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DAKOTA CITY, NEB., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1015.
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PENNSYLVANIA IS LAUNCHED AT
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OF ALL.
LARGEST ENGINE OF WARFARE
As the Monster Fighting Machine
Slcles Down the Ways'a Prayer Is
Uttered that She Might Be a Mes
senger of Peace.
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Newport NewB, Va. The new dread
nuught Pennsylvania was successfully
launched hore Tuesday morning short
ly after 10 o'clock.
The largest engine of naval warfare
In the world slid down tho ways whllo
A prayer was uttored that she might
'iff n messenger of peace, rather than a
weapon of destruction.
Christened by Miss Elizabeth Kolb
of Germantown, Pa., as Secretary Dan
iels gave a signal, the monster hull
slid Into the James river and the swell
tossed tho Gcrmnn converted cruiser
Prinz Bltel Frledrlch, leas than 100
yards away.
Commander Thjerlchsen, comman
der of the sea raider, sat in full mil
form with the official party on the
p)atform and mingled with American
nuval officers throughout the cere
mony. A gray haired woman approached
the German commander as ho stood
under tho towering bow of tho Penn
sylvania and grasped his hand. Sho
was Mrs. M. F. Thomas of Beacon, N.
Y., a member of tho Society of
Friends.
"Commander." sho said, "I belong to
a society which believes that all per
sons should love others as much as
themselves. Do you In Germany love
us as much as you love yourselves?"
The captain smiled, but did not an
swer, as Mrs. Thomas continued:
N "Don't you believe that we will soon
have peace? Is It not time you men
stopped killing each othor?"
"Madam," replied the German com
mnnder, ''we all 'believe in peace, but
this war had to be. It was a necessary
war for the peace of the world. After
this war there will be a long peace.
But at the end of the long peace there
will come another war."
PIERCE IS INDICTED.
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Indicted Chief to Demand Quick Hear
ing, He Says.
Sioux City, la. Georgo Pierce, po
lice chief, against whom three indict
ments 'or receiving a bribe and one
for conspiracy were returned by the
grand Jury Monday, stated he would
ask for a hearing on tho charge at this
term of court.
Chief Pierce was released on four
bonds, aggregating $5,000, which were
signed by L. "W. Mallory, of tho
Warfiold-Pratt-Howell company.
The indictments against Pelrce con
tain the following charges:
That he conspired with George Ford
and Milton Deltoos with Intent to over
look bootleggers In police campaigns
and permitted houses to run openly.
That he received a $55 bribe from
C. W. Nies, proprietor of tho Daven
port hotel. May 1, 1914.
That ho received a $55 bribe from
Robert Brown, known as "Slot Ma
chine" Brown, September 22, 1914.
That ho received a bribo of $240
from Milton J. DeRoos on September
"10, 1914.
Conviction for conspiracy carrle3
with it a three years' sentence in tho
state penitentiary. Receiving a bribe
Is an indictablo misdemeanor. The
maximum pennlty Is a fine of $500 or
six months In tho county all or both.
Court Rules Against Thaw.
New York. Harry K. Thaw will not
be sent back to New Hampshire by
the stato of New York, as his counsel
demanded, but must be returned to
Matteawan asylum "unless legal pa
pers 'calling for his detention In New
York county aro served upon tho wnr.
den of Tombs prlsqn." Such was Su
premo Justice Pago's decision In dis
posing of tho formal motion to havf
Thaw returned to Now England.
Balance in Favor of America.
Washington, D. C. Exports exceed
ed imports passing through tho thir
teen principal American customs dis
tricts during tho week ended March
13 by $I7,220,C59, giving the largest
balance In fayor of tho United States
evor produced by a slnglo week's for
eign trade business. Tho total value
of exports for the week was $69,840,719
and of Imports $22,611,060.
Strong Protect In Order.
Washington, D. C President WII
pon Indicated to callers that a strong
protest would be mado by tho United
States government ngalnst tho action
of Great Britain and her allies in sub
jecting neutral commerco to the nu
merous restraints Imposed on It by the
British order In council, Just issued.
Wish to Quit Mexico.
Washington, D. C Conditions in
Mexico City, as well aa Manzanillo,
still give officials concorn. In the
, Mexican capital largo numbers of
Americans nnd other foreigners havo
aBked tho stato department, through
tho Brazilian minister, to obtain trans
portation for them to Vera Crez. The
exact number wishing to leave, nnd
tho Immediate reason whother renew
ed dlstnrbancea or Weariness of Isola
tion nnd business stagnation was not
known here
JOHN 0.'S WE DIES
MRS. ROCKEFELLER SUCCUMBS
SUDDENLY AT HOME AT PO-
CANTICO HILLS.
HUSBAND AND SON ABSENT
Oil Magnate In Florida When End
Came Sister at Bedside Wife of
World's Richest Man Was Seventy
Six Year3 of Age.
Now York, March 15. Mrs. John D.
Rockefeller, wife of tho richest man
in tho world, is dead. Sho passed
away Friday morning at 10:20 at the
Rockcfoller homo at Pocantlco Hills,
nftor an Illness of soveral months. Sho
waB sevonty-elx years old last Sep
tember. Although Mrs. Rockefeller had been
an Invalid for many months, It Is un
derstood that her death came unex
pectedly. Her husband and her son
were M Ormond, Fla., and were nd
vised that Mrs. Rockefeller had taken
a critical turn for tho worse. Mr.
Rockefeller nnd his son Immediately
engaged a special train. Mrs. E. Par
malee Prentice, Mrs. Rockefeller's
daughter, and Miss Lucy Spolman,
her sister, were tho only immedlato
relatives present when sho died.
Laura Celestla Spolman Rockefel
ler was born In Kndsworth, Ohio, of
well-to-do Now England parents, on
September 9, 1839. She was her hus
band's junior by two months. As a
child she lived in Wadsworth, In Bur
lington, Iowa, In Akron,' Ohio, whero
her father, Harvey B. Spelman,
achieved a competence In tho dry
goods business, and later In Cleveland.
In the grammar school at Cleveland
she mot John Rockefeller, when they
were fifteen years old.
Rockefeller was a country boy. Sho
was the daughter of one o Cleveland's
leading citizens. His homo was a Ut
ile farmhouse; hers, one of Cleve
land's handsomest residences. Not
withstanding other differences, tho
awkward youth and tho city girl had
In common a lovo of study and slmplo
tastes, and they became fast friends.
Young Rockefeller prospered be
yond Ms fairest hopes. As soon as ho
felt that ho could ask her to becomo
his wife ho did so. They wero mar
ried September 8, 1864, tho eve of her
twenty-fifth birthday, and started to
keep house in a lfttlo two-Story brick
residence on one of Cleveland's Bide
streets. Upon her marriage sho bo-
came a Baptist, and to her religion
and her home she dovoted her entire
time.
The surviving children are Alta,
wife of E. Parmalee Prentice; Edith,
who married Harold Fowler McCor
,mick of Chicago, and John D. Rocke
feller, Jr.
U. S. MAN SLAIN IN MEXICO
J. B. McManus Murdered In Home at
Mexico City by Zapatistas U. S.
Flag on House.
Washington, March 15. President
Wilson and his cabinet, In session
Dn Friday, were Informed of the as
sassination by Zapatistas in Mexico
City of John B. McManus, an Ameri
can citizen, of Chicago; that tho
American flag was ignored and Insult
ed, and that the United StateB consu
lar seal on tho resldenco of McManus
was violated when ho was shot. Tho
cabinet discussed tho caso at length.
Later Bryan announced that the de
mand for punishment and Indemnity
would be insisted upon. Tho Ameri
can demands wero served by Brazil
ian Minister Cardozo directly upon
General Salazar, tho Zapata general
In command of Mexico City.
Two thousand Mexicans stormed tho
national palace in tho capital to se
mre tho liberty of 25G priests said to
be Imprisoned. Tho effort failed, but
It was followed by a riot in which
Qustavlo, tho chief of police of Mexi
co, wns stabbed. Two Mexicans wero
killed nnd at least twenty persons
Injured. It waB said that when the
ZapatlstaB had control of the city Mc
Manus had trouble, and when they at-
, tacked him In his homo ho killed
three of them. After killing McManus
tho slnyers aro said to have lootod tho
house.
U. S. DEPUTIES STILL MISSING
It la Feared That Indians Ambushed
the Eight Mon General Scott's
Efforts Unsuccessful.
Bluff, Utah, March 12. The party of
eight deputies believed to havo been
ambushed by Indians near Dougla3
Mesa have not been heard from, and
their fato Is unknown. Marshal Kobe
ker has Bent out parties to look for
them. It Ib expected that Marshal
Nebeker will advanco agalnBt the In
dians about Saturday. General Scott's
efforts to effect peace have been un
successful. A Uto that came into
Bluff said that tho Indians had pro
cured plenty of ammunition from
Mexican sheep herders.
Mystery for Chicago Police.
Chicago, March 15. The police
faced n deep myBtery In tholr Inves
tigation of tho death of F. C. White,
whoso body fell or was hurled from
the seventeenth floor of a down town
office building.
To Kill Rockefeller Herds.
Now York, March 15. Virtually all
of Westchester county was quaran
tined because of tho discovery of hoof-aud-mouth
disease among herds thoro.
Order affects cstato of John D. Rockefeller.
COST H.K. THAW $6,000
SLAYER OF STANFORD WHITE
PAID TO f-LEE ASYLUM.
Defense Loses Fight When Conspi
racy Charge Is Denied Million
aire Planned Escape.
New York, March 12. Tho story of
his escape from Mnttcawan, of tho
plot lending thereto and tho subse
quent flight Into Canada was told by
Harry Kendall Thaw beforo Justlco
Alfred Pago In tho criminal branch
of tho supromo court.
Thaw denied conspiracy. He as
sumed all credit for the escape. Ho
admitted paying Richard Butler $0,000,
out of which Butler was to reward
tho others and gavo Richard, alias
"Educated Roger," Thompson, tho
chauffeur, a "presont of $1,000 In addi
tion to $10 to $15 dally wage."
Thaw declared that he had been ad
vised, prior to his escape, by the lato
Alfred Henry Lewis, that thoro wns
no law In Now York stato making It
a crime to escape.
Thaw declared that his plan to en
capo wns worked through "one of his
agents," II. A. Hoffman of Pough
keepsle, once undorsherlff In Dutchess
county. Hoftmnn, he declared, hired
the mon, nrrangod for tho motor cars
and nt his (Thaw's) direction sta
tioned tho cars outsldo the gates of
Matteawan on the morning of August
17, 1913.
Stanchfield in his cross-examination
for tho defense tried to show that
Thaw was sane at tho tlmo of his es
cape realized that ho was sane, and
that ns a sano person was Justified In
leaving Matteawan.
The ruling out of evidence to show
Thaw sano, a vital blow to defense,
came during the cross-examination of
Bernard H. Kelsey, deputy sheriff of
Colebrook, N. H. Stanchfield asked
Kelsey whether Thaw did not appear
entirely rational. Deputy Attorney
General Cook objected and the crucial
battlo was precipitated. Justice Pago
sustained tho objection. The Jury was
excluded during tho arguments.
BERLIN CLAIMS BIG VICTORY
Germany Asserts Foe Lost 45,000 In
Big Battle In Champagne District
Own Losses Were Heavy.
Berlin (Wireless to Say vllle). March
12. An official statement issued by
tho general staff on Wednesday de
clares that the threo weeks' fighting In
Champagne has resulted In a victory
over the French equal In Importance
to tho recent victory over tho Rub
sinns In the Mazurlnn Lakes district
of East Prussia.
The German losses are admitted to
bo greater than tho German losses In
the Mazurian fighting, but on the oth
er hand the French losses aro esti
mated at over 45,000 men.
Reference Is made to tho enormous
amount of ammunition used by tho
French.
MAKE GAINS IN FLANDERS
British Forces Make Material Ad
vances Against the GermanG
Take 700 Prisoners.
London, March 13. Material ad
vances for tho British forces and tho
destruction of tho Coutral-Menln rail
way Junction In West Flanders la an
nounced In an official statdment from
the war office on Thursday. Tho state
ment followa:
"An advance was mado by British
forces on March 4. Tho Indian corps,
operating over a front 4,000 yards long,
gained three-quarters of a mllo on
Wednesday, taking all tho German
trenches nnd occupying positions for
merly held by tho Germans. Seven
hundred prisoners wero taken. A
British airman destroyed tho Courtrnl
Monlu ratlwny Junction."
173 DIE ON BRITISH CRUISER
Commander and 172 Others Go Down
With the Bayone Torpedoed by
German Submarine.
London, March 15. The ndmiralty
Usued an official statement reporting
the loss of the'auxlllary cruiser Bayono
whllo on patrol duty. Evidence points
to her having been torpedoed by a
German submarine. But 27 of tho
Bayono's crew of moro than 200 wero
saved. Fourteen officers drowned, in
cluding tho commander. Tho Bayono
was a stool twin Bcrow steamer of
5,984 tons. Sho was built In Glasgow
In 1913, was 416 feet long.
BATTLES WELSH TO DRAW
Willie Ritchie Holds Champion to an
Even Break In Ten Tamo
Rounds of Milling.
New York. March 13. Wllllo Rltchlo
and Freddie Welsh boxed a tamo ten
round draw in Madison Square Garden
on Thursday night before a big crowd.
Ask for a Change.
Washington, March 16. Banks In
34 counties of Wisconsin filed a peti
tion with tho federal reserve board
asking to bo detached from tho fed
oral reserve district of Minneapolis
and Joined to tho dlctrict of Chicago.
Newton Dougherty Freed.
Jollet, 111., March 16, N. C. Dougher
ty of Peoria arrived at tho peniten
tiary Saturdny at 9:05. At 9:45 Gov
ernor Dunne In n telophono call ta
Warden Allen nrdared his releara
His pardon was forwerded.
BEACHEY IS KILLED
FAMOUS AVIATOR DROPS 2,500
FEET INTO BAY AT FRISCO
WHILE THOU8AND3 WATCH.
WINGS OF MACHINE FAILED
New Monoplane With Body Strikes
Water Between Two Army Trans
ports and Is Found n Mud Forty
Feet Below the Surface.
San Francisco, March 16, Death
camo to Lincoln Beachey, world-famed
aviator, Sunday afternoon, when ho
dropped through tho air for 2,500
feet, before thousand of spectators
at tho Panama-Pacific International
exposition Tho accident which ended
the lifo of the man who hnd defied
death so long camo when tho wings
of his now monoplnno collapsed whllo
Beachey was attempting to right tho
machine nftor a porpendlcular drop
through space of sovoral hundred feet.
The stress on tho now monoplane
was too great and ono of the wings
was seen to fly upward like that of a
wounded bird. In a flaBh tho second
wing of tho monoplane gavo way and
tho shining engine and propeller
blades gleamed In tho sunshlno aB the
crippled machine foil.
Thoro was no chance for escape, al-,
though Beachoy and his collapsed
monoplano landed in tho waters of
San Francisco bay. The forco of tho
fall was so great that tho machine
and its daring pilot were burled In
tho mud of the bay In forty feet of
water. He struck tho vator near the
United States army transport docks
In n narrow patch of water between
two transports r.wlnging at anchor.
Immediately a rescue crew wns
dispatched from the battlo ship Ore
gon, which was lying In tho stream.
After two hours tho machine and body
wero dug from tho mud by a diver
from the Oregon's crew. Beachey
was found ontnngled In the wires of
the wrecked mnchlno and all of the
bones In his body wero broken.
Beachey was born March 3, 1887, In
San Francisco. His father Is In the
Soldiers' homo at Dayton, O., and his
mother Uvea at Morenco, Mich. When
he was thirteen yearB old ho becamo
acquainted with a man who was try
ing to solve the nrobfoni ofnir naviga
tion. They manufactured a balloon.
Beachey took the lntlal trip. It was
disappointing, and his partner became
discouraged and quit. In 1904 Beachoy
drove n dirigible balloon in Oakland,
Cal. Capt. Thomas Baldwin engaged
him on tho spot, and tho two toured
the country.
With the dirigible Beachey made
many flights. Ho circled Washington
monument. Ho landed In front of tho
White House In Washington and enr
rled a message to tho president.
Benchey's first aeroplano was of 1i!b
own manufacture. Ho broke up this
mnchlno during a flighL Finally, get
ting a machlno that would stand his
stunts, Beachey'a career as a demon
of tho air began. One of his first dare
devil feats was to fly under the sus
pension brldgo at Niagara Falls.
Beachey turned spirals whllo upsldo
down. It has been estimated that 20,
000,000 have seen Beachey fly.
ROCKEFELLER HALTS BURIAL
John D. Pleads to Keep Wife's Body
Remains to Be Placed In Vault
Later.
New York, March 16. John D.
Rockefellor nnd his son, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., decided at the last
moment Sunday afternoon they could
not commit the body of wlfo and moth
er to tho tomb at presont
All arrangements had boon made
for temporary Interment In tho vault
of John. D. Archbold In Sleep-Hollow
cemetery.
"Wo wore not here when she passed
away," said tho elder Rockefoller In
broken tones. "Wo want to havo her
with us until tho last moment."
Their wishes were respected and
tho body will remain In tho palntlal
homo at Pocantlco Hills probably for
soveral days.
Slxty friends of tho family wero at
the services.
Tho Rockefeller train ran Into an
operi switch nt MUford, Va., nnd
smashed up a freight train. The Rock
efellers were shaken up but wero not
Injured.
THAW ACQUITTED BY JURY
Slayer of Stanford White Found Not
Guilty on Conspiracy
Charge.
New York, Aug. 10. Harry K. Thaw
was found not guilty on Saturday of
tho chnrgo of conspiracy In connection
with his escape from Mntteawnn asy
lum. Ills four co-dofondant8. who
nlded in his escape, wero Also acquit
ted, nnd were discharged.
Miller, Athlete, Is Killed.
Now York, March 10. Charles Mil
ler, former well-known middleweight
wrestler around Chicago, was shot and
killed by two holdup mon In thoAtlan
hotel hero on rtaturdny, whom ho was
employed as a clerk.
Two Boys Burned to Death.
Philadelphia, March 10. Two boys,
five and seven years old, Bonn of II.
Harrison, a fruit denier, wero burned
to death In a flro which destroyed the
store and dwelling occupied by Harri
son and lila family.
DESTROYED U. S. SHIP
GERMAN CRUISER SUNK AMERL
CAN GRAIN VESSEL.
Prlna: Eltel Frledrlch In Dry Dock al
Newport News for Repairs
Investigation On.
Washington, March 13. "A most
searching inquiry will bo mado nnd
whnf-jvor notion is tnkon will be based
upof the result of that Inquiry."
President Wilson Issued this state
ment on Thursday regarding tho sink
ing of tho Amorlcnn sailing ship Wil
liam P. Frye by tho German nuxlliary
cruiser Prlnz Eltol Frlodrlch. Tho
president took tho lnltlntlvo in direct
ing tho investigation nnd will havo a
personal hand In It. That tho United
States will call on Germany for proper
nmonds and reparation for tho sinking
of tho Amorlcnn Bhlp was tho consen
sus of official and diplomatic circles
In Washington.
Washington, M'rch 12. Tho Gcr
mnn cruiBcr Priaco Eltol Frledrlch
arrived nt Newport Nowb on Wednes
day, bringing tho captain nnd crew
of tho American grain vessel William
P. Frye, which tho Gorman warship
sunk at sea on Jnnunry 27.
The ownora of tho vessel havo
claimed that sho carried no contra
band of any kind. Official nnd diplo
matic hcadqunrtora wore much per
turbed over tho matter, but nobody
was willing to mnko any comment
until the fncts aro fully established,
Tho customs officers at Scattlo
wire that tho manifest of tho William
P. Frye, which wns loaded there, show
that sho carried 193,582 bushels of
wheat
Tho Frye sailed from Senttlo on No
vember 4 for Queenstown nnd Fal
mouth. Sho passed Tatoosh, Wash.,
tho next dny and hnd not been heard
from since. Tho Prlnco Eltel Frled
rlch offlcors roport that, on tho ground
that sho was carrying contraband of
wnr, tho warship stopped tho Frye in
'tho South Atlantic on January 27,
took off Captain Klehno, his wife and
crow, nnd then sunk the freighter.
The Frye was valued at $150,000
and her cargo at $280,000.
San Bernardino, Cal., March 12.
According to reports recolved from
Blytbo Junction, a town 130 miles
from hero, tho placo is In tho hande
of a furlouB mob. Several persons
havo been killed and many others
badly wounded. Every available ofll
cer has been sent thero by a ep-clal
train.
Washington, March 13. Tho Btate
department wns notified on Thursday
by Senor RIano, tho Spanish ambas
sador, that four Spaninrds had been
assassinated in Mexico City. Ho also
reported that residences in tho sub
urbs had been pillaged and burned.
Madrid, March 12. Fourteen per
sons were killed nnd 18 Injured in
tho wreck of a passenger train on tho
Vlgo-Orenso line. A landslide caused
tho accident
CARRANZA REPLIES TO BRYAN
"First Chief of Mexico Denies Dan
ger In Mexico City Advises All
Aliens to Leave Country.
Vera Cruz, Mex., March 12. General
Carranza on Wednesday Issued his re
ply to Iho noto of Secretary of Stnto
Bryan demanding an amelioration of
tho chaotic conditions in Mexico City.
Tho first chief emphatically denies
that General Obregon has Incited tho
hungry populaco of tho Mexican capi
tal to commit outrages.
Far from preventing tho ontranco
of food Into tho city, tho first chief de
clares, General Obregon has facilitated
such importations in ovory way.
General Carranza says that when
tho evacuation takes placo every fa
cility will bo afforded to foreign resi
dents to depnrt. Carranza also said
that It would bo advisable for all
aliens to leave tho country.
DRESDEN IS STILL AFLOAT
German Cruiser Busy Sinking Ships
of the Allied Peruvian Steamer
Brings In British Crew.
Valparaiso, Chile, March 15. The
Gorman cruiser Dresden, sore Burvlvor
of tho squadron of Admiral von 8pee,
defeated by British warships off tho
Falkland islands, 1b still afloat nnd,
sinking merchantmen of tho allies.
This was estobllshed by tho arrival
hero of tho Peruvian ship Larton with
tho crow of tho British bark Con
way CnBtlo.
Tho English sailors wero put ashore
thlfl morning. They atatcd that tholr
Bhlp wna sunk by tho Dresden off Cor
ral. a Chilean port, after tho crew had
been taken nboard the Dresden.
$4,000,000 to Roosevelt's Kin.
New York, March 16. Theodoro
Roosevelt III, grandson of former
President Roosevelt, nnd tho boy's Bis
ter, Grncn, nro tho heirs to tho $4,000,
000 trust estates of their grent-great-grandfather,
T. It Butler.
Countess De Madre Dies In South Bend,
South Bend, !nd March 16. Coun
tess Jeano do Madre, onco hello of
European courtw, convent mate, nnd
friend of Princess Eugenlo who later
becamo wlfo of Napoleon III, died J
an humble cottage here.
TELEGRAPHIC
NOTES
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
Nebraska editors will meet at Oma
bu, April 19 to 21.
The stato trap shooting meet will
bo held at North Platte. May IS to 20.
Tablo Rock will vote on the "wet"
or "dry" question at the spring elco
tion.
Tho Southwest Nebraska declama
tory contest will be held at Lincoln,
Murch 24.
Tho Southorn Nebraska Develop
ment company has bought tho Su
perior etcctrlc light plant
National Commander General Pal
mor will bo ono of tho speakers at tho
G. A. It. encampment at Fremont May
18 to 20.
Greenwood will form an Independ
ent telophono company, many business
men nnd farmers having already sub
scribed for stock.
Ono of the largest poultry farms in
tho central west, containing 1,630
acres, will bo established near Kear
ney this spring.
Honry Chrlstoffcrson, a farmer near
Fremont, hnd a finger amputated aa a
result of a slight cut whllo butchering
Bovoral woekB ago.
Miss Kato Boyle, for twenty-flvo
years an operator for the Nebraska
Telephone company at Omaha, has
been retired on a pension.
Members of tho Elks lodge at Fre
mont nro making elaborate prepara
tions to tnko cure of tho convention
which occurs there May 10 and 11.
Amos Hnmm, 19 yearn old, fell from
n train near Pnlrbury and broke a
leg. He drnggod htmscir for over a
mllo through snow drifts before gct
ting aid.
Tho body of an unidentified man was
found alongside the Northwestern
track near Crowell. It is thought he
wna stealing a rldo and fell from a
train.
There woro 10,900.000 bnshels ot
wheat In tho handB of Nebraska farm
ers March 1, nccordlng to Ue crop re
port of the United States department
of agriculture
At tho stnto convention of the Wood
men of tho World, at Norfolk last
week, Karl Stllos, head consul, was re
elected, ns woro most ot too other
head officers.
Tho South Omaha Stock Yards com
pnny has offered prizes amounting to
$200 for tho best "ads" on exhibition
at tho editorial association meeting at
Omaha noxt month.
The family of Mrs. Dora Jansrai, at
Lincoln, had a narrow escape tress
denth by gns asphyxiation canned by
a defective furnace, Strennoutwork
of physicians finally saved them
The high school basketball tourna
ment in session at Lincoln last week
is declared to have been the largest of
ltn kind over held in tho XTnltcd States.
Not only In number of entrants, but in
attendance.
Whllo a Hastings minister was de
livering a sormon on "Thon Shalt Not
Steal." some degenerate clipped into
tho cloak room and annexed a brand
now overcoat belonging to one ot the
worshipers.
Petitions havo been circulated at
Auburn asking that a referendum ordi
nance ho submitted to the voters en
April 6 for tho purpose ot cnabKag
the city to voto on pool balls the same
as on saloons.
. According to a bulletin Inst Issued
by them, a quarter mill levy to pro
vide for erecting a building; Tor the
Btate historical society will mean ax
expenditure of but fifty cents by each
man owning a $10,000 farm. ,
An order for 3,000 seta of Karopcaa
war harness, on which most of eighty
employes havo boon working day and
night for nearly threo months in the
J. H. Hanoy factory at Hasting, has
just been completed and Is ready for
dellvory.
S. H. Balloy ot Stella, who baa kept
a record for ono year's chickes busi
ness which ho has followed oa assail
scale, finds that he has made a set
profit of $49.46 during the year on aa
original Investment of $14.25 for the
purchnso of olghtcen hens.
Will H. Parry, a former resident C
Syracuse has been appointed by Presi
dent Wilson as a member of the fed
eral trade commission from the stato
of Washington.
Prof. C. J. Plernon, a fcrsser super
intendent of schools in Nemaha, cosa
ty, has been mado president ot a new
ly organized entomology club at the
University ot California.
Thirty-two Gage county farmers in
creased tholr yield of oats twelve and
n half bushels- per acre last year by
fronting tholr seed oats for snraL
Tholr fields were- Just an average of
the county.
Florence S. Vetto of Nebraska City
has brought suit for $20,000 agabaat
five snloon-keepers ot that place, for
alleged (lamagos for Belling liquor to
her husband.
Tho Union Mutual Telephone com
pany of Union has bought the Inter
ests ot tho Lincoln Telephono & Tele
graph company in that territory, and
will consolidate the lines.
A part of tho material for the con
struction of tho new $4,000 electric
light plant at Union is on tho ground,
and tho work of construction will be
gin ns soon as tho weather will per
mit. Jtov. M. K. Lumbar of Wilton Junc
tion, la., has accepted a call to tho
pastornto of tho First Presbyterian
church nt Dunbar.
Cccllo Chaudoln, a nineteen-year-old
Mason City girl, has brought salt
for $6,000 against Dr. A. Boyd ot that
placo for breach of promise of mar
riage. Miss Mnrgnrot Carr, a school girt o'r
,HorBhey, recently received a reward
from a milling company for nalug their
Hour in bread with which she won rst
prlzo In tho county bread making con
test, also first In tho plate contest of
NeLraskn boys' and clrls' clubs-
To Abolish Nepotism
With only tho flfty-ono votes neces
sary to pas3 IIoubo Roll No. 196, the
bill to abolish nopotlnm In public
office, went through tho houso. Tho
opposition muBtcrcd forty, with nlno
absentees not voting. Announcement
by Speaker Jackson that tho bill had
passed van greeted with npplauso by
Its rriends, nnd Representative Hostot
Icr, Ita Introducer, received congratu
lations; on tho outsomc of his fight. Tho
bill makes it unlawful for any public
official to appoint or employ a relative
In his office. Tho prohibition npplles
to relatives by marriago as well ns by
blood, extending to tho third degree.
The pennlty is a flno of not more thun
$100 or Jail Imprisonment not exceed
ins ninety days.
Asks for Convicts to Work Roads
Twenty-five convicts havo been;
asked by Merrick county to work on
tho Lincoln highway. Tho plan Is to
build a "seedling" mild ot concrete
road at once. Two thousand barrc'3
of concrete havo been donated for tho
purpose. Tho plan is for all member1
counties ot tho Ltncoln Highway as
sociation to got behind ponding road
bills, which will pormlt ot the use of
convict labor on trnns-stato roads.
This will mean much Voad building in
tho state, it Is believed, if tho. bill can
survive tho session.
Two blgh-poworcd bills ono a tem
perance mcasuro and tho other a liquor
measure are to bo quietly burled by
the lower houso and never brought to
the light of day. Thnt is tho promise
of soma of tho influential members of
tho lower branch. Ono bill is by
Chambers of Douglas. It allows tho
aalo of liquor iu Omaha caf oa and res
taurants until tho hour of midnight,
when tho proprietors havo taken out
tho required special license. The
othor bill Is by Anderson of Phelps.
It provides a C o'clock closing law for
all saloons of tho Btate. It clips ex
actly two hours oft tho present day
light period ot operation.
Tho hill making it a folony a destroy
or tamper with telephone, telegraph.
or electric wires, and providing se
vere penalties, had a narrow escape In
the house, but finally got through tho
committee of tho whole with recom
mendation for its pasoago. Some ot
tho farmer members wero afraid at
first that under this bill the telephono
company could string a -line acrems
their land in tho night and if the own
er should tear it down, ho would bo
rabject to prosecution.
Tho bill prohibiting tho playing of
baseball on Memorial Sunday, prior to
3 p. m passed the house of representa
tives Wednesday, CG to 34 votes. Tfe
votes in opposition to tho measuro
ease in part from unexpected sources
but In general thooo who had favored
the hill beforo tho 3 o'clock provision
was included were against it after it
was included.
As an encouragement to manufacture
teC institutions to locnto in this state,
the Mattes bill exempting such con
cerns from operation of the corpora
tion tax law was recommended for
passage by the senate committee or
the whole. Under tho law the institu
tions, however, are subject to all taxa
tion which the ordinary individual
must meet.
The Blauser bill, compelling rail
roads to operate light engines only
with full crows was shoved over tho
legfclallve precipice. Tho measure is
similar to that defeated overwhelming
ly at a state-wido referendum In Mis
souri recently.
State Treasurer Hall has refused to
countersign certain warrants for tho
payment of building clalma drawn by
the state normal board becauso the
claims were not audited and allowed,
by the board in an open meeting.
District Judges of tho stato will not
be given permission to run for either
covxress or tho United States senate,
according to decision of a houso com
mittee in postponing the Tlbbota bllL
allow lac them to do so.
Norton's proposed amendment to
the constitution Tor the rocall of all
elective officers, including the Judici
ary, passed tho house of representa
tives with but seven votes against 1U
By the norrow margin of two votes,
the Larson-Druesedow bill, prohibiting"
barber work on Sunday, loBt out in
Um houso when it come up in com
mittee of the whole.
The special appropriation "bills in
troduced at the request of tho Grand
Army oC tho Ttepublic carrying $12,000
for a Thayer monument and $16,000 to
pay expenses ot civil war veterans nt
lendiBK the Viclisburg memorial cele
bration, will probably bo reported for
indefinite postponement
By a voto of 54 to 40, tho mombers
refnsed to increase tho $37,000 appro
priation allotted to tho guardsmen by
the ilnance committee. The action
followed a loquacious battlo ot soma
dimensions.
The house recommended for passngo
and sent to third reading H. It 243,
providing for a four-year term for
county officers. It amended the bill
so that those now In office will not
have their toims extonded. PeterBOa
offered the amendment, thnt provides
that the bill shall not go Into effect
until January, 1918, and that tho elec
tion ot 1316 shall bo in tho usual man
ner and Tor the usual term. Fries of
fored an smendment that tho recall
could bo applied to theso officers that
was carried.