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iff w I RIEF RIGHT R.EEZY BITS OF NEWS 'INDIAN FUGITIVES BARRICADED IN CAVE. Flagstaff, Aitj Aprirl I. Two 'n of iht Navajo Indian chief, I'atiltonny, aid to be the n frcse'I murderer of Charles lluMiell. whme rharred bnfly wn found March 2.1 in the aiiioldcring tnins ff bil trlrilitiK post near the Indian ""village of Oraiba. 45 mile north of Vjnow, Ariz, arc barricaded to i tulit in a rave in the mountain, 1-5 mile northeast of this fit, termed and ready to die rather than iirrendcr ty the "heritf's posse which will. l'ave Winslow rarly to- . morrow morning in an attempt to bring them hack to face trial. Two o'her Navajo, acting in their tribal belief th9t the Indian who inji.ref a white man, must he , made '0 atone lent evil befall the tribe, brought this word to Wins low. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT RESTORED IN NEVADA. Carson City, Xcv., April 2. CapU tal punikhment has he en restored in Nevada. Governor Boyle allowed an amendment to the present murder act to become a law without his sig- nature. The law makes any kind of wilful, deliberate and prcniediated killing" murder of the first deree, punishable by death or life imprison ment, in the discretion of the jury. aialitrat T" Iv m litif ii-aLrwtf "a KILL RATS FOR FOOD IN CITY OFNPETROGRAD. v Petrograd. April 2. This city is a poor place for rats. They are the last resort of the food hunters, who have killed practically all domestic pets, horses and even sparrows for tood. Kieff reports rats are a common diet there. NANCY FIRST MAKES NEW DURABILITY RECORD. New York, April 2. Nancy First, the veteran of the seaplane flotilla which the United States navy is go ing to send over the Atlantic, his established a new record for dura bility, it was learned tonight. In tests made around Rockaway PoinK ' K I., where the winged hopes of America are training the huge bird craft made substantial progress un- ' Uer power of but two of her Liberty motors. The1 other planes are ex pected to display the same ability. Ibis means that in the trans-Atlantic flight the -breakdown of one motor will be Almost inconsequen tial, and even if two go dead any, of the N. C. machines can continue mi the air'in normal weather. Each of flie motors develops about 400 horsepower. , - EX-KAISER'S HORSES SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION. Amsterdam, April . 2. The Ger man government has sold at auction ihc ex-kaise'r's utK) personal horses. His favorite' charger brought $5,000." FOUR BOOZE HOUNDS HELD ON MURDER CHARGE. Woodstock, Va.. April 2. Four Virgin Mate prohibition agents, sharged with murdering Lawrence IJ. Hudson and Raymond Schackle tord, alleged bootleggers killed' near here List week, were held without ,bail for the grand jury after a hear ing today before amagistrate. RELIOIOUS TEACHING IN FOREIGN TONGUE. Lincoln. April 2. (Special. ) l our -members' of the house and senate conference committees on S. V. 24. the Siman bill putting a ban on the use of foreign language in the schools, brought in a majority report this afternoon changing the term of the bill so as to allow re ligious teaching Hy the parochial schools in the German and other foreign tongues. This was done by inserting the vord "secular" jti the clause in the till, which prohibits foreign lan Kt.age instruction up; to and includ ing the eighth grade. JBLLICOE AND BEATTY 20TH MADE ADMIRALS. London. April 2 The kiiffc has ar proved the promotion of Admiral Yfccotint Jvhn Jcllicoe and V ice Admiral Sir David Bcatty to be "admiral the fleet" in recogni tion oi their distinguished was -rvicr. i GERMANS PAY FOR FOODSTUFFS WITH GOLD. Taria. April 3. The French for eign office was advised today that S.'S.""".!' in gold was deposited Tuesday by the (Irrnians in the Bel gian National bank at Brussels. The gold is collateral for the payment for foodstuffs which the allies are permitting to enter Germany. LUMBERMEN REJECT JOINT PRICE AGREEMENT. rw Orleans, April 2. Southern !m lumber manufacturer at a r.ias meeting here today declined the proposal oi the industrial board the Prpartment of Commerce to Inter int. a joint price agreement at a means if stabilizing market ondiion. Snch action, it was de clared. wcttM be "contrary to the bent mtrt of the public and of ' the wdairy" and would violate antt-trt statutes. NAVAL DIVISION TO MEET ADMIRAL SIMS. WafHmifton, April J Vice Ad miral Wtlium S. Sim, who cm mandel American naval forces over tea during the war. wvll be met by a t?iio of destroyer and naal apUf! when hi ship, the Cu rj liner Vlanretania. which left Vtithawptisn Sunday, arrive off New Yc-rk Sunday. SEE NO PROSPECT OF CHEAPER MEAT. CV.cajte. April Nj change, in weal price will rtuU from' removal nt tfnrttritntnt profit restrictions n t department of the packing conv F.i according to statements is t4 tWav fev Armour an ! company. wtlt and company and Morni and Arvr a 1 company fa,.! that ! deitha'.J at home and aN a t a ,v high l !a'r and live iMU bl no nufwitKMl tti ai'J aa io riduiiii ft-cv lalarrt Omaha, LEADERS 0FI.W.W. ORDERED RELEASED u,.,..m.j oc nhi.c Cfti'm4 riayWOOQ ana ,50 UUierS round Guilty of Disloyalty to Be Admitted to Bail Pend ing Review of Case.. Chicago, April 2. Thirty-seven of the 93 I. W. VyVs convicted last "September of conspiracy to violate the espionage act and now in Leav enworth .penitentiary were admitted to bail br the United States circuit court of appeals pending review of their conviction on appeal. Bail ranged from $15,000 for Wil liam D. Haywood, international sec retary, the highest office in the I. W. W., down to $1,000 for five of the prisoners whose sentences were one year or 18 months. The total amount of bail will require scheduling of property vaJued at more than $1,000, 800. Counset for the appellants imme diately began a national effort to pb tain sureties to satisfy the court, which must approve bonds before any of the prisoners can be released. The court warned counsellor the appellants that any repetition by their clients of acts such as those for which ' they were sentenced would result in cancellation of tfit Bonds and he return of the offenders to prison. Attorneys for the 37 said they would stand sponsor for the good behavior of their clients pending hearing of their appeal. Will Ask Repeal of War Laws. Leavenworth, Kan., April 2. W. D. ("Big Bill") Haywood, foremdat of the Industrial Workers of the World prisoners affected by the cir cuit court of appeals, when shown an Associated l'ress dispatch con taining the information that an' or der had been issued admitting him and 30 of his fellow prisoners to bail, said: "We will go ahead now and- pre pare for a rehearing as rapidly and as effectively as we can. What we are most greatly interested in ij the repeal of those war laws which sub jected us to conviction and we ex pect to work to that end, as every other good American should be do ing. Loch Enjoys a, Joke, But Not After It Gets Stale, He Says Friends of Peter Loch, one of the proprietors of the Orpheum gar den, have been having a lot of fun recenCy at the expense of the good natured keeper of the pleasure re sort. Ich, who was the victim of circumstances and guesswork on the part of a person too eager to furnish details ina report he made to the police concerning a "fake" robbery, alleged to have been staged at the Harney hotel, March 16, has taken his "kidding" with a good grace, but yesterday he was exas perated and threatened to "clean up" with the next person who re newed the subject, which has grown tiresome, he asserted. It came about when a guest of the hotel told the police he heard two men plan to rob a third party. The report stated that "one of them called Douglas 3o31, or a telephone number which sounded hke that, and asked to see Pete right away. L i bis is Lock's telephone number. it was an ngnt wnne me loa ding came from my friends," said Loch, "but strangers have been call ing my number, on the telephone ajid attempting to josh about the matter, of which I knv nothing." Several Hundred Killed in Rioting at rranktort-on-the-Main! London. April 2 Several hun dred persons were killed in further rioting at F'rankfort-on-the-Main yesterday, according to a Copen hagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company. ' In the fighting at Stuttgart yes terday, the message adds, a violent crowd attacken tne town nau, wnicn was ccupiedxbv governmenftroops. The crowd, however, was beaten ott. three person were xiuea anu many injured. ' ...... ., Germany Will Permit US& . n ... ri.i- u Of DanZig Oy POHSh TrOOpS r..:. a.:t Jr.rmmv u;it nnt perstst'in its opposition to the" use of Danzig by Polish troops on the way from France to Poland, accord ing to advices reaabing Paris news paper. Marshal Foch left Taris today for VOL. 48 NO. 248. Spa to meet the German represen- Utive 't'o "discus the Danzig ques- lion. The marshal had a long con - ierenee Tuesday .with Premier Cleme a . -"'" t THE ONLY NEBRASKA PAPER WITH A ROTOGRAVURE PICTURE The: Omaha Mwad.eliM aattw May , imm, at P. 0. ar act at March. 3. U7S. 12tlBalloonCo., Back Home After, Valorous Service. On x Hottest French War Fronts Men Trained at Fort Omaha and Cited for Bravery In Argonne Drive and Battles On Other Sectors Wel comed By Friends as They Reach City; Plaudits Given Them for Brave Deeds. Two hundred Omahans at the Union depot lasUnight greeted 46 men of the Twelfth Balloon "company, who ar rived over the Rock Island last night at 1 o'clock. Fathers, mothers, brothers and. sisters, greeted their loved ones who ifor tne Past ei2nt months have been fighting in France. s Tears and smiles intermintrled as nroud Darents crrasD- e"their stalwart sons in their arms. And they might well be v Budapest Government Re proud, for the blouse pocket of each man contained a citation nnc anrl nfcire tn for gallantry in action signed of the Balloon group of the Fifth army in France. They are regular veterans, these mn of the 12th balloon, company, and would say (little of their ex ploits. But the fact that they had served on the St. Mihiel, Argonne and Meuse fronts was sufficient. One man told of two men who, while in an observation! balloon, were carried across into the Ger- man lines. They later .returned and told members of theiVcornpany Of. this experience. But the story was not colored, it was related in , a simple manner, and contained straight facts. s Cautain McKinley In Charge. In charge of the company was Captain A. C. McKinley. Captain; McKinley left the state a first lieut tenant, anu rcceiveu nas promotion in France. Other officers were Capt. J.' S. Alexander, medical at tache, an Omaha man who also left for France as a first lieutenant, and Second Lieut. H. C. "'Fisher. The officers estimated that 25 pi the returned men were from Omaha. The remajnder are, nearly all from neighboring towns. They will be taken' to' Fort Omaha for demobi lization. The Twelfth balloon com pany left Omaha February, 25, 1918, remained at Morrison, Va., for a few months for further training and sailed for Ftance in Tune. They re- L turned to the United States March 21. ... . Master Signal -Electrician Mayer Colin reached Omaha in advance of the arrival of the company. Unusual importance is attached to th arrival of this contingent, be cause the men were trained at the Fort Omaha Balloon, school, re mained intact .as an' organization during service, of 18 months, and PULL DOWN RED FLAG AT HAMBURG AS FOOD COMES Arrival of First Relief Vessel at German Port Marked by Cessation of Trouble. Hamburg, April 2. The red flag which had been flying from the tower of the city hall here since the revolution last November has been hatiled down. " . The quiet which haM set in at this port after the departure of German ships for allied ports is happily dis turbed now by -the creaking and clanking of cranes and windlasses lifting the precious cargoes of American wheat out of the holds of the West Carnifax and Lake St. "Clair, the first American relief ships to arrive here. None of the flour ms permitted fo go to waste, and all that leaks from broken or damaged sacks is care fully gathered tip and put in new containers. The quality of the flour excites admiration from the on lookers. Exposition Certain . for Fall Festival, r t uovernors feci "The Ak-Sar-Ben exposition proj ect at Sixtieth and Center streets ...;ii .u . ,u,' nij , ?"cl!inglla",'pr!sidr,1t, Lth uvai u til auvti uii 9, . iu;'un ni( a meeting held at the Omaha club last night. A general discussion of the new project was held and considerable progress made, but with the great mass of detail to attend to, it wiii take some time to get things to go ing, according to Mr. 'Buckingham. The land, comprisinc !30i acres. bought last week ior the sum ot $68,000, will have a race track, as wf 11 as a row of. buildings for exhi- bition purposes ancj fairs, according to J. D. Weaver, secretary of the governing body. "As soon as plans are made con- struction and ' improvement of the grounds will begin." Mr." Weaver said. The Ak-Sar-Ben. den at Twen- and Burdette streets, will be maintained for weekly initiations and the annual ball- Reduce Dividend New York. April 2.i-The Midvale j Steel and Ordnance company today reduced its quarterly dividend from 1 $1.50 a share, which it had been paying since February, 1917, to $1 a share. OMAHA, THURSDAY, by Major Jouett, commander 1 f fL-. C'.teA J-Jlt,lltlUll - Willi vuv,u IVVll IVlUll Willi vuv,u for His Bravery at Front . flayer1 C?2ia each of the 130 members will come home wearing the Croix de Guerre. Electrician Colin told of a thrill ing escape he and a companion had when " their 'balloon was struck by a shell and' they were ' forced to make parachute IcapsHo safety, with the-balloon "arblaze overhead. HOUSE GRANTS FUNDS TO CARE FOR SOLDIERS Reconsiders Vote Killing Ap propriation for Welfare Work in New York; . , Wood Will Return. r ' , From a Staff Correspondent. Lincoln, April 2. General Wood has telegraphed the Nebraska legis lature thaF he would be in Lincoln to address that body Friday. Yesterday t he house defeated House Koll 582, a bill appropriating $25,000 for , the entertainment and reception of Nebraska soldiers re turning to American soil from abroad, where the port of entry was New York city. The opposition to the bill was not on the grounds of parsimony, for the members who stood against its passage said they would have voted for it had the bill also contained the provision that the money ap propriated would also be expended at Halifax, N. S.rsBoston, Philadel phia, Baltimore, Newport News and other points of entry along the At lantic coast, where soldrers are now landed on debarkation from foreign shores. They were not opposed to the principle of the bill, but rather to the place where the money was to be expended, not understanding that the bulk of debarkations and the or ganized reception of returned -sjI-diers is at New York. ' Governor McKelvie, on the defeat of the bill, telegraphed his pertonal draft to New York to cover $300 of expenses already incurred by the Nebraska reception c6"mrr.ittee. Today, when the members J the house discovered the true state of affairs, and in the face ofthe com ing visit of Major General Wood, who had trained the. 89th division, Avhich is soon to be received at New York, did the handsome thing by reconsidering and passing th. bill, with .the emergency clause atUchecl. Theliouse now feels that 'jt can 11s 'ten to any message delired by"the distinguished guest with a clean con science and his reception will b a most cordial one. Railroad General Director Rejects New Steel Schedule Washington, April 2. Director General Hines of the railroad ad ministration, the largest purchaser fff steel in the United "States, re fused today to accept the price re adjustments arranged by the in dustrial board of the Department of Commerce at a conference with rep resentatives of the steel industry. iiim iniMirMirun hiiiiwihiimii - Daily 4 - . i APRIL : 3, , 1919. HUNGARY WILLING TO ARMISTICE After Expelling Allied Missions sJVIIttf UIIU WWII ww i v Heal Breach. Parins. Aoril 2. It is officially an nounced that . Ajen. Jan Christian Smuts, mefciber of the British league of nations commission, is proceeding to- Hungary to investigate certain problems arising from the armistice on which the supreme Coancil de sires further information. , Budapest . advices to the French foreign office, state that Bela Kun, the Hungarian foreign minister, is willing to recognize the armistice of November. , - v Although the allied, missions were temporarily deprived of their liberty in Hungary and finally expelled, the new Hungarian government appar ently does not consider it had broken relations, with the allies, and desires to maintain them. In conference circles it is fjlt that the misunderstanding by the Hun garians of the neutral zone created between Hungary and Roumanhi led to the original action. Wm. S. Allen Resigns as Secretary of State;, Resignation 'Accepted Des Moines, la., April 2. W'illiam S. Allen has resigned as Iowa's sec retary of state, effective next July J, it was announced this afternoojj by Senator Arriey, chairman of the sen ate departmental affairs' subcom mittee wjiich has'been investigating conduct of Allen's office. The report of the subcommittee, it was stated, charged Allen with mismanagement and incompetency in handling registration of motor ye hicles, and declared he "hai permit ted thft, time of employes of the of fice to be used on his political am bitions." It was charged by the subcommit tee that the secretary had shown a lack of system in conduct of his of fice, and it pointed to his failure to publish the' suffrage amendment last fall, as provided by law. It was, pointed out by the sub committee that 4,10 charges of cor ruption were made against Allen, but t was declared the lack of service resulted in his office, had 'caused the state to lose thousands of dollars in interest money, through failure to deposit promptly automobile license receipts. The state senate late today voted to accept Allen's resignation. Revolution Breaks Out in Petrograd Against Soviet, Rule Loudon, April 2. Reports that a revolution against the soviet gov ernment has broken opt in Petro grad are supported by an official Russian wireless dispateh received here, which says that there is a se rious strike of railway. 'men in the Petrograd region. The strike, it is said, was prompted by Jhe menshe viki and the social revolutionaries. ,'JHia Russian wireless message reads: "There is no transport and con sequently there is no bread in Petro grad. -The mensheviki and the so cial revolutionaries are calling out the railway men and the railway communications have been stopped. "The social revolutionaries are the agents of Denekine, KolchaR and the allied imperialists." Telephone Rates Advance 'Enjoined in Pennsylvania Harrisbnrg, ' Pa.. April 2. The. commonwealth ot Pennsylvania won its second round today in the in junction proceedings to .prevent Postmaster General Burleson, acting as the federal operation agent of the Bell Telephone company, from raising the telephone rates -in this state. Judge Kunkel of the Dauphin county courts handed down an opinion in which he continued until final hearing the preliminary in junction granted against the -Bell company at the preliminary hearing. Judge KunJrei goes -into the case at length and it is his opinion-that "neither the president nor the post master general was acting officially in changing the rates and tolls, but that they acted beyond the s'copeof their powers." Former Mayor of Florence Seriously , I II at Home F. S. Tucker, mayor of the vil lage of Florence for many. years before consolidation with Omaha, is in a serious condition at his home. His malady has deprived him of articulation. ' C""1 RENEW .SECTION EACH A By Mill (I yaar). Oally. 14. M; Sa4a. It.-: Dally am) Sua.. S5.M: eulil Nak. Malaa txtnu 7-t 7-. II I I UVI u Sixteen-Year-Old Girl ' Takes Own Life Following . Quarrel With" Her Mother "I've Wanted to Die for Three -Years; -Forget Me and Lead Happy Life" Say Note; Took 10 Grains Strychnine in Capsule, Is Belief of Surgeon Who Tried to Save Jler.' , l- : "I've wanted to die for three years ever since I was operated on," wrote pretty Mildred Holtz, 16-year-old girl, just Jbefore he committed suicide by swallowing poison yes terday afternoon. This was the explanation of hgr act made public and was contained in a note to Her mother, Mrs. M..Holtz, 114 North Twenty-eighth avenue. The girl had been scolded earlier in the day by her mother, but Mrs. Holtz did .not thinks this caused her daughter-to end her lif,e. Physicians tried for two hours to save the girl, but sHe died at 5 :30 o'clock without leaving her mother any further motive for killing herself than -that contained inthe brief missive. -,,, -, ' Takes the Poison. Miss Holtz, who is employed as inspector in the men's furnishing department of the Brandeis storey. miifr 'wnVlf at nnnn vesterHav and went home. At her 'request, Miss Sylvia Boesberg, of the same ad dress, went to a drug store on. Far nam strpet, and bought some cap sules, according to her statement to police. Miss Holtz then went to her bed room. A short time later she screamed to Miss Boesberg: "I've taken poison." Mother Cabled. "Miss Boesberg called Ahe girl's mother, who also is employed at the Brandeis store, and, the police 'were notified. , Police Surgeon Julius 'SIMPLE JUSTICE' ALL JAPAN ASKS, ASSERTSMAKINQ Wants Principle o? Equity as Fundamental- Tenet " of League of Nations . Which It-Mai Join. Paris , April 2. (By Associated Press.) No Asiatic natioa could be happy in a league of nations in which jharp racial discrimination is Trnaii.tained, Baron Makino, head of thf Japanese delegation to the peaces conference, declared in a statement to the Associated Preis today 'on the position of -Japan. "We are not too proud to fight," the baron said, "but we are too proud to accept a place of admitteti inferiority in dealing with one or more associate nations. We want nothing but simple justice." Japan is glad to join a league of nations to maintain peace and or der, the baron said. Japan does not wish, he continued,-, to force her laborers as immi grants oil any associate countries, and recognizes that this question is one for each nation to deal with itself. Japan feels that it is entitled to a frank and open admission by the allies that the principle of, equity and justice,, is a fundamental tenet of the leag'ue of nation's, the baron continued. Japan sees difficulties in the way of a permanent and suc cessful operation of the league, the baron asserted, unless the.contract ing parties enter it with mutual re spect. ' Maxican Officials Deny Reportsjof Sale of Land to Japanese - " u. Mexico City, April 2. t(By the As sociated Press.) Salvador Gomez, chief of staff of the department of agriculture and development, offi cially denied last night reports that Japanese subjects have bought lands ,in Lower California. His statement was issued by Pastor Reoux, the secretary oi commerce, labqp and ag riculture. It reads as follows: ' "I can say that up to the present there has been no sale of lands inJ Lower,oniornia to Japanese suo-ji-'cts; neither has the department of development authorized anything giving foreigners rights ,to large ex tensions of lands in that section.'.' General Allenby Reports Order Restored at Cairo London, April 2. General Allen by, who now- is in charge of the situation in Egypt, where disasters have been occurring, reported that order had been restored in Cairo and in Belial, it was announced" in the house of commons today, Twelve military columns are in op eration in upper ail lower Egypt. ' Cairo, -April 2. The crew of a British seaplane succeeded in es tablishing communication with As siut, the capital of Upper Egypt, When they landed the Britishers were surrounded by a mob which overpowered them. After a strug gle the Britishers fought their way out and took refuge in the home of a friendly sheik. Later they reactt-.l ed the railroad and made their es cape on a freight train, SUNDAY TWQ CENTS. uvu Johnson fought for the girl's life for over two hours without, success. The mother arrived shortly after the pqlice. She told of a quarrel with her daughter that morning, be fore the two went to work, in which she scolded the girl concerning something which hers daughter wished to buy- Mrs. Holt2 would make only a part of her daughter's note public. She read a part aloud as follows: , . ' "I've wanted to die for three years, ever since I was operated on. So goodby, dear. Forget about me, and lead a happy and clean life.".' Mrs. Holtz did not state the na- ture of her daughter's opefation. She spoke of a boy friend who had gone (Continued on 1'ttge Two, Column Five.) YOUNG GIRLS IN SEOUL PARADE BEATEN BY JAPS Koreans Maltreated Despite Evident Purpose' lo Use"' Only Peaceful Means in Demonstrations. , Tokio, March 14. (Ey mail.) News from Korea of the interest ing scenes leading up to the proc lamation of independence -. issued PMarch 1, is being received here with tne receipt oi tne copy or tne pro clamation. . One '' outstanding . point is the statement that two members of the Young Men's 'Christian association staff at Seoul, both Americans, were taken from the street fn front of their building to a room inside and subjected to a personal search, be cause they were suspected of having been handed a copy of the procla- mation by a Korean on the street. The search was unrewarded, and, the men were released. . " There is strong feeling in Tokio against the missionaries, but on the part of Japanese who know Korea, this is discredited. At least any in tentional effort on their part at bringing on a revolt is, discredited. Disturbances General. An Associated Press correspond ent at Seoul, writing under date of March 6, gave an account received from an eye-witness of what took place in Pyngyang, the second -city 4 m importance in Korea. Similar dis turbances have occurred generally throughout Korea, authentic reports of which are onjy now coming to hand. The apparent feature of the dem onstration everywhere was said to( be tfie desire and intent, of the Ko reans to use only peaceful mea,ns. In all the cases of arrest and alleged Assault by Japanese civilians, as wed as soldiers and police, this eye-witness reportedj no instance of resist ance by a Korean was reported Many young girls who pained the, .parade at Seoul were dragged out, tied up and beaten across the shoul ders jwith the scabbards of police swords in public view. Rough han dling and brutal treatment of pris oners and often of innocent bystand ers, not only-by police, but by Jap anese roughs, were said td have added bitterness tc the situation. Copy of Proclamation Received. San Francisco, April 3. The full text of the Kortfan. prolamatlon of independence which, resulted in riot ing in Seoul, the capital of Korea, when it fiist was publicly distribut ed March 1, was brought here today by V.. McClatchy, director pf the Associated Press, returning from the orient on the steamer Shinyo Maru. The proclamation is signed 1)y 33 men of influence in Korea, all of whom later were placed under ar rest. J "This work of ours is in behalf of truth, religion and life," the proc lamation declares, "undertaken at the request of our people in order to make known their desire for lib erty. Let all things be done decent ly and in order, so thjat our behavior to the very end may be honorable" and an'd upright." ' Finn Monarchists Beaten. Washington, April 2.-Reports of the recent Finnish elections reach ing the State department show a complete defeat of the monarchist elements, and are said to mean that the existing constitution is doomed. THE WEATHER; Unsettled Thursday ) and Fri days .cooler aaat , and couth por tions Thuraday. , , , - . ... , , v lluurly Timiprratiirrai . a,' m .41 1 11. in C a. m 1 a. m....... a p. m 0 a. m. 10 a, m 11 a. m..,... 11 m. ........ ...41 I p, ...41 a p. .61 ,,.' 4 p. Ml ...44 S p. m . . .44 p. m ...44, t p. M ...Ml ' .OH .1 TROOPERS OVERTAKE ROBBERS AND KILL 5 Horses and Cattle Stolen in Raid Across1 Rio' Grande ' . Recovered and Brought ; 'Back to Texas. Marfa, Tex., April 2. Following a raid across the Rio Grande river dur. , ing a blinding hail storm by Mexi : ( can bandits last night, : Troop K, Eighth cavalry, in command of Cap tain Matlack, overtook ancLJcilled ive of Hie bandits, recovered the J horseV" ani. cattle stolen, and re turned to the American side, ac-- .' cprding to an official report received by Col. Geo. T. Langhorne at dis trict headquarters here late today j The report of tle Mexifans cross- ingithe river4 was received at mid' night last night during"The most " severe hail storm in the -history of the Big Bend. The bandits were reported, to have crossed to the American .side between Ruidoda and , Candelaria, on the river front. They ' stole cattle and horses' and throve , them back across -Ihe river tinder cover of darkness and the storm. . ' Three Troops in Chase. Troop K, "in command of Captain Matlaclc, and 'troop M, commanded by Captain JJroadhead, were ordered i to the scene of the raid and by day break troop L hadnoved into sup- port positions from Indo. Infantry : detachments were moved by wagon -train and trucks over almost im passable roads to occupy the sta tions left vacant by, the cavalry . troops forming the pursuit' i ,As soon as it was light enough jor the scouts to locate the tracks of the raiders and stolen cattle, these ware followed to the river bank, v where they could be plainly ,seen on -the Mexican side. Cavalry troops were ordered to follow into Mexico on the "hot trail." . Scatter in Canyons. ,The bandits scattered vad 'trooo K., under Captain Matlack. followed one ban1, while. Captain Broadhead, commanding troop M pursued the other. They galloped over trails which were like mountain paths-, troop K overtaking the bandits and killing ffce of "them before 'hey , could hide in the canvon. O " i The cavalry recqyered the horses and cattle , stolen, after the exact number of stolen animals had beer. verified- All the troops returned to i the Texas sidswifhout casualties. ; - Trpop K roue 60 miles und troop ; M still farther after midnight, Uo overtake the Mexican bandits'. ; -. The raid was the eighth successful "r pursuit into Mexico by the , KigJuJl- cavalry sjrice it came to Big Bend. and will probably be its last as the regiment will leave next week for Fort Bliss. Influenza Causes ' Young Woman to Lose Mental Control " . ' i " ' v Two attacks of influenza caused ' the temporary - insanity of Iona Denny, according to her brother, W. C. Denny, 2418 Ohio street. Miss Denny, who is a frail, youthful girl, was taken to central police station -last night when calls from the Vic- ' tor Garage at 2307 North Eighteenth -informed tbe police that a young girl was .stopping cars irf the street ' and going through other plcular ' maneuvers. . . - '..; At the station she astonished of- ficers with a fusillade of incoherent conversation, until Captain ,Heit feldt ordered her taken to the coun ty jail for the night - A brother who came to the sta-' tion shortly afterwards said she had suffered two attacks of influenza, which had unbalanced her mind. She is now under a doctor's fare, he says, and is gradually recovering. She will be given back to the care of her family. Drop Charge. of Murder i 1 Made Against Appleby County Attorney Shotwell, yesterv day afternoon in district court, dis missed the state's case (charging:' Frank Appleby with murder in the first degree for lack of sufficient evi-" dence.. ; Appjeby was arrested in Wiscbn- , sin last January and brought back', ' to Omaha on suspicion of being the sixth bandit" in the robbery of -the Malashock jewelry, store, 1514 0 Dodge street, January 29, 1918. r Four of the five bandits captured in the famous fight in the bandits' house on Fourteenth avenue thafcr bitter cold winter 'day are now in the penitentiary under 20-year sen tences. ? V Appleby has been loud in his pro testations of innocence of any com- -plicity in the crime ever since he was brought back. He was release) irom tne countv tail yeeruav i ,. - v ft 1 ' nooa - . - j