AK-SAR-BEN DATES
Carnival Sefemb 26 to October 6
Electrical Parade. Evening ... October 3
daylight Parade October 4
MlMtiry Fireworks October a
jr CoronaSon Ball October 5
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VOL. XL VII. NO. 91.
OMAHA, MONBAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1, 1917.
0 Trains, at Hotel.
Nawi Staada, ttc. 60.
SINGLE CO?Y TWO CENTS.
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ANDY
SKA REGIMENT SPLIT;
UNITED
PRESIDENT PLANS
ACTION BY SOUTH AMERICAN
REPUBLICS TO BACK ALLIES
Bill Introduced in Congress for Conference at Buenos
Aires; Luxburg to be Taken to Germany as Pris
oner Aboard an Argentina War Ship,
-As Punishment for Diplomat.
(By Associated Press.) i "
Buenos Aires, Sept. 30. Declaration of war by Argentina
against Germany as a result of the Luxburg incident is expected
fV immediately follow breaking off of -diplomatic relations.
President Irigoyen is making a renewed effort to bring
about a congress of the South American republics to consider
international affairs.
Depnty Castellanos has jntroducedQ
in the Chamler of Deputies the ad
ministration's bill approving the pro- I
posal of the president to invite the :
sister republics to meet at Buenos
ARGENTINA TO DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY
ARMYORDERSENDS
4th TO ARTILLERY;
Sth STAYS INTACT
Ferocious Turk sH) esc end on Armenian
College Town and Murder 1200 in Cold
Blood; Strip Bodies of Clothes As Pay
FIERCE FIGHTING ON THE DVINA Russian troops, com
ing out from under the disorganization that followed the Kor
niloff rebellionfhave made a determined stand at the Dvina
river, east of Riga. Germans have reached the river at all
points from (1) Shtokmanshof to (2) Livenhof, north and
south of Jacobstadt, respectively.
k Aires and to adopt a joint policy in
regard to the world conflict.
President lrigoyen's program is for ,
the American republics jointly to de-
mand that Germany end the war or
else suffer a solid South American
. i . r .4
boycott ana a declaration in ravor ox
the entente allies.
Persons in the confidence of the
president declare that he wishes to
lead the South American . republics
against Germany rather than to ap
pear as if they had been pushed into
the conflict by the United States.
Deputy Castellanos in presenting; his
bill to the chamber said that Argen
tina should send Von Luxburg to Ger
many as a prisoner on board an Ar
gentine warship,
M TAX BILL
MUCH REVISED
BY COMES
Levy Imposed on, Soft Drinks;
Telephone Tariff Eliminated;
Holders of Passes to Shows
Pay Percentage.
mm ?Mlm. .
a If 16 too
WTtELINE
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Sept. 30. Final agree-
The deputy added that Germany's ! ment 0n the $2,700,000,000 war tax
explanation of the Luxburg incident
was insufficient because it failed to
express an intention to punisn tne
diplomat'.
In conclusion, the deputy declared
that neutcjdity was impossible, but
belligerencytmust follow a formal
declaration and should be based on
the economic assistance of the entente
The Bee's Special Edition
For Ak-SartBefc Makes a Hit
Compliments galore were elicited
by The. Bee's magnificent special Ak-Sar-Ben
edition, one of the biggest
ever put out by an Omaha newspaper.
The paper consisted of nine sec
tions aggregating eighty-six pages,
two .more than double the usual bun
r day issue. .
Each cmoplete newspaper weighed
a trifle over one and one-fourth
pounds and the total of print paper
required for the edition was an excess
of thirty-three tons. Had it all gone
to subscribers through the mails the
postage on it at the second class rate
of 1 cent a pound would have been
close to $675. , ........
As it was the local distribution
' made it necessary to send the issue
nut in The Bee's, branch city offices
in sections and rftost of the carrier
boys had to make two or inrec tops
to deliver their routes..
Thinks Wilber Station
Agent Attempted Suicide
Beatrice. Neb., Sept. 30. (Special
Telegram.) Officers today found a
revolver and bloody knife in .the
freight depot at Wilber, where Sam
( filler, station agent, was found this
Viorning in a dying condition with his
threat cut. They are of the opinion
that Diller attempted suicide. About
$150 was found on the desk un
touched. Diller disappeared from home
Thursday "night and had not been seen
until found m the depot, it is De
lieved that worry over business iin-balanced-his
mind. Two of his bri
ers committed suicide, one in 1Q07
" and the other twenty years ago. His
condition i. critical.
Gets Seventeen Years for
Dynamiting Water Works
Henrietta, Ckl., Sept. 30. Mike
Brashears, alleged organizer of the
Working Clasi union, was- found
guilty today in the state district court
of having dvnamitcd the water works
system at Dewar, near here, June 2
and'was sentenced to seventeen years
imprisonment. A motion for a new
trial was denied.
Four other defendants-with Brash
ears were granted continuances, their
cases to be heard in Deceniber.
ONE MAN KILLED
ASAUTOSVERVES
ABOUT IN STREE
The Weather
Temperature at Omaha Yesterday.
Hour. Dcg.
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bill was reached Saturday by the
senate and house conferees and the
report -will be presented to the house!
Monday. Levies of approximately
$1,000,000,000 on war excess profits
and $842,000,000 on incomes were left
unchanged, but a new system of cal
culating excess profits was adopted.
New Rates on Inheritance.
A new system of graduated inheri
tance taxes -was-vjjtittn into the bill
in lieu of the house plan and despite
the senate's rejection of such taxes.
The new rate on inheritances, with
those of Americans in military serv
ice exempted, range from one-half of
one per cent on $50,000 estates, to ten
per cent on estates -of $10,000,000 or
more. V
The bulk of the increases of be
tween $250,000,000 and $300,000,000
made by the conferees in the senate
bill was secured from the postage,
public utilities and manufacturing
sales section and the new inheritance
taxes.
Surtaxes Fixed.
Surtaxes were agreed upon as fol
low! 0e per cent on incomes over
$5,000 and less than $7,500; two per
cent between $7,500 and $10,000; three
per cent between $10,000 and $12,500;
four per cent between $12,500 and
$15,0007 five per cent between $15,000
and $20,000; seven per cent between
$20,000 and $40,000; ten per cent be
tween $40,000 and $60,000; fourteen
per cent between $60,000 and $80,000;
eighteen per cent between $80,000
and $100,000; twenty-two per cent be
tween $100,000 and $150,000; twenty
five per cent between $150,000 and
$200,000; thirty per cent between
$200,000 and $250,000; thirty-four per
cent between $250,000 and $300,000;
thirty-seven per cent between $300,000
and $500,000; fortv per cent between
$500,000 and $750,000; forty-five per
cent between ?75U,UUO and $i,0UU,WU.
and fifty per cent on incomes ex
ceeding $1,000,000.
Grape juice afd other soft drinks
(Continued on Page Two, Column One.)
More Deaths Reported
In Expeditionary Force
Washington, Sept. 30. Two more
deaths among the -American troops
abroad were announced today in a
cablegram from Major General
Pershing.
Private W. C. Sullivan of an in
fantry regiment died September 24
of cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Benjamin Heyward, a stevedore,
died September 24 of heart disease.
R. C. Mulford Dies Shortly
After Motor Car -He' Is Driv
ing Upsets at Thirty
Fourth and Farnam.
R. C. Mulfolrd, 39, 724 Bancroft
street, was killed in an automobile
accident at Thirty-fourth and Far
nam Saturday night at 9 o'clock, when
auto "which hewasdriving turned
completely over, pinning hira under
neath. His skull -was cruslted. -
James Mulich, 2530 South Eleventh
street, who was riding in the car with
Mulford and who attempted to leap
from the auto, escaped with only a
few artt'Srtttt&sff face, a-
Dr. Charles Rosewater, 3424 Far
nam street, who lives a block from
the scene of the accident, had both
men brought to his home, where Mul
ford died a few minutes later without
regaining consciousness. M. E. Gib
son, 1009 North Twenty-ninth street,
an eye-witness, helped take Mulford
from Underneath the wrecked car.
Wheels Catch on Track.
Gibson said that the automobile in
which the two men were riding was
going west on Farnam on the south
side of the street, when the auto sud
denly caught in the car tracks and
completely swerved atlfdut, turning
over. He said the car was traveling
about twenty-five miles an hour at
the time. Mulford was driving , the
car, which they had rented from the
Ford very, 314 North Twenty-second.
'
Mulford, who operated a steam poll
er on the Dodge street road for Bauer
& Johnson, paving 'contractors, is
survived by a wife and three children.
Officer Cooper notified them of the
accident.
Heafey & Heafey, undertakers, took
charge of the body.
Alliance Commercial Club
Re-elects Fisher Secretary
Alliance, Neb., Sept. 30. (Special
Telegram.) At a mass meeting of
Alliance citizens called by the Com
mercial club, W. D. Fisher, who
served as a club secretary for two
years, but who for two years has
been located in Topeka, was elected
secretary for a pcrio'd of three years.
Business men of Alliance, confident of
Mr. Fisher's ability to produce results
beneficial to the Alliance and western
Nebraska, pledged their financial support.
Norman E. iMack, in Omaha, Talks
Of the New York Mayoralty Race
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fiji I 10 a. -m 60
fGAlJAsl It a. m 3
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' 2 i m 69
(S' 3 p. m 70
4 p. m 71
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Norman E. Mack, former chairman
of the Democratic National commit
tee, who in Buffalo is proprietor and
; publisher of the Buffalo Times, is
visiting in Omaha. He . is here with
Mrs. Mack as guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Metz and will remain through
Ak-Sar-Ben week.
Mr. Mack still is the New York rev ;
resentative on the Democratic Na-i
tional committee and keeps constantly
in touch with political conditions.
"No there is nothing doing in poli
tics in the Empire state right now
outside of the impending mayoralty
election in New York. I am naturally
Comparative Local Kecord. vl
1917. 1916. 1915. 1914.
Highest yeaterday ... 71 78 66 82
, . 1 ,.t-1 It Alt I, A ca
Mean temperature .. so 2 Bi 70 surprised that Mayor Mitchel should
precipitation ... .oo .oo t. oo j have lost the republican nomination
Temperature and vreclpitatlon fleparturei
from the normal:
Normal temperature 61
Deficiency for the day 1
Total deficiency since March 1 202
Normal precipitation 10 inch
Deficiency f'.r the day 10 lncn
to Senator Bennett It looks now as
if there will be a three-cornered fight
between them and Ju!ge Hylan, as
the democratic nominee. If the con
test is. waged on these lines, it is
Total rainraii since iianch l.. 20. 9 inches practically certain to result in a signal
Defickiioy aince Manh 1 4.14 inches .f. . ,v , ,
I'cficii ii v fur cur. p'rloil. HIh 10.,t In hr
Defl-icn.y f..r co'. ncefnrt. !!! n.r.j
I.. A. WEr-SIt. y.ateoroiosist.
victory for the democratic candidate.
'In the conduct or the war 1 resi
lient Wilson, in mv oninittTr. is show
ing admirable control of the situation.
He is standing up under the unusual
burdens of his rffice in, a most re
markable manner. In his attitude
toward other nations he has main
tained wonderful poise and self-possession
and has set the United States
on the very highest plane.
"I spent teperal hours today driving
jover your city and observing your
fine parks and boulevards and public
buildings, and I am very much struck
by the handsome appearance of your
city and its noticeable evidences of
prosperity.
"The crowds on your streets and the
signs of business activity must im
press every one to vour advantage as
it has. I hope to look into some of
the industrial establishments more
closely before I go away."
Mr. and Mrs. Mack havt been at
the Metz ranch near Valentine and
their daughter, now Mrs. Phillip Metz,
and Mr. Metz have all been taking a
try at the fine fall shooting offered
GRAIN ALCOHOL
SEIZED IN RAID
ON DRUG ST01E
Ten Barrels Found in California
Pharmacy; Allege Big Job-.
bing Firm Will Be 7
Implicated.
Ten barrels o grain alcohol were
seized by a raiding squad which
swooped down on the "California
pharmacy, Sixteenth and California
streets, at 3 o'clock Saturday after
noon. The raid promises to result
startling disclosures of wholesale
traffic in alcohol by a large Omaha
jobbing drug firm, according to Jim
Buel, special investigator, who led the
raiding party.
Buel declares he first obtained
knowledge thf h,e California phar
macy had alcofiol in its possession
when he discovered a negro driving
a truck loaded with several barrels
of the liquid at 10 o'clock one night.
Owing to the hour, Buel was uiiable
to obtain proper legal papers to ar
rest the negro, so he did not-molest
him. '
To Make Arrests.
The alcohol on the negro's truck,
Buel alleges, was consigned by a large
local jobbing house to the California
drug store. Warrants for the arrest
of the head of 'the jobbing firm and
the negro will be issued for service
Monday morning, he says.
The raid on the drug store was
made by Buel and Constable Zack
Ellis, armed with a search warrant
from City Prosecutor McGuire.
A small bottle of the stuff was first
purchased after which Buel and EHis
flashed the legal document and started
a thorough search of the establish
ment. The ten b?rrels of grain alcohol
were located in the basement. Half
a dozen or so empty barrels also were
found. Upstairs, in the pharmaceuti
cal room at the rear of the store,
about 175 bottles bearing labels
marked "medicated alcohol" were
found.
The barrels containing the grain
alcohol and the bottles of medicated
alcohol were confiscated by the of
ficers. A large crowd thronged about
the store when the barrels were taken
from the basement and loaded on
two larg drays.
It is said the policeman patroling
the beat on which the California
Pharmacy is located, made twenty
seven arrest for drunkenness this
month.
L. D. Hopkins was named as man
ager of the drug store in the search
warrant and a warrant for his arrest
was issued.
Pensacola Braves Terrific
Storm With Little Loss
Pciisacola, Fla., Sept. 30. Pensa
cola and vicinity emerged from the
battering last Friday of one of the
most terrific trophical hurricane that
ever struck this section. No loss of
life was reported and comparatively
small property damage, considering
the storm's violence.
Washington, Sept. 30. Pensacola
was not seriously damaged by the
Indian hurricane, but a number of
merchant vessels were driven ashore,
although the storm was of exceptional
violence. ,This information, the first
to reach the outside world from
Pensacola since Friday afternoon,
when communication was cut 'off,
came to the Navy department today
from the Pensacola navy yard radio
station. Damage to the navy yard
was estimated at $100,000.
Trading With Enemy
Bill Goes to President
Washington, Sept. 30. The trading
with the enemy bill passed through
the final stage in congress Saturday
and went to President Wilson to be
co.nc a uv with his signature.
Sing "Nearer, My God, to
TJiee," as Axes Fall;
Women Are Sold at
Auction.
New York, Sept. 30. The slaugh
ter with axes of all the Armenian
faculty members of Anatolia college,
Marsovan, northern Asia Minor, to
gether with 1,200 others by Turkish
peasants was described here yesterday
by the Rev. George E. White, presi
dent of the college, recently returned
to this country.
The massacres were committed at
night by order of the Turkish gov
ernment, he said. The Armenians
were sent out in lots of a hundred or
two to their doom and their bodies
rolled into prepared burial trenches.
The pay of the peasants for the
wholesale slayings was the privilege
of stripping the clothing from the
bodies of their victims.
, "One group of our college boys
asked permission t4 sing before they
died and they sang 'Nearer My God
to Thee,' then they were struck
down," Dr. White said.
"The situation for Armenia became
excessively acute in the spring of
1915 when the Turks determined to
eliminate the Armenian question by j
eliminating ihc Armenians. The
Armenian question arises from po
litical and religious causes.
"On the pretext of searching for
deserting soldiers, concealed bombs,
weapons, seditious literature or revo
lutionists, the Turkish officers ar
rested about 1,200 Armenian men at
Masovan, accompanying their in
vestigations by horrible brutalities.
There was no revolutionary activity
in our region whatever.
Pity to Waste Bullets.
The men where sent out in lots
of 100 or 200 in night 'deportations'
to the mountains where trenches had
been prepared. Gears- peasants, wild
were employed to do what was done,
said it was a 'pity to waste bullets'
and they used axes,
"Then the Turks turned on the
women and children, the old men and
little boys. Scores of oxcarts were
gathered and in the early dawn as
they passed, the sqeaking of their
wheels left memc ries .that make. the
blobdjturdle evennaw;. Thousands
ot women
away,
tion was stated or intended.' Why?
Simply because they were Armen
ians and Christians and were in the
hands of the Turks.
"Girls and young women were
snatchedawa at every turn oq the
jotlcyZElIe gi.h sojrfcat Marsovan
forfronr$2 to $4 each.: I know be
cause I heard the conversation of
men engaged in the traffic I know
because I was able to ransom three
girls at the price of $4.40.
Storm Anatolia College.
"The misery, the agony, the suf
fering were beyond power of words
to express almost beyond the power
of hearts to conceive. In bereave
ment, . thirst, hunger, loneliness,
State's Volunteer Regiment Will Be Divided Among Or
ganizations of One Hundred Ninth Division; Fifth
To Be Known as 134th Infantry; Fourth Be
comes Unit of Heavy Artillery.
(Continued on Fare Two, Column
Auburn Pastor Resigns
To Accept New Charge
Auburn, Neb., Sept. 30. (Special.)
Rev. Martin A. Ritzen, pastor of St.
Paul's English Lutheran church, has
resigned to become pastor of St.
Mark's church, near Verdon. This
church is the largest and most im
portant country church in the Ne
braska synod. It is a brick structure,
beautifully decorated in the interior.
Near the church is a modern eight
room parsonage. An electric light
plant has been installed to furnish
lights for both church and parsonage.
Lake Seamen's Strike Is
v Entfed by Shipping Board
Washington, Sept. 30. The rtrike
of Great Lakes seamen set for to
morrow was called off here today by
union leaders when the shipping
board, serving as arbitrator in their
dispute with the carriers, decided to
grant wage increases demanded.
Other demands were waived pending
investigation by the board.
Pope Asks Allies to
State Peace Terms
Paris, Sept. 30. A dispatch to
the Temps from Geneva says that
Pope Benedict in transmitting to
the entente allies the replica re
ceived from the central powers to
his peace proposals will set forth
in an accompanying note the theory
Germany and Austria have accepted
a basis of negotiation satisfactory
to the alliesand will ask the allies
to state their conditions.
By A MACHINE GUN MAN.
Deming, N. M., Sept. 29. (Special Telegram.) Th
"Dandy Sixth" Nebraska infantry, one of the two volunteei
regiments in the United States, was yesterday ordered to split
up and divided among various organizations of the 109th di
vision. According to the new order, the Fifth regiment will re
main intact as an infantry organization. The Fourth regiment
will become a heavy artillery organization. Most of its officers,
it is understood, will be transferred to infantry organizations.
Y HARRIES COMMANDS BRIGADE
General George Harries in charge
of the Nebraska brigade will remain
in charge of the Fifty-ninth depot
brigade. Colonel P. L. Hall and Lieu
tenant Colonel Mack of the Sixth will
be attached temporarily to this bri
gade. Companies A, B and C of the Sixth
are assigned to division headquarters
as military police, Colonel N. P.
Hyatt, Second Iowa, commander, a.id
Major H. L. Harries, second in com
mand. Company D becomes an ambulance
company. The officers of this com
pany, Captain Phil Risen and Lieu
tenants Gillen and McDonald, are
transferred to the Fifth regiment.
'I he Second battalion of the Sixth,
together with the headquarters com
pany, including the band and the sup
ply company under Captain Teten, are
assigned to the division engineer's
corps.
Company I, Norfolk. Third bat
talion, is assiirned as an rntfinlr:,
FALL FESTIVAL
STARTS ON LAST
WEEl(0F GAIETY
Big Events of the Ak-Sar-Ben
Carnival Will Soon Bf
Upon the Subjects of
the King.
Now the Ak-Sar-Ben festivities are
reaching the "home stretch."
Sunday the carnival was quiet, the
gates were closed, the animals spent
the day eating and sleeping it was
but the lull before the sforni. For this
is to be their busy week. During all
this week the carnival activities will
be in full roar, and scores of thou
sands will yet amuse themselves and
be amused at this great King's High
way, j,,,'' - " T" -
Knf Ijc tn li urupt tliat -UuiL.ar.
ajiWiyren -3 many thousands to the city.
WherffwhereeitfnSjIuhiijTiaBt week drew thousands to
the metropolis tor tne nrst weeic oi
the carnival, this week will bring the
thousands in multiplied volumes, for
this is the week when the King makes
his entry into the city.
Parade.) This Week. . . . .
This is the week for the festivities
for which the King's subjects have
been preparing throughout the year.
This week two" great and gorgeous
parades are to 1e held, and a great
fireworks spectacle will be given at
the Rourke park, depicting the "Battje
of Verdun" and many other historic
charges and bombardments of the Eu
ropean battle front.
Then, too, there will be the ..corona-J
tion of the King and yueen rrutsty
night of this week, which will be a
stately and regal spectacle, followed
by the grand coronation ball, when
the thousands of loyal knights and
ladies will dance until the midnight
hour has struck, and perhaps even
later when the costliest gowns in all
the realm will drape thesladies, and
when the rarest jewels will be dis
played on lily fingers, and from swan
like throats.
Week ot Fun.
Thus the week will be one grand
cycle of joys. Today and tomorrow
the carnival will be a big attraction,
as it will throughou. the remainder
of the week, but Wednesday night the
electrical parade is U appear on the
streets, ushering into the city his
majesty, King Ak-Sar-Ben XXIII.
The title of the parade is the "Triumph
of Democracy." The floats will de
pict this triumph in apt allegory and
in flaming colors of the nations of the
world and Ak-Sar-Ben.
On Thursday afternoon the great
parade, entitled "The World's Lib
erty" will move with proper majesty
upon the streets. It will be tuilt up
of many appropriate floats, and at the
same time battalions of United States
soldiers will march, high school ca
dets will be in line, and many other
organizations will take part.
That very night, before the memory
of the parade has faded, the fireworks
spectacle, the great military pageant
at Rourke park, entitled 'Wake Up
America," will be the principal at
traction. ,
Friday night then will come the
ball at, the classic Den, where the
King and Queen will be crowned, and
the mystery of who will reign over
the realm for the next twelve months
will be revealed.
American Nurses in Gas Masks
Compete for First Trench Duty
American Training Camp in France,
Sept. 30. While awaiting field ex
perience with their own troops, the
army hospitals within the American
zone are sending mobile units com
posed of doctors, nurses and orderlies,
to both the French and British
fronts. These units are operating in
the m6st advanced casualty clearing
stations in co-operation with the Brit
ish and French surgeons.
Doctors and nurses alike are
equipped with gas masks and other
means of protection against German
attacks, which are becoming more
and more frequent on hospitals in the
forward areas. There is much rivalry
among the various hospitals as to who
should have the privilege of going
first, but, according to the present
plans, all the doctors, all the nurses
and most of the enlisted men will
have a turn in a casualty station be
fore the winter.
The American hospitals arc plainly
marked with a great red cross, in ac
cordance with the Geneva convention.
They are situated far from any fight
ing units or supply depots for fight
ing materials, so if- they should ever
be bombed, it will be a deliberate act
by the enemy aimed direct at the
sfck and wounded and other non-combatants.
train.
The Thir8 battalion, less Company
I, becomes a supply train.
Form New Brigade. ( f
' Tju niachine un company, , Sixtli,
unduapuiii .Viiehler Metcalfe, will '
remain intact, but will become a part
of the 126th Machine Gun battalion
of the Sixty-seventh brigade.
Companies E, F, G and H, Second
Iowa infantry, will be consolidated
into two companies of machine guns
and with the Sixth gun company will
make up the battalion.
.The First Iowa and the Fifth Ne
braska, remaining intact, will be
known as the 133d and 134th In
fantry, respectively, and all compose
the Sixty-seventh brigade under Gen
eral H. A. Allen.
Companies C and D. Second Iowa,
will be merged into one machine gun
company and with CSmpanies A and
B, Second Iowa, and with Troop1 B,
First Iowa, and the machine gun com
panyfThird' Minnesota, will make up
the 125th Machine Gun battalion, at
tached to the division.
Making New Regiments.
-The machine gun company of the
Fourth .Nebraska Regiment and the "
Third Battalion of the Second Iowa
and Troop C of the First Iowa cav
alry make up the 127th Machine Gun
battalion of the Sixty-eighth brigade.
The First and Second Minnesota
regiments are 'assigned , to this
brigade. The Third Minnesota, less
the machine gun company; the First .
Iowa Field artillery and the Fifty
ninth Feld artillery, heavy artillery,
are to be known as the 125th artillery
and Twenty-sixth and 127th Field ar.
tillery, respectively.
Signal Corps Duties.
The Nebraska signal corps becomes
a wire company in the divisional bat
talion. The Iowa signal corps be.
comes an outpost company.
The Sixth Nebraska sanitary de
tachment becomes a part of ihc 127th '
Field artillery and the Nebraska Field
hospital now at Mineola becomes a
part of the rifty-ninth depot.
The new order becomes effectiv
Oct. 1. ' -
The Sixth regiment will give up its
beautiful camp to the South Dakota
cavlary. Tuesday will be moving day.
The order which came today was not
altogether a surprise. Rumors of such
a reorganization have gone the rounds
for the last week. And instead ol
gloom, discouragement and sullen
ncss, nothing but the most serene
sheerfulness and optimism prevaile in
the camps of the Sixth Nebraska regi
ment.
Good Showing at Review.
In front of each mess shack camp
fires are burning brightly. Members
of Company D serenaded Captain
Risch, while the band first played up
and down the regimental street, then ,
marched at the head of the procession
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me oiAui uuiccra to inc camp ox
th: Fifth Nebraska regiment, where
a reception was given by the officers
of the Fifth.
Colonel Herbert Paul, in addressing
the officers of the Sixth, compliment
ed them on the splendid manner in
which they accepted the new order.
He declared that the Sixth Nebraska
regiment had made the best showing
of all three regiments at the brigade
review held yesterday. ,
Friday the first and last' brigade
review rwas held by General Harries.
Six thousand of Nebraska's fine,
strong men were massed together on N
one large field and passed by in re
view. The showing made by the
Sixth ' regiment won enthusiastic
praise from regimental, brigade and
division commander