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Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
HERE IS The MIKE OF MIKES
Tacoma Man Drops $1s, 900 and GOe,
to Jail Besides.
FACES TERM IN PENITENTIARY
Gave Check 20 SwindIers and Friend
who Endorses 1t Has Him Ar
rested for Breaking
Bank Laws.

Frank H. Pilling of Tacoma, Wash. is
the Mike of Mikes. He not only dropped
$4,000 to the Maybray swindlers, but drew
a sentence In the penitentiary in addition.
This bunch Of hard luck puts him in a
class to himself, far and away removed
from the rest Of the easy marks who en-
riched these crooks at Council Bluffs and
other good towns over the country.
Mr.. Pilling writes a letter from his prison
home in Washington to United States Mar
shall Warner telling him about being ham
strung for the $4,000 and wants to know
If there is any chance to get a line on his
coin.
Best chance in the world, sure!
He encloses q clipping from a Seattle
paper which states that Frank H.. Pllling
gave a check for SIS, coo as a venture on a
prize fight pulled off by the Maybray crowd
In August, 1905. The check was endorsed
by J. *. Thompson, a banker of Tacoma.
After the fight Pilling tried to stop the
payment of the check and Mr.. Thompson
had him arrested for violating the Wash
ington state laws in aiding and abetting a
prize fight. Pilling was convicted and sem
fenced to a term in the state penitentiary.
He has appealed the case and is awaiting
the decision of the supreme court.
United States Marshal Warner has turned
the letter and clipping over to the federal
authorities at Council Bluffs. r-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12

to have the matter decided by the end OF
the week, when announcement will be made
at q meeting which is to be held Saturday
afternoon. Memberships are rolling in and
the success of the club seems assured.
sna Beats His Landlord in Court
Henry Zimmerman, the aged defendant
sued by J. ]. O'Connor for rent alleged
due on a farm of which Zimmerman was
tenant. won a victory before Judge Day.
The jury which had listened to the evil
dence for a week brought in Wednesday
night a sealed verdict which was opened
Thursday morning.
Federal Court Back from hastings
United States Marshal Warner, District
Clerk r.. c.. Hoyt and Deputy Marshal
Nickerson rave returned from Hastings,
whore they attended the opening Of the
March term of the federal courts for that
district. which began Monday. There was
but little business transacted and the court
adjourned Wednesday.
Gregory wants New Land office
Omaha men who were successful in the
drawing for Trip county IS. d. land are
in receipt Of letters from the Gregory Com
mercial club asking for their support in the
movement to have the government land
office in that territory located at Gregory.
The land office has been located at Dallas.
but the Gregory boomers hope to have it
changed to their town.
Rdholm Gives Police Fund Money-Al-
bert Edholm. the jeweler, has sent his
check for $50 to Acting Chief Mostyn of
the police department as a contribution to
the police relief fund. The check was re-
celved Thursday morning and was Mr.. Ed
holm's expression OF appreciation for the
assistance the police have given him in
the recent necklace case ana others of
lesser Importance during late years.
mug Scientists Meet Friday Night
Entomologists will meet Friday evening at
the general offices of the Omaha & Council
Bluffs Street Railway company at s o'clock
to prepare a campaign for the coming year.
Large numbers Of the residents Of Omaha
make weekly journeys to the fields and
woods surrounding Omaha to add to their
collections Of butterflies and bugs. Many
have been communicated with by telephone,
but all those who are interested in bugology
are invited to attend the meeting.
PAIlbearers for Miss Palmquist-Mem-
bers of the Swedish church at Thirty-siNth
street and Lafayette avenue and members
OF the confirmation class of that church
will act as pall-bearers at the funeral OF
Hanna P~almquist, the 16-year-old girl who
was killed in a Brandeis elevator Tuesday
The funeral will be held at the home, I12i
Hamilton street. Friday afternoon at
o'clock. Rev. John ". Carlson will con
duct the service. Interment will be al
Forest Lawn cemetery.
varpish starts a Blaze-A can of var
nIsh tricklinR down a furnace pipe to the
firepot, started a blaze Wednesday moor
in the new house at 1926 Emmett street
owned by Alex Morrison. A workman hat
been vanishing the floor and the varnisf
can had been upset over a furnace regis
ter. When the inflammable floor finish
reached the fire in the furnace the flame,
went back up the pipe and set fire to thu
wood work in the room. The fire depart
ment put out the fire before much dam.
age was done, the loss being only SO.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
One More Fight
for Creighton
Money Coming

A legal battle over $4,000 of the money
left by Count Creighton was to rave come
up in equity court Thursday morning, but
went over a week because Judge Estelle is
busy with the Pratt case, Judges Redick
and Troup will also occupy the bench
when the case, or, rather. cases. have a
hearing on appeal from county court.
Before Judge Redick is the fight over the
%bequest of $4,000 for the Working Girls
home and before Estelle a highly involved
contest over the meaning of the residuary
clause of the will. This residue of the es-
tate, involving $50, 900, is in dispute among
the various beneficisries OF the will, it not
being clear to what persons and institutions
the residue is to go. Judge Troup will also
sit In the double case, so that there will
be a majority decision or decisions.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
Questions Fly at
Commercial Club
Inquiries Of Various Sorts Come
Tumbling In on Commits
sioner Guild Daily.

DO YOU want to buy a patent picnic bas-
ket that won't mix the raspberry pie and
dill pickles."
Tell us where to get some of the famous
Nebraska timothy. alfalfa, meadow fescue
and lucerne seed"
give us complete details of how Omaha
organized the Trsnsmissippi exposition and
the National Corn exposition, both OF which
were big successes
These are questions the Commercial club
must answer almost every day. Thu three
Inquiries arrived Thursday about the IN
Commissioner J. NJ. Guild was trying to
explain to Indignant subscribers promi-
nent business men and taxpayers why
Omaha does not have clean streets and why
the county commissioners are saving their
money and not shoveling the snow from
their sidewalks.
Mrs. NJ. M. Enders of Red Bird, Neb.
has invented a box or basket which will
carry a whole picnic menu without wreck
ing the cream puffs or shaking salad over
the fried chicken.
The Commercial club will not buy the
patent, but refers the woman to some re-
liable manufacturers and hardware dealers
who may assist her in finding an enterpris-
ing manufacturer who wants to make picnic
baskets.
The timothy. alfalfa meadow fescue and
lucerne seed is wanted by Ernest C. Lohse
& Co. of Copenhagen and the firm has
heard that Nebraska has the lodes and
pockets of earth which are virtuous DO.
nanzas for producing perfect grains and
grasses. The Commercial club Furnished
the firm with the names of Omaha dealers
who handle such seeds.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
THE PNEUMONIA
SEASON
MORE DEATHS FROM PNEU.
MONA THAN FROM To.
BERCULosIs.
Pneumonia an Infectious Disease.
It Can Be Prevented---A
Remarkable Record.

LFrom the Des Moines Register and Leader.i
"Why has this season of the year become
known as Tire pneumonia season. Why dur
ing the closing week of the old year were
there more deaths in Chicago and New York
from pneumonia than tuberculosis Why
are pneumonia and related bronchial trou-
bles beginning to take the place of tubercu.
losis as the dread scourge Of city life? Simply
and solely because we are devoting too much
ingenuity and energy to lodging the fresh
and invigorating winter air that every twelve
months refrigerates our latitude.
1t is believed now that pneumonia is an
infectious disease, and that in the cities
where the death rate is growing so rapidly
IL is communicated in the heated and crowded
cars. A nickel is 80 small, and the cold air is
80 chilling, that the American people are for
getting how TO walk. The old time red that
burned the cheek of childhood does not visit
Q mature face on an average of once in the
twelve months, not even the red of a chilly
and pinched nose. We are getting afraid Of
the climate, and as a result, the climate Il
taking its revenge.
The mere habit Of turning up coat collars
has killed thousands Of people, and the fur
boa has a long list TO its account, for no part
Of the human body becomes delicate more
quickly because Of super1uous covering than
the throat And yet W. arc multiplying
devices for turning up more coat collars. Il
is not too early to recognize that this is all
wrong, that our climate is here TO stay, and
that If we are going to live ia it with com.
fort we must accommodate Ourselves TO Il
II will pay to keep on good terms With the
climate"
A great many have learned that pneumo-
mia may be avoided by taking Chamber.
lain's Cough Remedy whenever they have a
cold. Among the tens of thousands who
have used this remedy for colds and grin
during the epideRics Of the past few years
We have yet TO learn Of a single one having
had ~pneumoniA, which should certainly con.
vince the most skeptical Of the value Of that
preparation. It's remarkable cures of oolds
have made II a staple article Of trade and
commerce throughout the United States and
In many foreign countries
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
Swap" Barber is
His Only Name
Unique Character Makes Good Money
Trading Tools with the Ton
serial Artists.

swap Barber is the ouiv name of an
opuledt individual who devised a new
profession" and does not consider thai
he needs a license nor a diploma from a
barber college,
swap is making not only a living, but
saving money and buying clothes for a
baby, so lie says, by going from shop to
shop trading barber tools, supplies. straps
and SOAP. The system he originated works
so well that BARRIERS say he realizes from
$3.50 to 81 per day and gives them a good
service.
Tn stock which swap carries is not all
secondhand. He buys or trades for much
new stuff and his offers to trade a new
razor for an old one, are received with
some surprise by the BARRIERS and they in
variably trade. To get a new pair OF
shears for an old pair is unexpected and
just like taking back a pair of shoes and
securing new ones after using them six
weeks or dealing in guaranteed hole-proof
sox.
There's one catch in Swaps" business
which the BARRIERS realizes nets him the
profit. No difference what his trade the
man with the big suitcase fun of barber
supplies gets 10 cents for Commission. .
Thus his income does not depend alto
gether on whether he makes good trades
or not, but on making many of them.
swap always carries a good line,'
says a barber who p~atronizes him. His
goods are all right and l nave secured
many bargains by trading with him, but
I have just begin to realize that trade
too often. Swap has been coming here
for several weeks and always has a COM
plete new line from which to select. AS a
result we all nave a surplus stock Of tools
and ! have one razor which has probably
cost me So TO So nave traded so many
times and i'm so many different ways will
the inventor Of the system of brokerage
in barber supplies"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
A ReIiEious Authors Statement.

Rev. Joseph II. Fesperman. Salisbury.
N. c., who is the author OF several books,
writes: For several years I was afflicted
with kidney trouble and last winter 1 was
suddenly 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 l passed same frequently day and
night. I commenced taking Foley's Kid
ney Remedy, and the pain gradually
abated and finally ceased and my urine
became normal. l cheerfully recommend
Foley's Kidney Remedy" For sale by all
druggists.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12

Rave Root PrfHrs II.
Gifts for Frisnds-Edholm, Jeweler.
smoke Rouse fer Smokes, s1e S. 18th.
Rudolph r. swoboda, Public Accountant.
Rinshart, photographer, 18th q Farnam.
Equitable Life-Pollcies, sight drafts at
maturity. II. d. Nicely, manager. Omaha.
". II. Thomas, sos First National Bank
Bldg, lends money on Omaha real estate
in sums OF $500 to $25O.0Oo. Prompt service.
Keep Your Money and valuablss in a
safe deposit box in the American Safe De-
post Vaults In the Bee building; 81 rents
a box. F. C. Hamer, president.
The surest way to Save is to follow
a fixed. definite plan of saving so much a
week or month. See Nebraska Savings &
Loan Assn.
J. H. Mithsn, eos First National Bank
building. Is making real estate loans at
bA per cent interest cash on hand no
delay. Liberal terms to borrowers.
John Bauman at Rsst-The body OF John
Bauman. 6s years old, who died at st.
Joseph's hospital Wednesday, was shipped
to his home at Nebraska City Thursday.
Holding Out on a zusband-samuel L.
Morris Is suing Mrs. Anneta Morris for
hlNoiSt, ditBluB lHdt sue ndu a husband
when he married her. j. Frank Cordova
sues Lizzie Cordova, charging desertion.
Fontanslle Club Meets Friday-The Fon,
tanelles will hold a jollification meeting al
1910 Howard street Friday night and al
candidates will be welcome to set fortf
their views on issues of the city election.
n. Young Turns Down Big offsr-Th,
increasing value OF property on West Far.
nam street was shown this week by ths
refusal Of Erastus Young to sell the corner
OF Thirty-third and Farnam streets 70,
$4,000.
Mrs. Edwtn Nancy rmproving-The con
dition Of Mrs. Edwin Hlney. who has beer
lylng seriously i'll at the home Of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Harry p. Deuel. since the recent dealt
of her husband is materially improved. ant
hopes are expressed of her early recovery
Railway Mems club-The Railway Men,
clu is still figuring on locations and hone,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
Plot ThickenS
in Benson Drama
Two Mare Witnesses Testify They
Saw Wranch and Smiley Near
Theunert Barn.

The great Benson melodrama, otherwise
the suit OF John Theunert for damages
against Joseph and Fred Wranch and
Robert Smiley, progressed on its compli-
Gated way some distance Thursday morn
ing.
The evidence OF Mr.. and Mrs. John n.
Herbst of Benson was the principal tes-
timony. Both swore they saw Fred
Wranch and Smiley near the Theunert barn
on the morning Of Labor day, and that a
third man. carrying a sack, was with
them. The harness. for whose alleged theft
Theunert was arrested, was found when a
search warrant was issued In the barn in
a sack.
Deputy County Attorney Masney testified
that the county prosecutors office was ap-
preached with regard to pushing the case
against Theunert, but that there was nc
evidence against TheuneTt.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
Each Faction of Democracy AIiEns
Its Forces for the Primary Cam
paiEn and the Fight
IL bitter.

These are the states of the two demo-
cratic clubs, the Jimocrats and the Jacko-
Gratis. Both clubs have been sending forth
the cry OF mo slate, we endorse only the
head OF the ticket" but states have been
made by both. despite the fact that they
each try to make it appear on the surface
that they are for a majority of the old
council for denomination and reelection.
Three of the present councilmen proba-
bly, will receive the support of both clubs
L. b. Johnson, in the Fourth; DR.. ]. c..
Davis, in the Eighth, and M. L. Endres,
In the Twelfth. The Jims are trying to
scare Johnson by holding up Robert H.
Holmes as a cogy man and i~nsinuating
that they may support the latter on ac-
count of his advocacy of an appointive
fire and rolice board. But is it generally
understood that when it comes to a show
down the Jims will give their votes to
Johnson despite the fact that he is a
Jack. Both clubs will be forced to sup
port DR.. Davis because he has no OPP
ponent, and both are for Mr.. Endres in
the Twelfth for the reason that he has
been astute enough not to align himself
with either faction.
VIII Swap Again.
Aside from these three. the Jims will
support three other members OF the old
council and the Jacks will support five.
The three Jims are Lee Bridges. Alma
Jackson and Pete Elsasser. The Jims have
no love for Bridges, but they realize that
he is a strong man to tie to. Jackson has
always voted with the mayor and there
fore he cannot be shelved, and Blsasser
has gone on record as saying that Dahl
man is the greatest man who has lived in
this generation and that the present city
administration has ecllpsed even an ma
tional administration.
The five councilmen picked by the Jacks
are Andy Hansen, G. F.. Brucker, w. s.
Sheldon, Thomas McGovern and M. F.
Funkhouser. Hansen was formerly a Jim.
but has fallen from grace; Brucker has no
love for the mayor. never visits his office,
and therefore stands we'll with the Jacks;
Sheldon has been Idcked up simply be-
cause the Jims have thrown him to sup
port Dan Canon, Tom Hymns personal
friend; McGovern is another former Jim
who has fallen without the pale of the
mayors love; and Funkhouser is a dyed
in-the-wool Jack.
T. p. Norris in the Ninth has never been
identified with the Jims, but as the Dahl-
NANTES have forsaken McGovern they
have espoused the cause OF Mr.. Norris,
who has really not been active In politics.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
BOY DIDN'T KNOW WHEN He
WAS GETTING A GOOD THING
Harry HambIin, who Fled from keAr-
ney Mikht Have Gone TO
the Pen.

Harry Hamblin who, with Bonnie
Thomas. has escaped the Kearney reform
school, didn't appreciate the lenient treat
ment accorded him by Judge Estelle Of the
juvenile court who sent him to Kearney
when ne might. under the law, have given
him a term in the penitentiary, as he told
the boy when he was before him for for
gerry. At the time of sentence Hamblin
acknowledged the judges l%eniency.
with Thomas escaping from Kearney has
become a disease.
Still Judge EStelle. when he heard the
boys had fled, merely made this sym
pathetic comment:
Someone may have been unkind to them
there"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
HAYDEN BROS. BUY
Entire Wholesale Furnishing Goods
and Notion stock of Smith,
Kort 4 Co.

Stock will be placed on SALE BEGIN
MING SATURDAY, MARCH 18TH.
The firm of Smith, Kort & Co., whole
salers of clothing, mems and ladies' fur
nishings and fancy notions, at lib Harvey
street, on account Of limited space. decided
to discontinue the furnishing goods and
notion end OF their business and our very
low cash offer secured the entire stock,
about 5000 worth OF nearly all new.
clean spring 1909 merchandise at greatly
less than wholesale value. The first OF
this stock will be placed on sale Saturday,
Watch Friday evening papers for the spe.
cial bargain offerings.
HAYDEN BROS
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
PALMER SAYS HE WILL STICK
wires from Florida that He Intends
to stay In the Mayor
atty Race.

81 will stay in the race for mayor. No
surrender"
This is the copy OF a telegram received
wednesday by City Clerk Butler from
Captain II. E. Palmer. sent from Daytona,
Fla, where the captain has been several
days. He went to Cuba from Omaha, but
left the island a week or ten days ago.
At his office the information is given out
that the captain will not return to Omaha
until some time in April, after the pri-
maries at any rate.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
THE BEE OFFICE

The Counting Room and BUSINESS
office Of Ths Zee IL temporarily To-
Gated on seventeenth street, In h
room formerly occupied by Hastings
b xsydsn. Advertisements and sub
soription matters viii be attended TO
there untn the new quarters are
ready.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
building Permits

Mrs. c. Il. Swanson, Thirty-fifth and
Howard streets. frame dwelling, $500; r,
Burnett, ThiTty-seventh street and AmeE
avenue. 1000: r. 8. Wing, Fortieth street
and Ames avenue. frame dwelling, s., $500; J.
Kendls, Twenty-first and Clark streets,
brick double dwelling. $1,000.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12
Injured In a Fire

or bruised by a fall, apply BucSlen's Ar
Mica salve. Cures burns, wounds, sores,
eczema, piles. Guaranteed. sc. For sale by
Beaten Drug Co.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-09
WEEKLY REVIEW

New York, Jan S.-R. g. Dua'e x
Company weekly review OF trade to-
morrow will say:
Credit and confidence are again cs-
tabdshed on frmer basis at the
Opening OF the new year than at any
time In the past fifteen months. Fro
sress is steady and naturally slow,
but is along very safe and satistac.
tory lines The statement OF com
mercial failures issued this wecE
clearly shows a gradual wearing away
of the effects of the financial pressure
OF the early months OF last year and
this necessarily improved underlying
conditions. While conservatism still
characterizes operation in many mar
KetS, the development is along safe
lines. Changes ia prices this wcek
are not significant but generally II
the direction of firmness. Iron and
sreel mills continue well occupied on
business previously booked and new
orders are constantly being placed,
some of them for a consid.. ople
quantity Some large sales of pig
iron are noted this week end further
cemand is expected as the year aG
vances Additional work Is nored in
structural mills, but increased osders
are expected when spring building be-
gins. Additional open hearth far
Daces have been put in operation.
There is evidence OF renewed actv.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-09
WHEN is KILLING JusTIFIAsLEa

A Pennsylvania jury Thought Mrs.
Erb and her sister were justified In
killing Captain Erb. after persecution
covering long years. The verdict sets
a fresh precedent.
When is such deed justiflable? :?
asks the OregonIan. If every Amerl-
can who beats his wife were to pay for
the act with his life, some of our COM
munities might be depopulated.
1t is always within the power OF a
wife to leave such man. 1t is plain
that she benefits her material condi-
tion not in the least by killing him.
We kill too readily and we look too
leniently ON killing. Even the unwrit-
ten law is pressed too far. The cause,
of course, lies primarily in the fact
that our laws on these subjects are
lax and their enforcement farce The
wlfe-beater is commonly fined n few
dollars, while the adulterer is rarely
arrested. Hence, private vengeance.
Killing is justilable. under certain
conditions. Certainly, in self-defense
always. If Mrs. Erb and Mrs. Beisel
feared murder at the hands of Erb.
they did only right. But his treatment
Of them covered a long period OF time
and they might far better nave had
recourse to the divorce court.
The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-09
OGDEN AND WESTERN PACIFIC.

With the opening to traffic of the
Western Pacific to Wells, Nevada,
tariff is expected TO go into effect
which will make Ogden a common
point with Salt Lake in the shipping
OF freight This is as 1t should be.
For years Salt Lake. although off the
main line Of two or three railroads en-
tcring Utah, has enjoyed the same
rates accorded Ogden, the railroad
center. With Salt Lake somewhat
more favorably situated in relation to
the Western Pacific, the time has ar
rived when Ogden Is to gain the ben
eft of an arbitrary rate such as in
the past has operated to the benefit
of Salt Lake in overcoming It's natur-
al Disadvantages.
In order TO make Ogden a common
point with Salt Lake, the Could roads
must cooperate, the Rio Grande and
Western Pacific. dividing the revenues
obtained on ogden shipments.
She best feature of this proposed
rating is that Ogden Is TO participate
in all the benefits of railroad competi.
tion TO the coast.