Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 20, 1915, Page 2

SRELAL 08T SUPREME COURT RLECTIONS T0 FORE Four Vacancies to Be Filled and Present Judges Will Be Candidates. FOUR VACANCIES TO BE FILLED (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Dec. 19.~(Special.)—Much nterest has been manifested the last week over the candidacy of judges of the | supreme court for re-election. There will | be four vacancies to be filled and in| each case one of the present judges will be & candidate for ve-election to a place | expire are Chief Justice A. M. Morrissey, Associate Justices Fawcett, Barnes and | k. | Judge Barnes and Judge Sedgwick will be candidates for the same places they well under- wants to move up. Chief Justice Mor- THE BEE OMAHA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1915. Memory of “Rebel” WESTFIELD, Dec. 19.—The flag of Lyon post, Grand Army of the riseey would like to remain on the bench, but does not know whether he really wants to take &.try at the ‘chief justice- ship or take & try at an associate posi- tlon. 5 As Important as Ever, Republie, Liberty pole in the public square today in memory of a confederate veteran, Tra Miller, who rode with Forrest's cavalry, Mr. Miller, who was a retired manufac: turer of this town, died suddenly in Lit- tle Rock, Ark., Thursda: flew at half mast’ from the CARRANZA BEGINS A WAR ON TYPHUS Organized Being Made to Clean Up Country Swept by Great Plague. SHAKING HANDS IS UNDER BAN — MEXICO CITY, Dec. 16.—(By [Mall to Laredo, Tex.—Dec. 19— El Pueblo, an officlal Carranza orgad, todey publishes a plan which hes been adopted to check the rav- ages of typhus fever, which has spread over the emtire central por- tion of the republic. - The effort is to be a drastic one The same proposition’ which caused | and includes establishment of a spe- Motrissey, that of putting young blood At the head of the court, is apparently While the appointment a e H that Editor Hoeward of the g i g i Inting i le the position is nonpartisan, Morrissey s likely to be pretty that the chief justice s cares to enter the race for the position of head position carries with The ‘work H g » i a i’ H 2 H £ g i tice in his efforts to counter- some of the things whioch were sald g an inexperienced judge at the highest judiclal tribunal T} ;:g the all e " | place the number of cases as high often In the office of | 460 Tie truth (s that the deaths are of effective work, & | ease are vermin, government officlals much as an | will make a house to house canvass in ! |n home or wn office which has not its | Cornish Causes an Governor Morehead to appoint Judge | 410y sanitary police corps, working under orders from the federal Board of Health. : Not only will public and private strue- jown & large amount of critiefam | tures be thoroughly cleaned, but passen- from mem- | Mers attempting to enter tram cars, it s ty well | Public coaches or taxicabs, will be in- ’Wm':.Y-.“ spected with a view of detaining any tion of chief justice and | Whose appearance might lead inspectors to suspect them of Mabllity of transfer- legram others | TIng the disease. The sale of alcoholle oy the n‘:‘:‘..:n‘l'-.r@fllllv beverages in restaurants and saloons is Morrissey at the time, now | to be strictly prohibitéd and all theatera g their mistake and band the | 8nd other places of amusement are com- compliments, 1s evidence | Manded to close at 11 o'clock each night. Twenty Thousand Cases. These instructions, issued in a decree those who opposed his | o;5rived by General Corransa, carry with them & penalty for non-observance which inflicts fine or imprisonment or both. The disease has spread to such an extent that acourate statistics on the number of cases in this section of the and | public are not obtainable. JThe mini- nium, as reported by various physicians, places the total at 20000, while there are apparently well informed, who #0 frequent as to dally necesaitate long trains of funeral cars and there s hardiy vietim. As it Is now generally admitted that the only propagsting agents of the dis- the poorer sections of the city and In such other places es may be deemed necessary for the purpose of stamping out vermin. Public bathing establish- ments and barber shops will be opened and all those of an unclean appearance ‘will be forced to bathe and reclothe them- selves. This service will be free, clothes algo being furnished by the government. : Mustn't Shake Handa. In all of this work the military is co- operating with oivillan officials. General Gonszales has dotalled 500 soldiers to dis- infect and clean barracks, and public In the latter role are to be seen * Handsheking is & uhiverssl custom throughout Mexi but the dread of typhus has put a stop to its promiscu~ ous practice. Announcement by by of Lincoln that he will be a candi- f the supreme judgeship has for the higher office makes a lino of probable vacancies which extends down the justice of the peace position, for Judge Comish out of the running distriet judge County Judge Risser @. A, R. Post Honors |FALL OF VILLA AS SUDDEN AS HIS RISE Scarcely Three Years’ Time Covers Adventurous Career of Revo- Tutionist. MILITARY GENIUS OF MEXICO BEL PABO, Tex.. Dec. 19.—Doreteo Orango was born in 1868 in Las Nieves. in the state of Durango. As & youth he ventured into the moun- tains of Chihuahua and collected a roving band to whom he became known as Pancho and Francisco Vills. Dil¥ing the outbreak of Madero agginst Porfirio Diaz, Villa emerged 1from the mountains and foresook the bandit life credited to him. His rise to military power and his descent {from the pinnacle of revolutionary fame dates back scarcely three years ago; when he crossed the Rio Grande with only a handful of companions, six “borrowed” horses and $7 in money, and a meager supply of coffee and beans. Less than & year atter his entering the army of Madero he became the leader of & well-equipped army of nearly 20,000 men, His fearlessness in battle and his acknowledged ability as a disciplinarian won for him his title. At one time, as head of the Carransa army, more than half of Mexico was under his control. Hated the Spaniards. ‘With Indian blood in his veins, he was a hater of the Spaniard. He also was an enemy of alcohol and tobacco. Popular with his men, his strength grew, and at the timé of Huerta's downfall Villa was the greatest military genius In Mexico. He wam then credited with presidential aspirations. Trouble rose,. The first signs of dis- content came just previous to the Agua ago, ordered for the purpose of outlining the policles of the administration, of which Carranza then was the nominal head. Carransza advisers criticised the method of selecting delegates to the con- vention. Stormy scenes were enacted. The policies adopted gave evidence of the rupture that quickly followed. General Villa, with General Emillano Zapata, corporated, formed what was called the ‘‘conventionist” government. Carranza adhered to the term ‘‘constitutionalist.” Generals and lesser loaders chose sides and aligned their men accordingly. Villa then retreated northward, after .once having set foot at least in the suburbe of Mexico City, and began the struggle to maintain his army, Acts of violence followed closely upon each other; towns were looted: forelgners persecuted; bridges and other property destroyed, and demands made upon wealthy mining men and mercantile businesses for money. Not the Army of Qla. Villa's army then was not the army that stood with him at the helght of his triumphs. Bickerings in the commands of several of his generals became alarm- ing. General Medina, who once led his advance forces, was murdered. Loot estimated at millions stored on the Medina Tanch was sald to have been the canse. The next of Villa's strong supporters to disappear was Colonel Flerro, nicknamed the “Butcher.” Plerro it was who was sald to have osused the death of Medins, and also that of Willlam Benton, a British subject, whose death in Juares about two yeurs ago has never satisfactorily been explained. Other of Villa's commanders and mem- berw of his provielonal cabinet crossed into the United States and of his troops received immunity Carransa upon their surrender. The revent reco nition by the United States and o powers of the de facto government of Carrensa, Vi it sorely, and evidences of the end of bitter but unequal fight ‘were soon made manifest. Philippine Typhoon Does Great Damage Over Vast Territory (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) MANILA, Dec. 17.—~The typhoen which was reported by cable during the latter part of October and the first of Novem- ber caused still heavier loss than was indicated by the first report, before com- munication was re-established with southern Luzon, where the worst of the storm's effect was felt. The actual loss of life was about 17 killed by drowning, falling trees and the collapse of buildings, and the injured numbered several hun- dred, as reported, but the property loss 1s now conservatively estimated at not less than 6,000,000 pesos, or approximately will be & candidate for Police Judge Fullerton county judge as H H i : } $2,600,000. ‘The hemp and copra planta- tions were leveled to the grouna for miles and immense rice flelds were stripped of crops by the flood. The town of Tobacco was two-thirds 4 water which y also, hundreds of little villages of bamboo bulldings, Even the large warehouses of stone suffered from flood, and some of the public build- in including one of the old Spanish Eig §28 NEW YORK'S POLICE WORTH TEN REGIMENTS YORK, Dee. WB~New York's churches, were unroofed. The governor of the island of Marin- duque reports that 142 houses, the church and public school bulldings were wrecked by the storm, apd the lives of a number of natives there were lost, The private Pesidence of W, Cameron Forbes, former governor general of the Philippines, was partly untodfed and flooded, and the famous capital existea during the vepublican sdministpation, was put out of commission in a number of Pplaces. The storm really included: three ty- phoons within a fortnight, and the havee which these worked with telegraph, tele~ phone and rallway lines made communi- cation with Manila impossible for some time. An expedition of three coast guard steamers laden with food, medicine and other supplies, under command of Gen- eral Hall of the constabulary, set out from here for the stricken districts and rendered all ald possible. Callentes convention, more than a year whose faction was sald to have been in- The coasting steamers Montanes and " | Panglims are reported to have foundéred, Grand “Dusting Off” Planned for Spring | ; ST. JOHN, N. B. Dec. 10.—A grand “dusting off,” largely through hand to hand encounters, is planned by Grut‘ | Britain for next spring, according to | Major H. G. Mayes, who, arrived todsy from England, Major Mayes, who ls to fake charge of bayonet and physical drill at Quebec, sald Great Britain will have 4,000,000 trained and equipped men In the fleld | early next vear. “Conditions are excellent on the we ern front,” sald Major Mayes, “A great move ls expected in the spring and the dusting off will consist mainly of hand to hand encounters on an enormous scale.” SICK SOLDIER IS LUCKY| | {To Be Transferred to Hospital Ship | Most Agreeable Fate in Balkan Campaign. ONLY CLEAN SPOT IN PENINSULA (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) IKI, Dec. 1.—Quite the most agree. able fate that cam overtake an allied | soldier in the Balkan campaign is to be lll—or slightly wounded. Nof that the hospital facllities of the anciemt Turk- | ish ecity are famous, or even adequate. | They are not. But there are four French | and one British hospital ships in the roads of Saloniki and they constitute by far the most comfortable, mot to say the only sanitary spot in the Balkan peninsula. ‘The French have been better prepared fhom the very outset of the present Bal- kan campaign in every detall of military organization than their British allles, No better example of the thoroughmess of this preparation could be given than the arrangements for caring for the sick and wounded, actually any meed for it and simuitan- eously with the landing of the first con- tingent of French troops on Greek soil, the French hospital ship Sphinx was ly- ing ready in the harbor of Saloniki. As the number of troops disembarked in- creased, automatically more hospital ships put in an appearance. First, the Dugay Trouin, with its sheltered decks Spanish galieon, all porches and awnings and lounging places for the convalescent; next this ship, the Charles Roux, with its operating rooms, its surgical clinics and its complete provision for the care of the more seriously woundéd; and fin- ally the Canada—all with full complement of nurses, surgeons, physicians, sisters of charity ahd gll the rest of the para- phernalia of the aftermath of battle. Comfortable Hospital § In many ways the Charles Roux is the most interesting, especially as It is the principal operating theater of the floating hospitals of Saloniki, and espe- clally as the Surgeon Major, Dr. Helts- Boyer, 15 one of the most distingulshed and best known surgeons in Paris. The ship was converted from one of the larger passenger steamers that in time of peace made the voyage from Marseilles to Al- ger. As such, it is roomy enough, for not only have the saloons not required as operating chambers been turned into | wards to add to the accommodations of have been glassed in, meking the most agreeable of sun-parlors in which cots are sot in long rows so that the sick and, wounded, In the warmth of the after- | noom sun, may lle quiet and look out| at the spendid view the Bay of Saloniki affords. Here, too, the convalescent, propped up with pillows, sheltered, excellently cared for and competently nursed by volunteer Frenchwomen who have passed the necessary examinations and had the requisite experience, gather strength against the time when they may go back and ‘have another go at 'em,” as the | “pollu’ in the mext cot to the Associated Press correspondent put it. Under such circumstances the wounded soldier has all the advantages and none of the draw- backs of “the Naples of the orient,” as its inhabitants call Saloniki. If his cot is on the south side of the ship, he has be- fore him the snow-capped crests of the mountains of Kalchls, those three fingers of land that stretch Into the Aegean, with convent~crowned Mount Athos tip- ping the last finger. Or, to the west, confused with the clouds, he has the peaks of Thessaly—Mount Olympus, the home of the gods of ancient Greece, and heyond, Mount Odessa; and perhaps even, dim in the distance, Mount Pelion, both of mythological fame. The rare and changing beauty of the clouds above |these snow-colfed heights, the singular coloring of the sunsets are joys to the patients aboard the French hospital ships In no wise lessened by the odors, the noises and the discomforts of life ashore in Saloniki, On the other hand, should the patient be placed on the north wide of the ship, the view 18 no less attractiveSaloniki itself, charming from a distance, strag- gling along the curving shore, mounting the hill behind the town to the walled citadel that caps its crest. TRIAL CONSIGNMENT OF CANADIAN FISH IN LONDON (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) LONDON, Dec. 10—A trial consign- ment of Canadian fish, shipped frosen, has just been mold for fancy prices on the London market. The government is sald to regard the experiment as exceed- ingly important, in view of the Ottawa assertion that, with proper facllities, 2,000,000 pounds of fish per week can be supplied for English markets on & permanent basis would prove bene- ficlal to both Canada and the mother country are urging that a small guaranty per pound be placed on consignments for & time for the benefit of shippers. HUNDREDS OF DANES ARE WITH BRITISH IN GALLIPOLI —— (Oorrespondence of the Associatéd Press.) LONDON, Deec. 11.~Hundreds of Danes | are fighting with the British troops In according te Captain Percy Hansen, a Briton of Danish parentage who has just recelved a Victoria cross for his bravery and enterprise under fire. These Danes emigrated to Australia and New Zealand. A large number of Danes in Bogland also have enlisted in the British army GREECE PROTESTS ALLIES’ FORT!FICATION OF SALONIKI | continue to ipdicate a complete halt Long before there was | and its high stern like the poop of a | the cabins, but the great broad dcckll ] Those who believe that such a tnm' GONQUERORS HALT AT GREEK BORDER! Bulgarian and Teuton Forces M) ported Marking Time Pend- i ing Parleys. 1 | LONDON, Dec 19.—Ali advices' of the Bulgarian armies and of Field Marshal von Mackensen's forces at. the Greek fronties, possibly pendln;‘ diplomatic developments, as Greece is said to be insistent that Bulgarian troops shall not enter its territory. | The entente forces are busy en- gaged in fortification work at Sal- oniki and its environs, and the land- | ing of additional troops to reinforce | them is reported, | Advices Conflicting. 1 Advices regarding the plans of the cen- trdl powers are decidedly conflicting, but théy are credited in various dispatches 8’ concentrating troops with a view to he Saloniki operations and to be sending | artillery to the front for a drive at the allled expeditionary force. | In Montenegro the Austro-Hungarians keéep up their hammering at the Serbian and Montenegrin forces there and an- nounce the gain of further ground and the capture within the last few days of 13,600 prisoners. The Montenegrins, how- ever, clalm that the Hersegovine army | has given the Austria; set dack. | Germans Move Weat. | On the western front there ix a con- | tnuation of artiliery firing and trench fighting with numerous alr exploits also recorded on both sides. Bwiss reports declare that large forces of Germans have been moving toward the fighting | zone In France. The advances have been | | held to indicate that a German drive in | |'the west in the near futures was a pos- sihility. New Names Urged For London Streets (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) LONDON, Dec. 1.—Petitions to rename streets bearing German names have met with a cold reception from the London county council. One of the latest of these petitions came from the residents |of Wiesbaden road, who wanted either | an English name or an allled name. Among the signers of the paper were a | Rothstein, Meyer, a Rubinstein, an Aaronburg and a Finkenstein, and aito- gether about forty family names of Ger- manie origin. People who themselves bear German names are declared to be among the main promoters of these pe- titions, apparently with a view to es- tablishing their own patriotism. At the council meeting when this mat. ter came up, Sir John Benn asked: “How far back are we asked to go in altering names? What should we do with Martin Luther street, Beethoven street, andel ~ street and Hanover Square? The scheme was branded as ridiculous by most of the councilmen. Nevertheless, on the broad principal that each borough of the counetl had a techmical right to | control its own names, a motion was | carried by a narrow majority giving the | borough councils authority to make changes if deemed advisable. Wife and Self. ST. PAUL, Minn, Dec. 19—W, H. | Hoppe today shot and killed his wife, | Mamie Haley Hoppe, whose relatives live at Cedar Rgpids, Ia., and then committed ' suieide. lousy is sald to have been the cause. AMUSEMENTS, CHARITY WEE Beneficlary: Omaha City Mission. JEAN BEDINT'S FASCINATING PARL itere, Maries and Tabbles. K | H.Pplu “".100 Today, Tuesday and Wednesday FANNIE WARD in the semsational Lasky-Faramount “FEE CR N AT C. Schlank & Co. 1307 Douglas Street Retail Distributor For eisy Beer “THE BEST” Telephone Douglas 641 Try a Case Prompt Delivery John F. Rousar Co. WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS 312 North 10th St. Douglas5714 NEW ALL:STEEL THROUGH TRAIN CHICAGO and FLORIDA PENNSYLVANIA . LINES Quickest'Schedule Less Than 33 Hours Chicago to Jacksonville All-Year]Service \M l.l&&l‘ Ar. TIFTON 430 AM fi: (Atlantic Coast Line) z:( Ar. 8ASAM N\ ) Connection at Macon arrives Savannah 7.10 AM. Southland re- Chicago turning leaves Jacksonville 8.20 PM, arrives 745 AM. % Car B e e 0 Doneina Chicego overs miebt # ives Ja. 1 ime for All Coni Merry Christmas LITTLE BUSY BEES We are going to give you FIVE DOLLS THIS WEEK, because it is Christmas, and we want you all to have a chance to win one. LILLIAN is the biggest and prettiest and is for the little girl that sends us the most pictures. EDNA is second, IDA third, HELEN fourth and “BOBBY” is fifth (**Bobby’’ is a girl, but they call her ““Bobby,’” because she plays with the boys all the time). You just ought to see her run and jump and play pump-pump- pull-away and all the rest of the outdoor games. That’s what puts that sparkle in her eyes and the roses on her cheeks. I just love her myself, best of them all, because she has such winning ways—dear little ‘‘Bobby.”’ I wonder what little girl will get her. If I was a little girl, wouldn’t I try, though! Remember, you must send your pictures in ONE DAY EARLIER this week, because Saturday is Ohrist- mas, so the CONTEST WILL CLOSE 4 P, M. FRIDAY, instead of Saturday. These dolls will be given free to the little girls under 12 years of age, who bring or mail us the largest number of dolls’ pictures cut out of The Daily and Sunday Bee before 4 p. m., Friday, De- cember 24, This picture of three of the dolls will be in The Bee every day this week. Cut them out and ask your friends to save the pictures in thelr paper for you, too, See how many pictures you can get, and be sure to turn them in to The Bee office before 4 p. m., Friday, De- cember 24. You Can See the Dolls at The Bee Office Persistence is the cardinal vir- tue in advertising: no matter how good advertising may be in other respects, it must be run frequently and constant- ly to be really succcessful. e e e — ARt U BT A2