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Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

The following statement was made by
Mr.. s. j. Simpson on Thursday afternoon
in connection with the Cooper preparations.
which have created a sensation throughout
the West and now being widely discussed
in New York.
Mr.. Simpson, who lives at No. 99 Presi-
dent street, Brooklyn, said:
Cooper is justified in his claims that his
medicine will actually put the stomach in
good condition. / have had chronic stom-
ach trouble for several years past. My
stomach seemed TO give out completely in
August, 1906, and / have been able to eat
nothing since.
Il have not taken the slightest enjoyment
in living, I rave been so depressed by my
condition. Neither physician nor medicine
helped me, and 1t was only by the most
careful diet that l was able to retain any
food whatever. For the past seven months
l have not eaten a particle of meat. In
the most skeptical frame of mind possible
l called to see Mr.. Cooper about two months
ago, while he was in Brooklyn. 1 had not
the smallest hope his medicine would help
me, as 1 had given up hope during the past
year. l obtained some of the medicine and
began it's use. Today l am apparently as
we'll as ever. I obtained relief so rapidly
that it is positively wonderful. l am in
good spirits, eat heartily, sleep well and
am better in every way. / am convinced
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
MORE LAND FOR SIGNAL POST
Greater Area il First Thing Needed
TO Expand the Reservation
at Omaha,

while the department is g~ratified to see
the determination of the War department
to materially enlarge Fort Omaha as u
signal post" said an officer high in au-
thority at Department of the Missouri
headquarters, the first essential toward
securing this result will be the necessary
acquisition of more land for the reserva-
ton. There is but eighty acres In the res
ervation now, and with the building al
ready erected, the parade grounds and use
of so much space for the balloon plant,
and buildings under process of erection
with others contemplated, about all the
available land OF the reservation is now
utilized.
THE only available land now in the vicin-
ity of the post is a tract of about 100 acres
northwest of the present reservation. With
the acquisition of this tract, Fort Omaha
can be made all that the Signal corps de-
partment could desire or need. This new
land requirement would probably cause a
change in the present location Of the bal
loon house and hydrogen plant to a more
convenient part of the grounds"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
[rRoM NEW YORK WORLD. APRIL s. 'OS.I
GFRoM NEW YORK woRLD, APRIL s. OI
TWO MONTHS ENJOYED
LIVING FOR FIRST Time

that the success this man is having in New
York is richly deserved
In a short Interview Mr.. Cooper said: II
have been in New York a little less than
two months. So far as | can Judge there
are now fifty thousand people aking my
preparation does. / expect to fully prove
not less than one hundred thousand, as the
number Is increasing very rapidly and peo-
pie are just beginning to learn what my
preparation does. I expect to fully prove
before l leave New York the claim I mad
when | arrived, n~amely-that stomach troI-
among highly civilized races and that It is
responsible for ninety per cent of al IL
health.
MY medicine does nothing but rcgulat,
the stomach, yet I have people come to
me daily and tell me that 1t has relieved
them of many and various ailments not
generally recognized as due to stomach
trouble.
at is easy enough to verify this state
ment. An hour spent in listening to what
people who call to see me are saying, WHO
obtained my medicine some time ago. will
prove what l say beyond a doubt.
Cooper's New Discovery is the mcll-
cine which made such a wonderful record
in New York. 1t is on sale at leading drug
gists' everywhere. Should your druggist
not have II notify The Cooper Medicine Co.
Dayton, Ohio.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
inns TO STORM THE CITADEL
DahIman VIII Lead His Braves 20
Lincoln TO Enforce His
PROGRAM.

Mayor Jim and his braves will storm the
citadel at Lincoln Tuesday. He has Sc
lected six Of the faithful to lead in the as
sault and they are sharpening their scalp
ing knives and grinding their tomshawks
in anticipation OF the fray. All of them
have vowed not to return until they have
beaten down all opposition to the Jimocrat
program and either secure the enactment
of a provision in the new charter providing
for an appointive fire and police board or
killed the whole charter bill.
Under the mayor Colonel Charles p Fam
ming will be chief in command and the
other chieftalns are Tom Flynn, George
Rogers, Joe Butler, John L. Reagan and
Sam Rothwell. Some of them have regis
tered as lobbyists and the others will, with
the exception of Mr.. Reagan, who says he
is going to Lincoln as a plain citizen and
not to lobby. r. Uriah Wolff, registered
lobbyist. and who spent several days at the
capitol last week, will be left at home.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

ing a divorce case before Judge Estelle
of the district court and fighting 1t hard.
The husband filed the first petition, charg-
ing desertlon by his wife. Wrage testified
that Mrs. Wrage not only went to live
with her brother, but returned during his
absence, smashed in the door and took
the wedding presents and some of the
furniture. In her answer, Mrs. Wrage has
alleged charges of the utmost cruelty. She
also asks a divorce and the custody of
their two little girls. The c~hildren-little
beauties both-were in the court room.
Omaha Electrical Show sure-City Elec-
trician Michaelsen is home from Chicago,
where he attended the electrical show. He
brings the Information that the Omaha
Electrical show next spring is now an
assured fact. He says he received a num-
Der of applications for space at the Omaha
show and that from all appearances now
there will not be room for any exhibitors
other than those who deal in electrical sup
plies. Last year considerable space was
taken up with exhibitors of merchandise
of various sorts. The dates for the cleo
trical show nave been set for May 6 to Is.
Last year the show ran but six days, but
it has been decided to keep it open nine
days this year.
Another Smau-pore con-
fidence game similar to the one worked on
Charles Mallinson. the grocer, Saturday.
was pulled off successfully Monday morn
ing by a man who is supposed to be the
one who victimized Mallinson. Ordering
two birthday cakes by telephone Monday
morning from the bakery at 2O6 Cunning
! street, the stranger had them delivered by
a 1i-year-old girl, Ethel Johnson, saying he
would pay for them on delivery at his
home, 2552 Cunning street, and instructing
the baker to SEND change for a $40 bill with
the cakes. When the girl delivered the
cakes, the stranger, who gives his name as
Johnson, took both cakes and money and
has not been seen since. He left the girl
at the door, waiting for the $40 bill. The
police were notified and are making every
effort to apprehend the men before more
shopkeepers are robbed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
RAILWAY NOtea.

I. ". Wakeley, general passenger agent
of the Burlington, and j. +. Buckingham
assistant general passenger agent, have
returned from Chicago, where they went
10 attend a meeting of the Representatives
Of the passenger department of the BUR-
lingtOn system. over 100 representatives
were present. coming from the territory
from the Rocky mountains TO the Atlantic
coast and as far south as the gulf. THE
good Of the service" was the subject dis
cussed at the meeting.
A. E. Bradley is the agent Of the new
Thirty-second avenue station of the Union
Pacific, which was opened Monday for
business. This station is on the Lane
Cutoff. where II crosses Thirty-second
avenue, south Of HanscOm park. The rates
to and from the west beyond Julesburg
will be the same as TO Omaha. A lower
rate is made on local business. West-bonud
trains Nos. 3, 5 and IS and ~east-bound
Nos. 4 and s will stop at Thirty-second
avenue on flag.
The Pullman company took possession
Monday of its new building which was
crested south of the Burlington station for
the use of the company. Superintendent
Lucas, Assistant Superintendent Johnson
Chief Clerk Runnell, Cashier Wilkins and
the stenographer and messenger spent Mon
day in moving from their old offices in the
old United States bank building to the ne "
quarters. which will be much more handy
for the seventy-fiVe conductors and porters
| who report at Omaha
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
of NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.
FREDERICK FRELINGHUYSEN, Presid,

Monday. The organization was recalled by
cash buyers on the floor when the market
opened, and it was remembered that the
first trade was when G. w. Wattles sold
to ]. II. Hamilton 5000 bushels of corn.
Mr.. Wattles is now president of the ex-
change. Mr.. Hamilton has just sold his
grain business after being on the exchange
floor daily since its organization.
Internal Revenue for January-The coll
~lections of internal revenue for the Ne
braska district for the month of January,
1909, were 1903, 4l4O2. For January, 1908,
they were $192, O97.s9 showing an increase
for the present year Of $l1, 3l6.13 over that
of the corresponding month Of last year.
The increase is attributed to increase OF
taxes on distilled spirits. Otherwise the
receipts are about normal.
Turks Yield to Christians-Rev. Charles
T. Riggs, missionary to Turkey, delivered
an address upon the Armenian and Gre
gorian churches in Asia minor at the meet
ing of the Presbyterian Ministers union of
Omaha, at the First Presbyterian church
Monday morning. He showed there was Il
tendency to encourage the propagation Of
evangelical Christianity. The attitude Of
the Mahomedans toward the evangelical
Christian missions is becoming more
friendly.
McCune Draws Sixty Days-Because Ed
McCune of SIS North Nineteenth street
objected to his wife's occasional practice
of manicuring her finger nails at the sup
per table and called her names she filed
a complaint against him in police court,
according to his statement of the case.
However, when the matter was aired in
court Monday morning IL developed that,
in his wife's mind at least, McCune was
a lazy, lying boozer' and often abused
his wife and 9-year-old son. Judge Craw-
ford thought that McCune might as we'll
be in Jail as anywhere else. so sent him
to the county strong house for sixty days.
Dartmouth Secretary Coming-Ernest NJ
Hopkins. secretary of college,
will be in Omaha Thursday to meet with
the local alumni and to give a steroptlcar
lecture Thursday evening at the First Con.
gregational church TO which the high schoo
boys of Omaha, South Omaha and Council
Bluffs will be invited. Mr.. Hopkins viii
go to Lincoln Friday to attend the annua
dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Associa
ton OF the Plain. Members of the associa
ton in Omaha will accompany Mr.. Hop
kins to Lincoln where he will repeat hi
stereoptlcan lecture at the dinner on re
quest
Moving Picture Film Exchange-Oper
ators Of moving picture houses are to NEE
in Omaha Friday to discuss plans for OF
ganlzing a cooperative film eXchang
which will supply films to some of tn
houses of Omaha, Sioux City, Des Moines
Lincoln and the small houses in the coun
try towns Whether the exchange is
necessity or not and whether 1t will be
saving 10 the operators, will be topics 70
first consideration, but some Of the man
ayers believe the business has now be
come one which can best be handled b
a cooperative house instead of leasin
| from the corporation concerns.
Two PETITIONS In Divorce Case-Henr
A.. Wrage and his wife, Anna Wrag'
e wealthy farmers from Milford, are fight
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
BRIEF CITY NEWS

Havs Root Print n.
Douglas Printing Co. Both phones
Smoke Kouss for Smokes. s1e 8. 18th
Rudolph r. swoboda, Public Accountant
RInshart, photographer. 18th g. Farnam.
Hsyn, photog, removed to 16 & Toward.
Gloves Cleaned, Thos. Kilpatrick's glove
Dept.
Equitable Lif@Policies. sight drafts at
maturity. H d. Nicely, manager Omaha
A safe deposit box in the American Safe
Deposit Vaults in the Bee building af-
fords absolute safety for money and in
surance papers: 81 rents a box.
Gospel Hall Meetings-Gospel meetings
will be held in Gospel hall, 29O6 Farnam
street, Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday
and Friday evenings. C. w. Ross of Kan
sas City will speak, and the public is in
vited.
Railway Mail Promotion-Arthur H.
Gehrke Of Omaha, who has been holding
a probationary appointment on the Column
bus and Albion branch Of the railway mail
service, has been promoted to a regular
position on that line, dating from jan
uary %.
Appointed to Revenue ssrvice-Guy +.
Singleton, colored. an Omala High school
boy. has been appointed to the position of
gauger in the Internal revenue service,
Mr.. Singleton stood at the head of the list
OF ellgibles. He has been assigned TO duty
at South Sioux City.
Favors Expense Allowance-The Benson
Commercial club has gone on record in
favor of an expense for railway
postal clerks and has forwarded to the
Nebraska senators and representatives ir
congress a set of resolutions requesting
-
proper appropriation bill. The next meet
ing of the club will be held Tuesday. Feb.
ruary 3,
Meeting OF Revenue Agents-The grouI
Of seven revenue agents connected with
the Omaha district met at the office o.
Chief Revenue Agent Reed In the fedora
building Monday morning to look over mat
tiers pertaining to the district. The con
ference was the usual monthly conference
Of the agents and was merely for compar
ing notes and getting in line for the mex
months work.
Fifty-hsvsn caty's net aain-The ne
natural increase in the population o
omaha during January was fifty-seven, a
compared With a new increase during tn
same mouth in 1908 OF twenty-eight. Tn
vital statistics record for the month jus
closed shows 90S births and 1s deaths
OF the births ninety-two were boys an
Ill were girls. In January. 1905. there wer
ls births and 165 deaths.
NO blame for zitnik Dsath-No blam
for the death OF John Zitnik was fixed b
the ooroneIgs jury which rendered a ver
dict in the case Monday morning. Zitni
died as the result of being knocked dow
! tby Unio1 Pacific engine No. 1901 near tn
Eleventh street viaduct in the train yard
Saturday morning, according to the vel
dict given at the inquest. The man was
Union Pacific track walker and lived q
1877 South Fourteenth street.
Grain Exchange Five Years old-Th
Omaha Grain exchange was 5 years of aG
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
W. S. BALDUFF IN BANKRUPTCY
veteran Caterer Admits 10 Creditors
He IL Unable TO Meet His
obligations,

William S. Balduff. for twenty years a
confectioner and caterer. with an extern
sive establishment at 1920 Farnam street,
was forced into bankruptcy by creditors
having claims of ~$1,S9S.O6, Monday, the
petition being filed in United States dis
trict court. Judge Munger at once APP
pointed Grant S. Cobb, manager of the
establishment, receiver. MIR. Cobb at once
furnished bond for $500. the amount re-
CURED by the court.
The creditors filing the petition through
their attorney, /. II. Grady, are Eggerss-
O'Flynn company, box manufacturer and
printers; the Omaha Towel Supply COM
pany, and William l.. Masterman, dealer
in teas and coffee.
Attached TO the petition was a letter
addressed to the three creditors written by
w. S. Balduff and dated January 81, in
which he says:
However much l regret the necessity OF
my doing so, l take this means Of inform
ing you that / am unable to pay, my debts
and therefore willing, II so desired by my
creditors, to be adjudged a bankrupt on
that ground.-W. S. BALDUFF.
The creditors separately nave the follow
ing claims against the Balduff house. all
being contracted during 1908 and the first
month of 1909. Eggerss-O'Flyng company,
f1,0S5; w. l.. Masterman, $3.50, and the
Omaha Towel Supply company, 1896.
Mr.. Cobb took charge OF the business as
soon as his bond was filed at noon and the
business will continue uninterrupted. AS
a reason for the failure, Mr.. Cobb said:
Withdrawing money from his business
for outside investment was the direct
cause of the inability of Mr.. Balduff being
unable to secure ready money with which
to meet the demands of creditors. The
business is a paying one. The new lunch
counter opened last fall is feeding ten
times as many people daily as we formerly
Accommodated and there is no loss in any
department which would reflect in any way
on business conditions in Omaha"
The bankruptcy proceedings will in no
way effect the business of the Balduff
Pure Candy company, a corporation, the
stock in which is held by some of the most
prominent business men in Omaha,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
STORM CAME AT WORST TIME
Hit Poor when Rent Was Due and
Charity Necessary to Avoid
Election.

Serious storms would not occur near the
close of a month had Miss Jontz, general
secretary of the Associated Charities, the
power to designate the time when the
winds and SHOWS were to be let loose.
The storm of last week coming near the
close of the month put Increased labors on
those engaged in charitable work and
house rent had to be paid for some fiji
teen families to keep heartless landlords
from ejecting them in the storm. Many re-
quests for aid in the way of fuel and provi-
sions were received and attended to, but
normal conditions have again been reached
in the local office.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
TRAIN FIFTY HOURS LATE
Passengers on Great Western Tell of
Snow Drifts Thousand Feet
Long Which They Met.

Fifty hours late the first Great Western
train to get through Iowa since the storm,
arrived In Omaha Sunday night at Q o'clock.
This was the first train to get through
from Chicago or st. Paul, as the Great
Western was the hardest hit of any of the
Iowa lines by the storm which ragged
Thursday night and Friday.
Some thrilling experiences were related
by the belated travellers as they alighted
from the train. AS another passenger train
which they saw later was pulling into a
blind siding near Clarkstille a box car
was blown across the track, The engine
hit the car and demolished it, but the en-
CINE was put out of commission by the
collision. The train was a daylight train,
with no sleepers, and the collision broke
the steam connection, so that the pas
sengers were forced to remain in the cars
with no heat for nine hours.
~ never saw a bunch of people in a
hard plight take their medicine 50 good
naturedly," said one of the passengers of
the train who arrived in Omaha Monday
morning. w played foot ball and ran
endurance races up and down the aisles and
did everything else the minds of cold peo-
pie could contrive to keep warm"
The worst blockade on the Great West
ern was at a cut near Carroll, where the
snow drifted twelve feet deep and 1,OO
feet long. 1t was absolutely impossible
for three engines to penetrate or force their
way through the drift. In several places
the snow was dug out of cuts, where II
was as deep as the height of the coaches
The wires were down. which made II
worse, as it was hard to get help to the
stalled trains. There were deep drifts al
Manning. Carroll and Harlan.
The only train which was very late Mon.
| day morning was the Milwaukee Overland
limited. It was about five hours late. Few
of the other trains were more than half ar
! bOur late.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
MORTON BACK IN COMMAND
Relieves Carter, who VIII Sail from
San Francisco In March
for Manila,

Brigadier General Charles Morton re-
sumed command Of the Department of the
Missouri, Monday morning. He left the
command a month and a half ago when
it was the purpose to transfer him to the
west. Bridadier General William II. Car
ter relieved him then and is now relieved
by him.
General Carter will remain in Omaha on
waiting orders, until his departure for San
Francisco the latter part of February,
whence he will sail March 6. for Manila,
to take command of the Department OF
Luzon.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02
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LASCWIOUS CITIZEN SMIRCHED
Fred ST. Peter Fined Heavily and Inn
~prisOned for Offering Insult
to Little Girls.

For improper conduct toward three little
girls. Fred st. Peter, an elderly man living
at 623 South Seventeenth street, was SEN
fenced to pay a fine of $50 and serve thirty
days in the county Jail. The offense was
committed Sunday near Twenty-fourth and
Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-02

Popplcton avenue. and when ST. Peter was
arraigned in police court Monday morning,
a number of witnesses. including the little
girls and Fred Schamel Of the city treas
urer's office. appeared to testify against
the man. Judge Crawford gave him the
extreme penalty, as this is the second time
he has been arrested on the same charge.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-05
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

c. H. King. the wool man, has gone TO
Chicago.
F. p. KirkendalI left Monday evening for
Chicago.
+. williams Of Denver. w. Albrecht OF
Friend, w. Neurman of York. =. NJ, Pyle
of Wahoo. w. G. Hughes Of Auburn and
e. Walters of Hastings are at the Murray.
f. II. Dumble of ST. Paul, c. r. Mead
of Blair, Mr.. and Mrs. J.. L.. Cardington Of
Fremont, II. e, Lechert of ~Gothenburg. ].
F.. Krigg and p. Peterson OF Humphrey
are at the Merchants.
w. r. Graham left Monday evening for
Morning Sun, Ia, to attend the funera! OF
Mrs. Graham's father, George Cunning
ham, a pioneer of eastern Iowa.
w, F. Weightman Of. Durango, II. H.:
Bellwood of Alliance, H.. w Francis Of
Bancroft, ]. ]. MscClenal, w. n. Huff
of Denver, o. II. Swallow OF Lincoln and
G.. B. Jackson of Dallas are at the Hen
shaw.
w. d. Williams OF the 800 Block" Ginger
club, leaves today for a two weeks busi-
ness trip through Colorado and Utah.
will look over the street lighting facilities
in the interest of the club,
Emma ]. Hedges of Lincoln. Mr.. and
Mrs. w. b. Stevenson of Kansas City, C.,
r. Reavis, Roy Heacock of Falls City. DR..
Ed Hays of Dawson, f. T.. Collins OF
Harrington. II. N. Holcornb ~ Colerldge
and w. Edgar Brown Of David City are at
the Millard.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Modesett Of Grand
Island, o, ID. Olmstead of Denver, w. r.
Newmarket of Bdgemont, +, p. Furlong OF
Joplin, J. Predunsky Of Bancroft, G. A..
Martin Of Fremont, T.. Lowe of Lincoln.
l.. T. Wolfe of Cambria, r. g. Bauman OF
Crawford. r. j. Fitzpatrick and Kirk Griggs
of Beatrice are at the Paxton.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-05
Carnegie Hero
Fund Awards
Commission Hands Out Twenty-Three
Medals and Pensions Amounting
to $125 a Month.

PITTSBURG, Pa, May 4-The Carnegie
hero fund commission at its regular quart
erly meeting here today made awards to
twenty-three persons for deeds of heroism
considered since the last meeting, The
awards consists of sixteen bronze and
seven silver medals, $4,000 in cash and an
nuitities amounting to SIS a month.
Among the awards were:
John Carruthers OF West Newton. Pa,
awarded bronze medal and $1,000 to be APP
pliel to the purchase Of a home. Carruth-
ers, a Baltimore and Ohio railroad engineer
saw a boy of ? years crawling across the
track in front Of his train. Leaving the
engine in charge of his fireman, Carruthers
went through his cab window and 20 the
pilot where he seized the boy and pre-
vented his being run over.
Charles F. Meyer Of New York City,
awarded a bronze medal and 500 for dis
ablement benefits. On April 8, 1905, Misses
Roslyn and Bessie Morris were entangled
in the wreckage of an automobile which
had beer struck by a surface car and
crushed against a pillar Of the elevated rail-
way. With a ten gallon tank Of gasoline
about to be ignited, Mr., Meyer rescued one
Of the girls and was about to release the
other when a slight explosion hurled him "a
the street. He rushed back and aided the
rescue Of the other girl, just as the tank
exploded, completely wTecking the machine
Eugene =. Heinze OF Cleveland. o., can.
tain in the salvation Army awarded a
bronze medal lie rescued another mem,
Der Of the Salvation Army from ~droWning
No awards 10 western people were made.