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Tom Sharkey was ohce a gent of great wealth here In New York. He had a gllded cafe, two or three bank book d & bunch of swell rocks, Tim MeGrath, Tom's old trainer and handler, hadn't seen the ex-deck scrub- ber for five years and came on from the west for a visit. Tom was delighted to see Tim and vice versa. Tim gave the joint the up and down, and then re- marked, out of the side of his houth, “Some dump.” Sharkey threw out his chest a foot. “Tim,” he drawed, “come down to my wine cellars and I'll show you some Star Center is Made Captain of High School of Commerce Foot Ball Team for Next Year. THIRTEEN MEN GET LETTERS Wade Reeves was eloected captain of ihe High School of Commerce foot ball eleven for 1916 at a meeting held yester- day afternoon. wine.” th Reeves played a stellar ":'“'"“::m They got below decks and Tom | ha for the Commerce squad this fall Sn¢ %o | pointed out il the different sort of also manager of the team. Paul sle, | ine. the present captain, nominated the cap- tain-elect and sald that he would not consent to be considered for re-election. Arthur Dutcher and Zeletch Skriver were also nominated for the place. The vote was: Reoves, 7; Skriver, 3; Duts 2 “They'er mine, Tim, and there's every kind of wine there that anyone could ask for. All mine, too. Can you beat e A rat darted out from behind & barrel. Tim took a kick at it and almost fell down, “Don't do that,” yelled Sharkey, “he's mine too.” Tim was then shown other kegs of sparkiing wines In the rear of the spa- clous cellar. He saw cr of champagne and bottles of the cholcest French wines. After having given the place a swell slant they went upstalrs. Tom stopped at the bar and calling the bartender, sald, “Boy, let's have two glasses of domestic beer."” SYRACUSE BEATS | Felix Newton Calls 0(‘,(}]])&“_'[“ TEAM Grummann for His Use of Quotations Easterners Win from the California (From a Staff Correspondent.) Eleven by Score of Thirty- th Gro LINCOLN, Dec. 6.—(Speclal.)~The con- troversy which has been golng on be- Five to Nothing. twoen Felix Nwton, a chronio public letter writer in Lincoln and Prof. Grum- “1 belleve that the South lilgh school |THEY PLAY AT LOS ANGELES| mann of the state university over histetic f60t ball boys would have won their ——— problems which took piace way back be- LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6.—Syracuse de- | fore Heck was ap up, has reached that fosted Occidental here today by the score | stage where people are wondering Af the of % to 0. The lineup: regents ought not to give Newton a pro- occmnm'fih. . fessorship &s he appears to have history aniels | 4own pat and abliity to call the pro- Hollender | fessors at the big school, who do not Wieman | auote history correctly. Newton tifls morning lined out the fol- e lowing communication to the regents Smith | covering the matter: . B, MvClung(c) | 1 desire respecttully to direct your at- Brandstetner | tention to the letter of Prof, Grummann ‘which l’g red in the Journal under date of November 25 last, sikned Paul H. Grummann, ‘I feel confident I voice the consensus of the opinion of the alumni and of the people of N ‘when #ay that your honorabi y should tal mclfil notice of this matter. I am lerewith for your information vealing his misquotations, ts A, B, C, D, E. tly In harmony with the nts's logicl rull which was given out e r ago in the com- plaint s n-:;ber of ¢ professor, as el entitled to his to position in the univer- its mnb.mu"n- ¢ i year, gether ing of i Ong Detents Nelwon. Ne! defeated Nelson Sat it _basket ball by a secore on Nelsons' floor. i urda; of H 2 : Hi] i fac- author —T:‘In. Neb., toams of ) hul’nund m 2. 3. i.ll Jones was umpire. ¢ Divorced Vets Widow it forth, n orth against the r 1 called his attention, a few da: to his erroneous that, “I read Vi Chamberlain Given Position on FEck's telly & matier of fact fense from the standpoint and by way of & bad example to students, of quotation ks when he that he had not seen the source in order that she might claim the | for about half a I suggest to:your pension of her first husband, killed in s,:"gdg onorable body the aboliti, A4 perience of Mrs. Caroline Palmer-Travis- | Partment of rhetoric. on, of the de Davis, T2 years of age. 1 trust you will take such action as he Mrs. Davis was the wife of ‘Captain | Up the universiiys suod wapiereby clear e i war. In' 150 sha maried | ool ofel]on o Case Appealed year. Such the Dublio 1f sich Aerentions Henry T. Travis at Ironton, Wis. Shortly sfterward they became estranged and - Davis, Recantly Mre. Duvis decided to spply e N Vi it t‘:: t:at’:h::.:" -nondh ‘:‘mfi l::-n 064,577 of property sald to belong to John was allve and had remarried, She’ | D. Rockefeller, was transferred today to set about to obtaln a divorce, which has | this city when an appeal from the ruling Just been granted, and was vestored to |°f United States District Court Judge her first widowhood, which enables her to | Clarke was filed in the United States claym a pension as Captain Palmer's legal Locomotive Engineer Given Fifty Thousand ST, LOUIS, Mo, Dee. 6—Adolph L. treasurer of Cuyahoga county, Ohlo, C. O'Brien. to collect taxes on $3i1,- the ground of non-residence. Stabs Son Because Chatter A_n_noyed Him|? ~—Francls » players will This is a larger number than usual and |15 due to the fact that many substitutes |had a chance to earn a letter because of injuries to many regulars. | auirement for a letter man is that he play in at least one and one-half games. The first basket ball practice will be held at the high school this afterncon A large squad is expected to turn out. There are practically four positions on the team that are open, Paynter being the only regular left over from last season. The coach will have a large amount of materfal to pick from, but the team will be light. men who are looked upon to make a fight for first team positions Patty, after school. Athletic Board Decides to Award Sweaters and Emblems for First Time in Years. is year. # not recelved sweat: e cost of recelve lett Logan, Welrich, ove, Crowley, Fulla Smith and Maxwell. LETTERS TO SEVENTEEN MEN At a meeting of the athletic board last night it was decided to give the Central High school football letter-men sweaters For several seasong the team the school, but this year there was hesita- tion on account of the depleted treasury. The money for the sweaters will be paid directly out of the athletic fund. A play of some kind will be given by high schools puplls later on to clear up the sweaters. ers from ers this year. Some of the include: MacFarland, way, Gelsler, Colorado Dry Law is Declared Valid by Supreme Court The court held that cif DENVER, Colo., Dec. 66.—The au- thority of Colorado to enact and en- force statewide prohibition was up- held by ‘the state supreme court to- day in an unanimous opinion written by Justice W. H. Gabbert. ties governed under special charter were without authority to continue traffic in intox- icating liquors after January 1, 1916, when statewide prohibition becomes effective In Colorado, under constitu- tional and statutory enactments. The decision held that the enforcement of prohibition comes under the police well | Power of the state and is no way ef- opin- | fected by the twentieth amendment, un- to|der which Denver and several other one who 0cou- | oities in Colorado are governed by spe- cial charter. It also declared that the con- his- | stitutional and statutory prohibition en- actments are clearly within the power another | Of the people and legislature of th , in _order to build up a German|The opinion took the position that “if it ish speak- | had been intended to exempt the city and county of Denver from the operation of uotations, he ve- | prohibition laws, words to that effect R et history { would have been employed.” The court book ef that title has mever been pub. | ordered the license lssued by Denver city lishad "snywhere: undsr the mur Hut bis | authorities to August Koch to be can- e moral and | celled January 1, 1916, \ tate. Page Files Protest Against Seizure of American Ship WASHINGTON, Page at London today advised the State department that he had filed a vigorous protest with the British forelgn office against requisitioning American Transatlantic company without CINCINN. _ the formality of prize court proceedings. ATE o S-The attort of | iapatoh ‘did. not ‘sotala the text of the protest or information regarding the intention of the British govornment. It was assumed at the State department, however, that the Hooking, now at Hall- fax, and the Genesee, at St. Lucia, West Indles, were among the vessela covered by the protest. Sourt of appeals here by attorneys for | In a message of instructions from the Brisa. State department the embassador was Judge Clarke several months ago, sit- | told to inquire whether the British gov- | ting in Cleveland, granted an injunction |ernment intended to requisition the ships, Sgainst the (reasurer, restraining him |and If 80, to make vigorous protest. from attempting to collect the taxes on|was also told to insist that the cases of various vessels now held for prise courts be settied at the earliest passible mo- ‘ment. Dec. vessels 6. —~Ambassador of the He 0DGE COUNTY COURT HOUSE IS TRANSFERRED FREMONT, Neb,, Dec. &—(Special )~ The board of supervisors at a special meeting Monday afternoon decided to the officer of the officers of the “n e for business | 1903000, Buy a Sc or 10c cut to-day, _ Beventeen The re- Kaiser's Friend, Now in Tower of | | London, Financed Strike Activi- ties in U, 8. Plants. | FEDERAL ATTORNEY'S CHARGE| NEW YORK, Dec. (3.———Unlh!d}I States Atorney H. Snowden Marshall, | in a statement issued late this after- noon, declared he has information which convinces him that the organ- ization known as Labor’s Peace coun- cil was financed by Franz Rintelen, now held in a British prison, through David Lamar, to sir up strikes in factories engaged in manufacturing munitions. Mr. Marshall's statement followed an~ nouncement that C. H. Canode, printcr of the council, and Willlam F. Kramer of the International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, and an officlal of the coun- cil, had been subpoenaed to come to this city from Chicago to testify before the grand jury in an investigation of the or- ganization. Marshall's Statement. The statement of the United States at- torney follows: “In view of the publicity given to the story concerning Labor's National Peace council, I think I will state that I have, 2nd for some time have had, information that convinces me the eoclety was financed by means supplied by Captain Franz Rintelin, through David Lamar. Part of the actlvities of this organ! tion consisted in stirring up strikes in various plants which were engaged In munition manufacture. I do not at pres- ent wish to mention the location of any of the places where these strikes were | instigated. “In each case where a strike was pur- chased, there was a considerable oppo- sition to the strike among portions of the labor element, which disapproved of | strikes that were bought. The activitles of this organization came to the notley ! of Mr. Gompers (Samuel Gompers, presi- dent of the American Federation of La- hor) who absolutely disapproved of the | plan they were carrying out. I do not at present wish to mention the names of any of the officers of this organization who are shown to have been concerned in these transactions. Activities at an End. “Von Rintelen was in this country from April to August. After he left tne country and ceased supplying money the activities of Labor's National Peace coun~ cfl dwindled and came to an end. I would not have made this tement at this time except that in some way a number of the facts have been disclosed. 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