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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1916)
THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE:, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. CONDENSED NEWS OF INTEREST TO ALL. DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. October 1M2 Slato Mooting Grand Lodge Degree of Honor at Lincoln. October 11-22 Coursing Me6t at Grand Island. October 17-201. O. O. F. Stato Con ventlon at Lincoln. October 20 Annual Mooting Luther Synod of Nebraska at Omaha. Oct. 31 Northwestern Nobroska Med ical Socioty meeting, Long Pino. Nov. 2-5 NobraBka Christian En deavor Union stato convention at Omnha. Nov. 8-9-10 Nebraska Stato Teach ers' association mooting at Omaha. T. O. C. Harrison, formor chief jus ticu of tho Nebraska Bupromo court, was lined $10 and costs at Grand Island In the county court for tho al loged shooting of two Chinese pheas ants. Tho offense was really commit, ted by Mr. Harrison's two grandsons, who wero with him at tho time. Assessed valuations of Lincoln property have been. Increased $748,097 over last year's figures according to a summary compllod by Tax Commls lioner C. It. Mawe. Tho summary In cludes real estate, personal property, .usurance companies, street car lines, public utilities, banks, investment concerns and railroads. Tho total for L016 is $11,385,320 as against $10,637, 223 for last year. Tom rickrell, chief of pollco of ICearney, died from tho effects of drinking carbolic acid. Ho had don nod his coat and hat preparatory to leave his oftlco but before doing so unlocked a cupboard and took a drink from a flask. It Is supposed he picked up tho wrong bottle and drank tho acid by mistake. Death was almost Instantaneous. Tho Elk Valley school house In Dakota county was "entirely destroyed by lire when small boys, attempting to capture a swarm of bees In tho bel fry set flro to tbo roof. Tho1 building was Insured for $1,000 and tho con- tens, which were entirely destroyed, wero Insured for $250. Emory Austin f Ponca is the teacher. E. J. Kessler, who resides near Beatrice, believes that apples can ba made to pay well If properly cared for. Ho has a ten-acre orchard at his place and sprays his fruit four tlnies a year. Lost season ho sold $3,150 worth of fruit, and the crop this year promises to be about as large as on the pre reding year. The Rotary club of Omaha has en gaged the servlco of an experienced boy scout orgrinizei- to conduct a months campaign In the city. It Is the ambition of tho Rotarlans to see a boy scout troop in every neighbor hnnil In Omnhn Tho nxripnnn nf ihn movement is to bo p'ald for by tho club. Yeggmen entered tho postolllco at Mllford last Thursday morning, blew the safe and made away with $139 in stamps, $110 in currency and n largo amount of postal savings bank credits Entrance to the building was gained by breaking a glass In tho rear door. Nltroglycerino was used to blow the safe. Tho postal carrier census of Lin coin shows that a population of 60,000 fa served from the- Lincoln ofllco. The figures were obtained for administra tive purposes by tho IT. S. postofflco department to dQtcrmlno how many carriers are needed at the Lincoln ofllco. Without a dissenting voto, the Omaha city commission passed tho 6 cent electric light ordinance, giving Omaha consumers electric current at tfio rato of 6 cents per kilowatt hour, instead of 8 cents, on a basis of 150 hours Instead of 125 hours, effective January 1. The Gage County Crop improvement association has unanimously decided to continue another year and tho county board will bo petitioned to levy a tax to support a farm demonstrator. Gago county, after four years of trial pronounces it a very profitable enter prise. Beatrlco city commissioners In structed the city engineer lo submit an estlmato of tho coat of paving East Grant street district. It Is pro posed to get tho paving to tho city limits and then ask the Btate to pavo to tho fecblo minded instltuto. Many farmers of this Btate and oth ers interested in tho location of the Federal Land banks gathered in Omaha last week to urgo Nebraska's and Omaha's claims fo ra land bank, and Omaha's claims for a land bank, will bo of great force in the develop ing of Nebraska was presented. The Beatrice incinerator, the ilrst plant to bo Installed in tho state, has been completed and is in operation. Tho city has also purchased a sanitary garbage wagon to gather it up for burning. Gus Sauler, a farmor, living five .ulles north of Tilden. died while try Ing to tako honey from bee hives, He ought to stuplfy tho bees with sul phur fumes by burning sulphur on n rag. Ho Inhaled tho sulphur fumes and died almost Instantly. Bonds for tho purpose of construct .ug a city sewer system at Oxford carried at n special clcctlou by a voto of 122 to 12. Tho safo of the Avoca postolllco was blown by yeggmen a fow days ngo and $15 in cash and $35 In stamps wore takeu. Twelve thousand cans of pork and bcana and 5,000 cans of tomato; pulp wero ordered confiscated in fodoral court at Norfolk ns unfit for consump tion under tho puro food act Tha canned goods wero tho produet of a Norfolk canning company. Tho tomato pulp, It seems, had boen mado from ovor-rlpo tomatoes, while tho pork and beans was reported by government In spoctors an being adulterated. Twon-ty-throe sacks of beans belonging to a storo at Norfolk woro also ordored confiscated as being wormy. A post-season series between tho Omaha baseball club, champions of the Western leaguo, and tho Louis- villa club, winners of tho American association pennant, has been closed Sovon games will bo played between tho two teams, tho dates being Octo ber 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. On Octobor 7 and 8, Saturday and Sunday, double- headors will be played, thus making tho scries seven games. All tho games will bo playd in Omaha. Not only did tho Nebraska State Fair break all records for attendance 193,174 but It took in moro money than ever before. Tho not profit will not bo known until all tho bills are In, but it will bo In tho neighborhood of $25,000. Tho receipts at tho gates woro $58,000; from concessions, $17,000; grand Btand and bleachers, $15,60,0; miscellaneous, $3,220; speod entries, $1,800; Btate appropriation, $2,000. Total, $101,C79.58. Classes aro now being hold in North Platto's new parochial school build ing, jiist completed, the first enroll mont consisting of 120 pupils. The Btructure is ono of the largest and best equipped Institutions In western Nebraska. Nino Ursullno sisters from tho Ursullno seminary of Loulsvlllo, Ky., are in charge of the school. During a sovoro electrical storm at Randoph lightning struck tho Method ist church, causing its complete de struction by Are. The church was built at a cost of $17,000 and was. insured for $12,500. Tho library of the pastor, valued at $2,000, was a total loss, Othor property damaged during the storm entailed a loss of $3,000. ' Prices on laundry work m Omaht have Increased ten per cent In the last ten days. Increased cost of ma terial is tho reason given for tho raise. Similar action has been taken by many other cities ovor the coun try. The plan is to add 10 por cent to tho total of each bill under tho pres ent rate of charge. Gothenburg will hold its third Colt Show nnd Harvest Festival on Octo bor 12 and 13. Fifteen hundred dol lars has been donated by business men for prizes and a big barbecuo Is to bo held on the 13th. The festival last year was attended by 10,000 peo ple and a larger crowd Is looked for this year. Brigadier Gonoral John J. Pershing, well known to Nobraskans because of his services at the state university long before ho attained prominence In Mexican border affairs, has been pro moted to be a major general, filling tho vacancy In that grade caused by the death of Major General A. L. MHUs. Nebraska stands third In tho states of tho union In crop production this year, according to statistics prepared by tho department of agriculture and printed In tho department's monthly crop report which Is Just out Tho hitching post problem was the principal discussion at a "get-togeth or" meeting of Platto county farmers and business men at Columbus. All hitching posts in Columbus havo been removed on account of paving. A committee was named to recommend a substitute. Ono hundred converts resulted from the evangelistic meetings at Nickerson. Evangelist Charles Gray of Winona Lake, Ind., had charge of tne meetings. A fifty thousand dollar sewer bond Issue passed upon by tho citizens of Kearney at a special election was de feated by a vote of two to one against the proposition. Ovor ono hundred candidates wiU bo initiated at Beatrice on Octobor 12 at a county class adoption to bo conducted by tho local M. W. A. lodge. Tho head officers of the organization will bo present and each camp in tho county is expected to bring candl dates. Matches having been placed in grain before threshing caused tho de structlon by flro of a largo amount of .straw on tho farm of M. J. Murphy near Friend. Four distinct fires were started by these matches during tho threshing. Nebraska troops on the Mexican border expect orders for thoir return home about October 10, according to word reaching Hastings. Because they did not put up precautionary nets, sev eral Nebraska soldiers aro in the bos pltal from disease following mosquito bites. Tho Rev. J. S. Bullion p. nf Dnlilrnqli Wis., who his been rising1 rapidly In I L . . ' iuiuu iu iiiiuuiu weaieru cnurcn circles tho last few years, has become dean of tho Episcopal cathedral at Hast Ings. An association composed of some of Lincoln's heaviest taxpayers Is pro- paring to launch a movement to voto $1,000,000 paving bonds for tho Lan caster county roads at tho coming election. Fremont barbers havo raised tho prlco of hair cuts from 25 to 36 cents Barbers In a great many townB over tho stato aro contemplating the same action. Ono Hastings bank, tho First Na tlonal, shows deposits of $2,000,000 being tho largest of any bank in Ne braska outside of Omaha and Lincoln FOURTEEN KILLED IN CROSSING DISASTER AT DETROIT. TWENTY-FIVE PERSONS HURT Train Going Twenty Miles An Hour Smashes Into Trolley Car Con taining Ninety Passengers. Detroit Mich. Fourteen personB I woro killed and moro than twonty-llve j Injured, sevoral probably fatally, when a switch englno pushing two freight cars crashed into a crowdod street car at Forest, avenuo and Dequlnder stroot, this city, last Sunday evening. Thoro wero moro than ninety porsons in tho Btrcot car, many of them re turning from the theaters. Tho street car waB struck almost in tho center, tho Impact pushing It from tho tracks and sliding it alongside tho freight cars. Panic-stricken passengers began Jumping from doors and climbing throuch windows. Most of tho dead were killed by Jumping from tho car and falling under tho wheels of tho still moving freight cars. This Is tho third accldont of n sim ilar nature hero in tho last year and tho Bccond to occur at tho Forest Ave- onuo crossing. Tho railroad tracks at Deqillnder Btreet are used by tho Grand Trunk and Detroit Terminal Railroad com pany. Those who wero killed outright at the crossing were so badly mangled that Identification thoro was lmpossi- blc. Ar-o.nriHnir to n. member of tho switching crew, tho train was moving about twenty miles an hour when it struck tho Breet car. Tho eateuian of tho Deoulnder street crossing disappeared lmmed- iatelv after the accident None of tho nates wero dnmnced. indicating, it 1b claimed, that they were not down at tho tlmo of tho crash. There Is a derailing device on the Btreet car tracks at Dequlnder street and the train crow claim tnero was nntlilncr to nrovent tho conductor of tho car from seeing the approaching tram had he operated tne aerauor. Senator Clark Dies at His Home. Little Rock, Ark. United States Senator James P. Clarke, president pro tempore of tho United States senate, died at his homo hero after suffering a stroke of apoplexy. Sen ator Clark was .62 years old and a native o-f Mississippi. His revolt against tho elghthour b(U was a typical manifestation of a stern Independence which character ized his attltu,do throughout tho thirteen years of his senatorial career. Ho was many times tho leader In op position to measures proposed by his party. The climax to his Independ ence waB reached when ho led tho democratic revolt against tho ship purchase bill, which gave now life to the republican filibuster against the measure and made its passage Impos sible. Villa planning to Take Towns. San Antonio, Texas. Francisco Villa, with COO men, was In tho Santa Clara canyon district September 22, according to tho most reliable infor mation planning to capture tho towns of Namlquipa, Cruecs and Bachlnova. This is tho Bubstanco of a messago lecelved at Southern department headquarters from General Pershing. Gen. Pershing says rumors regarding tho bandit chief's whereabouts aro afloat, but this seems tho most cred itable. Roports have reached him, he says, that emissaries of Villa havo boen working throughout the district par aleling tho American lines. Cruecs Is only about thirty miles south of El Vallo, whoro American troops aro stationed. x New Scheme to Thwart Teutons. London. "In their latest raid on Bucharest," says tho Times, Bucha rest correspondent, "tho German aeroplanes dropped proclamations de claring that the city will bo laid In ruins soon unless Roumanla Hastens to make a sepnarto pcaco." In view of tho probable continuance of the raids tho government authorities aro reported as planning to bring num bers of foreigners who are now de tained in concentration camps in tho country to Bucharest, where they will bo lodged in places most exposed to attacks. Mother and Three Children Burn. Parkslde, Bask. Mrs. John Ode gard and three of her children wero burned to death and her husband and tbm'" other children wore seriously and perhaps fatally burned when flro of unknown origin dostroyed the Ode gard countfy homo near Parkaldc. Confiscated Liquor Destroyed. Des Moines, la. Their clothes nearly soaked with, beor and whisky, several W. .C. T. U. women happily destroyed moro than 2,000 quarts of beer and 200 pints of whisky horo. WRECK OF A The wreckage of the Zeppolln brought down by Lieut. Lcoto Robinson near Culllo, England. Tho encounter between the great Zeppelin nnd the aeroplane took place about 12 miles from London. Lieutenant Robinson In his aircraft boldly assailed the invader with lnuchlno gun ami fire bombs and sent It crashing to tho' earth. The crow of tho nlrshtp were burled with full mlltlnry honors. Lieutenant Robinson received the Victoria Cross for his dar ing exploit. STEAR First photograph received showing bay, Oregon. Tho vessel was crowded was a total loss. AFTER TWO YEARS This photograph of Benedict XV was taken Sept umber !1 on the oocond anniversary of his elevation to tho juipul throne SUPPORTS FAMILY WITH ODD EQUIPAGE Tho high cost of living dm-s not pinch John V. Bell of Washington, owner of ri fine pair of gouts and u six-wheel Wagon and trailer, which has a capacity of from 500 to COO pounds. Ho hnuls ovcrythlng, from trash to family furniture, nd on Hundny feells Sunduy newspapers from Ills wagon. Ho has nwlfo nnd three children, und tho gonts support them nil, tho animals subsisting for the most part on rubbish nibbled hero and there on their trips. ZEPPELIN SHOT DOWN the fitcumcr Congr,sn of the Pacific Coast Steamship company on Hru tilt Coos with passengers, but all of them nnd tho crow were rescued. Tho steamship ON PAPAL THRONE WW NEAR LONDON CHARLES D. MAHAFFIE Churles I"). Muhutlle of Portland, Ore., has arrived in Washington and has been sworn in ns solicitor of tho Interior department. Ho is known throughout Ills nntlvo state ns a prom inent attornoy and u good mixer. CONDENSATIONS London's inhabitants lncludo 471,000 flat dwellers. A diver's boots weigh 20 pounds each and tho helmet -JO. In addition,, ho Is othcrwlso weighted. vPcarls nro steadily Increasing la value ; they nro now worth threo times us much as they wero ten years ngo. Tho wholo number of women em ployed In munition making In France. according to tho secretnry of muni (Ions, Is 100,300. Of theso 20,203 nro In stnlo factories. Tho. fossil coral of tho FIJI Islands Is snld to be the best building stono In tho world; When first cut It Is nliuost ns soft u cheese, but It solidi fies in the air until It Is as hard ns granite.