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Bandits Hold Up
Motor Bus Near
Los Angeles, Cal.
l.oS ANGF.LKM, Cal., Feb. K The Ue
AiiKPlm police department wee search
ing early today for IncN of four' armed
men who are believed to have llfi
reted in a acrlee of holdupa which look
place laat night botwurn l.oe Angcle
ml VmliT, a beach reaort.
Althouah It waa unofficially reported
t tint wvfn automobile pert lea aad an In
terurban afreet car were robbed, tho
pullr havt rrcolvrd flrat-hand Inform
tlun of but one crime, the. holding
of a motor hua oirntln between to
Angrlrn an Venice and the robbing ol
the ern mm aeengera and the la if
friir of W In iiinney and a amull amount
of Jewelry.
One of tho paanengera atated that one
of, the tobbera aald that thla waa the
acvonth automobile "e tiaT held up
tonight." Ke alao reported that two of
the robber a wore women'a hata and veil?
and the olhera maaka. They ar be
lieved to have traveled In an automobile.
All the alleged robbeiiea era aald to
have taken place In the eame locality.
Insurance Man Who
Meets Many Rebuffs
II aa It come to thtaT
An ambltlnua young Insurance man who
haa an offlra In tha Keellne building
agreed to circulate peUllona Ii Omaha
for tha aubmlaalon of the name of W
J. Bryan at tha April primary aa dela-
tntc-at-lame to the democrat lo national
convention.
" When he aaaiimed thla taak upon ra
queit of a l.lnroln friend he thoUHht It
would prove a huelneaa bonaler for him-
eelf. Ho viewed with conaldcrable rla
lion the proapect of meeting the demo
crate of Omaha and aaklng them to algn
for the man whoae leaderehlp here a few
joara ago waa aomelhlng to conjm
with.
Thla young Inauranra man entered tli
city hall with hla petition and told a aJ
atory of having met with many rebufra
lie aald at leaat M democrata had to
fused to algn hla petition. He did not
venture beyond the flret floor of the city
hall.
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at whli b tl e beiteunent of Iowa hlghwaya
waa the chief and only Biibject, n Lo
gun here today by nearly l.oflu goo I
roada' enthuaiaata.
Plana fur the convention weie made b
the Jefferenri pnd Lincoln hlghHV ami'
Ciattona, the Iowa P.ankera' aaao'-lnllon,
commercial organlanllona of t.e a. ale,
tha Pea Molnea automobile aliow and I'k
Greater Lea Molnea committee. V. C.
C arton of Iowa Clly, K. II. Spauldl-ig
(Irlnnell and W. A. tlopklna of I jm -il
made many of the preliminary arrange
menta. The convention la being Ii' lit In con
junction with the Dea Molnea automoMI"
how. whleh opened laat Monday. Amonj
the apeakera on tha program are mem
here of the alate better road comnilxa oi)
and the atnte highway commlaalon.
One of the anbjecta to ba conalrterrfl a
the convention will be the placing
guide ponla on the Lincoln Highway.
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GOOD ROADS BOND ISSUE
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i Offlieia of the Omaha Auto i: b a e
murh elated over the paaaage, S to I,
f a H.00,000 bond laaue for good roada
purpoaea In HI. lunula county. Mleaouri.
thla week. The Auto club of Hi. Intuit
I waa largely Instrumental In the auccess
j of the lond laaue.
Ixcal auto club men regard tha 8'
Ixiuia bond laaue aa a favorable omen ii
the coming aubmlaalon of a almllar bond
Inane propoaltlon for iouglaa county, by
which the roada here will be greatly im
proved for auto and farm traffic. The
Ht. Ixiula laaue waa the largeat of 111
kind ever peeaed In the mlddle-weit.
Aenletant Secretary H. C Smyth of t.ie
club aaya.
CRONES WRITES
ANOTHER LETTER
Tltn Wlo Put Poison in 8m? st
Chicago Banquet Gives Hi
Point of View.
HANDWRITING IS IDENTItli'D
NEW YOttK. Feb. 18. Uel;i Ing
that Jean C'ronea, the (.'btcago clie.
acitieed of poisoning the aoup at
dinner of Catholic clergymen and
lpymen In that city. In in New Yorl:
or near by, tha polica mad every
effort today to run him down. The
authoritlea think Cronea ta the
author of two lettara mailed in thla
clly to tha New York Timea tn which
tba writer boaata that ha haa escaped
arrest and makes veiled threats.
Tha Identification by John M. Mc
Ccurt, assistant United States dis
trict attorney at Scranton, Pa., ol
tba fac simile or tba first Cronea let
ter received here aa tba handwriting
o' the man wanted In Chicago stimu
li' ted police efforts here. Crones'
writing waa Identified by Examina
tion pa pars be had aent to a corre
spondence school In Scranton.
The second letter, apparently alrn-td by
Cronea, received by the New York pap
laat night, contained what purported ,u
ba hla finger prlnta. The police are en
deavoring to learn by thcae pi In
whether Cronea had a revord In t e .o
Ilea bureau of Identification. I
Teat of Ilia letter.
In thla letter "the writer attempt I t
tell ta an incoherent manner "why I dil
It." Many of tba words are mlsspellaj,
sa was the caaa in tha pravloua -leticr.
The writer aaaerted that "while at
Kurope mllllona of Chr!a;tan ai
achlauchterlng each other In the in a
bloody maaaaore, and In theie free oun
try thouaanda of men and women ar
tramping tha atreeia without food au4
i helter at Ue Weiy aama time t churcii
holds d nera and pay lit for each cover
uhlch starts with fteluga Caviar . ant
Champaaane, the same money which wn
begard from pour work.nsmen' and
omen the aama mony were, t.ie blood
of pcur workera haa run for.
'Thcae condlllona." tho writer con
llntid. 'aie an acandal. Th'. Ii t.ie
falli i of flirlatlsnlly and an Ilia ill to
ward honeaty and a challenge
humanity. Lei tun Cliui.h ana.er .hoa
my chargea toward Ihe 'world nnt I
at hall atand for the rhargea mad a a na'.
me.
"The police makee uie laugh. When 1
waa in Buffalo two aplea wheic n t"r
ue. After a while they went back.
How foolish la Ihe police not for
two centa bralna. Traterla Ii workint
fur an hour around the police head
quattera but no one came out un1 it
me. J am glad that the srlea from chi
eneo arc com ng than t know better ni
wat lime to let n- gu."
rrWia Kvldeave uf riot.
I'lllCAOU. Keb. lk.Kotlowiiig the pub
lication thla mnrn'.ng In New Vork ra:ra
cf a not er letter believed to have been
written by Jean Cronea. former aaflatant
chef at the I'nlveralty club of Chi ago,
local pollre of 1 ' ta la put on New York
author Ilea the burden of reaponalblllty
for Cronea" arrect. rronet '.a wanted In
connection with tha putting of poiaon Ii
the aoup at a banquet recently give i
Archblehop Mundeleln.
Federal agents here continued today
their effort a to aaalat local authorltl
In running down reporta that the plan
Ing waa tha reault of an antl-clorlval plot
of nation-wide proportion!. it van
learned tooay that federal operative
rereUed warning of aucU a conaplrac
more than three montha ago. At fiat
time it waa reportej anarchiatlr leader
were ho'd'ng aecret meeting. n Silid.
Colo, dlactia.lng plana for the Inrrp'fkn
of a "relun of terror" throughout ,h
I'nlted Htatea by the deatructlon a'
ehurehea and bulldinga. amoi j thans
being the pew tJ.SOO.fOD federal bi.lldluj
at Ucnvcr.
l!l l'rail in Iowa and NchruKku.
Outside of low and Ncltruakg
uu inuHt ftdd Diet quart or
40c KI1" to Im prrpnid.
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OTTl'MWA. Ta . Feb. it -The Mellio-
t dial forward movement waa outlined to-
diy at tha Iowa conference at the Ftrat
Methndlat Kpla-opal church here, by
Bis ho pa Theodore 8. Henderaon of Cliat
tonooga. Tenn ; K. W. Hughes of fat.
Kranrlaco and Frank XI. Briatol of
Omaha, reaident blahup for thla terrltor).
Thla movement, whlrh haa aa Ha goal
the acquleltlon of ao.ono new church
membeta. originated In tha mind of
Blabop Itendrraon when he waa chalr
man of the evangellatlc commlaalon.
Aa Aid Ulaeellaa.
irkn . tftil . Hull nA Mflinlrf .fi..
I " ' - ' "
Vour ineala, irequenuy nave aour aioru-
a' h and eruclationa you ahould take one
k or t namneriain immruiaieiy
L . it.-, dinner to aid digntton. Obtainable
ifcj teiywhiie. Advertlannent.
UPTON'S STEAM YACHT
IS AUXILIARY CRUISER
NKW VORK, Feb. IS.-SIr Thomaa Li,v
ton's ateam yacht. The Krin. which haa
often been Been In American watera aa
a tender to 8lr Thomaa' challengers for
tha Amertca'e cup. la now an auxiliary
erulaer In the Hrllleh navy, attached to
the fleet that la guarding the North Sea
agalnat aubinarinea. Thla Information
waa contained in a letter reoelved her
from Blr Thomaa. In which tha yachta
rnan atated that ha Is recovering from a
long lllneaa and Intends aoon ta - leave
England for the . United Statea and
Canada. 8ir Thomaa waa taken HI after
returning from Serbia, where he took
part In tha organlaatlon at rcllnf wort
during the tvprua epidemic.
The Erin carried the American contin
gent of nuraea and aurteort to Serbia.
Before that It waa tn aervice S4 a boa
illai eaael.
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