Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1915, Page 1

PART ONE NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO TEN. VOL. XLV-—NO. 65. ———— FOREST FIRES UPON THE PACIFIC COAST RAGE UNCONTROLLED Woods in Far Northwest Aflame and Desperate Efforts Are [ Made to Get Situation l in Hand. CONDITIONS VERY DANGEROUS Blazes Are Breaking Bounds and Men Cannot Be Spared to | Battle New Ones. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 1.—For est fires in the Pacific northwes forged beyond bounds today and ¢ ceeded the res'stance of the comp'e fighting force available against them, awcording to advices received by . Western Forestry and Conservatio association. The situation is pro nounced critical. Except In a fow localities, where ther have teen light local showers, the pro tective system is now toneda to its limi and conditions are extremely dangerous, says the association's expert. “A few fires are already breaking bounds; men cannot be spared to fight new ones, anc the dense smoke renders detection of nev ones difficult. The Glsastrous fires September, 1%2, followed just such cu: ditions. £ “Up to within twenty-four hours Oregon situation was well In hand. Ove; 450 fires had been extinguished with prac tically no loss of merchantable timber Yesierday, however, the big fires nea Mount Hood and in Union county, re sulted in escaping control and many new ones were reported. “The Washington Forest Fire associa- tion reports none of its green timber de stroyed yet. Two hundred dangerous fires already have been extinguished. Victim of Automobile At Providence Dead; Wife to Be Grilled - PROVIDENCE, R. I, Sept. 1—Dr. Franklin C. Mohr of this city ang New- port, who with Miss Emily Burger of this city, was mysteriously shot while seated in his automoblle on a dark road in Barrington last night, died at a hos- pital today. Miss Burger was reported better and it was belleved that her wounds would not prove fatal. George W. Healls, Dr. Mohr's chauf- feur, is held by the Barrington police, who are not satisfied with bis declara- tion that he saw no other automobile at the time Dr. Mohr and Miss Burger were shot. Miss Burger today sald another car ap- proached their car from the rear and | as it came alongside several shots were | fired at Dr. Mohr and herself. Both were' ‘wounded in the head and shouider. Miss Burger could give no explanation for the ' assault. Dr. Mohr was a graduate of Johns Hop- kins university and was 42 years old. He was married twelve years ago, but | his wife haq sued him for separation and Re entered a counter sult. Miss ! Burger had been employed by Dr. Mohr ! as an office assistant for about three years. The police started an inquiry into a report that there was against the physician and his companion. ‘They qeustioned Florence Ormsby, a maid employed in Mohr's office, and later it was sald that she had given them a clue upon which to work. It was an- nounced that Mrs. Mohr, the widow, also would be questioned. Heir to Big Estate in New York Missing NBW YORK, Sept. l—Police were earching today for F. J. Van Siclen of Yakima, Wash., who left his home nine wecks ago to come here to sign papers that would permit the finai distribution of an estate of nearly $4000,000, left by his grandfather, Herbert Van Siclen. The nussing man is an Elk, and it was sald that members of the order in many cities have joined in the search. When Van Siclen left Yakima he sent a tele- gram engaging rooms at a Brooklyn hotel, but he never appeared. He was said to have a large sum of money. : The Weather Forecast till 7 p. m. Thursday: For Omaba, Council Bluffs and Vieinity | | a conspiracy | ON GUARD AGAINST ENGLISH SUBMARINES-— Turkish transport crossing the Sea of Marmora with rein- forcements for the forces at Gallipoli. the lookout for the British submarines, which penetrated the Dardanelles and have been demolishing shipping of all kinds in the Sea of Marmora, BRIGKLAYERS QUIT; * OBEY STRIKE ORDER Two Hundred Omaha Workmen Walk Out to Enforce Demand for Higher Wages. BIG CONSTRUCTION JOBS-HALTED Two hundred bricklayers of Omaha went on strike yesterday. | The strike followed an announce- ment by The Bee one week ago that the bricklayers had secretly met and decided to quit work September 1. Although the report was denied at the time by Secretary Miller of the bricklayers’ union, the strike began ! yesterday morning. Practically all the brick construc- t‘on jobs are at a standstill except| the work on the Grain Exchange, building, according to local contrac-| tors. Contractor Black, who has the' Grain Exchange contract, come from | St. Louis and brought' most of his bricklayers with him. They have not gone out with the local craftsmen. | The bricklayers are demanding an in- |crease of 6 cents an hour In wages. | Most of them are getting 70 cents and {they are demanding 75. In addition, they are assoclated with the Allied Bullding Crafts, which organization a half year 'or more ago, demanded that the contrac- tors recognize holsting engineers as union men and put them on a union scale. That demand was not complied with at t time, but no strike was caled, | Big Jobs Are Halted. | Among the big jobs affected by the Istrike are three blg apartment houses being built for Hastings & Heyden. Con- tractor Ed P. Pomeroy was bullding the one at Twenty-second and Howard streets. Contractor Alexander Beck was | tontinued on Page Five, Column Two) ? Funeral of Sheriff | | Bushnell Saturday —Fair Thursday; warmer. GLENWOOD, Ia., Sept. 1.—(Special.)— | The funeral of the late Hlisha W. Bush- FompeTainre o Oahe Yeaterday. | .1, sheriff of Mills county, who dropped fa.m % dead here yesterday morning, will be g % held at Malvern Saturday afternoon at 2 Y 2 oclock. i 10a m 0 His immediate family surviving him are ’1‘”‘""' I Mrs, Bushnell and five daughters; Mrs. 1D, 1 7 Mary Ranne of Tacoma, Wash.; Mrs. 2p? 7 Lawrence Talbott and Mrs. W. A. Rush 5 o 3 of Malvern, Ja., and Ruth and Edith, 5p 79 teachers, at home here. §n T He was left on orphan at an early age il § 3 73!at Madison, Wis., and brothers and sis- Comparative Loe: b 1912, | ters surviving him are Gus and Gene of | | Fremont, Neb.; Mrs. Julla Reed of Car- Highest today 76 9 9 son, Ia., and Mrs. Parmelia Sherman of Lowest_ today 81 8 7 Mason City, In. Sheriff Bushnell had Prealoliatia ™ % % 5 veen a remdent of lowa for more than Temperature and precipitation ures from the normal Normal temperature Deficlency for the day . Total deflciency since March 1 Normal precipitation .08 inch Reficiency tor th fninch { ORTHODOX JEWS WILL FAST Expess since March 1..... .19 inch h By {or ccr. period, 1914 Reports from Stations at 7 P, M. Station and State of Weather. Cheyenne, clear. I depart- 0 2 county. fl 1 4.9 inches ficlency for car. period, 191%.. 6.9 inches % forty years. He was in the Implement business at Malvern for twenty-three years before becoming sheriff of his home AND PRAY NEXT SUNDAY NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—All the orthodéx | Temp. th- Rain- | Jewish synagogues throughout the United States were notified today that Sunday, :::l:orl.l cles 3 W‘Beplembor 5, had been set apart as Dm,"' -le;f"'l Jus > ‘:: :f.j day of fasting and prayer. The ploclama- Lander, partly cloady, {tion revives the old Jewish cusiom of North Platte, clear..... « 00 | establishing a time to fast and pray on Pats, clear : 3 l)liunounl of national tr bulation. Rapid City. clear... b i %! The ploclamation was made last night Banta Fe, partly cloudy. " 00 | at the Great Synogogue of the Orthodox E}‘Lfi:‘?".‘iy_":f,:,fr oloudy. % ‘%|Jews here, after imposing ceremonios at Valentine, clear. ... . I ‘00 tended by 100 rabbis from all over the L. A WELSH, Local Forecaster. | country. | 19 OMAHA, THURSDAY 'KAISER ACCEPTS ' VIEW OF WILSON The troops are on Government to Writing. After a conference at the State de- In connection with the letter, Sceretary Lansing made the following statement: ] “In view of the clearness of the fore- |gong statement, it seems needless to make any corament In regard to it other than to say that il appears to be a recog- PRESS DENOUNCED | Jurist Tells Grand Jury Probing , Frank Case Papers Have Slan- dered Cobb County. | | | Statement by Lansing. | | 0 President Wilson as soon as it was re- |cetved at the Btate department. {White House, but on every hand in of- figlal quarters there . was evidence of DEVIATION FROM THE FACTS graufication that the submarino crists had passed and that Germany had MARIETTA, Ga., Sept. 1.—The acknowledged the justice of the princl- Cobb county grand jury assembled Ples for which President Wilson has been today to investigate the lynching of °ontending. | Count Bernatorff’s announcement that Leo M. Frank and take up its regu-/in, pojicy had been declded upon before lar work. Judge Patterson, in his the sinking of the Arablc agrees with charge, told the jury it was not a fllllen:er'm hy‘ officials in Berlin and i with information upon which Americ special grabd jury and that while its Jor 000 Lot o A ding, Boon aftee members were not to feel they Were ino qispatch of the last Lusitania note secret service men, it was their duty President Wilson understood there would to ferret out any crime alleged to Mot be n:olher such disaster. The sink- Ing of the Arablc, therefore, have been committed within the i€ of the A eviore. same 00 & county, “fearlessly and without hobe, rnagmuch as it scems to have been of reward.” The Judge took occasion established that the submarine which to defend Cobb county agalnst at- (Continued on Page Two, Column Twe.) | tacks upon it growing out of the| _— lynching. In his charge he said: “In a great deal that has been said recently in the press, the facts have been deviated from and 1 want to strongly assert that the| press generally has done Cobb county a | great injustice. It appears that in & great deal of the matter that has been' G published, some newspaper correspond- | ents have seemingly got just as far away | from the truth as they could and the re-| sult has been that Cobb county has been made to suffer for it. “It has been published broadcast over | the world that a lynching has recently’ occurred in Cobb county. It is your duty' to make a thorough and complete in vest:gation of that, as it 1s of all charges The Day’s War News MORE THAN 1,000,000 Russians have been taken prisoners by the Germans since the campalgn in Hela began on May 2, German day. |GERMAN TROOPS marching on | Grodno have reached the outer line of the deferses of the fort- ress, Herlin reports. RUSSIAN in the north ap- pear to be ding well, but in the central districts the retreat con, i THE WEATHER Fair == 15— TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 08 ®rums «t xota BERLIN, Sept. 1.—(Vin London.)~Cer- [ temporary delay, after a repulse of the d |man troops fighting for Grodno are now |enemy's reslstance. I\ in front of the outer ring of forts of During the month of Auguat the num- | that stronghold, accoding to today's of. | DT Of Prisoncrs taken by German troops | B O today’s of | i the eastern and northeastern theaters Aty |ficlal statement from German army | of war ani the quantities of war ma- Germany Agrees to Principle that neadquarters. The text of the statement k terinls captured during the same period, _ Passenger bduips Snhouid Be | follows: totaled more than 3000 officers and gt " ked | “Western theater: The situation is un- | 2M$% men taken prisoner, and 2,0 ) Warned Betore Attacke ! ehanged. cannon and 660 machine guns taken. 4 by Sub.iarines. “Northwest of Bataume an English [ “Of these, 20,000 prisoners and &7 can- | —— {aeropianc was shot down by one of our non were taken at Kovno. About 30,00 RN'S Vol EE I BNSI aviators prisoners, including fifteen generals and VON BE TOB.:i SEES WG etuatiin teaten, ainiy of Fleld Mar- | more than 1,00 officers, and 1,30 cannon ) shal Von Hindenburg: On the western [and 150 machine guns, were taken at Secretary Requests Ambassador 0 front of Grodno our troops are in front | Novogeorstevak Reduce Communication from His | of the outer I'ne of forts. | “The counting up of the cannon and “Between Odelsk, east of Shkolka, and | machine guns taken at Novogeorglevak the forest of Bislovezh, the enemy is has not yet been finished, however, b bty nther | red | while the count of machine guns taken SHIP WHICH SUNK ARABIC LOST, “Army of Prince Ieopold of Bavaria:| at Kovno has not yet begun. The fig- —— The upper Narew Lus Leen crossed ures quoted as totals, therefore, will be WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—Ger- Army of el Marehal Von Macken- | considerably increased. urs o es. Wherever | ‘The stock of ammunition, provisions many has accepted the declarations Sen: Our pursuit continuea | L e b iy . tie enemy has made a sand he has [ and oats in the two fortresses cannot of the United States in the submarine . ", 0 0 bt warfare controversy. Count Von “Southeastern theater: The troops of | ‘“The number of prisoncrs taken by Ger- Bernstorff, the German ambassador, General Count Von Bothoere, In the face | man and Austro-Hungarian troops since of stubborn resistance by the enemy, | May 2, when the spring campalkn in y 3 0 tte ssur- | today gave oral and written Masur- _ 4" isiite on the banke of the | Galicls began, has, therefore increased to ances to Secretary Lansing that N0 gyypa, north of Zborow, overcoming a | onsidembly more than a million. uiore passenger ships will be sunk o : S—— . without warning. INTERNED SHIPS ARE QUARANTINED IS IDENTIFIED Story of Desperate Battle Between Mexicans and American Pur- suers Told. Supposed Cases of Asiatio Cholera at | New York Are Found to Be Due to Food Poisoning. OROZCO'S BODY | partment Ambassador Von Bernstorft sont Secretary Lansing this letter: “My Dear Mr. Secretary: With refer- 6 to our conver:ation of this morning, 1 beg to Inform you that my instructions oncerning our answer to your last Lusitania note containa the following Passax ! *‘Liners will not be sunk by our sub- \ marines without warning and without safety of the lives of the noncombatants, | provided that the liners do not try to | cape or offer resistance.’ “Although I know that you do not wish to discuss the Lusitania question tll the Arable question has been definitely and satisfactorlly sottied, I desire to inform you of the above because this policy of my government was decided on before the Arabic incident occurred I have no objection to making any use you may please of the above In formation, “I remain, my dear Mr. Lansing, “Very sincerely yours, " (8lgned.) “J BERNSTORFF." Count Bernstorff's letter was forwarded . VICTIMS NOT ;)ANGEROUSLY ILL WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—~What was feared to be an outbreak of !cholera on the Hamburg-American |liner President Lincoln, laid up at ‘Inlhuk&'n since the beginning of the {var, has turned out to be nothing | more than food polsoning. Surgeon Jeneral Blue of the public health lm-r\ ice, who Investigated at once, got reports today showing that the sick Germans aboard the ship were In no danger. Interned Ships Quarantined. NEW YORK, Sept. L=—All of the Ham- burg-American and North German Lloyd liners which Lave been tied up at Hobo- ken since the declaration of war were |today placed under quarantine following the discovery that fifteen men aboard !the Hamburg-American liner President Lincoln were sufforing from iliness, the |symptoms of which resemble Asiatic lchnlcrl‘ APPEAL FOR STATE MILITIA SIERRA BLANCA, Tex., Sept. 1. —The body of General Pascual Orozco, hero of the Madero revolu- TWO CENTS TEUTONS DRVE WEDGE INTO THE ' RUSSIAN LINES | Riga is Almost Isolated and Must ¥all Soon Uniess Heavy Force i is Thrown Against Hin- | denberg’s Left. ' COUNTER OFFENSIVE ON STRIPA lnullllnl Turn at Bay in East Gali- cia and Inflict Large Losses on | Their Opponents, “ SIXTH DAY OF ARTILLERY DUEL LONDON, Sept. 1.-—Germany's {plan for driving three wedges into | the Russian defensive lines is being {carried forward, but not with the same speed as marked the sweep over Poland. Riga is almost 1solated and {unless the Russians soon throw heavy forces against Von Hinden- | Lurg’s exposed flank this port must | fall into the hands of the invaders. | Although this northerly uttack seems tu have been checked for the mo- lmgnt. the Russiane have been unable 'to deve'op a counter offensive in | that region comparable with thelr |ncuvluu In east Galiaa, where, on the river Stripa, they have not only turned at bay, but have inflicted large losses on their opponents. ‘ For a period of five or six days on the western front a raln of shells from French guns has been poured on the German trenches. The object of this un- ueval artillery attack has not been dis- tion of Mexico, lles in an undertak-: closed, but it is not belleved here that so Ing establishment at Van Horn, Tex. much precious ammunition would be used l'l’h« body has been positively identi- ‘ed as that of Orozco by a govern- ment official from El Paso. All the Big Bend country in the viclnity of the boundary line of EI Paso and Culberson counties is under | arms today as a result of fear of re- prisals by General Orozco's organiza tion of “Coloradol particularly the followers of Eudardo Salinas, now at Bosque Bonito, who Infest the bor- der. An appeal for state militin protection is under way. | merely to damage the German works | without some sort of concerted effort to occupy the shattered trenches. The Balkan problem is again to the !fore. Emphasis is placed on reports that Roumania and Bulgaria are seeking to ar- rive at an understanding with the en- tente powers, with some hopes of suc- ceas. French Official Report. PARIS, Sept. 1.—The Freach war office ‘this afternoon gave out a statement on ithe progress of hostilities, reading as follows: | “Several artillery actions were reported In the course of the night around Neu- |ville Bt. Vaast, In the region of Roye The appearance of Orozco was pre- and in that of Ouberive on the Sulppes. coded Sunday by automobile parties! In the Argonne there was violent can- nonadii terd o of Mexicans from Kl Paso, inquiring ;.m: ;‘i.ouy;:t:o ::‘m"m- mlcm::o::-:::o {_No formal comment was made at the | Tho President Lincoln was placed 'under quarantine yesterdey .when sus- \ e . at the Love ranch Sunday e Bt R A i ) [llar inquiries. 1t is beliov following bacterlological examtnations by | planned to meet Salinas at Bosque municipal and government health offic- | Ronito and then to proceed to Hot b Springs to meet parties from KI Faso. the route to Hot Springs. Dr. Joseph F. Stack, Hoboken health officer, declined to admit that the ex- amination had proved the case aboard the President Lincoln to be cholera. He ad- ded that early prevention was “worth formed the theory that Orozco was trying while." to bring to a focus an organized invasion Authorities here belleve that if chol-'of Mexico or Texas upon a large scale !era has broken out on the German liners under the name of nationalist party. Into the disease was brought here from As- this party were to be drawn military con. fatic ports by German refugees. During tingents of all factions. That this party the last year the German liners have been Was eventually soon to align with Car- Was Organ ng Invasion, Orosco ;W From the reports, American -unmmml army headquarters announced to- | | used as temporary quarters for severai | hundred German refugees trom China. Rumor Hill Will Build Line from Yankton to Denver DENVER, Colo., Sept. 1.—(8pecial)— » Teigen, a well known attorney and promoter of Sloux Falls, 5. D, and a ‘party of capitalists from Bt. Faul and Minneapolis, have been here the last week Interviewing the stockholders of the Denver & Seranton raflroad, a short line that has a right-of-way to the Unfon depot, In relation to selling the road This road has only one locomotive and a few cars and runs a dally train to hold its franchise. The Havemeyers of New of crime when brought to your atten-| Liiue® At Mmost polnts, the official York are suppossd to own and control ton.” N | #tatements indicate, the stock. The coming here of such a Judge Patterson did not mention' ACCEPTANCE OF coal atrike set- number of capltalists revives the report Frank's name. Thirty-five witnesses, '1€Went by the Welsh miners’ rep. of the bullding of the branch of the have been called. The jury will begin | entutives Is announced, deft. Great Northern rallway from Yankton Sk iaar e eata thoky. | mitely wajusting the aitficulty, to Denver, via O'Nelll, Hyannis, Oskosh, Among the witnesses summoned are O.' SERBIA'S o do the CFOSHINK the main line of the Unlon Pa- B. Keeler, a newspaper man, who will | part asked of 1t in satisfying Bal. Cf1¢ 8t Sidney, Neb., and tnence to Har- be asked to tell how he came In posses- | waria's territorial demands has 0¢7 Colo, Whero the Platte river wi'l slon of Frank's wedding ring Which he| been communicated fo Groepe, oy 1 romsed From Harden the road will says was mysteriously delivered 10 him whem comeeastons heve * ©f connect at Seranton with the Denver- o been with & request from Frank to see that guieq tn the effort to o Bul ecure Bul- it was returned to Mrs, Frank; W. E. the d'stance from 8t. Paul to Denver over Swanson, sherlff of Cubb county; G. M.| Tnria’s co-operation with the en. 'y o 00 0 T TR | was surveyed Hicks, the deputy who took charge of newspaper dispatehes |, 1, miknorn raflrond, & branch of the Frank's body immediately after it was received in Parls de- Northwestern, about ten years ago, but | found; Major E. P. Dobbs and H. Li| Looney, chief of police of Marietta Subpoenas have been issued for T. E.| Patterson, B. B Davidson and L Rainey, members of the state prison' commission, who were at the prison farm | the night Frank was taken away. | PROMINENT WEBSTER ! " CITY LAWYER IS DEAD | WERSTER CITY., Ia., Sept. 1—(Spe- | clal Telegram.)—A, N. Boeye, one of | Northern Towa's best known attorneys, | died at his home in this city this morn. ! ing of stomach trouble. Mr. Boeye was | 06 years of age and for twenty-five years had been prominent in the legal and po-~ AN IMPRESSION that take part in the Dardanel palgn is gathered In Parls from remarks made by Baron Hayashi, Jupanese ambassador to Italy. FINANCE COMMITTEE of the Rus- Japan may cam- expenditure for 10105 more than $1,500,000,000, RUSSIAN RESISTANCE to the Teu- tonie advance s developing strength on the sonthern wi cording to the Petrograd, test report from Best Movies By special arrangement with eight of the leading moving picture theaters THE BEE |s enabled to give its readoers a combinatien coupon good for a free adnission to any one of them on days specified. In Sunday’s Bee WILSON FAVORS CUTTING DOWN APPROPRIATIONS WASHINGTON, D. C, BSept. 1— Econoray in appropriations for Nttle used | army posts, navy yards, rivers and )\urA‘ | bors und public build'ngs wi'l be reco mended to congress by President W 8on in order to leave the money neces- | sary for an adequuate program of na-| tional defense. This information cams today from & high administration source. | Seranton rallroad. This road will shorten abandoned when the Northwestern made a tle-up with the Union Pucize. Comparisons on September Weather At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the temperature was 82 degrees above zero. Last year September 1 it was 76, but on Septomber 6 the temperature went to 100, Tn 18% it was 77 September 1, but by September 11 it had gone ap to 10. On September 17T it was 102 Forecaster Welsh asserts that it Is Impossible to tell whether or not there will be an carly fall litical life of this part of the state, He F (: The earliest killing frost ever recorded had served four terms as county attor- ree oupon gy S oo B s Bl oo ney and was widely known as the best | === =<t Sptember 18, 190l The thermometer cross-examining attorney in this judicial Pot the dropred to 2 degrees above zero. In district. The funeral will be Friday 1882 there was no killing frost until No- afternoon. i vember 11 and on September 1 that year the records show that It was 71 above zero, SERMAN SUBMARINE FIRES ON AMERICAN BARK BOSETON, Sept. 1.—The American bark Ruth Stark, owned In this city, was fired upon twice by a German submarine on August 3, when 150 miles off Cape Clear, Ireland, sccording to the report of its commander upon its arrival here today from Liverpool ranza, and not with Huerta, in the event of Carranza’s rerusal to accept the A. B C. plan for a peace conference of Mexi- can leaders, 1s a conjecture. Story of Man Hunt, The story of the twenty-four-hour man hunt which ended in the death of Gen- |eral Orozeco in the Green River canyon, between the Kagle and the High Lone- some mountuins, Monday, reads ke a (page from a border romunce. The chase was through the wildest part of the Big ,Bend country. Twenty-four ranch own- |ere, .cowboys, customs house officlals and troopers from the Thirteenth cavalry participated, The news that the ralders were in the vicinity spread along the rural telephone circuit Bunday afternoon. The ralders were then considered a party of outlaws {who had thicved during the last four | (Continued on Puge Two, Column Three.) iNineteenth Man Dies as Result of Explosion in Mine JOHNSTOWN, Pa, Sept. 1—An ex- !ploston of gas in the Ordena mine of the Merchants' Coal company at Boswell yes- Iterday claimed its nineteenth vietim today when James Bergalena died in o hompital here. Two other miners were 1d by hospital dictors to be in a erit! {cal condition. Ignitlon o1 a pocket of {#an cuused the exploston | Mine officials #ald that the section of |the mine where the exploston occurred {hud been condemned. Martin MoClure, “n.- foreman, it was stated, made a care- [ful Investigntion and, convinced that the entries were safe, allowed the miners to {80 to work. MeClure %an killed | Rescue crews worked for hours before !they reached the point where the tragedy !occurred. There they found elght men | unconsclous, but still living, scattered among the dead. Many of the bodies {when brought to the surface could not be identified [ FARGN SHFEPIEF TNN GOOD FARGO. N. D, Sept. en prizone in the Williams county Jall at Wiliston, west of here, refused to %eave their cells when the prospect of & jail delivery was held out to them | by Kenneth Jordan, an S.year-old boy, |who has been In the charge of the sheriff for some time. Louls Olson, held on a charge of larceny, was the only priscner tu escape, | Kenneth procured the cell keva from | the jaller's office, w n Olson told him (lhu! the prisoners wonted “get out to split tor *h rorfr," When Sherlff Carl Erickson returned a some woed | oners waiting for him tn their open cells, ‘The men sald the sheriff had been “too good to them" for them to leave, | FOR PRISONERS TO LEAVE! | 1.—(Speclal,)— ter & brief absence he found eleven pris- | Helghts, During it calm. ANPHYR{Eting gas bombs, the enemy lest evening launched against .our trenches at Linge and Schratsmannels a violent attack. We maintained our posi- tions. At midnight & new German attack was repulsed.” Russian Loss Over Milllon, BERLIN, Aug. 1.—(By Wireless to Say- ville)—An officlal review of the eastern campuaign, as given out here today by the Overseas News agency estimates that since May 2 the Russians have lost at (least 300,000 men In killed or wounded, ‘Holland Will Buy Aeroplanes Here NEW YORK, Aus. 1L—Lieutenant Com- mander Henri G. Van Steyn of the Dutch navy, was one of the arrivals today on the steamer Noordam from Rotterdam. He sald he held & commission to purchase an unlimited quantity of meroplanes and hydroplanes for Holland from American manufacturers. | “From observation during the war we have concluded that the American aero- (planes and hydroplanes are the best,” sald Commander Van Steyn, “All of the machines will be used by Holland as a part of the natlonal defense improvements now being undertaken there, We do not intend to enter any war, but wish to be | prepared.” | Dr. Frank C. 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