Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 4, 1915, Page 3

J | ~timated to cost from $10,000 to $12,000, Nebraska URE AGREES UPON RECEIPT FOR TAXES Douglas County Treéasurer and State | Officials Come to Terms Pend- ing Lawsuit. GOVERNOR COMING TO RACES (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, June 3.-Speeclal)—Pending | State Treasurer Hall's mandamus suit | against Treasurer Ure of Douglas county, to compel him to make monthly remit- tances to the state, the state treasurer| and State Auditor Smith have agreed upon & receipt to mall to all county treasurers for money sent in. The objection of Mr; Ure was to the roceipts he was getting from the state treasurer. He malatained that they were tmproperly stgneq and did ‘not contain the signature of the auditor or his deputy. i The new receipt wil] be slgned by | Treasurer Hall and stamped by Auditor Smith with a rubber stamp, after which it will be signed in pen and ink by Dep- uty Anditor Eastman. The receipts were | formerly wlgned by the bookkeeper in- } stead of by Mr. Bastham. After a conference Saturday afternoon | with Assistant Attorney General Ayres the state treasurer and the state audi-| tor decided to get a ruling of the supreme tourt on the proper form of a receipt, | and on the power of the auditor to dele- | gate some one in his office, ther than| his deputy, to countersign them. { The county eclerk of Holt county has applied to the state hishway commission to construct a state aid bridige, 190 feet long, over the Eikhorn river, near Ewing. | The state assists in the construction of al] bridgos. that measure more than 175 | feet in length. Reed Speaks at Suttonm. Attorney General Reed was speaker of the day at the Fourth of July celebra~ tion Saturday in Sutton. He will speak in Hlectric park, Lincoln, Monday and will leave the same evening for Chicago to represent Nebraska in the 2-cent fare hearings before the Interstate Commerce |, commission. Morehead to See Auto Races. Governor Morehead will attend the au- tomoblle races in Omaha Monday. He left Lincoln Saturday for Steinaver, he was schédiled for & Fourth of July address In the afternoon. School Values Higher. A dozen tracts of state school lands will be raised in valuation, as the re- sult of & trip last week made through Cherry and Brown countles by Secre- tary of State Pool and Land Commis- eloner Beckman. The total increase will be In the nel(hhorhmg of $5,000, Road Pays Its Tax. The Northwestern raliroad has paid to the secretary of state its occupation tax for 1915 the meximum amount of $2,500. The Burlington and the Missourl Pa~ cific has heretofore peld the same amount. ¢ % MY Grand Island Will - . : * Begin Seedling Mile b, pongd o GRAND ISLAND, Neb., July 8.—(Spe- clal.)—Actual \;:}. it is expected, will begin on the “Scedling Mile” of the Lin- coln highway southeast of the city by August 1. This is the estimate made today by Local Consul Ashton, who has been in charge of the movement for the same in this county. The mile will be sixteen feet wide, of cement, and is es- It is Just east of the city, in one stretch and leads toward the “River road,” the old Oregon trail, but is not in dispute a8 between the Lincoln highway cénsuls of this work and Merrick cownty. WATE RPOWER DEVELOPMENT ON BLUE RIVER PROMISED | (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, July 3—(Special.)—Water | power dévelopment on the Blue river by | the George G. Moore syndicate of Detroit is foreshadowed by a visit which Mr, Moore is making. The Detroit man ar- rived In Lincoln Thursday and announced he was merely inspecting the Lincoin| Traction company plant, in which his syndicate is Interested, Report has it that Moore's visit is of | more importance, however, and that the | Commonwgalth Power company, which represents the Moore interests, is trying to secure rights on the Blue river, ‘which will mean practical control of the power | possibllities of the stream. Although the | THE There Isn't a suffragette on the circus jand yot And yet if there came a question intd the minds of the habitants of that lttle ('ll) of wanderers known as Sells-Floto | circhs and Buffalo Bill's Original Wiid West, which is to be in Omaha Thursday, {or any thing elre. That s, providing, of | course, that managerial L‘lpu(‘lh counted for anything For the Sells-Floto' circus depends lot upon its women. More than one Branch of the big show exclusively by them—and the best of it | is, run perfectly. For instance, there s Lucla Zora, who has charge of the train- ing of all the elephants. There fs Mrs. Willlam Curtis, vises every inch of the wardrobe and de- slgns the costumes, besides originating an act every now and then. ‘There is Rosa Rosaland, the rider, who has charge 1of all the other equestrians in the show; there is Mrs. Charlds Luckey, who con- trols all the aerial acts—and If that fsn't Two of the "Statue Horses'. wi the Sells-Floto Circus. is run almost | Wwho personally -upeh' enough there is Mrs. Rhoda Royal) horse trainer. For every one of the twenty or more high school horses which perform in the | hippodrome track during the performanco the | of the Bells-Floto circus owe thelr college | wdm.')&lon to Mrs. Royal. Rinaldo, the | ball room horse; Bathhouse John, Luck- | July 8§ the women could have the vote, | ett, the high jumper, and all the others, bave been taught their every trick by the smiling little woman of the hippo- drome track. And they also owe thelr £004 education to anether thingthe old |adage of the early ‘Bird. | early in the morning,” Mrs. Royal says. “Often 1 am working with them beforo | adyriaht, . T have gound that &' horse's |mind 1s most receptive then—and when mind is most receptive, tiiat is the time | | to instill things into it."" Mrs. Royal and/all the other women “managers’ will |appear with the cir- cus when it comes here for its two days' stay. They also will be in the parade. | The show this year Is to exhibit at Twenty-first and Paul streets. INSPEGT IRRIGATION WORKS mission Make Tour of Scott’s Bluff District. SPECIFICATIONS NEARLY READY SCOTT'S BLUFF, Neb, July 3.—(Spe- clal.)—The visit to the valley Thursday of Chairman John J. Fitzgerald of the appropriations committee of the house df representatives, together with other members of the committee consisting' of Willilam P. Morland of Missouri, Joseph of Minnesota, Frederick H, Glllett of Massachusetts, James W. Good of Towa, Frank W, Mondell of Wyoming, James 'N. MeAndrews of Illinols, George ‘W. Rauch of Indiana and Bwager Shirley of Kentucky portends great.things for thu“ future of the Scott's Bluff country. With the congressional committee was | the National Reclamation commission, | which was formed by Secretary Lane at the beginning of his administration, and it was observed that their work was con- tinuing upon the trip just the same as if In the.offices at Washington. Sidney B. Willlamson. the chief of construction, is buey organizing the work of beginning project, which is to water 107,000 acres of half of which is in Wyoming and the other half in Nebraska. The other mem- bers of the commission who were here were Director A, P. Davis, who has been in the reclamation service since its be- ginning, and whose first-hand knowledge is of tremendous value, Members Study Ch slonal committee. W. A. Ryan, comp- troller of the commission, had direct charge of the itinerary of the party here and was a very busy man,|but not so busy but that he had his ey times observing where the money has {been going, and that the fund be di- rected into useful channels. Judge Wil R. King, the genius._of irrigation law and diplomat, with his able assistant, A. R. Honnold, went into a technical de- tail of the legal phases of the project. Words of appreciation of the industry were heard from several members of the congressional committee and others. Blue has a large volume of water in it the year around, no attempt Jas been| made to develop until recently, There| are now fifteen power filings' on lhl“ stream, six of which were filed by the same man within the last few weeks. He 18 Charles O. Beardslee and his filings | cover the river from Barneston up to Blue Springs, G. W. Stelnmeyer has a filing at Blue Springs, there are two at Seward and one at Milford. | Beardslee, it 18 belleved, has been filing the experssion of Congressman Kinkaid, |Only %e. All druggists. for the Commonweaith syndicate. 'BIG MORTGAGE IS FILED INHALL COUNTY | B GRAND ISLAND, Neb.,'July 3.—(Spe- ~6lal)~What is the largest mortgage on yecord In Hall county on logal property was filed this week by the Central Power compeny, it being in the sum. of $2,500,000 | and. hypothecating the proverty of the former Grand Isiand Electric company in this city ¢nd Howard county, where water power is being Installed and the linés running from here to that point and from this city in varlous directions | to the optlying points it is expected to serye. The lssue is to secure gojd mort- | gege 6 per cemt bonds L, P. CUMMINS, SHERIDAN COUNT YPIONEER. DIES RUSHVILLE, Neb, July 8.—(Special )— L. P. Cummins, one of Sheldon county’s oldest settiers, died last Tugsday at Mot Springs. He was operated on at the Hot Springs hospitai and died the pext day. He was, about 75 years of age and came 1td Rughville in the fall of 1884 He was an unusually intelligent and well read man, and was # iocal poet of some re- pute, being a prominent figure i s’ Anstitutes in an earlier day "arm- fupfral was held from the house, Res T, Baer having charye of the brief sery foes p——— Jent pooms quick with-a Bee Want A F. 8. McCaffree, secretary of the as- sociated canals of western Nebraska, and G. L. Shumw as special , repre- sentative of the Farmers' Irridation dis- trict, met the party in Denver, and came with_them into the valley. Céngressman M. P. Kinkald of this | district, and Senators Clark and Warren, {aleo met the party at eDnver, and were splendid In the work of showing up the merite of the project. But each volced {that it was much better than the'r own conceptions, had it pictured. As Judge King sald, “This is not & project, it is {an" empire.” Tour Valley in Automo Local people met the ten automobiles. short tirn about Gering valley, then the big Minstare dam, which Is Jjust com- | | pleted, and at a cost of approximately | $700,000, with a storage eapacity of 9,000 acre fet of water. From thers, past | Lake Alice, over the Scottsblufs, Sun- flower and Dutch Flat table lands that have been reclaimed by the government | and Tristate canals. This gave nxcellanl demonstration of the yesult of gix or seven years development. Then the party. returned to Mitehell for mid-day lunch. n the afterncem fourteen automobiles conducted the party over fhe torritory of the Fort Laramie unit, which showed the raw materal, or the native prairie in its undeveloped state, artiving at Tor- rington in time (o take the speclal pro- vided by the Burlington to the Whalen dam, wherer 1,40 second feet of water were belng diverted into the headgates of the Interstate Unit, and 2000 second feet plunging oyver the dam to supply {other canaia farther down the river, A public hearlng was beld In the new { court houte st Tormington, in the even- | Brd opoit was repres uted by B Spith and 8 L. ( Farmers' can-1 | morth or Bridge .. party here with | The trip taken was a ! of territory Negat ations aw coutiact | sovernment M'm« Farmers' cannl slon the the or now tre for Conmmnen n.nd Reclamation Com- ' W. Byrns of Tennessee, Charles R. Davis | [ #111 make tnis one of the early possibili- ties, First Specifications Ready. R. F. Walters, consulting engincer for the Inter-mountain division; Andrew \AVelss, project engineer for the morth side project, and Oliver T. Reedy, pro- ject engineer for the Fort Laramie unit, were with the party, and it has been | announced officially that the specifica- !tion for the first ten miles of the Fort Laramie canal are ready. This will prob- | ably take about 300,000 of the 300,000 |t®! avallable in the fiscal today, for the construction work upon | this canal. This ten miles includes a tunnnel 27,000 feet long, and fourteen by sixteen feet. There will also he two ayphens about 3500 feet long, ome under the Laramie river, and the other under !Deer creek. In about six wecks it is expected that the contracts will be let | “I always train my horses very, very | UMAHA SUNDAY BEEK: \ City.” { | | | songs and operatic eketches included in | brother, ‘vear begihuing |, "o oning of June 89, JULY | Nebraska ‘ GATE CITY SUBJECT | | OF VAST PAGEANT Lincoln Commercnl Club Will lee‘ Production Next Year Typify- l ing Growth of the West. GREAT CAST IN BALLOT PARTS (By a Staff Correspondent.) | LINCOLN, June 8.-—(8pecial.)=—To | emphasize the state-wide character | of the Lincoln pageant next year | given under the auspices of the Lin-) coln Commercial club during com-| mencement week, the directors have endorsed for the 1916 event a| pageant to be known as “The Gate| Omaha wiil be reproduced in history and symbol and its develop- | ment will be traced from the days of the Omaha Indians through the days of ploneer struggles and develop- |ment of modern indsutries of the “Gate City.” Prof. H. B. Alexander, who wrote the Tines of “The Pageant of Lincoln” glven | last June, will write the production for | the coming year. It will be given Thurs- day and Friday of university commence- | ment week. The first part will be devoted to a re- production of Omalm Indian ceremonials, and will include the dance of the Thunderbirds, the erection of the sacred | tipd, the warriot’s rite symbolie of tribal authority, and the women's rite, denoting | tribal perpetuity The second part/ will open showing Captain Downs, the first settler of Omaha, in his occupation of ferryman. | The whole will be reminescent of early | river traffic. Then will come the pony | express with @ ballet of children on| Shetland ponies, and the opening of the | Union Pacitio. The pageant will close with symbollism in rainbow dances, denoting the “Gaté of | | Promise,” the Genius of Omaha in pan- tomime, and the “Gift of the Keys." More than 50 people will have roles | and ballet parts. Music for the odes, | | the pantomime will be written by Prof. | H. I, Kirkpatrick ot the University School ‘ of Musie, | HYMENEAL. Morsman-Parchne. FALLS CITY, Neb,, July 3.—(Special.)— Miss Ethel Loulse Parchen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Fred Parchen, and Wes- Kenyon Morsman, were united In marriage at the home of the bride on The marriage | had been planned to take place June 16, and was postponed because of the sudden death of the father of the groom the morning of that date. Tho bride was deputy county clerk for the last four years and the groom at present the | | deputy county treasurer. MeKey-Anderton. EDGAR, Neb,, July 8.—(Speclal)—Miss 4, 1915, Nebraska GARDEN COUNTY LAND SELLS FOR HIGH PRICE OSHKOSH, Neb, July 3.—(Spectul)— Amos Meeker sold his M0-acre farm yes {terday for §30,000, at §135 per acre. This i the highest price yet paid.for land in this county of In this portion of western Nebraska. The farm lles three miles east of Lewsllen, is falrly well-improved, part in alfalfa, and under private irriga- tion ditehs W. J. Gulllon and son pur- chased the Meeker place, having farmed it on shares the last two years, DEATH RECORD. w u‘-—--\: era. LUSHTON, » July 3.—~(Special.)— Willlam Walters died Thursdday morn- ing at the family home here.- Ho was 83 years old. He was an early settler in this part of the county. Mes. No M. Detriek. YORK, Neb, July 3.-(Speclal.)—Mre. H. M. Detriok, died Thursday afternoon at the family home, 700 East avemue. She was 74 years old. The funeml serv- foes were held from the residence this afternoon at 28 o'clock, conducted by Rev, W, C. Wasser, and Interment was in Greenwood cemeter York Will Have Unfon Revival, YORK, Neb, July 3.-(8pecial)—~Plans on & ldrge scale have been compelted for a union revival meeling in York, begin- ning October 3. All chuiches in the olty and all members of the York Church Federation are back of the movement. Many committees have been appointed and are at work. The finance committes reports that funds have Leen raised for the erection of n large tabernacle. Evangelists Lowry and Moody have ao- | cepted torms for the campalgn. An eof- fort is being made to get Billy Sunday, to run out from Omaba for at least during the York meeting. Church workers In the Omaha meotings Wil also be invited to come to York from time to time and help in the work, d by Light OGALLALA, Neb., July 3.-(Special Tel- egram.)—Kdward Harrison, a prom- inent farmier residing sevén miles west, was killed by lightning this afternoon. He is survived by bhis wife and one The funeral will be held tomor- row by Masonic lodge, Sign Brown Star, ‘The New York club has signed Babl ton, the star infielder of the Brown “ versity team. DR. BRADBURY IN NEW OFFICES THE BOY OF TODAY IS THE MAN OF TOMORROW So while your boy is home from school enjoy- ing the freedom of his vacation, have his teeth gone over to avold any impertections that are #s0 apt to come to the growing child. TEETH play a big part In the future of this boy of to- day, so give him every chance to meet the bat- tles of life. Health {s the most natura] thing in the world. It Is natural to be healthy, be- cause we are a part of nature—we are nature. Nature is trying hard to keep us well, because she needs us in her busineds and we are help- ing nature by caring for your teeth with the most up-to-date PAINLESS methods. Bring the boy In and we'll tell you what he needs. The very latest ideas in all branches of Den- tistry are yours in Dr. Bradbury’s offices. Fillings from 50 cents up Orowns from $2.50 up GUM DISEASES CURED., Send for Free Booklet on Unusual Dentistry. Railroad Fare for 50 Miles Allowed. DR.BRADBURY, DENTIST 20 Years in Omaha. o21.22 Woodm of the World Bidg. 14th and Farnam Sts., Omaha. Phone Doug. 1756, Hours—8 to 6; Sunday 10 to 12, Good By» Fear Heio Mom‘v Back Guarantee RHEUMATISM Rheumat| and many other diseases can be luccm!ully tru!ul witl 1 All (‘luu t n by me while In th “”’er ae\llr tage, plicat! reated With a guaranty as to success ts backed hy n m. c r‘n\nln free medical services should the discase vnr ut Even gon the disease has I od the chronlo stage, after months and nsrl ul’ - r?-rlnl accompanied with im -lmen“ of joints, m{ improved u‘.uu.n sho us results. I claim that no aum-uc condition is so that my, nnlmen\ "Ill not relieve or completely eradicate. Several cases have suc. rnnmlly treated by me after physicians have stated that nothing more could Le done to relieve the patient. know of no reputabie ny-lul.n who would dare to guarantes you a Suce ceasful treatment of rheumatism without the serum. y treatment is absolutely ufle nnd‘ lmloal and Io-nn no bad after effects, but on the contracy acts as a tonlg on (he entire syste DR. W, IOWSER, 314 BO' ‘Bldg., Omaha, Neb. PlLES AND FISTULA CURED Hoalth is Wealth PAY WHEN CURED WHY PROLONG YOUR SUFFERING? well hu- for (wenwgfi‘in FR'”‘DT ‘Elaallfl lanlm I’ILN! fi)’a FISTU LA, Graduates of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, N. Y. DR. WILLIAM CREIGHTON MAXWELL Houre—8 to 12, 2 to i l}"l,-—lo to ‘ll h .-‘10 Omah, amination te Must e to th a National Bank Bldg. 1'nn ang hrum .“h om“ “‘t Free, and the dirt begin to move, ‘wmu Anderton of Edgar and Guy F. Mo- ALDR'C“ w"‘L SPEAK | Key of Arian, Ia., were married at Nel- 4 AT UNIVERSITY PLACE json yesterday afternoon. The were mo- c mpanied to Nelson by the groom's par- UNIVERSITY PLACE, Neb., July s_‘mu Mr. and Mrs, Sam McKey, and the | In Observation of the the Fort Laramie unit of the Pathfinder ' 1 Mr. Davis gave & chart study of this | {project to. the members of the congres- out at all : and accomplishment of the commission | (Special.)—University {large plans for the Fourth of July cele- | bration next Monday. , The Havelock |band will give concerts during the day, beginning at 9:30. Chancellor Fulmer wil! | preside during the morning program, at which time ex-Governor C. H. Aldrich will be crowded with races, ball games, {and wil end with a wrestling mateh. be- |tween Milholland and Deeder, to fast | amateurs, | hibition of moving pictures from , Buropean war and elsewhere. All these |events will be free and held in the open {air on the Wesleyan campus. Stella Man Dies in Oniahu. FALLS CITY, Neb, [ot his father, Frank Withee, at Stella, where the funeral will be held on Sun- day. Mr, Withee was 3 years old and aves a small child. His wife died in an Omaha hospital a little more than a Year ago. Will Pay Ninety Cents for Wheat. FREMONT, Neb., July A—(Special. )= Fremont millers and elevator men have decided to pay % cents for the new wheat crop, which wil be ready for market within the next ten days. Old wheat is bringing $1.16, but there s little of this grain being offered. Harvest will begin in this vicinity next Monday, if the | weather conditions are favorable. A satistied patfent write: “Sloan’s |Linjment cured my rheumatism; am sgrateful; I can now walk without pain.” Advertisement. Hatlstorm in Greeley County. GREELEY, Neb., July i-—(Special.)=A | destructive hailstorm passed over a sec- ‘Ilon of the county about four miles wide nnd six miles long, catching farms in ‘»clh Wallace Creek and Mount Pleasant Pro(‘lllctl and coming within two miles | {of Greeley Center on the north. Qar- | dens, fruit and small grain were totally destroyed. The corn is completely beaten down, but 1s so small that it is thought much of it will come up again. f 5000 MEN’S SUITS Withee, who was a former resident of | Stella, Neb, at a hospital in Omaha from an vated cage of appendi- | citis. The Body was taken to the home ! | | Could Not Walk with Rheumatism. Place Is making | | bride’s parents, Mr, and Mrs. W. T. An- \wears. The young folks went immediately | will deliver an address.~ The: afternoon ' land on the south side of the river, about | In the evening an oven air | band corcert will be followed by an ex- | the | July 3.—(Special,) | ~Word was received by relatives in this | oity yesterday of the death of Ephriam | | derton, both residents of Edgar for many to Arian, where he is telegraph operator In the Buxllnl(on fll‘ station, [TCHY BURNING AL OVER SCALP Disturbed Rest. Scraiching Irritated. Hair Fell Out. 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The Duffy Malt Whiskey Co., Rochester, W. ¥, WAY."” With thc Opening of the Store Tuesday Morning We Begin One of the Most Impressive JULY CLEARING SALES in QOur History. Contain Full Particulars Brandeis Stores Street Car Service to Auto Speedway A double track has recently been built from .Locust Street north to the gate of the Speedwav. On July 6th (the day of the big races), through cars from Fourfeenth and Howard Streets will run direct to the Speedway. will bear signs reading: Extra service from Sixteenth md Locust Streets as the travel may demand. One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Anniversary of flu Foundation of the American Nation This Store Will Remain Closed All Day Monday July 5th b 5 3 Monday Nlfllt s Papers WI These cars ‘“TAKE THIS CAR TO SPEED-