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WWWBfll inn ' .1 n i I, , ( .) RIEF ER I G H T REEZY BITS OF NEWS CHARGE COSTS ASSESSED BY COURT EXCESSIVE. ' Los Angeles, Jan. 25. The su perior court will be called upon to V.cide whether Justice Forbes gave a judgment tor too much costs when he decided in favor of L. J. Allen, to whotn he gave a judgment of $3.50 for the loss of 16 starched collars. With costs of the suit the bill to the laundry was $8. The Wardrobe Laundry companies appealed to the superior court on the ground that $1 of the costs was illegal. BIG BOND REQUIRED FOR CHICAGO CRIMINAL. Chicago, Jan. 25. A number of hew charges will be lodged "against George feeder, called by the police "The Master Criminal," who was ar rested here. It is said that his crim inal operations extended all over the country. In nearly all his operations he is said to havejised Helen Pfeifer, his sweetheart as an accomplice. .Arrested last December, charged with stealing more than 18 automo biles, Soedcr was released on $33,000 bonds. At the time of his last ar rest he had $4,200 in his possession. When arraigned in the Sheffield avenne police court, Soeder was held to the grand jury under $60,000 bonds, while Miss Pfeifer was held under $3,000 bonds. $42 ENGLISH OVERCOATS SOLD IN U. S. FOR $105. , London. Jan. 24. In the" city of London Court it came out in evi dence in one case that overcoats which had been made to sell in Lon don at $42 were selling in America at $105. '. ' GIRL SUES MERCHANT 1 WHO WEDDED ANOTHER. ' New York, Jan. 25. Miss Agnes K. Mack 'has filed suit for $25,000 in - the supreme court here against George P, Wittfield, alleging breach 6f promise. Her lawyers said the promise, to marry was made eight years ago. Mr. Whittfield is a mem tar of the firm of J.'F. Douglas & Co., dealers in woolens, 244 Fifth Dveiiue. At his home, 56, West Eighty . fifth street, Mrs. Wittfield said her husband did not care to discuss the suit.' . TOO MUCH DLU; EVEN FLOG GO, SAYS SING KEE. San Jose, Cal., Jan. 25 "Lain come afta long time, blrmeby," said, ' Sing Kee, Chinese weather prophet, as he climbed down from his ob servatory on top of the laundry , at Santa Clara. ' : "I got no flog no more, he add ed, r.ef erring to the celebrated frog which once lived with him and helped him in foretelling weather changes. . ' , "Flog go away now. Too dly for him.' BETS HIS AUTO CAN .PASS TRAIN; MAY LIVE. ; , Los Angeles, Jan." 25. Accord ing trt other occupants" 6f his auto mobile, John de Bartle of Palms, near here, bet hcm that he could drive his automobile - across the tracks before an, approaching train reached the crossing. At the hos- it-i it wa said thatUe uartie mitrht nossiblv Ket well. ' The er four occupants were jess mcvcic t ly hurt. AWED BY NEGRO BLOOD ' MAN SUES FOR DIVORCE. - New' York, Jan. 25. Supreme " Court Justice Pendleton will an nounce Iris decision in the suit for annulment of marriage by Arthur-E. Awe against his wife, Emma Daly Awe. Hci said he was married on August 25 last, and three weeks lat- r 'learned that his wife's grand mother was of negro blood. Mrs. Awe denied there was negro blood in hen family. . ' '.'- - GRAND OPERA STAR TO START LEGION. ' ' Chicago, Jan. 25. Yvonne Gall, the French grand opera prima don 4 na. who is singing for the Chicago , Grand Opera Co., is going .to start : an organization like the American Legion in France when she returns to her country. . -In a letter received by Colonel Milton J. Foreman, commanding of ficer of the legion in Chicago, Mile. Gall asks for full information re- garding the American Legion "The plans and actions of "the - American Legion have impressed imt deeply," she said. "On my re- turn to my beloved France I in tend to launch a movement for the establishment of an organization like the American Legion for France needs snch a one ven more than does America. . , ' -. "I would love to have it named . 'L'Armes De Lafayette' xas that ".would signify -both the ideals of a 'great man and the undying friend- "ship of our two countries." '' "I think theidea a splendid one, s-aTd Colonel Foreman "I shail be glad to co-operate with Mile. Gall. QUART OF WHISKY BUYS PRICELESS TAPESTRY. Pittsburgh, Pa.. Jan. 2S.-The ' tack room of Fritz Ueberle s north side saloon may hold a fortune which was purchased for a quart of Tt. "fnrtiini-" is m the form of n or nanel. believed to be by Tean Honore Fragonard, for whose panels both Frick and Morgan paid tortunes, ana some hang in Prick's Fifth av.enue man ion" which has bee bequeathed to 'the city of New York. Prof. E. F. Savage of Carnegie Institute of - Technology has pronounced it the work of ; Fragonard, but lest his "judgment be wrong, he has asked ;some of his contemporaries tovisit . the saldon with himand pass judg- TThe" panel is in tapestry.. Fro T. ganard's work was always. in tap- J-itrv It is 14 feet long and 4 feet .iKh It is called the "Campieque ,Barque.".In one corner the name of ; Fragonard is woven into the tapes- - - 6 Tt,. tanestrr formerly hung back of bar in Ho?el Antier' which wtnt out of business five Tears ago. . J&Dene purj.ii:u w.u v "panel for a quart of whisky from K.nien razinjr; the building. It had --been offered at h auction block, V but there, sere M bidpiv ; WATCH VOL. 49 NO. 190. 15 HILLED IN CANADA RAIL WRECK Two Sections of Canadian Pa cific Express for' Vancouver in Rear-End Collision Near North Bay. LOCOMOTIVE CRASHES INTO STALLED SLEEPER Injured Taken to Hospitals, But No More Deaths Are Expected Few Names of Vjctims Obtainable. North Bay, Ont., Tan. 25. Fifteen persons are dead and a large number injured as tne result 01 a collision today between the two sections of Canadian Pacific express for Van couver, which occurred aDOUt 11 miles east of here. The rear sleeper of the first section, which was stalled, was telescoped by the locomotive of the second section and eight passen gers were killed., outright, seven dying later from their injuries. An official statement issued tonight bv the Canalian Pacific gave the names of four of the persons killed in the wreck near North Bay, Ont., as Mrs. Susan Peden of West Van- . 1 T f couver, ner sons, Wallace ana nugn Peden. and Mr. Tilley, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Among those injured were I two Americans, George Kasmussen of Seattle, internal injuries, and Miss Dorothy Skeene of Los Angeles, Cal., interna! injuries. According to a statement of Vice President A. Di, Mactier of the Canadian Pacific railway, the number of the dead in the North-Fay wreck is not greater than eight and the number of injured 21. It is reported here that the list of casualties re ceived by the company is not com plete as it is known that one sleeping car was completely demolished in the collision and a second one partly wrecked. , , r. V 30 Below Zero. At the time of the accident, the temperature, was about 30 degrees mm" oth-fbelow zero. The scene of the .d's aster is a lonely spot nearly two miles from the nearest way station and 10 miles from North Bay. ' A relief train . with doctors and Red Cross nurses left here very short ly after the news of the wreck was received. An official statement issued late to'night by the Canadian Pacific rail way stated that seven persons had been killed in the collision and that there was a Vossibility that an eighth person had also perished. In addition to' the names already made public a revision of the list included Dr. Chambers, Calgary; Beale, son of E. H. Beale, Van couver, and C. Simmons, sleeping car conductor, Montreal. y BOY SOLDIER LOST TO ARMY IN EFFORT TO SAVE BROTHER Three-Year-QId Youth Gives Life in Flames Obey ing Orders. Chicago, Jan. 25. When Vincent Lukosznf, 3 years old, grew up he was to be a soldier. He was sure of that. v j And in a vague way he compre hended when his mother told him that the first duties of a soldier were courage and obedience. Mrs. Justine Lukoszuf, the mother,. left, the home at seventy-second ave nue and' Fifty-sixth place, to make some purchases. "You take care of brother Justin until I get back," Mrs. Lukoszuf in structed. , And importantly Vincent took post at the side of his 2-year-old brother. None of the officials who have in vestigated the fire that destroyed the Lukoszuf cottage has been able to determine the cause. No one knows who turned in the alarm. . But while the mother waited in the grocery store several blocks from the home the fire statiott at Summit, adjoining' the Seventy-second avenue fire district, received the alarm. On account of the heavy snow the fire fighters could get no, nearer than Seventy-second avenue and Fifty third place. - v Neighbors had gathered about the blazing cottage. Some one thought of the children. A man pulled a wet llanket over his face and dashed into the flames. The children were found, uncon scious from burns and smoke. Vin cent followed orders. His arms were around his baby brother, and appar ently the elder boy had tried to make a shield of his body to keep the flames from the youneer. - But foe army of a later generation is to have cne good soldier-less. Both boys died. . ) Doctor Uses Skates. Seymour Ind., Jan. 25-rBecause of icy streets, Dr. C. E. Chenoweth was unable to use his automobile to visit patients. He resorted to the use o( ajutfiS. "THE VELVET HAMMER'S" GENTLE HITS TO SEE WHO'S The Omaha Catwri h iacoaa-elau Mtl;r May M. I9M. at Oaaka, P. 0. udf aet Mare 3. Ia7t ' P. E. Her, Pioneer of Omaha, . Falls Victim to Paralysis; Built Fine Business Blocks One of Those Who Helped Boost and Boom South Omaha Stock Yards Industry. Announcement was made yester day of the death from paralysis at 7:55 Sunday morning of Peter EJ,m which position he continued for Her, almost 80 years old, for more than haif a century a resident of Omaha. He had lived retired for seven years from active business, his iy.'.'gw.wwM7.'n P. E. 1LER. attention being given merely to the supervision of his investments. In July 'of 1915 he suffered a stroke of paralysis and since that time has been confined to his home, 1248 South Tenth street. Mr. Her was born in Wooster, O., February 10, 1840, a son of Conrad and Julia Her, and spent his youthful day in the Buckeyes state, where he acquired a common school education. In 1866 he sought the opportunities of the growing west and disposing of his wholesale liquor business at Tiffin, Q.. removed to Omaha, where he established a similar . enterprise, continuing alontfthat line until 1902. He builf the Willow Springs dis tillery, 'which 'ie operated for a long HUGE REWARD OFFERED FOR IRISH GUNMEN Proclamation Posted in Dublin By Lord Mayor $50,000 Is Incentive. Dublin, Jan. 25. A proclamation posted here contains n offer by the lord ? lieutenant of a reward of 10,000 for information within three months, leading to the conviction of any' persons guilty of the murder of 14 police officers whose names are given. The list, begins with the name bf Detective Smith of Dublin, assassinated last Jury, and ends with those of Deputy Commissioner Red mond, murdered in Dublin last week, and Constable Finnegan, killed, at Thurles. A reward of 1,000 is also offered for such secret information' as is calculated to lead to he conviction of any of the offenders in the cases named. Any person concerned in, or privy to the murders, but ;not actually guilty of them, who gives the required information, is prom ised a free pardon and the special protection of the crown. , -Police Barracks Attacked. Limerick, Jan. 25. The police bar racks at Munroe, occupied By eight constables, was attacked after mid night by about 40 armed men. The two parties exchanged shots for two hours. 1 he raiders vainly tried to bomb the building, but finally fled on the appearance of the military. So far as known nobody was injured. wearing masks attacked the police barracks at Baltinglass, county Wicklow, and shot and wounded one constable severely and another. slightly. The assailants escaped. Prohibition's Friends Told to Get Busy and Not Quit Under Fire Washington, Jan. 25. Calling on friends of prohibition to get busy rather than quit, Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League of America, in a statement charged that "wet organizations and some wet officials are eneouraging defiance to national prohibition in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin and several other states." "They," said Mr Wheeler, re ferring to these organizations and officials, ."have enacted or attempted to enact, laws to permit certain liquors which the federal govern ment prohibits and in their campaign with .wet propaganda are inflaming the lawless to defy the federal pro hibition act The court attacks on national prohibition, the threat of the liquor organizations to elect a wet congress, to weaken the national prohibition code and resubmit the 18th amendment and to elect wet legislatures to carry out their pro gram is a sufficient challengr to the friends of prohibition to get busy it - - OMAHA,. MONDAY, Sp9riod, or until he sold out to the trust. Stock Yards Promoter. , i In other fields of business he also extended his efforts, his co-operation being sought for his sound judgment p.nd enterprise were widely recog nized. " He was one of the promoters of the Omaha Stock Yards, serving as the first secretary of the company, a .number of years', and as such did much to prompte the interests of the business at this poiiit. He also became one of the organizers of the South Omaha Land Co., of which he was elected the first secretary, which position he held until the dis solution of the company. It was this company which built and de veloped all of South Omaha now a most populous district. He also built the six-story building on How ard street occupied by the Byrne & Hammer Dry Goods Co., which (Continued on Page Two, Column Six.) 5,000 ACRES OF . NEBRASKA LAND TO BE OPENED State and Wyoming Irrigated Farms Ready to Homestead February 28. ' Washington, Jan. 25. Approxi mately 10,000 acres of reclaimed iand in Wyoming and Nebraska will be opened to homestead entry early in March, the reclamation service announced today. Application for' entry upon irrigated farms. compos ing a tract of about 5,000 acres in the North Platte valley project, embracing a large section of the border areas of each, state, will be accepted from February 28 to March 5, it was said. Shoshone, Wyo., project will be accepted dur ing the week following. Drawings will be made to determine the riarht kof .entry in, each case where two ,or more applications are made for the same farm. The North Platte alley tract, part of a project in which hundreds of thousands of acres already have been reclaimed, by storing up ,the waters of the North Platte river behind the great Pathfinder dam, will be opened, it was stated, on a water service rental basis for. the first three years. When the irri gating 6ystem has been entirely completed at the end of that time so the cost can be computed and assessed to the acre, the homestead er will assume entry upon an own ership basis. The 10,000 acres comprised in these two, tracts constitute the larg est area of reclaimed land opened to the homesteader in more -than five years, officials of the service said. Adopt Resolutions Against Removal of Dead Heroes in France New York, Jan. 25. Resolutions against the removal of the bodies of the American soldier . dead from France were adopted bv the national council of administration of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at a meet ing here. F. Warner JCarlind, Kan sas City, commander-inchief of the veterans, urged that a national cetne terv be established ' in France in which all the bodies 6f the Amer ican dead be interred. The council fixed September 13-18 as the date of the national encamps ment to be held in Washington. It was stated that 50,000 veterans ar expected, to participate in the parade, including from 800 to 1,000 dele gates. The national council includes Commander Karlind and Gus E. Hartung of Denver, Colo. Coolidge Not Candidate for Presidential Honors Boston,' Jan. 25. Governor Cool idge declared here that he was not and never had been a candidate for president and that he would , not enter a contest for the Massa chusetts delegation to the republican national convention. He did not say that he would oppose the pres entation of his name at the Chicago convention, but was emphatic in his assertion that he would not permit the imputation that he had used the office of governor to promote his own interests through the selection of delegates. ' Engineer Goes Insane With Hand on Throttle Sioux Falls. S. D., Jan. 25. Driv ing a train into the teeth of a bliz zard, Engineer Stephen Yorkshire, who suddenly went insane while at the throttle, nearly caused the wreck of a Milwaukee freight near Avon, S. D. A catastrophe was averted, it was declared, by the train's con ductor who pulled the air brakes. Gasoline Car Beady for Race. Detroit, Jan. 25. Henry Ford's new jfasoiine interurban car is ready for a race to Chicago with the Michi igan Central's Wolverine Flyer. The company -will erect a plant 10 miles long for quantity production of a car that can run from New York to th Parifir rnsit with tint nn 11?nfr oi gasoline, Daily JANUARY 26, ,.1920. REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO STATE LIT Changes in Language and Not Principle of Two Peace Res ervations. Probably Will Be Demanded at Meeting. LEADERS ARE UNABLE TO PREDICT OUTCOME Several Days' Negotiations May Result If Democrats Refuse Plan Before, an Open Break Occurs. Washington, Jan. 25. Limits to which republican senate leaders are willing to go in modifying the Lodge reservations to the peace treaty will be transmitted p democratic mem bers of the bi-partisan compromise committee Monday at a meeting upon which may hinge the success or failure of the present compro mise negotiations. Although there was no official definition of the limits set by Sen ator Lodge of Massachusetts, and his associates available, it was un derstood that the democrats would be told that changes in the two main reservations, those relating to Article 10 and to voting power in the league of nations, must be changes in the language and not in principle. Such an answer to dem ocratic proposals t for composition was said by several members of the republican committee to reflect the majority sentiment on the republi can side of the senate and also to be agreeable for the most part to Senators Johnson of California, Bo rah of Idaho and the others of that Eroup who Friday called Senator Lodge and Senator New of Indiana, into conference -and demanded to know whither the negotiations for compromise were going and how tar. . Neither Senator Lodge nor Sena tor Hitchcock, the administration treaty Tt-ader, would predict the out come of Monday's meeting, the for mer confining" his comment to the statement that he "was a poor prophet in such matters" and the latter asserting merely that he was "hopeful but not confident." In other quarters the belief was expressed that even though an agreement on the basis, of the republican answers might be viewed by the democratic conferees as hopeless, the negotia tions might be continued for several days before the final break came. - Should there be a break between the two informal committees it wa9 considered possible that the "mild reservation" republicans might again send out "feelers" among the democrats and new negotiations be started. - , New Diamond Fields Will Be Opened Soon . On Waterless Desert Johannasburg, South Africa, Jan. 25. Tlaring, a waterless and tree less and virtually gameless desert near Taungs, in Bechuanaland, promises to be the scene of the big gest diamond claim staking flsh in South African history. It is un derstood that Tlaring will be pro claimed open for diamond digging about March 20. , Amazing stories are afloat con cerning the wonderful richness of the district, and prospective diggers from the' Cape of the Zambesi and ozambique and even the Congo, are preparing to try their luck in the new 'fields. Despite warnings of possible fajlures, men are abandon ing good jobs in various parts of the country in order to be free to stake out qlaims when the procla mation, is issued. Hundreds of wom en also are- arrangirig1 to go to the new diggings. The government is preparing, to cope with the anticipated .rush' to Tlaring and a township to receive the new community is being laid out.' . Taunga is situated about 40 miles south of Vryburg and about 100 miles north of Kimberley, the last named place famous for it great di amonds. Edwards Will Be Speaker at Big Cummings Dinner New York, Jan. 25. Gov. Edward I. Edwards of New Jersey and Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York have been invited to speak at a testimonial dinner to be given Homer S. Cum mings, chairman of the democratic national committee , under the auspices of the National Democratic club on Thursday evening,' Febru ary 5. An announcement stated that the occasion would be "memorable from the political significance of the utterances of thosvwho will deliver addresses' The full list of speakers will be announced later, Tne committee in charge of the dinner consists of more than 200 per sons and includes prominent men and women democrats from all parts of the country, ' . , , NEXT ON EDITORIAL PAGE By Mill (I ynr), Dally, SS.OO: Saatfay. IJ.M: Dally aa Sua., I7.M; autiMa Nab. alt axtra. Man Who Deposed Kaiser Also Saved Germany From xRecent Spartacan Outbreak Gustavev Noske, New Minister of Defense, Becomes Virtual Dictator of Country. By S. D. WEYER, X CaMp Kifltor of l iUreroal Service. New York, Jan. 25. Now that the world's attention - is once more focussed upon Wilhelm Hohenzol lern, some hitherto unpublished side lights on how the revolution which 7 GUSTAVE NOSKE. overthrew his"throne was organized and carried out are of timely inter r. tu u.. t,-.L it.. r..n ... : u c&u jjil vy me urn aiuiy is uc- ing brought to light in the German press and. pieced together, the most recent revelations show that the same man who two ' weeks ago crushed with an1ron hand a new spartacist outbreak in Berlin saved Germany from being plunged into complete anarchy in the, fateful No vember daj-s of 1918. This man is Gustav Noske, now minister of "defense and virtual dic tator of the republic. It was by a hair's breadth that he prevented the naval -mutinies at. Kiel from spread ing ino civil warfare, but the price at which he averted this was the forced abdication of the kaiser. SOCIETY WOMEN JUDGE BOXERS IN ARMY CONTESTS Fighting Tournament Entertains Wounded Yanks; "Bully" Says Mrs. Pell. New York, Jan. 25. Society wom en were judgesat the amateur box ing bout held at Grassmere lodge, Staten island, given by the National League for Women's Service for Wounded Soldiers of Fox Hills Hospital. v The women were Mrs. Edward McVickar, Mrs. Theodore Rv Pell and Miss Fannie Cottenet. v The boxers were Joe Florio and Joe Fands, evenly matched and weighing 130 pounds, ringside. Ray Smitn of the Twenty-eighth infan try, First division, was referee. Mrs. Pell watched every move ment of tho fighters. !'Oh, the fight was bully!" she exclaimed, at the finish. "I did so wish they had a few more bouts, so I could learn the game better. I think it's great fun to Watch them." "Well, I counted the punches e,ach man .delivered. I couldn't distin guish them by name, so every time the one in red tights 'put one over' I gave .him credit for it. If he missed a punch I marked that against him. ' I figured the one who showed the least discomfiture and breathed rather easy- should be ad judged winner. And so I decided Mr. Florio won the bout." Referee Smith was highly pleased, with the women as judges. King of Montenegro Orders Decoration Of Red Cross Workers Paris, Jan. 25. In recognition, of the seryices rendered to Montenegro by the American Red Cross since the signing of the armistice, Colonel Mestcherrinoff decorated 19 Red Cross workers . at the direction of King Nicholas. Lieut.' Col. Robert E. Olds, Red Cross commissioner for Europe, received the Order of Prince Daniels, second class. The decoration of the same order, third class, was awarded to Lieut. Col. Henry Faisclough, Leland-Stanford university George H. Maird, Dallas, Tex., and nine other officers. The gold medal of Montenegro, with cross, was awarded to Miss Elic Graves Bencot, Pleasanton, Cal., and six other women. Big Haul of Bootleggers and Gamblers Made in Raid , EI Centro, Cal., Jan. 25. Thirty establishments here and several at Calexico, also in this county, were raided by Dstrfct Attorney E. R. Simon, Sheriff Charles Applestill and 34 deputy sheriffs, and 150 men and women,valleged bootleggers and gamblers, were arrested. i District Attorney Simon issued a statement in which he declared that the police of the three cities were either, "asleep o negligent." " i YV v m TWO CENTS. CfOn the evening of November 7 two days before Prince Max of Baden proclaimed Wilhelm's renun ciation Philipp Scheidemann, leader of the moderate socialists, received a long disbnee call from Kiel. The conversation, was one-sided and lasted but a minute! It'ran thus: Kaiser Is Deposed. "Hello, Berlin. Get me Herr Scheidemann on the wire quicfc!" "Hello yes, this is Scheidemann." "This, is Noske, at Kiel. Philipp, you've got to depose the kaiser. It must be done, and drfne quickly, or I won't be able to hold these fellows here." Before the dumbfoundea Schiede mann had a chance to ask for de tails Noske had rung off. For Scheidemann, however, who knew Noske's vision anck judgment to be clear and far-sighted, his friend's words were an irresistible com mand, and he immediately set in mo tion the ''steamroller" tactics which (Conttnqgd on Page Two, Column Seven.) EASTERN ACCENT GIVES CLUE TO POLITE BANDITS Return Man's Overcoat, But Fails to Frighten Girl With Him. Miss Marjorie Hurt, 17 years old, 2S02 Binney street, and a companion, C. E. Gates, Hotel Castle, were vic tims Saturday night of the two polite highwaymen whose activities duringlKj-asnoyaj-sk the past week have demanded the attention of a special squad of de tectives. Both victims Tvere held up at the ends of guns at Twenty-ninth and Binney street, shortyefter they had alighted from a street car on Thir tieth street The bandits obtained liothing. ' Jilen Neatly Dressed. Both men were neatly dressed and talked witli'the accent of native New Yorkers, Gates told police. The bandits demanded Gates' overcoat and watch, but returned-both after questioning their victim. . "Where do you work?" one of the gunmen asked. "At a cigar store," Gates told him. Give Coat Back. "I guess you can't afford to, lose j'our coat,", the bandit remarked as he gave the stuff back to Gates . Gates said both men walked away leisurely. Miss Hurt was not the least bit frightened, she -said. ' . "They appeared to be gentlemen," she told detectives. "I know they wouldn't have harmed us." , The same pair of bandits are be lieved to have held up D. R. Wood ward, 2408 North Forty-ninth street, and John McGuire, 18171-2 North Eighteenth street, late Saturday afternoon as they were locking up the offices of the Coal Hill com pany's yard, -Thirteenth and Nicho las streets. " Had Eastern Accent. , The bandits pressed guns against their victims and commanded them to "stick 'em up." Both obeyed. Woodward lost $75 to the gunmen. McGuire lost nothing. Both highwaymen escaped in a large black touring car that had been left stpnding not far from the scene of the holdup. Woodward said tfie bandits taiked with an eastern ac cent. Donald Fox, 923 South Thirty third street, was a victim of the same pair of highwaymen Thursday night, police belieje. In that instance the bandits refused to take a watch and iocket that Fox told them his mother had fciven to him. " . Automobile Thief i Lynched by Business " Men of Tulsa, Okla. , Tulsa', Okl., Jan. ,25. Fred Bag gett, alleged automobile shief, was lynched here by a posse said to be composed of business men, accord ing to a telephone message to the' police from a man claiming to have been one ot the Ivnchers Police, believe Baggett has beenfp 10 -XT J V- ? j t ' " 1 ... -j Evacuation will be accomplished by ; -made awav with and are investigat ing. Baggett was captured by the posse within a block of the police station, the caller said, and hurried outside the city limits. - He was strung up near the water works arid let down and is said to have given information of his confederates, and taken later into the Osage hills, where, the caller said, the body wpuld be found swinging from a tree. Highjackers Miss Finding Five Quarts' Good Liquor Highjackers "inuffed out" on a rich prize when they visited the home of A. J. Rothschild, 307 South Thirty-ninth street (Covert apart ments), Sunday morning while the owner was attending a meeting si the Athletic club. The burglars ransacked the ward robe, disarranged furniture and otherwise left imprints of their pres ence, but mi? sed five quarts of liquor that had been so well hidden as to escape notice. THE WEATHER t Generally fair Monday, fol lowed by light snow and much colder Monday night and Tuesday, Hourly trniprrainreai S a. m . . . . S n. m. ... 1 av m.,.. ft, m. , ,, ft. m. .. . 10 . m..., It . m.'.,, IS nana.,,,. .. S .. S .. S .. 5 .. 7 ..IS ..14 ..11 t p. m 11 p. hi" ... S P. m !8 4 p. mi H 5 p. in.., m p. in.... lift 1 p. m ....US JV 8 OFFICERS AND WOMEN HELD Several Members of Red Cross Unit and Whole Pol-' ish Army Fall Into Hands of the Boisheviki. ; FORMER U. S. CONSUL ' SENDS THE MESSAGE Dispatch is Badly Garbled and Army Officers Are Unable to Identify Soldiers and Nurses Said to Be Captured. Chita, East Siberia, Jan. 25. (By the Associated Press.) Colonel Blunt and seven other American en gineers; Miss Ford, Captain Charette and several other members of the American Red Cross, and an entire Polish army, composed of former prisoners, have been captured by the boisheviki at Kliuchinskaya, accord- . ing to a garbled telegram received from Joseph H. Ray, former Amer ican consul at Irkutsk. The dispatch from Mr,. Ray was "sent from somewhere beyond Nizh niulinsk, January 14. It was some what garbled in transmission. Kliuchinskaya is on the Trans-Siberian railroad 100 miles west of Nizhniulinsk. , 1 The Czechs are fighting a rear guard action -with the reds near Krasnoyarsk. Bolshevism is gain- , ing in Chita. Ernest L. Harris, for- s mer American consul at Omsk, is still in Chita. . ' The British, Japanese and French missions and many members of the American Red Cross have arrived in Russia. '' , . ' - A bolshevik wireless communica tion received in London, January.. ENGINEERS 13, announced the capture by thef"Jj bolshevik forces in the'KtasnoyA arsk region of 17 columns of Po lish legionaires, together with 16 guns and 20,000 rifles. . A dispatch from the "London Daily Mail's Harbin correspondent received in London, JaniTary 20, said there was an unconfirmed" ru mor at Harbin that the boisheviki had destroyed a Polish division near Krasnoyarsk. . ' The Poles captured undoubtedly are prisoners taken by the Russians early in tne war and sent to Siberia. There, after ' the revolution, and when the Czechs gained the as cendency, they were armed and impressed into the anti-bolshevik forces, as was done also with large numbers of Serbians who had been prisoners of the Russians. Name Is Garbled. Washington, Jan. 25. War de- -;' partment officials tonight were un--able to identify the "Colonel Blunt" mentioned in a dispatch from Chita. -east Siberia, as having been captured , with other American engineers and Red Cross workers by the boishe viki. There is no Colonel Blunt on active duty at the present time, it -was said, and the only other officer by that name, Major Wilfred-M. Blunt, is now in command of a bat- ' talion of the Eleventh cavalry at Mexicali, Cal. Army officers were of the opinion that inasmuch as the dispatch was received at Harbin in a garbled tbn dition. the names of all those cap tured might have been garbled. Identify Colonel Blunt s "Minneapolis, Jan. 25. Colonel Blunt, captured by boisheviki, is. 1 . -.. i f i 1 T5i . inspector of the Trans-Siberian rail -j way, according to . Col. George Emerson of this city, formerly in charge of American engineers i Siberia. . Evacuation of Silesia, - Is Started by Germans . According to Treaty -X - . ""' Berlin, Jan. 25. German troops here began evacuation of upper Si- ; lesia in accordance with the terms of the peace treaty which requires that the movement begin within 15 .. days after its ratification. The fir$t allied troops are expect- -J L. I.. T A A ... zones, eacn ot wnicn will remain under a provisional military ad ministration" under the inter-allied ; commission. ' The treaty provides for the occii- . pation of upper Silesia by a total of 18,000 allied troops. English French and Italian troops will be ised. 'The Lokal Anzeiger accused the ,t Poles of cutting telegraph and tele phone wires . and interfering with 4 the conveyance of the mails in ter-.; ritories where plebiscites are to be taken. The newspaper declares that the telephone connections with Al- s lenstein, Graudens and Osterode have been out for the past few days. It also accuses the Poles of having i,; severed at the frontier the wire con necting Stettin and Posen. .:. , " John Barrymore IH ' New York, Jan. 25. John. Barry more, famous actor and a brother of F.ilipl Rnrrvmnrr -ie ill ml t I were expressed that influenza would (develop. - .. v . ...;"..