Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 6, 1915, Page 1

rtising is the penda- m that keeps buying and selling in motion. OMAHA DAILY BEE VOL. | CHINESE CRUISER * CREW MUTINIES, ' FIRES ON FLEET Sailors Aboard Chao-Ho Revolt and Attack Arsenal and Warship Hai-Chi and Gunboat Tung-Ching. XLV-—NO. ENGAGEMENT LASTS ONE HOUR Severa] Shots Fall in Foreign Con- cessions at Shanzhai During Cunnonnding. CITY AND COU'NTBY IN PANIC SHANGHAI, Dec. 6.—The crew of the Chinese cruiser, Chao-Ho, mu- tinied tonight and opened fire on two other warships and the arsenal. The fire was rettirned, the engage- ment lasting for one hour. Several shots fell in the foreign concessions. Apparently the outbreak has been confined to the Chao-Ho. The Chi- nese authorities announce that it 146. OMAHA, HERE ARE BOTH THE FORDS—-Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford, photographed in New Y ork. Although Mrs, Ford was not to accompany the peace party, she has been active in the arrangements for the expedition. | | | ! { | will be shelled and sunk at daybreak. | Conflicting accounts of the nature of the outbreak are current, and owing to strict measures taken by the authorities it has been impossible thus far to ob- tain official information. It appears, however, that at 2 o'clock Sunday after- noon twenty men set forth from the foreign settlement in a launch and went alongside the Chao-Ho, which is lying opposite the Kiang-Nan arsenal. Mutineers Open Fire. | On the arrival of the {aunch the crew of the Chao-Ho mutinied, apparently, prearrangement. About 6 o'clock mutineers opened fire on the arsenal, the cruiser, Hal-Chi, and*the gunboat, Tung. Ching. The Hai-Chi and Tung-Ching replled, by the and.there was lively cannonading of light | ind heavy guns for a hour. Al least a-half dozen three-pound shells fell in the foreign concessions. The city and countryside were thrown into a panic. After the firing ceased, the Chao-Ho remained at anchor, keeping watch on the other warships, The arsenal authoritles notified the senior consul of the foreign settlement that the Chao-Ho would be shelled and sunk at daybreak. Told to Turn Back. Attempts to investigate the outbreak met with only partial success. The As- soclated Press correspondent endeavored to reach the arsenal in a launch, but was challenged by the Tung-Ching and ordered to turn about. , Notwithstanding | immediate compliance With this order, the gunboat opened fire, damaging the launch slightly. Three subsequent attempts to reach the arsenal by automoblle were unavailing. On each occasion the outer pickets were passeq after a strict examination, but, the inner guards turned back the auto- mobile. At the time of the last attempt, at 2 o'clock this morning, there was a heavy | outbreak of firing. One-Armed Man Killed by Robber, Puts One Hand Up ST. LOU Dec. 5.—One-armed Michael McCarthy was shot and killed by a palr of would-be saloon robbers here tonight because at thelr command of “hands up” he raised only the one arm he owned. One sleeve of McCarthy's coat hung empty, its end Inserted in the coat pocket. The robbers apparently mistook the empty sleeve for an arm reaching for a gun. Half a dozen men were In the saloon ‘when the robbers entered. At their com- mand all hands went up. The robbers took one glance at McCarthy's hanging sleeve, fired and then fled. Security League in Meet at St. Louis &T. LOUIS, Dec, 5.—The 1916 convention of the National Security league will be held in St. Louls in January, according | to a message recelved by the convention's | bureau today from A. L. West, executive ' secretary of the league. The exact date will be set at a confer- | ence between the national officers and a local committee. NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—A conference on preparedness will be held by the National Security league in Washington about the middle of January, it was announced here tonight. Committees of experts are now being appointed to make studies and | reports upon twenty-five propositions rel- ative to the league's program for pre- paredness, Recommendation to congress will follow the presentation of the reports | to the conference. The Weather at Omaha Yesterday. Hourl Deg. , m. 3 Temperature 4 Thirty-eight other Record. 16, 1914. 1913, 1912. il 4 ®» n @2 8 % 00 02 Comparative Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Mean temperature Precipitation remperature and ' precipitation tures from the normal: \urlnll temperature . cess for the day Total aeficency since March ‘i, Normal precipitation Deficlency for the day. A ‘Total rainfall since March 1. ,- Deficiency since March 1 ‘ Deficiency for cor. period, 19i4.. Deficiency for cor. period, 1913. . 4 82 &: depar- 8 ‘134 8 inch inch inches s government has decided to resume 1o inches poyment of suspended ,increascs §98 lnche® | il involve an expenditure of $400,000, *'COURT HOUSE AT FREMONT BURNED Dodge County Building Destroyed, by Fire, Causing Loss of Hun- dred Thousand. ALL RECORDS ARE SAVED FREMONT, Neb., Dec. 5.—(Spe- cial Telegram.)—The Dodge county | court house was destroyed by fire {early this morning, entailing a loss of about $100,000. All the records of any value were locked in the vaults and were undamaged. The county carried insurance of $60,000. The fire broke out in the treas- {urer’s office, in the northeast corner !of the building, and had galned good headway when discovered. The flames soon spread to the second :story and then to the cupola. The entire roof and ceiling of the rooms {on the second floor were destroyed. The firemen saved the lower floors | and walls of the rooms on the first floor, The structure will have to be | rebuilt. ' The building was erected in 1388, fol- lowing the destruction of the old court | {house by fire December 31, 187 It cost | $80,000. 1t is belleved a lighted cigar stub | {in a spittoon started the fire. | The County Board of Supervisors met | !lhln afternoon and leased the old \Nom_j an’s Christian Temperance union temple | for temporary county headquarters. A | plan for the erection of a combined county and clty bullding is being advo- cated by many prominent business men of Fremont. Some of the county super- | visors are known to be in favor of the | plan, ;Sa.v1dge Preaches | In Favor of Sunday . Closing of Stores Rev. Charles W. Savidge spoke at the | People’s church Sunday morning on the ! subject, “Shall We Ilelp the Grocer Close | His Store on Sundays?" ‘I find that there are 600 grocery and meat men in Omaha and its suburbs, When the clerks and helpers are counted, | there are 3,000, sald Mr. Savidge. ‘“These {people never have a whole day to rest |except om the day of their annual picnic, land then it usually rains. The grocer !declares that if he closes his store on Sunday his neighbor keeps open, and in that way not only obtains the profit of the day's sales, ‘but frequently secures a | valuable customer. “Among those who patronize the Sun- {day grocery are professed Christians in large numbers. When spoken to about it, they say théy know, the practice is wrong, but in summer they have no ice, and in winter no memory. The result is |that 3,000 people are industrial slaves |who rise on Sunday to a morn'ng’s toll as regularly as on a week day, and our {people don’t care. | “The proprietor and the clerk share |alike. And there follows hardship, men- ital and nervous breakdown, financial !loss and soul peril. “My advice fo the merchant would be, ‘Lock your door and trust God, and you will suffer no great loss.' “To be afrald is to be a loser. Ninety per cent of Omaha grocers and butchers desire to close, and the'r are now asking the city council to pass this ordinance. cities have recently I pray that it may be taken such action. done in Omaha.” v “| SwWiss NATION INCREASES %! THE WAGES OF EMPLOYES ld‘ (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) GENEVA, Nov. 10.—Owing to the con- ! tinved rise in the cost of living the Swiss the payment of regular increases in salary ‘o government employes, which was sus- pended at the béginning of the war. The | | ception |tlon of 'SURFRAGE HOSTS Hundreds of Women Will Welcome Envoys Bearing Huge Petition from the West. WILL VISIT WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Hun from all parts of the country reached ‘Washington tonight, come Mrs. Sara Bard Field of Port- land, Ore., and Miss Frances Jolliffe of Ban Francisco, the two envoys of western woman vaters, who have motored across the continent with a mammoth suffrage petition to the incoming congress, asking for a fed- eral suffrage amendment. After the presentation of the petition to a hundred congressman on the steps of the capitol, the cnvoys, eseorted hy a parade of more than 1,000 women, will march to the White House to be received by the president. Opening of Convention. The arrival of the petition and the re- at the White House will mark the opening of the first national conven- the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which will hold dally sesslons throughout the week. Mis. Fleld and Miss Joliffe were In Baltimore today. On their arrival on the last leg of thelr journey here tomorrow they will be met by the parade of women and escorted to the east front of the capitol. When it started from the woman vot- ers’ convention at San Francisco in Sep- tember the petition was 1,800 feet long and had 600,000 signatures of voters in enfranchised states. During the transcon- tinental trip thousands from nonsuffrage states have been added. Procession to Capitol, The procession to the capitol, with the petition borne on a banner of white cloth, will be headed by a division of women on horseback, followed by a group of women on foot bearing suffrage ban- | ners. Then will come a group of girls dressed in the purple, white and gold of the Con- gressional union and wearing liberty caps. Thirteen women, representing the twelve suffrage states and the territory of Alaska, wil] be led by a voter of ‘Wyoming, the first suffrage state. The women envoys in their automobiles will be followed by the 300 who will be re- celved with them by the president. A cavalry escort will bring up the rear, Headquarters of the Congressional union have been established in the “Little White House,”" the historical residence on Madison place, where many vice presi- dents have lived. There the convention sessions will be held Will Noble Sails With Ford" After All, ngg Message Will Noble safled on the Ford peace ship after all. . G. W. Noble, father of the boy, who was for a time belleved to be excluded by Mr. Ford for some unknown reason, has just recelved a telegram from the boy's friend in New York stating that he salled with the peace ship Saturday, When the agitation about young Noble's exclusion from the ship was| running in the newspapers, the parents in Omaha could hear nothing from the boy. Saturday the father became some- him, so he sent a telegram to Lawrence Wilbur in New York, a boy with whom he knew Will would visit while in New York Sunday morning the reply telegram came from young Wilbur as follows: “Will ' here two days. Salled on Oscar 11 Saturday.” Named Commissio BEAVER CITY, Neb., Dec. b.—(Special Telegram.)—Frank Clarine of Oxford was appointed county commissioner yester- a week ago. MONDAY MEET IN GAPITAL dreds of woman nllh'ngawwrkerav ready to wel- of signatures | MORNING, ])l.( EMI ANGER OF ALLIES AGAINST GREECE IS BURNED T0 DEATH . MOUNTING HIGHERmr 3. Rodis Tiinsky, Speaking at England D>mand Governments Do Something to Make Con- stantine Come to Time. Up Remnants of Serbian Army. TOWNSHEND CHECK ! LONDON, Deec. The negotia- |tions between Greece and the allied |powers still drag on at Athens, new hitches seemingly arising as the old |ones are smoothed out. One day it {1s reported a settlement has been | reached, only to be followed the next {day by denials or accounts of fresh difficulties confronting the diplo I mats, The people of the allied countries, !ticularly those of France and Italy, | becoming Impetient over the continual delays, and the press is demanding that |stern action be taken to demand that I King Constantine ‘and his ministers y'eld to the determination of the quadruple |entente to obtain the assuran de |manded. New proposals are said to have |been made by France and Great Britain |in the hope of reaching an agreement Tho position of Roumania also remains undecided, par are { | Bucharest Is Sllent, Since the dispatch announcing the clos ing of the Roumanian ports to forelgn | trade waa received, silence has descended {anxiously the next move which will give {a meaning to this order. The general be- !lief here is that the Roumanian govern forces In Bessarabia, and the French army {in south Serbla to make victory certain | before joining the allies. The Austro-Germans and continue rounding up the trocps remaining in Serbia, prosecuting with thefr usual energy campalgn against Montenegro. | Unusual calm prevalls on the varlous battle fronts, even the Itallans appar- Bulgarians few Serblan the {in_preparation for the next phase which {they hope will place Gorizia In on which the Austrian hold has weak- ened during the past weeks of heavy fighting. More Gloom for Rritaln. The check suffered by General Town- shend in Mesopotamia is a severe disap- pointment to the British -publie, -which {had looked upon this expedition as the | brightest spot thus far in the war, with | the possible exception of General Botha's conquest of German Scuthwest Africa. Nothing has been heard from General Townshend since he reached Kut-El- Amare, where it s likely he.will make a stand, as thée position is a very strong | forcements reached him. It is not only |the military failure, but the effect the retirement will have on the British posseasions in the east which makes the result so unfortunate from the British point of view, Suit for Insurance In Cass County ‘Raises Law Point PLATTSMOUTH, Neb, Dec. G.—(Spe- clal)—A very Interesting case has just been closed in the district court at this !place, In which one Mrs. Garrens of Union, this county, had sued Woodmen of the World for Insurance on her husband's lite, he being a member {of that order. For nearly a year before the man died he was sick, and the money waa sent to the cleric of the lodge in which he held membership at Murray, which s a few miles from Unlon, Later the money was paid to a man in Union to be forwarded to Murray, who did so, and the money was sent to Omaha to the soverelgn officers, who returned it to the clerk of the Murray lodge, with |the statement that the man had been | suspended, but when the money got there the man had died, in fact, even before |the money had gotten to Omamha. The question on which the decision rests is whether the Union man was the agent of the clerk at Murray or of the widow at Unlon, who had struggled to keep up the payments, Judge Begley dismissed the jury and took the case under advisement, as the legal problems necessitated one handling it who knew the application of the law, it being more a matter of law than of fact. ‘The jury for the present term has been dismissed, as this was the last case for thelr consideration. The decision will not be handed down for some days One Killed, Hundred Injured by Wreck ST, LOUIS, Dec. 6.~One person was killed and more than 100 passengers are #ald to have been Injured, many seriously, in a head-on collision between two Ilil- nols Central passenger trains at Lenz- burg, 1li,, twenty-five miles south of here, today People and Pren of France and| upon Bucharest, and Europe s awaiting | ment is waiting concentration of Russ'an | and also are | ently slackening their offensive, probably | their | hands, with other commanding positions | one, where he could hold out until rein- & the | 36 l( iWOUNDED SOLDIERS 6, 1915, Tel Jed Srkol Hall, Says He Saw the Bodies. TELLS oF CLEANINO SERBIA “Twenty-six w-»umlml Serbian sol- diers were burned to death by Bu | ASSURANCES MUST BE GIVEN, garlans at Strumnitza, Serbia. 1 saw the bodie So spoke Dr. J. Rudis noted physiclan and surgeon of Ch cago, GRIEVES @ student at Creighton college, in an address last evening at Tel Jed Sokol He showed 150 plctures taken } hall, in the war zone. | Dr. Jietmsky hospital unit and sent by New York clans unde whiech John W millionaire, Dr. sion were Dr, and Dr. M. Guea men nurses, four one druggist, together with was Flotingham, The an and have photographs to | Austro-Germans Continue Rounding prove my nssertions.” Jicinsky, a former Omaha man and onc THE WEATHER, Fair at Hotel eto., Bo. SINGI CONTESTANTS FOR pres- idency of the senate, but by a democratic caucus decis- ion Clarke is slated for the place. 1- 1- ° headed an American | fitted out a physi- | Jieinsky on this mis- M. Kara of Chicago He took alsa four women nurses and | fm mense supply of medicines, bandages, surgical appliapces and clothing. wo of Party Die, Dr. Kara and the wife of Dr. ¢ of typhus,in Serbla during the ar that the party spent there, in which there were 8 from the typhus asourge before th American doctors and American hospital Jleinsky him- od the bacillug of typhus at hods over i, Dr Alscover | the same time as it was discovered by Serbian sclentist and by a Rusalan. | | “We arnve sald the dootor, Dzevdzelia, Serbla, and there 1 lished one-half of my unit, the other half to Uskup. me can hospital one for infectious diseases and the for surgical cases. “The a they burned wound just after we landed. |attacked the Serbians was declared. They and 230 were killed together 1 established two pavilion: d soldiers A for long defeated before with twenty-six wounded, afire. | Proof of the Atrocity. the twenty-six were still alive, burned bodfes. Great (showed on these bodies. do not scorched."” Dr. Jieinsky witer took photographs the atrocitles of the great war, '~ had 1,600 beds. for nlirs the Serbian men and women, enned Up Serbia, can,’”” he sald, |out typhold and typhus, victory men.'" that. can be gained in for just one year. year expired they recelved at thelr own risk. at Uskup so work well established continues. Dr. Jicinsky that and ship Constantine in Oetober, carefully skirted the north Africa, passed Gibraltar and safely at New York. The coast | hospital other cases,'" Though Dr, 8,272 surgical safd Drp. Jicinal Jieinsky y s Austria, his sympathies are all Serbla and*%he allies. sald. and children are killed alone. human blood and full of floating hum bodies. It is butchery and nothing less. PROF. YERINGTON TALKS AT PHILOSOPHICAL CLU “Elther the brain creates or personality uses the organ," daily in brain as ol religion before the Philosophie clety Sunday afternoon. two alternatives to choose from. “But If matter produced Jesus, good enough for me. it ftual life s inconceivable, but the fect is the result of a material cauw that cause must have a cause, and the infinite anyway. celvable then you that the vilest and most atroclods mu der committed is foreordained been prevented by any agency to belleve the other way Elmer E. Thomas, who was to ha spoken on “Democracy and Efficlenc; could not eppear and FProf. substituted with his paper. BALTIMORE, Dec Two monkeys at | Johns Hopkins hospital are being fitted with eyeglasses in an effort to discover |a cure for various diseases in the human The glasses will entall & severe strain on the eyes, causing imperfect vision, and |in other ways will confuse the recording |nerves of the eyeball. The direct result |expected s a serious reaction of the | thyroid glands of the monkeys, with a | consequent development of diseases found alone |day to succeed J. E. Atwood, who died |in human beings to have their origin in the thyrold gland. Principal among these \Monkeys Wear Eye Glasses to Ald what uneasy at not having a line from | are golter, heart, @ mild form of tubercular affection. Investigations have revealed that thyrold gland is responsive to disaffections. This gland Is bla disfiguring dlseases and through the tation expected to produced in monkeys the varlous stages ar | festations of disease will be ter irritant or serum. o die one ter “at ostab- golng on with There | changed the engineering barracks into an Amert othe ties by the Bulgars in whic oceurred » of Bulgars war the Serbs These they gathered satu- rated them with petroleum and set them “1 was nsked afterward how 1 knew That was _proved ponclusively on the half- blisters ‘Water blisters tébrm when dead bodiea are and when the time comes he s going to ex- hibit them to any International commis- wlon that may be formed to pass -upon In his hospital at Uskup, Dr. Jicinsky He established a school and recruited his ranks from “But everything in connection with the sanitary methods and #o on-was Ameri- “and history has recorded |how we cleaned up Serbla and stamped That was the great Amerfean victory, greater than any Killing The American physiclans were engaged About the time the information that they would remain in the war zone They left the hospital the his surviving helpers left Serbla by the Greek | ship of arrived “During our year there we had in our cases and 16,062 | of Bohemlan birth, and though Bohemia is a part of with "'The Bulgars are savage tyrants," he “Nine to ten thousand men, women Serbia I saw the Vardar river red with personality | an| declared Prof, Willlam Yerington of the South High school in a discussion 1 so- “You have the It it produced Jesus it 1s at least as great as Jesus. The spir-| lite of cause and effect is also inconcelvable, for If you follow the idea that each ef- leads you surely and inevitably back to “If you belleve that free will is incon- are forced to belleve and mapped out ages ago, and could not have 1 prefer Yerington nervousness, paipitation of the protruding eyeballs and serofula, the optieal gen- erally for a multitude of troublesome and irri- the mant minutely studled and a search started for a coun- 3,00 deaths {1 a ., r h TOP - SEN JAMES P CLARKE DOTTOI I~ SEN. ATLEE POMEREND., FRISGO EXPOSITION | GATES ARE CLOSED Attendance Record Broken by Wide Margin on Last Day of Pan- ama-Pacific Exposition, FAREWELL CEREMONIES HELD/ SAN FRANCISCO, Dee, 5.—The world bade the Panama-Pacific In- ternational exposition farewell to-| day, closing day marking a new rec- ord in its attendance history. From dawn, when a salute of {marked the beginning of the end, un- til evening, when the towers and buildings of arts of the exposition be- an to glow for the last time, steady streams of humanity passed through the turnstiles, At 8 o'clock tonight 860,78 persons had passed through the exposition.turn- stiles, the total breaking the record made on November 2-San- Francisco . day— when 45,37 visitors were recorded, Of- ficlals predicted that the 400,000 mark would be passed before midnight. Farewell Ceremonies. The formal farewell ceremonies, held in the open, under & blue, sunny sky, were attended by one of the largest crowds ever present at any .exercises on the grounds. At 6 o'clock the fen maln exhibit palaces of the exposition closed ~their doors for the last time, so fai the public was concerned, six hours in ad- vance of the formal closing exercises at midnight, which marked the termination of the exposition period, The formal ceremonies retiring the dif- terent palaces from service were held during the afternoon on platforms erected at the various portals. President Moore, accompanied by Captain A, C. Haker, director of exhibits, and others of the exposition management, officlated, Answers Wilson's Toi In response to a toast sent by Pres dent Wilson and given at today's cere | monles, President Moore telegraphed a follows: “Your Inspiring sentiment has, at the appointed time, been recelved. The en- thusiasm with which it was recelved was expressive of our hope that real world service has been performed here, “Our task is finished, The contribu- tion of nation, state organization and individuals has been offered with earnest- ness and the enthusiastic hope that the result will be beneficial to the world's progress and that advancement will follow. “Your endorsement of our efforts is gratifying, but we realize that time and |time alone must determine the exact place in the scale of human usefulness | that history will accord us it r- Study of Dtseases of Mankind| «greans VOLUNTEER AND HT WITH RUSSIA| > | GO TO FIGHT (Correspondence of t The Assoclated Pre TOKIO, Nov. 15, —Great interest has been caused in Japan by & news dispatch { from Viadivostok that 3,00 Koreans have ed their services in the armies A memorial to that effect the military govermor of ) volunte lof Russia has reached Viadivostok It is expected here that the Japanese authorities will offer no objection or hindrance (o the project of the Korean ! volunteers. B {twenty-one guns from the Presidio | = - CENTS, BRITISH MOVE O BAGDAD TURNS T0 FLIGHT FOR LIFE Genera] Townshend's Troops, Which Had City Almost Within Grasp, Compelled to Recede to Former Positions. cory Two TURKS OUTNUMBER OPPONENTS English Must Receive Reinforce- ments Before Continuing Cam- paign in Mesopotamia, | AUSTRIANS AND ITALIANS FIGHT | | LONDON, Dec. 6.—The British, | German and Turkish accounts of the {recent fighting in Mesopotamia, | while containing minor disparities re- specting the casualties and character !of the British retreat on the Tigris, |clearly establish the fact that with- {out further reinforcements, to equal ilhe overpowering odds against which they have been struggling, the Brit- |ish troops under General Towni {hend have litle prospect of contin- uing the march to Bagdad, which city appeared a few weeks ngo to be al most within their grasp. “ Having advanced during October |and November through the desert of :lrnk to the very environments of Bagdad, the British force is now r¢ tiring upon Kut-El-Amara, eighty |miles southeast of Ctesjphon, the scene of the battle fought in the lat- ter part of November, in which the {British troops met their first serious | check, | The position therefore of General |'Townshend's force 1a much the same as | In September after the battle of Kut-El- IAm-m According to a recent account large Turkish relnforcements, supple- | menting the forces. which already ¢ numbered the British forces four to one, iwprn flung against the British troops re- tiring down the Tigris and made a Brit ish stand out of the question, Roumanie May Join Allies Thero have been no military events of any importance in the Balkana since the fall of Monastir which was discounted. Recent reports from Roumania loom un- usually large on the Balkan horizon, and that country is generally accredited with the intention either of jolning the allies or at least stretching its neutrality to the point of allowing thé passage of Russian troops. There has been, however, ne confirmation of the report that Rus- slan troops have already entered Rou- | mnntan territory. Aside from the continuances of desper- ate fighting between Austrians and Ital- iuns in the Gorisla district, there is fom- paratively little actvity on the various fronts. Italian Govermment Upheld, ROME (Via London), Dee. Bb.~The | Chamber of Deputies today voted confi- {dence iIn the government by an over- ‘whalmlng majority. The vote was taken ;lfler a debate on the recent statement of policy by Baron Sonnino, Itallan minis- ter of forelgn affairs, and a speech by Premier Salandra, who sald that the gov- ernment was fully aware of the gravity of the International situation, but that its confidence iIn final victory was in nowise shaken, ‘The premier -during his speech sald |that the turn of events only further con- | vinced the government of the necessity and justice of the war, without which the |Interests, the dignity and the honor of Italy would have been irremediably im- Daired, | . British Are Parsued. BERLIN, Dec. 6.—(By Wireless to Say- ville.)—An- officlal Turkish report, as glven out here today by the Overseas News agency, states that pursuit of th defeated British army in Mesopotamia is still being carried on energetically and that four British river vessels have been captured, | Mother of Boy Thief | Returns Stolen Cash To Kearney Police KEARNEY, Neb, Dec. 5.—(Special.)— The Kearney police department head and the school board of the city are ahead about $40, a sum stolen from the office of the chief of police recently allegedly by Warren Haszlett. Hazlett, escaped In« dustrial school inma was locked up here while en route east. He only lar- guished in the city basille for a few hours, making his getaway in the even- ing. A chicken thief, also awaiting sen« ence, accompanied Hazlott Before leave ing the palr broke into the office of the polise chief and carried off everything that was not nalled down. They pried open the desk and stole about $40 in fine money and a revolver. Haslett was fin- ally traced to St. Louis and his mother communicated with., The young man was at home and being given the alternative of “paying up” or being returned for prosecution his mother forwarded the money. Four Varsity Lads Walk from Lincoln Arthur Rogers, Allen Kennedy, Karl Berg and Will Rels, students of the Ag- ricultural college of the University of Nebraska, are of the opinjon that it is a long way from Lincoln to Omaha. In fact, they knmow it is & long way, be- cause they walked every foot of the dis- tance, arriving here Sunday noon with appetites that were almost mg.bh The quartet left the capital city at 10:4 of the clock Saturday morning and at 10 p. m. rested for the night, resuming thelr hike at the first streak of dawn. They dined yesterday noon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kenredy, parents of one of the walkers, retur to Lin. coln by train in the evening.