THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY. MARCH 13, 1917.
HOLDERS OF STOCK
MAY BEASSESSED
Council Bluffs Bank Case De
cided by Supreme Court
of Iowa.
High Schbol Pupils Quiz Count
Tolstoy About His Famous Father
APPEAL 07 FIRST NATIONAL
(from Staff Correspondent,)
Dei Moines, la., March 12. (Spe
cial Telegram.) The Iowa supreme
court today sustained the city of
Council Bluffs in its assessment of
bank stock of the First National bank
of that city. The bank brought suit
against the city in district court and,
losing its case, appealed.
It contended that' the law under
which the assessment was made was
not valid because it did not receive
a two-thirds vote of the assembly
when passed. The supreme court,
however, upheld the law. Taxes on
bank stock under this law can be
assessed to those owning it.
Cummins and K.nyon to Speak.
It is probable that Senators Cum
mins and Kenydn will speak in Dcs
Moines soon and take occasion to de
fend their action on the armed neu
trality bill. They will answer attacks
on them and make it clear exactly
where they stand and what, in their
opinion, the administration has pro
nosed. In so doing, their purpose
would be to lay bare things as they
see them in order that the people
of Iowa may pass judgment. The
idea of the senators i; to call a mass
meeting of all people interested and
explain their attitude which has been
so severely critcized.
Takei Time to Muster Out.
, None of the Second regiment troops
will be mustered out of the federal
service until March 19 or later. Major
Sturtevant, chief niustering-out officer,
has made this statement. This will
make the stay of the infantrymen
four days longer than that of the
recently discharged cavalry. The
greater part oi the -egimcnt loaded
and struck tents in the rain at
Brownsville and the tents and equip
ments were loaded when wet. This
will be gone over and given a
thorough drying out. The men are
being given some drill work each
day on the parade grounds at the
tort.
City to Hire Garden Expert,
t J. A. Hcndrik of Ames, a graduate
of the horticultural and gardening de
partment at the State Agricultural
college, has been selected by the
Des Moines city council to be the
executive secretary of the Des Moines
municipal garden commission. He
will assume his duties at once. He
will attend to the details of orgamz
in a the work of the commission. At
a meeting of the council to be held
next week plana for the cultivation of
all vacant lots and backyards in Dei
Moines will be discussed. Hendrik
will begin seed distribution about the
middle of next week. Local real es
tate men have promised to secure 150
vacant lots which can be used for
gardening purposes.
Interurban Accident, -
i Five young people of near Colfax,
rtturnflig from a country dance, nar
rowly escape death at 1:30 Saturday
morning when their automobile wis
struck by an interurban car. Their
auto was demolished. Clarence Cook
and Miss Viola Stewart were seriously
injured. Three othera, Howard In
graham, Otto Goodman and Charles
Stephenson, escaped with minor in
juries.
Salazar's Band
. Kills Forty-Five
On Mexican Train
' luarez. Mexico. March 12. Sala.
zar's band of Villa rebeli fired into
a Mexican Central oassencer train
at Laguna station today, killing forty-
hve of the de tactu escort ana wound'
ing three of the passengers, according
to employes of the Mexican Central
who arrived here- or. a train today.
They also said twenty o' Salazars
men were killed and twenty-two
wounded by the Carranza escort dur
ing the engagements following the
holding up ut the passenger train.
The Villa rebels were reported to
have surroundtd the train, orernow
rred the escort after a brief fight and
to have robbed the train of everything
which could be carried away. The
train was southbound and, after rob
bins it, the wounded passengers were
sent to Chihuahua City by the rebels
A train left here early today for the
south with a large escort of Yaqui
Indians on board.
Several students of Central High
school took keen personal interest in
meeting Count Ilya Tolstoy, when the
son of the Russian philosopher, Leo
Tolstoy, visited the school Monday
morning.
Sara Kubenstcm, a junior stuaeni,
aughter of Mrs. Diana Rubenstein,
13 North Nineteenth street, asked
Count Tolstoy what his father's re
ligion was. The young woman was
born in Russia, has read and enjoyed
Tolstoy in the original Russian. She
and her people are adherents of the
Jewish faith.
"My father had thw same religious
ideas, as Socrates, Budhha, Confucius
and Christ, the religion of love and
the doctrine of non-resistance, tne
isiting Russian explained. My lath
er was really a true Christian, but
opposed all hypocrisy.
laiCr A11SO JVUUCI19MGII 0IU DUC
sometimes doubted i'. the elder Tol
stoy had any religion, for she some
times thought he had seemed to tear)
to pieces Christianity as it is prac
ticed generally. She asserted that
although she is a Jewess, she had ad
mired and agreed with Tolstoy's
teachings in many respects.
Walter Cwirko, JU years ot age, a
special student of English at Central
High school, was another pupil who
met Count Ilya Tolstoy personally.
Cwirko came from Minsk, Russia,
four years ago, and he said he had
heard and read much of the elder Tol
stoy in his native land. Cwirko sup
ports himself while learning English
by working outside of school hours
at the Burgess-Nash store.
Dr. E. Holovtchiner. a native Rus
sian and a personal friend of the vis
TORNADO SWEEPS
EASTERH INDIANA
(Continued from Hint Tag.)
City Manager of Iowa
Falls Reims tPos!
Iowa Falls, la.. March 12. (Sne
rial.) On April I E. L. Marriage,
who has been the city manager here
for the last three years, will retire
t irom that position and his successor
1 will be chosen. Mr. Marriage has
tendered his resignation with a view
to accenting a better paying position
and one that is not dependent upon
politics. During the three years of
the city manager plan here, Mr. Mar
. Tiage has demonstrated its success
and much good has been accom
plished through his management.
backed by a mayor and council co
operating in making the plan opera
tive in the best sense. Mr, Mar
riage s successor will be named at
the April meeting of the city council.
citizens' relief committee was being
rgamzed rid will take up the work
of giving assistance.
itommunitaiiuu huh ucaiuj Tit
lanes was broken off. but reports
from persons coming into New Castle
in automobiles were that at least
seven persons had been killed in the
vicinity.
Nine Other Victims.
It was reported that three had been
killed at New Lisbon, three at More
land and three at Mount Summit.
The tornado played many treak acts
i it whirled its way ihrougb the
city. On a nunuer of streets every
house with one exception was leveled
to the ground, and in one block every
second house was wrecked and the
other homes escaped untouched. En
tire roots were torn trom houses and
carried for squares, and one house
was picked up and carried a half
square and set down again practically
unharmed.
Bodies Identified.
The identified dead here in last
night's tornado are:
EVKRBTT DUNLAP.
JAMES NKILI8.
QUAY DAVIS.
una. John OAVia. , "
UNIDENTIFIED HAN, believed to be Key
Davis.
ORVIM.B David, son or any vavis.
MRS. ARCHIE FLETCHBR.
MRS. ALICE WILLIAMSON.
WISH OPAL WILLIAMSON.
PRICE HHKLTON.
B. E. RAZOR, li. in of W. T. Roor.
FRANK L. NEWTON.
HKKN1CE DAY
JUNE DAY.
MRS, MARIE 15. WILLIAMS.
MHO. VERA HICKUNS.
ETHEL DAY.
ERNEST WATERMAN, son of Am
Waterman.
WILLIAM LOWIRT.
MRS. PETER DAY.
ERNEST M'LEAN, tied 11.
JESSE M'LEAN,
Cincinnati. March 12. The death
list resulting from the cyclonic wind
storm that leveled numerous houses
in Hvde Park, in the east end of the
city last night, had not increased to
day. Three oeoole. two men and a
boy, are dead, while hospital authori
ties are working to save the lives of
four others who are known to oe
dangerously injured.
No estimate ot the property dam
age had - been placed early today.
More than thirty nouses were either
completely leveled to the ground or
damaaed to such an extent as to
make them uninhabitable. The res
cue work was efficient, however, and
all of the homeless are being well
taken care of by neighbors.
The known dead are:
MATHEW M'CARTY, JR., Med I Jears,
OMKItULKNN, 41 rears.
NELSON, SI Illlt
Grace and Gries avenues suffered
the heaviest, only a few residences be
ing undamaged. J he wind reached
a velocity estimated at from sixty,
five to seventy miles sn hour.
One man was reported killed at
Prookville, fifteen milea from Day
ton, a score of bouses were unrooted
ia Dayton and fifty homes reported
demolished without loss of life at
Trotwood. near here.
In Dayton the storm passed quick
ly. Part of the roof of a moving
Dicture theater was blown on, caus.
ing a panic amon gthe women and
children at the theater. None were
hurt.
itor, told students at Central High
that Count Ilya Tolstoy was the
great son of a great sire. The doc
tor asserted that when the elder Tol
stoy wanted accurate knowledge of
any of the classics of Russian litera
ture he always called in Ilya, who
knew most of them by heart. The
latter has remarkable artistic and lit
erary attainments, Dr. Holovtchiner
said.
In a brief talk to the pupils Count
Tolstoy told of his father's work
along educational lines.
"He never restricted the freedom
of pupils," the children were told.
"His principle was to develop their
individuality. As a result instruction
was gay and animated, the teachers
were loved and the pupils made great
advances and appreciated their op
portunities. My father always under
stood his children and pupils; he
seemed to read our minds and we
never had any secrets from him.
"He did great work along social
lines also, but was always alone in his
work, as it did not have the approval
of the government"
Freedom of pupils, explained as a
principle adhered to by the elder
Tolstoy, was put into actual practice
by Central High students following
the address. They had a few moments
to themselves before the next classes
convened. During this tmie they en
joyed some vaudeville stunts on the
auditorium stage by several popular
students.
Students of the University of
Omaha were also addressed by Count
Tolstoy. He will make a public ad
dress this afternoon at the Bran
dcis theater on "The Life and Ideals
of My Father."
TRENCH FIGHTING
IN THECHAMPAGNE
Paris Announces Gain of Addi
tional Ground at Maisons,
Auberive and in Woevre.
PARSONS TELLS
JUST WHAT ART IS
Art Is Fundamental? Question
of Proportion He Tells
Fine Arts Society.
RAPS THE PARISIAN GOWN
BRITISH NEAR JERUSALEM Working north from the
Suez canal a British force drove the Turks from (1 ) EI Arishj
on the Mediterranean, and two months ago from (2) Rafah.
The latest advices put the army at (3) El Chalil, fifteen miles
south of Jerusalem.
BERLIN CALLS IT REPULSE
Paris, March 12. The French con
tinued their offensive operations in the
Champagne last night. Further gains
in the region of Maisons de Cham
pagne are reported in today's official
announcement. Prisoners were taken
in raids and patrol encounters at dif
ferent points on the front.
The statement follows:
"Between Soissons and Rheims a
surprise attack against one of our
trenches in the region of Poissy was
reDulsed.
"Near Maisons de Champagne we
made further progress last night by
grenade attacks. Patrol encounters
occurred in the sector of Auberive.
The number of machine guns which
we have captured in the region of
Maisons de Champagne has been in
creased to twelve.
"In the Woevre we made a sue.
cessful incursion into the German
trenches north of Seicheprey. In
Lorraine there were patrol engage
ments. We took prisoners near St.
Martin, northwest of badonvillers.
Berlin. March 12. (By Wireless to
Sayville.) rrench troops this morn.
ing attacked the German positions
south of Ripont in the Champagne
district, but were repulsed, says an
official statement issued by the Ger
man army headquarters stall In the
Aisne sector and in several districts
along the River Aisne and in Cham
pagne yesterday was especially strong
artillery firing.
Senator Hitchcock Goes
To Florida for Vacation
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Waahincrton. March 12. fSoecial
Telegram.) Senator and Mrs. Hitch
cock have gone to St. Augustine, Fla.,
for a few days.
Myron L, Learned of Umaha was
in Washington today after spending
a short vacation in Florida. He
leaves for the west tomorrow.
New Chemical Firm J. L. Duem
mer, Maxon H, Duemmer and H. E.
Lemar are the Incorporators ot the
Untversay Chemical company, which
will do a wholesale and retail business
In chemical preparations and toilet
articles. The capital is SJO.OOO.
Onljr One "BBOMO QlilNlNB."
To get the genuine, call for full name,
LAXATIVE BHOMO QUININE. Look for
signature of E. W. OROVK. Cure cold
In one day. 26o. Adv.rtleamsnt.
WELL
BUILT
TRUNK
Canvas covered, with heavy
hardwood slats, heavily
brass trimmed, with good
straps around it, two trays,
fancy cloth lined $12'.
Freling & Steinle
1803 Farnam St.
"Oauha's Best Baggage
,'"'.... Builders" ' . ,
With now a thrust at Parisian
gowns "some of them are horrible"
and again a horrified exclamation
at the propagandist who tries to
standardize dress for women, Frank
Alvah Parsons delighted a host of
members of the Fine Arts society
who had braved the sleet and rain to
assemble in the ball room of the
Hotel Fontenelle for his lecture Mon
day afternoon.
The topic of Mi. Parsons' talk was
"Art in Modern Life." "Life," said he,
"is activity, the inherent something
in man that makes him do the im
pulse to action. People that don't do
anything are terrible bores. We speak
of modern life to distinguish it from
other periods, because it must be dif
ferent, for if it were not different,
why should we call it modern?
"Art is the harmony between the
person and the objects which directly
surround him, the things which he
creates. If I buy a suit of clothes or
a chair I have created something and
that becomes my art.
Express Ourselves.
"There were once Gothic cathe
drals built. In the days of Louis XV
they had life, but it was not Gothic.
Then morals were optional and when
morals are optional there are none.
Each of these periods expressed what
it was. We are expressing ourselves
in our clothes, our homes, our auto
mobiles, our churches. In whatever
lies my line of life is my art.
bach person, no matter what he
may say, has an underlying desire to
be beautiful, the fatagonian woman
stripes her face with green paint to
make herselt beautitul. the Umaha
woman does not use green. The l'ata
gonian woman wears a ring in her
nose. I have seen women who wore
rings elsewhere," and his expressive
hand stole to his ear.
"We must wipe off our conscious
ness the five physical senses food,
drink, shelter, air and sex one of
which each of us thinks is art when
we want to appreciate real art. Sen
timentality and art are not identical.
Style is not to be confused with art.
A woman may be smartly gowned, I
admit that, but that is not art. Art is
fundamentally a question of propor
tion. Fashion should be made a slave
of woman, not woman of fashion. It
is individualism that makes for art.
Elocution Now Compulsory
At Creighton Arts College
Creighton faculty of arts and sci
ences, believing in efficacy of trained
speech to fit students for duties in
life, has made the study of elocution
compulsory.
Never before in the history of
Creighton have so many successfully
declaimed. Last week each student
was active in the first preliminary
elocution contest, in which every stu
dent was required to speak two min
utes. The successful ones will com
pete in the second preliminaries, to
be held March 14, 16 and 19. The
winners of places in these will com
pete in public contests the first two
weeks of May. A gold medal for the
winner of each division is offered.
There are five divisions four in the
high school and one in the college.
The students are required to select
their own pieces and then they are
trained by special elocution instruct
ors of the college faculty.
Those who will appear for the sec
ond preliminaries are:
March le Harry Burkler, Charles Coa
tello, Edward Zowllng, Harold Dwyor.
Michael Oeorge, Paul Holbrook. Dennis
Kelly, Joseph MoOovern, Frank Swoboda,
Ralph Bwoboda. Philip Aboud. Gerald Bar
rett, Brendan Brown, James Connell, Stanley
Frltchard, Matthew Severln. Charles qten-
Icka, Leo Brown. Last year of thene Charlee
Costello and Phillip Aboud were winners In
the lower division.
March IS Leo Alehlson, Robert Burkley,
Ludovlck Crofoot, Lawrence Kelly. Paul
MoOormott, Gerald Maloney, Carrolt Mul
len, James Farhat, John T. Plynn, Frank
Retnhardt, Francis Hogan, B. Donnelly, O.
Edward, E. Hurley, F. Meetecky. w. Ml
lanow, F. Morris, D. O'Brien, A, Ryan. In
this division Lee Alchleon won the gold
medal. Frank Mestecky won second.
March 19 Edward Dugdale, Felix Kemp,
George Lowry, Paul Maesoy. Fred Wachtler,
Joseph White, J. ElKln, E. prlmlslng, J.
McCabs, A. 8pltnagle, J. Vopr, R. Brown,
J. Buokley, J. Buggy, T. Kuhn, R. Lowry,
B. McAdama, H. Malty, F. Ranlclattl, T.
Redmond, C. Roach, T. Rueeell, Edgar
Jones. Stephen King. John McUrath. Ed
ward Maloney, Edmund Morln, Clifford Ry
berg, Oda Sully, Burke Shea, H. Dorsey, H.
Uoochen, C Heafey. F. Oerln. F. Schrlmp.
B. Fraaer, Edgar Mullen, E. Mehrens, J.
Griffin, A. Antony, A. Frank.
ecAua or t-ut-t.
STORM AND STRIKE
RUMORJIT MARKET
Wheat Prices Go Tumbling
Story Says Railroad Men
Plan Walkout.
COEN AND OATS DROP ALSO
Rain and snow over almost all of
the entire winter wheat belt of the
United States, coupled with reports
of the possibility of a strike of rail
road trainmen, in one or two hours
did what the grain bears by their
most frantic efforts have been unable
to accomplish in the last three
months. The rain and snow and a
prospect of a strike drove cash wheat
prices off 5 to 8 cents, corn lyi to 2
cents and oats 1 to 2 cents a bushel.
It was a day when cash wheat buy
ers and sellers met on one common
ground, for the buyers were not anx
ious to load up and the sellers did not
care to let go of their holdings. As
a result sales were the lightest in
weeks.
Sixty-three cars of wheat came in,
but most of it was carried over. The
few sales made were between $1.86)4
and $1.8!4. a bushel.
Corn receipts were 106 carloads and
a goodly portion was sold out, it be
ing taken by representatives of east
ern mills. Prices were $1.02 to $1.04
a bushel.
Oats sold at 57', to 5854 cents a
bushel, with sixty-one carloads on the
market.
Storage Grains Increase
The weekly report of the Omaha
Grain exchange grain inspector
showed an increase of 170,000 bushels
in local elevators, as compared with
storage on the corresponding date of
a year ago. The figures:
Now. Tear Ago.
Wheat l.OSO.OOO 1.170,0(10
fori, 1.350.000 1.117.000
Oats 127.000 S87.000
Rye 70.000 40,000
Barley s.000 30,000
Count Bernstorff
And Party Arrive
At Danish Capital
Copenhagen, March 12. (Via Lon
don.) Count von Bernstorff, the for
mer German ambassador at Washing
ton, and his party, arrived at Copen
hagen at 10:30 o'clock this morning
from Christiana. Count von Brock-dorff-Rantzau,
the German minister
to Denmark, and the German consul
general at Copenhagen, boarded the
Frederik VIII to greet Count von
Bernstorff.
The Frederik VIII encountered good
weather from Christiania, although
sailing in Danish waters was difficult
on account of the ice and the steamer
was forced to use two ice breakers.
A great crowd was expected at the
anchorage place and many policemen
were assigned there to preserve order,
but besides German officials, newspa
per men, and relatives ot Damsn
American passengers, only a few per
sons appeared.
Count von Bernstorff did not go
ashore. Members of the party will re
main on board the Frederik VIII un
till tomorrow morning, owing to the
crowded condition of the hotels. To
morrow Count von Bernstorff and his
party will proceed to Berlin by spe
cial trian.
Totals
.3,414,000
3,111,000
New Methodist Hospital to
Be Built at Rapid City
Rapid City, S. D., March 12. (Spe
cial.) At the official meeting of the
board of directors of the Methodist
Deaconess hosoital of this city, it was
decided that a new, modern, fire-proof
hospital building culd be erected, the
work to commence at once. The work
will be rushed as rapidly as possible
and it is the intention of the board
to have the new building ready for
occupancy by next winter.
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NEW STREET CARS
TO SPEED TRAFFIC
General Manager Leussler An
swers Complaint by Telling
of Planned Improvements.
COUNCIL TAKES NO ACTION
In response to complaints from
citizens that street car service on
South Thirteenth and West Leaven
worth lines is inadequate, General
Manager Leussler of the Omaha &
Council Bluffs Street Railway com
pany appeared before the city coun
cil committee of the whole to explain
the situation from his point of view.
A few statements are appended:
"We have placed orders for forty
motors and other equipment for forty
cars we are building and expecfto
have them in the service during the
latter part of this year. There is de
lay in filling orders for motors and
trucks. We have improved the serv
ice on the lines complained of and
are continually observing travel con
ditions, that we may give the best
service possible.
"Congestion during rush hours al
ways is a problem in street car travel.
We leel it is not excessive to nave
twice the actual seating capacity dur
ing these rush times."
Mr. Leussler explained that the new
cars being built will have closed rear
vestibules, which statement brought
out another statement that experience
has shown that motormen are more
susceptible to grippe and pneumonia
on account of being enclosed. The
street car official further stated that
during this winter the company has
had an unusual number of sick men.
Pending an executive conference
with Corporation Counsel Lambert,
the city commissioners took no action
in the matter. Mr. Lambert stated
there is some question as to the rights
of the city officials to regulate the
service of the street railway com
pany. A conference will be held this
week.
Mrs. Hayes Scores Lack
Of Disease Precautions
Following a recital by Miss Nelle
Randall of the Visiting Nurses' asso
ciation of some of the encouraging
and discouraging features of the nurse
work, Mrs. C. W. Hayes attracted the
attention of members of the Political
and Social Science department of the
Omaha Woman's club at a meeting
Monday afternoon, by denouncing the
lack of precaution to stop the spread
of deadly social diseases. Mrs. Hayes
declared conveyance of such diseases
should be a penitentiary offense.
Miss Randall . told of thirty-one
cases of tubercolosis for which vot
ing nurses are caring.
In response to an appeal made by
Miss Brewster of the Young Women's
Christian association for workers in
the campaign to establish a summer
camp at the old South Omaha Coun
try club, the political and social
science department subscribed their
initial amount of $10.
Inch of Water Falls.
Beatrice, Neb., March 12. (Specinl
Telegram.) Rain, sleet and snow fell
in this section today, greatly improv
ing crop conditions, especially win
ter wheat, which had been suffering
for lack of moisture for weeks.
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1
Tuesday, March Thirteenth
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