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Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
Real Estate Sales
Show Great Growth
During the Last Week

Deals recorded by the register OF
deeds during the past week showed
38,463.96. nearly a quarter OF q
million, but these records do not in.
clude the 100000 purchase by Johr
T. Flack of II feet on Farnam from
Gould Dietz.
There's been a steady increase il
transactions in residence property,
and a big increase in interest shown
in business and investment property
Conservative realtors estimate thai
more than 100 residences have been
sold in Omaha since January ! al
an average of more than $1,000 each
Realtors are practically unanimous
in their statements that no other
January has ever brought so much
real estate actively in Omaha as TIE
present one.
Several firms have sold from hall
a dozen to Is houses this month IL
J. O'Neil, E. F. Williams, c. A.
Grimmei, Nathan Somberg. report
an unprecedented number of buyers
in the market for homes.
]. H. Kopietz, South Side realtor,
says the South End folk are getting
the home owning" fever and act
ing accordingly.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
REDUCE WATER
Rates IN Omaha
five Per CENT
Water Board Announces An.
other Reduction in Price to
Consumer to Take e.
feet February First.

The price OF water in Omaha will
be reduced per cent, beginning
February |. The reduction was
voted unanimously at meeting II
the Omaha water board after The
excellent showing of tine year 1918.
! The reduction applies to all water
| consumers who pay the 26M cents
per 100 cubic feet basic rate. There
is at present 50 per cent reduction
on this rate. The additional s per
cent will bring the net rate down 10
! about l21z cents per 100 cubic feet.
This is the enghth reduction that
has been made in water rates since
the city took the plant in the summer
of 1912" said Assistant General
Manager Larmon. IT is something
OF an achievement, nowadays, to
make reduction i'll any necessary
commodity
About IS per cent of the water
consumers of Omaha will benefit by
the new reduction. 1t does not apply
to the big consumers, who consti-
tute only about s per cent OF the
total number.
The Metropolitan Water district
did more business last year than ever
before. This is attributable to the
natural rapid growth of Omaha.
A new 30,000000-gallon centrifu-
gal pump is now being installed at
the water plant in Florence, greatly
increasing the capacity. At present
there are two pumps pumping water
from the reservoirs to. the city mains
one of 100000 gallons daily capac-
ity and one of 100000 gallons.
Four pumps lift the water from
the river to the reservoirs. These
have capacities of 10000 900, 20,000,s
600, 100000 and 100000 gallons
respectively.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
AUTOMOBILES.
EXCHANGE CO..
pose FARNAM.
NOTICE:

NOTICE. NOTICE:
TO THOSE WHO ARE LOOKING FOR
A USED GAR THAT Is ACCURATELY
PUT IN THE BEST POSSIBLE con-
DIrToN, WE WISH TO CATER.
YoU WILL PAY NO MORE FOR A
USED CAR THAT HAS BEEN con-
DITiONED IN OUR SHOP BY EN
PERIENCEp MECHANICS AND ARE
COMPLETE IN EVERY DETAIL. IN
GLIDING NEW TOPS, SEAT COVERS
AND PAINTED IN A GOOD SELEC-
Tt0N OF COLOR SCHEMES.
Ford touring good running order. S175
Ford touring, new top, newly paint
ed $3.50 -.........,. ...s.,..... 250
Ford roadsters, 1917, each..,... 500
Ford touring, like new............ 400
Ford sedan, like new.............. 675
studehaker s-pass. roadster. 375
Hump touring. good shape. $50
SaxtOn Slxa touring, lsfG........... SIS
Dodge touring, a good one........ $50
Stndehaker Six, like new.......... ESQ
Mitchell touring. 19i6.....,....... 500
Kelie touring NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $50
Maxwell touring. 1915. $50
Maxwell touring. like new.,,..... $50
Monroe touring, wire wheels, 1915. 700
Paige sedan, like new............1.40 400
Hudson Super SixChevrolet, a bar
gain.
Buick rs touring. Observation-Disclosures. $50
REQ touring. good running order. 100
WE TAKE. LIBERTY BONDS.
WE GUARANTEE MOST OF OUR
CARS, ADDING A LIBERAL SERVICE
AS WELL. IF YOU PURCHASE A
GUARANTEED CAR YOU ARE THOR
oU0HLY PROTECTED. IF you
ARE DISSATISFIED WITH YOUR
OLD CAR, TRADE 1T TO US FOR
ONE you CAN USE.
AUTO EXCHANGE CO..
2059 FARNAM.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
Employment Bureau Has
Truck Drivers and Farmers

The soldiers employment bu-
reau of the Chamber Of Commerce
is anxious that firms in need 0f
truck drivers and farm and ranch
help get in touc' with it al
once, as IT has large number Of re-
TURNED soldiers who are seeking
employment along those lines.
In the matter of Office work the
supply IS about equal to the de-
mand. The bureau. however, has
many jobs for expert mechanics.
travelling statesmen, managers Of
lumber yards, as we'll as an almost
unlimited amount of common labor.
Not many of the boys who re-
turned with the 18th field artillery
have called at the employment bu-
reau yet, but they expect a large
number of them will be ready early
next week TO get back into the har-
ness of civil life.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
Praises c. of c. Work
for Returned Yanks
500 Have Been Placed

That there is no other place in the
country where they are handling the
work Of finding positions for lie.
turned soldiers, in the efficient and
successful manner that the Sol
diers' Employment bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce is now do
ing, is the opinion of Colvin I.
Brown, Washington, an official OF
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, who was in Omahs
yesterday.
Mr.. Brown asked officials here fol
the details of the plan so that they
could be laid before the various
other commercial organizations Of
the United States.
A representative of the Harris
burg. Pa, Commercial club was also
in Omaha yesterday and made a
thorough study Of the plan so that
it could be adopted in his city.
More than 900 returned soldiers
have been placed by the Omaha bu-
reau up to date.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
Numerous offers Made on
Farnam Street Properties

In the last few weeks numerous
offers have been made on Farnam
street property, and one sale, that ne
gotiated by Harry Wolf for Gould
Dietz, who sold ~ feet at Twenty
second and Farnam to John +.
Flack for 100000. 81
One Of the offers, probably the
most interesting, was one to Ernest
Sweet for the northwest corner of
Twenty-fourth and Farnam streets
OF $1,000 a front foot. Mr.. Sweet
refused the offer.
Mr.. Sweet has a Farnam street
frontage of 100 feet In 1908 E. o.
and K. p. Hamilton purchased this
property for $4,000, or $3.50 4
foot,
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
South Omaha, Neb.
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1919.

This sale is being made for the pur-
pose Of advertising Nebraska Polled
HeretOrds, and not to clear our herds of
undesirable stock. The members In most
instances would rather increase than
reduce their herds Every animal has
been selected by a competent Judge, as
representative of the high standard of
Nebraska Polled Herefords at home and
in national sales. We expect to go on
record as having consigned to this sale
as good as we are capable of producing,
thereby advertising Nebraska Bred
Polled Hereford cattle throughout the
middle west To make the buyers en-
thusiastic boosters for our healthy,
rugged. highly developed and intensely
bred Nebraska Polled Herefords.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
Fifty Lots
80 Females-20 Bulls


The conslgnors are: ]. C. HAITI, Dewitt;
H. w. Pitzer Plalnview; L. r. Mattock,
Bladen; E. H. clifford. Lewiston: H. E.
Darwin, Virginia; John Harold, Lewis
ton; H. ]. Smith, Bellwood; Peter Smith,
David City; Henry Smith, octavia; Ras-
mussen Bros. Elba; Hoppe Bros, Co
lumbus; Radford & Sons. Newark; John
H. Smith. David City.
The offering includes a liberal num-
Der of Polled cows with calves at foot
and choice lot Of young cows and
. heifers bred to as good Polled bulls as
the breed affords. Also a few open
heifers. The bull offering includes a
tried sire and a string Of highly bred
young bulls that possess character, sub
stance and individual merit to high de-
gree.
Meet US at the Castle hotel, Omaha.
headquarters of Nebraska Polled Here
ford Breeders association. January %.
First annual meeting January 20. Sale
of cattle South Omaha. For catalogue
address either Secretary B. O. Gam
mon, Des Moines, la. or
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.


Elizabeth Johnston and hid. to
John Contos. ct al, 49th St, ESQ.,
#. s. of Frances st, W. s., 10Ox
Mary Carr to Nellie A. Boyer, 9th
St. 80 IT. n. Of Burdette ST., W.
s., 25xi10 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $50
Packers National Bank to Frank L.
Baker, N St, 125 #. W. of 2Sd
ST., 8. S, 25x1o0. 1000
John Schnuettgen and VT to w. L.
Pierpont, $. W. cor. 3Sth ave. and
Cass St, 60x15a.47 ........... $500
Omaha Loan & Bldg. Assn. to Con-
crete Engineering Co, 18th ST.,
277 it. n. of Nicholas st, e. s., 66x
1S2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1850
Julia II. HOllen and hid, ct al, to
American Security Co, 18th ST.,
A #, 8. Of California st., e. s..
5Ox66 ...,....................... 1000
Mary Urban to James A. Nickerson,
sd ST., 20 #. s. Of Pierce St, look
ITO ....,,....,.-....... 800
Edward s. Traver to Harry Chris
topherson n. W. cor. 18th ave. and
Pinllney St, 46.7x100 .......... 800
Joseph Barker, TT and VT. to Chas.
c, Johnson, 18th ave. ESQ #. s.
of Fowler ave, e. s., 40x121.5 -. 210
Eleanor Miller and hid. to Charles
q. Wagner, n. W. cor. 49th and
Cass ST., 90x135 .....,....,..... $4,000
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
FARM AND RANCH LANDS.
Miscellaneous
BuFFAL0 e0uNIY 49,.

BUFFALO COUNTY FARMS.
$50 acres, All IN cultivation. lays al
most perfect. no better soil IN Wool
River valley. Fair set Of improvements
farm all fenced. About miles from
Kearney. Farm lH In a good state Of
cultivation and rented for two-fifths Of
crop Price $4,000 per acre.
Also another 16a acre Wood River
valley farm as good With the exception
Of a railroad cutting one corner. Priced
NJ 100000. Q. X. Davies. Kearney.
Neb
BEND YOUR NAME and address for the
Williams Manson News sent six months
free: also free literature telling how you
can obtain a productive farm and pleas
ant home In one Of the greatest wheat
alfalfa and live stock raising belts in
Montana Good markets. schools, church
es, hospitable neighbors, telephones and
rural routes Opportunities for capable
and energetic parties TO get started
right Address News, Dept. Meg. Will
tams Mont
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-26
AUTOMOBILES.
YOU HAVE

Got to have confidence in the dealers
Judgment that sells YOU a. car new or
used; you have to know that the dealer
Is established and knows the value of
a car You must be satisfied in your
own mind that the dealer thought he
was making a good buy when he invest
ed his own money In it. You will have
to admit that the dealer that buys 500
to 500 cars a year knows the value of
used car much better than the man
that Just handles n few cars.
That is why we can sell you a car on
a three day money back guarantee.
1918 ODDS 8 tour. ..................s1.loo
1918 Dodge Observation-Disclosures, 1000
1917 a. Buick ..,......,........ 500
1917 D As Buick. .............. $50
1917 Liberty ..,'......,.........R 500
1917 Maxwell .,...............'',. 800
1917 Oakland ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50
1917 Chevrolet ................... 800
1915 National ................... 900
1917 Ford Roadster minimum. ais
1915 Ford Roadster communion. 200
1917 Maxwell truck ............... $50
We carry the stock and make the price.
The sun., 1919-08-31
MEXICAN CONGRESS
MEETS TOMORROW
viii Take Up Oil Legislation
at Once.

MEXICO CITY. Aug. sO.--The extraordi-
nary session Of the Mexican Congress
called the first week in May TO consider
urgent measures, among them amend
ments to article 20 of the Constitution,
concerning naturalization of oil lands,
adjourned Friday night with the petrol
cum measures untouched. Congress.
however, will convene in regular session
next Monday. when President Carranza
will address It.
The following day the Senate is sched-
uled TO take up the amendments to
article 81, as recommended by its spe-
cial commission which reported this
week. This report, which is conciliatory
to the petroleum interests. is the subject
of much discussion in political circles
and in the press.
Denial that Mexican troops cooperated
with the American punitive expeditions
on the Texas border in the pursuit of
outlaws was made last night by Gen.
Juan Barragan. chief of the Presidential
staff. This announcement was made
after special press dispatches had stated
that such cooperation had occurred.
Pointing out that the Mexican Gov
eminent had protested against the pres
ence of American troops on Mexican
soil. Gen. Barragsn declared that CO.
ordinated action had not taken place and
would not be authorized.
The sun., 1919-08-31

persons dead or dying from starvation
or from diseases they were too weak
from lack of food to resist. On one oc-
casion while 3ourneying In the State of
Vera Cruz / was called into a hovel In
which three elderly persons were dying
Of starvation. Next door seven children
lay on the floor too weak to move. also
dying of starvation. In Topic, es-
pecially. people are dying like files from
starvation.
Disease RACES unchecked. Doctors
are few and far between. Drugs are al
most unobtaiiiable, and the people have
no money to buy them IL they were to
be had. Paludismo claims it's victims by
thousands. So, also. does tuberculosis
Typhus and typhoid fever are prevalent
ITO say that the country from end TO
end Is filthy fails TO convey an adequate
idea Of its condition. Sanitary convent
cnces are primitive in the larger places
In the smaller towns and villages there
are not even outhouses. The streets are
used instead. and the streets are never
cleaned. So far as that is concerned,
the streets of the capital itself are
rarely cleaned. and some of them never.
The pavements in 1918 we're broken up
and in ruins.
I'm this welter of nth many people
live the year round. They never sleep
under a roof. but lie In heaps In door
ways In such rags as they wear during
the day. Victims of the most loathsome
diseases squat along the streets TO peddle
articles of food and trifles. Beggars
swarm everywhere. clutching at the
clothing OF paosersby and begging for
the love of the Holy Mary for n cent to
save them from starvation. Gaunt
women, almost naked. enter the restau-
rants to beg for bones from the plates OF
customers. Children, too. the smaller
ones totally naked. the larger ones wear
ing a few rags. also roam through din
ing rooms foraging for scraps.
Typhus Is Everywhere.
IAN are indescribably filthy, for the
lower class Mexican never bathes. or
even washes his hands All are simply
alive with vermin. In street cars you
will see vermin crawling. You cannot
ride in car or cab without getting YER
min on you. You must pick them off the
bed before retiring. No wonder typhus
is rampant. I was stricken with the
disease nine days after arriving in Mex
lco City.
MANY churches are In ruins; the
priests have been killed or expelled: the
nuns-heayen only knows what their
fate has been. Valuable paintings stolen
The sun., 1919-08-31

revolver is already condemned 20 death;
lot revolver IN all that Is needed 20
-. mexican up In the bandit business !;
wnlie revolver and a good stetson hat
'ose.her constitute him General.
torture Is often resorted 70, some
unes TO extort money and sometimes
OUT or pure fendishness In this con-
neetion 1 should like to mention that a
large proportion of Mexicans, officers as
Wen as men, are dope fends. They
smoke mariguana, which IL made from
ne loco weed, familiar to cattle men In
.ne southwest, which has an effect like
hasheesh. They win NOT 20 into hattis
without dose OF mariguana, which i'm
parts a sort of false courage. In fact.
,he marching song OF the Carranzistas
W Inc Tumblebug.' A free translation
OF the first Of the hundred verses il as
follows:
cannot march longer
because there In lacking
Mariguana to smoke
The results OF bandit rule are ap-
pailing. Mexico is sunk to the utter
most depths of degradation and misery.
me greater number of the stores in
Mexico under the Diaz regime have been
looted bare and now stand empty and
eeserted. with windows broken and the
buildings more or less wrecked The
same thing applies to factories. Such
industries as Mexico once had arc now
irreparably damaged. Many manufac-
turing plants have been destroyed /;
many others are not operated because
Carranza or some other chieftain would
seize the product. One copper mine.
REPRESENTING an investment of si.5OO,0OO
near Chihuahua City, was wantonly de-
stroyed the present year. This happens
TO be one of many instances of destruc-
ton that came under my personal OBJ
servation.
Even the plants which might be
operated SO far as other obstacles are
concerned cannot obtain labor. The
peeps would rather join Carranza' 8
army or some other bandit gang and
take chances on getting a share of the
loot than TO earn a living by honest
work. Even the farmers do not put in
more than enough crops to AFFORD their
families a bare existence because OF the
certainty that the whole would be con-
fiscated.
Starvation Kills Thousands.
"As a direct consequence of this al
most complete stoppage of useful labor
the annual death rate from starvation
or from diseases due TO malnutrition is
100000. I myself saw In fourteen
months Of 1s17-1s no fewer than 5000
The sun., 1919-08-31
ROBBED OF $22, 800 ON BORDER.
Mexican Paymnster Reports Hold
MP on United states Side.

MEXICO CIrr, Aug 3o.-Moises Palma.
a Government paymaster in Juarez, has
reported to the officials here that on July
81 he was robbed of 1880 several miles
south OF Maria, Tex.
Palma said he was on his way to
Ojinasa, state OF Chihuahua. TO pay the
Federal forces there and was making
the trip from FL Paso by way of Maria
on the United States side of the border
when the robbery occurred.
The sun., 1919-08-31
ELECTRIC LAMPS
Specially Priced

Mahogany finished Furnished Gold
Z.95
Solid Mahogany finished in Furnished Gold
handkerchief Parchment
$50
Beautiful Library Lamps design exceptionally painted
of various 1878 1850
Furnished
stripes regularly
of Mahogany in
with Shade
49,; $3.50
The sun., 1919-08-31

ment Of ixuitur. and finding the plan
worked beyond expectations transplant
The sun., 1919-08-31
DINNER SERVICES
Greatly Underprced


$50
edge stock; Ol Z95O regularly
China sewih blue border
glazing stock $3.50
and gold handles; Stock lO1 regularly
$500
China Sewih Wedgewood border decoration and
The sun., 1919-08-31

from the churches have been offered In
little shops for n trifie. Many of the
churches were turned into barracks OF
into stables and denied in such other
ways as depraved ingenuity suggested
In Merida, the capital OF Yucatan, Al
varado gave orders even 20 break the
bells Nothing is left OF venerable
cathedrals but the walls, and these have
been punched full of holes The en-
frances have been turned into public
latrines. In Sonora Gov. Gales would
not allow a child to be baptized. He
lost no opportunity to show his hatred
Of all religion. He offered TO rent a
church TO be used as a market in Her
mosillo for nifty pesos day.
"The railroads are in utter ruin. There
Is only one line upon which sleeping
car service Is maintained regularly. and
these cars are generally reserved for the
I'Fe OF army officers between Mexico city
and Monterey. All upholstering has
been torn of the seats of day coaches
and the wooden hulks swarm with YER
min. One must often walt for days to
board a train, and when at last the
train appears It takes a whole day or
more to cover a distance that should be
run in a few hours.
Home of Bolshevfsm.
Judging from what has been pub
lshed about Russia conditions can
hardly be worse there, IL, indeed, they
are as bad as Mexico. And II must
not be forgotten that Carranza is the
original Bolshevist, or perhaps he may
have got the idea from William Bay
ard Hale and Lincoln Steffens and their
German friends. AT least they had
long conferences with him at the out
set Of Carranza's public career and they
we're all very thick. Hale was Car
ranza's particular friend. and 1t will be
remembered that Hale went to Germany
directly after his last conference with
that gentleman.
in Mexico. as In Russia, the sinister
hand of Germany is found to be pull
ins the strings. Trotzky and Hale were
beth particular friends OF Kurt Jahnke,
head of the German secret service in
Mexico, and of Won Eckhardt, the Ger
man Ambassador to Mexico
Hale proposed to see Trotzky In
Switzerland when the latter had been
sent abroad by Won Bernstorn. In fact,
there Is great deal of circumstantial
evidence to show that Germany first
inhtigated Bolshevism in Mexico TO ruin
the country so all that was of value
could be bought in at nominal prices and
| the way thus paved for the establish
Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-22
The Unprotected Emptor

Secretary Carter Glass desires national Blue Sky Law There is said Let the Ou people chance their vglsnceThe World
  destined the Glass with Blue Sky legislation
  policeman citizen  himself We advanced plancothes and hand of the pocket picker though dull vigilance
  in complains naze accurately complicated financial
  long
  the idea bits a sales of bits marching All securities holdings
 
  Never Blue guible of confidence that legitimate vita  Tribune.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-22
Civil Service in Arizona

Good luck Mir Hughes i
  of
  short time The would would be farTeachng would offices a O
  by applicants either behalf themselves pOnve places the candidate yields
  brought against him $ defeat him. Such this impossible the building political Arizona would with the hundreds of clerks and other appOntees  PaetOTan Band
  the Under the civil service pan unheathful influence would be with candidates prediction pledges public stumbling
  The public would
  the offices.
 One take offices politics destroy sible selfish interest offices
Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-22
Vyne Resolution
 Amendment Fails
DBN. ReNiew I.ease,l MI


 PHOENIN. AriZ., Feb, sl.-NXne'S resolution introduced in the house yes terday, declaring the present unem- ployment situation in the state criti- cal, urging workers not to move about from place to place and asking that the vagrancy laws be suspended eN- cept in aggravated eases, was the sub ject of an unexplained mystery late today.
 Yesterday the resolution was sent to the resolutions committee to be amended by addinS a clause asking workers to remain on any jobs which they now held. instead ot quitting and sccentuating the gravity oG the work problem, This afternoon the resolution was brought back to the committee for its final hearing in the house but it was found that the amendment had not been made.
 Somebody suggested that it was use less to ask a man to stay with job which he did not have. but the house insisted ons the changes and it was again sent back to the committeec
Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-22
GREAT NICE PLAY AT
 EAGLE TOMORROW

When The Midnight Patrol Select Pictures great special attraction pro duced by Thomas H, Ince. is present. ed at the Eagle theater tomorrow, moving picture patrons of this city will see one of the most thrilling and sensational Chinese underworld Stor> ieS ever produced on the screen.
 "The Midnight PauOr' is a vivid story of Chinese life in a western me tropOliS. Wu Fang. a willy Chinese, rules like czar over the vice and lawleSSnesS in his district; while Jim Murdoek. a corrupt political boss, shares with him the infamous profits derived from the gambling halls, opium dens and brothels. Adv.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-22
Road Measure Is
 On Slate Today
CRv Review L.eased wirel


 PHOENIN, Ariz,. Feb, 2l,-TomoV- row promises to produce the first real debate on the $SO. 1000. 900 road project for Arizona
 Today the house suspended the rules and brought up to its second reading senate bill II, which would create a highway commission of the governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer and attorney general. with state highway department. board of three members and highway engi- neer.
 It is anticipated that this bill which passed the senate today, will come up tomorrow in the house in conjunction with the house measure drafted aIOns the same lines, but which alSt, in cludeS the proposal to lift the states limit of indebtedness and issue ponds of SS0.000.O00 as they are needed, for road and bridge building.