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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1915)
THE SEMLWEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA. FOR THE BUS! TROOPS IN WARSAW READY FOR FIGHT NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN SOON BE COMPASSED. TREASURER-ELECT HALL READY FOR OFFICE. I HNSHES BOND B ! W VH MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED Home and Foreign Intelligence Con densed Into Two and Four Line Paragraphs. WAR NEWS. Of nearly 600,000 wounded soldiers treated In French hospitals between Scptcmbor 1C and November HO, less than 2 per cent died. Reports have reuehed New York that trenches are being ihiK about London and extraordinary precautions taken throughout the English east coast region in anticipation of a furth er German raid or Invasion. Two German aeroplanes recently dropped bombs upon the- outer fortl Jications at Dover. The forts llred on hum, but they oscaped and the avia tors are said to have been awarded the iron cross by tho kaiser. A dispatch from Petrograd to Lon don says the number of German pris oners registered in the Russian cap ital is 1,140 ofllcers and 1:51,700 men; the number of Auslrians registered is S,10G ofllcers and 221,400 men. The triple entente powers have given guarantees to Athens and Buch arest that Bulgaria will not attack Greece or Rumania should Greece lend aid to Servia or should Rumania acthely participate in the war. Tho Portuguese chamber voted in faor of preparations to join England in tho war against Germany. The voto was taken immediately after an nouncement of another attack upon the Portuguese province of Angola in Africa The British protectorate over Egypt has been declared in all the garrison towns by the iirlng of a sa lute of 101 guns and the raising of the British Hag. Prince Hussein Kemal has been appointed sultan of Keypt. 1 The German emperor, according to lato advices by way of Copenhagen, has gone to tho front in the western theater or the war, where tho ge'ii' eral attempt by the allies to force the Germans backward has been going on for sevpial dayn. r" Japan has not been requested U? send an anny to Europe. The Japan ese minister of foreign affairs has given information to this effect to the Diet. Arms to the value of $5,000,000 have been forwarded from Japan to Europe. A German aviator, on Christmas day drove his machine across the English channel, evidently with the intention of making an attack on Sheerness. However, like his compa triot who recently made an attempt against Dover, ho was unsuccessful, being driven away by British aircraft. Italy has occupied the Albanian port of Avlona, as the result of a rev olution which has broken out In Al bania against the Turkish ruler, Es sad Pasha. This step, was taken to restore order and afford protection to Europeans and peacful inhabitants, but intervention by Italy in Albania carries with it the possibility of the participation of that country in tho present conflict. GENERAL. Three men and several hundred of cattlo woro drowned In floods caused by the heaviest rains in tho history of tho state of Arizona. One rancher alono lost a herd of 100. Business and ptofesslonal men all of whom onco wero boys sold papers on tho Dotroit streets December 21. Nearly $2,200 was collected and the fund devoted to Christmas charity. Tho v.- be no eeneral reduction in wages by tho United States Steel corporation at tho present time, ac cording to an announcement made by Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of tho corporation, after a meeting of tho corporation's lluaiico committee in New York. An explosion occurred In a coal mtno at Fukuoka, Japan, as a result 800 laborers wero imprisoned in the workings of tho mine. Fukuoka is on the sea coast, sixtj-flvo miles to tho north of Nagasaki. Members of the prohibition paity from Kansas, Iowa and Missouri will meet in Kansas City January J, to launch a new campaign to last 120 t days, in an offoit to get tho names of ,S,,000.000 voters on petltiolis for na tional prohibition before tho question y&galn comes ftp in congress. Js " There Ib apprehension over tho fact that Mourn Etna is showing activltj. nhn iiintiirtumcoH aro taking the form ot trong rumbling and mirthqunko phocks which are foh as far away as oyracuso and Taormina It is statod by Chicago charity peo ple that ono-tetith of the population of that city rocetes public charity. Sixteen million animals for human consumption were sold for $l0!),i:tl,000 spot cash at Hie slock -yards at Chi cago during tho last year. Orders for felt for artillery, harness, saddles, canteen covers, totalling 250,000 pounds, hao been received b a Chicago linn from tho purchasing agents of the English anny. Another new high price record for wheat was attained at Portland, when a sale ot 5,000 bushels of red life was made at $1.23. and 5,000 bushels of red Russian sold at the ame price. The greatest and most widespread celebration of Christmas In the his tory of the central west was reported by United States postal ofllelals, ex press companies, merchants and char Itable organisations Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mormon church, became tho real head of tho entire sugar beet Industry of Utah and adjoining states when at Salt Lake City he was elected presl dent of tho Amalgamated Sugar com pany. Forly-six men were arrested at Terre Haute, hid., on indictments re turned by the federal grand Jury In Indianapolis, charging election frauds It is suld that more than 100 are to be arrested for the alleged olTenses. All were released on $2,500 bond each The Colorado Boatd of Stock In spectors and commissioners have placed a quarantine agaliiBt shipments of cattlo and sheep from Momma on account of foot and mouth disease. Tho order forbids the 'entrance of stock from Montana into the state, even In transit. William V. Clery, town clerk of Haverstraw and democratic leader In Rockland county, was acquitted by a Jury in supreme court at New York city of the charge of murder In the Unit degree, on which he was tr'cd for the killing of Ills son-in-law. En gene M. Newman. In an impromptu duel over a wo man, V. Murphy and C. Farias emptied pistols at each other on a Reno, Nev., street fioni a distance of fifteen feet. Murphy was hit four tims and a llfth bullet slightly wound ed a bystander nearly a block away F alias was not hit and gave him self up. The National Association of Vicks burg Veterans is distributing attract ive advance liteialuTe ot the national pieca jubilee, which will be held In tho Vicksburg Mllltaiy park Octobet 12-16, 1915. Veterans of botli sides are to meet on the famous battle ground and talk It over while enjoy nig" a feast. In accordance with the plan of agreement of reorganization of the II B. Clallin company, it was announced at New York the Mercantile Stores corporation has been organized under the laws of the state of New York. The corporation will exercise super vision over the business of twenty three retail stores Enough Christmas postcards and letters were distributed among Chi cagoans to provide one for every clt izen of Illinois, and still leave enough to take care of half the residents of Indiana. During the thirty-six hours 4,17u,000 pieces of ilrst-class mall were received and distributed. There wero more than 2,000,0000 postal cards bearing 1-cent stamps. A new typo of projectile, which will scatter a white-hot mixtuie of molten steel over tho object of attack, and at the same time permeate the at mospheie with a deadly gas which would make it impossible for lire lighters to approach has been Invent ed by John Hays Hammond, Jr., ac cording to a statement made by tho inventor at Gloucester. Mass. WASHINGTON. A proposal to rescind the recent rat iilcation of the London safety at sea convention was beaten in the senate. Senator Ponioreno has introduced a bill authorizing the governor of Ohio to give unserviceable clothing of tho National guard to destitute Mrlklng miners. President Wilson nominated Gnbe E. Parkir of Oklahoma to ho super intendent of the live civilized tribes in Oklahoma. Parker, a Choctaw In dian, Is now register of the tieasury. An amendment to the Immigration bill to exempt from tho proposed lltor ncy test for tho next live years, Bel gians seeking a home in the United States was offered by Senator Wil liams. Mediation by tho federal depart ment of labor In the eastern Ohio coal strike waH sought by Representative Francis of Ohio. About 15,000 men are ldlo In this territory and Secro tary Wilson was asked to mako an eftort to adjimt tho dleronffces and put tho minors back to work. Senator Lodge introduced a bill In tongrosB to annul contract labor law provisions which might provont Bel gians taking up American farm lands or immigrating with tho intention of becoming citizens AGGREGATE SUM ONE MILLION Selects Miss May Holland From J Secy, of State's Office for His Stenographer. Lincoln. State Treasurer t lei t George Hall has completed his bond tor $1,000,000 The subrogated Insur ance contracts have been entered Into b,y nlno other companies besides the Boston company, which is the main company making tho deal The Bos ton company which receives the main part of tho bond Is the Masssuhus etts Bonding and Insurance com pany and carries $2:15,000 of the amount. Tho bond lias not yet been filed, al though it lias been approved by the Insurance commissioner The aggie gate capital of the ten companies car rying the bond is over $10,000,000 and they have assets of ovor $38,000,000. Mr. Hall has made another appoint ment for his office force, having se lected Miss May Hollnnd, who has been stenographer in the office of the secretary of state for several years, as stenographer in the olllce of the Btate treasurer In making tho ap pointment Mr. Hall says he expects to cut down the oillce force somewhat and the ability of Miss Holland to do clerical work of all kinds besides that Df stenographer, with tho strong ilem ocratlc endorsement In her favor, led him to mako the appointment This appointment with that of Wil liam H Murray us deputy, is all that Mr. Hall has made so far. Plan High School Tourney. Manager Guy E. Reed of the s'ate university has announced the date? of tho Nebraska High school basketball tournament the biggest thing in high school sport for March 10, 11. 12 and 13. The tournamont is the llfth held under tho auspices of the unherstty authorities and has grown so rapidly In favor among Nebraska high schools that the management has added an additional day for the games ibis year. Sixty-four Nebraska high schools participated last joar and Reed axpects the entries to run up to seventy-live or eighty next spring It will bring between 500 and GOO athletes to the university (' ' -Ollis for Senate Scribe. Senator J. A. 0111b of Ord, farmer, stockman and statesman, will prob ably be a candidate for the positift of secretary of the senate, tJccornlng to Information ghon out by some of Ollis' very closo friends Ollis has served several terms in tho state senate; was a leader in all of them, being closely allied with the farming and stock interests of the state New Bookkeeping Plan Urged. George Weldenfleld, bookkeeper in tho Board of Control, 1ms prepared a new b.vstem of bookkeeping for state Institutions which is said to be alonp the lines of a better keeping of ac counts. It classilles the departments of each Institution under four heads and divides tho several Items so they are kept separately. May Secure Dr. Condra. Olllclals of the Unlvorsil of West Virginia aie dickering with Or G E Condra of the state university in tin hope thnt they can land the Nobras lean for the presidency of their Inst! tutlon. No dellnlto ofler has been made, it Is said, but negotiations may extend that far within a short tune Simplified Spelling Simplified spelling in a modified form was adopted by the imtvrsity hennte. Alt unlvcirslty publications will tiso It lieioaftor. Hereafter it will be catalog, prolog, decalog, di m u" p tho, altho, thoro, tliorofare, thru mid thruout with unlverslt piotouis and students. Horticultural Society Meets. "Small Fruits for the Home" will bo tho theme or G. S. Christy of John ton, who will address the members of the Slate Horticultural society Jan uary 20. The horticulturists will meet during the week of organized agriculture. January 18 to 23. Ice Cream Beats Meat and Pie. Nebrabka university students at the state agricultural college eat moro borvings of lco cream with their meals than they do plo and puddings combined, according to Miss AMe M. Loomis, head of ho department of homo economics. College Steers Sell for 11.5 Cents. All lecords at the South Omaha Stock Yards woro broken the other day when tho collego of agrlc uluire reiehed 11.5 cunts a pound for two sttcrs One sold for $17s i The carcass ot one of the r,tii'i when freshly dressed, weighed a tnth- mor 70 per cent of its live weipht Five l tho steorB of tho lot sold for "' Some of Uie stock sold was to hav been entored at tho internal lonal Livo Stock Expobition at Chicago had it not been cancollod on account of the foot and mouth disfaic In this photograph, taken In Warsaw, the Russian troops aro seen preparing to go out to tho lighting lino, and mingling with them aro their mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts. WINTRY WEATHER IN THE BRITISH p ' '"' ' ; " ''' " """ ' !i ---w-',"''',,,',,,,,',;,,?f' .,?.,.'? ,", , :::j;5 11,11 British officers, privates and Red Is being prepared WAR DELAYS ,, -, Jr-te-.... -, . . x tf-S " '.. v.. " . . fc. T3.. Miss Elizabeth Held Rogers, a society belle of Washington, and Prlnco Cliiistian of Hesse, nephew of tho kaiser and a captain in tho German navy, whose engagement has been announced. Tho prince says ho will renouueo ills tltlo to overcomo Imperial objections to tho marriage, tho date for which depends on the fortunes of war. ON CAPTURED I ma 3 I i '4 -. , . ,,,.,-, - -v,. w , - y b0 urt)Ugi,t to oporativo post- Men of tho German landsturm patrol on tho East Prussia frontier riding , Hon and communication with the in into camp on Cosback horses captured from tho Russians. ,turlor of the Bound convoyor Cross men in tho trenches trying to keep THEIR WEDDING COSSACK HORSES x-- -. t U TRENCHES warm around a fire whilo their food LUXURY IN THE TRENCHES To ki i p uii army personal!) clean la one of tho ininienso tasks that con fiont tho coniiiiiindeiH. Tho photo graph shows a shower bath contrived In the French trenches north of Sols-1 sons, only a hundred yards from tho German Hues Novel Means of Communication. Wounded B"ltlsh soldiers In tho hands of tho Germans havo hit upon a noel way of communicating with their families and friends at homo They subscribe small sums of money to thu German Red CrosB society, but aa few of them have any cash they 1111 up u draft or sign a check to bo sent to London and honoied. On tho back oC the draft tho banker Is requested to communicate tho nows of the drawer's safety to IiIb homo. Tommy Atkins thinks It Ib well worth a dollar sub scription New Phonograph. A New Jersey linentor has adapted a phonograph for uso with various kinds of records, such as thoBo in which tho groove Is laterally undulat lug, and thoBO In which tha undula tions aro vertical, by supplying a plu mtitv of lonroducerB. any of which