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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 4, 1917.
BANKERS SAVE
STELLA FARMER
FROM "CON" MEN
Two Claim Swindlers Foiled in
Effort to Get Ten Thousand
Dollars From John
Coons.
The alertness of C. E. Price, presi
dent ' of the Commercial National
bank. Council Bluffs, and of J. R.
Cain, jr., vice president of the State
Bank of Omaha, saved John Coons,
wealthy farmer of Stella, Neb., from
being swindled out of $10,000.
The game by which Coons was
luqsd to Omaha and Council Bluffs
bean , all t.ie earmarks that dis
tinguished the swindling of Farmer
Schroeder of De Witt a few days
ago. Bankers are sure the two deals,
as welt as others within the last few
weeks, were carried on by the same
gang. In fact, the two farmers,
Schroeder and Coons, were brought to
the same bank, the Commercial Na
tional, Council Bluffs.
Coons owns a fine half-section farm
near Stella. Recently a stranger ap
peared at his home and offered to
buy the farm for $250 an acre. The
farmer's confidence was gained by
this deal, the stranger representing
himself as a man of wealth who had
a nephew who had run through a for
tune. He wished, he said, to buy the
farm and see whether he couldn't
guide him into the straight and nar
row path.
' Comes with Draft.
Presumably, the plausible stranger
suggested some other deal in con
nection with the farm purchase. He
induced Coons to come to Omaha and
Coons came with a draft of $10,000
issued by the State bank of Stella
and drawn on the State bank of Oma
ha. In Omaha a second stranger
joined the uncle of the wayward
nephew".
The two strangers took good care
not to bring their intended victim to
the State Bank of Omaha on which
his draft was drawn, for the vice pres
ident of that bank has known Coons
for 20 years. Instead, they guided him
to the Commercial National panic ot
Council Bluffs. There the $10,000 draft
was presented.
' Declines to Pay.
' President Price's suspicions were
aroused when the "confidence men
asked for cash. Mr. Price declined
to pay. that sum of money even on a
draft without' more thorough inves
tigation. He ordered the draft sent
to the bank in Stella, requesting that
a draft be issued payble to the Com
mercial National bank if the draft
was good. ? ! . . '
Vict President Cain of the State
Bank of Omaha was communicated
with and he telephoned to the bank
ers at Stella. 4
And here enter the features which
prove that the deal was a "con" game.
A letter was received by the Stella
bank signed with Coons' name and
complaining tha' the bank's delay in
issuinr the drift was delaying a busi
ness deal Later a ielegram signed
with his name wasi received by the
banlctBoth . these! were 'forgeries.
Coons knew nothing of them until he
saw them at the bank.
Banner Qounty Has Oil J .
m Scare; Wells to Be Sunk
The oil boom has; hit Banner
county," this state, and, according to
advices to the Union Pacific, thou
sands of acres of land are being taken
over on oil leases, preparatory to sink
ing wells. ,' ,
Near Harrlsburg the Standard Oil
company is on 4 the ground with a
drilling rig and is getting ready to put
dqwn a 20-inch well. Plans contem
plate going down 5,000 feet unless oil
is struck at a lesser depth.
Persistent Advertising Is the Road
to Success.
GERMANS FORCED
TO RETREAT ON
WESTERN FRONT
(Continued from Peg. One.)
northeast of Soissons and south of
Laon, according to Berlin.
Probably the Germans have only
retired across the Ailette river from
Chavignon to Craonne, a distance of
about 13 miles, or they may have
started on a retreat paralleling that
of last March to the Somme, when
they finally fell back before Anglo
French pressure from Arras to Sois
sons. Even if they have only withdrawn
across the Ailette, it is not unlikely
because of General Petain's success
ful drive of last week, when t he
reached the Oise-Aisne canal, eight
miles southwest of Laon, and cap
tured more than 12,000 prisoners.
From the positions gained then the
French bombarded the Germans
clinging, to the hilly strip between
the Chefnin des Dames and the Ail
ette. The hills on the northern bank of
the Ailette generally are not as high
as those on the south, and the crown
prince may have gone back to the line
of the Ardon river, which runs south
west from Laon and joins the Ail
ette north of Chavignon. It is im
probable that the Germans did not
retire across the Ailette, as not to do
so might place them in a worse posi
tion than on top of the ridge.
May Have Left Laon.
The retirement might include Laon,
the reputed southern citadel of the
Hindenburs line of last March, but if
the front of the Ailette is given up, a
line from St. Quentin through La
Fere, Laon and Montaige to Neuf-chatel-Sur-Aisne,
along the railroad
between La Fere and Neufchatel
might offer a good halting place.
A retirement only to the northern
bank of the Ailette between Chavig
non and jCraonne might not affect the
line from Chavignon north to St.
Quentin, but a further retreat would
involve the present lines as far as
La Fere at least. On the eastern end
of the Chemin des Dames, if the re
tirement is not made secure quickly,
there is the possibility of a French
blow in Champagne which might
straighten out the entire front from
Craonne to Verdun.
Cadorna Making Stand.
General Cadorna has halted on the
western bank of the Tagliamento,
momentarily 4t least, to face the. on
coming Austro-Germans. The eastern
bank of the river, Berlin reports, has
been cleared of Italians from the Fella
valley, where the Tagliamento turns
westward near Tolmezzo to the Ad
riatic. ' .
Italian guns are bombing the in
vaders along,the new line, but appar
ently no attempt has yet been made
by the Austro-Germans to force a
crossing of the river. There are no
indications as to the whereabouts of
the Austro-Germans reported driving
through the Carnic Alps early in the
week in an attempt to turn the flank
of the Tagliamento.
Reports from Switzerland say the
Germans are hurrying troops and
guns into the Trentino. This might
mean either to strengthen the Aus
trians there or to start a drive south
from Trent, in an attempt to cut off
the Italians now on the Venetian
plains.
Continue Short Skirts,
Say Paris Designers
(Correspondent, of The Associated Pres..)
Paris, Sept. IS. The Paris Dress
makers' Syndicate chamber, the asso
ciation of all the chief houses, has
informed the government, in answer
to an official inquiry, that the length
of wool cloth for dresses for the win
ter of 1917-18 will not exceed four and
a half meters, a little less than five
yards.
The director of one of the best
known houses in Paris and London,
interviewed on this decision, which
seems to foreshadow the continued
use of short skirts and to insure the
tailor-made costume as general wear,
said;
"The diminutions of the leugth of
cloth used in wool costumes has really
been in effect since last season. With
out any general agreement, merely un
der the pressure of necessity, dress
makers had already restricted the
amount used before the war by 25
per cent. Army needs, in America
as well as France, and the diminished
production in the two countries oblige
us to continue along these lines. Of
course, we shall make no attempt to
get round the chamber's decision by
ordering cloth of greater width; we
shall rather try to employ a mixture
of materials, combining wool mate
rials with silk and silk or cotton vel
vet. "The recent decision cannot affect
our models for next winter's gowns,
for they were ready before it was
reached."
Russians and Germans
Fraternize, Says Diary
(Correspondence of The Associated Pre.)
Petrograd, Sept. IS. The German
soldier who is fond of fraternizing is
more often a spy, according to a diary
found on a captured Teuton sergeant,
says a Petrograd Gazeta correspond
ent at the front.
Only those German soldiers quali
fied for their acuteness in observing
are allowed to fraternize with their
Russian opponents, this diary shows.
The document disclosed that its
writer had been supplied with several
bottles of vodka, which with charac
teristic German thoroughness had
been specially brewed for distribu
tion among the Russians.
The diary contained a minute rec
ord of the fraternizers' acts and ob
servations, carefully headed, sub
headed and numbered. Among the
headings were: "Questions and An
swers About an Armistice," "Condi
tions of the Russian Army," "Atti
tude Towards Peace Talk," "Invita
tions to Future Meetings.
Among the entries were: "Rus
sians warned us that their artillery
was about to fire;" "White peace
poster pasted up" and "Russians re
port they will not listen to orders to
attack tis."
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Get the Habit of
Drinking Hot Water
Before Breakfast
aya we can't look or feel right
with the system full
of poisons.
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Millions of folks bathe internally
now instead of loading their system
with drugs. "What's an inside
bath?" you say. Well, it is guaran
teed to perform miracles if you could
believe these hot water enthusiasts.
There are vast numbers of men and
women who, immediately upon aris
ing in the morning, drink a glass of
real hot water with a teaspoonful of
limestone phosphate in it. -This is a
very excellent health measure. It is
intended to flush the stomach, liver,
kidneys and the thirty feet of intes
tines of the previous day's waste, sour
bile and indigestible material left over
in the body which if not eliminated
every day, become food for the mil
lions of bacteria which infest the bow
els, the quick result is poisons and
toxinswhich are then absorbed into
the blood, causing headache, bilious'
attacks, foul breath, bad tasie, colds,
stomach trouble, kidney misery,
sleeplessness, impure blood and all
sorts of ailments.
People who feel good one day and
badly the next, but who simply can
not get feeling right, are urged to
obtain a quarter pound of limestone
phosphate at the drug store. This
will, cost very little, but is sufficient
to make anyone a real crank on the
subject of internal sanitation.
, Just as soap and hot water act on
the skin, cleansing, sweetening and
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