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Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
Orchard & Wilhelm
Will Construct New
Seven-Story Plant

A seven-story building will be
erected for the Orchard & Wilhelm
company west of their present build
ing and facing sixty-six feet on How
ard street. The structure will be on
Hoagland property. The rear OF the
new building will connect with the
rear of the building now used by this
company.
Plans have been approved and it is
expected that the building will be
we'll under way during the coming
summer.
The first floor Of the building will
be used for general salesroom pur-
poses and the upper floors will be
used largely for wholesale furniture
stock rooms.
c. M. Wilhelm made this statement:
"Our business has increased 100 per
cent since we came into our present
building eleven years ago. Last year
the business increased IS per cent
Our wholesale furniture business has
outgrown our space and all of the
departments need more room. We in
tend to enlarge our house furnishings
and drapcry departments"
The new building will be 66x132
feet. the same dimensions as the old
building. There will be show win
dows in the Howard street end of the
building, but no entrance, for the pres
ent at least.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
Senate for Bill to Raise
Omaha Fire Chiefs Salary

Lincoln, March 5.-(Special. 1.-The
senate in committee of the whole to-
day recommended the following bills:
S. F. no. Adams of Dawes-Bill to al
low successful side attorney fees in suits
brought against railroads for live stock
killed on tacks
S. F. 1863, Adams of Dawes-Bill to al
low successful side attorney fees in suits
brought against railroads for fires set by
trains.
H. r, 81. jacobson Of Dawson--Bill to
exemtp licensed embalmers from jury duty.
s. F. 1854, Dancater Delegation-To en-
large salt Creek Draininge district to five
miles, either side Of creek, to include all of
Lincolns suburbs.
s. r. 1913, Tanner of Douglas--To increase
Omaha fire chiefs salary from $4,000 to
$500; assistants. S2,100 to $780, and a
new office, battalion chiefs. $1,000
s. +. 242, Bennett OF Douglas-Allows
county clerk 10 cents fee for each bond
registered.
s. F. 237, Albert of Platte-Legaizes pub
lie documents and instruments that have
been on file ten years.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
PLESTINA WANTS
TO MEET MR.. OLIN
Omaha Wrestler Will Be at the
Ringside to Challenge Finn
Thursday Night.
OFFERS $1,000 GUARANTEE

When John DIN, the huge Finn.
who styles himself the conqueror OF
Joe Stecher because of decision
awarded him over the Dodge phenom
last December in Springfield, Mass,
arrives in Council Bluffs to wrestle
John Freberg Thursday night he will
find one Marin Plestina right behind
him. Marin announced to the world
yesterday that Mr.. DIN is not going
to get out of town unchallenged.
Immediately after DIN earned his
decision over Stecher, Plestina wired
him an offer OF $1,000 guarantee to
come to Omaha, but DIN pleaded to
be excused at that time, because he
did not intend to come west until
later. Now DIN is in the west and
Plestina will renew his offer.
He will give DIN a guarantee of
81 900 and says he will be at the ring
side in the Council Bluffs Auditorium
with certified check for the amount
in his hands. He will also give the
Finn the privilege of a certain per-.
eeHtdSe oi TIC gate receipts.
Olin's avowed intention of the cur
rent western trip is to convince wrest-
ling fans in this part of the country
that his victory over Stecher was no
fluke. He has said he will wrestle
any opponent. IF he means what he
says he'll wrestle me-" declares Pies
tina. IF he believes he is Stecher's
master he ought to have no hesitancy
in meeting me-" -,.-. .-. ..'
In case Olin agrees to meet Pies
tina the match will be held in Omaha,
probably the latter part of this month.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
Huntington Adds /:
Extra Day to His
Handicap Tourney

dad" Huntington has extended
the period of his annual handicap
pin tournament to nine days instead
of eight, because of the unusually
large number of entries received
The tournament will be held March
10 to Is instead of March 10 to II.
This will provide two Saturdays and
two Sundays during the tournament.
A number of entries from teams
outside of Omaha have been received
already. Three teams have entered
from Manning, Ia, three from FIRE.
mont, one from Vail, Ia, and one
from West Side, Ia, little Hawk
eye town which doesn't even possess
an alley, but has a bowling team for
all that. Columbus, Schuyler, Sioux
City, Des MONIES and Lincoln will
also be represented in the handicap
tourney so the local maple smashers
will have to hustle to capture the
honors.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
Burglar Alarm at
Court House Sends
Police on Mad Dash

The clang-clang-clang of alarm
gongs sounded simultaneously in a
private detective agency's Office,
several watchmen's signal boxes and
at police headquarters at 7 o'clock
Monday morning notified the guar
dams of law and order that someone
was tampering with the delicate
mechanism of the burglar alarm sys-
TEN in the county treasurer's office,
where in vaults reposes millions of
the city and county's bonds and Sc
curities. Seeming a raid on this
wealth of Croesus, police, detectives
and watchmen rushed from all
points to the scene OF the supposed
trouble, expecting to find an army
of yeggs attempting to get at the
treasure. The regiment of yegg
hounds arrived at the main entrance
of the court house at about the same
time.
Dangerous-looking automatics and
long-barreled Colts glistened in the
early March morning as the sleuths
and harness cops" proceeded with
stealth toward the treasurer's Office.
They tried the front door. 1t was
open. All! All was still in the big
room. Then from corner near the
vault.a tap-tap and few thuds were
heard
AT EN-, men" beloved a red-faced,
flat-footed policeman, who was about
all out of breath as a result of his
dash to the court house. Hands up"
roared the sleuths in unison.
From out the shadows came the
most frightened man this side of
Mars. 1t was a lone janitor, clump-
ing his mop against the floor near
the vault. He let out yell. Don't
shoot. l amt done nothing"
Investigations and explanations
followed. In welding the instrument
of his trade--the mop-the janitor
had brushed against hidden wire
that set off the burglar alarm.
BAH" muttered the police.
ooh, ohw sighed the janitor.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
SHERIFF CLARK IS
SUED FOR ARRESTS
Legal Action Follows Raid On
Lakeside Resort-Ask for
Thirty Thousand.
JAIL FEED FEUD is STILL ON

Damage suits aggregating $4,000
were filed in district court yester-
day as a result OF the raid by sheriff's
deputies on the Lakeside resort, COM
monty known as Shay-shay's road
house, early last Saturday morning,
in which thirteen people were ar
rested and detained in county Jail
several hours.
Sheriff Clark and the Lion Bonding
and Surety company are named as
defendants, Each of the suits is for
$4,000, Frank Galloway, Robert
Woolf and Clarence Christopher, en-
ployes of the road house and who
were caught in the raid. being the
plaintiffs.
Seven other suits for similar
amounts are threatened in the next
few days, according to the attorney
representing the persons involved in
the deputy sheriffs' arrests at the
Lakeside resort.
Galloway, Woolf and Christopher
allege that the arrests were without
probable cause" They also assert
that they were not informed of the
charges placed against them while
they were detained in Jail. The sheriff
declares that the persons caught in
the raid were booked as inmates OF
disorderly house, while the attorney
for the persons who have already
filed suits insists that no specific
charges were placed against them at
the time.
What Records Show.
The records of the county attor-
ney's Office show that no complaints
have as yet been filed against Gallo
way, said to have been the bartender
in the road house at the time of the
raid and John Leonard, who, accord.
ing to Chief Deputy Foster, was the
proprietor of the place. The chief
deputy sheriff conferred with the
county attorney Saturday and after
wards announced that complaints
charging selling LIQUOR without a
license would be maze.
The so-caled feud sait to exist be-
tween the county commissioners and
Sheriff Clarl: has not abated. There
are two jail elevator operators, but
the jail lift and one used to carry
freight are run only part of the time.
mo Mans Land"
A strip of flooring near the en-
trance to the jail elevator on the fifth
floor of the court house has earned
the name Of mo mans land" Neither
the sheriff's deputies nor the elevator
operator appointed by the county
board venture on it. Jay Dudley, the
commissioners choice for operator of
the erra,ic lift, occasionally runs the
elevator from the basement to the jail
but the sheriff won't allow him to
step across the Threshold of the
outer door of mo mans lane"
Isaac Bailey. the sheriff's quasi-ap-
pointee for the job, is barred from
the elevators by the commissioners.
Commissioner Lynch says Bailey
won't be paid even if he does work.
Sheriff Clark's claim for the jail
feeding in January, based on the 80
cents day allowed by law, remains
Gisallowed. ..,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06


time may come when they will find
themselves again in the minority. 1t
was filibuster which Senator Cor
man, democrat, used many years ago
to defeat a force bill on negro en-
reimbursement and that fact never has
been forgotten.
Leader Is Lacking.
Some senator's do not regard a
fight over the rules at this time as
particularly opportune because they
say there is no one in the senate who
actually can lead a majority, no mat
ter what title may be given him and
whether or not the president puts
the power of his backing behind him.
There are sXten new senator's and
how they will stand on a cloture rule
nobody knew tonight. 1t is regarded
as probable that for the time being
they will for the most part line up
with their respective parties and ap-
parently their coming will make lit
tie difference in a rules fight.
If thirty or forty senator's are OPP
posed to change, since the senate
must operate under the rules that now
exist until it can change them, they
would be able to talk about as long
as the senate cares to stay in session,
invoking the very tactics which the
president wants barred in the future.
Martin for Leader.
Unless the rules fight comes up at
once, the senate probably will proceed
when the president returns for con-
frmation most of the l,400 nomna-
tons which failed last session. Few
of them will lead to prolonged dis
cussion except that of Dr.. Gary T.
Grayson, the presidents naval aide,
to be medical director and rear ad-
miral, which was fought in the last
session. The treaty to pay Colombia
$l5,0O0,000 for the separation of
Panama will lead to long discussion
if taken up, and since treaties must
be ratified by two-thirds vote there
is not great deal of hope that it
will go through.
About the first business of the eau
Gus tomorrow will be the selection
Of a majority leader. Senator Mar
tin OF Virginia is unopposed, the only
other candidate talked of, Senator
Walsh of Montana, having Withdrawn
a few weeks ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
Sport Calendar Todag

Base ball; Players Of the Philadelphia Ma
tional league team leave for the training
camp at st. Petersburg, Fla.
Automobile: Opening Of annual show Of
Fort Dodge Qa.) Automobile Dealers assoc
citation.
Basket ball; Eastern intercollegiate, CO.
lumbia against Princeton, at Princeton;
western conference, Indiana against Wiscon-
sin, at Madison.
Boxing: Tommy Gibbons against Silent
Martin, ten rounds, at New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
ASK Your Druggist About S.S.S.
He Has Sold It For Many Years

deserved, for S. S. S. is undoubtedly
the most thoroughly satisfactory
medicine that has ever been offered
to the public. 1t was first used by the
Indians, being made from the roots
and herbs Of the forest, for they knew
nothing of chemicals. S. S. S. is to-
day the same purely vegetable blood
remedy that the Indians made, guar
anteed to contain not a particle Of
mineral substance whatever.
S, S. S. is used with highly satisfac-
tory results for Rheumatism, Catarrh,
Sc-ofula, Eczema, letter. Malaria.
etc., while as a general tonic It's with
out an equal for building up the en-.
tire system. Write today for free in
formation about your individual case.
addressing Swift Specific Co.. IS
Swift Laboratory, Atlantic. Ga,--Adv.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
Moriarty Would Censure
Norris for His Action
(From a Staff Correspondent

Lincoln, March 5.-(Special.)-
Censuring of Senator George w.
Norris of Nebraska for his stand
taken in opposition to President Will
sons program yesterday, was the
subject of a resolution offered by
Senator Moriarty of Douglas county
in the senate thi, afternoon. The
resolution went over one day under
the rules.
1t is understood that there, will be
little opposition to the passage of the
resolution if the same includes the
names of LaFollette, Cummins and
the rest of the thirteen senators, who
were in the same boat.
However, resolution was adopted
under suspension of the rules, which
simply reafirmed the confidence OF
the senator's in the president.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
Every Druggist Knows That S. S.
Is Thoroughly Reliable.

There Is not a medicine on the mar
ket more highly regarded by the drug
gist than S. S. S. He has sold it ever
since he has been in business, and is
in personal touch with many who
have used it with highly satisfactory
results.
If you are in need OF a remedy for
any blood disorder, ask your retail
druggist his opinion of S. S. S. He
will tell you that this wonderful blood
remedy has. been on the market for
more than fifty years, and that he has
never known it to fail to accomplish
all that is claimed for it.
This is indeed most creitable rec
ommendation. yet 1t is in every way
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
Pierre Soldiers
Get Welcome After
Day in Snow Drift

Pierre, S. D., March 5.-(Special
Telegram.) - Company A of the
Fourth South Dakota regiment ar
rived home this afternoon after
spending last night and most of the
day in snow-bound train near Har-
rold, thirty miles east of here. They
arrived late in the afternoon and were
met by most of the population of
the city. A banquet at which leading
citizens extended greetings to them
was given tonight by the ladies Of
the city and ball at the auditorium
followed.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
Jones Is Given Option
On st. Louis Nationals

St. Louis, Mo-, March SAN OPP
ton on the St. Louis Nationals base
ball club was obtained by James c.
Jones, attorney for the club this aft
ernoon when he gave Mrs. Helen E.
Britton,. owner, a check for $4,000
as an earnest Of his intention to buy.
Mr.. Jones and associates have sixty
days in which to make a payment OF
$4,000. The total cost Of the club
will be $350000.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
Much Scarlet Fever
Prevalent in Nebraska

NfloW otdll SoITespoHueHt')
Lincoln, March 5.-(Special. AN
outbreak of scarlet fever over the
whole state of Nebraska, which is
more than usually affecting adults,
causing many death, is reported by
State Health Inspector J. D. Case.
DR.. Case last week was called to
Anselmo, Scottsbluffs, and Alliance
and Hemingford.
At Hemingford more than fifty
cases have been quarantined by local
health officers.
In Omaha the city health officer has
reported eighty-seven cases, but the
disease is not considered epidemic
there, since it is close to normal.
About thirty Nebraska towns have
reported the presence of scarlet fever.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
State House Notes

Lincoln, March 5.-tspecial.)- Private or
parochial schools cannot collect free high
school tuition nor can they receive money
appropriated for normal training In high
schools. This Is the substance Of an opin-
ion given by Attorney General willis T..
Reed to State Superintendent w. H. Glenn
mons at the latters request.
The state pure food commission, through
Inspector II. l.. Fillman. has prosecuted
John Buchta of North Bend on charge OF
selling beverage containing 81 per cent
alcohol. without the alcoholic contents so
indicated on the label. Buchta pleaded
guilty and was fined so costs.
Scores of requests for information on the
open season for waterfowl In Nebraska are
pouring weekly into the office Of the state
game warden. due largely to the confusion
occasioned by tho altered federal migratory
bird law which went into effect August 81.
1915. The Nebraska warden is sending out
cards which show that the open season in
Nebraska is between September 16 and De-
cember 81. Although the state law leaves
the open season until April s, this Is
superseded by the fe leral law, which con-
trolls.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
Busted Twin City Race
Track Sold at Auction

Minneapolis, March 5.-The Twin
City motor speedway, which has
been in receivers hands since July,
1916, was sold at auction today to
the Minneapolis Trust company, the
only bidder, for $250,000. Under the
courts order holders Of $350000
worth of bonds against the property
are given a year in which to redeem
it
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
Ten-Year Sentence for
County Clerk Hudson

Hastings, Neb., March 5.-(Special
Telegram. County Clerk Hudson
was given an indeterminate sentence
for forgery of one to ten years in the
state prison by Judge DUNCAN in dis
trict court this morning.
Judge DUNCAN had to be- in Red
Cloud during the forenoon to convene
the district court for Webster county,
hence the early hour of sentence.
Though transcript has been or
dered, it is understood that the de-
tense may not appeal. Hudson has
resigned and the supervisors will
move at once to appoint a new
clerk.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
Farmers Come in Their Autos
To Protest Good Roads Bill
(From a Staff Correspo

(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, March 5.-(Special Tele-
am.)--With the state house drives
lined with automobiles driven by the
farmers of Lancaster county, who had
come in to protest against good roads
building because they could not afford
to pay the extra tax, about 100 agri-
culturists stormed the house commit
tee on roads this evening and with
former Senator Dale as spokesman,
told why they did not want to be
taxed for the roads provided for in
the ePterson bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06

At the first sign Of cough or cold take
DR.. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey. You won't suffer
long. 25c. All druggists.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
Blame Put on Church.

Appealing to all not to let the fight
against the public dance die, Rev. Mr..
Savidge criticised the church by say
ing that "toda, it is neither hot nor
cold; it makes God sick and He will
spew it out of his mouth. 1t needs
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-28
NARROWED ON ISLE.
Commander Reports Rescue Of Msxi
can Women and Children.

Commander Reports Rescue Of Msxi.
can Women and Children.
The navy department made public
the report of the American warshir
commander who rescued from Clipper
ton island, in the Pacific. some time
ago, three women and eight children
who were the last remnants Of party
Of Mexicans who went to the island
with Captain Ramon de Arnaud OF the
Mexican army to develop its guano de.
posits.
For military reasons the names of
the American vessel and its commands
er were not made public. The conf
mander's report shows that the women
and children who We're rescued had
barely escaped starvation. while Cap
tain de Arnaud lost his life at sea in
the small boat in which he started out
for help and that other members Of the
party died Of starvation and scurvy.
1t was not until after the number Of
women and children left alive on the
island had been reduced to the limits
of the small supply Of cocoanuts that
the ravages Of scurvy ceased. For
more than two years these survivors
were forced, to subsist on the flesh and
eggs Of gannets and gulls and occa-
sionally fish.
The officers and crew of the warship
raised fund of $500 for the relief Of
the refugees, who have been landed at
a Mexican port.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-28
RED CROSS PLANS RESEARCH
Will Take Advantage Of Extraordinary
Opportunity In France.

VIII axe advantage OF extraordinary
Opportunity In France.
Announcement is made by the Amcri-
can Red Cross that its war council has
appropriated 100000 for medical re-
search work In France. This action
follows report from Major Grayson
NJ. P. Murphy, Red Cross commission
err to Europe, who cabled from Paris
to the national headquarters at Wash
ingtOn: ae
"An extraordinary opportunity pre-
sents itself here for medical research
work. We have serving with various
American units some of the ablest doc
tors and surgeons in the United States.
Many of these men are conducting
courses Of investigation which, If car
ried to successful conclusions, will re-
suit in the discovery Of treatments aud
methods of operation which will be Of
great use not only in this war but pos
sibly for years afterward. To carry on
their work they need certain special
laboratory equipment, suitable build
ings and animals for experimental pur-
poses. At present equipment and per-
sonnet cannot be obtained through or
binary government sources without de-
lay, which makes this source OF supply
quite impracticable."
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-28
To the American Poets

Comrades mine of Muse and Land,
When the wanton war drum sounded
And the world fell back astounded
At fate so lightly planned.
Heralds Of the Right in song.
Were you silent at the wrong?
Comrades mine of Land and Muse,
When the mailed and naughty giant
Crushed the weak but uncompliant
Did you falter which to choose?
Did the cult Of Art for Art
Halt the tempest of your heart?
No, you left your Joy untold,
Left Loves pondered rine impending.
Left unpraised the summers blending
Into roadside blue and gold.
What were Nature, Love and Song
In the presence OF such wrong?
At each Teuton perfidy
Trembled your swift lines with scorn-
ing.
I-owelrs vision, Webster's warning
Made you seers Of Liberty.
Others doubted: you OWNED
The awful cross Of humankind.
When the dragon. War, Is dead,
Though the haunting slain be counted
Like the stars, and grief hath mounted
Higher than the Jungfrau's head,
History shall search your song
To find the measure of the wrong.
BY Robert Underwood johnson Of the
Vigllantes.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-28
you CAN'T STOP GRIMES.
Lance Corporal, Wounded For Sixth
limo, Will Fight Again.

tbm0s VIII Gt9VS N8aVs
Lance Corporal Ernest Grimes has
been wounded again, his sixth time.
but says, "I'll soon be ready to go back
and do another bit" Grimes enlisted In
the regular army in 1910 and was
drawn from India when the little army
settled down to the first winter of
trench warfare. His first wound came
at hill GO. when he was hit by a hand
grenade fragment Five months in a
hospital was his portion. The second.
bullet wound in the arm, took six
weeks to repair. Last summer on the
Somme shrapnel ball hit Grimes in
the leg and put him away for two
months. and another grenade wound in
the back, suffered in the fighting at
Moquet Farm, sent him to the hospital
for the fourth time.
A man with four wound stripes is
usually retired into some noncombatant
JOB out of danger IL he is still OF some
use to the army. But Grimes thought
he could do more damage in the trench
es, so he went up again ard was
wounded in the foot by a shell st Les
boeufs.
His latest wound came In the big
push ut Messines. An explosive bullet
hit him in the left les.