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PART ONE
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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
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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 '
