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WHEELER SAYS U. S. PR08ECU.
TORS ARE TO DLAME.
WAY OUT IN VOLSTEAD AC1
Anti-Saloon League Counsel Declares
Sections In Law Provide lor J
Temporary Injunction..
Washington, I). C In a statement
In which'' lie asserted Hint tho Ameri
can people had saved $1,000,000,000 In
their drink bill hIiico prohibition wont
Into effect, Wayne B. Wheeler, gen
eral counsel of tho Anti-Saloon league,
highly commended Attornoy .Genoral
Brundago, of Illinois, and Judge Lan
ills for tholr effective enforcement
of the Volstead act.
"Thero Is a way provided in tho Vol
etoad act to relieve tho congestion of
liquor cases in the fcdoral courts,
vsich is causing comment at this
time," said Mr. Wheeler. "This re
lief is found in tho liquor abatement
nnd equity proceedings In sections 21
to 24 of tho Volstead act. Thcso sec
tions prolvdo for a tomporary Injunc
tion on presentation of nn affidavit
to tho court that liquor is illegally
Bold or made. A tomporary injunction
Is granted from continuing or inter
fering with tho liquor or property un
lawfully uBcd. On final decreo tho
nlaco may bo closed for ono year.
"Tho violation of tho order, tom
porary or permanent, subjects tho
liquor dealor to a fine of $500 to $1,000
and from three months to twelvo
inonthB in Jail. Tho attornoy general
of Illinois has recontly brought moro
than 200 of those cusos in tho federal
courts in Chicago. For temporary in
junctions moro than fifty havo boon
granted by a Judge In ono day, Thoso
aro disposed of quickly without an in
dictment, Information or Jury. If tho
United States district attornoya and
Judges whoso court dockets aro crowd
ed will uso this offoctlvo provlalon the
congestion of liquor ensos on tho dock
et Will Hoon disappear.
"Judge LandlB recontly gavo ono
liquor doalor $1,000 and ono year In
Jail for violating his court order under
n tomporary injunction by Boiling
liquor, A llttlo moro backbono ou tho
bonch and In tho Ur.ltod States dls
trlct attornoy' offices In somo quar
ters will clear up tho crowded dock
ets." Whisky Consumption Slumps.
Washington, D. C Whisky con
numptlon in tho United States de
creased from 89,041,985 gallons In
1917 to 5,581,553 gallons In 1920, tho
first yoar of prohibition, accoidlng to
flgureB announced by tho Autl-Salooa
loaguo. Consumption of alcohol do
creased from 71,081,121 gallons to 22,
039,355 gallons, tho figures showed,
wlillo boor consumption dropped from
00,817,379 to 9,231,280 barrels. "A con
sorvatlvo ostimato shows that tho poo
plo of tho Unltod States havo saved
.over $1,000,000,000 previously spent for
.bovorago intoxicants," tho loaguo said.
Dollar Shrinking In Paris.
Paris. Tho Increasing valuo of tho
Jranc and tho depreciation of tho dol-
lar aro oxpoctod to drive homo many
Americans who havo been living In
Paris ou small Incomos, enabled to en
joy llfo through tho oxchango rates
which havo boon hovorlng about tho
novonteon francs to tho dollar ratio,
Tho dollar closed, however, at It
francs und 50 contlmos, moro than 2V6
franca lower than a month ago, nnd
financial wizards predict continued de
preciation. ' Red Army Organised.
Berlin A semi-official ntntomont
nayB evidence of tho oxlBtoiico of a rod
army, creatod by tho Gorman com
munist party, has boon revealed by
iioarchos In Hbhou, Duossoldorf, Elbor
fold and Bremen. Tho Rtntomont de
clares that tho red army possesses
light and heavy guns In vast quan
tities and other war matorlal.
Night Riders Warn Farmers.
Loxlngton, Ky. Night rldors visit
ed farmers In Hath and Fleming coun
ties and warned them not to haul any
moro tobacco to market until prlcos
woro hlghor, according to roports. Tho
roports said that tho growors woro
told that their barna would bo burned
and that thoy would bo doalt with
eovoroly unless thoy compiled.
Six Lose Lives In Dlaio.
. Washington Court Houbo, O. Six
tnombers of tho family of James Ad
kins, fourteen miles north of hero,
woro burnod to death whon tiro do
atroyed tholr homo. Adklns wa8 fa
tally, burnod.
Not Married to Russian.
Toklo, Negotiations botwoon Japan
nnd tho Unltod Statos resulting from
tho shooting by a sontry at Vladlvo
Btok of Llout. Langdon aro progressing
"satisfactorily," according to a semi
official nolo. Latost Information Is
tha't Llout. Langdon was not, aa ro
portod, married to a Russian woman,
although ho waB ongagod. It 1b stated
that procodlng tbo shooting ho was at
tho home of Russian frtondo. Among
tho guosta was his flanceo, who com
mitted Bulcldo after looming of his
death-
LIQUOR
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FRANK R. GOODING
A nc .V photograph of Senator Frank
It. Hooding, Republican, and former
governor of Idaho, who took his oath
of olllce .Iiintmry It" to Jill the unex
pired term of Senator Nugent, Demo
crat, who resigned after his appoint
ment to the federal trade commission.
TO DEPORT RUSS RED
Chancellor of Soviet Bureau in
U. S. Must' Go Back.
Deportation of Gregory Welnsteln Or-
dcred by Secretary Wllcon of the
Labor Department.
Washington, .Inn, HI. Deportation
of Gregory Welnsteln, chancellor of
the Russian soviet bureau In the
Fulled .Stales, was ordered by Secre
tary Wilson of the Labor department.
Welnsteln Is to sail Saturday from
New York ou the SwedlHh-Aiiierlcnn
liner Stockholm, with .Martens and
other employees in this country of
the Russian soviet government. The
reasons given for the deportation of
the "chancellor" were Identical with
those upon which Martens' deporta
tion was ordered. Counsel for the
rovlet olllclalN had asked that Weln
steln be permitted to leave the United
States for Russia with .Martens, and It
was then proposed that the Welnsteln
warrant be canceled. The Department
of Justice opposed this course, point
ing out that If the deportation war
rant were canceled Welnsteln wo.uld
be able to return to tho United Stales
from Russia unmolested, If he so do
hired. HOOVER HAS MARKET PLAN
Public Warehouses for Farmers Sua-
fleeted to Congress by Former
Food Administrator.
Washington, Jan. 21. Appointment
of a national board of exports with
regulatory powers to Improve market
ing conditions was suggested by Her
bert Hoover, former federal food ad
ministrator, appearing before the
hout agriculture committee which Is
holding hearings on bills to restrict
speculation on grain and cotton ex
changes. "One function of such u
board, for Instance," he continued,
"would he to , provllle regulations
which would open to lilm new credit
beyond his abilities In loans against
holdings on farms." Mr. Hoover said
he did not believe tho precise quanti
ties or methods of "future" trading
should be llxed by law, "as all such
attempts io cnntrql economic forces
must be tentative and based upon ex
perience gained."
CHICAGO MAIL PLANE FALLS
Pllct Escapes Injury When tho Ma-
chine Crashes to Ground In
Wisconsin.
.Madison, Wis., Jan. 21. A Twin
Cities to Chicago government mall air
plane crashed to the ground when
Pilot Smith tried to make a forced
landing at the Dane county fair
grounds, about a mile south of hero.
Smith Jumped und escaped serious In
jury, lie brought tho mall to the Madi
son post olllce and left for Chicago.
Killed Student; Quits Police.
Madison, Wis., Jan. HI. The Madi
son board of police nnd llro commis
sioners unanimously accepted tho res
ignation of Patrolman Matthew It.
Lynnugh, who recently was acquitted
on the charge of llrst-ilegreo murder
lodged against him ufter killing Carf
Jandorf, a student of the university,
last May.
Reds Halt Armenian Revolt,
llaku, Transcaucasia, Jan. HI. An
Armenian uprising against wheat
requisition .at Delljan, SO miles cast of
Alexandropol, has been suppressed by
Bolshevik troops with much bloodshed,
uccordlng to ndvlces from tho region.
Irish Slay Elaht Constables.
Dublin, Jan. 24. Eight men, seven
of whom wero constables, wero idiot
and killed In engagements with Sinn
Felnera near this city Friday, Six of
tho constables met death when their
ttnntorcar ran Into an ambuscade.
E CHANGE
FT TO
Reapporlionment Bill Limits the
Membership of Lower Body
to Its Present Number.
ALL AMENDMENTS VOTED DOWN
Boston Manufacturer Asks Ways and
Means Committee to Oppose In
crease In Tariff on Cuban
Sugar.
Washington, Jan. 22. Under the re
apportionment bill adopted In the
house, limiting the membership of that
brunch of congress to Its present num
ber, -li'S.", the states affected will con
tinue to provide machinery for re
districting, all' efforts to have the
problem hnndled by federal legisla
tion having been defeated.
Numerous amendments to fix the
membership at various figures were
voted down.
The bill as submitted by the census,
committee provided for a membership
of -IS!, but the house by a vote of 207
to 7(5 adopted an amendment by Rep
resentative Harbour (Rep.) of Califor
nia, retaining the present member
ship. Under the measure as It will go to
the senate for approval, eleven states
will lose twelve representatives which
will be shifted to eight other states.
Missouri will lose two seats and Iowa,
Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, Rhode
Island and Vermont each one. Cali
fornia will gain three, Michigan and
Ohio two each and Connecticut, New
Jersey, North Carolina, Texas and
Washington one ench.
The reapportionment becomes effec
tive March -1, 1023.
Opposition to any Increase In the
tariff ou sugar, together with n plen
for lenient treatment for Cuban sugar,
was presented by Edwin F. Atklnr. of
Boston, a manufacturer and Importer
of Cuban sugar, to the house wnys
and means committee, which Is con
sidering revision of the permanent
tariff. An Increase, he declared, would
be disastrous to Cuba.
' The sugar Industry Is passing
through an acute crisis, Mr. Atkins in
formed the committee, adding that the
present sugar tariff schedule has pro
tected the domestic sugar .Industry,
us shown by the earnings of the beet
sugar Industry as well as the Ha
waiian and Porto Rlcan estates.
Mr. Atkins asserted that tho situa
tion now confronting the sugar Indus
try was the result of "the mistaken
but well meant efforts of our govern
ment In fostering tht belief Jn n very
serious crop shortage, a danger which
never existed to any marked degree
after March 1." lie estimated that
the United States entered the present
yenr with a surplus or carry-over of
sugar amounting to 1,000,000 tons.
Letters under Brooklyn .date, signed
"wives and mothers of industrial
workers," reached members of con
gress asking for a law to require
childless married women under 00 to
do housework three days a week for
mothers with children -nnd also for an
eight hour day for housewives.
"Congress should realize," It Is as
serted, "that legislation should be less
and less In favor of Industrial work
ers and more nnd moro to alleviate
and improve condition of tht over
worked, underpaid, dishwashing
housewife,"
Chairman Thompson of the federal
trade commission Is to complete his
henrlng before the senate manufac
tures committee' on provisions of the
Calder bill for regulation of tho conl
industry, requiring olllclal publicity
for coal data to be gathered by tho
commissioner.
TOWN REVIVES SUNDAY LAWS
Berwick (Pa.) Council Digs Up Sev
eral Forgotten Ordinances Bars
Sale of Gasoline.
Berwick, I'a., Jan. 21. Strict en
forcement of Sabbath observance laws
here Is demanded of the police In an
order by the Herwlck council pub
lished today. Ordlni nces enncted so
long ago that the provisions of many
of them have been forgotten will bo
revived. Under the order soda foun
tains, Ice cream parlors and jiewspn
per stands will bo directed by the;
police to remain closed on Sunday
hereafter. Gasoline stations aro In
cluded In tho ban. No Sunday news
paper will be permitted to bo sold
either on the streets or in stores and
drug stores may only nil prescriptions
and disuse medicines.
Swedish Minister to U. S.
Stockholm, Jan. 22. Alex Wallen
berg has been appointed minister to
America.
Arrested Student Ends Life.
Pittsburg, Kan., Jan. 21. Wallace
Rlngle, a senior In the l'lttsburg high
school and business manager of the
high school paper, killed himself.
Rlngle was arrested charged with hold
ing up a l'lttsburg store clerk.
No Strike In Austria.
London, Jan. 24. Tho widespread,
strikes in Austria that were called to'
begin Thursday, did not materialize,
nnd perfect quiet nnd order prevails
In tho republic, Bald a Nev:i Agcncj
lt.mut)) from Yltmti.
STATES
THLMISTOSIMU
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE DE
CIDES NO CHANGES TO CE
MADE THIS YEAR
TAKE TIME TO INVESTIGATE
Legislature Is Determined to Fully
Understand Question of Taxation
and Revenue Before Recom-
mcndlnn Any Changes
Lincoln People who aro hoarding
intangible property and who fear they
may yet be obliged to pay taxes upon
such property may allay tholr fears
for tho year 1921 at least. Tho blow
will not fall until about 1922 at tho
closest calculation.
That Is tho way tho Joint legisla
tive committee on taxation and rev
cnuo feels about It. At a meeting of
tho committee of tho two houses, It
was tho expressed Intention not to
hasten revenuo legislation to conform
to tho amended constitution, but to go
slowly, bo sure thoy aro right and
then go ahead.' The Joint committeo
said It did not Intend generally to pans
any taxation bills with an emergency
clause. Of course, If it becomes nee
canary to change tho taxation laws
and mako such change effective Im
mediately, tho committeo reserves tho
right to do bo, but it does not con
template passage of emergency bills.
This was tho substanco of a motion
by Senator Norval of Soward, adopted
by tho Joint committee. A real emer
gency must exist.
Tho result of such a course will bo
that importnnt legislation bearing
upon tho taxation of intangible prop
erty and also real property will not
become effective until next year.
Taxos under tho present law are baaed
upon valuation of property made by
assessors In April. It will probably
bo Impossible for tho legislature, oven
if It desired to do so, to make now
legislation effectlvo beforo that time.
State Fair Sets New Mark.
Nebraska's stale fair in 1920 set a
high mark in tho matter of receipts
and expenditures, according to "tho fi
nancial statement of Secretary E. R,
Danlelson, made at the annual meet
ing of tho stato board of agriculture.
A total of $388,115.48 was received
"by tho stato fair board, $ 14-1,758 of
which was realized from tho sale of
tickets during tho fair, $183,201.28
from miscellaneous sources and $37,
859.92 from concessions. A state ap
proppraition added $2,000 moro.
Out of this amount $190,327.76 was
put into permanent Improvements on
tho stato fair grounds, $31,440.01
awarded to oxhibitors as premiums,
$40,91155 spent for attractions, $24,
412.81 for maintenance of grounds and
$13,302.13 for tho speed feature of the
exposition
Tho total expenditures of tho board
during tho year amounted to $389,
12S.91. Balance in tho bank at tho
cloao of business was reported to bo
$3,120.97, certificates of deposit $24,
000, and Liberty bonds $2,950.
Secret Sessions Arouse Opposition.
Signs of a revulsion of sentiment
among members of tho Nebraska leg
islature against tho rule which has
been proposed for secret sessions of
tho Joint assembly to pass upon tho
governor's appointments of codo sec
retaries aro beginning to be seen.
Tho rule, which makes it a high
crime for any senator or representa
tive to roveal any of tho secret pro
ceedings, on penalty of being oxpellod,
is looked upon "by many members as
a return to tho old, discredited system
of twenty years ago, when tho stato
govornment was controlled by tho rail
roads and allied special interests.
School Land Bill Introduced.
Representatives Dothea and Sturdo
vnnt havo Introduced a bill which pro
vides for auction salo of school lands
at tho expiration of present leases and
also whon salo contracts aro cancelled
or forfeited.
The bill provides that tho land com
missioner shall ofor tho lands for sale
onco each year. Whore tho lesseo is a
bidder, but not tho highest, tho suc
6essful bidder shall rolmburso him for
tho value of improvements on tho land.
Objects to Highway Signboards.
A bill Introduced by Scnntor Epper
son, of Clay county, would tako from
tho stato department of public works
authority to issuo permits for putting
advertising signs along stato high
ways. It is understood that a company has
beon formed to socuro thcso righta
from tho stato and that it has been
putting up tho red signs seen along
stato roads now, nnd ronting tho ad
vertising on them.
To Discontinue Free Phone Service.
Tho Nebraska railway commission
has Issuod an order authorizing tho
Lincoln Telophono,& Telephone com
pany to discontinue free sorvlco bo
tweon Its oxchango at Falrbury, with
1,709 subscribers, and tho Reynolds,
Nob., exchange, an lndonpondont "-:-pany
with 200 subscribes. Tho chance
becomes offectlvo Fobruary 1.
Penitentiary Population Growing.
A tomporary dormitory to provide
sleeping, quarters for tho overflow pop
ulation at Uie Nobraska penitentiary
is bolng installed In ono of tho shop
buildings nt tho Institution. Halt a
hundred beds will mako up this now
bunk houso. Thoro aro now 750 In
mates In tho ponltentlary. Tho jiopu
latlon has Increased steadily durlnsr
tho past fow inonthB nnd with tho
parolo board's new poller of holding
down paroles, tho houslnb problem be
comos a sorlous matter Over a hun
drod prisoners are ellgiblo to parnlo
CORNHUSKER, ITEMS
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Point3 Throughout
Nebraska.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Osteola Is llgurlng on a municipal
light und power plant.
Sevc'y per cent of Nebraska's pop
ulation i.i classed as rural.
A fanner live stock exchange has
been organized In Cheyenne county.
The new S2.",000 Christian church at
Weeping Water was dedicated Sunday.
Norfolk Is pretty proud of the new
!5100,00('i Grand theatre Just opened
there.
A business college Is the latest ac
quisition proposed by the Holdrege
Commercial club.
Mls Francos Sedlacek was killed at
Crete when she was struck by a train
while crossing the railroad track.
The issuance of $15,000 bonds for
the erection of a municipal lighting
plant will be voted upon at Mllford.
The Nebraska Retail Hardware as
sociation will hold Its annual conven-
tlon and exposition In Omaha Feb. 1-4.
I E. M. Welling of Crawford, Neb.,
I has discovered coal In Nebraska, ue
I cording to a letter to the secretary of
state.
j Mrs. Naomi Crlss, who homestead
i ed near Loup City in 1870, and who
I has been living there ever since, died
i last week.
Athletics, music, and chalk talks
were feature1? of the Joint Y. M. C. A.
Amerlcan legion carnival at Aurora
Inst week.
The farm homo of Roy Garwood,
near Alliance, was completely destroy
ed by tire starting from an overheated
kitchen stove.
Nebraska college of agriculture
stock judging team took second place
in the western live stock show at Den
ver last week.
Considerable grain Is being moved
on the Beatrice market just now. One
milling linn Is handling over 000
bushels a day.
Nearly ."00 guests attended the
women's "Onward Omaha" dinner at
the Chamber of Commerce at that
place last week.
Nebraska, with 3,30S miles, leads all
states In tho proposed road building
program for 11121, according to llgures
from Washington.
Private safety deposit boxes at the
Guide Rock State bank were rilled by
robbers. Attempts to blow open the
vault were unsuccessful.
John 1'lacek was killed when his
Ford upset while coming down a sleep
hill near Loup City. Death Is sup
posed to have been Instantaneous.
The value of Omaha public school
property has been appraised at $11,
000,000. There are fit! public schools
In which 1,110 teachers are employed.
Edgar Griffith, a barber at Cozad,
has patented a chair which enables
him to sit while working upon custom
ers. It Is on display at a local shop.
Following the appearance of three
cases of smallpox In the Columbus
schools, the superintendent Issued an
order requiring the vncclnntton of
pupils.
The' Trl-County Teachers' institute,
composed of Pawnee, Nemaha and
Johnson counties, Is to be held this
year at Auburn from May 31 to June
3, inclusive.
Nebraska leads every other state In
the union In the number of auto
mobiles In proportion to population.- In
this state there Is one automobile to
every fi.l) persons.
Fete Lopez plended guilty to tho
slaying of Jonns Sanchez, nnother
Mexican at McCo'ok a few weeks ago,
and was sentenced by Judge Eldridge
to thirty years In the penltentinry.
The Rankers' Automobile Insurance
company of Lincoln, having been turn
ed over to the state department of
trade and commerce by a district court
order Is now in charge of W. E.
Barkley as special agent of the depart
ment. 1'endlng legislation, the bureau of
markets and the advisability of es
tablishing departments of research,
will be the chief topics of discussion nt
the meeting of the state farm bureau
federations of the midwest group at
Lincoln this week.
Crystal Elinlra, n school mistress
near the village of Miller, was found
by the roadside near the school with
her clothing in Humes and parts of
her body burned to a crisp. Her con
dition wiy such she could not explain
the cause of the lire. Physicians who
wero summoned say she cannot re
cover. Ford Wlnklemnn, a section hnnd,
wns struck by a train near Howe, re
ceiving injuries from which he died
a few hours later.
Nebraska led all other states In tho
production of alfalfa hay during 1020.
Its total production from the 1,232,017
acres planted was 3,527,tS0.r tons,
showing nn average yield of 2.SU tons
per acre.
Box cars borrowed from enstern
lines to haul grain that has never been
loaded aro proving a burden to Ne
braska railroads. It Is estimated ex
tra cars lying Idle on sidetracks aro
costing one railroad $3,100 a day.
Mrs. L. J. Newman, 01 years old,
died at her home In Rellwood last
week. A year ago, when bhe celebrated
her 00th birthday she had 110 direct
descendants living, six children, forty
three grandchildren, seventy-one great
grandchildren and twenty great great
granchlldren.
Officers elected by the state board of
ngrlculturo at Its meeting last week
wero: President, J. F. McArdle, Oma
ha: first vice president. Charles Graff.
! Bancroft ; second vlco president,
George Jnckson, Nelson; secretary, E.
It. Danlelson, Lincoln; treasurer, Wil
liam B. Banning, Union.
raving projects were rejected nt n
mas meeting at Randolph by a vote
of 7.r to 14.
The contractors putting up the new
quarter million dollar hotel nt McCook
think it will be llnislied this yenr.
The John Adrian general merchan
dise store at Hansen, was robbed of
70 cents and goods valued at $100. Tho
postofflee In the store was robbed of
$4.00.
Mary Nebraska Watklns, the ilrst
white child born In Nebraska City, In
IS.'l, when that place was but n trad
ing post, Is dead at her home nt
Bayard.
Hebron citizens are worrying over
a couple of fires that occurred there
lately. Both were of mysterious origin
and are thought to be the result oC
incendiarism.
Thirty-live homes nt Blair are under
quarantine for smallpox, Including
those of Mayor Henry Chrlstensen and
two physicians. The majority of the
cases are of light form.
The American State bank of Merrl
nian, In Cherry county has been taken
over by State Bank Examiner East
man and closed at the request of tho
directors of the Institution.
The Klwanis district convention,
composed of clubs in Iowa and In Ne
braska, will hold Its semi-annual con
vention In Omaha sometime In March.
Over 300 persons are expected.
A drive Is being made In Johnson
county In nn effort to get the totjil
membership of the county farm bureau
to one thousand. Men from the stnto
bureau aro in charge of the drive.
Two masked men held up nnd rob
bed a private poker party In a houso
on the main street o,f Wymore. Seven
members of the pnrty donated ?30O
cash to the gunmen who escaped.
W. M. Doval of Peru shot what he
took to be a hawk, which was mak
ing off with a chicken. The fowl
proved to be a bald eagle whose wings
measured seven feet from tip to tip.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dammnnn and
the hitter's father, residing near Grand
Island, were killed when the nutomo
blle In which they were riding wns
struck by a Union PniMfic motor train.
Omaha Jobbers and manufacturers
are making elaborate preparations for
the annual "Market Week" festivities
that will begin March 7. There will bo
four days of continuous entertain
ment. Creighton, a town of 1.S00, has nn
S o'clock curfew law, and boys nnd
boys and girls under IS must be nc
compnuied by a cliaperone at dances,
moving picture shows and the' skntinit
rink.
The Nebraska Interscholastic meet
will bo ljeld on the University athletic
Held. May 14, according to plans an
nounced by Director of Athletics Fred
W. Luehring, nnd Superintendent
Brooks.
Fifteen cars of grain nnd hay a day
is the average, outgoing freight nt
Cozad. A railway official states that
Cozad Is the only town along the route
that has kept up its usual good busi
ness record.
From January 12 to 14, old soldiers
at the Grand Island Soldiers' homo
died nt the rate of one a day, accord
ing to a supplemental report from
Commandant Addison Wait to tho
state board of control.
At a special election in Tecumseh
for bonds, amounting to ?2n,000, for
extension of water mains and Installa
tion of n purifying plant to uso Ne
maha drainage ditch water, the bonds
carried by a large mnjorlty.
Mrs. Elinlra Thomas of Nebraska
City, a resident of the state for near
ly sixty years, and nt one time tho
only whltw woman living on the over
land trail from Kearney to Denver,
died of heart trouble last week.
The Platte river is the highest it
has been in years at this time of yenr.
It Is running bank full nnd Hooding
the low lands south of Fremont. It is
over the Cornhusker trail for 300
yards norjh of the Fremont bridge.
Arthur J. Lynch, foreman nt the Fre
mont light plant, was held up nnd rob
bed by two masked inen as he wiis re
turning home from work about 10:30.
The bandits emptied his pockets of
money and valuables amounting to
over $73.
Mrs. C. F. Williams, living near
Kimball, was the victim of a peculiar
accident recently, when u kettle of
soap she was making exploded throw
ing the boiling hot liquid over her
face, neck and arms and scalding her
In a very painful manner.
Last Wednesday's South Omaha hog
receipts are estimated at 10,000 head,
one of the heaviest runs received
there since last May. This Is nn In
crease of nearly 3,000 head over tho
supplies received the day before and
n like number over the receipts of a
week ago, which were 13,04.ri.
Fillmore county commissioners havo
voted to permit Sunday baseball out
sldo of villages and towns In the
county.
While kneeling to tie a bandage
around the ankle of a ninn to whom
he wns delivering nn 'r from an
Omaha drug store, A- Vanwey, 10-
yoar-old messenger, .. , slugged and
robbed of $10.02 by tl.e man.
The announcement that the Omaha
chamber of commerce is planning to
give flnnncial aid to worthy students
of agriculture has brought applica
tions for lonns from twenty students,
according to Denn E. A. Burnett.
Adam Breede, of the Hastings
Tribune, wns ono of the winners in tho
contest for the best editorial on "Snv
lng," sponsored by tho government
savings division of the Tenth Federal
Reserve district which comprises tho
states of Knnsas, Nebraska, Colorado,
Wyoming nnd major portions of Mis
souri, Oklahoma and Now Mexico.
.7. N. Plesslnger, an extensive feeder
of Polk, brought a three-load string of
Whlteface steers to the South Omaha
market last week, which sold at $0,50.
The price was not only the top by 2.10
per hundred, but the highest price that
was paid any time within the week.
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