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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER in, 1915.
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STIEHM OFFERED
JOB IN BIG NINE
Husker Mentor Eeceivci Offer from
. Western Conference School at
Increase in Pay.
ASKS RELEASE FROM CONTRACT
. LINCOLN, Dec. . (Special Tete
fram.) Ewald O. Btlehm, director
of athletes at the University of Ne
braska, announced today that he bad
teen tendered an offer from a Chi
cago conference university to take
charge of athletics there at a salary
Increase of $750 a year, or $4,2 BO.
Btlehm today asked the Nebraska
Athletic board to relieve him from
bis agreement for a three-year term
at Nebraska at a salary of $3,600 a
year. The agreement has one year
more yet to run.
The athletic board will doubtless Inform
Btlehm that it will be unable to meet the that the earthquake arrived.)
alary bid of other Institutions and gran". Eight hour later the Deaoon was
Ma request to be freed. Opposition In the , waa d ranged from the ruins and taken to
faculty. Btlehm now being- rate as a a hospital. When he recover hie senses
member of the faculty, would prevent any ' lie looked up at the doctor and whispered:
increase In salary. Borne of the older j "&r. Mr. Greggalns must be awful
members of the faculty are drawing but j re at ine. eh?"
$2,000 and fS.OOO a year, and they resent
o much money being devoted to athlollcs. I
It Is not believed, however, that Btlehm
will leave Nebraska, Other arrangements
satisfactory to the board will likely be
made.
The news created a fufore at the uni
versity and In alumni ct.cles. StHhra's
remarkable work during the last five
years has made him an especially val
uable man, and his loss would be a most
serious blow. Btlehm also admitted he
had received nibbles from the University
of Wisconsin and the University of California.
uphill i rum naiii9u.
MADISON, Wis., Deo. . "Nobody has
been offered the position of foot ball
coach of the University of Wisconsin in
any shape or form," said Director of
Athletics Ehler late this afternoon when
Informed of the report from Nebraska
that Coach Stlehm's services were being
ought.
Mr. Shier said the athletlo council of
the Wisconsin institution waa proceeding
in the way of getting all Information pos
sible bearing upon candidates for the
position, but that as yet no one had been
considered.
"Bhould any candidate with whom we
may be corresponding give out informa
tion, his chances for securing the position
as coach are likely to fail," said Director
Ehler.
Offered India. Plaee.
CHICAGO, Deo. I. According to a
'Story printed here, Ewald Btlehm, who
asked today for his release as Nebraska
foot ball coach, has been offered the posi
tion of director of athletics at Indiana
university. It is not said In tJft story
whether he would succeed O. C. Child,
the Hoosler foot ball coach.
Just an Earful
By Tad.
Deacon Jones was a flKhtah. Ho was small, very small, and he was colored.
Mr. Jones had a liking for llcker, also. He had retired from the ring years be
fore In Frisco, and was now a gentleman of leisure, picking up a stray job here
and there, and with the proceeds in
dulged In his favorite Indoor sport, lick
ing up the suds.
One night (the night of the earthquake
In Frisco) Mr. Jones had acquired a
beautiful pot after working ten or fif
teen gin mills. Late In (he morning he
strolled into the little saloon owned by
Aloe Qreggalns, down on Sixth street.
He knew the barkeep, and the later knew
the Deacon. Our colored runt asked for
a drink and was refused. '
He asked again, again and again. He
finally grabbed hold of the bar with both
hands and demanded a powder.
mill the drink was not served.
"If you doan nan' me a drink I'll pull
dls bar ovah." piped the Deacon, and
he gave a yank.
With that there waa an awful roar;
down came the bar, the ccllng. the bottles
and the walls. (It was at that moment
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AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
American-Polei Elect Officers and
Pass Betterment Resolu
tions at Meeting.
CHURCH BASKET BALL NOW. ON
CLEYELAND CLUBS
TO CHANGE hnNDS
Indication Point to Transfer of
Both American League and
Association Properties.
BAN WILL FIND A BUYER
CLTVELAND, O., Dee. ".-Indications
tonight seemed to point to transfer of
ownership of the Cleveland American
League club before the opening ot the
1814 season. The Cleveland American as
soclatlon team also will change hands, it
la believed.
Although no official statement has been
made, it is known, that the bankers' com
mlttee In charge ot financial affairs of
Charles W. Bummers, the present owner
of the teams. Is in favor of selling the
clubs as a means of meeting Bommers'
present financial difficulties.
nert, Klnnler, Gllmore, ErwIn.eFsrnham,
Johns, Allen, Btewart and Plcotte.
Final arrangements were made for the
yearly football banquet to be held In the
college dining hall December 16, at seven
In the evening.
Sweets Still Top
List of Bowlers
in Ladies' League
The A. B. Sweet Shop bowling team
finished last night at Huntlnprton's slley
with a total ot t.221. Brandnls Girls
relied 1,124 and Omaha Towel Supply
1,163. Boores:
A. B. BWEET SHOP Ct.tTB
1st 2d Id Tot
Miss Neeblt
Mlsa llruoh
Miss Blerman
Mlsa Miller
Miss Hughes
10 138 ItiS
149 142 164
137 141 ir4
1M lfiH 115
125 166 134
Total
Gibbons-Ahearn
Fight is Postponed
at Least a Month
ST. PAUL. Dec. .-Mke Gibbons, who
was to have fought young Ahearn here
tomorrow night. Is suffering from bron
chial pneumonia, according to his phy
sicians, who today gave it as their opin
ion that Olbbona could not train for at
least two weeks and would not be able
to fight for at least thirty days.
As a result, the Gibbons-Ahearn fight
has been Indefinitely postponed. It may
be held late In January If Qtbbona recov
ers rapidly.
ANGELUS AND JOHNSONS
WILL MEET NEXT SUNDAY
Neat Sunday afternoon at Fontenelle
park the Angelua toot ball team will
play the Johnbon Grocery eleven. These
two teams would have met before only
the Angelua squad did not think the
Johnson were good enough. The Angelua
aay they will make the Johnsons regret
the day they were born.
Joaaaoa to Kind Bayer.
Ban B. Johnson, president of the Amer
ican league, who conferred today and
tonight with Bommers, John E. Bruce,
secretary ot the National Base Ball com
mission, and John Sherwln. chairman of
the bankers' committee, said tonight
that if the committee wishes to sell the
Cleveland American team he will find a
purchaser. '
The bankers' committee will not tol
erate the present situation any longer,"
said a prominent member of the commit
tee tonight; "It has come to the point
where we will have to sell the club."
Half a dosen men have been mentioned
aa possible purchasers of the Cleveland
American club, among them being James
McGill, owner ot the Denver Western
League club and the Indianapolis club
of the American association i B. O. Bar
rows, president of the International
league, and J. W. Corrlgan. Price Mo-
Kinney and Charles A. Otis of Cleveland.
Barrows was here today, but denied his
presence had anything to do with the
Cleveland baae ball situation.
1 1 da By Clabe.
"I will see that a buyer la forthcom
ing If the committee wlshea to aell the
Cleveland club." aald Johnson tonight.
"If a sale is decided upon I will try to
Interest local capital first. If It is
financial aid that is needed, the Amer
ican league will provide it. as the
league has always stood by its clubs."
Bommers and the bankers declined te
make any statement.
JACK FITZGERALD WILL
NOT BOX AT MASON CITY
Jack Fitzgerald of Omaha will not
flgl t at Mason City, la., this evening,
a a, dispatch from Mason City au
tiouAced. Fitzgerald says he has an en
tragenient nearer home and that be never
ad any idea of battling in Mason City.
Jaek.oa Uels J-'t.
Joe Jackson, White Box outfielder, and
Buck Brenton, Cleveland pitcher, have
lotiucd the ranks of the rrauiartv em.
ployed. Jackson i selling cars for an
auto concern while Hreuton la dabbling
ua uturci ib a rauoay oince.
Daytea Made Cantata.
William ll. Dayton of Auburn, star
center of tha Hamilton college foot bal
team, of Clinton. N. X., baa been elected
tluu ot ilia team.
Ptttfeda C baae Camps.
The Pittsburgh club has shitted t'aln
itiK ijumlers. lnntra.i of gu rnf back to
U . tii licbcls Kill trkla s.t
CAMPBELLS'
Miss F. Coilln .
IMra. Koedecke
Mtxa N, Collin
Mrs. Bland ,
Mrs. Campbell ,
Mrs. Reese ...
Handicap ....
Total
721 r 784 2221
CLUB
1st 2d Sd Tot
110 110 ...
US 13S 1"
11S 1S M
135 Ut 125
M ... i'S
... 112 At
100 W US
Dunn ...
Oranse .
Louden .
Hanan
Malcolm
Total.
Resolutions were adopted at the meet-,
Ing of the American-Polish Cltliens' club
of West L street last evening to promote
the Interests of all Polish people of the
South Side and also to arrange for the
signing of second citizenship papers by
them when the proper time comes. Two
hundred members of the organization,
which has grown powerful, both politi
cally and socially. In the year of Its ex
istence, attended and took active part In
the annual election of officers.
Officers elected last evening are: Presi
dent, Frank Byster: vice president, John
Badura; secretary. Frank Madura; finan
cial secretary, Leo Kowalskt, and treas
urer, Peter Wosnlak.
Several times the club has adopted pe
titions calling on the city commission to
Improve that particular section about
Thirty-third and L streets, where there
are many Polish people. The club rooms
are In the Pulaski hall, Thirty-third and
L streets, and meetings ars beld every
week.
Church Basket Ball Organised.
The gymnasium of the Grace Methodist
church at Twenty-fifth and E streets Is
being fitted out for use by the young
men of the congregation in the near fu
ture. Last year a basket ball team was j Zlmmer
piannea, out the men never got together
at a definite date. This year the young
men, led by Guy Klddo, honor graduate
of the University of Nebraska and super
intendent of the Sunday school, are plan
ning to take art In all indoor activities,
including bat,..et ball.
At the First Presbyterian church a bas
ket ball team has already been formed.
T Is probable that the local churches will
.oim a league and have weekly lnter-
church games. More young men than
ever before have joined and are taking
pan in me church activities.
Holidays Brian; Thieves.
The approach of the Christmas holi
days means more business for the po
lice. Borne time Monday evening an uni
dentified thief broke into the chicken
coop of Mrs. Harford, 27S2 J street, and
stole eighteen black Plymouth" Rock
chickens.
Newer Nnslanco Abated.
Investigation by the city sanitary de
partment in tne clogged sewer nuisance
ai Twenty-first and M atreets, after com
Pimm or residents about, resulted In
the placing of four men all dav yester
day cleaning out the sixty-foot atoms
TAM OSHANTERS.
1st. 2d. 3d.Tot.
Christie ....120 132 126 in
foung 147 1 33 1 46 426
Mace m VM 125 3.9
lark 127 138 146 411
Falconer ...179 151 1M 612
Total.... 679 690 726 2095
BOBBIE BURNS.
1st. 2d. 3d.Tot.
Dunn 1 114 Ti ;X
Iemkers . .179 147 200 626
W. Huks ...14fi 132 14 444
J. Mature ..132 173 lti6 4,1
D. Murol ... 176 182 3...S
Straw 108 10
Total 676 742 789 2207
KILTIES.
1st. 2d. Sd.Tot.
B. Reid 135 131 119 315
Frehma ....123 147 158 427
Sweeney ....124 129 118 371
Hukp 114 145 130 m
Home 176 159 174 fW
Total 71 709 699 M99
ST. ANDREWS.
1st. 2d. Sd.Tot.
..109 127 143 377
..109 107 113 329
..150 109 127 3t
..146 138 157 440
..200 143 183 625
Dunham .
Landis ...
Iowrey ..
Shields ..
Handicap
..12 119 !84 K6
..129 129 145 403
..118 173 12 453
..146 2i'3 176 .2
.. 16 16 16 48
711 624 722 2u67
TRAFFIC.
1st. 2d. 8d.Tot.
Rhodes ....133 114 109 S54
Lambert ...150 165 158 473
Cockley ....158 130 144 4)2
names ius kk iui 314
.148 133 101 8?
Handicap ..41 41 41 123
Total 738 688 664 20N)
DISTRICT PLANT.
1st. 2d. Sd.Tot.
Boucher ....149 160 143 452
20
3V
373
a 1 a I
J,; I sewer.
201
299
19 700 633 am
HAYDEN BROS. CLUB
1st 2d
Miss Osborne lt
Mrs. Rogers ..
Mrs. Kehra ..
Mrs. Johnson
Mls Crowe
Handicap
...
135 114
113 121 117
118 9S 113
111 140 1J0
113 142 143
14 16
Sd Tot.
13 8
aii mat is necessary to restore the
sewer to usefulness is to bolt an Immova
ble top on to keep other garbage . mea
irora oumplng garbage in the manhole.
sra
8J9
371
398
48
60ft Ml C4S 1885
Total
INDEPENDENT CLUB
1st 2d 3d Tot.
Mrs. Fceson li 123 1 411
Mrs. Gould m 145 146 429
Mrs. Jameson 137 12 119 3X4
Mrs. Stanton 1H 120 123 4t!
Mra. Ilackett. 133 113 131 37ft
Total 704 830 72 2009
OMAHA TOWEL SUPPLY CLUB
1"t td 3d Tot.
Mlsa Jensen 127 131 143 406
Mlsa Berry 105 VH 114 S2S
Mrs. Murphy 158 170 142 446
(Mrs. Neale 138 152 156 440
Mis Howes 108 180 12 414
Handicap 34 31 84 I'd
Total 670 78 715 2166
BRANDE1B GIRLS' CLUB
1t 2d 3d Tot.
IMra. Thompson
Miss Bauer ,
Miss Rauber
Jitra. Huff
VI Ua McGreer
Racely Student .
Manager at Bellevue
Walter Racely. brother of Oeorge A.
Racely, freshman coach at the Univer
sity of Nebraska, who. as a junior, has
terved three years on the Bellevue foot-
tali team,, two years on the represents
live basket ball squad, and la this year's
baseball captain, was elected student
manager of athletics at Bellevue anl
president of the athletlo board of con
trol at a meeting yesterday noon in the
physics laboratory, to serve for one year.
The two new freshmen members of the
board. Be mice Bahlotfeldt. of Walnut,
Iowa, and Harry Krwln, of Craig, N b..
and ths new prep member, Seymour
Smith, of De Soto, acted for the f rst
time.
Smith, the prep representative, was
made secretary of the board of oontrol,
with Ralph Martin as assistant manager
cf athletics and Erwln Gllmore, the re
tiring manager, and Emma Ward, Junior
member, as a finance committee.
The following men were declared 11
rill for the honorary football B"
Webb, captain; Racely, Maxwtll. L'ch
tenwallner, Guatataon, Wenke, Hard lan
11 136 133
138 149 123
154 131 14i
131 131 V
123 124 1 46
Total
711 671 742 2124
Former Nebraska
Star Will Coach
U. of 0. Tossers
William E. Kavan, former University
of Nebraska basket ball star and well
known local player, will coach the Uni
versity of Omaha quintet this season.
Kavan was chosen last evening by the
athletlo board from a list of seven candi
dates and will enter upon his work this
evening. Though somewhat delayed In
securing a coach, basket ball candidates
at the school nave been working out
dally under the direction of Captain
Adams. Twenty men have been showing
UP for work.
Upon request of the players the ath
letlo board decided to allow the school to
enter the Tri-Clty league. At first it was
thought that the league contests, coupled
with the college games, would interfere
with college work, but this difficulty was
overcome when officials of the loop
s greed to arrange the schedule.
Because of the press ot outside work
Theodore Korbmacher has been elected
basket ball manager to succeed William
Melcher. The schedule as outlined calls
tor ten colece contests, five at home and
the others away. Reciprocal games are
being arranged with Doane, Cottier, Kear
ney, Grand Island and Peru.
Haaaaraa Fa a era 1 Friday.
The funeral of James Hanagan. aaed
years, prominent citizen of the South
Bide, will be held Friday morning at
o ciock from the residence of a sister.
aara Mary nurry. 4623 South Twenty
intra street, to St. Agnes' church. In
terment will be made in St Mary's ceme
tery,
Hanagan was suddenly kilted In a motor
accident in Omaha Tuesday afternoon.
He is survived by a wife and one child,
two sisters, Mra. Mary Duffy, Omaha,
and Josephine Hanagan. South Dakota,
and six brothers. Patrick. John, Michael,
rhlllp. Thomas and Martin.
Coroner's Jary Retaras Verdict.
That Erlo Beldt, 2508 Reese street, and
William Kendall. 2118 South Thirty-fifth
avenue, Omaha, machinists In the employ
of Swift and Company, who lost their
lives while sA work In the plant Friday
morning when a large flywheel In one
of the engine rooms burst, came tothelr
death by suffocation, first from Inhaling
ammonia fumes, and second, from Inhal
Ing hot steam, was verdict of a coroner's
Jury yesterday morning at o'clock, held
tn tne uu-Kin cnapei under the super
vision of Coroner Willis Crosby,
Master mechanics and engineer from
the plant .testified In the rase. In the
hand of one of the victims was a wrench
claaped with muscles bound as though
he had Just been getting ready to turn
a bolt.
Mtlladal Atteadaaeo Coatest.
Another attendance contest is now on
among: the young people of the Hillside
Baptist church. The contest will cloae
this evening, when all participants and
members ot the church will meet in an
entertainment tn the church chapel. The
young people's society has been divided
into two equal sides. These divisions havs
been working to see which could get the
moat new members to attend the society
The committee on this evening's pro
gram has arranged for a good speaks,
Swift's Ksaailorea la Match.
Excitement ran high at the Brunswick
alleys last evening as the Swift Pre
miums, challenged by a house team call
ing themselves "Swift's Pride," warmed
up to their best bowling Instinct. One
Individual score at least neared. a record
when Coleman of the Premiums bowled
tst In a single round. This is the highest
core recorded in weeks,
The Premiums won the game, but were
given a scarce when they lost the first
round by a slight margin. Charley Burke,
well known alumni of ths local hitch
school, bowled with ths Prcmluma. In a
Total 720 800 8t!6 2346
WlESTERN ELFJCrRIC.
1st. 2d. 3d.Tot.
BriKonler ..139 :22 192 4,3
Bruce 155 in :bi rr
Lenrn 150 145 (63 458
Zaduca 11 10 1) 411
Miller 125 104 156 35
Total 741 756 753 2249
Prlmeau ....198 212 139 649
Haldcman .116 1 29 147 3"?
Kastham ...157 125 159 441
J. Johnson.. 136 157 ',50 443
Conrad 134 132 168 424
Total 731 692 802 22"4
American K press.
OFFICE.
1st. 2d. 3d. Tot.
A Leplnikl..204 154 154 613
Maurer 150 141 1(17 458
Qrlesser ....156 93 128 877
Tlckard 13 118 159 412
Hollingsh'd .134 119 106 419
Totals 779 625 774 2178
SHIPPING.
1st. 2d. 3d. Tot.
Brown 130 159 138 427
Sorensen ....123 144 172 439
Romberg ....122 148 110 0
Bruesman ..163 162 1 29 454
Senlft 167 168 161 499
Totals 706 781 713 2199
Telephone I.rasxne.
ENGINEERS.
1st. 2d. 3d. Tot.
Capen 123 157 170 450
Fnfend 114 154 110 378
Strawn ....191 138 141 470
Cronland ..106 173 14 443
Rehschuh ..19 182 159 610
. Totala....703 804 744 2261
IN8TALLERS.
Plxley ..
Ash ton ,
Red field
Fahnes'k
Dunham
Handicap
1st. 2d.
...113 120
..1H8 159
..1S3 147
..129 1HH
.-.115 109
.. 49 49
3d. Tot.
115 348
155
113
144
130
49
4X2
443
4l
354
147
Totals.... 757 772 708 2230
CONSTRUCTION.
Lamborn
Hegarty
Baldwin
Whltlock
Madsen
1st. 2d. 3d. Tot.
..139 197 176 511
..127 97 117 341
..146 146 130 422
.136 153 143
.140 168 136
Handicap . 72 72 72 216
Totals... .760 833 773 2365
WIRE CHIEFS.
1st. 2d. Sd.Tot.
Koran 177 171 168 . 616
Kasper ....146 191 199 63
Stow 135 116 149 400
Huff 140 148 113 401
Phillips ....149 138 144 433
Totals... .747 762 775 2236
AUDITING.
1st. 2d. 3d. Tot.
Olson 197 134 179 510
Raird 179 171 160 610
Stone ......1.36 155 147 438
Keller 128 134 148 410
Noland ....133 122 156 410
Totals.. ..773 716 789 227S
General office.
1st. 2d. Sd. Tot.
Johnson ...145 129 175 449
Overman ..168 145 138 451
Peterson ..143 193 173 t09
Hollldav ...177 789 179 545
Kent 155 129 206 499
Handicap .. 14 14 14 42
Totals.... 792 80S 870 2496
two out of three matches from the Cen
turlans. The scores:
PREMIUMS.
1st. 2d. 3d. Tot. 1
Anderson 169 ' 150 204 673
Coleman 165 131 236 632
Burke 134 176 170 4X0
Crowe 152 145 137 434
Hefton 148 188 180 616
Totals 768 790 927 24S5
BWIFT'B PRIDE.
1st. 2J. 3d. Tot.
Root .." 155 153 135 442
Lortng 157 141 182 40
Roben 143 1 34 188 465
Ionard 191 175 168 634
Bloomqulst 12$ 143 144 415
Totals .774 745 817 2336
MURPHY'S COLTS..
1st. 2d. 3d. Tot.
Vance ;.127 131 ISO 438
Maytleld Ill 197 180 488
Marx 116 162 121 899 I
Haker ISO 242 ISO 602
Pedersen 210 180 208 698
Totals 744 912 869 2625
CENTURIONS.
1st. 2d. 3d. Tot.
MhriR-an 190 190 117 497
Harmon 211 113 169 492
Sullivan 11 165 171 497
Heafey 145 IKS 470
Tanner ............15 148 168 473
Strawby 140
Handicap 17 S I 83
Totals m 768 US 2461
port made by the department of public
service to the council transportation com
mlttee today. "The report said the cars
had been in tne main successful.
Masrle City Gossip.
R4 i.n.a W r O IT will
at Its hall Friday evening. December 10.
An election of officers will be held.
A stunt social will be Riven under the
auspices of the Hpworth league of tho
urace Methodist church Thuradsy evening.
Oak Alaer. son nf Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Alger, 1414 O street, ia reported to be re
covering slowly after a sudden attack
of pneumonia.
Office space for rent In Bee office, 2318
N street. Terms reasonable. Well known
location. Tel. South 27.
Women bowlers will roll at the Bruns
wick alleys this evening. The four
teams comprising the "Oh, Me! Oh, My!"
league will meet in contest.
The X L club has completed all ar
rangements for the parcel post sale to
be given at the McCrann hall. Twenty
fourth and O streets, Friday evening, De
cember 10.
The seventeenth annual ball or the
Union Stock Employes' Benefit associa
tion will be given at the Kushlng'e hall
at Twenty-fourth and J streets Satur
day evening.
A benefit ball will be given at tho
Eagle home at Twentylthlrd and N
streets Wednesday evening. December
15. Union tnuslo will be had. Tne pub
lic Is invited.
Start your child right by giving lt one
of our "Savlnua Hooks." One dollar open
an account in the Live Stock National
Bank.
Pennant lodge No. 2S3. Ancient Order
ar 1'nltiMl Workmen will moot thta
evening at the Workmen hall at Twenty- !
fifth and M street to elect officers for '
the coming year. j
A bazaar and noon luncheon will ' be 1
served today at the Ryan millinery store I
building, opposite the post office on 1
Twenty-fourth street, by the women of I
the Trinity Baptist church. v
Want ads for The Bee may be left at
The Bee's branch office, 2318 N t. Rates,
to a word for one time. IVms a word each
day for three days and lo a word eacu 1
day for a week. Prompt and courteous
Chauffeur Emery, who has been trans- 1
ferred to the South Hide police station
In the absence of Benny Danbaum,
whose grandfather died last evening at
the Wise Memorial hospital, arrentei
Henry bailey, 323 M street, on a charge
of exceeding the speed limit.
Best for Coaatlpalloa.
The best medicine for constipation Is
Dr. King's New Life Pills, mild and
effective and keep you well 20c All drug
gists. Advertisement.
Culls From the Wires.
Mrs. C. W. Post, widow of the Battle
Creek cereal food manufacturer, an
nounced at Battle Creek she had agreed
to accept $6,000,000 cash for her rights
In the Post estate. Mrs. Marjorle Pant
Clone, daughter of C. W. Post, will re-
reive the bulk of the estate, worth about
-AJ.IAJU.UUU.
Charges against Judge O. N. Hilton of
Denver, one of Joseph Hlllstrom's at
torneys, were filed with the grievance
committee of the Utah Bar association
by Herbert R. Macmlllan, president of
the association. The chantes are based
on Hilton's address at- Hillstrom'a fu
neral In Chicago.
Such excellent progress has been made
with the dredging in the Galllard cut of
the Panama canal that now only fifty
feet of the earth senarftta the waters
of the channel. This little neck of land.
less than twtnty feet hISrh, can be re
moved bv dredges In a tew daya unless
the bulirlng up of the bottom proceed
too rapidly for the dredgers.
A nation-wide movement to make the
country church the religious, social and
agricultural center for the farmer
throuah a federation of churches in ru
ral communities was launched at Colum
bus, O.
MIL0 POWERS AND
HORSEEXPELLED
Started Buth Granite Oat of Her
Class Under Name of Ruth
Corporal.
TE0TTEES' BODY TAKES ACTION
NEW YORK, Dec. 9. At today's meet
ing of the Board of Review of the Na
tional Trotting association Secretary
Gocher announced that Mllo Powers of
Goshen, Ind., had been expelled with the
mare Ruth Granite for starting the horse
out of her class under the name of Ruth
Corporal at Leesburg, O., In October last.
The board announced that several
horses had been traced anl identified In
various parts of the country. Billy Dis
pute had been driven to a baker's wsgon
for seven years and at the age of 12
started out on a racing career and won a
number of races. The board found he
was entitled to his name and his win
nings. A black mare, Guadlanta, 14 years old.
owned at Grafton, N. C, has been used
as a buggy horse for several years and
was identified. John B., raced by P. F.
Hamlin of Poughkeepsie. and Jack
Parker, bred In Ohio, sold in Chicago and
now owned In Maine, were both appro-red.
Hearing of the case of Ben F. White of
East Aurora, N. Y., who appealed from
the decision of the pjudges at Columbus,
O.. in fining him H00 on September SO,
last, when he failed to start Queen Ab
bess In the fifth heat of the 2:10 pace,
was adjourned until the May meeting,
CHICAGO. Dec. . The Board of Ap
peals of the American Trotting associa
tion declared today the following horses
ineligible and ordered their winnings re
distributed: ,
Bay gelding. M. F. D. (S. S. Ruble. Lo-
.gan, O.), In 2:08 pace at West Liberty, la.,
June 2, 1915.
Bay gelding, Mai McKlnney (C. N.
Clark, Wlnfield, Kan., and Bob Sebas
tian, Hemete, Cel.), tn 2:08 pace at Beat
rice, Neb., June 24, 1915.
Horse, Teddy M. (Roy Murfleld, Avoca,
ta ). In 1:20 pace at Rockwell City, la.,
Uly 31.J 1916.
Bay gelding, John D. (A. B. Smith, Van
couver, B. C). In 2:30 pace at Lander, B.
C June 26, 1915.
Black horse. King Bird (L. H. Kindred,
Flandreau, B. D. ; M. Helsley, Condon,
Ore., and F. Wilson, Condon, Ore.). In
2:20 pace at Rock Klver, la., August 25,
1916.
Bay mare. Hallle Graham (Charles
Robins, Malvern, la.). In 2:30 trot at
Qulncy, 111., September 22, 1915. (Record
of Hallle Graham at Jefferson, la., Juni
23, 1914, established at 2:23).
Protests were sustained and the money
ordered returned to the Protestants In the
following cases:
J. E. Walsh, Sioux City and black mare,
Oaean Wave, against VVahoo Racing as
sociation of Wahoo, Neb.
J. I. Dompler, Edmonton, Alberta, end
black mare, Senorlta Great against In
diana State Board of Agriculture.
The Campbell (Mo.) and Clay County
(Ark.) Fair associations were each or
dered to pay $25 to T. J. King of Irene,
S. D.
British Steamer Saak.
LONDON. Dec. t. The British steamer
Ignis has beeu sunk. The crew have been
landed. Available shipping registers con
tain no record of such a steamer as the
Ignis.
fresh Air Cars."
CHICAGO. tVC . "Freeh air cars"
. . ... . . . , . 1 have been ananaonea py me vmcngo our-
prevlous match the Murphy s Colts won , Unas company, accordm- to a re-
n
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