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Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
Direct Legislation
Is Up to High Court

PIERRE. s. D.. oct l7.-(special Tele-
gram.)-Contest over the right OF the
legislature to wipe out an act which he
been initiated by the people was argued
in the supreme court today. The con-
tention on the one side IS that It was
the intent by such amendment 10 tho
constitution 20 give the people complete
right to propose and enact laws. and
that the legislature has no right TO in
terfere; that where the constitution leaves
members OF the legislature the right 20
propose measures. II means Just what
propose means IN their right 70 begin
action for a constitutional amendment.
and can only be applied 20 measures
which must be submitted.
The attorneys for the state contend
that II was never intended 10 limit the
power Of the legislature by the initiative
amendment. The whole issue OF direct
legislation in this state Is at issue.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
WILSON TAKES DAY
OFF WITH FIANCEE
President and His Cousins and Mrs.
Gait Motor to Harper's
Ferry.
THEY EAT AT A PUBLIC INN

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.--Presi-
dent Wilson took holiday today and
with Mrs. Norman Gait. his fiRncee.
and his cousins, Misses Lucy and
Mary Smith of New Orleans, motored
to Harper's Ferry, w. Va, for lunch
con. Tonight the party attended a
theater here.
The motorists left the White
House this morning without telling
White House officials where they
were going. 1t was raining and the
roads were muddy, but the holiday
makers were not to be discouraged
and noon found the White House car
at Harper's Ferry, seventy-two miles
away. At an inn overlooking the
Potomac and Shenandoah rivers the
president registered. writing Wood
row Wilson and party
The inn is kept by negro family and
the president and Mrs. Gait, both of
whom were born in Virginia, ordered an
old-fashioned southern dinner, which was
served in the public dining room where
there were twenty other guests, The presi-
dent asked particularly for apple pie for
dessert. but was given poor mans" pud-
ding He paid for the dinner himself and
tipped the waitress.
The news that the president was In the
vicinity had preceded him on the return
trip and at Frederick, Rockville and other
towns many people waited TO see the
White House automobile go by and tried
to get a glimpse of Mr.. Wilson and Mrs.
Calf The party reached the White House
shortly after o'clock.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
Several Charity
Programs Given
By Social Circle

A Social Service circle is being organ
lied by Miss Madge Mae Bourne, the
object Of which is to furnish a musical
program one evening each month at the
different charitable institutions. On Tues
day evening the members will go TO the
Old Peoples Home. where Miss Esther
Fricke and Miss Avilda Moore will give
program. From there, they will go TO
the county hospital! where the enter
tainment will be furnished by Mrs. w.
II. Griffith. Paul Castor. Fred Eastman,
and Miss Bourne. At the Detention
Home, Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Coyle and
Miss Bessie Sherlock will take part, and
at the House of Hope. Harry Griswold
win sing. and Jean Gilbert Jones will
play.
At the Social Settlement. Mrs. Walter
jenkins and Miss Bessie Batby OF Coun-
Gil Bluffs will furnish the music.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
ANTI-TREATING LAW
MAY BE ENFORCED
Nebraska Attorney General Seri.
ously Considers Move to Give
Dead Letter Statute Life.
SURE OF DRYs AND BAR MEN
(From a staff Correspondent.)

NHrUn HthII SOfIeSpOnuenl.J
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 17.-(Spe-
cial. ATTORNEY General Willis F..
Reed is wrestling with the question
OF whether it would be good politics
for him to start a crusade for the
enforcement OF the Nebraska anti
treating law,
Mr.. Reed. who undoubtedly will
aspire to seat in the United States
senate in 1918, and a second term as
attorney general in 1916. is casting
eyes about for political timber upon
which to make a campaign next year.
He is rather inclined to believe the
prohibition move would be winner.
Would PLEASE both sides. :
The attorney general figures the prohi-
bltionists certainly would not object to
the crusade, ss they have been demand
ing It for years. The saloon men certainly
could not object. he believes, since they
have been using tho 6locuub law to
fight prohibition. Reed reasons he will
catch them coming and going.
The attorney general will shortly an
nounce his decision. ghe Omaha munich
pal license year begins January l. and
he proposes to start things In plenty OF
time so that those who apply Cor licenses
next year will know just what they have
TO go up against.
Method of Procedure.
II the attorney general decides on the
crusade he undoubtedly will have some
county attorney write In relative to the
enforcement of the anti-treatiny law, and
will then volunteer his services.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
WRECK SURVIVOR
TELLS HIS STORY
Tecumseh Man Pinioned in One Car
Up to Neck in Water for
Over an Hour.
SPECIAL TRAIN RUN TO LINCOLN

TECUMSEH, Neb., Oct. 17.-(Spe-
cial Telegram. Carl Brock, one Of
the five Tecumseh men in the Union
Pacific wreck at Randolph, Kan. yes
terday, returned home this after
noon. He escaped with dislocated
shoulder and severe bruises and
decorations. He gives a graphic de-
scription of the wreck, being
pinioned in one of the cars in water
up to his chin for more than an hour
and being in semi-conscious state
during this time.
Special Train to Lincoln.
Word comes from relatives of the VIC
Tins at Randolph that the Union Pacific
win run a special train to Lincoln to-
night The bodies OF "a o. shaw and
Theodore Smith of this city. who were
killed, will be on this train, as will e, c.
Hedrick and c. w Jones, who were In
jured Jones injuries are not bad and
It is said Mr.. Hedrick. though seriously
injured, will recover The bodies and the
patients will reach Tecumseh at 1880
o'clock in the morning. Up to this time
no arrangements have been made for the
funerals OF Mr.. Shaw and Mr.. Smith.
RANDOLPH, Kan, Oct. 1.-THE exact
number of dead in the wreck yesterday
of the Union Pacific motor train at the
Fancy Creek bridge near here may never
be known.
When the car, which plunged head
first into the creek, was raised today, the
front end dropped out, carrying into the
flooded stream those bodies which the
rescuers were unable to reach last night.
All efforts to find the bodies I'm the
racing stream had failed tonight The
number is not known but officials esti-
mate that four and possibly six persons
were drowned in addition to the eleven
whose bodies were recovered yesterday.
In the dive into the mud and rock at
the bottom of the stream, where the car
carrying sixty-five passengers plunged
when the bridge abutment gave way, the
front OF the coach was demolished. OF
the thirty passengers in that end of the
car, the swift flood waters lodged much
sand and mud about them.
The stream was too swift for divers to
examine the bottom closely when the car
was lifted, but it was found that the
hole the car had gouged out in the
streams bottom was of a great depth and
was fast filling with mud and sand swept
| down by the current.
| 1t is believed by officials that several
bodies were buried by this mud and sand
before the car was raised and remained
| there afterwards.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
MURDERS
MAN WITH CIRLAS
WARDS OFF PISTOL
Highwayman Kills w. H. Smith Of
Council Bluffs as He Escorts
Miss Grace Slater to
Her Home.
HANDS RAISED TOO SLOWLY
Fiend Drags Young Woman from
Scene and Releases Her Without
Attack After Nearly Hour.
THOUGHT TO BE HAUsE HoLDUP

William Harry Smith, cashier for
the Woodmon of the World, and liv-
ing with his wife and two children at
21S Fuller avenue. Council Bluffs,
was murdered Saturday at Thirtieth
and Dodge streets by a highway rob-
ber supposed to be the same who last
Saturday night held up and robbed
a card party at the home of w. T.
Hause.
Smith was escorting Miss Grace
Slater, 422 North Thirty-fourth
street. a 22-year-old clerk for the
Woodmen, to her home when the
robber halted them.
"oh. you wouldn't rob me. I've
only got few dollars" Smith
laughed. when the masked bandit
showed a pistol against him.
Strikes Gun Down
A bullet was the reply. As the bandit
fired. Smith struck the gun down with
Miss Slaters parasol. which he was
carrying, and the ball entered his right
groin. severlng an artery. Before doctors
could get TO him, he died from the loss
of blood
Immediately after firing the shot. the
bandit seized Miss Slater by the arm and
forced her to accompany him. He kept
her walking in front Of him. and when
pedestrians approached he removed the
mask he wore. After the pedestrians
passed he donned Il again, meanwhile
keeping the girl from getting. a look at
his face. He forced Miss Slater to re-
main In his company for nearly an hour.
At Fortleth and Burt he took 80 cents
from the girl. and. after handling her
outrageously. threatened to assault her.
Threatens to Attack Girl.
"Oh, you wouldn't do that" the fright
ened girl sobbed. "Think of your mother
I'm pure girl. You wouldnt-you
couldn't treat n decent woman So"
You're right" the bandit answered. He
gave her back nickel. Now get on
that car and go home." he commanded.
The girl boarded the car and hurried
home. from where she notified the police.
Hear Woman scream.
The murder occurred just In front OF
the home OF Mrs. f. w. Fogg. SlIs Dodge.
Mrs. Fogg. her two daughters, lone and
han and w. II. Phelps. II was just a
minute or 30 before 10 o'clock that a pistol
shot interrupted them. A second later a
woman's piercing scream followed.
Miss lone Fogg ran to window just In
time 20 see a man hurrying through
their tennis court. going north. pushing a
woman before him. II was too dark to
see any faces.
w, s. Heller. district court reporter,
and his son, Benton, came along a few
minutes afterwards and stumbled over
the corpse. II was the first intimation
that a crime had been committed When
the police came there was no clue. save
woman's pArasol.
officer Finds BrOther-in-Lavv.
officer Jim Murphy Identified the dead
man as Mrs. Murphy's brother-in-law.
Detectives were Immediately sent out,
but nothing developed until nearly an
hour and half later. when Miss Slater
called headquarters and was brought to
the station to tell her story.
She Is a clerk employed by the Wood
men OF the World. and directly under the
supervision OF Mr.. Smith. She has been
Continued on Page Two, Column Two)
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
Flourished Three
Million Years Ago

NEW YORK. Oct. IA specimen Of
the tyrannosaurus, forty-seven feet long
and eighteen feet high, was placed on
exhibition today at the American Mu-
scum Of National History. 1t was un-
eaTthed ON Big Dry creek in the Montana
bad lands by Barnum Brown, a fossil
hunter, who has discoveries speci-
mems OF the dinosaur. The tyTannosaurus
is distinctly related 10 lizards, but has
hind legs fashioned like those Of birds
II roamed through the great basins Of
the west 10000 years ago
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
BERLIN HASN'T HEARD
OF BATTLE OFF M0EN

AMSTERDAM Via London. Oct IT,
A semi-official telegram from Berlin
states that nothing is known there Of an
engagement between German warships
and British submarine off the island Of
Moen In which a German torpedo boat
Was reported 10 have been sunk
The telegram suggests that the eXplo-
sion OF a mine probably led TO the report.
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Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
Ambassador Page
Denies He Resigned

LONDON. oct. IA report was cur
rent In London tonight that the American
ambassador, Walter II. Page, had sent
a csblegram to Washington offering his
resignation from the Enthusiastically.
Mr.. Page, who was apprlsod OF the
report, said to the Associated Press.
There IL no truth In such report,
l have not resigned and l have taken
no action which would Justify a rlmor
to that effect"
In what way the rumor arose Is not
known.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
WOULD HAVE GREECE
DECIDE AT GUN POINT

LONDON, oct 7-Holding the time
has arrived to demand that Greece put an
end TO all doubts regarding It's attitude.
the London Evening standard suggests
that Greece should be open 70 arguments
presented with "forcefui tact" by a
British fleet In the shape OF a blockade.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
Player for Nebraska
While in Game Hears
Of His Fathers Death
(Trom a Staff Correspondent.)

LINCOLN, oct. l7.-Cspecial Telegram)
Albert Shaw. right tackle on the Corn
husker foot ball team, whose father was
killed in the Union Pacific wreck in Kan
sas today. was in the game when mos
sage arrived announcing the death Of his
parent. Shaw was Withdrawn from the
game and hurried TO a train TO return
home 10 Tecumseh.
Shaw is a sophomore In the university
and a member OF the Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
Virginian Named to
Succeed Gaffney

WASHINGTON. oct. 7.-William II.
Gale Of Virginia was appointed consul
general at Munich. Germany. today sue
ceeding T. st. John Gaffney, whose
was requested because OF un-
neutral utteranees. Mr.. Gale formerly
was consul at Colon, Panama. but had
been transferred recently to Christiania.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
Rebels Plaster Face
Of Botha with Mud

LONDON, Oct ia Reuter- dispatch
from Capetown says:
General Louis Botha, the premier, has
concluded another electioneering tour on
which he addressed many meetings In
former rebel centers in the western Trans
vaal. At a majority of these meetings
he received a peaceful hearing and OBJ
tained votes of confidence, but at Chris
tiAna he was howled down and his face
bespattered with mud"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18

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Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
British Subseas Sink
Teuton Transports

PETROGRAD CVia London)-oct IL
British submarines operating In the Bal
tic Sea have sunk five German transports
and forced another ashore. according TO
Russian official statement given out
here tonight
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
TROOPS OF FRANCE
ENCOUNTER FORCES
OF BULGARIAN KING
Soldiers of Republic Meet for First
Time Balkan Enemy at Chew
gheli, Says Athens Dis
patch to London.
PARIS HAS DECLARED WAR
Gsllic Victories in Artois and Lor-
raine Are Announced in
Statement.
BERLIN TELLS OF SUCCESSES

BULLETIN.
LONDON. Oct. 17.--French troops
have encountered the Bulgarian
army at Ghevghen. according to a
dispatch TO the Exchange Telegraph
company from Athens.
PARIS, oct 1.-THE council OF
minister's presided over by President
Polncaro announced at noon today
that a state Of war existed between
France and Bulgaria dating from
6;0O a. m, on October 16.
Paris Announces Victories.
French victories In the Artois district
and In Lorraine are reported in todny's
official statement. Southeast OF Neuville
st. Vaast In the former region, strong
barrioade was seized. In Lorraine 100
meters Of trenches wero captured north
OF Reillon. French airmen have bonn
barded German provision post at
Malziercs dAEoudange and the Avrl-
court railroad station.
Germans Claim Successes.
BERLIN. Oct. 1T,--(Via Wireless TO
sayville. N. Y,)--Further progress for tho
Germans, Austro-Hungarians and Bull
garians In Serbia, victories for the Ger
mans and Austrisns against the Rus
SLAMS and the evacuation OF the west
slope Of Hartmann eilerkopf after the
destruction OF the trenches recently cap
tured from the French are told OF in the
German official communication today.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18

int placing engraved upon the WILSON, sur
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18

Temperature and precipitatIo
tures from the normal:
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18

CONTINUED on Page Two, Column Three.)
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
The Weather

Temperature at Omaha Yesterday.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18

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Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18
World Going Mad

''The world Is going mad today" he
said. Cooking for rest Of soul. II the
ratio of insanity keeps pace with the
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18

Comparative Local Record.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-18

ntinued on Page Two. Column Two.)
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-30
PoWNAL CENTER

Miss Evangeline Otis of Pittsfield
formerly OF Rest cottage, is visiting
friends in this vicinity this week.
Byron Field of Jackson, Michigan
who has been visiting at the home OF
Clyde Peckham returned nome Tues
day morning.
Misses Doris and Natalie Sumner
of Grandyille, N. Y, came Saturday
to spend the remainder of the sum
mer with relatives in this town.
Misses Edith Sumner and Myrtle
Gardner returned Saturday from Cast
Teton, VT, where they have been at
tending summer, school for the past
two weeks.
Several members of the /. B. S. A.
aecclesias of Pownal, Bennington and
North Adams left Saturday to attend
the annual convention of the associ.
alton in Sprinfield, Mass, July 25, to
August /.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-30
THE COUNTRY EDITORS

Harold C. Kessinger, representa-.
| i've in, the Illinois general assembly
appreciates the value of country
appreciates the value of an honestly
conducted newspaper to rural com.
munity and came CALAMITY to the de.
Tense of the newspaper publishers,
IN a recent debate over the matter of
exchanging advertising space for
transportation with the railroads.
Most people appreciate the defense
newspaper puts up for it's home
town, except some who would like to
do something little off color and
can't keep the paper still.
Here are some of Kessinger's re-
marks. which ring good to the coun-
try editor:
There is no one nearer the peo-
pie in the rural communities of our
state, and in our smaller cities and
towns than the country editors.
They protect the interests of their
citizens. They boost the town they
live in. They contribute time and
energy and money to the upbuilding
OF their home communities.
THE state of Illinois and this ma
ton need our small cities and towns.
They are the foundation of our pros.
perity and of our civilization. They
are what the few great cities we have
live off of. They are the strong
foundation structure upon which we
must build our business prosperity.
and stable government, Former Am.
bassador Byrce, the great English &c.
onomist, said that the menace of Am.
erica was her great cities, and that
the stability of American civilization
rested upon her smaller cities and
towns and rural communities.
IF we want to protect and upbuiid
the country government let us vote
IN favor of the country editors TODAY.
ffor they are among the staunchest
truest, hardest working friends of al
the splendid institutions we hay
throughout the great commonwealth
of illinois, 40
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by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There 10
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caused by1an infamed condition of the mui-
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this tube Is iniamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing and when IL Ia
entirely closed, Deafness 10 the result and
Unless the Inflammation can be taken out
aud this tube restored to its normal condi-
ton, hearing will be destroyed forever: nine
-cases out OF ten are caused by Catarrh.
which is nothing but an inhamed condition
of The 9nucous surfaces. tAE
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-25
THREE: ATTRACTIVE FILMS
SHOWN At NEW THEtTt,R

The New Theater offers a particular
Is interesting and attractive program
for the coming week, each OF the three
feature pictures announced being nj
ready well-es,ablished favorite among
followers OF the Photographic drama.
On Monday and Tuesday. Dustin Far
mum viii he shown In the striking
phntop!ay. Cameo Kirby" which
aroused much favorable comment when
II was exhibited here earlier in the
season.
The very charming and talented Marie
boro viii be seen on Wednesday and
Thursday, in picturization OF w. j.
Locke's enhancing story, The Morals
Of Marcus This picture also proved
delightful when IL was thrown upon
the screen of another theater several
months ago.
For Friday and Saturday, the man
agemen, announces the only rival in
point OF popularity Of Mary Pick ford
little Marguerite Clark. who will he
seen in The Goose Girl which Great
ed something OF furor here within
the last month or two.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-25
EVERY FACT On LYRICS BILL
Is NEW TO HIlHMON

Wide r1cinse OF variety distinguish s
the lis, ,,pf vaudeville attractions offer
ID by ~ manager Charles w. Rex at the
Uric .rbiaeatcr this week. All the acts
each "a OF tho two bills are new to
'rhmonOn
70 W.! seek is The Comedy Conscrva-
tor. ~ Four men In biackface appear
In 7. diact. which is described as "a
cyclS,. OF music and mirth."' The
musical numbers are given prominence,
each OF the quartz, being a versatile
musician and vocalist.
4 novelty lis promised in the aero
hauc dancing OF the Three English
GIFTS. They are Hlnuous and comcly
trio. presenting series OF terpsi-
chorean exhibitions, each number be-
ing appropriately costumcd
81 and Mary Stebbins have a rural
comedy act. They impcrsonatc "rube"
characters in Rkit bristlng with
comedy. music and dancing ideas
Harry Brooks and Company will be
seen in laughable piaylct, called
The Old Minstrel Man" Comcdi la II
Brooks, in the principal role. gives an
Interesting characterization. Notwith-
standing the title of the piocc. all Of
the characters play In white face HUI
NOR and pathos alternate In The story
of the veteran performer, retired from
the minstrel stage Special scenery
anu NosluNcS aNu TO the effectiveness
OF the production.
tardo and Eoll VIII contribute A
CLASSY singing number. Juan Cardn
II "A recent recruit from the opera
stage. He sang the principal tenor
role In Oscar Flammcrstcin's produc-
ton nf Naughty Marietta and Miss
Ncll Is from the cas-, of the Same pro-
ductinn.
For the latter half 81 tho week an
other inviting array of attractions IS
announced. including the Five Musical
Mcl.arcns, an imported act which comes
highly commended. There are four
men and one woman Thcy play upon
variety OF musical Instruments in
Guiding almost every band and or
chestra piece, brass strings and drums
Wilton Brothers and Durham, two
men and a woman, have an aerial act
IN which they display their agility and
daring. FaHI and White, n BLACK and
tam team OF funmakcrs, will he seen
in a talking, singing and dancing turn.
An English act comparatively new
to America is the dancing exhibition
of the Three Du Four Boys Their
dances arc original and Of their own
creation.
Supplementing each of tho vaudeville
bills Will be a new instailment Of war
pictures and the usual complement Of
comedy Aims.