Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-14
HAPPENINGS In
THE MAGIC CITY
Students of Nebraska Agricultural
College Will Visit Yards
Monday.
PREPARATIONS TO ENTERTAIN

Preparations have been made for the |
entertainment Of $50 OF the students OF
the Nebraska University College Of Ag-
r,cuture when they arrive Monday for |
their annual visit to the stock yards and
packing houses. After they have spent |
tho day in looking over the modern meth |
DDS now being employed In the marketing
OF stock and the preparing Of the same
for the consumer they viii be entertained
by the stock yards interests at o'clock
in the Exchange dining room at com
pllmentary dinner.
The menu which has been prepared IL
indeed a novelty. the various dishes 20
be served actually representing at least
dozen states. The tomatoes for the
soups have been shipped from Florida,
the celery from Utah. seallops from Mary
land olives from California, radishes
from Texas Nebraska furnishes the tur-
keys. Massachusetts, the cranberrlcs for
the sauce, Virginia the sweet potatoes.
Louisiana the head lettuce. Java the cot-
| fee. the cigars from Havana and Omaha
tae candied minis. ice cream and cakes
A special train Will leave Lincoln at
a. M, arriving at the stock yards at
a. M. Monday. where q large corps OF
guides from the stock yards will meet
the visitors. escorting them TO the various
packing houses.
Alleged Confidence Man Held.
Representing himself; 70 be an agent
for a western stock raiser. II. Johnson,
who gave his address as Huron, 8. D.,
yesterday walked Into the office OF the
Cox -Jones-Van Alstone commission firm
and giving description OF half car OF
hogs which he claimed TO be half owner,
received S135 in cash money, Il is declared.
Before members OF the firm suspected
anything he had caught a orcSs-town car
and was we'll on the way to Omaha Inn
mediate use OF the telegraph and the
telephone resulted in the mans arrest
as he was getting off the cross-town car
at Txenty-fourth and Leavenworth
streets a few minutes later by Officers
Neil and Nelson OF the Omaha station.
johnson Is being held at the local sta
tion.
Leo Herman, former South Side man and
recently an inmate at the Norfolk hos
pital for the insane, was arrested last
evening at $40 o'clock by OFFICER Byrnes
He IL charged with having passed a
forged check for SIS at the Muskin gro
Gerry store, Twenty-fourth and X streets,
/
bought a small amount of groceries. He
was accompanied by young woman.
Herman formerly lived at AIS South
Twentieth street, which he gave as his
present address.
Athlete injured.
Bryan Nixon, center OF the local high
school basket ball team. sustained severe
injuries during the game with Beatrice
last evening. In the earlier part of the
second half he was thrown violently 10
the floor. He was helped from the floor
Weeks stock Receipts Heavy.
Receipts of live stock at the South
Omaha yards during the last week have
been very liberal, a total OF 2sY carloads
comprised of 2s,Si2 cattle. 1os.4S head OF
hogs and ls,72l head of sheep. having been
received. In point OF total carloads, as
well as total head of hogs. received dur
ing the week, the last weeks receipts
were the second largest in the history Of
the yards. having only been surpassed
once before, and that recently, for the
week ending January %, 1916. when total
OF 2,9SS carloads were received and the
hog receipts footed up 10o.2St head.
Death Follows Husbands.
Mrs. NJ. Fogle. aged IS years. wife OF
the late NJ. Fogle. STA South F1fty-flrst
street, who died Monday evening at their
home, died Friday evening at the home
following a two days illness. She at
tended the funeral OF her husband on
Wednesday afternoon and shortly after
was stricken, death resulting. Two sis
tiers, three brothers, six children and a
mother survive. living in Cleveland. O.,
her birthplace.
The funeral will be held in the earlier
part of the week. Mrs. FoRle was an
early pioneer of the South Side, having
lived here twenty-five years. She was a
member OF the West Side lnterdenomina-