THE OMAHA BEE: THURSDAY. JUNE 22. 1922.
Four Counties
Have 'Charges
Against Brown
Lincoln Official Not Sure He
Will Be Turned Over to
Omaha Officer! Al.
leged Beating Rccalfed.
Lincoln. June 21. (Special Tele
gram.) Drtpite a statement ioturd
by County Attorney Shotwtll of
Omaha that Fred Brown would be
taken to Omaha in a few day to
ta,nd trial for the Siefken murders,
there ii doubt here in official circle
of the accuracy of Shotwell's fore
cast. Lincoln officials want Brown for a
number of admitted crime commit
ted here and he could he taken to
N'orth Platte to stand trial for auto
theft and to Sidney for highway rob
bery, where he held up a deputy
heriff and chief of police, relieving
them of their money, keys and u
fenders. May Call Conference.
Brown now it in the hand of
Warden W. T. Kenton, who will not
release him until it ia decided which
of the four counties will try Brown.
It is probable, under a plan discussed
here tonight, that final disposition
of Browyi will be made following a
conference and agreement of all offi
cials.
Official records of Brown's appli
cation for parole show that he made
sworn statements to tlie board that
he was beaten so severely by the
Omaha police that his shirt was
covered with blood. His condition at
this time and for many weeks to
come will net permit a repetition
of such alleged treatment and officials
plan to get a complete statement of
his actions prior to and on the day
of the Siefken murders at the state
penitentiary.
Resting in Hospital
As yet officials in Lincoln have not
been notified that anyone is planning
to come to Lincoln to attempt to
identify Brown- as the Siefken mur
derer. Brown was resting comfortably at
the penitentiary hospital tonight. He
laughed audibly when told that word
had been received at Lincoln that
citizens of Sidney had purchased and
presented the Sidney chief of police
with some gorgeous suspenders to
take the place of the trousers sup
porters which Brown took from the
chief and tied that official with.-
Brown had more than $300 with
him when captured, Including $17
which he took from Sidney officials.
The remainder, he asserted, was the
money drawn from a Lincoln bank
ny mm wniie omciais here were
scouring the city endeavoring to lo
cate him.
Witnesses to Confront
Brown in Omaha Soon
(Continued. -From 0.X -
Hyers, Fenton and newspaper men.
He laughed at a story printed in
two Omaha papers that he was
wanted in Illinois for murder.
"I suppose now they'll want me
for murder in every state in the
union," he said.
Hit Disappointment.
He also told why,' after he had
lived up to the qualifications of his
parole, he had returned to a life of
crime. v
"When my period of probation
was up and I received my final dis
charge I returned to Omaha to see
my children," said Brown.' "In Oma
ha I found my wife, who had di
vorced me. had remarried and that
the court had given her custody of
the children. That meant I wouldn't
be able to see them any more or care
for them in any way. It made me so
bitter that I didn't care what hap
pened and I just drifted back to the
life of the criminal. That's the story
in a nutshell."
(Jrowd Watches Transfer
of Prisoner at Fremont
(By Staff Cormpondrnt.)
Fremont, June 21. A crowd of 300
persons, many of them women,
thronged the railroad station here this
morning (to see Fred Brown,
transferred from a Union Pacific train
to a Northwestern train on his trip
by cot from Rawlins, Wyo., to the
Nebraska State Prison hospital at
Lincoln.
The crowd was orderly and gave
Fremont police and deputy sheriffs
under Sheriff W. C. Condit no trou
ble. In the front rank of the crowd was
Ben "Speed" Ellsworth, who said he
and Brown had worked together as
laborers in Omaha on the new Bur-gess-Nash
building. He did not get
to talk with Brown, however.
No Handcuffs.
' The chairiman, in custody of State
Sheriff Gus Hyers and Warden W.
T. Fenton of the state penitentiary,
arrived on a cot in a state room on
Union Pacific Train No.-4 at 6 a. m.
He was not handcuffed and seemed
in good spirits, declaring he was glad
the trip was nearly over.
Four stalwart Fremont officers
bore him on his cot from the Union
Pacific train to a baggage car on
the Northwestern train.
He asked for i cnange of cot, say
ing the one has was riding was not
steady enough, and his wish was
granted.
While in Fremont he was given a
bowl of cream of tomato soup, which
ie ate with apparent relish. While
Sheriff Hyers and Warden Fenton
stepped into the cafe to eat a bite,
too, Sheriff Condit of Dodge county
stood guard over the prisoner.
During his brief stay in Fremont,
Brown wore a smile most of the time.
He was clean shaven, but looked pale
and wan. . He did not complain of his
wound.
He slept well during the night ride,
Hyers and Fenton said-. The officers
took turns sleeeping. and on guard.
Three Sisters of Mercy on the
Union Pacific train last night heard
Brown was aboard and asked Hyers
if they might talk with him. Hyers
consented. .
Their conversation was along re
ligious lines, Hyers declared, urging
him to repent of his sins. When they
left. Brown turned to the warden,
and there were tears in his eyes as
he said: ; x
"When yon meet-fine people like
that, it take all the pen out of yon.
'Wonder-Man of Wireless"
Announces New Invention
til -aBBaam i i i sK3a3cssssai
Before he reached New York on his yacht, Elettra, on which he has been
conducting wireless experiments, Guglielmo Marconi, perfector of wireless
telephony and telegraphy, wirelessed that he had received no signals from
the planet Mart. Mr. Marconi last winter picked up a signal on a 150,000
meter wave length, and he figured it might have come from one of the
planeta, since no wave length ever employed on this hemisphere ever ap
proximated auch figure.
'New York, June 21. Senator Gug
lielmo Marconi, wonder man of wire
less, announced last night the inven
tion of what might be termed a radio
searchlight, by means of .which radio
waves, which can be reflected like
light waves, may be sent in a given
direction in a beam, instead of be
ing scattered to all points of the
compass.
The famous Italian said he be
lieved this invention could be utilired
in such a manner as to rid the sea
of some of its terrors, for, with a
revolving reflector, the transmitter
would constitute a radio lighthouse,
capable of flashing ' guiding beams
nearlv a hundred miles.
Addressing a joint meeting of the
Institute of Radio Engineers and the
American Institute of Electrical En
gineers on his latest discoveries, the
inventor said of the proposed radio
lighthouse:
By means of the revolving beam
of electrical radiation, it is possible
for ships, when within a certain dis
tance, to ascertain' in thick weather
the bearing and position of the light
house.
"it seems to me that it should be
possible to design apparatus by
means of which a ship could radiate
because I knew I'd 'get you in the
hole' because you helped so much
when I was getting my parole.
"But I'll- be good from now on."
There was no doctor with the trio.
Physicians at Rawlins and Cheyenne
gave Fenton three kinds of medicine
for Brown and cautioned the warden
to be sure not to give him the wrong
kind.
"That's all right, warden," grinned
Brown. "If you do kill me, I'll never
tell."
Refuses Smoke.
As he lay on his cot in the North
western baggage car at Fremont,
waiting for the train to pull out at
7, a man asked Brown if he wanted
a cigaret.
"No, thanks," replied the des
perado, "I don't smoke cigarets."
Brown emphatically denied the
Siefken murders.
"I was in my shack that night,"
he declared.
When told of the handkerchief
clue on hich Omaha police are
working he declared he did all his
own washing at the shack and did
not send any washing to a laundry.
Police have a handkerchief which
they say was found at the scene of
the murder with laundry marks simi
lar to that found on clothing ip the
Brown shack.
Brown did not seem perturbed at
the efforts of police to accuse him;
as the Siefken slayer.
But Sheriff Hyers said:
"It is my belief that Brown killed
the Siefkens in Omaha, and he knew
that if he were captured it meant
death, and that, no matter how many
more men he might kill, the punish
ment could not be greater."
Not Ernest Bush.
"He does deny, however, that he
is Ernest Bush and he told me that
-he started his latest career of crime
because his wife had become in
terested in another man and this
broke him all up," said Hyers.
"Brown says now, though, that he
has no grudge against any one.
Held Up Trolley.
"In the gun that he had when he
was captured, there were two cart
ridges which had failed to explode
but showed they had been snapped.
lhe shotgun shells he carried had
been emptied of buckshot and re
loaded with .23 rifle shorts.
"He told us that while he was in
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out today
or project a divergent beam of the
short wave rays in any desired di
rection, which rays, if coming across
a metallic object, such as -another
steamer, would be reflected back to
a receiver on the sending ship and
thereby immediately reveal the
presence and bearing of the other
ship in a fog or thick weather. One
further great advantage ot such an
arrangement would be that it would
be able to give warning of the pres
ence and bearing of ships, even
should these ships be unprovided
with any kind of radio.
Marconi's , radio searchlight bears
little resemblance to the battleship
searchlight. It is rather a special
arrangement of wires on toners or
masts.
During his lecture Marconi ex
hibited pictures of reflectors, resem
bling the weird apparatus pictured in
imaginary tales of the conquest of
the world by Martians. Through
the use of these reflectors at both
ends, clear speech was exchanged
during experiments over a distance
of 99 miles, between London and
Birmingham, he announced, estab
lishing a record in long distance ra
dio transmission and reception with
short waves. '
Cheyenne, he held up a street car at
the end of the line, jumped aboard,
shoved his gun against the conduc
tor's stomach, robbed him of $60.
jumped off and fled through a field."
Rail-Mine Strike on '
Way, Chiefs Announce
(Continued From P One.)
economic condition and deprive us of
our industrial rights, have failed to
consider the public interest.
"When the public is enlightened
as to the truth, it will not deal light
ly with those who have striven for
two years to brinjj about this condi
tion of chaos a,'id degradation among
industrial workers." -
The national convention of: the
American Federation of Labor will
be halted temporarily tonight while
the delegates go to Newport, Ky.,
where a strike of steel workers has
been on since last October, to hold
a mass meeting in support of the
workers. ."'
For a time during the strike, re
fusal to hold public meetings was
denied the strikers by the military
authorities in control of the city,
Turn Off Miners Water.
Morgantown, W..Va., June '21.
The Rosedale Coal company has
turned off" the water supply to com
pany houses occupied by striking
union miners, it became known here
today when counsel for the United
Mine Workers took the situation un
der advisement. The miner- have
been served with eviction notices but
are occupying the houses pending ap
peals. Officials of the Rosedale company
admitted the water had been shut off,
Platt6moutb Hotel Man
to Take Omaha Hostelry
Fred Wagner, proprietor of the
Wagner hotel in Plattsmouth an
nounced yesterday that he had closed
a deal to take over one of the big
hotels in Omaha and will take charge
soon.
First Egyptian Minister
Washington, June 21. The nomin
ation of J. Morton Howell Of
Ohio to be the first American minis
ter to Egypt, was confirmed by the
senate late today. f
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Farmers Attend v
Annual Crops and
Soil Days Meet
Some Damage to Wheat Re
ported in Southern Court
tiet Potatoea Making
. Good Growth.
Lincoln, June 21. Nearly 200 Ne.
brisks farmers and county agents
are in attendance at the annual crop
and soil days meet at the agricul
tural college of the University of Ne
braska here,
The morning tettion wat devoted
to an inspection of crops and toils,
explanation of gram text and the re
ceiving of crop report front all parts
of the ktatc. Several farms near here
were visited.
General rains are needed badly to
promote the best progress in all
crops. II. G. Carter, meteorologist,
temporarily in charge of the Nebras
ka weather and crops service of the
United State Department of Agri
culture, declared in his weekly sum
mary of crop conditions in Nebraska.
Farm work mads excellent prog
ress during the week ending June
20, Mr. Carter ttstes, but the weather
was too dry for the best growth of
vegetation. Corn is doing well and
continues in good condition, the re
port states.
Whiter wheat now is mostly headed
and is beginning to ripen in the east
ern and southeastern portions of the
state. Some damage is reported from
dry weather in few southern coun
ties. Oats are most headed, but are
reported to be in poor to (air con
dition. Potatoes are making good
growth, as are beets, but pastures
have deteriorated in places.
Feature Transactions
on Livestock Exchange
Albert Larson came in from
Stromsburg yesterday with 58 head
of choice Hereford cattle that aver
aged 1,471 pound and he received the
highest price, $9.35 a hundred, for fat
cattle paid since last November on
the local market.
Mr. Larson bought the cattle on
the local market last November when
they averaged 945 pounds and cost
him $5.85 a hundred. He said he
has had them on full feed since last
Christmas and is well pleased at the
profit made.
Three carloads of cattle bought at
the stockyards yesterday for ship
ment to Glasgow, Scotland, was one
of the feature activities in the live
stock trade.
It was the first sale made of cattle
for export in the last two weeks on
the local market. The cattle averaged
1.300 pounds and were shipped to
Montreal, Canada, where they will
be forwarded to destination.
A carload of 71 head of finely fin
ished Poland China hogs were mar
keted at the local yards yesterday by
K. A. Fernberg of Petersburg. The
hogs averaged 208 pounds and
brought the good price of $10.40 a
hundred.
A Inarl of white hoc avrasinff
204 pounds was brought to the local
market yesterday by Emery Long of
Silver City, Ia. The porkers were
in excellent condition and brought
$10.40 a hundred.
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Bible School to Close
With Program and Exhibit
Red Cloud, Neb., June 21.(Spe
cial Telegram.) Red Cloud's first
vacation Bible school is to close Fri
day evenjng with a program and a
serial. Some of the handiwork done
during the craft work period is to be
exhibited. The school, which had an
enrollment of over 125, was directed
by Mrs. N. A, FranU, wife of the
pastor of the Brethren church.
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Mrs. Olesen Nominated
for U. S. Senatorship
(tMllaaH Inm face Oat.)
yrar-pld daughter, Majy were tlirill.
ed with the knowledge that the wife
and mother had btcu chosen to
pioneer a frail for women in politics,
a Mrs. cjieten hentll ha termed
it.
"It i no peronal tribute," she
Insisted tonight to The Associated
Press. "It is only the endorsement
of the democratic state platform as
formulated by the state convention
that endorsed me for the senate. !
sought to bring that platform to the
member of our party; my nomina
tion is timply an evidence of it ac
ceptance." Happy and Grateful.
But there wat no denying she wat
happy and almost eager to be into
the campaign for the November
election, which the will pres a
persistently a she did her primary
connection, she said.
"I am deeply grateful to the peo
ple that have stood by me in the
primary campaign," she said. "I did
not seek the nomination in the Min
neapolis convention, but having ac
cepted it I did the best I could, w ith
the limited funds at my command
to make an effective campaign for
the furtherment of my party's in
terests." It was as Citizen Olesen she
gained the nomination, she insists,
and not through any advantage gain
ed by her sex. "I made no plea for
recognition of women in polities. I
was and am ready to accept on equal
ity with men whatever the fortunes
of polities.
Will Serve People.
"Now thatl am nominated," she
continued, "I will do the best I can
for the party throughout the fall
campaign, and I think ws will have
a united party when the November
election comes 'round. If elected in
November, I shall do the utmost to
serve the people well.
During my primary campaign I
set up as my motto and I shall con
tinue lo keep it before me in the fall
campaign the words of George
Washington: 'Let us raise the stand
ard to which the wise and honest can
rally the event Is in the hands of
God.'
"My campaign, my desire for the
nomination, were not for personal
vanity or gain at all; my one desire
is to serve the people of the demo
cratic convention and the other peo
ple of the state who nominated me.
I have no personal ambitions at
stake; everything is for the people."
Not more than $500 was spent by
Mrs. Oleson in her primary cam
paign, she said tonight. She visited
nearly 40 towns and cities in every
section of the state, traveling in a
small sedan automobile given her
by friends. Most of the time she
did her own driving. It was only
after she received the endorsement of
the state convention that Mrs. Ole
sen became known as Mrs. Anne
Dickie Olesen. .
Prominent Club Woman.
In 1918 Mrs. Olesen became presi
dent of the Women's club of the
Eighth Minnesota district and later
was named a vice president of the
Minnesota Federation of Women s
clubs.
During the war, Mrs. Olesen, de
livered many patriotic talks and
these brought her to state-wide at
tention. Subsequently, -with hostili
ties at an end, she engaged in eha-
tauqua work. Mrs. Olesen explained
her party affiliation with the asser
tion that she was just born a demo-
rat, "an admirer of William J.
Bryan."
Born in Le Sueur county, Minn.,
36 years ago, Mrs. Olesen came
from a family which had pioneered
in Minnesota. Her grandparents
made this state their home in 1856,
and both her grandfathers were civil
war veterans.
Raised on a farm where she lived
until she was married, she traveled
three miles each day to reach the
high school at Waterville, Minn., for
& Alleni
her early education.
Housework, Mrs. Olesen declares,
does not have to be neglected by the
woman in politics, any more than a
woman-m flub work need have her
kitchen sink constantly piled high
with djhc. She explained;
"A man takes part in civic affair
.without neglecting his vocation, and
a woman can readily adjust hrc!(
to the new order that is sure to ac
company, the advent of women in
politics'
Radical Leadership
Sought by La Follette
t(atlau4 rm t.t. Oat.)
Cummins transportation art, and
possible government ownership, un
der some scheme to be worked out,
of the basic industries, such as steel,
coal and transportation.
Projection of the La Follette plan
into the Ignited State senate, begun
yesterday, culmijated in a clash at
the opening ioii this mowing,
with Senators Edge, New Jersey, and
Kellogg, llinifetota, on one side, and
Senator l a Follette on the other.
Forget. Big Issues.
Questions Tike the bonus and tariff
were forgotten for the moment,
while senators discussed fundamen
tals of American government.
The Wisconsin senator, having
gained the floor, indulged in a sensa
tional attack upon his critics, refer,
ring to Senator Kellogg with sar
casm as the "trust buster from Min
nesota," adding "they call him so,
but I don't know why" and to Dr.
Nicholas M. Butler of Columbia
university as the "booflicker for
predatory interests." He repeated
the sentiments expressed yesterday,
reiterated his belief that the supreme
court is encroaching upon-the liber
ties of the American people and an
nounced his intention of introducing
a resolution proposing a consti
tutional amendment whicR will ex
emplify his ideas concerning tha re
lationship of the supreme court to the
general American scheme of govern
ment. Strikers in Battle
at Herrin Four Hours
(Cantlaud from Tf One.)
tent point. The mine is what is
known as a surface mine or "strip'
mine, the workers being in plain
view from the surrounding hill
sides.
The first strikers to arrive at the
scene posted themselves on the top
of the hills or climbed trees to enable
thenyo look over the stockade. Mine
guards promptly opened fire. Strikers
immediately returned it. The first
desultory shots grew into a roar as
reinforcements came to the aid of
both sides.
At Herrin and Johnson City, six
miles away, the iioue of battle could
be distinguished. More than a hun
dred nonunion workers barricaded
themselves in the mine pit.
They were fired upon ceaselessly
by groups of strikers posted on the
hills above. It was here that the
greater part of the casualties oc
curred, it is said; the massed bodies
of the nonunion men and mine
guards making a perfect target for
the snipers above them.
Trainmen See Bodies.
A Missouri Pacific train crew,
which escaped from the scene of bat
tle, said that 14 or IS bodies were
laying in this pit alone.
As the number of strikers in-
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creed the mine guards and workers
apparently realised the hopelessness
of ccvitinusd resiitance. The strik
ers began to mobilise for a direct
attack on the stockade, with the evi
dent purpose of forcing their way
through. Rather than came the un
iiecettary casualties which such a
course would en.ue, the mint offi
cials 'ran up a white flsg. As it
was noticed by the strikers, firing
died down and finally ceaied.
Officials ol the mine ajid the
strikers met half way between the
stockade and the miners' lines.
There the demand (or surrender
and immediate cessation of opera
tion was made, it was said. A con
ference was agreed upon, which was
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District Farm Elevator
Meeting Called it Sidney
Sidney, S'eb,, June Jl (Special)
A district meeting of farmer ele.
vgtor managers, director and stock
holders will be held in Sidney Wed
nesday at the district courtroom.
Secretary Shorthill ( Omaha "ill
be in charge.
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