Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 8, 1910, Page 5

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THE ~ This Magnificent and Superb X £ CABS & #ore affords you one. in imported robe box for bedding 30 Days Free Trial on Any Home This magnificent $35 Bed Davengort, only TERMS: $1.50 Cash and $1.50 Monthly heads # easily Int o a full size worth $36—Special price “I'"S EASY TO PAY THE UNION WAY." The upholstering is bed and has ward This wonderful BED DAVENPORT value exemplifies fully the great savings that this Bed Davenport iz made of solid oak, and the broad, wide arms are of genuine quarter sawed oak, and are capped by massive, hand carved lions’ mater §91.50 % 30 Days Free Trial on Any Sin- gle Aricle -'I'B mn THAT'S SQUARE ALL O\EIL' , POWER \HRE5 ORDERED CUT City Eleotrician Telll Street Railway | to Disconnect. WIRES MUST GO UNDERGROUND Assistant City Engineer Campen Regrets Newly a4 Pavements Must Be Torn Up Seo Soon After Laying. ' Of the power wire with reference to lack of franchise wen saye T have served Street Ratlway overhead power situation m Omaha the franchise rights, or City Electrietan Michael- the requirad company to disconnect wire from ihe candy fac- florv of the D. J. O'Brien company. This has been done for the reason that the wire $1% in the underground 4 My own 30ca concerning ihe quesitons that now confrowt. the city and the electric light and . raliway compenies is that wé should hive ' rinil finding by the courts as to the exacy righi% of all parties in the premis 1 am acting under advice of the city at departmen taking the action 1 have o the case of the (VBrien factory Under the law the strect railway com. pany has (Hirty days in which to comply he order of the city electr Another angle of the is presented by ‘the city t; touching the tearing ub of pave- ments. ANl of the down-tawh districts not renewed ldst season is now being repaved andthe city engineer is wondering if these wew pavements will have to be shattered by reason of ordering overhead power and Ught wires underground. Tt will be very regrettable if curs,” said Assistant City Engineer Cam- pen. Gmaha has had entirely too much of that sort of thing. and we were hoping that we had aboul seen the end of it ‘“"'Police Given Auto Orders fot the rney in ician impending mix-up his oe Chief Donahue Gives Captains structions for Enforcement of Speed Ordinance. In- Chief Donahus submitied & his captains at ¢ the police depariment, of automeobile numbers to e police wtation in a re- vival of the egulations of iast year, The chief explained that under the pro- ‘v-):hr of the Automobile club any driver whose pumber included in the list tound to pay & fine of 35 to the club afe event of Ueing arralgned under cparge of spred violation. The order fife polite pramises a new campaign against wreckiess sutomobile driving in city N tist e . in the ST — Post Toasties Easily and happily settles the breakfast question. It a dainty food, ready to serve from the pkg. with cream—always weélcomed by old and young. ie erisp, Post Toasties can also be used to make many good ’(hings better. The little book—**Tid- Bits made with Toasties" ~—found in pkgs. — tells how. ‘‘The Memory Lingers’’ Phgs. 10¢ and 13¢ "Postum Ceresl Co., 1ad., Bhattie Creek, Mich engineer's depart- | /. Brakeman Dies of His Injuries Harry Richileu, Unable to Extricate Foot from Frog, is’ Crushed by Train. Harry Richileu, Ur leed early Saturday morning at Joseph bospital from ‘mjuries. recefved on Friday night when he.was cyughed by a train, o Va An inquest is to be held by W Crusby, corone Richileu was switching freight train when his foot a frog. The train passed o\ mangling his lege and chest. The dead man was emploved or Union Pacific for fourteen years. He ieaves two brothers and two sisters NEW THOUGHT SOCIETY HOLDING ITS CONVENTION 1 Gathering of Associatio wins_with Address by Dr. G 0. L} ith of Council ¥ The annual state nvention of the New Thought and Suggestive Therapeulic asso clation mel Saturday morning . at _the Vitapathic sanatorium outh Thir- teenth street about fifty members and delegates attendance The morning program consisted of , pathic demonstrations and an addres r O. Smith of ( Bluffs on t subject of uggestive Vibration, demonstration of altra violet light A New Thought noop, in wl cereals were tinguished by coffee The n P:cific brakera W FAm with in ) uncll and ray luncheon was served ts, vegetables s the meal being dis absence of meats or served the afternoon session, c k, was held at the Millard hote! address of welcome was delivered by H B. Fleharty, on behalf of Mayor James ( Dahlman. The response was dell b, Judge W. R. Akers of Lincoln At 3 o'clock an address was delivered “Some Changes in the Universal Substance and Their Relstion 10 Disease and Health by Prof. W. H ynchard of Council Bluffs This was followed at 3:3 with an ad dress by Rev. T. J. Mackay on the subject | Reiation he Chur New Thought The afternoon meeting concluded w address on “That We k " by S Railway Commissioner W This (vening at 6.3 a served Lhe visitors al the beginning ered Cowgl banguet wil Millara GRIGWARE STILL AT LIBERTY Overland Bandit Nay Be in Canada, According to Officials Working on the Cane. No trace has been disc: Frapk Grigware, the Overland Limited robber made so sensational &r escape from the United States penitentiar at Leavenworth a few ago. e is the only of the six made escape that is still large There is an Impression that Grigware has fied to Canada. In fact. & Up has been re ceived Ly the Leavenworth prison suthori ties to that effect 1t has recently developed that Grigware's from Spokane was vicinity of the Lemvenworin prisc & week before the escape. This f at Omaha during the trial of the Limited mail bandiis and have known somet of 1 Jail break of the bandits from the Douglas county jail, which was frustrated by the vighance of United States Marshal Warner and ihe Pinkertons The information that Grigwars ma been aided in his escape from f Leavenworth by of Spokane and Coeur d'Alege friends comes from Pin- kerton sources TO NEW YORK ON LAND CASE IS yet ered mail w weeks is at a friend of the about nd was Overland ave Smyth an th and J. J. Sullivan leave Friday night fo to take depositions there in $100.000 Jawsult soon 1o come up &t Red Osk. 1a. The sult. which is brought by Belle Curtis against her sunt. Mrs. Mary Armagast, ls over title to 100 acres of land in Montgomery county Tiile to the land was given to the father of Mrs, Armagast by her grandmother end it 18 the deed to him which the plainuff seeks 10 upset on the ground that the son scted merely 4s an agent and that no con- sideration passed. Judge Sullivan and Mr Smyth are on opposite Sides 6f the case 1 which John Y. Stome ‘of Glenwood former attorney gencral retuined. of the Omahs ba York City a la of lows, 18 alse SIVE! Prove BAD ASSESSMENT EXPEN Inefficient Deputies Will Costly, Says Shriver. REVENUE CUT TEN PEB CENT Receipts from Taxation Estimated at One-Tenth Below Those of Last Year—Task for the Equalizers. the Board meete problem. The numerous mier assessed 100 of confroa board must a double lisien to the who think they have been highly and the board must. he other hand, do something tter of a probable falling off in revenue. is asserted in the office of County As- Sbriver that the total taxes for this year will not be more than % per cent of the mssessment of last year, in spite of the fact that the ass¢ssor has raised and will contiue 1o raise many returps The reason given for the deficiency that.a good many people are likely to es- cape being assessed at all owing 1o the in- efficient service given by a number of the elective deputy assessors. Hence the Board of Equalization have a pretty problem to tackie, with either the dilemms exceedingly unplea ant to grasp. H scme work be in 1t sessor wil n # a typica the deputies instance of the wav of are n doing thelr said one of the clerical swarf in ‘This is & re 4 by Hugh M.. Murphy b uding this mbling onto this office of the cour turs mater Murphy already made ull ret yard, b his deputy st vard and not making the proper inquiries has filled out the return and signed it him- self. We know he signed because saw him do It The. deputy referred to is Lew Herm: { whose district ix No. 2. Mr. Hermann declared by the county assessor to be far behind in his work and the assessor has talked of making formal complaint in the matter OKLAHOMA POLICEMAN FOUND DEAD IN HIS ROOM Faints in an v assess a yard owr outractor a f as it We Omaha Saloon an Carricd 1o His Room, Where He Dies. George Dingman, a member of the police torce of Oklahoma ( visiting in Omaha. was found dead on the floor of his room 7 North Fifteenth street ay mor Heart disease is beljeved to have beer the cause of death. C Crosby w 1d an inquest Dingmah fainted in a sa and was carried t »m nearby He was put in bed by friends and was be eved be recovering from oroner »on Friday after noon is 1 affliction RAIN HELPS WINTER WHEAT Rock pori Shows in Fine Comdition for Corm. Winte the he Rock Island just ended. The road men- aye rain fe gh the The mar cousidered method of cinss condit efited for the emen during e precipt by N rop repor official & tlons tha e wa nches a whick een the ame is possible have ng the soil the ra'n wa allowing the flooded £00d cent be b; str a pe B % ter than tiey ck 1sland bumper ¢ were expe. wi s that be a n this yea condition as at pres ent all favorable f But little #nd circumstances are a str steady is expected of & he fruit growth rop UP FOR RECKLESS DRIVING Hogan Charged with Runsing Down Boy on Bicyele Golng in the S=me Direction K. Hogan was defendant charge of reckless sutomobiie dr fore Judge Crawford vesie case was continued to Monday for the hear- tng of new witnesses. Hogan is alleged to have been at the whee! of & machine that ran down and disabled ll-year-old George Mahovey at Thirty-fi and Parnam ts Wednesday morning. Aeccording (o witnesses Saturday morning. the automot overiook and collided with young M white M was riding & whee same direction as the machine. Mah was sald 10 hate been knocked uncons |and lacerated in tne accident M under ving be- and his a sire: hove OMAHA the | is SUNDAY BEE 'BARLOW WRITES WOODBURY | President of Water Board Sends Re- ply to Water Company. WANTS TO WAIT ON THE CCURTS Pot In Mains and Extens) t ms it Has the Chlori tion Plan President ¢ hoard ¥ President Bar eplied Woodb M May Pr | Company, Omand { letter of May 4, which newspapers of the cit | tore was rec | siderea by the W | impression tha w Omaha Water as leiter sent by Omaha Wate company OMAHA Woodbur maha ear Sir—You vered to the Neb was ge blication be- ould be warrants Ged s & strate glc movement good faith. The citizens Omaha' (quoting %) quite well understand that the onal water main from Florence which igEest be constructed re neces to the water company enable carry contract with aha than for supplying ter. Why don’t you make the mains ocalities whers ded? A new main from Flor- not meet the situat reme court of the United inder adviseme he city has power he t was and not & m South out its city with g e ence w The su now has ether e property that wit citisens of cer Btates the question take over or to supply mtelligent Omaha water. Tk Omaha ed from tatnly as a business board should upon the city of money. for needed for the benefit of th Omaha, untl it ls adjudicated that have the corporate power do, | especially when that question cided within thirty days proposition to construct the | adgditional water main Florence | coupled with a condition that the city of Omeha snail first pay by July 1 hy- |@rant rentals in the sum of B4.000. The (qu your eretand that the Wate a contract binding arge & sum proposition not make to pay a new main you 80 | we so wil be from you | water company's franchise expired Septem- | ber 1, 1M8. For the Water board to accede » the terms of your proposition would com- mit the city to an extension of yYour ex- pired contract rights. May this not be the | ‘secret’ in extraordinary propositior {1f the new main is needed =0 badly tect Omaha, why is it not your duty to | put it in, just as you put In the chiorina. | tion plant to save our citizens from further !.\phold fever? We are sure that ‘the in- | teliigent citizens of Omaha’ do not want | the Water board by this form of proposed ract or otherwise t ve the terms expired franehise the intelligent citizens is that ts water your con f your "What wan extend f Omaha he water company shal mains into the outlying districts, where for the laet five years citi- zens and property owners have been wi out water. 1f the water company will make |a proposition to extend water mains into these outlying districts so as to supply the citizens of Omaha with water where needed for domestic use and fire protection, 1 wili ‘recommend’ (using your word again) to the Water board to enter into a contract with the water company reimburse 1t for any remsonable expendit ary by on of said extensions to be paid in addition to the amount of money | the city may otherwise be Tequired to pay for the water works. - Yours truly, ‘M. T. BARLOW, Chairman Four Oil Mules Dump Their Driver Charles Seabold is Jerked from His Seat and Thrown to the Pavement. do the | Charies Seibold, driver the Standard Oll company, wae jerked from his wagon striking the pavement head first, with the result of severe but not dangefous in- juries, when his mules, frightened 2t a MOLOr Car, ran AWAy The accideat oocurred and Farnam streets. The teken to the emergency ment. .Dr. Standeven dressed Seib wounds and said that there was no danger of serious consequences, despite the faot that the driver was thrown with full force on his head E. E. BALCH IS HIT BY AUTO Ankle is Sprained and Other §) Injuries Result from the Blow. E. E. Balch, residen f Omaha for many vears, was struek b passing Automo! at Thirty-sixth and Farpam streets, this morning. receiving & sprained ankle and other injuries, the extent af which eould not be immediate determined by &) 8. Hoffman whose office men was takes The a sck Mr. Balch is owned b, at Thir njured mi -sixth was D the injured itomobile which David Kaum Commencemen Estherville. ESTHERVILLE, Is.. May 7.—(Bpecia The commencement exercises of the Esther ville High be held in the First Methodist Thursday evening The ess to th bering tw students, W given by Rev. Frank H. Gamel, pas Presbyterian church at The baccalaureate sermon Sunday evening May 22 1t Emmons of the Christlan sehoo ch graduating add tour e Water | de- | e mmde neces-. hospisal for treat- | MAY Heaps of Ruins Tell Silent Tale of Earthquake Costa Rican City Laid to Waste, with | Over 500 Persons Killed—Car- negie's Palace Destroyed. SAN JOSE, Costa ¥ | quake which 1aid waste the t f Cartago | oocurred at €3 o'clock Wednesday night. 1t continued about eighteen seconds In the | briet space of time the bulldings of the | place. coliapsed, burying hundreds of sons. The dead were first estimated at o0, | but believed tonight that t talities | were uch greater. Many hundreds m were in, ed Four ndred bodies were | recovered today | Foliowing the shock twilight was turned to the darkness of midnight by clouds of | dust that rose from the ruins. Panic | sued and the cries of the injured and flee- ng survivors filled the air. Cooler Neads hurried to the telegraph office summon help from this city an to find the operators dead. the wires down and raliroad traffic badly impeded. As as the news reached " ™ rth per- | . Jose ‘| President Gonzales Viquez, accompanied by | President-elect Ricard Jiminee | doctors and nurses and a supply of meds- | cines, startea a special train for the scene of the disaster 1o lend first aid to the | survivors. Upon the president’s arrival at | Cartago martial law was prociaimed. Pro- | visions and ciothing were also dispatched | from here | Hundreds of survivors | side the ruined | tion to other po at the public exper | provis have been and Alajuel The beautiful Peace Palace erected of $100.000 through the generosity of Andrew Carnegie, was converted into a pile | of debris. Other public buildings met the | same fate. Many students at the college | of the Stlesian Fathers were killed. Only three of them escaped uninjured The tremors continue tonight and the terror of the people increases as time passes. The popular fear of further shocks of & severe character has extended to the nelghboring tow and many are camped out- awaiting transporta- They are being fed e. Seven carloads of dispatched from here city cost !SCHOOL. SOCIETIES WILL DINE ‘lnt-hl eni; Debaters of High School Will Have Affair at Rome May 13. | Something new in the programs by | Omaha High school literary societies be given by the Demosthenian Deb clety. This will be a dinner given by the soclety to &ll its members at the Rome hotel, May Richard Barnes, the p ent head of the club has charge of the af- falr At the regular meeting of the soc terday Chester Arnold was dent for the next school term officers chosen were vice presid Rector; secretary Deyo Crane Mackin; librarian, Byron short_ program was given The Hawthorne soclety of Nelile Pritchard the s to ating so- ves- elected pres The other Voyle treas- Paul A the soclety met at the home 141 North Thirty- Sievers Sussmar urer sergeant-at rme. Rohrbough by PIANOS Sold for Attorney’s Fees Storage Charges THE WONDERFUL POWER OF SPOT CASH BUYING WAS AGAIN DEMONSTRATED BY THE House of Schmoeller & Mueller when we purchased for spot cash from a well known law firm of this city a mammoth stock of High Grade Pianos. We have no room for these pianos and, compelled to slaugh- ter pr . we will sell them regardless of the regular prices. Here are a few of the bargains in this sale, which makes all other Piano sales fade into insignificance. TERMS. $1 PER WEEK 1ce first avenue, and enjoyed a social afternoon | instead of its regular meeting. A play Young Doctor” was give mussen took the part of “Rebecca. Pritchard Elizabeth Eloise Marie; Alma Jensen, “Grace Hokansen, “'Maude;’ Marion Laura”; Ruth Edwards Margaret Howard, “Dh The Browning society had the of & meries of essayd for this meeting's program. “The History of May Di was read by Elsie Wade and “May Day in Colleges” was given by Ethel Magney. Fan- nie Rosenstock read & paper on “Birds We Ought to Kn and a criticism of “The Passion Play,” was delivered by Lavina Brown. Elizabeth Mainey gave a parody »n “May Queen” as an interlude The program of the Pris Alden clety a number of sketches given by the foillowing girls: Lucile Fellers, irene Somere, Madeline Eison, Ruth Dillon, Hazel Dillon, Hazel Lyon, Gladys Hodgin, Bea- trice Near, and Marie Coleman The Webster Debating soclety meeting representing & session gress, the members bringing up attempting 1o persuade congress them The Pleiades society held a program in which an ola-fashioned school was repre- sented with Florence Smith & the teacher Helen Anderson. Ruth Cowgill, Mabel Wal- worth, Irens Prawitz, Gertrude Pheiffer Grace Burington and Louise Acted as Nellie Wes Theresa Marewitz “The Madam',; Devine readings o lla #0- included held “a of cpn- to Ree Want Ads w Returns | boost your business. Drink Habit Cured In Three Da'ys B o A Purely Vegetable and Perfectly Harmless Med icine, Originated, Compounded and Administrated “The Neal Cured Me” “The | Helga Ras- | bille and | pass | Marchall & Wendall .. $§128 | Knabe & Co. . $132 Vose & Sons . .$120 Ivers& Pond ........ 8§ .$96 Kurtzman . $115 Steinway Grand $125 Hardman Grand .. .. $138/| 1 Baby Grand, Piano $400 .$140 1 Baby Grand Piano, $435 $152 Chickering & Son, $169 mahogany ... ..$173| Knabe & Co., mahog .$185| any ..... Every piano sold in this sale guaranteed by a firm that | Ebersole Frederick . |8 Krell .. Knabe & Co. Gaylord . Kimball .. . .. Decker Bros . Keller .. .. Hackley . Chase .. ... Packard .. $280 has been making good all primises since 1859, SCHMOLLER & MUELLER 1311-1313 FARNAM STREET Bell, Douglas 1625. Independent, A-1625 Bee Want Ads Boast Your Business At Our Institute ln Your by a Thoroughly Competent Physician, Taken Internally During the Daytime Only, and Twenty-Five Doses Completes the Simple Treatment, at Our Institute or in Your Home—No Hypodermic Injections —and a Guaranteed Bond and Con- tract is Given Each Patient, Agrceing That if a Perfect Cure is Not Effected in Three Days the Treatment Will Be Free. Sfll‘-fllfll Cearance Sale Strong Endorsement of the Neal Cure Ladies’ Hand Bags We have fust NEW SPRING HAND BAC week eived shipments of STYLES LADIES They all go on sale next incinding our entire stock, about half price. The lot consists of at 78 Ladies’ Hand Bags, $12.50 to $18, sale price .. $10.00 110 Ladies' Hand Bags, worth from $6.59 1o $10, sale pr., choice $5.00 98 Ladies' Hand Bags, worth from $4.50 to $6.50, sale price cholce, at 82.75 These bage g0 on sale Monday morn ing. If you want to buy a hand bag come early if you want to get a good selection. No such assortment of Hand Bags has ever before beem of- fered in Omaha for twice the mones - Myers-Dilion Drug Co. 16th and Farnam Sts worth from ‘ Iowa’s Richest Man Mr. F. M. Hubbell, Des Moines, Iowa He is 2 man that T have always ad- mired and thought & great deal of. on account of his ability when sober and his honest and square dealing at all times. I have on many different oc casions furnished the funds and per- mitted him to invest in real estate and handle for our mutual account, and 1| would not hesitate to do the same thing at this time, whenever an oppor tunity was presented. He has always been a fine mau and an upright citi- zen in every respect, except that he has been cursed with the liguor habit all the years that | have known him On one accasion when he had lost all power or ability 1o handle himself, 1 caused him to be sent at my own ex pense 19 & well known drink habit cure, in and was Apparentl treatment ever with him for very many hours or days until he would return to drink I did not see him for about months and | wase greatly really amazed, to see personal interview with bim recently when he came to my office and told me that he had taken the Neal Cure in the early part of this year. It is an absolute fact that the man looks bet- ter; is mnch heavier in weight, and surely has a clearer brain and a better and more active mind thav 1 have ever known him to have for over ten years past. The results of the Neal Cure in bis case is certainly most wonderful f this city treated no where for se he remained weeka lusted and if drink n, there for the drinking uing as such and business world should recommend and urge all drinking men to take this troatment, and if the drinking mau refused to do so, he can- not blame anyone if he should be ostracized from the 88 and so cial world of the time In cloging, | take great pleasure in recommending hi n his new life to the favorable consideration of all those who may bhave to have any social rclations veral ing i& certainly man longer co society and the three surprised him and have a busine occagion with him Respectfully submitted, M. HURBELL Call or write for free copy of book and contract. All correspondence strictly confidential, Ad- | dress, THE NEAL CURE, Omaha, Nebraska. Institute 1502 South 10th Street.

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