THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
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STATE NEWS
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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Arg. 7 to 11 Tractor Week in Fre
mont. -Aug. 7 to 10 Stato Press Association's
North Platte Valley excursion.
August 7 to 12 Merchants' Market
Week in Omaha.
August 7-12 Platto Valloy district
reunion at Central City.
Aug 9 to 12. Frontier Days Celebra
tion at Silver Creek.
August 11 Harvest Homo festival at
Seward.
..Aug. 17-27 Sovonth Day Advcntlsts'
Coiiiorenco at Hastings.
Aug. 17 to 20. Biennial Nebraska
Ss,engerbund festival at Grand Is
land. Aug. 21-25 Mo. Valloy Photographers'
Association Convention at Lincoln.
Sept. 4 to 7. Nobraska Stato Fair at
Lincoln.
Sept. 12-10 -Central Nobraska Fair at
Grand Island.
Sept. 13. Annual Convention Stato
Federation of Labor at Fremont.
Sept. 13 to 15 Old Settlors' rouniou
at Mitchell.
Douglas oounty, according to the
lfUfi assessment report of County As.
sessor Counsman, Is more than $17,
000,000 richer than last year. Unim
proved lots in Douglas county, as
sessed in 1915 at an average valua
tion of $384, are now listed at an
nvorago figure of $508.12, an increase
of 48 per cent. Improved lots in tho
county, assessed at nn average valua
Hon of 1,572 in 1915, now nre listed at
$2,005.35 average, an increase of 28
per cent. Acreage, llBted a year ago
A, an average valuation of $81.75 per
acre, now goes on tho rolls at $88.73
per ncro, an 8 per cent increase. The
total assessed valuation is $257,735,-
S10.
According to a report submitted to
tho United States League of Local
Building and Loan associations during
thfir convention at St. Louis recently
Nobraska ranks eighth In building and
loan' assets among tho thirty-three
states which woro represented, stand
ing next to Indiana and leading all
states west of the Mississippi river.
For tho fiscal year 1914-15 the reports
showed Nebraska had a total of $11,
CG0.870 and will exceed $15,00p,000 in
tho stato report for 1915-1U, now being
compiled.
Tho itinerary of the big United
States government "safety first" spe
cial train, carrying a dozen cars load
ed with exhibits for tho promotion of
industrial safety, has been announced
by the Union Pacific for that part of
tho trip that applies to Nobraska. This
train will bo at Sidney August 22; nt
North Platto August 23; at Grand
Island August 24; at Omaha August
2G; at Lincoln August 28, and at Bea
trice August 29.
Nebraska's share of tho $5,000,000
just apportioned by the federal gova.
crnment for public highways under
tho now good roads act amounts to
$10G,770. To be entitled to Its share
tho state must provide an equal
amount to that put up by the govern
ment. A campaign Is a start at once'
by Commercial clubs of the state to
create good roads sentiment.
Two Nebraska harvest hands, Clar
ence Sandqulst of Geneva and. J. E.
Longmore of Lincoln, were killed In a
wreck of a Milwaukee freight train on
which 200 harvest hands wero beating
their way to tho wheat fields of the
Dakotas. The accident happened near
Tripp.
, Judgo Baglfey of PapIUIon handed
.ldown a decision at Blair in tho' Her
man saloon case, upholding the action
of tho Herman village board in grant
ing' a saloon license to an applicant
May 1, to which remonstrance was
filed.
Bids were opened a few days ago
for tho proposed new $20,000 mu
nicipal building at Crelghton. All of
them wero surprisingly high, running
from $3,000 to $6,000 more than the
town officials had expected they would.
Norman Peal, tho Industrial Worker
of tho World, who was mortally shot
In a fight with bandits in the Rock
Island yards at Fairbury several days
ago, finally Succumbed to his injuries.
Work is expected to begin on Fre
mont's six-story, all modern $200,000
hotel about August 15.
West Point will have tho Redpath
Horner Chautauqua for one week,
commencing August 4.
Tho city council of Superior turned
f down tho license for a carnival com
f pany that tho fire department had ar
ranged to hnvo show there the last of
tho month after a petition signed by
-leading business men filed nsklng
them to refuse tho license.
Doano collego at Crete has just re
ceived a check for $5,000 from the
estate of Edward Whitin, of Whitins
vllie, Mass., as an endowment for tho
now Wliltln library. Tho library build
Ing Is virtually a gift of tho Whltln
family.
7 Tom Taylor, a prominent young far.
mcr, was drowned near his homo
south of Valley when tho horse ho was
riding threw him off In a lake. Marks
on tho body indicated that ho had
beon trampled upon by tho horse.
FIro destroyed tho Nyo-Schnoldor
olovntor at Clarkson together with its
entire grain contents, causing a loss
of over $15,000.
Over 2,000 persons nttended tho
dedication of St. Paul's Lutheran
church at Hastings recently. Work
on tho new church has beon In prog
resa a year. It cost $20,000.
Sixty Alllanco citizens in automo
biles responded to a call for help from
tho Frank Jesse ranch, six miles cast
of town, ono day recentlr and after
two hours of hard fighting they put
out n pralrlo fire which had burned
ovor a squaro mllo, consuming several
haystacks and some small buildings
and threatened ranch houses and
barns.
Pansy, tho 2-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Omar PIckorlll, who re-
sldo near Syracuse, lost her llfo In a
sad manner. Tho Httlo girl was play
ing about tho homo and hor mother,
missing tho child, begnn to search and
discovered her head downward In n
largo Jar, sho having suffocated in tho
three Inches of water.
Owing to tho seasonable weather
that has prevailed, contractors on tho
Burlington's Chalco-Yutan cut-off have
Just about completct the fifteen miles
of grading on the lino that will con
nect up tho Sioux City branci?. Tho
work will bo finished and ready for
tho ties and rails within a month.
At a special election Shubort voted
$G,500 or electric light bonds, tho Is
sue carrying by a largo majority.
Stella had carried bonds for $S,000 at
an election held In May. A transmis
sion lino will bo built from Stella tb
Humboldt, which will supply tho cur
rent to Shubert and Stella.
Republican newspaper editors of
Nobraska to tho number of about
fifty organized a Republican Stato
Press association at Lincoln recently,
tho aim of which, It Is said, was to
form an organization to advance tho
Interests of tho party through co
operation. Plans for tho new county Jail and
jailors' residence will bo received by
tho Gago county board of supervisors
Tuesday, September 5. This was de
cided on by tho county board at a
mooting held recently. Tho new jail
I sto bo a modern structure and will
cost in the neighborhood of $22,000.
At Schuyler a few days ago August
Knasch found his wife, Mary Kaasch,
lying dead, face downward In four
inches of water In a bathtub. How
Mrs. Kaasch onmo to fall Into the tub
Is not known. She had been apparent
ly In good health.
Omaha has its first case of infantilo
paralysis since February, tho disease
which has been claiming so many vic
tims In New York. According to
Health Commissioner Connell tho pa
tient, a little boy, will recover with
out any serious effects.
Rev. W. W. Whitman, pastor of tho
Methodist church at Hooper, has in
stalled a moving picture machine In
his church, to bo used In Illustrating
his Fonnons. This Is the first church
In Nebraska equipped with moving
picture apparatus, It Is believed.
Two giant stalks of corn, fourteen
feet high, with tho ears growing ton
feet from tho ground, wero exhibited
in a department store at Omaha. Tho
corn was raised by "Uncle Sam" Bou-
vler of De Soto.
There aro 78,659 savings accounts
in tho banks and tho building and
loan companies in Omaha. This is ex
clusive of tho postal savings accounts.
These thousands of accounts aggre
gate $35,843,502 in savings.
There is a movement on foot In
Merrick county to submit to the voters
at general election tho proposition of
abandoning the supervisor form of
government and returning to the com
missioner form, as In the days of old.
Tho cornerstone of tho new St.
Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church at
Falls City was laid last Sunday. This
building is to cost $10,000, of brick
veneer and will bo completed In No
vember. Jesso C. McNish, chairman of tho
republican state central committee,
plans to open headqunrters In Lincoln
August 15 and begin active campaign
work.
Joe Steelier of Dodgo and Harold
Chrlstensen, tho Danish wrestling
champion, will meet on tho mat at
Fremont August 9, during tho tractor
meet
Herman RIderhagen, an engineer o.
a threshing outfit, backed his engine
In a creek near Sprlngflold and was
crushed to death.
A case of Infantilo paralysis has
appeared in Fremont. Tho victim is
tho 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Roth.
Nobraska City Is making prepara
tions for Its annual home-coming week
August 14 to 19.
Kearney citizens are agitating tho
question of holding a big fall festival
early In November.
Tho Tecumseh Commercial club Is
making an effort to laud a canning
factory for the city. A committee has
been appointed to communicate with
tho Lang Canning company of Boa
trlco rolntlvo to tho company install
ing such a plant there.
Tho annual report of F. J. Vogl
tance, county superintendent of Col
fax county, bIiowb that tho county
has sixty school districts, with a total
of 4,266 school pupils. Thoro aro 109
teachers, whoso averago wago Is, for
men, $77.64; women, $54.55.
A field of corn planted on a piece of
alfalfa sod by F. J. Plmpor, near How-
ells, and glvon three good cultivations,
on tho 15th day of July many of the
stalks measured ten feet In height.
A total of 1,926 automobiles and
motorcycle licenses havo been Is
suod by County Treasurer Andrew
Andersen of Gago county from De
cember 1, 1915, to July 20.
Nino hundred and ten bushels of
oats woro threshed from a ten-acro
field belonging to Fred Havcman near
Avoca, making a yield of nlnoty-ouo
bushels to the acre.
MUNITIONS M UP
GREAT QUANTITIES OF WAR
TOOLS ARE DESTROYED.
LOSS MAY REACH 825,000,000
Detonations Shake Five States; Loss
of Life 16 Small. Canadian Forest.
Fires Take Many Lives,
New York. Property loss estimated
at $25,000,000 was caused by a series
of terrific explosions of ammunition
awaiting shipment to the entente al
lies and stored on Black Tom Island,
a small strip of land Jutting into New
York bay off Jersey City.
Three are known too havo been
killed by the explosions, and at least
five more are missing. Scores of per
sons were Injured, somo of them prob
ably mortally.
Tho detonations, which were folt In
flvo states, began with a contlnuos
rapid fire of small shells, tho blow
ing up of great quantities of dyan
mite, trinitrotoluene and other high
explosives, followed by the bursting
of thousands of shrapnel shells, which
llternlly showered the surrounding
country and waters for many miles
around.
Fire that started soon after the
first great crash which spread death
and desolation in Its wake, destroyed
thirteen of tho huge warehouses of
tho National Storage company on
Black Tom island. In which was
stored merchandise valued at between
$12,000,000 and $15,000,000. Tho
flames, shooting Into the clouds, wero
roflected against New York's "sky
line" of towering office buildings,
which only a few moments beforo
were shaken to their foundations by
an earthquake. Miles of streets in
Manhattan alone were strewn with
broken glass and shattered signs. Tho
cause of the disaster has not been
determined.
Auto Plunges Into Missouri.
La Platte, Neb. Traveling at a fair
rato of speed, a big seven-passenger
car left the road and dashed down a
thirty-foot embankment into tho Mis
souri river at a point ono and a half
miles east of hero at about 1 o'clock
last Sunday morning, carrying Its
load of six persons Into the strenm
and drowning flvo of them.
T. F. Swift of Omaha was tho only
one to escape. Those who mot death
wero :
Mrs. T. F. Swift, Omaha.
Mr. and Mrs. Letner, Hastings,
Neb.
Sister of Mr. Letner.
Woman friend of the Lotnors.
Tho party was on the way in from
Hastings and had gotten on tho
wrong road , after passing La Platte.
The road at this point Is said to be
extremely treacherous and tho car
had gone over the bank beforo the
occupants realized their danger.
Hundreds Die In Forest Fires.
Englehart, Ont. Forest fires In
northern Ontario have resulted In tho
loss of from 150 to 200 lives. Other
scores of persons hnvo been Injured
and It Is feared many of them may
dlo. Several small towns havp been
completely wiped out by tho flames.
Reports thus far received show that
fifty-seven perished at Mushka, a
French-Canadian settlement, and thirty-four
at Matheson. Cochrano has
eighteen dead and thirty-four Injured;
Iroquois Falls, fifteen dead and many
Injured, and Rnmore, fifteen dead.
Tho number killed nt Porcupine Junc
tion Is not known, but tho entire town
was destroyed except tho railroad
station.
Believe Anarchists Caused Fire.
Berlin (Via Sayvllle). Reports of
a great conflagration at Potrograd, In
which a bridge across tho rlvor Neva,
twelve largo steamers, Including sev
eral trans-Atlantic liners and tho
Putlloff gun works and other estab
lishments were destroyed are printed
in tho Lokal Anzelger. Tho paper as
serts that the police suspect that tho
conflagration was the work of nn
archlsts who planned to burn all pub
lic buildings being used for military
purposes.
Appam to Britain.
Norfolk, Vn. Federal Judge Wad
dill has decided the libel proceedings
for possession of the captured British
liner Appam in favor of tho English
owners and against tho German prlzo
crew which brought It here.
The court hold that tho Gerninn
government lost all legal claim to tho
Appam and its cargo as prizes of war
when Lieutenant Berg ami his prizo
rrew on last February 1 brought
them Into the noutral waters of
Hampton Roads with the Intention
of "laying up" the vessel Indefinitely
Burns Held For Wire Tapping.
Now York. -William J. Burns, tho
detective, nnd Martin Egan, publicity
representative of J. P. Morgan & Co.,
woro charged with misdemeanor and
each hold In $100 ball as a result of
their alleged activity In tho recont
wlro tapping disclosures.
Teddy to Speak In Maine.
New York. Theodore Roosovolt In
tends to tako part In tho campaign
In Mnlno preceding tho stato election,
September 11. Ho has arranged to
make three or four speeches.
ANNAMESE
Annanu'se troops are now fighting with tho utiles at Sulonlkl. liming been called Into thu war by France. Their
equipment Is modern, excepting their hats, which are made of woven bamboo fiber covered with khaki. Annum Is n
French protectorate and the soldiers now lighting for tho allied cause are well trained. They are near relative.-) to tho
Chinese.
GERMAN PRISONERS ARRIVING AT SOUTHAMPTON
A large number of German prisoners, captured by tho British during their great drive, arriving at Southampton,
England.
THIS MAY SOON BELONG TO UNITED STATES
View of Charlotte Aniello, one of thu chief towns of thu Danish West Indies the sulo of which to the United
States Is being negotiated. Tho three Islands, St. Thomus, St. John and St. Croix, Ho about fifty miles off tho
east coast of Porto Rico. They aro 142 square miles In area and support n population of 271,000 persons. Near
ly al lthe Inhabitants of the Islands aro negroes who llvo by tho cultivation of sugar cano.
KITCHIN KEEPING COOL
Hot w outlier snapshot uf Claude
Kiti'hlu, majority leader In tho house
of representatives
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TROO'PS FIGHTING FOR
LEADER OF THE RUSSIANS IN FRANCE
General l.o!iltnl;y, commander uf tho Russian troops tint .uv i- w light
ing In Franco, on tho Chumpugno front.
FRANCE