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CITY EDITION VOL. 53—NO. 190. OMAHA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 24. 1924. * TWO CENTS '• TO b Cent* Llaawhara. —S*r Morria.
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Bok Takes
Zest Out of
Peace Probe
Flal Statement That His Own
Money Is Belli ml Move
Causes Dielianls to
Lose Heart.
Gaze to Teapot Dome
By MARK SI I.I.1VAN.
ashington, .Inn. 23.—Senator
anises’ soled committee examined
Miss Esther I.ape today In its effort
to find out how much Mr. Bok Is
spending on liis peace award. Miss
I.ape Is a fine young woman of the
best. American type, who lies charge
of the details of Mr. Bok's enterprise.
Either from her, or from the treas
urer, or from l he Girard Trust com
pany of Philadelphia, which pays oin
Mr. Bok’s tnon*-y, the committee will
prbbnbly discover that the enterprise
has already coat Mr. Bok something
like 1200,000 in addition to ? 100,000
for the prize.
It Will probably cost a good deal
more before the referendum is con
cluded, because referendums on tlie*
immense scale on which this one Is
being conducted are inevitably ex
pensive.
The general Judgment of Washing
ton is that Hie public will decline to
be shocked at whatever amount Mr.
Bok chooses to spend on what the
public generally regards as a legit!
bate effort to get his ideas before
the country, especially as the * re
turns seem to indicate that upward
of four-fifths of the public believe in
the plan with some enthusiasm.
Bok's Money Behind Plan.
The only possible chance me in o
oncilable senators -had to make sny
headway against Bok blew np when
Bok said: "I defrayed every cent of
the expense myself.” That envied all
the Insinuations which some of the
irreconcilable sources have been put
ting out to the effect that some or
all of the money was being provided
by international bankers or by oth
er, having an interest in the league
lor nations. It was a most foolish
innuendo.
Kvery well-informed person knows
1 hat Bok has a very considerable for
tune derived from his identity with
ttie Curtis Publishing company since
its beginning, and is as well able, to
finance the dissemination of ideas
that appeal to him as most Interna
tional hankers would be. The mo
ment Bok said he was receiving no
financial assistance from anywhere,
ail the apirit went out of the inves
tigation.
1'p to that moment Senator .lint
Tteed of Miasouri had been watching
Bok with the attitude of a prose
cuting attorney getting ready to
pounce on some peculiarly odious
criminal. The attitude of prosecut
ing attorney is one that Tteed fre
quently has toward his political op
ponent!?.
Senator Keed Tamed.
At the beginning of the Bok hear
ing, Heed glowered at Bok with an
air of trying to make up ills mind
whether he should merely bile his
initials in Bok's neck or chew him up
entirely. After Bok said the money
was all his, Reed had the air of hav
ing decided there was not enough In
the Bok case to provide very sub
stantial chewing.
The audience was on Bok’s side to
a degree that was a little disturbing,
even though one's own sympathy
might he with Bok. It gives one a
little concern to see two or throe
hundred obviously high minded and
h- uUvated people have toward the
'um.nlttee of the Cnlted Rates sen
ate a mental attitude which expressed
itself in applause when Bok, In one
of his answers, spoke of representing
"the intelligent American public" ami
then expressed itself in the beginning
of hisses on the part of some when
Chairman Moses sternly rapped for
order.
As a matter of fact, while Senator
need in the beginning had ids not in
frequent manner of glowering belHger
nicy later on the actual questions lie
asked Bok were sufficiently courteous
lioth In substance and in wording.
Neither could it he said that the other
irreconcilable, Senator Moses, of New
Hampshire, was unreasonably belli
eose toward Bok when the latter said
• decline to answer absolutely.” the
question about how much he was
spending.
The real reason for the way the
nudience expressed themselves Is a
feeling on the part of some of the
public that the senate Is standing
stubbornly against those who would
like to bring universal peace to the
world.
Woman Driver Breaks W ri't.
Mrs Paul Davis, K40 South Twen
ty* fourth street, suffered a broken
wrist while cranking ii»r car Tues
day.
The Weather
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Attempt Made to Bum
West Point Building
■\Vrst Point, Neb.. Jan. 23.—A prob
able attempt at arson was discovered
here by City Park Commissioners F.
L. Royer and W. T. 8. Nellgh while
they were on a tour of inspection of
the properties and buildings of the
park.
Upon entering the structure known
ns the Community building, formerly
the I. C). O. F. bulfding. used by the
state encampment, they found a quan
tity of hay, kerosene and rags on the
second floor, which is used as a hall.
A hole about five feet In diameter was
burned through the floor and double
doors leading into the hall and adja
cent to the hole in the floor, were
found to be burned beyond repair.
Tile fire bug. after igniting the ma
terial, must have made his exit with
out opening any of the windows. Tills
prevented the spread of tile fire until
the hole was burned through the floor,
when the downward draft of air ex
tinguished the flames. The building
is just two years old and cost About
$10,000. _
Cohagen Cave
Own Cheeks as
Claim on Countv
So Testifies Witness in Trial
of Lincoln (lonnty Commis
sioner Accused of Km
bezzlement.
By ’••or* lilted Free*.
North Platte. Neb., Jan. 23.—Trial
of 'I'. M. Cohagen, Lincoln .county
commissioner, on a charge of em
bezzling $000, began in district court
here today. A. S. Allen, first witness
for the stale, told of Cohagen pre
senting a batch of his personal can
celed checks as claims against the
county for work done upon the south
river bridge at the time of the high
water in June, 1921.
Allen declared upon the stand that
Cohagen handed him the checks,
claiming to have paid for labor upon
the bridge out of his account, and
asked that a clal robe made against
the county for $900. According to
Allen, the checks were added upon a
machine, ginned together anil filed as
a claim, for which Cohagen after
wards collected. search for the
checks has failed to disclose hut one.
Alien, cross-examined, declared he
knew of nothing wrong in the trans
action.
A claim file containing the $900
item was introduced into evidence
and upon it was marked "copy,”
which Clerk Lowe testified he marked
when Collagen declared that it did
not s»em to he an exact duplicate.
A number of witnesses were called
by the state, whose names appeared
upon the claim as having worked
upon the bridge and a number of
these testified that he had worked
but a short time and they did not
receive the amounts marked agains'
them in tiie claim presented by Co
hagen. Several others declared they
did not work upon th bridge at any
time.
The state expects to rest its case
Thursday noon as only minor wit
nesses remain to he called.
Omaha Marriage Licenses.
Robert Falrrnan Clark. Omaha ....27
Margaret Plerron. Omaha .24
Revoke Oil
Bill to Be Uiv»i Tailing for
Action by Coolidge on
Teapot Dome
Deal.
Z
By rnlteresl Service
Washington, Jan. 23,—Tin? Teapot
Dome scandal will be placed square
ly before President Coolidge by the
senate tomorrow with a demand for
aqtion.
The plan evolved tonight calls for
a resolution that will authorize and
direct the president to at' once in
stitute prosecution entirely Independ
*nt of the Department of Justice for
the recovery of the vast oil deposits.
These, it is charged, were given away
to the Sinclair and other Interests
by former Secretary of the Interior
Albert B. Fall.
The president will also be author
ized and directed to employ special
counsel Independent of the Depart
ment of Justice to prosecute the gov
ernment suits arid bring to justice all
persons found to be guilty of parti
cipating in the conspiracy.
Today's sensation was produced by
Senator Walsh of Montana, on the
floor of the senate, when he said:
Independent Action I rged.
“Special counsel should be em
ployed and proceedings to recover the
government s oil rights should be con
ducted entirely independent of the
Department of Justice, as the at
torney general himself Is under sus
picion as being Involved.’’
• This statement was made while
Senator Walsh was forecasting the
future plans of those who have been
conducting the investigation.
It came about when a demand was
made by Caraway that the public
lands committee b« discharged from
further consideration of his resolu
tion.
The action proposed would direct
the present executive to prosecute
all who may have conspired to de
fraud the governrneni
Moves for Senate Action.
The Teapot Dome scandal broke
on the senate with all lis fury today
when Senator Caraway moved to dis
charge the public lands committee
from further consideration of his
cancellation resolution and bring It
before the senate for action.
Caraway spoke for more than an
hour In support of his motion, his
speech being a vehement attack on
Fall and those Involved with him
in the naval reserve leases. He was
followed oy Senators I.enroot, Heflin,
McKellar and Walsh, Montana.
I.enroot defended the public lands
committee, declaring that nearly all
of the circumstances recited by Cara
way had been brought to .light by tha
committee. He derlmed that the com
mittee was endeavoring to get all
the farts and that Fall had Iveen
subpoenaed before the committee.
Omaha Divorce Petition*.
Ethel Carton Hgainat Chari#* J. c*r
«nn, rruflty charged
TeUHlIt* Chard again** Cody Chard,
cruelty and nonaupport charged.
Vlnl*»t Evan* agalnat Robert Evans,
cruelty charged.
SUNNY SIDE UP
Some of the sunniest things in life,
especially In the lives of those of us
who have crossed the half-century
mark, are the recollections of youth
ful days. Of course this does not
apply to the boys and girls of today,
for all days to them are sunny. Any
one who can part the veil and show
us the sunkissed paths of long dead
days is a benefactor and friend.
The foregoing merely as an ex
ruse for indulging in some recollec
tions that were called up by a recent
performance. It must have appealed
to many as it appealed to me -be
cause it brought hack the old and
familiar scenes; because It visualized
them, gave us an echo of voices long
stilled. How many of us oldsters saw
against the battered old school desks
whereon had been carved many' an
initial? And how many of us caught
ourselves thumbing the old Web
ster’s Elementary Spelling Book, or
found ourselves humped over a Kay's
Third Part of Arithmetic, trying to
solve the lntracnctes of fractions or
interest or partial payments?
We didn't laugh at < hick Sale
we laughed at ourselves, and at the
boys and girls we went to school
with years and years ago. We
laughed at the old bandman, not be
cause lie was so funny, but we
laughed because we knew somebody
Just like him, so we laughed at. the
other fellow.
Recitation day! How many of you
remember the Friday afternoon when
ihe girls donned their best bib and
linker, and the boys washed a. little
bit further up on their wrists, all
ready to parade their elocutionary
ability before fond parents, and per
haps before two or three members
of ihe school hoard. Our laughs
were all for the memories that Chick
• Sale recalled. And that Is where h«
showed his mastery of his art.
If Is easy to Imagine that Mi
i Sab ’s act would he a complete "flop*
jbcfni. an audience made up of peoplt
j w huso memories would not tnabU
them tp visualize the old school house,
or the familiar characters therein, or
who had never enjoyed the exquisite
torture of listening to the music of
the old time village l»and. Mr. Sale
just brings all those things back to
mind, and instead of laughing at him,
we laugh with him and at the recollec
tions called tip.
it is not a good thing for those ap
proaching the eventide of life to live
too much In the past, but many a gray
day is made bright by a short mem
or.v excursion hack to the days of
childhood. An hour or two spcnl now
and then In the old village school
house, or around the stove In the old
village grocery, or tooting tlie um pah
horn In I he v Hinge hand, or listening
to the menial gyrations of the village
wiseacre as he translates those mental
gyrations Into the spoken word—an
hour or two now and then so spent
will make life really worth while.
Reinember the two hearts pierced
by an arrow that you carved In the
hark of the old tree that stood In the
pasture lot find overhung the creek.
The tree that had the wild grapevines
running all over It and affording a
pretty nifty little tilt of seclusion? And
your Initials on one side, and her
Initials on the other? And the stone
bruised heel? And the cracked big
toe, with the yarn string tied around
it lo keep the dirt out of the crack?
And the old hills over w hich yon
trudged knee deep In snow lo the bat
tered old school house? And the sup
ple and seemingly unbreakable hick
ory switch that adorned the black
board just back of the teacher's desk?
dual such a teacher, to, as Mr Hale
visualizes for us!
This little memory excursion has
made at least one middle agile and
lather portly man feel years votinge'
anti far more Inclined to the dallv
task. It's a good thing for any one
of us to he shaken out of our coin
pis cent mood now and then! to sweep
a few cobwebs from the brain, and to
let the sunshine of the old day In
again W. M. M.
/
Fancy Prices Paid
> at Holstein Sale
■4^ ‘rice. Neb., Jan. 23.—At the
C Holstein sale here today. f>5
milk cows and a, few calves
ut. fancy prices, stockmen from
, arious points in Nebraska and
northern Kansas being on attendance.
The top was paid toy Henry l*ang
of this city when lie gave $300 for a
cow belonging to Kilpatrick Bros, of
Beatrice.
Wollert Youth
Accused bv Girl
Is Found Guilty
Bov Maintains “Poker Face ’
When Verdict Is Given—
Sentence Later—Jury
Out 2 1-2 Hours.
Jury lu the case of Hubert Wollert,
20, son of Mrs. Adah H. Wollert, 1118
Fifth avenue, charged by Miss Vir
ginia Neligh, 12, of Grand Island,
Neb., with a statutory offense, In
district court' at Council Bluffs re
turned a verdict of guilty at 8 last
night afier two and a half hours ilc
liberation. Six ballots were taken.
Thera was no display of emotion
when tlie verdict was given. The jury
waited 20 ndnutrs for the arrival of
the defendant and his mother. Miss
Neligh was not in the courtroom
relatltes saying that she was in a
highly nervous state from testifying
at the trial. She stayed at the home
of her sisler.
Wollert Is I aim.
Robert Wollert maintained a "pok
er face." aa the verdict was read. His
mother stated that she was "satis
fied" after the jury's report. Tli
Wolierta and their attorney refused
to state whether the decision would
be appealed.
The maximum sentence for the of
fense is five years in prison. lciie
for imposing sentence wa* set for
January 80. Marriage of the couple
or granting of a new trial would halt
sentencing.
Asked as to the possibilities of a
marriage, relatives of the girl stated
that it was too late and that they
were unanimous In opposition to
such a ceremony now. They Inti
mated. however, that Miss Neligh
still holds a sentiment for Wollert,
whom they characterized as her first
sweetheart.
Trial in the case was begun Mon
day morning before Judge Earl
Peters. Four witnesses were intro
duced by the state and nearly a dozen
by the defense, which was conducted
by W. E. Mitchell. Closing arguments
were made yesterday afternoon and
the case waa given to the Jury at R
•‘Insinuations against the character
of .Miss Nellgh have crept into this
case.'' said Frank K. Northrop, coun
ty attorney. In hia closing argument.
"Under the law she is assumed to
be of previous chaste character and
the burden of proof against this Is
upon the defense. They were hard
pressed for evidence to stoop to sinls
ter insinuations of this sort.
Praise Boy's Charscter.
"The letters written by both young
people after Miss Nellgh returned to
her home III Grand Island show plain
ly that there was an understanding
between them. I believe there was
a mutual, sincere Reeling of love be
tween Robert and Virginia until the
time these charges were filed.
"The whole foundation of the de
fense argument is the number* of
character witnesses Introduced for
young Wollert. I grant you that his
reputation was high and that 1 would
have failed to find witnesses to tes
tify to the contrary. Rut that testi
mony Is as much In favor of Miss
Nellgh as of Robert Wollert.
"It shows I hat she wasn't as*™ I
nting with a bunch of roughnecks or
young men of Ill-repute. She was
selecting her company carefully. And
I submit that when a girl of such
discrimination falls In love with a
young man of Robert Wollert a chai
acter. lie is the, only kind of a man
who roul'l have relations with that
kind of a girl.'
"You juror* heard the cross-ex
ainlnation of Mias Nellgh by Mr.
Mitchell for the defense, and you
knqw that he loft nothing to the im
agination In Ills questioning. Yet, *he
did not attempt to evade a single
question. The 1# year old girl doesn't
live, who cun sit on the witness stand
for a full day under Ed Mitchell's
cross examination and lie without get
ting caught!
*1 ntII October 28, nreordlnR to fit*'
testimony, Robert Wolh«rt bail de
elded to play the man and to marry
this git!. Then some Minister Infill
one* changed Ids mind! I don’t know
what that Influence was but T do
know that on that Sunday night,
when he was discussing the problem
with Mir* Neligh at the Swanson
home, hi* sister and Janie* Malone
came there and took him away!"
Nearly all of the mnndng session
i yesterday was devoted to the test!
mony of Robert W oiler I In Ids own
behalf His story of his association
with Miss Neligh during J92U tallied
| almost exactly with that told by th«i
| girl on the witness stand, except that
he denied emphatically any relations
with her and also denied that he evet
had admitted responsibility for het
condition.
Mr. M. * Titdev mil M» Mollic
pick It'll g* «. n high school teacher
were Introduced by the defence nr
« li.'i r c ter w It nes» cm for W nil* i t y»-s
irrdoy and Ham**. I M h.toe tcMfled
details of mn \erftitfInn between Mci«
NJehgh and tlie youth on Nnv.-mhci
... el n conf* renci arranged by Idm to
1 * I temnt •« (i I tneiu uf tie uiiitiuv*rp
[ out oX cuurU
If Democracy Is a Failure Whose Fault Is It ?
^■MULTIPLY BY THE .NUMBER. OP
voters (M your Districty
'ATE.LU Bern WHO KAD NME BETTERj LsH
ELECT .NEXT FAUI-?
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I ‘ TegO* "I
HESE'J AUST OF J«LtC.ATES,LOBKi
A.U. RifrHT TO M.E -\*HAT »0 YOU SAY'j
flSKONO I ! IF THtK «’ NO C8j£CTiONt (
;me Monew I ' the chai* will proceed to >
--r' NAME T>4 DElfWTEJANE> >;
1 OUUINC TwfiRIWW^^JV
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Quick Help
to Be Given
Farm Banks
War Finance Corporation to
Set I p Branch Agency at
Sioux Falls to Handle
Loans'.
Coolidge Calls for Aid
Sioux Fall*, S. D.. Jan. :3 — After
a conference with banker* hete today,
KiiBcne Mejer. jr., managing director
of the War Finance corporation, an
nounced tonight that the corporation
w ould e*tabli*h .Immediately a branch
agency In >»inux Falls in order to
bring Its resources and atv-istance in
closer contact with the South I>akota
hank situation which hHS become
critical due lo numerous failure*
Mr. Meyer left tonight for Min
neapolis. lie said he had up in
tention to visit Omaha or Grand
Island in the ne»r future In connec
tion with hi* Wink relief program.
My \M»rlalp<| l*rr«».
Washington, Jan. 23.—Flva Https
for the relief r*f Hit agricultural nit
nation In the nortInvent, name to 1*
inken by congress, non.« by the ex
ecutlve branch of the government
(Turn to fair Taa, I nlumn Two.)
Corey Advises Sheep
Men on Financing
Salt 1 «itke City, Jan. i!3.— F inancing
and bunking methods »f Interest to
sheep raisers were discussed itcfoie
Hie annual convention of the Nations!
(! row era* association he.*? today. M.
I,, t’oicy, Omaha, member of the fed
rial farm loan hoard at Washington,
mid M. II. Howie*. Salt I*nka i'lty
banker, wen* l he ptlnciiml ■ pen ken
"Telling the Public A! out Meat"
was the subject of It. (’. Pollock,
manager of the National Livwtock
and Meat board, Fhlcago, 111
President Frank J. Hagenbarth of
the association admonished the wool
growers to fight n gains* propaganda
which he said was l^eing circulated
flint meat Is not a wholesome food
lb* said he referred especially to
posters pm out by health food innnu*
farturer* In tills eonncctlon.
I Posbililv Snow I uiIhv I*
W rallior Bureau Forrra*!
Mosllv cloudy, possibly snow# and
not mn- h change In temperalure vv.is
■ i h» offi« i;il weather f"reca«|t f• m to*
day.
[ ’/cro tempei ntUl es tllloiiahotlt I he
Oinadlnn territory were commonl> r«
poi 1« d V< -tei da v .
It was announced that the coM
wave predicted Tuesday for Nehnia*
|ui, had twcivt^l ami pasted aatiwaid
_•_
The Day in
Washington
—
The new rum treaty with (.real
Britain was signed at the State de
partment.
The Navy department announced
tiiat four lives were lost in the
wreck of the Cruiser Tacoma at j
Vera Crut.
A Porto Khan delegation asked
President < oolirigc and congress
to modify the island's organic law
to permit more self-government.
A bid for Muscle Shoals was made
by the I nion Carbide company of
New York, it including a pro|mxal to
manufacture fertiliier.
President Coolidge in a message |
to congress outlined steps for the j
relief of agriculture in the north- j
west.
Kepublican members of the house j
ways and means committee offered i
the democrats a compromise on the
Mellon tax plan.
The senate ratified the claims eon
veutions with Mexico.
The State department (oiffluded
presenting evidence before the sen
ate foreign relations subcommittee
which is considering Kusslan recog
nition.
Miy bather lapr, member in
charge of the poliry committee of
tlie Itob peace award, testified he
fore the senate committee Investi
gating propaganda.
Senator Caraway, democrat, Ar
kansas, again attacked former Sec
retary Kail and urged action on liis j
resolution t<> cancel the Teapot j
Dome oil lease.
Senator Walsh, democrat. Mon |
tana, announced lie would press for J
annulment |»ris ceding* in the lease
of the Wyoming naval oil reserve to
the Siuelair interests and that he
would ask for special couhsel to
prosecute the ease, independent of
the Department of Justice.
Sale to the Mexican government
by .American cltUcns of vessels in
tended to he used for fighting pur
poses, it vi as learned, would be held
by the Washington government to
tie contrary to flie spirit, if not the
letl»r. of the naval limitation treaty.
('hi' of Ooallnla Kahl>it>
\rc Di'lriliulctl in Omaha
r.ii Im.iiI of rabbit*, billet) rerantly In
» rabbit drive .it 1‘snlUbt. »h.t ar j
rived in onmhii >e*tsrdny for dis <
tnbution to cl^arltabla institutions.
The recipients will Include the Old1
People’s hon^v the House of Hope
Km her Kilt!1;7k mi's Bovs’ lioiiif M i
«onir Home for Boys. St. Vitu*ent de
Paul home eminty farm. Nebraska^
I’hlldren’s home Child Ssvlnjfs insti I
lute, t *lt \ Mls^on. Solvation Arm}
iml the \ «*hmtiMMv ,,f \merica
Murrictl in (oiincil Muffs.
Th* foMawin* ppiuonji ..hln tt.,1 mtvrrlmi
ll(d>n.>oii m (‘tiumll Bluff*. viMumtay
.1 .1 HuHiv vn t'.mmlj Bluff*
I’htUiii I'offiustt Mmtlliin Nph. ,
Irr*nk Novak Omaha ....... . 21'
Bata'p Ti bfk Mm* ha IA
Klntrt A ' -won Wat print* \. •
111 * *1V ft 1 m|rt*tt *, Me* rliv K Nt»li 1 »
|i.rct*t I- • I i ••»*, N»nla la
i Lauta shun Ntola. 1* -1!
s
Hu Auto
Theft Ring
Disclosed
Investigation Being Made of
Organized Stealing in
Bovd County. Along
Dakota l ine.
Eight Autos Recovered
Sprvial Di.|tu|rh to 1 bo Omaha Hr*.
IJnccln. Jan. 2".—Sensational ali*
I'loatlrea of one ».f the largest auto
theft rings In the history of Ne
braska are expected to follow an
investigation now being made by
stale officers along the Ikikota line
In Boyd county, according to an an
nouncement made here today.
Might cars have twen recovered to
date on which motor number* have
been changed and a number of ar
rests have been made, although state
authorities decline to state whether
nr not these arrests include mem
bers of the suspected ring Working
with the state officers Is a special
investigator, who has been sent here
from Washington.
Parniele Guilty
of Embezzlement
Former Cag> Cmiulv Bunker
Must Stand Trial tm Two
More Charges.
II v 4*•<*<• Ir«l rrrw*
PlattenioUth, Neb. Jan. C3.—O.
Parttiele on trial her* charged with
embezzling fl.&fto from 1* 1. Wilez,
wan found guilty as charged h> a
Jury In district court her* tot* to
day. The jury took the case about -
amt returned it* verdict at T 40.
Pannele must stand trial on tw»
more charges One of them to forget >
ajrntnat the name of George ^
Sn>der. Sentence on lol.'tv s verdict
will not W i*iw»ed until the coin pie
tlon of all the cases, it to predicted
Gar I G. Kricke. former secretary
of the defunct l.ivlngston I .on n a
Pudding company of Platt smooth,
probably will go on t *1 tomorrow on
a charge of emlH'Kztoiuent. FYtcke
now liven at NVtoon. Ni ’ who ho to
In the coal hunlness
Ouako in Nevada.
Ur no. New ,1.o Two dtotim!
nhock* of earthquake* shook biuil
nervill* and the t'arson \alle> to
Douglas oiimtv. Nevada at ? this
movninj? The directum w **. notch
and south % • 1 thev " * f " ^>
nn«h .*t|Mtt So far vs lenorted no
damage o.i* dun*.
Shots Lodge
in Temple
and Heart
Jaek Eit.'b, Grain Firm Em
ploye, Killed by l nidenli*
tied Man Seen Follow
ing \ ictim .
Boys Find Body on Track
Jack Eich. 62, o(*2» South Twenty
fifth street, employed .it the Nebras
ka-fowa Grain exchange at Gilcon,
a as shot dead early last night by
an unidentified oesassln who fled
south on the Burlington railroad
t t acks toward Gibson.
The shooting occurred on the lall*
i t ad tract;." at Second ami Pin*
3»rret". Kite shots 'vei. flre-*J. one
ieking effect in the temple and an
• flier in the heart. The other three
went wild.
No Eyo-\t itnessev
So far as known, tlierc were no eye
witnesses to the actual shooting.
Sammy Bennies, 16. 306 Hickory
Greet, carrier for The Omaha Bee,
with Jimmie Collins, 312 Pine
street, saw Eich near the Willow
Springs brewery shortly before the
-hots wore fired. According to the
boys, Eich started to walk north or
the tracks. A second man was seer
walking north on th" iraeks a short
distance behind, with lilt hands ix
his pockets. lie quickened his pace.
Then five shots rang out in rapid
succession. The boys, peering
around the corner of the brewery, saw
the second n an running south on th<
tracks toward Gibson.
Revolver Drawn.
They found Kb li lying on the eas.
side of the tracks Kichs revolver
was near his hand, as if he had
drawn it in an attempt to protect him
self.
The boys ran to Sammies hon<
where they told his mother, and po
lice were eummoned.
Elcb had been employed by the
grain exchange intermittently for 1?
or 17 years, according to W. 8. Poo1
of the exchange. H# served a tr-m
in the penitentiary on a charge of
ilfling the mails 25 years ago. Mr.
Pool said. A daughter is said to live
in Gretna.
Omaha Woman
Again Head ol
Fraternal Body
Eighty Representative* of 1
Societir* at Stato C.ongre**
— Expansion Planned
Next ^ ear.
Mr*. Katherine Remington of tha
Woodmen Circle was re-elected presi
dent of the Nebraska Fraternal Con
gress whir h closed it.* first antutnl
one-day convention with a banquet
and program at Hofei Rom* last
n.ght. Mrs. Remington tins virtually
the foutider of the congress ns well
as its president, when t{ was formed
one year ago.
Secretary •reasurer Is Delia Hall of
the I-tilies Macabre*. J. 4. Cassidy
of Lincoln was ele ted find vi.«
president. Mrs. Anna Cassidy, second
vice president: Florence Owens, third
vice president, and Ralph Johnson
of Lincoln. Fourth 'ice president.
Executive committee is Sadie Thut'bcr
of Lincoln. Hessie Gall of Havelock,
Dr. C. N. Rath burn of Lincoln. A.
R. Sink of Omaha and Ames Henley
0 f Omaha.
Richly lie leg.sics \tteml
Eighty fraternities, representing
socictles were host to relathes ac,l
fc-’.rnds at the banquet, which clos- 1
the 1SJ4 meet last night. "All for
fun—fun for all" was adopted as the
slogan.
Community singing was led by Mrs.
A. Grace Hamer. M:*« Edna K i' »
entertained with a reading. Specialty
numbvrs wfte furnished by Mi-a
Katherine Hamer. Song and da new
numbers were given by Kloiae ac.l
Elinor Seg:. S anil 4. daughters of
Mr and Mi* Finest Seg:. L-\ N a
Twenty fourth street.
At fite morning session, invocation
was given by Rev. Frank G. Struti .
Iiastor of the First Central Congre
gational church. Mayor James C.
Dalrlman delivered an address of wel
come. Florence D. Owen, grand
chief Degree of Honor, responded.
>t»eakers on Program,
"Finding Fault With Trots Occupa
tion of Fools" was the subject of an
address Ivy Dr. George \\ lloglan.
secretary of the American Insurance
union W A. Fraser, . nr reign cout
n ..nder of the Woodmen of t: »
World, spoke on ‘ Legislation as Ap
plied to Fraternal Sc* is ties' "Fra
ternal Ethics'" weiw discussed by
John C. Snyder, eupremt chief of the
Tribe of Ren Hur.
Mrs. Mary* A 1-a Rivca. sttpretve
guardian i>f the Woodmen Circle,
spoke on "A W orthy Task ' Field
Problems Instruction to Deputies
w.is the subject ,*f t>wen vt Wes:
general field manager of the Kraterr.,1
\il Union. "Suspensions' w,:r
MM I by J V iV'y -e of the hoard
• ■f 111. • . w of t t . * l '
association
Vn aiklre--* on Hoo- i tL Iki k
1 rid Tinm Fi atci nalism was given '
! Ralph Johnson, supreme organic -
|fi. ilic Mou ,u w , ooiven of AaMrks,
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