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Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26
HOW THEY DO IT IN NEVADA
One Auto Party Holds Up Another
20 RepIenish supply of
Mntnr Power.

you folks have some very pretty autos
in Omaha" said Fred A. Birney OF Gold
field New, at the Murray hotel, but you
haven't half as many. in proportion as we
have at Goldheld and Tonopah. Most Of
the machines out there are runabouts, but
then there are some pretty big ones, too.
About the first thing a prospector does
when he makes strike is to buy motor
wagon. The motors are about the only
means of transportation between the camps
and the towns They are now introducing
few freight motors to carry sacks OF ore
from the prospects up to the reduction
works.
There was a funny holdup out there
this winter. Some men were returning
from mining camp to Gold1eld and, being
in a machine, had run out Of gasoline.
They were in a big hurry, too, but were
dead stuck. Another auto party with a
big machine, coming from Goldheld, met
the stalled party and were asked to sell or
give them enough gasoline to carry them
TO Goldfeld The other party refused, al
though they had an extra supply. Well,
the stalled fellows didn't do a thing but
pull a couple of big guns on the others
and compel them to give them a sufficient
supply. After filing their exhausted tank
they told the fellows they had robbed that
they would pay them we'll for the gasoline
when they came back to Goldfeld, and
they did It. too, paying them good money
enough TO buy a dozen barrels of gasoline
and then offered to pay them for their
machine for any old price they would
name, as 4 held more gasoline in the
tank than their dinky little machine could
hold. They wanted another machine in
their business, anyhow"
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26
WOMAN TRIES HARD TO DIE
Prevented from Jumping Into River,
She Slabs Herself with
n Hat Pin.

Mentally deranged and bent on self
destruction to escape imagined scoffers
who she said were pursuing her, Josie
Pewthers, a stranger In Omaha, was picked
up by the police on the river bank at Sec
ond and Cedar streets Wednesday after
noon, and taken TO the station so much
against her will that when she saw her
self about to be taken by force, she grabbed
a hatpin and jabbed herself in the head
drawing a stream OF blood which spurted
over her clothing. She would not talk un-
til the station was reached when news
paper men were able 10 learn that she was
from eastern Iowa and from a ticket IN
her pocket 1t was found she had come from
Kansas City and was bound for Florence
She said she got on at Omaha and took
car to Florence Tuesday evening" return
ing to Omaha again and staying at the
depot over night.
The woman had been seen during the
forenoon wandering along the river and
the matter was reported to the police. At
noon the wagon was sent to get her and
she viii be held in the matron's department
while efforts are made TO locate relatives
She refused to tell what town In Iowa her
home had been, saying she had no home
She said a sister was at one time employed
at Florence, but now she knows no one
here or at Florence. She said she had been
travelling around from place to place
The woman still maintained her silence
Thursday and Police Matron Gibbons will
enter charges of insanity against her. The
woman said she wished to die and evidently
went to the river to drown herself to get
away from tormentors she said were fol-
lowing her.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26
BIG ESTATES YIELD REVENUE
Fortunes Over Half Million Produce In
hsritanoe Taxes for County.
SEVERAL THOUSANDS IN AGGREGATE
some Persons Interested in Estates
Are Dissatisfied with the APP
praisement and May De-
mand n Revision.

Estates aggregating more than $4,000
have just been appraised for taxes under
the inheritance tax law In county court.
They are the estates OF James B. Kitchen,
valued at about $3.50, 900; Ben b. Wood, APP
praised at l98.33L6s; Mary Helen Leavitt.
valued at $37, 224O5. The taxes paid by the
three will amount to several thousands OF
dollars. the amount not having been COM
puted yet.
The greater part OF the Kitchen estate
consists OF 2g7 shares of stock in the
Kitchen Bros. Hotel company. These
shares were valued by the appraiser at
500, $50. Mr., Kitchens interest in the real
estate upon which the Paxton hotel and
the annex stand was valued at $4,000. The
home property in Summit place was APP
praised at $780, Some Of those interested
in the estate are dissatisfied with the ap-
praisement and 1t is reported, may demand
a reappraisement asserting the present one
is too high.
The principal item in the Ben B. Wood
estate consists of 925 shares OF stock in the
Merchants National bank. which Is valued
at SlO6,375.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26
NEW FEDERAL GRAND JURY
Committed Before Febru-
airy ~.

United States District Clerk +. c. Hoyt
and Jury Commissioner George Tilden
drew a panel of twenty-three grand Jurors
and seven alternates Wednesday afternoon,
to meet in Omaha May at 10 a. m. The
Jurors were selected from all over the
state and will take cognizance of only such
crimes as were committed prior to .Febru-
airy "a, when the new judicial district law
went into effect. Omaha is represented on
the panel by Frank ]. Burkley Of the
Burnley Printing company, ia North Fiji
tenth street. TWO Omaha men are in the
alternate list, w. c. Mclean OF the county
assessors office, living at Twenty seventh
and Hamilton streets, and Charles e.
Bruner, occupation not given, living at
isis Caldwell street.
Following is the list of federal grand
jurors in full:
q. e. AuXier, Verdon, farmer.
F. J. Burnley, ia North Fifteenth street
Omaha, printer.
o. L. Brown, Tecumseh, farmer.
o. e. Champe, Friend merchant.
Charles ]. Cannon, Tecumseh, bank
Joseph c. Chapman, Arlington. farmer.
Fred w. Canarsky, Bancroft. retired
Charles p. Christensen, Herman, banker.
j. +. Fawell, Lincoln, secretary Gene
terry association.
Frank Fee. Edgar, merchant.
William NJ. Gormley, Lowell. farmer.
OweA Kane, Wisner, stockman.
Scott +; Merrill, Fairbury, bookkeeper.
d. ]. Poynter, Albion, publisher.
-. J. Raney, Fairbury, insurance agent.
Watson 4. Russell, Ponca, mechanic.
Chester B. Sumner, Schuyler, banker.
Samuel Skinner, Cortland, farmer.
II. b. Smalley, Nebraska CITY, farmer.
Nell A. schmeid, Dakota City, merchant.
George Turner, Columbus, bookkeeper.
Jasper r. Wertz, Chappell. real estate
dealer
Alternates:
II. A. Hobbs. Bancroft, merchant.
Henry Rentzcl, Neigh, retired farmer.
W. c. Mclean, Omaha, county assessors
office.
Charles E. Bruner Omaha
John Reed, Syracuse, farmer.
George Cotton, Syracuse, insurance agent.
A. w. Lamb, Monroe, farmer.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26

be gasfitters, working at the Nash build
ing. The checks were in each case for
$3.50. Several clothing men were also
caught
The men chose an opportune time to
work their game Monday being a legal hol-
iday the checks could not be banked till
Tuesday, and by the time they had gone
through the clearing house they could be
far away. The police yesterday received a
description Of two men who answer their
appearance from the chief of police at Des
Moines whom they said had worked the
check business in that city and whose
names were given as William Harvey and
Charles Berry.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26
GOODYEARS SQUAT in OMAHA
Big Rubber Company VIII Establish
Distributing Center I'm the
Gate City.

An additional story is TO be added 20 the
building occupied by the Omaha Rubber
Shoe company, at the northeast corner Of
Eleventh and Farnam streets, and will be
occupied by the Omaha distributing ONCE
OF the Goodyear Rubber company.
All sales OF the Goodyear company in the
adjacent territory viii be handled from the
Omaha once instead Of from the Chicago
ONCE, as has been the form er method.
Statesmen and customers OF the Goodyear
company in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and
the Dakotas have been notified Of the con-
templated change, which will go into effect
as soon as the new quarters are COM
pleted.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26

starchlng.
The skirt ana blouse are extremely simple
in line, and the cachet Of the frock lies I'm
the bold designs Of English embroidery
which are worked in warm tobacco brown
and trim both skirt and blouse. For travel
ling and for other coca sions calling for p
frock that will not soil readily yet will be
extremely cool and fresh looking, this
model IL admirable. II has been copied
in Irvine color linen with embroidery of
deep dull blue and in soft blue linen with
dark blue embroidery, but the cool brown
ish tan of the natural linen with the deeper
brown embroidery Is peculiarly effective
and practical.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26
BELLEVUE SUMMER ASSEMBLY
Gathering I'm August VIII he Inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL and Bring
Prominent Men.

The Bellevue Summer Assembly met
Thursday in the Commercial club rooms
for luncheon and transaction OF business
The following were elected as the direc-
tory: J. p. Bailey, state secretary for the
Young Mems Christian association: B. r.
Stauffer Of Bellevue. Rev. r. L. Wheeler
OF South Omaha, T. F. sturRess and Ar
thur Chase of Omaha. 1t was decided to
have the assembly. held in Bellevue from
August to II. INSTRUMENTATION In
character. During the assembly the state
Sunday school convention and Interstate
Young Mems Christian association meet
ings will be held.
Among those who appear during the as
sembly will be Governor Haniey OF Indi-
ana, Senator IAFollette, Governor Sheldon,
Lincoln quartet. F. r. Robertson. Father
Daily Of Milwaukee. DR.. F. w. Gunsaulus
and Humorist Gillian Of Baltimore.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26
DISTRICT ORGANIZATION FORMED
WOman's Club Convention Takes I'M
pOrtant Action.

From a Stan Correspondent)
STANTON Neb.. April 25.-(Special.)-
The Women's clubs Of the Third district
In annual convention here took the first
definite steps this morning toward efrecting
a permanent district organization auxiliary
TO the Nebraska Federation OF Womens
Clubs. Bylaws were drafted and &C
oepted by the meeting and will be
submitted 70 the state board for rati-
fcation. The bylaws provide that the
organization shall be known as the As
ISOLATION OF Clubs OF the Third District,
its object TO be to simplify the duties
OF the district vice president and promote
cooperation and sympathy among clubs
Of the district, The membership will be
limited TO clubs Of the Third district and
voting privileges viii be extended 70 the
clubs paying an annual cents per capita
tax this tax 10 be paid by January Is. The
vice president shall be chairman and a
secretary shah be elected. the third Of
ficer TO be an advisory member from the
executive board OF the state Federation.
The per capita tax shall be paid to the
vice president who will give her receipt
for the same. These few officers are de-
sirable 20 simplify rather than complicate
the work Of the organization. The bylaws
may be amended at any meeting by a two
thirds vote OF those present, provided due
notice has been given in the call for the
meeting.
This action Is most important as II Is
definite step toward the biennial as a
substitute for the annual state meeting
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26
Rad stomach Trouble cured.

Having been sick for the last two years
with bad stomach trouble, friend gave
me a dose OF Chsmberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets They did me 50 much good
that bought a bottle Of them and have
used twelve bottles in all. Today I am
well Of bad stomach trouble.-Mrs. John
lowe. Cooper. Maine.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26
oRAY TUII.R AND SILK.

coats and skirts and the variety consisted
more in the clever effects obtained through
the handling OF the striped lines than In
any radical difference OF design. At an
other tailor's we were shown good mo-
hair coat and skirt model in a one-tone
check Of corn color, with cuffs. collar and
scarf OF black tAffeta
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26
Madonna az Union station.

The art department OF the Omaha
Womah's club presented 20 Union station
a beautiful picture OF the Sistine Madonna
which was hung Thursday In a conspicuous
place in the Women's waiting room. mem
bers Of the department being present at its
installment.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26

Women say there IL nothing to equal
Kinks Jap Rose transparent soap for
washing the hair. All druggists ana grOcers
eel Il.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26
Personal Mention.

Mr. Harry Turkey Is in Grand Rapids,
Mich, where he went to attend the Moore
head Wallin wedding
Miss Agnes French left Wednesday even
ing to visit friends in New York.
Mrs McIaren of Louisville and Mrs.
HOLSTER, who have been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. B. Blanchard. have returned home.
Mrs. Roy H. French will be hostess next
wednesday at the meeting Of the P. H.
Card club.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-26

lie we are on the subject Of the utility
Evening star., 1907-11-17
Beer and the Canteen.

The official reports of army officers con-
tinue to confirm the belief that the health
and morals of American soldiers are being
more injured by pernicious whisky drunk
In ultra-post dives than 1t would be by
good sound beer in post canteens. Ex-
perience. observation. reason and official
reports bear testimony to this. But some
persons are so beset with prejudice that
their reasoning is weak.
Brig. Gen. r. NJ. O'Reilly, surgeon gen.
eral of the army, has given statistics
showing the increase of alcoholism and
vicious diseases in the army since the
abolition of the sale of beer in post can
teens These figures are xceedngly
plausible and comport with common sense.
Some time in the far-off future there
may be a race of troopers, batterymen,
"doughboys," etc, that will not drink,
smoke. chew or utter an occasional cuss
word. but when such a race comes upon
the earth the millennium will have also
come, and there will be no need OF SOL
ders. Wars will be over and guns will be
rusty relics of a long gone past.
II the military authorities succeed in
keeping true soldiers thirst so we'll regu-
lated and SO gently tanned that 1t will be
appeased with beer the cause of temper
ance Will have made enough advance for
one or two generations. If army tipple,
both for officers and enlisted men. can be
Evening star., 1907-11-17
THE new HALF EAGLE.

From the Nashville Tennesseean.
Those persons who raised such an obJec-
ton to the dropping Of the inscription In
God We Trust from the new coins. will
doubtless think that the present scar
city of the coins is a direct judgment
from heaven.
From the Baltimore News.
It Is not the inscription on the ten-dollar
gold piece that gives them the true ring.
From the Boston Globe.
The Presidents explanation upsets the
theory that he was jealous.
From the Boston Commercial.
The new ten-dollar gold piece designated
by Saint Gaudens has appeared In circu-
lation minus the time-honored motto, "In
God We Trust" This administration GER
tainly goes the limit in its policy of op-
position to the trusts.
From the New York Sun.
The head of Liberty is utterly fiat and
unrelieved: it has no quality of anything;
it is pitched in its plane without the least
sense of composition and Is superposed
upon a date Of egregious disproportion
and style. The reverse Is wholly dis
couraging. Saint GaudeRs was more
Greek in his sympathy and inspiration
than any other artist of the nineteenth
century, and how he should have executed
such a modern barbarism as this eagle
Is beyond our comprehe nsion.
Evening star., 1907-11-17
Everybody Happy.

Fverybody's happy as far as I kin see.
Though when 1t comes to reasons we are
bound to disagree.
Folks that talk prosperity are happy for
the cheer
That comes when crops are loomin' up
In plenty far an near.
Happy cause the country's got mate
rials an men
To take whatever starts out wrong an
set il right again:
Happy for the present, which Is silencin'
regret.
An happy for the future, which is lookin'
better yet.
OF course, we don't pretend that life Is
all grand, sweet song;
But folks can't sing forever; they are
bound to tire fore long.
But there's room for everybody In this
big old world of ours.
An those that like the briars they kin
easy dodge the flowers.
There is always some one comm out STIR
rim up row
That will bring passin' wrinkle to the
most contented brow
An some of US is happy cause the bless
ms fall so thick,
An some of US is happy cause we've got
a chance to kick.
Evening star., 1907-11-17
The Gossip About Mime. Gould.

Public gossip is again busy with the
affairs of Nine. Anna Gould. The cable
from Paris has 1t one day that she is
soon to marry another titled spendthritt
regardless of her bitter experience with
the one she but recently cast off. An
other day brings a denial of tn e, with
the statement that the lady has been in
structed by her first matrimonial venture,
and has no plans for the near future ex
cept to preserve her freedom. She is at
her Paris home, with her children. Her
fortune, though heavily drawn upon by
the little monkey of a creature she mar
ried. is still large. and all that money may
buy remains at her command.
In her efforts to free herself from an
unworthy partner. this woman had the
sympathy generally of people in this
country. She had BEEN married when
young, and in circumstances playing more
upon vanity than the affections. Her
wealth attracted suitors of a snowy
stamp, and the dapper Frenchman was
won was Of the sort to dazzle an in
experienced girl. He had valuable as
sistance from her friends who saw more
for her In Paris In the whirl of fashion
there as the wife of a man Of fashion
1han was open TO leT at nome. Inc Tndtcn
followed. and the unhappy result has at
once amused and disgusted the people OF
both France and America.
a second such match. however. would
deprive Nine Gould of much of the sym
pathy and consideration she now enjoys
IN this country. She knows the world
now. and its ways and rewards. and how
little mere appearances are to be trusted.
So far she has found no happiness In the
so-caIled high life of Paris, and II she
g6es hunting further in that field 1t will
be. as she should know. at a large risk
girls woes are pathetic The woes of
q woman who makes second venture
in the same field where the first was dis
sstrous are not moving. She presents
herself simply as a reckless gambler and
a poor loser.
But maybe Nine. Gould is little If al
all concerned about sentiment over here
One OF the risks and consequences OF
these foreign matches which take the
wives abroad is that. III their new life
even when ii is unhappy they get wholly
out of the old home picture. and in a way
become attached to their later surround
fIIgs with all OF the drawbacks. Where
there is a divorce a return looks toe
much like confession of defeat. and
such a confession, about that matter, a
woman is very slow TO make.
Evening star., 1907-11-17

appear to be addressing an audience.
Then he suggested the orator. But there
was no audience. Only the whipping
waters of the sounding sea" filled the
scene in front
Anon, he would resume his nervous
tread up and down, and commune with
himself. Could the news be true? He
doubted, and then assured and reassured
himself At every perusal of the commu-
n!cation his manner became title more
settled. until. at last. it could be seen that
all doubt had vanished. There could be no
mistake. Then, shaken with a great fit Of
Joy, he stopped. droppeo easily into the
arms of loungtng chair, threw his head
back and laughed loud and long For the
moment he was the picture of supreme
happiness.
Was he soldier. with news from some
plan he had drawn up and which had been
successfully executed? Or was he a spec
ulator with news of the successful buying
and selling of millions In his name.
and with the future all ease and luxury
Tor him7 Or was he an inventor, whose
attest work had been crowned with COM
piete triumph, and whose fame now was
secure forever?
He was none of these. gentle reader.
Allow The Star to present the Hon.
Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn. long time
i. senator from Kentucky. but now serv-
ing in federal Office in Panama. as he ap-
peared at his residence on the isthnus
With copy of the cable some thoughtful
'fiend in the Bluegrass state had sent
I'M, announcing that John Crops Wick
life Beckham had at last got his" and
that. In the bluegrass vernacular, It was
plenty.
Evening star., 1907-11-17
Three Municipal Victories.

AS the municipal problem is regarded
as the most difficult of the American prob
lesns-d. ffiCult because politics should have
SO little to do with 1t, and yet, ordinarily,
has so nIuch-We should all rejoice in tn
three city elections last week in which
political lines were obIterated. At Clev~-
land. Louisville and San Francisco tht
veters took into consideration the local
conditions so.ely from the standpoint OF
good government, and decided the elections
without regard to party divisions. AT
Cleveland republicans assisted in the cleo
ton Of a democrat for mayor. at Louisville
democrats assisted in the election of re-
publican for mayor, while at San Fran
cisco both democrats and republicans lie t
regular party candidates to help elect an
Independent candidate for mayor. The
selections In all three cases are high y
heralded, and all three cities should bene
fit
Mr.. Johnson was running for his fourth
term and standing upon his record, which
was good. He had given the people OF
Cleevland an administration larg ly
marked by non-p partisanship. and they
said at the polls stlat they liked it. There
is no reason why lie should not hold to
the same course during his fourth term,
and if he does he will stamp non-partlsan
ship in Clevelands affairs still deeper,
and thereby perform a public service.
Louisville had been in the clutches OF
democl attic machine for years The pick
!ngS'' in the way of dollars and cents had
not been as large as in other machine
ridden cities, but the ballot Dox had been
converted into a joke, and on election
day repeaters and thugs ruled the roost.
Conditions al last reached tuat SCauut,!
Gus depth that an election carried by such
creatures was uullihed by the highest
court IN the state. ali OF the members o.
which but one were democrats. ana a
new election ordered, and it was at this
new election last week that thousands o.
democrats, TO rebuke the scoundrels Ill
their own party. voted for a republical.
candidate who promised honest govern
ment for the community.
Recent conditions in San Francisco had
attracted wide attention, and the people
were made to See that the future OF Ine
town was at stake. Unless they could
at the polls convince the outside worlu
that their affairs were no longer subject
to the domination of thugs and graiters
the town would suffer In its credit. To
this, last week, they addressed them
selves. and won a notable victory. San
Francisco is immeasurably better off than
before the local e.ection. An excellent
man continues in the mayors chair. and
clean policies are vouchsafed.
What other cities will make haste to
Join these three in lifting their affairs out
Of machine hands and ruts?