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'. THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. " 'V ' i NEWS OF THE WEEK CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR LESSER IMPORTANCE. H BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS National, Political, Personal and Othor Matters In Brief Form for All Classes of Readers. WASHINGTON. Secrcary Bryan and Sir Cecil Spring Rico, tho British ambassador, ex changed ratlllcatlonB of the arbitra tion treaty which will continue for another live yearn. Senator Shlvely, acting chairman of the foreign relations committee, intro duced an administration bill to raise the legation to Chile to an embassy. A similar hill Is pending In tho house. Consideration by the senate commit tee on lnteroceanlc canals of the pro posed repeal of Piuiaiiui canal toll exemption for American ships, was In terrupted by lack of witnesses and further formal discussion of the Issuo was postponed. Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the army, sent out to school superintendents all over tho country a letter Indorsing the student military Instruction camps to be held during the coining summer. Ho alludes to the fact that theso camps have the hearty Indorsement of President Wll ou and former President Taft as well as leading educators. Tho Joint congressional banking and currency rural credits Bub-commlttoe began considering the first tentative committee draft of tho mral credits 1)111. 11. Parker Willis or Now York, expert employed by the committee to draft tho bill, will meet with the com mlttte and tho measure probably will be made public next week. Tho only Btandard gauge railway ever built and operated by the United States government was run at a pro fit In 1913. Figures given out by tho reclamation service Bhow tho road Tho Boise and Arrow Rock of Idaho had net oarnlngs of $9,721 last year. It Is twenty miles long and Is run In connection with tho Arrow Rock dam, which Is to bo the lilghost in tho world, Democrats of tho house wore de nounced for extravagance by Chair man Fitzgerald of tho appropriation commltteo, when over tho protest of tho commltteo, an Item was added to tho pending legislative appropriation bill to continue the assay ofllco at Helena, Mont. He rovlewed tho expen ditures of congress this year and de clared "whenever I think of tho hor rlblo mess I shall bo called upon to present to tho country I feel like quit ting my pobL" Secretary of Labor Wilson Is op posed to somo foaturca of tho safety at sea convention recommended fa vorably by Secretary of Stato Bryan niul now pending boforo the senate foreign relations committee aud as a result tho question will bo discussed by the cabinet next weok. The con vention Ib being, fought by tho Sea men's International union and -other labor organlzatlont, representatives of which arguo thati If tho convention Is adopted the United States will be jirovcnted from building up Its mer chant marine. DOMESTIC. Four hundred thousand dollars for tho expenses of tho Now York Btato's participation In tho Panama-Paclllc exposition became avallablo when Governor Glynn at Albany signed the bill appropriating $200,000 and reap preprinting a like aum for tho pur pose. A i record breaking winter wheat crop 1b In prospect this year, tho De partment of Agriculture estimating on a conservative basis that tho yield may oxceod 551,000,000 bushels. Tho condition of tho crop April 1, was 95.0 por cent of a normal or 11.5 pur cent better than tho avorago April 1 condition for tho last ton youru. Recommendations that tho rural hchool teacher bo employed for life or during good behavior and that each bo furnlBhod with a houso and plot of land for his own and experimental ubcb wore mado by P. P, Claxton, United States commissioner of educa tion, nt a session at Louisville of tho Conference for Education In tho south, Governor Dunne of Illinois, In over alls will work with pick and shovel on Iho Aurora-Elgin highway, tho first etnto aided road, April 15, with hun dreds of distinguished men as fellow laborers. WellcBley college at Wellesloy, Muss., received a. gift of $750,000 from Iho Rockefeller foundation toward res toration of facilities lost In tho recent destruction of College hall by ilro, conditional upon the raising of $2, 000,000 before tho first of next Janu ary. Five hundred city pollco and de tectives Bwopt from all sldos Into a mob of men and women In Union fqunre, New York, when union and non-union labor opposed ono another at mass meetings, Pittsburgh this year will spend $2, 281,000 for new school buildings. Springfield, Mo., has for the second tlmo within a year de'rentod commis sion government proposition. Tho seventh annual conference of governors will be held at Madison, WIb., beginning June 9. Dr. Edward F. Lake, a physician of Denver, and past grand master of tho Fraternal Order of Eagles, was oper ated on at Baltimore In an effort to prevent death from cancer. It was said that It would bo some time bo fore the result could be determined. Tho Rockefeller Institute for medi cal research In New York has .an nounced that John D. Rockefeller has added $1,000,000 to tho goncral en dowmont fund of the Institution, to bo dovotcd to tho study of animal dis eases, and that Jnmoa J. Hill has pledged $50,000 to bo used specifically for tho Investigation of hog cholera A movement seeking a pardon for membcrB of the structural bridge and Iron workers convicted at Indianapo lis of Illegally transporting dynamite In Interstate commerce Iuib begun at Chicago. Petitions to President Wil son, charging that tho men wore rush ed through their trials, wero circulat ed nt tho meeting of tho Chicago Fed eration of Labor. Harry Erz pleaded guilty at Chica go to using the malls to operate In tho words of Federal Judge Humphrey "Ono of tho meanest swindles In vented." Erz told the court ho watch ed nowpaper3 for reports of deaths of ministers or priests and would send bills for books on religious subjects which he asserted he had sold the relatives. A false bill was paid In nearly every Instance, a postal Inspec tor said. Unless dissatisfaction with action of scale committee of United Mine Workers in withdrawing demandB for highor wages should unexpectedly de velop among tho ranks of the miners and the referendum vote to bo taken April 14 should repudiate- that action, high officials at tho mine workers' headquarters at Indianapolis believe tho other dlfferonce-3 between tho miners and operators In tho bitumin ous fields will bo amicably adjusted, with the posslblo exception of Ohio. Nearly 300 grain dealers, members of tho association convened In the- fourteonth annual meeting of tho Western Grain Dealers association at Cedar Rapids, la. Dollverlos on fu tures was a Bubject which occasioned great Interest, the association taking tho stand that futures should not, for convenience, bo required to be un loaded on the last day of tho month, but had better bo loft on track, to avoid hints of a corner, which ore prevalent at tho last of each month. FOREIGN. The widow of Thomas Henry Hux ley, the celebrated English biologist, died at East Bourne, England. Paul Jbhann Ludwlg von Hoyso, Gorman poet and novelist, died In his eighty-tilth year. Ho was awarded tho Noble prize for literature In 1910. The Italian chamber of deputies and senate has reassembled. Tho now cabinet under the premiership of Slgnor Salandra mado known to both houses Its legislative program. a JamcB Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the Now York Herald, is steadily recovering at Carlo from his attack of bronchitis and expected to leave soon for Alexandria. At that port he will board Ills yacht Lysltrata and sail for the Riviera. Emll Schwyer, an animal trainer In a circus, was attacked and torn by a leopard at St. Louis whllo trying to make tho animal perform. The leop aid tore tho llosh'from tho trainer's left urni and shoulder. Circus at taches beat off the leopard with iron bars. M. L. Woods, former vice president of tho Stato National bank of Fort worth, charged with wrecking that in stitution, was sentenced to six years' Imprisonment In federal court at Fort Worth. Woods' defalcations, which extended over several years, amounted to $105,000. Tho guillotine- has mado its appear ance in Mexico and a now form of execution confronts tht enemies of the conBtltutionulistB In tho state of San Luis Potobl, It has been learned. At Concepclon Deloro, a home-mado gullotlne has boon erected. It was built by rebel mechanics In tho corps commanded Ivy Genoral Eulallo Gu tierrez. Already tho now instrument has been tested, and, aa tho genoral says, "It works splendidly." Tho tost was made with n lamb as the vie Mm. Four of tho statutes In tho celebrat ed Avenue of Victory In the Tlergarton ut Berlin were mutilated, among them that of Frederick The Great In each caao tho beaks of tho eagles surround Ing tho pediments wero broken off, Wireless trans-Atlantic scrvico un dor tho system developed by Dr. Val- domar Poulsen of Copenhagen will bo open early In June. The station In Canada la ready for servlco and the station at Bally-bunlau, In Ireland, Is Hearing completion under tho dlrec tlon of an American engineer. LEADERS 10 CONFER VILLA AND CARRANZA WILL HOLD CONSULTATION. fRANSPORT GOES TO T1PIC0 The U. S. Transport Hancock Order. ed to Proceed Immediately to Scene of Battle. Washington. Hoar Admiral Mayo, commanding tho American squadron at Tamplco asked several days ago that un army transport be sent to tho besieged port to take care of refu gees who havo been flocking aboard tho foreign warships to save them selves from tho shellB Mid bullets of tho fedornls and constitutionalists. Tho War department was not In clined to "loan" one of its vessels for this purpose so tho navy Is making uso of tho Hancock, Its only trans port. Tho hospital ship Solace already had been ordered to Tamplco, but tho department has made no announce ment as to tho movement of the Han cock. Two Important Meetings. , Washington officials-' and diplomats wore speculating upon the outcome of tho two conferences to be held during the coming week, one in this city between the president and his porsonal representative In Mexico, John Llnd, and tho other at Torreon between Genoral Venustlano Car ranza, first chief of tho constitution allsts, and Genoral Villa, victorious leader of the Mexican rebels In the field. About the time Mr. Llnd is making hia roport to the president, tho Mexi can rcbol leaders will bo meeting foi the first tlmo since tho days of Ma dero "and upon tills conference much Is believed to depend. Officials hero think that a face to face talk between Generals Carranza and Villa will result in a clearer un derstandlng concerning the rights of foreigners In Mexico and especially their privilege of pressing claims through American consular ofllcers. Bryan Favors Repeal. Washington. Secretary Bryan In a statement made public rovlows at length tho Panama tolls question, and in tho course of the statement de clares that the repeal of tho tolls ex emption In the Panama canal act "can not bo construed to bo u construction of the Hays-Pauncefote treaty," but la "simply a refusal on the part of the United 3tatos to raise that question In that way." Mr. Bryan discusses various fea tures of tho subject the limiting of debate In tho houso of representatives, tho Baltimore platform and the effect of repeal on tho treaty. Claim that tho opponents of tho re peal had seized upon tho charge that the president was "surrendering to England," Mr. Bryan declared that the opposition to the repeal had attempted to appeal "to prejudice rather than to reason." Will Go Through Canal In Ju.'y San Dlogo, Cal. Unltod States war ships of tho Atlantic licet will steam through the Panama canal early in July, speed up tho Pacific coaBt to San Diego, and return to Hampton Roada by tho samo route, according to Frank In D. RooBovolt, assistant secretary of tho navy, who Inspected San Diego harbor and made preliminary arrange ments for tho reception of the battle Bhlps. The purpose nt this early jaunt through tho canal, he said, was to prove to tho world that tho big water way Is even now In readiness to ac commodate shipping. Saw Wreckage of Sealer. St. Johns, N. F.- -Floating wreckage, bollovod to have coino from tho miss ing Bealer, Southern Cross, has been reported by tho sealing steamer Bloodhound. Tho Bloodhouud passed a largo quantity of wreckage about 100 miles southeast of this port. It had apparently been washed from a sealer's deck, but us the crow of tho Bloodhound had not heard of tho Iobb of tho Southern Cross no effort was mado to Identify It. Breaks Beachey's Record. Los Angolos, Cal. Do Lloyd Tliomp boh "looped tho loop" eight times here breaking Lincoln Beachey's record at San Francisco of novou loops. Thoinp son was Iobb than 2.000 foot above the ground when ho started his downward Hlght and made IiIb last loop when within 500 feet of tho earth. Mrs. Taft Joins Antls. Now Haven, Conn.- Mrs. William II. Taft, wlfo of thu former president, Iuib become a membor or tho local Anti-Woman SufTrago association, ac cording to an announcement made. Former U. S. Marshal Is Indicted. Dea Moines, In. William Richard, former United States marshal, and Ed ward Gorman, u harbor, wero indicted by a grand Jury on a charge or burg lary and larceny. Richard also was indicted ou a charge of carrying con cealed weapons. ' Would Raise to an Embassy. Washington. Senator Shlvoly, act ing chairman of tho foreign relations commltaoo, Introduced tho admlnlBtra tlon bill to ralso tho leglslalou to Chllo to an ambuss)-. URIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA A twenty-five piece orchestra has been organized nt Beatrice. Tho Hastings postofllco will become one of tho first class on July 1. The Wymore Coursing association will hold a meet In that city April 1G and 17. The Hastings college glee club has started on n tour of central and west ern Nebraska. The night school classes which havo met at Hastings for three years have been discontinued. Fire destroyed the Ostbloom general store at Surprise, stock and building being a complete loss. The reunion of the Spanish War Veterans of tho state will be held In Lincoln, April 22 and 23. Thomas 03terman, editor of tho Blair Democrat, has boon recommond rd for postmaster at that place. The Fremont manufacturers asso ciation has voted unanimously to fed erate with the now Fremont Commer cial club. Mr. and Mrs. II. F. Morwln cele brated their fiftieth wedding anniver sary at their homo In Beaver City on March 30. Governor Morehead has issued tho following proclamation designating April 17 nnd18 as flro prevention clean up days: ' York, Dodge, Boone, Butler and Seward counties havo about completed plans for tho engagement of eight noted Institute workers. Vol Hyde and wife, former Nebras kans, wore found dead under their automobile, which had overturned on the road near Cody, Wyo. Tho Hickman schools opened Mon day after ten days' vacation caused by scarlet fever cases. It is thought that the disease has been checked. By a vote of 5 to 2 the Adnms county board of supervisors declared against tho sanctioning of Sunday baseball at any country or village diamond In tho count)". The receipts of the Seward post office for the year ending April 1 were over $10,000. This volume or business entitles the town to free delivery service. Members of the Eastern Star have appealed to tho city council of Fre mont to stop the practice of throwing ashes In tho streets of tho residence section. Mrs. J. T. Gist of Falls City, stato secretary, requests the names of all stato delegates to the Chicago meet ing of women's clubs, June 9 to 19, In order that hotel reservations may be made. Sitting upright at the wheel of his automobile, Dr. W. H. Horton of Flor ence was found dead, presumably from heart failure, a short distance north west of that village. Five hundred and thirty children of tho Hayward school at Lincoln lllcd from their class rooms and out of tho building In less than one minute after a fire alarm was sounded. James G. Russel. Lincoln's 100-year-old citizen, oldest showman in tho country nnd oldest civil war veteran In Nebraska, died Sunday at his homo In that place. He was 100 years old March 1. Dr. W. S. Fast, superintendent of the institute for tho feoblo minded at Beatrice, Is suffering from typhoid fever. Authorities deny that there Is danger of the fever spreading to tho Inmates. Hastings was chosen as tho place for the next annual meeting of the Dis trict Odd Fellows convention by tho 200 fraternal members present at the banquet which marked the close of tho 1914 meeting. Chris. Delnes was burled beneath several tons of coal at tho power plant of tho Burlington shops at Havelock and smothered to death. It was thought ho had a fainting spell and fell Into the coal feed 'chute. Lloyd Hoop, four years old, was ser iously Injured when tho tines of a manure spreader struck htm on tho head, penetrating tho brain. Ho was following tho machine on his fnthcr's farm near Schuyler. There Is n decided movement In ex treme western Nebraska to abandon dry farming and take up dairy work. The main I?sues in tho coming spring election at North Platte are the saloon licenso and electric light fran chise questions. The electric light company wishes Its franchise extend ed for twenty-five years. Luther Abbott, a well-known Nebras ka boy, and former resident of Fre mont, died nt Colorado Springs from hemorrhage, as a result of an opera tion for tho removal of a gold crown of a tooth from his lungs three months ago. David RIdcnour, an 18-year-old Fair bury boy, was dangerously wounded when a .45 caliber revolver he was ex amining was discharged, tho ball pen etrating his abdomen. Valentino Feathers, eleven years old, narrowly escaped drowning when ho fell through a rotted curbing Jnto a fourteen-foot cistern at Lincoln. He was badly bruised and scratched up. Mr. and Mrs. Flyno Fields of Ne braska City died within nn hour of each other Saturday. They are sur vived by thirteen children. Tho father was afflicted witn an abscess of tho brain and tho -mother with pneumonia. There are sixteon cases of smallpox In four families at Kearney, but It Is bollovod that danger of tho spread of the disease has been obviated. Charged with tho desertion of his Wlfo and ninc-dnys-old baby, Arthur E. Brooks, a blind piano tuner, Is being sought for by Sheriff llyors of Lincoln. At a meeting of the board of direc tors of tho Gage County Holstoln-Fre-hIuii association It wns determined to mako an offort to guard against tho importation of Inferior Holstelns, or other black and white cattle, In the btato and county, and disposing of jthem as thoroughbred stock GOVERNOR ISSUES PROCLAMATION SUGGESTS SUITABLE OBSERV. ANCE OF FIRE PREVEN- TION DAY. GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL Items of Interest Gathered from Re liable Sources and Presented in Condensed Form to Our Readers. Western Newspaper Union News Servlo. A few years ago our legislature ere uted tho ofllco or fre commissioner In order that tho great loss annually sus tained by lire might be reduced to the minimum. It has been the custom, since the creation of this ofllco, to designate two days each spring ns fire prevention "clean-up days" and In accordance with this custom 1 so des Ignate April 17 and 18, 1911. I request nil the citizens of the state to co-operate with the tire commis sioner in his efforts to reduce the loss of property and the danger to life, by having removed from their premises all trash and useless Inflammable ma terial. I also suggest that the teach ors In our schools have some suitable exercises on theso days and that they lend hearty aid and assistance to the commissioner. Given under my hand and the great seal or the stato of Nebraska, this sec ond day of April, 1914. JOHN II. MOREHEAD, Governor. Tax Levy Higher than Previous Year. Taxes vfor all purposes in Nebraska averaged about 40V mills for the'yeai 1913, according to a compilation made by Secretary Gaddis of the state tax commission, and this was 2i mills more than In the previous year. The state tax levy is blamed for the differ ence, having been boosted in 1913 rrom 5.2 mills to 7.8 mills, as a result of special levies voted by the legisla ture. The tax commission has figures from twenty-five counties giving the 1913 county tax, tho highest levy in any city, and the total for nil purposes In such cities. The gross tax lit these cities ranges from 41.3 to 94.5 mills the lnttcr being a very extreme figure for Furnas county. Estimating the average tax for all communities, rural as well as urban, the tax commission thinks 40 mills to be about right Discuss New State Reformatory. Tho question as to whether the new reformatory created by the last legis lature shall exist as a part of or sep arato from the Btato prisou has called out varying opinions. A number oi views have been expressed along the lino of a proposal made by A. L Weatherly. His argument has been that the penitentiary Is reformatory enough. Warden Fenton and others with tho other side of tho story, a side that has heretofore been given little publicity, take exception to any im pression at large that reformatory Ideas havo not already crept Into the prison. It Is a reformatory along gen eral lines with but ono idea upper most tho training of men to better fit themselves to bo useful members of society. Ho favors the establish ment of a sort of Junior reformatory, but thinks It should bo under a separ ate head. To Advertise Nebraska Resources. weeping campaigns for collection of a fund to advertise Nebraska's re sources at the Panama-Pnclflc exposi tlon are to begin at once. The com mittee named to initiate the move ment met and organized by electing Potor Jensen of Beatrice, chairman; John L. McCague of Omaha, vice-chairman, nnd George Wolz of Fremont, treasurer. Tho seven executive state ofllclals are to serve on tho committee ns members cx-ofllclo. Dr. Bessey Returns from Arizona. Dr. Bessey, senior dean and head of tho department of botuny of Nebraska university returned last week after spending a month In the desert region surrounding Tuscon, Arizona. He mado a special study of tho cactuses and other spiny plants, and will prepare papers to bo given before several sci entific organizations in the near fu ture. """ May Meet Competition. Railroads or the stato are entitled to charge 2 cents a mllo for passenger fares In this state, despite short line competition between nny two cities. Where tho carriers elect to meet com petition and mako a lower rate,that Is within their prerogative, but the rail way commission cannot order It, ac cording to a statement by Chairman Clarke. Tho question was raised as a result of the commission's action in allowing the Northwestern to charge Tor tho full mileage between Omaha and Fremont on nil passenger traffic C. L. Rein, secretary to Chancellor Avery, has delivered n strong box con taining somo three thousand signa tures to tho university location peti tion to the stnto house. This com pletes tho work of securing signatures and tho question will bo ready for sub mission to tho voters at tho November election. Theso last signatures cover tho 2,877 which wero stricken off by tho secretary of state because of lack of county certification, many of tho petitions designated as coming from rertnln counties being In reality from several counties. NEWS FROM STATE HOUSE ' Reappralsemont of 89,000 acres of school land of half a dozen counties 6f tho state will be undertaken nt tho order of the board of educational lands and funds. The largest nmount is in Keya Paha county, where 35,000 acres will be reappraised. The school of pharmacy at tho stato university Is planning to devote i' week tho second In Mny to showing Its development. A program of con vocation, a banquet tendered to tho stato pharmaceutical association, and other activities of the students will go to make the week notable. ' The Nebraska state banking board has granted a charter to a company of Alliance buslnoss men, incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000, for tho purpose of doing a general banking business under the name of the First State Bank of Alliance. A collection of specimens gathered by Archaeologist Robert F. Gilder of tho state museum and Professor Sterns of Hnrvard university hns been shipped to the university by tho Omaha man. Practically all of tho relics were gathered In mounds opened In Sarpy, Washington and Douglas counties. , Nebraska women will take part In a' series of big suffrage rallies which are being held In a number of eastern cities, New York, Boston, Springfield, Philadelphia and Pittsburg. No women will go In person from this state to take part in the demonstra tions, but several reels of moving pic tures of the Nebraska campaign have been sent there to be part of the show. From now on Nebraska will have ninety-three instead of ninety-two counties. The legality of the organl zutlon of Arthur county has been de termined by the stato supreme court The act of tho 1913 legislature was validated and authority given for Ar thur county to maintain an existence separate from McPherson county, wltb which It has been connected for twenty-seven years. Ofllcers of the Monroe Telephone company, which recently bought out tho Bell at that place, called on the railway commission and asked permis sion to increase the rate on 125 busi ness phones to $2.50. They were told by Commissioner Hall that this ap peared to bo a high rate for a town of that size, and the company would have to make a showing to justify it before the increase would be allowed. A petition signed by 102 residents ol Keith county has asked the state prison board to recommend a pardoD for William Swan, who Is serving an Indeterminate sentence for killing q steer belonging to George McGinley. Swan has a wife and three children, Edward Deque, also convicted on the same charge, has a wife and eight children. He said the steer was killed because the family needed food. Farmers In eastern Nebraska aro preparing to make extensive use of the weather and precipitation service ol the weather bureau during the alfalfa season. By means of the telephone, they will keep in touch with the cen ters of information and supplement tho forecasts in the newspapers wlUi special information. This matter has been taken up by government experts and announcements doubtless will ba made next month. Commissions havo been Issued by the national gunrd headquarters to the following newly chosen company ofll cers: Beaver City. Company I, Fifth regiment, Captain James Amtell; Sec ond Lieutenant C. F. Cadwallader, Blair, Company F. Fourth regiment, Captain Charles Gaydou; First Lieu, tenant F. W. Jones and Second Lieu tenant G. B. Wlllsey. Norfolk, Second Lieutenant C. L. Anderson, quarter master Third battalion. Secretary Sbahan of the state prison board, gets monthly reports -from the convicts who have been released from the penitentiary on parole. Thero are 10G of these now enjoying conditional liberty. Moht or them write that they aro getting along well, and a number are earning fair wages. One man says that ho had to visit a saloon on busi. ness for his employer, but that he asked to have his duties changed so ho would not have to go thero again and his request was granted. Hoping to recover damages for the corn which ho nlleges a largo flock of Canada geese and pintail ducks havo eaten in his fields, J. M. Calkins of Bayare'ias written the game commis sion for Information as to how he shall go about It to obtain his money. The situation is n hard ono to solve, bo cause the new fedora! game law pre vents tho farmer from shooting- the fowls. An attorney here suggested that the ducks and geese mlht bo considered in tho light of trespassers. and as such could bo shot at In the event that they did not depart. Stato Treasurer George's monthly report shows that the total balance la tho state ' treasury decreased from $740,255.41 to $577.87C during the. month' of March. The receipts were $224,G45.8G and the disbursements $383,025.27. From tho permanent school fund, $72,554 was paid out for bonds bought as an investment. Tho treasurer now carries $100,256,511 of general rund warrants as an Invest ment ror tho university building fund. This swells the total Investment ot the state of $9.G48,4fi5.29.
