The Omaha Daily Bee FAltM LAX1) Advertised In The Etc in tho Tory essence of productiveness. Kal farm facta uiU Interest a largo and appreciative audience,. THE WEA'IHhK, Showers INI&-. VOL. X1.IH--NO. 255. OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 19U-KOrKT101CX PAGES. On Train and at floUl Hews Standi, 6a SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. HANSEN, BURNS SLEUTH, CAUGHT IN WINDY CITY Effort Will' Now Be Made to Bring the Iaily News Detective . . Back to Omaha. MALONEY GOES AFTER HIM Mayor Says He Will Use Him to Show Up Conspiracy. HANSEN TRIES OUT JACK RYDER Puts Forth a Feeler to Try and Land On FoliceiCommiBsioner. RYDER WALKS AWAY FROM HIM Mayor Fears Dictagraph Might Be Used to Misquote Him. FINDS THAT LETTER IS A FAKE Dalilmnn Put Wolfe Next to the Fact that lie Had neen Fumbling- with Detective mid Did Not Know It. T. G. Hansen, tho Burns detective hired by the Daily News to trap city officials, was captured by private operatives In Chicago yesterday ac cording to information rocolved by Steve Maloney, chief of detectives. A warrant issued some time ago charges him with an attempt to bribe. it was leurned that Chief Maloney would go to Chicago to bring Hansen back. According to reports received, however, the gang behind Hansen already has taken steps to make a fight to prevent his being brought here. Detective McQulre, who apprehended Hansen at Chicago la a cousin of Steve Maloney. The Chicago police have been wired to hold Hansen until the arrival of Maloney. Fear that Hansen may turn state's witness, already has been expressed by Editor Folear's friends In Omaha and It la said that desperate efforts will be made to fight extradition. Hansen, the. man who "worked" the pity hell Is th only one of the Burns gang for whom, a warrant haa been Issued wa yet The mayor said he was not,'af(er the detective, but would use him td'shoW that Joe Polcar of the Dally 'News conspired to get the city commissioners bjKthe use of criminal tactics." "If I can get this detective back here," said the mayor, "I have Polcar as weU as the Burns man dead to rights. Enough evidence has been secured to convict them, under the criminal conspiracy act, which makes such an offenso punishable by confinement In the penitentiary." Work with Ryder. The mayor and City Commissioner J. J. IXyder, who worked together with their amateur detectives to shadow and finally force the great Bums detectives Into their own cunningly contrived trap, related in detail how they brought about tho fall of the detectives and disrupted the plana qf their employers. Commissioner Ryder said: "While I was In the police department 1 heard that Burns detectives were here. I met Hansen one night at tho Wroth cafe. He camo to my table and sat down. There are some fellows, you know, to whom you will talk or listen, but this man Struck me as a nosey, wise guy, and I answered hlmfharply and got up and left the table. "When he sat down he asked me if there wasn't a good deal of money In the Job of city commissioner. I told him the salary was fair enough. " 'But hell, he said, 'what's tho Balary? There ought to be more money In a public job than the salary. What's the uso of holding a public Job If there is no money in it besides the salary?' "I told him he was another one of (Continued on Page Five.) The Weather Forecast till 7 p. ra. Thursday: For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity Unsettled, probably showers; somewhat cooler Temperature at Omiitire Yesterday. Hours. Deg. 6 u. m til 6 a. m ot 7 a. m 64 S a. m a l 9 a, m tiG J 11 a. m 71 13 m 74 1 P. m U 2 i. m 77 3 p. m 77 u. m 7S 5 p. m 78 6 P. m 77 7 p. m 76 S ii. m 75 Comparative Local Record, 1S14. 1913. 1912. 1911. Highest yesterday 78 63 75 61 Lowest yesterday 3 81 hi 51 Mean temperature 70 57 64 08 Precipitation 01 .86 .01 .u Temperature and precipitation depar tures from the normal: Normal temperature 64 Excess for the day 6 Total excess since March 1 61 Normal precipitation 14 Inch j jvtlviuiti. . u 1 it. .i..ilwi Total rainfall since March .. 4.92 Inches Deficiency since March 1 2.30 inches Excess for cor. period. 1913... S.&4 Inches Deficiency for cor. period, 1912. 2.12 inches Reports from Stations mt 7 P. M. Station and State Temp. High- Rain of Weather. 7 p. m. est. fall. Cheyenne, partly cloudy 64 TO .00 Davenport, cloudy 75 i Denver, clear 74 74 Dea Moines, cloudy 76 78 Dodge City, partly cloudy 70 74 North Platte, cloudy.... 71 Xf Omaha, partly cloudy... 76 78 Rapid Clfy, cloudy K Sheridan, rain 8 66 Sioux City, cloudy ii 74 vJentlne, rain 60 .jt L. A. Wtl.SH. Local Forecaster. I BURNS DETECTIVE WHO FAILED ON CITY COUNCIL CASE T. O. HANSEN. Mediators Hold Formal Session This Afternoon NIAGARA FALLS, Ont , May 20. -The mediators nnd tho representatives r.f the Unltel States and tho Hucrta government began at 3 o'clock the first formal con ference looking to a settlement of tho Mexican problem. It'i ck ot procedure and preliminary organization of the mediation proceedings wors dUcimcd. After an address ot welcome by Am bassador Da Gama and suitable re sponses by representatives of the Mexi can and American delegates, the first sessldn of the mediation conferinco re cessed until tonight. The conference was preceded by toimal calls by tho Mexican representatives nnd the Amercian delegates on the South American mediators. Ambassador Da Gama of Brazil and Minister Naon of Argentina explained that'WlnlstCT Siiarcr of Chile had wired he would not arrive until tonight, but that the first session should not be de layed because of his absence. The question of tho elimination of Huerta was believed to be paramount In the minds of tho mediators. It was real ized the final solution of the problem would depend on the powers conferred on the Mexican delegates. If their powers arc. plenary It was thought the Huerta elimination could then be approached' as one of tho first proposals to be submitted. If, however, the Mexican representatives refer the mediators' suggestions to Mexico City, the subject would probably be approached with less hopefulness ot an immediate settlement. Traction Oar Hits Automobile; Five Persons Killed COLUMBUS, O., May 10,-Five per sons we're killed near Ashvlllo 25 miles south of Columbus, today when a Scioto valley traction car struck an automo bile at a crossing. Tho dead: W. M. MILLER, president of tho citi zen's bank, Ashville MRS. AGGIE MILLER, his wife. MRS. ALICE STAIGER. of Ashville. MRS C. H. HILLS, of Mt. Sterling, wife ot Rev. C. E. Hills. VIDA BOND, five year old daughter of II. J. Bond. A six year old daughter of Rev. Mr. Hills, was rescued from nuder a burn ing auto. Omaha "Plant" of ROOM IN BRANDEIS THEATCR UULD1NO ATTACHED TO DICTAGRAPH EQUIPMENT BILLARD AND HAVEN RELATIONS LI BARE BYMELLENON STAND Former President or Road Gives De tails Before Interstate Com merce Board. MORGAN'S THE MASTER Never Made Dollar in Conn with the Company. SO DECLARES THE He Did Not Approve of Pun Worcester Property, i SOLD TO THE BOSTON ANDHCi Acquisition Cnt II. A M. Nenrly 'I'll rop 31 1 1 1 to it Unllnra, Accord ing to Testimony of 3lr. Mellcn. WASHINGTON. May 20. Details con cerning the relations ot tho "New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad and tho Dlllard company, through which the lat ter, or John L. Dlllard, made a profit of $2,700,000; were given to the Interstate Commerce commission today by Charles S. Mellon, former president of the New Hnven. Toward the close of the morning ses sion the purehaco of the w orcester, Nas sau & Rochester railway by the Boston & Maine was discussed. It developed that It was brought about by the late J. Pier pont Morgan. Mr. Mcllen testified that Mr, Morgan handled the dotalls ot that purchase. The railroad cost the Boston A Maine nearly $3,000,000. Mr. Mellon, while hs considered the property valuable, frankly said he had not npproved of the purchase of the property. Total Investment. The total Investment of the --Boston & Maine In the Worcester was 17,935,000, Mr. Folk showed. "When Mr. Morgan told you he had bought the stock of Worcester road at 1(8 from the Mutual Life Insurance company, what did you sayT" . "I think I said Jerusalem,' or some thing like that." .jgr vk ny man t yon r Snstrnte with him?" "I did not think thlsfwns the way to approach Mr. Morgan.'!? "Were you afraid to remonstrate with him?" "It was not a question of .being afraid, I had greater faith in his judgment than I had In my own." "Was Mr. Morgan's the 'master .mind' in New Haven matters?" The Mauler Mlml. "His was the 'master mind' --pretty,. neartr ovcrywnere mat air. aiorgan was, Attendance a the afternoon- session of the Inquiry dwindled perqeptlbly. Mr. Mcllen, guided by tho questioning of Chief Counsel Folk, In endeavoring to develop' In related form tho facts con cernlnCA,the acquisition by the New Hayefljwtho New England Navigation conf5Snp"f their various subsidiaries. of-CrileCQdnsel Folk, endeavored to gr, ' Mcllen, testifying to his high re gard for Mr. Morgnn, said: "I do not remember his doing a single thlrg on which he made a dollar In con nection with tho New Haven while I was president." Steamer is Pounding to Pices in Mexican Waters, Many Aboard GALVESTON, Tex., May 20.-A wire less "S. O. S." call recolved here tonight from a steamer carrying nearly 100 nil men back to Tamplco reported the btcamcr ashore 100 miles from tho Mexi can port and pounding to pieces. MARINES LANDED TO PROTECT PRINCE WILLIAM DURAZZO, Albania, May 19. -a mixed force of Marines from the International fleet was landed here today for the pro- accepted the rulershlp of the country on I February 21 J Burns' Detective m WIKKffii mm mm fTE , , 1 . if Drawn for The Bee by Powell. TRY TO "GETjIOHN LYNCH County Commissioner is Objeot of Muoh Attention from Gang. POLCAR MAKES THE EFFORT President-Editor .f Unity Ncth Urges Lynch to Fnvor Purchase of DctIcc j"llctccjrve" Wii. pgstilnsr. ' An attonipt to Influence County Com missioner Jolin;LyiK'h In fnvor of the smoke consuming devlciiwhlch F. M Plckard, whom the Dally News hired to lend county commissioners "into trouble, pretendod to hne for sale, made in per son by Editor Joe Polcar, has been re vealed by Mr. Lynch. It Is known that the aim of the Duma News gang was to "got" Lynclj jt any cost, und Polcar went to dangerous lengths to assist his hired tool when tho tatter's arguments In behnlf of his smoko consumer failed to succeed. "Of course," observed Lynch, J'lf they could have Induced mo to favor purchase ot the smoke consumer, that would hnvo been nil they needod to chnrgo me with any crime." -, Pnlcnr llountN for Device. Polcar twice called up Lynch any?Tskpl him to come to his office. "When I talked with him," said -Lynch, "Polcar said tho smoke consumer propo sition wns n good one for tho county and that smoke should bn eliminated. 1 told him thnt the device came right in my line of business nnd that I knew It wns far overpriced. Ho couldn't see It that way and tried to persuade me to favor It." The smoke device, according to Lynch, was very simple, consisting principally of grates and a power fan. :Icknrd's price for three of these was $3,730 Lynch says they could Ikj purchased for $730 right here In Omaha. "Burns sold Polcar a whole yard ot gold bricks," was the way Lynch fin- lanca lhfi ,nteVcw, Editor Friendly with off IcIhU. According to statements ur commis sioner Lynch and Mayor UaluniHii, I'oi car after becoming frightened several times called up both men by telephono and spoke to them In terms ot affection. Polcar at these times called the com missioner "Johnnie" nnd the mavor "Jim." Developments with i elation to tho at tempted bribery plot arc believed at the court house to explain tho reasons for the Dally News for placing two news paper men In both the court houso and city hall last winter with Instructions to "get something" on the officials In both places. This apparent effort to lay a founda tion for tho big political plot also failed. Suff s Start Brush ' Fire at Aldershot i ! ALDERSHOT, Eng., May 2U.-A great brush fire, declared by authorities to havo been the work of militant suffrag ettes, en"lrclel today the royal yavlllon ! In Long valley, where King George and Queen Mary are In residence, in the center of a great army of British troops. ; Water is plentiful In the vicinity, but i the swords of the cavalrymen proved a better means of extinguishing the fire, las with them the men cut down and beat out the blazing undergrowth. ' As their majesties left the royal pavll ; Ion today two women dashed In front of j their carriage waving a banner with the words "Votes lor women." Kelley's Armr at Aberdeen. ABERDEEN, 8. D May S0.-(Speclal Telegram.) A detachment of Kelly'j' army. 160 strong, under command of Colo nel f. D. McLennan and Field Marshal Gougoun arrived here last night from the west traveling In two M"waukee box cars bound for Washington. They are spending the day In the city and havo been uulet and orderly so far. On the Front Page, Alleged Confession of Dago Frank Will Not Help Becker NEW TORK, May 20. The confession that "Dago Frank" Clroflcl mado ah hour before hn wont to the olectrlc chair nt Slpg Sing will not help Charles Bcckor in his fight to prove his Innocenco of the murder of Herman Rosenthal, for which? ClroflclTnd'lils', thr'eo coninanliw already have paid tho penalty. Tho su prrnio court, before which Becker Is -n trial, for the second time, refused today to admit the testimony dealing with this confession. "Dago Frank" before he died swore he hnd never heard the name of Buckir mentioned until Rosenthal had been killed. The court held evidence pertain ing to the confession was not admlsslole because It was an Incident that occurred after tho murder. hundred Indians and 60 Negroes Reported Killed in a Race Riot NEW ORLKANS, La.. May 20. Tlin United Fruit company today was using lts wireless In an effort to confirm a strange story of a race riot reported to have occurred on one of Its plantations In Guatemala In which It Is reported Blxty-four negroes and probably 100 In dians were killed. Smouldering race hatred of the nntlve Indians for negroes, Inflamed by one of the negroes winning the Indian girl, Nnxada, from her father at dice and his refusal to sell her back tp a native, is reported to be tho cause of the trouble. Tho story camo to New Orleans by mall. Will Withdraw One Division of Navy from Mexican Waters WASHINGTON. May 20.-plans for the withdrawal ot a part of the naval force now In MoxIchJh waters were considered at the Navy department today. Acting Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt said that within a week ho hoped to withdraw to American waters one division of the At lantic fleet, consisting of four battleships and five torpedo bout destroyers with, a tender. Wilson Refuses to Pardon 'Stewart WASHINGTON. May CO. -President Wilson today denied a pardon to William .Stewart, convicted of murder In Arizo ia lu It'll and sentenced tu be hanired nt Globe, "Ariz . May 27. Miny appeals for pardon were made, but the attorney gen eral advised that Stewart had been con victed thrro times and that apparently thero was no doubt of his guilt. Stewurt. with John H. Goodwin, was convicted f murdering Alfred Hlllpot nnd Fred Klbbe. Goodwin was executed. The National Capital Wednesday, Mny 2(1, 101 1. The Senate. Met at 11 a. m. Panama lolls debate resumed. Attempt to reach agreement for vote on tolls repeal May 21 defeated. Adjourned at 6:40 p. m. until 11 a. m Thursday. The llonne. Met at 11 a. m. Bills on the houso calendar considered. Watklns bill to revise Judicial code again occupied entire day. Adjourned at 6 30 p. m, until 11 a. m. Thursday. faLii ENTIRE STATE IS SOAKED Considerable Damage is Done in Several Localities. IS BEST RAIN OF THE SEASON While (inrdens Arc l)niiinrd, Grow ing Whrnt In Not Hurt tlaln Extends from Dakota Down Into Knn. . With the exception of a narrow strip of country along the Missouri river prac tlcolly all of Nebraska was given the most thorough soaking of the season Tuerdny nnd in Borne Jocnlltles the rain wns tho heaviest In years, almost reach ing tho proportions of a waterspout. ConMdorahIa damage resulted from the torrential rain that continued nil night nnd in numerous places wero falling in tho morning when tho railroad offices hero received the reports from the agents out along the lines. Apparently tho North western was hit tho hardest of atiy ot the roads so far as storm damage was concerned, rrnctlcnlly all of Knox county In the north part of tho stato was flooded, reports from Verdigris nnd ov eral of tho other Northwestern stations In tho county reporting from three to four and four nnd ono-hnlf Inches of rain. Verdigris creek became a roaring river nnd some 200 feot of Northwestern track In tho valley was washed away, tho grade being lnvelod. At Norfolk thero was two and one-halt Inchos of rain, accompanied by n severe electrical storm, During the storm there lightning struck the Norfolk flouring j mill, setting it on fire. It, together with j a warehouse adjoining, wuh burned, en tnlllng a loss ot some 18,000. Along the Union Pacific from North Plattfs to Sidney, where the rain. continued all night, the precipitation ranged from ona to two Inches, with considerable hall at Intervals. It In said to have dam aged gardens, but In no wise Injured tha growing wheat. Towrw In the hall belt sustained considerable loss by reason of broken windows. Ilnln la Ciciiernl. Tho Northwestern reports a general rain all the way from Fremont to No llgh, ranging from one-half to two Inchnj, aa well us over the entire Bonesteel coun try, up there the precipitation being from I two to four Inchos, nnd extending est nearly to Sioux City, covering the country around Wayne and over to Emerson. t'nlon Iuclflc reports show rain all the way from Fremont to North Platte, a distance of more than XO miles. Hcavv rains are reported over the branches, both north nnd south of the main line Biid 100 miles or so down Into Kansas, as well as over Into Colorado. Practically nil of the Burlington terrl tory from a line drawn fifty miles west of Omaha got practically an all-night rnlri ..4 m At t . "T. 3 lne lR,,onH 11 wa" ' ? " ,no morning. At Ran- T" tho I''P'tatlon amounted to two "u nvr. wnilo across the coun- try and up the Ord und St. Paul branchua it was from three. fourths to one Inch. Out on the main lino from a short dls tance west of Lincoln there was a liht rain all night, the total precipitation be-! Ing estimated at about an Inch. Ths rainfall was about the same along the lines in the extreme south portion of tho state, continuing down Into Kansas fifty or seventy-five miles. Charity Patient Has Small Fortune NEW YORK, May .-8urgeons nt Rellevue hospital, while examining Carl Schmidt, who was brought there from a Rowcry lodging house yesterday, dis covered several packages In his tattered clothes containing a total of i3,tSO and several bank boohs showing that he had e'AOOO more on deposit Schmidt, who Is 7S years old, had occupied a lS-cent-a-day room In the lodging house for the last fourteen years. HUERTA ADMITS HIS RESIGNATION fS iNTHE HANDS OFJELEGATES Despot Announces Mexican Envoys Authorized to Malic This Con cession if Required. EXECUTE FEDERAL GENERALS Two with Many Other Officers Cap tured and Put to Death. DECISIVE VICTORY FOR VILLA Federals Retreating from Monclova Defeated at Parcdon. LESSENS THE TASK AT SALTILLO nclirla Take Nine Hundreds Prison crs, Million Ilnnnda ot Small Arms Amiunnltlnn, Nine Pieces of Artillery, Fire Trnlns. MEXICO CITY. May 20. Provisional Presldont Huortn today gave out a stat men In which he said ho had authorised tho Mexican peace dclegatos to tho Nlagra Falls mediation conference to of fer his resignation If that wero necessary tq bring about a solution ot the Mexican situation. Federal Chiefs Esecnted. JUARHSC, May 20. Tho Federal Gen erals Miguel Alvarex and Ignaclo Munoit were killed In tho battle ot rarcdon and. two other generals and many former federal officials were cxecuteJ by th constitutionalists after the onttlc, re cording to a. copy of n official telegram from General Villa to General Caransai received hero today. The official roport says: "It Is known that the Generals Miguel Alvaret and Ignaclo Hunoz fell In the combat. General Osorno and a good number of federal officials wore ex routed." Regarding the fight nt Zertuehe the re, port says In part: "Thero wns captured -ilso a general anil thirty-two officials who composed hbi staff. All wero executed lmmodlately." The report of General Villa said that tho retreating gnrrlson of Monclova had, been Joined by the forces which had re treated from Paredon previously nnd thnt this Juncture accounted for the nuber ot fcdorals on tho trains which wen captured. Gercral Villa stated' the battlo In the outskirts of Paredon began at 10:40 nnd ended at midnight and that tho onomy was entirely routed. Villa Victorious. ESTACION, Amargos. Mexico. May 19. (Via El Paso, Tox., May a).) General Francisco Villa, leading 4,000 constltu tlonadlst troops, won tho first important engagement of tho Saltlllo campaign May 17, when ho defeated 4.BC0 federals re treating from Monclova at Paredon. Forty-five hundred federal troops re treating from Monclova to Saltlllo, wero met by about 4,000 constitutionalists led by General Villa and were decisively beaten. Not only did General Villa ad minister a defeat, but he prevented tha arrival at Saltlllo of tha Monolova fed eral garrison which would have added materially to the defensive force of tha objective point of the campaign. He also captured supplies which would have been of value to the garrison at Saltlllo and which havo added a tremendously In creased strength to tho power of Villa's attack. Million Hounds nf Ammunition. Tho constitutionalists lost sixteen killed and twenty-nine wounded. The federal casualties wore twenty-nine killed and. over eighty wounded. The constitution alists captured 900 prisoners, nine pieces of artillery, over 1,000,000 rounds of smalt arms ammunition, a large quantity of artillery ammunition and a large supply of provisions, In addition to tlvo troop trnlns which carried the Huerto soldiers. The federal garrison of Monclova, num bering 4,500, had 'evacuated that town May 15 In five troop trains on the ap proach of General Francisco Murgula, constitutionalist commander at Pledraa Negras, who was advancing from tha south to attack. Warned by Murgula, and by his scouts that the federals under Generals Charles Alvarez, Guardlola and Munoz, were attempting to conaolldata their forces with the Saltlllo garrison, General Villa prepared to receive them at Paredon. Villa divided his forces Into three columns, the center one of which he led In person. As the first two troop trains steamed Into the trap trepared for them at 10:45 a. m. on May 17, Villa swung forward his three columns simultaneously, Tha j constitutionalists' attack was brilliantly i executed. In forty minutes the federals i not dead, wounded or prisoners, wera scattered In flight, leavnlg the ammuni tion and provisions behind them, Frdemls Quickly Routed. Tho constitutionalists' cavalry dis mounted and, acting as Infantry, fairly swept the federal lines back with tha (Continued on Page Two.) r Greater Markets and Groceries Kverybody must eat dally nnd everybody reads the dally now&iinperB. What Is eaten dally should be advertised In the medium that is read daily. No field of advertising Is moro neglected than that of the market and grocery. Pages ot department Btore items appear In the newspapers to bring to gether buyer and seller of mer chandise. Yet food, necessarily of greater dally interest in every household, Is given com paratively little advertising by retailers. Greater markets and grocery stores can be built through advertising, just as surely as great department stores. In every city in the country the market and grocery trade should Jointly use at least a page once a week in the family uewspaper. .... ju.i V