fHE BEE: 'OMAHA, FRIDAY, MARCH 9. 1917.
COUNTERFEIT GANG
CTIYE IN OMAHA?
federal Sleuths and Local De
tectives Suspect There's a
"Layout in the City."
WOMAN PRESENTS COIN
That a gang of clever counterfeiters
may have been at work in Omaha for
some time i feared by the Omaha
Dolice and local federal authorities
The appearance of a counterfeit $10
gold piece wa made known to the
police three days ago and they ad
,,A thr federal officers who have
instituted a search for the men who
are placing the spurious money in cir
culation. -
Wednesday night a woman prof
t.r.A tn V. C Unitt of the Umtt-
lwriral Drue comDiny a $10 gold
oicce for payment of articles pur
chased. The coin did not appear gen
uine to Unitt because it seemed to be
a little light and the metallic ring was
not true. Unitt weighed the coin and
(n.,nrf hi. suspicions true. It was
considerably under weight. Further,
inspection the coin led Unitt to
believe tne cpin w iucicij ....,....
with gold. The $10 mark on the coin
atamnH ill.
The woman who presented the coin
to Unitt could not recall where she
had received it. She said she had car
ried it in her purse several days and
.!,,. uA nnr arnnscd her suspicions.
Authorities fear that many more of
these spurious coins may have been
circulated in Omaha. The counterfeit
is fairly clever. and probably would
easily escape detection unless exam
ined more or less closely.
Rnth nnllre and federal officers are
searching for the culprits but their
information is so meager they are not
sure whether a gang of counterfeiters
is at work here or whether a "passer
merely dropped into Omaha to "shove
the queer.
"Spite Bride," He
Says His Wife Is
In Divorce Plea
Life in the trenches at Verdun
had nothing on the alleged domestic
warfare in a certain Liecner nunr
i,u i. rinihi. accordinn to the huS'
bind, Marion Decker, who is suing
fnr divorce in district court. He as
serts that his wife, Anna Decker,
married him for spite and then, on
.liffrrmt occasions, hit him on the
head with a meat cleaver and
tt.ii i.;m ,ith a hutcher knife.
Thomas T. Laiio. a talesman, 1718
cik Tnth street, seeks hit free
dom from hit wife, Lena Lazio,' al
leging extreme cruelty. He admit!
that he left her tome time ago, aver
ring that he did to because "he wat
afraid the would put poison in hit
food " '
Nlniuuooort it alleged by Mattie
Muntell, who hat ttarted divorce ac
tion against Asa MuntelL
Iohi Bridoes. .suing for divorce
from Maggie Bridget, alleges deter-
tion. 'f " -p -i ' '
Lloyd Hendrickson. would be treed
from Edith Hendrickson. He alleges
- cruelty. . -
Alfalfa May Be Used as
The New Postal "Efficiency"
DEATH MYSTERY IS
SOLYEDBY MAGHEY
Inquest Reveals Man Found in
Buttermilk Vat Met Acci.
dental Death.
POLICE THEORY IS MURDER
That Thomas R. Campbell, whose
lifeless body wat' found tuspended
over buttermilk vat in the Omaha
cold storage plant at Eighth and
Farnam streets, came to his death by
accident two or three days prior to
the time he wat found and that death
wat due to strangulation, wat the ver
dict of a coroner s jury at an inquest
held Thursday morning by County
Attorney Magney. -
A. M. ihomsen, foreman at tne
storage plant, .testified that the pipe
through which a man would nave to
past in order, to get into the butter
milk vat was but twenty inches iu
diameter, and that Campbell would
have had to slide In feet; first with
his arms outttretched above hit head.
Bruise on Head.
Dr. McCleneghen testified . that an
bruise on Camp-
LATE CABARET FOR
CEMEJTDEALERS
'We Always Save Good Things
Till the Last," is Whipper
man's Wisdom.
Sub for CTieWina ODaCCO bell's head, which might have been
Alfalfa as human food in both solid ?e. by ttiunr in rument ana
wmill liMgui nam icuucicu null uu-
COnSCIOUS.
Detectives Dolan and Lahey, who
worked on the case, testified they had
learned from relatives at Avoca, la.,
that the dead man had $40 in money
and a gold watch on him when he
came to Omaha. When his body was
discovered no trace of money or Val
uablet was found.
The theory that Campbell might
have been slugged and robbed and
then placed in the vat by his assail
ants was advanced, but the coroner's
jury decided the theory of accidental
death was more plausible,
and liquid forms is 'fast coming to
the front, according to W. W. Kirby
of Denver, who is at the Faxton ho
tel. He is vice president of a com
pany that it preparing to manufac
ture alfalfa health foods.
The cost of human living will Be
.educed by the use of alfalfa as food,"
tie asserts. "In addition, alfalfa is
very nourishing, being richer in pro
tein than wheat, and is far more
healthful than bran. It can be made
into all sorts of food, including bread,
biscuits, hard tack, pie, caice, cookies,
crackers, tvruo and substitutes for
tea. coffee and soda fountain annus.
Even a substitute for plug chewing
tooacco can oe mane irom aiiana, iA n
i"y;t1" fTihle On Farms Much Less
health food when it was used in mak
ing a tea that relieved dyspepsia.
nuilliwcicui taauoa Washington, March 8. Lorn on
Warning to Autoists ("m Uarch 1 ,bout 78,4i6,ooo
I I t. 1 I lit- 4 ItaC Cm AAA
Northwestern is distrusting BU,nB "parw "wwv
ouanen iai year, me jueparimcm oi
Than One Year Ago
The
150,000 safety cards among autonio.
bile owners along its lines in Ne
braaka and other states traversed by
the road. Thev tell of the cus
tomary warning that will be followed
by the trainmen and other railroad
employes and ask automobile owners
to co-onerate in an effort to prevent
accidents. The cards point to the fact
that the report of the Interstate torn.
merce commission last year shows
that 1.0S6 persons were killed and
2.981 injured while walking or driv
ing over railway tracks at highway
crossings m the United Mates,
The caution closet with the injunc
tion: "Stoo and look and listen be
lore crossing the tracks. A life, or a
limb, once gone, can never be brought
back.
Agriculture today announced in its
March crop report
Wheat held on farms March 1 was
about 101,365,000 bushels. Last year
244,448,000 bushels remained on
farms March 1.
Oats on farms was about 393.985,.
000 bushels, compared with 598,148,.
000 bushels last vear.'
Barlev on farms was about 32.84!.-
000 bushels, compared with 58,301,000
bushels last year.
A supplementary statement said
wheat in country mills and elevators
on March 1 it estimated to ne BV.6I4,
000 bushels (14 per cent of the 1916
crop) compared with 155,OZ7,OUU buth-
els a year ago.
Pleads Guilty to Taking
$400 in Goods from Car
Chappell, Neb., March 8. (Special
Telegram.) Claude Smith, a colored
section hand, who wat arrested at Big
Springi on Monday on a charge of
breaking into a car on a through train,
entered a plea of guilty at hit prelimi
nary hearing in the county court yes
terday afternoon. Smith was arrested
by F. M. Cashman, special agent oi
the union facinc, witn neaaquarters
at Omaha, and Assistant Agent Curtis
Galyean of Grand Island.
Forty pairs of tan shoes, some elec
trical sunolies and notions were re
covered by the railroad detectives.
lhe value of the stolen goods
amounted to $400. Smith was bound
over to the district court in $1,000
bonds'. He is in jail awaiting a spe
cial term of the district court, which
will likely be held this week.
Smith is said to be wanted in Texas
for breaking a seven months' parole.
The original crime was murder, ac
cording to hit wife't story.
Many Daily Moving Out
To New western rarms
The soring movement of emigrants
hat started and already a good many
of the men of Iowa and ttatet farther
east who filed on government land in
the western part of Nebraska, in Wy
oming and Colorado are moving out
with their families, implements and
household possessions.
The Union Pacific, Burlington and
Northwestern are each taking out
several cars daily, and in most in
stances the people going have the ap
pearance of being rather well-to-do
armers.
COLLINOS TALES ON STEEL
The vast and intricate industry of
manufacturing reinforcing steel for
concrete work was illustrated with
lantern slides tnd by a lecture by W.
A. Collings, an engineer ot Kansas
City, at the Hotel Kome ihursday
morning. Mr. Callings was speaking
and showing hit pictures to the dele
gates of the Mid-West Cement User's
association. Jhj pictures snowed tne
details of the interior of a large mill
rolling the steer rodt and wires, and
illustrated the various processes
whereby the rods are prepared ior
use. Une ot tne teaiures oi trie wnuic
sfries of slide; wat the tew times
human hand, actually touch the rods.
since almost the whole process is ac
complished by machinery.
C. M. Wood of the Portland Ce
ment association of Chicago lectured
the merits of concrete, tile and
pipe. Bela Nagy of Pittsburgh, chief
engineer ot tne nyaraieo. urae uu
reau, spoke during the morning on
"The Use of Hydrated Lime in Ce
ment and Concrete Products."
Officers for the ensuing year are
to be elected Friday.
The cement show at the Auditorium
is drawing its crowds still, and the
interest in the cement house that is
to be given away is growing keener
and keener. Voting on the house
proposition is growing mere active.
The cement blocks for the coistruc
tion of the house are daily being
turned out in the basement by a ma
chine which is there for the purpose.
Stella Man Injured.
Stella, Neb., March 8. (Special.)
Word was received here yesterday
that Jeff Warfield, a young man of
Stella, who has been working as a
switchman at Sheridan, Wyo., had his
foot so badly crushed that it was amputated.
DIDN'T RAISE THEIR
LOVERSTO BE TARS
Girls Storm Naval Recruiting
Office and Capture Couple
of Tender Swains.
BOYS ARE ALMOST SAILORS
Cupid scored a double victory over
Mars and Uncle Sam's navy lost
two recruits Wednesday. Recruiting
officers are threatening to bar all
women from their offices, as the re
sult of two would-be tars making an
eleventh hour decision to remain
with their sweethearts in preference
to four years of life on the bound
ing main.
Chester Lee Swart, io, iiiw Avenue
B, and Floyd Chester Lattery, 17, 212
North Ninth street, both of Council
Bluffs, were in the very act of taking
the oath of allegiance and finally cast
ing their lot with the navy, when
their sweethearts, also of Council
Bluffs, dashed into the office of Lieu
tenant W. W. Waddell."
A Lover's Lastoo.
One young woman threw her arms
around young Swart, while the other
grasped Lattery's hand.
"Stuff's off," said the lieutenant to
himself. And sure enough, it was.
Even though both lads had parental
consent and had fully made up their
minds to join the navy, they promptly
backed out and hurried away with the
girls.
Just before that, Chief Yeoman F.
I. Ross of the recruiting station had
met the girls in the hall as they hur
ried to find the boys before it was
too late. One of the girls had taken
hold of his coat collar and vigorously
told him that the navy must not take
their boys away from them.
To Ooen Bids for Paving
Twelve Blocks On Ames
On March 20 the city council will
open bids for paving Ames avenue,
Thirty-sixth to Forty-eighth streets.
This will be one of the big paving
jobs of the year. The project has
been in the balance for several years.
1 ne improvement uismci was crcaicu
by the city council under the "main
tnorougniare law.
Robber Frightened Before "
He Finishes the Holdup
Mrs. M. Ryan, 2502 Cuming street,
narrowly escaped being held -up
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Laborers Blow Out Gas;
Roomers Rescue Them
, Leonardo Paolepto and Leonardo
Rossier, Italian section hands, were
found overcome by gas in their room
at tne Koma notei, tievcntn ano
Dodge streets. Both men are in
serious condition.
The odor of escaping gas was de-
tected by other roomers at the Roma
is early as 10 o'clock Wednesday
" evening and it is believed the Italians,
unfamiliar with the workings of gas
Sights, blew out the jet flame when
they retired and inhaled the nauseous
gases all night -
Railroads Discontinue
The Colonists' Rates
Colonists' rates thst prevailed dur
. ;ng the last twenty years over all of
the roads leading into west are now
i thing of the cast. .This decision
hat been reached by the Western Pas-
Knger association, now in session,
Inch, in connection with the propo
sition, has acted jointly with the gen
. rai managers oi me lines anccico.
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aavi ha la convlnoed that too much anodl-
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