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{ Call Tyler 1000 It XYon Want to Talk to The Bee or to Anyone Connected With The Bee, VOL. XLV-—NO. VICE CONDITIDNS Kitchener Urges Britons to Practtce Greater Economy| IN MINNEAPOLIS | CALLED TERRIBLE Committee Representing “Women's Organisations Declares®Recent Revelations Only Skim Surface. GIRLS NOT sAFl-vJV ON STREETS Hotels and Apartment Houses Hit Hard in Report of the Investigators. ANOTHER INQUIRY IS BEGUN MINNEAPOLIS, March 1.—A co- perative committee representing seven of the largest women's organi- rations in Minneapolis in a statement today announces that after months of investigation it can say that recent startling revelations of vice condi- tions in this city “‘only skim the sur- | face of actual conditions. That young girls are unsafe alone | on the streets at night; that many hotels are being operated wholly on the profits gained from vice and that taxicab drivers are co-operating with keepers of resorts in luring young girls from their home, were among | ] #vart: “Owners of apartment houses are rent- ing apartments indiscriminately to young | the findings of the committee. County Takes Action. Another vice investigation was begun by county authorities this woek after the 15-yearwold daughter of a minister, who had been missing from her home for sev eral weeks, told of being forced into life of shame. The report of the committee says in on and young women who are inducing fthers to visit them for purposes of im- morality. “Chop suey houses are open until early morning hours and serve as places of refuge for intoxicated young men and | women. “Cafes are not obderving the closing | hour and young girls are permitted to frequent thess places. “‘Many hotels are permitting young girls and escorts to register as married couples, - Ply Trade Unmolested. “In nearly every ease of juvenile de- linquency reported we find the girl has been coached by the older girls, thor- cughly trained 1 vice and backed by the man in the case. They ply their trade unmolested.” “Doncluding the report recommands that “‘some permanent organization be formed 1o combat the evil forces.sshich.are prey- in' the young lives of our eity. girls under 15 years of age will the grand jury next weel remsiding Yode ‘onditfons. i Verdun District is Quiet, According to Paris and Berlin PARIS, March 1.—There is nothing of importance to report in the region to thé notth of Verdun or in the Woevre dis- trict, according to the announcement of the progress of hostiiities made by the French was office this afternoon. There wes an Intermittent bombard- ment_ last night along the French front; betwéen Regnleville and Remenauville. BERLIN, Marchl.—(Via Londop.)—No mentlon of the fighting at Verdun is made in the officlal statement today. Rumor Strike at Sioux City Will Be Settled Soon SIOUX CITY, Ta, March 1.—On the surface the packing house strike situ tion appeared to be unchanged toda: bug persistent rumors were afloat that settlement of the trouble is near. Ac- cording to these reports the strikers will | accept the terms of the packers' offer | of 21 cents an hour for common labor. The Weather Forecast tilt 7 p. m., Thursday For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicin- tty: Snow, colder. Temperatures at ¢ n Yesterda Hours m... ol 2 m,.. m.. . m.. E . m. 23 m. 7 ~ 5 m. o8 m. stagss BB m 2 m 19 m 18 m 16 m 1 m Highest yesterday E3 d 3 Lowes( yesterday . 8 U - +« Mean temperature 2 % 20 N Precipitatio oD 8 T I'ciperature and precipitation depart ures from the normal Normal temperature 5! Lie. \cien v the day 1 Tota eficiency since March 1 7 Normal precipitatio 03'inch Deticloncy for the d . .08 inch Toia! raln e arch 1 0 inch Deficleney for cor. period, 1915.. .08 inch Defic.ency for cor. period, 1914.. .08 inch Reports from Stations at 7 P. M Station and State ’lrmp High- Ram. of Weather. Tp.m. est. fall. cyenne, snow o B 14 T Davenport, snow . - % o~ Denver, snow " 18 -~ cloudy » » 04 cloudy 2 30 T i0 16 ] A ¥ 15 2 ity cloudy 0 ‘ X snow W W N 4 ipitation «ocal Forecaster, LONDON, March 1—A great meetink | was held in the Guild Fall here today to | laugurate a national savings eampaign | The lord mayor presided and the speak ers included Barl Kitchener, secratary of state for war; A. K. Balfour, first lord of the admiralty; Reginald McKenna, | chancellor of the exchequer, and JBonar | Aaw, secretary for the colonies Premier Asquith was to have addressed the meeting and to have moved the prin- cipal resolution, but he was suffering from the loss of his voice and was un- able to attend Lord® Kitchener in his speech said We want just as many men as we can get as soldiers. We are bound to take all the men that can possibly be apared WISSOURT PACIFIC SLIPS ONE OVER. Makes Redncuon o( Rates Which Other Roads Cannot Meet for a Month. AND KANSAS {T0 MISSOURI Pacific has put one | over on the other railroads that are | competitors for the Kansas and Mis- |souri passenger business from | Omaha. It has cut the rates from Omaha to Kansas and Missouri pcints and from these points into Omaha, Its competitors are trying to figure out how this was done, but it was done, and all day the city of- |fice in Omaha has been selling | sirafght commercial tickets at a cut | of very close to 15 cent per mile. | Two days ago the local office re- ‘cpl\ed a new passenger rate tariff, a tarift issued from the general of- | fices at St. Louis February 26. This | tarite provided for the ceduction of rates and bore the announcement | The Missouri | | that the rates would be effective | March 1. | When the Missouri Pacifio ety ticket |office opened for business, to all partios ! desiring tickets from Omauba into Kan | sas, or Missour!, a taviff rate consider- ably lower than otfered by any other road | was made. | The Burlington peopie had expected {to put fa a rate that wounld be in line | with that of the Missouri Pacific, but {according to the rules of the Interstate Commerce commission, this cannot he applied until March 25, thirty days from the date of the filing of the motice to reduce, They admit that in some way the Missouri Pacific people have slipped one over on them and have got their rate’ in '-fiy order. PPNRPTRR Interstate Business. Ahe refuced rate is no way an intra- state proposition, having to do ontlnly with interstate points.” - | /1t’is Asserted that the proposition to | reduce s the result of a gantlemen's agreement botween raflrodd officials. | Bome days ago passenger representatives | of the Omaha-Kansas and Missour! roads {met in Chicago and there agreed to a | reduction between Omaha and points in | Kansas and Missouri. The reduction by the Missourl Pacitic is'the outcome of the agreement. The following comparison of rates | between the 6l1d anli the new rates gives an idea of what. it means to the traveler. There are scores of c'ties and towns a fected, but only a few are used for com- | parison. New-Rate-Old. Omaha to Kansas City “ $4.91 Omaha to Atchison 4.10 Omaha to St. Josep! 4.10 Omaha to Leavenw 4.8 Rlddell Once in ‘ Busmess Here, Is 3 Dead in Boston ‘Word was received in Omaha last night announcing the death of W. E. Riddell |in Boston yesterday, after anillness of {considerable duration. He was about 55 vears of age. | W. E. Riddell was one of the first but- iter and egg commission men to engage {in the business in Omaha. He came here | twenty-five years ago and did business on the commission row under the name |of Riadell and Riddell. Tor a time dur ing his residence here a brother was in the business with him. This brother died at Strawberry Point, Ia., many years ago About ten years ago W. E. Riddell iclosed out here and went to Buffalo, where he engaged in selling automobiles on an extensive scale, doing & jobbing business., Some two years ago he went out of this business and departed for Bos- ton, where he opened a jobbing house, handling butter and eggs. Real Keith Edwin Dalrymple Found s CITY CHAR Ia.. March 1.—The | keith Edwin Dalrymple, heir to | estate Of $400,000 left by his father, | has been found in & southern hospital {by €. M. Paliner, an uncle, and has been | brcught here. Dalrymple made his home with the Palmers at one time, but yan uv 8y from them, as )ll' had from the home of his father Young men desiring his fortune have impersonated Dairymple at different times, the last attempt being in Chicago, when Julius Briggs, jr., was a-rested there and halled as the missing { belr. JAMES B. ANGELL DR. | REPORTED CHlTlCALLY ILL | ANN ARBOR, Mich, March 1.—The condition of Dr. James B. Angell, president emeritus of ihe University of Michigan, who has been ill for severa! Huk- became eritical today. His physi |clans announced he may live severa 3 |Cays longer, but they practically ha |abandoned hope of his recovers. D Angell recently suffered a genersl break ldown. He is said to be simost blind e THURSDAY MORNT2 s \i\h‘( H" 2, 0\1 \HA ( trom industry We cannet agriculture and commeg produce all our ordifgy | panee time requirements. Mither the po | ulation must go short of many thines or] the army must go short of munitiens and | Asurances Are Not So Complete as other Indispensable things. Those Originally Given in the ‘Are elvilians propared to let their, e g : brothara in the trenches endure hardships U“"“'f's‘._(;“"- it is | while they are not ready to make small | sacritices of harder work, increased ef- | fort and increased economy? | “Every war problem teaches the same leason. Firstly, if we employ less labor, | meeting the wants of the oivilian popu- lation, we release more men for fighting. | WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED NOW Next Step to Be Taken as Soon as Situation in Congress | duct of submarine warfare, presented Monday by Count Bernstorff to Sec GANG TAKEN HERE Member of Bunch that Forged Many Checks. administration is certain its action ! will not be embarrassed in congress DID . NOT OPBMTE IN OMAHA| 114 assurances reiterated in the latest communication are regarded In the arrest of \lorrn B. Feldman, | as not so complete as those originally confessed member of & band of bell-| try, and Feldman has deal of successful Officials were represented as feeling that {1t the German government toox the posi tion that it could modify or change the admitted & | operation. The members of the gang, according |first assurances at will, there was noth to hie statement, consist of James F. |Ing to prevent an attempt to chanke the Wilson, the ringleader; Virgil Shel- “:(e.n.(r:lltu::.'nr-‘ :\nd "\»: fo not intend o e with such procedure. ton, “Butch” Saunders and Oney A““’ Tt was sald that the next szep would he burn. Im(-n an soon As the situation in congress It was Wilson's plan, as an experi- | Was clarified. Official expect thie admin- istration will find itself in a position to ne ! enced bellhop, to obfaln employment | . o, oy iy negotiations within the next in some first-class hotel, work dili-'few qayw. gently, until promoted to the position' Secretary Lansing today cabled an in- of captain, gradually weed out the QUiry to Ambassador Gerard at Berlin, |aaking by what ship the appendices to men unde nd e oy members n der him and employ mem the German memorandum notifying this oi the gang. Shelton, Saunders and government that armed vessels would be Auburn would then collect the |sunk without warning beginning March | “paper,” or cancelled checks loft|! |h:‘d‘hvn a n\!:lvhm! ,.,m when they . > might be expected to arrive ¥ guests, and turn them over to} mug yppendices are said to reveal ma Wilson. Later forgeries, copied by |existence of mecret orders of the British | this expert penman, passed into the |admiralty hands of Feldman, who would do the |™e" to att “shoving” or uttering of the worth-| less certificates. }Siegel Finishes fpnat; LUk M anay. ! His Prison Term; The latter asserted that at the Tuller | hotel in Detroit, the last job in which | he took part, they had passed checks | for $50, $60 and 4, splitting the money | botween himaels, Wilton and Belion. |- ROCHBETIRN. Y., March 1. +Henry Feldman la dhx of age and his Slegel, New York buur and department home 18 in ster, N, Y., where his 'store merchant, whose ten months sen- parents are now living. He served a term |ténce in Monroe county .pefiftentiary, ex- in the penitentlary dt Elmira, N. Y., on 'pired today, was rearrested this morning instructing British nwerchant- k enemy smubmarines. e 1916 “Secondly, If we mport less for con- Clears sumption we lessen the difficulties of sea hodciananbull _[‘CARNOT CHANGE AT WILL| LAST OF BELLBOY , WASHINGTON, March 1.—Ger- ~‘ any's latest assurances on the con retary Lansing, are not g0 broad as the United States desires, but it is| Morris Feldman Confesses to Being indieated no further steps will be taken by this government until the | boy check ‘“artists,” the police be- given as the result of the Lusitania | lieye that the last of a crowd said to | N*kotlations, and it was indicated have obtalned 250,000 by their|trday that the pending Lusitania operations has been taken. 3 agreement would not be finally ae- Activities are reported Lo have cov-| C9Pted as satisfactory at this time ered the principal cities of the coun-! Cannot Change at Wil is Aga.m Arrested 1 THE wn'mm Snow FOURT l‘ }‘ \ COPY TWO CENTS. CONGRESS CHIEFS ARE UNDECIDED ON COURSE TO TAKE May Send Joint Committee to Find Out Just What Can Be Done to Please Wilson on Ship | Warning Question. DOESN'T WANT ENDORSEMENT Republicans u_ fie—ll as Demoorats Are Divided Over Reso- lutions, KITCHIN BECOMES SARCASTIC , ) k| : WASHINGTON, Feb, ~—After 5 being in session more than two | hours the house forelgn affairs com- | mittee adjourned until 10:30 tomer- row morning without agreelmg upon :ln_\' course of actlon, PAGES. SINGLE of the first of the many Americans to join the Foreign Legion when the war began. He was the only American advanced from the ranks, and today he wears a Legion of Honor ribbon, the highest honor Lestowed by the French. He is now on furlough and expects to return to the trenches || on May 1. LIEUTENANT SWEENEY, West Point graduate, was one ' | | WASHINGON, Mareh 1.—Conferences among leaders in the senate and house developed that so few men who talked with the president were agreed on & course in regard to what o ress should do In regard to “‘armed ship" controversy that nction weemed improbable withous another conference at the white honse It was understood President Wilson does not feel that a vote of confidence will ac- complish the ohject he seeks and that forelgn capitals can be made to under- stand that the American government is united in the submarine negotiations only by the out and out defeat of & remolu- tion proposing to warn Americans off armed ships. The views of some of the leaders de- veloped to be so much in conflict with those which the president outlined at his morning conference that the leaders urged the appointment of a joint com- mittee to go to President Wllson to ask him for an official statement of what he wants congress to do. The leaders con- sidered the situation very much muddied. Clark for Joint Resolution. . Speaker Clark after a conference with other house leadera and some democratic senators advised the forelgn affafrs com- {mittee to recommend a joint resolution | which would provide for the appeintment '.»r such a committes Senators Stone, Kern, Overman, Martin, ! wanson and Gore held a brief confer- ence, at the conclusion of which It was | agreed, that nothing should be done in the senate today. House we Draft Resoll GERMANY SENDS |SLOAN FORGES DEMS DEFI 10 PORTUGAL| 10 LOYALTY sunn;m i, e | posing that congress express its confi- lence in the president's handling of the (K er Dispatches Ultimatum 10| Motion on War Claims Bill Pre- Lishon nemding Return "..u Southern !onbm m,. armed um.:cnc:“ mcrmhy and of W nede o () WW inlative, hul“ol‘ml:‘ TWO DAYS TIME mmmmflum a charge of meceiving a stolen. express package containing valuable laces, After leaving the crowd in Detrolt he came to Omaha and last November worked as bellboy at the Henshaw, but was discharged because of drunkenn: It was his purpose at this time to try his hand at paving the way for the crew and he did send them some ‘“‘paper.” Meanwhile, Shelton, Saunders and Au- burn had ieyed, to Portland, Ore., where through -a detective agency they were arrested. Wilsom, who was also working with them, escaped, but was later | apprehended In Chicago. After doing odd jobs through the win- ter, Feliman again secured erployment at the Henshaw, where he was found Sunday by police officers. iy Consclence Bothered Him. “I knew for the last two months they were after me, but decided to stick it out. figured, and it might as well come here as anywhere. What little conscience L had left was beginning to Lether a bit. The Sooner 1 get sent up and serve my bit the sooner I can go home to the folks." ‘The Chicago authoritles informed the Omaha police that Wuson's gang had recently operated in Chicago, passing checks on the Central Trust, Hibernian National, People's Trust and BSavings, First National and Northern Trust com- pany banks. Feldman does not deny this, but emphatically denles a state- ment that a number of girls had been the sentimental dupes of his rowd. The police first got track of the forg- ers through the discovery of photographs of pretty girls collected by the group. | Otticers from Detroit arrived in Omaha | vesterday. W. B.*Ritchie, district super intendent of the Pinkerton agency, was directly Instrumental in Feldman's arrest. Third of Million Men of Military DES MOINES, la., Mareh L—Practi- cally one-third of & million men in Towa are subject to military duty if this country should be calléd to arms, aceord ing to & report by Adjutant General Guy E. Logan. The report shows that there are 321,063 men in Jowa who are of the military age of between 18 and (5. These figures were obtained through county auditors, and show a gain over the last previous record, in 1918, of al most 7,000, Polk county, in which Des Moines is situated, has the largest number, there being a total of 16,426 in that county. Du- buque county ranks second. with 10,478, Scott county comes third, with 8,623, and Woodbury county fourth, with 7,21 German Seaplane “TONDON, Wafeh T—A German | ast of England tenight, | rricial statement A S-month-old ehild was killed | #as no milltary damage. There It was only a question of time, 1/ Age in Towa State! Shells English Coast | | | e | lane bombarded a portion of the south- | rding to an| by Bheriff George H. Root of Livingston county, on a warrant iasued by District i Attorney Wheeler of Livingston county. ,With his attorney, Dallas C. Newton, | Blegel was taken before Justic George . | A. Benton to arrange for balil. | The bond was fixed at §25,000 by Jus- |tice Benton and this was furnished by a |surety eompany. Aocompanied by his attorney, Blegel then departed for Gen- esco, where he said he would remain for some time. 'Dupont Plant at Ashland Threatened | ASHLAND, Wis. Murch 1~Warning | that the plant of the Dupont Powder company at Parksdale would be blown up “early in March” has been recelved by employes of the company, it was learned today. Letters were received by the workers urging them to remain at home. Guards have been doubled at the plant, | which covers 1600 acres, and powerful searchlights have been installed 'Man Recovers from Attack of Anthrax NEW YORK, March 1—Eugens Hiers, a sufferer from anthrax, who has been a patient at a hospital here since Feb- 1. | b | ruary 12, has ®o far recovered, mccord- ing to an announcement last night, as a result of four infections of the Eich- horn serum that he will be able to leave the hospital in a few days. All trace of the disease is sald to have dlsap- peared GERMAN OFFENSIVE agminst Ver- n, which had brought prince’s arm up teo Hue of Fremoh 4 naes, there, ng to teday nl sinte nt from P Tall which yesterday snn of settiing In now extends along rd tunily (he entire front wh. desperate strugmics of the last | week have been going on. There were o at any w t French war office repo UNOFFICIAL COMMENTATORS developments renewal before at Verdun or elsew fromt, IBLY SIGNIFICANT s the Freneh offie .. that there arve » and in the Mosclle river APPARENTLY THE RECENT 6Ge oring the night, the | torty-elght hours of the German ships recently selzed by that coun- try, according to a dispatch from Madrid to Reuter's Telegram ecom- pany. The first seisure of German mérchant vessels by Portugal occurred February 25 at Lisbon when the naval aushorities took possession of thirty-six German and Austrian ships in the Tagus. Elght Ships Sels On February 26 the selsure of eight German steamships by the Portuguese | authorities at 8t. Vincent, Cape Verde islands, was announced and it was un- officially declared the requisitioning of German and Austrian vessels had been extended to all those lying in the ports of Portugal and its colonies. A Lisbon dispatch on February 2 quoted Premier Costa of Portugel as de- olaring In the Chamber of Deputies that the government's action in requisitioning veasels had been prompted by the neces- sity of the nation's economic situation. The premier further declared that he considered it to the best Interest of Portugal that the existing treqty with Germany be allowed to lapse and that the Portuguese government was prepared for all eventualities that might arise. Frequent Rumors Current. There have been frequent rumors since the outbreak of hostilities that Portugal was about to declare u state of war with the central powers because -of its treaty relations with Great Britain, President Discusses ' Draft of Complaint About Mail Seizure WASHINGTON, D. €., March | —Sels | ures of American mails by British naval avthorities were discussed at a confer ence today between President Wilson and Henry Van Dyke, Amerfcan minister to The Netherlands, who also conferred with Secrelary Lansing and Counsello | Polk of the State department It s indicated that the mall question | will be disposed of before the United | States sends to at Britain the note on contraband now in couise of prep- | aration The United States, it is understood had made formal complaint on Mr. Van | Dyke's informal protest asainst the seizure of mall from the steamer Rot erdam, on which he eame to the ('nited tates It was revealed today that the dispatch recelved at the State department yester- day giving notice that Great Britain's | reply to the mail selzure protest was ofi its way by mall, position Great Britain had taken »|Woman and Man Rob Bank in Oklahoma MUBKOG! Okl., Mareh L.—A woman robber with & man companion entered the bank at Millerton, OkL, late yester dny ™ overed the cashier backed out the door the mountains | and_escaped to orth of the town but did not state what | raked up about | ot the new : LONDON, 'March 1.—Germany bas | (From a shfl conumdnt.) m-ff- ..«.m"-:'-? sent an ultimatum to Portugsl de:| WASHI * Mareh 1i—(Spe- | rom"The White House contérence manding the restoration within |clal. Telegram. Y—This was & flela’| JPending the Rounding of sentimen day for Nebraska, Congressman Sloan, a pinch hitter, forced the house, a democratic house, | hat s to go on record for proof of loyaity | It was argued by some wolng record In the final settlement of war olalms | fohove the house of iy ot and thereby created a new record for = et sty himself, not only as a clear, logical thinker, but as a big American oiti- zoen. An acrimonious debate grew OUL | hors together so the resolution might be of a Dbill allowing claimants under | agreed upon and reported out when Bh ‘the iaw of 1863 to have two years' { committee meets later today. extension of time to prove their claims as to losses of cotton, ete., ' taken over by the government during | the war and sold for their lceollnt.| the proceeds of such sales now being in the treasury waiting distribution, The bill had been reported favorably bv the war claims committes of the Ul but with the required “proof of loynlly on the part of the claimant” omitted much divided on the proposals as .- Sloan Forces Roll Call. | democrats. Representative Mann would Representative Sloan submitted an | make no public statement of his views. u'mrudmem requiring the c.almant to | He sald merely that the present situa- aoMk to an indefinite hour. lenders conferred on the new lution with an endorsement of the presi- dent’s attitude. Leaders who last week were positive in assorting warning resolution would pass today were llent. 'l‘m -“ there whs_ne_way to tell the show not only the ownership of the prop- | tion was a ‘‘very serious one,”” and that erty taken, Dbut the ‘“loyalty” of the ! was all. owner duri the civil war. In a very Kiteh Saroastie. dignified speach Mr. Eloan pointed out | *“Phe habit of obedience has been de- to the house that this had been the prac- | veloped to & high degre in o " was tice since 863, and he thought this was s - w2y caras iy | Mr. Kitchens answer to a question about Mot a time to get away from funda- | propects of a vote, He s one of thoss mentals, | i Naturally the partisans on both sides |™HO NAVE favored the resolutions. One went at it. hammer and tongs, and one | Po" ¢ ussed was for the house foreign |affairs committee to report adversely one the pending resolutions and at the | same time have the rules committee bring of the most acrid debates of this session | v, {of e In committee of the whole, a standing vote was taken on the Sloan |'™ & Tule limiting debate. By that pian a amendment. to racommit the bill, with in. | Yot¢ could be reached in the house tomor- structions to attach his amenament as |OW or Friday and the question would be to “loyelty” and the amendment wae |'4ken up in (he senato immedistely after beaten by & vote of 8 to 7. Many of the | WArd. ‘IUI:)HI‘[H ‘lh‘lr;:h rats voling with their | r r . southern brothers M t A h t Demoernta Upon Record. ysterious AIrs lp When the bill was reported to the | 0 1 T B n | house, Sloan moved to rocommit the bill n y Oy atloon | with Instructions to incorporate the ‘“loy- ~— alty” amendrent )\ DULUTH, Minn, March 1-The “mys- On the roll call the vote stood 188 for | terfous aeroplane” which for several to 170 egalnst Sloan, acoring the first | nights has been seen soaring over big beating the democrats have had during | grain elevators here causing city authori- tho present congress. | ties to order an investigation, burst tnto flame last night and fell on the docka. | It was found to be u toy balloon of pe- | eullar construction. Congressman Lobeck was acting apeaker | while the aye and nay vote was being | taken, Speaker Clark calling the Omaha member to the chair durlug the taking | e——————— o e ke elonbecser | CHIEF” COUNSEL ACCUSED colleagues and for the reported from the bill as originally sommittee on war | WATERLOO, Ia. March 1.—(Speclal claimas Telegram.)—Loren Risk, chief counsel in Two purposes have been served by the |'he case of Scribner against the Water- vote today. It puts the northern dem- |!00. Cedar Falls & Northern Rallway oorats ou record and it mwakes the bill as |COMPANY, was held to the grand jury, it was orlginally Intended it should be, |charged with subornation of perjury, to- It also tends to show the temper novse s for 1ayalty of the |48y and ball bonds were placed at §2,000. Risk was attorney for the plaintiff. He o st stas A . ] |ia now practicing law in Minneapolis and | JUDGE SHEA APPOINTED {came here to defend himself. | AMBASSADOR TO CHILE K‘]l‘hru witnesses—Ackerman, Scott and ng, Are now serving ten-year sentences WASHINGTON, March 1.—Judge Jo-|on :Iu.. of gullty to ‘porjur’y in the same | seph H. Bhea of Seymour, Ind., has been | aetion | selected by President Wilson as ambas-| C. T. Plekett, in giving argument, for sador to Chile and will be nominated in | (he stats, stated that this was the firet the near future. He will yucoeed Henry |time In his logal practice in Waterloo of | P, Fietcher, who h been appointed | twenty-five yi that such high-handed | Ambassador to Mexico. perjury had been attempted. I

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