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r PART ONE NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO 14. fi 4 Omaha Sunday Bee THE WEATHER Unsettled VOL. XLVII NO. 14. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1917. FIVE SECTIONS THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. GENE K RAL KORNILO n R SETS PRIC a AISE IRON CROSS TO BE GIVEN FOR CAPTURE OF A U.S. SOLDIER Four Hundred Marks and Fourteen Days Leave Is Reward To German Who Brings in American Dead or Alive; Teutons Believe Th?y Are Fighting Amexes. FF A E ON FIRST iOWANS COPI nnpT nr in MURDER TRIAL -Heeys Firm Americanism Ijg&ALoses Us Another Sub (By Associated Press.) British Headquarters in France and Belgium, Sept. 15. German military authorities on the western ' front have shown Concern about the imminence of the American army's entry into the fighting by offering' rewards for the production of the first American prisoners. The general commanding the Elev enth Reserve division recently put the price of 400 marks on the first American soldier brought dead or alive into his lines. This information has been dis-0 closed by the diary of a Prussian ser geant of the Twenty-third reserve in fantry regiment. He wrote at the end of July: "We. arc. supposed, to. have, had Americans opposite us for some time now, and two divisions, of Portuguese on our right. The man who brings in the first American, dead or alive, to headquarters has been promised the Iron cross of the first class, 400 marks and 14 days' leave." Italians Take San Gabriele. The crest of Monte San Gabriele, commanding the plain of Gorizia to the south and southeast and the Fri- girdo valley to the east, has been captured by the Italians after three weeks of the most bitter fighting, the Italian embassy at Washington an nounced. Aims to Take Vienna. This news of the victofy, probably the greatest feat of the Italian arms thus far m the war, precedes the Iat est official report from Rome. General Cadorna's collossal drive of the last few weeks is aimed at more than the capture of Triest. The ulti mate goal of the Italian generalissimo is nothing less than opening a road to Vienna and the consequent collapse of the Austrian empire. ' It is apparent that Cadorna is strik ing in two directions north and south. The southern drive is undoubtedly aimed at Triest. The northern cam paign, for the Bainsizza p ieau and Chiapovano valley, is intended to sep arate the northern and southern Aus trian armies. To do this Cadorna must clear the Baisizza plateau and fight his way up the Chiapovano valley. By cap turing Monte Santo and Monte San Gabriele, the Italian commander has won the entrance to the Chiapovano valley. A quick thrust up this valley will separate the two great Austrian armies. Then the foad is cleared to Klagen furt and from there across the plains to Vienna. Starts in August. The Italian effort to capture San Gabriele began after the taking of Monte Santo, directly north, by Gen eral Cadorna's troops on August 25. Several times the Italians had reached the summit of the great mountain, so important to their further progress east of Gorizia as well as on the Carso, only to be beaten back again. On the slopes of the rugged rock in the last few weeks has occurred some of the heaviest and most san guinary fighting of the war, with the Italians hurling themselves forward in desperate attacks and the Aus trians holding to the crest as desper ately. San Gabriele's top was occupied by the Italians, the embassy reports, after the fortified hill or Saddle of Dol, and the Gargaro basin, the main bulk of San Gabriele, had been taken. The Austrians, however, still cling to some -positions on the mountain. In the forest of Tarnovo east of Monte San Gabriele, the Italians cap tured positions from trfe Austrians after suffering heavy losses. Except along the Casemates plateau on the Aisne front, there has been no marked activity on the other fight ing fronts. A German attack against French positions on the Casemates plateau, Paris reports, was repulsed with heavy losses. Berlin says Ger man troops penetrated to the second French line and inflicted severe casualties. The British artillery fire ' in Flanders, Berlin reports, has in creased to drum fire. New York Firm Buys Up The $400,000 Omaha Bonds Mayor Dahlman, City Commission er Jardine and City Clerk O'Connor negotiated the sale of $400,000 city bonds by offering them at auction in the council chamber. Hornblower & Weeks of New York took the lot at 5 per cent interest and on a pre mium of $7,000. The city holds a check for $8,000 as a guarantee that this concern will complete the transaction. The bonds are: Sewer, $200,000; po lice station, $100,000; park, $50,000; public comfort station, $50,000. The last legislature authorized sale of police station and public comfort station bonds. ' Superintendent Kugel will bring be fore the city council at an early date a proposition to dispose of the old police station property at Eleventh and Dodge streets and acquire an uptown site between Davenport and Dodge streets, from Sixteenth to Twentieth streets. A special committee of the city council is now working on plans and locations for public comfort stations. MAY EXAMINE AT ONCE ALL MEN SUBJECT TO CALL Suggestion by Provost Marshal Asks Immediate Settlement of Possibility of Military Service for Registrants. Washington, Sept. 15. If a large part of the governors of the states approve a suggestion by the provost marshal general an immediate exami nation of the 7,000,000 men registered for military service and not yet called for duty will be begun. The sugges tion was, made with a view to satisfy ing the great number of young men as to what they may expect. Telegrams asking opinions on the advisability of such action were sent to. all states and it is exoected that all replies will be received early next week, lo secure the os7,0UU men al, ready called for service it was found necessary to examine approximately 3,uuu,ow ... . , Under the plan considered candi dates would know whether they are to be selected and' could make plans accordingly. Says Farmers Should Be Exempted to Harvest Crops That the War department is incon sistent in urging the farmers to plant mammoth crops and then refusing them -exemption from the draft to harvest the results of their summer's work is the charge made by John A. Robertson, member of the exemption board of the Northers district of Ne braska. In a letter addressed to Governor Neville Mr. Robertson says, in part: "In response to the war demand, and without assistance from outside sources, the farmers have raised the largest crops, the state ever had, and the stbckmen have increased their herds and established new ones with the belief that they would thus be doing their part to win the war. Now when they have done this and a large part of the crops are still unharvest ed, this board i instructed to certify these farmers and stockmen for serv ice, and that if we do not Nebraska will be classed as a slacker state. "The farmer and stockman as a class do not ask for nor expect any favors and would be very much em barrassed should they receive any, but we should not cripple industry or agriculture so it would in the least reduce production. We ought to be We must win this war." Track Across Farnam Street Ordered Torn Up A man telephoned Citv Commis sioner Jardine to state that an indus try had laid a sidetrack across Far nam street at the Belt line during the night. Rush- my car down here," said the commissioner to Ired Swain, his chauffeur. The commissioner rushed to the scene of the new track and ordered Ed Fleming and a cans: of workmen to move the track. The commissioner sat in his car while the track was taken up. The finishing touches had just been done when Mr. Jardine arrived and remarked, "Boys, sthis is a nice job of track laying and now you can see how fast you take it up or somebody is going to jail." The track was taken up. Montgomery County Citizens Must Pay Fully Fifty Thou sand Dollars for Proceed ings Against Minister. By EDWARD BLACK. Red Oak, la., Sept. 15. (Special Telegram.) The ax murder trial will cost Montgomery county thousands of dollars.' Some of the estimates of the prob able cost the taxpayers of Mont gomery county go as high as $50,000. It is not hard to find persona who believe the jury will disagree. Attor ney General Havner said that in such an event there would be seven more cases against Kelly. The present trial is based upon an ifidictment mentioning only the name of Lena Stillinger, although the trial in fact has to do with the slaying of eight persons. The opinion prevails here that if Kelly's guilt or innocence should not be determined by this trial, it may be impossible to bring about an other trial of the little minister. State's Strong Card. The prosecution believes it played a strong card when the Macedonia witnesses testified that Kelly told them details of the crime, in one in stance an hour, before the charnei house at ViHisca . was entered, and other instances extending to noon of the day after the crime. In its demand for a conviction, one of the questions the state will ask is: "How did Kelly know upon his ar rival at Macedonia that the ax vic tims had been stunned as well as mutilated with the sharp edge of the ax?" Testimony of those who first en tered the house was that the victims were struck on the tops of their heads with the blunt part of the ax and cut with the blade. Another question will be: "How did Kelly know on Monday morning that the murderers had left a watch on the , floor of the room nrmoied hvhe Stilliniter girls? -Those who firsttmtered the Moore home testified to nnaing a waicn as described by Kelly. Mansfield May Come. Attorney General Havner stated that the. nrosecution will build up its case step by step; that the collapse of the laundry evidence on Friday was only temporary. Mr. Havner is satisfied with progress of the states case thus far. , Attorneys for the defense hint at some sensational testimony when they get an inning. Ihey nave saia mey will not only ootam an acquiuai jur Kelly, but will disclose who were re sponsible for the Villisca crime. The possibility of "Bill" Mansfield being summoned from Kansas City as a witness is one of the rumors. His appearance would add zest to the trial. He was the man who was arrested at Kansas City by Detective N. Wilkerson, who alleged that Ralph Prinle, associate counsel tor former Senator F. F. Tones in the Tones-Wilkerson scandal suit, went to Mansfield s reiiet at tne lime oi nis arrest. 'Kelly has the mmd of a boy, re marked Tudee A. L. Sutton as he was walking away from the .Mont gomery county jail wnere tne iitue minister is being held on a charge of having committed the most grue some crime in the history of this state. ' ... "One of the strangest things m this case is that, if Kelly was guilty of the crime, which I am convinced he was not, how could he have served as pas tor of a Congregational church at Sutton, Neb., for a year?" added Attorney Sutton. "I saw," he con tinned. "Kellv's name on the church at Sutton and heard him speak." The trial will be resumed at 9 o clok Monday morning when the state will continue its testimony. Earth Shocks at Bogota Cover Period of Fifteen Days Washington, Sept. 15. Official dis patches today from Bogota, Colom bia, say the earth shocks which be gan there August 29, continued inter mittently until September 13. A few buildings were damaged and six per sons killed. Villtrd, Kabr. Sept. 1417. Th Oaaha Dally Baa? Oicaiia, Ketr. X hereby ask you to stop sanding your paper to ay address at soot as sy subscription to cams has expired.' The Innumerable lies, the prejudice,- slander, Hatred directed against the ercan race here and abroad, as oont'alned In so man-y articles and letters appearing in your rFr, ara sickening . In tjiia respect your paper Is neither fair, nor just, nor aonaible, nor truly American.' But Cinches Us This One Mam CshioA. jfca , w iv-CGf. r ) jt r . . ... . . . r 11. . If L u 4 xM-'"1' NE "SAM REBELLION ENDS; KERENSKY FORMS JOINT CABINET With Korniloff and Lokomsky Prisoners and General Krymoff a Suicide the Revolt Has Been Def initely Crushed ; Ultimate Fate of the . Leaders Still in Doubt Root Now President of National Security League New York, Sept. 15. EHhu Root has accepted the honorary presidency of the National Security league, suc ceeding the late Joseph H. Choate, it was announced here. Beach Thinks His Wife Should -, Have Been at the Battle of Verdun C. H. Beach has a wifewho, he believes, should have been in the bat tle of Verckm. He has begun divorce action in district court in an effort to obtain his freedom from Daisy F. Beach because" of her alleged "war like disposition." Daisy, he says, is now in Denver, Colo. Beach lives at. 608 North Eight eenth street. On one occasion she hit him with a chair, disabling him as a harness maker and putting a crimp in his earning capacity, he alleges. He relates they finally separated "when she threw a hatchet at him." The Beaches were married at Colo rado Springs, Colo., July 11, 1914. The husband says he gave her a good home for herself and her three children by a former marriage, but alleges she insisted on living "be yond their station in life." He alleges she squandered a large sum of money which he had accu mulated as a result of many years of frugality. Beach sys his wife, in her desire to get more money to spend, let rooms to persons of loose character. He alleges she continually dis played a "pugnacious disposition." WOMEN CONDUCT REGISTRATION AT SMALLEXPENSE Cost of Registering Thirteen Thousand Women in Douglas County Amounts to Only $68.1 7. Douglas county women can teach men a thing or two when it comes to election expenses. It only cost them $68.17 to resister 13,000 women Wednesday. The cost for getting an equal number of men to the polling places counts into the thousands. "Why, the cost of a single vote often rolls up to that price!" ex claimed one man who knows, when the fact was called to his attention. "It might not be a bad idea to turn over all the polling business to women," another was heard to re mark. Ward bosses are herewith referred to Miss Edith Tobitt, chairman of the county registration committee, to learn how it was done. Maybe they will find it profitable to take counsel from women hereafter 1 Printing Furnished. v Every expense outside of the cost of printing the registration cards (these were furnished by the state committee) is included in the $68.17. Women of the committee are hav ing a good laugh over their expense sheet. They didn't know their own ability at conservation. Some of them had been dubious about taking up the work .because they thought it would be an expensive undertaking and there was no appropriation to carry on the work. ' $2,000 Appropriated. The Douglas County Council of Defense expected to pay a largo, sum for the registration. The council re cently issued an appeal for $5,000, $3,000 for their own work and $2,000 was to be turned over to the women for their registration expenses. The joint $um collected from all the coun ties in the state would make a hand some figure. If it only cost $68.17 to register the women of Douglas county, the most populous county in the state, the cost for the other counties would be small in comparison. Serve Without Pay. All work of the women was vol unteer. Instead of paying for the use of the polling places Miss Tobitt and her committee called on the men who occupied the polling places and with a winning smile and a word or two secured consent to use the stores. Instead of paying women double time for serving as registrars, as the men do, women served without pay. What have the men to say to that? So far The Bee has no "tip" that women plan to commandeer the polls, now that they have demonstrated how much better they can do the work. But would it be a bad idea? KING CORN WINS IN HOT RACE WITH OLD JACK FROST Farmers Wearing Happy Smifes as the Bumper Crop Goes Past the Danger Point. In its race to beat the frost King Corn is , coming down the home stretch with flying colors and. is near ly under the wire, according to the weekly cfop report of the Northwest ern railroad. The report has to do with the con dition of the corn crop for the week ending Friday night and from all points along the system there is but one opinion expressed by the corri- pany agents alter conferring with farmers tributary to their stations. This opinion is that a large portion of the Nebraska corn is in the clear and that the balance of it will be out of the way of frost by the end of an other week or ten days at the latest. Wearing Happy Smiles. ' The Northwestern's report indi cates that the Nebraska farmers are about the best satisfied individuals to be found anywhere, as they can al most begin counting the dollars that their year's corn crop will add to their bank accounts. The report points to not only the largest, but the best corn crop that has ever been raised in the history of th state. In many of the fields, es pecially where the planting was early, the corn is fully matured and the stalks are dying.. In instances where the corn is in this condition, the stalks are well loaded and the ears unusually large, being filled with kernels to the tips. ' Ears Well Fi!!;d. While corn promises to remain as king, potatoes are going to give it a close j-ace for place. The reports from the potato fieldi in the north ern, central and western portions of the state indicate that the yield will be anywhere from normal to bumper. The potatoes have been helped to a (Continued on rag Two, Column Five) FRANCE DEMANDS AN EXPLANATION FROMJWEDEN Other Diplomats Expected to Follow Example of French Minister in Requesting Statement. Stockholm, Sept. 13. (Delayed,) E. Thiebaut, the French minister, called upon Foreign Minister land man with a formal request for an ex planation of the Argentina Incident on bc'ialf of his government. . ' ( , The" othr representatives of" the entente nations are expected to fol low. Minister ; Thiebaut's ,; initiative. The American, British, French and Kussian ministers held a meeting to day, at which the situation was thor oughfy canvassed. Von Eckhirdt Denies. Mexico City. Sept. 14. Heinrich von Eckhardt, the German minister to Mexico, tonight made a statement denying, everything in connection with the disclosures from Washington tnat he had been employing a former Swedish charge d'affaires to convey information to the Berlin foreign of fice. Von Eckhardt declared that he had never sent any communication through Folke Cronholm and that he never wrote any communication recommending Cronholm for a deco ration for his services. Von Eckhardt Tiirther said that he did not know Cronholm personally, only having met him at diplomatic receptions. Von Eckhardt makes aformal de nial of everything in connection with the Washington disclosures, and in reply to an assertion that Washing ton had full proof of his complicity, declared that this was merely an American intrieue for castinjr dis credit on the representatives of Germany. Denials Discounted. Washington, Sept. 15. German Minister von Eckhardt's denial that he used the Swedish charge d'affaires in Mexico City for transmitting mes sages to Germany or that he had written a letter recommending an award for those services arouses no Petrograd, Sept IS. General Korniloff, leader of the re, cent rebellion against the provisional government, and General Lokomsky, the commander of the northern front, who refused to take command of the Russian armies after Korniloff was de posed, have been arrested. Russia's political crisis has been solved after an. all night conference, it was announced today by the Russian official news agency. A new cabinet has been formed and its composition will bej made public tomorrow. The official telegram to Premier Kerensky says: "At 10 o'clock last night General Korniloff and Generals Lokomsky; and Romanovsky and Colonel Pleustchevsky-Plieuskhen wera arrested." KORNILOFF'S FATE. The probable fate of General Kor niloff is exciting public opinion. In dications are that the government faces serious difficulties over the mat ter. A feature of the conflict is the cred itable, absence of bitter feeling and clamor for vengeance. Having re- established capital puishment at the front, however, the government, if it spares the rebel leader, must face tho reproach that it executed common soldiers for less serious offenses, and it would be virtually impossible to impose the penalty in the future. Against this are the facts of Gen- era Aormion s onuiant service; His ' chivalrous and personal character and the happy circumstance that there has been no bloodshed so far. M. Kishkjn, the new minister of the interior, declares that the govern ment has decided not to take extreme measures against Korniloff, as it does ' not wish to appear revengeful. . "The story," M. Kishkin" said, "is so tangled that. only an inquiry by a commission can bring out the truth. Meantime we have reason to believe that the revolt. wa4 due to a misunder standing with Korniloffs. emissary to , Kerensky, Vladimir Lvoff, who has not the reputation of being a respon sible man. -' Socialists Threaten to Quit. The newly-completed cabinet again, is a smelting pot. The newspapers report that representatives of the so cial democrats and the social revolu tionists visited Premier Kerensky and , announced their parties would with- . draw if the constitutional democrats were taken back into the ministry. The story of the visit is not true, but M. Soskice, secretary to Premier , Kerensky, who is a member of the council of the social revolutionist party, informed the. Associated Press that the difficulty actually has arisen.. Yesterday committees of both par- -ties drew ud identical resolution de claring it would be impossible to col laborate with Premier Kerensky if constitutional democrats were made ministers, but voting on the resolu tions has been postponed until this evening and there is every hope of an agreement. Both parties accept the orinciole of a coalition cabinet and have no objec tion to constitutional democrats be coming ministers on condition that they immediately leave that party. The grounds for this decision is the view of the parties that the consti tutional democrats, as a whole, al though there is no evidence of their complicity in the rebellion and in the . ucmuiiaiiaijuiis ai .moscow, sicrea wica and encouraged General Korniloff. I he parties further demand the con vocation of a new congress on the lines of that held in Moscow, from which, however, the members of all four Dumas would be excluded. It is suggested that the congress meet not , later than September 23 and sit until the meeting of the constituent assembly. mier Kerensky now is in excellent health, despite the fact that through out the recent crisis he has worked -.Li I J cignicen nours aauy. Cabinet Crisis Threatens. The cabinet crisis continued all day. Newspapers assert that Premier Ker ensky is in a difficult position and that his resignation is not excluded from the possibilities. , The situation is complicated by the attitude of the Petrograd Council of Deputies, in which, at last night's meetings, the Bolshevikis, for the first time, gained an overwhelming major- (Contlnued on I'ane Two, Column Three) Want 20,000 Telegraphers to Train for Signal Corps Service Chicago, Sept. IS. The Illinois Manufacturers' association and the Chicago Association of Commerce to day endorsed a movement to train 20,000 telegraphers for service in the signal corps of the United Mates army. Telegraphy will be taught men of military age in public schools of Chi cago as well as universities, colleges and technical institutions. Large Buckwheat Crop; Administrator Advises Its Use Washington, Sept. IS. Canada's buckwheat crop promises to be the largest for many years, according to reports to the food administration. Previously it had been reported that the crop would be probably about 30 per cent short. The food administra tion is urging a more general use of buckwheat to conserve y'.ieat flour. German Subsea Operating Near American Coast Off Nantucket An Atlantic Port, Sept. IS. A British steamship that arrived here today reported that early yesterday morning a wireless S. O. S. call was heard stating that the ship from which the message came was being shelled by a German submarine, the location being sixty-five miles east of Nan tucket lightship. The name of the ship attacked did not come clear, only the word "Abby" presumably the last half of the name being caught. Additional information that a submarine was in the western Atlantic was brought by another British liner which arrived here today from an English port. Officers of the liner said they had been instructed to watch out for U-boats when nearing the American coast. , The place where the ship reported it was being attacked, sixty-five miles east of Nantucket, is in the vicinity in wftich the German subma rine U-53 sunk six steamships on its visit to American waters in October, 1916. (Continued on Pe Two. Column One.) License Required for Food Exports to Canada Washington, D. C, Sept. 14 Ship njent of certain foods to Canada and New Foundland, under a ruling to night by the exports administrative board, hereafter will require the same form of license demanded for their ex port to other countries. Heretofore they have gone forward under blan ket license issued by collectors of cus toms. The purpose of the order, it was ex plained, is closer co-operation be tween the American and Canadian food administrators and to put the United States in a position to. con serve .its supplies if shortages appear likely. The foods named are wheat flour, butter and sugar. Licensing, it was said, will permit the food admin istrators to keep a closer check, pq supplies in each country, 1 '