Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 13, 1916, Page 2

f . | i ——— 1a 5 Ny AR SOUTHWEST GETS BLAST OF WINTER OMAHA THURSDAY ing the morning It is | & jury of married men, only one member The jurors are the session of court EXTREME GOLD GIRL TELLS JURY FOLLOWS STORM | HAUSER IS SLAYER OF W. H. SMITH of it being a bachelor tollowing A ried Connie O, first, Swanson, Florence, farmer, mar from Page One.) Downing, %81 South Twenty- street rallway conductor, married | Bros. plant. | : | lot in the rear of Dresher | Willard B. Nimocks, 315 South Twenty- Mercury Drops Thirty to Sixty De- |\ '/ freak of the storm is that Contfaved, from Page Ons [seventh avenue, troasurer of the Alian - — | Filter company, married grees in Kansas, Oklahoma, the thermometer registered sero at Des | Sent 1o Cuming_whers 1 took an AL-| ) |.f'.'.f': fas Ohito. expressman, mar- i i Texas. Moines and e zero at Davenpor bright car and went home. When I got|ried < Missouri and It was 58 below zero at Prince Albert, | home 1 called the police [, Thomas G. Foglesons, 1411 Chicago, la- . Canada yesterday morning. | r. single . » o Frank Wirthsafte Hamey, clgar SLEET AND SNOW DELAY TRAVEL Anniversary of Silssard, Describes the Murder. Shk Victheaster, s ga Miss Slater said the murderer of Smith [RacT ' lonel ~Welah's telephone at the | L 8% TRIET HhE the e et and | l:r! E. Lloyd, %52 Kvans, rallway KANBAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 12.—The | weather bureau was busy without & | "rrosi Atter they left the acene of the | Eimer 1414 North Twenty-sec- southwest got its first real blast of |m nt's interruption from 7 a. m. tll | o0 O as removed, she testi-|ond. expr marr! . sa | after noon, when the inquiriés about th ime, the mask was removed, she testi- |"ay Jog™p “wiite, Morence boule- winter weather today and nature’s| " ; . . . 5 fied. 8he described the events leading to|vard, baker, married v v storm and the forecast began to ® | the murder as follows A. Lindberg, 2607 North Twentieth, cffering lived up to advance notices |, 0" (T | ““on October 16, 1 was living at 42| PdinteF, married ks " 3 v Fente - p 3 " by - o arry Racl » D, cer, of the weather burean. The nwr(‘"r,vz Yesterday was the anniversary of the | north Thirty-fourth street, which is near mum““ achman, 1 Lothrop, grocer, dropped from 35 to 60 degrees in|areat blizzard, January 12, 188, | Cass. In the afternoon 1 went to my| Albert J. Dohrse, 307 North Twenty- twenty-four honrs in the affected dis- | | The advent of this storm was different [ mother's home at 217 Howard, In the|fourth. laundryman, married from the advent of the 1388 bl'zsard. On | evening we came down town. At Six-| VT TS trict, and this morning temperatures |, .= o = "0 Wonthor: Wit 24’ and | teentd and Moward strests we met Mr ‘Da:kota« senaator IS ranging from zero downward prevail | pieasant up to 4 p. m. The maximum | Smith about § o'clock. He started to take " % throughout Kansas, Jowa and this!temperature for the day was 28 above | me home and my mother went home Kllled by BXplOSlOIl section of Missourl. Oklahoma and |?%. Then, without warning, the storm | “We went up St. Mary's avenue, then | 5 , 1| Proke. and by midnight the thermometer | (o Harney and by the boulevard to Dodge Texas, too, felt the drop. Snow 18 ,,4 gropped to 6 below zero, with terrific | street. At Thirty-tirst and Dodge we were| ALEXANDRIA, 8, D., Jan. 12.—Walter falling in much of the territory Fresh northwest winds will blow the | clouds away tonight and tomorrow we look for temperatures ranging from 10 to 2 degrees below zero in Kansas and this section of Missouri,” sald an announce- ment of the Tocal weather bureau Train service into Kansas City is de layed from one to two hours; street car service in all of the cities affected has | been serfously interfered with; telegraph and telephone companies are fighting vainly to maintain communication on sleet-coated wires and farmers and pro- ducers have been warned that it is too cold to ship perishable products. Two Déaths in Kunsas City, In Kansas City the death list as a re- sult of the storm remained at two, while more than a score of persons are in hos- vitals recovering from inluries. Des Molnes reported the .mercury at zero. St Louls, in the center of the low pres- sure area extending from that city to Memphis, Tenn., on the other hand, had A temperature of 46 degrees above. Rain | was falling. Little Rock, Ark., also in this area, reported 70 degrees. A Dblizzard prevailed all over Kansas. A snow measuring from two to four inches fell in the stato. Salina reported the mercury at 10 degrees below zero. Concordia had a reading of & below; Wichita 5 below and Junction City 4 be- 1ow. At Junction City the mercury dropped to 4 acgrees above mero while Abilene, Tex., reported 18 above. Gale Fifty Mfles an Hour. In Kansas the storm is the most severe since the winter of 1912. A gale from the | northwest that reached fifty miles an | hour earried blinding snow and sleet be- fore it. The Unlon Pacific ran snowplows | sheud of its trains in central Kansas this MOrAing. The Santa Fe also ordered its " plows out and all trains will be preceded | by track clearers this afternoon. The mercury began to sink at Kansas City during the morning. At noon it had descended to 2 degrees below zero. Ad- ditfonal Kansas temperatures included 7 below zero at Clay Center, 5 below at Emporia and 6 below at Pratt, Scores of families that have been de- | pending on natural gas for heating pur- poses hunted for other fuel today. It is expected the gas supply, which comes from the Kansus fields, will reach its low- est point of the winter tonight One Death at St Josep ST. JOSEPH, Mo/ Jan. 12.—John Crook, 6 years old, was found in a snowdrift here today fatally frozen. He had left his home last night on an errand and be-' came exhausted. Trat Late in South Dakota. SIOUX FALLS, 8, D, Jan. 12-With temperatures ranging from 15 to de- | Krees below zero and a strong north- west wind drifting the snow which had | fallen' for the had passed through & storm which vividly recalled to the older inhabitannts the ter- rible blfzard of twenty-elght years ago today, January 12, 1888 when many lves ‘were lost and much damage was done in in this section. Al trai ave been from one to four hours late Into this eity and wire wservice throughout \erritory s serjously inpaired this morn- Soux City Schools Close, 2 _SIOUX CITY, 1., Jam. 12-Thé sever- eat weather of the soAson was ex- perienced in this section today. It was 18 below zero at 1 o'clock and 23 below 18 predicted fbr tonight. Street car traf- fic.was greatly delayed by snow. Schools 108 ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 12—8moke palls overkung tho valleys of southern Californla today, showing where orange srowers fought through the night witi thousands of smudge pots against froes- | ing temperatures. In most sections it was ' colder than since the disastrous freeze of 1613, but orchardists, forewarned and alded | by moisture from recent rains, sald today | there had been little damage. In San Francisco the temperature fell to 24 de- grees above zero. Street puddies here were jce-surfaced today. Burlington Train Stalle BEATRICE, Neb,, Jan. 12—(Special Tel- egram )—The blizsard which raged here yesterday continued today, the snow drifting badly. Trains are all behind time from two to four hours, route to Nebraska City is stuck in a snowdrift near Bdgar and at last reports had failed to get through, ‘The government thermometer registered 11 below zero this morning. Freight traf- fic is at a standstill, Semd Out Heacue Crews. FAIRBURY, Neb., Jan. 12.—(Special Tel- egram.)~Jefferson county s in the grip of the coldest day In thirteen months, with prospects of tonight being the cold- ©st in years. The thermometer registered 12 below mero at 10 o'clock this morning, with a blizzard from the northwest in progress. Business was at a standstill in Fairbury today. Operatinyg officials of the Rock Island 4t this point experienced considerable difficuity in moving freight and passen- Ker trains over the division. It was neces- Sary to deadhead a number of train and | zero last twenty-four hours, Sloux Falls and southeastern South Da- | kota awoke this morning to find that it | this | The eastbound Burlington passenger en | wind and snow. The thermometer didn't get above zero for eleven days. On January 13th | on the north side of the street. I heard | F. Van De Mark, state senator from A man running. He came from behind us, | Hanson county, and well-known South the | from the Turner park side of the street.| Dakota attorney, was fatally hurt this minimum was 18 below; on the 14th it|He flashed a searchiight when he|morning when a hot water heating plant was 21 below and on the 15th it was 2| reached the curb and circled around to|in his home exploded, dying ina few below. Not till the 23d did the minimum | the west of us, We backed away hours. Both his legs were broken and he rise above the zero mark and then only| “He said: “Throw up your hands.' was Internally Injured. two degrees Mr. Smith said: ‘There is no use of | The extreme cold during the night Traffic Impeded. holding us up. caused the plant to “freese up” and when Cars were stalled over the city yester- I asked Mr, Smith to put up his hands. | fire was started the explosion resulted. day, not g0 much because of the amount, *He said: ‘He won't shoot,’ and took Van De Mark's home was partially of snow, as because of its drifting be- me by the arm and turned to go. wrecked by the blast. His wife and fore the high wind. Seven Leavenworth The man fired, Before I knew hLow |daughter were slightly injurad street cars were stalled in a row at Fif-| badly Mr. Smith was hurt or saw him teenth and Douglas strets about noon | fail and the crews were out with brooms and | shovels clearing the tracks. They fir-| ally got under way and, keeping together, the man took me away Identification Vositive. o desintton Yemtize. | oup Sick Child proceeded slowly on thelr routes [ her saentitication. of S Is Constipated! Look at Tongue The cars on al! lines when they did get | gpy (61 of picking him from a crowd through usually came in bunches of from | o¢ priganers in the “bull pen” of the Jail | | Hurry, Mother! Remove pois- two to six. Shivering folks who had been | o4 wichita | waiting anywhers from ten minutes to| ‘When 1 looked at him, I knew him,’ | ons from little stomach, liver, bowels nearly an hour were naturally relieved | uho declared 1o see the cars heave into sight, but the | 1, answers to questions whether -]vrl ‘ ‘Oalifornia Syrup of | first car or two in each bunch was 80| had not sald soon after the crime that| packed that it éidn't stop, At full speed | uhe would not know the murderer, Miss | Figs’’ if cross, bilious or feverish. made and clanging his bell the motorman Slater declared she had only said she did| swung past. Some of the desperate made | not know at that time whether she could | . efforts to get on the rapldly moving cars jdentify him. | Give and narrowly escaped accident. A con-| She did not see the front of l(.uwrrni {ductor on a Farmam car, seeking to dis- | face, but saw his profile by looking lm‘k! courage this sort of thing, brandished a | several tihes while she was with him, & broom from the rear platform as his well-| testified filled car hurried past the little groups. | To Take Stand Again Today. Many walked down town because that| rpe girl will resume the witness stand was the only way to get down. Walking ' (hjs morning for further cross-examina- south wasn't bad, but if a person walked tjon north the forty-mile gale and the 10 below | The first indication of the temperature burned the face llke| which the defense will take was given| | when Attorney Bednar made his opening | Trains Are Diayed. | statement to the jury While there 4s no heavy fall of snow | ‘“fhe evidence will show to impede the moving of trains, the rafi- | the first time Smith had accompanied ronds are having great difficulty in [ Miss Slater home; that she had other, combatting the storm in an effort to |guitors, and that she had just broken an | keep trains anywhere near on schedule | engagement last October,” he maid. “This position fire, this was not | in Nebraska, Kansas, Towa, South Da- | wjil not be shown in justification of who- kota, Wyoming and Colorado, over | syer committed the murder, which the blizzard h: been general ‘We do not ask mercy—we will ask since late Tuesday night. Along the railroads, what snow has | .ohen. too, the information in this case fallen and I8 still falling is belng SWeDt | charges first dogres murder, while at- into the cuts by the high winds, but {t | {eroeing to rob. The evidence will show 15 easily moved by the snow plows that [yye” whoaver killea Mr. ®mith had an- have been constantly working since [ oo T LU ey, Tt was to early morning. The greatest AIfficulty | ayinc the wirl experienced by the roads is that at all | “ {0l "0 FEL L lon of Hauser stations the switch yards drift full of |\, werth littie, as her impressions of the «now and it is & hard matter to got the |, g0 were gotten while she was in traind in ahd out. Then. too, it Is so [ FHREEEE (R 0 C0, o Ve will show cold that when the wheels of cars and that sho said she could not identity the :;.utr'.‘:- e ovee the ::on‘flmm:;f: man and would know him only by his only justice. No matter what ails your child, a gentle, thorough laxative should always be the first treatment given. It your little one s out-of-sorts, half- sick, 1sn't resting, eating and acting naturally—look, Mother! see if tongue is volce.” coated. This is a sure sign that the little by the friction, it is converted into solid 1 IC}(" This condition greatly tmpedes the Other Witneases Testify. stomach, liver and bowels are clog movement of all tralns within the storm | Miss Siater was the fourth witness (With waste. When cross, lrritable, fever- ish, stomach sour, breath bad or has | stomach-ache, dlarrhoea, sore throat, full of cold, give a teaspoonful of “California Syrup of ITgs,” and in a few hours all the constipated poison, undigested food and sour bile gently moves out of the little bowels without griping, and you have a well, playful child again. called by the state. Louls Bostwick, pho- tographer, whose name was first called, identified six photographs which he re- | contly took of the scene of the crime at | Thirty-first and Dodge streets. Dr. 8. McClenaghan, coroner's physi- zone, Frelght Trains Annulled. On all the roads operating fn and out of Omaha all trains loaded with perishable frolght have oeen annulled. Stock trains | that started out prior to the storm are | o being rushed through to Omaha, or else | C1an, testified that the bullet which caused shunted 10 on sidings out on the lines|Mr. Smith's death entered the back side |ROFC R W€, PV o oo o A where there is food and sheiter for the | ©f the right hip, took a course two and iy v g D e v ddbon Sl animals, Stock that is in sheltered yards |obe-half inches downward and came out | / | never falls to cleanse the little one's liver 1s not being losded out. from the inside of the leg In front. It|,.), wels ana sweeten the stomach, and All other classes of frelght are b‘.."“m‘\vred an artery and Mr, Smith bled | | they dearly love its pleasant taste. Full moved along, but the trains are not mak- | ' death. the doctor said. directions for babies, children of all ages ng anywhere near schedule time. W. 8. Heller, 116 North Thirty-third |4 tor grown-ups printed on each bot- street, who dinc red the body, told of tle Beware of counterfeit flg syrups. Ask your druggist for a B-cent bottle of Jury of Married Men. “California Syrup of Figs:" then see that Selection of a jury was completed dur- |it is made by the “California Fig Syrup | Company."—Advertisement. On the main lines the passenger trains are running from one-half hour to three hours late; those that are latest are the ones that are running against the strong northwest wind. | Trains Blocks Traffie, Mr, Emith's death, which occurred minutes after the shooting a few JANUARY 1916, Sioux City Church Destroyed by Fire [ | \ S10UX CITY, Ta, Jan. 12—The First Congregational church was nearly de- stroyed by fire today. The loss is placed At §70,000, with $22,000 insurance. Firemen had great difficulty in preventing the | spread of the blaze, as a blizzard fanned the flames, HYMENEAL. i Frendenberg-Kuns. AVOCA, Neb, Jan. 12.—(Special.)—Her- | man F. Freudenberg and Miss Lena N.! Kunz were marsied today by Rev. Mik- kelsen of Berlin. The groom is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Freudenbers, living south of town, and has resided in this vicinity all his life. The bride is the daughter Mr. and Mrs. John Kunz, living southeast of town. They will re- side on a farm east of this city | Don’t Neglect To Make Will If there is no Will, the public officials put the estate in the hands of an administrator. It is to your advan- tage to make your will now and appoint the Peters Trust Company as your Executor—then vour estate is in safe hands. Capital $500,000.00 PETERS, TRUST CO. NVESTHLNTS Sart \Former Omaha Manufacturar‘ Invents New Sanitary Dry Process: For Manufacturing Ice Cream In the ball room at the Rome Hotel dufing the Ice Cream Manufacturers: | Conventlon of Towa and Nebraeka, there | is shown in operation an elaborate ma- chine exhibition demonstrating a new process, doing away with the use of ice, salt or brine, which makes the method of freesing and hardening absolutely san- itary and dry. It is accomplished by the direct application of ammonia to the “hen\v constructed freezers with the | cream freezing in silver cylinders. The process is the invention of Mr. John M | Larsen, who manufactured ice macnines | in Omaha for a number of years and later | removed to Chicago. His new process was in operation at the World's Fair at San Francisco and was awarded the only grand prize. Mr. Larsen built a mew, very large | manufacturing plant in Fort Madison, | Iowa, using power from Keokuk, lowa, the new work being the latest of Its kind in America, and this plant is swamped | with orders. Mr. Larsen has arranged for the opening of the Omaha Branch with ware rooms and Selling Sales Offices in charge of Mr. John Mackenzie as local manager. At the Union station the Missouri Pa-| cific's Kansas City train was the only‘ one to arrive on time. | There was no train departing from ""1 east or arriving from that divection from 7 until 11 in the morning. The delay | was caused by a derailment of the North- | western's Carroll local. Leaving the st tiou on time the engine safely passed over the puzsle switch at tho east end of the | {yards. The first and second cars fol. | lowed the engine, but the first coach split | the switch and ran in between the rafls. | This blocked both tracks to the bridge | and delayed all traffic until hoisting ma- chinery was brought into action and two cars lifted back on the track, | { WOMEN SUFFERERS - NEED SWAMP- ROOT! Thousands upon thousands of women have kidney and bladder trouble nnfll Stockinet Covering. An exclusive Armour feature. Patent applied for. The rich deliciousness of the natural flavor and the spicy “bouquet” of the famous mild Star cure are retained for you by the never suspect it; Women's complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the | result of kidney or bladder disease It the kidneys are not in condition, they may cause the other or- gans to become diseased. 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