EPITOME OF EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ARE SHORT OUT INTERESTING
Srlef Mention of What Is Transpiring
In Various Sections of Our Own
and Foreign Countries.
WAR NEWS.
Italian merchants, manufacturers
'and professional men arc leaving
Austro-Hungury on the recommendn
'tioti of the Italian consuls lu that
country.
All the retail liquor dealers In Lon
don, through their trado organization,
have united In a protest against tho
;proposod lncreauod taxation on spir
its, wines arid beers.
The Vatican has advised all German
;and Austrian ecclesiastics and theo
logians to leave Romo Immediately,
according to a dispatch to the Petit
.Parlslen from the Italian capital.
A late report from Rome says that
nu agreement between Austria and
iltaly regarding territorial concessions
on the part of Austria In return for
Italian neutrality, Is now among tho
.possibilities.
The Cunard liner Lusltanla, one of
tho finest and fastest ocean liners,
which sailed out of Now York May 1,
with more than 2,000 persons aboard,
has been torpedoed and sunk by a
German submarine.
American oil tank steamer Gulf
light, bound for a French port, has
"been torpedoed off the Scilly islands.
'Tho captain died of heart failuro as
a result of the shock and two seamen
Jumped overboard and were drowned.
Tho extent of the Austro-German
victory in the Carpathians Is indicat
ed in tho German ofllcial comramunl
cation In which tho statement is
made that tho third fortlflod lino of
the Russians had been pierced by tho
'Teutonic allies.
In ono of tho shortest budget
speeches on record David Lloyd
George, tho chancellor of tho ex
chequer, told the English .parliament
that tho war was costing Great Brit
ain at the rato of 2,100,000 pounds or
.$10,500,000 daily.
Fruit and vegetables for tho men
of the fleet is tho object of a new
campaig napproved by the British ad
miralty. British housowlves aro
urged to plant a small plot from
which vegetables may be gathered
for the men of the navy.
Reports of tho now German victory
In western Gallcla put tho Russian
losses in killed, wounded and prison
ers at 100,000. German military ex
perts assert that tho Russians must
now abandon tho entire campaign to
force the Carpathians and invado
Hungary and fall back into northern
Galicia.
GENERA L,.
Governor Ryo of Tennessee vetped
-a bill abolishing tho death penally,
expressing the belief that it would
tend to increase mob violence. Ho
also vetoed an antl-tipping bill.
Tho federal statute barring tho im
portation of moving pictures of prize
lights was held to bo constitutional
by Judge Halght in tho United States
district court of Newark N. J.
China has replied to the Japanese
demands In a note, which while com
plying with some of tho tlomands, de
finitely refuses to uccedo to others,
including tho most Important em
bodied in what is known as group
-.live.
Guy Kneaso of Iowa City, Ia auto
mobile race driver, was killed at Cof
feyvllle, Kan., in a collision of cars
in tho last event of a motor day pro
gram. Kneaso was driving about sixty
miles an hour when the cars camo to
gether. Mrs. W. P. Harford of Omaha was
elected president of the Y. W. C. A.
i national convention, by acclamation,
in Los Angeles. Tho association
vnnts dally newspaper woman's page
articles on lovo and beauty supplant
ed by articles on moral uplift.
John R. Lawson, noted labor leader,
was found guilty of first degree mur
der at Trinidad, Colo., in connection
-with tho case of John Nimmo, a dep
uty sheriff, killed in a strikers' battle
October 25, 1913.
Moro than 150 special trains, each
containing from eight to ten Pullman
cars, have been .scheduled via differ
ent transcontinental railroads to'
bring delegates from eastern and
middle western Shrine temples to the
annual session in Seattlo July 13, 14
:and 15.
Tho so-called Alaska coal land
fraud cases, pending in the United
States district court of Detroit since
1911, were nolle-prossed nt the- re
quest of the attorney general, through
his assistant, Ernest Knaebel.
Fifteen persons woro killed and
moro than two-score Injured by a tor
nado which passed through tho west
ern part of Acadia parish, In south
ern Louisiana,
Dr. A. J. Ochsner of Chicago urged
President Wilson to send a commis
sion to Mexico to study conditions In
an effort to end tho relgu of anarchy
In that country.
Seven persons were killed, many
seriously hurt, by a tornado that
swept over tho Peo Deo section of
South Carolina. Houses were wreck
ed, trees uprootod and crops Injured
In many localities.
Fears of an outbreak of hostilities
botween China and Japan caused
general selling on tho Now York
stock mnrket for domestic and foreign
accounts. Latest developments in tho
European war were a contributing
cause.
Judge John V. Anderson of Sioux
City set June 3 as tho date for pro
nouncing sentoL-co on Georgo Plorce,
former polico chief, who was con
victed of conspiracy to allow resorts
to operate In the city without polico
molestation.
Cheyenne business men will Inves
tigate a report that a Donver agfnt
has been stationed nt Big Springs,
Nob., to direct Lincoln highway tou
rists to go through Donver Instead of
following tho Lincoln roHd through
Cheyenne.
Ten thousand dollars has been con
tributed from the American Red
Cross on "tho field of action where
over most urgently needed." This Is
the largest anonymous gift ever re
ceived by the Red Cross. Tho money
was deposited with a Philadelphia
bank.
"If Governor Johnson of California
is nominated for president on tho pro
gressive ticket In 1910" said Harry
Welnstock of tho federal Industrial
relations commission, at Washington,
"ho will get tho entire progressive
and most of the Independent vote In
tho west.
Tho Dalles-Colllo canal was formal
ly opened at Big Eddy, Oregon. Tho
opening of the waterway means a
free river from tho mouth of tho Co
lumbia to a distance. 500 miles in
land. Tho government has been
working on It for tho last ten years.
It cost $4,850,000.
The Modern Woodmen of America,
largest fraternal insurance society in
the world, will use tho movies. Tho
head camp, located at Rock Island,
111., haB voted to prepare slides show
ing principal features of the M. W.
A. workings, to be loaned to local
camps throughout tho country.
Mllford Lake, Inventor of the even
keel typo of submarine, made a Btato
nient at Mllford, Conn., in which ho
said, "that each submarine attack,
whllo horrlblo, proves the contentions
that tho submarino will prove tho
greatest peace agent that science has
produced, and submarines may yet
win tho war for Germany."
SPORTING
Sidney Hatch of the Illinois Ath
letic club won the annual marathon
of the Missouri Athletic association
at St. Louis.
Nebraska was literally swamped in
the annual track and flold meet bo
tween the Huskers and tho Ames Ag
gies at Lincoln. Ames winning, 83 to
ol.
Including tho prize money which Is
offered this year for the 500-mllo auto
race over tho Indianapolis speedway
on May 31, there will have been
awarded $250,000 in prizes.
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Just as he had llnlshed winning a
five-mile motorcyclo cup race at Sac
ramento, Calif., Fred Farwell, aged
18, crashed Into a fence and wo's
killed.
Jim Coffey, tho Dublin giant,
knocked out Al Reich, tho New York
heavyweight, in tho third round of
what was to havo been a ten-round
bout at Madison Square garden, Now
York.
WASHINQTON.
Tho department of agriculture an
nounced that tho prices of meat ani
mals, hogs, cattle, sheep and chick
ens to producers of the United Stated'
on April 15 averaged about $G.59per
hundredweight. A year ago tlicaver-
age waB $7.40.
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The winter wheat area sown last
fall, according to reports of tho Ag
ricultural department was 41,2011,000
acres, an Increaseof 4,135,000 acres
over that In tho year previous. Esti
mating on the' April 1 condition, tho
report calculated tho crop would bo
019,000,000 bushels, or fifteen bush
els an acre.
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Tho national weather and crop bul
letin announced that In tho greater
portion of tho winter wheat growing
sections the weather favored rapid
development and that crop Is report
ed In good condition.
Tentative plans have been mado
by Secretary McAdoo to glvo dole
gates to the pan-American financial
conference some insight into life and
work under North American condi
tions by a tour of several of tho prin
cipal cities and manufacturing towns
of the central west and tho oast
THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIOUNE.
STATE CROPS GOOD
WINTER WHEAT AND ALFALFA
ESPECIALLY PROMISING.
GRASS MAKES GREAT GROWTH
Heavy Snowt During Past Winter
Has Wet Ground Deeper Than
For Several Years.'
Lincoln. Nebraska crops and soli
conditions woro reported to be excel
lent In tho state b6ard of agricul
ture's bulletin, just Issued. Winter
wheat and alfalfa are especially prom-If-ing,
according to all reports reach
ing tho state board from various sec
tions of the state. Tho survey fol
lows :
"Tho great amount of snow during
the past winter, covering the ground
continuously f for a period extending
from tho middle of December to tho
latter part of March over the greater
part of tho state, prevented frost
from penetrating but slightly Into
the ground and permitted nearly all
of tho melted snow to bo absorbed.
The ground Is wet down to a greater
ccpth than for several years past,
therefore, a very llttlo moisture Is
reeded for finishing tho grain crop,
providing it comes at a seasonable
time.
"From reports received, winter
v-heat Is in excellent condition, tho
growth being furthor ndvanced and
heavier than last year, when the rec
ord crop of the stato was gathered.
From every section of the stato tho
most fn.vorablo reports havo been re
ceived. "Tho backward spring and wet
fields have prevented early sowing
of oats. On some high ground sow
ing was done as early as the middle
of April, but a greater part of tho
crop was put In from the 20th to tho
last of the month. Tho early sown
Is showing through the ground nicely,
as the condition of the soil Is favor
able to quick growth.
"Never in tho history of tho plant
has alfalfa shown up to better ad
vantage than at this time.
"Grass has made a wonderful
growth In the past two weeks. Stock
men hall this fact with delight after
a three months' period of feeding,
something almost unknown hereto
fore in Nebraska. The long period
of foe'ding taxed the farmers to tho
utmost, as they have not been in tho
habit of making such preparations;
therefore, tho stock camo through in
poorer condition than is customary."
Sanitary Survsy of the State.
Proposal to make an extensive nnd
thorough sanitary survey of the stato
has been made by tho board of sec
retaries of tho state board of health.
The probability la, according to board
mombrs, that tho step cannot bo ta
ken at tho present time because of
tho lack of funds. That, howovor, la
not expected to bo a bar for many
years. The plan of tho secretaries la
to havo a survey similar to tho Dow
ling survey, which so startled tho in
habitants of Louisiana two or three
years ago. Sanitary trains will bo
run from town to town and tho trav
eling corps will visit each place and
do tho work entirely at first hand.
Stores, residences, municipal water
plants and garbage disposal concerns
will come in for attention. Lectures
on public health and demonstrations
along the same lino would bo given
at all towns visited.
Farmers May Choose Speakers.
Points desiring agricultural short
courses tho coming fall and winter
will have tho opportunity of choos
ing lecturers and demonstrations on
tho particular subjects they wish,
providing they do not Include sub
jects from moro than three depart
ments at tho University Farm. Tho
schedulo for the season Is being rap
Idly mado up by tho Extension Serv
ice of tho Collego of Agriculture.
Fair Board Orders Improvements.
. Tho board of managers of'lho stato
fair havo authorized fiio general
repair work on tluVnog barns and
other bulldlngs-tlio repainting of tho
big grandsjRifd and the filling In of
the oldcfeek bed that runs through
thesouthwest part of tho grounds.
Olson Appointed New Judge.
A. R. Olson of Wlsnor has ben ap
pointed Judge of the Ninth Judicial
district, the last legislature provid
ing for an additional Judgo by taking
Cuming and Stanton counties from
tho Eighth district and nddlng them
to tho Ninth.
Commander-in-Chief to Speak.
Commander-in-chief David J. Pal
mor of Washington. Ia.. will speak
May 18, at tho thirty-ninth annual en
enmpment of the G. A. R. of Nebras
ka to bo held at Mlnden.
School Increasing Acre Yield.
The unlvrslty school of agrlculturo
has Increased tho yield of tho aver
age acre of Nebraska corn by nbout
eighteen bushols, according to Dean
E. A. Burnett of tho school. The
state has been divided Into six zones
and the farmers shown that each
ono of these zones, differing In Us
conditions, will best grow certain
kinds of corn. The state Is also con
ducting Important work In tho pre
vention of hog cholera, according to
Dean Bur- '
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
CONDENSED NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
Gago county farmers havo begun
to plant corn.
Central City will havo a fast ama
teur ball team this season.
Interstato passenger rate caso la to
bo hold In Chicago, Juno 9.
Miss Mny Sheldton was crowned
May queen at Hastings college.
William Napor, 91, oldest resident
of Mason City, died at HastlngB.
Mayor Allen C. Fisher of Chndron
wants stnto to test 200 cattlo there.
L. C. Armstrong has decided to
erect a two-story brick building at
Alnsworth.
Dr. A. C. McKIm of Norfolk has
been nppolntcd assistant stato voter
iiiarian. Despondent over ill henlth, Carl
Peters, a Fremont carpenter, com
mitted suicide.
The Fleso Motor company Is erect
ing a largo cement block gorago at
West Point.
The date for tho Nebraska Seed
association moot at West Point Ib
July 7, 8 and 9.
Fruit growers In tho vicinity of
Drownvllle aro arranging to hold a
strawberry carnival.
As a result of the recent election
soven saloons In Kearney havo closed
for at least ono year.
The Potash Products company, lo
cated near Alliance, will open for
business about Juno 1.
During April, C,5b"4 motor vohlclo
licenses woro nppliod for at tho olllco
of th secretary of state.
Warden Fcnton announced that tho
now baseball grounds at the penltcn
tlarv has been completed.
The Beatrice Commercial club Is
backing a movement to secure a now
county Jail for Oago county.
A. R. Olson of Wlsnor has been
appointed judgo of the district court
in tho Ninth judicial district.
A poultry department has boon es
tablished nt the Collego of Agricul
ture, University Farm, Lincoln.
The Omaha Commercial club has
started a movement to establish u
public hay market In that city.
Omaha, Lincoln and Beatrice In
torurban railway havo rcnowed their
application for reduced tnx assess
ment. A new arsenal building for tho na
tional guard Is to bo erected on tho
state fair grounds nt Lincoln, to
cost $3,500.
The date of tho next race meet
nt West Point, under the nusplces of
tho Nebraska speed association, haB
been sot for July 7, 8 and 9.
United States Senator G. M. Hitch
cock has accepted an Invitation to
deliver an oration nt tho Fourth of
July celebration at Hastings.
The third annual Beef Producers'
meeting will be held at tho College of
Agrlculturo and Experiment Station
farjn, Lincoln, May 19.
Tho population of Hastings wns tem
porarily depleted by moro than 800
when 104 fnmlllos departed for tho
boot fields of Colorado.
Small town commercial clubs aro
growing faster than clubs In larger
towns, according to exports at tho
Stato Association of Commercial
clubs, meeting In Lincoln.
Tho town of Alliance took a day
off to celebrate the oponlng of Its
now park. School was dismissed and
all stores wore closed. It Is planned
to make tho now park ono of tho
finest In tho state.
Wireless messages woro sent and
received by high school boys nt North
Platto with apparatus they had con
structed for tho benefit of tho vis
itors at tho school patrons' meotlng
held In that placo recently.
Inconsed residents of Hastings dis
miss chargo against seven boys when
they ngreed to sharo in exponso of
scouring tho high school after having
contaminated It with asafetlda fumos
durlng a public meeting.
Charles W. Bryan will bo (ho' noxt
mayor of Lincoln, having ''been se
lected as ono of tho flvo members of
tho city commission nt tho municipal
election last week, Tho proposition
o"f Sunday theaters was defeated by
a declslvo voto.
II. G. Hellenslck, cashier of tho
Harvard Stato bank, hna filed articles
of Incorporation of tho Harvard
Union Elevator company, with tho
secretary of state. Tho company has
a capital of $25,000 and is backed by
tho Farmers' union.
Twenty-Hvo thousand mnps of tho
two through routes by way of Omaha
from Chicago to tho Panama exposi
tion aro being 'prepared by tho
Omaha Automobllo club for distribu
tion In tho east among auto tourists
who plan to visit tho west this sum
mer .
Tho organization of nn nmateur
base ball league In- Phelps county
consisting of Elwood, Bcrtrnnd,
Loomls nnd Holdrogo has boon com
pleted. Each team will play two
games a week, tho schedulo being ar
rango to allow ono at homo and tho
other abroad.
The stato of Nebraska will claim
tho estato of Georgo McCloud, Mc
pherson county recluse, who died re
cently, leaving unclaimed property
valued at $10,000.
John Joseph was severely Injured
in an automobile accident near Wa
hoo when a dog rnn In front of tho
car upsottlng It and throwing the oc
cupants out.
Mrs. Ollvo B. Truo has complicated
matters In tho raco for tho appoint
mont of postmastor nt Fnlrbury by
circulating a pctllton to securo the
placo herself.
MUCH PATIENCE REQUIRED WITH TURKEYS
Turkeys Do Not
(Dy 13. VAN BENTIIUYSUNV)
If n man Is a successful fisherman
ho will mako good at raising turkeys;
but If ho hns not tho patlenco to sit
on a log and watch a cork bobbing on
tho Burraco of a crook all day long and
bo content with a dozen bites nnd n
couplo of bullhonds for his pains,
then ho has no business trying to ralso
turkoys. .
Women nro almost Invariably suc
cessful us turkey raisers, becauso they
possess tho necessary patlenco and
lldellty for the Job. If young turkeys
iro neglected thoy will die. If the
mother turkoy Is conspicuously fol
lowed whllo seeking tho nest, or dis
turbed aftor sho has commenced lay
ing, sho Is liablo to leave half her
clutch and refuse to lay another.
Crosses between wild nnd tamo tur
keys nro hardier than tho common
turkey, and take good caro of their
broods, but thoy partako too much of
tho wild nnturo of their uncivilized
parents nnd nro difficult to control.
In Rhodo Island somo Interesting ex
periments havo been mado crossing
turkey gobblers on White Uolland and
Bronzo turkoy hens. From tho Whlto
Holland eggs tho poultB wcro particu
larly beautiful, with whlto breasts and
whlto plumngo across tho backs, and
wings penciled with black. Occasion
ally ono of tho pullets would bo pure
white.
Tho Bronzo hen cross produced
poults resembling tho Bronze, with tho
llghtor yellow In their tnll feathers.
Tho poultB from theso crosses grew
quickly and wcro extremely hardy.
Half-wild gobblers aro easily tamed,
but the half-wild hens do not tnko
kindly to confinement and nro not
easily domesticated.
A quarter-wild cross Is bettor for
practical breeding than a pure wild,
or a half-wild bird, as tho moro wild
blood thero is in a bird tho moro diffi
cult It Is to restrain them and ralso
them in confinement If tho first
crosses aro bred together tho stock
resembloB tho puro wild, evon to tho
red legs, nnd after several genera
tions can hardly bo distinguished.
Owing to tho wild nnturo of tho tur
koy It cannot bo rnlscd ns chickens
nro. Many professional turkey rnls
ors use chicken hens for hatching,
placing soven or eight eggs undor
each hen. Hatching with incubators
sometimes proves successful, but It is
better to lot tho turkoy hens hatch
their own eggs where this Is possi
ble. A laying room should bo secluded'
and tho nest darkened. As apofi as
tho turkoy hens show signs of nesting
tho nest should bo placed In proper
order by removing all old material,
scorching out the interior of boxoB,
placing now nesting material In and
spraying every Inch of tho interior of
tho poultry htfuso with diluted car
bolic acid, and afterwards giving it a
thorough coat of whitewash.
As turkoya begin laying very early
tho nests must bo carefully watched,
particularly when tho weather 1b cold,
or they will become chilled within a
few hours. Thoy should bo romoved
as soon ns the hen leaves the neat and
replaced by china egga.
Turkeys begin laying at about ton
montliB, nnd If undisturbed each hen
will lay from 20 to 35 eggs beforo bo-
coming broody. Let mo Bny hero that
If you expect to bo successful in tur
key raising you should obtntn your ,
ADVANTAGES IN USE
Portable Colony Houses.
Tho flock will pick most of Its own
living and at tho same time clean out
troublesome Insects about tho farm If
kept in portablo colony houses which
can bo drawn out Into tho Holds aftor
tho grain is harvested.
Besides tho saving of feed and rid
ding the fields of insects, thero Is tho
advantage of always having the poul
EYs
Thrive In Confinement.
stock In the fall, becauso If tho birds
nro brought Into now surroundings too
soon beforo mating senson begins the
will not do well. Turkeys nro cau
tious, timid and slow-moving birds,
and cannot bo hurried.
Ab soon ns tho eggs nro laid thoy
Bhould bo dated, and any other memo
randa as to tho lion should be marked
on them, and tho egga then placed
In wooden boxes packed loosoly in
wheat bran.'
Tho eggs should bo kept In a tem
perature of between 55 and 65 de
grees, nnd must bo turned partly over
overy day. Tho egga should always
bo placed In the bran In n slanting po
sition, with tho llttlo end down.
Of course eggs should bo set asi
early as possible, and novor aftor thoy,
nro tlirco weeks old. In fact, if thoy.
nro set aftor thoy are two weeka old
ono is taking n risk.
If broken up, turkoy honB will bo-,
gin to lay again in about two weeks,
and somq breeders tako advantngo of
this by having nn incubator ready
when tho hens begin to lay, to tnko
caro of any surplus oggs, ns it la
doomed better practlco to use Incuba
tors for this purpose than chicken
hens.
If hens begin laying very early they
will often, particularly in warm cli
mates, produco two broods during tho
year, but lato hatched turkoys sel
dom do well, and late laying should
not bo oncournged.
Wo havo never known turkoyB to bo
rnlsed successfully in nn artificially
heated brooder. Tho young poulta
do not seem to thrlvo well except
when under tho mothor lion. Tho
turkoy hen searches for food for her
young, whilo tho chicken hen must
bo fed. Tho turkoy hen, thoroforo,
seems to tako bettor caro of her poults,
than a chicken hen does, and genera!-
ly succeodB in bringing moro of them,
through tho season than thoso that
aro started in brooders.
When tho turkoy hen begins to alt
alio should bo provided with a dish
of wholo corn and wheat, given nccess
to fresh water twico a day, and them
must bo loft absolutely undlsturbod.
In order to got tho host results, each
turkoy hen should havo an individual
pen whero she can sit and eat and,
drink without bolng compelled to goj
out into tho yard with tho other birds,
or bo disturbed in any way.
OF COLONY HOUSE
try house on a clean piece of ground.
It is far bettor for tho henB than closo
confinement, and will greatly increase
tho egg production.
A portablo house is mado by build
ing a small henhouse on runners.
During tho winter tho houaen may bo
grouped togothi us convenience la
feeding.
Popular Bronze Turkeys.