THE OEMLWEEKLY TRIBUNE.
NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
