r BLAIR IH DARKNESS AFTER LIGHT ROW JBIMT City Council and Electric Liffht Company Lock Eorrn and the Town it in Darkness. CAUDLES HI GOOD DEMAND BLAIR, Neb., Aug. 28. (Special Telegram.) Except where candles and kerosene lampi are In use, Blair is la total darkness tonight. Not an electric light Is glimmering at any point within the corporate limits. The town has gone back to the primi tive method ot lighting and the wis est men hero will not make a predic tion aa to how long the present con ditions are to continue. Tha present light, or rather lack of light, conditions have been brought on by the city council and the Blair Light and Power company locking horn a. Borne weeks ago at a special elec tion bonds In the sum ot $35,000 were voted, part of the proceeds to be need In the purchase of the plant that has been in operation for years, or for the installation of a municipal plant. Have the Cash Ready. The bonds wer marketed and the M,000 put In the hank. Negotiations be tween the city council and the officer of the old plant were began. The city offered (12.000 for the plant and the com pany demanded 120,000. None of the par ties would make concessions and the (natter came; to a showdown today, when after a meeting of the city council, the. lighting people were told that they would have to acceot $12,000 or move their plant cut of town. They asserted that thev would move before they would accept a dollar teas than $20,000. They were told to so. This afternoon the moving procrs commenced. Bulbs of incanlescent lights and globes of street lamps were taken cff and wires disconnected. Tonight when darkness came there were no lights, either on the streets. In business houses or homes. A hurried trip was made by city officials to the plant of the electric light company. There they were told that the company was preparing to move out and that the current would not he turned on again, j Old Lamp In Demand. t Kerosene lamps were dug up out of at- ' tics and out of basements, the wicks ' trimmed Had lighted. The stores were ' raided for candles and In a short time the ' supply was exhausted. Still, it Is pretty dark around town, for there Is not a ray of llKht except what is shed by the lamps and the candles. What Is going to be the outcome of the controversy nobody will even venture to guess. The members of the council as rert that they will stand on the $13,080 proposition and on the other hand, the electric light people are Just as firm In asserting that the city will pay the sum Sskcd for the plant, or go without light tintil a new plant can be Installed, which will be at the shortest time, ninety days to six months. There Is talk of legal proceedings, but vp to this time It . haa not been deter mined what proceedings to secure light : must be Instituted. The light company has fought the Is suing of the bonds even to obtaining an injunction to prevent It, but the suit was decided In favor of the city. Recently the city had an electrical en gineer from Lincoln appraJse the old plant and be fixed the value at about Barlna- Temporary IMants. ' Messrs. Robinson and Hopewell of the Jlome theater are In Omaha tonight to buy a light plant for their moving pic ture show. Tom Osterman of the Blair emocrat will run his auto up to the eide of his building and attach It to his Trees for Jobvwork tomorrow. The service given by the present com pany le the best the city has had for a number of years and public sentiment Is In favor of buying the plant at a fair piioe. Cleveland, O., capitalists own the local tJ ant. Loyal Club Picnic at Bennington Sunday The Loyal club of Omaha will hold Its first annual jMonlo at Bennington Sunday. Two thousand tickets already hare been sold. The program begins at 10:30 o'clock. John I Kennedy, candi date for the republlcac nomination for United States senator. Congressman Lo beck and Mayor Dahlmaw will be the speakers. Fifty prises are offered to winners of athletlo contests. The Vlnlon Street Merchants will play a game of Vase ball with Bennington at S 'clock. Congress man Lobeck will be umpire. I O. Kolm berg. president of the club, estimates the attendance will be near S.Ono. Congressman Lobe ok will speak at 1:$ 'clock and John I Kennedy will apeak at & Special trains will leave the Union Station at 8:20 and S o'clock and will go directly to the scene of the picnic. They will return at 4:4C and 9:30. Dr. E. W. Taylor Back ' From Vacation Trip Dr. R. W. Taylor, pastor of Parkvale Presbyterian church, returned yesterday from a six weeks' vacation trip during which he traveled on a motoroycla from Omaha to Fredonla, Aria, and back to Bait Lake City, where be snipped his wheat, returning by train. The doctor has made numerous similar trips, but none that baa covered so much uncharted territory for the motor. He followed the Colorado river and viewed the grand canyon from the north rim. Originally he planned to cross and re turn by way of Albuquerque, but found this would entail too expensive a trip for the time available. Bom of the Journey was across desert land that made travel a real hardship. ARREST MADE IN THE KAYSER CASE AT GARY OART, Ind., Aug. 28. The arrest of Thomas Mojesch. an Inspector In the Gary steel mills, and a statement by State's Attorney Clyde Hunter that the minister was killed by a bullet from his own revolver were the only developments today in the Investigation of ths murder Tuesday night of A. M. Kayser. Tolles ton, Ind.. Lutheran minister and German sympathiser. The state's attorney said a sjuarral over business matters probably furnished a moUre for the ortma Omaha Girls to Be OrdceJorrxs rJtarg&ret Jbtevsom Flood-Swept Regions Or Arkansas Request Aid for Destitute LITTIH ROCK. Ark., Aug. J7. Flood swept sections of Arkansas appealed for aid today to care for thousands of per sons made homeless and destitute by the rising waters. Tonight hundreds of families were camping on high ground with only the barest necessities of life and many were reported In actual need of food. Newport, Searcy, Augusta and George town asked for food and money. At Newport 4,000 persons, nearly the entire population, are ' unable to enter their houses because of flood waters.. Ap proximately 1,000 families from the sur rounding country have been driven into the four towns and are sheltered in camps. Large quantities of supplies contrib uted by citlsens in Arkansas have been In adequate for the need, It Is said, by Mayor A. T. Hubly of Newport, who made another urgent request for assist ance late today. While the White river was falling at Newport tonight the great volume of water from tributary streams probably will keep It at flood stage for ten days. It was said. At Des Arc, Ark., where the levee broke lost night, the liver still was rising rapidly tonight At De Va!ls Bluffs, Aark,, I '"" ' ! t, . the rlyer la rising and has reached the;week M0 aftor . ,hort lneM wa h,l(1 highest stage ever known there. Train service on the Searcy branch of the Chi cago, Rock Island & Paclflo railway was discontinued today. Black river was re ported falling tonight and It Is believed will not send a new flood down the White, as was feared yesterday. " Martin Clausen Is Some Peach Grower I 'niuets of the body In charge of arrango- Martin Clausen, 6308 North Twenty-.' ;"en,t 'ur the re; urn trip of American .,.,, .,, , . ... . ,.. ... .bankers anil business men to Central ninth street, takes the blue ribbon as the., nd Houth Ameri.a will be -liscuasjd champion peach grower In this vicinity, land steps taken to plan itineraries at a While he Is not the owner of a large rneti"s" to be hold In New York Sep- peach orchard, he has one tree In his back i ,,' , . . .lr.. , .., vrH rmm -u,v. . ... . ., . ,. Laok of American shipping facilities yard from which he has picked three was emphasised in a statement by ths bushels of Crawford. 1 stats derartmcnt uased on a consular re- The Clausen peaches are not the small ' rt rt m Arabia. The department re kind seen cn ths fruit stands, but they ig ft.? t'mercr'.tNrpor't are large enough so some of them weigh were complaining bitterly of th .aok a pound each. Yesterday he was dts- ef ahipplng facilities between Aden itnd playing some of them around town and Al"er'cn por,f' muny merchants having ..v,ii.i..j . . , " " .bad tu discontinue business us the aie- exnlblted one that measured eleven inches houses weie full and they had no means in circumierencea ana it waa not the larg-. est by any means. rrt XT' 1 a rt l Two Viaducts Sought By Hanscom Parkers; A viaduct ever Turner boulevard at Pacific street between Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth streets and another over the Belt Une en Martha street, extending , u ... , ,w from Thirty-fifth street to Thirty-seventh avenue. Is sought by the Hanscom Park Improvement club. Action was taken at . . .... .-,i i.,t,. .11 resolution to be submitted at tbe next meeting calling upon ts city commis sioners to order such crossings built The boulevard viaduct is desired be cause big Ola trie la practically out aft Style Show Models J I JJ r.. .... -4 MarieJTorledga now from the west by the low grade and gully. At the Martha street crossing of the Belt line, school children attending the Windsor school are put In great peril on the grade. It was at this point where little Ralph Moss lost bis limb under car wheels. t The olub last night passed resolutions memorial to Judge W. H. Munger, a member of the club, and to Willis I. Hoopes, who formerly was Its president and who waa president of the United Improvement clubs of the city. W. Boyd Smith presided over tho deliberations. .... French Chiefs Wire Grand Duke They See Victories Some Time PARIS, Aug. IS. A joint telegram ex pressing entire confidence In the future has been sent to Grand Duke Nicholas, commander-in-chief of the Russian armies, by President Polncalre, Minister of War MUlerand and General Joffre, the French commander. The text of the message follows: "Our thoughts turn toward your troops, who at the present moment merit the confldenoe of the whole world by reason of the struggle they are making. With complete confidence In the final victory of your armies, we beg you to accept our respectful homage and fer vent good wishes, together with the as surance that more than ever before our armies are happy and proud to co-operate with your highness and your valiant sol diers." The grand duke replied: "The sentiments you express towards the Russian army are reciprocated. The close relations and common accord exist ing between the commanders of all the allied armies Is a oertaln omen of the glorious end in which with God's aid we will participate." FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR MISS NEVA TURNER The funeral for Miss Neva TV. Turner, head ef the domcatlo science lepartment yesterday at S o'clock. Interment was In Prospect Hill cemetery. Washington Affairs Treasury officials instructed the col lector of customs at Peiisaoola to Issue clearance rmiiert for the schooner lsa- l'. trn liminl f.t, kl.rlrA m-ltl, m ttti ri n rtt war ' sun, lies said to be for Carransa I forces. The personnel of the various su-boom. or snipping trie coiiienu inereut to the mitea nates. It berime known that pla-ia of the United btates for putting lialu In order contemplate calling upon llm War de- contemplate calling i to r'irnih orricers frni lij corps of ! nn'joi:mi!.-).iiiied officers who have da- VflolHd snd coinmanilcl the Phi:iptlne conylauuli. ry. tuficials -mid the proposed proiectoratb tren'y would provide not nly for a coini le'e llnancial protector ate and the ad'alnUtratlon of custom liousts, but lor a native police force of- f cere1 by Americans. ' former President Taft at Berkeley told I California tlott it was conducting a local Uboratery for social and political exuerl. J mmts for which It would have to pay. joiner states, he declared, would deiivs ueiieill ll . auioroi.i expense. i ou of tbe west are mere likely to have Ideas than the east." he said. "This state Is a laboratory for political experiments, which we In ths east are quite willing you should maintain. If you are quits willing to pay the bills, and you may be sure you wlil have to pay thsiu." TILE GMAUA.oSUXnAY. r.FJ-:...Ai;JtST .IS). HAPPENINGS IN THE MAGIC CI1I Members of "SqneAl and Grunt", CInb Will B Tntertained ! br Stockmen. WILL ARRIVE THIS MORNING All ready for the Squeals and Grunts Preparations have been completed and everything Is In readiness for the coming of the famous "Squeal and Urunt" club. The committee on arrangements saw fit to reverse ths usual name and the badges of the members were embossed with Sold letters, "Grunt anJ Rqiieal club." One hundred and fifty hug mon of St. Joeeph. Kansas City and Sioux City will arrive over the Burlington railroad on a sneiial train and will be met at the station by a delegation of local stock men. The train with the majority of the boosters will arrive at : this morning, while the Sioux City delegation will come on an 11 o'clock special. The latter dele gation will also be met by a party of stockmen. Hejolelna; Over father's Hetarn. The homecoming of V. V. Foltlk, Kouth Omaha bank teller, who decamped aoven months ago after confessing to the tin-bt-xtleiuent of $,X from a loral tank, caused rejoicing at the home of his wife end two thidren. 1001 North Twenty-third ttreet. South Side. Supper was laid for lour last eenlng and Mrs. FolUk Is happy, even though her husband is fac ing the poralbllity of going to prison for a number of ; ears. Foltlk la out on bonds. His trial will come up soon, tharca Notes. South Omaha fnitcd Presbyterian church, corner Twenty-third and H streets. K-v. Albert U. Porter, Pastor Sitlibath school at :. learning at U and 7 by )ntor. Morning theme. "XH. workers with Ood." Kvenlng theme, "Turning Things Upside Down." Junior league at S. Christian union at T. Prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. In the absence of Rov. John Wallls Ohl, paslnr of the Episcopalian ehuroh at Twenty-fourth and J streets, Dr. H. Koome, 1SU North Twenty-fifth etmet, layman of the church, will read the ser iron tomorrow morn'ng. Services will be held as usual. Mr. Collins of Omaha will sing. Kev. Ohl Is visiting with rel atives In fennaylvsnla Curing his vaca tion. He will return In three weeks. Central Interdenominational, Twenty third and M. Rev. It. K. P. Oomlah. Pas torSunday school at :46. Morning wor ship at 11. Subject of sormon, "Faith. " Fellowship meeting at 4. Christian Kti- neavor at 7:. Gospel service at H. Kv ?rrTOlde,dln"cM- meeting Wednesuav evening at 8. " "'n""1"'" more Bigiiuicoxn w m First Methodist episcopal, Twenty-fifth ' continued activity of the air squadron, pV.ki KwvV..J' W. Klrkoatrlck. Paator-: whloh ha been bombarding German pe-An- " well as munitions eponslhlll'y of Leadership.'" Bventng se-r- ; factories across the German border. f"?"' , "M:,!',,nV. Christianity." Sunday I It now la certain that Serbia Is pre- soliool at :4ft. Fpworth eague at 7. Tho , . public Is cordially Invited pared to make the necessary iscrtflces to First Christian. Twenty-third and I, I aeUatfy Pulgarla and acaln Its eo-opera-Rev John Altwr, Pastor-MoTnlng sermon tlon In behalf of the allies. It may be at 11. Subject, "The Orenter Vision.'' w fK. o.!.. Kvenlng sermon at 8. Subject, "The Way B(,v,ri however, before the Serbian of the Cross." Sunday school at S:4fi. reply to the representations of the en Christlsn Endeavor at T an. Itente powers la received. The vote of Xlnhnt' Parliament wa. only upon tor Sunday school at 1. Preaching at tn" Principle Involved -and negotiations 11. Topic, '"The Only Way." Christian now are proceeding between Serbia ComWf'Mt I&i0'" Rumn" rt,n th bodv wmloome. laet nature of the concessions to Be made First Baptist Twenty-fifth and H, Rev. j Bulgaria, Wllllsm R. HIM, Pastor Regular preaolv-1 wl I. thMaianeAi with nnilii, Ing service at ll. Special announcement L U tretn with another ooal will be made and every member of the strike as the result of dissatisfaction church and congregation Is urged to be among the miners with the way In whloh Present, bunday school at S:4a. Claa th. tt,,. arranged by Da- Hurhland Hill TntarAmnmlnation.i w vld Lloyd George, minister ot munitions. Mr. Hhallcroes. Pastor Morning worshfp at 11. Sunday school at 10. The DubUa is Invited. Letter Memorial Methodist Eptsconal. Fifteenth and Madison. Maple Avenua District Rev. J. W. Henderson, Pastor The pastor has returned from a vacation trip through the west and will be In the pulpit during Sunday's services. Sunday school at la Preaching at 11 and a First Presbyterian, Twenty-third and J, Rev. R. L. Wheeler, Pastor Special Kab bath ariool program at 1L Superinten dent Mrs. D. O. Bturrock of the ele mentary class will assist In the song serv ice. Munday school at :46. Pastor will ettilst Mr. Line, religious director of Omaha Yotinn Men's Christian associa tion, who will nlve an address during worshlo hour at 11. Intermediate Chris tian Endeavor at ti. Mastic City Gossip. Charles Split died In the county hos pital yesterday. The funeral will be held at the undertaking parlors of Hulse & lUepen, Omaha, today. The Omaha market headed the entire world in sheep receipts last week, easily going above Chicago, practiaally every day during the week found the local market either a large or a small mar gin ahead. Police court opened shortly before S o'ciook yerterdby morning, something unusual for Juilgu snd his sta.ff. "Prompt ness Is the lest policy," says the judge. Considerable difficulty Is belna encoun tered by stock officials at the local yards In hsnUHnjr Import cars of stock under a new lullng In regard to return checks on consignments shipped In cars that was legalised by th lust legislature. Un der the new ruling, shippers will re ceive a return pass for each car of stock shipped. Previously a return pass was only Issued for every tw cars of stock. Lots of Police Are Wanted at Friends of Peace Meeting CHICAGO, Aug.' 0. One hundred "plain clothes' policemen have been asked for by J. J. Tobias, chalrmsn of the local committee of the "Friend of Peace," to preserve order at the conven tion of the society, which will be opened bere on Sunday afternoon. Five thousand elegstes are expected to be present. It Is planned to present to the convention petitions signed by 500,000 persons calling for an embargo on the export of ammunition. Mr. Tobias, wbo is tho head of the Chi cago Law school, said be had arranged for the detectives to be scattered throughout the audlenoe with instruc tions to promptly suppress, or If neces sary, eject any disturbers. Whole Gully Choked With Turkish Dead IXWDON. Aug. S8.-A dispatch to Hcuter's Telegram company from the IWdanolles. describing the charge of the Irish division on a Turkish bill to the left of tho 3uvla bay position, says: "The Turks cams out to meet them and most exciting bayonet fighting fol lowed on the saddle between the two crests. Bayonets were flashing and stabbing for several minutes before the Turks began to give way. Then they left the crest and ran down over the ridge, the Irishmen standing up and fir ing down on them. "The dead lie thick everywhere and Die stench Is sppaPing. Being unable to bury their dead, tl.e Ti'rku throw their bodies down the gully unti they are stopped by the nature of the ground, while others thrown after them are stopped by the first. Consequently the whole gully la oholted with Turkish dead." Chicago Contralto to French Report the Capture of Enemy Trenches in Vosges LONDON, Aug. IS. The capture of sev eral nuifl in tlnrhA. In th I'm vm u.-a ' ?ln,. but What Is being Interpreted by the mine owners. ' c. in VW aishSk aill ass AAMtaaM 4A the advices of their leaders. Military Training Camp for Business And Professional Men A military training camp for bualness and professional men will be held on the military reservation. Fort Sheridan, DU nola, September SO to October 17, Inclu sive. The camp will be held under the direct supervision of officers of the United States army. The purpose of the camp is to offer an opportunity for business and professional men of military age to qualify themselves for efficient ecrvtoe to the country In ease of need. Attendance at the camp will not In crease either tbe legal or moral obliga tions of thoee who attend. The Intention I la merely to equip those taking the course of training to fulfill with more efficiency and usefulness obligations which axe al ready bid upon them as cltUons of the United States, FORMER BALTIMORE MAYOR DIES VERY SUDDENLY WWIWORK, Aug. tt.-Thomas Oordon Hayes, former mayor of Baltimore, a noted lawyer and for many years prom inent In Maryland politics, was stricken with heart failure on the street in Oak land. Md., In the Alleghenlee today and died In half an hour. MY. Hayes was Tl years old and a bach elor, tn addition to serving one term as enayor of Baltimore be had bean twice state senator, city solicitor and United tatee district attorney. WOOD ALCOHOL KILLS PENITFNTIARY INMATE jriTHftoV P'T. Mo., Aug. W. One. convict In the Missouri penltentlsry died tonight and another is believed to be dying from the effects of drinking wood alcohol which they had smuggled Into their cells. Alfred Crocker died on! Theodore Irwin Is In the prison hospital Crocker's term was to have expired In two months. DaBcsviFBAUCt Sanatorium This Institution Is tha only one In the central west with separate buildings situated in their onf. ample grounds, yet entirely die Unci, and rendering It possible to classify cases. The one buldlng being fitted for and devoted to the treatment of non-contagious and non-mental diseases, no others be ing admitted; the other Rest Cot tage being designed for and de voted to the excluulve treatment of brlect mental cases requiring for a time watchful care and spe cial nursing. Sing for Style Show LAST OF FOUNDERS OF REPUBLICAN PARTY DIES PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. IS. Colonel Archibald Blakely, aged st, dlsd at bla home here tonight after an Illness of four months. He waa said to have been the last survivor of the group ef prom. Inent men from various parts of the United States whe met here en February , UM, and took steps whloh resulted In the formation of the republican party. Itepartmeat Orders. WAWTTNGTON. Aug. XV-rJnertel Tele, gram. Nebraska pensions granted: Ro- sltia Whitehead. Grand Island. 111. Tne post ofloe department haa acnepua ne nronosal of Thomas Kllllan to lease ttew quarters for the post of floe at Wahoo, - ln..ifl en l,nften avenue aerwesn rifth and fitxth streets, for ten years Loin November 1. When You Purchase a Steinway Piano f n 1:11 i Buying a piano Is not all a question of price tho supreme qualities of the STEINWAY and its long years of service make its purchase an act of true economy. Have you ever thought of it in this way t Visit out Stein way parlors and inspect these matchless instruments. Uprights $500 and Up Grands $750 and Up Oonvwnlent Monthly Terms ot Payment. Full Value) Allowed for Your Old Piano. Schmollcr & Mueller Piano Company 131113 Farnam St. Exclusive Steinway Representatives. j7stwi If You Don't Again for Yearo choose an office where your location win constantly grow better. Business is moving up the hilL Some day the business center will b at the corner of Twenty fourth and Farnam, From now until that time, tCextt will be no better office location nor better offices thai THE BEE BUILDING Was buUt for comfort. AJthoega the office offered re very few ladeed, there are none better la the build ing. If we have not what yon wast, let m pUee yo oa our waiting Ust. The room vacant at present arss Room 222-Chloa office salt, north light, Terr desirable for doctor, or dentists ; waiting room and private office; 680 eons feet 845.00 I loom 040 30- Water; partitioned Into private office) and waiting room; haa large double eaat wladowa; 10 square feet 818.50 APPLY TO BlTLDnrci DPERTjrTKNDENT, ROOM 108. 5 A RUSSIA TO RAISE TWO MILLION MORE War Minister Says New Army Will B Trained for Next Tear. CAN 8ATEGUAED PETH0GRAD LONDON, Auk. 28. General Poll vanoff, Russian minister of war, an nounces that Russia Is raising an other 2,000.000 men and that the fate of tho campaign will not be de cided before somo tlmo next year, ac cording to tho Petrograd correspon dent of tho Times. The correspondent quotes General Poll vanoff as follows: "Wo are confident of our ability to safeguard Petrograd. Our armies can stand tho winter without Incon venience, Everything Is ready for that purpose. "A new force of t.Ono.OOf) men will bn trained tar behind the fighting lino and will be ready to take the field In tho spring. General Iluxaky la chief In charge ot the Petrograd front with several armies at his Immediate disposal. "It is my settled purpose to do every thing In my power to work In harmony with the luma and public opinion." Goneral Pollvanoff, says the corre spondent, characterized the statement that the allies were not helping Russia to the utmost ot their power as "senseless gossip." "TO THE GERMAN PEOPLE" OVER DOOR OF REICHSTAG LO?mOrT. Aug. According to a tele, gram received from Berlin, says Reutera Amsterdam correspondent, the Reiohstag haa adjourned until November SO. It wss announced that at the suggestion of Chancellor rlathmann-Hollweg the Reichs tag building henceforth would be orna mented with a tablet Inscribed "To the German People. BfTRLW (Via London), Aug. 17. The announcement made tn the Reichstag be fore Its adjournment today that an agree ment had been reached to place the In scription "To the German People" wrec the main portal ef the Reichstag settles an eld controversy and will permit ef putting the finishing touches on the Reiohstag' building. For twenty years the pace for the Inscription haa remained blank became the Ratohstac refused to accept one proposed by the architect and Bmperor William declined to nanctloa an other proposed by the Reichstag. Before the Reiohstag adjourned Dr. Johannes Kaempf proposed the usual cheers for the emperor, and. for the first time tn the history of the Reiohstag, two swnallsts joined In the cheering. Yow friends do not ask why .1 Stclnwny. They know and it is conceded by master musi- ntiim AVArrwTupra that thd STEINWAY is tho Ideal instrument, won derfully perfect in tone, ar tistienllv beautiful and me chanically correct in every detalL Want to Move 111 II