Beatrice Daily Sun from Beatrice, Nebraska • 1

SUN. BEATRICE iMILY A STRICTLY INDEPENDENT DEVOTED TO BEATRICE AND VICINITY NEWSPAPER Of "THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Yon Don't Bee It In The Sun, It Didnt lUppen." LEASED WIRE NEWS SERVICE VOL. XIV. BEATRICE, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1915. NO.

26. Buvkiholi, of South Suiitner atreet'. TBI WEATIIEI JLAfl TO REPAVE SOUTH SIXTI! Fropoeed to Pot Strip of Usable Pavement In the Middle of ttoDldJnnt WCILD C3 IT UNDER KEW LAW CroUo District Without a Peti- tion Cltjr'i finer of Ex-. pewe About $1,700. A plan to repave the Middle of South Sixth street from Market jrtQjne end of the preaeot pave- tnent where the Kef perlen district hitches onto la Under consider- ation the commissioners.

-Mayor Mayer propotea that a atrip thirty feet wide bo torn up, the old street car track removed, and a new pavement auch a waa "laid on North Sixth be laid on a concrete lae. leave on eat-h aide of the atreet ten feet -Jot the old pavement. No Tlml for Petition, this repaying is done in time to make. It, prtol.tbe Job already provided for and for which Wde-wiH-te received soon, there will bjtt time to circulate pe-tHion; and phe city would hare to proceed under the new law whick empowera the council to create a paving diitrlrt without the request of property, owner. would aerve to give the new law a tryout and delect any vulnerable point it may have.

1 1 lif ka The eity'a jhll-e if the eosfof auoh a district would be only 1, this amount, i could taken front the atreet fund or gem oral fund without a bond Issue. The atreet needs some aort of trig-orooe treatment, a the narked pavement almost imf, peawble, MOST WIND UP JAIL PETITIONS Board Will Make Annual Levy Wednesday and Requests Must Be In Before Then. SLOW PROGRESS IS ELISO AC Leaf Than Two Thousand Rare Signed Up to Date Will Be Generally" Lnleas the petition for a speck! levy to raise funds for ttie build ing of a. new county jail in the banda of the county board of in- perviaora before next Wednesday, it will not be. included in the annual levy and the building of the proposed structure will be delayed for another year.

The eouuty supervisors at their regular meeting nex week will make the annual favy and rhk item must be included if the pro ject goea through this year. Encounter Some Obstacle. -The work of circulating the pe titions -for-the- xigna tores "of "die voters has been rather arduous task some obstacles encountered. road have Lieen in bad shape for the greater part of the time, hindering the committees from "getting in their work. There is, however, little opposition as from all parts of the county? eome, report! of jnen who are boosting, this much needed im provement, i TJureatet -diffhmltr to1rt met ia that of getting the petitions circulated the farmers, most of whom are heartily In favor of the new jail and sheriff residence: The committees wiH be keipt 'pretty bwy for the few daya ht getting the required umber of signers.

Have Lets Tbaa leo. As nosrly st caa be cfritnd, the total number of signer to th p-tltlona la lew tban two tboiwsnd. Tbls means that little over one-halt ot (be required number bave as yet igni J. Tbe number required blng sixty per cent of tb number of voters within the county as com puted from an average of the last two feneral elections. t'aaiacrrlal (Isk Has He feiwr.

Tblt jiroject j.Bot 4bAveof the commercial club alone. True, thai commercial club of this city. Is puab- Ini It, but It is primarily for the resl- dfnts of the county projett worthy of tba support of. all and 0( lntrest to each and every voter. TJnlens foDie "good llrks" are put In between now and next Wednesday tbe jail project wlH have to wait- over -tor another year and Beatrice will still be In the back-iumber clam.

Now that would be indeel a aad state of affairs If the project falls through from lack ot signers to the petition. BUMPEOORN CROP IN JOHNSON COUNTY Tecnmseh," August The farmers of this section are waiting- for-dfy-weather-now- ao that they can stack their grain. Many of them have given up the idea of shock threuhiug on ac count thecontuiuoui rains. Some of the oafatratill standing in the field and ia beginning, to Corn ia doing well and if the frost holds off wiH make an immense crop. Some of the far mers claim that' there are as high aa eight cars shooting on one stalk.

In that case ten statta will make a bushel of corn. iMSse Marie' Elliott left yester day, for Lincoln to visit with friends, and make arrangrtnrnta for attending the tfniveraity of Nebraska thia fall. Miss Elliott ra a graduate of Beatrice high. GERMANS TAKE CITY OFVARSAW Bavarian, Troops' Pint to Enter Capital After Capturing the Laat Lines of Defense. RUSSIANS TRY1K8 TO SAVE ARMY rightiiif Bear Guard Action Waruw Stripped of Every.

thng Useful to Tentona. '( CeRtUstlseple Rejoices. Coastantlnople, Augunt JLobdoe. August 1:19 a. m) The aaaouacement of the capture of Warsaw tbls mom Ing caused a profound Impression here.

Tba aetrs spread over tba city like wlKIJre and within few mlnutea every building was beflaggtd. i i ainn awalta Details. -aerltah-Awguef 4. (via London, August s. 2:21 of tb fall of Warsaw, have not rewoea ine newspaper toHrespondesta before Warsaw bare aa yet had no opportunity end dL'fatcbes; nd tbe German genent alsff has no 4etathi-te- yond the brlet pbrase In tbe mid- die of tbe day's official report RsMtant Admit SetreaL Auur4 sin- Sm( Annul I I'M Hit-In official communication just Issuei here un: la view, of conditions and tbe general situation, pur troops west of IWaraaw bave received orders to fall back on tbe right bank ot th Vixtiita LondonrAtrgihst m.

The Oeruians are in possession of 'Warsaw; the capital of Poland and the third largest city in the Ruwtian empire. Bavarian troops entered the 'city this morning bay ing taken successively the lines and the outer and inner fortresses-of the city Itself, the Rus sians only fighting; rear guard actions to allow their main army to make its escape. While to the Bavarians, com manded by Prince Leopold, has fallen Hie honor of taking over Warsaw in the name of the Ger man emperor and his consorts who are expected to, make a state. entry within few days, the real cou ing under Field Marshal von Ilin- deuburg a'Jong the NareW river to the uortheartt to the Austro-Ger-m aiis who crossed "the TfatuSi to the '''aoiitn' ariiiies of rthe''utHaiT'X'roulie Joseph IVrdinand and thr der- man Field MarsnatTon Macken- zen, which are advancing north ward between the Vistula and Bug Ruse Being Pressed TheJRusglins are fighting desper-atelx and stiibbornly to. check v3ts Lnrogre- of these four armies; and have bad several successes.

Inflicting heavy lorn on their pursuers, but they are being steadily pressed back, which made- th longer occupation of tbe-Wenww-fctiaa- salient- a tratard-ous undertaking. Even Bow, although the steadiness ot th Russian troons and their Here counter-attacks haw gained much valuabl time for them, it la problematical th whole Russian armjr wlUucced tn reaching-the new position chosen for It of whethtv If It ahouil get there will not find tbos poaltlona burned by th Austrian! who bav crossed th Bug river southeast of Cbelm and the Germans under Generate von Scbois and von OallwKi who bav crossed th NareW. Three Traps Set for Russians. At th Bortheastera end of the town th' Ruslsaa are threatened further by General von RueloW, who" la -advancing towards DvUwk on th. Vilns-Petrograd railway.

Indeed, the Austro-Geraana have 'sei three traps "to catch and dV stray th Rusian army. Non of them was sprung, but on vu so near tb dosing that Orand Duk Nicholas was ARMED FACTIONS ONE MORE GHAfiGE Mexicans Will Be Civen Another" Opportunity to Settle ThelrT Differences Peaceably. 1 U. S. TO APPEAL TO THE LEADERS Latin-American Nations Fledge Support to Pan-American Concert of Action.

VVahington, D. CH Armed factions in Mexico are to be given one more opportunity to' tap whether they are ready to make an houest effort among themselves to compose their dif ferences. A'K' ri, 'A! mefooe ezipressiiig a con certed demand of North and South America that there shall lie pace and a restoration of consti-: tutional addressed to all Mexican political leaders, will- 'probably be dispateJied within fewlays as one of the first results of a conference at, the state-de--t: partment. today, in which the aix rankinir of the Pan- Aiuerican legation corps particV pated with Secretary 1 Lansing at the invitation of President Wfl- son. Appeal to lexleaa Leaders.

While the appear will be made to aH tbe Mexican leaders it will be la-unded especially for General Ctrrsn- za amj his follower who are opposed --'ZJKj! that President WU son has been. In correspondence with the executives ot the Latin-American-nation eriev-JiavfiiriitAihat United Statea take the lead la a strong position towards Mexico ani in this Informal way have pledged tbelr support to a Part-American concert of action, "'Flrs Day's Confereie. Today's conference wss given 0Vr almost entirely to hearing a report of conditions by Paul Fuller, sec- retary, Tork, who spent sit-pral months la Mexico as Wilson's personal representative. it was understood the ground work was laid for further action tomorrow when thf conference wUl be renewed which will constitute tbe first of a ftucceaaioa of move to end the terror of revolution and chaos. NO TRACE 13 DISCOVERED OF LONE BANK ROBBER' fdar Rapids, August 5.

LV-t-to-hour -tonight detec-" tiVW OTMf IRrtrac lie robibier who last Wednesday held up Paying TelW Io Perrin of the Cedar Rapida' National! bank and escaped with morethan Iwinrt-wtr5' irratedt: but Mr. Perrin failed to identify AMERICANS OCCUPY FORT? AT PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI rort Au Prince, Haiti, August American forces from the battleship, Connecticut, has occu pied, without striking a Wow( the; national fort wiucb dominates the town. A proclamation bag teen posted in all quarters signed by the pres. ident i the revolutionary eom- nunee protesting against the Use of force against a friendly people. RUSSIA WILL RELEASE 12,000 ITALIAN PRISONERS Home, Aug.

'5 Twelve thousand Italian, now prisoners in Siberia, will be released by Russia. The Italians were resIdentsof AuW trijn frontier provinces and were forced to figlit with the Austrian armies on the Russin front, tie dtvernona ot youth. Indud ing games, muttie and impromptu stunt caused the hours Jo pass moat pleasantly, were Out-of-town guests were Mr. and Mra. ets Clark and daughter.

Minn Amelia, of Stratton, old friends of the Dudiholt family. i DECORATIVE GENIUS ASTIR AT CANOS HEADQUARTERS With aVen month. Interven ing before Venetian nights SepJ inuuw hub mr-iiBuu-v4iire u- town headquarters already rre sent a aceue of activity. Samples of flower and decorative equipment are on display the information bureau, conducted ly Com modore Powers, ia in full blast, and the framework of a number of designs are in procesa of evolu "This year's pageant will far ercel any previous aaid Commodore Tow era last' evening, "if one can judge from the re-porta from the individual metu- bera who have promued to deco 'The designs this' year will be more intricately beautiful, both in what they are to represent and in their proportioned showiness. The river will fee made at h'glit as day by the installation of new system of lights.

"Aa to some of the designs, the nature of these cannot be dis closed at 'present." DEATH LIST AT "HAY REACH SEVENTY Erie, the recovery today of two inore todiet the list of dead as the result of the flood Tuesday night was brought mass' tf dHris which strew the to i thirty-iil. Itecause of Hie great mast of dria 'which' atrews the river for three miles along the Mill creek valley, the search for bodies is progressing alowly. Six teen persons are missing and Coroner HanTey said tonight he thought the death Jist might reach seventy-live. figures compiled today shoiwthejojtal damage in the city and county would amount to between ilx and aeven "million dollars. MRS.

H. ALB AM DIES AT HOME NEAR DX WTTT Mra. Henry Walbaum died yes terday afternoon at her home about seven mile northeast of De Witt after an about a week from heart trouble." --The deeeased was an old resi dent of Gago county- the JVal-bauni farm being a abort distance easrof the "county nearly sixty yeara of age and leaves her husband and six chil dren. The funeral will he held Sun- Jay alternoon from the German Lutheran church near the home. MISS MARIS SNYDER ENTERTAINS AT PICKRELL 1 Misa Marie Snyder of Kckrell entertained a number-, of young ladies at her home Tuesday after noon at a miscellaneous shower for Mrs, Carl Eiual, formerly Mtes Anna Sohidler, Beatrice tele phone operator, Mrs.

Emal received many use fu) presents as weJI as the best wishes of all her iMrV ud Mrs. Emal were mar rled last Thursday.it Lincaln, They will make their, home, at Pickrell where Mr. Emal ia' erf- gaged in the automobile business. IWsfWngton, D. August Forecast for Nebraska: Partly cloudy Friday and Saturday; bo Important lq temperature' eeeeeeeeeeeee.ee forced Warsaw" and now is fighting with all hie might to prevent otters from cutting off bis retreat Thus far Be seemingly has been sue-cesafut tor, at though tbe Germans claim the capture of a large number of pr Uonera, the aggregata la small when eomparol With th Immense forces engagedi, Ia addition the Russian guns apparently era well oa ttelr way to the rear.1- 1 Warsaw Demantled Front refugeea who left Warsaw aome daya ago and arrived' at Moscow, it baa teen learned that Waruw.

even at that earty date, had been dismantled of virtually everything that might be nteful to tbe Teutons. Factories had been atrlpped of their machinery and1 all war stores moved Into the Interior oKRuseia and tba government of the city left to th Pol-lab Tbe Rusalana also are preparing to evacuate Riga, a port on the gulf of, that nam In the north. The arrival ot the aermatts ten miles south of that city already baa. been tbe cause of the civilian population's departure. Concede Great Victory.

While xprstai tbe fullest confi dence ltt th future, the British mtll-uri crklcs tie the achievement of the Teutons or the effwf tbelr success Is likely to have In the east and west. Since early In May when they started their great: counter offensive in western Cauda against the Rufalans. who were de bouching to the Carpathian! or on to tbe plains of Hungary, the troops of, tbe Germanic powers bad cleared the RusMaos out of Gallda with the ex-' 4eptloa of -a aanriw atrtp of territory in the southwest, have recaptured Prsemysl and Lemberg, taken Lublin, CJhlaanJJWarsaw and are In mili tary occupation of praoticauy tne whole of Poland. What thiir next move will be la a matter, of oonjecfure. JSflmej.mllitarjf Obiervew'' be'liey tbey, tUl continue lo attacs; iue nuKsiana in uvwin HnaNy "crushing them, a task whkti rt Is consMtyed- is rendered difficult by the fact that the Russians In their retrert lay the country waste, making it necessary for the tnvadera to bring up every ounce requlrtd for their army.

Serbia May Be Attacked. Cther observers think Serbia will be attacked so as to oppress the Balkan states which remain neutral, while still another group look for a big offensive against the Franco-dJrltlRh--lleigaa-4it-te observers are of tbe opinion that wherever the new operation is begun it will be on a big scale. The Germans also have hai local sueeejuM in tbe west. recapturln-n the crest of iba JlM la Vosges norttoa olitbflstisBsh.i)lL.-M French took from them some time ago. FLAN FOR PROGRAM 1- FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE Tforalsh, N.

HAugustWith thjorJSjjrotSt developing- A. broad and convincing program of national defense w-hich will meet with the approval of congress, PVesident Wilaon is planning to eopenttethrhertliairmeff6f the military and naval affaire committees to prcfiJre a report to be taken up in the senate and the' house. The president wto confer! with Secretaries Garrison and uaniels and wiH report in hia i next message to congress. (n present told friends tonight that while he has made no definite plana for eouulting with the chair- men of the committees lnteretd in the question ot national defense, hl Aiklit imnn tn is.m I grM convenes In order to unite on a single program of action; When the president sees th chair men of th four committees be expects to have before him the report now being prepared by-, Mr. Garrison and Mn.Ciali'ilThe.baada of th war and navy departments are expected to take part In th conference or scries of conferences Ja order to explain personally their recommendation.

Entertains for mrs. a. s. HUGHES AND DAUGHTER Mre.Fi J. Emal of PkkreU en-tertained the, lodge kensingtou Wednesday afternoon at a farewell reception' tor.

11m. 0. a Hughes and Miss Myra whoir moviDf to'BeatriceT' Theifternoon passed away "very rapidly but everyoue enjoyed the fun, especially at lunTbtiiue.when waa eerved, consisting e-wltermerotir-nd -buttermilk. rl Piou Jflttennjlk: drinker 'md lira 'Colt caw second. Miaa Mre Hughea got away with the tetter hakt of a watetmrtyn.

ladiea are all aorry to part With Mra. Hughea and Iter daugh-- "ter aa they workers in the Pickrell aociety. DI. CHAMBERS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AT PAIRBURY Dr. ChanYbera of Hanover, jrhow aa ieriouaVjureduWooV 'jneaday' evening at that place when Mra.

itornbanm and her daughter, who-were Tiding in hit car were kiHed by a St. Joseph Grand It-land train, was removed 'to the general hospital at Pairbury. for treatment waa reported im-' proved yesterday and the attending physician have hopes of his recovery." v. MISS AUGUSTA BUCITHOLZ GIVEN BIRTHDAY PARTY Vpon, the vent of her eighteenth birthday, Misa Augusta Bucliholt -waa last evening tendered a de-K lightfui party by about twenty 'five young people at the home of Iter parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Prank.