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OMAHA, SUNDAY MOHXIXO,. DKCKMliKIt 12, lOOD-KKJHT SKC1 IONS-FOKTY-KIOIIT PAGES.
WOMAN GROWS
. AT HOME'S COST
Club Members' Improvement nas Been
at Expense of Fireside, Sayi
Mis. Blair.
MAYEE FEMININE QUALITIES, TOO
Army Officers
Want a Change
in Riding Test
General Bell Thinks Conditions Could
Be Improved Volunteer War
Army.
WICKERSHAM HAS
MANYJUG TASKS
Attorney General Will Seek to Re
cover Money Due Government
as Result of Fraud.
ON ULUEFIELDS
Situation of Insurgents in Nicaragua
i Less Hopeful Than
Believed.
ESTRADA ASKS BLUEJACKETS
CONSPIRACY IS FAR-REACHING
Omaha
Commander of Cruiser Let Moinei
Requested to Land Men.
TACOMA ORDERED TO BLUEFLELDS
1
Action Follows Conference of Cabinet
Officers at Navy Office.
ZE1AYA STATEMENTS FALSE
Interview Given Out br President of
Mi'nrimn I Anal vied br
late Department
Officials.
. WASHINGTON, Dec. Jl,-Ho deter
mlnd army officers are to procure
modifications of the Roosevelt physical
tests, was shown today In the annual re
port of General J. Franklin Bell, chief
of staff. "Riding; tests and physical
training should not be abolished, says
he, "but conditions connected therewith
can undoubtedly be Improved."
He announces thiit modifications of the
system, "suggested by experience," shortly
will be made ta the secretary of war.
While General Bell docs not outline what
these modifications will be, It Is believed
they will provide that officers serving
In the tropics and offlc?rs about to retire
on account of ape shall be excused from
taking the tests and possibly for provid
ing horses for detached officers to uso In
taking monthly exercl-es.
No Increase In the strength of the army
Is recommended at this time. General
Bell, however, asks for extra officers to
take the place of the 709 officers now
absent from their commands on detailed
duty.
A most Important matter for the general
welfare of the country Qenernl Bells says,
Is the passage of a comprehensive meas
ure for the organization of a volunteer
army to be raised only after congress has
made a declaration of war.
"Such a measure," sayj General Bell,
'would not cost a dollar In time of peace,
but would be of great value If the coun
try ever engages In another war. The
passage of such legislation will permit
of the preparation In peace of all the
necessary plana for the organixatlon,
equipment and supplies of such a force,
and the selection of places for mobili
zation. Without the necessary legislation
all such matters must be deferred."
Corruption in Customs Service Not
Confined to Sujar Company.
ASKS FOR FIFTY THCUS'
Sum Needed for Prosecution
Swindling Importers and Officials.-
AFTER LAND THIEVES, ALSO
t'hnnea In Laws Heeommended to
Enable Him to Land Men Who
Wronafnlly Hold Tarts of
I'abllc Domain,
BH'KFIELDS, Dec 11-A staff corre
spondent of the Associated Trees, who re
cently arrived here has canvassed the
situation and finds it less hopeful for the
iiiKurgr nts than hud been believed.
Geneial Etrada Is greatly disturbed and
has appealed to United States Consul Mof
fiitt fur bluejackets from the cruiser De.s
V. Moines to protect Americans. It Is known.
however, that what he really Wishes Is In
tervention by the United states to save the
Insurgent caue.
While General 'Vasquea, at the head of a
handful of loyal i loops, was parleying
with Estrada's envois before llama, It Is
aid the main army f Zelaya was march
ing on ritiefields.
A disquieting report comes from Grey
town, which Is said to contain a govern
ment force sufficient to route the besieg
ing troops under Gemeral Chamorro when
ever the word Is given.
Taconm Ordered to lllueflelda.
WASHINGTON, Dec, 11. Disquieting
news received from Nicaragua at the State
department from official and unofficial
sources today are to the effect that there
Is danger of an attack by President Zelaya's
foices being made on Blueflelds, where
there are 160 Americans, resulted In orders
being sent by wireless to the protected
cruiser Taooma, wun ten guns and a full
con plement of bluejackets on board, to
proceed to Blueflelds, there to Join the
lies Moines and await further orders.
The Prairie, now at Philadelphia, baa been
ordered to take on board 700 marines under
the command of Colonel Blddle and steam
aa soon as possible to Colon. The impor
tance and significance of these orders are
minimized at the State department, where
It Is said the Tacptna has been Instructed
to look out for American Interests at Blue
f kids.
While the destination of the Prairie Is
given aa Colon, the la.it that It la equipped
with wireless apparatus would make It
very can iur im ut-nu.iiiiiuij iu wmi,s" i . , . inl.
Taft Lays Down
Law to Census
Supervisors
If They Make Office Part of Con-
. a .1.
gressmans Building maenme
They Will Be Removed.
WASHINGTON. Deo. 11 President Taft
today served notice on ambitious members
of congress that the newly organized ma
chinery for the taking of the coming cen
sus is not to be utilized for political ends.
He addressed eighty-five supervisors of the
census at , the executive office -and told
them plainly If they used their office or If
they permitted the enumerators directly
under them to follow polltioal . ends he
would remove uitm tirum(jLij
most that would be au mi tied as to the mis
sion of these vetsela was that If any
eventuality thould make, it neoessary to use
marines or sailors on shore they would be
In readiness for such emergency.' (
Cabinet Officers Confer.
The newB that Zelaya would probably
avoid an nt,ii'tintnt at Rama, make a
detour and v. ou.u strike Bluefields. the
headquarters o. toe revolutionary army and
provisional b . Ljn.iunt was received In
official c!n..i Uii with so'ne apprehension
and almo;'. i.i: i.cU a'.eiy a conference waj.
held in the u.t.co of the secretary of the
navy, at v.l..cL w.re present Secretary
AUyer, Assisiunl fecretary Wlnthrop, Ad
miral Walnv. iiji.t and Assistant Secretary
of State Wll.oi.. A prompt decision was
reached to nun additional fighting ma
terial to the uui!t.er point In Biucflelds.
Thus far then- has been no Intimation
that a landing of marines or bluejackets la
an Immediate contemplation, but it is cer
tain that they are being placed In a posi
tion to meet any contingency. It Is a fair
assumption, however, that should Ameri
can lives be put In Jeopardy or American,
business interests Interfered with prompt
and decisive action would be taken.
Navy officials today while admitting thut
i, the marines which are expected to land
from the Dixie at Colon today would be
V hurried across the Isthmus and put on
board the Buffalo stated that that vessel
had received no orders to sail to Corlnto,
but It 1 given out that the taking aboard
of 72b marines almost certainly mtans an
immediate sailing as otherwise the marlnts
would have kipton shore until needed.
zelaya statements vuise.
Questioned today as to the several state
ments muilc by President Zelaya in an In-
terview published this morning. It was
stated thut the Interview was full of er
rors and two conspicuous examples were
pointed out. One was that Zelaya dls
' ' claimed that the execution of Cannon and
Uroce was by his order, of which the
State department has absolute truth to the
contrary. Another alleged false statement
mado by him was that Zelaya had suit a
communication to the United States gov
ernment expressing his willingness to ai
" low the United States to name a commis
sion to Investigate all of the matters li
connection with the recent disturbances to
which this government took exception and
that he would abido by the results of the r
Investigations.
No such communication. It , waa stated,
bud been received.
duced by Census Director Durand.
"Many of you most of you have been
recommended by congressmen," said the
president, "and It may be tnat some oi
those' congressmen will come to you and
expect because they did recommend you
that you owe them something In the way
of selecting the men as enumerators who
will help them In their congressional elec
tions. "You have got to select the men Who you
think will do the work and If you catch
them doing political work I wish you to
remove them, Just as I will remove you If
I catch you doing political work. It Is busi
ness. I am not quarreling with the con
gressmen." After their visit to the White House the
supervisors called on Secretary Nagel.
COAL TRAIN IS DERAILED
Wreck on Darlington Near Peoria
t'nusca the Death of Three
Members of Crew.
PEORIA, 111., Dec. 10. Three trainmen
were killed, two outright, when a coal train
Of twenty-eight cars on the Burlington
railroad was wrecked at GiUon, thirty
miles north of here, this morning. The
dead are:
F. C. HOFFMAN, fireman, Galesburg.
II. El E. H1BBS. brekeman, Galewburg.
W. P. BURNS, engineer, Galesburg.
The wreck was caused by a broken rail.
The engine and twenty-eight coal cars
rolled down a steep embankment and tore
up the track for a great distance. Burns,
the engineer, died several hours after the
accident In a hospital Ir. Galesburg. The
three men killed were members of an extra
crew which had relieved the regular crew
because of a thlrty-mlnute delay in making
connections.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 11. That the
Department of Justice Intends a vigorous
prosecution. In the efforts to recover all
money due the government as a result of
the suuar frauds at New York and to pun
ish all who mny have participated In them
Is shown by the annual report of Attorney
Oeneral Wlckersliam, made public today.
After briefly reciting the facts In the
OSes which are of public knowledge, he
says:
"The evidence has disclosed a network
of corruption, not confined to the Ameri
can Sugar Refining company, extending
over a period of years, affecting both im
porters and officers of the government,
and it Is as yet premature to state the pre
cise extent of the conspiracy or the amount
of the revenues of which the government
has been defrauded. While it is feared that
the'atatute of limitations may have run In
favor of many of the malefactors who are
responsible for these frauds, yet no et
fort will be spared to ascertain the pre
else amount of which the government has
been defrauded, to recover all moneys due.
and to punish all those who may be found
to have participated In any respect in the
frauds, whether as officers or agents of J
the Importers or as officials of the gov
ernment. I earnestly request a special ap
propriation of $50,000 to enable this work
to be effectively prosecuted."
Commodities Clause Litigation.
Further litigation touching the "com
modities clause cases" arising under the
Interstate commerce law is promised by
the attorney general. Discussing the de
cision of the supreme court in these cases,
Mr. Wlckersham say It does not "neces
sarily determine the application of the
statute to cases where the commodities
transported are owned by a corporation,
all, or substantially all, of whose stock Is
owned by tha carrier corporation at the
time of transportation, and especially where
ln"e ""carrier iJiiiil "hav Jiraeefcfred"ai oT
Its Interest In such commodities to a cor
poration formed for the express purpose
of evadtngtlie prohibition of tha commodi
ties clause, and all or substantially all of
the stock In which Is owned by the carrier.
"Those questions will be presented for de
termination in the courts. If the prohibition
of the statute can be successfully evaded
by the simple device of transfer of owner
ship of the property to a corporation, all
of whose- stock shall be owned or con
trolled by the carrier, congress should
amend the statute so as to make it an
effectual and not a merely Illusory prohl
bltlon, or else repeal it."
Prosecute Land 'Fraud.
In the matter of public land fraud prose
cutlons the attorney general makes It clear
his determination In no respect to abate
the effort to undo, as fas as may be, the
frauds "which have been so long a time
perpetrated in the procuring for private
Individuals of portions of the public' do
main contrary to he conditions under
Which congress has authorized these lands
to be patented."
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Reaction Sets In and Offers Some
Hope Even Yet.
WOMAN SEEMS HOJfEWARD-BOUND
'Now Then, All Together!"
From the Cleveland Tlnln Dealer.
OMAHA REFLECTS THE STATE
Greatness of Nebraska Shown by
Advancement of Its Metropolis.
SPEECH BY CHANCELLOR AVERY
Head of State ITniversltr Tells of the
Agricultural Resources and that
Advanced Ideas Will Best
Conserve Them.
Fitty-Ninc Lost
in Lake Storm;
Twenty Rescued
Million Dollars in Property Also is
Destroyed in the Terrifio
Gale.
STREETS GLAZED IN ST. LOUIS
Sleet storm Causes Heath of One and
Injury to Tsrentr
Klne. ST. LOUIS, Deo. 11. A sleet storm,
which started last night has rendered
many communities near here practically
lee bound.
A drilling rln was succeeded by freez
ing weather, causing interruptions to com
munication systems.
In this city one death and twenty-nine
lnjuiles had been recorded up to noon,
most of the accidents being due to Ice
glazed streets and sidewalks.
Locate M rs. Doxey
After Lid jr Death
Evidence as to Where the Accused
Woman Went Presented to
the Jury.
ST. 1XUIS,' Deo. 1L Tha grand Jury to
day continued lis Investigation of th
death of W. J. Krder last July. It Is ex
pected now the Inquiry, which was to have
ended yesterday will be ended early next
week. ' ' -
The circuit attomey Is said to be present
ing to the Jurors evidence aa to the where
abouts of Mrs. Dora E. Doxey Immediately
following Krdcr's death. No Intimation aa
to whether the authorities have direct tes
timony to support the charge that Mrs.
Doxey put arsenic In Urdar's food, baa
been made.
Important recommendations contained lr
the report include those of a broadening
of the right of appeal of the government
In criminal cases; a repeal of section 860
of the revised statutes regarding evidence
In criminal cases, the enactment of a (gen
eral Immunity statute to meet the condi
tions which arise In the endeavor to pro
cure testimony for the government; fav
oring a national law providing for Indeter
minate sentences and a modification of the
statute fix'ng the punishment for embez
zlement or misapplication of the funds of
a national bank at lmproslonment for five
years.
The attorney general refers to the un
satisfactory conditions at the District of
Columbia Jail, which he says Is a reproach
to the national government, and he earn
estly recommends an appropriation ade
quate to make necessary Improvements.
HOGS HIGHEST IN YEARS
Choice Heavy Grade Heach EHg-ht
Fifty on Kansas City
Market.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 11. Not since 1882
have choice heavy hoga brought on the
local market as high ap rice as has
reached today, when the best grade sold
at 18.50. . i , .
"The future greatness of Nebraska will
be reflected In the greatnees of the metrop
olis," said Samuel Avery, chancellor of tne
University of Nebraska, In his address at
the National Corn exposition on "The Kco-
nomlc Future of Nebraska; Services Which
the University May Render." "With its
fertile soil, Its climate and inhabited, as It
Is, by people of the best of our native and
foreign stock, Nebraska cannot fall to be
great in population, great In wealth and
great in high ideals.
Nearly all cities have owed their great
ness to some advantage In location, and
Omaha, the recognized gateway to much of
the western country and to the Platte val
ley in particular. Is in a strategic poultion,"
continued the chancellor. "I refer to the
Platte valley advisedly. A few years ago
I stood on the bluffs overlooking this val
ley near the town of Gibbon. Below me.
as far as the eye could reach, were fields
of be.U.Corn ad jilfulta.X have made i
similar aurvey of the Rhine velley from
the mountains of the Odonwald. J have
seen the best portions of tha Columbia and
the Willamette from the bluffs tm their
borders, but I have never seen an agri
cultural paradise to compare with the val
ley of the Platte as I saw it on that July
day. .
"This Is a time when mankind is think
ing of the future in an altruistic way; It
Is a time when we wish to feel that our
prosperity Is on a permanent' basis, and
that a hundred years from now, perhaps a
thousand years hence, the forces which w.
have started In motion will continue to In
fluence the state for Its welfare. Mos
Americans are optimistic; perhaps to
strongly optimistic, and I regard It as :
hopefu sign that warnings In regard t
the future are now being heard and heede
Some of these wnrnlngs have been the rt
suit of American thought; others have t
iglnated on the other side of the Atlantic.
Hill's Note of Warning,
"That practical man of affairs, V.
James J. Hill, one of the world's greate
thinkers and doers, utters a note of wai
Ing, and this note Is particularly lmpjef
Blve since It comes from a man whose pel
sonal work, and the development of who,
projects, have been In the same genera
territory which has most recently re
sponded to the demands of the hungry
world for bread. It would be folly for any
one, except on the basis of a most exhaus
tive study, to try to contradict or to
' weaken the force of the warning which Mr.
Hill sounds.
It Is undoubtedly true that any land
fi.rrr.ed eonstantlv mut sooner or later
reach a condition when the mineral con
stltuents of the plant food removta Dy
the crops must be returned In the form of
fertilizers. As the result of some studies
made a number of years ago, I stated that
in the best Nebraska land of the loesj
region there was a potential supply or
plant food deposited In the first firteen
feet of the soli which at current rates for
fertilizers would, If it could be extracted,
bring about $t,000 per acre.
The studies of Regent Coupland and Dr.
Alway have shown that the supply of
phosphorus and potash In some of our
best soils Is so great that, after nearly
thirty years of cultivation, the amount ex
hausted is relatively too small to be de
tected by the ordinary chemical analysis!
If we could depend on the roots or airaiia,
and It seems very probable that we can,
CLEVELAND, O.. Deu. 11. Fifty-nine
lives lost and 11,000,000 In vessel propel ty
destroyed la the result of the terrific storm
which' passed over Lake Erie Wednesday
night and Thursday according to late re
ports. Twenty sailors were rescued, four
boats were destroyed and one Is aground
and sustained heavy damage.
The summary shows:
Steamer Clarion, burned; fifteen lives lost,
six saved. , x'
Steamer W. C. Richardson sunk; ftva
drowned, fourteen saved.
Car ferry Marquette and Bessemer No.
I, wrecked; thirty-eight lives lost.
Steamer Joslah O. Munroe went aground
attempting to
Clarion.
Tow barge sunk; no Uvea lost.
Sailor from Richardson, erased by
posure, committed suicide.
HEARING BEFORE GOVERNOR
Omaha Mayor and Officials Appear at
State House.
OBJECTORS SLOW TO PP.OSJfJTE
Showing They Were Asked to Fur
nish Proof, but Seldom Came to
Front- More Evidence
Put In. '
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 11 (Special Tele
gram.) Just before the conclusion of the
hearing on the charges against Mayor
Dahlman, the police board and Chief of
Police Donahue of Omaha before Governor
Bhallenberger, late today, W. R. Patrick
made some remarks about the chief not en
forcing the law.
"When did you reform?" asked Chief
Donahue. "You'd better keep still."
"You-ve been picked out of the gutter
many a time," chimed In Fred Hoye, mem-
Yirr rt tha nnMpA hnarA.
rescue saliora from the i " .. .... .. .
xou are a uar, notiy repuea rancm.
"You're another," Just as hotly returned
Hoye and both men began to look be
ligerent when Oovernor Bhallenberger
sharply called them to order. . .
The hearing was on an application of the
Dodc Mackenzie
Killed at Lebeau
Son of Millionaire Cattle King Shot
by "Bud" Stevens Town it
Greatly Excited.
Ought to Bring Back with Her Soma
Broadening Influences.
TIME NOW TO THINK SERIOUSLY
Mothers and Home Makers Most Pow
erful Aids to lidncators In Mar
ina; Household Kconumlea
Taught In Schools.
MUSIC X.OVESS' SAT.
rnnday Musto Hall.
m -Concert Mexican national
in ixuslo hall. Concert by the
Mexican . National band.
The first week of the third and most suc
cessful National Corn exposition ended last
night In froilcksoine college songs by the
Uieo club of the University of Nebraska.
Indications point to an even more brilliant
week beginning with the opening ot tha
big show Monday morning.
Saturday at the Corn show was "Ne
braska day." A moat fitting and notable
part of the day's events was a speech by
Chancellor Avery of the State university,
who voiced a striking appreciation of
Omaha and Its part In the greatness of the
state. His was a speech reflecting .he
harmony that he declared existed between
Nebraska and Its metropolis.
The speaking program of the day wi
of more than usual Interest. Regent George
Coupland delivered an address dwelling in
the agricultural needs of the state and Ita
Importance to the wellfare of the farmers.
E. A. Burnett of the State Agricultural
school spoke on soils.
Despite the somewhat unfavorable
weather the attendance at the exposition
for the first week has been up to that of
ths same period In last year's show.
The first week was interestingly eventful
with the visit of James J. Hill of the Great
Northern, and his speeches. Then, meet
ings of the American Society of Agronom
ists and the Amerlcnn Breeders' association, '
together with the large part that United
States government has taken In both the
exposition and the related meetings baa
given the exposition much of Us import
ance. .
"What improvement club women have
mado has been at the expanse of the home
and perhaps of certain f 'tilnlne qualities
woman oould 111 tparc."
This Is a statement made by Mrs. Mar
garet Blair, head of the domestic art de
partment of the University of Minnesota
anti-saloon leaaiie and Elmer Thomas for
a'tt orde1uTrectlng""tn' "attorney gehaTW"i and ' the National Corn- txpoltlonV recog
brlng quo warranto proceedings to oust the I nlzed as one of the highest aut'-rrltles in
Uncle Sam Censors Corn
Show Scientists' Lectures
alae of Morris Katate.
CHICAGO, Dec. 11 Acrordlng to an In
ventory filed here today by the appraisers.
In the probate court, the estate of the lata
Mrs. burah Morris, widow of Nelson Mor
ris, la valued at 13.&U.K1, exclusive ot the
stale.
Did you ever want to tell anything real,
and then hava somebody refuse to let you
dj It?
. Of couse, you have. Then suppose that
on top of that you were a patient per
servering scientist at a great convention.
prepared to deliver in a paper which the !
discoveries of your patient dellvtngs into
nature's mysteries fairly burned. Then to
have Authority sit down and declare that
you could have just ten minutes to tell
ycur message' te the world would be the
last refinement of disappointment, wouldn't
tT
That Is Just the position In which a
large number of painstaking scientists and
professors have been placed by the cen
sorship of the government over discussions,
reports and papers delivered at ths corn
show and related gatherings ot national
societies.
Here Is a sample of decision from Wil
ier. M. Hays, aotlstant secretary of agrl
lulture, acting aa secretary of the Ameri
can Breeder' association. ' ,
"Ten minutes for that discussion on
Brachydactylism.
"And for you, Prof. Blank, Just take
about five minutes for the report of your
experiments on the chenopodlacae. 60,000
words Is too much. Then, too, the habits
of the dicotyledonous archlchlamdenoua
plants have been pretty well covered any
way."
The axe falls fast and mercilessly. The
medicine Is sharp but necessary. Wordy
discourses by the hundred have poured in
to Omaha for the past week, on scientific
subjects from the remotest outposts of
investigation. Valuable enough no doubt
In their field, but hardly entertaining or
useful In the lecture room and much less
before a audience where only the literature
of science would be understood. ,
So It has come that there are perhaps
score ot disgruntled scientists whose
achelvementa will be hlddan under a gov
eminent bushel so far as the corn show
la concerned. Meanchlle the patience of
audiences and the acoustic properties of
th Auditorium have been apartd much.
LEBEAU, S. D., Dec. 11. Dode Macken
zle, son of Murdo Mackenzie, the million
aire cattle king of Trinidad, Colo., was
;,hot and killed shortly before noon today
u this city. The man who did the shoot
ng, "Bud" Stevens, Is under arrest The
ffalr caused great excitement.
TRINIDAD, Colo., Dec. 11. Dode McKen
.e, who was murdered In LeBeau, S. D., Is
son of Murdo McKenzie, the best known
attleman In the southwest. Murdo Mc
enzle Is a former president of the Na
unal Live Stock association and la now
ad of the Matador Land and Cattle com-
"tny. He is a personal iriena oi iormer
resident Roosevelt. A brlet message an
ounclng the death of the son has been re
Delved by the family here.
Bongo and Giant
Pig Evade Teddy
Ex-President Much Disappointed at
Inability to Get Specimens
of Two Varieties.
(Continued on Third Page.)
The want ad pages
are particularly in
teresting to Christ
mas shoppers
Before you start out on your
shopping tour look over the
classification "Christmas
Hints," on the first want nd.
page. There you will find a
large number of Omaha mer
chants, who are offering sug
gestions of things, which they
have, which fire appropriate
for Christmas presents. Many
little tilings, out of the ordi
nary, are mentioned there.
Have you read th want ads, yet,
today?
NAIROBI, British East Africa, Dec. 11.
Colonel Roosevelt arrived here today. He
Is In the best of health. . He had hoped
to bring In a bongo and a giant pig. but
neither Was seen. The colonel will be en
tertained at several dinners during his
stay here.
MR. R0SEWATER CALLED
SUDDENLY TO BALTIMORE
Illness of Brother-ln-Lavr of Editor
of The Dee Takes Very Dan
gerous Turn.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. (Special Tele
gram.) Mr. Victor Rosewater, who an
ticipated being present at the Gridiron dim
ner tonight, was suddenly called to Balti
more today on account of the very danger
ous Illness of his brother-in-law and was
therefore unable to attend.
mayor, members f the police board and
Chief of Police' Donahue of Omaha from
offleo. '
Attorney James Rait appeared for the
officials and Elmer Thomas, W. R. Patrick
and L, D. Holmes for the complainants,
with Harry Stone, Fred Kavan and Frank
Erdman as witnesses for the complainant.
Six Violations Claimed.
It was brought out In the testimony that
In six places In Omaha the 8 o'clock clos
ing law had been violated; that In Omaha
there are 240 saloons and ICO drug stores;
that the anti-saloon league, which had di
rected its efforts to secure evidence of vi
olations of the 8 o'clock law and the
gambling laws of the state, had worked
six months to secure the above results. It
was also brought out that most of the evi
dence secured to show the police were not
active was on the night of the Ak-Sar-Ben
parade and of the big military parade dur
ing the fall festivities. It waa on these oc
casions, the witnesses testified, that they
tried to get captain Mostyn to have a
policeman leave his beat and make arrests
at the Lenta & Williams saloon. Captain
Mostyn was quoted as saying it would be
necessarw for the 'complainants to file a
complaint before the arrests would be
made. -
Frank Erdman Testifies.
Frank Erdman said he had been I
gambler and had lost (1,800 In varlou
gambling rooms In Omaha, particularly In
the Windsor 'hotel, the Murray hotel and
over the Budwelser saloon. After he had
lost his money, he said, he complained to
the Anti-Saloon league officers and had In
formed them where the gambling was being
done. He did not Inform the police, he said.
Erdman had taken Harry Stone and
Kavan, who Is a clerk In the office of the
Union Pacific, through the gambling houses
and they had seen men playing. Because
he was a gambler, he said, It was an easy
matter for him to get Into the houses and
others co'uld get in on his recommendation.
Harry Stone and Fred Kavan testified to
having bought beer at the Henshaw, the
Rome and other places after 8 o'clock.
They bought it and drank It at the bar and
carried away bottles of it. Etone testified
that he had also bought twenty-five or
thirty cases of beer from the breweries and
had it delivered, which sale, he said, was
In violation of the Gibson law. He now had
several cases in his own cellar, he said.
The three testified they had called the
attention of the police to these violations
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Husband of Woman Held for
Fiendish Savannah Murder
SAVANNAH. Ga.p Dec. U.-The statement
today of Mrs. Maggie Hunter, who was at
tacked and left for dead yesterday at the
same time that Mrs. Ellsa Grlbhle and her
daughter, Mrs. Carrie Ohlander were killed,
that it waa her husband, J. C. H. Hunter,
who attacked her, today led tha police to
rearrest Hunter, and he la being held under
strong guard.
Hundreds of armed men assisted the
police last night In the search for a negro
who was at first believed to have been tha
murderer.
Throughout the man-hunt, which lasted
all of the night, intense excltment pre
vailed. So frenxled did the searchers be
come after tearing that Mrs. Ohlander had
been criminally assaulted before she was
murdered, that a white man, who by ac
cident had scratched hi face, came near
being torn to piece when the crowd saw
the blood.
Fences were torn down and doors broken
In. Every obstruction In the path of the
crowd that would have offered a probable
hiding place for th fugitive was leveled.
The negro suspected 1 said to be 28 years
of age and Blended build. Practically every
negro who answer hi description had been
sent to Jail during the night on suspicion.
Several person have said they saw such
a negro entering and afterwards leaving
thaaGiibble horn about the time the mur
der 1 supposed to have occurred. All of
the victims had been cut or stabbed with
a knife and tlteir hands crushed with some
blunt instrument, presumably an axe.
Mrs. Hunter despite her frightful In
juries 1 thought to have a chtfnce for re
covery. Mrs. Gribble wa 71 years old, Mr. Oh
lander was 46 year old and formerly lived
In Montgomery, Ala., where she left her
husband three year ago. Mrs. Hunter 1
S& year old. She also left her husband.
her branch of work and one of the most
advanced women thinkers In tha country.
Mrs. Blair made this assertion In the
course of an address Saturday at the Corn
exposition and solemnly averred that ah
had no Intention of thus Issuing a challenge
to the women's clubs of the country, whose
work she thinks she understands quita
thoroughly. Incidentally she waa the guest
later In the day of some Omaha club
women.
"And for that matter I have made this
very address to some women's clubs," said
Mrs. Blair.
It was the big address and the bg fea
ture of the day at tho exposition.
Mm. Blair continued:
"If It is true that clubs and Intellectual
activities have won women away from the
home It Is time for the schools to bring
her back home.
"It is time the subject was treated sorl
ouBly aa a science, since sentiment ha
failed to hold It In the high place it occu
pied in the day of our grandmothers.
Every house Is now confronted with au
army of microbes and we must rccjgnlu
It aa a science. The loose methods In vojue
in the 'tiOs would horrify the youngest stu
dent In the youngest school of agriculture
In America today.
Terrible lust of Improvement.
''We cannot say that women have not
Improved under the broadening Influence
Of club life and civic usefulness. They
have greatly Improved In stated way, but
their Improvement has been at the expense
of the home, and perhaps at the expense
of certain feminine qualities they could ill
spare. A reaction has set in. The pend
ulum has swung the other way. It has
brought back to the home, not the woman
of the narrow Ideals and limited mental
resources that It took away, but a woman
with a clearer vision, able to see that,
while she has been In pursuit of the glit
tering Ideal, she has left the essence of
that ideal in her home.
"The mothers and home-maksr of today
are the most powerful and willing aid
to educator in getting the public school
to Include household economic In the
regular grade work. The modern woman
ha been away from home In the realm
of intellect and even In that of politics,
and certainly In that of reform. Bh show
signs of coming back home with a realiza
tion of its value as a place of the exercise
of her highest facilities. The result of her
Journey Is a science of housekeeping,, in
which girls can be schooled from the
kindergarten to the college.
. Two Potent Iutlueneea.
"We have to think of two Influences,
coming from different directions and meet
ing here in America, for the artistic sim
plicity that is permeating the life pf our
households slowly but surely gaining a
foothold In our home and reduc.ng gaudl
nesa and restlessness to a beautiful rest
fulness. Th teachings of William Morris
on the one hand and the Japanese in
fluence on the other, have provided model
which our own good reuse Is adapting to
our uses.
"Simplified household machinery become
an actual necesblty to the .housewife who
wishes to put something of herself Into
htr home. Complicated machinery always
erase the Individual touch and the ma
chine made home Is quite as poor, a substi
tute for the hand made home as ready
made clothing la for the tailor mad ar
ticle. '
"Another asset whlcn the house-mother
have brought back with them from their
Journey Into the world Is the knowledge
that the prime of life Is not over at GO, not
yet half over. Tha seven ages of woman
have been definitely changed, for now she
I aa young at 40 a he.ued to be a! 25
and doea not begin to change her color
scheme In clothe until nature gives her a
broad hint In th matter of graying hair.
If her complexion and 'hair do not oheua