Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1916, Page 8

/ [} THE BEE: gRiNGI ]\_IG UP FATHER e SIS Si SAY- PARTNER - THAR AINT Mo FISH IN e HERE LAKE - p | NEVER COULD UNDER- STAND WHAT ANY BODY SEES IN FISHIN'- WORLD'S SERIES | PRICES REDUCED [Sport Calendar Today) TRADED HIS FLAT | -~ FOR TWO HORSES Cyeling—International sprint races at Madison Square Garden, New York, Basket Ball—Opening of the season of the Eastern Intercollegiato hasket ball league. in running added reflectively. | broke down as he told WAL = WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN OMAHA, ‘SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1916. Drawn for 1T 1ONT HEAVY - HOLDIN' THAT ROD IN THE LAKE ALL Mason “And | spent exactly $4,000 cash Several times the speaker almost the “wild Noccer—Harvard wv. Haverford, at Cam- One Animal Died 8oon After ! horse” jury of his losses bridge, Mass. Boxing—Shamus O'Brien vs, | Beecher, ten rounds, at Brooklyn, NUNDAY, American League Owners De- cide to Charge Only Double 1 Regular Season Rates. Willie Cyeling—Start of wnnual twenty-four- Madison Square Garden, New FIFTY CENTS IS MINIMUM |jour e —_— | Foot ll—Special meeting of United States Foot Ball Association, Prices of worlds’ |/ at Newark, oi Weeghman was in New York for the annual meeting of the National league with the hope that he would be able to obtain either }nhn J. McGraw ui‘, the New York club, or George Stall ings of the Boston club, to take Chicago, Dec. 15 i serics games in the Amaerican league | A - were sharply reduced at the annuzl}Fred Mltchen tO meeting of the club owners here to- ight. It was unanimously decided at Be NQW Mana,ger Of | the suggestion President B. B. y b | Johnson to charge only double the Weeghman S Cu S tegular scason prices. —_— The new scale will be 50 cents for| New York, Dec. 15.—Frederick bleacher seats, _SI for seats in the Yapp, better known in the base ball pavilion and $1.50 and $2 for grand-| world as Fred Mitchell, will be the ! stand seats. Box seats, however, will |, qyy manager of the Chicago National sell for Heretofore §1 was usually league base ball club. His selection "‘f‘ lowest price of admission. to succeed Joe Tinker as the leader of The club owners decided to enforce | the Cubs was made possible here to- strictly .the rule prohibiting players | yight by the completion of a deal be- fm“’, writing newspaper stories or | tween the Boston and Chicago clubs, P"""““‘K,'hc", names to be used | here by the Braves' traded Mitchell h connection with them. - to Chicago in exchange for Outfielder | _H. H, Frazee and Hugh 1. Ward of | Joc Kelly and a cash consideration | New Yok, the new owners of the|jot stated. The deal has been hang- Boston club, and James F. !hmn of ing fire for several days, but its com- Chicag.o. purchaser of the Cleveland pletion required less than one minute franchise, were unanimorsly voted|qof conversation between Harry | into the league. Haughton, president of the Braves, Right to Decide Appeal. |=I|‘u| (_‘hharlrs Weeghman, president of The club owners empowered Presi- | the Cubs. > . ! dent Johnson to dcv:ilzle the appeal | If base ball gossip is to believed, | made for the abolishment of the draft rule and the right of the minor leagues to have a board of arbitra- tion of their own to decide cases in- volving minor league players. A. T, Baum, president of the Pa- g ,cifie Coast feague, was chairman of charge of the Lu}gs, but 001 found the committee representing the three | that it-was impassible to make a deal class AA leagues, which sought to | for either of these noted managers, have the draft rule eliminated. The | ¢Xcept a very heavy financial outlay. other members of the committee were [ Mitchell was next in line. | President Barrow of the Interna-| Mitchell is under contract to the | tional league, and Thomas J. Higkey, | Boston club for two years longer at a president-elect of the American as- :::‘;’;l C':": I'I""l‘: J::‘Zfi:l(ml(ll (*'-?::m:h? 41 season, 5 P /s“j:al(l‘:?'“'i“g of the Oakland club | Chicago magnates will offer Mitchell af the Pacific Coast league; M. I, |a new contract calling for an increase Justice, president of the Central as- | of salary. 3 sociation, and l‘resi:‘cm Daniel | _ The prospective manager of llu-; O'Neill of the Eastern association, | Cubs has had a varied and interest- presented the cause of the minor | N8, career in professional base ball, leagues in the appeal for the creation | Which began niore than fifteen years of a new board of arbitration for the | 480, when he made his league debut minor organizations. as pitcher. During his term of big! / ” circuit service he played with the : Won't Be Granted. Brooklyn Nationals, the Philadelphia The same proposals were pre- | Nationals and Americans and the New sented to the National league club | York Americans, filling the position | owners at their meeting in New | of catcher in later years. He event- | York. President Barrow said tonight | yally went to the International Nf'll.a decision might be expected | jeague and from there to the Na« within a week on both questions. The | tionals as Manager Stallings’ assist- est for the abolishment of the |ant. He is regarded as a splendid draft rule probably will not be|coach and developer of young | granted, it was reported. pi!chcrs. Charles A. Comiskey, president of the Chicago club, was elected vice president cof the league, succeeding Charles Somers, former owner of the Cleveland club. The new board of | directors is composed of Presidents ! of the Boston, New Yur}:. Clgveland (From a Staff Correspondent,) Shisonirago cluby. : Washington, Dec. 15.—(Special Tel- he new form of players' contract | egram.)—Governor-clect Keith Ne- was adopted almost wihout discus- | h I g it ! i | ville arrived in the national capital yes- tract drawn up at a roccnl'nwo\ing of | %" (L UEEE () L QT A the National Base Ball commission contains the ten-day antl disability ! clauses. \Neville Is Guest at President’s Dinner of governors whicl® convened at the Willard today. Mr. Neville will be the guest of honor at the Nebraska | association meeting tomorrow night. | He was a guest tonight with other | Jthe | Women Here Taking visiting governors at a dinner at Miked Out of Farm, Walter Embe, school teacher of Willman, la., also told the “wild horse” iury how his fagher and he LEFT PENNILESS had been miked out of $225 and an | eighty-acre farm in Missouri. He tes- P tihed that they were to get 117 ani- An equity in Omaha property val-| o0 ued at $25,000 and $4,000 cash is what. John McDonald of Lake Aruthur, it cost Peter Allison for two wild Co-: La., formerly of Ottumwa, la., testi- i fied of loosing property valued at and the Other He Gave to Cowboy. IS NOW conino county, Arizona, range horses, according to his testimony before the | "wild horse” jury yesterday after- noon. Of the two, he testified, one!for J. S. Smith, who had promised died shortly after it was caught, and|to help him gather the horses, he said the other he gave away to Ed Ma- | that he received the following tele- son, one of the cowboys he had hired| gram: “Now, John, there will be a in his quest for the phantom animals. lot of knockers around Flagstaff, but Testimony given by IANson showed | don’t take any stock in what they say. that he was a comparatively wealthy | They are trying to ruin our reputa- man before his transactions with the | tion.” United States Live Stock company.| “But Smith never showed up,” Mc- Yesterday he admitted that his losses | donald testified. were such that he is now doing Last Farm Land. manual labor on a farm near Cali'| fornia Junction, Tab |er, told of trading a half section of Owned Sarpy Farm. Kearney county, Kansas, land and a The witness testified to owning a half section of land in farm in Sarpy county, near La Platte | county, Colorado, for 300 horses. The in 1910, which he traded for a $30,000! farmer said that he valued his land at Id horses. six-apartment flat at Twenty-third | $7,000. . aud Burdette street, assuming the, “Did you ever get any_llhmx in re- $5,000 mortgage on the property. turn for your property,” he was “I wanted to sell the property,” lhc‘hl\‘fd- “No I quit trying after I found out farmer stated, “because | wanted to i that deal was not on the square. retire. “Accordingly I listed the flats with a rcal estate dealer and when |hc‘ dealer told me he had a good trade on which I might be able to realize in i N a hurry, | decided to look into the | chance with the worthless notes,” he matter,” | concluded. ] T'om Stodhill, stockman and farmer Allison then told of meeting J. S.| . Smith of the United Live Stock com- f" U"“m‘"f" ls{.j"rrlatrd.to the jpry pany who offered him 500 head of: range horses for his $25,000 equity. | Men Get . o Satisfaction Here “In the real estate office where T/ We put honest, pure wool fab- was taken and met Mr. J. S. Smith,” rics, fine durable tailoring into he testified. “They told me that 1 had to make the deal quick or they our clothes, and don’t forget this—It's the kind of style, would call it off, Gets His Deed. quality and value that costs $30 to $3b elsewhere. Suit or Over- “That same day I went to the bank and got my deed _for which I was| coat tailored to your measure— Open given a bill of sale for 500 range horses in Cononino county, Arizona,” Saturday Evenings bill of sale which he regarded worthless for some worthless notes. as r The witness then told the jury of | his vain search for the imaginary: horées. | “l deposited $4,080 in a Flagstaff, | Ariz, bank to draw upon in case I4 needed money to expend in gather- ing my horses.” i The farmer related how he hired | expert cowboys, trappers, and built wire corrals, and in fact did cvery-| thing under the sun to snarc the cay- uses, but to no avail, “All T got was two horses, one of which died soon after it was caught, See Our Windows $15 Corner 15th and Harney. ATERMAN'S IDEAL. is known for its quality by both those' who give those who receive it, even beginning its years of work. It takes a White House. Up Indg(fl}olf Game! Four of Omaha’skmost cxpert golf | women began the indoor scason at| Clark's golf course Thursd i Mrs. Allan Parmer, Mrs. Wa Silver, Mrs. F. S, Loving and Mrs. ! Harry Judson were among the first to appear at the eglarged indoor course to try their luck at the opening game. | After the holidays special golf tournaments for women will be held | cach week, and these enthusiasts and others who enjoyed the indoor sport last winter will make up parties for the games. Except on days when the snow was altogether too plentiful for comfort this winter, these “golf bugs” | have been playing outdoors on the * Field club course. The first of this week Mrs. Parmer and Mrs. Silver | played in competition and Mrs. Par- mer's scare was 95, Plans for the city women's golf tournament next spring have already heen made to this extent: The tournament will be played on three | courses instead of one; model play, not match play, will be the order of | the day; on ecach course thirty-six| holes will be played. * Owen Daily Gets Decision ’ Over Maurell at Lincoln Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 15.—After three | SEATE DISTRIRUADR and a half hours of wrestling without | RED CROSS SEALS MRS. K. R. J. EDHOLM, a fall, Owen 'Daily, claiming the lightweight championship, was award- 483 Brandeis Theater Tel. Doug. 8230. ed the decision on points over “Joe” | Omaha ORDER “EARLY Maurell of Illinois. Referce Ed Smith | nish that all bets were off. ‘m of Chiugo declared a half hour be- | to be a useful American 1f he were your boy, there isno extreme to which you 1d Dot o to snaich him froms the Chitches of the White Plague. T o e P rpsty on wi 'ou -m,o;cmm.:fij, fore the in the every day tivities of the o hand—exchangeable ristmas. In Christmas Buy the genuine. Sold at the Best Stores $2.50, $4.00, $5.00, up to $150.00 L E. Waterman Company New York, N.V. ~ and the otier T gave away to Ed|of trading property valued at $10,000 down the two horses,” he | of sale were worthless he said that he | | 1$7,000, for which he was to get 800 While at Flagstaff, Ariz., waiting| for 250 horses. ’ Upon finding out that that his bills | traded them off to other partics | On cross-examination he admitted | that he was only playing fair in the deal by “doing others as he had been The Bee by George iicManus AN IF | DIDN'T Flaw ID HAVE TO STAY HOME AN SIFT ASHES - department was called, but building burned Wefore it arrived Building ou same location burned January 9, 1860. Parts of walls werc standing at 3 o'clock today, but fire is still burning. The causc of fire not certain. Books and valuables in hotel were saved. Summit Hotel at Creston Destroyed, Loss is $200.000 Andrew Lames, Moravia, la,, farm- Cheyennc ! He then said that he traded off his| “l decided that | would rather take | done.” Ihe government did not rest its case yesterday afternoon as had been expected. About five mote witnesses remain to be examined before attor neys for the defense call their wit- nesses. Court wil not reconvene un- til Monda Creston, la., Dec. 15— (Special Tele gram.)— Summit hotel block was dé- stroved by fire which broke out here at 12:30 this morning. Summit hotel, Newcomb drug store, Selzer shoe store, Comfort & Shiclds' barber shop, Able Pool hall, Recknor grocery store Fremonters Consider Commission Government Fremont, Neb., Dec. 15.—(Special.) —As a result of a meeting Wednesday morning. and Jones land offices were burned. evening to discuss changing from the No ce Offer to Belgium. _l'[v(’ loss is_estimated at between | present system to the commission London, Dec. 15, —THe ~Belgian legation [$150,000 and $200,000. It is partly cov- |form of government for Fremont, i in :.nn:m: ;ml:n'hnu‘:.lir'hlul q I-!"mdhnf «h-rml by insurance. The hundred | committee will be appointed to in- Yk ofter 1o Betgiam by the | guests of the hotel were notified in | vestigate the advisability and report rday of a neace ntral powers, plenty of time to get out. Coruing Pick Out One of These OVERCOATS 325 for his Christmas present. We're certain you could not please him more. 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