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Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23
MORE ALLEGATIONS
AGAINST MATTERS
Mrs. Mary johnson Tells in Court
She Received Unpaid Certifi-
cate from Matters.
OFFERS TO INVEST HER MONEY

Sensational allegations were
brought out in testimony for the gov
ernment during the morning trial Of
Attorney Thomas II. Matters in fed
eral court on charges growing out of
the failure of the First National bank
of Sutton. The trial has been re-
sumed, since Juror H. F. Kohlmeier
Of Wakefield has recovered from an
attack OF erysipelas.
Mrs. Mary e. Johnson, now resi-
dent of South Omaha. was the only
morning witness and was on the
stand for over an hour. She testified
that while she was member OF the
First Christian church of Omaha and
Matters was teacher of the Sunday
school class she attended he obtained
$3.50 which she had received from
her dead husbands insurance.
Matters was to invest the money she
testified. but she declared that she failed
to get back about 1000 of the amount.
even after the minister. Rev. A, d. Har-
mon. and a committee of churehmen had
waited on the accused attorney and had
said prayers in his office, with the idea
of Strengthening out the matters.
Offered 10 Invest Money.
AT a church dinner" Mrs. Johnson
testified. II happened to mention In Mr..
Matters presence that 1 had my hus-
bands insurance money to invest. Mr..
Matters after the dinner spoke to me
aside and offered to invest my money
and double it for me on Dakota land
proposition, without It costing me a post
age stamp. gave him my money and
no gave me receipt for IT,"
Then she told in detail and at length
her version Of the affair during several
years. She testified in effect that after
C,l.Ilt.....
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23
Requests Are Made
That Mulct Repeal
Bill Be Approved

DES MONIES Feb. 22.--The repeal OF
the mulct law. establishing statutory pro-
hibition in Iowa. which has been passed
by both the senate and the house. will
reach Governor Clarke for signing to-
morrow. Although he has authorized no
announcement as to what he will do with
It. II Is safe TO predict that he VIII affx
his signature TO the measure.
Nearly 600 telegrams requesting the gov
ernor to sign the bill were received from
various cities in the state today. Many
were from ministers telling OF the action
OF their congregations asking that the re-
peal be signed.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23
DESTROY ENTIRE
RUSSARMY;TAKE
1OO,OOOCAPTIVES
Germans Wipe Out Tenth Corps Of
Car in the Battle of Mazu-
rian Lakes, in East
Prussia.
PErRoeRAD ADMITS THE LOSS
Musoovite General Staff Confesses
Story Of determination of Great
Body of Troops True.
MANY GENERALS PRISONERS

PETROGRAD, Feb. 22.--The Rus
sian general staff admits the loss OF
almost an entire army corps in the
recent retreat from East Prussia.
The main Russian army has sue
ceeded in escaping from the German
trap and has in turn taken the often
sive.
Hundred Thousna Russ Taken.
BERLIN, Feb. 22.-(Via London.)
The German official statement is
sued today announces tnat the cap
lures in the battle Of the Mazurian
lakes district of east Prussian have
been increased to seven generals and
more than 100000 men. The pieces
cannon numbered $50.
The text OF the statement reads;
western theater Another hostile
trench was taken by us yesterday to the
east OF Ypres lin Beleium). The enemys
counter attacks on the captured positions
remained unsuccessful.
sQuiet i'm Champagne.
'1n the Champagne district there was
comparative quiet yesterday. The num-
ber of prisoners taken by US during the
last battles in this region has been in
creased TO fifteen officers and more than
/, 90 men. The sangulnnry LOSSES of the
enemy have been extraordinarily high.
1.-The enemy made an unsuccessful at
tack on our positions to the east of
yerdun during the night.
n
and Stossweir were taken by us after a
short engagement. Otherwise nothing Of
Importance occurred.
Many Generals Captured.
Eastern theater: The pursuit after tho
winter battle in the Mazurlan district
has come to an end. During the clearing
up of operations to the northwest of
Grodno and In the battle reported during
the last few days IN the Bober and
Mavew district. one commanding general
and four other generals and approxim-
ately 1000 men have been taken prisoners
| UP 10 the present Seventy-five cannon
and come machine guns the actusl NUN
Der OF which has not yet been ascer-
tained. and much other war material has
been captured.
.
battle In the Mazurian district. as a re-
suit Of these additions. has been increased
to date to seven generals, more than
10000 men. upwards of l5o cannon and
quantities OF other materials of all de-
scriptions. the amount OF which cannot
yet be approximately estimated.
Cannon sunk In Lakes.
Cannon of a heavier caliber and am
munition frequently arc buried by the
enemy or sunk in the lakes near Loetzen
and in the widimer sea. Eight cannon
OF heavy caliber were dug up or pulled
| out OF the water yesterday.
THE tenth Russian army. under Cen
eral Baron Sievers, is considered as hav-
ing been destroyed.
New battles appear To be developing
at Grodno and to the north OF siech-
awolas II is reported that the battles
to the northwest of ossowetz and Lomza,
as we'll as those at Przasnyzc are taking
their regular course
There is no ncws from Poland to the
south OF the Vistula river
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23
CELEBRATE LIBERATION
OF PRUSSIA FROM RUSS

AMSTERDAM (vis London), Feb. p
A dispatch received by the Telegraaf
from Berlin Gays that Thanksgiving serv-
ices for the liberation Of East Prussia
from the Russian Invaders we're held in
all the Berlin churches yesterday
Emperor William. Empress Augusta
Victoria and the duke and duchess OF
Brunswick attended the service In the
cathedral. On their way TO the cathedral
the emperor and empress were enthusi-
astically cheered.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23
LARGE BUILDING IN
PUEBLO IS BURNED

PUEBLO. Colo. Feb. 22-Fire OF un-
known origin destroyed the four-stOry
building occupied by the Holmes Hard
ware company here early today. entailing
loss estimated at $2o0.OOO. Cartridges
stored in the building were exploded by
the fire. but no one was injured
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23
cRAeKSMEN DRILL
SAFE WITH ELECTRICITY

FARMERsBURG. Ind, Feb s2.-rhe
safe In the citizens' State bank here was
blown during the night by robbers and
S 900 taken. Connections left IN the light
fixtures showed the safe had been drilled
by electricity.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23

RUSSIAN general staff admits the
loss Of almost an entire army corps
I'm the recent retreat from East
Prussia. Unofficial reports from
PetroErad say that the main RUS
sian army succeeded in escaping
from the German trap and has IN
turn taken the offensive.
AN AEROPbANE. believed to be
German, was fired on by soldiers
while flying over Swiss territory
and forced to descend. The GER
man government recently made
amends to Switserland for vaoia-
tion of that country's neutrality
ny aueronauts.
mail steamer was
fired ON by an armed merchants
man I'm the English channel, bot
was net struck. The Berlin report
OF the sinking of q British trans-
port lacks confirmation from any
other source.
GERMAN war office announced to-
day that the RuasIan Tenth army
corps was "considerod ms having
been destroyed' as a result of the
recent German victory tn East
Prussia. IL In stated that more
than 100000 Russians, including
seven generals, were captured.
FURTHER GERMAN Victories in
Vosges are claimed, including a
capture OF another town. The
German war office also states that
the losses of the allies I'm recent
fighting I'm the Champagne dis
trict were extraordinarily hish."
NAVAL ATTACHE of the American
embassy in Berlin has been fn-
structed 60 Investigate the sinkinE
of the American steamer Evelyn
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23
TIE ITOase.

Met al III a. m.
Representative Garrett Of Tennessee
read Washington's farewell address.
Debate was resumed on the fOrtifica-
tions appropriation bill.
judiciary subcommittee resumed TAX
Ing testimony ON the charges aeainst
Federal Judge Dayton OF West Virginia..
The ways ana means committee put
action on the repeal OF the tax on mixed
flour over until Wednesday
Adjourned at $50 .. m. to II a. M.
Tuesday.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23

SAN FRANCIsCO, Feb. 2.-Admiral
Baron Sotokichl Uriu arrived today 20
represent japan as a commissioner at the
Panama Pacific exposition. He was ac-
companied by his wife and personal staff.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23
French Deputy Killed.

PARIS, Feb. 22.-The death IN battle OF
NJ. chevillOn OF the Chamber OF Deputies
for Bouches-Du-Rhone. was Announced
in the chamber today. NJ. Chevillon was
serving as a lieutenant OF infantry and
fell In battle Sunday in eastern France.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23
The Weather

Forecast until 7 .. m. Tuesday.
For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity
=, hsetued, probably snow flurries; colder
m east portion OF state.
Iemperature az Omaha Yeaferdar
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23
BULLETIN.

LONDON, Feb. s2.-Traffic be-
tween England and Sweden has been
discontinued for the time being,
says q Copenhsgeh dispatch to the
Daily Express. owing 10 the tor
pedoing of the Norwegian tank
steamer Belridge.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23

Met at II a. m.
senator Root read washington's fare
well address.
conferees on the seamens bill COM
posed all differences between house and
senate.
Debate was resumed on the army ap-
bill
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23
Useless
to You

but valuable to someone else,
This means those odd pieces OF
furniture, carpets, rugs, musi-
cal instruments or other ar
ticles that you have lying
around or stored away.
The someone else"
are the people who are
reading the For Sale
Columns Of The Bee.
Every day they read
. this column looking
for, perhaps, the very
thing you cannot use.
Offer them for sale; you will
find a ready buyer and be
agreeably surprised to find
how quickly they can be turned
into cash.
Phone Tyler 1000 about it.
THE OMAHA BEE
Everybody Reads Bee Want Ads"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23

LONDON, Feb. 22.-Germany'
submarine blockage continues to be
the chief topic of interest in the
United Kingdom. although British
shipping apparently is moving with
its usual freedom.
The scandinavian neutrals, how
ever. are showing much alarm over
the situation. a great sensation hav-
ing been caused in those countries
by the torpedoing Of the Norwegian
steamship Belridge, off Folkestone,
last week.
Representatives of the scandinav-
ian governments are holding another
conference today, the outcome of
which is awaited with much interest
by neutral shippers.
The question OF a naval convoy. Il Is
understood, is being considered seriously
at the conference. but the guarded COM
ments Of the newspapers show that Il Is
clearly recognised that such a step might
lead 70 war
The question OF the right of the crews
OF five Danish ships to refuse to sail for
English ports is now before court which
Is considering their excuse that Germany
is not likely TO respect a neutral flag
Following precedent which seems TO
have made Sunday popular day for
such raids, q lone German aeroplane flew
over several coast towns last night drop
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National Capital


Monday, Fsbruary ~. IOIS.
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ComparatIve LocaI Reeord.
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CONTINUED on Page Two, Column Five.J
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23
MORSE NEUTRALS
MUCH ALARMED
BY BLOCKADE
Representatives of Sweden, Den-
mark, and Norway Consider
Sending Convoy with
Merchant Fleets.
FIGHTING IN THE CARPATH1ANs
Desperate Struggle for Gateway to-
Hungary Continues Without
Interruption.

FRENCH CLAIM GAINS IN WEST
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23

CONTINUED on Page -Four, Column Thre,
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23

tomGrn, youS oompetttor'u ougtoxnera,
your pcaath1e ouaeomarA
Omaha daily bee., 1915-02-23
THE WEATHER.

Cloudy Colder
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24
WAR THREATENS RUIN
To SWISS HOTEL MEN
Appeal Made to Government
For Aid by Mortgages.

Geneva.-Bereft of tourist patronage
by the war, the Swiss hotel keepers in
convention assembled have appealed to
the government for relief. They want
a state system of mortgages on furni-
ture in inns and delay of two years
after the end of hostilities for the pay
ment of interest ON the mortgages.
There are about 1900 tourist hotels
in Switzerland, employing $4,000 peo-
pie, with a yearly wage list of $780,
600, and 1927, 100000 capital is invested
in the business.
More than $100,000,000 was spent by
tourists in Switzerland in 1913, of
which 100000 went for postage
stamps and souvenir cards, 100000
was spent for kilograms and phone
talks, $4,000,0OO was taken by the rail-
roads for fare and freight, and the
balance, less a comparatively small
amount for customs duties, was got by
the hotels and shops in the proportion
of eight to two.
These estimates are the official ones
made public at the national exposition
at Berne.
English, French, German and Amer
lean travellers make 60 per cent of the
Swiss tourist trade. The war came
early enough in the summer of 1914 to
reduce the hotel receipts 40 per cent.
This season there has been practical
ly no business.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24
HIS EXHIBIT FREE.
Minneapolis Youth Shows Miniature
Railroad Device at Fair.

Minneapolis Youth Shows Miniature
Railroad Device at Fair.
Minneapolis, Minn.-For the first
time in the history of the state fair
the management has given free exhi-
bition space to an exhibitor In order
to have him show his product on the
ground. Walter F. Hines, boy who
lives at 2543 Jefferson street, n. e..
Minneapolis, is the exhibitor,
Hines has made miniature locomo-
tive engine. and in the back yard OF
his parents home he has track that
runs around the edges Of the yard. 1t
is completely equipped with sema-
phores and block signals.
II have always loved to make things
with my hands," Hines said. "People
think it would be a lot of work to
make it, when, as a matter of fact. |
had more fun making it than have
had since it was completed, playing
with it,"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24
MEN AVAILABLE FOR WAR.
Two and one-half Millions Ready In
New York State.

Albany. N. Y.-There are 2,500,000
men in New York state between the
ages of eighteen and forty-five, there
fore, available for war duty, Secretary
of State Hugo announced in one of his
census bulletins.
The June enumeration shows, he
says, that there were approximately
$50 officers and $500 enlisted men at
the army posts of the state, GO officers
and 1900 men in New Yorks naval
militia and 1000 officers and 5000
men in the national guard. Thousands
of men besides these have had some
military training. either in the regular
army, national guard or in college or
military academies.
Figures obtained from the adjutant
generals office show little change in
the strength of the national guard in
fifty years. At present it stands: Of
ficers, 1000; enlisted men, 16,0S0; to-
tai 1850. In 1857 it was: Officers,
1927; enlisted men, LAGOS; total, 49,
49,
The possible strength of the division
under the present federal regulations
is: Officers, 743; enlisted men, 1880;
total, 22,673.
To give more men at least the rudi-
ments of a military training Lieuten-
ant Colonel Z. V. Howard of the ad-
jutant generals Office favors what he
terms mild CONSUMPTION" Every
young man on reaching the age of
eighteen years would be called to serve
under the colors for three years, dur
ing which time he would give thirty
days of active service each year. A
call to arms would find, then, thou
sands of men better fitted to serve
their country.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24
ACCIDENTS KILL
$4,000 WORKERS
Labor Bureau Publishes Sta
tiStiCS by Or. Hoffman.
PROBLEM MUST Be MET.

Declared That Compensation For In
dustrial Accidents Will Become Uni
versal - Railroad and Agricultural
Pursuits Responsible For More Than
1000 Fatalities Annually.
Washington.-An important bulletin
on the statistics of Industrial accidents
by Frederick L. Hoffman has just been
issued by the United States department
of labor The New York Medical Rec
ord says in part:
1.-THE abolition of the principle of
workmen's compensation by more than
half of the states within the last few
years emphasizes the Importance of
the industrial accident problem and
foreshadows the time when such COM
pensation for industrial accidents will
become universal throughout the Unit
ed states
"As one method of measuring this
importance the bulletin presents an es-
innate of the number of fatal and non
fatal accidents occurring among Amer
lean wage earners in a single year.
THE conclusion reached is that the
number of fatal industrial accidents
among American wage earners, includ-
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24
Notice of Sherif,s Sale of Real Prop.
erty Under Foreclosure
In the Superior Court of the State of Wash
ington in and for the County of Chelan.
r.. Rebecca Wishart, Plaintiff


ington in and for the County of Chelan.
r. Rebecca Wishart, Plaintiff
Charles 0. Livingston and Minnie Living
ston, his wife; Lerue Tice and Connie f.
Tice, his wife, James Il. Keane, as Trus-
tee; Wenatchee d Rock Island Ware
house Company. corporation, and We
natchee Lumber Company, corporation,
defendants.
State of Washington, County of Chelan, IS.
Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale
under foreclosure of mortgage, issued out
of the Superior Court of the State of Wash
ington, in and for Chelan County, on the
l4th day of September, 1915, in the above en-
titled action, wherein the above named
plaintiff recovered judgment against the
above named defendants, Charles o. Liv-
ingston and Minnie Livingston his wife,
and each of them, for the sum of Two Thou
sand Thirty-six and 25-lO0 (S2O3625) Dollars
with Interest thereon at 10 per cent per an
mum from September ID, 1915, together with
an attorney fee in the sum of 5000 and plain
tiff's costs and disbursements taxed at
Sl5.70, which said attorney fee and costs
September ID, 1915, and which said iudg-
ment is entered in Execution Docket No. Q,
in the Superior Court of Ohelan county,
Washington, on Page 1855, thereof.
| am commanded to sell all the right,
title and interest of said defendants Charles
o. Livingston and Minnie Livingston, his
wife, and each OF them, and to foreclose all
the interest of the remaining defendants
above named, In and to the following de-
scrbed real property, towit:
Lots 81 and 81 in Block 81 of Great North
efn Plat OF Wenatchee, Chelan County,
Washington, according to the recorded
plat thereof
Now therefore, notice is hereby given,
that ON Saturday the 23rd day of October,
1915, ut 10 O'Clock in the forenoon of said
day at the front door of the courthouse of
the above entitled Court In Wenatchee.
Chelan County, Washington, / Will In obe-
dience to said order of sale, sell mt public
auction for cash In hand to the highest and
best bidder all the right, title and interest
OF the defendants, Charles o. Livingston
and Minnie Livingston his wife, and each
of them, and foreclose all the interest of
the remaining defendants in this action, in
and to the real property above described,
or so much thereof as may he necessary to
satisfy plaintiffs said Judgment, interest,
attorneys fees, costs, increased interest
and increased costs therein
Dated this 18th day OF September, 1915.
CHAS. KENYON,
Sheriff Of Chelan County, Wash.
septl7oct22 BY A. V. HUFF, Deputy.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24

ing both sexes, may be consewatively
estimated at $4,000 and the number Of
injuries involving a disability of more
than four weeks, using the ratio Of
Austrian experience, at approximately
100000
These numbers, impressive as they
are, fail to indicate fully the number
of industrial accidents, for such studies
as have already been made show that
of the accidents involving disabilities
of one day and over at least three
fourths terminate during the first four
weeks.
"The injuries which contribute the
greatest number of fatal accidents,
according to Science for Aug. go 1915,
are railroad employments and ar-icul-
tural pursuits. each group being re-
sponsible for approximately 1920 fatal
tiles each year Coal mining contrib
utes more than 1900 and building and
construction work nearly 1000. Gen
eral manufacturing, while employing
large numbers, produces only about
1900 fatal accidents.
when the fatality rates are conS1d-
cred. metal mining ranks as most haz-
ardous, with a rate of four per thou
sand coal mining comes next with a
rate of 80, and fisheries and navigation
following with a rate of three per thou
sand.
Manufacturing industries as a whole
rank lowest, with a rate of OBS per
thousand, but the fact should not be
overlooked that this low average rate
covers manufacturing groups varying
widely in hazard, including on the one
hand boilermaking and the various de-
partments of the iron and steel indus
try, in some of which fatality rates as
high MS those in metal and coal mining
have prevailed. and on the other hand
the textile and clothing industries, in
some of which the risk of fatal acct
dent is practically negligible.
"These estimates are derived from
the best sources available At the pres
ent time there are no entirely complete
and trustworthy industrial accident
statistics for even a single important
industry in the United States. This
lack of trustworthy industrial accident
statistics is due to the absence of any
uniform requirements in the various
states as to the reports of industrial ac-
.,idpnts"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24
Couldn't Leave.

They were late at the special sale
and found crowd clear out to the
doors.
isn't it DREADFUL" asked No. l.
Perfectly awful" replied No. 2
think of cultivated, intelligent wom'
en- In such jam as that!
"How can they endure itT'
mo woman of dignity would be
caught in such a mob, and | am going
right back home"
so am l.
"Then come on. Hold on a minute,
though. What's that woman sayingT
"Why, that she got three cakes OF
regular ten cent soap for 10 cents on
Susan, how can we go homer
1--WE can't. Take hold of my hand,
turn your shoulder to the crowd, and
we will push our way in there or die
in the attempt. "-Washington Herald.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-09-24
WAR HAS SPREAD CHOLERA.
Greater Prevalence Abroad Affects
Quarantine Restri otions Here.

Quarantine Restri otions Here.
Washington. - The United States
public health service has collected all
available information regarding health
conditions in foreign ports in order
that needless restrictions shall not be
imposed upon vessels and that active
measures may be taken when neces-
sary. In a review of the world dis
tribution of cholera, yellow fever,
plague and typhus fever, just issued
by the United States public health
service, it is pointed out that in the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1915, chol-
era was present in Austria Hungary,
Ceylon, China, Egypt, Dutch East In
dies. India. the Philippine Islands,
Russia, the Straits Settlements, the
Balkan territory. Germany and Indo-
China.
The amount of cholera reported in
Russia during the six months ended
Dec % 1914. and the absence this
year of reports from that country, save
from IetfOSrdu during the SlA ulonthS
following. indicate that the disease
has been more or less widely prevalent
there. In the six months ended June
%. 1915, cholera was reported to be
present in the prison camps in Ger
many in twenty-three localities, in 81
lesia, and in Brandenburg, Posen and
Zirka. in Germany. In all probability
these cases were traceable to the seat
of war in the east. The new infection
in the Balkan territory may have orig
mated from the constant infection
of Austria Hungary or from Turkey,
where cholera was reported prevalent
during 1914 and 1915.