Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 19, 1910, Page 3

Nebraska ROOSEVELT SENDS LETIER lenberger that He's Busy. | Burifagton Applies for Permission te Change Rates on Wized | of Hogs and Sheep. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN. Aprtl 18 —Spectal.)—Governor Shallenberger has received a letter from former President Roosevelt. When in Texas during last month the governor was im- portuned by the Commercial club of San Antonio to invite and urge the fermer president to attend the Congress of Com- mercial Clubs to be heid there next fall Governor Shallenberger wrate the letter and today he recsived the following repls HOTEL BEAU-SITE. ROME, April 6— My Dear Governor Shallenberger: Indeed £ T ean I will get to that commercial con- gress as San Antonio, and [ w 0 thank You for the kind and friendly v write in urging me to go. But pussibie for me o answer definitely this moment. I must first get back to Ameriea. By the you have no concep- tion of the way I am pressed with work Lere. Sincerely yours. TF ORE ROOSEVELT. Wants to Change Ruie. The Buriiagton raflroad has apvited for permission o changs the rule on the ship- ment of mixed cars of hogs and shecp. The enmmissfon has set May 2 as the date of the hearing. As the change would mean sn inerease | nthe rate on hogs the com- mission desires that mll who are interasted be on hand on that date. At present when 1 single deck cir eontains both sheep asd hogs the shipment takes the sheep rate and weight. When the car is double-dack the hog rate iv taken. Recently the Bur- I’rgton shipped & car which had the upper decic loaded wtih sheep and the lower deck with sheep and hogs. An attempt- was made to collect at the hog rate, and the shipper objected. The attention was called to the attention of the commission and the Buslington asked to be permitted to charge the hog'rate for the mixed single deck cars. Merely Made $1.560,000. Whils the figures showing the earnings @f the express companies dolng business tn Nabrasks, as given in the annual report o fthe State Ballway commission, indicate that the earnings have amounted to some- thing over 33,000,008 with an expense account of something over %0009, The earnings should Be divided by two get at correet figures. The Rallway commission | figures inciude freight forwards and re- ceived, %o if the shipment of a package amounted to & cents. paid at one e of the line, the same amount is charged up at the destination, making a total of % cents. So the actual earnings of the ship- ment would be only % cents. Thus the ex- presa companies doing business in Nebraska have taken In qniy #omething over $1,500.- &0 instead of thie $3.000.000. Fighting Over Office. Arguments will be made tomorrow in the supreme court in the case wherein Wilfred | E. Voss seeks by mandamus to force Mary v, to turn over to him the office of county superintendent of Dakota county Mary V. Quing was elected to the office | for the term preceding the presemt term begisping last January. Voss a majogity of tHe votes at the n and was given a certificate of elsction. The pespondent refused to turn the office over to him béeause she alleged he 4id not have & first grade certificate on the date of the election which by law is ona of the quaiifications o a county superintendent. Withdraws Soeeinl Rate. The Burilngton has asked permission to withdraw its request for a rate of 3l cents en brick an dbutlding material between Lin- eoln and Fairbury. The permission to put tn the rate which was a reduction from 4 eents was granted with the priviso that no higher rate could be charged between intermediate points. AS some of the rates Between these stations amounted to & cents and § cents, the order did not suit the com- pany. The rate was originally asked for te compete with the Rock Istand Milwaukee Still Objects. The Milwaukee rafiroad. following its usual custom whem it flled its statement with the State Board of assessment this morning, also filed a statement that it be- ieved the board has no authority to assess ™ property in Nebraska. This position is taken bDecauss the road comes into Ne- braska over a leased !ine and has no tracks in this state. State Boards \mmouaced. Ira B. Mills, chairman of the comumiitee en legisiation appointed by the president of the National Association of Railway commissloners, has written to Henry T.| Clarke, jr. of the Nebraska commission. member of the sub-committee on legislation reganding the bill recently reported to econ- grers (rom the commit:ee on inters a‘e com- nered. Mr. MRs says the bill strikss from the originai law the fellowing “Provided, however. that the provisions of this act shw!l not apply to the trans- pertation of passengers or property or to the recwiving. delivering. storage. or hand- lMmg of property wholly within one state and not shippel to or from o forelgn coun- try from or to any state or territory as| aforesatd.” The letter says: “This Is an attempt upon the part of con- @ress to assume jurisdiction of all eom- merce, both state and interstate. and take rum fhe seats comnisstons all their author- Veal Cutletis— Better when Crisp, Golden- Brown Post Toasties are used in place of bread. Tells how in the little book, “Tid-Bits made with Toas- ties”" found in pkgs. Also two dezen or more other ways of using this deli- cious food. . Postam Cersal Compsay, Lid., Batile Creek. Mich | the ty reguiate rates, ruies. or conditions of all transportation, sad that i just wiat It will sccomplish If the act is held valid by the courts.” Mr. Ml urged the Railway ecommission to take the matter up with the congress- | men of this stats and bring to their at- | tention just what ke biil will do it passed and held vaild He hoids hat it will in- valldats every order lssued by a rallway commission Traction Steck Watered. The Lincoin Traction company has “wat- ered” its stock to the eamount of .71 6523, according to & report completed te- day by U. G. Powell and L. B. Wettiing. rate clerks in the employ of the State Railway commission. in connection with an inevtsigation heid in relation to a petition from the citizens of Havelock. a suburb to the capital. for the reduction of fares. The value of the company’s property, says the report. filed tooya, is $LINLS18.6T. The contetno of the traction company in resisting the efforts for a reduction of fares has been that it would eut the earn- ings on capital to an unreasonable and unprofitable figure. Stoek Yards Valuation. The South Omaba Union Stoek Yards company made a claim of $0000 more preperty than it has in an appliestion tu the State Railway commission for the per- mission to inerease rates for yardage, If estimate embodied in a report to be filed with the commission by B. C. Hurd. o1 gineer correct. Mr. Hurd's report il be filed in a few duys Holtday Friday. The supreme court will hear 5o cases on Friday, in observance of Arbor day. Those cases which were set for hearing on that day have been set over to May X All of the cases invoived are Omaha !itigations. HUNDRED THOUSAND PAID FOR ONE BUFFALO RANCH Largest Deal in Western Country Whereby Empire Tract Goes to New Owners. KEARNEY. Neb.. April 13 —Special Tele- gram.—The largest land deal ever trans- acted in Buffalo county, was made this afternoun, when Fineh Bros., soid through the firm of Graham & Neal to Krewson Wright & Co. the famous empire raneh, which lies seven miles west of Kearney This ranch comprises acres, 0 of which alfalfa. Part of the alfaia was planted eighteen years ago by the government experimental agents and this ract has been the biue ribobn tract of Nebraska. The sum paid was dn even 100,000 Gripp Killed HOLDREGE, Neb., maway. April 18 —(Special.— Frineds of this city of Diek Cripp, the well-known German farmer. who was willed late last week at his home north of Bertrand. ust learned the particulars of the sad accident. The unfortunate man was just starting to the fleld to sow oats. having four horses hitched to a seeder. and a heavy 'wagon containg thirty or forty busheis of oats hitched behind him. He bad barely mounted the seat of the seeder | to start for the fieid, when the teams be- | came unmanageabl and whirled around throwing him off the seat and directly under the wheeis of the wagon. The ac- cident was witnessed by his wife. who stood in the doorway of the kitchen at the time. | As soon as she could get to her husband, and saw how badly injured he was, she ! called the doctor and neighbors at omoe | He lived only till Il o'clock the same even- ing, however, the intarnal injury close to | his heart was of such & nature that he could not possibly recover from its affects. The deceased was 4 years old, and left one child besides his widow. His funeral was heid Saturday and interment made in the German cemetery north of Bertrand. Golden Wedding at Table Rock. TABLE ROCK, Neb, April 18.—-Asa E. Heywood and wife of this pla who wers married here fifty years ago, celebrated their goiden wedding here Saturday. Mr. Heywood settled here in 186, and Mrs. Heywood in 1557, the latter being a daugh- ter of M. J. Mumford. a pioneer settier of Table Rock who, for more than a quarter of a century officiated as fustice of the peace. All of the living ehildren were present, as follows: A. L. Heywood of Grand Island. E. M. Heywood of Lincoln, Mo.; Thomas J. Harrisom of Juiesburg. Colo., and Mrs. €. W. Aylor of Napier, Mo. | Nebraska News Notes. | BLAIR—E. V. Cappe sold the Blair Elec- | wic Light and Power plant last week to | the Bullock Public Service company for a consideration of upwards of $35.000. Mr. Capps was principal of the Biair city | schools and, resigning his position. bought | the /ight plant some tweive years ago and | has operated it since that time. making many {mportant !mprovements and increas- | ing the value of the piant to its present | valuation. l Nebraska PETITION 10 PRESIDENT TAFT JUDGE FOR THE SUPREME BENCH Objection Made te Appointment of Any Lawyer Employed by Rail- roads to Suceeed Jus- tiee Brewer. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, April M.—<Speeiai Teiegram.) The State Railway commission this morn- ing adopted resolutions protesting to Pres- ident Taft against appointing any person | to the supreme bench whose life work has been devoted to a legal defense of corpora- tions and urging him to select the successor to Justice Brewer from the membership of some state supreme court. The resoiutions will be sent arcund to the various state commissions and they will be requested to adopt similar ones. As & reason for taking the action the commis- sion said prominent raliroad attorneys throughout the country are urging the president to appoint a corporation attorn to the vacancy. The resolution is as foi- lo “Whereas, A vacaney has oecurred in the supreme court of the United States, through the death of the Hon. David I Brewer; “Whereas, the legislature and commis- sions of the states and the nation are at present engaged In a consclentious and honest effort to properly solve the mo- mentous questions involved In the proper and reasonabie regulation of the rates and services of common carriers and particu- larly the raiiroads: and, “Wherea$, The final determination of the questions rests with the supreme court of the United States: and. “Whereas, We belleve that a man whose life's work and legal traiming hava been devoted to the defense or advoeacy of railway Interests, though he be gifted with talents of the highest order, or imbued with the loftiest sentiments of patroitism, cannot assume the duties and functions of a justice of the supreme court of the United States with a mind entirely free from the prejudice, bellefs and thought common to those who regard a large part, If not all the recent efforts of the consti- tuted suthorities to pegulate the rates and services of common carriers as (ll-advised, Masty and retaliatory assaults upon what they assume to be vested rights; and “Whereas, We belleve that there are men of unquestioned legal ability and integrity adorning the supreme courts of the vari- ous states of the nation, and In the legal profession, who can assume the functions and duties of a justice of the supreme eourt of the United States with minds free from those prejudices and bellefs which are naturally acguired by one whose life’s work ‘i devoted to defending and safe- guarding raiiroad interests: be it therefors “Resolved By the members of the Ne- braska State Railway commission. that considering the momentous questions in- velving the regulation and control of com- mon carriers which must be finally de- cided by the supreme court of the United States. “We earnestly petition the president of the TUnited States that in the appointment of men to the federal supreme eourt, those oniy shouid be: appointed whose training and assoctaion render it certain that they will assume the dutles of that office umbi- ased by those enviromments which, econ- sciously or unconsciously, influence the Judgment and become potential factors in controlling the actions of all men.” Second Verdict Stings Railroad | cree of Jury in Federal Court Damage Suit. Ozro Castle has secured a verdict in the United States circuit court against the | Missour{ Pacific Railway company for $10,000 damages for the loss of a foor, while in the empioy of that road at Auburnm, Neb. Castle sued originally for §30,000, and in the first trial of the case a year ago he was awarded §.20 damages. The raiiroad | company appealed the case and & new trial was ordered, with the result of an increase of $2.500 In his damage allowance. When you want what you want when you want it. say so through The Bes Want Ad columna. Fair Dates in Nebraska for 1910. County. Boone... Eox Butn Boyd Brown.. Cedar.. Chase Flilmore. Franilin Prontier. . Furnas. Gage. Greeley Hamilton. Harlan. .. Haves. s Hitcheoek. .. Hait. Johnson. President. John O'Naill AEHY Beatrice. Aurora. Jlwee 54 4 ': b mgous Am greR b olE AFEDN A Lo e—" A SISV S S-Sy —_—— Robbers Take Car Fare from Victim’s Glove Highwaymen Get Jewelry and Money Amounting to $349 from Ped- dler, but Leave Coat. . “Every litue bit heips” remarked a stick-up man to his companion, pulling a torlorn dime from a glove worn by Harry Goldberg, a vietim. from whom they had just taken jewelry and curremcy to the amount of §24. “Yep, that'll make car fa answer. Goldberg was released by the highway men after they had debated over the ad- visability of taking his coat. The robbery occurred at Thirteenth and Martha streets. Goldberg, a peddier of per- fumed soap and jeweiry, was on his way to his home M7 South Hlevemth wreet The plunder taken from hMm included 1.7 i money, a diamond ring worth S0 #oid watch and a number of fountain pens. The watch in said t© have been the prop- erty of another for whom Goidberg was to seil it The detsctive department i that the robbery was carefully planned and premeditated. Goldberg, owing to par- tial paralysts, was nnable to put up a fignt, had he been so inclined Clerk 1s Found Dead at Desk Charies OMars Moets End Sitting Over His Work in Early Morn- * was the cool Charles O'Mara, night clerk at the Vie- | torfa. Thirteenth and Dodge. was found dead at his desk early Monday morning. He died over his work, The body was taken in charge by Wilis C. Crosby coroner, who expressed the opinfon that death was caused fatty degeneration | of the heart. | Mr. O'Mara was 5 years oid He had been suffering with heart trouble for some | time He is survived by a daughter. Mrs Edward Stone, and a sister, Mrs. John C. Rittermeyer. both of Omaha. and a sister. Mrs. Charles Sullivan, of Coidwater, Mich. Arrangements for the funeral will be made upon word from Mrs. Sullivan. Dress Aflame, Woman Falls| Mrs. H D. Cornean Plunges Down | From Gasoline Stove. While cooking Monday afterncon at her home, 353 Hamfiton street. Mess H. D. Cornesu gverturned an oid stove and her clothing esught afire. Rushing from the house she fell down & flight of stafrs and | was severeily bruised. | Befors the blame was extinguished the | household goods wers.damaged to the ex- |tent of about $M0, while the loss to the |is a policeman; and Bdward Fleming, an- |other officer. roomed at his piace. | tiret floor of the building was used for a | | grocery stere. slight burns. . Corneaw suffered oniy F reight Service to Be Discussed Deliveries to Omaha Firms Will Be Subject of Imvestigation by Commerecial Club. Railroad officials representing the vari- |ous lines which enter and leave Omaha | have been requested to meet a special com- mittee of the Commercial club Wednesday | afterncon M Arthur C. Smith's office to | discuss freight service in and out of the cfty and the facilities for prompt delivery | once the goods have reached Omaha. It is expected that there will be & dele- gation of business men ready to furnish | |the committes with facts. The railroads | will send their representatives to hear | what the committes has to say and explain present eonditions as they are, with rea- |sons for their existence. Postal Pays Up Occupation Tax Wire Concern Files Statement of $606.70 in Intrastate Business for Four Months’ Period. Paying under protest, as in the first in- | stance, the Postal Telegraph company has sent in its check for $18.2), as occupation | tax on the interstate business done in the | four manths ending Mareh 3L The totai| “ |amount of business reported is SOETM. | From the New Stats Telephone company | | comes & report, the firgs made, of business | ldm“ in Nebraska !n four months amount- |ing to 3630 This is the long distance | branen of the Independent Telephone com- | pany and no check accompanied the state- ment. CHARITY BAZAR SUCCESSFUL Mise Jonts is Highly Plgased with Fruit of Work in Behalf of | Park Wilde Home. | Miss Jontz, general secretary of the As- soctated Charities, expressed herself as be- ng- very well pleased with the resuits of the bagar held in The Bee building, Fri- |day and Saturday. | | “It was our first attempt to make the| |public dequainted with the industrial work | we are doing at Park Wilde home.” said Miss Jontz. “Considering this fact, and the | | isagreeabie are very well | satisfied. The Bee company.. the news-| papers, the volunteer workers, in fact, | | everybody, was very kind and helpful, and of the apinion | | that no indorsement | butlding will amount to 3408 Mr. Cormeau | | destred. :!E' OFFICES FOR CUDAHY'S| Quarter of MWillion-Dollar Structure for Packing Plaat. WORD IN CONSTRUCTION Butlding Comtaim Best ta Arehi. teetural Setence—Loented Near the Presemt Stte—Tak- ng Bide, The Cudahy Packing company will erect & ESL00 office buflding at the South Omaha yards. This announcement was made Monday and bids for the comstrue- | tion of the building are being asked for. | The sits chosen for the structure in just |south of the present office building. The plans call for a bullding 30 feet long by 70 feet deep that will be four stories |nigh with a busement. The structurs will |be fireproof throughout. constructed of |steel or reinforced concrete. In the rear an addition will be erwcted. The main offices will be located on the |tirst. second and third floors, while the fourth story will be devotsd to men’s and women's rest rooms. an assembly room. dining reom. lunch room and kitchen. | All modern appitances which can be used | in modern office building construction w! be installed. There will be two Dassenger |elevators, a freight elevator and electric stts. The building will be heated in win- ter by & fan system and cooled in the summer. A very complicated system of auxiltaries wi introduced In the con- | |struction aof t Intercommunica- |tton will be haa means of telsphones. | dictographs and a pneumatic system. Th sacuum system will be utilized for clean- ing. Bids have been asked for and it {5 esti- mated that the cost will be in the neighbor- hood dT $250.000. Dahlman Crowd Strips for Fray Coats Off and Sleeves Up, Mayor's Supporters at Work—Flynn Makes a Few Remarks. Now that Mayor Dahiman has formally opened his campaign locally for the demo- cratie guberpatorial nomination, by the Washington hall meeting held Saturday. the Dahimanites have thrown off their coats for the fight. “I note by dispatches from Lincoln,” said President Flynn of the Dahiman club, “that "h- governor's managers are credited with feeling quite chesty over the alleged fact that Mayor Dahiman did mot securs an in- dorsement from some meeting heid n South Omaha. We do not know just what meeting can be meant, but we do know was sought for the mayor from any alub or other regular or- | sanization. | “Without our seeking several German- { American and Bohemian-American clubs | have aiready indorsed the mayor, and we | are very weil satisfied with the outiook. I | am willing to predict right now that the | governor and his backers will not get 2 | per cent of the democratic vote in Douglas county, In the primary. He won’t even do | | that weil if the county optionists farce him | | nto the open on that question, with a dec- | laration that is clear cut and mzm‘l be given two meanings. { | {Plans Drawn for | } Big Apartments| |E 8. Rood and T. D. Crane Will Erect Another Flat Building at Cos of | Eighty Thousand Dollars. An apartment house to cost 38,000 is an-| nounced at the corner of Thirty-eighth | and Farnam streets. It will be known as | the New Coionial Apartments and will be | erected by Edwin S. Rood and Thomas D. Crane. Plans for the building have been com- pieted by the architect, L. D. Willis. The apartments will be larger than usual and will contain eight rooms each. The build- ing will be four stories high, with two basements, and will be eighty-five feet on | Farnam strest by seventy-five feet on Thirty-eighth street. | Would Redistrict Twelfth Ward, { 1 Petitions are being circulated asking that | the Tweifth ward be redistricted as to voting precincis. There are now four pee- | cinets in the ward and it is destred that the first and fourth precincts be cut in two | making six i ail. | Frank Dewey of the office of County | Clerk Haverly, is one of the leaders in the | movement. He and others argue that a| considerable portion of the voters of the ward are now not casting ballots regu- | larly because of congestion at the poils at | 5 p m. and after, most of the voters being | working men. It is asserted that 3,500 more votes will be cast If the council acts ll] | PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS Waiter Hoff Seely of San Francisco, representing the Morris Theater compan fes, is at the Lo | R. 8. Ruble, city passenger agent of the | Union Pacific at Denver, is in Omaha visit- | ing the general offices. | W. A. Pinkerton, chief of the Pinkerton | Detective agency off Chicagn, is an Omaha | visitor, registered at the Loyal. Asher Rassiter of St Louis. superintend- ent of the Pinkerton Detective agency for the western district, is at the Loyai, called here in conference with his chief. W. A Pinkerton of Chicago. Edison Phonographs Unless your Phonograph is of the latest type it will not piay Amberol (four-minute) Records without the Amberol attach- ment. Without this attachment it is furnishing only half the entertainment it should. To introduce Amberol Records into your home and demeon- strate the added advantage of having an Edison Phonograph that will play both the Edison Standard and Edison Amberol Records, any Edison dealer is authorized to equip your Phonograph with an Amberol attachment at a small charge— $4.00 to $7.50—according to the style of instrument you have, and give you, for §1.00 additional, ten specially made four-minute Amberol Records. That is Ten Amberol Records for $1.00 If You buy the Attachment These special Amberol Records are pot for ssle and will listed. have been, made for thia special purpose. dealer and hear them. you will Amberol attachment means to you. ~1f there R2. to fos.00 hoge e Amberoi Records (piay twice a long) 3o Records. T3¢ to %08 Nebraska Cyele Co. represents the National Phono- graph Co. in Nebraska, and carries huge stocks of Edison Phonographs, including the models mentioned in the National Phonograph Co’s announcement on this page today, as well as a stock of over 100,000 records. Nebraska Cycle Co. 15th and Harney Sts.,, Geo. E. Mickel, 334 Broadway, Onfhs. Neb. la.\ggu L c?ungilAlldb. Ia. Buy it now! Every man should own a lot of land. The opportunity is greater now than it has been in fifty years to realize on good property. In The Bee today many tempting offers appear. People who acquired large estates are willing now that others may share with them. Wide awake dealers are advertising these liberal prepositions today. Take advantage of it! Do it now! There is no possible way for you to ever regret it. For further information regarding this prop- erty call Douglas 238, or address The Bee Land Department. CLUBBING OFFERS g‘zn’nflmgvmpdu......... 150 fiwfim Rapar geics SexBoth ena your 200 $6.50 MeCharw's Magnsze —eerrronneo. 150 | VU Price MeChore's Maguaie —rrrrerrrn 10| 0 Price Regular price for both one year. ;’l} ss.so THE OMAHA BEE OMAHA, 'NES. As sure as you ean pay rent, so ean you buy your own home. Paying for a home on the easy term plan is just the same as paying rent, exeept you own the home, and all the money you put into it is to your profit. Hundreds of people are buying their own homes on this plan. 'Why not you? ot . | In Thursday’s Bee there will be a great on the easy payment plan—a few hundred dol-