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Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
BURY VICTIMS OF
MEXICAN BANDITS
Cowboys and Homesteaders
Stand About Grave with
Hats and Guns in Hand.
PAY RANSOM TO VILLISTAS

Campbelps Ranch, n. NJ. Via Au-
tomobile Courier to Hachita, N. ny,
Feb. l8.-When the bodies Of A. P.
Peterson, Burton Jensen and Hugh
Accord, were committed to the earth
here today, the final chapter of the
Corner Ranch raid was ended and
three more names added to the list
of Americans killed by bandits in
Mexico.
While the Mormon church choir
chanted, "Oh, My Father" as the
caskets were lowered into the ground,
mounted Mormon scouts patrolled the
Mexican boundary line to prevent a
surprise attack by bandits, while cow
boys and homesteaders stood about
the graves with their wide brinmed
hats in one hand and their rifles IN the
other.
Troops Reach Hachita.
Hacita, N. M, Feb. l8.-The three
companies of the First New Mexico
infantry, commanded by Captain J. c.
Atwood and Captain Arthur Brock,
arrived here late today lin motor
trucks from Columbus, N M. These
troops left for Alamo Hueco and
Culberson's ranch, where they will be
held subject to orders to proceed by
motor trucks to any point on the
border, where a raid may be made.
The $1,000 ransom demanded by
Jose Ynez Salazar for the release OF
Bunk" Spencer and his Mexican wife
has been paid by check delivered to
Spencer at the International bound
airy. 1t was announced by Warren
representatives here that the check
would be honored upon its presen.
tration on this side of the border. II
was understood here the ransom was
! paid upon condition that the Ojitos
ranch property. 1000 head of cattle
and other ranch property would moi
be. molested.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
Burglars Special Hobby
Is TAKING Dress Goods

Burglars are making the rounds Of
dressmakers and tailors. Friday eve
ming Mrs. Charles Hampton, who
runs a dressmaking establishment in
the Rose building, reported to the
police that some one had broken into
her place and taken large amount of
dress goods. Edward Thiel. 7l9 South
Sixteenth street, also reported that
his place had been robbed OF over
sixty yards OF cloth which he had in
his windows for display purposes.
Wednesday burglars gained entrance
to Durham & Dunham's by unlock
ing the front door. They helped them
selves to a quantity OF cloth.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
BERNST0RFF now
IN BRITISH WATERS
Ambassador Has Quiet Time at
Halifax While Ship Is
Examined.
NONE DISTURB DIPLOMAT

Halifax N. S., Feb. lS.-Count Won
Bernstorff, former German ambaS
sador to the United States. and mem
bers of his party, homeward bound on
the Scandinavian-American steamer
Frederik VIII, had a comparatively
quiet time aboard ship in British
waters here today. They were free
from every possible source OF dis
turbance, for none except government
officials and inspectors was permitted
to pass the Gordon of naval boats OF
every description that steamed back
and forth near where the Fredcrik
was at anchor in Bedford Basin.
The monotony of the enforced STAY
was relieved somewhat when batch
of American newspapers was taken
aboard, to be eagerly read by Count
Won Bernstorff, who is known to be
keenly interested in the development
of the international situation since his
departure from New York on Wed
nesday.
Examination Well Under Way.
All editions of the local newspapers
were sent to the ship during the dav
and these constituted the stock OF in
formation obtained by the former am
bassador and several hundred German
consular agents with him, as there
was no mail to be picked up here
1t was learned that the examlna-
ton of the Frederik's cargo was well
under way tonight. Some of the III
spectors intimated that it mign re-
quire a week or more to complete
the examination, although this view
was not shared generally by port
officials. Every effort is being made to
expedite the work so that the ship
may resume its voyage without un-
necessary DELAY.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
Soldiers Home Notes

Grand Island. Ncb,. Feb. is,--tspecial. -
William H. .Sidner late Of Company r..
Ninety sixth Illinois infantry died Thursday
His body was taken To- Omaha for inter-
mcnt. accompanied by Aatron bradbury.
He was admitted to Burkett from Douglas
county on October as. 1so5
Charles ". Wolf has been suffering for
the last three weeks With an attack OF
the grip.
Mrs. Matte Rhodes, who has Just re-
turned from the St Francis hospital In
Grand Island. Is confined 10 her cot
james Mitchell Is making arrangements to
take an extended trip TO Florida Last
fall he purchased 4 small tract Of land and
had q nice bungalow built thereon, SO in
the future he will reside In his own home
IN the winter.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
Commercial Clubs Call
MEETING for Bridqeport

Alliance, Neb., Feb. l8-(Special.)
Walter c. Rundin, president Of the
Associated Commercial clubs of west
ern Nebraska, has called meeting
at Bridgeport Tuesday. February u.
At that meeting the association men,
bers will take up the matter of legisla-
ton, of prospective action for the
coming year, together with the cleo
ton of new officials.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
English Says No Military
Work for His Bow Scouts

c. H. English, head Of the Boy
Scouts OF Omaha, states he has re-
ceived many inquiries from parents
asking confirmation of a report that
the Boy Scouts would be asked to
organize for national defense work
such as boys could do.
II wish to publicly state that this
movement was started by the United
States Boy Scouts, which has no con-
nection with our organization, which
is the Boy Scouts Of America" said
Mr.. English.
THE Boy Scouts of America, as
outlined in the official manual en-
gage in no military activities" added
Mr.. English.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19

and you arose to the sublime under
taking. When men and women want
to do great things for God they en-
counter limitations, disabilities, pain
full discouragements. Our civilization
was built up with limitations, the At
lantic cable was laid under distress
ing conditions, the railway systems OF
our country, the greatest cities-all
were built by men and women hedged
with difficulties, comprised with in
hrmities.
And the church of the living God.
was it not built in weakness and pow
erty and tears and blood; were not
the foundation stones laid in obscur-
ity and poverty and difficulty and per-
secutions?
Church IN Nebraska.
This, too, is true OF the church in
the west, in the pioneer days, and
especially true of the church ins Ne
braska. Tt was not built up in leisure,
in affiuence, in culture, but with in
finite difficulties. In this upbuilding
God has looked down upon some of
the most splendid sacrifices ever
made. When one thinks what it costs
our people to give what they do give
and that frequently it is the result o.
the sweat of their faces we are
amazed. If you want to do anything
for God that is grand you will have to
do it in defiance Of difficulties. If YOU
want to do anything little for God.
you will not have much trouble; and
ii you want to do anything less than
that you will not have any trouble at
all. We shall. therefore, place the
people OF the diocese in groups. First
those who choose to do something
grand for the completion Of the cathe-
dral; secondly, those who wish to do
something less; the third class we
will not even mention here.
Question Of Faith.
my dear people, you do not know
what you can do until you put your
soul into the doing of it. 1t is not a
question of instruments and of re-
sources; it is question of faith, spirit,
enthusiasm, sacrifice. We will triumph
over our limitations by Gods power,
we will complete the cathedral; we
will present it to Him as a thanks
giving offering of bishop, priests and
people; we will consecrate it to the
most high as the expression of the
faith, hope and love of Omaha
Much as | am interested in the
new cathedral with its massive walls
and its stored windows, | am more
deeply interested in the men and
women who will worship within its
portals, men and women whose souls
will aspire heavenward, men and
women who will represent all that is
high in citizenship and in sympathy
for their fellow men who are in realty
the living temples of God.
I'VE commend to the pastors the
completion of the new cathedral and
Earnestly ask their cooperation.
Subscriptions will be thankfully
acknowledged by me and by Father
Harrington St. Cecilia's cathedral
We will distribute on the day of the
dedication a book printed on parch-
ment containing the names OF the in
dividuals, communities and parishes
with the sums given as a grateful
memorial to future generations of the
men and women who have in the face
of obstacles reared this imposing
temple to the Most High.
| -. ]. HARTY.
Archbishop and Bishop of Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
Travelling Men Are 70
Hear Story Of Lincoln

Next Saturday night members Of
Omaha post, Travelling Mems Pro-
tcctive association, will meet at the
Hotel Castle, where A. A. Brooks,
chaplain OF the national association,
will deliver an address telling Of
Abraham Lincoln. During the eve
ming there will be music, refreshments
and smokes. This is the last men,
bership meeting prior to the annual
election that will be held Mach II.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
Millions Needed to Save
Starving BeIqian People

Washington, Feb. ia fear that
the American commission for relief
in Belgium may not be able to carry
its task to successful conclusion was
voiced by Herbert c. Hoover, director
of the organization in an address to-
night before the National Geographi-
cal society. I'VE need an additional
100000 to 100000 month"; he
Sa;d ~.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19

The pleasant purgative effect ex-
perienccd after taking Chamberlain's
Tablets and the healthy condition Of
body and mind to which they CON
tribute, makes one feel that living is
North while.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19

London, FEB. ls.--A force Of 100000 men
10 required for the British navy, according to
the naval estimates for the coming financial
year. which provide, for that number.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
Honor Pupils at South
High Grow in Number

The honor roll for the third six
weeks and the entire semester among
students OF the South High school
was issued from the principals Office
Saturday.
The third six weeks shows an ap.
preciable increase in the number
of honor pupils. The list follows.
Physical culture and chorus are not
included in the rating. Those who
made 90 in each subject carried are:
Minnie Ctnek Anna Morkowitz
Evelyn Clark Martha Adams
1.adislay Fslt Anna Anderson
Evelyn Glaesel Helen Benson
Warren greenElit Louise Mathews
Hazel Hayhurst Nellie Nichols
Arlene Helm Ralph Nelson
Helen Hoffman Ruth Orchard
Paul johnson Mathilda Pinnow
Vlasta kadavy Jessie Tucker
Mary Lucid Evelyn Wore
Rhea McGuigsn Irene Wall
Those whose average was 20 IN all
the subjects carried are:
Ruth Arlander Melba Havel
Mildred Bliss Arthur Hedgren
Clara Broscheit Ellen Schneider
Joe BuglewicZ Fridolf TiAsell
Elsie Bush Mable Hedgren
Margaret Ruemping Lydia Henni
Mile Smith Hope Hibbard
Helen Vojtooh Retta Korbmacher
Alta Davis Helen McMartin
Margaret Davis Blanche Sherwood
Emma DworRk Harriet Ulmer
Bessie Duncan Emma Palm
Emma Falt Mile Pavlik
Fannie Sachs Lillian Polian
Elmer TisseIi GEORGE Prince
Eva Yerinn Helen Reed
Mildred Farrell Sadie Roth0lx
Helen Gabriel Irving Ulmer
Ruth Groschek
Those who made FIVE "A" grades
during the semester are:
Minnie cineh Helen Hoffman
Those who made four "A" grades
Mildred Bliss Ralph Nelson
Margaret Davis Fridolf Tissell
Hazel Hayhurat Mathiida Plnnow
Hhea Michigan Jessie Tucker
Louise Mathews Irene Wall
Nellie Nichols Eva YeriaB.
Those who made three "a grades
are:
Martha Adams Retta Korbmacher
Anna Anderson Helen kubat
Helen Benson Bruce McCuioch
Clara Br6Hche,t Emma Palm
Evelyn Clark Mile Pavltk
Emma Fa1t Lillian Polian
Ladialav Falt Helen Reed
Helen Gabriel Margaret Ruemping
| Rosaiine Goidenberg Ellen Schneider
Mabel Hedgren Mile Smith
Hope Hibbard Helen Vojtech
| Paul johnson Evelyn Wore
ylasta Kadavy Lillian Williams,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-02-19
ARCHBISHOP ASKS
HELP FOR CATHEDRAL

CONTINUED From Page One.)
Evening star., 1917-01-14
COTTON-GROWlNG INDUSTRY
OUTSIDE OF THIS COUNTRY

ratio of increase than the gain in the
production Of cotton in the United States
To illustrate, the production of cotton in
the United States for the season of 1902
% was i0.75S, 900 bales and the total pro-
duction of the world was 1855, 900 bales.
while in 1861 the production of the
United States was ] 3,000,0 900 bales and the
production OF the world was 23,00G 900
The bumper cotton crop of the United
States was for the season of I9lI-l2
when the production was 16043OOO
bales and the worlds crop was 24,549.-
o0c bales. The production Of cotton in
India and in Egypt shows Il very slow
increase. In 1902-03 India grew
3.367. 900 bales; in I9o6-07 the crop
reached 4.9S4.000 bales and in the two
succeeding seasons declined to three
million and odd bales. In 1928 India
again crossed the 100000 bale mark
and in each of TIE seasons. I913-14,
1314-15, crossed the 100000 bale mark
only to fall back in 1856 to a crop
of 3,Sl9.000 bales.
The current figures for the Indian
cotton crop place it at four and a half
million bales For the past fifteen years
the Egyptian cotton crop has fuctuated
within narrow limits varying from
1,1GS.0O0 bales in 1902 to 200. 900 bales
in 1916. Russia has increased it's out
put from 1000 in 1902 to 100000
bales in 1915 and the increase was
steady from 1902 to 1914, and for the
past three years the cotton product of
Russia has been nearly stationary.
The Chinese cotton crop stands at
about 100000 bales a year, and the
crop Of all parts of the world outside
of the United States, India. Egypt,
Russia and China stands for 1916 at
about 100000 bales The cotton
production OF these scattered parts OF
the world has been nearly stationary
for the last six years and shows only
a small increase over the crops of the
previous ten years.
Evening star., 1917-01-14

or a road station every night and, as
a rule. we got along well.
rs there much of Alaska that cannot
be reached by telegraph"
NO. None of great Importance. We
have now lines along the Yukon. eN-
cept between Keltag and kCt.Ik, ana
we have recently put in a rndie station
there. The upper part of the Yukon
is covered by the radio. or wireless,
We have about twelve hundred miles
of line. I should say, in this district.
What kind of telegraph operators do
the soldiers make" I asked.
Very good. and they seem 20 like
the job. The most OF those We have
now have been for some time in the
L. sta for their fun term of four
yeSrs. Some would stay longer II
possible. AS for me, ! would rather
be in the active service of the army.
But il is all in the days work"
rs there any difference in the ease
of sending telegraph messages In
Alaska over that Of warmer coun-
tries
"as far the telegraph lines are con-
cerned. As to wireless messages. they
are more difficult to send on account
OF the static electricity in the air"
Next to the telegraph the most i'm
portant work OF the War Department
in Alaska is the building and mainte-
nance of the roads and trails. Prac-
tically all of the wagon roads and
sled roads or the territory nave Dt'n
built by the government. and two or
three million dollars have been spent
in this way within the past twelve
years. The appropriations OF Congress
for road building now amount to some
thing like 100000 per annum. and. IN
addition to this. about 100000 more
is annually gotten from the Alaska
fund. collected in licenses and other
fees 65 per cent of which is set aside
for road building. The roads and trails
are under the direction of Col w. L.
Richa rdson. an officer of the War De-
partment who has long served In
Alaska At present there are sse miles
of wagon road. sl7 miles Of sled road
and more than 1000 miles of trails.
Road and trail building is the crying
need of the territory, and IL will grow
in Importance when the railroad from
Seward to Fairbanks is completed. The
roads will be needed feeders for
the new railways, and II is only by
good trails that prospecting can be
carried on. The Canadian government
is said to handle its road matters much
better than we do. 1t stands ready
at any time to build wagon roads to
any new mining camp IL the output
promises to pay. The roads of the
Yukon territory are better today than
those of Alaska.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Evening star., 1917-01-14
Heads ! Win.

mRAISING the new Lloyd George
U cabinet. Judge James c. Clayton.
the noted jurist. said at dinner in
Chicago:
Lloyd George. who is the one real
Napoleon among the allies leaders, the
one real man OF genius, will now push
the war, and. incidentally. he will get
credit for the thin IS he does
Lloyd George ran the liberal pre-
war cabiret. but Mr. Asquith took the
credit for all his successes LLOYD
George only got credit for the cabinets
failures.
"Asuuith and the rest treated Lioyd
George rs the son. on leaving college
and entering the Arm, treated his ia
ther.
Look here. SON the father growled
one day, let's have LITTLE less Il l. L
around this office. and a little more
We
".Au right. dad. said the youny
man.
"A couple of days later the son bent
over the fathers desk and said In a
rather anxious voice:
We'll, we've gone and done II now.
sure
Done what? said the father.
"'Why-er-marriei the typewri;-
err"
Evening star., 1917-01-14

came solicitous Zita. When she had
adequately nursed her husband she
made for the headquarters staff, ex-
amined the plans, asked why the Aus
trians were not advancing and began
to stick pins in the maps She stuck
the pins well in advance of the Aus
trian trenches.
What is that" asked Bothmer
Il expect our heroes will soon be
advancing there" said Zita.
This was too much for Bothmer. He
took down a telephone receiver, pre-
tended to get into communication with
the divisional staff near the front and
began:
The archduchess thinks that you
must move ahead"
Next morning. when the archduchess
came. Bothmer again took the tele-
phone receiver.
What, he bawIed. 80 you advanced
as the archduchess ordered. A great
victory. you say? Her imperial high
ness will be delighted"
Archduchess Zita looked up. An agree
able smile spread over her face-a smile
of complacent triumph. Next day she
stuck more pins in the map. to show
Bothmer where his troops should go.
Again Bothmer got a report by tele-
phone of a great victory won through
the archduchess' genius. Bothmer hoped
this satire would work, but the arch
crusty. When Archduchess Zita next
turned up. he spoke into the telephone.
Badly defeated. How terrible. All our
Evening star., 1917-01-14

herits the grand ducal crown. Then. as
a married woman. she could not very
come to her. for convent, could she?
BY which you perceive how the grand
thinkers of the German empire worry
about about few silly girls, They actually s,,
Elizabeth and Sophie with being capa-
BILE of following their elder sister to a
convent il hard pushed. and II not
roped securely in advance.
They even suspect the boy of Schaum-
burg-Lippe of playing safety two ways.
What If he should secretly object to
marrying a girl against her will. to
fiivver Luxembourg or win it. either?
You he has lot at stake. The
prfncipality of Schaumburg-Lippe (216
square miles) pays him civil list,
and neither do the Schaumpurg-L'pper
help him out with empire taxes. Ali
comes out of Ernest's pocket. In the
past ten years his empire taxes have
increased to s65,0o0 annually. He pays
them cheerfully, because he is probably
the richest Of German sovereigns. great
or little. All right. says young Ernest.
but there's A limit.
Suppose the sagacious youth espouses
duchess. The German princeling. her
consort must hold Luxembourg for
Germany by vested marriage right. A
grand position. in tn" limelight, but OBJ
prejudice against forced weddings and
horribly expensive. The Schaumburg-
Lippe millions would melt in the great
struggle for the empire. and. possessed
of the important principilisty of Lux
embourg (not really his. but Germany's).
his immunities of Scha haumburg-Lippe
would melt into the empire.
The empire is sick of the immunities
of little semi-independent German
states, and this war and the taxing that
goes with it only needs q preteNt 10
make a clean sweep of many. Here
appears the third complication Of this
counting.
For instance, that other Ernest boy
of Sake Meiningen. He went counting
to Luxembourg like sheep to the
slaughter. and the girls. they say',
locked him in his apartments.
SAKE -Meiningen Qess inha bitants than
Denver, COLI is SO small that one street
of Ernests good town of Kranichfeld
has four houses situated in Sake
Evening star., 1917-01-14

q MERICA'S primacy in cotton has
~ been challenged many times. but
has never been seriously menaccd.
Perhaps it never may be menacad, but
on that score man enters the realm
of prophecy, realm in which there are
no certainties and a myriad of unccr-
tainties. Large areas of the worlds
surface can be made to grow cotton.
and as matter of fact quite large
area, scattered over the face of the
globe and outside of the United States.
is devoted to the cultivation of cotton.
Outside of the United states the larg
est production of cotton is in India. and
aext in sequence come China and
Egypt. There are actual cotton pro-
ducing areas in China, Japan. Chosen,
Tho Philippines. Siam. Persia. Turkes-
southwest Africa, Angola, PoTtu-
ruese West Africa, Egypt. Uganda,
Rhodes:a. Mombasa. Brazil. Peru, Co
Iornbia. Mexico Cuba and Haiti, and in
Java. Borneo and the F;ji Islands
There are large areas under experiment
tation III the cultivation of cotton in
British East Africa. British South
Africa, the Belgian Kongo, Nigeria.
Sudan. Abyssinia. Anglo-Nubia. IN
Queensland, the northern territory of
Australia and in many other lands.
An American writer once said that
the south has survived the competi-
ton of Egypt, Sudan. Turkestan and
India, and 1T can worry along under
the competiti of Asia Minor and no
doubt all the rest Of the world" That
observation was made in commenting
on an article written by Paul Rohr-
bach a German author, and published
in a German magazine on the subject
of the economic future of Asia Miner.
He said that irrigation projects then
under way in the Taurus mountains
would furnish millions of hundred
weights of cotton for German indus
try.
1t was clear that this German eco
nomic author expected that the cotton
growing region of Asia Minor would
supersede the American southern
states as a German source of cotton.
An American commentator wrote that
Reducing the question from rhetoric
TO square miles, it is doubtful IL the
part OF Asia Minor in which cotton can
be grown is equal in area to the state
of Mississippi, and certainly that
state Is far better adapted to cotton
production than any but few favor
ed patches in the Adana region"
The United States produces about one
half of all the cotton grown in the world,
though the figures indicate that the other
cotton growing sections of the world are
slowly and steadily increasing their cot
ton output and at somewhat greater
Evening star., 1917-01-14
Jack Ashore.

g ECRETARY DANIELS at luncheon
~ said with loud laugh:
some OF these naval critics are as
ignorant of maritime matters az Bob
Bovine was ignorant OF land matters.
Bob and his best girl were crossing
country lane when trolley car
whizzed past and nearly got them.
Say ye blind landlubber,' Bob roar
ed at the conductor, can't ye see where
ye're goin? ye might have killed my
lady friend here
"'Ah, what's eatin 'ye? yelled the
conductor. i amt drivin' this car, am
l.?
but ye're steerin' her. amt ye?'
yelled Bob Bowline"