THE 8EMI.WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
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STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
8opt. 4 to 7. Nebraska Stato Fair at
Lincoln.
Sept. 1M5 Southwest Nebraska DIs-
trict Pair nt Maywood.
Sept. 12-16 -Central Nobraaka Fair at
Grand Island.
Sept. 13. Annual Convention Stato
Federation of "Labor at Fremont
Sept. 13 to 15 Old Settlors' rounion
at Mitchell.
Sept. 17-22 Women's Christian Tern-
peranco Union annual convention at
Omaha.
Sept. 2C-Oct. 7 Ak-Sar-Ben Fall FcbU
val at Omaha.
Oct. 2 and 3 State Equal Suffrage as
sociation convention at Hastings.
October 2 to 7 National Swine Show
at Omaha.
Oct 3 to G State Federation of Wo
men's Clubs convention at Hastings.
October 11-12 Stato Meeting Grand
Lodgo Degreo of Honor at Lincoln.
October 17-201. 0. O. F. Stato Con
vention at Lincoln.
An entire new feature has been ad
ded to the Nebraska State fair bettor
baby department. A child specialist
has been secured to glvo adviso con
cerning all babies who enter, especial
ly those starting life under physical
or mental handicap. Parents will bo
given private conference and export
adviso on their children's ailment and
each child will be assigned an hour
for examination. Tho class of "Spe
cialists Advise Only" will be limited
to ono hundred babies.
The first radium operation over per
formed In North Platto Gas" proved
successful. Mrs. Mary Radcllffo of
Maywood, G5 years old, underwent an
oporatlon for cancer of tho breast, an
Omaha physician Inserting two tubes
containing G4 mlllgrams of radium
valued at $10,000, after the operation
had been performed by Dr. Lucas. Tho
radium was romoved after seven
hours. Mrs. Radcllffo is now pro
nounced well on tho way to recovery.
Ralph Ellison, a farmer living near
Cadams, eight miles northeast of Su
perior, has the banner on the wholo
county for raising sovonty-threo and
one-half bushels of wheat per acre off
of a Jlve-acro tract of land. This
wheat tested sixty pounds and
brought $520.82 or $104.16 per acre.
Tho land was old alfalfa land that
has been broken up and planted to
oats ono year, corn one year and was
idlo last year.
Shippers gave $10.35 per hundred
weight for the choicest hogs on the
South Omaha market last week. This
If. a new summer record and thq high
est prico paid for hogs on the South
Omaha market since April, 1910, when
hogs brought $10.80. In March 1910,
tho market record of $10.S5 was es
tablished. Arrangements are being inude to.1
start up tho Haarman vinegar plant
at Pawnee City about tho middle of
September. Although tho apple crop
is rather short In the immediate
vicinity, tho adjacent territory has a
very good crop, and a good run, is an
ticipated for this season.
IIog3on tho South Omaha market
last week sold for tho highest price
paid this summer reaching $10.75 per
hundredweight. The highest prico
over commanded by hogs in a former
August was $9.35. In tho spring of
1910 the record prico of $10.85 was
reach 3d.
Members of the Western Krleger
bund, veterans of tho German army
or navy, from tho states of Nebraska,
Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota and part
of Minnesota will hold their annual
Krlgerfest at Lincoln September 2, 3
and 4.
Firo completely dostroyed tho plant
and contents of the Hastings Milling
Co., at that city, entailing a loss es
timated at $75,000. About forty
thousand bushels of wheat and over
COO sacks of flour were burned.
Colonel Roosevelt Is being urged to
devote two speeches to tho campaign
In Nebraska by Chairman Frank Cor
rick ofthe progressive state commit
tee nnd Chairman Ed Beach of the
republican state committee.
John Crandall, a farmer living elev
en miles southwest of North Platto, is
In a critical condition from injuries
sustained when ho was thrown to
the ground and severely mauled by an
enraged bull.
In spite of adverse conditions and
the payment of $1,500 to Madam
Schumanu-Heinsk for a single pro
gram, the Hastings chautauqua, held
Just recently, paid all expenses. Tho
chautauqua will bo continued another
year.
Nebraska hunters, who were eager
ly watching for a month's additional
shooting of gamo birds In March, may
bo doomed to disappointment, Feder
al Game Warden R. P. Holland of
Kansas Intimated during a visit at
LIncon recently.
Nearly threo bushels of corn was
taken from tho stomach of a valuable
milch cow belonging to George AIns
worth, near Fremont, when tho animal
died following a visit to tho cornfield.
Tho cow was valued at $100.
A committee from the Commorclal
ilub of Hartington will moot with
Dan V. Stophena at Fremont in tho
near future to urge Mr. Stephens to
help thom secure- a new government
poatofflco building at thnt place.
Citizens of Cozad voted' bonds ts
tho sum of $31,500 for the construction
of a modern school building.
A musical program at the fair
grounds at Lincoln, which begins Sun.
day, September 3, will informally opon
tho forty-eighth Nebraska stnto fair,
closing Friday, September 8. Tho for.
mal opening will take place at 8
o'clock Monday morning. Monday's
sports arc given over to automobile
racing arid a number of the best pro
fessional drivers and racing cars havo
signed up. Throughout the weok.
aftrnoon and evening, Miss Ruth Law,
avltrix, will demonstrate hair-ralsliifl
loop tho loops in her tractor biplane.
Her night flights will be with calcium
lights and tho burning of fireworks to
mark her course. Horso racing will
begin promptly at 2 o'clock on Tubs
uay, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day, with three harness and two run
ning evonts scheduled for each day.
Secrotary Mellor has received word
that automobile and agricultural ex
hibits will be? unusually notworthy, but
practically all of tho space has been
roservod In all of tho departments.
Threo men, Fred Morcuro and N.
D. Mercure, of Seneca, nnd J. F.
Sweeney, cattlo dealer of King, a
small vllrago In Cherry county, wero
nalmost Instantly killed when an
autombbilo In which they wore riding
was hit by 'a Burlington passenger
train near Greenwood. Tho accident
occurred at a sharp crossing of tho
road and railroad tracks about fifty
yards from Stevens creek, known as
Martin's crossing. The train waB trav
eling at the rate tf fifty miles au
hour; tho automobile thought to havo
been going at perhaps thirty. The
machine was crumpled Into a mass
of wreckage and tho threo men burled'
beneath it.
Tho appraiser of tho estate of tho
late John W. Bookwalter has fixed
the valuo of the lands in Gage county
at $490,000. This Is an average of
$76.50 an acre. It Is estimated that
the personal property will total $500,
000. Tho valuo of tho Thayer county
lands was fixed by the appraiser at
$175,000, which Is nearly $73 an acre.
Tho value of tho lands In Pawnee
county, 13,800 acres, was fixed at
$880,000.
i Tho Dodge county board has, fixed
tho county levy at 18 mills, which Is
tho same as last year's levy. This ac
tion, in view of the erection of a
$150,000 court house on the slto of tho
old burned country structuro at Fre
mont came as a surprise to many
citizens, who had complained that
taxes would be high. The board will
meet the interest on the court house
bonds through tho medium of reduc
tions in other funds.
Nebraska's suffrage showing will bo
sufficiently encouraging to warrant
tho national association in centering
its efforts in 1918 In tho equal suffrage
fight In this state, according to Mrs.
W. E. Barkley of Lincolh. presldont of
tho Nebraska Equal Suffrage league.
The work of completing a poll of tho
state Is going steadily forward and
will be finished by next October in
timo for presentation to national suf
frage workers when they visit this
stato.
Harry Rogers, who has returned to
Fremont from the Bloomlngton, 111.,
tractor Bhow, says that a number of
tho firms are dropping out and will
not finish tho circuit, which has two
more shows scheduled, one at Indian
apolis and ono at Madison, Wis. Many
of tho tractor men are in favor of
having one tractor show and holding
that at Fremont, when It will extend
over two weoks Instead of one.
So successful wore tho auto races
at tile Nebraska 3tate fair In 1915 that
Secrotary W. R. Mellor Is arranging
for speed battles between the noted
circular dirt track stars on September
4, the opening day of tho" big 1916 ox
position at Lincoln, Entries are now
arriving at the office of Secrotary Mel.
lor and Judging from tho manner In
which the luminaries of the game aro
sending in blanks the list will bo a
long one.
Complaint against the action of
western and northwestern lines in
discontinuing peddlier car servloe, by
which perishable commodities were
sold from freight cars to consumers,
has been made to tho Interstate Com
merce commission by tho Nebraska
Stato Grange and the Nebraska Far
mers' union.
Ground for Fremont's new $200,000
hotel waB broken last week. The ho
tel will occupy a conspicuous corner
opposite the postofilce. Business men
in the vicinity of tho location of tho
hotel subscribed largely to the fund,
which still lacks a few thousand dol
lars of being sufficient to complete tho
building freo from debt
Beatrice will soon voto on tho prop
osltlon as to whothor or not to lssilo
bonds In tho sum of $25,000-for the
construction of a municipal light
plant. The city commissioners have
Instructed the city attorney to draw
an ordinance calling such an election
A potltlon signed by 750 voters ol
Beatrice has been filed wlththe oltj
commissioners asking that the" present
ordinance which prohibits Sunday
amusements bo so amended that it
will permit Sunday moving picture
shows.
Wallace Larkln of Wahoo has ro
signed as .pastor of tho Presbyterian
church and will move to Omaha about
September 15, whore ho will take
charge of the church at Paplllion and
two city missions.
Nebraska farmers are urged to look
out for swindlers who purport to rep
resent farm loan banks. No farm
loan associations havo been author
ized an yet, according to an official
announcement
Tho Norfolk corn canning season
has opened and the factory la em
ploying 127 porsoBB.
ENEMY OF GERMANS
ITALY DECLARES WAR AGAIN8T
HER FORMER ALLY.
ENDS ABNORMAL SITUATION
Move Became Inevitable When Romo
Sent Troops to Aid In Dal.
kan Campaign.
London. Gormnny and Italy are nt
war. Italy has ended tho anomalous
situation that hn existed for months
by declaring that honcoforth Bhp con
siders horsolf the enemy of her for
mer ally,
fomer ally.
Tho declaration ot open conflict
was transmitted to the Swiss govern
ment with tho request It bo forwarded
to Berlin.
Italy and Gormany havo been drift
ing steadily toward war. Tho declara
tion becamo inevitable when Italy
recently sent troops to Salonlkl to
cooperate in tho campaign of tho
entente allies on tho Macedonian
front, as Germany is directing tho
opposing forces and has troops on this
battlo line.
Italy's position in regard to Ger
many has been an anomalous, ono
since Italy withdrew from tho triple
nlllanco May 23 last year and declar
ed war on Austrln. Although by this
act sho arrayed herself against hor
former allies, Germany and Austria,
she remained officially at peace with
Germany until Aug. 28. Before Italy
took this step Germany exerted ovory
effort to Induce her to remain neutral,
sending to Rome as an ambassador
Prlnco von Buolow. The prince for
some tlmo averted war between Aus
tria and Italy, and when he saw a
rupture was Inevitable took steps to
ward preservation of an official pcaco
between Germany and Italy. He ne
gotiated a special agreement under
which, in case of war between Aus
tria and -.Italy, Gormnny and Italy
pledged themselves to rospoct tho
property and lives of their respectivo
subjects in each othor'a domain.
Eleven Racing Cars Wrecked.
Kalamazoo, Mich. Two men wero
killed and eight others Injured, ono of
thom fatally, when eleven of fourteen
automobiles piled up at tho first turn
during the 100-lmel raco at Recrea
tion park here last Sunday.
The dead are: Marlon Arnold,
mechanician, Chicago, decapitated:
Jack Peacock, driver, Brooklyn, both
hips broken and head crushed; died
in hospital. Among tho others- in
jured Is Jimmy Alexander, Sioux City,
la., mechanician, badly bruised. Tho
accident occurred when Peacock's
car, leading in tho race, skidded and
struck the fence at tho first turn. It
was overturned and thrown across
tho track. Before track attendants
could signal the other drivers, ten of
tho, machines going at a torrlflc clip'
plowed into tho overturned car. Flvo
of them wore completely demolished.
Passenger Train Hits Auto.
Council Bluffs, Iawa. In a grado
crossing accident two miles south of
Tennant In Shelby county, forty miles
northeast of here, an automobile
driven by Albert Hanson, a farmor,
was crushed, his 3-year-old daughter
Agnes was killed, his wifo recolved
injuries that may prove fatal, his 7-
ear-old daughter Luclllo was pain
fully hurt and Hanson was badly
bruised. Tho car was hit by a pas
senger train on tho Great Western.
Hanson 'wns on his way to his homo,
several miles west of Tennnnt and
failed to see the approaching pas
senger train. Tho automollbe was
thrown nearly fifty feet
Bulgars Take Greek Fort.
London. Heavy fighting continues
between entente nnd Teutonic allies
in tho Macedonia theater from tho re
gion of Lake. Ochrida eastward to
Kavala. Berlin reports that Bul
garian forces operating to the west
of Lako Ochrida havo captured Malik
in Albania and along tho Struma.
Paris admits tho Bulgars havo taken
all except ono of the forts at Kavala,
on tho Aegean.
Says Allies No Nearer Berlin.
Berlin. Notwithstanding tho num
ber of German positions which havo
been captured by tho French nnd
British troops on the Sommo front,
Major Mpraht, military critic of the
Tageblatt, sayB tho entente allies aro
no noarer to breaking through the
Gorman lino than when the offensive
wns Inaugurated.
Worth $6,000,000; Suicides.
Chicago, Henry J. Furber, 7G years
old, formorly a wealthy real estate
operator, who shot and killed himself
in St. Luke's hospital, left a fortune
estimated at $G,000,000.
Fire Burns Score Buildings.
Alexandria, Va. Fire destroyed
nearly n score of buildings in Occo
quan, Va., a historic village on the
Potomac river, near here, causing
damago estimated at $50,000. It was
In Occoquan that Georgo Washington
traded while living at Mount Vernon.
Can Handle Own Affairs.
New York. The republican nation
al committee plans to establish ft
precedent in the presidential cam
paign this year by permitting women
to have charge of their own politics,
There nro probably more photographers to the squari' foot on tht White House grounds when u picture of ihu
president Is to bo mndo than any other slnglo spot on enrth. This picture shows above u part of tho bnttory lined
up to photograph President nnd Mrs. Wilson and his campaign managers, nnd below the picture thoy made.
GALICIAN
' View of KUlnskl street In Stnnlslnu, tho Important Gnllclnn city captured
n great rnllroad center nnd of Imtnenso strategic vnluo.
AMBASSADOR SHARP
William G. Sharp, United HtututmunbuHsudor to France, mid IiIh daughter
Margaret on their arrival on the French liner Lafayette. Ambassador Sharp
1b hero on a Hhort vacation nnd to confer with President Wilson and Ambas
sador Page, who Is also In tho United Stntcs.
WHERE MR. WILSON WILL BE NOTIFIED
Ream
Pretty view of Shadow Lawn,
Park and Long Brunch, N. J where
unification of his rcnnmlnatlon by
iuudo little use of Shadow Luwn
CAMERA MEN SWARM AROUND WHITE HOUSE
CITY CAPTURED BY THE
AND HIS DAUGHTER
tho Ktiiniiicr Whlto House, between Asbury
President Wilson will rccelvo tho formal
tin Democratic party. Mr. Wilson has
so fur this summer.
iM. JUL M I ! liHHHlll milllllllllllMI iHIIIIIIIM I
RUSSIANS
by the Russian forges. Stnnlslnu Is
SENATOR JAMES D. PHELAN
Snupshot of Henutor Phelnn of Cali
fornia tuken on a wurm day in Wash
Ington. Air Fighters 8tay Far Apart
As everyone probably knows, tho
principlo of suction accounts for a
Brent many mnrino disasters. Two
ships run close to each other und suc
tion brings thom together. It is tho
same with neroplunes; only that In
tho naturp of things tho suction Is a
hundred times moro powerful, When
I henr thoso stories about aeroplane
attacking each other within 40 yards;
I always cross my lingers. Two
machines nppronching each other
at that dlstanco would come together
und RinnHh. The men who run tho
nppurclls do chnsso understand that
better thnn I do. In maneuvering to
attack thoy try never to approach
nearer than a hundred yards. Satur
day Evening Post
War Killing Off Birds.
War has killed thousands of migrat
ing birds, the poisonous gases emit
ted by cannon spreading to great dis
tances through tho ulr. Crops nro
likely to suffer In tho south of Europo
from tho lack of Insect destroyers, and
In Great Britain also there la luck ot
UHual summer visitors. Zeppelin and
aeroplanes nro Bald to be mainly re
sponsible for the dearth of birds la
Ireland, which Is to be inquired Into
by a special commission,
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