Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 26, 1915, Page 1

) Advertising is the pendu- lum that keeps buying and selling in motion. VOL. XLV—NO. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ING OMAITA, THURSDAY MORN AUGUST . 26, NEXT NOTE OF GERMANY TO BE SATISFALTORY attack. N WBBLLE WU aavias wdlin Wik "\ R BELA vuantuiivaLOl £ibvucany | 2 0 Urantulg whal Awerica i 1lusists Un, i DETAILS ARE NOT GIVEN OUT Sources Close to von Bernstorff Re- sponsible for the Infor- | mation. ! SITUATION I1¢ MUCH RELIEVED WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Presi- dent Wilson has been informed un-| officially from sources close to Count von Bernstorff, the Germnn‘ ambassador, that the next rommuni-‘ cation from Berlin on the sinking of' the Arabic would be of a character; satisfactory to the United States. | Coming close on the telegram, Which fw— . the ambassador forwarded to the State! department yvesterday by direction MJREAY[S FINDS 0 his government, declaring it was not the | intention of Germany that any American lives should be sacrificed in the sink- ing of the ship, this development was regarded as indicating that Germany | would make some proposal satisfactory to the United States, respecting sub- marine attack on vessels purely of & passenger carrying nature. Officials are at a loss to conjecturs what the German government will pro- pose, but the assurances that there is| PART OF HIS MISSION CARRIES 0T WHAT RED TAPE I8 Congressman from First Nebraska District Has Roundup with Postoffice Officials. GERMAN SEARCHLIGHT CORPS ON FRENCH FRONT—Cerman scientists have devel- oped these machines to a point of efficiency unsurpassed. This photograph shows a de- tachment of soldiers accompanying a searchlight division on its way to a point of expected GAVE-IN BREAKS ALLEY CONDUITS ;Electric Light Comes in Contact GRAFT INVOLYES "5 mpi i HIGHflC_A_NADIANS | | PART OF CITY IN nu.uul‘l Former Premier and Cabinet lem-i‘ bers Mixed Up in Building | Scandal at Winnipeg. A section of the alley overlooking | theexcavation of the Rose Realty building at Sixteenth and Farnam streets gave way at 6 o'clock last| main and carried with it an electric| | CONTRACTORS GET A RAKEOFF 1916—TWELVE PA( { Back the Victorious i { | { Von Hindenburg Reported to Have | | INVADERS CROSS NAREW RIVER THE WEATHER Showers i e — — SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. GERMANS BREAK ' THE LINES SOUTH OF BRES! LITOYSK Great Fortress Fail to Hold H Teutons. | STATEMENT IS FROM BERLIN Captured Seven Hundred and Fifty Men, | BERLIN, Aug. 256.—The Russian advanced positions to the southwest | Thirty Turks, eight Greeks and three AIR CRAFT SHELL |BALKAN STATES CONSTANTINOPLE, WL ANNOUNGE Forty-One remi- Killed and In- Pus"‘"’]fl SUUI jured by Bombs Dropped by i Russians Into Suburb. i EIGHT GREEKS AMONG nmfl Little Kingdoms Much Nearer De. —_— | termination of Their Attitude LONDON, Aug. 206.—Bombard- ment of the outskirts of Constanti- Tg'"d’:::"w-"m' nople by a Russian aeroplane squad- | ron, resulting in the death or injury TEUTON ADVANCE IS SLOWER for forty-one persons, is announced in a dispatch from Athens to (how!l""r' in Russia Have Reached gy Yo | Dreaded Swamp Region Adja- According to these advices, the a tack was made on Monday on the cent to River Pripet. Asiatic suburbs of Constantinople. . . VES A number of bombs were dropped,| BAINS HAMPER THEIR MO throwing the people Into a panie. LONDON, Aug. 26.~The Balkan of the fortress of Brest-Litovek were broken through yesterday by the| Germans, according to an official an-| nouncement given out today by the! army headquarters staff The text of the “Western theater: In we successfully exploded ‘In the Vosges, an enemy on with hand and Sondernachthnt part of the tre tlons which we captu “A German battle aviator shot down a | French binlane near Neuport i “Bastern theater: Army of Fleld Mar- statement the Kovoral follows | Champagne mines attack m by the hratzmannele was repellod of | grenades, woutheast h we lost on August 17 was re- shal Von Hindenburg, north of the Nie- | men river 7 Russians were take Prine oners during successful engagements In | the neighborhood of Birshi ‘The army of General Von BEichhorn is advanoing victoriously towards the east fighting all the way. This army caps | states are unquestionably nearer de- Armenlans were killed or wounded.| (ormination of their future relations Bembs Buspped Gp Otientare. with the warring powers, but 8o far BERLIN, Aug 2.-(Via Wireless 10,y nag heen announced officlally, na Y.ondon)—An officlal atatement says | defintte step has been taken in the direction of revival of the Balkan that a hostile aviator last night dropped homba' on the town of Offenburg, which fs situated outside the zone of warlike |Jeague and its adhesion to the causa operations. ‘The material damage WAS | o gp o oniante allies. There was no insignificant. Twelve civilans were in- confirmation today of various rumors which excited London, chief of which 14,00 porulation in Baden, situated | WOT® Teports that Buigaria had de- jured, several serfoualy Offenburg ls a manufacturing town of on the Kinslx river, seventeen milee |Clared war ugainst Turkey and south of Karisruhe. | would assist in the attempt to force Turkish Trenches Captured. the Dardanelles, r port IS, Aug. 25.—~A French officlal re- he sit 01 on fighting in the Dardanelles be- The situation sinking of brought about the Arabie by the still {8 eliciting tween August 20 and the morning of|.,mmant from the English press, which August 3% relatos that the British left | r . ot Bl characterizes unofficial German ex- nK h Progress againat the 0ecu- |1, utons as Inadequate, but interprets pants of 80 yards of Turkish trenches | in the northern zone of the fighting, and that a French aviator on August 2 was | efforts to explain the disaster as evi- dence of Germany's realization that its relations with the United States have every desire in Berlin to avold a break s light and power conduit. tured 1,80 Russlans and took sevcral ma- | B "';""k“"‘ sending to the bottom &, . )oq o serious pha b b :'"" Unitd Ml:‘“' i v (From a Staff Correspondent.) { WINNIPEG, Man., Aug. 25. One of the charged wires ignited rh!_'r;‘:‘ gune. J iy i g ‘::‘n“‘“":r";""‘:':"‘::;m out by the| The furlous efforts of the Austro-Ger- situation very much. , y T 1 | “The army of General Von Schol | R Heretofore, Germany has contended WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—(Spe-| charges that enormous overpay-|the gas which flowed from thej — U@ AT o0 abtured Kngunrm | Freneh war office this morning followa: | TR armies along the castern front in the last twenty-four hours have not been as fruitful as usual in respect of the mount of ground gained, which is taken that neutral lvea could not tnsure a bel- | °inal Telegram.) —Cngressman C. F'.| ments were made to the contractors ligerent ship against attack, especlally | Reavis of the First Nebraska distriet, | who erected the new Parliament | those carrying munitions. 1In its reply | who has been in Washington for seV-| i 1qings of the province oof Man- broken main, and electric lights in a downtown area were out for several “The perfod of five days since the {ssulng of the last communication on the | Dardanelles has been marked in the and crossed the Narew river to the south | of Tykocin. “The army of General hours. Von Gallwitz to the first Lusitania note, Germany|eral days, has demonstrated that he proposed to ships, | designate certain ke WHiCH" would: nit. hikve J16./be guardei| D08 MERUBEqRMIlins;: to' My i against submarines. The aim of Presi- | l6ast. Mr. Reavis came to the capital dent Wilson and all administration of-| for the ostensible purpose of seeking ficials to avold a rupture with Germany | an annulment of a proposed change but to do so without any surrender of | {1 mail deliveries in Lincoln and the neutral rights for which the United [ oo States has been contending in the name Naturally his first call was upon of international law, and in humanity, was reflected by officlals informally | the fourth assistant postmaster gen- eral, ames M. Blackslee, who has while discussing this latest phase of the situation. They were hopeful that & dis-| (arge of the rural mails. Mr, Reavis, avowal of the submarine commander's act In sinking the Arabic without warn- ing would be forthcoming, but the ministration is ready to lsten to Ber tional capital, presumed that a log- fcal presentation of reasons why new to the official life of the na-| | ftoba; that these overpayments in | part, at least, were designed to pro- | vide a campaign fund for the recent Roblin goovernment, and that some | members of that government were | | cognizant of what was going on, were | sustained today in the report of the royal commission which inquired into the charges, The three members of the commission, Chiet Justice Mathers, Justice MacDon- | ald end Sir Hugh John MacDonald, Winnipeg city police magistrate, are unanimous in their findings, which were A few minutes before the back, wall of th eexcavation gave Way foreman observed pleces of earth crumbling and he warned twelve con- | crete workmen in time to get out of danger. The break at its deepest point went | hack midway of the alley, storping at | a retaining wall of the basement of the buflding across the alley. Flow of Gas Shut Of The alley had been braced, but the explanation is offered that requent rains onused unusual seepage beneath the sur- faco of the alley. | lin's next word. Sixty-Four Alleged Night Riders on Trial HARTFORD, Ky., Aug. 2%.—Selection of a jury to try the first of a number of cases in which sixty.four persons are charged with participation in night riding outrages in Ohlo county began in the cir- cult court here today. Some of the most prominent men in the county are named in the indictments. The charges range from maltreatment to murder. It is al- leged that a number of men and women, including whites and negroes, recently have been taken from their homes and flogged. The regulators advanced as a reason for their action in one case that the vietims Jacked industry and thrift. The murder case is connected with the killing of a negro. NEWPORT, ARK., STREETS STILL UNDER WATER LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Aug. %.—Food and money have been sent from Little Roock to ald the flood refugees at New- port, who still are living on the second floors of their homes as the result of recent rise In ‘White river. A carload of canned goods and bread was due to arrive in Newport this morning. eries of mails to homes in the vieinity iof th epenitentiary should be | amended, if not wholly abrogated today found out that the fourth as- i sistant’'s office was honeycombed with red tape. He found the fourth assistant posi | master general unresponsive to his ap- |peals for an amelioration of conditions. Argument would not move Mr. Blackslee. Facts had no interest to him. He only {knew that the inspectors stated a saving woulg be made if the mail deliveries Ewerfl reduced and the democratic party must make savings Accomplishes One Reanit, | Thoroughly put out over his treatment | at the hands of the fourth assistant, Mr. | Reavis had a conference with Postmaster { General Burleson, with the result that {the report of the inspectors with rela- ition to Station A, clty of Lincoln, is | disapproved and the station will be con- | tinued, ! A reinvestigation of the change from city carrier to rural delivery in north- west Lincoln and Belmont, hes been | promised. The report of inspectors with reference |to rural deliveries in Lancaster county {has been disapproved In certain minor ]plrllcuhrl and changes will be made to |conform thereto, Notwithstanding a most vigorous pro- test on the part of Mr. Reavis, made to certain reports made by inspectors. yreducing ‘the number of daily deliv- Reports from Newport early today In- |y, 4y, Assistant Postmaster General dicated that conditions there virtually |y o 0 CEI e Postmaster were unchanged. The streets of New-!(Goneral Burieson, no change will be made port still were covered with water vary- | " (ho renort of inspectors, regarding a ing In depth from three to twelve feet. The sewerage system of the town has been destroyed, the water and electr] light and gas plants were out of com- mission, and raliroad communication with the outside world was cut off, The We_ather Foreeast till 7 p. m. Thursday: For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity —Showers. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday. Hour. Tem Ga.m P s ' sa 8 9 a 108 ' Bt 4 ip \\ 2p. 3p. 4D ~ 6 p. 7p.m.. L] m ». 4 Comparative Loecal Record. 1916, 194 1913, 1982 Highest sterda; ™ m 1 I"hul yfixem-yy. 64 61 68 68 ean temperature.. o 0 82 8 Precipitation y K Temperature and precivitation depart- ures from the normal: Normal temperature ............cceeeeees il Deficiency for the day . o | Total deficlency wince March 1...... .. 413 Normal precipitation ; 12 inch Deficlency for the day.. . A2 inch Precipitailon sioce March 1..21.5 inches Exceas since Mareh 1... ® inch Deficloncy for cor. period, 19i4. 5.5 inches Defiglency for cor. beriod, 1913. 5.68 inches Reports from Stations at 7 Station and State of Weather. Cheyenne, cloudy.. Davenport clear Denver cloudy.. Des Molne: City. Valentine, ra T { change on rural routes from two to one | delivery a day. i Mursl Service Cuat. | “The deparfment takes the position,” satd Mr. Reavis today, that two deliver- |les should prevail only in city carrier service and is mot in harmony with the principle of rural service. Two deliveries a day on rural routes have been discon- tinued nationwide. “The service as modified, will go into effect September 1. The postmaster gen | eral has promised to send an Inspector to { Lincoln September 15, to hear objections {to the service after it has been tried." { Representative Reavis and his son, t4| Jack, who have been in Washington | |since Monday, will leave tomorrow for | Falls City. | Department Orders. | WASHINGTON, 4 —(Special Tele- gram.)—Clande A was appointed rural letier carrier at Inavale, Neb., and Walier [I. Clansen at Elkton,'s. D." The ! comptrolier of the curreney has received the application of the following persons to orgamize the First Natlonal bank of | Goodwin, 8. D., Capital P, An itony, J.' A Thornson, Lewison, {Jeseph Hobal, H. E. Rohweder and T. W' iAntony, to succeed the State bank of | Goodwin. New Treatme PARIS, Aug. %.—Dr. Louis Renon, a physician connected with the Necker hospital and a member of the medical taculty of the University of Paris, has announced to the theraputic society that & the result of long research he is abl to prove that tuberculogls, coptrery io the generally accepted theory, must be treated by chemical means and not by serums. His paper has caused consider- able stir in medical circles where it s held that he has opened & new path in the cure of the white plague. Dr. Renon says that his endeavors have been directed towards finding a suv- nt for Tuberculosis . is Discovered by French Scientist published today. Who Contractors Are. Workmen from the Othaha Gas com- pany dug down.te the -main heyong the | Thomas Kelly and Sons are the cons|point of breaxage and shut off the flow tractors nmamed {n the repoft, as hav- of gas. Many thousands of feet of gas | ipg recelved the enormous overpayments. wére burned. The report statos that the commission-| The electric light company sent a ers werv hampersd by the absence of chew of men to the scene and restored material witnesses and the reluctance cf the broken wervice. others to testify, and charges that $26,030 . The lights at the Brandels theater wero was spent in keeping one witness away. lout for a while, but were turned on in Dr, Simpson, charged with having beem time for the performance by connecting the financlal agent, who raised the eloc- | the wires of the theater with an emer- | tion funds out of parllament building 'gency eircuit. | | extras, was not questioned by ®e com- b 1[ B mission, having left for military serv-| ~ paper Man Dies ice in France. | CLEBURN, Tex. Aug. %—Colonel W | e o] ing Baillio, 3 'eXH8 Newspaper man Four ex-cabinet miniaters, Includng . 376 1e'rogident of the National | Messrs, Howden, Coldwell an1 Armstrony, were criticized for their reluctance in testifying and Sir Redmond Roblin, ex- premier, the report said, “made common cause with the contractors to resist ‘he inquiry and took an active part in se- curing for the contractors able counsel for that purpose.” The report charges | that Howden “made many false state- ments” In his evidenco and that the com- misstoners were further handicapped by the destruction and mutilation of records, the refusal of contractors to produce thelr books and thelr withdraw® to o forelgn country to prevent ther being oo ., report says. Popaled. (e e A | GERMAN TROOPS have broken S0it ' the Witnes. | throngh the Russian advanced po- William Salt was the witness alleged | ¢ by the commission to have been bribed | o keep out of Canada during the in-| vestigation. The report finds that Messrs. | Coldwell ang Howden, the ex-cabinet ministers; Thomas Kelly, the contractor; V. W. Horwood, ex-provincal architect; Dr. Stmpson, the conservative organizer; W. A, Elllott, an employe of the public | works department; M. G. Hosk, another employe, who was sent after Salt with $10000 and claims he was robbed in Omaha, and Harry Whitla, K. C,, all in- |lErBl(Pd themselves in keeping Salt out ' of the country and that Mr. Coldwell inspired the alteration of Balt's books. Dr. Simpson dictated the amount to be Press associution, died here today aged o7 TRTH 3R ADVANCES by the forces | of the en in the Darda. | nel reported by the French | war department, the British left | wing having occupled 800 yards ! trenches. A large | French aviator on August 20, the | vak, according to to- | day's German official statement. | AMBASSADOR GERARD, in Berlin, cnlled on the German forelgn min- ister and learned that the German movermment had no official news on the sinking of the It Arable, RUSSIAN AEROPLANE squadron ' uburbs of | BOMBS WERE DROPPED last night by n hostile aviator on the Ger- paid for the election fund before the | - amount of “extras” was settled, aceord- towh .ot Otfenbury, euteble | A . | the war wome, injuring tw ing to the report which claima such [ % TR FORT LR |amounts were paia him by the contractor | ¥ : rliin rveports, when recefved from the government | SINKIN OF ANOTHER Hritish trawler in the coursce of Ge FRENCH 'Two Men Killed by | AVIATOR dropped bombs on the ratirond station at Lormch, southweat of Friborg, the Paris war office says. Only miner operations are reported along the fighting fromt NO GERMAN ' Explosion of Shell | ALLENTOWN, Pa.. Aug. %—Two men | were killed and several prodably fatally READNAUGHTS or/ | injured today when a shell, supposed to mers Was sunk In the veecent have contalned a composition off powder | motfom In th o6 of Rigm, it is ;.md nitro yeerin, exploded wh be semi.officinily wstated in eritn | ing carried to tae proving grounds of the HBethlehem Steel plant at Indian Head, | Reedington, Pa. Nelther did the Germ to lund treops near P | @declared. (stance which will kil bacilli i | organtzation without injuring |ments of that orgamization, As u L gmning he established a list of an‘lsc |ties which arrest the development {bacilil tn cultures. Me also found sub stunces without which baeilll cannot de |velop. These, he says, are potassium, sulphur, phosphates, iron and magne sium. Thus, he claims, therapeutic action can be obtained by adding certain substances to an animal organization and also by withdrawing by means of dietry other | substances necessary to the growth of bacilit. e the Next on the program is our of|| Merchants' Fall Market || Week —next week—when Omaha wholesalers and manufacturers will provide special entertaiment for re- tailers from adjacent terri- tory here to inspect goods for the season’s trade. i | | Ifmn( of Brest-Litovwk at Dobbynia, the | having been L, | INCREASE IN IN THE | | the packer, | write English was advanced to the order captured the Narew river crossir on the Sokoly-Bislystok high road. Its vight wing has reached Orlunka after having |driven back the enemy his army took more than 470 prisons neluding elghteen officers and nine machine guns “Army of Prince Leopold of Bavaria Yeaterday the enemy attempted in vain to bring our pursult to a standstill. He was aitacked and thrown back into the Bialowleska forest. Houth of this forest | onr troops reached the region east of | Wierschowicze. We captured more than 1,70 prisoners. “Army of Field Marshal Von Macken- sen: Pursuing the defeated enemy, this army group is approaching the hills on the western bank of the Hesma, north of Brest-Litovek, .On the southwestern Austro-Hungarian and German troops roke through the advanced positions of the fortress yesterday. “On the eastern bank of the Bug, north- east of Viadova, parts of the army of neral Von Tdnsingen are advancing to- wards the north, fighting all the way French Exchange |to mean that thev have now resched the northern sone by further progreas on the | & ST LIAE e BAVe nOw reached the part of the Hritish left wing. These| o British troops huve ocounied 49 yards of | AUrtrianl repoils atate that further ad- remy trenches. i Juring the night of August 23-24 ‘i;l"::v:“":" "f"l‘l'f'!'l—l:ll':upk, nnd.;hll the nch conpany waa succeasful tn a sur. | SV FREE 1he has beeh basy 'M’;“; e ooy for Tiotonion ormees. "t #a1d to be advancing to the north, but the morning of August 2 a detachment .\“‘llm rtfl"(".l‘l‘kl‘". movement frem this Turkish soldiers endeavored to reoccupy "’"‘ e Will B9 confronted by the Barrise this position, but they were repulsed. formed by the Pripet river and the ad- ‘On August 2 our squadron b«mbm}":’;"“ "‘;"""” with success a point of debarkment at| "" German press, recognizing this Acbachilfman, on the Buropean side of [4iffloulty, points out tnat armies of the the straif, to the north of Nagara. In|Central powers face a serious obstacle spite of the violent fire of numerous hes-|!n the immense and rondless Pripit tlle battories, one of our aviators was *WAMPE whilo the leading Hungarlan succesaful In sinking at ity anchorage a NOWsPApers describe the tactical pesition large Turkish transport. War Prevents Normal Action of Democratic BAN FRANCISCO, Howard Taft, United States, Aug. B.-~Willlam rmer president of the who Drops to New Low | Point at New York NEW YORK, Aug French money | today was worth less than yesterday in forelgn exchange markets, notwith- standing the establishment here of ) $20,000,000 credit loan to the F nch gov- ernment, announced after th close of the market yesterday. Two factors, it i #ald, made this so; the establishment of the loan had already been discounted, in negotiation for two| months; and the sum loaned was too for American supplies to the warring na- | | tons of Kurope, to bring about any-|Kressive party is osing out. hing approaching an equilibrium of rates. | ‘The rate on francs was quoted at $5.88. | thwest of the fortress Yesterday a dollar purchased 5.82 francs. | Privates, have disappeared.’ Sterling exchange was heading downward | today at $4.66%; lires were up a cent, n‘ and German relchsmarks, which | have remained stationary at or around | Slc during the recent slump, made a new | low record. They dropped to 80%c. These figures, It was asserted, represented little more thhn quotations, us hardly any| dealings were recorded MEAT RATES REFUSED| WASHINGTON, Aug. %.—~The Inter- state Commerce commission today dis- approved Increases in the frelght rates and changes in the rules governing ship ments of packing house products, fresl meats and other articles in so-called ped dler cars, in southwestern territory A peddler car is an iced car, loaded by which stops at several un- loading points for removal of portions of contents, on its way to final destination Plan to Réqdi're Voters to Be Able day from Portiand, Ore., expressed the opinfon that the ropean war has an important effeot upon the American political conditions. “The chances of republican success at the coming presidential election,” he sald, “were excellent until the war in- rvened to upset the normal trend of events, Under the present conditions no man may prophesy the outcome. Thix war has prevented the normal effect of the democratic tariff and has given a protection which that tarlff would not have secured to American industries “1 belleve that the republican party has returned to its own. Throughout the Uniteq States, 1 observed every evi- arkish transport was sunk by & | gmal a fraction of the total amount due|dence that the progreasives are return- Ing to the republican party. The pro- Fleld mar- shals and colonels are taking counsel, | one with another, but the forces, the Mr. Taft is here to attend the Uni- tarian conference, of which he is presi- dent. arrived here vester- | lof the Russians in tremely favorable. Another explanation of the pause in the Austro-German advance against Brest-Litovek Is that the Invaders are {being held up by continual rain und mist, {whieh haripers reconnaisances and artil- lery fire. | From the other fronts there have been reported no actions visibly changing the respective positions of the combatants. {The English public, stirred by the large loss of life at the Dardanelles and Turk- ish reports of the desperate fighting |awaits with keen Interest official detalls |2 the operations there. 'm Wil Not Attnck Greeee, COLOGNE, Germany, Aug. 5, (Via | London).—~A dispatch to the Cologne | Gazette from Soffa sayy | "Bulgaria has assured the Athens gov- | ernment that no hestile intentions against |Greece are planned In Bolgaria. | “Evidence is at hand that Romania has (not yet abandoned its efforts to induce | Bulgaria to join in united action against [ Turkey In ald of the quadruple entente powers. | "The conclusion of the Turco-Bulgn- {rlun agreement is regarded as a great | *uccess tor Bulgarian diplomacy.” the reglon as Shey PARIS, Aug. 3.—The French war office this afternocon gave out a statement on the progress of hostilities reading as fol- lows “In Artols last night throughout the entire sector to the north of Arres, the Sixteen Mexicans | Slain by Yaquis| GUAYMAS, Sonora, Aug. %.—(By Radio to San Diego, Cal)—Sixteen three of them respected residents of Guaymas, were killed and their bodies mutllated, after defending themselves against attacks by Yaqul Indians for two days In & house on the Bl Paso ranch, twenty-five miles north of here, it was stated today in reports from the raided district. The Indians finally destroyed the house with bombs. A posse of ranchers pursued the In- dlans, who drove off 63 head of eattle. The Indians outnumbered the relief party and held off itsa members, who abandoned the pursuit. To Read English Causes Big Row ALBANY, N amendn Y., Aug nt Lo the state viding that all voters be able to read and 20.—A proposed nstitution pro- of final passage by the constitutional convention today by & vote of 70 to 61 Advancement of the measure was pre- ceded by the stormiest sion of the convention, during which race feeling ran high and frequent references were made to the war and its possible effect on this country Speakers for the proposal included Wil- liam Barnes. They contended that the sbility to read and write English would tend to cement the American people more closely tokether. Speakers argued that an educational qualification was unneces- sary and would tend to restriot immigra- ton. Delegate Frank Mann injected the war etmosphere into the debate He referred particularly to an argument that “the people were confronted with | possibilities of war with a power, many of whose people are in this land, and at | this time those people , who bave not; | been s0 proud of 1t learned the Bnglish language and who are reading papers in sympathy with this forelgn country, are & menace. ‘L am @ proud descendant of the Ger- man race,” Maon said, “and I never have s during the last year in observing the achievements of the uation of my ancesters. The only reason Germans in Amerioa read German news- papers Is because they are the only source of truth Germans get about the war in Europe In supporting the proposal, Mr. Barnes declared that glving the franchise only o those who could read and write Eng- lish 1s most vital ‘A nation that speaks different languages never can be entirely a uaited nation,” he sald. ‘“We are establishing what really would be a state language the purpose of unify our people. Our ballot s written in English and in order for the voter to vote properly and intelligently he should be able to read what is on the ballot.” for Mexicans, ' | THE WANT.AD.-WAY | Your business can be very profit: aly saverdiued by 'a T Dee of Bk WANT ADS. Try sified cam an 1 the P A g s B you will be mo) wil Tel Ter 10 t ol your venture. Iamu and PUT IT IN THE OMAHA BEE. ]