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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-03
FOR SALE-FARM LAMBS.

MICHIGAN farm, so acres; house
al once rUr further particulars
phone r. I. GJ6S-Y, 93l Four
tcenth avenue,
90 ACRE farm. near New Boston,
Ill: good. tinable land; small i'm
pTovcments; price $40 per acre.
Inc. 5000. VIII exchange for
town property or oil stocks. Ad-
dress w j. B." care Argus.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01
HOUSE
BUSINESS HAS
Shown BIG Gain
Packers Spend Nearly Twice
as Much for Salaries and
Supplies as Last
Year.

Live stock Strengthening and ship
ping at the South Side packing
plants broke all records during the
past year. An increase over 1917
OF millions of dollars of business is
shown and nearly twice as much
was expended for salaries and sup
plies than in any previous year.
The Cudahy Packing company re-
ports that it expended S65,000,000
for I've stock in Omaha during the
year, $5,OOO,00O for supplies and
81 100000 for salaries. This rep
resents an increase of $l0,000.000
in the amount expended for live
stock and an increase OF more than
100 per cent on salaries. The aver
age number OF employees working
for the company during the year
was $3.50 as opposed to the 200
employed last year.
Armour x Co. paid a total of S.
100000 to its $500 workers. Swift
employees, numbering 2,l36, received
a total of $2,9Sl ,664 as pay. Morris
& Co. employed l,400 persons dur
ing the year. an increase of 40 per
cent over 1917.
New Killing Record.
The number of animals Slaughter
ed during the year far surpassed the
1917 figure and establishes new
record. Hogs were the principal
item. The greater part of the hog
products were used to fill govern
ment contracts. Government con-
tracts undertaken by the packers
added an extra stress to the business
and required much overtime work.
Local plants had large parts in
filling the largest orders for meats
ever made by the government.
Swift & Co. shipped the largest
number of cars of meat during the
year, sending 1908 cars. Armour
& Co. shipped $4,000 cars, many
of which had double loads. and re-
ceived $500 cars of supplies. Nor
ris & Co. loaded 6,576 refrigerator
cars and sent 25,SS5,51 pounds OF
pork products to the allied armies.
Improvement plans for 1919 have
been completed by all the plants.
Swift & Co. will build utility build
ing for employees containing the
latest construction dressing rooms,
toilet rooms, rest and recre-
alton rooms and restaurant. Dur
ing the past year the Cudahy plant
was enlarged by the erection of q
seven-story warehouse at cost OF
$4,000 and two electrically driven
ice machines costing 100000.
Swift G. Co. constructed bunga-
low style employees physicians Of
fee and a fire hall for fremen Nor.
ris & Co. made the following ex-
penditures for improvements: New
dressing room, $4,000; stock plant
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01
Fire Losses in Omaha
Total Half Million
for II Months 1918

The report of Fire Commissioner
Zimman for the first II months of
1918 shows that 1870 alarms we're
turned in. The total fire loss was
S475,445, all covered by insurance
except $3l,O67.
The fires occurred as follows:
Frame buildings, 722; other than
frame buildings. 305; fires outside
of buildings, 6S7; false alarms, 258.
Fires occurring between midnight
and noon were 1899; between noon
and midnight, 73l.
There were 476 fires in dwellings,
70 in sheds, IS in rooming houses,
a in garages, s. in apartment
houses, % in barns, % in flats, p in
grocery stores and II in hotels.
The following causes are given
for the fires: Sparks from CHM
neys, 2l2; burning grass and rubbish.
H5; chimneys burning out, 14S;
spontaneous combustion of coal,
l43; not known, 1902; sparks from
locomotives, y; children and
matches, 60; cigar or cigarette stubs,
IS: thawing out water pipes, Is; in
cendiary. l9.
Fifteen people were burned fatally,
seven seriously, eight severely and
eight slightly in the fires.
The biggest fire was that of the
Elks' building, July 2, with loss Of
$5S,8S4.
Three women and 80 men were
rescued by fremen from burning
buildings during the year.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01
Ascendant Star of Nebraska

sugar, No wonder this amazing
state has now more automobiles
per capita than any other state
in the union, that its farmers are
large stockholders i'll the banks,
and sometimes own them alto
gether; and that in general its
citizens are alvin high.
Yet outside of its cities and
municipalities the whole state of
Nebraska has only about Is miles
of paved roads. 1t is gong to
increase them. When the road
season opens next spring thous-
ands Of laborers and skilled work
men are going to get busy. 1t is
reckoned that beside the 4l,00O
troops which Nebraska sent 10 the
war. almost as many more men
have left the state to go into war
work There never was time
when Nebraska was so short OF
labor nor when it had so much
money and was just aching to do
something with it.
We salute this sovereign west
ern state and wish it godspeed in
the work of saving the nation
from the wreck and ruin that in
the view of the pessimistical
minded impends upon us, now
that the booms of war are over.
Its condition is reassurlng. And
we fancy that in a broad way
these conditions are not very diff
ierent in the neighboring states of
Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Dako-
ia, and, for that matter, at least
80 per cent of the union. 1t is
certainly not very different down
south with 30-cent cotton in the
air. The croakers and the gloom
ers should take a vacation out
west.-New York Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01
Live STOCK RUN
T0OMAHA BEATS
FORMER RECORD
Highest Prices in History of
Union Stock Yards Paid
for Cattle, Sheep and
Hogs.

Local live stock receipts last year
were ;he largest in the s. years ex-
istence of the Union Stock yards
Omaha ranks as the second largest
live stock center being outranked
only by Chicago. Receipts in cat
tie are the third largest in the
county, while in sheep and hogs
received here the local yards rank
second. Total receipts for the year
are head. an increase Oh
over the record OF 76l3,S9S head
made in 1917.
Live stock this year brought the
highest prices in the history OF the
exchange. The fall run of stock
during the past year surpassed all
previous records.
EApand During the Year.
During the last year S350,000 has
been spent for Improvements at the
stock Yards, and $250,0OO has been
appropr 'ated for this year. In add
ton go new cattle pens have been
completed and plans drawn for 25O
more this year.
The horse market is the only one
to show a decrease. This is due to
the fact that the government has
practically taken over the horse
business. At the outbreak of the
war Omaha was the largest range
horse market.
Auto truck receipts which were
Lnimpoitant until November. 1917
became a large factor during the
past year. By auto truck lS,498 cat
tie, l550l9 sheep, and $3.50 hogs
were received.
Stock yards statistics and COM
parsons with former years are:
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01
Record for 1918.
Water System Is Extended
Considerable During Year

Construction of extensive i'm
provements and the maintenance of
its usual good financial showing are
features of 1918 operations of the
Metropolitan water district
During the year it completed the
ice plant at Twentieth and Popple-
ton avenue, and commenced serving
the public the latter part of August
This ice plant has capacity of 100
tons per day. The water district is
now completing the construction OF
storage house which will have a
capacity of 5000 tons.
At Florence second coal pit was
constructed for the purpose of stor-
ing coal under water, which will en-
able the department to have suf-
hcient supply of coal on hand to in
sure against shortages and block
AIDES.
A new pumping unit of 100000
gallons capacity has been purchased
and is now being installed at the
Florence pumping station. This
pump will practically double the
supply Of water available for the
city.
, During the past year the pumpage
reached the highest in the history
of the plant, averaging for the
month of August over 100000
gallons per "a hours. The water
district has in service over ISL miles
of cast iron water mains, with $4,000
water services.
The Benson water plant has been
taken over and incorporated into
the Metropolitan water system, the
water district having assumed bonds
on the Benson plant amounting to
S53 000
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01
Coroner Handles 102
Cases Durinq the Year

The county attorney. acting as
coroner, makes the following report
for the year: Investigations, Is; in
quests held, q; total cases handled,
l02.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01
Fewer Arrests Are Made
Here Than the Year Before

The Omaha police department
during 1918 made 1888 arrests.
compared with 1889 in 1917. There
Bvere nine murders, y suicides, IS
Attempted suicides, 459 turned over
10 the juvenile court and II dodgers
Huring 1918. In 1917 there we're
Tight murders, Is suicides, 50 at
tempted suicides and 2S4 turned
bver to the Juvenile court and sol
dodgers. The big decrease i'll men
who asked nights lodging at the
station house in 1918 was due to
war conditions, with plenty Of work
Tor everybody.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01

II we may trust an ebullient
correspondent OF The Times, the
star of Nebraska blazes high in
the armament, 1t has made
$l,000,000,000 of war profits out
of its products. 1t has $500,000,000
on deposit in its banks. A large
part of this years crop of wheat,
corn and livestock is still on the
farms. Though the figures may
be trife spitfulous, it is still,
as it were, reeking with prosper
ity.
Consider some OF its income.
Before the war, 50 cents was
fair price for wheat, For the last
two years it has been above s.,
and under government guarantee
this price will continue through
out the entire crop season of
1919, And all wheat produced
next year will be purchased at
this price up to July 1920. Ne
braska can produce S0,OO00OO
bushels. Corn has been selling
above ST. and a part of the time
this year sold almost on a parity
with wheat. A corn crop of
200,000,000 bushels is common for
Nebraska, and sometimes it gets
up to 300,000,000.
Hogs before the war sold freely
at around $3.50 a hundred. Now
they are $3.50, and this price is
practically guaranteed so long as
the food administration, CO.
operating with buyers for the al
lies, continues in existence. The
price of hay has doubled and
tripled, and Nebraska produces
more alfalfa than any other two
states, 1t likewise produces more
than l00,O00,000 pounds of beet
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01
Omaha Stock Market Breaks All Records Packers Expand

building, $4,000; loading docks, $40,-
600; repairs, $4,000; new equipment,
$4,000.
Record for 1918.
The four packing houses that have
reported give the following figures
for stock slaughtered during the
past II months:
Cattle Hogst Sheep Calves
Cudahy ....s0l,426 627.562 463,33s 42,075
Swift ....... S09.sS0 5ss, 425 42O,12o 25,50o
Armour ...21S,0Oo $4,000 $4,000 $1,000.
Morris. .... l75,47i, i71,417 l79,94s $500.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01
Nearly 5000 Pieces Of
Property Change Hands

Register of Deeds Pearce reports
that during 1918 his Office recorded
1888 deeds. Other totals reported
by him in a summary of the years
work follow: Total number of in
struments, 1852; receipts of the Of
hce, $lo,S73l5; ddeed considerations,
Sl6, 295, 1921; farm mortgages and
releases, 255; city mortgages filed,
5,Ol4; amount of city mortgages,
S,430,45096; city releases filed,
,S422; amount OF city releases. So
4006l4.96.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01
Public Library Has
Record Of Supplying
Books to Soldiers

Omaha's public libraries have
made a fine record during the past
year in supplying books to both
civilians and soldiers. All the librar-
les at the neighboring forts have
been enlarged with novels, general
literature and books on technical
subjects purchase from the fund
given by the American Library
association.
A total of 397, 267 books were loan
ed during the year and 9,482 new
books added by purchase or gift
AS a war measure, % allow time for
the rapidly increasing library war
work. all but three of the deposit
stations were closed. The circulation
at the high school branch libraries
nearly doubled during the year.
During 1918 total of 30,225 books
were loaned through the high
schools as opposed to 1885 last
year.
In addition to the Libraries es-
tabished at the forts, the quarter
masters department depot, Twenty
second and Hickory, has had a
branch library established. The Ne
braska Base Hospital Unit 40 took
with it library of 1000 volumes.
Following are the library Stats
tics for 1918:
Total number OF registered borrow
ers having library cards. ........ 2S,2S3
Books borrowed from the library
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01
Receipts 1918.
War Reduces the Output
of Omaha Smelling Works

War cutTnto the business of the
Omaha plant of the American
Smelling and Refining company.
The value of its output last year to-
tailed $47 ,25S,224ll, as against $780,
997, l65 for 1917. The Omaha plant
continues to be the largest lead re-
'lhery in the world.
4 The following shows the output
fof the Omaha plant during last
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01

Tor home use.
Main. library, .....,....2l721S
Deposit stations. ....... 5000
Classroom libraries at public
and parochial schools. 96,4I4
South Side Branch..... 1854
High school branches (3) 30,225
Total Observation-Disclosures
Visitors to the reference and read
ing rooms 65.52s
Books added by purchase and gift. 1882
Total number of books. in the
library system, January l.
1919 Observation-Disclosures. IA
Books bound and rebound in the
library bindery .......... 1857
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01

AMUSEMENTS.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01

Total
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01
Dan Cupid Has Been Real
Stacker During Year 1918

Dan Cupid has been a Stacker in
Omaha during 1918, according to
figures of Marriage License Clerk
Charles f. Furay.
The total for 1918 was 2,420; for
1917. 2Ql6.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-01-01
Omaha Factory Output in
1918 Nearly Half Billion

The factory output of Omaha in
dustrles during the year OF 1918
reached grand total OF SAP ,27l, l61
worth OF merchandise, showing an
approximate increase OF $l00,000000
for the twelve months, or 80 per
cent. This is double the output of
1915.
The output of each line of mer-
chandise is as follows:
Gilpin observer., 1919-07-03

needed only an Introduction was
stirred into the open.
"You must not" her voice trembled
with anger, ''you must not ask that
woman. She is not to be spoken to-"
The girl asked her bluntly what she
meant.
"You must not give her your wash
ing-must not speak to her. I've not
mentioned 1t before. II hoped It
would not be necessary. Tom told me
not to speak Of it."
'Tom told you not to speak Of 1t?
Not to speak Of what2"
you must have observed-Mr. Rick.
ard7"
The girls ear did not catch the
short pause. "Observcd Mr.. Rickard 2"
"The GOODNESS between us. I scarce
ly speak to him. I don't wish to speak
to him."
When had all this happened, Innes
demanded Of herself? Had she been
asleep. throwing pity from outdated
dreams?
Il won't countenance a common af-
fair like that" Her eyes, sparkling
with anger, suggested jealous wrath
to 1nnes, who had her first hint of the
story. She had learned never to take
the face value of her sisters verbal
coin; it was only symbol of value /;
1t stood for something else.
The yellow eyes were on the dredge
bucket as it swung across the channel,
but they did not register. She was
angry, outraged; she did not know
with whom. With Gerty for telling her,
with Rickard, with life that lets such
things be. She jumped up. "Oh, stop
1t" She rushed out of the tent, fol-
lowed by strange bitter smile that
brought age to the face of Gerty Har-
din.
In her own tent, Innes found excuse
for her lack of self-control. She did
not like the color of scandal; she
hated smudge. Gerty had said the
whole camp knew 1t; knew why the
Mexican woman was in camp! She
did not trust Gerty in anything else
why should she trust her In that2 She
would forget Gerty's gossip.
But she remembered 1t vividly that
week as she washed her own khakis
as she bent over the ironing board In
Gerty's sweltering "kitchenette." She
thought Of 1t us she returned Rick
ards bow in the mess tent the next
morning; each time they met she
thought Of 1t. And 1t was in her mind
when she met Sonora Maldonado by
the river one day. and made sudden
wide curve to avoid having to speak
| to her
Gilpin observer., 1919-07-03

Her hand met his, but not her eyes
If he did not go quickly something
would happen; he would see her cry.
ing. The angels that guard blunderers
got Rickard out of the tent without
suspicion of threatening tears. She
threw or her negligee and the pale
blue slip; the tears must wait for
that. Then she flung herself on her
bed and shook 1t with the grief of
wounded vanity.
That evening the chief had a visi-
tor. The wife of Maldonado, some of
the fear pressed out of her eyes,
brought in his laundered khakis,
socks. darned and matched; all the
missing buttons replaced.
II haven't worn a matched sock, 4"
he told her, ''for months. That's great,
sonora"
He wanted to get to bed, but she lin
gered. She wanted to talk to him
about her troubles; he had cautioned
her against talking about them in
camp, SO she overflowed to him
whenever she found chance-about
Maldonado. the children, Lupe. It
was getting wearying, but he could
not shove the poor thing out.
Sonora Maldonado gave a sharp in
take Of breath, an aborted scream.
Rickard, too, saw mans figure out
side the screen door. The Mexican
woman pressed frightened hand to
her heart. OF course it was the venge-
full Maldonado-he would kill her
"If I am intruding," It was the
voice Of Hardin.
"Come right in," welcomed Rickard,
"Get along. sonora" The Maldonado
slipped out into the night, her hand
still against her heart.
Hardin, roll of maps under his
arm, entered with a rough sneer on
his face. A dramatic scene, that, he
had interrupted! And Rickard, who
did not like to have women in camp.
White womeni
Rickard. still sleepy, asked him to
sit down.
II wanted to speak to you about
those concrete aprons. They tell me
you've given an order not to have
them"
Rickard resigned himself to long
argument. It was three o'clock when
Hardin let him turn in.
When he was getting ready for bed
he remembered the melodramatic
scene Hardin had entered upon. He
stared comprehendingly at the screen
door-seeing with understanding Har-
din's coarse sneer-the Maldonado,
breathing fast. her hand over her
heart. "Of course he'll think-good
lord, these people will make me into
an old woman! don't care what the
whole cabOodle of them think"
Five minutes after blowing out his
candle he was deeply sleeping.
Gilpin observer., 1919-07-03
CHAPTER XIV.
Snudqe.

From her tent, where she was writ
Ing letter that Jagged somehow, In
mes Hardin had seen Richard go to
her sisters tent. She did not need to
analyze the sickness of sight that
watched the dancing step acknowl-
edge its intention. 1t meant wretch
edness, for Tom. At time when he
most needed gentleness and sympathy
rasped as he was by his humiliations
and disappointments-how could any
woman be so cruel? AS for Rickard
he was beneath contempt-if it were
true. Gerty's story. told in shrugs and
dashes. She had Tilted him for Tom !;
and this his revenge? She had not
known that she had such feeling as
the thought reused in her. 1t proved
what the blood tie is, this tigerish
passion sweeping through her, as her
eyes watched that closed tent-it was
for love for Tom, pity for Tom. Sex
honor-why, Gerty did not know the
meaning of the words!
How long would 1t be before Tom
would see what every one else was
seeing? What would he do when he
knew7 Hating Rickard already, bitter
as he was-
She was not SO biased as he. She
could see why Marshall had had to re-
organize. Estrada had shown her !;
and MacLean. Her sense Of justice
had done the rest Rickard had proved
his efficiency; the levee, the camp, the
military discipline all showed the gen.
eral. Whether he were anything Of
an engineer, time would tell that. It
was long call he was making! Sup
pose Tom were to come back7 She
must watch for him-make some ex-
cuse to pull him in II he should come
back before that other went Hate
full. such eavesdropping A prisoner
to that mans gallivanting!
For an instant she did not recognize
the figure outside Gerty's tent. Her
fears saw Tom. She reached the
screen door in time to see Rickard lift
his hat to disappearing furry Of ruff.
fles. Angry eyes watched Richards
step swing him away.
From the ievee that day, she had a
glimpse of the Mexican woman on her
knees by the river. rubbing clothes
against smooth stone. A pile OF
tlght-wrung socks lay on the bank. In.
nes stood and VIZ tched her.
Il must remember to speak Of her
to Gerty." she determined. "She prob.
ably does not know that there IL q
wnsherwoman In camp"
1t was n week later before she re.
membered TO speak Of the Mexican
Gilpin observer., 1919-07-03
CHAPTER XVI.
Time the Umpire.

The river was low; Its yellow wa
ters bore the look Of oriental duplicity.
Each day was now showing its prog
ress. The two ends Of the trestle were
creeping across the stream from their
brush aprons. A few weeks Of work,
Mt the present rate. and the gap would
be closed. Hardln's big gate in It; the
bypass ready; the trap set for the
Colorado. The tensity Of last spurt
was In the air.
1t was inspiring activity. this pitting
Of mans cumulative skill against nn
elemental force Nc Caucasian mind
which did not tingle, feel the privi-
legged thrill of 1t. To the stolid native
this day Of well-pald toll was his mil
lennium. the fulfllment of the
prophecy. His gods had 80 spoken.
Food for his stomach, liquor for his
stupefacticn; the white mans money
laid In brown hand each Sunday
morning was what the great gods fore
Gilpin observer., 1919-07-03

her down into his humiliation" His
sweet moment had passed.
He spent few futile moments try
ing to comfort her.
Don't come near me-" 1t burst
from her; cry of revulsion. He
stared at her. the woman meeting his
eyes in flushed defiance. The hatred
which he saw. her bitterness, corroded
his pride. scorched his self-love. Moth
ing would kill his love for her; he
knew that in that blackest of mo-
ments. He would never forget that
look of dread, Of hate. He left her
tent.
That night. the cot under the stars
had no tenant. Hardin had it out
with himself down the levee.
That valley might fulfill Estrada's
vision and his labor; might yield the
harvest Of happy homes; but his was
not there. He had been the sacrifice