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Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-23

HASTINGS. Neb.. FEB. n-(special Tel
GRANT,. r. Beardsiey. a resident OF
HASTINGS tWenty-eight years and well
known N Masonic circles. died last night.
Funeral arrangements await arrival Of a
brother from Stewart nl
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-23
SECOND DAY OF
THE MOTOR SHOW
is BIG SUCCESS

tcontlnued from Page onsl
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-23

Joshua oEiffen, aged - years. died OF
old ege at the House OF Hope He Is
survived By one daughter living in oretna
and enc son az Fort Crook. Funeral
services win be held a. O'Clock wednes-
day afternoon froA Stack a Faieoner's
chapel. after which the body viii be sent
70 Wyanst m. for internent
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-23

BEATRICE. Neb.. Feb. 2.-(speciaI.)-
DR.. James Millen. for twenty-five years
a resident OF odelL died suddenly last
nisht Of apoplexy. aged IS years lie was
a native OF Pennsylvania and ls survived
- . widow and three children. Ia n.
Miiien Of Beatrice. Mas Wayne Mrlsn OF
odeil and Theodore Millen OF Texas.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-23

EDGAR. Neb.. Feb. z.-(spocial. )--Her-
old Esenberg. the i5-year-old son OF Mr..
snd Mrs. Carl Eigenberg. died al his
home yesterday morning OF diabetes COM
picated with the grip. He was IN several
years with diabetes and was In poor con-
diuon to combat the grip with which he
"es siek one week. Arrangements have
not xet been made for the funeral ssrv-
ices.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
SAFE
IN GERMAN WATERS
COMPLETES QUICK TRIP HOME
FROM UNITED STATES-MAOE
PASSAGE IN 10 DAYS.
BEATS FORMER RECORD
Commercial Submarine Completes its
Second Round Trip to America At.
ter Again Running the Allied
sIockade-$2, 900. 900 Cargo.

Berlin.-The German commercia'
submarine Deutschland, completing 8
quick voyage home from the United
States, arrived off the mouth of the
Weser.
The arrival Of the Dutschland at a
German port marks the successful
completion Of the second round trip
Of the commercial undersea boat to
the United States.
On her voyage just finished she
made the passage in 10 days, having
left New London on November q.
This bettered considerably the rec.
ord Of her previous eastward trip.
which, starting from Baltimore, took
her % days. Her two westward voy.
ages occupied respectively 16 days
and 81 days.
The Deutschland, which is the only
commercial craft of her type that has
succeeded in reaching America from
Germany, was forced to make two
starts from New London.
On her first attempt on November
II, she collided with an escorting tug
and had to put back to port.
The Deutschland on both of her
trips brought valuable cargoes, chief
~ of dyes and chemicals. On her
present voyage she took a cargo esti-
mated at 100000 in value and Off.
cial mail for Germany,
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
$500 SET ASIDE FOR BATON
ROuGE-TWENTY YEAR BONDS
TO BE INVESTIGATED.
RAIL BOARD IN SESSION
President Boyd of Louisiana State
University Announced Holidays Win
Begin December % and Last IN
til Wednesday, January 2.
Baton Rouge.

Ddtuli
At meeting held in the governors
Office the State Board Of Liquidation
decided to borrow $29,024S5 of the
fiscal agency banks to pay the newspa
pers Of the state for printing the con.
stitutlonal amendments. The board
also authorized the borrowing of ST.
500 to meet the expenses Of the state
board OF parole until July l, 1918, and
$4,000 for use in eradicating the cot
tony cushion scale which is attack
ing trees and shrubbery in Audubon
Park in New Orleans.
Senator E. NJ Stafford, Of New Or
leans, asked the board for the last
named appropriation. He said the
city would appropriate $4,000 and
would erect a building to help fight
the pest and the conservation depart
ment and extension department would
each appropriate $500 pending action
by the Legislature.
+ The state treasurer, auditor and the
governor. as ex-offlcio chairman, were
appointed as q committee to investi-
gate the proposal Of New York bond
company to retro the bonded indebt.
odness OF the state and issue twenty.
year bonds, saving the state several
thousand dollars in the course Of q
year
Present at the meeting were: Gov.
ernor Pleasant, Attorney General Co.
co, State Treasurer Hunsicker, State
Auditor Capdevielle, Secretary OF
State Bailey, Lieutenant Governor
Movton and Hewitt Bouanchaud,
speaker Of the House Of Representa-,
tives.
The Louisiana Railroad Commission
met for its two days. December SEES
sion with Commissioners Shelby Tay-
Tor. Jom T. Michel and B. A. Bridges
present. The committee heard num-
Der Of cases from over the state.
Among these is the case OF citizens
Of New Orleans against the Pontchar-
train Railroad to compel the road to
erect shed over the end Of its pier
where the Vaudeville steamer lands
President Boyd, Of Louisiana State
University. has announced that holi-
days at the university will begin Fri
day, December %, at ! o'clock. and
last until $3.50 a. m. Wednesday, Jan
uary 3. No extension OF time will be
granted except under exceptional cir
cumstances and with permission of
the president and commandant of
cadets.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
AMERICAN STEAMER
SHElLED AND SUNK
NO WARNING WAS GIVEN &C
CoRDlNG TO SURVIVORS AR
IRVING AT NEW YORK.

| New York.-The steamship John
! Lambert, listed in the maritime regis.
ter as an American vessel, was sheIled
and sunk without warning by a Ger.
man submarine off the Isle Of Wight,
according to members of the crew,
Americans, who arrived here on the
French line steamship Espagne from
Bordeaux.
The John Lambert was one Of IL
vessels built on the Great Lakes.
which the French agreed to purchase.
According to the arrivals, the vessel
was on its way to Havre for delivery
to the French interests.
The attack took place at 4:30 p. m,
rs miles south Of the Isle Of Wight,
members Of the crew said. The engi-
neer, Edward Harrison of this city,
said the U-boat first made its presence
known by sending a shell through the
John Lambert's bridge and that the
firing continued during the time the
crew was taking to the boats, II
shots in all being fired.
The crew, numbering Is, all Of
whom arrived here without their cap
tain, said they rowed 40 miles to the
French coast, being in the water IL
hours, and shortly after the John
Lambert went down they saw the sub.
marine attack and sink two unidenti-
fed vessels-a steamship and bark.
The John Lambert was the last OF
the II Great Lakes craft to be taken
to France for delivery. Eighty men,
bers Of the crews OF four OF them
were passengers on the Espagne,
The Great Lakes and st. Lawrence
Transportation Company owned the
John Lambert, Of 1850 tons gross. |
which was built In 1903 at Chicago. |
The vessel sailed from Montreal on |
October 20.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
GERMANY MAKES
| PEACE PROPOSAL
BASIS OF TERMS TO
81 REPRESENTATIVES OF NEU.
"a TRIAL COUNTRIES.
BERLIN is WILDLY EXCITED
london Shows Decided Skeptlclsm
d and Does Not Look For an
Immediate Stopping Of
Hostilities.

M Berlin-Chancello Won Bertman
MHollweg on Tuesday proposed to the
Representative of the United States,
Spain and Switzerland basis for
peace negotiations that would be &C
s ceptable to Germany and asked that
81 these proposals be presented TO the
nations with which Germany is at
b war
81 At the same time the Austrian,
& Turkish and Bulgarian governments
Il made the same proposal through the
nations representing their interests in
countries with which they are at war.
The proposals of Germany and her
allies were also transmitted to the
Vatican.
Germany proposes to enter upon
I. peace negotiations at once and to sus-
pend hostilities during the negotia-
tons.
The presentation Of these notes to
the representatives of neutral govern
ments has created wild excitement
throughout Berlin and all OF Germany,
and reports from Sofia, Vienna and
Constantinople show that the move IS
equally popular In those capitals.
While neutral representatives are
not willing to talk they indicate that
they hope this move is the beginning
OF the end, and that hostilities will
stop in the near future.
London ls Skeptical
London.-News that Berlin has pro-
posed basis for peace through the
medium OF neutral countries has Great
ed feeling Of skepticism in govern.
ment circies, and with the public.
While it may be several days before
the proposal Of Germany and her al
lies will be laid officially before the
English and other governments of the
allied nations, men in public life do
not hesitate to say they do not believe
the terms will in any way be accept.
able to the Allies, or that hostilities
will be stopped in the near future.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
VILLA BANDITS BURN
AMERICAN AT STAKE
REFUGEES BRING REPORT TO
THE BORDER-HANG AN.
OTHER AMERICAN.

III Pase, Texas. - Government
agents sent a report to Washington
saying an American named Foster hac
been mutilated, then burned at the
stake by Villa bandits operating nea,
Torreon. The report was said to have
been brought by refugees coming tc
the border from Torreon.
/ Foster was an American hacienda
superintendent. His first name. his
homo n the United States and his
relatives are not known here.
HoGST Grey. an american mining
man at 'Arral, chihuahua, was killed
by Villabandits when they entered
the town, according to a telegram re.
ceived BY the Alvarado Mining &
Milling Company.
A messenger who arrived from Par.
raj shorty after the telegram was
made pubic said Gray was hanged by
order ofvilla.
The telegram said all other Ameri-
cans wen safe and that American
property was not harmed.
Gray vas shot to death in the door,
way OF his home, near Parral, and his
body then hanged by a band of Villa
bandits rom Villas main column, two
foreign refugees reaching here from
Parral reported.
These men said Edgar Koch, Ger
man consul at Parral, told them he
was ordered executed by Villa band
It's at Santa Rosalia, after being
robbed Of $4,000 worth of silver bars
belonging to the Alvarado Mining G
Milling Company. Though taken out
to be shot, he was later released.
Villa ordered the Palmillo mills OF
the AlVarado Mining Company's plant
at Parral dynamited after an effort had
been made to operate it. Two foreign
refugees who arrived here said Jose
Ynez Salazar, Villas second in COM
mand, protested, and they were closed
down.
These refugees said one Of the three
lwonsky brothers, who are Germans,
were arrested and taken to Villas mil.
'tary headquarters, but were later re-
leased.
They said DR.. Thomas Flanagan,
:. Smith, Jacob Meyer, W. A. Scott,
Mckee and the other Americans ex-
,ept Howard Gray, were safe. They
said bandits went to the home Of
Scott, searched it for him and, failing
o md him, threw his wife and chill
iren into the street and destroyed
us property. A store belonging to
uan Canavati, a Syrian, was dyna.
nited.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
To Probe Vote in Ohio.

Columbus, O.-Acting upon the re-.
quest OF Jas. S. Hatfield, chairman of
the Republican State Executive Com
mittee, Secretary Of State Charles @.
Hfldebrant requested all county
boards OF election in the state to pre-
serve the ballots cast In the recent
election in Ohio to give opportunity
for an investigation of charges of ir-
Irregularities and alleged fraud.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
Take Wood Pulp Census.

Washington.-A census Of the
amount and cost Of pulp wood con-
sumed in the United States is to be
taken by the Federal Forest Reserve
in cooperation with the News Print
Manufacturers Association, it was re-
ported. The statistics are needed, it
Is explained. because Of the scarcity
of pulp wood. Comparative figures
showing the total pulp wood consum-
ed for 1894 1909, 1914 and 1916 are
to be compiled.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
Want No Recount Now.

Concord, N. H-A petition which
had been filed at the Office of the sec
rotary Of state for the recount of the
vote for presidential electors was
withdrawn by Philip H. Faulkner,
chairman of the Republican State
Committee. The reason for withdraw
ing the petition was not stated. Off.
cial returns gave President Wilson a
plurality Of Sc.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
Another Appam Case,

Washington.-The Supreme Court
having agreed to hear on January 8
a case testing possession of the Ger
man prize ship Appam, now at New
port News, Va, British claimants
asked the court to hear at the same
time another case determining owner
snip OF the ships cargo.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
Only Chinese Are Slain.

Ell Paso.-Reports telegraphed by
government agents to Washington
that a number of foreigners had been
killed in Chihuahua City when Villa
bandits occupied the town, are denied
by Gen. Jacinto B. Trevino, command
ing Carranza forces, VINO reoccupied
the capital. He telegraphed that "on-
ly a few Chinese were killed during
the time Villa occupied ,Ae city"
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
Wrapping Paper Short

New York.-The high cost of wrap
ping paper has caused department and
other retail stores to institute many
novel methods Of economy. The vari-
Gus grades of heavy paper used for
wrapping as we'll as OF tissue paper
used for inside wrapping have ad-
vanced in price, it is stated, between
3OO and 400 per cent in the last Is
months.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
Embargo on News Print

Washington.-A bill designed to
place a two-year embargo on exports of
news print paper was introduced by
Representative Campbell of Kansas
and referred to the Commerce Com
mittee. Penalties ranging from fines
of $1,000 to $4,000 an Imprisonment
of not more than 10 years would be
provided.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
Suspend Lumber Rates.

Washington.-The Interstate Com.
merce Commission suspended until
April 9 proposed increases in freight
rates on hardwood lumber in car
loads from Louisiana and Arkansas
points to Rochester. N Y, and other
cities taking the same rate.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
He Leaves S49,56s,9 e5

New York.-Charles w. Hardness.
who at the time of his death on May
l last was said to be the third lare.
est holder Of Standard Oil stock, left
an estate worth s49,566,S95. His
brother, Edward S. Hardness, willed
s3S, $4,000, Is the chief beneficiary,
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
Officer to Hot Srr}nos

Deming, N. M. - Capt. Albert
Claunch OF Company D, First Arkan-
sas, who has been confined in the
base hospital for month with rheu-
matism, was sent to Hot Springs, Ark,
for treatment. Captain Claunch's
home Is at J0nesboro.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
Medal to Mrs. Duryea,

Paris.-President Poincare has
awarded gold medal to Mrs. Harry
Duryea OF New York for her services
during the last two years as head Of
an American Aid Commission for war
victims.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
BRIEFLY RELATED.

The property Of the late D. r. Swift
IS left, according to the Louisiana
law, in his will which was opened at
Lake Charles. Four heirs will receive
about $4,000 each, they being ]. A..
Trotti, of this city; William E. and
Henry Lee Trotti, of Jasper, Tex, and
Benjamin Arthur Trotti, Of Brooke
land, Tex, Mrs. c. N. Powell of Dew
eyville, Tex, John I. Trotu, Of Eliza.
beth, and David H. Trotti, OF Merry
vile. children Of deceased sister,
will receive $4,000 each.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
Mail Gifts Early.

Observation-Disclosures appeal to the
pubic to mail Christmas packages
early to prevent a crush of mail in the
final days before the holidays was is
sued by the Postoffice Department,
with warning that postal facilities
would be taxed this year to capacity
because Of the country's prosperity.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
Calls Trails Meetinn

Oklahoma City, Okla.-W. H. Har-
yey OF Monte Ne, Ark, president of
the Ozark Trails Association, called a
delegate conference to meet here De.
cember 20 to discuss and determine
the best methods Of hardening surfac-
ing roads. Mr.. Harvey issued a gen.
eral invitation to citizens of all states
interested in the subject.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
w. u. Paws Bonus.

New York.-Directors Of the West.
ern Union Telegraph Company, at a
special meeting voted a bonus to EN-.
pioyes receiving less than $4,000 a
year-seven per cent OF their annual
salary to those receiving less than
Sl,2o0, and 6 per cent to those receiv-
ing between $1,000 and $4,000 Mes.
sengers will receive $25 each.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
Ten Years For Miss Colby.

Thompson Falls. Mont Miss Edith
Colby, a newspaper reporter, convict.
ed of second degree murder for shoot
ing A. C. Thomas, a politician, was
sentenced to serve 10 years In the
penitentiary.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
To Seize Farm Lands,

London.-In order better to secure
food supplies, King George has signed
an order in council empowering the
Board of Agriculture to take over un-
occupied or occupied land for cult.
walton.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
No EqQs and Turkey,

Richmond, Va,-An absolute boy
colt on eggs and turkeys for two
weeks was declared by the Executive
Committee Of the Housewives League
Of Richmond.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15
Would Repeai Guard Act,

Washington.-Senato Borah of Ida
no announced that he had prepared
a bill to repeal the act which feder-
allied the National Guard.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15

Deputy Sheriff Fred Petit OF Mon.
roe left for Baton Rouge with Mere.
dith Mccormick, who was sentenced
to serve ten years in the state peni-
Tertiary. Mccormick was convicted
at the recent term OF the district
court on an attempted attack on
Louise Green, young girl from Nat
chez, Miss. Notice Of an appeal was
given in the case, but this was not
perfected.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15

new registration Of Lake Charles
must be effected between January
and 9, and, as there are 1000 persons
now registered, the office of the clerk
of court will see quite rush of voters
after the first of the year Under the
state law new registration is requir.
ed for the year 1917, and as primary
election is to be held in Lake Charles
for the election Of city officers about
the tenth of February. the rolls will
be closed on January 2.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15

Elaborate services were conducted
at the st. John the Baptist Catholic
Church at Levy in memory of Rev.
Father Charles Richard, the late rec
tor 81 this church, who died in New
Orleans at The Hotel Dieu.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15

Sheriff Tom Hughes OF Shreveport,
In the face OF the remarkable dispar.
ity between the number OF poll taxes
that had been paid by this time las:
year and the number paid so far this
year, Issued an urgent request to
those who are eligible to quit waiting
so long. He suggested that the school
board, which gets the entire proceeds
Of poll tax payments, the Chamber of
Commerce. Rotary Club and other civ
ic organizations get behind the de-
linquents and hustle them along TO the
collectors Office.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15

The prolonged drought, there hay
Ing been only showers occasionally
since the middle Of September, has
caused all the fields and pastures
around Abbeville to become ready
prey for flames, and the air has been
filled with the smoke of innumerable
fires in the fields and marshes. Much
damage has been done to fields, crops
and farm buildings.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-12-15

Cottonseed is bringing $50 and cot
ton 20 cents, at Newel]ton, and there
was a large corn crop made, for which
the Newelltol elevator is paying 80
cents bushel and is being kept busy
with an extra force of men.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-26
WORSE THAN BULL CALVES.

The parcel post becoming important common carrier One of the most interesting of recent shipments consisted of 49 bundles of shingles, mailed from Spokane to Spring Camp Idaho. This shipment consisted of 12 250 shingles The bun dies weighed pounds The shingles had be specially packed and stamped to within the requirements They inch long at first The government received $23 05 for transporting hcm but loser, had to pay than that to get them hauled the last leg of the jour ncy from Grngcvie to Spring Camp, that being uphill and costly.
 The postocc officials say the department would not have permitted such shipment if it had been appraised in advance but would have put limitation the weight of shingles that could have been transported each day. which would not have mtorfIed with the regular traffic
 The department has instructed postmasters that whenever extraordinary shipments proposed by parcel post they to telegraph the department for instructions but this done by the Spokane postmaster.
 day ago the postmaster of Salt Lake City wired the department that woudbe consignor desired send
 0O pounds of iron pipe by parcel post The department in
 uc"I him that he should not accept than 50 pounds of iron pipe day from person to cOnsignee. At this rate would require 30 days that shipment The postmaster informed the department time that several tons of cement were offered for shipment.
 Posastes frequently asked to transport ton of salt a of meal Half ton of chesnus went into Washing on C. ostoce the other day by parcel post Many milk axes, hac!es, shove picks and farm implements being shipped by parcel post Some years ago there great huabaIoo in congress when a member of that body csc of sending bull calf through the mails under his frank but stranger things than bull calves moving by parcel post
 Thc people in the east, where there many easy of communication have absolutely idea what great boon the parcel post the people of the states where the geography rough and transportation facilities cud says Otto lraeger, second assistant postmaster general
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-26
GOVERNMENT GRATITUDE.

Suppose you should work for employer for fifty years the old salary and that at the expiration of half cen he should take you into his private office and give you slight raisc-would you eXude gratitude at every pore
 Dr. Caroline Asnah Grant Burghardt is in position to
 this question: for after fifty years of continuous service with the government Dr. Burghardt has been given her first
 omoon from clerk 5000 year to clerk at $l OOO in the brau of navigation of the department of commerce. Count ing $ 200 the average salary of government clerk, Dr. BgHldt will reach that goal at the end of century and half of service if she keeps moving Dr. Burghard is tive of Massachusetts, graduate of Howard University Me dc College of Washington and in the medical corps of the army during the Civil She appointed to the gov cmen service in the treasury department in 1866 at the request of William Cullen Bryant.
 Dr. Burghard has done her work we'll In private employ mc she would have promotion long Her is but one thousands of examples Illuminating the why there is little real vivacity in the government service
The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-26

Benson, the Socialist nominee for the presidency says the country enjoying, but suffering from the bOased pros pcty of the naon" Isn't it true? The prices of edibes at near famine stag wheat and other cereals pouring from the country intending stream meats at unprecedented heights and attempt whatever being made in Washington either to check kng in foodstu the supplies against what appears certain shortage to lower the cost of iv way though that the soul of the Democratic plat form four years ago.