Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 2, 1910, Page 9

B A k| A0 b il BN THE BEE: OMAHA, -SATURDAY, APRIL 1910. 9 Three Hundred and Ninety-Seven High Grade Standard Pianos THE LARGEST PURCHASE OF PIANOS EVER MADE BY A WESTERN DEALER Thirty-two Carloads of High Grade Standard Pianos Will Be Placed on Sale at Astonish- If You Wish a Choice of the Many Beautiful Pianos, The Fifth Third National Bank of Cincinnati, Ohie, one of the largest crediters of the well known piano manufacturers, Smith & Nixen, of Cinncinnati, sold to us, at an unprecedented "low price a large consign- ment of pianos. The Smith & Nixon Piano, whose reputation for quality, durability and appearance is second to none, has been used for accompaniments to the greatest artists on the concert stage. ‘We will sell from this stock, pianos at so low a price as to amaze our competitors. We will sell pianos during this sale at so low a price that it will be the .greatest. mistake one can make not to have a piano in their home. Sale opens at 8:30 A. M. sharp. ingly Low Prices and Easy Terms Be Here at 8:30 Saturday Morning We will sell pianos, the superior of which cahnot be found at from $190 to $375 less than the same quality and grade can be purchased any- where else in the world. Every piano will be fully guaranteed as to quality, tone, and as to durability. Every statement made by the salesmen in our ware-rooms during this sale will be absolutely backed up and guaranteed by us. If, after having the piano in your heme, you find it not up to your ex- pectations, we will cheerfully and gladly return to you every cent that you have paid. During the sale whatever terms will suit you best will be satisfactory to us. Extra sales- men will be in atfendance to show you through this magnificent stock, and we urge you to come” und see whether you expect to purchase or not. First come will be best served, although whatever you buy during this sale, and whatever price you may be asked to pay will be the greatest piano bargain that has ever been given in Nebraska. HAYDEN BROS. io One Interested in Pianos Should Fail to Visit. FOR FUTURE OF SAND RILLS Utilization of Waste Land Discussed by Cherry: County Man. i SUGGESTS MORE FOREST WORK Would Have Govermment Plant in P'ines All Possible Area and Sell (he Remainder Outright to Ranchers. \ view to cotermining a measure real worth of the unclaimed govern- ment land of the state lying tn the sand hill reglon, G. W. Hervey of the Twentieth Century Farmer recently obtained state- ments from o number of Nebraska men familiar with the conditions in question. ¢ H. Cornell of Cherry county discussed the state of affairs in the sand hills with con- siderable ‘completeness. In the opinion of Mr. Hervey the review of Cherry county canditions may be taken as representative of those generally in the territory of which 4L Is & part. Mr, Cornell also proposes a plan for the utiiization of the wide areas which settle have been unable to make productive. He sgys “I will nét uddertake to discuss the sub- Ject generally, but that part with which I am the more familiar, the sand hills of this part of our state. “There remains in Cherry county alone close to 700,000 acres of government lands unclaimed or unoccupled with shadow of private title, This, in spite of the fact that these lands have been surveyed, a land office located at Valentine since 1883 for accommodation of homeseekers, and since Jume 28, 1304 a special inducement offered of a whole section of 640 acres of land under the Kinkald set. This land has been passed upon and over, first, by the searcher of a homestead 160 aeres. and, again, by the man who w ted much for his money, when the inka'der’ sallied forth for his 640 acres. Yet, after all this time, with realty prices advancing and people in & wild scramble for land, espeeially home: there remains in one county in Nebraska 700,000 acres of “no man's land. “A part of this has been filed upon by wome optamistic would-be settler, but after giving It ‘an. actual trial in an effort to make It produce him even an indifferent living. thzough hard toil and patience, he has moved. an, the land reverted the government, likely to be re-entered by some other hopeful with like experience, the land invariably reverting to our good Uncle Sam. Is it not time this government quit taking $14 at a time reselling this land? That is: of course, the small part of this T0.000 mcres that people seem still willing to take & chance at. “When the Kinkald (§40acre) acre law went into effect, there Were something over 12,000,000 scres of land in Cherry county which could be claimed under the same. In fillng\ under the Kinkaid act. each original entry man of 160 acres un- der the .old law was permitted to en- bis holding to 640 acres from xovernment lands adjoining his original 10 ascres, or elsewhere If land ad- Joining was not to be had. In many in- stances also ome or more children be- came of ch avalled himself of the chance of sechring a section of land, which, In almost every Instance ad- Jolned that of the parent's, thus enlarg- ing the ares of the original property for live stock purposes. These offerings, to- gother with that of the §40 acres to new, original entry men have been avellable ‘or nearly SiX YeAfs, the. govermment walving the conditions that the land must | plowed and cultivated to crops and ting that he eat, sleep and place $500 tinprovements there ring that five 1 eare Gecupancy. Yet there remains nearly 00,000 acres. or 1,080 &40-acre home- swads in Cherry county alone to take 0 ! the remaining one’s cholce from. The situation has assumed this shape: The government bets the entry man 640 acres against $14, the price of the original entry, he cannot live on the land five years, and the govern- ment is more often the winner. That fact of. itseif should be sutficient reason why| lands will ‘not be appro- priated under the homestead laws, even the Kinkald law. Since it should be apparent to every one by this time that the land cannot be dis- posed of to actual settlers for homes @s contemplated under several homestead acts, the question is, what disposition should be made of {t? My idea is, first, that the general government, through the national forest service, select all that it can pos-| sibly utilize in growing trees, or for other | useful experiments or demonstrations. J pines are grown successfully and other | varieties, no doubt, can be made to grow | under proper study and care. After the several tracts had been selected for these purposes, a commission might be appointed to visit and appraise the lands and appor- tlon them between the several stockmen and farmers owning and occupying the lands contiguous. This would keep out speculators who would buy the lands for no other purpose than to force' the stock- men and actual settlers to pay an unreason- able price for their grazing privileges. It would allow the stockmen to readjust their tences and own them jointly. It would cheapen the cost of keeping cattie and sheep, alike to the large and small stock- men; would materially increase the number of live stock grown and marketed, and tend, at least, to the lowering of the cost of meat products to the consumer. It would be more economical for the stock- men for the reason that he would not be obliged to employ additional help in men and horses to herd his stock on the open range, which he Is not allowed now to fence, although he occuples it to some ex- tent without paying the government any- thing. The land, less any which might be appropriated for copservation purposes, would ome taxable for state, county and better than both, for local school dis- trict purposes. It is hard to support schools, no matter how far separated in the sand hills by reason of the large bodies of un- taxable government lands. “Of the new comers into the country, who entered under the Kinkaid aet, many will stay the full time of five years to acquire title, but are finding it extremely difficult make ends meet. It therefore, my opinion that while they have lived on their lands in good faith and are In every way entitled to patents for the same from the government, having received their patents, it will not be long thereafter before a num- ber of these tracts will pass to neighboring stockmen, from the fact that their 6% acres will not support enough live stock to make them a living, is too light to farm to cereal crops, and they will not be able | to sepure any addition to their 640 acre: unless some such method of appraising and | apportioning the remaining lands as | sug- gest shall be adopted, when, of course, | they will come in for their share of the| increased area. In causing the lands to be appraised and sold, I believe a small payment of say one-tenth, sho be made in cash, the re- | to Is, | maining 0 be paid in nine annual pay-| ments, deferred payments bearing 6 per cent Interest. In allotiung, the commission should allot as nearly as might be found | practicable, in the same ratio as land is held by the cohtiguous owners. As a Ne- braskan, I, of course, would like to know | that the proceeds would enter the generai | schoal fund of the state, but the land be- | longing to' the general government to be ! disposed of by congress, we should be satis- fied could our delegation securs a part of these proceeds for the state. The land pays nothing now, but In grazing. the stock men use it without consideration. They are dissatisfied, however, because there is always & question &8 to who should occupy it. and, I belleve, the time has ar- | rived when the question should be settled ! and titles passed (o some ome. There i | 1o need of further efforts in deluding con- | §ress, the prospective homesteader v owr- | | ek | sélves into thinking they ean be disposed ot in furnishing homes for actual settlers. Masked Robber Sheots Down TWO SHERIDAN, Wyo, April 1—(Spectal| Helpless Women i:fifi'f:‘,"”f::f.fii"k:l‘ o S Deranged Man Cuts Passenger unusual attack on the westbound Burlington Burglar Enters Home and Emptiel’mmnnr train twenty-five miles east of \" Revolver Into Party of Four ‘:-r:\ 3el|e’rl|n) (M;nedanmu;f ;mm a | bueiness trip in Colorado to his home at Seated at Table. | Cody. He was sitting alone reading a newspaper when F. F. Lynch, whom he had SPRINGFIELD, Mass., April 1.—Miss never seen before, slapped him in the face, Martha B. Blackstone, 25 Elllot street, | the offense, it is alleged, being committed daughter of C. J. Blackstone, was murdered | without any provocation. Lyall ‘jumped a masked burglar in the home of Mrs. | to nis feet and knocked Lynch down. The Sarah J. Dow at Round Hill tonight and |latier arose and went to the rear of the Miss Harriet Dow was shot in the head |coach, Lyall In the meantime resuming his and removed to Springfield hospital, dyIDE. | reading. Lynch returned a moment later, The murderer escaped. | flourishing an open knite in his hand, at: The police have no description of the man | tacking Lyall and iiflicting deep cuts in except the one Mrs, Dow and her daugh-|his left leg, shoulder and hand. Lyall's ter Luecy were able to give. The police say | jef; thumb was nearly severed. Lyall nar- | that in & general way the crime resembles | .oy)y egcaped bleeding to death before he that of the man who terrorized the city 1ast | yeached Sheridan and secured medieal aid, tall In ihe excitement incident to the citting Mrs. Dow, her (wo daughters and Miss | Lyncn disappeared. It is reported he repre- Blackstone, who was a guest for the nIghL |senis a leading powder company on the | were seated In the llving room about 8 |,0qq and that his mind is affected. Lyall | small table, solving & plcture puzale, When |\, eypected to recover. the intruder made a demand for money from the dining room. They looked up to ]APANESE co‘sT STDRM TAKES AWFUL TOLL OF LIFEi see a masked man in the dark doorway, threatening them with a revolver. Mrs Dow retained her composure and replied “We have no money.” but Miss Black- | Hurrica stone, in fright, jumped to her feet and ran screaming into & reception room (o | the right of the living room. ‘I you want to be killed keep on scream- ing” the burglar sald and fired as he | spoke, the bullet entering Miss Blackstone's left breast. Death followed instantly. The murderer hardly paused to see victim fall before he turned Wrecks Nearly 100 Vessels Nearly 1,200 Men Are Drowned. VICTORIA, B. C., April 1L—Details of the great storm of March 13 on the Japa- nese coast, in which more than 1,100 fisher- men perished, were brought by the steamer his | Tama Maru today Uhe revolver| The tempest was most severe off Chiba | on the group, shooting Miss Harrlec Dow | and Ibaragi prefectures and the officlal | in the head. He then ran tu the front door, | report that gave the loss elghty-fou leaped over the plazza railing and disap- | vegseis and 1,100 men is generally belleved peared. to be toer conservative, The four women were alone in the house | g wreck of thirty-four.fishing vessels and the murderer probably knew this. .IU|rom Choshi, Chiba prefecture, and four- | ls' the theory of the police ihat the MAN | i.en from other viliages, which took out etered the house while the family was At|gyg men, have been found by patrols, and dinner and concealed himself in a e gy g g iy Lia syl oo, until he thought the time was right Dow locked all the windows and doors | Wit (n Ibaragl. ®; vaasely: onntainn about 7 o'clock and the police found au | "5 (% men RS the locks turned and windows fastened i onact naigyagel e Both Miss Blackstone and Miss Dow wer. I attempted to make. thaly way inte teachers in the public schools, Miss Black shi harbor for refuge, but nearly ail stone was 39 years old and Mjss Dow abou, | WeT® capsized off the harbor entrance by . Miss Blackstone was graduated from | FeavY Few bodies were recovered Smith college in 1503 The Japanese cruiser, Takachihe, was Miss Dow's skull was fractured and a —— as Mrs. whe were m 120 fishing seas | by The West’s Greatest Piano Distributers. hurried to the scene and found eleven fish- Ing boats with the fishermen all frozen to | death and numbers of drifting bodles. Telegrams the drifting laden with de from ashore d crews HYMENEAL Lockmiller-Dake, Mrs. Sarah B. Duke Lochmiller, both of E were married | Rev. Charles W. Savidge at his resi- dence Thursday afternoon at 5 several of villages wrecked report boats CALUMET Baking Powder Award Received World's Pure Food and James W, to save her life. The murderer escap. through a grove that surrounds the hou ALL FOR IRELAND. IS WAR CRY Raliy wmoe Carload of Stra Valley Fight Against Nati - s\ ¥ Dinner Menu. Clea: Vegetable Soup. Wafers. Stewed Chicken Browned in Butter Mashed Potatoes. Cream Gravy Asparagus Toast Lima Bea Salt Wafers, Strawberry Shorteake. CORK, April 1—A large and enthus- lastic meeting at the city hall today began | the “All For Ireland League” the object of which, Willlam O’'Brien, M. P. said l'n the course of a long speech, was to en- able the Irish people to chooss between his program, which would reconcile Catho- | lic and Protestant countrymen, and John Redmond’s, which set them against each other. Mr. O'Brien characterized the nationalist party as “a mere puppet.—detestable, sec- tarian secret society, the avowed purpose of which was to build up & system of Catholie ‘organism more inexcusable in&n s Protestant forerunner.' Lords Dunraven, Rossmore and Castle- town sent letters approving the movement. ad. Coftee. Young hens or even old ones can be made most palatable by bolling until thoroughly tended and then rolling in flour and brown- | Ing in butter in a frying pan. Serve as any other fried chicken. The butter left in the pan can be used for ‘making a cream wravy. The first carload _shipment berries of the season reached the loca market Thursday evening and is selling today at 15 cents a pint box. The berries are superior (0 any that have preseded of straw. Reaches the Local Market dogen this morning for country eggs, while will respect to the higher priced package cream- | Your ery Thi wberries Chicago, 1997 . We Prove Our laims that no one daes, no one can sell as €004 & quality of groceries as we do. This is the machine that makes the Refined Coffee so much talked about. We have The Only Ones in Omaha. It removes all dust and chaff formed in grinding and makes Clean Cut Perfect Coffee. No chance for “Smuddy” coffee. No Egg required to settle it. Try it today, and you will find it as hundreds of others find it—The Best Coffee in Omaha Mocha Mix ture, pound 33¢—8 pounds $1.00 Excelsior Blend 25¢, W. L. MASTERMAN Phone for our free mailing list of special prices. SOMMER BROS. “Bxponents of Good Living." 28th and Farnam St Ind. "Phone, Bell "Phone, A-3118. Marney 1339 cucumbers are and not quite so high priced orders of sweet cor but only a few, and high as to plaes th but few. Eggs are slowly ward. They A few small been received, price has been so n within the reaech of but surely sold for oreeping up- 2 and 2) cents a the guaranteed varlety to 30 cents a dozen. Package or creamery = butter sells for 3% and 7 cents a pound, | which is also higher than it was, but the weman who will go to market personally find lots of butter equal in brought from Ask every lling at ¥ and 22 is country. butter | Grocer Chickens retall from 1 to 20 cents a |Por ceuts @ pound. Te Dissply Union of stomach, liver and kidney troubles and cure billousness and malaria, take Bleotric Hitters. Guarsnteed. . Beaton Drug Co. For sale by them, being of good color and good Navor. The boxes are of uncertain capacity, but sell for pints. Asparagus at 1§ cents & hunch was an- other welcome novelty on the mabket this morning, and rhubarb, new tomatoes and pound, according to quality and the mar- | ket Grape fruit sells from § cents to 15 cerits exch. Oranges are better than they ha been, with more and sweeter julce and Phimaer e’y and_swester Juice wnd| TWENTIETH CENTURY FARMER 5 0 6 cents & de i ldeal Farm al. & COMPANY, “THN COFFrEE MEN" MAIN STORE, 313 8. 1ith W% Branch at Public Market, 1610 Haruey.