The Omaha Sunday Bee
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VOL. XLYI NO. 15.
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VILLA BANDITS
ENTER DISGUISED
; INTO CHIHUAHUA
General Trevino Bungles De
fense 6t Place, and He May
Be Removed From
Command.
!i SEVEN HUNDRED LET IN
Outlaws Admitted in Guise of
Civilians to Participate
in Celebration.
CAPTIVES ABE RELEASED
Brownsville, Tex., Sept. 23. That
General Jacinto Trevino bungled his
attempted defense of Chihuahua City
on 'Hidalgo day from the Villa attack
and as a result may be removed from
command of the army in northern
Mexico and succeeded by General E.
P. Nafarrate, now commander of the
Carranza forces in Tamaulipas, was
reported in Matamoros, opposite here,
today. '
A new story of the Chihuahua City
attack was told in Matamoros today
by a Mexican army officer. He said
that 10,000 civilians from the sur
rounding section were invited into
Chihuahua to participate in the cele
bration, and that among them were
700 Villistas. At a given signal the
bandits divided into bands and made
attacks on various parts of the city.
One of these bands attacked the mu
nicipal palace, where General Trevino
was attending a ball. Trevino was
wounded in the shoulder.
Another division of the bandits at
tacked the penitentiary, releasing six
teen Villista prisoners, among whom
was General Jose Lopez, who was
represented to have been executed
several months ago.
According to the Mexican army of
ficer in the battle which followed 200
Villistas were captured and fifty were
Killed.
Trevino Distributes Troops.
El Paso, U'ex., Sept. 23. Three military-trains
carrying 200 men reached
Juarez early today from Chihuahua
City. The trains had distributed sev
eral hundred troops along the Mexi
can Central between Chihuahua City
and Juarez, reinforcing ten of the
most important garrisons, it was an
nounced at the Juarez military head
quarters today. Three hundred troops
wae left at Villa Ahumada, the field
military base between the border and
Chihuahua City. f.'one of these troops
were left in Juarez, the 200 returning
as guards for fhe 'rains.
It was announced in Jaurez today
that peneral Gabriel Gayira, former
commander of the forces in the north,
with headquarters in Juarez, had been
appointed military commander-of the
state of Durango.
Valley Babies Win
Most Prizes at Fair
Valley, Neb., Sept 23. (Special
Telegram.) Prizes in the baby con
test at the West Douglas fair were
awarded last night. RuthTimmons of
Valley was first; Marion Carlson,
Valley, second; Wilma Gaver, Valley,
third. Arthur Ward Abraham, Valley,
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t was ine nrsi-prize do uauy, wiu cu
gar Parley, Elk City, second, and Jo
seph Byars, Valley, third.
Washington County
Pioneers Will Picnic
Blair, Neb., Sept. 23. (Special.)
The first annual picnic of the Wash
ington pioneers and old settlers will
be held on the court house grounds in
this city on next Thursday. This
occasion is to be made a general
home-coming feast, and in addition to
many others, numerous Omaha per
sons, once Washington county citi
zens, have responded favorably to in
vitations sent out. A temporary or
ganization was recently formed, with
Jake McCracken as president and F.
H. Claridge, secretary. A permanent
association will be formed next Thurs
day. A membership fee of 50 cents
will be changed. All persons over 40
years of age, who have resided in
Washington county for thirty years)
are eligible to membership.
Star Hawk Wins
Louisville Cup
Leuisville, Ky., Sept. 23. Star
Hawk, A. A. Macomber's 3-year-old
colt, ridden by Jockey Philips, was
1 first in the fourth annual running of
the Louisville cup at two miles, here
this afternoon. Embroidery was sec
ond and Killana, third. The time was
3:29 3-5. Two dollars mutucls on the
winner paid $3.10.
The Weather
Nebraska Unsettled.
Tempera turn at Omaha.
O t a. m 42
p 8 . m 45
m " 62
I 10 a. Ml 67
YT 11 a. m .'. 61
L J p. m 70
C3 p, m 71
in m 72
& p. m 73
6 p, m
7 p. m 67
Comparative Local Kmord.
1918. 1915. 1914. 1913.
Highest T"terday ...73 70 7 84
Lowet yeaterrtay 42 0 60 56
Mean temperature , ...(jS 66 63 70
Precipitation on .00 -00 .05
Temperature and precipitation departures
from the normal at Omaha since March 1,
and compared with the last two years:
Def.
Normal temperature ti3
Deficiency for the day K
Tntfil excess since March 1 ....250
orm a 1 nrecliiltatlon fit Inch
m8.
ff Deficiency for the day 18 inch
Total rainrau since .uarcn i..ji.v incnea
Deficient since Marrh 1 10.23 Inches
Deficiency cor. period, 191E 82 Inch
DeficttnLT cor. period. 1914 ... 8.B Inches
U A. WELSH. Meteorol ovist.
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President Wilson to
To Review the
Accepts Invitation of Centen
nial Committee and Histori
cal Society to Come Dur
ing Ak-Sar-Ben Week.
President Wilson will be in Omaha
October S.
This much is definitely known now.
Arthur Mullen received two telegrams
to that effect Saturday, one from
Secretary Tumulty, and one from
Democratic National Chairman Mc
Cormick. The telegrams were brief, and con
tained only the information that the
president has accepted Omaha's in
vitation and will be here October 5.
General John Lee Webster of the
committee of one hundred, and G.
W. Wattles, chairman of the execu
tive committee of that same delega
tion, preparing the semi-centennial
celebration of Nebraska's admission
to statehood, will hold a meeting
Monday noon at the Omaha club,
when details for the president's part
in the festivities will be worked out.
The committee invited him some time
ago to be here to review the historical
parade October 5, and has been press
ing its invitation constantly since
that time. Arrangements will be
made for a big reviewing stand di
rectly across the ' street from the
front of The Bee building. There
elaborately decorated booths will be
prepared for the president and. his
party, from which they will review
the parade.
All the time it was hoped that he
might be in Omaha on October 5, 1
as that is the date foe the historical
BEACH SAYS HUGHES
GAINING EVERY DAY!
Republican State Chairman
Finds That Democrats Are
Turning to Him.
M'KELVIE TAKING STUMP
(From a Staff .Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 23. (Special.)
Chairman Ed Beach of the repub
lican state committee returned this
morning from a trip over the state
during which he visited at Kearney
and Holdrege and met with the county
republican committees.
Mr. Beach reported the organiza
tions in these two counties arc getting
down to ground work early and there
is a lot of enthusiasm over national
and state tickets. In both, of these
cities, Mr. Beach said he received as
surance that Mr. Hughes would have
a lot of democratic support.
Democrats Switch.
"While away I met a democrat,"
said Mr. Beach, "who offered Some of
his party brethern a chance to make
a little pin money. This farmer, one
of the wealthiest men in Kearney
county, is supporting Mr. Hughes for
presidents He offered to give $1 for
every republican in the county who
voted for Wilson if the man who ac
cepted the challenge would pay him
5 cents for every democrat voting for
Hughes. He claimed to be familiar
with conditions in the county and
said even at that he would be mak
ing money." ,
Mr. Beach will attend a district
meeting, of committeemen at Norfolk
at 2 p. m. September 27, and another
at Emerson at 2 p. m. September 28.
Excellent reports are reaching
state headquarters concerning the
campaign abilities of Robert DeVoe,
republican candidate for attorney
general. Mr. DeVoe is making a
whirlwind campaign and is meeting
with much encouragement, Mr. Beach
said. In every community in which
he has spoken there have been flatter
ing reports, the state chairman re
ported. McKelvie in Line.
Among the callers at republican
state headquarters today was S. R.
McKelvie, defeated for the republican
nomination for governor. There are
no sore spots on Mr. McKelvie, and
he is goiig to take the stump during
the campaign in behalf of the national
and state tickets. Mr. McKelvie
spoke at Oak the other night and will
fill a number of engagements on Oc
tober, which the state committee is
arranging.
Mr. McKelvie has been traveling
extensively in the east since the pri
mary and said he found the sentiment
there strong for Hughes.
John L. Kennedy has opened up
campaign headquarters in Lincoln.
Victor Seymour will be directly in
charge of the Lincoln headquarters,
which will be located next to the re
publican state' headquarters in the
Lindell.
Ambassador Gerard
.Will Sail for Home
Berlin, Sept. 23. (Via London.)
James W. Gerard, the American am
bassador here, tentatively has received
passage on the Scandanavian-Ameri-can
line steamer Frederick VIII.
Eleven Dry Meetings
Weekly in Cass County
Plattsmouth, Neb., Sept. 23. (Spe
cial.) The executive committee of the
Dry federation of Cass county met at
Weeping Water Fridayw ith local fed
erations from eleven towns in the
county represented. Arrangements
were made for the holding of eleven
meetings on every Saturday night in
eleven towns from now until electron.
There will be four teams of speakers
and singers from Plattsmouth and the
remaining seven will be from other
towns.
The Bee Will Publish Its Ak-Sar-Ben Special Next Sunday
Be in Omaha
Historical Parade
parade, a feature which is expected
to be one of the gr;atest spectacle's
ever witnessed in the west, being a
great caravan probably two miles
long of floats and historical groups
of soldiers, trappers, pio?ers. In
dians and others, be- -;out all
along the line of.-'' steady
the count
ftPl .
aO' aire, down
throut
' .sh invasion, the ln-
dial5
ptoneer hardships and
final intent of a peaceful and ex
tremely prosperous agricultural re
gion. Although the news is as yet meager
as to just when the president will ar
rive, it is assumed that his acceptance
of the invitation for that date means
that he intends to be here to review
the parade.
John Lee Webster, president of the
State Historical- society, says that
the Auditorium has been rented for
that evening and that it will be turned
over to Mr. Wilson so that he may
talk there if he so chooses. Mr. Web
ster says that a meeting will be called
at once of the Hoard of'Governors of
Ak-Sar-Ben and the centennial com
mittee so that all details may be
mapped out to make the stay of the
president in Omaha most pleasant.
Complete arrangements have not
beearMnade for the trip of the presi
dent, but it is expected that he will
arrange his schedule so that he can
make speeches in one or more other
cities.
The centennial committee also ex
tended an invitation to the republican
candidate, Charles Evans Hughes, but
he was unable to accept for that
time,
'GREEK KINGDOM
NOW ONLY A NAME
Revolutionists Control Practi
cally Entire Country Out
side of Athens.
VENIZELOS STATES VIEWS
London, Sept. 23. After saying
that the removal of the Greek cen
sorship will permit of the truth being
told, the correspondent at Athens of
the Daily Mail hints at the likelihood
of former Premier Venizclos leaving
Athens shortly for one of the dis
tricts where a revolution has been
started, where he will be able to or
ganize the - whole revolutionary
movement. '
"The kingdom xf Greece," says the
correspondent, "is now only a i -me.
Saloniki, Thasos. Lemnos, ijbhios, Sa
ntos and Mytilene no longer are gov
erned from Athens. Crete ind Cy
clades are about to follow suit A
proclamation of independence has,
been issued in Epirus; the Larissa
district is bidding its time, while Pho
cis and Acarnania are wavering.
"Only Athens and Mora remain,
and Athens is placarded jyith such
appeals as 'draw the sword, king, or
abdicate.' "
Paris, Sept. 23. Former Premier
Venizelos of Greece in an interview
cabled from Athens to the Petit Jour
nal declares that the Greeks must de
fend their national interests- regard
less of the government. M. Venizelos
is quoted as saying:
"Although Roumania entered the
struggle the court power which gov
erns us seems to persist in the policy
of what it calls neutrality. This pol
icy is persisted in even after the
shameful Kaval incident. You ask me
what the future will bring. I am not
in the position to answer, but a cer
tain something must be attempted if
Greece does not wish to die.
."What was done at Saloniki, al
though improvised and precipitate,
and recent manifestations in the
islands of the archipelago, show that
everyone realizes that if the govern-1
ment has forgotten its duty toward
the nation the nation must immediat
ly take in hand the defense of its own
interests."
Wilson Responds to S. O. S. Call
Sent Him by Secretary McAdoo
President Wilson's sudden accept
ance of the announcement that he
will help Omaha celebrate the Ne
braska statehood semi-centenial, after
having previously passed it up, is his
answer to an S. O. S. call sent him
Friday night by Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo, who is doing the
political scout act, while swinging
around the circle with the land bank
board.
It is the proof conclusive that the
local democratic bosses with whom
McAdoo conferred gave him the sig
nal of distress, and informed him that
Nebraska was surely lost to the demo
cratic ticket unless something heroic
were done at once to remedy a des
perate situation.
The moves on the political chess
board were plainly visible while the
president's .son-in-law and chief cabi
net advisor was here. It is now re
membered that he made a getaway
as early as possible from the company
with whom he dined Thursday night
at the Fontenelle and hiked off with
Mayor Dahlman, who is likewise
chairman of the Douglas county dem
ocratic committee in order to spend
'several hours in close communion un
der pretense of watching a move
show.
The next day was taken up largely
with the public hearings on the ques
tion of bank location, but the press
ure did not prevent Mr. McAdoo
Wrom making a clever political appeal
masquerading as a "non-partisan"
address before the Commercial club
at noon, after which he had urgent
private business with Tom Byrne,
member of the federal reserve bank
board, as well as a staunch democrat,
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SHOTS IN THE DARK
FATALJO GODDEN
Auto Livery Man of Brainerd
Killed by Hallie Blevins
of David City.
THINK MIND UNBALANCED
Brainard, Neb., Sept. 23. (Special
Telegram.) Vern Godden, who op
erates an automobile livery at this
place, was shot and fately -wounded
last night at David City by -Hallie
Blevins of that place. Godden was
taking Mrs. Blevins and a Mrs. Ly
man Jackson home in his car. He had
stopped at the Blevins home and let
Mrs. Blevins out of the car and stop
ped in front of the Jackson home.
As Mrs. Jackson was stepping out
of the .car Blevins appeared out of the
dark with a .32-calibre revolver in his
hand. He stepped on the running
board of the car and fired three shots
at Godden. After firing the shots he
looked at the wounded man for a few
second and said: "My God I have
killed the wrong man" and immedi
ately disappeared in the darkness. One
shot entered Godden's'right check and
lodged at the base of the brain, the
second clipped his ear and the third
went wild.
Mrs. Jackson made several futile at
tempts to sfop the flow of blood and
then summoned help. Godden was
hurried to a hospital where he died at
10:30 o'clock this morning.
Blevins surrendered to the county
sheriff this morning and was lodged
in the county jail. He has been act
ing queerly for some time and is sup
posed to be mentally unbalanced. The
last three weeks he has spent in a
sanitarium at Council Bluffs.
and also with Everett Buckingham,
president of the Ak-Sar-Ben board of
governors and also of democratic
leaning. At the close of the after
noon session in the federal building,
Arthur Mullen, Nebraskas new "dem-
ocratic boss." nut in a delayed ap
ncarance. havine been detained bv
sfime law business in an upstate
town, and he was soon busy mixing
political medicine with Secretary Mc
Adoo. Just what he told him has
not been divulged, but it would not
be hard for those conversant with
the situation to guess.
"Mr. Secretary, we just must have
help out here, or Nebraska is lost
to Wilson," he is likely to Have said.
"The republicans have the best of
it on the face of things here, and
they are sending their biggest ora
torical guns to batter our positions.
Can't you send the president out
here to stiffen up the waning courage
of our boys? We needn't advertise
it as a political speech, he can make
one of his non-partisan addresses,
and he has an invitation lying around
somewhere for the Ak-Sar-Bert festiv
ities, which arc only ten days off, but
if he hurries he can still get in under
the wire. If you just say the word,
Mr. Secretary, I know the president
will come to our rescue."
Whether Boss Mullen used these
words or not, this is the idea that
was conveyed by the big and little
I democratic bosses, and Sccqtary Me
Adoo had hardly gotten out of town
and made his next stop before the
word was given out at Shadow Lawn
that Omaha was the objective point
for the president's next trip.
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AND TEA PANSANT .Jft
Now-the Real Season Begins
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FAIRBANKS TALKS
HEREONTUESDAY
Vice Presidential Candidate to
Speak at Auditorium and at
Commercial Club.
OTHER PROMINENT MEN
Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice
hpresident of the United States and
now republican candidate for that of
fice, is to be in Omaha to speak Sep
tember 26, next Tuesday. i
Word was received to this effect
yesterday by the republican cen
tral committee. Chairman frank S.
Howell said he would try to arrange
for the Auditorium for a big repub
lican meeting in the evening when
Mr. Fairbanks would deliver the ad
dress. Word was also received yesterday
that Mr. Fairbanks would speak at
the Commercial club at noon Tuesday.
He' is to be in Omaha from 8
o'clock in the morning until 12:20 that
night.
Mr. Howell is hoping to arrange for
a big rousing reception for the vice
presidential candidate in Omaha.
Senator Harding of Ohio is also
to speak in Omaha, the date being
October 10. Arrangements as to time
and place will be made later. Mr.
Harding was chairman of the repub
lican convention.
Henry Allen, the Kansas editor, is
to be in Omaha Monday, September
25. Harry Byrne will make arrange
ments for a meeting at which Mr.
Allen will address the voters.
Traveling on a special train and
accompanied by a battery of speak
ers, J. Frank Hanly and Ira Landrith,
candidates for president and vice pres
ident, respectively, on the prohibition
ticket, will invade Nebraska October
3 on their campaign tour.
The prohibition contingent will ar
rive in Omaha over the Burlington
at 7:30 o'clock the evening of Octo
ber 3. A speaking meeting will be
held that evening and the following
morning at 6:30 o'clock over the
Northwestern the tour of a portion
of the state will be made. Meetings
will be held in Fremont, Norfolk and
Wayne and then the train will swing
over into South Dakota, going as far
north as Sioux Falls and from there
wnrkine back, reaching Council
Bluffs the afternoon of October 5,
hwhere a meeting will be held that
evening, the date of President Wil
son's speech in Omaha.
Wife Wins Cows ,
Chicks, Child and
Money in Divorce
Two cows, all the ducks and chick
ens, a share of the $400 deposited in
banks and a half interest in property
on the South Side have teen awarded
Stanislawa Janiszewski against Stan
islaw, along with her divorce decree.
There is but one letter different in the
spelling of the names of the troubled
couple. On top of these awards she
gets $950 alimony and the custody of
the 16-ycar-old daughter, Tillie. Ex
treme cruelty is alleged.
Tennessee Locker .Law
Is Declared Valid
Knoxville, Tcnn., Sept. 23. The
state supreme court today held to be
unconstitutional the so-called locker
law which prohibits the maintenance
of lockers fur bars or buffets in clubs
in Tennessc.
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MUSIC ALE - WEDNESDAY THE
A.C.A. AND WOMEN'S CIVB -
FRIDAY THE FINE ARTS THE
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WILL OMAHA GET 6
CENT LIGHT RATE?
Citizens May Be Surprised
Some Day This Week by
finding It Passed. -
AIR FULL OF ELECTRICITY
The atmosphere in the city hall is.
charged with electrical energy, due to
incessant and insistent discussion on
the subject of electric light and pow
er rates. :
The handwriting on the walls of
the council chamber read to the ini-.
tiated that "there will be something
popping" during the coming week
unless somebody steps on the fuse,
and it is not believed anybody will
do such an uncouth act.
It is not to be said at this time
that a 6-cent rate will be forthcoming,
nor is it said that such a rate will not
be forthcoming, so there it stands.
A 6-cent rate is believed to be among
the possibilities of the current week.
The partial report of the special
committee of the Commercial club
has been digested by the city legal
department and an ordinance has
been drawn for the consideration of
the city commissioners. A little bird
lias said that this ordinance has a
6-cent primary rate and that "a hen
is on."
General George Harries, president
of the Omaha Electric Light and
Power company, has been seen in
the city hall several times during the
week. It may have been that he
went to the city hall to advise the
commissioners that last Tuesday was
his birthday, or he may have gone to
observe the remodeling work being
done in the municipal building, or
he may have gone to talke about
electric light rates.
Another phase of the situation is,
that the city commissioners, in all
probability, will not wait for the com
pletion of the Commercial club's re
port. This committee annou'need
during the week that another expert
would be engaged to determine what
rates should be charged by the light
company upon the figures arrived at
by the other experts and disclosed in
the partial report submitted last Mon
day morning.
None of the commissioners will
state that a 6-cent rate is forthcom
ing, but watch closely, because the
quickness of the hand may deceive
the eye. Tuesday morning will be
an interesting meeting in the council
chamber if the phophecy of the oracle
amounts to anything.
Steel and Copper
Stocks Rise to
New High Records
New York, Sept. 23. For a week
end market today's two-hour session
of the stock exchange was probably
without parallel. Trading in the first
hour amounted to more than 500,000
shares, with no diminution of activity
with the approach of the close.
There were numerous spectacular
features, but all were eclipsed by the
further meteoric rise in United States
Steel, which touched l7'A, a new rec
ord, shortly after 11 o'clock.
Other leaders rose to highest prices
in their history, notably coppers.
Dealings embraced every branch of
the list, but the movement was far
from uniform, rails making compara
tively little headway, with reactionary
tendency in shipping issues and some
equipments and munitions.
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GOTHAM UNIONS
VOTING ON ORDER
TO SUSPEND WORK
Three-Quarters of Million Men
Asked by Leaders to Ap
prove General Strike
Proposition.
DATE SET FOR WEDNESDAY
Move Based on Wish of Men to
Avoid Riding on Cars Run
by Nonunion Crews.
MORE POLICE SWORN IN
New York, Sept. 23. Trade unions
in this city and Westchester county
today began to vote on the question
of ratifying the action of eighty dele
gates, who yesterday called for a
"general suspension of work" next
Wednesday, morning. The labor chiefs .
appealed to all union wage earners to
stay at home until the traction com
panics make it possible for them to
ride in the street cars without offense
to their union allegiance.
It is asserted that no such action
heretofore has been taken by the
trades unions of this country, nor has
a strike involving so many trades ever
been called. Its maximum effect
would call from work 750,000 miyi
and women.
Leaders of the movement refrain
from railing it a sympathetic strike.
They declare that many pf the unions
already have voted to ratify their rec
ommendation, and that any union
man who does not quit work Wednes
day will be denounced as a traitor.
To what extent they expect the .
unions to respond to the suspension
call was not disclosed. "How can I
tell? It is up to the unions," said
Hugh Fraync, general organizer of
the American Federation of Labor for
New York state. It is pointed out that
Wednesday is the beginning of an im
portant Jewish holiday, when many
ordinarily would stay at home.'
The call for a cessation of work is
based on the grievance that men of
union affiliations cannot ride to their
employment except in cars manned
by nonunion conductors or motormen
aiiJ under the protection of the police.
Statements issued by the leaders indi
cate that they are incensed by Mayor
Mitchcl's warning that he stood ready
to use the military power to restrain
violence, and that they consider the
city to be dominated by the traction
interests.
To reinforce the police Commis
sioner Woods has instructed the cap-
tains to select ten civiliaY)t"in each'"
precinct to be sworn in as special po
licemen. This would add about 900
men to the department. 8
Europe Places -;
Order for 200,000
Tons of Copper
New York, Sept 23. According to-'
trade reports current in the. financial
district today, a big 'oreign order for
copper aggregating 200,000 tons, or
over 400,000,000 pounds, hai been
placed by foreign interests, chiefly
British and French, with large pro
ducers in this country. These in
clude the American Smelting and Re
fining company and the United
Metals Selling company, which rep
resents AmalgainatedAnaconda in- 1
terests. The copper is to be deliv
ered in the first six months of 1917,
This contract is said to be unpre
cedented in the history of the copper
trade. No such purchase for delivery -over
any length of time has ever been
made, and the monthly delivery of
about 75,000,000 pounds is in itself
equal to the maximum tonnage ever
exported. The total amount involved in this
transaction is said to be about-$125,-000,000.
The price to be paid for the
copper is not disclosed, but it is be
lieved to range between 26 and 27
cents a pound.
Earnings of Omaha :
Road Show Increase'
St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 23. The an
nual report o( the Chicago, St.' Paul.
Minneapolis & Omaha railroad, made
public today, showed a total increase
of $1,681,214 in operating revenues
over 1915. Total passenger receipts
were $5,101,440, an increase of $207,
740, while total freight receipts in
creased $1,337,110 to 512,860,214.
The cost of labor increased from
$6,500,357 in 1915, to $7,204,098 and
made up 55.50 per cent of the total
operating expenses, $12,958,837. Most,
of the wage increase was due to more
time worked, but $90,812 was due to
advance in pay.
This Record
Speaks for
Itself
1,233 MORE
Pcid Want Ads in The
Beo last week than
same period a year ago.
For more than 29 weeks
Bee Want Ads have
been, increasing by more
than
1,000 Paid Ads Per
Week.
Good RulU Make Increase
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