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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY DECEMBER 10 BRINGING UP FATHER BY COLLY - HKKEY IE ™M AFRAID TO 4O HOME AT THIS LATE HOUR = | THINK |'VE USED UPALL THE EXCUSES IN THE STIEAM OFFERED JOB IN BIG NINE Husker Mentor Receives Offer from Western Conference Schoo] at Increase in Pay. ASKS RELEASE FROM CONTRACT LINCOLN, Dec, 9.— (8pecial Tele- gram.)—Ewald O. Stiehm, director of athletes at the University of Ne- ‘braska, announced today that he had been tendered an offer from a Chi- cago conference university to take charge of athletics there at a salary increase of $750 a year, or $4,260. Stiehm today asked the Nebraska Athletic board to relleve him from his agreement for a three-year term at Nebraska at a salary of $3,600 a year. 'The agreement has one year more yet to run. The athletic board will doubtless inform Stichm that it will be unable to meet the salary bids of other institutions and gran’, Ris request to be freed. Opposition in the faoulty, Btiehm now belng rate as & member of the faculty, would prevent any 2 in salary. Some of the older! of the faculty are drawing but $3,000 a year, and they resent money being devoted to athletics. | not believed, however, that Stiehm leave Nebruska, Other arrangements satisfactory to the board will likely be | ‘made. ~ The news created a fufore at the uni- ~ wersity and in alumnl cl.cles, Stichm’ remarkable work during the last five years has made him an especially val- uable man, and his loss would be a most serlous blow. Stiehm also admitted he had recetved nibbles from the University of Wisconsin and the University of C fornia. Denial from Madison, MADISON, Wis., Dec. 8.— ‘‘Nobody has been offered the position of foot ball eoach of the University of Wisconsin in n shape or form,” sald Director of Bhler late this afternoon when . Informed of the report from Nebraska _that Coach Stiehm's services were being Mr, Bhler sald the athletio council of “the Wisconsin institution was proceeding in the way of getting all information pos- #ible bearing upon candidates for the _position, but that as yet no one had been considered. “Bhould any candidate with whom we may be corresponding give out informa. tion, his chances for sec ‘\g coach are likely to fail,” sald Director 1 Offered Indiana Place. - Fight is Postponed - at Least a Month ~ 8T. PAUL, Dec. 5.—Mike Gibbons, who Was to have fought young Ahearn here . tomorrow night, is suffering from bron- | chial ppeumonia, according to his phy- [ who today gave it as their opin- Gibbons could mot train for at reeks and would not be able the Gibbons-Ahearn fight been indefinitely postponed. It may late in January if Gibbons recov. US AND JOHNSONS WILL MEET NEXT SUNDAY Next Sunday afterncon at Fontenelle park the Angelus foot ball team will play the Johnson Grocery eleven. These two teams would have met before only Angelus squad did not think the 800d enough. The Angelus the Johnsons regret day they were born. JACK FITZGERALD WILL NOT BOX AT MASON CITY Omaha will not of I'LL QIVE OU ONE IT'S A NEwy ONE AND YoULL &IT AWAY WITH Just an Earful By Tad. Deacon Jones was a fightah. He was Mr. Jones had a liking for licker, also. fore in Frisco, and was now a gentleman and there, and with the proceeds in- dulged In his favorite indoor sport, lick- ing up the suds, One night (the night of the earthquake in Frisco) Mr. Jones had acquired a beautiful pot after working ten or fif- teen gin mills. Late in the morning he strolled Into the little saloon owned by Alec Greggains, down on Sixth street. Ho knew the barkeep, and the later knbw the Deacon. Our colored runt asked for a drink and was refused. He asked again, agaln and again. He finally grabbed hold of the bar with both hands and demanded a powder. Still the drink was not served. “If you doan han' me a drink I'll pull dis bar ovah,” piped the Deacon, and he gave a yank. With that there was an awful roar; down came the bar, the celing, the bottles and the walls. (It was at that moment that the earthquake arrived.) Bight hours later the Deacon waa was dragged from the ruins and taken to a hospital, When he rocoyer his senses he looked up at the doctor and whispered: ‘Say, Mr. Greggains must be awful #sore at me, eh?" OLEVELAND CLUBS 10 CHANGE naNDS Indications Point to Transfer of Both American League and Association Properties. BAN WILL FIND A BUYER CLTVELAND, O, Dec. 9.—Indications tonight seemed to point to transfer of ownership of the Cleveland American League club before the opening of the | 1516 season. The Cleveland American as- soclation team aiso will change hands, it is belleved. Although no officlal statement has been made, it is known that the bankers’ com- mittee in charge of financial affairs of Charles W. Summers, the present owner of the teams, is in favor of selling the clubs as & means of meeting Sommeu" present financial difficulties. Johnson to ¥ uye Ban B. Johnson, president of the Amer- | fcan league, who conferred today and tonight with Sommers, John E. Bruce, secretary of the National Base Ball com- mission, and John Sherwin, chairman of the bankers' committee, sald tonight that if the committee wishes to sell the Cleveland American team he will find a purchaser. ““The bankers' committee will mot tol- erate the present situation any longer,” sald a prominent member of the commit- tee tonight; “It has come to the point where we will have to sell the club.” Half a dosen men have been mentioned as possible purchasers of the Cleveland Ameérican club, among them being James | ¥ McGill, owner of the Denver Western League club and the Indimnapolis club of the American assoclation; E. G. Bar- rows, president of the International league, and J. W, Corrigan, Price Me- Kinney and Charles A. Otis of Cleveland, Barrows was here today, but denied his presence had anything to ‘do with the Cleveland base ball situation. Stands By Clubs. “I will see that a buyer is forthcom- ing if the committee wishes to sell the Cleveland club,” sald Johnson tonight. “If a sale is decided upon I will try to interest local capital first. If it is financial ald that is needed, the Amer- jcan league will provide it, as the league has always stood by its clubs.™ Sommers and the bankers declined to make any statement, Racely Student Ma.na.geLat Bellevue ‘Walter Racely, brother of George A. Racely, freshman coach at the Univer- sity of Nebraska, who, as a junior, has #erved three years on the Bellevue foot- Cop; t, 1915, International Registered U. Ne rvice. 8 + B, Patent Office. JUST TELL HER YOU DIDN'T WANT TO ‘WAKE HER UP 90 YOU $TAYED OUT ON THE, $TooP UNTIL. NOW ! Y BY 4oLy = THAT OU4HT American-Poles Elect Officers and s Betterment Resolu- tions at Meeting, CHURCH BASKET BALL NOW ON small, very small, and he was colored. He had retired from the ring )‘!lrll be- of lelsure, picking up a stray job 'here ing of the American-Polish Citizens' club of West L street last evening to promote the interests of all Polish people of the South Side and also to @rrange for the signing of second citizenship papers by them when the proper time comes. hundred members of the organization, Which has grown powerful, both politi- cally and soclally, in the year of its ex- Istence, attended and took active part in the annual election of officers. Officers elected last evening are: Presi- dent, Frank Byster; vice president, John Badura; secretary, Frank Madura; finan- clal secretary, Leo Kowalski, and treas- urer, Peter Wozniak. Several times the club has adopted pe- titions calling on the city commission to improve that particular section about Thirty-third and L streets, where there are many Polish people. The club rooms are In the Pulaski hall, Thirty-third and L streets, and meetings are held every week. ™ BARIKEEP AT ALEC GREGG: AN S GIN MLk Organised. race Methodist church at Twenty-fifth and E streets ls 1| being fitted out for use by the young men of the congregation in the near fu- ture. Last year a basket ball team was planned, but the men never got together at a definite date. This year the young men, led by Guy Kiddo, honor graduate of the University of Nebraska and super- Intendent of the Sunday school, are plan- ning to take art in all indoor activities, including bas.et ball. nert, Kinnfer, Gilmore, Erwin,«Farnham, Johns, Allen, Stewart and Picotte, Final arrangements were made for the yearly football banquet to be held in the college dining hall December 16, at seven in the evening. Sweets Still Top ISt of “BOWIErs = 1 M teats e ey, 1ata ortond in La,dies’ League surm a league and have weekly church games. More young men than ever before have joined and are taking The A. B. Sweet Shop bowling team ! part in the church activities. finished last night at Huntington's alleys with a total of 221, Brandels Girls rolled 318 and Omahe Towel Supply 2165, Boores: A. B. BWEET BHO]F‘ t Nesbit 10 Bruch. Blern Miller Miss Hughes Total Holldays Bring Thieves. The approach of the Christmas holl- days means more business for the lice. Some time Monday evening an uhi- dentified thief broke into the chicken coop of Mrs. Harford, 2182 J street, and stole elghtecn black Plymouth' Rock chickens. Sewer Nusiance Abated. Investigation by the city sanitary de- partment in the clogged sewer nuisance 3 Tot. I. Twenty-first and M streets, after com- _. 2x|plaint of residents about, resulted in the placing of four men all day yester- CLUB 24 34 Tot. 138 165 463 CAMPBRLES" Mrs. Campbell aewer. Reese All that 1s necessary to restore the sewer to usefulness is to bolt an immova-~ 2018 | P1® top on to keep other garbage men from dumping garbage in the manhole. Hanagan Funera) Friday. The funeral of James Hanagan, aged 48 years, prominent citizen of the South 398 | SMde, will be held Friday morning at o'clock from the residence of a sister, Mre. Mary Duffy, 422 South Twenty- third street, to St. Agnes' church. In- terment will be made in St. Mary's ceme- tery, Hanagan was suddenly killed in a motor accident in Omaha Tuesday afternoon. He Is survived by a wife and one child, two sisters, Mrs. Mary Duffy, Omaha, and Josephine Hanagan, South Dakota, and six brothers, Patrick, John, Michael, Philip, Thomas and Martin, HAYDEN BROS. cLUR Miss Crowe Handlcap . 606 631 INDEPENDENT CLURB 1st 24 Coroner’s Jury Returns Verdict. That Erio Beldt, 200 Reese street, and Willlam Kendall, 2118 South Thirty-fifth avenue, Omaha, machinists in the employ of Swift and Company, who lost their lives while at work in the plant Friday morning when & large flywheel in one of the engine rooms burst, came to.their death by suffocation, first from inhaling Tof k! tal L. 610 TR BRANDEIS GIRLB" {‘L}‘YH st 24 3 Mrs. Thompson 163 136 Miss Baver .. jury yesterday morning at 9 o'clock, held Former Nebraska Star Will Coach U. of 0. Tossers William E. Kavar, former University of Nebraska basket ball star and well- known local player, will coach the Uni- versity of Omaha quintet this season. Kavan was chosen last evening by the athletic board from a list of seven candi- dates and will enter upon his work this cvening. Though somewhat delayed in securing & coach, basket ball candidates at the school have been working out vision of Coroner Willls Crosby. Master mechanics and engineers from the plant festified in the case. In the hand of one of the victims was a wrench clasped with muscles bound as though he had just been getting ready to turn a balt, Hillsdale Attendance Contest. Another pttendance contest i3 mow on among the young people of the Hillside Baptist church. The contest will close this evening, when all participants and members of the church will meet in an entertalnment in the church chapel. The young people’s society has been divided into two equal sides. These divisions have board, Bernice BSehlotfeldt, of Walnut, lowa, and Harry Erwin, of Craig, Ncb. and the new prep member, Beymour Smith, of De Soto, acted for the frst Smith, the prep representative, was secretary of the board of control, with Ralph Martin as assistant manager Erwin Gllmore, the re- manager, and Emma Ward, junior as a finance committoe. men were declared oli- for the honorary football “B": i Racely, Maxwell, Lich- been working to see which could get the most new members to attend the society. The committee on this evening's pro- gram has arranged for a good speake.. Swift's Employes in Mateh. Excitement ran high at the Brunswick alleys last evening as the Swift Pre- miume, challenged by a house team call- ing themselves “Swift's Pride,” warmed up to their best bowling instinet. Ome individual score at least neared a record when Coleman of the Premiums bowled 236 in a siogle round. This 18 the highest score recorded In weeks. ‘The Premiums won the game, but were given a scarce when they lost the first round by a slight margin. Charley Burke, well known alumni of the local high school, bowled with the Premiums. In a previous match the Murphy's Colts won dally under the direction of Captain Adams. Twenty men have been showing up for work. Upon request of the players the ath- letic board decided to allow the school to enter the Tri-City league. At first it was thought that the leagus contests, coupled with the college games, would Interfere with college work, but this difficulty was overcome when officlals of the loop agreed to arrange the schefule. Because of the press of outside work Theodore Korbmacher has been elected basket ball manager to succeed William Melcher. The schedule as outlined calls for ten colege contests, five at home and the others away. Rociprocal games are being arranged with Doane, Cotner, Kear- AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA Resolutions were adopted at the meet- O Two | At the First Presbyterian church a bas- inter- ammonia fumes, and second, from inhal- ing hot steam, was verdict of a coroner's in the Larkin chapel under the super- Drawn for The Bee by George McManus SNV WHAT DOYOU = ~ - NEXT DAY! MEAN BY COMING INAT THIS HOUR ? SHUT UP- DON'T TALK DACK TO TAM O'SHANTERS. Dunham . Ist. 2d. 3d.Tot. | Landis . hristie 182 1% 3i7 | Lowrey 133 146 426 | Shields 25 Handicap | Falconer Total... Brigoner Bruce | Learn Zaduca | Miller ‘Total.. Primeau . Haldeman Eastham ... J. Johnson.. Conrad Sweeney Maurer | Griesser Pickard Hollings! Total.....61 708 8T. ANDREWS. Ist. 2d. 84.Tot. Dunn 109 1 43 4 i Grange | Louden Hanan . Malcolm Totals Brown Sorensen Romberg Bruegman . Senift ... Totals Telep! Capen . Frlend Strawn Cronland ..X Rehschuh .. Handlcap Total, 738 688 654 DISTR. C'lx' PLANT, st. 2d. 3d.Tot. Boucher ....149 160 143 452 1 Totai..... 720 WIESTER! 136 Total.....7 American OFFICE. 1st. A Lepinski..204 625 SHIPPING. 1st. 2d. 34, Tot. 30 169 138 706 one League, ENGINEERS, st 2d. Totals....708 INSTALLERS. 348 483 | 443 461 54 Pixley Ashton Redfield Fahnes'k Dunham .. Handicap Totals....7 06 20 CONSTRUCTION. 140 461 19 3% | Lamiborn . Hegarty Baldwin ‘Whitlock Madsen Handicap Totals.. WIRE CHIEFS. 1st. 2d. 3d. Tot. Koran ... 71 168 = 616 Kasper 190 536 Stow 400 Huff . Phillips Totals... Expre 2d. 34. Tot, 164 154 512 167 458 128 377 159 412 166 419 p 401 ..149 433 “ 172 439 110 30 29 454 Johnson . Overman Peterson Holllday . Kent ... WELL ~DID THE STORY WORK? 164 159 K Handicap .. Totals.... 792 two out of three matches from the Cen- turifans. The scores: SWIFT PREMIUMS. ist. 24, Anderson ... 69 ° 150 Coleman ...... Hefton Totals Root ring oben Leonard Bloomquist . i COLTS. st 2d. 1 Totals.... l(blil’l'l.Y'S1 Vance . day cleaning out the sixty-foot storm | 97 (less th Sullivan Tanner . Totals....cverrreress 816 Magie Olty Goasip. St. Agnes court, W, at its hall Fridey evening. Décember 10. An election of officers will be held. A stunt social will be given under the auspices of the yworth league of the :}nce Methodist ng. Oal Alger, 1414 O street, is reported to be re- covering slowly after a sudden attack of pneumonia. ice space for rent in Bee office, 3318 N #treet, Terms reasonable. Well known Iccation. 1. South 27. ‘Women bowlers will roll at the Bruns- wick alleys this evening. The four teams comprising the “Oh, Me! Oh, My!" league will meet in contest. rangements for the parcel post sale to be given at the McCrann hall, Twenty- fourth and O streets, Friday evening, De- cember The seventeenth annual ball of the Union Stock Employes’ Benefit associa- tion will be given at the Rushing's hall at Twenty-fourth and J streets Satur- day evening. A _benefit ball will be given at Fagle home at Twentyithird and streets Wednesday evening, December 15. Union music will be had. lic is invited. Start your child right by giving it one of our “Savings Books.” One doliar opens &n sccount in the Live Stock National Pennant lo%’a No. 283, Anelent Order United ‘orkmen, will meot this ming at the Workmen hall at Twenty- the coming year. A bazaar and noon luncheon will be served today at the Ryan millinery store bullding, opposite the post office on Twenty-fourth street, by the women of the Trinity Baptist church. Want ads for The Bee ma The Bee's branch office, 2318 St. Rates, 2c a word for one time, 1%¢ a word each day for three days and lo a word each day for a week. Prompt and courteous hauffeur Emery, who has been trans- ferred to the South Side police station in the absence of Benny Danbaum, whose grandfather died last evening at the Wise Memorial hospital, arrestel Henry Balley, 2622 M street, on a charge of exceeding the speed limit. Best for Constipation, The best medicine for constipation is Dr. King's New Life Piils, mild and effective and keep you well e, All drug- #ists.—Advertisement. British Steamer - LONDON, Dec, 9.—~The British steamer Ignis has been sunk. The crew have been landed. Avallable shipping registers con- g record of such a steamer as the “Fresh Al CHICAGO, Dee! have been abandoned fece Lines company, Cars.”” “Fresh air cars” by the Chicago Sur- according to a re- |by Herbert R. Macmillan, president of 88 the association. fon Hilton's 602 | neral in Chicago. 2695 | With the dredging in the Gaillard cut of ithe P ithe bulging up of the bottom proceeds urch Thursday even- | | k Alger, son of Mr. and Mrs, Fred The X L club has completed all ar- | the | N The pub- | e fifth and M streets to elect officers for | be left at port made by the department of public service to the council transportation com- mittee today. ‘‘The report said the cars had been in the main successtul.” Culls From the Wires. Mrs. C. W, Post, widow of the Battie Creek cereal food manufacturer, an- nounced at Battle Creek she had agreed to accept $6,000,000 cash for her rights in the Post estate. Mrs. Marjorie Post Close, daughter of C. W. Post, will re- Ni:filh« bulk of the estate, worth about Charges against Judge O. N. Hilton of Denver, one of Joseph Hillstrom's at- torneys, were filed with the grievance committee of the Utah Bar assoclation The charges are based address at' Hillstrom's fu- Such_excellent progress has been made anama canal that now only fifty feet of the earth separates the waters of the channel. This little neck of land, an twenty feet high, can be re- moved bv dredges in a few days unless too rapidly for the dredgers. A nation-wide movement to make the coull'.rtY church the religious, social and agricultural center for the farmer through a federation of churches in ru- I",tl c%mmunltle. was launched at Colum- us, O. Sine w)imp)uiy | DON'T KNOW- | DIDN'T T A CHAMCE TO TELLIT? MILO POWERS AND HORSE EXPELLED Started Ruth Granite Out of Her Class Under Name of Ruth Corporal. TROTTERS’ BODY TAKES ACTION NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—At today's meet- ing of the Board of Review of the Na- tional Trotting association Secretary Gocher announced that Milo Powers of Goshen, Ind., had been expelled with the mare Ruth Granite for starting the horse out of her class under the name of Ruth Corporal at Leesburg, O., in October last. The board announced that several horses had been traced anl identified in various parts of the country. Billy Dis- pute had been driven to a baker's wagon for seven years and at the age of 12 started out on a racing career and won a number of races. The board found he was entitled to his name and his win- nings. A black mare, Guadiania, 14 years old, owned at Grafton, N. C., has been used as a buggy horse for several years and was identified. John B., raced by P, F. Hamlin of Poughkeep and Jack Parker, bred in Ohlo, sold in Chicago and now owned in Maine, were both approved. Hearing of the case of Ben F'. White of ‘East Aurora, N. Y,, who appealed from the decision of the pjudges at Columbus, 0., in fining him $10 on September 30, last, when he failed to start Queen Ab- bess in the fifth heat of the 2:10 pace, was adjourned until the May meeting, CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—The Board of Ap- peals of the American Trotting associa- tion declared today the tollowing horses ineligible and ordered their winnings re- distributed: Bay gelding, M. F. D. (8. 8. Ruble, Lo- Jn 2:06 pace at West Liberty, Ia., 1915, Bay gelding, Hal McKinney (C. N. Clark, Winfield, Kan., and Bob Sebas- tian, Femete, Cal.), in’ 2108 pace at Beat- rice, Neb,, June 4, 1915. Horse, Teddy M. (Roy Murfield, Avoca, Ta.), In’ 3:90 pace at Rockwell City, Ta., uly 8L.J 1935, ay gelding, John D. (A, B. Smith, Van- gouver, B. CJ. in 2:30 pace at Lander, B. C., June 26, 1916, Biack horse, King Bird (L. H. Kindred, Flandreau, §. D.; M. Helsley, Condon, Ore., and' F. Wilson, Condon, Ori 2:20 pace at Rock River, 1 1915, Hallle Graham Robins, Malvern, Ja.), in 2:30 trot at Quincy, 11, September 22, 1915, (Record of Hallle Graham at Jefferson, Ia., Jun 23, 1914, established at 2:23%). Protests were sustained and the money ordered returned to the protestants in the following cases: J, E. Walsh, Sloux City and black mare Ocean Wave. against Wahoo Racing as- soclation of Wahoo, Neb. ‘JA 1. Dompler, Edmonton, Alberta. snd biack’ mare, Senorita Great against In- diana State Board of Agriculture. The Campbell (Mo.) and Clay County (Ark) Fair assoclations were each or- dered to pay §% to T. J. King of Irene, Bay mare, (Charles ] 6 ™ DODGE 2% DOUGLAS STREETS Read Our Big Christmas Grocery Opening Sale for Friday Canned Goods, Crackers, Teas, Cot- fees, Fruits, Vegetables, Butter, Cheese, Nuts, Dried Fruits, etc., ete. Everything you need, at a saving of 25 to 30 per cent. 17 1bs. Best Pure Granulated Sugar for . #1.00 For your Xmas puddings, ples and cakes use Diamond H Flour. Noth- ing finer. Per 48-1b. sack....$1.38 10 1bs. best White of Yellow Corn- meal for b WA 8 1bs. best Rolled White Oatmeal for ..... Wax, String or Green Beans, can..7¢ Early June Sweet Table Peas Breakfast Fancy Sweet Sdgar Corn, car. Large cans Golden Pumpkin, Squash, Sauer Kraut or Baked Beauns, can 70 Advo Jell, for. dessert, pkg. MacLaren's Peanut Butter, | 32-0z. jars Pure Fruit Preserve: 28-0z. Jars Pure Strained Honey Mallo, for icing, large can Large bottles Worcester Sauce, Pure Tomato Catsup, Pickles (assorted kinds), or Prepared Mustard, per bottle .......-. . 6 cans Ofl Sardin . The best Domestic Macaroni, Vermi- celli or Spaghett, pkg. Hershey's Breakfast Cocoa, b, The Rest Tea Siitings, Ib. Golden BSantos Coffee, Ab. New California Cooking Figs, Ib., 10 New Ca'ifornia Apricots, 1b 3l5e Tow N")ew California 3-Crown Ral New California S ©, 10¢, 1830 Orange or Citron Reel, per 1b. Jevrensose 200 New Hallow n Dates, per 1b New Seeded Raisi Fancy Fard Date New Cleaned Currants, 1b. New Heney, per rack.. GRAFPE FRUIT SPE Fancy Florida Grape 17%e CIAL FRIDAY. Fruit— Vel 3350, Bo, 640 BUTTER AND EGG MAR. OMANA FOR THE PEOPLE. 15 Ybs. best Red River Pot'l’loel. New Wisconsin Cabbage, 1b.... New Wisconsin Cabbage, 100 1bs., 780 Fresh Loulsiana Shallots or Carrets, er bunch Freah Loul o8, 3 Fancy Michl, Celery, 8 for Bellevue Celery, bunch 3 1bs. Sweet Potatoes Fancy Ripe Tomatoes. 1b f;lncy California Cauliflower, 2 large Soun Bunche: . The best Cape Cod Cranberries. quart pove . e Friday. per dosen..30c, 83, 309, 336 HAVDEN'S

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