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THE 8EMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. LOREE GOT $450,000 EX-HEAD OF ROCK ISLAND AND FRISCO COMMITTEE8 TELL8 OF DUAL PAY AND BONUS. "FIRED" AND GIVEN CASH Purchaser of Line Upholds "Million Dollar" Salaries, But Wouldn't Own Road Now Others Tell of Gifts Less Legislation Needed. 280 LIVES ARE LOST WRECKAGE OF BRITISH ARMED MERCHANT VESSEL FOUND. Washington, March 1. An nnnual salary of $37,500 as chairman of tho executive coinmltteo of tho Chicago, Hock Island & Pacific railroad, tho same amount for serving simultane ously ns chairman of tho executive committee of tho Frisco system and a miarantoo of $500,000 additional con Htltuted tho compensation pledged to L. V. Loreo when ho left tho prcai dency of tho Baltimore & Ohio road linnlr Islnnd forces. Ho hull! (tin now nlncos ton months in 1004 and then was asked by Daniel (J Held to resicn. Cornnlvlnir. ho received in settle ment of his agreement with Mr. LcedB $450,000 in Rock Island railway oonuB. Mr. Loreo testified to this effect on Friday at tho interstate commorco commission's investigation of the Rock Island's financial affairs during tho Rcld-Lccds-Mooro control from 1901 to 1914. Criticizing payment to C. II. Venncr of $250,000, J. W. Folk, counsel for tho commission, brought out tho fact that Rock Island people did not llko this transaction. R, A. Jackson, thbn gen eral counsel for tho Rock Island, sent thlB telegram to Robert Mather, presi dent: "United StatcH circuit court at Springfield, 111., has Just committed Venncr to Jail for six months and fined him $1,000." Mr. Mnther sent this answer to Jackson: "Mcssago received. Couldn't vm Infnrvnnn nnd oak tllO Court to send Jim Ham with him?" Jamca Hamilton Lowis, now United States senator for Illinois, was counsel tnr Vnnnnr In his suit ncalnst the Rock Island. Another witness was Mr. Rold hlnv self, who defended tho "big salaried" paid to Rock Island officials, declarod that ho would not now accept as a dft thn control of any western or southwestern railroad and that whon ho nnd IiIb associates took over tho Rock Island It had a "surplus" of $8,000,000, "but no railroad," being morely a "streak of rust." Ho said also a man capnblo of operating an 8,000-mllo railway wbb worth $1,000.' . 000 a year. The. commerce commission Itself waa hold responsible for tho llnancinl troubles of tho Rock Island rnilroud by Mr. Hold,, who contended tho trou bio wbb not caused by tho taking over of bad securities or by payment of heavy salaries and bills, but by tho rulings of the commission, which pre vented advances in ratesf to meet higher wages nnd costs of Improve ments. R. A. Jackson, gcnernl counsel for tho Rock Island from 1902 to 1910, also told tho commission ho hnd been asked to resign by Mr. Rohl and had no knowledge of why. Whllo ho had no agreement, ho had rccolved $100,000. C. II, Warren, assistant to Presldont LcedB lit 1902-i, said ho had been in duced to go to tho Rock Island under an agreement that ho receive stock worth a minimum of $150,000 at tho end of two years. When ho loft tho 'company "becauso tho situation be came unsatisfactory" he was glvon $50,000 cash and New Jorsoy holding company stock having a faco valuo of $205,000. Mr. Held said what tho railroads needed was "more ratoB, morn tariffs and less legislation." TURK FORTS RUINED MANY DARDANELLES TOR TRE88E3 FALL BEFORE HUGE GUNS. Boat 8ald to Have Been Wrecked Dur ing 8torm, but It May Have Been Torpedoed. London, Fob. 20. Tho German sub marine blockade about tho Dritlsh isles has been drawn closer. The gov ernment Is preparing to tako tho most drastic measures against tho Teutons, and in furtherance of this scheme Lord Charles Ueresford will proposo to Premier Asquith in par liament .that all Germans caught sink ing undefended vessels without an at tempt at rescue bo publicly hanged as pirates If thoy aro captured. Wows' comeB from Amsterdam that tho Dutch government has seized tho merchant ship lianna following dis covery of .1,000 pounds of copper hid den in her hold, which, it was charged, was to bo smuggled into Germany. Tho Dutch alBo aro considering calling to nrmB tho men of tho 191G class to combat any possiblo attempt to vlo late Holland's neutrality. Sttvoral moro vessnls havo fallen victim to tho German raiders one of them an armod merchantman, tho Clan MacNaughton, with which 280 men went down. Tho British admiralty nnnounced on Wednesday that tho Clan Mac Naughton, an armed cruiser, has been missing since February 3, and It Is feared has been lost. T?o vcssol was under tho comamnd of Robert JoffryB. Tllo Clan MacNaughton carried 20 officers and a. crow of 201 mon. Wreckage bollovcd to bo part of tho missing vessel has been found. Tho ndmirulty states that tho Clan MncNaughton Is believed to havo been lost as tho result of a storm that ragetl on February 3, but It Is possi blo that bIio was sunk by a German submarine Tho steamship Rio Parana, laden with coal, was sunk seven miles east of tho pier at Eastbourne, England. There Ib little doubt that tho loss was duo to a Gorman submarine. Tho Rio Parana's crow of 31 men wero rescued by another steamer and taVcn into Now Haven. Tho other vessels reported lost are British transport No. 192, sunk In English channel, according to official announcement In Berlin. British steamer Oakby, sunk by sub marine in channel. British collier Brnnlcsomo Chine, tor pedoed In channel. Swedish steamer Specla, sunk in Nortli sea. Holland-American liner Noorderdyk. ashore near Poortershnvon, supposed to havo struck mlno. SHELLED BY FORTY SHIPS Russian Troops Prepare to Attack Constantinople Transports With a Large Army Sent to Take Sultan's Capital From the Land 8lde. PRICE IS NOT FIXED HEAD OF CHICAGO BOARD AP PEARS AT PRICE INQUIRY. i 3 SLAYERS ARE Murderers of Women Die In the Elec tric Chair at Ossln Ing, N. Y. O&slntng, N. Y March 1, In a triple execution in 8lng Sing prison thrco slayers of women wero put to death In tho electric chair on Friday. Tho throe men who paid tho penalty for murder wero Robert Kano, Oscar Vogt and Vlnconza Campanollt. Only 25 minutes and 10 seconds woro con sumed in putting the thrco mon to death. Alt marched in to tho death chamber with hands erect and with out faltering. Becker Denied New .Trial, New York, March 1. Supremo Court Justlco WeokB on Friday denied tho application for a now trial for formor Lieutenant of Pollco Charles Becker, who Is under sontonco of death for tho murdor of Herman Rob enthal. Tho application waB based on an alleged affidavit by James Mar shall, a negro. SPARKS FROM THE WIRE East St. Louis, III., Fob. 20. Jobn II. Stutzman, a grocer, his two daughters and a son wero burned to death when their homo was destroyed by ilro on Wednesday. Another Bon, Dean, sovontoon years old, escaped by jump Ing from a socond-Btory window. Washington, Fob, 25. Tho Call fornla eight-hour law for women pro vldlng that no woman shall bo om ployed moro than eight hours a day or moro than 48 hourB a week In any mercantile establishment, factory, ho tcl, hospital oi apartment Iioubo, was held constitutional by tho United States Supremo court on Tuesday. Ringside, Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 27. There was no doubt about who won the second of tho White-Welsh series of fox trots Thursday night. Champion Freddlo outdanced the Chlcagoan from start to finish, and piled up a lead that wns indisputable, after 80 minutes of stalling, clinching, holding cycptlTPn and tapping. Eight of tho rounds w , MM I . ... tTT.l-U wuru won uy vvuiBii. Doa Moines, la., Fob. 24. Tho en gineer was killed, a mall clerk fatal'jr Injured, tho fireman lost his llfo acd eight pasBongors wore injured on M'oy- day when Chicago Qreat Wetsorn pa- senger train No. 1, bound from Dts MolneB to Kansas City, was wrecked at Talmagc, la. Tho engineer was James Maxwell of Dcs Moines. Washington, Fob. 24. Davllraar Thcodoro has abdicated his offico of presldont of Haiti and taken refuge on tho Dutch Btoamor Frederick Hcnd- rlk in tho harbor at Port au Prince After touching at ono of the southern Haitian ports tho steamer will proceed to Curacao, Local officials havo taken chargo of tho capital, official dispatch es say, and aro maintaining order nwaltlng General Gulllaumo, leader of tho revolutionist army, which 1b outsldo tho city. Tho Unltod States, will carry out Its purposo to sond a commission to tho ropubllo In .an ef fort to put Its finances In condition to satisfy foreign creditors and re- storo order. London, Feb. 27. The forts at tho entranco of the Dardanelles havo. been reduced after nn nil-day bombardment by tho Franco-British fleet, according to an announcement made on Thurs day by tho admiralty. Tho announcement states: "Tho weather moderating, tho bom bardment of tho outer forts of tho Dar danelles was renowed on Thursday morning. After a period of long range firing, closo rango llrjng was adopted. "All tho forts at tho entrance to tho straits woro successfully reduced . . . Tho operations aro contlnu Ing." ThlB means that the bombardment and possible capture of Constantinople by the allied fleet, whloh has been reported to includo 40 warships, la Imminent, and that the fleet is at preo cut smashing Its way through the straits. Tho Dardanelles forts, for years con sidered among the ntrongest military barriers In the world, have been sub jected to almost Incessant battering by tho shells of tho battleships' guns since last Friday, when tho supremo effort to force the straits was com menced. Beforo that there had been several attacks on the fortifications. Tho bombardment was continued all day Saturday and Sunday and moro than two thousand shells wero dropped on tho forts in that time. Bad weath er for tho tlmo compolled tho cessation of tho efforts of tho fleet to reduce tho forts, but tho bombardment was resumed Monday afternoon, ngaln to bo ended by bad weather until Thursday. Constantinople reported that tho bombardment had been almost without effect, but tho official announcement of tho British admiralty said that Iho forts wero unnblo to reply because Iho ships wero out of range, and that five of thom wero reduced by Saturday night. The attack on Constantinople will be simultaneous, It la believed here, with nn effort on tho part of tho Rub slan army to tako tho Turkish capital from tho land side. It wns announced last week that Russian transports hnd been sent with a large army to the Turkish port of Midi, CO miles noth- weot of Constantinople, for an over land march against the gates of the capital. C. H. Canby Tells United States It i vestlgators There Is No Danger of Wheat Shortage. Now York, Feb. 25. At tho re sumption of tho attorney general's In vestigation of tho Increased cost of wheat bread nnd flour, C. H. Canby, presldont of tho Chicago Board of trade, tho first of several wltnosfies of national reputation on tho subject under inquiry, gave IiIb views on price advances. Mr. Canby denied speculation was responsible for tho high prlco of wheat. Ho asserted that the law of supply and demand has caused a steady rise in tho price of grain and that tho pres cut quotations are Induced by the Eu ropean demand. Mr. Canby said Uiat tho United States still has 75.000.000 bushels to export. "Thoro Is no shortage and no dan ger of one," he continued. "Tho rate of exportation has slowed down and Indications nro for contin ued diminution until tho now crop Is harvested. The high cost of ocean freights practically double what they wore at tho outset of the war Is one causo for this lessening of the out ward tldo. That has discouraged ex ports and has resulted in a gradual lowering of prices. There will be less buying for futuro delivery from now on." Mr. Canby announced himself as opposed to an embargo on the expor tation of wheat. "That would be tampering with the laws of supply and demand," ho said. "The farmer is really selling wheat for less than It is worth, In a world Bcnse, at tho present time, Just think what Germany would pay for 500.000,- 000 bushels If she could get It." PLAN SECOND HY RESERVES, KNOWN AS AMERICAN LEGION, TO BE FORMED. ENDORSED BY GENERAL WOOD Roosevelt Asserts He and His Four Sons Will Become Members of the Legion. 15,000 RUSSIANS ARE TAKEN Germans Capture Przasnysz and 10,- 000 of the Czar's Troops Russ Relnvade Bukowina. Berlin, Feb. 27. The capture of 10,- 000 Russians, twenty cannon, machine guns and a great quantity of war ma terials at Przasnysz, ns well as the city Itself, was announced by the Ger man war office Thursday. Tho capturo of 5,000 Russians in battles north of tho Welchsel (Vis tula river) is also reported. London, England, Feb. 27. Russian troops have relnvnded Bukowina and ro-occupled Sadagora, on the railroad four miles north of Czernowitz, ac cording to a dispatch recolved on Thursday by tho Evening News, MANY PLUMBERS ARE GUILTY SWEITZER BEATS HARRISON Chicago Mayor Loses Nomination for. Re-election W. H. Thompson, Republican, Wins. Chicago. Feb. 25. Robert M. Swolt- zor on Tuesday defeated Carter H. Harrison for the Democratic mayor alty nomination by a plurality of ap proximately 75,000. Chicago's flvo-timo mayor mot tho most crushing defeat over recorded in a mayoralty fight since tho enactment of tho direct primary law. Tho voto was tho largest over cast In a Domocartic primary in Chicago. Tho total was approximately 300,000. William Halo Thompson won tho Republican nomination for mayor by a plurality placed at approximately 1,000 over Judgo Harry Olson, fusion candidate. Convicted of Trade Restraint by Jury In Federal Court In Des Moines Sentences Later. Des Moines, la., Feb. 26. All 36 master plumbers who have been on trial hero since February 10 on charges of violating the Sherman antitrust law, wero convicted by a Jury in tho fed eral district court on Wednesday. Judgo John C. Pollock will pass sen tence later. Tho men nro residents of Iowa, Ne braska, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota They are members and officials of the National Association of Master Plum bors and of the stato organizations of that body. New York. Formal announcement haB been made here of the formation of an organization of first reserves, to bo known ns the American legion, to be composed of former army, na vy and militlnmen, which will better InBiiro the nation's preparedness in case of war. Captain Gordon Johnston aide-de-camp to Major General Leonard Wood, commanding tho Department of tho East, made tho announcement on behalf of a group of army and navy men who, in an unofficial capac ity, aro acting with civilians in pro moting tho movement . Captain Johnston said that It is planned to establish within a short time a first reserve of between 230,000 and 300, 000 former army and navy militiamen for instant call In case of emergency, Major General Wood has already given tho plan his unofficial indorse ment, and former President Roose velt has written a letter approving the proposal. Numerous other public men havo indorsed the project, and a statement by tho promoters says lint, formor secretaries of war and of tho navy have Indicated their wil Hngness to act in an advisory capac ity. Asserting that he and his four sons will becomeu members of the legion, Colonel Roosevelt, in a letter to the orEanlzors. says that in the event of war he intends to ask congress for permission to raise n division of cav alry. Important Dlncoverlej. Washington. Two discoveries, both of vast importance to American in dstries and ono regarded also as a priceless military nsset, wero an nounced by Secretary Lano of the In terior department. Thoy are chemlcnl processes, de veloped i after years of research by Dr. Walter F. Rlttman, chemical en gineer of tho bureau of mines. Ono is expected to enable oil refiners to increase their output of gasoline by 200 per cent; the other makes pos sible the production from crude pe troleum of toluol, and benzol, bases for dyes and hlgU explosives for which in the past, the United States and the rest of tho world have de pended almost exclusively upon Germany. CONDENSED NEWS OF INTEREST TO ALL. PLAN TO POSTPONE BIG FIGHT IDAHO TO BE 'DRY' NEXT YEAR Bill for State-Wide Prohibition Passed by Senate Now Goes to Governor. Is Boise, Idaho, Fob. 27. Tho senate of tho Idaho legislature on Thursday passed the state-wide prohibition bill, which makes the manufacture, salo und transportation for salo of Intoxi cating liquors unlawful aftor January 1, 1910. Tho voto in the senate was 23 to G, in favor of tho bill. The bill now goes to the governor, who has an nounced that he will sign it Promoter Curley Decides to Delay Heavyweight Bout at Juarez Two Weeks Johnson Delayed. El Paso, Tex., Fob. 26. Official an nouncement made on Wednesday by Promotor Jack Curley that tho fight between Jack Johnson and Jess Wll lard for tho world's heavyweight championship will not be held until at least two weeks later than March 6 settles the question that has been tho big topic of discussion hero since Johnson began to lag in his Jour ney from Barbadoes to Juarez. WILSON NAMES TRADE BODY BERNHARDT'S LEG CUT OFF Great Acress Undergoes Successful t Operation at Bordeaux, France. Bordeaux, France, Fob, 24. Mmo. Sarah Bernhardt has been successful ly oporated upon. Hor right leg was amputated at tho knee ns tho result of an Injury Buffered Bevoral years ago whllo playing "Joan of Arc." It wns stated that tho operation hnd been n comploto success. President Sends to Senate Hie Nomi nations for the New Interstate Commission. Washington, Fob. 24. President Wilson on Monday nominated the members of tho Interstate trado com mission. He sent to the senato tho names of Joseph E. Davles, at present commissioner of corporations; Edward Nnsh Hurloy of Chicago, William J Harris of ucorgin, at present uirector of tho census; William H. Parry of Seattlo, Wash., and George Rubleo of Cornish, N. H. $216,000,000 More for War. London, March 1. Tho government has requested $215,000,000 additional for the war oxpcnseB of tho year 1014- 15, bringing tho total for tho year to $1,800,000,000. Tho total for England alono 1b $3,060,000,000, 700,000 Prisoners. Borlln, March l.-r-Tho Gorman min ister at Berno. Switzerland, declares there aro 58,027 Gorman prisoners of war intornod In France. Great Britain and Russia. In Gormany thoro nro now about 700,000 prisoners of war. May End Bread Cost Inquiry. New York, March 1. A rotum to the wholesale prlco of four conta a loaf for bread will result, Doputy At torney-General Becker indicated In a discontinuance of the Inquiry ho is conducting. Wade Named for Judge. Washington, March 1. Martin J. Wado, Domocratio national committee man irom iowa, was nominatod by President Wilson to bo United StateB Judge for tho southern district of Iowa. Wade lives in Iowa City. Des Making War Speech. Milan. Italy. March 1. Slg. Moatl- Trottl, radical deputy, died whllo de livering a speech In favor of tho In tervention of Italy In tho war. Quo person was killed and many wounded In riots in favor of neutrality. j British Warships Damaged. Berlin, March I (by wireless). Tho Cologno Gazette publishes a lot- tor from Montevideo which says an ATgentino steamer reported seven British cruisers lying severely dam aged at tho Falkland islands. Favors Purchase of Monticello. Washington, Fob. 27. President Wilson Thursday sent a letter to Rep resentative Underwood and Senator Kern, Indorsing tho resolution to pur chaso by1 tho government of Monti cello', tbo homo of Thomas Jefferson Plum for Detroit Man. Washington, Fob. 27. President Wilson Thursday sent to tho senate tho nomination of Richard. I. Lawson of Detroit, Mich., to bo collector of customs tor customs collection district No. 38. Chinese Boycott Spreading. San Francisco. Representatives of the Six Companies, the powerful Chinese organization, which has Insti tuted a boycott against Japanese on tho Pn'ciflc coast, owing to the de mands made on China by Japan, said tho movement would bo in full swing by the end of this woek throughout tho west and In parts or i;anaua ami Mexico. They said the boycott would b0 continued in tho expectation that ultimately tho Japanese affected would bring pressure to bear on their homo government to modify tho terms of Japanese demands. This movement Is purely patri otic," Baid a prominent umnese merchant of this city. "And we shall endeavor by every available means of publicity arid communication to reach every Chinese In this country and to induoo him to join in mo campaign." Peace Federation Meets. Chicago, 111. Resolutions asking President Wilson to call a conference of neutral natiouB to attempt to end the European war, were adopted by the Emergency Peace Federation, at a meeting here. Miss Jane Addams wob named permanont president oi tho newly organized society, and Louis F. Lochner, secretary of the rhlrnco Peace society, was chosen secretary. Allied Flags Over Dardanelles. London. A dispatch to the Ex- nhnneo Teletrrnnh company irom Athens says: "Tho allies have dis embarked detachments of artillery near the destroyed Dardanelles forts and British and French flags are now flying over thom. Tho fleet hau reached as far as the lighthouse near Fort Kllld Bahr. The rorts on mo European sldo have been reduced to Bllence, Mlno sweeping operations continue. Thtfro are 50,000 Turns on tho European side unu 15,000 on the ABlatlc side." Report 1,800 Soldiers Drowned. Berlin. A story by tho Over Seas Hews acency is that tho Corrlero Delia Sera, a newspaper of Milan, de claTos that Lloyd's agency hasrecelv ed a telegram from. East Bourne, In Sussex, to tho effect a British trans port haB gono down with 1,800 men Refuse Peace Proposals. Berlln.-"Tho Berlin MKtag Zeltung states that It learnB from special au thorities in Vienna that Russian unof- nlnl neirotlatlors offered favorable peace terms nnd Austria declined." The Otoo county Jail Ib empty. Tho Htnev buss 'over has hit Grand Island. The ilrst Has ts Jitney tho first day mado $10.50. A new business block will soon be erected at Scrlbncr. . 1 Tho price of electricity has been reduced In Beatrice Hastings 1b4 figuring on a municpal-ly-owned heating plant. Jay Palmer heads the Jitnoy bu service in Grand Island. Omaha's now million dollar hotel is now open to tho public. Sarah Wright, 105 years old, died at her homo at Hyannls. Dr. H. L. WollB has been appointed physician of Cuming county. Dean C. Bessey of the University of Nebraska died at Lincoln. A commercial club has boen formed In Wood Lake, Cherry county. A move is on foot at Fremont to establish a Jitnoy buss line. Henry Slants of near Fremont got $9,000 for his 1914 wheat crop. Nebraska retailers selected Lincoln for Its meeting placo next year. Germantown is organizing a Far mers' Grain and Elevator company. Ice gorges in Blue river did great damage to bridges in Soward county. Tho basball club of Grand Island got $1,000 from a fair held in that city. The merchandise firm of Kllllan & Stuehrlt of Cedar. Bluffs has been die solved, A stock company Is being formed at Greenwood for building a telephone system. Hastings high school students are preparing to manage a lecture course next year. Dr. C. A. Phillips is president of tho newly organized Adams County Dene tist society. Henry Krueger, a farmer living: southwest of Weeping Water, is still husking corn. G. A. Gell recommended In Wash ington for appointment as postmaster of Grand Island. An eagle, measuring eight feet and two inches from tip to tip, was killed near Kearney. John G. Kyi of Wlsnor has been ad Judged a dipsomaniac by tho insanity board at West Point Nearly $3,000 have already been subscribed for tho 1915 State league baseball team at Rastings. Nebraska is twenty-fifth in point ofx school elliclency, according to figures in superintendent's office. The North Plntto Valley Teachers' association will hold their annual meeting at Alliance March 25 to 27. After Guy Martin of Hastings was operated on for appendicitis it was discovered ho had smallpox Instead. Five hundred women of Hastings Methodist church have pledged them selves to raise $5,000 for a new build ing. William Eck, sentenced to Adams county Jail for ten days, can't get out becauso of a quarantine of tho Jail for smallpox. A two-year-old son, of Charles Hran nac of Geneva was severely scalded when he overturned a basin contain ing boiling water. Hastincs citizens are planning a mass meeting to select a candidate for mayor to oppose present incum bent nnd three others. The forty-first carload of relief sup plies for Belgian war sufferers has- been sent by the Nebraska commis sion for Belgian relief. The re-appolniment of Clarence Harman as deputy commissioner of tho food, drug and oil bureau, has been announced by Governor John R. Morehead. State Treasurer Hall has purchas ed $19,662.89 worth of the bondB of drainage district No. 1, of Johnson county; also $5,600 worth of tho water bonds of the village of Spingview. Two tons of dynamite wero used In blasting a hill of lime rock in Supe rior. Pieces of stone were thrown half a mile high. Tho rortiana ue mout company is to use tho rock. Nine Hastings cigar factories nave a total output of three and half mil lion cigars, annually, according to in ventories completed and turned over to G. N. R. Browne, internal rovenu collector. rireakors of tho law In Grand isiana nro sent to tho "coal pile," according to a Grand Island newspaper. "Seven Collars and Beven days ou the coal pile," reads one police- court sentence One person is dead, and thirty woro made Berlously 111 as a result of eat ing rolls sold aa a church festival at Alma. Rat poison is believed to havo been accidentally mixed with tho flour. Assessments paid into tho stato bank guaranty fund may bo deducted by Nebraska banks from their state ments of Income under Income tax law, according to a ruling announced by tho treasury department at Wash lngton. Fear Is expressed In some sections of the Btato that sleet may have in jured 'wheat and alfalfa F. A. Klmbrough of Grand Island, chartered a Bpeclal train to go to Hastings when ho learned his daugh ter, there in school, was 111 with ap pendicitis, In per capita of rural population, Nebraska is second of all the state in tho union in production swine, ac cording to flgureB received by Secre tary Mellor of the Stato Board of Ag riculture from the United States Board of Agriculture.