THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
FEDERAL BODY AN8WER3
STRIKE IN PROSPECT
PRESIDENT WILSON SI GNING CHILD LABOR BILL
Admits Making Errors In the Torrlno
ton Case.
ASSESSMENT GROWS
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.INCREASE OP NEARLY $19,000,000
IS SHOWN IN VALUATIONS
TOTAL AUTOSJN NEBRASKA
Items of General Intorest Gathered
From Reliable Sources Around
the State House.
Western Nowspaper Union News Service.
Secretary O. E. Bernockor of tho
atato board of assessments has com
ploted a compilation of the assessed
valuation of all property In tho stato
as returned by county boards and
county assessors and as equalized by
the stato board. It shows that the as
sessed or one-fifth valuation of all
property in tho state la $500,703,073,
an iucreaso of $18,771,831 over tho
total of laat year.
This Incroase Is accounted for most
ly by the fact that lauds were re
valued for assessment this year for
tho first timo In four years, as the
law reijuircs. Land values have in
creased in four years and as reported
by the assessors and equallzod by
the state boards real ostate is now
listed at $17,393,207 more than It was
iour years ago.
Personal property is revalued every
year. This class of property shows
an, Increase of $1,378,624 over last
year. Of this increase $531,766 waB
Imposed by the state board on railroad
property. The state board alono values
railroad property for assessment pur
poses, while county assessors and
county boards value other personal
property for assessment, subject to
revision by the stato board.
Many Titles Not Recorded
Register of Public Lands Meier at
Lincoln, has in his ofllco 4,615 patents
for land, These have novor boon de
livered to tho landowners, because
they have never been taken out and
recorded. Many abstractors of title
count the record of the final receipt
as cloaring the title. This, however,
is not tho case, for there are a num
ber of- cases on record where tho pat
ent has been refused after the final
payment has been made. "Thousands
of acres in Nebraska have such cloud
ed titles," said Mr. Meier. The stock
of patents which Mr. Meier has on
hand have come in from time to time
from tho general office at Washington.
The law provid6s that these are to bo
delivered to the owners .of the land
when they return to the local register,
either the registered duplicato final
certificate or tho duplicate receipt or
in case of loss or destruction of either
of theso an affidavit in lieu thereof. If
therais any doubt about the title of
land bolng clear, the register of pub
lic lands will make tho examination
for a nominal feo.
Total Autos In the State
A total of 93,306 automobllo num
bers have been issuod by Secretary of
Stato Pool thus far this year, but 447
were to replace lost numbers, so the
-jtal number of automobiles In use in
Nebraska August 31 was 92,859. This
is a gain of 33,919 over the year 1014.
The total number of motor cycles reg
istered ud to August 31 was 3.668. In
the month of August tho secrotary of
itate Issued 6,466 automobllo licenses
and 159 motor cycle licenses. The
cost of tho automobile registration de
partment in tho ofllco of tho secretary
af stato for the month of August was
$1,226.69. This is paid out of funds in
the state treasury derived from a feo
jf 35 cents out of every $3 automobllo
license paid to county treasurers.
Fees collected" by tho secretary of
itato in August, not including any por
tion of automobile license monoy, ag
gregated $9,054.83, the major portion
of which was for corporation occupa
tion permits and tho filing of articles
of Incorporation.
aig Increase In Bank Deposits.
Deposits of state banks In Nebraska
havo Increasod in sixteen montliB by
16 Per cent and now total moro than
1151,000,000. This Is the showing set
Iorth In tho summary Issued by the
hanking department from tho reports
Ued by 834 banks giving the conditions
of their business on August 10. It was
.considered phonomorfal when tho last
provlous reports, dnted May 29, ex
hibited more than $38,000,000 increase
of doposits over April, 1915. But tho
lummer statements of deposits roglstor
i further growth of $9,563,965, making
Iho actual Increase in sixteen months
ibout $48,000,000.
Major John M. Birknor, chief medi
cal officer of the Fourth Nebraska reg
iment, has recommended that Private
Frederick Sasenberry, Company A,
Fourth regiraont, bo discharged from
tho army for tho good of the service.
Private Sasenberry reported on sick
list July 20 and was sent to the array
lospltnl at San Antonio, whore medi
cal authorities advised an operation.
Tho boy refused and waB sent back to
his company. Since his return he has
Deen unable to work and has been con
lined to his quarters.
Secretary of State Pool f)nds that he
will be short ?l,ouu to $i,buu in tunas
provided by the legislature to send
referendum pamphlets to 257,100 vot
ers, but he has arranged to got tho
unds from outside sources and has
nrenared to mall the booklets. The
postage on each will be ono cent, or a
lotal of $2,571.19. Tho envelopes ror
iho pamphlets have been addressod.
For this work and postage tho legisla
tion aDoroprlated $2,000. A former
legislature appropriated $5,000 for a
Ims number of bpoklets relating to
IroposltlonB submitted to the vettra,
The lntorstato commerce commis
sion, replying to criticism of the Ne
braska stato railway commission, ad
mits it mado some errors in its order
correcting alleged discriminatory rates
betwoon Torrlngton, Wyo., and Henry
Nob., but it says tho state com
missioners aro in error in assuming
that tho Interstate commission has
any disposition to bo Arbitrary in the
performance of its duty in these "un
pleasant cases" which involvo unjust
discrimination between stato and in
torstate rates. Tho federal body say
it has a duty to perform and would be
unworthy of tho position It occupies
if it hesitated to perform it in accord
nnce with the law and Its honest con
victions.
In regard to fnlluro to notify, the
stato commission of tho hearing in
the Torrlngton caBO tho fedoral com
mission says Its policy of notifying
state commission of such cases was
adopted after the hearing in this caso.
Shrinkage In Cash Balanco
A shrinkage of nearly $200,000 in
tho stato of Nebraska's cash balanco
is shown by Treasurer Hall's monthly
report to havo taken placo during
August. Tho nmount of cash remain
ing In all funds at the closo of busi
ness for the month was $1,560,934, as
against $1,757,691 at tho beginning.
The state normal fund is again run
ning bohlnd, being $51.23 in tho hole
by this exhibit.
More than half of tho falling off.
in the total cash balanco took placo
in tho general fund, which slumped
from $622,908 the first of August to
$507,208 at the end of the month.
Only $60,036 was takon In for the gen
eral fund, whllo payments out of it ag
gregated $175,735.
With half a million dollars still to
go on. Treasurer Hall expects to get
through the noxt three "lean months"
until now taxes begin coming into tho
stato treasury, without incurring a do
flcit in the general fund, as ho sue
ceoded in doing so last year. It is
not belioved that tho general fund bal
ance will drop very far below $100,q00
before tho now receipts start to build
t up again.
Tho temporary school fund now con
tains $127,495, having been increased
uy $i,uuo aunng August, inu uni
versity building fund stands at $328,-
942. and tho Institution cash funds
total $279,761.
The state has $9,855,098 Invested In
bonds, the interest from which is dis
trlbutod semi-annually in stato school
apportionments.
Rural School Conference.
Bigger school districts In rural com
munitles, legislation to provide a levy
of 2 mills for rural o'ducatlon, the
election of county and state suporln
tendents on non-partisan tickets and
tho "industrialization of rural schools
to raako t,hem more practical, were
urged In resolutions passed at a stato
wide rural school conforenco at the
Temple theatre at Lincoln during stato
fair week.
Theso matters, by a vote of the con
ference, will all bo referred to tho 1917
legislature for action.
It Is urged in tho resolutions that
tho districts own school sites, with
enough land for demonstrations in
agricultural work and buildings ap
proved by tho stato superintendent in
matters of sanitation and lighting.
The conference favored the distri
bution of three-fourths of school funds
alloted to different counties on the
basis on number of schools rathor than
on attendance. Tho sale of school lands
was recommended by tho conference
Helped Him to 8ee Sick Mother.
Merl Gobble, Company D, Firth regi
mpnt. has returned to his home In
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Falls City from Camp Llano on a nr-
teen days' furlough on account of the
nfirlnua illness of Ills mother. Tho
boy received word of his mother's ill
ness shortly after tho Fifth regiment
was paid. Although ho still retained
every cent of the $15 tho government
gavo lilm In return for a month's ser
vice, he did not havo enough monoy
to pay transportation. Membors ol
Company O learned of tho situation
and ono of tho boys quietly started a
Eltp of paper through tho company
Every boy gave something and In less
tlmn an hour's time sufficient monoy
had been raised to send Goblo back
home.
Tho state auditor's office has regis
tered $7,500 of water extension bonds
recently voted at Tlldcn.
Nn student Dlscharaes Granted
Colonels Paul and Kberly. command
lnE tho Fourth and Fifth Nebraska
regiments havo been notified In an or
der from General Funston that no stu
dent discharges would 'bo granted.
Thev were also notified that because
of the Dassaco of a recent sonato act
granting $50 monthly to dopenaont
families of militiamen, no discharges
would bo granted on that grounds
Tho regimental commanders had
recommended that students bo not
discharged and approved highly of tho
first part of tho now order. All ox
cess equipment In the Nebraska rogl
ments 1ms been called for and re
turned to the regimental quartermas
tors.
The resignation of Major Frank S
Nicholson, chief sanitary officer of tho
Fifth regiment., has been rccolved and
accepted by Colonel Herbert Paul. Ma
jor NicholBon was granted a thirty
days' leave of absence and returned to
his homo at St. Paul. His business af
fairs were In such shape when bo
readied home that he deemed It advis
able to sever his connections with tho
army and conflno his efforts to his
cltij pursuits.
750.000 UNION MEN AND WOMEN
MAY WALK OUT IN NEW YORK.
MASS VOTE IS NECESSARY'
Will Include Stage Employe, Print
ers, Brewery Workers, Long,
shoremen, Bartenders, Machin
ists and Moulders.
Now Yor".c. A strike of stage em
ployes, longshoremen, brewery work
ers, machinists, bartenders, moulders
nnd printers In sympathy with tho
unionized carmen, who quit their
places four dnyB ago, was decided
upon at a meeting of the heads of
their unions, according to nn an
nouncement by Hugh Fraync, state
organizer of tho Amorlcan Federation
of Labor.
A resolution was adopted calling
on nil unionized wage camera in
Great Now York, Yonkers, Mount Ver
non, White Plains and Now Rochcllo
to sanction a striko in "support of
the contention of the street railway
men of their right to organize." Tho
resolution recommended that the
workers of tho various trades lay
down their tools until tho companies
nro forced to recognlzo tho carmen's
union."
According to State Organizer
Frayne, approximately 750,000 men
and women are enrolled in tho unions
that were represented at tho mooting
recently.
Before n sympathetic Btrlko can bo
declared, however, It was explained
by tho union lenders, It will bo neces
sary for them to call mass meeting's
of their rcspectlvo unions and put Iho
proposition to a voto of the members.
Austria Will Not Accept.
Vienna. That Austria Hungary,
whllo it would hall peace with Joy,
has no intention of quitting tho fray
at tho present under tho terms Its
enemies would impose, is the state
ment mado by Baron Burlan, the Aus-
tro-Hurigarlan minister of foreign af
fairs. "Thore may be some," said
Baron Burlan, "who say that for mili
tary reasons wo ought to be tho first
to start peaco overtures. I do not
think so, as long as our antagonists
speak of the partition of our country
among themselves. W have defend
ed our soil pretty woll so far, and
will do It longer long enough to
make tho others tiied of it."
Tho position of tho dual monarchy
in tho world of war, he said hnB been
erroneously characterized by enemies
and certain neutrals as unsatisfactory.
"Austro-Hungary la far from lying
down, ns hoped by some," said tho
minister in n tone carrying convic
tion. "It la true we would hail poaco
with joy, "but not tho sort of peaco
our enemies would Impose. So long
ns wo have to defend ourselves
ngalnst those who want to tnko part
of our territory, wo naturally nro un
willing to discuss peaco and bo long
we also aro determined to hold out
and win. Tho thought thnt we aro
eager for poaco on any terms origi
nates probably in minds hoping that
such will become tho caso."
The minister then roviowed tho
situation prior too Roumnnia's declara
tion of war, and said:
"We offered Roumnnla no territorial
concessions at any time after having
discovered in the caso of Italy that
tho world was likoly to mistake our
reasonable attitude for weakness.
Nor were we ever taken by surprlso
by Roumnnln. 'What did fool us was
that Roumania made up her mind bo
quickly.
"We have tho determination to
emerge from thla sad and doplorablo
affair into which wo woro forced by
a private affair with Serbia and
which tho entente group made a' pre
text for a gonernl descent upon our
selves and our allies. Sooner or later
It must dnvn upon our enemies that
this entire business is usolcss. But
I suppose not beforq tho English
army has broken more heads against
tho steel wall of Germans In Franco,
or tho French havo boon further de
cimated; whllo tho Russians nro
dying llko flies every day In tho
east."
England Threatened With Strike.
London. Tho situation resulting
from tho railway men's demand for
an Increase in wages of 10 shillings
a week hnB become" increasingly
serious. At a meeting of 3,000 rail
way workers at Cardiff a resolution
was adopted providing that unless tho
demands aro conceded by September
16 all railway, work will bo stopped in
South Wales rft midnight tho 17th.
t Nebraska Girl Hangs Self.
Alllanco, NebV Josephine Hampton,
22,- daughter of E, H. Hampton, bank
er here, hanged hersolf In the base
ment of her homo. There was appar
ently no reason for the act, sho hav
ing been In excellent health and free
from any trouble.
Nearly Half of Fund Collected.
Philadelphia, Pa. Tho Presbyte
rians havo collected $4,000,000 of the
110,000,000 fund for aged and disabled
ministers and their dependents, It
was announced here.
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President Wilson signing tho child labor 1)111 In tho presence of oIIIcIiiIh of tho department of labor and of tho
Xutlmml Child Lnbor committee. At the left of tho picture Is Dr., A. J. McKelwny, Southern secretary of the child
labor committee; next to him Mrs. Constance Lcupp Todd of the National Consumers league; rending to tho right,
Mlsa Helen L. Sumner und MlsJullnC. Lnthrop, usstNtnnt chief and chief, respectively, of Uio children's bureau oil
the department of lnbor. At the right of tho picture (with gray head) Is Secretary of Labor Wilson und next to
him, directly behind the president, nepresentntlvo Keating of Colorado, author of the bill.
This photograph, taken during un action on tho western front, shows n
the enemy. In tho background is a cyclo corps.
FATE OF
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If tho British havu captured or destroyed the German commercial submarine Bremen, they refuse to admit It
officially nnd tho fato of tho vessel Is n mystery. This photograph of tho Bremen was inndo in tho Wcscr river just
before the boat started for America.
AN EMPHATIC PROTEST
Tho execution of Captain Fryatt by
the Germans enraged the British
troops almost us much as did the kill
ing of Miss Cnvell. Since tho event
many a big shell hns been sent In
scribed as is the ono here photo
graphed. Deep Breathing.
Deep breathing, sensible breathing,
every-dny brcnthlng long llfo depends
upon It, good looks always. Yet nine
tenths of the world's creatures bate to
breathe, and young folks especially uro
as niggardly lit tho matter of filling
their lungs with clean, wholesome nlr
as If they thought they wcro dealing
with poison. Twenty long brenths
night nnd morning will quickly Im
prove the looks of n girl who has bo
gun to go down with study nnd enrc
leswicHH, nnd surely there Is no beautl
(Icr cheaper than washing tho lungs
out with clean, fresh air.
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PHOTOGRAPH OF A REAL GERMAN
SUBMARINE BREMEN IS
OLD-TIME QUILTING
in u row of quaint little whlto cottages built on land the title of which
dates back to Revolutionary times, young women aro now plying tho nccdlo,
patching, felling, quilting. There are somo 20 women nnd girls who nro earn
ing their living making tho sumo kinds of quilts nnd coverlets their great
grundmothers used to innlte. As this is tho twentieth century, they havo put
u few modern touches to tho Industry, tho most notable of which aro their
rigid eight-hour working luw, nnd u regulation earning wage. Tho quilting bee,
ns tho little cottngo fuctory Is numed, was established three yeurs ugo to give
congenial employment to tho women and girls of Ryo, N, Y., who needed It,
und to revivo tho art of quilting. It was Incorporated last year und now has
becomo self-supporting.
Take a 8ane Vacation.
W. 11. Sulllvun of Clevelund tho
other day remnrked: "If anything
really 1b ''the mutter with a railroad
man n two-week vnciitlon Is of no good
to him. "lie usuully has to work a
couplo of weeks to rest up from his
vncntlon."
It Isn't necessary to discuss this
saying In Its bearing on tho railroad
man specifically to get tho nub of tho
matter, which Is that tho strenuous
vacation Is no vacation at all.
Nor Is tho Idllug vacation uny better.
CHARGE
division of Uermuu Infantry charging
A MYSTERY
INDUSTRY REVIVED
Thoso who turn from tholr accus
tomed endeavors to u vacation full ol
energy consuming efforts nnd dissipa
tions and thoso who resign thomsclvea
to utter Indolonco raako tho samo mis
tnko of falling to grasp tho opportunity
for recuperation offered In tho vaca
tion, Tnko your vacation sanely. Get out
In tho open. Exert yourself freely
Don't overdo or underdo. Don't dls
slpnte. Recreate. Gather energy. A
lot of benefit can bo won In two week
of natural, unforced living, -Detroll
Freo Press.