Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1916, Page 2

PORTUGAL READY FOR EVENTUALITIES Premier Defends Seizure of German and Austrian Ships as Necessary Economic Step. ATTEMPT TO DAMAGE THEM LISBON, Feb. 25.—(Via Paris, Feb. 26 The Portuguese premier stated in the Chamber of Deputies today that attempts had been made to- damage seven of the Teutonio ships requisitioned by the govern- ment and that an explosive had been found on the steamship Buélow of the North Germa&n Lloyd company. The premier added that be consid- ered it in the best interests of Por- tugal that the existing treaty with be_allowed to lapse and sald that the Portuguese government was prepared for all eventualities that might arlse from the exefcise by Portugal of 1ts rights. A wpat, Dr. answer te & question by Deputy Camacho regarding the emplovment to which the | requisitioned Germgn &nd Austrian ves- sels would be put, maid that the govern- ments action in requlsitioning them had been prompted by the necessities of the nation’s sconomic situation. The requi- sition, he sald, Nad been carried but si- multansously in order to forestall, as far as was possible, attempts at willful dam- age of the ships which there was reasos to_belleve could be and which bad, in fact, been made on seven of them. An explosive apparatus had been found in the bollers of the steamship Buelow, which would have caused an explosion when the vessel moved. An explosion was prevented, but the machinery was dam- Affonso Costa, the , premier, h\f “Phis here statlon s closed for the | Im going to fedd It to the republicans The gateman pointed out that Col Roosevelt's tioket was for the progress train and dated 182, but the colonel t him he talked “like & Byzanting loge |thete.” Perkine had no ticket. ils | was merely to see the colonel on the traif, he explatned ‘Yes, and I'll sea him off-at the first trestie,” exciaimed the next passen- ger, familiarly greeted as Bill Barnes. | Thin passenger waved an axe, which he |oaligd an “olive branch,” to be pre- sented to someone ‘‘hetween the fourth and 1iIfth vertebrae. Bryan Js Late Time was up and the g closed when in rushed Willlam J. Bryan. He earried a shotgun on which was mounted a dove of peace, and excitedly told the | gataman that be had to get through as he hao important business on the Louls traln. His ticket, the guard was only & half-rate clorgyman's ticket, but he galfied his phint and was allowed to sMp through the gute on his promise 1o “run” for the train. “You'll have to be some runnmer,” com- mented the gaternan, “L am* replied Bryan, as he darted away. ‘‘Been running for twenty years.” After the gates were relocked two nes Arogs entered. They explained they were delagntes from “‘the Bunoy South” and wagted to go to Chicago, | Meason,” the gateman replied. “If you Chigago you gotta walk. Wea-l-k, wal Other features of the evening’s enter- tainment were a pantomime portraying Colonel Roosevelt shying his hat into an Imaginary. ring: a song to the Ohinese minister, sung to the air of "Chinatewn,” and a parody on “Orpheus and Burydice,” with « stage setting deplcting the lower reglons, Republicans Meet InCalifornia for Naming of Delegates aged. Dr. Costa further sald that he conald- ered it was In the hest Interests of the country that the existing treaty with Germany should be denounced and al- 1owed to lapse on June 5, 1917. In conclu- slon he sald: “We are prepared for all aventualities that may arise from exerclsing our rights.” | The North German Llovd steamsaip Buelow s of 8,965 gross tons, 42 feet long and 57 foet beam. GRID CLUB AGAIN : ROASTS 17§ GUES (Coutluned from Page One.) erldge, former Vice President Fair Benators Sherman, Borah, Weeks and Penross, Representativo Can- nan, former President Roosevelt, Willam W, Perking of New Cummina, BAN FRANCISCO, Feh. 2.—A group of republicans from pll .over California met here today three hours before the execu. tive commiittes of the republican state central committee was called to meet, and agreed to select and support a lst of delegates to the republican national convention at Chicago June 7. The anuounced purpese of the gather- ng w "to bLring together all former elements of the republican party and thus to insiire a republican vietory in tha approaching. presidential election.” A further object was stated to be “to in California the social and po- Mtical advance that has been made in thia state in the last five yoars and thus n the repiblican party in Calle The candidates selscted for delegates to the national convention it was declared should go, If elected, unpledged, but di- rected to vote for the nomination “of some forward looking candidate on whom both the republicans and progressives g ] il ii% : I il i fz2 ] | ll . i - 3 £ £ T i 4 E t fs i E | : : i i L R : F Egpal i L $ E ;E A5 i . ; it § § s E b i I i | ? regular the guteman this b the ga il { the name of it .sx". i i 2 + H 15> xi! H - "|here. This forencon searching parties gram.)—The Missour! river made an early break-up here, the ice going out quietly this morning with a alight rise and a de- olded fall since morning. 'DR. KILMER'S SWAMP.ROOT PROVES ITS GREAT, VALUE IN THE MOST DISTRESSING CASES | Kidney Trouble Wears You Out _Stomach trouble for 40 pounds :n Root. B0 of Dr. Kilmer's Swam) and recom- manding to all who have stom- ach and klzm troubles. Respectfully yours. B C. MENDENHALL, McNell, Arkansas. ; Subscribed and sworn to before me. a Notary Public, this 2Tth day of March, J. W, RHBEA, Notary Public. , about ths kidneys and il-. Regular , | lished yesterday, sald that after File Wilson's Name | For Place in Dakota |t i it s waves i RUSSIANS TAKE - KERMANSHAH CITY ;Impomnt Position in Southwest Persia Held by Turks Captured by Assault. IMPORTANT ROADS MEET THERE LONDON, Feb. 26 -~A Reuter dls- " | patch from Petrograd states that the Russians have taken by storm Ker- manshah, the important Persian city, in the neighborhood of which serious fighting has recently taken place. { An official dispateh from Teheran, pub- serfes s a |of battles i the mountaln pamee: considerable qauntity of booty, the Turks, | who had been alded by Glermans, had re- | treated toward Kermanshah. Kerman- |shah is 280 miles southwest of Teheran and has A population of about 30.000. The | routes from Bagdad, Shuster. lspabam, |by way of Hamadan and Sulemaniyah, meet there and make the city an impor- tant center of traffic, The Russian operations in Persia, which have oluminated in the capture of Ker- manshah have had the local purpose of | putting an end to the activities of hos- | tile mountain forces and organized bands of Kurds. and it is balleved that they have the broader scope of preparing the way for a junction of the Russians with the British expeditionary forces in Mesopo- tamia. The movement the Russians from Hamadan southwestward to Kor- manshah brings them now to within 150 miles of Kut-Bl-Amsra on the Tigris, where General Townshend's British force which was ascending the river for the conquest of Bagdad, is bealeged by the | Turks, Chicago Aldermen Planning to Abolish The CHICACO, Feb, M.~ There were re. peated rumors today in the ecity hall that aldermen were planning to abolish the department of public welfare at the next meeting of the eity counofl. Lead- ors of women's organtsations were sald to have advocated the abolitlon rather than have tho department consolidated with another municipsl department. Many women, some of whom brought thelr lunches, crowded the hearing room A frult. and chocolata vendor did ving business at the door, Mrs. Katon in her testimony denied the charge that she had been paid any- thing by & newspaper since the expose. She charged she had heen annoyed by osplonage and that the telephone wire to her home had been tapped. President Coffin of the Civil Serviee commission explained an incident of ves- terday when a woman ran weeping from the room, by saying: | ‘“The woman was my wife. She is ner- | |yous and not used to ity hall ways, She heard one say ‘Coffin s a erook,’ and remark affected her.” Arlie Mucks Breaks Bifiin’a Record at | [t et ttigg the Shot | URBANA, % ‘Feb. 2-Arlfe Mucks the Badgers won fram lllinole, 4 to @, by winning the relay. The best previous Big Nine record with wos made by Ralph Rose u:; who, on June 4, 1904, was oredited with a put of 47 feet ¥ inch. Rose's record was made out of doors, while Mucka made his today In the P armory here. Besides Mucks' performance, the show- record by winning the 10% seconds. PIERRE, 8. shall be cratio prestdent, cratic party in the astate. ted Man Leaps from Tra PIBRRE, 8. D, Feb. ¥.~(Special T gram.)—A demented man who gave same as Willlam Bowers of Des Moines early this morning jumped from a rapidly moving Northwestern train between Blunt and Canning, abott fifteen miles e of found him wandering in the hills, badly soratohed and bruised, and took him in charge. ! Mre, Wilhelmina Redies. CRYTE, Neb, Feb 8.-—(Special Tele- ‘Withelmina Hunt of this place, died at her home here Thursday, She was 71 yoars old. Funeral Services will-be held Sunday at the Ger- man Congregatioual church. Unable to Work This 1s to certify that I, Jerome H cCormack, .Mlvw Street, Joh:-on uldged to mn“ 3:‘( he h ve ut t the 814 of & chalr and unable o woek three botties of your! * D olmes : wamp-Roo! keap Dr. Kilmers | pear a .“o‘d’h for “-“D. D‘l;u: Swamp-Root in my house at all times. riasls as s quinine for - as | know from experience that it is the tly preseribe D, D, for | Lest kiduey medicine I can use. rheum, E'ller] barber's Very truly yours, "m u“f. M‘w‘-‘l ““l.l' 4. H. McCORMACK, .fi D, peacl most Johnaon City, Tenmn. Sworn and subscribed to before me, o Notary Public, this March 3ist, 1914 S4M T. MILLARD, Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You ten eants to Dr. Kilmer & Co. Binghamton, N. Y. for & sample size t will couvines anyone. You wily also racelve a booklet of valuable in- bladder. When writing, be sure and men- fitty-cent and one-dollar size bottles for elfare Board VZ the western confer- | ‘today with a heave ' of 4 feet 7 inches in a dual meet which | ing of Captain Mike Mason of Illinols was & feature. He broke the Illinols mile in 4:27, by 104 meconds, and took' the two-mile run‘ in 962, better the former local mark by Feb. M.—~(Special Tele- &ram.)—The filings made in this atate under the presidential preference act| ask that the names of Wilson and Mar- upon the ballot for demo- tes for president and vice These filings were made by the Johnson-Gandy faction of the demo- to work | g0 the ‘sinxs conrgog MANCHURIA Russia, with Its Railroad Into the Country, Now Dominating Fae- | tor in Handling Business. UNDUE INFLUENCE CHARGED | (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) | HARBIN, Manchuria, Dee. 30~Russia's desire to control that portion of merthern | Manchuria through which the Trans-8is berlan rallway runa is uppermost in ths | minda of all Ruesians in this section, and |they are constantly expressing the hops |that the Buropean war will result fn such |8 readjustment in the affairs of the far |east that Russia may gain actual posses. |sion of the territory through which ity | | ratlway passes | _Altheugh Harbin has an immense Chinese population, it is almost as Rus- slan In its architecture and in the man- THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 27, 1916. In the very heart of Russia. The other cities and town along the Trans-Siberian line in Manchuria are also practically Russian In everything but uam i Russian sssumption of authori ll. #uch that German prisoners who may | have escaped from Seérbia are frequently [neited tn Chiness territoty by Rusalan | soldiers,/ The Russians have even taken the escaped German prisoners away from | Ohinese soldlers who waere protecting them in Chinese territory. This has called | forth bitter complaints from Germans in Manchuria. Russians Control Teade. Conditions In Monsolia, south of The Trans-Siberian rallway, are much the same as In that part of Manchuria through which the rallway actually runs. Russians have practically all the trade in Mongolia, especially the northern part, |and it is In effect a Russian dependency rather than a Chiness territory. The kutuktu, the bead of the Buddhiste in Mongolia, resident at Urga and who s result of which the Rumsians captured & nery and customs of its people as a city |the most powerful leader tn central Asia, | negotiated an which China's nominal eontrol of outer Mongolia was to be recognized, but he has recently refused to carry out terms well as China, was & party to the agree- ment, it s charged by some Chinese offi- |clals that the kutuktu has been influ- | of private shipments of arma. enced in some way by the Russians who | desired to create friction. ~ he Mongolian peoplé, themselves, have and defend them against China and Ja- | pan. Chiness officials arp endeavoring to | | persuade the kutuktu to carry out his | o agresment, but it is reported that Chea- | 1o, the Chinese diplomat who is at Urga conducting the negotiations, is held prac- | tically a prisoner by the Buddhist leader. | Tn a State of Ferment. Outer Mongolia is now also in & state of | ferment. Bandit companies are operating all along the border of China proper, and apparently have recently strength. With .an internal struggle on [ Purchases Charged Monday and Tuesday Appear on the April 1st Statement non-crush linens. Plain Vailes, 25¢ to $1.25. Plain Organdies, 85¢ to $1.25, Embroidered Voiles, $1.25 $2.25. Plain Marquisettes, $1.00 a yard. SRR o The fnslfion{Cakr ablished 1886,/ The New Spring White Goods | The Thompson-Belden Fashion Service An extensive display of all that is new in white fabrics for the spring season, including plain and embroidered voiles, organdies and mar- quisettes, new skirtings, and suitings in golf cloths, gabardines, Bedford cords, piques, and Gabardin® Skirtings, 50c to $1.00 Golf Skirtings, 30¢ a yvard. Pigues, #2.50 to §3.00, to Embroidered Marguisettes, $1.25 to $2.00. Non-Orush Linens, 75c¢ a yard. SPECIALS FOR MONDAY ONLY $1.50 38.inch Embroidered Voiles, $1.00 a yard $2.25 40.inch Embroidered Voiles, $1.756 a yard ¢ $2.25 40-inch Embroidered Organdie, $1.75 a yard $2.75 40-inch Embroidered Organdie, $2.00 a yard Infants®' and Children's | and Skirts in a Special Sale Garments that have An especially fine shampoo' for ths weather can be easily ‘made at trifling expense by simply dissolving & teaspoon- “|ful of canthrox in a cup of hot water. Pour slowly on scalp and massage briskly. This creates a soothing, cooling lather that dissolves and removes all dandruff, scalp spotiessly clean, soft and pliant, while the balr takes on a glossy richness of patural color, also a fluffiness which makes it seem very much heavier than it is. After a canthrox shampoo arrensing the halr is a pleasure.—Advertisement. | Comfirm the Statemeuts Absut D. D. D. Prescription Geo. T, Richardson, M. D.: "“ % from Congestion of | SPinl 3 %t fa ‘ cases o Qlscase—an vell &L times I was | §o the iteh, % ul agent, & , Yol powe! stem. ] permanently spectal them. Dr. Gabbert of Cald Is 1s o %o @ Sherman & MoConn-ll Drug Ce. "It takes but & minute of time to save dollars when you vead The Bes Want Ad columne White Dresses $3.00 quality .......$2.19 $4.25 quality .......$2.98 $56.00 quality .......$3.19 13 You will find here, today, the same stand- ard qualities, the same true dyes and fast col- ors as in previous sea- sons. ' under the most o e 2 tions that - have pre- vailed in many years. Our stocks have never before been so complete with desirable new fab- rics in every favored THOMPSON-BELDEN &CO, .specially priced at §1,50, of the Middle West —> Presents an Authe kets are better. Manchuria has made very slow prow- Tt St hin beriows of Shove trequently endeavored o gat Russia 0 | waaer cor Hesions heve tolonised. The recognize them &a an independent SALS | cyipeeq farm with little 1dea of develope country permanently. Man< churla, however, offers far batter oppor- Russlans than Siberia, as more favorable and mar It ta & comparatively short haul from any point of Manchuria ne the unities to tl he climate 0 tidewater. Wagner to Montreal. The Cincinnat! club has completed the deal by which Tafielder Joo Wagner goes goined much |1 the Montreal International lub. Purchases Charged Monday and Tuesday Appear on the April 1st Statement ° ntic Display of Dependable New Spring Fashions In Women’s Wearing Apparel SILK SUITS-- Interesting models in gee and’ Poplin, from Taffeta, Pon- $35 to $135 No Extra Charge fo Thompson-Belden Quality First Silks Famous for More Than a Quarter Century We cordially invite to ste our tomorrow, Mo P Skin, the mew taffota that does not crush or crack, All the new shades for street and evening wear, all fast col- ors, 36-inch; $2 a yard, Georgette Crapes of the very finest quality in a full range of spring colors, 40-inch, §1.25, $1.50, $1.73 & yard, 3 Gro de Londre, a - beautitul taffeta body allk for spring suits and tallored dresses, o wide range of desirable colors, #p! combi! Crepe de Chines, extra heavy weight, 40 Inohes wide—$1.50 and #2 a yard. for se) §2.50 The largest stock of Black Silks in the city. In all the newest weaves and weights, and ell fast blacks. Silk Rection—! tire gives the ‘Chain’ | Dig-in and Suction dig-in quality. “Nobby’ ¥, and throughout the week. Embroidered Chiffons, the new #old, indescribably beautitul, I.n‘ J‘only figured effects, 81 to Tub Crepes, the new sports stripes, ivory with rose, Rel- glan Dblue and black stripes, 82nch, for §1.50 & yerd. Monatone Stripes and Checks, | rich colorings combinations suitable for every ring occasion, $1.50 to $2.50, Faille Francals, the now silic twostoned effedts, 36-inoh, Main Floor. r. Alterations. nation with gilver and in beautiful new parate coats and suits, in a yard, The ‘Chain’ Tread Tire has the two necessary features to prevent skidding and slipping, particularly 1 on wet pavements—the dig-in and the suction. The height of the chain above the surface of the The'cup-like shape of the links gives the necessary suction to hold to the road. | ‘Chain’ Treads are the most efficient moderate- priced anti-skids in the world. United States Tire Company ‘Usco’ ‘Royal Cord’ | “INDIVIDUALIZED TIRES" ‘Plain’ agreement last June by hand the Chinese army is not in a posi- tion to do much in Mongolla. Japanesa arms and ammunition have reached the- bandits in large quantities. Represent of the agreement. Although Russia, 88 tiona concerning this traffic have been made to the Japanese governmant whose reply has been that Japan has no eontrol league G5 3T G5 PRIC LSNP X bk - £ 2 Son |