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The Omaha Daily Bee PAj&I osz NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO TEH. THE WEATHEB Fair VOL. XLV NO. 05. OMAHA, Tlll'luSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2, irl.r-TVEXTY-FOUR PAGES. Ob Train., at Motel Kiwi at a As, eta SINGLE COPY' TWO CENTS. FOREST FIRES UPON THE PACIFIC COAST RAGE UNCONTROLLED Woods In Far Northwest Aflame, and Desperate Efforts Are Made to Get Situation in Hand. CONDITIONS VERY DANGEROUS Blazes Are Breaking Bounds and Men Cannot Be Spared to I Battle New Ones. NO GREEN TIMBER DESTROYED PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 1. For est fires in the Pacific norttawes forged beyond bounds today and ex ceeded the res'stance of the comp'e fighting force available against them, according to advices recti eu by u. Western Forestry and Conservatlo association. The situation is pro Bounced critical. Except In a fow localities, where thcr have teen light local showers, the pro tectlve system Is now toned to Its llml and conditions are extremely dangerou. cays the association's expert. "A few fires are alt-cad y breaking boumis; met! cannot be spared to fight now ones, am: the dense smoke renders detection of nev ones difficult. The disastrous fires nf September, 19H2, followed just such x.:i dltlons. "Up to within twenty-four hours thi Oregon situation was well In hand. Ovci 450 fires hnd been extlnKii'slied with prai . tically no loss of merchantable timber. Yesterday, however, the big fires nea Mount Hood and In Union county, re suited in escaping control and many new ones were reported. "The Washington Forest Fire associa tion reports none of Its green timber de stroyed yet Two hundred dangerou? fires already have been extinguished." Victim of Automobile At Providence Dead; Wife to Be Grilled PROVIDENCE, R. I.. Sept L Dr. Franklin C. Mohr of this city and New port, who with Miss Emily Burger of this city, was mysteriously shot while seated In his automobile on a dark road In Barrlngton last night, died at a hos pital today. Miss Burger was reported better and It was believed that her wounds would not prove fatal. George W. Healis, Dr. Mohr's chauf feur, Is held by the Barrlngton police, who are not satisfied with Ms declara . tlon that ha saw no other .automobile at the tlma Dr. Mohr and Miss Burger were hot Miss Burger today said another ear ap proached their car from the rear aad as it came alongside several shots were mm 1 C vaupo niuunoiuo sviviai aiisvrva wa fired at Dr. Mohr and herself. Both were'mnt h. Ths R nm. wabIt urn that wounded in the head and shoulder. Miss . . ... Burger could give no explanation for the assault. Dr. Mohr was a graduate of Johns Hop- kins university and was 42 year, old. He was married twelve year. ago. but his wife had sued him for separation i.- . . . ... .., ui.. Burger had been employed by Dr. Mohr as an office assistant for about three years. The police started an inquiry into a report that there was a conspiracy against the physician and his companion. They qeustioned Florence Ormsby, a maid employed In Mohr's office, and later it was said that she had given them a clue upon which to work. It was an nounced that Mrs. Mohr, the widow, also would be questioned. Heir to Big Estate in New York Missing NT5W YORK, Sept. t Police were searching today for F. J. Van Slclen of Yakima, Wash., who left his home nine week, ago to come here to sign paper, that would permit the final distribution of an estate of nearly $4 000,000, left by his grandfather, Herbert Van Slclen. The lu.seina man Is an Elk, and it waa said that members of the order In many cities have Joined In the search. When Van Slclen left Yaktma he sent a tele gram engaging rooms at a Brooklyn hotel, but he never appeared. He was said t, have a large sum of money, The Weather Forecast till 7 p. m. Thursday: For Omaha. Council Bluffs and Vicinity Fair Thursday; warmer. . Trnsrrslara at Omaha Yesterday. rw a a. m 6 a. m.... 7 a. m.... 8 a. m.... S a. m.... 10 a, m.... 11 a. m.... 12 m 1 p. m.... 1 pT m ... 5 p. m ... 4 p. m.... 6 p. m.... 6 p. m.... 7 p. m.... 5 p. m.... 55 1913. U14. 191S 19U I Fremont, Neb.; Mrs. Julia Reed of Car Highest today 81 ' 7' !' t6 ' aon, la., and Mrs. Psrmella Sherman of ijoweat today fa 67 tC! 73 iean temin Preclpitatlo 6X Si .00 .03 .00 .23 Temperature and precipitation depart ures from the normal: Normal temperature 70 Deficiency for tha day I Total deficiency plnce March 1 40 Normal precipitation 00 nrh Deficiency for the day Oft Inch Total rainfall since March X 22.17 nches ,E)I'V 'nr "arch 1 1 Inch n 'or c r. peHod, 114.. 4.0 lnet ee Detlcleucy tor tor. period, inches Report, from Statron. at T P. sf. "ilf Vn?fc8tU J,,raD- H1h- 'n- est W at nop . . . . rt,.v::.L"i... cai. laJI. " "'. 'r T Davenport, clear TJ leriver, clear wj Ic)di(e City, char 7i lender, partly cloudy h North Platte, clear TH Omaha, tltar 75 Pueblo, clear s0 Rapid f'lty. clear nu r-ania Fe, partly cloudy.. .70 Sheridan, partly cloudy...! frlouK City, clear 74 v aieiiuiie, clear 84 L. A, WiXSH, Local Forecaster. ON GUARD AGAINST ENGLISH SUBMARINES Turkish transport crossing the Sea of Marmora with rein forcements for the forces at Gallipoli. The troops are on the lookout for the British submarines, which penetrated the Dardanelles and have been demolishing shipping of all kinds in the Sea of Marmora. J? i j v H WW ' II V ; BRICKLAYERS QUIT; OBEY STRIKE ORDER Two Hundred Omaha Workmen Walk Out to Enforce Demand for Higher Wages. BIO CONSTRUCTION JOBS HALTED Two hundred bricklayers of Omaha went on strike yesterday. The strike followed an announce- s uw vv ,... -j - .. . ... . . - - j me untaiojeiB unu ecvicu; uibv u decided to Quit work September 1. ).v...-h -rt ri.ni.H .t ,h. tlnlB bv Secretary Miller of the , bf Secretary MiUer Of tne bricklayers' union, the Btrlke began .ui.rili. mnrnlio Practically all the brick COnBtmc-110 . .H.,m .,nt JUUO " -" the work on the Grain Exchange h,.1Mln. arenrdtno- In loeal rnntrar-;f tors. Contractor Black, who has the Grain Exchange contract, come from i St. Louia and brought' most of his ' . . . , ... . , . ,1 bricklayers with him. They have not gone out With the local craftsmen. 1 The bricklayers are demanding an In- crease of S cents an hour In wagea . ; Most of them are getting 70 cents and : they are demanding 75. In addition, they are associated with the Allied Building published, some newspaper correspond Crafts, which organisation a half your ents have seemingly got Just as far away 'or more ago, demanded that the contrac- 'tors recognize hoisting engineers as union men and put them on a union scale. That demand waa not complied with at the time, but no strike waa catled. Bla Job. Are Halted. Among the big Jobs affected by the strike are three big apartment houses being built for Hastings & Heyden. Con tractor Ed P. Pomeroy was building the onu at Twenty-second and Howard .I rats.. Cnnlni-tn, a i . - n . loutlnued on Page Five, Column Two.) Funeral of Sheriff Bushnell Saturday GLENWOOD, la., Sept. 1. (Special.) Tho funeral of the late raisha W. Bush- nell, sheriff of Mills county, who dropped dead here yesterday morning, will be held at Malvern Saturday afternoon at I o'clock. 70 His Immediate family surviving him are 2 Mrs. Bushnell and five daughters; Mrs. 77 Mary Runne of Tacoma, Wash.; Mrs. 79 Lawrence Talbott snd Mm W. A. Rush of Malvern. Ia., and Ruth and Edith, 79 teachers, at home here. 77 I He waa left on orphan at an early age Zjat Madison, Wis., and brother, and sls- ter. surviving him are Gus snd Oene of Mason City. Is. Sheriff Bushnell had been a resident of Iowa for more than i iui ijr no in m implement . . . . , , , business at Malvern for twenty-three years before becoming sheriff of his home county. ORTHODOX JEWS WILL FAST AND PRAY NEXT SUNDAY NEW YORK. Sept. 1. All tne orthodox Jewish synagogues throughout the United States were notified today that Sunday, September t, had been set apart as -day of fasting and prayer. The ploclama tlon revives tha old Jewish cus'.om of establishing a time to fast and pray on account of national tr bulation. Ths ploclaniatlon was made last night at the Great Synogogue of the Orthodox jews here, after Imposing ceremonies at- tended by 100 rabbis from all over ths I country, id ' j V ' s: ic if ' PRESS DENOUNCED BY GEORGIA JUDGE Jurist Tell. Oranrl Tnrv Probim?' jurist aeiii urana jury rrouing Frank Case Papers Have Slan dered Cobb County. TtTrvTSTTnitr mrvnr tttp rsPT flilaA ,urtr re, was .evidence of picloue culm -wars located- maawm JJ1.V1AHUN iHUja ItUU xaXi Is gratification - that ths submarine crisis tended Quarantine was declared today w. " , fc ;hd paBad nd tnat Germany had following bacteriological examinations by MARIETTA, Ga., Sept. 1. The acknowledged tho Justice of the prlncl- ( municipal and government health offlo Cobb county grand Jury assembled Pies for which President Wilson has been , ers. today to investigate the lynching of i . I - M cvi, ,t i.a r.-- - 1 lar worK. Judge ratterson, in nia ! charge, told the Jury it was not a special grand Jury and that while Its j ' ! memDerg were not to reel tney were secrei service men, ii was moir uuijr errei crime auegea to have been committed within the "fparlMfilv and without hone county, rearlessly and without hope reward." The Judge took Occasion 1 to defend Cobb county against at-; " ' 8 '3rnchlnJf' In his charge he said: "In a great dea, bafl beon ,ald recently , tn. press, the facts have been deviated from i and I want to strongly assert that ths I press generally has done Cobb county a j great Injustice. It appears that In a i great deal of the matter that has been from the truth as they could and the re- suit has been that Cobb county has been made to suffer Tor It. ! "It has been published broadcast over the world that a iynehlng hi recently i occurred In Cobb county It Is vour dut I to make a thorough and complete ln- vest gatlon of thst, as It Is of all charges of crime when brought to your atten- tlon." f Judge Patterson did not mention' Frank's bame. Thirty-five witnesses, have been called. The Jury will begin J work on the case today. j Among the witnesses summoned are O. : B. Keelcr. a newspaper man, who will : i be asked to tell how he came In posses-: 1 slon of Frank's wedding ring w hich ha r says was mysteriously delivered to him ' 1th a request from Frank to see that . It was returned to Mrs. Frank; XV. E. ! Swanson. sheriff of Cobb county; G. M. j Hicks, the deputy who took charge of j Frank's body Immediately after It was i found; Major K, P. Dobbs snd 11. L. Looney, chief of police of Marietta. Subpoenas have been Issued for T. E. Patterson. B. II Davidson and E. L. Ralney, members of the slats prison ! commission, who were at the prison farm the night Frank waa tsken away. PROMINENT WEBSTER ' CITY LAWYER IS DEAD WEBSTER CITY.. Ia.. Bent. L-(Bpe-clal Tilegram.) A. N. Boeye, one of Northern Iowa', best known attorneys, died at his home In this city this morn ing of stomach trouble. Mr. Boeye waa "s v iivuuid, nr. iioe . . . " 1" ' , . , i:.', ,.d Prnlnent In the legal and po- litlcal life of this part of the state. He had served four terms as county attor-' ney and waa widely known as the best cross-examining attorney In this Judicial di'trlct- Th fun1 Fr,d sst ,? uinjiii WILSON FAVORS CUTTING DOWN APPROPRIATIONS WASHINGTON, D. C, Bept. 1. Economy in appropriation for little used army posts, navy yards, rivera and har bors and public build ngs wl I be recom mended to congress by President wiu I son In order to leave the money neces sary for an adequate program of na- tlonal defense. This Information ram J todsy from a high administration source. KAISER ACCEPTS VIEW OF WILSON ON SU3SEA WAi Germany Agrees to Principle that , Fassenger smp Saouid Be Warned Beloie Attacked by buDuiaiines. VON BERNSTOR' SEES LANSING . . . . Secretary Requests Ambassador to Reduce Couiinunicat.on from His Government to Writing. SHIP WHICH SUNK ARABIC LOST , WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. Qr- many has accepted the declarations , , . , of the United biatoa in the subuiarlno warfare controversy. Count Von iiernstorff, the Gorman ambassador, today gave oral and wrltteu assur- , antes to Secretary Lansing that no more passenger ships vslll be sunk, After a conference at the State de- ! pin inn in AiuuubKHuor tun uerusioru stmt Sorrctary ltiiHinj; this loiter; "My iear Mr. Secretary: With refer ence to our CAnver allon of this niornlng. 1 beg to li.foim you thut my Inxtvuetions (oneerulitg our aiivwur to your iant Iusltanla note contains the following jassaa: " 'Liners will nut be sunk by our sub marines without warning and without safety of the lives of the nonconibatants, provided that the liners do not try to escape or offer resistance.' "Although 1 know that you do not wish to discuss the Liuiltania question till the Arabic que' ion has been definitely and satisfactorily settled, I desire to Inform you of the above because this policy of my government was decided on before the Amble Incident occurred. "I have no objeitlon to making any use you may please of the above In formation. "I remain, my dear Mr. Lansing, "Very sincerely yours, (Signod.) "J BERNSTOnFF." Statement bjr Ltnilni, In connection with the letter, Hccretary Lansing made the following statement: "In view of the clearness of the fore going statement. It seems needless to make any comment in regard to It other than to say that It appears to be a recog- nltlon of the fundamental principle for j which we have contended.' Count B"storfrs letter was forwarded t(J pre.ident Wilson as soon as it was re- celved at ths State department. No formal comment was made at ths I Whits House, but on every hand In of- jConienoing. count i .."u" announcement mat lno policy naa Deen aecidea u jpon before the sinking of the Arablo agrees with statements by officials In Berlin and wt1h1 ,,nf?rmaMn upon vvhleh American official, had been depending. Soon after dispatch of the last Lusltanla note rresiaent wuson understood there wou d ' -J " 'r. mo .in.- l" ,Ar."mc- uiererore, came as a , . h"" emporary quarters for several , ia,much ., it seems to have been hundred German refugees from China. j established that the submarine which! . (Continued on page Two. column Two.) The Day '? War News MORB THAN 1,000,000 Hi hare been taken prisoners by the I ftermnna alnre tfar pimn,l In ftaltrla be a an on Mm a. (irrsus army hradqaartrr. announced to- day. GFItMAN TROOPS marching on1 Grodno have skM k. lino ii r k. , , " - . . . u c ion. ress, Ilerlln rrirarti. iii ,i.v t ...... 1 " . " :" " "P- pear to b fa I II i cr.i I, "l"' o 1 tinlll f1'1"' rr - I " momt "'. " off.cl.1 " orriclnl " . KITAS'tB f eonl atrlko set- the U'ei.h iiilnera' rep. "sentntlve. U announced, defl. "Heir niljuatlnir tbe difficult,. SKHBIA'S I.NTU.NTIOM h .u- part naked of It In satlafrlnsr Hal. aarl.'a territorial demands ha. oomntnnlcnted to Greece, of "hom eo.ee..l. hnT. ...0 be,. -a in tne effort to secure Rnl. smrla's ro-oprratlon with the en tente allies, newspaper dispatches from Athene received In Pari, de clare. AX IMPRR8SIO.tr that Japan may take part la the Dardanelles ram. pala-a la Kathcred la Pari, from remark, made by llaron llayashl, Japanese ambassador to Italy. FlXaNf-E COMMITTEB of the Hna laa Duma nay. the amount which yet mast be raised to meet Iho nn. tlon. expenditure for 1U1R I. more than 1 ,".00,000,000. Rl'ISIAN RESIgTANCB to the Tea. tonle advance la dereloplua; rordlasT to tha latest report from 1'rt rourad. Free Coupon For the Beat Movies liy special arnui(teiuent with eight of the leading moving picture theaters THL I1KK Is cnublcd to krlve its reader a combination coupon good for a free admission to any one of them on days specified. In Sunday's Dee Battle is Raging in Front of the Outer Forts of Grodno Stronghold BE RUN. Sept. 1. (Via txindon.) Or tmn troops f ghtmg for (Jrotlno are now in front of the oi.tri ring of forts of itlist stronghold, aoo. idieig to todny's of ficial statement from Oi-rmnn army .hindquarters. The text of the stntetnrnt j follows: "Wentern theater: The situation Is un changed. 'Ts'orthwont of Ustaume an rngll.ih aeroplsno was shot down by one of our "v,nto" Knstern theater, army of Field Msr- shsl Von llimlciihurg: On the wentern front pf Oroilni, our troi,IV, Rre , fr(,nl if he outer i i-e of fort. .1.",ltw"T ;lo!!: r"rt Kof,hk0,k- the forest of Binlovesh, the ennmy Is 1 b Hii i I, tln-r p.ii'iieiV I Army or iTince ijcopoiu or Havana: I The upp r .:v I. its been croseed. "Arrav of h'VM Mnrshtl Von M'xeUen- Ullr Plt continues. Wherever t'-e enemy lia.i made a rianil he has defeated. Southeastern theater: The troop of Oenernl fount Von rv.thoere. In the face nf l',K' resistance by the enemy. strniel heluhls on the banks of the strpB orth of Zhorow overcoming a INTR R N R ) SHIPS ARE QUARANTINED Supposed Cases of Asiatio Cholera at New York Are Found to Be Due to Food Poisoning. VICTIMS NOT DANGEROUSLY ILL WASHINGTON. Sept. 1. What was feared to be an outbreak of cholera on the Hamburg-American liner President Lincoln, laid up at Iioboken since the beginning of the var, has turned out to he nothing more than food poisoning. Surgeon General Blue of the public health service, who investigated at once, got reports today showing that the sick Germans aboard the ship were in no danger. Interned Ship Quarantined. NEW YORK, Sept. L All of tha Ham burg -American and North German Lloyd liners which have been tied up at Hobo ,ken since ths declaration of war were ' today placed under quarantine following the discovery that fifteen men aboard ; the Hamburg-American liner President , Lincoln were suffering from Illness, the .vmotoms of whieh rmhi. alu symptoms of which resemble Astatlo cholera. Tho President Lincoln was placed under, quarantine yesterday -.whoa sua . Dr Joseph F. Stack. Hoboksn health : officer, declined to admit that the e aminatlon had proved the case aboard ths President Lincoln to be cholera. Ha ad- ded that early prevention was "worth . while." Authorities here believe that if chol - ' era has broken out on tha German liners th. hi...... ... ho,i.h k.,. trnm . iatla ports by German refugees. During the last year the German liners have been Rumor Hill Will Build Line from Yankton to Denver DBNVEK, Colo., Sept. t. (Special.) ! Tore Tclgen. a well known attorney and i promoter of Slwux Falls, b. D., and ! party of capitalists from St. I'aul and Minneapolis, have been here tha lost week Interviewing the stockholders of the Denver & ftoranton railroad, a short linn that has a rlfht-of-way to tho Union depot, In relation to selling the road This road ha. only one locomotive and a ,lnw v..,jr rxAinvuva p.iiu a. few cars and runs a dally train to hold It. franchise. The Havemeyers of New York are ...ppo.ed to own sj,d control York are supposed to own and control the stock. The coming here of su-h a number of capitalist, revives the report of the building of the branch of the Gnat Northern railway from Yankton to Denver, via O'Neill, Hyannls, Oskosh, crohhlng the -naln line of tha Union Pa- clflf! Bt Sidney, Neb., and tnenre to Har- den, Colo., whero the Plutte river wl'l le crossed. From Harden the road will n" . 'V'"" . r'!nVer- Fcrsnton railroad. This road nlll shorten the d ntnnoe from St Psul to Denver over 2"0 miles. The same route was surveyed i by the Klkhorn railroad, a branch of tha Northwestern, alout tn years ago, but ' abandoned when the Northwestern made a lle-nn u-lth lha 1'nion P..I.. ' 11 Comparisons on September Weather At S o'clock yesterday afternoon the Iist year September 1 it was 76, but on unconscious, but still living, scsttered Heptomber 6 the temperature went to 1"). 'among the deed. Msny of tha bodies In 1S' It was 77 S'pt-mber 1, but bywhfn brought to ths surface could not September 11 It had gone np to 100. OnD0 Identified. ! Hoptemher 17 It was 103. Kore sstcr Wi Isr asserts that It Is lmpo-slb'e to tell whether or not there will be an I earl- fall. I The earliest killing frost ever recorded . bv th fimata weathr bum-, was on1"1500' N' ' '-Pcclal.- Hl tember 18. 1801. The thermometer droprd to 3! degrees aliove xero. In 188J there was no killing frost until No vember 11 and on September I that year the records show thst It was 71 above xero. 3ERMAN SUBMARINE FIRES ON AMERICAN BARK BOSTON, Sept. 1 -T.e American bark Ilulh Stark, owned In this c'.ty, was fired upon twice by a German submarine on August I. when ISO milts off Cape dear, Ireland, according to the report of Its commander upon its arrival here today from Liverpool. temporary delay, after a repulse of the enemy's resistance. "During the month of August the num ber of prisoners taken by Herman troops In the eastern and northeastern theaters of wsr nnt the quantities of war ma terials captured during the same period, tntsl.vl mors than S.CO0 officers and 2t men takrn prisoner, snd cannon and (AO machine guns taken. "Of these, 80,000 prisoners and 827 Can non were taken at Kovno. About 90,000 prisoners. Including fifteen generals and J more than 1,000 officers, and 1.SO0 cannon and ISO machine guns, were tsken at Novoneorglevsk. "The counting up of the cannon and maehlne guns taken at Novogeorglevsk has not yet been finished, however, wlille the count of machine guns taken at Kovno has not yet begun. The fig ures quoted as totals, therefore, will be considerably Increased. ' Ths stock of ammunition, provisions and oats In the two fortresses cannot be estimated. "The number of prisoners taken by Oor- man and Austro-Hungarlan troops since, My I. when the spring campaign In Ualtcla began, ha, thetefore Increased to j onslilesnbly mora then a million. i OROZCO'S BODY ISJDENTIFIED Story of Desperate Battle Between Mexicans and American Pur suers Told. APPEAL FOR STATE MILITIA SIERRA BLANC A, Tel., Sept. 1. The body of General Pascual Oroico, hero of the Madero revolu tion of Meilco, lies tn an undertak-1 Ing establishment at Van Horn, Tex. The body has been positively identi fied as that of Orosco by a govern ment official from El Paso. All the Dig Bend country in the vicinity of the boundary line of El Paso and Culberson counties Is under tenta powers, with noma nope of sue arms today as a result of fear of re- j cess. trlsals by General Orosco's organisa- ''", oroSi Report. ;. ...V., t. PARIS, Sept. 1. The frrnch war office tion of "Colorados," particularly the , thl, Rfternoon cav, out . ,utement on followers of Eudardo Salinas, now at , ths progress of hostilities, reading as Bostiue Bonlto, who infest the bor-.follow,: der. An appeal for state militia ! . J'!"' "".T0"?" in the course of the night around Nsu- protection 1b under way. Iviiie et. Vaaat. in the region of Roye The appearance of Orozco waa pre-and in that of Oubeiiv on the Buippss. coded 8unday by automobile parties ! In th Aronh there waa violent can .... . , , , , nonadlng yesterday to ths north of Fon of Mexicans from El Paso, inquiring , ulne Houtt the Ch.vauche. the route to Hot Springs. Orosoo ( Heighta During the nHjht it vagj calm. at, thf Lore ranch Sunday mstje J$J& "'ia tj?T0"a ftor bomViardmentr liar inquiries. It is believed Orosco , . . A .. . planned to meet Sallnaa at Bosque Bonlto and then to proceed to Hot Eprlngs to meet parties from El I'aso. Was orsranlalna Invasion. From ths reports, American authorities formed ths theory that Oro.c was trvlns- to bring- to a focus an organised Invasion 'of Mexico or Texas upon a large scale under the name of nationalist party. Into thl. n. k. ui... tingents of all factions. That this party was eventually soon to align with Car- ranxa, and not with Huerta, In the event of t'arransa's rerussl to accept the A. B. C. plan for a peace c 'inference of Mexl oan leaders, ts a conjecture. Story of Man llant. The story of the twenty-four-hour man hunt which ended In the death of Gen eral Orosco In the Green River canyon, between the Eagle and the High Lone some mountulns, Monday, reads like inage front a border romance. The chase WM through ths wildest part of the Big ,Bend country. Twenty-four ranch own- ! ers, . cowboys, customs house officials ''n1 troopers from the Thirteenth cavalry ! Participated. i Th newl thRt th raiders were In ths vicinity spread along the rural telephone clrou,t Bunday afternoon. Tha raiders ! wr ,npn conslrtored a party of outlaw, wno nM tnlov during the last four i (Continued on Page Two, t'olunm Th "MJvinffto.fV. 1T nmctcuubu mail Dies as Result of Explosion in Mine JOHNSTOWN. Pa, Sept. l.-An ex plosion of gas In the Ordena mine of the ! Merchants' Coal company at Boawell yes- I terd.y claimed Its nineteenth victim today when James Bergalena died In a hospital hers. Two other miner, were ssld by hospital d dors to be In a criti cal condition. Ignition oi a pocket of gas caused the exploHnn. Mine officials said that the feet Ion of the mine where the explosion occurred hsd bien condemned. Martin McClure. the foreman. It was stated, made a care ful Investigation and, convinced that the entries were safe, sllowed the miners to gn to work. McClure Was killed. Rescue crews workid Tor hours before they reached ths point where the tragody oocurred. There they found eight men FARo SHFIr Tnq HOOD FOR PRISONERS TO LEAVE -''yrn Hr"on" " lumms county Jail at Wililston, west of here, refused to leave, their cells when ths prospect of a ln.ll delivery was held nut to them by Kenneth Jordan, an ".-year-old boy, who has been In the charge of ths sheriff for some time. Louis Olson, held on a charge of larceny, was the only Prisoner t escape. Kenneth procured the cell keys from the Juller's office, when Olson told him that the prisoners w.nted to "get out split soma voed for h slerlff." When Hlierlff Carl Ertckson returned af ter a brief absence he found eleven pris oners waiting for him la their open cells, Ths men said the sheriff had bosa 'too good to them" for them to leave. TEUTONS DRIVE WEDGE INTO THE RUSSIAN LINES Riga is Almost Isolated and Must lall Soon Unless Heavy Force is Thrown Against Hin denbere's Left. COUNTER OFFENSIVE ON STRIPA Russians Turn at Bay in East Qali cia and Inflict Large Losses on Their Opponents. SIXTH DAY OF ARTILLERY DUEL LONDON, Sept. 1. Germany's plan for driving three wedges Into the Russian defensive lines is being carried forward, hut not with the Mtlw peod as marked the I weep OTer Poland. Klga is almost isolated and unless the Russians soon throw heavy forces against Von Hlndea Lurg's exposed flank this port must fall Into the hands of the Invaders. Although this northerly attack seems to have been checked for the mo ment, the Russian have been unable to deve'op a counter offensive In that region comparable with their activities In east Gallcia, where, on the river Strlpa, they have not only turned at bay, but have inflicted large losses on their opponents. For a period of five or six days on the western front a rain of shells from French guns has been poured on the German trenches. The object of this un usual artillery attack has not bean dls- closed, but It Is not believed her that so much precious ammunition would be used merely to damage ths German works without some sort of concerted effort to occupy the shattered trenches. The Ilalkan problem Is again to the fore. Kmphasla Is placed on reports that Jloumanla and Bulgaria are seeking to ar rive at an understanding with tha an- "- . mo enemy etsnimi launched against our trenches at Linge and schratsmannei a violent attack. We maintained our posl- tiot"- M midnight a new German attack waa repulsed." Rnsalnn Loss Over Million. BERLIN, Aug. 1. (By Wireless to Say. ntlll. t A . .... '"'"' review ox uie eastern tn, 0v. " N.w! ZusanSl .his May I th7 RuaaL ha J ' JL'L J5! vo lost .at I ----- ... ... r wunueo. (Continued on Page Two, Column Four.) j Holland Will Buy Aeroplanes Here NEW YORK. Aug. 1. Lieutenant Com mander Henri G. Van Bteyn of the Dutch navy, was one of the arrivals today on the steamer Noordam from Rotterdam. Its said he held a commission to purchase an unlimited quantity of aeroplanes and hydroplanes for Holland from American i manufacturer I "From observation during the war we , have concluded that the American aero- planes and hydroplanes are tha best," said Commander Van 8teyn. "All of the machines will be used by Holland as a psrt of the national defense Improvements now being undertaken there. We do not Intend to enter any war, but wish to be prepared." Dr. Frank C. Davis of Minneapolis, an other passenger and pres'dent ef tha American Medical asioclatton of V'enna, declared that food price. In Austria have uuuuim ill . ' a ib.i iiiiiv iin'iiin.. THE WANT-AD. WAY All Rl(ht Bmml. There la a aloe Utile buslnsae. Is aet very widely knows. If you woulu ilk. to get ia , tart a poultry farm of your set. 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