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THE SEMIAVEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
THE BUSY
LIFE IN RELEASED
YPRES RUINED BY CONTINUOUS BOMBARDMENT
NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON
BE COMPASSED.
FEW CONVICTS SPEND LIFE IN
STATE PRISON.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
HALF SENTENCED THERE NOW
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WAR NEWS.
A squadron of German crulsent
raided tho Yorkshire coast of Eng
land and bombarded three towns with
effect.
The cost of the war to France for
Ihe first six months In 1915, Is offic
ially figured at 6,029,442,805 francs
($1.185,S8S,573) or about $200,000,000
monthly.
Vienna has admitted officially, ac
cording to dispatches from Home,
that 100,000 Austrians were killed or
wounded In the unsuccessful cam
paign against Servia.
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King Albert of Belgium, in thank
ing the American commission for a
namedny message of good wishes,
congratulated the commission on Its
generous and enlightened initiative.
No fewer than 5i per cent of tho
French wounded returned to the firing
line before December 12, according to
Interesting figures supplied by the
surgical department of the ministry of
war.
M. Hibot, tho French minister of
linance, has informed the appropria
tions committee of the chamber of
deputies that. France will not lack re
sources to continue the war to a
ilnlsli without faltering.
A news agency dispatch says Tur
key has yielded to the representa
tions of the United States. Italy and
Greece, and will permit tho departure
from Syria of consular representa
tives of neutral countries.
Tho United States government has
Instructed Ambassador Morgenthau
nt Constantinople to make inquiry
about and use his good offices for the
protection of the British and French
consuls at Ilodeldah, Arabia.
The British protectorate over
Egypt has been declared In all the
garrison towns by the firing of n sa
lute of 101 guns and the raising of
the British flag. Prince Hussein
Kemal has been appointed sultan of
Egypt.
General Louis Botha, premier of
the union of South Africa, considers
that (the rebellion, apart from the
rounding up of a few stray bands, is
nt an end. Accordingly he has gone
for a short vacation on his farm be
fore undertaking a campaign against
German southwest Africa.
General Baden-Powell shares tho
opinion of many English military ex
pel ts who believe that Germany fully
expects to invado England If posslblo
nnd will direct Its activities toward
the commercial cities in the north of
England rather than towards London
and the resort cities of the south.
That Warsaw, which has been the
German's objective for weeks past, is
not particularly disturbed over the
outlook ,ls indicated by dispatches
from the Polish capital which de
scribe tho city as gaily decorated,
crowded with shoppers and prevaded
with tho Christmas holiday spirit.
Berlin Is celebrating the news from
Toland of what is termed "one of the
greatest victories of history." Berlin
headquarters announces that the Rus
sians have been clearly beaten and
that the Russian offensive against SI
losia and Poson has been broken. A
general retreat of the Russians In Po
land, with tho Germans in pursuit, Is
claimed.
OlSNIERAL..
Flro In the- heart of Atlanta's busi
ness district caused damage estimated
nt $100,000.
A plea for universal peace was
mado at Chicago, by David Starr Jor
dan, president of Leland Stanford
university, who said In an address to
the Southorn club that tho United
States was tho only world conscicnco
loft.
William Cobby, formor president of
the Collateral Loan company, plead
ed not guilty when arraigned at Bos
ton on an indictment charging lar
ceny of $50,000 from tho company. Ho
furnished $25,000 bail.
Two lumdrotl unemployed men ter
rorized the patrons and proprietors
of a dairy lunch nt Soattlo. Wash., by
marching into tho placo and forcibly
taking all the food In sight, including
tho moats that woro sproad for the
(linerb.
Two masUd bandits at St. LouIb en
trrcd a Jewolry storo in the heart of
the city, seized $1,000 worth of dia
monds and, aftor exchanging a dozen
h(.n with the proprietor of the store,
Cs' I'ed
It Is stated b Chlcngo charity peo
ple that one-tenth or tho population
of that city recehes public chnrlty.
Suits to have the Arizona state pro
hibition law declared Invalid wore
filed at Phoeniz In tho United States
district cotitt.
New Year's revelers In Chicago
may drink Tar Into 1915 It they order
their drinks befoio 1 a. m.. Mayor
Harrison has announced.
The American governmen has de
cided to send American warships to
the Panama canal zone to guard
against violations of neutrality thero
by tho ships of the belligerent powers.
Arthur Hodges, 21 years old. was
electrocuted in tho Arkanssus peni
tentiary at Little Rock. Hodges was
the first white Imau to die in this
nmtuier in Arkansas.
An explosion oecurted In u coal
mlno at Fukuoka, Japan, as a rosult
800 laborers were imprisoned
In the workings of tho mine. Fukuoka
is on tho sea coaHt, sixty-five miles to
the north of Nagasaki.
Ten thousand employes of tho
Crane company In Chicago will sharo
in a $050,000 Christmas gift this year
as a partial recomponso for tho
shrinkage In wages that resulted from
lost time during last year.
Four million eggs, the largest single
shipment ever sent from this country,
wero loaded on the steamer Anglian
sailing from Boston for London. Tho
eggs come from cold storage houses
In Chicago and are valued at $80,000.
Self denial wis obscned by thou
sands of Baltiinoreans who denied
themselves luxuries and hi many In
stances necessities, in order to con
tribute to the community relief for
the poor.
Five years would be required to put
tho United States navy in the highest
state of efficiency to meet a hostile
foreign fleet, according to n statement
by Rear Admiral Fiske beforo tho
house naval committee at Washington.
A test of the Arizona anti-alien la
bor law amendment enacted at tho
November election was begun at Tuc
son in a suit filed In the United States
district court. The law provides that
at least 80 per cent of tho employes
of any concern employing moro than
five, persons must bo American
citizens.
WASHINGTON.
The senate has passed a bill appro
priating $1,000,000 for eradication or
tho "foot and mouth" disease.
The interstate commerco commis
sion has granted the 5 per cent ad
vance In freight rates asked by the
eastern railroads.
Former President Taft has promised
the senate Philippine committee to
testify after the Christinas holidays
on the call for ultimate independence
of tho Filipinos.
An appropriation of $2,,280,000 for a
five-year census of productions in tho
United States was stiicken from the
legislative and judicial appropriation
1)111 by the house.
An amendment to the war tax bill
providing that no penalties shall be
imposed for failure to make returns
on or before January 1. 1915, troin De
cember 1, 1911, was passed by tho
senate.
The legislative, executive and Ju
dlcial appropriation bill was passed
by tho house, after appropriation of
$2,2SG,000 for an agricultural census
wore stricken out, bringing its total
down to about $:il!.000,000.
France, In a note to the State de
partment, through Ambassador Jus
serand, gave assurances that it would
not interfere in any manner with
American cotton shipments, either to
belligerent or neutral countries.
President Wilson promised to recon
sider an application for a pardon of
W. Burt Brown of Kansas City, former
secretary of tho structural iron work
ers, sentenced to threo years for com
plicity in the "dynamite conspiracy."
Senato democrats in caucus deter
mined to speed up tho legislative pro
gram to avoid tho necessity of an ex
tra session at tho end of tho Sixty
third congress, March 1. It was do
elded to abandon a long holiday re
cess. Secretary Bryan announced that
tho diplomatic broakfast usually
glvon by tho secretary of stato at his
residence on New Year's day would
be omitted this winter on account of
Prosldont Wilson's recent bereave
ment. Published charges that emigres
slonal elforts to provont ,tho export
of munitions of war from tho United
States whs designed to aid Germany
wore Indignantly donounced in the
house by Representatives Barthoblt,
Vollmer and LobccL.
A 300 per cent increase in exports
of foodstuffs from tho United States,
duo principally to tho European war,
characterized the foreign trade of No
vember, (ompared with that month a
year ago
Governors, Death, Insanity and
Courts Have Released the
Remainder.
Lincoln. Ninety men have been
sentenced to spend their lives In tho
Nebraska state penitentiary and a
few of the ninety have done so Half
of the men sentenced to llfo Impris
onment nre now in the penitentiary
The majority of the "other half"
owe debts of gratitude for liberty to
pardons, commutations of sentence or
"furloughs" Issued by vnrlous gov
ernors. Furloughs seem to have
come Into style during Governor
Morchead's administration as tho
word was not utilized by other gov
ernors According to the prison records of
the ninety men sentenced to servo
life Imprisonment, ' nine have been
transferred to Insane asylums, eight
were pardoned or paroled by the lato
John II. Mickey, former governor;
one wns released by ex-Governor
Dietrich, seven by ex-Governor Shal
lenberger; three by ex-Governor Sav
age, one by Acting Governor Hope
well, two by ex-Governor Aldrlch,
four by Governor Morchcad, ono by
ex-Governor Sheldon, one was killed
by another convict ; one man senten
ced to from twenty years to life was
killed while attempting to escape
and one man died in the prison hospi
tal .is a result of drinking wood alco
hol. These thirty nine men, the forty
live now In the prison and six whose
sentences have been reduced by tho
courts make up the total "lifer" roll
at the Nebraska institution
Grain Sorghums Promising.
Some of the most talked of new
crops which promise to havo great
value in western Nebraska are tho
grain sorghums. Some of tho most
promising varieties of these are Kafir,
feteriln, dwarf milo and kaoliang.
These crops are well known for their
ability to withstand dry conditions.
In fnct they have been adopted as
standard grain crops In large por
tions of western Kansas. Oklahoma
and Texas, where they yield better
than corn. Ono reason why they havo
not been introduced more extensively
in western Nebraska is because of a
lack of sufficiently early maturing va
rieties. Nebraskans Suffer.
The attention of Governor More
head has been called to tho con
dition of poor people In McPherson
county by a letter written by Mrs.
Hattle 1. Leusk of Brighton in which
she contends that Nebraska people
should first look after their own suf
fering and hungry before sending stuff
to the Belgians. Mrs. Leusk gives
tho names of several families who aro
in needy circumstances because of
crop failure and urges the governor
to look into the matter
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Will Contest Election.
J. W. 'Kelley more widely known as
"Platform Kelley." though defeated
for the legislature in tho Slxtj -fourth
district by J F. Fults, IiIb republican
opponent, will contest the election be
foio the legislature. Fults received a
majority of live votes over Kelloy, ac
cording to the latter, and he will base
his grounds for a contest on Irregu
larity In counting tho 2,fi00 votes caBt
in the election.
Epidemic Attacks Cornhuskers.
The intense cold of the last few
days has eradicated the gorms of per
haps tho most unique epidemic In the
history of the state. A vegetable
poisoning has created a disease
among farmers that in mild weather
Is highly infectious. It affects the
finger nails of cornhuskers, causing
pain, bleeding, loss of nails, and in
many cases serious blond poisoning.
Test Case Dropped.
Merchants who utilized trading
stamps as business stimulants will
not have to suffer threats of prosecu
tlon undor the "gift enterprise" act
of the 1911 legislature. A case
brought by the William Gold Co., In
fedoral court to test Us constltu
tlonality, has been dropped
Hog Cholera to Be Studied.
Hog cholora. its prevention nnd
control, will be discussed on tins aft
ernoon of Januruy 19 at the meeting
of tho Nebraska State Swlno Breed
ers' association at tho stuto farm.
Rural School Patrons to Meet.
An open forum on school law re
lslon will bo a feature of the meet
Ing of the rural school patrons in
Lincoln during the week of Organ
lzed Agriculture January IS-J': Mem
hers of tin- legislature b.ne cinn-d
rr.uviderublp interest In HiIh meeting
SuporinU'udent-elect Thomas will
read it paper on "The Denim racy of
Education." J. D. Ilea in of Broken
Bow Is president of the Rural School
I'utroiiB and W 11 Campbell of
Cliirkh ti eeirdary
Ypres has been subjected to almost
condition shown In this photograph.
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View of Scarborough, on the cast coast of England, which, together
bombaided by tlio German raiding squndron of cruisers.
WHERE MEXICAN BULLETS CROSS THE BORDER
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Street sceno In Naco, tho Arizona town on tho Mexican border to which American troops havo bcon sent be
cause shells from tho warring Mexicans havo como across tho Hue nnd killed and wounded a number of citizens
nnd soldiers
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riMi6 w8j4Bl!llX 1 ' "n"g 1uo la nonlu,ra France. Tho
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Jubt behind tho firing lino at Argonne this interesting lutle episode was
photographed Officers of the French general staff are interrogating u Ger
man prisoner concerning tho strength and position of the kaiser's forces.
continuous boinbaidment for, weeks,
BOMBARDED BY THE
GERMAN PRISONER
and tho entire city Is In tho ruined
GERMANS
with Whitby nnd Hartlopool, was
MAKING A DEEP TRENCH
Ho sure yon'ro right, hut don't stop
to get much advice beforo going
ahead, or you will never start. Al
bany Journal,