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VOL. XXXVIII—NO. 298, OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNIN( 1 WEATHER FORECAST. For Nehraswa v, For lowa—~Falr For weather 1 port , MAY 29, 1909—TWENTY PAGES. SINGI DUTY ON SUGAR AND TOBACCO Senate Finishes Consideration These Schedules After Ex- tended Debate. COMMITTEE RATES of APPROVED All Amendments for Lowering Tariff Are Lost. TOBACCO COMBINE DENOUNCED Senator Bradley Says it is Respon- tible for Night Rider BACON SCORES READING CLERK Accuses Official of Being in Oon- Debate Of, but splracy to Shat Viee President Responsibility, Ansumes WASIINGTON, May 28 —Senator Aldrich ucceeded in getting action by the the of the with understanding that today remainder sugar the sbhate on sehedule the paragraph fined sugar fixing a duty raw and re should be again placed before a it Senator Clay's health should of his taking ad- the senate 0 improve as to permit at a later date, ting the figures acco wehedule was also made in the either sched- vantage of &n opportunity to move an amendfent The No chang in(two tol ipleted committee 1 cof were nance ites on ule. The sugar. the tobacco and agricultural schedules divided the attention of the sen- ate with Incidental remarks on the side by Bacon and a general tariff speech Renalor Stone, Senators Gore, Bristow and Clay criticised the provision for a duty on raw and refined sugar and Mr Clay repeated his allegation of fraudulent transactions in the interest of the sugar trust. Mr. Bristow declared that the trust has benefited by the defeat of his amend- ments yesterday and Mr. Gore asserted that by the adoption of the finance com- mittee's piovision, which was the same as that passed by the house, only 5 cents on 100 pounds of sugar would be saved. Bacon Accuses Reading Clerk. Senator Bacon's remarks consisted of a charge that the reading clerk of the sen- Ate and the republican leaders were in collusion to shut off debate. The charge Brew out of the fact that when the senate was about to vote on an amendment by Mr. Goré to the sugar schedule, Mr. Bacon was preparing to address the senate and had actually begun before the roll was cailed. Hel asserted that this course had besn pursued to prevent him from speak- inz. and declaring that been followed In the past, he entered upon quite a sharp crftielsm of the - official. The vice president himself assumed the vesponsibility for ordering the call to pro- ceed and the incident was closed. The amendment was subsequently withs drnwn. Senator Bradley made a long speech early the day in advocacy of the removal of internal revenue tax of 6 cents a pound tobaceo “in the hand.” He asserted such action to be essential to the welfare ¢ tobacco growers throughout the try and traced the raids of night rid-- in Kentucky and Tennesses to what * Aeclared be the unjust course tobacco trust in dealing with the pr Tust by 4 the on o coun " r tob ers before the session Cumber spoke in behalf of a protective Auty on azrienltural products, predicting reat faliing off in the American produc- of wheat in the near future. clased Mr. Mc thor Sogar Stock Rise: The consideration of the sugar schedule was resumed after Renator Bacon entered his protest which afforded an opportunity to proceed with further debate. Tt had such a plan had | (Mrs. May Ion, Silver Creek, is Missing Worried Husband Believes She is Under Control of Desperate People in Denver. May 28.—(Special Tele- bis wife, Mrs. May Ion, hag been kidndped, drugged and robbed of money and valuable and that her captors will kill her unless a ransom of $00 be forwarded before the end of the week, Charles Ton, a business man of Siiver Creek, Neb., arrived today and appealed to the police for assistance in his search for his wife. She left Sitver Creek last Wednesday for Glenwood Springs and was in ordinary | health when she bade him goodby. She | had about %400 and fewelry valued at $500. The following day Ion received a letter, signed ostensibly by his wite, though the writing did not resemble hers. | 1t said she was very ili and would go to a hospital that afternoon In charge of a nurse she had employed By the same mail two postal cards, writ- ten in pencil and unsigned, were received by lon. One of the bore a request that | | DENVER, Colo. } gram.)—Delteving i cash supposedly written by the nurse in charge {of Mrs. Ton. “Where do you want your | wite's body sent, should she dia?" was & question appearing on the cards. followed directly after the request for the money. It was written In such a way that Ton believes his wife will be put out of the way, should the money not be sent | Bvery hospital and a number of private in- | stitutions were visited by the police, but no trace was discovered. A complete de- scription of the missing woman was given to each patrolman and the city s being searched for her. Bolt Kills Babe in Mother’s Lap During Hard Storm Many Houses in Howard County Are Struck by Lightning and Much Stock Killed. ST. PAUL, Neb, May 25.—(Special)— During a terrific thunderstorm In the | northwestern part of Howard county light- ning struck the home of Ignatz Sintek, northeast of Elba, and killed his 9-months- { 0ld babe as it lay in its mother's lap. The | mother was stunned, but not seriously in- Jured. The ~ccurred Monday afternoon, and bolated reports are just being recetved | here of the destruction by the floods of rain that fell, and the lightning. Several | houses were struck by lightning and con- | siderable stock killed in the fields. | At Dannevirke six inches of rain fell, | while at Cotestield it is reported seven |and a half inches fell. The rain did con- siderable damage to crops. Actress Dead; Emma H. Curran, Who Appeared with Chauncey Olcott, Found Dead in Apartments. NEW YORK, May %.-Fmma H. Cur- ran, an actress, who lived with her brother, James Curran, In apartments in | West Twenty-second street, was found dead |in her rooms today under circumstances | which 1ed the police to suspect she had | been murdered. | Miss Curran is said to have appeared in plays with Chauncey Olcott and Jame O'Nelll. | 500 be sent immediately. The cards were | This | r May Be Murdcr: MAIL TRAINS BREAK TIEUP | Service is Resumed Both Ways Be- | tween Aalanta and Augusta, Georgia. |NEGRO FIREMEN UNMOLESTED | ;Big Crowd at Atlanta, but There is ! No Demonstration. STATE MAY TAKE ACTION Some Hints at Receivership for the Railroad. | FREIGHT TRAINS ARE STARTED Train Leaves Atlanta the Afternoon and General Manager Scott win ate in Says More Follow. BUL| ATLANTA, Ga., May freight trains was begun by raflroad late this afternoon, starting out of Atlant: Se ™. 28 —~Operation of the Georgla one train General Manager tt said more traihs would follow. ATLANTA, Ga, May 2.-Carrying a negro firsman, the first train of any sort to run over the Georgia rallroad for more than five days, an engine and a mail car, left here at 7:30 this morning. The train pulled out through a deep lane of specta- tors at the station, but there was no dem- onstration. The negro fireman on the At- lanta train bore a name distinguished in Georgia, Joseph M. Brown, which {s iden- tical with that of the governor-elect who will take office in a few weeks. The sub- Ject of keen scrutiny, the fireman kept his eyes on the work and smiled good naturedly. A few comments were over- heard from the crowd that he was running a risk. The engineers upon all trains today were the regular men who stopped work last Saturday. They returned to work with the assurance from Assistant Chief Burgess of the Order of Locomotive Engineers that | they would be protected. The mail car was a combination, half mail and half bag- gage, but the baggage department was heaped with malil sacks. The train made only a little more than | seven miles in its first hour's run, owing | to a stop at Decatur, the first town east | of Atlanta, where newspaper men, who had started to make the trip in the baggage car, were put off. There was a long con- ference with officials of the road over their presence, and it was finally decided that they were passengers and that the road had no right to carry passengers, Exactly by what means the state would interfere was not stated, but a receivership | was hinted at. This solution was given color both by the fact that the state s a | stockholder in the railrond and by a dis- | patch from Soclal Circle, Ga., that the peo- | ple there Intend-d to demand a recelvership by the state oni the ground of public con- | venience, provided ro religf from the tieup | of frelght and passénger service was ob- | tained quickly messages to the governor demanding relief nd the continued reports of dissatistaction ver the presence of the negroes on the | mail trains forces a crisis. Action Awalts Arbitration, | Any action by the state, however, was deferred awaiting the result of arbitration | negotlations. | There was no mistaking the depth and | the scope of the il feeling against the | negro firemen from one end to the other | of the Georgia railroad today. However | no efforts were spared to find some means | of settling the strike without resort to the | use of guards, which was frankiy recog- | nized as of extreme danger to the peace | | of the community through which the road | runs. The remark of one man to & correspond- | Willtam Henry News Note: despite the vigilance of the doorkeepers, From the Washington Evening Star. COURTS FLAYED BY ASSEMBLY | Presbyterian Church Criticises Deci- sion Annulling Union of Branches, PASSED ON CHURCH DOCTRINE Baais of Discussion is & Report on Tennessee Decision Knocking Out with Cumberland Branch of the Church. Merger DENVER, Colo., Mav 28.—~The church locked horns with the state this morning when the general assembly of the Presby- terfun church in effect condemned the ac- tion of the state courts of Tennessee in setting aside the union of the Presbyterian Other points sent urgent [church in the United States of America | with the Cumberland Presbyterian church. The assembly's criticlsm of the courts, which was unsparing, was based on the report of the committee on church co- operation, which report was written by Roberts, D. D, LL. D., the stated clerk of the assembly, chairman of the committee and for more than twenty- five years regarded as the law giver of the assembly. It set out in effect that of the three established doctrines with respect Lo the relation of church and state, they be- ing the Roman Catholie, wherein the church is superior to state; the theory recognized in England and some parts of the United States that the state is superior | to the chureh, and the Calvinistic, wherein church and state possess distinct jurisdic- | tions, the latter is the preferable view and | Taft to Attend Yale Club Meet at Pittsburg President Will Speak and Play Golf at the Western Association Convention, PITTSBURG, May 28.—The fifth annual convention of the Assoclated Western Yale Clubs, which will be attended tomorrow | by President Taft, Secretary of State | Knox and many other notable men, began | here stoday. Excepting a smoker at the Pittsburg club tonight the program today is unimportant, While today Is “Yale day,” the important events in connection with the convention will not take place until tomorrow, which is “Taft and Yale day.” President Taft will arrive here Saturday morning, going to the home of Thomas K. Laughlin, jr., | Woodlawn Road, Mrs. Laughlin being a sister of Mrs. Taft An hour later the president, escorted by Secretary Knox and others, will proceed to Arsenal park, wheie | he will assist in the dedication of a drink- | Ing fountain erected by the Daughters of 18122 On his way to the park the presi- dent will visit the Rodeph Shalom temple (Rabbi Dr. J. Leonard Levy pastor), whare he will make a short address to the con- gregation at noon. I The guests, with the entire conventlon | body, will be taken ig automobiles to the Allegheny Country club. A buffet lunch- eon, golf, tennis, base ball and other sports will be indulged ir. In the evening ‘he Two strangers spent some time on the floor of the senate yesterday against the rules and RUSH TELLS OF RANDICAPS Special Assistant Attorney General Home from Tulsa. OKLAHOMANS FIGHT FOR TIME Land Fraud Defendants Had They Might Escape Through Statute of Limitations, De- clares Prosecutor. Special Assistant Attérney General S. of the Interior department returned evening from Tulsa and Muskogee, where they have been government’s interests in land and lot frauds, which have just sulted in the re-indictment of Haskell and others. “Two indi Mr. Rush, and another one agalnst against several groups, ready appeared in Only two United employed in the Gregg and myself. States attorneys case, District “More evidence was presented before the | day pre- | men, grand jury at this time than in the Tdea R Rush and Special Inspector E. B. Lennon last Okl., looking after the the Muskogee re- Governor ments were returned,” said | the whole outfit | attic, the names of the indicted parties having al- | the press dispatches. | were | Attorney | Krolik JE COPY TWO CENTS THREE MEN PICKED AS RIGHT ONES ITn'o Arrested by South Omaha Police Identified as Robbers of Overland Train, TRAINMEN SAY NO MISTAKE Shells Fired at Robbery Identified with Those Children Find. PHOTO OF FOUR MEN IN AUTO Men of Their Description Seen at Rendezvous Afterward. RUN AND SQUAT AS IF SCARED Boys Do Great Service in Effecting Capture of Suspects, WILL SHARE IN ANY REWARD, T00 Officers Confident They Have Bandits and Expect Fourth, BEND EVERY EFFORT TO GET HIM Captives Have Some Cash on Them | =—Unable to Give Clear Account of Themselves—Two Prote Not to Know Onme. registered from the m. Eight mail sacks mails taken by Overland Limited containing the highwaymen 11:20 p. 8 about tur- day were found by John Vavra yesterday in the attic of the Brown Park school Tho find was made by Vavra, who is the Janitor of the school, about 10:30 a. m., but it was not reported to the police unti} after- noon. Vavra was determined to secure his share in the reward, if possible, so he did not the find at Even then, being for some reason unwilling to confida in the South Omaha authorities, ported to Captain Mostyn police department. Captain Mostyn, Willlam T. Canada and Chief John Briggs went at once to the school building and verified the find. C. M. Perkins of the federal mail service, in charge of the investigation, 1dok charge of the mail sacks, which taken to Omaha The sacks were all cut and the contents rifled. It appeared that they were placed in the attic early Sunday morning. During :Ihl‘ day the robbers laid low and sorted out the desired lotters and packages in ihe which afforded an excellent place of concealment. It thought they hid their guns and went into Omaha Sunday night. report once. he re- of the Omaha were 1s Wenves Net Around Men. Next to the finding of the outfit by John Eighteenth and U streets, while at | play on the way home from school Thurs- noon, and the capture of the highway. D. W. Woods, James Gordon and vious case, in which the indictments uarn; Fred Torgensen at 11:30 or 12 p. m. Thu quashed because of the grand jury being | day night, the finding of the mail sacks is larger than the lawful number. son for the discharge of the first jury panel was that most of them been drawn from Muskogee count many of the people were interested The rea-| the most important event of the great 8rand | number of startiing disclosures since the had where | true trail was found. The evidence both elrcumstantial and In the | girect s cloking on the three men with civil sults growing out of the alleged ille- looked as If a vote on paragraph 212 would be promptly obtained. Before Mr. Aldrich | made his request that the paragraph be | agreed to Benator Bristow had taken ad- vantage of opportunity to submit newspaper clippings showing that after the vote of yesterday by which his amend- | meyts reducing the duty on refined sugar | and eliminating the Dutch standard tests hgd been voted down, there had been ad- vance of five points in the siock of Amer- fean Sugar Refining company which, he | maid, showed who had been Interested fn defeating the amendments, Mr. Gore offered an amendment reducing the duty on refined sugar to one per cent | per pound which, he said, he was confident would be voted dewn Mr. Aldrich then called for a vote on the | paragraph fixing the duty on all grades of | sugar. He had responded to his own name | when Mr. Bacon for the time put an end | to the proceeding by entering his protest Mr. Clay immediately took the floor to speak he sugar schedule, to Sugar Combime Band of Thieves. “We are granting favors to the most unconscinoable trust ever organized in the United States,” he declared, speaking with great “A band of thieves and swind continued, “is robbing the American people and I will retract nothing I have said, for 1 know from investigation of what | have spoken and we should not Elve the trust free sugar unless we make @ reduction in the duty on refined HUgar After ng reminded that nts amendment provided for a ‘reduction on refined sug Wwithout an equivalent reduction on crude. Mr. Gore withdrew it in favor of that formerly presented by Mr. Clay, which p vided for practically cutting in haif t duties of the blll both on raw and refi sugar Fointing out that this amendment wouid 50 reduce the duty on rawhsugar as to in- Jure the beet sugar industry, Mr. Bristow Protested against it, although his course has been to advoeste a lowering of duties in the bil. paragraph relating to raw and re- A sugar was then adopted as recom- mended by the committee on finance, with the understanding that Mr. Aldrich him- Belf would ask for a reconsideration of the gection when Mr. Clay was prepared to offer and speak on his amendment The section relating to maple sugar and maple syrup, placing a duty of ¢ cents per pound on each; taxing glucose 1% cents per pound and sugarcane in its natural Fate 2 per cent ad valorem, was agreed 10 by a viva voce vote. The section Increasing the duty on sac- ¢harine from 5 to 75 cents per pound was oEreed t0. The sugar schedule being com- Pleted, the tobaceo schedule was passed vigor s, he some | oo Commereial Travelers Meet. PITTSBURG, Kan, May 28—With 2,500 delegates from Kansas and Oklahoma attendance the interstate convention of United Commercial Traveiers began here in | ent who made part of the trip with a mall | train today may be taken as indicative of the abnormal pressure just now existing in | | the strike dlstrict. *This is a white man's | (Continued on Fifth Page.) Traveling Men Aid Waifs ' The traveling men of Omaha have en- tered the breach in behalf of the bhild Saving Institute in its effort to raise its §75,000 building fund by June 1, 80 as tQ secure the 325,000 gift of Mr. George A. Toslyn, and members of a committee appointed to take charge of the work believe they will secure at least $1,000 for the fund in the next two days. The Travelers' Protective association In charge of this new effort to se- cure the required amount in time, and & committee of six has been appointed. Subscriptions from traveling men or ex- traveling men can be sent to any mems- ber of this committee or to the insti- tute's headquarters in the Board of Trade building. V. G. Lindgren is chairman of the committee which 1s composed of Charles E. Hopper, W. D, Eck, C. O. Lobeck, C. Patrick and Frank Colvin The secretary of the Travelers' Prbtective assoclation has headed tne list with an amount considerably in ex- cess of §1, and any others can contri- bute larger sums if the wish. The ap- peal to the traveling men is for §1 sub- scription, however, and knights of the grip anywhere in the vicinity of Omaha are requested by the commitiee t0 send # or 8, or more, for the fund. “Our Ust™s already started and 1 be- leve that the names of fully 1,00 travel- ing men can be secured by June 1" said Chairman Lindgren of the committée, “The boys who knock around among all kinds of people, In all kinds of weather, have the biggest kind of hearts, and if we do not roll up at least $1.000 for the fund in the next two days I, for one, will be greatly disappointed. All that is necessary is to let the boys know what we are doing, and they will come 10 the rescue In fine style.” All traveling men in Omaha are re- Quested to leave their subscriptions with the clerk and Mr. Lindgren will call for them. Those Sundaying in other hotels are requested to make up lists and mail them Sunday night to the committee. Something over $3.00 must be raised by June 1 if the Josiyn gift is to be se- cured. The officlals of the institute have declded not to again ask for an extension, since Mr. Joslyn has already twice extended the time. | The traveling men have already sub- || scribed §23.60, as follows: Charles L. Hopper €. O. Lobeck Victor G. Lindgren.. Frank Clavin 3 W. S. Sheldon John W. Ryan W. D. Eck.. H E E C » E. R Bl G. F. Stepp...... Leo Barvel ... E. B. Gesman F. Milmlke B issatints J. W. Roach. b 1 Total : 33 This list, added to the other subscrip- tion brings the total up to $71,686.32, leaving $5,3868 yet to be raised. Of- ficials of the institute belleve there are at least 5,000 people in Omaha willing to give §1 to the fund. If they are un able to send the money in, & messenger will be sent after it if the name and ad dress will be telephoned to 2061 Later subscriptions, including the money given by the traveling men, are as tollows: o 00 F w1 Al | w0 00 0 0 % .00 w0 810 bes 3 Douglas Previously acknowledged Woman's” Alllance of Unitarian church . Ladies' Ald society Avenue church : Ladies' club, Springfield, Neb . Chapter K. P. E. O. society Lincoin, Neb........... 3 A friend .. % L Mrs. M Mrs. Miss Alice Ferris. Mrs. BE_E E. E. Zimmerma: Reed Zimmerman Mr_and Mrs. H. W J. R._Flemming Mrs. F. M. Chitman Miss Gerirude L. Bailey Charlote Hiteh ... 4 Bernice Hitch Louise Hitch Traveling men Total.... of Lowe Hitch. Zimmerman ——— Le8228825322882 | two { will be held to in the Presbyterian church, The report rebukes the Tennessee courts for presuming to pass judgment upon mat- ters of church doctrine, It recognizes the right of courts to pass upon disputes con- | cerning property, but where a religious be- | lief 15 concerned the report contended that this shall be in the church councils. recommendations of the assembly of 1%6 which che union of churches was ef tected. The report of the committee was based on the local action begun by anti- consolidation members of the Cumberland chureh wherein they were supported by the Tennessee courts and given possession of a number of valuable churches which oth- erwise would heve become the property of the United church. It was the contention In these suits that the union forced mem- bers of the Cumberland church to recos: nize doctrines different from the one (o which they had originally subseribed adjudicated at Restaurant. —Four armed men 444 Seventh avenue customers and Armed Men Hold U N YORK, May % invaded a restaurant at today, held up the twenty made their escape. One of the robbers guarded the door, another covered the cashier with his revolver, while the other robbed the customers. They are he lieved to be members of a notorious East Side gang. One man’s meat is another man’s poison. You may want what the other man is glad to sell for a song. Under the head of “Offered for Sale’” is most everything you can think of. Make it a practice to read these ads. You will find it will be more than worth your time. You will find real bargains every day on the want ad. pages, that will save you money, Have you, read the want ads yet today? party will attend the annual banquet of the | Assoclated Western Yale Clubs at the | Fort Pitt hotel | The president will remain in Pittsburg until Sunday evening, when he will depart for Gettysburg, Pa. Sunday morning Pres- ident Taft will attend services at the First Unitarian church. TWO MORE OF ALMA GANG ‘thrfll Carroll Finds Men Who Es- Minden at caped Julesburg. ALMA, Neb, May 2.—(Speclal.)—Sheritt Carroll has returned from Julesburg, Colo., with Orin Galvin 29 Owen Dalley, are belleved to beTmplicated {publican City merchandise robbery. The | young men were known around Minden as | Claude Smith ana Pat Crowe. It is also belleved they are implicated in the Keene bank robbery and the Wilcox |saloon holdup, as a search of their be- longings revealed a kit of tools and masks. When young Aable and O'Brien were ar- rested recently here Galvin and Dafley J=ft Minden, where they had been living, Bnd were not found until Sherift Carrol! ited them at Julesburg O'Brien was arrested a second upon the discovery of new under $2,000 bonds. The assembly also reaffirmed the | who the Charles time Wednesday evidence and put in the Re- | gal lot transactions. asked the panel be other drawn, to the interests of the government discharged and “Attorney Mott, who has been frequently wa. referred to In the press dispatches not associated with the government torneys, he is the attorney for Creek nation, and is not officer at all, and took no case. as part in Special Agent Army a Myth. “Neither had the government an ot speclal agents in the field to work evidence against the defendants were but five or six special agents after the g “An information or complaint against the editor of Democrat for eontempt of court persistent and villainous attempts fluence the grand jury. to mitted for contempt “I was even in the interest of Mr all accused of about every calendar. Fortunately the filed against by the outraged homans have only been filed charged with being crime in us with the (Continued on Second Page.) For this reason we | an- | which was more satisfactory the | a government the army up There | there, and they were wanted to look specifically tlemen who wanted to culti- vate an acquaintance with the grand jury was filed the Tulsa Evening for his in-| T He has been cited to show cause why he should not be com- there Hearst, and we were the indictments Okla NEW YORK, May 25.—The will of late Henry H. Rogers was filed for probate here today. The leaves all his to his widow, children and rela- the exception of $100,000 willed of Fairhaven, Mass., testator property tives with to the use of town the primary and glammar schools of that community Rogers divided his into four trust funds. residuary estate the benefit When the children attain the age of 4 years they to receive one-half of the principal of the trust created for their benefit, the other half is to be held in trust during the life of each child No estimate of was given The four children of Mr. Rogers' wiil ehare equally in his residuary are named in his will as follows Anne Engle Benjamin, Clara Leland one for of each of his children. the value of the estate who estate the | or the | are each | Rogers” Will Gives Fund . to Schools of Native Town Broughton, Mae Huttleston Rogers It Rogers Coe and gard to bequests shall be the bequest of the litigant The will gives to the widow the a trust fund provide an annuity of $2,600,000 her 2,000,000 tor to the residuary estate. Mr estate there Rogers, ir. Various trusts to his son, gating $500,000, of Mrs, Rogers' collateral relatives income from these trusts is to be paid the various beneficiaries during their lives. and upon their death the Principal of the the residuary trust funds will revert to estate of the testator, Henr provided in the will that the cost of any litigation that may be instituted in re- deducted from use of the New York City residence and sets aside of $100,00. At her death thi§ trust fund is to be returned Rogers leaves his residence at Fairhaven, Mass., and his Henry H ranging In amounts trom | 310,000 10 5200000 each, and altogether aggre- are created for the benefit The | positive certainty. EMick R. Mickeljohn and Herman Prawl, engineer and fireman of the Overland Limited truin, arrived in South Omaha yes- terday afternoon at 5.3 p. m. and iden tified Torgensen and Woods as the men Who climbed over the cab and held them up forcing them to stop the train. Tor- gensen was recognized mostly by his voice and movements and general outline; Woods by his heavy shoulders, complexion, scanty hair and his height Emil Kslaum, a workman in 1. J. Hurt's elevator, two men Friday morning, May 21, on the Unfon Pacific right of way apparently examining the ground and | 10oking about. He was working inside and they approached He identi- fied Woods and as being the men he saw. He says he saw them prac- tieing with automatic guns under a bridge on the right of way rthermore, the thr bers were brought in room in South Omaha positively identified by a8 the the Brown saw the elevator Torgensen e alleged train rob- the police ecourt last evening and the five school ehil- men scen prowling around Park school building Sunday and Monday. One of the boys recognized {Wo das the man who told him to eay [that he knew him in case he was asked | to identity h slating that Wood lved about there place in by some Collapse Under Scruting, Vavara, the fani building, also recognized 4 gave a fair description Then three men up for identification u children and janitors. Tor- | Bensen almost collapred and Wood lost a Gordon looked and hadn't a friend | A R Bentz ana tors of the the three the John scho men ar fourth told to school we stand | by 1\ the world F. B. Hart, o farmer terday two of the |as prowling about the empty |Camp 4 of the Kilpatrick within 30 yards of his hom. there twice or {nto the empty house watching them they An important ¢ 0 identified yes- d Gordon, house at Bros.' camp, +He saw them times, trying to get but discovering Hart finally went away. ie found In the loft of the school house segm to lead to the prob- ability that these mien may have had some- thing to do with the Spokane robbery. This was a small pocket glass, with a pleture of the Union station Spokane on the back. The glass new one, of the souvenir kind, and evidently had fallen out of the pocket of the men while climb up into the loft has b of the | en, three w at Sueh in the events in the ¢ men John mai ptur 1 the course three highway- Krollk discovered the cache the had hidden their guns and ammunition, and the blue polka- dot handkerchiefs which hid the faces of three of them. The boy Is sald to have to since where mer

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