THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRA8KA.
FDR THE BUST
AWAITING A CHARGE OF GERMAN CAVALRY
NEW8 EPITOME THAT CAN SOON
BE COMPASSED.
COMMISSION APPOINTED BY GOV.
ERNOR HAVE NEW PLAN.
HUNT EVENTS iE MENTIONED
VOCATIONAL ACT DISCUSSED
Persons Employed During Working
Day Would Be Provided with
Evening Classes.
Home and Foreign Intelligence Con
densed Into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs.
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WASHINGTON.
Reports from tho American commls
slon In San Domingo Indicated dis
turbed conditions on tlio island woro
gradually quieting down.
No date lias boen fixed for the with
drawal of federal troops from the Col
orado strike district, nccordlng to
statements mudo at tho Wur depart
ment. Tho Tlotlilehcni Steel company was
the lowest bidder at tho Navy depart
ment for supplying the navy with tho
fourtcen-lnch armor-piercing shells
which It may need during tho next
year at $421' each.
Sir Edward Grey, Dryish- minister
for foreign afTalrs, has assured tho
United States, through Ambassador
Pago at London, that England will not
Intcrfero with Amorlcan cotton ship
ments ub "contraband of war."
Tho federal reserve board has no
tilled nil banks that are members of
the now system that gold or lawful
money must bo used In making tho
transfer of reserve deposits from tho
present banks to tho federal rescrvo
banks.
Tho British embassy has issued a
statement in denial of tho announce
ment that tho prince of Wales had
consented to bo honorary sponsor of
n ball to bo held In Now York for tho
benefit of tho beroaved families and
wounded soldlors in England.
Tho department of commerce has
announced that Imports last month
were $140,089,000, against $171,084,000
In September, 1913, and for tho nine
montliB ending September HO last thoy
were $1,410,450,000, against $1,827,-
385,000 for tho nlno months of 1913.
Tho Interstato commission has sus
pended until January 29 an advance in
passenger fares proposed by a largo
number of western railways. Tho in
creases suggested In tariffs, which
woro to huvo bocomo effectlvo Novem
ber 1, averaged one-quarter cent a
mile.
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Tho Interstate Commerce commis
sion furthor suspended from Novem
ber 12 until May 12, 1915, tho opera
tion of tariffs containing proposed In
creased rates on llvo stock, carloads,
between points in South Dakota and
othor statcB and St. Paul, Omaha and
KnnBas City.
President "Wilson has Issued a proc
lamation designating Thursday, Nov.
20, ob Thanksgiving day. Tho presi
dent's proclamation, which refers to
tho fact that tho United States Is at
peaco, while tho rest of tho world is nt
war, says tho yoaf has been one of
special blessing for us.
In order to provont outgoing car
goes' falling into tho hands of any of
tho warring nations, Secretary of tho
Treasury McAdoo has ordered that
customs collectors glvo no Information
concerning such cargoes until thirty
days after tho clearnnco from ports
of tho vessels In which thoy aro
shipped.
DOMESTIC.
A pledge of 2 per cent of tho capital
stock of all tho banks in Arkansas to
tho cotton pool fund was mado by
members of tho Arkansas Bunkers' as
sociation. -Benjamin
Strong, Jr., govornor of
tho federal roHorvo bank in Now York
City, which begins business Novem
ber 1C, will recelvo an annual salary
of $30,000.
The rail and river coal case, Involv
ing tho constitutionality of tho Ohio
"mine run" or "coal screon" law, was
advanced by tho supremo court to
November 30.
Steps to protect tholr missionaries
and church olllclals in Europe from
financial embarrassment woro taken
In Washington by tho general confer
ence of Seventh Day Advontlsts.
Nino Mexicans, part of tho band led
by Mlguol Orltz, who is still at largo,
wero placed on trial in tho federal
court at Phoenix, Ariz., charged with
conspiracy to cuubo a revolt among
tho Yaqul Indians.
Tho $10,000,000 loan mado by a
group of Now York bankers to tho
gobornment of Franco, to bo used by
Franco as a checking account ngalnat
tho purchnso of supplies in this coun
try, has oponed tho way, in tho opin
ion of New York bankers, for Gor
many and Austria to negotiate loans.
Elbert II. Gary, president of tho
American Iron and Stcol industry, and
various figures in tho country's iron
and steel industry, woro in Birming
ham. Ala., for tho opening sessions of
tho Institute
A. II. IJIbler of Pittsburgh was elec
ted president of tho American Hard
ware Manufacturers' association at
tho closing session In Atlantic City,
N. J.
Loaders In tho Iron and steel Indus
try of the country discussed tho past,
present and future of tho business at
the annual banquet of tho American
Iron and Steel Institute at Birming
ham, Ala.
A. B. Baker, Portland managor of
tho National Mercantile company of
Vancouver, B. C, wns arrested on a
warrant from Seattle charging con
spiracy to uso tho malls to promote n
lottery.
Four hundred Irishmen from 10 to
25 yenrs of ago have landed In Now
York, They declined to say If they
had conic to America rather than en
list in tho British army, but did say
they came hero to look for work
Delegates to the convention of tho
Amorlcan Hardware Manufacturers'
association wero urged by N. A. Go
lnddlngs, tho president, to go into
tho South American countries with
Increased onterprlso and to watch
homo fields moro closoly.
Kansas City Is celebrating tho com
pletlon of Its new union station which
wa built at a cost of $0,000,000 and
represents, with tho attendant termi
nal facilities, an outlay of $50,000,000.
Tho new station Is ono of tho world's
largest buildings of Us kind.
Preperatlons Incidental to the filing
of a suit by tho state of Louisiana to
onjoln tho Amorlcan Sugar Penning
company from doing business In tho
stato and demanding that' a receiver
bo appointed wero mado by Governor
Hall nnd District Attorney Luxen
borg. Tho Western Union Telegraph com
pany announced that tho uso in cable
messages of codes upproved by tho
British authorities will bo limited to
messages oxchanged botwecn the
United (States and Canada and tho
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland.
FOREIGN.
Tho economy being practiced by
English women at prosont is causing
lack of work In certain branches of
trade.
That Ireland would maintain Its
place as a lighting nation was tho dec
laration of John F. Itodmond, nation
alist leader, in addressing a meeting
of volunteers at Belfnst.
Tho French government Is arrang
ing, through tho Amorlcan ombassy In
Pnrls, to send to Germany and Aus
tria all subjects of thoso countries de
tained In Franco who aro not subject
to army duty.
Vonustlano Carrnnza has submitted
his resignation to tho Aguas Calicntes
convontlon. His offer to relinquish
his poBt as supreme chief of tho na
tion, howevor, Is conditional on tho re
tirement to private llfo of General
Francisco Villa.
General Carranza, as head of tho
constitutional government, and Gen
oral Villa, commander of tho division
of tho north, woro ollmlnatod from
powor by a docroo adopted at tho Car-
ranza-Zapata-Vllla peaco conference at
Agua Calllcntcs.
Tho American commission for tho
relief of tho distressed In Bolgium
has forwarded ) from London Its flrst
consignment of goods. Tho British
government 'has decided that all ro
lief stores for tho Bolglans must pass
through tho Amorlcan commission.
Tho British admiralty Issues a
warning to ships whoso courso may
carry them to waters to tho north of
Iroland, as In thoso waters Gorman
mines havo been lain, with tho result
that ono British stoamor, the Manches
ter Commorco, has boon blown up.
Tho long pent up porsonal dlsllko
entertained by King Gcorgo toward
tho kaiser Is now finding opon expres
sion at tho English court, and what
ever may bo tho result of tho war It Is
highly Improbable that tho two mon-
archs will ovor meot on friendly terms
again.
A Portuguoso mission is In London
arranging dotalls for tho possible co
operation of tho Portugueso army
with tho nlllos. Manuel, tho former
king of Portugal, has offorod his serv
ices to tho army of Portugal should
tho ropubllc Join tho allies against
Germany.
At SaraJovo tho conspirators who
brought about the death of Archduko
Francis Ferdinand nnd his wlfo, havo
been sentenced. Gavrlo Prlnzlp, tho
man who actaully Hred tho shots
which killed tho urchduko and his
wlfo, received only a twenty-year sen
tence, while four of his co-conspirators
must pay tho penalty of death.
Olllclals of tho Panama canal zone
aro concerned ovor tho opposition
which has developed recently to the
ratification by tho Panama assembly
of tho now canal zono boundary con
vention, signed by roprosontatlves of
the United Stntes and Panama on
September 2.
Threo ships of tho British naval flo
tilla which has boon supporting tho al
lies' loft havo boon struck by Ger
man Bholls, but tho casualties and
damugo woro Blight, tho secratary of
tho British admiralty has announced.
British infantry behind barbed wire
HUH ALLIED
WITH GERMANY
Bombardment of Russian Porti
i
Tantamount to a Declara
tion of War.
MOVE HAS BEEN EXPECTED
Is Tenth Nation to Be Involved In the
Struggle Has Large Army, Offi
cered by Germans, Ready to Take
the Field Belgians Flood Country
and Compel Germans to Retire
Emdcn Sinks a Russian and a
French Warship.
Theodosla, Crimea, via Petrograd,
Oct. 31. The Gorman cruiser Bres
lau, which now flies tho Turkish flag,
bombarded this city Friday.
While there 13 no Information hero
that Turkey has broken with Russia,
this action Is equivalent to a declara
tion of war.
Relations Are Strained.
London, Oct. 31. A Router dispatch
from Constantinople says that tho sit
uation between Great Britain and Tur
koy 1b becoming daily more strained
and appears to be nearlng tho break
ing point.
"It Is believed," tho dispatch adds,
"that should tho alllos oxperlenco a
sotback In tho European theater of
tho war, especially In Poland, It will
bo imposslblo to restrain tho Turks,
as tho war party Is becoming moro
and moro powerful."
Tenth Nation at War.
Turkey is tho tenth nation to be in
volved in tho titanic struggle, If theBo
reports from Theodosla aro truo. Its
uttacks aro directed particularly
against Russia.
It has been expected for weeks that,
yielding to Gorman pressure and
promises, Turkey would break its neu
trality and do somo belligerent act.
Six hundred Gorman officers havo
arrived in Turkoy since tho war be
gan. They brought Blego guns, field
guns and ammunition with them.
It is computed that Turkey has
from G00.O0O to 700,000 men ready to
tako tho field. Tho German offlcers
put tho numbor at 900,000.
Turkey Continues Active.
London, Nov. 1. Turkoy has fol-
lowed Us initial hostile acts in bom
barding two Russian cities by attack
ing Russian and Fronch ships without
los3 of tlmo. Following Is a summary
of evontB which have succoedod each
other rapidly as a result of tho de
cision of tho porto to ontor tho war:
Turkish gunboats raided tho port of
Odessa, bombarded tho suburbs of the
town, sank tho Russian gunboat Don
ets, killed all her crow, and damaged
tho Russian Btcamors Lazareft, Wltlaz
and Whampoa and tho French liner
Portugal.
Britain Warns Turkey.
Cruiser Goebon torpedoed and sank
tho Russian steamers Yalta and Kaz
bok in tho Black sea, drowning 73 pos-i
sengors' nnd crew. Tho Russian am
bassador at Constantinople has been
withdrawn. Tho British envoy, Am
bassador Mullet, has Informed tho
grand vizier on behalf of his govern
ment that If tho Turks cross tho fron
tier of Egypt it will moan wnr with
tho powerB. Russian troops havo been
mobilized on tho Turkish frontier.
Turkey Is mobilizing cavalry divisions
on the Red sea.
Tho menaco of Turkey's action lies
in tho possibility of n "holy war" by
Mohammedans against Christians. Sho
undoubtedly will attempt to lnclto to
rovolt tho great mass of Mohammedan
subjects of Great Britain In Asia and
Africa.
Italy to Enter War.
Italy's hand 1b oxpected soon to bo
forced. Franco has looked to Italy
to dominate tho Balkans, and In tho
present crUls with Turkoy's army,
numbering between 700,000 and 900,
000, thrown into tho conflict, sho can
not do so by continuing her neutral po
sition. Grecco Is also likely to ontor tho
calmly awaiting a charge by a detachment of tho kaiser's cavalry-
war at onco. Sho will, of course, op
pose her ancient enemy, tho Turks.
Roumanla probably will do likewise
DYKES OPENED BY BELGIANS
Flood Compels Germans to Retreat
Report That Lille and Ostend
Are Evacuated.
On tho Battle Front, via Paris, Nov.
1. The German forces in the lowor
Yser valley In Belgium havo been com
pelled to retreat, according to an offi
cial announcement issued here. Tho
Belgians opened tho dykes in the val
ley and the Germans wero compollod
to withdraw from the flood of water
that poured forth against them. As
tho Germans retreated thoy wore
shelled by tho Bolglans.
Lille Is reported to havo been recap
tured by the allies. Ostend also Is said
to havo boen evacuated by tho Ger
mans. Tho British troops, hard pressed by
the fury of tho German attacks leveled
against their positions along both sides
of tho Canal of La Basseo, camo off
victors in ono of the hardest fought
battles of the campaign In France.
Thousands of dead and wounded
wore left on tho field when the Ger
mans finally wero driven back, and
the trenches of the troops commanded
by Field Marshal Sir John French
held both German and French dead,
for thoy had been taken and retaken
repeatedly during the two days' en
counter. EMDEN IN GLORIOUS FEAT
German Cruiser Sinks Russian and
French Warship In Harbor of
British Possession.
London, Oct. 30. Tho German cruis
er Emden. tho terror of tho Pacific
ocean, has made another successful
raid, according to advices received
from the British embassy at Tokyo.
Flying tho Japaneso flag and dis
guised by tho addition of a fourth
smokestack, sho audaciously stole un
der tho guns of tho fort and entered
Georgetown, tbe harbor of tho Island
of Penang, the British possession In
tho Straits Settlements, fired torpedoes
which destroyed tho Russian cruiser
Jemptchug and a French torpedo de
stroyer and escaped through tho
Straits of Malacca. Moro than two
hundred members of tho crowB of
the warships wero killed. This brings
tho total number of vessels destroyed
by tho Emden and the Karlsruho up
to 43.
PRESS ON AT ALL POINTS
Russians Claim Victory Everywhere
In Poland Berlin Denies Re
ports of Reverses'.
Petrograd, Oct. 30. All the Ger
man army corps on tho left bank of
the Vistula river in Poland are In full
rotreat.
Tho following official communica
tion Issued by tho Russian commander-in-chief
under date of October 28,
follows:
Wo havo broken tho rcslstanco of
MORE THAN HALF THE
PEOPLE
With the entrance of Turkey Into the war considerably more than half
of the world, from the viewpoints both of area and of population, Ig now ac
tually Involved In the hostilities resulting from the Austrian demands upon
Servla. Here are the figures, compiled from Whltaker's Almanac:
THE ALLIES.
Area (square miles). Population.
British empire 13,123,712 435,000,000
France (Including colonies) 4,291,510 94,730,000
Russian empire 8,400,000 164,000,000
Belgium (Including the Congo) 813,400 22,500,000
Japanese empire 235,900 65,100,000
Servla 34,000 5,000,000
Montenegro 5,800 500,000
Total, allies 26,904,322 786,830,000
GERMANIC ENTENTE.
Germany (Including colonies) ,.... 1.343,020 80,000,000
Austro-Hungarlan empire 261,033 51,340,000
Turkish empire 1,058,041 31,580,000
Total, pro-German 2,662,094 162,920,C00
Total of countries at war 29,566,416 949,750,000
Total land area of the earth.... 55,500,000
Total population of the earth 1,623,000,000
the enemy's last units which still at
tempted to hold tho north of the Pil
ltza river. On the front beyond tho
Vistula all tho Austro-German troops
aro now In retreat. Wo have occu
pied Strykow, Ieschow and Noweml
asto. "Russian cavalry has entered Ra
dom and 'captured several thousand
prisoners, guns, scores of machine
guns, supply trains and automobiles."
Berlin Claims Some Progress.
Berlin, Oct. 30. An official report
issued by tho German general army
headquartors says:
"In the northeastern theater of the
war our attacks aro progressing. Dur
ing tho last three weeks 13,500 Rus
sians, 30 cannon, and 39 machine guns
havo been taken.
"In tho southeastern war area tho
situation is unchanged."
De Wet Joins Boer Revolt.
London, Oct. 29. Tho colonial offlco
issued officially a dispatch from tho
government of tho commonwealth of
South Africa Btating that tho famous
Boer general, Christian De Wot, who
gave tho British so much trouble In
tho South African war, Is leading tho
rovolt In the Orange Free State. An
other well-known Boer general, Bey
ers, heads a similar revolt in western
Transvaal.,
100 Boers Surrender.
Washington, Oct. 81. The surrender
of 100 rebellious Boers without fighting
at Brandvlel and Understedoorsn,
South Africa, was reported today In
official London dispatches to the Brit
ish embassy.
London, Oct. 31. Col. Conrad Brins,
who has been suppressing tho rebel
lion started by Colonel Lieutenant
Marltz in Northwest Capo province,
reports tho Invasion of tho Capo has
been broken.
Would Make Peace With France.
London, Oct. 30. Tho Daily Chron
icle's Paris correspondent assorts that,
with a view to detaching France from
the allies, Germany made an offer to
conclude peace on the basis of tho
cession of Metz and possibly a portion
of Alsaco to France. Tho offer, ac
cording to the correspondent, was re
jected. s
Hospital Ship Is Wrecked.
Whitby, England, Nov. 1. The Brit
ish hospital ship Roblllo, bound from
England to France, to bring home
wounded, was wrecked near Whitby
during a terrific storm. All her boats
but ono wero smashed and that was
swamped near shore. Several bodies
havo been recovered. It Is feared that
100 aro drowned. Life savers suc
ceeded in getting off two boatloads
of survivors. Tho others, Including
the crow, havo taken to tho rigging.
Tho vessel carried thirty doctors and
a full hospital equipment.
New British Sea Lord Is Appointed.
London, Nov. 1. It was officially
announced that Baron John Arbuth
not Fisher, admiral of tho fleet, has
been appointed flrst sea lord of the
admiralty to succeed Prlnco Louis of
Battenberg, who resigned becauso of
nowspapor criticism directed against
him.
WORLD'S
NOW ENGAGED IN WAR
Lincoln The commission nppolnted
by the governor to recommend new
school laws has agreed that one-fourth,
of the whole amount of stato appor
tionment bo divided by the state su
perintendent according to the numbui.
of school districts in the state, and be
certified to tho county superintendent
In the stnte superintendent. Thlft
will give the districts in tho sparsely
sound west an amount equal to the
districts in Douglas county. Tho re
maining three-fourths is to bo divided
among tho counties in proportion tc
the school children In each county,
this money, together with tho locaL
fines and licenses, to bo divided by
tho county superintendent pro rata
according to the average daily nt
tendance as determined by tho last
report to the state superintendent. At
present tho stato temporary school
fund Is apoitloned semi-annually ta
counties and school districts on a bo.
sis of school population, which em
braces persons from flvo to 21 years
of age. About $600,000 is thus annual
ly apportioned. The fund is derived,
from interest on tho permanent schooL
fund, state lands leased and sold,,
game licenses and some other sources.
The funds are used by school districts
for the payment of salaries of teach
ers. Considerable time was given to
the discussion of a vocational meas
ure. This is an act to define vocation
al education providing for the estab
lishment of vocational schools and for
stato aid in the maintenance thereof.
Vocational school shall mean an or
ganization of courses, pupils and
teachers under a distinctive manage
ment approved by the board of educa
tion, designed to glvo Industrial, agri
cultural or household arts education.
Evening classes in vocational schools
or departments shall mean classes giv
ing such training as can bo taken by
persons already employed during tno
working day. The commission went
on record as favoring a bill that would,
take away from the county boaids the
powers they now havo In appraising:
school lands an,d place the same under
direct control of the stato board ot
educational lands and funds.
County Fair Exhibit
Tho county fair exhibit of the exten
sion service of the college of agri
culture was displayed at seven county
fairs besides the stato fair. The de
monstrators in charge of the exhibit
make the following estimate of at
tendance at the county fairs:
Clay Center, Clay county a.lOO1
Wahoo, Saunders county 4,800
Geneva, Fillmore county 6,300-
Nelson, Nuckloss county 8,800
Auburn, Nemaha county 3,800
Beatrice, Gage county 3,500
York, York county 4,700-
Total 35.000-
In addition there were thousands of
visitors who saw the exhibit at the
Btate fair. The majority of visitors at
the county fairs were farmers and
many returned tho second and third
tlmo to study tho exhibit. Tho esti
mate of attendance made by the coun
ty fair mangers Is considerably high
er than the abovo estimate.
The exhibit, which was prepared
by the various departments of the
Nebraska college, was sent to the
fairs In a special car where It was
displayed la a thirty by forty foot
tent In charge of two or moro guides.
Barley Yield More Than Year Ago.
The 1914 barley crop was 2,230,372'
bushels, according to tho figures of
the State Board of Agriculture. The
farmers sowed 97V792 acres In 1914, or
98 acres moro than last year. The
yield last year was estimated at
2.0GC.90G bushels. In 1914 no barley
acreage was roported from Arthur,
Grant, Hooker, Rock and Thomas,
counties. Hitchcock county leads in
tho production of barley, tho yield
this year being 358,400 bushels. Coun
ties producing moro than 100,000 bush
els of barley in 1914 aro the follow
ing: Counties. Bushels.
Hitchcock 358.4GO-
Dundy 154.G97
Chase 140.475.
Furnas 118.94S
Red Willow 104I9G9
Attorney General Returns to Lincoln.
Attorn6y General Grant Martiuf has
returned from Washington, where he
attended a mooting of the attorneys
general of tho United States. Ho also
was present at meetings of the Ameri
can Bar association at the same
place.
All Prisoners Return.
Soven convicts of the stato peni
tentiary during tho term of Warden
Fenton have been allowed to return
to their homes for a few days to at
tend funerals of their fathers or
mothers. Every man has roturnod to
his place behind the walls of tho big
prison Just when ho said ho would.
Not ono has broken his trust. And
overy man has ropoatedly and ef
fusively thanked Warden Fenton for
this unusual grant.
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