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-cV DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD, DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. U. S. 1HL FLEET 1511 THE PACIFIC fclX DREADNAUGHTS MAKE SAFE VOYAGE THROUGH PANAMA CANAL. LED BY F. S. NEW MEXICO Average Time of Trip for Each Dreadnought from Colon to Bal bon Wna Ten Hours Regarded as Biggest Event In History. Aboard Flagship U. 3. S., Now Mox lea. The Pacific fleet, under the com mand of Admiral Hodman is floating In Pacific watorfl. Six drcadnaugutB, led by tho flag ship Now Moxlco, safely paBBod through the Panama canal, tho larg est ships that ever havo passed through this waterway. Tho averago time of passage for each warship from Colon to Dnlboa was 10 hours. "This Is the biggest event In tho lilBtory of tho canal," said Governor Chester Harding, of tho canal zone Admlrnl Rodman vlalted Prosldont Porras, of Panama, who congratulated tho naval officer on lilo success In no gotlotlng tho canal. Approximately 8,C00 Bailors wero given shoro leavu nt Panama and tho city celebrated the arrival of tho fleet, which departed soon afterwards for San Diego. Pass Through In Pairs. Tho fleot loft lta anchorage In Gntun lake at dawn, proceeding In pairs two hours apart. Tho Now Mexico und Wyoming led the way, followed by tho Now York and Texas and tho Mis bIhhIpp! and Arkansas. To Admiral Rodman waa given tho honor of directing tho courso of the first Groadnnught to mako tho trip. Through the reaches of Gntun lake tho droadnaugtils steamed at 13 knots an hour. On nearlng tho narrow confines of the Bus Obispo reach the apeod was reduced to five knots an hour. Tho flatBhlp accepted guidance from a tug to koep her nose out of tho hlgli banks of tho Culobra cut. Tho giant emft threaded her way slowly throupi thlH section. 8allors Go to Panama. Three hours from Gatun lake, tin IhigHhip paascd under tho omiuoir shadow of Gold hill, tho backbone ot tho contlnont, whero many alldos havi occurred. Tho warship then nnteri'i' the locks at Pedro Miguel, where CO' sailors, glvon liberty, took a spocl.i train for Panama. Govornor Harding mid Hear Atlinl: al Mnrbury Johnaton, of tho l'mnim. naval division,, enmo aboard on tin flagship was bolnu locked down 3' feet to the love!, of tho Mlraflorc lake. As tho Now Mexico oaBod hor wa Into MIralloreB lake, a groat crowt collected on tho concroto lock cheered and a salute of 17 guns. wa. fired on tho flagship In honor of Gov ernor Hnrdlng. "It was no moro trouble than put ting through tho canal u fleet of grou. lakes tug boats," emld Admiral Hod man. DRY BILL PASSAGE POSTPONED Due to Deolslon of Republican Lend ers to Have Reoeas. Washington, D. C. Legislation foi tho onforcomont ot war time and con stltutlonal prohibition probably wlH not bo onnctort'for two nlontliB'ns tin result ot tho deolslon of republican leadors to havo tho houso recess from August 2 to Hoptemhor 8' Soy ate loaders havo indicated that many chances would be mado In tho houito bill and should tho senatn pubh lis meamiro bofore tho houso reconvened In September considerable Unit) would olapso boforo final onaotnjunt, oh the itirferonceH butwoon the "houso and Kfliiato would havo to bo throshed out in conference, filial decision to liavu the hoiiBO rocesB wob reached after conferences botwoon republican load ers of tho two hoUHOB. IJttlo opposi tion to tho plan will be axprosnod by senators, It waa said, but there wna no suggestion that tho sennto reccas, Yanks Marrying German Girls. Coblenz. Roports ot marriages bo tweon Amorloan soldiers and Gorman girls have boon received at headquar ters from various parta ot tho occu pled aroa during tho past tow days, but as yet no charges have been tiled ngalnst any of tho mon, and It la be liovod moBt of Uie uurrlakofl woro duo to mlsundorntandlngs regarding tho untlfraternUatlon regulations. Kodak Maker Dead. Roehostor, N. Y. Henry A. Strong, president ot tho Eastman Kodak Co., died, aged 61 yours. Dakotan to Franca. Washington, D. C Roprosontatlvo Royal C. Johnson, of South Dakotn, ns ('inlrman, and Representatives Uland und Flood, of tho special commlttoo of tho houso charged with Investigat ing cruoltio'5 m the army, will sail for France on tho Leviathan August 7 to make an exhaustive Inquiry Into tho expenditure of funds and tho holding of courtmartlal proceedings, iu the Am erican expeditionary forces. Limit Col Ansell, rooently resigned from tho army, will accompany tho com iultteo us cpua.,-1. BREAKING IN BKoptayq 4ne ATTACK ON NEGROES MOD8 START RACE RIOT IN WASHINGTON. Capital Police Force and Provost Guard Unable to Restore Order. WiiBhlngton, July 22. Despite the entire pollco force ot tho capital, to gether with tho nsslstanco of n provost guard, thero wero seven mob attacks on negroes here as n result of uttneks on whlto women by negroes within tho pnst two weeks. Huge crowds of men wero out searching for negroes, nnd n number of tho latter have been taken to hos pitals because of Injuries they havo suffered at tho hands of tho lnfurlntcd citizens. On Pennsylvania nvenue, tho main thoroughfnro of tho capital, n crowd of men und boys, with n liberal sprlnk llng.of discharged soldiers nnd Bailors among them, quickly gathered. Their mobilization wiib apparently tho continuation of n muHsrd nttnek on tho negro qunrter In the southwest section of tho city. It Is estimated that more than 2,000 men mndo up tho largest party, and thero wero smaller hnnds In other ports of tho town. Tho sight of n negro wns the signal for an nttuck. "Get him I" was tho cry rnlscd und tho fugltlvo "gotten." Tho ambulance of tho Emergency hospital wotild soon clnng Its wny up tho avenue to tako tho victim for treatment nnd tho mob would start off on Us senrch for fresh suspects. Tho pollco nnd soldiers wero evi dently powerless In tho face of nt least six bands operating in widely scat tered sections of the city. FOCH TO VISIT THE U. S. American Legion to Extend Invitation to the Marshal to Come In November. Now York, July 22. Marshal Foch, cohunandcr In chief of tho allied arm ies", is to bo Invited by tho Amorlcnn Legion to visit Amcrlcn this fall nnd to nttend tho next meeting of tho le gion In November. Tho Invitation, long urged by tho American veterans who fought under tho allied generalissimo. Is now crys tallizing and will bo dispatched by en bio In a few days over tho names of American soldiers now prominent In tho great war veterans' association. TEN YEARS FOR TEN WORDS Dels Kun Gives Spreader of False Rumor Sentenco In the Penitentiary. Budnpcst, July 22. Rela Kim's prosecution of rumor-mongerlng Is Btcrn nnd relentless. A lending law yer entered a barber shop the other day and said: "Tho French havo entered Buda pest; tho holflhovlkl havo been over thrown." Ho Iiuh been .lentenced to ten years .n tho penitentiary j ten years at hnrd labor for ten words. Ambassador for Belgium. Washington, July 21. President Wil son's recommendation that tho Ameri can legation at Brussels, Dclglum, bo raised to tho rank of an embassy was approved unanimously by tho sennto foreign relations committee. O'Brien Knocks Out Bonds. Cincinnati, July 21. Dick O'Urlen of Cincinnati knocked out Joo Bonds of Now York, both heavyweights, in tho ninth round nt Elmwood. O'Urlen had all tho bent of the lighting und floored Ilonds live times. THE NEW PIPE kdUhUlWl & ill Vt:r' JL START FOR PACIFIC BIG UNITED STATES FLEET IS ON THE WAY. Dreadnaughts, Cruisers and Destroy ers to Number of 175 Leave for West Coast. Fortress Monroe, Vn July 10. When tho now Pacific fleet stnrtcd out of Newport News at 8:30 a. in. a new epoch opened In American history. Few nmld the bustle of departure, the hurried good-bys, the waving of hand kerchiefs, may hnve realized that an other leaf In the nntlon's development was unfolding. From the time that America wns born, n fleet has been In tho Atlnntlc to protect her from dnnger In the East. Now she will hnvo one equally strong, 50-50 between tho two, to protect her from storm clouds wafted eastward.' Just 70 years ago the hardy forty niners, lured by tho yellow metnl which makes and brenks nations, erossed tho continent nnd California was added to the republic. Now through tho Isth mus of Pnnnmn, tho new fleet, moro battleships than our nation drenmed of owning only a few years ngo, is going to string n floating rnmpart of steel to protect the Pacific. A Hock of torpedo-boat destroyers, blrdllko In comparison with tho pon derous drondnnughts, woro tho first to get under wny. At almost tho samo time tho dreadnaught New Mexico, with the fleet commander's flng flying from ono of Its spider masts, stnrted Into sluggish motion. Other dreadnaughts, predrend nnughts nnd cruisers fell In behind tho big oil burners, carrying Admiral Rodman nnd his staff In nddltlon to Its regular ship complement of 015. Though tliu fleot will eventunlly num ber 175 ships, not all nro on tho cruise. .Of Its soven drondnnughts, tho first under American colors to rench tho Pacific, tho Tennessee, Is being over hauled. Several other line dread naughts, cruisers, destroyers, subma rines nnd miscellaneous tenders, which will eventually bo pnrt of the fleet, also will Join later. SHOOT TO KILL ON RHINE French and Belgian Guards Shoot Five Men -Caught Smuggling Across River. Ludwlgshuven, July 22. French and Belgian guards on tho Rhine re ceived orders to shoot to kill every person acting suspiciously approach ing tho left bank of the river. In the region of Dusseldorf alone, five per sons caught smuggling things across tho Rhino hnve been shot. COL S. T. ANSELL TO RESIGN Offers Resignation Following His De- nunclatlons of Court-Martial System of U. 8. Army. Washington, July 21. Llout. Col. Samuel T. Ansell ot tho Judge ndvocnto general's ofllce, nnd who was a storm center by reason of his recent denunci ations of tho court-martial system of tho United Stntes nnny, tendered his resignation from tho service. Americans Start for Omsk. Vladivostok, July 23. MnJ. Gen. Wll Main S. Graves, commander of tho American expeditionary forces In 81 borla, und Roland R. Morris, Amcrlcnr nmbnssador to Japan, hnvo left Vladi vostok on n special train for Omsk, Honduras In State of War. Washington, July 23. Declaring thnt thero was n movement afoot to depose tho government, tho president of Honduras, In council of ministers nccordlng to a dispatch, Issued a do creo declaring' a Btato of war. LIP EXPLODE 12 PERSONS DIE Airship in Flames ' Crashes Through Roof of Chicago Bank. Thousands See'B'g Gas DHglble Burnt and Crew Leap In Parachutes Gas Tank Explodes In the Bank. Chicago, July 23. Twelve were killed und twenty-live injured when a gigan tic dirigible on Its test flight cjiught fire and fell 500 feet, crashing through tho glnss roof of the Illinois Trust und Savings bunk, Juckson boulevard and La Sallo street, shortly before five o'clock In tho afternoon. Most of tho dend were employees of tho bank, trapped and burned to death In n withering rnln of lire caused by the explosion of tho balloon's gasoline tnnks ns they hit the iloor of the bank rotunda, where over 200 bookkeepers and clerks, nenrly all girls, wero work ing. Tho Dead. James Carpenter, sixteen yenrs old, Illinois Trust nnd Savings messenger. Earl II. Davenport, formerly a sport ing writer on vnrlous papers. Marie Florence, Illinois Trust nnd Savings bnnk employee. Treno Miles, "stenographer, Illinois Trust nnd Savings bank. Evelyn Meyers, stenographer Illinois Trust nnd Savings bank. Edwnrd Munzer, correspondence clerk nt bank. Carl Otto, telegrapher for the bnnk. Joseph Scanlnn, bank messenger. Henry "Ruck" Weaver, Warren, 0 mechnnlc; occupant of dirigible. Unidentified woman, burned beyond recognition. Unidentified womnn, so badly burned Identification almost Impossible. Milton G. Norton, newspnper photog rapher. Tho blimp, owned by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company of Akron, 0., had been flying nbout the city for several hours when the accident oc curred. When npproxlmntoly 500 feet nbovc the bonk a spurt of flames wns seen to shoot from the center of the gas bog near the center of tho aircraft. The crowds gathered on the streets to wntch the fight saw the great- mnchlne buckle and' quiver ns It started on Its fntal plunge. Four of Its five pecupnnts Jumped, and two landed pnfoly In the streets ns the blimp, n veritable ball of flame, struck tho roof of the bank with a crash audible throughout the loop" dis trict. Thero was nothing to warn the hun dreds of employees of tho Institution of tho coming tragedy. A shadow passed over the marble rotunda, whero 150 were busy, nnd a terrifying crash followed. The bank's closing hour for pntrons hnd passed, but the clerks were still at work In vnrlous depart ments. It seemed, according to tho survivors, thnt tho entire bnnk wns on fire. Break lng through tho Iron supporting the glnss overhend, tho fuslloge of tho blimp, with two heavy rotary engines nnd sovcrnl gasoline tnnks, smnshed to the floor. Instnntly the tanks exploded, scat tering n wavo of flaming gnsollne over the workers for a rndlifs of 50 feet. A pnnlc ensued. Tho cause of the fire which brought tho flnmlng gas hag plunging-down Is not known. None of tho crew could ascribe a dellnlte reason for the acci dent. CHINESE TO FIGHT RUSSIANS Expedition for Defense of Northwest ern Frontiers to Be Made Against , General Semenoff'o Forces. Peking, July 22. An expedition for tho defenso of tho northwestern fron tiers ngnlnst General SemenofTs al leged aggression there Is perhaps Chi na's most modern military effort. Flvo thousand troops drawn from contin gents trnincd by the Japanese for tho nntlonnl defense army are Htng dis patched toward Urga. For the first tlmo In Chinese history automobiles In Inrgo numbers nro being employed for tho transportation of troops. It Is ex pected thnt airplanes also will bo utilized. Serious Rioting In England. London, July 23. Serious rioting broke out nt Ellston, In Stafford coun ty, when a mob stormed the police sta tion nnd attempted to free several sol dlers. The mob poured petrol on the Rtntlon nnd nttempted to set It afire. Police reserves finally dispersed the rioters. St. Joseph to Have 24 Beer. St. Joseph, Mo., July 2-1. The St. Jo seph excise board reversed Itself on tho snlo of 2i per cent beer and de cided to grant licenses to saloons for that purpose. Within an hour moro thnn 40 applications wero received. Messenger Robbed of Big Sum. Chicago, July 21, Two bandits held up Phillip Fleming, a messenger of the Austin National bank, and robbed him of $45,899. Fleming was op his way to deposit tho founds In a downtown Institution. Tho robbers escaped. NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS CONDENSED TO A FEW LINES" Fire of an unknown origin de stroyed the business portion of Lake side, Sheridan county. Tlio opera house, printing ofllce nnd several other business establishments wero coiwuniod by the flames. The city lias no water system nnd to the buck et brigade and workmen nt a potash plant goes the credit for saving the town from complete destruction. Tho loss Is placed "at $150,000. The centennial celebration of the first white settlement in Nebraska" Is to bo held at Fort Calhoun, Septem ber 215. On Sept. 20, 1810, Colonel Atkinson, with 800 officers and men of tho Sixth Infantry, landed from two stenmbonts Just north of the present site of Fort Calhoun. Tho Sthte Historical society will take a lending part In the affair. In Issuing the call for n speclnl ses. sloil of the legislature, Governor Mc Kelvle Included nothing snve tho pas sage of n joint resolution ratifying tho national woman suffrage ninendiiicnt, nnd npproprlntlon of expense of the session. The State Hoard of Control will require teachers nt nil stoto Institu tions to take n two weeks' short courso In the psychology of abnormnl children, to bo given at the Beatrice Institute for feeble-minded early this fall. Feeling ngnlnst Mexlcnns working In tho packing house's nt Nebraska City Is said to be extremely bitter. The other night placards were placed over the city which read: "If you are a Mexican, leave the city." ' There are still many automobile owners In tho state who havo not (se cured 1010 licenses, according to State Engineer Johnson, who has sent out notice to nil sheriffs In the state to round up the delinquents. Addison Walt, for some time adju tant of the soldiers' home at Grnnd Island, has been promoted to com mandant of that Institution and Rev. J. W. Wnlts of Valparaiso, has been nppolnted adjutant. The speclnl election held nt Blue Springs to select a site for the new school building to bo erected nt that place showed that a mnjorlty of the voters desired to have the structure on the old site. The State Board of Equalization has ordered Secretary W. II. O.sborn to Investigate the reason why returns from seventy-soven counties of Ne braska show a $1,000,000 decline In bnnk assessments over a yenr ago. Lincoln county Is to have a new S200.Q00 court house at North Platte. Citizens of tho county nt a special election, voted for a direct levy of 5 mills to raise the necessary fund. Automobile drivers in the state are warned to bo aware of tho now auto mobile law, which prohibits ai auto mobile to be driven with a dealer's number for personal use. Saunders county, by voluntary sub scriptions, has collected the county's share, $20,000, for a state aid bridge across tho Platlo river at Yutan. - Joseph Rutherford Nelson, who es tablished tho first newspnper In Gage county at Beatrice, in 18GS, died at, ins borne at Cashmere, Wash. The price of hogs Is again soaring on the South Omnha market. Stock men predict that $23.50 per hundred will bo reached before long. Nebraska will bo represented at the hearing at Washington, August 11, of the problems confronting electric railways of the country. Several sportsmen around Lincoln have been rounded up lately by dep uty game wardens and fined quite heavily for Illegal fishing. President Wilson has been Invited to visit Omaha when he makes n tour pf the country, speaking In behalf of the league of nations. The five-mill court house levy which was voted on In RIchnrdson county at a special election, carried by four votes. Utah Is suffering to a considerable extent from drouth, according to rot ports reaching Nebraska county agents. An SO ncre farm near Lyons was sold the other day for $150 per ncre, a new top price for Burt county land. A number of prominent Dodge county citizens have taken steps to organize a league to enforce peace. City firemen of Lincoln nnd some other city employes have been granted a substantial Increase In wages. The Omaha lodge of the Fraternal Order of Elks Is talking of building a new homo. A cloudburst flooded Ravenna nnd sent a river of water down tho main street a few days ago. Many base ments woro filled and much damage done. Tho town was flooded three weeks ago. tho flrsst time In the his tory of Ravennn Alter more than two months' Inves tigation or tho shooting and killing of Mrs. Mary Shafer of Mlnden. County Attorney McPhoely filed n charge of matricide against John G. Shnfer, the woman's son. The alleged murder oc curred on April 28, 1010. Tho tlrst real pure food show ever attempted In Omaha will bo held In tho city auditorium tho week of Oc tober 25 to November 1. It Is ex pected to bo ono of tho greatest nt fairs of the kind over hold In the state. A movement fur tho repeal of tho daylight saving law thnt promises to become national In Its scopo has been stinted by a group of Omaha mothers and wolfaro workers who contend thnt the measure Is it detriment to the health and happiness of tho children of the United States. I Lieutenant Governor Bariows Is being indorsed for tho candidacy ot j nntlonnl commander of the Sous of Aeternns In letters received at tho ofllce of Frank .Mills, at Lincoln, di visional commander for Nebraska, from Individual ofllcers nnd organiza tions of tho order. Tho commander will be selected nt tho national en campment at Columbus, O., In Sep tember. Tho Nebrnskii Farmers' Union at the annual convention at Omnha voted to construct a terminal grain elevator In tho state metropolis au to procure a seat on tho Omaha- Grain Exchange. The executive commltteo of 'the asso ciation will meet some tlmo this fall to efTect a state-wide organization of Farmers' Union co-operative elevators. Farmers of Brown county ure qtilto disappointed In their wheat crops. Early in tho spring the outlook for a bumper crop wns splendid, but tho three weeks' dry spell In June greatly, reduced tho production. Prospects' for a good corn crop In tho county nre fair. Dr. F. SI. Fling, professor of his tory nt the University of Nebraskn. who has been commissioned by tho government to wrlto n history of America's part In the world war, is now In Wnshlngton, gathering first hnnd material on the senate's ratifi cation of the peace treaty. An electric company nt Mil ford Is constructing n lino to" Wilber down tiie Blue river. If enough subscribers for lights can bo obtained the lino will be run, as far south ns De Witt and Plymouth. Plymouth has long been without n lighting plant. Tht recently formed branch of tho American Legion nt Ilartlngton has boon granted Its chnrter, giving it tho honor of bc.'ng the fourth In (he state to perfect l!.s organization. Omaha, Lincoln and Fremont are the first three ou the list. The state prison board has refused a rcoommendntion of pardon toGeorgo Davenport, who lias served two years of his en-yenr sentence from Clay county for an oflcnso against u 10-year-okl girl. Plans for the new milltnry depart ment at tho state university nre being endangered, according to u rumor now current in university circles nt Lin coln. Fifty transient "harvest hands wero hold up and robbed by four highway men while aboard a Burlington freight train near Sutton. Several of the men were thrown from the trnlu by the thugs. " II. II. Wnlllngford of Fremont, who purchased the Ryler Mengen20 aero farm near Nlckerson, three weeks ngo for $325 por aero, sold the tract the other day for $400 an acre, making u net profit of $0,000. County commissioners of RIchnrd son county havel decided to call an. election for tho relocation of the court house between Humboldt and Falls City, the election to be held Sept. 9. . The Nemnha County Agricultural socl ety plans to .construct a number of now buildings on the grounds nt Auburn before tho opening of tho county fair in October. Farmers of Nebraska who wish to buy stock from drouth stricken states of tho west can secure infornm. Hon ns to where It can bo purchnsed from county agents. The petitions being circulated nt Omnha for the recall of Mayor Smith nnd three other commissioners, am being readily signed, It Is said. Wheat fields throughout Duel and other western counties nre yielding splendidly. Many fields nro running 25 bushels to the acre arid some ns high as 45. A branch of the American Legion has been organized at Ilemlngford with 70 members. They plnn to build a community club house. Employes at all state Institutions have been granted an Increase in sal ary by tho Nebraska Board of Con trol A contract has boon let for marking tho Goldenrod highway from Nebraskn City to Oxford, a distance of 300 miles. Harvest hands by the hundreds are dally leaving Nebraska for work in tho wheat fields of Minnesota anJ South Dakota. Corn In tho vicinity of Beatrice was damaged to some extent by n violent hall storm thnt visited the district. Tho city of Lincoln has Inaugurated n movement to acquire the street rail way lines of the capital. Walthlll Is to have n community sales pavilion, which will scat about 700 people. A movement Is under wny to trans fer the Danish Lutheran college at Blair to Omaha. Tho now state law legalizing tho salo of cigarettes In Nebraskn Is now In effect. Under Its provisions It Is unlawful to smolfo cigarettes In pub lic eating houses, to give one to a friend or to sell either cigarettes or tobacco to minors. Thnt tho sugar industry In western Nebraskn Is making rapid forward strides Is proven by the fact that over 17,000 moro acres In the state aro planted In sugar bsets this year than In 1918. Tho preliminary estl mato Is 00,000 acres. A. Lohr of tho Diller vicinity re ports that hl.s 125 acres of wheat aver, aged twenty-flvo bushels to the ncre. 'nils Is one of tho best yields reported In th vicinity. A total of 0,745,000 acres of Ne braska soil Is planted In corn this year, compared to 0,045,000 In 1918. The condition of tho crop July 15 was 8S per cent. The several hundred Wyoming farmers who ennio to this state to help In tho harvest, wera-n big factor In n Hexing the labor shortage In wnst cm Nebraska h "N- X A vt 1T '