Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, November 27, 1916, Image 2

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    SOLONS NEED NOT
, FEARJFOR LIVES
State Engineer Will Timber
Representative Hall in an
Effort to Make It Safe.
OPPOSE DIVIDING HOUSES
(From a Staff CorrMpondTil.
Lincoln, Nov. 26. (Special.) Rep
resentative hill will be made safe
for the coming legislature and it will
not be necessary to move to the city
Auditorium.
There has been some discussion
, whether the legislature could legally
meet outside the state capitol build
ing, hut neither the constitution or
any Imv passed indicates where the
sessions shall be held and outside of
stipulating Lincoln as the seat of gov
ernment, no provision whatever m
made as to where the legislature shall
meet. Section 5911 of the statutes
prohibits moving any fixtures in tht
legislative halls outside of the build
ing and if followed may require the
state to purchase desks, chairs, etc
for the use of the lower house if the
session should be held downtown.
The legislative reference bureau
act reads that the legislative refer
ence bureau during a session of the
legislature shall be in close proximity
of the legislature. This could not be
done if' the lower branch was down
town several blocks awav and the up
per branch in its usual place.
, Little Fear Felt,
. However, there is no fear that the
members may be buried in the ruins
of the state bouse after the state en
gineer has completed his repairs. The
danger was that if the walls ' con
tinued to spread the floors would
drop down, as only four inches of the
floor timbers rest on the walls at
the east end. Further spreading is
almost impossible, because of the
heavy rods running through the
building under the floors, placed there
a few years ago, when the old shell
was first discovered to be out of
plumb.
Timbers Being Used.
In order to make the hall safe heavy
timbera are being placed across un
der the floor sills on every floor of
the building, and also under the roof.
These will be held up by heavy tim
bers running from the basement up,
while in representative hall big tele
phone poles will be used to hold up
the floor above. Poles will be used
because of the height oft the ceiling
no timber! could be found long
enough to reach. When completed
' this will make it impossible for the
floor! to fall even should the walls
fall outward, which is- not probable
with the weight of the floors' trans
ferred to the timbers.
Of course, representative hall will
not be a beautiful place to look at
with the telephones polls standing
around the louth side and part way
along the east wall with heavy cross
bars spiked to them to hold them in
place, but these crossbars may be
handy in case lobbyists get too per
sistent. . Exciting Downtown.
Separating the two houses so that
they are half dozen block! apart
does not appeal to those who are
anxious to make a good record this
session. Much, time will be wasted
traveling back and fourth, while with
one session down in the business por
tion of town there will be a tendency
for members to get away, while a
busy street car . line running on two
sides of the Auditorium will inter
fere a great deal with the transaction
of business, because of the noise of
passing cars, both lines being double
track.
The cost of fixing up the old wing
so it will be safe will be less than
$1,000, while the delay because of
the distance between the two houses
will cost several times that in time
wasted.
Nebraska Musicians
. Pay Visit to Lincoln
. (Prom a Staff Comapondnnt.)
Lincoln, Nov. 26. (Special.)
A large number of delegates from
clubs representing the Nebraska Fed
eration of Music, visited the city yes
terday. Eighteen towns, including Omaha,
Alliance, Fremont, Norfolk, Grand
Island and Rushville, cent delegations,
while Lincoln and its suburban towns
were well represented.
Mrs. W. D. Steele of Sedalia, Mo.,
was one of the prominent speakers.
Mrs. Steele is a member of the board
of managers of the National Federa
' lion of Music. Quartets were present
from many of the towns and the ses
sion was enlivened by selections
from the best misical artists in the
state. .
Tecumseh Band Will
Give Annual Show
Tecumseh. Neb.. Nov. 26. The Te.
cumseh Military band will hold its
annual minstrel show on Wednesday
and Thursday evenings, next. The
show is termed "The Tecumseh Tick
lers, and this has been an annual
event here for years. The play is
under the direction of Prof. H. H.
Honrs, director of the band. The first
part will be a traditional minstrel
show, with songs, dances and jokes
by local comedians. The second part
will be a "Blackville Society Circus,"
introducing trapeze, performers, bare
back riders, flying men. strong men
and museum attractions. This farce
was written and arranged by Prof.
, Rohrs. The band and orchestra will
assist with the entertainment.
"Buy iii Holdrege" Campaign
; Sales Are $125,000
Holdrege. Neb.. Nov. 26. fSDe
cial.) Six thousand people were in
town- Saturday afternoon when the
Holdrege Ad club closed its month's
' Buy in Holdrege" campaign, The
cash' purchases during the month
totaled a little over $125,000. Many
large grocery orders were sold, hard
ware tor houses to be put up in the
spring, furnaces, farm- implements.
Christmas goods seem to be about as
popular as any line of merchandise.
Tatir cols' Deed Dr. Ball'a Plna-Tar-Honar,
II cnu Ibi phleim, kill, term, stops too
ctiuyfe. Onlr 2Sc All dragtlata. Adv.
' Blanket Sale Scott's, 15th and
Howard. Follow the footsteps. Adv.
Robs Girls Selling
Tags for Hospital
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 26.
When two young society women
selling tags for local hospit
als approached a man on a busy
corner here yesterday and so
licited a gift he seized their coin
bag and ran. The fugitive was
caught after a chase of several
blocks in which pedestrians joined,
and the boxes with their load of
silver contributed to charity were
recovered.
NEBRASKA CATTLE
ARE HELD IN K. C.
Thirty Suspected of Infection
With Foot and Month
Disease,
COME FROM CHASE COUNTY
Kansas City, Kan., Nov. 26.
Thirty cattle shipped here from
Chase county, Nebraska, are being
held in quarantine in the local yards
under suspicion they are afflicted with
foot and mouth disease. Live stock
commissioners of both Kansas and
Missouri have placed embargoes on
out-going shipments of stock from the
Kansas Liry yards until the exact na
ture of the disease is known.
Inspectors of the United States
Bureau of Animal Industry now have
the suspected cattle under observa
tion. Some of the cattle show signs
of a sore mouth, but there is no
other symptoms of the disease, fed
eral officials said. The cattle came
from the high plains of western Ne
braska, near the Colorado tine, where
the foot and mouth disease is not
known.
Embargo at St. Joe.
St. Joseph. Mo., Nov. 26. An em
bargo on outgoing shipments of cat
tle, hogs, sheep and horses from the
St. Joseph stock yards was imposed
late
today lonowing discovery ot
symptoms of the foot and mouth
disease in a shipment of cattle in the
Kansas Uty yards, the shipment
went through St. Joseph, it was said,
and the animals were fed and watered
here. The embargo is thus far purely
a precautionary measure as no symp
toms of the disease have been dis
covered here. Stock may still be
shipped to St. Joseph for slaughter
purposes.
Local yards' officials stated last
evening that no word had been re
ceived either from Topeka or Kansas
Citv officials, regarding the rumored
afflicted Nebraska cattle. On the con
trary, both General Manager Bucking
ham and President James Bulla of the
Nebraska Sanitary board, were in
clined to regard the report as un-
tounded.
u .
said to be investigating the Chase
county situation.
Town Burns Down;
Fired by Robbers
Andalusia, Ala., Nov. 26. The town
of Red Level, Ala., was destroyed by
fire today when safe robbers blew up
a drug store safe and then set fir to
the store. Nine stores and the post
office were burned. The loss is esti
mated at $'.00,000. The robbers got
away.
Salisbury, Md., Nov. 26. Yeggmen
today made an unsuccessful attempt to
rob the Hebron Savings bank at He
bron, Md. The town was awakened
by an explosion caused by nitrogly
cerin used in an attempt to blow the
big safe. The combination on the
safe was blown off, and, though the
charge wai heavy, the big steel doors
did not 'eld. The robbers escaped.
Wilson Is Greeted
By Teutonic Sons
Chicago, Nov. 26. G. F. Hummel,
president of the Teutonic Sons of
America, today sent to President Wil
son a resolution adopted by the na
tional council of the organization in
session here, extending congratula
tions on his re-election and expressing
best wishes for the future. President
Wilson is urged to use his influence to
aid in ending the war in Europe as
speedily as possible.
Two Are Killed, Four
Hurt in Train Crash
Fort Worth, Tex., Nov. 26. Two
persons were killed and four injured
seriously in a rear end collision on
the Texas & Pacific railway near
Strawn late today. The trains in the
wreck were the Sunshine special from
El Paso and passenger train No. 4
from Sweetwater.
The Sunshine special had stooned
at a water tank and No. 4, coming
irom oenino, crashed into it, killing
W. W. Givens, engineer, and E. E.
McGrew, fireman, both of Mingus,
Tex. Three passengers and a brake
man on the special were hurt, Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. Brown, Enola, Ark.;
Ed Witherspoon, Fort Worth, and
J. A. Taylor, brakeman, of Big
Springs, Tex. It is believed none
will die.
Passengers on the rear platform
of the special said they heard No. 4
explode warning torpedoes placed a
quarter of a mile back by Taylor.
The train was estimated to be run
ning twenty miles an hour when the
collision occurred.
Soldiers' Home Notes.
Orand Inland, Neo., Nor. IS. (Special
Michael O. Prlrat. late of Company E SevmT
teonth Iowa Infantry. Ii In rather treble
health, althouih he naa Jtiat returned from
Ihe tnountlna of Colorado, where ho haa
Jeen nojournln. for hie health for the la.t
Hra months. He waa admitted to Burkett
on October SI, m. from Dounlea county
-v"?'JrS1 vW Company K.
Third MlchUan Infantry, haa been a member
of the home here for the laat twenty-one
yeara, and la very loyal to the admlnlatra
tlon. He waa admitted on January S lit!
from Cherry county. '
Hra. Mattla Rhodea haa returned from a
ehort rlelt to Broken Bow, and haa a rery
aerere cold. However. It to hoped that after
belna confined to her room rr .-., a
ehe will be able to be about.
R. H. Robin of Omaha came Thureday for
a ahort vialt with Bis mother-in-law, Matron
Bradbury.
C. W. Klna. who waa recently inti i.
a fall and partially paralyied, la reported
ffcttlnr along nicely but llowly. with eome
uae of hla anna and llmba. Hra. Klnff la not
uuaaay. alMUL a la oonditica al niaaauL.
ii... it:
DIET SQUAD LOSES
WEIGHT IN DANCE
Forty-Cents-a-Day Dozen Mast
Eat More Today to Make
Up Loss.
SOME SABBATH DAT MENU
Chicago, Nov. 26. Seventeen
pounds and a half off weight, due
to a dance given in their honor, th
diet squad which is trying to prove
that a person can live well here on
forty cents a day, faced the most
elaborate menu of the week tomorrow
Dieticians conducting the test said
they expected all of the twelve mem
hers of the squad to be at their nor
mal weight bv tomorrow night.
Previous to the dance there was
a net loss of a pound and a half in
the total weight ot the squad. 10
morrow's menu will be:
Brcakfaat: Orange, cereal, toaat, cot
Dinner: Julienne ioap. roaat pork,
laaed iweet potatoes, celery, pumpkin
Runner: Cold ailed meat, country fried
potatoee, bread, Duuer, apple aauaa, tea.
INEZ MILHOLLAND
BOISSEVAIN DEAD
(Continued from face On.)
self as an athlete, being captain of
her class hockey team which won the
college championship, and a member
of the 1909 track team, at which
time she established a new record
for the college in the eight-pound
shot-put at 31 feet, SSJ, inches.
Worked Among Poor.
Aside from her college activities,
she worked among the poor children
in the city of Poughkeepsie, and had
herself appointed court probation of
ficer. During her first college vaca
tion she visited London and there
joined the Pankhurst suffragettes,
making several speeches and being
once arrested.
During the 1908 presidential cam
paign she won new tarn as the gin
who broke up the Taft parade." While
the parade was being held in New
York City, she stationed herself in a
window and shouted: "Votes for
Women I" through a megaphone.
some of the marchers tell out ot the
parade and gathered around her to
hear her make a speech for the suf
frage cause.
Following her graduation from Vss
sar college, she attempted to enter
Harvard law school, but this permis
sion was denied her on the ground
that it was not a co-educational msti
tution. The incident gave rise to a
heated newspaper controversy in
which Inez Milholland and other
prominent feminists took part. She
also became active about this time in
the working girl's cause, taking part
in the shirt waists makers' strike. In
a clash of the strikers with the police
she was arrested and locked up, but
after a controversy of several weeks
tne cnarge against her of leading an
nniawtul assembly was finally drop
ped.
Received Degree in 1913.
Miss Milholland finally received her
degree in law at the New York Uni
versity Law School in 1912. and dur
ing this time she was active as a suf
frage worker and speaker and organ
izer of woman's parades, being fea
tured in them both in New York,
Washington and elsewhere as "the
most beautiful suffragette." At elec
tion time she was always a watcher
at the polls and was among the
women who went to Albany to de
mand of the legislature woman's
rights to vote.
She began the practice of taw in
1912 as a clerk in the offices of James
W. Osborne, her first case being the
defense of "Red Phil" Davidson,
charged with the murder of "Big
Jack Zelig. Her next case was the
defense of Gee Doy Yung, accused
of murder in a Chinatown tong war,
and she was successful in obtaining
his acquittal.
In July, 1913, she married by a civil
ceremony in London, Eugen Boisse
vain, a wealthy Hollander, to whom
she had beer, introduced by William
Marconi, inventor of wireless telcg
uphy. She returned to this country
and continued her practice of law and
suffrage activities. In 1915 she was
denied permission to make a suffrage
speech at the fiftieth anniversary cere
monies 01 vassar college. Later the
same year she went to Italy as a war
correspondent and was forced to leave
Italy by the authorities there because
of her pacifist writings.
In 1916 she went as a delegate on
the Ford peace ship, but left the party
at atocxnoim oecause, as sne said in
a statement, "the undemocratic meth
ods employed by the managers are
repugnant to my principles."
Mrs. Boissevian was born In New
York, August 6, 1886, receiving her
early education in New York, London
and Berlin. She was a member of the
Political Equality league, Women's
Political union, national child labor
committee, Woman's Social and Po
litical Union of England and the
Fabian society, England.
Funeral of Karl Koch
Will Be Held Tuesday
Funeral services will be held Tues
day afternoon at the Crosby morgue
for Carl Koch) 35, of Fifty-eighth and
Spring, who was killed Friday after
noon when a switch engine struck him
near the Burlington depot. He was a
car inspector and is survived by his
widow and two children. Covert lodge,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons,
will have charge of the services and
burial will be in West Lawn cemetery.
News Notes of Harvard.
Harvard, Neb., Nov. 26. (Special.)
Thieves broke into the tailor shop
and gents' furnishing store of Victor
Johnson, between 9:30 and 10 o'clock
last night and took away $9 in money
and about $50 worth of goods.
A farmers' institute will be held in
this city under direction of the local
Farmers' union, on Friday and Sat
urday, December 1 and 2. P. L. Cad
dis and Maude Wilson of the exten
sion workers from the College of
Agriculture, State university will lec
ture on Friday afternoon and even
ing, and K. F. Warner of the same
department, will hold a stock-judging
contest in the afternoon of Sat
urday, and deliver a lecture on "Care
and Management of Live Stock" in
the evening.
Oii aUa, iuOAUAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1916.
. W.W.TakeOregon
Town Fire Station
Ashland, Ore, Nov. 26. Fifty
men, who said they were members
of the Industrial Workers of the
World, alighted from a freight
train here tonight, formed a line
and marched to a city fire station
of which they took possession.
After holding a meeting behind
locked doors, they sent an ultima
tum to the mayor demanding food
and transportation southward and
declaring if their demands were re
fused they would remain where
they were. Extra police were
placed on duty.
SCORE SPEAK FOR
OSCAR M'DANIEL
Say Screams Were of Girl in
Hammock or of a Number
of Oats.
ASSERT HOME LITE HAPPY
St. Joseph, Mo. Nov. 26. The de
fense of Oscar D. McDaniel, prose
cuting attorney of Buchanan county,
on trial for murdering his wife, Mrs.
Harriet Moss McDaniel, produced a
score of witnesses yesterday in an ef
fort to counteract the circumstantial
evidence produced by the state.
These witnesses said that screams
heard in the vicinity of the McDaniel
home on the night the women was
slain were those of a young girl who
was swinging on a rope swing near
by of the cries of several cats; that
Mrs. McDaniel's bedroom was
cleaned of its blood stains without
McDaniel's knowledge, and that, to
their knowledge, the home life of the
McDaniels' was happy. The state
had 'contended Mrs. McDaniel had
planned to secure a divorce.
President Indoors;
Condition Improves
Washington. Nov. 2fcv President
Wilson, who was kept from attending
the Army-Navy foot ball game in New
York by a cold, remained indoors
throughout the day. although his con
dition was described as improving. He
planned to take an automobile ride
this afternoon, but decided it was too
cold. Hjs only caller was W. R. G.
Harding, governor of the Federal Re
serve board, who congratulated him
on his re-election.
Bryan Honor Guest
At Capital Dinner
Washington. Nov. 25. William I.
Bryan will be the guest of honor at a
dinner here December 6, to which
President Wilson and democrats of
the senate and house will be invited.
He is expected to make an announce
ment in connection with his plan for
devoting himself to work for nation
wide prohibition.
Obituary Notices.
L. W. Kellogg, well known banker
and real estate man of Missouri Val
ley for a hair century, pawed away
at his home there Thursday In the
lth year of hla ace. The funeral
service art planned for the afternoon
at the residence: interment In Rose
Hill cemetery. Mr. Kellogg is sur
vived by hi wife, aon Oeorge and
daughter, Mrs. C. H. Deur.
The Modern
Breakfast Cup
is served to all the family.
-no denying the children for fear of harming
them.
no hesitation on the housewife's part lest it
make her nervous.
no doubt about the wisdom of a second cup
for the husband for fear of disturbing his
digestion.
This snappy flavored table drink, so popu
lar nowadays, is
Instant Postum
Well worth trying by those who value
health "Thtrt't a Reason."
RYAN DESCRIBES
LATEST IN LIGHT
Illumination Expert at Pana
ma-Pacific Exposition Shows
System of Lighting.
THIS AN ERA OP LIGHT
The wonderful illuminating effect
of the Panama-Pacific International
exposition were revealed to an au
dience in the Auditorium Saturday
evening by Walter D'Arcy Ryan
chief of the department of illumina
tion of that exposition. He flashed
upon a large screen colored stereopti
con slides of rare beauty. The night
scenes of the exposition were shown
in every detail of architectural design
and color schemes. Mr. Ryan ex
plained that an artist worked a year
coloring these slides, frequent ap
plause was given by a delighted gath
ering of men and women.
One of the striking features of
the evening was the presentation of
slides showing the rainbow effect of
light projected by a giant scmtilator
ot Z,6U0,U00,000 candle power.
"I want to impress upon you the
lact mat the illumination of these
great buildings was accomplished by
diffusing the light without any glare,
or revealing the lamps, which shed
the light," explained Mr. Ryan. Some
of these effects depicted by the slides
aroused enthusiasm.
City Adopts Standards.
Incidentally Mr. Ryan showed
interesting views of the exoosition
during the early stages of construc
tion, ana also scenes of destruction
of buildings by dynamite. He told
how San Francisco used the light
standards of the exposition for the
streets of the city, and ten months
from the time the exposition was
closed San Francisco held a Path
of Gold celebration to mark a new
era of street lighting in that city.
ine new street ugnting ot the uold
en Gate city was shown.
"There is considerable activity
these days in matters of street light
ing. People are appreciating the
vaiue or artistic light standards in
daytime as well as at nieht."
He said this is an era of light, and
well-lighted cities are the rule in
these days of progress and municipal
competition and pride. He showed
various types of standards used in
several western cities.
The entertaniment was held un
der the auspices of the volunteer
committee ot one hundred, which
was organized in the interests of bet
ter street lighting for Omaha.
Former Omaha Ball
Player Is Killed
St. Anthony. Ida.. Nov. 26 Ed.
Chetwood, a former Omaha ball play
er, was accidentally shot and killed
near Cascade station, Wyo., while
bear hunting, with Oscar Payne of
Squirrel, Wyo., according to word re
ceived here today.
Chetwood was on his hands and
knees looking into a bear den when
his companion discharged his rifle
while adjusting his pack. The two
men had hunted together for several
years.
Loses Money as He Counts
His Roll on Street Corner
While G. C Connors, Remscn, la.,
was standing at Fourteenth street and
Capitol avenue counting his money
a man brushed by him, snatched $25
from his hand and made his escape.
Wife in Touch With
Gen, Trevino by Wire
El Paso, Nov. 26. While General
Trevino is directing the de facto
forces against Villa attacks in Chi
huahua City, his wife, Senora Maria
Trevino, is in close touch with de
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velopments by means of a private
telephone to military headquarters in
Juarez over which she is kept in
formed of the progress of the bat
tle. Yesterday Senora Trevino went
to Juarez with Andres Garcia, inspec
tor general of Carranza consulates
in the United States, and held a long
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