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THE SEMI-WEEKLY- TRIBUNE- NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA MS OF HE WEEK Ellhu Root of New York was unani build up ilium mously elected president of tho American Bar association la session at Salt Lako City. CONDENSED KKWS OF INTEREST TO ALL. SATISFACTION WITH RHODE ISLAND REDS CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR LESSER IMPORTANCE. BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS National, Political, Personal and Other Matters In Brief Form for All Classes of Readers. WAR INKWi. Tlio Germans aro preparing to land 'troops on the const of Finland, ac cording to a Stockholm dispatch. The- German admiralty announces that during tho forenoon of August 10 tho British submarlno E-13 was destroyed. Berlin reports that tho groat lttt.v .sian fortress of Kovno has been cap tured by the Germans. Together with much war materials and more than 400 cannon. The Frankfurter Zeltung estimates that the Germans and Austrians are now holding more than 2,000,000 pris oners o war, of whom 1,C54,000 aro Russians. French artillery exploded a German ammunition depot between Monchy nd Ransart, and mines destroyed German works cast of the road to Lille, according to reports from Paris London announces that the British transport Royal Edward has been sunk by a Gorman submarlno, while en route to the Dardanelles. About 1,000 lives aro believed to have been lost. Berlin renorts tho Germans have captured Novogeorglovsk, with 85,000 men, six generals, 700 guns and a (large quantity of war material. Novo georglevsk was the only strong fort Tess held by tho Russians in Poland. The White Star liner Arabic, "bound from Liverpool to New York, carrying 423 persons, passengers and -crew, including twenty-six Americans -was torpedoed and sunk In ten mln utes by a German submarine. Tho Teutonic invaders, are still bat tering successfully at the Russinn fortresses' back of which the military experts have supposed Grand Duke Nicholas intended to make a dctermin cd stand. Forces under Field Marshal Ton Mackensen have, it Is reported, penetrated into the outer fortifications -at Brest-Litovslc, strongest or musco -vite defense works. GENERAL. Third regiment, Missouri National guard, Kansas City, passed the worst inspection of any regiment in tho United States and three commanding officers have resigned. Nancy Hanks, 2.04, champion trot ter from 1892 to 1894, died at Ham burg Place, near Lexington, Ky., tho estate of J. E. Madden, who purchas d the horso several years ago to pension her until her death. Nancy was foaled In 18SC. Tho air of mystery with which some bankers cloud their business from tho public is tho principal form c-f shortsightedness chargeable to them, James K. Lynch, vice-president of the American Bankers' association, said In an address at San Francisco. The United States army training camp for business men opened at tho Presidio of San Francisco with an en rollment of eighty-one. Tho original requirement of 160 men has been waived but army officers said they expected to double the present en rollment S. S. Crago. of Waynesburg, Pa., commander-in-chief of the veterans of foreign wars of tho United States, declared at Detroit that tho United States should havo a first lino nrmy of 100,000 men, a second lino army of the same number, and equipment for 1,000,000 soldiers. Recovery of scores of bodies along the bay shore and reports of tho find ing of many others, together with tho 1nowrt missing, indicate that tho storm dead in anil around Galveston, Tex., will exceed 200. Property losa Is believed to be over $50,000,000 for the entire hurricane area. Dr. Paul Ehrllch, discoverer of sal varsan and of tho antitoxin for dlph ihorln. died suddenly of heart disaso at Bad Ilomburg, Gonnany, at tho ago of fil years. Half tho Nobel prize for medicine was awarded to him In 1908 Tho organization of tho Patriotic Tongue of tho Republic, a national lmiiv lmvlnir for Its nurposo adequate national defense, was completed at fiiii-nro. The organization nan us birth at Gettysburg, Pa., during tho reunion of federal and confederate veterans there In 1913. Mnniifacturo of 2.500 casings for three-Inch shrapnel In a Lincoln, Nob., brass foundry, will requlrojlftoon men working days and nn equal numuer at nlchts for a period of two years. Contracts for steel rail and other material fpr laying forty-flvo miles of track half way from Seward, Alas ka, to tho Matanuska coal fields havo been let and work will begin soon. Speaking on poace, Prosldont John Whalen of tho American Federa tion of Catholic societies, In conven tion at Toledo, O., declared Catholics In tho United States will novor forget their country and their Hag. William, 1:G86, world's champion pacing stallion, has boon sold by A. Earl Vanntta, his ownor, to C. K. G. Billings, New York, horsoman, for 135,000. William will be withdrawn fiom racing, and placed in tho stud. Agitation for a national striko in munition plants as proposed by J. J. Kappler, vice-president of tho Inter national association of machinists, was repudiated at a meeting at Wash ington by tho executive board of tho association. Three bushels of Jewels, purseB and other small pieces of personal prop erty which belonged to victims of tho Eastland disaster In Chicago, wcro re. covered when tho ship, just threo weeks after tho catastrophe, was re stored to even koel. SPORTING Gunboat Smith outfought Jack Hemplo of San Francisco in seven of the ten rounds in their bout In New York. Mike O'Dowd knocked out Freddie Gllmoro of Chicago in the fifth round of a scheduled ten-round bout In St Paul, Minn. O'Dowd is a St Paul man. Tommy I)., owned by M. M. Apple of Lebanon, Ind won the 2.07 pace, the feature event of tho second day of the Great Western circuit race meeting in Galcsburg, 111. Fred L. Bebce of the Buffalo club of the international league pitched a no-hit, no-run game in Buffalo against Montreal. Bebee was at one time a members of the Chicago Nationals. Tho Kings Mills (Ohio) Rifle team witli a total score of 3,575, won the National Rlllo association's small bore, short range, outdoor championship, according to figures availablo In Washington. If the Dps Moines ball team wins the Western league pennant, Booster fans will see a post series of games between the boosters and the pennant winners of the America nassociation probably St Paul, It is said. L. B. Clarke of Chicago, shooting from the seventeen-yard mark, won tho grand American handicap, the feature of the national trap shoot tournament, held in that city, with a score of ninety-six out of 100. Battline Levinskv. the New York heavyweight, defeated Sailor Jim Car roll of San Francisco In a ten-round bout in Brooklyn. Levlnsky out classed Carroll from the start and had him on tho ropes several times. WAfiMINOTOIN. One company of American marines has landed at St. Marc. Haiti, and taken control of tho town. An attempt to oppose tho landing failed. The navy department announced. To adopt tho policy demanded by Austria-Hungary in its protest against tho sale of war munitions to tho al lies would be to force militarism upon tho world, says the State department In Its reply just made public. Eight million able-bodied men In the United States qwo allegiance to European nations, labor department statistics show. There are 14,000,000 foreign born persons who have not acquired citizenship. Destruction of the United ' States army camp at Texas City by tho recent gulf storm, with a loss of ten soldiers and a number of unidentified civilians, was reported to tho war de partment from Houston by Major General Bell, commanding 8,000 mon stationed there. Comptroller of tho Currency Wil Hams announced that tho present un employed loaning capacity of tho na tional banks and resorve banks was Miiilclent to finance nt market valuo the entire cotton crop and half, If not all of tho tobacco and wheat crops, and to conservatively Justify nn ox punslon of credit of $2,000.0000.000 or $3,000,000,000. Plans for an Inquiry Into the ad ministration of the steamboat Inspec tlon service by representatives of tho Navy department and tho public ar6 announced by Secrotary Redfleld of tho Department of Commerce tho rcnly of Gonoral Villa to tho pan-American appeal for peace has been received and is now in tho hands of Secretary Lansing of tho state department. It is understood Villa has accepted tho offer of tho conferes to aid In restoring peace In Mexico. KEYNOTE OF STATEMENT BY ADJUTANT GENERAL. 0 FOLLOW WILSON'S WISHES Declares National Guard Should Cor. respond to Ideas of Government or We Should Have None at All. Lincoln. Tho Nebraska National guard will bo built up in a common senBi', practical manner, and In thorough accord with tho wishes ot resident Wilson, commntidor-ln-ehlcf of the organized militia ot tho nation, Is tho word given out by General P. L. Hall following a review of military conditions In tho stale. "The president's will which t as sume to be tho will of this nation- shall be my will," said the general. General Hall thinks tho foundation stono ot stato, though, rests on peace, and that peace extends upward though every bit of tho governmental structure. But ho no more assumes that the people want to drive tho na tional guard down to a mere nothing than that they want to dispcrso tin police departments of their towns and cities and do away with their sheriffs and their prosecuting nttorneys. "There Is no medium line," said tho general. "Either we must have a militia that corresponds to the Ideas of the national government or wo mustluivo none at all. There is no half-way mark because a half-equipped, poorly organized guard would bo nn utter waste of money. Wo could Bivvc several thousand dollars a year by refusing to send cur men to camp," aid he, "and we could save soveral thousands of dollars more by refusing to pay the armory rentals but the companies would deteriorate and- In timo there would be none in tho state. Then when we needed them we would be helpless." , Calls for Poll Sheeto. A law passed by the Nebraska leg islature In 1913 provides that, under tho Initiative and referendum, the county clerks of tho respective coun ties, shall, within thirty davs after each general election, forward to tho secretary of state one set of poll Eheets of each of the voting precincts of his county. Some forty-eight coun ties failed to comply with this re quirement of tho statutes and Secre tary of State Pool has given each of Buch officials notice to comply there' with at tl.- earliest possible moment. In cases where oltlciato fail to forward such books, tho secretary of state is authorized to send a messenger for them, at tho expense of the county. Ordered Back to Prison. Governor Morchead has ordered the return of Kenneth Murphy, Bent from Cherry county, to the state peniten tiary, following his arrest in Lincoln for an alleged connection with the theft of automobiles by two other former convicts. Young Murphy was furloughed by tho governor a year and a half ago. At that time tho lad promised that ho would make good. He was thought to bo making good until this matter camo up. Tho gov ernor thought him one of the bright est convicts ever sent to the state prison. List of 70 Bulletins Printed Seventy bulletins on various agricultural subjects are now offered by the Experiment Station and the Extension Service of tho College ol Agriculture to residents of Nebraska, according to an available list Just published. Tho list is known as Ex tension Qircular' 3 nnd may bo had without cost from tho Bulletin Clerk, University Farm. ' Mummified Apple May Be at Fair. Exhibit of a mummified npplo, around which nro clustered memories of a Nebraska man's dead uncle, is likely to be one of the additional at tractions of the big stato Bhow. A proffer for loan ot this apple camo to Secrotary Mollor from A. W. Nol- won of Sutton. Tho npplo Is said by Mr. Nelson to bo G5 years old, and to have been given htm by his uncle, Offers to Pace All Comers. E. G. Bohanoh, cwner of Columbia Firo, noted Nebraska pacer, mado a proposition to President Mollor of tho stuto fair board that If tho fair man agement weuld put up a purso of $1,000, he would add $500 more that his horso could beat any which they could bring. "Wilson Day" at Fair. Soveral of tho most prominent dem. ocratlc leaders In tho pountry aro ex pected to attend a "Woodrow Wilson day" celebration during stato fair week In Lincoln. Champ Clark, Son ator Ollle James, Kentucky, and W. J. Bryan will bo among distinguished visitors. Bruner Honored at Exposition. Lawrence Bruner, professor of en tomology at tho Stato university and ctato entomologist, was honored at tho I'anamn-Paclflc exposition at San Francisco, as ono of Nebraska's most distinguished cltlzons becauso of his work in leading tho fight against dc Btiuctlvo Insects. Nobraskans resi dent there, members ot tho Nobraska Society of California and Alumni ot tho University of Nobraska partici pated In u program of addresses and receptions. A commemoratlvo bronzs plato was presented to Dr. Brunor. Crawford Is to hnvo a new steam laundry. Two cases of small pox arc report ed at Nehnwka. A $16,000 hospital for epileptics will bo built" at Axtoll. DuBols is taking steps to sucuro n system of electric lights. Work will soon begin on RubIi vllle's now postofllce building. Tho village of Adnms defeated n water bond proposition, CO to CI. Omaha street enrs aro now stop ping on the near sldo ot streets. Eight candidates nro In the Hold tor tho postmastershlp of Bancroft. Silver Creek will hold a frontier dnys colobratlou September 1, S and 3. Tho city council of Burton has granted a saloon llcenso to Plnkney Sollar. A saloon license ordinance voted on at Superior, carried by twenty-nine majority. Crawford Is making elaborate plans for tho Trl-Stato fair, Scptom ber 9 to 11. Frank Drassal, chlof of tho Vordlgro fire department, was drow'ned In Vor dlgro creek. Contract has been lot for tho orec tlon of the now Slate Bank building at Weeping Wntcr. Tho cornerstone of now First Methodist church at Hastings will ba laid Soptcmbor 12. Four hundred dclogatcs rittendod the Nebraska-Missouri Lutheran Synod nt Deshler. Glenn Nowcomb of Whitman, IB years of age, was drowned in a small pond near Hyannis. Mrs. Mary McCord, of Hershoy, was Instantly killed by a Union Pacific train at Sutherland. Leo Rollin was killed and his broth er seriously Injured In nn automobile accident near Columbus. Tho Kearney Alfalfa company meal mill was totally destroyed by fire. Tho loss Is about $15,000. Lyons has achieved electric light Ing. Tho turning on of tho current was event for tho city. Ihe Missouri river nt La Platto has almost completely washed awny the 120-acro farm of John O'Lcary. .1. E. Boyor of Mullen, claims tho (elt of honor for killing rattlcsnnkcs. Last week he killed four in that many dnys. Valley will havo a now bank, known as the Farmers' Stato. Promi nent fanners of tho community will control it. At a meeting of the Fremont Com mercial club directors It wan unanl niously decided to havo a chautauqun next year. Five stacks of wheat belonging to Oscnr Mathews of Blair was struck by lightning during a sovero storm and destroyed. Residents of Dubois nro circulating a petition to cnll a special election to vote bonds for nn electric light jystom there. Paul Sprecker, an employe of tho Electric Light, company at Blair, was badly scalded by tho bursting of a four-Inch steam pipe. Orlln Sturms, 11 years of age, was drowned In Uio Little Blue river, nt a point known as Sand Rock, ono mile southeast of Falrbury- iionry i'cjuuub ot wovvitt is m a serious condition as a result of In juries received when ho was crushed between two automobiles. Adam Williams, thosixtoen year-old son of Horace Williams, an old rcsl dent of Wymore, was drowned In Indian creek near that place. two smau ooys nt ucatrlco aro sufioring from serious burns from carboljc acid, received, It Is alleged, when a companion throw tho liquid Harry Langdon, telephone lineman of Hastings, was severely bumod when he camo in contact with a charged guy wire, charged with 2,200 volts. Mrs. Tuma, wlfo of Albert Tumn, a woalthy farmer, living fourteen miles southwest of Falrbury, com mitted suicide by drinking creosote dip. Tho 3-year-old baby of Editor W. II. Daly of tho Dunbnr Review, fell fHom a t,hlrd-story Window, a dls tanco of nbout thirty foot, but was only stunned. The dates for tho Nebraska woman suffrago convention havo been sot for October 12 to 14. The convention will bo held at Columbus nt tho First Mothodlst church. lonn smith, a farmer living noar Palmyra, accidentally scratched his hnnd on barbed wire. It Is foared that tho arm must bo amputated In ordor to savo his life. Easter lilies that bloom durfvff August seem to bo quito tho usual thing in Omaha. Ono wna reported In Bonson and another at tho homo of Mrs. Charles Forstor, 813 Francis street Near tho home of Charles Pascow, Bcven miles cast of Auburn, Frod Johnson of Nebraska City, was In stantly killed In an onto acqldcnt. Charles A. Flood, a business man ot Rosalie, was struck by n Burling ton passenger train two miles south of Walthlll, dying shortly afterward. Tho backwardness of tho corn crop will causo a two weeks' postponement of the oponlng of tho factory of the Fremont Canning company according to tho manager, Churlos Cuykcndal. M. W. A. lodge, Avoca, will hold Its first picnic September 3. Excellent Rhode (By P. S. FPJVSH.) Anyone having a dcslro to cngago in tho poultry business either for ploasuro or profit may soloct from tho now largo numbor of broods and va rieties tho ono or tho ones that tako hla fancy, or If engaging in tho utility sides may chooso for markot poultry somo of tho larger breeds, which mean wolght, whllo for eggs ono ub usually looks to Borao of tho smallor varlotlos, but my oxporlonco has taught mo to go botwoon both, which Is tho mcdlum-slzo vurloty. In this I get good rcsulta both for eggn nnd marketing. As a rulo poultrymon of oxporlonco look to ono of tho American broods for n fowl that will glvo a good supply of eggs tho year around, and whon rondy to bo marketed will bo In domand ns tablo poultry. All things considered, tho Rhodo Island Rod comos tho nearest to tho all-purposo fowl for tho farmor or poultrymnn. It la purely nn Amer ican bird. Thoy have to somo extent tho nctlvo qualities ot tho Loghorn, aro still largo enough to mnko thom vnluablo as tablo poultry, surpassing In quality somo of tho hcavlor breeds In tho much-wanted tasto of wild gamo. I havo had many peoplo complain, GOOD EGG MARKETING HINTS Have Plenty of Nests and Keep Them Clean Remove Roosters When Breeding Season Is Over. (By T. E. QUISEN'nrcrtnY, Missouri Experiment Station.) Keep tho hens' nests clean and havo plenty of nests. Gather eggs twlco dally In warm weathor and dally during other sea sons. Handlo eggs as llttlo as possible, as handling deteriorates them. Market eggs of tho correct size, 24 to 28 ounces a dozen. Cull out all vory largo or very small eggs. Sell nothing but clean eggs; nover wash them for market. Produce only lnfortilo egga by re moving all roosters as soon aB tho breeding period Is over. Keep nil eggs In a cool, dry place. Don't let eggs como Into contact with vegetable or kitchen odors. Don't hold eggs too long, aB thoy deteriorato rapidly; market at least twlco a week. Keep only one breed of chickens and rniso oggs of ono color. Markot your egga In clean, 30-dozon cases, or in cartons holding ono dozen eggs, depending on tho demand. Don't oxposo eggs to files and dust. Conflno broody bona nt once and re- movo them to tho hatching depart ment. Novor expose markot egga to tho di rect rays of tho sun, to oxtremo heat or rain. Keep poultry houses froo from ver mln. Feed wholesome, clean feed and pro- vldo puro water in clean vessels and often. Sell your eggs only to buyers, who buy loas-off and who aro willing to pay for quality. GIVE POULTRY CLEAN YARDS Divide Quarters Into Sections So That Ono May Be Renovated While Other Is In Use. Whcro fowla aro confined In rather cIobo quarters during tho summer it is n good plan to arrango so that the poultry yard can bo cleaned or else divided In two or moro sections, so that one can bo ronovated whllo tho other is being uced. If tho yard la of tho ordinary garden soil it should bo spaded under to tho depth of tho spado after first cleaning out tho worst of tho 111th. Then sow this spaco to oats or ryo and allow it to grow for two wcokB; then turn tho poultry Into this yard nnd treat tho othor yard in tho samo manner. Brahmas Make Good Capons. Whlto Brahma capons present a vory attractlvo appoaranco and thoy weigh a llttlo moro at soiling tlmo than tho Plymouth Rocks, but it takos less feed for tho Rocks because tho Rocks aro bottor foragers thau tho Brahmas. First Meal for Chloks. Whon boiled and chopped up flno tho lnfertllo egga from tho Incuba tor mako great feed for tho first meal ot the nowly-hatchcd chicks. Island Trio. say thoy did not llko tho Rhodo Island Rod becauso of their broodlnoss. Tho Rhodo Island Rod does causo somo lnconvonlenco along that lino, but I havo taken hens from thoso brooding pons when in broody condition, and pincod them two nnd throe In a small or coop hung on tho sldo of tho brood ing pens, and In threo or four dayB thoy nro willing to go to work again nt tholr old Job of laying, nnd I can show rocords theso samo bona laid moro oggs through tho wintor than most of my pullets. Again, by taking a rest whon oggs aro cheap In spring, thoy aro roady for business whon prices wero high. Had they laid heavily in Into spring, ns somo breeds do, without being broody, I might not hnvo got tho eggs in winter. Tho Rhodo Island Rods will grow and mnturo four to flvo weoka earlier than tho othor American broods, mak ing thom of moro valuo to tho utility man both in getting quicker returns and by being such forngors you are not compelled to got tho chicks out In vory cold woathor, and as I hnve bred many dlfforont varlotlos both of tho hoavy marketing fowls nnd ot tho llghtor weight typo for laying, I havo found that nono can glvo as much satisfaction as tho good Rhodo Island Reds. PLAN FOR PRESERVING EGGS - Ono Gallon of Water Glass Will Mako Enough Solution to Preserve Fifty Dozen Eggs. Uso puro water that has boon thor oughly boiled and then cooled. To each ton quartu ot water add ono quart of water glass. Pack tho eggt? In a Jar nnd pour solution ovor them, covering well. Kcop tho eggB In a cool dnrk place A dry, cool cellar la a good place. If tho oggs aro kept In too warm n placo tho slllcato la dopoBltcd and the oggs aro not proporly protected Do not wash tho oggs beforo packing, for by bo doing you lnjuro their keop Ing quality, probably dissolving tho mucilaginous coating on the outside ol tho shell. For packing, uso only perfectly fresh eggB, for stale oggs will not bo saved and may provo harmful to tho othors, Water glass is a very cheap product, that can usually bo procured at not to exceed GO cents per gallon, and ono gallon would mako enough solution to preservo CO dozen eggs, so that tho cost of material for this mothod would bo only nbout ono cent por dozen. Water glass is sodium and potassium slllcato, sodium silicate being usually tho choajnr. If woodon kegs or bar rels aro used In which to paqk tho eggs, thoy should first 'bo thoroughly scalded with boiling wntor, to sweeten and purify thom.- Taken from Farm ers' Bullotln No. 103, United Statoa Department of Agriculture. AVOID SOFT-SHELLED EGGS Most Frequent Cause Is Lack of Oyster Shells and Mineral Mat ter Feed More Grains. Soft-sholled egga In turkoya or com mon hens aro caused most frequontb by tho lack of oystor Bholl and mln oral matter in tho ration, and bj overfocdlng, thus causing tho Btock to bo ovorfat. Ovorfat stock are quito apt to produce soft-Bhollod egga, Ono othor causo, but not vory com mon, Is an Irritation In tho ogg pas sago or oviduct, causing this abnor mality. To remedy this, tho feeding of loss fattening foods, audi as corn and mllo, kaflr, but moro wheat, oats and similar graltiB and crushed or ground oyster Bholl is recommended. Thla will In most cases provo a remedy. Lot of Unnecessary Work. It Is. certainly loss troublo not to mix wot mashes or cook food for small chicks, and thoy will do na woll on dry, uncooked feed. Cookod or wot food leavea dirtier eating vessolB or feeding places, moro sour stuff lying around to start dlgostlvo troubles; bo, why tako tho Iroublo to do a lot of unnecessary work? Disinfectant for Cholera. As a disinfectant in tho water foi adult fowls afflicted with cholera or any of tho germ dlsoasoa resembling cholorn, put ton grains of sulphc carbolato of zinc In each quart of drinking wator. Makes Good Eggs, Buttermilk makoa good ogga and lots ot them.