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VOL. XLVI. NO. 208.
OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16, 1917 TWELVE PAGES.
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FIND BODIES OF
THREE COWBOYS
SLAiNONBORDER
Lem Spillsbury Identifies Them
as Those jot Mormons Killed
by Mexican Bandit
Clan.
THREAT BY GEN. SALAZAR
Two Americans Are Reported
' Killed in Second Dash Over
Border by Villistas.
COWBOYS FORM A POSSE
Hachita, N. M Feb. IS. Three
bodies, later identified as those of An
drew P. Peterson, Hugh Acord and
Burton Jensen, late today were found
by Lem Spillsbury, the Pershing
scout, one mile west of International
Monument No. 53, situated three
miles west of the Corner ranch.
Hachita, 'N. M., Feb. 1-5. Jose Vnez
Salazar threatened soon to raid ' an
American city or town and kill
the American men, according to
"Bunk" Spencer, the American negro.
who, with his Mexican wife, are being
held for ransom by Salazar's force at
Ujitos.
Spencer reached the border yester
day to obtain a ransom for the re-
lease of himself and wife, returning
to Ojitos.
According to Spencer, Salazar gave
him the following message to take to
the border:
"Tell the American people that
General Jose Ynez Salazar is going
to visit them shortly and distribute
a few pounds of lead in their midst.
Just as soon as the forces I am ex
pecting reach me, I "will strike some
An,.r,i.4n niir nr tmvn on1 nn AtnAn.
can force or Carranza army will pre
vent me from carrying out my plans.
Columbus will be as nothing com
pared to my strike.
"During my stay I will make every
effort to protect American womeHi
and children, but the men of 'gringo'
land will have to take care."
Hearst Ranch Raided.
El Paso, Tex., Feb. 15 Julio
Acosta, a Villa commander, raided the
Maherachic ranch, belonging to Mrs.
Phoebe Hearst, two miles trom Ma
dera, Chihuahua, on February 8, kill
ing two Mexican ranclk hands, wound
ing several others, completely looting
the ranch house and driving off a num
' ber of horses, according to a message
received here tonight.
Madera is 210 miles southwest W
Juarez and is the center of the Pear
son Milling company's interests. The
same message also told of-the looting
of the Pearson company's store there,
according to local Hearst representa
tives. Mexican Bandit Captured.
Laredo, Tex., Feb. 15. Twenty
Mexican bandits and a detachment of
Florida infantry engaged in a skirmisli
last night near Zapatas. One bandit
was captured and several horses be
longing to the Mexicans were cor
ralled. The soldiers fired on the bandits
shortly after they crossed the Rio
Grande river and the fire was returned
by the Mexicans who then fled., The
Americans pursued them some dis
tance do.wn the river, losing track of
them in the darkness.
Believe Men Executed.
Corner Ranch, N. M., Feb. 15
(Via Automobile Courier to Hachita,
N. M.) Belief that the three Amer
ican Morsion cowboys, Andrew P.
Peterson, Hugh Acord and Burton
Jensen, were executed by the Mex
ican raiders who captured them at
the Corner ranch here on the Amer
ican side of the border Monday, was
strengthened today when- Andrew
Peterson's shepherd dog crawled into
camp famished and footsore as if he
had come a great distance during the
night. American cowboys of the res
cue posse who camped at the line
here last night took this to mean Pe
terson and his companions were dead.
"I guess Andy's gone if his dog
deserts him, one big cowboy said as
he petted the exhausted animal.
Lem Spillsbury, the Pershing scout,
and his pose of Mormon scouts and
(OosHiraed on Pace Two, Column Two.)
The Weather
Temperature at Omaha. Vwiterdmy.
Hour. De
6 a. m
6 a. m. .
7 a. m
S a. m
J a. m
10 a. m
11 a. m
12 m.:
1 p. in
2 p. m
5 p. m
4 p. m
6 p. m
6 p. m
7 p. m. . . A . .
P- m
SI
Comparative Looal Beeordi.
1917. JAt.. 1S1B. 1114.
Hlghat yeaterday.... 40 87 ' 31 41
Lowet yesterday 16 18 a 6 12
Mean temperature.... 33 'i 28 2(
Precipitation T .00 .00 .00
Normal temperature 24
Excess for the day I
Total excM since March 1 Ibt
Normal precipitation jt. .02 Inch
Deficiency for the day 02 Inch
Total rainfall since March 1. .. .17 . 42 Inches
Deficiency since March 1 12. 07 Inches
Deficiency for cor. period, 1016. ,72 Inches
Deficiency for cor. period, 1914. 1.6& Inches
Beporta From Stations at 7 P. M. J
Station and flute Temp. inch- Rain-
of weather. 7 p. m. est,
Cheyenne, clear 28 32
Davenport, snow 24 80
Denrer, cloudy 3ft 40
Dea Hoines, clear...... 2 20
fall.
.00
T
Dodrfl City, clear 42 4 .00
Lander, clear 34 40
North Platte cloudy... 28 48
Omaha, clear 3 4
Pueblo, clear 31 42
Rapid City, cloudy 28 40 J
Salt Luke City, clear., 28 33 .4
ttartta Ke, part cloudy. . 28 34 ,1
Sheridan, part cloudy.. 38 42 ,l
Hlouz City, snow 80 3tf .1
Yalentlne. cloudy 34 42 .
"T" indicates trace of precipitation.
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NEBRASKA. WOMEN
.VISIT STATE HOUSE
Gather From Over State to
Present Arguments Upon
Limited Suffrage Bill.
MANY ARE FROM OMAHA
(From ft Staff Correspondent.) j
Lincoln, Feb. 13. (Special Tele-i
gram.) One of the most largely at-
tended and most enthusiastic hearings
f (,. u.u .u:.
v niv num-i v3 llllVI I Ilia CVCMIH,
before the senate committee on privi-1
leges and elections when those repre
senting both sides of the partial suf
frage bill presented their arguments
to the committee, the session lasting
about three hours. A delegation of
about seventy-five was here from
A; ..t. k;h
Prof. George Howard of the Univer
sity of Nebraska, Rev. Mr. Wetherly
of Lincoln, a Unitarian minister, who
went to Europe with the Ford peace
expedition; Miss Alice Howell, Miss
Tlrbek of the state university; Mrs.
Halleck Rose, Mrs. Draper Smith and
Mrs. J. M. Metcalf of Omaha and sev
eral other women from out in the
stale.
The argument of the antis was pre
sented . by Miss Minnie Bronson,
graduate of the university of Iowa,
who was introduced by Mrs. William
Archibald Smith of Omaha. Miss
Bronson's arguments were so forcible
that at one time she was greeted with
hisses trom the suttragists on the
other side. However, she kept her
equilibrium and continued to drive
home her arguments.
Law Observance Needed.
Miss Bronson told the committee
that it was not so much the making
of laws that was wanted as it was the
observance of those already made.
"You can make laws and provide
for their enforcement," said she, "but
the important things is the observ
ance of the law and that can best be
taught from the mother's knee'
She denied that the votes of women
had brought better conditions in suf
frage states.
Rev. Mr. Wetherlv souelit to dis
credit her arguments, calling atten
tion, to the fact that Miss Bronson
had been paid to attend the hearing,
while the speakers on the other side
were volunteers.
School Bill Hearing.
A hearing on the Howell-Goodall
bills to give the schools of Omaha
reoresentation-.bv wards, but election
Kf the representatives . on the board
at large, came up this afternopn be
fore the educational committee of the
senate and a spirited argument was
had between advocates for and against
the bill. Those who argued against
the bill were J. H. Beaumont, John
Robbins, W. F. Baxter, Edgar Scott,
Dr. Harold Gilford and A. R. Wells;
while Harry Claibourne, Fred Hoye
and Dr.- Holovtchiner, appeared for
it. All were from Omaha.
. Banquet at Hotel.
Two . hundred and fifty women
marched en masse from a downtown
hotel to the state house and attended
the afternoon session of the senate.
There were representatives from all
parts of the state.
The banquet meeting at' noon was
said to be one of the liveliest suffrage
meetings ever held iy the state. Fol
lowing an enthusiastic talk by the
presiding officer, in which she de
clared woman had been the slave to
the dishrag, the washrag and the dust
rag long enough, the entire body of
women took up the slogan, "Do it
now," and sallied forth to the state
house.
Three British Ships
Are Reported Sunk;
Crews Are Saved
Washington. Feb. 15.The British
sailing vessel Ainsdale, Buenos Aires
for England, was stopped by a sub
marine loo miles on (..ape Clear, on
the Irish coast, on February 5 and
sunk after the crew had abandoned
it. Ambassador Page at London ad
vised the State department of the
sinking today, saying that the crew of J
iweniy-nve, mciuaing one American,
had been rescued. The Ainsdale was
a lull rigged ship of 1,725 tons net.
London, heb. 15. the British
steamer Cihcia of 3,750 tons gross
has been sunk, Lloyd's shipping
agency announced today. The crew
was landed.
The British steamer Ferga also has
been sunk, the agency announces.
The Cilicla was 346 feet hi length.
The Ferga is not listed in available
shipping records,
Young Mother Abandons Infant
Because Lover Objected to Him
Because her 12-day-old baby stood
in the way to her marriage, Anna
Clayton, 20, 842 South Nineteenth
street, decided to rid herself of the
child. It was found abandoned, with
scarcely enough clothes to cover it,
In a vacant house near Thirty-nintlri
and Jones streets, Wednesday atter-
noon Dy two employes ot a, wmn,
coal dealer.
E. A. Winn told the police that he
saw la woman enter the vacant house
with a bundle. When she reappeared
without the bundle his suspicions be
came arousec and he sent two of his
employes to investigate. They found
the child.
Officer Hans Nielson. who re
sponded to the police call sent in by
Mr. Winn, immediately took the baby
to the Child Saving institute, from
which place the identity of the
mother was ascertained.
From information given by the
superintendent of the institution, who
said that the baby had been brought
to the institute shortly before it was
found abandoned, the arrest of the
mother followed.
Laconically, the mother told re
porters at the police station why she
NEW DEMAND FOR
RELEASE OF MEN
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Feb. 15. A new and
vigorous demand for the release of
the Americans from the prize ship
Yarrowdalc, held prisoners in Ger
many, will be sent forward in the
very near future, it was staled today
definitely. The demand will be ac
companied by a full statement on
treatment accorded Germans and Ger
man ships in the United States.
The president and Secretary Lan- j
sing remained together tor only a
few minutes and then the president
went into the office of Secretary Dan
iels. Secretary Lansing said "no big
event" was responsible for the confer
ence. It was thought the arrning of
American merchantmen was .under
discussion. '
Later it was said that the confer
ence between Secretary Lansing and
the president did not have any direct ,
bearing on the present Uerman situa
tion. After remaining with Secretary
Daniels for fifteen minutes President
Wilson walked to the office of Secre
tary Baker.
When he left Secretary Baker's of
fice he said:
"I am just keeping track of things.
There is nothing new."
No Definite Plans.
While it was still indicated that the
accumulation of vviolations of Amer
ican rights might lead President Wil
son to go before congress a any
time, it was stated today that he has
made no definite plans for taking
such a step immediately.
The sinking of the American
schooner Lyman M. Law in the Medi
terranean hv an Austrian submarine
probably with warning, is regarded by
officials here as illegal, inasmuch as j
the cargo was not contraband and the
submarine displayed no Bag, but since
no lives were lost it is believed the
incident will not in itseX develop into
a cause for drastic action by this gov
ernment.
Submarine it Austrian. : . j
New York.- Feb. .$A- cblegrain'i
from F. W. McDonough, captain of
the Ajnerican schooner Lyman M.
Law, which was sunk in the 'Mediter
ranean, was received here today by
the agents of the Maritime Transpor
tation company. The message reads:
"Law destroyed. Austrian subma
rine. Crew safe Cagliari, Sardinia.
(Signed) "F. W. M'DONOUGH."
George W. F. Green, president of
the Maritime Transportation, com
pany, announced today that he in
tended to file a protest with the State
department over the destruction of
he. schooper.
French Ministry
Fixes Prices for
Butter ind Cheese
Paris, Feb. 15. The food ministry
has decided that from February 19
maximum prices are to be fixed
throughout France for milk, butter
and cheese. In the department of
the Seine, including Paris, the price
of milk must not exceed 10 cents for
a litre about a pint and three-quarters
if bought in a shop, or 11 cents
delivered.
The maximum prices for butter vary
from $1.12 to $1.35'per kilo roughly
two pounds according to the quality
and source.
The only cheese prices fixed so far
are Camembert, from 13 cents to id
cents the small box, according to
quality, and pont l'eveque at slightly
higher prices. All prices must be con
spicuously displayed in the shop con
cerned. There will be no celebration of
Mardi Gras next Tuesday, but all
theaters- will be permitted to give
both morning and evening perform
ances. The two-course meal regula
tion, which applies to all hotels and
restaurants, goes into effect today.
had abandoned the child. "I first
took Edwin to the Child Saving insti
tute," she said, "but they wouldn't take
him in because he was too young."
They advised me to take him to the
county hospital, but when I went
there they told me that 1 would have
to stay there with him.' I didn't want
to do that.
"I was to marry Tom, Flynn just
as soon as I got strong enough, but
he objected to the baby."
The mother then told how she had
abandoned the infant in the vacant
house.
The father of the child, she said,
lived, in Lincoln. Tom Flytin, 842
South Nineteenth street, who, she
said, promised to marry her and who
objected to the child, was arrested
and was booked for investigation.
The mother said that she had spent
practically all her life in orphanages,
her parents having died when she was
3 years old. She was recently an in
mate of the Geneva Industrial School
for Girls.
County Attorney Magney is investi
gating the matter and will probably
file a charge of attempted murder
against the mothv-
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OMAHA LEADS LOAN
BANK SUBSCRIPTION
More Than Third of Stock
Taken by Public in Twelve
Banks Subscribed Here.
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REDEEMABLE AT FAR
Washington, Feb. 15. Public sub
scription to the stock ot the twelve
federal farm loan banks took up only
26,000 shares o'f a value of $130,000.
ana me government win supply the
- tel"a(lne
The farm loan board in announcing
the figures today made it clear that
public subscription had not been
thought desirable in view of the fact
that the stock is redeemable at par,
and, that within a year or so at most
the banks would buy back the stock
from its original holders.
Thus, in the case of the Baltimore
bank, to which public subscription
aggregated about $6,500, the board
decined to entertain a suggestion
made by a Baltimore banker that the
entire stock issuebe underwritten in
that cjty.
Compete" returns of the stock sub
scription have not Veen received from
four of the twelve districts. Returns
tabulated thus farhow that the
greatest amount, about 9,000 shares,
were subscribed for the Omaha bank.
Railroads to Send
Empty Cars West
In Solid Trains
s
Washington, Feb. 15. Representa
tives of thirty chief railroads con
sidering the car shortage situation
here today made a "gentleman's
agreement" to declare a virtual em
bargo against all shipments for ex-
fiort from eastern ports, to adopt a
iberal use of "an intelligent embargo"
against the eastbound domestic ship
ments and to send empty cars west
in solid train loads as last as possible.
.Representatives of the Interstate
Commerce commission present at the
meeting are understood to favor the
plan.
The roads, working in close co
operation, will not accept further ex
port shipments until part of the ex
port traffic congested in eastern ports
is removed. As fast as traffic is
loaded on steamers new freight will
be accepted.
Foodstuffs for domestic use will
be accepted in limited quantities and
will have preference over all other
eastbound freight. Two fifty-car
trains of grain and flour will be
moved daily from Minneapolis by
fast freight the grain for NeW Bug
land and the flour for Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia, New York and New
England, where it Is said there is a
threatened shortage. -
Every railroad yard in the east is
reported in a state of congestion.'
Railroad officials have agreed to pick
out the empties from the thousands
of cars thus tied up and to send them
west in solid trains ahead of alt other
traffic except passenger trains.
Man Who Attacked Editor
Must Pay for His Fun
Yankton, S. D., Feb. 15. (Special.)
In circuit court, February term,
now in sesion here, with no-criminal
cases to be tried, the main interest
centered on a suit brought by Editor
E. A. Kaech of the Yankton County
Record against John Walsh for dam
ages to the amount of $1,500 for al
leged damages in an assault case. The
jury returned a verdict for $50. Walsh
struck Kaech, who attacked him in
his paper, and the case, after appear
ing in justice court, reached circuit
court, and may go to the supreme
court. '
'Twas Ever Thus
GERARD ANDPARTY
ARRIVEAT PARIS
Ambassador Sharp and Em
bassy Staff Meet Ameri
cans at Station,
TRIP WITHOUT INCIDENT
Paris, Feb. 15. James V. Gerard,
former American ambassador at Ber
lin; Mrs. Gerard and their party,
forty-two persons in all, arrived in
Paris this morning from Berne,
Switzerland. They were met at the
station bythe American ambassador,
William H. Sharp, and the embassy
staff.
A battalion of French photograph
ers took snapshots of Mr. and Mrs.
Gerard as they alighted from the
train. The journey from Berne was
without incident. The French gov
ernment placed two cars at. the dis
posal of the party, attaching them to
a regular train. Mr. and Mrs. Ger
ard are stopping at a hotel.
Mr. Gerard had a long talk with
Mr. Sharp at the embassy this morn
ing. He probably will be received by
distinguished representatives of the
French government and will meet
some of the most important person
ages at a dinner which Mr. and Mrs.
Sharp- are arranging.
Gerard Thanks Germans.
Berlin, Feb. 15. (Via Wireless to
Sayville.) "On leaving German soil,
ex-Ambassador Gerard asked the Ger
man correspondents who had' accom
panied him to transmit his thanks to
the German government," says the
Overseas news agency. "He declared
that the arrangements made by the
government for the American em
bassy and colony surpassed every
thing he might have hoped for and
that 'German hospitality and chival
rousness brilliantly) stood the 'test
during these hard days.'"
Graves of Victims
Of the Battleship
Maine Decorated
Washington, Feb. 15. The nine
teenth anniversay of the sinking of
the battleship Maine in Havana har
bor was observed here today by the
decorating of graves of the ship's
dead sailors at Arlington National
cemetery and exercises by patriotic
and military organizations. Spanish
war veterans held services at Fort
Myer with the Cuban minister, Carlos
Manuel de Cespedes, and Commander-in-Chief
Daniel V. Chisholm
among the speakers.
Demos from Omaha All Want to
Be Chiefs; Won't Stand Hitched
Democratic chieftains in Omaha
are complaining because the Douglas
county representatives at Lincoln all
want to be leaders of their delegation,
thereby jeopardizing the interests of
certain measures which they are ex
pected to pilot through the legislature.
Richmond, Keegan, Shannon and
Says Americana Are
Wickedly Tempting God
Amsterdam, Feb. 15. (Via Lon
don.) The Lokal Anieiger of Ber
lin expresses the hope that cabled
report! to the effect that Amer
ican merchantmen are tailing In
defiance of the submarine block
ade are unfounded.
"The plan for such sailings," it
says, "it the bottom amounts to
nothing else than most wickedly
tempting God."
DRY RIDER PLACED
UPON POSTAL BILL
Senate Amendment Bars Liq
uor Advertisements and Or
ders from the Mails.
DRASTIC PENALTY ADDED
Washington, Feb. 15. Newspapers
and other publications containing
liquor advertisements would be barred
from the mails in states prohibiting
such advertising by an amendment to
(lie postal bill adopted lite today by
the. senate. The amendment must be
accepted by the house before it can
become law.
The amendment was submitted by.
Senator Jones of 'Washington 'after
the senate by a two-thirds vote had
suspended the rules to make it admis
sible in an appropriation bill. It car
ries with it a drastic clause added by
Senator Reed, making it a crime pun
ishable by $1,000 fine or from six
months' to two year' imprisonment
for any person to order, purchase or
cause liquor to be transported into
dry states for beverage purposes, ex
cepting, however, for scientific, med
icinal, sacramental or mechanical pur
poses. This provision is designed to
make "bone dry" stales that prohibit
the manufacture oi intoxicating
liquor, but permit limited quantities
for personal use.
The Jones amendment, as originally
proposed, made the maximum penalty
five years' imprisonment. Senator
Reed so ridiculed this that Senator
Jones changed it.
An amendment by Senator Martine
to include cigarette advertisements in
the mail" ban was rejected by a vote
of 19 to 39.
A bill to bar liquor advertisements
from the mails already has passed
the senate. It may never reach a vote
in the, house, hut by attaching the
legislation to the appropriation bill
action is assured.
French Passenger
Liner Arrives at
New York Safely
New York. 'Feb. 15. Another en
tente steamship, the French liner
Chicago, which passed safely
through Germany's zone of unre
stricted submarine warfare, arrived
here today with 181 passengers. No
U boats were observed, the officers
said, nor any friendlv war vessels,
although the wireless spoke of trie
presence of French patrol boats off
the French coast.
Nielson particularly are charged with
ambitions to leadership.
City administration bosses are
vexed on account of the refusal of the
Douglas county "boys" to stand
hitched.
"Didn't we Stand behind the delega
tion at the last election? Isn't this
the golden opportunity for democrats?
Then why shouldn't our delegation
stick together and quit their petty
quibbliag?" were questions asked by
a city hall leader.
The democratic organization here
takes the position that true democ
racy means that there , shall be one
leader at one time and that all shall
follow the leader. This business of
four or five trying to be leaders does
not set well with the powers that bi
in Omaha.
Mayor Dahlman, City Attorney
Rine, C. F. Boasie and others are
journeying to Lincoln every, now and
then in a vain endeavor to get the
boys in line for effective work.
GERMANY WILL
LET AMERICANS
STAY IN BELGIUM
Representatives of Relief
Commission Will Not With
draw From There and
North France.
i WILL GIVE
EVERY
AID
; Step Taken at Meeting of Teu
l ton Authorities Held in
I Brussels.
OFFICIAL NOTE IS SENT
London, Feb. 15. Representatives
of the American Commission for Re
lief iii Belgium, will not withdraw
from the occupied portions of Bel-
Jgium and Northern France, as prev-
iously had been arranged, but will re
main for the present, it is now stated.
A Rcutcr dispatch from The Hague
says the German legation there
states that Germany is permitting
Americans to continue relief work in.
Belgium and northern France. An of-
nciai note to tnts enect, tne legation
states, was addressed on February 10
to the diplomatic controller of nutri
tion work.
Furthermore, the American minister
at Brussels' w as given 4he opportunity
to participate in the central manage-.
ment of nutrition work. ,
Accede to Any Request.
The German authorities further de-
clare, the legation states, that in the
future as in the past, they would be
willing to accede to every demand of
th Commission for Relief in Belgium.
The commission received a dis
patch today from its office in Rotter
dam stating that at a meeting held
in Brussels, the German authorities
announced that all representatives of
the commission might remain in Bel
gium and northern Frence on the
same footing as heretofore. Present
at this meeting were Baron von Dcr
Lancken, civil governor of Brussels,
the American and Spanish ministers,
representatives of the Belgian Relief
Commission and of the Belgian na
tional committee.
Previous Announcement.
Announcement was made on Feb
ruary 12 that the relief commission
had notified the German authorities
that its representatives would be
withdrawn from Belgium and north
ern France. This step was taken in
reply to an order from the German
authorities that Americans must de
part, leaving only a few of their rep
resentatives headed by the American
minister, Brand Whitlock.
.wl:- , -j l-. .t
inn oruer was-saia uy tne com
mission to have been given by Baron
von der Lancken, civil governor of
Brussels. On receipt of this order, the
commission arranged for the immedi
ate withdrawal of all its representa
tives except a few who were to see
to it that the relief work should not
be interrupted pending its transfer to
another neutral oragnization,
Asked to Lower Flag.
Washington, Feb. 15. State de-1.
partment advices today reported offi
cially that Brand Whitlock, American
minister to Belgium, had "been re
quested, but not ordered, by the Ger
man military authorities to lower the
American flag from the legation in
Brussels. x
The department's advices made no
mention of American relief workers
being neid prisoners and officials
shared the opinion of Chairman Hoov
er of the American commission that it
was improbable. A-to the flag inci
dent, it seemed to be regarded by of
ficials as more sentimental than ac
tually serious, although it did arouse
some feeling. State department offi
cials took the view that the Gsrman
military authorities were acting strict
ly within their rights.
The American minister 'ft accred
ited to the Belgian government, not
to Belgium as a geographical unit,
and the seat of the Belgium govern
ment at Havre. Mr. Whitlock re
mained at Brussels bv permission of
the German government to take part
in the relief work and the American
legation for diplomatic reasons ceased
to be a legation. t
Fatal Case of Lockjaw When
Pitchfork Enters Brain
Beatrice, Neb.,' Feb. 14. (Special
Telegram.) Walter Woods of New
Holland, O., died here of lockjaw
yesterday, caused by railing against a
pitchfork, the tine of which entered
the brain throucrh the nostril. He was
19 years of age. Tlie body was sent
to New Holland today.
Lincoln Men at New Orleans
After Long Trip by Canoe
New Orleans, La., Feb. 15. (Spe
cial Teleeram.) Stanlev McLean and
Clarence Moore of Lincoln, Neb.,
have arrived here after a long canoe
trip from their northern home.' Mc
Lean is regaining his health.
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