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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1909)
Pffl NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS. ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON nellglous, Social, Agricultural, Polit ical and Other Matters Given Due Consideration. Judeo Thomas H. Saunders, one of the pioneers of Nobrnskn, died at Co lumbus after an Illness of nearly three months following a fall down tho stops of the Masonic templo. Frank Burgess, manager of the Bos ton Ideal Opera company, playing nn engagement In Beatrice, Is Buffering from a spider blto on tho lower lip which may provo serious. Ho Is re ceiving trentmont nt a locnl hospital, having been forced "to glvo up his work on tho Btngo for the prosent. Corn Is king and cooks are queens is tho announcement mado by York County Boys' Agricultural and Girls' Domestic Sclcnco associations, who will hold an exhibition at York, com mencing Tuesday, Novombcr 23 and ending November 27. The best of tho exhibits will bo taken to tho Omaha Corn show. A largo nmount of now wheat is be ing handled in tho locality of Boatrlco at present Jntwo days 10,000 bushels or this year s crop havo boon deliv ered at tho elevators at Pickrell, tho grain bringing the top price, $1.02 per uushel. No less than eight threshing outfits havo been suppllying the eleva tors at Pickroll. Building operations in Beatrlco are being pushed. Local carpenters, plas terers and masons aro all busy. Among tho buildings now In progress of construction aro tho new Kllpatrlck office building, tho Beatrlco Automo bile company's garage, and John L. Schick livery barn, firemen's head quarters and Dole Floral company's block. Tho plans and specifications for a now brick court house to bo built at .Bridgeport aro now being advertised for. Tho court house will cost 425, 000. A bond issuo of $15,000 has Just been voted for this purpose and this with tho.$t0,000 cash' donation of tho Lincoln Land company, will secure one of tho finest court houses In tho vost for Nebraska's youngest county. Tho 7-year-old son of Otto Stark, who lives flvo mllc3 west of Martlns- nurg, was gored by a bull. Tho boy Avns badly bruised with a rent flvo inches long on tho right side which penetrated tho Intestines and another in tho back, besides being trampled all over. No place as largo as a hand on his entire body escaped. It is thought ho will rccovor. Certain members of tho Nebraska Stato Historical society havo protest ed to Stato Auditor Barton to provont the payment by him to C. S. Paine salary as secretary of tho society at tho rate of $1,600 a year. As a result Mr. Barton will pay no moro Balary vouchors for Mr. Paine until tho mat ter hns been passed on by the logal department of state. Aflor ten days of activity, tho 1,200 Nebraska national guardsmon, con stituting tho First brigade, left Ash land for their homes, leaving- in camp only a Httlo guard in charge of Major 13. H. Phelps, who remained over to conduct tho target practice of tho team that goes to compote In tho na tional rifle tournament at Camp Perry. O., tho mlddlo of August. Tho camp was said by everyone to be tho best ovor hold In tho stato. , Tho early applo crop, says a Ne braska City dispatch, is-exceptlonally good and several cars havo been ship ped out. The crop will bo a heavy ono and It is found that those orch ards which hayo been sprayed and properly looked after havo borno fruit that will bear shipping, whilo those that havo not been cared-for aro not fit to ship, bolng very defective. Tho late crop will bo very light and only in sprayed orchards will it nmount to anything. Harvesting In this section, says an Arlington dispatch, Is about finished and sorao threshing is being done. It is claimed that wheat will mako be tween twenty and thirty-five bushels per aero and tho test will bo from sixty to sixty-two. Oats aro rather a .light crop as a whole, owing to tho lato freeze, but somo fields will mako a cood yield. Tho elevators aro offering to contract wheat at U per bushel, and many of tho farmers will sell direct from tho treshlng machine. Tho last report of tho weather bur eau for Nebraska, for June, Indicates that that month had rather moro than tho usual amount of rain. Tho precipi tation wns 4.2G Inches, which Is moro than a quarter of an Inch greater than tho average for tho month during tho past thirty-four years. West Point was favored with 9.04 inches. Tho temperature was rather greater than normal for tho month, standing as an average at CD dogrces. Tho high est temperature at any tlmo during tho month ,was 108 degrees at Beaver City. Tho attornoy for Mrs. Maud Mornn of Nebraska City, wlfo of Attornoy W. F. Mornn, who after a hearing cover ing flvo weeks beforo tho commis sioners of insanity vas declared In sane, has gone beforo Judge H. D. Travis and secured a writ or habeas corpus. Tho hearing it sot for Aug. '. Two boys ran away from tho Indus trial school at Kcarnoy last week. They were holpors In the kitchen and wore sent In tho kitchen nhcad of ono of tho officers to do somo work. When the officer arrived tho boys had disap peared and, although tho country was scoured, thoy aro stllj missing. F YOU had been an eyo witness of tho great naval battle which was fought off tho port of Provlnce Incctown, Mass., in tho Atlantic ocean, you would say without hes itation that "Uncle Sam can lick tho world." It was a mimic en counter, tho feature of this summer's maneu vers of tho Atlantic battleship fleet, which wore held oft the rug ged Massachusetts coast between July 7 and August 5, tho "exercises thcro having Just come to an end. It wns a great scrap, bloodless of courso, but filled with enough mimic gore to mako an American of tho coldest temperament throw his hat Into tho air and yell for Old Glory, tho stars and stripes, President Taft and nil the rest. Drawn up in battlo alignment were 50 war crat. of every slzo and shape, They ranged nil the way frorr P"nr Admiral Scaton Scbroeder's 1G.O0O uz flagship, U. S. S. Connecticut, to tin tiny submarine torpedo boat Taran tula. Divided into two squadrons, oppos ing each other, these two divisions of "our friends, tho enemy," broko tho morning mist on opposite horizons and at the flagship's signals quickly fell into circular battle formation, opening flro at a distanco of several miles. On paper it was a gory struggle. A dozen of tho terrors of the sea wcro "disabled" by Rear Admiral Schroc dcr's edict and several submarines fig uratively carried their crews to Davy Jones' locker, never to return. Tno battleship Connecticut led tho ships or one division. From out or tho cover- or each opponent's Buns darted the tiny torpedo boats and nlmost aB often their courses wero blocked and In somo cases the torpedoes and torpedo boats "destroyed." By nightfall the battlo being called a "draw," the- searchlights of tho two sets of enemies followed each other out of sight and that Saturday evening foes beenmo rriends upon reaching headquarters at Provlncotown. Every known modern naval devlco was .giv en Its Inning during tho fight. Torpedoes wero dispatched by wireless telegraph, this being nn experiment tried In an actual en gagement for the first time by tho United States. Tho newly adopted flro control mast, which has been called tho "Inverted waste basket," proved a success, tho officers said. Tho summer's maneuvers afforded tho first op opportunlty for a crucial test of this Invention. A dozen torpedo boats made attacks on tho big battleships and olllcers and men wero re quired to exert extreme vigilance to also guard against tho llttlo submarine torpedo boats, four of which with tho parent ship, tho gunboat Castlnc, made things lively for tho monster war vessels. Time nnd again tho llugshlp Connecticut was compelled to dip her nets to wnrd ofT tho destructive torpedoes which shot llttlo swirls or roam to tho sur face of tho ocean bb they sped on their mis sion of mimic death. The grim reaper, burlesqued, stalked every where during the encounter nnd tlmo nnd again ships wero declared "sunk," "de stroyed" or "scuttled" to prevent capture by tho enemy, while admirals, cnptalns, petty of ficers nnd men were notified they had been "killed" by a well-directed shell. Tho battlo of tho fleets wns tho play of the maneuvers. To tho able-bodied seamen tho work consisted of fleet drills nnd exercises In volving tnctlcnl problems nnd hnttle ovolu tlons. With tholr work off Provlncetown fin ished tho fleet was scheduled to depart for tho southern drill grounds, south of Virginia capes, for record nnd battlo targot practice, tho results of which wero ordered secretly tabulated for the war department, This shooting will ocupy about two weeks beginning August 19. At Its closo tho vossoIb will return to Hampton Roads and go to their homo yards for repnirs which may have boon would declare, end then Guclra would talk to Wj foacsriiafc n'tcr lie following manner: i My friend, vou frtl weak and why? Glmplj tosmmxt th prorcnt moment oi r body. In the process of jcUrrtttoi; f polling from its various departments a bad auperj&'.us.toafia! t toxic matters and diseased, or worthless tissue whlcli -wlrt juw weto overfeeding your systom wero unnblo to thvova sft owing to the calls yon made upon your dlgitWa xt4 klntofd organs. Not only do 1 starve you now, my ior ttltnd, but mortow I will give you n purgative. You think i tfl cruel, d you? Not at all. All thcro noxious matters will bo carried away from your syrlem; but nevertheless I shnll continue to starve you, caro nnilco. Whon your temperature has gono be low tho normal that Is lo sny. when In r-coupjogf dayB tho ostoss of toxic mntlor has been' eliminated, Uhan-yotr shall havo something to cat. No, not till tneil." However, the doctor carried his Investigations somewhnt further. It occurred to him that even in tho henlthy state, or In the normal body which Is supposed to bo enjoying good health, this used-up or 'worthless tissue and effete mattor must require oc casional expulsion from the body. It Is obvious that when tho reRtilntlon amount of food Is consumed tho body's dlgCBtlvo find kindred or gans havo their allotted tasks to perforin. Conse quently, tho ref use or worth less mattor re malnn In tho s y b t c in, thus forming an ob ject of- attack In tho caso of disease, a source or debil ity and a happy hunting ground Tor thoso nox ious phagocytes that prey upon tho hoalthy body, first in trenching them solves In a cen ter or tho body which Is predlB posed to un healthiness nnd nttacklug from rnsssssxK"- W ekTO?PDO B0A7 indxy dock I 1 vn u.n.m of tho 5 1... ' -r - ... MAX r f At LiU in III incctown, Mass., In tho M IfKK ' ' . 1 V&" lV?f 1 ' - " . 'PMQnl I JOT would say without hes- 7w W'rHt ' . ' Pk .W- "J ' ' . M leSmvl Itntion thnt "Uncle w Vmgfmtl JL23sit,.VlV I " -ir ' -$ f ' HWMsam can lick tho I IfflpOR tf - SPSTS I I ;VSfa& . 1 It was a mimic en- I I liiM - V v, . ,1 .- .11 . i r- . .fItwSMi? ' I I counter, tho feature of I I If . ',V .. .. 7 tt r : . I U Ivors of tho Atlantic 111 ... - . n I ' . ' ' U:h , ll uecossltntcd by tho vigorous summer cam paign. The winter maneuvers will tako placo in West Indlnn waters. Hampton Roads, presonfed a great sight when tho big war craft departed from there BATTLESHIP !ttDIAiA for Now England ports, whore thoy spent July 4, preparatory to repairing to Provlncetown for the maneuvers nnd sham naval strugglo. In the northern ports tho snilors and offl- . cors wero granted shoro leave In relays from July 2 to July C. Four ships visited Boston Independence day, two wero nt Penobscot bny, two at Portland, Me., and ono ench at Marblo head, Mass., Portsmouth, N. II., Eastport, Me., Brockport, Mass.. Gloucester, Mass., and Booth Bay, Mo. With tho renssembllng of tho fleet nt Brock port, Mass., three days after tho fourth began tho summer's work, which wns moro plctur esquo than that of any previous year, It wbb snld. From Provlncetown the fleot proceeded to sen each week, roturning Saturday nights. On these trips of a week ench occurred the fleet drills, tho evolutions nnd other exorcises. Ono feature of the innneuvcrs was tho pres ence of tho naval militias of several eastern stntes. The members of theso inllltla bodies aro citizen sailors. Each body of"mllltln wns taken out for n week's instruction on tho big ships. Permission to take tho reserves on the voyages wns granted through tho courtesy of tho navy department. The Provlncotown maneuvers presented tho spoctuclc of battleships nt practice firing at Eca under every weather condition for tho first tlmo In the history of American naval art. Night firing under tho samo conditions wns ono of tho Important parts of the program which was carried out to tho letter. President Taft nnd Secretnry of tho Navy Meyer wero witnesses of several of tho maneu vers of the fleet nt sen and both odlclals ex pressed themselves as delighted with tho piogross which tho sailors havo mado at marksmanship since their world tour. Two old torpedo bonts, NlcholBon and O'Brien, were dismantled, tilled with cork to keep them afloat nnd iibcd ns targets for tho gigantic projectllos, Time and ngaln thoy wero riddled nnd finally, tho cork having been so thoroughly perforated that thoy wero longer unable to keep afloat, thoy sank to tho bottom of tho ocean. Thoy wcro towed at dlfferont spoeds by tho crulsorB nnd thus the gunnors of tho menof wnr given nn opportunity to gauge distanco and motion at tho snmn tlmo, one of tho most difficult fcntB at which tho Amorlcan tar Is an adept, Tho scout orulsorH Chester, Salem and Bir mingham and tho nrmored crulsors North Cnr ollna, Monfnna and Now York Joined tho fleet nt Provlncetown will took part In tho claho- ARMORZD QRW6EA COLORADO rato program. The cruiser Montgomery, which hnd been fitted jip ns a torpedo experimental ship, was alfio with tho fleet and took a promi nent part In tho strugglo nt Eca, Ita experi ments proving of grent futuro vnluc. Tho great Atlantic torpedo fleet also do serves mention in connection with tho sum mer's play nt war. Tho flotilla of 12 boats with tho cruiser DIxIo as paront ship nnd four brand now submnrlno boats with tho gunboat Castlne ns their parent ship played spectacu lar parts alongside of tho monster battleships of fifteen and sixteen thousand tons. Only 12 of tho 10 battleships which wont around tho world wero with tho fleet of tho Atlnntlo ocean off Provlncetown, tho othor four in Renr Admiral Schroeder's command being new vessols, receiving their first experi ence nt firing In this practice, STOP EATING AND GET WELL "In tho course of my long experience I havo noted," say Dr. Guolpn, ono of Itnly'H best known consulting physicians, according to the New- Vork World, "that tho beginning of a cure of n sick, person always declares Itself when tho bodily weight bIiowh a deerenso. Whonovor, on 'the contrary, tho .weight re mained stationary I never failed on any occa sion to find that tho temperature hnd In creased nnd that tho particular iUncss of Uio moment hnd tho upper hand," And so It was that Guelpa, much to the cha grin and tomporary discomfort of his innny pa tients nnd ho had ouo of the lnrgoBt clien teles In Italy wns wont to ruthlessly pro- thnt position. Now, tho eliminating, first i all, of these diseased areas Is tho first tint of man, womnn and child to themselves. Sny Dr. Guolpn to his recalcitrant patient: "Whon you nro attacked by an lllnesB, d you not find, my dear friend, thnt nature rt moves from you most of your ordinary deslr to eat nnd drink? You. however, think thn you know bettor thhn nature. You sny t yoursoir that you must proparo for your sjcl noss by putting In a stock of food and poi haps drink. Foolish man! Doch It not occu to you that naturo Is trying to tench you hov to act and you won't learn. Far from vnltlm till you nro Btrlcken with Illness, try on occa slonnl dny's starvation and lllnoss may nove como. You will, by doing this, rid your sy tern of Its effete tissues and Its noxious toxi matters or poisons. Whon you feel thnt occr slonnl hendacho; when you reel that "all-ovet Ishness" thnt sometimes attacks you; who) vou aro depressed you call It billons web try a bout or Marvatlon and then wntch fo results, How long Bhould wo starve, then, nccordln, to our Guolpn? Ho says himself that then aro rew persons who cannot do threo dny without food, and that, too, with constant pur galivos. At first a general gastric and tnus cular weakness Is felt. That Is pimply tho be ginning of tho process of elimination. Soon Honto of comfort begins lo bo enjoyed. O course tho body In this period is more prom to catch cold, a matter thnt must bo provide! for by an luuronso of clothing and a hot drink now and thon. Tho Chamber of Commerce or Port nu Prlnco offers to plnco at tbe'dlsposnl or chain bors of commerce, producers nnd manufacture orn of tho Unltod States and its- colonies n. scrlbo a "dint or starvation." Tho pnUont ' space in Hh rooms rorjlio exhibition of tholr would naturally protest. Ho felt weak, ho .products.