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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1917. CUAZ, GOLD THIEF, ADMITS HIS GUILT Head of Band Which Sobbed Mines of Many Thousands , to Testify Against Tel- "- low Plotters. Omaha Lad Writes of Strenuous RRNRWFD ACTIVITY I aM1 Mar W A -A A Lite Me Cavalry Boys Are Leading ON BRITISH FRONT Cheyenne, W'yo., June 25. Antonio Cuaz, alleged head of the to-called gold "high grading conspiracy,' pleaded guilty in the United Statu district court today. Sentence was deferred. Cuaz. it was announced will be the principal witness againit eighteen other men indicted with him. Cuaz admitted his guilt on three counts conspiracy to defraud the government, conspiracy to commit an offense against the government and use ot the mails to defraud. The conspiracy it alleged to have extended over several years and to have had ramifications in many states, east ana west, cuaz was arrested in San Francisco while endeavoring to sell $15,000 worth of bullion at the mint and ihe other defendants were caught here and at Cripple Creek. Estimates placed the amount in volved at $300,000 annually, and the government men said the conspiracy had been in operation more than two years. The ramifications of the af fair extended through parts of Colo rado, Wyoming, Camornia, to Penn sylvania and New York, and, it was said, in some quarters, to New Mexico. Cuaz Sales Agent. Cuaz was said to be the sales agent of the organization, tie, with oth ers, had been under surveillance for many months prior to his arrest and, although) it had not been intended that any men should be taken into custody until indictments had been brought by federal grand jury, as one ot the secret service men said, "when the mint wired us that Tony was there with 15,000 in sjjld it .... ti.. O....J v getaway- -o-- Walton (Dode) Gross, Omaha boy, son of Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Gross, who is now a member of Troop G, First cavalry, U. S. A., at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., in writing home to his parents, says the cavalry life is a great one, "if a fellow doesn't weak en." Gross in his letter tells of the routine of a cavalryman's life and de clares that if the army can't make a horseman out of a fellow he isn't human. The letter in part follows: "Three days ago our troops got a new mount. He was the most beau tiful horse I ever saw. The fellow that got him was unable to drill with him and was sick the next day after his attempt. The chap that was given the horse the next dav couldn't drill with him and refused to ride him again. I took him vesterdav and drilled to a finish. There is a report going around that our cavalry will be sent to Honolulu. the Mexican border or Russia within two months, but it is not official. If we do I will let you know in time to come back to dear old Omaha be fore we leave. I don t have much time to do anything now but feel fine and if a looking glass don t lie, I don t look so worse. They take us out to the drill grounds in the morning:, trot for fifteen minutes with reins and stir rups, then walk five minutes without reins and stirrups, then trot again without reins and stirrups for an hour, men walk tor ten minutes, and do part of the cavalry "monkey drill," AMERICAN GUNNERS BEAT OFF SUBMARINE Attack of U-Boat by Gun fire; Torpedo Narrowly Missel Vessel. aeemed too bad to let him get away with it" According to the account of the af fair given by this officer, who was at the heart of the work of running down the alleged conspirators, the mint of- tiriftU rAA C;- tn i trim day. When he did so, he was arrested. An English Port, June 25. Ameri- Within a few hours thereafter John ' gunners successfully fought B. Cusack, John Muelhausen, Carl off big German submarine which Muelhausen, Martin Snodgrass and n American passenger liner Charles E. Reed, all of Cheyenne, had " ast of Ireland last night, been arrested here, and Frank Coch- A. torpedo fired by the aubmarine ran, an assayer, had been arrested ned its target by less than twenty at his home in Victor. Colo. Thru men. the officers laid, were The encounter occurred at mid. held on charges of "defrauding the n'Sht fter 'he liner had been in the government," because the method of submarine zone many hours. A large operation of the alleged organization number of the passengers on board was to receive stolen high-grade gold were reading in the cabins or lying in ore from miners at an assayer's office chairs on the deck ready for an emer- wticre It wai smelted, tnen conveyed gency. it to other points, one of which was A staff correspondent of the' Ann. said to be Cheyenne, in automobiles, I ciated Press was talking with the and later to snip it to some point I lieutenant in charge of the guns' , designated, wnere one or ine memoers crews wnen tne gunners crowded of the organization would offer it for about the forward guns and also the sale at a federal mint or assay office, ship's officers on the bridge- sighted wnicn, ine omccri poinicu out, piaccu i ine wane ot a torpedo as it went so a the government in the position of re-lning toward the bow. The lieutenant ceivmg atoien gooas. most, or ine ore, government men said, came from mines in the Cripple creek, Colo., die- trier, v WALTON GROSS. Extensive Eaids Are Reported in Every Important Sector1 from Belgium to St. Quentin. tAMMltM Pirn Far tuaur,) The British front in northern I.ance is again developing signs of renewed activity. Tbcay's official statement from London details an unusual number of raids carried out! by the British in virtually every im portant sector from Belgium to St. Quentin. Operations by raiding forces on this scale are usually the prelude to offensive movements of moment. General Haig has not struck a hard blow on any extended front since the week of the Messines fighting, when the famous ridge on the Belgian front was captured and the wav nre- pared for further smashing opera tions in this sector. Incident to last niffht's raid were local operations that trained around for the British. Thus some progress by them below Lens and northwest of Warneton, in the Me-sines area, is reported. Lull Along French Front. There is a momentary - lull in the infantry activities on the Aisne front. such as keeping your legs in olace ana laying uacK on your horse, etc. Many ot the Johns (raw recruits) are an in wnen that drill i over, tl- ttI u , ... . . K, i:t. :t . j I i'lUB "encn nave vinuaiy succeeded but its a great life if you don t weak- j re-eatablishine- in it. entiretv their . ' ".e '?.r?iant15 mjr P1.1' line in the Vauxaillon area, dented uiwihv th errant nrinr.'. W, i- sudden drive on a narrow -front last week. Further fighting is in orosoeet to the east of this sector in the ikir. mishing for position on the part of and a versify. Bombs Intended for Norse Ship Are Captured London, June 24. The seizure of a. quantity of explosives which had just jumped to bis station as the lookout cried: i "Torpedo and submarine off star board bow." The ahip awung around so sharply that the decks were tilted to an angle of 20 degrees. Immediately there came the bark and flash of a gun. Passengers Crowd Decki. Passengers, binding life belts about reached Christians, Norway, from I themselves, swarmed to the decks. uermany, ana tne arrest ot tnree lor- ine snips omcers hurried among eigners, lias been officially confirmed, them, counseling calmness. Another according to a Copenhagen dispatch gun, this time pointed farther astern, to the Exchange, .Telegraph)' com- waa fired and the projectile in its pany. flight struck a long boom awung over The Tldeos Tegn says that 1,000 the side, to which s log line was at- kilograms of explosives were seized, tached. The liner at that moment was including a number of infernal ma- wallowing between two great waves, chines. One of the men arrested is The conning tower of the submarine, A. Rautenfels, a German citizen, born outlined for a moment against the in Finland, who declared that bombs ky, was all that waa visible, were intended for use in Finland. . 'hey soon lost sight of the raider According to the newspaper, how- the darkness and were unable to ever, the infernal machines, which tell whether any of the ahota hit the were enclosed' in cases resembling mark. Two minutes later gunnera at lumpa of coal, were to hare been put the atern of the ship saw a conning aboard Norwegian ships in the coal tower above the surface of the water, bunkers. It adds that the discovery "'the wake of the steamer. The ves- of the plot probably explains the loss ,el o heavily that the of many Norwegian ships that were Sunnera were unable to get their gun supposed to nave been mined or wr-i?y""s" UC.'U"L ",c uunmnne again pedoed. i disappeared. . Every ounce of steam available was fed to the engines and the ship was quickly out of the dan ger tone. New Assignments Made For Recruiting Duty (From a Staff CorrMpondnt.) t :....t. 1 t -it to k J reight near Bushnell on the Union juUnt General Hall has found it ;, J f Vf. i 'V 2ctob.c,lv tl'row," Mceasary to reconstruct the list of nig the latter onto the other track I ,k. -r. ' - . . i. and wrecking a passenger tram which ,peciat duty in mustering and enlist- came along a few momenta later, is ig recruits for the several towns and held responsible by the State Railway following is the correctd assignmnt: commission for the wreck, after an Albion, First Lieutenant A. S. Ken- investigation. worthy. Fifth infantry. Engineer Richardson Blamed for Train Wreck I From a staff CorrMpondant.) Lincoln. June 25. (Soecial Tele- gram.) Charles P. Richardson, en gineer ot tne eastbound height that ran into and wrecked a westbound GOAL OPERATORS 171 Y DRTP17 XT MTWJ7C ,he tw rmi ch nxio to gam riA lAllIU Al lUlllfiO dominating pointa for cither offensive or aeiensive purposes. TM llla ,AnM.,tlAH Um --tilt.. Testimony at Conspiracy Trial activity reported today along various at Wew York Indicates an IP?"'ns 01 tne cnemin-oei-uames Agreement t6 Sell at T1,hten Atomd 0 a Ton. I British Headauartera in France I June 25. Although the official state- New York. Tune 2S Te.iimnn P1.""! report little activity, the Bnt- that price lists fixing $3 at the mines lsM r eePln UP their pressure, day as the coat of semi-bituminous coal nd n,.8ht' lon" the entire 120-mile were sent out to ooeratori on the dav !ront J" occupy. Cast night, a num- after a conference of coal oresidenta ber ' loaI. enterprises were carried and operatora in this city in January PHI succ,ei y" was introduced oy tne government in its trial of fifty-one individuals and lUl companies engaged in coal nro- duction in the federal court here. lit is the governments contention as set forth in he indictment that the defendants conspired, in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, to es tablish prices in the semi-bituminous districts m Virginia and West Vir ginia. W. R. J. Zimmerman, secretary of One of these operations was rather important, increasing, as it does, the British grio. about Lens. Under the light of the stars. British troops stormed and captured 400 yards of tront line trenches east of Riaumont wood, on the western outskirts of Lens, thus drawing closer to the min ing capital ot f ranee. ' elsewhere several raid in. the dark ness served, to keep1 the Prussian nerves on edge, One of these was .i,"c"-:.r:" ":"L "' undertaken wt of Hultuch. Here ciation, called as a witness today, tes- fiV?,en . PrlJ0n'r. .wtr brought in. titled regarding the conference here I J" V v." f ". " The commission holds that Itirh. ardson failed t obey distance and stop signals, which were working per- v..j. itc engineer was laicr oia- charged by the company. Alma, First Lieutenant J. ton, fittn mtantry. Chadron. Second Lieutenant Emery, Fifth infantry. Columbus, First Lieutenant J. uunn, rittn tntantry. Falls City, First lLeutenant J. Cob E. Alli- J. E, British Ship Ortalon Sunk by Submarine M;n a il, June 25. The British infantry. E. Davis. Fifth infantry. Pender. Second Lieutenant M. L. Davis, Fifth infantry. Plattsmouth. First Lieutenant E. Lumstrom. signal corns. C - C. I T?. ........ - .. rrcmont, accona iicuicnanr. nugn Montreal, steamship Ortolan, a vessel of 2,145 tons gross, owned by the General ?team jMavigation company of Lon uon, waa torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine Tune 14 and three metnbere of its crew lost their lives, Wilson, according to survivors ot the ship First Lieutenant J. E. Allison of "li T'l An American ves- the Fifth infantry has been commis- "UlCU TVaaa lUUUl IlJUr ITU ir irnin I m,rtft aeenn H l.aiiraniri h l -I - t . . , 1 "'vn -va stvviiu iivu viteaii v all LtiC mi scene oi me sinking, came to the United States army. rescue and several shots were fired at General Hall reoorts there is everv i indication mat tne tnree regimenta the submersible from mm on hoard - - L1I41 amp. , Lincoln Student Officer Burned During Field Drill Minneapolis, Minn., June 25. (Spe cial TelegramO-William F. Roy mer of Lincoln, Neb., student officer at Fort Snelling, may loose his hands as a result ot their being seriously burned today. Rovmer waa doine will be recruited to war strength and that some of the towns which have been holding back may find them selves left out entirely if a hustle is not made at once. Young Men Who Steal Whisky Admit Burglary Tecumseh, Nebj June 25. (Special uumtu luuay. rvuymer waa doing I -icuwimsu, "cuj Julle w. topcciai held sketch work with nther emhrvn Telesrram. Sheriff R. H. Holmes and uuiccra ann wnen ne threw a steel tape over the bridge acroas the Mis sissippi, it touched a live wire. His hand may be amputated. Suicide Follows Arrest Deputy James Morrissev with the Beatrice bloodhounds earfv this morn ing capiurea nve young men trom the Crab Orchard neighborhood, who had broken into the cellar of Peter Kniger, a farmer, and atoien half a For Failure to Register ST 0 sky nd fif,een bot,le, of NfiS . Tun f'Cn.'.ll Thm tmn t T.. UrithM. leiegram.-Roy Volgamut, a home- Richirdson, Joseph Criney Verne Steader llVltlar ItViM. milt-a M.rk .t I rcritfin mnA RaarnafJ TU-.. here, was found dead in his house with were taken before County Judge a wound in his head and a revolver in James Livingstone in the county court ma hand. Volgamut was of the age today and each pleaded guilty to the to have registered on Tune. .1 hi,f A,A nf k-nt.. n:. . not do so. The sheriff had brought) itt ftasl!An hr tinrl Vim matt k. him to town only the day before to taken before the district, judge fori take Jus registration. sentence. f I on January 3. He said that those pres ent discussed the price ot production in connection with increased cost in rails, 'spikes, steel and labor. He said one of the operators suggested a price ot i-.au a ton but that ?J was tor mally agreed upon. Germany is Making Card Index of Growing Crops CODenhaeen. Tune 24. Military Germany long ago introduced a card catalogue system for men and live stock. Every male human and everv horse and beast of burden was ex amined m peace time to determine suitability for military service, was indexed and cross-indexed so as to be immediately available at a desired place. 1 he system is now about to be ex tended to agricultural food oroducta and applies to the harvest of 1917. Orders have been issued at Berlin to begin a giant card catalogue, in which all grains on the atalk, potatoes still in the ground, the fruit on the trees and other products will be entered to- gemer witn details ot acreage, the number of individuals and live stock on each farm and the amount of fond and fodder the farmer ta entitled to retain for all purposes. ihis will be followed bv rearular re ports through all atages of growth, naivcsi ilia ueuvery inrougn tne hands of the wholesaler, miller and tne retailer to the ultimate consumer. ihe system is introduced at the in. stance of the Prussian food commis sioner, Dr. Michaelis, not only for furnishing the government the report of food supply, but to avoid crroneoua reports, such as caused a near catastrophe this spring, but also to prevent the agriculturist from feeding potatoes and grain, counted upon as rationa for the people, to his cattle, pigs ano dratt animals. Mearle Parmele of Plattsmouth is Drowned Plattsmouth, Neb., June 25. (Spe cial.) Mearle Parmele, age 23, son of Mr. ano Mrs. u K. rarmele of thia city, was drowned in a pond on the James Sage ranch, across the Mis souri river from here, Sunday morn ing apout 11 ociock. xouiii rarmeie. who rnnM i swim, tried to paddle across the pond I 'og. it overturned wnere the I water was the deepest and James I j ones, wno was ir. tne water with h m. waa unable to save him. The body was recovered about three-quarters of an hour later and brought to this city. Albert Funk and Mr. Parmele were operating the Sage ranch under a lease. lAX-tfOa Aa lninravaa r... A dllMtlv llould lu.ll,. ,k.-,i- ..4 I "r -oniDinM sircnatb w th iMltt. abn aromatlo ut. Dom not grip r dit- r -.'inftm. bvo, Aavrtliiment. nours tne tsritisri remained in the enemy trenches. Heavy casualties were inflicted upon the Germans and their dugouts were bombed. Iwo more raids were carried out east of Roeux and in the region of Vendhuille, while a local push north west of Warneton secured two (ad vance posts. In this affair a number of Germans were killed. Senate Hastens Action on Food Control Measure Washington. June i. Senate lead ers today, arranged to expedite the food control bill passed Saturday by tne house. . The bill was referred by the senate today without discussion to the agri culture committee. Senator Reed of Missouri continued his attack upon it. Uiiet among the amendments pro posed are some extending govern ment control to iron and steel and their products, oil, petroleum products, copper, lead, zinc and fertilizers. Senator Chamberlain, in charge of the bill, said there was much senti ment for having the government con trol basic materials as well as food. A half dozen amendments to the bill were introduced today. Senator Lewis, democrat of Illinois, offered a substitute bill proposing that the president shall have general broad authority to issue regulations for con trol of foodstuffs, specifically enumer ating those held for "monopolization" or "unjust prices." Several measures which have been before the senate as part of the war legislation also were tacked onto the bill as amendments. Senator Walsh put in his bill per mitting the government to lease coal and oil lands. The bill, giving the president power to direct priority in railroad shipments was offered as an amendment by Senator, Ransdell. Senator Wadsworth tacked on the trading with the enemy bill and Sen ator Cummins proposed amendments declaring every product, including foodstuffs, cotton, cial and steel, sub ject to control and requisition should it become necessary. Democratic Leader Kitchin pre dicted adjournment of congress by August 1 or August 15 today in an nouncing that after next Wednesday or ihursday he would ask tor three day adjournments until the senate has passed some of the house legisla tion now before it. COCCHI KILLED GIRL WHILEJYPHOTIZED Italian Says He Murdered Miss Dinger While Under Spell of Her Dark, Pene trating: tjtn. Bologna, June 25. Interrogation of Alfredo Cocchi, self-confessed slayer of Ruth Cruger in New York, is kept secret by law in Italy until just be fore trial, when counsel are allowed to examine the confession. Accord ing to unofficial information. Cocchi said: My machine shoo gave me a sat isfactory position. I earned some times $100 a week. I had never seen Ruth Cruger before she came to my shop to have licr skates sharpened. From the verylbeKinnine Ruth did all in hei power to attract my atten tion. I felt something strange when her dark, penetrating eyes fixed upon mine. "I was still more disconcerted when I she came again February 13 to get ner jKates. jn overpowering attrac tion for the young woman seized me. What happened afterwards seems like a dream. My memory at this point fails me utterly. "In view of the facts which have been presented it must be true I at tacked and killed her. But God help me, I didn't mean to. My will power could not resist any more. When I Circles Globe to Make Journey of Nine Hours Washington, June 25. Charles J. Vopica, American miniater to Ser bia, Bulgaria and Roumania, today is preparing to leave here in contin uation of his globe-circling trip from Bucharest to Jassy, cities usu ally nine hour distant. The min ister waa in Bucharest when the Germane took the city and waa not allowed to pass the lines to his sta tion at Jasay. In order to resume his duties in Roumania he found it necessary to cross Austria-Hungary and Germany and embark for ' America. His route now lies across the Pacific and through Siberia and Russia. returned home I was like person in a trance. I remember speaking of this peculiar mental condition and thought I was ill. "I began to realize the gravity of my position the morning of February 15 when newspaper reporter came to my shop to make inquiries and police men questioned me. I felt then as if I were lost. My only anxiety was to escape. I secured a passport which I kept among my papers and suc ceeded in reaching Italy. On my arri val I was overcome by remorse. I cannot myself believe that my hith erto unblemished life has' been de stroyed forever. This is my first of fense, but it is of such a nature that I cannot believe it to be true. The greatest punishment is to think what suffering and agony my wife and chil dren are undergoing, as, notwithstand ing our misunderstandings, we tove each other most tenderly. Rain Improves Crop Prospects in Germany Copenhagen, June 25. A report sent out today by the Gerntan gov ernment says that in consequence of the long desired rainfall, the crop prospect in southern and wes.tern Ger many really is brilliant. In the mids die and eastern provinces it is thor oughly satisfactory. Private reports received by.the As sociated Press up to the end of the second week of June describe , pros- fiects for. 1917 as anything but bril iant. They say that rains are urgent ly needed and if they come oppor tunely could do. much to save suffer ing spring' grain and improve winter gram prospects, but in case could produce better than- a bare middle harvest. ; Belgian Mission Will , Visit the Pacific Coast Washington. June 25. The Beltrian diplomatic mission haa tentatively ar ranged a trio through the United States extending to the Pacific coast. invitations have been received from scores of cities and it is oracticallv settled that, the mission will make th most elaborate tour of any of the for eign visitors'. 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