THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
HEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED
COVERS WIDE AREA.
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(Includes What Is Going On at Wash
ington and In Other Sections of
the Country.
WAR NEWS.
The Russian government announced
tuat Instruction had been given tho
ministry of finances to Issuo. a second
internal loan of 1,000,000,000 rubles
?500,000,000).
A dlspatoh from Cracow to Geneva
:says that tho losses of tho Austrlans
and Germans since May 1 amount to
105,000 offlcors and men. Losses of
tho Russians In prisoners are placed
at CO.O00.
A dispatch to tho Exchange Tele
graph from Rome saya It Is olllclally
announced that that part of the triple
alllanco treaty concerning Austria,
was abrogated May 4.
Tho German war olllce announces
that In tho recent fighting In Gallcla
and Russian Poland 143,500 Russians
have been captured. It also states
that slxty-nino cannon and 255 ma
chine guns were taken.
Another battleship, tho Goliath, the
third that tho British have lost since
the attack on tho Dardanelles began,
has been torpedoed by tho Turks, and
of the crew of 700 or more only 180,
including twenty officers, were saved.
Viscount Haldane, lord high chan
cellor, in tho British house of lords,
Intimated that tho government was
considering the necessity of depart
ing from the voluntary system of mil
itary enlistments and resorting to
draft service throughout tho kingdom.
Newspaper dispatches from Swit
zerland report Austrians and Ger
mans are Hoeing from all parts of
Italy. A Geneva dispatch asserts
that six hundred thousand Italians
liavo been concentrated at Verona,
twenty-five miles from tho Austro
Hungarian frontier.
Tho cost of tho war In British ships,
not including warships, thus far4 has
"been 201 vessels. Tho loss of lifo
lias been 1.55C. Dr. Thomas J. Mac
INamura, parliamentary secretary of
the admiralty, gave these figures In
tho house of commons In response to
51 question from Lord Charles Beres
lord. Germany has expressed regret to
tho United States for the loss of Am
erican lives in tho Lusitanla disaster,
"but It Is declared that Great Britain,
ly reason of her "starvation" prac
tices against tho German civilian
population and because her merchant
men are armed and carry contraband
of war, is responsible for tho sending
of tho liner to tho bottom.
CIEINI2RAL.
New Orleans was named as tho
1916 convention city and officers were
elected at tho final session of tho .Na
tional Retail Grocers' association at
San Francisco.
Former Governor Baldwin of Con
necticut, a recognized authority on
international law, in a statement at
.New Haven, says President Wilson's
nolo paves tho way or this country
aind Germany to refer their differ-
ences to Tho Hague.
Peter Krakus, who was said by the
police to have been implicated In tho
murder of a priest and his house
keeper In New Britain, Conn., several
months ago, was hanged at Wilming
ton, Del., for tho murder of a police
man at Wilmington.
Tho national committee of tho so
ciallst party concluded its annual bus
iness meeting at Chicago. It was de
cided to raise a campaign fund of
$10,000 by appeal to members, and to
observe tho first week in May here
after as socialist week.
A proposal to refer the federal gov
ernment dissolution Bult against tho
Associated Bill Posters and Distribu
tors of the United States and Canada
to the recently organized Federal
Trade commission was rejected at
Chicago by Judge Landls.
Tales of Industrial wars from Penn
sylvania to California during tho last
thirty-live years were recounted be
fore tho Federal Industrial Relations
eomnilssion by Mrs. Mary Jones, tho
"Mother" Jones of scores of strikes.
Alexander Grunwaldt, who asserts
lie is only 17 years of age and has
walked onco around tho world and is
on his second trip, passed through
Omaha recently, on his way to San
Francisco. Tho lad declares that If
ho makes San Francisco by July 2G
(his year ho will recolvo $50,000.
A verdict of acquittal was returned
ly tho Jury trying Mrs. Florence C.
Carman at Mlneola, L. I., on tho
charge of murdering Mrs. Loulso Bai
ley at Freeport on the night of Juno
30 Inst
Thirty-live thousand harvest hands
aro wanted In Kansas to, hundlo tho
1915 bumpor wheat crop, tho state
freo employment bureau estimates.
Admiral George Dewey Is tho new
commander of tho Vermont contmnn
dary of tho Military Order of tho
Loyal Legion. Ho was elected at tho
annual meeting at Burlington.
According to Investigations by
George A. Denn, state entomologist,
at Manhnttnn, Kan., tho damngo.to
tho wheat crop by tho Hessian lly
will amount to $10,000,000 in that
state.
Ten million pounds of canned meat
was bought from Chicago packors by
the British government last week. Ar
mqur & Co. had Uio bulk of tho order.
Shipments were begun nt onco.
After consideration lasting several
months tho Federal Reserve board
haB virtually decided that It will al
low Btato banks to entor tho federal
reserve 3ystem with tho right to with,
draw and surrender membership If
they so desire.
Oklahoma will need from 10,000 to
18,000 men to gather tho wheat crop,
Labor Commissioner ABhton an
nounced at Oklahoma City. Wages
will range from ?2 to $3 a day. Cut
ting will start from Juno 1 to 12, ac
cording to location.
Colonel Jared L. Sanderson, aged
94, organizer and chief owner of tho
stage coach company which first es
tablished a passenger and freight
traffic from Kansas City through
New Mexico and the southwest to
Los Angeles, died at Boulder, Colo.
Mayor VillIam Halo Thompson of
Chicago has issued a proclamation
fixing July 27 as Chicago day at tho
Panama-Pacific International exposi
tion. It was said Mayor Thompson,
Governor Dunno and United States
Senators J. Hamilton Lowls and L.
Y. Sherman would attend the exposi
tion on Chicago day.
Charitable work In behalf of the
sufferers In America and nbroad was
the principal topic discussed at the
final session of tho forty-third biennial
convention of tho Order of B'Ritli
Abraham at Philadelphia. The dele
gates voted to tax each of tho 72.00C
members of the order 25 cents' apiece
This fund will bo for the aid of the
Jewish war sufferers.
Whether Baptists should Join with
other denominations in various phases
of Christian work became a para
mount question beforo the Southern
Baptist convention at Houston, and
opponents of such co-operation were
victorious whon the committee on
Sunday school work announced Its op
position to the world-wide Baraca and
Plillathea classes found in many Bap
tist Sunday schools.
SPORTINO
A bill to legalize ten round boxing
matches in Michigan was vetoed by
Governor Ferris.
Iowa Falls High school won th6
state championship in debating at
Iowa City, defeating Pomeroy.
i
Yousiff Hussano and Charley Cut
ler wrestled threo and one-half hours
at Louisville, Ky without a fall, In
a match said to bo for the heavy
weight wrestling championship of tho
United States.
Two university world's records were
broken In track for co-eds at Lincoln
when Miss Koch made a fifty-yard
dash In 6 4-5 seconds, and Miss Roed
made a four-foot high Jump.
Princeton's crew won tho race for
tho Child's cup at Princeton, N. J
by a half a boat's length. Columbia,
the favorite in tho race, was second
and Pennsylvania third. This is the
first time Princeton has won tho cup
since 1881.
John Froborg, the Chicago heavy
weight wrestler, proved no match foi
Joo Steelier in their match at Fre
mont, Neb. Steelier won in straight
falls, the first in one minute and ten
seconds and tho second In threo min
utes and thirty-six seconds.
WASHINGTON.
Tho federal reserve board will es
tablish on May 24 a clearing system
between reserve banks, to reduce the
amount of, money kept In transit and
thus held out of circulation.
In the local areas of Kansas, Mis
souri, Oklahoma and Nebraska, the
Hessian lly, during the past fortnight,
lias been found In largo numbers In
the wheat fields, according to reports
reaching the Department of Agricul
ture Somo farmers have becomo
alarmed to the extent of replanting
somo of their fields of corn.
Carranza troops have reoccupled
Panuco, In the oil well region, near
Tampico, according to tho stato do
partmont. Tho Villa force evacuated
May 5 and tho Carranza force march
cd in.
Cotton used during April was
513,010 hales, excluslvo of lintels, com
pared with 489,(740 In April last year,
tho census bureau announced. Dur
ing tho nine months ending April 3C
cotton used was 4,091,285 bales
against 4,201,850 in the same period
tho previous year.
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BOARD OF CONTROL EFFECTS
SAVING FOR NEXT 2 YEARS.
4.762 WARDS BEING CARED FOR
Increase of Eleven Per Cent Since
1913 Feat Considered Triumph
for That Body.
Lincoln. A total of 4,702 wards of
tho stato aro now being cared for at
tho fifteen stato Institutions under
charge of tho stato board of control,
ns compared to 4,318 wards In No
vember, 1913. The figures are com
piled from a recent report of tho
board. Tho number, In both In
stances, Includes the children listed
with tho dependent home. Tho latter
Institution was not actually In tho
board's control list at the time tho
first report was made, but since has
becomo a part of Its list.
Despite this Increase of approxi
mately 11 per cent In tho Inniato
numbers, tho board will run tho In
stitutions on less money during tho
coining two years than was required
during tho two years Just past. Tho
feat is a real financial triumph for
tho board, Inasmuch as its word gov
erned the legislature exclusively
when the lawmakers had their appro
priations under discussion.
Tho success of tho board in manag
ing tho Institutions and In looking
after the welfare of the Inmates
charitable, penal and otherwise Is
proof abundant that tho people of tho
stato acted wisely when they put tho
affairs of the institutions under its
control
The institutional population, as re
ported from tho various homes, Is a3
follows:
Where the Slats Wards Arc:
Nov. April
1913. 1915
Beatrico feeble minded ...453 480
Geneva girls' Industrial .. 82 100
Grand Island' soldiers .. 483 47C
Hastings hospital 1,093 1,137
Kearney boys' Industrial. 157 21C
Kearney tubercular 21 30
Lincoln hospital (T09 718
Orothopedlc 90 110
Penitentiary 330 371
Mllford women's homo .. 94 07
Mllford soldiers 132 105
Nebraska City blind 55 53
Norfolk hospital 419 477
Omaha deaf school 104 108
Dependent children 70 243
Total ...4,318 4,702
Interurban Losing Money.
Tho formal complaint of tho Omaha,
Lincoln & Beatrice Railway Co., filed
with tho state board of equalization,
would make It appear that tho path
of Interurban railway development In
Nebraska under present restrictions
Is a rough and rocky one. The com
pany reports a net deficit of $4,515 in
tho operation of tho road since tho
time of its building in 1907. In ad
dition to tills it has outstanding In
debtedness of other kinds-amounting
to $28,490.
Bar Defectives From Marrying.
Dr. W. S. Fast of Beatrice, speaking
beforo the Nebraska State Eclectic
Medical association, advocated that
defectives bo barred from marrying.
He said that, should such marriages
bo wholly discontinued, two genera
tions would seo the complete elimina
tion of feeble-mlndedness, criminality,
delinquency and oxtromo poverty. He
urged the doctors to use all tholr In
fluence against marriages between
tho unfit.
Section Hand May Receive Legacy.
Alfred James Bourn, soldier of tor
tune, section hand and believed to be
holr to his uncle's estate In Australia,
has been found In Lincoln. Ho will
go Immediately to claim his legacy.
Bourn was trailed for weeks by an
Australian detective, employed by tho
administrator of tho uncle's estate.
Ho has established his Identity. Ho
said ho had ecrved with tho American
troops in tho Philippines and in tho
Boxer troubles and had been around
tho world four times.
Want Aid In Keeping Up Highway.
Farmors along tho Omaha-Lincoln-Denver
highway and automobile own
ers will Ihj asked to co-operate In
maintaining the highway and making
it popular for tourist travel, It was
decided at a mooting of good roads
boosters In Lincoln.
Avery On Peace Commission.
Chancellor Avery of tho stato uni
versity lias boen requested by Secre
tary of Stato Bryan to servo as one
of the live members of tho permanent
peace commission provided for In the
treaty with Sweden.
Road Wants to Drop Motor.
Permission of the railway commis
sion to remove from Its service tho
Columbus-Spauldlng "onc-way-a-day"
motor lias been asked by tho Union
Pacific Tho matter will come to a
hearing within a short time. This
service was put on tho road at tho
order of tho commission. Tho Union
Pacific clolms now that whllo tho
motor service In Itself has paid, tho
regular passoiigor traln sorvlco on
tho lino has been seriously Impaired.
It says that It cannot run both tho
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trains and the motor.
CONDENSED NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
A Thnyer county baseball leaguo Is
being formed.
Work 1ms started on tho Bollcvue
gymnasium. N
Aurora Is aftor tho next meeting
of tho stato G. A. R.
Lnniuel Brown, ageil 19, drowned
at Kearney last weok.
A $15,000 theater is to bo built at
Clarkson tills summer.
Chinch bugs are causing farmers
much troublo around Falls City.
Creto's now Cnrneglo library was
opened to tho public last week.
Tho now $14,000 Methodist church
at Kim wood has been dedicated.
Miss May Sholdton wna crowned
May queen at Hastings college.
H. S. Carey has been appointed
postmaster at Leymoyne, Keith conn
iy.
Work on the Security Stato bank
building nt' Broken Bow will begin
soon.
Tho postofllco at Caldwell, Scotts
bluff county, Is ordered discontinued
Juno 15.
The Schuyler company of tho Ne
braska National Guard is to bo re
organized. Tho citizens of Mema will soon
vote on electric light, water and
park bonds.
Tho Fleso Motor company Is erect
ing a large cement block garago at
West Point.
Eight young wolves wero found In
a hay stack near Julian by tho Gra
inm brothers.
John Joseph, retired merchant of
Wahoo, was badly injured In an nu
tomobilo nccldcnt.
Tho Nebraska Stato bank, capital
ized at $25,000, lias oponcd for busi
ness at Valentine.
Two of the men who will niako a
Boil survey of Dawes county havo
started tholr work.
Six hundred dentists aro oxpoctcd
to attend tho state convention at
Omaha, May 17 to 20.'
J. H. Wenburg, Wealthy Oconto far
nler, died of Injuries received when ho
was kicked by a horse.
A now canning company, Incorpo
rated nt $50,000, will bo established
it Blair this summer.
Tho Nobraska S.tate Golf associa
tion decided to hold Its tournament
at Omaha, July 7 to 10
Tho Lincoln Telephone and Tolc
graph company will soon erect a now
building at David City.
Ono hundred dclesates attended
tho O. L. D. good roads' convention
at Hastings last week. ;
Miss Ollvo Jones of Hastings hns
received word that she has won a
freo scholarship at Yalo.
Tho cornerstone for tho now Ger
man Reform church at Harvard was
laid with Imposing exercises.
J. W. Wolvlngton has taken up his
duty as postmaster at Wolvlngton, a
new office south of Chadron.
All card tables, slot machines and
dice boxes havo boen ordered out of
Crawford by tho city council.
Tho ten thousand dollars' worth of
Jail bonds mlsBlng for nlno years nt
Soward have been recovered.
C. P. Johnson of Elm Creek was
Instantly killed when ho was struck
by a passenger train at Kearney.
Mrs. William Cathorwood was ser
iously Injured when thrown from a
buggy In a runaway near North Bend.
The Northwest Nobraska High
School Athletic association will hold
its minimi meet in Partington May 21.
Tho body of William Jacobs, Sr.,
who disappeared from Council Bluffs
last February, was found at Lincoln.
Tho Library board of Teknmah ac
cepted plans for tho Carnoglo build
ing. Work on the structure will start
Boon.
Flvo hundred delegates attended
tho Eastern Star convention at Hast
ings. Tho next meeting will be held
at McCook.
The Wood Lake cornet concert
band will givo open air concerts al
ternate Saturday evenings through
the summer.
A now rural route out of Morrill to
tho south sldo of tho river will go In
to pffect in Juno, providing a tri-week-ly
service.
Over threo hundred Elks nttonded
tho stato convention at Fremont.
Omaha was solected as tho next meet
ing place.
Reports aro there will bo no peach
crop In tho southern part of tho stato,
but prospects aro good for a bumper
applo crop.
Judgo George F. Cocoran of York
was elected stato deputy of the
KnightB of Columbus for Nebraska at
their convention at O'Noll.
An election will soon bo held In
Soward to givo tho citizens a chance
to expresa their choice on tho loca
tion of tho now $50,000 high school.
Tho affection and loyalty of a dog
to his master was novor better Illus
trated than when an English bulldog
returned to Loon Cummlngs of Howo
from Kansas City, a distance of 12C
miles.
Tho now Hastings directory gives
that city a population of 15,540, a gain
of 5,000 In threo years.
B. E. Lcedom & Son, proprietors of
tho Gordon Journal, will begin tho
erection of a modem newspaper build
ing Boon.
Tho Nobraska stato board of nurso
oxamlnors will hold examinations for
tho nurses nt tho Btato house, Lincoln,
Juno 15 and 10.
Tho first Adams county grand Jury
In twenty years Is Investigating
charges in connection with tho John
O'Cftnnor casn nt Hastings.
PIGEON-RAISING IS
Loft of Homer Pigeons.
With squabs soiling nt from 35 to 50
cents each it would scorn that pigeon
raising would bo highly profitable, but
our advice Is to go slow boforo engag
ing In tho businoss to nny consider
nblo extent.
Pigeon raising Is really a specialty
and ono is hardly ablo to mnko a suc
cess of it without somo training. In
tho first place, no ono oxcopt an ox
port can detect tho difference between
tho males and females; always ono
should havo a guaranty that they aro
properly mated.
An excess of cocks will result In tho
production of small and unhoalthy
squabs
Thoro Is no fixed Bystem In tho rais
ing of squabs. Llko swimming, It must
bo learned from actual experience
GOOD REASONS FOR
Interior of Modern Poultry House.
(By JAMES O. IIALPIN, Secretary of
"Vylsconaln Poultry Association.")
Tho principal reason for keeping
poultry is to furnish fresh eggs and
freah meat for our own tablos.
This Is particularly truo of the
general farmer, who Is usually located
at somo distance froni n meat market
and for tho most part has to depend
on his own meat supply, which, wore
it not for tho chickens and ducks,
would havo to bo Baited meat during
tho summer. Fow of us realize how
much tho poultry does toward supply
ing ua with good things for our tnblo.
Tho farmer with growing children
should bo especially careful to boo to
it tliat the diet is good and fresh;
poultry meat and eggs aro among tho
ivory best.
Too many genoral farmorB dopend
on their women folks to do nil of tho
work about tho poultry yards. It is
truo that a largo part of tho work is
often better done if loft to tho women
folks, but thero aro certain things
that should bo dono by tho man. Ho
should nt least seo to it that tho
house is kept well cleaned and occa
sionally sprayed or whitewashed. Ho
should also seo to It that tho liouao
is kopt in repair and tho necessary
fixtures mndo and so arranged that
tho work of caring for tho flock is
roduced to a minimum. Tho old hen
likes to range about the barnyard on
good days, but she should havo plenty
of straw in her own houso so that alio
can busy hersolf digging in it whon
tho weather is bad. Ho should bo Just
as careful to seo to it that tho hens
nro well bedded as any other live
stock on tho farm. On stormy days,
especially, tho man of tho liouno
should do tho feeding and take a gen
eral Interest In tho production In
stead of limiting his interest to tho
consumption of tho groceries pur
chased by tho eggs.
Most farmers carry on tholr poultry
work In a hit-or-mlss fashion that
would spell disaster if used In all the
farm operations. This is tho obser
vation made by a careful business
man in a well-to-do farming commu
nity. Tljo question follows: "Why do
our general farmerB neglect tholr poul
try na they do and why do tho authori
ties keep insisting thnt more than 90
per cent of the poultry nnd eggs aro
produced on tho general farm?"
Probably tho principal reason why
so many farm flocks aro badly neg
lected Is Decauso thoy aro scrub ctock
and do not, thcroforo, oxclte nny admi
ration in their owner. Ho looks at his
poultry flock ns a unit nnd does not
worry In tho least about thorn as in
dividuals. Wo uro going through a
rather rapid change nowovor, and
farm poultry is going to get better and
Dotter caro.
Tho way this is coming about will
mean a much greater production with
in tho noxt 'w years. Ia tho past
MOST PROFITABLE
Pigeons require perfect ventilation,
roomy quarters, because overcrowding
is fatal. They must novor bo ex
posed to bad woather, and Improper
feeding will quickly dostroy a flock.
Pigeons aro very cleanly In their
habits, and when they havo tho op
portunity they will take a thorough
wnter bath at least onco a day. If
thoy aro donlod this, they will Boon
contract disease and die. In warm
weather the water should bo changed
evory day.
If ono is content to start with a
small flock, provldo good quarters,
learn nil ono can from rellnblo ox
port writers, and spend a year, nt
least, In experimenting, ono may
then go into tho business in earnest
and gonorally with vory good profit.
POULTRY ON FARMS I
IHJ! WljHMIIIIMflJlfl
grain was cheap and a fow bushels
more or less mada little difference.
But with grain high In price wo are
going to pay more and more attention
to tho returns from overy bushel.
Tho best way to get most farmers
interested in poultry la to got them
to sottlo down to Bomo particular va
riety. As soon as tho flock is all ot
ono slzo, shnpo and color visitors will
bogin to admiro thorn. Tho owner
will begin to pay more and, more at
tohtlon to thorn, nnd this extra atten
tion will mean more wlntor eggs. Bc
causo as soon as tho owner begins to
get proud of tho Hook ho fixes up the
houso, nails on tho loose boards,
cleans out tho filth, puts in fresh
straw, whitewashes tho houso nnd
does everything posslblo to mako it
comfortablo for tho hens. Ho changes
his attltudo entirely and instead of
kicking tho hons out ot tho way glvos
thorn tlmo to got out of tho way. Ho
begins to look at each hen as an indi
vidual and no a producor of eggs that
aro worth money.
Just ns soon then as tho owner bo
gin to tako interest in tho flock, a
lnrgo part of the hlt-or-mlds method
of caro disappears and In turn the
hens begin to get a placo in tho reg
ular farm routine Just tho samo as tho
rest of tho llvo stock.
Tho reason that farm poultry pro
duces practically all of tho poultry
and oggs Bold hero In tho central West
is bocauso practically all of tho liens
nro either on genoral farniB or town
lots. Wo have vory fow poultry farms
und loss poultry plants. Tho fow aro
often written up but they nro not
numerous enough so that they affect
tho general market by tholr produc
tion. Tho genoral farm is tho natural
placo for tho hen; sho will produco
more dollars' worth of eggs on less
"chargeablo" feed under general farm
conditions than under any other con
ditions hecaiiBo tho lion naturally fits
into the scheme of general farming,
utilizing feed otherwise wasted, help
ing to destroy insect pests, otc.
Insect posts is a subjoct that is
getting to bo of greater and greater
importance In many sections wo find
that tho birds that aro tho natural
destroyers of insects aro getting
thinned out to such an oxtcnt that
somo substltuto must bo found. Tho
tanner's flock of chickens can bo used
to splendid advantago as grasshopper
catchers and at tho samo tlmo prove
profitable Thus wo have troublesome
insects removed from tho farm and
converted Into egg or poultry meat.
Tho farm growB larger crops and tho
chickens havo fuller "crops" mado up
largely from tho natural waste on tho
farm.
Whllo oyster shells aro necessary In
poultry dlot, they must not be given
with tho Idea of taking tho placo of
grit. Thoy aro too soft for that purpose.