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Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
WILSON OUT FOR COUNCIL
President of Omaha View Improve
ment Club Wants Election
from Twelfth Ward.

AT the meeting Of the Omaha View I'm
provement club Friday night Algernon f.
Wilson was reelected president and the
following officers chosen for the year:
Vice president, John Davies; secretary Jay
Tony; treasurer, G. w. Carr; trustees,
George Sancha, chairman; Rev. Mr. File
harty, A. N. Yost. There was spirited
three-cornered contest for the office Of
vice president
During the evening President Wilson
made an address, In which he discussed
the objects OF the organization and the
attitude it should take toward the public
service corporations. He said that as long
as these corporations held their franchises
the people should be fair TO them and
they should be fair to the people. There
should be no imposition on either side.
Mr.. Wilson is being urged by the club
members as a candidate for the council
from the Twelfth ward on the republican
ticket. While no formal endorsement has
been made, he is regarded as. the club can
didate for that Office. ,...
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
JOHN L. MCAGUE, PRESIDENT
VIII he Promoted from Chairman OF
Finance Committee to Head
of school Board.

John T. MoCague, who has been a member
OF the Board of Education two years, will
be elected president of that body at the
organization meeting next week. Mr.. Nc
Casue has been at the head of the finance
committee and in this and other respects
has done much valuable work on the board.
His zeal and Willingness to serve the school
district to the best of his ability is now
TO be rewarded by the highest ONCE in the
gift of the board. The matter has been
arranged, practically, and there is no oppo-
sition for the place
No one has been agreed upon for vice
president, and It is possible that the honor
will be conferred without consent.
Monday is the day set by statute for ths
organization of the new board and the
Inauguration of the incoming members.
but it is probable that an adjournment will
be taken TO Tuesday evening and the bust
ness dispatched then.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
MICHAELSEN NEEDS TIME
City Electrician Says improvements
Are Too Great for ComDiI-
ing of Report.

81 think my report on the cost Of electric
light and power service and the cost OF
production in various cities OF the country
compared with Omaha cannot be finished
much short Of a MONTH" said City Elec-
trcan Michaelsen. with the large
amount Of building and wiring in the city
this Office was kept very busy all the year.
I started to gather the statistics as soon
az instructed 20 do so by the council, but
| have encountered many difficulties In
getting intelligent authentic Informal
ton. One Of thG -rdest features is the
reduction Of varying scales and methods
OF charges 10 a common basis necessary
for comparison. shall make the report
to the council Just as soon IA 1t - pos.
slblA"
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
WHO MUST ATTACH ESCAPES7
Question that is BOthering Labor
Commissioner Bush and Build
ing Inspector withheld.

Deputy Labor Commissioner Bush and
Building Inspector Withheld are anxious to
have a decision from the district court in a
case submitted last spring wherein the
question of wehther an agent for a building
can be compelled to afiX fire escapes is
the point in contest The litigation grew
out of the failure. of the agent for the
Normandie apartment building to provide
fire escapes from the servants quarters on
the fourth floor. II was contended that
only the owner is amenable to the law.
Some ten or twelve other fiat or apart
ment building In Omaha are without fire
escapes. pending a decision In the case and
the commissioner and inspector want either
to compel their equipment at once or carry
the case 10 the supreme court
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
TAXES PAID UNDER PROTEST
Burlington Railroad Acts Under Law
Same as Ordinary Taxpayer
Must Do.

County Treasurer Fink on Saturday ex-
tended a warm welcome to a representative
of the Burlington tax department. who
walked into the treasurers ofice to pay
the personal tax OF the railroad for 1906.
The money amounting to $4.O29. 42, was COW
cred into the county treasury, but the re-
ceipt shows the tax was paid under protest.
In 1904 the Burlington, with the Union
Pacific. refused TO pay its personal taxes
on the ground that the same were Excess
slve. The Burlington lost out in the hear
ing before Judge Munger. for the reason
that the amount claimed to be excessive
was less than 5000. That decision has
been appealed from and the appeal is still
unsettled. This year the Burlington could
have no standing in court to enjoin the
treasurer, as was done in 1904. Hence il
has adopted the course that every individ1
ual must pursue-pay under protest and
then so into court tC establish the justice
OF the contention against the tax.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
GOOD SHOWING BY IRISH
People to Control Their Local
Affairs.

DUBLIN, Dec 3o.-(Special Cablegram TO
The Bee.)-Now that the national conven-
ton is over and gone there should be in the
aftermath no minimizing either the repre-
sentative character or the political import
ance of the great assembly of representa-
tive lrishmsn that met in the Dublin Man
sion House to deliberate on the national
policy. And probably never was there a
more representative gathering of Irishmen
Abstracting altogether from the branches
OF the national organization which selected
delegates a number that bears hattering
testimony to the efficiency of the officers OF
the organization, IL one takes merely the
county and borough council 1t is safe to say
that the convention represented the over
whelming majority of the councils charged
with the local government of the country.
TIE men who have on the whole made eX-
cellent use OF their recently won liberty in
local affairs and justified the capacity of
Irishmen for sef-government were repre-
scented by the hundred. But IL is in the
fighting political organization that the on
ergy and the force of the movement de-
ponds, and the convention demonstrated
that the national organization never was
In better trim. II welcomes to It's deliber-
atoms the delegates OF such organizations
as the Ancient Order Of Hibernians, the
Lana ana LABOR association, the National
Foresters, all having other objects it is
true. but all having an interest in the ma
tionalist cause. The Irish clergy are prac-
ucally ex-oficio members OF the body, and
they were present in sufflcient numbers to
demonstrate Che interest that they are still
taking in the struggles for wider political
and economic freedom for ireland.
The interesting thing about the conven-
ton was that il offered the fullest scope
for discussion. This one fact alone will go
long ways towards preventing the growth
Of any faction which was afraid to appeal
to the tribunal set up by the national con-
vention. IF those who think they are
wiser than all of the representatives of
nationalist Ireland rolled into one" said a
leading Irish authority have had an op,
portunity OF stating their case such as they
had at this convention. why should they
complain. Here was an open court and a
fair field for any nationalist who believes
that he has a better policy than the Irish
leaders have been pursuing and II he is not
willing TO submit the subject matter to such
convention then there must be something
the matter with the man or his cause"
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
ROBERTSON FOR GOVERNOR
Norfolk Mans Friends Think He 4.
Stronger Now Than When
Candidate Before.

Some OF the papers in our part of the
state are mentioning Judge Robertson as
a candidate for congress in opposition to
Congressman Mccarthy" remarked A j.
During OF Norfolk as he stepped out OF
Senator Millard's office Saturday morning
after brief interview.
Il am not much interested in politics,
but believe Judge Robertson will be q
candidate for governor instead OF for con-
gress. and 1 think he will get the support
OF the northwest portion OF the state. He
came very near being nominated at one
time and his friends believe he Is stronger
today than ever"
Mr. During is the head Of loan COM
pany In Norfolk and came to see Senator
Willard on business other than political.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
UNCLE SAM ARRESTS OTHERS
Government omciaIs Apprehend Men
on Reservations-Pettij and
Tucker out on Bonds.

Charles Manville has been arrested by
Deputy United States Marshal Moore near
Rushville on the charge Of horse stealing
from the Indian reservation at Pine Ridge.
He will be brought to Omaha for arraign-
ment before the United states commits
sioner.
William Blackbird, an Omaha Indian. has
been arrested on a capias at Rushvilc for
introducing liquor onto the Indian reser-
vations in Nebraska. He will be brought
to Omaha for commitment I'm the Douglas
county Jail until his trial can be had.
Among other arrests at Valentine by Dep
uty Marshal Allan is that of II. c. Dale,
charged with making a fraudulent home
stead affidavit
J. c. Pettijohn. former register Of the
land office at Valentine, and j. NJ. Tucker.
an attorney Of the same place have been
released on $2CO0 bonds for their appear
ance before the federal grand jury to an
swer to the charge of conspiracy in land
fraud matters there, They were arraigued
before the United States commissioner
there and pleaoed not guilty to the charges
against them.
II. c. Dale, who was arrested at Rush
VILE Friday for subornation of perjury
and on the charge of procuring home
steaders to make fraudulent filings i'm the
Modisett Brother pasture is cashier of the
Stockmen's Bank OF Rushville and OF
which A. NJ. Modisett is president and A.
Il. Modisett is a stakeholder. The Modi
sets have about 10000 acres under fence
in Sheridan county.
William c. Smoot, government farmer a
the Pine Ridge Indian agency, was also
arrested on the same charge as that pre-
ferred against Dale. The two men were
arraigned Saturday before the United
States commissioner at Chadron and CAV,
bond in 5000 for their appearance befor,
the May term of the federal grand jur!
A ba
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
MRS. SAUNDERS COMES BACK
Names One Correspondent and Hints
at Others in Amended Divorce
suit Petition.

Again comes Alice Maud Saunders, wife
of Sherman Saunders, the Bloomfield
banker, and files an amended petition to
the amended answer Of her husband in
their divorce suit. In her latest filing Mrs.
Saunders names young woman OF Bloom
field as a correspondent, and also insinu-
ates too friendly attention to certain I'M
named Omaha women in the prohibited
district. Beyond these two points Mrs.
saunders merely reiterates the charges of
cruelty and neglect embodied in her origi-
nal petition. She still insists that Mr..
Saunders is worth $4,000 at least.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
BlRTRHlGH; DEA1HRA1ELOV
Nearly Two Thosssna Babies Bern in
onahs During Year
Fifteen Hnnerea Marriages Are
Licensed rne Two Hundred
and sevensy Divorces
cranted by County.

+ Figures from the Once of the city health
Commissioners show thar Omaha is closing
one Of the most healthful years in Its
histofyaas we'll as one in which the stork
has come the oftenest with it's precious
packages. It also has been a big year for
marriages and fiYorces The records show
that fol the twelve months 1924 babies
came 70 town, or more than in any other
single year since the city has existed. In
1894 the number was only 1885, in 1908 but
I ms and An 1902 only 1.6le, the nearest ap-
proach - the 1905 record being in 1895.
when see babies were born. OF the total
ans year 20 were boys and s25 girls.
{ i1stiniatine the population of the city at
= CO. thetnortality rate for 1905 only
4oeso5, this percentage being really re-
markabie and among the lowest in cities
Z IL the Vuited States The records dis
close the deaths OF but 1907 persons and
A3 Of these were infants under 5 years.
mo 1striour cpidernics menaced the city's
health al any time curing the year Healta
com,nissioner Ralph noted a general trend
howard more Intelligent and sanitary meth
Fods OF Living and an Increasing employment
u common Sense laws of hygiene.
y Death RECORD by wards.
y Hv 4ward< the death record makes the
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
DOZEN PRINTING PROPOSALS
Bids May He Opened Next Week, but
Contracts viii BE Held on
Until Later.

Up 70 date there have been nled with
County Clerk Drexel about a dozen bids
for the county printing during 1906 The
statute makes December 81 the last day for
filing. so no more bids will be received.
The county board will hold an adjourned
meeting Tuesday morning. at which the
printing bids may be opened. II the board
SO decides. The present board will ad-
journ sine die on Wednesday, and IL is
altogether likely that the bids for print
ing will be opened and considered by the
new board after its organization on jan
uary ..
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
JUDGE VISITS A GREAT CITY
Fremont Jurist Risks Himself in the
Vortex OF Fashion for
Little While.

Police Judge ]. C. Cook Of Fremont was
a visitor in Omaha Saturday He attended
police court in the morning and lodged
street cars and the plain clothes men the
rest Of the day. The judge came down TO
receive few pointers on New Year resO-
buttons.
II have heard of Omaha before and have
seen It marked on the map, but had no idea
II was such a great city as | found II TO
be-" remarked the Fremont dispenser of
Justice
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
Gillian Gets walter Damroseh.

Manager Gillian OF the Auditorium an
nounces he has secured the New York
Symphony orchestra, with Walter Dam
rosch as leader, for a concert at the Audi
torium January 25 AS this Is one OF the
best known Orchestras In the country Man
aEer Gillian thinks he has scored a strike
In being able 10 book the New York Sym
phony on this trip. A full quota OF soloists
will accompany Mr.. Damrosch on his short
trip around the country, although the per-
sonnet has not been announced.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
city Sues the NCounty.

County Attorney Slabaugh and Assistant
City Attorney Herdman argued and sub
mitted TO Judge Troup a new complication
In the scavenger tax law. In this case the
city sues the county for approximately
Sc 600, alleged to be due on collections made
by the county treasurer on delinquent city
taxes. The county sets up that the money
is properly retained to pay the cost in
VOWED In the advertising and sale under
the law. Judge TrOup has taken the point
under ADJUSTMENT.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
Part OF Motion su.tain.d.

Judge Redick has sustained part OF a
motion made by the attorney for Thomas
V. Allison that Mary Allison make more
definite and certain some allegations in her
suit 10 recover for alleged breach of prom
Use to marry. The portion OF the motion
the parties, as charged by the PLAINTIFF
She Is directed to name times and places
The court held she was not bound 10 set
out just when the promise OF marriage
was made nor when the marriage was to
take place.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
WORK OF COUNTY TREASURER
Volume of Business Transacted Under Fink
Greater Than Ever Done.
ScAvsNGeR TAX LAW INCREASES IT
No Comparison between Last Two
Years and the Work Done
I'm the Previous Ri
ennium.

comparative table prepared by County
facts to the increase of the work of the
office. The comparative table covers work
done by the county treasurer's force during
the years 1923 as compared with the work
done during the two years of Mr.. Fink 3
first term, 19Oi-5 Mr.. Fink was moved to
prepare this table by recent publication
which gave list of his employees, coupled
with the implication that the force was
entirely out of proportion to the work
done.
or tax receipts written there were So,621
in Mr.. Elsa sser's term; during Fink's term,
80 6S1; excess of receipts written IN last two
years. 5000.
Redemption certificates issued during
last two years, 3,2lS; during two years,
1923, 1,Sll; excess in Fink's term, 1877.
Postal card notices of personal taxes
written and mailed. 1900 Cestimated) dur
ing previous term; during 19O-5. 1922.
Receipts during 1923, 81. IS6 $685. during
two years 19O4-5. g. 500 S22 So; increase. S7l6,-
1856; expenditures, 1923, s25,5l5.25 during
1905, S57,9Ssl 10; 1872, 422.9I
ScavenEer Tax Law Burdens.
The above is an exhibit of the increased
Office work during Mr.. Fink's term just
closing. Following is the vastly augmented
detail work thrown onto the county treas
urer's office by the requirements of the
scavenger tax law:
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
Duck. that Came Rack.

The pair OF ducks belonging to Henry
Hitler that talked themselves out OF being
sacrificed for a Christmas dinner have been
placed on exhibition In the window OF the
Wholesale liquor establishment of Mrs Hitler
on Tarnam street. A big display card an
nouncea that These Are the Notorious
Ducks that Came Back" The pair of ducks
seem 10 enjoy their notoTiety and attract
sonlidsrabls attention
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31

Mr.. Carnegie, however, may be consid-
cred as only in second place, for that I'm
mortal old gentleman whom some one once
named as his favorite poet-Mr. Anony-
mous-save s22Ols,5oo as 1905 ran its course
Chicago Reeord-Herald
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31

Following education the benefactlons Of
1876 rank as follows: To galleries, mu-
seums and societies of kindred aims went
S7,O24, 600; to homes" hospitals and asy
lums, $3.50, 500, with s4.7OO170 to miscel
laneous charities. Church works of various
sorts followed close with $4,2I2,;57. and
81, $50, 900 for library buildings Add 10 these
totals $24S5,OO0 which came in gifts other
than of cash, though valued officially"
and this country is found to have received
in all $s4, oSs 4S2 ~. 0o0 was sent to do its
work In foreign fields
A study OF these fisui9s. In connection
with the similar totals Or the last FIVE
years, shows that 1906 has surpassed 1904
though 1t has not equaled earlier years;
falling, indeed, far behind l9Ol's splendid
record" The benefactions for these
years in round numbers have been $7.-
800 900 In 1900; s1O7 $4,000 in 1901 s94 100000 in
1902, with 1903 beating that by an even
million; only So 10000 last year-and $780,
100 900 this.
The list following shows also that Ameri-
can womanhood is playing a mighty part
in this splendid work, and that no fewer
than sixteen of the givers have equaled
or surpassed the million mark-among
themselves giving more than half OF the
years total.
Four of these last are women, while Miss
Helen Gould, giving 100000, and Mrs. F. f.
Thompson but $4,000 less, might well be
included in the roster. Three other, wo-
men who have generously helped the
worlds work are Mrs. 7. F. Ryan S22S.0oo),
wife Of the fnancier; Miss II. T. Gardiner
($20o O0O), and Mrs. Russell Sage G75,oo).
The roll of honor" where one may
.onl, tba ,ivers Of millions. reads:
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
Baron Won sehwartIen.tein Promo,

BERLIN, Dec. 30.-Baron Mumm Won
Schwatzenstein, the German minister at
Peking. has been appointed ambassador OF
Germany at Toxic.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31

NEW YORK, Dec 3o.-The subtreasury
today transferred t2l0oo0oo by telegraph to
san Francisco.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
BENEFACTIoNS OF THE YEAR
MiIIions Given In Aid of Education.
Art. Homes, Hospitals and
Asylums.

Nearly a hundred dollars a minute, That
Is the Christian tribute paid by the year
now passing, through each OF IT'S hours,
night and day, to mankind's bc:tsrment
and relief from suffering. The total is
astounding, unless one has followed the
course of such annual reports and SO be-
come somewhat accustomed To eight
figure giving-sS6. 1o4, 1872!
Yet all records such as this are neces-
sarily incomplete. Much that is given
passes without public notice, so that even
an estimate is out of the question. The
journalistic statistican must rely upon fig
ures published from day to day. and must
further define the limits of his work be-
cause of the uncertainty of publication in
one part of the country of gifts Of small
total made in some other part. In these
tables $500 has been assumed as the mini
mum to be considered-and the multiplicity
of small donations thus lost sight of would
certainly raise the years total to ten mil
lions
individual givers, too. are here accounted
for only, which fact prevents the list from
enrolling such magnificent charity as
that which went out to the suffering Rus
sian Jews.
With all these limitations, however, the
American people, may congratulate them
selves that their nation has given to good
causes sinces January last came in at the
rate of an hourly average of Sl0,7il.06.
Considerably more than half of the
grand total has gone to the advancement OF
education. Eighty-three colleges and
schools are named in that part of the an
nual report, though, even so, the gifts to
this cause would not have stood in such
overwhelming proportion to the benefac-
lions of the whole twelvemonth had not
the four largest donations of all fallen un-
der this head. In April MIR. Carnegie sci
by t0.oOo00O as fund for aged educators
followed a month later by Mr.. Rockefeller
with another 100000 for the cause OF
general education, while the tragic dealt
of Mrs. Leland Stanford threw into this
same scale S4s75.OO0 more.
The bakers dozen" OF most lucky
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31

pOtal ~. ,........... U,1bi
Regular annual sales list not included in
above.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
Equivalent in
No. Receipts,
Making scavenger tax lists-2o books


Making scavenger tax lists-20 books
containing 1896 pages, averaging 40
lines to the page, and 10 figures to
each line, In addition to the descrip-
tons written of 1858 parcels ...... 271,S24
Douglas county. 1888 parcels...... SO, s6s
Making entries on scavenger rec
ords, releasing 49, 2l parcels, which
were paid by owners prior to judy
ment being entered .................. 12,6H
Making special receipts for same,
July II, 1904. to October II. 1904...... Co.'s
Making entries on sCavenger records
from November, 1904, to December, O..
l9Oo-parcels OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. a. as
Making tax sale judgment receipts
to four ordinary receipts. ......'.... 57,S12
Making and issuing certificates of
scavenger sale, 12,400, each equal
to two receipts .................l...... 2,S00
Making $3.50 sheet abstracts for maxi
ing auxiliary receipts, each equal
to fifteen receipts Observation-Disclosures. g, 900
for sales made NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. S2,ss
Entering redemptions on 5,4SI par
GELS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. b,464
Entering on scavenger records pay
ments made by purchasers of sub
sequent state county and city
taxes on 1870 parcels ............... $3.50
Total. So. 500
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31

Z. During the year 1905 up to date 1.5O5 mar
( Rage licenses have been issued in Douglas
county.@
s in the same time there have been 277
divorces granted. Judge Sears has split
apare 12i couples, Judge Troup eighty-one
and Judge Sutton seventy-five.
4 Two divorces have been set aside-that
of<Mrs. zenetta Ball from Robert A. Ball
sfaDd that OF Mrs. Emily Schuchardt from
Edmond Schuchardt In each of these cases
the wife Secured the divorce and shortly
vhpt 70 council Bluffs and married her
adhjncI1al witness in the securing of the
rove. thus avoiding the Nebraska law
That no divorced person shall marry again
within .six months. Mrs. schuchardt mar
fled her husbands nephew and Mrs. Ball
married M. A. Sweeney. whom Ball accuses
of having alienated his wifes affections
dozen divorce petitions have been de-
MED and a hundred or more suits started
have been settled out of court or have
never been brought to trial
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
NE greatest mortality was In Feb

when l4i persons succumped.
Sul{ the banner months for babies,
'1s7 arriving In time to celebrate Indepen-
dence day or soon thereafter. August came
next with ls3 and the various other months
checked up like this January. 10; Febru-
cry 166; March, ISL; April. 127; May. 1853;
June. fss September. III; October, 146; No
lxenber l5s, December. 157.
aof course. the last few days of December
are Estimated, as the returns sometimes
are several days late.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31

Silver Thimbles-Frsnser. 18th ana Dodge