Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 5, 1910, Page 12

THE BEF OMATLA, THURSDAY, M\ v No FAITH 1Y WATER BONDS Investigation by Attorney but to “Clear Atmosphere.” JUST AFTER LEGAL ADVICE “Councit Then | Know the Si mester—Members and wi tion,” Say Oltizens Bur- of the | Board Agree. Wh fricial Attorr ¢ by on Burnam has been the council to in- the status of the requested vestigate and report $5,000,00 of voted ago for the pirchase of the water works, there " expectation of a report from attorney that would uphold the Acting Mayor Burmester, who Introduced s resolution for an investigation by the attor: not all confident the avallable, in case the the water plant \tmosphere cleared,” said “s0 that the neil and will know Just wh honds some years no the bonds | clty bonds can be made city has'to take over I wagit the Mr. Burmeste the citigens generally we stand, no matter what decis goes. With an opinion from the city council will be legally advised, and take those bonds Into con way the fon attorney vaa then elther sideration or | Members of t} have never given serlous thought wore them.” water board the $3,000.000 fssuc 1e suits fought | was held. | considers pass been thought i with in case d finds it neces- the amount of at the last agree that t since t the election the board would out in eourt, when B, Howell honds contemplated have n to be reckon says th not muster. and 8o v of as a factoy the city takes the plant a more than bonds voted sary to spend » appralsement ection. Pleads Three w Times; Fined Blake Brinkley, Demolisher of Drug Store, Changes Mind Too Often and is Found Guilty, | changed his mind three | court before Judge Es- | telle. He would, and then he would not, and then he would again The court caught him on the third swing round and sentenced him to pay a fine of $0 and serve fifteen days in jall before the col- ored man could change his mind again. Three times and in. Mistah Brinkley has acquired fame or | notorlety by reancing to primordial atoms the counters and showcases of Frank Fogs, druggist and alleged dispenser of cocaine 1t was while under the influence of cocaine he claimed to have hought In Fogg's place that Brinkley went on the rampage. He pleaded not gullty the other day and his attorney then labored with him to plead gullty to smashing $ worth, for which a jail sentence is the maximum. If gulity of dislocating $100 worth of property, the penitentlary 18 the place—if the parole law is not working. Guilty, not gullty, then guilty were his pleas. The third chance | was the last Blake times in Brinkley district Auto Runs Away | with Good Boys| Parents Strive to Keep the Matter of Penalty in Their Own Hands. | Time was when the small boy was con- tent with being an Indian scout of a real Wild West bandit, but that is all in the past. The real thing now is to elope with an automobile Four very nice little boys from perfectly good homes with nice papas and mammas, ran away with E. G. Brown's automoblile Tuesday night at 6 and whizzed over the strects of Omaha and the high- ways about until 11 o'clock. The machine was abandoned and the adventurous youni sters went home to creep up to their bed- vooms in stocking feet. | Four innocent young faces, filled with | make-belleve faces, were filled with make- believe surprise when their indulgent papas | t0ld & story that the police had told them. Three of those boys will eat off the mantel for a week. The fourth has always been #uch an ‘agel child that his mamma is | sure the police are mistaken Police Interrupt Mining Project Stop Two Small Boys Enroute from Their Iowa Homes to West. We're out west to dig a gold mine, confided Harry Bishop, a runaway lad of 13 years from Churdan, la., when a police- men cornered hlm at Union station with his pal, Frank Cuttrin, 17 years of age ‘You are too young to have that much money. You might overeat on strawberry jam,” replied the policeman as he led the | boys over to a telephone I'll just take you for & little auto ride up to the Dodge street home for adventurers.” The “gold kids,” A they promptly werc christened at the statlon, are held in the matron's department for advices from their parent, | gives the | of the people and not their ruler | against | citi | solid blocks is that it is a ci Our Letter Box Oontributions on Timely Subjects, Mot Exceeding Two HMundred Words, Are Invited from Our Readers. Inttintive and Referendum, OMAHA, May To Editor of The Were it for: the supposed influ of n member of the legislature, the rather ignorant estimate of the initiative and referendum made by W. F. Stoecker would not deserve an answer, but as an ad vocate of this wholesome reform for nearly twenty years, I must set the representative right Mr. Stoecker’s attempt to confound the in itiative and referendum with prohibition is say the least ia great change in Mgislative forms was first established, in modern times, in Switz- erland, where the people toduy have abso- lute control their government, Mr Stoecker says that by this giethod the leg- islator would not be'permitted to make or repeal all laws. Nothing of the kind legislators could introduce and vote upon possible measure that now may come @ the legislature people wHom he right to approve or veto his act. He says he would not wish to re it any people who had the right to pass upon his acts by means of the Initiative and referendum. not a rather naive remark to be made by & member of the legislature? It s just because o many members of the leg- Islatures of the land feel that way people hould have the power of ving or of vetoing their acts M1 ker says he wishes the faith and confidence of his clse he will not “play.” It strikes me to be the helght of impertinence in a member of the legislature to make such a statement, ot ence over bet represents the Is this ap- | ana then refuse to have the same “implicit faith and confidence’ tends to represent It is not that the people would forever be demanding the right to vote upon questions passed by their legislative hodies that rec- ommends the initiative and referendum to Rather, its chief recommendation the fact that the people having power, legis vicious legislation they now enact, know that the people may in the people he pre- lies this us in he- cause they veto thelr act Mr. Stoecker labels himself a democrat Democracy means government by the peo- ple and for the people. The Initiative an referendum s the practical application of that principle-it is democracy in Mr ker does not seem to understand that as a legislator he is merely a servant If he Is the servant they are the masters. Since when did it occur to him that the servant should decline to be directed by the master? Upon what theory of government or of com- mon sense can it be asserted that the master should obey the servant? The Typographical umion, with about 000 members, & entirely governed by the in- itiative and referendum, years. It is a model of the the people who are supposed should have a voice In Sto wisdom to obey making many that the laws them, Mr. Stoecker denles that this s a popular reform. He may have his opinion of that. He evidently does not know that it is the basis of legislation in several states, aotably South Dak ta ana Oregon, and it would be impossible, except by a trick, to take it out of the fundamental laws of those states. He dares to assert | also that It is a movement in the interest of special interests and Wall street. Just in passing allow me to express sympathy— pity, even—but add that just two days be- fore Edward Rosewater dled he asked me to prepare some articles on this reform, and in dolng so he sald to me: “I can see that the initiative and referendum means self government for the people, and that the raflroads and special interests would fight against it. That is why T am for {t.” And | that is my statement also. L. J. QUINBY. Idaho's Attractions. Idaho, April 2.—To the Editor of Boise City now up in arms the supervisor of the census and his enumerators, claiming half of the popu- lation is not being counted. Bolse is one of the most in the country, stricily modern and up-to-date. The first impression one gets on seeing the splendid buildings for many y of 30,000 to 000, while the BOIS The Bee beautiful little 10,000 people. They claim 25, census will probably give them less than | 15,000. The streets are well paved and kept faultlessly clean, and the entire business district is lighted every night in the mau- ner Omaha lights up during Ak-Sar-Ben week. The electric light company and the street car company use water power to generate their electricity. The little city Is growing rapidly, a new, large, magnifi- cently furnished hotel will open to the pub- May 9. They have a commercial club that would be a credit to Omaha in its furnishings and equipment, and its business men are wide awake and great and just now are much clated over the fact that Jim Hill has his surveyors in the valley and intends to come in and divide the traffic with the Harriman line as the Oregon Short Line is the only rallway now going through the vich and rapidly growing southwestern Idaho, New irrigation projects, hoth act and the national service are completed, in struction or contemplated all along the Snake river valley from the American Falls to Lewiston. Good irrigable land in the fruit belt that could be bought two years ago for $0 an acre is now selling at on under the reclamation course of con- Carey $200 or better and a large acreage is being’| set out in apples in the Boise and valleys, 1 Caldwell the Payette ably so around Roswell, Larma, 400-foot elevation and many bearing orchards yield large returns on the invest- at gold will Zuu ment as the Idaho apple is becoming .as MOOTH, aromatic, appetizing, invigor- ating. That de- scribes OLD GOLDEN CorreEeperfectly. There's not a trace of the “bitter” 80 often noticed in other coffees. Every pound is uniform in quality — de- licious, mellow and full- bodied. OLp GOLDEN never disappoints. Set= tles quickly—pours clean, Ask your grocer for a pound in the strength- aroma- retaining package, Tested by Taste 25 Cents a Pound. OLD GOLDEN Des Woin Millors of the famous Tone Bros. Spices. the profoundest ignorance. | that | ators would not dare to enact action. | and has been for | progressive | boosters | Nyssa and along the Snake below | BRANDEIS | STORES OMAHA The | This measure merely | implicit | constituents, | This will be the grea held in America. (No Mail Orders F Announce Their Annual BEGINNING SATURDAY, MAY test sale of Waists ever The Bargains will be wonderful. illed on This Sale.) It will be well worth a special trip to Omaha to buy your season’s supply of waists at this sale. All the stunning new styles are shown. famous as the Hood River apple which has for years topped the market. Many Omaha jobbing houses are building up a good trade in this country and Omaha traveling men can be seen everywhere. One cannot enter a store without finding the goods of Omaha firms and this country is still in its infancy.. It is a part of an un- developed empire. The states of Idaho, Oregon and Washington can and will some time in the future sustain a population of | twenty times what they now have. They | have wonderful resources and a splendid climate and if the large number of farmers from the middie west, who are now emi- grating to Canada, only knew of the pos- sibilities here they would let John Bull's domain, with its eight months of winter, alone. JOHN STEEL. Bell ’Phone Tax Returns Lower Than Last Year| | | | ‘ Value of Its Switchboards is the Reason. The Nebraska Telephone company has $992,554 worth of property in Douglas county, according to its tax return for this vear. The total is less than last yeaar, when the schedule showed $1,004,846. The | Rellabo Dentkstry Y Taf's Donta Rooms PILES—FISTUL PAY WHEN CURED ALl Bectal fl' I8 cured without a cal operation an waranteed to last :n'{“l‘ll- N:hcr::oromrlr’n, ether of other neral anaesthetic used. Examinatols Free. ‘Write For Free Book. ' BR. E. R. TARRY 234 BEE BLD OMAEA, WEB PUSH LOCUST ST, VIADUCT Councilman Brucker Will Do All He Can to Hasten Structure, Company Says that Deterioration of ‘:OPPOSYHON FROM THE RAILROADS | Union ' Pacitic Into is Expected to While Two Other Roads May Put Fight. Line, Up a Now that, the eity council has finally de- year 1909 was in turn somewhat less than the year before, the loss being due, offi- cials of the company say, to depreciation | of switchboards. It is asserted that switch- board mechanism deterlorates at a rate of nearly 20 per cent a year, a figure County Assessor Shriver says is oo high. There Is a difference of §265,000 in the | Omaha plant between 1908 and 1910, the fig. | ures being $863,495 for last year and $605,856 for this. That there is no greater differ- | ence in totals for Douglas county in the two years is due to improvements since the | last assessment outside the clty of Omaha. | The South Omaha equipment remains at ! I | being given for this year, while the :cxurni | In 1900 was $76,145. | | INCREASE IN CORN ACREAGE | S0 Much Wheat Land Will Be Re- planted to Corm that Crop Joseph Vollmer of Petersberg, Neb., in South Omaha yesterday with cattle and brings the report that three inches of snow | fell Monday in his neighborhood. The snow {'was very heavy and soft, but did not last | long. and the temperature Tuesday was not much below freezing. The frost of a week previous did great damage to the pastures | | and early fruit. Speaking of the prospects, | | was he said “I had to plow up part of my wheat, but | | that is an old story, I guess. The wheat | |in Nebraska experienced too cold a win |and too early spring. The weather | March was too hot and latterly too dry. To | finish it, the late frosts I expect | | about half my usual crop. We will probably | | have more corn than we expected, for corn is about the best crop to plant in| wheat fields that have failed. If we get | the weather we need from this time, ""’i corn will be all right. At present we have in end of (he state I find it much dryer. I am looking for & pretty big acreage of corn, OWINg to the poor whe For Croup there Is nothing better than Chamberlaln's Cough Remedy. cifie | askanco to | alveady has the Dodge street viaduet to | clared the mecessity for a viaduct on Lo cust street, from PFifteenth street to the east city lmits, Councilman Brucker will get busy to push the preliminaries. The first step is to have appraisers ap- pointed, to award damages and assess ben- efits. A large number of property owners are interested, but the only raflroads in volved are the Union Pacific, the North western and the Pacific. Council is looking for opposition from the two last named roads, but the Union P; has expressed a willingness to stand its share of the at any time it called on, At the best it Is not expected Missour! some | about the same figure, the sum of $76,000 | the vialduct can be started much before ‘ the late fall It I3 also understood that the Union Pa- cific is in favor of the proposed Nicholas street viaduct, while the other voads look the proposal contend " two viaducts at a time is plenty on hand, The Missourl Pacific at They that one haye deal with, that rcad alone being in_this improvement The final ordinance street viaduet has not yet been pending a decision as to whethe be bullt over Izard or Nicholas. ment seems to favo: fare, ADMITS A SCORE OF ROBBERIES Charles Lawrence » Been Making ® Speclalty of Entering Italian Home In the arrest of Charles Tenth ‘and Capitol avenue, the police Wednesday morning got the perpetrator of a score of robbe Lawrenc fessed In Captain Savage's office had accomplts In the Italian s He explained concerned for the Nicholas passed it should The senti the latter thorough- Lawrenee fes, 2 that he ed a4 manner of burglaries tion of the city, he had engaged himsel had plenty of moisture, but in the east | Systematically in entering the homes of | Hallans while the during the vas recovered latter Much from the were of thee prisoner at work duy plunder It you have anything to sell or exchange advertise it In The Bee Want Ad columns Fall | 1s | OUR GREAT INS | TURDAY, MAY HOOK SALE TTH. | / Another Grand Offering Pick of Stock Sale Any Col- ored or Black Tailored Suit in our en- tire stock; val- ues $35, $40, $45 and $50, at Thursday you have unrestricted choice of any of our high grade Tailored Suits at a saving of $10 $2 Among them are fine serges, hard twisted worsteds rk skins and mannish effect in regular sizes, also stouts—in navy,. tan, gray, en, lavender and black: v ll'i“". $25.00 ' up to $50.00, at. . $22.50 Coats at $15.00 Thursday we place on »ule about 100 Long Coats. These garments are fresh from the maker's hands. They are made of fine serges, pongees and black and white checks, 1 ~ . $15.00 ) roll collar, all colors, $22.50 values, at New Tailored Waists Several new styles arrived this week. They go on sale Thursday. They are made of dotted crosshar and white stripe dimity, self laundered collars and cuffs, open front with real $2.50 pearl buttons, at e w 9 One Piece Dresses 50 dozen women's one-piece dresses will be on sale Thursday for the first time. made of light percale gmall also nurses’ stripes. values to 46. swiss, sheer They are in figures, SPEOIAL NOTICE—The greatest Book Sale in Omaha's history be- BENNETT'S Specials from the Glassware Department SECOND FLOOR Handled Colonial shaped Custards, well polished, s per dozen f Glass Candle Lamp—New | dripping, absolut:ly safe demonstrated. Comple 5 GREAT BARGAINS IN CUT STAR GLASSWARE Sugar and Crean cut sta; pattern, $1.50 valucs, at, set § inch Napples, cut star pattcrn, $1 h 41 Inch Nappies to match, 50c value, each ..... Handled Cut Star Nappies, good T6c value, each ut Glass ' | 1/000 4t Sl $2.35 for the Smartest Shoes 1t fs very unusual to offer such values as these in newly purchased Pumps and Oxfords at_the very beginning of the season. Wholesaler unburdened his over stock a_big underprice. Hence this week-end of $3.00 SHOES FOR $2.35, Patent Colt Pumps with i ankle straps. Dull leather Gibson Ties Dull leather ar styles, all fitted with' the price. No odds Sale Thursday, s bottom, Thursday, at, Faoii e b ..780 ndelabra or candle stick, no more ndie shades. Come to see it .25¢ atent fits any from igniting only /43 .59¢ .50¢ .2%¢c .25¢ _1oc| first class quality, worth $4.5 no delivery) only .. umblers, to a customer, at sale short vamps and Pumps. patent’ colt, Oxfords for plain street toe. and achool w sizes, all me care nd_ends. Friday and Saturday. Jr] vidths, as If you every pair paia full i AMan';Smhoefl | © Sold on Manly Principles. | | When you put your foot into a ‘‘Wolfe's- Columbus” Shoe you not only feel the sense of comfort and satisfaction that goes with a high-grade, well-fitting shoe, but you know you are | only give you a better shoe than you can buy at evena greater price—but we stand back of them for wearing qualities. And please remember, we do not sacrifice style, fit or comfort for long service in | WOLFE’S- ' COLUMBUS” SHOES All these things have just as much consideration in the making as the wearing qual- ity itself. In fact, they are made in a way that gives them a snap, fit and shape. keeping quality that most shoes don't have. There's a shoe surprise in store for you—at the store that sells “Wolfe's-Columbus” Shoes. Insist on them. To Dealors: Catalogue or Salesman sent on request. THE WOLFE 8R0S. SHOE CO., COLUMBUS, OHIO [ Hotel Rome Kuropean IN THE HEART OF THINGS Cor. 16th and Jackson Sts, T'wo blocks from leading department stores and all theaters, | SELLING OUT FINE ARTISTIS | WALL PAPER | AT § IESS THAN COST [ 2008 FARNAM ST, ROME MILL] Men's shoes—men’s shoes always—I've studied 'em from every view poixx I'm on intimate terms Wi last and leather; size and style. SO, when I say ‘‘Oni- mods’’ are wear worthy when I say they are true wonders at the price—I certainly MEAN IT! YOU'LL admit MY knowledge of men’s shoes if once yow are seated at my fitting bench. ‘‘BOB’’ HAAKER. Onimods are treasures at high “Dr. Reed's” fon sole shoes for men and women, Regent Shoe Co. 205 South 15th St. for A Good Place To Get Into you will you want in Is our here be sur fabri style est fitting room to find what and what will please you In and comfortable fit. The new W shades in fine wor and cheviots are here for tien, and we positively g you & perfect fit. Then, ou of prices will amaze you by moderate figures— SUITS MADE TO ORDER $25 to $40 The London Jailor 1609 FARNAM ST Foot Comfort Means Peace of Mind| suffering womanhood ter agong than for For there is no gre aching feet women comfort Grover's Comfort Shoe W and these we have a message of recommmend these fam are known the They are the caglest fitting, best wearing shoe ever put on a human foot. As to fit, they snug the foot like fine kid glove would fit the hand. They are made of the finest kid leather, in lace or button, and in Oxford or high styles PRICES RANGE: $1.75 10 $4.,00. Remember, we darry only v{n- finest grades In this make. You take no chances here shoe: over ou —_— Drexel Shee Co 419 Farnam St. TWENTIETH CENTURY FARMER Best (n the West