Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-14

Davis. drugs
Corrigans. undertakers Phones iB
FAUST BEER AT ROGERS BUFFET
Majestic ranges p. G. De Vol Hdw. Co.
Woodring Undertaking company. Tel sS
Lewis Cutler. funeral director. Phone 81
Pure blackberry juice and virginia Dare
vine. J. J. Klein Co
Wanted Good boy to carry papers IN
west part Of city. CAL Is Scott street.
20 per cent discount on pictures. francs
and framing at Fauble's Art shop' S''
broadway.
Fryer Printing Co, new location. 292l ana
1913 w. Bway. Phones 20. Man anu P'''"
calls answered in person.
The = A. Pierce & Co suoe store Will BE-
open for business at their new iOJS'l nra
h33 West Broadway. between Feafl al"
Sixth streets, January lb.
Hans Hansen Of Harlan. Ia. and Miss
Stena Mattsen Of the same place We're mar
ried yesterday by Rev j. NJ. Nllhams OF
the Broadway Methodist church.
At O'Clock last evening J. M. Williams
married Ernest G.. Lawrence Of sioux CITY
and Miss Marie r. Jackson of Manila. The
marriage occurred at the Methodist par
sonage
Special to January 15-Best gold filled
frames, guaranteed for twenty five years,
fitted with best lenses for far or near
vision, s.. J. W. Terry, optometrist' All
broadway Council Bluffs. La.
II fair weather prevails for another week
Contractor Wickham viii complete the con-
crete arches for the new Eighth street
bridge. Three sections, or twenty-four rect
| OF the arch have been completed, and forty
/ three feet more remain to be done. Fhe
| ends OF the huge concrete tube have been
closed and the interior Is kept constantly
/ heated by coke fires.
| The Citizens Improvement club held
| a meeting last night In the city building TOT
| the purpose of considering the new phase
presented by the waterworks proDlem. IL
/ was discussed at some length by Alderman
| Younkerman and others, but no conclusions
were reached concerning the course to be
| pursued to insure the fullest advantage
| to the city OF the evidence to be submitted
to the appraisers court. 1t was decided to
! call a special meeting on next Tuesday
| evening for further consideration Of the
matter
William NJ. Hill, lsborer Of Manila, Ia,
filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy
| in the federal court yesterday. He places
his liabilities at s6l7,76, and his assets
which include his household goods and a
$40 watch, at $40, all of which he claims
as exempt. He lists In addition 5000 fra
ternal insurance, which is exempt under
the law. His obligations appear to be about
all in the shape of notes given to secure
store accounts for merchandise bought and
consumed in his family and on which In
each instance Il is specified no interest has
been computed. One other large Item Is
} S43 for newspaper bill.
The Board OF County Supervisors yester
day received entirely new sets of bids FOL
the county printing for the new year
: after rejecting those previously submitted
/ and upon which more than one day haC
been spent. They were rejected upon thu
grounds that they We're too indefinite II
: relation to the various items. Representa-
tiyes of the two bidders, the Monarch
Printing company and Morehouse & Co. whit
were present all the time the matter wa
, under consideration did not help much II
clearing up antiquities, but rather in
creased them. The acerbity of their dispo
stions was also slightly increased and whel
( the new set of bids were filed yesterda!
! afternoon slaughtering war on price
appeared to have been inaugurated o.
the face OF the bids there Is an apparen
| reduction of almost $1,000 In the price
named in the original bids The bids will b
considered at the meeting of the boar
today and the contracts awarded. Tn
amount involved will be about $1,000.
j Damages to the amount of 1853 were aske'
by farmers In various parts of the count
alleged to have been inflicted upon farm
stock by vagrant dogs Claims TO thi
famount were considered by the Board o
County supervisors yesterday morning
The damage Is said to have been inflicte
mostly upon sheep and young stock. Tn
tax returns show that only forty-seVe
dog owners have admitted ownership b
paying taxes, and there are known to b
about 400 dogs in the county. It wa
h stated before the board yesterday tha
= there was one township where 100 dog
: were counted. yet the assessors return
4 showed only one dog there. The board fe
d considerable reluctance toward allowin
. any of the claims, and there was an eS
- preston of opinion that it might be we
l. commandments and the golden rule an
cause them to be circulated, using the 81
for this purpose instead Of paying it owe
to fellows who swear they have no dog
r, The Board of County Supervisors yeste
ID day afternoon went down to the Nilsson
- river near the mouth of Indian creek Il
II the purpose Of viewing the newly col
r structed leyee erected by Contractor Kellt
+ for the Lewis township landowners wi
asked protection from overflows from Il
Is creek and river. The work has been con
,e pleted and the contractor has asked (,
n, final estimates. II was a good opportunit
:, for the board to see how this work Is beiT
ID done and IL also afforded them a chan,
Id to investigate the proposition OF form
IA County Surveyor Mayne to construct
obstruction across the east channel of Il
IN Missouri river TO defect the current
ls it's former course and prevent the destru
a. ton of lot more valuable Iowa farm
80 Maynes plan was TO stretch steel cab
re across the partial channel from the hei
90 of the island south OF the Union PRcli
bridge to the main land and anchor TO
a large number Of forest trees that wou
Z, catch and hold the silt and form a pc