THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRA8KA.
NEBRASKA j
t STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
April 22 State Letter Cnrrlers
Con
vcntlon at Grand Island.
April 2S-2D State T. P. A. Convention
at Alliance,
-April 18 Nobraskn Primary Election
Day.
April 21-25 Savannah to Seattlo High
way Convention at Omaha.
2Iny 2 Omaha-Llncoln-Denvor Good
Roads association convention at
Lincoln.
TUay 10 to 18 Stato G. A. n. Encamp
ment at Lexington.
aiay 15-18 Stao Dental Society an
nual convention nt Lincoln.
TVIay 17 Nobraska Bankers' conven
tion. Group One, nt Beatrice.
iVIay 24-25 Stato Association of Com
mercial Clubs' Convention at Omaha.
Juno 5 and C Pageant of Lincoln,
presenting "Tho Gate City."
Juno C-0 Spanish War Veterans'
Stato Convention at North Platto.
Juno 12 to 15 Trans-MisslsRippl Bak
ers' Ass'n convention at Omaha.
Juno 13 to 1G Stato P. E. O. Conven
tion at Alliance.
Juno 13-14-15 Great Western Handi
cap Tournament at Omaha.
Juno 19-20-21-22 American Union of
Swedish Singers, West. Dlv., con
certs and convention at Omaha.
Juno 20 to 24 Stnto Stockmen's con
vention at Alliance.
Juno 21 to 23 Fraternal Order of
Eagles, stato meeting at Lincoln
Gould Dietz, Ak-Sar-Ben governor,
who just roturnod to Omaha from a
trip to Now Orleans and Washington,
said tho commissioner of Indian af
faire in Washington gave him permis
slon to so through various Indian re
sorvatlons this fall and select as many
Indians as ho wants for the historical
celebration in connection with the Ak
Sar-Bou festival in Omaha next Sop
tembor and October.
That farmers are not worried much
over tho attempt of tho packers to
lower moat prices is shown by the
largo number of feeder cattle sent to
the country from South Omaha last
month. Tho feeder cattle output was
much largor than during March last
year. Thoro wore 43,863 head ship
po to tho country as compared with
41,520 for March, 1915.
N Ainaworth is In the throes of an agl
tation concerning tho question of
changing time from mountain to cen
tral. Long Pino Is the end of a di
vision, on the Northwestern road, and
the company changes time there.
Ainsworth is just ten miles west.
Thus a part of tho people of Brown
county keeps ono time and a part the
othor.
Over GOO farmers attended a meet
ing in Fremont in celebration of the
opening of the new co-operative
creamery. The farmers have placed
milk oa sale at G cents a quart and
liavo reduced the price of cream and
butter below tho prevailing market
price. Tho new creamery Is pro
uounccd a model of its kind.
With four dead from measles and
another caso of diphtheria and with
seven children suffering from scarlet
fovor North Platte is facing a serious
epidemic. Health authorities havo no
Idea, when schools will bo re-opened
or when the ban on children attend
ing motion picture theaters will be
lifted.
A now Catholic church is to be
erected in Bridgeport nt once. Cath
olic services havo been held at regu
lar intervals ever since tho town was
established but this is the first effort
which lias been made to erect a
church building.
John Meints, 18, living near Pick
roll, was killed when nn automobile
in which ho was riding overturned.
Four years ago his father was killed,
resumahly by robbers, near the O
street viaduct at Lincoln.
Bonds in h.. amount of $33,000 to
construct a sower In Falls City car
ried at tho recent municipal election
by a majority of 124, and bonds for
-extending tho water system won by
n majority of 204.
W. S. Delano at Ansley died as a re
sult of Injuries sustained in a runa
way. Ho was driving from his farm
near Ansley to Arcadia when a cleavis
pin became dislocated and the team
bolted.
A aow record for cattle receipts for
tho month of March has been estab
lished at tho So. Omaha Btock markot.
Receipts for the month just ended
show 122,936 head of cattle wore re
ceived. March, 1915, showed re
ceipts of 102,687 head.
Tho destruction by flro of tho old
Hutt residence in Broken Bow re
moves an old landmark. Tho building
was a two-story brick and was built
when tho railroad camo through there
by O. J. Colcmnn, one of tho early
bankers.
A largo number of farmers met at
York recently nnd organized an asso
ciation known as the York County
Agricultural society. The object of
tho organization Is to establish a per
manent fair for York county. Ground
will bo purchased nnd permanent
"buildings erected within tho next
year.
A hundred and fifty Fremont boys
and girls havo Joined the now school
gardening club. It. It. Partridge of
the high Bchool faculty has been
chosen to tako charge of the garden
classes.
In a letter to the Farmers' associa
tion of Mndlaon county, A. 0. George,
county agricultural agent, brings up
tho matter of treating oats for smut.
"Last year," says tho agent, "In 72
Madison county oat Holds from all
over the county, thoro was nn nvorago
of 5 per cent smutted bonds. If 1 per
cont of smut decreased tho yield ono
bushel per acre, as was tho case m
Gago county two years ago, tho pal
yioiu was deccrased llvo uubuois per
aero in Madison county last year. Tho
total oat acreage in Madison county
last yoar was 59,000 acres which, If
tho yield had been increased live
bushels per acre, would havo been
239,000 bushels. This, valued at 35c
per bushel, would have boon $103,250
saved on the oat crop nlqno." Tho
county agricultural agent concludes
by srating that ont smut will only bo
controlled by overy farmer coopcrnt
lug in this movement to provent It on
his own farm. Directions are onclosed
with this circular letter to tho farm
ers for tho formalin treatment.
For the first time in the hlBtory of
Omahn, bank clearings aggregated
more than ono hundred million dollars
for a slnglo month with total clearings
of $114,298,714.28 for March. Tho pre
vious high water mark waB uttalned
in October, 1915, when tho total was
$98,352,313.50. For the first threo
months of tho year, Omaha's clear
ings through its banks show an In
crease of $67,223,149 or 27 per cont.
The total for January, February and
March, 1916, was $298,633,741 as
against $231,410,565 last year.
Gasollno now sells at 21 cents a gal
lon In Lincoln. Ono Lincoln auto
mobile dealer has expressed tho be
lief that the price will go up to 35
cents, when it wilt be forced down
with a tumble by tho auto dealers cor
poration which is being formed to
demonstrate that it can bo produced
for less money than It is now sold for.
Ho is hoping the forcing down will
come quickly.
The new power lines which the In
ternational Railway, Light and Powci
company of Holdrego have been con
structing out of Holdrege to tin
neighboring towns are now in opera
tion and light nnd power is being fur
nished Wiscox. Other towns will b
supplied as soon as the company ro
colves more thunsformors from th
factory.
In compliance with tho proclama
tlon of Governor Morehead that sonu
day last week be observed by Nebrns
knus generally ns "Nebraska Food
Products Day," 400 members and at
taches of tho soldiers home at Grand
Island partook of a dinner consisting
of all NebraBka-mado articles, except
Ing the sugdr and coffee.
Many citizens of Beatrice are agltat
ing the question of calling a specia.
olectton to vote on tho Sunday amuse
ment proposition. Tho present law
prohibits amusements such as band
concerts and moving pictures. The
promoters desiro nn amendment mak
ing it lawful to permit these amuso
ments on Sundays.
Because the American Beet Sugai
Co. is trying to rcduco its acreage oi
3,600 to 600 in Lincoln county, for
shipment to Scottsbluff, tho farmers
of that county around Hershoy and
O'Fnllons have organized a company
for tho purpose of inducing capital tc
build a factory there.
Mrs. Anna Wisner, wife of Henrj
Wlsneo, a foundryman, of Fremont
was instantly killed when she throw
herself in front of a string, of box cars
on the Burlington tracks at that
place. She was dragged about fifty
feot before the engineer could brlns
the train to a stop.
Tho Buffalo County Sunday School
convention, which was to havo been
held at Ravenna on April 20 and 21,
has been transferred to Gibbon. Tho
change In place of meeting was made
bocauso of tho prevalence of con
tagious disease in Ravenna nt the
present time.
Whllo smoking a pipe in bed, Mrs
Abraham Spoon of Springfield, an in
valid, set firo to tho bed clothing and
before help came she was so badly
burned that sho cannot recover. Hor
husband hnd left her but a few min
utes, nnd when he returned tho house
was on fire.
Mrs. Emma Gueffroy of Boatrlco re
ceived a message a few days ago stat
ing that her son Adolph, a member of
Company L, Twelfth cavalry, U. S. A.,
had been accldentlly shot nnd killed
by a comrade while on patrol duty on
the Mexican border near Hatchita.
Residents of Endicott aro making a
supremo effort to secure a new St.
Joseph & Grand Island depot in their
town. Tho present structuro is but
seven nnd n half feot high, and the
outside dimensions of the building aro
but ton feet by twenty-four feet.
Several men interested in tho em
ployment of a farm demonstrator fot
Wayno county havo been securing
signers to a documont guaranteeing
support, and have met with gratifying
results, very few turning down tho
proposition.
Petitions requesting tho govern
ment to extend freo hog cholera ser
vice to the farmers of tho south half
of Gage county havo been placed in
tho banks nt Wymore, Blue Springs,
Barneston, Liberty, Lanham, Odell
end Beatrice.
Tho north nnd south road between
Kearney and Minden has been graded.
Tho Lincoln highway botween Kear
ney and Gibbon has been graded and
preparations are being made for work
on tho Kearney to Pleasanton road,
..where $10,000 Is to be spent for re
pairs. .
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TWENTY-TWO WET TOWNS VOTE
TO ADOLISH SALOONS.
7 CHANGE FROM DRY TO WET
North Platte and Falrbury, Both Big
Railroad Centers, Switch to the
Prohibition Columns.
A largo number of Nebraska cities
voted on tho wot and dry Issuo in tho
local option elections held recently
over tho state. It was by far ono of
tho fiercest contests In Nebraska's
history. North Platto went dry f6r
tho first timo In tho history of tho city
by a majority of 90 votes. Falrbury,
in Jefferson county, went dry by a
majority or 100 votes, changing over
from the wet column. .
Of tho 160 towns reporting seven
changes woro recorded from dry to
wet and twenty-two changes from wot
to dry.
Tho wet forces won among othor
towns Falls City, DeWltt, Nowcastlo,
Hlldreth, Tilden and St. Paul, which
previously had been dry, while the
dry forces havo a big string of largo
cities of Nebraska hanging to their
belt Among these aro North Platto,
Falrbury, Wahoo, Sutton, Orleans,
Valentino, Hebron, Superior, McCook,
Beatrice, Bloomlngton, Sidnoy, Rush
villo. A feature of the contests in many
places was that tho vote was by an
extremely narrow margin, ono and
two votes often settling tho policy of
a town for a whole year.
Prohibition carried at Beatrice after
ono of tho heaviest votes in tho his
tory of tho city had been polled, tho
drys winning by a majority of 14,
After one of tho most stronuous
battles in the history of Falrbury bo
tween the wet and dry factions, that
city roversed its policy and switched
to tho dry column by an estimated
plurality of 100 votes. Ono vote de
cided the Issue at Sidney in favor of
tho drys.
Following Is a list of towns that
voted on tho saloon license issuo:
Dry Allen, Auburn, Aurora, Albion,
Alma, Ashland, Arapahoe, Ainsworth,
Boelus, Belgrnde, Blair, Bladen, Ber
tram!, 'Bridgeport, Benkolemnn,
Bloomlngton, 'Beatrice, Campbell,
Contral City, Chadron, Cozad, Cur-
tiss, Clarks, Cotesfield, Culbertson,
Clay Center, Dnvid City Dannebrog,
Dakota City, Dawson, Fairbury,
Edgar, Exetor, Farnam, Fullcrton,
Franklin, Friend, Glltner, Gordon,
Guide Rock, Gothenburg, Geneva, Ge
noa, Gibbon, Harvard, Holdroge, Hum
boldt, Hebron, Juanita.Kenesaw, Loup
City, Lexington, Laurel, Lyons, LouIb
vllle, Mitchell, Mllford, M'Cook, Mln
den, Mullen, Nelson, Newman Grove,
North Bend, North Platto, Ord, Or
leans, Oxford, Ogallala, Overton,
Odell, Ponca, Primrose, Peru, Red
Cloud, Rushvllle, Springfield, Sar
gent, St. Edwards, Sutton, Shickley,
Sumner, Stockvllle, SuperIor, Stella,
Sidney, Taylor, TecumBoh, Tokamah,
Upland, Union, Valentine, Verdon,
Vnlley, Wayne, Wahoo, Wymoro,
York, Weoplng Water, Wolbach.
Wot Amherst, Avoca, BasBott,
Brady Island, Barnston, Battlo Creek,
Bancroft, Benson, Bennington, Blue
Hill, Brunlng, Callaway, Coleridge,
Columbus, Crete, Cook, Deshler, Do
Witt, Dodge, Elba, Elkhorn, Farwoll,
FallB City, Florence, Grafton, Gree
ley Center, Fremont, Grand Island,
Herman, Hartlngton, Hastings, Hll
dreth, Harrison, Hooper, Heartwell,
Leigh, Lindsay, Madison, Milllgan,
Niobrara, Neligh, Newcastlo, Oconto,
Obort, Oshkosh, Papllllon, Pender,
Plattsmouth, Pllger, Plckrell, Prosser,
Ravenna, Scotia, Silver Creok, Schuy
ler, Sholton, St Paul, Stapleton,
Sterling, Seward, Table Rock, Til
den, Waterloo, West Point, Wllber,
Wisner, Wood River.
Indicates change. Indicates tie
voto.
Sunday basebnll won at tho follow
ing towns: Silver Creek, frd, Farnem
and EtiRtlB.
A $50,000 bond issuo for a new high
school building cnrrled at Platts
mouth. Tho Issuanco of $40,000 inter
section paving bonds carried at Fre
mont. 1.000 to 432.
To Improve Lincoln Highway.
Grand Island. Advocates for tho ex
penditure by tho city of $1,500 for
surfacing more of tho Lincoln high
way immediately west of tho city and
for giving financial support for the
hand to tho extent of $2,500, both car
ried. Manager Plan Defeated.
Beatrice. Tho manager plan re
ceived a decided defeat at tho polls,
a two to ono voto being cast against
tho proposition.
Votes Bonds for Light Plant.
Syracuse Tho main issuo hero
was on tho voting of $1G,000 bonds
to erect an electric light plant Tho
result on this proposition was 134
for and 79 against
Brown County Goes Dry.
Ainsworth. Ainsworth voted dry by
22 majority. This 1b Its eighth dry
year. Long Pino voted dry by 9 ma
jority. This makes Brown county en
tirely dry for the first timo In its
history.
DRYS SCORE V1G
on
AMERICAN
Camp of tho Seventeenth United States cavalry
Porshing's advancod forces and tho bordor. Colonla
not boon moloatod by Villa.
This is Santa Fe stroot in El Paso, Tex. Tho vlow shows tho Rio Grando and u part of Juuroz, Mexico, In tho
background. El Paso Is on tho American end of tho International brldgo, and being so closoly connoctod with
Mexico Is regardod as a dangor zone. Everyono crossing tho bridgo from Mexico Is searched for concoalod
weapons.
AMBULANCE CORPS OFF FOR THE FRONT
Ambulanco corps No. 3 leaving Columbus, N. M for tho sceno of oporatlons in Mexico
BRINGS HOME UNCLE SAM'S EXHIBITS
The naval collier Mars, tho largest
Potomac rlvor as far as tho Washington navy yard, has Just arrived with
tho greater part of the government's exhibits from tho Pan-Amorlcan expo
sition. Sho loft San Francisco January 8 and camo by way of tho Punama
canal.
MAY BE THE SUMMER WHITE HOUSE
Woodland Mansion, tho historic home of Nelllo Custlu Lewis, may bo
tho next summer Whlto Houso. Tho houso is only 10 miles from Washing
ton on an excellent road and is ono of tho favorite stopping places of tho
president and Mrs, Wilson on their motor rldos. They havo Inspected it
thoroughly and appreciatively, especially in vlow of tho probability that tho
president will bo so busy from now until November that ho will bo unlikely
to go far from Washington for a summer rcBt Tho houso was orocted In
1805. Many improvements have been mndo on It recently, ono of its former
owners having been PuuL Koster, tho playwright.
CAVALRY CARIP AT C0L0NIA DUBLAN
at Colonla Dublan, on
Dublnn 1b a big Mormon
WHERE UNCLE SAM IS KEEPING CLOSE WATCH
boat which baa ever uavigatod tho
the lino of communication botween
colony, but tho Americans thoro havo
BROKE TWO CHESS RECORDS
Frank J, Marshall of Now York,
chess champion of tho United States,
rocontly broko two world's records in
compotlng with 105 of Washington's
best players. Ho won 82 gamos, loBt
8 and drow 15. Tho former records
woro sot by Fahrni In Munich when
ho played 100 simultaneous games,
winning 55, losing G and drawing 39.
Tho Touch Pre-Emlnent.
"A cozy picture, oh 7 A man lolling
in an easy chair and his boautiful wife
loaning over him to light hio cigar."
"You haven't seen tho companion
picture to it, havo you?"
"Why, no."
"It's tho same man savagoly chow
Ing tho end of his cigar and writing a
chock." Birmingham Ago-Herald.
8hy.
An nnonymouB chock for $500 waa
received for ono seat from someono
whoe merely signs lUmsolf Mr. Win
tor's great admirer. Now York Tele
graph. No wondor paying tollors say their
Job Is hard. Now York Tribune.
