The Omaha Sunday Bee
VOL. L NO. 17.
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Cox Flying
False Flag
For Votes
Youthful Holdups Take Ten-Spot
From Lad on Errand for Father
Bandits Gang Buy and Enforce $emamjgt point of
Pocket Knife Arrested ShortV' -ward
by Detective
Division of
Navy Crime
OfficerSavs
Iowa Man
Is Accused
Of Slavery
Son Is Whipped, Cursed aud
Abused Like a Yellow Cur,
Neighbors Tell Prose-
Better Vision
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Ohio Progressives Keeall Edi
torial in His Newspaper
Referring to Roosevelt
As "Crawfish."
Too Shifty, Say Ohioans
BY CHARLES N. WHEELER.
Columbus, O., Oct. 10. (Special
Telegram) There may be apathy
in other states, but down in this old
buckeye commonwealth it is hot
enough to fry political eggs on al
most any four corners. The fore
cast, too, is a rising thermometer.
The setting is unique in national
campaigns. Ohio gets a president,
no matter how it goes in November.
Harding and Cox are natives of
Ohio. Both have lived there their
entire lives thus far. Their neigh
bors know all about them. These
neighbors, too, are of the gossipy
sort and scrappy. If you want a
complete answer to the question,
wnai Kinu ot a man is '-ox:
,iourney down to Ohio. There you
get light on the governor as he was
before he went on dress parade.
There you learn to know him as
his cronies v and neighbors know
liini, and you find out just how he
it judged by the men who have
fought for and against him in the
politics of the last 20 years.
Well, then,, what sort of a man
is Cox? from the Ohio standpoint?
Docs he measure to the great of
fice of presidency? Is he fully equip
ped to stand in the shoes of Cleve
land, McKinley and Roosevelt? Is
he big? Is he able? Is he a states
man? Does he comprehend the
chaotic condition of the whole
world? Can he think in a big way?
Can he act in a big way? What of
his native equipment? What of his
experience? Is there promise in his
public record? It he of presidential
size?
He Is Too Shifty.
Governor Cox has a pleasing per
sonality: he would not be roughly
criticised in Ohio, with cause, but
he is roughly criticised just now for
his general "lack of sincerity. His
intellectual honesty is impeached.
He is too nimble; too shifty; too
smart, say those Ohio people who
know his "past and watch his pres
ent course on the stump.
As the reports come back to the
home papers of how Governor Cox
seemed wet in wet states, dry in
dry states, jollying the progres
sive!! iu progressive states, and the
standpatters in standpatter states
even pausing to pay a tribute to
Brvan after having' roasted him to
i turn in his newspaper in the cam-
naizn of 1904. to many of these
back home who know the record as
It is made up, the governor begins
to, appear insincere iu most every
line ni contention.
-Perhaps the most striking of his
mistakes was his representing him
self as a progressive to the farmers
tf the northwest Back home they
cannot account for this except as an
impulse to say something to catch
the fancy of the crowd for the mo-
C ontinued On r Four. Column Two.)
Nebraska Packer's
Son Alleged to Have
Two Wives in Chicago
Chicago, Oct. 9. (Special Tele
gram.) Glen T. Aldrich, son Of C.
M. Aldrich. wealthy Nebraska City,
Neb., packing house owner, under
arrest in Portland, Ore., will face a
number of charges when he is re
turned here. A second wife has ap
peared, charging desertion and non
support. He must also face a charge
cf passing worthless checks.
The second woman to file charges
Alleges that Aldrich married her nine
tlavs after his first marriage. Ac
cording to reports received here,
Aldrich claims his first marriage
took place while he was drunk. Both
wives, however, are anxious to be
rid of him. . .
Aldrich was in the navy, but it is
i i it... . V, time nf hi arrest
e was dressed in a bogus naval ot-
mikcu mai i - - - .
ficer's uniform.
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Deny Secret Treaty
Made Against Mexico
Mexico City, Oct 9. Statements
that there had been discovered in
the archives of the Mexican foreign
office a copv of a secret treaty be
tween the United States. France and
Great Britain against Mexico, which
iave been attributed by newspapers,
hfre to Hilario Medina, were de
nied bv him last night.
Scnor Medina, who was under
secretary in charge of the foreign of
fice during former President Car
ranza's administration, declared he
had been informed by various dip
lomats during his visit to the United
States and Europe early this year
that such a treaty existed.
Rumors, which are so far impos
sible of confirmation, state that the
otr'.v document such as Senor Me
dina described was a forged copv of
an alleged treaty with which the
German government deceived Car
ranza during the war.
Dreadnaught of Pacific
Fleet Ordered to Chile
Fort Angles. Wash., Oct. 9. The
super-dreadnaught Mississippi of the
Pacific fleet, which has been at an
chor here for the last two days, de
parted under hurry orders for Val-
.1 ill.Vf.
Orders were eceived at noon
while officers of the ship were en
tertaining visitors. The visitors
were hurried off tlfe ship and with
in two hours the vessel was under
way. .The reason for the sudden
d.-part-.ire was not given out by Cap
tain Moffctt.
Merlin Seller, 8, was going from
liis home, 8.10 South Twenty-first
street, to the store to buy sonu
cigars for his father, Peter Seller,
who had given him a $10 bill.
At the comer of Seventeenth and
Leavenworth streets, four hoys su
rounded him. One held Merlin's
hands behind his back. Another
stuck the point of a pocket knife
against Merlin's ribs and whispered:
"Don't holler or I'll kill you."
"Where's yer money?" demanded
the third, sticking a hand into vari
ous of Merlin's pockets.
The fourth boy kept a lookout for
grown-ups who might interfere with
the hold-up.
The young bandits soon found the
$10 bill and ran away.
Merlin began to cry. He walked
up the street toward his home, won
dering what he would tell his father.
He hadn't gone far when, on turn
Lloyd George
Defends Acts of
The Irish Police
Premier Says Officers Do Not
Shoot or Bomb Houses
Without Proper
"Provocation.
Carnarvon, Wales, Oct. 9. Pre
mier Lloyd George, in a speech re
ferred to rcprisils in Ireland. He
argued that the police do not 'bomb
houses and shoot men without pro
vocation. The premier said 2J8 po
licemen had been shot, of whom 109
had been killed, and the patience of
the police had piven way with the
result that they hit back.
He declared that if, as was con
tended, there was war in Ireland,
then the war must be waged on both
sides. But when policemen were shot
in the back by Sinn Feiners. he said,
it was not war, but murder.
He asked whether, under the ter
rorism which made it impossible to
obtain evidence, it was any wonder
the police shot the murderers.
"We must therefore restore order
by stern methods," he asserted, "be
cause we cannot permit the country
to fall into complete anarchy."
He said the , murderous gangs
which now tyrannize Ireland must
be broken and the government is
forced to compete with the treacher
ous tactics of the Sinn Feiners.
..... Fears Home Rule.
The premier said Arthur Griffith,
founder, of the Sinn Fein, whom he
characterized "a very able and dis
tinguished Irishman," iu a recent
newspaper statement had ''showed
great concern at the prospect of
what he thought was going to be an
attack on his own lite. 1 do not be
lieve there is any attack being con
certed against his life, hut I never
saw a word from Arthur Griffith
displaying any indignation at the
killing of 109 policemen."
Mr. Lloyd George said that if
Ireland were given complete domin
ion home rule, it would mean
she could have conscription and
then England with Jier army of
100,000 might be confronted with an
Irish army of half a millon. He
contended dominion home rule for
Ireland meant conscription for Eng
land. The government, he said
would resist any attempt to give
Ireland a separate navy and army.
The premier charged Ireland had
assisted the 'German submarine and
declared that, although little had
been said about it, Ireland was
Great Britain's enemy during the
war.
Favors Present Bill.
No one wanted to manage Ire
land's domestic affairs, he said. The
present home rule bill, he added,
would have giveji Ireland every
possible facility to manage her own
domestic affairs.
Mr. Lloyd George asserted that
in 1917 and 1918 the Irish were con
spiring in connection with German
submarine operations and that there
were documents discovered on men
arrested in 1918 showing they were
prepared within two months of the
German offensive (of which they
kenw) to raise a huge force in Ire
land "to stab Brcat Britain in the
back when she was engaged in a
life and death struggle for world
freedom."
Indiana Politician
Is Sentenced to Pen
Goshen. Ind.. Oct. 9. The Rev.
A. H. Menaugh, 60 years old, a min
ister in active work here, who is also
an assessor in Elkhart township,
prominent democratic politician, an-
ti-saloon leader and a real estate
dealer and insurance agent, was
sentenced to the state penitentiary at
Michigan City, Ind., to from one
to five years after he had pleaded
guilty in circuit ccurt to a charge of
embezzlement here Friday.
Menaugh confessed he had embez
zled $12,200 from an estate partition
suit in which he was commissioner,
a guardianship over which he had
been appointed and an estate of
which he was executor.
Menaugh explained that he had
lost the money in operation on the
Denver board of trade and that he
was unable to replace it.
Railway Employes Watch
Time Made bv Mail Pilots
North Platte. Neb." Oct. 9. (Spe
cial.) Station agents and dispatch
ers along the route of the Union
Pacific are taking keen interest in
the air mail service. The time made
by the pilots between different
points is carefully noted from the
time the pilots leave one terminal
until they reach the other. Accord
ing to the watchers one pilot makes
the trip from Chevenne to Pine
Bluffs. 42 miles in 17 minutes
i
ing .ie found the boys in !
th 't tv' b'f? men.
TrV'..icii were City Detectives
MuncVand Slczeweski, who had
been searching for some boys who
had stolen bicycles.
"Those are the boys that took mv
$10." yelled the victim. He told
his story to the detectives who then
took the whole party to the police
station.
Thev gave their names as follows:
Walter Moore, 11, 2019 Leavenworth
street; Nick Postillo, 10. 1004.
South Twentieth street; Fred
O'Grady, 1.?, and Gilbert O'Grady.
9, 812 South Seventeenth street.
Merlin said he identified Nick Pos
tillo andi Gilbert O'Grady as two
of his assailants. He said Donald
Moore, a brother of Walter, helped
to rob him. Donald escaped.
The boys were turned over to the
juvenile authorities.
Cleveland Evens
Up World Series
tWith Brooklyn
Indians Take First Game on
Home Grounds by 5 to 1
Score; Robins Use
Four Pitchers.
By I. E. SANBORN.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bta Leased Wire.
Cleveland. O.. Oct. 9. Cleveland
evened up the world's series of 1920
by trimming Brooklyn today, 5 to
1, in the fourth game of the set. be
fore 27,000 fans. It was the first
game in which Cleveland's sluggers
have shown their real strength. They
batted four Brooklyn pitchers hard
all the way harder than their 12
hits indicate, for they were robbed
of several by spectacular defense on
Brooklyn's part.
Stanley Coveleskie came back and
pitched another good game against
the Robins, holding them to five hits
and one tally. The lone run scored
off Coveleskie came in the fourth
after the Indians had the game won.
Coveleskie was supported in great
style, tw fast double plays being
made behind hiiu. Only in one
round, the sixth, did the Indian de
fense wobble, and then it was only
for a moment and nothing cam? out
of it.
Myers Fielding Feature.
The fielding feature was con
tributed by Hy Myers, which robled
Evans of a sure hit In the fourth.
Myers apparently extended himself
for he looked dazed when he came
up with the ball, after turning a
complete somersault.
Speaker moved his Indians dur
ing the game by switching his bat
ting order as fast as Robinson
changed pitchers. Speaker finally
put John Gladstone Graney in the
seventh, and vthe rooters cheered the
veteran ottifielder loudjfy when he
came to bat.
Cleveland -team warmed up to the
world series with a vengeance. The
whole city turned out early in the
morning and started a mass attack
on the ball park to obtain the thou
sans of general admission seats
which were not sold out in ad
vance. And the weather man
warmed up to the occasion by pro
viding conditions of midsummer
variety.
Stands Packed.
Two hours befoc time to start
play the temporary stands were
packed to the melting point, with a
hot sun beating down upon them.
The reserved seat holders were more
leisurely in their trips to the park,
but by the time the batting practice
was finished the stands were jammed.
Just as the Indians started on the
field for their warming up stunts a
delegation of rooters interrupted the
doings with a large floral piece,
which was presented to Manager
Speaker in behalf of the sixth city,
while camera squads worked hard.
Then a maroon-colored sedan car of
a popular make was driven to the
home plate and presented to "Doc"
Johnston.
Manager Robinson picked Leon
Cadore for the slab job, although he
worked one round of the opening
game last Tuesday. Boss Speaker
sent Stanley Coveleskie in to oppose
Cadore, as everybody expected he
would, because Cleveland needed the
game to even the series.
Covey disposed of thn.e Robins
easijy in the first half on a pair of
soft-boiled grounders and a pop fly.
Two Runs in First.
The Indians attacked Cadore vi
ciously and scored two earned runs
otf him in their first hall". Jamicson
slammed a hot one back at Cadore,
who stabbed it, luckily. Wambs
ganss worked a free passage to first.
Speaker drove a single over second
and Smith followed with a safety to
center, on which Wainby rode home
and Tris went to third. Gardner hit
a long fly to Myers, on which
(Continued on Pace Two. Column Two.)
Japanese to Reinforce
Troops On Korean Border
Tokio, Oct. 9. (By The As
sociated Press.) Decision to rein
force Japanese contingents on the
Chinese side of the Korean frontier
was reached during a meeting of the
cabinet today. One battalion will
be sent from Korea and more will
go if it is deemed necessary, while
the depleted Korean garrison will
be filled up with troops returning
from Siberia. Japan will notify
China and other foreign powers of
the reasons for the steps she is tak
ing, it is announced.
Fortj Japanese soldiers who have
been surrounded by bandits near
Hunchnn, a Manchurian town near
the Korean frontier, have repulsed
tiie enemy with heavy losses say
advices from Seoul.
Man High Up in Rank Scores
Daniels for Dividing Fight
ing Ships Between At
lantic and Pacific.
Charges Political Move
By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
C'hlrag-o Tribune-Omaha Hee laed Wire.
Washington, Oct. 9. "I consider
it a paramount duty to expose the
political misuse of the American
navy by Secretary Daniels," said a
high official of the navy in' criticising
the fact and strategy of dividing the
navy into Atlantic and Facific units.
"Many of us firmly believe that
the navy was divided against the
advice of strategists and the general
board of the navy and the war col
lege, and a separate unit stationed in
the Pacific solely for the purpose of
aiding in carrying the Pacific states
in the coming election for the demo
cratic party. The navy is disrupted,
divided and disgusted."
This officer, who reflects the views
of many of his colleagues in the
navy, like many men in the govern
ment service, "did not feel that he
could publish his identity in connec
tion with his ideas on the subject of
fleet division at this time, when the
wisdom of the nation's course in this
particular is being discussed because
of Japan's restlessness, brought
about by California's determination
to strengthen her guardianship of
land against alien ownership. But
he was willing to express his opin
ions, formed after years of practical
experience and study of naval opera
tion and the strategy of war.
Says Division "Crime."
"The division of the American
fleet Avas a naval crime," he con
tinued. "Today both fleets are still
half-manned and unready for war.
Secretary Daniels has kept a large
number of old ships in commission,
wasting men and money, simply to
make a big show. This is in strong
contrast to the English naval policy.
England put all old ships and many
powerful second line battleships out
of commission; in fact, scrapped
many of them, in order to economize
and to use all her personnel on the
most modern and forceful ships.
"This is what we! should have
done after the armistice. We should
have used all our available men to
man one well-balanced fleet, strong
enough to meet thefapanese fleet,
and this force should have been
ready for instant war all the time,
not some of the time, and this fleet
should have been in the Pacific.
Both Fleets Undermanned.
"But, as it is, both our fleets are
undermanned. We are about 35.000
men short. Skilled tnen have left
the service, and few have rc-enlisttd.
The two 'fake' fleets are trying to
make little cruises to keep up a show
of activity, but they cannot and do
not dafe "to engage in any serious
maneuvers.
"Both of our fleets are now abso
lutely unready for war. Some of
our newest destroyers are laid up
alongside the docks, both iu the At
lantic and the Pacific, for lack of
men. There is only one flotilla of
about 30 destroyers in a condition
called 'operative' in the Atlantic, and
even these arc not ready for war.
Truly, the navy is in a perilous con
dition. Fortunately, no naljon, ex
cept possibly Japan,, can or would go
to war with the United States, and
so. just now, we are comparatively
safe in our helplessness.
"But the great navy of our nation
should not be left to the mercy oi
personal or political caprice. A navy
exists for more dignified and vitally
important duty. Can we imagine
that the people of any other first
class power would justify a policy
which invited national disaster by
such a violation of naval strategy as
the division of our fleet constitutes?"
May Offer Emergency
Ships to Foreigners
Washington, Oct. 9. Sale of the
government's cmergerncy-built fleet
of wooden ships to roreign buyers
was under consideration at the ship
ping board, but definite action prob
ably will be deferred, officials said,
until President Wilson appoints the
new board created by the merchant
marine act.
Built at an estimated cost of $170
a deadweight ton, three attempts to
sell the ships to American buyers
have resulted in only four offers
the highest at about $12 a ton for
the fleet of 285 steamers, aggregating
more than 1,000,000 deadweight tons.
The only alternative left, it was as
serted, was to dispose of them
abroad.
Sale to foreign buyers would re- ;
quire, under the act, approval of five
members of the shipping board. j
Colorado Senator Files
On Nationalist Ticket j
Denver. Oct. 9. U niter. States i
Senator Charles S. Thomas filed with
the secretary of state his acceptance
of the nomination for senator on
the so-called nationalist ticket He
was nominated last Saturday by pe
tition containing the names yt 300
electors. Thomas, a democrat, did
not enter the democratic primaries
last month. He has opposed the
league of nations.
Steps Taken to Expedite
Canadian Coal Shipments
Ottawa, Ont., Oct .9. To expe
dite coal movement on Canadian
tail ways, the board of railway com
missioners isued an order empow
ering fuel administrator's to seize
contents of cars containing coal and
coke not unloaded eight days alter
I arrival. The luel is to be ottered
i for sale to municipalities or dealers. J
State's Witness
Saw Gilinsky Kill
Deputy, He Says
Omaha Gunman Fired Two
Shots That Killed Officer
After Bank Robbery,
Man Testifies.
Jackson, Mich., Oct. 9. (Special
Telegram.) That the shot which
killed Under-Sheriff Harry Worden
was fired from a gun in the hands
of Dave Gilinsky, Omaha gunman,
was the feature of the testimony to
day of Henry Hague, star witness
for the state in prosecution oi Wil
liam Harris, first to be, tried of the
bandit gang, who were charged witb
the robbery of the Grass Lake
bank, July 29, and the killing of the
officer in a gun battle which fol
lowed. The witness described told of seei
ing Deputy Sheriff Ycrl Kutt locked
in a struggle with the bandit, Har
ris, and seeing Dave Gilinsky fire
two shots at Worden, who .was
struggling with Walter Wilson.
Other witnesses testified to the
finding of the gun, claimed by the
prosecutor to be the property of
Gilinsky, at a pointed road near
where he was captured and to the
finding of two empty chambers in
the weapon.
Wanderer Delays
Picking of Jurors
By Demands for Bath
tlilrago Tribune-Oiiinliii lieo leaned Wire.
Chicago, Oct. 9. Carl Wanderer,
confessed murderer of his wife, and
an unidentified man, staged what
may be part of his insanity defense,
w hen he sprang up in the midst of a
lengthy argument over prospective
jurors and demanded to know why
he is not giveji time to take a bath.
One of his attorneys tried to quiet
him, but Wanderer shouted: "It's all
your fault. Every hour I'm awake,
I'm dragged up here in court. I'm
never given time for other things."
"I'm sick and tired of this," Wan
derer contiiuied. "It's two' weeks
now since I've had a chance to tak"
a bath. They hold court so late 1
alwavs miss out at the iail."
Where to Find
Big Features of
THE SUNDAY BEE
Fort Crook Again an Army
Headquarters Part4, Page 1.
Talks With Theodore Roose
veltPart 4, Page 1.
Ed Streeter's Letters Part 2,
Page 11.
Montague In Prose Part 2,
Page 11.
Sports Part 2, Pages 1 and 2.
Women's News and Gossip
Part 2.
Boys and Girls Part 4, Page 3.
Editorial Part 4, Page 4.
Amusements Part 4, Pages S
and 7.
Gibson Cartoon art 4, Page 8.
Ben Baker in Caricature Part
4, Page 8.
What to Know About Building
a Home Part 2, Page 3.
Heart Secrets of a Fortune
Teller Part 1, Page 11.
Police Take Man
After Gun Battle
Alleged Auto Thief Foiled
In
Attempt to Elude
Officers.
Joe Redmond of Havelock, Neb.,
was arrested at Fourteenth street
and Capitol avenue by Policeman
Nelson Saturday night after a run
ning gun battle in which several
shots were fired at the fleeing njan
by Captain C H. Moore, state agent
of Lincoln.
Redmond was first seen at Six
teenth and Dodge streets by Captain
Moore ind his assistant, A. J. Coska,
who said they lecognized the maa
as one of two who stole an automo
bile owned by J. W. DeDikcs of
Cheney, Neb., at Lincoln Thursday
night. The car was recovered the
same night and Elmer Westgate ar
rested, while Redmond was said to
have made his escape.
When Redmond saw the two of
ficers last night, he took to his heels
after hitting Coska in the head with
a brick, according to Moore. The
captain pursued the man, firing sev
eral shots at him, none of which
took effect. At Fourteenth street
and Capitol avenue, Redmond's
escape was cut off by Patrolman
Nelson, who pursuaded the fugitive
to stop at the point of a revolver.
Diaz Will Be Put on
Vessel Europe Bound
Vera Cruz, Oct. 9. Felix Diaz,
nephew of former President Porfirio
Diaz, who has bc.-n under virtual ar
rest here since Wednesday, accom
panied by an agent of the Mexican
War department, will be placed on
the French steamer Flandre, plying
between Mexican and European
ports, next Monday, it is announced.
He has declined to sign passports
and continues to maintain a passive
resistance against deportation.
Government officials have offered
him approximately $10,000 to defray
expenses of his voyage, but he has
refused it.
He asserts he is innocent of
crimes charged against him iu con
nection with the assassination of
former President Francisco Madero.
State of Vera Cruz Shaken
By Earth Tremors Friday
Yera Cruz, Oct. 9. (By The As
sociated Press.) Northwestern sec
tions of the Stat'.' of Vera Cruz were
shaken severely by an earthquake
at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning.
The regions of Cordoba, Jalapa, Te
ocelo, Cosautlan and the entire dis
trict which was visited by the earth
quake disaster of last January felt
the full strength of the shock.
No casualties had been reported,
but property damage was said to be
heavy.
Fresno Evening Paper
Buys Morning Publication
Fresno, Cal., Oct. 9. The Fresno
Herald, an afternoon daily news
paper, announced the purchase of
the Fresno Republican, a morning
newspaper, from Chester If. Kowell.
George A. Osborn and Chase S.
Osborn, jr., of the Herald conduct
ed the negotiations for the purchase
of the Republican.
MacSwincy Exhausted.
London. Oct. 9. The afternoon
bulletin of the Irish Self-Dterniina-tion
league said that Mayor Mac
Sttiney's condition was worse and
that ho was weaker and more ex
hausted than lor tome lime.
Kirk Returns to
Tailor Shop in
Lincoln Prison
Confident of Early Release,
But Denies Any Promise of
Relief for Returning
To Nebraska.
Lincoln, Oct. 9. (Speciai.) Back
In his old home at the penitentiary
from whfch he took a leave of ab
sence on furlough last Decepiber,
Byrl C. Kirk is again at work on
his old job in the tailor shop feeling
confident that he will not have to
serve out his sentence.
Kirk stated this morning that he
was not promised anything if he
would return to Nebraska, and was
not expecting early release. He
said he was innocent of the charge
of murder, that he was convicted on
circumstantial evidence only, but
further than that would not discuss
his future plans. He said he could
have carried the matter of his re
turn to this state into the courts and
at least have delayed coming back,
bu had no money to- fight th; req
uisition and what little he did have
he desired his wife to have.
Kirk said that he had never talked
over the matter of his release with
either Governor McKelvie or Acting
Governor Bushcc. He could not dis
tinctly remember just how he got in
touch with attorneys in the case, but
it was his recollection that his wife
! looked after the case, and he was
sure that they had been paid only
$250 for their work.
He said that he did not know of
the furlough until the Saturday night
previous to his release and knew
nothing whatever regarding it, only
that he was released, went to Lin
coln and bought a ticket for Des
Moines.
Kirk said that later he might be
able to talk more about the case,
but just now he was rather dazed
and did not care to discuss the mat
ter while in that condition.
Freight Traill Every 13
,r . i
Minutes at Medicine JOOWi
Medicine Bow, Wyo., Oct. 9. j
(Special.) Union Pacific employes
in western Nebraska and Wyoming
are pointing with pride to the large
volume of business being handled
by their company. Upon being
asked for a report of the business
at his station, the operator here re
ported that for 12 hours a freight
train averaged passing his station
every 141-2 minutes. During their
leisure time the railroad men say
they allow passenger trains to run.
King Alexander, Bit by Pet
Monkey, Suffers Much Pain
Athens, Oct. 9. King Alexander,
who has been suffering for several
days from a monkey bite sustained
when he went to the rescue of his
pet dog, who was being worsted in
a battle with the monkey, passed a
bad night last night. He had two
attacks of fever, it is stated, and in
testinal complications and jaundice
are declared to have set in.
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! Lad's Mother in Grave
Creston, Li.. Oct. 9. (Special
Telegram.) The virtual slavery in
which llerold Winkler, said to be 21.
is alleged to be held bv his step
father, Richard E. Winkler, a
farmer living six miles northwest
of Creston, and stories of years ol
inhuman cruelty to the boy, have
aroused the entire countryside here
and have resulted in court action to
take the stepson away from the man
;md have a guardian appointed for
him. Young Winkler is said to be
sub-normal nicntally.
This aftemon a court hearing iva.t
begun on a petition to free the youui
from his alleged bondage and term
inate the terrible mistreatment said
to have been inflicted on him. The
hearing before the court and two
directors lasted until 5:30. An or
der was issued after the hearing fo.
the appointment of a guardian. The.
boy was found mentally weak.
Stories of violent attacks on the
youth were told by 11 witnesses
summoned to testify in the cas.
They said that he had been abused
by his father as a small boy and that
of recent years has been handled
"like a dog," beaten with straps,
clubs and the clenched fists of his
stepfather.
Cringes Like a Dog.
"The boy cringes like a cur dor
before the whip of a cruel master
when his stepfa'her is around," said
one man. "I have seen him jump
around on all fours, like a dog, when
working for his father, trying to
do the many things he commands
him to do."
The boy's mother died when he
was 5 years old, according to a
neighbor. I
"The boy's father died when he
was a baby and his mother married
when he was 3 years old. She lasted
just two years as Winkler's wife.
She died when the boy was 5 years,
old."
After the mother's death the boy
was mistreated continuously, neigh
bors said. He, has not been allowed
to associate with neighbors except
under the eyes of his stepfather, it
is said. -"'v
Cursed and Abused.
Winkler refuses to surrender the
youth, it is said, because he claims
that he ha3 adopted bim. !
The toy has been forced to do a
man's work ever since he reached his
'teens, it is alleged. At the present
time he is loaded with duties and
cursed and abused while he is per
forming his labors, it is charged.
"The boy has been grossly mis
treated, according to witnesses," said
E- L. Carroll, county attorney of
L'niou county, who is prosecuting the
case. "He is below the average
mentally and hasn't enough will
power to break away from hi fa
ther. Winkler never ha paid the
boy any wages and holds him in a
state of terror, I am told."
Mrs. Grace Elaus. who was doing
some sewing at the house of a
neighbor of Winkler, saw the step
father abusing the boy, she said, and
swore out the complaint against
him.
Woman Pushes Case.
"Neighbors of Winkler had been
resentful at the treatment accorded
the boy for a long time," said County
Attorney Carroll, "but you know
how those things arc. Nobody
wanted to take the initiative and it
ran along until Mrs. Blaus took the
bull by the horns and filed the com
plaint. "The slate legislature passed a law
at the last session allowing the ap
pointment of guardians in classes of
cases into which this falls. It is
through this statute that we hope to
free the boy and have a guardian to
look after his interests.
Winkler has employed the law
firm of Higbce & McEniry to de
fend him. Eleven witnesses have
been summoned.
Forged Permits for
Whisky Uncovered
! Peoria. Oct. 9. Attempts to uass
forged whisky permits on the Corn-
ing, Clark Brothers and Woolnet
distilleries of this city were discov-
ercd todav by Ralph Stone, pro-
hibition director of Illinois, whe
made an inspection here todav.
The Corning plant had ons
forgery calling for 1,000 cases oi
liquor and the others had forget
permits calling for smaller shifv
ments. No whisky had been de
livcred on the permits.
Offer of $3,000,000 for
Leviathan s Rejected
Washington, Oct. 9. Formal re
jection of the offer of $3,U00,0OC
for the giant liner Leviathan mad
last May by the France and Canada
Steamship Co., was announced by
Chairman Benson of the shipping
board. The company's offer wa?
conditioned upon obtaining a loan
of $6,000,000 from the board for re
conditioning the vessel. The boar 6
still has the disposal of the big ..hfp
under consideration, the chairman
said.
Polos Take Oshnuanv
Warsaw. Oct. 9. (By The A,
sociated Press.) Last night's statf
mcnt from the Polish war office af
nounces a further advance by tl
Polish forces in the north. It make
no mention of an armistice with the
bolsheviki. The statement reports
the capture by the Poles of Osh
niiany and the railway station ot
Soly, rutting comniuiiicatioii be
tween Yilna and Molodechno. north-
'.UsTiwest of Mill,,