fHE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1918.
3
TONGUE OF MOWER
PIERCES FARMER
AT PLATTSMOUTH
M. L Furlong Also Rur. Over
by Team and Machine Blade
Cuts Off Three Legs
of Mule.
' Ptattsmouth, Neb., July 3. (Spe
cial.) M. L. Furlong, living some
tseven miles south of this city, and his
son, Walter, 16 years of age, went to
the field with a mower to cut alfalfa.
The father going ahead some dis
tance. ; A cow came out of the woods
bordering the field in which they
worked, which frightened the rear
.team, which ran away and striking
uneven ground, threw the young man
from the mower The rear team ran
into the other mower, and the end
of the tongue struck M. L. Furlong
m the back, knocked him off the
mower, and the team passed over
him. Four ribs were broken and his
.forehead and chin were badly cut.
One mule got over the sickle bar and
the forward team becoming frighten
ed, ran away also, when the mower
cut off three feet of the mule, which
was later shot.
Dr. G. H. Gilmore of Murray was
called and dressed the wounds of Mr.
Furlong.
Private Leo D. Saxton
Of Deshler Dies at Gun;
' Praised by His Officers
Deshler, Neb., July 3. (Special.)
The following sad message was re
ceived by Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Sax
ton, of Belvidert:
"Thirtieth Infantry, On Active
Service, American Expeditionary
Force. June 10, 1918. It is my sad
duty to announce to you the death
of your son, Pvt. Leo D. Saxton,
Co. E, 30th Infantry, on the night
of June 7th. My platoon, a part of
E company, advanced against a town
held by the Germans, took it, and
advanced beyond. Your son, I .had
given a responsible position as auto
matic rifleman, because of his proved
capability as a soldier. He died at
his gun as a soldier should, after
having given the Germans a big taste
of hell for two hours. It is a big
sacrifice for you to make, sir, but the
cause for which we are fighting de
mands big sacrifice. It is a credit
to you and your race that your son
fought so welt and died so nobly in
his first big battle. Sincerely yours,
Clarence E. Allen, jr.. First lieuten
ant, 30th Infantry."
Awards Child to Mother's
Keeping in Domestic Tangle
Aurora, Neb., July 3. (Special.)
Judge Corcoran gave the child to
the mother in the suit between An
drew J. Wright of Giltner and his
wife, Lydia Wright, who is now a
resident of Hastings. She left her
husband's home in Giltner on May
.15, 1918, and on June 25 went back
with a taxicab and took away their
little 10-year-old. girl. The father
sued out a writ of habeas corpus and
brought the child back. Judge Cor
coran decided to let the mother have
the little girl until the fall term of
court -when a divorce suit between
the parties will be tried.
Beatrice Artilleryman
Getting Used to Hun Roar
- Beatrice, Neb., July 3. (Special.)
Sam Roe, son of Dr. and Mrs. G. L.
Roe, who is with the American artil
lery in France, writes that he has par
ticipated in a number of engagements,
Una a -- rn4 J ti !irir T-T A cf O f tC
that the sound of cannonading wor
ried him greatly at first, but he is
now getting used to it.
The Board of Supervisors will be
asked to appropriate funds to assist
in equipping the home guard battalion
in charge of General Colby. It will
"require about $1,600 for this purpose.
Nebraska Boy is Reported
1 Killed in Action Overseas
Warren L. Day of Blue Springs,
Neb., was reported killed in action in
France in the casualty list made pub
lic by the War department yester
day. He was electrocuted in Hun
entanglements on the western front
June 24, according to information re
oeived by the young man's mother,
Mrs. Josie Day. He was 23 years
of age, and has a brother in the ser
vice stationed at Camp Cody, N. M.
Minister Devotes Vacation
to Work in Harvest Fields
Plattsmouth, Neb.. July 3. (Spe
cial.) Rev. A. J. Hargett, minister of
the Christian church of this place, has
been granted a vacation for 30 days,
and departed last night for Arapahoe
where he will engage in harvesting,
threshing and reseeding ground to
wheat, which is doing his utmost to
relieve the tense labor situation.
Sixty Days for Intoxication.
Beatrice, Neb., July 3. (Special.)
Eli McMains and George Hatesohl of
this city were sentenced to 60 days
each in the county jail on the charge
of intoxication. McMains stated that
he had purchased the booze from Will
Becks and Ben Robinson, colored
men. They were arrested, but plead
ed not guilty. Their cases were set
for hearing on July 8, and they were
released on bond of $100 each.
A Mexican was fined $50 and costs
by Judge Ellis yesterday for accost
ing a young woman on the street.
Gage Mortgage Report.
Beatrice, Neb., July 3. (Special.)
Following is the mortgage report for
Gage county for the month of June:
Numbeer of farm mortgages filed, 17;
imount, $76,075; number of farm
mortgages released, 25; amount, $141,
007.75. Number of city mortgages
iled, 15; amount, $18,950; number of
: city mortgages released, 15; amount,
1514,735,25.
Howard at Humboldt.
. Stella, Neb., July 3.-(Special.)
Lieut Gov. Edgar Howard, demo
:ratic candidate for the United States
senate, will be the principal speaker
st the, Fourth of July celebration at
Humboldt The program closes with
a big free picture show. G. L. Cooper
-is officer. of the dav.
NEW OMAHA FREIGHT
HOURS ARE NAMED
Commission Makes Deoision
After Considering Complaint
by Carriers at Lincoln
Hearing.
From a Staff Correspondent.
Lincoln, July 3. (Specials
Freight houses in Omaha will be :e
quired to remain open from 7 o'clock
in the morning until 4:30 in the after
noon on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes
day, Thursday and Friday of each
week and until 1 o'clock in the after
noon on Saturday, according to an
order of the State Railway com
mission issued today.
This is the decision of the com
mission after considering a complaint
filed by the carriers who desired to
close their freight houses at 4 o'clock
instead of at 5 as have been the pre
vailing custom.
Carriers must appear before the
commission at 11 o'clock on July 15
and show cause why the commission
should not make an order requiring
them to receive less than carload
merchandise for shipment within
thirty minutes following tender and
truck it away from the platforms and
load in cars.
Snippers will appear at the same
time and show cause why the Com
mission should not enter an order
allowing the carriers to refuse to re
ceive more than 50 per cent of ship
ments in less than carload lots after
2:00 p. m.
Dan Swanson Enters
Lists as Republican
For Land Commissioner
Fremont, Neb., July 3. (Special
Telegram.) Dan Swanson withdrew
from the race for the nomination for
county treasurer and filed for the
nomination for state land commis
sioner on the republican ticket.
Swanson's withdrawal leaves Joseph
Roberts, former president of the
State Board of Agriculture and rep
resentative from this district for two
terms, the only republican candidate
F. R. Ranslem of Scribner is the
democratic candidate.
The summer heat record was
equalled Tuesday afternoon when a
temperature of 103 was reported by
the government thermometer for
two days in succession. In the mid
dle of June the same mark was reg
istered. On the 62d anniversary of pioneers
of Fremont the body of William B.
Lee, last of the pioneers to come to
this place in 1856, reached Fremont
from Douglas, Wyo., where he died
at the home of his daughter. The
funeral was held today. He was 85
years of age.
Dr. G. R. Rathbun and Dr. A. E
Buchanan, Fremont physicians, have
been appointed captains in the medi
cal reserve corps. They enlisted sev
eral weeks ago and passed their final
examinations a short time later.
They are awaiting the call to report.
No Decision on Telephone
Merger Case at Red Cloud
Red Cloud, Neb., July 3. (Special
Telegram.) Hearing was held here
today by the State Railway Com
mission, represented by Commissioner
Wilson, relative to a consolidation of
the Lincoln Telephone company s
local exchange with that of The
Farmers' Independent company. Tes
timony by commission's expert and
by officers of both systems was in
troduced. At the conclusion this
evening Attorney McNeny for the
Lincoln company made a motion for
an order permitting them to refuse
the Independent company the use of
its toll line or else require the Inde
pendent company to refuse to install
a phone for any Lincoln company
subscriber who should hereafter dis
continue Lincoln service. Both
motions were taken under advise
ment. The hearing was adjourned
until July 13 at Lincoln.
Four-Minute Men to
Read Wilson's Speech
Lincoln, Neb., July 3. (Special.)
President Wilson announces tha't he
will make to the people of the couni
try a "Fourminute" address on the
Fourth of July. He asks that his
special message to the country be
given by the 35,000 government
speakers of the Division of Four
minute Men as his personal repre
sentatives. Instructions which Prof. M. M.
Fogg, state director of the Division
of Four-minute Men, has received in
regard to the presentation of this
message have been sent to the chair
men of the 325 Nebraska local Four
minute men branches in connection
with which over 1,700 speakers will
present the president's Fourth of
July message to the people of nearly
every city and town in the state.
Mrs. E. H. Taylor of Stella
Teacher in Philippines
Stella, Neb., July 3. (Special.)
Mrs. Edward H. Taylor, who was
Miss Hazel Clark and was born in
Stella, will be the first woman to
teach in the University of Manila,
Philippine Islands, having been elect
ed to teach advanced English, facial
expression and folk lore.
English Amazed by Rapid
Movement of U. S. Troops
By Associated Press.
London, July 3. Secretary of War
Baker's letter to President Wilson,
announcing that more than a million
American soldiers had left the
United States for France, was pub
lished in the early editions of the
London afternoon papers under great
headlines. The statement was fea
tured in connection with the success
of the American troops in capturing
the town of Vaux, on the Marne
front.
The figures came as a great sur
prise. Although iit was known that
many Americans were arriving at
British ports weekly, few realized
that the million mark had been ex
ceeded. "Amazing Atlantic Record," and
"U. S. Program Six Months Ahead"
are among the headings stretching
across the pages usually given to
the most important war news.
The letters 'of President Wilson
REPRIEVE GIVEN
ALSON COLE UNDER
DEATH JENTENCE
Nebraskan, Who Was to Die
July 12, Permitted U Live
Longer on Advice
of Reed.
Lincoln, Neb., July 3. On recom
mendation of the attorney general,
Governor Keith Neville today grant
ed a reprieve to Alson B. Cole, under
sentence to be executed on July 12,
for the murder of Mrs. Lulu Vogt,
who was shot to death near St. Paul,
Neb., a year ago.
The attorney general asked the stay
of execution because if Cole were
electrocuted July 12, his evidence
would not be available in the event
the supreme court reverses the de
cision in the case of Allen V- Cram
mer, son-in-law of Mrs. Vogt, who
was also convicted in connection with
her death. Cole, following his arrest,
contended Grainmer hired him to kill
the woman. He was to have received
$500 for committing the crime, he
said.
Authorized Call for
Nebraska Republican
Convention for July 20
The republicans of the state of Ne
braska are hereby called to meet in
the city of Lincoln on Tuesday, July
30, at 12 o'clock, noon, for the pur
pose of adopting a platform and se
lecting a state central committee and
for the transaction of such other bus
iness as may properly come before
the convention.
The representation in such conven
tion will be based on the vote cast for
presidential electors in 1916, allowing
one delegate for each 100 voles or
major fraction thereof, which appor
tionment will entitle the various coun
ties to representation as follows:
Adams .
Antelope
Arthur .,
Banner .
20 Jefferson 18
IS! Johnson 14
J I Kearney 141
liKetth
4
Blaine
j Keya Paha
3
2
19
70
Boone 13! Kimball
Box Butte
fii Knox
Boyd 8! Lancaster
Brown
D Lincoln 13
Buffalo 22,L,OKan ...
Burt 15 Loup ....
Butler iiMcPherson
Cans 15 Madison .
2
Cedar 17! Merries
Chase . . ,
Cherry .
Cheyenne
Clay ....
Colfax . ,
4! Morrill .
U Nance ..
Nemaha .
J7 Nuckolls
9; Otoe
Cuming:
34' Pawnee 12
Custer 201 Perkins
Dakota
Tin VM
6 1 Phelps 10
si Pierce 12
Dawson H!S'.tte
10
10
10
Deuel . .
Dixon ..
Dodge . .
Douglas
Dundy .
Fillmore
Franklin
n fOIK
121
Red Willow
I Richardson .
111!
Rock
4
Saline J 5
i5iSarpy 9
,.1 Saunders 20
Frontier
CM.-UllHU!UI II
Furnas 12iw"d
Gage
34
Sheridan
Sherman
Garden ..
Garfield
Gosper . .
Grant ...
Greeley ..
Hall ....
Hamilton
Harlan ..
Hayes ...
Hitchcock
, Sioux
Stanton 7
J Thayer m
"Thomas 2
.'. Thurston 7
,4! Valley
" Washington 13
f Wayne
12
Webster 22
.. 4IWhaal.i,
Holt
2
7I Total i,m
It, is further recommended that no
proxies be allowed and that the dele
gates present from each of the re
spective counties be authorized to
cast the full vote of their delegation
In accordance with the rules of the
republican state central committee
credentials of delegates to the con
vention should be filed with the secre
tary of the state committee at least
five days before the date of the con
vention. The members of the county central
committee for each county, who are
to conduct the 1918 campaign, must
be chosen at the delegate county con
vention and reported at once to the
state committee.
Dated this 2d day of July, 1918, at
Lincoln, Neb.
E D. BEACH, Chairman.
H. C. BEE BE, Secretary.
Discover Potash Deposits
In Goose Lake, Iowa
Des Moines, July 3. (Special Tele
gram.) It is announced by state of
ficial that potash has been discov
ered in Goose Lake, Greene county,
which is owned by the state. The
state is having the lake prospected
and if potash exists in anything like
the quantities reported the state will
go into the business of mining it.
Railroad Superintendent
Dies in His Private Car
Mason City, la., July 3. E. G.
Aitkins, division superintendent of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railroad here since last December,
died suddenly of heart disease in his
private car at Plankington, S. D this
afternoon, according to a message re
ceived here. He was on a tour of in
spection. Aitkins came here from
Chicago.
and Secretary Baker also are printed
in large type, while most of the
newspapers devote a leading article
to the achievement. The Westmin
ster Gazette says:
"The-, figures will be as grateful a
surprise to our own people as they
will be a painful shattering of the
German illusions."
The newspaper considers the suc
cessful moving of this large body of
men across the Atlantic to be proof
that the U-boat has absolutely failed
in its endeavor to prevent the coming
of the Americans, especially as, de
spite the strain on shipping, sup
plies for the civilian population have
been maintained.
The Pall Mall Gazette says:
"Jt is a unique Independence Day
which Americans will celebrate to
morrow. A million of them will keep
the feast in their country's uniform
which alone would make a landmark
in its history." .
Fifty-Fifty Between Office
And Farm is Suggestion Made
By Dr. W. M. Condon, Humphrey
Three business days a week are
enough for the business men of the
small town, according to the idea of
Dr. W. M. Condon of Humphrey,
Neb., who is passing a few days in
Omaha.
"Ninety per cent of the business
men of the small town are farm
raised, and many of them are retired
farmers," says Dr. Condon, "and
they should make competent farm
hands. The need of the farmer of
Nebraska for help is imperative. It
can not be exaggerated. The bankers,
professional men and merchants
would make just as much money and
do just as much business if they kept
open their stores and offices each al
ternate day from 7 in the morning
to 10 at night, as they do now. Un
der the present 6 o'clock closing rule
the farmer, who is the mainstay of
small town business, can not get
into tdwn without losing valuable
daylight hours. They could all ar
range to make their purchases dur
ing the three days when business
houses were open.
Help in Fields.
"During the other three days of
the week, business men and their
help could assist -the farmers in the
fields. There are enough automo
biles available among the town peo
ple to take all these men to the fields
each morning and bring them back
at night This would relieve, the
Nonpartisan League's
Secretary Ex-Attorney
For I. W. W. Is Shown
From a Staff Correspondent.
Lincoln, July 3. (Special Tele
gram.) Arthur i LaSauer, secretary
of the Nonpartisan league, was the
subject of a warm examination at the
hearing in district court today in
which the league seeks to restrain
the State Council of Defense from
interfering with meetings of the
league.
The main part of the afternoon was
spent in reading campaign documents
to show the disloyal attitude of the
league, and its alignment with the
socialist party. LaSeur admitted
that up to last year he was
the attorney for the I. W. V. and
had aided them in suits. A book
publisStd by Lindberg, Nonpartisan
candidate for the republican nomi
nation for governor in Minnesota,
who was defeated in the recent pri
mary, was made a part of the evi
dence against the league.
Extracts from the book showed
that the candidate was not in sym
pathy with the war, and had alleged
that the country, had been drawn in
by speculators and profiteers.
Former Fremont Woman
Dies at Longmorn, Colo.
Fremont, Neb., July 3. (Special
Telegram.) Mrs. A. J. Taylor, for
mer resident of Fremont, died at
Longmont, Colo., where she and Mr.
Taylor had stopped for a visit on
their return to their home at Long
Beach, Cal. They left Fremont 10
days ago, after visiting here for a
month. Mr. Taylor is a former
prominent Dodge county farmer.. For
the last seven years he and Mrs. Tay
lor have resided at Long Beach. Mrs.
Every red-blooded American, by birth or adoption, is celebrating today, the second
Fourth of July after our entrance into THE GREATEST OF ALL WORLD WARS.
Thirty-five thousand speakers from the gulf to the frozen north and from the
Statue' of Liberty to the Golden Gate will act as proxies for President Wilson and deliver
to millions of hearers his especially prepared address.
We had intended to give you particulars of the GREATEST JULY SALE OF DRY
GOODS in the HISTORY OF THIS STORE and perhaps the most marked because of peculiar
conditions in the HISTORY OF ANY STORE.
You would not have time for details; would not read them today if we printed them, and
so we will not burden you.
Will simply Announce the starting of this wonderful event
On Friday Morning at 8:30
. Come in the morning, if possible, in the afternoon we expect to be deluged with customers.
Never so good a reason for a sale and if you need
Thomas Kilpatrick
farmers' wives of the work of feed
ing and caring for the extra hands
except for-the noon meal,
"This arrangement should be made
compulsory on all men and boys, so
that one storekeeper, for instance,
would not be able to take advantage
of those more patriotically inclined by
keeping open while the others are in
the fields, and loafing during closed
hours should not be permitted."
Wages Are Good.
Dr. Condon says that wages for
farm hands, as promulgated by the
State Council of Defense, are from
$4 to $4.50 per day. The business
men would lose nothing, as they
would still do all the business to be
done in their respective communities,
and both they and their clerks would
have the extra wages earned as farm
laborers.
His plan would release l.OtXl men
in Platte county, alone. Dr. Condon
believes, or give the equivalent of
3,000 working days. It would sup
ply capable help, more food pro
ducts for our soldiers and allies, al
low several hundred more men to be
placed in class A for army" service,
and would put the men themselves
into a splendid physical condition.
Dr. Condon is a banker of Humph
rey and, in addition, is the owner of
several fine farms and one jf the
highest bred herds of Holstein cattle
in Nebraska.
Taylor was 55 years of age. The
body was taken to Long Beach for
burial.
Nebraska Socialists Express
Confidence in Debs' Innocence
Edmund R. Brumbaugh, state, sec
retary of the socialist party in Ne
braska, sent a telegram Tuesday to
Eugene V. Debs, four times socialist
candidate for the presidency of the
United States, who was arrested in
Cleveland, O., Sunday on a charge ol
sedition, in which confidence in his
innocence is expressed by the Ne
braska socialists. The telegram read
as follows:
The hearts of 10.000 Nebruska socialists
po out to you In loving comradeship and
lasting confidence In your Innocence and
vindication. Vour life of service to the
working class makes your cause our cause
and Inspires to Increased effort for a greater
democracy and a fuller freedom.
Rev. Edgar Lucas Goes
To France on 6 Months' Leave
Beatrice, Neb., July 3. (Special.)
Rev. Edgar Lucas of First Presby
terian church of this city, has been
granted a six months' leave of ab
sence on full pay and will leave in a
few days for France to engage in
Young Men's Christian Association
work. He has two brothers and a
nephew with the British forces.
Airman Dies of Injuries.
Fort Worth, Tex., July 3. Lt.
Arthur M. Parsons of Gloucester,
Mass., who was injured by being
struck by an airplane propeller yes
terday, died this afternoon. He was
examining the propeller at the time
of the accident.
Omaha Girl Licensed to Wed
Chicago, 111., July 3. (Special )
Kristian N. Kronborg of Middletown
was licensed here today to wed Miss
Melte E. Brix of Omaha.
WOULD NOT READ DETAILS
if we PUBLISHED THEM TODAY
DRY GOODS
Never so important THAT YOU ATTEND.
FRIDAY, JULY 5th,
RUSSIAN ROYAL
FAMILY MEMBERS
ESCAPEJO SEA
Fate of Former Czar Still Mys
tery; Grand Duke Michael
Reported to Be Safe
at Kiev.
By Associated Press.
Copenhagen, July 3. Several mem
bers of the Russian royal family took
passage on a steamer which recently
sailed from the Murman coast on the
White Sea, according to a dispatch
to the Berlinske Tidende from Ber
gen. The information is attributed to a
Russian, who declares these fugitives
were on the same steamer with him.
The newspaper's informant declared
these members of the royal family
had escaped from a train on which
they were being taken to Perm (pre
sumably from Ekaterinburg). The
Russian added that there soon would
be some news of former Emperor
Nicholas.
News Not Confirmed.
London, July 3. Reports of the
I'ltiiMraitKmiiiniPBiiCT
OUR ANNUAL
ULY
affords an opportunity to buy
Furniture
Suites and odd
regular prices.
an
Rugs
in all sizes at a
while
Draperies
for your entire home can be chosen so that .
you save from one-third to a half. f
An Early Attendance Is Advised
Doors Open at 8:30 A . M.
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murder of Nicholas Romanoff, former
Russian emperor, can be neither con
firmed nor disproved, says the Petro
grad correspondent of the Times, un
der date of June 23. He says the re
port of the escape of Michael Alex
androvitch, brother of the former em
peror, seems to have better founda
tion. '
According to one version, Michael
is at Kiev with General Skoropadski, .
hetman of the Ukraine, who was a
friend and adherent of Michael when
he was out of favor with the emperor
owing to his morganatic marriage.
Countess Brasova, Michael's wife, is
under arrest in Petrograd. The
Archbishop Andronica of Perm has
been arrested for complicity in the
escape of Michael.
Forest Fires Beyond Control,
Fanned by Strong Winds';
Portland, Ore., July -J. Stroi,,, ,
winds from the coast fanned fceit .
fires in Tillamook and Washington
counties last night and late reports
indicated they were out of control
Two hundred additional soldiers from ...
the spruce division left here early to- .
day on a special train to join the 250.
or more already fighting the flames
In addition, the Southern Pacific l.aj .
100 section workers protecting the
company's property, and many civil- -ians
were engaged in the battle. , . ?
Efforts are being made to keep traf- fi
ne going on the railroad trom inu
tnook, in order to keep aviation
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