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Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06

Pheian & Shirley are the Omaha con-
tractors who secured the work and they
already have several OF their grading out
fits on the road to Calgary. This firm has
been doing an immense amount OF work
In the north and northwest, having worked
on the Milwaukee and on the Grand Trunk
Pacific. Some OF their outfits were at Ed
monitor. about 100 miles away.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22
MeovERN STARS IN NEW ROLE
Holds Up Man who Acts Like n
HOldUp and Turns Him over
TO the Police.

Thomas McGovern, known to fame as the
democratic councilman from the Ninth
ward. has broken into the limelight again.
Last night he left his home at Twenty
fifth and Chicago about 9;15 o'clock on his
way down town. Just as he left his home
a man ran toward him from across the
street and as he approached, asked Nc
Govern for the sum Of % cents wherewith
to buy food.
The councilman saw that the man had one
hand under his coat as though he We've
holding a weapon. He ponnced upon him
as the eat is supposed TO land on the
mouse, and found that the man was carry
ing a piece Of gas pipe fifteen inches in
length.
McGovern took the man to a store at
Twenty-fif and Davenport. where the
police were called. At the station the man
gave the name OF T. J. Murray and said
he was recently released from the Nebraska
penitentiary. According 10 his story he
could get no work and had become des-
perate.
He was booked as a suspicious character
and his case will be investigated further.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22

pays s. a head for old horses, and after
being judged by the classes in stock judg-
ing. a rubber bag is placed over the horses
nose and chioroform is gradually admin
istered until the horse is dead. Then il is
dissected by the students who are special
izing In veterinary science. More than a
dozen horses are used each year i'm this
way.
The university will receive $4,000, to be
devoted TO aiding needy students, Nrom the
will Of Charles r.. Gregory of st. Louis,
who recently died In Paris, France The
money is left in charge of Mr.. Gregory's
sister, Miss Maria Carter Gregory. 20 years
old, and at her death will be given in
charge of a committee of -four faculty mem
bers of the university and one citizen of
Columbia. The committee members are to
receive 500 a year each for their services
in distributing the money, which will be
known as the William Alexander Gregory
education fund.
A glass tube containing $1,000 worth of
radium has been received by the depart
ment of horticulture Of the University of
Missouri. The tube contains ten milli-
held on the point of a penknife. 1t is being
used by Prof. c. S. eager in experiments
with plants. He has originated an en-
tirely new variety of primrose by use of
the radium rays. The radium belongs to
Hugo Lieber, an importing chemist of New
York City. The tuhs>has to be kept wrapped
In tinfoil to prevent its burning the hands
and eyes.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22
WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY.
Four of n Engineering Glass
Work of HyEienic Laboratory.

Tour Of the Engineering Glass
Work of HyEienic Laboratory.
The itinerary of the annual trip or the
Junior class in the college of engineering at
the University of Wisconsin has just been
completed. There will be two tours, one to
the large engineering plants In the middle
west, and one to those in the east, The
eastern party, under the direction OF Prof.
II. ]. Thorkelson, leaves Madison April IL,
and will visit Detroit. Chicago. Niagara
Falls, Buffalo. Pittsburs and Gary, Ind.
The western division leaves April 8, and
visits West Allis, Milwaukee. Chicago and
Gary.
The engineering enterprises to be tn
spected on the eastern trip are the Allis-
Chalmers plant. West Allis; tunnels. ship
yards and automobile factories at Detroit;
power plants. graphite and paper companies
at Niagara Falls; smelling and steel works
at Buffalo; coal mines, steel plants, bridge
and electric companies at Pittsburg, and
the United States Steel corporations plant
at Gary, Ind.
The final oratorical contest to select a
speaker to represent the University of Wis
consln in the Northern Oratorical league
contest to be held at the University Of Ne
braska May T. was won by Charles C.
Pearce. 'O9, OF the Athena Literary society,
his subject being The Force that Keeps
the Peace" Samuel l.. Barber of Spring.
field, KY, Of the PhilomathiA society, will
be alternate, having won second place with
his Grafton, "The Democracy of the South"
The university oratorical banner, awarded
to the society whose representative win the
highest places, was awarded to Philomathia,
with "a points against Athena's 50.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22
KEARNEYuMILITARY ACADEMY.
New Company Flags to Float for
Drill winners.

The new company flags have come and
will be in evidence. weather permitting. this
week. They are pennant in shape and bear
the letter of the company in white on a
field Of light red. The company winning
the weekly drill down on Saturday will
have its flag Just below the colors on the
flag pole for a week.
One OF the rooms in the dormitory has
been set aside as a reading and recreation
room for the smaller boys. There will be
a small pool and billiard table placed there
in a week or two. which will make a fine
place of amusement for the younger cadets
on bad days.
Three new students entered the school for
the spring term. They are Kuenzel OF
Bnena Vista, Colo; F. oraves of Holdrege,
and cBride of South Omaha.
All preliminary track work has been
brought to a standstill by the snowfall of
last week. Several cadets were out work
ing on the pole vault and some were trying
out on the weights. Work will begin I'm
earnest in about three weeks.
The band continues to make excellent
progress and will soon be scattering strains
to the four winds when the weather per-
mits.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22
Big Rally for
Home Missions
Eminent Men Of Many Churches
Will Speak at First Methodist
This Week.

1t Is intended to give the missionary
activity of the Protestant churches Of
Omahar a tremendous uplift by the three
big meetings to be held at the First Meth
odist church Thursday and Friday. The
object is to interest laymen in home mis-
sions as a real and living issue and to
give those who are interested In these
matters an opportunity of learning about
home missions.
These meetings will be presided over by
Dean Beecher, Howard H.. Baldrige and
Rev. F. H. jerks, ID. D.. and will be adj
dressed by eminent speakers from various
parts of the United States.
Thursday evening at 7:45 O'Clock Bishop
Hendrix Of Kansas City will speak on the
subject, "a ChristianiEed America-For
World Redemption and Rev. Josiah
strong of New York City on America
God Laboratory for the World" Friday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock Rev. A. w. For
tune Of Cincinnati will speak on THE
Unity of the Church In It's Mission to
America" Rev. Ward Plat, Philadelphia.
on "Our Expanding Frontiers and Mr..
Edmund d. soper, secretary OF the Young
Peoples Missionary movement, on THE
Importance of Education in Home Mis-
%sions.' On Friday evening at 7:b O'Clock
Rev. David Fl. Banshier of Springfield, o..
speaks on Home Missions and Patriotism
and Prot. r. A. Steiner. Grinnell. Ia, on
1.-THE Immigrating and Emigrating Peo-
ple's."
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22

The will of Eugene Tompkins. the we'll
known theatrical manager of Boston, dis
closes that he left $4,000 to the Perkins
This Is a magnificent lift for the work of
the late DIR. Samuel @. Howe, husband of
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe.
The proposal of the Russian ministry of
education to build 14S.1 79 new urinary
schools In the empire in the next ten years
seems colossal, If not exrravagant, but II is
seriously meant, and Is conceived with a
c~ommendable appreciation of the real and
urgent needs of the Russian people.
Fraternity house mothers are suggested
by President David Starr Jordan of Leland
Stanford university, who is trying to devise
means for improving the scholarship of the
members OF the secret societies. He be-
lieves that the RICH woman presiding over
each fraternity house would have a very
beneficial influence on the scholarship OF
the students.
Three states have just competed for the
United States forest service experimental
laboratory, and Wisconsin has won, after
careful study of the claims Of Michigan
and Minnesota, The University OF WILSON,
sin provides the site and the building, and
the federal government equIps the labora-
tory and pays salaries aggregating $2S,0J0
per year.
Prof. II. c. Chamberlain and Z. D.. Bur
ton Of the University OF Chicago are re-
ported as In Shanghai, China, as advance
agents of the university's oriental educa-
tional investigation commission. Rumor
has IL that when this commission makes up
its mind as to what needs to be done. Mr..
Rockefeller is to turn back TO the orient
some Of the profits Of the sale Of kerosene
in the far east.
The eleven large colleges In New York
City have a combined enrolment of 1865
students and employ the services of l,59d
teachers. The college Libraries contain a
total of $50, 200 volumes, an average OF forty
five books to each student. The city spent
$31. 900, 600 In 1908 maintaining public schools,
with a daily average attendance OF 5sl ,5Z9 at
elementary and 27,b16 at high schools. The
$50 elementary and fourteen high schools OF
the greater city employed l,243 men and
IL, 766 women teachers.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
ELECTION IN FLORENCE
U. S. Fucker t. Nominated for Mayor
and w. H.. ThOmas for
Treasurer.

The republicans of Florence held their
primaries at the city hall last night and
nominated the following ticket
Mayor-F. S Tucker.
City C~ierk-Charles M. Cottrell.
City Treasurer-William II. Thomas.
Police judge. X. Lowry.
city Engineer-F. II. Reynolds.
Councilman. North WaFd-John II. Price.
Councilman, South Ward-Charles II.
Allen.
The only contests were for councilman
from the North ward, between b. c. Fowler
and ]. II. Price, and for the same office
in the South ward between ]. A, Holman
and Charles Allen.
The city central committee that will
nave charge of the campaign is made up OF
Louis Grebe, Frank Brown and w. H.. Muir
ray, who say that while the republicans
were the last to hold their primaries they
will be the first at the count of the bal
lots on April 8, IL good. lively hustlIng will
do 1t. The socialists and democrats nomin-
ated their tickets earlier In the week.
The vote follows;
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22
Kearney Normal school.

KEARNEK. Neb., March I'll (spe-
cial)-The members OF the Caesar class
have prepared an entertainment which
they will give for the benefit OF the other
Latin classes Tuesday afternoon.
st. Patrick's day was observed at the
school by an appropriate program car
ried out by the training class. The pro-
gram consisted of Irish songs, recitatlons
and character sketches.
The captain OF the former basket ball
team, Clarence Shirley, was surprised by
about forty of his Friends Thursday
evening, who entertained their host end
themselves with various refreshing
dishes. Mr.. Shirley left Saturday for
Glenwood, Ia, where he will ACCEPT a
position as bookkeeper in the asylum for
the insane.
Interest is being conferred in the con-
testants for the base ball team. Twenty
have .signified their intention to try out
for the team. Friday seventeen suits
were given TO those who will meet regu-
lorly for practice.
Some new furniture. consisting Of a
desk for use In the chapel and three new
magazine racks for the library, nave been
received and put in proper place.
Tit two Christian organizations held a
fair in the school building Friday even
ing, TO which several hundred students
and citizens of Kearney came. The money
obtained by this means will be used by
the organizations to send delegates 10 the
conventions Of the association, which are
held annually.
Friday the seats in the chapel were
appoTtioned to the several classes. The
trainers, seniors and commercials will oc-
cupy the front rows, and back of these
will sit the freshmen. the juniors and the
s-ophOmores.
A number of pine. trees have been
planted on the campus. AS many more
had been planted two years ago. The
classes have set the precedent of planting
u tree each year.
The German club held its regular
monthly meeting Tuesday afternoon. The
program was: instrumental solo, Miss
Mabel Drake; current events, Miss Mary
Welsh; paper on German city. Mrs Viola
Easterlins; duet. Misses Alice Miller and
Bessie Stewart; paper. Joseph Yensen;
dialogue. arranged by Miss Nellie Maze:
recitation, Miss Ella dunn. German songs
were sung.
Miss Mary Crawford, teacher of htera-
ture. gave the members OF the Dramatic
club an interesting talk on the drama
Tuesday evening. She discussed Greek.
French and English drama development
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22
FERMENTATION OF COLLEGES.
Increasing Proportion of Women
Students Causes Alarm,

uden Causes Alarm,
Every university in the country is watch
ing the university girl darkly. says a
writer In the Delineator. Let there be no
more men in colleges she seems to be
saving. Presidents in their annual reports
note with dignified trepidation the fact
that % per cent of their Students are now
women, a proportion yearly increasing. A
list of thirteen western universities shows
the women outnumbering the men in seven
cases. Minnesota, Nebraska and California
have nearly twice as many women as men.
Stanford has planted It's back flatly
against the wall. like a creature facing a
pack, and arbitrarily limited the number
Of women who may enter each year to
800. And Tufts is asking for a gift of $780,
900 that she may segregate her women and
so save herself from becoming a woman's
college.
As a matter of fact, what the college
girl has lone is not just what II seems to
be. II is something different. less spec
~tacular, with it's roots deeper in the struc-
ture Of modern life. She Ia certainly not
driving men out of the coeducational COL
leges, because where are they going? Not
to mems colleges. Men increased 70 per
cent in the coeducational institutions be-
tween 1890 and 1898. and only half as fast
in the mems colleges. Moreover, It is only
In one department of the modern Ameri-
can university that women are I'm the
majority, the college Of liberal arts. In
the technical schools-engineering. forestry,
agriculture-we find still some such pro-
portion as thirty to 1000.
Men are going more and more into TECH
meal courses, and so are women, and the
college Of liberal arts has become. in point
OF fact, n technical school for women.
Teaching is the cultured occupation which
the most conservative girl may enter with
self-respect. and two-thirds of the girls
i'm colleges are preparing to teach. Except
In the few universities which offer neda-
gogy, the college of liberal arts is the only
preparation they can find. AS soon as
more professions open 10 women. and uni
v~ersities prepare for them. this congestion
in the teaching profession and the college
Of liberal arts will cease.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22
and outlined the requisites Of a sue ,ess-
ful play.
PUBLIc SCHOOL METHODS.
Former Member of school Board
TeIIa Snmc Encta.

oF"e htuhntF " SthoOA nNaNu
Tells some Facts.
Samuel +. Orth, former president Of the
Board OF Education Of Cleveland, now a
practiclng lawyer, tells in the Atlantic
monthly some plan Facts About the Pub
lie Schools Were you ever a member
OF a school bosrd?' he asks. IF not he
continues, then have hardly been re-
vealed to you in their fullest measure. the
Vaccinations and tendencies OF the dual
forces that combine to establish our public
schools; the educational forces on the one
hand, and the public or political forces on
the other.'
This writer discusses at length four OF
the counts in the indictment which Is gen
orally brought against the public school
system in this Countrywide failure OF the
schools to teach the pupils, the failure Of
the pupils to use their minds. the unprac-
tlcal character of the instruction impaired
to them, and the absence of any serious
effort to awaken their moral sense. He
asserts that 'in most Of our cities there
is a prevalent. provincial feeling that looks
with disdain and disfavor upon the hiring
OF teachers from other towns" which sem
timent, we are grsvely reminded, makes
Of our schools semi-eleemosynary Institu-
ions, whose principal function is to give
employment to the daughters and sons OF
the place.
Continuing. Mr.. Orth says: THE bane
Of this in-and-ln breeding is felt in every
large city. So acute Is the feeling that. II
the superintendent goes abroad for q few
alien teachers, he is decried as disloyal,
and he is fortunate If the disgruntled ones
fail in organizing a foolish opposition to
his well-meant endeavor to infuse new life
into the schools. There are instances on
record where a determined parent has set
out to elect a school board 50 that her
daughter might be appointed a teacher,
though she is lacking both In spirit and in
knowledge. L have lived here thirty years
and paid taxes, and the city owes IT to
me to employ my daughter, rather than
hire some one from out of town, who never
helped make this city, said an irate parent
10 me, after l had told him l could not
interfere with the appointment of teachers
by the superintendent. And this feeling is
quite as prevalent as 1t is hurtful to the
schools"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22
MANY CHANGE THEIR ABoDES
Over Three Voters Get
Transfer Certificates from the
City Clerk.

Three hundred and sixty-nine voters OBJ
tanned transfer certificates from City Clerk
Butler yesterday up to Q p. M, on which
to cast their ballots at the city primary
election March 30 This was their only
hope Of voting, as they had changed their
residences since last fall and under the law
could not vote except by getting certifi-
Gates from the city clerk.
OF this number 27 we're republicans, l6l
democrats and one socialist. Mr.. Butler
kept his office open for the voters accom-
mediation up to the very hour OF 9 and he
and his corps of clerks fixed every man
out in prompt order,
Young men who have just become of age
and new citizens who have just been In
the city and state the required legal time
on election day may vote by making oath
to this effect.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22

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Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22
Breen Wants
Palmer to Pull
Out of Race
Friends of Former Insist on Latter
Withdrawing as Candidate
for Mayor.

Fontanelle friends OF John p. Breen are
still urgent in their demands on Captain
Palmer to withdraw from the race as a
candidate for mayor. They are keeping
the telegraph wires hot with their appeals
and insist that the captain hurry home and
declare publicly that he is not a candidate.
They are also belaboring Judge Searle. who
is Captain Palmer's manager. making the
same demands of him that are being made
Of his principal. but searle responds that
as Captain Palmer was first In the race. IL
anyone withdraws, II should be Breen.
Captain Palmer will be in Omaha on
Tuesday morning, It is now expected. He
stili is firm in his intention to remain in
the race.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22
MISSOURI
Activities of the Agricultural Col
Iege-Radium Experiments.


The agricultural department of the Uni
versity of Missouri is unable to supply the
demands for the hog cholera serum discov-
cred by DR.. J. w. Connoway. Since the an
nouncement Of the discovery was made in
January thousands OF letters from twenty
four other states have been received, ask
ing for Information in regard to the new
hog cholera cure. The university is send
ing out the cure as fast as possible. but Is
hampered by lack Of facilities for hand
ling the serum. II is estimated that 800
600 is lost annually as a result OF hog choI-
era, and the fact that the new cure Is prov
ing successful In stamping out the disease
has created great interest among farmers
and stockmen.
Old. broken-down horses. thin. shaggy
and past the age OF usefulness. find an
easy death at the hands OF the classes in
stock Judging and horse anatomy In the
agricultural department, The department
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22
STAGE ROAD TO YELLOWSTONE
New Route Rams Cut from Rock
Springs on the Union
Pacific.

A stage road. improved for automobiles,
has been built connecting Rock Springs
on the Union Pacific with Yellowstone
park. a distance OF $50 miles. Six large
machines will make regular trips over
the road and three OF these nave already
been delivered and are now running. The
route is north through the Green river
valley 10 the Wind River mountains n
up Wind River canon The road then
passes through the Jackson Hole oOun-
try and up the Snake river valley to Ysi-
lowstone park, Tn road goes through
a large sheep country. where over l.0OO.-
900 head OF sheep were fed last summer
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-22

gave Root Prfut II
voIlmsrs, expert clothes filters. 1o7 S. 1s
Lindsay" for city council-Adv.
Chime C1ocks-Edholm, Jeweler.
vote for d. A. n. Chase-all wards. Adv.
Rudolph =. swoboda, Public Accountant.
Prank u. stone, 5th ward councii.-Adv
Rinshsrt. photographsr, 18th . Fsrpam.
j. p. jackson is the best man for coun-
ell from Second wsrd-Adv.
Equitable Ltfe4Policies. sight drafts at
maturity. H.. d. Nicely. manager, Omaha
vote for Cooley r. Bruoksr for re-elec-
tion for councilman from 5th ward. Adv
W. u. Thomas, 500 First National Bank
Bldg, lends money on Omaha real estate
In sums Of $500 to $4,000. Prompt service.
where Can You s,Art Monthly Deposits
Of 500 to 5000 earning 8 per cent divi-
dends? Al the Nebraska Savings 4 Loan
Ass'n, Board OF Trade Bldg.
Montefiors Pleasure Club Annual Hop
AT a recent stag social" given by the
Montefiore's Jolly bunch the announce
ment was given out that the fourth an
nual hop Of the Montefiore Pleasure club
will be held at the Metropolitan club
Sunday evening. March %.
Bank Draft stOlen-The secretary Of
the Nebraska Bankers association mas
sent out a warning to the effect that a
draft for S240.56 has been stolen from
ahe Bank Of Steinauer. IL was drawn on
the Farmers National bank of Pawnee
City, Neb. payable to Thomas Fenton
and was dated March 1. The number Of
the draft Is 17s6S. Payment has been or
dered stopped.
Boy a House Breaker-Fred Kelley, who
says he is 10 years old, but has no home,
has been arrested on a charge of house
breaking. lie is said to have entered the
house OF II. A. Kaiser, 1897 Corby street,
Friday afternoon while the family were
away and took a revolver and some small
change. when arrested last night by
Detectives Farris and Dunn he had the
revolver in his pocket. lie will be turned
over TO the Juvenile court.
Man Stabbed During ROW -Jud
Whited. a painter, who lives at 207 North
Seventeenth street, was stabbed in the
left side of the breast. just under the
heart, last night during an alteration
with William Carpenter of South Omaha.
Whited was treated by Drs. Newell and
Pinto and was afterward allowed TO 20
TO his home, as the wound is not believed
to be serious. Carpenter was arrested.
The trouble occurred near the corner of
Sixteenth and Davenport streets.
May Music Festival-The officers and
directors of the May Music festival have
engaged the Minneapolis symphony or
chastral for the series of Concerto 20 be
given In May. TIN s~oloists so far en-
gagged are Miss Louise ormsby of New
York city, soprano, Miss Esther May
Plumb, Chicago. contrelto; Arthur Mid
dleton, Chicago. basso; Curio Fischer,
Minneapolis. 'cellist. The tenor, ~ yet
TO be engaged. The Oratorio society, I'M
der the direction OF Ira b. Pennlman.
win give |Hiawatha's Wedding Feast at
the May festival. The dates Of the fcs-
tival have been fixed for May II and is.
Dnsk rnnrn ncantad l. IL AnnhIor