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-I The Omaha. Sbnday B VOL. L NO. 10. Intn SMtid-C'lH Mtltof May 2S, 190. It Ouka P. 0. Ui Art Marah S. 1171. OMAHA. SUNDAY 'MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1920. g;tr ii TEN CENTS EE r H . ( NEW RATES NO CAUSE FOR PRICE BOOST Railroad Officials Declare Freight Increase Does Not .Justify Rise in Majority Of Commodities. - QUOTE FIGURES AS PROOF OF STATEMENT Show Additional Charges on Staple Articles of Food Between Many Points Come To But Fraction of Cent. By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING, t hlraro Trltiune-Omah Am la.rd Wire. Washington, Aug. 21. The freight rat incrczse recently granted th: tailroads by the Interstate lom- Terre cor.iniissipn will not be a justifiable cause for piling another burden on the ultimate consumer's pocketbool:. This is the conviction of railroad operators, labor statis ticians and government officials, in cluding officials of the Department of Justice, whose business it is to watch out for profiteers, in th United States nd to bring them to j.is'ice if they can. 1 . j Anticipating that some of the profiteering experts of the country inay be chuckling over a chance to give price" of commodities another hike when the netv rates get to vorking, the Pennsylvania railroad has prepared some pertinent. figures to show the consumer that he shouhl , not be plundered on this account. ' "The publit should- be" fore warned," say Pennsylvania railroad officials in a statement issued here presenting figures to prove their contention, "and forearmed against any attempts to take advantage of the freight rate advance for the pur- , pose of justifying profiteering." The warning of the railroad com pany is hacked up with figures showing how sightly the retail prices of commodities should be ai tVcted by the rate increases.!-. Increases Most Negligible. 1 "While i's true," says the Penn slvania statement, "that 'in the case of we few as tides and commodi es, small increases in price may be justified, st.ve:"he1css, the amounts wh-ch in ny instairce cotild fairly 'e added o the present facts are a small fraction of the whole, and in the case of practically every articie or commodity of daily consumption i he increases in transportation ' "r'hSrges ar relatively so small JS'Wf ')e practically rcghgibe. "Let us sec what these ' figures mean to the household consumer who buys flour by the sack, eggs and oranges by the dozen, and but-' tcr by the pound. - "Most flour is shipped in carload lots. Taking the fate from Min neapolis to Philadelphia, the 40 per cent increase will amount to 33 cents per barrel of 200 poutHs. On a 24-pound sack of flour this will be just a trifle less ihan 4 cents., Even if the flour is shipped in less than carload lots, the viaerease in the freight charge per 24 "bounds would be 7 cents. v Half-Cent Dozen on Ergs. "As a crate of cgffs contains 30 dozen, a glance at tnc taie win show that on a carload the added freight charges, would be about half a oeuvper dozen erfgs, and in the less tha)i carload 'ot ship ment about two-third of a cent, a dozen. u "Similarly, it will be obsen'ed that (Continued nn Purs' Two. C olumn Three.) Woman Plans Every; Detail in Building Of Large State Barn Lincoln, Aug. 21. (Special). s rrrc not yet in ; Women architects' ' vogue, ana tne designing oi inoucrn farm buildings is notlusually consid- rred in their line, but Miss, Lena Ward, late superintendent of the girls' industrial honie at Milfprd, planned every detail of, a big i file barn which has been pronounced- by . experts to be beyond criticism, ac cording to members of' the state boird of control. .The board, in fact, is building the , barn according to specifications, con tracts having been let Friday for the lumber to the Pauley Lumber com pany of MilforjJ for $2,284, and to he Orschcl companv Qf Omaha for the roofing at $565.20. i Tile fdr the bamt was bought a vear tigo for $1,388, and work on the building was started with labor hired bv the day. The total cost di mate " rial alone for the structure, vith eround dimensions 36 by 105 fectis H.287. The last legislature appro priated $6,000 for the barn and a silo adjoining. Miss Ward was recently transfer red to 'the supcrintendency of th girls' industrial home at Geneva. Union President Orders . Indiana Miners' to Work Terre Haute. Ind., Aug, 21. Pres ident Ed Stewart of District No. 11, United Mine Workers of America, today ordered all members of local unions now on strike in Indiana to return to work immediately, pending a meeting of tlm. miners' and opera tors,' district scale commitieej) here Tuesday. Daughter of Villa Is Victim of Tuberculosis San Antonio. Tex., Aug. 21 Ray ' nalda Villa, daughter of Francisco Villa, died last right from tuber culosis. She was 19 years old and a native of Mexico, coming here with her mother when Villa took to the bandit life in Mexico.. Ihe fu . . , .... . f j neral was ment here. hfld today," win inter- Hays Charges Governor .Cox Dominated by Wilson And 4' Unnamed "Bosses" - . , , Republican Chairman Says Democratic Candidate - Appealss,to Both Anti and Administration Fac tions of His Party Denies G. 0. P. Plans to Ex pend Excessive Sums to Elect Candidates. Augusta, Me.,. Aug. 21. Will i. Hays, chairman of the republican national committee today opened his party's campaign in this state for election of members of congress with a speech in which 'he asserted that Governor Cox was dominated by President Wilson and four un named "bosses." "The dem6cratic candidate , ft peals to both the Wilson and tne anti-Wilsou factions of his party," declared Mr. Hays- "To the former he holds forth the president's plat form. To the latterjie exhibits him self as-an advocate of complete change in administration. , He offers to the country for foreign urt the Wilson government and. fior do rncstft scrvrce Tammany Hall truly a matvelous combination of im- Tpotcnce and ill repute." Mr. Hays dtvoted much ot ins speech " to' discussing campaign funds, rfenyiag vigorously that the republican party, planne'd to expend excessive sums to, elect Senator Harding and Governor Coolidge. lso denying thjt Trillions had "pone into the reputyuam treasury" from "certain hiterestif handed to gether to buy the presidency" a statement which he credited to Gov rmor Cox Mr. Hays declared that this amounted to a charge of con spiracy to betray the country. May Raise Maximum. Referring to the republican plan to limit individual 1 caynpaign con- 700 GALLONS OF LIQUOR SEIZED IN POLICE RAID Four North Sixteenth . Street Stores Visited Recent Druriks Gave Officers Jip for Search. A squad of policeinder the direc tion of Detective George. Summit of the Central station, swooped down upon a soft drink parlor, grocery store and drygoods store, all in the vicinitv of 602 North Sixteenth .-atretfvvSaturday afternoon .and : dis covered more than 700 gallons of "hootch" and whisky. At the drygoods-. store of Ben jamin Layton, 602 North Sixteenth istreet.-.omcers found hidden, behtnd the counters and ,in modetfk more than 200 eallons of "booze.''' Follow ing the faid "at the Layton store, D" tective summit led his liquor hounds" to-. the i grocery store of Joe Bath, 604 North Sixteenth street, where 5UU gallotjs of extract was discovered. The extract was in small bottles and police : say was being sold as a beverage, .y ' The soft drink parlor of E. R. McNally, 824 North Sixteenth street, yielded . butfjonp gallon of "hootch" in spit? of the? officers' close insc tion. Several empty gallon jugs were hipmentV0i"d,'-in.the "ar 9 store. last wek started a campaign against oftdrink parlors in this state se4I- g intoxicating liquor, f j According to police, several drinks have ' been - arrested in the vicinity of thete stores and were responsible for tt xaidfp tavton. Bath and McNally were arrested for having1 in their posses sion intoxicating liquor. . 4 : . Conipany -Announces All Strikebreakers To c . Be Sent From City Denver, . Colo., Aug. 21. One Globeville car was bombarded with rocks early today arid crews have refused to attempt another run on that line unless given firearms. Military guards were placed on all cars in the north division today. Striking trainmen were to meet to morrow to formulate terms on which they are willing to return to work. The company announced that the 117 strikebreakers at the cast side barns and the 125 at the rentral barns, all those remaining in the city, would be deported Monday. A large detachment was reported to have been sent to Cleveland, O. One car was badly damaged 'and the crew severely beaten, aiir the trucks had jumped the rails on the Globeville line last night. Where to find 'The Bif features of The Sunday Bee. x - "Jimmy" Montague in prose, Page 8, Part 4. Facts mean nothing to Omahans, Page 1, Part 4. Letters From a Home-Made Man to Hi Son, Page 2, Part,4. Heart Secrets of' Fortune Teller, Page 8, Part 2. " An Omaha Man Visits George Ade, Page 1, Part 4. . Things Home-Builders Want, to Know, Page 8, Part 2. . . Sports, Pages 1, 2 and 7, Part 3. Woman's News and Gossip, Part 2. " Movies and Theaters, Pages 5, 6 and 7, Part 4. Boys and Girls, Page 3, Part 4. ' Omahans in Caricature, Page 8, Part -M tributions to $1,000, Mr. Havs said. " "If this attempt fails to produce the requisite sums, we shall so state publicly, increase the maximum, and seek additional contributions. Declaring' .that the party needed about $3,000,000, Mr. Hays said that no criticism of the democrats for seeking the largest obtainable con tributions would be ottered. ".N'or shall we in resentful emula tion of the positive charges of the democratic candidates so much as intimate -that their responsible of. dicers will use any part of their funds corruptly" he said. "Frankly and sauarely, as between mutual respecting citizens, we don't be lieve they will, or would if they could. "But I give fair warning now that neither the republican candidates nor the republican management will take faise aspersions JymfT down. If. at the decision of our adversaries this campaign shall finally resolve injo a question of personal charges, ve- know of no reason, aside from natural distaste, why we should not meet that issue as readily as any oilier." 1 Says Cox Zigzagging. After announcing that the repub lican paty had pobably never before enjoyed such complete unanimity of acceptance and approval after a presidential nomination, Mr.v Hays accused the democrats of indecision (Continued Pairs Two, Column Tiro.) DIVORCED HUBBY NOV RICH; WIFE WANTS HIM BACK Thought Him Disinherited When Separated in 1912 Declares fThey Were Not Really Divorced. San Francisco, Aug. 21. Is Pearl Gilmore Alisky the wife of Charles W. Alisky, millionaire director of a chain of motion picture theaters? She divorced him in Oregon in January, 1912. - Since then she has remarjriei,J.jHer. second. , husband, the Terrible. Ambrose, who , co starred with Charlie Chaplin, was killed i in an accident five months after -their marriage. ' : ..WhenMrs. Alisky1 sought her di vorce in ' Oregon she understood that AlisTcy had been disinherited. Since then' he has fallen heir to a million. She began legal proceed ings in. the. superior court here to- day to be declared his wife and never to have been legally divorced from him.' , . 'Jfarried in 1907. , The cosafle were married in San Diego in 1907. Mrs.. Alisky was Clara Pearl Gilman, sister of Mrs. Maybelle Gilman Corey, wife of W. E. Corey, former president of the United States Steel corporation. The papers filed today were very brief, merely reciting that the couple had married in'jSan Diego in 1907, that at various,, times since then Alisky has claimed that she is not his wife, whereas she claims she is and asks the court to declare her his lawful wife. Ernest Pagnuelo, the lawyer,. who is representing Mrs. Alisky, said that his client had sought a divorce in San Francisco in, September, 1911. The action was dismissed the same year. Pagnuelo says that Mrs. Alisky was then induced by her hus band to go to Oregon Citv. Ore.. f where she brought a new action for divorce. - Base Claim on Law. Alleging that the woman, through the misrepresentation and fraud of others, was led to testify that she was a resident of Oregon when she was not, Pagnuelo claims that the Oregon courts had no jurisdiction, that no valid divorce decree was ever granted, and -that Pearl Gibson is still the wife of Alisky and entitled to a wife's rights. Mrs. Alisky has figured frequent ly in marital records. In November, 1912, she became the wife of Theo dore Armreitpr at Oakland. He was arrested socm afterwards for obtain ing money under false pretenses. Following their separation, came the marriage to the Terrible Ambrose of the movies. Alisky is the son of a wealthy Portlani family. His father made millions as a candy manufacturer and accumulated much property in the northern city. Young- Alisky recently fell heir to his father's for tune. Now comes his .wife's actiorf to once more be known as his wife. Danger Signal Wanted at Country Club Crossing Lincoln, Aug. 21. (Special.) A. G. Mehl and nine others have peti tioned the Nebraska railway com mission to order a signal or warn ing at the Country club crossing of the Southern Interurban out of Oimhai "There is a cut through a big hill, with no chance to see a car when it is coming," the petition says. "Cars run 40 to SO miles an hour through this cut, blow-whistles -very seldom, and then only when they jare right on the crossing." Grants Rate Increase. Austin, Tex., Aug. 21. The Texas railroad commission granted an in crease in all intrastate freight rates of 33 1-3 per cent and an a 20 per cent increase in excess jbaggage rates SEIPSfff IN FOR HARDING Reports Indicate That G. 0. P. Will Carry Buckeye State by More Than Usuel Majority in National Election. EFFORTS OF COX CAUSE OF'MUCH AMUSEMENT Attempts of Qemo Candidate To Prove His Progressive Stand Brings Forth Sharp Comment in Marion Stan. By PHILLIP KINGSLEY. Chlraco Tribune-Omaha Bee Leeaed Wire. Marion, O., Aug. 21. Reports that have come in from state scouts dur ing the week indicate that the drift of sentiment, in Ohio at least, is toward the republican candidate for presidency. The normal republican majority in this state, based on many elections, is 58,000; the development of the campaign so far leads to the conviction that if nothing goes wrong this V majority will be greatly in creased in November. The efrt of Governor Cox in his speeches to the democratic conven tion at Columbus, to make it appear that Senator Harding had been "re actionary" in their Ohio political ac tivities has brought forth pungent comment in the senator's papers, th,e Marion Star, and has caused some amusement in republican headquar ters. An-interesting bit cf political his tory is found m the Ohio book of facts, written in 1918 by Harvey C. Garber, for many years a leading democrat in Ohio. Mr. Garber was opposing Cox for governor. As a former state chairman and former democratic ational committeeman, his support of Willis, republican nominee, was a political sensation. Quote Cox Editorial. The book of facts refers to Gov ernor Cox as the man "who tried to take the credit from Governor Har mon for the workmen's compensa tion law and to use the industrial committee for his own political ag grandizement." An editorial in Cox's Dayton paper for January 27, 1904, is given as showing wfcether or not Cox has been progressive. This fol lows: "B-yan is a greater aid to the republican party than any of its own leaders. , And just so long as demo crats are ' permitted to be reviled, browbateattd'oersecuted bv the tongue and pen of Bryan, and he is permitted to dominate the party with his 'isms, so long will it go down to defeat." Another editorial in the same pa per. June 1. 1904. when it was ap parent that the reactionaries would control the -democratic national con vention in St. Louis, reads: 'The democratic party had been afflicted with appertdicitis in two successive campaigns (1896-1900), which very seriously affected its running quali ties, but the populistic veriform ap pendix of the party will be ampu tated at the national convention at St. Louis and its candidate will be improved." Passed Liability Act The Marion Star says: "In Ohio everybody knows that a republican legislature passed the employers' lia bility legislation two years before Governor Cox came into office. That a republican legislature took the steps required to initiate a con stitutional convention and that con vention prepared a new constitution which made it possible for the legis lature to extend and strengthen the principle of employers' liabilities. That after the constitution was amended the Cox administration doctored the legislation, hut did it so badly that it was never satisfac tory, and it had finally to be per fected by the republican legislature of 1919. Governor Cox's responsi bility for other reforms is about on a par with this," It is further pointed out tl.at after trying the new constitution for four years the people of Ohio elected Mr. Harding tO'the senate by a plurality of 102,373, while Cox was defeated for governor. by 29,270. Cornfields Grow Where Early Jown' Once Stood Plattsmouth, Neb., Aug. 21. (Spe cial.) The once prosuerous pioneer village of Rock Bluffs, located a few miles south of this city, has passed into history, as this year's waving corn fields mark the location of this once thriving town of the weslern frontier. There the busy steamboat landing stood, the murky waters of the Big Muddy now flow serenely on their way to the gulf. Many of the early settlers who were identi fied with the life of the town are buried in the cemetery ovetlooking the river, second in point of heightb. to any spot along the river between Sioux City and Kansas City. Predicts Sugar Will Drop To 10 Cents by January Chicago, Aug. 21. Sugar will be 10 to 11 cents a pound by January, R. J. Poole, secretary of the city council's high Cost of living com mittee, stated in submitting the re sult of investigation. f The reports states that the new Cuban crop will be about 4,000.000 tons or three times the 1914 crop. Authorities Powerless to Help Americans in Moscow Helsingfors, Aug. 21. Nothing can be done to rescue Americans stranded in Moscow, in the poinion of American authorities here, who assert any attempts to help them would probably increase their dif BALL FAN ROBBED OF DIAMONDS AS HE CHEERS OMAHA J. M. ' Washburn, Jewelry Salesman, Loses Stones - Valued aV $5,500 at j Rourke Park. While J. M. Washburn, saleshian for the Byrne M. Duss wholesale jewelry firm, 1212 First National Bank block, was rooting for the Rourkes at yesterday's ball feame, a nimble-fingered pickpocket lifted an envelope from Washburn's coal pocket. The envelope contained one diamond of two karats and three.dia monds of one karat each. The total value of the four stones was $5,500, according to Washburn's report id the police. In a wallet in his trous ers' pocket Washburn had ?300. It was not stolen. Mr. Washburn said that he gave little attention to a well-dressed man sitting next to him. "We were all cheering wildly when 'the Omaha team shoved into the lead and, al though the stranger jostled me a bit, I thought nothing of it. "During the second game the stranger asked me what time it was. I told him it was 6 and he explained that he had to leave to keep an ap pointment. "A few minutes later I missed my diamonds." Mr Waetibnrn iq ihr same man who iost diamonds valued at $30,000' two months ago at Torrington, Wyo. Two trunks containing the precious stones were stolen from a jewelry store where he had left them on ex hibition. Urg. nn i ' . es leacners to Learn of Proposed State Amendments Lincoln, Aug. 21. (Special). Ne braska teachers attending institutes in six comities the last week have been ureed bv State Superintendent John M. Matzen, who spoke -at each of these institutes, to get copies of the 41 proposed amendments to the state constitution to be voted upon at a special election September 21. The teachers were asked to famil iarize themselves with the amend ments not only for their personal in formation as voters, but in order to be able to give information on the subject to schol patrons when they, are employed. Mr. Matzeji said he not only failed to find any shortage of teachers in the state, but one county. Merrick, reported a surplus of 10. The county has normal training in high schools and qualifies more teachers than it can absorb. Buffalo county had the largest in stitute with 154 teachers. Mr. Mat zen is at work on another itinerary for next week, which he hopes will allow him to visit six mo,re institutes 1,000 Visitors Expected for , Merchants' Market Week Merchants' Market week, which opens next Monday, will bring more than 1,000 business men and their v.ives to Omaha. Entertainments for the guests will be staged each night; ending Thursday. Monday night the men from the trade terri tory surrounding Omaha will be taken to he "Sky-Low" show , at Ak-Sar-Ben den. Their wives will !c entertained at a' theater party at the Orpheum. The Passing Show of 1920 ITALIANS LAY PLANS HERE FOR COLUMBUS DAY Appearance of Caruso in City Oct. 12 Real Coincidence Huge Daylight Parade. " Sebastian Falcone, president of the Christopher" Columbus society, has been elected chairman of a gen eral committee which will have charge of the Columbus day cele bratifln in Omaha on October 12. Ignatius S. Ancona is treasurer and Claudio Deli'ala is secretary. It is proposed to make this year's celebration better than any previous one of this kind in Omaha. An after noon parade with floats will be a -feature. Representations will be in vited from all local organizations. Although the Italians are taking the initiative in 'this matter, they be lieve that it is an occasion which should be observed by Americans of all classes. The appearance of Caruso in the Auditorium on tlje evening of Octo ber 12 will be made the occasion for attendance by local Italians in con nection with the 'Columbus day pro gram. The preliminary plans of this ob servance were made Friday at a meeting held in Columbus hall, Sixth and Pierce streets, L. J. Piatti acting as chairman of the meeting. Public Service Co. " Asks Plattsmbuth For Increased Rates Plattsmouth, Neb., Aug. 21. (Spe cial.) P(lattsmouth's contract for street lighting, franchise and con sumers' rate agreement with the .Nebraska Gas and Electric company will expire within the next 30 days, and the company is preparing to ask for a 20 per cent all-around ad vance, over present rates. The coun cil recently sanctioned an pdvance in gas rates from $1.75 to $2.10 a thousand, and during the first month under the higher rate the company claims a deficit of $100 exis'.s in its operating expenses. To increased freight rates is laid the present re-i quest for further increases. The consumers' light rate is 13 1-2 cents per killowatt, with 10 per centi dis count for prompt payment of bills. The new ordinance to be introduced provides for a rc.idjustment of rates every two years, as conditions may require. Dedicate National Park Highway Next Wednesday Washington. At:g. 21. Secretary Pavne announced that the national- park-to-park highway would be of ficially dedicated to "the public next Wednesday when the official desig nation party leaves Denyer to fix the official ' route. The highway will connectll national parks and tra verse nine western states, being ap proximately 4,700 miles in length. The Weather Forecast. Fair and -Nebraska: warmer Sun- day. Hourly Ttmprratum. r. . . . k . 9 . M: . .53 .S5 .5 .M .! 1 p. m. . . t p. m. . , 8 P. nt... 4 p. m... K p. m. . . K p. m... m.. . m.. . m.. . S!::: ..7 m. M 7 p. m. 12.HOOQ , ......H I . m. JUDGE GRANTS INJUNCTION IN SUFFRAGE FIGHT Certification of Tennessee's Ratification, Stopped by Court's Edict Antis Win First Move. Bj The AMMtated Prei. Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 21. Chan cellor James B. Newman today is sued a writ of injunction temporarily restraining Governor Roberts,' Sec retary of State Stevens and the speakers of the Tennessee senate and house from certifying to Secre tary of State Colby Tennessee's ratification of the woman suffrage amendment. A meeting of the Tennessee house today to clinch ratification of the federal suffrage amendment was blocked by anti-suffrage members, 30 of whom left Nashville last mid night for Alabama so as to make impossible a quorum at the session which was to have opened at 10 a. m. Only 59 members, seven less than a quorum, answered to their names when Speaker Walker called the house to order. The speaker de clared he house in recess for one hour to give the sergeant-at-arms time" to round up absentees. Since 30 of the absent members were re ported at Decatur, Ala., however, there seemed little prospect that a quorum could be had. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 2L Thirty members of the Tennessed house have gone to Decatur, Ala., according to the conductor of the Louisville & Nashville train, which arrived at 9:30 a. m. Arrest Absent Ones. Speaker Walker directed the ser-geant-at-anns to arrest and bring before the bar of the house all 'ab sent members. Suffrage advocates had panned todny to move to reconsider the ratification vote of last Wednesday, when the nmer.dmt-nt was approved, 40 to 47, and then to lay that mo t;or on the table, thus preventing further efforts at reconsideration. Raises Parliamentary Law. I. K. Riddick, suffrage leader, de c'ared the legislature was acting un der federa' and not state law in con sidering ihe suffrage amendment and that the state constitutional quorum wis n r necessary. He' moved that the Walker mo tion for reconsideration be taken, f'om the iournil. The speaker held the Riddick mition out of order. On an tppeal o the house, the Speaker was overruled, 49 to 8. Salt Lake Sugar Dealers Indicted by Grand Jury Salt Lake City, Aug. 21. Indict ments charging the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, its officers and many other prominent Salt Lake and Ogden business men with having made exorbitant profits in the sale of sugar, in violation of the Lever act, were returned today by a special United States gra,nd jury which has been, in secret session here since August 11. Bench warrants have been issued for the arrest of those indicted. ' Trade in Wheat" Again. Winnipeg, Aug. 21. Trading in wheat futures, which opens tomor row for the Irst time since May.fMalcolm 1V17, was the absorbing topic on the floor today. Conjectures on what the opening price would be ranged from 2.55 to $2.75. i AN HELD FOR GIRL'S DEATH IS INSANE Night Trip to Hastings Asylum Planned by Officers to Pre vent Attempt to Lynch Stod dard Farmer. ARMED GUARDS AT JAIL TO STOP DEMONSTRATION Feeling Running' High at; Stoddard Over .Verdict of. Health Board State Physi cian Advised His Removal. . Hebron, Neb., Aug. 21. (Special.)'. rred tfosteimann, Modnard tarm er, who had been charged with the' murder of bis 19 year-old daughter. Frieda, on June 7, was adjusted in i sane after an extensive examination!! Saturday by Dr, W. S. Fast, super- I intendent of the state, insane asylum II at Hastings. Dr. Fast recommended J to the board of health that the farm- il the case as one of paranoia, ths1 brain being affected by old age. At the close of the meeting of ths'l health iboard, held in the clerk ot. the district court's office Saturday1 afternoon. Harvey Hess, county at torney, withdrew the charge of mur der which he had formerly f ileef against Bostelmann. Plan Night Trip. ," It is understood that the man wilf be spirited out of the jail some time' tonight, and taken by automobile to. Hastings for an indefinite term in' the asylum. Heavily armed deputy;1 sneruis ana guaras irom tne asylum will accompany the automobile tcj prevent any molestation by Stod dard citizens who are said to be iri a high state of excitement over the finding of the health board, At the inauest held August ll Dr A'rthur Bowles gave the opiniorj that' Frieda Bostelmann met heij death by poisoning, her condition indicating that strychnine bad beeri used. Marie, a younger skter ovj Frieda's, testified that her fatheili told all members of tbe family thai ' he would "give them all poison ill they did not do what he wanter. them to." , On August 12 the coroner's jurVi returned the finding that "Friedf; Bostelmann came to her deatl; by strychnine poisoning,, the said strychnine being felonoiisly adminisfl( tered by "her father, Fred Bostel , mann." Bostelmann's vife and twn iions. Henry ami Elmer, testifier that they Relieved the father insah for the oast several months and no1' responsible for hij acts. Guard Against Attack. ; Authorities have taken every prej caution to protect the life of the ac cused man, as feeling against hi it' by residents in the vicinity of hi:? home has run high. V Testimony offered at the hearing immediately after the death of.th, Bostelmann girl showed that tht; father had opposed the marriage o his daughter to W. J. Baizke, 4 teacher in a Lutheran school ,;; Chester, and, they had quarreled ove the matter on several occasions! The county attorney also claimed tf; have positive ev'dence that Bostelli mann purchased "medicine" for hii. daughter at Oxford, Neb., when tlw same drug could have been puri; chased in any of the several towni nearer his home. ! Accused Thief Of 1 $70,000 In Jewels Says It Was Just Jok ' si Aew Wk, Aug. 21. "It Hvas jus I June, i wanica ner 10 xaKe ou insurance." D. L. Shaw, former aviation in I structor, gave the police this as lii.i reason for participating in the hold up of Miss Suzanne Duval, who wa; S robbed of $70,000 in gems. Shav If and Harry E. Diamond, from whon if all the jewels were recovered, wer S. held m $3,000 bail each today. I The explanation of the robbery as maae Dy snaw. toiiowed hours oi :n; i grilling Dy me ponce. , s.,s Miss Duval, a western heiress, tolri the authorities she met Shaw a yea ) V ago. Monday night he escorted he-Jy to the theater. The robbery tool.fe'l place as they reached her home afte: the performance. Ampriran Wnnripn Stoamor ww vvwvl I VVVUIIIVI RpnnrteH nn Firo at Ca'!5 '"f VI v v wis I W ui VVC New York, Aug. 21. The Amer ican wooden steamer Mendora wa. reported by wireless atire and mat ing for Halifax at six and one-hal Knots an nour. with smoke pourma from thi liolrt. " The Mendora, a vessel of 2.84. tons, which left Philadelphia An 1 1 i gust 9 for Gothenburg with cargr L sent tlrfs message: j "Returning to Halifax on firf,' Blaze not located. No flames yet" . but much smell of burning wood.,!i Clearing House Report Shows Reserve Strengtl New York, Aug. 21. The aetna condition of clearing house bank and trust companies for the weei'u shows that they hold $1,428,530 re serve in excess of legal requirement' . This is a decrease of $17,147,200 fron ' I laSt veek- f Man of ) 00 Gets License t. To Wed Sweetheart of 72 i ; Los Angeles. Aug. 21. Andrev Morrison, who cave hi -1 age as 100, today obtained a licens 5 to marry Mary Augusta Barney!11 who said shewas 72. They will K. 5 married tomorrow, they, s . Sr. - 1 i K f 1 7