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MATCH ARRANGED;
Nebraska Heavyweights Will
Clash at Auditorium Night
of February 9.
DETAILS ALL COMPLETED
Joe Stecher, the pride of Dodge
county, and Charley Peters, the Papil
lion carpenter, will clash in a
wrestling match at the Omaha Audi
torium the night of February 9. Ar
rangements for the event were com
pleted last night and the date set.
For the first time since he started
on his meteoric wrestling career Joe
Stecher will defend his honors against
a fellow Nebraskan. Heretofore Stech
tr's competition has been foreign. For
the reason that both men are native
sons it is believed the Stecher-Peters
go will create mor ienterest in Ne
braska than any wrestling match held
in Omaha in years.
Charley Peters is the young Papit
fion carpenter who bobbed up in Oma
ha last winter. He gained a place in
the catalogue of Nebraska wrestlers
by triumphing over such sterling foes
as Gus Kervaros, William Demetral
and Paul Martinson. After vanquish
ing tnese mat stars Peters challenged
Stecher. It was planned to hold the
bout in Omaha July 15, the night of
the speedway races, but Peters be
came ill, and was confined to the hos
pital for several weeks and the match
had to be called off. This fall Peters
began to recover until the first of De
cember he was once more able to re
sume active training.
Makes Second Challenge.
When lie found himself in condition
to stand long grueling workouts
Peters again challenged Stecher and
yesterday arrangements were com
pleted for the event Februarv 9.
Joe Hetmanek, manager of Stecher,
came to Omaha Monday and on that
day negotiations for the bout were
entered into. Yesterday Stecher him
self dropped in unexpectedly from Ex
celsior Springs, where he has been
resting for a few weeks, and informed
his manager he would be able to
tackle a match on February 9.
Stecher declared yesterday his neu
ritis had all but left him. The neu
ritis opened its attack on Joe on
Thanksgiving day when Joe hurt his
shoulder in a match with Charley
Cutler at Chicago. After his bout
with Olin at Springfield, Mass., it be
came so bad his physician ordered
him to take a rest and undergo some
treatment. The match with Peters
will be Stecher's first bout since his
affair with Olin.
Stecher Goes Home.
After he told Hetmanek to com
plete the deal for the clash with
I'eters, Stecher caught a train for
Dodge at 5:30 so that he could start
training at once. Joe has been doing
a little running and exercising at Ex
celsior Springs, so he says he only
needs ad ay or two to get into fairly
good shape again. However, Joe says
he intends to start a rigid course of
training immediately so that Peters
will not catch him napping when they
tangle in the Auditorium ring.
Peters has been training lor six
weeks at Gus Tylee's gymnasium and
last night announced an extension to
his schedule when he learned that the
match had been closed.
Jelen Wants Record
Clear in Case of Bill
(From a, Staff Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Jan. 24. (Special.) Rep
resentative Jerry J. Jelen of the Doug
las county delegation in the house
was somewhat agitated this morning
when a bill introduced by his co-partner
on the delegation, Jens Ncilsen,
was credited to him as the introducer
in the digest of bills introduced in the
house yesterday.
The bill calls for lowering the inter
est on deposits in banks, and accord
ing to Jelen, his constituents are all
depositors and he did not want them
to think he was responsible for any
bill which would be against their in
terests, and asked the newspapermen
to set him right.
Eleven Hundred Dollars
Into the State Treasury
(Prom a Stalf Correspondent.)
Lincoln, Jan. 24. (Special.) At
torney General Reed has just collect
ed $1,151.83 from the estate of Henry
Miller of Douglas county, whose
property in the absence of duly qual
ified heirs was declared by the Doug
gals county court to have escheated
to the state. The money has just
been turned over to State Treasurer
Hall. Mr. Reed was in Lincoln a
short time Wedcnsday morning, but
returned to Omaha to take part in
the 2-cent fare hearing before Special
Master Gaines.
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Sport Calendar Today
Ilowllnr Annual tournament of Wiscon
sin Bowline association ombi at Wetertown,
Ilenrh Hhowt Openins; of annual show of
Lynn Kennel club, Iynn Mttes,
Banc Ball Meeting- of Virginia Ntavie
league, at Norfolk.
Boxing Jack Britton against Mike
O'liowd, ten rounds, at St. Paul. Larry
Hamen against Al WUtse, twelve rounds.
at Aorta Adams, Mass.
A. F. OFLTAKES UP
FRATERNITY PLEA
Executive Council Considers
Request of Ball Players'
Body for Charter.
NO DECISION BIGHT OFF
Washington, Jan. 24. Considera
tion of the application of Base Ball
Players' Fraternity for a union char
ter was begun by the executive coun
cil of the American ' Federation of
Labor today. The council's decision
may not be announced until the con
clusion of its meeting Friday.
Would Bar Fraternity Men.
Montreal, Jan. 24. A move to bar
all members of the Base Ball Players'
fraternity trom the Montreal base
ball club will be taken at the special
meting of the International league, to
be held next month, it was announced
today by President Litchenheim of
the Montreal club. If the league sanc
tions his course, he said, he would ask
all his players to abandon the frater
nily or else offer them such small
contracts as to force them out of
base ball. . ? 5
Car Goes Through
Ice Into Missouri;
Six Get Ducking
Brownville, Neb., Jan. 24. (Special
Telegram.) While crossing the Mis
souri river about 1 o'clock Wednes
day morning, going to their homes
at Phelps City, Mo., from a dance
which they had attended here. Albert
Kimberling and his sister, Miss Em
ma, narrowly escaped drowning when
the automobile in which they were
riding plunged into an air hole near
the Nebraska side near town. In the
car with the Kimberlings and m the
rear seat were Mr. and Mrs. Gould
Smith and the Misses Allie Adams
and Helen Mayes.
The water was shallow at the place
where the car went in and the wheels
rested on the bottom of the river, but
deep enough in the water to give the
occupants a chilly bath.
Two. Young Men Accused
Of Assault at Ashland
Ashland, Neb., Jan. 24. (Special.)
Thomas H. Wethercl, who was ar
rested on the complaint of County At
torney W. W. Wenstrand. on a charge
of assault on Grace Stegall. a 20-year-old
girl from Council Bluffs, last Fri
day evening, was brought back to Ash
land from Fort Crook and arraigned
Wednesday morning before Justice of
the Peace Jesse N. Moon. He waived
preliminary examination and was
bound over to the next term of the
district court, which convenes at Wa
hoo in March. Bond in the sum of
$500 was furnished by Edward Swan
son. Clyde Johnson, charged with the
same offense, was arraigned Monday
before Justice Moon and, unable to
give bail, was returned to the county
jail.
Accident Cause of Death.
North Platte, Neb., Jan. 24. (Spe-
cial.) w. tan Hamilton, s years
old, was drowned in a shallow well
on his ranch four miles northwest of
the city when he slipped from a rod
on which he was standing while re
pairing a gasoline engine and plunged
into the well. Hamilton's head was
submerged in ten inches of water and
he died before help could come.
Funeral services were held at Ma
sonic hall under the direction of
Platte Valley lodge No. 32, A. F. &
A M., and the body was taken to
Omaha where his father lives for
burial.
HYMENEAL
Rawilt-Marquardt
Avoca. Neb.. Jan. 24. (Special.)
Verne Park Rawalt of Denver and
Miss Emma Mabel Marquardt of :
Avoca were married today at the
home of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. C. Marquardt, in this city.
The bride has been a teacher in the
schools of the county for a number of j
years. The groom is an electrician at
Denver. They will reside at Denver.
Clan Gordon No. 63 will hold Burns i
Celebration at Swedish Auditorium, j
1609 Chicago, Friday night, January
26, at 8 p. m. I
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"Jimmie" Brown and Miss
Babette Weil Said to Have
' Put One Oyer On Folks.
FRIENDS UP IN THE AIR
A young couple, giving their names
as James L. Brown and Miss B, bette
Weil of Lincoln, applied at the court
house for a license to wed shortly
after 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. It
was granted to them, they having
given the name of Dr. Frederick
Cohn, rabbi of Temple Israel, as the
officiating minister. When Dr. Cohn
was asked later in the evening, he said
he had performed no wedding cere
mony, nor did he expect to perforin
any between the parties.
The interest in this matter lies in
the fact that Miss Veil is the daugh
ter of a leading banker of Lincoln.
James L. Brown is a young man who
b building up a name for himself as
a practicing attorney at the Capital
City. Friends of the family say it
has been known that Miss Weil and
Mr. Brown were much attached to
.ach other, and an engagement has
been hinted at. Also, that parental
objections amounting practically to a
veto have been filed. On this -ests
the hypothesis that an elopement has
taken place.
What Friends Tell.
An Omaha friend of the Weil fam
ily said last night that Dr. Cohn bad
positively declined to perform the
ceremony of wedding the young cou
ple, knowing the disparity in their re
ligious views, and also being aware of
the family objections to the wedding.
After leaving the home of Dr. Cohn
the couple disappeared. Relatives of
Miss Weil expressed surprise when
told of her presence in Omaha and
her probable mission here, but could
give no information as to her where
abouts. Her sister-in-law at Lincoln
said Miss Weil had not left home
during the day, and was at Lincoln
last evening, but this assertion was
not made with the force to carry con
viction. Ac the same time she advised
her brother in Omaha not to discuss
the subject with the newspapers.
Other sources in Lincoln insist Miss
Weil is not at home, nor could Mr.
Brown be located, while it was also
cimated that Mr. Weil is making a
systematic search for the missing pair.
Latest information concerning the
eloping couple indicates that the
young people have gone to Chicago,
where Mr. Brown had a business en
gagement today or Thursday. They
will probably make an attempt there
to have a Jewish rabbi perform the
wedding.
Brown Known Here.
James L. Brown worked here, for
a time as a newspaper reporter, and
then went to Lincoln, where he took
up similar work, taking a course in
the University of Nebraska, graduat
ing from the College of Law. Last
summer he was active in the cam
paign of Judge Albert J. Cornish for
the supreme bench, and spent sevral
weeks in Omaha in this service. He
has since been associated with W. T. i
Thompson, head of the Dry federa- ;
tion in his law practice- ;
Added interest is attched to the
Brown-Weil affair because of a previ-'
ous affaire du coeur of the attractive '
Lincoln girl, which was cut short by 1
parental opposition. The first young
man was a popular young instructor
in the college of agriculture, whose
parents reside in Omaha, but who
has now gone west to teach. This
was two or three years ago.
To reconcile the young girl for giv-1
ing up her admirer her father Drc-1
sented her with an electric, so Omaha
friends say.
" Rfyl " Batmen Signs.
ChlrsKo. Jan. 24. Albart "Rrd" Husaell.
a pitcher with tha Chicago Americans, ho I
alimeii a 1917 contract it wa announced
today. RuhhcII la the Iwenly-flrat metnlwr
of the rluh to come to Icrrna, President (',
mlakey Maid. "Talk of a strike In not worry.
Ina me," he addt.d.
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Brandeis Quint
To Nebraska City
For Clash There
The Brandeis basket ball team goes
to Nebraska City tonight for the first
of a series of three games with the
town team at that point to decide the
independent floor championship of
Nebraska.
The Nebraska City quintet is said
to be the fastest team in the southern
part of the state. It is made up of
veteran flippers who have been play
ing together for. some time. The
Brandeis, however, are confident they
will be able to take the measure of
their Nebraska City foes.
The Nebraska City team will come
to Omaha at a later date for a return
conflict and in case the victories arc
fifty-fifty a third game will be played,
probably on a neutral floor.
Dr. Flippin Under Arrest
After Coroner's Jury Acts
Grand Island, Neb., Jan. 24. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Dr. Charles Flippin
was placed under arrest today on
a complaint filed by County Attorney
Suhr, who is also acting coroner,
charged with having performed an
illegal operation. He was placed
under $2,000 bonds for appearance at
the preliminary, hearing next Satur
day. An inquest before a jury was held
over the body of Miss Emma Staack,
whose death, from blood poisoning
took place the latter part or last week.
The jury found that death had, as in
dicated in a deathbed statement by
the girl, resulted from an operation
on or about October 5.' .
Mayor of Superior Pays
Visit to Omaha Officials
J. L. Konkell, mayor of Superior,
Wis., took advantage of a few hours
between trains to visit the city hall,
where he called on Mayor Dahlman
and other officials.
This Badger state municipal officer
is one of a commission of three mem
bers who administer public affairs of
Superior. The term of office is six
years.
Superior voted dry last spring'and
next spring will vote again on this
question, under a law which requires
a petition of IS per cent of the voters
for an election. Duluth, across the
harbor, is still wet and it is said that
some of the Duluth wetness finds its
way over to Superior. Duluth has
voted dry.
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Union Pacific Makes
Mistake in Annual Passes
The annual passes issued this year
by the Union Pacific to railroad men
and others who are entitled to them
by law and the right of courtesy, are
giving the road's passenger officials a
lot of trouble. There are several
thousand of them out, but a lot of
them are being called in.
Union Pacific passes have printed
across one end, in red ink, the
words. "Not good on Overland
trains," and it is the omission of it
that is causing the trouble. When
the passes for this year were ordered
there were two orders, the original
and subsquently another when it was
discovered that there would not be
enough in the first order to go around.
The first lot of passes carried the
legend, but the second did not. The
clerks sending them out did not notice
the omission. Now only the holders
know the conditions of the passes,
relative to riding trains. As a re-
result circulars are being sent to every
passholder. Each circular tells the
passholder that if his pass carries
the red ink legend to retain it, but if
not return it at once to headquarters.
Business Change at Wood River.
Wood River, Neb., Jan. 24. (Spe
cial Telegram.) Gus B. Niarhos, who
for five years has been proprietor of a
shoe store, sold out today to R. Sindt.
The buyer was formerly connected
with the Standard Oil company here.
The consideration was named as
$2,500.
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Lincoln, Jan. 24. (Special.) The
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over the school lands of Nebraska for
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land counties for the same purpose,
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