THE BLfcj: UMAMA, WIMJJNfc,SIJAI, JUNE 10, ITOl.
Platte River Out
Of Banks at Many
Points in Nebraska
Burlington Railroad Employ
ing Small Army in Effort
To Save Bridges and
Other Property.
(Continued from Faa Om.)
of iti banks at this pUce and the
Mile bridge has been closed, being
pronouncjed unsafe for travel. De
spite the fact the river is from 20 to
30 feet deep, aside from probable
bridge losses, no further damage is
anticipated due to the width of the
river at this place.
Second Warning Issued
From Lincoln on Flood
Flood waters from Colorado are
racing into Nebraska in the Platte
river, which reached its maximum
stage yesterday and is carrying
all the water possible.
Bursting of dikes along the Platte
and inundating of Fremont, Ash
land and other towns in the state are
the dangers cited yesterday by
George Johnson, secretary of the de
partment of public works, in a sec
ond flood warning issued from his
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Persons living south of North
Platte have been eut off from the
city by the sweeping away of two
piers of the Platte river bridge
there.
Slightly Receding.
At Grand Island the river was re
ported at its high mark but prob
ably slightly receding by Commis
missioner Traill of the chamber of
' commerce.
. The Platte is out of its banks
there now and a foot of water is re-
Other roads to Platte bridges are
not yet inundated, it is reported.
Dikes from Ashland to North
Rend running through Gretna and
Fremont are almost certain to break
under the pressure of the flood
water now entering the western sec
tion of the state unless strenuous ef
forts are made to repair and
' strengthen them.
Dikes &naangerea.
The flood waters now rushing on
Nebraska from Colorado promise
the greatest flood in the history of
.t.. i i i. . . i : . 1.1.
uic xmiic river, ctituiumB iu juuii
son, who declares these dikes were
, never made to withhold such a pres
sure. Automobile parties went to the
scene in' such numbers Monday even
ing that there was a near stampede
when the waters rose and began to
overflow the lowlands.
Cars Go Into Ditch.
Two cars, venturing too close to
the edge in the jam, went into the
ditth. Two more collided and one
man was injured, not seriously.
Sheriff McCutchenf Commissioner
Traill and several others stood guard
at an intermediate small bridge and
kept the rush of cars toward highc
ground in something like order.
At Cozad the Platte river is re
ported still rising. '
The bridge there, which is one mile
long, is stril passable, but roads be
tween the bridge and the town, a
distance of about a mile, are inun
. dated. ' - , . ,
Land I Flooded.
At Blue Channel, two miles west
of Cozad, the .river is out of its
banks and much of the land south
of the Union Pacific tracks is
flooded.
The mile bridge is constructed of
wood and is considered weak Le
cause of its width. It is expected
by citizens there to withstand the
strain, however.
- At Maxwell, 14 miles east of North
Platte, and Hershey, eignt miles
west, traffic has been stopped over
two bridges which have been con
demned. Ferry Service Planned. ;
Ferry service is planned by the
North Platte Chamber of Com
merce, to begin today, by which mail
will be uninterrupted and food and
supplies may be shipped' in to the
farmers and residents of the area
affected.
Should the flood waters get be
hind the dikes along the South
Platte valley, . Fremont and other
towns in the valley would suffer
three to five inches of water, with
untold property damage and possi
ble loss of life according to Secre
tary Johnson.
ine greatest proper ij uniuc,
? however, is expected in the west
portion of the state where the land
lies very low and the Platte river
bottom is so wide.
10 Miles Wide.
Johnson estimates the Platte west
of Kearney would each under
pressure of the flood an area five to
10 miles in width. -
He declared the flood would bring
400 per cent more water into the
Platte river than it has at the pres
ent time, and it is now at its maxi
mum carrying stage.
Today Johnson was wiring points
along the Loup river, which joins
" the Platte at Columbus, endeavoring
to find out if the high water is com
ing down the Loup also.
In case a flood is impending in
the Loup, Johnson declines any at-
tempt to forecast the extent of
property and life loss.
Past floods along the Platte river
in the eastern part of the state have
been caused largely by the Loup
river overflow. Loup river floods
ordinarilx are the result of melting
of ice gorges in the west at its
source.
No Heavy Fains.
Johnson was optimistic, however,
regarding any possible flood along
the Loup river." He understands the
ice gorge swell is over and there
hasrn been any extraordinary
amount of rain along the Loup.
In the ordinary bed of the Platte
river in the lowest part of the valley,
sand and stone has been washed
down for years artd has been thrown
up by the river along the sides and
spread over the valley.
Through this process, the hanks
f the river are higher than the land
which slopes downward until it
, reaches the hills where it is lower
than at the river.
If the water gets aroufid back of
the dikes this is the land which
would puffer from the floov
Hermit Is Found
Murdered in His
Hut Near Chicago
Gypsy Band Blamed for Slay
ing; Money Belt and Wallet
He Carried Reported to
Be Missing.
Chicago, June 14. Jack Edwards,
72-year-old hermit, was found mur
dered in his lonely cottage two
miles west of Naperville today.
He had been dead for several days
shot through the head with a rifle
bullet.
The money belt and the wallet he
was known to have carried were
missing.
The Naperville police .believe Ed
wards was shot by gypsies.
"About 10 o'clock last Friday
night night a farmer called me up
and told me a band of them were
prowling abuot near Naperville,"
said Night Policeman , William
Mooney.
"I am told they tried to enter the
hermit's house, but he drove them
away. The shot passed through
the window and hit him as he was
sitting inside. The gypsies prob
ably did it." .
Little is known of Edwards' his
tory. He established his lonely
house on the prairies years ago
some say 20. others more. There he
lived his solitary life. So for as is
known he had no relatives. -'
All Grades of Crude Oil
Are Reduced in Price
Pittsburgh, Pa., June 14. All
grades of crude oil quoted in the
Pittsburgh market were reduced 25
cents a barrel by the principal pur
chasing agents today, making the
new prices as follows:
Pennsylvania crude, ?75; Corn
ing. $1.65: Cabell, $1.56: Somerset,
$1.35; Somerset light, $1.55; Rag-
land, $1. ' i
Get one of these Mctrolas
for stammer entertainment
Victrola IV, $25
Oak
Victrola VI, $35
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Victrola VIIL $50
Oak
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War Blame Placed
On German Labor Men
(CwitlnHcd from Far One.)
eration shall immediately compile a
list of English-made goods and firms
backed by English capital and send
it to every one of the members of
organized labor in the United States.
Appointment of a committee of three
by the federation to co-operate with
the British trade unions to bring
pressure to bear on the British gov
ernment to recognize Irish independ
ence and withdraw troops from Ire
land was also asked.
Mr. Vind declared that the resolu
tions were drawn by "high officials
of the Irish republic," but declined
to state whether Eamonn De Valera
"president of the Irish republic" had
taken part in their drafting.
Opposition Develops.
A large faction of the delegates
have announced opposition to the
official resolutions and have repre
sented to the committee a resolution
demanding recognition of the Irish
republic by the United States, with
drawal of British troops from Ire
land and repayment by England of
the $9,000,000,000 loaned to her by
the United States. Four other reso
lutions of similar character have also
been submitted.
The delegates opposing the boy
cott resolution declared that it would
be detrimental to the labor move
ment and an affront to the members
of the federation who are connected
with local unions in Canada. Any
resolution embodying a boycott, they
assert, will be defeated on the floor
of the convention.
Despite the protest of supporters
of the official resolutions Irish sym
pathizers at the mass meeting de
clined to substitute them for all other
resolutions.
Supports Boycott Move.
When Peter Brady of New York,
who was presiding, asserted that
Harry Boland, secretary to JJe Val
era, had expressed a desire that the
delegates decide upon their own res
olution Mr. Vind protested and asked
that permission be granted to hear
personal representative of Mr.
Boland or Frank P. Walsh." This
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would be granted in executive ses
sion, Mr. Brady said.
In supporting the boycott resolu
tion Timothy Healy of New York
asserted that the executive council
had failed to carry out the provision
of the Irish resolution adopted at
the convention last' year in Montreal.
He asked that the resolution be so
worded as to force the council to
take action this year.
"The executive council has not
been on the square," he said; "it has
not done its duty."
Besides the introduction of reso
lutions, the only order of business
before the convention was the ad
dresses of the fraternal delegates
from the British Trade Union con
gress J. H. Thomas, president of
the British Railroad Workers' union,
and W. Walker, president of the
Steel Smelters' union.
Dakota Sunday School
Meeting Breaks Records
Mitchell, S. D. June 14. Early
registration at the South Dakota
Sunday School association, which
opened its annual convention in
Mitchell today indicated that the ses
sion will be the largest of its kind
held west of the Mississippi river
this year. A total of 1,500 delegates
are expected to attend. Every coun
ty in the state is already represented,
some of the delegates having come
nearly 300 miles to attend the meet
ings. Mother of Sinclair Lewis
Dies Suddenly at Home
St. Cloud, Minn., June 14. Mrs.
E. J. Lewis of Sauk Center, promi
nent club wciman and mother of Sin
clair Lewis, the author, died sudden
ly of heart disease today. She was
born May 12, 1849. Sinclair Lewis
is in England..
Form New Lions' Cluh
Norfolk, Neb., June 14. (Special
Telegram.) Thirty charter members
of the Lions' club made known the
formation of the organization by eat
ing 66 black bass at a breakfast in
a local out-of-door den at 5 this
morning. Webb Rice is the first
president and Donald Mapes, sec
retary of the club.
There are so many places and
so many times when one of
these portable Victrolas fits right s
in with the occasion They not
only meet the need for summer !
entertainment, but meet it any
where that need arises Besides
giving you the best music when
ever you want it, they enable you
to take it wherever you want it
indoors or out And they play
any of the more than 5000
records in the Victor Record
catalog.
New Victor Records demon-
strated at all dealers in Victor
products on the 1st of each
month
Victrola IX, $75
Mahogany or oak
Theatrical Man
Leaves Estate to
Stage Favorite
Alf Ha) man, for Years
Charles Frohman's Man
ager, Cuts Off Wife
In His Will.
New York, June 14.J-The will of
Alf Hayman, for many years general
manager for the late Charles Froh
man and after his death president
of Charles Frohman, Inc., was filed
for probate today. The bulk of the
estate, estimated at several million
dollars, is left to Ann Murdoch, ac
tress, who in private life is Irene
Coleman, Miss Coleman's mother,
Mrs. Theresa Coleman, who, with
her daughter, lived at Mr. Hayman's
home at 615 Fifth avenue, where he
died May 14,. receives $10,000.
Mr. Hayman left nothing to his
wife, Mrs. Rose Hayman, of New
York City, nor to his sisters, Blanche
Meyer, of St. Louis and Rose Hoch
stadter of New York and did not
mention a number of nephews and
nieces. He gave $10,000 to a niece,
Corrine Bauman of St. Louis.
Miss Murdoch made her stage de
but in 1908 in "The Offenders," when
she. was only 17 years old. She had
a small part, but when Robert E.
Edson went on the road with "The
Call of the North," a more important
role was assigned to her and her
work was so impressive that she was
made Mr .Edson s leading woman.
V
Two White Men Are'Held for
An Attack on Negro Girl
Richmond, Va., June 14. Two
white men were being held under ar
rest here today for an alleged at
tack on a negro girl late last night
which at one time threatened to re
sult in a race riot. Crowds of angry
negroes who gathered at the scene
of the alleged attack were dispersed.
Chiropractor Body Is
Split in Meet Here
(Continued from Fate One.)
scattered to their homes,' Monday
night, leaving the convention in a
puzzling predicament yesterday
morning.
Hold Joint Session.
An hour past the scheduled meet
ing time, both factions got together
and by comman consent, decided to
hold a joint session as a courtesy
to the out-of-town speakers and I
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vv robe could hold too
many blouses? Count
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Our frilly, bouffant
designs are for slen
der girls. The trim tail
leur always finds her
own. The over
blouse has a
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delegates. Dr. Joseph C. Lawrence,
retiring president, presided.
Dr. Paul O. Bergcr of Waukegan,
111., who won national fame for cur
ing Miriam Rubin of talking sick
ness, told how he did it.
Simple Adjustment.
"It was a simple chiropractic ad
justment. I worked no miracles,"
he modestly disclaimed, attributing
the credit to the Palmer school and
its teachers.
The child had been chattering in
cessantly for eight days and nights
when Dr. Berger, a slim, youthful
appearing practitioner, located the
axis of the nerve controlling the
'Style is the dreg of thoughts." CHESTERFIELD.
The Indispensable
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gift of long lines to
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Must they harmon
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speech center, adjusted ir into posi
tion and quieted the child to nor
malcy on the third day.
Picturesque Figure. '
Dr. S. E. Julander of Des Moines,
Dr. 5. W. Schweitert of Sioux Falls
and Dr. N. C. Ross of Fort Way
ind., were otner speakers.
Dr. Palmer, a picturesaue
with his long hair and beard and his
flowing artist's tie, was the speaker
at the Lions club luncheon this
noon, which chiropractors attended.
New piano pedals that resemble
those of the usual type can be turned
up to accommodate children.
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