Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 21, 1910, Page 5

w * < BRIEF CITY NEWS’ Have Root Print TH. R. F. Swoboda—Certi%ied Accountant. Lighting Fixtures, Burgess-Uranden Oo. Rinehart, Photographer, 18th & Farnam. Strictly home-made pies, ller Grand Cafe 22-Karat Wedding Rings—Edholm, Jew- eler Buras’ Gelehration, January 26, Cham- ber's academy. 1850—National Life Insuranes Co.—1910 Charles B. Ady, General Agent, Omaha, “Try Us First For Yuel'—Nebraska Fuel Co, 1414 Farnam St. Both Phone Equitable Life Policles, sight drafts maturity, ¥. D. Neely, manager, Omaha Keep Yonr Money and Valuables in the American ufe Deposit Vauits in the Bes ullding. $1 rents a box Martin Meyer and Goodley ¥. Brucker save formed a partnership to engage in the msurance business, They have leased Yooms In The Bee building Make Your Savings increass your earn- ings by becoming'a 'member of Nebraska Savings and Loan Ass'n. Harns ¢ Der cent per annum. 1008 Farnam St. Built Against Strest Rallway for §25,000 —8ult s cn before Judge Seard in district court of Blakeley against the Omaha & Counell Dloifs Street Rallway company for $25,000 for damages alleged 1o have been recelved a yoar ago. Edmund Vance Cooke to Lecture —Ed- d Vauce Cooke, well known as a wrlter of amusing verse and as a lecturer, will be heard at the First Methodist church day éveniig. Mr. Cooke's program will in- clude Interpretative readings of verses of his own and a number of Alalect tales and anecdotes. A number of stereopticon pfc- tures will be shawn. Back to Work on Car Barn—Concreting has been resumed on the néw car house of the Omaha & 'Council Blufts Street Rail- way at Tenth and Plerce streets, The ex- treme cold put a stop to all concreting for the last six weeks, although the carpenters have boen at work on the concrete moulds and most of the flase work is now in place 50 the coricrete may be rushied. Zowans Confer With Wattles—G. W. Wattles, president 'of the Umaha & Coun- il Hluffs Street Raflway company, met citizens of Councll Bluffs Thursday morn- ing to discuss atreet car service and the matter of commutation books. At the con- clusion of the conferencs Mr ¥ stated that there were no congessions that he could offer along the Ine of reduced fares, 2 Revive Talk of That Interurban—An ef- fort I8 belng made ta revive the project for bullding «ninterurban line between Omaha and Hastings. The Omaha, Western and Lincoln was reorganiéed at the annual meeting of the stockholders and directors at Lincoln and Frank I, Schaaf of Lincoln was elected president, John M. Miller of David City, vice president, and A. P. Tilley of Osccola, treasurer, Central Republican Club Installs Friday ~The Central Republican club ‘will instal, W its newly elected officers at the rooms in the Patterson bldek, Friday night. John J. Ryder, the new president, will outline his views on the position the club ought to take In the éampaign that” will open carly in the summer, and will recommend certain changes in the constitution of the | club, 10oking to & wider usefuln®ss. m Feley's lidney Kemed: wis eure any case of kidney or bladder lrouble that s not beyond the réach of medicine. It in- |\~xo: ates the cntire system and strengthens |the kidneys so they eliminate the impuii- tles from the biood. ' Backache, rheuma- tism, kidney and bladder troubles are all cured by this great medicine. Sold by all drugglsts. \FRUIT “JOBEERS "UP IN" ARMS Latest Railroads’ Erasure of Word “Refrigeration” Deprives Ship- rs of Protectiol Fruit jobbers are up in'drms over the | mction of some of the ralironds in refer- | ence to shipments in less than carload lots | and they threaten ‘to take the matter to | the 1nterstate Commerce commission. | The raliroads have scratched out the | word' retrigeration on shipping receipts for shipments of less than carload lots and thus disavow all responsibility for frost- bitten frult In smdll shlpments. The fruit ~jobbers claim they are entitled to the same protection for small shipments as for car- | load lots. SENSATIONAL SALE Of Swanson Music Co. Stock to A. Hospe Co. 1513.1615 e DOUGLAS STREET Pianos, Player Pianos, Musical Instruments, Sheet Music 'y and Fixtures. We have just purchased from the Swan- ®on Music eompany, Councll Bluffs, Ia. thelr entire §tock at a tremendous dis- count and We arc now erigaged in dispos- g of thess goods at less than wholes sale prices The follotving well known makes are fncluded in . this sale. Conovers, Kings- burys, Monarchs, Wellingtons, Werners, Mason & Ferrells, and others. Every Instrument s brand new and some of them not two weeks old from the factory, and the prices are such as to surprise the oldest bargain hunter, Terms nothing down and from $1 per week up, to any. vellable persory or family, including free scarf, and stool to mateh your instrument, We are also golug ‘to present to each and every purchaker of m plano during this salo a free insucance cert floste, also a death certificate, giving the twwmily full title to the plans in the event of the death of the head of the family, This has never before been offered in the state 9f Nebraska Ly any other plano house, Two $475 planos for $320, one $300 plano at $206, two $225 planos now $140, four $400 pianos now §285, six $315 planos 0w §260, one $480 piano now §305, three $275 planos now $180, one §350 plano now 5, three $300 planos now §115, four 250 planos now 3185, two $500 player planos now 3370, one 3650 player plano now $480, one $800 player plano now §525. From the number of buyers who found the very planos they were looking for diring the fivst day of ouf sale, it is evident that this great money-saving sale will be of short duration, owing to the of goods. Therefore it behooves you to make up your mind and act at once. Call at the store and let us talk the mat- ter over. Thero may be & liundred reasons why you can buy a plano that you know nothing ebout. In any event, it will be no harm for us to discuss the matter to- gether. For the benefit of those who cannot call during the day, we are golng to keep our Fpere open gvery evening while sale lasts. ‘& 5 whow! cases, Gne safe, oftice parti- s and other fixtures included in this sale, A HOSPE CO, -1513-1615 Douglas Street. SURE OF THE EXTRA SESSION Local Democrats Certain Governor Will Convene Legislature. SOME WHO SIGNED ARE WORRIED Don't Feel Good About that Initiative and Referendum—Others Refused to Sign Call Without Definite Knowledge of Plan. It js taken for granted fn loeal demo- cratic cireles that on his return from Wash- ington Governor Shallenberger will proceed to call an extra session of the legislature to meet early In February. What the call for the extra session will contain Is now the cause of sonsiderable worry, even to some of the legislators who hurriedly signed the pledge to vote for the passage of an initiative and referendum law. It does not seen to be true, as claimed by the men circulating the Mullen-Allen pledge In Douglas county, that all but two of the local representatives have signed the pledge to vote for Mr. Bryan's pet measure, Walter P. Thomas says that he refused to sign the pledge circulated by James P. Connolly unless he could have a very clear idea of the wording of the proposed in- itiative and referendum law. “I don’t care to sign anything in blank,” sald Mr, Thomas. Concerning the proposai to have Indorse- ment of the income tax amendment em- bodied in the call, Mr. Thomas sald he would mot be surprised. If that were brought in. Insarger Shoemaker Signs Yes, W. 8 Shoemaker, who Insurges all the vear round of late, and cannot be coaxed or forced onto the Shallenberger reserva- tion, admits he signed the pledge to vote for the proposed Initiative and referendum law, “That law ought to be passed,” sald judge Shoemaker, who is taking an active part fn trying to get congressman ‘Jim' Latia into the gubernatorial race in the hope of beating both Dahlman and Shallen- berger as signally as Edgar Howard beaten. “And I also favor the Indorsement by this state of the income tax amend- ment.” Asked If he had heard any talk of a Pproposed change whereby judges of the supreme court would be elected by dis- tricts, the local democratic Insurgent said he had not. “1 hardly belleve anything like that will be offered,” said Judge Shoemaker. Other democrats have heard of such a proposal, however, and Mr. Thomas admits that the rumor has reached him, but in an Indefinite form. Some men who assume to know assert that, since the ‘‘mon-partigan” Judiclary act, so-called, has been knocked out, the governor and his managers have determined to go after the judgeships in another way. For the present, however, pledges arn being solicited merely for the support of the Bryan initiative and refer- endum. The governor demanded of “Tommy" Allen that he secure the sig- hatures of a majority of the legisiature to huch a ledge before any serious consider: tion would be given to the Issulng of a call. “There is nott.ing to prevent the gov- ernor including other wmtters (n his proc- amation If he wants to. Don't Approach Semators. Up to date the Douglas county senators have not been approached with the pledge. “The petition has not been presented to me,” sald Senator Tanner, “and 1 under- stood from Senator Ransom that he has not been given a chance to sign it, either. Maybe they are only getting house signa- tures, since the house passed .the. measure before. I voted against it in the last session, and, while in a general way, I might favor a proper bill on the subject, I do not be- ileve it is weighty enough to eall for a speclal session. As to indofsing the Income tax amend- ment, Senator Tanner probably took the position that most of the dignified upper house members will assume when he sald “That Is & pet measure of Bryan's also, but personally I haven't given the matter enough attention to care to say off-hand what I think about it. It fs not a matter to be decided. lightly, since its enactment may have a very vital effect later on, touching the matter of state control of that method of taxation.” PRISONER IS SENTENCED TO Do WITHOll'_I'_ETRONG DRINK Bud Weatherford in Cruelty to Anima is Fis Fate. Convicted of ud Chat Bud Weatherford was convicted in dis- trict court of cruelty to animals and sen- tenced—practically—to go without strong drink. Judge Sutton is of the opinion that this will be\an unusual and almost cruel punishment. Weatherford was before Judge Sutton some time ago on a charge of having as- slsted his brother in gouging out the eye of a colored man named Ford Smith. ~The Jury turned Bud Weatherford loose and convicted his brother of assault. Bud then fell into the clutches of hu- mane officers on the charge of not feeding a team. He was convicted in police court and came before Judge Satton Thursday on appeal. The court found him gullty, bit paroled him. “You will be considered to have broken your parole,” sald the court, “If you enter 4 saloon or take a dnnk and I wish all these police officers to watch for you cs- peclally.” There were fifteen In the court room at the time, as wit- nesses in appeal cases, and all the patrol- men and detectives declared with, unholy glee that they would see that Mr. Weather- ford gets no drink, or that it he does they wil bring him in, Weatherford left the court room wearing an expression of settled melanchaly crossed with gray perplexity. A number of police- men tralled him out of the room, TINSMITHS ON NEW THEATER | OF MORRIS’ GO ON STRIKE This Ties Up Operations a Men Take Up th uation, or more policemen Work hes been stopped on the new Morrls theater bullding because of a strike of tinsmiths belonging to the local union. The tinsmiths have been objecting to the empoyment of nonunion men by R. L. Carter, the contractor for the tin work, and on Wednesday, as the tinsmiths al- lege, Mr. Carter agreed to let out his non- union men. Wednesday night, however, the nonunion men worked under police protection and put the cornice in place. Thursday morning the union tinsmiths refused to go to work, and Carter opened negotiations to bring about & settiement. In the meantime the stationary engiueers employed by Bridges & Hoye were called off by the Bullding Trades coumeil. This made it necessary for the bricklayers and laborers employed by Bridges & Hoye to also quit work, since no material could be holsted. . Negotiations’ with the striking tinsmithy are still under way. with a falr prospeet that the trouble will be settled withuyt much further delay, Some Things You Want to Know The English Elections. The general parllarientary election now In progress In England is in many re- spects the most important politieal cam- paign since the ballot hox was invented. The pecullar fssues involved are such that whatever the result of the voting, the constitution of the British empire will be radically changed. Usually it is impossi- ble to weigh the importance of a political campaign in advance, but from the first it _has been known here that a liberal vietory would megn' the reduction of the power of the House of Lords to the extent that it might not veto or amend bills at- fecting revenues and that & conservative vietory would mean that the power of the House of Lords would be augmented and that of the House of Commons reduced to a point approximating the condition of affairs before the revolution under Oliver Cromwell. Here IEngland decides whether it will adopt thie newest notlons of political re- form and advance toward soclallsm or whether it will return to a more pro- nouncedly individualistic system. The campeign was the most exciting that Eng- land has ever known—far more ‘‘fast and furlous” than any campelgn the Unifed States ever has known. The most im- portant reasen for the unprecedented in- terest in this particular campalgn is the fact that there was a real, living, burning issue. At the beginning of the campalgn this issue of the people against the peers was clear-cut and it was sufficlent to get the eountry thoroughly awake. Then other questions were injected, until, at the close, the speakers were compelied «to Aiscusy many side issues, each of overwhelming importance. Seldom has so much been crowded into one campaign, never has so much depended on the result of an elec- tion. whelming miajority. It attempted to legl late along ‘“progressive” lin but its great majority in the House of Commons Was of no account when the ‘House of Lords could veto or emasculate every measure. The House of Lords 18 always overwhelmingly conservative. The first prime minister, Sir H. Campbeii-Banner- man, -died and was succeeded by Mr. Her- bert H. Asquith, the present préemier. Mr. David Lloyd-George became chancellor of the exchequer, a position which amount if transferred to the United States, to & combination of all the power held by the secretary of the treasury, Speaker Can- non, Senator Aldrich and Chairman Ta: ney of the house committee on appropria- tions. Bach year the chancellor of the exche- quer makes up the budget, a bill providing for the collection and expenditure of all the revenues of the country, This budget goes into effect as law on the day it is intro- duced in the Housd of Commons. It is just as If Secretary MacVeagh had the power to draw up a bill fixing all taxation, including the tariff, and making all ap- propriations, including fixed charges upon future administration, and that such a bill would become law at the mgment it whe transmitted to congre: owever, the budget, aithough already in*effect, must be passed by Parllament and approved by the king. The king's approval ls purely perfunctory, as the crown has not exer- clsed the right of véto since the days of Queen Anne. The budget Introduced on April 2, 1909, is the cause ‘of all the trouble. It providea for the revolutionary process of taxing land values. After mucn stoimy delfite it was passed by the House of Commouns by a huge majority and sent to the House of Lords. That body, on November 30, 1909, rejected and vetoed the budget, in effect, by adopting an amendment to it declaring “That this house s not justified in giving its consent to this bill until it has been submiitted to the judgment of the country." This\action was taken by & vote of 30 to 7. Wherkupon the campaign was on. Some' understanding of the nature of the British constitution, and of the sharp practice by politiclans of both iberal and conservative partles, is necessary o ex- plain this ‘erisis. The British constitution is not a written document like that of the United States, but s the collection of gov- ernmental precedents from early times until the present. Since the reestablish- ment of Euglish affairs after the Crom- well revolutfon the House of Lords, under the accepted constitution, has had no right to reject or materlally to amehd revenue bills, 'The budget has been exclusively the work of the House of Commons, and the assent of the lords has been glven just as the pertunctory approval of the king 1s required. ‘The libersl government was unable to pass its proposed ‘‘progressive” leglslation in separate, bills, 5o the whole soclil re- form scheme was tled up with revenuo measures und introduced In the budget. In this form the budget milght have been open to the charge of containing extran- eous matter of legisiation not strictly in the reyenue class—a aystem of legislation formerly common in the United States when “riders” were attached to appropria- tion bills. In England the system is called “tackin The lords might have objected to the budget on this score, but the quarrel then wolld have been indeterminate. They did not dare to undertake a step so revolution- ary as to reject the bill in toto. The “referendum’ amendment was the result. By its adoption the House of Lords ad- mitted that the socfal reform measure in the budget were “In order” and not sub- ject to the charge of “tacking.” The lords alwo forced a dissolution and asked for an election. For more than a century the power to dissolve Parllament has not been exercised by the lords. The campalgn began with this clear-cut tssue: Has or has not the House of Com- mons the sole control of the purse-strings of the nation as exercised since the days of Cromwell? The liberals declared in the affirmative, accused the lords of dety- ing the constitution and asked the people to return the Iliberal government and to lmit the power of the lords. The con- servatives, on the other hand, did not meet the lssue squarely, but set up the claim that the amendement by the lords was not a rejection but a referendum to the people. Beneath this quibble, however, the conservatives were stirred to mighty offort and the peers, themselves, awoke to action such as they have not dreamed of in 200 years. With one of the great parties thus un- willing to meet the issue which caused the election, it was inevitable that the waters should become muddied. The conserva- tives, led by the former prime minister, Mr. Arthur J. Balfour of the House of Commons, and by Lord sdowne of the peers, offered tariff refcrm, meaning protec- tion indtead of free trade, as & substitute for all the relief off in the Lioyd- George budget and proceeded to make their campalgn upon that issue. In addition, they charged that the liberal government had failed to provide for the adequate de- fense of the lon against what they de- clare to be an imminent attack by Ger- many. Thus the two parties went to the country. Premier Asquith leading the lfberals, al- though all but overghadowed by the great Liody-George, in the/defense of the budget and n the attack upon the House of Lords, endeavored to keep the original lssue squarely before the people. The lords and the conservatives, who forced the refer- endum on that lssue themselves, under the leadership of Mr. Balfour, sought to place pedge of the ice-bound stream below. WOMAN JUNPS INTO RIVER Mrs, Nellie Peterson Takes Life on | Eve of California Trip. | DOUGLAS BRIDGE | Watchman Calls Poised on Railing to Walt, but She nges Down to Dea LEAPS FROM to Her While Mrs, Nellls Peterson, wife of James Peterson, guests of Mrs. J. A. Pearson, 1813 Spring street, clothed in black, her head covered by a shawl, stood polsed on the railing of the Douglas stret bridge, Bhe looked down Into the water of the cold river a hundred feet below and seemed to hesitate. “Wailt," shouted H. A. Fellers, bridge watchman, as he dashed out from his cabln a few yards away. Half turning about, she saw the ap- proaching figure and leaped off. The watchman stood horrified a moment and, then running to the railing, saw her body floating In the current along the There was not a struggle. Her arms were locked In grim determination. Half an hour later her body was picked up by a boat put out from the City of Peoria, at anchor near the Union Pacific bridge, a half mile below. The body was taken In chargh by Willls Crosby, coroner, where it was identified by her husband. When the woman's body drifted away from. the bridge the watchman rushed to the telephone and called the Council Bluffs car barn on the company's private line, From there the message was relayed to the Omaha police station. Police See Her Float Away. An automobile load of officers hastened to the Douglas strest bridge only 'in time to see the body floating away, a tiny speck on the surface of the river, 100 yards below the bridge. a Captain G. R. Barnes, standing on the top deck of the Clity of Peoria, far down the stream, saw the leap from the bridge. With Earl Kirk, second mate, he put out Into the stream and fought against the water and wind until the floating body was intercepted, a short distance north of the boat. The body was brought ashore. At the same instant the police arri in an automoblle. The coroner was notifled and took ‘the body off the rescue boat soon atter. \ Mrs, Peterkon and her husband were pre- pared to leave for California on Friday. She left the home of their hosts to spend the morning In bidding good-bye to a number of friends. That was the last that was seen of Mrs. Peterson alive by her the emphasis upon tariff reform. Mr. Balfour hes a record of many years as a free trader and also as a severe critic of the House of Lords, so that his part in the campaign was most difficult. But he was thorolghly in earnest In opposition to the land tax and land valuation features of the budget, and he used the best weapons at hand with which to fight. Tf the cam- palgn coiild have been kept to the issue upon which the referendum was taken, there would never have been a doubt of o sweeping liberal victory and the prac- tical abolition of the House of Lords. The conservatives were forced, by the law of selt-presarvation, to bring in the tariff re- form ‘issue. { _ The liberals tell the people that they suffér because the land Is held by a few men who do not use it to the begt advan- tage, and that these land-owners must share in the burdens of public taxation. the conservatives tell the pepple that free trade hes brought them to thelr low estate and that if they will adopt a protective tarlft there will be work for all the un- employed, a job for every man, and that the forelgner will pay the taxes to run the government. To American ears the eam- palgn thunder is strangely familiar, Not least among the Interesting features of this remarkable campaign is that both parties have gone to the United States fog precedents and examples to prove their causes. The liberals have pointed out that all land Is taxed in America, and the con- servatives have retorted with the amasing discovery that the land tax has’ kept down the price of real estate in Boston. The wages and prosperity of American work- ingmen as the product of the protective tariff, and the liberals have retorted with the price of butter and eggs In Kansas City. Thomas Jefferson Is quoted in at- tacking the House of Lords, and Alexander Hamllton Is brought forth to defend that institution. Mother England seems quite ready to learn something from the Yan- kees, but at the same time she has much to teach the United States about the busi- ness of couducting campaigns and manag- ing elections, BY PREDERIC J. HASKIN, Tomorrow—THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS —POLITIOS ON BILLBOARDS. estminster to Have New Home and Also a Pastor Calls Rev, Thomas H. McConnell of Chicago and Orders Lots Bought for $50,000 Building. Westminster Presbyterian church will have a new pastor and bullding. That was decided on at a congregational meeting Wednesday night. The church issued an unanimous call to Rev, Thomas H. McConnell, pastor of Jef- ferson Park Presbyterian church of Chi- ITHE BROWN SHOE GOMPANY BREAK ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS. The Brown Shoe Co., of St. Louls, re- ported that their shipments for the year 1909 Were the largest in the history of the Company, they having added another link to the chain of consscutive gains for each of the last nine years, without any excep- tion, during which time their volume of business has nearly trebled. Last year was in every respect a success, and they ex- tended congratulations to all their custom- ers, friends and employes, and are facing the prospects of this year with confjdence of increased optimism and general dxpect- ancy for things much bigger and better. This Company operate¥ elght mammoth shoe factories and turn out over six million pairs of shoes per year, consisting of high- grade “White House" shoes for men and for women, “Bu Brown Blue Ribbon" shoes for boys ‘and girls, and their other great gpeglalty lines of medifm grade shoes, all having the o8y trade-mark of the Company, which “means quality,” stamped in the shank. The Brown Shoe Company employs 126 iravellng salésmen, who cover the entire United States cago, to accept its pulpit and instructed its trustees to buy three lots at Thirty-tirst and Pacific streets as a site for a_new building. It fs proposed to Invkst not less than $50,000 in this new edifice and make it a thoroughly modern church and to have the work of construction begin very soon. The call to Rev. Mr. McConnell was en- thustastic, He had been among the people on thelr invitation, had preached for them Sunday and, n fact, only returned to Chi- cago Thursday morning. It Is belleved he will accept the place. The church has been without, a pagtor since Rev. W.-8. Fulton resigned and left the city lagf August. | Dr. Gifford Will Continue as Dean Withdraws His Resignation at Uni- versity Medical on Urgent Ap- peals of His Associates. Dr, Harold Giftord has been persuaded to glve up his intention of resigning as asso- clate dean of the College of Medicine. of the University of Nebraska. Dr. Gifford has agreed (o continue in the deanship indetinitely. At u recent meeting of the faculty of the Omaha branch of the College of Medicine Dr. Gifford declared: “I am sorry there Is not a quorum here | tonigiit, for 1 Intend to resign and wouid ve liked to do It now. The expression of (his intention way heard with feeling amounting to cons:ernd- tion by his colleagues and they gathered around Dr. Gifford urging him to change his mind. But Dr. Gifford was obdurats that evening and said he must insist on resigning, He recommended Dr. A, C, Stokes as his successor. Singe then Dr. Gifford has been urged some more and he has now agreed to re- main dean. A Flerce Attack of ‘malaria, liver derangement and kidney trouble 1§ casily cured by Eleetria, Bitters, the" guaranteed remedy. Ge. For sale by Boaton Drug Co. | will get the sum of $43 in cash and a clear friends. She had been in ill health for several months and it was on this account that they had prepared to leave for the west. Mr. Peterson became alarmed at noon when his ‘wife failed to return and began a search. That search ended at the coroner's morgue when he found the body of his wife awaiting = fdentification. FHe had learned of the spectacular happening on the bridge from gossip on the street. “Bloody Outrage,” Says Mr. Butler Eighth Ward Captain of Dahlmanites Kicks on a Rule of the Bond Companies, Mayor Dahlman and certain of his as- sistant city managers in the city hall are going to have difficulty In getting surety bonds hereafter, if the experience of As- slstant Gas Commissioner Butler counts for anything. It has just leaked out that Butler ls experlencing some worry because of the return of an application recently made for a bond, in which he falled to give the color of his hair, “How can a man give the color of halr when he has none to judge from? asks Butler, anxlously. “I'd like to know how the mayor is going to get a bond hereafter, or Tom Davis, or Jim Redman, and several others who might be named. This appears to me like a bloody outrage, and 1 propose to appeal to Judge Berka to see If an ordinance cannot be drawn up to prevent the bond companies asking tor so much personal pedigree. OCTOGENARIAN GIVES BRIDE CHECK THAT IS NO GOOD Ulrich Tolstedt Takes His Money from Burk and Goes to Texas While She Gets Divorce. The day heforellrich Tolstedt, the octo- genarian bridegroom, took his money and | went to Texas he gave Mrs. Nellle E. Kerby Tolstedt a check for $18 on a local bank with which to pay & grocery bill. Mrs. Tolstedt told Judge Redick in dls- trict court that when she presented this check, she was told “‘no funds.” That day her husband did not come home, nor the next day, nor gny day thereafter, He had | gone on his way to Texas, | The next Mrs. Tolstedt heard from him was when he began in chunty court a re- plovin sult to attach an automobile he had given Mrs. Tolstedt. Mrs. Tolstedt, who is & years her hus band's junlor, was given a decree of di vorce Thursday in district court on the | ground of desertion and non-support. She title to the motor car. When Tolstedt lost took an appeal. The sult In district court will now be | dismissed. Tolstedt did not contest the di- vorce, but had attorneys present. The terms of the property settifment do not appear in the decree and an effort was | made to keep secret how mueh Mrs. Tol- stedt was to get. Mrs. Tolstedt was ac companied to the court by half a domen fair young girl frlends. The defendant | aid not come here from Texas to be at the hearing. NEW YORK LIFE DISAPPEARS | Hereafter the Blg Structure Will Be Listed as the Omaha tional Buildin, in county court he | The rformer New York Life Insurance company's bullding Is now designated as the Omaha Natlonal bank butiding in the list of members of the Real Estate ex- change prepared by the secretary of the exchange. When the Omaha Natlonal moves into Its néw bullding Farnam street from Sixteenth to Seventeenth streets will be glven over entiraly Lo banking, except for the twenty-two feet which J, L. Bran- dels & Sons have bought for an entrance to thelr stores. The front of the bank building will be remodeled to give & bet- ter entrance for the Peters Trust com- pany, which will oceeupy the basement corner of Seventeenth and Farnam. Coughs, colds, croup and wheoping eough are promptly cured by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. % ~ GREAT BARGAINS IN Boys' Suits and 0verc9ats may now be seen in our Boys' Department-——All Clothing small lots and broken sizes of Suits and Overcoats that were sold up to $6.50, and which were proven the best values of the season at their regular prices, are now offered you at $3.69. Parents who have time and again proven to their entire satisfaction boys' garments are better in mater ing, style, fit and service, and sold for less money than any of that our lal, mak- yet are f similar quality, will realize that they can't afford to let their boy wear an old or o suit any longer. You wirl find variety of styles, fabrics and pal both suite and overcoats, provide not delay longer. stm 5 to 17 years Overcoats, 4 to 12 year ‘ Boys' Suits and Overcoats, worth up/ up to $0.50, now......... ‘“The House of High Merit.”’ ut-grown a good tterns In d you du Slzes are limited to— $3.69 Engraved Stationery: Wedding Invitations Announcements All correct forms in in the Visiting Cards curent social uuage engraved Embossed Monogram Stationery and other work executed at prices lower than usually revail elsewhere. » Al 1210-1212 Howard St. ROOT, INCORPORATED Phone D. 1804 FALL FROM NEW BANK FATAL Louis Anderson, Workman on Sky- scraper, Killed by Accident, KNOCKED OFF BY BIG BEAM Struck While Heating Rivets on the Eleventh Story and Plunges Down Four, Spinning 'Over and Over in Flight. Louls Anderson, an iron worker, fell through’ four storles of the frame work of the Ciiy National’bank building, Sixteenth and Harney stréets, Thursday morning and was removed (o St. Joseph's hospital where at 2:66.p. m. he died. Anderson was working at a forge on the eleventh story heating-rivets when a roller, a big jron-bound log of oak, from a floor high above fell, striking him on the shoulder. He pitched over the edge of his narrow platform into space. Spinning like a top, with his. arms outspresd in frantlc effort to catch a hold, he went bumping down to the seventh floor, striking each girder at the floor lines as he passed. On the tiling of the seventh fioor Ander- son was an insensate, wilted heap, He was unconsclous and had sustained count- less fractures and internal injuries. Dr. F. A. Nelson and Doddef's ambulance responded to the call and Anderson was taken to St. Joseph's hospital, pital Anderson lir gered, but grew steadily weaker, never regaining consciousness, The accldent struck panic {nto the work- men on the sixteen-story bullding whd saw their comrade fall. With one move- ment they left the bullding to stand a lit- tle huddled group on the solid ground be- low. The roller which struck Anderson, caus- Ing his fall, is thought to have come from three stories above. It weighs more than 100 pounds and the blow that it dealt him could have been fatal in itseif, Anderson leaves & wife and family of small children in St. Paul, Minn, A large crowd gathered about the bulld- g during the wait for the ambulance. Bullding Permits. Minnie Richardson, 2457 Cuming. frame awelling, $1,800; James J. Walker, 277 Elli- son avenue, frame dweiling, $2,000. - At the hos- Young Women Rescued from.a Gas-Filled Room Misses Nellie and Fannie Morgan of Conrad, Mont., Saved by an Elevator Operator. Nellie and Fannie Morgan, dsughters of Raphael Morgan, a wealthy rancher froni Conrad, Mont., were rescued from a gab- filied yoom at the Murray hotel Thursday morning Just as they were succumbing to the deadly fimes. BAAGS { “I smell gas 'round your room,"’ safd William Smith, the operaior of the eleva- tor, approaching Mr. Morgan In the lobby. “‘Oh, 1 guess that everything is all right,” replied the stockman, laughing. The elevator man made a few more trips and again approached Mr. Morgan. “There isn't any mistake. Hurry up,” he shouted. Pushing his way Into the room, Mr, Mor- gan found his two daughters smothering In thelr bed. Gas was streaming from the fixture in his, the adjoining room Help was summoned and before the po- | lice surgeon could arrive, the young women | were resuscitated. Accompanied by their father they were taken to the home of W. M. Coble, a family acquaintance, who lives at 2406 South Thirty-second avenue, The two young women. eéntirely récovered from their experience %y noom, but both suffered severe nervous reaction from the shock. Mr, Morgan s the owner of a large ranch near Conrac. where he s engaged In the stock business cn a large scale. He and his daughters were returning from & (rip to the east. Mr. Morgan and his daughter will leave tonight for their home a{ Conrad. Mis. Morgan is there and has not yet learned of the dangerous experience through’ which her daughters passed. Mr. Morgan can account for the escaping gas only by the supposition that he turned the cock back again after extinguishing the lght in his room when he departed after arising early. | Miller, Stewart & Beaton 413-15-17 South Sixteenth Strect JANUARY SALE OF ORIENTAL RUGS V as ent We have decided to close out, near as possible, our. present ire stock of Oriental Rugs, which consists of about $20,000 worth of the best grades of the different weaves of ORIENTAL Every piece has been' selected * by our foreign buyer, one by one, and are of excellent value—the w' bes! t specimens of the Oriental rug weaver’s art. t s we herewith quote indicate the values offered stock. sale pri price price ale price throughout the entire $35.00 Beloochistan Rug, 33.00 Shirvan Rug, sgle 35.00 Shirvan Rug, sele 24.00 Shirvan Rug, 75.00 36.00 36.00 40.00 35 00 50.00 75.00 35.00 33.00 33.00 33.00 33.00 28.00 33.00 28.00 Kelim Rug, sale price . . Cashmere Rug, sale price . Mosoul Rug, sale price Mosoul Rug, sale price Mosoul Rug, sale price Kazak, sale price ‘e Shirvan, sale price ... Anatollan Bokhara, sale pri Sarabend, ‘sale price ... Afglhan Rug, sale’price Shirax Rug, sale price Kazakjas, sale price Ladzkey Rug, sale price . Ladzkey Ru le price ce Kermanshaw Rug, sale price ce