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Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-14

stockholders will be called upon to meet
a deficit Of about $500. The program were
we'll attended.
: FALLS CITY-The residence of DR.. c.
N. Allison was struck by lightning during
the storm Monday morning. The kitchen
chimney was torn down and a hole made
in the roof. The damage was about 500.
DR.. and Mrs. Allison we're In the front
part OF the house and escaped injury.
NEBRASKA CITY-Mrs. Violet Brayc
has filed her petition in district court
praying for a divorce from her husband
Harry Braye, on the grounds OF cruelty
and nonsupport. She says they were mar,
ried I'm johnson county In April, 1907. and
since then she has worked in hotels and
restaurants and given all OF the money
she earned 10 hubby"
BEATRICE-The gas company is prepar.
ing to ask for a change in their franchis,
which shall extend for Is years. The nam,
OF the company has been changed from IN,
Beatrice Gas and Power company 10 th'
Gage County Gas and Power company
The incorporators Of the new concern ar
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-14

r. r. Kyd, Ed. s. Miller, c. 9. Eaton
and others. The capital stock IL placed at
$3.50, 900.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dickinson called
the republican central COMMITTEES together
yesterday afternoon and July Is was So
'lected as the date for the convention. me
primaries will be held the Saturday before,
July "a. There will be ninety-one dele
gates entitled to seats In the convention,
and that body will select delegates to The
state convention and elect q county central
committee.
M'COOK-A thousand railroad people and
their guests from this city INDUCED in
a grand picnic az the city OF Cambridge,
1t was the occasion OF the first annual
event OF the picnic association OF Burlina-
ton employees at this place, embracing sn-
ployes OF the entire McCook division. The
event was Eraesd by the presence Of bS.
perintendsnt Roller and Master MsohsatG
Culherson, together with most Of the lSsSo(
official lights OF the division. II required
a train OF fourteen cars to eAuT tia
merry picI
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-14
SEARCH FOR AUBURN SUSPECTS
Five Men Under Arrest at Nebraska
City Have Been Released.

AUBURN, Neb., July 13.-(Special.)-
Every effort possible is being made by
County Attorney Lambert and Mayor Nc
Carly to spprehend the two holdup men
who held up and shot to death Perry
D.. Ailor, a prominent real estate man
of this city. on last Saturday night, near
the fair grounds. Posses we're out scour-
ing the country roads and meeting all
trains Saturday night and Sunday. Sew
eral arrests were made, but no valuable
information was secured thereby. Officers
went to Omaha and yesterday returned
with John Grasuel, Ray Palmer and John
Drinkwater. three concession men who
were on the fair grounds Saturday even
ing, but Disappeared Saturday night and
could not be located after the holdup. It
is thought they will be able to throw some
light on the case.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-14
Accused of heating wife.

LYONS, Neb., July 13-Cspecial Tele-
gram.)-Andrew Myer, a farmer, was Jailed
here at 1880 o'clock this evening on a
charge OF beating his wife, The extent
OF her injuries is not known, as she es-
capped into a eornfield and hid, Searching
parties have gone after her. but 1t is
doubtful II she can be found tonight.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-14

LYONS, Neb., July lS.-(special.)-Jo
Peterson OF this place received word by
phone that his daughter-in-lsw, Mrs.
Stella Peterson, who lives northwest Of
Walthill, attempted TO cut her throat this
morning early. She still lives and there
are hopes OF recovery. She is the daugh-
ter OF Ed Sims. east OF Lyons.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-14
WEALTH TO MINDEN PEOPLE
Members of Dean Family Are the
Principal Heirs 10 Large
Entate.

ROCKFORD. Ill. July n-(Speeial Tela-
gram)-Walter Dean, . brother and Jennie
and Grace Dean, nieces, all OF Minden,
Hgeb.. are leading heirs Of Harriet Mnlers
so, Oo estate at RockfoeS
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-14
SCALP ITCHED AND
BURNED FOR YEARS

Child Of Four Would Scratch Her
Head for Hours - When Fifteen
It Got Worse - Hair Came OFF
In Spots = Hundreds Of Dollars
Spent in Vain -Cuticura Soothed
Like Cold Water on a Burn and
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-14
Nebraska News Hotes,

BEATRICE-HuEh Miller, the young son
OF Mrs. Lottie Miller, was thrown from =
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-14
Pop Convention Called.

c. B. Manuel, chairman and +. A. Wal
rath, secretary Of the populist state com
mittee has called a delegate convention OF
the members Of that party TO meet in Lin
coin July q, at 2 p. m. The call suggests
that mass meetings Of populist voters be
held in those counties In which regular
conventions cannot be called. In SAGE no
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-14

delegate is present from any county any
populist voter from that county will be
allowed TO participate in the convention.
sanrch fnr Dr.. XaIaMnrth.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-14
Dope Treatment Successful.

Warden Smith OF the state penitentIary
is stu treating his dope patients and he
has had such success that one batch
which he has confined. taking the treat
ment, has quit asking for the poison.
Every prisoner taking the treatment, the
warden said, seemed anxious to quit the
habit. The dope fiends were separated
from the other convicts and gradually
they are losing their desire for the NOR
phine. When he started the treatment the
warden found one prisoner was using a
drahm OF morphine a day.
Pop Convention Called.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-14
BuIIard Takes Vacation.

S. Billiard, head janitor at the state houI
for a number OF years, left today for
vacation trip of two weeks. He will Wis
a son in Boulder, Colo, and friends ar
relatives at Beaver City. He was accom-
panied by Topsy Bullard, the little dc
which has become a fixture around Il
state house. The dog will be left In Col,
RADIO, a present to Mr.. Billiards gram
children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
ARMY OF PRESS AGENTS.
Iew York World.

From the New York World.
 The official issue of a partial list of press agents and others who supply mat compilation made to secure their iden- tifieation and prevent imposture, reveals the extent to which this form of pub licity has developed into a recognized oc- cupation within recent years. Altogether more than 300 names of individual press agents or bureaus and firms engaged in this line of activity are included in the partial iist'-a number probably exceed ing that of the regular editors and re- porters of all the morning newspapers in New York. They represent industrial corporations railroads, hotels, theatres, automobile associations and business in- terests generally which have direct deal- ings with the public.
 Standard Oil and the Steel corporation have their salaried agents of publicity The life insurance companies have them, realty and other small syndicates, the Hartman system, the "coal roads," B. R. T., the liquor trust, the Brewers as- soeiation the gas trust, the Salvation Army and the Christian Science churches; clubs, restaurants, associations of manu- lecturers, art academies, the Young Mems Christian association, office buildings, the opera houses, the steamship lines, theatre managers as a matter of course, and &C., tresses also; cities like Oklahoma City, Toledo, St. Paul and Minneapolis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
Expenses of Another Fiscal Year

The administration will begin in July at any rate to prepare estimates of ex- penditures in the fiscal year begin ming July 1, 1910, and ending July 1, 1911. These estimates must be laid before Congress next December. It Is said President Taft is already examin- ing the compiled figures of the depart ments.
 The actual appropriations for the fiscal year beginning on the first day of next July total 1,044,014,29S, and the administration is said to be striv- ing to cut the estimates for the follow ing year below the billion-dollar line. \ No reductions can be made in the in terest on the public debt and the like. The work on the Panama canal must also go on unchecked. The army and navy and the pensioners and the mili- IdTy dCdueIuJ duu lilC SOhoIi uStAoh ol Dreadnoughts and Notifications will each and all resist reductions. Past and future wars will absorb $525,- 742000 in the fiscal year beginning next July, and there will be plenty of influential persons to demand as much more in the following fiscal year. Where, then can retrenchments be made?
 The President is distressed by the situation The Aldrichites refuse to permit an income tax to be passed and the President cannot see how esti- mates can be materially reduced. All know that the spurt in imports due to tariff changes will soon disappear, and then a bond issue will become inevit- able. It is this that the President dreads. Aldrichism has put the admln, istration in a hole, for it is face to face with a huge deficit and an equally huge bond issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
Let Every Candidate Speak Out

Eight or nine members o2 the legis- lature are to be elected on June 19, and in every instance the people should know how they stand on the subject of fees. It is not an over estimate to say that nine men out of every ten in this state desire to see fees abolished and salaries substituted for them, and the only way this great re- form can be brought about Is through the legislature. Under the old conYe.l- tion system the people would stand powerless on this matter. The court house cliques and state rings woulu have pigeonholed any proposition on that subject.
 Things are different now, however The people are in the saddle on cleo tion and primary days. The people cannot, however, act intelligently on June 19 unless they first ascertain how each aspirant stands on the sub ject of fees. The columns of The Age Herald are open to the aspirants for seats to be filled at the coming cleo tion. Let every aspirant be cate chized. The issue is with us and no friend of the great reform movement should vote for man who proposes to support in any manner the fee bri- gade that is stuffing its pockets with money wrung from the weak or from the public itself. A statewide change is needed, and the people can secure it in time by being alert and vigilant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
MRS. MANSFIELD ABROAD

her simplicity of life is her own liking and she prefers that Gibbs should know this sort of elegance and special content with little, outside magnificent books, grandeur in art and employment, with out the gauds and insincerities of reck- less expenditures in living.
 When they lived in the Riverside drive palace or at Sesen Acres, their New Lon don refuge by the sea, Mansfield had hordes of servants, buffers, underbutlers valets, coachmen, chauffeurs, cooks, chefs, stewards and tigers. When MT Mansfield was spirited away for his long seasons on the road Beatrice would re- lease all the servants until his return keeping in her house no man servant at all, but limiting her servants to women exclusively Maids, not many, a woman cook, upper and under servants all wom- en, so that she lived like a charming nun with her convent of perfectly trained silent workers, with only the gardens and stables invaded by men. Mansfield always laughed at her idea in this, but though 1t amused him, he secretly ad- mired her pretty, womanly notion as he did all his life admire those singularly modest, quaint and delicate things in this most charming creatures strangely att tractive composition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
Electric Locomotives

The cost of electric locomotives is not preventing their adoption by such railroads as the Pennsylvania and the New York Central. The trouble at present is their imperfection. They are trustworthy, but they are destruc- tive to tracks on account of their ex- cessive lateral swaying.
 A new type has been brought out by the General Electric company, from which much is expected. Heretofore there have been no springs to lessen the iarring when the motors were sus- pended on axles of driving wheels. Heretofore, too, there has been low center of gravity in working parts, and the latter have thus in operation caused direct side thrusts and shocks mon the rails. In the new type the motors are mounted above the frame of the machine, and power is delivered to the driving wheels by connecting rods from the jack shafts to which the motors are attached. The designers believe this will place the electric loco motive alongside the steam locomotive in side thrust, and if this is sustained in tests and actual experience cost of track maintenance and danger of ac- cident would not be increased by the use of electric locomotives.
 It is reasonably certain that a satis- factory type of electric locomotive will be developed. When it is the use of the new power will be extend ed rapidly even to through trains. Pretty nearly all the problems in volved in it have been settled except that of the side thrust and track main | tenance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23

be a glut of peanuts. Peanut oil is a standard article of commerce, and the world would absorb it as it now does cotton seed oil. Peanuts will fatten hogs and peanut meal when mixed with other dairy food increases the milk product The vines after the nuts have been gathered are an ex- cellent cattle food, or if turned under they are soil builders. There is no danger. in other words, of an over production of peanuts in any near period
 All of the cotton belt will produce peanuts, and the department of agri- culture thinks the familiar nut is the easiest and best resort of the cotton farmers when the boil weevil appears. It is well at any rate to begin the study of the subject in Alabama, and every farmer should ask Secretary Wilson for a copy of his peanut bull letin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
LINES TO A SKELETON.

Author UnKnOWn.
 Behold this ruin, twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full This narrow cell was life's retreat: This space was thoughts mysterious
 seat
 What beauteous visions filled this spot, What dreams of pleasure long forgot Nor love, nor joy, nor hope, nor fear Have left one trace of record here, Beneath this moldering canopy Once shone the bright and busy eye. But start not at the dismal voidi If social love that eye employed, If with no lawless fire it geamed, But through the dews of kindness beamed That eye shall be forever bright When stars and suns are sunk in night. Within this hollow cavern hung The ready, swift and tuneful tongue. If falsehood's honey 1t disdained And where it could not praise was
 chained;
 If bold fin virtues cause it spoke, Yet gentle concord never broke, That silent tongue shall plead for thee When time unveils eternity. Say, did those fingers delve the mine Or with its envied rubies shine7 To hew the rock or wear the gem Can little now avail to them; But if the page of truth they sought. Or comfort to the mourner brought, These hands a richer need shall claim Than all that waits wealth or fame Avails it whether bare or shod These feet the path of duty trod? If from the bowers of ease they fled To seek affection's humble shed; If grandeur's guilty bribe they spurned And home to virtue's cot returned, These feet with angels wings shall vis And tread the palace of the sky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
Isolation In Infectious Cases

City Health Officer Hardness warn ing against the lack of an isola- tion hospital to which persons afflict- ed with infectious diseases could be sent should not go unheaded. He men, tions the occurrence last month of five cases of scarlet fever in one small dwelling. Isolation was impossible, and private quarantine was also impos- sible in that dwelling.
 Dr. Hardness fears that an epidemic may yet arise and go on unchecked simply because the city has no isola- tion safeguards. Even temporary buildings would be better than none at all. As the population of the city increases greater density in particular districts becomes inevitable. In all districts, however, there are times when isolation becomes desirable. Even patients that have typhoid fever should be isolated. All told there were in April last 77 cases of communicable diseases, many of which occurred in crowded quarters.
 The subject is one that calls for action on the part of the city authori- ties. The extension of St. Vincents hospital would aid isolation in some respects, but an isolation hospital be- longing to the city is the true remedy and the city will not become epidemic proof until it has one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
Peanuts Instead of Cotton

The department of agriculture at Washington advises farmers in the boil weevil districts to plant peanuts in stead of cotton until the brunt of the ravages of the pest has at least been measured. Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Georgia now grow peanuts and if they would, together with Alabama and Mississippi, aban- don cotton growing, substituting for it peanut cultivation, they could not only enrich their lands by turning the pea nut vines under, while they drive away the boil weevil and enjoy the profits of a crop that exceeds that of cotton.
 Let no one think that there would
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
SUICIDE IN ST. LOUIS.

From the St. Louis Post Dispatch
 During the year ending March 31, 1909, 21o persons committed suicide in St. Louis Of these, 151 were males and 5s females, 70 were single, 106 married. 21 widows or widowers, the rest unclassified. Only four negroes killed themselves, and of the white persons IA were born in the United States, 47 in Germany and Austria and Il in Ireland. The decade of age between 20 and 80 numbers 51 suicides, between 30 and 10, 35; between 40 and 50 AS. The numbers decline be- yond this age.
 According to statistics covering the decade 1895 to 1905, San Francisco con- fessed 52.2 suicides annually per 100, OG0 of the populations; Hoboken, 30.2; St Louis, 27.4; Oakland, 24.9; Chicago, 22. r: New York (Manhattan and Bronx), 222 Milwaukee, 21.S Newark, 21.6; Cincinnati, 2O.6; Indianapolis, 17.6. The average of 50 cities was 17.S
 The figures discourage all attempts to of the suicide impulse. Why does San Francisco report two and a half times as many suicides as New York? We may legitimately believe that the difference is due to diverse conditions, but among the seething mass of influences which, in all large cities, bear upon the indi- viduals, who can pick those which prompt self-destruction?
 The most we can say is that the cause of suicide is in conditions and not in human nature Given healthy, natural conditions and men and women would grow, live and pass away, healthily and naturally, free from morbid cravings or impulses. In other words, the responsi- bility is upon society itself If there Is slime in the social thought and policy, there must be slime in individual char acter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM

Montgomery Journal: Birmingham con- fesses to the need of new jail, but there are lots of worse places after aIk
 Montgomery Journal Birmingham will get all it wants at the extra session. if it does not want too much.
 Talladega Mountain Home: Birming- ham, noted for high fliers, has man who has invented a flying machine, and, like all other high-fliers, is trying to raise money to fly high
 Montgomery Journal; Birmingham has a new train to the east and is making 1t pay as an advertising proposition. The Magic City has a way of getting the good out of every movement
 Talladega Mountain Home: By the time the Farmers union meets in Blrming- ham in September the papers of the Magic City will have the people believing 1t is an agricultural town.
 Montgomery Journal: Birmingham Is in earnest about trying the commission form of government. A bill Is being prepared to be sent in at the extra session of the legislature. The rest of the state will look on with interest, as it is Q move that many large cities are inter ested in.
 Roanoke Leader: It just comes natural for a Birmingham man to run for office. Last week George B. Ward closed his second term as mayor of that city and without waiting to catch his breath he entered the race for sheriff. Office-seek- ing is infectious around Birmingham
 Gadsden Times-News: Birmingham is going to have a new combination court- house and Jail which, from all accounts, tween 10 and 14 stories high, with a basement beneath and a roof garden above. There will be a bath house and gymnasium, and a cafe for jurymen. It is not stated whether there will be a soft drink establishment in the build ing.
 Gadsden Journal: The people of Bir- mingham talk enthusiastically about the beauties of the Magic City and this is distinct factor in encouraging others to locate there. Gadsden is an equal ly favored location for city and our residents could render good service in singing its praises to any strangers that may happen to provide an opportunity Many a man seeks a home in a new place because of the contented and en- thuSiastio sentiments of ifs neon1a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
HOLIDAYS.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
 Russia has 91 legal holidays, and there is a movement to reduce the num- Der.
 Chicago rejoices in the equivalent of Ss legal holidays, and the tendency in this state is to increase them.
 Wisconsin has 6o and has already de- vised a compromise scheme by which it may ultimately be possible to celebrate the fame of an unlimited number of wor- thies by holidays and yet not encroach too heavily on business needs.
 To count the Chicago holidays up to s9 it is necessary. of course, to take in the Saturday half holidays. The number of other holidays, which has hereto fore been eight has now been raised to nine by adding Columbus day. Election days are also holidays, and if these av- craze two year we get s. Adding, then. 26 days, the equivalent of 52 half holidays, we get the total of s9.
 The Wisconsin idea is to celebrate it's heroes only every other year. Washing toms birthday has been legal holiday, but Lincoln's has not. A bill is now en- grossed for third reading in the assem- bly, providing that Washington's birthday shall be holiday in the even numbered years It is evident that with a little manipulation, and perhaps in some cases celebrating a hero only every tenth or twentieth year, one could get a long string of them under honors with little resulting inconvenience /One could, in- deed, grade the heroes so carefully as to express by relative frequency of their celebrations the exact degree of esteem in which they were held by each genera tion.
 We commend this idea to Russia-and Illinois.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-23
Not OXerdone.

While Birmingham is now being called a city of skyscrapers the office building enterprise has not been over done," said Robert Jemison, Jr., agent for the Empire and the Chamber of Commerce. "Notwith standing the great increase in office space in Birmingham, the demand for offices Is increasing fast.
 "When the office buildings in course of construction are ready for occu- pancy there will be few if any rooms unrented No, skyscrapers are not too numerous here. Birmin gham is al ready big city and it has reached the point where its growth hencefor- ward will be greatly accelerated. It is a safe prediction that within the next 12 months ground will be broken for one or two more tall office buildings.