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    The Omaha Daily Bee
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THE WEATHr
Fair; Warmer
VOL. XLIII-NO. 195.
OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1914 FOURTEEN PAGES.
On Trains and at
Xotsl Ww Stand So.
SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS.
MOVER WOULD LEAVE
QUESTION OF CALLING
OFF STRIKE TO VOTE
Federation Will Sanotion Return to
Work if Copper Miners Want
to So It.
CHEEP SUGGESTS A REFERENDUM
Men Conld Make Own Individual
TT X IrXA, WVUCsjJatva
CLEARLY UP TO THE STRIKERS
Managers View Proposal with In
terest, but Say Nothing.
MAHONEY SPENDS A BAD NIGHT
Vice President of W. F. M. Weak,
(tallowing Operation for Appen
; dtcltt, and l Still in
T Dancer,
CHICAGO, March 1L "We -will sane
Hon the calling oft o tho copper mlnerB'
atrike If the men themoelves want to do
it," declared Charles II. Moyer, presi
dent of the Western Federation of Min
ers, here today, "Mover recommended a
referendum vote to determine whether
the strikers desired to -naive their de
mand for recognition of the union, to
surrender their union cards and return
to -work.
The men could make their own Indi
vidual terms with the mining companies,
said , Moyer. As far as the Western
Federation was concerned, he asserted
tha organization was Trillins to accept
the changes In working conditions which
the companies have made since the
strike and would be content to have tho
strikers return to work with the under
standing that they could do so without
prejudice.
Moyer said he wished to mako It plain,
however, that tho men on strike could
take any action they desired without
Interference from the federation.
Charles K. Mahoney, vice president of
the Western Federation of Miners, whp
was operated on hero yesterday for ap
pendicitis, had a bad night, according to
his physician, and will be In danger for
several days. Mahoney had a high tem
perature after the operation and whs
weak today.
Vote Will Be TnUen.
CALUMET, Mich.. March 11. That
tliero will be a referendum vote of local
members of the Western Federation of
Miners on the proposal to call off tho
strike which started July 23, 181S, waa
announced today by William Rlckanl,
president of tho Calumet local of the
federation. lie declined to duscuss the
italutf of th,e strike or the probable result
sf the balloting. ,
Company managers viewed Mover's
proposal with Interest, but expressed no
surprise. F, W. Denton of the Coppjr
Itange Consolidated, said the companies
could add nothing to tho situation, Inas
much as they had constantly urged the
men to give up their federation member
hlpu and return to work, James Mc
Naughton of the Calumet & Ilecla said
ho did not care to be quoted on tho sub
ject Ice Cream Will Be
Classified as Food
WASHINGTON, March U.-The Intor
state commerce commission announced
today In connection with the propose!
five per cent advance In freight rai.ua
by eastern railroads, a hearing In thU
city March 28, "regarding the storago of
freight at terminals and loading and un
loading carload freight"
Hearings heretofore announced fur
March 12, 1$ and 14 on lake and rail rates
have been postponed until April 2, 3 and
. They will be held here.
Applications of railroads to continue
after July 1 their holdings of water line,
under the discretionary authority con
ferred on the commission by tho Panama
canal act. will begin here April 8 and
continue during the month.
Tho commission today directed exprM3
companies to classify ice, cream as an
article of food. The - effect will bo to
reduce the rates nearly fifty per cent
The companies havo Indicated their will
ingness to obey the order.
The Weather
Forecast till 7 p. m. Thursday:
For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity
Fair, rising temperature.
Temperatnre at Omaha Yctcrdny.
Hours.
Deg.
6 a. m.
6 a.' m.
7 a. m.
20
19
IS
8 a. m co
3 a. m 21
10 a. in ..,,24
It a. m 26
12 m , 29
1 ! m so
2 P m,. 33
3 D. m
4 P. m zaX,
p. m 37
p. m x
7 p. m it
P. tn 3t
Comparative I. oral Itrconl.
. u . "I- "18. 1912. 1S1L
Highest yestsrday 37 (W SO 09
lowest yesterday 17 at H it)
Mean temperature 27 tJ St 31
Precipitation 00 .00 .52 .00
Temperature and precipitation depart
ures from the normal:
Normal temperature ae
Deficiency for the day c
rt ml . . t . . i . i
&uv. cwuoa hut .uaruji i,,
Normal precipitation Olinuh
Deficiency for tho day 01 Inch
Totul rainfall since March 1 ,T
Deficiency since March 1.: IS inch
Deficiency cor. period 1413 lnZh
Excess cor. period. IBIS .Winch
Reports from Station at 7 I. SI,
Station and State Temp. High- Italn
of W eathpr. 7 p.m. est. fall.
Cheyennu, clvar 3S 40 .(0
Davenport, cloudy , at 34 .01
Denver, clear 40 42 .04
Des Moines, cloudy 31 98 .SO
Dodgo City, clear & It .0
I-ander. clear 4S CO M
North Platte, claar H .00
Omaha, cletir U it M
Pueblo, oleur 42 4j og
Itapld City, ohtur) 44 W) .03
alt Lake CMy. clar 50 St .
Santa Fe ciottdy , ft .at
Hherldan. clear MUM
ioux City. -ittjr 1 si .0)
Valentine. i-lar tt 41 .ft)
T indicates ! e ( precipitation
I A Y ELH, Locil Ftireuat?r.
WARMER
TEN INDICTMENTS RETURNED
True Bills Returned Against Mrs.
Paul and Two of Her Attorneys.
CHARGES OF BLACKMAIL MADE
Nnmra of Other Person Informed
Asrnlnst Not Made Pnbllc, Owing
to Arrests Not llnvlnjr
lleen Made.
TKOUA5 S. BBABT, Indicted for al
tered blackmail.
X. OX.MSTED, Indicted for alleged
blackmail.
TOSKXE BISIiET TA.XJL. Indicted for
blackmailing Arthur D. iJrundels.
C&ABENCE BX8XEY, indicted on a se
rious charge.
Tuesday afternoon the grand Jury re
turned Indictments against ten persons.
Tho names of the people Indicted by tho
grand jury and the character of the of
fenses with which they are charged havo
not been mado public, with tho excep
tion of Thomas E. Brady and K. II. Olm
sted, attorneys, charged with blackmail;
Nellie rtlaley Paul, charged with. black
mailing Arthur D. Brandels, and her
son, Clarence, charged with a sorlous
offense. The qthcrs Indicted aro not yet
In tho custody of tho officers.
Another lawyer who was connected
with tho persecution of Arthur Brandet?,
and Mrs. Ncllio Paul, who organized tho
plot which cost him many thousands of
dollar?, was added yesterday to the list of
persons definitely known to have been
Indicted by the Douglas county grand
Jury. T. E. Brady; who brought suit
for her for IwO.OOO against Mr., Brandeu,
gave bond for XAO, Insuring bis appear
ance to answer a charge of N blackmail,
and he gave the sheriff's office unoffi
cial Information that Mrs. Paul would
become visiblu as soon as she had ar
ranged for her bond.
Olmsted lit the Net,
It became known also that Attorney It
H. Olmsted, who represented Mrs. Paul
In negotiations which brought them $32,600
from Mr. Brandels, has been indicted, al
though he was not located by tho sheriff,
and that Clarence Rlsley, Mrs. Paul's son,
had been indicted, charged with a serious
crime. It was not learned whether he
would appear in court with his mother.
Bonds were given by D. H. Olmsted and
T. E. Brady. Their bonds were fixed by
Judgo English at 00 each.
Mrs. Paul was not found at 2709 Far
nam street, whero she had been living,
but Attorney Brady gave tho sheriff's
ofllco unofficial inofrmation that sho
nuuiu ucwmo vjeiuio as soon as sne nauj
nrranged for her bond. Brady .le'ar'neJH
that a JOOO bond would be accepted lh Jifr
case. Last night Shorlff McShane gave
orders that ehe,be brought to Jail It sho
should bo picked up by, any of his dep
uties and continued to fall to give bond.
Some Other Attorneys.
It Is understood that other attorneys
have been Indicted in addition to the
six whoso names have been made public,
but rumors as to their Identity are' in
definite. The Indictment " against; At
torney Brady charges that he threat
ened Mr. Brandels wth exposure for u
fancied crime and In pursuit of his
threat filea a suit against him.
It II, Olmsted, .an attorney, who se
cured $30,000 from Arthur Brandels for
Mrs. Nellie Paul and, who secured an
additional $2,500 from him when Mrs. Paul
fulled to pay him the attorney's fee pre
viously agreed upon, was indicted by the
grand Jury on a charge of blackmail.
When Mrs. Paul thrust $25,000 Into her
dries, throw Olmsted 73,000 and escaped
to Council Binffs, Olmsted went Im
mediately to the court house and filed a
suit ugalnst Mrs. Paul for W.tOO. Ho was
raid $2,500, according to Mr. Brandels, to
Induce him to dismiss the suit.
Cooper Will Build
Big Dam Across Nile
WASHINGTON, March 11. Hugh L.
Cooper, the engineer who built tho Keo
kuk power dam across tho Mississippi
and who has been chosen as a consulting
engineer .for the Egyptian government in
the construction of a new hydro-aectlo
dam across the Nile, was selected for tho
poBt by SlCfBalph Wilcox, supervising
engineer of the famous Assouan dam,
when he waa recently in the United
States and saw Cooper's work at Keokuk.
Mr. Cooper also des'gned and built the
power dam acrofs the Susquehanna river
at McCallo Ferry, regarded as one of
the notable engineering feats of tho coun
try. His specialty has been direction of
long dams of small heads, and as that is.
the problem presented to the engineers
seeking to control the waters of tho Nile,
It is assumed that It was this reputation
that led to his selection by the Egyptian
government.
HINDUS MUST GO BACK
TO THE PHILIPPINES
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March . XL
Thirty-five Hindus, detained on their ar
rival here recently by immigration
authorities, and who obtained their free
dom on 3500 bonds each, will have to re
turn to the Philippines, accotdlng to a
decision by Judge Doollng of the United
States district court. Judge Doollng held
that all Hindus landed In this country
after procuring passports at Manila were
aliens and should be deported on the
ground that they wero liable to become
public charges. Passports obtained in
the Philippines are not legal in tho United
States, according to the ruling. The im
migration authorities, the court ascer
tained, were the proper authorities to
pass on the question as to whether an
alien had the right to land In this country.
GOES BACK TO PRISON,
GETS JOB AT TRADE
LEAVENWOHTH, Kan.. March ll.-Ed-ward
Smythe of Peoria, III., one of the
twenty-four members fit the Iron Work
ers" union, whose conviction In the dyna
mite conspiracy cases In the United
States supreme court refused to review,
tocay returned voluntarily and unaccom
panied to the federal penitentiary here.
Smythe Mas immediately checked n
'and assigned to a gang of structural Iron
workers who are erecting a new wing to
tbe prison. Smyth was sentenced for
three years. He first came here on New
Year's day. 1913, and two weeks later was
i f l. se j on bond
MANY IN DANGER A3
TENEMENTS AFLAME
Five Buildings in Negro Distriot in
New York Sheltering Hundreds
on Fire.
BLAZE INTERRUPTS A SERVICE
Fifty Worshipers on Ground Floor
Make Escape.,
NO LIVES BELIEVED TO BE LOST
Reports of from Twenty to Thirty
Dead Are Discredited.
FURNITURE. HURLED TO STREET
Fliclitcrs Handicapped by riles of
Snow and I,orr Water Prrnnnrc
All Occupant of Illock
Driven Out.
NEW YOIUC, March 11. Flro broke out
this afternoon In tho heart of a negrj
tenement district on West One Hundred
and Thirty-fourth street, nnd in a short
tlmo five buildings housing more than
100 persons wore ablaze. Tho police re
ceived reports that one family of three
had perished and that others were in
peril.
The occupants rained furniture and
bedding from the windows until the
Mrcct was blocked. Tho firemen wcro
also handicapped by piles of snow, and
by low wator pressure. Three persons
wcro seen on the roof where the flro
started, with no apparent means of es
cape. The flames spread to two five-story
tenement houses on West Thirty-third
street. The pollco reserves drove out the
occupants of all tho houses on tho block.
Fifty men nnd women were attending
scrvlco In the Church of tho Living God
on tho ground floor of tho bul)dlng next
lo where the flro began. It,wus bellexcd
that all escaped. Soveral hnudrcd fire
men and dozens of pieces of apparatus
were soon on the scene.
At :b o'clock Chief Kenlon declared
the fire under control. At that time
there was no authentic information of
any loss of life, ague reports were In
circulation that from twenty to thirty
persons were dead, but fire officials dis
credited them.
Committee Finds
Awful Condition
in Coal District
WASHINGTON, March H.-Chalrnmn
Foster 0 .the houee mines committee,
which Investigated the Colorado coal mine
j Wkc-tpday received tho itollowing tclo-
Ki.uii iiuiu uiiiccn. 01 vno-unucu iuinc
Workers union In Colorado:
"Twcnty-threo militiamen. under orders'
of Adjutant General John Chime, this
morning demolished strikers tent colony
at Forbes, Colo. Men, women and chil
dren are homeless In a blinding snow
storm. Inhabitants of the upper tent col
ony ordered by militiamen to leave their
homes within forty-eight hours or bo de
ported."
Mr. Foster safd tho committees had been
shocked by conditions in the strike area.
Chairman Foster said tho committee
stood ready to mako drastlo recommenda
tions to congress aa soon as it could as
semble Its data. He eald that while tho
committee did not feel satisfied that It
had actual proof of peonage In the coal
fields, it had striking evidenco of men
forced to fleo over the mountains to es
cape the armed guards, and of tented
cities over which militiamen In tho pay
of the mine companies stand guard.
"We have admissions from the mine
companies that they Issued company
checks instead of Issuing postal orders as
requested by the miners and that they
charged the regular-postal rates on these
company checks," said the chairman.
Mr. Foster added that politics compli
cated the strike situation and that the
committee had evidence of transgression
of tha rights of the voters In Colorado
and of violations of the state laws regard
ing the appointment of deputy sheriffs.
He said that prlvut6 guards hod shifted
their machine guns and searchlights from
the West Virginia field, which was re
ccntly tho scene of a congressional In
vestigation, to tho Colorado field; that
every man in that strike goea armed and
that the miners aro facing the winter In
tent colonies.
"It is a deplorable, shocking situation
In Colorado," said Mr. Fostor; "an awful
stato of industrial warfare."
Deaf Mute Escaping
From Institution is
Killed by an Engine
GL1SNWOOD. la.. March ll.-Special
Telegram.) Bennie, Doremus, aged 20, a
deaf mute, sent from tho Council Bluffs
Home for tho Deaf arid Dumb to the
Iowa Institute for Feeblo Minded Chil
dren at this place three years airo. mi
today run down and killed near Mills!
station by a passengc train while at
tempting to escape from tho institute.
DoremuH, carrying a bundle of clothes,
was walking down tbe Burlington tracks.
The engineer saw him and sounded the
whistle In warning. The youth stopped
and turned around. He stood still until
tho englno struck him, killing him In
stantly. Tito engineer was unable to stop
his train in time to avoid hitting tho boy.
The body, badly mangled, was taken to
the office of Dr. J. M. Donelan, coroner.
Doremua was removed from the Council
Bluffs Institution becuusa he was a An.
fective and the authorities could do I
nothing with him. Tho boy's mother Is i
Deilevea to live in Boone, la.
ISSUES CALL FOR MOOSE
CONVENTION IN DAKOTA
HURON, S. D March 11 D. K. Davis,
member of the national committee of the
progressive party, today Issued a oall for
a convention to be held hero Marcli 17.
Plans are to be made to place a full
state ticket in the field.
JUDGE
, , PUBLIC
v J y w Wn OPINION
TAfC CfiOOKtO t-CHi "DJ
Drawn for Tho Bee by Powell.
SIX DRUGGISTS GONYIGTED
Found Guilty of Failure to Record
Sales of .Liquor.
KUGEL ORDERED INVESTIGATION
All Men Fnnnd Gnllty of Charge
File Bond for Appeal from De
cision of Police Jmlge
Foster. . .
Six druggists were fined 320 and. costs,
and sntoncod'to ten days In Jail by Po
lice Magistrate Fofter when thoy wero
arraigned and convicted on the chargo
of falling to keep' a register of liquor
sales.
Tho six complaints wero Issued Monday
morning against the Frcgger Drug com
pany, Sixteenth and Grace streets; tho
Saratoga Drug Company, Twenty-fourth
and Ames avenue, tho Carter Lake phar
macy, 3922 Sherman avenue; II, 8, King,
Twenty-fourth and Farnain streets; II.
S. Olsen, Nineteenth and Harney streets,
and tho Merchant Drug company. Six
teenth and Howard streets.
All of the defendants wero sworn in at
the same tlmo and the hearing of A. G,
Edwards, proprietor of tho Merchant
Drug company granted by tho court.
O. F. Peterson, special officer appointed
Marcli 1 by Commissioner Kugel testified
that on March 3 at 10:00 p. m. ho pur
chased a half pint pf whisky, giving no
reason for his wanting the liquor or with,
out signing the register In tho store for
that purpose.
Lewis Rtngle, clerk, testified that Peter
son entered the store and ordered a halt
pint of whisky for medicinal purposes
nnd raced out while his back wan turned
(Continued on Pago Two.)
Mob Seeks Life of
Men Making Attack
On Kansas City Nurse
KANSAS CITV, Mo., March ll.-Several
hundred persons today threatened to
lynch thefour young men Identified last
night by Mrs. Gertrude Shidler aa mem
bers of the band of six who lured her
to a room and brutally attacked her Mon
day night.
A detachment of polloe started to take
the four prisoners before tho county
prosecutor. The crowd surged so close
that the officers could not pass through.
A man lunged at one of the prisoners
nnd was felled by a blow from a police
man's club. By this time the crowd had
becomo so menacing that the prisoners
were rushed back Into a police station.
The prisoners were taken to the prosecu
tor's office later under heavy guard and
formally charged with a statutory of
fense, punishable in Missouri by hanging.
Tho prisoners are Victor Gueringer, 26
years old, one of the owners of the re
sort; I.. V. Brennan, an Insurance agent,
24 yesrs old; Thomas L. Klncvan, a
solicitor, 25 years old; Oscar Harrison, 24
years old, a plumber's helper.
All were held without bond. The resort
was closed by the police today.
Judge Throws Out
Clark Damage Suit
Judge Estelle has thrown out pt court
the 1100,000 slander case filed by Mrs.
Kdlth Hicks against A. A. Clark, wealthy
Council Bluffs loar broker.
This Is one of a series of suits which
the woman and her husband filed asking
damuges aggregating S,000, growing out
of alleged Improper approach by Clark as
her employer, and which was denounced
by Mr. Clerk and his attorneys as an
other gigantic blackmailing plot. The
woman was represented by Attorney John
O. Yelser and Mr, Clark by Attorney W.
J. Connell. The trial got no further than
the Introduction of tbe plaintiff's evidence,
Before the Bar
The National Capital
Wednesday, March 11, 1014.
The Senate.-
Met at noon.
Foreign relations committee ordered fa
vorablo roport on renewing general arbi
tration treaty with Paraquay.
Hearing on the cost of living In Wash
ington hetd before tho labor committee.
Tha Home.
Met' at noon.
Continued debate on tile Agricultural
bin , 1 ' 1 1 ,
KELLEY'S ARMY DWINDLES
Hungry Men Are Losing Interest in
Trip and Are Deserting.
NEW SOLUTION IS PROPOSED
Sacramento Conuty Offer to Pay
Fare of Soldiers Half Way
Back to San Frnnelaco
Ilallroail Stand Pat.
SACItEMENTO, Cal., March ll.-Of-flclals
of Sacramento and Yolo counties
are still negotiations in an attempt to
decide as to the disposition of "General"
Kelley's army of -unemployed, now In
camp on the Yolo side of the Sacramento
river. Baoramento officials declared to
day that they would consent to no com
promise that would permit the jobless
bapd to return to the capital city. The
Yolo county authorities again appealed
to the Southern Pacific and Oakland &
Antloch railroad companies to provldo
transportation facilities to carry the un
employed back to San Francisco bay, but
the companies rofused.
The ranks of the "arniy" are dwindling.
Of 1,700 msn driven yesterday from this
city across the Sacramento river Into
Yolo county by the authorities, COO have
deserted. "With "General" Kelley. the
leader, and his lieutenants In jail charged
with vagrancy, many of; tho men are
losing Interest in the trip and there is
much talk of giving U up altogether.
But what wltl become of them no one
knows.
Solano, Contra Costa and Placer coun
ties served notice officially on Yolo and
Sacramento counties today that they
would not permit the Industrial Work
ers to come within their borders. This
decision, If enforced, would prevent the
"army" from proceeding either east
ward or westward from Its present camp
ing place.
While the ' citizens' committees have
ceased supplying the campers with pro
visions, Individual members sent enough
suplles today to feed the entire force.
"There lies the entire trouble," com
plained a city official. "If contrlbu
tlons to the 'army' were confined to
loaves of bread, so that Its diet would
be bread and water, these men would
scatter out and find work within a
week."
Children Burned
to Death in Ponca
rONCA, Neb., March ll.-Emma Wat
son, aged 9, and Alfred Watson, aged If,
elitldran of Ed Watson, a Ponca business
man, were burned to death In a fire which
destroyed the Johnson homo early this
morning. Mrs. Watson was seriously
burned and may die. Sir. Watson rescued
Mrs. Watson and three other children.
SIEGEL CHARGED WITH
VIOLATING BANK LAW
NEW YOIUv. Maroh ll.-Henry Slcgel.
head of department store enterprises In
New York, Boston and Chicago, and
Frank E. Vogel, his partner, were In
dicted today for grand larceny and viola
tion of the banking laws tn connection
with the management of the Henry Siegel
& Co. private bank.
WILL FIGHT THESEYEN FARES
J.L. Webster Bays it Would Not Give
Fair Return on Investment.
r
OPERATIVE IN THIRTY DAYS
CohhoII Una Nothing Farther to Do
trlth the Question aa the Ordl
1 nnnco Becomes Automat
Ivally oyeratt te
lle fore the seven-for-a-quarter street
car ordinance goes Into aftoct April 10
attorneys ior tlx street railway company
will havo instituted legal-proceedings. In
which thoy wltl seek to Invalidate thu
ordinance on tho ground that It will not
pcrmt tho street car company a fair re
turn on Us Investment. As much was ad
mitted by Attorney John L. Webster,
who said for tho company that In his
opinion the ordinance would never becomo
operative.
This ordinance, adopted at the election
Tuesday provides;
It shall bo tho duty of every stroct rail
road or Corporation owning, controlling,
leasing or operutlng street railways in
the city of Omaha and every street car
conductor In charxe of and operating any
street car or collecting faro from pen
ncngers on any of tho lines of tho strcot
railways in tho city of Omaha, to sell
to any person, or passenger 011 demand
seven (7) tickets as herein provided for
the sum of twenty-five (23) cents In pay
ment therefor, and It Shall be tho duty
of every street railway In tho city of
Omaha to supply every conductor In
charge of and. operating any street car or
collecting fares, with such tickets.
For violations of the ordinance a pen
alty of a fine of not to exceed (SO for each
offense Is provided, the employes of the
company being made Individually liable
(Continued on Page Two.)
Thirteen Balloons
Will Start in Race
from Kansas City
NE3W YOrtlC, March ll.-Thlrteen bal
loons aro to race from Kansas City on
October 6 next far the Coupe Internation
al o des Aeronautics, counting an addi
tional entry just received by the Aero
Club of America, from Belgium- The
challengers for the international trophy
are France and Germany, with three bal
loons each, and Belgium and Austria,
with two each. America will defend with
three balloons the full number permitted
under the rules of 'the contest.
The additional entry from Belgium ar
rived in a letter sent to the Aero club
from Brussels. It named as the add).
tlonal pilot, Ernest de Muyter, who holds
a certificate of the International Aer
onautic federation. Both De Muvtor and
Levi Gerard, the pilot named in the first
ueiglan entry, took part In last yoar's
coptest, starting from Paris, and made
creditable performance, ending sixth and
ninth, respectively.
Fro mthe office of the International
Aeronautic federation In Brussels, the
Aero club of America announced todav
that It had received notices that Turkey
had formed a national aeronautlo organ
ization, which had applied for admission
to the federation. It is probable that the
application will be approved at the next
conference of the federation. There are
eighteen nations already represented.
WILL CURE STAMMERING BY
USE OF MOVING PICTURES
PAIHB, March 1L A method of curing
stuttering by means of the cinematograph
was described to the academy of science
yesterday. Dr. Marage, who devised it,
has found that stutterers can be rapidly
cured If their mouthing of words Is
shown to them on the film. He takes a
moving picture of a stutterer and a nor
mal person alttlng side by side and pro
nouncing the same sentence. This film
served as a model of a course of practice
-which leads to cure.
CABRAZA
PROMISES
TO PROTECT FOREIGN
LIFE ANDPROPERTY
Consul Simplch Delivers Message of
Bcoretary Bryan to Rebel
Chief at Aqua Prieta.
PROTESTS AGAINST SEIZURES
Property of American Ranchers Will
No Longer Be Molested.
BRITON'S RANCH IS NOW SAFE
Threatened Seizure Averted by Ap
peal to Villa.
PLAN TO DISTRIBUTE THE LAND
Military Government of Chllinnhnn
Will Divide the Pnbllo Domain
Among Soldiers of Revolu
tion nnd Their Heir.
WASHINGTON, March H.-Consul Sim.
plch at Nogalcs reported to the Stats
department today that he had assurances
from Carranza that lives and property
of Americans and other forolrners would
be protected and that all molestation of
foreigners would bo avoided throughout
tho Nogales district. -
Carranza Issued the orders on Consul
Blmplch'a protest under Instructions from
Secretary Bryan, protesting against rebel
depredations on Georgo Bevcrldgo'n
ranch and the Ganahl Hacienda In the
Nogales district. Carransa has further
promised that there will be no more as
saults Uko that one on tho son of Silas
King at Caco.
The authorities at Tamplco havo 'prom
ised tho immedtute relesso of an Amer
ican of the nomo of Byrd, held near that
city.
Consul Letcher at Chihuahua rcportud
that the threatened seizure of the ranch
of W. D. Snyman, a British subject, has
been satisfactorily settled by an appoal
to tho chief state authorities of Chi
huahua. No now reports have been received at
tho department on the Benton, Bauch or
Vergara cases.
Secretary Bryan, who last nlglt re
newed his demand for the punishment of
Vcrgara's slayers, said today he would
continue to transmit to Chargo O'Shaugh
rtessy all the ovldence gathered In that
case.
George Itutledge, Mexican Northwest
ern railroad superintendent, for whoso
whereabouts inquiry has been ntade at tlm
Stato department, was sate and well at
Juares yesterday, according to a report
from Consul Edwards.
FellsTDU In Vhlngton.
General Felix Dtar, who fcelped IWerU
overthrow Madero, and later ftod frqirt
Mexico Under protection of tho United
States, returned here today with a party
of Mexicans and Americans interested in
Mexico, They prepared to issue a state
ment later in the'dayNof their purposes.
From what was told the eenate foreign
relations oommlttce last week by Pedro
Del Vllar, who accompanied Diaz today,
thu purposo of the Dlax adherents is 10
restore pcaco in Mexico by a plan tliut
would not recognize Huerta, Carranza or
Villa. Senators said sanction had been
asked for a counter revolutionary move
ment. Members of the party today accom
panying DiaK denied that they wished to
h$lp of the United States In an armed
revolution. They said they did not know
whether they would appear before tha
committee again or concentrato their ef
forts on getting a hearing at the Stale
department. General Diaz, it was said,
met Senator Hoot last week in Washing
ton, and also Senator Fall, explaining
his purposes to them. Senator Shlvcly,
acting chairman .of the foreign relations
committee, said today that while the
Mexicans had given the committee simi
interesting information, no sanction ot
approval had been given to any revolu
tionary movement.
In tho Diaz party was A. A. Brownlce,
a lawyer and mining engineer of Nev
York, who, it developed, had recently
asked for a conference between Dlau ano
Secretary Bryan and Presldont Wilson.
The request was denied. Members of the
party declared Was had been Invited to
confer with "a high official."
Will Distribute Land.
CHIHUAHUA, Mex March 1L-Th
military government today Issued a de
cree for the "distribution of publlo land
among the soldiers ot the present revoh,
tlon, disabled veterans of the Maderr
(Continued on Pago Two.)
What every
woman knows
Any woman -who couBlatoutly
reads the advertisements in the
newspapers will never find her
self uninformed as to the very
latest note In tho fashions. Tho
shops keep in closest communi
cation with the fashion centers,
either directly or through the
large importers, and thoy kuow
ahead of time what the styles
are to be.
They do their buying accord
ingly, and then hasten to tell
their patrons, through tho
newspapers, what they have to
offer.
Every woman who is a reg-
ular reader of newspaper ad
vertisements knows that taffeta
will be popular this spring, that
the new skirts are draped In the
back, and that coats are short
and, "dinky,''
Those items are just exam
ples ot what a woman uncon
sciously picks up through news
paper advertisement reading.
When she goes to buy iior
spring clothes, all such bits of
information will make her task
surprisingly easy.