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THE 8EMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. u. s. CLEARING OUT A BAD NEST BRITAIN SEIZES MEAT 70 RAZE IK TRAPS CONDENSED NEWS OF INTERE8T TO ALL, IS Wilson and lansing complete note to england sea policy unfriendly. CALL SHIP SEIZURE ILLEGAL Persistent Oppression of American Commerce and Blockade of Neutral Ports s Denounced In Latest Mes sage as Unjustified by World Law. Washington, Sopt. 20. President Wilson and Secretary of Stato Lan sing conferred at length on Friday on tho completed noto of this govern ment ta 'Great Drltain, and on tho phases of tho controversy with Ger many over tho sinking of tho Arabic Tho points of tho now noto to Great Drltain, no obtained from officials who linvo had part in putting It into pres ent form, aro: That as tho United States has re peatedly and consistently denied spe cifically every ono of tho Justifications set up by Sir Edward Grey, tho British minister for foreign affairs, and Lord Crowo, his assistant, this government cannot fail to regard tho persistent op-1 prcsslon of American commorco as un- rri.ni n.ni n-t..r.. . .1 111 11.. ' timi viicui uiiutiii lltiuu iiiugujiy when sho took canes of sclzuro and de tention out of tho domain of diplomacy mC mado them moroly matters for tho British prizo courts. That tho argument by Great Britain for such action Is Indefensible, becauso It is based on tho ordor In council, wnich is Itself in illegal policy. That tho establishment of a block ado under tho order In council which protonds to Include noutral .ports, Is not Justified by International law on tho moro suspicion that neutral ports may bo mado tho basis for unneutral acts. That tho contention cf Great Britain that cargoes may bo seized and do lalncd on suspicion alono, without any assortlon of reasonable proof, Is abso lutely untcnablo under any form of recognized law of nations. That tho United States lias hereto fore given Great Britain notlco that it would not tolcrato nets bucIi as In tho packers' caso, which woro based on tho Illegal wlthdrcwal of questions of selzuro and detention from tho cnto gory of diplomatic quostlons. Tho United States has In fact Hied Its caveat, putting Great Britain on no tlco. It Ib stated that thoro is In tho noto 110 suggestion or an ultimatum or a de mand for a dollnlto answor from Great Britain within any specified tlmo. STEFANSS0N, EXPLORER, SAFE Discovers New Land Southwest of St. Patrick Island Was on Ice for Seven Months. Nome, Alaska, Sopt. 20. Tho power schooner Ruby arrived from Horschol Island, on tho Arctic coaBt west of tho mouth of tho Mackonzlo river, with nowB that Vilhjalmur Stofansson. tho Canadian explorer, who with two companfons, Storkor 8torkcrson and Olo Anderson, sot out from Martin Point, Alaska, March 22, 1914, over tho frozen Polar ocean to search for supposed now lands In tho Beaufort sea, Is not only allvo and well, but hag accomplished every purposo for which tho hazardous Journey was under taken. Capt. S. F. Cottlo, master of tho Ruby, sayB that Stofansson is on Banks land, cast of tho Mackonzlo, outfitting for contlnuanco of tho ex plorations to tho westward to ascer tain tho full oxtent of tho now land ho discovered' southwest of St. Pat rick Island. Stofansson discovered n contlnunnco of tho continental shelf sovcral degrees west of Dnnkn land and oven determined Its Bouthorn lim its, but was unoblo to Contlnuo his explorations to tho north and west. U. S. MEN KILL 22 MEXICANS Cnrranzn'a Troops Open Flro on Sol dlers at Mntamoroo, Where Five Fall 17 Slain at Los Ebanos. Brownsvlllo, Tox., Sopt. 20. At least twonty-two Carranzlsta soldlors nro believed to havo boon killed on Friday by American troops In two bat tles along tho Hlo Granda Thoro woro no American casualties. Both battlos woro startod by tho Carranzlstas, who fired on Amorlcan troops. Ono took placo boforo Mata moros, tho Mexican town across tho Itlo Grando, throe miles from horo, and tho other at Los Ebanos, fifty miles north and west of Brownsvlllo. Ao a rosult of tho attack by Car ranzlstas on Amorlcan troops aorlous International complications aro feared. General Nafarotto, tho Carranzlsta commander at MatamoroB, denies his troops woro roBponstblo for thn Unlit ing. Military Train Blown Up. Laredo, Tox., SopL 20. Ninety boI dlors woro killed when a Mexican military train waa wrecked near Sat tillo Wednesday, according to reports received at Nuovo Laredo. Tho train Is beliovod to havo boon blown up. Defeat Austrian Flyers. Paris. Sopt. 20. Tho ministry of ma rine announced tho dofeat of au Aus trian aerial squadron abovo tho Adri atic by French aviators. The AuBtrl ans were supported by small war ships, but were forced to retreat 1 i BB& mfSK PITTSBURGH DISPATCH. . 'VmME?'- !ZS"" ENVOYS GET THREATS ALLIES' BANKERS GUARDED BY NEW YORK 8LEUTHS. U. 8. Won't Interfere as Long as Big Loan Is Used to Purchase Sup pliesMany Protests. Now York, Sopt. 17. Alarmed by tho Increased Hood of threatening lot tors that continued to pour In on tho Anglo-Pronch llnanco commissioners at tho Hotel Blltmoro, tho hotel man agement doubled Its forco of dotoctlvo guards and advised tho commission ors not to announco their movements In advance Every mombor of tho commission Is followed by two guards whorovcr ho goes, and they go about separately to dlvldo tho danger of attack by nntl allies fanatics. Moro than fifty threatening letters havo boon received by tho commis sion. Their contents run tho scale from nbuso to throats against tho lives of tho commissioners. According to Information, tho Gor man attack on tho proposed loan was launched from tho covor of American citizens of German parentago, nativ ity or sympathizers, although In real ity theso citizens woro not tho prima movors iu tho agitation. This campaign, arcordlng to roportB from sources regarded as reliable, contemplated heavy withdrawals, wholcsalo in oxtent, from banks par ticipating In tho loan, as an expres sion of tho dlsplcasuro of pro-Gorman depositors. Washington, Sopt. 17. Protests against tho Anglo-French credit loan bolng negotiated In this country woro received at tho Whlio House In tele grams from various partB of tho coun try. It was Intimated that tho adminis tration would not tako pny action in tho matter. As long as tho loan is In tended to pay for goodB to bo exported from this country, It was pointed out that tho country's neutrality Is not be ing violutcd. ACCEPT BERLIN EXPLANATION Germany Tello U. S. That Liner Hes perian Was Not Torpedoed by German Submarine. Washington, Sopt. 18. Tho caso of tho Allan liner Hesperian, which was deBtroyod by an explosion about two wooks ago near Fastnot, has become practically a closed Incident at tho stato dopartmont. Secretary Limning received tho report of tho Gorman ad miralty In this caso on Thursday, and tho dopartmont Is disposed to accept tho Gormnn explanation. Tho main point In tho admiralty report Is that tho vossol could not havo been de stroyed by a Gorman torpedo, for tho reason that tho roports from subma rines at tho tlmo of tho accident show that nono of them waB In that locality. Bank Cashier Pleads Guilty. ' Sullivan, Ind., Sopt. lp. Edward J. King, caBhlor of tho Duggor Stato bank, charged with orabozzllng $34, 000, pleaded guilty In circuit court horo on Tuesday and was sontoncod to two to fourteen years in atato prison. King also waB flnod $100 and disfranchised for five years. King waa given 24 hours to Bottlo up hla personal affairs. To Admit Canadian Cattle. London, Sopt. 20. Secretary Acland of tho government board of agrlcul turo announcod on Friday that tho Im portation of llvo Canadian cattlo would bo allowed It thoy aro slaugh tered at the port of landing. Dutch Purchase Aeroplanes. Washington, Sopt. 20. Tho treas ury dopartmont was notified that tho Dutch government has purchased 20 Curtlss typo aoroplanos as tho rosult of a sorlos of experiments hold at Los Angelo3. GERMANS DISAVOW ACT BERLIN FOREIGN OFFICE SAYS LINER HIT MINE. Government In Note to Gerard Says No Submarine Was In the Vicin ity o? the Disaster. Berlin, Sopt. 16. "The Gorman dec laration that passongor ships will not bo torpedoed without warning unless they try to escape when summoned to stop, or offer resistance, holds good," tho foreign ofllco announced on Tues day, thus confirming tho statement re cently made by Ambassador Bern storff in tho United States. Tho an nouncement continues: "As for tho Arabic caso, there seems to bo merely a difference of opinion about facts, which does not affect tho above-mentioned principle." The Gorman government, hf a noto to Ambassador Gerard, made a quali fied disclaimer of responsibility for tho sinking of tho steamship Hes porlan. On tho fuco of tho ovldenco thus far at hand, tho government Ib satisfied that the Hesperian wao not sunk by a Gorman submarine Tho communication Is a prelimi nary noto, which may bo supplement ed when all the facts in connection with tho Hesperian Incident arc es tablished definitely. Tho Gorman gov ernment states that, on tho basis of tho Information thus fur obtained, tho theory that tho Hesporlan was sunk by n German submarine apparently may bo abandoned absolutely. It Is said that official rocords show that no BUbmarlno should havo been In tho vicinity of tho Hesporlan at tho tlmo sho was blown up. Further more, tho point Is mado that tho vlo lonco of tho explosion and tho placo In which tho Bteamshlp was struck, aa sot forth In tho accounts of tho disaster. Indlcato that it was duo to a mluo. JWWWHWVVWWMUVMW t V J IMPORTANT NEWS I ITEMS Washington, Sopt. 1C Constantln Thoodor Duraba, tho Austrian ambas sador, asked Vienna to recall him on leave of absonco. It can bo stated au thoritatively that Doctor Dumba will sail for Austria vory shortly. No an swer to tho roquost of tho United States will bo mado by Austria until aftor his arrival In Vienna. Austria will then Inform this government that Doctor Dumba has boon recalled on loavo. Worcester, Mass., Sopt. 17. Mrs. Martha Flsko, eighty-throe years old, and Doris Erlcson, soven months old, died horo from tho Intcnso boat, and Mra. Carrlo Eagor, thlrty-flvo, of Provl denco, was prostrated whllo waiting for n train In Union station. Washington, Sopt. 17. President Wilson Is going "homo" to Princeton, N. J.. Soptombor 22, to voto In tho Now Jorsoy primaries, it waa an nouncod at tho White Houso. Ho will also go to Princeton Octobor 19 to voto In tho cloctlon. Boston, Sopt. 17. Tho official tem poraturo in this city at noon was 91. SchoolB In nearly nil tho cities and largo towns woro closed at noon. Moro seasonable conditions woro pre dicted for tomorrow. Mexicans Die of Starvation. Moxlco City, SopL 20. Two hundred and forty persona died of starvation horo. It la feared that tho death rato will Increase, as tho Amorlcan Red Cross has boen compelled to abandon Its relief work for lack of funds. Says Orduna Tried to Escape. Amsterdam, Sopt. 20. Tho Gorman foreign ofllco handod Ambassador Gor ard a noto which assortod that the attack by BUbmarlno on tho llnor Or duna was mado only becauso that steamer waB trying to cscapo. PRIZE -COURT CONDEMNS CAR GOES OF STEAMSHIPS WORTH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. $150,000,000 IS INVOLVED Products Owned by Amorlcan Packers Are Declared Forfeited to the Crown by English Tribunal Chica go Companies Lose Big Claims. London, Sept. 18. Chicago packers woro defeated In tho British prlzo court when that tribunal handed down a de cision on Thursday confiscating to tho crown largo American curgocs takon from merchantmen. Tho prize court hold that these cargoes were ultimate ly destined for Germany, to bo used by that country for her army nnd navy. Tho firms whose contentions were overruled by tho court wero Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Nelson Morris & Co. and tho Schwartzschlld-Sulzbergor company. At tho conclusion of its decision the court granted leave to appeal, provid ed $25,000 security was posted as se curity for tho costs of further pro ceedings. The Judgment was delivered by Sir Samuel T. Evans, president or tho court. It involves tho cargoes of tho Norwegian steamships Kim, Alfred Nobel, BJornstJornc-BJomson and Frid land. All tho goods on these vessels, con sisting principally of American meat products, aro confiscated, with tho ex ception of a small portion which tho court released to claimants. Tho caso has been pending for sev eral months. Tho steamships wero seized lato last November, and al though efforts woro made by the Amor lcan owners to obtain an early trial tho British authorities set tho hear ing for Juno. In a lengthy Judgment Sir Samuel said It was plain theso shins woro car rying toward Copenhagen, when cap-J turod, moro than thirteen times the amount of goods which under normal circumstances would havo boon taken to that port. That fact gave practical and over whelming nssuranco that tho goods woro intended to find their way to Germany, although, of courso, It did not prove conclusively that thoy woro destined for an enemy of Great Britain. The meat cargoes, shipped for tho most part by tho great Amorlcan pack ing companies and yaluod by them at $15,000,000, woro found by tho presi dent to be destined, except for somo small Horns, not for consumption In Denmark, but for delivery in Germany. Ho hold that thoir oventual destina tion was tho German, government, for tho use of Its naval and military forces. To rule otherwise, Sir Sam uel said, would bo to allow one's eyes to be blinded by theories and techni calities. BIG WAR FUND FOR BRITAIN House of Commons Gives Premier Ab qulth $1,250,000,000 to Carry on Conflict. London, Sopt. 17. Tho credit of $t, 250,000,000 asked for by Premier As iiulth to carry on tho war to tho mid dlo of November was formally voted on Wednesday by tho houso of om raons. In making tho motion for the war credit tho premier announced that from July IS to Foptonibor 11 tho dully net expenditure for tho war had boen $17.500,00t). Tho now credit asked will bring the total up to $0,310,000,000 slnco the beginning of tho war. Tho war cost for tho next few wooks will mount still higher, Asqulth said, approaching $25,000,000 a day. Tho $1,250,000,000 appropriation, ho declared, will last only until tho third week of Novemb.-r. ARABIC EVIDENCE TO BERLIN U. S. Sends Data to Germany Wilson Expects Modified Die avowal. Washington, Sept. 17. All of tho ovldenco dealing with tho sinking of tho Arabic compiled by tho Unltod Stntca has boen forwarded to tho Ber lin foreign ofllco through stato de partment sources, at tho request of tho German ambassador. It will bo considered by tho Gorman admiralty In tho light of tho report mado by tho submarine commander Count von Bornstorff is understood to believe that when this evidence much or It tho Bworn statomonta of Amorlcan cltlzqns, is considered, that part of tho Arabic noto Justifying tho action of tho submarlno will bo with drawn voluntarily and a modified disavowal, strong enough to satis fy President Wilson, will bo sub stituted. Heat Kills William Davis. Now York, Sopt. 18. William Davis, an artist, was found dead In his studio boforo an unfinished landscape Ho wns a victim of tho heat. Mr. Davis was Blxty-olght years old. Ho was born In England. Order Kansas Warden Ousted. -Topoka, Kan., Sept. .18. Tho ro moval of J. D. Botkln nB wnrdon of tho Kansas stato penitentiary, was recommended to Governor Cappor In tho report of n special leglslatlvo cora-mlttoo. Tho Llndell hotel at Falls City has reopened. Over 2,500 attended tho Farmers' clovator plcnlo at Pickrell. Tho German Family club of Lin coln will erect a $30,000 homo. A now $30,000 school building will bo built In Grand Island soon. Application has been mado for" a Carnegie library building in Blair. Exeter's now $40?000 high school building was dedicated last week. Butter was lower in tho Omaha market. Sept. 14 than for eight years. November 7 will bo observed throughout tho state as Sunday school day. The contract for Bridgeport's now high school building will be lot OcL 7. Tekamah's $7,500 public library wllj bo ready for occupancy January 1, 1910. Contracts havo been let for seven now bridges in Burt and Washington counties. A tennis tournament will bo hold at Kearney by the boyB of tho Indus trial school. Odd Fellows of Broken Bow laid tho cornerstone for their new build ing last week. Ofilcers of the stato aerio of Eagles have selected Lincoln for tho 1915 meeting place. Tho cornerstone for Polk's $1C,000 lodge hall ana auditorium will be laid September 22. The First Methodist Episcopal con rorenco will meet In Omaha from 3eptomber 21 to 27. DuBolse at a special election voted bonds for tho construction of an electric light planL Fire completely destroyed tho Wal ter Sapp meat market at Lyons, with a loss of over $1,500. Tho Nebraska Library board will hold Its annual meeting at Fremont September 29 to October 1. 278 people responded to tho first :all to "Hit tho Trail" at the "Billy" Sunday tabernacle in Omaha. About 2,000 people attended tho first annual community reunion and old settlers' picnic at Wausa. Tho Thurston county fair, to havo been held at Walthlll last week, has been postponed to Oct. 0, 7, 8 and 9. J. A. Novak of "Weston was killed and J. Shanda was seriously injured in an automobile accident near "Wa ll oo. One of the largest theater signs In tho west will bo erected at tho Boyd theater in Omaha, -It will bo over six feet high. The Stato Normal at Chadron open sd last week with 300 attendance, larger than on any other first day In Its existence. The registration In the Fremont schools for the first day of the school year wns 1,824, an Increase of seven ty-six over last year. At the tri-state fair at Crawford In i ranniDg race two horses bolted tho track and ran Into tho crowd, Injuring two men seriously. The new Polish parochial school at Duncan was dedicated last week. Tho school whon completed will cost $20,000 to $25,000. Machinery for tho dredges to bo nsed on tho big drainage project near Tckamah has already arrived and work will begin soon. Tho 11-year-old daughter or Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Fredericks, Falrbury, sustained a broken arm while playing basketball at school. Felix Ferin, a Richardson " county farmer, reports that three horses and three mules wero killed by lightning during a recent storm. Charles E. Harless, a farmer resid ing near Polk, was killed when his automobile ran off a bridge on tho outskirts of that place. Harry Pettendell, a former Omaha brick mason, was instantly killed while at work on tho now Miller & Palno building In Lincoln. Tho Nebraska Public Health asso ciation has selected Omaha as tlfo next meeting place. Tho meeting will cither be held next month, or In Jan uary. Miss Laura Mayer, daughter of Mayor and Mrs. J. W. Mayer of Beat- rice, has been appointed stenographer for the supremo court commission at Lincoln. It is estimated that tho annual loss from hog cholera In Nebraska for tho last two years has been nt least $5,000,000, according to a recent bul letin of the College of Agriculture. W. A. Glasson, an Omaha machin ist, was painfully Injured when an automobile gosolino tank, which ho was In the act or welding, exploded in tho Junkie & Bller garage at Falr bury. Omaha brewery workers havo on ganlzed an association which will take In all tho allied trades or the stato for the purposo of fighting tho prohibition question that will come up at the stato oloctlon next fall. Adolph Itoxroth, an old resident of Frmont, who did recently, left fifty four children, grand children and great-grand children. Ho had been n resident of Fremont slnco 1889. Hastings has launched tho biggest paving campaign In its history. The construction already assured will to tal moro than $300,000. About eight miles ol paving will bo laid. Tho big electric sign bearing the word "Wolcomo" on tho stato houso dome at Llucoln, Ib now the property or tho state and will bo left there and lighted when the occasion requlreB STATE FIRE COMMISSION WILL. SOON BEGIN CAMPAIGN. WILL REMOVE OLD BUILDINGS Those Believed to Be Menace Will Be: Ordered Wrecked If Owner Re fuses, State Will Do It. Lincoln. Parties who have old and; decrepit buildings around their their premises which aro nothing but flro traps will now havo to look out for Flro Commisaloner Ridgell will Boon bo on their trail. Judge Ridgell has returned from at tending tho national convention of flro commissioners, at Chicago and. while there satisfied himself as to the rlght' of a flro commissioner to ordor tho tearing down of structures which aro a menace to tho neighborhood sur rounding them ns flro starters. Here tofore there has been a question as to tho right of tho commissioner in tho matter and ho has discovered that overy state which has had a test In the courts of tho matter has decided that the buildings must come down. Somo states give the flro commission er tho right to tear down the build ings himself, but In this state tho owner of the building is first notified and if he does not do the work the commissioner can order tho same done and tho expense charged up to the property ns taxes. , Apples for Nebraskans. The Central Fruit Growers' associa lion is well supplied with apjiles this year and has at present about 300 carloads of bulk apples ready for tho market. Tho early apples woro an abundant crop, but, according to- members of tho association, the lato apples will not bo as abundant. Tho association intends to follow out this year tho system started last season of giving Nebraska people the first call on Nebraska apples, instead of letting tho eastern speculators some In and carry off the cream of the orchards, leaving local peoplo to tako the culls or buy from Colorado,. Oregon and Washington. Tho plan panned out so well last year that It will bo continued this year and Ne braska peoplo who desire to get tho real Nebraska apple can get In com munication with any of the applo groweri, or with the association at. Nebraska City. Suggestion On Seed Corn. Because of unusual conditions tlils- year, many farmers will find it de sirable to practice early field selec tion of seed corn. Seed corn may bs safely selected, in tho stiff dough stage, if properly cured. Tho vitality of corn selected earlier than this 1? likely to bo uncertain. Early picked seed corn must begin drying rapidly at tho earliest possible momenL If left lying in a pile for as much as a, tew hours tho growth of mold is likely to start In drying Immature corn, It is Important to keep the. ears from close contact While drying, rain-proof buildings which provide a. , free circulation of air and a temper aturo nbove freezing are highly desir able. Well preserved seed corn n year old Is very satisfactory. Depart ment of Experimental Agronomy, Col. lege of Agriculture. Students See Changes. With the return of tho students of tho College of Agriculture for tho opening week of September 20, they noted Important changes and modifi cations in tho courso of study nnd in tho appearance of the campus. Tho most obvious to tho observer was tho tearing up of tho groundB incident to- tho construction of Uio new dairy building, horse ham, and heating- plant nnd tho entrance of tho Rock Island nnd local traction lines to tho campus. When they registered they also found that they woro permitted to enter a two-years' courso in agri culture for the first time. Require ments for graduation havo .also been modified. To Pny Fire Commission to Sept. 1 Ono chapter or the hold-out of Treasurer Hall against payment of running oxponses or stato depart ments was concluded when ho an- nounced that ho would pay flro com-. mission vouchers dated to September 1. Beyond that dato ho will not go. however, and his stand now puts tho food commission and tho flro commis sion on an equal footing. A suit will now havo to ho started to havo tho supreme court deterimne tho question affecting theso two departments. Horses Dying at La P.'atte. Tho state veterinarian received a aiesBago from Fred Iske at La Platte, Btatinff that his horses aro dying at tho rate of three a week and desires tho veterinarian to make an investi gation. Dr. McKIm will visit the placo immediately. Chamberlln May Remain on Farm. Cornhusker football rooters, aro dis heartened nt tho announcement that Guy Chamborlln, dashing halfback of last season, may not return to college this fall. His services as manager of Wk father's farm at Blue Springs aro Bald to be needed. New Buttermilk Company. Tho Dray Buttermilk company is a now corporation organized in Omaha, which filed articles of Incorporation with tho secretary of stato. Tho couv pany has a capital of $25,000.