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CARPENTIER AND
WILLARDMATCHED
International Heavy w ei g h t
Bout Will Be in New York
in Few Weeks.
FOR WAR RELIEF FUND
.ew York, Dec. 5. Georges Car
pentier, heavyweight champion of
France, and Jess Willard, world's
champion, are virtuallymatched for
a len-round no-decision bout to be
fought in this city within the next two
months. While the final signatures
of the pugilists have not been secured,
th verbal consent of both heavy-
weignts nas been obtained and they
are now waiting for the articles of
agreement to be forwarded to them.
The sum of $40,000 from the profits
of the match is to go to a French war
relief fund, and it was on account of
this arrangement that permission was
obtained for the release of Carpentier
trom the trench army.
Final contracts for the contest are
expected to be signed by Promoter
lex Kickard and the representatives
of the pugilists here within a few
days. The date and place of the bout
has not yet been definitely decided,
but the battle will probably be staged
in Madison Square Garden or a simi
lar place.
The match has been in the making
for several months and the corre
spondence and other arrangements,
both domestic and foreign, lift the
promotion of the bout within a notch
or two of international displomacy.
Carpentier, soldier of the European
heavyweight championship, has been
serving with, the French army since
virtually the beginning of the war.
He has repeatedly refused excellent
offers to re-enter the prize ring, as it
was impossible for him to secure the
furlough necessary from the French
army authorities.
Rickara, who has gained pugilistic
fame as the promoter of the Johnson
Jefferies, Nelson-Ganj and Willard
Moran bouts, with their record
purses, failed in all his early attempts
to bring the. French and American
champions together, It was not un
til he enlisted the aid of the members
of one of the French relief commit
tees that the contest was made pos
sible. Pressure was brought to bear
upon the proper officials in France
and their consent obtained for Car
pentier to leave the army and the
country, for about three months.
In order to secure this unusual
concession it was necessary for Rick
ard to agree to give this fund the sum
of $40,000 in addition to paying Car
pentier's traveling and training ex
penses fo- the bout with Willard.
This money has been put up in the
form of a bonded deposit, and in re
turn those interested in the fund have
agreed to deliver Carpentier in this
country within the next few weeks.
The only possibility of a hitch in
the arrangements is a demand on the
part of Willard for a share of the
purse out of proportion to the esti
mated gate receipts. If this develops
it is Rickard's plan to match Carpen
tier with Les Darcy, the Australian
middleweight champion, who is un
derstood to be enroute to this coun
try at the present time. Among other
American pugilists under considera
tion should Willard or Les Darcy
fail to sign are Dillon, Miske, Le
vinsky or Weinert.
Willard recently called Rickard to
Chicago for a conference regarding
the proposed bout with Carpentier,
but his terms at that time were un
derstood to have been considered en
tirely too high. It is said, however,
that the champion has since reduced
his terms to about the same amount
he received for meeting Frank Moran.
which waa $47,500.
Willard, should the pugilists meet,
will outweigh Carpentier fifty to sixty
pounds and will tower fully six inches
above his French opponent.
Paul Murray, Pug, Does
Not Want Any Sympathy
Paul Murray, whose business in life
is walloping men, wants all North
America to know that he is not the
man who was arrested Monday night
by the police on suspicion of being a
highway robber. Before he telephon
ed to The Bee, Paul had received forty-eight
telephone calls from friends
who wanted to post bail money for
his release.
Beauty.
There is an od saying that beauty
is ony skin deep, but that is far from
the truth. Beauty is founded on good
health without that there is no real!
beauty. You can cover up a muddy
or sallow complexion with face pow
der, but it will not be beautiful. A
homely woman in good health is usu
ally more" interesting and more
charming than a bilious dyspeptic
beauty. Constipation and a sluggish
liver impair good looks. If you are
troubled in this way take Chamber
lain's Tablets and you wil soon' be
looking better and feeling belter
Advertisement.
Sport Calendar TodayK
Shontlnjr Animal tntrtliijr of lntrstate
Trap Shooting aHttorlMtlon, nt Srey City.
Henrh Shows Adoum! hHow tif lfncltton
County Kennel club, nt I nlon Hill, N. J.
Karl inp Onenlnv at winter intlnjc of
uuimn-Atnmrttn Jockey cltih. at Havana.
Itoxinir 1'Atny ( line acnlnjf Jimmy Duffy,
fifteen rounds, nt Providence. llattllng
ierry ajrainMi inaney vmp, ten rounds,
New Cattle, I.
Nebraska Suffs
To Raise Funds by
Saving All Paper
saving paper, rags ana junk is one
method Nebraska suffragists have de
vised to raise money for the suffrage
campaign. Minnie Boyer Davis,
chairman of the paper saving com
mittee, issues instructions in the De
cember number of the Suffrage Mes
senger, published in Lincoln. Each
little town is urged to gather at least
one carload of waste, which will be
shipped to Nebraska dealers. '
Apportionment for counties in the
plan to raise $10,000 for the 1917
campaign fund is announced. Doug
las county s apportionment is $3,265,
of which $3,200 will be- raised in
Omaha.
Brains Bring Hay
To Omaha Exchange
Solve vour own car shortage orob-
lem, that is the slogan of the Omaha-f
Hay exchange. This organization is
less than a year old, yet it has in
genuity so clever that it recently in
creased the available cars for hay
hauling by an even 10U.
How? Why just by making an in
genious suggestion to the Union Pa
cific, a1 suggestion so timely and so
practical that the company- took up
with it immediately.
The Omaha hay dealers were cry
ing for hay, and the hay growers in
the Platte valley were crying for cars
to ship their hay in. So the Omaha
Hay exchange discovered that the big
fan of range cattle js over and that
live stock cars are available. They
asked the Union Pacific to line some
of these cars with tar paper and let
them use them for hay. The Union
Pacific thought the matter over and
decided to go one better. Instead of
Ufting tar paper, the company used
pine lumber and boarded the cars up
inside. They equipped 100 cars thus
in a few days, and today hay is roll
ing into Omaha at a rapid rate in
these cars from the great hay belt
along the Union Pacific.
Prominent South
Dakota Veteran Dies
Huron, S. D., Dec. 5. (Special.)
Elias M. Thomas, prominent in
Huron since 1883 and a member of
the South Dakota Soldiers' home
board, passed away at his home here
following a brief illness of acute na
ture. He had been gradually failing
as the result of heart trouble for some
time. Mr. Thomas was just begin
ning his fifth year as cleric of courts
of Beadle county, and was prominent
among the veterans of the civil war.
He was aged 69 years at the time
of his death. Burial will be made
here.
Edgar Woman Is Badly
Hurt in Auto Accident
Edgar, Neb., Dec. 5. (Special.)
Mrs. J. C. Christie, wife of the pas
tor of the Presbyterian church, was
seriously Injured Sunday afternoon.
sne was returning trom Nelson alter
attending the funeral of Mrs. Port
wood, with Mr. Graul in his automo
bile. It was just dusk and the lights
and shadows on the road made it de
ceptive and the driver went over a
culvert a little too fast and Mrs.
Christie was thrown upon her head,
striking against the top, breaking the
scalp and injuring the spine or base
of the brain in such a manner as to
cause paralysis from the hips down.
A positive prognosis cannot at this
time he made, but U is possible that
the paralysis is due to shock, in which
case a few days, at the most, will end
the trouble.
Cornhuskers Will
Not Play the Hoosiers
Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 5. The Univer
sity of Nebraska athletic board an
nounced today that there will be no
foot ball game next year with Indiana.
Relationship of the two schools was
suggested a short time ago by Coach
Stiehm of Indiana, formerly coach of
Nebraska university.
Hastings Y. M. C. A. Campaign.
Hastings, Nb., Dec. 5. Special
Telegram.) -With the inauguration
today of a campaign to secure pledges
for $2,500 each year for three years
in addition to present sources of rev
enue, the executive board of the
Young Men's Christian .association is
endeavoring to preventVthc threat
ened closing of the institution. The
closing will take place next Sundav
if the movement fails.
THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1916.
Copyrisht, 191.
International New Strrto
LURID MOVIES ARE
CAUSE OF SHOOTING
This is the Idea of Probation
Officer Miller as to the
South Side Affair.
ALWAYS WERE FRIENDS
Too many wild west movies of the
type in which the hero "draws from
the hip to kill" were responsible for
the shooting of Arthur Barnes, a
South Side negro lad, in the opinion
of Probation Officer Gus Miller. I
Barnes is at the South Side hos
pital in a precarious condition, a bul
let lodged in his spine and physicians
holding out but scant hopes for his
recoverv. He was shot by his chum,
Ben Bell, 4921 South Twenty-sixth
street, at whose home he was spend
ing the night.
- Juvenile court officials say the boys
have always been the best of friends.
Mr. Miller believes that young
Bell, his imagination running 1 riot
as the result of frequent visits to mo
tion picture shows offering films of
the "one step farther, Dog-Eared
George, and I'll shoot you down like
the dog that you are" brand of films,
committed the deed on the impulse
of the moment. The juvenile court
official's theory is that Bell was sud-
(nlir ctr,.lr HMfli the rlsir tn ev
L...:.... h. ,..i:.. f i,ntin
other human being and find out for
himself if it provided the thrill as in
dicated by lurid screen "screamers."
Governor Morehead
Speaks at Beatrice
Beatrice, Neb., Dec. 5. (Special.)
The new school building and audi
torium at the feeble minded institute
will be dedicated Friday evening, De
cember 15. Governor Morehead has
accepted the invitation to deliver the
principal address, and Governor-elect
Keith Neville will also be present.
The public will be invited to attend
the exercises.
Word was received here yesterday
announcing the death of Frank H.
Humes, sr., formerly of this city,
which occurred yesterday morning at
his home at Los Angeles, Cal. Mr.
Humes was 65 years of age and Is
survived by six children. Burial will
be at Los Angeles.
Rev. N. P. PatterBon, for the last
two years pastor of the First Pres
byterian church in this City, has re
ceived a call to Austin, lex., nut nas
not yet accepted the offer. He was
born in that state and did mission
ary work there for years before com
ing to Nebraska.
The annual poultry and corn show
opened here yesterday for a run of a
week. About 500 birds have been en
tered and Judge Schreff of Lincoln
began 'scoring them today. The corn
will be judged Wednesday by A. E.
Anderson of the state farm.
Fred Broeker, aged 70 years, was
seriously injured in a runaway near
Bayieston Sunday afternoon. It is
believed that he has been injured in
ternally, but it is thought he will re
cover, New Modern Hotel
Proposed for Hurpn
Huron, S. D., Dec 5. (Special.)
A new $100,000 hotel for Huron is
proposed by the building committee
of the commercial club, which has
been in consultation with Ed B. Din
neen of Huron, the old Dakota hotel
site, owned by Dr. Dinneen, being
that proposed. A campaign is sug
gested, the purpose being to raise
$40,000 of the $100,000 at once. Mr.
Dinneen has subscribed an additional
$25,000. A five-story fireproof and
modern building is proposed, to con
taoin 100 rooms and half that num
ber of private bath, the first floor to
be occupied by large lobby, dining
room, lunch rooms, kitchens, cold
storage plant, etc.
Jones County Holds Its
First Election January 9
Pierre, S. D., Dec. 5. Governor
Byrne has fixed January 9 as the date
for the election of officials and the
selection of temporary county seat for
the new county ot Jones. In the re
cent November election it was voted
to form the new county, which for
merly was part of Lyman county. The
voting places are fixed at Capa, Van
Meter, Ukaton, Murdo, Draper and
Lier school house. Murdo is the prin
cipal town in the new county. It is
centrally located and is prominently
suggested as the selection for the
county scat. However, other rail
way towns in the county are making
bids for the county seat and a lively
merest centers in tne coming con
test.
Moan's Liniment Relieve. Contention.
As goon aft you apply Sloan's Mnlment
the congestion disappear,, and your pain tl
Hotip. toddy warmth Is renewed. 2So. All
Irugglnls. Advertisement. 1
Frontier County
Fair Association
Makes Good Record
Stockville. Neb., Dec. 5 (Special.)
The thirtieth annual meeting of the
Frontier County Agricultural society
was held at the court house Saturday
afternoon. The report of the secre
tary showed an increase in the re
ceipts from concessions, race entries
and membership and season tickets
as welt as an increase of 476 paid
single admissions; it also showed that
at the close of the year the associa
tions account wos overdrawn $22.01.
This small overdraft was taken care
of before the meeting was called.
The association decided to raise the
price of admission from 25 cents to
50 cents and put on a 50 cents show.
All premiums were promptly paid in
full at the close of the fair.
The election resulted as follows:
E. O. Riley, president: W. C. Wollam, vloe
president; George J. Dold. treasurer; L.
ft. Cheney, secretary; Olto K. Wollam. gen
eral aupertntendent; Joseph H. Hlnton,
speed superintendent; C. C. Crawford, mar
shall; C. A. Hudson, superintendent eihtbtt
for state fair; William E. Palmer, Otto
Ougelman. Thomas Taylor, Edward Ryan
and D. D. Awtry. directors; 1,. H. Cheney,
delegate to January meeting of 8tste Board
of Agriculture.
John Sullivan Gets
Membership No. 1 in
Ak-Sar-Benfor 1917
There are already a dozen paid-up
members of Ak-Sar-Bcn for 1917, and
that year has not yet started.
No effort has been made to solicit
membership for 1917. Nothing is ever
done until after the first of the year.
But as many as a dozen men have al
ready come in and volunteered their
$10 bills for membership.
John Sullivan took membership No.
1 for 1917. Mogy Bernstein has paid
for No. 1 in 1918 and for ten years
from that date. He gave his check
for $100 many months ago and spoke
for the first membership for every
year for ten years, beginning in 1918.
Arapahoe Woman
Writes Lullaby
Arapahoe, Neb., Dec. 5. (Special.)
A lullaby has hold of the town. Its
words were written by Mrs. M. A.
Clark and its music by Leader Vik
oren of Arapahoe's famous band. It
was played first Thanksgiving day
and now everybody's whistling It or
humming it.
The lilting refrain which is on
everybody's Tips here, was introduced
to Arapahoe in the opera house on
the night of the holiday. Vocal se
lections by Mrs. Kaipn sonn ana ty
a male quartet, composed of Messrs.
H.ehi Prim, t ih. ..,H Mal.v
preceded the lullaby and were weli
received. But when the enticing
strains of the lullaby were once
hard, the people were loathe to let
the band stop playing it. Encore fol
lowed encore. '
Now it is on everybody's lips.
Members of the Ladies' Booster club
arc humming it and the boys are
whistling it.
Blackleg Appears in
South Dakota Herd
Carpenter S. D., Dec. 5. Alarm
has been created among the farmers
of this part of Kingsbury county by
the appearance of blackleg in the
herd of sixty cattle belonging to
Henry Johnson, a well known farm
er. Six head thus far have died, and
there are expected to be other deaths
before the disease can be headed off.
The county agricultural agent is on
the scene and every precaution is be
ing taken to prevent the spread of
the disease to the herds of other
farmers.
Two Unmasked Men
Rob Memphis Bank
Memphis, Tcnn., Dec. 5. Two un
masked robbers entered the Park
Bank and Trust company offices to
day and after locking the president,
cashier and a customer in a room
fled with $3,000 in currency without
firing a shot. They made their es
cape on motorcycles.
Father McDonald's Will
Is Refused Probate
Geneva, Neb, Dec. 5. (Special.)
The will of Father McDonald, de
ceased, of Exeter, filed last spring, has
not been admitted to probate, and the
sister of deceased, Miss May McDon
ald, has been appointed administratrix
of the estate.
Webster Fair Electa Officers.
Bladen, Neb., Dec. 5. (Special.)
The Webster County Fair association
at its annual meeting held here de
cided to hold its next annual fair
August 20 to 25. The following offi
cers were- elected: President, Oby
Joei'son; vice president, E. J. Solo
mon; secretary, Frank Crawford;
treasurer, Charles Davis; directors for
three years, Vet Widdershcin and A.
Denton.
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IllLIJ nUilJDi) II CAD IWar 1; ftewrt- n,o,her 0( Mr?r
II1L.1 liVlUMJU llLiilU ; Mar. o. H.tkcr. wlio tiacl e-arlirr tostii
TJT IlPUri I MTM HO '"-''I ' shc 1111(1 h" mother had lost
hLUSlVh AN MALS a 10IK) liamon1 ","i th'ir home
UUVU11U nmranuujn LiC0l through (lie purchase of
' some of llie horses.
Cowpunoher Testifies in Fed
eral Court That He Spent
Six Months on Trail.
WILDEST HE'S EVER SEEN
The elusiveness of the
Coconino
county, Arizona, wild horses was told I
at some length by Kd Mason, cow-,
puncher and cattleman of Mitchell,
Neb., testifying before Judge Joseph
Woodroiigh of the United States dis
trict court in connection with the cele
brated "Arizona wild horse case" on
Tuesday afternoon.
Mason testified that he met Clyde
Smith and his brother in Omaha in
1910 and through a deal with the for
mer made arrangements to get twen-
tv. five nf the wilil hrtraea Tor Knmr
property he owned at Villisca, la.,
valued at $1,500. He was almost
tempted to back out, he said, when he
was told that he would have to go out
and catch the horses himself, but after
being assured that the undomsticated
equines would weigh in the neighbor
hood of 1,000 pounds each, as his con
tract specified, he declared that he
thought he would take a chance at
gathering in some of the wild horses,
especially as he was a cowman.
Twas a Different Story.
But it was different, he testified,
whan he went to Falstaff, Ariz., to
corral his stock. For ten days, with
the aid of four cowpunchers. he was
not able to rope in a single wild ahv
tnal, notwithstanding the fact that
he had been a "puncher all his life.
Coconino county is only about 245 by
186 miles in area, and Mason was re
solved that he should have some of
the horses, which, he declared, he 'had
seen but had been unable to get with
in a half-mile of. Accordingly, some
time later, he said, he set out in search
of the elusive animals, and in the
course of six months of Constant
camping on their trails he was able to
lasso and bring home twenty-three
horses. These, tie testified, were very
small and weighed much less than the
1,000 pounds Smith had assured him
the animals would tip the scales at.
After halter-breaking the "broncs"and
keeping them about a year he was
able to realize from $10 to $20 per
head, he testified.
Bernard C. Black, reputed as one
of the best gunmen and cowpunchers
of Arizona, testified that he was hired
to go with Hastings and other mem
bers of the accused party to look over
the range where the animals were
reputed to be. He declared that there
were wild horses to be seen, but that
it was impossible to tell how many
there were, because he and the party
never got close enough to catch more
llna" ''P'. li"e2,, ,
Attorneys for the defense scored a
than a glimpse ot them.
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The Bee by George McManus
point in the cross-examination of Mrs.-
According to the mother s testi
for seventy-live of the horses had been
sent through the mails from Flagstaff,
.i tc
had tbstified that the bill was received
after the agreement of the trade for
the house and diamond at Lincoln,
Neb. The case rests on the charge of
: using the mails to defraud.
' Cow Girl Testifies,
Mrs. Becker, 24, pretty, dark-ryed
cow girl, testified that she and her
mother had been swindled out of a
$1,000 diamond ring and their home,
valued at $1,300, in Lincoln by a group
of men who represented themselves
as being theagents for the sale or
trade of Arizona wild range horses.
On April 23, 19H, she testified, she
answered a display ad in a Lincoln
paper which advertised the sale or
! trad
ot wild horses, it was in tne
office of the James & West Real
Estate company, she said, that she
met Mr. West, who assured her that
the horses for which he was agent
and had a slight interest in were of
good color and quality and weighed
about 900 pounds each and they were
easily worth $45 a head. She said
that he urged her to purchase or
trade for at least 100 of the horses.
When she told him that the ring and
the house would not total in value his
estimated cost of the 100 horses, she
testified he urged her to raise the
value of the property and ring so
that she could at least trade for seventy-five
of .the animals. This deal her
widowed mbther, Mrs. May Stewart,
finally agreed to and signed over a
deed of her home.
Received False Advlca. .
liefore her mother had closed the
deal, Mrs. Becker testified that a Mr.
Hastings had influenced her .and her
mother in agreeing to the proposition
by asserting that he had bought sorpe
of the wild horses and had shipped
three loads to the stock yards of
South .Omaha for which he received
about $100 a head.
She testified that he advised her
to pick out only the stallions and the
geldings which 'were more valuable
than the ordinary wild horses. Hast
ings, according to her testimony, also
advised her the best place to find and
catch the horses was around the wells
of the range. i
Other' witnesses called upon to tes
tify were C. M. Hoyt and Miss' Moore
of the United States district clerk's
office. They testified as to the legal
ity of some of the documents used in
the trial.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
Morten A. nsnllsy, HUVi Vlnten strsst,
Is convalescent after a rerent operation for
appendicitis at a local hospital.
JOHN M. ROBBINS, Mgr.
1206 W. O. W. Building, Omaha, Nab.
Distributor Lincoln
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German Red Cross
Aids Prisivnp.rs Whn
I 1 1 I A l 1 M- A a. a. J 1 a a j a. u I I mv
Suffer in Russia
Shelterless and insufficiently clad,
! thousands of German prisoners today
are suffering the pangs of hunger in
the prison camps ot picas, oioena
suffering from all manner of foul dis
ease brought on by unsanity condi
tions, and having no hope of relief ex
cept from the Red Cross.
In response to the appeal of Am
bassador Gerard, many prominent
Americans have responded, forming
committees to raise funds to turn over
to the Red Cross societies. Los
Angeles sent, $25,000, which was col-,
lected in a few days. '
Omaha donations may be sent to
Mrs. Bertha Getzschman, 1608 South
Tenth street, president of theGerman
Red Cross Ladies' Relief society.
Ban Against Canadian
Potatoes is Modified
Washington, Dec. 5. The Depart
ment Agriculture has ordered a re
laxation of the quarantine against po
tatoes from Canada. '
Hereafter Canadian potatoes show
ing traces of disease will be admitted
at any border customs house instead
of specially designated ports:- .
This action is expected to bring
large quantities of potatoes into the
United States to meet the high prices.
Ambassador Gerard
Sails for Germany
New'' York, Dec. 5. James W.
Gerard, United States ambassador to
Germany, sailed aboard the Frederick
VIII today for Berlin, bearing the
views of President Wilson regarding
submarine warfare and the deporta
tion of Belgians for presentation to
the imperial government. He de
clared, he carried no peace plan back
to Germany. i
Mr. Gerard took with him the
equivalent of 100,000 marks, which
was raised in a Thanksgiving appeal
issued by the American relief com
mittee for distribution through the
embassy to needy widows, orphans
and war sufferers in Berlin.
Department Orders,
WashlnKton, Pec, 8. (Special Telegram.)
"Postmasters' appointed: Nebraska
Wagner, Harlan county, James Pontlue,
vice Jennie Baslsson, reslrned. .
Iowa tirenaer, Bremer county, August T
Dusker, new office; Millard, Palcalte count.
Oenrge H. Washon, vice William , H. J.
Btelner, resigned.
Montelth, Quthtie county, Sidney H. Reed,
vice 8. F. Clampltt, resigned: Ballx, Wood
bury county, Stephen Cleary, vice Walter R.
Low, reslgnsd ; Stockton, Muscatine oounty,
vice Htta U. Dunkle, vice L. Bchlapkoh. re
moved; Yarmouth, Dee Molnee county.
Henry C. AMI, vice W. ft, reatherby, re
tlgned. Miss Vsrda O. McKay of Hastings. Neb...
has been appointed .clerk In the agricultural
department.
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