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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
Flynn Cleans Many
Miles of Streets

Street Commissioner Thomas Flynn has
completed the tabulation OF the years
work in his department. His jurisdiction
extends over l45 miles OF paved streets
and alleys. Under resolution of the city
council passed early I'm July, 2,2l2 blocks
were cleared OF weeds at an expenditure
OF $500, or an average OF A cents per
block. This work was done between July
II and August g. Previous and suisse
quent to these dates, however about
$500 blocks additional were cut by the
department 767 loads of dirt and refuse
were gathered and hauled away on
cleaning day." April 49, the day set
apart by the mayors proclamation for
citizens generally to clean up.
There were 1866 loads used in wash
outs, 2,326 loads used in sidewalks, 12i
loads used IN crosswalks, 1l,lS3 used in
round-ups, and 435 loads OF cinders put
where they were needed, all at cost
OF {2i. 100
There were 1T728 blocks cleaned by
hand and machine brooms, 2l,9n intersec-
lions cleaned, 23,H6 loads Of dirt and
sweepings removed from streets and
allays and the department is at present
engaged in cleaning the crossings Of
snow and ice. The total cost of the
Cleaning department for the year, in
GLIDING cost OF maintenance, etc, will
equal the amount allowed by the
| charter, $4,000.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
Asphalt Plant Uses
the Old Pavement

The city asphalt plant produced during
tho year 1911, 4,730 boxes OF asphalt sur
face, which, II laid one and one-half
inches thick. would equal 3O,SO3 square
yards. BY actual measurement 2S. sos
square yards were laid In the various
street repairs and street cut work with
the use Of only aO9.5 tons OF refined as
phalt This result was obtained by the
addition OF certain percentage OF old
asphalt taken from resurfRced streets,
crushed and mixed with the new surface
material thereby utilizing and reviving
the bltumen OF the old asphalt as well as
the sand and cement filler used in the
surface mixture. These repairs were dis
tributed over the entire asphalt pave
ments representing about fifty miles. or
more than an area Of 100000 square yards
OF paved surface.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
MANY NEW STUDENTS
ATTEND HIGH SCHOOL

With 225 Eighth grade graduates plan
ming to enter the Omaha High school
next term the total enrolment at the
school will be increased to nearly 24O0.
For the year ending today the report
shows that 2,157 students were enrolled
at the school during the year and that
the average daily attendance was 1854
OF this number some 800 students would
not have attended the school had IL not
been for the new two-year commercial
course which was introduced in Septem-
Der. The total number Of students taking
commercial work at present reaches
nearly 800
The additions to the faculty since Sep
TENDER are James +. Knots, commercial
respondence and rapid calculation; George
correspondence Mary Quinlan, type
writing; Lloyd Bertschi, commercial cor
Fisher. commercial reviews, and Miss
Sackett, English literature and Latin
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
Six Miles of Sewer
Built During Year

A sewer was constructed last year 20
drain Bemis park and district adjacent
and the West Dodge street section Of the
city. This was one Of the most impor-
tant and difficult tasks accomplished. The
completion OF the new southwest branch
Of the South Omaha sewer extending from
Twentieth and Poppleton TO Hanscom
park Is now practically complete.
Two other important drainage jobs were
the North Omaha tile drain, extending a
distance of S,772 feet from Carter lake and
draining the lowlands and ponds between
Sherman avenue and the boulevard and
from Ames avenue to a point opposite
Miller park.
Altogether there were Ga miles Of con
tract sewer work, sanitary, storm and
combined sewer. constructed. costing
Sl43 700: storm sewers were built at a
cost OF $40 700 TO the city and 500 TO
individuals.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
Financial Statement
Of City of Omaha for
This Year and Next

Although provision was made for an
expense OF Sl,O0GOOO in conducting the city
government in 1911, S1.O9S. mass was spent
the excess over the allowance in the sew
erai funds being accounted for by lawful
incomes from other sources. Expenses
for 1911 exceeded those OF the preceding
year 5000, However. the estimates as
submitted by departments for 1912 will
II held within these estimates, decrease
expenditures in 1912 $4,000 as compared
with the actual expenditures in 1911. Sew
eral improvements I'm departments, pur-
chase OF new supplies and arrangements
for new methods have increased expendi-
lures, but will, city officials assert, mean
a decided saving in 1912. Following is
the condition Of the city finances at the
close OF the year:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
IOINTH .N,o3I II-N- TOINTN ...|T0N I'I0N
The birth record Tor the last y years
Many More Cases
Filed Than Have
Been Disposed Of

Comparative figures FOR 1910 and 1911
on disposition OF cases IN district court
shows that the Judges OF the district
court had good reason for planning
revision of rules OF procedure so as to
transact business more eNpeditously.
The total number Of cases disposed OF,
except criminal cases, last year, was
1874. while i,7G3 new cases were started,
The court fell behind just 3S9
Following arc the figures on disposition
OF all civil cases except divorce actions:
Adjudlcated. Dismissed. Total.
toii - abg 9gl S68
1910 - dQ5 4g Ql4
In 1911 there were filed In district court
outside OF criminal cases, 1893 cases. or
these 1862 were personal injury damage
actions, asking amounts ranging from
81 900 to $4,000 and totaling S,Si9,SOo' 515
were for divorce; SAC for miscellaneous
causes. In 1910 l,7ii suits were filed; $50
were for Divorces $50 for personal injury
damages and 81 for other causes.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
CONSIDERABLE GRADING
DONE IN OMAHA LAST YEAR

During the last year s9.O44 lineal feet
OF new curb was set in Omaha at a cost
OF Gl,15l.4S.
In grading. 316,2l4 cubic yards OF work
was done, costing S7iS95.2l, which makes
total grading, not including grading
done by property owners at their own
expense. OF 100000 cubic yards costing
about 81, TS0. 900. a.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
BERKA MOST PUNCTUAL
OF THE C0UNCILMEN

A record Of the number Of times each
councilman was absent from meetings
was kept during the year by the city
clerk and the records follow Bridges.
26: Brucker, 3; Burmester, 10; Davis, q;
Funkhouser, p, Humme, Z; Johnson, 20;
Kugel, 6; McGovern, 4, Schroeder, l6;
Sheldon, IL Berka, 2.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
HEALTH DEPARTMENT HAS
MADE MANY INSPECTIONS

The city health department, fighting
for a more sanitary city for twelve
months, accomplished the following, in
spectlons being repeated at regular inter-
walls: l. 40 samples OF milk and cream,
200 bakery tests, 81 Of them three times;
cracker factories, candy kitchens, 700
head horses and mules removed, s5 cows,
500 dogs and cats, candy factories were
Inspected.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
Activities Of City Administration for 1911 Make Remarkable Showing
Births Exceed the
Deaths Record by
Almost a Thousand

The number OF births in the city FOR
the year exceeded the deaths by nearly
thousand. There were 2,616 births and
the deaths totaled 1850 Tor the twelve
months. January, 1911. was the high
record month in deaths. 2SS dying dur
ing the month. In August the deaths
were isO. the lowest FOR the year Fol-
lowing Is a table Of the births for the
years 1910 and 1911.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
SCHOOLS ARE FORGING AHEAD
Manual Training Extended and
Physical Director Named.
ADDITIONS ARE BEING BUILT
In Addition 10 other Innovations
Two-YcRr High school CONNER
cIaI Course Has Been Es-
tnbIishcd,

Unusual progress was made in the city
schools during the last year. A new
superintendent and new principal OF the
High school have been chosen and have
improved upon the work Of other years
in a noteworthy degree.
4 new wing at Windsor has been COM
pletsd, the Edward Rosewater school
built, wings at Monmouth Park and Cen
trail and CASTELAR, schools are in course
of construction.
Manual training has been extended 70
the Park and Edward Rosewater schools.
A supervisor Of physical training has
been appointed and has directed ath-
letics and he has put the manual train
ing system upon a practical and result
producing basis.
In addition TO these improvements and
Innovations a two year High school COM
mercial course has been established
Following is a summary Of the years
enrolment, which has made n healthy
increase over the preceding year and Is
greater than for any previous year:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
Real Estate Deals
Less Than Year Ago

Comparison of real estate transfer fig
ures for the year 1911 and the year 1910
show a decrease of 81, O9S, $50 for last year
The reports on mortgages for last year
do not differ materially from those OF
1910 The reports as furnished by the
office OF the register Of deeds and the
Daily Record follow:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
English Secures
Many Convictions
During Year 1911

County Attorney James p. English's re-
port of the criminal business of his office
Tor last year, excluding some trivial mat
ters, is as follows
CONVICTIONS.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
4 Fortunate Tenn.

L. w. Goodloe, Dallas, Texas found a
sure relief for malaria and biliousness in
Dr. Kings New Life Pills. Only 2jc. For
sale by Beaten Drug Co.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
Building Records in
Omaha for the Last
Twenty-Five Years

Following is a table, prepared in the
office OF the building inspector, which
gives succinctly the work In that depart
rnent since its establishment in June,
1886.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
Total
Cupid Loses in the
Race with Divorce
Court During 1911

Cupid loses on the divorce demon ac-
cording to comparative statistics on mar
riages and divorce in Douglas county in
the last two years. The number of mar
riages decreased by la. The total num-
Der of divorce cases disposed of in
creased from aga TO 52l, The number OF
divorce DEGREES, however, increase but
eleven. while the number of dismissed or
abandoned divorce suits were up forty-six.
Divorce Record.
The figures on disposition of divorce
cases in district court last year, furnished
by NJ. G. Macleod of the office of the
clerk OF the district court, compared
with those Of 1910, follow:
Innrrnnr nlarniasnla Tntnle
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01

Figures OF Charles A. Furay. cashier
and marriage license clerk in the office
OF County Judge Leslie, on marriage
licenses issued last year and in 1910
follow:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01

The receipts for the park fund amount
to $55,114H. Road fund receipts aggre-
gate $s2,IS72S. The park bond fund was
t5e, O00
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
COMMISSIONER CROWLEY
LAKES ANNUAL REPORT

Gas Commissioner Crowley makes the
following report OF the work done in his
department for the year:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01
REPORT OF COLLECTIONS
SUBMITTED BY SELMUDER

License Inspector Selmuder has issued
the following Licenses during the year, In
addition to collecting $3.50 dog taxes;
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01

Totals ......1,Os2,2 S6 sl,Os5,ll4 &LO76l OS
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01

In these cases 80 persons were involved.
New criminal cases filed during the
wear were as follows
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-01-01

CONVICTIONS.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS MINI. SATURDAY. MARCH 1912
TIGERS
Inhabitants of corean-Manchu
Border in Constant Terror.
Villages Visited Almost Daily by the
Beasts and Absolutely Disregard
the Efforts Of the Poorly Armed
Natives to Kill Them,

Observation-Disclosures from the
Corean-Manchu border bring startling
tales of the activities of the Siberian
tigers in that locality. According to
an English writer, who just has re-
turned from an extensive trip in that
region, the natives live in constant
state OF abject fear for their lives.
Some Of the villages are visited al
most daily by tigers, who, with an alb
solute disregard of the efforts of the
mildly combative natives and the
dozen or two small spears and arrows
that eventually, porcupine quill fash
lon, decorate their rough hides, smash
in hut doors and proceed to devour
everybody in sight. Unable to get
within striking distance of live prey
these tigers will visit the graveyards.
The natives of the smaller villages,
with their primitive arms, being pow
erless against these man-eating
beasts, big battues are organizing in
Seoul and are sallying forth in an eff
fort to rid the country Of the "noxious
vermin.''
Hunting tigers along the Corean-
Manchu border is not the child's play
that trailing similar beasts in India
has become. There is none of the
difficulty and evaporation of having
to deal with small army of native
heaters; for, unlike the jungle tiger of
Bengal, who sleeps away the day and
pounces by night on his prey at drink
Ing places, the northern beast is at
his fullest activity by day. Instead of
having to stea', from the security of
an elephant howdah, with a sleepy,
surprised creature that covers, alarm
ed by the heaters, from the path of
your ponderous mount, one is out to
encounter a thoroughly well-awake
brute, ravaging the open countryside:
and you are, if you follow the Russian
custom, afoot. One may rely on the
element of sport beng we'll to the
fore.
Well, ted, we'll exercised, long, 1.-the,
taWny and glossy, the Siberian tiger
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
Skull 10000 Years Old.

At the time of finding the fossil Mr..
Woolley considered it nothing more
than a stone of unusual form and
structure, and took it home to his
children, who have called it their In.
dian doll baby. The features In the
fossil are very distinct, the mouth be.
ing especially large In proportion to
the other features.
DR.. Curlette said in discussing the
fossil:
t'This fossil was found in a stream,
and the action Of the water upon it un.
doubtedly accounts for the reduced
size, and to some extent the deface.
ment of the features.
I'm studying the fossil remains Of
this human skull wondered whether
the person upon whose shoulders once
rested this head was not killed by q
blow Of war club in the hands OF
some warlike enemy ages ago, for !
noticed upon the side Of the head an
indentation as though blow had been
struck there which broke the skull"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02

hood as boatmen, towpath walkers and
assistants; while today there are only
3S boats in service on this, one Of the
few canals in this state still used for
freight purposes.
Although Capt. Reppert was not
then employed as a canal boatman, he
easily remembers when, IN 1849, the
first steam barge called 'Experiment,"
came all the way from Wilmington,
Del, through the Delaware river, and
thence piled through the waters of the
Schuylkill to the coal regions, carry
Ing on the return trip lis tons Of coal.
He remembers when the first large
steam barge, known in 1852 as the
Daniel P. Shenfelder, was built at
Reading and carried coal down the
Schuylkill into the Union canal, and
finally found its course all the way to
Albany, N. Y. This boat. had ca
pacity of 1852 tons. ...............
He also recalls the packet boats
that carried passengers from Reading
to Philadelphia and return. They left
Reading at o'clock every morning
and arrived in Philadelphia at
o'clock in the evening. There was a
relay OF horses every 10 or IL miles.
The boats were known as the Planet
and the Swan. A year later, in 1847,
other packet boats were put in serv.
ice, carrying both freight and pas
sengers.
When Capt. Reppert started his life
as a tow-path trotter, the smaller canal
boats were still in use-boats 10 feet
wide, 40 feet long and carrying frope
rs to 30 tons.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
A Siberian Tiger,

is the finest wild beast alre. The
further north one goes the better spe-
cimen of tiger one meets, till one
comes eventually to the pink of per-
lection, the super-tiger, on the hinter-
land of Vladivostock. He is as phys.
ically superior to the Bengal tiger as
the wildcat is to the domestic pussy
cat.
A Bengal tiger-in fact, any sort of
tiger in a mild climate-has a thin
pelt; it is sufficiently warm for him.
But in the cold climate, where there
is constant exposure, as in the Oosoo-
RE, to a winter temperature of 20
degrees below zero, the fur becomes
so luxuriant that you may plunge
both hands out Of sight in it. The
Siberian tigers pelt is worth nearly
twice as much, commercially, as that
Of the Malay branch of the family.
A Siberian tigress runs to only
about ESQ pounds. The biggest Ben
gal tiger encountered rarely will ex-
coed 400 pounds. The Siberian tiger.
however, often runs to $50 pounds and
even 600 pounds.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02

There live peculiarly sensitive "Wet.
termenschen" (weather mem, whose
whole nervous system is affected by
thunderstorms. On these tea, coffee
and tobacco, taken during a thunder
storm, act with extraordinary force,
and the most moderate dose of alco-
hol, which in clear weather would
have no effect, produces violent agita-
ton, and even temporary paralysis.
A second type of weather man is
the "snow man." we'll known to nerve
specialists. Shortly before snowfall
their eating, feeding and sleeping are
entirely deranged; and they are thus
able to predict a snowfall more surely
than can a meteorologist with all his
instruments. Snow men" are rarer
than thunderstorm men," Both
quickly recover from the weather ef-
fects, and even feel better than they
did BEFORE
In addition to weather, man reacts
to an enormous number of external
stimuli, some Of which are far off, in
tangible and even concealed from the
senses. Light has precisely the same
attractive effect on men as it has on
Insects. The word "moonstruck" is
not figure Of speech, but a reality.
Moonlight has a marked effect upon
sleepers, and is the main cause Of
somnambulism. The changes Of the
moon produce precise organic effects
upon certain lower animals, and man
is also liable to be moonstruck.
Water, though, at a distance and in
visible, affects the nervous system and
makes some men conscious of it's ef-
fects. Hence the "divining-rod" is a
reality. The underground water real
ly does cause nervous twitchings Of
the water-seeker's hands, and this sets
the rod oscilalting. In the same way
OWNERS Of hidden coal, ore and other
mineral treasures are quite honest. 1T
is established that there exist sensi.
tive men, whose psychical condition
is affected by the composition of the
soil underneath, though of this COM
position they have no knowledge"
And even astrology has a. basis of
truth. The changes Of the earth in
its relation to the consultations in
volve changes Of gravitation (which
causes nervous disturbances and thus
operate on the BRAIN" In a. scientific
sense no man is therefore Independent
of the stars and planets
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
RECALLS BUSY CANAL DAYS
Quaint Phases Of an Old Canal Boat
mans Many Unique Experiences
Up tho SchuyIkill Valley.

Auburn, Pa.-Boating on the Schuyl-
kill canal continued this winter for a
longer period than some of the very
Oldest canal boatmen can remember.
At least this is what Capt. Henry Rep
pert, a retired boatman, says, and he
ought to know, for he served 40 years
as boatman, and cultivated some Pc
culiar traits. He recalls incidents
that occurred on the Schuylkill canal
when there were 1000 boats plying be-
tween Port Clinton and Philadelphia.
and when $500 men earned a. livelt-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
enforceable Banknotes,

Paris.-It is remarkable tribute to
the 100-franc $500 banknote issued in
1910 by the Bank of France that the
first attempt to forge one Of them has
only just been reported.
The notes are printed on back and
front, are complicated and artistic in
design, and in four colors-blue, pink,
black and yellow. The paper is pre-.
pared with the greatest care, and
every time a chemical discovery is
made likely to hinder the work of a
forger it is incorporated in the print
ing of the banknotes.
Since 1889 there have been only six
attempts to forge the $40 note, three
attempts to forge the 50-franc ($1O)
note, and one attempt to forge the
1,000-franc $4,000 note, The Bank OF
France, unlike the Bank of England,
does not destroy all banknotes when
returned, but puts them into circula.
ton several times. It is only after
about three years use that, tattered
and torn, they are burned.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-03-02
BODY IS BAROMETER
Specu|ations Regarding Effects
of Surroundings Upon Man.
German Professors Paper, Entitled
THE Geopsychic Phenomena" Has
Made Great Stir in European
~s Scientific Circles.

Berlin.-Prof. w. Hellpach, of
Karlsruhe, has published the results
of the first all-round inquiry ever
made into the problem: "How far are
the brain and temperament of man
dependent upon natural surround
ings?"
His report, entitled "The Geopsychic
Phenomena" has made a great stir in
scientific circles, owing to the bold
theses of the professor, who depicts
humanity as a mere vitalized barom-
eter, which reacts necessarily to the
stimulus of external forces, but has
little independent control over it's
own movements.
Landscape, says Hellpach, Is of in
hnitely greater Importance than eli.
mate in forming national character.
The idea that climate is more import
ant is a delusion. "In the United
States the fantastic mountain world
OF the great west will in time create
a different and much more imaginative
race than that which exists in the
level east and south. At present
Americas population is too much in
state of flux to allow of this difference
being determined, but the change is
going on America will thus in the
future have two populations of entire
ly different psychical inclinations and
characteristics.
Professor Hellpach gives a whole
series Of facts to show man in his
capacity as barometer. His activities
depend upon weather fluctuations.