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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29
Heavy Rain Falls
Over the Entire
State on Tuesday

Rain was general and heavy all over
the state Tuesday night, every point
where the weather bureau maintains a
station reporting a heavy downpour exI
cept Valentine, which was the lone ex.
coption.
The rainfall at Omaha was nearly two
inches and at Columbus nearly three and
half Ashland reported two and a half
and Grand Island three inches.
Tekamah had nearly two inches, and
here was one spot where rain was not
needed. Here the farmers have been
waiting from day to day for a chance to
get into their fields to harvest the wheat.
Walt Hopewell has 700 acres of which he
has not cut an acre and the prospects
are beginning to look bad. Bud Latta
also has hundreds of acres which ard
waiting for a dry spell before he eau
send the reApers into the fields.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29
B0RGLUM TO DESIGN
STEVENSON MEMORIAL

Gutzon Borslum the sculptor. who is
a member Of the BorEium family of
Omaha, is TO design a Robert Louis
Stevenson memorial for the village OF
saranao Lake. N. r., to commemorate
the fact that Stevenson sojourned there
during the winter OF lSs7-Ss while writing
some OF his greatest essays. The project
comes from the sarenao Lake Stevenson
Memorial committee recently organized
for the purpose. and II is yet 70 be de-
cided whether the memorial shall take the
form OF tablet. urn or a piece OF statg-
AIRY
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29
Woman Before the
Judge is Not Forced
to Give Her Age

Madge Grove. who was heroicaily res
cued from the raging torrent IN the gutter
AZ sixteenth and Clark streets Tuesday
night BY Officer o'connor after she had
imhfbed too freely OF the contents OF the
flowing bowl appeared before Judge
Foster and during the proceedings which
followed was asked BY the city prose-
cutor what her age was. Judge Foster
Immediately came TO her aid and declared
that such a question was Irrelevant and
lmmaferiai. and that besides. Il was no
business Of anyons'S save hers.
Madge smiled her appreciation Of the
iudge's assistance. She was finally al
lowed 70 return to the freedom Of the
Great outdoors. without having told her
age.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29
CHICAGO MILITIA HAD
HORSES ON COAST TRIP

The FIRST regiment Of infantry. Illinois
National Guard. VIII pass through Omaha
Saturday from San Francisco ON a sps-
cial train. coming In over the Burlington
and going 10 Chicago over the Great
Western The train includes eight sleep
Ing cars, two mess cars. one kitchen car
and car equipped with sixteen stalls
for carrying horses. II viii leave here AT
io;ao p. m. and Il due In Chicago at noon
SUNDAY.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29
RELIEF CORPS OBJECTS
TO DlSUSE OF AMERICA

The George A. Custer Woman's Relief
corps. headed by Mrs. J. w. Foley. at its
meeting Tuesday In Memorial hall. en-
tered vigorous protest against the ac-
ton Of the Lincoln supervisor Of music
who. II was reported. had advocated the
disuse OF patriotic American songs IN
the schools.
Resolutions were drawn up and for
warded 70 the superintendent Of public
instruction at Lincoln by Mira Charles
Everson.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29
HUNGRY CAR THIEVES
STEAL MEAL FROM ROAD

was robbed Of a light lunch last night
when hungry thieves took thirty-five
pounds OF cheese. thirty pounds Of fish
and twelve pounds Of butter from one
of their cars at Fourteenth and Chicago
streets
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29
LAUNDRY FOREMAN
STRICKEN WHILE At WORK

Fred Browning. foreman Of the Evans
Model laundry, 1908 Spruce street, was
stricken with heart attack while at
work last evening and as a result is In
a serious condition at ST. Joseph's hos
pital He was removed to that institution
on the advice of DR.. Charles F. Shook,
who attended him.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29
Woman Calls Judge
On Way He Said 1t

Are you unmarried?" County Judge
Crawford asked woman applicant for
a marriage license. in his most business
like tone.
why, 1 was never married. 90 how
could 1 have been unmarried" replied
the bride. haughtily.
Technically. she was right" the Judge
afterward admitted.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29

would be most effective. The whisky did
not work es he desired. but, instead. IN
some manner, 80 affected him az TO make
him lose all sense OF time and place.
The prisoner told his story so plain
lively that the soft-hearted Judge sent
him on his way, with the advice that
some other medicine be used IN the
future
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29

turn over IN two and a half months. II
vii be more thHn the yoke Of oxen and
tho wooden pillow could turn over in a
half year.
Yea. and "a viii be more than the In
dian squaws could turn over with their
clamshell in the whole history OF the
tribe.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29
WOMAN DISL0CATES HER
SHOULDER SWATTING FLY

Mrs. Thomas Grady. Thirty-sixth and
L streets. South Side. dislocated her
shoulder Tuesday swatting a fly. DIT.
F. o. Beck was called and threw the
shoulder back in place. She was able
TO do her housework yesterday
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29
Sunday Tabernacle
Injunction Case
Over Until Friday

Hearing of the injunction SUIT brought
by Mrs. Margaret Henry OF Lord Lister
hospital to prevent erection Of the Billy
Sunday tabernacle, was postponed by
District Judge Redick until Friday, by
request OF the Omaha Evangelical assoc
citation
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29
ASKS DIVORCE FROM
COMMON LAW MARRIAGE

Walter F. Landes. who alleges that In
1905 he was married to Mrs. Lulu B.
Landes by a common law contract. has
brought suit for divorce in district court.
alleging cruelty and misconduct.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-29

drinks. has now discovered that he is
$40 short instead OF the SS5 he at first
thought he was out.
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
COLORADO STATE NEWS

have launched personal campaign
to take the organization to San Fran
cisco to advertise Denver aud Colo
rado at the fair.
Congressman and Mrs. c. B. Tim
berlake, accompanied by DR.. c. p.
Fall, Il brother of Mrs. Timberlake.
left Sterling for Beatrice. Neb., where
Mr.. Timberlake will undergo an oper-
alton
A party Of l40 grocers from Ohio
spent two days in Denver en- route to
the California expositions. The visi-
tors engaged automobiles and drove
to many of the scenic points In the
city and vicinity.
Mrs. Linnie Turley, wife of Vail
Turley, former dead" man, was re.
leased from the county jail in Denver
after she had entered a plea of nolo
contendere to the charges OF taking
part in the conspiracy TO defraud in.
surance companies through the al.
legged death of her husband.
Disappointment in a love affair
caused Charles Berry and Robert H.
Allen of Seattle, each twenty-five
years old, to steal the diamond rings
OF Berry's sweetheart in Seattle sew.
eral days ago. The jewels were val
ued at Sl.5O0. The young men were
arrested in Denver as they stepped
from a Union Pacific passenger train
at the union depot.
Three hundred delegates from
Colorado. Kansas, Nebraska, South
Dakota, New Mexico. Utah, Texas,
Wyoming and Oklahoma are expected
to attend the summer conference OF
the Y. NJ. c. A. at Estes Park June
ll-20, according to Parker Jordan.
secretary OF the association at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Albert Laufert, sixteen, who ran
away from his home in Germany to
escape service in the army, shipping
aboard the Vaterland and landing in
New York shortly after the outbreak
of the war, accidentally shot himself
near Major lake, nineteen miles north
east of Denver, when he stumbled
over the skull Of a horse. He is at
the county hospital and doctors fear
he will die.
Deals in Gunnison ranches for last
week run around s150,00O. This Is
quite large figure, but it does not
take many sales Of Gunnison ranch
land and cattle to approach the hun.
dred thousand mark.
The property left by Mrs. Frank
! Ieary, who shot and killed herself
at her home in Denver during an at.
tack OF melancholia. probably will be
divided equally between her husband
and William Keiter, her son by a
former marriage.
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
Minor Mention.

Denver's cleanup and paint-up cam
paign started Monday.
May is Mothers day and go-to-
church Sunday in Denver.
A midnight blaze at Grand Junction
destroyed three d. & X. G. cabooses
Walter f. Lowey. Boulder cab
driver, was run over and badly in
jured.
Fire completely destroyed the home
of NJ. b. Thorp in Grand Junction and
all its contents.
The flour mill at Steamboat Springs
has resumed operations with a day
and night force.
Extensive improvements and re-
pairs are being made on the Sterling
sugar factory.
A contract tor a tweEty-four-foot
road from Manitou to the top OF Pixies
Peak has been let.
A protest has been filed by the
Womens Club of Victor against the
five-cent dance halls.
The fifth annual Trinidad-Las Ami
mas county fair will be held in Trini-
dad Sept y, %, % and "a.
Hotchkiss capitalists have organized
company for the purpose of INSTALL
ing and operating a creamery.
Flames inflicted loss of more than
$4,000 to the Twenty-third Avenue
Presbyterian church in Denver.
The State Utilities Commission Is
considering mileage book rights and
lower rates on the mountain railroads.
| Francis NJ. Redington, pioneer
resident of Denver for the last thirty
years, died from nervous prostration.
Placer gold, which is said to run s.
to the yard is being washed from the
earth on the Miers Fisher ranch in
North Denver
The Colorado Yule Marble Co. in
the north end Of Gunnison county is
now claimed to be the largest marble
quarry in the world.
Clayton Pattison, recently acquitted
OF the murder of r. +. Showalter, was
arrested in Denver on complaint of
his daughter. Mrs. Quinn, on a
charge of disturbance.
Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, TWEEN.
ty-four. the youngest woman labor
leader in the United States, was in
Denver to deliver a lecture on War
Can Labor BE Neutral?"
William Flick has put $50 teams
and $50 men at work on the construc.
ton OF the Pixies peak automobile
road. 1t is believed that the work
can be completed for an opening on
July Is.
Members OF Cooks drum corps
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
WEEKS NEWS in PARAGRAPHS

A tornado sweeping over Bartlcs.
vile, Olla., caused a heavy property
loss. especially at Ochelata, ten miles
from there, where IA large number OF
buildings were destroyed.
The board OF bishops OF the Metho.
dist Episcopal church, In session at
Des Moines, Ia, accepted the over
ture OF church unity made by the
Methodist Episcopal church. South.
The resolution OF acceptance was
adopted by a unanimous rising vote.
Washington
The Pan.American financial confer.
cnce will open May "a with an ad-
dress by President Wilson.
Secretary Garrison has granted the
application OF the state of Texas to
place memorial stone in the Wash.
ington monument
The portrait Of Edwin A Brown OF
Denver will be one of the thousand
hung In the National Memorial gallery
at Washington.
A review OF the Colorado coal strike
and its attendant problems viii be re-.
sumcd by the industrial commission
beginning May II. John u. Rockefel
Ter, Jr.. will be asked to testify.
To create n petroleum reserve for
the Navy. Secretary Lane recon-
mendcd TO President Wilson that he
set asNic 10000 acres In Natrona
county, Wyo.
Official Washington was Chccrcd
over the business outlook throughout
tn. country as disclosed In reports to
the federal reserve board from its
agents In each OF the twelve reserve
districts
At the request OF Count Bernstorff.
the German ambassador President
Wilson has commutcd to expire at
once the Imprisonment OF Edwin X
Scott, who was sentenced In Tacoma.
Wash. In January TO serve six months
for writing the ambassador threaten.
ing letters.
A Plymouth. Eng. dispatch SAYS the
steamer Lyonncssc brought from the
Scilly islands to pcnlance thirty.
three members OF the crew and the
body ~ Capt Alfred Gunthcr OF the
American steamer Gul'light, which
was torpodocd OFF the Scilly Islands.
The chief officer and chief engineer
remain with the vessel. which IL an.
chorcd In Grow sound. to look after
the interests OF the steamers owners.
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
WarnIno Sent Judoe hillyer.

Trinidad.-An anonymous letter, re-
ceived under date Of April 2G. post
marked Trinidad. by Judge CRANKY
Hillyer of the District Court. conveys
the threat that II Louis Zancannelli.
recently convicted in the District
Court here OF the murder OF Detective
G.. W. Belcher, or John r. Lawson,
who has been found guilty OF murder
in the first degree, are prosecuted or
punished, evil will befall every man
connected with the coal operators,
from No. &c Broadway, New York, the
Rockefeller headquarters, on down.
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
Refuse TO Talk About Strike.

Washing,on.-Ofiic of the Amer.
lean Federation OF Labor refused Tues.
day to 20 80 far M even to discuss the
OF another Colorado coal
strike. growing ou, OF the conviction
pf John Il. Lawson. international board
member OF the United Mine Workers
NJ America, at Trinidad. The in,ima.
Ion OF such strike had come from
Frank ]. Hayes. international vice
president. who was Lawson's superior
turing the recen, strike. being In com.
,..,e charge In Colorado
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06

Notwithstanding the war, work on
Australia's new capital, Canberra. is
being pushed forward rapidly.
Oxen will take the place in Berlin
OF many truck horses which have been
requisitioned for military purposes.
Three persons were killed at Bor-
deaux. France, in an accident in con-
nection with the launching of the bat
tleship Languedoc.
A renewal OF the recent massacres
reported in the whole district OF Lake
Van.
An extraordinary cabinet council
WAS summoned AT Toxic to consider
China's refusal to accede completely
to the demands OF Japan.
The so-called War Press In Ger.
many is now publishing monthly near.
ly 5000 different books. pamphlets
and circulars dealing with the war,
The Swedish minister at Berlin has
informed the foreign minister by tele.
graph that of the eleven Swedish
steamers brought to German ports.
nine We're released
dispatch to the Central News
from stockholm says that King Gus.
tavc is III, apparently with a recur.
renee OF the stomach trouble for
which he underwent an operation a
year ago.
May day. which in the past In Paris
has been marked by revolutionary or
socialistic manifestations. was oh.
served quietly There were a number
OF gatherings OF people. but every.
thing was orderly.
Among the important measures
passed at the recent session OF the
Alaska Legislature were a workmcn's
compensation act. an oight,hou law
for placer miners and bill providing
for referendum vote on territorial
prohibition
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
BOARD MEMBERS NAMED
c. p. DODGE AND DR.. WORK RE.
CElvE APPOINTMENTS.
Mrs John Bond Becomes Woman
Member Of State Boys Indus
trial School Board.
Western S.wspaper Union News Service.

Western Semspaper Union News Service.
Denver. Governor Carlson an
nounced number Of appointments, in
cluding memberships of state boards
and bureaus and new water commits
sioners. The full list of appointments
follows:
DR.. Hubert Work Of fueblo, mem
ber OF the board OF trustees OF the
Colorado School for the Deaf and
Blind at Colorado Springs. for term
OF six years.
Clarence p. Dodge OF Colorado
Springs, member OF the State Board
OF PardOns. for term of four years,
Mrs. John Bond OF Denver, mem
ber OF the board OF control OF the
State Industrial School for Boys.
Three commissioners for the pro-
motion of uniform state laws: Charles
w. Waterman of Denver TO serve for
six years; Willis l.. Strachan OF Colo
RADIO Springs to serve for four years,
and $. S. Packard OF Pueblo to serve
for two years. These commissioners
take the places OF Henry c. Hall OF
Colorado Springs. John Davidson OF
Pueblo and Harry Il. Kelly OF Denver.
The work OF the commissioners Is to
confer with similar commissioners In
other states in movement to make
the laws OF all states upon kindred
subjects uniform SO far as possible.
The following water commissioners
were named: District No. 2. J. c.
Wylie Of Platteville: district s. s. F.
Couch. Littleton: District 8, J. w. Nc
Lean. Mt. Morrison: District 13. ID.
Geroux, Westcliffe: District Is. Rob.
ert NJ. Totten, Rye: District 20. A. g.
Morris. Moffatt; District &c. George
Burch. Saguache: District 27. Juan
Trujillo, La Garita: District %, ]. Roy
Hicks, Sargents. District 4S. r. Il.
Moan. Gleneyrie: District 5s. J. b,
Lansing, Yampa.
The appointment OF Mrs, Bond as "A
member of the board OF control OF the
State Industrial School for Boys
meets the provision of the law that
one women shall be member Mrs.
Bond fills the vacancy caused by the
resignation OF Mrs. Evangeline Hearth.
Democratic member OF the House OF
Representatives
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06

Jess Willard, the man who restored
fistic supremacy to the white race,
will be in Denver May 6.
Ed Wash. pitcher for the Chicago
American league team. who has been
at Los Angeles all spring irving to
get his arm into shape. is i'll and
slightly delirious at times. His ply.
sician diagnosed his case as grip.
A grand parade, dress drill by the
crack Elks corps. band and frs,
ball ceremonies by Governor George
A. Carlson and Mayor J. NJ. Perkins,
were features which marked the in.
auguration OF King Baseball in Den.
YER
General
Bright flowers for mothers living
white flowers for mothers memory"
ON Mothers Day, Sunday, May 2.
dist building in New York.
First place In the commerce OF the
world for the United States. II the war
continues long, was predicted by Sec.
retary OF Commerce Redf!eld, In an
address before the annual meeting OF
the American Academy OF Political
and Social Science at Philadelphia.
The Interstate Commerce Commis.
sion held that the less.than.carload
rate on certain cotton goods from the
Atlantic seaboard are discriminatory
against Denver and in favor OF Salt
Lake City. and ordered = readjust.
ment
Typhus fever has reached Ameri.
can shores. The first case came to
the New York port aboard the Greek
steamer Christoforos. which sailed
from Marseilles. April 20. The victim
is the third engineer. n Greek.
President Wilson became Godfather
of his only grandson at Williams
town, Mass, and added to his duties
by promising to safeguard the re.
ligious welfare OF the child, the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Francis b. Sayre.
The Rev. Dr. jacob Z. Price. con.
yicted by the Methodist conferenc. n
year ago OF "imprudon, and unmluis.
terial conduct after some fifteen mar.
ricd women OF his congregation had
told OF receiving his kisses. has been
elected president OF the Methodist
preachers meeting that meets every
Monday In the Fifth Avenue Mc,ho
one days income is the amour,
asked from every mcmlcr OF he Epis.
copal churches OF America to swell
the 100000 emergency fund 10 be
turned over TO the mission board for
the establishing OF mission work in
foreign countries. principally In China
and Japan. The campaign Will close
June /.
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06

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The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
Yaquis Capture v. s. Train Crew.

On Board U. S. S. Colorado. Off
Mazatlan. Sinaloa. Mexico-The entire
crew OF Kansas City, Mexico &
Orient railroad train is reported to
have been carried off by Yaqui In
dians. 1000 of whom are conducting
Independent warfare in northern Sin.
oloa. The American consul at Los
concerning the trains engineer, named
Lewis. and Mr.. Chase, reported to
have been on board.
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
New Branch for Asylum Assured.

Grand Junction.-Be Before leaving for
Denver. Governor Carlson had eased
all doubts in the minds OF proponents
of the establishment Of a branch In
sane asylum at the Teller Indian
school here. The governor says he
must appoint the new board which will
control the state insane asylum, pen
itentiary and reformatory, within nine
ty days from adjournment OF the AS
sembly.
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
Sporting News
>tnadisK 81 Western L-agu- ,

The Chicago American defeated
Cleveland. : to n, Chicago. winning
their seventh straight game.
Incidence repeated his good per.
formance at Lexington. Ky. and easily
won the Camdsn handicap The race
MAS worth 81. 700 TO the winner lndo.
distance. covering the mile and .
Nuarter IN . ..Q3 a..
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
Western

T',o men are dead and thousands OF
dollars worth Of property lost in n
storm that swept Sioux city, la, and
the surrounding country,
FIFTY thousand or more head OF
sheep. worth abou, 100000. are be,
iicved TO have pcrishcd In a snow and
wind storm In northeastern Oregon.
John r. lawson. international
board member OF the United Mine
Workers OF America, was found guilty
Of firs, degree murder In the District
Court at Trinidad. Colo. and was sen
fenced TO the state peni,cntiary for
lie. lawson was Immediately turned
over TO the custody OF his attorneys,
and later was released on $4,000
Ionds unit, motion for new trial can
~ filed
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
Bow confesses Shooting Father.

Denver.-Neil Wright, twelve-yenr-
old son of Mrs. Berta Wright. con
fesscd that 1t was he and not his
mother who shot his father, John A.
Wright. n city cmploye, to death. on
the porch OF their residence. 1850 Ad-
ans street. Sunday morning. April 10.
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
Creamery Plant. Meraed.

Grand Junction.-Word has been
received here that the large Jensen
Creamery Company plant here is
merged into the new $3.000,OO0 Mu-
tual Creamery Company organized in
Salt Lake City to operate over the
entire West. The local plant is turn.
ing out 10000 pounds of butter a
month.
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
cuyer and Jone. Win In Denver.

Denver.-Ben B. Jones and DR..
Clarkson N. Guyer, backed by secret
societies and patriotic organizations,
were elected school directors by ap-
proximately 5000 plurality over their
closest competitors, Frank J. Alexan.
der and c. A. Kendrick, the business
mems choice" for the positions.
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
ror,y.one Killed In Texas Floods.

Houston, TeX-For'y.one persons
were killed or drowned in recent
storms and floods in Texas, according
to recount OF the disaster. The
property damage It is believed. will
reach so.500.O0O.
The Arvada enterprise., 1915-05-06
Former LEGISLATOR Die. in Leadvi,le.

Leadville. - Peter d. Turnbull, 60.
pioneer mining man and member of
the Nineteenth General Assembly from
Lake county. died OF grippe. He dis
covered the Ballard mine on Brccc"
hill, from which he made a modest
fortune.