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Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18
COUNCIL BLUFFS.
MINOR MENTION.

Davis sells drugs.
Twenty-hve-cent photos. 30s Broadway.
EKpert watch repairing Lefert, 400 BY.
For rent. modern house. 7l9 Sixth avenue.
Celebrated Metz beer on tap Neumayer.
New shipment OF wood for pyr2graphic
work G. h. Alexander e. Co., 333 b way.
Real estate in all parts of the city for
sale. Thomas Il. Casady 23j Pearl street.
Wanted, lady stenographer. Apply at
off1ce of Leonard Everett, Is Pearl street
Mrs T. D. Sweeney Of Wheeling. w Va,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. LOUIS
Zurmueh.en, 108 Blum street
Victor Nielsen aId Clara 1iete, both OF
yesterday by Justice Ouren.
Before papering your rooms we want TO
show you our elegant 1903 designs. {. 3.
Paint, OIL and Glass company
The remains of Mrs. F. r. Kahler of 170l
Fourth avenue were taken yesterday AFTER
noon to Waterloo Neb., for burial
The Ladies' Aid society of St. Johns Eng
lish Lutheran church will meet Thursday y
afternoon at the residence OF Mrs' H.
Ouren, 124 Fourth street.
Schmidts elegant new photos very --latest
shapes and sizes, Si5o, - and SD dozen
work guaranteed. Schmidt, 53l Broadway.
The case against w. s. Thomas, charged
with embezziing money belonging 10 ms
SPiSysI Sns SysIsse9 a IN The district court yester
uay by the county attorney.
Hon. Lafayette Young, publisher of the
Des Moines Capital, was In the city yester-
day, enroute home from a visit in Omaha.
While in the city he called on Judge smith
Mcpherson and officers OF the federal court
The funeral of Mrs. c. e. Hlnman will
be held this morning at 10 clock from the
family residence I'm Morningside. Inter
ment will be in Walnut HlIi cemetery, The
services will be conducted by Rev ). W.
Calfee of Broadway Methodist church.
On Friday and Saturday, March 20 and
q, we will sell at our store, 331 Broadway
a few slightly damaged sewing machines,
ranging In price from s. up. Call early IL
you want to take advantage OF this excep-
tional offer. The Singer Sewing Machine
company.
Knoxall council Royal Arcanum, of South
Omaha has invited the members Of F'del ty
council OF this city to visit IL Friday night
All members desiring to go are requested &
notify the committee on arrangements, con
sisting OF Charles A. Beno, h.. A Trout
man, George II. Nicoll and E. Mcconnell
Christian Home last week were $2S2 u
being $S272 above the needs of the week
and decreasing the deficiency in this fund
to date to SO9.67. In the managers FUND
the receipts were Sl6.2, being $lS.75 below
the needs of the week and increasing the
deficiency to uH.S5.
Mrs. Brown of Avoca, an insane patient
enroute to the state asylum at Clarinda,
was seized with stroke of appoplexy yes
terday at the Transfer depot and was taken
TO the home OF her son in Omaha in an am
bulance. Permission for her removal to
her sons home was granted by the Local
commissioners on insanity.
Thomas Luckabill, we'll known charac-
ter in police court owing to his thirst for
liquor, was arrested yesterday on a war
rant from Justice Carson's court charging
hlm with being a chronic dipsomaniac. He
was committed to the county jail and his
trict judges with a view to sending him to
the hospital at Mount Pleasant.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18
shamrock in Evidence.

There was no formal celebration OF st.
Patrick's day in Council Bluffs this year.
There we're the usual services In st. Fran
els Xavier's and st. Peters Catholic
churches. Ribbons and shamrocks were to
be seen upon the streets and few lucky
ones sported the real thing. Alderman
Tinley was one of the proud wearers OF a
real bunch OF real shamrocks sent him oy
a friend from the "suld SOD" In the even
ing the members Of the Ancient ORDER OF
Hibernians enjoyed an informal program
at their hall over the First National bank.
There were a number of impromptu ad-
dresses and vocal selections were rendered
by George Hughes, Ed cogley, Miss Rose
Brady OF Omaha and others. Misses I'm
thank and Tracy assisted with several Sc
lections on the piano.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18
MUCH TALK OVER TELEPHONES
City Council Puts in an Evening, but
Takes No Action on Fran
chfaea.

The city council met as a committee Of
the whole yesterday afternoon and after
davoting nearly four hours to the discus
sion OF independent telephone systems ad-
journed without taking any action on the
two ordinances introduced Monday night,
beyond adopting a resolution favorlng the
connecting OF Council Bluffs with the in
dependent telephone companies in this sec
tion Of the state.
Representatives of the two local inde-
pendent companies now asking franchises
and of the Bell company we're present.
The committee took up first the propo-
sition Of the Western Iowa Independent
Telephone Telegraph & Terminal COM
pany, the company headed by DR. d. Mac
rae, jr.. and his associates. The discus
sion on this occupied so much Of the ses-
sion that the committee had to leave the
consideration OF the proposition OF the
Council Bluffs Independent Telephone COM
pany, the company organized year ago by
H. H. Van Brunt, Emmet Tinley and others,
to another day.
During the discussion, 1t was announced
that the tolls of the Macrae company
would be as follows: For five miles and
under twenty miles. 20 cents; for FIVE miles
and under, Is cents; for twenty miles and
are regulated by the association of inde-
pendent companies.
Alderman Casper wanted a clause in
serted in the ordinance providing for the
payment to the city by the company Of 8
per cent of its gross earnings, but he
failed to secure a second
Several Of the aldermen declared them
selves as opposed to the establishment OF
two telephone exchanges in the city and
this was taken to indicate that they did
not favor the proposition Of Van Brunts 5
company while they did that Of its rival,
the company formed by DR.. Macrae, which
will only establish toll stations and CEN
trail office.
Alderman Huber was in favor Of the
council taking a junketing trip to investi-
gate conditions in towns where two OPP
posing telephone companies were operating,
providing the companies now seeking
franchises would bear the expense. Both
companies agreed to this and Attorney
Tinley for his company even went so far
as to offer to bear the entire expense a
representative of the Nebraska Telephone
company also offered on the part OF the
company to bear its share Of the expense
The suggestion was, however, votec DOWN
In answer to the statement that the in
dependent companies were unable to es-
tablish connections with the Bell company
a representative of the Nebraska Telephone
counany stated that the fault lay with the
independent companies. The Bell com
pany. he stated, was willing to accord
connections provided Bell phones woulo
be used. The phones he said would pe
leased at a mere nominal rental to the
companies and would be installed tree ol
expense to the patrons.
The discussion throughout the entire
meeting was more or less informal with
the result that the aldermen practically
arrived at no decision.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18

rendered his resignation, to take effect
July 1. and It has been accepted. but he
states that he has no definite plans for the
future. He Is being considered as a possi-
bic candidate for representative in the
state legislature from Mills county and it
Is possible he will be nominated next sum-
mer. He has been strongly urged TO allow
his name TO be used in that connection but
has given 20 assurances. nr. Powell has
been at the head OF the institution many
years and retires solely because OF a desire
to unload the heavy responsibilities Of the
place
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18
Gravel roofing, a. H. Read, 1875 Main St
Real Estate Transfers.

These transfers were filed yesterday in
the abstract, title and loan once OF ]. w.
Squire, 10l Pearl street
c. s. Lefferts and wife to A E
Hardke lot g. block 49, Riddles sub
Minnie L. Trude and husband to o. P.
add, ", ,d....,;,..,:..,,,..:. ,..,.,...... $500
Kelly, lot !. block II, Hyatt's sub
Hannah b. Lackey and husband 10
Ella II. Petubone MI lots / and g
block 8, Wrights add, W. d.....,..... 1OOl
Andrew Peterson and wife TO Mabel
l. Siegfried, feet lot 10 and 33
feet lot IL, block 8, Glendale add,
Clara e. Talbot and husband To- q, A''O'
l.. Mundort, VIA SEX 4, except IL
acres; % acres sell seL 4; VII
,,sTS 10, and et seq s-li-sS; v. d. 49,. 1900
Fort Dodge Railroad company
part swh sex and part SEX swA g.
1882, W, d,,.,,,,....,............... 5000
Ellen f. Reed and husband 10 Il. r.
Robertson, lot 5, block 10, Carson,
Henry Paschei and wife to wiiamC. 40
and Henry +. Droge. lot ., block %,
EVeretts add, ". d..................... go
Kate c. MeClurg to same, lot 5, block
I, Jeferis' subdiv, W. d....-.......... 2lO)
August Heiman and wife to w. f.
Heiman, sh SEX 21-I6-40, W. d.. 5000
Total-eleven transfers ..............Ss4.s5s
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18
LIGHT COMPANIES COMBINE
Report ThOm 'on- Houston Company AbsOrbs
Council Bluffs Concern.
LOCAL MANAGER IS NoN-coMMITTAL
Business Men Claim TO Have Infor-
nation From the East That the
Deal is Practically Com
cluded.

When asked yesterday IL there was any
foundation for the report that the new
Thomson Houston company Of Omaha had
acquired control OF the Citizens Gas and
Electric company Of this city W. II. Fritch-
man, manager Of the Council BLUFFS COM
pany, declined to either deny or affirm the
report He stated, however, that negotia-
tions for the sale Of the local plant had
been opened and were pending. THE DEAL"
he said, "as far as l have been informed
has not yet been closed. Beyond this I
have nothing to say at this time"
While the report here is to the effect that
the Council Bluffs plant has passed into the
possession of the Thomson Houston COM
pany of Omaha, 1t is said that the real
parties back OF the deal are the people rep
resenting the Elkins- Widener syndicate Of
New York City, the financial hackers of the
reorganization OF the Omaha q Council
Bluffs street electric railway systems.
Council Bluffs business men who have
been figuring on organizing a local gas
and electric light company with a view to
securing II possible the city lighting con-
tract at the expiration, two and a half
years hence, Of the city's contract with the
Citizens Gas and Electric company, say
that information received by them from
the east leaves no doubt in their minds
that the control OF the Council Bluffs plant
has passed to the Thomson Houston com,
pany of Omaha. 1t Is understood that
changes in the local management will result
from the absorption Of the local concern
by the Omaha company. AS to this Man
ager Friedman said he had no advice.
President Nash of the New Omaha Thom-
son-Houston company said last night:
Negotiations are on and perhaps / can
give some definite statement tomorrow. At
present all I would care to say Is that
probably the deal will go through. do
not even know that II 1t does the company
across the river will become part Of our
company, though the parties negotiating
are interested with us here. II the pur-
chase Is made the equipment in Council
BLUFFS will be put In improved condition
at a cost of probably $50, 900, and the gas
plant there will be maintained. So far as
know, the present deal has no connection
with the street car merger"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18
APPEALS TO HIGHER COURT
Mrs. GallauEher Gives Bond for
Twenty-Five thousand Dol
lars and IL Released.

IOWA CITY. Ia, March 17.-Mrs. Sarah
Ellen gallagher, convicted and sentenced
to fifteen years imprisonment for perjury
in connection with her trial for the murder
Of her husband, has appealed the case tc
the supreme court and has been released on
$4,000 ball, signed by her uncle, George
Colwell.
The grounds of appeal are alleged inn
proper instructions by the court and Inn
proper conduct on the part of the prosecut-
ing attorney,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18
Merchant Leaves Family.

WEBSTER CITY, Ia, March 17.-(Special
Telegram.)-I. e. Ingertson, a prominent
hardware man OF this city departed last
night. Family trouble was the cause. He
left the following note for his wife: 1--WE
stood all I'm going to. You'll never hear
from me again. Take house and furniture
and do what you please with it-selI it-I
don't care"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18
EpiscopaIians to Build.

SHENANDOAH, Ia, March 17.-(Specal.)
The Episcopalians of this place are rails
ing funds with view to building a church
this season. At noon yesterday over $4,000
had been subscribed, and as the congre-
cation purchased a lot on Church street
two years ago the fund that is being raised
now will go into a building fund.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18

fore doing eny building on this side Of the
river. He said, however that the COM
pany would probably in the future con-
struct a rural line from Council Bluffs
through Pottswattamie county to Girls
void. He did not look for any move in
that direction, however, this year.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18
N. Y. Plumbing Co., Eel. $50. Night. Fss7
Inspect Pierce street school.

Inspect Pierce street school.
The Board OF Education met yesterday
afternoon as a committee of the whole and
inspected the addition to the Pierce Street
school, over which there has been 70 much
controversy. The board decided that a
number OF minor defects IN the carpenter
work will have to be remedied before 1t
accepts the building from Contractor Wick
ham and allows the final estimate. The
board will meet again Thursday afternoon
to consider this matter.
Two bids have been received for the
erection OF fire escape on the Washing
ton Avenue school as follows: J. C. Bixby
s82s for an escape with platform accessible
from one window on each floor and 1856 for
one with platforms accessible to two win
dows; e, W. Hart, 3S22.5O for an escape
with platforms reaching two windows on
each floor. The bids were referred to the
committee on buildings and grounds with
power to act.
Judge and clerks OF the recent school
election have been allowed IS each and
the registrars SO each.
The question Of appropriating $3.50 for
the purchase Of apparatus for tAe high
school gymnasium has been referred to the
committee on supplies, Superintendent Cliff
ford, Principal Ensign and Prof Millar.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18
Mrs. McGee Not seriously Hurt.

George Gerner, jr, who was in the Wa
bash train wrecked Sunday morning at Elm
Point, near st. Charles. Mo-, arrived homo
yesterday from st. Louis. The wreck oc>
CURED at 6 o'clock in the morning and Mr..
Gerner was just preparing to get up and
dress when the sleeper in which he was and
other cars left the track and turned over
on their sides. Mr.. Gerner escaped with
a sprained wrist and a few bruises,
Judge ]. e. f. MCGEE, wife and son OF
this city were in the same car with Mr..
Gerper. Mrs. McGee was in the ladies'
toilet room when the wreck happened, and
It was some time before the door could be
opened and she be rescued. Mrs. McGee.
while badly shaken up and bruised, was not
seriously injured. Her hand was badly
sprained and she received two or three
cuts from broken glass. Judge McGee and
his young son were sitting on the edge OF
their berth dressing when the car turned
over. They both escaped injury. Judge
and Mrs. McGee and Mr.. Gerner we're able
to continue on their journey to St. Louis
but little the worse for their experience.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18
Bowling at EIks' Club.

The third week of the bowling contest
at the Elks club shows no abatement in
the interest Monday night team No. 8,
captained by c. Hafer, defeated team No.
6. captained by Harry searle. The score
follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18
New Cure for weak Lungs.

DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump.
tion cures ell coughs. colds, grip and lung
troubles or no pay. SOC. $1OO. For sale
by Kuhn & Co.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18
Marriage LIcenaen.

Licenses 10 wed were issued yesterday
to the following:
Name and Residence Age
Victor Nielsen Fremont Neb
Clara Teitje, Fremont Neb..................is .is
David ID. Jones, Oakland, Ia................2S
Lottie l. CLANCY, Oakland, Ia..............is
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18
Powell for representative,

DR.. F. M. Powell, superintendent of the
State Institution for Feeble Minded at
Glenwood. is attending the quarterly con-
ference OF superintendents here. He has
Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-18

These transfers were filed yesterday in
the abstract, title and loan once OF ]. W
Squire, 10l Pearl street:
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-03-20
LAWYERS UNIQUE Plea.

Herman Merivale tells this story
Of his father, former permanent secrs-
tary for the colonies in the British
government: 1T vas unluckY for my
father that he chose common law in
stead Of chancery, as his was eminent
iy the chancery mind. He never could
come down to q jury at all and always
saw the two sides Of everything. At
the Exeter sessions he held a brief in
. case Of which he felt the rights
strongly, but could not make the bench
agree with him. In the next case he
appeared, too, and simply remarked:
In the last case held a brief for the
plaintiffs In which I was absolutely in
the right and you decided against me
Now I will appear for the defendants.
The facts are exactly similar and ]
am entirely In the wrong. So l must
ask you to decide for me- And the
bench had to do It."
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-03-20
In the Same Pair Of Boots.

Mr.. George Oldfield. a noted Fen
thatcher Of Whittlesey, Cambs., was
born before the railway era, and still
scorns the use of trains, says tho Lon
don Daily News. He walked this
week for the sixty-drst time to Pc
tersborough autumn fair, q distance
there and back of fourteen miles. For
the last forty-eight years he has
walked to the fair In the same pair
Of boots, for which he has refused q
handsome sum from London shopkesp-
ers since his record was published In
the press last year. He Is most anx-
ious to complete his fifty years walk
in them, but 1t Is doubtful IL they will
stand another two journeys. They
were recently sent for repair. but the
bootmaker could do nothing with
them, as the leather was too old to
hold the stitches. The old man has
now walked nearly 700 miles In them.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-03-20
The Wurst Vet.

rs this the best wurst you car
send me?" asked the lady who walked
into the meat store with q package
of that edible In her hand.
Madam" answered the meat mar
1T Is the best wurst we have"
Wei, it is the worst wurst / ever
saw"
Il am sorry to hear that. The best
I can do is to try and send you some
better wurst from to-day's lot, but, as
| have said, that was the best wurst
we have at present. am sure, how,
ever, that the wurst we are now max.
Ing Will not be any worse than this
and It ought to be better. 1 assure
you that a. soon as l get the wurst
you shall have the best Of It. We
never gave any one the worst OF II
10 long az We have been in the wurst
business, and you may be sure that
whom We give you your wurst 1t will
be the best, for our worst wurst is
better wurst than the best wurst OF
our competitors"
But the lady, whose eyes had taken
on . stare Of glassiness, was seer to
thow up her hands and fee from the
place, for she was afraid the worst
was yet to come.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-03-20
RAILROAD IN ARCTIC
SWEDISH COMPANY OWNS MOST
NORTHERN LINE.
Runs From the Port Of Luiea, In
Northern Sweden, 70 a Point Fifty.
two Miles Inside Of the Arctic Cir
cleLCarries Iron Orc to the Gulf.

Americans no longer claim the
distinction Of being the pioneers OF
railway enterprises that penetrate the
trackless wastes of the world. A
Swedish company has surpassed the
railway builders Of all the rest OF the
world by constructing q line that
reaches farther north than the
whistle Of the locomotive has ever
been heard before. Some writer's
who speak Of the White Pass and
Yukon road, which runs from Skag.
Jay, Alaska, to White Horse, gener'
ally refer to 1t as the most northern
railroad In tho world. The Wild
Goose road, which maintains a pre-
curious existence throughout its en-
tire five miles, inland from Cape
Nome, being quite devoid of ballast or
grading, frozen solid during the long
winter months and thawed to death
III the summer, is also referred to a.
the northernmost bit OF track in sx-
istence. But there is q regular rail.
road in regular operation, quite well
ordered In construction and equip
nent, which lands passengers, freight
pole than do either the White Pass
ind Yukon or the Wild Goose lines,
both of which terminate we'll south
Of the arctic circle.
At the head of the Gulf of Bothnia,
n northern Sweden, is the port OF
L.llea, a town of almost 5000 inhabi-
tants, distinguished as the southern
terminus of a railroad which runs to
q point ffty-two miles inside Of the
arctic circle. Nome is almost 200
miles south Of this; White Horse over
$50 miles. This Swedish railroad is
a well-kept, well-built line OF the
standard Swedish gauge. which is the
same as our own, and it carries iron
ore to the gulf from the mines at
Malmberget in Swedish Lapland.
From Lulea to Malmberget the dis
lance by rail is about 100 miles, the
line running slightly west of north
through a country very %sparsely in
nabited, with almost continuous
woods Of light green, stunted ever.
green trees with their limbs slanting
down instead Of upward because of
the long burden of snow they bear.
Malmberget' is far enough north so
hat 1t has the midnight sun in June,
and even in August the sun just bare
ly dips under the hills at II p. m,
and then the crimson sunset travels
through a short eclipse and becomes
sunrise in the east at 2 In the morn
ing, without losing a trace Of it's
beauty In between.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-03-20
Origin Of Visiting Cards.

"The use Of visiting cards dates back
to quite an antiquity" explains Mrs.
Van Koert Schuyler, in the Ladies
Home Journal. Formerly the porter
at the lodge or door of great houses
kept a visitors book, in which he
scrawled his idea of the names of those
who called upon the master and his
family, and to whose inspection 1t was
submitted from time to time. One fine
gentleman, a scion of the nobility from
the Faubourg St. Germain, was
shocked to find that his porter kept
so poor a register OF the names OF
those who had called upon him. The
names, badly written with splutterins
pen and pale or muddy ink, suggested
to him the idea of writing his own
name upon slips OF paper or bits OF
cardboard in advance of calling upon
his neighbors, lest hts name should
fare as badly at the hands of their
porters. This custom soon became
generally established"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-03-20

-Four or five drummers. after their
days work was over and their dim
ners stored away, were talking about
the various cities of the United States
which they had visited In the COURSE
OF their business experience. New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia anc Bos-
ton were left in the list Of the undo
cided when a New York man appealed
to a veteran who had been reading 4
newspaper during the discussion. "You
know the country pretty we'll, l guess.
major?" said the New Yorker. Fairly.
l should say" was tho reply. Eve
been travelling over 1t for thirty
years" Well. what would you a
was the best town in the United
States?" Chicago" responded the
major, promptly. "Aw," sxpostulated
the New Yorker, I've don't mean nor
ally" whereupon the major FASTENED
to Observation-Disclosures Stas.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-03-20
PATENTS.

List Of Patents Issued Last Week to
Northwestern Inventors.
Alfred l.. auckland, Marietta. Mimi,
weighing apparatus; Arrestide Caron,
Minneapolis, Mimi, float controlled
valve; Herman Nemitz, Waltham,
Mimi, valve truing mechanism; Rich.
ard Russell, Stephen, Mimi, weed
puller; Joshua Sanborn, Brainerd,
Mimi, valve; Anthony Zeleny, Min
neapolis, Mimi, electric thermometer;
Joseph Hamel, Grafton, N. D., Jumping
car.
-e12 Pioneer Press Bldg. ST. Paul. Milan,
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-03-20
CHAPTER w.

MI. Saville's answer has come. 1t
is not in the least what Barbara ex-
pected. It Is a very short letter, and
out OF 1t falls q cheque for two hun
dred pounds. And there is nothing
about her engagement at all, except a
casual allusion to the danger of firta-
tons that a end in nothing. And
Barbara Is to come out to Tasmania at
once, by the next steamer that sails
after she receives the letter. The two
hundred pounds is to purchase an out