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NO ELECTION TO FILL CORNISH'S SEAT TILL 1922 No Legal Method Provided for , Nomination, Attorney General. Davis' Opinion. r Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 23. (Special.) 1 No successor to the late Supreme Judge A. J. Cornish, who died April 9, the day before the primaries this year, can be elected until 1922, be cause there is no legal method pro dded for a nomination, according to an opinion by Atttorney General Clarence A. Davis, answering an in quiry from the secretary oi state's office. Although under one section of the law, the governor appoints a judge to fill the vacancy "until the next genera! election," Judge L. A. Flahs burg will hold over two years be cause the nonpartisan judiciary law provides, Davis says, no method of 1 nomination alter the primaries are past. The attorney general also ruled that the office for which Judge George A. Day and VV. C. Dorsey were nominated at the primaries, and for which they are now running, is the vacancy caused by the death last Christmas of Supreme Judge S. H. Sedgwick. Judge Day was the tem orpary appointee to fill the place. These candidates cannot be con sidered for the Cornish seat, he ruled, because they were specifically nominated for the other place and for the remainder of the Scdwick trm. He advises the secretary of state to designate the particular office on the ballot for which these, men are running, so that voters will not be led to suppose they can vote for one candidate for each vacancy. It is also the attorney general's You on Victor Talking Machine Co. Camden, N. J. ruling that voters cannot write in the name of the office and that of the candidate also. Where the bal lot itself contains no. place for the name of a candidate for a given of fice, no vote can be legally cast tor that office. Two Sets of Triplets Born in Dawson County Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 23. (Special.) Of five sets of triplets born this year in Nebraska, two have been re ported from Dawson county to the state bureau of health. Two boys and a girl were born June 12 to Mrs. Elmer Knisley, 21 years old, wife of a laborer at Far nam. Neb. One of the girls died July 30. The husband is 24 years old. The couple had two children before the triplets. Another trio arrived June 28 at the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Block, near Walnut, Knox county. There were also two girls and a boy. There are five other children in the family. The father is 34 and the mother 30. Permits Granted to Sell $1,400,000 in Securities Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 23. (Special.) Permits to sell $1,400,000 in Ne braska securities were granted the past week by the state bureau of se curities, while applications aggre gating $400,000 were filed in the same period. Omaha permits grant ed include: Orsco Building Material company, $300,000. Union Power & Light company, $96,800. Page Tree Service. $25,000. Two Automobiles Stolen From Streets of Beatrice Beatrice, Neb., Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) Two automobiles, a Nash, owned by Mr. Strohm, a farmer liv ing near Holmesville, and an Oak land, the property of A. T. Milburn of this city, were stolen Saturday from the streets in the business sec tion here. The Nash car was found later near the suburbs of town with a rear wheel broken off. can hear Sousa's Band any when vou WO Your home, wherever it may be, is right on the line of march of Sousa's Band of Pryor's Band, Conway's, Vessella's, U. S. Marine, Garde Republicaine of France, Black Diamonds of London, of the greatest bands of all the world. And every band plays as it goes marching by on the Victrola. Plays the very music vou want to hear and gives you the same thrill! Victrolas 25 to 1500. New Victor Records sale at all dealers on the 1st of each "month. Victrola ri. u. . nt. opr. Plan to Force Wool Market Is Working, Says Commission Man "My proposition to launch a movement to increase a demand for wool seems to have borne fruit," said Gene Melady, South Side commis sion man, Monday. '"From reports retcived, there is a slight demand for wool which promises gradually to increase until that particular staple is' brought up to a fair selling price. Many sheep men bringing sheep" to the local mar ket have expressed to me an inten tion to increase their sheep flocks. "Some people decry the order of the Interstate Commerce commis sion in allowing the railroads to raise the freight rates and it may cause some worry in certain sections of the country, but it will be a great thing for Omaha. "Thousands of head of live stock that have been shipped to Chicago, Kansas City and Sioux City from points in Iowa, northern Kansas and Missouri will find their way to Omaha as the increase in rates will compel shippers to send to this mar ket instead of the others. It is prob able that live stock receipts at the local market will double in the next year. Gas Co. Says Must Raise Rate or Close Down Plant Columbus. Neb., Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) The Columbus Gas company is facing the alternative of charging a higher rate or closing its plant, ac cording to statements made by mem bers of the board of directors when they appeared before the city coun cil and asked permission to raise the price of gas from $175 to $2.25 a thousand feet. Capture Escaped Man. Chadron, Neb., Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) Alfred Hogan, who escaped from Sheriff Bruce of Thurston county while being taken to the pen itentiary, was captured by Sheriff Canfield of Chadron after a long au tomobile chase and gun fight. have a Victrola TVTWTTWfntrirrwTwrrTTTfTWTtvTTmrrrrTTTVTTr THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1920. Live Stock Expositioa and Fair Opens at Chadron Chadron, Neb., Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) The 27th annual Northwest Live Stock exposition and Dawes county fair opens this week. The ex hibition of grains and grasses of the county will be taken to Lincoln to the state fair in charge of the Dawes county farm agent and the secretary of the Dawes county fair. Airplane stunts, with the usual horse races and 500 Indians from the Pine Ridge reservation in wild west performances, will be the features of the sports section. The fair will last three days. White, and Indian Boys Are Charged With Candy Theft Chadron, Neb., Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) Five young Indian boys and three white lads, accused of taking candy, pop, tobacco and other items trom C. & N. W. merchandise Cars here, were arrested by the sheriff and Northwestern defectives. The white boys were paroled to officers of the juvenile court, but the In dian youths were sent to the Pine Ridge reservation for sentence by government agents. Governor McKelvie Chief Speaker at Big Barbecue Chadron, Neb., Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) Governor McKelvie was the. chief speaker at the Ash Creek bar becue, an annual affair, held about 20 miles southwest of Chadron. Roast oxen, pigs and sheep furn ished lunch for the 2.000 who attend ed. The governor left the same eve ning to join Mrs. McKelvie at their summer camp in the Black Hills.. McCook Man Tries to Kill Self While Intoxicated MrCook, Neb., Aug. 23. (Spe cial). Harry C. Edwards of this city shot himself with suicidal in tent while intoxicated Saturday night. His wounds, though serious, are not fatal.. Edwards has been in the meat market and grocery business here for years. ft "HlSMASreRSVCXCE"" REG US MC. OFF Thi trademark and the trademarked word ''Victrola" identify til our product!, look under the lid I Look oa the label 1 VICTOR TALKING MACHINE CO. Camden, N. J.' VOLLEY OF SHOTS IN DRINK STAND BAFFLE POLICE Proprietors and Two Others Are Fined After Mystery Shooting In South Side Emporium. Mystery surrounds the firing of several shots in the soft drink par lor of Steve Alcala, 4925 Sooth Twenty-fifth street, Saturday night. Officer Quinn rushed to the scene when lie heard the shots. He ar rested Alcata and found a loaded re volver on him. J. R. Lope inter fered and also was arrested, as was John Roach, for intoxication and disturbance. Alcala was fined $25 yesterday in South Side.police court for carrying concealed weapons. Lopez and Roach were, fined $10 each. Police are undetermined who fired the shots, as Alcala's revolver had not been discharged. Date Set For Hearing in Bartos Disbarment Case Lincoln, Aug. 2.3. (Special). In vestigation of the charges filed against K W. and Stanley Bartos, n UDer attorneys, on which disbar ment proceediwrs were brought in the state supreme court, will open at Lincoln on Seotember 14. T. L. Geary of Grand Island will preside as referee for the taking of testi mony, and will make findings based tnereon. Xhe Bartos brothers, will be represented by Hall, Baird & Williams of Lincoln. Jacob Baw cett of this city will appear on be half of the prosecution as special counsel for the attorney s general s office. Teachers' Institute Opens At Grand Island, 70 Attend Grand Island, Neb., Aug. 23. ("Special Telegram). The annual county teachers' institute opened Monday with 70 teachers registered and more expected Tuesday. Uuder the supervision of County Superin tendent Julian, three instructors will feature on the program for the week: A. W. Neale of Stevens Point, Wis., in arithmetic methods and picture study; R. R. McGee of David City in round-table measurements and scales, and Miss Irma Costello. this city, a specialist in primary methods on primary reading, games and projects. Abundant Supply of Spuds . Is Causing Drop in Price "Potato prices are commencing to hit the toboggan," said William Lamprecht of Bloomfield Monday. "The recent rains have done won ders for Nebraska and the moisture that fell in Knox county last week did the corn and spuds a lot of good and insures record-breaking crops in both of those commodities. ; "The potato crop this year in Ne braska will over-run the cellars of every farmer in the state and the poor consumer will not have to pay anywhere near the outrageous price of $6 a bushel this winter." Johnson County Fair Will . Be Held October 13 to 15 Tecumseh, Neb., Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) At a meeting of the fair as sociation shareholders it was decid ed to resume the Johnson county fairs which had been discontinued several years ago. The fair this year will be held on October 13 to IS. New officers for the association were elected as follows: President, Lute Lyellr vice president, Carl Brock; secretary, E. J. Lamb; treas urer. Frank Dafoe: members board of directors. T. J. Current, Henry Lintz and William P. Kelley. Report Will Show Money Spent by Each Department Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 23. (Special.) The biennial report of state ap propriations, receipts and expendi tures is now being made up in the office of State Auditor Marsh, as far as it can be .done at this time. The report will how how much money has been spent by each department or institution, and whether any ap propriation will overrun. It will also contain data concerning tax levies and the revenue derived there from. Capture Marf Who Escaped Columbus Jail on July 25 Columbus, Neb., Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) Albert G. Hild, one of the two prisoners who escaped from the county jail by cutting a hole in the wall with a table knife the night of July 25, has been captured. After gaining his freedom, Hild went to St. Paul, Neb., to visit reN atives. The officers there nabbed him and notified the sheriff of this county. Hild is held pending trial in district court. Lone Bandit Robs Filling Station of Cash and Checks Lincoln, 'Aug. 23. (Special). A lone bandit held up a filling station at Eleventh and J streets Sunday night and escaped with over $1,500 in cash, besides a large number of checks. The bandit forced the two attendants into a small room, locked the door and then rifled the cash register. Begin Paving at Chadron. Chadron. Neb., Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) Work has commenced at Chadron on paving district No. 1, consisting of 26 blocks. The curb ing and guttering is already com pleted on half the district and the bitulithic paving work has been started. Find Oil Indications. Chadron, Neb.. Aug. 23. (Spe cial.) J. H. Boxley, a geologist of the Union Oil company of Wyoming has announced the discovery of an oil dome northwest of Chadron eight miles. A standard rig will be sent here shortly to put down a test well. ' Flour Stolen From Mill York. Neb., Aug. 23. (Special.) Ten sticks of flour were stolen from th York Milling company Sunday night. Tracks in the mud indicate that a heavy motor car was backed .its to the door. OMAHA IS THIRD CITY IN STATE IN CENSUS GROWTH Scottsbluff and North Platte Lead Nebraska Cities in Population Gain. " Only two Nebraska cities of any size grew faster in the lasj 10 years than did Omaha. The census figures are now complete enough to indi cate the standing of the leading cities. While Omaha grew 54.4 per cent since 1910, Lincoln increased only 24.9. Scottsbluff, built up by the irrigated sugar beet industry, in creased 295.9 per cent; North Platte added 118.4 per cent The following table, compiled by the Chamber of Commerce publicity bureau, gives the population of the leading cities of Nebraska as an nounced to date: City. l2(l. Omaha 191.5IM Lincoln 64 184 Umnd Inland ... 13,960 Hastings 11.S4T North Piatt ... IMS tleatrto 664 Fremont 9.670 Norfolk I.S34 Kearney 7.702 Sonttsbluff . 1 -2 Nebraska City .. .179 Columbui (.410 1910. 124,09 43.973 10.3IS 9.338 4.793 ,:i6 8,71 6,015 S.S02 ' 1.748 5.48S . 5,014 In'ae. (4.4 24. 35.2 54.7 118.4 3.3 9.8 43.8 34.3 t!5. 14.4 7.S There will be some change in these figures when the population figures are announced of ork. Fair- bury and Plattsmouth. The popula tion of these cities in 1910 was 6,235, 5,294 and 4,287, respectively. Poles Rout Russians; Red Forces Bottled Up (Continued Irom Pag One.) Soldau and the regions occupied by the Russians in the north Vistula area between Thorn and Plock. Regroup Polish Army. The Polish forces have been re grouped into two armies for pursuit j ot ttie Kussians. tne northern army under General Haller and the center army under President Pilsudski. The latter's turning movement con tinues under the best conditions. The Poles have counted more than 35,000 prisoners and 200 cannon. General Haller's forces have reached the line from Mlawa to Przasnwsz and his right wing is moving toward Ostralenka, 22 miles southwest of Loinbza. General Pil sudski's army has reached the line from Ostrov to Briansk and is con tinuing the pursuit toward Lombza and Bialystok, its right wing having captured Brest-Litovsk. Reject Peace Terms. General Budenny with soviet cavalry around Lemberg is hasten ing north, seeking to strike the Pol ish rear, now 250 miles distant The foreign office announcement of Saturday night that Poland would not accept the Russian soviet terms presented to the Polish peace dele gation at Minsk refers to those sub mitted by M. Danishevsky, chair man of the soviet delegation at Thursday's session of the Russo Polish conference. The Polish dele gation's instructions were to insist upon an honorable and durable peace, and it was said at the foreign office today that no new instructions had been sent. 75,000 Bolsheviki Taken Prisoners by Polish Army By Ttia 4Mclute Preii. Paris, Aug. 23. The number of Russia soviet prisoners captured in the Polish counter offensive will amount to 75,000, according to War saw advices to the French foreign of fice today. Most of the 35,000 prisoners al ready counted were captured in the territory northwest of Warsaw, in cluding the Danzig corridor, .by the army under command of the French general, Billotte. This army now is most effective and is composed of German-trained men of Posen. Cut Off Retreat. Another Polish army under com mand of the French general, Henry, is striking toward Bialystok from Warsaw, cutting off the bolshevik retreat. A third Polish column under Presi dent Pilsudski already has passed Brest-Litovsk, cutting oil the bol shevik Galician army. The French foreign office an nounced today that General Wey gand now is chief of the Polish staff, with full power, and that most of the 1.000 French officers in Poland are actually participating in the fighting. Rout Is Complete. Polish peace delegates at Minsk have reported that the soviet repre sentatives are increasing in severity the published peace terms, demand ing now that 200,000 Polish workmen be given the arms the bolsheviki hope the Polish army will lay down. Soviet Russian armies which in vr.ded Poland and threatened to capture Warsaw appear to be on the eve of complete disaster, says the Warsaw correspondent of the Matin. He quotes General Wey gand as saying Poland will be the "grave of three-fourths of the bol shevik army." The correspondent declares the bolsheviki will soon be forced into a hurried general re treat, and that discipline has broken down in their ranks. Poles Warned Not to Advance Cross Pact Line Washington, Aug. 23. Poland has been cautioned by the American government not to permit her armies in their present counter offensive against the Russian bolsheviki to advance beyond the ethnographic boundaries of Poland. Informal representations on the subject, it was stated officially today, have been made to the P61ish gov ernment through the American charge at Warsaw. The attitude of the United States with respect to the invasion of Rus sian territory was made plain to Po land formally in the United States note on the Polish situation ad dressed to the Italian ambassador. Great Britain has joined with the United States in the endeavor to prevent a second violation by Po land of Russian territory, officials said, and unofficial advices already received contain assurance of the in tention of the Polish government to heed the advice of the United States and Great Britain. The English Universitv of Birm ingham has been given a fund to pro mote scientific researcn in relation to motorcycle Cox Charges Will Be Probed by Senators (Continued From Tag One.) ber of meetings before the presi dential conventions and the commit tee at its meeting here today to de termine what shall be done under the senate resolution instructed me to wire you. "1 note from the newspapers that at Wheeling, W. Va., in a speech a few days ago vou state, according to report of the K'ew York Times, that 'he charged that certain interests were banded together to buy the presidency and that millions had been contributed to the campaign fund of the republican party with sinister intent.' And agaiii 'their check books are ready and open and hundreds of thousands yes, mil lions have gone into the republi can treasury to buy an underhold on the government' And also that ' a powerful combination of interests is now attempting to buy govern ment control. 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