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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
NEWS OF INTEREST FROM DIVA

reduce rates so that the revenues OF the
company would not exceed $4,000 per
annum, but as Councilman Morgan stated.
this had not been accomplished and under
the proposed new rates the revenues OF the
company would be over 10000. I'VE
figured" said Mr.. Morgan, ito fix the rates
30 as to produce an equitable and fair
revenue on a plant valued at $4,000, which
Is what we consider the utmost value OF
the present plant"
While the existing rates are reduced
practically all along the line, the most inn
portant change in the proposed ordinance
is the reduction in the hydrant rental. The
new ordinance reduces the rental Of hyd-
rants from $50 to $40. Besides providing
for this reduction in the hydrant rental
the ordinance stipulates that all hydrants
not affording actual fire protection shall
be removed.
The section OF the proposed new ordinance
governing the hydrant rentals is as fol-
lows:
That the said city shall pay any such
Individual or corporation owning and OPP
Grating a water works plant In the city
of Council Bluffs, the sum of $40 per annum
as the rate OF hydrant rental per hydrant
That such rate per year per hydrant shall
be paid by the city for said rental, on all
fire hydrants maintained by such individ-
go VI ~ thARh 10 ~ ~ - I1G
efficient condition and which will throw
two streams each from a one-inch nozzle
to a height OF fifty feet when attached to
a hose $50 feet or less in length, and which
will on the same main at the same time
throw one such stream from each of two
~hydrants. Provided, said hydrant rental
shall be paid only upon such hydrants as
are now used in said city and as shall be
selected by the city council as being SER
viceable for use In case of fire. But the
said water works company shall not be
required to maintain any hydrants which
the said city council shall determine are
not necessary for fire protection and which
meet the requirements hereinbefore speci-
fled. That for all other hydrants not found
by the city council to be necessary for
fire protection or which fail to meet the
requirements herein provided, the city
shall pay no hydrant rental.
Some OF the changes proposed are, rate
for dwelling houses not exceeding six
rooms, reduced from 81 to Sc; bath tubs
In private residences, present rate of $3.50
to SO, reduced to 1928; barber shops, one
chair. reduced from $40 minimum to S.;
restaurants. present rate of $40 to $50, re-
duced to $40 to $50.
Meter rates are reduced from IS cents
per 1000 gallons to 30 cents, and so on.
The only other business transacted by the
council was the allowing Of the usual grist
Of bills for the preceding month. An ad-
%journment was taken to Wednesday after
noon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
Don't Diet For Fat

You have no appetite for Cruel. have
YOU? BY the same token, IL you scale In
excess OF $50 pounds. | know you have no
great liking for gymnasium stunts. As a
rule fat folks are neither athletic nor as
celtic, except under compulsion. and now
adays they are not under compulsion to
be eithe no matter how necessary 1t is for
them TO reduce. There is a third, better,
and surer way OF getting rid of super
fluous flesh.
The trouble with both dieting and exer-
else Is, first the trouble; second, the dam
ger (fatty heart); third. wrinkles; and
fourth. stomach disgust You are liable to
all four II you exercise or diet. On the
other hand, you can sidestep all four, and
still reduce as much or little as you
please. even up to losing a poursi a day
II you see fit. by taking a teaspoonful
after meals and at bedtime of the follow
ing simple home receipt: One-half ounce
Marmola. y Dance Fluid Extract Cascara
Aromatic, and ga ounces Peppermint
Water.
Any druggist will fill this prescription
for you cheaply. and yod may take IL with
perfect confidence that IL viii do no man
ner OF harm. Instead IL almost Invariably
improves the health and, likewise, the
complication.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
City Clerks Organise.

IOWA FALLS, Ia, Jan. 12.-(Special.)-
Every city and town clerk in the state is
interested in a movement that eliminated
in a committee meeting Saturday, for the
purpose of organizing the accounting Of
ficers- of the municipalities of the state
with a view to bringing about uniformity
in the conduct of the affairs Of the clerks
offices throughout Iowa. At the meeting
Saturday the committee formulated a re-
port outlining the proposed organization,
which will be submitted to the next annual
meeting of the Iowa League of M~unicipali-
ties for approval. The new organization,
1t is proposed, will be a part of the league
and will cooperate with that organization
in bringing about. reforms and improve
ments in the uniformity Of municipal book
keeping and accounting,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
N MENTION.

Davis, drugs.
Btockert sells carpets.
Ed Rogers. Tony Faust beer.
Lewis Cutler. funeral director. Phone 81.
woodring Undertaking company. Tel. $50.
Pictures for gifts. C. q. Alexander. SS1
Broadway.
County Attorney J J. Hess Is confined
20 his home by sickness. County Treasurer
J. w. Mitchell Is also again on the sick
list.
Oak Leaf camp, Royal Neighbors Of
America, will meet In regular session this
evening. The drill team Is requested to be
present
We quote facts. not hot air. when we
say we have the best system OF doing
fine watch repairing in the city. Try US
once and be convinced. only reasonable
Fire starting, II is believed, from a spark
from a chimney among a lot Of empty
boxes piled up against one Of the sheds.
did considerable damage last evening at
che Wilcox greenhouse No. 2
Three Nebraska couples were married In
this city yesterday by Rev, Henry DeLong.
They were NJ. A Pilgrim and Annetta b.
hoff and Maude Tansey, both of Albion,
and Ellington 7. Neal and Lucille NJ.
Wright, both Of B~rownvile.
The schoentgen family home on South
Sixth street was entered by thieves Satur-
day night or early Sunday morning and q
quantity Of wearing apparel stolen. The
house has been unoccupied since the recent
death OF Mrs. S~choentgen- A large suitcase
filled with clothing was dropped by the
thief or thieves in the alley at the rear
of the house. Entrance was secured by
unlocking the rear door with a skeleton
key.
Mike Roppo, said TO be a railroad
laborer, was arrested by the police last
night at the instance of q. l. McApline.
local agent for the Great Western railroad.
1t was stated at police headquarters that
Roppo was suspected OF stealing railroad
transportation and that an Information
would be filed against him this morning.
Roppo said his home was In Omaha and
that he came to this side OF the river In
search Of work.
William King filed suit for divorce In the
district court yesterday against Lizzie
King. to whom he was married February
20, 1880, In Creston, la. He charges his
wife with deserving him in August, 1895,
End also alleges that prior to leaving him
manner In his petition the plaintiff says
that while the defendant offered no phys
ical violence TO his person, she melted
others to do him bodily injury"
The preliminary hearing of Albert Hogan
charged with breaking into the warehouse
Cf ]. r. Lindsay on Tue9day night of last
week and stealing fur pelts valued at over
day until Wednesday morning. j. w
McNeece and c.. o. Kempster.. employed
at the Rock Island railroad %sandhcuse, yes
terday identified Hogan as a man they
found asleep in the sandhouse late Tues
day night. At the time Hogan had with
contained green hides. Tuesday night was
tire coolest of the wir ter and Hogan OF
the man with the sack of hides, sought
the sandhouse to get warm.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

sentatlves take this view he will be given
the seat in the house. This same claim Is
made by Mr.. Hamilton in the senate in his
contest against Mr.. Ream.
The other contests in the house are by
w. T. Davidson of Hamburg against A. V.
Penn of Fremont COUNT (democrat). de-
clared elected by five votes; L. d. Teter
Of Marion county, against George w. Groz-
Ter; s. M. Corrie against Robert Baxter
(democrat), elected by eleven majority; and
L. F. Springer (democrat) of Buchanan
county, against B. F. Stoddard, declared
elected by two votes.
Electoral College Contest.
There was a lively tilt in the Iowa cleo
toral college when 1t met at the state house
today. 1t was discovered that one mem
Der was not present-Mr. Anderson Of
Mason City. He had written a letter, how
ever, to ex-Speaker Bowen OF the Iowa
legislature, one of the electors, recommend
ing the election of william Muse OF Mason
City to fill his place. Mr.. Bowen, however.
offended some of the electors in some way
and they demanded a secret ballot. When
the first ballot was counted LATE Young,
sr., of Des Moines had seven votes, Muse
three, and two scattering. On the second
ballot Young received ten and Muse three.
Then the electors sent for Young, but he
could not be found for several hours and
the selection OF a messenger to Washing
ton was accordingly delayed. 7. f. Ander-
son was finally chosen for the position.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
SALE OF INTERURBAN DENIET
President and General Manager Are
Emphatic.

BOONE, Ia, Jan. 12.-(Special telegram
President Homer Loring and General
Manage Black of the Newton & North
western and Fort Dodge. Des Moines
& Southern lnterurban today author
lied a denial Of the published stor-
les that the Chicago & North-
western company was contemplating pur-
chasing the line. President Lorlng is to
return to Boston tonight. He said emphati-
cally that no sale was even contemplated.
"Of course II any one has the money the
road can be bought"
Plans are being formulated here for cleo
trifying the north end Of the Newton &
Northwestern, twenty-seven miles, from
Fort Dodge Junction to Rockwe City.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
A Religious Author. statement.

For several years / was afflicted with
kidney trouble and last winter l was sud-
denly stricken with a severe pain In my
kidneys and was confined to bed eight days
unable TO get up without assistance. My
urine contained a thick white sediment and
I passed same frequently day and night.
] commenced taking Foley's Kidney
Remedy, and the pain gradually abated ami
finally ceased and my urine became nor.
NAL. I cheerfully recommend Foley's Kid.
ney Remedy. For sale by all druggists.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
Albert Hinebaush Dead.

Albert Hinebaugh. 1870 Sixth avenue. died
yesterday morning at the E~dmundson
Memorial hospital, aged As years.
Deceased was formerly a railroad con-
ductor on the Northwestern and Union Pa
cific roads. Seven years ago while en-
ployed as ~yardmaster for the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railroad at Gainesville,
Tex. he was seriously injured and was
compelled to quit ~railroading. He had been
an invalid more or less ever since.
He was a member of the Masonic lodge
at Redfield. Ia, of the Order Of Railway
Conductors at oskaloosa, a charter member
OF the Elks lodge at Laramie, Wyo., and
a member of the lodge Of knight of
Pythias at Denison. Tex. He Is survived
by his wife.
The body was taken last sveuing to
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
CENTRAL sHOPMEN MAY GO OUT
Entire Force of Iowa Road Threat
ems to Renew Strike.

ems to Renew Strike.
MARSHALLTOWN. Ia. JAM. 1~2-(Special
Telegram. )-Another strike of the entire
shop force of the Iowa Central railroad is
threatened because the company has given
employment to w. D. Toler, roundhouse
foreman, at Monmouth. ILL.,, who shot and
killed George w. Davies, a striker. in this
city during the strike last summer. Toler
was acquitted in the Tama county court.
He has been made night brennan Of the
roundhouse at Monmouth, Ill. Notice has
been served on the company tina unless
Toler is removed the shop force of the en-
tire line will strike.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
BROWN TO TALK AT DAVENPORT
Railroad Man Principal Speaker at
Commercial Club banquet.

DAVENPORT. Ia. Jan. 12-(Special)-
w. C. Brown, president of the New York
Central, and j. C. Lincoln, commissioner Of
the traffic bureau of the Merchants ex-
change of st. Louis. will be the principal
speakers at the annual banquet of the
Davenport Commercial club Thursday even
ing, January IA. President Brown sends
word that his subject will be The Farmer.
the Country and the Railroads. and Mr..
Lincoln will speak on THE Railroad Cues
ton from a Shippers Viewpoint"
Three hundred business men of eastern
low and western Illinois are expected to
be present.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

CRESTON, Ia, Jan. l2.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-Ex-County School Superintendent
Frank M. Abbott Of this city has been APP
pointed by Auditor Bleakly as assistant
state insurance xaminer and assumes the
new duties Thursday, January II.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
Davenport After Grange McetIns.

DAVENPORT, Ia, Jan. 12.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-Davenport business men met today
and inaugurated a movement to secure the
meeting Of the National Grange next No
vember The place OF meeting is to be de-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
Blacksmith Commits suicide.

LBMARS, Ia, Jan l2.-(special Tele-
gram.)-T1mothy Kline. a blacksmith, aged
about %. committed suicide at Westfield
by shooting himself through the right tenn
pie. Kline had been on q protracted spree.
He leaves a wife and family at Early, Ia.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
A Life Sentence

of suffering with throat and lung trouble
is quickly commuted by DR.. Kings New
Discovery. zoe and 800. For sale by
Beaton Drug Co.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

Mount Pleasant. Ia, for burial, being
escorted to the depot from cutters under
taking establishment by members OF the
local Masonic lodges.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

cided by the executive committee In Wash
ington January p, and It is understood TO
favor a meeting In the middle west this
year.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

Committees for 4. M. @. A.
Joe w. Smith, chairman Of the young
mems committee appointed to assist in the
campaign to raise the money needed for
the completion of the Young Mems Chris
tian association building In accordance with
the original plans has divided his commit
tee into ten groups with the following
chairmen:
Group No. 1. Z. L. Empkie; group No. 3
group No. 4. C. e. Swanson; group No. 8,
Henry Petersen; group No. G. DR.. ID. w.
Mccall; group No. Z, Roy DeVol; group No.
8, George f. VanBrunt; group No. 8, DR..
Mac Hanchett; group No. 10, Prof. E. r..
Jackson.
The chairmen and member of the sew
eral subcommittee will meet this evening
at association headquarters, l22 South Main
street, to arrange plans for the canvass for
subscriptions.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
nen1 Ertntc Trnn.ferr.

These transfers were reported to The
Bee January IL by the Pottawattamie
County Abstract company Of Council
Bluffs:
Portsmouth Savings bank to George
Berwick, lot IA, block 3, Harrison
Street addition to Council Bluffs.
W. ......... .... .......
Verne BENJAMIN and wife to F. J.
Day, lot 2S. block SO, Ferry addi-
ton to Council Bluffs, W. d.. .J1,2OO
]. w. Squire and wife to Josephine
Whyte, lots SO and 40, block o.
Squires' addition TO Council Bluffs, $3.50
-
Three transfers. total. .........S4,7O1
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

Licenses to wed were Issued yesterday
to the following:
Name and Residence. Age.
Nj. A. Pilgrim, Omaha. ...............
Annetta Il. Henderson,, Omaha. ........25
Anton Kohlhof, Albion, Neb ..........37
Maude Tansey, Albion, Neb. ...........
Ellington 7. Neal, B~rownville. Neb....45
Lucille NJ. Wright, ~Brownville, Neb....26
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
L MAN INJURED BY TRAIN
Arm and Leg Severed and Victim
Probably Will Die.

VIII Die.
Hans L. Petersen, an aged cobbler, liv-
ing at 1918 Third street, was struck and
thrown beneath the wheels Of a freight
train yesterday morning in the yards of
the Chicago Great Western railroad,
near tho corner of Sixteenth avenue and
Third street. His right arm was severed
at the shoulder and his right leg below
the knee. He was taken to Mercy hos
pital, where his injuries, which are ex-
pected to prove fatal. were attended to by
City Physician Tubbs.
Petersen is n years of age and is said
to be totally deaf. Although there were
no actual eyewitnesses Of the accident, it
is believed that Petersen was injured
while picking up coal. The train had
been standing still and the unfortunate
man was caught under the wheels of the
caboose when the engine was coupled on.
1t Is supposed that Petersen was reach
ing under the cars for coal when the
coupling on OF the locomotive moved the
cars.
Petersen has a wife and two sons. His
shoe shop was at his home.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
Cuts Water Revenue.

The new rate ordinance is avowedly
calculated to cut down the revenues of the
water company to a figure which in the
of the committee, of which
Councilman Jensen is chairman, will be
more in proportion to the value of the
present plant.
1t was the desire of the committee to
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
Marriage Licenses.

Three transfers, total.
The Columbus journal., 1909-06-16
CANDID CRITIC OF PREACHER
to Impression That He Had
Made on Her.

1t is a remarkable fact that the
highest appointments in the Church
of England to-day are held by Scots.
men. The archbishop of Canterbury
and the archbishop of York both hail
from the land of the shorter cate
chism. and if rumor speaks truly the
next bishop of London will be DR..
Cosmo Gordon Lang, at present
bishop of Stepney, the son of Dr. Mar
shall Lang, principal of Aberdeen uni
versity. Queen Victoria held DR.. Cos.
mo Lang in considerable esteem, and
frequently had him down to preach at
Osborne On one occasion. however
his mannerism while in the pulpit
brought a piece of candid criticism
down upon him from lady Of his &C
quaintance. He was preaching In
Westminster Abbey. and during his
sermon closed his eyes in order to
concentrate his mind on the subject
The lady, when he met her. comment.
ed upon the fact thus: You may
think with your eyes shirt you looked
like a saint, but you really looked like
q fool"
The Columbus journal., 1909-06-16
inherited.

New Workers don't cotton much to
colored walters" said the man just
back from Boston. Il wonder why?
They're just as capable and much
more grateful for your tip. And &C.
casionally they throw in 4 little COM
edy free of charge.
Il entertained some friends at din
ner the other night at one of the we'll
known hotels in Boston, and was
served by an ebony giant on whom
lampblack would make white mark.
1t is the custom at that particular
hostelry for the walters to write their
own orders. Upon receiving my bill
could scarcely check the items. The
spelling bore no similarity to any
other under the sun.
SAM l said. this is the worst
spelling l ever saw, and added. face.
tiously: Where did you learn to
spell?
without moving muscle, Sam re-
piled, courteOusly: I reckon. boss. l
must have inherited it from my ances-
tors
The laugh being on me, Sam got
an extra tip"
The Columbus journal., 1909-06-16
Paper and Canvas.

In a book entitled Stories of the
English Artists" r. Davies and c.
Hunt tell an interesting anecdote Of
Turner, the great landscape painter.
He disliked to part with his pictures.
and when he sold one. invariably wore
a LOOK Of detection and oppression. II
friend asked him what was the mat.
ter. he would scOrnfully explain: I've
lost one of my children this week. "
Once a rich Birmingham manufac.
turer. elliott by name. introduced him.
self to the painter, and stated that he
had come to buy.
Don't want to SELL" or some such
lacOnic rebuff, with the answer.
The manufacturer then drew from
his pocket a bundle of bank-notes.
about $4,000 worth.
Mere paper" observed Turner, with
grim humOr. q little softened, however,
and evidently enjoying his joke.
ITO be bartered for mere canvas, I"
replied elliott, waving his hand at the
Building of Carthage" and its COM
paniOns.
This tone of cool depreciation
seemed to have q happy effect. and
finally elliott departed with some
$4,000 worth of Turner'S pictures.
The Columbus journal., 1909-06-16
Women's Food Expensive.

The question whether men eat less
than women do or whether they buy
more economically is suggested to q
writer in Health Culture. by a COM
parisOn Of the grocery bills run up by
men students and bachelor girls who
have dubbed together for the purpose
of cutting down expenses.
In every case in which tables for
comparison are given the mems menu
for the week costs less than that Of
the women. Both seem to have re-
duced the food allowance to the low
est possible terms. but in footing up
the amount spent the women have
run into certain extravagances avoid
ed by the men.
Maybe" says the puzzled inquirer,
women really don't know how to
shop, after all, but the more likely
suppOsition is that no matter how
strict the regimen the feminine nature
requires certain Injuries that mere
men can get along without"
The Columbus journal., 1909-06-16
Beach-Comber's Sad Fate.

The treacherOus murder of beach
cOmber by West Australian natives
and the narrow escape of his cOmpan
ion are reported from Perth, Western
Australia. Madison and Jones. the
beach-cOmbers referred to. were in
their lugger in Yampa sound when .
shore party of natives induced Jones
to land and accompany them round .
promont0ry In search of shell. A few
minutes later his companion observed
the natives running over the hill. but
Jones failed to return. At supper
time Madison was strdck from behin0
by q native, who had remained with
him in the lugger, but he threw his
assailant overheard and. on the man
attempting to regain the boat. fired
and killed him. Foe two days Madison
waited. but as 1t was then clear that
Jones had been murdered the survivor
set sail for the nearest port.
The Columbus journal., 1909-06-16
Cleanliness Of Amsterdam.

Amsterdam enjoys an enviable repu-
tation for its cleanness. Owen Felt
ham, who visited Holland in the sew
enteenth century, was particularly I'm
pressed by the spOtlessness of its
streets and houses. whatsoever their
estates be-" he writes, their houses
must be fair. Therefore from Amster-
dam they have banisht seacOle, lest it
soyle their buildings. Every door
seems studded with diamonds. The
nails and hinges hold a constant
brightnesse, as II rust there was not
a quality incident to iron. Their
houses they keep cleaner than their
bodies; their bodies than their souls.
G0e to one. you shall find the and
irons shut up In network. At a sec.
ond, the warming-pan muffled In Ital-
ian cutwOrke. At third the sconce
clad in cambrick"
The Columbus journal., 1909-06-16
Earthquake Districts.

Considering earthquake forecasts,
DR.. G. K Gilbert finds that the places
liable to be shaken can be pretty well
determined by geological evidence as
we'll as from past experience. but there
is little reason to expect satisfactory
prediction of the time of earthquakes.
The one well-known earthquake dis
trict of the United States includes
Central and Southern California, with
areas in Mexico and the Pacific ocean.
Alaska also has q district, and there
may be q third In Utah. Since the
beginning of last century, Alaska has
had at least nine destructive shocks,
and IL are listed for the California
district, or Is IL the Oregon earth
quake of 1867 and the Sonora and
Arizona of 1887 are included. Other
United States earthquakes have been
the New Madrid of I811-12. the
Charleston of 1886 and the New Mad.
rid Of 1865.
The Columbus journal., 1909-06-16
Kneit on Burglars Hand.

When 12-year-Old Miriam Sawyers
of Pittsburg knelt by the bed in her
dark sleeping room to pray the other
night, her knee encountered some.
thing warm. She discovered that 1t
was resting on the hand of bur-
glar who was hiding under the bed.
and who had presumably fallen asleep
in this position. Miriam was sorely
frightened, but she did not stop her
devotions. In fact, she prayed SO loud
that her mother came into the room,
whereupOn the little girl rolled over
on the floor, screaming that there was
a burglar under the bed. The man
jumped from the window before help
could be summoned.