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: OMAHA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23 CAPTAIN YON PAPEN LEAYES OR HOME Recalled German Attache Denies that He Violated Any Rules of Diplomatic Etiquette GLAD TO GET INTO BATTLE NEW YORK, Dec. 22.-—Captain Franz Von Papen, Germany's’ re- culled milithry attachs,. 16ft New York for Rottérdam téday on the ricamebip mrhn. bearing a safe cotduct th Germany from the en tente aillés.. Departing, he issued this fiial statefent to the American OEREMONY At the right National Pooahontas Society. peaple: | “In leavia® thik rountrt, where 1 have il r of kidness and hoapiiniity ricans and others, 1 égm ity ¥ to theAK ull tnose Wwhi 68 pot “germit the'r friendly per ro'al fieliigh ts be poiored Ly the CPAGeA By the war mmong the one. “My_thoughis turn back (64ay expressly | to those unforgéitable days whon I had the henor and good fortune to spend somh titie with the expeditionery forces Lt VMS Cieox where | learned to adml the Eplendia sbidierly quality and deve- ton 16 Quty of ‘the United ttates army. | ‘Perasnally speaking, no greater satis- ! fastion could be miven (5 e than the | fulliliment of my arlent des're t5 be callad kbme where wold efs are far more urgently pesded than here History Wil Vindleate Him, “1 Jeave toy Port witheut any feeling of biiletness, Decaise 1| know too well that whef Wiadry (8 ones wrtten it wil| 1AM o CleAn records dedpite Al the | oisrlaresantations and (alumnies spread | o al présent. he Kew _ore v.0v1a Which certainly | s NOt OpAn to the sus;lcion of harber- | 1ag friendly feeling for iuy wountry, | sintod very fairly, whea discusaing my | 1rehl), ‘paw Jiat the matier s seitled thé {Arh ARG 13 te emphaeizsd that the Hiate devarime.t made ns charges ' axninat Captaln Von Papeh and Caplala ———— boye£d, walin refcoted o silshast e | B S S AN 1§ TRGALIZED which ecsud nol ©o support 4 by evi- veinment | the ceicf, Bt the .U n ted 2taie poior Mliiddied thal tu b . e chutles, ts b ¢ | Federa] Court Rules Surface and “1 #o hiume wita the unAhakable con- | Lower Btrata Can Be Bepa- viet'on tha! no #fforis, however Insistent | they inky U6, Will wccomplish the fervent rately Rented. uesie of ou; pnetuy to emuroll our coun e vryt AL thin wreat nation. ' Our neutral | QI CASE FROM OKLAHOMA 2 nhll-'ytll‘dun must, on the contrary, | inevilably ard graduslly improve as it Dot € oar. 4 avers intetligent and | ST. LOUIS, Dec. 33.—An opinion Woar-milided jlean that Gornany 's | regarding the Jeasing of land was | ih Juatifiabls and herolo handed down in the United States flahic I xistencs and the very life of |cireutt court of appeals here today. 4 The opinion legalizes the granting of G4 14 Got Tats Actton. two different leases on the e oy e pn ylectined plece of land, one for the surfaco potters after he handed but hie state- | And the other for lower strata, ment, g.'um goodbye to 4 German | The opinion upheld the sejsure by the 3 i | Midland Ofl and Drilling company of half #¢ tha opportunity to go to |an aere of land from the leasehold of .ufiv{. 0. Kammersp, a farmer of Nowats) all thal [ fee! most | county, Oklahoma, ta enable the ofl com- number of Gérman- | pany to develop ita leasehold in the ofl cauntey for their #up- |end natural gas doposits bemeath the land, ; | Company Setses Land. . On June 1, 1913, John 8, Woodward, a Cherokee Indian leased forty acres of land which he owned to Kammerer for agricultural purposes for five years at ®0 & year. Later he leased the ol and gas rights in the land to the Midiand company. The oll company invaded Kammorer's farm, selzed halt an acre of Iy ehirged with lots of this war {s over you L will ses ing will eome out all . vight. 1M suke I bave been here for my couritry 8hd 1 have tried to serve It, but | have not done anything against diplomatic courtesy, and I leave here fecaling grateful that I odn at last bo amonk the teal actors in the trenches.” chitted with friends while - his Wad' being exkmined. The |1and on which to install a drill and be: 10n ¢ 4l baggnge going aboard | €an operations. . : ahip WAE put in foree for the first time | Kammerer obtained an infunetion | * today By the Holland-Amorican Une. |against the ofl company, but this was diesolved by the United States district | court for the tern division of Okla- {homa. Today's declsion affirmed the |order dlssolving the Injunction. The | opinton was written by Judge Smith and | wea concurred In by Judge Adama. Preciding Judge Sanborn dissented from their views. y Otticlals of the iine deciined to give any roasoms for it Weble About Iatotie Yankees, Voh PApen was appointed mili- tary of the German embdessy in Decomber, M. Public attention was directed te hbiat in Eepiebor liat when o letter loh. he wrole to Nils wife was found Rong 1oe La ers seized by thy ! Judges Divide, lflm"hflmmn‘. trown James F. J.| Judse #mith and Adams hold that the Arehidall v hile he wos ca rylug them | cwner of the land has complete domina- to Europe dn ‘His 1ot Von . apen 8l- tlop over every part of it, from the sky luded t5 “B'andr'on ¢ Yonke's” Which above to the center of the earth beneath t was tba kil AR o)t Frakees' He (1. Me has not only the right to disposs #ald A5 ‘eri) fa aLpihd ‘o Now YOrk of 1v 1y vertical :.ma..., but m: n ‘.‘"’f".'r,, 51’; <‘t a ‘.'M-' PAPErS | horimontal sections. Therefore, it ia sald, h:"-qg\'\'r ‘;: et N ug;l-:ffl-.o g, | 1€ the owner, after lcasing the top strata 4y 1 L ,“.k. :“nmu:“d- iof hia ground for agricuitural purposes, = .“wm.\. L;an ';'-“'-h' y discovers that in the underlying strata s l-t_“‘.'n Boy-Ed will are deposits valuable to himself, he i Toave’ HEwS Tk THadibsdam Ser 3 at lberty to dispose of that strata, ir- - ”“ 5 Decem respective of the other leasec | Women Lawyers Lloyd Bing . : Ford Peace Party | Will Defend Girls D‘“ o_f_gneumOnla)"‘ of Chicago have formed the Publi i Defenders’ League for Girls, it was an- (VI8 nounoed today, for the purposs of pre- t of [venting any girl from being sent to jail {or prison for & first offense. Members "ot the league will ask Chief Justice Ol ot-the municipal court to create a spe girls’ colirt, and appoint & woman judge. The women attorneys have agreed to givé one day & month to the propewed apeoial court defending young women offenders free. : Brown University Bow in AusliS, Tex. He was ¥ pROVIDENCE. R. L. Dee. B—Tix |citte coast today to open the 1916 foot | Oul, on New Year'n day. The players 1o Mte im- | Stops will be mitde at Chicago and Al Ve, CHRISTIANIA, No way, Dec. 2. SR e NEW YORK, Dec. Si—Liopd Melvilie ' Bingham, who died a1 Christ ania today, acted of ot cere feh 4t L' 01 ing of the Férd party from New York My, Bitgdam idtroduced Mr. Ford and othér meinbers of the party to the crowd imprompty ' l | twenty-one players started for the Pa Washington State college at Pasadena, ~Thomas Edgar |day and will devote four days to practice. be- s & o Frée: PASTOR WHO PERFORMED WILSON WEDDING Bmith. At the left is one of the wedding gifts received by Mrs. Wilson—a replica statue of the great Pocahontas monument erected on an island in the James river by the of former Villa troops. wheroabouts batfled military authorities, Btate department representat!vi cal polles. Last night Villa was expected to reach Juares at dawn, reports to the American consulate at Juares. has been curront that Villa was at the Bustillos ranch west of Chihuahua City. For four days commercial wires south of Juares have carried no message from the deposed northern echiettains. huahua and Ochoa ratifications of the hua state between hostile forces. Should likely to come to the border, east or west of Juares as that city is unsafe because and his broti is Rev. Dr. Herbert Scott | REV DR IMERBERT SCOrT BAxER SruTNM. g LPocAnovras STArve LAST OF VILLISTA ARMY WIPED OUT: NO QUARTER GIVEN (Continued from Page One.) itlitary organimtions in the surrendered Villa territory and Ochoa in command Villa Scems Swallowed Up. The mystery surrounding General Villa's nd lo- according to For several days the report The departure from Jusres of American Consul BEdwards co-incident with the first news of Villa's retirement caused apecula- tlon whether he had recelved Instructions to receive Villa at a point agreed upon oast of hers, possibly Slerra Blanca. Ed- wards sald he Intended taking a brief | rest, but it was pofnted out that he would hardly leave for such a reason when Mexican affaire“might develop peril to Mrs, Bdwards at Juares. Mrs. Vdwards outed the published reason for his sonco and declared he left on business, nature of which and his destination e would not discuss. Juares Is Unsafe, The reported arrival of Trevino at Chi- urrender places Villa If stfil i Chihua- | he seek to reach the Unitéd States he is he surrender specifically excluded Vilia | v, Hipolito, | Normal conditions prevailed today in Juares. The embargo in effect early i the day against the travel of Americans across the Rio Grande was rescinded and subsequently American border patrols re- turned to camp. hension was apparent among business men in Juarez which was noticeably re- leved upon receipt of information that General Alvaro Obregon had left Nogales | and was expected to reach Juares tonight. However, some appre- | Washington Optimistie. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—-Optimism was expressed in officlal circles tonight re-| garding the Mexican situation | The surrender of General Ochoa, rnn\-' manding the Villa garrison at Juare: and his & tance of a commission un-| der the de facto government was one of | the chief reascns for the hopeful feeling among officl Wwho expressed the belief that Ochoa’ Mtulation put am end to Franciaco Villa as an actual menace. Villa might remain at large, they sabd, nd continue troublesome. but without an | army it was belleved he could do little to alsturb border peace No interest was manifested i Villa's ultimate destination KRUPP WORKS IN TURKEY | WRECKED ?Y AIR BOMBS | COPENHAGEN, Dec. 22— (Via London.) | ~The National Tidender prints a state- ment of & Dane from Constantinople that | the Krupp works outswce of Conatanth nople have been destroyed by bombs | droppéd by British airraen | The Store of the Town A Giveable Gift— A BWEATER $3.50 TO $8.50 Browning, King & Co. Brown university foot ball squad of edii‘ll season with s game against the y expected to reach Pasadena next Mon- | and | buquerque, on (he way west expected *‘nh i ?-A v 2 .2 ok e ’ secured if you That Christmassy Appearance - OFf Your Gifts We have those choose the proper wrappings | to Bayville.) BRITONS ABANDON SICK AND WOUNDED Berlin Report Says So-Called Or- derly Retreat Was Head-Over- | Heels Flight. PANIC BF.IG].VS k‘l‘ SALONIKI Dec, 22 22 (By Wireless Advices recelved here from Constantinople refterate the as scrtion thet the British forees which quit the Dardanelles retired in great disorder ‘Acecording to Constentinople re- BERLIN, ports, according to the Oterseas News agency, “the British left their #'ck end wounded behind. The re- {treat, which they pretend was carried cut systematically, In reality was a head-over-heels flight.” Panie Reigna ot Salonikl. The Overscas News Agency says “Private r te from Saloniki indieats that siate of panic reigns there. The Qreeks are hostile to the Fnglish, who | behave arrogantly. The French and Brit« ish are on bad terms. “Nearly fifty members of the Serbian Parlfament are living in a hotel there. They have formed a {ment and play cards during the night | the streets. The peovie of Saloniki are | anxiously awalting liberation by the cen tral powers | Tarks Win fn Caveasus, | CONSTANTINOPLE, I'e~. {2 - (Via Lon- don.)~The Turkish war office has given out the following statement front (In Mesopotamia) at Kut-El-Amar. “A hostile attack againet the tenth scc tor on the Caucasus front was repulsed “On the Dardanclles front hostile ships violently bombarded until late in the evening different camps in order to de- | #troy the booty abandoned by the enemy. The bombardment falled to achieve its purpose. Hostile attacks at Seddul Bahr repeatedly were repulsed.” “The counting of the war material and military equipment left behind by the enemy at Arl Burnu and Anafarta has The Store of the Town A Buggestion— PULLMAN SLIPPERS $1.50 and $2.50 , King & Co. provisional Parlia- | | while Berbian refugees are starving in | “There was local fighting on the Trak not yet been complet Among the booty near Ari Burnu were two heavy guns, one Schnelder fleld gun, & great uantity of ammunition, especially eartridges rifles, & great number of mules, ammu- nitfon carts and tents filled with provi- | slons and telephone material The “booty abandoned by the enemy" | referred to in the above statement is the war material which the Turks claim the British forces left behind in their with- drawal from the northern coast of the Gallipoll peninsula | ADVANCE IN RATES | BEFORE OFFICIALS OF FIVE STATES ) Continued from Page One | anestion about their rights to appeal commissioners and their attorneys are not & unit on whether an appeal will la and before %0 Into all “ton | What May Be Done. y they do anything they will| the legal phases of this ques- | Bf 1t ts decided that an appeal be taken | Ne case will go direct to the United States supreme court. At the time of starting proceedings an injunction will | from putting into effect the new tariffs Increasing the passenger rates. | slon are positive that an appeal can be iaken, while others are just as positive that one would not be considered by the Aupreme court In support of their contention the at- be applied for restraining the raflroads | peang of forged documents, which made kthn police believe they were army offi- cers. Somo of the attorneys for the commis- | torneys who ate feartul that an appeal, would be thrown out of court take ma‘ position that if the decision had heen | agajost the rallroads there would be no| on| the other hand, they maintain that each | state being & part of the United States and the Interstate Commerce commission a creature of the United States govern-| ment, & state or its officers would not have the legal authority to step in and attempt to overthrow a decision by this| commission. The contention is that the authority of the Interstate Commerce commission exceeds that of any state rallway commission, and that therefore there could not be an appeal Bandits Executed | in City of Mexico GALVESTON, Tex., Dec. 22.~8ix mem- bers of the bandit gang recently cap- | tured in Mexico City were publicly ex-| ecuted today, according to a message | received by Juan T. Burns, Mexican con- | sul here. Four others condemned to death were given a respite at the last moment. Five women arrested with the gang have been given long prison terms, | the message says. The bandits had been able to Avold capture for some time by Today's ml‘\' says that an officlal announcement regarding the govern- ment's policy toward the redemption of outstanding notes by banks will be pub- iished shortly. 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