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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1916)
THE OEMLWEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA. t i. ... .4. NEBRASKA j STATE NEWS j t t Spelling will bo It, In the schools of Lancaster county this spring, for some eight thousand students In tho ilfth, sixth, seventh nnd eighth grades are already plugging away In prepara tion for a big spelling bee to bo held at Lincoln April 28. It will be one of the old fashioned kind of spelling bees whero tho spoiler will have to stand up and faco a rapid lire test in oral spelling. Five silver cups have been offered as a special premium to bo awarded nt tho natlonnl swine show in Omaha October 2 to 7. The trophies will bo of handsome design and are expected to bing out keen competition. They will bo offered for tho best boar and Hire? gilts farrowed slnco February 1 this year, in tho following breeds: Po land China, Berkshire, Duroc, Hamp shire and Chester Whites. That It pays well to feed hogs In Box ditto county even though the com Itas to be shipped In to do It, Is shown In the case of 13. L. Gregg, brecier. He bought sixty-one head of hogs at the yards In Alliance and fed them corn for sixty-two days and sold tho porkers at a clear gain of $1500. They showed an avorago gain of 85 pounefs each. Mrr. Samuel Johnson of Boone pre cinct, Jioone county, who passed away at her home recently, at .the ago of SG years, took a larger part In popu lating Boone county than any other person, it is believed. Mrs. Johnson had fourteen children, thirty-one grandchildren, thirty-three great-grand-children and one great-greatgrandchild. C. El. Shea, who has conducted the Broken Eow Republican for something over a year, has sold tho- plant to J. K. Itewett, who has for some years been a member of tho Alliance Times force Mr. Howett, the new editor, Ib ji practical newspaper man and under Ills management the paper will be re publican in politics. The Dodge county board of super visors instructed County Attorney S. S. Sidner to bring suit against the nineteen insurance companies which have insurance on the county court house, destroyed by flro at Fremont three months ago, to force tho pay ment of the full amount of tho loss, $ 10,000. Ocorgo Crumrinc, an aged farmer, living one mile south of Phillips, Ham ilton county, was Injured, perhaps fa tally, when he was run over by his own automobile. Tho aged man suf foed a serious scalp wound. The top of the head had been torn almost completely off. John Dobbs, a grain dealer of Beatrice, who has just inspected a numbor of winter wheat fields In Gage county, reports that the crop is ia excellent condition, having passed through tho winter in good shape. Four train loads of horses, consist lag of 11C cars, were shipped from Orand Island last week for the French and Italian governments. This was tho largest shipment of horses over made out of Grand Island. Excavation work on the annex to tho Clarke hotel, Hastings, has com menced. Tho addition will cost IC0.000, and will consist of fifty-four rooms and a banquet room with a seating capacity of 300 persons. A movement is on foot for a now rural high school in Maple township, Involving tho six districts of the town ship In its support and benefits. Sen timent seems largely in favor of tho proposed new school. Tho Lincoln city 'commissioners have put a ban on bonfires and none will be allowed in that city this spring. The reason for it is the likelihood of fires being communicated to other property. Tho West Point counqll has raised tho saloon license fee to $700. Ever since the enactment of the Slocumb law tho license has lioen the minimum $500. There are eight saloons In the city. Farmers of Midland township, Gage county, have organized a Gopher club, for the purpose of combating the post. Each member is to bo taxed a small amount to finance tho club. A recruiting station of the U. S. nr my has been opened at Lincoln. It Is In charge of an officer from the headquarters at Omaha. A free dental dispensary Is being planned in Omnhn, "Idaho Bill" Pearson, frontier show man, of Hastings, announces he In tends to organize n troop of rough rldora for service In Mexico. Ho will seek recruits among tho cowboys of Arizona. At a special election the city of Kearney voted out saloons by a ma jority of 322 votes, the largest over recorded against the saloons. The election was a lively affair, the total voto being only thirty-two loss than tho total voto cast at tho general election In 1014. Tlio annual old fiddlers contest will bo bold at the Young Men's Chris tian association, Omaha, on March 2". All the contestants must bo 50 years or more. In past years contestants have attended from all o-er tho state of Nebraska. By a voto of 0C0 to 17G Norfolk voted $50,000 bonds for paving street Intersections. This means about six miles of paving in Norfolk this sum mon Tho city gas plant at Ponca will bo discontinued after April 30. Electric lty will bo used. Inheritance taxes amounting to $1U, 137.70 must be paid to four counties In Nebraska, according to a decision handed down by Judge Bryce Craw ford In tho Douglas county court nt Omaha, In tho matter of settling tho estato of Francis Smith. Smith dlod In Rockport, Me., in 1008, and left a fortune of $1,023,771.50 to his brother, Georgo Warren Smith of Omaha. Ac cording to Crawford's doclslon, Doug las county gets $9,327.98; Way no county would get $G5".18; Trayer county, $93.17, nnd Nuckolls, $02.37. Tho nows from Mexico has stirred company C, Nebraska national guard, at Beatrice and tho members leol al most certain that they will bo called upon to assist tho regulars in tho warfare. At a recent meeting of the guard, Captain Abbott read the oath which soldiers aro required to take upon being mustered Into tho army, uml asked how many of the members of company C would subscribe to it. All but three assented. A petition signed by thlrty-fivo resi dents of Dakota has been filed with tho city clerk, asking that the ques tion of "license" or "no license" bo submitted to tho voters at the spring olectlon, April 4. Tho place was voted dry last year by a small majority and with Sioux City on tho dry list tho liquor interests are making a desper ate effort to gain a footing on this side of tho Missouri river in closo proximity to Sioux City. Tho failure of the complaining wit ness, Mrs. May Title, to appear in fed eral court at Hastings at the time set for tho hearing of tho caso of the Rev. John J. Ramsey, charged with white slavery, necessitated tho rearrest of Ramsey on the samo charge to bo tried later. The federal grand Jury will not meet until September, so un til that time at least, Ramsey will re main in Jail. Recently the legal voters In school district No. 10, known as the Deer Creek school district, Madison county, held a special school meeting in tho district, and voted a levy of $5,000 for the purpose of bullulng a modern two room school building. An architect has been employed by tho school board and plans have been drawn up for the building. Plans for the second unit of the Ma sonic orphans' homo to be la lit on the forty-acre tract the state lodge purchased last year near Fremont, havo been completed and work will begin on the building soon. Tho struc ture will cost $12,000, and will be modern throughout. It Is planned to have ten buildings located on the site. Rev. B. F. Galvln, pastor of the Catholic church at Spalding, was pre sented with a beautiful automobllo by members of his congregation In com memoration of the twenty-fifth anni versary of his ordination to tho priest hood. His church, which Is one of tho finest In Nebraska, co3t more than $100,000. Tho National Retail Credit Men'. association meets In Omaha in August for its annual convention, holding threo days. It will bring 300 to 400 members from all over the United States; S. F. Gllflllan of Minneapolis Is chairman of tho board, and E. C. Howell of Denver, secretary. O. R. Thompson of Wlsner, ex-state senator from Burt and Cuming coun ties, is a candidate for district dele gate on the republican ticket to tho national convention. Mr. Thompson is well known In both counties. Paul Hlntz, a farmer near Norfolk, has decided to build a stock sale pa vilion in that town In which to handle farmers' surplus livestock. Tho Com mercial club is responsible for the en terprise Morris Levy, treasurer of tho Jew ish relief committee of Omaha, has sent another $2,000 from Omaha to tho central committee in New York for relief of the Jewish war sufferers. The proposition of voting bonds for $40,000 for a new high school building at Oakland carried by a big majority. Tho structure is to replace tho one destroyed by fire December 31st last. Tho Burt-Washington drnlnago dis trict Is a new project to improvo the lowlands of thoso counties. It Is con templated that $423,000 will bo ex pended In the big undertaking. Miss Mary Murray was picked by the judges at tho declamatory con test to represent the Hastings High school at the district mooting at Cen tral City March 31. Mrs. Frank Ollva, residing near Ansley, is dead and threo of the chil dren of tho family wore made 111 from trlchlnle, the result of eating uncook ed smoked pork. Nebraska Implement manufacturers and dealers say that threshing ma chines with separator and traction cn glno will cost from $200 to $25 more this season than last. Tho war has boosted prices on material used In machino construction. Bids havo been asked for the con tract o nthe construction of a $25,000 parochial school at North Platte. Bids will close April 1 and the contract will lio awarded during the first week in April that work may begin on tho structure at once. Tho will of Daniel Cook, wealthy Beatrice banker, who died recently, lias been filed for probate In tho coun ty court. The estate Is valued at one million dollars. Tho entire sum with the exception of T21.000, which was left to threo children, goes to hl3 widow. Fremont churches havo addod to their respective congregations mcro than 850 new members since tho re vival meetings' held last fall. Sargent is considering the question of bonding tho village lh tho sum of $7,000 for an electric light plant. E VILLA AND HIS FOLLOWERS IN GUERRERO DISTRICT. BANDIT BELIEVED SURROUNDED Reports Received on Border Declare Outlaws Are Hemmed in On All Sides By Pursuers. Washington. Villa fleeing with his outlaw followors before the advance of tho American expeditionary forces In Mexico, lias reached his own coun try lu tho Guenoro district, whero high oillcials of tho army declare ho may almost Indefinitely evado cap ture. If tho bandit chieftain makes a stand, Washington is satisfied that tho campaign will quickly end, but if ho leaves his followors, ho can, military authorities agree, reach a haven of safety in tho nearby moun tains In less than a day's riding. In tho Guerrero district and in thh country adjacent to Babrlcora, Villa is at home. For years ho operated thero in dellanco of tho law of Mexico and constituted authorities. Tho mountains to the west offer countless hiding places and routes of escape. If hard pressed Villa might, oillcials believe, abandon his men, don tho garb of a peon and lleo so far into the south that It would be exceedingly difficult If not impossible to appre hend him. To meet tills situation Gen. Posh ing, it was learned, has authority to employ scouts who havo lived their lives In tho mountainous distrlcL These men know these hiding places and tho retreats in which tho bandits aro sure to take refugo if hard pressed. Upon them ns a final resort will fall tho task of trailing Villa to earth. Elaborate scouting plans aro understood to havo been completed. To Avoid Towns. The War department, it became known, has at tho request of the State department, sent epllclt instructions to the forces in Mexico not to occupy Mexican towns. Such occupation, It Is said, might have tho result of stirring up tho resentment among tho Mexi cans. Villa Said to Be Trapped. El Paso, Texas. Pancho Villa has been driven Into a trap by the rapid advance of tho American troops, ac cording to tho Information received In dispatches from tho front, and In telegraphic messages to General Gab riel Gavira, tho Carranza commander at Juarez. Everything seems now to depend on the ability -of the Carranza garrisons to hold their end of the net. On threo sldos of the bandit chief ho Is hem med In by strong Carranza columns while on the fourth tho American sol diers aro driving forward with amaz ing speed. Pershing Leads Flying Columns. Gonoral John J. Pershing person ally led the flying cavalry column In tho 110-mllo dash. Every man In his command was mounted. They press ed through a section of Mexico whero water was scarce. For such a largo body of men the speed maintained was remarkable and tho good condi tion in which they camo through was Inspiring. On,ly a few cavalry horses and pack mules were lost, the victims of a hard riding trail. Tho men reached camp thirty and hungry, but other wise In good condition. Hero they were met with reports that Villa had raided the American colonies In the vicinity of his mountnln retreats and that ho had killed residents of theso colonies. Request May Precipitate Crisis. Washington, D. D. While Carran za leaders and tho United States mil itary authorities have succeeded so far In avoiding any friction, there Is sno serious question which may arise at any time to threaten tho entlro situation. As the linos of communica tion of tho American forces lengthen tho problem of bringing up supplies becomes Increasingly more pressing. To grant tho United States permis sion to use tho Mexican railroads for shipping supplies, It is thought here, may bo misconstrued by many Mexi cans. On tho other hand, a refusal would scarcely harmonize with tho professed dosiro of tho Carranza gov ernment to co-oporato in every way with the American authorities. Air Raiders Kill Nine. London. Nino persons woro killed and thlrty-ono Injured In a raid of four Gorman aeroplanes over tho east coast of Kent Sunday, March 19, It was announced oflielally. A British airman brought down ono raider over tho sea, tho German observer being killed. Recruiting Brisk In Chicago. Chicago. Red, whlto and bluo pos ters, urging young men to "Como holp catch Villa," has stimulated army re cruiting in tho Chicago district be yond any record since tho days when "Remember tho Maine" was tho slo gan. Seal Season Opens With Rush. St, Johns, Nowfundlanii. Forty seven thousand seal skins wcro taken by tho sealing fleet the first day upon tho opening of tho season, after two years. REACH S OWN ABODE WILL jrv-- v v - - 3; -.,v- W'- ' ' il ; v -v , - , ' . 3L-'. United Status cavalry viewing FUNiR Last rites being performed for tho Columbus, N. M. U. S. SOLDIERS MEN WHO LEAD Colonel Loughborough and Colonel tnn punltlvo expedition Into Mexico. RAID AND MURDER NO T ' l tho dead body ot a Villa bandit killed United States boldiurs who woro killed lu tho light with Villa's baud at USING THE LATEST STYLE TRENCHES TROOPS IN MEXICO Perkins, In command of Infantry In MORE in tho flight from Colurubua. COMMANDS AERO SCOUTS Captain Benjamin D. FouloiB in com mand of tho aoro scouts with tho, United States troops In Mexico.