Newspaper Page Text

The Omaha Sunday

Bee

PART ONE-

NEWS SECTION

Afr,S ONE TO TWELVE

TBX WEATHER

Cloudy

VOL. XLIV NO. 40.

OMAHA, SUNDAY . MOUNIXfl, MAllC.lt .21, 1915-SIX SECTIONS rOKTY-KKlHT PACKS.

SINGLE COPIES FIVE CENTS.

STAR 'REPEATER'

OF TERRE HAUTE'

VOTES 22 TIMES

'

Fred Eisner Exercises Inalienable

v Right of Freeman on Over

Score of Occasions in

Day.

BUCK EACH FOR ALL BUT OKE

Another Elector Celebrates Casting

His First. Ballot by Casting

Six of Them.

BOTTLE OFEJTEB WORKS MA CHUT

. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. March 20.

A record for voting of twenty-two

times 1 none day was claimed by Fred

Eisner, who testified today In the

trial of the Terre Haute electiln

case. Eisner told of his world, on

November 3, 1914, with a emlle and

caused a laugh, which was joined

In by Judge Anderson, after the

judge had the witness repeat the

number.

The witness testified that he con

fined his operations to three pre

cincts, and with one exception re

ceived a dollar for each time . he

voted. He said he was cheated out

of the other dollar, "as the pay

roaster said I had made enough

money already." Eisner was only

challenged once during the day, he

' said.

- Pleaded ttulHy. v .

TCIsner end others, who today described

alleged fradulent .voting. In which they

participated Inst November In Terra

Jtaute, have, pleaded guilty.

William Hughes. -ho has pleaded

guilty. lao testif lerttnat ho voted seven

times. He Baid Sheriff Dennis Shea, a

defendant, pave him an assumed name

nd paid him for three of the times .lie

voted.

Allx'rt Mast, another of the eighty-eight

who have plead guilty, testified that ha

was 21 years .old on election , day "and

that he "celebrated voting six Jtimea.'V.

Most. of the confessed fradulent voters

testified that they had been told to report

on election . morning at police headquar

ters, where 'Chief of Police Holler1 gave

them . an .order on a liveryman for. a

horse aiT buggy ' Then, they said, the

received a Net of voting places and cerd

bearing names and registration numbers,

which they were to vote, from E. E. Tal

bott, city . comptroller and a. defendant

- 1 Vote -AM- 'Aewwnd.-' c

Kaeh of the men In charge of a buggy

Was expected to get a partner and the

two drove over Terre Haute voting in

very precinct they possibly 'could. 1 At

' the end of the day, the, witnesses testl

K tied, they-returned to Tsibott and. were

,$ald S10 each. ''.''.

Joe Keller .-an alectlon inspects in -precinct

B of the-Sixth ward, said ha.. 414

most of the vctlng In hia precinct him

, self, working the 'keys of the voting ma

chino until ho wore the skin orf the end

of his finger. Then he used a beer bot

tle opener to work, the keys, he said.

Rumor Crew of the

Karlsruhe Escaped

' In Captureci Ship

NEW YORK, March 10. -Edward Wads

worth of Newark, N. J., a passenger

aboard the steamer Farlma, which

reached here tqday from the West Indies,

aid that he had seen In Grenada two life

buoys with the word "Karlsruhe" on

them and that aeveral German officers'

caps had been washed ashore In Charles

'Bay, Grenada, and picked up by fisher

men. Mr. Wadsworth Mid there waa a report

In the West Indie that the Karlsruhe,

had run ashore on a reef end been Mown

up by its officers, who, with the crew

put to- sea In a captured ship.

Eight British Ships

Are Slink by German

Subsea Qraft in Week

LONDON. March .-German sub

marine raids during the week ending

March 17 resulted in the loss of eight

British vessels, with a total tonnage of

1,820. out of arrivals and sayings,

according to a summary today by the ad

miralty. Three other vessels which were

torpedoed wera able to reach port. The

total losses to British commerce from

tha beginning of the war to March 17

were ninety-six merchant vessels and

forty-seven, fishing vessels.

The Weather

Forecast till T p. m. Sunday:

ror Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity

Partly cloudy, possibly snow flurries;

not mucn ooaogs la u

temperature.

I'raiprraKr at

Ornate Yr,r4ay.

Hour. Der

j ' a. m. ......

rtim .'7 a. in.;....,

XlO Sa. tn...,..J.

S a. in.

10 a. m....

11 a. rn....

U m

1 p. in

1 p. m....

S p. in....

P. in...,

' t p. ni....

V

. P- m

p. m. ........

i osataratl vo Lacsi

I Krcr.

lll-i. 1911. 113. 1V11

Highest yesterday..,

lowest yetrdy...,

Mean temperature...

Preclpllatiou

I Temperature and

.... 3 iS 24 C

.... 22 11 10 11

.... I 17 23

a t .w '

precipitation depar-

t'ires from the normal:

crinal tempurature Sx

Drf.clenrv lor tue day r 14

Total dririencv vliu-a March 1...., g?

Normal predpitallun .4 Inch

Du.ic leacy for the day 03 Inch

Total rainfall since March 1. 1 61 Inches

Txccsa sinus March 1 -W Inch

Deficiency for cur. period. 1914.. iv) Inch

Kxcesa for cor. i.sricd. IS 1 3 1 Incuts

T indie-ales tre) of preclpitailun.

U A. WfcLSU. Local orevaater.

Ir-

VON HLNDENBURG, greatest German general, the mili

tary hero of the German advance in Poland, and members

of his staff. Latest photo.

V " s J.

" ' i i j -

. ( . ! - - a- ; --r."i.'TT.rjr .

AUSTRIA TO CEDE:

' ATART WRENT

Count P&lfjt is Authority fonfitate

ment that Pact -Wis Signed in:

.Tien .Lt. Sunday.

ROME " JOURNAL aiJESTiONS" It

ROME, March'ZO: (Via Paris.)

Count Palf JyAcounsellor 'of the 'Aus

trian embassy to the Vatican, " 1

quoted hy the Idea' Nationals as de

claring that a preliminary agreement

-waa signed. Sunday at Vienna under

which -Austria' would cede to Italy

that portion of the province of Trent

extending from the region of Friull

to the Ispnco river. Tbe'newgpaper

thinks, however, that this report Is

being spread simply to gain time.

NegrotLattona Still la Progress.

! ROME (via Paris). March 20. Unoffl

jtial negotiations to . determine the ques

i tlon - whether territorial - - concession

should be made by Austria to Italy be

fore or. after the end of the waa-. It U

asserted' here, are in progress between

Count Volpl, who conducted similar ne

gotiations In bringing . about peace be

tween Italy and Turkey In 1912, and'Ka-'

jetan Merey von Kapos-Mere, former

Austrian ambassador at Rome. Having

Nailed to reach an agreement at Vienna

they have come to Rome to ' continue

their .discussions.

Girl Victim of Her '

Crazed Lover Dies

MITCHELL, 8. D.. March 20. Miss

Ohloe Sledge, the 16-year-old daughter of

Jesse T. ' tiledge, who killed his daugh

ter's loveri 'Charles Strobl, after a bloody

struggle In the Sldego farm ' home on

Tuesday night, died today In a local

hospital. "

.The girl was injured I y the first shot

fired by Btrebl Into ' the Sledge home.

Just as the family waa preparing' to re

tire. Later StreU entered the -home and

was shot by Sledge, after a' fierce fight

The girl's faster bad . objected to

Street's attention to his daughter.

Carranza Forces . . . -'

Fortify Vera Cruz

WASHINGTON, March 20--Carrana

forces are digging trenches and fortifying !

Vera Crus with barbed wire stockades,

apparently In anticipation' of attack by

the ' Villa-Zapata forcea. Advices) to the

taic aep.rxu.env -y -

wire extends from a point on the beach,

. . a a A &a1a V.K K..K.-t4

i T ?;".".JTL

. . . '' 7JT.. "" "r.

to Tejeria, making a scnu-clrcle sround

the city.

(Migratory Bird Act

Is Unconstitutional

TOPIKA. Kan., Mar, 20.-The migratory

bird law waa declared uncoiutitutlutial

by Judge John C I'ollock In the United

States district court today. Judge Pol

lock held congress hud no Jurisdiction

over game In .ny of the states and that

separate states only have the right to

enact laws for regulation or protection of

game.

WARN0TI0N.STR0M

' IN YON HIIiDEHBURG

Great General Gave His Whole Being

to Studyof Military Maneutrers

- -and Battle. :

SOME NEW LIGHT ON THE MAN

(CorreioAilence of. The Associated Press.)

.' BER14N,. March .20. ome new lishts

are shed upon tho personality of the now

famous "Field " Marshal von Hlndenburg

In a sketch of him brought out by a Ber

lin publisher. i

, He waa not a particularly promising

pupil in his early school days It appears.

When he left his first, school at'Ulogau

at the age of 12 to enter a military school

his certificate mentioned thst he had

failed. to come . up to requirements' in

mathematics, the branch which is .re

garded as especially the basis of a mili

tary education. Though Hlndenburg Is

now described as a man of few words,

his certificate at. that tlme'ssld that

'talking too. much in school'' was the''

only exception to his otherwise good be

havior. His standing In Latin, German,

French and geography, however, was

Just good enough t) pass hlni. and so

tho teachers recommended him for pro

motion at the -military school and nt

j him on his way "with OoJ's blessing'

' Kgfr , o (Jo to .Wp,

In 1964, when the . boy s'sw his elder

companions going away to the Panlsh

war. he was Impatient ti Join them, his

military ambition having already been

kindled. . When about to start two years

later to win his spurs in the war against

Austria, he wrote to his" parents: "It

Is high time that the Hindenburgs again

melt- gunpowder. In that respect our

family has been singularly neglected."

'He looked forward to his career as sol

dier -with the -usual Joyous confidence

of the young officer: "I rejoice In this

future' filled with bright colors, for to

a-soldier war Ishe normal condition,

afid. 'becldes that,' I am In-God's hands.

(Continued on. Page Two.r Column Two.)

i

Germans Seize Oil

" Aboard Danish Ship

Enroute to' Stockholm

LONDON, March SO. A cargo t oil

aboard the Danish steamer Bryseel has

been confiscated by tha German author

ities in the IVimeraulap seaport of 8wine

munde, according to a dispatch from

Copenhagen to, the Exchange Telegraph

company. The. vessel was released.

The feeling at Copenhagen, the dispatch

adds la that the. fact Germany needs oil

OM not )xlllUty the lure f B

1.. car.0.

Th was bound from Phlla

le'Phla for' Hto.holm. with a cargo of

oil and was stopped In the Baltic on i

March 11 by a German cruiser and taken

to Swlnmunde.

The vessel previously had arrived at

Kirkwall and had voluntarily submitted

to an examination by tho British authori

ties, who permitted it to pass, it also'

put Into Elsmnre. Denmark. h l I

ceived declarations from the consignee,

ceritifled by the Swedish authorities, that

the oil was deatlned for use only In

Sweden. A dispatch from CypeuhagKn

March 12 said it waa believed at tho Dan

ihli capital that the Bryaae! had been

stopped by the Germans becsuse it was

u tctl that the ahlu carried car.o

l.,h... II.. .l.ll. v. t.

i.i I. ihvm iiv vwu uvciarea.

REICHSTAG NEAR

RIOT AS SOCIALIST

CRITICISES ARMY

Opposition Member Causes Furious

Outburst When He Denounces

Military Efforts to German

ize Conquered Soil.

ATTACKS RETALIATION MOVE

Says Burning Three Russ Villages

- ,,

for Every Prussian One 5triK.es

at the Poles.

GREETED WITH CRIES OF SHAME

LONDON. March 20. A wild

gcene occurred In the German Reich-

. , , . ,. . , j.n

stag today during the second reading

of the budget, according fo a Berlin

telegram received by neuters' Te'.o- j

gram agency by way of Amsterdam, j

The tumult was aroused by a

speech delivered by George Ledebour. ;

socialist deputy, who protented

against "the military administration j

trying to Germanise portions pi

French territory, from which arise,

on the part of Alsace-Lorraine, a de

sire for French' rule."

Herelved Anarll).

The statement was received with

an angry outburst on the part of the

deputies, some members snouting.

What about the party of peace?"

Continuing Herr ledebour said:

-I endorse everythlnif said In pi also of

our brave troops and their oommandera,

but In political ierformances the military

authorities are n"t up-to-date. I am hor

rified to learn that for every German vll

Ihgo burned by the. Russians, three Rus

sian villages shall be burned." .

"This Is barlarlsm," shouted Pr. Karl

Llebknerht, another Jsoelallrt deputy,

while -from the right Jamc three Indig

nant protests, one member shouting: "Ve

won't permit the supreme mflltary au

thorities to he thus attacked."

When order - had been temporarily re-'f The Netherlands, according to the cor

stored. Ilerr, Ledebour continued: ( (respondent of Reuter'a. Telegram company

"Surh a measure strikes not only at tat The Hague, has sent to Great Britain

the Busslnns, but at the Poles and TJthu-land France a protest against the British

anlans. on whose co-operation w must j flockade of Germany.

count

. Resalls la More Dtstarbantie.

This ststeinent resulted' In a renewed

dlsCurgancn. and cries off "flnlsb!" TheJJenmarlf, Norway and Sweden tha early

deputies springing from their seats andjpnrt of this weak mad Identical rpr-

excitedly shouting for 'order; the vies

president cf the house In the meantlm

having declared, that criticism of the

army aaminisiracron was noi pfrrrniiiiM'.

. Encouraged by inemters of. bis own

parts',' who .shouted '"apeak up, In the

name, of your " party," Herr Iedcbour

continued: .... ... . . t

, 'The German policy must be such that

these peoples will ' see In Dermany a

shield to,- and, a safeguard of their free

dom. - As a socialist and as a Cterman

patriot, I believe' I ought to emphasize

this. I have done this In the Interest of

my beloved' fatherland 'and of Europe!"

Herr Ledebour concluded his speech In

the face 'of.' loud opposition, cries of

"shame."

Canadian Charged ,

With Trading with

Enemies of Britain

LIVERPOOL March 20. (Via London.)

George Arthur Gatehouse, a Canadian

living in Montreal, waa taken Into cus

tody today at Liverpool on the charge of

".trading with the enemy." Details of

the charge have not been revealed. Bnll

waa refused.' Gatehouse was Shout to

sail for America.

Mr. Gatehouse hss been abroad repre-)!.

sentlng a Philadelphia concern.' Ho ad-j German corporation Is the Hochfreauens

mltted that he had been In Holland, out i Maschlnen Aktlengeselleschaft fur Draht

he declared he was Innocent of any In- close Telegraphic of Berlin. The I til ltd

tentlon of train gwlth the countries ho-!titatos Service corporation, now In control

tile to Great Urltaln.

rmiMnL'LPHIA, March 20. -George

A. Gatehouse, who has been detained In

Liverpool on suspicion of having trailed

with Great Britain's enemies, repreeents.j

the N. P. Sloan company, cotton mer-1

chants of this city. Norman P. Sloan,

uiciiivt-r tn me uuriLmtu r, sbiu loasy

that Gatehouse left here several months

ago to establish a connection In Liver

pool to take rare of the soiling of cotton

for the Philadelphia house. The com

pany has customers among the mills In

Holland.

The Philadelphia company, has no cua

tonitrs in Germany, Mr. Sloan said, and

haa not sold cotton to any of the enemies i

of Oreat Britain.

Gatehouse and hla wife left Montreal

last April and took up their residence

here 'In .September.

MEN BREAK INTO JAIL

AND STEAL BEDDING

LOST CABIN, Wyo.. March . -(Special.

) The town jail here was robbed last

night by unknown persons. A heavy

padlock was battered from U- door and

the only contents of the prison, a lot of

bedding. . waa stolen. The same persons

who robbed tha Jail are supposed to have !

committed a second robWy, In which a

saloon, which had been closed for twolr",r,ey. atate excise commissioner,

months, was broken Into and a Ciuantlty

of liquor, which had been concealed under

at raw In the cellar, sorted, and the best

of it taken. . The town authorit es bave

offered a reward for the arrest of the

thieves.

FORMER TABOR WOMAN

DIES AT L0CKNEY, T.EX.

TALOH. la

March 2.-Kpeclal lrs.

Mary Moon, a lifelong resident of thU

locality, died at Lockney, Tex., Thurs

day, where the family moved for her

health about two years ago. The body

will be brought to Olenwood Monday for

burial beside her parents, the late Mr.

and Mrs. T. J. Moon. Mrs. Moon la sur

vived by her husband, four daughters

u'ld one son.

Several Hundred. Men on French

Battleship Bouvet Arc Killed

TAIUS, Mart'h .0 - Via , lndon) Of-1

fh'lal announernient was niAdr here this

afteriKM n tht sixty-four men hse heen

saved from the crew of the Frenett hat

tle.nhlp ouve't, sunk In tha iNirdnnelles

Msr.-h 1".

i i'wse on the oier hios or the

r mnrn nivtMon t men toeR part in 101

a' tlon are declared to h slight. Thu text

of ihe eontinin:ratlnn follows;

Krem h bstUrshlpa had ti e honor of

attarkliin tne foits in the lTf of

the OnrdsneUes at short isnre on March

10. They accomplished with

vlor and neie highly praised by the

; Ilritish sailors. Rear Adr.ilrnl fineprette

Itelrsrstih. fhst the linnor of !h Pwni

j ns has been tuiiy sustained, although

(ueariy unugnt ny ire K.dl or the Mnuvet.

t .'ti,, llirr of trvivrs is actuaii

known to he Klxty-four. The number

killed and wounded cn the other ships tf

'the dlrUMn I rmall."

j T1,e rouve, i Um7. of peace had a

I complement of K men. it Is the custom,

, howevei, to Increase the number of men

" Z r t .i. ru m time, of

, ' t-neinrrtly the l.nnvet may have

, ll( ..h,,. ,mft crrw whH, t

n.Pt uisuster.

EXTEND BLOCKADE

TO AUSTRIAN PORTS

Commanders of ' Fleets in Adriatio

Sea Instructed to Intercept All

' Goods for Kaiser's Ally. '

NETHERLANDS MAKES PROTEST

ROME, March .20. (Via Tarls.)

j Commanders of the Anglo-French

fleet In the Adriatic sea, according to

advices from Ancona, have been noti

fied by. V r governments that the

transportation of goods of any kind

to or from ports on the Austrian

coast .Is. prohibited under the terms

of the allies' new naval policy and

that steamers carrying such cargoes

are to be seized.

Psotrst frm Netherlands.

IXNDOK, March 20. The government

Holland la rthe - fourth state to make

formal protest against rh reprisal -.ea-

urea adopted by Orsat Brltalo aadfiatic.

senlationa to, the allied govrpinents

aamat the Anglo-Ffeneh pollny of

pr.aaia ojl Oertnan commerce.

German .Wireless" "

'Company -Answers;

i Trench tJorporation

TRENTON,. N. ., March X-ThO Oer-

J man corporation' which owns the wireless

station at Tuckerton, N.. J.,' todav asked

the court af chancery to dismiss the suit

brought by a French corperat Ion to gabt

possession of .the. Tuckrrton station and

the wireless, station at Ellvese, Prussia.

The French company charges that the

German Concern before tha European war

started had agreed to sell the Tuckarton

station to It. The papers filed by the

German corporation today are la the

form of answer to the suit. .They ask

tho- court to dismiss the suit or withhold

action In the case pending tha out 'ome

of the war

The answer further states that any

steps taken by tha court at this time

would be Incompatible with the neutrality

of the United States. '

The French corporation Is known as

Compagnie Universale de Telegraphla et

T1'1,none with offices in. Paris,

Tha

or the Tuckerton station. Is also a

de-

fendant.

The United ' States government took

charge of the sending and receiving of

messages at the Tuckerton station on

Sf ptember . 1914, In order Mo prevent

violations of the American neutrality reg-

j. ulatlons.

The German company In Its answer

says tha Tuckerton station Is used by

the government In communicating with

the German ambassador In Washington

and further that the real object of the

suit Is 'to stop communication between

Germany and the United States.

Mrs, Ellen Heney

Falls Five Stories

and is Killed

NEW YORK, March 20.-Mrs. Ellen

Heney. editor of the Woman's Maga

slna, published In Detroit, and writer of

short stories, 'plunged five stories from

her room to her doath at her home here

today, fche wa delliioua from typhoid

fever at the time and tn9il her way to a

window during a brief Interval In which

her nurse left the room for medicine.

Mrs. lleney, who was a slater of W, W.

had

heen !U since Sunday. She waa 22 year

old and came to this city fifteen years

ago frcm Blnghainton. N. Y.

Big Shipment of

- Flour to Europe

I

i

I FT. LOUIS. Mo.. March 30 -A lo. al

milling company yesterday completed tha

I shipment of 100. 000 k. of flour to New ;

lora. irom wnere n nui pa snipped to tha tiorman Invasion, forwarded today to I James W. Osborne used tha alias of

two European nation now at war. The Reuters Telegram company, give the ! Oliver Osborne when he accompanied her

sum Involved waa said to bo ll.ttJO.000. The total numoer of towns and largest villages I to various placea. Yesterday Oliver Os

mllting company purchased Mtu0 bush- I destroyed as nlnsty-flvo. It Is said that borne of Boston appeared and announced

els of wheat to filling tho order. Each '4.600 small villages were devastated. 1,000 1 that ho knew llitm Tanser well, and th.i-

sack Is of a special siss and contains S3)

pounds of flour. Tho entire shipment Is

equivalent to 111,000 barrels, according to

the American standard of measurement

LOXnOWC. March ao.-The naval censor

said ton! slit that there wns 'absolutely

no truth" in the widely published report

that Vice Admiral 8aekvlle Cnrden hat

been killed or wounded during the bom

bardment of the Dardanelles. The report

was spread after the announcement that

Vice Admiral Carden had been relieved of

command of the Piitlsh division of the

allies, having been Incapacitated by Ill

ness, and that he had been succeeded by

Admlial John Michael Do Robeck.

PARIS, March SV-important Turkish

reinforcements have arrived to man the

fortification on the coast and tlulf of

Ninyrnii, according to dispatches from

Mlty.ene. Troops ara hard at work re

miring the fnr- Ramnffed by the bom

bardment of the allied fleet. The fort of

Csstrak! Is reported to be undamaged.

Mines nl'-l be placed in the vlclnltv of

(llaaomene, a few miles west -of 1'myrni.

Searchlight from Turkish batteries Illum

inate the watera of the gulf and those

slong the coast at night.

A llava dls.atch from Athens says

thst mine sweeping :n the Pardanellea.

which began at 4 a. m. Friday, was In

terrupted hr a .'hower of shells from

Turkish forts.

CHARLES FRANCIS

, ADAMS IS DEAD

Descendant of Two Presidents' and

Widely Known Publicist Dies

at Home in Boston.

FORMES .UNION PACIFIC HEAD

LINCOLN. Mass., March .20.

Charles Francis Adams died at

2 o'clock this morn In k at his winter

residence, 1701 Massachusetts ave

nue, Washington. Ha had been ill

with the grip for a week. Mr. Adams

waa born in 1886. Word of his death

was received at his home here this

forenoon- , , , j

Charles Frnnils Adams' was widely

known as a publicist and historian. . Ha

waa a great-grandson of President John

Adams, a granson of President John

Qulncy , Adams and a son of Charles Fran

cis Adama, .minister to. Great Britain in

the cMI mar period., A biography of hie

father, which Included a review of the

diplomatic negotiations between tha

Cnlred . B'tates , and , Great Britain, over

civil star problems, waa one of, Mr.

Adams' iriost.nptablo hooka... . " '

' tattv't Boston.

.Born In Boston May JT,. i38,, and "grad

uated from Harvard In ItH, he was ad

mitted to the Massachusetts) bar two

ysars after leaving college, lie strved

In tha union army throughout ttie civil

war. Hslng tn rank front first lieu tenant

to oolonel ' and brevet brigadier general

qf volunteerc After tho war he was

Identified with' rail Mod affair for many

years, serving for l years as president'

of the Union Pacific railroad, and for

ton years as a member of the Massachu

setts Hoard of 1UI1 road Commissioners.

He waa chairman ef tho commission

(Continued on Page Five, Column Twoj

Vice President and

Party Arrive at

1 San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, March "80. Vice

President' Marshall arrived hero today

with his party to take part tn the formal

dedication of the Panania-Paetflo exposi

tion as the . representative of President

Wilson, and later to participate In similar

ceremonies at tha Panama-California ex

position at San Diego, Cal.

In tho party are: . Vies President Mar

shall and Mrs. Marshall, Hecretary of tho

Interior Franklin Lane . and Mrs. Lane,

Adolph S. Miller, member of the Federal

Reserve board, and Mrs. Miller, and As

sistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin

D. Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt.

. The vice presidential rsrty will remain

In Sun Francisco .until next Saturday,!

During the eight days social and public

functions will fill tha time.

Representatives of the government,

slste, city snd evposltlon greeted the

Marshall party and accompanied it under

a cavalry escort from the Presidio to

hotel quarters. ;

Twenty Millions

Spent on Belgians by

Relief Commission

XKW YORK, March DU.-Moie ' than

I'Jl.W.Co" hss been received and the

greater part of It spent for Betglan re

lief, according to a statement Issued here

today by the cnenmlsalon for relief in

Belgian. One hundred and ten thousand

tona of foodstuffs, cargo for twenty ships,

are now on the way to American seaports

from Interior points, the statement adds.

"The present requirement for food to

feed all the hungary In Belgium," the

coinml!on asserts, "Is about (0,000 tona

a month, and this requirement will con

tinue as long as the Belgians ara unable

to provide In part, at least, for them

selves." Nesrly sixty cargoes of foodstuffs,

valued at more than JJO.OOO.OOO, had been

sent to Rotterdam up to the middle of

March by the commission.

1

Germans Burn One

Thousand Villages

mPllQQinn Pilla Tirl ;

IvUDdiail X UlCUlU:

IX)NIO.V. March .Statistics

puh-

lished In 1'etroarad -nticrntiw ln.w. ia

prop, rty In Russian Poland as a result of j

of them having been burned. Tha fig.

urea apply to ten Pollah provinces. Tho

damage Is estimated at more than KM),-

ooo.ow. ......

RUSSIAN FLEET

NEARBOSPHORUS;

ALLIESVARE BUSY

Pounding at Both Gates of Constan

tinople Resumed Despite the f

Sinking- of Three Large

Battleships-

TURKS SAY THEY ARE UNAFRAID

American Ambassador, However, is

Said to Have Been Asked to

Act as Intermediary. , '

SIEGE WARFARE IN BOTH AREAS

The Day's War News

ATTACK ON DARDANGURI waa ,

. resawed yesterday, siotwlthstaad-

tnm tha heavy loose of allied

fleet on the prcdlast day. Us of

ficial advioea in to tat ef fee that

little waa accomplished em

roaat of wafavorabl wtitker cota-r"

dJtlona. ( . . , .,..

Tt BKISII POSITIONS ota the a4n '

laad svnd aemr Hmm rt Mtavgr.,'

atrenartheaed atad lararo relators) I

saeats tavo. beea aeat ta tha ave-;

slataace of th defeadera. .

MEW NAVAL POLICT ( tho Ilia's'

Is aow la sSMiratloa agrsvtast A as-.

Irta, acrdiag to worst which has

reached Rone. . Tha eosamstaders

of the Aaalo-Freach AdrUtle fleet !

have been' ottflpdl to yrovcat

transportation u( all goods, to .or.;

front Aastrlaa porta.

TUB .' NBTHERLANnS has eosrt a.'1

formal - protest to Praaoo and !

(jrcat Britain acalaet their naval!

policy.

A GERMAN AEROPIARK erosced ta '

tho Ensrllah aide today and dropped '

aeTeral homha off Deal. Na dan- 1

asjto waa done and tho aaroplan

was driven off by m patrol boat.

LONDON, March 20. With the

Russian Black sea ' fleet reported'

knocking at tha door ot tha Bos

phorug and. six allied battleships re

newing the bombardment af the

Turkish positions on the Dardanelles,'

the fate of the straits Is' today hang-,

log In the balance, according to opin

ions freely expressed In London. Nev

ertheless, .-reports from Turkish

sources still profess supreme confi

dence in the impregnability ot the de

fending forts, which It la claimed

have successfully tnstatned a bom

bardment extending over twenty-one

days. !

' .'Tli'eJ report 'of tho British admiralty

giving news of the sinking of threu bat

Uishlps, two British and one French, is

rather h'asy as to tho results achieve by

this sacrifice, and it gives weight to tha

growing belief that tho straits will not be

won until the naval operations are sup

ported by effective land forces. The'

bombardment of ' Friday was Interrupted !

by bad. weather, hut It Is anticipated that

tho operations will be pushed as rapidly'

as possible.'

ftei-ond French Ship Damaared.'

The French admiralty, while oxpreralng ,

the hope that some members of the crew,

of tho battleship Bouvet have boon saved,

confirms reports from- neutral sources

that the French battleship Gaulols also

suffered 'severely In .the battle .March 18.

Although Turkish official reports mini

mise the effect of tha bombardment and

declare that Constantinople is not afraid,!

information received from- other near,

eastern points set forth that negotiations

already have begun with tho American,,

embassy to act as ah Intermediary to,

save tha Ottoman capital from the. guns'

of the allied warships. , i

Rumors of the destruction of the Ger-

man sa raider' Karlsruhe have received

some confirmation by tho guarded atate-.

ment of tha British admiralty.' There'

la every reason to believe that this cruiser'

was sunk in the West indies last No-1

vcmber.

Loll In Land Operations.

Relative Inaction prevails along bothi

battle fronta tn Kurope, which again seem

to have relapsed Into tho condition of'

j siege warfare which prevailed during tha

a inter. Austrian reports by way of Ber-!

lin claim that the Russian offensive

movement In the Carpathians through the'

Lupkow pass haa resulted in failure, but

direct v reports from both Vienna and'

Pterograd agree thaU Auatrians as . well

as Russians are making attacks and

counter attacks In the Carpathians with-'

out any decisive results. ,

The Germans are still bombarding Os

soweta without success, according to- the

Russians, who Claim , to have destroyed

the advanced trenches of their antago

nists. . t (

Neither side reports any Important ac-

Hons on the western front during the

last week.

Second Osborne

Apears in Breach '

of Promise Suit

NEW YORK. March .-Mlse Rae

Tanser, who recently sued Juntas Os-

. bonis, former assistant district, attorney

of New York, for toO.eo for alleged

I breach of promise, and who was arrested

j last night on a charge of using tho malls

1ot Purposes of extorting money, appeared

before Vnlted States Commissioner

I Houghton today and waa held In V..000 -

ball for further hearing next Wednea-

dtv.

Miss Tanxer. In her aulA alleged that

wnuo sno was writing lettera to James

W. Oaborne, Insisting that ha was

"Oliver," she was at the sains time writ-

Ing to aim In Boston.