Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 24, 1916, Page 1

s J Part One NEWS QECTION PAGES 1 T0 8. VOL. XLVI—NO. 81. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1916—TWELVE PAGES. On Tralns, at Hotels, Naws Stands. n:.. [ THE WEATHER FAIR SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. NEBRASKA CROP “ASSURED AND IS OF BUMPER KIND Northwestern Reports Indicate Wheat Throughout State Yielding Enormously, Quality Excellent. HARVEST ABOUT FINISHED Plenty of Moisture and Corn Is Making Great Head- way. OATS BEST EVER KNOWN The greatest wheat crop in the his- tory of Nebraska has been harvested. What is true of wheat is also true of oats and what is true of wheat and oats, promises to be true with reference to corn, Such is the infor- mation conveyed by the weekly crop report of the Northwestern Railroad company for the week ending Satur- day night. The Northwestern lines cover a goodly portion of the wheat and corn belt of Nebraska and the data rela- tive to crops is gathered weekly by the company agents and sent to head- quarters here. RUMOR OF BREMEN NEAR U. 5. SHORE Report Deutschland’'s Sister Ship Due tc Pass the Capes ™ Before Today. CRUISERS NEAR Norfolk, Va, July 23.—From the same source that Norfolk -learned two weeks ago tonight of the ap- proach of the giant German mer- chantman submarine Deutschland, came a prediction today that the Deutschland’s sister ship, thé Bre- men, would pass in the Virginia capes before Monday. There was no official authority for the news, but it spread quickly and generally was credited. Soon after nightfall, several vessels, some of them carrying newspaper corre- spondents and photographers, started for Cape Henry through a heavy rain- storm, hoping to welcome the ar- rival of the undersea craft. Will Go to Baltimore. It was believed that if the boat reached the coast during the night, it would head in immediately, as the storm made conditions most favor- able, It was expected to go directly to Baltimore, stopping only to pick up a Maryland pilot. / In spite of the mews from Balti- more that the customs records there The report for last week indicates that throughout Nebraska all of the what has been harvested and consid- erable threshing done. Wheat is yielding twenty-five to thirty-five bushels per acre and generally is grading I‘?u. 2, hard. Oats are turning out anywhere from thirty to sixty bushels per acre and are grading hl?h. n practically all localities in the area covered by the Northwestern rains have betn timely and copious. Very féw localities are in need of moisture and corn is making a won- derful growth. Woolen Underwear Supplied Troops of South Dakota Sioux Falls, S. D,, July 23.—Appar- ent carelessness of the government in supplying the South Dakota militi men is evidenced by the arrival at Camp Hagman, near Redfield, of a shipment of woolen" winter under- clothing for wear on the Mexican border. Complaint has been made b, the officers of the regiment. Nortfi Dakota’s troops will pass through South Dakota tonight and tomorrow en route to the border, Loyal Club to Hold Picnic at Bennington The Loyal Club of Omaha is plan- ning a big picnic at Bennington, Sun- day, August 13, with a program of political speeches by John L. Ken- nedy, Judge Ben S. Baker, Mayor {;mes C. Dahlman and George A. agney. The club is not affiliated with either of the political parties and numbers among its members many of the leaders of both. It has been in existence for eight years, Steve Han- sen, Lew Adams, Len Holmberg, Chris Hansen and Tom Toye are the members of the committee on ar- rangements and have charge of the sale of tickets. Hetty Green Leaves One Hundred Millions Bellows Falls, Vt., July 23.—It was estimated in legal circles here to- night that Mrs. Hetty Green left an estate of approximately $100,000,000. Charles W. Pierson of New York, representing Mrs, Green’s son, Colonel Edward H. R, Green, agreed tonight upon a tentative administra- tion fee of $20,000 to be paid to the state, and it is considered that this fee is an indication of the total value of the state on’the basis fee percent- age are usually figured. Colonel Green is now sole execu- tor of the estate. Young Man Breaks Back Diving Into Elkhorn River Norflok, Va, July 23.—(Special Telegram.)—Robert Lindley, aged 21, is in a Norfolk hospital with a broken spinal column as a result of diving from a twenty-foot bank into the Elk-| horn river, striking his head in the sand of the river bed. A vertebra of the spinal column was fractured. He will live, but is paralyzed or. one side, Lindley is a drug clerk. His father is a banker at Bonesteel, S. D. g =T—hg} Weather Hour. Official record of temperature and pre- cipitation compared with the corresponding period of the last threo years: 1016, 1916, 1914, 1913, ”n 78 Highest yesterday... 96 86 Lowest yesterday. % 66 69 L1 Mean = tempe 86 ki 80 n Precipitation .. T .08 T .14 Temperature ecipitation departures from the normsl at Omaha since March 1, and coinpared with the last twe years: Normal temperature 1 Excess for the d Total excess since ch .12 inch 9.67 inches 7.06 inches Total rainfall since March Deficleney since March 1, Deficleney for cor. perfod, Deticlency for cor. period, 1914, 2.73 Inches T indicates trace of precipitation. . L A WELSH, Meterologist. did not show the clearance of the Deutschland, what are regarded as reliable reports received here say it cleared today. Marine men point out that, for neutrality reasons, the records qight be withheld from the public pntil the submarine had been given full opportunity to reach the high seas and elude the allied war- ships waiting off the capes for its re- appearance. - Cruisers Near éoast. There are several cruisers a few miles from thie coast and they are in constant touch with developments in Chesapeake bay through British trad- ers leaving the harbor. One of the warships fired a shot today across the bow of an unidentified merchantman, about ten miles out to sea. Accord- ing to persons, who witnessed the in- cident from Virginia beach, the merchantman hove to at the warning shot, and after being spoken by the cruiser, was allowed to proceed. Observers at Cape Hean reported tonight that two warships had drawn in closer than usual and for the first time were continuously using their powerful searchlights to sweep the entrance to the bay. The outlines of the ships were plainly visible despite the rain. They were said to be barely outside the three-mile limit. " Vote on Wet and Dry Issue Close in Texas Dallas, Tex., July 23.—A close race between O. B. Colquitt and T. M. Campbell, former governors ‘seeking the democratic nomination for United States senator, was indicated Saturday in incomplete returns from today’s state-wide primary, which is equi- valent to election. There were six candidates for the nomination, including Charles A. Cul- berson, chairman of the senate judiciary committee, who sought re- election. Reéturns received up until p. m. came from widely scattered precincts in the more populous coyn- ties of the state, Governor James E. Ferguson ap- parently has been renominated by a substantial majority over two op- ponents, * i \Vote on the question of submitting a constitutional amendment for pro- hibition was close. To Start Work on New St. Regis Apartments Ecavation work is nearly completed for the St. Regis apartment house, a new apartment house to be built at Thirty-seventh and Jones streets by the Metropolitan Realty company. Construction work will start this week. This structure is to represent in finished detail, the ultra modern ideas of apartment house construction. Spanish Renaissance architecture is to be followed. The building is to be in the shape of a “U.” Former Omaha Boys Coin From Coast to Visit Parents Frank D. Bryant, assistant to the purchasing-agent of the Standard Oil company at San Francisco, and his brother, Arthur C. Bryant, employed by the samegcompany in the Seattle office, are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Bryant, 625 North For- ty-first avenue. The two brothers left Omaha sev- eral years ago. They expressed them- selves as being greatly impressed with the growth and development of the city during their absence on the coast. .| Harry F. Gould of New York, with the Southern Pacific railroad, is als_o visiting at the Bryant home. 00AST| " BACK UPON MAIN MOUNTAIN RIDEE Teutons Reported b grad to Have n Toward Pyi& = \liain of Oarp,, FIGHT IN NORTH FRANCE Battle Resumed on British Front Along Whole Line. ENGLISH MAKE Vienna (Via London), July 23.—Un- der the menace of a heavy Russian assault the Austrians in the Carpath- ian region of southern Bukowina, southwest of Tatarow, have with- drawn toward the main ridge of the Carpathians, the war office officially announced today. Battle Resumed. London, July 23.—The battle on the British front in northern France was resumed today along the whole line GAINS office report of this afternoon says. The British captured the German out- erworks near gozieres by assault and carried the fighting into the village. Longueval also was the scene of a desperate struggle. Attacks Fruitless. Berlin (Via London), July 23— Heavy attacks by the British along the Somme front in northern France, on the line dunning from Thiepval to Guillemont, have been fruitless, not- withstanding disregard for losses among the Tlrge number of men em- ployed, the war office announced to- day. Sergius Sazonoff, Russian Foreign Minister, Quits Post Petrograd, July 23.—Sergius Saz- one. i minister of foreign affairs, has resigned. He is succeeded by Boris Vladimirovitch Sturmer, the premier, who has taken over the office. M. Sturmer retains the premier- ship. Alexei Rhvostoff, the former minister of the interior, has been re- appointed to that office, while M. Makaroff has been appointed min- ister of justice. Sazonoff retired from the for- eign ministry at his ows. request, - A recent dispatch from Petrograd, by way of London, reported the de- parture of Sergius Sazonoff for Fin- land to recuperate. The assistant for- eign minister, M. Neratoff, then as- sumed the head of the foreign office. M. Sazonoff was appointed foreign minister in November, 1910 On several occasions since then he has been reported suffering from seri- ous illness. One of his latest official acts was the sizning of the Russo- Japanese convention to maintain the peace in the far east. A Boris V. Sturmer was appointed premier to succeed M. Goremykin fast February. He also holds the of- fice of minister of the interior. Mrs. Elizabeth Dunbar 0f Council Bluffs Dead Mrs. Elizabeth Ellen Dunbar of Council Bluffs died Friday at the Presbyterian hospital in Council Bluffs after a short illness. She is survivel by her husband, P. E. Dunbar of the Union Pacific, a son Thomas E. Dunbar, a senior in the law college of Creighton university; her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth McCoy of Pocatello; three brothers, Arthur G. McCoy, Duluth, Minn.; Harry G. Mc- Coy, San Francisco; J. J. McCoy, St. Louis, and a sister, Mrs. Charles J. Forden, Pocatello. § Mrs. Dunbar was widely known in Omaha and Council Bluffs. In the latter city she was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal church, also of Morn- ingside chapel, St. Paul’s guild, Har- mony chapter, Eastern Star and other orgr nizations. 'he funeral will be held tomorrow at the Dunbar residence in Council Bluffs. Youth Shoots Stepfathér In Order to Protect Mother Harry Freeman, 18-year-old step- son of Joseph Hudson, 2779 Blondo, fired a .22 caliber bullet into the lat- ter's head last night in order to stop him from abusing his mother. son ran away, in spite of the wound, and has not been heard from yet. No 'arrests were made, Young Freeman only last week was discharged from a local hospital, where he underwent an operation for relief from epilepsy. : Wreck Kills Two and Hurts Thirty Harvesters Beating Way to Fields Sioux City, Ia., July 23.—Two men were killed and thirty injured when a Milwaukee freight train loaded with prospective harvest hands was de- railed three miles north of Tripp, S. D, this morning, The cause has not been determined: The dead: Clarence Sandquist, Geneva, Neb, J. E. Longmore, Lincoln, Neb. The identity of Longmore was ob- tained by papers in his pockets. The train contained about 200 men beat- ing their way to the harvest fields. All but two of the injured were taken to a Yankton hospital on a special train this afternoon. The other two were unable to be moved. Doctors were rushed to the scene from Yankton, Tripp and Parkston. Before the special arrived, many of the victims were taken to Tripd, where the ‘depot was turned into an emergency hospital, Men and women of 'I'npr turned out by the dozens to help relieve the suffering. One man who had a leg bone protruding through the flesh, refused to take an opiate. He watched physicians set the limb with teeth gritted. The wreck scene looked like a shambles. The wreckage has not been cleared away and other bodies may be found. { AUSTRIANS FALL | from Pozieres to Guillemont, the war{" A BRITISH Afim& J"hEET.‘/ JUAREZ GONDITIONS NEARLY NORMAL Bull Fight for Charity Will Be Given at Plaza De Toros July 80, EL PASO PEOPLE INVITED El Paso, Tex., July 23.~For the first time since the days of the Villa regime, permission has been given in Juarez for a *ull fight. But it will be a charity affair to be held at the Plaza De Toros, a week from tomorrow, for the benefit of the Queretaro flood sufferers, with amateur toreadors. This fight, by special consent of Acting Governor Trevino of Chihua- hua, was said to be important as part of an effort to re-establish cordial re- lations between Juarez and El Paso. General Gonzales, the Juarez com- mander, with this object in view, to- day issued a special invitation to the people of El Paso to attend, General Gonzales states, however, that the moral reform initiated by the .| Carranzistas following the evacuation of the town by Vill~, will not be re- laxed, , He has just refused to allow a night club in Juarez, although Gov- ernor Trevino had waived objections, Gambling, cock fighting, the sale of hard liquors and dancing resorts will not be permitted, said the general. It is learned here that the large wireless station in Juarez built by Villa is to be dismantled and taken to Chihuahua City, to be set up at some other point in Mexico. In reply to a message informing him of the rumor of the formation of a so-called “legalist” party, Gen- eral Jacintd Trevino wired Consul Garcia that before such a movement could succeed in Mexico its leaders 3 ould have to beat the constitutional- ict army. The legalist party is said by rumor to have behind it certain Mexican refugees, who are opposed to Carranza. Horse Racing Vies With Bull Fighting For Favor in Spain Hud-gis & Co, fertilizer plant. (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) San Sebastian, Spain, July 15.—Bull fighters and their partisans look ask- ance at a luxurious new establish- ment just completed here, where tho_roughbrcd horses will soon begin racing on a scale hitherto unknown in Spain. The race course has all modern im- provements and with grandstands that rival those of Longchamps and Auteuil, near Paris. Alfonso XIII has not only sanctioned the enter- prise, but has given it vogue by ac- quiring a stable of ' thoroughbreds himself; some of his horses may make their debuts at the meeting, *wheih opens July 2, and will continue until October 1. Fertilizer Plant to Be Constructed Soon A big building activity in. Omaha will be the construction of the Mor- The plant js to cost in the neighborhood of $40,000. Grant Parsons, former presi- dent of the Omaha Builders' ex- change, has been awarded the con- tract, McCord Home Was Big Residence Sale of Week The largest resicence sale recorded in real estate circles for the week was that of the W. H. McCord home, the ncighborhood of $20,000. Morris Rosenblatt is the new owner. It is somewhat uncertaia just what Rosen- blatt will do with it. There is some talk of dividing the house and mak- ing two apartment houses or a double flat, Cost of Operation of The State Departments (From a Staft Correspondent.) Lincoln, July 23.—(Special.)—It cost the state of Nebraska $1,421,- 840.85 to do business for the first quarter of 1916, according to a report filed by State Auditor Smith with the governor today, and $1,032458.12 for the second quarter, making a total of $2,454,29897 for the first half of the year, ALLIED WARSHIPS CLOSER 10 NORROLK British and French Patrol Off Mouth of Chesapeake Bay Are More Vigilant, DEUTSCUHLAND PIER QUIET Norfolk,\Va,, July 23.—Allied war- ships off Cape Henry awaiting de- parture by the German submersible Deutschland, after a night of slow cruising, during which their search- lights were played over the entrance to the capes frequently, at daylight today quickened their speed and re- sumed their regular north and south patrol. It is estimated that the ships today are from eight to ten miles out, At one time last night one of them, pre- sumably a French ship, moved in ‘to within five miles of Virginia Beach, coming closer to shore than it had at any previous time. _ Little Activity About Pier, Baltimore, July'22.—Little activity was noticeable this forenoon about the pier at Locust point, where the German merchant submarin- Deutsch- land was moored. The tug Thomas F. Timmons lay alongside, as it has almost constantly for the last week, with a full head of steam up, Superior Business Men Organize Board of Trade Spperior, Neb, July 23.—Special Telegram.)—Several Superior bank- ers, millers and grain men met at the European hotel yesterday and organ- ized a local Board of Trade, naming the following officers: F. L, Myers, president; George Scoular, vice presi- dent; T. O. Merchant, secretary, and Claude Shaw, treasurer, The growth-of the grain business in Superior -has become of such impor- tance as to demand an organization properly to handle the business and this will be of benefit to the commun- ity as it will eventually mean official weighing and inspection at this point. which is said to have brought in | Superior Refuses License To Street Carnival Company Superior, Neb, July 23.—(Special Telegram.)—The city council turned down the license for a carnival com- pany that the fire department had ar- ranged to have show here the last of the month after a petition signed by leading business men had been filed asking them to refuse the license. Indianapolis, Ind,, July 23.—James Whitcomb Riley died last night at 10:50 o’clock while only Mr. Riley’s nurse, Miss Clementia Prough, was awake in .the poet's home. He asked for a drink of water and reclined on his bed again. Miss Clementia resumed her. vigil, and noticing that the poet seemed not to be resting easily, ap- proached his bed. Mr. Riley died be- fore she reached his side. 'Mr. Riley’s death was due to paraly- sis. He suffered a violent stroke about 7:30 o'clock thjs morning. Members of Mr. Riley's family were summoned immediately. They are his brother- |in-law, Henry Eitel; his'nephew, Ed- mund H. Eitel, and his niece, Miss Elizabeth Eitel. Mr. Riley had suffered his first vio- lent attack of paralysis July 19, 1910 He recovered and seemed to be in good health until he was stricken a second time. For several ycars Mr. Riley had spent his winters in Florida, where he went accompanied by members of his household. He returned only last May and “never felt better” as he expressed it on his arrival. Since that time he had been in excellent spirits and seemed unusually strong, Dr. McCui- loch said. Mr. Rileshad been able to go to his publishers frequently and was out in his automobile every day even as late as Friday. The combina- tion of his spirits and bodily strength seemed convincing that he was far from being on the verge of a fatal ill- ness. Mr. Riley was born in 1853, but was 5 Good Bye, Jim; Take Kéer 0 Riley, Hoosier Poet, Crosses River ENGLISH AEROPLANES READY TO START FOR ALLIED OFFENSIVE—The picture below shows a squadron of English aeroplanes lined up for their last review previous to their flight overseas to take part in the great allied offensive. S D @ ire. Frety SERK. ENTENTE POWERS SHIFTING ASSAULT Germans Retreat Before Vic- torious Advance of Gen. eral Sakharoff. KUROPATKIN IS MOVING London, July 23.—The entent_allied offensive, which swings between the western and eastern fronts with al- most clock-like regularity, and in a manner almost completely to prevent the central powers from making any considerable transfers of troops from front to front, now is centered on the Russian front. The forces under General Sak- haroff have taken the offensive ener- gelliully and their victory in the salient formed by the junction of the Lipa and Styr rivers southwest of Lutsk; today appears “to be much more important than either the offi- cial claims from Petrograd or the Austrg-Gernmian transmission. of yes- terday indicated, General Sakharoff has the enemy BLAST SENT ITS FLAME OVER THE CROND ON WALK Many Women and Ohildrea Swept by Breath of Bomb and Piled in Heaps on Ground, TIDAL WAVE OF TERROR G. A R, Veterans Show Great Courage in Holding Ranks and Stopping Panic. MANY FREAKS OF Duflhl San Francisco, July 23.—Police have secured no tangible traces of the person who left a timed suitcase to explode on a downtown street cor- ner during a preparedness parade, killing half a dozen persons and in- juring more than forty others. San Franciso, Cal, July 23.—“It looked as if the sidewalk went straight up into the air,” said Colonel Thoman F. O'Neill, former sheriff of San Fran- cisco, who was in the line of march- ers, “until there was a loud, terse noise, lots of smoke and dust and cries of wounded and shouts.” One police officer was standing alongside his horse twenty-five feet from the scene. Both were knocked down by the explosion, the man fall- ing on top of ‘he animal. Thecries of the Police. Several theories were put forward tonight by the police. One was that the owner of the suitcase had intended to set it out along the: line of the pa- rade, but was delayed, and, knowing the bomb was timed, left it standing by the side of the uioon. One of the marchers in the parade; who was there when the bomb ex- ploded, but escaped, said: “I was standing in a crowd. right near the point where the explosion occurred, I whirled with the sound. It was like tryine to dive through a tidal wave to get through the mass of men, women and children that charged toward me.” Veterans Derounce Anarchy, When the rlrugie dispersed the di- vision of California Spanish War Vet- erans, the divisior. nearest the. explo- siott, marched to the city hall and held an indignation meeting, declaring that an anarchist meeting against prepar- edness scheduled for tonight would be broken n?. pos Many divisions of the fore plrt of the parade knew nothing of the explo- rétreating in_ disorderly flight before his forces.. Having forced the pas- sages of the Styr and Lipa, the Rus- sian troops are already beyond Berestechk, having in two days’ fight- ing taken prisoner from the Austro- Germans, 300 officers and 12,000 men, In addition the Russians have cap- tured a quantity of war booty. The number of Austro-Germans captured in the operations on the eastern fronts since July 16, now total 26,000. By his success in driving the Aus- { tro-Germand from the Styr-Lipa salient, General Sakharoff has estab- lished his forces firmly on the right bank of the Lipa up to about twent kilometres (about thirteen miles above its conflueince. with the Styr. Meanwhile, General Kuropatkin is still pressing forward against the forces of Field Marshal von Hinden- burg on the Dvina front, south of Riga, and north of Smorgon. Accord- ing to military critics in Petrograd, a battle is in preparation in the neigh- borhood of Kovel, the offensive of the F.ussian ' drive across the = Stokhod; which will prove one of the most im- portant conflicts of the whole war, The British press gives prominence to statements published in the French i press and credited to General Joffre and Sir Douglas Haig, the command- ers, The former is rcf)oncd as'say- ing that the. entente allies now have the whip hand over the central pow- ers, while General Haig says the su- preme decision of the war must be made on the western front. b sion and terrifying scenes behind un- til théy bought newspaper extras, District Attorpey Charles F. Fickert said he umufht the bomb had been placed by a fanatic who had been ‘in- cited to the act by listening to the speeches and arguments of Iiou - posed to the preparedness parade. (l?e said every eifort would be made to apprehend the culprit. Josephson Denies Knowledge. ljpsephsqn, the suspect, was arrested while making a speech after the explo- sion in which he is said to have lauded anarchy and declared: “This is noth- ing.” After his arrest, however, he said that he was not an anarchist and denied having any knowledge of the bomb explosion, The handle of the suitcase which contained the explosives, together with part of the lock and pieces of clockwork, were picked up near the scene. The deaths of of the bomb vic- chance meeting, 0 tims was_due u:'% Howard Knapp and his wife met G. C. Lawlor,'a lumber salesman of their acquaintance, at the corner a few min- utes before the explosion. ' It was their first meeting in several weeks and they paused to chat. “Lawlor and Mrs. Knapp were killed outright. Veterans Respond to Training. To men of the Grand Army of the Republic who had faced exploding shells at Vicksburg and Gettysburg fell the task of averting panic when the ranks of the paraders were split b{ the shrapnel-like blast. The griz- zled vetérans were almost on the scene of the explosion when the de- tonation came. For a moment, while crawling women and men could be scen groping painfully through the smoke caused by the bomb, the lines halted in confusion and disruption seemed imminent, Then some unnamed marcher reticent as to his exact age. One of the most unique celebrations in the country was held in his honor October 7, 1915, when “Riley day” was ob- seryed by a banquet in Indianapolis, and in schools of the country attended by more than 1,000,000 children, True poet of the provinces was James Whitcomb Riley; born of the middle west, he sang the joys, sor- rows, fancies and humors of its {Continued on Page Two, Column One.) T sprang to the front of the thin blue * Fme and called “Attention!” Instantly his comrades returned to their places and the “little column marched past the huddled héaps of dead and injured on the street and sidewalk, That the two score of casualties re- sulting from the explosion might (Continued on Page Twe, Column Two.) A Party called up the other day. Wanted to sell his house —asked whether it was best to run one big ad or several small ones. We shaped up a 10 line ad, and after it ran six days he called up and said: “I've located a buyer, stop my ad.” “Keeping at it gets re- sults.” Phone Tyler 100 ° :