Nebraska Newspapers

    THE O’NEIL FRONTIER I
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
(#*NEILL. NEBRASKA
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The Inventor of a steel railroad tie
that also serves as a cattle guard sayB ;
It ran he laid In half the the time re
quired for a wooden tie and will pre
vent wrecks caused by rails spreading.
New airbrakes that have been I
adopted by a large eastern railroad re
duced by 600 feet or more the distance
In which a heavy train running at 6tt ,
miles an hour can be stopped.
A Wisconsin boy is the Inventor of a
portable equipment to enable a person j
to connect with any telephone or tele- ;
graph line and either talk over it or use I
telegraph instruments.
Judge Denny, of the. superior court of 1
Santa Rosa, Cal., construed three let
ters left by Charles Carlaen, of Sono
ma, to be testamentary documents and
equivalent to a will.
To prevent the absorption of damp
ness from the ground by stone build
ings, a new European practice is to cut
slots in their walls and insert asphalt
coated lead plates.
Mrs. Lizzie Tucker Johnson Hawkins
Pressley, of Un.sda.le, Ga., has been ,
married three times, and in each of her
marriages her husband turned out to ,
be a bigamist.
The inventor of a new Huger hit lias
made it thick at the edges and thin at
the center, and says it will force the
chips toward the center and thus avoid
clogging. _
An electric lare box for street cart
that has been invented automatically
registers the correct number of fares
paid by each kind of coin dropped in
to it.
To keep a sleeping child covered a
woman has invented a combination
garment and blanket, the former being
buttoned about the body of its user.
An electrical device that a French
man has Invented for curling women's
hulr is said to bo so effective that the
hair retains Its shape for months.
Patents have been granted to a
Maryland Inventor for a gasoline car
tridge for breaking up farm soil in tha
same way that dynamite is used.
Rubber models of essential parts of
cows have been invented In England,
to give girls who are learning to be
milk maids practical instruction.
The annual waste in the United
States of foodH available for cattle has
been estimated at $100,000,000 by de
partment of agriculture experts.
Fully 51 feet higher and more than
twice as wldo as Niagara, the fulls of
Iguazu, In Mouth America, form one of
the wonders of that continent.
Aztec corn 1,000 years old was re
cently planted In Kansas. It grows
much faster than modern corn and the
grains wilt Be at a premium.
Seail Island, IE miles off Vlnalhaven,
Me., is said to possess a devil’s den,
which opens a passageway under
ground across the island.
Glasgow provides Its policemen with
warm food and tea when on duty ut
night by the use of electrically heated
plates dn signal boxes.
A Frenchman has invented an ap
paratus to compress air in a reservoir
as doors of a house are opened and
utilize it to wind clocks.
The chief American article sold In
China iis kerosene. The value of this
single product exceeds all other Amer
ican imports combined.
Oil obtained from seeds of Brazilian
rubber trees has been found an ac
ceptable substitute for linseed oil by
British pulnt makers.
Punch bowls of molded ice, with deli
cate flowers incased therein, are being
turned out for social functions by some
lec manufacturers.
An internal combustion locomotive
of German invention, which uses crude
oil for fuel, frequently attains a speed
of 60 miles an hour.
The practice of filtering nir for cool
ing electrical machinery through water
curtains to exclude dust is growing In
favor in England.
German tests have shown a scarcity
of good cattle fodded do.es not decrease
the fat content, but only the quantity
of milk produced.
In Ceylon the largest pearls are
worth $200 to $250; in Europe and
> America they sell at more than three
times this price.
President Poincare, of France, has
made a collection of photographs of
Kngllsh soldiers who have won the
Victoria cross.
A waterfall in Norway will be har
nessed and made to provide 125,000
horso power for smelting and refining
zinc ore.
A recently patented sunitury shaving
brush has u sponge instead of bristles,
and the handle is made to contain soap.
What its inventor says is an un
breakable telephone receiver lias,a steel
skeleton within its hard rubber body.
There are about 10,000 electric trucks
and wagons in service in the United
States, operating in 124 lines of trade.
Germans have developed a process
for spinning kapok fibers into yarns
that cun be woven into textiles.
The state of Wisconsin last year paid
$10*200 to give children in the rural
districts free rides to scliool.
Toy molds, to enable children .to make 1
building blocks from snow, hav.e been ■
Invented by a German.
Oat of 65 houses in Wharton road,
Bromley, Kng., 69 men have joined the
colors.
A Dei mar N. Y.) church provides ear
trumpets for the use of deaf attend
ants.
This Country produces nearly $3,000,
000 worth of natural mineral waters a
year.
Before the war there were 900.000
women in Fiance employed as domes
tics.
Sweden during the last five years has
consumed 1,126,000 ton* of bread yearly.
One hundred and fifty vessels passed
through the Panama canal in July.
Koochiching is the name of one of
Minnesota’s counties.
Missouri in 1915 produced 193,634
tons of tc8d.
,'iebrask?. May Benefit by Gov
ernment Road Fund—
Auto Truck Line
Is Urged.
Uncoil). Nell.. Ob. S- If I he Joint
tommittee on roads and bridges of both
houses lias its way. Nebraska will make
an earnest effort to get in on the gen
eral government road pie distribution.
A bill that accepts the ideas of ibe fed
eral department and which provides
for a mill levy each year to create a
state road and bridge fund, lias been
drawn and recommended for passage.
The bill provides for the districting of
the state into "projects," not exceeding
five counties each, and provides for a
distribution of the money upon a mile
age and population basis, but only
those parts of the state will lie favored
that arc willing to make a state con
tribution of a third to the total cost.
Auto truck lines are permitted in q
bill that has the signature of Speaker
Jackson as author. It permits the or,
ganization of corporations that are au
thorized to take and hold whatever
property is necessary for them to lo
cate and construct hard surfaced road?)
These are, in effect, toll lines, as it
is proposed to collect from every auto
that comes along and which they may
permit to use the road. The corpora
tion is also authorized to use on these
roads motor vehicles for carrying pas
sengers. freight nnd express, if it be-i
comes n law the first experimental
road will be built from Lincoln to
Omaha.
Howell, of Douglas, introduced a bill
permitting cities to take over publlq
utilities privately owned on a majority
vote, the courts to settle the price it
I he one offered is not satisfactory to
the owners. Another bill permits Rob
ert Drake, of Omaha, to sue the stato
r°r *18,000 he claims is due him for
building a state aid bridge at Fremontj
where action of the waters forced a
second refilling.
OLD REPUBLICAN FEUD
AGAINST HOWELL REVIVED
Lincoln. Neb., Fob. 5—The old re
publican feud against National Com
mitteeman Howell, of Omaha, showed
nil in a new phase when a hill was
Introduced lti the senate to prohibit the
holder of any city office, including that
of a member of the water board, from
being a candidate for or being elected
ts a member of the national or state
■ommlttee. Howell is now chairman of
the water board and the big exponent
if public ownership in that city. It
this bill should become a law it would
■ompel him to choose, when a national
•omrnitteeman is next elected, whether
to resign his city position or retire
from the national committee. The bill
is so drawn that it may bo construed
to force his retirement now. Muyor
Pahlmnn was a candidate for national
'omrnitteeman last year on the demo
cratic side.
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DR. R. E. OAKS IS
DEAD FROM PNEUMONIA
Lincoln, Ncli., Feb, G—Dr. R. E. Oaks,
record physician at the Hastings hos
pital fot the insane, who had to re
dan because Ids fathcrinlaw had been
tppointed a member of the board that
ip; obits all stale institutional officers.
f,< a ' A telegram from Hastings
-sv- t >' • i; death came after a brief
H "4 c villi a case of pneumonia. Dr.
"as a sotlinlaw of E. O. Mayfield.
•' bo ' ' os bis position as member of
I" ai" board of control March 1, and
in iff the law nepotism is forbidden.
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FIRE IN LINCOLN SUBURB.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. G- File early this
Horning wiped out the business section
if the little town of Waverly, a Lin
mln suburb, causing a loss of approxi
mately p.i.OOO. A fire brigade of 1G0
volunteer firemen fought the blaze.
Among the buildings destroyed arc tile
arrest general merchandise store, a
’raternity hull, a drug store building
tiul one ot Wavorly's finest homes,
rhe cause of the fire is unknown.
Mative Born German Presents
Resolution Pledging Wil
son Support of
State.
Lincoln, Neb. Feb. a- The Nebraska
house and senate, although not in for
mal session this morning, adopted a
resolution drawn by Representative
Hoffmeiser, a native born Merman, ex
pressing the hope, that the nation be
not drawn into the war. but pledging
the president the undivided support of '
the people of Nebraska in whatever
steps he may deem necessary to sup
port the honor of the nation and in de
fense of the flag. The resolution was
Adopted by a rising vote.
As every member rose, Mr. Peter
son, republican minority leader, led in
singing "My Fountry Tis of Thee." the
balcony and all joining in. Previous
to the receipt of the news of tin* presi
dent's action. Representative Olson, a
Dane, had introduced a resolution
memorializing congress and the presi
dent to warn American ships and
American citizens not to enter the war
none and that the country will not he
responsible for those who deliberately
do so.
The house was in the midst of con
sidering a bill to have voters rust then
ballots direct «#n presidential canli
dotes, elector* to be named bv stair
onvent»ons anil those representing tin
rb tot ioux party to be appointed by tie
governor.
20 Dead in Explosion.
Chicago, Feb. ;i. •• While more the
100 men worked over the smoldering u*<
covered turns of the west wide ten; me : ^
tou.se which was wri cked by an • •
plosion early Friday these results In '
>eon established: The known dem
lumbered 10; injured, 21 mi-sing. _;
md the readied uninjured. 22.
The tenement, Jo utcd at 822-23 Foj*
eenth place, in the heart of the \\c
*ide Gl» ‘to district, contained at t!
ime of the explosion sleeping me:,
vomen and c hildren, vn 'iotisdy t*tt
nuted at !-< i w. < n yj jml
NEBRASKA LIDS
ILLEGALLY SOLD?
Land Commission Begins Ac
tion in Senate to Re
cover 38,000
Acres.
Lincoln, Neb.. Feb. 5—State Iatno
Commiasioner G. L. snumway has in
formed the state senate that in his
opinion over 38,000 acres of state lands,
estimated to be worth $7,600,000 at
present prices, has been illegally sold
hy state officers in years past. He sug
gests the appointment of a legislative
committee to determine what, if any,
official action Hliall be taken to restore
this land to the state. The lands in
question are known as saline lands
ceded by the government to the state,
and the acreage in question is largely
in Lancaster county.
The request of the state land com
mission was addressed to Lieutenant
Governor Edgar Howard and by him
presented to the state senate for con
sideration. Land Commissioner Shum
way said in his communication that he
is embarrassed by the fact that a long
line of predecessors of excellent repute
have passed this saline land question
by without action. He does not give
his reasons for the belief that the state
illegally sold saline lands.
It is generally supposed that saline
lands are lands given by the govern
ment to the state for the purpose of
developing salt springs, some of which
existed on Halt creek west of the city
of Lincoln. The government grants
were in several counties. The only salt
springs that were ever used for tlia
making of salt were near Lincoln.
After the passage of the Sheldon bill in
1897, a legislative enactment that pro
hibited the sale of state lands in the
future, the saline lands are said to
have been transferred by legislative
enactment to the school lands under
the board of educational land and
funds, and were subject to disposal the
same as other state lands by lease or
sale, if leased prior to the act of 1897.
The state constitution says salt
springs belonging to the state shall
never be alienated. The difference be
tween salt springs and saline lands
ceded by the government have not been
defined by the state land commission.
If salt springs alone are the lands that
have been illegally sold by the state,
the title to a considerable portion of
lands around and underlying the lake
at Capital Beach, west of Lincoln, may
be under a cloud until Mr. Hhumway’s
questions are cleared up. The manu
facture of salt at the springs was
abandoned in early days and the state
lands were leased or sold.
Last year the attorney general of
Nebraska gave an opinion to the state
board of educational lands and funds
holding that a certain tract of saline
lands under lease could not be sold by
the state.
Early in his first term Attorney
General Reed planned to start a move
ment to recover $10,000,000 worth of
lands deeded by the state to railroads,
but he has been too busy with other
little matters to make the attempt.
Land Commissioner Shumway is not
so busy. He proposes to see what can
be done to recover saline lands which
the state deeded to private parties.
NEBRASKA HOUSES HAVE
A VARIETY OF BILLS
Lincoln, Nob., Feb. 5—A vast variety
is shown in the bills introduced in the
senate and house at the last moment.
There are half a dozen hills fixing
maximum charges for telephone con
versation at 35 cents for three minutes,
anywhere in the state, with smaller fees
for short distances. One member wants
telephone companies in the same city
to he connected, with a small switching
charge. Another would prevent the
building of a competing company un
less a certificate of necessity is secured
from the railway commission.
A Variety of Bills.
Here are some of the other more im
portant measures: Providing that
towns and cities may vote on whether
to permit Sunday moving pictures;
limiting salaries of officers of insurance
companies to 3 per cent of gross prem
ium income, less reinsurance; pro
viding for ;t state teachers’ retirement
fund, teachers’ pensions; providing that
as a basis for rate making public utility
companies may be estopped from
claiming a greater value than they re
turn to tlie titx assessor; permitting
cities and villages to make a two mill
levy to provide for free concerts and
entertainments; creating state boards
of plumbing inspectors and boiler in
spectors; abolishing capital punish
ment; making attempts at hold ups in
banks or buildings punishable by from
20 years to life; prescribing methods by
which members of the national guard
absent on military duty may vote; ap
propriating $6,000 to buy a diamond
core drill that parties desiring to pros
pect for oil and coal may borrow from
tlie state; for the establishment of dis
trict custodial farms for misdemeants;
limiting commissions on getting loans,
and prohibiting collection of them on
loans drawing over 6 per cent; reserv
ing to the state all rights to oils and
minerals on school lands and providing
for leasing the same.
EARNINGS UP $16,000,000.
New York, Feb. 2.—The Republic Iron
& Steel company, one of the industrial
corporations, that has profited largely
by the war contracts, reports net earn
ings of $16,544,636 in its annual state
ment for 1916 issued today. This is an
increase of $11.$25,308 over the previous
year.
The balance available to tii ■ common
stock deducting of preferred dividends
and charges is equal to 47.95 per cent
on that issue of the company, compared
witli 8.56 tier cent last year.
The company’s surplus was increased
to $18,256,232 or by almost 100 pel
cent.
Philippine palm brandy is being
brought to the attention of importers
in Hangkong. It is hoped that thin will
widen the market for the alcoholic
products of the islands.
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4 HIS FATHER A CANADIAN; 4
4 MAY LOSE SENATE SEAT 4
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s’* Special to The Tribune. 4
4- Lincoln. Neb.. Feb. 2. Attor- 4
4 ne.vs in the senate were pointing 4
4 out today that Senator Howell's 4
4 right, to a seat, which is to lie 4
4 disputed, hus been decided ad- 4
4 tersely by the supreme court. 4
4 Howell's father, a Canadian. 4
4 took out his first papers only. 4
4 it is said. This does not make 4
4 the son a guaiified voter and 4
4 no one can lie senator without 4
4 being so qualified. Howell says 4
4 the threatened action to oast 4
4 him is in retaliation for Itis at- 4
4 tack on yang rule in Omaha. 4
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DENVER PRIZES WON
BY LYONS STOCKMAN
One of D. E. Couchman’s Hamp.
shire Barrows Won Grand
Championship.
Lyons. Neb.. Feb. 3—D. K. Couch
man has returned from Denver, where
he had on exhibition a car load of his
cross bred Hampshire barrows at the
Denver fat stock show, winning firsi
in their class and championship and
grand champion over all breeds. These
hogs were "old at auction and brought
$16.75 per iOO, the highest price ever
known to he paid for a car load o!
hogs. They had 10 loads to show
against, including a car of Bit rocs from
the experiment station of this state.
They also had Berkshires and Poland
Chinas to beat.
Mr. Couchman’s hogs were third
cross Hump*hire and were 0 month*
old, and weighed 272 pounds and
brought over $45 apiece in the single
classes. He won all the firsts, two sec
onds and or.e third, and had 60 to show
against lnm in the 350-pound class. Hr
won first and second and in the 300
pound class. He won first and second
in the 250-pound class.
The first prize 350-pound barrow won
championship and then went out and
warn grand champion over all breeds
and sold at auction for 27c a pound.
This barrow was weighted when taken
off the pasture when 5% months old.
He then weighed 140%. and was put
on full feed and, weighed every two
weeks, show'ed a gain of two pounds
a day for 75 days. The last 30 days
he gained a little over two and one-half
pounds a day.
NEGRO HOLDUPS GET
$2-300 IN OMAHA
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 3—Shortly after
Morris Chaikin, a clerk, opened Harry
Lincoln's grocery store at Twenty
fourth and M streets, south side, this
morning, he was held up by two ne
groes who escaped with $600 in gold
and between $4iio and $500 in currency
and $1,200 in checks.
Yesterday one of Lincoln's delivery
men drove a store automobile off the
Q street bridge. The machine was de
molished and the man probably fatally
hurt.
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PROPOSED RATE INCREASE
SUSPENDED BY COMMISSION
Washington. Feb. 3—The Interstate
Commerce commission yesterday sus
pended from February 1 to June 1 the
proposed increase of commodity rates
on grapes from Omaha and Council
Rluffs to Sioux Falls and Mitchell,
S. D„ sought by the Chicago & North
western and the Chicago, St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Omaha railroads.
The proposed rule to increase from $2
to $4 per car the charge for switching
grain or seeds at various points in the
western trunk line territory also was
suspended to June 1.
The commission also suspended to
June 1 the increase in rates on hay,
carloads, from Missouri river points to
Illinois, Tennessee and southeastern
territory.
RADICAL CHANGE IN
THE LIABILITY LAW
Lincoln. Neb., Feb. 3—Workmen's
compensation law enforcement is re
moved from Labor Commissioner
George Norman and placed in the
hands of a "compensation commis
sioner" to be appointed by the gov
ernor, in S. F. 220, introduced in the
senate Wednesday afternoon by Sena
tor Heal, of Custer.
The law radically amends the pres
ent compensation law, making the
commissioner the arbiter of settlement
lisputes subject only to appeal to the
district court within five days.
He can compel testimony. There
ire no fees for application to him for
lid. No casualty insurance company
can lie represented at a hearing be
fore him unless the company has as
sumed joint liability with the em
ployer.
A compensation bill by the same au
thor, S. F. 213, makes liability more
specific and increases the compensa
tion.
j IOWA STATE MEWS. j
COUNCIL BLUFFS—Bert Wilson, of
Bed Oak. is in a Council Bluffs hospital,
where he is to have a new nose placed on
his face. Having lost the fleshy part of
Ids nose, one of his lingers is to be split,
the nose inserted and the digit held in
place until the flesh has grown together,
when rh»* arm will be released. It is be
lieved the operation will be successful.
CKDAli UAPIDS—The Chicago Federa
tion of Labor was appealed to yesterday
by local union leaders to aid in settling
l he second Quaker Oats strike, which
•aused IKK) employes to walk out yester
day Organized labor officials in Chicago
promised to lake the matter up with
Quaker Oats officers there.
FOBT DODGE—Three hundred plumb
ers from Iowa. Minnesota. South Dakota
and Nebraska are today here as guests
L>f the Leighton Supply company, which
is putting on a short course. Eight hun
dred invitations were issued. Men na
tionally known in the trade will speak.
WASHINGTON. 1). C—The president
lias accepted the resignation of Oapt.
Thomas A. Burcham, of the medical corps
nf the Iowa national guard.
FOKT DODGE—Dr. G. B. Istine. dean
i>f physicians here. Is dead here, aged
years. He came here in 1871. He served
under Gen. Lew Wallace in the civil war.
lie was prominent in many medical socie
ties in the country.
A few years ago elaborate plans were
In id in Germany to explore the hitherto
inaccessible interior of New Guinea by
means of balloons, which were expected
to drift over the island in the prevailing
winds. The project was much discussed
in the mu . fines and subscriptions
• . elicited in its behalf, but it was
i:, ye carried out. It is now reported in
the newspapers that Dr. Eric Mjorherg
it tjwede. • planing to make use of at <
airplane to explore the interior of New'*
Guinea, and is in the United States in
vestigating the latest improvements ir
aviation.
AH the ivies of the English ivy type
ure of one species. Jledera helix. There
Lire three distinct typos due to geo
graphical and climatic range and a
score of horticultural forms. A small
Uave i variegated form is locally called
variety Hib»rnic;i. but the latter. <»i
Iifidi ivy, is the form found in Ireland.,
r.uvthg the largest leaves of all, light in
, oior and thin in texture.
Well diggers near Athens, Wis., while
]own at the depth of 77 feet struck a
-oral sized log. This is the second log
struck by well diggers in the vicinity
'f Athena.
PRUSSIA BEATEN;
HOPES H. S. WILL
FIND A WAY OUT
Lord Northcliffe Does Not Want
Peace Treaty Negotiations
Hampered by German
American Vote Here.
WAITED TOO LONG, HE SAYS
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Britain Is Now on Land as on
Sea, He Says — Declara
tion Shows America
Europe’s Plight.
Chicago, Feb. ?—-Charles H. Grasty
In a special London cable to the Herald
today says:
“This is the greatest test America has
ever had,” said Lord Northcliffe, last
night. "I haven’t wanted to see America
come in this war. I hope even yet it
may yet it may be avoided. We can win
alone with our allies and when the time
comes for making peace we will not
need to be afraid of any possible in
fluence of the German-American vote.
Shows Europe’s Plight.
“The United States has been remote
from the war. It is perhaps natural that
she should not know fully what Euro
pean civilization has been up against
these two and a half years. Now she
will know what it is to be in the path
of a great power running amuck.”
“Why has Germany taken this ac
tion?” I asked.
“Do not say Germany; it is Prussia,”
returned Lord Northcliffe. “It is a
shame that one state should be able to
cast obloquy on all the other German
peoples who loathe this kind of war
fare on women and children as much as
the British do.
Whipped, Northcliffe Says.
“Prussia’s reason is this. They are
desperate. We have whipped them.
They had the greatest war machine
ever constructed. We stopped them
at the Marne. After wiping out be
tween Mons and Meaux, practically the
entire British trained strength, they
have waited until England has over
taken and passed them in men and
material. Our gallant allies held them
while we made splendidly ready.
“We now stand on the land as on the
sea. We have got Prussia in a cor
ner. She is doomed. They know what
the military situation is and that is
why they are throwing prudence and
law to the winds, and they misjudge
America as they misjudged us.
Berlin Fears Results.
“As I have said, I hope that you may
with honor and self respect, remain
aloof, but if you should be compelled
by circumstances to come in, you
would bring an enormous weight of
manhood, energy and resources of all
kinds, and the barbarian of middle
Europe, already beaten potentially,
would be sooner brought to book.
“The barbarous and piratical war
fare which Prussia brings to our coasts
finds us ready all along the line. We
are organized. We have a capable gov
ernment. We put our house in order
just in time. Berlin knows it—knows
that we will be stronger and stronger
us time goes on.”
IN LEAK MISSING
Every Operator Disputes State
ment of Conneily, of Whose
Firm President’s Broth
erinlaw is Member.
New York, Feb. 2.—When the con
gressional “leak” inquiry committee
adjourned today to meet in Washing
ton, the testimony of F. A. Connolly,
the Washington broker, regarding his
sending a resume of President Wilson’s
peace note to E. F. Hutton & Co., New
York, brokers’ had been disputed by
every telegraph operator in Hutton's
employ, who Sherman L. Whipple said,
might have handled Connolly’s mes
sage.
Connolly had testified he sent the
message over a private wire, between
his house and Hutton’s, between 12:15
and 1:30 p. m., December 20. Joseph
W. Becker, Hutton’s operator on this
wire, first swore yesterday he received
no such message. The other operators
who followed today with denials that
they received it were John F. Hum
mell, who works the only other regular
wire Into Connolly’s and others who
might have relieved either Becker or
Hummell.
To Influence Witnesses,
During the examination of the oper
ators it developed that prior to their
coming to the hearing today, E. F
Hutton, head of the firm, criticised
Becker in the operating room in the
presence of the other operators for his
testimony. Hutton contended, accord
ing to the operators, that Becker could
not remember at this date, whether he
received the Connolly message.
Doubtful whether the Connolly mes
sage did reach the Hutton house by
telegraph, the committee will investi
gate other channels through which it
might have arrived. The fact devel
oped today that Connolly's private wire
Jis interchangeable between telephone
'and telegraph, has aroused interest and
this subject will be gone into more
fully.
Another Message Missing.
George A. Ellis, jr., the member of the
Hutton firm, who wrote a warning to
customers from the Connolly resume of
the note that it was coming, will be the
first witness called in Washington. He
now is on his way north from Savan
nah, Ga., and has been advised by tele
graph to stop off at Washington.
Inquiry also will be made soon into
another telegram, which, like Connol
ly’s, is missing. According to the tes
timony of M. A. Maltby, a Hutton op
erator today, Mr. Clement, of the Clem
ent Curtis company, of Chicago, sent
the Hutton house a message of protest
touching on the president's note infor
mation disseminated by E. F. Hutton
& Co., which has not been produced.
Perhaps a Larger Number of
American Citizens, Including
Women and Babies, Already
Victims of Kaiser Wilhelm.
FIRST CASE ON FALABA
Destruction of Lusitania, near
ly Two Years Ago. Brought
U. S. and Germany to
Verge of Break.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 3. —
Two hundred Americans at least
probably more have gone to their
deaths through German and Aus
trian submarine operations.
Most of the Americans lost were
traveling on unarmed merchant
ships and, under the practices of
international law and humanity,
believed themselves safe.
More than 2,000 citizens of other na
tionalities lost their lives in the same
attacks, hut they compose only a part
of the toll of life taken by submarine
warfare. The ships lost on which (lie
Americans met death are only a frac
tion of the number sent to the bottom
by torpedoes, most of them without
warning.
The cases which involve the United
States and Germany are primarily
those in which American life was lost
or endangered. The first A'merican of
whom there is record to lose his life
in submarine attacks was Leon T.
Thresher, a passenger on the British
liner Falaba, torpedoed and sunk
March 27, 1915, off Milford, Eng. The
Falaba, after a hopeless attempt to es
cape, stopped and while boats were
being lowered and passengers still
were aboard, the submarine drove a
torpedo into her side and she went
down in 10 minutes. Of 242 persons,
13S were saved.
The first American ship attacked was
the Gulflight, an oil tanker, from Port
Arthur, Tex., to Rouen, France, tor
pedoed without warning off the Scilly
islands May 1, 1915. Two men jumped
overboard and were drowned. Her
captain died of heart failure. The Gulf
light did not sink and was towed to
port. The German government ac
knowledged the attack as an accident,
expressed its regrets and promised te
pay damages.
The next attack was the one that
shocked the civilized world and brought
the United States and Germany for the
first time to the verge of war. it was
the destruction of the Lusitania on
May 7. 1915. Unarmed, with 1,257 pas
sengers of wliom 159 were Americans,
and a crew of 702, sh< was torpedoed
without warning as she was nearing
Liverpool, off Old Head of Kinsale, She
went down in 23 minutes. In all, 1,198
lives were lost of which 134 were Amer
icans, many of them men of national
prominence.
Everything pointed to a prearranged
German plan to torpedo the ship. The
German embassy -published advertising
warning Americans, and at the time a
number of Americans received tele
grams warning them not to sail. It has
been charged that the German ambas
sador himself knew the liner was to be
sunk and that German officials here
counted her progress across the ocean
day by day and as the hour of''her de
struction drew near they watched for
the extra papers which they knew
would a> c"p.|. her destruction.
Nebraskan Torpedoed.
Uefoi" this case passed front the
public mind a German submarine tor
pedoed another American ship-—the
Nebraskan—without warning May 35.
39 15. south of Fastnet rock. The Ne
braskan's name was painted on her
sides in letters six feet high, but her
American tlag had been hauled down
at darkness, as is the custom at sea.
The Nebraskan reached port damaged,
but under her own steam, and no one
was injured The German government
again promised to pay damages.
Twenty American negro muleteers on
the Leyland liner Armenian, were killed
.Tune 2S, 1915, by shell fire and drown
ing when the Armenian failed to escape
from a submarine near the Cornwall
coast. The Armenian was warned and
invited her destruction by flight.
The next submarine atta< k, on the
Orduna, in which American lives were
endangered was unsuccessful only be
cause the Cunard liner was too speedy
for her pursuers. After sending a tor
pedo just under the Orduna's stern, the
submarine sent shells after the fleeing
steamer without hitting her mark, and
then gave up the chase.
REPRISAL CAMPS IN
GERMANY ABANDONED
In Retaliation, Many French
Officers Had Been Interned
in These Camps .
Paris. Feb. 3.—The foreign office has
been advised by the Spanish ambassa
dor al Berlin that the German govern
ment has broken up reprisal camps at
Halle. Cuestrin and Beekaw. A num
ber of French officers had been in
terned in these camps in retaliation for
alleged ill treatment given German of
ficers held prisoner in France.
DUTCH HOLD VESSELS.
The Hague (via London), Fell. 3.—It
is stated that no ship of the Holland
American line or other trans-Atlantic
vessels will sail until a safe channel to
the Atlantic is assured. The matter is
in the hands of the foreign minister
and ship owners are passively awaiting
developments.
PULLMAN PORTER
STEALS $10,000 JEWELS
New York. Feb. 3.—Gharged with the
theft or jewelry valued -it $25,000 from
Mrs. Francis B. Stratham, of this city
on a train bound from Kev West to’
Washington. Frederick Saunders gs
years old. a sleeping car porc-r, win
arrested here today. The jew.- rv had
been entrusted by Frank ’ 1 >i!lin-.-liain
of Cincinnati, to the -arc „f m,s
Stratham. his secretary. Saunders is
alleged to have pawn--i worth
01 the gems for $300.