Nebraska Newspapers

    THE 8EMI.WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
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INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
Includes What Is Going On at Wash
Ington and In Other Sections of
the Country.
WASHINGTON.
Interstate commcrco subcommittee
agreed on Cullop bill for uniformity
of railroad freight classification.
Representatives have agreed to
Give right of way to general dam bill
without Interfering with appropria
tions bill nnd special days.
Grain Dealers' National assocla
tlon urged certificates of grain in
spection as evldcnco of the grade of
grain at -hearing before agricultural
committee.
The house judiciary committeo sub
committee has bfgun hearings on
charges against Associate .lustlco
Wright of tho District of Columbia
Bupromo court.
Hearings have began beforo the
elections committee in the contest of
John J. Carney, democrat, for Boat
occupied by Ilepresentatlve Morgan
of Oklahoma.
Tito senato refused to reconsider
the vote by which it approved the con
ference report on tho agricultural ex
tension bill, Tho measure now goes'
to tho president.
Raker bill to create a national park
eervlco bureau in tho Interior depart
ment is being urged beforo public
lands committeo by Assistant Sec
retary Adulph Mlllor.
'
Senator Thomas, In a Bpeech urged
senators to refrain from expressions
tss to who Is to blamo for ,the Col
orado strike situation that "Inflamed
eontlment may bo allayed,"
Hearings are boing continued in
tho house on public lands committeo
on tho water power bill and by tho
agricultural committor, on anti-futures
and grain standardisation legislation.
Tho senato woman suffrage commit
tee has voted to recommend favor
ably tho senate and Shnfroth consti
tutional amendment requiring a state
to vote pn woman suffrage when 8
per cent of Uio voters petitioned fdr
euch a voto.
By a voto of thirty-soven to twenty,
tho aonnto defeated tho bill of Sonntor
McGumber, providing for the federal
inspection nnd grading of grain enter
ing into Interstate commcrco, and de
signed to secure uniformity in stand
ards and classification of grain.
Negotiations with Great Britain and
Canada for transfer of southeast
'Alaska to Canada, by salo or exchango
or both, with "repeal of tho Hay
Pauncofoto treaty as ono of tho con
ditions of tho transfer," has boen pro
posed in a resolution introduced by
Representative Smith of Maryland,
Tho liouso bill to repeal toll exemp
tion for American ships passing
through tho Panama canal, with tho
amendment proposed by Senator
Simmons, declaring that by repealing
exemption tho United States waived
od sovereign rights ovpr tho canal,
was reported to tho senato without
recommondatlon by tho committee On
interoceanlc canal.
DOMESTIC.
Mrs, Anna M. Bruen of Bclvidore,
N. J., who colebrated Lor nlnoty
eecond brthday recently, has been a
Sunday school toachor for eighty
years.
After hiding from tho Mexican fed
crals In Monterey for several months,
Benjamin Madoro, brother of the late
Francisco Madoro, camo out of seclus
ion when tho constitutionalists cap
tured tho city, nnd arrived with a
party of thlrty-llvo American refu
gees In BrowiiBVlllo, Tex., with his
family. t
A regulation of trans-continental
railroads limiting- the application of
commodity rates from California tor
minals to eaatorn destinations to arti
cles shipped in boxes "mado entirely
of wood or of wood nnd metal." was
hold by tho Interstate Commerce com
mission at Washington to be unrea
sonable and unjustly discriminatory,
The navy department has sont or
ders to tho naval recrutlng stations
to accept no moro applications for on
Hutment In the navy except from
thoso who have boon honorably dis
charged. The Now York Stock exchange oftl
dally announced tho default of tho
semi-annual Interest payment on tho
4 par cent gold bonds of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Paclflo Railroad Com
pany nnd tho General Hen 5 per cent
bonds of tho St. Louis and San Fran
cisco STlnllroad company,
Hearings on tho bill to repeal the
free tollB provision of the Panama ca
nal act havo been closed and tho sen.
etc canal rommlttoe will begin con
liberation in legislative session of a
report to the senate.
BREFLY
OLD
There aro 50,527,000 cattlo on Unit
ed States farms.
Ono factory In Ohio makes 360,000,
000 bungs yearly from 10,000,000 feof
of poplar and oak.
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Democrats have named '15,310 now
fourth-clais postmasters slnco com
ing Into power.
English companies havo been form
ed with aggregate capital of $16,
000,000 to exploit Persian oil-Holds.
W. M. Paxton, 91, Platto City, Mo.,
has won a prizo for attending Sunday
school for more than sixty years with
out miBsing a Sunday.
James Connnughton, principal
keeper of Sing Sing prison, Now
York state, Is taking, in a hospital,
his first vacation in thlty-olght yeas.
Chairman Harlan of the Interstate
Commerce commission announced on
resumption of arguments in the ad
vanco rato cane that discussion must
conclude soon,
Fire dostroyed the big plants of the
Atlantic Fertilizer company and tho
United States Fertilizer company,
The total loss is estimated at $1,
350,000, covered by Insurance.
Willi King Georgo was driving in
a motor car. through Cambridge a Bijf
fragetto approached his automobile
and threw at his majesty a petition
calling for votes for women. The
package struck tho chauffeur.
Dr. Joseph Hill White, senior Bur
geon of tho public health service ol
tho United States, haB gone to Pan
ama to undertake a study of the con
dltlons In regard to tho hookworm
there.
Mrs. James Folio, in the presence
of many of her women friends, cross
ed tho Calumet river at Chicago by
walking over tho new bridge on an-olghteon-inch
steel beam. She is tho
wifo of ono of tho engineers employed
on tho work.
Work of removing the bodies of the
172 men who lost their lives in an ex
plosion In Mine No. 5 of tho Now
River Collorles company has begun.
Of tho twenty bodies found at the
bottom of tho Bhaft, fourteen had
bo2n brought to tho surface.
Dr. Theodore C. Janoway of Colum
bia university, New York, has ac
cepted tho professorship of medicino
in Johns Hopkins university under
tho full tlmo or university basis mado
poBslblo by tho gift of tho $1,500,000
by tho Genoral Education board.
Tho boaVd of bishops of the Method.
1st Episcopal church, which Is hold
lng ta heml-annual conference nt Phil
adelphia, has approved tho plan of the
church throughout tho world to raise
$5,000,000 for tho support of superan
uated clorgymen and their widows.
.
Continued allegiance to tho pro
gressive party was pledged by mem
hors of tho natlonnl executive com
mitteo of tho progressives in a cable
gram sent to Colonel Roosevelt. The
messngo was in reply to ono received
from tho former president statins
that ho expected to announce his fu
turo plans In a few days.
A man about CO years old, who de
scribed himself as Major Honry C.
Fitzgerald, an American, and bellov
ed to have been formerly paymaster
on tho staff of General Morritt in tho
Philippines, was found shot nt the
Charing Cross hotel in London. He
died lutor In a hospital. Tho police
aro of tho opinion that ho committed
suicide.
Alum baking powers nre no more
harmful to tho health of a porsor
than any othor baking powders, bul
It Is wise to bo moderate in tho us
of foodB that aro leavened with bak
lng powder. Such Is tho conclusion
announcod of tho roforeo board of con
sulting sclontinc oxports of tho do'
partmont of agriculture as the rosult
of experiments to determine tho in.
fluence of nlumou compounds on tho
nutrition nnd health of man.
In a statomont Just Issued showing'
tho death rato from cancer in 1913,
tho Amorlcan society for the proVon
tlon of cancer calls attention to tho
need of tho national movement to
chock tho death rato from ths source.
For Now York City tho tho rato was
olghty-two In each 100,000 of tho pop
ulation against an average of seventy
nine for tho last live years. For Bos
ton tho rato whb 118 against an avor
ago of sovonty-nlno for tho last live
yoavs, and for Chicago, elghty-sla
against nn average of elghty-ono
Other cities showed similar increases
In tho last five years.
FOREIGN.
King Victor Emmanuel Intends to
nominate William Marconi a senator
at an early dato. Marconi has now
reached tho ago of forty years, which
makoB him eligible for that position.
Marquis dl San Glultano, the minis
ter of foreign affairs, hoa been In
terrogafed by Deputy Foderzonl ns tc
what protection waB being cxtondod
to Italian subjecs and interests In
Mexico.
Ernesto Nathan, former mayor of
Homo, who has booninnnnlntnri min.
lster plenipotentiary to- ropresont Italy
at tho ranama-Pacinc exposition, will
sail from Rome, May 13 for Now York.
He will go to' Washington to visit
President Wilson and then proceed to
San Francisco.
WHAT MEXICANS
HAVE FOUGHT FOR
Agrarian Democracy Has Been
the Aim of the Peon Class
for Past Century.
STRUGGLE STILL GOING ON
Position of Revolutionists and Consti
tution of 1857 for Which Thoy
8tand, Set Forth In Book by
Senor do Lara.
In tho confusion and lack of exact
knowledge that attend tho embrogllo
with Mexico the big Ibbuo that has
moved tho Mexican people to rovolt
against Huorta has been lost Bight of
or Is not known to most Americans.
What the people of Mexico havo
fought for from tho first war of in
dependence, and what they aro fight
ing for now under Carranza and Villa
is tho right to buy nnd till farms.
For a hundred years tho peon class
has waged a continuous struggle to
nchloyo agrarian democracy. Tirao
after tlmo tho revolution has been
carried to the verge of success, and
tlmo after time the Mexican ruling
claBB has Invoked foreign intervention
in order to prolong Its power. "
All this and a great deal more is
made clear In a book Just published
by Doubloday, Page & Co., "The Mexi
can People; Their Struggle for Free
dom," by L. Gutierrez de Lara and
Edgcomb Plnchon. It is frankly a
statement of tho position of tho rev
olutionists, and shows why thoy be
lieve American intervention In Moxl
co at tho present time would only
bring about moro loss of Hto and
worso conditions In tho long run.
Senor de Lara has much to say
about tho constitution of 1857, that
has been ruthlessly set aside- by suc
cessive governments, and ho gives
n digest of that instrument, tho heads
of which follow:
Article 1. The Mexican peoplo recog
nize that the rights of men are the
foundation and the purpose of social
Institutions. In consequence they pro
claim that all the laws and authorities
of tho country must respect and sus
tain the warranties stipulated by this
constitution.
Article II. In tho republic every one
Is born free. Tho slaves who step
Into tho national territory recover their
freedom by this mere fact, and havo
tho right of tho protection of tho law.
Artlclo III. All education is free.
Tho law will determlno which profes
sion neods a diploma for Its exor
ciso, and what requisites are to bo
fulfilled.
This fundamental prlnclplo was
later amplified to mako education uni
versal, free, non-sectarian and com
pulsory. Artlclo IV. Every man Is free to
adopt tho profession, trado, or work
that BUlts him, It being useful and
honest; and to enjoy tho product
thereof.
Artlclo V. No man shall be com
pelled to work without his plain con
sent and without Just compensation.
Tho state will not permit to becomo
offectlvo any contract, pact or agree
ment with tho purpose of tho curtail
ment, the loss or tho lrrovocablo sac
rifice of the liberty of any man, may
tho cauBO bo for personal labor, edu
cation, or religious vows. The law In
consoquenco does not recognize mon
astic orders, and will not permit their
establishment, no matter what may bo
tho denomination or purpose for which
they pretend to bo established. Neith
er will be pormltted a contract cr
agreomont by which a man makes a
pact for his proscription or exile.
Article VI. Tho expression of ideas
shall not be subjected to any Judicial
or governmental prosecution except
In casoB of attack upon tho public
morality, tho rights of a third party,
or tho prevention of a crime or a dis
turbance of public order.
Article VII. Tho liberty of writing
and publishing writings upon any mat
ter Is inviolable. No previous censor
ship nor Imposition of bonds upon tho
writers nor tho publishers for tho pur
poso of curtailing the freedom of tho
press can bo established by any law
or authority, such freedom being re
Btrlctod to respect of private life, mor
als and public business.
Article VIII. This deals with tho
right of petition to tho government.
Artlclo IX. This glvea tho right of
aBsombly.
Artlclo X. This establishes the right
of every man to possess and carry
arms for his safety and legitimate
defonse.
Artlclo XI. This deals with Immlgro
tlon to the country and other traveling
both from tho country and Into tho
same.
Artlclo XII, This establishes tho In
validity of all titles of nobility, pre
rogatives and hereditary honors.
Artlclo XIII. In tho Mexican Repub
lic no one shall be subjected to pri
vate laws nor special courts. No man
or corporation shall enjoy fuoros or
receive emoluments unloss they bo a
compensation for public services and
already fixed by law.
Artlclo XIV. This establishes the
principle that no one shall bo tried by
rotroactlvo laws.
Artlclo XV. No treaties can be made
for the extradition of political offend
ers; neither for those criminals whoso
crime was committed In a country
whero thoy had boen slaves; neither
can a treaty or agreement bo made by
which the warranties or rights that
this constitution gives to man or citi
zen bo aPored.
Artlclo XVI. Thla nrtlcle establishes
tho principle that the family and domi
cile are inviolable, except for tho pur
poses of arrest under a wnrrant from
a proper court expressing tho charge.
Article XVII. No one shall bo arrest
ed or imprisoned for debts of a purely
civil character. No one shall exercise
violence to claim his rights. Tho
courts will always bo ready for tho
administration of Justice. This will
bo free, the costs being abolished,
Artlclo XXVII. Prlvato property shall
not bo taktjn without the consent of
the owner, excopt In caso of public
utility, and by Just payment therefor.
Religious corporations or institutions,
no matter of what denomination,
character, durability or purpose, and
civil corporations whert under the pat
ronage, direction or superlntendency
of religious institutions, or ministers
of nny cult, shall not have the legal
capacity to acquire or manage any
real estate excopt tho buildings which
are used Immediately and directly for
the services of the said institutions J
neither will tho law recognize any
mortgage on any property held by
these Institutions.
Article XXVIII. State and church
are Independent. Congress cannot
make any law establishing or forbid
ding any religion.
Tho practical abrogation of tho con
stitution under Diaz and Iluerta has
resulted In the building up of a privi
leged class and the cruel exploitation
of tho people. Vast territories have
passed into private ownership. The
disinherited peon has become tho vir
tual slave of tho land owners, and
freedom has been a privilege pur
chased from tho government by those
who had tho means.
These are the conditions that De
Lara1 pictures, and it is to end them
the present light of the constitution
alists Is waging.
FORCED TO BUY PROTECTION
Refugees Arriving at Vera Cruz Tell
of Paying Money to Huerta's
Soldiers.
Vera Cruz. Sixty-three members of
tho Medina colony In the state of
Oaxaca are among the refugees who
have arrived here. They were held
two days in Cordoba and report thoy
were well treated, except that they
were obliged to Bleep on the floora of
the barracks. They were relieved of
guns, but not of the scanty belongings
which thoy were able to bring with
them.
J. W. Elliott, a locomotive engineer,
was in Tierra Blanca when news of
tho occupation of Vera firuz rpnchntl
him. With his wife and children he'
started for Cordoba under guard of
Mexican Boldlers.- At Cordoba tho
guards said they were hungry and de
manded i50 pesos on the threat to sun
render Elliott and his family to a
howling mob which surrounded the
station arid filled tho streets.
The money was paid and Elliott and
hlB family were marched moro than a
inllo through tho streets to the bar
racks, hounded all tho way by the
mobs. Thoy were kept in tho barracks
six days, during the first two ot which
crowds surrounded tho place demand
ing their lives. On two occasions
members of tho mob forced their way
into tho barracks and except for the
efforts of tho colonel and two other
officers Elliott and his family would
undoubtedly have been killed. Toward
tho end of their stay tho demonstra
tions ceased to a large extent.
Manager Boyd of tho Motzorongo
Hacienda, when ho arrived at Cordo
ba, was forced by the federal guards
to pay 1,050 pesos for protection
through tho streets to the Jail.
Circulars containing tho words"KIH
tho Gringocs" and urging the people
to rise and massacre the prisoners
were posted about Cordoba.
One of tho refugees who have ar
rived here lrom tho interior is F. W.
Lehmer, a ranch manager from Tux
topec, whoso homo is in Omaha and
who was on hlB way to Vera Cruz for
a visit, not knowing of the develop
ments here. He was picked up at
Tierra Blanca by federal Boldlera.
"I waB placed with ten others in a
train which was etandlng overnight,
surrounded by a mob which continu
ally threatened to attackus," he said.
"Tho guards ate up everything avail
able on the train, compelling ub to go
hungry. At every station up to Cor
doba, on tho following day, similar
crowds looted the train and' threatened
us.
"Whllo being taken through the
streets of Cordoba a squad of young
volunteers who had Just been pre
sented with a flag swept down upon
ub and tried to run us down. This hap
pened at the corner whero the mu
nicipal palace Is located or otherwise
we would not havo escaped as well as
we did. As It waB, I waB hit on tho
head with a flagstaff and a man walk
ing beside mo was struck on tho head
with a rock. His scalp was badly cut.
"It was due to the fine conduct ot
the Mexican colonel that wo ever
reached tho palace. He rushed from
the door "with a squad ot police and
soldiers and plunged into tho crowd,
scattering them nnd surrounding us.
"Later we were put iu tho peniten
tiary, nnd for bIx days we slept on the
stone flagging. There were two wom
en In the party, ono with a llttlo baby,
We wero allowed to send out and buy
blankets, and managed to get enough
to eat, such as it was.
"Monday wo wero placed on a
train and brought dovy to Soledad.
We spent that night on tho tracks.
Thero was one passenger coach left
for ub nnd in this the women and
children slept, the rest of us sleeping
on the ground."
BTA if RESIGN
IS LOOKING FOR A PLACE OP
SAFETY.
WOULD SIMPLIFY MEDIATION
Believed Carranza Might Treat With
Successor and Hasten End of
Hostilities.
Vera Cruz. Persistent reports con
tinue to circulate here that General
Huerta Intends to retire from the pro
visional president of Mexico on con
dition that ho bo 'assured a safo con
duct to a port and placed on board a
foreign war ship.
It is declared in somo Mexican cir
cles here that General Huerta was
ready to resign a week ago, but was
prevented from so doing by internal
dissensions in Ills cabinet.
The disappearanco from the Mexi
can cabinet of Jose Lopez Portillo y
Rojas, the foreign minister, coupled
with reports that thero 1b a growing
undercurrent of feeling in Mexico
City against the Huerta government
Is Interpreted hero as foreshadowing
l change in the situation in tho fed
eral capital.
Some of tho closest observers of
the government's situation assert
that Senor Roja's resignation may
clear tho way for tho appointment of
i foreign minister who, under tho
Mexican constitution, could succeed
General Huerta as president. In these
clrclos it Is pointed out that whllo
Carranza declined to treat with Gen
eral Huerta he might consent to enter
into negotiations with his successor
and thus facilitate mediation. The ef
fect of the continued rebel successes
in the north and tho outcome of tho
pending attack on Tampico may, ac
cording to well Informed opinion,
bring about a rapid change in Mexico
City.
General Sickles Dead.
New York. General Daniel E. Sic
kles died at his home shortly after 9
:'clock Sunday night His wifo was at
his bedside at the end. -
Mrs. Sickles', who had been estrang
ed from her husband for more, than a
quarter of a century, went to the gen
sral'B house when she was informed
bo was dying and took charge of tho
arrangements for his care. She re
mained near his sido and watched by
him until his death.
The final reconciliation was brought
ibout largely through the efforts of
their son, Stanton, it Is understood.
Genoral Sickles' death was duev to
cerebral hemorrhage and paralysis,
llo had been In a comatose condition
for a day. Besides Mrs. Sickles, their
son, Stanton, and the general's negro
servant, who had attended him for
years, wero at the bedside.
Miners Will Consider Strike.
Indianapolis, Ind. Whether the
United Mine Workers of America
ahall call a nation-wide strike to pro
test against conditions in the mining
districts of Colorado probably will bo
decided by the executive committeo
of tho organization here. Petitions
from district conventions and locals
havo urged that tho miners call a
general strike.
Carranza Declines Truce.
..El Paso, Tex. General Carranza de
clined the suggestion of tho modlators
that he ceaso hostilities against Huor
ta pending the outcome of the plan
of mediation.
No Importance 1b attached here to
tho report that the rebels and federals
at Tampico ore arranging a truce.
It is assumed that the cassation of
hostilities 1b for the purpose of bury
ing tho dead or removing the wounded.
8on Born to Mr. and Mrs. Barton.
Washington. Representative Silas
R. Bnrton of Nebraska is now tho
father of a nine-pound boy. Mrs. T. E.
Barton of Aurora, Neb., and Mrs.
Richard Lee Metcalfe of Lincoln,
grandmothers of Master Barton, to
gether with other members of tho
Metcalfe family, aro in Washington
and Joined Mr. nnd Mrs. Barton In
celebrating tho happy event.
Mexican Vessel Sunk by Mine.
Mexico City. A dispatch Bald to
come from Manzanlllo on the Pacific
coast announces that tho Mexican
steamer Luella was sunk in the har
bor by the explosion of a mine which
had been planted for the United
Statos protected cruiser Raleigh. No
loss of life Is mentioned. Tho steam
er belonged to the Pacific Railway
company.
War Minister Resigns.
Mexico City. Jose Lopez Portillo
y Rojas, Mexican foreign minister, has
resigned. Entava Ruiz, under-sccro
tary to the foreign office, also re
signed. House Gift Is Tea Service.
Washington. A silver tea sevlco,
supplemented by a pair of silver can
d elabra, 1b the house of representa
tive's weddiuc gift for Miss Eleanor
Wilson, tho president's youngest
daughter. Her marriage to Secretary
MoAdoo takes place May 7.
Gasoline In Radiator.
Magnolia, la. Angus Purcell nar.
rowly oscnped serious injury by tho
explosion of gasoline that he mistook
for water, and had poured into tho
radiator of hla car.
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
A farmers society of equity has
been organized nt Hebron.
Bluo Springs Is laying plans for tho
organization of a commercial club.
The commercial clubs' association
ot Nebraska will meet at Grand Island
May G nnd 7.
Tho First National bank of York
colebrated its thirty-second anniver
sary last week.
Petitions are being circulated at
Boatrlco for the issuanco of bonds for
four miles of paving.
Lincoln Boachey will loop the loop
nnd fly upsldo down at tho faebralka
state fair, September 7-11.
Arthur, county seat of tho new
county of that name, Is enjoying a
substantial building boom.
Thomas Hamer died In a Kearney
hospital of blood poisoning, tho result
of bruises sustained in a fall.
A. Balfanz, a former Hastings boy,
was among the American boys wound
ed in the attack on Vera Cruz.
The applicants for marriage licenses
in Johnson county show a falling oft
for last year over former years.
The city commissioners of Beatrko
havo granted six saloon licenses, the
fees of which amount to $1,800 each.
The Missouri synod of the Lutheran
church has purchased lots in West
Beatrice where it will erect a church.
A bond election will be held at
Cedar Bluffs to secure $17,000 for the
erection of a new high school build
ing. Mayor Ingraham drove a mulo team
to one of the city wagons taking part
in tho "clean-up" campaign In Hast
ings. Porforlo del Gado, a Mexican labor
er, was soverely wounded in the leg
when he struck a track torpedo whllo
at work in the Rock Island yards at
Lincoln.
A. W. Relmenschnelder, a lineman,
was instantly killed at Alliance when
ho grasped a wire carrying 2,300 volts
of electricity.
Hounds belonging to H. Scott ot
Shubert killed a grown wolf and found
twelve young ones. Tho bounty
amounted to $39.
Governor Morehead has asked tho
War department to transfer ex-Governor
Shallenberger's son to the Ne
braska National guard.
Charles Foreman, an Otoe county
farmer, was seriously injured when he
was kicked in the side by a horse.
He suffered five fractured ribs.
A number of horses have been
stolen in Jefferson county recently
and Sheriff Ed Hughes is making
every effort to locate the thieves.
Alvin Willis, 18 years old, died at a
hospital Saturday night from injuries
received when he fell down a freight
elevator shaft in the Herpolshelmer
store at Lincoln.
Frank Harrison of Lincoln will con
duct a tourist expedition through Cen
tral America during the summer, tak
ing moving pictures of the various
countries visited.
With a copy of a local paper lying
beside him, containing tho latest news
of the Mexican, situation, T. R. Com
brara, a Mexican, shot himself in his
room at an Omaha hotel.
Sister Agnes, a teacher of music at
the Ursullne convent, York, died
Thursday morning. She had been a
sister at the convent nbout twenty
fivo years.
Farmers near Nichols are sowing
alfalfa with wheat, barley and oats.
They believe that tho alfalfa growing
in the same field with the small grain
will keep out weeds.
A nugget of virgin gold as large as
a filbert was found in the craw of a
rooster being prepared for tho Sunday
dinner for the family of Thomas
O'Neal at Lincoln.
Louis Becker, who shot Harry Klin
ga at Fremont, has been bound over
to the district court on a charge of
shooting with intent to wound. Ho
waived preliminary hearing.
Mrs. Daniel George, aged 74, n
pioneer resident of York, dropped
dead of heart disease, while eating
breakfast She had been living in
York county for nearly fifty years.
A number of supposed oil strikes
aro beiug located in central McPher
son and Arthur counties. The Dickey
ranch near Tyron is one of the latest
prospects to be investigated.
Fenner E. King, boys' work director
of the Lincoln Y. M. C. A., was re
moved from his office in tho associa
tion building to the city pest house,
suffering with a case of smallpox.
The burglars who robbed the New
berry hardware store at Alliance wero
arrested by the police and proved to
be'two young boys, probably bent on
going to war. The guns and most
the cutlery were recovered.
The new postofflco building at David
City is, almost completed. Efforts aro
being made to secure free carrier ser
vice In the city.
Mary Drew, a 15-year-old Fremont
girl, had a narrow escape from death
when a cow she was leading ran away,
entangling her in the rope, ana drag
ging her through a barbed wire fence.
Tho two-year-old daughter of Mr.
nnd Mrs. Frank Copping, living near
Nebraska City, was seriously injured
when sho fell Into a pail of boiling
water. Her face and tho upper por
tion of her body were badly scalded
and her condition is critical.
William Wlcke of Aurora has given
a farm of eighty acres in Hamilton
county, worth $12,000, to York college.
Tho donor of the farm is 70 years of
age.
Victor Halllgan of North Platte,
Neb., during the last football cam
paign staf tackle on tho Cornhusker
eleven, has been chosen to head tho
1914 team.
A meeting of the executive officern
of the state suffragist association has
been called to meet in Lincoln on
May 13 to decido on the formto bo
used in the pamphlet which the state
allows petitioners to send out, .