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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1916)
4 THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1916. "WILD HORSE" HEAD AVERS JAGS REAL President of Live Stock Com pany Testifies There Were Frisky Eqnines Aplenty. TELLS OF BIO "CAPTURES" J. Sidney Smith, president of the United Statea Live Stock company, one of the forty-two men indicted by the federal grand jury in 1914 for using the mails to defraud in connec tion ,'with the selling of wild range horses on the government reserve In Coconino county, Arizona, took, the witness stand yesterday afternoon to testify in his own behalf. ' '. : The horses which he sold were not phantom and imaginary, he told the "wild horse" jury! And to prove his statement, he testified that he made three shipments of horses, which he had personally helped to capture, to markets in Omaha, St. Louis and Nor folk. For the first shipment he re ceived about $30 a head, he said, and for the second, which was auctioned off at a private sale in St. Louis, he . averaged about $75 each. He became connected with the sell ing of wild horses when he was in the stock business at Newport, Neb., he declared. There he heard of the Coconino reserve animals and on in vestigating bought about $7,000 worth of brands. He was told, he testified, that the brands he purchased were of Morgan ttock and were, bred by Bishop Lot Smith, one of the Mormon founders, who had once established a camp near Mormon lake on the re serve. Bluffs Farmer Testifies, J. ,Z. Adams,' wealthy farmer of Council Bluffs, testified before . the jury that he went to the reserve to in vestigate the number and possibility of capturing some of the horses, for which he was to trade, some of his farm land. . -. . ' , "I took a field glass along," he told the court, ''and I counted all the horses I saw. 1 then wrote the num ber down in my diary.- I counted the sections of land over which we trav eled and estimated from the number of horse I saw on each section the entire total that must have been On the range." : ,. , , .. . "If there were as many horses on all the sections of the range as there were on the sections that I saw, there must have been between 75,000 and 100,000 animals."?, , ; . "Can you produce your diary?" he was asked. -.- ' x -. ..; "Ho, I locked the thing op in my safe and in some manner lost the key. "Well, did you buy or trade for any horses?" he was asked. "No, I didn't think I could handle them." "Why, were they wild?" Wildest of the Wild. "Just as wild as any wild horses you ever saw. . F. V. Guidinger of Minneapolis, one of the indicted men, testified that the only connection he had in any of the horse deals was that he was employed in the office of V. C. Gulickson of Minneapolis at the time several trades were made. "I worked in the office on a salary I 'bor' war matter and a satisfactory solu tion would be a great victory for the allied cause. "I i'm convinced the Irish situation is a misunderstanding, partly racial, partly religious." Announcement was made by Mr. Lloyd George that more drastic steps wduld be taken regarding excess profits. Mobilization ol Labor. ' The'premier then referred to the proposal for universal mobilization of BLACK FLAG GIVES WARNING OF COLD Weather Man Hoists the Cold Wave Flag from the Fed eral Building. NEAR BLIZZARD ARRIVES and never shared in any of the profits, if there were profits, in connection with the horse trades." he said. So far all the witnesses testifying for the defense saw thousands of horses on the range, notwithstanding tne Ucf-that otncials ot Coconino county had earlier testified that there were but 3,500 horses on the entire reserve. Everett Myers, farmer, stock raiser and connected with the Nebraska Central college, testified that he went to the Coconino reserve to investigate the cost of catching the horses. He said he saw between 500 and 1.000 every day of the three weeks he was on tne range. Others who testified in the proceed ings yesterday afternoon were: Mrs. L. w. west, Kansas Lity, Mo.; J. H. Hastings, Osceola, Neb.; Mrs. Albert Hastings, Silver Creek, Neb. PREMIER ASKS FOR A NATIONAL LENT (Continued Wnm Pa Oas.) circumstances the late government de cided to appoint a food controller. "We appeal to the nation to assist the government in distributing our resources so that no man shall suffer, hunger because somebody else has too-much," said Mr. Lloyd George in referring to the food oroblem. "That means sacrifice. But the men on the Somme are enduring far great er sacrifices. .-. ..... ... ,..,,;. - . We cannot have eanalitv of sacri fices, bnt-we can have equal readi ness for sacrifice from all. . Let the nation place its home luxuries and indulgences on an altar consecrated to the fighting men. Let us proclaim a national . lent, during the war. It will. .strengthen our fiber,' our spirit. "Unless the nation as a whole shoul ders part of the burden of victory it will not profit, by the triumph. It is not what a nation gains, but what it gives, that makes it great." Irish Question. In reference to the Irish question the premier said: . f "I wish I could say something defi nite about Ireland. I already have had preliminary conferences regard ing Ireland and the cabinet will take the matter up. 1 look upon an Irish gglggj,, ", great and necessary We propose to appoint imme diately a director ot national service who will be in charge of the matter of universal national service. The military director will be responsible for recruiting for the army. The civil director wil begin by scheduling all industries and services according to their character, as essential or non essential to the war. "Certain industries will be classed as indispensable while others will be drawn upon for men required either for, the army or for Indispensable in dustries. "The nation is fighting for life." said Mr. Lloyd George, and Is en titled to the best services of all citi zens. The government has been for tunate in inducing Neville Chamber lain, lord mayor of Birmingham, to accept the post of director general under this scheme: He will immedi ately proceed to organize a great sys tem tor enrollment ot industrial pur pose. in tne course ot his speech Mr. Lloyd George referred brieflv to his break with Mr. Asquith, saying: "It is one of the decnest rearets of j my life that I parted from Mr. Asquith ana some ot my tnends have known how I strove to avert the parting. I am proud to say we never had a per sonal quarrel. . It was with the deepest grief that I found it necessary to tender my resignation." Fourteen Degrees Below ' . . Zero at Sicx Falls Sioux Falls, S. D., Dec. 19. Eight degrees below zero was the high and 14 below the low extremes in tem peratures here today. Biting winds' from the north made the cold intense. .Obituary, Notices. CHARLES W. OCAMB died at his home In Rulo Friday night, Decem ber 16. Mr. Ocamb was a resident of Rulo for fifteen years, having moved to' that place from Kansas City, Mo. He leaves to mourn his loss, the widow and family, Mrs. George E. Ward of Rulo, Charles W. Ocamb of Verdon, Grant 8. Ocamb, George N. Ocamb and M. C. Ocamb, all of Rulo. The funeral took place Sunday. V Can ChlMraa's Calds. . ' ; Kmp child dry. cloths comfortable, avoid xpoturs, sin Dr. Bell's Pins Tar-Honsy. Raises phlaim, rsducca Inflammation. , 2Sc All druiclita Advertisement.. COLO SPOT8 MONDAY MIGHT. RlamarrJt. X. n....Wtaulle M. 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Price This Week is Cut Right in Two $20JX Toilet Set, this week .. . $10.00 I1&00 Traveling Set, this, week $ .7.50 $12.00 Hanlcnre Set, this week $ 6.00 $10.00 Toilet Set, .tali week $ 5.00 I SM Manicure Set, this week $ 4.00 I S.00 Shaving Stand, this week $ 3,00 All our goods are marked In plain figures, come early while selections are com - plete. . ,., SILVERWARE Guaranteed Sheffield Silverware, best assorted stock in the dty and at prices foind where else. 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Regular. ' price Leather Belts and German Silver Silver-Plated Buckles, fine for any Gentleman's Christmas Present. Regular price .....i Extraordinary Value A very fine Gentleman's Waldemar Watch Chain, up-to-the-minute designs. Regular price Scent Lingerie Clasps, Nicely Engraved, Gold Filled. Regular price :. fl New shipment Sterling Silver Thimbles, good weight. Price Monday I9c Sterling Silver Souvenir Spoons, last call Monday All day 79c BED SIGN OF THE CROWN 16th and Douglas Sts. UfTHK OOLDEN STAIRS