Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 25, 1916, Page 12

12 Prioes in First Hour Register Grad- ual and in Some Cases Se- vere Declines. { PARTLY RECTIFIED LATER NEW Jan. 3.~In the first hour % prices registered grad- in #ome instances, severe de- iasues. weotified in the final hour, support resuited mong from the outset and gathered momentum at midday, when the selling movement more general. An- nouncement of the coming of strength between the railroads and their | vast army of employes, further doubt in | speculative minds, at least, as to a dis- bursement on United States Steel com- ‘elopments wer ey Taeters, Velopments were ry factors, United States Steel was heavily traded net loss of %. ls were lower b | G;MMJ' Canadian Pacific, its subsidiary, “8,0": New York Central, New iaven and Eries, as well as transcontinentals | and grangers yielding rather easily to | moderate pressure. | Moxiean Petroleum, Texas Company | and California Petroleum preferred were | int of weakness at in- thichem Steel led the war | with a loss of 17 points to 45, whi was more than retrieved before the close. munition Other Paldwin motive, BErake, Crucible Steel, Motors, suggested I Tearish encroachmen Metai shares suffered less than any | other part of the list, being strengthened ! Ly reported sales fl refined copper for | Ay and June delivery at 5% cents ! Total sales of stocks amounted to 667,- 10) shares. shares, particularly New York Alr | Colorado Fuel and juidation more than -4 of another large block of Ameérican securities from London, to- gether with a small amount of gold from that center, indicated further fompign Houldation. Southern Pacific's December statement, net gain of $1,300,000, indicates that the Pacific systems are carryl maximum capacity of tonnage. | Bonds In general were more steady than stooks, with large trading in Anglo- ¥French Gs. Total sales of bonds, par value, weére $4,320,000, United States bonds were unchanged on call, Number of sales and leading quotations on stocks today were as follows: | s los. High. Low. Close 1,800 ny a% L0 % BE % W0 N Bl Gy 6800 @GN 6% 6 | 00 o% 6 @ | Tl e ey g e Nl U3 ey 0 104 14 1 o0 137w 1TW TN G0 206 206 400 W9% 8T ¢ .00 108 1084 1063 | 1700 1084y 1054 100 000 3 s0% 91 | P, s a 0 % 400 3 2N L000 1T4% 1T1% 0 g% s 6N | 00 Bl Ay e | o W u | L0 9 NN 308 1% 0 5% 69y 1 WYy " F 8 107 108 Fo35 auEes 2 =8 sy Bslepely 55 U 9% | eval.” by I:-It Rriaker & Oo., Bid. Asked. Poatesolio ..., &% ‘bonus ¢ E - 3 [ =="§§2,“§‘ z20§aa § =ssx@szafas 3 232 :"gn-’:'ggzg: 2 [ 2% sssge | nation of children with regard to diag- Blated, Bsc: Slamond t‘h!."”«%':‘.: GENERAL HOSPITAL 8o Declares Dr, Paul Paquin, Di-| rector of Public Health at Kansas City. SHOULD INSPECT THE SCHOOLS THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY. | NOW YORK STOcK WARKGY| QKA N NEED OF |SRAI RACEITS ARt FEAVY [FRANK P. GOULD IS Wheat Prices Hold Up Under the Large Ran—New Outlet Fdund for Grain, | LARGE SUPPLY IS IN STORAGE Bven for a Monday Omaha grain re- celpts were heavy, with 168 cars of wheat, | 213 of corn and 2 of oats on the market, about all of which were disposed of be Dr. Paul Paquin, director of pub- fore the closs of the session. Prices on lie health of Kansas City, attended | wheat were practically unchanged from Saturday, the conference yesterday afternoon |per bushel. salos being made at $1.13@1.%5 This was a cent up for the in the city council chambér, where best grade, but on the whole the prices city officials and physicians dis-|beld steady, cussed the searlet fever situation. | He will speak today at the meeting of the health officers. In a statement to The Bee met doctor said: “The fundamental | methods of preventing and arresting ! scarlet fever in a community cop-'t sists of systematic examination o!' school children daily and of school | bulldings every week, or oftener, if necessary. The system should con-' sist of one physician for about every t school. The duties of the physician | hould be, and is in Kansas City, to| make direct examination of all chIl-"‘ before they begin to mingle.” To Iustruct Teachers, 48 cents per bushel, showing grain Wheat Corn Corn was down 1% cents, not because of the heavy receipts, but on account of a slight falling off in the demand. Prices | ranged from 69 to 69 cents per bushel Oats were % cent up, selling at 4 to han this for some cholce stock, While there was a notable change in he kinds of grain, in the aggregate, the stocks in storage now and ohe year ago are about the same. The figures follow, bushels the of each kind of w. Last Year, 000 327,000 000 2,167.00) thousand children and one nurse for nn? 2 l?f:m every two or three schools, according | Rye 124,000 | - B to the number of children in each Totals.. ROBON B0 New Outlets Fou It Is asserted that the large increase n wheat in storage over the same date dren from kindergarten to the sev- of one year ago is due to the embargo enth grade once & week at 9 a. m. |placed upon Atlantic and Gulf making it impossible to get stuff out for | export. ports, Last year at this time large quantities of wheat were going out of The nh_:-‘n--un .'nm' :bm:lklh"ldfl:"”:;:(»mn. dally, shipped to the Atlantic or every teacher how to inkpect children 85, Gy)¢ ports, from whence it went to they come into her room, by hAVING|yooy them pass In review, and every day the teacher ahould have this inspection. rur-‘ll" iy thermore, the physician must tral M %1 more than 1,260,000 bushels Last yedr at this time the corn in stor- exceeded that on hand now by Then corn nurse In the methods of proper exami- |y o pe'ss Omaha was finding its mar- noses of communicable diseases, such as| diphtheria, scarlet fever, measies, chicken pox, whooping cough, mumps, pedicu- losis. This system means that s phy- siclan and all the teachers and the nurse in a school examine dally and control continually the condition of health or ill-health of the pupil A most imporiant feature of the achool | inspection of KKansas City Is the enforce- | ment of the taking the temperature of the child who may appear ill. The prin-! cipals, nurses and teachers are instructed from here is going to Iowa, Illinols and many of the other states | where the crop list year was short. The | demand 15 enormous and 18 being boughi {in large quantities for both milling an: feeding purposes. NEW SECRETARY JOINS | ket almost entirely In the southwest and Now the corn Minnesota, he demand was not heavy. OMAHA Y. M. C. A. FORCE Bducational work among the foreign | to take the temperature of every child uoqking jaborers in the Bouth™Side pack- st | that looks sick, tecord same in & book. ine' houses has bécome such s promi- and then when tha temperature is aboVe nent part of the activities of the Omaha normal—say 9 dogrees—the child Is #ent youne Men's Christian association that |8 little altercation Sunday afternoon be Have Parents Examine, “Another important system now pursued by a large number of the parents of chiidren in Kansas City, to which they wero readily educated, is to examine their children's throats every day before they leave for school and when they return from school. By that| means a large number of cases of sore throat are detected by the parents them- | : and measles wre frequently nipped in the ;£ Omaha, as In Kaensas City, it is through a crisis, and just begin- | realize that good health is the of any community. I can un- i isi unusual situations. The fact, should have enough means | insure the development of a sound health department covering every of life, particularly the schools. vinced by long experience in | 13t 3 i iz it ‘would prevent an enormous of distress and anxlety and direct | f" Lesidos which the city should have a properly bullt and well £ isolation institution wherein cases might be observed and those already infected could be cared for without danger of cross-infection. It looks to me that this is an immediate necessity, in fact. there is a present need in Omaha for an immediate development of a comprehensive system to prevent in- fection and to care for the sick in gen- TWO SETS OF TWINS ARE BORN ON SUNDAY | George A. and Edith Chtester, 1813 Ohio street, and Anton and Marle Schwelger, | 6813 South Twenty-second street, re- celved twins on Sunday. The Chesters have twin boys and the other family a boy and girl. — WANTS HEALTH OFFICER TO COLLECT HIS RENT Health Commissioner Connell has been asked by a property owner to eollect rent from a place under scarlet fever quarentine. 'We are not collecting rent,” sald the doctor. Sugar Market. NEW YORK, Jan. ¥.-SUGAR- steady; ocentrifug: 4.T7e; ml“u-:. . Refined, steady; cut loaf, 6.f¢; crushed. 6.660; mould A, 6.30c; cubes, 6.)00; xxxx tioners' A, 5.¢; No. 1, 580c. Mutures ed quie and noon were foned, Sile, tofay Snd gt fiocn’ were Dry Goods Market. NEW YOR! Jan. O K.'.'l‘l %.~DRY GOODS-. with slightly better | Langd ere, and a stoutish man. Mr. Langdon didn't go in to ths The Strange Nfarv Pade I e e S A Satean’ 124 l DEAD AT 62 YEARS Case of 9 a finally took m chair quite near to mine. .~ About fifteen or mavbe twenty minutes ; By Frederick Lewis, Author of : SRR vy <[ llated 1 S0 Tt Moy, I, Py ¢ o ome out of the dinfug room, with Py **What Ha ed to Mary' Essana ok ¢ - % § Passes Away After Illness of Y t sight - A 4 5 the hallway. At sight of hef Mr. Lang (Copyright, 1915, by MeClure Publications.) | er's lap, and the elder woman was pray- | Long Duration. SYNOPSIS, g hiebd | don Jumped up and started ..;'» ,"" -lmn. ‘ - Mary Page. acircas. in ccused of the [ "And God sive us airensth - to go | imiending apparentls o mest hor. 1 was | nurder of J es Polloc! def g In a cigar jus e {ERECTED MANY BIG BUILDINGS [ qf James oo e 2 ciiack | throtigh this day, and grant Thy miIBWtY | yarned around 1 saw the stoutish man Frank P. Gould, aged 62 years, [ "0 000 08 " Justice, dear God, justice echoed | and ook anxiously along the corridor. president of the firm of F. P. Gould : 5 . Mary, and no artistry of the great actress |1 thought something might be wrong or | (Continude from Last Saturday.) could have given to that simple prayer |the young lady ill, so 1T went upstairs ‘f l:nn, contractors, died at his home, CHAPTER IL the poignancy that a great faith and a |mysed. "I was just at the top of them | 502 Park avenue, at noon yesterday The Drama of the Law, great sorrow gave it when I-theard & revolver shot abd-& | afer an fliness of some duration. He| When the first pale shreds of dawn | It was in Langdon's eves alone that |scream.” is survived by 1 widow P rising triumphant above the rivar mists | thepe were tears, for both women were “Was t ol & shot? : 7 his widow, one SOR, |yo "sailed by the dey's shill Whistes, | brabely Sriling when fhey. srested hims o £4 ot B L5 o V. R. Gould, president of the Omaha 5 . 3 Hm 4T don't know They came about a thin trickle of humanity deflacted " | Belldory’ exvhange, dnd two Shid: 8 : i ) °d |and not even the ordeal of golng Into | stmultaneously, 1 should say. and then ‘& 'm , AD o daugh- rv.rm‘| he m:ln’.urrn:ln n! hurrying work- | aourt, not even the breathless, terrifying | onie of ‘our bell hops comes running ters, Mrs. F. G. Roberts of Omaha "'"vd '5"'; ‘,;‘ ""T h :‘* 11.‘::1.- P""'; in ::' moment when she stepped across the |down the hall shrieking, ‘It's in the and Mrs. T. E. Allen of Lincoln A‘;“': ’:“‘m - ':;:: l“r’:fl:l‘:s' ere the | inreshold and saw that thronged room |gray ' soite! It's in® the gray suite!’ sister and his mother live in Los ‘”m”'h the pools grew l-rx‘er foe full of strangers, caused that serenely |and I ran down to that door. Wheén I Angeles, the corridor that led to the court room | *MPle calm to forsake Mary Page. | got there—" - He paused and gulped, i i "Pagt W The sight of her brought the crowd of |and ‘a little shiver ran through Mary. Funeral services will be held from | Where Mary Page was battling for her . . : spectators surging suddenly to their feet | For an instant her eyes closed. life_and liberty in the face of over the residence Wednesday at 2 o'clock with interment in For- est Lawn cemetery. Mr. Gould came to Nebraska in and after residing a few years at Blair moved to Omaha and became a member of the firm of Rocheford & Gould, with which concern he was identified unt) going into business with his son. He was & member of the Omaha Builders’ ex- ohange, the Master Builders' Assoclation of Nebraska, the Douglas County Pio- neers’ association, the Knights of Pythias and was a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist During his many years as a contractor he bullt many of the important build- ings of the city, including the Edward Rosewater, Miller Park, Mason, Webster and Cass schools; the Scottish Rite tem- ple, Methodist hospital, Omaha gas plant, Armour Bros.' plant on the South Side, the Loyal and Lang hotels, the Galety and Orpbheum theaters, treet rallway power house, shops and car barns, the McCague bullding and & number of other structures. In Lin- coln he bullt several of the university buildings, the Lincoln High and Ban- croft schools, also the Knutsford hotel of Balt Lake City and the city hall of Portland, Ore. He leaves a host of friends throughout the entire westein country. HUBBY EATS ALL CHOPS Harry and Ora Fleming, Tenth and Davenport streets, engaged in afternoon 1973 | FRIEND WIFE MAKES WAR residing at | whelming evidence was filled with the | Ereatest crowd it had ever known. | From |of the people outside, and in spite of {his confidence in Mary's innocence, his | heart sank. He was too good a lawyer not to realize how important a factor public sentiment was. He had felt ever since the coroner's inquest that there had been a note struck, not only in the newspapers, but { by the public itself, that declared Mary gullty. ~ There had even been a subtle suggestion that her plea of “not gulity" was no more than a mere formality. Ho wondered irfitably why it was that ‘Xhlfl “‘curbstone jury,” ag he termed ft career in such a fashion, however much she had loathed Pollock, and whatever the provocation to kill him. It was indon- ceivable that & girl who had reached the zenith of her career at 11 o'clock and had been hafled as one of the greatest vengeance on a ma. d watch the dawn come from a cell in the Tombs. As the young lawyer in his cab drew {up at the curb, within a hand's breadth |three women hung over an early edition straight into his face: LOVERS' FIGHT FOR LIFE! |Old Sweetheart Defends Mary Page, Noted Actress, Charged with the Murder of DAVID POLLOCK the window of his taxl as it threaded its way through the heavy | | traffic, Langdon could catch glimpses contemptuously-to himself, bould not real- |1z that Mary would not have ruined her stars of the century, should deliberately | fling all that success aside to wreak her |of an afternoon paper whose flaring headlines ‘flung their words like a blow % | nome, with & card of instruction to the ypecial secretary hus been added to (cause Henry insisted on eating six pork | parent to call a physiclan and not to re- the association staff) to give his entire | turn the child to school In any event until time to that work, K. B, | the temperature La. returned to normal. been appointed to the position and will i spend his time canvassing the fleld, vis- which 1s Iting the warkmen and teaching English |and civics to the men. The packing com- {panies co-operate with the assoclation and Ithe teaching is done at cost. chops in rapld siccession, thereby leaving Ora nary a chop. Ora hit Harry in the right eve with & |ghudder of aversion Langdon closed his cup of hot coffee, containing three heap- |eyes to shut out the ugly sight. ing teaspoonfuls of brown sugar. At this |notorfety of it was in truth almost as Harry wiped the cup from his counte- nance and bit Ora on the left forefinger. | Both were given their freedom in police | court on the following condition: That Harry in the future eschew eating all Another Wooer. Herman has name should be dragged in the mud of The words bit ltke acid, and with a The bitter to him as the awful, overshadow- ing fear. He hated to think that Mary's | public gossip—as an aotress who had shot | with Mor. with a whispering gasp of excitement or perhaps of expectancy, but at the first rap of the judge's gavel subside “When I got there,” the detective con {tinued, “Mr. Langdon was kneeling on they the floor lifting up Miss Page, who was with a satisfied settling back into their {in a faint, and saying over and over, | chairs like that of a first-night audience ['Mary, Mary; did you do this? And when the curtain rolls up. | just beyond them was the body of David There have been murderers placed on |Pollock, shot through the heart with the revolver beside him.” “Was the revolver nearer to Miss Page or to Mr. Pollock?’ the query snapped like_a_whip lash, and Farley's answer brought a whispering stir of excitement in the court. trial who have never given any outward | evidence of their gu'lt while they were in | court; others, falsely accused, who have shuddered under the shame and Infamy of their terrible position, and acted, at | moments, as though the crime were in- deed upon their heads. But the serenity of Mary was sublimated into something | | higher than endurance and greater than mere patience, and if she were gulity then she was the most amazing actress in the world—this was the thought that flashed | | through the minds of those who watched :hv»r, as she went quietly forward and 'took her place in the court room, the |eynosure of all eyes, hostile, critical, |curfous and sympathetic. Yet to all of them she was a riddle, a wonderful riddie, A marvel of self-control, a vision of for- lorn loveliness. More than one man or woman watching !felt a sudden understanding of why she :llud succeeded upon the stage-since she could act like this! It must have been born in her, this hypnotic, histrionle abil- ity, this wonderful quality of magnetism, augmented by youth and beauty. | And yet for all her charm there was ‘lllll that antagonistic note in the atmos- | | phere,, a_hostile sense of her gulilt that | Langdon at least felt poignantly. Though | he determined to meet the day with | squared shoulders and a smile, it was a | {relief ‘when the actual business of the | |trial began and Farley, the house detec- | I‘llve of the Hotel Republic, was called as the first witness. To him the prosecutor | (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) BEST TREATMENT ' FOR CATARRH S. 8. 8. Removes the Cause. Speclalists ‘:ave agreed that Catarrh is an Infection of the blood. Once you 1 get your blood cleansed of the Catarrhal poisons you will be relieved of Catarrh —the dripping in the throat, hawking and spitting, sores in the nostrils, and ~+ | | the disagreeable Lreath. It was caused, in the first place, because your ifmpov- erished blood was easily infected. Pos- | sibly a slight cold or contact with some: one who had a cold. But the point'is— don't suffer with Catarrh—it is not nec- essary. The remedy S. 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They will tell you how this purely vegetable Dblood tonic cleanses the' jm- purities from the blood by Iiterally wash- |lock “Was. murdered in the Hotel Repub- ilie.” He straightened up . and epoke | briskly. | -T, had come back from supper kind |of late,”” he said, “and made the roun) of the upstairs halls to see that the ness by TRIES TO BUY “PEACE:” GETS STRIFE AND WOE Kenneth Chetfield, Emporia, Kan., en- jves, and thus diphtheria, scarlet fever tered a secondhand book store on North Sixteenth #treet and in mellow tones asked for a volume of “Peace and Happi- Lord Barry. The proprietress the hauds of police officers and the ocourt. He was fined % and costa. e i Bssvr L g Helen Keller, Boyd, 2o to $1.60 . postuiue vt hin Stallings 1s Sore, Geo i not_at all it Freattont. dattney's dsciafon the Boston Braves to Epring training Atunts. send Miami for their the chops and any of Ora's fingers and Ora desist from serving cups of warm beverage a la mode. MILWAUKEE AGENT HERE IS NO LONGER A BACHELOR being just out of this work, Kenneth was Walter Mann, city ticket agent at the |urged to purchase another book. He re- | Milwaukes offices, surprised all of his fused to buy and grew nmu his | friends and associates by getting married disoussion I heard {demand for “Peace and Hi " that | Saturday evening, M 3 "";Mwu-nmod for disturbing the peace, and, instead recelved strife and woe at of this city becoming his bride. 4 Mann was looked upon as a confirmed His friends assert that he was bachel ,|never known to be in the company ol & woman and unknown to them, afte:r finishing his day’s work, he slipped into his best clothes and an hour later was jeased | & married man. Now he is back at his denk, dolng his routine work and re- celving the congratulations of his friends. Edna A. Dodge a millionaire, while just outside the door, with laughter and musie and lights, the (17 Clerks were on duty and had noth- ing it clean.—Advertisement. ing suspicious to report, then I went back to the lobby. There was a theat- rical banquet in the private dining room great world supped and danced. He hated the thought that his love for Mary had been :m‘lrcl;:d ';ln;d.dh:d m a ::‘?‘;nn the second floor, and as they are WAL g morsel to b r e orw, | S0metime pretty noisy and troublesome, |l ' ‘THE ose hungry for sensation; faa |1 took & chair where I could watch the were: times when -he was even SWd},.. "y 500 ihe crowd come in—" that ‘Mary was in prison—for there at| .o o prisoner, Mary Page, among (i least, in spite of its grim horror, there | . = BT TODAY was a semblance of peace. g Something of that was in his mind as he fought his way through the crowd that pressed about him, shouting his name, Lombarding him with questions and cling- ing to his arms in a vain effort to hold him long enough to make him talk—to get from him some hint or clue as to what the day might bring forth, At the cell door the lawyer paused, and e quickly raised his hat. Unbidden tears fil sprang to his eyes, for Mary was kneeling i like & little child, her head in her moth- sir, ‘she came In a little later OF MARY PAGE” First mflo‘ of STRANGE CASE THE EMPRESS AND WEDNESDAY “/ in the home is attained throfig the mellow, soft radiance of electric light. Tt lends a new charm to the most ele- gant room — especially when diffused from artistic lamps and fixtures. 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