beauty and bugo agency for any of their business Vhen I reaca the Omana agency I shali | possible the plans of the department, which ¥et lare for Chase and massive strength with | Omahas fully understand all of Mr. Ab- this old castle which was the scene of the | bott's plans and how earnestly he is tr¥- | works on the snouts and heads of ho last stand of the Knights Templa: Holy Land, the deat of in the Cru- ing to help the Omahas, they in hands with the carry out his plans. Will Remain at Agency. ‘I will remain a: the Omaha agency as | . will then | department and help rous the saders. Tomerrow—THE HOLY LAND. member of the competeficy commission People of Noted ames 1n Town George Gould, J. P. Morgan, Wilkie Collins, D. Warfield and Charley Ross in One Day. What's n a name George Gould (uf Florenck) dropped into the office of the county judge for a mar- riage license. Charles Ross “Jim the was discharged in police cour Wilkie of London) guest Wednesday at the Paxton D. Wartleid (of Columbus, to sell shoes and Master." J. P. Morgan Plerpont) closure suit Al i (allas Moocher') ilins (not was a is here not to play “The Music (whose middle n; s defendant in in day BEE'S CHARITIES EDITORIAL INSPIRES DATA COLLECTION Sugmestion Leads Commeret Ask What Other Are Deing. a note county ecourt. one ox ties Inspired by an editortal the subject of charities, the Commercial club has been gathering statistics from other cities Lo ske what being done In order to carry out some the suggestions made by The Bee. It has been found that in Omaba some ot charitable organizations pay as high | as 3 per cent for collections and the com- mittee has come to the conelusion that it will be a wise thing to follow some of the suggesiions. | Some of the replies from other citles are interesting. It has been learned that the United Hebrew Charities of Chicago col- lects subscriptiors for lems than 5 per cent, which s quite different from the 3 per | cent pald i Omaba. m The on a commitiee of Bee of the Brae. January Clearance Sale in Brie-A-Brac Eiectric Lamps. All 0dd pieces Bric- | A-Brac, electric lamps, etc., that we desire | Extraordinary Bargains in all kinds of | to slose out have been set aside for spe- | after & clal seiling and marked regurdless of cost. See the assortment of electric Lamps at less than half price in some cases. Monday Morning, Jaoury i | ORCHARD & WILHELM CARPET CO.| | amabass and will have practical charge of affairs | there for the next month or two and shall X1 Nazareth :he Despised. keep the department advised as to the Hakka Bey to : : . - ) i -T':fllt‘:fl of the Indians and co-operate with be L\‘e“’, Prcmlcr Superintendent Kneale in seeing that the ts of the Omahas are properly looked ter. - The Omaha Indian ecompetency commis- | Ambassador to Rome Invited by sion which is now ‘n session at the Sulton to form a Omuaha agency, 1s gathering data for the | purpose of determining which Omaha In- | Cabinet. dlans are competent Lo handle their own isiness affairs, which are partially com- | and se that are totally incom- As scon as this report is submitted wgton 1¢I5 expected all held to | be competent shall be relemsed from all | SOV Ernm restriction and their land | acd money ed over to taem. Those who partially competent wili be allowed nake their own leases and given 4 large sscretion in their business af- incompetent wil e Prowecting arm of whieh i00k aiter CONSTANTINOPL 2. Dee. 3.-The sul- of vigier. The retirement of peient petent. tan today accepted Pasha, the e resignation grand tributes the aire resig i Tui Hilmi ish ss at al e tur ities between ministry which d last night and |are he committee of union and progress over r govern trom Bagdad of public dis- of the existing menopoly amount rs. eneral poliey e reports ontent avigation. It s currently reported that Hakka Bey. to has been invited to ut some that esponsibility is ex nent and Those neid be under rnment, welfare. *When this been worked out will be reached months) 1 Omana reservauon w oe because wik nole problem shall have and it is hoped thls end | ing the nex few | every Indian the will e entirely satis- form a new would accept swed. Che present g a de accepian: office, cabi doubt et ve L beile in off relat vizierate will remain Hukka Bey ¢ the grand tefinitely learned proffered him. ot present heir pertfolios. ministers of war and e expressed intentions abinet iston by the N afterncon, anticipated isters will Shiek-( 0. M. VAN ETTEN IS DEAD| Lawyer and Resident of Dies at Leeal Hospital. David M. Van Etten, the lawyer wno had been ill for @ considerable time at Joseph's hospital, died Thursday morn- ng at 10 o'cioek. Arrangements for the funeral have not besn made, pending word from a son located in Elkhast, Ind. Mr. Van Etten came to Omaha something like fifty years ago aod was originally a | surveyor on the Unien Pacific. He after- ward studied law and was admitted 0 the bar. For a good many years Van Eiten had some prominence as an attorney, but in years of iiness in that tnstitution. Hanna | SUE PR RN (T s sg ot of setive was cnce employed 5.5 Showiuge maker .: practice. Besides nis son he is survived by Omaha, but infirmity overtook him i old | T Tl s age. Mr Hanna will be buried by Clan Gordon MONDAY, JANUA Mrs. Josephine Williams. Mrs. Josephine Wiligms, 2 years old. died Wednesday at the county nospital | Sample Furniture Sale. ingering \llness. The funeral will | Extrsordinary Bargains in all kinds of be held this afterncon from the home of | Purniture. The best values we have ever her daughter! Mrs. Ohm, 184 North Niue- | offered in a sale of this kind, ail few this teenth street, with intermeat in Foresi | season's designs. You can save at least Lawn cemetery. Thrve daughters asd 8 | one-third. sor survive ORCHARD & WILHELM nhad that mest retaizn -lsiam and ver, ha been It min- the L3 modeiing Pasha cabinet, interview, general rto pursued. DEATH RECORD George Hanna. George Hanoa, 72 old, dled at the | 2 yea county hospital Wednesday after seven declared will Hilmi ol e in- ot s ehang: the as policy coun: | s, Commences the Big Janauary Special iry to explain to the Indians as fully &% | man, wanted for alleged murderous assault their weifare, and I belleve thut|The descriptiens fit fairly Uth and when Dr. Susan La Fleshe Picotte, Hiram |uegro arrested a few days ago whose name the other leaders among the | happens to be George Winft and who goes | positively. | whom she has not seen for ten years { omaha police remember something | Anderson historian, | \ | Miller, Stewart & Beaton 413.15-17 South 16th Street. Clearance sale of Furniture, Carpets and Curtains Begins Monday, January 3. and other work axecuted at prices lower than usually prevail clsewhere. A. L. ROOT, INCORPORATED 12101212 Howard St. Phone D. 1604 | ng. The membership committée reported | an enrollment of over #0. The finances ot the socjety are in good eanditian. The memoriai committee made & report with appropriate resolutions In remem- brance of the members who had died within the last year. Those mentioned in the report were: Frank J. Mortarty, W A. Anderson, C. D. Wilson, fsaac A. Bray- ton, Mrs. Susan McQuirk and Mrs. Clara Davis Knott. On account of the AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA George Winn My be Wanted at Kan- | sas City. PIONEERS RE-ELECT J. J. BREEN Iateness of the hour the formal program was cut short. David Anderson had prepared a paper on the earliest settlement in the Platte valley and one full of reminiscences of t time, 1859, This was reserved for a more favor- able time. Historienl Soctety Has Doretta Leter Searches for Mother from Whom She Has Been Separated. wslon— Deputy Sheriff J. Sargeant of Kansas| { Magis City Gownip. ! ed in South Omaha yesterdsy to | 5 Mo, chetiin Dr. C. N. George, Osteopath, 708 N. 4t to custody George Winn, a colored o203 g Jetter's Goid Top Beer delivered to any part of the eity. Telephone No. & Mrs. Grace Pinnei reil on the lce at the steps of lie South Omaha library yester- day evening and was baaly snaken up and bruised. Chiet of Police John Briggs returned yes- terday from Cedar rapias, la., whers he went during the lliness and deaii of his tainer. Detective P. H. Shields left last evening tor Red Oak, la., to be gune a few days. He will attend a family reumjon Thursdiay On his return he will begin his duties us chitef of police at Armour & Co.'s piaat. The Sunday scheol ciasses of the Lefler Memorial enureh are Lo give an at home sociai Friday evening. Two classes of the intermediate girls are Uie hostesses. Th mvitation ls general and the young foiks expect & very good time. Peter Carlin of Spalding, Neb., left yes- terday for his home aiter spending several days vistng in South Omana. The Epworth league party on Friday evening will be a sieighing party during the early hours. On tne return they will enjoy an oyster supper at the home of Miss Bessle Dare, 113 North Twenty-fourth atreet. A small fire oecurred at the house of Lee Waa, Twenty-fourth and H sireets, last evening. About 3100 damage was done. John J. Murphy, brother to M. R. Mur- phy of the Cudahy Packing company, died yesterday at noon. He was fur a numoer of years a hog buyer in South Omana market. He was well like¢ Sy many friends, who will remember him kindly. The funeral of Willam Rubin, Sixtee: and 1 streets, will ¢ at 3 p. m. today from the residence. The Anclent Ord Umied Workmen lodge No # and the will have charge of ihe funeral services. Fred Millett was burled yesterday a: Laurel kil cemetery. 1he funeral was ac 1'p. m. The funeral of Gus Farnnolm wus heid at 2:% p. m. from the Brewer chapei The South Omaha Savings bank, with offices in South Omalia tional bank building, the only savings bank in Doug cunty, has & twenty year record of suc ess Dehind it; pays 4 eent Interest on savings accounts and deposits made on or vefure Jun. 10 draw interest at that rate . » from Jan. 1. Mr. Truman Buck is the the ensuing year. J. J. Breen was re-elected | (10N A0 L o A O Botbul tae president. N. D. Mann was elected firs: | “gunier. vice president, A. H. Miller second viec president, Mra. Josephire Carroll third yie president, Herman Steinberg financial sccretary, E. H. Roberts treasurer. Mrs | . Emma L. Talbot recording secrctary, Davia | months ago. well with a committed in that eity some because he at the packing houses. Winn was arrested several days ago for fignung. He I8 serv- ing a sentence of ten days. After being In jail & few minutes he assaulted one of his tellow prisoners, flooring him with & blow on the nose. He denles that he has been in Kansas City within the last ten months The deseription of the George Winn wanted in Kansas City fits him, however, and it would require the identiCeation of Some cne who knew him personally to determine whether he was the party who made the | assault. He will be taken to Kansas City | for the purpose of establishing his identity by the name of “Pig Snoots, Deretta Teter Seeks Mother. Doretta Teter has asked the South Omaha poilce to help her find her mother, or | more. Her parents wers Mr. and Mrs. Al- bert Teter. He was a switchman during his stay in South Omaba. He and his wife quarreled and separaied and the mother at one time kidnaped the girl, as she tells it. Later she was adopted by a family in Irvington named Rolf. She went with them to Germany, where they spent a aumber of years. She has been longing o see her mother since returning to Amer- ca and has traced her until she thinks he is in Omaha if living. The South of the case. Historieal Society Eleetio The South Omaha Ploneer Historica society elected officers Tuesday night fo: | Bidgeway Goes to Rock Inland. DENVER, Dec. 3—it is announced jay that A. C. Ridgeway, former '.HBY'II manager of the Denver & Rio Graunde rall- N. D. Muon assistant |road, has br‘)n anmr;{vnd‘ ‘Ifll\bfi‘d ‘2&";,9?5"4' 4 dent of the Chicago. ock Islan acifla, historian and Miss Bessie Howard usher in charge of equipment and construction, The latter office was created at the meet ‘w"n besdquarters in Chicago. ONDON'S ATARRHA! JELLY to- Catarrhal Deafness Avoided and Cured Prove this to yourseit by writing usto- day for a free sample, postpaid, of this permanent, safe and speedy care—aroe matic, soothing, healing. Or ask yougy taverite Druggist for Liberal Free Sampie valuable In sural affections of children— and sanitary. 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