Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-07
BRIEF CITY NEWS

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BnAoRpA r. swObeAn, Public Accountant.
nanehzxa ph0e>SrApAsr. 18th 4 FarnaE-
Reya. pay1nH- removed 10 Is & Howard
Dougiaa Printing Co Both telephone
Equitable Lkfs-Polarses, sight drafts At
maturity. IL d Nicely. manager. Omaha
Savings AccgnHts in the Nebraska saw
ings and Loan Association earn six per
cent, credited ~semi-annually. One dollar
starts an account 1909 Farnam.
Keep Your Honey ana valusblss in a safe
deposit box in the American Safe Deposit
Vaults in the Bee building. 81 rents q
box. +. G. Hamer. president.
Paying for . Home is as easy as paying
rent. ANebraska savings and Loan Assoc
citation will show the way. Board OF Trade
building, Sixteenth and Fsrnam streets.
land Five Mundred an Aore-C. q.
Rain has sold TO Simon Rauksek, fifteen
acres OF land west of Dundee for 1850,
being just $500 per acre.
Union Gospel Arission-This evening
between the hours Of 7:R and IL O'Clock
a meeting will be held at the Union Gospel
mission, 1891 Douglas street. There will
be a number Of short talks. special sing
ing and testimonies.
Pcstoffice Reoeipts for Januaxy-The re-
ceipts for postage at the Omaha post
office for the month of January, 1909, were
ts, ISL. II. as against s62,044.s for the month
OF January, 1908. This shows an increase
Of s., 1919. or about 3 per cent.
y. o. LINDSAY GETS Token Of Hard
Work-James c. Lindsay is proud of the
fact that the Board of Education has
adopted q resolution commencing him for
faithful work on the board and in token
Of 1t has made him chairman Of committee
on promotion.
Bids for Commissary supplies-Btds
will be opened at the office of Lieuten-
ant Colonel F.. r. Eastman. purchasing
commissary United States army, for $780,
900 pounds Of issue bacon, for $4,000 pounds
of potatoes on Monday next, and for 1900
pounds of chickens on February II.
Two Msn Up for Entsring-For attempt
ing to enter a saloon at 2:2O o'clock in the
morning by means Of a key after the place
was closed, Ed Cummings and Eugene
Summit were sentenced to Jail Saturday
morning by Judge Crawford Of police court.
Their sentences were twenty and ten days.
respectively.
New LINE OF Touri 0ars-The Bur-
lington will install a new line of tourist
NoTb 1htNn Il W E44uu fllb large COiOHlSl
travel to California and the Puget Sound
country. These cars will leave Omaha
each day in the week except Monday. and
will go via Denver, Salt Lake. and the
Southern Pacific.
The zeal estate firm Of shriver & Ben
ava has been dissolved and the business
will hereafter be carried on by Mr..
shriver. G. 8. Benewa having resumed
business relations with the McCague In
vestment with whom he was
connected for a number of years before
entering the firm of Shriver &c Benawa.
Pine for Filohing AEoney-For obtain
ing money under false ~pretenses by de-
livering . bogus insurance policy to a
eolored man and collecting a premium on
1t, John Smith, sci South Nineteenth street
was fined SIS and costs In police court sat
urday. William Pace was the victim and
the policy issued by Smith in the deal was
a sample issued by the State Assurance
company.
xyra Will Give Ooncert-The Bohemian
Singing society, "Lyra." will give a. con
cert Sunday evening at Turner hail.. or
Thirteenth street, between Martha and
Doreas streets. The program as arranged
is to be interesting, the feature being F. A
IhOlbhOog " uOtSQ -NiOlAhlSl HUN kHiCobO
who will play three numbers. Miss NJ
Mix, daughter of Joseph MIX, will sing tive
selections. The Lyra society will sing Men,
delssohn's Hunting song and Bendl's Cru
saders on the Sea-"
More Army Supplies to BE Called For
Twelve or fifteen carloads of quartermas
ters supplies for the use of the severa
posts In the Department of the Missouri
have already been shipped from the quar-
termaster depot in Omaha, and other ship
ments are being made daily on requisition
Major ID. E. Mccarthy. chief q-uartermasteI
OF the department, will shortly call fol
bids for $4,000 or sC5, 900 additional supplies
to fill up the shortage caused by the Iequi
sitions from the several posts.
HsiAstvss Cannot Bury Their Dead
letter to Coroner Heafey from Mrs. J
Lenz, sister of Alfred G. Wendt, whC
died from gas poisoning at the Prague
hotel last week. states that the relatives
OF the dead man are unable to bear tn,
expense Of the shipment of the body anC
the funeral. Wendt will. therefore, b,
buried in Omaha by the county authori
ties. The address of the sister is $40 Eas
Long avenue. Newcastle, Pa. The lette
was received Saturday morning.