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I'HE BEE: OMAHA, TU 1916, SDAY, APRIL 11, CROPS OF STATE IN FINEST CONDITION First Crop Report Shows Winter Wheat Comes Through in Very Good Bhape MUCH SPRING WHEAT I8 The Burlington is out with the first crop report of the year and until the end of the growing season this re port will be issued weekly, dealing with erop conditions in Nebraska and the other states through which the company operates, west of the Mis- wourl river, An in the past, the Burl ton's weekly crop report will be gathered by the sta tlon dkents along the line, They will make porsonal observations in the local ftion whers they are looated, will gather Q the opinfona of farmers, Implement deal ors and grain men, Theso opinions and the other data secured will be sent to the general agent at Lincoln, who will make a wummary by divisions and for ward the same to the office of the gen eral manager in Omaha. These reports will not only denl with orop conditions | but wijl contain data relative to weather | and precipitation l Soil tn Fine Condition, | | v IN The report at hand takes into sideration conditions up to and ending Inwt Baturda eral Bupesntendent Young amserts that throughout the agricultural sections of Nobraska the woll la in exocellent con ditlon, that the ground fs full of water and that owing to the cool weather there has been little evaporation the wuperintendent Anmage and in his summary, Gen During the winter, nanerts | the winter krowing divis there was nothing to whent and the four whenat " of the Burlington In basis of ent he plant in per ond) condition is an follows on Divislon 14 Wiymore ‘" % McCook " it in figured that the slest storm during the latter part of March dmmaged the ' =) winter wheant slightly, smoothering the but on the whole the conditions orable, The neronge ant) slightly Jems than lnst year Plowing for Corn The estimate 1 made that in the south- | ern and central portions of the state fu 50 per eeng of the spring wheat has been \ pown and that something v cent in the axtrame northern Plowing for corn has commenced and taking the stats as a whole, it s estl mated that 18 per cent of the ground has been turmed over, The warm weather in March started the buds on the frult trees, but they have been hald back by the subsequent enld, o that no damage has resulted, ex copt In rare instances, Mesdows and pas- tures are in good conditjon and in parts of the state the new g such A start that it 1s being The precipitation during the last week, whila general over the statg, was light, ranging from little more than a trace to one and one-fourth inches, the heaviest being at Bayard, in the extreme portions )| rainfal went Bill Ure Deserts ' Sinking Ship in Its Time of Need | wiillam U're, county treasiuger and erstwhile campalgn manager for “Bob” Smith, Is In New York for "two weeks of business.” And thereby hangs a tale, according to who hava been watching the ampalgn. ["re |8 meampering to safety now that \V, he foels “Orafty” Bob's craft sinking. He i foxy to k around and monkey many present |Fair Increase in | but 226,000 bushels & INTEREST KEEN N | THE BEE'S GONTEST Miss McHugh, Head of the Drama | League, Says It is Snlendid Along Educational Lines | REVIVES MEMORY OF THE BARD Misn Kate MecHugh, president the Drama league and the deepest Fhakespearean student In the city thousands who tempted to solve The pearean Tercentenary prize which appeared In SBunday's Other members of her household clnding her slster and cousin, Tone Dufty, h'\lulrt-li of the characters Al Try the was one of the at Bee's Shakes puzzle | Boe in Miss | worked out a Pussle We all fooled with the puszle for. a while but | confess | aimn not ver pc- | censful with puszies,” laughed Miss Mc-| Hugh while expressing s the Hee's prize contest It 1 & splendid thing along tionul lines," sald she. Tt will e | people to work to Increase the now } odge of Bhakespeurean characters and | thelr minds & number have long since fors) contest ha perhape reoall to of charnoters they gotten. The prize pussle thinking the contest hau familla Indesd met everyons 1o wbout of no advantage for thowe with the maater's works the working out of the purzle would be of interest to them, b® [ am convinced | there is & great army of puzzle-lovers Bhakospears onrse alrondy ! To them, onl Miss McHugh ventured the, thougl that some oager might not | whole s work y famllinrize o but might be to consult order 1o find the the cants namen in the | Alrendy numerous answers have ar- | | rived, the first morning mal ng in fifteen, although the contest in | started | Grain Supply on | the Omaha Market | corresponding date | u wornge Compared with the of Innt grain stocks In wter than last yenr 000,000 bush on NT There (s, however, closs to then. The princlpal falling off s In corn. The differsnt ¥iuds on hend now and o year ago, In bushels, Is ax follows Now Wheat 1,148,000 Corn 148,000 Ontn 794,000 ) Rye 4b.000 83000 Barley 0,000 7,0m Totals 8,115,000 2,880,000 | The holding of the large quantity to be due to the fact for export | wheat s asserted that while the demand good It eannot be moved out board ports and consequently maining In elevators The governmant report of last week had | W of wea-|© t s re & bullish effect 1pon the Omaha whent | O magket and sent prices up from | to cents. Receipls for the day were 10 cars, and sales were made at $1.06 (0w $1.14 per bushel The corn receipts The wsnles were al 6 to W carlon were w | cenfs bushels, % cent up from Eaturda | m to Oats were stendy unchanged from market. | Careless Use of Largest Electric Sign in Middlewest I - e - P PRSI 1} 8 Dooooo AR Jiggent electric slgn between Chi I the Pacific const las been i the corner of the old Brandels Ing xt tall n els more of wheat on hand now ”“""W(Jmall the average y enth and Douglan streets I «n In weventy feet high and forty ot wide. The leiters in the word Bran In nlor ¢ five feet high (very near ing man) More Braves the Cold Water at the Municipa' Beach f the gh the pened, the I'he ar s regular season » nothing mers enjoying the water any time of the tact 1d not exclie Baturday and wsold at 3 to dllg cents per bushel, The receipts were twenty- |, .. three carloads of v‘vu Tomorrow being presidential primary (., election day, thera will be no Chicago market and consequently no Omuha grain | * 41440 T wal ph th il She dressed herself after a awim and mig er has g ng &% to h omminsic with he dlscards.” That ia the way one ‘ M C o Pistol May Cost % Oh, no, T wouldn't say he is deserting ' | han his friends in time exclaima La,d H]S T,l‘ft L()g ne / another. “In my jud Mr. Ure 1o Lok | A\ simply demonstrating th tor part of | i, aieaaness on the part of an uniden- | or r showing remarkably |04 man and woman using ar \ f \ dgment : mutic pistol nea nk Aw "o . ‘ went to New | ...y cost the left legx of Yor . bonda, 'I Willlam Stude, who with ¥ " ne ¢ K I have waited until after near the west end of the Illin Cer d remained here helP | ot bridge . s had he Young Stude was chopping wood Iv AT " own yard when the bullet struck i Montague Tancock — |me e Residents of the neighborhood Reaches London from War Front |, OBJECTS TO USE OF ITS BOTTLES BY OTHERS by | l AILROADS ACCUSED OF i WORKING MEN OVERTIME | ' \ N ke Cveeke 1 § ia the practica of amateur hunters ralists nd marksm harge proudo nat arter lake onn ¥ tamily lost a valuab w smashing and narrow escapes WILL MORRISON DIES , IN DENVER SATURDAY | ged 41 yea . f Aha all bin lite, died or Baturday nig I & yea \ Morr " " Morrison a . W . | \ . i death \ v SUIT BRINGS UP ECHO OF SCHROEDER-RAPP MURDER ASK FOR ADJUCATION OF MOVIE THEATER LEASE | v » " 4 Ma | e L o f olle Misrs 0o alibad o | LR L TR e o | e In sleal 0om ab that n few men mah has b varlous oceasic wloner hogan have me doots «kih ngo Commissioner Hum wrk nystem reported that se the mundeipal beach at Carter lake Superintendent rtmen thin, ren t ol tru has been enjoying the lake springtime season ath house states she has been Bhe i sportions, t 30 ye vk biue bathing sult and seoms o water as Iv el hardy men had been observed bathing at )| Al has not been ugninst awim- could of early April rest, but when Redman and t reported that a g at the lake the on month com notice mrked Mr, Hum. e that & woman even at this The caretaker neveral times, and requested use of a woman of un- of falr come ars of age. BShe ch as It the t he August instead of early hurries away as soon as she ner | LY the watchman any Ink dentity Hummel does not look of women at the muny | ¢ eoks ye tting roa hig t populn & Dlace Making " Wt el f ALY oAl & “There’'s a Reason” | cerning his \PRIGE OF HENS IS | Great Demand for Guinea of Wild Fowl | FARMERS HOLD BACK HENS I I I fI People who have turned from the enting of besf and pork to chicken n the hope of thereby solving the of reducing the high have run against another { groblen cont | |If r lving SIAR Ant fall and Iast wipter Lat could be hought, but now, it has | he demand feovtocs santawmesseneree suvene se v 2 f " ot farmers are A g ' . ns laying season s | oW, 1t held during the nes in | the ess il Iny g0/ oul of slght, %0 fAr a8 price s conts en amoring for Wanis Gulnen Meun of Mhe poullry David Col most extensive #l denlers In anrarts (hat he would buy 6,00 dozen of Guineas If he than 290 lamy I ould et them. He would pay $.00 to ¥ flluminate this « per dowen. Tle ansorts that now they are tom 18 equipped wit pngenble lettare | yolling right slong about the same notch which will permit 1 ‘ | with spring chickens and much harder Lighted bulletin of wtor 1o get, owing 10 the limited supply The tirst tlluminatior K place Solur he great demand for Guineas af ihe day night, and made orner th' present high prices s due t brightest spot in Omul@ The sxm 8tand | (hat their mest fs dark and save f out ltke & charlot of fipe, . wild fowl, the flavor being al e same an that of prairie chlok A that In many of th: rn elties they nre estn rants of the ea werved as prairie chickens Here's New Yorier o il Who Knows Omaha Tells Police He is Metropolitan City ~ Set Fire to House . at Owners’ Request William T. Priest, who lives nanr Glen Y., rural route Ne hua (aken hix pen in hand and written to the post master of Omaha (o wee whether the post Albert Mitehan of the Bouth Hide, who master can give Him information cop- |S4mits Be set fire to & MSouth #ide Awelling on December 10, 1916, was sr Horr Om Mrs. Mary B owned a Indlsns, doesn’'t state in her husband s ranch was | rested by Detectives Rich and Pranowski and in now being held by the p on the charge of defrauding an ina: company Mitchan asserted to the police that he | “Her husband ranch in ahn and was whot by Mr. Priest. He purt of Omaha writes | what located, Neither does he g0 Into detatls | T TN ise tpon the instiga- | and tell whether the Indian shot Mr | L0 "0 0y ners, James P, Horne Hore with an arrow, rifle, revolver of | pou uinth and @ streets, and William shotgun | Kane, Porty Aourth and G streets, both But he In going ‘to Investigate thor-| ... .opies on the Bouth Sde. Mitchan oughly Just what became of hix sister| o ooq he was to recelve $100 for burn olit In the wilds of Omaha. Bhe may hae ing the house, but that Horne and Kane | tried to compromise on_ W% after (he act wan committed, He sald Horne PUL AN | gnd Kane recelvad 3400 Insirance money Horne and Kane were also placed un | dor arrests on the charge of Aefravding rance company. Both deny story een killed by Indians Have you a newspaper published in he anks If wo advertisement in to try to find my sin Omaha I will SNOW LEAVES WESTERN ROADS IN BAD CONDITION | KANSAS CITY WOMEN ROB | ILLINOIS FATHER AND SON | George B, King, father, and ¥ H. King, | of Bloomington 111, met BAith War- | den and Pva Jackson of Kansas City, | with whom they became decldedly | friendly, much fo the sorrow of each Mr. King, the elder, is minus & consider able portion of $100, which, he asserted in | the in Mitchan The snow storms in the vicinity of Denver the Iast few days have left the highways In that section of Colorado In for motoring to advices recelved at the Omaha Auto moblle club non poor condition according Auto Denver trom the that the snows In t Denver were nis police court, was taken from him by th this time of the ar | women The Iatter pleaded not guilt romds were teporied to be | in court, but were fined 30 and comts practically Impassable each { ! { SOARING HIGHER | Hens, | ||| | Which Are Served in Place ““‘ | i aught , the fnwpiration and has | (il inrted 'to go wiyward I 1his week on the poults arket | ||| ¢ hens are quoted 17 cents per | (I} potind wholesale, the highest price in the history of the ponitry market In fact, on the Omaha market, poul f1y (s welling at as high prices as ) New York ity due to the fac Lat the recelpts are not sufficlent to ’ chicken was about the cheapest meat | [lifIHf \I“ TRIUMPAH Phone Tyler 1000 o £ Warmer Days Are on the Way and you will then want a refreshing, stimn- LUXUS MERCANTILE CO,, | - Jetter Brewing Co., Ltd. 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