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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES At
WEEPING WATER ACADEMY
Rev. r. t. Rouse of Omaha Delivers
Commencement Address-SiIver
Jubilee of school.

WEEPING WATER, Neb., June s.-(Spe-
ciai)-The Weeping Water academy COM
mencement exercises closed last night with
the alumni banquet. There were fourteen
graduates and five post graduates. The
Congregational church was filled with peo-
pie to listen to the program OF the grad
uating class. In the afternoon the trustee
dinner proved TO be one OF the most brill
liant entertainments ever held in the city
One hundred guests were banqueted. Mrs
Lucy Fiske acted as POSTMASTER and among
the speakers were G. w. Noble and Rev. F.
T. Rouse of Omaha, Mrs. NJ. NJ. Butler.
Principal John Hall. Miss Anna Carlson
and Rev. J. H. Address Of Weeping Water.
Rev. F. T. Rouse delivered the COM
mencement address Wednesday night TO a
large audience.
This is the twenty-fifth year OF the
founding OF the academy and students in
all parts Of the world have been gradu-
ated from the institution.
The following is the class roll: Frances
NJ. Amick, Albert S. Anderson, Helen d.
Buck. Rosa F. Cline. Leslie L. Kunkel.
Harrison Miller, John W. Norris. Vera e
Richardson. Jesse NJ. Rome, Elizabeth F.
Rough. Mime l. Stutt, Marion " Tucker
Emily S. wolph. Stuart b. Rough
The academy post graduates are Vera NJ.
Baldwin, Ray Clark. Rudolph Hart, Mary
C. Jameson, Florence Wilkinson.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
E. E. Brown Last Will
Upheld by the Court
District Judge Stewart at Lincoln
Makes Ruling to This
Effect.
lFrom a staff correpcndentl


LINCOLN June 9-CSpecial lin the
matter Of Jennie f. Brown against o. w.
Webster. administrator of the estate left
by the deceased husband Of the plsintiff.
Judge Stewart today sustained the de-
murrer Of the defendant which means that
the will made by the late Erastus z. Brown
while on a visit TO Indiana and only few
days before his death will be upheld and
that the contract alleged to have been
made in 1886 between the two cannot be
enforced.
After his death two wills we're filed for
probate. one dated in 1895 beaueathing all
OF his property Of every description to his
wife. The other had been made at Angola
four days prior to his death. BY its terms
all Of his property was left to five of
his nieces and nephews. subject to a life
estate OF his wife in certain Lincoln real
estate and also bequeathing to her the in
come during her life. from certain bank
stock.
Mrs. Brown at once began an action in
district court TO compel the specific per-
Torrance of a contract alleged to have
been entered into between herself and hus-
band in 1896. at which time she had 80 900
and he had but 1900 Her money was
turned over TO him and was used by him
until the time of his death. He mingled
Il with his estate, investing II as his own
and sometimes taking property in her
name and sometimes in his own. No
account was ever kept. In 1895 they entered
into a contract by the terms Of which each
was TO make a will, leaving all of the
property Of which he or she might die
seized to the other. The wills were made
and at that time Mrs. Brown had property
worth between 5000 and 5000 in her
name while Mr.. Browns holdings were
worth from 5000 to $1,000.
Mrs. Brown declared that she had kept
her part Of the contract and asked the
court to compel the estate of the other
party to carry out his part and at the
same time declare the Indiana will void
Notwithstanding the fact that the In
diana will only gives the widow life
estate in certain properties, she will re-
ceive one-half of the entire estate, she
electing TO take under the decedent law
rather than under the will. This law gives
her one-half of all the property, both real
and personal. there being no children.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10

piece of land in Richardson county. which
is known as an Indian allotment The
land which is in contention is a part of
the reservation occupied by the Iowa and
Sac and Fox Indians and is under the
charge Of the superintendent OF the
Kickapoo school at Horton. Kan. The
recent ruling Of the authorities at Wash
ington that leases to this class of land
are not valid unless approved by the
secretary of the interior was not complied
with in this case and furnishes a basis
for the ejectment proceedings which were
filed against the Richardson county man
today.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
FOOD COMMISSIONER JACKSON
REAPP0RTI0NS TERRITORY
VIII Look After Egg Business
and kimbaII 20 stock Food
and seeds.
CFrom a stan Correspondent

LINCOLN. June ESPECIALLY deputy
State Food Commissioner w. r. jackson
has called in his inspectors for the purpose
of reapportioning territory and work for
the food commissioners department. In
spector Hsrnly has been assigned to look
after the egg business and to stop the sale
OF bad eggs II possible. He Is instructed
TO give every one square deal. from the
producer up to the largest wholesale dealer
and shipper In the state. Inspector Kimball
will soon devote his time TO commercial
stock food and seeds The drug inspector
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
Nebraska

would not be proper TO charge a lower or
different rate 10 one party one and one
half miles distant from the corporate limits
OF the city. because he happened 10 live
adjacent 70 an established pole line. than
% another party living the same distance
from such city where no such pole line
exists for the same class OF service.
In the matter Of Discrimination in favor
Of the Bellevue subscriber BY the defend
ant company il is sufficient answer 10 the
contentious OF the complainant to state
that the 100 or more subscribers Of the
Bellevue exchange using South Omaha ser
vice are furnished such service over one
circuit, while the complainants herein re-
ceive such service over one, two and four
parry lines respectively.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10

The values OF the franchise and the roll
ing stock as fixed by the state board
was as follows in 1910. this years values
not yet having been determined upon:
Missouri Pacific, ssS2; Union Pacific,
s., ~; Northwestern. 81. As; Omaha, Lincoln
& Beatrice railroad. 1878; Rock Island,
Sls.SOO; Burlington, tls,24. Total assessed
value OF Lincoln's share of the rolling
stock and franchises. 1854
Real estate values have changed hardly
at all. according to the figures of the
tax commissioner. The basis Is a fair in
dex OF the returns on city real estate, ex-
elusive of any new construction that may
have resulted. These are the actual
values.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
DEATH RECORD


Mrs. J. Z. Warwick. aged % years. of S06
South Forty-eighth street, died Thursday
morning after an Illness OF twelve days
from an abscess of the lungs. She is sur
vived by her husband. Norman w. War
wick, assistant foreman Of the Updike
Lumber and Coal company. and an infant
child The funeral will be held from bod
der's chapel at ? O'Clock Saturday after
noon Interment will be in Forest Lawn
cemetery
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE
IN SESSION AT LINCOLN
state Central Organization Meets TO
Name Place for Holding State
Convention.
CFrom a Staff Correspondent

LINCOLN. June s-CspeciaL)-T repub-
hcan state central committee met here to-
night TO select a place for the state con-
vention. which will be held July &c. TO ap
portion delegates among the various coun-
ties and 10 select a temporary chairman for
the state convention.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
HALF-MLNUTE sTORE TALK

you are wish the TO
neghbO There be asked
thing buy
merchandise marked
plain might almost be
other business rgdy
equality rights This
service This is
faithfully fu promise
deep n your you that kind a
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
shooting Match at Columbus.

COLUMBUS. Neb.. June S-Cspecial.)-
Friday and Saturday Of this week the
big A. league. composed Of Missouri Okla
homa. Nebraska and Kansas. will hold
their summer shoot in this city on the
grounds OF Gottschalk farm The Column
bus Gun club is looking after the shoot.
and they expect at least 100 shooters to be
in attendance. Dave Elliott OF Kansas City
is secretary Of the league and he will
score the shooters.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10

MINDEN. Neb.. June s.-1speciaL)-The
wheat crop is very much injured by the
lack of rain and the crop probably will be
the lightest in many years.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
order Has GeneraI Effect.

NJ was conceded by the complalnants at
me nearing that their complaint should
rest upon the ground of discrimination as
against them and in favor of the Bellevue
supScrlbers; that the basis Of MILEAGE
rates charged by the defendant was sub
stahually the same as that charged by
All telephone companies in Nebraska and
that before an order could be entered de-
Iermining reasonable and just schedule
OF extra mileage charges. a general inves-
ugatlon and hearing should be had in
Which all telephone companies Of the state
might be heard and an order in the prem
Uses made applicable to each and every
cfmpany.
The ruling OF the commission is as fol-
H. The eompIainants herein. residing
from one TO one and three-fourths miles
ifom the city limits Of South Omaha, and
~ close proximity 10 an existing pole line
FSetv cen defendants South Omaha and
Bellevue exchanges are receiving single
party, two-party and four-par;y line serv-
Ice at south Omaha residence rates. plus
an additional mileage charge per quarer-
mile or fraction thereof of ~ cents per
month. on singie-party metallic circuit q
cents per month on two-party metallic cir
cult, and IL cents per month on four-party
metallic circuit; held. that the facts de-
Neloped upon the hearing fail TO sustain
complainants contention that said extra
mileage rates are unreasonable.
? The furnishing OF Omaha and South
Omaha general zone service to the rs
subscribers OF the Bellevue exchange, dis
tant about five miles from the South
Omaha exchange, who are trunked over
one circuit. at a net rate OF s. 50 per month
TO singie-party line and g per month to
two-party line subscribers. does not con-
sttute an unjust or unreasonable discrimi-
nation in their favor, as against COM
~ ainants
Rural patrons Of a telephone ex-
change. located AZ equal distances from
the city limits of an existing exchange.
should receive equal service at equal rates.
The fact that one patron or class OF pa
irons live in close proximity e an ex-
listing pole line connecting two exchanges
in neighboring towns. does not justify a
lower or different rate 10 the patrons so
situated.
The opinion o the commission says:
Attorney or the compliments contended
that inasmuch as the pole line OF the de-
PENDANT between South Omaha and Belle
Vut exchanges lay IN close proximity to
the residences OF the various complainants
the expense OF furnishing service TO COM
plainants involved merely the stringing of
a few additional wires. and that the extra
mileage charge therefor was exorbitant.
II n clear to the commission that no
weight or special consideration should be
Civ n TO such a contention, and that IL
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
vladimir AIcCune.

Vladimir McCune. the I5-year-old son. Of
c. W. McCune, night editor of the World
Herald. died Thursday night at his faher's
residence, 80 North Twenty eighth avenue
from prOfuse heInorrhage Of the nose,
which developed several weeks ago. The
youth sustained bad fall while exercising
in the Young Mems Christian association
gymnasium two years ago and II IS sup
posed the effects may have supeFinduced
the illness which caused his death.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10

Persistent Advertising is me Road TO Big
Returns
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
SUIT TO EJECT Mr.. PARSONS
Government Brings Suit TO Dust Man
from Indian Land in
Richardson.
lFrom q SAX Corresnondentl

LINCOLN. June s-(speciaI Assistant
United States Attorney A. W. Lane today
filed a petition in the federal court praying
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
Whent Med. rain.

win be assigned TO work in the larger
cities and towns OF the state.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
NJ. AIbInn ;. nrLemrrer.

GUTHRIE. OIL, June s.-Mrs. Albina
Bekemeyer. who was acting governor OF
Oklahoma territory on several occasions
died here early today. In the territorial
days she was a confidential clerk of Gov
ernor Barnes, Governor Ferguson and
Governor Franz. Mrs. Bekemeyer was a
pioneer newspaper correspondent and was
the wife OF Otto Bekemeyer. local news
paper man
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
For Five Dollars

We will put a wonderfully
good suit on your boy. Made
from all wool Cheviots and
Cassimeres, in Tans, Greys,
Blues and Mixtures. Coats
bottom faced. serge lined and
have hair cloth fronts. Two
pairs of full linen lined, peg
top Knickerbockers with belt
straps. Better see them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10
Nebraska
PHONE COMPLAINTS DROPPED
Railway Commission Takes Action in
Bellevue Case.
HOLDS EXTRA RATES REASONABLE
Rural Patrons of an Exchange
Located at Equal Distance from
City Limits shouId Get
Equal Service.
lion q $40 Corrcsnnnaent }

From Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN. June a-tSpeciaI)- THE State
Railway commission has dismissed the
complaint Of former Senator w. r. Patrick
ana others who live IN the country near
south Omaha and who alleged that the
Nebraska Telephone company charged an
unreasonable mileage charge and that the
telephone rates given to Bellevue sub
scribers was discriminatory as against
complainants- The opinion Of the commits
sion was written by Commissioner n. T.
Clarke, jr
The charges paid by the various parties
plaintiff are as follows:
LoWrie Childs pays per month for
single party general zone service Oln-
limited connection with $500 sta
Large gong attachment in ward ......... 70
Extra mileage, one mile from city
MINUS y cents per quarter Of mile. Isl
.Total;....................................slS7
peSri B. Brown and / J. Carpenter pay
Hteioa z z3ps ssoSs ionmited con-
from city limits. . cents per Quarter
OF ............................1 80
Total. .............................s3Oo
Ciaud Orchard paws per month for
four-party South Omaha zone service
unlimited connection with 400 sta
Extra mileage. one mile and a half
from city limits, II cents per quarter
OF mile.......... .......................... LOe
,,,,,,Totsi;;;.....:......,................s2Os
william r. Patrick and Roy Sweeney
pay per month for four-party South
omaha zone service UNLIMITED con-
necuon with 400 stations). net. 49,. 81 %
EAua mileage. one mile and three
quarters from city limits II cents per
quarter OF a mile. ...............,....'...1 10
q Total 81 70
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-10

The Key to the situation-Bee Want Ads
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-09-23
FRENCH LOVE OF DRAMATIC
National Trait illustrated by Story Of
Soldier Who Was Carrying
the Pardon,

When Marshal MacMahon was
president of the French republic, an
incident occurred which aptly illus
trates the French love of what is
dramatic.
A French soldier sat on the summit
OF hill overlooking a garrison town;
his horse was picketed close by; the
man was smoking leisurely. and from
time to time he glanced from the
esplanade to big Official envelope he
held in his hand.
A comrade passing by asked. what
are you doing here?"
~ am bearing the presidents par
don for our friend Fl,chmann, who is
to be shot this morning" replied the
smoker calmly. without changing his
comfortable attitude.
Well, then, you should hurry along
with your pardon" admonished his
comrade.
"Ah, no." exclaimed the other, in
some indignation. See. there is hard
ly soul yet on the esplanade, and
the firing platoon has not even been
formed. You surely would not have
me rob my appearance of all dramatic
effect, my friend."
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-09-23
landor Poems Found,

The Walter Savage Landor exhibit
tion at the London library is of great
interest, comprising portraits, manu-
scripts and first editions from the i'm
portant Landor collection of S. Wheel
er. says the London Times
The most interesting of the literary
relics is volume of manuscript poems
and corrections by Landor which he
himself described on a slip of paper
(here preserveD as "sweepings from
under the study table" The papers
in this volume were taken from Lam
doris writing desk more than thirty
years after his death.
Some of the poems are unpublished,
and in other cases there are to be
found the original drafts of lines
which appeared in print in an altered
form. Other documents include a will
written by himself in which he be-
queathed pictures to Robert Browning
and Mrs. Lynn Linton.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-09-23
DOLLAR AN ANCIENT WORD
Heard in the Language at Least 800
Years Before II Was Used
in America.

The word dollar" was in our Ian
guage at least 800 years ago. for it is
used by Shakespeare several times,
says Harper's Weekly. 1t is supposed
that the word was in use in London
in the latter part of the sixteenth
century, having been brought in by
the North German merchants. who
managed the trade on the Baltic and
in Russia.
Dollar" appeared first in an Eng
lish dictionary in 1745. II is a bor-
rowed word. being the German thai
er." The coins issued by the mint IN
Joachimsthal were called Joachim
thalers." When other mints were es-
tablished, the "Joachtms" was dropped
and the coins were called simply thai
ers'
The dollar was adopted by congress
as the unit of our currency on August
5, 1885. 1t was to contain 1854
grains of pure silver: but when the
mint vas established, in 1892, the re-
quiFeul,!.s WIS reduced to 371.25 grains
Of bGsl I've. The coinage of dollars
began in 17.i.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-09-23
War.
war.
able characteristic oI

One inevitable characteristic OF
modern war is. that 1t is associated
throughout. in all particulars. with a
vast and most irregular formation of
commercial enterprise. There Is no
incentive to Mammon- worship so re-
markable as that which it affords. The
political economy OF war is now one
OF it's most commanding aspects.
. Even apart from the fact that
war suspends, ipso facto, every rule
of public thrift, and tends to sap hon
esty itself in the use, of the public
treasury for which it makes such un-
bounded calls, II therefore is the
greatest feeder OF that lust OF gold
which we are told is the essence of
commerce, though We had hoped it
was only its occasional besetting sin.
w Il. Gladstone.
II aaven and earth shall pass away.
but that which thinks within me
must think for ever; that which feels
mus. feel: | am, and I can never
cease to be.-James Montgomery.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-09-23
VERY RICH NEVER GENEROUS
They May Give Away Their Money.
but Never Themselves. Says
G. K. Chesterton.

There are two other odd and rather
important things to be said about
them. The first is this: That with
chance of a lucky variety in types
which belongs to larger and looser
aristocracies. The moderately rich
include all kinds OF people-even
good people. Even priests are some
times saints; and even soldiers are
sometimes heroes. Some doctors have
really grown wealthy by curing their
patients and not by fiattering them:
some brewers have been known to
sell beer. But among the very rich
you will never find a really generous
man. even by accident. They may
give their money away, but they will
never give themselves away; they are
egotistic. secretive. dry as Cd bc-e-.
To be smart enough to get al tha.
money, you must be dull enough 10
want it.
Lastly, the most serious point about
them is this: That the new miser is
fiattered for his meanness and the
old one never was. 1t was never
called seif-denial in the old niiser that
he lived on beans. II is called self
denial in the new millionaire if he
lives on beans man like Dancer
was never praised as Christian
saint for going in rags. A man like
Rockefeller is praised as a sort OF
pagan stole for his early rising or his
unassun7ing dress. His simple"
meals. his simple" clothes. his
simple" funeral. are all extolled as
II they were creditable to him They
are disgraceful to him, exactly as dis
graceful as the tatters and yermin of
the old miser were disgraceful to him
To be in rags for charity would be the
condition of a saint; to be in rags
for money was that of filthy old
fool. Precisely in the same way. to
be simple" for charity is the state
of saint; to be "simples for money
is that of filthy old fool OF the two
have more respect for the old miser
gnawing bones in an attic-G X
Chesterton in London Daily News.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-09-23
Mechanical Lightning Calculator

The clerical staffs OF many OF the
big insurance companies have Of late
years been considerably reduced by
the employment of mechanical calcu-
lators.
One of these, the invention Of Ger
man, is a compact little affair resemb-
ling music box. 1t may be made to
perform almost instantaneously the
most portentous sums in addition,
subtraction, multiplication by one or
two factors. division. squaring and
cubing. 1t is required. for instance, to
mulsply 531,975 by 924. The first
factor is set by touching little knobs
representing 531,975.
To multiply by the other factor you
turn handle four times. push long
slide one place and turn the handle
twice, then push the slide another
place onward and turn the handle nine
times. The long multiplication is now
done without the possibility of error
so far as the machine Is concerned
and the dial shows 491, ,144.9O0. In the
same mechanical way may be done all
the other arithmetical processes. 4,
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-09-23

to mention Low Bridge and
every man present instinctlvely
ducked his head. Each had been a
canal employee. No doubt their
offspring would snub a man that
was employed in this low occu-
patton which their parents fol-
lowed 1t is hoped that this
wonderful woman will find all
She expects among the French
men iuasmuCh as she cannot tind
a cultured American. There IS
but one real aristocracy and that
is the aristocracy of intellect.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-09-23
Notice Of Adjustment Day
Estate of Richard Richards. Deceased

Estate Of Richard Richards. Deceased
The undersigned, having been ap-
pointed Administrative Of the estate Of
Richard Richards. late Of the County
of Clear Creek. in the State of Colora-
do. deceased. he reby gives notice that
she will appear before the County Court
of said Clear Creek County, at the
Court House in Georgetown, in said
County. on Tuesday the 18th day OF
October. A. D., 1911, at the hour of l
O'Clock P. NJ. of said day, At which time
all persons having claims against said
estate are notified and requested to at
tend for the purpose If having the
same adjusted All persons indebted
to said estate are requested to make
immediate payment to the undersigned.
Dated at Georg etown, Colorado this
10th day of September. A. D. 1911.
EMILY MARY RICHARDS.
Administrative of the estate of Richard
Richards deceased. Sept. q Il
ROYAL K GRAHAM, ..ttorney.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-09-23
Red Spruce Lumbe,

SIS copper Thousand feet
l. dge ard Mining timbers 4 special
ty- For quick delivery Phone Black
653 c. l.. Lamb.