THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1916.
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EMEPROR HONORS
VOH HINDEHBORG
Kaiser Sends Grand Cross of
Iron Cross to Field Marshal
for Roumanian Campaign.
PROUD OF THE VICTORY
Det 10. Emoeror William
has conferred upon Field Marshal
von Hindenburg the grand cros of
the Iron Cross with an autograph
letter in which he said:
"My Dear Field Marshal: The
Roumanian campaign which with
God's assistance already has led to
such brilliant successes will be valued
in the war history of all times as a
bright example of the strategic art of
genuis. You have again conducted
great operation with rare prudence as
regards splendid arrangements, with
the greatest energy in carrying them
out, and you proposed to me with far
seeing thoughtfulness measures which
directed the way to separately march
ing columns for a united blow.
"To you and your well tried as
sistants of the general staff the thanks
of the Fatherland are due. With
proud joy and satisfaction it has
learned the news of victory and with
sure certainty, full of confidence in
such leaders, looks into the future.
Put I desire to give especial expres
sion of my deepest thanks by con
ferring upon you as the first of my
generals the grand cross of the Iron
Cross.
"Your grateful and always very af
fectionate king. "WILHELM."
ROUMANIANS TO
MAKE STAND ON
BUZEUFRONTIER
(lenUaiid from r Dm.)
MILLER WANTED
TO TRADE PLANT
FOR "WILD HORSES
(OntlBWd flm hv One.)
attack yesterday and regained their
positions, the war office announced
today.
The statement follows:
"On Saturday evening the enemy
pressed back the Roumanians along
the Ploechti-Mizil high road. The
next morning the Roumanians by a
counter atucx restored ine position.
The battle is still proceeding.
"In Dobrudja and on the Danube
reciprocal firing is under way."
Battle in Qalkia.
Austro-German troops took the
offensive yesterday in the region of
Pomorxany, forty-five miles south
east of Lcmberg, in Galicia, says to
day's war office statement, but were
brought lo a halt Dy tne kussim tire
The statement reads:
"Western front: The enemy bom
barded the region of the forest of
Calova without cessation from mid
day until 4 o clock in the afternoon,
"Southeast of Pomornny, in the
region of the village of Josepohovka,
the enemy took the offensive but its
detachments were repulsed by the
fire of our advanced costs.
"In the renion six versts west of
Dzembronia the enemy, having taken
the offensive. Dressed back one of our
advanced companies, which, however,
supported by another company, neat
back the enemy and again restored
our position. Repeated enemy at
tacks in the tame sections were oil'
successful , .
Entente Advance in Macedonia.
Salon iki, Sunday, Dec 10. (Via
London, Dec 11.) An advance by
the entente forces on one section of
the front northeast of Monastir is
announced in a Serbian official state
ment as follows:
Yesterday there was artillery fir
ing and local infantry fighting.
"West of SuhodeL the allies drove
the enemy back several hundred
yards. ....
German Official Report
Berlin. Dec. 11. (By Wireless to
Sayville.) Strong forces of Russians
yesterday again attacked the Teuton
troops to the north of Tartar pass
in the Carpathians in the Bystritsa
sector northeast of the Gyergyo
mountains and on both sides of the
Trorus valley in western Roumania,
but without success, says today's Ger
man official statement.
1 he pursuit by Field Marshal von
Mackensen's troops of the retreating
Roumanian armies continues in suite
of a pouring rain and the destruction
of bridges. At places some resistance
was met, the statement adds, and this
has now been broken. Several thou-
and more Roumanians were taken
prisuncr.
. Entente troops on the Macedonian
front launched a very considerable
attack with forces of artillery and in
fantry on December 10, says today s
Geunan official statement. The at
tacks met with severe failure, it is
added, on account of the tenacious
resistance of the German and Bulgar
an troops.
War Department Faces
Deficit, Says Sharpe
Washington. Dec. 11. Major Gen
eral Sharpe, quartermaster general of
the army, told the bouse military
committee today that the War de
partment faced a $25,000,000 deficit
now on account of the extraordinary
expenses of the border mobilization,
and predicted that if the National
Guard were kept there until June at
a strength ot ,uw the dehcit would
be I50,OUO,0UU.
XMAS SUGGESTIONS
Wrist
-Watches
In more favor
than any one ar
ticle made for
ladiea. We have
them, $12.50 to
$500, with a
Ryan reputation
behind each one.
RYAN JEWELRY CO,
Rom Blag, lMa axl Faraaam.
THE XMAS CUT SHOP.
,500 wild horses on his ranch in Ari
zona.
Was Smith a reliable man. he asked
Jack Shircliff, one of the men in
dicted by the grand jury. Certainly.
And to prove it, he said, letters oi
recommendation were read telling of
parties who had bought some of the
wild horses and who were very well
satisfied.
Brauer to d of Smith coming into
the office wearing blue goggles. When
asked what the reason was, he said
Smith told him he had recently come
back from a rounduo on his ranch
and that he had caught cold in his
eyes from sleeping on the ground.
Smith showed me pictures, tne
farmer added, "and told me he had to
sell so many horses regularly to keep
from being overstocked.
"My, but it must take an awful lot
of grass to feed all your horses," the
farmer said he conjectured to Smith.
Oh. vee. but we keep lots ot teed
for them," was his reply. '
After these talks, Mr. Brauer said,
he felt sure the deal was on the
square and decided to make the trade
for his 216 acres of Oneida county,
Wisconsin land.
Paid Commission, Too.
After the deal was made, the farmer
testified, F B.. Guidinger, in whose
office negotiations had been carried
an, asked him for a commission
of $50. He said he paid the commission.
"Did you see Smith pay his hall.'
"No. nor no one else did," the
farmer answered.
When asked if he got a receipt for
his $50 the farmer replied, "Sure, I
always get a receipt or I don't pay."
Brauer then told of his attempts to
get his 100 head of mares by wiring
to riagstan, nnz., wncre nicy were
to be put on cars for him. But he
said ' his telegrams were never
answered.
"Did you get any horses or any
thing for your property," he was final
ly asked.
Not that i Know oi.
"If vnu make the deal we will
give you the trade of your life." This,
in substance, is what A. V. Everett,
real estate dealer of Rolfe, la., told
the jury he was assured by John
Rnlerev of the Western Land com
pany of Atkinson, Neb., if he would
trade his quarter section of Hamilton
county (Kansas) land for 160 of- the
wild range horses.
On the tace ot tne evidence pre
sented him, he testified, he was posi
tive that if he made the deal be cer
tainly would nave maae me traae oi
him fife. But he didn't trade. And
as a result he has his Kansas farm, he
said, valued at about $8,Uuu, which he
came mighty close to swappin' for
the wild horses.
The Nice Bait
The Iowa real estate dealer told
of his first nibbling at the "wild horse"
bait when he answered an advertise
ment in a naner to the effect that the
Western Land company had horses to
trade for land. In reply to his let
ter, he said he received a letter from
A. V. rerry ot umana icuing marc
about the quality of the' animals.
During this stage of the negotiations,
Everett said that he was acting as an
agent for one of his Iowa clients.
In resDonse to another letter from
Mr. Ferrv. in which the real estate
man said that Perry wrote him his
"client was not going up against a
skin game," he came to Omaha with
H. H. Roberts, a garage owner, also
of Rolfe, la. ,who wanted to look into
the proposition.
"In a room in the Merchants hotel
where Mr. Perry took me," he said,
"I was shown pictures of the kind oi
horses they had on the range. They
were nice gray ones and i decided
that if I made the deal I would take
as many of the dappled grays as pos
sible." tii said that was agreeaDie
to Perry and J. Smith and Jack Shir
cliff, who had entered the room.
Map and Photos.
In addition to being shown pic
tures in the room, lie said he was also
liven a man showing how easy it
would be to capture the animals and
load them on the cars at Flagstaff,
Ariz.
Jack Shircliff. he testified, lay
down on the ben in the room and dur
ing the conversation remarked to Jack
Smith: "Jack, 1 made a lot oi money
on the last carload of horses
shinned. Everett said that he was
most tempted to make a deal for his
client then, but that somehow he put
the matter off for a later time.
From fohn Bolecey of the West
ern Land company of Atkinson,
Neb.. Everett testified that he was
then deluged with letters as to why
he did not make the deal. In one of
Bolecey s letters, he said, was the
following: "We notice that there is
a 'wild horse' case being investigated
by the federal authorities. Don't
confuse u with that company. We
don't do msiness that way."
House's Story.
I. E. House, an attorney of Schaf-
fer. S. D.. was next called upon the
stand and told of his futile efforts of
trying to get hack the property of
George McDonald, former barber of
Draper, S. D., and Jack Hayward of
the same place, who had traded for
some of the wild animals.
"I came to Omaha and told Mr.
Hodder, the attorney for the United
States Land company, that I wanted
to get the property back and that
there were no horses in Arizona as
had been represented.
That Telegram.
M. H. Roberts of Rolfe. Ia., garage
owner, corroberated Everett's testi
mony. He said that he had come to
Omaha to trade his North Dakota
homestead for some of the horses if
they were as they had been rep
resented.
"And why didn't you trade?" he
was asked.
"I didn't think tjiat the horses they
claimed to own could be as good as
what they represented," he said. "And
while I was in the room, J. C. Smith
showed me a telegram which said
that he had lost one of his stallions
on the range valued at $1,600 and
weighing 1,950 pounds. Right (here
I knew that the scheme was a fake,"
he said.
"He said that there were horses
as had been described in the contract.
but that my clients had been unable
to catch them.
"When I called his attention to the
fact that his name appeared on one
of the bills of sale as an officer of the
United States Live Stock company
and that he was responsible also for
the deal, he told me that he did think
his name had been signed to one of
the contracts, but that he had no re
sponsibility in the matter.
House then told of how he was re
ferred from one officer of the com
pany to the other without getting any
satisfaction.
"Nearly all told me that the horses
were on the range, but that my clients
had been unable to catch them."
Peter Allison, wanted by govern
ment attorneys to appear in the case
and who had been advertised for in
papers all over the country, appeared
to testify. He arrived from Pacific
Junction, Kan.
Old Cans H darihs and Grip,
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ADAMSON ACT CASE
IS SET FOR JAN. 8
Supreme Court Will Not Be
Able to Pass On Law Before
It Becomes Effective.
LAW WILL BE AMENDED
Office
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Roll Top Desks
as low as $27.50
The moat complete line in Omaha
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Filing Gates
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Whincton. Dec. 11. Arguments
on constitutionality of the Adamson
eight-hour law were today set by the
supreme court for January 8.
Chief Tustiee White announced tne
court's action on the motion, pre
sented last Monday by Solicitor oen-
Oklahoma's Gulf railroad test for
early hearing. 1 he case was oraereu
heard before a dozen other impor
tant cases previously assigned for
January 8. The law becomes effec
tive January I.
The stipulation before the court,
signed by Department of Justice and
railroad representatives, suspending
all litigation over the Adamson law
pending a decision, requires the rail
roads to Keep special accuuma ui
wages due employes under the law so
they may be paid promptly if its con
stitutionality is sustained.
Both sides are pledged to expedite
the test case, particularly as it is con
sidered that congress would consider
legislation to meet the court's de
cision. French HUmer Honk.
Pari. Doc. 11. The French .tfamer St.
Philippe han bflfn Hunk, accordlna to a
dlapatch to the Haven agenry from Havre.
The dlapatch ailde that two of the crew
were killed while the veeeel wait lielnj
helled. The captain and five member
'of the crew have Juat arrived at Havre.
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Washington, Dec. 11 The inquiry i
into all condition that affect news I
print paper prices to be made by the
federal trade commission at a public
hearing here tomorrow, it was an
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At a previous hearing during the
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facturer; E. W. Backus, the Minne
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George H. Mead of Dayton, O.; J. I.
Carey of the International Brother
hood of Paper Makers; Gorge W
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ers; David Lindsey, jr., of the Phil
adelphia Paper Trade association:
William C Ridgeway of the National
Paper Trade association.
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