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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1915)
THE SEMLWEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. FROM 1 01 EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO A FEW LINES. IflTE EVENTS BOILED DOWN , norsonai, Political, Foreign and Other ; , ''Intelligence Interesting to tho s"- " General Readers. WAR NEWS. British killed at tho Dardanelles numbor 18,057, nnd wounded 77,05,7 thus far, according to an ofllclal state ment Issued In London. All Italian attacks on the Austrians on tho Violgereuth plateau In tho past fow ,days have failed, Vienna an nounces. Italian losses are placed at 2,000. '' Destruction by tho Austro-Germans in taking Belgrade was complete In two of tho city's districts, It is said. Six thousand shells were thrown Into -the town. Seventeen German ore steamera which ply In tho Baltic sea .are miss ing, according to a Stockholm dis patch, and aro believed to have been fl.unk by British submarines. According to a dispatch from Sofia, King Ferdinand, as commandor-ln-chfef of all the Bulgarian forces, has .entrusted command of the field forceB to General Jecoff, minister of war. The German government has sus pended postal servlco and Issued an order upholding all food shipments be tween Germany and Rumania until that country declares its attitude In tho world war. The Serbian temporary capital's transfer from Nlsh to Monastir is ex pected. Tho. former's capture by tho Bulgarians was looked for before the Germans, who have the same objec tive, can reach It. In tho recent Zeppelin raid on Lon don forty-one persons wero killed and 101 wounded by bombs dropped from the airships. Tho raid was by far tho most costly In human life of any made liy-the German airships on England thus far. GENERAL. The German potato crop, estimated at 60,000,000 tons, Is tho largest in tho history of the country, says a Borne dispatch. . Thomas Fisher, flvo years old, of Carlinville, 111., was instantly killed, -when he .was struck by a baseball over the heart. Nearly twenty inches of rain fell In New Orleans in tho last two Aveeks, breaking all local weather .bu reau records. There are now 2,000,000 men In Eu Tope who have suffered tho loss ot limbs, faculties, or both, as a result of injury in tho war, according to Frank B. Galbreth of Providence, II. X, who has Just returned from Ger many. Appointment of Dr, Ray Lyman "Wilbur as president of Leland Stan lord University, Jr., was. announced. Dr. Wilbur was president of the American Academy of Medicine in 1912-13. Ho was bora in Boonevillo, Iowa. , Recognition of tho party led by General Carranza as the de facto gov rnmcnt In Mexlxco was unanimously agreed upon recently by tho Pan American conference to Now York as tho Btep to bo recommended to their respective governments. All predictions with regard to the probable date for tho reopening of tho Panama canal were sot at naught by Major General G. W. Goethala, gover nor of tho canal zone, who said that conditions wero such that It was lm- possible to set any definite date. Announcement of the formation of tho Mutual Tobacco company, Inc., a $20,000,000 corporation, which in cludes some of tho largo tobacco man ufacturing concerns In Uie United States, was made at Now York Jiy Benjamin Schwartz, counsel for tho company. To provide a place of resort, after the Btato's prohibition law goes into effect January 1 next, for laboring men who now gather In saloons, tho city of Portland, Ore., leased a four ntory building and will fit up at once. indictments containing thirty-five counts against W. B. Slaughter and thirty-two counts against Coney C. Slaughter, former president and cashier, respectively, of the closed Mercantile National bank of Pueblo, Colo., wero returned by tho United States grand Jury at Pueblo. Announcement was mado at New York of a consolidation of threo printing trado papers, the American Printer of New York, tho Printing Trado News of New York and the Master Printer of Philadelphia. Daniel M. Houscr, president of the Globo Publishing Co., and publisher of tho St. Louis Globo-Democrnt, died at his homo In St. Louis. A verdict of not guilty in the enso' against Mayor Josoph K. Boll of In dianapolis, charged with election con spiracy, 'was readied by a Jury. Secretary of tho Treasury McAdoo, In nn address at St. Louis, said that South American countries woro bog ging tho United Statos to solzo tho op portunity oupplying them with products they have been getting from Europe. Leo Perrln, former paying teller of the Cedar Rapids, la., National bank, was sentenced in federal court at Ce dar Rapids to servo flvo years intlic penitentiary at Leavenworth. Perrln robbed the bank of approximately $20,000 on August 4 last. Counsel for William Barnes, Jr., filed In tho Onondaga county clerk's ofllco nt Syracuse, N. Y., an order signed by Justice William S. An drews, denying their motion, for a now trial In the libel action brought against Colonel Roosevelt. The K7, one of tho four submarines that left San Francisco October 3, and arrived at Honolulu October 14, made the voyago without assistance and without stopping her engines once, and established a now long distance continuous voyago record for a United States underwater craft SPORTING. "Ducky" Holmes has scoured an op tion on Uie Lincoln baseball club of tho Western league from Its presont owner, Hugh L. Jones. As tho result of Injuries received tho Yalo-Lehigh football 'game, four Yalo players will bo unable to play for several weeks. The Chicago American league base ball team won tho championship of Chicago fiom tho National league. Tho Americans won four games and thov Nationals one. j, Ono of tho worst defeats they have suffered In years was administered to' the Navy football team at Annapolis, Md., by the Pittsburg university. Tho score was Pittsburg 47, Navy 12. Karl Schulz of New York city, who claims the wrestling championship of tho German navy, was put squarely on. his back twice by Joo Steelier, In eight" nnd twelve mjnutes, before a large crowd at Hastings.-Neb. A now world's record in automobile speeding was made in New York when Gil Anderson at tho new speed way, driving at the average rate of 102.0 mlle.s an hour, won tho 350-milo automobllo race for tho Astor cup and $50,000 In prizes. Final action on tho proposal to abolish Intercollegiate baseball at the University of Minnesota has been nnatnnned two weeks by the board -of athletic control. The postponement was granted to give Uie student bouy more tlmo In which to consider the question. WASHINGTON. The United States lias done all it can officially toward relieving the con dition of tho Armenians In Turkey, in the opinion of State department officials. The Stato department has sent to Berlin anote accepting Germany's proposal to llx by arbitration her lia bility for sinking the William P. Frye and her wheat cargo. Each country will appoint an expert. Plans for a dry dock at Hunter's Point. San Francisco, to be larce enough to-accommodate tho largest battleship built or building wero ap proved by Secretnry Daniels. Con struction will begin immediately. ' Railroads operating from Iowa to tho Atlantic coast aro discriminating In rates against northern Iowa cities, tho board of railroad commissioners of Iowa alleged in a petition filed with the interstate commerce commission. Plans for rural credits legislation, which the administration is expected to include In lta program for the next session of congress, will bo discussed at a meeting November 9 of tho Joint committee on tho subject named by the senate and house. Motorization of tho rural free doll very system In the United States has been started with more than 250 auto routes, according to Postmaster Gen oral Burleson, and 250 others nro to be put In operation by Dec. 1. Nc brnska has one motor route, Colorado, two; Iowa, twenty-four; Kansas, three. Postofllco inspectors aftor invest! gatlon of a holdup on the Baltlmoro & Ohio train, near Central Station W. Va., said that less than $100,000 In currency was gotten by tho rob hers. First reports placed the amount at $500,000. Secretary Daniels, In agreement with tho genoral board of tho navy. practically has decided to recommend to congress a five-year construction program which will lncludo sixteen capital fighting ships ten dread noughts and six battlo cruisers, CONDENSED HEWS OF INTEREST TO ALL. Laurel has let a contract for a mu nicipal olectrlc light plant. A $10,000 residence is beliiE built at Oakland by t)r. B. S. Bonton. Miss Ada Miller of Aurora was ser iously Injured in "ft runaway near that place. Twolve candidates tiro In 'the Held for tho postmnstershlp primary in Wausa which Is to bo hold Novem ber 8. Dan Turner of Ord, has traded his lco business to Curt Wilson for 412 acres of land, located three miles from town. George II. Wlllse, former state son- ator and well known as a progressive republican leader, died suddenly nt his homo In Randolph. According to word reaching Beat rice, John A. Bookwaltor, who owned thousands of acres of land In Nebras ka, died recontly In Itnly. Firo of unknown origin destroyed tho barn, machine shed and grninary on tho farm of Clinton T. Richards near Ashland. Tho loss Is estlnintcd at $3,000. v Thu Stato Bank of Omaha has bought the deposits, lease and fixtures of tho City National bank and has opened for business in tho hitter's quarters. "BETTER BABIES" AT NEBRASKA STATE FAIR. Genevieve Chapman of Ceresco, cham pion of. the first Nebraska Better Baby Show. She Is now four years old and atlll keeping up her-hlgh record. Fall-wheat sowing is lato In Rich nrdBon county, and many farmers will ho unable to sow the acreage dcBlred on account of the ground being too wot to plow. Tho village qf Dunbar has offered to tho stato $23,000 worth of its school bonds, and In anxious to have tho money to complete the construc tion of a building. Attorneys for tho Continental Gas & Electric corporation of Aurora' aro preparing a now application to build a transmission lino between Hamp ton and York. "Better Farming and Dairying" train, bearing five experts ot the Unl verslty of Nebraska, mado a trip from Alliance through tho western part of tne state last week. H, L. Robmoyer, 50 yoars old, editor of tho Reflector, a German-American newspaper In Nebraska City, slit open nn artery In his left arm, held tho arm over a buckot and bled to death. Tecumsoh business men last week put on the first number of tho free lecture course for tho city this win ter. the Southland Players, to a largo audience. Five free entertainments nro to be given. Tho town of Lawrence is coniplet lng tho erection of a strictly-modern school building which will cost ap proximately $20,000. Tho structure is equipped with electric llghtB, vapor heating system, tollots, drinking foun tains, manual training nnd domestic sclenco rooms nnd gymnasium. Omaha's manufacturing industries In 1914, compared by the government census bureau with Omaha's Indus tries in 1909, show galnB in products, mnterials UBed, capitalization, wages paid, horsepower used, number of em ployees, but a decrease In tho total number of manufacturing establish ments. Joo Steelier of Dodge was presented with a handsomo $3,000 diamond-stud ed belt, recently, bought for him by loyal friends. Work on tho new $15,000 high school building at Schnylor Is pro gressing and it is oxpected now that the sides and roof will bo completed before cold weather sots'In. Mrs. Kush aged sixty years, return lng homo from church at Columbus, got out of tho way of ono automobile, but did not boo another car running In tho opposite direction, and waB run down and .'tilled. C. D. Richey Is erecting a $25,O0 garage at Hasting. Kearney has prospects of having a big department store open up there shortly. Tlio 101." Ak-Sar-Bcn carnival in Omaha dropped 24,000 In attondanco under 1914. Twenty farmers' unions have been 01 rganlzed In Richardson county In tho last fow months. Four-ycor-old son or Mr. and Mrs. -ottls Ehlors of Avocn, recoived a bad calp wound during a runnwny. MlhS Enunu K. Vornuhl of Griinri Junction, la., has purchased the Mars land Tribune from Rev. Charles II, Burleigh. John Reed resigns as mutineer of tho T. B. Hord elovntor In Ord, nnd III go west, bolllir Slieenodnil liv .Tnv Hamilton. Governor Morehend took imit in tho laying of tho cornerstone of the new building nt the Stato Normal school at Kearney. Governor Morohoad has announced a regard of $200 for the apprehension and conviction of tho murdoror of i rank Dohuslov. the Denton fanner who wnR shot last week. Bingon Silk, tho 2-yonr-old trotting horse, owned by tho Kearney stock farm, enrrted'off a $2,000 stake in tho Lexington, Ky. race meet. Joe Steelier, the Dodge count wrestling phenomenon, will meet Amcrlcim on the mat at tho auditor ium in Lincoln, October 28. Tho Havclock school hoard at a re cent meeting decided to build a $25,000 school house. Work will start on tho now structure early noxt spring. evangelist J. W. Ferguson closed the first of his meetings nt Plckrcll last week. Thirty conversions wero the rt-ult of two weeks' meetings. Thomas Angeles of" Fair bury, who came to America six years ago, re sponded to hia country's call and re turned to tnko up anus for tho fath erland. A poll of tho Nebrnska dologatlon in congress Indicntes that Messrs. Reavls, Sloan uml Stevens nre in favor ot a larger army and navy for the United States. The Nebraska Portand Cement company of Superior will appeal to tho nupremo court from tho onlrr of tho stato railwoy cbmmlsBlon in the question of rates to Omaha and other points In eastern Nebrnska. A. B. Cooper, a painter, living near Talmage, fell from a porch while at work nt the home of Henry Living ston, northeast of Tecitmseh. Ills left leg was broken Just above tho ankle. To build up a big central stato hank In Omnha that will act as a reserve depository for the stato banks of Ne braska Is tho aim of tho directors of tho Stato bank of Omaha, according to A. L. Schantz, president. A civilians' riflo club branch organ ization to the government civilian riflo clubs, has been organized in Kearney, with a membership of thirty-live. Tho club will Rocure the right to uso tho rifle rango west of that city, and ulso tho Indoor range. The United States Trensury depart ment has forwarded to State Treasu rer Hall, $7,500, tho regiilar quarterly installment for tho agricultural exper iment station of the stato university. Tho sum of $30,000 is received for this purpose annually by tho state. Coach Jesse Harper will bring a bunch of Wholes to Lincoln for the football game between Nohraska and Notre Dame, October 23, according to Georgo Racoly, freshmen conch, who saw Harper's pupils In action. Tho Notre Danio line, Racely said; was tho biggest nnd fnstest ho has over seen. .Melvln Vandeburg and Arthur Schaffcr of Talmngo, bridge carpen ters In the employ of the Missouri Pacific railroad, suffered serious in juries when a heavy dorrlck, suS' pended on a bridge over their heads, Uiecamo loose In somo manner and fell upon them. It weighed about 400 pounds. Martin Elliott was killed, three and one-hnlf miles northeast of Thayer by train No. 139 on the Northwestorn railroad. Mr. Elliott was on his way from his home at Grcsham to visit his brother. He was in a buggy and was caught on tho road crossing. Tho body wns carried about 400 feet. Tho team was 'unhurt. Believing that tho greatest benefit that a commercial club can bo to a country town Is to have tho highways in such condition that tho'farmera and nelghborlnr citizens can got Into tho city easily, tho Kcarnoy club has In stlgated a campaign to investigate every road in tho surrounding country and will see to It that all tho bad stretcheH aro put In good condition be foro winter. At tho conclusion of tho Sunday evening tabprnaclo servlco in Omaha, on October 24, the last day of tho re viva! campaign, Billy Sunday, with "Ma" and tho others in the pnrly, will board a train for Chicago. Tho par ty will spend the next day at Moody Instiluto In Chicago. The day has lmon ilnnlnreil n holldnv at tho Insti tute and will ho given over to talks by tho members of tho visiting party. Four ctses ot smallpox aro under quarantine at Fairbury as tho result of a trip there by State Health In spoctor Case. Tho framo 'bus barn of Lyon & Tit- mnn, located at York, caught fire and waB coniplctoly dostroyed. The loss amounts to around $5,000. .Tho Mnsonlc Relief Association of tho United Stater and Canada has nc ccpted Omaha's invitation to hold Us next meeting in Omaha. Tho organlza tlon meets biennially and is ono of tho most representative organizations in tho United States. BEST BREED OF POULTRY FOR THE FARM Partridge if you aro on a farm and in doubt as to tho bcBt breed of poultry to keep, you aro missing n good chanco of finding out about somo of tho best for you to koop if you do not tnko advantngo not only of what you can learn In tho -poultry department of tho county fair, but tho stato fair as well. In fact, tho Btato fair poultry dopurtmont gives you a lnrgo variety to choqso from and at this big fair there are always attendants that aro glad to talk to you of poultry and loll you much that you may not yot know about any of tho urocds. If you live- near a largo town It is x good idea first, before making cholco of a breed, to know the requirements of your market. Docs your market pro- BREAKING EGG-EATING HABIT Generally Co'nfined to Hens Kept In Small Yards and Results From Lack of Animal Food. Tko ogg-oatlng habit when general In a lloclc of bona Is hard to break. Tho habit is gonornlly confined to bono kopt in confinement or small yards, nnd usually results from ldlo noss or lack ot animal" food In tho ra tion. Or tho habit may havo its be ginning In a flock from tho accidental breaking of eggs. Hens kept In conflnomont should bo supplied tho food cloments that nre obtalnablo on rango. Animal food must bo Buppllcd, and provision must bo mado to keop tho lions busy by compolllng thorn to scratch In doop Utter for tho grain portion of tholr ration. Sholl-maklng matorlal must also bo supplied, sinco tho ordinary grains are dollciont In llmo, and soft- shollod eggs will likely result unless oyBtor-sholl, or old plostor is kopt bo tore tho lions all tho tlmo. Egg eating can bo prevented by pro viding low-covored nests. Tho nests should bo so low that tho hon barely has room to creep on and oft and cannot stand erect in tho nest. When unablo to Btand erect, It Is impossible for tho hon to break tho eggs with lior boak. Tho nests should also bo darkonod. This can bo done by hav ing tho nests along tho roar wall, with tho opening to tho nostB facing tho wall. Tho oggs should bo gathorcd soveral times a day. PROPER HOUSE FOR POULTRY Abundance of Fresh Air nnd Sunshlno Are Essential Wet Feet Not Con duclve to Laying. Romombor that It Is not tho warm house that tho hen needs to keop her laying her share of winter eggs, but tho houso with tho tight roor, tho wills freo from drafty IioIob, with plonty of fresh air coming in tho right way und plonty of chanco at all tho sunshlno available; also tho ground outside the house should bo woll drained and freo from sinks where mud and water collect and stay. A hon with constant wot, cold nnd dirty feot will do very littlo lay ing. Ingredients of Mash. A mash consists of many things, just as you can afford bran, alfalfa moal, cornmeal, middlings, boiled cabbago, small potatoes or potato skjiis, boiled soft and salted; anything In the line of cooked vogetnblos, and all mixed crumbly with milk, meat boilings or plain water. Good Noonday Mixture. A mixture of ground oats (or barley) and cornmoal mixed with milk may bo fod at noon to good advantago aftor thoy are on full feed. Novcr feod more at any tlmo than thoy will clean up with a relish. To Obtain Eggs. In order to obtain oggs It Is neces sary to havo healthy, vigorous stock, proporly fod. Cock. for white or brown eggs? If It (loco, then if you get tho bettor prices you must keop Leghorns or Minorcas. Tho last grow largor than tho LeghornB, and whllo thoy nro uoarly strictly non Bitting, they mako a fair-sized market bird. Brahnias nnd Plymouth )i;cks nnd Cochins will glvo you a lnrgo harabor of brown eggs. Somo markets prefor yollow-skinned fowls, boiuo white skinned. If your market demands this last you will want somo variety of tho OFpJngton, or any othor whlto-skinned bird that you admire, which may bo the Brahma or tho Langslmn. If you want yollow skin, it must bo the Wyandotto, Plymouth Rock Co chin, Rhodo Island Red, etc. CHICKENS NEED SOME MEAT, Wisconsin Poultry Expert Believes Protein Food Produces Greater Results at Lower Cost. That It I..poor policy for farmors not to feed somo kind of food to tholr chickens which 1b high In protein val ue, such as boot scraps, or sour milk, is tho opinion of II. L. Kompstor, as sociate profossor ot poultry husbandry at tho University of Missouri. Mr. Kompstor has recontly conducts cd an oxporlmcnt which ho bollovea provos conclusively that protein food; producos groator results at lowor( costs, In throe soparato pens tho samo numbor of chickens woro kopt. All woro fed corn all of tho tlmo, wheat part ot .tho tlmo, and In addi tion ground rations ot bran, middlings, nnd cornmcal. Besides tho regular, food for tho chickono in all three pens, thoso In pen ono wero fed boot scraps, and thoso in pon threo woro given all' tho sour milk thoy wantod. Tho hens woro about tho samo ago. The oxporl-i mont covered tho timo between No-' vombor 1 nnd Juno 1. Thoso hens In pon two, given only, tho regular feod, produced only 800, oggs; thoso in pen ono, given beef scraps, produced 1,518 oggu; and thoso'' in pen threo, tod sour milk, produced' 1,425 oggs. Tho hens in pon one ato 923 pounds of grain, those In pen two' 944 pounds and thoso in pon throo 830 pounds. Tho amount of boef scraps fed to tho chickens in pen ono was GO pounds costing $1.80. Thoso hens producod 718 more eggs than Uiobo chickens fed only tho regular ration. In othor words, theso chickens produced 718 additional oggs on food which cost but $1.80 more than tho regular ration. Thoso lions fed sour milk producod nearly as many oggs as thoso fod tho boof-scrap ration. CONSTANT WATCH FOR MITES Little Parasites Creep in Quietly and Multiply Rapidly Thorough 8praylng Is Favored. The roosting houses should bo con stantly watched for tho appearanco of rod mites. Thoy creep lu quietly and multiply very rapidly, Bomotlmos be coming decidedly troublesomo to tho chicks before thoy aro noticed, A thorough spraying of tho wholo insklo of tho houso with ono cupful ot crudo carbolic acid in five gallons ot whitewash will kill tho mites and keep tho houso swoot and cloan. Many of the coal-tar commorclai preparations on tho market may bo used for this purposo with groat sat isfaction. ' Early Marketing. Tho early-hutched fowls should bo in prlmo condition for the Thanks giving market it thoy havo boon woll cared tor. PrlcoB aro invariably high er tho latter part of Novombor than at any othor season, take it ono year with another. Geese Need Little. Only grass and water with plenty ot grit is necessary for geese.