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STORIES Of STATE WIDE INTEREST
BY
John W. Thomas, Deputy Commissioner Public Lands and Buildings
commandeering the
potash pkoimvtion
Old appraisement 20, 888. SO
Land Commissioner G. L. Shttin
way's request for the United States
government to commandeer potash
production in Nebraska during the
period of the war is receiving favor
able comment from persons who have
no political axes to grind by camou
flaging the subject.
With charges and countercharges
of unfairness, it is impossible for a
person who is not conversant with the
true inwardness of the situation to
form a corect judgment as to who is
right and wrong. If the federal gov
ernment stepB in and takes charge of
the potash production, giving to all
parties concerned what Is fair and
right, it may puncture some political
balloons that are being inflated with
potash gas.
Because of press of other work, the
bistory of mineral leasing on school
lands in Nebraska, which is being
prepared for this department, is be
ing somewhat delayed; but it will ap
pear within a few weeks and will set
forth facta so plainly and accurate
ly as to assist readers to separate the
wheat from the chaff in the large
amount of matter that is being pub
lished regarding the matter.
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STATE UNIVERSITY
SERVICE FLAG
Increase $ 37.6 91 20
Custer County
New apprair.ement $313,907.64
Old appraisement 122,706 61
Increase $191,201.03
This will add $20,741.50 to the
school fund annually. The reappraise
ments were approved as they came
from the county commissioners, with
the exception of a minimum of $1.50
per acre value being placed on all
lands.
FEDERATED MEAT
PRODUCERS' ASSOCIATION
Some of us who display service
flags with one or two stars are proud
of them, and we have a right to be;
Some business houses show a half
dozen or more stars on their service
flags, some churches and other insti
tutions several dozen: but the Uni
versity of Nebraska service flag beats
them all with the number of stars on
It. The traditional Ivy day exercises
of the state university were given
added interest last Saturday when a
service flag 15 feet square and bear
ing 1,403 itara, represented every
Husker student in military service,
was formally presented.
Ideal weather favored the Ivy day
program, including the crowning of
the May queen and the planting of
the small strip of ivy sent back from
France by University of Nebraska
men in the service over there, Lieu
tenant Herb Reese and Lieutenant
Marcus Poteet.
Miss Edith Yopgblut, of Lincoln,
was crowned queen of the May. She
is president of the University Girls'
club.
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GOVERNOR REQUESTS MAYOR
TO STAY ON DRAFT BOARD
In order to more completely co-operate
in bringing the nation's meat
production up to a maximum this
year, Nebraska live stock men have
joined the national association, form
ed recently at Pardue, Ind. The ex
ecutive committee of the live stock
associations of Nebraska, meeting in
Lincoln, voted to unite with the Fed
erated Meat Producers association.
A committee composed of Z. T. Left
wich, of St. Paul, and De Sota, Neb.,
H. B. Cockerill. of Richfield, Neb.,
and Prof. H. J. Gramlish, of the uni
versity college of agriculture, was ap
pointed to represent Nebraska in the
association. A national meeting is
being held today (Thursday) at Man
hattan, Kans., at which plans for fur
ther work are bing perfected.
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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS
ARE NOT FOR PROFIT
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MINRAL LEASES VALID
' COLORADO LANDS IN CAR OE FREIGHT
twelve hours when found. A dairy there i( stopped. Tho body was turn
of the trip from Salem showed thatjed over to A. E. Bartlott. Kdgemont
lie had gotten safely ' Newc utle and
undertaker.
Colorado Hiipreme Court leie.
of School I ..ind- Imolvcs
Onlj the Nurture Rights
Nftta
Iu a decision handed down bjf the
Colorado supreme court last week
covering the sales of Colorado Bchool
lands by the state land bourd, the
court decided that surface rights only
were Involved in the sales and that
the reservation of mineral and oil
rights lies with teh commonwealth.
This Is of Interest to Nebraskans, who
are interested In the purchase and
who have In recent years purchased
Nebraska Btate school lands.
In Colorado this means that per
sons who, prior to 1917, purchased
something like 750,000 acres of land
containing m'neral or oil possibilities,
must either give a quit claim deed to
rights below the surface or submit
to the cancellation of their certificate
or purchase.
The decision grew out of the Wal-pole-Klrcbhof
coal land case, wherein
the purchasers, N. A. Walpole and
Frank Kirchhof, attempted to com
pel the land board to Issue a patent
for their half section three miles
northeast of .Erie. Bteween the time
of issuing the certificate of sale and
the final settlement for the 320 acres
the land board leased the mineral
rights to a third person, and this
Btarted litigation, which ended in a
victory for the land board.
All purchasers since 1917 are com
nelled under the state law to relin
quish mineral and oil rights to the
state. The land board thought it had
that right prior to that date, and al
though the supreme court held the
agreements so entered into between
the board and purchasers to be in
valid, the tribunal also decided that
the sales were '"against the position
of the purchaser."
The position of the purchasers, like
i many others, it is understood, is that
they will get their purchase money
back with Interest, or may retain the
land wuti only the surfr.ee r'htr
A. C. Ibint.il, of Creenburg, KitnxitH.
Died on Freight Train attended
(Ml bl Faithful Collie
A. C Bantu, of (Ireenburg, Kans.,
traveling with an emigrant ear of
household goods, furm machinery ,
etc., front Salem, Oregon, to La Jun
ta, Colorado, was found dead in his
car at Edgemont on Wednesday by
A. E. Cloulette, a hrakeman on the
train. The body of Banta was attend
ee; falthfnlly by a beautiful and valu
able collie dog, whose grief, when the
earthly remains of its muster were
taken from the car, was pitiful.
Banta died from her.rt failure, ac
cording to Bnrflngton Surgeon Thor
ton. It was decided that no Inquest
was necessary He had been dead
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LINCOLN. NEBRASKA
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Under New Management -:- Political Hendquerten
The state does not conduct experi-
I mental farms for profit. The purpose
is educational. One of the experimen
tal farm superintendents, in reply to
un inquiry as to whether these farms
should be self supporting, says:
"Hogs are raised here not to make
money as a first consideration, but to
show tho farmer how he cr.n sv id
raising hojpj at a loss and how he can
make money out of them." He then Fred Davison was in from
sets forth the results of several ex- ranch Wednesday, taking out a
periments in hog raising. If the 17,- load of lumber.
uuu nogs in Lincoln county a year
ago had been fattened as one lot was
at the North Platte experimental
farm, it would have meant 193,500
more profit for the farmers of that
county. Experiments were conduct
ed with several lots of hogs. Some
lost money. Others made small profit.
Still others made a good profit. Thus
the primary purpose of the experi
mental farms is to discover how the
farmer can make the most profit out
of his stock and crops.
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the
big
Otto Ulrlg made a business trip to
Alliance Friday.
HEAD STUFFED FROM
CATARRH OR A COLD
Says Cream Applied la Nostrils
Opens Air Passages Right Up.
Ed. P. Smith, who succeeds James
C. Dahlman as mayor of Omaha, will
remain on the district appeal draft
board, at least for a while.
This was decided at a conference
here Saturday between Smith and
Governor Neville.
Smith told the governor he desired
to resign from the draft board, be
cause he doubted the propriety ef
holding the two offices.
The governor urged him to retain
the place a while, and Smith finally
agreed.
Both the governor and Smith were
reluctant to say anything about the
charges of "favoritism," made in the
campaign against Smith.
"The recommendation of the gov
ernor that I remain on the draft
board is sufficient in Itself to show
the people just how false those
charges were," said Smith.
"I have every confidence in Mr.
Smith," said the governor. "No proof
of the charges has been filed with me.
I think the matter can be dropped, so
far as this office is concerned."
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ANOTHER INCREASE TO
THE SCHOOL FUND
GROW SOY REANS
The Nebraska experiment station is !
advocating the growing of soy beans. ,
They are rich in protein and merit
use in every household. Compared
with other vegetables, they Burpass
any of theme In protein content, and
they may be used as a substitute for
lean meat. They contain three times
as much protein as wheat and twenty-eight
times as much as potatoes.
Soy beans should be planted between
May 20 and June 5. They should be
put In rows about 35 inches apart and
cultivated with the ordinary two
horse cultivator. They may be sowed
2 inches apart in eastern Nebraska
and some wider in the western part
of the state. They usually require
about four cultivations and one hoe
ing. Soy bean flour is an excellent
wheat subsltute. A bulletin will be
Issued shortly by the experiment sta
tion setting forth the merits of soy
beans In detail, and telling how to
grow and use them.
Instant reiiri no waiting. Tour
clogged nostrils open right up; the air
p ajutages of your head clear and you eaa
breathe freely. No more hawking, snuf
fling, blowing, headache, dryness. No
struggling for breath at night; your
cold or catarrh disappears.
Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream
Ralm from your druggist now. Apply
a little of this fragrant, antiseptic,
healing cream in your nostrils. It pen
etrates through every air passage of the
bead, soothe the inflamed or swollen
mucous membrane and relief comes in
stantly. It's just Ins. Don't stay stuffed up
vita a cold or nasty catarrh.
HOW TO SAVE ON OIL
YOUR saving doesn't come in the few pennies difference per
gallon in the cost between Polarine and cheaper oils. The
saving is in your motor in repair bills, in gasoline, in the life
of your car.
Polarine is economical because every drop lubricates. There'll
be no scored cylinders in the engine that carries Polarine In
the crankcase.
No carbon cleaning bills is another saving. Polarine burns
up clean. '
Whenever you need oil always look for the Polarine sign.
Use Red CPOWIl Gasoline gives most miles per gallon.
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Over $1,700,00 per month will be
added to the revenues of the state
for the payment of teachers' salaries
from the re-appralsement of school
lands in Custer, Gasper and Holt
counties. The following shows the
total valuation of Bchool lands under
lease contracts, In each of the three
counties, under the old appraisement,
new appraisement and the increase.
Holt County
New appraisement $267,908.79
Old appraisement 151,109.21
Miss Mabel Clayton and Pauline
Peters entertained at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Spencer last Tues-'
day evening, at a handkerchief partv
in honor of M ism Cuto.sky. The hand-,
kerchief, presented to Miss Cutosky
were white and yellow. The home of i
Mr. and Mrs Spencer was very artis
tically decorated with Japanese para
boIs and the white and yellow color
scheme. The sixteen guests present
enjoyed an excellent time. Those
present were: Misses McHugh, Hle
dlck. Soper, Engle. Walters, Terry.
Robertson. Blass, Bruce, Bertha Wil
son, Avis Yoder, Glenn Mounts, Reed,
Alta Young, Worley, Cutosky.
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Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Chriatensen
were Incoming passengers on 43 Mon-
Increase lltTMJf day from Alliance, where they have
Gosper County been visiting Mrs. Christensen's par
New appraisement f tt.iSt 09 eats.
Holsten's
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
MAY 16, 17 and 18
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