Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1915, Page 1

NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO EIGHT [—=———" THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE THE WEATHER. Unsettled VOL. XLV-—NO. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1915--8IX NI-I("I'IU:\’S MIDNIGHT MASS FEATURE OF NEW YORK CELEBRATION Million Persons Attend Services Marking Opening of Christ- mas Day in the Cath- olic Churches. DENVER CHURCH BELLS RING Large Christmas Dinners Served to Scores of Needy Individuals Without Home Ties. BIG TREE AT THE WHITE HOUSE NEW YORK. Dec. 25.—New York City celebrated a joyous and pros- with a lavish dis- tribution of gifts and an unusually pérous Christm: targe outlay of charity. ¥ After a display of community trees in various parks and public tenters throughout the city night, the day was ushered in not only here, but throughout the arch- dlocese of New York with midnight tasses in most of the Catholic thurches. This was the first time in fifteen years that midnight mass was celebrated. It is estimated that 0 persons took part in the ‘Baskets .given by the crew of the ew York to 100 boys and dinner. shoes for every boy and girl, doll the girls and Scout suits for the boys, ‘Throughout the financial district the employes of stock exchanges, banks and other financial interests were made happy by gifts amounting to mnearly §1,000,000. The New York Stock exchange had distributed among its employes from § to 60 per cent of their year's salary as Christmas presents. ployes of the Brooklyn Rapld Transit company rejolced over the announcement | of increases in pay, beginning January 1, and aggreégating $250,000 a year. Church Bells Ring at Demver. DENVER, Dec. 25.—Throughout the Rocky mountain region urban and rural residents joined in the celebration of Christmas today. Officlal and private business was suspended and all activities centered around the dispensing, and en- | nrb.ma of good cheer. claimed the attention sanitations dnd hundreds ot {ndividuals. Several large Christmas dinners were at- tended by scores of needy individuals without family §ties. Special exercises and dinners featured the festivities at all state and municipal institutions. At Colorado Springs a feature of the celebration was a Christmas tree in one of the parks beéaring trays of edibles for the birds. 'The festivities at El Paso, Texas were opened last night with a chorus of 200 United States soldiers singing carols and hymns accompanied my military bands. Gifts of clothing, toys and other ar- ticles were distributed from the muni- ciual tree to thirteen hundred children, most members of refugee Mexican fam- Aljes. 2 Christmas Tree at White House. WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Ohristmas festivities at the White House today were devoted largely to the entertain- ment of President Wilson's grand child- ren, little Miss Hllen McAdoo, Master Francis Sayre and Miss Josephine Coth- ran, & grand nlece of 12-years. I H. Hoover, chief usher at the White House played Santa Claus in the absence of the president. There was a large Christmas tree in the library on the second floor of the White House elaborately decorated and laden with packages. Although the presi- dent was away there was presents and good wishes from him for the youngsters and the grown-ups, too. The White House festivities will be rounded out with a dinner for the fam- ily groug in the state dining room this evening. cond Crop of Pears. “HOUSTON, TEX. Dec. % (Xmas)— Fresh pears, the second crop of the season is a unique dish appearing on a number of Christmas tables tod: in this section. After the August 16 storm when the trees were stripped of leaves, trees put out new leaves and blossomed again, The fruit is claimed to be of better quality than the first crop. Quiet Day at Hot Springs. HOT SPRINGS, Va., Dec. 25.—~The pres- ident and Mrs. Wilson spent Christmas day quietly and dined in their suite at seven o'clock this evening after a motor drive. : The Weather For Nebraska—Un tonight with probably rain or snow. Temperature ut Omaha Yesterday.' Hours m m. m... m. m m m CETFETTIRRRRERE m. m. Local Record. Highest yeste: Lowest )’:ll!l’d Mean temperature Precipitation . T ture an cipitation depa tures Foam the Bormat: e Normal _temperature Excess for the day Normal precipitation Totul deficiency since M; Deficiency for the Aotal rainfall sin Deficlency since March Det March 1 1, 1915 y for cor. period, 1913. 5. last of food were distributed . to 20,000 persons by the Salvation Army and the Volunteers of Ameryca. An unusual Incident of the celebration was the din- ttleship girls who otherwise would have had no Christmas BSanta Claus brought a pair of for 8ix thousand em- ttled; much volder‘ 04 inches 1 \od, 1914, 327 tnches ) lor cor. perl l, nches A % inches | VOLUNTEERS GIVE 0UT XMAS BASKETS Two Hundred Eighty Big Christ- mas Dinners Distributed Among Needy of Omaha. CONTAIN CHICKEN AND FIXINGS “For I was hungry and ye fed Me." The glad anniversary of the birth of {Him by Whom these words were said was celebrated at Volunteers of America {headquarters, 114 North Fifteenth street, by passing out 280 big baskets laden with chickens, geese and all the ‘“‘fixin's" of :l Christmas dinner. A stout rope across the room separated the givers from the receivers. And the isight that met the eyes of the hungry was mighty good. Baskets, baskets, baskets, from which protruded the legs of, the toothsome birds. No pinchbeck the world-wide holiday Wwas baskets these, but big and heavy and mfl at midnight by the ringing of « Bpectal wers_held at many churches. Distribu- tion of Christmas supplies to the needy of all charity or- liberal. { There was the Christmas tree, too. A |new kind of Christmas tree, this. “It's a new specle# T guess,” said Mrs. Mc- Cormick. It was, indeed, for instead of just one top it had five tops. It was a fan-shaped tree. George Alcorn was the Luther Burbank who produced this new species, by the simple expedient of bunching five small trées. And the ef- | 'tect was decidedly pleasing and the |decorations many and brilllant. Toys for Kiddles. To one side of the tree were the many shelves on which the baskets were dis- played and under the tree were toys and toys and toys, Well, the folks arrived early and there | were many expressions of delight when |they saw that grand tree and hunmgry eyes rested on those full baskets. There was a little praise service be- fore the giving started and charming { Miss Alice McCormick, daughter of Major {IMcCormick, sang for the people a sweet, |tender song that moved them wonder- | tully. | Then the giving started and all was happiness. Major and Mrs. McCormick, Captain Clara Allen, Captain Charles | Fisher, Frank Minor and George Alcorn | took their positions on the “giving line.” Tickets were presented by the reciplents, for every case had been investigated | thoroughly to prove its worthiness before a ticket was bestowed. Out went the heavy basket and off {trudged the happy people. Here hobbles {an aged man with an old steel umbrella {bandle for a cane. Here goes an old {woman In a faded, long coat and with |an old shawl drawn about her thin | shoulders. Mother with Six Children. One little mother came with stx of her {ten children. Pale and drawn was her face with the toll and anxiety of keeping the wolf from the dodt. But it was lighted up with the joy of kindness and sympathy and with the knowledge that | her brood would not be hungry on Christ- {mas day, thanks to the foresight and {planning and work of the Volunteers of | America | Her oldest”child is but 11 | The father “has gone away.'’ Not only {was this family supplied with an im- |mense basket of good things to eat, but |every one of the children regeived a | present; dolls for the girls and sets of dishes, and horns and balls and things |for the boys. The toys may not have years old. {been just brand new, but they were re- | | celved wWith | children. George Alcorn's arms were already gore with well-doing before he arrived to help give out the Volunteers' good things, dancing eyes by those . Christmas morning he had_carried one of the Volunteers' baskets and & blg bas- ket of wood to a maliden lady, 63 years old, who is sick and has suffered many reverses. The woman could hardly speak for joy. Mr. Alcorn leit money for coal and arranged with a good woman next door to come in and cook the in- valid's dinner. Mr. Alcorn was himself converted in the Omaha Volunteers' hall ten years ago when he was a down-and- outer and is now a prosperous contractor and builder and a frequent speaker in the Volunteers' hall. Teddy Nor must we forget “Teddy." seminating Christmas cheer batting average was 1,000, the little yellow dog of the and he's always on the job. tends all the street meetings and all the other meetings the annual Christmas celebration. he walks about, Ve unteers Then as he did yesterday, (Continued on Fage Two, Column Four.) CHRISTMAS MUSIC OF SAVIOR'S BIRTH Episcopal Churches by Mid- night Services. CHURCHES ARE WELL FILLED In the Eplscopal churches of the city Christmas was observed by the celebra- | tion of holy communion at both the early and the 10:30 o'clock services. At St. Bar- nabas the early celebration occurred at midnight and in the other churches at 7:30 o'clock. At all of these services the attendance was unusually large. At the Church of the Good Shepherd the Christmas exercises for the children were held on Friday evening and besdes the tree, brilliantly ‘lluminated, there was an abundance of candy, nuts and fruit for the little folks of the Sunday school, dis- tributéd by Santa Claus. The music wa: under the direction of the cholr and cos sisted of anthems, class songs and 6 ' all appropriate for the occasion. The early communion was well attended, but there delightful musical program and a short address by the rector, Rev. Thomas J. Collar, his talk having to do with Christ- mas and {ts meaning to the people. The muslc consisted of the reg- ular Christmas hymns from ' the hymnal and anthems, Miss Alice Fry #inging the solo part. Rev. Mr. Collar in speaking of Christ- mas presented an interesting word pic- ture of the birth of Christ in Bethlehem 1,900 years ago, asserting that upongthis occasion every human heart in every Christian land is attracted by the child in the cradle and that by reason of these |millions of hearts have closer to Christ, Hope of Mankind. ““This, the birthday of our Lord," said Mr. Collar, “is the birthday of the best hopes of mankind for the reason that it marks the promise of eternal life for all who will accept Christ.” The speaker asserteq that Christma: the birthday of Christ is the birthday o true brotherhood the world over, “for it was through the birth of Christ that there was given to the people the true conception of brotherhood. In connection with the Christmas idea of “peace on earth,” Rev. Mr. Collar as- serted that on this Christmas the world is rife with war, due to the fact that “where war Is being waged there is no room for Christ in the hearts of many of the people.” The speaker made the prediction that peace will come, but before it can be brought about there must be fully estab- lished in the hearts of the people the Christian brotherhooqg and when this is done the era of war will cease. Victor B, Caldwell In Serious Condition | Victor B. Caldwell, president of the | United States National bank, who has been il for some time at his home, 63 South Twentleth street, was reported |quite low on Christmas day. Late in |the afternoon it was sald that he was {no worse, but his condition was erit- | teal. {some time, and this s mow complicated with Bright's disease. Mrs. Flavilla Etter 0f South Side De Mrs. Flavilla Etter, wife of the late F. J. Etter, former postmaster of South Omaha, and prominent resident of that leity since 18%, died yesterday, aged 73 years, Mrs. Etter was the mother of Lewis 8. Etter, superintendent of malls for. the south side; Fred G., a grocer, and Oscar jof Twin Falls, ldaho. | Her home wak at 1312 North Twenty- | fitth street. | WOUNDED GIRL’S CONDITION { REPORTED TO BE IMPROVED | 1da Stroud, aged 9 years, who was shat He at- | Wednesday afternoon by a watchman it | Bulgarian and Austrian troops and end- |the city dump, is reporty] improved by But his great delight Is | those attending her at Bt. Joseph's hos- |administration of Serblan affairs. pital. She recelved a nunber of presents and her family spent (he entive day at the hospital been brought | He has suffered with asthma for | YANKEE PROTECTS - THE.CITY OF NISH Keeping Order with Aid of Bul- gars Unti] Germans Came. THEN LOOTED CITY | NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—It was an | American who surrendered the city | of Nish, Serbia, to the invading Bul- | garian army after the Serbian forces had retreated. according to a story | i‘ TEUTONS | told today by Douglass M. Dold of | |this city, who has just returned to his home after spending several ! months in Serbia. Dold and his brother, Elliot W. Dold, sons of an alienist, left here in June as members of an automobile !squad attached to a relief expedi- [tion sent out to ald the Serblans, | Douglas M. Dold, who was in charge was no music, At the regular services \Of the squad, wag stricken blind at'have been busy an at 10:30 o'clock, in addition to the cele- | Nish as 4 result of the hardships, lmmmom. have done conslderable exo- bration ot holy communion there was & |gyerwork and privations he endured |cUtlon recently against the aljles’ trenches | W. Preston, Uniteq Statos there, and it wus on this account | ithat he and his brother returned. Dold sald that when it was realized !that Nish would be captured a Serblan !regiment, the ~ Twentieth Puhk, muti- nied, killing their colonel, and leoted the {house. Dold attempted to protect the hos- pital stores under bis charge, but was knocked down and beaten by the sol- |dlers, who, he sald, wasted the stores of alcohol and quinine which were used ! for the sick and wdunded, and took 2,400 pairs of shoes which were- among the supplies, | people appealed to the bishop of Nish to |induce Lold to surrender it to the Bul- garians and asked for protection. When the Bulgarians nieared the city Dold, the | bishop and a throng of young women bearing garlands of flowers went out to meet them. A white flag was raised and an officer commanding the Bulga- | rians rode forward. | The bishop introduced Dold as an Amer- | lcan. “I showed my passport,” said Dold, “and asked for protection of the city and people and for the hospital stores. After 1 got through he bowed respect- (fully and his men behaved themse.ves | splendidly while in the ecity. A guara |and there was no disorder until the Ger- mans began to arrive and then pande- monium broke loose. Their conduct was worse than that of the Serblan muti- | neers. Destruction and loot were on all sides. “When the exodus from Nish began the Agricultural soclety turned over o me its belongings and Sir Ralph Paget placed in my care the entire reief sup- plies. Men tried to give me outright | their hotels and places of business and frantic women implored me to marry them in order to protect them from tha invaders through my passport. It was then that I was suddenly stricken blind Of course, 1 was then yseless and in the way.” | |@lass Machine Co. : Cuts Big Melon PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 2.—Stock- |holders of the American Window Glass | Machine , company Wero notified this ‘mamlnx that the directors yesterday had |ordered a dividend of §7 a share on the 187,000,000 preferred stock, the second divi- dend of §7 to be pald within sixty days. {This daisbursement reflects the extraor- dinery prosperity of the window glase industry, due largely to the withdrawal of Belgium from the international mar- ket and the activity of the building |trades in this country. Leading window |glass men said that orders for window glass from abroad were pressing in this | market, some being for quantities as high a8 40,000 and (0,000 boxes for a customer |Germans Establish Their Capital at Nish' LONDON, Dec. 25.-According to dis- patches from a Serblan source, the Ger- | mans have established & provisional gov- lernment at Nish, withdrawing all the ling Bulgar-Austrian interference in the | It ds |added that proclamations have been is- | sued that the Germans will “respect Ser- |bian pationajity.” GERMANS CARRY WAR ACROSS THE GREEK BORDERS | Heavy Guns of Teutons Open on| Anglo-French Lines in Macedo- nian Territory Under ! Hellenic Flag. THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. 'BATTLE BEGINS FOR ' SALONIKI POSITION BY THOUSANDS SINGLE German Artillery on Banks of Lake Dorian Opens Fire on Anglo- French Lines. BULGARS AND GERMANS FIGHT PARIS, Dec. 26.—The Athens cor- respondent of the Journal telegraphs under Friday's date that the Ger- TmAn artillery on the banks of Lake | Dofran, in Macedonia, about forty After this regiment left the city the | | was sent to protect the hospital stores ! MEANS GREAT ADVANCE IS ON !Turkish Cannon Do Damage to E Entente Positions on Galli- ! | poli Peninsula. | {SILENCE THREE BATTERIES | LONDON, Dec. 26.~—Christmas |day was barren of notable war de- velopments. The commanders of | the huge forces in the FEuropean | | tieids of hostilities for the most part | seem to have been resting on thelr | larms, { | One of the most interesting of the | day's reports came through Athens to the effect that on Friday Ger- man artillery on lake Doiran, about forty miles northwest of Saloniki, was shelling the Anglo-French lines in Greek Macedonla which the allies are continuing to fortify. This might | easily mean that the looked for ad- | vance by the forces of the central | powers against the allled base at | Salonikl was about to begin. i Greece Takes Stand. { { According to one correspondent the Grek government has definitely declded | not to permit the enemies of the en‘ente lto Denetrate Greek territory, unless the Glorious Day Welcomed In at the|Red Cross Officer Succeeded in|central powers satistuctorily suarantee | |that Greek territory will not be en- | dangered, | | Over on the other alde of the Balkans, Teutonic aircrafts appear to have been | active recently, a dispatch from Gettinll, | Montenegro, reporting that two mero- | planes had dropped bombs on Scutard, | i killing five clvillans and Injuring nearly | {n score of others, while of fthe Alban- | {1an coast tho Montenegrins, through a |submarine attack, lost a ship with live- | stock. Paris reported the ‘Chrlstmas eve pre- | parations along the western front as |not belng important enough' to record. \The German account mentioned only | mining operations in which the Ger- | mans blew up works which were under . {construction in front of their lines, pre- | |sumably by the British. The British ' {report under Friday's date, spoke only | |of artillery activity;' notably in the vi- ! cinity of Ypres. | A Turkish Gunn Buwy. In_the Dardanelles the Tu; h guns coording to Con- !and lines of communication, sinking two | |loaded vessels, preventing the Mnding {of troops by shelling the allies landing | !stages and silencing three allled batter- ‘iu, besides breaking up the work of en- jtrenchment diggers. | In Persia the Russians are declared to | have severcly damaged the Persian In- | jsurgents in a battle twenty-five miles | from Teheran. Along the Russian front | itself the fighting, according to Berlin, {has ben limited to patrol engagements, Lodges Must Pay Damages for Horse Play Accidents AUSTIN, Tex., Dee, %.—Secret orders were held responsible for injuries in- | flleted on neophites during Initlation in a | ruling Friday by the Texas supreme | since, miles northwest of Salonlki, are bombarding the Anglo-French lines, which the allled troops are continu- ing to fortify. Germans Buolgars ¥ . A dispatch to the Havas News agency from Rome says: “The Gazette Popolo prints a report of a sanguinary affray at Uskup between officers of the Austro-German forces and the Bulgarlan officers, Revolvers were treely used, according to the report, two German, one Austrian and two Bulga- rian officers being killed and & number of other officers wounded." Rombs Dropped on Scutarl, Two aeroplanes, one of which was Ger- man, dropped four bombs on Bcutari, Albania, on December 23, killing five clvillans and injuring sixteen women and children, according to a Havas dlspatch from Cettinje. The following official statement was issued by the war office this afternoo “During the course of the night there were 1o events of importance to record.” Mines and Counter M 3 BERLIN, Dec. 25.—(By Wireless to Say- ville)—~Mining operations against the | Glerman lines west of La Basse, near the Helglan border on the French front, have been (rustated by the Germans, whose counter mining destroyed the hostile works, army headquarters announced to- ay. On the Russian front there have been patrol engugements at several points and reconnoltering parties that were advanc- ing toward the German lines were re- pulsed. Speeding Chauffeur ‘Takes Much Wanted Man to the Police SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 2:—Rob- ert Capelle, general agent in this city for the North German Lloyd Steamship company, for whom the federal authori- ties have been wearching since Novem- ber 30, In connection with neutrality vio- lation cames, was served with a sub- poena last night at police headquarters when the chauffeur of the taxicab in which he was riding was arrested and tuken there for ariving. e, accord to the ““appear before the f He ia subpoena, | grand ted, John listriot at- torney sald, to furnish information re- rding the disposition of $125,000 and bes l'eved by the federal offi¢lals to have o Jury next Monday. |been sent here for the purposs of out- fitting vessels with suppMes for Ger- many was possible, & pelle disappeared November 30, when & subpoena was lssued requiring his appearance before the federal inquisitors. He has been reported In various places but not until last night was he located by the authorities. Capelle and a companion were passengers In the taxicab whose chauffeur was arrested. While waiting at police headquarters for the chauffeur to arrange his bail Capelle was recognized. The United States mar- shal's office was notified and the sub- poena was served. Dr. A, E. Hancock, Author, Kills Self icourt, ordering the Grand Temple and | Tabernacle Knights and Daughters of | Labor to pay $12,000 awarded Smith John- son by a lower cofrt for permanent in- juries alleged to have been Inflicted {while he was being Initiated Into a lodge |of the order, According to the evidence in the case IJohnson tripped and a sword blade pene- [trated his body. The order contended | !that the ritual gld not specify that the ! officiating officer wear o sword and that | ‘If he did so he Individually was re- | , Tought through te courts for | and has been watched by secret nerally, is likely to establish «a precedent, | | | Veteran of German | Wars and Tornado | Vict%m Is Called | | | | August F. Carstens died early Saturday | {morning at his residence, 402 Leaven- | | worth street, He had lived in Omaha for | forty-three years, and Is survived by h's wife, kis mon, Henry C. Carstens, seven |grandchildren and one great-grandchild, (8l of Omaha, He wes 78 years old. He | !was born In Germany and came to this |country in 1572, He was a veteran of the wars of 1864 and 157071 and was honored with the Iron Cross for bravery, le served his country in the Infantry, Mr, Carstens was & member of the Jmaha | {Ploneers and the Landwehr Verein. He | was one of the heavy sulferers of the | {tornado in 1913, when his hone was eom- ! {pletely destroyed. The funeral will be ! held Tuesday afternoon. 11t rment will be | \In Evergreen ceme ! Submarine Fires ' At Greek Steamship, NEW YORK, Dec. %.—The Greek | |steam loanina arrived today tn-mi Piraeus and reported having been fired | upon by @ submarine, nationality wn- | known, when about eighty miles off | Kalamata, Greece. Captain Hajapls said | {the submarine pursued the steamer some distance before firing a shell, wh'ch fell | fifty yards off the starboard side of | |the steamer. The lonanina then stopped |and the submarine passed close to the | mer, but submerged after seeing the |Greek flag on the vessel. BTROUDSBURG, Pa., Dec. 25.~The body of Dr. Albert E. Hancock, author and a former member of the Haverford college faculty, was found near the Dela- ware water gap last night, and by his side was the revolver with which he had taken his life. He disappeared from a hotel in Stroudsburg Wednesday, leav- ing a note that he intended to commit sulcide. He had been In poor health for some timew Another note was found In Dr. Han- cock's pocket which said “In the third year of the struggle to regain health the disease developed a mania for self-destruction, A current of suleidal pictures passed Incessantly through my mind for more than a year. Then came & period of seeming re- | covery. “Last September the mania suddenly broke out in & more malignant form and during these last months it slowly spread into an obsession and gentle, yet simple impu'se for death. Overstudy s ascribed as the cause of Dr. Hancock's breakdown, Lloyd—(’fm—ow Biggest Briton of All LONDON, Dec. In England, David Lloyd George, the minister of munitions, 8 he chief figure for the moment, This is no holiday period for him, as he is in the midst of the most imporant work of persuading the trade unionists to con- gent to his scheme of “labor dilution.” Yesterday he visited the St. Notch fac- fory where his scheme is already in oreration and where further develop- ments in this direction are in contem plation. 1t Is stated “Mr. Lloyd Georg party was much impressed with the ef- ficlent manner in which the women, in- troduced under the di'ution scheme, were Iready executing upeful work on rachines.’ Pittsburgh Builds Un Toy Industry PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 2%.—The tem- porary retirement of Germany from the toy trade of the United States has bulit up in the Pittsburgh district a toy man- ufacturing industry which is rapidly as- suming important propertions. Many factories are e jod in the new indus- try and order e been in excess of producing capacity 3 L) FIVE CHINA'S TROOPS CcorPyY CENTS. JOIN REBELLION Province of Yunnan Declares Inde- pendence from Proposed Empire as Thirty Thousand Sol- diers Mutiny. REVOLUTION APPEARS GROWING Exile in This Country Says Move- ment Will Spread Till Whole Land Swept, OTHER PROVINCES WILL JOIN PHKING, Dec, 25.-—The govern- ment troops in the province of Yun- nan have joined the revolutionists under Tsal Ao, who has declared the province independent and guar- anteed the safety of forelgners. The revolutionary forces now number 30,000. Conditions in the province of Kweichow was ungettied, but disaf- fections have not been reported in the other southern provinces. Panishment for Yoan Shi Kal. PHILADELPHIA, De¢, %.—General Hwang Hsing, former minister of war of the Chinese republic and at one time generalissimo of the revolutionary army at Wuchang, last night at his home in Media, near here, declared that the ob- ject of the uprising is the upholding of the republican form of government and “the*punishment of Yuan 8hi Kal" The leaders of the movement with whom he is in constant communication alm, he sald, to reestablish the constitu- tion and parliament. They will protect the lives and property of foreign rosi- dents In China, ;but will not recognize contracts, loans or concesslons made by Yuan Shi Kal after the date of the up- rising. They will fight under the flag of the Chinese republic with the addi- tion of a white pennant Inscribed with Chinese colors declaring for the punish- ment of Yuan Shi Kai Other Proginees’ Wil Join. ‘The general, who has devoted his life to the establishiment of a republican form of government In China and led an ex- pedition against Yuan 8hi Kal from Nan- king, sald that Teai Ao, who is lead. ing the present uprising in_ Yunnan will recelve support from mawy other provinces. Teal Ao, he sald, is an able man, and was brought to Peking by Yuan #hi Kaf and made director general for the collectipn of taxes because the president fes Tsal Ao's power In m g’ to General Hwang Yunnan, Teal Ao, Heing, was importuned by the offlcers and soldiers who had served under him in Yunnan, to return there and lead the re- volt. He managed to leave Peking on - leave of absence and arrived In Yuan Nanfu on December 15, aceording to a recent cablegram received at Med'a. Gen- eral Hwang Halng declared that he doubted the first report that the govern- ment troops had not joined in the re- volt as it was their officers who had summoned Tsal Ao to lead them. The province of Sze Chuen, which is immediately north of Yunnan is also in full sympathy with the movement to de- pose Yuan 8hi Kal, the general sald, and their troops would be with and not against the revolutionists. In the prov- inces of Kwel Chow and Kwang S| in the southern section of China, the people are almost unanimously opposed to Yuan Shi Kai, according to advices ro- celved by General Hwang Hsing, His latest cablegram received from Sha ghai ‘was undecipherable he said He be- lleved that the words used in the code had been purposely mixed up. General Hwang Hsing said that he probably would return to China in the near future, Homesteader Gets Title to Mine Claims SBEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 2%.—Title to 160 acres of land on Snohomish county, con- taffilng twenty mining claims on which it is estimated 3445,000 has been spent in improvements and development work, is vested today in Peter H. Chappell of Beattle as a result of a decision of the United States geperal land office. The clalms were staked in the %'s and $160,000 was invested in Bulldings, $45,000 In ma- chinery and $240.000 in development work up to 1911 when Chappell filed a home- stead application for the land In the contest for the claim Chappell alleged that the land was not chiefly valuable as mineral land and on this contention he was upheld by the land office, _ Free Movie Coupon This Bee M" pon entitles with ce of adult paid ticket ‘ot aaditional ticket Tree, Good Mon. and Thur, pikhts it accompan- fed by & 10c paid ad mission. ARBOR 824 anda Arbor. 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