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The Omaha IBjly Bee Silk Hat Harry His Side Splitting StunU Ttakily On Our Magazine Page, WEATHER FORECAST Unsettled VOL. xu-xo. OMAHA. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY lSflV .OURTEEX PAiiKS. 2? SINGLE COrY TWO CENTS. FLOODS MAKOON . MAX! FAMILIES High Water Imprisons Thousands of Persons Under Serious Con BELIEF MEASURES UNDER WAY Terrible Situation Exists in Black River Section, Louisiana. TKREE PARISHES UNDER WATER Few Towns Protected by Levees Are Only Exceptions. FAMILIES ARE LIVING ON RAFTS .Man- har Theft with Honri, CowsJ ntiU Plga Nearly All of Tkrre rarlbea la ow I nUr Water. TOKKAS. La.. May l.-Rellef la being rushed to hundreds of marooned families in the Hooded territory north of this place. F nnl depots have bt en f I xe3 at Iolnts convenient for ,?urpe of distri bution. Tenlble cuiiditiuna prevail in the Black nver section. In many instance parent and their diildren have taken refuge on rafts, which they share with live aturk. A. Simmon who arrived from a trip over Concordia, Catahoula and Tenaaa parishes, says that all of these parishes were under water with the exception of a few towns protected by levees. 1 " The inhabitants are home. ess and des tltute,' he said, "rtve thousand white persons along the Black river are In a desperate fix. The government supplies received there are Inadequate. "Many famlll'S expecting the flood built raftH. and when the water came ihey moved their houiihold goods aboard. Homes, cow, piss, chicken, dnga and cats aro sharing these rafts with the farmers and their families. The rafts at anchored to trees and that'a tt.o way they are living n w. "The be! low Ink' of the cattle could be heard a great distance. The people not oniy need food for themselves, but pro vender for their live stock." House Votes Hrllrf. WASHINGTON. May ..-Nearly rOQ.OOt) more for the relief of the Mississippi rle.r Hood sufferers was voted by the. house committee on appropriations today. For tiuartcrfinaster's supulk-s, such as tents, etc., the committee provides 77, 1TS; The commissary department, sup plying the destitute with food, will re ceive 42u.O0u. Grain Receipts Heavy During the Month of April Receipts of grain on tit local market (or tha month of April exoaeded the r celnm of a yar ago by K6.MO bushels. Despite tha high prices of corn, whirl would indicate a scarcity, W, more bushels were received during the month Just closed than during the aajna month Jul doped than during the aame month a year ago. Tha comparative table Is: m;. mil. Wheat .... Torn Data It vb barley ..... Total,.. 4M.WS) 4J3.IM9 1.:M. 1.2WUO l,3T6,i LOW) . 101.0. JO J.ITS.XO 1.CM.W0 WOMAN TICKET AGENT ADMITS TAKING CASH CHICAGO. May L-Mary Reynolds, a ticket agent employed by the Illinois Cen tral laiiioad, who told the police a atoiy of being held up and robbed of $lw by two men In the station last night, con-f-r.sed today that she had concocted the story of the robbery and had given tha money to her sweetheart. "I took the money and gave It to Charles Imffy," she said. "We aoon weie to be married and neither of us had much money. I might have known I would be found out. The money la hid dVn fn a cigar box, burled at the base of a telegraph pole at One Hundred and Fifth street and Michigan avenue.' WOMAN AND HIMSELF INFATUATED MAN KILLS KANSAS CITT, May 1. -Crazed with an infatuation that was not reciprocated John iKusey. aged 21. went to the resi dence of Mrs. Florence 8tuin brook, aged in t fashionable district on the south ldo here today, shot and fatally wounded ! the woman and then killed himself. imwr of enotlsM at toax City. M,i"X CITY. la.. May 1. -(Special.) Superintendent of Public Safely Charles O Shonessy today announced the. appoint ment of liis brother, Michael CShonessy, ch ef of police to succeed J. B. Richard, who remains chief of detectives. The Weather Official Formats Forecast till ? p. m. Thursday: Fur Omaha. Council Bluffs and Vicinity Cloudy and unsettled tonight ana Thursday; no Important change in tem pe;ature. ! 62 . - 71 Lowest lat fcgM.. lreopltatHa M T .m tlfTjr ? Urn it i I":::::;:::: -jsgl X p. m " t . m Laral Weather Retard I'll. !!. 1. . is a s lrru;tency in precipitation a.ncc aiarcn J, M of an tech. , keftch-ncy corresponding period. 111. ; 'S or an inca. . I Uefieiencr cDrrespondin( period, IML j uk be ... Amusement Rule is Bone of Contention at Methodist Conference MINNEAPOLIS. May l.-Already inter, est la keen among the delegates who as sembled to attend the opening here today of the quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church as to what action shall be taken on a proposal to change the present disciplinarian rules governing amusements. The rule prohibits dancing, games of chance, theater-going, circuses and hors; racing as being "a tendency toward wordlinesa. The proposition as to its retention or rejection has been referred to a committee. Among the arguments advanced In op position to retaining the present rule as given to the committee are: It violates Christian freedom. It la a source of constant irritation. It puis many in an unjust attitude as disloyal to the church. U cannot be enforced. As an uninformed law It brings dis cipline into contempt. It keeps many conscientious people out of the church. It breeds hypocrlcy. It has not added to spirituality in the church. Arguments for continuing the rule are given as: The rule voices a protest against world Hness. Repeal suggests a backward step mor al i v. Many will avoid harmful things be cause the church directs. Repeal would be Interpreted with great publicity as indicating a moral declen sion. It was stated It probably would be sev eral days before the real work of the conference was reached. Only the morn ings are to be devoted to conference busi ness, the afternoon being given up to committees and the evenings to reports from missionaries. President White of Coal Miners' Union is Critically 111 OSKALOOSA. la.. May l.-John P. White, national president of the fnlted Mine Worker, of America, was taken suddenly ill at his Home here today with severe hemorrhages, caiund by ruptured blood vessels. Physicians this afternoon succeeded In stopping the flow of blood, but the patient la said to be in a serious condition. Eastern appointments have been cancelled Indefinitely. Thomas C. Dawson, Diplomat, is Dead WASHINGTON, May l.-Thomss Cleve land lawson, resident diplomatic of ficer of the State department, (dled here early today after an illness of several seeks wnth a complication Of disease, Mrs. Dawson, who married tha diplomat in Bras:! in IW. Several children survive. Mr. Iswson waa famous for his aklM In Handling HfflcuH Latln-Amertoan problems. He -was regarded In Latin Amerlca as "tha great pacificator" and time snd again tht service of 'Tom" Dawson, as ha was familiarly known, were in demand to smooth things out when two of the smaller republics to tha south wera ready to fly at each others throats or relations between one of them and tha United State bad been strained to tha breaking point. Beginning his college career at Har vard. Mr. pawson graduated at Tanover college, Ind., and later took a law course in Cincinnati! and was admitted to the bar. Then lie established a newspaper at Enterprise, Fla. From 18NS to 1883 h practiced law In Iowa and after another try at journalism waa elected as sistant attorney general of Iowa, which position he held from 1801 until 1W4. He began his diplomatic career In 197. when tie was appointed secretary of the legation In Bra si I. After serving with marked distinction as minister to several of the Latin-American countries, he came to Washington as resident diplomatic officer In 1WT. Since then he had been sent to Central America on various Im portant missions. Price of Beef Now Highest for Years NEW TORK. May L-Tho wholesale and retell price of beef has reached the highest point In twenty years in this city. Prices haVe been climbing steadily for three weeks, and packers'say that aith corn at SI cents a bushel the farmers are not feeding rank. Potatoes, too, are welling at record .prices and scarcity of pruductton is given as the rauie. A Washington mar ket dealer said today thai ;' It had not been for the importation of the low j trade English potatoes recently there j would have been a potato famine in New j I York. The marketing committee of the stale . preference as lo whether I or Mr. Taft food invesiiiratlna; commission has been ' should be nominated as president. It lold that there Is an extreme ahortag. ' would seem unlikrly that a majority of in butter. i the voters would both vote for the dele- Wtiliam E. Kklnner of Denver, presi- J gates pledged to me and at the same dent of the International Livestock Ex- ! time eiprees a preference for Mr. Taft. position association, who la here aiys: j but apparently this Is what has happened. "We have tot Into bad shape In this j "Sim h being the case, and on the as country through not having been pre- sumption that the preferential vote Is pared for the period through wHich wa for Mr. Taft. I hereby announce that I paaaed during the last five ytars. I 1 hall expect these delegates at lanes to mean the farming of tha range- In other j disregard the pledge to support me and worda, the range has almost entirely ; support Mr. Taft. and If any one of disappeared and most of tha land form- : them hesitates so to do I shall Imme erly given over to graiing has been set- j dlately write htm and urge him with all tied by farmers. The farmer has U yet ; the emphasis and insistence in my power adjusted himself to live stck gi owing." j ,h lH" nd support i RUSSIA NOT YET INVITED to panama imposition ST. PETERSBURG, May L-The de partment for expositions of the ministry of commerce, explained today that It had received through the foreign of flea iivjulrtes aa to whether It proposed to natUc.Da.t0 In the Panama-Pacific exoo- , sitioa at San Francisco. The latest query !as from the Austrian embassy. In re ply, the answer being made on March ! a. it was stated that ft waa not the Russian goremnwwt w 1 purpose of C. participate, it was, however, added that . . . . . . . , this was In no senss a decision aa no t .-.,,. (... . .. .j, ... . , had heen received and consequently the j "Predion f the gnulne desire precisely. .. ,,, not nn, , ,. . If nominated. I should desire to get , , h..tr at the polls the genuine exprealon of the minister of commerce, M. Tunaaboff, or " to the cabinet. , 1 (Continued on Page Two.) . : . '.1' SITUATION IN BAY STATE IS MIXED President Taft is Given Preference Vote by Plurality of About Thirty-Six Hundred. EOOSEVELT DELEGATES CHOSEN Eight from State at Large Are for the Colonel. TELLS THEM TO VOTE FOR TAFT Former President Requests that They Obey Preference Vote. RESULTS IN THE DISTRICTS Taft Carries Mnc of Them aal the Colonel Five Part uf Mtxaa la Dae tt Errors by Voters. BOSTON, Mass., May 1. Massachusetts emerged today from Its first prcstdentl.'.l preferential primary election to find thai the republican voters had expressed a preference for the renominatiou of Presi dent Taft. but notwithstanding had given Colonel Roc neve It eighteen of the thirty six delegates to the national convention. Roosevelt leaders said today that the Taft preference would have no effect n the eighteen delegates chosen for Hoosa Velt, and that the expression of the vot ers for Taft would be disregarded. The democratic voters of the state ex pressed a preference for Speaker Champ Clark, although a majority of the dele gates to Baltimore will .go pledged to Governor Fobs. Returns from 1.4C7 out of 1,030 election precincts give: Republican (presidential preference) La Fohette, l.iSS; Hoowvelt, Taft. Delegatcs-at-Large Haxter (heading Honsfvelt grout". 7.. 121. Crane (heading Taft group), 66.K7S. Democratic (presidential preference. Clark, IV.m; Wilson, s.lN Delgate-at-Large 'oughlln 4 pledged to Fossi, r,M, Williams (for preference primary). 8,24ft. Just how Massachusetts could send an evenly divided de'.egatton to Chicago while on the preference vote Taft has a pluarallty of S.titO over Koosevclt Is partly explained by the wording of the state presidential ieferentuI primary law, en acted two month a ago. By that law every voter, to have his vote recorded, was compelled to mark each delegate-at-large of hi party, there being no circle for voting b groups. The law enabled hundreds of voters to mark the eight names In the delegation headed by C. H. Haxter and styled "for Theodore Roose velt and then express a preference for Taft on another part of the ballot. Fosm Delegation F. lee ted. On the democratic ticket although ten of the fifteen candidates for delegates at -la iff a to Baltimore were either pledged lo or Indicated to 'be "for" Governor Fosa, tht.ro waa no Foas name in the presidential preference column. Speaker Clark, whose name did apptar In the preference, and who defeated Oovernor Wilson by a vote of 2 to 1, did not have a single pledged delegate on the Mt. Many of the democratic district dele gates were elected pledged to Kosx. Another Incident which some observers say may have a bearing on the selection of a Roosevelt delegatlon-at-large with a Taft preferential, was the sandwiching In of the name of former mate senator Frank Selbcrtlch, "pledged to Taft." be tween the Roosevelt and Taft groups. Mr. SeiberOch claimed today that he was 111 treated by the Taft managers and therefore ran independently. Reports from many precincts show that hundred? of ballots were thrown out because vot ers had invalidated their ballots by vot ing for nine Instead of eight- names, be ginning wltb Melbertlch snd going through the entire regular Taft column of eight names. The spaco between the name of Selbertlch and the Taft group was slight Kvery one of the eighteen Taft dele gates Is "pledged for Taft " while all of the eighteen Roosevelt delegates are "for Roosevelt.' Hook veil He leases Delosratra. OYKTKR BAY, N. V.. May ..-Colonel Roosevelt renounced his claim today to the eight delegutes-at-laige to the repub lican national convention elected for htm in Massachusetts yesterday. He tele graphed that he would expect them to viae for President Taft, taking Hit- ac tion. Im said, because of the 'act that President Taft carried the sla'.'j on the presidential preferential ot. Colonel Roosevelt announced his deci sion In a statement, copte of which ha telegraphed to each of tha eight delegates at large elected yesterday. The statement ! follows; "In Massachusetts the ballots contained the names of eight candidates for dele- KateB at prlmed unor each the Worn 'pledged to vote for Thesdore Roosevelt." and also contained a column I in which the voter was to express his 1.4-t ike People Rale. - vital to the Present and future welfare (of thia nation. My success Is of value only as an Incident to securing trie triumph of these principles. Foremost among these principles Is the right of the people to rule and the duty of their representatives really to represent them, in Dominating conventions no less than in executive or legislative offices. In the majority of the rank and file of the republlc"n w,"h nw""1"' ini men eiiunij so nut wish i' be nominated. "Mr aim has been to get the genuine What's 1 if" Ie t tun the oBrooklyn Eagle. MESSAGE ONJAPANESE CASE Kikado's Government Not Trying- to Acquire Land in Mexico. PAPERS SENT TO THE SENATE State Department Objected to Pro posed gale of Tract hy tmerlrss "yndleate to a J spa near syndicate. WASHINGTON. May l.-Presldent Taft today Informed the senate that the le paVtment of Htate haa no evidence what ever adequate to show any acquisition of land or any Intention or dea.re to acquire land, whether dirwetly or Indirectly. In Mexico, by or on the part of the Im perial Japane. government. The presi dent's message a as In reftpoi.e to a sen ate resolution calling for Information re garding an alleged purehane of land at Magdalena bay by the Japanese govrn meiit or by a Japanese company. Secretary Knox In his report said that the rumors regarding a Jananea pur chase evidently arose from an American syndicate's efforts to dispose of lands near Magdalena bay to a Japanese syndi cate. An effort waa made to ascertain the attitude of the American government toward such a .transacatlun, since the syndicate felt that Japanese capitalists would not care to con nu mate the pur chase without the approval 9! the Japan ese government gad that the latter would not give Its approval unless assured the transaction would not be unobjectionable to the United Ptates. Objection l state Department. The mat department made it Plain (list the transfer would be "so obviously a cause of regret to the American govern ment that It would appear unnecessary further to comment on the disposition of the federal government in the prem ises." The measage precipitated a debate la the senate. Senators Ms con and Lodge concurred In the opinion that If the Mon roe doctrine did not cover the situation a new doctrine, covering It could be cre ated. Explaining Ills reasons for calling for the correspondence Mr. Iodge said It was to prevent the development of any embar rassing situation with reference to Mexico and Japan, lie said the time had come when the t "lilted Htatns should take the position that neither directly nor In directly could any foreign government obtain the control of land In this hem isphere thst might constitute a menace to the t'nlted States. Senator Ray nor said that If Japan es tablished a baae of supply or coaling sta tion In Mexico he would regard the act as a declaration of war. Lumber Roads Will Fight Tap Line Order tT. LOCKS. Mo., May I.- Of ft -era of St. Louis lumtermen's organisations an nounced this morning they had com pleted arrangements for an Immediate fight against the ruling of the Interstate Comintn e com mission, declaring lumber tap lines not common carrier railroads and cutting them off from a weekly In come of thousands of dollars through rata divisions. The lumbermen plan to file a petition for an Injunction against all the big toads of the south went to prevent them putting the new tariffs Into effect. Theae tariffs have been suspended al most a 'year, but were released by the ruling. If they are put Into effect they will cut off hundreds of short roads In the southweat from a portion of th through rate on traffic hauled over thetn and the big trunk lines. The National Capital Wrelnenslns, May 1, 1012. The Senate. President Taft submitted Tpeelal m ssse saying there waa no evidence that Japan had acquired or attempted to se cure land at Magdalena bay. Henatnr Works chara'-tirised Titanic lnvrfTgation as of unreasonable and un- arreted length. Senator lea introduced resolution pro viding ror return to attorney general of his reyponsn on the harvester trunt. on the grounds that it was not a roper reply. Debate followed the president a Mag dalena message, which was refereed to the foreign relations committee. The House. Met at noon. Considered miscellaneous legislation on regular calendar. Appropns tiers committee failed to re port an appropriation for the commerce curt. Foreign relations committee reported favorably Sulser bill establishing merit system in consular service. Merchant marne commute arr4 to Mil to rviin,el foreign owned steamnhti to comply with same life preserving re il lation as required of American owned snips the Matter with the Bleachers? mats mmYWH&xmxs mrAiiMTTmT,wmau!o$wo House Committee is Trying to Kill New Court of Commerce WASHINGTON, May I -Hy falling to report an appropriation fur the recently created commerce court, the houee com mit tea on appropriations today sought lo abolish 11. at tilbunal. The general supply hill for the legislative. Judicial and executive branches of the govern ment la a wholesale attempt at re duction of government expenses. The bill proposes a reduction of the salary uf the secietary to the president from ST.riOO to K'UO, the old figure, and the abolition of tha I e part ment Com merce and Labor of the llureaua of Manu-factures and Htatlstlcs. It la further' proposed to abolish the mints at Fan Francisco. New Orleans and at Carson Oty, Nev., and the assay of fice at Boise, Ida : Charlott4 N. ' ; lealwood. 8. P.; Helena, Mont.: Heattla. Wnsh., and Halt l.ake v'lly, I'tah. 8an Francisco would get an assay office In lieu of Its mint. Director Ismay Not in Contempt of Court WASHINGTON. May l.-J. Bruca la may, managing director of tit Interna tional Mercantile Marin company, and O. II. IJghtoller and J. 0. Dossil, offerer of tha Titanic, were Immune from the ubpoenna issued by the IM.trlrt of Col umbia supreme court requiring their pres ence to testify In a civil action brought by Mrs. Ueorge Robin of New York, and contempt proceedlnga will not tie Insti tuted against them. It waa declared today. The threa men wera served with sum monses yesterdsy. Wit went to New York after engaging counsel to represent them. Contempt proceedlnga were threatened, but It developed today that because the KiiKllshmen were under subpoena from the United Ktate senate no other process could be served o them for a period of twenty-four hour after their release by the committee. K. J. Uunn of New York, a recalcitrant witness before the senate committee In vestigating the Titanic disaster, hss been released. Dunn had testified that the White mar Una ofriclala received positive Information of the Titanic disaster twelve hours before Ihey made It public, but he declined to divulge to the committee the Identity of his Informant. Senator Smitn will seek light on this and other matters In Nea York. Wool Prices Higher at Wyoming Ranches KAWI.INS, W)0., flay 1- (Xpeclal.) The wool clip of the Carbon County Hheep and Cattle rompany, one of the largest in soutnern Wyoming, haa bean dleiHised of lit private sale. The price was nut medeputHV, but it wss said that the wool brought right around It cents. Wool thus far sold in this seeiion haa brought from 3 to 1 rents mure xr pound than the same wool brought a year ago. and It Is believed that price will go still higher. The heavy losses of sheep, due to two severe winters and two sum mer drouths, and the unprwedented shipments to market during the fall of ll and the rail of KM. greatly curtailed the production of wool. and. viewed from every angle. It Is the prediction that wool will go to 20 and 22 cents. KfH'K SPRING. Wyo.. May 1. I. Spe cial. I The following wool clips have been sold during (he lat few days: Hlslr Hay. n.un pounds, 1 cents; Kd llife, ITi.MI pounds, is cent-; Poston .Bros.. lm.OW pounds, IS cents: Chris Juel, I'O.U pounds, lVs cents. Pennsylvania is for Roosevelt HAIIKISI lu;. Pa.. May I.-The repub I lican state convention today waa domtn j atcd by delegates favoring Colonel Roose j veil and It adopttd a "progressive" p!at j form which lauded Uooseveit and omitted ! mention of President Tsft or the work of his admlnlstratlon. The following ticket waa named: Ktate treasurer. Kobert K. Young, Weliebaro. Auditor general. A. W. Powell. Pitts burgh. Congpessmen-st-larg": Fred E. IVwia, Allentown: Arthur R. Kuplev. Carlisle. John M. Murin. Pittsburgh; Anderson II. Walter. Johnstown. ! Tsrw (alaradw Drlemlei far Taft. BRIGHTON", Colo.. May 1 -Delegate j to the national republican convention from toe First dl-irt selected today are 1 W. Bmlth of Jefferson i-ounty and O. W. Johnson of Bouklor county. Instructed jfor Taft. HEALTH BOARD STIRS ROW Criticism of the Two Institution, for Lack of Equipment. FRIENDS ARE UP IN ASMS Goveraae lias Sol Vet area It e part Haa of ber Will He Made. (From a Staff Correspondent ) IJNCOLN. May l.-(8peclal.-The ad verse report on Cotner and Omaha Medl- : cat colleges haa stirred up something of a rumpus In tha board of secretaries of ithe Board of Health. From atatements of other members of the board of secre taries It appears the adverse report I I that of lr. Fall of Beatrice and la not signed by any other of the member.. One ofMhe members aald today that Dr. i Fall left the meeting before the discus sion of the question waa concluded and ! that aftar hi departure the other mem j bars of the board had derided not la make any report on the auhlect until the j meeting of May I. Ir. Fall, however, i filed hi report with Ktsle Muiietintendent lielsell, who I tha secretary of tha Hoard of Health. Mr. lielsell has not given out the report and under, tha Mr. cumatsjices. decline In ay what II ooa talns. It 1 learned from oth.r aoura, however, that the two choulr ar rrttt vixen for lack of equipment: In the ras of tha Otnaha Institution thai being In tha lab-aralory department, which will be remedied by III construction of the new building now under construction. The friends f Cotner, which adhere to tha eclectic school of medicine, freely charge professional blaa a having fig ured In the matter. Oovernor Aldrlch said ha had not seen the report, but that tha board would Investigate fur II celf before acting on It. Voder Or Place. A. I,. Cavinesa, who haa Just been ap pointed a member of tha male Normal board, haa resigned as a member of tha board of cxsmlneis for city high school and lite certificates. W. A. Voder of Omaha, county superintendent of boug laa county, haa been named t'j succeed him on tha latter board. Major Amies, deputy warden at the penitentiary, la to nuk a trip to leaven worth to took Into the ytem of prison management there aa aoon the murder trial growing out of penitentiary affairs are concluded In the district court. K. B. IJeattle was awarded the contract for the stste aid bridge to be constructed over the Klkhorn river near Arlington. It la lo lie of steel, ISO-foot .pan, resting on concrete piers. Tha contract price Is III.?). Commandant llllyartt of lha IMdlers' and Bailors' home at Mllford will retire about May ID. He la desirous of settling up soma pending matters before making tha transfer to his successor. Captain Teeter. The Northwestern road haa appealed from a verdict of Ill.iV) damages awarded William Mowers by the district court of Hutt county. Bowera wa an engineer and Inst an eye as the result of the explosion of the glass In a lubricator, he alleging the mechanism wsa defective. J. A Hper. alio l a member of th (Aorutlv committee of the National Asso ciation of Public Relief officials has re ceived the program of the annual con vention, which meets at Cleveland, O.. June Thia meeting Immediately pre cedes the national convention of the So ciety of Charities and Correction. LINCOLN PUTS UP $10,000 TO BE STOPPING PLACE IN RACE CHICAGO, May l.-tecretary C. W. French of the Aero Club of America to- j day notified officials of the Aero Club of Illinois that Uncoln. Neb., had put up $16. ft necesaary to become a control, or stopping place, for the aaropianes !n the American grand circuit aeroplane race planned for Pept ember, with Chi cago as ttte central point. James S. Stephens, general manager of th 19U aviation meet committee, said that other plans were making rapid progress,. FRIENDLESS MAN DIES AFTER APOPLECTIC STROKE Without a friend or relative la the world to grieve over bun. Jama Godfrey, aged V rears, died last night at 8t Joseph's hospital, a few momenta after he had been taken three In the ambulance from hla room at a cheap lodging house at IW7 Douglas street. Godfrey haa been working In a street denning gang for the last few days and I'ttle Is known of him. He had brcn lil all evening and S'Jd denly he lapsed Into unconsciousness, supposed to be th mult of apoplexy. Tha coroner will hold an Inquest today. OFFICERS HELD IN BLUNT CASE Bripg, tnd Hyert Kntt Answer for Manslaughter, While Trontoa it Beleased. ARE REQUIRED TO GIVE BONO Attorneys for Defendant Will Ask for .Separate Trials. ENTIRE POSSE HAY BE GUILTY Sweeping Argument to that Effect Hade by Prosecutor. CHANGE OF YJUUE PROBABLE Believed that Cltlaraaktp at Sarpy laaaty la Ma Prejadlred that It Waald Be laapoaalble ta ; Hare Fair Trial. i Chief of Police John Brtgga of gout It Omaha and Sheriff A. A. Ilyera of Lin coln, charged with manslaughter for tha death of Roy Blunt, tha young farmer, who waa killed In the convict chasa of March IS. wera held for trial in the dis trict court by County Judg Jennings K. Wheat of Harpy county at Papllllon yea- terday afternoon. Deputy Ctste Fire Warden John O.i Trouton of South Omaha, who wagi with Brigg In the chase of the core victs, waa discharged by Judge Wheal, who held that the evidence conclusively' showed Trouton took no part In th shooting. Judge Wheat admitted llrlcg anil llyers to ball In C i00 each and releaaed them on their own recognisance until to them on their own recognisance until' thia morning. They procured gurety bond In th required sums and malle4 them to the court laat night. ' Tw Ash Chanel- Vrsae, H. C. Murphy of Mouth Omaha, of coun set for Brlggs, and former Senator K. 3: Hurkrtt, attorney for Hyers, announced! they will demand separate trial and' rhang of venue, declaring they believe! the cltlsenshls nf Karpy county la My prejudiced glnt their clients that they; could not secure a fair and Impartial! trial In the county. I'nder the statute th district court must grant the request for separate trials. Motion for change of Venus probJ bly will be filed, argued and paased upon' early In the May term of district court.; which will begin May with District Judge Travis of Platlsmouth on thai bench. There may be a prolonged batlK an tha change of venua matter, and It ! unlikely thai th rasa will come to actual trial before neat autumn. Judg Wheat ruled shortly stl.r I o'elork. Attorney Murphy followed Mr. Burkett with brief argument for thai release of Brtggi early In tht afternoon and County Attorney Jameaon aloaed the argument with a brief- oammlng up ot iiiv iiniem "" - la preornllnf hK arf umenta for lb) state County Allerney W. N. Jamason. no only racommended that the defendanta be held to tba district court, but he mad tha sweeping and sensational argument1 that every member ot the posse thati pursued th fugitive convict 1 equally guilty of manslaughter with th threa! defendant. Deelarea Jaaaeaaa la Vrssi, Former Senator E. J. Burkett. attorney for Hyers. moved that tha complaint against hi client be dismissed and pro. ceded lo a lengthy argument for th motion. II declared tha county attorney right In aaylng all member of th poss ar guilty It th threa accused offflcerat are guilty, but h went on to contend that Jameson waa wrong In assuming that any are guilty. Th dismissal motion mad practically no change In tha situation. Th com plaint having been filed. It already de volved upon County Judg Jennings N. Wheat to either dismiss th defendant or hold them for trial In th district court. Officer Ar f aelleard. Mr. Jameson briefly reviewed th avU dene, lie aald l or eight wltneasea nave teatlmony sufficient to prove beJ i yond doubt that tha officer opened flr on tha convicts before the latter did any shooting and that tha officers had been cautioned not to shoot until Roy Blunt) should be safe, lie then declared that) In hi opinion all the pursuers. Including1 more than IS farmera and cltlaena of, Hprlngflrld and Papllllon. are guilty of manslaughter, under a statute which) make all persona present at 'a horaiddw accessories. Jameson cited a federal case In which a manslaughter complaint waa filed) against a sentry who accidentally killed a woman while shooting at an escaped1 military prisoner. Tha sentry was released on a writ of habeas corpus on a ahowing that b dad not know the woman waa wlthla rangs. the court holding that had h known th woman was nearby and had h tagen tha ! risk of shooting her be would have been guilty of manelaughter. CwMvlrte Wera Desperate. Mr. Burkett maintained that the con vict were desperate men and that under the atatutee defining manslaughter the officers are not guilty. Ha then launched out upon an oration In which ha aald ba believed tha county attorney had been pushed Into making complaints when h did not wish to do so. He demanded to know why Jameson had not complained agalnat all the members of the post. "You would have had a mora eiciUnc time thaa you have had," ssld Mr. There are many Bee readers looking for bouses and rooms into which they may move within a few days. If you have a house or a room that you wish filled by the best ten ants, put a small ad in The Bee classified columns. Tyler 1000