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Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
DAVE O,BRIEN FOB MAYOR
'I'm In the Race to Contest NOmi-
nation with DahImah," He
SAYS.

Dave O'Brien, member of the Omaha
Water board and former member of the
council. has announced his intention of con-
testing the democratic nomination for
mayor with Mayor Dahlman.
1T can't say that 1 have the mayoritis,"
said Mr.. O'Brlen, "but all the same 1 would
like to be mayor of Omaha if 1 could get
it, and if you intend to pin me right down
to an answer of Yes or NO L will tell
you that 1 think I could be nominated and
elected. However, IL I go into this fight 1t
will be absolutely clean. 1 have nothing
against Mayor Dahlman, he is a mighty
good fellow, but party leaders seem to think
that l would make a stronger run, and If
victory would be more certain with Dave
O'Brien at the top Of the ticket than with
Jim Dahlman there, why, Dave O'Brien
will do what he can for the party. Mr..
Dahlman has, however, been unwise in one
or two particulars, and 1 have had to eat
some things I said three years ago, For
instance, he has brought the liquor inter-
ests into too much publicity, and this is
bad. He ought to have adopted a policy like
that of Mayor Brown of Lincoln, who is
good friends will the liquor interests and
good friends with the church"
Mayor Dahlman asked Mr.. O'Brien Mon
day If there was any truth in the state
ment that he was to be a candidate and
the latter told him that he was.in the hands
of his friends, the old stereotyped phrase of
the politician. Mr.. Dahlman has definitely
decided to run for reelection, and both he
and Mr.. O'Brien say that the spring cam
paign will be a pretty one.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
MILD BIRTHDAY OF BLIZZARD
Terrible Storm Commemorated by
Rise in Temperature.
JUST INVENTION YEARS AGO
weather Bureau Predicts Fair and
Rising Mercury for Wednesday
After Week of Piercing
Atmosphere.

After a week of very cold weather. Tues
day brought a material rise in tenn
p~erature for Omaha and 1t was the more
remarkable because Tuesday was the TWEEN
ty-first anniversary of the big blizzard that
made itself historic in Nebraska, Iowa and
the Da~kotas-January u, 1883. Tuesday not
only came i'm mild, but brought the pre-
diction of rising temperature Wednesday
also.
The weather bureau record OF January
J., 1888. shows the ferocity as we'll as I'M
equalled suddenness of a storm that reaped
such O harvest of human life throughout
these states.
The morning and carly afternoon of that
day were ideal I'M mild wintry weather.
The wind during the forenoon and early
afternoon was mild and from the southeast,
and to the casual observer there was not
up to noon the slightest evidence of a
storm. AT 1910 the first premonition came
with a warning to the weather bureau to
hoist the cold wave flag, George NJ. Chap
pei was then In charge OF the weather
bureau station in Omaha He is now con-
nected With the, weather bureau service at
Des Molnes.
The temperature that day fen rapidly
until it reached 3-i0 degrees below zero
at 10 p. m, or a fail of thirty-three and
three-tenths degrees within seven hours.
The storm ragged with increasing in
tensfty late into the night and had spent
its force at midnight.
Many acts of heroism were performed by
citizens OF all classes and particularly by
police officials. SO severe was the storm
that frantic parents could not face the
gale TO hunt for their children. Telephone
and telegraph wires were put completely
ont OF commission and parents and friends
were left in suspense until the follow
ing day, when 1t was ascertained that
there had been no loss of life from the
storm in Omaha.
Throughout the state the suffering en-
tailed by the storm was widespread. 1t
came up just as most of the district
schools were closing and many children
over The state were, frozen to death. The
pages of Nebraska history are illumlned
with no brighter deeds of heroism than
those performed by the women school
'eachers of the country schools Of Nebraska
N their noble efforts to gather their little
school flocks in their care in the poorly
equipped school houses, haystacks and
other available refugees to save them from
perishing. Several of these heroic youne
women lost their own lives in their eff
forts. Not a few were made permanent
invalids from frozen limbs in their endeav.
ors to save the children, and but for theil
self-sacrifice and nobility of courage anC
devotion the loss of life among the chill
dren of the plains would have been appall
ing.
MERRILL, Wis, Jan. 12.-The govern.
ment thermometer registered IS degrees be
low zero here today. Schools were CLOSED
on account of insufficient heat. This is tn,
coolest in years,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
DEMANDS A HEARING
Senators Troubled as to Best Way to
Dispose of Charges.

NE w bNHA w
Dispose OF Charges.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.-Much interest
was manifested by senators today in the
procedure that will be adopted to dispose
Of the charges made by the president
against Senator Tillman in relation to his
attempted purchase of timber lands in Ore
gon. Mr.. Tillman insists that he shall be
convicted or cleared of the presidents
charge of wrongdoIng.
The special secret service investigating
committee. consisting OF Senators G~allinger.
Hemenway and Clay, has not agreed to
enter upon the additional task of passing
judgment upon Senator Tillmsn. and it may
prove desirable TO have a special committee
for that purpose. Before the day is over
It Is expected that some plan OF procedure
will be agreed upon.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-Answering a
reference by Senator Tillman in his speech
yesterday to an incident of several years
ago, when Mrs. Charles Minor Morris was
elected from the White House, Secretary
Loeb today made public letters from Mrs.
Morris son, l.. T. Highleyman Of st. Louis,
and Francis ]. A. Barr OF Somerset, N. j.,
bearing on Mrs. Morris actions. The letter
from Darr, addressed TO the president I'M
der date of September q, says:
IT am writing you my amende honorable
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
sTAvER NOT in ANY COMBINE
Carriage Company. Will Continue ("
he Represented by LinInEer
Firm.

An erroneous Interpretation of a news
item has caused II. B. Staver of the Staver
Carriage company of Chicago to issue a
circular saying that his company does not
contemplate entering the combination OF
pillow firms formed by the Grand Detour
company to locate in Omaha. The article
in question stated that the Grand Detour
company. which handles the Staver prod
uct in Kansas City, was forming such a
combination and coming to Omaha. The
Staver company was not named as one
of the combine and IL was further de-
clared that the Lininger company Of
Omaha is its local agent, The Lininger
company remains its local agent.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

5NA NUoAA HAN"
the Nebraska total. Iowa ran this state
second, with Missouri third and Colorado
fourth. The Colorado cash prizes were
nearly all won in the dry farming section.
Annual Meeting Last Chapter.
The sending out of these merchandise
and cash premiums and the computation
Of the financial status of the corn show
will complete the work for the 1908 EXPOSE
ton. The last act in the drama of corn
will be the annual stockholders meeting
held the fourth Tuesday in January. A
board of fifty directors will then be chosen
who will, in turn, nominate the executive
committee. Not until this meeting is held
will there be any action on the invitation
of the National Corn association to Omaha
to hold future eXpositions here.
Mr.. Jones' present visit in the city will
be a short one for he must leave at once
TO lecture before short courses at the Uni
versity of Minnesota and at Ames, thus
paying back aid given the corn show by
agricultural professors in these institutions.
Jones returned to Omaha enthusiastic
a bout Idaho and the orchard which he and
Prof. Holden are Jointly founding in the
southern part of the state. Idaho will be
a great fruit country he declared, land
in a few years there will be none better
in the world"
Inasmuch as Mr.. Paisley's absence from
the city will be for some time, he was
given a warm Godspeed from many friends
here whom he has made through his faith
full and efficient service for the corn ex-
position.
Premium winner a PhilanthropiHt.
Just before he left he received a letter
from one merchandise premium winner,
w. F. Dodds of Columbus, Neb.
'Give my sweater to some poor Omaha
man with a large family, who has to work
out of doors this cold winter wrote
Dodds. ST. don't need it myself"
DR.. Harris +, Sawyer, the government
expert of the Department of Agriculture,
who was ih"cEf4rge of the denatured alec.
hol still was idS1he city Tuesday calling at
the offices of the exposition.
'SThe corn show is responsible for my
visit in a way" said he, II had to go to
Greeley to talk on denatured alcohol.
Greeley people read of the exhibit at the
corn exposition and asked the Department
Of Agriculture to send a man there
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

CONTINUED from First Page.)
tingent fund of his department had been
expended, giving the names of every per-
son to whom any portion of such fund has
been paid.
Report Disbursements.
"This appropriation he said. being for
the War department, the report should
have been made by the secretary of war,
and he is notfrelieved of that duty by the
fact that the money can be expended only
with the approval OF the president. The
secretary of war evidently has entertained
this view, but. so far as l can ascertain
no detailed or tented reports to congress
of expenditures from this fund have been
made, but only general reports, showing
the aggregate sums expended for each
year"
The contingency under which this use
of the war fund of 1899 was used, Mr.. For
aker declared, was the remote one that
men should be required to prove their limo
cence Of a crime before a Judge who had
already pronounced them guilty under a
bill then pending in the senate" And all
this" insisted Mr.. Foraker, lin the pres
ence Of the fact that there was the most
bitter and determined opposition to the
measure and that there was another meas
ure pending which proVldeo that all might
be re-enlisted who cared to re-enlist, but
that the right to further prosecute before
civil or military tribunals should be re-
served as to all against whom any evil
deuoe might be secured in any manner at
any time after such enactment.
Private Detectives Barred.
but. waving all technical or doubtful
objections and assuming for the a k OF
argument that the constitutional provision
quoted does not apply and that the ruling
Of the Treasury department that the APP
Precipitation is permanent is correct, and
that II continues 10 stand. and will stand,
as an available appropriation for such pur-
poses as those for which it was intended,
until entirely exhausted, the question re-
mains whether such payments as are now
under consideration are legitimate and
proper 10 be made from 1t. 1t would seem
that granting all I have indicated they are
yet. nevertheless, clearly illegal and in flat
violation OF the following statutory provi,
sion.
That no employe of the Pinkerton de-
tective agency or similar agency shall be
employed IN any government service or by
any officer OF the District of Columbia
This provisions was enacted in 1882 and
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
ROUTE OF SOLDIERS FIXED
Contracts Let 10 Transport second
Artillery from Fort Russell
--.- to Manila.

rhe Union Pacific Railroad company has
secured the contract for transporting the
headquarters, field, staff and band and two
batteries of the Second United States field
artillery from Fort d. A. Russell, Wyo.. to
Council Bluffs. From that point the Chi
cago. Burlington & Quincy gets the trans
portation contract to Chicago; the Wabash
gets the contract from Chicago TO Niagara
Falls, and the West Shore road gets It
from Niagara Falls to Jersey city.
The WIN leave Fort d. A. Rus
sell February Q and will sail from New
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
NEBRASKA LEADS IN PRIZES
Far in Advance Of Other States at
Corn Exposition.
IOWA SECOND, MISSOURI THIRI
Eight Hundred vouchers for Cash
Premiums Arc sent Out-PRis-
ley Returns Home and
Jones to Omaha.

J. Wilkes Jones. general manager Of the
National Corn exposition, arrived in Omaha
from Idaho Monday night and Assistant
General Manager w. O. Paisley left Tues
day for HIS home in Jasper, Mo. The ar
rival of the one had nothing to do with
the departure Of the other, the sequence
being entirely accidental. Jones stopped
here for a day to look at his correspond
ence, which has mounted up during his
vacation in the west and Paisley has com
pleted his work so far as the exposition
of 1908 is concerned. The last few weeks
he has been busy sending out the mer-
chandise premiums which have a total
value of $4,000.
Vouchers for the. cash premiums went
out Tuesday, There are 800 of these dis
tributed by states as follows.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

for a great mistake I made three years
ago.
This refers to Darr's belief expressed at
that time that Mrs. Morris had suffered
great wrong in her ejectment. The letter
from Highleyman, referring to Mrs. Nor
ris, says:
az can only hope that she will do nothing
rash in Washington; however, every mo-
ment, l expect something to happen
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
Suit over ReatrIce Hotel.

BEATRICE, Neb., Jan. 12.-(Specisl Tele-
gram.)-In the case Of Mrs. Maria Colby
against the Kentner Hotel company foI
possession of the Paddock hotel Judge Ellis
today decided in favor of the plaintiff. The
company filed the necessary bond and ap-
pealed the case to the district court.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
Bids on Printing.

Charles /. Thomas was reelected for
three years as Commissioner OF the sol
dler relief. His reelection was recon-
mended by the u. S. Grant post and Gen
eral Custer post Of the Grand Army OF
the Republic.
+. r.. Siltz and Harry l.. Kidder filed
application for the superintendentship OF
the poor farm. This matter was left
over for consideration at the next meet
ing.
The meeting OF the board was brought
to a close shortly after 4 o'clock, after
which time the chairman and the board
met with showers of congratulations,
The next meeting of the Board of County
Commissioners was set for Friday morn
ing at 10 o'clock.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

5, 1899, to be expended at the direction of
the president as an emergency fund.
This is the fund out of which detectives
Brown and Baldwin were paid fer their
services in investigating the Brownsville sf-
fair and for which expenditure Mr.. For
aker sharply criticised the president and
Secretary Taft.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
The Midwest Life

The assets OF The Midwest Life are in
vested in first mortgages on Nebraska
real estate. Not a dollar Of principal or
interest is in default. Home office. 1907
30" street, Lincoln; Omaha agency, Room
32s Board of Trade building. The company
can offer TO a capable. experienced and
successful producer, an attractive propo-
sition TO open a general agency al Nor
folk, York or Alliance, Nebraska. For par
uculars write to the Home office.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

You would not delay taking Foley's
Kidney Remedy at the first sign Of kidney
or bladder trouble IL you realized that
neglect might result In Bright's disease or
diabetes. Foley's Kidney Remedy corrects
irregularities and cures all kidney and
bladder disorders, For sale by all drug
gists.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
PROGRAM FIXED FOR MUSICALE
Eight Numbers of Widely Varying
Kind Arranged for COncert Given
Soon at Unity Church.

A varied program has been arranged for
the musicale to be given at Unity church
January IS, as follows;
Ballade. A.. Bahm
MIR. Wallace Lyman.
Autumn Sadness. .Neyin
In Blossom Time. .............. Needham
Miss Hazel Smith.
'Cello-Romance saus Parole, op. D..
DdNludII
lie CNBHe. ............. .......... SAINT SaenS
Miss Belle Won Mansfelde.
Magic Fire Scene CfrOm The Valkire"
Wagner-BraSSin
Mrs. Edith l.. Wagner.
Inc CurIeW. ,Gauld
Mr.. Mould.
NOtIurnO NO. .GOItermann
Andante Religioso. Hugo Becker
CCello and Organ.)
Miss Belle Won Mansfelde and Mr.. Allen.
Ca) Pan-a Pastoral. .....,.........' .Godard
(b) LIE Cavalier Fantastique .,...... GODDARD
. Mrs. Edith L.. Wagner,
F~inale-Rondo del 'Ongarese, from Trio
No. 1, for cello. violin and piano..
Miss Won Mansfelde, Mesdames Armstrong
and Baxter
Accompanies: Mesdames Edith l.. Wag-
oner, w. F. Baxter and Mr.. Allen.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

Bigger. Better. Busier-That's what ad-
vertising in The Bee does for your bust
ness.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

York February Is on board the United
States transport for Manila, p. l., by way
Of the Mediterranean and Suez canal.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
ITALIAN RELIEF MOUNTS UP
over Thirteen Hundred Dollars Now
in Hand for Earthquake
Sufferers.

The Italian relief fund continues 10 add
to the amount for the benefit of the italian
earthquake sufferers. To the amount pre-
.L.-.l- LII -. -lannlInnH Ernn.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13

The Junior cash prizes are included In
the Nebraska total. Iowa ran this state
second, with Missouri third and Colorado
fourth. The Colorado cash prizes were
nearly all won in the dry farming section.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
FORAKER MAKESNEW CHARGE

Continued from First Page.)
Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-13
Foraker Resolution Passed.

Without debate, and without reference to
committee, the senate passed a resolution
presented by Senator Foraker calling on
the secretary Of the treasury Tor an item
ICED statement of the Expenditure q the
100000 appropriated by the act of March
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-14
CONGRESS DEBATES
VARIOUS SUBJECTS
CALIFORNIAN ATTACKS RULES
OF THE HOUSE
Indian Appropriation Bill Technically
Considered, but Leads to General
Discussion of Many
Projects

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-A variety
of subjects was discussed in the house
of representatives today. The Indian
appropriation bill technically was I'M
der consideration, but many members
availed themselves of the opportunity
for general debate. Mr.. Larmer (FlOr-
ida) argued for the amendment of the
railroad rate law, claiming the law
was insufficient to cover the cases in
cluded in its provisions; Mr.. Madden
Qllinois) referred to- increases in
freight rates since the freight law
went into effect; Mr.. Murphy (Wiscon-
SIM delivered eulogy of Lincoln; Mr..
Washburn (Massachusetts) favored a
modification of the Sherman antitrust
law in order that it might be less bur-
densome; Mr.. Hayes California; at
tackled the rules of the house; Mr..
Langley (Kentucky) criticised the ad-
ministration of affairs of the Choctaw
Indians; Mr.. Sherman (New York; ex-
planned the provisions of the Indian
bill. while Mr.. Foster (Vermont) plead
ed for an adjustment of postal rates as
affecting merchandise sent through the
mails.
The Indian bill was pending when
the house adjourned until tomorrow,
which was set apart for eulogies of de-
ceased members.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-14
TRAIN ROBBERS
SECURE $4,000
D. & R. G. PASSENGER CAR
BOLDLY LOOTED
CRIME COMMITTED NEAR DENVER
BY THREE MEN
Eighteen Packages of Registered Mail
Secured-HoIdup One of Most
Daring In Years-No CIew
to Bandits

DENVER, Feb. 13.-That the holdup
Of the Denver x Rio Grande passenger
train near Denver early this morning
was the work of three instead of two
robbers and that the robbery of the
mail car gave them a loot Of possibly
$4,000 are indicated by the investiga-
ton of the railroad and police officials
today.
So far no tangible clew to the iden-
tity or whereabouts of the robbers
has been found, but it seems probable
that the men came to Denver and are
now hiding in this city.
Eighteen packages of registered mail
were secured. These included five from
Salt Lake addressed to Greeley, Colo; !;
Georgetown, Colo; Waco, Tex; White
wright, Tex, and Denver; one from
Pueblo to Denver, one from Colorado
Springs to Denver, one from Taylor,
Wash, to Steamboat Springs, Colo.
one from Winfield, Wash, to Sterling,
Colo; one from Leadville to Denver,
and others from Glenwood Springs and
other Colorado towns.
One Held Large Sum
One of these packages is said to have
contained a large sum of money, but
until a thorough checking up of the
missing packages is possible, the exact
be ascertained.
The robbery was remarkable for its
originality and daring. 1t took place
within eight miles of Denver, within
less than two miles of Fort Logan,
the United States military reservation,
and at a spot where habitations are
plentiful.
Yet so thorough was the work of
the robbers, and so we'll were their
plans laid, that they had fully an hour
and half start Of the officers.
Search of the vicinity of the holdup
indicates that third man, and possi-
bly, fourth, was engaged in the rob-
berry; that a rubber-tiped buggy was
in waiting for the actual holdups, and
that tOrpedos and red signal fires were
used unsuccessfully in an attempt to
stop the train before the automatic
revolvers of the two men on the train
were used in doing this.
| From the manner in which the hold
up was accomplished it is thought to
| be possible that the robbers are the
ones responsible for the holdup of the
Denver & Rio Grande train last May,
when Express Messenger Wright was
! killed.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-14
.LEMP DECLARES
CHARGES FALSE
FLATLY DENIES ALL OF HIS
WIFE'S STATEMENTS
Says He Never Struck Her Nor TAUGHT
Atheism to His Son-DecIares
She Understood Agree
ment

ST. LONIS. Feb. .13.-A fat denial
by William j. Lemp, Jr., of the sworn
statements of his wife and the aSser-
ton by Judge Hitchcock that if he
sees fit to grant a divorce with alimony
to Mrs. Lemp the money will not be
awarded in a lump sum, but in month
ly or annual allowances. were features
OF the Lemp divorce suit when the
trial of the case was resumed today.
About the only point on which Lemp
corroborated his wife's testimony was
his admission that he had hired detec-
tives to watch her.
He denied positively that he had ever
struck here, abused her by word or
deed, told their son that there was no
God, or derided the Roman Catholic
church to the boy.
He asserted his wife had read and
knew the contents Of the ante-nuptial
agreement which she signed, although
she said she did SO in ignorance of its
contents.
In an even, dispassionate manner
Lemp fatty cOntradicted the sworn
statements Of his wife of the signing
of second ante-nuptial agreements be-
tween the pair.
Lemp asserted that his wife read the
paper which she said she signed while
innocent of it's contents, and he denied
IiAot hC Ao1O CONOISu up the UOCunenC
so that she could not read its con-
tents.
He declared he did not present to
her any paper which would leave her
free to train the children reIigiously
after they were years old.
The onl yallegation which Lemp ad-
mitted was that he had engaged the
detective to watch his wife after the
discovery of the dear little pal letter.
which Mrs. Lemp acknowledged writ
ing after explaining that it was in
tended merely as decoy for her hus-
band.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-14
TAFT FAVORs COOPERATION
WITH GOVERNORS OF STATES

HATTIESBURG. Miss, Feb. 13.-The
principal speech of the day yas deliv-
cred by Mr.. Taft at Hattiesburg.
81 think" he said, sit is well that
the governors of the states and the
president of the United States should
have a close association in order that
the great reforms to be accomplished
in many directions, especially that Of
the conservation of our resources, there
may be team work between the states
and nation, SO we shall all work to-
gether.
Whoever you preferred before the
election, l am willing to accept your
kindly and hospitable welcome as an
indication that, although somebody
else was selected in spite Of you, you
are willing to take me now as a sort
of bad second. But seriously, nv
dear friends, it is a very great pleas
Ure for me to come into the south and
to receive the cordial welcome, the cor
dial personal welcome, may say. that
1 have received at every hand by white
and black in Georgia, South Carolina,
Louisiana and Mississippi, and espe-
cially in Hattiesburg."