THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA. ft ft EPITOME OF EVENTS PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO MANY SUBJECTS. ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING Grief Mention of What Is Transpiring In Various Sections of Our Own and Foreign Countries. WAR NEWS. Paris roporta AustroGormau lossen In tho campaign ngainBt Serbia up to Thursday evening, October H, wore estimated nt 25,000 oillcors and nicu killed and G0.000 wounded. Major General Sir Ian Hamilton has been relieved of tho command of the allied forces in tho Dardanelles. Ho is to bo succeeded by Major Gen eral Charie3 Carmichacl Monro. "Great Britain needs 3,000,000 more men by spring." This declaration was made by Brigadier General Sir Eric Swayne, director of recruiting in . northern command, In a speech at Hull, England. An imperial manifesto Issued at Potrograd characterizes Bulgaria as "the betrayer of tho Slav cause" and announces that Russia draws tho sword against her. Tho Bourso Petrograd Gazette says that tho losses of the Gorman air fleet in tho Baltic region to date have been two Zeppelins and four Alba tross and twelve Taube aeroplanes nnd one sea plane. Anglo-French forces in tho Balkans are reported to be making progress toward the relief of Serbia; occupying Strimltza in Bulgaria and Inndlng at Enos, European Turkey, near tho for tified Bulgarian port of Dedcaghaten. Italy has declared war on Bulgaria, following tho example of Great Britain and Franco and an Italian squadron has left Brlndisi for the Near East, presumably to participate In tho blockade of the Bulgarian coast. King George of England has Issued an appeal to his subjects to come forward voluntarily and aid Great Britain in her fight against tho Ger manic allies. "More men and yet more," the monarch says, "are wanted." The Greek government has In formed tho quadruple entente pow ers that it docs not seo its way clear to accept the proposals, including cession of Cyprus and other conces sions offered in return for Greok mili tary co-operation with Serbia. Tho German armies, which, for nearly fifteen months have been con I tlnnously fighting on one front or tho other, arc now mn tho offensive at three widely separated points against Riga and Dvlnsk, In Serbia nnd in tho Champagne district of France. GENERAL. A national conforonce on foot-and-mouth disease will be held in Chica go November 29 and 30. Fourtten men were killed at tho Granite Mountain niino of tho North Butto Mining Co. at Butte, Mont., by an explosion of 500 pounds of giant powder. Attacked in her home in San Fran cisco by a love-mad cripple, Michael Welnsteln, who had pursued her for years, Mrs. Mary Tamlas, wifo of a motorman, cut off his head with a hatchet, dismembering (ho corpse ind hid the pieces In a box couch. President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale strongly supports the summer mili tary campB for college students, and tho undergraduate battery recently or ganized at tho university, but he does not belluvo that compulsory military drill should bo a part of tho Yale cur riculum. The death of Bryan Scott of Knox college, who died In St. Louis, Mo., of Injuries sustained In a foot ball game, was the eighth foot ball fatali ty this season, according to statistics. Thero wore fifteen deaths attributed to tho gamo last season, Including one after tho season had closed. On Saturday, October 23, the now $1,000,000 beat sugar factory at Sheri dan, Wyo., was thrown open to vis itors and the entire process of manu facture explained. Claims totaling $470,000 against the St. Joseph-Chicago Steamship rompauy nnd tho Indiana Transpor tation company for tho deaths of for tyono porsons nnd tho Injury of six others In the Eastland disaster wore filed in tho United States district court in Chicago In tho heart of Chicago's loop dis trict and on tho busiest corner In tho world, a fifteen-story building was torn down and a seventeen-story building put up, all In ninety days. Indications based on returns from nearly tho ontlro stato shows that woman suffrngo was defeated In Now Jersey by nearly 60,000. Announcement was made at Detroit that In tho neighborhood t of $100,000 has been subscribed in tho University of Michigan campaign, which opened October 1, for $1,000,000 with which to build and ondow a homo for Wn Michigan union. In a letter addressed to Mrs. John MacMahon, chairman of the- Chlcngo school management committee of tho Board of Education, Ella Flagg Young, for six years suporlntendont of schools, announced that sho would resign on December 8. Joseph HUlstrom, convicted of tho murder of J. G. Morrison and Morrl son's son In Salt Lako City, January 10, 1014, wns brought before Judge Rltchlo of tho district court In that city, and resentenced to bo shot to death Friday, November 10. Eight hundred pounds of smoking opium, valued at $75,000, was seized at Seattle, Wash., by customs oiTlcers on board tho Blue Funnel liner Cal chas. Tho opium was contained In 900 hermetically sealed tins which were secreted In an alrshaft. Arlington. Va., talked by wireless telephony with Paris, France. An nouncement that the human voice hnd been successfully projected across tho Atlantic was made by John J. Carty. chief engineer of tho American Tele phono and Telegraph company. SPORTING. George Cotsonarls of Sioux Falls wrestled Jack Meyers of Omaha In Yankton, S. D., winning two straight falls. The time was forty-five hnd twenty-five minutes. A now world's Interscholastlc re cord for tho 440-yard dash forty eight and one-fifth seconds wns made In San Francisco by Frank Slo man, a San Francisco high school student. , In a boxing bout in Minneapolis "Silent" Martin of New York and MIko 'ODowd of St. Paul, welter weights, fought ten rounds to a lively draw, according to sporting writers' opinion. The Indlana-Illlnois-Iown league, at Its nnnual meeting in Chicago, decid ed tentatively upon a circuit for 101G, going back to eight clubs Instead of noven by tho addition of Rock Island, 111., which succeeds to the place given up last summer by Decatur. Captain Edward Mahan of Harvard proved himself a worthy successor to Captain Charles Brickloy, tho former footbar star, by personally defeating the University of Virginia at Cam bridge, Mass., 0 to 0, by dropping three field goals, one from the forty two yard line. Lorln Solon, captain of tho Uni versity of Minnesota foot ball eleven, was declared ineligible to take part In futuro intercollegiate competitions. The chargo against him was that ho played summer base ball on tho Havre, Mont., team, receiving money for his services, in direct violation of the conference rule. WASHINGTON. The armored cruiser San Diego, flagship of tho Pacific fleet, was awarded tho Spokane trophy for tho navy's highest score with turret guns for tho year 1914-1915. Senator Kern, tho democratic lead er, discussed national defense, tho shipping bill and Mexican affairs with President Wilson. Ho said after see ing tho president that ho would sup port tho main features of tho ad ministration defense program. President Wilson has Issued a proc lamation designating Thursday, No vember 25, ns Thanksgiving day, In which he calls the attention of the people to tho fact that tho United States has been at peace, while mo3t of Europe is at war. Tho interstate commerce commis sion has dismissed tho complaint of tho Nebraska State Railway commis sion, alleging unreasonable rates on cattle, hogs and sheops, from Nebras ka points on the Holdrego-Choycnno branch of tho Burlington railroad to St. Josepb, Mo. 0 An official list of missing members of the crows of tho two German auxi liary cruisers Interned nt Norfolk, Is sued by the Navy department, shows that of a total of 785 officers and men ono commissioned officer, two doctors and six wnrrant officers have broken parole. David Starr Jordan, president of Loland Stanford university, will see President Wilson November 12 to pro sent to him resolution adopted re cently at the Intornntionnl Peace con gress In San Francisco urging that a conference of neutrals bo called to attempt to ond tho European war. President Wilson received n delega tion of women and girls from state nf California who gave him a plcco of gold from a California mine nnd also a bar of gold to make n wedding ring for Mrs. Norman Gait, his fiancee. CONDENSED NEWS OF INTERE8T TO ALL. Tho United States government has loaBod a postofllco slto at Ansley. Tho Carnegie library, recently oroot cd In Harttngton, has boen opened to the public. Miss Lillian M. Gilford has baen ap pointed postmnstor at Bolden, Oednr county. On tho farm of W. L. Wheeler near Murry 555 Gophers have boon killed In tho last month. Olvll service examinations will bo hold on November 27 for postmasters at Stockvllle and Brule. A stone quarry at Weeping Wntor will furnlbh 18,000 tons of crushed itone for tho Ford plant at Omaha. Tho work on tho new forty-flvo thousand dollar high school at Schuy ler Is being rapidly pushed forward. Fremont Is to have a municipal gymnasium feature In connection with the physical1 department of tho high school President Wilson has appointed Samuel G. Hudson postmaster of Lin coln. His selection was urged by W. J. Bryan. About forty editors of northeast Ne braska enme to Norfolk October 15, and organized the Northeast Nebraska Editors' association. "BETTER BABIES" AT NEBRASKA STATE FAIR. Virginia Louise i-nuuner, the nign est scoring rural baby, registering 99.5. Her home Is near Lincoln. Citizens of Clarks are agitating the question of organizing a town band. The Nebraska Stnto Volunteer Fire men's association will hold its annual convention In Crawford next January. Roderick Dhu Sutherland, former representative from the Fifth district of Nebraska, died at St. Margaret's hospital, Kansas City, Kan. Mr. Sutherland's home was in Nelson, this slate. O. J. Brand, chief of tho office of farm marketing of tho United States Department of Agriculture, is to speak to tho Nebraska Farm Congress at Omaha, November 30, on the subject of marketing farm products. Experiments In cooking alfalfa hny for hogs, at tho NorthPlatte Sub-station, Indicate that tho feeding value of the alfulfa may have been Increas ed slightly by the. cooking, but not enough to offset tho extra cosL Omaha's annual million dollar auto mobile exposition, to bo presented In the Auditorium from February 21 to 20, inclusive, promises to bo tho groat est affair of Its kind held this year anywhere outside of Now York city and Chicago. Tho Midland towmihlp fair, hold at Archer Thursday and Friday, October 14-15, represented tho greatest public movement ever undertaken by tho people of that community. Tho event has been classified as ono of tho most successful evor Identified with Mer rick county. William Wiebele, mall clerk on the Union Pacific between Beatrice nnd Manhattan, Kan., who was Injured In tho wreck at Randolph, Kan., Is In a hospital at Manhattan and has lost his mind over worry caused by the wreck. Ho Is unable to recall any Incident relative to the accident. Harry Jensen of Stamford was acci dentally shot nnd killed at Oxford. With three friends ho had boen hunt ing and stopped In Oxford on the way lome. As the men were leaving town tho Jolt of tho wagon In going over a crossing caused the gun to explode, tho load striking Mr. Jensen In tho abdomen, causing almost Instant death. Mrs. W. IS. Burkloy of Lincoln waB olected president of the Nebraska Stato Woman Suffrage association at Its recent convention nt Columbus. Mrs. J. E. Rogert, aged 30, nnd her dnughtor, aged 4, was killed two miles east of Arlington when the car In which they wero riding was struck by a Northwestern freight train. Business men of Burwell have un dertaken a now enterprise n butter factory. A company has boon organ ized and when they have secured n few more shareholders, a factory will b Vuilt, Aurora will hold a Farmers' Insti tute November 3. ('. D. Rlchey Is erecting i) $25,000 garage nt Hastings. There wero seven perfect babies at tin' York county show. Tho town of Raskin Is agitating tho question rif olectlic light. Tho now Methodist church at Vcrdl gro wns dodlcated recently. Work on tho new Desiey hall nt Lincoln will start In a few days. The Baptist state convent Ion will ho held In Grand Island Novi C to 9. The Beatrice camp of tho Spout-h-American war veterans lias boen re organized. lhe Midget conipnny is contemplat ing putting up u flouring mill at Bridgeport. Madison county Ig said to havo around 3,000 brldgos and culverts, nil in fair condition. Tho cornorstono of tho new Con gregational church at Beatrice was laid last woek. Tho church will cost about $15,000. Interest In tho postmnstor fight at Aurora has .subsided becnuso It seems certain that J. II. Groavcnor will get the plnco. A tabernaclo designed to sent 3,000 persons has been erected In Hnstlngu for a series of revival meetings to bo conducted by Rev.John Hamilton. Revival servicer, havo begun In tho Congrcgatlonnl church at Weeping Water, under the leadership of Evan gelist Rev. Oeorgo Williams of Al bion. 111. Tho county officials of Jefferson county havo asked the stato for an appropriation of $40,000 for a stool bridge across tho Blue, southwest of Wyinore. Tho Berlin Times la tho nnmo of a now newspaper that Is to bo estab lished at Berlin, In Otoo county. Wil liam P. Sltzmnn will bo editor nnd business manager. This Is tho first year that a com plete record of tho rainfall has been kept nt Chadron. Tito record for tho first nine months of tho year show twenty-eight Inches. Grand Island was solocted nn tho next place of meeting by tho North western Nebraska Dental association, which concluded Its convention at Kearney last week. Tho annual convention of tho Ne-bra-ka Christian Endeavor Union will bo lhMd In Norfolk, November 11 to II. They expert that there will be at lest 500 delegates present. The Fremont hitching post problem will get into the courts. After d'a cussing the matter for throo year?, the city council finally ordered the posts taken off tho streets. , Tho Southwest Teachers' associa tion meets In McCook next spring. Tho date has been definitely announ ced by the Executive Committee for March 29, 30 and 31, 1910. Lively plans -nro undor way for tho big tabernacle meetings In Fremont next January, when Evangelist Jams Hayburn of Marshalltown, la., will conduct a series of meetings. . It Is estimated that tho annual loss from hog cholera In Nebraska for tho last two years has been at least $5,000,000, according to a recent bul letin of tho College of Acrlculturo. The new North Bend light system, which Is to bo supplied with Julco from tho municipal plant of Fremont, wns tried out for tho first tlmo last week, and Is considered a success In every way. Having donated a cup for tho win ner of the Kearney golf club tourna ment Just closed, Frank W. Brown, Jr.. turned about and won It for him self. Ho mado tho eighteen holes In eighty-four. George Adkna of Edgar has pur chased the old Burlington hotel, which was burned past usefulness some tlmo ago, and will uso what lumber Is available to build h warehouse back of his store. Arthur J. Koonlgstoln, formerly county attorney of Madison county, rocontly convicted of nccoptlng bribes from "dlvo" keepers In Norfolk ap pealed to tho supremo court and hail been released on ball. Beatrice women aro making plans for the organization of n Y. W O. A. In that city. An advisory committee, comprising India from the various churches of tho city, hns bonn se lected to take charge of tho mutter. Work of excavating for tho new First Notional bank building at Chadron has started. The putting In tho concrete foundation will bo push ed as rapidly ns possible, so that It nip.y bo dono before cold weather set6 In. Roports from Coleridge and vicinity aro that soventv per cent of tho oats In tho community aro threshed, 90 per cont of which have gone Into tho bins. Corn, It Is paid, Is far from ma tured and It now appears that a largo porcentngo was caught by tho frost. John Procunlor, 35, shot himself at tho Ed McDowell ranch, east of Craw ford, with suicidal Intent. Ho used a "8-cnlIber revolver, and tho bullet wont clear through his body below tho heart. Ho was taken to tho hospital nt Fort Robinson, nnd It is thought ho will recover. Civil Bnrvlce examination for rural letter carrier will ho held at Arapa hoe, November 3. 052 people wero converted at an ovnngollstlc meeting which Just closed nt Beatrice. Daniel Johnson, nn Omaha attorney, wns In Fremont recently making an Investigation of the record of John O'Connor, the Hastings rccluso who died leaving a fortune said to bo worth $100,000. O'Connor was en gaged for many years ns a shoemakor at Fremont beforo lio went to Hastings, PROPER SELECTION Km Juot (By GEORGE K. HOWARD. United Stato Department of Agriculture) Tho food of tho duck is both vege table nnd animal In nature In tho wild stato It gathers Its food from brooks and mnrnhes. consisting of flag, grasses, Binall fishes, water Insocts, etc. When tho birds nro raised In con flnomont this diet must, in n mensuro, bo Imllntod to get tho most satisfac tory results. Tho duck has no crop, tho food passing directly from tho throat to tho gizzard, and as n conso quonco tho food must bo In a soft mushy state. Too much hard food, such as grain, doos not ngrco with thoso birds nnd they cannot thrive on it. While some raisers uso a small nllowanco of grain others do not, and It has not boon proved to bo of nny advantage to food It. Soft food la their natural dlot, togcthor with grasses, vegetables and animal food. Tho propor seloctlon of tho food Is ex tremely Important to sccuro tho rnpld growth of tho duck, and tho Ingredi ents of tho food must bo such ns will afford a woll-balnnced nnd substan tial ration. As n whole, It may bo Bald that tho rations used by tho largest duck raisers nro ossontlnlly tho samo, differing only In tho quan tities used In tho mixing .Investiga tions Bhow tho real vnluo of tho food to bo tho samo for producing rapid growth nnd early dovelopmont. Tho duckling grows twico ns rapidly and is n much hcavlor cntor than tho chick, and to produco tho best results Its food must bo such as will bo easily assimilated. Tho various methods of feeding given In this article nro rec ommended for ralaing ducka success fully, i K costs from 6 to 12 conta n pound to rniso a duck for mnrkot nt ton wooks of ago. It costs from $1.75 to RIGHT BREED FOR BEGINNER Well-Established, Long-Bred and Pop ular Varieties Are Best to Attain Greatest Success. Now breeds of poultry aro brought out from tlmo to tlmo and with tho Introduction of each tho claims mado for their virtuoo ovor long-ostaljllshed breeds Is calculated to mako nny bo glnnor fool that ho must havo tho now ones if ho is to attain tho great est success. ' Tho fact of tho matter la that tho now broods aro tho ones that tho bo glnnor should usually kcop away from. They aro yet In tho making, In a way, and rcqulro tho skill of tho ox port brcodor to dovolop into practical, truo-to-typo fowls. It Is with tho woll-ostabllshed, long bred hnd popular varlotloa that tho boglnnor should gonorally Btart. Tho now breeds aro no bettor In any way than tho old ones nnd as a goneral rulo nro not nearly so good in a prac tical way. Don't got tho Idea tho poultry bUBl ncBB Ib going to bo revolutionized ov ory tlmo Bomo now breed Is brought out. ERADICATE LICE AND MITES Whitewash Is Effective Against Ver min Free Use of Lice Powder lo Always In Order. Tho frco uso of an offectlvo llco powdor la always In order in tho poul try houso. A dust bath Ih vory essential in rid ding tho fowls of llco. In applying powder hold tho fowl by tho feet, head down, nnd work tho powdor well down Into tho fcathora. Tho froo uso of kerosene on tho roosts and In tho cracks will oxtorml nato mltca. Whltowaah la vory offectlvo against vermin. Loss by Faulty Methods. Forty-flvo mllllou dollara u year la tho loss duo to faulty mothodB of han dling on tho farm whoro ogga aro not collected frequently nnd mnrkotcd reg ularly, and bocauso ncBta aro not kept clean and maloa nro allowed to run with tho henu In tho warm months nf tor tho brooding soaBon. Fix Up Winter Quarters. Fix up tho poultry quartora now so that tho flock will bo In cloan, com fortablo and uanltary conditions for tho winter. Mako tho walla air-tight r.nd afford good light nnd ventilation. Cull Closely. Many farm poultrymon do not cull down tholr Hocks nearly as closely as thoy should. Tho chief reason for this neglect la doubtless that on tho gonoral farm no account is kept of tho teed consumed by tho poultry. Wi i. i ii 1 1 m m in m nil ii - i ii tm hit n mi i m him hum hi f mil i mi ".vvrfr" MVOcet JW 3 OF FOOD FOR DUCKS Ducks. $2.50 each to keep breeding ducks a year. Tho throo dlfforont mcthodB of feed ing ducks nro aa follows: (1) Feed ing ducka for market (ten wooka old) : (2) feeding young ducka to bo kopl as brcodors; (3) feeding old ducka Tho first method, for tho snko of con venience and to oxplaln raoro fully tho composition of tho ratlona, la subdi vided Into four pnrtB, na follows: (1) From tlmo of hatching to five daya old provldo tho following mix ture: Crnckor or bread crumbB nnd cornmcal, equal parta by incasuro; hard-boiled eggs, 15 por cont of ,th totnl bulk of crackora nnd meal; sand, C por cont of tho total of crackora nnd meal. Mix with wator or milk, nnd feed four times, a day. (2) From flvo' to twenty daya old tho following mlxturo: Wheat bran, two parta by measure; cornmcal, one part; rolled roats, CO por cent of this bulk; boof scraps, 5 por cont; Band, E por cent; green food, 10 por cont. Mix with water to n dry crumbly stato nnd food four tlniea a day. (3) From twenty to forty-two dnyg old, tho following mlxturo: Wheal bran, two pnrta by measure; cornmoal( ono part; beef scraps, G por cent ol this bulk; snnd, 5 per cent; greon food, 10 por cont. Mix with water tc a dry crumbly stato and food fdui times n day. (1) From forty-two to soventy dnyg old, tho following mlxturo: Cornmcal, two parta by mcaauro; wheat bran, ono part; beef acrapo, 10 per cont ol tills bulk; coarse Band or grit, G pei cent;! greon food, 10 per cent. Mix with water to n dry crumbly Btato and feed four tlmoa n day. Tho houra for feeding nro C n. 10 n. m nnd C p. m. i CULLING FLOCK IN THE FALL' "200-Egg Hens Always Havo Whito Legs nt End of Their Pullet Year," Says Professor Barrows. V Trap-nest rocordB with many hun dred fowlB at tho Malno station mnko It posslblo to any positively that no bird which hnB boon n heavy layer will hnvo bright yollow loga nt tho ond of tho laying Boaaon. Prof. H. It. Barrows says that "200-ogg bona al ways havo whlto logs ai tho ond of their pullet year." Tho yollow color ing mattor In tho legs and akin socma to bo used up In coloring tho yolka for bo many egga, and thua tho akin and lega bleach out nearly whlto. It la worth whito knowing thla whon culling tho flock nnd deciding which pullota to keep ovor to uao aa brcod ors tho next year. If tho poultryman haa no trnp-noat rocorda tho color of tho shanks furnlshoa him ono of tho beat Indications ho can hnvo na to tho way In which thoso pullets havo laid during their first yoar of llfo. Ills first solcction should always, of courso, bo on tho Btrcngth nnd con stitutional vigor, but after having picked out tho Good, strong, healthy birds ho should then chooso from among thoBo tho onoa which show tho whitest logs. Poultrymon often mako a miBtako on this point, froquontly practicing Just tho opposite? that Is, picking out carefully thoao which havo yollow lega which nro tho poorest lay ers In tho flock. MARKING SYSTEM FOR HENS Age of Fowlo Can Bo Determined by Punching Holes In Web When Chick Is Very Young. A fnrmor should know to a certainty tho ago of his hone. Thin can only bo dotormlnod by a marking Byatem. A good system of marking Is what is known aB "wob" marking. A small holo Is punched In tho wob bdtwoon tho toes when tho chick In vory- young. This holo novor grows up and In creases In slzo aa tho chick grows larger. Any number of markings can bo mado nnd for this reason it la bo lioved that thla system is suporlor to marking with leg bands, for tho rea son that unnumborcd leg bands can record but two readings. Keep Tho Idea Ib cream of tho wintor layers now nnd cull Producers Only. to wintor ovor only tho breeding flock nnd tho , Look ovor your Hock It down closoly to tho producora. Burplus stuff bill. Fatten and market tho and cut down tho feed. Growth Producer. A good quality of beof scrap la a growth producer for tho doveJoplng. chick.