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Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
SPENCER EDDY ON WAY
TO SAN FRANCISCO HOME
s~On-in-Law of Claus SpreckIes ON
Way Home from Diplomatic
POst I'm ROumania.

Spencer F. Eddy, until recently envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentlary
to Roumania, with headquarters at Blu
charest, together with \ Mrs. Eddy
passed through Omaha Wednesday night
en- route to San Francisco to join Mrs.
Eddy's father. Claus Spreckles. jr., son oil
The sugar king Of the Pacific coast, with
whom Mr.. Eddy will be associated in the
future,
Mr.. Eddy was recently succeeded in Rou-
mania by John b. Carter. He and his wife
have been spending three months in Paris,
and arrived in New York Monday. where
Mr.. Spreckles' private car Rainbow was
waiting to take the party across the coun.
try to join relatives.
Mr.. Eddy was surprised to learn Of he
assassination of the prime minister of Rou.
mania, and asserted that he was an tx
emplary gentleman and could think Of no
reason why an anarchist should commit
such a crime, Mr.. Eddy was a personal
friend OF the prime minister.
Mr.. Eddy has not been in the Unite
states regularly for some time, as he hel,
a diplomatic position in Argentina oeror5
going TO Roumania.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
TWO MILLION BONUS GIVE.
TO STEEL TRUST WORKMEN
Annual Distribution of share OF
Earnings in Cash and
StOek.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-More than s2,OOO.O 900
will be distributed by the United States
Steel corporation as a bonus 10 its officers
and employees, 90 per cent OF which will be
in cash, according to the official announce
ment Of Chairman Gary today.
TIL bonus was first announced at $1,000 O0O.
but Chairman Gary corrected this In his
official announcement today. In which he
said;
The amount is determined as usual by
the annual earnings. The sum distributed
for 1909 amounts 10 a little over 1900 900.
This viii be paid 20 per cent in cash and
40 per cent In preferred stock at l24. or
common stock at 90, in accordance with
the wishes OF the recipients, so far as Is
practicable and convenient. Also the usual
opportunity will be given TO subscribe for
1900 shares Of the preferred stock Of the
corporation at l2i under the usual condi
TONS"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
BRIEF IN OMAHA CAS- CASE
7. W. Blackburn Pushing Old Suit
Against High Charge.
STIRRING SCENES ARE RECALLED
Comparison of Prices State and Con-
sumcrs Pay for MeRls-Lin-
cOln's Flag Day Not
Successful.
tFrom q staff Correspondent.l


LINCOLN, Dec. ~23.-(Special. )-Ramind~
ers of two events which created some In
terest in Omaha are found In a brief filed
In the supreme court yesterday in the
case wherein It. w, Blackburn seeks to. have
cancelled the contract between the city ot
Omaha and the Omaha Gas company for
lights for the city.
Through the name Of !. ]. Dunn two little
ink lines are drawn, leaving Harry Burn
ham and John A. Rine attorneys repre-
senting the city. which has joined Black
burn in the suit. 1t will be recalled Dunn
was disbarred from the practice of Law re-
Gently by the supreme court FOR action
unbecoming a member of the bar. Dunn Is
a part OF the legal department OF Omaha,
but his name does not so with the courts
of the state.
The other reminder Of old times is the
description of the scene attending the pas
sage of the ordinance when Mayor Moores
kept a quorum Of the council present by
stationing police officers at the doors with
orders to allow no member to pass out.
1t -recites also an attempted fight on the
part of Dave O'Brien and the mayor, and
a skirmish between Zimman and a police
man. All of which happened back In 1906.
Blackburn alleged the city was paying
too much for the gas ana therefore he de-
manded that the contract be set aside. He
lost out in the lower court and the case
is now in the supreme court and he is ask
ing a reversal.
O'Brien Gets Clean BIZ.
Labor Commissioner Maupin went to
Omaha yesterday to investigate a COM
plant against T. j. O'Brien for employing
an 11-year-old boy. He discovered O'Brien
In the grill room.
You are charged with employing an IL
year-old boy in violation of law said
Maupin. 1T is against the law, which
provides that boys Of that age shall not
be employed against the law employing
boys where liquor is sold"
I'm certainly in the clear on that last
charge" sadly smiled O'Brien, as he gaEed
at his vacant bar.
Maupin discovered that the boy was not
now employed and had not been employed
by o'Srien, though he had worked for the
manager of the orchestra some time ago.
He gave O'Brien a clean bill.
Prices to State reasonable.
During these high-priced times the state
believes It is getting Its supplies for the
state institutions at very reasonable prices
compared with what retailers pay and what
The ordinary consumer pays. The follow
ing shows a comparison OF prices paid IN
Lincoln;
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
POET WATSON IN HAVANA
CabIegram from Mrs. Watson Denies
Brothers. story that He is
Insane.

q HAVANA, Dec. pa couple arrived here
on Monday by the steamer Miami from
Key West and registered at a hotel at
Vodado, a suburb of Havana, as Mr.. and
Mrs. Watson OF Dublin. 1t is reported the
man is the missing poet, Watson, but he
declined to give an interview or any in
formation concerning himself tonight.
NEW YORK. Dec, IA cable message
from Havana has been received from
Maureen Watson, the bride Of William
Watson, the poet, in which she denies that
her husband Is insane and calls in question
the motives of Robinson Watson, whose
statement TO that effect was given In ex-
PLANTATION of his brothers. attack on the
Asquiths. Mrs. Watson says:
'Mr. Robinson Watson's message TO the
world is a wicked attempt TO ruin my aus
bands reputation in America"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
SWAPS

FOUR BRAND NEW GROOM HOUSE"
In southwestern part of Omaha, free
from incumbranoe of any kind, modern.
Want land at right price.
Meat market, slaughter house. ice house
doing fine business In growing Nebraska
town. Want Omaha property or land.
S-room modern house, large lot, east front,
In western part Of Omaha. Want clear
land: price must be right; we have no
time for whiting.
N0WATA LAND & LOT CO.,
Suite ga New York Life Bid
TO EXCHANGE-16O acres land, central
Dawson Co., Neb., clear, half cultivation,
for mules, horses, Shetland ponies or North
Dakota land. T. Il, Wolfenden, Cozad, Neb.
REMEMBER It only takes a stroke or
,wo of the pen TO mention the fact that
you saw the ad in The Bee
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
George & Co., 1901 Farnam st.

WANT TO BUY A FINE HOME. CHEAP?
] have putC hased q farm ana expedite
tBo on same shortly after the first Of the
year. II takes $1,000 cash, but you can take
-four years to pay balance, The house Is a
2 strictly modern up-to-dUte Groom and bath,
with cemented cellar. hot water heat, two
cesspools, open nickel plumbing, oak fin
b. lshed and maple floors; two block from
Y can, cement walks all the way and around
house,; vide east end south front porch;
high and slightly loc1tisn. On1 Of the incest
rs SOUTH oRPHANAGE AVE, BENSON.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24

$1,000
Judge Good, who was a candidate on the
nonpapusan democratic judicial ticket this
fall. was a caller at the executive office
today and reported that he felt all right
Notwithstanding the action OF the voters
at the recent election. Judge Good Is still
on the district bench and inasmuch as he
carried his district he said he felt coed,
Compliments for Malone.
Mayor Love has not yet signed the resolu.
ton to pay Acting Chief Of Police James
Malone extra salary for filling the position
and neither has Mr., Malone been formally
elected chief. II is the general belief. hove
ever, that as Malone has made good as
chief, that he win not be supplanted. On
all hands the people are expressing their
admiration for the splendid force Of men
he has secured In his department and he
efficient work they are doing,
Tag Day AT LincOIn.
The Associated Charity association yes
terday collected 50 1856, prominent society
women doing the collecting. The cociuty
expected to collect a 900, but owing to the
cold weather or something else The cash
was not forthcofhlng.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24

Queer requests are made in most depart
ments of the big shops. The book depart
ments in particular hear strange titles
and strange names of supposed authors.
In ak a girl to a book counter.
81 want a book on improving the com
plexion," said the young woman.
The clerk handed her out several.
''They are not the ones l want" said the
girl, emphatically. Il can't just emem-
Der the title.
She gurgled a while and then guessed,
1T was Five Little Pimples and How They
Crew."
Shades of Louise Alcott!' muttered the
clerk. Has the poor old Pepper family
come to this?"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
OCEAN STEAMSHIPS
CANADIAN PAcIyIc-

WEEKLY sAILIRGs TIVE
QUEBEC AND LIVERPOOL
Nothing better on the Atlantic than our Emprsssss
wireless on all steamers.
g. 8. BENJAMIN. q. A.
0a So. Clara S.. Chicago. IN
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24

THE Missouri Pacific Railway Company.
1876 Broadway, New York, Nov. SOth, i9O9.-
To the stockholders OF The Missouri Pacific
Railway Company; Referring 10 the notice
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24

STOCKHOLDERS OrtlCE
of Lee-Glass-Andreesen Hardware com
many. Omaha, Nebraska, December II, 1909.
Notice is hereby given to the stockholders
of Lee-Glass-Andreesen Hardware Com
lnny that the annual meeting OF the stock
office of the said company, corner of Ninth
and Harvey stress, in the city of Omaha,
in the state of Nebraska, on Tuesday, jan
the purpose of electing a board of direct
ors for the company to serve during the
ensuing year, and to transact such other
business as may be presented at such
meeting. H. j. LEE, President.
Attest: w. M. GLASS, Secretary.
Oil to J IL
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
REAL ESTATE
REAL ESTATE DEALERS.
CITY PROPERTY ron SALE.
WEST FARNAM
nRESTDENCES

xzs,Oo0 For the brick and stone resi-
dence located at the southeast
corner of 3Sth and Jones SITS.
FIRST floor consists of six
rooms and large hall. with
\ beautifully selected oak, hand
carved stairway. Parlor. Ii
brary and reception room fin
4 ~ ished ip selected mahogany.
-aA Dining room finished and pan
eled with selected quarter
sawed oak. Built-in buffet.
re-, two large flrepleces. six
%S bright, spacious bedrooms on
d second floor, three of which
have open fireplaces, also
yrsr large closets. Quarter
..cgc saved oak floors throughout.
Third floor has four finished
rooms besides o large cedar
closet. The basement under
.lhe the entire house Is divided into
Res. t4rnace room, laundry room,
~ is storage and drying rooms.
Three-stofy brick barn in the
rear. Corner lot, S2x177 feet.
lLoOO For a. nine-foom residence.
modern In every respect, First
floor has large living room
ia land reception room, finished
81 ID. In quaTter-sawed oak, Dining
day room finished ia mahogany.
Handsome tiled fireplace.
.7aA Large and convenient kitchen.
30 -Four bedrooms on second
floor, very attractively dec
dssr GRATED. Also two baths. Two
I'd rooms finished on third floor,
Barn and garage in the rear.
Located in Omaha's best resi-
dence district. A choice east
front corner, .96x125 feet.
t2,5c9-9-roqTE, strictly modern home,
located on enc. of Omaha's
,,,,c best ~Fasidhhce streets Very =,
attracttvely finished and sub
s~tantlally built. Owner leaV-
y, Ing town bts ause of change in
business reason for selling.
SSOo0-9-roorn, all modern house,
-. oak and hard pine finish,
a large reception nall first floor, :
living room, dining room and
kitchen; four bedrooms second
floor; n large room on third
floor; located near 35th and
Farnam SITS. Win consider
offer.
1850 For q 1Q-roCm, strictly mod
ern frame house, iocatsd near
the corner of SD and Harvey
SITS. Oak finish first floor.
-Four bedrooms second floor.
Garage in the rear. Reason
ahlaF thrvna
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24

chamberlam's Cough Remedy curas the
wofst colds. Try L
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24

Judge Estelle was hurrying down the
street at the noon hour when an old friend
stopped him, a man of considerable wealth.
Come and tax lunch with me" said the
man of wealth.
Cant" replied Judge Estelle. II have
an unbreakable engagement"
Break 1t anyhow said the would-be
host.
IT'S like this" explained the judge. Il
am to meet a woman who is going to buy
an overcoat for a poor boy who has been
five months in a hospital-typhoid and
complications. She asked me to help pick
the coat and l agreed"
Il am glad 1 met you," said Estelle's
friend, diving down into his pocket and
producing a roll which would have choked
a boa constructor. Il have wanted to give
some money this Christmas TO some one
who really needed II. Give this"-stripping
off two yellowbacks-'to your boy and
wish him Merry Christmas"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
REAL ESTATE WANTED

WE HAVE BUYERS FOR
9. G and 7room houses, If prices are right
we can sei your property for YOU.
NOWATA LAND AND LOT CO..
Suite IA N. Y. Life BLDG.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24

WEBSTER STA.-i5Tu 4 WEBSTER
Missouri Pacific b
Auburn Local ........-..b $50 pm bI2:1O pm
thtcaEO, 81. PHufs aIinneapOIIs 4
OmRha-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
LEGAL NOTICES

OCOntlnuedO
sent to you November nth, 1909, calling a
special meeting of the Stockholders of this
Company to be held on the 18th day Of jan
uary, 1910, you are notified that the stock
transfer books of this Company will be
closed at 8 o'clock p. m. December Sth,
1909, instead of January 7th, 1910, and re-
main closed until 10 o'clock a. m. January
18th, 1910. This change in date Is made to
avoid any possibility of confusion in deal
ings In the stock and rights to subscribe
to bonds, prior to the date of said special
meeting. If unable to attend the meeting
please sign and return the proxy which we
have already sent you. A. H, CALEF,
Nov. IS to Jan, Is. Secretary"
Nov. IS to Jan. Is.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
RAG Day at lincoln.

Bee Want Ads are Business Boosters.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
In SANTA CLAUS VANGUARD
Little Johnnie Spins Practical Cues
ton for His Mamma.
WILL WE GET AS WE'RE GIVING ?
Judge Estelle, Going to Buy Poor
Boy an O~vercOat, Accidentally
Finds a Man with the Price
Happy to Give.
WILL WE GET AS WE'RE GIVING
Do you know the Christmas question:

Do you know the Christmas question:
1t has been felt, If not articulated,
by hundreds and thousands of Christmas
shoppers and it gained verbal form and
contour from lips of a little boy.
He and his mother had been shopping all
day. They had gone from one big store
to another and from counter of each store
to counter, until a small pair of legs were
greatly f~atigued and a young brain wearled.
Now, just one more gift" said his
mother, land we are through. A present
for Cousin Eddie you know, John.
Mamma" presently observed the tired
boy, do you suppose all these people we
are buying presents for, are doing this
much for us?'
The mother frowned at Johnnie, bur
sn lied when she related to circumstance to
papa,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
h
REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

WANTED-Tenant for 2O0-acre dairy
farm on pavement near Omaha. Alfalfa,
pasture. silage, and barn for 100 COWS
Market for milk guaranteed, Address $50
Bee.
FARM for rent. Apply to DR., ]. c. Agee,
Valley, Neb.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
Minnesota.
nMRaHourI.

FOR SALES down, S. monthly, buys 40
acres good timber land, near town, Iron
Co, Mo. Price, SIPS. Title perfect. Ad-
dress, Il. G. farrell, Eldorado Springs, Mo.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24
Kansas.

FOR SALE-10i acres adjoining Garden
City, II mile from city and county, high
schools, private pumping plant, ditch
rights, highly improved. If you want a
farm that Will grow anything, good ell
mate mild winters, ong seasons and
school advantages, investigate this. Bar
gain. Address II. b.. Wadsworth, Garden
city, Kan.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-24

WANTED-Tenant for 200 acre dairy
farm on pavement near Omaha. Alfalfa,
pasture, sllage, and barn for 100 cows.
Market for milk guaranteed, Address $50,
Bee.
IMPROVED ACRE TRACT FOR RENT.
rs acres, on Dodge st. road, near Dun
dee, good Groom house and other out
buildings, land in good condition. Terms
OF lease on application.
GEORGE & CO., 1901 Farnam st. D-756."
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-20

take three months or more to install
It. Men will be sent on from Chicago
TO do the work and they will begin
as soon as the material is on the ground
There viii be virtually no ineonyeni-
enee to the public in changing over
from one phone to the other. The
automatic phones will be installed in
the houses and the old phones viii not
oe taken out until after the system has
been changed over. This can be done
practically in one night-probablv on q
Sunday night SO as to cause the least
inconvenience. It will simply mean
cutting out one system and putting the
other in. There will be twenty switch
boards, and it will not take over four
men in the switchroom to look after
them
Mr. Plat explained that the auto-
matte telephone has been greatly i'm
proved lately and that it is impossible
TO get the wrong number if the right
number IS called. Instead of the bio
clumsy instrument in use in some other
cities that have the automatic system
the new phone is smaller and handler
instrument, with a much smaller dial
and one that works much faster than
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-20

Germany's new Chancellor, Theobald
Won Bethmann- Hollweg, is half a
Frenchman, fact which / have not
seen mentioned in any one Of his biog-
raphies published in this country. His
mother, who is still alive, is Paris
ienne, and was prior to her marriage
Mile. Isabelle de Rougemont, member
of a family which hailed originally
from Neuchatel, but which has been
settled in France for nearly two cen
turtles
During the reign of Frederick the
Great the head of the De Rougemont
family in France was that Prussian
monarch s financial agent in Paris, and
also served as his intermediary with
many of the leading French authors
and savans of the day. In 1884 the
Rougemonts were ennobled by Louis
XVI, and today one of their number is
married to a New York girl, the daugh.
fer of Mrs. Devereux Clapp.
The new Chancellor $ mother spends
portion of each year in the land of
her birth and was in Paris when she
received the news of her son IS appoint
ment French is therefore to the Chan
eellor his mother tongue, and he speaks
it with a freedom from accent and
perfection to which none of his prede
cessors at the palace in the Wi1helms-
trasse could lay claim.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-20

viii provide for the installation Of $500
telephones. But I anticipate that with
IN short time from the beginning of
its operation the growth Of the plant will
warrant additional equipment. In fact, I
shall be greatly surprised if within a
year from the time the automatic svs-
tenn is installed the Mutual company
does not have a thousand new sub
seribers. The equipment to be furnish
ed provides that additions up to five
thousand lines can be made without
additional installation.
ftThe present equipment of the tele-
phone system here I find to be greatly
inadequate to the needs of the citv,
Notwithstanding the fact that it repre-
sents a considerable money outlay.
II say-and Mr. Hummel our engi-
neer backs me up in the statement
that there can be nothing finer than
the new system we are going to install.
1t Is the finest that money can buy
The principal thing is to provide for
the convenience of the public. and that
Is what this new system will do.
II think that it will take about
ninety days for the equipment to be
shipped and received here, and it will
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-20

does the old kind. In fact, there is no
appreeiable hesitation in the working of
the dial.
If any phone gets out Of order, the
tact is Immediately recorded in the
sWltchroom so that the switchboard
man knows it before the user of the
telephone does and he can Immediately
stralghten matters out There are buz-
GERS, bells and other indicators at vari-
Gus places in the switchroom to give
warning of any trouble.
The telephone wires. George R. Car
ter states, are all to be put under
ground, which viii add greatly to the
beauty and attractiveness of the city.
Mr.. Platt is elated at having placed
his system here. for he looks upon Ho-
noIulu as the stepping stone to the ORR
ent in his business. As Mr.. Carter
put it. "Mr. PIatt is going TO China
to install an automatic telephone in the
house of each of the four hundred mil
lion inhabitants of Chna.'
Mr.. Plat. as above stated. returns
to the Coast on the next Manchuria,
but he expects to come back to Homo
lulu next winter on his way to the
Orient.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-20

his workshop near the head of Makiki
valley, the heroic figure of President
Mckinley. But he hasn't finished the
hands, because he has as yet been un.
able to find models to fit his ideal.
Yesterday morning Mr.. osborne was
sitting in the lower corridor of the
Judiciary building waiting for the
United States District Court to open.
When asked why he was seated with the
japanese crowd that daily throngs the
corridor, he replied that he was look
ing for a pair Of hands. And chen
he explained. He said he had spoken
to Judge Dole about it and the Judge
had suggested that possibly he might
find among some of the Jurors, court
officers or prisoners of the court the
hands he was looking for. And SO as
each man walked past his hands were
scrutinized until some looked hurried
ly at their wrists to see if their cuffs
were dirty. Mr.. osborne said he had
suggested to the Judge that, if he
found what he was looking for among
any of the prisoners, it would be TAX
en- as a favor to him if the Judge
would sentence the owner of the de-
sirable hands to term in Makiki val
ley as model. But unfortunately no.
body who came along could fill the
bill. Mr.. osborne is still looking for
hands.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-20
MOTHERS

snould know. The troubles with
muItitudes of girls is want of
proper nourishment and enough
of it. Nowadays they call this
condition by the learned name of
Anemia. But words change no
facts. There are thousands of
girls of this kind anywhere be-
tween childhood and young LADY,
hood. Disease finds most of its
victims among then. Some of
them are passing through the
mysterious changes which lead
up to maturity and need especial
Watchfnlness and care. Alas.
how many break down at this
critical period; the story of such
losses is the saddest in the his
tory of home, The proper treat
ment might have saved most of
these household treasures, if the
mothers had only known of
WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION
and given it to their daughters,
they would have grown to be
strong and healthy women. 1t
is palatable as honey and con-
tains all the curative prop
critics of pure Cod Liver Oil,
extracted by us from fresh cod
Hyers. combined with tho Corn-
pound Syrup of Hypophos-
phites and the Extracts of Malt
and Wild Cherry. Search the
world over and you viii find
nothing to equal it. Taken be-
fore meals it improves the nutri-
tive value Of ordinary foods by
making them easier to assimi-
late, and has carried hope and
good cheer into thousands Of
darkened homes. The Abigeii
kindergarten says: " Your prep
aratlon is a sure cure for Il q
most violent cod, if properly
taken. In treating children. It
mas proved IN many cases under
our observation a sure preven-
tive of the progress of pulmo.
nary affections, and has in every
case of iEeipient CONSUMPTION
Seted as stay Of that dreadful
disease: It win not disappoint
Ssn, Sold By all chemists here.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-20
Divide the Land.
More NationaIities

g You have recently had japanese
strike. That strike has taught one great
lesson-it has taught that you have too
great population of one nationality.
nationality that is at the present time
suffering from bad case of the swelled
head. Don't bring any more here If
you need laborers, bring in other ma
tionalities.