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Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31

The school bell will ring Monday
morning, September s, summoning
$4,000 boys and girls back to the
public school for another years
work in the classrooms. One thou
sand teachers will be ready to re-
sumo their work after the summers
vacation.
Central High school will be open
at s a. m. each day this week. except
Saturday, for the registration of pu-
pills, according to the following
schedule: Monday. seniors; Tues
day, juniors; Wednesday, sopho-
mores; Thursday, mid-year pupils
who have not completed their
freshman studies; Friday, freshman
pupils who are entering school for
the first time. Similar registrations
will be held at South High school.
Congestion at Dundee School.
Superintendent J. H. Beverage
anticipates a congestion at Dundee
school, where halliday sessions may
be necessary in some of the rooms.
A four-room addition to this school
will be ready for occupancy during
the fall. 1t is probable that some
of the rooms at Lake school will be
crowded.
A permanent accelerated class for
seventh A, seventh B and eighth A
classes will be maintained in the
Field school. This will enable ad-
vanced pupils. recommended by
their principals, to skip classes.
They will be required to pass in,
telligence tests before being ad-
mitted to the elasa
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31
new METHOD
OF CHECKING
alien influx
IN A N ERIC A.
Bill Now Being Prepared by
the House immigration
Committee-Regarded as
Most Drastic.

Washington, Aug. "a new
method of dealing with the incom-
ing alien problem is embodied in a
bill being prepared by the house i'm
migration committee. 1t is regard
ed as the most drastic measure of
the kind ever presented to congress.
Adoption of the bill would mean,
its trainers say, literal fulfllment Of
the so-called "gentlemen's agree
ment" between the United States
and Japan with respect to immigra-
ton, and would keep out Japanese
coolies.
Under the Root-T okihama agree
ment, Japan is obligated to send no
coolies to this country, but it is
charged the records disclose that
they arrive by the thousands, with
passports as merchants, students
and the like. Once here, it is al
legged, they remain, send for pic
ture Brides" raise families and their
children become citizens of the
United States by right of birth.
Will Break Up inflow.
Representative Albert Johnson. Of
Hoquiam, Wash, chairman of the
house immigration committee, in
charge of the preparation Of the bill
says the requirement that aliens
landing at American ports must have
passports with a time limit will
break up the great inflow of foreign
ers. The bill provides that aliens
coming within exemption clauses OF
the present law must obtain pass
ports from their own governments,
vised by consular agents of the
United States, and limited as to
time.
But the bill does not stop there.
Aliens, who under present laws are
eligible to citizenship, would be per-
mitted to come to the United States
without passports providing they
state in writing their belief that they
intend to reside here and become
citizens. They must agree to regis
ter at least once a year, failure to do
so being a cause for deportation.
Failure to take out nrSt papers dt
the end of two years residence, also
is cause for deportation.
Must Remain Five Years.
After taking out papers, aliens
must remain here five years for final
citizenship, with a time allowance
off for knowledge of the elements of
the American plan of government
and proficiency in the English lam
guage. If an alien does not require
citizenship in eight years he is sent
home.
The committee hopes to provide a
plan by which citizens of contiguous
territory, Canada and Mexico, may
visit the United States on cards is
sued annually.
Chairman Johnson is trying to
have congress send a special COM
mittee comprising eastern and mid
die west members to the Pacific
coast to study the Japanese situa-
ton. 1--WE want the east to study
II >" he said.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31
Better Babies Contest
is One of Many Features
At Nebraska State Fair
Everybody Who Has Attended Annual Exhibits Knows
of These Prize Infant Shows and Hundreds Wait
for Chance to Participate

Everybody who has attended the
Nebraska state fair in the last six
years knows all about the better
babies contests.
That is, everybody who has eyes
and ears knows about it.
For 'Nebraska's prize babies are
sight to help sore eyes, and some
times to wake up deaf ears, too.
Those are the times when Mrs.
AS Johnny wants his clothes back
again, and sets up lusty wall about
it. Mrs. BIS Susie hears him, and
cries from sympathy.
Farmer C's little Tommy got up
too early in order to reach Lincoln,
and is tired of the show already.
Grandma DIS Sammy is hungry,
and Daddy Els little Mary Jane
thinks it's sleepy time.
All Cry in Chorus.
So they all cry in chorus. Those
are the times when the better
babies" contest needs no posters to
call attention to it. Of course,
there are other times when every
body's happy, and the whole chorus
consists of laughs, coos and crows.
But whether they laugh or cry
during their few minutes of examin-
alton, the better babies bring smiles
of approval from every passer-by.
If you have a bright, plump, rosy
boy or girl between 18 and SO
months, send in your application to
Secretary Danielson at the state
fair grounds before August 20, and
bring it to the fair.
More Serious Problem.
But the state has a more serious
purpose in asking you to bring the
handicapped children to the fair, too.
The late selective draft called atten-
ton to the many defective young
men in our country. And many OF
these defects could have been quite
easily corrected in childhood. So
now the federal government, the
state and, of course, the parents, are
trying harder than ever before to
bring each male child to perfect
manhood.
Corps Of Experts.
For the past three years, the fair
has employed a corps of the states
best medical experts to examine and
advise with her ailing. crippled or
backward children during one day
of the fair. The first year only FIVE
little sufferers came for advice, and
those all from Lincoln. The second
year, II applicants appeared, and
many parts of the state were repre-
scented.
Last year, 20 parents had written
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31
Crack Riders Will
Compete at Roundup

Garden City, Kan, Aug. 3o.-The
ninth annual Cattlemen's Carnival,
Which is to this part of the Cow
country" what the Cheyenne
roundup" is to the northwest, will
be held here today, tomorrow and
Friday. Hundreds of Cowboys
and 'cowgirls", many of them old.
timers in the game, have entered
the lists or are here for a renewal
of oldtime friendships.
A large cash prize list has At
tracted many famous riders for the
big meet. A. special attractions In
the evening, 4 series OF wrestling
matches will be staged. Tonight
Martin Plestina and John PETROL,
Bulgarian Tige", will wrestls. J.
c. Marsh, manager for Plestina, has
a standing offer Of $1,000 for any
one who can throw his man.
Tomorrow night Westergaards
will meet the winner Of tonights
bout.
Farmer" Burns will give wrest-
ling exhibitions each night.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31
Skeleton Is introduced as
Evidence for First Time in
History Of a Court in u. S.
Relatives of John A. Woody, Young Kansas Farmer,
Say Bones Are Those of Their Kin Who Disap-
peared Years Ago-Rufus King Maple Hill, Kan,
Held for Murder of Three Men, One of Whom Is a
Nebraskan

residents are concerned, is practi-
cally the same Kansas country
town it was IL years ago, when
Rufus King came here and started
livery stable. Many men recall
John Woody and Reuben Gut
schall and the peddler, as we'll as
incidents connected with their
strange disappearance.
The old peddler, Civil War vet
eran, had become a familiar sight
about Maple Hill before he disap-
peared in 1908. On earlier trips he
had stayed at the towns boarding
house, conducted by a gray-haired
woman in whose safekeeping his
stock of jewelry always was left at
night Shortly before his disap-
pearance, it is said, he began stay
ing instead with Rufus King. Then
he disappeared, and King is said to
have explained to inquirers that he
had purchased the old mans horse
and buggy, which were still at his
stable.
The disappearance of the old ped
dler, unknown except by casual &C
quaintances, did not arouse the same
feeling that developed when Reuben
Gutschall, a young farmer, and John
Woody, livery stable employee of
Kings, disappeared. Woody has
not been seen since March. 1909,
and Gutschall disappeared in the
same strange manner in December,
1918. Not trace has been had of
them since.
Is Mechanical Genius.
AS the years passed, the three
mysterious disappearance were
gradually forgotten by the public.
"Rufe" King continued to maintain
his livery stable on the main street.
He divided his time between it and
the blacksmith shop next door, and
his home nearby, to which he had
brought wife, a Waubunsee county
girl, soon after he came to Maple
Hill. King was an unfinished ar
tisan with tools, an untaught genius
in metal work and mechanics. and
often the towns blacksmith called
on his native ability to solve
puzzle of mechanics. If he was
somewhat iliterate, he was genial
and given to public displays of un-
selfishness. He is big and brawny,
and many are the stories of dare
devil tasks he undertook and ac-
complished. One much repeated
story is of King carrying mans
sized load of lumber across near
by stream as he balanced himself
on the single girder of bridge
that was to be erected. Then, too,
he was the owner of Maple Hills
first automobile.
King left Maple Hill several years
ago, and is said to have spent most
of the time since in Colorado. 1t
was not until August IA, that he
saw the little town again-the day
the second skeleton was unearthed.
In plain sight of the hundreds who
had gathered around the livery
stable following that discovery.
King passed laughingly through
Maple Hill on his way to Jail at
Topeka, facing charges of having
committed what is alleged to be
one of the most brutal series of
murders in the history of Kansas.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31
Mormons Come Back
To Colony Destroyed
By Villas Bandits

Douglas, Ariz., Aug. 30.-Some OF
the several hundred Mormons who
were driven out of their colony at
Colonia Morelos, IS miles south
east of Douglas by Villas army OF
invasion in 1916 are endeavoring to
recover their homes from the Next
can squatters who have usurped
them. About 10 Mormon families
still live in the colony, but are not
permitted to occupy their own brick
houses. Mexican families are living
in them and refuse to quit, proclaim
ing the doctrine of Mexico for
Mexicans."
MANY other Mormons, disheart-
ened by their reversals have begun
life anew in the United States.
Appeals have been made to the
Mexican government by the Nor
mons without result. Recently the
American State department asked
the Mexican government to drive
out the usurpers and restore their
property to them. The eolonists
hone this effort will be successful.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31

of their intention to bring children
to the free clinic, so medical spe-
cialists were employed to handle TO-.
But when the day arrived, 40 little
applicants appeared, and specialists,
history takers, nurses and assistants
were all so hurried they could not
do their best work.
Those children were certainly an
interesting group. Some of them so
near perfect that you'd admire them,
envy the parents, and miss entirely
the little defect that was a source
of worry. Some whose little trou-
bles were easily corrected-warts,
protruding ears, crooked teeth, bad
posture. Others whose troubles
were very real and very large, yet
much could be done to make the
best of them.
Never Make a Football Hero.
The little chap with the withered
leg since an attack of infantile pa
ralysis, could only be helped, not
made into a football hero. The lit
tie cretin with her defective thyroid,
could not be made into a brilliant
scholar, but she could be lifted far
above the idiot class by carefully
watched and persistent thyroid
feeding. The deaf mute could not
be made normal, but with his inter-
est in machinery, he could be spe-
cially educated to useful, independ-
ent, and interesting life. A few lit
tie sufferers could not be helped by
anything medical science knows yet.
This year, as usual, the corps of
medical experts will Include special
lists in children's diseases, eye, ear,
nose and throat, nervous diseases,
surgery, orthopedic surgery, den
tistry, etc. If your kiddie, under
IL years has any health troubles.
write, Mr.. Danielson that you're
bringing him to the handicapped
childrens' clinic, September 4. Only
contagious diseases excluded.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31

Eskridge, Kan, Aug. 30-(Spe
cial.) identification by rela
tives of skeleton, several years old
as that of John A. Woody, a young
farmer, for whose death Rufus King
is being held here, is believed te
be the first occasion of skeleton
being introduced as evidence in q
court in the United States.
The skeleton was dug up in the
yard of livery barn at Maple Hill
owned by King. 1t remains for the
court to decide whether or not such
evidence can be introduced. Fur
thermore. the relatives of Woody
will have to prove that the skeleton
is that of their missing kin.
Charged With Murder.
Rufus King has been bound over
for trial on charge of murder in
connection with the disappearance
of a jewelry peddler at Maple Hill
several years ago. The discovered
skeleton is believed to be that Of
William +. Ringer, brother of T. C.
Ringer. Tilden, Neb., and c. R. Rim
ger, Wisner, Neb. King is also
held on a charge of murder in con-
nection with the disappearance OF
Reuben Cuthall of Maple Hill sew
eral years ago.
The unearthing of three skele-
tons, which appears to solve the
mystery of the disappearance OF
three men from Maple Hill years
ago. was not entirely matter OF
accidental discovery.
By chance, the first skeleton to
be found was dragged from beneath
a pile of personal property, said to
belong to King, which was stored
in a shed in the center of the town
"a bag filled with human bones,
identified as the remains of Reuben
Gutschall.
Reveal More Skeletons.
But two citizens, recalling Incl
dents which they related to the au-
thorities, led the officials to places
where, few minutes of digging re-
vealed the other two skeletons.
Years ago, it is said to have been
told to one citizen, a small mound
of earth appeared close beside the
livery stable owned by Rufus King,
and not 10 feet from the sidewalk
of the main street. Until the dis
covery of the first skeleton led to
the arrest of King on the charge of
murder, this citizen thought little of
the incident. Who. he had pointed
out the place, a skeleton was un-
covered which is said to be that of
an itinerant jewelry salesman who
disappeared in 1908. The mans
skull was crushed. Beside TIL. skele-
ton was the barrel of a gun, the
barrel still loaded.
Another resident recalled that,
when putting new shingles on the
roof of the livery barn several years
ago, he had noticed slight depres-
sion in the ground alongside the
stable, where a pool of water had
gathered. He directed the officials
to the place, and last Sunday the
authorities found there the remains
of body said to have been posi-
lively identified by the boys father
as that of John Woody, who dis
appeared in March, 1909.
Town is Unchanged.
Maple Hill today, as far as its
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31
Iron Industry of Sweden Is
MenaCed by High Coal Prices

Stockholm, Aug. 30.-The Swed-
ish iron industry is declared to be
menaced by the high price of coal.
Some iron works now are being
operated only at one-third their
capacity for this reason, although
orders are plentiful. Importation OF
coal from Germany is completely
stopped, and British coal costs the
equivalent of $3.50 a ton and coal
from America about $l.25 less.
Iron manufacturers are urging the
government to use 100000 tons OF
Swedish shipping to bring coal from
America at reduced freight ratea
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31
Mexicans In U. S. Must Pay
Tax On Property Held Home

Ell Paso, Tex, Aug. 30.-Mexicani
who live here but have their inter.
ests in Mexico are concerned be-
cause they have been advised they
are Liable for the payment of Amer.
lean income tax on their incomes,
although the incomes are received
from Mexico. Many Juarez mer-
chants, brokers and Mexican Off
cials, as we'll as owners of mines,
cattle ranches and other properties
in Mexico, who live in FL Paso for
safety, will be affected by the order.
An effort is being made to have
these business men eXempted.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31
British to Build Extensive
Railway system In Alaska

Cordova, Alaska, Aug. Cocoon
struction of a railway from Stew
art, B. C., to Hyder, Alaska, thence
up Salmon river valley and back
into the mineralized zone on the
British side of the line, is being pro-
mulgated in Canada, according to
advices received here.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31
Trade In Far North Expected
To Run UD to Six FiuureS

Nome, Alaska, Aug. 30.-Little
sailing vessels plying from Nome
across the Bering sea to Siberia this
year will do an export business that
probably will run in value close to
six figures, according to estimates
made here.
Most of the merchandise moved
from Nome was brought in here on
the first steamers this summer from
Seattle. The goods are sold to
Siberian natives and white trappers
and miners operating along the
coasts across from here.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31
English, in II Years, Send
But 881 Autos to the U. S

London, Aug. 3O.-1n the last 81 u
years England has sent only Sol
automobiles to the United States,
tn. value of which was 81, l53,e4l'
while in the same time the United
States sent to England, 4l,l82 cars
valued at $36,7l0,0ll, says the Board
of Trade Journal.
The paper points out an oppor-
tunity to expand the sale of British
ca. in America among the Wealthy
people of New York and the newly
rich.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31
Alteration of Wage Scale OF
German Railroad Men Urged

Berlin, Aug. S0.-The prussian,
railroad minister. Herr Oeser, tod
the diet the other day that the wage
scale of the railroad men must be
altered, but not at present. Prus-
STA. therefore, must for the time be-
ing, continue to force down the food
prices and grant bonuses to the rail-
road workers
Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-31
Not Con9enial,

When man admires woman's style,
With all her pretty graces,
Tis sad when he starts making eyes,
To find her making faces.
-Yonkers Statesman.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-15
POLICEMEN TO POLL
CANDIDATES ON PAY
Wish to KnoW Stand on
$4,000 a Year Proposal.

The firemen and policemen decided
yesterday to have committees canvass
both the Republican and Democratic can
cidates for Office in the coming election
to ascertain their altitude in rgard to a
maximum pay of So 900 per year for full
grade firemen and patrolmen. The po-
licemen, with Joseph p. Moran. president
of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Associa-
ton. held a meeting at Mannerchor Hail.
2O3 East Fifty-siXth street, and adopted
the following resolution:
whereas. The people of this city,
through the Board Of Aldermen, the pub
lie press and civic organizations and by
petition, have approved the proposition
for a maximum salary OF $4,000 for pa
trolmen and firemen now before the
Board of Estimate and Apportionment.
therefore, be II
"RoSoIred, That special committee
Of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Associa-
ton be appointed to act with a similar
committee representing the uniformed
firemen's association; said joint commit
tee to present the views of the patrolmen
and firemen on the salary question 10
candidates for public office, and be II
further
"ResoIued, That special meeting OF
the patrolmen's and firemens associa-
tons be called for November / to hear
the report of the special committees"
In the tentative budget for 1920. the
salary increase for both departments
amounts to approximately $500. AL
ready Major La Guardia, Republican,
candidate for President of the Board OF
Aldermen. has expressed himself In favor
81 $1,000 for the men of both depart
ments.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-15

AS already stated the amount OF the
general fund will finally determine what
the tax rate will be. During the year
the city receives moneys from various
sources, excise taxes, mortgage taxes,
bank taxes, franchise rents, dock rents,
license fees OF all kinds, fees collected
by the county and city officers, the city s
share of the tax corporation and the
motor vehicle law and many other items.
They are put into the general fund.
This amount is deducted from the
budget fund and what remains is called
the tax levy. The tax rate is based on
this in conjunction with the tax assess
ents. which this year amount to about
$500, 000,0 900.
In February the Controller is required
by the charter TO make UP statement
Of what the city has received and what
It will receive before the end of the
year. This year the city will lose a
great deal of excise money. The ques-
ton arises as to whether 1t may esti-
mate its share of the income tax, which
Is due this year, and add it to the
general fund. In the past rHis has been
done with excise moneys. However. in
come tax reports are not due until
March 81 and the tax rate has to be
fixed on the first Monday of that month.
1t Is a question as to whether the
courts would permit the estimation of a
tax which has never been collected In
this State before. as its total amount
cannot be accurately estimated. The
State officials say they hope to get as
much as s15.ooo.0 0O two-thirds to be
collected from New York city. Each
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-15
STATE CONDITIONS GOOD.
Republican Executive Committee
Canvasses situation.

Conditions In the party throughout
the State were reported as being in most
excellent shape by the members of the
executive committee of the Republican
State committee, which met yesterday
noon at headquarters in Thirty-ninth
street. Representative Bertrand II.
Smell presided. Among others present
were George 4. Glynn. chairman Of the
State committee Miss Mary Garrett
Hay. Samuel S. Koenig, Mrs. John Fran
els Yawger. r. J. II. Kracke, Mrs w.
c. Beecher, Thomas r. Proctor of Utica
Mrs. Luther w. Mott. George f. john
son. Representative Norman J. Gould,
John G. Wickser, Mrs. Arthur L. Liver
more and William L. Ward.
The only fights in which the State
committee is taking a part this year are
for the Assembly. but ways and means
were discussed or keeping up the organi-
zation for 1890.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-15
COP. SEEKS CURRAN
FOR BOROUGH HEAD
Magistrate Likely to Be the
Choice of Republicans
in Contest. ..
HE SHUNS NOMINATION
Called Strongest Candidate to
Oppose Choice Made by
Tammany.

Ii is probable Magi strate Henry II.
Curran. former RepV olican leader and
chairman of the Fin ance Committee OF
the Board of Alderp len. will be selected
as the Republican candidate for Presi-
dent of the Borov 9Th of Manhattan. 80
He does not wish TO accept the noliii-
nation, but MANY of the leaders feel
he would be- The strongest candidate
who could be named. His record in the
fusion BOH,d of Aldermen was such
that when he ran for President of the
Board OF Aldermen after the resignation
of Ge5re;e McAneny, he came within
$4,000 votes of winning The Tammany
candidate was Frank L. Bowling, who
in spite of his popularity and the fact
that it was an offyear had the fight OF
ais life to pull through in a cltywide
canvass.
Mayor Mitchell appointed Mr.. Curran'a
| city magistrate. He served in the war
, in command Of an ammunition train in
| the Seventy-seventh Division.
The subcommittee of the Republican
Executive Committee, consisting of Rob-
ert Oppenheim of the Seventeenth Dis
trtct, Antonio Dallesandro of the Sec
ond, Collin H. Woodward of the Twenty
third, Charles E. Heydt of the Ninth.
Frank X. Bowers of the Twentieth,
William Chilyers of the Fifteenth, John
j. Lyons of the Nineteenth, Albert Ber
Yin of the Seventh and Charles B. Largy
of the Eighteenth, has had one meet
ing and will meet again tomorrow to
1 consider candidates. Thursday after
| noon it will report to a meeting of all
| the district leaders, both men and