Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-28

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800 each, and the life Of the new corpora
ton is fixed at fifty years
Rive Thousand Per Finger-For the loss
Of two fingers Joseph Accardo, an Italian
section hand. filed suit IN district court
asking $4,000 damages. He states that he
was working at South Bend, Neb., De-
cember s, 1905, when the accident occurred.
A jack with which the rail was being raised
slipped and let the rail down on Accardo 3
fingers. He dressed the wound himself,
but as 1t got worse he came to Omaha and
had a surgeon dress it. Blood poisoning
set in and the fingers had to be amputated.
Tribute TO Train School, visited
Train school to see what the pupils there
were doing with their Band of Mercy
work." said DR.. George L. Miller, and 1
was greatly impressed with the humani-
tarianism Of the little folks Under the
direction Of Miss Mason, principal, and
their teachers they are starting out on the
right lines. They have uppermost in their
minds the pernicious results Of cruelty to
dumb animals and are cultlvating kindly
Instincts IT'S a great work for school
and this school deserves much credit"
Pacific Rlockades Brsaking-The pas
senger department of the Union Pacific an
nounces that it is now able to get passen-
gers through to Los Angeles, San Fran
cisco and Portland Some Of the lines are
still blocked but enough are open TO per-
init Of getting trains through to these
points. The Davis-Sacramento line is still
blocked. The san Francisco Sacramento
line via Martinez and Stockton is open.
The san Joaquin Valley line is open The
coast line is still blocked by tunnel be-
tween Santa Marguerite and San Luis
Obspo.
North Platte valley Leaf1et-The Bur-
lington has just issued a new edition of it's
North Platte valley leahet-one describing
the irrigated lands in the valley under irrl-
CATION and with directions how to take up
government homestead land to be irri-
gated from the government ditch in the
immediate future. portion of the folder
is devoted to the description of the differ
ent crops raised in the valley. with the
folder is also a map illustrating the va
rious irrigating enterprises. The different
towns are described and their possibilities
pointed out. With the folder is printed a
complete list of land agents dealing in val
| ley lands.
Fines for Short Postago-Notwithstand
ing the repeated warnings given out by the
| Postoffice department, some patrons per-
versely practice the habit of enclosing first
class matter in second-class packages with
the expectation Of beating Uncle Sam out
Of few cents postage. The fine for doing
this is SO for each offense Since January
the Omaha postoffice has collected nearly
$500 in such fines, one being so collected
| Tuesday and another Wednesday. The law
/ is very explicit on this subject and pro-
hibits writing on newspaper margins. en-
closing letters or notes in newspapers or
books that are sent at a rate less than the
regular letter rate.
Samuel Drosher at Rest-The funeral
services of Samuel Dresher. who died Mon
day morning at st. Josephs hospital, were
hold at o clock Wednesday afternoon az
the family residence. 1922 Jones street, and
were conducted by Rev. ]. e. Hummon OF
the Kountze Memorial Lutheran church.
| Interment was at Forest Lawn cemetery.
The death of Mr.. Dresher was rather sud-
den, being the result Of an attack of pneu-
mona complicated with other diseases.
which he was unable to combat. He was
6S years old and came west from his home
in Pennsylvania in 1877. For several years
and up TO the time of his death he was a
contractor and builder, in Omaha.
Crowley Fixing New omoe-uas Com
missioner crowley IL beginning 10 arrange
for the opening of his Office on the fourth
floor Of the city hall on April /. In the in
term Mr.. Crowley is visiting the city hall
each morning, getting used to the saluta-
ton, Good morning Mr.. Gas Commits
sioner." and otherwise getting into the har-
ness. The gas commissioner win have
rooms in the southeast corner OF the fourth
floor and is waiting for the juvenile court
officers 70 vacate. AS fast as the necessary
apparatus for testing gas is installed thC
commissioner will proceed to report on the
heat units, Illuminating power. pressure
amount OF ammonia and other such thing
that might be told about gas.
HOLY Week &C st. Andrews-Holy week
J services at st. Andrews church include
Holy Eucharist at 8 a. m. and vesper serv
ices at 4 p. m. every day except Goo
.. Friday. Bishop Williams win make hi
annual visitation Thursday evening for tn
J purpose OF administering the sacrament o
confirmation. Mathis and litany will b
, said at 10 o'clock Friday morning, and iron
noon to D. m. there vii be meditation
, Eyensong at U-fday evening. Vespe
services will be Id at 4:3O p. m. satur
day. On Easter Sunday there VIII be loy
celebrations OF the Holy Eucharist at
and a. m. Missa Cantala at II a. m. an
evensong at s. Gnberts service will b
, sung at the II O'Clock Easter service by