THK BRKj OMAHA' THURSDAY. KEKRUA.RV 24. .1921.
Senate Passes
A gr iy u 1 1 u r n 1
Supply Measure
Appropriation Hill Carries
$9,00000.ito0 in Excess of
Last Year Sent to House
For Conference.
Washington. Feb. .'3. Over a
running fire iku senators who
resetileJ detailed objections to l$
proposals for increased expenditures,
the senate tonight passed the agricul
tural appropriation bill carrying ap
proximately $4I,CU0,000 for the year
heuinniiiK uet June. This is nearly
SQJHHl.OOU in excess of appropriations
. lor the current year and almost
$o,Q(Hl,000 in excess of amounts al
lowed by the house to which it vas
rut for conference.
"1 nin . going to ask the next
f-ccretary of agriculture to go
through this bill , and tajie out of it,
the appropriation's that allow work
he duplicated hv two and sometimes
jiiow departments," declared Senator
iifoot, republican Utah, who at
tacked numerous sums allowed.
"They ought to be cut out before
another estimate comes to congress.
This must stop, congress lias got
to show the departments of this
k'overtinient' that two and three of
, tin in cannot; ak public money to
be spent for doing the same kind
of WQi"k, over again. One trouble
is that different bureaus aremabled
to go before different congressional
committees and duplicate the ap
priatioir.j in different hi 1
Larger items added by the senate
included $100,000 lor weather bureau
forecasts tor aviation; '-$1 14,000 for
road materials investigations' and
S100.000 for investigation of foreign
1 '"market's for farm products. Senator
' Thomas, democrat, Colorado, check;
r,, i'mrBii I f.t In t- nitnnr : i i 1 1 1 li nfi
on points of order, but the senate
added heavily to amounts recom
mended by its own agriculture com
mittee. One item allowed by the
committee, $20,000 to ansfst in util
ization of food fishes, was stricken
, out.
.Witness Declares Woman
i , Turned Pistol on Pastor
Sandwich, Ontario, Icb. 23.
Handclapping' broke the" quietness
vof the court room here today at the
trial of Rev. J. O. L. Spracklin,
liquor license inspector, charged
w ith manslaughter in , corjnection
with the kilting of JBcvcrly Trimble,
:i hotel keeper, during a ljuor raid,
last Novchiber. The demonstration
occurred when Jack Bannan testi
fied that he saw a pistol in Mrs.
Truniblc's hand immediately after
Ulc shooting. tlri. TVumble testi
fied ycstcrllay that her husband was
unarmed when fhot and, 'that a po
liceman , who v later searched the
roojn found no trace of a weapon.
Woman in Long Romance
. Awarded $23,000 by. Jury
w Memphis, Tenti Feb. 23. Miss
- "Mollie Quirck of Milwaukee who,
ui Support of her claim to a $400,000
share in the estate of the Patrick
i-.ii-i .w- i i .....
juaner, .wciiiihij wuu junnn. vi-
fiv tuned a courtship extcnuing over
twes : decades and tftcd an alleged
agreement that she was to inherit
the-bulk of his fortune, wsfs "awarded
$25,000 bv a jucy in federal district
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Tn. .....il lti-.ii Ita nL ni ni
Tlir" firm of I
MacDoirgall Brothers, stock brokers
. miirlf nsipninrnts in. favor of cred- k
itor&, it was announced from the
flooV of the local stock exchange,
The manager ot the hrnv'.W. A.
Holland, was recently shot and
killed here b Mat.' R. 'W. Griffith,
who later gave liimself up -to the
police. Majpr Griffith, prominent
socially, was alleged to have had a
grievance aeainst Holland, through
whose firm he had lost heavily.
Erie Rail Heads
Deny Breaking
Riding of Board
Sharp (jputeiitioii Regarding
Powers'" of j Labor Body
Marks Hearing of Wage
Reduction. ,
Chicago Fcli.' 24. bharp conten
tion over powers of the. railroad la
bor board and provisions ot the
transportation act marked the, hear
ing of cnfploycs of the Eire rail
road against their employer today.
The employes' petition charged vio
lation' of the" act and of decisions of
the labor board. Representatives ot
the road denied both. The case re
sulted from an order, effective Fcb-
hfreducing gammon labor
wages and deducting one day's pay cisions the employes, "would , on
a week from the salaries of all cm- j deavor to find a way to make the
ployes paid on a monthly basis. Llric pay." -
Most of the argument i centered ... 1 Z ". . .
bout whether a ruling of the board io Annual - Appraisal
ruarv
February 12", ordering the road to
make no change in 'Wage rates, was
compulsoj-y oil the road, which had
put a reduction into eifect. it was
conceded by the rail 'representatives
that the intent of the order was to
maintain the ra'.es of the wage award
of luly. The road denied, however,
violation of the law in changing
those rates.' Rusiness-..deprcssioii and
revenues below operating expenses
were given as the reaon for the re
duction order.
Samuel Adaius, attorney for the
road, denied the power of the board
to continue the rates of its decision
ot July until a hearing had been held
and a decision reached. This denial
of authority in j the hands' of the
board Brought from U; A. Bratton,
attorney for the employes, a denun
ciation of. tfie. railroad's stand and
the declaration that iNherc was no
authority to enforce the. board's dc-
J.incoln, , Feb. 23. (Special.)
A'stauding house committee today
killed a bill providing for annual
rcappraiseincnt of school lands 'for
leasing jptlrposes. i
Sure
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Hot water
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Summer Camp Death Mystery
Is Solved by Rupert Hughes
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Readers Follow With Excited Interest Noted Author's
Development of Tragic Case of-Clelia Blakeney,
Found Frozen in Lake at Mountain Resort; Tells
Dramatic Story in Great Novel, , Beauty," Now Run
ning in The Red Book Magazine.
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The deep eculuion of the Adirondack freU i giving up one of
the atrangett and roost thrillingly tragic ttorieaof the century. Clelia
Blakeney, society favorite and amateur actress of exceptional talent,
celebrated for beauty and a native wit, is dead in singular and puzzling
circumstances. The most painstaking search long failed to reveal trace
of any clue to the cause of death. .j
Miss Blakeney' dead body, clad only in a silk night dress, and her
hair loose and flying as if she were 'running in the wind,. was found in
all its natural loveliness imprisoned in the ice close by the shore of oVe
of much-frequented mountain lakes.
yiiig beneath the frbzen surface
of the lake, her face turned to the
fjvy and her hands folded upon her
bosom, with only a small wound
upon her brow tie suggest possible
murder, the girl's body was discov
ered by a rich yount? 'Texas mine
oyner named Larrick, one of the
guests at the camp,
Blizzard Hinders Search.
Between the time of Miss Blakc-
ney's strange disappearance and the
syirtling discovery of her body loc!
ed in the .ice. ;a blizzard rageJ
through the mountains. A despdrate
search was begun for her as soon
as she was missed, but the -fierceness
of the winter storm greatly
hindered th quest of those who beat
the mountain trails and on snow
shoes carried the search to other
camps.
The Texan, Larrick, nearly lost his
llife in struggling through the blind
ing blizzard and was himself saved
from being lost by Miss Nancy
Rleet of Xew York, who is famous
as an i outdoors-woman. After re
floated failure to find any trace of
-Miss Bntkeliey in the mountains,
Larrick turned to the lake. At the
rst visit it yielded no trace of the
missing girl. -
Visiting it again at a point where
the wind, sweeping around point
of land, had swept away the snow
near the shore, he came unexpected
ly upon the ghostly vision of the
massing girL Days had passed since ,
her disappcaratice, and her slender
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Eut Lrrick was genuinely
alarmed, nd he was the only one
in the party 1who'1 might have been
expected to repress fear, Before
he had discovered a cinnabar pocket
and large wealth, he had been a
cowboy and is famed among his "new'
eastern friends as a man of daunt
less coura'ge." In a Texas saloon he
qnce walked up to the muzzle of a
gun drawn by a drunken ajid mur
derous plainsman and in coolly per
forming this feat of bravery he had
probably -saved the life of 'Nofry
Frcwin and certainly had made the
latter his much indebted friend. Out
of this eaisode came Larrick's in
troduction into the rich and some
wliat fast set of which Clelia Blak
eney was the brightest ornament.
Guests Flee Death Scene.
When , the wind began rising at
iic camp, forewarning the party of
the storm, all vho" were detcrmicd 1
to return to Xcw'York hurried away
in the motors. Larrick and Mrs.
Koantrec, remaining behind, nerv
ously -continued the search for Miss
Blakeney. They battered down the
doors of locked closets, sent guides
hurtying to distant camps, searched
all buildings, explored the woods
.round about the camp, and raced
along the trails calling the name of
the missing girl.
There vs no lessening of eiforf
after the. sUirm came down in its
fulkfury, b-ut it soon rendered hope
less every attempt to trace the
girl s movements, bhe had diap
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clear ice as a gem in its matrix
. y . Body in Ice Casket.
Finding it impossible to chop"" the
ice away from the figure which 'it
imprisoned, a huge, oblong block
was sawed from the lake's surface
hand conveyed to the camp, where it
was left in the low temperature out
doors. Leaning against the1 rough
walls of a huge log cabin, this
ghastly mepicnto of a myitcYjous
tragedy presented a picture p'rob
a'toly never before seen.
The dead girl appeared as on,e
asleep in a glass cage. Her silken
nightgowtf seemed to - ripple about
her figure, clearly outlining itfin all
its frail beauty, yet never suggest
ing that it -bore even aJ feather
weight's pressure frdTn the encasing
.crystal. Through the ice, little
flawed and therefore well nfgh per
fectly transparent, the small wound
bii the forehead could be examined,
bur it told nothing except to the
speculative mind.
" The snow-filled trails and the
banked, and drifted premises have
yielded not the faintest hint as to
what manner, foul or accidental.
Miss Blakeney came to hr death.
It is accepted as fact thaf she died
on the first day of the storm, prob
ably early in 'the morning before , it
came roaring down out of the north
to blanket the mountains. "
Not geen on Tragic Day.
Miss Blakencv was no seen
the day of her disappearance, so far
as is 'known, bhe was one of a
numerous' party which, b'ecause of
Hhe mild winter, had lingered at
the remote camr long past the. usual
time of departure for New V'ork and
its urban gayetv. This party ;n
cluded, besides Miss Blakeney, Mrs.
Roantree, the owner of th( camp
and hostess of the party;, Larrick,
Roy Coykendall, whose domestic
unhappiness has long been a topic
of sympathetic gossip with his set;
Burnley, the painter of -whiter land
scapes; Randel the sculptor. Miss
Fleet. Norry Frcwin, who was r
sp.onsible for the presence of Lar
rick.and the various-guides, chatif-,
feurs and other servants usually
found in T pretentious mountain
caaip. '
All there, except two or tht'ee em
ployes who were to be left to care
lor the camp, were prepared to re- i
turn to Xew York on the day of
Miss Blakeney's disappearance, w ord
having arived of the approaching
storm. The camp, 15 miles from a
railroad, is easily accessible in the
summer and autumn, but when
heavy snow falls it is cut off from
civilizatiou.
Maid Discovers Disappearance.
'On thev morning of the intended
breaking up of camp Miss' Blake
ney's maid carried breakfast to the
noted beauty's room. It was then
that, He disappearance was discov
ered. Miss Blakeney's clothes were
in the room, just as -she hid left
them, the miid said, ,whn she un
dressed the night before. ' Her pet
dog was in his usual place sleeping
on a silk shirt.
A', wide-open window, through
which lilcw a, winter wind to chill
the room beyond comfort for sleep
ing, represented tje room's only
rhfinge from its usual condition.
However, it did riot at first cause
anv alarm. '
W'ord of -Miss Blakeney's disap
pearance soon spread to all the cab
ins occupied by 4ie guests. Few df
them took - her absence seriously.
They knew her to be of ahiischiev
ous nature and thought she was hid
ing for the sensation she might be
ab to make at a time when all
were . hurrying to get to the rail
road before the storm could block
the "way. x
Some knew she preferred staying
in the camp to returning to Hie city,
and expressed the belief she hacH
concealed herself to compel the
xrthers to go on without Iter. She
Avould not be entirely without com
panionship, pleasant companionship,
were ,she to remain behind.
Larrick Man of Courage. v
Others explained Miss Blakeney s
absence by presuming that, for a
prank, she had driven to the sta
tion one of the trucks carrying thc
baggage, or that she had walked
down the road and wouM await he,
iiH' overtaken by the automobiles in
which the party would travel the
15 mile out of the u ildcrnrr
had opened and swallowed her. .It
a evident that when she left the
room, if. indecdshe had left, she
wore on-ly her thin nightgown and
Iteht shutters, made for indoor wear.
During ln's search Larrick's mind
kept tummy: all the while to, the
lake,' but it had disappeared, under
a shroud of suott. ife hoped some
one would get through' to the ca'mp
word from N'cw York that Miss
Blakeney had turned up there safe
and sound.
Texan Keeps Death Vigik.
Then, after days of torturing
worry, came his dreadful discovery
of the body and its .strange removal
to tW tamp, where Xarrick. they
savf .sat night after night in 'his
foom in a death watch that would
strike terror M'nto the heart of a man
less brave." Through bi$ window he
kept guard over he ghostly statue
of Clelia Blakeney in its icy shroud
on the moonlit veranda of -the main
cabin- ' . " ' J
With -htm -in the. camp were Mrs.
Roantree.; Mis"S Fleet, whp in rising
awrm. re turned "from the railroad to
jhe camp in the sorm, one of the
artists, whose health forces him to
life in the mountains, and a ifew
frightened aid helpless servants.
From none of these has any ex
puliation of the crime been obtained.
Tl death of the famous beauty
promises to offer for months to
come one of the most exciting and
ipuzling' of mysteries.
Tragedy Presents sMany Questions.
DM Clelia Blakeney walk in her
sleep from hc.r roomVand. wandering
to the lake, die of-accidental drown-
in? .V
Or djd tins spirited Cut somewhat
'inscrutable girl have a morose 'sec
ond - nature 'which led her to de
stroy herself? ""-
Was she he victim of a murder
ousattack by a jealous suitor, of
whom, it is declared, there were at
least two. in the tamo, one of them
a married man' wliose attentions, it
is admitted. Miss Blakeney did not
gliscourage?
Did some woodsman, encouraged
by-hcr frankness of manner with all
sort-. and conditions of peopleand
aroused oy the lure of her great
beauty, enter her room; alarm her,
a:id fearing the" consequences of his
act, murder her and carryher body
to the lake?
Or did this young woman, known
to be daring up to a certain point,
meet her death in one f the de
tached cabins wlyich huddle about
thccamp' main cabin. -The male
guests in the camp each had a sep
arate cabin. " 1
Friends Survey Victim's Career.
Out ,of the forests, impenetrable
wjien snow-filled, come these ques
tions: Meanwhile, in Miss Blak
eney's circie in Xew York her
friends discuss her career with a
view to finding in it some key to the
solution of the tragic mystery.
She had wealth and great popu
larity. It is admitted she-was fond
of Iarrick and Larrickv. of her.
With Coykendall, recently divorced,
she was on terms of intimate friend
ship.. Her attitude toward trewin
was less warm in the later tw'ceks
of her life than previously it had
been. She had no known enemies.
There the- story of the death of
Clelia Blakeney stands, so far as it
has been revealed by. Rupert Hughes.
This novelist, dramatist, essayist,
psychologist and soldier, whose read
ers ecctdin number those of any
other other in America, has kept
ccnAccafed the1 great surprise -which
will explain the tragedy. Much re
mains to be assembled and set down
concerning the life and habits of the
unfortunate young woman and all
the members of the gay circle in
which shemoved. When that is done
the mystery will be cleared away.
Persons informed regarding Mr.
Hughes' methods of investigation
and aware of his genius for narra
tion await with bated breath his
springing of his surprise. His stories
always abound with the unexpected
and his revelation Of the mystery of
the death of Clelia Blakeney will
carry a thrill which will reach
throughout the reading public.
- The progress towards the solution
of Jhe mystery will be drtailel by
Mr. Ifufilitfs' in the next installment
of hi greatest 'story, "Beauty." in
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