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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-19

LIEUT.. RAY KASTENDIECK of the artil.
lery at Fort Logan IL. Roots spent the las,
two days with relatives and friends in Collins
vile and Tulsa, leaving Saturday for his
home in Billings Mo
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-18
DAYS OF THE HIGH
HAT AND "BUSTLE"
Illustrations in Old Book Re-
call How Our Fathers Looked
and What They Did.
SOME VIEWS OF OLD OMAHA
By A. R. GRoH.

Let's look at the quaint pictures IN
The Pacific Tourist" an old book,
published in 1876 as guide for tour
lists to the Pacific coast. The book
was loaned to me by 7. J. Fitzmor-
ris, and is, perhaps, the only copy in
existence. ts"
The ladies in the "engravings'
wear very full skirts and very tight
waists. The skirts being very straight
in front and very much loaded with
hustle" and pleats and ruffles be-
hind. make the ladies look as though
they were leaning forward at a dan
gerous angle You've seen pictures
OF them.
The gentlemen" wear tight "panta-
looms" and frock coats and seem to
spend most of their time reading
poems and conversing in serious and
solemn manner. They all wear boards
and high hats.
II know Il Ia a sin
For us to sit and grin
At them here.
But the funny. high silk hat.
And the frOck coat and all that.
are SO dueer'
Views OF Omaha.
A page of illustrations OF Omaha
shows the old postoffice, the old high
sehool, the oia Onioh Iae,hc piiase'
eoui,t oeiore .he one INA. was &c
centiy removed, me oiu uranu Ien,
tlai nosei aug = sene a yiem y
onana' consisting eh'ehy VI e'ouu'
any Trees.
mere Is picanle showing P1an y
schooner WIN rike Ieak Of DUST
panied on tne canvas Top; inc ivy
oxen whicn Grew II are iylng oead
pierced win arrows. 30 are rne 'wo
emigrants VINO rooe ~ u. Inc IN.
dians are riding swiftly away. Inc
picture is ehtltled bus!eo.
ne pony express rioer IS seen ~
anotner engraving riding along ano
waving ms cap 10 the men WHO are
setting inc potes ior tne trahsconti'
nentai teiegrapn me.
Inc racine express tram hyine
along AZ sixteen miles an hour, aP'
pears IN announcer picture =, majestic
,signt, says me author. Inc engine
mas one OF those enormous, harine
smoke stacks tnat were stylisn IN 10
comotive circles iorty years ago
Some Mere Laborers.
Driving the Last Spike in tn,
ans-Continental Railroad occupie.
full page. Two locomotives are
seen, facing each other. and man,
solemn gentlemen in high hats and
frock coats are present. Also some
laborers We know thew are laborcrs
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-18
Workmen to Build Temple
When Old Building is Sold

Stockholders of the Ancient Order
of United Workman Temple associa-
ton are among the lucky holders of
paper in Omaha, for the organization
owns its building clear, has money
in the bank and the paper is rated
above par by several dollars.
The Workmen are casting about
to secure buyer for the property
at Fourteenth and Capitol avenue, and
when they have sold their building,
undoubtedly will build a new home
on the property they now own at
Eighteenth and Capitol, the old
armory site.
The whole subject was gone over
at meeting OF stockholders Tuesday
night, when the report Of Secretary
J. S. Innes was read, and directors
were elected as follows: For two
years, ]. S. lines, T. S. Granville, J.
M. Baldwin, G. S. Sutton. DR.. J. S.
Follman and J. H. Bennett. Hold
over directors are c. A. Sherwood,
c. E. Reynolds, F M. Mccullough,
G. NJ. Schoheld. M. ]. Curran and
J. c. Bynum.
Officers will be elected at the next
meeting, February 9.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-18
LETTERS Thanks
0maha's Men for
Anti-Strike Work

w. M. letters, general manager of
the Union Pacific, speaking before
the Omaha Rotary club at the weekly
meeting and luncheon at the Hen
shaw rathskellar at noon, voiced an
appreciation of the Overland system
for the support OF the business men
Of Omaha and the state during the
threatened railroad strike.
The Union Pacific official declared
that many Omaha business men per-
sonally went among the employees
and counseled them against striking,
Mr.. letters explained to the Rota-
rians the new bonus and insurance
plan OF the railroad, which was an
nounced during the holidays.
L. Beindorff, city passenger and
ticket agent, acted as chairman. w.
X. Armstrong, former member Of
the Salt Lake City Rotary club, and
now engineer OF maintenance and
ways for the Union Pacific here, was
one of the speakers.
The Rotarians discussed plans for
attending the second annual Rotary
conference at Sioux City on January
28 and %. The Omaha and Bluffs
Rotarians will make the trip in a
special train. Four states and sew
eriteen cities will be represented at
the district convention.
As a greeting to Wilbur L. Bur-
CESS, president Of the Omaha Manu-
facturers' association and a fellow
Rotarian, who Is i'll at his home, the
members OF the club sent their bust
ness cards attached to a bouquet OF
American Beauty roses.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-18
Money to Be Cheaper in
This City After April First

At the annual election Of the Con-
servative Savings and Loan associa-
ton, the directors authorized reduc-
ton Of interest rate to 6 per cent on
city loans, effective April |. This will
apply to loans now in force. They
state that money is plentiful and
cheap.
The directors reelected George r
Gilmore president of the association
and Paul w. Kuhns will continue to
serve as secretary. William Baird,
A. W.. Bowman and Robert Dempster
were reelected for another term as
directors.
The officers reported an increase
for the year 1916 Of $1,469,332. Divi-
dends for the year 1916 were at the
rate OF sH per cent, amounting to
72,574.79, bringing the dividend dis
tribution to the stockholders of the
Conservative, since its organization
twenty-five years ago, to $3.50, 1874. 10.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-18
Wheat Receipts Here Light,
With Good Demand; Corn UE

While the top on wheat was $l.92H,
a half cent better than Tuesday, on
the whole, prices were a cent off. The
sales were made at $lS9@1.9219, the
bulk being around the lower figure.
There was good demand, but re-
ceipts were light, only thirty-four car
loads. A large quantity of the stuff
in storage was sold for export and
at prices 5 cents better than Chicago
May delivery at the seaboard.
Owing to the strong southern de-
mand corn was A@H cent up, selling
at 92A@93A cents per bushel. Re-
ceipts were seventy-hve carloads.
Oats sold "a cent up and at 53H
654A cents, with eight carloads on
the market.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-18

soothes Your Cough and Cold.
Or. Bells Pine-Tsr Honey soothcs the
raw spots, eases cough. kills cold germs, $50
All druggists
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-18
CITY OF OMAHA BED
IN WAR HOSPITAL
Franco Belgian Relief Society
Here Wants to Help Human
Repair Shop.
SURGEONS WORK WONDERS

A city OF Omaha bed in the Amer
lean Ambulance hospital in Paris is
the latest ambition of the Omaha
Franco Belgian Relief society. St.
Louis has endowed whole ward Of
ten beds, then why cannot Omaha do
one-tenth as much, reason the women.
This hospital is an American institu-
ton managed by American surgeons,
aided by American nurses, working
with the support of American money.
The most skilled surgeons devote
themselves to the very critical cases
without any consideration of the ma
tionality of the patients.
Miss Gertrude Young tells of one
young Englshman who had had his
lower jaw completely torn away by
shrapnel. He was taken to the
American Ambulance hospital and
there the surgeons worked with him,
taking a piece of bone from one part
OF his body, a bit OF flesh or skin from
another part and furnishing him with
set OF teeth, until finally they had
completely reconstructed the lost
lower jaw. When they finally re-
moved the bandages and allowed him
to look at himself in a mirror he was
so overjoyed that he walked from
mirror to mirror, grinning. When
the surgeon said that he would have
to put the finishing touches to the
work by sewing up the mouth little
because it had been left too large, the
man refused, for, said he, 81 have al
my life longed for large mouth, and
this suits me exactly"
Such cases as this have excited the
sympathy of generous Americans ali
over the country and of the members
of the Franco-Belgian Relief society
in Omaha. That is why they plan to
endow bed in the hospital at ar
annual expense Of 5000. To accom-.
modate any other organization OF
group of individuals eager to show
their active sympathy with the cause
the society has made arrangements
whereby Mr.. Ezra Willard at The
Omaha National bank will receive
any contributions, however small
which Omaha people wish to make te
the fund. These contributions will b,
duly acknowledged and forwarded tc
the American Ambulance hospital.
A brass tablet above the head o
the bed gives the names of the donors
and the successive occupants of tn,
bed are intensely interested in re
ceiving letters from those people who
have contributed to their relief.
Lieutenant Zinovi Pechkoff, who
comes to Omaha the last OF this weel
to speak before the Franco-Belgiar
society, the Omaha club and the Uni
| versity club about his experiences il
the trenches, on behalf OF the Ameri
can Ambulance hospital, was himsel
cared for in that institution. One O
the hospitals corps found him almos
dying on the battle field with his arm
shattered. Gangrene set in. He wa,
nursed back to health and to show
his gratitude in a small way he il
giving a month of his time to trave
over America in the interests Of thu
hospital.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-18
Wealthy Farmers Daughter Skips
From Home, Fearing School Exams
Beatrice knight Takes Trip to
South Dakota-Police
Get Her on the
Train.
DREW MONEY FROM BANK

The mysterious disappearance of
Beatrice Knight. beautiful l6-year-old
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs Arthur d.
Knight, wealthy farm folk of Irving
ton, has been solved, following
frantic search OF classmates, parents
and police. She was found on train
heading for Winner, S. D.. the home
of her uncle, Ed Knight.
Fear of impending high school
examinations which she was sched-
uled to take on the day OF her
disappearance is the only motive that
her parents and teachers of the
Benson High school can ascribe for
her sudden departure.
Tuesday morning, as usual, she
left her home in a buggy for school.
Instead OF going to school, she placed
the horse and buggy in livery barn
in Benson. drew 81 which she had on
account from the Benson bank, and
that was the last heard Of her until
she was located on the train.
The police learned that a girl
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-18
Aviation Students Begin
To Come to Fort Omaha

Recruits are constantly arriving
at Fort Omaha for instruction in the
aviation school that is to be put in
to operation there during the year.
Sixty men have already arrived from
the various recruiting stations
throughout the country, and gradually
the barracks so long abandoned at
the fort are beginning to show signs
of life. Lights fare from the windows
at night and soldiers hustle around
there at all times. Captain Chandler,
in command at the fort, says balloon
company will be organized as soon as
enough men arrive for aviation service
from the various recruiting stations.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-18
Guilds Throne is
In Fred Weights
Heart and Stomach

A true philosopher said that the
way to a mans heart is via his
stomach.
Fred Weight, IS years old, sue
cumbed to the enticements of Miss
Lena Bergson's cooking and didn't
care a whit because his bride-to-be
was more than twenty years his
senior.
Miss Bergson, who owns res
taurant at 703 Leavenworth street, is
So years old. A marriage license
was issued to the couple, Weight con-
hding to Cupid" Stubbendorf, mar
rage license clerk, that his future
wife was some cook"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-18
Unmarried Daughters Get
Bulk Of Mrs. Noonan's Estate

The Misses Margaret and Ella
Noonan inherited comfortable for
tunes because they happened to be
the only unmarried children in the
family at the time Of their mothers
death.
The will of the late Mrs, Mary
Noonan, who resided at 23ll N street,
South Side, which has just been filed
with the clerk Of the county court,
cuts off nine married children with
81 each and leaves the bulk OF the
estate to the other two daughters.
Mrs. Noonan owned several thou
sand dollars worth Of real estate on
the South Side.
The following three daughters and
six sons receive requests Of 81 each
by the terms Of the will; Mrs. Ann
Crowden. Mrs. Mary Griffith, Mrs.
Bridget Gaynor, John Noonan, VIII
liam Noonan, Martin Noonan, Patrick
Neonan, Thomas Noonan and Michael
Noouan.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-18
Indian Chiefs Going East
To See Great White Father

Nintcen chiefs from the Crow In
dian reservation In Wyoming are en-
route over the Burlington, going to
Washington, where they will seek a
hearing before President Wilson and
the Interior department, relative to
lands that they have heretofore ceded
to the government, claiming that there
are some deferred payments that have
not been made. They are travelling
in special sleeper and will be in
Omaha Saturday. N
Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-18
No Hope for Woman Injured
When Taxi and Car Collide

Mrs. Claudina Henkel, the young
woman seriously injured when the
taxicab she was riding in yesterday
morning collided with a street car at
Twenty-fourth and Arbor streets, has
not regained consciousness since the
accident and no hope for her recov-
cry is held out Her injuries are much
more serious than was first reported.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-01
Swiss Want Germany
To Pass u. S. Food
Newspapers Say People Will
Starve Unless American
Ships Bring Relief

Geneva. May 81 The question Of
American exports to Switzerland con-
tinues to hold leading place in the
Swiss papers. The recent semi-ofiicial
announcement that Switzerland should
come to an understanding with Ger
many. so that American ships convey
ing food for Switzerland would not be
sunk. is particularly 1gaging the at
tention Of the press.
The Geneva "Tribune' says in sub
stance that the Swiss authorities made
diplomatic tlunder i'm joining in
President Wilson's first appeal on be
half Of peace, since the special cir
cumstances Of the situation OF the
country compelled them afterward TO
refuse TO join the United States in
breaking off diplomatic relations with
Germany.
The newspaper says it is hoped the
new Swiss Minister TO the United
States will explain ard arrange the
matter of the food supply. as otherwise
the Swiss people viii virtually starye.
the aid Of the Entente Allies being 'r-
possible under the present war condi-
tioEs. The newspaper concludes BY
saying the government is greatly con-
cerned over the situation.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-01
LIE DIARY OF Our OWN SAMUEL PEPHs

Nan 30-Up beme and in my petrowaggon with my wife to
Forest Hills and PLAYED awntenns all day with S. Spaeh who,
despite that played better than time this year. beat me seven
and could him but two showing Back to the
city late and to the Office finished my stint and took G kauf-
man the crvener and he praised driving which, to say
soeh is but Indifferent good Home and found there H. Gilmore
and drove him downtown and home and read Schopennauer
ESSAY On the Sufengs World" But do not hold with
him in everything albeit his philosophy not without merit we
generally find says pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as
we expced and pain very much painful AS for Others
can not sneak hut as for myself found most pains and woes
be not nearly and difficult to bear had expected ana
many of the pleasures had have been much fuller OF delight
han I had dreamed they could be.
SLay poems OF James Flicker some oil
m good and great beauty line To the Office where U
Rice the poet is come and tells aye of D. at ana
Fullerton whom he hath Canada with. N Salisbury the
arr TO luncheon and discussed this and ha
M in many things find him in All the rest of the day at
nv stint and thence home
New-York tribune., 1917-06-01
Devonport Issues Order
Regulating Meat Prices

London. May 81. Lord Devonport,
the Food Controller, has issued an olab-
crate order regulating the sale and
prices Of meat, including live animals.
The order prohibits speculative resales.
eliminates iobbing transactions and
stipulates what profits shall be per
mitted TO retailers above the cost of the
carcasses.
There is much speculation as to who
will be appointed Food Controller in
place of Lord Devonport if he retircs,
as it is generally expected he will do on
account of i'll health. The latest un-
official slate gives the controllership 70
Major Sir Arthur Lee, Director of Cen
eral Food Production. Another report
is that William Thorne. a Labor mem
ler of the House Of Commons. will be
parliamentary secretary for the Food
Ministry, replacing Charles Bathurst,
who will take the place now held by Sir
Arthur Lee.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-01

The deeper we get into the war the
more we realize that our activities VIII
not be limited to this season alone
The cooperative gardening and the uni
versal gardening in America will have
TO extend over at least two years if this
business of raising our bit is to have
the slightest effect on the food situa-
ton. Gardeners and garden clubs may
do we'll 20 keep this in mind and TO
make their plans accordingly. The mis-
takes of this year can be rectifed next
season. The measure of our gardening
capacities can be taken this season to
apply in 1918.
incidentally, Americans viii have got
ten the gardening habit-not bad one
at best They will learn TO be inde-
pendent of local markets and will dis
cover what wealth lies beneath their
very feet If only they will take the
trouble TO dig FOR H. These are some
of the benefits that The III wind Of war
will blow Us.
Doubtless by this time your garden
contains It's rows Of onion seedlings, and
the work from now on is merely to put
ia succession croaS and 10 cultiyats- -
New-York tribune., 1917-06-01
Official Predicts
1918 Wheat Will
Support Britain
Says Economy Will Beat
U-Boat; Devonport Fixes
Meat Prices

London, May 81 - Rowland L.
Prothero. president of the Board Of
agriculture, said to-day that under a
government plan, the success of which
he believed to be assured, Great Britain
would grow sufficient wheat in 1918 for
all the needs Of the population. with a
liberal supply left over for livestock.
Mr.. Prothero said this depended on the
solution of agricultural problems fac
ing the country, but if these were dis
posed Of, "even if we started with moth
ing in hand and not a grain Of corn
brought into this country, we would
still be able, at the normal rate TO get
the 100000 loaves daily which,
roughly, are what we require"
The speaker said he did not believe
this years harvest would produce the
required quantity Of food. but he felt
that If the country economizcd in the
use of breadstutIs Germany could not
starve England, even if her submarines
triumphed over the Allied fleets and
not a grain Of cereals came into the
country.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-01
u. S. Soon to Need
100, ,00ONew Employees

Atlantic City, May 31.-The govern
ment will need 100000 additional civil
service employees in the next few weeks.
This is the belief of the executive COM
mittee of the National Civil Service
League. which met here to-day and
considered plans TO handle this in
crease.
A report was adopted recommending
that the existing civil service machin-
cry be strengthened TO bear the in
creased burden of the war and that new
machinery be created to supplement it.
This report was prepared by experts of
the league, who have been cooperating
with the Council of National Defence
at Washington.
SO far the existing machinery, de-
spite enormous pressure. has main
tanned the merit system intact. II is
believed. however, that unless ex-
traordinary measures are taken at
once there is danger that it will break
down"
New-York tribune., 1917-06-01
Quakers Urged to Help
w. w. Cocks Says Friends Must
Aid m Winning the War

Abandonment of useless peace prop
sganda by the Quakers was urged by
ex-Representative W. ". Cocks, Of
Oyster Bay. yesterday at the closing
session of the annual meeting Of the
liberal branch Of the Society Of Friends
in the Rutherfurd Place Meeting
House.
"We paciiists," he said may be very
glad of police and home guards before
we get through. We stand for order.
not for anarchy or riot. We are in
the war now; let us see IL through and
do our part. Don't let "a think the
people over there are fighting for
themselves alone. They arc fighting
our battles. It is our cause. The
whole world may be plunged into the
war. II we don't feel that we can fight
we can at least minister to the suf-
fering"
It was decided to send message TO
President Wilson and both branches Of
Congress urging them to enact law
prohibiting the use Of food products in
the manufacture of alcoholic liquors.
Lucy Biddle Lewis, Of Philadelphia,
who has made two trips 20 Europe
since the beginning Of the war, said
that the English Friends have a ready
spent over 100000 in relief work, and
declared that 100000 for the same
purpose must be raised here.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-01
Community Music
Discussed Here by
National Leaders
Three Hundred Men and Women
Attend First Conference
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Three hundred men and women who
have led in the spontaneous, country
wide movement through which America
is finding its voice and its soul met at
the Hotel Astor yesterday in the first
National Conference on Community
Music. Some were from Kansas,
where more than thirty community
choruses have sprung up to bind
farmers in a new sort of brotherhood;
others were from Wisconsin, where
community singing. backed by the
state university, is bringing new
poetry into the life of the people;
others were from the Far West the
Far South and New England
Park Commissioner Cabot Ward. who
has co0perated actively and enthusias-
tically in the peoples sings" con-
Quoted by Harry Barnhart in Central
Park, welcomed the delegates with an
address in which he expressed con-
tidence that proper use Of the parks
will bring back 70 the nation the old
village green spirit.
Other speakers at the morning ses-
sion were Peter W. Dykema, professor
Of music in the University of Wiscon-
sin: Arthur Farwell, director Of the
New York Music School Settlement
and president of the New York Com
munity Chorus, and John c. Freund,
editor Of Musical America"
I'VE are cndeavoring to show said
Mr.. Dykema, that the essential new
element in the community music
movement is not the developing of new
material, but the seeking of a new end
namely, the democratizing of music.
More people and more of the people.
is the slogan. Music is 10 dwell more
intimately with more folks"
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin presided
at a luncheon and in the afternoon
the delegates heard poem written
for the occasion b. Percy MacKaye
and addresses by Mrs. Edward Mac
Dowell and John Collier, director of
the Peoples Institute Training School
FOR Community Workers.
In the evening. at Washington Irving
High School. William J. Mccoy gave an
illustrated talk on the midsummer
high jinks' through which the Bo-
hemian Club. of San Francisco. has be-
come famous. Harry Barnhart used
the audience in demonstration of his
principles Of community singing The
conference will continue to-day.