THE S'EMLWEEKLV TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
IFURNA8 COUNTY APPEALS CA8E.
Supreme Court to Decldo Placing of
Game License Money.
Tho FurnaB county suit Instituted to
teat tho right of tho Btato to placo
gamo license money lit tho stato
Bchool fund hag been appoalod to tho
eupreme court. John Stevens, a tax
payer of Furnas county, Instituted nn
Injunction suit to prevent -County
Clerk J. T. Nlckerson from paying
$155 license money to tho state treas
urer. This 1b the amount of money col
lected during the year 1813 by tho
county clerk for fishing and hunting
licenses. Mr. Stevens alleges tho
money should go to the county school
fund under the terms of the constitu
tion relating to tho disposition of
license fees, fines and penalties. Tho
i3ta.to alleges tho gamo license Is not
lnipo3ed by the county and therefore
the statute which says It must bo
paid Into the atato treasury for tho
Jjenoilt of the state school fund Is
valid. It 1b also alleged that the county
clork acts merely as agent for tho
state In the matter of collection. Dis
trict Judge Perry decided In favor of
the state and tho county has appealed.
About $20,000 annually 'Is collected
throughout the state for hunting and
fishing licenses.
Fresh from a trip down tho Loup
valley visiting tho scenes where he
and his brother coppersklns used to
chase the Buffalo or mako war ou tho
:Siux, old Chief White Eagle stopped
at the capltol for a short stay before
his return to Oklahoma.
Tho chief is 83 years old. Ho is in
excellent health, well preserved and
as vigorous as ho was thirty-five or
forty years ago. Tho only indication
that he Is getting well along in years
Is his tendency to drop alseep when--ever
he sits down for a moment or
two. When asked about his early days
in this state he said:
"Great white men have been here
glnco my people left," he said through
Chief Knife, his grandson. "Where my
reonle used to hunt for buffalo are
W- long trains going with ther ush of tho
wmu iuiu in clusters more iruquum
than the herds wo hunted then. And
-everywhere are the wagons without
liorses which run around like great
devil1', spitting lire and smoke and
climbing hills faster than a horse. The
old spots nro almost gone and soon
tho Indian will be gone altogether.
Everybody makes money now no
body takes time to -hunt and fish like
-we used to."
The aged chieftain was at the head
of the Skodl branch of the Pawnees.
He wafa a fearless scout and saw
ssrvice galore In Frank North's Paw
Jiee scouts. He was wounded In a
skirmish and receives a pension of $24
ja month fronv Uncle Sam at the pres
ent time. During the period interven
ing between his muster out of the
service and tho removal of his tribo
to Oklahoma the chief's people were
id&ted near Genoa. It was chiefly In
that vicinity and as far up the river
as Palmer that the old Indian has
Tbeen spending his time during the
Iiast three or four weeks.
Representatives of the Nebraska
Portland Cement company of Superior
appeared before the state railway
commission and consented to a con
tinuance of tho cement freight rate
case until September 21. A large num
ber of railroad men and agents of ce
ment companies In other states and
Nebraska dealers In building material
Avere present. The Superior company
and the Burlington road and agents of
other roads will try to agree on now
rates. They will prepare a schedule
and submit It to interested companies
lirlor to September 21. It Is believed
an agreement can be effected without
a hearing of tho case. Tho Superior
company filed a complaint alleging It
was ready to ship cement from its
new mills but that it is unablo to com
pete with companies In other states
which take advantage of interstate
rates and placo their product on mar
kets in Nebraska cheaper than the
Superior mill can sell for, freight
rates being considered.
According to tho returns of asses
tsors to the stato board of assessment
there' are more than four times as
many automobiles In Nebraska than
.typewriting machines. Assessors found
.33,198 automobiles and olny 8,400
typewriters. It Is suspected that many
typewriting machines are not listed
for assessment or are listed as office
furniture.
The European war has directly af
fected a portion of tho convicts at tho
Nebraska stato prison. Rattan which
la used In the chair factory Is .import
od from Europe and at present the sup
lily Is very short. One of tho foremen
of the prison shop recently made a
trip to New York, but was able to se--cure
only a small quantity of rattan.
Fifteen men have already been taken
from the chair shop because of the
shortage of material and they are now
being ueed to othor work. Thirty-five
men nre still being used In the shop.
Tho state canvassing board, con
sisting of Governor Morehead, Secre
tary of Stato Walt and Auditor
Howard, have canvaBBod the returns
of the late primary.
The results show that 146,957 votes
were cast in the primary, divided as
follows:
Republican . 74,493
Democrat 67,229
Progressive 2,361
Populist 1.396
Socialist 1.027
3'rohlbltion 379
0. K.
THREE PROPOSITIONS FAVORED
BY VOTERS OF STATE.
FIRST RELATES TO TAXAT
Second Permits Jury In Civil Cases
to Return Verdict. Third Raises
Officers' Salaries.
Lincoln. All throo of tho constitu
tional amendments carried at the last
primary and they nre mado the party
proposition of all tho parties and will
'be entitled to tho benefit of all
straight party ballots, bo that tho vot
er who does not Vote either way on
tho proposition or makes a cross In
the party circle votes for them.
Amendment No. 1 is a proposition
to get a more adequate system of
taxation fi)r Nebraska and carries by
a vote of 54,597 Tor to 25,725 against.
The second proposition gives a Jury
tho right to return a verdict in civil
cases, five-sixths of tho jury being
only necessary Instead of tho entire
'Jury governing the verdict.
Tho third proposition is tho one of
raising the salaries of state officers.
There haa long beon a contention that
Nebraska had outgrown tho point
whero It should pay the meagor sal
aries to its stale officers that It has
done for so many years and the last
legislature provided for a change If
the people so desired. Tho proposi
tion calls for the raising of salaries of
state officers as follows:
Now
Salary
Governor $5,000
Attorney general . . 4,000
State treasurer .... 3,000
State auditor 2,500
Secretary of state.. 2,500
State sup't v 2,500
Land commissioner. 2,500
Old
Salary
$2,500
2.00Q
2,500
2,500
2,000
2,000
2,000
Tho proposition provides that thero
shall bo no allowance for clerk hire
in the offices of the state superintend
ent and attorney general.
Tho proposition can led at the
primary by a voto of 45,230 for and
"29,752 against.
Railroad Tax Statement.
B. M. Polleys, tax commissioner of
the Minneapolis & Omaha railroad,
has prepared a statement allowing the
truo or sale value of land3 in counties
through which his road operates, tho
assessed valuation this year and the
amount of the tax per acre. He also
shows the proportion of taxes borne
by personal property:
True or Bale Assessed Taxes, per
Co. vaL for 1914. for 1914. acre, eta.
HINTS
Stahton ... $105.50 $62.70 4G.38
Wayne 121.50 72.25 48.85
Thurston .. 98.00 Cfi.90 71.50
Washington 132.00 79.05 67.03
Dixon 103.50 50.7.0 47.63
Madison ... 103.00 58.20 48.84
Knox 66.50 31.45 36.91
Burt 125.50 78.80 72.65
Cedar 99.25 59.75 42.71
Cuming ... 135.00 77.30 58.40
Dakota .... 107.75 C0.00 47.86
A table showing tho proportion of
taxes borne by personal property and
nhnwlnt nlRn Mm 1H1S InrriuiKn ovnr
tin tntnl 1012 tnven in clvpn In nor-
nnntn hv Mr Pnilnv's in hi miner.
centage by Mr. Polley's in his paper.
These are us follows for the same
counties:
Proportion of total
taxes born by per- 1913 increaso
sonal 'property. over 1912.
Dakota 15.9
Cuming 16.1
Cedar 19.1
Burt 16.0
Knox 19.2
Madison 17.3
Dixon 19.7
Washington 22.6
Thurston, 16.4
Wayne 16.4
Stanton 11.6
34.0
18.0
2.8
30.3
16.5
22.7
3.2
16.4
18.3
1.7
12.5
Mllford Well Under Way.
Tho state board of control has
chosen Joseph Burns to complete tho
well, already under way, at the Mil
ford old soldiers home. Tho well Is be
ing drilled eighteen feet In diameter
and fivo feet of wator-bearlng sand
has beon struck. Tho troublo has been
encountered in walling In this sand,
bo that the work can bo completed to
the bed rock below. This 1b tho task
Mr. Burns Is to tackle for $8 per day.
The well Is being drilled by the state,
which is Its own contractor in this In
stance. Copies of Rate Schedule Ready.
The Stato Railway commission has
received tho first copies of the new
freight schedule promulgated In order
No. 19. The copies aro to be sold
for $1.75 each, about tho cost of print
ing. The Burlington railroad haH
taken 400 copies, tho Union Pacific
200, The .NorthweBtcrn 17G and the
Hock Island 75. Tho Missouri Pacific
will prepare its own schedules.
State Aid Bridges.
State Kuglneer D. D. Price has gono
to Lexington to assist tho couuty
board In awarding contracts for a
bridge at Overton and another at Lex
ington, both over tho Platte river
Each bridge will cost about $75,000,
and tho btato will pay half the cost
under the Htate aid bridge law. Two
types of concrete bridges havo been
provided for In tho plans of tho state
engineer, one a girder bridge and the
other an arch bridge. Each will be 80C
feet long.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
Tho Nemaha river at Falls City 1
lower than it has boon for many
yoars.
A Nomaha county fruit raiser has
coltl his npplo crop from a thirty aero
orchard for $0,500.
Tho state domocratlo headquarters
will bo In Lincoln, with Secretary A.
B. Sprnguo In chargo
J. Ratiobach won tho regular wook
ly shoot of the Willow Crock Gun
club noar Wost Point.
Tho Lincoln county fair and fnll
festival at North Platte will bo mado
a permanent Institution.
Three thousand fivo hundred peoplo
attended tho Labor Day picnic and
celebration at Alliance.
Tho Nebraska Osteopathic Society
has voted to hold its annual meeting
In Lincoln next Soptembor.
Four Fremont young men wero In
jured when an automobile In which,
they wero driving to the Snyder carni
val upset.
Tho Table Rock schools opened
with n fair attendance. L. E. Trout 1b
superintendent and Iluth Thatcher
principal.
During tho past week thlrty-threo
cars of cattle have been shipped from
Harrison and Coffee Sldlrig, Just west
of' that place.
A telegram from Rock Springs,
Wyo., received at Fremont announced
the death of Howard van Dousen, a
formor woll known Fremont man.
Fremont' ministers at a meeting
voted unanimously to Join In the
movement to observe October 4 as a
day for prayer for peace In Europe.
A can of phosphorous rat poison
which was being opened by C. I. Van
Patten of Hastings exploded and en
dangered Mr. Van Patten's eyesight.
An artificial Ice plant is being built
at West Point. The building Is 40x70
feet and has a capacity of ten tonB a
day. The total Investment Is over
$10,000.
Harry Anderton or Edgar sustained
a broken shoulder blado whllo playing
foot ball with a plcked-upteam which
was practicing with tho high school
squad.
Sheriff Boesl of Bennett county, So.
Dakota, was arrested in Gordon for
engaging In a street brawl resulting
from a decision on a horse race dur
ing the county fair.
Rev. Nathaniel McGlftln, who wont
to Fremont from Omaha a fow weeks
ago, has been formally Installed as
pastor of the First ProBbyterjan
church of Fremont.
Since tho prlco of wheat bus gone
to $1 and above, Hastings grain men
havo received three or four times as
much grain aa they did. when tho
price was lower.
C. H. Taylor, republican nominee
for county attorney of Cass county,
has withdrawn from tho race and tho
party Is confronted with the solec
tidn of a candidate.
Samuel .Tuolson has been appoint
ed administrator of the estate of the
late Olo J. Sohuus of Newman Grove.
The will was admitted to probate in
county court at Madison.
Mr. Mlntum of the Fremont normal
school was seriously and five other
young men painfully Injured whon an
automobile in which thej were riding
turned over near Mead.
Frank Winter, claiming to bo from
Cleveland, O., wns sentenced to servo
thirty days In tho county Jail by Jus
tlco M. H. Marblo at Table Rock. Ho
WUB i-iiuipeu wuu yum uircBiiy.
A coroner's Jury haB exonerated M.
H. Tyson of Elmwood from blame for
the death of John Swanson at Platts
mouth. Mr. Johnson was struck and
killed by Mr. Tyson's automobile.
L. E. Shuler, father of Henry Shu
lor who was killed in an automobllo
accident noar Fremont, Is In Minne
sota seeking lan'd, and efforts to noti
fy him of his son's death have been
futllo.
Tho second annual Thayer county
fair has closed at Deshler after a suc
cessful week. Over six thousand peo
plo wero present one day and six. hun
dred nutomobilos and three hundred
teams wero on the grounds.
Tho Adams county board of super
visors, has filed a claim for $1,000
against tho estate of John O'Connor of
Hastings, claiming that amount Is duo
for back personal taxes of tho Has
tings recluse whose fortune has been
claimed by many "heirs."
Ida M. Selchell of Madison haa
brought suit against tho Union Pacific
Railroad company for $3,000 damages
for injuries alleged to havo been sus
tained by her In tho city of Norfolk,
March 13, 1914, by reason of a defect
ive rail which caused her to fall.
Roy and Ross Acton, thirteen and
eleven years old, wero drowned at
Meadow, when a flatboat which
thoy wero paddling In thirty-five feet
of water, becamo leaky- and sank
Rescue parties worked for two hours
beforet heb odles were recovered.
Nebra&kas 1914 corn crop was est),
mated at 172,000,000 buBhola on Sep
tember 1, by the United State'B
bureau of crop estimates. Tho United
StateB National bank of Omaha esti
mated tho corn crop at 150,235,060.
Tho 1913 crop was 114,000,000 bushels.
vMrs. Ida Eflle, aged 38, was killed
and three otliors Injured in an auto
mobile accident near Norfolk.
William Mayfleld, 15, eon of E. M.
Mayfleld of Staploton, fell In front of
a mower, receiving injurlos so sovero
that amputation of hlu left arm wan
necessary
Furnas county has appealed to tho
supreme court In a suit for the pur
pose of recovering from Berton F.
Moore, county troasuror, ?497.68 nl
loged to be duo tho county as interest
on county funds deposited in banks.
The case was dismissed In tho district
court.
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Below, tho entire population of Tlrlemont llcolng for life from the rapidly
most precious little possessions.' Ahovo, Belgian infantry In column formation
In tho distance, marching to rcpulso tho Germans at Hnclcn. .
USaWSfijSWr
When tho Bolgians retired to Antwerp many1 houses in tho suburbs woro burnod In order to clear the land la
front of tho fortifications. At tho left a soldier Is seen sotting firo to a cottage -with jv lighted broom.
BRIDGE ACROSS THE MEUSE DESTROYED BY BELGIANS "jf,
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In order to lmpedo tho advance of tho Germans tho Bolgians destroyed this stool and concroto brldgo across
tho Mcuso river. This photograph was made at great risk, as an order had been Issued to shoot photographers
caught making pictures.
READY FOR THEIR
Some of tho American Red Cross nurses ready to sail on tho steamer Red
CroBB for service on the battlefields of Europe In front' aro Mary Francis
Keller, May A, Brownell and Annu L. Ilentlnger. At tho rear, Mary E. Glad
win, Helen Scott Hay (In chargo), Lucy Mlnnegerodo and Mary F. Farley.
BELGIANS FLEEING AND ADVANCING
CLEARING THE WAY FOR ANTWERP'S GUNS
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WBffifffi ,:,.rrr;rr.i.7Tra&
ERRAND OF MERCY
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advancing Germans, carrying their1
screened by nrtlllory under the trees j
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REFUGEES IN CATTLE CAR
American and English refugees flee
ing from Franco In a cattle car. They
woro glad to obtain even that crude)
transportation.
London. A Wlllesdon Bhopkoepen
Is disposing of a stock of small silk
Gormun flags by offering them as;
"plpo cleaners; four a penny."
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