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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1914)
JL y - ... ' w K KEEPKITDHEttGLEAN IS NO PLACE FOR "PUSSY" "ROVER." OR GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL '4tems of Interest Gathered from Re liable Sources and Presented In Condensed Form to Our - Readers. Western Newspaper Union News Service, Purring old Pussy, who has long hold forth under restaurant stoves or around bakery kitchens, will havo to go. So will Fido and Rover, as well as all dogs and cats. For tho eleventh commandment of the twelvo handed down from tho SInal of the food com mission says: "Tho presenco of cats or dogs Is positively prohibited In any kitchen, dining room, bakery, meat market or other place where food Is producod or prepared." This and other commandments woro evolved In terse form from tho sani tary law of tho state. All food-producing plants and dispensarlbs will bo under this law during tho summer. 'Strict enforcement will be had by tho :food commission Inspectors. The most Important provisions aro as fol io ws: "Tho clothing and person of thoso who -como In contuct with or handle food, must bo clean at all times, and such pcrsohs muat wash their hands thor oughly before beginning work each day Jind after handling any aitlclo which u unclean. "No person who is afflicted with any contagious or Infectious disease shall bo allowed to work In any establishment whore food Is cooked, served, prepared or distributed. Neither shall any person or persons bo allowed to sleep In any such place. "" "Spitting on floors, walls or utensils Is positively prohibited. Cuspidors must bo provided and the same shall bo emptied and cleansed dally. "Every food producing or distributing "establishment during tho fly season shall have all doors, windows and other open ings properly screened. Tho floors, wulls and ceilings of every stlch place, must at nil times bo kept In a clean and sanitary condition. "Refuse, dirt and all other waste and unwholesome products must bo removed cumy. "Unsanitary conditions will be deemed to exist in any food establishment where jiroper precautions aro not taken for the extermination of rats and mlco, cock loaches or vermin. "Tho presence of Cats or dogs Is posi tively prohibited in any kitchen, dining room, bakery, moat market, or other place -Where food Is produced or prepared. "Unw holesomo conditions will bo deemed to oxlst In any kitchen, bakery, meat market or other food producing es tablishment where the smoking of cigars, tplpes or cigarettes is permitted, and tho .samo is positively prohibited!" Issues a Precautionary Warning. Serum, tho prevention of hog chol era and the precautions to bo taken by farmers is tho subject of warnings "being emphasized by the state board of directors. Farmers arc urged to en force an effective quarantine when -cholera breaks out on a farm. It Is a anlstake, it is claimed, to neglect sani tary precautions and to rely -wholly on erum. The serum Is useful, not so much to cure sick hogs, as to prevent other animals from taking the disease. . Tho following precautionary mean ures are necessary: "Do not locate hog lots near a public Uilghway, a stream or a railroad. "Do not allow neighbors or strangers to enter your hog lots and do not go into your neighbors' lots. If you aro compelled to pass from ono hog lot to another, clean your shoes and wash them with a 3 per cent solution of the compound solution of cresol. . "Do not put now stock, either hogs or cattle, in lots with herd already on the farm. "If hog cholera breaks out, separate tho sick from the apparently healthy animals and burn the carcasses of all dead hogs on tho day of death. Beef Producers' Oay. The second annual beef producers' meeting will bo hold at the Nebraska "University Farm, Lincoln, Friday, May 22. At that time tho experimental :cattle fed during the winter will bo on exhibit. Visitors will have an oppor tunity to inspect tho different lots of cattle and" comparo the rations' fed. The figures giving the results of the year's work will bo given out. Tho forenoon will be given over to an in spection of the grounds, experiments, live stock, etc. The regular program will be given at 1 p. ra. Last year neef producers' day proved to bo the event of the season. Indications are that tho meeting this jear will bo hot ter than last. A course teaching students how to operate every sort or motor on the farm, ranging from the traction en gine to thp automobile, will be offered at tho Nebraska University Farm from .Tune 8 to July 3, this summer. Any fble-bodled man over eighteen years it age may register, No educational requirement Is mado, although appli cants are supposed to have completed the eighth grade. The course of study Includes shop practice and a demon stration of tho principles of gasoline and oil engines, steam tractors, and automobiles, Agricultural College Exhibit at Fairs. Tho stato fair, as well as five county fairs, will receive exhibits this year from tho Nebraska college of agricul ture, The fairs to recelvo It are at follows: Clay county fair, Clay Cen ter, August 25, 26, 27; Snunders coun ty fair, Wahoo, September 1, 2, 3, 4; state fair, Lincoln, September 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; Flllmoro county fair, Genova, September 16, 17, 18; Nemaha county fair, Auburn, September 23, 24, 25; Gago county fair. Beatrice Septcmbor 29, 30, October 1. Although a large number of aDDllcatlons wero received. NEWS FROM STATE HOUSE Tho Ivy day festivities of the state universities were celebrated by a holi day arid all day program last Wednesday. Pjofessor Perslngcr of tho state uni versity will sail May 30 for South America, where ho will spend throe months studying life and conditions in that country. if H. W. Smith, editor of tho Soward Indepondeht-Democrat, and a member of tho 1912-13 legislature, has filed for the nomination for state auditor on the democratic ticket. The Nebraska soil survoy In con Junction with the government will make a survey of Gage and Thurston .counties this summer. Assessment of tho soven railroads of tho state has been completed by tho board of assessment and equali zation. No changes were mado over last year. The Union Pacific's total will bo Increased because of added mileage, but that ' will be the only chango for tho state. Stato Treasurer George has Issued a call for $150,000 worth of general fund warrants, effective May 15. Tho call Is for warrants up to No. 8931, and tho last was registered January 26. In all there arc $170,000 In warrants out standing and tho stnto board of as sessment may have to lovy a 1 mill as sessment to call them in. Tho question 'of whether or not a member of the Nebraska national guard should bo required to pay regu lar poll tax is one which has been put up to assessors several times lately. Guardsmen claim they are exempt from either petit or gand Jury duty and also from payment of poll tax and refer to section G493 of tho Nebraska Btatutes Candidates for appointment to tho boys' fair encampment have been busy in a number of counties. Selections are mado by a committee consisting of the county superintendent of schools, the chairman of the county board of commissioners or super visors, the members of the state board of agriculture, tho president of the county agricultural society, nnd tho county farm demonstrator. 'The committee In charge of the out ing of the Nebraska press association, to be held at Epworth Lake park June IS to 23t Is "still hard at work, although they havo already arranged for tho most elaborate and enjoyable program ever before presented to tho news paper people of tho state. Thero will be eight days of relaxation, each suc ceeding morning ushering in a series of events, every ono of them of In creasing Interest. Tho loss of the equipment of com pany F, Fifth regiment, .Nebraska na tional guard, at Wymore is estimated at nearly $5,000. Major J. M. Blrkner of the-adjutant general's office 'was sent to Wymore to Investigate the loss and tho fire which destroyed the prop erty. Ho brought back with him. two rifle barrels that had gone through the fire. They were melted and twist ed and showed the efteots of great heat. That a law placed on the statute books fifty-nine years ago when Ne braska was a territory is still tho law of Nebraska tho state, and that law prohibited the sale of liquor as a bev erage, and therefore the state Is legal ly dry, despite the fact that thero has been saloons in it for many years, Is maintained in tho brief of H. C. and Ada M. Blttonbendor, in the case of tho State of Nebraska ox rel. Henry p. Blttenbender and Ada M. Bitten bender, vs. Tho Excise Board of the City of Lincoln, filed in the supreme court. A vast food products show, portray ing many food establishments in op eration, Including a railroad dining car, will bo given at, this year's stato fair. The state food commission will have chargo. The old agricultural building has been allotted to tho com mission for tho purpose. Secretary Mellor of tho board announces that reports of no Implement display with drawals had been forwarded to him thus far, On tho other hand, he de clared that an unusually large entry list had already been secured and space reserved and paid for by many of them, Tho first manuscript for volume No. 5 of the Nebraska supremo court re ports, which will be printed by a firm at Columbia, Mo., has been forwarded from tho office of Clerk H. C. Lindsay, Printing Commissioner Ludl has gone to Columbia to seo that tho right ma terial Is furnished for tho Job. Under tho contract awarded the next ten volumes will be printed by a firm there. Tho price to be paid Is $1.45 per page for 500 copies. Each volumo contains in the neighborhood of 900 pages, making the total cost o! tho ten volumes $15,000. ThOBo acquainted with the situation declare that a system of honors such as is being advocated at the university would havo a general tendency to broaden the knowledge of tho students trying for them. It Is tho plan to malco tho receipt of honors conditional upon tho recipients doing a certain amount of work outsldo of class. For Instance, If tho person striving for honors woro doing a certain amount of work In American history ho would also bo re quired to get a general knowledge of both European and ancient history. THE SEMLWEEKLV TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATUg, NEBRASKA. !!VHiAZr ..o!w9gR:.ui:iiiii..irK364,.. -. "JUST PLAIN "? . ticcd that ovory cover as it loft his place waB bare except for tho bones. Ho appeared to bo as valiant with the trencher as with tho cup. "I'm Just a plain old Indian," Is a phraBo of which Huorta la fond in allusions to himself and his democratic tastes. Ho vaunted that humblo origin not long since at a banquet to which tho fashionable Jockey club In vited him. "A few weoka ago I couldn't havo ,ot Inside this placo," ho said to his entertainers. "Thoro haB boon no change Jn mo. 1 am the samo old Indian that I was. Yet now you lot me sit down and drink champagne with you as if you thought mo as good as you aro." " v The Jockey club hostB laughed feebly, as though they didn't quito seo tho Joke. HOW HUDDLEST0N GOT THE JOB "I heard you people wanted to a congressman, so havo come hire down to seo If I can got tho Job." Ho got it. This is how Georgo Huddleston npplled for Oscar Undorwood's Job as congressman from tho Ninth Alabama district, and tho manner of application and tho results nro characteristic of liuddleston. Ho is as unlike Under wood as a gatllng gun is unlike a silk bat Underwood la a largo man physi cally, temperamentally reserved, suave and polished of manner, and rather distinguished In appearanco. Huddleston Is a little, frail-looking man, without social gloss, and utterly lacking in the physical char acteristics that aro supposed to adorn thoso qf his aggressive, fighting tern perament. When Underwood wants anything ho proceeds cautiously, pulling a wire here and there: a strinir thoro. vnt. h?111 uh?twhe,8tBrted Ut t0 SZSSdSr AFTER A SECOND and ho did not disappoint them. As usual, sotuo ambitious Democrats havo been busy during the senator's attention to senatorial duties and havo an Bounced their ambition to succeed him as senator. While Mark waB not alarmed, he thought It tho part of wisdom to look things over. NOT AFTER ANOTHER TERM James Francis Burke, ever vigi lant, aggressive, industrious, also debonair, startled his congressional associates by announcing that he would not ask another term this year. Tho Hon. James Francis has had five terms from the most populous Pitts burgh district, which stdod firmly for tho Republican fa'th In both distress ing campaigns of 1910 nnd 1912. The Burke wa.v of handling things (n campaign years and between times had much to do with keeping his small, compact part of tho Pennsylva nia map lo7a! to the Republican party and therft may be some wonder that a young 7.Jorabor eg sure of return f.hould prepare to drop out. Burke ox plain It In these words: Yospito Importunities I havo posi tively refused to again return to con grws. Ten years Is enough for any oue unless' he determines to make politics the solo object of his career. Tho tlmo to quit Is when you are strong, and In my case, business has attained such proportions as to demand ray undivided attention." ' ' ""MiHHmMmmmiiH . ..ew v.' wiiiiitfsffsssjsj- " i V,- ""WM1ITOW"W jr g mtammmma f OLD INDIAN" Hy common report General Iluer ta, Moxlco's present dictator, Is much given to convivial pursuits. HIa prowoss with tho cognac bottlo la much lauded, but how much truth thoro may bo In this robsIp is hard to toll. Ono hears all sorta of stories, says an Amorlcan closo to tho Mexi can dictator, but It is a serious ques tion whether his alleged dovotlon to tho bottlo over Interferes seriously with his mental procosses or with his work. Save for his poor eyesight ho looks physically fit. Probably ho Is mucn more robust and actlvo mental ly and bodily than tho nverago Amorl can approaching sixty. Huorta is nearly that ago. Ho has led an out door life, working hard, sleeping long and eating slmplo food. Indootl, ho eats whatever Is sot before him and seems to assimilate It. Ono who sat near him recently at a banquet no- get' When Huddleston wants anything ,d and haB th b.al 'advantage SENATORIAL TERM Fine, bluff Marcus Aurollus Smith, senator from Arizona, has gone homo for a short session of stirring up things and is making suro of a second senatorial term. Ho was given tho abort term whon Arizona placed her star on the flag, but It was understood that honorable Mark would eventually benefit with a full term during tho period of Democratic ascendency In the new state a stato that owes more to Mark Smith than any other Blngle cltizpn within her borders for his ef forts as delegato to accomplish stato hood and raako it posslblo to have senators. For some sixteen years Mark Smith waB delegate In congross from Arizona without a voto, but powerful otherwise, especially whon the bound less West waa Interested In legisla tion. In all the yeara of tho Honor able Mark in congress thero was con fldeuce among his friends that bo would some day como back as senator. 040tO00OfOlO00OfOHOCHCHO00000OfOQ!40 " ' ' - i mi New Indian Animal Stories How the Rattlesnake Killed the Sun's Daughter By JOHN HOOOfOOOaiOiOtOtOOKnOrOtQKHOOiOTOOKHOKM Color This Picture (Copyright, 19H, by the McCluro News paper Syndicate.) Long tlmo ago, when tho sun was hot overhead, tho old men would call to tho little boys to como Into tho shndo nnd stop playing for a tlmo. "Tho old lady Sun Is stopping nt the houso of her daughter for dlnnor," they would say, "and you bettor wait till eho is on her way toward tho cool land in tho WeBt boforo you go out again." And tho boys would como Into tho houso and bog tho old man who had called them in to toll about tho tlmo tho rattlesnake was sent up to kill tho Bun, but only succeeded in killing tho sun's daughtor. This Is tho way It was: In that tlmo tho sun had no homo at all, but had to keep travollng up the Bky from tho eaBt and down tho alty In tho west and under tho earth whllo it was dark day after day and day after day. But tho daughter of the nun had a nlco houso right up In tho middlo ot tho sky, and ovory day tho Bun would stop thero for dinner. And ovory day tne sun nnd tho Bun's daughter would havo a dispute about how the people on tho earth looked. Tho Bun said that tho poople wero ugly, for they scrowod up their, faces whon thoy looked up at nor; but tho buh'b daughter Bald that tho pooplo wero smiling and handsome, for sho nover went out of her liouso until the sun was down past tho edge of the west, and then tho peoplo could look at her without squinting their eyos. And tho sun would get angry and shlno down on tho earth bo hot that tho pooplo would swelter, and many of them becamo Blck. That pleased tho sun, but it did not ploaso the sun's daughter, who was friendly with man. So tho aun'B daughtor sont a mossago Baying that tho llttlo pooplo of tho woods (tho Yunwi Tsunsdl) would toll man howvto stop tho heat sickness. When tho chief or tho Yunwi BOOMERANG IS EASILY MADE Two Pieces of Light, Hard Wood, 14 Inches Long Are First Needed How It Is Thrown. In making a boomerang first procure two pieces of light hard wood, 14 Inches long, 1 inches wldo and 3-10 of an inch thick. NallHhom together In tho center as shown. The nails A Boomerang. should bo clenched on tho other sido to make a strong Joint. FIguro 2 Bhowa how to throw it. It will go In a circle and most alwnys como behind the thrower. A light wind should be blowing to,, make it work nroDerly. M. OSKISON M " tT" ''' to Suit Yourself. Tsunsdl camo to seo tho wlao medi cine men, ho told them that tho only thing to do was to send some ono -up to tho houso of tho daughtor of tho Bun to kill tho sun whon she stopped thoro for dinner. And tho wiso raedl clno men sold thoy would do that. For a long time, the wiso medicine men talked about who would bo bost to send, nnd finally thoy decided that tho copporhead snako nnd tho spread-lng-nddor snako ought to go, for thoy would bo suro to kill tho sun If thoy bit her. So tho copporhead nnd tho spread-lng-adder wont and hid themsolvea Just outsldo tho door of tho houso of the daughter of tho sun whllo the sun was inBlde eating dinner. But whon the sun stopped out, Bho was bo red and angry that tho spreadlng-adder snake waB blinded and all ho could do was to bwoII up and spit out yollow slime Just as ho doos to this day whon ho is stirred. And when tho copporhend saw that tho spreadlng-adder couldn't do anything, ho ran away. Thon tho wiso mediclno men had to como togothor again and find another mossongor to send up to tho house ot tho duughtor of tho sun. This time it wns tho rattlesnake who wentj and ho collod down right beside tho.door, with his oyos closed, And whon ho hoard somo ono coming out of tho houso ho aprangjiko a flash of light ning nnd struck. But It waa tho daughtor of the sun who had como out, nnd bo it was sho who wa8 klllod. Aa soon as ho had struck, tho rattlesnake came back to man and said that ho had done his work. At first, tho p'cople did not know that tho rattlosnako had killed the daughtor of tho sun Instead of tha sun herself, and so the peoplo all thanked tho rattlesnake and said thai thoy would novor harm him. And to to this dny mon who know will not dls turb tho rattlcsnnko, and tho rattlo snako does not blto man unless he is bothered. PERFORM A KIND ACT DAILY Doy Scout Must Be Friendly, Courte ous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty and Brave. If thore I anything tho adult world would hold unchangeable, It is tho charming hodge-podgo of good and bad that makes up boy nature. Yot thoro was mooting recently in Washington a body which assorts that tho boy character is boing roformod. Tho Na tional Council of Boy Scouts, having enlisted 300,000 youngsters, under 7,000 masters, credits iteolf with all but a revolution. Once, bb Jacob Rlia put it, tho boy was an unmtBtaknblo admlxturo of heathen and good citi zen, tho heathen normally a llttlo up permost. Now that ho is a scout, ho la "friendly, courteous, kind, obedi ent, cheerful, thrifty and brave; theso aro tho scout laws, and ho oboye them not only because ho has promised, but because ho wants to." Tho bureau of education is oven asked to recom mend tho Boy Scout movement to all educational authorities. Much as Is claimed for Its tutorship in campt knowlodgo, physical training and eo on, more Is mado of tho fact that every scout la oxpected to "perform a kind act every morning of his llfo," that scores of peoplo wrlto in monthly tell ing' of tho good turns tho scouts do them, that cities which once feared tho small boy now expect him to as sist tho aged across the street, and boll the town cats against tho birds, whllo good manners and thoughtful noss havo' made him Invaluable at oventB llko tho inauguration and Get tysburg celebration. Canlt Bo Plain. Why Is It ImpoBslblo for a pretty girl to bo candid? BecaUBO' sho can't bo plain. V