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THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. u l1 3 ( 'I HEIRS OF II WEEK CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR ' LE88ER IMPORTANCE. v I OF EVENTS National, Political, Personal and Other Matter In Brief Form for All Classes of Readers. WASHINGTON. J. A. Horlrng of Madlsonvllle, Tox., has bcon chosen by President Wilson for United States marshal for the outhern district of Texas. Majority Lender Underwood has de clared his opposition to tho repeal of tho G per cent tariff bill provision on imports In American ships. Tho government has begun Its fight In tho supremo court for tho principle that corporations In tho hands of a tecolver, with authority to carry on business, aro llablo to tho federal corporation tax. In an effort to compel tho attend ance of congressmen, tho house ordor cd tho arrest of every member absent without permission and thoso out of, tho city woro notified by telegraph that warrants woro outstanding against them. Aigrettes or other bird plumage, whoso Importation is forbidden by tho now tariff law, must bo removed from tho hats of Incoming travelers and turned over to customs authorities boforo tho travelers leave tho wharf, nccordjng to a ruling by Secretary McAdoo. ' Reports that President Wilson was attempting to prod democratic sena tors Into quick action on tho currency bill and a pulbishcd statoment that ho would claBB an a "rebel" any domo trat who did not support him, brought Hit an emphatic denial from tho tVhlto House. "Tho government could expend pro fitably in ten yearn $100,000,000 In tho reclamation of arid and semi-arid and swamp lands located In that part of tho country west of the Missouri river," said Secretary of tho Interior Lano on returning from hlB extended trip through tho west. An Improvement In tho condition of tho corn crop in tho last month, to the extent or 22,000,000 bushels in tho estimated final production, was Uio feature of the department of agricul ture's October roport. Tho indicated final production is placed at 2,373, 000.000 bushels, or 752,000,000 bush els bolow last year's rocord crop. By tho cloBefct vote of tho session, ill to 10C, tho house voted to recedo from Its conferees, disagreement and to concur in tho senato nmondmont to tho urgent deficiency appropriation bill, which provides for tho removal of deputy Internal rovonue collectors and deputy marshals from civil sor- -vlce regulations. a Condemnation of ttio split skirt, the 'diaphanous dress and tho modorn dress and tho modorn daucos that in clude the tango, tho turkoy trot and tho 'bunny hug" 1b to be urged on tho national fedoratlon of women's clubs. Dr. E. C. Folkmnr, chairman of tho hygienic committee of tho lo cal branch of tho federation, lusircd a call for a meeting to canvass tho situation. Pressing a button at 2 V- m., east ern time, last Friday, nt tho White House. President Wilson roloasod an electric current that traveled ovor land and under Bca to tho Panama ca nal and exploded a chargo of dyna xnlto and destroyed Gnmboa dyko. This dyko is tho laat groat physical obstruction to tho opening of water communication botwoen tho two oceanB, although tho wreckago of tho dyko and two earth slides, ono at Cucaracha and another at Qold Hill, must bo cut through befora tho canal actually can bo opened. DOMESTIC. Tho much talked of $90,000,000 Un ion Pacific "melon" Is not to bo cut just now. Robert S. Lovott, chair man of the Union Pacific board has Issued a statoment saying that cir cumstances mako it inexpedient to deal with this subject at present. Roports have reached Nome that Solomon, a mining camp, forty miles east of there, was destroyed by tho storm which damaged that city. De tails woro not avnilablo as all wires are down. The destruction of flocks and herds la the mountains of Styria. . Austria, by a pack of wolves, hyonuas and lions, which escaped from a monag trie last month, has been so enor mous that the Austrian governmont has ordorod tho organization of an expedition to kill tho wild boasts. Fifteen passengers woro hurt whon four cars of Now Orleans & North western train No. 503 rolled down an embankment near Wlnucsboro, La. None are believed to be mortally Injured. Philadelphia Is talking of Investing $1,000,000 In a garbnito disposal plant. a Boston is completing In Franklin park an aviary costing $100,000 to Iioubo tho city's collection of birds. Tho Public Lodger of Philadelphia claims that tho largest Incomo tax, $245,000, to bo collected from any American, will bo paid by a woman of that city. Hearing of arguments on the nppoal of tho structural Iron men who woro convicted In tho dynamlto cases nt Indianapolis have bcon set for Octo ber 28, 2p and 30, In Chicago. A telogram rooelvcd announced tho death of Langenschawalbach, Germany of Adolphus Busch, tho multimillionaire brewer, by Adophus Busch, 3d, a grandson, from hla father AugustA. Busch. . JamoH A. Barwick, Unltod States weather buroau observer, retired, cel ebrated his seventieth birthday anni versary nt his homo nt Milton, Pa Mr. Barwick spent thirty-flvo years, half of his life, In tho Bcrvlco of tho United States government. Claiming that she was married to Charlomagno Tower, jr.. on Junb 7, 1011, in Now Havon, Conn., MrB. Georglnnnn Towor, formerly Miss Burdlck, haB brought suit at Philadel phia against Charlomagno Tower, former nmbassador to Germany, for al leged nlieniatlou of nor husband's af fections. Commissioner of Mediation Ethol bort Stcwnrt of tho fodoral depart ment of labor will recommend forth with a congressional Investigation of Colorado coal minors ns tho result of a conference lied hero botwoen tho mediators, Governor E. M. Amons and representatives of tho argest coal operating companies. Without Hrlng a shot federal sol diers havo taken possession of Pled rus Nogras, orstwhllo provisional capi tal of tho constitutionalists, and end ed tho victorious march of tho gov ernment army, under General Maas, through tho state of Coahulla, tho homo of Voneustlano Carranza, revo lutionary commander-in-chief. An old tin can, rusted through In places, was unearthed In tho Wleback cellar at Wlnthrop, Iowa, by a work man who was excavating. Ho was about to throw it in tho rubbish heap, when a gleam of gold caught his oye. Thccan contained $2,000 In gold, bII ver and currency. Tho owner of tho promises died a Week a ago. Tho money was turned ovor to tho holrs. Jews of tho national capltol havo planned to adopt a resolution of pro tost against tho Russian government's prosecution of Mendel Bolliss, tho young Jew on trial at Kolv, charged with tho murder of a boy to obtain his blood for ritual purposoa In colo bratlon of tho Passover. Tho rcsolu tlonB will supplement a declaration already forwarded to tho Russian au thortltles signed by 100 rabloB deny ing that tho. Jewish rollglon uses blood for ritual purposes. Judgo John II. Humphries of Seat tlo haB Issued an order remitting tho penalties Imposed on Glenn Hoover, former assistant nttornoy general of Washington, who was flnod $100 nnd 0. N. Hodgdon, an aged pioneer and former mombor of the loglBlature, who was sentenced to six months' at hard labor and to pay a fine of $400, both defendants having been ndjudgod guilty of contempt of court for violat ing antl-streot speaking injunctions directed agaltiBt socialists. FOREIGN. Tho British government has decid ed to establish an opium monopoly In Hong Kong nt tho expiration of tho present agroemont and It Is' thought that with tho control of tho trnfTic in tho hands of tho govornmont Its grad ual suppression will bo easior. Tho staff and appliances of tho farmers aro to bo taken over In entirety. The American iRod Cross orphan ago, oroctcd from funds collected In tho United States at tho tlmo of tho great Messina carthquako, has bocn formally opened nt Pal ml. Lieutenant Colonel Gcorgo M. Dunn, tho Amor lean military nttacho at Romo, repre sented Ambassador Thomas Nelson Pago. Yuan Shi Kat has bcon inducted In to ofllco ns first president of tho Chinese republic. Tho first sorvlco of lnaguratlon was surrounded with eastern brilliancy. It was attonded by' throngs of distinguished Chinese and foreign officials, diplomats and military otllcoru and took place In Uio Interior of tho Tnl-Ho palace. In which many of tho Ming and Chlng emperors had been crowned. Mrs. Emmollno Pankhurst, the mil itant suffrngct loader, has made nil her preparations for departing for New York. Sho says Bho fools physi cally equal to her American cam paign. Tho failure of General Trucy Hu bert to got to tho city of Torrcon In ho set out from Saltlllo nearly a month ago with a largo force 6f fed oral troops Is explained by tho fact that the greater part of his 2,000 men doBerted him before he had complet ed half of his journey. FIND A CONTINENT RUSSIAN EXPLORERS) DISCOVER NEW LAND. S00 MILES NORTH OF ASIA Geographical Experts Call It a Great Find If True But Aro Skeptical. SL MIchnelB, Alaska. Tho Rus sian flagship Taimyr and Its consort, tho Wnygatch, which constitute a Russian polar expedition under Com mander Wilkitzky, which loft Vladi vostok June 10 of this year, readied St Mlchnol's stormbound Octobor 9 and brought to that port news of tho dlscovory north of Siberia, in latltudo 81 north, longltudo 101 east, of a now uninhabited mountalnouB land, posbI bly a continent. Tho expedition land ed with difficulty on tho new land, raising tho Russian flag on It and took possession in tho name of tho czar. Commander Wllkitzy christen ed tho now land "Nicholas Second land." Tho expedition sailed from- Vladi vostok by way of Potropovlok and EaBt Capo and thonco westward along tho Siberian coaBt to latitude 90 cast. Commander Wilkitzky nays that tho shore of the now country where tho expedition landed nnd along which the vesBoIs traveled 1b rocky, with high, abrupt cliffs, formed evidently from volcanic activity. Volcanoes of tho district possibly may have been nctlvo recently, ho said. High Peaks to Be 8een. Many high peaks, he stated, wcro discernible inland from the vessels nnd what Boemed to bo vapor could bo seen around and arising from ono of thoso. Tho tomperaturo taken on tho water near tho shore lino was 51.8 de grees Fahrenheit, while that taken on tho shore was C2.C degrees Fahren heit. Tho land was covered with snow almost to tho sea. In July and August tho expedition saw much evi dence of tho prosonco on tho land of rolndeor. Many walrus were seen and bird llfo waB plentiful. A num ber of polar beara also woro noticed. Tho vogotatlon on tho new land, Com mander Wilkitzky stated, was but scant Twenty fathoms from shore a depth of water of nlncty-flvo fathoniB was Bouunded. Details Begin to Come In. London Tho latost accounts of tho disaster to tho steamship Volturno, burned and abandoned In mid-ocean, confirm thnt tho loss of life will bo limited to about 136. Tho Carmanla, first of tho rescuing ships to roach tho burning steamer, arrived off Queenstown, but owing to tho galo procoodod to Fishguard. A graphic story by tho solitary survivor aboard tho Carmanla was received by wire less and presents a terrible picture of tho horror, tho panic and confusion aboard tho burning liner. Walter Trlntepohl, a German, who tolls tho Btory. howovor, 1b clearly suffering from tho stress of Illness and awful experiences, and hla story Is too In coherent to bo accepted In every do tall. Johnson a Naturalized Frenchman. Chicago. Jack Johnson, nogro champion heavyweight flghtor, haa bocomo a naturalized citizen of Franco, according to a letter received horo by a negro friend. As a conso quonco It Is expected tho government will order forfoltod thot $30,000 bond given In tho white slavery charge. In tho letter Johnson stated ho was do ing well In vaudeville. Next wook, he said, ho would open a nlno weeks' en gagement at Vienna. "My homo hore aftor will bo in Paris. Never again will I sot foot on American soil," ho wrote. Wilson Opposed to Recess. Washington. President WIlBon has lot It be known that he does not fa vor n recess of congress nt this tlmo, but dcslros uninterrupted consider ation of tho ponding currency bill. Reports that tho president was at tempting to forco the senate to act more speedily than It wished, and ef forts on tho part of somo domocratlo senators to secure a recess until No vember 15, brought from Uiobo close 'to tho president a clarification of the White Houso position. An oxplosion nt Rochester wrecked tho coating and emulsion plant of tho Eastmnn Kodak company, seriously Injuring tw oemployes. Unfilled Steel Tonnage. Now York. Tho unfilled tonnage of tho United States Steel corporation on September 30 totalled 5,003,785 tons, a decrease of 319,682 tons ovor August. Winter Season Has Set In. Nomo, Alaska. Snow has fallen and tho long sub-Arctic wlntor has bo. gun and tlireo hundred Eskimos aro homeless nnd destitute. Six hundred houses wore dostroyod by tho recent Btorm. Snow will provont iurthor .salvage. Cardinal Garcia. Toledo, Spain. Cardinal Gregory Maria Aguirroy Garcia, archbishop of Toledo and primate of Spain, Is dead. Ho wti bojft March 12, 1835, and was proclt'med cardinal April 15, 1907. ' NEWS FROM STATE H0USL There woro 351 prisoners In -tha penitentiary September 1, and 350 at tho close of Uio month Sixteen pris oners were received on commitments, one was returned from parole, four teen were discharged and ono was liberated on furlough. With nearly $600,000 .In general fund warrants outstanding becauso of lack of furtds to meet them, State Treas urer Gcorgo still adheres to his belief that trust funds of the state can bet ter be Invested In securities, thus drawing enough higher Interest to off set the Interest added when warrants are paid. For the year 1913 the NcbrasKa po tato crop amounted to 5,375,807 bush els, according to tnbulatlonB made by tho state board of agriculture. There was 107,801 acres and the average yield was 19.87 bUBhelB per acre. Tho crop at present prices is worth $4, 031,855.25. i That the epidemic of tuberculosis among the cows of tho state herd nt the Inglcslde state hospital was tho direct result of filth from an open sewer being discharged Into a pasture In which tho milch cows were grazed, Is charged by employes of tho insti tution and by farmers living on adjoin ing land. Missionaries of tho Winnebago res ervation havo written to state ofllclala asking If Nancy Wells, an Indian maiden who Is out of tho penitentiary on parole, can be married to a young Indian who has wooed and won her. The matter will likely be referred to the parole board for final settlement. . Tho Bell Telephone company has filed formal, notice with tho state rail way commission that It proposes to nppoal to the supremo court from tho order of tho commission that it mako a connection nt Hooper with tho Inde pendent lino nt that place. The caso will Involve the validity of the com pulsory physical connection law passed by tho last legislature. The 1913 state fair was one of the best on record when exlilblts are con sidered. Secretary Mellor has an nounced that the receipts and expendi tures were about $80,000.00 with a small balance on the right side of tho ledger so far. Considering the crop and weather situation, fair experts from other states are congratulating tho management on the escape from a serious loss. Nebraska has 363,745 acres of tim ber land, according to tho tabulations of tho state board of agriculture. Banner and Blaine counties score tha minimum on growing timber land, each county reporting thirty-flvo acres. Otoo county has the most timber lands, 26,506 acres. Counties besides Otoe having more than 15,000 acres of timber arc Cass, 18,873; Holt, 19,808; Webster, 17,611. Registration for the forest reserve land drawings wlllbe at Valentine. Broken Bow and North Platte and will start October 13, according to an nouncement made by the etato labor commission today. Scores of letters havo como In to that department ask ing for this Information and CommlB bioner Pool has given out the dates In order that us'ebraskans who want to know may have an opportunity to bo on hand when the registration opens. The Western Union Telegraph com pany has decided to enforce tho legis lative rates on telegraph messnges beginning October 1, nnd gives tho rates a trial for a period of six months under direction of tho railway commission. Attorney Brogan for tho company has so informed the commis sion. The commission is to decido whether or ,not the rates are remuner ative. Tho legislature passed a bill reducing rates to 25 cents for ten word messages in Nebraska territory. Kaffir corn growers of Nebraska will soon have nn entirely now mar ket for their product and one that Is likely to raise the profits on kafflr corn not a little, according to II. M. Cottrel, agricultural commissioner of tho Rock Island railroad. Cottrcll has endorsed kaffir corn meal for the din ing cars of the Rock Island and per sons traveling ovor that line In tho future may have the opportunity of tasting delicacies prepared from the new meal. Kafflr muffins, gems nnd cookies may hereafter be procured. Nebraska will havo to buy consider able corn this your because of tho very short crop In tho South Platte section of tho state. Grain men are unablo lo state how deeply tho farmers will have to go Into their pockets, becauso (t depends on the amount of stock to bo cared for. Most of the surplus corn needed will be purchased ovor In Iowa. Governor Morehead and many of his military staff In full dress uniform will lead the German day parade In Lincoln, October 15. The cement sidewalk on tho state japltol grounds laid about two years ago Is being torn up to make room for a new asphalt driveway in front of tho west entrance. Twenty delegntes to tho national conservation congress, which will ba hold at aBhlngton on the dates of No vtembor 18, 19 nnd 20, have been named by Governor Morehead to rep resent Nebraska. The list Includes senators and representatives from this state and Mayor Dahlman ot Omaha FO GHMPI0N5HIP "HOME COMING DAY" AT STATE UNIVERSITY. GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL Items of Interest Gathered from Re liable Sources and Presented In Condensed Form to Our Readers. The Nebraska-Minnesota game which takes place on Nebraska field at Lin coln, October 18, will no doubt settle the football championship of tho coun try lying west of tho Pennsylvania line. Minnesota Is hailed aB tho championship cloven of tho western CAPTAIN PURDY Of tho University Team One of tho Greatest Dackfleld Men In the West. conference, and it Is expected that the Nebraska warriorB will win the Mis souri Valley championship title. This will bo tho first time that Minnesota has met Nebraska on her home field since 1902. Must Stay Within the Limit. "No more tnan ton grouse, pralrlo chicken or geeso may be shipped out of tho state of Nebraska at one time, according to a decision of Chief Game Warden Rutenbeck, made after a consultation with the attorney gen eral's office. The question arose over a letter from S. S. Rltchy, county clerk at Hyannls, who said a non resident had in his possession fifty grouse which ho desired to Bend out of the 'state. While a non-resident may kill fifty In a season, ho may not have more than ten In his pos session at one time and on this phaso of tho law tho attorney general rules that no more than ten may be shipped. Superintendent Abbott of tho Ne braska City school for tho blind is making an effort to secure enrollment of all blind children In tho stnto en titled to tho privileges of the course at the Institution of which he Is the head. Tho present attendance at tho school Is fifty-threo and this, It 1b be hoved by Superintendent Abbott, will be much Increased within a few weeks. Alfalfa Best Ever Harvested. Phenomenal crops of all kinds In tho North Platte river valley aro re ported by Deputy Stato Auditor Minor, who has just returned from a trip to Morrill and Scottsbluff. Farmers on lands under tho government ditch have just finished their third cutting of alfalfa, which was the best they ever had, and stacks aro waiting in the fields until balers can get to them. Pay for Convicts. The monthly report of Warden Fen ton of the penitentiary now shows the payment of funds to convicts who were employed outside of the prison. The roport for September shows a total of $105.75 to convicts for labor on contracts outside of tho prison. Under a now state law convicts em ployed by counties or cities outsldo of tho penitentiary ' may receive 25 conts a day after an allowance of 50 cents a day has been made by tho con tractor for the board of each convict Tho two Nebraska senators and the six congressmen from 'this state are Included in the list ot delegates nnmed by Governor Morehead to attend the sessions ot tho national conservation congress to be held at Washington, D. C, November 18, 19 and 20. Tho other persons chosen by the executive to represent this stato are: Omaha Mayor Dahlman, C. J, ErnBt nnd II. E. Nowbrnnch. South Omaha Everett W. Bucking ham. Lincoln C. W. Pugsloy, Dr. C. E. Bcrrhv and W. 6. Whltten. KHMHMMMilHBMMHtsKBBlMHMWiMMilllllllBlllBSMaaiiiMiiin BRIEF NEW8 OF NEBRASKA. Stromsburg is to have a now cltj park. A lodge of Knights of ColumbUB has-, been Instituted at York. Tho Missouri synod of tho Lutheran church is in session at Waco. Polk 1b to havo u water and electric lighting system costing $16,000. Wymore is making efforts to secure a sewer system for that placo. Tho Commercial hotel at Greenwood was destroyed by fire Saturday morn ing. Tho Nebraska-Minnesota football gamo will take place at Lincoln Oc tober 18. Rev. E. A. Worthley Is tho now Methodist student pastor at the statu university. The Nebraska-Minnesota football game will take placo next Saturday at Lincoln, The Btato conference of Congrega tional churches will bo held at Omaha October 17 to 20. The fortieth annual convention of tho state W. C. T. U. will be held In Omaha next year. A charter has been received for the organization of a lodge of the Knights of Columbus at York. Georgo Workman was electrocuted at Lincoln when he attempted to re move a live wire from the street. The Elks lodge of Plattsmouth has purchased a building which they will soon mako Into a home for the order. JJIshop Tihen .of Lincoln has re turned from Romo in excellent health and much refreshed from his vacation. Chicken fanciers of Fremont are planning on holding the biggest county show ever hold in Nebraska in Decem ber. Nineteen to nothing was tho result of tho Nebrnska-Washburn game on tho Llnco)n field Saturday, tho visit ors being outclassed. Mrs. Florenqo Seldel, the avUtrix, who fell with her hydroaeroplane Into the bay at San Diego, Cal recently, formerly lived at Humboldt. The total wild hay crop of tho state, according' to tho estimate of tho state board of agriculture, was valued at $29,007,383 for the year 1913. The mld-Btato poultry association will hold Its annual show at Scotts bluff In connection with the annual corn show, December 10, 11, 12. P. Meehan, who has boon secretary of tho Beatrice Commercial club for the past yearj has tendered hlB resig nation to take effect November 1. A main drainage ditch and lateral ditches along the Nemaha river will necessitate the building by Johnson county of nineteen steel bridges. The Nebraska Federation of Wo men's clubs .held their eighteenth an nual session at York last week, over 200 delegates being In attendance. Accidental discharge ot a shotgun which he was carrying on his lap in a wagon caused the Instant death of Wm. Scott, aged 35, near Valentine. O. M. Tharp, one ot tho leading clti ztns of that place, Is dead at Wahoo as the result of Injuries received in an automobllo accident a month ago. Charles Benson of Exeter probably will lose his right hand as the result of getting It cnught in a cement mixer. Nearly all of tho fingers wore crushed. John McCauley one of tho early Bottlers of Saunders county, died at his homo near Ithaca from the effects of a kick by a horse received several weeks ago. A chocolate percolator at the Rlggs soda fountain in Lincoln blew up and sent most of Ub contents into the face of Nato Wilson, an employe. His eyes were badly burned. Zerelda Kough, 11 years old, Is tho champion girl baker of Omaha, and In fact ot Douglas county, tho fair asso ciation conducting n contest during tho Ak-Sar-Ben festivities last week hav ing so decided. Over 1.000 peoplo attended the open ing meeting of tho evangelistic ser vices conducted by six of the fifteen local churches in a specially built tab ernacle in the heart of the business section of Grand Island. Seward's new Y. M. C. A. building .will be opened to tho pnbllc October 23. A series of entertainments lasting four nights will mark the opening ex ercises. One of tho most beautiful and in spiring features of tho German day celebration in Lincoln 1b expected to be the flower parade to occur on Wed nesday, October 15. Octobor 18 will be "borne coming day" for the old "grads" and others who havo attended the University of Nebraskn. On that day Nebraska and Minnesota will clash on tho football field. Stromsburg began the establishment of the electrolier system of street lighting in tho 'business district by making an Initial appropriation of $1,000 for that purpose. In pulling n gun through a fence while out hunting, Jesse Oaxley, a farmer near Tccumseh, caused the gun to bo discharged. The charge went through Oaxley's left band. During tho year of 1913, according to tabulations made by the stato board of agriculture, the Nehraska corn crop amounted to $90,299,306 bushels. Val ued at 70 cents a bushel the crop Is worth $63,209,658. For four days Mrs. Fred Wagner or Johnson suffered pain In her right arm after a fall In the yard, but she did not reallzo tho arm was fractured until she consulted n physician. Valley county, according to figures complied by the stato board of agricul ture, Is perhaps the leading pop corn growing county in tho United States. Tho crop has proven profitable Frank Bartos, an Omaha printer, is the best cotton crochet laco maker In Douglas county. His display of lace was awarded the bluo ribbon In the fancy work exhibit at tho Douglas county fair. wscav A V