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THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA. H 9 BRIEFLY I 00 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. Twenty-one naval ofllcers woro placed on t'.ic retired list, fifteen of the number hnvliiB been selected by tho plucking board, whllo the other nix oluntnrily asked retirement. Favorable reports on thrco of the flvo federal reserve board nomina tions tent to the sonato by President "Wilson were agreed upon by the banking and currency committee. Vlrlch Duvlvler, the minister from Haiti, Informed Secretary llryan that he had been recalled by his govern ment and that ho would he succeed ed by Solon Moijoh, whom he replacod at Washington In 1913. An Hem of $100,000 for the boring of artesian wolls In arid districts for the purpose of discovering the exist ence of supplies of water available for Irrigation purposes, has been dropped from the agricultural appro priation bill. President Wilson will take no action In the strike situation at Butte, pond ing further developments. Federal troops will not bo moved from Van couver barracks to Fort Missoula to be In readiness In cbro of trouble, for the prct. Tho administration trade commis sion bill was further supported by Senator Cummins, republican, who continued his discussion of Its consti tutional phrases. Ho particularly de fended tho provision of tho bill mak ing "unfair competition" unlawful. Senator Davllmar Theodore, tho Haltlon revolutionist leader has been killed In a battle with fifty of Ills fol lowers near tho domlnlcan frontier. Captain Eberle of the cruiser Wash ington so reported his Information from awo members of tho Haltlon cabinet. Letters of commendation for con Eplcuous gallantry during the occupa tion of Vera Cruz woro written by Secretary Daniels to Goorgo II. Boyd, quartermaster, and Augustus J. Hall berg, gunner's mate, of tho cruise" Chester. Both men have been ad vanced to tho. rank of potty olllcers. . An official Intimation of tho purpose of the United States to begin negotia tions with Russia for a now treaty to roplaco tho ono abrogated a year and a half ago, was conveyed In a state ment at tho White houso that George T". Mayro, tho newly-appointed am bassador to St. Petersburg, might take up that subject. DOMESTIC. America, tho Rodman Wannmakor trans-Atlantic flyer, tobo from tho wa ter Jn a recent test, with ten passen gors, establishing another weight-carrying record for hydro-aoroplanes. Tho germ which caused pyorrhoa and a euro for tho disease haB been discovered Jiy Dr. Michael P. Barrett of Philadelphia, according i to an an nouncement mado at tho annual moot ing of tho Pennsylvania state dental uoclety. Hopo for an oarly sottlomout of tho etrlko of tho Wcstlnghouso employes at Pittsburgh was chocked by tho de cision of 7,000 of tho strlkors not to accept tho tonus mado In signed btatpmonts by tho heads of tho affect ed industry. Guy Phillips, associate secretary of tho Missouri Pacific Railway Co., shot and killed hlmBelf in tho offices of the company on the eighth floor of a Now York office building. Ills physician fcald ho had been a sufferer recontly from despondency. Tho saloons In tho Colorado strike district will not b,o pormlttod to opon no long as the federal troops aro In tho field. Tho order Issued by tho fcdoral commander upon ontorlng the district last April Is final. iThls Is tho word that camo from tho secre tary of wnr, to whom tho city nnd county officials recently nppoalod. There aro 290 railways In tho United States, operating 120,901 mllos of track which last yoar carried 409,808,488 passengers without a sin gle fatality. Dr. Holbrook Curtis, tho throat specialist, has told Colonel Roosevelt ho would have to rest six weeks. Then after tho colonel had mado a fow speeches as a test, tho doctor suld, lie would bo able to toll more dell nltly just what Mr. Roosevelt could do in tho campaign. United States in 1913 imported 3,207,323 pounds of mica. The fourteenth International Sunday school convention hns opened In Chi cago with 4,000 delegates Walter W. Davis, Jr., and his brother, Fred, wore found dead In a field on their farm noar Peabody, Kan. It Is believed they were struck by lightning In a storm. Chief Wallace of tho Charlotte, N. C. fire department nnd ono fireman were killed ami thrco others wore seriously Injured by a dynamite ex plosion in a small' fire. .The dynamite stored by a contractor was Ignited by a fire In a barn. t What Is claimed to bo n record In walking recently from tho summit of Pikes Poalr to tho cog station In Man Itou was made by Maurice Kubby ol Omaha, Neb. Kubby walked down tho mountain, according to tlmors. in nn hour and thirty minutes. Thrco hours wore required to walk to tho summit from Manltou. An aoroplano will bo used by Prof. David Tod-I of Amherst college In ob serving the total eclipse of tho sun, August 21, according to plans an nounced. Prof Todd will make his observations at Riga, Russia. With tho aid of tho flying machine he hopes to bo able to rlso above any clouds that may hinder observations from tho earth. A carload of beer and whisky hilled as gravel wis seized by stato and fed oral officers at Bartlesville, Okla. It was tho biggest seizure of intoxicating liquors ever mado In ' this section Twenty barrels of beer and twenty flvo cases of whisky were seized. As no ono claimed tho shipment, it Is to bo destroyed. It was valued at near ly $1,000. Tho Federal lcaguo will Invoke tho Shorman nntl-trust law In Its flgljt for tho sen-Ices of Marsans nnd Chase, according to a statement made by President Gllmore. Chnrgcs that Or ganized Baso Ball Is a combination op orating In restraint of trade will be mado by "attornoys for tho Federals when tho next Btage in tho Marsans case, now In tho federal courts, Is reached. Tho announcement that 400 Japan ese laborers from California aro com Ing to locate in' Alger county, Mlchl gnn, Vas started an antl-allon land law agitation there and it Is reported an attempt will be mado at tho next session of the stato legislature to en act an nntl-allen law similar to tho ono In California. Tho Japanese will oncace In vecctable farming when thoy nrrlvo In Alger county. Six thousand baited rat traps aro doing service In the infected zono of Now Orleans, Fla., wTloro they had been placed by direction of health au thorities In their campaign to eradl cato bubonic plague. Two hundred omployos placed tho traps, rat-proofed residences and business houses and aro keeping a general survell lanco in tho prescribed area. Georgo McDuffoy, a deputy shorlft of Hoppner, Ore., fought a single handed battle with train robbers in tho mlddlo of a chair car fifty miles east of Pendloton, Ore., killing ono. anil wounding another and missing death himself when tho westerner's Inevitable pocket comb in tho uppor loft-hnnd pocket slowed down a bal lot aimed at his heart. Tho car was Oregon-Washington (Railroad and Nav Igatlon passenger train No. 5 westbound. HUERTA RE-ELECTED MEXICANS TAKE BUT LITTLE IN TEREST IN VOTING. REBEL LEADERS STILL AT OUTS Representatives of the Two Factions In Conference and Hope for Peace ful Solution of Quarrel, Mexico City. Elections for presi dent, vice president, deputies and sen ators were hold In that portion of the republic controlled by the Huerta gov ernment. Indlfforcncc was manifest ed everywhere. General Huerta appoared to bo tho favorite candidate for the presidency and General Blanquet for tho vko presidency. President Huerta, it Is reported, re ceived a virtually unanimous vote of confldonce. Tho returns Indicate tho re-election of all present members of tho chamber of deputies and the senate. Tho lightest votes in many years were cast In both tho capital and nearby towns. Sco Differences Eliminated. Torroon, Coahuila, Hex. When the Carranca-VIlla conference adjourned after a long session, both sides were apparently confident that whatever differences had existed between the two constitutionalist leaders were in a fair way of being eliminated. While nono of tho members of tho two commissions would discuss any phaso of tho negotiations, it was ovl dont that they were in accord on whatever mattorB there had been be fore them. Protests to Villa. El Paso, Tox. Expressions of opti mism received from Torreon upon tho question involving tho ownership of constitutionalist national currency aro not echoed locally, Roberto Pes qulera, Carranza's conldentlal agent, haB sent a strong protest to General Villa regarding what Pesqulera termed tho "criminal act3" of Villa's agents In making away with Carranza's first paper currency on this side of the lino. It was learned that Carranza had outlawed all flat paper of tho national Issue not put Into circulation by his officials. This will affect several mil lions of pesos which tho Villa officials havo confiscated and stamped. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. Joseph Burton, tho negro who was recently captured In a spectacular at tempt to blackmail tho Cunard Steam chip company in New York, was sen tenced to fifteen years lu Slug Sing prison. FOREIGN. ' Moran was no match for Jack John son, and tho black lighter retained hla title after twenty rounds of easy lighting. , Simon W. Strauss, who has spent several months in Europe Invostlgnt Ing for tho American society for tho promotion, of thrift, will bring back to Aniorlca many suggestions. Ho has found much material in Great Britain. Nedoljo Gabrlnovlch, who threw n bomb at Archduke Francis Fordlnand and his wife, whllo thoy wcro pro ceeding to tho Sarayovo town hall, has mado a completo confession, ac cording to dispatches received from Sarayovo. Emperor William abandoned his In tended trip to Vienna to attend tho funeral of Arcliduko Francis Fordl nand. It was announced that ho was BUiferlng from a severe cold attended with symptoms of lumbago. Tho troubles of tho Amorlcan-Pan-ama Joint land commission, which la endeavoring to Bottle lnnd claims, havo grown serious, according to tho legal olllcors of tho canal, who mado no secret of their expectation that tho work of tho commission would result In failure. Two hundred coal minora woro on tombed in 'tho Vlclle-Marlhayo col llory, noar Liege, Belgium, when tiro broko out. -Two hundred of their comrades escaped when tho alarm was given. Counsel for tho ownora of tho Storstad, in IiIb oponlng argumonts at tho Inquiry, stated that ono of tho vossels was to blamo for tho sinking of tho Empress and that tho Inquiry would fix thut blame. In other words, tho catastrophe was en avoldablo accident. Anarchl6t Plot Revealed. New York. In tho ruins of the ten ement wrecked by tho explosion or a bomb, which, It Is believed was in tended for use against John D. Rocke feller, Jr., tho authorities havo found ovIdenc6 that Arthur Caron, who was killed with threo others, had used his apartment as a center for the distribu tion of Inflammatory literature and that It wan filled with death-dealing oxplo3lvca. A small printing press, revolutionary pamphlets and circu lars, an electric1 dynamo, two electric batteries, cartridges nnd bits of steel, woro among tho articles uncovered, which tend, in tho opinion of tho po lice, to show an anarchistic plot Two of thoso killed in the wrecked build ing woro agitators, who woro to bo placed on trial at Tarrytown on charges of disorderly conduct Sn con nection with tho demonstration In augurated against Mr. Rockefeller, as a protest against his attitude in tho Colorado coal mlno strike. Tho body of tho fourth victim of tho explosion has been found. It was that of Charles Borg known in Industrial Workors of tho World circles as tho "big Swedo," associate of Caron. Many Questions for Voters. Denver. Colo. Soventeon legisla tive questions, consisting of eight Ini tiated bills, six referendum potltions and thrco proposed constitutional amendments, aro on file In the office of Secretary of Stato J. B. Pearco for submission to tho voters of Colorado at tho Novombor election. Threo of tho referendum potltions relate to tho public utilities bill. Silk to prevent tho submission of these petitions has beon started. Among tlm bills to bo referred is ono to prevent tho appointment of deputy sheriffs or peaco officers who havo not beon residents of tho stato for at least ono oar. Among tho Initiated measures are to provide a half mill lovy for roads, allow probation to ndnlt prisoners, allow a majority of Jurors to decide civil suits and to establish stato-witlo prohibition. Clark Made a Doctor of Laws. Washington. Speaker Clark has boon notified that ho had boen mado a doctor of laws by Bothany college, tho West Virginia school from which ho gradunted. Armo nnd Ammunition Landed. Dublin. In tho absence of tho po lice, tho Irlah National Volunteors Bucceodcd In landing bore 400 cases of ammunition, and 800 cases of rifles. Tho arms nnd ammunition woro takon from on board a boat which had been hovering about tho coast off Dublin. All In Favor of Prohibition, Boise, Idaho. Planks favoring stato wldo prohibition were incorporated in tho platforms of tho republican, dem ocratic and progressive parties assem bled In convention here. The Wlsncr Chronicle has ordored a standard linotype. A new theater erected by Loul Meyers, has been formnlly opened at Germantown. Tho annual session of the Madison county institute will be held at Madi son, August .1-7. A. Zlotkey has purchased the Ruwo block at Fremont, tho consideration being $40,000. A $9,200 bond Issue for water works was carried by a vote of forty-one to olghteen nt Clatonla. A $12,000 bond lssuo for tho exten sion of the wator servlco was defeat ed at Albion, 127 to 89. Tho People's Banner of David City has moved into new quarters and In stalled some now machinery. Twenty-two 'Nebraska counties which havo reported already show only slight Increases In assessments. An automobile stolen from tho Haynes automobile garage of Omaha, was found, deserted, north of Fre mont. G. E. Johnson, city electrician of Falls City, has received a pulmotor which will bo kept for emergency servlco. Wheat cutting noar Stella has been finished, threshing has been delayed by havy rains. A bumper corn crop Is assured. Walter Henry, twenty-two years old, committed sulcldo at tho family homo noar West Point whllo tempora rily Insane. The city council of Kearney has awarded to the United Trust Co. of Omaha $45,000 5 . per cent funding bonds at par. The Alliance Times and Alliance Herald each Issued special illustrated editions during tho Nebraska Stock men's convention. F. W. Alstadt of Norfolk has begun action in district court for divorce from his wife, Ethel G., and the cus tody of their child. The new German Lutheran ZIon church, four miles northwest of El lis, was dedicated Sunday Threo services were held. A bond lssuo for the erection of a municipal light plant has been car ried by tho voters of Lyons by a majority of 148 to 35. A now mall route starts from Chad ron July 1, going to Antelope, Pep per Crook, Esther and Manchester, making rural free delivery en route. Christopher Courtrlght, the last sur vlvlng Mexican war veteran In this county and possibly tho state, died at the residence of his sister at Mil ford. that he sustained an Injury by said railway company which resulted in the loss of a foot. J, J. McCarthy and M. F. Harrington are attorneys for tho plaintiff. Editor F. W. Brown of tho Kearney Morning Times got out a special edi tion to boom Kearney's Fourth of July celebration. It was printed in red and blue Ink. Subscriptions aro bolns given for tho building of a narrow' gauge subur ban railroad to the Table, twenty mllos southwest of Chadron. Surveys aro being mado. Fremont gas users havo petitioned tho city council to provide" for a dol lar rate on gas charging that dis crimination Is shown In the present rato schedule. Nellie A. Llchty has applied for a dlvorco from Georgo W. Lllchy at Boatrlco. She alleges desertion and non-support and asks for the custody If tho two children. M. II. Marble and Frank Kovnnda, r., havo been elected members of the Tablo Rock' school board to succeed C. I. Norrls and C. J. Wood, whoso terms had expired. Tho Farmers State bank of Clarks has Incorporated with a capital of 20.000. 1. J. Wohrman Is president: D. Rhodes, vice-president, and J. R. Chamberlain, cashier. The body of Albert John Bahr was brought to Chadron for Interment from Hirdosty, Canada, where he had been killed while on duty as conduc tor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad company. Saunders county fnrmprs aro busy harvesting ono of tho biggest wheat crop this county has over seen. The acreago Is larger than usual and it Is estimated thnt tho yield will bo from thirty to forty bushels. Potltions havo been filed to havo tho names of 11. N. Colmnn and L. H. McKllllp placed on tho primary ballot as candidates for county judge and county attorney of Seward county, on tho republican ticket. In nn auto accident one milo north of Ogallnla Bruco Reed, aged 27. was killed when his Jugular vein was sev ored by tho broken wind shield. Carl SImnon, Tom Cooney, R. C. Young nnd Bruco Stafford woro Injured, but not fatally. Rood loaves a young widow and two small children. with ono automobile for every twenty-five of Its inhabitant, Ne braska heads. tho list of states in the number of nutos per capita. Iowa 1b second nnd California Is third. Ac cording to estimates, SO per cent of tho Nebraska mnchlnos nro owned by farmers. A hall -storm passed over the coun try west, north and cast of Callaway, completely destroying crops within its path. Many farmors who woro pre paring to hnrvost. lost nil of tholr small grain. Corn was also damaged to a great extent, but may recover. Charles K. Bassett, proprietor of tho Grant County Tribune at Hyannls, has been sued for $10,000 by Burt S. Claire of Omaha for alleged defama tion of character. Papers woro served on Mr. Bassett whllo ho was attend ing tho meeting of tho Nebraska Press' association at Lincoln last vrook. HIS DUTY OUTLINED: ASSESSOR MUST FIND VALUE OF MORTGAGES IN FULL". CASE FROM FURNAS COUNTY Jasper L. McBrlen Pays Hurried Trip to Nebraska, Making Talk at Peru Normal. Lincoln. It is the duty If an as sessor to got the actual value of mort gages and determine tho same Ir respective of their face. value, accord Ijig to an opinion of tho attorney gen oral In nnswer to an lqutry mado by County Attorney R. J. Harper of Fur nas county. In the case referred to tho land haB an actual value of $1,400 for taxation .purposes. There aro two mortgages on the land vnlucd at $1,400 and also a IJitrd for $250. Tho attorney gen eral holds that the first two mortgages should bo held at their face value, which is the value of tho land and that tho third mortgage should net bo assessed because It has no real valuo over and above- tho value ,of tho two former mortgages valuo of tho land. which cover the To Push Norfolk Building. Norfolk people aro getting anxious to know when the State Board of Con trol is going to begin the erection of the new hospital building at tho asy lum for the insane, near that city and Editor Huse of the News was at tho stnte houso In ah endeavor to gather sorao Information which ho could take back to tho homo folks. The board was out visiting stato Institutions nnd as tho governor has several times refused to Instruct the board what they should or should not do, It is not supposed that he got much satisfac tion out of tho executive. Commissioner Kennedy said that tho board was waiting to get the track laid to tho Institution because of thb saving It would make oil hauling ma terial to thb place, and that proposi tion alone would bo qulto an Item in tho matter of submitting bids. When It was understood that the track could be completed at some specified time, and Architect Stltt had the plans completed, the matter would be pushed rapidly. Commissioner Ken nedy thought that August would see tilings moving. SIX GRADES OF CORN NOW. f: State's Coal Bill. The stnte board of control Is busy trying to determine who are the low est bidders for coal for state institu tions. Fourteen bids were submitted to tho board. Another bid was shut out because It came too late. As tho board asked for bids on coal for stato Institutions for a period of ono year, moro than usual interest was shown by coal dealers throughout tho stato. Tho stato uses but 25,000 tons of coal 'annually. Most of it is steam coal and tho toal cost is about $75,000 a year. Last year Mr. Miles got most of the contracts. Tho board at that timo decided not to permit substitu tion at a higher price In case the dealer was unable to furnlBh the kind bid upon. This plan is being followed again this year. Tho specifications call for different kinds of coal but make no provision for substitution. If a dealer Is unable to furnish steam coal bid upon, he must' furnish some thing better at the price of the steam coal. New System of Standards In Force by Department of Agriculture. Six sample grades of corn are now recognized by the olilco of standard ization of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, whoro heretofore only four grades woro used In desig nating tho value of the cereal. Yellow white and mixed corn will run maxi mum per cent of moisture in tho Bix grades as follows: 14, 15.5, 17.5, 19.5, 21.5 and 23, whllo tho allowablo per cent of damaged product will be regulated by 2, 4, G, 8, 13 and 15 per centages. In regulating tho amount of foreign, material in tho grain tho following, percentages will prevail: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3 and 5, while cracked grain will come under a regulation of 2, 3, 4, 4, 5 and 7 per 'cent. Eleven other ruloB prescribed by the deparment aro: Tho corn in grades No. 1 to No. 5,. Inclusive, must bo sweet. White corn, all grades, shall bo at least 98 per cent white. Yellow corn, all grades, shall be at least 95 per cent yellow. Mixed corn, all grades, shall in clude corn of various colors not com ing within the limits for color, as pro vided for under white or yollow corn. In addition to tho limits indicated No. 6 corn may bo musty, sour, and. , may also include corn of Inferior quality, such as Immature and badly blistered. All corn that does not meet tho re quirements of either of six numerical' grades by reason of an excessive per centage of moisture, damaged ker nels, foreign matter or badly broken corn, or corn that Is hot, heat damaged, fire-burnt, Infested with live weovtl, or otherwise of distinctly low quality shall bo classed as sample grade. No. 6 and sample grade, reasons for so grading shall be stated on the in spector's ticket or certificate. Finely broken corn shall Include alt broken particles of corn that will pass through an 8x8 mesh wire stove, the diameter of the wire to bo twenty fivo thousandths of an Inch. Badly broken or "cracked" corn, shall Include all broken pieces of ker nelB that will pass through a 4x4f mesh wire to be thirty-six thous andths of an Inch, except that the finely broken corn as provided for un der rule 8 shall hot bo considered a& badly broken or "cracked" corn. It is understood that tho damaged corn, the foreign material, Including cob, dirt, finely broken corn, other grains, etc., and the badly broken or 'cracked" corn as provided for under the various grades, shall bo such as occur naturally in corn when handled under good commercial conditions. Moisture, percentages as provided for In these grade specifications, shall conform to results obtained by the standard method and tester described in circular 72, Bureau of Plant In- ! austry, United Sates Department of Agriculture. McBrlen Pays Hurried Visit. J. L. McBrien mado a hurried trip Into Nebraska tho other day and visited the normal schools at Peru and Kearney. Mr. McBrien Is. now government Inspector of rural schools. Ho was met at Peru by Stuto Super intendent James Delzell, who was at Poru to address the school manage ment class In tho absence of Presi dent Hayes, who Is suffering with an atack of gout. . Complains of Charge. J. W. Shorthlll, secretary of the Nebraska Farmers' Co-operative Grain and Live Stock association of Hampton, has filed a complaint with tho state railway commission ugainst tho South Omaha Stock Yards asso ciation, claiming that tho stock yards company makes yarding charge of 8 cents on hogs when but C cents is charged by Kansas City and St. Joseph. Fined for Using Seines. Special Deputy Gamo Warden S. A. Bowers went to Scott's Bluff county thiB week nnd captured four men who were seining contrary to law. Tho men pleaded guilty to tho crlmo and were lined $1 and costs ach. Tholr names wero W. II. Harding, C. J. Shadden, Clarence McCord nnd Frank Fisher. Refusing an offer of $250,000 for a formula for a fertilizer, which ho has discovered, a former Nebraska boy,. Earl S. Bishop, is well on tho road to fame and fortune. Mr. Bishop is tho son of Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Bishop of University Place. Ho is 25 years of age, and was born at Imperial, Neb. Ho graduated from tho Imperial High school In 1904, from Wesloyan in 1909,. the University of Nebraska in 1911, and from tho Queen university, Kings ton, Ontario, in 1913. He was a chem ist in the Nebraska experiment station before going to Mellon institute, Pittsburg, Pa., where ho Is now doing" research work In chemistry. Mr. Bishop got the first idea regarding his later discovery while still in Nebras ka. Ho says that tho valuo of the new fertilizer lies in the fact that it can bo produced at much less cost than any other nitrogenous fertilizer now on tho market. It Is said that It Is made from by-products which. were formerly wasted. Nebraska Bids for Maneuvers. Lincoln. Adjutant General Hall Is repoited to bo pulling wires to bring regular army troops and national guard troops from other states tp Ne braska for maneuvers. Tho war de partment first planned maneuvers at Camp Dodge, nenr Dos Moines, and Issued orders for tho Nebraska stato troops to participate. This order was held in aboyence ponding a settle ment of tho Mexican trouble. Now the matter Is bolug considered nnd Gen eral Hall asked that the maneuvers take place In Nebraska. Under the Nebraska bank guaranty law, the semi-annual assessment on stato banks for the benefit of tho de positors' guaranty fund, was made July lT by tho state banking bonrd. The levy Is 1.20 of 1 per cent of a bank's average deposits during the six: months period preceding tho lovy. Tho levy thiB time will raise $54, 029.11, which Is a little loss than tho amount of the fund that was used to pay tho depositors of the First Sav ings bank at Superior, which failed a few weeks ago. The amount taken from the guaranty fund to pay Iosscb of the Superior State bank wns $54, 52C.17, which left a total of $810,101.20 In the guaranty fund. Tho new levy will bring tho guaranty fund up to $872,229.30, which is used to guaranty payment on the total of $91,023,018.11 avernco deposits In tho 720 stato banks. J. H. Hale has been olectod presi dent of the Dawson county poultry and pet stock association for the coming year. Samuel Bowers of Columbus, deputy state gamo warden, has reported tho arrest of four men at Gerlng charged with seining and using a trammel net. The men arrested wcro Messrs. Hard ing, Shadden, McCord and Flshor. The deputy game warden said ho received, llttlo help from county officers In tho prosecutlon, but oach of tho accused, was fined $1 and costs. No fish were found In possession of tho men. An other man who had coffee sacks, fastened to a seine was released bo cause he said he was merely selnlna. I for minnows, 'which is lawful. , '-