Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 7, 1916, Page 4

HOW ELBERT GARNER DIDN'T GET HORSES| Swaps Land and Eleven Thou- sand Dollars for Animals He Never Saw. THEN MAKES A NEW DEAL One thousand head of wild, rangy Coconimo county, Arizona, broncos looked better to Elbert L. Garner of f Belle Fourche, S. D. than did his f forty-five lots in Puget Sound, Wash,, | and his $11,000 stock of general mer- " chandise in Fayette, Ia, so he swap~ | | } | NEW BRYAN PORTRAIT FOR STATE DEPARTMENT WALLS—It is painted by Irving R. Wiles, of New York, and will adorn the walls together with the portraits of many former secretaries of state. ped for the critters—sight unseen— and has been sorry ever since, This testimony was brought out in the celebrated “Arizona wild horse” case being tried before Judge Joseph Woodrough of the United States dis- trict court. It didn't make much difference to Elbert L. Garner that he would have to go out and lassoo the cayuses. What did appeal to him was that each of the horses would weigh about 1,000 pounds and would almost be the value of one of his Puget Sound lots, But it appears that Garner wasn't stung so badly after all. According to his testimony he started suit in the United States - district court for $13,000, and rather than have the mat- ter come to trial, J. S. Smith and sev- eral others who engineered the deal (which was negotiated in one of the Omaha hotels), gave him two quarter sections of land in Holt county, Ne- braska, to drop the matter. He did. Robinson Buys 'Em. Joshua Robinson, real estate dealer of Draper, S. D, testified that he al- most made a deal for one of his cli- ents, but that the client died and that he personally made a deal which didn't prove to the best of his ad- vantage. Robinson said he had a lot . > 3 and house in Iowa valued at $4,000 T OF W. RYAN. 4 and wn’: osferled teligl*llty Yllds hgu'e?‘, e e it h which ‘he declared that J. S. Smith |said, is contemplating a large card il in Ti had assured him were casily worth |party, in which the other suffrage Sweater, Violin, Auto Tires $50 each. Heh said hehthollshljhl: organizations will co-operate. Are Among the Recent Thefts roperty “worth -ninety horses. jus f i B B R Geeorge R. Childs, 2916 South Ron tis propostion finally culminated | Will Cost More to Run Twcnty-%ounh SHAcE Certs e e will be told by Robinson later in the | Auto and to Light Lam police that s ‘thief entered: his room proceedings. i g " P |at the above number snd. stole’ an Diamonds in Deal. Gasoline and kerosenc are going | overcoat. . Mary D. Becker, the comely cow-|to get another boost in Omaha, ac-| A lady's sweater and a violin were girl of Lincoln, Neb., who earlier |cording to advance information from | stolen from Paul Moore, 2218 North testified that she and her mother had | the Nicholas Oil company. The Ne- | Twenty-seventh avenue. lost a $1,000 diamond ring and their braska price on gasoline is now 17| A sneak thief took an overcoat be- home valued at $1,300, was recalled | cents for the tank-wagon brand, and | longing to Fred Martin from the Ed- on the ~witness stand to tell more |20 cents for the higher gravity gas-| wards' hotel office. about the transaction, She said that oline, T8 e Four automobile wheels, all covered the ring had sixteen smaller diamonds Raise in prices in this staté follow | with new tires, were stolen from the and was set in platinum. Just before [ 30 advance in Indiana and the Nich- | warehouse of the National Refriger- the deal was made she declared that | 01as Oil com;any learned that Indi-|ator company at Eleventh and Clark she took it off her finger, where she | 318 Prices had gone up. streets, omgg,fl WS G to Mr. Hastings. In an aside to re- - 48 JOUTH 162 ST, porters Hastings whispered that the rina brought only $12 when it was soll . Peter Allison; 5019 Chicago street, was called upon to identify one of the documents which figgred in one of the “wild . horse™. tions. One of the features of the trial is the taking: | of nearly all of the rchee S horsnd "oy Judee | Gifts -of Furniture Always Please witnesses to be examined. ) ! Solid Mahogany Sew- d | Ninety Per Cent : o Of ei;mskafiorn A m‘:::. but ve , Hag Boen Husked | 7, vivuncy' aranesd with sr Information eoming to the land de- || 8rate trays and compartments— partment of the Burlington is to the [] ~the finish is brown mahogany. effect that in Nebraska fully 90 per ] cent of the corn has'been gathered Price $18.00 and is cribbed or sold. This is con- 0 P ; e R et erally, by the middle of December, at Y y least one-half of the cora. s wtilln || 1D v, $15. D ot ads. o saiheied i ” e ade in gathering the corty th.irm!: is mfl‘:t_ed to the fine weather has been ‘the rule | all over the state and also to the fact that this fall corn has been fetch- ing prices about double those of for- mer years. Shaee Help for corn gathering has been scarce and wages have been around 4 cents per bushel and board. Good men have been averaging as high as $5 and now and then they have made as much as $7 per day. o b o AL, - Omaha Man Named District Manager “Bob” (C. E) Burns, an Omaha product, is getting up in the business world. He is now one of three dis- trict Wah! managers and has charge of Omaha, Kansas City, Wichita, Des Moines, Mnneapolis and Lincoln, . The Wahl machines are bookkeep- ing attachments to the Remington typewriter, and which can add, sub- tract and do other things to make the human mathematician almost un. . necessary. “Bob” Burns knows so much about them that he startled a convention of Wahl agents a short while ago by telling of the machine’s _many uses. Among those he - astounded by his lore was Mr, Stev- " ens, manager of the Wahl interests, who promptly asked the Omaha young man to visit him in New York. The two met, had a long interview, and Burns emerged from the as a manager, A ns' headquarters will be in Omaha at the Remington offices. p S ol v et In the Hole? Horrors! Suffs Start Things When Mrs. 1. Conner, treasurer, ‘announced the Omaha Suffrage as. sociation $6 “in the hole” Wednes- day afternoon, members got busy to lt7he deficit and raise funds ’ Gate-Leg Tables Many very attractive types of gate-leg and drop-leaf tables are shown on our floors. The tops are oval when opened and at one end is a small drawer. The sizes vary from 24x42°to 42x60. The table illusirated is 24242, priced at $15. Others §19, $21 up to $60. The gift that gives the utmost in enjoyment is a Victrola It brings within reach the finest and best music of every land. In many ways it is truly educational. You can order your Victrola at Orchard & Wilhelm's and pay for it on Easy Terms We have an ample stock in all woods, styles and finishes. Don’t delay your selection. Live Dolls in the costume of all countries are there THE BEE. ONAWA - IEURSDAY. DECEMBER' T AMB.- .- .. . o L e e Oma'ha’ Girl Meets was being congratulated there as the [tlement here. Mrs. Sullivan, who was Joslyn Hau Na’me ne:&l pr;}idhcmv s s . Miss Mahoney has been entertained Ma,ny 1n NeW YOI‘k by, Gaptain and Mrs. Otto Nesmith and ;)heir daugh!\;r, Q‘nola. 'also for- “ » o ... | mer Omahans. Miss Nesmith is win- In the wake of the news” is Miss ning success on the stage. At the Eva Mahoney, Omaha newspaper | Nesmith home, Miss Mahoney met woman now in New York. Miss Ma-| Mrs. Nesmith's cousin, Arthur §S. honey was on Governor's Island with [ Roche, the well-known writer. He is Major and Mrs. Carl F. Hartmann |the son of James Jeffrey Roche, noted when the Statue of Liberty was light- | Catholic writer. ed up last week. Major Hartmann,| The four Higgins girls, Pansy, who is in command on the island, was | Mary, Joy and, Mrs. E. H. Sullivan, formerly stationed in Omaha and had are also together in New York, Miss charge of the relief work following | Joy returning this week. Miss Pansy: formerly on The Bee, is now connect- ed with the Li Hill Social settle- T ~ :uer‘:’;," i ’i‘heey C:roex (hé daughtebrs of Of NGW Bulldlng Mrs. A. O. Higgins. Rev. D. E. Jenkins, president of th Charles Sherman BuYs L'n:ve‘rsity of Omabha, at regular morn(: FOI‘“ Acres from Agnew ing chapel meeting, announced that the new building on the university Charles R. Sherman has purchased grounds will be known as “Joslyn a forty-acre tract of land a mile north | hall.” 20 of Benson of F. A, Agnew for $12,000.{ “This building has been named in A trade was involved in the transfer, | memory of the late George A, Joslyn, Mr. Sherman trading in a piece of res- | whose beneficence made the building ’idcnce property, valued at $5,000, at|possible,” said President Jenkins. the tornado. Miss Mahoney was one | Higgins is a resident at Kennedy | Twenty-seventh and Pratt streets. He explained that the new hall will of the throng at the Hotel Astor elec- [ house, with Miss Jessie Arnold, who | Mr. Sherman will hold the land as an | be opened for regular sessions imme- tion night when Charles E. Hughes | was head resident of the Social Set- investment. diately after the Christmas vacation. . ekl i === happen T l\a[t)pened to them might o you — for in every . reat city therc are a hundred housand wrongs a day. 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