People don't like to buy
from unknown merchants,
or unknown goods; adver
tising makes steady cus
tomers.
The Omaha Daily ' Bee
THE WEATHER
FAIR
VOL. XLVI No. 19..
NEW YORK BANKS
OFFER CARRANZA
HUNDRED MILLION
Mexico City Papers Report
American Financiers Would
Lend De Facto Chief
Large Sum.
THIS PREVIOUSLY HINTED
Washington Learns Nothing
Further as to Form Nego
tiations to Take.
OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1916.
On rralM, mi HuUU,
SINGLE COPY, TWO CENTS.
EYES ON MOBILIZATION
FIFTn REGIMENT
FINALLY GETS OFF
ON BORDER TRIP
Belated Orders Finally Come
and Southern Journey Begun
hy Last Group of Ne
braska Soldiers.
EQUIPMENT IS VERY POOR
Long Delays Occasioned to
Men Who Are Anxious to
Entrain.
Mexico City, July 9. Newspapers
here today publish a story that a
group of New York bankers has of
fered to loan the Carranza govern
ment $100,000,000. Editorially it is
stated that with this new move the
Mexican financial situation is in a
fair way to being settled.
There have been reports that Amer
ican bankers might go to the aid of
the dc facto government, but no an
nouncement to this effect has been
made. A dispatch from Washington
on July 7 declared that Counsellor
Polk of the State department had
stated that a conference he had had
with T. Fletcher, ambassador desig
nate to Mexico, and Paul M. Warburg
of the Federal Reserve Board had
nothing to do with the rumor that the
American government would encour
age American bankers to loan money
to General Carranza. -
No Word from Carranza.
Washington, July 9. Pending new
developments in the diplomatic situa
tion between the United States and
the de facto government of Mexico,
army officials are learning military
. L ....-lncr M,t
lessons uy waicmnK ms. n"'&
of the National Guard mobilization
and the smntnnnintr of regular army
reservists to the colors.
Today brought no further intima
tions from Mexico City as to the
course of procedure General Carranza
will suggest for diplomatic confer
ences to settle border questions. Offi
cials at the State department are
hopeful thaf definite progress toward
framing a satisfactory agreement will
be made next week.
Will Take Several Days.
At the Mexican embassy, however,
it is believed General Carranza's sug
gestons may not be received for sev-
I Jn..a Than thei-p nrnhahlv will
be some loss of time as the de facta
authorities doubtless- will desire to
give Eliseo Arredonao, araoassauur
designate, specific instructions before
authorizing him to open informal ne
gotiations with Acting SecretarjfJPolk,
and the preparation of these will re
quire time.
At the War department the belief
is expressed that more than 90 per
cent of the 4,000 to 5,000 regular army
reservists called for active duty will
report promptly.
Ernest Sweet Takes
fWr tli p. TTfl.miltmi
In His Own Name
Ernest Sweet, a prominent real es
tate owner and manager and a mem
ber of the syndicate which recently
purchased the Hamilton apartments,
i ..Al1,..fr...rth anH Farnam streets.
at a price reported to be $375,000,
Saturday took over the apartments
together with the furnishings and fix
tures in his own name at a total cost
of $410,000. Mr. Sweet has been a
successful manager of other high
class rental properties in Omaha, and
will manage the Hamilton himself.
He is a former president of the Oma
nii Association of Building Owners
and Managers.
Omaha. Elks Taking -Lead
at Baltimore
GERMAN SUBSEA
LADEN WITH DYES
REACHESU. S. PORT
Deutschland, Three Hundred
Feet Long, Makes First
Transatlantic Commercial
Trip of the War.
BOYS AT HOME SEND AMMUNITION Tb BOYS AT FRONT This photograph how
National Guardsmen of New York loading ammunition for shipment to Brownsville, where
the National Guardsmen from New York were sent.
Baltimore, Md, July 9. (Special
Telegram.) Frank L. Pain of Fair
bury, Neb., chairman of the jury com
mittee of the grand lodge ot Elks,
and Frank Flanagan of Omaha of the
credentials committee, spent a hot
and busy day here today. They were
at work at -their headquarters per
fecting arrangements for dealing with
what is confidently expected to be the
largest crowd that ever attended an
Elks' reunion. The big Omaha dele
gation is expected to arrive here with
100 in the party at 7 o'clock Monday
morning.
They have very comfortable quar
ters awaiting them here at the Albion
hotel. Raymond G. Young of Oma
ha is to play a conspicuous part in
the convention.
HOW THE DAY WAS SPENT
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Neb., July 9. (Special
Telegram.) Though' somewhat be
hind the announced time of 1 o'clock,
the Fifth Nebraska infantry band,
auxiliary detachments and the Lin
coln hospital company, got out of
I inrnln and off for the border today,
lecaving behind them a disconsolate
group of officers who were unable to
go with them.
The officers eft behind are Ad
jutant General Hall, Assistant Ad-
intant General Mavsell, Major Fal
coner, Major E. J. Murfin, Major J.
M. Birkncr. Captain Jacock and one
or two others. These are all apart
of the staff of the adjutant general
and therelbr were not attached to
either of the other regiments.
First Battalian Leaves.
tl r:...,, k, oi;.., 1f th,. fair
l lie lliaL uaiiBiivu .v..
...Ul, tl, hunrl at 1 .10 nYlnrW.
composed of 280 men and twenty-
three otlicers, not including me Danu.
The big cannon at the armory
boomed out the signal of their leav
ing and a Missouri Pacific train took
them at the tracks of that company
about half a mile from the grounds, at
Scventeentn street, i nerc was con
siderable delay in getting off, the
train finally pulling out at 2:05.
T.. n...i,.,AC later tli Gi-rtl,H Hat-
taliori, 231 men and 21 officers with
the hospital corps marcnea to tne
i.,rVc hut wrp Irpnt waittnff nearlv
an hour in the hot sun before the train
n..l1al in in talf thrill ntl t
L The delay was a source of much
adverse comment not only oy me men
but by others, but at 3:15 the train
pulled out one hour and ten minutes
behind the nrst section.
Wait All Along Line.
Fifteen minutes before the second
section pulled out the Third battalion
with 244 men and 16 officers marched
,ha .trUfi anH wrf Went standinff
in the hot sun, waiting for the section
to get away, ana even aner mc uniu
section had pulled in they were kept
waiting for a long white before they
entrained and the train pulled away.
The cars furnished" the troops were
old Santa Fe coaches, those used by
the First and Third battalions, hav
ing been used to transport the Second
Missouri soldiers to the border, and
were plastered all aer with inscrip
tions like the following:
"Carranze, you can't kick our dog
around."
"Wait until the Second Missouri
gets there."
Another inscription which covered
nearly the whole side oi a car was:
"Carranza Why don't you come
across, Uncle Sam; are you scared?"
"Uncle Sam No, I ain't scared.
I'm just waiting till the second Mis
souri gets there."
Not Much For "Cars.
Some of the cars furnished looked
as if they might fall to pieces before
they got out of the state, while the
sleeper used by the officers looked
almost as inviting on the outside as
a "side-door sleeper," and just about
as comfortable.
The second section looked more in
viting, but was pulled by an old Iron
Mountain engine that looked as if it
wouldlay down and rest before it
got out of the state.
Epsten Company Employes
Ana Famines tnjuy uuuuy
p The employes of the Epsten Lith
ographing company, ","
ilics, held their annual outing at Sey
mour lake. Various outdoor and
aquatic sports were indulged in and
everyone had an enjoyable time.
Colonel Taggart amuscu l ie gath
ering with an exhibition of his ex
pert quoit tricks. A uau game in tut
... i,.,ujipn the nress and art
IIIUll'i'io ,...- r-
departments was won by the latter.
after a nam iussic. i uc kuh-
featured by the pitching of Roger
Gal"P- - .
A paper on ne neianon oi v.i
tn I ahrr" was read bv Secretary
John E. Hoffman. ,
The committee on amusements
consisted of Tom Johnson, chairman;
Guo raetow, wiinair. noisworin anu
Ed Gilman, while Al Koch had
charge of the refreshments.
WILL DOCK AT BALTIM "
Captain Says Long VoylQ-
Was Made Without
Incident.
HEADS UP HAMPTON ROADS
The Weather
Temperature! t Omaha Yesterday.
Hour.
9 a. m.
a. in.
8 a, m...
f a. m...
10 a. m. . .
Dec.
.. 72
... 71
12 in 11
p. in.
90
2iP- m 91
3 p. m 92
4 p. m 93
6 p. m 93
t p. m 4a
I p. m 91
fnMinaratlvA IM-I Record.
ll. 1915. 1914. 1911.
Hlgheat yeterdy.... 93 74 93 S3
Ijoweat ypeterday. . . . 71 3 98 69
Mpan temperature.... 12 08 80 78
Precipitation 00 -01 .00 .00
Temparature and precipitation deparlurea
from tha normal:
Normal temperature 78
Kxceae for the day 8
Total excraa alnce March 1 TV . . . 36
.Normal precipitation 13lnch
Deficiency for the day 13 Inch
Total rainfall elnre March 1.... 3.44 Inches
Deficiency alnce March 1 6.86 Inches
Deficiency for cor. period. 1916.. 3.37lnrhca
deficiency ter cor. period. 1914. . .80 Inch
, h. X. WELSH, Local Forecaster.
Norfolk, Vs., July 9. The Deusch
land, a submarine 300 feet long and
carrying a 1,000-ton cargo composed
largely of German dyestuffs, arrived
in Hampton Roads from a German
port early today and headed up the
bay for Baltimore. Captain Kairig of
the vessel said it carried no arms, had
come purely as a merchant ship and
had made ihe transatlantic voyage
without incident.
The submarine's cargo is consigned
to A. Schumacher & Co., at Baltimore,
where it is expected to dock tomor
row. It is being convoyed up the hay
by the tug Thomas F. Timmins. The
coast guard cutter Onondaga, with
Collector Norman Hamilton of this
port on board, is following.
New York Firms Beneflt.
New York, July 9. Approximately
100 tons of dyestuffs aboard the Ger
man submarine which entered the Vir
ginia capes is consignedto five New
York firms, it was announced here to
night. "Our Enemies Are
Ready and So Are
We," Writes Harden
London, July 9. A Hague dispatch
to the Exchange Telegraph company
quotes (Maxmilian Harden, the noted
German editor, as writing in Die
Zukunft:
"Our enemies are ready. So are
we. Therefore, after the exhibition
of their strength just given they
might, without humiliation, make up
accounts and look for a straight line
toward peace. But we Germans must
not believe that they will do that.
Everywhere in Germany we hear that
France, being exhausted, prefers hu
miliation to another winter campaign,
and whatever happens' will surrend-
et. before the winter. This -is - just
as true as the talk about Germany
drumming blind and lame men into
the army, while we still have at
home at least thirty army corps ana
600,000 recruits cvery year."
London, July 8. The Frankfurter
Zeituni. in an editorial review of the
situation, according to an Amster
dam dispatch, says: 1
"We all know that our position
critical and we depend more than
ever on the superiority of our leader
ship. What is important now is tne
proper utilization of our forces,
which calls for weighty considera
tion. "The immense responsibility de
volving upon our staff in the west
is terrible, but our fortress is firm."
Omaha Auto Dealer
To Inaugurate Profit
Sharing Plan for Men
H. Pelton, an Omaha automobile
dealer, has just completed arrange
ments which will put in force among
his salesmen a profit-sharing plan.
Starting July 1 the company was
divided into four parts. The firm of
H. Pelton will handle white pleasure
cars and trucks. The Franklin Motor
company will sell Franklin cars. The
garage will do a general garage busi
ness, and the shop a general repair
business. Each of these branches of
the service will be operated inde
pendent of the other and all profit and
loss charged to its respective depart
ment. At the end of each year all profit
above a certain per cent will be
divided among the salesmen upon a
pro rata basis using as factors the
amount of each salesman's earnings.
Under this plan salesmen arc urged
to hold down overhead expense. Shop
and garage men have readily grasped
the idea and will be alert to give cus
tomers service as well as soliciting
new business. At the end of the
year they receive a share of the earn
ings equivalent to their share of the
production.
PI " Eh S$i -itjjJ
SHIPPING AMMUNITION TO BORDJER.
YAQUI REDS MAKE
RAID UPON RANCH
Take Advantage of With
drawal of Troops and Devas
tate American Property.
REFUGEES FLEE TO SHIP
" The War Is Finished, " Is Shout
of Germans as They Surrender
Paris, July 8. The new French
front before Peronne appears to have
been fortified now so as to necessitate
flanking movements southward and a
widening of the position already con
quered. French infantry inaugurated
this operation yesterday by success
ful attacks in the region of Belloy-En-Santerre,
where 350 Germans were
taken prisoner and east of Estrees,
where fifty men were left in French
hands after an assault on a communi
cating trench. v
"It was most business-like," said an
eyewitnesses. "There was not much
dallying on the part of the Germans,
who, perhaps, had ben impressed by
what had been going on north of them
during the last few days. The French
had scarcely reached the first line of
their adversaries, when the Germans
were seen climbing out of the trenches
in clusters with their hands up and
marching in double quick time toward
the French trenches.
"The first wave of assailants
seemed to ignore these fellows, who
tore through the weeds without es
cort and without urging in search of
holes in the barbed wire entangle
ments. The Germans were pictures
of precipitate anxiety until they
reached the parapet protecting the
field works.
" 'The war is finished! The war is
finished!' cried many of them, with
their facet expanding into smiles, as
they leaped into the French com-
jmumcation trenches and nled back to
lAlic rear between lines of more
i-icmii uuoub willing lor uic worn
to take their turn in the assault. The
prisoners then cried for water and
bread.
"The tarivates generally did not
conceal their satisfaction in finding
tranquillity at the rear of the French
lines. Only the officers were downcast."
. Mazatlan, Mexico, July 9. Yaqui
Indians, taking advantage of the
withdrawal of Mexican troops from
Southern Sonora, are reported here to
have crossed the Yaqui river and in
vaded the lands of American settlers
and the Richardson Construction Co.,
devastating all property except com
pany headquarters at Esperandea,
where a .Mex.ica.ii. .garrison is main
tained. The only Americans left in 'the
Yaqui Valley are: J. E. Lowder, F.
C. Hetchel, Leon Anthony, Fred See
man, Gus Seighman, H. Bruss, Karl
Fiester and a man named Pedecourco.
There is much suffering here on
account of a lack of food. Four sis
ters of the Order of the Immaculate
Heart have been given refuge on
board the United States cruiser South
Dakota, off this port, and will be sent
to San Diego, Cal., by the first avail
able steamer. The navy collier Nan
shan is expected to leave La Paa
Tuesday with fifty-four refugees from
Guaymas and La Paz.
The peons at La Paz are reported
suffering all the rigors of famine.
Merchants there absolutely refuse to
accept Carranza currency. Horses
and mules are sharing the peons' hard
ships and are dying in large numbers
along the roads in the vicinity of
La Paz.
Montana Suffragist
To Run for Congress
Missoula. Mont.. July 9. Miss
Jeanette Rankin of this city, promi
nent suffragist, announced nerseit yes
terday as a candidate for congress on
the reoublican ticket, with the support
of the Missoula Good Government
league. She is the first woman in
the state to aspire for this office.
1
Property Damage Done by
Hurricane Five Millions
New Orleans, La., July 9. The
positive death list from Wednesday's
gulf coast hurricance and a series of
sforms and floods that followed in
Alabama and Georgia stood tonight
at nine, with at least forty persons
reported missing, most all from small
schooners in the gulf. Unconfirmed
reports say that nearly a score of per
sons were killed in villages near Mo
bile, but prostrated wire and rail
communication prevent confirmation.
There are also reports of deaths else
where. Property damage will reach
$5,000,000.
Man Dies From Broken Neck
Received in Fall From Wagon
M. C. Maney, 80 years old, a pio
neer resident of Omaha, and for many
years in the employe of the Omaha
Water company, was overcome with
the heat Saturday afternoon and fell
from his wagon, at Thirty-first street
and Piedmont avenue, sustaining in
juries that caused his death. His neck
and three ribs were broken.
Mr. anaVMrs. F. Fralt, 5557 North
Thirty-third street, discovered the
body and notified the authorities.
Maney lived with his daughter at 5024
North Thirty-fourth street.
Nebraska-Born Woman Sees
City for the First Time
Fremont, Neb., July 9. (Special )
Mrs. Claus Thompson, born and
brought ip in Dodge county, near
Rogers, made her first visit to Fre
mont this week, when she came to
have some dental work done. Mrs.
Thompson js 50 years old and had
never been further away from home
than North Bend. She has a large
family, some of her sons and daugh
ters being married. She expressed
surprise that such tall building could
be erected and stand up. ' She had
never before seen a paved street.
Villa Recovered So
He Can Lead Bandits
San Antonio, Tex., July 9. Fran
cisco Villa's reported appearance in
Mexico was followed today by a re
port at the border of a new version of
the injuries he is supposed to have
received. According to this latest ver
sion, Villa was shot through both legs
and only recently recovered enough
to retake command of his men.' The
report that Villa has been operating
southwest of Parral was transmitted
to General Funston from El Paso to
day, the same report bearing the new
account of the nature of his. wounds.
HUGHES SENDS WIRE
TO PROGRESSIVES
Republican ' Candidate Tele
graphs to California Moosers
About Their Aims.
HITCHCOCK IN CAMP
UPON SHIPPING BILL
r
Democratic Senators Who Op
posed Measure All Line Up
With Administration.
SHAKE HANDS ON ISSUE
ASKS ALL WORK TOGETHER
Bridgehampton, N. Y., July 9.--Charles
E. Hughes yesterday sent the
following telegram to Governor John
son at the California state conference
of progressives held at San Francisco:
"I understand that the progressive
conference in California is to be held
today. The national aims to which
we are devoted are so vitally impor
tant that I earnestly hope there may
be more strong and effective co-operation
which will insure their achieve
ment, I desire a reunited party as
the essential agency of national prog
grets, a party drawing to itself the
liberal sentiment of a quickened na
tion. "I warmly appreciate the many as
surances of support that are con
stantly coming to me from progres
sives and the willingness that has
been so frankly shown to forget for
mer differences in order that by com
mon efforts we may meet our coun
try's imperative need. As to our com
mon purposes, I repeat to your con
ference what I said in my telegram
to the progressive -contention at Chi
cago, We are divided in our ideals,
let us work together to attain them."
San Francisco, July 8. Governor
Johnson announced here today his
willingness to be a candidate for the
United States senate. He was wildly
cheered by progressives assembled in
a meeting at which the announcement
was made. Governor Johnson re
cently declared for Charles E. Hughes
for president.
Victor Murdock on the Fence
And He Finds It Comfortable
Portland, Ore-, July 9. "I am on
the fence and I find it comfortable'"
said Victor Murdock, progressive
leader from Kansas, when he arrived
here today 011 a speaking tour. He
declared he was not ready to say
to whom he would give his support
in the coming presidential campaign.
RUSSIANS KEEP
PUSHING ENEMY
LINE IN RETREAT
Anglo-French Offensive En
tirely Overshadowed by the
Progress of Czar's
Troops.
KOVEL MAY FALL ANY DAY
Russ Already Across Stokhos
River Near Janovka.
TEUTONS ARE LACKING MEN
Washington, July 9. Democratic
senators in caucas yesterday reached
an agreement on the government ship
ping bill to upbild the American mer
chant marine, ending one of the most
serious party divisions that has oc
curred within the life of the Wilson
administration.
Differences which led to a demo
cratic revolt at the last session of con
gress? and resulted in failure of the
ship purchase bilL.had threatened tha
pending measure, earnestly advocated
by President Wilson, with a like fate.
Amendments submitted today, how
ever, ironed out all serious differences
and senators who had been fighting
each other on the issue shook hands,
resolving to press the bill for passage
at this session no matter how long it
may delay adjournment.
Amendments include the following
provisions:
y Tli govnrnmnnt ihrnll not purenue any
rhlp which flirt th flat of a European
nation at war nor any amp airaaay ensafea
In American trade unlem It la about to be
withdrawn from that trade.
No ahlp ahall be acquired by the vovern
ment which la below 76 per oent of (la orig
inal efficiency. '
The government ehall not undertake to
operate merchant htpe unleea all efforta fall
to negotiate eatlafactory Iraeea or aalea to
private corporation! for that purpoae, the
government reaervlng the right, however, to
Ereecrlbe conditions under which ships ihall
e operated and In what aervlce they shall
engage.
Among democratic senators who
were opposed to the bill as it came
from the house and whose support has
been won over by today's action are
Clarke, leader of the opposition;
Bankhead, Vardaman, Hitchcock,
O'Gorman and Hardwick.
Five Thousand Eire
Loss in Town of Odell
Beatrice, Neb., July 9. (Special
Telegram.) Fire at Odell. 111 this
county, yesterday destroyed the res
taurants of .H. L. Cullen and J. H.
Gillian, the cr?am station of H. E.
Spink and damaged the meat market
of the former. The fire started in the
rear of Cullcn's restaurant from an
unknown cause. The bucket brigade
prevented the flames from spreading
to other parts of the town.
The loss is placed at about $5,000,
partially covered by insurance.
Lansing Thinks the Mexican
Crisis Is Looking Better Now
Watertown, N. Y., July 9. (Spe
cial.) Secretary of btatc Kobert
Lansinj arrived today at his summer
home at Henderson harbor for
month's vacation.
Asket. if the Mexican crisis was
pasvd, Mr. Lansing said: "I don't
know as to that. It looks better.'
Czar Brings Up Fresh Troops for
Three Days to Cut Off Austrians
Austrian Headquarters (Via Berlin
to London), July 9. The retirement
of the northern and southern wings
of the Austro-German army south of
the Pripet marshes was due to the
superiority of the Russian forces, at
tended by the throwing in of fresh
forces and the massing of attack upon
attack regardless of losses.
Spurred on by the success of Gen
eral Bothmer's troops south of the
Dneister on the Tlumach front, the
Russians brought up new troops to
both sides of the Dneister steadily for
three days, and succeeded in stopping
General von Bothmer east of Tlu
mach, forcing him to abandon the
lower course of the Stripa. The new
line to which the Austro-Germans
retired follows the course of two
brooks flowing into the Dneister
from the north and the south, about
twelve miles west of the Stripa
river. This distance represents the
Russian gains.
The heaviest fighting in these sec
tors, however, occurred west of Kolo
mea, where the Russians are evidently
trying to drive a breach between the
armies of General von Bothmer and
General Pflanzer and to isolate the
latter. All their onslaughts were re
pulsed. 1
On the northern flank just south of
the Pripet marshes the Russians for
days have been throwing in fresh
troops in an attempt to cut off the
Austrian forces holding the triangle
formed by the big bend in the Styr
river nortn of Kolki. The new line
to which the Austrian retirrd to es
cape being surrounded runs straight
across the base of the triangl- some
miles in the rear of the former point
ot tne triangle.
London, July 9. The eastern front
continues to overshadow the western
from the spectacular viewpoint, the
Russian forcas going from success to
chitzky, in the south, occupied the
railroad junction at Delatyn, west of
Kolomea, thus cutting off General
Von Bethmer from his supply base,
but General Brussiloff, in the north, is
making surprising advances on both
sides of the Kovel railway toward the
Stokhod river.
Tonight's Russian communication
reports the enemy forces in this re
gion retiring in great' disorder and
adds that the Russians have occupied
Huleviche, which is about twenty
four miles to the east of Kovel, while I
apparently the Russians are already
across the Stokhod river somewhere
in the region of Janovka.
To Force Retirement.
German possession of Baranovichi
and Kovel are absolutely essential if
he is to retain hold over the invaded
parts of Poland and Lithuania, but it
is considered liWly that it is only a
matter of a few days before the Rus
sians will be in possession of Kovel,
which would compel Von Linsingen's
retirement from the Lutsk salient.
German official and unofficial dis
patches reflect anxiety over the Rus
sian advance as being greater than ,
over the Anglo-French offensive,
which the German military critics
contend will not interfere with the
operations against Verdun. Major
Moraha and other German critics ex-
press surprise .at the extent and per- (
sistence of the' Russian offensive and
of the endless resources of ammuni
tion. Germans Lack Men.
It is reported from Rome that at a
trian marshals, Von Hindenburg de
clared that it would be impossible to
attempt an offensive on a large scale
without reinforcements of at least a
quarter of a million men.
Berlin admits tne loss ot name-
court, A-:-f .
' ,The Roumanian ' government, ac
cording to a Berne dispatch, hai de
clined an invitation from the German
and Austrian government! to partici
pate in a conference of the Danube
powers.
ratniinoer Twin- , -r
Six Starts Coast-to-CoastRunon"High"
Word has iust been received bv the
Foshier Motor company regarding
the Pathfinder Twin Six, which with
Weidley at the wheel is to be driven
from coast-to-coast in high gear.
The car left the Panama Interna-,
tional exposition grounds, San Diego,
Cal., at 12 o'clock noon, July 3, and
was started bv wire from Denver. In :
starting the car the same Western
union equipment usca dv rrcsiucnc
Wilson, in starting the Panama ex
position was employed.
Reports en route show that the car
left Los Angeles at 12:30 p. m., ar
riving at Fresno at 10:30 p. nu. Left
Fresno at 9 a. m., arriving af San
Francisco at 5 p. m.
The gasoline mileage through the
mountains was ten . and six-tenths
gallons to the mile.
Write Some Fire f;
Insurance in State
' (Prom a Staff Correspondent)
Lincoln, July 9. (Special.)One
hundred and ten stock nre insurance
companies licensed to do business in
Nebraska in 1915, only two of which
are domestic corporations, wrote
$383,000,000 of insurance, for which
they received nearly $4,800,000 in net
premiums. Losses were incurred to
the amount of $3,603,806, all of which
was paid in 1915 except $4,798.
These totals are taken Irom the
manuscript of the forthcoming an
nual report of W. B. Eastman, in
surance commissioner- which is ex
pected will be ready for delivery
early in August. Seventy-five of these
companies are corporations organized
within the United States and have a
combined capital of $72,998,075. The
remaining thirty-five companies,
technically known as "aliens, have
their home offices in England,
France, Scotland, Germany, Holland,
Japan and othec foreign countries.
All but one or two of these have en
tered the United States by making
a deposit of securities with the in
surance department of New York,
u,hl, etanrle in imtt svf lanital Th
others entered via Rhode Island.
Mrs. W. C. Weiser Injured
. In Automobile Upset
Fremont, Neb., July 9. (Special
Telegram.) Mrs. W. C. Weiser is at
a local hospital in a critical condition,
suffering with injuries sustained when
she and her baby were thrown from
an automobile driven by Mr. Weiser
Saturday evening. Mrs. iVeiser sus
tained the fracture of both arms and
a deep cut on her forehead, besides
a severe shock. Her condition . is
critical, but physicians say she may
recover. The baby is badly bruised,
but its injuries are lot serious. Mrs.
Weiser and baby were thrown out
when the car traveling at a high rate
of speed struck a bad place in tha
cement drive way neat tbg iPJtj
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