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Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-12
Clubs Pet Fire
Escape Now Said
to Be a Bridge
Structure Revered and Taxless for
Years as Escape Declared I'm
der False Identity.
Q.-When is a bridge not bridge2
A-Mhen II Is a fire escane.

Q.-When 10 a bridge not a bridRe3
A.-When IL is a fire escape,
The Commercial club OF Omaha and City
Comptroller LobecS are having riddle
guessing contestant they differ as to the
answer
Three years ago the Commercial club
caused 10 be constructed platform which
runs 20 the Schltz hotel over the alley be-
tween the Board OF Trade building in
which the club Is located.
The platform, bridge. or whatever IL
should be called WIS designed and built
for fire escape purposes and for fire escape
purposes only. Hence. therefore and ergo.
says the club, It is fire escape
THE structure" says Mr. Lobeck is a
bridge II is thing OF steel and wood,
with hand rails. lying several hundred feet
above the ground. II thrusts itself out
iRterally and horizontally. A fire escape
projects downwards. as though OF earth,
seeking nature 1t is bridge" concludes
Mr.. LobeclS.
The debate is not theoretical and AGA
{ demic; because II the structure is a fire
escape II is untaxed and untaxable; II a
bridge $50 a year is due the city. Thus
the question takes on faint tinge OF
sOrdid commercialism.
The fire escape Cor BRIDGE was built at
a cost OF $500, It has deprecated az least
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-12

because the council has yielded a point.
The Dodge street viaduct is In federal
court and the case win come up for hear
ing November Is.
The fate OF the old Eleventh street VIA
duct the oldest in the city. was decided
at the last meeting Of the council, and II
is to be torn down by the order OF that
body. But now comes q strong rumor to
the effect that the railroads viii offer
strong objections to building an expensive
new structure without first spending few
thousands in the courts trying to show
why they should not do It.
This Locust street abridge continues to
make progress. but the city officials are
afraid 10 name IL alond for fear calling
the attention OF the railroads 10 that fact
may atRrt something at any minute.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-12

q ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Here is n wonderful opportun-
y ity for you to buy the highest
3 grade of graceful willow ostrich
v plumes at a price much lower
3 than You can possibly buy them
at any other sale you ever at
tended. You can easily save
y So to $40 on a beautiful plume.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-12

HURON, s. D., Nov. 11.-CSpecial lone
Of the largest real estate sales ever made
in this locality. was contaminated a day
or two since when George Edleman sold
his ranch Of 1000 acres to Missouri parties
for the sum Of $4,000 cash. The premises
are two miles south of this city, along
the Jim river, and is one of the finest
farms in the state. It was formerly owned
by Messrs. Foster and Thompson, who Sc
cured a part Of it from the government
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-12

the company's lease expires on its present
building, which is on the corner OF Eleventh
and Harvey streets. This lease runs two
years from now.
A consideration OF $4,000 has been paid
Mrs. Abbie Lake. widow OF George Lake
and Administrative OF hiB estate. The
tent and awning company has five-story
building now and is occupying two floors
OF other warehouse space, but all this IL
not sufficient for the needs OF the com
pany, which IL getting crowded for room
on account Of the expansion OF its businaHa
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-12

10 per cent each year or $50 per annum.
The occupation tax is $40 a year. II the
thing becomes Of $50 less value every
twelfthmonth and it costs but $40 each year
in special tax, how long will it be before
it is worth less than the absolute zero.
The time consumed IN the committee
meetings Is something more than nine
times the present value OF the bridge Cor
fire ESCAPED. There lie wide difference,
a vast gulf as It we're, here to be bridged
over. Nor is there any escape from this
conclusion
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-12

The death OF the father brought a small
sum in Insurance and now the family con-
siders Itself as well started. so that it may
soon become self supporting. The case Is
one OF the few that have come to the no
tice OF the charity authorities in which the
neighbodhOod kindness has been SO help
ful and entirely sufficient to relieve des-
titutibn
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-12
YIADUCI FIGHT SETTLED
New Plans Seem to Be Satisfactory to
All Concerned.
PLAN OF BRIDGE is CHANGED
nder New scheme Il WIN Not BE
Necessary 20 cat Away Fart of
the Missouri Pacific
FreiRht House.

The protests made in court By the MIS-
souri, Pacific railroad aga INST the plans OF
the proposed Nicholas street viaduct were
successful IN getting the city to make a
change and me suit for an injunction to
prevent the building OF the vladuct has
been dismissed because the city will repeal
tho ordinance and pass new one more
satisfactory to all parties to the eontro-
.crsy.
mo vladuct vas TO run from thirteenth
TO Sixteenth on Nicholas and to make the
street wide enough for Il the council or
dersd the thoroughfare vacated TO its origi-
nal width Of 100 feet. This caused no diff
Guilty except between Sixteenth and Fiji
tenth. where Il would be necessary 20 cut
on about six feet from the Missouri Pa
elno freight house to allow the viaduct 20
get by
To avoid this the new plans will specify
that the width OF the bridge shall be re-
cuced by four feet. The roadway win be
twenty four feet instead OF twenty-six feet
wide. and the Sidewalk five feet wide on
the north side will be taken OFF altogether
ana the south sidewalk made eight feet
wide This viii make as good q viaduct
and avoid the freight house.
The city finds Il had no right 70 ask the
railroad TO move It's building because the
land had already been con3emned for a
pubic purpose when the railroad was put
Wrought there and the city had no privi-
lsges Of reconsldehng It's former action.
The Missouri Pacific is expected 70 be
willing TO have the yiaduet built Is
changed
seven New viaducta.
Omaha now has seven viaduets under
way or under extensive repairs. and only
enc OF them 10 moving along without q
controversy with some railroad. If the
engineers OF the Great Western continue
With their proposed action IN laying i'm
mediate plDps for the foot bridge at Nine
teenth and Mason only five viii be left
for litigation. The Locust street bridge
only as progressing without dispute.
The Mason street viaduct was specified
as q part of toe contract between the city
ana the Great Weutern when that road
was allowed 20 80 through and IL Is now
one and one-haif years late. even after
The i've years Of sraco teat was allowed.
a retaining wall mat was 20 be built a.
the same place Is also SET 10 be put In.
some light Is nov appearing in the situa-
lion of ihe Shceiey viaduct az Thirteth
and Bancroft and after the ordinance
passes the council az the third reading. next
meetine, the long lugasion over the rights
Of various parties 20 that proposition may
be settled without further trouble.
The injunction suig % tho Missouri Pa
cinc against the construction OF tine
Nicholas street bridge d about 70 be settled.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-12
Omaha Tent and
Awning Company
to Build Shortly
Has Bought Corner of Twelfth and
Harvey from George B.
Lake Estate.

The Omaha Tent and Awning company
has bought the southeast corner of Twelfth
and Harvey streets from the George Lake
estate and win build a six or eight-story
building there.
The new building will be erected before
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-12

LEXINGTON, KY. Nov. 11-Jake NobaI
the alleged slayer OF Wesley Turner at
Jackson Tuesday night, was barrioAded in
the mountains OF BreRthtt county today.
OF Nobal, who 10 only q years old
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18
RAILROAD is SUED FOR
SETTING FOREST FIRES

Dcadwood. S. D., Aug. lin the
United States circuit court here next
month, a case of much Importance to
this section Will be tried, Involving the
alleged origin of many forest fires in
the Black Hills.
The government has brought suit
against the Burlington railroad for
$42,0 900 damages for the destruction by
fire on Labor day, 1908, at Galena, near
here, of over 1000 acres of valuable
timber on the Black Hills national for
est.
That the case will be bitterly con
tested was made evident by he stub
born defense put UP by the road in
the two similar cases brought by
Charles Krouse and George Benner in
circuit court here in June.
The government suit will also be the
first n tried here in the United States
courts in watch the double damage act
Is relied upon. II the plaintiff is sue
cessful the amount Of it's damages can
be put at $S4, 600, but it is understood
that IN such an event the validity OF
the state statute on the subject. passed
In 1907, will be tested in the higher
courts.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18
STOCK FOODS ARE
WORTHLESS FOR SWINE
Iowa Experimental Station
Shows Patent Stock Foods
Without Value.

Ames, Ia, Aug. 10.-Millions of dol
lars annually are spent by the farmers
of Iowa for stock foods" Every
stock food manufacturer claims that
his particular brand of stock food win
give greater or cheaper gains when
added to a ration than tina ration
when fed alone. These foods, are
usually fed in too small quantities to
have any particular food value. The
animals system, cause the digestive
organs to do their work better, and
thus enable the animal to get more
out of his food.
To test these claims the Iowa E1-
pertinent station conducted some hog
FEEDING testsIwitn and without stock
foods. The stock foods used were
Standard, Iowa and International The
following were the conclusions drawn
from these tests:
/. Stock foods did % nave n BEN
eficial effect on digestion.
2. Greater gains could not be oh
tanned from a given amount Of corn
when stock o o was fed than when
the corn was fed alone.
3. 1t required more feed TO produce
a pound of gain when stock food was
fed than when corn was fed alone.
4. A bushel of corn produced No
much or more pork when fed alone as
when stock food was added to it.
5. The pork produced by corn alone
returned a greater net value per bushel
of corn fed than was returned when
stock food was added to- the corn
Copies of bulletin lib, giving full re-
suits of the stock food experiments
may be obtained free by writing to the
director of the Iowa Experiment sta
ton at Ames,
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18
SENATOR JOHN ERICKSON
DIES OF APPEkDIcITIe

Boone. Ia, Aug. 1O.-Charles John
Alfred Ericsson, former member of the
state legislature doner of the Eric
son library and president of the City
bank, died at his home here yesterday
morning at LILO of gangrenous appen-
dicitis. He was 70 years old. The phil
anthropist returned Saturday evening,
July 81, from a tour of the world and
at that time declared that he was in tho
best of health.
On Monday he was taken ill with
appendicitis and an operation was per-
formed Wednesday in hopes Of saving
MS life. It was of no avail. His daugh-
ter, Miss Lorena Ericsson, arrived from
a st. Louis sanitarium at noon Thurs
DAY and was at her fathers bedside
when he died.
The funeral service will be held at
10 o'clock Thursday morning with the
senator's I'D pastor, Rev. o. II. u.
Mason, officiating. Rev. Mr.. Mason
ONE hither from Long Beach. Cal.
to take charge of the services. Until
recently ne was pastor Of the First
presbyterian church here, Of which
Senator Ericsson was a member.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18
HOLDS SERVICE RECORD
FOR LONGEST Passionate

Eldora. Ia, Aug. 11.-Rev. D. D. Safer,
of Burlington, who possesses the record
in America for continuous service IN
one pastorate, is very Ill. DR.. Salter
preached his first sermon in his pres
ent pastorate of the First Congrega-
tional church of Burlington, April 2,
1916, and has continued uninterrupted
ly in that service at the same church
to date, making a continuous service
in one church GA years. He will be so
years of age If he lives until Nov. II.
DIR. Salter is the surviving member
of the famous Iowa Band" of Con-
gregational ministers who left Andover
Mass, in October 1S43, to come to Iowa,
then a territory, to do missionary
work. He was the youngest member OF
the band and came from New York
city, and the day he preached his first
sermon at Burlington he was rs. Chief
among the productions of his pen is
Life of James w. Crimes" published
in 1876. His latest work printed in his
S8th year is a collection of Divine anC
Moral Songs for Children"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18
WIFE'S EXPERIENCE
FAR EXCEEDS SLEEP
OF RIP YANWINKLE
Babes Slip From Lap and First
Recurring Memory Is Clasp
ing Grandchildren.

Red Ook, Ia, Aug. 1.-To be literally
buried alive in a hospital for he in
curably insane for 81 years. while hel
family, left as young children. grew ur
and, marrying. scattered over the oun
try, and then to suddenly awaken to
sanity, and once again take up the
threads of her life, an old woman, and
to hold in her arms the children of her
children. ais old and older than the
babes which she left over a score OF
years ago., is the experience Of Mrs.
Jacob Kreiger, of Red Oak.
Today, a sweet faced. white haired
old lady, she is living at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Edward Swiger,
WHO she last saw as a little girl of
IA years. She is becoming acquainted
with her grandchildren, while her
husband, now an old maj in feeble
health, is speeding home from Wash
ington to join the wife of his youth.
Mind Was a Blank.
Twenty-ons years age, Mrs. kreiger,
m a woman Of 3S with a family Of
three daughters and one son, ranging
denly stricken with religious insanity.
She was removed to an asylum by her
husband and at first it was thought
that the dementia was of but a tenn
porar5y natHre=A AZ the years passed,
however, instead Of improving, Mrs,
Kreiger gradually grew worse. until
despairing of her ultimate recovery, she
was 6nally sent to the asylum for IN
curables at Clarinda. There, as the
long years have rolled over her head.
she has lived oblivious to everything
In life, while her family has grown up,
Time, the great necromancer, has
placed it's seal upon them, and today
the children whom she left are men
and women Of middle age, married and
with children elder than those from
whom she was taken.
Makes Recovery.
1t was about a year ago a physi-
clans at the institute noticed that the
woman with whose peculiarities they
| had become familiar, vas showing Pc
RODS of lucidity. These periods grad
ually became longer. and finally her
condition became such that she was
placed in a cottage provided for pro-
dictionaries. There her return to COM
plete sanity was accomplished.
When her two daughters, who live in
Red Oak, came to visit her, she was
timid and hesitated at first, feeling
strangely toward these two middle
aged women, who they told her were
her children. In the end, However, as
her reason became stronger, she finally
accepted things as they were and on
Saturday was brought back to the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Edward
Sweiger, at Red Oak, where she is to-
day.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18
RECTOR DRAKE BREAKS ARM
COASTING ON BICYCLE

Fort Dodge, Aug. 11.-Monday aft
ernoon. while enjoying a bicycle spin
through the country. Rev. F. e. Drake,
pastor of st. Marks Episcopal church.
the dean Of the Sioux City diocese, was
thrown from the wheel and his left arm
broken near the shoulder.
Rev. Drake is a great lover of the
open air and simple life and the acct
lent occurred during one of his little
pleasure excursions, he losing control
Of the wheel while coasting down a
steep hill just west of the city, through
the coaster refusing to work, and talk
ing a header while the wheel was run
ming at nigh speed. He was brought tic
the city. where he received medical at
tention.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18

Dubuque, Ia, Aug. 10.-Diver Murray.
who has been engaged for the past ii
days raising the wreckage of the
steamer j.. S. has brought to surface
machinery, valued at over $40, 900, and
winch is beng placed OF a aft pre-
paratory for transfer to the harbor
here, where it will later be used for a
new boat. The safe carrying a large
amount of money and valuable papers
has been raised intact.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18
DOCTOR JAlLs A RoBBER
WHO HELD HIM UP

Mason City, Ia, Aug. n.-With his
man covered with a revolver, DR.. C. l.
Marston, a prominent physician here.
marched a h~ighwayman five blocks and
turned him over to a policeman. The
doctor had been called out to see a
patient at midnight last night, and on
a bridge near his home was halted by
a mai who demanded his money. With
out waiting to parley the doctor got the
drop on the fellow. This is the second
attempt at a holdup at this bridge.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18

The operation of large punching ma
chimes used in the boiler shops and sim
liar establishments has been greatly
improved in efficiency and
recently by a simple system of electric
operated heretofore by a foot attach-
naent. but this is cut IL entirely and
me push button placed at a point
where It Is much more accessible Two
men by this arrangement do the
WORK formerly requiring three, and the
accurate manner ~
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18
LETTER CHANGED TO
SYMPATHY MESSAGE

Des Moines, Ia, Aug. 11.-Mayor
James Hanna Of Des Moines, was die
tating a letter to Mayor Gaynor de-
Tending the Des Moines plan of city
government when the Associated Press
dispatches announcing the shooting
reached here. Less than a week age
Mayor Gaynor wrote an attack upon
tbs commission plan to Mayor Hanna,
The letter today was changed to .
telegram OF sympathy.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18
souTH DAKOTA

The Judge carries his court with
him wherever he goes. We have exam
pies of this from time to time in Eng
land, such as the court recently held
In G cab by a metropolitan :na.is-
trate. Or the case left untried at
Liverpool, which was for the
ience of the Judge, and counsel ar
gued in a first class carriage of the
Manchester express. Then there is the
classic instance Of Sir Lancelot Shad-
well, the last vice chancellor of Eng
land, who heard an urgent applica-
ton while taking his morning dip in
h Thames. fave his decision and
granted an injunction while alternate
1y t%reading water and floating on his
back.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18
OIL INSPECTOR REPoRTs.

Pierre. S. D., Aug. 11s-Oi Inspector
Murray. of the northern district of the
state. has filed his report with the gov
ernor.5gHe several days ago turned in
about $4,000 to the treasury. and in his
report shows that the expenses of him
self and deputies for the year was
1916 In that district. He shows that
they inspected 32,s12 barrels of kero-9
sene. and received fees on an addi-
tfonal 1853 barrels which were made
IN srtlall shipments. They inspected
SO. 273l barrels of gasoline and received
fees Oh SSs barrels which came in small
shipments.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18
DOCTORS OF STATE
ARE AGITATED BY
PECULIAR DISEASE
Convention of Physicians Will
Discuss Status OF Infantiie
Paralysis.

Des Meines, La, Aug. 1870 serious
is the epidemic of nfantile paralysis
in this state that Secretary Sumner.
of the state board of health, has called
a special convention OF physicians and
surgeons to naeet in Des Moines as
soon as the investigation is completed
at Mason City.
Several days ago DR.. Wade Fl. Frost,
OF the United States marine service,
was detailed to Iowa to make an in
vestigation Of the disease. He is now
at Mason City, where several deaths
nave occurred and where there are
over 40 cases. In addition, the disease
has broken Il in several other cities
IN Iowa, including Des Moines.
Since SO little is known of the cause
and treatment of the malady, and on
count of the widespread fear which
has followed its outbreak, the state
board of health has decided to call a
special convention, at which the facts
gathered by DIR. Frost at Mason CITY
will be given out.
DR.. Frost's study of the battling i'll
ness Will be complete. He will remain
In Iowa several weeks and will secure
all the data possible. The results of
his study will be published In bulletin
form for thu benefit Of physicians all
over the country.
An indication Of the widespread con-
Germ the medical profession has in In
fant1le paralysis is shown by a letter
received today by Secretary Sumner
from the Pennsylvania state board of
health. The letter wants all the infor-
nation the Iowa board possesses rela-
tive to the disease.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18
BOY is INJURED IN
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT

Lake Okoboji, Ia, Aug. 1.-THE
touring car of Ellsworth Turney-
turned turtle yesterday afternoon on
the road near here. A party of seven
were thrown out and the little son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Turney WAS severely in
jured. Captain Speilman, of Fairfield,
was in the car and a Mr.. Walsh. The
car had to be lifted off from Mr..
Walsh, but he was not hurt.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18
GOLD EoR

L.ndon, Aug. N.-America
$1,000, 600 out Of the IS, eoe,eoS syailablc
gold supply on the London market A
q price kc below tho last ~transaction.
The rest OF the geld went 70 India and
the continent.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-08-18
SNOWBALLS ARE MADE
UNDER AUGUST SUN

Aberdeen, S. D., Aug. Ii.
Snowballing under a South Da-
kota summer sun was witnessed
at Gettysburg, S. D., last week
A rainstorm was succeeded by
a terrific downpour of hail,
which when partly melted be-
came slushy, and a number of
men and boys INDUCED in the
winter pastime after the sun
had come out. The hail did a
great deal of damage to crops
over a limited area, not over
two miles wide.