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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16. 1917
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Players Must Parade Streets in
Spangles, Western Owners Decide
Club Houses for the Visiting
Athletes to Be Heaved
Into the Discard.
Shades of "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
"Honey Boy" Evans and P. T. Bar
num, the Western league is going to
return to the parade as a method of
bringing the shining quarters and the
glittering half dollars into the mag
nates' coffers, where they once re
posed in such generous numbers, but
have since fled to parts unknown.
The Western league yesterday at
the specially called meeting 'at the
Rome hotel resolfed to abandon the
club house for visiting teams.
For several years the Western
league was a big show affair in the
matter of club houses. Every park
was equipped with two club houses,
one for the home club and a second
for the visiting team. Steam heat,
hot water and shower baths were
ready for the athletes weary after
an afternoon of desperate conflict.
But yesterday with a wave of a
hand the club house for visiting play
ers was abolished and in the future
players will have to don the spangles
of the profession at the hotel and in
public display parade in a carry-all,
a sea-going hack or a one-lunged jit
ney from, the hotel to the ball park.
The return trip after the game must
be made the same way.
Good Advertisement.
Two reasons are ascribed for the
abolishment of the club house. In the
first place the parade gives the popu
lace a chance to look at the athletes.
There is an advertising value. In the
second place 'tis said home players
and visiting players have become too
clubby and chummy after games.
Thus the visiting players in the West
ern league will return to the incon
venience of former days, when no
thought was given to the comforts of
any but the home athletes. .
To further eliminate inclinations to
become too friendly the moguls de
cided the visiting club would not be
allowed to make its appearance at the
park more than fify minutes before
game time. Also the visitors will only
be allowed fifteen minutes' batting
practice before a game, instead of
twenty.
These rulings may seem on the sur
face somewhat unimportant, but the
magnates have a very good reason for
making them. In the past, when the
visiting players were permitted at the
park at an early hour and they hung
around until a late hour after the
game because of the club house facili
ties, it was the custom of the players
to air their grievances, knock the
league, the towns in the league, the
fans in the towns, the club owners,
the other players, the umpires and
everybody else they could think of.
Old players aroused the spirit of mu-.
tiny in the young players with tales
of mistreatment. The result was that
after a month or six weeks following
the opening of the season Jhe league
was in a turmoil, the knotkings of
the players got around to the fans and
the attendance at the games was hurt.
Leave Topeka to Savage.
The magnates did not take up the
matter of the Topeka franchise be
yond giving John Savage, holder of
the piece of paper, their full permis
sion to place it in any town he sees
fit. Pueblo or Hutchinson, Kan., are
the two most likely candidates for the
franchise right now, with the former
having a slight edge. Savage is given
until the time of the schedule meeting
to make his plans and lie is to report
any action taken to the president of
the league immediately. t
Zehrung will not attend the minor
league meeting at Chicago today. It
was the consensus of opinion among
the magnates that the Western
league would gain nothing by taking
territory from the Three-I or Central
association, nor has the Western any
thing to' give. In addition the league
meeting made it impossible for
Zehrung to leave Omaha.
Enforce Ba.lk Rule.
The balk rule 'will be rigidly en
forced this year. The club owners
instructed President Zehrung to in
sist that his umpires enforce the balk
law to the letter. The pitcher in
throwing to a base must step directly
toward that base and not make any
false movements that are illegal. Last
year half the pitchers in the league
made from one to a dozen balks a
game and seldom were penalized.
Stricter enforcement of the coach
ing rules is another order of the mag
nates to the president. Ragging the
opposition must stop, say the mo
guts, and all coaching, both from the
coaching lines and the bench, must
be confined to encouragement of col
leagues, not abuse directed toward
opponents.
PLAYERS' FRAT TO
JOIN THEA. F. OF L.
Request Is Made Following
Conference of Dave Fultz
and Samuel Oompers.
MAGNATES READY SAYS BAN
LATHERS ANNOUNGE
THEIR PAY GOES DP
Secretary Marks Notifies Con
tractors, Who Mumble Pro
test On Self-Raising Pay.
BUILDERS MAY REVOLT
Lathers in Omaha demand in
creased pay beginning February 15.
A letter has gone out to the building
contractors of Omaha from Secretary
Marvin F. Marks of local No. 136 of
. the Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers'
International union. The letter does
not beat around the bush. It merely
states the following: '
"Beginning February 15. 1917, and
continuing until January 1, 1918, a
new scale of wages for lathers will be
effective. The present rate of 65
cents per hour will be increased to
70 cents. The rate for foremen will
be increased from 75 cents to 82J4
ents per hour. All overtime will be
double time."
''That is a rather blunt notice, to
say the least." said one contractor on
-eading the letter.
Builders May Balk.
"I suppose we have nothing to say
about what we pay these men," said
another. "There has been n con
ference and we have not' been asked
to grant any increase. But here we
get a notice served on us that after
a certain date we are going to pay
?crtaiu wages."
Another said; "This letter says
ifter a certain date a new and higher
scale will be in effect. I very much
doubt whether the contractors will
Day it."
V. Ray Gould, president of the
Omaha Builders' exchange, said:
"This will , not really affect the gen
eral contractors 'very much directly.
It is a matter to be handled wholly
by the plastering contractors. I
doubt if the Builders' exchange will
take the matter up officially, as I un
derstand the letters were not sent to
the exchange as an organization, but
were sent to all the contractors individually.
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DOUGLAS COUNTY
IS DEEP IN DEBT
Dewey's Report Shows Defi
ciency Because of Expense
of Tax Collections.
WATER BOARD EVADES
County Comptroller Dewey's re
port to the commissioners on the ex
penditures in the treasurer's office for
the last year shows that the county
is behind just $8,163.64 by reason of
assuming to pay for all expenses of
collecting the taxes of the school dis
trict, water board, city and country.
The general fund is short that amount
on account of a 1 per cent expense
for collection not being allowed from
all the different funds, according to
Mr. Dewey. The school board and
the water board do not pay anything.
Mr. Dewey says that if the county
hopes to split even in this phase of
the expenses, an average of 1 per cent
should be collected from each of the
funds.
Question of Fees.
The fee collected under the general
plan throughout the state is 2 per
cent and fraction from all municipali
ties. Omaha is the only exception to
this plan, Mr. Dewey said, adding
that in his opinion legislation should
be put through to allow 1 per cent
from all funds collected by the treas
urer's office.
"The total expenses of the treasur
er's ofiice last year were $71,288.29,"
he pointed out. "I believe the city
should have paid one-half of this
amount. As it was, with the Water
board and School board contributing
nothing, the city's- payment was only
$27,480."
Cruiser Milwaukee is
Driven Further Inland
Eureka, Cal., Jan. 15. The cruiser
Milwaukee, which stranded near here
Saturday, lay high on the beach to
day, having worked itself further in
shore during the night. Its tilt sea
ward was much greater than yester
day. The engine rooms and boiler
rooms are flooded.
The submarine H-3, which the Mil
waukee undertook to rescue, was
high and dry on the sand.
Persistent Advertising Is the
Road to Success.
Washington, Jan. IS. The Base
Ball Players' Fraternity haa ap
plied to the American Federation
of Labor for a charter. The appli
cation will be considered at the
next meeting of the executive
council of the federation on Saturday.
New York, Jan. 15. A new phase
of the threatened strike of the Base
Ball Players' Fraternity developed
here late today, when it was learned
that Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor,
and President David L. Fultz of the
players' organization had been in con
ference relative to the proposed ac
tion of the fraternity members in re
fusing to sign 1917 base ball contracts
until such time as the minor league
magnates should grant requests made
by the players.
When asked if the fraternity was
a member of the American Federa
tion o f Labor, Gompers replied: "Not
yet, but soon, I expect. While the
players' organization is not affiliated
with us, yet I am in full sympathy
with their requests and actions and
they have my moral support. I am
deeply interested in the welfare of
the ball players and they will have
my support in any action that they
may see fit to take in order to better
existing conditions."
President B. B. Johnson of the
American league arrived late today
from Chicago. He said he had come
to attend the meeting of the schedule
committees. Johnson said he did not
care to talk about the players' pro
posed strike, but that if it material
ized the American league had enough,
players under contract to start the
season, and that others would be se
cured to fill any vacancies that might
exist.
Owners Are Prepared.
"I do not think," he said, "that the
players of the major leagues will
carry their contentions so far as to
strike, but if they do, we will be pre
pared to meet the emergency and will
go right on playing ball as usual. I
am of the opinion that if the major
leagues do strike it will be a violation
of the agreement made with the fra
ternity at Cincinnati several years
ago, and such action will virtually
cancel the compact and absolve the
club owners from the terms of that
agreement."
Johnson also said that he was not
in favor of the plan to divide the pro
ceeds of the players' share of the
worlds' series money among any ex
cept the competing club players. "To
the victors belong the spoils," he
added.
SLEEK CROOK GETS
OLD MAO SAVINGS
Penniless and Too Old to Work,
Peter Seidel Asks the Po
lice for Aid.
MAY GO TO THE POORHOUSE
Kaaba, Owned by Mrs. Fleu,
Wins Prize at Cat Show
Kaaba is a good, black cat with
orange eyes and a royal purple pedi
gree. At the Fremont cat show Fri
day and Saturday Kaaba, whose sire
is the famous Little Bear and whose
ma is Black Princess Pattie and
whose grand-dad is the imported
Champ Erebus, won first prize for
his long, coal-black fur and orange
eyes. Kaaba is owned by Mrs. F. O.
Fleu of Benson and was booked at
the dhow as an Omaha entry.
Miss Elisabeth Grace, the judge
who awarded premier honors to
Kaaba, says the cat is of better
points than even his famous grand
sire. New York judges collaborat
ed with Miss Grace at Fremont in
passing judgment on the feline beau
ties. Kaaba won against a field of 150
entries. Kaaba, although only
years old, has won seven special
prizes.
Ten Hunters Killed in
Sta,te of Washington
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 15. During
the hunting season, which began Sep
tember 15 and ended today, ten
hunters met violent deaths in the
state of Washington. Two were
shot by hunting companions, four ac
cidentally shot thmeselves, two were
frozen to death and two either com
mitted suicide to escape freezing to
death, or one shot killed both.
Red Murray Signs Up to
Manage Toronto Club
Elmira. N. Y., Jan. 15. John (Red) j
Murray, for many years outfielder for I
the New York Giants and last season j
with Toronto International league '
team signed a contract today with the
New York Nationals for the coming
season. . I
Swindled by a confidence man of
$3,300, his life's savings, Peter Seidel,
aged 69, of Fremont, broken in health
and destitute, is in Omaha and has
asked police officials to bend their ef
forts to capture Alva Clay Ficklen,
the man who victimized him. When
Ficklen is safely behind prison bars
and not until then, will he be su
premely happy, asserts Seidel.
Seidel, who is a carpenter, is 69
years of age and is no longer able to
ply his trade. "All I have left is the
few clothes on my back and my two
hands, and I have grown too old to
work," he cried. "It looks like the
poor house for me." '
How They Met.
Seidel was in Omaha a year ago
and lived at Twentieth and Capitol
avenue until he completed a couple
of jobs here. It was there he met
Ficklen, a young man, and a strong
friendship sprang up between them.
Finally, Seidel declares, Ficklen told
him he had an opportunity to buy a
saloon very cheap and induced him
to join in the partnership. In this
way Seidel was bled of his earnings.
Seidel asserts he even paid Fick
len' fare out of town. He says a
man who asserted he was Ficklen's
brother came to Omaha and agreed
to take Ficklen out to his ranch in
South Dakota so that he could earn
enough money to repay Seidel. This
was after Seidel knew that Ficklen
had swindled him.
Aeroplanes and
Motor Trucks Will .
Hunt Army Airmen
San Diego, Cal-, Jan. 15. Three
army airplanes are scheduled to leave
here today to attempt the rescue of
Lieutenant Colonel Harry G. Bishop
and Lieutenant W. A. Robertson, jr.,
the army aviators who disappeared
while on an unauthorized flight to
Calexico, Cal., and return last
Wednesday.
The machines will be piloted by
Captain Byron D. Jones, Captain
Herbert Dargue and Flying Instruc
tor Albert Smith, each of whom will
be accompanied by an observer.
Estahan Cantu, governor of lower
California, has given permission for
the American airplanes to cross the
border. The airplanes will be ac
companied by motor trucks and au
tomobile detachments from the sig
nal corps aviation school here, carry
ing skilled mechanicians and extra
equipment for the air flotilla. Fuel
and provisions bases will be estab
lished throughout the volcano lake
country, where Bishop' and Robert
son were last sighted. The main
supply base will be at Calexico.
Upon reaching the Volcano lake
country, below the border, each plane
will v.. a - ...: I
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terrain to reconnaissance, but all
will fly in a direction parallel and in
sight of each other in orde- that as
sistance quickly can be rendered in
the event of a forced landing.
Of the two men that are to fly to
day Captain Dargue is most experi
enced in the hazardous work of cross
ing mountains and desert. While at
tached to the expeditionary forces
m northern New Mexico he flew from
Colona Dublan to Columbus in a
blinding snowstorm with a passen
ger. Captain Dargue , also made a
number of night reconnaissance
flights over the mountainous regions
of northern Mexico and is recognized
as the foremost exponent of night
flying in this country.
Hhoota ud Kills hit.
WmthinBton, Jan. 14. A. C. Cunnlnghuin.
a navy nnalne.tr aaalRned to lha trainlnt
tatlon at lrat LaknH. III., ahot anil killed
hlmapir hr today. H came to hla Waih
lliKton home aoveral daya airo on leave. He
waa a native of New York.
WIFE HELPS HER
HUSBAND SLAYER
Mrs. Maud Lucky Will Testify
For Man Who Killed
Marion W. Lucky.
HATMAKER RESCUED HER
Harry Hatmaker's prosecution on
charges of manslaughter will be
marked by at least one unusual fea
ture. Mrs. Maud Lucky, the young
wife of Marion W. Lucky, who was
shot and killlcd by Hatmaker in a
row at 2417 Capitol avenue, will stand
by the slayer of her spouse.
For two or three days after the
affair Mrs. Lucky was held at the city
jail as a witness, and Friday her
statement was taken by detectives.
At that time she was solicitous as
to Hatmaker's welfare and seemed
unmoved when informed that her hus
band had died. She got this infor
mation in response to a casual ques
tion as to her husband's welfare.
At the inquest Saturday Mrs. Lucky
testified that Hatmaker shot Lucky
only after he had been attacked by
the latter, who flourished a butcher
knife. The jury recommended that
Hatmaker be held for manslaughter
and suggested further investigation of
the case on the part of the county
attorney's office. Deputies will de
termine the status of Hatmaker's re
lations wtih the wife of the slain man.
Hatmaker will appear for preliminary
examination Tuesday in police
court.
Paving Law Is Upheld
By State Supreme Court
(From a Staff Correapdndent.)
Lincoln, Jan. 15. (Special.) In a
small grist of opinions handed down
today by the supreme court it is held
in an apeal from Buffalo county that
in cities of the first-class having a
population of from $5,000 to $.25,000
people, the street spesified to be paved
and the property abutting thereon
constitutes the paving district. An or
dinance specifying the street or part
of street to be paved sufficiently des
cribes the proposed paving district
and the judgment of the district court
is affirmed. The case waa brought by
George H. Chittenden against the city
attorney..
Former Queen "Lil" is
Again Critically III
San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 15. The
condition of former Queen Liliuoka
lani of Hawaii is again critical, ac
cording to advices received here to
day from Honolulu.
The ex-queen rallied from an indis
position some months ago, but is
now suffering from a general break
down due to advancing age, it is said.
She was born in 1838.
State House Notes
COLLARS
are curve cut to ft thi should
perfectly, aiitscadx.bforyy
CLUETT, PEABODV MCO: fNCMaktrs
(From i Bluff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Jan, 16. Spnclul.) Oovernor Ne
ville will follow the. lead of Governor More
hwad and will not k for nn appropriation
fcr houfthold fxpemipn or for travellnn ex
pnM. Howevfir, he will auk the Iwglilatura
to ma ekan appropriation HUfflcfent to take
rare of hoiti Improvement which should
be made at the rnunnlon and to paint the
seme,
J. H. Wehn, new bank ftxamtner. called
upon Governor Neville today, ready to an
num hi dutten. Mr. Wehn' home In In
B rid (TP port and he won appointed to nil the
p)ai:e of John Boatman of Morrill, who waa
not a candidate for reappointment.
According to Health Inn poet or Caen, un
balanced water preKeure In the Burlington
railroad yarde at Havenna In renponelble for
the outbreak of typhoid In that town, flack
watr from the creok, which waa forced Into
the niitliiH, claimed the trouble.
A oaee from Nemaha county entitled
state ana I nut Ad N. Harris, wan affirmed
by lh! mipreme court today. It oovera the
rlK-ht of county ro minimi on era to fumlih
depntlen to a county he riff.
The right of the state to collect old In
nan" account against several countlen,
which have refueed to pay the same Is up
held by the supreme court, which affirmed
the findings of the aperial referee, J. H.
Broody in a suit brought to compel Wan
ton county to pay.
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Burglar Alarm
Snares Crook in
Store of J. Janous
J. E. Janous, proprietor of a bar
ber shop at 1826 Sherman avenue,
installed a burglar alarm in his place
of business Saturday night and thirty-six
hours later it brought about
the arrest of Frank Farrell of Erie,
!'., who was caught redhanded while
engaged in the theft of a quantity of
cigars, cigarettes and tobacco.
Farrell, it is alleged, pried open a
side window and when lie did so an
alarm sounded in Janous' home.
Janous called the police and Farrell
was caught just is he was about to
leave the shop.
He was bound over to the district
court under $500 bonds.
Morgan Syndicate Buys
Argentine Rail Notes
New York, Jan. 16. A banking syn
dicate, which includes J. P. Morgan
& Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the
National City bank, has concluded ar
rangements for the purchase of $15,
000,000 ten-year 6 per cent convertible
notes of the Central Argentine Rail
way company. The proceeds of these
notes will be applied to the retire
ment of an equal number of notes
now held by British interests.
Persistent Advertising Is the
Road to Success.
WALTERS VISITS
BIG MUDDY WELLS
General Manager of North
western Reports Prosperity
in Wyoming Oil Fields.
NEED MORE REFINERIES
General Manager Walters of the
Northwestern is back from a trip
over the company's Wyoming lines.
While in Wyoming Mr. Walters
visited the Big Muddy oil field along
the line of road, west of Douglas, and
noted fifteen drilling rigs at work
between Douglas and Casper, m dis
tance of fifty miles. Numerous wells
have been drilled and in nearly all
of them oil in paying quantitiea has
been struck.
The refineries nearest to Douglas
and Glen Rock are at Casper and
oil from these fields is being carried
to the Casper refineries in tank cars.
There is talk of the building of a re
finery at either Douglas or Glen Rock
and perhaps one at each place.
Companies pushing development of
the field are the Standard, the Texas
and the midwest companies. Another
company, the Merit, has recently
come into the field with a capital
stock of $6,000,000. Its stock is on
the New York curb and is selling at
$12 to $14 for $10 shares.
Rheumatism an Insidious Disease;
Begins With Insignificant Pains
Real Torture Bound to Follow If
the First Warnings Are Not
Heeded. ,
Anyone afflicted with the pangs of
Rheumatism will tell you that the first
pains were hardly noticeable. Slight
at first, in fact too insignificant to be
heeded, pains increasing very gradu
ally,' the disease had them firmly in
its grasp before they realized that
they were its victim.
Those who have been trying lini
ments and other external applications
will find that they have not reached
the cause of the trouble, and that their
Rheumatism is back with them again,
increasing in severity as the days go
by.
Don't overlook the first signs of
Rheumatism. Prompt treatment is
highly important, but tne right treat
ment is the only kind that will do you
any good. Have you ever known of
Rheumatism being cured by liniments,
or other external applications? Most
certainly not. Do not, therefore,
make the mistake that many have, but
bear in mind that external remedies
positively cannot reach Rheumatism.
It cannot be rubbed out of the blood.
S. S. S, can be relied upon to cleanse
the blood and has been giving relief
from Rheumatism for more than fifty
years, and some ol the most sever
cases have yielded to it. Write today
an4 give full information about your
case, and our medical adviser will give
you advice without cost. Addrest
medical department, Swift Specific
Co., 32 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.
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