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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-01-21
Sanford Property Sold
For $12,5O0 Decade AuO

Just eleven years ago the property
on which the new Sanford hotel now
stands sold for $12,500.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dufrene, upon the
advice of c. F. Harrison of the Harri-
son-Morton company, made the pur-
chase of this location for the above
sum, Last year Mr.. Harrison nego-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-01-21

tiated deal which brought Mrs. Du-
irene an even 100000 for her prop
erty, DR.. Clifford making the buy.
The great increase in the value of
this property, real estate men insist.
is conclusive evidence of the rapid
strides Omaha has made in the last
decade and of the wisdom of invest
ment in Omaha Omaha real estate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-29
They Want 1t More Than With
Any Other World Power.
But 1t Is the Government That
Must Be Dealt With.
WILSON NOTE AN INSPIRATION
Great Effect if 1t Is Translated
Correctly for Them.
Document Will Bring COnSter.
nation to the Kaiser.
BY KARL HI. Won wIEGAND.


Washington, Aug 2e.-America's
answer thru President Wilson to Pope
Benedict's peace suggestion will come
as a blow, a surprise, revelation an
assurance, an inspiration-all these to
Germany.
To the great masses of German
peopIe it will come as a renewed offer
of friendship from the United States
in whose enmity, despite all newspa-
per utterances, they have never want
ed to believe and never could fully
grasp.
President Wilson's indictment of the
German government will be hard
blow to the kaiser and severely snake
the existing governmental system.
1t will be a revelation to the German
people if it reaches them in correct
ly translated form.
The German people have been told
President Wilson sought to see Ger
many crushed ,annihilated, the German
people humiliated and an opportunity
for them to recover from the terrinle
effects of war made impossible after
peace. They have been told that this
is false.
America, thru President Wilson now
gives the German people assurances
that Germany shall have equality
with others in the family of nations
| if they will accept that instead OF
seeking the domination preached by
Bernhard, Reventlow and others.
The German people have been told
and it has been continually pounded
| into them, that coalitions were being
formed to crowd them out from
equality with other great peoples. The
note will serve as an inspiration to the
| leaders of German liberalism,
strengthen their influence with the
people and encourage them to greater
| efforts to bring the government OF
Germany under the direct control OF
the reichstag, the chosen representa-
| tives of the people.
Strikes Hard Blow.
| President Wilson has struck the
| hardest blow at the unrepresentative
form of Germany's central political
and governmental system, since the
Russian revolution. That system be-
gan to crack in April. By slow and
peaceful means the German liberal
| leaders have been edging nearer and
nearer to the seat of power in Ger
many. That power is not yet in their
hands.
President Wilson has greatly en-
| couraged their efforts and furthered
their purpose. Leaders like Maximil-
| lian Harden. Theodor Wolf, George
Bernhard, Richard Whiting, Ballan
Erzberger Professor Del Brueck
have been telling the German people
i Continued on Page TwoD
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-29
Author of Prussian Year Book
Demands Reply to Asquith.
Doubts Chancellor Accepts Pol
icy of Reichstag Resolution.
NO ONE WILL TRUST HIM
Neither Germans nor the World
Knows ChanceIIOr's Policy.
Says World Believes
He Is Double TOngued.

Copenhagen, Aug 29.-Attacks
upon Imperial Chancellor Michaelis
continue and Prof. Hans Delbrueck
now asks the chancellor an embar-
RAISING question concerning peace. In
the Prussian year book Professor
Delbrueck inquiries of Doctor MichaeA
lis why if he really accepts the reichs-
tag resolution as the basis of his
policy he neglects to answer the
query made July 26 in the English
house of commons by former Premier
Asquith regarding Germany's readi-
ness to evacuate and restore Belgium.
Professor DeIbrueck, who openly
questions the good faith of the chan
cellor in processing to agree with the
terms of the resolution, asks whether
his silence in the face of Mr.. Asquiths s
summons does not show that those are
right who insist that Doctor Michae-
lis takes another standpoint from that
contained in the resolution.
At Outs With Reichstag.
IF the German government is
ready to conclude a peace upon the
basis of no annexations and no in
IDENTITIES" asks the professor, "why
all this unprecedented apparatus of a
joint committee of the reichstag and
bundesrat to assist the chancellor in
drawing up a simple answer to the
pope's proposal of peace on that ba-
sis?
THE truth is" says Professor Del
brueck, that Doctor Michaelis does
not enjoy the confidence of the reichs-
tag. He could not possibly do so.
Neither the German nation nor the
world knows what the chancellor's
policy is.
THE reichstag resolution" Profess
sor Delbrueck concludes, would have
had different effect if it was not be-
lieved abroad that the reichstag is
powerless and that the chancellor is
double-tongued-"
In his speech in the house of COM
mons on July 26 former Premier AS
quith asked if Germany was prepared
to evacuate Belgium, to make repara-
ton and to restore absolute independ-
ence to Belgium
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-29
ASKS A DIVORCE
Mrs. Lew L. Collins Says Hus-
band SIandered Her.
Former Rock Island EmpIOye
Also Accused of Neglect.

Nellie Louise Collins has filed a
petition for divorce from Lew L. Col
Inns, a former employe of the Rock
Island here. She alleges that he has
circulated false and slanderous state
ments about her.
Mr. and Mrs. Collins are well
known in Topeka. Their home for
several years has been at 1884 Topeka
avenue.
Mrs Collins says they were mar
ried December %, 1902. She says
that since that time he has been guilty
of extreme cruelty and gross neglect;
that he has circulated false and
slanderous statements about her and
sought to discredit her with their
friends. She states that altho he earns
5000 month he refuses to support
her and stated that he didn't intend
to support her. He left her, she says,
without an income.
In the petition Mrs. Collins asks
that the court grant her title to the
home property at 1884 Topeka avenue
free of incumbrance; also a divorce,
alimony and a $3.50 attorney fee. She
adds that her husband has other
property worth $4,000 besides prop
erty in Illinois, the value of which sh.
does not know.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-29

New York, Aug 2s-Editorial
writers thruout the country, in com
menting on President Wilson's reply
to the pope, today dwelt especially on
the declaration that America and the
allies cannot accept the word of an
autocracy whose record IS one of
broken treaties and promises.
Many deduced the president ap-
pearing in a new ight-as spokesman
for the forces of democracy.
"a new emancipation proclamation
emancipation for the German peo-
pie themselves, if they will accept it,
not less than for the peoples that are
already crushed or menaced by ruth
less military power" declared the
New York World.
Answer From Heart.
The New York Herald said:
THE president has answered from
the great heart of the American peo-
pie. 1t is an answer to the pope, and,
as well, to all advocates of a Prussian
peace-in this country or any other"
New York Times:
1.-The president offers peace to the
German people, but none to men who
would accept sthe offer with lie in
their mouths
"The next scrap of paper must be
endorsed"
Washington Post:
THE United States, thru President
Wilson, notifies Germany that the war
will go on until evidence is given to
the world by defeat or inner reform,
that Germany is no longer a maniac.
but peaceable neighbor.'
The Only Reply. y
st. Louis Globe Democrat:
THE only reply that intelligence
justice and patriotism as well as mer-
cy could make at this time.''
Memphis Commercial Appeal:
TT is a notice to absolutism and to
royal privilege that their day in gov
ernmental affairs of the world is soon
to end"
Boston Post:
''The president shows in his most
crystalline and effective fashion how
futile and evanescent any peace
would be backed only by the puny
faith of the Hohenzollerns."
Pittsburgh Gazette Times:
"The announcement opens the door
to peace surely, but the next move
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-29
RAISE WAR. TAX!
Senate Committee Would Com
mandeer 33 Per Cent Profits.
Would Double the Proposed
Yield of 562 Million.

Washington, Aug. 29.-To meet the
radical movement for greater taxation
of war profits, the senate finance
committee today agreed to amend
mentS carrying war profits taxes of
more than 33 per cent in place of the
present provisions for rs per cent.
The amendments would increase the
war profits tax yield from $562,0h0,-
900 to S1,06O,00 900 in addition to
the taxes under the present. law and
yield third of the bills total taxes.
Retains Pre-War Rate.
The pre-war profits rate of the bill
was retained by the committee but it
added a new maximum war profits tax
rate of 60 per cent on profits in ex-
cess of 800 per cent. The maximum
in the bill was so per cent On profits
over ESQ per cent.
Another substantial change was
made in provisions for exemptions. A
minimum of 6 per cent and a max
imum OF 10 per cent of income on
capital actually invested was approved.
These provisions would care for cor
porations suffering abnormal depres-
sion during the pre-war period.
Corporations making less than i
per cent would be entitled to at least
that exemption and if more than 10
per cent they would receive not over
10 per cent deduction.
Would Take Half.
By these changes the committee es-
timated that the proposed levy would
take 1,2S6,000,0 900 of the SO, ,0e0, ,0OO,-
900 or s4,00O,000,00O war profits esti-
mated to be earned this year. SEN
ators~LaFollette and Gore, exponents
of more radical war profit taxation,
did not attend today committee meet
ing. Chairman Simmons and others
of the majority hope the new levy
almost doubled-will command suffi-
cient support to cause rejection of
the more drastic proposals.
Press Tax Unjust
Senator Shields characterized as
''indefensible" and discriminating, ~
the proposed five per cent tax or
publishers.
1T is the most unjust and iniquit-
GUS in this whole bill and think there
are several that ought to be left out, >
he added
Mckellar Provision Accepted.
Senator McKellar's second class
postage provision for 1-cent rate with
in 900 miles and graduated increases
beyond was accepted, 40 to 35, by the
senate as a substitute for the bills
quarter-cent increase clause 1t is
subject to final action. however. or
Senator Weeks motion to strike out
all publishers taxes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-29
WILL FIGHT THE STATE
Peoples Council to Ask Injunction
Against Governors Custer.

New York, Aug. 29.-Minneapolis
lawyers of the Peoples Council will
seek an injunction against the order
of Governor Burnquist barring
the meeting of the council from the
state of Minnesota, the organiZ-
ing committee announced after a long
meeting here today. Plans for a spe-
cial train to carry eastern delegates
to the meeting have not been aban-
doned, it was said.
Dakota Wants En-?
Minneapolis, Mimi, Aug. 29.-
North Dakota is willing to give the
orphan national peoples council a
home.
Governor Frazier so wired Louis P.
Lochner, executive secretary of the
council, today. His telegram preceded
the councils announcement that the
proposed convention, which was pro-
hibited from meeting here, would be
held in that state, probably in Fargo.
1.-The Peoples Council of America
for Democracy and Peace will be
guaranteed their constitutional rights
in North Dakota" Frazier wired. 1--WE
are loyal and patriotic and believe in
freedom of speech for all people,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-29
DRAFT BILL LAW!
Governor General Signs Can
ada's Military Service Bill.
Calls All Single Men Between
20 and 81 to COIOrs.

Ottawa, Ont, Aug. 29.-Canada's IS
military service bill is a law today,
having been signed by the duke of
Devonshire, governor-general
The bill will be assented in the SEN
ate today by the acting deputy gov
ernor general, Justice Duff.
When regulations and tribunals are
completed in two or three weeks, a
proclamation will be issued ordering
those of the class subject to call, sin
gle men between 20 and "a years of
age, to report at points in their sew
eral districts which will be designated
in the proclamation.
Provision is also made for the sup
preston of publications that may be
convicted of publishing articles which
have for their object the Indictment
of those subject to the military serv-
ice act to refuse obedience to it's pro-
visions or impede its application in
any way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-29
AIR STOCK BURNS!
Incendiary Fires Sweep Price.
less Northwestern Forests.
Timber Was Intended for Use
in Airplane Manufacture.

Washington, Aug. 29.-With forest
fires, reported due to incendiarism,
threatening valuable timber in 7he
northwest intended to furnish airplane
stock for the fighting forces of the
United States and its allies, the forest
service has suspended some of its op-
erations to concentrate all availa BILE
forces III fighting the flames.
Forest service officials said today
the situation was one of the most ser
ious in years, threatening millions OF
feet of timber, especially that in Ore
gon and Washington intended for use
in building airplanes
In Montana and northern Ida no,
1000 men are fighting the flames an
der direction of forest rangers
In those two states approximately
$4,000 already has been spent to
fight fire this season and that figure
is increasing by about $4,000 a ,iay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-29
Mrs. r. j. Hartwel Says Her
Husband Is DOdging Draft.
Says He Struck Her When She
Refused to Sign Exemption.
GOVERNMENT is ON TRAIL
Charges That Another Woman
Finally Signed the Papers.
HartWeH Was Former Manager
of White House Market.

Mrs. r. J. Hartwell, who says her
husband knocked her down on a street
in Kansas City because she refused
to sign papers requesting that he be
exempted from army service, filed a
complaint against Hartwell that start
ed an investigation of his case today
by government agents.
Mrs. Hartwell says her husbands
patriotism ran high for time out
that it has collapsed completely since
he was drawn for service and accepted
after a physical examination.
Hartwell now lives in Kansas City
and is manager of a meat market
there Formerly he lived in Topeka
and was manager of the White House
meat market. Mrs. Hartwell says he
has deserted her and she is living
with her two children at the home OF
her mother, Mrs. Frank Garland. at
Twenty and Madison streets
Recently Mrs. Bartwell was in Kan
sas City and saw her husband. When
she had last seen him he was bemoan-
ing the fact that the condition of his
feet might keep him from doing active
service in the trenches. But when she
saw him in Kansas City, she says he
was lying on a table in his private
office sorrowing over his fate.
HE said he was ruined" said Mrs.
Hartwen, that he had been drawn
for army service and accepted"
Mrs. 1artWeH says he met her on
the street later and wanted her to
sign papers showing that he was
needed to support her and their two
children.
Says He Knocked Her Down.
He wasn't doing me any good any
way" said Mrs. Hartwell today, land
I refused to sign them. He knocked
me down on the street..
Then she made more serious
charges against her husband. She
stated that he is living with another
woman in Kansas City and that it is
her belief that this woman forged her
name to exemption papers and that
he had filed them.
This latter feature is the one the
government officers are particularly
interested in. If there has been any
forgery in exemption papers the de-
partment wants to know it. If the
other woman has signed them as
Hartwell's wife, as Mrs. Hartwell
charges, both Hartwel and the wo-
man are due for trouble.
Mrs Hartwell has told a straight
story" said c. c. Jackson, deputy
marshal, today, land if an investiga-
tion develops the facts as she has
stated them Hartwell is in for trouble.
We are going to the bottom of it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-29
FINNS START RIOT
Number Killed and Wounded in
Fight With Russ Garrison.
Believed Attempted Reassem-
bling Landtag Started Trouble.

London, Aug 29-Serious rioting
at Bjorneborg, Finland, is reported in
a private telegram from Haparada to
Copenhagen forwarded by the Central
News to London. 1t is said fighting
between Firms and soldiers of the
Russian garrison lasted for several
hours, and that a number of persons
were killed or wounded.
This is the day set for reassembling
of the Finnish landtag in defiance of
the dissolution order of the provisional
Russian government. In his address
at the Moscow conference Premier
Kerensky gave warning that the gov
ernment would prevent by force re-
opening of the diet and the carrying
out of the plan for separation of Fin-
land from Russia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-29

must come from the German people" T"
Providence Journal:
In spirit and language the moral
elevation of the reply is not to be
challenged"
Springfield (Mass) Republican:
Perhaps the deepest significance
OF the note lies in its appeal to the
peoples of the central empires to as
sert themselves
A Writ of Custer.
Characterizing the reply as a writ
OF custer" for the Hohenzollerns, the
tation to the peoples of the central
powers to revolt The editorial en-
phasizes the distinction drawn be-
tween the German people and their
masters.
Dallas Evening Journal:
President Wilson makes it clear
that there can be no real, dependable
peace until the cause which produced
the present war has been removed,
that is to say until the present rulers
OF Germany have been deposed."
Springfield, 0lL) State Journal:
1T is assured that President Wilson
in replying to the pope spoke for the
allies. He surely spoke for the people
of the United States.''
German Americans Approve.
German language newspaper COM
ment today on Americas reply to the
POPO aSIGco that the D0SI CndnCo IO1
peace was continuation of the DEM
ocratization movement, which they
declare is now progressing in Ger
many.
Events in Germany seem to indi-
cate that powers are at work which
may bring peace nearer than we now
Know" declared the New York Ger
man Herold. I'VE should be the last
to say that Germany could not stand
considerable share of democracy
The New Yorker Stats lettings
main comment was a reproduction OF
the presidents words declaring thai
America cannot take the word o1
the present rulers of Germany"
The Louisville Anzeiger said:
The reichstag has already giver
unnistakable signs of it's will in tha
direction (namely characterization.
Being insufficiently informed abou
the present trend of public opinion il
Germany, in the face of the new evo
lutions in Russia, it is hard to say
what effect Wilson's words will have
! upon the German people,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-29
TROUBLE AHEAD?
PrO-German TOpekan Given an
Army Commission.
Boss Said To Have Discharged
Man Who "Peached."

Right while government agents
were receiving complaints about the
alleged pro-German leanings of an
employe of big corporation in To-
peka, the employe dropped out of
sight and a short time later showed
up at Fort Riley with a commission as
a lieutenant. He won the commission,
it is said, because of his expert know
ledge in his particular line of work
That's part of the story. A fellow
employe with the corporation thought
he knew something about the new
lieutenant and he told the government
officers about it. He thought they
ought to know. A few days later he
told the officers that he had been
Kicked out of his department" by his
immediate boss because he had
"peached.'
present but they will not stand still.
To Be Investigation.
I'm the first place. said c. c. jack
son, deputy marshal, today, there will
be an investigation of the pro-German
utterances and leanings of the man
who was given a lieutenancy. In the
second place if our informant was dis
charged by his boss because he in
formed, he is due for trouble. We
have instructions from Fred Robert
son, United States district attorney, to
start cases against every man who
discharges an employe because the
employe furnished the government
with information. 1t is none of the
employers business what goes on be-
tween the government and his en-
ploye. The employer who pulls off a
thing of that kind is subject to a term
in the federal penitentiary and this
case looks like the real thing. The
the part Of an employer is aiding and
abetting the enemy"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-29
TURN OVER MINES
Coal Operators About Ready TO
Let Govt Run Business.
Say Prices and Wage Demand
Put Them Between Fires.

Indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 29.-Gov-
ernment operation of coal mines in
the central competitive field to insure
an adequate fuel supply to meet war
times, today was a possibility.
Operators were silent while United
Mine Workers officials waited reply
to their invitation for a joint confer
ence to discuss the wage increase, pro-
posed yesterday. The miners, how
ever expect the operators to agree to
a conference.
But, there were intimations among
pessimistic operators here that they
were about ready to turn their mines
over to Coal Dictator Garfield and let
him wrestle with their problems.
Confronted on one side with a max
imum price for coal and on the other
by the miners request for increased
pay, the operators feel, that they
are between the devil and the deep
blue sea-
Union officials pointed out they Of
fered, if necessary, to go to Washing
ton and show their need for higher
wages, in an effort to secure an up
ward revision of the present coal max
imum price.
Miners point to rapidly rising prices
of the necessities of life and to their
fixed wage.
Wait On Conference
Springfield, ILL, Aug. 29.-Possi-
bility of strike of the $4,000 miners
in Illinois if the coal operators refuse
the request for an increase in wages
when they meet with the heads of the
miners at Indianapolis September 6,
would not be discussed by the miners
officials today.
The officials also refused to say
whether or not they would sanction
a strike if the demands were refused.
They declared all mines are operating
at full capacity today and will contin-
ue to do SO unless something occurs
at the Indianapolis conference to
change the