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MONDAY, OCT. 3, 1927. PIATTSJfiOUTH SE5H - WEESLT JOURKAL PAGE FIVE 4 in . if M&RBOCK DEPMRTMEH THIS WEEK! A Car of the Very Best Colorado $10.75 at the Car Farmers Elevator Co. Murdock, Nebraska A. C. Depner has been assisting John Eppings in the building of a cab for the tractor which he uses on the road maintainer. Mesdames W. O. Gillespie and A. II. Ward were visiting in Lincoln on last Saturday, they driving over to the big city in their car. Leo McQuire of Omaha was among the number who were enjoying the hunting and fishing trip of the Mur dock boj-s in the northwest. A. H. Oehlerking was called to Plattsmouth last Wednesday to look after some business matters, driving over in his car for the occasion. Henry Riecke and wife, from near Alvo were visiting friends and also were doing some shopping in Murdock on Wednesday afternoon of last week. Louis Fisher of Los Angeles, Cal ifornia, and the husband of a sister of Mrs. A. J. Tool, was a visitor at the Tool home for a short time during the past week. Matthew and Victor Thimgan. who were home for some time, returned to Central City where they are com pleting their work on the school and doing some other as well. J. H. Buck has not been feeling very well for some time past, he hav ing had a fight with the summer flu, and while he still keeps going he is far from his usual health. Henry Klemme. in order to have gool seed corn and know what to de pend on when the time comes to plant, picked his seed corn last week and put away an abundance of it. In a game of baseball which was staged between the high school team of Eagle and that of Murdock, the Eagle team won over the Murdock team by the score of fourteen to two. Edward Guilstorff shelled and de livered his corn during the latter por tion of last week, getting ready for the excellent crop which he is raising this year, and which is getting better all the time. John Gray and wife arrived last Tuesday and moved Into the doctor's office where' they are operating a crepm station. It will be remember er that Mr. Gray was here before and operated a cream station for a time. The children of L. B. Gorthy have been feeling quite poorly and for a time grave concern was entertained regarding the little folks on account of serious stomach trouble, but they are feeling much better at this time. L. A. Gordon and wife, of Omaha, were visiting for the week end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Utt. and also were enjoying a visit from Diller T'tt find wife from their home at Havelock, who were also over for the occasion. La i. f.'-nday John Eppings and the family were visiting at Plattsmouth on last Sunday, where they went to see the mother of Mrs. Eppings who is quite ill following an operation of rome time since and who was even more poorly on Monday, but since has been resting a little easier. The plasterers, who began work on the Gust Ruge new home last week, have completed the plastering of the upper story, and were doing the fin ishing of some work which they had in Greenwood, and will be on the job again on the remainder of the work on the Ruge home this week. The Rev. J. V. Bandy and family of Beaver City, where Rev. Bandy has been the minister, were visiting for a short time at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Tool, Mesdames Bandy and Tool being sisters. Rev. Bandy has been assigned the charge at Grant where they moved during their visit here. John Eppings. the road riian, who keeps the Red Ball highway in the hfst of condition possible during the entire year, whether it he warm or cold, is building a cab on the truck Furniture - Undertaking 35 years experience. Most careful service given. Your patronage solic ited. Phone No. 65, Elmwood, Nebr. B. I. Clements Good Year, U. S., and Fisk 29x4-40 $10.65 Premier Balloons, 29x4-40 9.55 Premier Cord. Reg. S0x3V2 8.00 Oood Year Fabric 30x3y2 8.50 V. S. Usco, 30x31, 7.50 S. Usco. 30x3Z 6 50 Pisk 30x3i2 Cord 6.25 Columbia Hot Shot and Dry Cell Batteries, High Grade Gasoline and Mobile Oils A. H. WARD Murdock, Nebr. PREPARED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE JOURNAL. in order to work In the winter time more successfully. Lfttle we know how much work it requires to keep the roads in condition over which we ride In so much comfort. E. W. Thimgan was delivering lumber to the home of Turner Mc Kinnon, who ia having a hog house constructed for his fine bunch of swine. The place belongs to Fred H. Gorder of Weeping Water and is a fine farm and which he is endeavor ing to keep in the best condition. The material was furnished by the Tool Lumber company of Murdock. There has been a revival meeting in progress during the past week at the Callahan church southwest of Murdock, and a good deal of interest has been manifest notwithstanding the fact that the roads have been heavy and the weather very damp. The ministers conducting the services were the Rev. Neumanberg, the regu lar pastor who has Just arrived, Rev. Haiest of Elmwood, the presiding elder. Elder Jansen. of Lincoln, and the Rev. Reuben Stauss, of Omaha. Most interesting meetings have been held. The Hunters Return. After enjoying their annual hunt, which carried them to Beaver Lake, south of Valentine, the party of hunt ers composed of II. V. McDonald and son, Lacey, Stephen Leis, Henry A. i Tool, A. J. Tool and Gust Gakemeier, have returned home. They surely had a fine time with their fishing and ; hunting as well as the general trip, i They visited Valentine while they were away. They had enjoyed the trip emmensely and concluded they must have a visit at Valentine, and so assayed to see that flourishing place. There the Niobrara river runs close to the town and as all know who have been in those parts is not on the surface of the country but be low. In order to reach the place they had to descend into the valley of the river and then up again to the city. Many of the boys say that it is a horrible hill, especially up which to push a car and carry gasoline to the said car. Ask them. ladies Aid Society. The Ladies Aid Society of the Mur dock church met last week and had their regular business meeting which they loked after with neatness and dispatch and following this they en Joyed the regular social hour, and were entertained delightfully by their hostess of the day. Hears of Uncle's Death Postmaster L. B. Gorthey received a letter from his mother early last week telling of the death of an uncle, Mr. Walter Gorthey, who had been engaged in farming near North Bora dauburn. N. Y., and who died quite suddenly on last Saturday at the age of 58 years. Mr. Gorthey has not seen his uncle for a number of years. Buried at Elmwood Cemetery The funeral of the late Fred Zink was held from the Methodist church of Elmwood and was conducted by the Masonic order of which he was a member as well as of the church. Many of the friends of this excellent man were present at the funeral and were eager to pay their last tribute of respect to a man whom this com munity has learned to honor and re spect. The interment was made in the cemetery at Elmwood, where he will rest until the trumpet of the Angel of the Resurrection should, sound. This community as well as the Methodist church and the family are losing a valued citizen and one whom all have learned was always working for the very best of the community in which he lived. Four Square Club to Meet The Four Square club of the Home Economics Extension Work will hold their first meeting October 10th from 7 to JO p. m. in the school building. All wishing to become members are requested to come and receive bul letins for the work. Publicity Man-ag-r. EATING AND SEEING . I St. Louis, Sept 30. You can't see straight when you overeat. , Eating too much directly affects ! the vision, according to Cyrus F. Blanke ! "Recent experiments in which the) stomach was distended artificially show that the subject became drowsy I immediately." declared Mr. Blanke. I "Extra effort was required to read : ry Ihr. nt'ontinn lrie-P-e,l Vvamln- at ion of the eyes showed their ac commodation was reduced and the vision impaired. "The modern trend toward concen trated foods is a step in the right direction. Drinking too much is not nearly as harmful as overeating. The harm in drinking lies in the drink. In tea and coffee the bad effect lies in me caneine aim tannin, except from the inside in the case of health and tea and i the relatively poorer commun-coffee.- which, because of a scientific ities, with their mare fragile struc process. is free from these poisonous tures, however, the full power of the alkaloids. In other drinks the harm i twisting and lifting ability of the lies in their alcoholic contest or in some other agent. "Besides poor eyesight, overeating is responsible for fully half of the other ills man is heir to. It is the greatest single cause of disease and death. The food?, in themselves are doubtless everything they should be. J The fault lies in tne quantity eaten. 1 There is no more necessary lesson to be learned by the average man or woman than that of proper food habits." FOB SALE Canaries Three young singerE and several females. Mrs. William Baird, Plattsmouth, phne S10 a3-2twi 500 Hurt and 20 Missing in St Louis Cyclone Bodies of Five Little Girls Found in Wreckage of School; U. S. Army Has Taken Charge St. Louis. Work of relief and habilitation was well under way Fri day night when darkness settled over the six-square-miles area devastated Thursday when a four-minute torna do killed 88 persons, injured more than 500 and damaged or destroyed 5,500 homes and business buildings. The property loss, according to the best estimates of experts, who spent the day in the stricken area, was expected to exceed the $10, 000.000 record of the tornado of 1896, when 140 persons were kill ed in an area of 10 square miles. Damages Set at $50,000,000 After a careful tour of the path of devastation. Building Commissioner Christopher placed the minimum of damage done to property of all kinds at $50,000,000 and declared he believed it might reach $100,000, 000. It would take more than $100, 000.000. he said, for rehabilitation. The first of 30 insurance adjusters brought here from other cities esti mated the lo.s at between $50,000, 000 and $60,000,000. Only one body, that of a woman, remained unidentified. Twenty persons had been reported missing, however. A single inquest to cover the deaths of all St. Louis victims was set for Saturday morning with the coroner's jury expected to hold a perfunctory hearing and return a verdict of deaths by a quirk of the elements. No Joint Funeral Plan. No plans had been made for joint funerals and since the death list was made up of men, women and children in comparatively widely separated areas with no intimate contacts, it was believed each bereaved family would take care of its dead in individ ual ceremonies, with Saturday and Sunday a day of funerals and burials. Excepting for the constant conver sations everywhere about the slowly mounting death list, downtown St. Louis virtually was without a re minder of the death and desolation within three miles of the business district. Employes' ranks in many concerns were thinned as men re mained at home to dig in the debris for possessions or to make hasty re pairs to roofs, doors and windows against the forecast of rain. Other wise business went along virtually as usual. The situation seemed far different from that of a smaller community struck by a tornado with a result ant similar loss of life. When Mur physboro, 111., was devasted two and one-half years ago the entire com munity of 13.000 souls was numbed for days. In the immense area of St. Louis the havoc of the four minutes of fury seemed tnnave been lost ex cepting in the regions immediately Effected. Scene of Horror. The devastated region, however, was a scene of horror and at the same time of intense activity Friday. Traffic into many quarters of it con tinued to be blocked off while res cue parties dug in the ruins, a maze of fallen bricks and tangled power wires and uprooted trees. From Lindell boulevard, a street of tall apartment houses and fine homes, the tornado hopped some eight blocks to Vandeventer Place, formerly the most exclusive residence center of St. Louis, and thence three blocks to Cook, the center of a large district devoted to homes for negroes. In the central west end. the area tof chaos extended between Sarah j street and Newstead avenue, north from Forest Park avenue, across La icede avenue, west Pine and Lindell boulevard, widening north of Oliver street and reaching Grand boulevard near Vandeventer. Sarah street con- tinned to be a street of heavy damage as far north as Easton avenue. Near Fairground park the trend toward Mississippi river became more di- Low Air Pressure Causes Damage f all the damage done, by far thp Created seemed to have occurred not h the unmeasured twisting and I'uwci ui I lie IUI nauo lisen. but by the explosions of air inside buildings themselves as the twister passed and created an outside vacuum into which the Inner air rushed. Along lindell boulevard from Nos. 4000 to 4400. studry brick and stone structures exhibited entire walls gone irom pressure inside, while in some instances Jagged holes were torn as if a m5ghty shell had been fired thru tornado was vented. Flimsy stuc tures existed no more excepting a3 broken and twisted piles or debris. There were pitiful scenes as house wives, bent as the gleaners, fumbled in the remains of their little homes, or, a full day's labor of tidying up done, sat disconsolate on front door- steps, pictures of utter dejection amidst the wreckage Find Five Bodies. Possibly the saddest story of the wrath of the elements was revealed when rescuers delving in the debris of the hugh Culral High 6chool on Grand avey.ue, just about opposite Vandever.ter Place, found the bodies of five little girls. Some of them I were pinned down by eteel beams, and after hours of digging, acetylene T. torches had to be used before the bodies could be released. When the school was struck, hun dreds of children were endangered but only five lives were lost, and 18 children injured. Seven school build ings, with 6,500 pupils, were In the tornado's path. Throuhout the vast area of deso lation, sightseers thronged, viewing the damage and watching the victims work to restore order. Streets, already narrowed by fallen walls, uprooted trees, poles and twisted wires, were clogged by the visitors' automobiles. Finally they were denounced by Chief of Police Gerk, as "sightseeing man iacs," and ordered to remairf out of the district. Omaha Bee-News. Prison Residents of Nation Show Marked Increase Thirty-One States of the Country Shows Twenty-Eight Per Cent Increase. Washington, Sept. 28. The de partment of commerce makes the fol lowing preliminary announcement of the results of the census of state prisons and reformatories for 192G. Complete returns have been receiv ed from 31 states, covering 58 out of a total of 09 prisons and reform atories which are included in the census. These 5S institutions had a total of 27,018 prisoners received frnm the courts durinsr the vear 1926. as compared with 21,054 in liT23, or an increase of 28.3 per cent. For the 31 states represented there were 34.1 prisoners received per 100,000 of the general popula tion, as compared with luO.OOO re ceived in 1923. In other words, the number of prison admissions has in creased much more rapidly than the general population. In comparing the figures for in dividual states, it is noted that the number of prisoners committed an nually to the prisons and reforma tories in a given state is affected not only by the prevalence of crime in the state, but also by such fac tors as the character and effective ness of the local policies and ma chinery for law enforcement. Where a state shows a large increase in the number of admissions, or in the num ber of prisoners in confinement at a given time, such increase may repres ent an increase in the severity of the penalties imposed by the local courts, or in the percentage of of fenders who are arrested and impris oned, rather than an increase in crime. Tht extent of the state penal in stitutions in each state is measured approximately by the number of prisoners present on a given date. In the 31 states covered by this r-tate-ment, there has been a steady in crease in the nun. her of prisoners in state prisons and reformatories, ar indicated by the figures for the dates at the beginning of the three most recent years for which data are avail able, which are as follows: January 1. 1923, 47.57S; January 1, 1920: 59.692; and January 1, 1927. G3.S2S. The number of prisoners in ccngno ment per 100,000 of the general population, increased from 66.6 on Panuary 1. 1923, to 84.1 on Janu ary 1. 1927. For the most part, also, the figures for the individual stater show striking increases. OUR COUNTRY GIVES CREDIT WHERE DUE The recent conferring of degrees by a Middle Western university upon a number of farmers whose work had been of aid in the progress of agricul ture, is a salient example of American democracy. It but shows again that this is the one great country in the world where a man is rewarded and judged entirely upon his work, and not by social and economic standards, beyond his control. Those men being given this honor was but little com mented upon for the reason that it is nothing unusual; the people realize it is natural that anyone who dis tinguishes himself in any way will cret credit for it. In Europe, on the contrary, should anything like thisj happen, it would be so unprecedented . as to be a sensation. That ia one of the reasons for the immense differ ence in progrcssiveness between the two continents. There can be no danger of radical ism or any other "ism" where democ racy prevails. It is impossible to make a malcontent of a person who knows there is nothing that will op pose him should he have sufficient ; ability to become a great business man, statesman or anything else. Perfectly contented people won't trouble themselves to follow highly dubious theories of "what might be done." MINISTER HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Walthill, Sept. 25. One person was seriously injured and three oth ers suffered minor cuts and bruises; when two. automobiles, collided on a narrow bridge north of Walthill late Friday. TA; FORCLQSURE. CASE, From "Wednesday's Dally ' - An action has been filed in the district court on a tax foreclosure lien in which Joseph Spence is the plaintiff and Francis J. Ingram and James Ingram et al. are tb,e defend ants. The actica covers real estate ia the vicinity of Louisville. Two Bandits Get $3,700 from Hordville Bank Milf ord and McCool Institutions Loot ed of $11,000 Tuesday Night; Holdups Disguised. Two men, appearing to be about 30 years old, both armed and both wearing whiskers, held up the presi dent, cashier and three customers of i the First State bank of Hordville. I Hamilton county, 20 miles north of I Aurora, the county seat, and robbed jthe bank of $3,700 at 4 p. m. Wed nesday. The holdup followed two bank robberies Tuesday night, when cracksmen obtained nearly $11,000 from the safes of the Nebraska State bank at Milford and the Blue River Valley bank of McCool. The two men who entered the Hordville bank and lined the five men, R. C. Gustafson, president of the bank: Roy McPherson, cashier; H. H. Hahn of the Federal Land Bank system, and Louis Cohtz and A. Refshauge of Hordville, against the wall and told them to be quiet or they would shoot. Wear False Whiskers. The shorter of the two men, who was about five feet, six inches tall and wore false red wriskers, then left the other man, who was about five feet, nine inches tall and wore a false long flowing back mustache, to guard the victims while he went in search of the money. Nothing but a few dollars remain ed on the desk and the larger man marched hir, charges into the vault where Mr. Hahn handed him severa1 bags of silver. But the men were not satisfied with that and demand ed the money there was in the back. It was at that moment that an other customer stepped to the door and saw the holdun in progress. Falls Against Door. He turned to run away and flip ped, falling against the door. It was this noise that diverted the atten tio ncf the robbers. They grabbed what silver and currency was in sight and started to tie their prisoners, but evidently believed that would take too much time, so abandoned that idea. Instead they closed the vault door and leaped into their car and sped east out of town. Their auto was a delapidated Ford touting car, no top, no lamps and nc license plate. Both men were dressed in over alls and blue work Fhirts. But ac cording to the victim?, their hand were white and showed no evidencr of the hard work their dress vouh' indicate. Farmer Seer. Car. The bank officials and customers were in the cault but 10 minutes when Sheriff J. Howard at Aurora 20 miles away, was notified. He in turn notiked State Sheriff Conriit a' Lincoln. The victims also notifier" the sheriff at Central City, 10 miler north and wept, county peat of Mer rick, the adjoining county. Shortly before 4:30, a farmer liv ing three miles east of Hordville reported seeing a. dilapidated Ford touring car without a top, "going east as fast as it could go." past his home. Sheriff Howard said he does not believe that the men were from his county or any of the surrounding counties. lie sr.icl they probably were from Omaha or Sioux City. A ha?ty inventory rhowed that the loot consisted "f ?b.200 in currency and 500 in silver. Entrance to the Milford bank evi dently "was gained by means of a key to one of the doors. H. P. Lipply president. saH. Elmer Yost, cashier discovered the robbery, when he opened the bank. An nctelyenc torch was used to burn a hole in the safe. Recall Strarger's Actions. The safe was still warm, but war filled with water. An alarm. cord had been strung from the vault to a point of vantage outside the bank, occupied apparently by a member of the gang who was ready to give an immediate alarm if plans went awry. These precautions are said to have beer used by only one gang of robbers in the country, and never to have ap peared west of the Mississippi river until the Nebraska robberies. Actions of a stranger, who appear ed in Milford last Friday, aroused suspicion, and it was believed Wed nesday that he was an advance agent of the safe-crackers. The man ap peared in the bank twice. He drove r. car with Iowa license plates, and the number was taken. Get $10,000 at Milford. At Milford, where the safe crack ers succeeded in getting inside the vault, they got more than $10,000. but at McCool, where the matted burglar alarms systems foiled their efforts, they obtained but a small , amount. j Whether or not Sheriff Condit be-j lieves these two jobs were done by the same yeggs, he-would not say. but he did say that the Milford job was similar to the robbery of the State bank of Jensen last week when more than $1,500 was stolen. Little information could be obtain ed from McCool because the robbers! had cut the telephone and telegraph wires into the city. Damage to com munication lines was set at $300. AFTER TRAFFIC VIOLATORS Hastings, lieu., ocpi. ou. a i."", months' campaign staged here; against violators of auto traffic or-; dinances has netted $150 in fines and $456 in costs paid in to the court of Police Judge Schroeder. One hund-! red persons have been fined during the two months, the majority of the cases being for failure to observe stop button regulations, but violators-cf; speed and restricted parking rules have also been hauled in. i OUR BASIC INDUSTRIES MUST HAVE LABOR Renewal of the bitter fight waged last winter over the proposal to apply quota plan restrictions on immigra tion from Canada and Latin-American countries is looked for at the coming session of congress. Any drastic restriction on immigra tion from Canada and enactment of legislation practically prohibiting immigration from Mexico, Central and South America, would be a phy ical impossibility unless we should employ a veritable army of immigra tion officials to patrol our borders. Hunted Indian Sends Message to the Posses Would Slay Man Whose Sister He Attacked, and Wife Also Hunt Continues. Winnebago, Neb., Sept. 28. Fail ure again mocked the efforts of white men last night in their game of wits with Wesley Bradford, 21-year-old Indian slayer defying cap ture in the jungles of Big Bear hol low at the edge of the reservation here. Taking up their vigil at a lonely road from which they could view a deserted house where they expected the killer to make new headquarters. Sheriff Her Jensen and his deputy Phil McManus, waited from midnight until dawn for Bradford to appear. They returned this morning, empty handed, without having seen any trace of the Indian. The two men went secretly to their "plant," at the edge of the hol low, starting about 9 p. m. Most of the way they were forced to proceed on foot. It was their theory that the bitter cold and rain last night might force Bradford to seek shelter in the abandoned dwelling. i After the two have had a short j sleep an inquest is to be held this, morning into the death of Deputy Sheriff William Adams Saturday, for whose death Bradford is wanted. Message cf Death. j Late yesterday a sinister message; from Bradford found its way to Sher- iff Jensen and his po-e. I "I'm going to kill two more." was! the short, terse reply that came over i the mysterious moccasin telegraph of' the Winnebagos in response to Jen-J sen's overtures. How, or by whom j it was received is unknown. j Word wrs sent by the same "moc-. casin telegraph" to Bradford last j night that if he surrendered he would j receive immunity from mob violence; and a fair trial. It is the old Indian pa?sion for re-j venge that burns beneath Bradford's answer. The two he will kill, he said, are Paul Decora, a Winnebagc Indian, and his wife. It was Decora's 14-year-old sister that Bradford attacked, and for which he was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. The evidence against him was presented largely by Decora and his wife. It was after Bradford's conviction, and while he was being held in jail at Pender waiting transfer to the state peniten-! tiary that he fled jail and killed the deputy sheriff who pursued him No Word, from Emissary. Into this wilderness which is Big! Bear hollow, went a lone Indian Monday night, to plead with Brad ford to return and to promise him immunity from mob vengeance. N j word has come from him and hir fate is doubtful. Two theories are advanced. One, that he has not yet 'onnd the killer and is continuing his search, the other that he has met j death. Bradford is armed . with c j rifle. The nrme of this messenger for many years a friend of Jensen j is unrevealed. ! The presence of over a dozen heiv-j ily armed men, standing in shady ' silent groups on unlighted Fide streets of Winnebago last night, all of them strangers to this little In-1 dion agency town, increased the nor-; vous tension that has gripped citi ! sens during the man-hunt that has irone on almost unceasingly here for: Bradford. I Thef-e men began dr'fting into! town by twos and throe in aitomo-; biles at dusk. The cars were prM'ked on the edge of the town. Sheriff IIt Jensen, conducting the man hunt, was "too busy to talk." brt . it is believed the men were sent in here to alignment the r-osr.". 1 The? sheriff is convinced that the( Indian passion for. revenre mikrr: useless any further attempts to per suade Bradford to come in until he is brought in, or until Decora is dead Decor?. Is UncFraid. j Decora appeared in Winnebagc Tuesday afternoon and was told of the word Bradford had sent in, that he was going to kill him and his wife. TheIndian was unarmed, and ftebr. City Tiro & Vulc. Co. TELEPHONE i Nebraska City Exclusive declared he had whipped Bradford once and was unafraid. Many other people are armed however, and nervous. No one laugh ed when Douglas Whlteomb, local at torney, rushed from his office in ter ror and summoned the sheriff to his aid. A white man with whom Whit comb had had an argument recently had entered Whiteomb's office. Whit comb saw a gun bulging from his belt, and without saying a word bolted to the street. When the of ficers went to his office to question the man they found he was there for a friendly call, but was armed be came he was afraid of Bradford on hir, trip to town. Whiteomb's panic represents the high nervous tension of everyone here. State Trappers Making Millions Five Thousand in Nebraska Including Professionals and Ranchers Who Add to Profits Nebraska trappers add to their incomes by nearly $1,000,000 every year, according to the figures of State Game Warden O'Connell. A recently completed survey of the fur industry in the state shows that thousands of pelts are marketed annually. Few professional trrpp'is, who earn their lives solely by marketing fur, remain In this state, Mr. O'Con nell said. However, on the ranches of northern Nebraska, where streams are suitable, trappers do a thriving business in the winter time. Owners of the land lease trapping rights for the season where fur bearing animals are particularly profitable. In all there are about 5.000 trappers in the state, according to reports of the licen-e department, many of whom are school boys. The report shows that more than 1,000 beaver weie taken in Nebras ka last year. This year, however, there will be no open season on the animal which brought Nebraska trappers nearly $20,000 in 1926-27. The muskrat is the loader in pro duction of fur; nearly 400.000 of the water animals were trapped lart year, fora total estimated revenue of $600,000. The season opens Novem ber 16 and lasts until March 1. Sev enteen thousand skunk were market ed for a total revenue of $25,000 to Nebraska trappers. The coyote, a predatory animal, shows a good revenue in the produc tion of fur. Four thousand pelts brought nearly $40,000 last season. During 1926 and 1927, 7,000 oppos sums were trapped, their hides were worth $14,000. Other furs taken in smaller quantities were: 1,900 mink, valued at $26,000; 1.800 raccoon, worth $11,000; 500 badger, which brought $20,000; 8.000 civit cats valued at $2,500 and 500 weasel for a total of $500. Five hundred permits to buy furs were issued by the state last year. Altho this report included Only furs shipped thru them, it is believed that with the number of pelts sent to mail order houses, the total value for last season would reach at least a million dollars. NEW MINES SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED In Shoshone county, Idaho, new mines being eleveloped spent $4. 570,514 during 1926; of which one third was local money and the reet from outside states. Most of these mines will pay good profits. The important thing, how ever, is the confidence that a few good mines can establish in a com munity, and the outside money they bring in as permanent investment. It means profit for the investor and for every producer within reach the farmer, gardener, miller, trades man and artisan. Mining is a basic industry; as es sential as farming or transportation or clothing. It is to everybody's in terest to encourage legitimate mining pregpects. This does not n;e?n ap proving fraud or ovcrenthusiasm mining does not need or want that; but the intelligent attitude of mak ing mining an integral part of a country's resources, on a par witli every other industry that supports life and brings prosperity. ENFORCE TRAFFIC RULES Hastings, Neb., Sept. SO. Since the police department abandoned moral suasion for the enforcement of traffic rules, and besan miking arrests, two-thirds of the cases com ing before Police Magistrate Sell roe -der have involved traffic violations. Fines and costs collected in this class of cases since July 27 total $611. The number of arretts haa de creased steadily in the last few weeks. Get your school supplies at the Bates Pock and Stationery Store, whera you will find the complete line at all times. eadquarSers FOR Balloon Tiro Bousing Money Back Guarantee! O SERVICE CAR Dealer 1 1 V 1 1