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Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-12

direction that this most modern Of army equipments
has been perfected
The plan Of Captain stopford does not contem-
plate the building Of wagon with its consequent
high cost On the contrary, the ordinary carrier for
troops i'll the field, known commonly as the escort
wagon" drawn by two, four or six husky mules is
utilized and requires no rebuilding. So compact is
the arrangement Of utensils etc. that but one wagon
Is needed for a battalion of four companies, $50
officers and men. For this same reason the new
wagon does not make any addition to the already
long transportation trains Of troops in the fields.
The army escort wagon is forty-two inches wide
by nine and hali feet long and to accommodate the
kitchen the sdeboards are removed At the front is
placed the range, which is about forty-two inches
wide and about four feet long including the boiler
which goes under the drivers On the range may
be placed four aluminium boilers sitting closely to-
geher and occupying the entire top of the stove Each
of these boilers holds eighteen gallons while the
boiler under the seat holds 100 gallons oven pans
are also provided, each Of which will hold forty
pounds OF meat bread, they may be used on top
OF the stove as frying pans. At either side of the
wagon is ureless cooking chest, which may be used
as table If desired, while boards at the back may
De pulled ont and used tables from which to- serve
t"" Tauon5, each board being provided with stout
IRON leg at one end the other end resting on the wagon
The cooking on the army wagon goes on from
dawn 20 dark when the troops the march I'M
mediaoly after breakfast is served and before the
wagons started I'm the morning the vegetables are
put IN the boilers and started cooking.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-12
Kept Signal Lights in stormy Weather.

II distinctly recall that in the very early times,
when had become fairly settled on the old home-
stead 1t was the custom to set candles and lanterns
in the windows in the stormy weather AS we were
the last house the road travellers to Elkhorn and
west used to look for the Griffin place as sort of
lighthouse, and good many found their SAL
walton in those lights One bitter, blizzardy night
Jim Forbes whom many of the old timers will re-
call staggered against door, just about all in
after struggling with blizzard for several hours In
fact that thing became common that we were fire.
quenty hard put to make place for the belated tray-
elers to stay. In the end to discourage promiscuous
imposition, father obliged make charge very
much against his WILL for in those days hospitality
free and open, was the rule.
Il never ride through the west Farnam district now
but l think of the grand chances men overlooked in
those days. Why one time the late Judge WOOL
worth and some other men formed a syndicate and
offered us $4,000 for sixty acres in that sec.
ton was willing to sell, but the other heirs were
not on the theory that if the land was worth that
much to anyone else it was to us so the deal fell
through. When my father laid out the Griffin a
lsaacs addition, two blocks south of Farnam and west
Of Twenty-fourth, good many people said he was
crazy. But pretty soon some people began to buy
and build houses in that addition, and you know what
splendid development has occurred in that vicinity
in recent years"
Mr. Griffin asked why he don't live in the
city now, his home being just outside the limits II
have got so used to living i'm the country can't get
over the habit he said. 81 at home out around
the edges, although we are practically in town
when Gould Dez recently bought piece of property
belonging to a sister Of mine it kind of gave me a
twinge, because / set out every one of those walnut
trees myself and have seen them grow and flour
ish through many years they seem like old friends
But suppose the trees will have to 60 to make
more room for fine suburban homes. However take
as much pride as any old resident in the grand
progress made this city and hope to live to see her
count population Of 25O, 600, at least"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-12

Union Pacific bridge in the foreground and leading
TO city Of spires large blocks numerous homes
Two boats are shown passing each other on the river
with full steam up, and along the bank are several
long warehouses; with trains Of cars pulling out from
alongside
70 quote the optimistic writer again: cit is
with us frequent pleasure to devote an hour to
reYere in which the leading incidents twenty years
become developed from shadowy ambitions and homes
into the sharply defined realities of material pros
perty and beauty" 1t would be difficult to better
mat today; or this: Western energy is the grand
developing solution under which the silent prairie
landscape becomes animated with tho hustle of
thousands diversified with pleasant homes costly
blocks spacious halls, schools and churches
and musical with the constant ring of hammers the
hum OF machinery, and the rumble of trains Omaha
hoids the key to all the mighty it enjoys world
wide celebrity and only regards it's present position
as vantage ground from which to wage a more sue
cessiul struggle for power and wealth" And today
this forecast and claim has been realized in the most
striking way.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-12
New Cook Wagon for the Army

A wagon in which the rations for troops can be
cooked while an army is the march and delivered
within few minutes after halt has been ordered
has been devised the result the researches of
board of army officers, who were appointed by the
United States War department one year and half
ago to plan perambulatng kitchen which should
meet the strctest field that could be imposed
upon it and would also satisfy all needs of an army
on the march in actual times says an article in
Popular Mechanics.
Captain Frederick w. Stopford, post commissary
of the Preside San Francisco. on whom fell the
active work of devsing the cook wagon, toled un-
ceasingly for year and a half and it is under his
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-12
When Nebraska Was a Territory.

Looking at a picture of the principal business
and residence section of Omaha taken about 1866 or
6S from the site of the present Bee building in the
foreground is the house that occupied the
site of the Paxton block. When erected it was some
building" to use a modern term; but it did not last
long. Looming up with the early temple of justice
is the old church, of the painest type which stood
where the present Peoples store building just north
of the United States National bank. A picket fence
holds the immediate foreground point which would
strike the west line of the Omaha National bank
building today. All over the old picture are shown
small sheds, barns and Outhouses which vanished
years and today the ground is covered with
costly and ornate business blocks
Business buildings considered worthy of pic
toral presentation in the earlier city directories were
the clothing store of NJ Hemau & Co.. Thirteenth
and Farnham; Elan Clark & Son, Dodge and Four
teenth; Dewey Stone, 1S7-S9 Farnham, now 11l5-
II Farnam; the twostory building then occupied by
the Union Pacific and American Express offices next
west of the Dewey Stone building; the Odd Eel
lows block. still standing Fourteenth and Dodge.
{. C. Housed & Co, forwarding and general commits
sion merchants, who also handled soap. candles
apples, cider, vinegar, ETC." and advertised they
would trace lost goods at moderate charges"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-12
Not Easy to Swallow

At the wonderful electrical show in New York
George b. Cortelyou said to a correspondent:
This show is incredible. The things we see cleo
trcity doins here are incredible the well-known
story of the prairie owl"
The prairie owl?' said the puzzled correspondents
why, yes, The bird that never loses sight of
you, you know western drummer was describing
the prairie Owl in the smoking of a hotel.
" 1t never let's you out of its sight he explained
You gallon round and round and round IT, but ia
viii sit still ana turn its head slowly and follow all
your movements
Rot cried an eastern drummer impatentIy.
II it did that it would twist its head on
" SO it does the western drummer answered
I've often killed them that way but they're not good
eating"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-12
Waste Places Now Bcautifully Adorned.

Portable dwellings.

Which would 80 to show, perhaps better than
anything else, the remarkable advancement of Omaha
from country village to of the foremost cities
of the land. In the days when the Willard Rose
water, Saunders Gaylord, and other homes were built
so far up town to be on the western edge, he
would have been a sanguine enthusiast, indeed who
could predict the day when the hills and gules sim
farther west would be leyeed and filled to that de-
gree where some of the most elegant mansions in the
whole western country have found there most eg
ible and attractive building sites The late Captain
{, II, Downs Dr. Lowe, Sam Bayliss General Sam
Curtiss and one or two others had controlled the
townse, but they thought of extending IT with
the wide and president sweep the modern real estate
boomer would give to such proposition
In those days the principal street of the town
was known as Fornham street with the n" I'm III
and it is spelled in the city directory for 1S76-77
The Milton Rogers store, just now being torn down
to make way for the new Woodmen of the World
building was designated in the old directories as 243
Farnham street Mr.. Rogers took possession of the
lot about forty-eisht years and the building now
disappearing has stood the site for forty-wo years
The picture OF the home formerly occupied bv
the family Of Thomas Kennedy, at Sixteenth and
jackson, was taken before Sixteenth street was
graded, when the top OF the hill on that street was
about at Jones' block The Kennedy home
stood the test OF time for almost thiry-ve years but
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-12

On other pages are found pictures of the store of
Pundt' Meyer Raapke grocers PIP Farnham; the
Boyd pork packing house" corner South Chestnut
and Second streets This predecessor Of the present
immense packing plans is shown on the river bank
with loading platforms built therefrom and an old
time side-wheel steamer taking on a load for down
river points. There we're three buildings the pack
ing house proper, the smoke house and the provision
warehouse
whole page was given TO an illustration of the
then new postoffice and custom house now the
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-12

finally had to give way to the march of improvement
Mr. Kennedy's heirs have just finished the build
ing of the handsome structure which is the home
of the Union Quitting company. The tintype from
which the cut made is, of course reverse view
1t taken from the front yard of the former home
of Peter E. Her, which moved away in the fall
OF 1909. In its day theIler home considered
one of the finest residences in Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-12
Old Mz2lY R0cERS .3zDE- ,SEG0RJAdE1RKan

Army building and the Creighton block still standing
on the northwest corner OF Fourteenth and Dodge.
The old brick high school building now about to be
torn down, also given a page illustration and for
those days made a surprisingly handsome showing
Private dwellings pictured in the 7Os as typical
of progressive Omaha were the homes of Herman
Kountze, head of Ninth street south OF Pierce" the
home of j. H. Lacey, northwest corner of Twentieth
and Chicago, afterward bought and improved by the
late John A. Creghton the residence of the Catho-
lie bishop, adjoining old St. Philomenas the home of
c. w. Hamilton, i'm what then Hamilton Place
Twentieth street south of st. Mary's avenue pic
ture was also presented of the First PRESBYTERIAN
church. very much it appears today, even with the
small building just north showing behind the church
The late DR.. S. d. MERGERS, American Surgical
institute" was also shown, being located lG2 Far-
ney street. 1t had staff composed of Drs Mercer
A Parker, J. c. Denise, William McCianand L.
b. Arnold and Theodore Banner, the latter German
consulting physician"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-12
OId.Timer,s Pen Pictnre.

Presenting the other side of the picture of the
growing days of Omaha is the tale of men like Joel
Griffin who has resided here since 1856 There
wasn't much promise of glorious things about Omaha
during my boyhood," said Mr. Griffin "or during the
young manhood of a good many Yet we all felt
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-12
"Cities of Enchnnfment.n

The history of Omaha" says the old chronicIer,
while just of qualification and pride to its
inhabitants, is but illustration among many of
that wonderful western growth which brings cities
into existence if by enchantment."
Bearing out this statement is a view with the
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-12


XAT be called to dinner by the ringing of
i WV the good old bells of blessed memory
49, those the days when the corners
HSENESSB occupied by towering buildings
SSa@e4s&SJ furnished space whereon to erect com
Portable dwellings
There is not a prominent corner in the metro
potan city it looms today but was occupied by
the home Of some early citizen of modest substance.
Some of them lived to the development
they dreamed of, but others did. Among these is
Senator Joseph H. Willard He presides today in
palatal bank, standing the very spot where his
home was for many years The home itself as will
be noted, quite pretentious for those days and
still stands, good deal altered and improved, at
Twentieth and Harvey streets
I'm those days the built-up portion of Omaha
ended about Eighteenth street." said Senator Mil
lard Above Seventeenth street very few buildings
were to be seen. The home OF Edward Rosewater
was on the where the Bee building now stands
and A. ]. Simpson had built hill which occu-
pied the place of the present court house Dr. Enos
Lowe, a brother of Jesse Lowe the first mayor had
the grand house of those days 1t stood where the
Bennett store now is, and considered about the
finest mansion in the west. do not know what be-
of it.
AT Eighteenth street where the city hall now
is, was the home of Governor Saunders before he
went north to build. Rev. Reuben Gaylord
pioneer pastor had his home in a deep depression
whore the Mcconnell garage stands That hole must
have been as much below the present grade as the
court house site was above it, and understand the
caves of the old court house building about fifty
feet above the sidewalk And it may be interesting
to recall that when the old house built it
was considered a palatia building Some of the
bonds issued to pay for it still outstanding and
here we are building a million dollar structure to
take its place"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-01-12
BOY BANDITS KILL OFFICER
Porter and BeIIboy Hold Up Street
Car and Shoot a Policeman
at Duluth.

Duluth, Minn.-William Muzzary
and Algot Johnson, each nineteen
years old, bellboy and night porter of
the Hotel Mckay, turned bandits Fri
day, killed a policeman, held up a
car and are being sought for by the
police.
The two men held up and shot at
the night clerk, bound and gagged two
other men in the hotel basement and
escaped with $50 belonging to the ho-
tel. They we're arrested and placed
on a street car after a chase through
the interstate bridge district.
While being taken back to the city
they asked that they be allowed to go
inside the car. When the request was
granted one of the youthful bandits
drew a revolver from a pocket that
had escaped the attention of Police
man Harry Chesmore, who had made
the arrest, opened fire on that officer
and killed him. Chesmore was shot
twice in the lungs and once in the
forehead. The robbers then held up
the passengers and crew Of the car
and escaped.
AS the bandits are heavily armed,
1t is feared that when their place of
concealment Is discovered there will
be a battle.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-01-12
SON SUCCEEDS FATHER
Gov. eIasseoek Appoints to Fill Va.
eancy-Estate Probated.

Charleston, w. Va.-Gov. William e.
Glasscock appointed Davis Elkins, Of
Morganton, oldest son of the late
United States Senator Stephen B. FL
kins to succeed his father in congress.
The appointment will hold coed merely
for the time that elapses between the
appointment and the action of the leg
islature that makes the choice of the
new senator.
Davis Elkins is S5 years of age, and
the president of the Morgantown and
Kingwood Railroad Co. He has shown
his power and ability in politics TO
such an extent that for some time he
has been the real handler of his fa-
ther's political fortunes.
The will of the late Senator Stephen
B. Elkins has been probated. The
West Virginia Trust Co., DAVIS Elkins
and Stephen B. Elkins, Jr., were made
co-trustees under the will. The estate
will amount to between $12,OOO,O0O and
100000 at conservative estimate.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-01-12
REBELS DIE
9ANoRENE, sUNsTRoKE AND
sUFFocATIoN CARRY OFF
IS MUTINEERs.
DEMISE OF ALL IS SUDDEN
Riots Due to Political Dissatisfaction
Reported In State Of Para-GoV-
ernment Exercises Rigid Censor.
ship Over All Dispatches.

Rio Janeiro.-Forty-fou members
Of the recent naval revolt, including
Joao Candido, their leader, have died
suddenly" in prison, according to the
journal do Commercio In it's issue
Friday.
Candido succumbed to gangrene
while a prisoner, twenty-six of his as
sociates died from sunstroke while
engaged in repairing the fortress on
Cobras Island and eighteen others
we're suffocated in their cells in the
prison on Villegainon Island.
When the latter of the two recent
naval revolts in Brazil was put down,
three weeks ago, it was announced
that the mutinous sailors had been
sent to states remote from Rio ia
neiro, where they would be employed
in the construction Of highways and
railroads, The mutineers had surren-
dered, and 1t was officially announced
that the disorders were at an end.
There are persistent rumors Of dis
turbances in the State Of Para, on the
north coast, due to political dissatis-
faction. Rioting is said to have oc-
Cured at Para.
Nictheroy, the capital Of the State
of Rio Janeiro, and situated across the
harbor from the federal capital, is un'
der martial law, and the troops oc'
cupy all the public buildings.
The rigid censorship maintained by
the government since the revolt In
the navy was put down makes 1t i'm
possible to confirm officially these
rumors of rioting at Para and else
where in the republic. The censor
ship includes the newspapers here.
Washington.-The report from Ric
Janeiro that the forty-five ringleaders
In the recent revolt in the Brazilian
navy had died suddenly" aroused In
terest, but caused no surprise in this
city.
The recent naval revolts at Rio
were particularly humiliating to the
Brazilian government, end the sudden
demise of Candido and his associates
bas been looked for. These men cap
tured two of the most powerful Of
modern battleships, dominated the
city with the 13-inch guns and forced
the government to grant the reforms
the mutineers demanded.
1t is feared here that the "sudder
death" of these sailors may yet cause
serious trouble to the big South
American republic.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-01-12
INDICT DYNAMI7ERS
TWENTY-FIVE INDICTMENTS RE-
TURNED IN LOS ANGELES
TIMES INVESTIGATION.
CHARGE WHOLESALE MURDER
Names Are Withheld Until Arrests
Can Be Made-Understood Not
More Than Three or Four Are
Named In Bills.

Los Angeles, Cal.-The grand jury
in the Los Angeles Times explosion
case Thursday returned % indict-
ments.
More than forty witnesses, the ma
jority of them identified with the
union movement, were summoned
from San Francisco and other cities.
1t is not likely that the names of
any Of the indicted will be made pub
lie until after arrests have been made.
1t is believed a number of San Fran
cisco men have been indicted.
Wholesale murder, the outcome Of a
dynamite plot, is understood to be the
charge set forth in all the indictments,
but it is thought that not more than
three or four men are named in the
true bills.
The return OF the indictments was
the elimination of disaster that ex-
cited the people of Los Angeles to a
degree that for a few days bordered
almost upon panic and resulted in the
offering of rewards aggregating almost
100000.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-01-12
BILLS TO CURB RAILROADS
Member of the Missouri Commission
Prepares Measure for the Legis-
ature's Enactment.

Jefferson City, Mo.-H. R. Ogles-
by, a member of the board Of rail-
,oad commissioners, has issued
statement in which he outlines bills
the board will ask the Legislature to
pass at this session. These give the
commissioners more power in regu-
lation Of the railroads. Among these
bills are the following:
To give the commission more power over
express companies to prevent charges in
excess Of printed tariffs and to give cities
of certain class free delivery.
To prevent railroads and express COM
pancs from holding claims an unreason-
able length of time.
TO prevent railroad companies from
delaying freight an unreasonable length
of time iH transit.
For the weighing of coal by the rail-
roads at the destination to prevent the
shortage on shipments of coal in open
cars.
Mr.. Oglesby believes the legislature
will increase the powers of the com.
mission.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-01-12
LIMIT SET ON PREPARATION
INTERSTATE COMMERCE BODY
LAYS DOWN NEW RULE.
Declares That Rebates for Unjust
Rates VIII Not Be Allowed In
All Cases.

Washington. - The Interstate Com
merce Commission has laid down
new rule to the effect that the
awarding Of reparation will not nee.
essarily follow the reduction of a rate,
whether it be don. by the voluntary
action Of the railroad or through an
order of the commission.
For several years each reparation
case presented to the commission has
been determined on the facts ad-
duced at the hearings without refer
ence to any rule of practice Of the
commission. On account of the i'm
mense number of reparation COM
plants filed by shippers, it has been
deemed necessary that certain general
principles be laid down. These prin-
ciples are presented by Judge Glenn.
ents In the case Of the Anadarko Cot
ton OIL company against the Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe railway and other
carriers.
Cottonseed oil is a large product OF
Oklahoma. Much of 1t is shipped by
rail to Galveston, Tex, for transship-
ment by water to various ports of the
world. BY the terms of the decision
handed down the rates on cottonseed
oil are reduced materially from points
in Oklahoma to Galveston, the reduc-
tion amounting to about four cents a
hundred pounds, approximately 16 per
cent. The existing rates were declared
to be unreasonable and definite rates
for the future were fixed.
No order is made by the commits,
sion, but the carriers are given 80 days
in which to adjust their rates in con
formity with the opinion of the com
mission. Reparation, however, is not
granted in the case. although 1t was
prayed for by the complainant.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-01-12
"REDS" DIE In FIGHT
Six Die After Shooting Eight in Battle
List of Injured Is
Iona.


London.-In pitched battle in the
heart of London Tuesday six an
archist were slain, three police Off
GERS, three civilians and two soldiers
were shot and a number of tiremen
injured.
The anarchists, armed with rapid
firing guns, and barricaded in their
quarters in four-story Sidney street
building, fought 1900 policemen and
two half companies of soldiers, as
we'll as squad of artillerymen, for
hours.
They were driven finally, to the
roof. The building had been set on
fire, either by the police to Smoke
out" the suspects or b. the men them
selves to avoid capture. When the
supports burned the roof fell, and the
anarchists fell into secthing furnace.
The dead anarchists are believed
70 have belonged to a band that was
plotting to kill King George v. during
his coronation ceremonies.