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FOR THE BO ill
NEWi EPITOME THAT CAN SOON
E COMPASSED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
Horn and Foreign Intelligence Cfc
denaed Into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs.
The Chicago Herald litis been con
solidated with tliu Examiner.
The commander In cliluf nf the land
and sen forces In llnlliuiil has provi
sionally stopped all lenvos or absence.
Tlio use of any language other tlmn
English for elementary Institution In
public or private schools In Connecti
cut will ho barred after July J.
'
Proposed federal Improvement of
the Missouri river between Yankton
and Vennllllon, S. I)., was adversely
reported on hy the war department.
IlepnrtB that Tope Ilenedlct Intends
to Issue a new peace offer soon
were accepted In Washington. olllelal
Circles as another hit of (ieriuau proj-
agnnda.
American aviators In Franc iind
tflowned ll'M enemy planes from the.
time the United States entered the
ifnr up to March 8, according to re
ports from France.
Detroit Is the country's largest
"bono dry" city, all saloons In the
city having been closed by the stnte
wide prohibition, which became ef
VcctWo April HO.
Income and excess profits tnxes,
due Juno in, will produce about ?.'!,
000,000,000, or ?WKt,000,000 more than
hud been estimated, .Secretary Me-
Adoo has announced.
It Is seriously talked In New York
that William Randolph Hearst's can
didacy for governor this year Is pre
liminary to his making a run for
president In 1020.
Madame Marie K. do Vlctorlcn, be
lieved by officers of the department of
Justice to be one of the most active of
Germany's itgents In this country, was
arretted ut Long Island, N. Y.
Gabriel Principe, whose nssnslnn
tlon of the Austrian Archduke Fran
cis Ferdinand nt Sarajevo was one of
the causes of the great war, died nt
the fortress of Thcrcslenstadt, near
Prague.
Former President Taft, speaking at
too annual meeting of the federated
churches nt Cleveland, called upon
Amerlcn to abandon hope of early
peace and prepare nt once to send an
army of 7,000,000 to Europe.
Captain Ting Chla Chen, high mili
tary official, on arriving at an Atlan
tic port from Europe, said that China
now Is sending troops to France, and
that 40,000 would be aiding the allies
arly this summer.
Tho report circulated In Qermnny
that an entlro fleet of Ilrltlsii trans
ports Is woltlng In the channel to
take tho lirltlsh army home In case of
need Is characterized by London of
ficials as n lio.
Official announcement thnt Ameri
can troops are in the trenches In tho
.AmlenB region wos welcomed by
Wuimlngton ottlclnls. Tho only state
ment as to tho ground occupied by the
American forces is that It Is east of
Amiens.
Th German losses thus far in the
wnr bnve been 2,000,000 men, accord
,lng to n statement credited by the
Frankfurter Zcltung as having been
xnndo by General Schulze before the
main commission of the German
j-elchRtog.
London newspapers ore preparing
tho public for the loss of Dunkirk,
Callas and Boulogne. Should tho
enemy be nblo to gain these channel
ports, It Is pointed out out, the nllle.i
would be In a disagreeable position,
fcut by no means fatal.
Tho fnlluro of tho Germans to
force tho evncuntlon of Ypres on
April 20 Is wild by correspondents at
the front to have been tho most dls
batcrous blow the enemy hns suffered
Ince tho great offensive began. The
pHco paid by the Germans s de
scribed ns the most nppallng In his
tory, their dead literally covering a
front flvo miles In length.
Germany has demanded of Husln
an exchnngo of prisoners and has
threatened to take Petrograd unless
tho Russian government agrees to the
terms advanced.
Washington ofllcluls are perturbed
lvcr tho Dutch embargo on exporta
tion from tho Dutch East Indies of
tin, tin ore, chlnchonn bark, quinine,
flulnlno salts and knpok, all of which
are needed by the United States for
jvnr supplies.
Sixty-six people were lost when trie
stenmer City of Athens was sunk In
a collision off tho Delaware coast.
Tho lirltlsh government announced
that shipping losses will be made pub
lic monthly hereafter Instead of each
week.
An Interstate boy scout conference
will be held In Omaha May 17-10. All
olllclals from surrounding states will
be pres ut.
Establishment of a model town for
shlpwnrkcrs near Camden, N. .1., has
been started by the emergency Heel
corporation.
Michigan Joined the ranks of the
"dry" states April .'Ml. A total of
.'l.'.'N" saloon In the statu closed their
doors on that dale.
The War depattment Is planning
for an army of y,(K).000 and is care
fully studying the problem of Increas
ing cantonment snace.
Champ Clark, speaker of the Iiciiim
of representatives declined to accept
the Missouri senatorshlp to succeed
the late Senator William J. Stone.
Vice Admiral Schroeder, the com
mander at .eehruggo, according to te
ports will be deprived of his command
for being taken by surprise by the
Lirltlsh.
lirltlsh casualty INts published dur
ing April s'ntmed l.litfi olllcers killed
1,811 wounded, and '-VI.VJ mining:
8.1S0 men tilled, .'l."i,:?OI wounded, and
814 missing.
A heavy German attack launched
against the Americans In the vicinity
of Yillers-l'retnuueuux, was repulsed
with extreme heavy losses for the
enemy.
The wrestling match between Ed
"Strangler" Lewis and Joe Steelier,
of Dodge, Neb., held at MadlMUi
Square Garden, N. Y was declared a
draw after two hours.
Orders for .'10.000 box and coal ears
to cot In the aggregate between J?S0
(K)O.OOO and .IKI,(HH).(KMI wer placed by
Director General McAdoo with the
American Car and Foundry company.
Major General George Harnett, com
manding the marine corps, has Issued
a call for -10,000 enlistments In the
marines, .'1,000 of whom arc desired
during tho moilth of May.
Speaking before the main committee
of the German relchstag, General von
HlHberg stated that on March ill, last,
the number of Germans missing had
reached a total of (104,10-1.
Ilohemhin troops nre Joining the
Italians against Austrln, according to
reports from Home. Even now some
of the llohomlnns nre on the Italian
line, clad In Italian uniforms, it is
said.
The government hns fixed tho mnx-
Imuin price of the present .stocks of
packed and country hides nt thnt
prevailing April 24, this year. This
nctlon, It Is believed, will reduce the
price of shoes.
The Nebrnskn farmers' loyalty con
ference held nt Lincoln recently adopt
ed resolutions favoring Immediate na
tional prohibition and the prosecution
of the war until nutocratlc military
power Ik dethroned.
New York went wild with en
thusiasm last Monday, when 10,"
heroes of the French army and ."a
veterans of General Pershing's' army
marched up llrondwny shortly after
landing from the war zone.
The housing bill, appropriating ?00.
000,000 for the lease, construction or
requisition of quaners for war work
ers, was pasted by the senate with
ninny modifications in the form It was
passed by the house. It now goes to
conference.
The conservatory of music nt Morn
Ingslde college at Sioux City was
broken Into and more thnn 100 Ger
man song books, the property of the
Germnn Methodist church." which
meets In the conservatory, were tnken
out and burned.
Navy olllclals nt Washington admit
that the time Is drawing near when
they must formally give up for lnt
the big collier Cyclops with nearly
flOO peronr. on board, which Is over
due at an Atlantic port over two
months,
Herbert Hoover declared nt New
York that If the government had "id
lowed the commerce In wheat to take
Its untrnmmelisl course." Hour would
be selling at the mill door todny for
MO to $50 a bnrreV nnd probably
"rioting would bnve been experienced
In all our prlnclpnl cities,"
Two persons were killed, several
families innde homeless and several
thousnnd dollars damage done by a
tornndo that swept across Crawford
county, Kansns.
Xenophon P. Wllfley of St. Louis,
prominent democrat of Missouri, was
tendered tho seat In tho United Stntes
sennto vacated recently by the death
of Senator W. J. Stone by Governor
Gardner. IIo accepted the appoint
ment.
SHORT STATE NOTES
News of Nebraska Told In
Condensed Form
rtnriner roiititV doubled it.S OUOtn ill
the third I.Ibi rty loan. J
Work Is expected to begin In tho
near future on Ansley's new flouring
mill. ' I
Lincoln county home guards were
organized at North Platte with '.YM
members. I
Camp Funton band, which has been
touring Nebraska, has been granted
two weeks more time for concerts.
A. C. Wnt son of I'lalnvlew topped
the South Omaha market tho other j
day with a load of cattle which
brought !?17.2ri a hundred pounds.
Attorney General Heed announced
that his olllce would persoimlly par-
tiilpate In prosecutions nrKlug oer ,
alleged violations of the state sedition j
law.
In the state blub school oratorical
contest held at Meade. Jordan Ilobln
son of Alliance won first -place and
Sturdcvniit of Chadron was awnrded
second tilace.
N. J. Skoog of Genoa was on the I
South Omaha market the other day
with seventeen car loads of cattle nnd
seven ears of hogs. The consignment
u..1l '., es-1 IWW1 I
John Gerdes of lteatrlce was arrest
ed n few days ago. charged with Ro
tating the state sedition law. He Is
the first man to be brought Into Gage
county court under the act.
Preliminary plans to raise $l,:tOOO00
In Ntbraska as part of the $100,000.
IKK) Red Cross war fund are being
made by State Director .liaison. The
campaign will run from May 20 to 27.
Through the elTorts of the lieemer
home guards, two carloads of hogs
were donated by the fanners of the
surrounding country nnd shipped to
Omaha, bringing $:i,!7U..l for the
Iteil Cross.
Governor Neville has Issued n proc
lamation designating Sunday. May 12
as "Mothers' Day." He suggests that
each one wear a flower or other in
signia in memory nnd honor of "our
best earthly friend."
Friends of Major Lirkner at Lin
coln bnve furnished a S-".000 bond
for the release of the olllccr from
prison ut Santa Fe, N. M.. where be
has been held awaiting trial, charged
with violating the espionage net.
Emll Schultz, editor of the Nebras
ka Post, a German weekly publication
in Ilentrlce. has been given until June
1 by the county council of defense to
clinnge his paper to an English pub
lication. A Jury In district court at Tekamoh
returned a verdict finding former
Cashier John E. Elliott of the now
defunct Farmers' bunk of Decatur,
guilty of receiving a deposit knowing
tho bank to be Insolvent. The case
hns had several sensntlonnl features.
Over 21,400 of the 32,090 signatures
obtained to the nntl-suffrnge amend
ment referendum circulated Inst July
are Irregular, fraudulent or forgeries,
nccordlng to the amended petition
filed In the district court nt Lincoln
by attorneys for the Woman Suffrage
association.
State Food Administrator Wattles
has nnnounced that nlthough sales of
Bugar will be limited to consumers, to
the amounts nlrendy In effect, house
wives may have ns much ns they
need for canning fruits nnd vegeta
bles. They will be asked to sign su
gar ennR which will he presented by
their grocer, which will stnte the su
gar is to be used for canning pur
poses and that excess, If any, will bo
returned.
Plans to carry the message of food
conservation to the 7.'i0.000 people who
are expected to attend the f.O or mori
county fairs to be held In Nel.rnkn
this year were adopted at a infer
ence between State Food Administra
tor Wattles, G. W. Jackson, prcs ,(nt
of the Nebraska Association of Coun
ty Fairs; E. I. Danlelson. ecn-tnry
of the Nebraska stnte fair, and (' W.
I'ugsley. director of extension. Agri
cultural college of the State Universi
ty at Omaha. That the exhibits anil
educational campaign will be of un-;
usual benefit to the people of Nebras
ka wns the consensus of opinion nt
the conference. Mr. Pugsley will
draft u program to bo ued at till
fairs.
The state fuel nrinilnWtrntlon has
Issued another appeal to people of
Nebraska to buy and store coal with
out delay. Early coal buying Is urged
ns u war measure and to prevent u
repetition of'last year's coal shortage
In this state.
Seven railroad men were Instantly
killed In n rear-end collision on the
P.urltngion near liayard when a
freight train running at high speed,
crashed Into the rear of n work train.
All those killed were members of the
work train, five being Mexicans.
Nebraska men nt Camp Cody tire
In flue military trim and anMoim to
go ncross the water, according to a
statement made by Governor Neville
on his return to Lincoln from a ten
days' visit to the camp.
Three loads of lied Cross hogs, two
from Schuyler nnd the other from
Cedar llnplds, sold at the South
Omaha market for SS.C'W.il.
Franklin's new fifty thousand dol
lar hotel Is Hearing completion. It Is
to be one of the finest hotels In the
litate.
C. E. Andrews, superintendent of
tho Eustls public schools, resigned his
position to enlist In the service.
A shipment of hogs from the Dodge
county poor farm sold at the South
Otnnha market for $17 u hundred.
Two Omaha grocers were fined .?lf0
ench by the stnte food ndmlnlstrntlon
for selling sugar In excess nmounts.
At u special election ut Friend a
$10,000 bond Issue for u new primary
school building curried by (51 ma
jority. Nebraska ranks first In the Tenth
Heserve district In the number of
subscribers- to the third liberty loan
with 17".O00.
Nebraska City's two new school
building were dedicated Just recently
with hundreds of persons attending
the exercises.
F. A. Peterson, county chairman of
Madison county for the third Liberty
loan, announces that the county
doubled Its quota.
Winter wheat In western and north
western Nebraska Is far above the
average In excellence of condition, nc
cordlng to railroad crop reports.
Nance county showed Its patriotism
by marly doubling Its Liberty loan
quota. The quota was $1S.",000, and
the total subscriptions. ;?2.i(UKH).
Fremont Methodists are opjwiscd to
constructing u new church at this
time because the money Is needed for
war activities-.
With volunteers credited Nebraska
will have to furnish 40 per cent of its
drafted men In Class One under the
program of calling out SOO.000 men
over the entire country this year. Pro
vost Marshal Crowder announced.
The state council of defense urges
Nebraskims to refrain from the un
dertaking of new Industrial enter
prises and the construction of public
Improvements nnd buildings which
cannot be utilized In the prosecution
of tho war.
The State Council of Defense has
sent out reminders to the County De
fense Councils that they are being de
pended upon to do much to carry out
the provisions of the state's new se
dition law. through the operation of
which olllclals expect to stamp out
disloyalty to the government.
Nebraska went "over the top" In
tho Liberty loan campaign last Trl
day, It was olllclally announced at
state headquarters at Omaha. The
state's quota Is $:2.000,000. When the
Until returns are all In It Is believed
the total for this state will be well
over the $40,000,000 mark.
Two Dodge county alien ministers,
W. A. Capplns nnd F. G. Schoop were
refused licenses to preach by Judge
Hutton at Fremont, because they said
their sympathies were "on both sides"
in the wnr. Tho Judge declared ho
would grant no licenses to enemy
aliens whoso sympathies were not
wholly with Amerlcu.
Over 700 draft recruits will take
sixty days' training In the University
of Nebrnskn at Lincoln, beglnulng the
middle of Mny, ob the result of nn
agreement between university author
ities nnd agents of the Wnr depart
ment. If the first course is successful,
n second contingent will tuke the
work for another sixty days.
With the contract calling for the
sending of 075 nntionnl army men to
the University of Nebrnskn at Lin
coln for vocational training signed,
Captain Knight, representative of tho
War department, Is now turning his
nttentlon to the possibility of using
tho Nebrnskn military academy, lo
cated nenr the city, for slmllnr pur
poses. One of the greatest patriotic dem
onstrations ever held In northeastern
Nebraska took place at Tekamah dur
ing a lied Cross auction snle n few
days ago. The sum of $.ri0.000 was
rnlsed. Articles of every description
were sold. Enthuslnsm run so high
thnt after tho band had played the
"Star-Spangled Iianner." the tune wns
auctioned off for $1,000. Military law
was proclaimed In tho town nnd no
store will be allowed to open until
after 0 p. in.
The committee appointed to And
the cost of producing sugar beets In
Nebraska has made Its report, which
shows that the cost of producing has
Incrensed rapidly, but the juice paid
for sugar beets has Increased less
than the price pnld for hay nnd ce
reals. The committee fixed ten dol
lars per ton at the factory, where the
cost of production reaches an aver
age figure. Nine dollars and a half
is fixed as the minimum price at the
factory.
The Gnge county council of de
fense has demanded the suppression
of the Omaha Tribune, n German
publication at Omaha, charged with
attacking Harry Lauder, the coined
Inn. who recently vilred Nebrnskn.
Citizens of the county nre asked to
refrnln from reading the publication.
Provost Marshal Anderson unoffic
ially estimates that 10,000 Nebraska
youths, who lmvo become 21 since
June ,r, 1017, will register June fi,
1018. under the new draft law passed
by congress.
The Germnn stuff of the University
of Nebrnskn will be reduced to two
members ut tho end of the present
year, according to the budget made
out by university regents. Tho Ger
mnn courses, formerly the most pop
ular In the university, have fallen
from nearly S00 to 200 In attendance.
Omnha socialists at a meeting Inst
Thursday passed resolutions support
ing President Wllsou nnd "war
against autocracy." The resolution
carried n proviso that the support bo
"from nn International socialistic
working class standpoint."
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A Business Should be
as Big as Its Job
If bigness is of benefit to the
public it should be commended.
The size of a business depends upon the
needs which that business is called upon to
serve. A business should be as big as its
job. You do not drive tacks with a pile
driver or piles with a tack-hammer.
Swift & Company's growth has been
the natural and inevitable result of na
tional and international needs.
Large-scale production and distribution
ate necessary to convert the live stock of
the West into meat and by-products, and
to distribute them over long distances to
the consuming centers of the East and
abroad.
Only an organization like that of Swift &
Company, with its many packing plants, hun
dreds of distributing houses, and thousands
of refrigerator cars, would have been able to
handle the varying seasonal supplies of live
stock and meet the present war emergency
by supplying, without interruption:
First The U. S. soldiers and the Allies
in Europe by shipping as much as 800 car
loads of meat products in a single week!
Second The cantonments in the United
States.
Third The retailers upon whom the
American public depends for its daily
supply of meat.
But many peop'ie ask Do producers and
consumers pay 'too much for the complex
service rendered?
Everyone, we believe, concedes the effi
ciency of the Swift & Company organization
in performing a big job in a big way at a
minimum of expense.
Swift & Company's total profit in 1917 was
less than 4 cents on each dollar of sales of
meat and by-products. Elimination of this
profit would have had practically no effect on
live stock and meat prices.
Do you believe that this service can be
rendered for less by any other conceivable
method of organization or operation?
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These questions and others are answered fully
and frankly in tht Swift & Company 1918 Year
Book sent free on request.
Address Swift & Company, U. S. Yards, Chicago
Swift & Company, U.S. A.
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Why Keep It?
Emile's eldest nnd most prosperous
brother had invited him for u motor
trip In his new car. As they were
ilightlng from the car upon their re
turn home Emtio said In a tone lilted
vlth Intense longing:
"I sny, Fred, 1 wish I had nn nuto
mohlle." "I I'm," returned his hrothor, "you
couldn't afford to keep It if you had
It."
"No, morn's tho pity," replied Emlle,
sorrowfully, "hut I could nfford to
sell It." Exchange.
You Mlnht Try This.
"You're munagliig to wake up ear
lier In the morning."
"Yes. I've just hought n parrot."
"Instead of an alarm clock?"
"I already had an nlarm clock, hut
I got so 1 didn't pay any attention
to it. Now I hang the parrot's cage
In my room and put the nlarm clock
under it. When tho alarm goe off
It startles the parrot, and what that
lilrds says would wake anyhody up."
Uood advice Is a thing of value, hut
we want men who know how to work
and who will do the work, too,
When the olllce Is compelled to seek
the man, It's doughnuts to fudge that
there Is no salary attached.
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Canada. Canada's Invitation to
rouniioua, aaBHaicnewan or Alberta
lunners to mane money ana nappy, prosperous homes tor themselves
by helping her raise immense wheat crops to feed the world.
You Can Get a Homestead of 160 Acres Free
or other lands at very low prices. Where you can bay good farm
uuiu hi 91a 10 9tu per acre mat will raise u to 45 bushels of $2
wheat to the ncre it's easy to become prosperous. Canadian farmers
also grow wonderful crops of Oats, Barley and Flax. Mixed Farm
tag is fully as profitable an industry as grain raising. The excellent
crasses, full of nutrition, are the onlv food renuired either
for beef or dairy purposes. Good schools and churches;
markets convenient; climate excellent Write for literature
and particulars as to reduced railway rates to Supt. of Im
migration, Ottawa, Canada, or to
W V. HPIUIUIiTT
Room 4, Dee Bldg., Omaha, Neb. .
Canadian Government Agent
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BALLOON WENT RIGHT ALONG
And in Its Flight Carried With It
Astonished and Indignant Cow
boy and His Pony.
Flying Cadet Koher, during tho
course of his spherical bnlloon train
ing nt Sun Antonio, Tex., while on his
solo flight nnd proceeding along about
12 miles nn hour on the guldo rope,
saw a cowboy nnd pony crossing tho
field ahead of him. The cowboy with
out Invitation, leaned down, caught tho
guide rope und tied It to the horn of
his saddle. This was tho signal for
the pony to plant his front feet.
Much to the surprise of the cowboy
nnd more so to tho pony, tho bnlloon
proceeded along Its way. After being
dragged across tho field the cowboy
threatened to shoot tho pilot unless ho
stopped.
The situation was flnnlly relieved by
the cowboy exchanging his revolver for
a knife nnd cutting nway tho guldo
rope, leaving n knot on the horn of tho
saddle ns a souvenir. From Flying.
Broke.
"Money makes the mure go."
"In that case, mister, I couldn't even
drive u pony cart."
Adam had a spare ill) with apple
sauce.
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that's what thousands of fanners
who have cone from the U. S. to
on liomeatenria nr hnv Innri in tVafrm
every Industrious worker to settle in
is especially attractive. She wants
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