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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1913)
I H II' I. j. THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE " IRA L. BARK," Publisher. TERMS $1-00 IN ADVANCE, NORTH PLATTE, - NEBRASKA. ROM MANY POINTS EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO A FEW LINES. LUTE EVENTS BOILED Personal, Political, Foreign and Othor Ir.telllgenco Interesting to tho Qeneral Readers. Congress, Ilcprosontatlvo Ruploy lias Intro duced bill to Incroaso tho supremo court by two Justlcoa. Scnutor Lane hns Introduced a bill to reinovo federal restriction!) In tho mnnufacturo of denatured nlchohol. Senator Kail nBkod consideration for his resolution for protection of Amorlcans In foreign countries nnd precipitated a general dlBcusslon of tho Mexican situation. Ilopubllcan IIouso Leader Mann Is fllllbustorlng against any business In an effort to force tho democrats to al low tho republicans to discuss Dlggs Gamlneltl whlto slavo cases. Democratic members of Tho Houso banking commltteo who nro opposed to various features of tho Glass cur rency bill havo drafted another bill to submit to President Wilson and Secretary McAdoo Informally. Representative Hardwlck has Intro duced two resolutions embracing a budget syBtom designed to ovorcom" objections which caused regulating budget schemo by democratic caucus. Chairman Simmons of tho Scnato flnunco commltteo has announced that tho tariff blIlwould bo taken up para graph by paragraph for amendment as soon ns the republicans havo con cluded their debato. Domestic. Tho average ago of death In this country Is 38.8 years. Nino olectrlo engines for tho Now York Central will haul 1,000-ton trains at a rate of sixty miles an hour. Governor Sulzcr, after characterlz s Jng tho Binghumton, N Y.. flro ae a "torrlblc catastrophe," declared In a Btatomunt that tho people of tho stato "willy, hold Mr. Murphy of Tammany hall responsible." Tho buBlnoBs section of tho town of Honeoyo, N. Y., wa8 thrown into a panic wljon dynamite whlchs John Everett wutf carrying through tho dis trict In a 'basket oxplodod. Evorott was killed, but no others woro Injured. Francis B. Suyro, tlnaco of Miss JobbIo Wilson, tho president's daugt er, Bays ho has been offered tho posi tion of socrotary to President Oarllold of WlllIamB college but Iiub not yet decided whether ho would accopt. Julian Huwthorno and Dr. William J. Morton, serving a yeur'B Bontonco In tho Atlanta pnnltontlary for mis HBO of tho "malls, have been recom mended for parolo by tho parolo board und tho question of tho roloaso Is now under consideration by Attorney acn ornl McRojnoldB, Having crossed tho Pacific ocean In a sixty-foot Sampun, with a six Inch map of North America and a primitive compaBs to guldo them on their Bovonty-day voyago, eight Japan Ho captured ut tho village on the coast north of Vancouver, D. C, woro deported. Dr. II. P. Asbury a mombor of tho lower brunch of tho VoBt Virginia legislature, wnB found guilty by a Jury at Webster Springs, W. Va., of having accepted a brlbo for lib vote In thoyrecont contest for a United StatcHfBonator. Asbury Is tho third of soven loglBltors to bo convicted. A constitutional amandemont to am power congress to regulato murrlago nnd dlvorco has been proposed In a Joint resolution by IlqproBontatlvo Ed monds of Pennsylvania. Thq amend ment would provldo that congress liave tho power to establish uniform InwB on the subject of marriaga und dlvorco. Nows 1ms reached Denver of tho recent finding of tho body of J. D. Bar Kent, tho solitary occupant of tho fam ous 500,000 bwIss cottago built by Robert Ray Hamilton, a wealthy Now York man, in th& romoto Jackson Hole In northwostorn Wyoming. Sar cent wan found In the Iioubo nnd evi dently died from selMnlllcted gutiBhot wounds. Litigation at 00 cents a cubo la tho unusally cheap prlco Kansas City, Mo., paid In Bottling 5,534 legal cases In tho last twelve months. That record was achieved by tho city's froo legal aid bureau. Tho cases Included tho collecting of $10,902 In 2,390 wago claims, tho handing of 304 nousupport cases and 178 child and wlfo abandon ment cases. Major Beochcr II. Ray of tho army pay corps has applied to tho district eupromo court to onjoln Socrotary GarrlBon from certifying to the presi dent for promotion nny other ofllcer who would thus bo Jumpod ovor htm, Chicago health board offers froo typhoid nqrum Inoqulntlon to l.COO citizens to popularize tho Idem. Charles P. ChnRO of Croton, N. Y a fireman 'nnd onglnee; on tho Now Yorh Central for tho last eighteen years, has boon ,nppointod a public eorvlco commissioner at a salary of $15,000. ' About 2,400 men will bo required fcr tho operntlon and malntenanco of tho Panama canal. Flro which threatened nn entire block caused a loss estimated at $500,000 In tho wholesnlo district at Indianapolis. Representative Clark of Florida in troduced a concurrent resolution re nfllrmlng tho onroo doctrine. It was roforrod to tho foreign affairs commit tt'eo nnd was, directed against "people with whom tho Cuucaalan cannot and will not usBlmllnto." II. Johnson, formerly of Itasca county, MlnnoBOta, obtained a $14,000 farm aftor waiting In front of tho land office at Mooso Jaw Susk., from May 30 to July 1. John O'Callaghan, secretary of tho United Irish Luaguo of Amorlca slnco Its founding In 1901, died at a hot pltal In Boston aftor an Illnoss of two days. Ho wan 48 years old. Another advance of 5 cents a barrel In the price of crude oil wuh announc ed at Independence, Kans., tho now prlco, 98 centa for all gnidos makiiis tho midcoiitinont field. Tho main building of tho American Agricultural Cliomlcal company's plant at North Woymotith, Mass., and olovon cottages, occupied .by employes, woro burned, tho loss exceeding $500, 000. Formal recommendation to the at' torney general of tho appointment of Morton L. Corey of Clay Center, to bo solicitor gencrnl of tho Treasury de partment has boon mndo by Senator Hitchcock. John O'Brien, tho Columbia foot ball stur and holr to $1,200,000, for whom his classmates havo been look ing slnco ho disappeared from Now York two yearn ago, has been found in Van Burcn, Ark. Concorted opposition hns developed In congress to Postmaster Gcnoral Uurloson's order reducing parcel post rates and Increasing tho maximum slzo of tho packages to ,be handled In tho service. True bills charing complicity In In cendiary fires wcro voted by n Chica go grand Jury against Josoph Fish, head of Joseph Fish & Co., public flro Insurance adjusters, and nino others, two of whom nro roported to bo wo men. Legislation designed to prevent tho employment of children under 14 years of ago In mines nnd factories and to prevent tho employment of women in manufacturing establishments for moro than eight hours a day was con sidered by tho houso labor committee. A now policy toward Nicaragua, In volving tho vlrtunl control of the af fairs of that ropubllc by tho United States trust protectorate, similar to that now exorcised ovor Cuba, was outlined by Secretary Bryan at a con ference with memborp of tho senato forolgn relations committee. Back from Europe, where It has in vestigated agricultural conditions tho American commission on agrlcuituro co-operation announced that Is lias ob tained a wealth of information which It bolloves will cnnblo It to prepare Its report and submit tho document be foro tho ond of tho prosont year. Twn maskod highwaymen, armed with rovolvers and rlllos, halted tho Blatr&don, Gold Luko und Green Camp Btago near Gold Lake, Cal., a summer resort. A second Btago that had boon following tho first en mo upon tho scon while tho robborB wcro relieving pass, ongora of valuablon and tho two bent a retroat under a flro of bullets. Marching progress hns laid hands upon tho last landmark in Richmond of Edgar Allen Poo. His boyhood homo, the houso of tho Aliens, long ago gavo placo to commercial build ings, tho Swr.n tavern and tho Bird-ln-Hand have passod away, nnd now tho city has began razing tho old-fashioned brick building in which tho poet edited tho Southern Literary. Moss ongor. Approaches to a now concroto brldgo ovor tho James rlvor will tako its place. Foreign. Suez canal tolls last year amounted to $20,000,000. Tho 'whole kingdom of Wurtemborg woh shaken by a sharp earthquake Many chlmnoyB collapsed. Trustworthy roportB of appalling massacres and dovaHtntton by tho Turkish irregular troops come fro.n districts In Thrnco which the Turks aro rooccnpylng. Pence between Grodco and Turkey la about to bo concluded formally.. Tho Hellenic plenipotontlarloB have started from Athens for Constantino plo to Blgu tho treaty. Tho wedding of Princo Arthur of Connaught and tho duchess of Plfa will bo sQlemnlzed in tho chnpel of Royal St. James paluco October 15, Tho princo of Wales will bo beBt man. Tho proposod trouty between tho Unltod States and Nicaragua evokes a fow sarcastic comments in the Gor man prosa on President Wilson's ro turn to the system, of "dollar diplo macy." A thlrty-llvo mllo cablo for tolc phono connections botweon Vancouver und Vancbuvor Island hns been re ceived from England. It cost ovor $100,000, wolfihs 560,000 poundB, and the expense In laying wns $20,000. From statistics published by the Goographlc und Statistical Instltuto at Mndrld, It appears that 184,410 per boub emigrated from Spain during tho ton months , ending Octobor, 1912, whorcus In 1911 only 1C1.2C7 persons left tho countty In twelve months. St. Thomas and the neighboring la lundB oxporlencod a prolonged nnd unusally sovoro eaxthquako iccontly. No dnmago was roported. Sugar-roflnlng profits In Australia by tho largo company operating thcjjo woro $1,135,000 for tho bIx months ending, March 31, 1013, half or which wub earned In Fiji and Now Zealand. DIXON IS RELEASED MEXICANS ARRE8T SOLDIERS WHO SHOT HIM. II. S. CONSUL ACTS PROMPTLY Wounded Man New In El Paeo Hos pital nnd Has Good Chance for Recovery. El PaBO, Tox. CharloB B. Dixon, Jr., the United Statos Immigration Inspect tor who was Bhot In Juarez Saturday by Mexican soldiers, bus boon releas ed from the Juarez hospital -and brought to 151 Pubo aftor American Consul T. D. Edwards hud made a de mand for his roleaBo and for tho ar rest of tho men who shot him. Mexican Consul Miranda and Gull lormo Porras, ex-socrotary of stato of Chihuahua, also Interceded for tho re Icaso of Dixon, after conferences with United States ofllclals, who repre sented to the Mexicans tho grave Im pression that had been produced in Washington by tho news of the shoot ing of tho inspector. Tho demand of ConBul Edwards was In vigorous language. First telling tho Mexican authorities that Dixon must bo delivered up to his friends add per mitted to bo brought to El Paso with out delay, tho consul said relative to roparation; "I do not merely request tho arrest of theso men, but in tho uamo of tho United Statos govern ment, which I havo tho honor to rep resent, 1 demand their immediate ar rest and their trial and punishment for this crime. My govornmont will hold the military authorities of Juarez personally responsible for failure to obey this command." Arthur Walker, whom Dixon was investigating when ho wnB arrested, and tho soldiers who made the arrest were immediately placed In Jail, ac cording to tho report of Colonel Castro, commanding tho Juarez garri son, to F. W. Yorkshire, supervising Inspector of Immigration for the Unit, ed States on the Mexican border. Dixon wns released to Mr. Berk shire brought to El Paso to a hospital, whore his physicians beliovo he will recovor. Canal Ready In April. Washington, D. C Tentative plans for sending the (Atlantic fleot through tho Panama canal in April havo boon propared by the navy de partment by direction of tho socro tary of tho navy, who Is now on tho Pacific coast, making an inspection with a viow to establish a naval base. Arrangements aro boing made to send practically tho ontlro Pacific fleet to tho Atlantic coast next spring through tho canal. War department ofllclals say that tho canal will bo ready for emer gency purposos lato this fall, and It will bo posslblo to Bond battleships to tho Pacific coast If nocesslty de mands. Colonol Gootliales has mado a confidential roport to tho effect that tho big watorwny can bo open ed to navigation in Octobor unless un forsoen difficulty develops. California Line Raises Wages. Loa Angeles, Cnl. Moro than 2,000 employes of tho Paclilc Electric Rail way company, conductors and motor men, frplght nnd work train mon and yard men on tho lnterurban linos will receive nn Increase of pay rang ing from 8 to 10 per cent, offoctlvo from July 1. Tho Increase, according to tho oillcialB, will rnngo on an aver ago of from $5 to $10 per month per man, and means nn additional month ly outlay by tho electric railroad of approximately $15,000. "P. C." Means Plow Corn. Aurora, 111. "Too many persons who boo tho sign p. C intho heav ens think At menus 'Preach ChriBt,' when it means 'plow corn,' ' said Vlco Prcaidont ThomaB R. Marshall in ad dressing twonty thousand persons who had gathered nt Moosohcart, 111., to nttond tho laying of the corner stono of a $5,000,000 industrial school and homo for orphanaged children and tho aged. Tho institution is to bo erected by tho Loyal Ordor of Mooso. Wedding Aboard Ship. Oakland, Col. MIbs Marlon South er of San FranclBco and Ralph Da badlo of Alamedn began married llfo on tho bounding wuvo. Tho wedding ceremony took placo on tho yacht Spoodwoll, out In tho bay, whllo tho guests, on tho various othor yachts of tho fleot, wero in as closo attend ance ns safety would admit. Dies, Claiming Innocence. Loavenworth, Kan.Jnmos R. Todd, who wus serving a llfo sentence for a stago coach robbory In Orogan thirty years ago, died In tho federal prison iiere. Baby Badly Scalded. Tecumsoh. Nob. A 15-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Beit Brown nt Cook, this county, was painfully scnldod from wntor from a washing machine which poured upon IiIb body after the child had pulled tho plug from tho inn chlno. Ho will rocover. Wheat 8tacko Burned. York, Neb.---FJro destroyed thirteen Btucks of wheat belonging to F. W. Kolluma, who Uvea one and a halt miles cast of this city. Tho loss la estimated at $2,000. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. Everett, S. Frost has been uppolnt ed poatmastor nt Opportunity, Holl county, Nebraska, vice W. U Down ing, roslgned. Tho remains of A. A. Bowman, en gineer on tho Burlington derrick at tho Platto rivor bridge who was fa tally scalded, wro taken to Qulnoy, 111., for burlnl. Tho Gngo County Teachers' Insti tute will bo held at Beatrice August 25-29. Carroll O. PcarBe of Milwau kee formorly superintendent of eohools In Beatrice, will appear on tho pro gram. A flro In tho homo of W. II. Carson at Gonova gavo tho firemen a run. Tho flro was extinguished before much damago waB dono. It probably oiiginated froni a carelessly dropped match. Tho railway commission has per mitted tho Burlington to make a 3 cent reduction on tho chargos for Bhlpping mineral water and soda pop from Mllford to Lincoln. The now rate Ib C cents a hundred. Petitions aro being circulated In Hurt county to get signers for a $100,000 court house. Bonds of this naturo can now bo secured under tho now law passed last winter, by signa tures, instead of an election. Tho mnrrlago of John G. Trudo of Omaha and Mlsa Emma E. Plelffor was Bolomnized at the homo of tho bride's mother at Cortland, Rov. Adam Jungmeyer of tho German Methodist church performing tho ceremony. The recent rain washed tho ground out from under tho brick engine Iioueo of tho Mlnnechaduza mill at Valen tino nnd bo undermined It that the wholo of tho northwest section had to bo taken down and will havo to bo rebuilt A school in packing nnd grading ap ples will bo maintained on the stato fair grounds September 1 to 5. Tho Instruction will be given by exports and will qualify tho patrons for work In tho npplo orchards at excellent wages. H. W. Cockrell of Papllllon, Nob., sold a drove of yearling cattle at tho South Omaha yards that brought $8.20 per hundred pounds. Tho con signment was handled by Byors & Co. This is tho high prlco of tho year for yearlings. William Martin, from near Stella, purchased the Henry Schwan farm of 1G0 acres, two miles north of Hum boldt for $28,000, or $175 per acre, bolng the highest prlco ever paid for a quarter section in that part of Rich ardson county. Workmon who wore excavating for tho basement of tho new Telegram building at Columbus, unearthed three skeletons, Tho bones wero found in an old unused vault and thoso who -havo examined them say they aro males. Socrotary of war, Dlndloy M. Garri son, haB accepted the Omaha Commer cial club's invitation to be Its guest at an informal luncheon. Aucust 28. This Information comes to General F. A. Smith, through whom negotiations havo been conducted. Ovor 2.000 chickens wero loaded on a car at Valentine and shipped to New York City. There were farmers from all sections of tho country thero with chickens, and tho cur was over half filled at that point, there boing a. fow over 2,000 bought here. The nortwestern part of JofferBon county waB visited by a light rain and thoro is considerable rejoicing among tho farmers In that vicinity. In tho neighborhood of a quarter of an Inch of rain fell. The early and late corn Is badly In need of moisture S. R. McKelvlo of Lincoln, lieuten ant governor of Nebraska, will bo the orator of tho day at Dunbar on the occuBlon of tho annual picnic, which takes placo Tuesday, August 12. A program of flno attractions has been ecured, and a big attendance is as mred, W. A. Taylor of tho Omaha-Denver Bood Roads association hns been noti- Bod by the Goodrich tiro manufac turers that they havo completed ar rangements to erect permanent mark ars every turn in tho overland routo bowteen Omaha nnd Denver, via Lin :oln and Hastings. Sovoral counties have not sent tho summaries of agricultural statistics to tho state board of agriculture as required by tho Scott act Tho fol lowing counties aro missing; Boyd, Butler, Cherry, Daws, Douel, Douglas, Furnas, Gngo, Holt, Jefferson, Nuck ollB and York. Lincoln Is Incomplete. Tho first Stato banic of Lodge Polo illod an application with the Stato Banking board nna has been granted i charter to do business. Tho bank Is Incorporated for $20,000 and Its of ficers aro; W. G. Melton, president; A. B. Persingor nnd B. J. Bates, vice presidents, nnd J. W. Rogers, cashier. Eighteen carpenters who struck at tho Fromont high ochool building last weok aro Btlll out, with no Immediate prospect of settlement. Tho Btrlko is In sympathy with the union In Omaha, which is demanding 55 cents un hour from Omnhn contractors. Omaha con tractors nro building the Fremont high school. Stato Hotel Commissioner Acker man has collected llconso fees from 801 hotelB, which nt tho rato of $2 each makes a total of $1,G02. Tho law requiring tho payment of such a fee has been In force only six days. Tho annual collections from this Hourco will amount to $C,02U. Union Pacific Brakoman B. II. Kin sell wns pulled from tho top of a west Sound freight train near tho Inter locking plant east of Columbus. Both legn woro cut off and hl8 body badly mangled. Ho is a Bon of Conductor Klnsell of tho Union Pacific nnd la married and lives In Omaha. PLAN ELECTRIC LIKE MEETING TO BE HELD TO DETER MINE THE MATTER. LABOR INSPECTORS AT WORK Chief Deputy Pool Says Inspection Will go on Until Fund3 aro Ex hausted. Lincoln. Plans for tho extension of nn olectrlc lino, the Luco lino, from Brookings, S. D., through Sioux Falls and Sioux City to Omaha aro being formulated by promoters of tho line according to reports received here. Tho Luco lino now extends out of Minneapolis and St. Paul to Marshall, Minn. The company Is now engaged in extending the lino to Watortown, S. D. Another extension from Mar shall to Brookings will bo continued to Sioux Falls and ultimately to Sioux City and then to Omaha. Whether tho line to Brookings will be started at once will bo decided nt a meeting to bo hold at tho rooms of tho Brookings Commercial club early in August. Tho extension now seems probable. The foaslbillty of tho extension to Sioux Falls and on south is admitted by tho directors of tho line. It would mean a straight track southward. Tho lines In western Minnesota and east era South Dakota aro being rapidly extended on account of tho levol Btrctch of land. A rich and rather thickly Bottled part of tho country is being traversed. An electric lino con necting Omuha and the Twin cities has often been considered, but no plan so feasible as this one has ovor been suggested. Are "On the Job." "I noticed" said Labor Commission er Pool, "a recent editorial suggest ing tho chocking up of Omaha fac tories and othor institutions that em ploy working people. This editorial was probably prompted by tho Inci dents In connection with the Bingham ton fire, and in connection with tho suggestion I wish to say that under dur present law tho bureau of labor is charged with th,Is duty. "Since April 15 inspectors havo been In tho Omaha field making as careful and intelligent inspection of such in stitutions ns is posiblo with the lim ited appropriation given us. There aro now on fllo In this ofiice reports from 190 institutions which employ laborers in Omaha and a great many of. these reports show that tho In spectors are exorcising great care in making their examinations. "Inspectors aro charged to look carofully into tho sanitary conditions under which the employes labor; seo that proper fire escapes are provided; that unusual hours are not exacted from employes and many other things. "The work will bo continued until all factories and other establishments which employ labor havo been thor oughly inspected, or at least so long as the revenue appropriated for that purpoBo holds out. "Wo havo two inspectors working In the city and would like to havo more, but our limited appropriation will not permit it. As far as.lt goes wo will make our Inspection as thor ough as it Is possible to do." Food Commissioner Experiments. Lincoln. Lack of proper refrigera tion facilities on tho Missouri Pacific, railroad has caused largo losses in egg shipments from tho southeastern Nebraska tn Omaha and Lincoln, ac cording to 'conclusions reached by Food Commissioner Harman. Tests, mndo by tho stato olllclal on actual purchase and transmission of eggs over tho present routo show that even express facilities mako little Improve ment ovor freight, and that by both methods thoro aro losses incurred by the morchants. Under Instructions from the food de partment three cases of eggs were purchased at Falls City and shipped to Lincoln after bolng carefully handl ed at tho originating point. When they reached here, four days later, flvo and a hnlf dozen of the thirty dozen In tho case had deteriorated 'to sec ond class eggs, half a dozen had been cracked and a dozen and a half were spoiled and unfit for table use. An other caBo showed flvo rotten eggs und tho third case showed eleven eggs of similar stato of decay. The loss was $1.48 on actual cost ns compared between the two points. Data gath ered by tho food commission will bo submitted to tho railway commission for U80 In tho request for installation of refrigerator servfeo on tho Miss ouri Pacific. By a majority of over three to one, tho proposed tornado bond Issue of $250,000 to assist in restoration work was dafeaiod In Douslns county. Rye and Barley Show Increase. Lincoln, Nob. Ryo and barley, emnll grain crops that aro not so wide ly tallvd about ns wheat and corn In tills rtnte, nevortholess, havo some thing to commond them this year. Figm-os announced by the stato board of agrlcuituro recently Bhow tho ryo acroago this year is 33 per cent groat er than last year computed on tho re turns from oighty-four counties which, havo reported. Llkowlso tho barley acreago increased 76 per oont over last yoar a gain that will likely ba execoded by no other crop. UET CONCESSIONS. Water Users Gain a Measure of Re lief From Government Auditor Minor, who comes from tho irrigated district of northwest Nebraska, haa been endeavoring fox somo tlmo to get somo concessions from tho government in the payment v of wntor rights by users of govern ment water and at lrtst the effort hns been successful, according to ndvlcpa received from Secretary B. J. Segnr, secretary of tho North Platto Water Users' association. Mr. Segar says: Under date of July 17 a wiro was received from tho department stating that wntor will bo furnished for the balance, of tho Irrigating soason of 1913 whether 191JJ. maintenance Is paid or not, but that a penalty of 1 cent per acvo 'pa. month will be charged until paid. This pennlty will amount to less than $4 per eighty If tho Bnme 1b left unpaid until Decem ber, at which time most crops will have boon marketed. This will be of gieut benefit to many of tho farmers. A further concession was made to tho settlors by a recent public notice which provided that. thoso who havo paid nil operation nnd malntenanco charges duo before December 1, 1913, need pay but one-third of tho $2 pea acre building charge that will become delinquent December 1, 1913, or about 70 cents per acre. Tho effect of this will bo that many who would be un able to pay tho $1.10 per aero main tenance, plus tho $2 per acre building charge, or a total of $3.10 per acre, will be ablo to pay the $1.10, plus 4 cents penalty and 70 cents building charge or a total of $1.74 per acre. Another small measure of relief granted by the same notice is allow ing a water user who has, by reason of conflicting rulings in tho past, or a reduction of his irrigated area, been compelled to overpay his building charge to use toward paying his main tenance whatever credit ho may havo left after paying his 70 cents. Here tofqro ono might havo $200 overpay ment on his building charge account and still have his headgates shut down for nonpayment of $100 for maintenance. There Is- ample water supply under the government canal and can be no shortage. When twenty years are given to repay Uncle Sam, the resi dence restriction is removed and wn-i ter rights aro granted to individuals for all the lands they may acquire Nobraska will have the greatest and most successful Irrigated section in tho United States. Fruit Men Will Hold Picnic. At Arbor Lodge, where practical horticulture and forestry recelvod first encouragement through 'the dreams of J. Sterling Morton, tho Ne braska fruit men will hold a picnic, an August 14. Then demonstrations, In grading and pucklng will be mada ind problems of interest to fruit growers discussed. Joy Morton is expected to bo pres- 9nt and an entertaining program has been outlined. All persons' Interested In tho association, whether members, or not, aro Invited. Grades will be established governing packing. All, fruit will be sold through tho associa tion and under tho supervision of tho Inspectors. C. G. Marshall, well known aB a practical orchard man and at present secretary of the State Horticultural society, will bo the manager of tho association. He leaves August 1 to tako up his duties and will open a headquarters In NebrasKa City, where ample storage facilities havo been pro vided. Nebraska Lays Down. Expert Wettliug of the state railway commission has returned from Des MoIneB, la., where he has been helping tho Hawkeyo officials prepare their legions for attack on tho railroads that are objecting to Is suance of a railroad fare ordor on stato fair passenger rates. Withdraw al of tho "confiscatory" plea by the railroads in tho hearing held before tho federal court at Council Bluffs, les sened tho work of tho Iowa commis sion and made it unnecessary to pre sont testimony controverting tho phase of the litigation. Secretary Mellor of tho Nebraska board has given up attempting to gain similar ends through .the commissioa of this stato. He says that if tho rail roads aro willing to make voluntary reductions of state fair rates to 3 cents per mile for the round trip he would bo glad to see the step taken, but will make no effort to secure It through enforcement of commission order. Harness Races. EntricB for hnrness races for tho Nebraska state fair closo August 11. Already more than a dozen states aro represented in the speed program which promises to be exceptionally strong this year. The races closing August 11 are tho 2:25, 2:17 and 2:14 trots, tho 2:30 (hopples barred) 2:20, 2:17 and Freo-for-nll paco oach for $500 and tho 2:10 trot nnd 2:09 paco each for $600. Need Not Be Consecutive. Provisions of tho new labor law al lowing nine cdnsecutlvo hours employ ment per day do not mean that tho employment must bo consecutive, ac cording to a ruling Just made by tho labor commissioner. Arrangemonta can be mado between tho employes and omployers by which tho hours can bo put In at bucIi times as they boo fit. Women not employed bv pub lio servlco corporations, however, can not work between 10 p. m. and C a. in. As fast as possible employers ura arranging work schedules to comply. U t&rirw , " MmKufWiWMIv. gL. T&ttf ' $ " ' JWC
