Nebraska Newspapers

    TUfc iStlfl: UMA1LA, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1!H.
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LEFT JILTED GIRL
TO DIE OF POISON
trot to Jframa Alibi by Meant of
Letter Befor Visiting Girl
' in Woodi.
ADMITS IKPEOPIR RELATIONS
CHICAGO. Fea. II. William II.
Orpet. University of Wisconsin
junior, who li itld to bare left
Marlon Frances Lambert, whom he
had jilted, to die of poison In
Helm's woods at Lake Forest, a sub
urb, was charted with murder to
ds? and held In the Wankeran Jail
without ball.
Orpet. who Is 20 years old, is
said by Ralph J. Dady, state's attor
ney at.Waukegan, to hare admitted
to' Vim that he nad been intlmat
with the girl, who was hut 18 years
old. He is said to hare stated fur
ther that Miss Lambert had feared
for four months that she was to be
came mother despite drugs which
fee purchased for her arid which
wade her 111.
, Make Trig.
prpet. It Is charted. made a secret trip
from Madison to Lake Forest last Tues
day nlgM. Hs called the slrl on the tel.
ephone end made an appointment which
waa kept In the woods next morning. At
tr. Inlsrvlaw Orpet aald ha told her he
was to marry a Miss relestla Touker. It
leseUl that she then took a quick-acting
vdisen' and that Orpet saw her die.
Frightened, be rushe away and caught
a train tack to Mediaon. The next day
(Thursday) the body waa found.
Before leaving- Madison. Orpet la said
to' have tried to arrange an alibi IIS
wrote a letter to Mlaa Lambert and left
It In the hands of a friend to bo mailed
Wednesday afternoon. At that time he
was on hie way back to the university.
He bad left bis room at a bosrdlng
house In a condition to subtest that ha
had occupied it Tuesday night
Neremal geaeat Teacher.
iff Touker ta said to be an Instructor
In chemistry at a normal college at De
Kiln. TTT It Is said that she was a
schoolmate of Orpet at Lake Forest be
fore he went to the university.. The pris
oner Is an ethletle-looking young man,
4r.ii fa. reaiiiatlon college garb. To a
reporter he eaid:
"I met her by appointment In the
woods. I told her not to tell anyone I
was coming-. I mussed up my bed tn the
boarding house at Madison so my land
lady would think I had bees there. I ar
rived at Lake Forest late Tuesday night.
I ealied bar by telephone at her home on
the Jonas Kuppenheiiaer farm. I told
her I would be waiting the next morning
at the Beared Heart station of the Chi
cago St Milwaukee nectrlo tine. I saw
her when she passed toward the station
with her chum, Josephine Darts. I was
hiding behind a tree and beckoned to her.
Soon she came back.
i -- Tttswaga with He.
fVe started walking. I told her I was
threuga with her.' She cried and begged
me not to give her up. We walked end
tsifced In the woode about two hour.
"Finally I told her thet-e wss no use
talking sny longer that I had made up
toy mind I was going to marry Miss
celeetia Touker. I started away.
T heard her cry out for. me to eome
back. I kept en walking.
"i was some distant sway when I
turned train. J saw her fall to the
ground. Z ran back. I saw she was
dyin.
' I remained with her until I was sure
she was dead. Then I hurried to the sta
tion end took sn electric ear and earns
to Chicago. I caught a train at Chicago
for .Madison, Then I sent a letter to
her. 1 did not tell anyone about what
had happened beoause I feared It might
reflect on her good name."
O. E. Orpet, father of the prisoner and
uerintendent of the Cyrus MoCormtrk
estate at Lake Forest, retained James It
wukerson, former United States district
attorney here, to defend his son.
Other Things to Be Cleared.
state's Attorney Dady at Weukegaa
said tonight;
"We had tu charge Orpet with murder
because It was the only way we could
hold him. He is the man who was with
the girl, but there are ether things to
be cleared up. "We haven't tound where
tbe poison came from and we have not
fathomed why Orpet waa so careful so
frame an allM."
Miss Touker' hem called ever the
long alliance telephone tonight, but
elicited only the statement that she was
too til to answer the telephone. Others
in tbe house. Including her mother, Mrs.
J. C. Touker of Chicago, declined to an
swer questions.
' It was learned that Miss Touker was
isaen in last But:. ,
Defectives Given
Chanco to Serve
(Correspondence of the Associated Preea)
londox, Feb. l-Instructione have
Issued to the local recruiting offices not
to reject a prospective recruit simply be
cause he ts unfit for general military
service. Men who ere not up to the
physical standard required tn active cam
paigning will be accepted for boras serv
ice. garrison duty at borne and abroad,
and clerical and other sedantary army
occupations. Also reservation Is made
for men capable of helping to build roads
and of working on defenses. This new
order has come Into effect since the close
of the original Derby enrollment scheme,
end perhaps a large number of rejected
Derby men will now have to be re
examined. .
UNIVERSITY OF KIEL NOW
C0LLECT1NQ POETRY ON WW
(Correspondence of the Associated Press)
KIEL. Feb. 1. The University of Kiel
has begun the collection ef all the poetry
of tbe war which has more than medi
ocre merit. Requests have gone out to
all poets of reputation, to ail newspe.
pera. megaslnes and publishers, to for
ward to the university anything that
may seam to them to be worthy ef a
t'lwe tn the collection. Including prose
rMLs, songs with or without music, nor.
els and 0
Te
Tfcrew Off Col S a
and Pre
vest ferle.
Take LAXATTVJ5 BROMO Q.ITNINC It
neatrtys germs, sets as a tonic and
laxative, and bslpe to keep the system ta
hecltby condition. There lc only one
"BROMO QVIS1ST.." K. Y. GROVE"!
!jfjtjre on box. ISc. AdvtriiemL.
STORY OF MURDER RETOLD
Grare of Alexander and Drat, His
Queen, Killed Thirteen Tear
Ago, Uncared For,
VICTTKS OF A COITSTTRACT
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
BELORADR. Jan. I.-The last of the
house of Obrcnovltoh, the murdered
Alexander, lies In a little chapel In the
Belgrade cemetery, forgotten hy con
queror and eonqitered alike. Beside htm
rests Queen Drags, the women for whose
sake he broke off relations with his
father and whoss Influence upon him un
doubtedly led to the sordid tragedy that
extinguished this royal line.
The chapel elands In the center of a
negieefed grave ysrd. It Is a primitive
building, a larger sample of the typical
Serbian peasant's cottage, without ems.
mentation ef any kind. It la of brick.
rudely plastered on the outside. Onl? a
cross carved Into a tablet giving the dste
of erection shows thst It Is not an
ordinary house or even a substantial
hem. Bullets here bored holse through
two ef the plain glass windows, and hers
made blisters In a half doxee places on
the plain sheeMtvm doers. The street
flrMlne; was a half mile sway, but the
modern Infantry rifle has a long range,
and the chapel stands on ground elevated
somewhat above tbe scene ef the street
battles. .
A few Hungarian soldiers are Quartered
tn a building 100 yards away from the
chapel. None ef them had any Idea
where the key to the chapel wss to be
found. Ths Associated Frees representa
tive finally crawled through a small hole
In the wall, which appeared to hare
been made by a ehetl which failed ta e.
nlod. Prsttered bricks and mortsr lay
on the floor Inside.
eered eat meats Tore,
The scene waa depressing. In the middle
of the floor lay a box containing books,
dust-covered and tn disarray. The high
alter hsd been shoved back Into a smalt
ante-room. Ths sacred vestments, soms
of them torn and muddled, were strewn
about the floor and on the altar. A pic
ture of a saint. Its protecting glass
splintered, lay faee down. A bullet had
found Its way into one ef the crude
moral paintings. Mortar dust lay deep
ever everything.
! The correspondent had been Informed
that the murdered king and queen were
burled In this chapel, but there waa noth
ing In sight even remotely resembling a
royal tomb. Near one corner was a
plain lettered slab, flanked by two wooden
crve see. ' In Cyrllllen letters on the slab
were the names of two of ths older mem
bers of the Ohrenorttoh family. Right
end left stood a crude Roman cross of
wood. On ths c roes-bar ef the crass at
the light was rudely lettered "Alexander
Obrenovltch." The corree ponding bar en
the cross at the left bore the name
"Drafts, ObrenovHch.' There wag not an
other letter on either cross, no date ef
birth nor death, no word to Indicate that
the persons buried here had once been
kins; and aueen of the country.
In the more than thirteen years that
hare elapeed stnoe the murder, the crosses
have not even been set upright. Tbsy
ar simply leaned against the whitewashed
weJl. A nickeled candlestick stands near
the squalid tomb; at the ether aide la a
tall, cylindrical sheet Iron stove, sole
means ef beating the chapel. No guard
rail separatee the tomb from the place
occupied by, the worshippers. ,
Traa-edy ts sVeealle.
The mean tomb In the little chapel re
call the regicide that stirred ail the
world, with the exception, according to
the contemporary reports, of Berbla It
eel f, In Jane, ISO. Trouble had been
accumulating for year at the Berbiaa
court. Alexander had alienated hie
father Milan and offended various Dure
pen courts by marrying Drag Maachln,
widow ef an engineer and a former
woman-tn-walting of Queen Natalie. Ne
potism and general favoritism still fur
ther embittered the old court party at
Belgrade. Particularly was there wide
disaffection among the army officer.
What gave greater Impetus to the
growing conspiracy against King Alex-
snder was his act In suspending the con
stitution on April T. 1903, declaring rold
the mandates of the senator and council
lors of state, dissolving the Bkupshtlna
and setting aside various lewa. Including
the proas law and the election law.
Late tn the night ef June 10, ISM, a
band ef conspirators, chiefly officials and
army officers, and Including Colonel
Maachln. brother of Prate's dead hue-
band, overpowered or shot down tbe weak
palace guard and forced their way to
the deer of the royal apartments. This
door waa blown down with dynamite and
the king and queen were ehot or stabbed
to death, and their bodies thrown out
the window Into the small aarden sur
rounding the palace.
Harder Fleas Tern Dawa,
Contemporary reports describe the mur
der as taking place ta the old Xonak.
The correspondent waa told here In Bel
grade, however, that the tragedy eoeurred
In a small garden bouse which stood
midway between the eld and new Xoneks.
This "murder house,' as It was termed,
ts said to have been torn down at the
order of King Peter, who did not care
to have a perpetual reminder ef the
tragedy before bis eyes.
The mutilated bodies ef the murdered
king and queen. It was reported at the
time, were thrown to to rude wooden oof
fins, carried to the chapel on the hand
cart of a sewer cleaner and hurled un
ceremoniously a few hours after the mur
der. Thus ended the rule and the line of the
Obrenovtteha, thirty-five years to a day
after the greatest of the line. Prtnoe
Michael, had been murdered tn the Top
cider park weet of the city. Prtnoe
Ale ssnder of the house of Karageorge
vitch.. father ef the present Xing Peter,
was thrice tried la Hungary for partici
pation la that murder, but after a con
vtctloa In one court, wae acquitted by
two others.
The conspiracy of laa was planned ta
restore the Karageorgevttrh dynasty, and
the murders of June, 1908, whether or
twt they had that as thetr principal aim.
resulted tn Its restoration: the Skupehttna
eallsd Peter to the throne some weeks
arter the tragedy. King Pater, who waa
at ths time tn Genera, made a formal
statement denying any complicity tn the
Plot or any guilty foreknowledge of It.
Nobody was punished for the murdens.
Brief IViotslsaae.
Tbe man who ta in krve with hlmeelf
- . mv ie areuao.
w,?"n never yc made a man
sU'lt a fool than be was before he
lA"? vWl!Lw"r 1 ina ht Place
Jw ,f h th,na Somebody els Is in H.
The man who ts slwsye ea sure that
"'" a sooo thing when ha s
It ts often taken for nu fclmaalr
No man ever eels to be ee rice that he
thinks he would be bappier U he didn t
have eo much otoney.
The mo who cannot handle today le
no mat for tomorrow.
It Is the man who Ooea his best that
Ian t out snintng tr ha fails. Judse.
UNI GIRLS REBEL
AT BEAUTY PAGE
Handsomest Tonne; Women Student!
at Nebraska &efue to Pick
Eight Loveliest.
ALL OVTJt FLAX3 FOB ANNUAL
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, Feb. U-tSpeclaD-Ne-
braska university girls lsst week declared
their opposition to selecting eight of
their number for a beauty section In ths
university annual, the Oornhtisker. on
the grounds mere beauty Is not In Itself
standard of merit.
t'titvereltr women have high Ideals of
worth and service thst sre not com
patible with dlscrtmlnstlon on the basic
of physical charm. In th. opinions of ths
Black Masques and flilver Serpents, the
sooletlee who voiced the opposition of
the oo-eds to the beauty section.
nirls Tara It Devra.
'The Cornhuakr Mninmtif hmA
eufed a joint meeting of the two societies
and asked the girls to nominate twenty
women students whom they considered
the most beautiful in the university. Of
this number eight were to be selected
for the beauty section. But the girls
rebelled, said that It waa an Insult rather
than an honor to be naked to make the
selection, and edvtaed the Cornhueker
that the girls did not approve of the pro
posed fsature of the year book.
The decision of the girls at ft ret aroused
a protest from the Comhusker staff, who
declared that there would be a beauty
section enyway.
riaae Are Chastgsd.
On second thought, however, they
changed from this position, announced
that the C'orfthtiaker should have only
what the students wanted, and said that
a "Nebraska girls' " section, containing
the pictures of eight girls Known for
their real worth of character and ability
tn general lines ef student activity would
probably be a part of the annual.
Ghent University
May Yet Become a
Flemish Institution
(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)
BRUR8ELA, Jan. 81. The steps taken
by Oerman Governor General von Bia
sing to convert the University of Qhent
Into a Flemish Institution meets a long
cherished wish of the' Flemish popula
tion of Belgium,
As early as lsto, or only a decode after
Belgium wes separated from Holland, a
resolution wss Introduced In the Belgian
Parliament for the establishment of a
Flemish university. Nothing came ot
this first attempt, but the movement
never subsided. Four years sgo It
gained such force that three Flemish
members of the Chamber, representing
each of ths three political parties, united
in offering a resolution calling for
Flemish university. Opponents of the
measure argued that the Flemish !an
guage waa net adapted to teaching sol-
entlflo and high literary courses, as the
Flemish people were without a literature
ef their own, and even such prominent
Flemings as U aeterlinok and Terhaeren
were imnn, tknu iMflnanM
hrouffht , against the ' propoltiour.: The
political- economise, Xjedewyx
ds Bast,
wno pas died, sinoe the war began, ar
gued, however, that the backwardness
of the Flemings In social and poUtloal
development . was due precisely to the
fact that they had been without a unl
varsity where they might study In their
own language.
Finally the so-called , Flemish rolks
raad (people's council), appointed a com
mittee to draw up a plan for transform
lng Ghent Into a Flemish institution, and
tt adopted de Raet's plan, he himself be
Ing a member of the coremlslon. This
plan received the united endorsement ot
all Flemish organisations of the country,
ana xne university question became an
Issue In the elections held In the first
half of 191 for' a part of the members
of ths Chamber. This issue finally be
came so acute that the premier. M. de
Broqueviiie. himself representing a
Flemish constituency, felt the necessity
ef making conoeeaion to It: he promised
that the government would take Into
consideration the question of adopting
Flemish at Ghent In eome form. Of
Bourse the outbreak of the wsr left the
whole matter tn a state of suspension.
WOWEK Cf AUSTR5A AKE NOW
DOING ALL KiNOS OF WORK
(Correpoadee cf the Associated Press)
VIENNA, Feb. 1. Not a week paaeeo
In Austria without women appearing In
some new occupation. Women teamsters
are now to be seen on the streets, often
performing laborious work. The big
dairies are employing them to deliver
milk to the retail branches, and they are
also driving tee wagons. A ehoeolats
factory Is sending out neatly uniformed
women wagon drivers. Business motor
wegons are being driven by women
chauffeurs.
In the big petroleum works women are
doing all kinds of work, filling cans.
loading them on the wagons, snd then
going with the drivers and delivering the
cans at houses, and collecting the bllla
Culled from the Wire.
The Utah progressive state committee,
met at Salt Lake City and called the
stale Convention fop A nr.) s
hucUl nUon1 contention
The OnlorlA n,.KH.- .....
tlon. whloh is to select delegates st large
tO ths It&tlorj&l flonvanliAn 4m r'K (..- -
- - - - 7-7- T - s- asitw VUIirn'
dune T, Is to be held In liiebln. Msv l!
the state oeatral committee decided today.
-rna runaraj or M. M. Reynolds, banker
who eonunltted sulolds at Pauora la ,
was hold. Arthur Kevnnlda Chicago
banker and a brother of ths dead man.
and A. JL Reynolds, Coder Rapids, a eon.
John A. Cunningham, secretary of the
Pubuoua RetaJI Cmcora' Bunri.Mn
made public cwlee of a complaint Mslnat
certain mall ea,inr houses, which he haa
eant to the Federal Trade oomntlaaion at
Washington for formal lawaticaUon.
Vntted Btatea Senator A. B. Cummins of
loaa, reddidit for the republican presi
dential Domination la the forthcoming
Minnesota prtmerlea. spoke at the enuual
dinner of the Lincoln club at St. Peul. Ha
d tared himself ta favor ef the govern-
naeui maatueotura or munitions.
A tolnt rwsolatloa authorising the .nk
mlsalon of a woma suffrage aottidUMHt
to a stale elooUon. was adopted by ths
Oklahoma house of repreaentativsa The
i wm m 10 is. 0dch.ii una rasnlu
tloo be adopted by the senats the amecul-
rnen would be exibmlited, to tbe al
at the August eaaoiioa
"Immediate and Intensive afltloa en pre
pardnae by Uie national eeverntnent"
M advocated tn rvwululiuae adopted hy
the annual conventKxi of the Colorado
Me(J Miners' association at ler.ver. The
roauiuuons also auacaed me jrvrrui nn-
eral land leasing tHil and declared that.
If enaatad. It wlil "impoee upon ths states
If enaatad,
ronuUnins put.lle land an lniuatlus nrnr
beforw e.julll In ins legislative snnale
j of ths country.
WORK TO KEEP DP CREDIT
Allied State of Austria-Hungary
Hare Methods for Handling
Financial Proposition!.
HAND ONTO THE OOLD RESERVE
(Correspondence of The Associated Prees.)
VIENNA. Jsn. JO. Formerly the Amer
ican dollar was worth hers 4.M crowns:
now it sells at 7.i. Normally 1 crowns
cost SO marks, while now one may buy
them at about 70. Kven the money of
Auatrla-IIunsary's allied states Is much
above par. Tbe Dulgarlan lira, which In
times of peaoe waa cheaper than the
Auetro-IIunsarisn crown, stands at an
average of 100 to I'M and the Turkish
pound is worth ebout 17 crowns where
formerly It was only 21.
This depreciation of the crown. In some
cases liesrly et per cent would lie a
serious matter for Austria-Hungary were
the causes of an economic nature related
to peaoe, Instead of wartime conditions.
The Austro-Hungarlan crown la tow for
the reeeon that ths paper currency of
the country, based principally on the na
tional gold reserve. Is being deprived of
Its base by the many purchases the
country has made In foreign markets for
which the actual metal, gold, had to be
exchanged. With Its allies, Austria-Hun
gary still trades on the normal basis of
credit, resting on an exchange cf mer
chandise, but In buying from neutrals and
through neutrals from the enemy even,
nothing but the actusl transfer cf gold
suffkea. Bo far Austria-Hungary has
been obliged to deplete Its national gold
stork and reserve to exactly what the
average of depreciation of the crown
Indicates, roughly speaking 19 per cent
Her Valae te Held I .
The case ts analogous to tha( of Oreat
Britain In Its relations with the United
States. Aftsr having realised as much
credit as posslbls by a transfer to Ameri
can holders of much commercial paper
owned In Oreat Britain, the value of the
pound sterling la being kept up by ship
ping specie to . New Tork. Austrla-ITun
gary has been doing the same thing.
though not with' the same euocese because
Its gold reserve was never nearly as
great is that of Oreat Britain. -
The exchange In the Austrian ministry
of finance, made recently la directly re
lated to the problem of bettering the
standing of the crown. Of the work
toward this end, the limitations of 1m
porta for which gold must be surrendered
will be an Important part. At the out
break of the war not enough attention
was given this. It Is said. A stiffening
up by the Austrian banks would have
kept much gold In the country, but this
would have taken a financial organisa
tion which Austria did not have. The
new minister of finance. Dr. Leth,' 's
looked upon as the man who will supply
this. Having successfully managed for
years the Austrian postal savin ss tnstitu
Uon. floated a number of large Auatrlan
loans In the United States. Eingianl and
France, and recently managed the three
war loans which the country has raised
he has not only ths confidence of his
own people, but etso a high standing n
foreign money markets. It Is said.
Vlsune Are Uakaewa.
Just what tactics he will employ s
still unknown, but It Is expected that one
of his first moves will be to close the
Austrian border to foreign shipments
for which specie Is demanded. . In this
way .supply would become more eager
for. business than demand. - In other
words the foreign seller would find the
Austrian buyer less Inclined to do busi
ness on a gold exchange basis. . Hand In
hand with this would have to go a par
tial reorganisation of the country's com
merce ana industry, xne recent cnanxe
has placed a rery capable man at the
head cf the Austrian ministry of com'
mere a, and the ; first essentials for the
work to be done have thus been secured.
it Is thought . .
Whatever the other details of the pro
gram may be, one thing is certain, and
that ts that the new chiefs of finance
and commerce will strive to make Aus
try and, by co-operation with, and on
the part of, .the Hungarian government,
Hungary, more economically self-con
tained than they have shown themselves
In the course of the war. By doing this the
gold stock will be kept tn the country,
and the demand for foreign money snd
credit will be decreased to such an ex
tent that a further depreciation of Aus
tro-Hungarlan paper will be warded off.
Since the dual monarchy Is financially
sound Internally, as the raising of the
third war loan has shown, the task Is
one which a few remedial measures ot
the nature lnd1cete abcra will meet, ae-
eerlr.g to the fakement of Interested
clrcl'
Rats Being Bred
For Food for the N
Animals of Zoo
(Correspondence cf the Associated Press.)
BTTDAPXST. Hungary. Fab. L Rate
are being bred for the Budapest too in
order to save the scant ration of horse
flesh for tbe Hons and tigers, whose con
stent roaring shows the extent they suf
fer from the general ahortage of food,
Eagles, vultures and the wild birds sre
fed exclusively on rata. At times when
horse meat has been unobtainable, goats
and the less valuable animals havs been
sacrificed to save the lives of the beasts
that once ruled the jungle.
But the herbivorous animals havs also
gone through hard times, ss wild cheat
nuts hsve been substituted for expensive
hay. They have email liking for chest
nuts. A herd of ten seals had to be
killed, as rlo fish could be obtained for
mom. ins seat roea. weni to. icea me
wild beasts. Two polar bears were shot
one because he refused to eat war food
and the othet because he grew so wea
on the new diet it waa deemed a mercy to
finish him off. The bears added to tbe
soo's revenue lu another way, as the
privilege of shooting them waa auctioned
off to local sportsmen, ons of whom paid
y for tbe honor.
NORWEGIAN STEAMER
ALABAMA1 IS SUNK
LONDON. Feb. 11-The Norwegian
steamer Alabama of Stavaager, a vessel
of S81 tons gross, has been sunk. The
erew was saved. No details regarding
the sinking ar available.
Caw Uva la lrkmtah.
NEW TORK, Feb. U. The Russia a
ovammanL throuah re im-mmi uiuim
made by membere of the Thuna, has given
Mrs. Catherine BresnhofvaSy. the famous
Russian political exiia. permission u live
In the city of Irkutsk.
Caatraet far law SLll4aa.
WASHINGTON, Feb. U.-48;tectsl Ts!e
STejn V The contract for the construction
of the pubiie building at Waehlnatnn.
la., hss been swaroed te the lieorte W.
Miu, t'onetructtoa company of Chicago
at tte.boo.
MISSOURI BRIDGE
APPROACH AFIRE
Council Blnffi and Omaha Depart
ments Called to Check
Flames.
CAUSED BY SHORT CIRCUIT
A short-circuit that Is supposed te have
i-veloped In one of the "pull holes" on
the east end of the street railway bridge
urned off all of the wire ceblee carry
ing the electric current from ths power
Plsnt of the Omaha Electric Light and
Power company requ'red to supply Coun
cil Bluffs and Its environment. About
fifty feet of the wooden aldewalk above
the point ef trouble wes burned off, call
ing for both the Council Bluffs and
Omaha fire departments.
The break occurred at I 14 o'clock yes
terday morning. The cables carrying the
current are encased In steel pipes, three
separate cables In each pipe and each set
containing eighteen No. 10 oopper wires.
The pipes are strung underneath the
bridge and are about two feet apart.
They are In duplicate to avoid Just such
an accident as occurred last night. The
pull boxes are located about 100 feet apart
and sre necessary for drawing the cables
through ths pipes. The short-ctreult, er
whatever It waa that caused the fire, de
veloped at the box just east of the street
ear switch on ths east end of the bridge.
The fifty-four wires carried In each of
these pipes transmit, a current of ft,30t)
volts, and when this was turned loose tt
generated such a fierce heat that the
copper wires melted ss If thsy were thin
Icicles, fusing all cf ths 10 wires Into a
ooupls cf long copper Ingota
It te Aatoaaatleallr Recorded.
When the short-circuit developed in the
line used for service It automatically re
corded the faot In the power station and
the duplicate set of wires were cut In.
In ten minutes these also went out end
the current for the whole town waa shut
off. About this time the watchman on
the bridge reported the fire and both
Omaha and Council Bluffs departments
responded. The Omaha firemen laid a
Una . of fire hoee from the . wast end of
the bridge, but the Bluffs men got there
first with a oh em leal stream from No,
automobile truck. ' The fire -was extin
guished after about thirty feet -of the
wooden sidewalk had been burned, but
about fifty feet was torn up to get the
fire., which wes burning underneath. The
ereosoted planks burned with a fierce heat
and only stubbornly yielded to the chem-
loal stream.
Men were set at work Immediately to
repair the break and they worked under
benumbing conditions from 8:30 o'clock In
the morning until fl:10 in the evening,
Manager A. L. English snd Charles Han
sen of the contract department were on
the ground all day. The break caused
all of the motion picture theaters In ths
uiurrs to suspend their afternoon pro
Weather-Proof
Any man with a title to normal health may hurl
cheery defiance in the teeth of the weather, even in its
wilder moods.
It's wholly a matter of blocKl-current and tissue
cells, and everybody knows that sttirdiness and vigor
in these regards depend largely on good, nourishing
food. -
Much of the food in the ordinary dietary is lack
ing in certain vitalizing elements which Nature has
designed for sturdy growth and resistance to disease.
Especially is this true of white bread and white flour
foods, because in making flour white most of the ener
gizing mineral phosphates of the grain are thrown out
in the milling process.
ITiesc vital elements are retained in the scientific
ally prepared food
Grape
Made of whole, wheat and barley, this food pro
vides all the nutriment of the grain, including those vi
talizing phosphates that mean, everything in building
up and maintaining a robust, vigorous body and keen
intellect.
A ration of Orajie-Nuts along with the other food
has worked wonders for thousands. , Ready to eat,
economical, appetizing. '
"There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts
Rold by Grocers everywhere.
rams and lnterf erred seriously with
aome cf the more Important Industrial
enterprises, Including all of the grain
elevators, some of which use eon horse
power for their dynamoes.
It came at a ertlra! time for the Sunday
morning edition of the Nonpareil. The
big press had been running only a few
minutes when the power went off. The
mail editions hed been printed and Just
few bundles for the carriers. The
press, could not be started again until
after s o'clock in ths evening when the
edition was completed and ths carriers
at sited out.
The cause of the trouble Is at present a
mystery to the electricians. Whether
the current rot fire to the bridge or fire
thst started In the pii.e planks that com
prise the sidewalk caused the troible is
not known. Either explanation la avail
able. The fact was clearly established
that It waa not due to any defect In the
cable housings. The fact that ths steel
ptpee were Intact eeems to Indicate that
the fire came from the outside. The pipee
had been heated te a high point for a
distance of many feet. The "pull holes"
are protected with a heavy iron covering
and cannot be reached without removing
soms planks from the sidewalk.
Arrests Curtail
Agents' Activities
(Correspondence of the Associated Press)
SALONIKI, Feb. 4. The arrest ot the
members of the consulates snd the
agents of the Central Powers, whetever
the point ef view ot International ethics.
had put an end to an absurd state of
affairs here. Before the agents of the
hostile powers were driven out, the al
lies were In much the same position ee
if their enemlee had free acoess to such
bases as Calais, Boulogne cr Havre.
Salonlkt now occupies the sams posi
tion with reference to the Anglo-French
troops as Lisbon did to Welllnrton over
a century ago In the Peninsula cam
paign. Tet before the recent orders were
carried out, enemy agents Aid not even
take the pains to oonoeal their activities.
Germans, Austrians, Turks and Bulgarn
had as much right to ths streets as the
British or French soldiers. They watched
and mads note of the landing of troops,
guns and supplies, sat In cafes and lived
tn hotels freauented by British and
French army men. They freely wrote,
telegraphed or took the train Into Tur
key or Bulgaria, where their Information
could be safely and promptly sent to
Vienna and Berlin. They used to stand
along the ancient quays and openly com'
ment on the peculiarities of the British)
and French warships, the equipment of
the men. the quality cf the supplies.
Now, transports can land their men
and goods with some pretense of secrecy.
At least, spies will no longer feel the
same protection In being In a neutral
port as before this neutrality wss qual
ified by the "recent arrests.
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