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fHE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1918. 3 TONGUE OF MOWER PIERCES FARMER AT PLATTSMOUTH M. L Furlong Also Rur. Over by Team and Machine Blade Cuts Off Three Legs of Mule. ' Ptattsmouth, Neb., July 3. (Spe cial.) M. L. Furlong, living some tseven miles south of this city, and his son, Walter, 16 years of age, went to the field with a mower to cut alfalfa. The father going ahead some dis tance. ; A cow came out of the woods bordering the field in which they worked, which frightened the rear .team, which ran away and striking uneven ground, threw the young man from the mower The rear team ran into the other mower, and the end of the tongue struck M. L. Furlong m the back, knocked him off the mower, and the team passed over him. Four ribs were broken and his .forehead and chin were badly cut. One mule got over the sickle bar and the forward team becoming frighten ed, ran away also, when the mower cut off three feet of the mule, which was later shot. Dr. G. H. Gilmore of Murray was called and dressed the wounds of Mr. Furlong. Private Leo D. Saxton Of Deshler Dies at Gun; ' Praised by His Officers Deshler, Neb., July 3. (Special.) The following sad message was re ceived by Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Sax ton, of Belvidert: "Thirtieth Infantry, On Active Service, American Expeditionary Force. June 10, 1918. It is my sad duty to announce to you the death of your son, Pvt. Leo D. Saxton, Co. E, 30th Infantry, on the night of June 7th. My platoon, a part of E company, advanced against a town held by the Germans, took it, and advanced beyond. Your son, I .had given a responsible position as auto matic rifleman, because of his proved capability as a soldier. He died at his gun as a soldier should, after having given the Germans a big taste of hell for two hours. It is a big sacrifice for you to make, sir, but the cause for which we are fighting de mands big sacrifice. It is a credit to you and your race that your son fought so welt and died so nobly in his first big battle. Sincerely yours, Clarence E. Allen, jr.. First lieuten ant, 30th Infantry." Awards Child to Mother's Keeping in Domestic Tangle Aurora, Neb., July 3. (Special.) Judge Corcoran gave the child to the mother in the suit between An drew J. Wright of Giltner and his wife, Lydia Wright, who is now a resident of Hastings. She left her husband's home in Giltner on May .15, 1918, and on June 25 went back with a taxicab and took away their little 10-year-old. girl. The father sued out a writ of habeas corpus and brought the child back. Judge Cor coran decided to let the mother have the little girl until the fall term of court -when a divorce suit between the parties will be tried. Beatrice Artilleryman Getting Used to Hun Roar - Beatrice, Neb., July 3. (Special.) Sam Roe, son of Dr. and Mrs. G. L. Roe, who is with the American artil lery in France, writes that he has par ticipated in a number of engagements, Una a -- rn4 J ti !irir T-T A cf O f tC that the sound of cannonading wor ried him greatly at first, but he is now getting used to it. The Board of Supervisors will be asked to appropriate funds to assist in equipping the home guard battalion in charge of General Colby. It will "require about $1,600 for this purpose. Nebraska Boy is Reported 1 Killed in Action Overseas Warren L. Day of Blue Springs, Neb., was reported killed in action in France in the casualty list made pub lic by the War department yester day. He was electrocuted in Hun entanglements on the western front June 24, according to information re oeived by the young man's mother, Mrs. Josie Day. He was 23 years of age, and has a brother in the ser vice stationed at Camp Cody, N. M. Minister Devotes Vacation to Work in Harvest Fields Plattsmouth, Neb.. July 3. (Spe cial.) Rev. A. J. Hargett, minister of the Christian church of this place, has been granted a vacation for 30 days, and departed last night for Arapahoe where he will engage in harvesting, threshing and reseeding ground to wheat, which is doing his utmost to relieve the tense labor situation. Sixty Days for Intoxication. Beatrice, Neb., July 3. (Special.) Eli McMains and George Hatesohl of this city were sentenced to 60 days each in the county jail on the charge of intoxication. McMains stated that he had purchased the booze from Will Becks and Ben Robinson, colored men. They were arrested, but plead ed not guilty. Their cases were set for hearing on July 8, and they were released on bond of $100 each. A Mexican was fined $50 and costs by Judge Ellis yesterday for accost ing a young woman on the street. Gage Mortgage Report. Beatrice, Neb., July 3. (Special.) Following is the mortgage report for Gage county for the month of June: Numbeer of farm mortgages filed, 17; imount, $76,075; number of farm mortgages released, 25; amount, $141, 007.75. Number of city mortgages iled, 15; amount, $18,950; number of : city mortgages released, 15; amount, 1514,735,25. Howard at Humboldt. . Stella, Neb., July 3.-(Special.) Lieut Gov. Edgar Howard, demo :ratic candidate for the United States senate, will be the principal speaker st the, Fourth of July celebration at Humboldt The program closes with a big free picture show. G. L. Cooper -is officer. of the dav. NEW OMAHA FREIGHT HOURS ARE NAMED Commission Makes Deoision After Considering Complaint by Carriers at Lincoln Hearing. From a Staff Correspondent. Lincoln, July 3. (Specials Freight houses in Omaha will be :e quired to remain open from 7 o'clock in the morning until 4:30 in the after noon on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes day, Thursday and Friday of each week and until 1 o'clock in the after noon on Saturday, according to an order of the State Railway com mission issued today. This is the decision of the com mission after considering a complaint filed by the carriers who desired to close their freight houses at 4 o'clock instead of at 5 as have been the pre vailing custom. Carriers must appear before the commission at 11 o'clock on July 15 and show cause why the commission should not make an order requiring them to receive less than carload merchandise for shipment within thirty minutes following tender and truck it away from the platforms and load in cars. Snippers will appear at the same time and show cause why the Com mission should not enter an order allowing the carriers to refuse to re ceive more than 50 per cent of ship ments in less than carload lots after 2:00 p. m. Dan Swanson Enters Lists as Republican For Land Commissioner Fremont, Neb., July 3. (Special Telegram.) Dan Swanson withdrew from the race for the nomination for county treasurer and filed for the nomination for state land commis sioner on the republican ticket. Swanson's withdrawal leaves Joseph Roberts, former president of the State Board of Agriculture and rep resentative from this district for two terms, the only republican candidate F. R. Ranslem of Scribner is the democratic candidate. The summer heat record was equalled Tuesday afternoon when a temperature of 103 was reported by the government thermometer for two days in succession. In the mid dle of June the same mark was reg istered. On the 62d anniversary of pioneers of Fremont the body of William B. Lee, last of the pioneers to come to this place in 1856, reached Fremont from Douglas, Wyo., where he died at the home of his daughter. The funeral was held today. He was 85 years of age. Dr. G. R. Rathbun and Dr. A. E Buchanan, Fremont physicians, have been appointed captains in the medi cal reserve corps. They enlisted sev eral weeks ago and passed their final examinations a short time later. They are awaiting the call to report. No Decision on Telephone Merger Case at Red Cloud Red Cloud, Neb., July 3. (Special Telegram.) Hearing was held here today by the State Railway Com mission, represented by Commissioner Wilson, relative to a consolidation of the Lincoln Telephone company s local exchange with that of The Farmers' Independent company. Tes timony by commission's expert and by officers of both systems was in troduced. At the conclusion this evening Attorney McNeny for the Lincoln company made a motion for an order permitting them to refuse the Independent company the use of its toll line or else require the Inde pendent company to refuse to install a phone for any Lincoln company subscriber who should hereafter dis continue Lincoln service. Both motions were taken under advise ment. The hearing was adjourned until July 13 at Lincoln. Four-Minute Men to Read Wilson's Speech Lincoln, Neb., July 3. (Special.) President Wilson announces tha't he will make to the people of the couni try a "Fourminute" address on the Fourth of July. He asks that his special message to the country be given by the 35,000 government speakers of the Division of Four minute Men as his personal repre sentatives. Instructions which Prof. M. M. Fogg, state director of the Division of Four-minute Men, has received in regard to the presentation of this message have been sent to the chair men of the 325 Nebraska local Four minute men branches in connection with which over 1,700 speakers will present the president's Fourth of July message to the people of nearly every city and town in the state. Mrs. E. H. Taylor of Stella Teacher in Philippines Stella, Neb., July 3. (Special.) Mrs. Edward H. Taylor, who was Miss Hazel Clark and was born in Stella, will be the first woman to teach in the University of Manila, Philippine Islands, having been elect ed to teach advanced English, facial expression and folk lore. English Amazed by Rapid Movement of U. S. Troops By Associated Press. London, July 3. Secretary of War Baker's letter to President Wilson, announcing that more than a million American soldiers had left the United States for France, was pub lished in the early editions of the London afternoon papers under great headlines. The statement was fea tured in connection with the success of the American troops in capturing the town of Vaux, on the Marne front. The figures came as a great sur prise. Although iit was known that many Americans were arriving at British ports weekly, few realized that the million mark had been ex ceeded. "Amazing Atlantic Record," and "U. S. Program Six Months Ahead" are among the headings stretching across the pages usually given to the most important war news. The letters 'of President Wilson REPRIEVE GIVEN ALSON COLE UNDER DEATH JENTENCE Nebraskan, Who Was to Die July 12, Permitted U Live Longer on Advice of Reed. Lincoln, Neb., July 3. On recom mendation of the attorney general, Governor Keith Neville today grant ed a reprieve to Alson B. Cole, under sentence to be executed on July 12, for the murder of Mrs. Lulu Vogt, who was shot to death near St. Paul, Neb., a year ago. The attorney general asked the stay of execution because if Cole were electrocuted July 12, his evidence would not be available in the event the supreme court reverses the de cision in the case of Allen V- Cram mer, son-in-law of Mrs. Vogt, who was also convicted in connection with her death. Cole, following his arrest, contended Grainmer hired him to kill the woman. He was to have received $500 for committing the crime, he said. Authorized Call for Nebraska Republican Convention for July 20 The republicans of the state of Ne braska are hereby called to meet in the city of Lincoln on Tuesday, July 30, at 12 o'clock, noon, for the pur pose of adopting a platform and se lecting a state central committee and for the transaction of such other bus iness as may properly come before the convention. The representation in such conven tion will be based on the vote cast for presidential electors in 1916, allowing one delegate for each 100 voles or major fraction thereof, which appor tionment will entitle the various coun ties to representation as follows: Adams . Antelope Arthur ., Banner . 20 Jefferson 18 IS! Johnson 14 J I Kearney 141 liKetth 4 Blaine j Keya Paha 3 2 19 70 Boone 13! Kimball Box Butte fii Knox Boyd 8! Lancaster Brown D Lincoln 13 Buffalo 22,L,OKan ... Burt 15 Loup .... Butler iiMcPherson Cans 15 Madison . 2 Cedar 17! Merries Chase . . , Cherry . Cheyenne Clay .... Colfax . , 4! Morrill . U Nance .. Nemaha . J7 Nuckolls 9; Otoe Cuming: 34' Pawnee 12 Custer 201 Perkins Dakota Tin VM 6 1 Phelps 10 si Pierce 12 Dawson H!S'.tte 10 10 10 Deuel . . Dixon .. Dodge . . Douglas Dundy . Fillmore Franklin n fOIK 121 Red Willow I Richardson . 111! Rock 4 Saline J 5 i5iSarpy 9 ,.1 Saunders 20 Frontier CM.-UllHU!UI II Furnas 12iw"d Gage 34 Sheridan Sherman Garden .. Garfield Gosper . . Grant ... Greeley .. Hall .... Hamilton Harlan .. Hayes ... Hitchcock , Sioux Stanton 7 J Thayer m "Thomas 2 .'. Thurston 7 ,4! Valley " Washington 13 f Wayne 12 Webster 22 .. 4IWhaal.i, Holt 2 7I Total i,m It, is further recommended that no proxies be allowed and that the dele gates present from each of the re spective counties be authorized to cast the full vote of their delegation In accordance with the rules of the republican state central committee credentials of delegates to the con vention should be filed with the secre tary of the state committee at least five days before the date of the con vention. The members of the county central committee for each county, who are to conduct the 1918 campaign, must be chosen at the delegate county con vention and reported at once to the state committee. Dated this 2d day of July, 1918, at Lincoln, Neb. E D. BEACH, Chairman. H. C. BEE BE, Secretary. Discover Potash Deposits In Goose Lake, Iowa Des Moines, July 3. (Special Tele gram.) It is announced by state of ficial that potash has been discov ered in Goose Lake, Greene county, which is owned by the state. The state is having the lake prospected and if potash exists in anything like the quantities reported the state will go into the business of mining it. Railroad Superintendent Dies in His Private Car Mason City, la., July 3. E. G. Aitkins, division superintendent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad here since last December, died suddenly of heart disease in his private car at Plankington, S. D this afternoon, according to a message re ceived here. He was on a tour of in spection. Aitkins came here from Chicago. and Secretary Baker also are printed in large type, while most of the newspapers devote a leading article to the achievement. The Westmin ster Gazette says: "The-, figures will be as grateful a surprise to our own people as they will be a painful shattering of the German illusions." The newspaper considers the suc cessful moving of this large body of men across the Atlantic to be proof that the U-boat has absolutely failed in its endeavor to prevent the coming of the Americans, especially as, de spite the strain on shipping, sup plies for the civilian population have been maintained. The Pall Mall Gazette says: "Jt is a unique Independence Day which Americans will celebrate to morrow. A million of them will keep the feast in their country's uniform which alone would make a landmark in its history." . Fifty-Fifty Between Office And Farm is Suggestion Made By Dr. W. M. Condon, Humphrey Three business days a week are enough for the business men of the small town, according to the idea of Dr. W. M. Condon of Humphrey, Neb., who is passing a few days in Omaha. "Ninety per cent of the business men of the small town are farm raised, and many of them are retired farmers," says Dr. Condon, "and they should make competent farm hands. The need of the farmer of Nebraska for help is imperative. It can not be exaggerated. The bankers, professional men and merchants would make just as much money and do just as much business if they kept open their stores and offices each al ternate day from 7 in the morning to 10 at night, as they do now. Un der the present 6 o'clock closing rule the farmer, who is the mainstay of small town business, can not get into tdwn without losing valuable daylight hours. They could all ar range to make their purchases dur ing the three days when business houses were open. Help in Fields. "During the other three days of the week, business men and their help could assist -the farmers in the fields. There are enough automo biles available among the town peo ple to take all these men to the fields each morning and bring them back at night This would relieve, the Nonpartisan League's Secretary Ex-Attorney For I. W. W. Is Shown From a Staff Correspondent. Lincoln, July 3. (Special Tele gram.) Arthur i LaSauer, secretary of the Nonpartisan league, was the subject of a warm examination at the hearing in district court today in which the league seeks to restrain the State Council of Defense from interfering with meetings of the league. The main part of the afternoon was spent in reading campaign documents to show the disloyal attitude of the league, and its alignment with the socialist party. LaSeur admitted that up to last year he was the attorney for the I. W. V. and had aided them in suits. A book publisStd by Lindberg, Nonpartisan candidate for the republican nomi nation for governor in Minnesota, who was defeated in the recent pri mary, was made a part of the evi dence against the league. Extracts from the book showed that the candidate was not in sym pathy with the war, and had alleged that the country, had been drawn in by speculators and profiteers. Former Fremont Woman Dies at Longmorn, Colo. Fremont, Neb., July 3. (Special Telegram.) Mrs. A. J. Taylor, for mer resident of Fremont, died at Longmont, Colo., where she and Mr. Taylor had stopped for a visit on their return to their home at Long Beach, Cal. They left Fremont 10 days ago, after visiting here for a month. Mr. Taylor is a former prominent Dodge county farmer.. For the last seven years he and Mrs. Tay lor have resided at Long Beach. Mrs. Every red-blooded American, by birth or adoption, is celebrating today, the second Fourth of July after our entrance into THE GREATEST OF ALL WORLD WARS. Thirty-five thousand speakers from the gulf to the frozen north and from the Statue' of Liberty to the Golden Gate will act as proxies for President Wilson and deliver to millions of hearers his especially prepared address. We had intended to give you particulars of the GREATEST JULY SALE OF DRY GOODS in the HISTORY OF THIS STORE and perhaps the most marked because of peculiar conditions in the HISTORY OF ANY STORE. You would not have time for details; would not read them today if we printed them, and so we will not burden you. Will simply Announce the starting of this wonderful event On Friday Morning at 8:30 . Come in the morning, if possible, in the afternoon we expect to be deluged with customers. Never so good a reason for a sale and if you need Thomas Kilpatrick farmers' wives of the work of feed ing and caring for the extra hands except for-the noon meal, "This arrangement should be made compulsory on all men and boys, so that one storekeeper, for instance, would not be able to take advantage of those more patriotically inclined by keeping open while the others are in the fields, and loafing during closed hours should not be permitted." Wages Are Good. Dr. Condon says that wages for farm hands, as promulgated by the State Council of Defense, are from $4 to $4.50 per day. The business men would lose nothing, as they would still do all the business to be done in their respective communities, and both they and their clerks would have the extra wages earned as farm laborers. His plan would release l.OtXl men in Platte county, alone. Dr. Condon believes, or give the equivalent of 3,000 working days. It would sup ply capable help, more food pro ducts for our soldiers and allies, al low several hundred more men to be placed in class A for army" service, and would put the men themselves into a splendid physical condition. Dr. Condon is a banker of Humph rey and, in addition, is the owner of several fine farms and one jf the highest bred herds of Holstein cattle in Nebraska. Taylor was 55 years of age. The body was taken to Long Beach for burial. Nebraska Socialists Express Confidence in Debs' Innocence Edmund R. Brumbaugh, state, sec retary of the socialist party in Ne braska, sent a telegram Tuesday to Eugene V. Debs, four times socialist candidate for the presidency of the United States, who was arrested in Cleveland, O., Sunday on a charge ol sedition, in which confidence in his innocence is expressed by the Ne braska socialists. The telegram read as follows: The hearts of 10.000 Nebruska socialists po out to you In loving comradeship and lasting confidence In your Innocence and vindication. Vour life of service to the working class makes your cause our cause and Inspires to Increased effort for a greater democracy and a fuller freedom. Rev. Edgar Lucas Goes To France on 6 Months' Leave Beatrice, Neb., July 3. (Special.) Rev. Edgar Lucas of First Presby terian church of this city, has been granted a six months' leave of ab sence on full pay and will leave in a few days for France to engage in Young Men's Christian Association work. He has two brothers and a nephew with the British forces. Airman Dies of Injuries. Fort Worth, Tex., July 3. Lt. Arthur M. Parsons of Gloucester, Mass., who was injured by being struck by an airplane propeller yes terday, died this afternoon. He was examining the propeller at the time of the accident. Omaha Girl Licensed to Wed Chicago, 111., July 3. (Special ) Kristian N. Kronborg of Middletown was licensed here today to wed Miss Melte E. Brix of Omaha. WOULD NOT READ DETAILS if we PUBLISHED THEM TODAY DRY GOODS Never so important THAT YOU ATTEND. FRIDAY, JULY 5th, RUSSIAN ROYAL FAMILY MEMBERS ESCAPEJO SEA Fate of Former Czar Still Mys tery; Grand Duke Michael Reported to Be Safe at Kiev. By Associated Press. Copenhagen, July 3. Several mem bers of the Russian royal family took passage on a steamer which recently sailed from the Murman coast on the White Sea, according to a dispatch to the Berlinske Tidende from Ber gen. The information is attributed to a Russian, who declares these fugitives were on the same steamer with him. The newspaper's informant declared these members of the royal family had escaped from a train on which they were being taken to Perm (pre sumably from Ekaterinburg). The Russian added that there soon would be some news of former Emperor Nicholas. News Not Confirmed. London, July 3. Reports of the I'ltiiMraitKmiiiniPBiiCT OUR ANNUAL ULY affords an opportunity to buy Furniture Suites and odd regular prices. an Rugs in all sizes at a while Draperies for your entire home can be chosen so that . you save from one-third to a half. f An Early Attendance Is Advised Doors Open at 8:30 A . M. SfctaiiWilgIi& 414-416-413 jrp Qrn A TTQ I murder of Nicholas Romanoff, former Russian emperor, can be neither con firmed nor disproved, says the Petro grad correspondent of the Times, un der date of June 23. He says the re port of the escape of Michael Alex androvitch, brother of the former em peror, seems to have better founda tion. ' According to one version, Michael is at Kiev with General Skoropadski, . hetman of the Ukraine, who was a friend and adherent of Michael when he was out of favor with the emperor owing to his morganatic marriage. Countess Brasova, Michael's wife, is under arrest in Petrograd. The Archbishop Andronica of Perm has been arrested for complicity in the escape of Michael. Forest Fires Beyond Control, Fanned by Strong Winds'; Portland, Ore., July -J. Stroi,,, , winds from the coast fanned fceit . fires in Tillamook and Washington counties last night and late reports indicated they were out of control Two hundred additional soldiers from ... the spruce division left here early to- . day on a special train to join the 250. or more already fighting the flames In addition, the Southern Pacific l.aj . 100 section workers protecting the company's property, and many civil- -ians were engaged in the battle. , . ? Efforts are being made to keep traf- fi ne going on the railroad trom inu tnook, in order to keep aviation cntnr niAiiinrr tVm rnf.iin rtlanf ft Vancouver, Wash. J 1 I- pieces at a fraction of their j very marked discount. South 16 th Street ) ... i 3 m &Co. i .- ..Va