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WASHJNGT0N Nov. IS. President Woodrow Wilson to- day selected General Hugh Scott to succeed General Leonard Wood, retired as ealet oA all of the United States army
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GREAT BRiTAlN BUYING
8i0sEs N MICHIGAN

DETROIT, Mich. Nov 12.-phe Brit i8h government has ordered from Bay City Michigan 600 honses ready for erection. which will shelter lS.0oo per. sons.
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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
BeLated Freeze in Poland Expected
to Bring On Decisive Engagement

PETROGRAD Cvia London, Dec. IS
The helated cold spell reported In Poland
is expected to precipitato definite re-
suit in the German Polish campaign,
which is now practically at a standstill,
despite daily predictions of an impending
crisis and decisive battle.
The weather factor. always important.
has become paramount in this thcater of
war since the whole German invasion Of
Poland Is prodicated on the freezing Of
the soft miry ground, which impedes tho
transport of heavy guns and favors Rus
sian trench digging The ground usually
freezes by the middle OF September
Thus thwarted by mild weather, the ac-
tyities around Mawa have reached a
complete lull and after unsuccessful at
tempts 20 cross the Bzura river the Ger
mans are stir resting on tho left bank
of the river near Soohaczew. They have
in tho meantime shifted their attacks
southwark toward the River Pilica near
RawR. where the ground Is not marshy.
The Austrian activity in tho Kielce
region and along the River Nida. Dona-
Jec and both sides of the upper Vistuia,
continues.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
NEW GRANITE RATES
TO BE EFFECTIVE
Three Judges in Federal Court Deny
Petition for Injunction Against
Their Legality January /.
ORDERED SOME TIME AGO
Same Schedule for Monument Gram
ite ss Building Variety Demanded
by Interstate Commerce Conn
mission to Become Law.

A motion by eastern railroads to enjoin
a new freight rate on granite becoming
effective January / was denied by three
judges sitting in the local federal court
yesterday. The tariff had been ordered
some time ago by the Interstate Com
merce commission and a stay OF execution
had been asked by tn erailways affected.
Circuit Judge Walter l. Smith of Coun-
Gil Bluffs presided. With him were
District Judges Thomas c. Munger of
Lincoln and James D. Elliott OF Sioux
Falls s. D. Attorneys II. c. Shurtleff of
Montpelier, VT, and w. d. McHugh of
Omaha represent the Central Vermont.
Montpelier & Wells River. Boston &
Maine and the st. Johnsbury River &
Lake Champlain railway companies.
The injunction sought was an interiocu-
tory order, preventing enforcement of the
new rates on granite until the railroads
concerned can present their case to the
Interstate Commerce commission. Form
erly there was distinction between
monument granite and granite for build
ing purposes, the former taking a higher
freight rate. On suit of the tombstone
men west OF the Missouri river the rates
were equalized.
The railroads were fighting to re-
tain the extra revenue formerly derived
from hauling the fancy monument
granite. They point out that the latter
is not in competition with building
granite and requires more careful hand
ling. as it Is of much better quality and
Is more nearly finished and polished.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
Funds of Miners
Unions Used to
Buy Arms Charged

CANON CITY. Colo, Dec. 2s.-David
Robb. a national organizer OF the United
Mine Workers Of America, spent between
500 and 500 of union funds for arms
during the week preceding the attack by
strikers upon the Chandler mine. accord
ing to Robb's own testimony today In
the trial OF seven ex-strikers charged with
the murder OF William King in the
Chandler battle OF April 26. 1914
Robb. one OF the defendants. was called
to the stand for eross-examination when
the trial was resumed after the Christ
mas recess. He said the money expended
for arms had been raised by the six
local unions OF miners in Fremont county.
The witness said the guns were secured
for purposes OF defense. He denied that
he had melted the strikers TO organize
for the attack upon Chandler.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
The Days
War NeIUs

The Russian forces which have
been attacking the Galician fort
ress of Cracow have been driven
back fifty miles, and Cracow is
now free from immediate menace.
II is asserted in Petrograd that
the Russians have improved their
strategic position by falling back.
The capture OF Cracow, however.
long has been sought by Russia,
being regarded as an important
step on the way to an invasion OF
Germany across the Silesian
border.
The initiative in military opera
tions apparently has been left for
the time being to the airmen.
Aerial raids across the English
channel to the lower Thames, over
Frieburg, Nancy, Metz and Sac
haczew, Russian Poland. and on
the German naval base at Cux-
haven, inflicted considerable dam
age in the aggregate. Details OF
the Cuxhaven expedition are still
lacking and although Berlin as
serts that the British aviators ac-
complished nothing, It is said at
Hamburg that some damage was
done. 1t Is evident, however,
that the heavy fog prevented the
British from carrying out fully
their plans.
Activity on land and sea appar-
entity is diminishing. Even In Rus
sian Poland the fighting is be-
coming less severe, without de-
cision having been reached.
Vienna admits that the Austrians
have been compelled to retreat
before the Galician Carpathians,
and In Berlin 1t is said that the
attempt to cross the Bzura river,
in the advance on Warsaw, has
been abandoned.
In the west, the onslaught of
the allies would seem to have been
checked by the counter attacks of
the Germans.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29

II tho cold which has now set in lasts,
freezing the Nistula. Bzura and Pilica,
the German attacks in the neighborhood
Of Sochaczow How and Bolimow WILL in
the opinion Of Russian military author
tiles, Immediately recommence and the
Austrians again will attempt TO cross the
upper Nistula, where It narrows and is
shallow.
The new year. IL is expected here. will
thus usher in the long awaited definite
clash between the Russian and German
armies. upon the result OF which may
hinge the outcome OF the whole war.
In contrast 60 a report that Germany
has seventy-nine army corps, OF which
about twenty are operating against Rus
sia, II is stated here that Germany's total
army consists Of fitty-nine corps. OF which
twenty-nlne are operating on this eide
and that the Austrian forces aggregate
between forty and fifty corps.
The Russians expect that the Germans
will bring heavy guns from Thorn and
Kalisz as soon as the ground is hard, but
they doubt II this will materially Inn
prove the German chances of taking
Warsaw
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
Stephens Selects
Two POstmasters
tFrOm a staff correspondent. J

WASHINGTON. Dec. 2S.-(special Tele-
gram.)-Representativ Stephens of the
Third district. today recommended for
appointment as postmaster W. H. Hard
stick OF West Point to fill a vacancy oc-
curing January IS. and e. H. Bishop at
Central City. the present Incumbent s
term OF office expiring February 16.
N. II. Loomis OF Omaha, general So
licitor of the Union Pacific. is In Wash
ington. to appear tomorrow before the
subeommittee of the judiciary committee
OF the senate, Of which Senator oGor-
man OF New York is chairman, on the
senate bill providing for a recession OF
the Union Pacific right-of-way 10 set
tiers The Norris bill reduces the rikht-
of-Way granted the Union Pacific under
the act Of July /. 1852. from 400 feet TO 100
feet. thereby favoring property holders
along said railway TO the extent OF 800
feet.
T. ]. Nolan Of Omaha is in Washington
on legal business.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
FRANK Is GRANTED
APPEAL BY LAMAR
Will Be Year and Half Before Case
Comes Up in Regular Order
Before Court.
GEORGIA FOR EARLY HEARING
Justice Asserts that High Tribunal
Has Never Passed on Issues
Raised in the Trial of
Albanian.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2S.-Justice Lamar
of the supreme court today granted an
appeal from the decision of the Georgia
federal court which refused TO release
Leo NJ. Frank on habeas corpus pro
oeeding. Frank is under sentence for the
murder of Mary Phagan, an Atlanta fac
tory girl.
Attorneys for the condemned man have
been fighting for weeks for the appeal
which was once previously denied them,
although on another phase of the pro-
ceeding.
Arguments for Frank.
In the present proceeding Franks at
torneys argued to the federal court of
Georgia that state courts in which Frank
had been convicted of murder had
Jurisdiction over their client because he
had not had fair trial and had been
convicted in an atmosphere OF violence.
They asked the Georgia federal court to
release Frank on a habeas corpus writ.
Justice Newman refused and declined to
grant an appeal to the supreme court.
The appeal to Justice Lamar granted
today permits them to bring their case up
for hearing In Washington. Justice
Lamar, in statement explaining why
he had granted the appeal said the APP
plication for the appeal presented an
entirely different situation from the ap-
plication for a writ of error, which he
had declined to grant some time ago
The case will be heard by the full court
In the ordinary course of business in
about year and half. unless the state
of Georgia should ask to have It ad-
vanced. Meanwhile Franks execution is
stayed.
New Issues Involved.
Justice Lamar concluded his statement
by saying:
'"rhe supreme court of the United
States has never determined" he said,
whether on a trial for murder in a state
court, the due process clause of the fed
eral constitution guarantees the defend
ant a right to be present when the YER
dict is rendered
Neither has It decided the effect of a
final judgment refusing q new trial in a
case where the defendant did not make
the fact OF his absence when the verdict
was returned a ground of the motion, nor
claim that the rendition of the verdict
in his absence was the denial of a right
guaranteed by the federal constitution.
Such questions are all involved I'm the
present case and since they have never
been settled by an authoritatively ruling
by the full court, It cannot be said that
there is such a want of probable cause
as to warrant the refusal of an appeal"
Georgia VIII Ask Early Hearing.
ATLANTA, Ca, Dec. 2S.-Soucitor Dor
sey. who conducted the prosecution OF
Leo M. Frank, said he hoped to have the
case heard in the supreme court within
sixty days. Frank was sentenced to be
hanged January % next
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
Honduras Consul
in San Francisco
Charged With Arson

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 2s.-Fernando
x. Somaza Vivas. consul general here OF
the republic Of Honduras, was arrested
today and booked on a charge of arson.
He had been under surveillance by the
police since last night, when firemen
found that his burning house had been
literally sprinkled with oil and turpen-
tine.
Bureau drawers in the bedroom were
found filled with paper saturated in oil
carpets had been sprinkled with inflam-
mables; holes had been cut through the
ceilings Of closets for flues and streamers
tied from the rafters to guide the flames
Vivas was found partially clad on the
sidewalk shortly after the fireman ar
rived. At police headquarters he asserted
that his consular position as the repre-
sentative OF a foreign nation made him
immune from prosecution.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
Cruiser Tennessee
Takes Refugees from
Jaffa to Alexandria

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2s-The cruiser
Tennessee, with the permission OF the
Turkish government and at the request
OF American Ambassador Morgenthau. is
transporting 800 refugees OF various ma
tionalities from Jaffa, Syria. to Alexan-
dria. Egypt.
Captain Decker of the Tennessee re-
ported the departure of his vessel from
Jaffa In a message filed last night md
received today at the Navy department.
Secretary Daniels summsa-ized the report
In this statement:
"The Tennessee Is Transporting about
500 refugees OF different nationalities
from Jaffa to Alexandria. These refugees
we're unable TO get passage from Jaffa
by any other means. Captain Decker
states that his action was taken at the
request from the consuls. which requests.
approved by the ambassador to Turkey.
had been made after permission had been
given BY the Turkish authorities"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
Farmer Shoots Wife
In Accidental Way

HARVARD. Neb., Dec. 2s.-(special).- -
A distressing accident occurred at the
farm Of Frank Hobbs, nine and one-half
miles north Of this city, yesterday after
noon Mr. Hobbs took his gun out to the
hoghouse TO shoot a cholera hog. His
wife accompanied him. AS he was climb
ing over a partition his gun caught in
some way, and was discharged, the con-
tents lodging in his wife's back just above
the hips. She had started for the house
and was at the outside door about fifteen
feet away Medical assistance was at once
summoned, but 1t is feared that the in
jury will prove fatal.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
Organized Relief
Morehead's Plan
(From a staff correepondent.l

LINCOLN. Dec. 2s.-(speciaL) )-Tomor-
row. responding to a call issued by Gov
ernor Morehead, mayors Of the different
cities Of the state, or their representatives
will meet at the state house to organize
q state relief committee, which will han
die all funds and other donations made
rom out in the state. In many instances
people have not known where donations
could be sent. and it was the large num-
Der of letters coming to the governor
asking for information along these lines
which prompted the executive to make
the call for the meeting.
Governor Morehead would like to see
the formation of a committee with head
quarters somewhere, so that parties may
forward goods to o central point, and al
fast as a carload is complete 1t may be
sent to its destination,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
CAR COMPANY MUST
GIVE A VALUATION
Judge Sears Orders Street Railway
to Furnish Court Physical Value
of Its Properties.
IN THE CHEAPER FARE FIGHT
Order Includea Making Public of a
Large Amount of Information
as to the Business of
the Company.

The Omaha & Council Bluffs Street
Railway company is directed to furnish
to the court fair and reasonable
physical valuation of all its property,
both real and personal, with a state
ment Of what 1t consists by an order
issued by District Judge Sears. The
courts action is in connection with the
company's Injunction attacking the
n-fares-for-a-quarter ordinance.
The order also compels the street rail-
way company to give the following ad--
ditional information:
Gross revenue for each of the last
three years and the amount OF fares re-
ceived In Omaha for the same period.
Salaries Of all officers and employees
for the last three years.
Receipts and expenses for the same
time.
Amount of bonded indebtedness and
interest charges.
Any other indebtedness and rates OF
interest.
Taxes
Dividends.
Sum set aside for reserve and depre-
citation. II any.
Amount of revenue after demands have
Deen met.
TrackaRe In Omaha.
What the trackage in Omaha Is, COM
pared with the companys properties in
side and outside of Omaha
The courts order gives the street rail-
way company two weeks in which to
comply with its directions.
The order was issued by Judge Sears
in allowing a motion OF the citys at
torneys that the company's petition be
made more definite and certain" 10 sus-
tain its allegation that the proposed rate
would result in confiscation OF its prop
erty.
The company enjoined the operation
OF the new ordinance on a large num-
Der OF grounds. all of which were
thrown out by the court except the one
charging confiscatiou of property,
which is, forbidden by the constitution.
A temporary restraining order was
granted. holding up enforcement Of the
ordinance In order TO secure a perma-
nent injunction, the company must show
that the seven-fares-for-a-q rate
would not allow a fair profit on the
capital invested.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
KAISER ASKS US.
TO RECALL SOME
| BELGIAN CONSULS
Germany Formally Notifies State
Department to Withdraw Num-
Der for Present
THEY MUST BE ACCEPTABLE
American Representatives in Con-
quered Land Have to Be Agree
able to Military,
BERLIN IS MORE CONFIDENT
Joffre's Energetic Offensive Has
Everywhere Been Success
fully Resisted,
BRITISH DEFEAT CHEERING
Reverses English Suffer at Festhu-
bert GLADDEN. Teuton Hearts.
VICTORY REPORTED BY TURKS
lConstantinopIe Officially Declares
that There Was No lombard
ment of the DardanelIes
Forts.
Joffre's Energetic Offensive Has
Everywhere Been Success
fully Resisted.
BRITISH DEFEAT CHEERING
Reverses English Suffer at Festhu-
bert GLADDEN. Teuton Hearts.
VICTORY REPORTED BY TURKS
ConstantinopIe Officially Declares
that There Was No lombard
ment of the DRrdanelIes
Forts

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2s.--The
German government has formally no
titled the American State department
that American consuls in Belgium
must be acceptable to the German
military authorities and that it is de-
sirable that some of the consuls be
withdrawn for the present, at least.
More Confidence.
BERLIN, Dec. 8.-(By wireless to
Sayville. l.. I)-Among the items given
out today for publication by the official
press bureau were the followine:
discussions OF military happenings
around Christmas indicate that the feel
ing of confidence has gained support
here. General Joffrs's energetic often
sive as announced In an army order OF
December II. it IS pointed out, has every
where been successfully resisted. and the
defeat OF the English at Festhubert leaves
the allies in worse shape than when the
French offensive started.
Chief Interest I'm Poland.
"Chief interest continues to center in
Poland. whore the position of the Ger
mans and AustriRns is regarded as prom
Using. There Is a feeling here that i'm
portant Developments are probable in. Pos
land within few days. While the out
look In the Bzura and Rawka region is
satisfactory. 1t is believed the most
promising point is southeast Tomaszow.
"A Turkish official bulletin reports vic
torious progress on the Caucasian front,
without specifying the operations in de-
tail.
Turkey also officially declares that
last week there was no bombardment OF
the Dardanelles.
"A dispatch from Warsaw says Polish
revolutionists have blown up there a
monument erected in 1S41 to the memory
of Poles loyal to Russia"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
After Birds Out of Season and in
Canadian Waters in the
Niagara River.
REFUSE TO OBEY AN ORDER
Soldiers Fire on Poachers as Latter
Head for U. S. Shore.
INVESTIGATION IS ORDERED
vice Consul Declares No Arrests
Have Been Made and that VIC
tims Were in Wrong
ANYWAY.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec &.-One Amer
ican was instantly killed and another
seriously wounded by Canadian troops
patrolling the Canadian border at Fort
Erie, Ont, opposite this city today. The
men were hunting ducks out of season
in the Niagara river and in Canadian
waters
Provisional Police officer Thomas De-
laney OF Fort Erie ordered the men to
stop shooting. They declined and De-
laney called upon a corporal and two
privates of the Forty-fourth battalion Of
the Canadian militia for assistance.
Ordered to Come Ashore.
The corporal ordered the men to come
ashore Instead they headed their boat
for the American shore and were beating
a hasty retreat when, at the order Of
Delaney, the soldiers fired upon them.
Walter Smith was shot through the head
and killed and Charles Dorsch was seri-
ously wounded in the shoulder. Both re-
sided in Buffalo. When the hunter top
pied over their boat the soldiers put out
in a boat and towed the hunters craft
to shore.
Secretary Of State Bryan was notified
of the shooting by Vice Consul ]. B.
Curtis of Fort Erie.
Whether or not complications will re-
suit is a debatable question: said Mr.,
Curtis. While two Americans were shot
the information available indicates that
they were shooting ducks without a
Canadian license and were in Canadian
waters. where they had no right to be
under the circumstances. No arrests have
been made as q result Of the shooting" :"
Inquiry Ordered.
OTTAWA, Ont, Dec. 2s-Major General
Samuel Hughes. minister of militia, to-
day ordered an immediate inquiry into
the shooting Of two American duck hunt
ers at Fort Erie by Canadian guards.
II greatly regret the occurrence and
will have thorough investigation made" "
said General Hughes.
Considerable nervousness has been
caused along the border by reports OF
raids and stories that dynamiters have
planned to blow up public property In
Canada Since tn eopening of the Euro
pean war the international boundary has
been strongly patrolled by militia guards.
who have orders to detain for examina--
ton all suspicious persons
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
Rube Dickenson, a
Lincoln Actor, Dies
In Fall of Scaffold

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Dec. 2s.-walter
8. Dickenson, a vaudeville actor, was
killed and five others dangerously in
Jured when a scaffolding on a hotel in
the course of construction here collapsed.
Dickenson's skull was fractured when
he was caught under the falling structure
as he was walking along the street. All
the other injured were workmen on the
building.
Sanders Kenner, a negro. one Of the in
jured workmen died late this afternoon.
Theatrical friends of Dickenson, among
whom he was known as "Rube," said his
home was in Lincoln. Neb. He was mar
ried there last summer. His wife is now
in Danville, Va. where she went to spend
the Christmas holidays.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
TARIFF FOR EMPL0YE
AS WELL AS EMPLOYER

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. Dec. 2s-A pro,
tective tariff which protects the en-
ployer. but fails TO protect the EN-.
ploye. Is worse than useless. according
20 Frank p. Walsh, chairman of the
United States Commission on Industrial
Relations. who spoke at the Labor temple
here tonight.
'-rhe legislative body which grants a
subsidy TO the manufacturer can just as
easily and legally make sure that the en-
ployes OF that manufacturer share in the
benefits supposed 10 be derived" he said.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
BRIToNSI TO YOUR CAVES!
IS GOVERNMENT WARNING

LONDON. Dec. 2S.-The London official
bureau this evening made the following
announcement:
THE naval and military authorities call
the attention OF persons using the streets
to the danger from fragments of shell
and from bullets from the guns used
against hostile air craft attempting a raid
on London.
The civil population are warned 70
keep under cover, preferably I'm base
ments, upon hearing the sound Of firing
by guns or OF explosives"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-29
RUSSIANS ABANDON
SIEGE OF CRACOW
Armies of Gear Fall Back Fifty
Miles, but Retreat Declared
to Be Advantage"
ENvELoPING MOVE IS ESCAPED
Retirement said 20 he Due TO Dis
cOvery of Austrian Plan 20 Cut
MuscOvite Forces in RE-
RiOn I'm Two.

PETRoGRAD, Dec. 2s. --CVia London)-
The investment by the Russians of the
Austrian fortress of Cracow has again
been raised. Following the discovery Of
an attempt made by the Austrians to
divide the Russian forces in Galicia the
Russians retreated eastward for a dis
tance of fifty miles.
The Russian Galican army, which a
short time ago was in touch on the south
with the Austrian garrison defending
Cracow, moved back to the Biala river,
which Is some fifty miles east of the
former Russian position.
Notwithstanding the fact that the Rus
sian retTogression completely relieved
the investment of the fortress OF Cracow,
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