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Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
PENSIONS FOR EMPLOYEES
Liberal scheme of the Boston street
Railway COmpRny-WREeS
Also Advanced.

The Boston Elevated Railway company.
which controls the surface and elevated
street railway systems of Boston and
vicinity, has increased wages and estab~
lished a pension oystem for employees
which will require $3.50, 900 a year. Here
after men being broken in as motormen,
conductors or brakemen will be paid 81 a
day during the time they are learning the
duties of the position. and as extra men
they will be guaranteed living wages of
$3.50 during the period they substitute
while waiting for regular runsJ Provision
is made for increases Of wages according
to the length of service, and every s~atisfac-
tory man will receive a g~ratuity of S15 at
the close OF each year.
Employees who are deemed to be unfit for
any duty in the service after continuous
employment of twenty-five years, or who
have reached the age Of 60 and have been
continuously employed for fifteen years,
will be paid $25 a month during their life
time.
The wages OF elevated guards will be ado
vanced from 81 for ten hours work to 1910,
and brakemen are to be raised from S1.75
to $t,S5; surface road employees will re-
ceive $3.50, $2.35 and S2,40 n day hereafter.
according to length of service.
This action is far In advance of any prop
osition made to employees by any street
railway corporation in the country. The
increases, especially the compensation to
men under instruction, have not been sug-
gested by the employees at any time, and
the broad scope of the benefits announced
surprises the men. The pension system an
nounced has been adopted by no other
street railway company. and only recently
have one or two steam roads nade such
provision for faithful and infrm servants.
At the present time, when the road hires
a man, he Is required to work for moth
ing for one to two weeks. Realizing that 1t
is a hardship for a man to work even a
week or two without remuneration, the
road officials decided to pay learners 81 for
every day Of ten hours. Under this system
a man Goes on tho payroll as soon as he is
engaged. Going one step farther, extra
men, conductors and motormen of surface
cars will be guaranteed $3.50 a day.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
.RUNOR THAT DIX IS LOST
May Be at the Bottom Of the Ocean with
All on Board.
SAILS FROM SEATTLE FOR MANILA
Transport ~ Loaded with Lumbe
and Forage and Is in Charge
of Captain Theodore
sternberg, L. $. A.

-. SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. 2S.-An uncon-
hrmed rumor was current among shipping
men late last night to the effect that the
transport Dix had gone down this side
Of Yokohama with all on board. No de-
tails were given Of the wreck. and it was
impossible to locate any credible origin for
the story.
Dix sailed from this port December 81,
bound for Manila, via Nagasaki, where it
is not due for two days yet. The cargo
consisted Of $500, 900 feet Of lumber and
99s tons of forage.
Captain Hopkins was in charge OF the
transport, with Captain Theodore stern
berg. U. s.. A., in m of the vessel
Dix was acquired by the government dur
ing the war with Spain and is one OF the
largest freighters owned by the United
States.
Major G, S. Bingham of the quartermas-
ter's department stated early this morning
that he had received no word Of the wreck.
He stated that when he gave the sailing
orders to Dix II was to proceed directly
to Nagasaki. There was coal sufficient for
the trip to Manila and return. On the re-
turn to Nagasaki ballast coal was to be
taken aboard and the transport was to
come directly to Seattle.
The course to Nagasaki would bring the
transport In the route Of the Japanese
steamers, and 1t is possible that the re-
port may have come from this source.
ELLSWORTH, Kan, Jan. 23.-Captain
Theodore ~Sternberg's wife and daughter,
who RESIDE here, reached Ellsworth last
week from Seattle. where they had gone
to bid the captain goodby. The only news
so far received by the family of the re-
ported sinking OF the transport Dix was
the Associated Press dispatch from Seattle
today,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
Joyous Fright.

Lovely. charming little Dolly
A bashful little maid
Seeming one day very Jolly,
thought | might persuade
To forsake her fathers dwelling
And journey through this life
Sad and gloomy thoughts dispelling-
My pretty. loving wife.
SO l spoke In accents tender,
And drew her to my side,
For ! thought she would surrender
When asked 90 be my bride.
But she started from me quickly,
Said neither nay nor yea;
But as bushes gathered thickly,
I'm frightened; 90 away"
Then / thought that I'D offended,
And nothing more could say;
/ was sure ms suit was ended;
/ turned to go away.
And my heart with grief was laden,
But ere I'd passed the door
Cried the charming little maiden.
please Brighten me some more
-BTOOklyn Eagle,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
OLD IOWA MAN is SHOT
Roommate Kills Engineer Owing ia
Trivial Quarrel AbOut Ac-
cO~mmOdatiOB.

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 23.-Thomas II. Hol-
man. As years Of age, a travelling engineer,
late Of Iowa, was shot and killed tonight
by his roommate, Marcus c. Emanuel, as
the result Of a trivial quarrel.
Emanuel has been unemployed for a long
time and worry had impaired his mind.
He had been unable to pay his landlady
promptly and today she asked him to give
up his apartments temporarily to accom-
modate guests Of Holman. Emanuel re-
scented this and shot Holman while the
latter was trying to explain that he had
not sought to humiliate him.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
EASY TO MOVE TO EUROPE
Household Effects Can he Trans
ported Across the Pond with
Very Little Trouble.

'In these days" said a storage and
van man, quoted by the New York sun,
at Is just as easy to move from New YORK
to London as from New York to Hoboken.
Ones furniture and household effects can
Z be transported across the Atlantic in vans
as easily as across the North river.
"Of course, vans have long been used
here for comparatively long-distance NOV
ing by rail and steamboat. 1t is a common
thing in summer, for instance, to see teams
on the decks Of boats running to and from
this city. They just run the vans aboard
on their own wheels, and run EN- on at
the other end Of the line, and back in tho
country, or wherever they want to take
them.
The vans used In transatlantic NOV
Ing are lift vans. They are really san
bodies and can be lifted from their wheels
and swung onto a car of transportation by
rail or down a h%atchway into a steamers
hold.
"At the end of its rail or water trans
portation the van can rs easily be lifted
of the car or out Of the steamers hold
and swung upon the trucks upon which It is
to be hauled 10 the house where the goods
are to be put.
Who are the people that thus casually
pack up and move across the Atlantic
Well, they may be foreign merchants who
have been living In this country, but are
now going back. They may also be Amer
leans who are going abroad to live.
with the modern facilities for the trans
portation Of people and goods everywhere
and the very great increase in travel there
are now many people who, crossing the At
lantic for a more or less extended stay, take
their household goods with them.
o course, there are people moving in
this way all the time from Europe, as there
are people moving thlther from here, and
when we move anybody over we want, Of
course, a freight back; we don't want to
bring our vans back empty, and we move
somebody this way.
I'm some German cities there are pub
lished weekly newspapers, or rather ex-
tended bulletins, devoted to the interests
OF the storage van men. In those several
publications you would find lists of the
vans to be had in the city where the list
was published and other information con-
corning them, including the name OF the
owner Of the van. where it was from, its
cubic capacity, where II would be at dis
posai and the name Of it's agent or the rep
resentative of its owner, at the point where
this list was published.
Foreign lift vans come filled with house,
hold effects to American ports, and through
the representatives of their owners here
they get return shipments as American
vans in Europe, through their representa-
tives there, get shipments this way.
80 you see that really in these days 1t Is
about as easy to move to Europe as It
would be to move into the next block, and
there is lots Of transatlantic moving"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
He Asked A-Miss.

whats the trouble, my boy?" lueried
the minister Of a young member Of his
flock. you look sad"
And l feel sad" replied the young
man. 81 asked Miss Silverton to be my
wife and she declined the honor"
That's too bad" said the parson. "But
Its In accord with the scriptures, which
says We asked aud received not, because
ye asked amiss.'"
well, what would you advise me to do ?"
queried the youth.
Next time ask a widow" replied the
good man. with a suspicious twinkle in his
e~ge.-Chicago News.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
STOCKS STORE BY THEFTS
Fur Dealer of New York Must Face
Charge of Wholesale
Stealing.

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Hyman Filarsky,
the reputed head of a fur company, was
arrested today and fur garments seized to
the value OF $40, 900. A number of fur
dealers afterward identified the garments
as having been stolen from them. Meizel-
baum & Co. claimed IS 1000 worth of goods
and Bachmann & Co. $4,000 worth. and j.
C. Harris OF Blocker street 50, 800 worth.
F~ilarsky's plan, according to the police
was first to ship the goods to Chicago and
have them reshipped to New York to
avoid suspicion He sold only TO out of
town dealers.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
MORTALITY statistic..

The following births and deaths were re-
ported at the office of the Board of Health
in the course of the twenty-four hours
ending at noon Friday:
Btfths-Bernafd Jackson. 1905 Farnam
street. girl; =. Schulz, 24O4 Gaming street,
boy; EngelbeFt Fleckenstein, 2421 South
Nineteenth street, girl.
Deaths-Baby Fried. 2425 South Twenty
NTH street, aged 7 days; Mary WEIGH. 100sh
Pacific street, aged 81 years.; Timothy p.
cary, 1912 South Twenty-seventh street.
aged 20 years; Mrs. Martha c. Orr, Wise
Memorial hospital, aged AZ years; Hannah
Stein. GIG Farnam street, aged as years;
Mary E, Cox, Thirteenth and Capitol ave-
nue.. aged Is years.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
MANY CITIES WANT WATKINS
Man whO Married Omaha Girl in
Three Days Faces Serious
Charges.

BILLINGS, Mont, Jan. as. p. Wat
kins, alleged to be one Of the cleverest
forgers in the northwest, was formally ar
raigned today with obtaining money under
false pretenses. Watkins, II is said, mar
ried Miss schoenfelt of Omaha after three
days acquaintance in Nebraska City.
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and
Spokane are said to want Watkins on
charges similar to the one he faces here.
At this place Watkins, 1t is alleged, at
tempted to settle his board bill with q
worthless check, which led to his arrest
| after he had bafied the detectives for q
number Of weeks.
Altogether Watkins is said to have mad'
| about 50, 900 out of his fraudulent work.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
LIE Began i'm the Arctic.

That animal life originated in the Arctic
regions rather than from a tropical land is
the hypothesis advanced by Prof. ]. L.
Workman of Yale, who is continuing the
work begun by the late Prof. othniel G.
Marsh. DR.. Workman has made what sclen-
fists believe will prove an important dis
eovery, as 1t upsets previously accepted
theories regarding the origin of animal life.
He spent last summer in Wyoming search
ing for primates or fossil monkeys and apes
DR.. Workman finds that these apes lived
In the eocene period and that they were
similar to the apes Of Europe of that
period.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
TO FORM COMMON COUNCIL
UnfJn Pacific Strikers Of All Crafts to Get
Into One BOiy.
SUCCEEDS Joint EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
objects of OrwanisatiOa Are 10
Facilitate Genera strike Buuiness
asa 60 Keep Every Trade In-
formed on Progress.

Al It's regular meeting Saturday after
noon the joint executive committee Of the
Union Pacific strikers will resolve itself
into a permanent organization as a com
mon council OF strikers. The object Of the
organization will be twofold, to facilitate
united effort on the part OF all crafts en-
gagged in the strike and also to keep every
craft fully Informed on all news regarding
the movement.
This Joint executive committee as Il
stands at present is but a temporary af-
fair. II comprises the executive commit
tees OF the machinists, the blacksmiths, the
boiler makers and the boiler makers help
ers. 1t was FIRST assembled upon the com
pletion of the New York conference and
. Its object was preparation for the confer
ence with President Burt which It was
understood would ensue here.
Since then the body has met regularly
every week and the good results it has
produced have been so obvious that per-
manent organization has been decided upon.
IL Is thought by strike leaders that a SINH
lar organization having for It's scope the
entire Union Pacific system may follow in
the wake Of this one.
Wood workers and Pipemen, Too.
Up to the present time only the iron
NhNNH maNN b0Nh Represented III tue 1OlHt
committee, but now the locomotive wood
workers and the pipemen, the two latest
crafts to strike, have asked for admission
to the conference, and they will doubtless
b. admitted.
This Will make six trades In all particle
pating in the council, and the name that
will probably be adopted Saturday is the
Labor Council OF the Union Pacific railway.
IL is thought that the oficers OF the pres
ent temporary joint executive body will be
reelected as officers OF the permanent
labor council when Il is organised. They
are: President. e. F. Kennedy, president of
local and district lodges of boiler makers,
secretary and treasurer, Sam Grace, Sec
retG:y of the district lodge Of machinlsts
and of the district executive committee OF
me chinists.
Kline Wires for GrIeb.
James w, Kline of Kansas City, the mem
Der OF the national executive committee Of
the International Brotherhood Of Black
smiths who has been in charge OF strike at
fairs for the blacksmiths here, probably
will not return to Omaha till the first of
next week. Mr.. Kline left a week ago on
strike business. and was expected back
Thursday last. Yesterday, however, he
sent a telegram to william Grleb, treas
mrer OF the federated strike board, asking
him to come to Kansas City at once, and
that would indicate that both Kline and
Grieb Will be In the Missouri town a day
or two yet. Mr.. Greb went to Lincoln on
the early train yesterday to address the
Central Labor union there last night. He
missed the telegram, but probably will 20
down TO Kansas City as soon as he returns
hare Saturday.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
Carefully Educated.

80 you want a Job, do your"
yes, sir" replied the boy.
How long have you gone to SCHOOL,"
Ten years, sir"
Can you read?"
mo. sir; but can do drawn work and
drop stitching"
Can you write? ?"
mo. but l have a certificate for profile
iency In china painting"
Can you add a column OF hgures?"
mot very well. sir; but ! goBthe highest
mark In my class for original research in
last years bird nests"
what did you learn those ten years."
That's about all, sir. You see, I'm only
15."-NeWark News.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
A Gloomy Jest.

That is a fine oil stOxs you have there"
we remarked.
Yes" replied the eminent citizen, but, :"
he added as he gazed mournfully at his
empty bin. coal Is the latest thing out"
And we reflected hat some men win
Joke at a funeral.-Baltimore American
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
Bones of Giants.

A prehistoric graveyard has been dis
covered on the farm Of Solomon Hedriek in
Henry county. Illinois. A large number OF
human skeletons have been found and all
are eight feet or more In height. A mound
thirty-hve feet high had been built OF
gravel or sand. A roadway twenty feet in
width led up 10 the top Of the mound.
When about twelve feet Of the apex OF
the mound had been remOved the skeletons
wsre found, The e0ass sra laFss in size
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24

and the teeth are highly polished and we'll
preserved. Ivory heads, a shield made OF
bone and other articles we're found in the
graves.
Hedrick win dig up the entire field in the
hope Of finding valuable articles.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
The Question He Asked.

Hsrry-whst did Kate say when you pro-
posed TO her?
Frank-She said Eyes"
HaTry-Then she is really going to
marry you?
Frank-oh, dear no. What put that into
your head? The question / asked was,
do you prefer to remain single rather
than accept me-Boston TRANSCRIPT.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
small Early MornInE BIaae.

Shortly after / o'clock this morning a fire
alarm called the department TO Weeks &
Voss' carpenter shop, 1120 Harvey street.
The damage only amounted TO 81. The fire
started from a defective chimney.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
savInE for some Purpose

my mission lies in saving youth;
My life works there" said he.
"oh, pray, then, save" said roguish Ruth,
"A handsome one for me-"
Philadelphia Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
VACCINATION AND DANDRUFF.
There II as sure Prevention of bald
meas as There il of Smallpox.

meas as There Il OF Smallpox.
It is now accepted that vaccination rem
ders the vaecinated person exempt from
smallpox. or. at worst, he never has any
thing but the lightest kind of a case. Now
as sure a preventive and cure for dandruh.
which causes falling hair and badness, has
been Observation-Disclosures Herpicide. II
kills the dandFuf germ. c. II. Reed of
Victor, Idaho, says; Myself and wife
have been troubled with dandruff and fall
ing hair for several years. We tried RENEE
dies without effect until we used Newbro's
Hsrpicide. two bottles of which cured US, .
Hundreds Of similar testimonials.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
A GratIned Wisb.

Backward, turn backward, On. Time, in
thy flight"
He sang the old song as he sat him to
write.
And. behold! II was done; his fond wish
had core true;
He had dated the sheet 1902.
-BroOklyn EaRla
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
PUNISHMENT.

great many forms of punishment once
administered under the laws of enlight-
ened people. But nature never changes
or modi6es her penalties. She still has
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
Steel workers sign No scale.

PITTSBURG, Jan. 23.-There will be no
provisional scales signed previous to the
annual convention OF the AmalEamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers this
year, as was done In 1902.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24


en- Medical Discovery cures the diseased
stomach and enables the perfect digestion
and assimilation of food, so that the
sluggishness, irritability, nervousnessand
sleeplessness which result from innuti-
ton are cured also.
II was taken sick nine years age with fever.S
writes AIR. 81. NJ. Wardwen, O~fI.inwOod. Leaven-
worth Co. Kansas 9Had the doctor aud he
broke up the fever all right but r took diar-
ThRa right away; he couldut care u aud "a
became chronic. aud then he gave up the rase,
I got 30 weak with Il and had piles 20 badly I
couldn't lie down, nor hardly st up. Was
that way two or three months thought would
never be well again,' bat picked up one OF Dr.
Rierce's Memorandum Books qne day and aAW
your description " eatauh Of the stomach !
thought Il ht my case. We had q bottle Of DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery in the house
that was got foT mother. You recommend II for
catauh Of the stomach, 90 I went TO taking u.
The one hottie nearly cured me. I got tive BOT.
ties next time aud took one and q e-half and
was we'll l haven't been bothered with dtar-
TkUa since
DE. PisEos's Pellets cure bliOuSnsah
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24

house. Nearly 1000 was secured from the
saloon proprietors and customers.
The robbers were young men, but there
is no clue to their identity.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
MeFciflI Provision.

That talents o. unreeOgnized
IL natures kindly rule
To save TIE dream
OF self-esrcem
To many a hopeful fool.
-Washingt0n Star,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24

the same punish
ment for the man
who neglects or
abuses his stomach
as she had in the
far off days e when
Adam delved and
Eve SPAN"
The physical dis
comfort, dullness,
sluggishness, irn-
liability, nervous
ness and sleepless-
ness which are
visited upon the
man who eats care
lessly or i~rregulaIly
have been from the
beginning the evil
dences of disease of
the stomach and'its
associated ~organsOi
| digestion and nu-
Ntntion.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24
DENVER SALOONS HELD UP
Three BARS Robbe within Few
blocks of state House by
bandits.

DENVER. Jan. 2s.-Three saloons we're
held up just before midnight tonight. all
within three or four blocks Of the state
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-24

Total. sees. .". &SDS '"' s1o 2S0aSO2
Average ssessmeR per mile, 1904. ....... 1900. ....... SSs07O0
Average ssessmen per mile, SO2....... ,...... ........ 4O0Io7
Fairly nssessed, would be......'.'..s'. ''... ......,. G2s214
The figures above presented are earefu fully compiled ron reports of the state
auditor the bulletins issued by authority of the railroads md the Teporst their
ekhod published within the past year These documents afford conclusive
proof tina the aggregate true value of "a rods in Nebraska based on net earnings
after deduung operating expenses beuerm ents and taxes paid exceeds $312OO0OOO
An inspection of the table herewith presented shows jWt how much leach county
has lost by gradual reduction of the railroad assessment within the past ten years
the aggregate apporionmet of railroad assessments to each county for the year
1909 and What the aggregate assessment should be If the. railroads were assessed
al one-sxth of their value based on net earnings. he pprssement Of railroads n
entire railroad mileage in HI state is based upon the vde OF their tangible
property.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-11-04
WOMEN BREAK UP
MEET OF COUNCIL
Temperance Crusaders Give Alder
men Of Wichita, Kan, Lively
Time of It.
Finally Some One Turns Out the
Lights and the Women Are
Drenched With Water.
New York SIM Special Service.

Wichita, Kan, Nov. A party of
temperance crusaders, under the lead
ership of Mrs. Myra McHenry of Car
rie Nation crusade fame, succeeded In
breaking UP the session of the city
council here because the mayor, as
president of that body, refused to lis
ten to TRADE against. the open sa-
looms. The women talked until some
one pressed a button which threw
the council chamber into darkness.
Turn out the lights If you want.
You like darkness better than light,
and it will not hurt us. You'll be in
place some day where you can't turn
out the lights. You ought to be in
the pen now!' the reformers shouted.
Other remarks followed in the dark
ness, causing one of the women to
turn on the chief of police and hit
him a blow over the arm with para
sol. The blow did no damage except
to break the parasol.
When the women left the lower hall
way to go into the street they were
treated to a free shower bath from the
darkness above.
"You didn't hit u.s." was the jeering
exclamation at their tormentors.
An unknown man on the fence east
Of the driveway dashed a bucketful
of water into the faces of the women.
81 saw you, Chief Burt. I saw you!''
yelled a crusader. "Shoot himi Kill
him. cried one of the women. And
for few minutes a riot was immi-
nent.
The trouble started when the coun-
Gil tried to go into executive session
and Mrs. McHenry began talking.
She was twice led away and finally
locked up in the Jail.