THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE
IRA L. BARE, Publisher."
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Domestic.
MaBsachuBetta now has nearly 61,
000 registered automobiles.
Philadelphia linB 547 vacant lots
under cultivation by poor famlllcB.
United States In May Imported $1,
116,037 worth ,of uncut gems mostly
diamonds.
litBt year tho Pennsylvania road
carried 101,7S5,OG1 passengers with
only four fatalities.
Charles It. Holke, former Becrotary
of tho American sugar trust, 1b dead
at Soabrlght, N. J,
Ono minor wus killed and unother
Injured In a cavoln at Ulnghnm, Utah,
nt tho Utah Apex company's gold
mine, ,
Secretary Bryan has practically
completod tho preparation of tho
Stato department's reply to the sec
ond and third Japanese noto of pro
tests against tho California alien land
law.
Tho wlfo of RoproHontatlvo Crisp Is
an acknowledged authority on parlia
mentary law In Washington. Sho gains
her knowledge from her husband, who
was parliamentarian under Speaker
Clark.
StonoB are found in Nevada which,
when placed apart, begin to travel
toward a common center. ,Tho pros
once of lodoatono or magnotlc Iron
ore Is Urn explanation of tho phe
nomenon. Controversy ovor tho postofflco at
Galnsovlllo, Qa., was settled when
tho senato confirmed tho nomination
of Mrs. W. J. Hnm to succeed Mrs.
Helen D. Longstreot, widow of tho
confederate goneral.
Misuse by Industrial "Workers of the
World of funds contributed for relief
of strlkors and their' families dining
tho great toxtllo struggle at Law
rence is alleged by William Traut
man of Chicago.
Tho total Importations from tho
Uriitod States Into Lond6n In 1812
aggregated in valuo $02,427,3(11, of
which amount $83,060,400 represent
vd non-dutiable goods and $8,1GG,005
dutiable merchandise.
Preparations have boon begun at
tho Brooklyn navy yard for laying tho
keel of tho latest United States bat
tleship, designated for tho present
as No, 39, for which there Is an ap
propriation of $1(5,000,000.
For quickly raising to tho Burfaco
of the water a disabled submarino, an
Englishman hus Invented a buoy to
bo released from tho boat, carrying
up hoso through which air can bo
pumped to fill and lift tho crafL
Minnesota clubwomen havo now
-taken up tho Idea of helping tho
farm woman, and aro establishing
rest rooms in towns throughout tho
fltato, where farmers wlveB may chat
and rest whllo awaiting their hus
"bands. A bronze tablet marking tho spot
whero General Braddock campod with
Ills army on routo to Fort Duquonso
during tho French and Indlah war has
boon unvollod by a committee of tho
Daughters of tho Amorlcan Revolu
tion at Washington.
Tho acid placed In tho cpntor of
golf balls to givo them resiliency
which usually explodes whoa tho
Imlls nro cut open by Inquisitive per
sons was swallowed by Frank Wilbur
Porry, a Chicago boy, with fatal re
sults. Tho boy died from homorrhago
of tho lungs.
Representatives of railroad com
panies and tralnmon's brotherhoods
will call on President Wilson to urgo
that ho aid In preventing tho threat
ened strlko of 180,000 employes of
eastern railroads by advocating Im
mediate passngo of pending amend
ments to tho Erdman act.
By a decision of tho California rail
road commission made publlo tho
state takes unto ltBelf tho. power to
regulate tho rates of steamship com
panies plying ovor rogular routes
from ono California port to another,
oven though the ships making such
trips traverso the high seas.
C'laudo Ball of Montgomery, Mo.,
lias telegraphed Speaker Clark his
acceptance of the appointment of at
torney goncral to tho territory of
Hawaii. Ball was Champ Clark'H op
ponent for congress last year nnd
withdrew after tho spoaker failed to
bo nominated for tho presidency
A search begun a year ugg for Wil
liam Sand, aged 13 yoars, who mys-.
torlously disappeared from his homo
In Germantown- Pa., has Just boon
brought to a successful closo In a
South American country, according to
advices rccolvod by tho boy's parents.
Georgo D. Ilnycs has boon daclarod
by tho stnto supromo court to bo tho
democratic nomineo for governor of
Arkanscs.
Tho final hearing of tho govern
ment suit for tho dissolution of the
International Harvester company of
'America, will bo hold In St. I5nul on
November 13.
IN
Mining dividends paid In Juno by
thirty-four United Statoa companies
totaled $7,331,700.
All union waiters nt leading St.
Louis hotels and restaurants hero
boon locked out. Four hundred whlto
waiters were affected.
Massachusetts legislature, at Its
last session of 171 day, passed 1,000
now laws.
Secretary Garrison will start soon
on a tour of Inspection of nnny posts
In tho United States.
Milk and tho yolk of oggs aro tho
only foods which contain all life tie
monts needed to maintain human
life.
Pennsylvania Is preparing to ro
forest wlda araa of tho 13,000,000,
acres In tho Htato unsultcd to agri
culture. Tho employes of tho Treasury de
partment of tho United States gov
ernment number moro than 11,000'
porsons.
Jteports of tho condition of Jack
London, tho author who recently un
derwent an operation for appendicitis,
lndlcato steady Improvement.
Jacob Oppenhlmcr, whom crlmlnol
oglsts have termed ono of America's
most extraordinary convicts, was
hanged nt Folsom, Cal prison.
Lumber dealers In Ohio quit deal
era who sold directly to contractors
because they considered them com
petitors, according to O. II, Bachtoll.
MIbs Oklo Painter of Jacksonville,
Flu., succeeds her deceased father aB
head of tho Painter Fertilizer com
pany, a $500,000 concern. Sho Is 27
Petitions bearing 18,000 signatures
havo boon filed nt Denver with tho
Colorado secretary of stato for tho
referendum for tho publlo utilities
bill.
A Swedish scientist has advanced
tho theory that bearded grain, such
nB wheat, draws electricity from tho
air, and that tho plant Is aided In its
growth thereby.
M. J. Dorsoy of tho University
agricultural school has refused the
offer to becomo head of tho depart
ment of horticulture at tho Universi
ty of Arizona.
Philadelphia mint, August 23, 1912,
to Juno 1C, 1913, produced 76G.899,
881 ounces of gold coins, $2,186,368
.55 worth of nickels and $1,936,199.76
In sliver coins.
Patrick Qulnlan has been taken to
stato'a prison at Trontonv N. J., to
sorvo not loss than two 'years, nor
moro than seven, for inciting riot
among the striking mill workers.
Ono county in Nebraska, ono In
Montana and eight In South Dakota
havo been brdorcd released from
scabies quarantine among cattlo. Tho
order will tako effect July 15.
Plying at tho rato of fifty miles an
hour, Glenn Martin's hydroaeroplane
dipped too closo to tho surface of
Lake Michigan and wns overturned
when ono of tho pontoons struck tho
wator.
Dr. B. K. Leach, a socialist editor,
was driven out of Bandon, Oregon
following a notice served on him at,
a mass meeting of 600 citizens that
his presonco would no longer bo tolor
atod. Mrs. Deo Worthlnglon tho first wo
man Juror called in a court in San
Francisco, asked to bo oxcusod bo
cauBo of urgent household duties.
Her nnmo had boon drawn under tho
Idea sho was a man.
A dirigible balloon, piloted by
Frank Goodnle, loBt Its rudder whllo
2,000 feet abovo tho Hudson rlvor
nnd was carrlod rapidly oastwnrd,
apparently beyond control, across
Now York and Brooklyn.
C. D; Taylor, United Stntos consu
lar ngont at Guaymas, Moxlco, has
protested to tho state department In
Washington against tho treatmont of
Americans by Mexican fcdorala In
tho Invested gulf port district.
Tho decreo of tho United States
circuit court Judges sitting as tho
district court of Utah, dissolving tho
Union Pacific-Southern Pacific mor
gor, has bpen dntered on record In
tho Unltod Stutes district court.
Mrs. Adelaide Sherwood Soulo, thq
lato widow of Prof. Frank Soulo of
tho University of California faculty,
had a mortal torror of being burled
allvo, and In hor will sho stipulated
that within twenty-four hours from
tho time of her death, her heart
Bhould ho cut , and that hor body
should bo hold for burial seven days.
Her request wob carried out to Jho
letter by hor executrix.
Foreign.
Tho society of American women in
London gavo a luncheon at tho Sa
voy hotol to welcome Walter Hlnos
Page, tho now United States ambas
sador and Mrs. Pago.
According to official statistics cov
ering the 'whole of tho Gorman em
pire, tho employers' organizations
now number 132,458 mornbors, cov
ering 4,378,275 workers of both
80X08.
The Greek mlnistor has withdrawn
from- Sofia after placing tho Greek
Interests In tho hands of tho French
legation. Tho Bulgnrlun minister la
prepariug to lcavo Athons.
Eight olllclala In tho Alborta gov
ernment land titles office at Calgary
wore arrested following tho disap
pearance of largo sums of mouoy
during a period from 1906 to tho
present. Tho government has or
dored a thorough Investigation.
Tho supromo couit of Cuba has
found Indictments agnliiBt General
ABbett, governor of Havana provlnco
and Representative Arias on tho
chargo of homicide, assault with
firearms nnd reslstenco to authority.
Tho Indicted men uro hold responsi
ble for tho kiljng or General Arman
do nivo."
NO SIGN OF PEACE
GREECE IS DETERMINED TO
AGENGE OUTRAGES.
POWERS NOT READY TO MOV
Natlorvj In Concert rjotlfy Turkey
They Will Not Permit Fighting
Beyond Enos-Mcdla Line.
London. Tho Balkan states ap
pear to ho again In the molting pot.
There Is no sign of peaco at presenL
Greece and Servla havo declined so
far to agree to an armistice. Tho
Turkish army Is udvnncing by forced
marches from TchtaIJa und Bulalr,
apparently with tho consont of
Greece and Servla, to attempt tho re
capture of Adrlanoplo and Thraco.
Rumania Is said to bo proceeding to
occupy a much larger extent of Bul
garian territory that It previously
claimed, and Greece Is burning to
avenge tho Bulgarian massacres, con
cerning which horrifying details con
tinually appear In olllclal reports Is
sued from Athens and Salonlkl. Ac
cording to those reports eare and
fingers of Greek women still bearing
oarrlng and linger rings wore found
In tho pockotB of Bulgarian prisoners.
Powers 8low to Interfere.
There Is Btlll talk of Russian Inter
ference and it Is reported from St.
Petersburg that tho powers in 'con
cert havo notified tho sublime porto
that thoy will not permit military
operations boyond tho Enos-MedVi
lino fixed by tho London conference.
But tho European concort Is slow In
moving.
No fresh fighting Is reported and It
appears that rumors regarding a re
volution In Sofia aro without founda
tion. Tho Bulgarian government accuses
Greece of circulating falso accounts
of Bulgarian atrocities, with a view
to preparing tho ground for future
territorial clalmtf, and expresses It
self as willing to submit tho whola
matter to an International Investiga
tion. In Bulgarian official circles in Lon
don It is announced that an agVoe
mont has boon reached with Turkey
to regard tho Enoa-Medla lino as a
provisional frontier, ponding final de
limitation by the International con
mission.
Strike Vote Is Ratified.
Now York. Whether a strike ot
upwards of 80,000 conductors and
tralnmon on forty'flvo eastern rail'
roads shall be doclared within tho
noxt few days depends upon whether
tho railroads recede from their pres-'
ont position and withdraw from their
refusal to arbltrnto tho wago and
othor differences botween the com
panies and tho men.
This declaration was made in atato
inontB by tho men's representatives
after tho grievance committees
from tho vnrious roads, gathered
hero in conference, had ratified tho
atrlko voto of tho men recently taken
and had authorized A. B. GarretBon,
president of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Conductors, and W. G. Lee,
president of tho Brotherhood of Rail
way Tralnmon, to lssuo tho fornyj
strlko order to tholr respective or
ganizations. Bryan's Salary Too Small.
Henderson, N. O. Whllo lecturing
hero Secretary William J. Bryan de
clared ho wus compelled to deliver
Chautauqua addresses to supplement
his government salary, which ho do
clared was not sufficient to meet his
oxpenseB.
"As this is my first Chautauqua
lecture sluco becoming a member of
tho cabinet," said Secretary Bryan,
"It may not bo out of placo to say
that I find It nocessary to lecture In
order to supplement tho salary which
t rccolvo from tho government. As I
havo lectured for eighteen years, this
method of adding to my Income is
tho most natural ono to which to turn
and I regard It aB extremely legiti
mate." Will Rest Before Starting Long Ride.
Williams, Ariz. Colonel Theodore
RooBovolt will rest at Grand Canyon
throo or four days boforo starting on
a 150 inllo ride. Ho was mot horo
by Nicholas Roosevelt, his nephew,
who has been arranging tho trip. Tho
ex-president planB to cross the can
yon by muloback, hunt boar and lions
for a week or two nnd then ride to
allup, crossing tho Colorado rlvor ut
Loo'b ferry.
Bryan's Chautauqua Tour.
Washington, D. C Secretary Bry
an will lcavo here July 15, for a six
weeks' locturo tour. His engagements
nro principally In Indiana, Illinois
and Iowa.
New Placer Strike Excitement
Cordova, Alaska. News of a placer
strlko on tho Sushana rlvor, a trib
utary of tho Whlto river, whoro two
inon recently took out $900 In dust
In ono day, has caused a stnmpeda
to that section from Blackburn and
Konnecott.
Job Printers Get Raise.
Sioux City, la. A ralso In tho wago
scalo ot Job printers of $2 a week
was oftected by arbitration, conclud
ed hero recently betwoon Journey
men cu'id employers.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
CharlcB Swanson of Dakota, Neb.,
en routo to Sweden, was robbed of
$175 at Chicago.
Louis HenBllng, ono of tho richest
men In tho state of Nebraska, died
ut his homo In Bellwood following an
attack of appendicitis.
H B. Miles, of Lincoln has secured
tho contract for tho biggest share of
'the $100,000 worth of coal which tho
Btato will consume next year.
Hotel Commissioner Ackermati es
timates that the $2 registration re
quired of hotels, restaurants and
rooming houses will produce $9,100 a
ear.
John II. Rech, a young farmer liv
ing four miles north of Bralnard, waa
struck by lightning and killed Instant
)y Sunday morning while harvesting
grain.
George F. Morley has sold tho Da
catur Herald to Carl J. Aldrlch, a
local attorney. Mr. Morlev will re
main In chargo of tho mechanical de
partment for the present.
A fifth. of a .million postnl cards are
used In tho city of Lincoln each
month. Yesterday a shipment of tho
cards, taking up the whole capacity
of a freight car, was received.
Tho Stato Railway commission has
handed down a decision refusing tho
request of tho people of Plalnvlow to
compel the Northwestern and( Burling
ton rallroadB to build a union station
there.
Tho first of a series of monthly
runs will be started by tho Omaha
motorcyclists on July 20, between
Omaha and Lincoln via Ashland on
the outgoing trip, returning through
Louisville.
According to' a report filed by Su
perintendent W. S. Fast of the stato
home for feeblo-mlnded nt Beatrice,
ho haB saved considerable money for
tho stnto in the purchase of clothing
for children.
According to Secretary W. H. Mel
lor of tho stato board of agriculture,
tho wheat acreage this year 1b 19 per
cent greater than last year, with
yields not differing per aero greatly
from last season.
Omaha is to have a new amuse
ment park to bo called the Empress
gardons. Articles of Incorporation
havo been filed with tho secretary of
ptato Bhowlng that the company hue
capital stock of $80,000.
Seventeen-year locusts havo In
flicted very llttlo damage In Ne
braska orchards, says Secretary Mar
shall of the stato horticultural so
ciety, who has made a careful study
of tho Insect ond Its habits.
In tho government crop report Ne
braska is credited with a gain of 5
por cent over the ton-year average in
condition of winter wheat. Nebraska
scores 86 per cent for 1913, whllo
tho ton-year averago Is given aa 81.
Tho 18-year-old son of Fred Lehn
borr, of Humbolti who fell from a
awing, Is In a serious condition. It
was first feared that his neck waa
broken. Ho wa3 taken to St. Joseph's
hospital in a paralyzed condition.
In a flro of ouch proportions that
for a time it threatened tho destruc
tion of tho entire plant, tho beef
houso of Morris & Co., in tho South
Omaha packing house district waB
partially gutted, with a loss of
$200,000.
Tho special water bond election
hold at Humbolt resulted in favor of
tho bonds by a largo majority. Tho
isauo will bo in the aum of i2,000 to
draw 6 per cent interest, twenty
years, with optional payment In ten
years.
Sheriff Fischer has received notice
ot a confession mado to the sheriff
of Burlington, Kans.,, by Fuller Shel
lonborger, In which bo tolls of tho
murder of Julian Bahaud at Julian,
In 1899, and Mr. Leonard, In Nebras
ka .city.
Tho coroner's Inquest over the body
of Mlko Mahoney and Elmer Hnm
mon, killed in a collision with the
Crete train, resulted in a verdict that
the collision was caused by negli
gence of tho train crow and careless
ness of tho handcar men.
A little .home mndo Iron safe, found
nt Forty-eighth and Mayberry avenue
In Omaha after tho tornado of Easter
Sunday by Councilman Thomas Mc
Govorn, who climbed twelve feet up
a tree to got it, is tho proporty ot A.
L. King of Manley, Neb.
Whllo plowing a furrow In tho
road about three miles south of Hart
Ington somo men turnod up three hu
man skeletons, which were in an ex
cellent atato of preservation. There
Is no way of telling how long these
skeletons hud been burled there.
Tho following Nobraskans havo
been promoted In the geological sur
vey sorvlce: Henry M. Kings well,
$110 por month to $1,440 por annum;
Oscar G. Boden, $1,080 to $1,200; Ar
thur B. Reeves, $1,250 to $1,440; Ho
mer E. Grosbach, $1,320 to $1,410.
Henry T. Clarke of tho Nebraska
stato railway commission has been
named aa tho Nebraska representa
tive on a committee of fifteen stato
commissioners which will co-operato
with tho Interstate commorco com
mission in tho physical valuation of
rallroadB.
Governor Rlchnrd L. Metcalfe of
tho Panama zono has loft Lincoln
with hlB family for Panama, gohig
via Washington, whore they will
tarry a few days, before going to Now
York to ombark for tho canal zone,
whoro Mr. Motcalfo will begin his
duties aa governor.
Hitchcock and Merrick counties re
ported to Secretary Seymour or tho
Stato Board of Assessment with tho
biggest Increases ovor la3t yoar yet
reported. Washington county, which
enmo In at tho samo time reported
u good gain, the three counties mak
ing an Increase of $390,062.
WILL ENFORCE Li
FOOD COMISSIONER HARMAN
HOLDS CONFERENCE.
MEASURE EEFEGTIVE SOON
Law Requires Cold Storage Firms tc
Keep Records of All Articles and
Make Quarterly Reports.
Lincoln Commissioner Harnlnn has
beon conferring with ownerB of cold
atorage plants relative to tho new law
which will go Into effect July 17.
Tho new law, which was Introduc
ed by Senator Henry V. Hoaglaml of
Lancaster county, and Is known as
senato file 64, places cold storage
and refrigerator planta under tho
JurlBdlction of the atato- food com
mlsaloner for regulation. It applied
to concerns handling foods, drinks or
confections, commercially whero ar
ticles ore stored moro than sixty
days. It requires them to obtain li
censes nnnually from tho commis
sion, tho fee to be $5.
Tho food commissioner Is given full
authority to inspect and order
changes for Improving sanitary con
ditions, and to revoke licenses The
law requires storago firms to keep
records of all articlea received and
withdrawn and makes It unlawful to
store any commodity that is unfit
for human food, unloas intended .for
different purposes and labeled aB
such.
It forbids keeping any article In
storago moro than ono year except
by special permit of the food com
mission; forbids salo ot storago
goods as fresh and provides for ac
tual inspection at a fee ot from $10
to $50, according to alze of plant.
The penalty for tho first offense Is
a fine not exceeding $500; for a sec
ond offense not exceeding $1,000 or
Imprisonment six months or both.
Assessments Reported.
FIvo countleB with a total Increase
In nsBessmont over last year of
$392,399 reported to Secretary Henry
Seymour of tho State Board of As
sessment this morning as follows:
1913. 1912.
Red Willow ....$3,089,829 $3,069,500
Burt C.90G.826 6.820.G80
Cass 8,430,797 8,403,723
Dawes 2,267,310 2,122,823
Thureton 3,426,161 3,401,798
Stock Issue Allowed.
The Lincoln Telephone & Tele
graph company has been given per
mission by tho State Railway com
mission to issue $1,100,000 special 5
per cent preferred stock upon tho fol
lowing conditions:
That atock ahall be Issued for mon
ey only and at a prlco to net com
pany not less than 92 cents on the
dollar.
That funds derived from tho lssuo
shall be used for tho purpose named
acquisition of property, construction,
completion, extension or Improvement
of its facilities, plant or distribution
system and discharge or lawful re
funding of its obligations or underly
ing securities.
That no investment In nssoclate
companies from tho proceeds of said
Btock shall be mado save and except
auch purchases as shall have been
Bpeclflcally approved by tho railway
commission.
Tho company shall file with the"
commission verified statements show
ing proceeds derived from sale of said
stock and purposes in detail to which
such proceeds have been applied, to
be filed with tho commission within
thirty days of the time when tho un
reported amount of money realized or
expended exceeds tho sum of $50,000.
Laborers at Work on Canal,
Lincoln, Neb. The Commonwealth
Power company, backed by the Moore
tntorests of Detroit and London, havo
filed a report with tho stuto board of
Irrigation setting forth Its construc
tion activities during the month of
Juno and a portion of May. Ono
hundred and flfty-fivo acres of land
aro claimed to have been purchased
at tho aggregate cost of $12,000. To
that sum la added $711 for cnglneera,
$15 for a draftsman, $139 for eight la
borers and $289 for eight teams,
which were used on actual construc
tion work.
No uniform method for reporting
the monthly activities to the state
board has yet been fixed upon by
State Engineer Price. Blanks provid
ing for tho forwarding of such Infor
mation aa la required by tho enact
mont of the lato legislature will like
ly bo prepared with a short time. Un
til these blanks aro authorized there
will bo no means of comparing the ac
tivities of tho big financial concerns
which aro battling for water power
supremacy In this state.
Prizes For National Guard.
Lincoln. Tho Dupont Powder com
pany has presonted to tho Nebraska
National guard two beautiful prizes
to bo contested for by tho two regi
ments of tho guard. These prizes
nro In the nature of coats of arms,
being of silver and Btund about two
foot high. Tho top of each Is sur
mounted by a largo eagle, while a
couplo of olive brunches cross each
other at tho ebottom. Thoy are to
be given us first and second prlzoa to
tho regiment allowing the beat scores
In rifle practico.
DAIRY INTERESTS ON UPGRADE.
Both Cream Shipments and Revenue
Received are Growing.
S. C. Bassott, former lawmaker and
well known dairy man of this state,
haB a bono to pick with Sir Horace
Plunkott who told tho Nebraska
farmers' congress at Omaha- last No
vember that dairying in this atato
was decidedly on tho down grade.
Mr. Bassctt has Juat concluded an
oxhaustlvo study of tho situation and
he Is postivo not only nro there mora
milch cows In tho state at the pres
ont time than in the past, but that
tho railroads aa well aro carrying
moro cream than they used to. He
says:
"The United States census returnB
dlscloso that In tho ten years from
1900 to 1910 there was an Increase
of 20 per cent in tho number of dairy
cows in Nebraska and an Increase ot
moro than 100 per cent In tho num
ber of pounds of creamery butter
manufactured."
"Complete Information as to cream
shipments over all the railroads la
the state are not avalblo, but the Bur
lington and Northwestern have fur
nished statements in detail covering
cream shipments for tho years o
1911 and 1912. Both ot these lines ex
tend across the stato and with tholq
branches extend Into ninety counties,
these counties containing 97 per cent
of tho population of tho state. It is
estimated that that these two roada
handle 90 per cent of tho cream ship
ments. Tho combined statements of
these two railroads In regard to
cream shipments for tho yeais 1911
and 1912 are aa follows:
"Number of cans of cream shipped
in 1911, 904,889.
Number of cans of cream shipped
In 1912, 904,902.
"Number of cans increase, 40,000.
"Revenue 'received from shipments
in 1911, $266,838.42.
"Revenue received from shipments
in 1912, $285,484.61.
Increase In revenue received, $18,
646.19. "From ten gallons of heavy sepera
tor cream can bo manufactured ap
proximately thirty pounds of cream
ery butter. On this basis the cream
shipments above noted for 1911 rep
resent approximately 27,000.000
pounds of butter and like shipments
for 1912 represent approximately 29,
000,000 pounds of buttpr.
Should Send Statistics.
Agricultural statistics are now due,
from a number of Nebraska counties,
according to the provisions of tho
Scott act, passed by the last legisla
ture, a summary of the crop data,
gathered by the assessors, should bo
forwarded to Secretary W. R. Mellon
of tho state board of agriculture by
July 1.
The following counties havo not
sent their- summaries to Secretary
Mellor: Banner, Blaine, Box Butte,
Boyd, Butler, Cedar, Cherry, Clay,
Custer, Dakota, Dawes, Deuel, Dixon,
Douglas, Fillmore, Franklin, Furnas,
Gage, Gaiden, Greeley, Hamilton,
Holt, Hooker, Jefferson, Johnson,
Kimball, Lancaster, Lincoln, Logan,
McPherson, Morrill, Nematia, Nuck
olls, Scottsbluff, Seward, Sheridan,
Sherman, Sioux, Thnyer, Thomas,
Thurston, Washington, Webater and
York. 'According (to acientlsts tho
next visit of tho locust may bo ex
pected In 1930.
Corn Acreage Increased.
Tho corn acreage for 1913 In fifty
three counties ot Nebraska shows an
Increase of 7 per cent over tho re
ported acreage for 1912.
In tho fifty-three counties tho total
corn acreage for 1912 waa 3,871,981.
Tabulations mado in tho office ot
Secretary W. R. Mellor of tho State
Board .of Agriculture show that the
same counties have 4,147,419 acrea In
corn this summer.
In 1912 the total acreage in the
stato waa u.076,657 and the average
number of bushels of corn per acre
la given aa 27.05. The total ylela
for 1912 wa8 eatlmated at 164,376,796
bushels.
Commissions Issued to Militiamen.
Governor Morehead haa laaued
commissions to the following In tho
Nebraska National Guard:
W. E. Sanford, Lincoln, Becond
lieutenant, reserve militia.
Jesse E. Holdeman, Fairfield, sec
ond lieutenant.
John F. Poucher, Stanton, captain.
D. Leonard Brown, Hastings, first
lieutenant.
N. P. Hansen, Brownvllle, second
lieutenant.
Leonard Robinson, North Platte,
jecond lieutenant.
A Fair Investment.
A Lincoln man purchased 300 acrea
of land In Buffalo county for $2,800.
Tho deal waa mado a number of
yeara ago. Tho owner planted 280
acrea In alfalfa and during the laat
two years he haB been "letting tho
farm out on shares" to a nearby far
mer. After taxes and othor expenseB
were paid, tho owner last year put
away $1,800. or G per cent on an in
vestment ot $30,000.
Must Pay Their Fee.
State Hotel Commissioner P. F.l
Ackerman is sending notices to own
era of hotela, restaurants, rooming
houses and npartmont houses to pay
the annual registration foo of one dol
lar. Such houses aro to bo Inspected
by the state and tho public is ex
pected to got tho benefit of tho feo
by an Improvement In accommoda
tions. At Omaha Mr. Ackerman or
dered fifteen rooming houses and ho
tela to put In flro escapes. .Tw'olvo
complied without delay and tho other
three have juat finished them.
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