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Omaha Be Drawn For The Deo The beat newspaper nrtlsta of the conn try contribute thoir beat work for Bee readers. THE WEATHER. Unsettled VOL. XL1II NO. 267. OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 191 4 FOURTEEN PAGES. On Train and at Hotel Haws Standi, So. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. Daily THE DYNAMITE IS FOUND BENEATH OFFICE OF SECRETARY HOUSTON Four Sticks of the Explosive, with Burning Fuses Attached Dis covered by Watchman. INVESTIGATION IS TO BE MADE Suspicion Points to an Employe Who Was Discharged. HUNTING ANOTHER EMPLOYE This One is Said to Have Been Heard to Make Some Threats. POLICE I CLAIM OA NCONFESS Asuert thnt Wntchinnn Janch Placed the Four Stick of Dynamite and Then Found It to Get n Promotion. " WASHINGTON, Juno 2. Pour sticks ot dynamite with burning fuses attached were found lata today In the Depart' ment of Agriculture under, the office of Secretary Houston. The fuses were ex tinguished before damage was done. An emnloy of the department, found the dynamite by accident and ixtlng uished the fuses. The sticks wore taken to police headquarters for examination. Some discharged employe Is suspected. The watchman who claimed to have discovered the dynamite was held pend' In Investigation. Officers went In search of another employe recently dis charged, who had been making threats. The police took Daniel H. Jauch, the watchman who found the dynamite to headquarters and expressed some doubts ot his mental responsibility. The four sticks of dynamite were taken away In a bucket of water. Later at police headquarters It was said Jauch had confessed placing the dynamite hoping that by discovering It he would win a promotion. His home Is In Spring field, O. Jauch, who formerly was a private In the army, is said to have been under treatment for nervous trouble recently at thet National Soldiers Home hospital. Assistant Secretary B. T. Galloway was In his office adjoining that of the secre tary at the time the explosive was found. Secretary Houston Is In Missouri attending the commencement ot the University ot Missouri. T.O.Byrne Elected Director of Big Bank Thomas O. Byrne, president of the Byrne & Hammer Dry . Goods company and one ot .the most. promlneatM.huslness men In Omaha, was elected a member of the board of directors of the new federal reserve bank for the: local district at a. meeting of delegates held in Kansas City yesterday. The news first came' to Omaha through a telegram to Victor B. Caldwell, vice president of the United Slates Nations! bank. Mr. Byrne was a dark horse In the race, having made no effort to advance his can didacy prior to the meeting. Another of the six directors elected whose home Is In Nebraska Is O. B. Burnham of Norfolk. Supr erne Court Has Thaw Case Record WASHINGTON, June 2. The record ot the extradition proceedings for Harry K. Thaw before the federal district court In New Hampshire today reached the su preme court. It is expected that an ap plication will be made within a day of two to Justice Holmes for Thaw's release pending a review. AUTOMOBILE BANDITS BLOW OPEN BANK SAFE CHAMPAIGNE. 111., June 2. Five rob ,bers Invaded the village ot Mahomet early today In an electric automobile, and while four of the band stood guard in front of Busey's .bank, the other blew open the safe and took . $2,600 and es. caped. The Weather Forecast till 7 p. m. Wednesday: For Omaha. Council Bluffs and Vicinity Unsettled, probably local showers; some what warmer. Temperntuo nt OHiKtin 1 esterflay. Houro. Deg. cn ?S:::!:::g 8 a. m G3 9 a. m 65 10 a. m 61 It a. m C3 12 m 63 1 p. m.. 63 2 p. m 65 3 p. m 66 4 p. m.......:.,.... 68 6 p. m....,, TO, 6 I', in 71 7 p. m 73' b p. m , ii t umiarillve Local Record. 1914. 1313. 1312. 131L Highest yesterday 73 S3 S3 9S Lowest yesterday 62 60 62' 68 Mean temperature 6S 72 6S S3 Precipitation 07 01 ,00 .05 Temperature and precipitation depar ture from the normal: Normal temperature ss Total excess since March 1 143 .Normal precipitation... it men Deficiency for the day 10 Inch Total rainfall since March I....C.S8 Inches Deficiency since March 1 2.34 Inches Kxcess for cor. period. 1813 3.14 inches Deficiency for ror, period, 1912..3.S1 inches Reports from Stations at 7 P. M. Station and State Temp. High- Rain of Weather. 7 D. ra. est. fall. Cheyenne, cloudy 64 Davenport, cloudy 7S Denver, cloudy 72 Des Moines, cloudy 72 Dodge City, cloudy 7S 74 12 M 78 7 S4 78 84 73 Si 90 SO 70 54 70 .(0 .02 T .60 .02 .16 .07 .00 .00 .00 A" .20 T lender, partly cloudy.... 76 North Platte, clear S3 Omaha, cloudy.- Pueblo, partly cloudy Rapid City, cloudy , M Salt Lake City, cloudy,.., 70 Santa Fe, cloudy 64 Phertdan. cloudy 74 Sioux City, cloudy. & Vxleritine. clear si S4 T lnoicates irace oi precipiiauon. It A. WELSH, Local Forecaster. U N KENNEDY 0UTF0R CONGRESS Former Congressman Dcoides to En ter the Primary Race. A. W. JEFFERIS IS NO' Kennedy Announces 111 Upon Which lie Proposes to Pre sent Ilia .Vnme for the Ansuat Primaries. A. W. Jefferis, prominent Omaha at torney, has decided not to be a candidate for congress on the republican tloket and at the same time John L. Kennedy, at torney and former congressman, has de cided to make the race for the republi can nomination at the primaries In August Mr. Jefferis declined In the following letter to John L. Kennedy, dated May 23: I am indeed most grateful to some 2,000 republican friends who have so kindly signed petitions requesting mo to be a candidate at the primary election In Au gust for the republican nomination for congress, and I appreciate your personal Interest tor me In this matter most highly. It Is with reluctance that I decline the "call" of tho petitioners and your urgent demands that I become a candidate. However, 1 was taught In my early lite to say "no" on some occasions, and 1 feel that this Is one of them. I have given tho matter much earnest thought, considered conditions and my relations thereto, and havo decided that under the circumstances I cannot be a candidate. Having come to this conclusion I feel that I should apprise you and my friends who have urged me to enter the race of my decision. No, John L-, I want to say to you that many persons mentioned your name for the republican nomination for congress to me, and they are asking the question if you would again become a candidate. Ytjur record as congressman during the Roosevelt administration, your activities as chairman of the republican state com mittee In 1911-12 and your qualifications as a lawyer and business man mark you as a man admirably qualified and ablo to represent this district In conn-ess. I know ot no one better qualified than yourself for the position, then why not enter the race yourself? It is said that one good turn deserves another. You have kindly insisted that I enter the race, and I have concluded that I cannot do so. Now In turn I urge you to become a candidate for congress on the repub lican ticket. Surely all of the good and sufficient reasons expressed by you to me as to why I should become a. candi date will apply to yourself as well, and the cause of tho republican party is growing brighter with each day. If I am not mistaken, you will find that this is a republican year in Nebraska ana this congressional district. Now. John. I have decided not to be a candidate, and It's up to you to get In (Continued on Pago Two.) French Ministers Hand In Resignations PARIS, June 1 Premier Gaston Doum- erguo and his colleagues of the French cabinet, went to the Palace of the Elysees today and resigned collectively to Presi dent Polncarc. It was understood that a prominent politician would be requested In the course ot the day to .undertake the formation of a riew cabinet. The view wsj. general' In the lobbies of the chamber- that fiefleijwunoHulster.ot public Jrf structlon, would be one of the first ap proached. AUTO STOLEN FROM OSCEOLA RECOVERED IN SOUTH DAKOTA OSCEOLA, Neb., June 2, (Special Tele gram.) The StUdebaker automobllo stolen Sunday morning from the McCoy Auto company of this place was recovered to day at Dallas, .8 D., where Frank Gubser and Frank Schopp, two young men living In Osceola, were placed under arrest charged with stealing the machine. An officer from this plaoe will go after .the pair with a requisition obtained today at Lincoln. Gubser's homo Is In Osceola and Schopp lives in Milwaukee, but has' been working here as a farm hand for nearly a year. JUDGE AND MRS. OBERFELDER PAY CALL AT WHITE HOUSE (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, June 3.-(Speclal Tele gram.) Judge and Mrs. Joseph Oberfel der of Sidney accompanied' Secretary Bryan to the White House this morning and enjoyed a pleasant conversation with President Wilson. Later the judge met the entire Nebraska congresslbnal dele gation and. took luncheon with Congress man Barton at the capltol. Omahan One of Six Directors, Reserve Bank Katzenjammers in Next Sunday's AND 1JSRDY WARFARE iati tion of Parties Comes Up While the Clayton Anti-Trust is Under Consideration. NAME OF ROOSEVELT COMES IN Kansan Asserts that the Colonel Has Never Been a Dodger. MANN BACK WITH A RETORT Told that if He Had Consulted Teddy Would Have Been Better. HOT SHOT AT KANSAS MAN Informed thnt If Progressive Get nnck Into the Republican Fold lln Will lie Ont In .the Cold. WASHINGTON, June 2,-Close restric tions on the use of Injunctions In labor disputes arc the feature of the section of the Clayton anil-trust bill, reached today In the house. It also provides that no Injunction shall prohibit strikes, peaceful picketing, peace ful persuading of persons to work or quit work, primary boycotts, the payment of strike benefits, or peaceful onsemblago. An amendment proposed by the Judiciary committee and agreed upon by represen tatives ot organized labor and administra tion leaders, proposed: "Nor shall any acts specified In this paragraph be construed or held to be un lawful." . With this amendment, Representative Henry of Texas declared that the pro vision becamo "the bill of rights of Amer ican organized labor." Mann and Murdock got Into a wordy exchange over talk of amalgamation ot their parties. "Do you think." asked Mr., Murdock, "there Is any chance of amalgamation betwen a set of men who want to go forward and a set of men who want to sidestep and dodge everything?" He said Mr. Mann hart not consulted Colonel Roosevelt enough and that the colonel could not Justly be accused of dodging anything. He asserted "the gentleman from Yale," as he referred to Mr. Taft, and the republican leader ot the house and the "reactionaries -at the other end of tho capltol," had blocked anti-trust legislation. "There has ben talk of amalgamation," replied Mr. Mann, "but the so-called pro gressive are coming back Into the re publican party. It Is not amalgamation, but whatever the outcome, Mr. Murdock will be left out In the cold for repudiating the republican party which elected htm to copgress." The house adopted without a record vote the AVebb amendment declaring that none of the nets specified peaceable strikes, ' boycotts and -picketing-shall "bo constriled to be illegal. All other amend ments were rejected and the whole section covering the. Injunction questions was adopted. New Haven Falls to New Low Eecord NEW YORK, June 3. Directors of the New York, New Haven & Hsrtford Rail road company gathered here today for a special meeting presumably In connec tion with a message of Governor Walsh to the Massachusetts legislature, In which he urged the divorce of the Boston & Maine railroad from the New Haven. New Haven shares fell to C5, a now low record, during the forenoon. SENDS POISONED CANDY TO HER STEPCHILDREN PORTLAND, Ore., June 2.-Mlss Ethel Edna Hawley, who was arrested last March, after she had confessed having sent poisoned candy through the mails to her three stepchildren, was declared insane yesterday and the case against her was dropped. All of the children to whom Mrs. Hawley sent the poisoned candy es caped death. She gave as a reason for her act that she did not like the children. MEDIATORS ARE IN DEADLOCK Status of Constitutionalists is the Stumbling Block. REBELS STANDING Ktibnrnn Say Carrnnalstn Will Meet Ilnrrtn Ontr at Point of ' the STTord Hnrrtn's Or unn I Confident. NIAGARA FALLS. Ont.. June 2.-SUU deadlocked over . constitutionalist repro tenatlon the Mexican and American mediation delegates wero waiting tor more Information today about the char acter end ability ot certain persons who had been suggested to compose the new provisional government The Mexican delegates are reporting to their government tho developments with i reference to constitutionalists partlpatiu, but have as yet no official knowledge on the subject from the mediators. The American delegates havo not fin ished their discussion with the mediators about the constitutionalists and are await ing more advices from Washington, in dications today were that nothing defin ite would ba resolved on constitutionalist representation, though the mediators wsre reported to be framing a reply to thn last Carranza note. The statement from Durango, giving Ihe constitutionalist view of tho mediation conference was regarded here likely to delay rather than hurry tho negotia tions. While no comment was obtainable those of the conference who did express themselves pointed to the statement as concrete evidence ot the constitutional ists misunderstanding of tho charnctfr of the negotiations. The statement, It was said, served to show a lack ot Information on some of the Important points being treated here, especially as to Just what representation In tho new provisional government the conference bsd Intended for tho Carran- xlstas. There Is eome reason to believe that the conference has planned from the first to give the constitutionalists u large share In the provisional government, but definite information along this lln-! had necessarily been withheld until the viewpoint of Hucrta and Washington could ba obtained. Rebels Are StnndlMff Pnt. WASHINGTON, June 2.-Whcn '.no cabinet assembled today with President Wilson no official account of Gennr,l I Carranza's statement Issued last night had been received cither through the PICKARD IS TO TELL IT ALL Burns Detective Says He Will Tell Truth Concerning Operations. NEWS' ATTORNEY WITHDRAWS Dnchola Takes Name Oft Uond At torney Madden Announces thnt Plnkard Has Cat Ijooib from Former Influences." Frank M. Plckard, Burns detective, charged with attempted bribery Tuesday,- declared he would tell the whole truth concerning his operations In Omaha. He said: , "I am here charged with a felony and no man has a better right than I to say what shall be my defense and who shall conduct It. This Is without any reflection on any counsel who have so tar assisted me. "I have asked thosewho should have assisted me for money with which to conduct my defense In my own way. It has been refused. "I propose to handle my defense solely upon truth and facts, without reference to any conflicting Interests. I shall stand upon the record that I have. I am nhsolutoly Innocent of tho chargo made against me or any other criminal charge. "My defense will be privately conducted and upon my own resources entirely." AVondronirli WtthdraTT. This statement, dictated by Plckard, fol lowing postponement of his preliminary hearing In Justice court, together with the withdrawal from his case of Attorney Woodrough, who Is also local attorney for the Dally News. following withdrawal of W, II. Bucholz from Plckard's $8,000 bond, Attorney Mad den of Kansas City, who represents Plck ard's Interests alone, announced that Plckard had cut loose from the "Influ ences" which caused hlrn to fight ex tradition In Kansas City. He asked that Plckard's bond be reduced to 12.000 and that a postponement of his preliminary hearing be taken until June 23 In order to allow time to secure means and make preparation for his defense. These requests were granted by Justice Brltt, who refused to accept Attorney J. R. Kelkenney, offered by Plckard as bondsman, but accepted Ed Peterson, rail- (Continued on Page Two.) i ii mmmm m i i i mn iim ipisih ii i i wmm w i h CAPTAIN KENDALL of tho Empress of Ireland, photo graphed on the dock of the vessel tho day it sailed from Montreal and a scene on the wharf at Rimouski on tho morning after tho dreadful disaster in which the great liner was sunk and 1,032 lives were lost, Gardener Sues Wife's Parents for Quarter Million Damages, CHICAGO, June 1-Thnt Max Fred erick Klelst, gardener, who marrlod Juliet, daughter of Edward N. Breltung, the millionaire mining and business man; as the result of a summer romance nt Marquette, Mich., has shed Breltung at White Plains, N,, Y, for $250,000 damages for alleged alienation of tho affections of Mrs. Klelst, became known here today In dispatches from White Plains, N. Y. The dispatches said that parties to the suit, Including the yoUng woman's mother as codefendant, wero residents of different states and for that reason the case was transferred yesterday from the state to the federal courts. Klelst alleges the Breltungs poisoned tho mind Panama-Pacific Dollar Day Set Apart by the Governor The temporary commission selected by other state officers and myself to con sider ways and, means for the procuring of a Nebraska building at the Panama Pacific exposition now reports a means by which the money may be raised. Bronze medallions or medals are being made bearlnir on one side the great seal (of the state of Nebraska, and upon the other side the seal ot tho Pnnama-Paclflo International exposition. Each contributor of one dollar toward the Nebraska build ing will receive one of thes medals. This plan seums tp me to be most feasible and expedient. It gives every loyal Nebraskan an oportuntty to share in this worthy enterprise, and places a burden upon no one. Also this Is the first time, to my knowledge, that the state sua! will have been circulated In suoh a movement. 1 am advised that forty states In tho union and thirty-fix foreign countries have already selected sites and have pro vided funds with which to erect buildings upon the exposition grounds. The states touching Nebraska on every side are In that list In states where the legislature did not feel like Imposing a tax upon the people for this purpose, the money was raised by popular subscription. ' J of their daughter against him. Breltung said today the charges were untrue and that his daughter was free to return to Klelst any time she wants to. CALL FOR EIGHTY-TWO , THOUSAND HARVESTERS WASHINGTON, Jurto 2.-Kansas, Mis sour! andiOklahoma raisers of wheat need at 'least 82,000 more men to help In har vesting their crops and the commissioners of labor of these ' states have asked Secretary of Labor Wilson to have his de partment co-operate with' them In ob taining tho necessary workers.. Tho men will be wanted by, June 16 and the pay, It Is stated, will range from $2 to $3.60 a day. The period of employment will be from three to five or six weeks, Various local- organizations In the threA states will arrartge for, distributing ths men among the wheat farmers. Because of this general response on the part of other states and nations, tho proposition comes up to Nebraska upon a basis of state prestige and pride. The fllte selected for the Nebraska building Is one of the very best on tho exposition grounds. Tho temporary com mission has In mind erecting a bulldln? of bungalow type, which will be more In the nature of an exposition homo-a place of comfort for Nebraskans, formsr Ncbraskans and friends from other j states. Also It will provide an audi-i torium for tho exposition 'of moving pic- i turee of Nebraska's resources, I Therefore, In view of the Important factors which emphasize the need for a ! Nebraska building at the Panama-Pacific International exposition, I commend to the people of Nebraska the raising of this money through the plan above out lined. I also proclaim June 17 as "Ne braska Panama-Paclfle Dollar Day." and upon that day Nebraskans who feel the 1 patriotic Impulses associated with the movement may send one dollar to Lieu tenant Governor S. R. McKelvle, Lincoln, Neb., who Is In active charge ot raising the fund. JOHN H. MORBHKA-, Governor. Bee Sure FEDERALS DEFEATED Id THREE BATTLES IN SAN JLUIS POTOSI Fight in Vicinity of City of Salinas Lasts for Twenty-Eight Hours. HUERTA OFFICERS CAPTURED Colonel Chaves and Thirteen Others Are at Once Executed. SHIP DRIVEN FROM MAZATLAN Attempt to Provision Beleaguered City is Thwarted. SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC PREVAILS Pestilence Appear Amotfr Cnnstltn tlonnU In Garrison nt Cnliacnn Rebels Prepare to At tack Cnllmn. Dl'RANGO. Mexico, .Tune l.-Three de cisive engagements with federal troops between Zacatecas and San Luis Potost were won by tho constitutionalists May SO and May 31, according to reports re ceived today by General Carranza. Col onel Reyes with 600 men ot the command of General Carrera Torres, who Is In vestigating Sau Luis Potosl administered a decisive defeat to a large federal J forre at Ssllnns, end later also defeased. a lorco ecm irom onn uuio iu puuur.i The fighting at Salinas lasted twenty- eight hoursthe federal loss In the battle being forty-six privates and four of ficers. Fourteen federal officers who were captured were executed and thirty seven privates captured were liberated The federal telcurophed San Culs Potosl for reinforcements, which did not arrive until after the first battle. They were met outsldao the town and driven back- Among the officers executed was Col onel Carlor Chaves, two lieutenant col onels, one malor, four captains and sis lleulonants. Colonel Reyes, caRtured two machine guns. 23,000 cartridges, 200 rifles. 123 horses and other munitions. Colonel Catoca, of tho command under General Panlfllo Nntcra, investing Zacatecas, captured a federal troop train at Pines on May 31, killing sixty ot the federals, capturing a considerable supply of am munition and provisions. The escaplna federals fled to Zacatecas The constitutionalist forces operatlnfj (Continued on Page Two.) Western Senators Threaten Filibuster for Eeolamation Act WASHINGTON. June I. - Senator1 Borah made fl. plea today tor public land legislation, for. the wet before the J" Juurnmept ot congress. The senstor ssld the west needed crazing land1 law and a powef lav', Uul; he conceded they would require much time. Only a few hours was needed, lie urged, to pass a bill to prold,e for tho retention by settlers ot the early payi ments on reclamation projects, ' Four or five years may he a short tlma for us to pass legislation, but it Is a long time to tho settler who Is bpn tlosed out," ho said. "If this session closes without the passage of this law it will be an act of Injutlce and Inhumanity to thousands on tho projects.' Senator Jones proposed a filibuster to get the reclamation legislation. To that Senator Borah added there probably; would be no river and harbor bill unlcii the reclamation bill was added to It. Leper Shows Up at ' Swell Capital Hotel WASHINGTON, Juno J.-John R. Early, who for the last five years ha made many enforced journeys about thm country In box ctrs and been held under quarantine In many cities, while medicst experts have disagreed on whether be la a leper, turned up In Washington again today, and before his identity was dlsco ered took quarters at a fashionable up town hotel, the home of Vice President Marshall and others prominent In capital life. Early was not discovered until after h had telephoned to a newspaper asklnal for a reporter to Interview. "Mr. West wood." The newspaper man at oncei recognized the noted patient and ln formed the authorities, who took Early back to his old place ot Isolation in thn city limits. The fashionable hotel and Its guests were thrown into a state oj commotion. The alleged leper escaped May IS from the Diamond Head Quarantine station, near Port Townsend. Wash,, and waa traced to Vlcltorla, B. C, where officers lost track of him. rr The "Swappers' Column' The "Swappers' Column" Is a great market place where those who have something to trade can meet and dicker. There Is no place like It else- vi here In Omaha. If you have some chairs, for example, which you would be willing to swap for a refriger ator we can put you into in stant touch with a number of swappers who will make you offers, from which you can se lect the most advantageous. Join the Snappers' club. Membership is free and tho ad vantages are too many tb enumerate here. Come in and see us about It. The Omaha Bee Everybody Reads Bee Want Ads