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The Omaha Daily Bee v VOL. 50 NO. 43. RAIL RATES TO ADD $2 TO COAL PRICES Advance in Freight' Charges Will Be Transferred to Con sumer, Power Company Of ficial Says Felt at Once. GENERAL INCREASE WILL , BE ABOUT $2 PER TON Even at Higher Figures Fuel Famine Is Imminent Illinois And Kanses Operators Unable To Meet Delivery Order. i Efforts to reduce the cost of living will be greatly hampered by the in creased freight rates and the uncer tainty of a regular output from the . coal mines. Heads of many Omaha 'over the increased Cost that coal and freight will add to the production in many lines. The liiirfltn rtf ihp nrlrlprt frMcrht charges, which go into effect Au gust 25, will touch every consumer. The effect of the coal - situation, which includes a prospective short age as well as higher transportation charges, will be felt long before iur nace fires are lit, some commercial observers believe. Manufacturers, jobbers, packing house industries and retailers, each with his propor tionate share of the increase to meet, believe it will have to be distributed on their manufactured products un less other economics of production can be found to offset the increase. Figures Show Added Costs. J. E. Davidson, vice president and general manager of the Nebraska Power company, has prepared fig ures based on an annual coal con sumption of 150,000 tons, illustrating the added costs that will fall on one Omaha concern. The table, which shows the new costs of obtaining the coal supply of the power company, both from Kansas and Illinois, fol lows: , Kansas Coal. Present freight rate $1.90 Increased freight rate 665 Total $2,565 Last contract price of coal $2.80 1 Present contract price 4.00 Last contract $2.80 Old freight rate 1.90 Total $470 Present contract $4 00 i Proposed freight rate 2.56 , Total ....i..,. '.V;,';..V.$6.56 lKfcrel.se d ' cost, based on .150,000 tone, $279,000. Illinois CoaL Present freight rate . $3.05 Increased freight rate 1.07 Total $412 Proposed contract price of coal..$4.00 Present contract price .... 2.,0 Coal cost increase, per ton....$l.0 Freight rate increase...... ...... Total increased cost, ton $2.77 The amount on coal required to operate for the year is $415,500. Net Increase $2 Per Ton. It is probable that the supply will come half from each field. Thus, averaged up, Mr. Davidson says That the net increased cost per ton will be $2, or a total increased cost for the year of $300,000. The Illinois coal would cost $8.12 per ton, and the Kansas coal $6.56. Assuming that each field will be able to sup ply half the needed tonnage, the Ne braska Power company will have to expend $1,101,01)0 in . the next year for coal to generate light and power for Omaha hdmes and industries. J. M. Harding, secretary of the Harding Cream company, said that . the added freight rate on coal used by his firm will amount to approxi mately $5,500 a year. In the event of a coal shortage, he estimates his coal bill would be increased $10,000 a year, making a total of $15,500. Traffic Cop Assists 1 r i it . n rursuer in not race To Capture "Villain" Traffic Oificer Emmet Ford, at Sixteenth and Dodge streets, saw a man racing down the street in his direction with another man after Vhim. The pursued fled past Ford and the officer joined the chase. He reached ' him at Seventeenth and Dodge streets, but the captured man gave battle. Crowds gathered to see the cop and his foe at war. After several minutes of fisticuffs Ford subdued his man. The pursued was Faust Warner. 919 Second avenue, Council Bluffs, and the pursuer A. L. Dick of the Dick Coal Co., Fifteenth and Nich olas streets. Dick toldSPord Warner gave him a check two weeks ago for an order of wood which he had ordered de livered to a false address and the check turned out to be worthless. The check was for $9.85, Dick said, and Warner received $4.25 in change. At Fourteenth and Dodge streets, at 2:30 p. m., he met Warner and asked him to stop. - Instead, Warner fled, he declared, and he gave chase. Warner was taken to Central po lice station for investigation. International Anarchist Held for New York Police Chicago, Aug. 5. John Alexander, alias John La Granch, alleged in ternational anarchist and said to be a member of the German commun ist labor party, was arrested, here today at the reqjiest of New York putnpnues, v ; Eitwrt SM..d-CIM Mttttr Mty J. Onah P. 0. Ud Act March Silk Shirt Craze Abating In Grain Belt of Dakota; Farmers Saving Money Check in Buying Leaves Merchants' Shelves Loaded With Slow Moving Goods Demand for Practical Goods Becoming Stronger Commodities Show Sharp Increase in Price in Past Few' Months. By ARTHUR M. EVANS. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Lea&cd Wire. Aberdeen, S. D., Aug. 5. As one taxis through the gram belt he is impressed with the abatement of the silk shirt craze, the siik shirt being to the swivel chair economist the symbol of the much famed "orgy of extravagance." The larmer, who has got his slice of the melon in larger abundance than any other group, is not throw ing away today on ritious habila ments. For nearly 2,000 miles this pilgrimage has streaked past a pro cession of smaller cities, in each of which shop windows have in variably been noted with awning stripe "silk shirtings marked down 20 to 50 per cent. The farmer boy and the hired man have stopped buying. His pur chasing capacity apparently was fed up when he had laidin one daz zler for Sunday. What many of the merchants fancied was a -deep-rooted mania for sartorial piodigal ity, proved to be only a passing fad. As a result many shop shelves are loaded with goods that move as slowly as an empty freight car to a bulging grain elevator. Market Saturated. The silk shirt market out in the rural sections has reached the point of saturation. It marks a great let down, too, in the call for other sorts of luxuries, the demand for which a few months ago was making the production experts shudder at the I INSTITUTE HOLDS 1 TWO BABIES TILL MOTHER PAYS BILL Officials Declare They Are Not Interned As Hostages, Merely Fair Play The two Horton children, will be adopted, according to members of the board of trustees of the Child Saving institute if their mother, Mrs. TlnnpIlT Hnrtnn tnet tint send funds from Kansas City for their mainten ance, bhe went to Kansas City Sat urday ostensibly to secure employ ment to support the children. nffi-ial at ihf institute flpfv anv action of the welfare board or any other body to return the Horton children to their Mother. They have been at the Institute (or nine" months.- AiifVinritil aclf flJVItlfnt fif 9 hill of more than $200. When Mrs. Hor ton appeared recently to take tne children, she was refused them be cause officials explained that she had been earning enough money to pay part for their support. Hrs. Horton feared her children were held as hostages. "Mrs T-Tnrtnn li if she savs we are holding her children as hostages," said Mrs. Oeorge A. joslyn, wno is on the executive board of the insti tute. Government Troops Being Mobilized to Move Against Cantu Mexico City, . Aug. 5. Govern ment troops which will be sent into Lower California to put down the insurrection led by Estaban Cantu, governor of that state, are being mobilized at Guaymas and Puerto Isabel in the state of Sonora, and at other ports, General P. Elias Calles, secretary of war, said last night. "Cantu has not more than 1,000 men," he added, "and they are not of the fighting kind. Most of them are saloonkeepers and gamblers." Compulsory military service is the only way of solving Mexican military problems, the general de clared, and he expressed himself as favoring the establishment of five military zones, i northern, southern, central, Atlantic and Pacific. Socialists Demand Hungary Observe Disarmament Terms Geneva, Aug. 5. Entente nations are called upon to end the era of Hungarian reaction by compelling Hungary to observe the . disarma ment terms of the St. Germain treaty in resolutions adopted unanimously by the socialist congress, in' session here, yesterday. Gamblers Resort to , Guns When "Bones Fail to Roll Right Chlearo Tribune-Omaha Bee Leaned Wire. ' Chicago, Aug. 5. Max Kulen sky is a good loser, but unfortu nately he has been mixing with men who are not. Max had been losing steady in a crap game for several nights, i but he took hi? losses in good part, and always came back the next night with more money. Last night the bones rolled his way. He won $300, and started blithely on his way.' He felt so good over the evening's work that he ordered up a taxicab to take him home. . ' He had not proceeded far, however, until another taxi over took him and five . armed men jumped out and stopped his chauffeur. Then they frisked Max i his entire roll. "Theyvwere the same fellows I beat in the crap game," Max told the police. "It makes me sick the whole business. While I lose . it's all right. When I win well, I lose anyhow, so what's the use? I'm through gambling.'! 1909. it J. I7. inroads it made upon the output of essential goods. Scores of smaller town merchants during this trip have attested that while no diminishment has been noted in the bulk of purchasing done by the fanner (business is brisk for this period of year) the demand is lor practical goods. These in turn have gone up in price, owing to the call. In some shops, for instance, ordinary cotton shirts have been marked $4.50. On garments the farmer customer laid off buying as much as possible this year about the time the big cities were taking up the overall fad, but for the last three months while prices have dropped, he has been doing much absorbing. Wherever the pilgrim goes in his roadster he hears farmers loudly complaining against the woolen manufacturers back east. Puzzled Over Wool Market. What the farmjr finds difficult to understand, and in this he has much company, is why with the bottom dropped out of the raw wool market, the textile makers in New England are still shooting "shoddy" 'into the trade. Scores on this trip have spoken of "pure woolen" suits which have gone to pieces in a surprisingly short time, because too little virgin wool has been used. Where there is sheep raising the talk' is all the -jnore emphatic. A (Continued on Page Two, Colnmn Two.) BRITISHjPREMIER RECEIVES BODY OF IRISH UNIONISTS Delegation Urges Lloyd George To Grant Dominion Home Rule. London, Aug. 5. Poland and Ire land gave Premier Lloyd George a busy day today. In addition to pre siding at a cabinet council and dis cussing these questions, he received in the afternoon and evening a depu tation of Irish unionists and na tionalists from Dublin and Cork, who urged him to grant dominion home rule for Ireland. With the premier Were Andrew Bonar Law, lord privy seal; Sir Hamer Greenwood,, cnief secretary for Ireland, ind bther ministers. An official report of the confer ence will be jssued shortly. The premier's reception twice of the Cork and Dublin deputation was the cause of the interest in the lobby of the house of commons. The be lief was expressed that the views of men of such high standing, many of whom formerly opposed the home rule, could no; have failed of care ful consideration by the ministers. It was said in the lobby of parlia ment that the delegation had urged the government to drop the new Irish crimes bill and substitute a generous home rule measure. To the objection ihat the visitors did not represent the Sinn Feiners," the delegation argued that the procedure they advocated would at least have behind it the large and growing opinion in Ireland, while the policy of combining "coercion" with the home rule bill before parliament would be unanimously condemned. It is an open secret that the pre mier favors dominion home rule as a solution of the controversy, and has been held back by the conserva tive elements in the cabinet. War Office Issues Sharp Reply to Protest of Town , Shenandoah, la., Aug. 5. (Spe cial.) A telegram from the War de partment, sent in reply to one from the Community club' pretesting against the use of cars at this time i to move the Camp Dodge equipment to Camp Lewis just when the cars are needed to move the wheat and c6al of ihe country, practically in formed Shenandoah that the depart ment would tend to its own busi ness and advised Shenandoah to at tend its own. The statement was supplemented by the information that cars needed for moving the Iowa wheat would not be used. Charge of "Murder" Is Filed Against Gilinsky Jackson, Mich., Aug. 5. (Special.) Charges of murdering Deputy Sheriff Harry Worden following the robbery of the Farmers State bank at Grass Lake' last Thursday were filed here yesterday afternoon against DaVe Gilinsky, of Omaha, known here as Dave Rosenberg, and "Doc" Stowe, Walter Wirson and W. E. Harris, arrested with him. Mrs. Dave Gilinskv. who arrived jhere from Omaha last night, was refused permission to see her hus band by Sheriff Larabee. Candidates' Pluralities Grow in State Election St Louis, Aug. 5. Pluralities of the leading candidates for . the gubernatorial and senatorial nomin ations are growing constantly as unofficial returns from rural dis tricts of Tuesday's state wide pri mary election drift in. ' , Breckinridge Long seems to be the democratic nominee for United States senator, and Senator Selden I'. Spencer has been conceded the republican nomination by his near est opponents, Dwight F. Davis. x John Barrymore Weds. 4 New York, Aug. 5. John Barry more, widely known actor, and Mrs. Leonard M. Thomas, formerly Miss Blanche Oelrichs. socially prominent Ajn this city, were married here today, OMAHA, FRIDAY, PREPARE TO ADM!'i ON ; .o rORCES Battalion of f rench Riflemen Quartered at Luxembourg Ordered in Readiness to Start for Poland. SITUATION REGARDED AS SERIOUS AS19U Bolshevik Armies Reported To Be Sweeping Poles Back British Premier Demands Armistice at Once. Amsterdam, Aug. 5. A battalion of French riflemen quartered in Luxembourg, have received orders to hold themselves ready to start for Poland, according to the Ber lin Vossische. London, Aug. 5. Among British officials and diplomats of other na tions here undisguised anxiety is felt over the Russo-Polish situation. One official said: "The situation is as grave as that in August, 1914." Leo Kameneff, president of the Moscow soviet, is reported to have sent a message to his government asking that Russia accept immediate ly the original British proposals for an armistice with .Poland. M. Kameneff, it is said, sent his mesage after he and M. Krassin, the Russian minister of trade and com merce, had had a very plain talk with Premier Lloyd George and An drew Bonar Law, government lead er in the House of Commons, last night. Up to the middle of this after noon no reply had been received. M. Kameneff and M. Krassin are members of the Russian commission wHich came here to conduct nego- tiatiops looking to the restoration of trade between Great Britain and Russia. i Demand Armistice at Once. In a statement in the house of commons today in regards to last evening's conference with tUe soviet delegates, Premier Lloyd George said he and Mr. Bonar Law made it clear to M. Krasm and Kameneff that the immediate conclusion of an armistice on fair terms was the only course which would remove sus picion that the soviet government was insincere in its professed de sire for oeace and in its declaration that it intended to. respect the in depedence of Poland; . - The premier added that ne , ana Mr.- Bonar Law also, made it, clear that, in view of the fact that eth nographical Poland had been in vaded, "we would take effective steps to remove obstacles in tne way ot transmission to roiana irom Danzig of miliary supplies which could be obtained from that quarter. Make Six Miles Daily. Warsaw, Aug. 5. Russian soviet armies driving against tne ronsn lines defending Warsaw are main taming, an average progress ot six miles per day in the direction of this city. lhey are being held in the south, however, and in some places are being pushed back from the districts east of Lemberg, which is one ot the objectives of their present cam paign. .todays orhcial statement issued at general staff headquarters de clares the Poles have retaken the town of Brody, near the Galician frontier, and have forced the bolshe- viki back into Russia in the region of Radzivlov. American aviators fighting with the Kosciuscko squadron are bat tling against General Budenny's avalry and infantry along the Sereth -river, where the soviet forces have not made any headway. Parts of this squadron were engaged all day yesterday near Miklicze, where they met Cossacks and bolsheviki infantry. The losses suffered by the enemy in this district were very heavy, today's official statement say ing 1,600 bolsheviki were killed and large numbers were wounded. 'Russian bolshevik forces have reached Ostrov, 53 miles northeast of Warsaw, and 25 miles southwest of Lomza. i Lomza is Taken. Lomza, an important city about "5 miles northeast of Warsaw, has been taken by the Russian bolshe viki after being defended for many days by the Poles, according to an announcement at the foreign of fice last night. Polish forces have evacuated Brest-Litovsk, but hold the forts west of the river Bug, and further south the Poles have evacu ated Kovel and are withdrawing to the line of the Bug river. General Romer and his colleagues on the Polish armistice commission will go to Minsk today, to meet representatives of soviet Russia and attempt to halt hostilities between the two countries. Credentials 'giv ing the commission authority to en gage in negotiations preliminary to a treaty of peace, as swell as to ar range for an armistice, are being prepared. This action followed the return and report of the Polish com mission this morning from Bar enovitchi. Had Body Packed in Ice To Avoid Burial Alive Jerico Springs, Mo., Aug. 5. Joshua Bays, aged resident of this place, never hesitated to "take a chance" on a horse race, but he re fused to' take one on being buried alive. . In accordance with Bays' dying wishes, his body was packed in ice for three days and then buried with out being embalmed. . Bays, who at the time of his death was on the sunny side of 80, was well known in the southwest part cf tne state as a race horse owner, AUGUST 6, 1920. ' , , ,. , . , EXPECT TO COUGHLIN FIND BABY IN NEAR FUTURE Kidnaper of Child, Now Under Arrest, Bartering to Ex change Baby If Granted Immunity. Philadelphia, Aug. 5. "The crank" disclosed today as August Eaeol -of-New Gretna, N. J-, refuses to reveal the whereabouts of little Blakely Coughlin unless he . is granted immunity in the kidnap ing. He is bartering now to exchange the child, stolen from his parent's home in Norristown, Pa., on June 2, for his freedom. He is said to have gone so far as to admit the 15 months old babv is hidden in Atlantic City. Important developments in the case are expected today following the disclosure early today of the crank's" identity. He is of French and Italian extraction and recently lived here and since last week in New Gretna. Recently Bought Farm. An acquaintance of Pascol's says he knows Pascol had a woman friend, who detectives believe has the child. ( Psacol only recently bought a farm at New Gretna and drove from this city in a motor car last Thurs day to take possession, it was said. Pascol had three or four rifles and a quantity ot liquor it also was said. Opened Bank Account. Pascol, the police learned today, opcred an account with a " Philadel phia bank on June 21, four days after the father of kidnaped child had placed $12,000 in a hiding place near his home as directed by one of the "crank" letters. The first deposit was $1,000. Later larger sums were added. On Mon day morning, beiore his arrest, Pas col paid the balance due on his new home in New Gretna with a certified check of the Philadelphia bank. , Prohibition Wrong, Says Lipton's Friend at Races New York, Aug. 5. Prohibition is wrongl Lord Dewar, friend of Sir Thomas Lipton and the latter's gudst for the international yacht rac, says so, and Lord Dewar should know. He makes Scotch whisky by the thousand barrels. "I have studied prohibition care fully since I have been over here and it is all wrong, really now," his lordship said today, as he embarked for his own native, "tight little isle." "I find that it is too severe and that it encourages lawbreaking," he added. "In England, now, we are going at the problem in a different way. We close the saloons for several hours each day and this is having a salutary effect on drunken ness. There is a great improve ment noticeable already." Police Say Kidnaper Is Notorious Eatern Crook Philadelphia, Aug. 5. August Pascol, the man in custody charged with kidnaping the infant son of George H. Coughlin of Norristown, Pa., was this afternoon identified as Augusto Pasquale, said by the 'po lice to be a former jail bird and no torious crook. The announcement was made by George H. Leonard, chief postal inspected. - London Reserve Falls London, Aug. 5. The weekly statement of the Bank of England shows the proportion of reserve to liabilities is 10.20 per cent: last week 12,20 BSE se.afc " ' Br Mill (I Wirt. iMldt 4ID Z.M. Dally .4 Ontilda 4th Xo (I mr). Dally Suaday. Nobody Home PERSIAN CAT, IN COURT FOR WEEKS, HAS REAL OWNER Judge Worried For 48 Hours Then Awards Feline to Miss Kennedy After 48 hours of deliberation Mu nicipal Judge Holmes has rendered his decision in the white Persian cat case. Miss .. Margaret Kennedy, Helen apartments, is the only and true owner of the cat, he announced, as the clock struck 2 yesterday aft ernoon, v. There-was a prolonged silence In the court room after the decision was rendered. Not even a feline meow broke the stillness, for with the exception of the judge the court room was empty. Miss Kennedy, who carried the case from justice to municipal court to recover the cat from Mrs. R. M. Serria, 1019 South Twenty-fifth street, had had possesion of it for two days, and was content to learn the decision by telephone. The be reaved Mrs. Serria also failed to ar rive to hear the fatal decision. "That case has bothered me more than almost any case I've ever had," said Judge . Holmes. "That cat meant too much to both of those women. . "Miss Kennedy, I think, identified it as hers by the marks on its nose. She testified the cat's tail had been trimmed. The. plaintiff admitted she had trimmed the fur on the tail. All in all I think I've made a good decision. Of course the case might be taken to the supreme court." Heavily Armed Men Loot Cash Register And Deposit Vaults New York, Aug. 5. While 175 patrons of the Lenox Turkish baths were sleeping early today, five rob bers entered the establishment and after holding up five attendants es caped with about $10,000 worth of valuables checked by the sleepers. The bandits, heavily armed, ar rived at the baths in taxicabs. They backed attendants against the wall at the point of revolvers. Harry Cohen, manager, and two attendants were thoroughly beaten by the hold up men, who after taking $150, from the cash register, broke into in dividual deposit boxes. Meanwhile, the patron victims slept undisturbed. With the rising of the first patron, however, and announcement that his valuables had been stolen, there rose a cry of lament which did not end for hours. Cohen based his estimate of the robbers' loot from claim checks pre sented by frantic patrons. Providence, R. I., Shows Gain Of 13,269 People In Decade Washington, Aug. 5. Providence, R. I., 237,550; increase 13.269 or 5.9 per cent. State of Oregon 783,285; increase, 110,520 or 16.4 per cent. Frederick, Okl., 3,822; increase 795 or 26.3 per cent. Multnomah county. Oregon, in cluding Portland, 275,898; increase 49,637 or 21.9 per cent. Klamath Falls, Ore., 4,801; ' '.n crease, 2,043 or 74.0 per cent. The Weather . Forecast. Nebraska Fair ' without change in temperature. Hourly Temperatures. much S a. m.. a. m. , 7 a. m. , R a. m.. .It .IS .75 .76 1 p. m., t p. m. S p. m. 4 p. m., M 8 87 9 a. m. S p. P. .89 10 a. m..:........7 11 a. him i U boob 7 P. .8 Simtfw. tt: Dll Only. M: Sunday. M. tit: Dally Oaly, 113: 8ad Oaly. U. PSZANOWSKI IS SLATED TO LAND IN DUNN'S PLACE Detective May Be Named Head of Bureau Pattullo Mentioned as New Chief of Police. Detective John Pszanowski's name was generally mentioned in city nail '. circles yesterday to be painted on the chief detective's win dow, covering that of John Dunn, who was discharged Wednesday. Commissioners would say but very little regarding a probable suc cessor to Chief of Police Eberstein, who is now under fire. Andrew Pattullo inspector of police, is next in line and is slated for Eberstein's shoes. Pszanows'ki is eligible for the chief of detectives's place, according to Police Commissioner Ringer. He has been on the force 12 years. Mayor Smith and Commissioner Zimman said that the resignation or dismissal of Eberstein is imminent. Commissioner Ringer also is under fire by Commissioner Zimman. Zimman said that he believed that every member of the commission except Ringer believes he should go. "It may be possible that there will be two votes against asking his res ignation." said Mr. Zimman, "but there will be no more." Commissioner Falconer said he would not vote on the Eberstein resolution until he "went over the matter thoroughly." If Pattullo is made chief. Tony Vanous, senior police captain, would be next in line for the inspec tor's place. Suspected Slayer of Youths Has Narrow Escape From Big Mob Marion, 111., Aug. 5. Settino de Sesnis, held in connection with the deaths of two youths found mur dered near Royalton. barely escaped violence at the hands of a mob pi approximately 200 men early today. Officials heard of the mob's ap proach and safely removed De Ses nis to another town. After search ing the county jail the mob dis persed. West Frankfort, 111., Aug. 5. In vestigation was begun today into the deaths of Tony Hemphill4 17 years old, and Amel Calcaterera, 14, whose bodies were found in shallow graves one mile north of Royalton near here late yesterday. Their throats had been slashed.- ' . The boys, the police announced today, had been heard to say they had information about a recent bank robbery. This led police to believe the double murder was committed to silence the youths. Aviators Drop Flowers On Hearses of Comrades Los Angeles, Ca!., Aug. 5. Flow ers were dropped from 15 airplanes today as hearses bearing the bodies of Lieut. Omar Locklear and Mil- Elliott, former army avfetors killed here Monday night while do ing stunt flying for a motion pic ture scene, made their way to the train which was to take the bodies ea'st. Gessler On Inspection Tour Berlin, Aug. 5. Herr Gessler, min ister of defense, has gone to East Prussia on a tour of inspection. Re cent reports from Berlin have indi cated anxiety there over the prox imity of bolshevist troons to th Vast 13-.. . ..'n n -n n.i.. J . THREE CENTS FOUR SHOT IN DENVER STRIKE RIOT Nonunion .Crew Pulled Front Street Car and Beaten by Crowd of More Than 1,000. Strikers and Sympathizers. ARMED GUARDS OPEN RIFLE FIRE INTO MOB' Police Reserves Called Out to Handle the Situation Seven Men Are Held in Jail For Part in Outbreak. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Ilea Leaed Wire. Denver, Colo., Aug. 5". Reports of renewed rioting by street car men and strike sympathizers are coming in right along, and among those reported injured is Chief of Police Hamilton Armstrong, who was .hit in the head with a rock thrown by a strike sympathizer at the central" car barns tonight He is unconscious and was rushed to the county hospital. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire. Denver, Colo., Aug. 5. Four men;, were shot and several others badly beaten in a riot which started short ly before 6 o'clock tonight when a tramway car collided with an auto mobile at Fifteenth and California streets, in the heart of the business section of the town. More than 1,000 strikers and their sympathiz ers, who had marched in a body to the city hall while a committee from the Denver Trades and Labor As sembly called on Mayor Bailey, ' were were parading after the con ference and had just reached there when the collision occurred. The strike sympathizers, who had been joined by several hundred ad ditional union men after the demon strators left the city hall, immedi ately surrounded the car and be gan breaking in the heavily screened car windows to get at the strike breakers. Within a few minutes several thousand people, shouting, cursing and fighting, jammed the streets. Stones and bricks were hurled at the car, which was smashed open so that the rioters were able to get at the crew. ' Three of the strike breakers were hauled from the car and severely beaten. . According to spectators, armed guaffls opened fire when they, saw that the car crew was at the mercy of the mob, and at least four?, men were shot. Whether any wer seriously wounded could not be de. termined during the melee, which was constantly growing, wors. The police patrcd accompanying the car in automobile with reserves were unable to handle the situation, and ' three riot calls were sent in. bringing five automobile loads ol police to the scene. 1 Seven men, alleged by the police to have participated in the riot, were taken to the city jail and locked up. Several of them had been severely beaten and required medical emer gency treatment from the police surgeon. Numerical Increase Of Oregon Is Third Largest in History Washington. Aug. 5. Oregon has a population of 783,285, an increase of 16.4 per cent in the last 10 years, the census bureau announced today. The state's increase was not so large numerically as in the decade ending with 1910, but it was larger ;han that for the decade ending with 1900. The increase in number was 110,520, the third largest numerical increase in the state's history. ' Oregon's rate of increase is larger than that of Georgia or Delaware, the only two other states whose 3920 census has been announced. Georgia's increase was 10.9 per cent and Delaware's 10.2 per cent. Oregon ranked as 35th state in point of population in 1910, with 672,765 people. Organized as a ter ritory in 1848 its first federal census in 1850, showed a population of 13, 294. Its rate of increast was largest during the earlier years, the per centage from 1850 to 1860 having been 294.7, while in the decade end ing with 1910, it was 62.7 per cent,.. Coal Dealer Held On Charge Of Profiteering, Bound Over. Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 5. Tames R. Woolridge, one of the 15 coal dealers recently arrested here on charges of violating the profiteering' provisions of the Lever act, was bound over to the next term of fed eral court today after a preliminary hearing before United States Com missioner Pike Powers. One witness testified he had bought five carloads of coal from Woolridge at $8.50 per ton. The government charged at the hearing that Woolridge made a profit of $3.50 on each ton. Lloyd George Says England Will Stop Landing of Mannix London. Anir 5 .Pr-m!r T 1wA George in answering a question in how the government proposed to deal with Archbishop Mannix, the Australian prelate, on his arrival. sdiu uie KuveTiiiuciu decision was that fVlrt llrllKtclt.M cl.fll.IJ MA 1.. allowed to land in Ireland. Such steps would be taken as were deemed necessary to make the de
