Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 24, 1909, Page 1

. ’ THE OMAHA BEE & clean, rellable newspaper that admitted to each and every home. is VOL. XXXVIII—NO. 29: VARM WORK AHEAD OF HENEY | Startling Revelations Are Predicted for This Week in San Fran- cisco Graft Cases, EXPECTED TODAY % , Ward Problem to %% ‘nce. RT ORDERS n Possibly “ge. STOLEN FROM ABBOTT'S SAFE | Detective Helms, Who Has Served Both 81 w Be Called to Identify Mysterious Docu. ments 1f Opened. BAN FRANCISCO, May 2.—Revelations of alleged conspiraey In the S8an Francisco bribery graft case plots and counter-plots doublesdealing and “dlamond cut diamond methodle of opposing detectives in the ob- taining of evidence, mccusations of perjury by attorneys for the defense, and many dramatie situations which formed a sensa- tional chapter last week in the trial of Patrick Calhoun, charged with bribery, give promise of a still more lively session when the case Is resumed tomorrow. The trial, which is nearing its sixth month, has produced more sensational tes- timony than any of the bribery graft cases tried since the expose of municipal corporation abuses in 8an Franclsco in 1906, With practically unlimited finaneial back- ing the case has been bitterly fought since Junuary 12 When the trial is resumed tomorrow Judge Lawler will be called upon to decide whether or not he has -authority, in de- flance of two restraining orders of other courts of similar jurisdiction, to break the seals on a package alleged to contain doc- uments stolen from Willlam J. Burns' of- fice and found In the mafe of Willlam M. Abbott, gemeral attorney for the United Rallroads, In a rald under a search war- rant Secured hy Rribery. These documents, it I8 alleged by the at- torneys, were given by one of Burns' agents to Detective John Helms, who sald he turned them over to Abbott. Helms, who, aceording to his own testimony, later entered the employ of Burns, and for a thme was receiving $200 a month from the United Rafiroads and $10 a day and ex- penseg from the prosecution, will be re- called to identify the documents, should Judge Lawler override the injunctions. Men Taken with Price on Heads Colorado Sheriff Arrests Two Alleged | Crooks Said to Be Wanted in Nebraska. JULESBURG, Colo, May 23.—(Special Telegram.)—8heritf Splliman of Sedgwick county arrested Orin Gelvin, alias Callo- way, and Owen Dalley, allas Claude Smith, as they were calling for mail at the post- office. A large reward Is offered for these parties for erimes committed in Nebraska. HARRIMAN LINES IN CONDITION TO CARRY MAXIMUM TRAFFIC Kruttechnitt, in New VYork Asperts Every Plece of Firat Class Shape. he Unidg Pacific and other Harriman roads are' physically in splendid shape, ac- cordifig to AR interview glven the Wall Street Journal by Jullus Kruttschnitt, di- rector of maititenance and operation of the Harriman lines, and who has réally un- 1imited power over this department of the raflroad lines controlled by Harriman, Kruttschnitt déclares: ery pleces of roadbed and equipment on our lines I8 teday In shape to render the maximum of service. Our maintenance has never been neglected in any partiou- Ju Interview, Bauipment Inr xcept that f 4 few months follow- ing the great drop in traffic at the end of Oct-her, 107, the repair of some frelght enrs not n use was posipened. Barly in 19 we hogin repa g these cars and now wa hevs 4 dmiller nuraber of cars in shop than eve' Bkfore in the history of the are somewhat better our “In this respect we off than the other railroads generally percentage of SNAp cars is down below what | {8 regarded as the normal figure. The gencral average fhroughout the country is, 1 belleve, still & little higher. “Our operating expenses have been much reduced, but our maintenance expend!- tures have ben liberal this year, just as for & number Of vears past, and have the ex- ca been sufficlent to keep the property in very B8ht of condition. Transportation penses have been kept down by heavy and ftrain loadihg, the purchase heaviest and best equipment, and the eltmihation of grades and curvature from the lines. These processes are still going on, but the roads are beginning to show the #ffect of many years of lberal main- tenance expenditurcs, as well the use of a great deal of new capital for improve- ments, “The movement of general merchandise on our lines {8 fair and s gaining slowly There I8 mo rapid Increase, but just a| healthy convalescence of business. ‘The crop outiook, reported to us, is for a good yleld." CASES COMING BEFORE COURT Slayer of Police- Masauredis, Grecla Trial of Al Keenan in district court will not come about for some weeks. It is the Intentien of the county attorney’'s office to take up the Ziebell murder case after that of Masauredis is out of the way, and following the Ziebell hearing the Laura Porter trialyand one or two other cases are due to come, for these cases have been walting prosecution for some time because other cases were in the way The Keenan hearing will be held before eny summer Adjournment, however, and may be reached the last week in June or ihe first in July, the | ;'Lanyon May Have- Been Murdercd} | Relatives of Brakeman Found Dead| | on Track Are Considering i Investigation. | CRESTON. In., May 2.—(Special)—Tt is | | now helieved that Chester Lanyon, the | young brakeman of this city who was found dead near Melrose Friday night, was mur- | dered, instead of being struck by a passing | train, as was first thought. There was! no mark of mutilaMon on the body, ex-| cept a emall fracture on the left side of | the skull, such as might be made by a| small blunt {nstrument. The place where | the hody was found was a lonely spot, and | is noted as quite a resort for tramps, and | it 18 held that had he been struck by al train, as first supposed, the would not have been found lying be- |tween the ralls as ft was. The coat and | | vest had also been removed, and the beifef | |15 prevalent that the young man was | struck down by some brutal hand, intent [on robbery. An invektigation i pending. | | The parents and brother and sisters of the | | young man are prostrate Garretson Will Succeed Himself at Cedar Rapids Man is Re-elected Grand President of Order of Rail- road Conductors. BOSTON, May 2.—A. B. Garretson of Cedar Rapids, Ia, was today re-elected grand president of the Order of Railway Conductors by an overwhelming vote, Oakland, Cal, became a candidate for | the 1911 convention today. Chief Conductor Curtls of the Mexico delegation left for home last night on an urgent telegram stating that the recent Settlement on one of the leased Harriman lines in that country had been partially overturned and that certain conductors were being discriminated against. It | was not officlally stated, but it was | hinted that a strike has been authordze if one Is necessary, to enforce the agree- ment. .Teacher Shot by a Friend Latter Was Practicing at a Target and a Bullet Struck an Ogden Woman. BOONE, Ia., May 2.—(Special Telegram.) —Miss Laura Walker, a high school teacher in the Ogden school, was shot today at Ledge's Valley, a summer resort near here, while a friend was shooting at a nearby target. She was rushed In an auto- mobile to the hospital here and has' an even chance to recover. MYSTERY IN _DEATH OF MAN | Body 1dent by Couple Who After- | ward Confess He Wa | Relative, | i HURON, §. D., May 23.—(Special.)—Sinca May 17 efforts have heen made by the au- thoritles to ascertaln the Identity of a body, supposed to be that of Henry Wahr- man, killed by a Chicago & Northwestern | train near Iroquols, on'the night of May 7, since which time the remains have been at |the undertaking rooms of J. P. Walsh In |this city. Yesterday Coroner Tolmle, upon informatfon recefved from Watseka, IIL, | | accompanied by Sheriff Huntley, compelled [ Ben Golkers and wife of Osceola to come to this city and view the remains. Exam- | ination of these persons disclosed the fact | | that Wahrman worked on the Folker farm | !in Ilitnots for a number of years and that { | when they left Illinols were owing him, it {1§ clalmed, a large sum of money. Both Folker and his wife declared that the dead {man was In no way related to them. Fin- |ally Mrs. Folker weakened and confessed {that the remains were those of+ Henry Wahrman and that he was her half- | brother. Why these people withheld their | knowledge concerning the dead man is a | mystery, but the authorities will make fur- | ther investigation. 4 v POLITICS ON TAP Contest Between Candidates Hinges | on Rate Argument. | | PIERRE, 8. D., May 23.—(8pecial.)—The | | leaders of the Anclent Order of United Workmen organization are beginning gather and lodge politics will have the center of the stage for a few days here. Master Workman T. M. Simmons of Huron is here, and 4gain a candidate for the | place and with him are Nicholas Trewack | of Lead, who desires the petion of grand foreman and J. H. Parratt of Plerpont, | who will contest with J. D. Lavin for the | position of grhnd recorder. { | The fight will be on the rate: question, | | Lavin being for a high rate and Parrott ' i for a medium, or something near the “Ne- | | braska rate.”" several propositions along that line will be offered to be threshed out in the lodge meetin ‘Mythical Airsh LONDON, May 2.—The speeth st the, Lake Mohonk conference on international {arbitration by President Nicholas Murray | Butler of Columbia university, in which he idescribed Great Britaln's attitude to Ger- many as & forfh of “present day emotional insanity,” has been strikingly confirmed during the last week. Sensational stories {of German alrships, stacks of German | Mausers stored In & London cellar and | thousands of German walters and hair- dressers cagerly anticipating the emperor's | | signal to deliver England to an invading |army of thelr fellow, countrymen, have | been the main features of the newspapers .Ihrlm.hnul the country. The Mausers myth, to which attention was first called by Sir John Barlow, has been contemptuously dismissed by War Secretary Haldane in the House of Com- |mons as “an excéptionally silly story,” but It has been quite surpassed by accounts of mythical nocturnal visitations of a Ger- man airship. The phantom “Flylng Dutch- man” soon developed into a, large fleet the competing papers vouching for the ac- curacy of thelr respective stories and giv- | | reports and exactly | servations on ‘which THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ——— e WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska For Towa—Partly Weather report, see Partly cloud Ay page OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1909 STORM WARNING 'BY WIRELESS Notice of Elemental Disturbances to Be Flashed All Around the World, UNIFORM SIGNALS ON ALL SHIPS Leading Meteorologists of Nations Working on Plan. MEET IN LONDON ON JUNE 21 Professor Willis Moore Explains the Proposed Scheme. REQUIRES GENERAL AGREEMENT All Ships Above n Certain Tonnage to Carry Wireless Instruments, Take Observations at Stated Time and Warn Others. WASHINGTON, May 3 -—Flashing of warnings around the world by wireless telegraphy of approaéhing storms and other disturbances of the elements {s one of the latest international projects. Still another of perhaps little less importance is the proposition to equip the vessels of all nations with uniform storm signals. These are the thrashed out at gulshed meteroligists of the principal na- tions, to be held in London on June 21 next. The proposed conference is the out- growth of a meeting of the leading metero- logists of the world held in Burope several years ago. The United States will be rep- resented by Prof. Willls L. Moore, chief of the United States weather bureau. A concerted movement will be inaug- urated to induce the principal governments to adopt a uniform system of wireless telegraphy marine weather reports and to reach an agreement so that nations shall display uniform marine sterm signals, 1f such an international agreement can be effected, It Is belleved that it will great factor In saving property and life on sea and land and at the same time be highly Importtant in making weather predictions. Committees at Work. These subjects will be dealt with by two committees, one of maritime weather sig- nals and the other on telegraphy. The first committee fs com- posed of Dr. W. N. Shaw, director of the British meterological offices; Prof. A. Au- gat, director of the French Central Metero- logical service; Rev. L. Froc, director of the Zi Ka Wel observatory at Shanghai; Hear Admiral Hirz, director of the Dutch Zewarte at Hamburg; Prof. H. Mohn, di- rector Norwegian Meterological institute; Prof. Willls L. Moore and K. Nakamura, director of the meterological service of dapan. In addition to Messrs. Augat, Hirs, riprewup Amidofituaea¥rSouthh, hrdluuu and Moore, the other committee will ba composed of Lieutenant General Rykatchef, director of thq Central Physical observa- tory at Bt. Petersburg. “One of the principal_problems to be taken up by the conference,” aaid Prof, Moore In discuseing the matter today, “Is the question of itnernational agreement as to the taking of wireless marine weather reports. The scheme Is to secure the adop- tion by all of the leading nations of a uniform method of taking and transmitting wireless meterological observations so that each observation, no matter by what na- tion taken, will be comparable with the ob- servations taken by any other nation. There is now no unifrom method of re- ceiving arid transmitting wireless weather leading problems to be a conference of distin- not observed. Prof. Moore Explains. “We shall doubtless do all we can,” continued Prof. Moore, “to induce the several governments ultimately to adopt regulations that will compel beyond a cer- be ay weather marine | the same things are | tain tonnage to carry wireless instruments | and operators and to take at noon Green- wich time a dally observation of the Weather. Observations recelved by a ship would be transmitted to other ships so that by relaying from one vessel - to another ebrervations from the entire ocean would then within a few minutes reach the land and the central meterological of- fices of the United States, France, England and Germany and other interested nations would be able to complete these observa- tions each in its proper geographic pos tion and thus to determine the location of etorms and forecast their future direction. Such forecasts could be distfibuted to the vessels in the same manners as the ob- the forecasts were based.” Prof. Moore added that he intended & member of the committee having matter in e tions. While American vessels use flags by day and lights by night to convey storm warn- as this ® to argue for such regula- ings, the ships of other nations use sig- | nals that are made up of & combination of cones and cylinders. The different sig- nais are said to be confusing to mariners, an da uniform signal and code to display arnings is proposed ips Cause | Panic in Great Britain Ing signed statements circumstantially de- talling the maneuvers of the mysterious and swift moving dirigible at the same mo- ment in various places on the east and west coasts, and even In lreland. Captains of incoming steamers have been credited with' statements that they ex- changed flare signals with the aerial vis. itor in the North sea, and some newspapers went 8o far as to insist that the “Beare. ship” has its home on a German warship |now in the Nerth sea, at maneuvers to which it returns after its nightly flight Descriptions ®f the secret fly by nighi be. came more and more graphic until certain advertisers. who had been experimenting with model airships attached by ropes to motor cars, confessed their part in the affair and exploded the varfous theories. Meanwhile Germany, as evidenced by the comments In the German papers on the latest panic, came to much the same con- clusion as President Butler. Completely disgusted have been notes in the German editorials, which call England as ‘“the home of mere nervous degenerates, who are yleiding themselves up to a frenzy, unworthy even of & decaying country." | accompanying, | old fgom New York present an anomaly. “On the level, Chimmy, don't you wish Friday afternoon came around From the Cleveland Leader. SPECULATORS ARE CAREFUL High Level of Prices Tends to Make Them Cautious. MARKET NOT NOW VULNERABLE Accident Fright Might Easily Bring a Tumble If the Market Was Top Heavy or Essen- tially Wenk, or NEW YORK, May 2.—Prices of stocks fluctuated quite widely last week, but their course often shifted, rising one day and falling the mext, ‘with a tendency to return to a fixed level. In a few of the most conspicuous securities there was a striking advance and this served to pre- serve a semblance of general strength in the market. That the high level to which prices have attained induces some caution {in speculation s expressed by many finan- clal authoritfes and oven In the tone of advices from commission houses to their client those advising purchases not iInfre- quently coupling the advice with the addi- tion “on any considerabls reaction.” The professional trader§shave besn watchtul for reaction. . Given this somewhat: suspiclous attitude towards the market andl its resistance to unfavorable factors was doubly impressive In reviving confidenc Tt w felt that if the market had been top-heavy or vul- nerable, as was feared, it must have suc- cumbed to accident or fright. The small effect .produced by the sudden death on Wednesday morning of H. H. Rogers made a special impression on speculative senti- ment as proving the resistance of the mar- ket. Actual conditions bearing on values moved towards their enhancement. Trade and nidustrial advices pointed quite gen- erally and conclusively to the rising tide of the betterment at work, ‘ Steel Trade the Key. Steel trade conditions were accepted |treely as the key to the situation. Events there pointed convincingly to the restora- tion in progress. Special significance was glven to the decision of the independent | steel manufacturers to restore wages. It was Inferred from this point that the re- duction of wages by the United States Steel corporation, which was supposed to be in contemplation, would be avoided. The incident was accepted although as proot that the steel production was ylelding good profits in spite of the drastic cut in prices put in force to bring about the present re- vival of demand. The growth of that de- mand for all grades of the product was reported to be unabated. The week's spec- ulation converged largely on the United States Steel shares, in conformity with the importance attached to steel trade develop- ments. The rise in the price of United Btates Stef) shares to above 0 was re- garded as an event. The fulflliment of pre- dictions for this price, at one time re- garded as reckless, brought some appre- henslon that a cut in the campalgn might have been reached in the New York money market an easy tone has followed the hardening which came in response to the first demand from reviving trade. The easler tone is due, in some part to supplies secured by bank- ers’ loans In foreign markets. These loans, as they do, withdrawal of Forelgners have been steady sellers of Amcrican securities, prompted by the high | bears toward the mayor. level of prices. The enormous volume of this country's imports of merchandise and the falling off in exports of breadstuffs (Continued on Second Page.) Why do you pay rent when you can buy a home in Om- aha with only a small payment down and balance same as rent? Read. the Real Estate col- umn from day to day and you will find a home offered for The Bee has found homes for hun- dreds of others and can find a home for you. sale within your means. Have you read the want ads. yet today? New Council Starts in Today Dan Butler Must Preside and Give Members Chance to Ballot for President. This afternoon at 8 o'clock will begin the first meeting of the new city council Dan B. Butler, city clerk, will be in the chalr and the councilmen will begin balloting for president, with five of the six democrats avowed candidates for the position. It will take seven votes to elect. As far as known no final agresment ha: been reached as yet between the two sides in the councll, ard party leaders say it is more than probable that if the councilmen €0 Into the chamber with na prearranged program a deadlock may ensue, which will take many ballots to break. This was the case three years ago when several hun- dred ballots were taken before Funkhouser cast his vote for Johnson and made.the latter president. The republicans have held several meet- ings and it 1s understood that the six will act together. The five candidates have been porsistently active in angling for te- publican votes and ready to promise any- thing, In the way of committee assign- ments to get votes from the opposition The democrats of Jacksenlan afflitrations are united on only one thing, and that is the defeat of Bridges for president. Some of them would rather have a republican for president that Bridges because of Bridges' champlonship of the occupation tax ordinances and his refusal to work | with them during the last three years. It fs this situation that makes possible a re. publican president of the council. The re- publicans will hold another conference this morning and are expected to present a solid front when the council s eon- vened. Some ‘pretty fights” are fore- casted by men around the city hall and on the organization of the councll will depend many appeintments to be made by the mayor. The new organization will hold only one year, the new charter changing this from three years as heretofore. The chairman will appoint the committees and they, too, will hold only the year. The defeat of six councilmen has disarranged all the old committes, but one, the lighting. This Is composed of Funkhouser, Brucker and Johnson, all of whom were re-elected The Judiclary committee loses Endres and Zimman; the finance committee loses Endres; the paving and sewerage commit- tee loses Elsasser and Hansen, and so on down the line. Every committee but one has dropped from one to three members. THREATS AGAINST MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES Executive of California OCity Re- celves Letters Writt, in Blood. LOS ANGELES, May 2—Mayor George Alexander today made public’the fact that he has for some time been receiving let- ters from some unknown persons which threaten his life. The lest one, which he refuses to display or make public, is writ- ten in efther blood or red ink and contains threats calculated to make the strongest heart quatl. No reason is given /in the | letters for the animosity which the writer l Mayor Alexander is the first “recall’ mavor in the United States and was plected by the so-called “reform element." as often as Monday morning? WAIT TO RECEIVE ROBBERS Dining Car Conductor afnd Crew Calmly Get Ready to Turn Over. HAD SOME “PIN MONEY,” TO0O When Overland Limited Stopped They Checked Up $300 of Com- pany Money and Took Thelr Seats to Wait. “A fine chance to pick up $300 of com- pany money and rob ten men was missed by the bandits when they falled to hold up the dining car,” said John Beaumont, conductpr of the diner, when seen SBunday at the Miilard hotel. With the four cooks and five walters in his crew he was in the dining car when the train was stopped by the outlaws. They were to leave the train at Omaha. “A stop along the road is not alarming at any time, on account of the block sig- nal system,” said Mr. Beaumont. "A sem. phore signal is liable to Indicate ‘stop' anywhere along the line, so when the train pulled up Saturday night we in the diner were not surprised. “Only ‘Gne of the crew went to the front door to see what was the matter, and ex- pected merely to find out what was the matter that the block should be set against us. He was Clarence Colburn, the second cook, who lives in Omaha. “When he got to the door, he stayed {there just a minute, then closing the door he returned to the rest of the diner crew and told us that it leoked like a hold up, some mesked men having lined up the mall clerks, At the same time, a number prised to move, so we all sat still, await- ing a visit from the holdup men, whom we supposed would rob our car before leaving. There was about $300 belonging to the company in the money drawer, and all ten of us had money and other valu- ables. While we were walting Conductor Wallace came In from the cars behind us to find out from the front end what was the matter, as he had not heard the shbts. When he found out he went back and out to the ground, but upon being shot at when the robbers saw his lantern he Jumped onto the train again “No cars were uncoupled and the whole thing was over in a short time. We heard no automobile and did not see one as the traln pulled away. on the train after we left Fremont, the last stop, they probably were on the blind | baggage ahead of us Speaking Dates WASHINGTON, May 2.—Howard uni- versity, situated on the outskirts of Wash- is fortunate in having as its commence ment speaker this year the president of the United Btates. The exercises are to be held Wednesday and President Taft will speak In the afternoon~, The president's public engagements thi week provide also for his attendance at the fifth afnual meeting of the Assoclated Western Yale Clubs at Pittsburk on Satur- One Man Lies Night and One passenger on Union Pacific Overland Limited that was robbed on into Omaha Saturday night jumped out of his cozy car when he percelved what was up, tore for the tall grass and stayed there until daylight, when Sheriff Brailey appeared on the scene and brought him to Omaha in his conveyance. This was John P. Maurer, representative of a New York celery and provision firm, nd he 18 now on his way to “little old New York," where he can tell his eastern friends a real train robbery story that will its entrance throw = few genuine western thrills into them “I was in the observation car.’ sald Mr. Maurer, hen the train stopped and 1 looked out to see why long to see what it was men with the mail mern, of the train lined up In front of them. That was my cue I live in the east, though I have traveled considerably in the west and I knew enough It didn't take me I saw two masked in Weeds All Views Holdup to know that I was not needed around there just then, so I decided to leave “I naturally thought the hold-up men would call the passengers out of the train and line them up and take what valuables they had. As I could count $465 in on my person I thought the weeds near the track would be a safer place for me than the train, 8o to the weeds I took “I entrenched myself securely at a good vantage point and watched with unusual Interest the proceedings of the evening. It was an impregsive spectacle. The robbers had their guns and they commanded per- fect control of the situation was there to defy thelr authority. But, seriously, 1 did not feel any too ccmfort- able,, for 1 wes only & few yards off and |1 didn't have any assurance that the rob- bers wouldn't locate me after they fig- ished operations with the trainmen. The fact is I very much feared they would, so you can easily imagine the lively interest 1 took in the events of the night. Not a man SINGLE of shots were heard and we knew the | train was going to be robbed. Walted to Receive Robbers, “We were efther too scared or too sur. If the robbers were | for President; ington, and which is devoted to the higher | education of members of the colored race, | cash | CoPY ROBBERS IN OMAHA, SAY THE OFFICERS Bandits Who Held Up Overland Are Believed to Be in Omaha or Near. ON THIS CLUE OFFICERS PROCEED Local, State, Federal and Railroad Sleuths on the Trail. CERTAIN CHAUFFEUR SUSPECTED Young Man in Orooked Deal Before Wanted in This Case. PIECES OF MAIL SACKS FOUND | Postoffice Authorities Make No Esti- mate as to Values, | CHEEF PERKINS HERE FROM EAST Head of Government Service Happens to Be Going West. CALLS SPECIAL FORCE T0O WORK Indefinite Clues Are Received as to Three Men Who May Have Been in the Quartet that Robbed the Mail, Meager clues all tending to show the men who robbed the mail car of the Union Pacific Overland Limited on the boundary line between Omaha and South Omaha at 11:3 Saturday mght are in the city of Omaha have been found by Omaha police and railroad detectives. | These officers believe the train robbers are in Omaha, and that perhaps at their Isure they sorted the seven sacks of reg- {istered mail taken from the car while in {hiding ‘Sunday: W. T. Canada, chief of Union Pacific special agents; J. B. Viz- zard, his asslstant; Chief of Detectives John H. Savage of the Omaha department, |Chiet ot Postoffice Inspectors Perkins from Washington and United States Mur- shal Willlam P. Warner, A greasy gauntlet glove, such as is used around utomobiles, was found in the mail ;--f;u cut open by the robbers and ploked up by Captain Mostyn; the remark of the bandit that the keven sacks was About all | that could be carried in “the auto,” and Ithe fact that the robbers made such a {auick getaway, though pursued by a fast police automobile, all strengthen the be- {llet of railroad officials that an auto- {mobile was used In accomplishing the holdup and eluding the officers. | On Tratl of Chauffeur. | With this theory in mihd Union Pacific | special agents are seeking to find a young | man who has been knowf to run his auto- | mobile to assist in crooked work at least The man sought Wil be asked where he was Saturday night and his | movements traced, as not a great while ago he assisted two persons who had {robbed an old man in getting away from the police. \ #A deseription given by one of the postal clerks of one of the robbers as a young man, small of stature with a very white | tace, from what could be seen of it, who | acted véry nervous, rather fits the descrip- | tion of the young automobile dfiver whose | movements are, being traced. The young man has Councll Blufts gambling house connections and does not bear an alto- | Bether good reputation. | The amount of the loss is not known and I will not be for several days. 1t so happened that Chief Inspector Perking of Washington was passing through Omaha on his way to Bpokane ‘o 1onk Into the robbery of the Northern Pa- cific mail car when the rohbery happen in Omaha. This colneldence hak greatly | alded the federal authorities in starting the search for the robbers. The Kansae City headquarters of the postoffice inspectors was at once notified and a detall of post- |oftice Inspectors arrived Sunday and are at work on the Overland Limited robbery | once. Careful Selection of Spot. the ground was gone over and the | spot selected for holding ‘up the train by ol hands @t the business | aided by at least one local man as a driver, |18 the theory of the police. That On the curve, in the deep cut of the | Lane cut-off, in a neighborhood not far | removed from where Pat Crowe success- | tully held young Bdward Cudahy for ran- som, one or more of the robbers placed a signal fire shortly before the train was due. This little blaze the bandits on the | engine tender saw when the location | sel | ted was reached. At that moment and |amia the surroundings favorable for ‘a | train robbery, the enginemen weére made |to stop the train at the point of heavy |guns and the work of the robbers was done with great precision and with a *'d {1t now" determination “Hold-up near Omaha’ astonished police [ officers and citizens Sunday morning, but when they looked At the map and it be- | came “hold-up in Omeha" the astonish- | ment grew. The train actually stopped | fust | the | Omanha west of Frrty-fourth street, which Is line of Omaha And South the mail car was robbed registered mall carried by | the mall clerks under command of the rob- !bers, Into South Omaha. ‘The mall sack |and top of another sack were found just | across the line in Bouth Omaha boundry Here and the stolen | This has added to the determination of |the Omaha officers wha are in to trace the robbere if it be rossihle i Say Men Ave in Town, “The hold-up men ure within thrée miles lot the scene of the robhery,” sald Chiet | ot Detectives John H. Savage of the police department “We are working on the robbers have a rendezvous In or near Bouth Omaha or Omaha. The police force Is armed with all we have In the ¥y of theory that the