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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-04-06
mEvEuAND AMERICANS
WILL DRILD AT GAMES.

Cleveland, April 6.-Members Of
the Cleveland Americans will give ex-
hibition military drills in every city
in which the team plays preseason
games, Sergeant D. ". Dennis, mill
tary instructor with the squad in the
New Orleans training camp, has been
granted a sixty-day furlough, to o
tinue his work with the players.
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FIRST
INJURY

Bloomington, Ind, April 6.-Indi-
n university probably will be the
first college in the United States to
report a football accident in 1917. A
few days ago julius, guard, broke his
shoulder while at practice with Coach
Stiehm's squad. He will be out of
practice for four or five weeks. The
spring work this year has not differ
ed materially from. that through
which the men are put in the fall.
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WHoOPs! DARCY
CAN BEAT MIKE.

Cincinnati. April 6.-Les Darcy, the
Australian :middleweight, can knock
out Jack Dillon in five rounds, and
finish the elusive Mike Gibbons in
nine rounds in the opinion Of Ted
Lewis. the English w~elterweieht.
Darcy. the Brtton says. will give the
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NEW MANAGERS FOR
-FOUR CLUBS IN WEST.

Omaha, April e.-Four clubs cf the
Western league, Des Moines, Sioux
City, Wichita, and, Joplin. have new
managers this season. OF the, four,
however, only two are inexD ,r:srce 4
in managing Western league clubs and
only. one ID new to tho league
Jack C0ffey, who will pilot the ICES
NC!nes entry succeeds Frank Tsbell
tam ceSsy was formerly ma 1assr
ard Shsftstep atDanYsE... I'd, IIeilys
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BASEBALL GAMES

At wichita-Detroit Americans d,
New York Nationals g..
At Kansas CityEChicago Nationals
At New orleansLPittSburg 6:.,New
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MEETING DOES NOT
MEAN PEACE PLANS

Amsterdam, via London, April s.
A dispatch to the Handelsblad from
Berlin quotes the Vossische Zeitung
as declaring hat the meeting of the
German and Austrian monarchs and
statesmen at German headquarters
does not justify rumors Of new peace
offers.
1.-The vossische Zeitung even a.
~serts." adds the correspondent, that
Great Britain made q suggestion of
peace negotiations through Austria
Britatn's strength is still unbroken
and that such a suggestion. should be
viewed with great d%istrust."
Jimson was proud of his umbrella.
It was q beauty. But he was haunted
by the dread that 1t would be stolen.
SO when he went to stay at a hotel he
labelled 1t thus:
This umbrella belongs to the
back In 1ve minutes"
he did come back, however,
there was no umbrella, only another
notice, which. ran:
1.-THE umbrella has been taken by
the champion runner Of England and
he's never coming back"
a butcher Of some eminence wa.
lately in company with several ladies
at q game OF whist. where. having
lost two or three rubbers, one Of the
ladies. addressing him. asked:
Pray. sir. what IL the stake now PSI
To which, ever mindful of his oc-
cupation, he Immediately replied:
.Madam, the best rump I cannot
sell lower than one-and-nine-pence 4
tAsAsS
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

Ed Wolverton, the star and cele-
brated life insurance man, has hob
by and very strange hobby has he.
His hobby is giving Sunday school
picnics.
Last year St. Marks English Luth-
eran Sunday school had its picnic
while Ed was out in Denver. He
came back and looked around and
said, $50 you had the picnic. while
was gone | won't stand for that
So I'll give picnic.
He set the day and had about two
tons OF "wieners" hauled out to Elm.
wood park. together with scores OF
cakes and tubs of pickles and oceans,
of coffee. Ed weighs about 500 and
is a good feeder and he figured every
body else ought TO be good feeder,
too.
The kids and the grownups certain
ly came to his picnic. They came on
street cars and in automobile and in
flivvers. Ed himself superintendent
the cooking of the "wieners." He
knew just how to do ii. And then,
after the big ball game was over, the
crowd attacked the big eats.
The whole affair was a grand sue
cess and big Ed declared it was more
fun than soliciting life insurance. He's
bear" at that, but as picnic glver
he is a superbear.
Brigadier General William NJ.
Wright, U. S. A., may have all the
dignity that goes with his star" and
surely will uphold it with credit; but
host of Omahans who congratu-
lated him on his rise in the army
service will always think of him as
Billy. Wright, and it may be ques-
toned if he. ever will want to be
anything else to them. 1t was with
the old Second infantry, so long sta
toned at Fort Omaha, General
Wright saw his first active duty after
being turned out from West Point
with a second lieutenants shoulder
straps. Many are the tales told by
the "boys" who knew him them. He
took part. in all the athletic sposts OF
the community-base ball, foot ball
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

Lawrence lived down the incident as
cities will, and the University Of Kan
sas was founded in the town. When
Tommy had long since ceased to wear
dresses and had become young man
he entered the university and finished
his junior year.
Eagerness to get into business
life led him to break off his college
career there and work for the Santa
Fe Railway company for three
months. From there he jumped to
St. Louis, where he worked for ten
years with a big oyster house run
by his uncle. When he knew all
about oysters the Booth people took
him away from his uncle and EN-
ployed him for eight years in St.
Louis.
If the Booths had not decided
Omaha was a good city, and good
place for an oyster business, Tom
Fry would never have been known
here. But the Booth people knew
city when they saw one, so they de-
cided to open branch here. They
sent Tom Fry here to establish the
branch. He opened this Omaha ter
ritory for the company, and for the
last seven years he was with them
he had charge of the territory west
OF the Mississippi
In 1912 he informed the Cole-Fry
partnership, but this was dissolved a
few years ago. He is now principal
owner in the Drexel Shoe company
and the Fry Shoe company. Fry and
Walter Jardine are two of the original
Ak-Sar-Ben organizers. Jardine and
Fry had to guarantee the lumber
bills and other bills personally
the first few years i'll order to
get Ak-Sar-Ben on its feet. Fry
got perhaps more subscriptions than
any other man to make possible the
exposition OF 1898. There are few
big public movements in the history
Of Omaha that have not been touched
by the finger of Fry.
Mr.. Fry has lodged public Office
as he would duck shrapnel in trench,
until Board OF Education member
ship was pushed upon him. He says
he would almost as soon face the
Quantrell guerillas asking for drink
as to face the constant stream OF
people who want special favors which
a member of the Board of Education
cannot grant and be honest with him
self and the city.
Next In This series-"How Omaha Got
Paul Skinner"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24
Father Rigge and HIS Sorrow

None who sees the smiling face OF
Father William F. Riggc, the genial
astronomer, philosopher and physi-
cist of Creighton university, would
suspect that secret sorrow is gnaw
ing at his inward soul, as the eanker
i the bud. But it is so, although he will
not admit it even to his closest
friends. Those who do enjoy the de-
light OF close communion with Father
Rigge know that he is bravely chok-
ing down the bittercst disappoint-
ment OF his long career.
The sideral heavens lie open before
Father Rigge as the downtown
streets lie before the traffic squad. He
knows the way OF Arcturus, can tell
the time of Orion, and pursues Cyg-
nus with all the delight Of Boy feed
ing the swan in the park pond. Aide
baran is his intimate, and Bootes
sheds his crimson light for the edifica-
ton and enjoyment Of the man who
nightly searches the blackest depths
of unexplored space in search of new
Wonders of creation.
But it is in eclipses that Father
Rigge finds his greatest pleasure. He
knows by name all the olden time
dissertations of sun or moon, can say
off hand the hour and the minute Of
the occultation Of any of the planets,
and has calculated ahead for ages the
crossing of paths that produce these
phenomena. And out of this grows
the sorrow that is shadowing his own
sweet soul
One solar eclipse got away from
him. 1t is an annular eclipse, too,
one of tile kind that gives the astrono-
mer the greatest pleasure as to the
eclipse fan such JOY as comes to a
base ball enthusiast when he sees a
triple play unassisted. This eclinse
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24
By A. r. GROH.
Chapter XX-The Bar.

Ihapter hh-lhe BAR
Let no one be misled by this title.
Persons who know how bitter the
present historian is against the wicked
liquor traffic know that the chapter
has nothing to do with the bar of a
saloon, but relates to the profession
of the law, which is known as "the
bar"
The liquor traffic, we are glad to
remember, has been stamped out in
this state since May /, and the saloons
now sell only Bevo and Toto and
buttermilk and similar mild drinks,
Omaha early had its lawyers. 1t
was unavoidable. Some OF them were
good lawyers, as the records show.
The first term of the supreme court
was held in Omaha. All, how differ
cnt were things then from now! The
room in which court was held was
plain indeed. 1t was heated by two
stoves. The judge sat at common
table. Today we have steam heat and
mahogany desks and fine electric
lights in our court rooms.
1t was pretty poor pickings for the
lawyers in the carly day and many Of
them used 10 run for political Office,
having nothing else TO do. \
But soon crimes began to be COM
mitted and the law business began
to pick up In 1867 boy found the
body OF Isaac FL Ncff in the river,
The body was loaded with chains,
which indicated that Neff had been
cruelty murdered.
Suspicion fell on Cyrus H. Tator,
who had left town with a team and
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

will be visible from the south pole
only, and therefore out of reach Of the
astronomer. 1t did not elude Father
Rigge entirely, for he has been able TO
reconstruct by mathematical calcula-
ton exactly what took place, and to
draw such accurate diagrams as to all
but bring the vision home to the be-
holder. His article was published in
Popular Astronomy foE-June, and is
most interesting exposition of the ma
ture and possibilities of the grand
sight the good father only is permitted
to see through his clear mental per-
ception.
But there'll be an eclipse next year
that will be visible in these parts, and
you can bet your last penny that
Father Rigge will have a front scat
when il comes off.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

and the like-and was always in de-
mand, and so seldom refused that
some folks came to wonder If he
had no duty to perform at the tort,
He did do some soldering, though.
One OF the yarns told ol him in this
connection has TO do with a recruit
told off for duty one day when Billy"
was officer of the day.
Billy" fully accoutred, as rcgula-
tions provide, was hurrying along
the walk between headquarters and
the guard house when he halted by
a sentry.
"Who be yuh, and wha be yuh
gwine?" demanded the guard.
81 am the officer of the day, you
fool" answered the surprised Billy"
"Oh, be yuh the officer OF the day!
Well, ynh'rc gwine to cotch hell
the sargc's been lookin' fur yull every
place"
And, fresh from the Point as he
was, Lieutenant Wright let the
rocky" get away with it.
United States Marshal Flynn's hob
by is being wild man. He and his
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24
BY A. EDWIN LONG.

Spare women and children; but
death to every man and hell take their
houses"
That was the order that rang from
the lips OF the human tiger Quantrell,
when lie rode into Lawrence, Kan.
at the head of 800 guerillas August
q. 1865.
Spare women and children" were
about the only humane words that
monster was ever known to utter, and
those words perhaps spared Tom
Fry, later to become one OF Omaha
business men and member of the
Board of Education.
Tom Fry was born in Lawrence.
He was 3 years old, in dresses, and
clinging to his mothers skirts on the
front porch as that brave woman
faced three raiders on horseback and
argued with them to spare her home
from flames.
Already over 100 men lay dead in
the streets and over half the homes
in the village were roaring with
flames when the three bearded and
gIowering raiders, hot and black with
smoke and smudge, galloped to the
very doorstep of the Fry home with
pistols in both hands.
= The senior Fry had already gone
earlier in the day, seeking to raise a
posse of men to drive the raiders out,
Mrs. Fry and little Tom were alone
at home. Mrs. Fry came upon the
front porch and the little fellow in
dresses toddled after her in his bare
feet. ....
The bloodstained rufhans demand
cd drink and Mrs. Fry handed them
a dipper of water. After drinking
they debated a moment whether to
burn the house along with the other
homes of the town or whether to
spare it. Tommy's mother did not
beg for mercy. She told the men she
and Mr.. Fry had recently come from
England, that they were English sub.
jects, and that she proposed to stand
on her rights. They finally thanked
her for the drink and galloped back
amidst the flames and murders Of the
central part of the city.
AZ believe my mother bluffed them
with that speech about being Eng
lish," says Mr.. Fry to this day. "Or
perhaps they appreciated the drink
enough to spare our house. OF course
they did not know my father was out
raising posse"
Who were the big, dark men into
whose murderous faces little Tom in
nocently stared that day, he will never
know. Whether some Of them were
John or Cole Younger, whether one
was Jesse or Frank James, or
whether Jim Cunningham or the terri
bic Bill Anderson were among the
trio, is still matter unknown. Later
in life when Tom Fry read history,
and learned who were the men who
sacked Lawrence that day, he shud.
cred, and he shudders yet to think OF
the incident.
But the ashes were cleared away;
the dead were buried; in due time
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

About all X. D. Shirley, local
movie magnate, does these days is to
drive his machine here and there
over first this street and then the
other, and ofttimes far into the coun-
try. He says its too hot to work,
and all he does is to drive and watch
the pictures flicker by on the screen
Of his cool theater On being asked
if he didn't feel ashamed of himself
making the actors and actresses work
so hard this weather, he said they
didn't seem to mind it at all, didn't
sass" him back and didn't sweat
bit Lucky actor folk.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24
A Cyclone Story.

THAT story said Representative Gardner
at Providence reception apropos of
hyhenated explanation of a German sabotage
plot, lis very fishy. 1t reminds me of
Texas.
"Once, in Texas. came upon tall Chin
ney, like a factory chimney, rising In an
arid waste.
"'Frieud,' | said to a native, what Is
that chimney doing there?''
THAT amt no chimney said the native.
It's WELL
Yes said he. It's old Jeff Tha tchers
we'll. A cyclone turned her upside down and
inside out "--Washingtou Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

out funds. The judge pointed to three
lawyers who were seated in the court
room. y
There is Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones
and Mr.. Brown" he said Take your
choice. And Mr.. Black is out in the
hall
Tator looked at the three lawyers
and then said:
II guess ri take Mr.. Black"
But Tator lost the case in the su.
preme court also, and was condemned
to be hanged, which was done on Fri
day, August 28, 1868. 1t was fine
day and people drove in from miles
around to see the hanging. About
1000 were present and a pleasant
time was had by all.
Mr.. Tator was very calm and read
a long address in clear, eloquent
voice before his execution. As soon as
he had concluded his speech the sheriff
put the rope around his neck and they
sprung the trap, exactly at ! p, m,
thus bringing the exercises to con-
clusion in plenty of time for the au-
dicnce to have lunch.
It is particularly fitting to tell of
Mr.. Tator's execution in this chapter
because he was himself a member
of the bar, to which he was admitted
at the age of p, and was Judge in
Kansas for while. These things,
however, were not taken into con-
sideration against him in his trial.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

wagon for Denver. The sheriff went
after him and arrested him out in Col
fax county. Mr.. Tator told the sheriff
he hadn't killed Mr. Neff, but the
sheriff just jeered at him and said,
Tell it to the Judge"
There was big mob OF lawyers to
meet Mr.. Tator when he got back to
Omaha. They all wanted to defend
him and they began cutting prices till
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24
Grohhs History Of Omaha
Allthe truth and untruth that's fit to know

Tator got lawyer for next to moth
ing.
But the lawyer lost the case, prov
ing that you can't get something iof
nothing" Tator would have done
better to hire a good lawyer even at
high price.
The case was carried to the su,
preme court. The Judge there asked
Tator il he wanted lawyer. as he
had dismissed the lawyer who had de-
Tended him before and now was with
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24
Comb H0ney
BY EDWARD BLACK.
A Little Fun Now and Then.

nation ELECTED from the witnesses at
,b. M,io,.,, L.,.;,r hofo,o ,I,, c;,,,
a'"e ON '
coune' was ine TACT 'llat hos 'ose9
ITS identity while going through a
packing house. In fact, the hog is
,lr,ost-,r;,od Ird,. R,lcr drev,
,,... -. . -.
''at information rom d "'.hess'
This hog incident was only one OF
the many little bypl lays which served
to relieve the somDer under-current
OF the hearing. In reality 1t was a
serious occasion, because police OF
tIcer had been charged with an Of
tense. But the many humorous SIDE
nights proved mat one OF the ruling
passions OF AmerlcdniSm IS to see the
oright slde OF tnlngs. we recall mat
when ~ Henry was dying, and he
knew H. lie asked the nurse TO ralse
the SHADES because he was AFRAID to
so nome IN the DARK
Another outstanding feature Of the
hearing was that every witness told
the truth and nothing but the truth,
for did not each witness hold up his
or her right hand in token OF veracity?
Of course, some of the points Of view
OF the witnesses differed, because
there were conflicting accounts OF
places and events. All of which
might tend to prove that people do
not think alike, nor do they see alike,
A bricklayer named Honeywell
jumped into the scenario with a
splash. His epistlc to the scribes and
Pharlsces was accounted as an I'M
mortal document which died, unhon-
ored, unwept and unread. 1t might
in truth have been referred to as
PauPs cpistle, because Paul Sutton
appended few remarks Of his own.
Honeywell was to have inaamed the
Ministerial union with this great
preachmcnt and when the ministers
had been sufficiently inf1amed the in
famation was to have been commu
nicated to the proletariat. But, alas,
and alack, there came an evil hour
when somebody hung doublc-cross
on Honeywell and his proposed
expose OF social disintegration in
Omaha was given mortal thrust.
And there was woman at the
hearing who averred she wore a
horseshoe, around her neck and that
the equine footwear was sign Of
good luck which brought 10 her the
pleasure OF the gods OF fortune, She
wore horseshoe and Honeywell
wore doublc-cross
Cigars were mentioned at the hear
ing. Paul said he received five and
twenty alleged, cigars from Honey
well as evidence OF the esteem in
which he was held. He admitted that
he addressed himself to one OF the
cigars and then was stricken with
acute NAL de mer. One OF the cigars
caused the world to move around him
in panoramic profusion 1t was not
\ very good cigar; not very good, he
insisted. Whether the cigarj were the
casus belli was not brought out, but
it was evident that an entente cordiale
did not exist between Paul and Hon
eyweIl. a.
During the hearing a coterie OF
gunmen iuuped into the offing and
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24
Well Known Omaha Men in Boyhood Days. How
of Them Did You Succeed in Identifying?

Left to Right-Top row: Bob Willis,
later civil engineer, now at
Bridgeport; Jay Walker, deceased;
Ephriam Pratt, practicing law at
Tekamah.
Middle row: Joseph Polcar, now pub
Usher Omaha Daily News; Will
Barnum, Topeka; Clarence
Meyers and his brother, Charles S.
Meyers, both with Union Pacific;
Randall Brown, now president
Commercial club of Omaha and
Ak-Sar-Ben governor.
Lower Row: A. NJ. Buman, the
teacher; Joseph Morsman, with
Carter White Lead company in
Chicago; George McCague, deceas-
ed; Edgar M. Morsman, Jr., Omaha
lawyer; Will Wigman, plumbing
supplies, Sioux City.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

Paul IL Marquandt has been max
ing number of improvements in the
movie palace and summer vaudeville
center of which he is one of the own
ers. When asked by the writer if
he wasn't going to put UP screen TO
keep the flies out this summer, he
said: Nov, don't kid me; we've had
a screen up all winter, and you know
it." SHOW me-" was my answer.
Here" said Paul, and, taking ME by
the arm, he led me inside the thea
ter and said Look" "Where?" said
|. why, right ahead of you, the
place the picture is on" Yes, the
writer is feeling pretty fair again.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

Harry Goldberg made his initial
trip to the well known den last Mon
day, and on his arrival there the fol-
lowing conversation took place:
Harry to gatekeeper: Can | get
through this gate2 Gatekecpcr: 81
think SO; they just drove a piano
truck through"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

This column is rather short this
week, but perhaps if we can keep on
this page it will Groh Long. An
other reason is because by the time
you read it we will be on our vaca-
tion.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24
Write Her a Letter.

Write Her Letter.
Suspended over a public telephone
in Farnam street apothecary shop
(drug store) is a card which bears
these words: IF you can't tell her
what you're going to say in three
minutes, write letter, We sell
stamps at 2 cents each"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24
Ye Ladies. Attention!

Why wait until conscriAion time
to take mans place in the business
world? Miss Mary Sturgeon didn't.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

Francis A. Brogan of the Board of
Education changes his hobby every
year. although there is similarity in
that his hobbies are educational. This
year he is delving into the ancient
cities which have been uncovered.
Parties Of Americans have been COM
missioned from time to time to go to
the ancient sites of cities and dig deep
until they strike something worth
while. Their reports are interesting.
He enjoys reading of the strange ar
ticles these research men discover.
During the last few months he has
been reading OF Crete. one of these
ancient cities. He has found some
interesting modes OF living in vogue
thousands OF years ag" He believes
his hobby to be about as good as any
he has read about, and he reads them
all in The Bee every Sunday. In
fact, one of his hobbies is reading
this page each week.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

absent-minded man in the world lives
in Omaha. This gentleman walked
into Sans store the other day, bought
two hats, paid cash, and then walked
out again, minus mind, change and
hats.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

Business as Usual"
When everyone keeps advertising
Every one keeps buying.
When everyone keeps buying
Everyone keeps selling.
When everyone keeps selling
Everyone keeps making,
When everyone keeps making
Everyone keeps earning.
When everyone keeps earning
Everyone keeps buying.
Advertise!
Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-24

Questions on Chapter Xxx.
|. What is the historians attitude
toward the liquor traffic?
2. What did the sheriff say to Ia
tor2