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n The ' Omaha Morning Bee T ft VOL. 43 NO. 10. Fate of Men in Mexico a My sterv I". S. Government Without Advice Concerning 40 Amer ican Kidnaped by Rebel Band Near Tampico. Authorities Are Puzzled Washkgton, June 2S (Ey A. D Vht may have happened to 40 AmmcM employes oi the Cortti Oil company, captured by rebels near Tampico and held with the com pany s property or ransom, remain ed mystery tonight although the rebel raid occurred last Sunday morn ing. So further word has cotne from Consul Shaw at Tampico er from any other official or unofficial source mce the contu'tr dispatch of Mon day saying that lives of the 40 Amer xcms and $250,000 in destructible ' ycoperry were held as ectirity on 4S hours notice for a payment of 15,000 pesos. Department officials would not ad mit in any formal way that they felt any uneasiness because of the lack of information. It was indicated that delay in a complete clearing; up of the tit nation wat not regarded at un usuaL There is knows to be consid erable perplexitv here, however, over the fact that totn.nl Shaw hat not informed the State department at to steps taken by the Mexican federal authorities to obtain release of cap tive Americans. Time limit Expires. The period granted Gorozave, the rebel chief, ior payment of the ran som had elapsed even before the de partment's advices were made knows here. Directions to the embassy in Mexico and to the consul to insist on adequate protection for American rights and settlement and upon pun ishment of the raiders went forward. So far as known late today, no fur ther word bad come from any quar ter to disclose what developed Tues day morning when the time limit ex pired. The Washington government to day still withheld, any step that might lead the way to demands that the Mexican government give the Americans in jeopardy protection. The attitude at the State department was the reports now available, ser ious as the situation appeared to be en the face of Consul Shaw's mes sage, did not justify as yet dispatch in r warships to Mexican waters or aar aaaiilar step, . .Nothing hasyeil ccme.to nana mmcatmg mat tne Obrcgon government is sot, as it it expected to do in the circumstances, dealing with the Gorozave coup in a way to safeguard American lives and property. Advices Do Not Agree. There is ope point ia which the message of Consul Shaw dors not check up with what was previously understood in official circles here to he the situation in the Tampico region. The .consul's message said there were no rebel Mexican forces in the vicinity of the Aguarda camp of the Cortex Oil company, where the raia and capture took place. Other reports indicate that there are at least 2.500 Mexican federal troops in the Tampico region. Until recently there were approxi mately 15.000 Mexican federals in the Tampico district. The troop concentration there was one of the largest in the Mexican army, indi cating the importance attached to maintaining firm hold of the oil re gions by the Mexico City authori ties and also presumably the condi tion of unrest prevailing in that region. Labor and other disturb ances to the south of Tampico a short time ago resulted in the move ment f 'considerable bodies of troops to other points. The result was a heavy reduction of the avail able forces near Tampico and it was this condition, it was pointed out here today, which probably gave Gorozave his opportunity. la view of the serious conse quences to the Mexican government any injury to the captive Americans would imply, however, it was argued that the government would feel it ssary to rush its lorces oacic to Tampico reekro in sufficient strength to guarantee protection oi foreigners, should that course be pur sued. It seemed more likely to of ficials here, however, that the pay ment demanded by Gorozave would be made and ultimately be assumed by the central government rather than that any untoward event should bring a rift in negotiations for diplo matic recognition of the Obregon government. One Man Released. Release of A Bract Bielaski, sheld for ransom by bandits near Cuer navaca, cleared that situation. Charge Sum merlin reported Mr. Eielaskfs release late today, saying he was "safe and weir and was ex pected to arrive in Mexico City to night. There is no question, however, that the Cortez Oil company inci dent has far more serious possibili ties' if full information sustains Consul Shaw's first message. No of ficial comment was obtained here nor any indication as to how long the Washington government might be willing to wait for negotiations between the Mexican officials and the rebels to bring about release of the captivet. Divorce Enters Home of Nebraska Champion Baby Lincoln, June 28. (Special.) Divorce has entered the home of Nebraska's champion baby. Charlet Brown, father of Marjorie Fern Brown, who carried off the errand championship honors at the 1921 air, instituted suit against Mrs. LiHie May Brown. The Browns were married at Council Bluffs, la, 23 years ago. There are six children ia the family and the lather asks ior ahe custody of the minors. He charges that his wife has neglected her km and her chUdrea. . 6. 4IMM ft 0 Dawes Proves in Government PsS? Director of Budget Says Business c e Run More Economically Than PMe Enter prise Winds Up Work in Washington Preparatory to Return to Chicago. Uy ARTHUR SEARS HENKXKG. (walia M Ltkra Hiro. Wakhirrton. June 2ti "The gov ernment not on!y can be rua at eco nomically at a private business, but more economically than a private tmaanett.'" Thus spoke Brig Gen. Chailet G. D.wei from a cloud of smoke as he cleared out his desk preparatory to relinquishing on Friday hit position as director of the budget and going back to Chicago to resume manage ment of the Central Trust coapany of Illinois. "You know the story of the Ne braska merchant who never kept any books, but a check book." said the general The sheriff took over his business in due time. Well the United States government has been doing just that for more than 130 years, but has been rich enough to oo it with impunity." The government hat never had a balance sheet, a fact that struck the business mind of Gen. Dawes with horror. Couldn't be done, said the bureaucrats. Nonsense, said Dawes. He drafted the services of 15 big business men on a dollar a year basis and set them to reorganizing the business methods of the depart ments. Some of them brought staffs of their own experts with them. First Balance Sheet. After nine months hard work a balance sheet was produced for the Postoffice department. The work is to continue under Gen. Dawes' successor. Gen. H. M. Lord, until each department has its own bal ance sheet The credit for his monumental achievement Gen. Dawes modestly gives to President (Harding. The president was determined to overhaul President Calls Coal Operators to Washington Harding Invites Mine Owners ! to Parley With Miners' Rep resentatives on Wage Conference. Washington, 'June 28. President Harding has decided to summon to Washington Saturday a group of representative coal operators from all parts of the United States to dis cuss with representatives of the min ers' union the possibility of -a con ference to fix wage scales that would settle the coal strike. An announcement explaining the proposal will be made later in the day. The arrangements were com pleted after conferences at the, White House today in which Secretaries Davis and Hoover participated, while John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, who saw the president Monday, remained in the White House for the purpose of con sidering the matter. To Assemble at 10 A. M. The coming conference, which, it is understood, will assemble at 10 o'clock Saturday, will discuss solely what steps may be taken to get the wage negotiations on foot. To date the miners' union has demanded a national conference, while operators in general, refusing to enter such a gathering, have countered with pro posals to meet in district conferences for separate district wage-fixing. Neither Side Yields. No official or authoritative indica tion, however, was given that the n.eeting President Harding is expect ed to call would find either party to the controversy yielding its stand as to the type of conference which finally would be accepted. The gathering Saturday will be entirely informal and devoted to discussing what sort of a basis might be adopt ed to bring the union officials and the employers' representatives into a joint negotiation empowered to fnc a definite wage agreement the agree ment to be either a single national contract or a various number of sep arate district contracts. President Lewis, who waited at the Department of Labor while Secretary Davis, in conference with the president, arranged the final de-i , c.tt-ri:,T nounced that mine union representa-! . The senate then voted 43 to 16 to rives would respond to the appeal of increase to 2 cents a pound the the president for a preliminary con- house rate of 1 1-4 cents on bacon, ference. ' ams- shoulders and other pork, pre- Between 25 and 30 operators win pared or preserved. Next it ap- j be invited, it was said at the Depart- proved, 37 to 16, a rate of 5 cents a ! ment of Labor, and the conference ! P"nd on lard compounds and lard ! Tmw t. rf Tw,. Ota. ftr.) I substitutes. The house rate was 20 1 per cent ad valorem on American j Circumstances of Shooting iva!BationRaIse House ! Told in Obenchain Trial I There wase Jntejtte"orer Los Angeles, June 28. Cncum- proposjt;on t0 to 4 cents, the fiances of the shooting of J. Belton hoase nit o j j2 cents a poUtld Kennedy m Beverly Glen on August on remdf.er meit vtIton Ul otbeT , 3 were related m the second trial of Chairman McCumber of the Mrs. . Madafrnne Obenchain lor hisifinance committft, explaining that murder by Mr wd and Mrs. tarns in the natnre o a lOTnrv SF-Z ho BW the se f fltax. There was also little cbntes't LshffB-. IhtI r.d, iover the "barket clause- dutv of 20 j Obenchain and the two trials of Arthur C Burch. codfendant all of m-fcirh r,rt in riiutrTTt, which ended in disagreements. Mrs. Mary D. Mond testified shej naa recerrea letters trom rzm Ro man, inmate of Folsom penitentiary, to be delivered to Mrs. Obenchain. Roman testified he corresponded with the defendant after she had tried to persuade him to testify false ly that be overheard two men plot tmg to blackmail or slay Kennedy. Robbed of $65,000 in Gems. St Louis, June 28, Morris Shin dermaa, Chicago diamond broker, today reported to the police that he had bees robbed of $65,000 in dia monds and jewelry whiie en route to Mexico, Mo, yesterday. 4. Ita, Economy tJ the government machinery, eliminate wastcfulnos and save the taxpay? ert billions of dollars. When the bureaucrats perceived the president in earnest. Gen. Da wet found a CksLfles C. DaVd- clear road to the introduction of re forms. Continued success of the bud get system depends on the sort of president who happens to be in of fice. If the president fails to back up the budget director, the system will crumble. In the year of Gen, Dawes admin istration as the first director of the budget, government expenses have (Ton ta r-e Two. felons r. Democrats Split in Senate Fight Over Tariff Bill Rates on Cattle and Meats Written Into Measure by Republican Agricultural Bloc Approved. . jt- " Washington, June 28". Rates on cattle and meats, written into the tariff bill with the approval of the republican-agricultural tariff bloc and ranging generally higher than those m the house measure, were ap proved by the senate by overwhelm ing majorities. Not Only did the re publicans vote solidly for the first time since the bill was called np, nine weeks ago, but there was the first real split in the democratic ranks. Five roll calls were demanded during the day and all showed about the same results. The first was on the rates of 1 1-2 cents on cattle weighing' less than 1,050 pounds and 2 cents a pound on cattle weighing more than that amount Senators La Follette of Wisconsin and Norris, Nebraska, republicans, who had constantly opposed duties in the bill, voted with the solid re publican majority, while democrats who supported the committee amend ment were Ashurst. Arirona; Jones, New Mexico; Kejidrick. Wyoming; Pittman, Nevada, and Sheppard, Texas Democrats Join Republicans. The . second roll call was on the committee amendment to increase to 3 1-2 cents, the 2-cent rate proposed by the house on fresh beef and veal. The vote was 47 to 18, with 6 dem ocrats voting with the solid repub lican majority. Senator Broussard, democrat, Louisiana, who had voted for the rates right along and who tnnounced he would vote for the bill on its final passage, was the sixth democrat on this roll call. Without record vote the senate approved rates of $2 a head on . sheep and goats, as compared with 1 cent a pound in the house bill, and 2 1-2 cents a pound on fresh mutton and goat meat as compared with the house rate of 1 1-4 cents. The committee amendment to increase the duty on lamb from the 2 cents in the house bill to 5 cents, war ap- an-Iproved on a roll call, 42 to 18. per cent ad valorem on meats, "Itw ior specially provided for. . not 1 Fremont Stops Nuisance Due to Sewage Disposal fremont Net, June 28. (Special.) Telegram.) In obedience to orders handed down by the Dodge county district court and the state supreme court, the city of Fremont has taken steps toward abating the nuisance de clared to be presect in the Rawhide creek as the result of the sewer sys tem in this city. A report, in expla nation of the work, has been filed in district court, shoa-fcig that the al leged nuisance has bees done away with, j OMAHA. THURSDAY, Four Courts Stormed by Irish Force I Fierce Battle Rages in Dublin as Government Troop Seek to Oust Rory O'Connor's Insurgents. Rebels Defy Regulars Dublin, June 28. Machine gun and artillery fire was soil in progress at 6 JO p. nv, in the fighting here be tween the provisional government troops and the insurgents. The provisional government has imposed a censorship upon telegrams, London, June 21 A Dublin dis patch to the Evening Standard sayt that after some hours of fighting many of the insurgent Irish troops under Rory O'Connor are retreating. The correspondent in a later dis patch says he understands the in surgent garrison in the Fowler Memorial hall has capitulated to the provisional government forces. Dublin, June 28(By A. P.) The Irish provisional government took forceful action today against the insurgents of the Irish repub lican army, invading the Four Courts building where the insurgents were entrenched and opening a hot attack when a demand for surrender was ignored. The fighting, which opened short ly after 4 a. m, was still in progress late this forenoon, the crack of rifle fire and the rattle of the ma chine guns resounding over Dublin above the noise of the city's traffic, which was being carried on as usual Fowler Hall, on Parnell Square, occupied by irregulars, also w-as at tacked by the Irish government troops. The number of casualties on either side was not known definitely, but 14 had been reported up to mid forenoon. Artillery in Action. Artillery was employed by the provisional troops, at least one Im pounder having been in action, and considerable damage was reported to have been done the insurgents' stronghold. This had been strongly fortified by the irregulars, who re plied vigorously to the fire of the at tacking parties. Machine guns were being freely used by both sides. The entire city was awakened by the din, even to the remote suburbs. The battle began at dawn be tween the republicans and the ir regulars under Rory - O'Connor. Armored cars, trench mortars and machine guns were brought into action. At 8:30 o'clock the copper dome on the Four Courts had been blown in, ambulances were dashing about in all directions, and the scene was one of indescribable confusion. The garrison of the Four Courts and the Fowler Memorial were re plying vigorously to the attackers' fire, and refusing all demands to surrender. Searched for Arms. From the early hours, there hail been considerable activity by the regular troops In all parts of the city, people being held up and searched for arms. Eightv civilians were observed outside the Four Courts, digging up the road, guarded by an armored car. Five hundred regular troops with armored cars and military ambu lances passed through Westmore land street into Sackville street, one party going into Henry street and another into Abbey street, from both of which the rear of the Four Courts can be approached. Shortly after 4 o'clock there was a heavy outburst ot tiring in tne neighborhood of the Four Courts, followed by a loud explosion and a number of rifle shots m quick suc cession, and it was evident that O'Connor's stronghold was being at tacked. Farmer Near Oshkosh Killed by Ughming Oshkosh. Neb- June 28. (Special.) Elmer Keckley, 32, a farmer on the South Table, was instantly killed by lightning. He had gone after the milk cows about 8, riding a horse. After he had been gone for some time, his wile became uneasy and started a search. Later the hunt was taken up by neighbors in cars. Aboue midnight, Keckley 's body was found, the horse he was riding and one cow having been killed by j the same bolt Besides his wife, hej is survived by two children, one an j infant about two weeks old. ' Real Estate Offerings In Today's Bee The dealers listed below have selected offerings in today's Bee. Turn to the Want Ads. Clever a Spaia J. J. XnlTihiD C. G. Cariboo. Ancneaa Security Co. S. K. Back Co. Ann Grant Co. C E. Bebaaa W. H. Gate Benaoa a Camlcbael vn ib A omi Fice Price Ebopea ft Co. W. Farnaa Smha Co. Prroa Seed Ca. artae W. Martm K. A. Wolf Ca. Baron iaetaieut Ce. JUNE 29, 19 I Hope Reavis Resigns to Protest Acts of F. A. Harrison Brazilian Commission Affairs Become More Muddled as State Department In vestigates Charges. BY GEORGE F. AUTHIER. Washliiirtea, OBrreapondent Omaha Boe. Washington, June 28. (Special Telegram.) Joseph C Reavis of Falls City, Neb., nephew of former P.epresentative Reavis, and secretary to Frank A. Harrison, commissioner of the Brazilian Exposition commis sion, today resigned from the com mission. Mr. Reavis frankly ad mitted that his action is a protest against the position taken by Mr. Harrison in the row which for the time, being has practically disrupted the commission. Mr. Harrison wat appointed upon the recommendation of former Representative Reavis. Mr. Reavis. in resigning today, said that he did so with regret, but inasmuch as the State department has not 3-et adjusted matters, he did not care to remain in nis position, where his presence might be inter preted as support of the position taken by Mr. Harrison. He said that his sympathies were wholly with the other members of the commission, who are asking the resignation of the Nebraska commissioner. The members of the commission expressed regret over the resignation of Secretary Reavis and express their hearty approval of him and com mend his work highly. Mr. Reavis will spend a short time in New York and will later return to Nebraska. The charges and counter-charges made by Mr. Harrison against the commissioners and by the commis sioners against Mr. Harrison are be ing investigated by the State depart ment An auditor is going over the books. For the time being work tn connection with the Brazilian expo sition is being held up and the suc cess of the American exhibit there, it is said, is imperiled by the stua tion. Witmer Still Critical. Peter Witmer, 80, -who drank a glass of lye water mistaking it for tea, is still in a critical condition, ac cording to his daughter, Mrs., Fred Ehrhardt, 2716 Howard street, at whose home he is living. .She sgates Mr. Witmer is not suffering great pain, but the extent of his internal burns is not known. Grcve-Hibhard Co. Staukr ft Carr Oiborne Baal Eetate Co. Keen Brno. H. W. Vol land J'ajTte ft Carnabr Parne Investment Co. CKeefe Beat Enaie Co. C. B. Schleicher Seeroeder InverHsent Ca. Hastine ft Haroea Giover ft 3tomD Gemr ft Co. B. F. Ciarr Ca. Eauttable Tract Co. Searer-Badooa Ce. Mi (I f! Ihim l M II Mfl aa This One Will light Vote Reported in Dakota Primary Fargo, XV D., June 28. By A P.) Balloting in today's state-wide pri mary election in North Dakota, when complete senatorial, congressional and state tickets were nominated by the republicans and 'democrats, was much lighter than ia previous hard fought campaigns, it was indicated in scattering reports tonight The result is in doubt Three Cadets Killed in Airplane Wreck San Antonio, Tex., June 28. Three aviation cadets were killed and their bodies burned -when an airplane in which thev had just risen at Brooks field fell 200 feet late today. The killed are Waldren R. Farrell, 24, qf Philadelphia, who was piloting the machine. William C McCoy, 22, Nashville, Tenn., and George C. Thompson, West Philadelphia, Pa. Farrell and McCoy are said to have gone from their station at Kelly field to Brooks field this afternoon. Thompson arrived at Brooks field from Carlstrom field in Florida a few hours earlier and was on his way to report for duty at Kelly field, for advanced training in the bombard ment group. . The other two had finished their preliminary training some months earlier. . "Stick 'Em Up" Orders Youth in City Jail Grand Island, Neb June 24. (Special Telegram.) A new experi ence came to Police Officer Joseph Budnek here, when he was about to search a lad. Joe Kelly, 16, who had been detained on suspicion of having stolen an auto at Fremont and ad mittedly sold a car at Central City for $25. KeHy was somewhat taken by surprise in the matter of his ar rest, believing he was being led to a lodging house instead of the police station. When search was begun, he whip ped out a revolver and ordered the officer to '"Stick 'em up.". The officer coolly took the revolver away from the lad. It is believed that Kelly is paroled or an escaped inmate of a Michigan reformatory. He is being held for the arrival of Fremont officers. Muscatine Minister - Accepts Alliance Call Alliance, Neb., June 24. (Special.) Rev. D. G. Ferguson, recently of Muscatine, I a., has been' engaged as pastor of the Alliance Presbyterian church and has arrived to assume his new duties. The church has been without a regular pastor since the resignation of Rev. A J. Keams sev eral months ago. Rev. Mr. Fergu son is an athlete as well as a preach er, having won the 140-pound wres tling championship of the world at the Olympic games in 1908. He is also a writer, lecturer and an ex-service man. having served two years with the British army in France. He is 36, married and has two children. Boston Bishop Attacks Employers of Child Labor Kansas Citv Mo. Tmi 28 F. r)nvrc rT rhlArl 11- mri,,m.A ! I . . ...... i.iyi WWV kUISUlCU by Bishop Edwin H. Hughes of the Boston area of the Methodist Episco pal church in an address here before the International Sunday School con vention. He declared the day is ap proaching "when child labor em ployers will be denied membership ia Christian society. SHOJ. Hatch Government Care of Disabled War Vets Criticised Students of Ohio Training School Demand Institution Be Closed Forbes Out lines Relief Plans. San Francisco, June 28. CoL Charles rL Forbes, director of the United States Veterans' bureau, drew both applause and criticism from the disabled Atnericin Veterans of the World War today when he explained to their convention the relief meas ures the government had undertaken for its stricken defenders. Cheers greeted his announcement that the bureau had established an employment unit designed to find suitable jobs for every man given re habilitation, and his asertion that he favored the civil service laws to give former service men preferred posi tions on eery goernment list. Scores of eterans clamored for the floor, however, to ask why employ ment had ont been found for various individuals and why others had had their training concluded too soon an dtheir training pay stopped. The climax of the criticism came with the reading of a telegram from the student officials of the training school at Camp Sherman, Om de manding that the school be closed. This telegram, which was read by Robert S. Msrax of Cincinnati, na tional comn-inder of the disabled American veterans, asserted that the president and other executives of the school should not be hastily con demned, said that its work so far was satisfactory and that its graduates would be found the best trained of anv rehabilitated veterans. Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, President Harding's physician, also was cri'icized. Humphrey Sullivan of St. Louis, representing Hanford Mac Nider, commander of the American Legion, charged Gen. Forbes with economizing at the expense of the health and safety of disabled soldiers. Two Stores at Kimball Are Robbed by Burglars Kimball, Neb.. June 28. (Special Telegram.) Morgan's drug store and Eicbenberger s general store were robbed Tuesday night. In each place the burglars gained entrance by prying open a window on the al ley. At Morgan's they secured about SP00 in jewelry. At EichenbergerV, they secured a suit of clothes and, about $5 in cash. Wliliam Rock Dies. j Philadelphia, Pa., June 28. Wil-! liam Rock, an actor on the legiti mate and vaudeville stages for more than 30 years, died yesterday in a lo cal hospital. He was stricken with intestinal trouble while performing here on the Keith circuit five weeks ago. The Weather Forecast Thursday, probably showers; not much change in temperature. Hourly Temperatures. ft. tn J I 1 p. m a. m 42 I S ft. m ? 7 a. m.. ....... M 1 jj. m a. ra. r. J 4 p. m a. m.. ...... 75 ! J p. m. a. tn. ! r m ....... 11 - m 7f ! 1 a re ... 11 nooa TP i p.'m Highest Wednesday. ...r Cheyenne . . . . Itovettport . . . trvr ...... rotiee City I.nr1 r Van ViatM "CPorUo .... Rpi Oltr . ...M Sam F ... tu City.. - ..it Valentino .. .... . .t TWO CENTS One Killed as Limited Is Derailed Engineer Dies XTith Hand 00 Throttle. Fireman Fatally Injured in Wreck Near Lincoln. I 1 Engine and Cars Pile Up j An erginerr died with his hand on ;the throttle, a fireman was fatally in jured and several pasenj;tr were J badly bruised and shaken when Rock ! Island train No 7. Kocky Mountain t Limited, wethound, s derailed j three miles east of Trairie Home. Neb., at about 1.20 yesterday mom inr. The train of nine cars was travel ing at a high rate of speed and wa; I on downgrade when it struck a curve j The engine was thrown into a 15-foot embankment S) feet from the track W. M. McLennon, S3, engineer, of rairbury. NehM was found by pas sengers several honrs aftrr the wreck, dead in the engine cab, his hand on the throttle. Fireman Dying. Henrv Dart, 25. fireman. Faitbury. who leaped from the engine cab. is .dying in a Lincoln hospital. He wa I badly scalded, but requested that his mother tn ratrbury not be notified until it was "absolutely necessary." Others injured are: Selden W. Adkins. 2111 Pratt street Omaha, railway mail clerk, badlv bruised. Mrs. Mary Bishop. 2103 Doug las street. Omaha, laoerated leg. Her 6-year-old son. Ivan, who was with her. was uninjured. V. L. Ovarka. 2724 South Thir teenth street. Omaha, bruised when thrown to the front of the chair car in which he was riding. Woman Hysterical Roy Homer, Mankato, Kan mail clerk, right arm sprained. Mrs. Howard Thomai, 70, Colfax, la, wrist sprained and in hysterical condition. William Champlin. Council Bluffs, train conductor, was unhurt, ac cording to reports. Edwin Lynch, Girard, Kan, news vendor, bruised on arm and chest Mrs. E. M. Hood, Denver, Colo., right knee hurt. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Brien, Omaha, bruised about body. S. A. Steinle, New Washington, O.. bruised and cut about head. Mrs. Frank Baurnan. Fairbury, Neh., left arm and wrist -sprained. M. N. HenWe, Selma, la., injury to jaw and arm bruises. Mrs. Ora Meeker, Phillipsburg, Kan., side hurt. J. P. Qrristensen, Council Bluffs, la., baggageman, bruises and cuts. W. J. Edwards, Lincoln, bruises. Theodore' Hensler, Tekonsha, Mich, bruises. John Stickford, 'Waldcrn, Ind, shoulder bruised. Mrs. Ella Aker, Telluride, Colo., badly shaken. Two Pullmans Derailed. Three Pullman cars remained on the track. Passengers in the two Pullman cars that were derailed were brought back to Omaha in the three undamaged Pullmans. The mail car, directly back of the engine tender, stood upright, strad dling the ditch into which the en gine had plunged. A combination smoker and baggage car had sidled up and stood, also upright and strad dling the ditch, directly beside the mail car. The d'ning car lay on its side, the front end in the ditch and the rear end sticking upward. One Pullman went into the ditch and another was derailed. All steel equipment of the train prevented a greater loss of life, railway officials say. Passengers of the chair car which was derailed were taken to Lincoln. Left Chicago at 10. The Rocky Mountain Limited, a popular train for Omahans traveling to Colorado, left Chicago at 10 a. m. Tuesdaj-. f It kit Omaha at 11:55 Tuesday night and was due in Lin coln at 1 :40. It was bound for Colo rado Springs a.nd Denver. It frequently travels at a speed ex ceeding 40 miles an hour, making it's scheduled time, railroad men said. Either soft track, caus-ed by recent rains, and hence spreading rails, or a broken rail are given as causes for the wreck. The scene of the wreck was about IS miles east of Lincoln. J. B. Christcnsen, Council Bluffs, was the only local express messen ger on the train, according to the Omaha office of the American Rail way Express company. Roy Mar shall and Merrit Kevan of Omaha were railway mail clerks in addition to Adkins, according to Assistant Superintendent BlackwelL A wrecking crew, accompanied by doctors and nurses, were on the scene within a short time after the accident The wreck had not been cleared up entirely by noon. Views of wreck will be found on page 11 of this issue. Taxation Values Are Slashed by State Board Lincoln. June 28. (Special.) " Some slashes in valuations for taxa tion purposes were made by the state board of equalisation here. The valuation franchise, a new item included under the revenue law, wasut to $167,000 for the American Tejephone & Telegraph company; $454,637 for the American Railway rxpress and $282,382 for the Western I Union. Adams Countv Vheat Yield j?' Is Heavier Than Expected ;! Hastings. Neb, June 28 (Spe m ! rial Telegram,) Cutting of wheat is well advanced in this section and reports indicate that the yield is heavier than expected some time ago. In some places tu yield will be light bat it is believed "the aver age will be close to 20 bushels aa lacre. t