Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 12, 1915, Page 1

v The sure way to satisfy Your wants is through use of the want-ad pages of The Bee. Try a Bee want ad. ——— VOL. XLIV-NO. BELGIAN RELIEF SHIP SUNK BY A MINE OR SHELL British Steamer Harpalyce, Char. tered by Aid Commission, Lost with Twenty-8ix Men in North Sea. Vessel Believed on Return Trip After Bearing Load to Suffer- ers from New York State. FIFTY.-THREE ABOARD CRAFT ROTTERDAM, April 11.—(Via London, April 11.)—The British steamer, Harpalyce, the first relief boat of New York state, and under charter to the Commission for Relief in Belgium, has either been tor- pedoed or sunk by a mine in the North Sea. X The Dutch steamer, Rlisabeth, on its voyage from Rotterdam for New York, picked up twenty-two of the crew of the Harpalyce seven THE WEATHER Fair —_ = - — — — — —— — —— :’ OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL COPY TWO CENTS. WHAT DAMAGE AN AIRSHIP MAY DO IN WAR—Effect of a bomb dropped from a Zoppelin during the recent raid by air on Paris. miles northeast of Noordhinder light- ship and brought them back to Rot- S S 5 GIVEN KNOGROUT Conmoree Bnider JOBHOLDER' LOBBY |Another German | Catharina, picked up five meén and took them to Nieuwe Waterwes. The steamer carried a crew of fifty- three men, twenty-six of whom, it n' feared, have been drowned. Those rescued’ by the Elisabeth in- cluded the second mate and the sec- on engineer, the latter in a wounded condition. The Harpalyce, under its charter to the Belglan Relief commission, had a permit securing immunity from attack. The Harpalyce, which was of 3,691 tons, was a comparatively new steamer, owned by J. and C. Harri- son of London, It sailed from New York March 7 with more than 11,000 individual gifts (ol: the relief of the Belglans, and arrived at Rotterdam House Postpones Bill to Extend Terms of Office Holders Until 1918. ROUGH TREATMENT FOR BILL (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, April 11.—(Special.)— Like the boy who stoed on the burn- ing deck when the raging flames; made hot the peanuts by the peck, Speaker Jackson stood by his desk yesterday in the face of a lobby of county officials hanging over the rall and with a resounding whack of his gavel sounded the death knell to | the bill intended to extend their terms two years without the trouble Enters U. 8. Port NEWPORT NEWS, Va., April 11.=The German auxiliary cruiser Kronpring Wil- helm, another of the elusive searchers Which have been destroying commerce since the outbreak of the war, arrived in Hampton Roads this morning. NORTON HAS ENTIRE LEGISLATURE AT BAY German Polk County Member Makes Them All Do His Bidding on Appropriations. of a re-election, DOUBT WHETHER THEY SUBMIT March 80. It is presumed that Jhe Wilson Pegved as . our submarines.” Harpalyce’s earge had been unloaded and that it was on its return voyage. It was commanded by Captain Frank Wamn, who, prior to his departure from New York, declared that he was not worried about’mines sub- N Army Officers Ask U. 8. Be Protected | WASHINGTON, Aprfl 11.—Represtnta- tive Gardner of Massachusetts gave & dinner st night to the reserve army of the United States. Eight of the six- teen reservists attended. Mr. Gardner referred to the recent loss of the submarineé F-4, which he char- | acterized as a\'‘gruesome comment on ! Secretary Daniels’ poliéy of peaceful | persuaeion and pretense of preparedness.’; | “The loss of life of the ¥-4' said he, | | “is due 1o Secretary Danlels' neglect af i Mr. Gardner related an incident, which! he sald, occurred a year ago when “in| the minds of many people there was' serious danger of international trouble | in the Paciffc ocean.”” A joint hoard of | terence report of Tt was the gavel swung by the géod right hand of the speaker that choked off an avalanche of hot air which was about to be precipitated upon the assembly and when the thing had been done, remarks were made that the speaker had pulled oft‘the best stunt of his career. The Question: was o the adoption of the con- to ‘confer witli-a Hke con se from senate. 3 Opposition Overwhelmin The speaker did mol, 4s might be sup- posed, take snap judgment on the ques- t16n. He merely DUt to a vote the econ- ference report in !P.h ‘regular manner after the question involved had been up for discussion several \times. All the members understood it perfectly and were ready to vote upon it. The majority was at least ten to one for indefinitely post- poning the bill. Where the disappointment of the of« | ficenolding lobbylsts and thelr friends|first one. came in was over the faflure to delay a final vote untll enough opponents of the scheme had gone home so that they could finally smuggle it through. A substitute motion had been sent up to the clerk’s desk with this object in view, but the Dflt'.lllg of the first motion eliminated the second one from consideration. Reconsideration Mave Fgils. Mr. Richmond immediately moved to reconsider, but another member Sprung army and navy officers, he shid, went to President Wilson with recommenda- tions that certain precautions be taken immedtately. “The president gasped with anger at the proposal to take/a recess, which cas- vied. It is believed that if anothen at- tempt should be made to reconsider it will fall, as fifty-one votes are required. the effrontery of these distinguished of- ficers,” sald Representative Gardner, “and veremptorily forbade the board to meet again. If this statement of mine 1s denied T challenge the president to per- mit & public investigation.” CHARGES SON SHANGHAIED ON VESSEL TO HIS DEATH ! | NEW ORLIANE, La., April ll—Charges that George M. Farmer was shanghaied | aboard the British mule ship Anglo-Aus- | tralian here and that severe treatment | afterwards wag contributory to his death were made in a 310000 libel suit filed against the vessel here today by Edward Farmer, his father, Young Farmer died | three days after the veasel left New Or- leans February 17 for Avonmo(th, In the petition the father charges that Farmer was taken aboard the vessel in an intoxicated condition and lashed to a stanchion. s 'treatment, the petition sets forth, resulted in a fit and he dled without attention. The Weather Temperature at Omabs Yesterday. f B PETUSEVIPPPPPPrP Comparative Local Reco: 1915, \9::. 1913. 1912, Highest yesterday...... 6 “ T In!t‘.l yesterday £ 2 4 B Mean temperature £ N © & Precipitation T 0 00 .03 Temperature and precipitation depar- tures from the normal: Normal temperature .........,, Y Fxcess, tor the day...........0 01 11T g Total deficlency since March 1... 140 | Normal precipitation ............ 10 inch Deficiency for the day.......... 10 inch Total rainfali since March 1 Deficiency arch 1. .. in: Kllchn;-) for cor. w”“;fl'z““ ’glm-)': cess for cor. period, 2.53 inches L. A. WELSH, lLocal Forecaster. ch | On behdlf of the Lancaster county of- ficeholders Mr. Mockett had moved in the house Friday afternoon that the con- ference committee be directed to report on Baturday. The conmmittee merely ro- ported Saturday morning that it would ke to have more time, which was al- lowed, Unknown to Mr. Mockett, tiie commit- tee later handed up a second report re- commending indefinite postponement. Just before noon Mockett spoke on a question of pesonal privilege and repled to & news- paper criticism of his activity in helping out the officeholders’ lobby. In doing %0, he intimated that the conference com-| mittee had been “playing horse.”” Negley, Sorensen and Cronin, the three members of the cobmmittee all réplied to Mockett Mr. Cronin's remarks were especially caustic, Roawts Otticcholders. “I deny the slurs that the gentleman from Lancastér Las’ cast upon the com- mittee,” sald Cronin. “If dilatory tacti have been attempted it is he and bis crowd who have uged them, ‘Our report 18 now on the clerk’s desk and was there when Mr. Mockett arose to ‘make his grandstand play. 1 want to say about this county officeholders’ lobby, which has been hanging around here all winter, that its members are not deing\ their duty by thefr people when they \wnd their time In this way." The conference report was that the matter should be left to the next legis- Iature and that House Roll 6 be indefin- itely postponed. Mr. Scett moved to adopt it and the motion carried with a chorus of “ayes’ which almost raised the roof. EFFICIENCY SURVEY FOR STATE DEPARTMENTS (From a Btaff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, April 11.—(Special)~The state efficlency survey commission, as proposed in House Roll No. &2, found op- position when it came up on third readjng in the senate yesterday. It finslly carried, hiowever. by a vete of 18 for to 12 against The bill creates a commission to make a report thereon to the next legislature, Tt carries an appropriation of #4000 for the expenses of the commission. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, April 11.-—(Special.) ~The Norton scheme of appointing in advance one committee from the house to act as a conference commit- -on all the mm tion bills wil)| g‘: Ry Do ) i§ a4 may not come tomorrow, K The committee from the house has four bills to confer on, all importat. | The senate, in order to rush mat- ters, appointed a different commit- tee for each bill, but on account of the house having but one committee, three of these committees will have got to wait their turn until the house | committee can finish its work on the Meanwhile the members sit around doing nothing and the employes continue to draw their salarles. Could a committee have bean appointed on each bill, all might have been working at the same time and the work cleaned up much sooner, The eonference committees from the senate are as follows: 7 H. R. 760, Salaries Bfll~Brookley, Wink gln%ifl)—xnl. wi- n - eries race, Saund- and H, R. 567, : Miscellaneous Bills—Kohl, Bulirman and Bushee. R. 753, Claims Bill-Weesner, Kohl and Lahners. - Wi R A6 University ~Levy—Mallery, flson of ge and lson of Frontier. Some of the members are wondering if In the 100 members of the house, there are only two men besides himself to whom Mr. Norton can trust the adjust- ment of the difficulties which his economy plan has brought about. Members of the senate are much wrought up over being compelled to stay | doing nothing. | Berlin Taking Over | Private Street- Car - and Bushee H. R. 751 son of And Light Systems BERLIN, April 1L—(By . Wireless to Sayville, N. Y)-The Overseas News agency today gave out the following: “In the midst of the world conflagra- tion the Berlin municipal administration is undertaiing the gigantic enterprise of buying and conducting the Berlin Elec- trical works. The municipal council has unanimously appropriated 130,000,000 marks for the purpose of obtaining the street car system and assuring cheap electrieity for the citizens “At the same time the suburb of Sehoenberg iw extending a large sum for an extension of Its underground lines and Berlin is building a new line connects ing the northern and southern parts of the eity. | “The foreign office at Vienna has pub- lished a red book containing nearly %0 official documents concerning violations of international laws by hostile govern- ments since the outbregk of the war. These reports disclose sstounding cfuel- ties Russian invaders and Serbian irregulars.” Villa and Obregon Not Fi_gpting Now EL PASO, Téx. April 1L.—-Nc further fighting was reported here between the {survey of the efficlency of the varions{Villa and Obregon forces, which clashed 183 inches | departments of state government and to |this week between Irapuato and Quere- taro. Villa remained at Irapuato, pre- paring to attempt to disiodge the Car- ransa troops from Celhya. LAW MAKERS PUT IN SUNDAY AT WORK Anti-Discrimination Insurance Idea Finally Postponed by the Senate Members. REDISTRICTING BILL THROUGH (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, April 11.—(8pecial.)- ~‘ Members of the legislature who have formed the church-going habit since coming under the environment of the ‘“Holy City” broke over this morning and attended a short session of the legislature instead. ¥ In the senate five bills were passed on third reading, and in com- mittee of the whole one bill was or- dered engrossed for third reading and two killed. One of those killed was House Roll No. 591, which had been amended so that it was a sub- stitute for Senate File No. 46, the insurance bill killed {g the house last weok, Amendments to the bill were l!::p::'ll to “postpone - indefinitely, the roll call showed 14 for death and 13 for its salva- tion. . Bills Passed by Senate. The following bllls were passed: . #0000 Tor 1601 una. mouth disease " Aper one. H. R. 106, Smith—Authorizes state auditor to accept in ull amounts due on old claims from counties ow ux’ on counts, without interest. es, h 14, Larsen—Authorizes Douglas county to avouire lend and erect work- house, and issued bonds for purchase of Eime: emersency. Ayes, ¥; noes, none. H. R. #3~Repeals junior normal school act, Ayes, 22 noes, 6. H, R. 37, Peterson—Allows county com- thissloners of Lancaster county to fix salary of clerk (o county judge. Ayes, 24; 0, 1. Passed in Spite of Introducer, A communication was received in the ;n-u from Representyiive Palmer of u No. 420, be Indefinitely postponed. The bill required justices of the peace to pay all feen in excess of $1,000 into the county treasury. The bill was passed at the ses- sion fast night and so the communication came t00 late. The senate corference covimittee con- curred-in the amendments of the house on senate file No. 161, providing for full valuation of all real estate, but levy shall be made on a 20 per cent valuation. House roll No. 8%, by Reynolds, pro- viding for creation of water power dis- tricts, was recommended to pass in com- mittee of the whole. Redistricting BIll Favored. Ovzi in the house a short session wi held &nd house roll No, 413, the Nichol bill providing for a redistricting of the Eighth and Ninth judiclal districts, was taken up. The original bill provided for the taking of Stanton county from the Eighth district and placing it in the Ninth and providing an extra judge for the lat- ter district. The senate amended the bill by taking Cuming county also from the Elghth district Ninth. Peterson of Lancaster dttempted to get an amendment in ‘providihg for a fourth judge in the Lancaster county dist colirt, but this falled and the bill L] adopted, with the two districts affected now standing as follows: Bighth—Cedar, Dakota, Thurston, with one judge. Ninth—Aptelope, Kiiox, Madison, Plerce, ‘Wayne, Stanton and Cuming, with two Judges. Not knowing a ball game had Dixon and been scheduled for this afternoon at the league | park, the two houses quit with the under- standing that another session would be held after lunch Among the bille cleaned up this after- noon was H. R. 4, the Llindgren-Negley loan shark bill tee agreed to the senate amendments which reduce the yearly interest to from 2 to 35 per cent and the license from $100 to $60. Both houses cleanedyup ali bills before them and nothing s left now but to walt for the conference commlittee reports. Colonel Nelson Suffers Relapse KANBAS OITY, Mo., April 11.—(Special Telegram.)—W. R. Nelson, owner of thg |the repainting of the landscape on the cases. Kansas City Star, who was belleved on |cefling that has been a source of worry | Among other bills recommended was the road to recovery from bis recent ili- [to Senator Quinby all through the ses- |the measire for a year-round registration today and his |sion, was also ardered, the whele cost not (of voters in Lincoln at the city clerk's ness, suffered a relapse condition s sald 10 be critical. o L4 , asking that his bill, house roll | and putting it in the | The conference commit- | 1 | W, R, BURBANK OF [FONTENELLE IS | President and General Manager of | the Big Hotel Expires from l Heart Failure in His | Apartment. |HAD BEEN ILL POR WEEKS ! Strain of Planning and Opening Big Hostelry Too Much for His | Freil Constitution. HIS CAREER AS HOTET. MAN Willlam R. Burban, president and gendral manager of the Hotel Fon: {tenelle, died shortly after § o'clock Saturday evening. The cause of bis death was heart failure. Mr. ! Burbank _had been under an intense nervous strain brough' on by worry over the building and opening of the | hotel | Arthur N. Cole, secretary | hotel company, sald that about o'clock he went up to Mr. Burbank's | apartment, where he had been par- | tially confined for the last two or| three days, with some letters for! him. They talked over the business| and during their discussion, Mr, Bur-| bank sald, as he signed a letter. ‘‘Have you ever seen a better signa- of the s retired. Falls Dead in Bed. Along toward ® o'clock . the family nurse went into the room to @ve him & cup of broth. He complained to her {that he had a hard time gettmg his breath. While she was still in the room Ihe tell back on the bed, apparently dead, IThat frightened the girl and ‘she im- | medtateiy caMed the office by telephone. |mre than that?” Mr. Burbank then | His wite was called at once, and also | Dr. W. O. Henry, who lives at the hotel. Mr. Burbank never regained coneclous- ness. He was dead before Dr. Henry could get there. Dr. Henry sald that 'd:l:‘l‘:‘ was undoubtedly due to Ml"?b.!lllfl‘ldl both in the Clmtluu,"“ remained firm, and simultane- -} Mr. Burbank was o member of the nd in the Woevre district of France, | OU¢ly has attacked the German froht 'S Omaha club, the Commercial olub and Mappy Hollow club, and was a Mason. | He came direct to Omnaha from Syra- cuse, N. Y., where he had been manag- ing the Hotel Onondaga. He whs 8 |vears old and was born in_Pittatield, Mass. Mrs. Burbank ix prostrated the death of her husband. iy Relatives Deeply Atfected. . After the death of Willam ¥, Buy- bank, Mre. Burbank vetived and 1efused “sew unyone ‘outside of Felatives, .or make any statéments.. Mr, Bufbank's’ brother was also in seclusion apd would grant po interviews. Both were deeply affected by. the death. Mr. Gregs, of the hotel company, stated that ft was (m- possible to say at presént just what effect this would have on the manage- ment of the hotel. That must wait for |a meeting of the directors of the oper- {ating company, of which Mr. Burbank was president. This meeting will take place in Byracuse, N. Y. Mr. Gregg slso sald that as yet nothing had béen decided definitely concern‘ng the burial, but that the body would in all likelihood be taken east Constdered “Hotel Wisard," At the stockholders’ dinner, which pre- ceded the opening of the Hotel Fontenelle {to the public, President Watties of the Douglas Hotel company, referred to Mr. | Burbank In most enthusfastic terms, “We looked about for a man to take | charge of the management of the hotel, he said, “and among the many who were considered we chose Mr. Burbank because | he seemed most eminently qualitied so il |the bill. We looked up his record, and found him to be not only a hotel expert, but a veritable wizard." This estimate of Mr. Burbank’s ability | was confirmed by Mr. Rafferty of Syra- |cuse, who told of the success that had | come to the Hotel Onondaga in that city | under the management of the man whose | mentus fermed the company that is man- | aging the Fontenelle i Archjtect Kimball also told of the prac- | tieal assistance given him by Mr. Bur. "bank, who had spent most of his time in |Omaba during the construction of the {hotel and whose experience was largely dragvn upon in providing for many of the | Apecial features and comforts of the house. He gave his personal attention Lm the most minute detafls of the ar- rangement and furnishings of the big | hotel, and worked beyond the lmit in ‘tae | task of getting it ready to open on time, | Born in « hotel bearing his family name, and coning from & line of hotelmen, Mr. “]Curb'u\k was by heredity and environ- sian losses, Yesterday we caplured {ment as well as' by experience a capable {2150 prisoners.’ B hotel man himselr. He was born at ——— Good for Pittafield, Mass., In 1871, in the Burbank | — — {house conducted by his {:nwr, vvnu:m'Turks Occupy 25 A 3 | : 9 (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) | cts. or £ , . City of Hamadan| 23 cts. or 50 cts. . sena,tors t() Buy | PETROGRAD, Apell 11.~A telegram to| BY SDecial arrangement with 2 ¥ |the Bourse Gaséfte from Tiflis, Trans- | the Management for the bene. i Desks and Ch&ll‘s; Caucasia, says that the Turks have occu- | fit Of Bee readers, Observe Order New Fresco { (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, April 1L—(Special Telegram.) |=The senate in a session held last night { with just enough present to constitute | majority passed several bills of a minos | nature, making a record of forty-six. for |the day. The members will meet at 10 |o'clock in the morning again, but it is {not expected that business will . be | transacted | Before recess today the senate un- ;lnlm:)uah adopted a resolution authoris- I the secretary of state to WUy before ithe next wession, thirty-three desks for |the members, und aix for the newspaper | men of medern construction and large | enough to hold the books and papers | needed. “A new ocarpet and chairs, and o exceed $,000. DEAD FROM WORK ;PONTENELLE HOTEL MANAGER | | 'WHO DIED SATURDAY NIGHT. 30,000 FALL IN A VAIN DEFENSE OF LES EPARGES Germans Told to Hold Great Port-' ress Against French in the Woevre Distriot at Any Cost. NO SACRIFICE THOUGHT T0O BIG — { General Says He Would See Entire Corps of Hundred Thousand Lost to Save Position. GAULS ARE urr_nnm WEDGE { ez, T I The Day's War Newc‘ f| SLAYS' ADVANGE | Russians Admit Failure to Capture Hill Held by Germans Between Uzsok and Beskid Passes. HUGE TASK OF KAISER'S MEN FIGHTING AROUND Les Eparmes, fw) the Waevre diatrict of France, doring the Jast two m for mans 30,000 me THIS IS THE ESTIMATE made by t Fremch War offiee. It ane 4 nees atill farther by { he French forces in (Nelr furious lnughts upon the Gorman Tines, | between WULLETIN, ! LONDON, April 11.—The latest Russian officlal statement says that | the Muscovites took the offensive in | the direction of Mezolabores and dis- {lodged the opposing forces from ‘Wirawa. The Russians also ufituud | Helght 909, a much disputed posi- {tion, which means, they oclaim, that the enemy has been driven back | throwghout the whole of the prinei- pal chain of the Carpathian moun- tains in the region of the Russian of- fensive, LONDON, .April 11.—There e been a considerable extension of the the protecting wall for Mets, areat fortress of Alsnce-Lorraine, IN THE CARPATHIANS the the, German and Austrians | forees to the east of Ussok. { LONDON, April 11,-~The French army in the Woevre 1s hammer- Ing at the two sides of the German . | | wedge, which was driven into the - French . lines as far as St. Mihiel early in the war and Which thus far o which passes close to the Lorraine where fighting of extreme violence f i border between Nancy and Chateau continues by day and night, without; Salins, | et E however, any definite decision having been reached. i | The Russians have made them- selves masters of the prineipal chain | | of mountains on the German forces, | which uold Aillg from® the latier pass emst- ward to the Beskid pass. | This section of ‘the CArbathiuns ' has been -the scend, since early February of | mhany flerce oncountérs betwean - the . | Gormans, ‘who were sent: to Nelp ' the |, All the other attacks the Germaris claim. | Audtrians n thelr frultless efforts to |to have osses B, {rolieve Priomysl and the Russian army | prench. s smrey i 0 Wit {whose task it was to hold ‘them back g until the fall of the fortress, Party Odtieial Siatesnss, ‘ i Given Another Task. i ‘fi‘“'" (vie. London, April 11.—~The fol- | Now, this (lerman army has. been |!O¥In& official statement regarding tre |®iven another task—that of trying to|"TCET®S® of the campaign was issied by the war office today: # {prevent the Ryssians from straightening - | “Between the Meuse and the Mosells 4 {out their line, whicli is necessary. before the invasion of Huugary {s undertaken, {¥© have retained all the ground gained {It 48 apparent that this . army hag {00 have made fresh progress. Between {Aucceoded In ut léast checking the Rus-|the Orne and the Meuse there have been {#lan advance as the Austrian official |10 engagements. > report ~laims letory for the Germans | ‘At Les Eparges the enemny has under 8 In this section while the Russians admit (taken no action, either with infantry or b that they have been unable to capturs |artillery, and the day passed quietly. The hill 32, while lies about midway between | whole position is in our hands and i Uzsok and Beskid passes. ments of prisoners emphasizes the fm- : Aw the Russiang have Immense forces [portance of our snccess, 4 ““The Germana. alnce .the end of Febry- s ! The ‘capture of Les Bparges, on | the northern side of the wedge, ap- pears to have been the most marked’ . . fighting, als | &h the manner in which the Aare counter attacking in, énkit, would' indicate that they feel the French pressure from that di. rection most: severely. {at their disposal and splendid raflways)|’ to take tham to the front, confidence had in ¢ part {18 oxprossed they will ‘succesd, sy they | g1y e ot i £y did in the Laborcza valley, in countering this check. The Britieh military writers, however, warn the public that they must {tire . Twenty-third division ‘of- reserves. Then, toward the end of March, when that dlvision was. exhausted, the Tenth Mot expect o speedy conclusion of the | fo;v 4ivion of the Bitth army corpe, Carpathlan battles, As the Russians uul!.‘m : e best troops of their have serious obetacles to overcome andijilid: WaS.DFOUGHt up. . It ts this division the- further fhey advance through the | ¢D Nas just lost the veritable fortress mountains the more. difficult will be the.|°P¥tructed on the spur of Les Eparges: tasic of keeping thelr armies supplfed. | Ordered to Hold On Germaus Take Helghts. { "The troops haa " VIENNA, April 11.—~Via Londan)~Ths | dered to hold on at 1:‘".;::...:? t:?" b Austrian war department today Fave out (told that the position was of the cor the following official statement: |tmportance and their po sz “In the wooded mountains to the east ! in order to keep it ne :"‘.‘d"‘ sai1 that of Ussok pasa sevese fighting opened | aivigion, or the pions m‘“‘ "'"'"N the g |yesterday. German troops captured 8 |if necessars 4'0f 100,00 men, ! (helght to the north of Tucholwa, whioh “The. o p |since April 5 had bedn hotly conteated | Ases suffered by the Germans { {and stubbornly détended by the Rus- |\ '4* EParges duritng the last two {lans. 9me coionel and more than 1,000 MO &mounted to 30,00 men. ¥ {men weie captured and fifteen machine | suns were taken. Strong attacks against the German | ,und our poritions In Opor valley, in the | district of Stry), ‘failed with severe Ruse Free Coupon Hamadan, a city of Persia 165 miles ithwest of Teheran. Humadan Is a station for the com- | merce between Bagdad, Tabriz, Ispahan | and Teheran. Tt has a population of | about 25,000 COUNTIES MUST BRING I BACK THEIR FUGITIVES | (Prom a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, April 11 —(Special)—Over the ouposition of Sandall of York, the sen- ate committee of the whole yesterday recommended for passage the Dbill re- quiring the counties to - pay the ex- penses of returning fugitives from justice, hitherto borne by the state. The mem- Iber from York was fearful thatl county boards through a desire for encomomy might cause justice to wiscarry in some strictly the conditions and limg. tations stipulated.in the noulpl:l‘l. 3 This Bee Coupon Entitles Bearer to one 25c¢ or 50c¢ Scat + For the performance of “Talk of New York” At the Boyd Theater, Monday Evening, April 12, Present at Box Office any time prior to performance and get a free admission ticket in addi- tion to the ticket you buy at ". price. !'?u must a coupon for each extra ticket you ask for, offica