Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 22, 1916, Page 7

RIVAL FACTIONS ON EDGE FOR SET-10 Demo Political Caldron Warms Up as Jacks and Jims Sharpen War Knives, LuuwsY MEET SATURDAY The Jacks and the Jims are sharpen- ing their battle blades for a political set-to today. [Each side claims a Renediction from above and each charge. the other with all sorts of sinister and ulterior motives. With a wild west show in town, and two democratic county conventions sched- uled, there should be plenty of enter- tainment for the week-end revelers on_ the morrow. The Jims, attaches of the Housé of Dahlman, will hold their session at Washington hal' at 2 p. m. Officially this will be known as a meeting of the democratic county central com- mittee, called by Chairman Bennett, to select a new central committee, a chairman and 150 delegates to the state convention to be held «t Hast- ings next Tuesday. Jacks Meet in Evening. On the sixteenth floor of the City National bank: building at 8 o'glock Saturday evening the Jacksonian club will hold its own county convention, name a county committee and chair- man, select state convention delegates and transact such other business “as may properly come before the con- vention.” This Jacksonian convention is being called “in the interest of decency.” as Chairman F. L. Weaver stated in his public notice. This will give Douglas county two delcgali_ons to the democratic state convention and will add somewhat to the political interest of this commu- nity. Here is a pronouncement by H. L. Mossma, a facksonian leader, active in arranging for their convention: “Qur purpose is to take the county committee out of the hands of the machine. * 1t means the beginning of the end of Dahlman, whose feet are now slipping. There is no regular le- gally-constituted county central com- mittee at this time. We do not repre- sent any faction, but represent the democracy of the county. We have | asked that ward caucuses be held in the regular way, but at our convention we will not shut out any ward if it has not held a caucus. We are dem- ocratic in every way. We are demo- crats,” Statement by Jims. T. J. O’Connor and J. P. Butler, au- thorized to speak for the Jims, made this statement as one man: “Our methods. have prevailed for ten years and are approved both by law and cus- tom. We will ignore the Jacksonian club conventiofi and will not attempt to stampede' their little party, not at all, not at all. We represent the dem- ocracy of the county and do things in an orderly and legal manner. When Frank L. Weaver was chairman of the county committee the affairs were handled just as we are now doing. He has no kick coming. As a matter of fact, we do not believe the Jacks will send a delegation to the state conven- tion. It costs too much money and we don’t think they will pay the mon- ey to go:to the convention.” . . : Mayor Dahlman will be named as the new chairman of the county.com- mittee by, the Jims. Frank L. Weaver in all probability ‘will be named by the Jacks. Harmony Dove in Republican Camp, For the _republican convention, which meets in the big court room in the court huose, harmony with a big H is supposed 'to be scheduled. Everybody ,is agreed upon Frank S. Howell for. the new county chair- man, and the new county committee and state convention delegation are to be made up with a representation of all elements, the lists being under preparation by the subcommittee commissioned for that task at the meeting of the county committee two weeks ago. Cooler Weather and Showers in State According to yesterday's report to general through north and northwest Nebraska Thursday night, the precipi- tation being one-fourth to. one-half inch. Out in the state the weather was much cooler, yesterday morning, up | through the sand hill country the tem- peratures being down around 60 to 70 degrees. 1 In the Black Hills the temperatures during the last twenty-feur hours have been the most erratic of any place in the west. ‘Aécording -to railroad re- ports, in Deadwood and-Lead Friday the temperature was up to 110 degrees above zero. Yesterday morning there had been a drop of 50 degrees, with a northwest wind blowing. | After Many Motor iams, 2219 Binney street; the railroads, light showers were q‘""’ison, 2963 Harris street: P. L. Le- i father, THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JULY 22, Write Him a Letter SOMEWHERE NEAR MEXICO TELL 1M HE AINT GOT NoTHIN “WHY NOT SEND HIM ‘THE BEE' EVERY DAY ?* RreoeD Auto Hits Train; Occupants Saved | By Mud Puddle Mrs. Elmer Weber, wife of a Sarpy county farmer, living a few miles south of Papillion, had a remarkable escape from death or serious injury Thursday afternoon when she and her two children attempted to drive their machine across the Rock Island tracks ahead of ‘an eastbound passen- ger train, The fore Kart of the machine struck by the speeding engine the hood was wrenched loose and thrown scventy feet, The car and its occupants were spilled into a gully at the side of the track. Mrs, Weber and her family were returning home from Papillion. An embankment hides the approach of a train from the west, and not hearing the whistle Mrs. Weber, who was driving, started to cross. | All three were thrown clear of the demolished vehicle and ‘landed in the water and soft mud. Aside from minor injuries and a severe shock and fright, the trio was uninjured. The machine was a total wreck, was and Troubles Doctor Lands In Court Dr. Charles F. Shook had consider- able trouble with vehicles Thursday evening. When he started out with his seven-passenger touring car he had proceeded about a block when a tire blew out. Returning home he es- sayed a second trip in the electric, but it apparently was tired and couldn't be persuaded from the garage. It being warm for the limousine, Dr. Shook climbed into his roadster, which ambled along at such a rapid | rate that he was haled into police court on a golden rule summons for | speeding. | Explaining before Judge | ubat that he was attempting to ne- | gotiate an urgent professional call, the | physician was discharged. L. Ches. ter, 2623 Han.ilton street; G. D. Will- | N. S. Dick- | naugh, 3817 L street, and L. B. Bas- ford, 2568 Douglas street, were each | fined $2.50 and costs for traffic vio- | lations. | | Street Car Company Sued for | Alleged Assault on Passenger | Ledure Galloway, through his Charles C. Galloway, has' brought suit against the Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway com-| pany for $1,000 damages. Galloway, who is 12 years old, claims to have been assaulted by a conductor while a passenger on a, street car. | {|mw||u|||||||n!||u1;uuirw|||mrm|i|uxmnm:lmi||||mmmrmmnnnl|xn|muu|||||mmii||u?;tnuttzmnummmummmmnfiimnmfl?mu} LET’S GO! The Biggest and Best | Frontier Day and Round Up { Show with Largest Collcetion of WILD WEST Artists ever assembled at the Douglas County Fair Grounds Jul 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd -Under Auspices of AK-SAR-BEN TWO PERFORMANCES DAILY Afternoon at 2:15 Evening at 8:00 Reserved Seats on sale at Beaton’s Drug Store, 15th and Farnam, and Merritt's Drug Co., 20th and Farnam Streets. Emfiimmmlmlttlm‘ll.%.mx4'{(IiIIIIHWMilll{;fli‘»fl!iiliilflllf}ll!?' e, Continued Warm Weather is the Local Prediction Omaha's maximum temperature went up to 86 again Thursday. Cool- ing off a good deal during the night, the thermometer was down to 72 at 7 a. m. The noon temperature yesterday was 85, while that of Thursday noon was only 79. The thermometer rose twenty degrees from 5 a. m. to noon today, from 65 to 86. The hottest point in the corn and wheat belt was Valentine, Neb., which registered a maximum of 96 degrees yesterday. Temperatures of 90 to 96 degrees were common in the wesgern ?‘nd central part of the state Thurs- ay. l);rukcn Bow got .60 of an inch of rain and Oakdale got .15 of an inch. MISSOURI PACIFIC PLEADS POYERTY Claims Can't Make Both Ends Meet Under the Two-Cent Fare Law, STATE FIGHTL.« THE CASE Pleading poverty and nonsupport, the Missouri Pacific railroad is pre- senting its case before Frank H. Gaines, as referee, and an array of legal talent and railway commission- ers in the federal building. J. A. C. Kennedy, attorney for the Missouri Pacific, won a victory for his road several months ago, when he secured a temporary injunction pre- venting the enforcement of the state 2-cent fare law on the Missouri Pa- cific’s 390 miles of road in Nebraska, claiming the road wasn't making money. Since then this road has been charging 3 cents a mile, The present hearing is to secure a permanent injunction. Attorney Gen- eral Willis E. Reed, with his assistant, Charles S. Roe, and State Railway Commissioners Hall and Taylor and the commission’s expert, Powell, are arding the interests of the state. . A. C. Kennedy of Omaha and lley Waggoner of Atkinson, Kan, are presenting the case of the rail- road. Testimony introduced by the rail- road was that it has lost money in Nebraska in many years; for exam- ple, $218,737 in 1914 and $189,304 in 1915, Claims Operating Loss. The road states that for every $1 received from passenger traffic in Ne- braska it pays out $1.08 for operating that traffic. Controversy arose between the road auditor and Expert Powellson the manner of writing off depreciation. _| The auditor stated that on a car cost- ing, for example, $8,000, a certain sum is charged up to passenger expenses each year ?or depreciation. When this depreciation fund reaches the cost of the car it stops. If the car is rebuilt the rebuilding expense is also added to the passenger traffic ex- pense account. It was held by the state that this was not proper because the car in many cases 18 still in existence and an asset after its total cost has been written off. New North Platte Depot Is Nearing Completion The Union Pacific passenger depot being constructed at North Platte, which replaces the one destroyed by fire last spring, is_well along toward completion and will be ready for oc- cupancy this fall. The structure is practically fireproof, modern in every respect and one of the best’lgauem er stations on the system. The old grpot at North Platte contained a hotel. The one being erected will be used only for railroad purposes, EXTRAORDINARY VALUES TODAY IN OUR July Glearance Sale Over 3,000 Suits for men and young men. 'l'he Suits were not purchased purposely for a sale, but all our regular stock priced for quick clearance. gy ALL NOW | Blue or Gray Serges, ed, Worst- Cassimeres and Cheviots, in all this ‘wanted and styles, many | being for wear. table rly Fall Sizes for | all men up to 50- ED inch chest meas- SPECIALS IN COOL CLOTHES FOR HOT DAYS Genuine Palm Beach Suits, $7.50 values, now....$4.75 Cool Cloth Suits, gray or tan, $10.00 values, now. .$6.75 Priestley Mohair Suits, $15.00 grade, now......$9.98 White Duck or Khaki Pants, special............$1.00 Shirt Sale Shirts, also Sport Shirts, 88¢c $5.00 Tub Silk Shirts $3.45 Striped effects and the new Solid Colors. Sleeve Men’s Summer | All Straw Hats Al$150and 32| Union Suits Reduced 75¢ kind . . .48¢ $1.00 kind .68c 4 $1.50 kind .98¢ All Sizes. Athletic, also Long or Short 1-3 Off Panamas Excepted. $3 Panamas, $1.08 $5 Panamas, $3.48 $7.50 Panamas, $4.98 ! Broken Lots, Styles | But All Sizes. 1916. Honey-Dew Melon, Hybred : Fairy Food, Now On Market Honey-dew melons have arrived on the local market. Sounds like the food of nymphs and fairies, but they're intended as food for regular human beings. They are large as cantaloupes, smooth-shelled white. They are a cross between pineapples, cucumbers, cantaloupes and casawba melons. They are very sweet and come from California. You can acquire title to one for 40 or 50 cents. Blueberries, nice, big ones, are on the market, coming from the wilds of Michigan, Blackberries and red raspberries are on the down grade. Cherries and currants are nearly gone. Strawberrics and gooseberries have vanished. But other things have come to take their places and gladden the tdste of men. Here are Bartlett pears, big and sound, from California. And here are grapes, Malaga grapes, from the vineyards of California. Peaches are here, both from Texas and California. They won't be very plentiful this year because in most Klnces there is either no crop or only alf a crop. Plums are plentiful. New apples are getting more abun- dant every day, not good for eating so early in the season, but fine for pies and apple sauce. Watermelons! Um, but they are | fine now, red and juicy, luscious and and | sweet and good to eat. Very reason- able in price, too. Cantaloupes are also still in their heydey. In the line of vege'bles, as Frank Tinney calls them, you can get almost anything, with the exception of toma- toes. The latter are very scarce, A few of the vanguard of the home- grown crop have arrived, but they're not at all abundant yet. Corn is now within the reach of al-| most everybody, and retails around 20 cents a dozen. Who Will Help Clea_r__T_his Deht? Who will help raise $98 more needed to clear the mortgage from the Negro Women's Christian home, 3029 Pinkney street? This institution is being conducted as an infirmary for aged negro women by the Negro Young Women's Chris- tian association, ‘the property having been bought two years ago for $1,400, of which $798 was carried as a mort- gage. The women have raised $700 and want only $98 to enable them to clear the whole debt. Secretary E. F. Denison of the Young Men's Christian association has consented to receive contributions and apply them to the purpose. P oo e e AGED MAN HANGS SELF FROM RAFTER -* John Simonson, Pioneer Among Danish Citizens of Omaha, Was Mentally Deranged. DAUGHTER FINDS BODY John Simonson, 80 years old, 2723 Spalding street, hanged hijmself short- ly before noon yesterday in the base~ ment of his home, The body was discovered suspended from a rafter by Mr. Simonson's daughter, Mrs. E. S. Cole of St. Louis, who has been visiting here. The dead man had been mentally deranged for some time and had threatened to kill himself on several occasions, members of the family said. He was a pioncer among the Dan- ish citizens of Omaha. He is survived by five children, Louis, Nonnie and 1da of Omaha; Mrs. E. S, Cole of St. Louis, and Mrs. G. Johnson of Kansas City. Coroner Crosby will hold an in- quest. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS Mrs, F. A. McCormick and daughter, Miss Alice, of the Volunteers of America, have returned from a two weeks' vacation in St. Louls and Chicago. HARTMANS EXTRA SPECIAL BARGAINS YOU CANNOT EQUAL THESE \ WHE 'ALUES ANY ~--COMPARISON WHL PROVE It It Will Pay You to See Our Mammoth Stock and Get Our Prices Before You Spend a Dollar for Furniture, Rugs, Etc. CONVENIENT MONTHLY PAYMENTS GLADLY ARRANGED. ELEGANT BOLID O0AK, FOUR-POST COLONTAL BED—Made of selected wood —beautifully finished in gol -nlltlnll{ high. Full asise only. Fully worth $20, very remarkable valu at this low price...... $10.8 A VERY SPECIAL ROCKER VALUE— Massive frame is made of selected hard t and back upholstered in high on leather; spring ; built for solid s S5 28 Brat ranteed imit construction below comfort only; a wonderful this very only. You can pay more, but you can't buy bet- ter furniture. A_BANITARY WHITE ENAMEL LINED REFRIGERATOR—Built on selentific prin- has roomy provision compartment; one wire nickel shelf ; heavy double-wall con- struction; patent drip eup, ete; 26-lb. | ciples, capacity ; for small spart- ment house u l:;l box 48-INCH PLANK TOP LIBRARY TABLE— Built of selected hard wood and highly polished in golden: note the artistionlly shaped pillars; $10.96 Let Hartman Feather heavy plank top fitted with secret drawer; my maga- zine shelf below; an unusual bargain at only 10 inches hi; wide and lines complete with e feet of cord in socket at this un- heard of low price. .., HANDY SULID OAK WELL MADE TELE- PHONE STAND-—Complete with stool, slides under stand when not in use, con- venient shelf for telephone book ; neatly finished in Your Nest. SANITARY COMFORT KITCHEN CABINET— Buflt of solid oak throughout; has roomy compartment for dishes; metal flour bin with sifter; handy bread box and silverware drawer; entire cabinet oll rub finish ; one of our very best offers for tomor- MASSIVE TENSION TABLE-—Made entirely of selected tals, . The turned posts measure 52 ins. . . N A DECIDED - BARGAIN ' IN WELL MAD] . 0 Eru and two small drawers; large sixe. French bevel plate mirror; irely of - slally quoted tomorrow, DR YL A WONDERFUL SPECIAL IN AN ELEGANT WICKER TABLE LAMP ~Finished in baronial brown; stands de is 11 inches in faney flowered cre- HIGH BACK FIBRE REED ROCKER—Made of high grade material and elegant!; hed in the natural; ‘has. full roll nat d is extremely y nrmmorm..$2.6 -INCH TOP SOLID OAK EX. has heavy eigl octngon pedes., upported by‘heavy scroll colonial base; xtends to six foot tol finished in golden only; our very low price, at MAN. REED BABY CARRIAGE—Has heavy tubular steel frame, 16, inch wheels fitted with'’ heavy rubber Iy tinished’ g b::‘onl‘:r b ural; interior upholstering to i A de- ¢ 2 $13. value,: ) ‘= S B & et - &