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. D VAR EDITORIAL 9 TO 16 THE OMAHA BEE s the most powerfnl business getter in the west, becanse to the hemes of poor and ‘THE OMAHA OMAHA, BEE. DAILY FEBRUARY E Hosxery Underpx lced it goes rieh 217. MORNID Toasted Cocoanut Marshmallows kind, at 200 tal Choe qual VOL. XXXIX—NO. SATURDAY WO CENTS. American Beauty Corsets The fashionable woman's corset. No othes corget fills every requirement so su fully as American Beauty Corsets do They heighton the effect ot your new spring gowns by fmparting a subtle shaplh- nese to the figure that is so difficult to obtain with most inexpensive corsets New spring models are ready $1.50, §2, $2.50, §3.50 to $10 Men's “Presto” Cravenette Coats for Spring \$10.00 $12.50 $15.00 $20.00 The new long, light weight coat for rain or shine with the ‘‘Presto’’ convertable collar to wear either in regular or high military effect. Ma- terials are dark gray and tan worsteds; med- ium and light gray and tan cheviots; also black thibets. They are genuine Priestley craven- ettes—new spring lines just in... Men's Rubberized Coats—The Iideal garment for the rainy season. We are showing them in Zephyr welghts ingle and double textures, long cut coats, 4n tan or slate . 85,00, $10.00 and $15.00 y Pants—A Bale—A ok, finest nothing bet gularly, Sat Throo Pairs for $1.00 A MARVEL IN XID GLOVE TALURS CANDY DAY- irda the usual Jonnett's Sp per b, regular 60c A 2 N love surprise. \ A w v ki ves Men's Uaderwear Spriag Hats B e S FOR MEN AND CEILDREN two-piece under- They arc all o garments, at new styles. The best, new ried on and — shapes irom the best mukers Bk J 3 o ing Pajamas—iancy ves \ ha AL ete, for men, W Soft and stitf hats in leawing f ' t ' and §3.00 shades now, 8t ... . John €. Wil 8 x—Plain and fanc Crofut & Knapp Hats ..83.00 Soxcsielh n, ney John B, Stetson Hats ...$3.60 worth 16e, 35c 4 Children's Hats, in soft brim SEire ) oF ‘pair, 15¢ styles to bend up or down in any shape; red, navy 3 New ghirts — Select spring and clicoks, 80c, 61 Shirts from the pew arrivals, Boyw Hats in teles: patterns are Very choice, pan_tourist shapes; in pe new pleated and plain coat nuvy, green, miitia bic styles, at ....$1,50 and $3.00 ete,, at $1.00, $1.95, 81.50 hNIFG BRI T, T iy, 7 SRR t rs and all are first 1 slight in Greatest Values Ever—Men's Suits at $6.76—The price we ask does not cover cost of material in these suits. Don't judge them until you se them. It's an abkurdly low price actuated by our determination to make a complete clearing tomorrow Just about 100 suits and most of them are $16.00 values. Many a man will be glad to wear such sults this spring. We have sizes 34 to 44, Youll never got greator barains. Take your pick of the lot for..86.78 Little Hoys' Russian and Blouse Suits for spring—gray, navy, tan; in cas- simeres, serges and_worstods, 3 to 9 years...$2.50, $3. 84, 85, and $6.50 's woolen, Price stripe nad and Wilson Hats 88 & §2.50 them aring 10 $5.00 garrhents, ter for teamsters, hun outside work; choice of stdck..91.98 | Boys' Spring Beefers—Eing new lines | in now, In flannel, covert, cassimere | and worsted, red, tan, grey novelty Lecks, all have velvet or self « double breasted style | S emblems or sieeve. 3 _to § Yoar | slzen 50, l’J.'fl- $5 and $6.50 Who Wants $5, $6° and $8 Girls' Coats for $1° .u years?—At nine o'clock 200 of the finest coat bargains you ever saw will awalt you. We want to give all an equal chance «0 we start the selling at NINE o'clock. Bring the girls with you. Don't loke a minute. Our fine stock of $5.00, $6.50 and $8.00 couts for girls up to 14 years are on sale at $1.98. N long, warm coats, in all the best colors and in many beautitul, Buy for present needs. Buy for next year—But come early, as we expect to sell out by noon. 1,0 and lace \dkerehlefs 1 nly rfect PYROGRAPHY CLEARING fine stocks will_be Sots, Placgues, hourettes, Waste n and Art Glass; Brass and out- trimm, worth to allghtly im- j, on sale e tamps on all sos above depart- aturday and 50c, at Saturday our one-quarter Boxes, Bmokers Baskets, Pipo ‘209 Off o Commencing Saturday Our February Green Tag Book(learance Look for the green tags in the book section Saturday—They rep- resent very special bargains on our entire clean up lots odd books, and some that we bought at a price to add strength and vim to selling— OUR BEST FEBRUARY SALE Miscellancous Books — In uniform bindings at low clearing price; The Madonna in Art, Angels in Art Saints in Art, Love in Art, Christ in Art, A History of Opera, Heau- tiful Women in_ Art, The Charlot Race and others Bennet!'s buy at fraction of real value big Surplus Shoe Stocks From Eastern M'igrs. and Jobbers There’s no February dullness to the shoe business here. We are crowding the selling with surprising bargains. The pow- erful influence of low price on best shoes was never greater, The watchfulness of our buyers is again rewarded by secur- Ing these fine purchases at about half. Over 1,500 pairs of sur- plus shoe stocke from well known eastern concerns will be in Saturday's sale. From the Hagerty Shoe Co., Levire & Sargeant, Dorothy Dodd Shoe Co. and Al R osenbaum of Boston. Come these superb spring stocks, These shoes are recog- nized as the leading styles for spring. They are fash- ioned on newest lasts and are absolutely perfect in every respect. Made to satisfy the demands of women who pay $5, $4 and $3.50 for their shoes. It's the left over stock these firms had remain- ing after their spring Boys’ Shoes orders were filled. I'here are no great quan- Viel button tities of any one line 1'1;'-“"::;1} “h:uhf‘r which accounts for the extreme iuw price shoes for women & misses. sizes 11% 3Gy new stylos. Sale 9:00 O'clock Sharp. No Coats Reserved. ORISR Hursts Magnolia Library of standard beautifully bound, published 50c; such titles as St. Eimo, Adam_Bede, The Emperor Moths, The Talisman, e Henty and Alger Books for Boys— Over 200 titles, just the kind that | appeals to “Young America;” lurge, lithographic panel cover, published at 36c_each—Do_and Dare, Erle Train Boy, In a New World, Joe's Luck, Only An Irish Boy, TF Knight, By Sheer Pluck, Death, A Hidden Foe and Jack Archer, each te, Berkley Edition Poets ... White House, Cook Book ... Woman's Exchange, Cook Booic Woman's Home, Cook Book .63¢0 590 .450 .49¢ Exclusive Spring Suits Exclusiveness, quality and low price are inseperable in these early displays of tailored suits at Bennett’s. Of special interest is a line of misses’ and small women’s suits of all wool serge, 32-in. satin lined coats and moire trimmed collars, colors are navy, green, delft, 315 in new, #¥%-inch, doats, cotlars reseda and black, for ... SERGE SUITS—For women, are of sllk, in long roll or silk inlaid; they are tdilored in tirst class style and are actual $25.00 suits; all best colors, at . $19 50 GIRLS' JUNIOR SUITS—Of all wool nergea‘ with short coats and pleated skirts; ages 18415 l'fid 17 315 years; satin lined, best colors', i, ... i NEW SAILOR ONE-PIECE DRESSES—In green and navy; white silk brald and red tie; 13, 16 and 17- 815 year sizes, at SPRING JAOKETS—New, 32-inch lengthn tlstef\lll) made; tan, diagonal cheviots, at .. $6.95 Coverts, in plain and stripes, at .. $8.95 Black and Blue Serge Jackets, at .$7.95 The “Middy" Skirt for Mis- | Black Petticoats—Hydegrade ses—Made with yoke top materials; two styles; cord- and laced effect, like a ed or shirred flounces; all sallor's garment; full have dust ruffles; $1.75 pleated bottom ...85.95 values, at House Dresses — Two-piece | White Wailsts—New, spring Dressing Sacque, with pep- garments; all over em- lum and flounced skirt, in broidery front; crossbar checks and nurse stripes, lawns and lace yoke styles and Popular_ Fiotion—Formerl it at $1.50, at The Weavers, Circular Starcase, City of Delight, Prisoner of Chance, Daughter of Anderson Crow, The Lure of the Mask, and a hundred others, at ... ... 49 Wall Map of United State —With world map on reverse side, and one copy of any Alger book, for Y e AT 49 published 90 CGunmetal button shoes in several styles. CGunmetal lace shoes in several styles . .. Patent colt shoes in button and lace. .. .. Patent colt shoes with brown or gray cloth tops. ..... 4 300 pairs tan shoes i in butbon and lace. .. There are plain and tipped toes, high and medium heels and welted sole shoes. Widest assortment of high grade shoes and 11l at one price, $2.45. For Men Who Wear Small Sizes Do you wear small shoes? There’s a big bargain waiting for you if you do. Ou: shoe man has secured several hundreds pairs of smart snappy patent leather $3.50 and $4.00 shoes of well known makes, less than half value. Jobber had only small sizes left. That’s the SLT5 only reason for the low price tomorrow, pair. . Sheet Music Day Come out tomorrow Eastern Song successc find them here first too. Splendld singing Pooket Dictionary—Vest pocket size: leather cover, 25,000 words ....180 Bibles—Teachers’, leather covered, divinity cut edges, worth up to $3.00, eaoh, at .35 New Testament—Vest pocket fll{ st edge Family Bibles : §L75 u.wa-fiu LOT 3—Odds ends books history, etc $1.00 ‘each, LOT 2—Books in great variety; all odds and ends, vorth te o e 106 and fiction, worth LOT 1—Contains big lot assorted umes, worth to 60c, {154 Clearing Standard Sets--Best Authors Only One and Two Sets of & Kind—A Prize for Those Who Get Them nakespears, % leather, set, SILE0 | Modern Achlevements, set ....8 9.76 ott, % leather, set iurton Holmes Lectures . 3.00 Balzac, % l-ather, set . Kingsley, % leather, set . Shakespeare, 20 vol. set ... Smailett, % leather, set Stevenson, % leather, set '-’0 | De Musset, % leather, set Hugo, % leather, set 8.50 | Kipling, % leather, set /| Gas and Electric Portables Over 100 new, up-to-date lamps to clean up Satur- and hear the new songs sung. v You'll always Saturday is Market Day at Benneit's. Table Expenses Sharply Cut o) FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Tea Siftings, 15¢ pound Tea Garden Preserves, Capitol Extract, bottle . day—Our entire line. A fine assortment from which to i8N Drug Specials Martin's Roupe Cure— Bost known remedy for chicken flls. Peroxide, 16¢ size for...80 Peroxide, 25¢ size for..180 Peroxide, G0c size for..a8e White Pine Compound.180’ Per VIOLETS Bunch... A large quantity on sale Satyrday; fresh picked Bennett's Excelsior Flour, sack $1.75 And’ 80 Stamps Bennett's Best Coffee, three pounds . And 100 Stamps. Bennett's Best Coffee, pound g And ‘30 ‘Stamps. Bennett's Teas, assorted, pound ..T80 And 100 ‘Stamps. Bennett's Teas, assorted, pound AT .58 And 75 mp: Bennett's Breakfast fee, 2-1b, cans 1.00 20c Cof- Camphorated Oil Quinine Pills, 50 2-gr. ica Gluger A Powder § PHONE BONDS COME IN FAST violets — good size bunches, at .... Also a full line of Carnations, American Beauty Roses, etc., at lowest prices, 100 100 -100 26¢ Velveola «.18¢ And 60 Stamps. Macaron! and Spaghett!, Star and Crescent brand 3 packages .80 Capitol Baking Powder, pound can 240 And 20 Stamps. packages for Jap Rice, Tc quallty, pounds for Bennott's Capitol Oats Wheat or ‘Fanoak na 10 “Stamp! Double Stamps on Butterine. Mignonette Peas, three cans for And 10 Stamps. Capitol Maple Syrup, pure %-gal, cans .78¢ And 50 Heinz's Red bottle And’ 10 ‘Stamps. Diamond Crystal Table Salt, two sacks .....200 ‘And 10 Stamps. Castile Tollet Soap, cans And amps, Peppersauce, 800 ten ..200 10 Stamps. been successful efforts of the bondholders' committee have and that the Independent Telephone company other control and that with considerable | | bott, is about to pass into | attorney for the man who has done son Rich, general Pacific; committe most of the attorney Frank B. Johnson, and the | work; of the Union president jar e And 20 Stamp Cleaned Currants, three pounds y .280 Medium Pickles, per quart . 3 100 And 10 ‘Stamps, Mixed Pickles, Sour Sweet quart And ta Double Stamps o lated Sugar. Cookie Sale—Cream Cookles, pound Iten's Tourist or Crackers, DKg ..... And’ 10 Stamps. Newport Catsup, per BAYEIE L2y ooy aathede o) 5300 And 10 Stamps. Stollwerck's Cocoa, pound cans And 20 per .300 Granu- Honey .1do ..100 half- 300 Stamps. Best And 10 Stamps. | Gallliard Olivi And 40 Cream pound And pound . And Hartley's 10 ‘Stamps. Virginia Swiss Cheese, jars for .. jar .. And 40c cans Marshall's ring A 4 cakes on stem, Glllette's Mustard, 0 Stamps, California Ripe Kippered 2 Chees Stamps, Marmalade, Yanky Rose Tollet Callfornia Tshla Ralsing Oil, bot.46¢ tamps. brand, dozen Carload Colorado Pota-. toes, per bushel ....78¢ And 20 Stamps Bsc 20¢ New Beets, Carrots, Tur- nips, Green Onlons, 3 bunches 100 Large Leaf Lettuce, 3 for 100 Four Crown Layer Fixs pound .15¢ Large large Olives, ....280 Her- 200 Grap MEAT Liegs, 3-1b. | Fal Lamb pound per s, 3 ... 1130 Veal Chops, per 1b.123ge | | Veal Shoulder Roast, per pound 1lc and 9¢ Veal Stew. b ..8%0 Soap 45 per ORANGE SPOON, F R E E with each dozen lemons; fine, large, juicy ones; ‘‘sunkist” Armour’s pound Fancy bushel all day Saturday. “MY OLD GIRL" extremely popular It's bright Is just now. up-to-date y One of the greatest of all conversation songs Have Mr. Mor ORANGES. Stamps with size, Saturday size Saturday aturday turda; of oth now like fal hot clal Satur- and scores are selll the pro Jor cakes. Spe Dbox 6-1b. I 10-1b, Morrell's Towa rnn day A pajls And pails o And 25 Stamps, | Ba- of PROCESS TO BE A RECEIVERSHIP Indepe: Moro than half of the bonds of the Inde- pendent placed on special dgposit as one prelim- inary bondholders on the property of the company. The deposit of the bonds means that the More Than Half Deposited and Reor- ganization is Near. water squeezed out of it the corporation will be rehabilitated. This 15 the third attempt to put the In- dependent Telephone The first was made by men in the First \proved coy. Next the Joseph Harrls Interests at- tempted it and organized for the purpose the Nebraska Securities company. The bondholders again falled to listen to the seductive volces which pleaded with them to sit in on the organization ent Company Will Try for Third Time to Get on Its Feet Through Entire T ganization. Reor- Now the Committee. Then came the committee of the bond- holders headed by Frank H. Woods of Lincoln. Mr, Woods s president of the Na- tlonal Independent Telephone assoclation. Others on the committee are Lysle L Ab- Telephone company have been to a suit soon to bo brought by the to foreclose thelr mcrtgage ing to continue & sufferer from Indiges- power, why not help the stomach to do its work, enforcement of digestive agents, such as | & little Diapepsin occasionally, will be no mere Indg: @ lump of burn, REGULATES ANY OUT.OF-ORDER STOMACH | A little Diapepsin will make you feel Belching of undigested food, Headaches, Dizziness or Sick Stomach, and, what you eat will not ferment and poison your breath with nauseous odors. All these symptoms resulting from a sour, out-of-order stomach fine in five minutes. The question 9f how long yoy are ko- Dyspepsia. or out-of-order stomach is ™ly & matter of how soca you begin generally relieved five minutes after tak- some Diapepsin. | Ing a iittle Diapepsin If your Stomach is Iacking in digesiive | Go to your drugglst and get a 50-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin now, and you will always g0 to the table with a hearty {appetite, and what you eat will taste |00, because your stomach and intes- tines will be clean and fresh, and you will know there are not going to be any tion, no feeling ke more bad nights and miserable days for 1 in the stomach, no heart- you. They freshen you and make you sings, Gas on Stomach or | feel like life is worth lving. not with drastic drugs, but a re- naturally at work in the stomach. People With weak Stomachs should take and there Sour company on its feet. | National bank of Omaha. The bondholders | besides | and dyspepsia are | | the Omaha Printing company, and F erick W. Stearns, a Chicago attorney. There have been several difficulties in the way of a forclosure suit. The mort- gage lssued by the Title Insurance and Trust company of Los Angeles provides first that there must be payment of bond Interest for six months; second, that the mortgagee, which s the | trust company, must have recelved notlce of intention to sue for default In writing, that adequate security must be offered to indemnify the trust company for all costs and expensas incurred by the trust com- pany in such litigation; third, that a ma- jority in amount of the outstanding bonds must be deposited with the trust company. All Conditions Met, All these conditions are now complied with or will have been by March 1. There | are outstanding $2,400,000 worth of bonds of the Independent Telephone company Wore AR WME of thi 18 naw on depoail with the trust company in Los Angeles, | or else In the malls on the way there. This clears the ground for the closure suit, which is now but a m days, The process will be through ceivership. The foreclosure bondholders will, ed- fore- tter of a sult means that in all lkelihood, over the property. The stockholders stand | 10 lose their, at present not very valuable | rights and the company will be in a pos tion to reorganize, sell additional securi- tles and by enlarging the local service put | the Independent Telephone company on its | teet. the The efficacy of Chamberiain's Llnnm-m in the Yellef of rheumatism is being demon- strated dally a default on the | | Commissioner Connest ness Men by Dr. Connell. CLEAN UP OR GO TO JAIL| This Alternative Will Be Given Busi- | MOVE FOR A SANITARY CITY He: Compel Proper Refuse When Disposttion the Spring Break-Up Comes. th Commissioner Says He Wil It arrests and prosecutions of business | men are of pul | made. has been given. take | The necessary to blle health and Not now, health secure says commissioner dJ\flh‘r elated over the prospect that the | sanitation, they will but after falr warning | was compliance | with city ordinances governing the matter | Health be feeling Neuralgia’ pains stop when you use SLOANS 'LINIMENT Prices, 25¢., S0c., nd $1.00, lmuer will be made right and the refuse | removea trom streets and alleys. department will co-operate In every way possible with the water company,” he sald, “and I expect good results to flow | from a trial of the chloride of lime treat- ment of the water On the matter of cleaning up, while heaith commissioner has some doubts, 1s hoping for the best. He points out, ever, that for two vears an ordinan been in force to compel owners or of bufldings to provide a metallic or receptaclo for ashes and refuse shall be cleaned out as often as tilled. Real Estate:Men the Omen. the he how- | o has | agents ok which it Is | men are the ones | “Now, the real estate mainly concerned with the provisions of | that ordinance,” says the commissioner. “I | know of but two ,or three cases in the, | whole city where the ordinance has been | complied with. Real estate men and others who have been ordered to take the pre- cautions required by law have bucked and kicked and hid behind the that ashes do not create an unsanitary condi- tion. Mayte not, but everything helps to produce such a condition. eventually “Right now we are sending out to owners and agents of bulldings to ¢ struct or provide the receptacles for ash and other refuse. Thus they will have all | the spring and summer to get busy. Be- fore the leaves fall again, i notices are not heeded, I propose to swear out war- rants for every person neglecting to obey | the order. It should not be necessary to | arrest business mey to make them do thelr | | plain duty, when by neglect they endanger the health of the city, as well as mar its | Beneral appearance; but it is true, never- theless, that such method of procedure 1s about the only one that will wake them up. 1f we have to, we will proced to make | arrests all along the line.” | su notices these for Craig Cannot “I see they this tro | gineer's office | decessor | the peoplo who know the | man Evade the Facts [@ man in the informed ¢ | “I want to say charges of hall who is this subject. that Mr Jkedness and corruption on of Craig had these in | hana before he took charge of the office and if he retained any man under & cloud he aid so with his eyes wide open, | “We all know that had City Engineer | Rosewater been re-clected with & tenure in Otfice Mess| Knew All About Alleged Crookednass |of office not due to appointment by the at First and Any Cover-Up Was | ma; ar and councll 8o his hands would have been free for the first time, there would e been a thorough cleaning-out In ten owater was Installed as Not Accidental. are tryinig to put all the blame uble that menaces the city en- back onto Mr. Cralg's pre- in office, but that won't go with facts,” Pneumonia always results from a oold and can be preventcd by the timely use of remarked | Chamberlain's Cough Reriedy. — — > The half-pound can of Contains eight ounces of pure coc of the finest quality, most delicious flavor, and possessing all the strength that a pure, unadulterated cocoa can have, 52 Highest A vards in Esrope and America WALTER BAKER & Co. 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