THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA,
1 NEBRASKA
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Citizens of Waco recently celebrat
ed tho opening of their new electric
light plant.
Tho Frank Tooley farm, located
near Central City, was sold recently
for a consideration of $175 per acre.
Tho Hastings city council Is adver
tising for bids to bo opened March
13th for ton and a half miles of Btrect
paving
A big wolf hunt was held near
"West Point last week. The ground
covered by the hunters was approxi
mately thirty sections. A number of
wolves wero dislodged and two were
flhoL jy.
M. E. Crosscr, who succeeded F.
M. Hunter as superintendent of the.
Norfolk schools several years ago,
has notified tho Board of Education
that ho will not be an applicant for
re-olection.
Twenty-eight head of horses wero
-shipped In a special palace stock car
by expross from Drlstow to Boston,
Mass., recently. This Is the firs, car
of horses to be shipped from that ter-1
ntory by expross.
The throe municipal wells at Falls
City wero found to bo contaminated
with surface drainage and decayed
vegetable matter, through tests made
by the state bacteriological bureau.
Probably new wells will be sunk.
A wo-sectlon state aid bridge will
bo constructed across the Platte river
-at Sutherland early this spring. The
cost will bo $20,448. Each section will
bo 250 feet long. There will be a
1,100-foot fall between the two sec
tions. A gravel pit which will no doubt
prove of great value to the North
westorn railroad, has been discovered
at Bristow. This gravel pit Is nearly
100 rods long and 40 rods wido with
an average depth of gravel of about
thirty feet.
E. S. Davis, for several years post
master at North riatte, has been suc
ceeded by P. H. McEvoy, administra
tion appointee. McEvoy's appointment
was confirmed by tho senate Decem
ber 17, but his commission has just
lurlved.
A contract for plans and specifica
tions for the new hotel to be built at
a cost of $200,000 In Fremont has
"been let. Work or preparing the site
for the structure has been started.
The building will be either four or
five stories In height.
Eugene T. Westervelt, editor of the
Scott's Bluff Republican, has an
nounced that ho will be a candidate
for one of the delegates from tho
Sixth .district to the republican na
tional convention at Chicago. His pe
tition will be filed shortly.
Approximately six hundred dollars
will be reoulred for the corn and
poultry raising contests to be con
ducted this summer and to stage the
shows to be held next December In
"Beatrlco by the Gago County Crop
Improvement society.
Petitions are being circulated at
"Wymore asking the board of education
to call a special election for the pur
poso of Issuing $45,000 bonds, $10,000
to be used In the construction of a
new school building and the balanco
to repair the old building.
What was probably the top price
for unimproved farm land In Nebraska
was paid when Jacob Purbnugh
"bought 100 ncros near Havelocjt of It.
T2. Moore of Lincoln.. The prico paid
was $250 per acre and was a part of
an unbroken tract of 1,020 ncres.
Tho operation of the Scottsbluff
factory for tho year just closed made
necessary the handling ot more than
10,000 carloads of freight, which is a
larco factor In making tho city of
Scottsbluff second to Omaha and Lin
coln only In point of freight earnings.
Tho first racing meet of tho Nw
Nebraska Midway racing circuit will
1)0 held at the Douglas county fair
grounds ot Benson-, Juno 8, 9 and 10.
Meets will be held at Nebraska City
June 13, 14 and 15; Auburn Juno 20,
21 and 22; Aurora Juno 27, 28 and 29;
and Kearney July 3, 4 and 5.
About one hundred and fifty busi
ness men of Columbus attended a
banquet, recently given by the Y. M.
C. A., In celebration of the payment
of the last of tho building debt and of
tho deficits that have been accumu
lating for tho past several years. The
occasion was the ninth anniversary of
the first subscription made for tho
building of the Y. M. C. A. in Colum
bus 9
Sarpy county wolf hunters, number
ing about 100, killed one wolf In their
chase a fow days ago. The hunters
said thpy fow fifteen big wolves, but
tho line was Btrotched out so thin
that tho animals slipped through anil
escaped.
Contract has been let for tho state
old bridge at Schuyler, between Col
fax and Butler counties to tho Elk
hart Construction Co. of Elkhnrt. Ind.,
Its bid being $51,500 for four 175-foo
steol spans to bo attached to the
present six spans.
Flro of an unknown origin destroy
ed three store buildings at Odoll the
other day, entailing a loss of about
$14,000.
Tho crop census of the North Platte
Nebraska-Wyoming Irrigation projoct
recently completed by tho United
States reclamation s?rvlco shows
that during the past year G8.130
acres wero cropped and a total value
of $1,2C3,C1C, or an average of $18.55
por acre was realized. The most val
uable crop was sugar beets, returns
showing $537,641, from 7,872 acres, or
$63.30 per acre.
Farmers and business men of Sid
noy aro contemplating tho construc
tion of a $50,000 elovator nnd flouring
mill.
Seward has appropriated .the sum
of $100 for a public playgrounds, th
grounds to be under the supervision
of tho Y. M. C. A.
Flvo hundred persons took port In
a wolf hunt in tho vicinity of Daykln
one day recently and six wolvos and
many hundreds of rabbits were killed.
Rushvllle, Hay Springs and Cordon
havo virtually entered Into an agree
ment whereby a farm demonstrator
will bo secured for Sheridan county.
The Burlington road has Indicat
ed that It will glvo Tocumsoh a new
station this year to take the place of
tho old frame building It Is now using.
After running seven block to catch
a train at David City, Lincoln L. Lott
of Rising City fell dead In tho depot
immediately upon purchasing a
ticket to his home.
Tho plans and specifications for tho
steol bridge to bo built across tho
Niobrara river at tho Parshall cross
ing, Just south of Butte, are ready for
bids.
O. M. Edwards of Falrbury has filed
for the office of sheriff on tho demo
cratic ticket. This' makes nine candi
dates, three democrats and six re
publicans, y
Earl Caddock, tho Anita, la., grap
Pier, and Cal Wood, tho Stanton
heavyweight, have been matched -for
a bout at Hooper, Mnrch 7, before tho
Hooper Athletic club.
William J. and C. W. Brynn aro
among democratic leaders who havo
engaged suites at tho Clarke hotel at
Hastings for uso during the democrat
ic stato convention there next July.
A cash box containing $104 In
vnrious school funds was robbed by
unknown parties at tho Norfolk high
school just recently, nccordlng to an
nouncement made by the authorities.
Tho fifteen hundred dollar taberna
cle erected for th recent revival In
Fremont, has been taken over by tho
Commercial club directors, and will
bo used ns an auditorium for all pub
lic meotlngs.
The Nebraska Gas and Electric
company was given a twenty-flvo-yenr
franchlso by an ordinance passed by
tho Blue Springs city council recent
1. The present franchise expires tho
latter part of this year.
OHlco days for Madison County
Farm Demonstrator, A. G. Georgo.
have been established at Norfolk, Til
den and "Mndison, where farmers may
receive any Information or advico
they desire.
Federnl Judges Martin J. Wade, T.
C. Munger and W. I. Smith, sitting as
a chancery court In Omaha, granted
tho Rock Island railroad a temporary
Injunction restraining tho stato rail
way commission from enforcing tho
2-cent-a-mlle law, thereby giving the
road power to raise Its Intrastate pas
senger fare to 3 cents a mile.
A total ot 2,858 cars of live stock,
the second largest number In tho his
tory of tho South Omaha yards for a
single week, were received last week.
Tho record for a single week was
made last month, ending January 22,
when n total of 2,988 cars wero mar
keted. Cattle receipts for tho week
were 29,912 head; hogs, 106,445;
sheep. 48,724.
Drainage District No. 1 In Rich
ardson county, will soon adver
tlso for $20,000 worth of exca
vating to enlarge a ditch near tho
mouth of tho Nemaha river on tho
Rulo bottom.' Some of the land own
ers on the bottom had brought suit to
compel the drainage board to build a
loveo that was part of the original
plan, but had been changed by tho
board. Tho court hold that, tho board
had a right to make the change and
dismissed the suit of the land owners.
The stockholders of tho Blu9
Springs Farmers' Elevator company,
who received a dividend of 100 per
cent on their stock at their recent an
nual moetlng, aro receiving a second
dividend of tho same amount, making
a total of $50 distributed to each of
the eighty-four stockholders since
January 1.
Fifty members of the state associa
tion of commercial clubs hold an en
thusiastic convention in Hastings last
week. The association went on record
as favoring tho drafting of a bill for
a state highway commlssjon nnd ono
for a stato publicity fund. Wnter
powpr devclonmont. Missouri river
navlratinn and the drainago undertak
ing at Holdrego were also given In
dorsements bv the orcanlzatlon. Tho
apsoi'Intton will hold their next meet
ing In Omaha May 21 and 25.
"Jack" Boom, famous trnpper and
hunter, organized a successful wolf
hunt In Center precinct, Cobs county,
which covered twenty-four" sections
nm in which 400 men particinated.
The hunters wpre successful, killing
eight out of twelvo wolves seen.
Charley Peters used the scissors
hold ar-d won In straight falls at Pa
pillion from Fred Schmarder, a heavy
weight wrestler, who halls from
Louisville. Tho first fall took seven
minutes and the second fall four min
utes. A checking up of the recent re
vival effort In Fremont shows that a
total of 1,115 persons worn convorted
and that a total or $1,900 was paid
Revivalist Rayburn for his work.
The elovatorB ana mill of Hoi
drego nro now 105 cars short of their
needs. One elevator has been oblig
ed to stop buying grain several times
recently. Slnco tho first of tho year
there have been fifty-five cam of
grain shipped from Holdroge This is
:bout one-third of tho amount that
would have been shipped had cars
been plentiful.
FORCES BUSY
FOLLOW UP ADVANTAGE GAINED
OVER TURKISH ARMIES.
MANY POSITIONS ARE TAKEN
Muscovite? Hope to Surround Main
Army. Turks Retreat Impeded
by Snow and Lack of Supplies.
Petrogrnd Tho Russians aro press
ing tho advantngo gained at Erzorum.
On tho right along tho Black sea
coast, by tho co-operation of the sea
and land forces they arc driving tho
Turks from ono position after an
other to tho cast of Treblzond and
actlvo operations against that Import
ant seaport aro expected soon.
In tho last fow days tho Russians
havo occupied Wltde (WIdjo) and
pressed forward ten or twelve miles
westward. Tho tleot has destroyed
several shoro batteries and by keep
ing well In advance of the land
forces and by destroying bridges over
servoral streams In the path of tho
retreating Turks, has rendered their
retreat more difficult.
On tho left flunk, after tho occupa
tion ot Koph, the Russians pushed on
to Mush nnd Achlat, the latter on tho
north shoro ot Lake Van. From Koph
to Mush, sixty miles over mountain
roads, they fought several battles and
Decupled Mush by storm.
Tho Turks fled southward toward
Dlarbckr, tho next objective of tho
Russians. Onco In possession of Dlar
bekr, it is only a day's march to the
Bagdad railway, the last remaining
communication Into Syria.
Tho rapid Russian offensive beyond
Erzerum, It Is believed hero, makes
it probable that tho retreat of tho
Turkish corps operating along tho
Black sea coast, and of those troops
which wero active in the Mush dis
trict before tho Russian occupation,
will bo entirely cut off and that the
main Turkish armies will be sur
rounded. It Is regarded ob almost Inevitable
that tho Turkish corps retreating
along the Black Sea coast, under the
destructive fire of tho fleet and tho
pressure of tho Russian nrmles, would
bo caught In tho same sort of a trap
iis tho Turkish Thirty-Fourth I
sion of the tenth corps after falling
back rrom WIdJe. This division which
wns completely surrounded, had no
nlternatlvo but to surrender with
irms, enulnment and nrtlllery.
On the Turkish right flnnk, where
the Ninth corps Is operntlng, tho
Turks find themselves In tho snmo
precarious position, slnco nil tho
roads of retreat to tho north are
craduallv falling undpr Russian con
trol. Tho retreat of the Turkish
Rrmy everywhere H Impeded by deep
pnow nnd the difficult character of
the country. Thov nre without food
and lack war supplies and thoic
seems to be little possibility of their
offering oven temnornrv resistance of
iny strength to the Russian ndvance.
10,000 Hit Trail at Trenton.
Tronton, N. J. The olght weeks'
evangelistic campaign conducted by
the Rev. Billy Sunday, came to a closo
February 20. Before Mr. Sunday left
Tor his homo In Winona Lake, Ind.,
Dr. Henry Collin Mlnton, chairman of
the Trenton Sunday commltteo, gave
tho evangelist a check for $31,981 as
a "froo will offering," which will havo
$377.03 added by checks that will
como in, making tho offering $32,
358.03. This amount beats Syracuso
by $5,000.
The total current expenses wore
$33,258.i;2 and adding tho "free will"
tho amount Invested in tho campaign
was $05,616.65. The trail hitters are
16,764; attendance, 810,000.
Five Killed In Wreck.
Spokane, Wash. Five persons were
killed and three seriously Injured,
when Northern Pacific passonger
train No. 2, known as the
North Const Limited, east bound,
crashed into tho rear ond of Northern
Paclfic-Burllngton train No. 42, east
bound, at South Cheney, WaBh., ev
entccn miles from Spokane, Febru
ary 20. Both trains, east bound, wore
being detoured becauso of flood con
ditions on the Northern Pacific. The
engineer of the- Burlington train stop
ped at South Cheney for orders, and
a tew minutes later tho Northern Pa
cific trulu crashed Into tho rear of the
Burlington.
Seaplanes Visit England.
London. Four German seaplanes
Sunday, Fob. 20th, made a raid over
the east und southeast coasts of Eng
land, according to an official an
nouncement, Tho total casualties are
given as two men and one boy killed
nnd ono marine wounded. Consider
able material damage wns dono
Miners May Sign Up.
Mobile, Ala. Mlno workers are on
tho point of signing a two-year con
tract with Ohio, Indlnna and IlMnolr
operators, calling for an Increaso In
wages and compliance with their mlno
run demands. Pnnnsylvanla opera
tors have go far roj-sctcd the terms.
Will Send Unlnttructed Delegate.
Des MolneB, la. Iowa progressives
will send nn unlnstructed delegation
to tho national convention of the par
ty In Chicago, Juno 7. This was de
cided by the state central committee.
STEAMERS
Kallowlni- ll Horioa lt itvilnalnno
, " iuuoi Biuiiuuiiiui iiiu ui yuurn in nruuKiyn ucsiroyou ino NOW Yoni DOCK
company s 900-foot plor at tho foot of Plonoer street, almost destroyed tho steamships Bolton Castlo, Pacific Castle,
and Bollaglo, and burned, or partly burned, 37 llghtors and barges. Tho vcssoIb woro being loaded with war
munitions for tho alllos. Steamship men figure tho loss to bo $4,000,000. Tho photograph shows tho pier nnd
tho Bolton Castlo on flro.
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Hub now military tractor aoroplano, built In Ithaca, N. Y for tho United States government, waa drlvou at
tho rate of 95 miles an hour by Aviator Frank H. Burnsldo in a ooricB of flights over a moasurod half-mllo courso.
ith n slight wind nt his back, Burnsldo covered ono-half.mllo In 15 4-6 soconda. Against tho wind ho mado one
half mllo In 20 1-5 seconds. All of Burnsldo's times woro rocordod by J, J. Rowley of tho Aero Club of Amorlca
and forwarded to tho New York headquarters of that organization. Tho machlno 1b cqulppod with a 135 horso powor
V" typo motor nnd Is constructed for weight lifting and climbing ns woll as for spocd.
PREFERS HIS WIFE TO A PAGE
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Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota, tho only blind member of tho notional
houso of representatives, has been assigned a page by his follow mombers, but
profers to roly on the aid or his wiro, who Is hero Been with him. Mr. Schall
mid; "Thoro could not possibly bo any bettor or moro rollablo guldo thnn
ny wlfo."
SAVING THE SONGS OF THE INDIAN
POHF
Tho United States government Is endeavoring to retain for futuro gener
ations tho volco and songs or tho American Indians, mnklng phonographic
rocords or tho songs, conversation am' volco or original Inhabitants or
Amerlcn. Tho photograph shows Mountain Chlor or tho Blackroet Indian
tribe singing war songs Into a phonograph a tho Smithsonian institution In
Washington.
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MAJ. GEORGE T. LANGHORNE
Tho officers or tho United States
army aro watching with great Intorost
to Geo what will bocomo of tho Investi
gation started by formor Sccrotary ot
Wnr Garrison Into tho charges that
MaJ. Georgo T. Langhorno was tho
bcaror or messages from Germany to,
Captains von Pnpon nnd Boy-Ed, tho
recalled attaches of Germany. At tho,
Btart of tho war Major Langhorno was
military attache In Berlin. Ho wnB re
called, and, It la charged, brought back,
lottors from Gorman ofildnlB to tho
embassy hero.
Marrlago Va. Common Sense-.
So many womon aro annoyed and
displeased if tholr husbands oven dnro
to suggest n fiBhlng, hunting, skating
or skiing trip, "with tho boys." If
they did but reallzo It, theso llttlo
separations do moro to mako homo
doaror. Short vacations away from
each other mako husband and wlfo all
tho moro npproclatlvo of tho other's
good qualities.
So don't frown on your husband's
doslro to leave you for a short tlmo.
In rnct, ir ho doos not oxpross any
wish to loavo you, you should pack up
and loavo him tor a short visit to
frlonds or relatives. Theso short sepa
rations tond to a long union, whllo too
much and too constant propinquity
tends to a long separation. Especially
ir you reel any signs or a stralnod at
mosphere botwoon you both, ir thoro
Ib a formal polltoness, or a disposition
to snap at each othor, you may know
that It Is tlmo for ono or you to go
visiting ror tho good or your marital
relations.
Whon common sonso nnd good rea
son llvo In tho same houso with a hus
band nnd wlfo, dissension docs not as
a rulo get a chanco to raise Its head.