The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922, October 27, 1916, Image 10

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    THE 3EMI.WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
CONDENSED NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Oct 31 Northwostorn Nobraska Med
ical Society meeting, Long Pine.
Nov. 3 Nebraska "Fire Prevention
Day."
Nov. 2-6 Nebraska Christian En
deavor Union state couvention at
Omaha.
Nov. 8-9-10 Nebraska Slato Teach
ers' association mooting at Omaha.
November 1-4, Second Annual Cours
ing Meet at Omaha.
November 7 General Election Day
In Nebraska. (
Nov. 21-23 Farmers' Co-operative
State Grain and Llvo Stock Ship-
- ping ass'n vonvontton at Omaha.
Nov. 27 to Dec. 2 Annual Poultry
. Show at Omaha.
Dec. 4 to 0 Annual Poultry and Pot
Livo Stock Show at Deatrlce.
Dec. 12-14 Nebraska Farmers Con
gress at Omaha.
December 20-21 'National Farmers'
Equity Convention at Omaha.
A letter was received In Beatrice to
tho effect that Company C of that city
would probably remain on tho border
until spring. Heavy clothing has
toen ordered for tho men, and It Is
stated that they will probably spend
tho winter at Houston, Texas.
Bankers of Hastings have cut Inter
est" rates to depositors front 4 to 3
per cent. They assert in explanation
there is such an unprecedented
amount of money being deposited and
such llttlo demand for loans thoy find
it difficult to make a fair profit.
An unusual public sale was held
at Hemlngford a few days ago. John
Mabln sold his entire potato crop, con
sisting of 8,000 bushels, and topped
the market, ono brand of spuds sell
ing as high as $1.24 a bushel.
Jotforson county farmers are begin
ning to husk tho cdrti crop, yields
ranging all tho way from fifty to flfty-
Xlva, bushels per acre. Huskers are
receiving 3 to 5l, cents a bushel. ,
Work on Httrtington's new $25,060
liotel Is progressing rapiuly and It 13
expected It will bo practically en-
closed before winter sots in. The hos.
telry will bo named The Ilartlngton.
J. A. Li3ter, formerly editor of the
Ilartlngton Herald, has purchased the
Crofton Journal from It. B. Cooley. Mr.
Lister Is a well known Nebraska news
paper man.
E. A. Gorrard, 82 years old, editor
of the Monroo Looking Glass, and
Miss Grace McWlllIams, 26, were
united In marriage at Monroo Just re
ently.
Word has been received that Paul
llagon, son of Judge J. M. Ragan of
Hastings, has beon wounded while
fighting with the allies In France.
A record for corn husking was made
by Curtis Ressoll of Cerosco when he
liusked.and cribbed 138 bushels of corn
in ten and one-half hours.
March, 0, 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1917, are
the dates set for the Mid-West Ce
ment Users' association twelfth an
nual convention at Omaha.
Tho Hastings, school hoard is ask
ing for plans for a fl25,000 Junior
high school building to accomodate
00 pupils.
A Richardson county farmer re
cently sold sixteen mules to a ICan
saB buyer for an average of $150 per
head.
Potatoes aro bolng shipped Irom
Homlngford at tho rate of about twen
ty-flve cars a day.
Tho NorthweBt Nebraska Teachers'
association will hold its annual meet
ing In Rushvllle, November 3 and 4.
As tho result of freight) car short
ago tho Lexington flour mills have
been closod for an indefinite period.
Corn throughout Gage county Is av
oraglng all the way from forty to
-fifty bushels to the acre.
Two hundred head of cattle woro
sold at auction by Davis B. Bryson at
his farm near Adams, and there were
buyers from points In Gage, Pawnee
and Johnson counties. A cow and
calf brounht $171. and two black
polled Angus and Durham bulls sold
for about 5150 each. All the stock
sold averaged about $90 per head.
A covernment oxnert road builder
will superintend tho constructing of
two miles of, gravel road at Kearney
Tho hiehwav will extend from EIgh
teenth street to the Platte river
bridge.
On December 20 and 21 tho Nation
al Farmers' Equity union Is to be in
session at Omaha. This is a co-oper
atlvo buying and selling organization
and Is to bring delegates from Mis
sourl, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado,
North Dakota and South Dakota,
Iowa, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Wiscon
sin.
Omaha will soon have a central
free employment bureau, to bo con
ducted Jointly by state and federal
authorities. The ngency will distrib
ute laborers over Nebraska and ad
Joining states.
Prospective bridegrooms have paid
Iho sum of $23,750 for 11,875 licenses
issued In Douglas county during tho
past five years, according to stMIs-
tlcs compiled by Horbert Stubben-
dorff, license clork. In tho county
ludgo's office. ,
John Williamson, aged C5, and Mrs
Maggie Ready, aged C4, wero married
at Rivorton last week. This is Mr.
Williamson's third marriage and Mrs.
Ready's fourth.
Butler county fair receipts for the
1016 exhibition totaled $2,565.90, or
1481.35 greater than in 1915.
The hearing beforo tho Custer
county board on the petition for the
proposed northeast county has been
concluded and tho board found that
tho petition did not contain tho names
of a majority of tho electors In tho
said proposed now county and there
for rejected It. Thus tho county di
vision fight came to an abrupt end
and the question will not bo an lssuo
In this campaign. The 111 feeling that
has existed In previous division con
tests was conspicuous this yoar by Us
absence.
It has been predicted that tho town
of Dunbar, within tho next year and
a half, will havo o now water works
systom, electric lights, a now $20,000
hotel, hotter roads and several othpr
neodod Improvements, as tho result of
tho organization of tho Dunbar Com
munity Commercial club. The town
now has an $18,000 Prosbytorlan
church, a $10,000 opera house and has1
Just completed a new $35,000 school
house.
November 21 to 23, tho Farmors'
Co-operative State Grain and Live
Stock Shipping association Is to hold
Its convention In Omaha. This will
bring 800 delegates. This Is an or
ganization that doals exclusively with
the problems of marketing.
More new members wore added to
Nebraska Presbyterian churches dur
ing tho past year than during any
other twelve months, according to re
ports read at tho forty-third annual
session of the organization at Hast
ings. Tho increase In tho prico of black
smiths' work is duo to tho raise in
price of iron and wood material, ac
cording to the opinion expressed by
members' of the State Blacksmith as
sociation at tho convention in Hast
ings recently.
Resolutions calling for an Increaso
In dues in tho Nebraska grand lodge
Jurisdiction of Odd Fellows, from $4
to fi, wone- defeated at tho grand lodgo
col. Jntlon at Lincoln. The raiso
would havo applied to all subordinate
lodges in tho state.
That Norfolk is growing Is shown by
tho fact that Glenwood addition, which
is composed of about 150 lots, which
was opened recpntly, was completely
sold out on tho day of opening. About
$50,000 was tho aggregate price of tho
lots.
Hastings landed tho 1917 annual
convention of tho Nebraska State Bap.
tlst association at the recent meeting
at Fremont. Tho semi-centonnlal cel
ebration of tho organization will bo
held next year in connection with tho
convention.
Tho Beatrice Young Women's Chris
tian association will hold a conference
of associations in Beatrice early In
November, with delegates from var
ious counties In the state in attend
ance. The highest price over paid for du
rum wheat on the Omaha market was
reached last week when a car sold
for $1.70 a bushel. Hard wheat sold
tho same day for $1.62 a bushel, a
record.
Members of the German Lutheran
church of Beatrice havo decided to
build a strictly1 fire-proof, up-to-date
hospital In tho city, to cost in th-3
neighborhood of $75,000.
Tho now $20,000 depot being erected
by the Burlington at Tecumseh is as
sumlng shape, the foundation having
been finished last week. It is ex
pected to have tho structure .enclosed
in the next two months.
1,105 cars of llvo stock were re
ceived at the South Omaha stock
yards ono day last week. This Is tho
largest receipts for a 'slnglo day In
the history of the market
Citizens of Buffalo county will de
cldo at the coming election whether
the county will continue under tho
present supervisor form of govern'
ment or adopt the commission plan.
A $25,000 bond proposition for tho
purpose of constructing a municipal
electric light -plant at Beatrice lost
by 93 votes. .
Five thousand cornhuskers aro
needed (n Nebraska at once, it was
announced by Miss M. A. Sadler of
tho Omaha employment bureau. Sev
eral thousand more will be needed In
a short time. Miss Sadler oayB husk
ers can mako from $3 to $4 a . day,
with board and room.
A full quota of teachers from Lin
coin, Nebraska City, Seward, St. Ed
ward, Arlington, David City, West
Point and dozens of other Nebraska
towns will attend tho State Teachers'
association convention at Omaha Nov.
8, 9 and 10,
Tho Brown and LucaB garage at Sll
ver Creek, containing seven automo
biles, owned by citizens of the town,
was completely destroyed by fire. Los
'of the building Is estimated at $10,000
anu uio cars wero vaiueu at $5,00l,
Thero was no Insurance on tho gar
ago nor its contents.
Burlington railroad offlcl' t hav
ordered removed a blockade of two
boxcars placed In such a way as to
prevent tho Union .Pacific from dou.
ble-tracklng across tho former's right
of-way in Hastings. The blockade
was placed in August, 1912.
Work Is progressing rapidly on tho
now $75,000 federal building at Al
llance. Masons are spending consid
erablo money remodeling a building
for a suitable home for tho members
of tho order,
Tho Nebraska Association of Chris
tlon Endeavorers will hold their an
nual convention in Omaha, November
2 to 5, with nearly two thousand
delegates in attendance.
Tho cornerstone of Niobrara's new
school building was laid last Wednes
day. Members of tho Masonic order
participated.
AUSTRIAN STATESMAN 8LAIN BY
VIENNA NEWSPAPER MAN.
MOTIVE PURELY POLITICAL
Assassin Admits He Killed Count
Stuergkh Because He Refused to
Call Session of Parliament.
Vienna! Premier Count Carl Stu
regkh, a prominent figure in Austrian
political affairs for years, was as
sassinated whllo at tinner by Dr.
Frederlk Adler, editor of a Vienna
nowspapor. According to tho admis
sion of tho assailant the deed was
purely political and was induced by
the count's refusal to convene par
liament. News of tho assassination spread
like wlldllns throughout tho nation
and was received with Indignation
and sorrow. Tho assassin, who is 32
years old, is a son of Dr. Victor Ad
ler a relchsrarth deputy and a social
ist of mild type. ,
It is declared that tho murderer of
the premier was of unbalanced mind.
His sister has been In an insane
asylum for more than ten years.
Dr. Frledrich Adler advocated an
archistic theories and was a violent
opponent of his own father, Dr. Vic
tor Adler, tho recognized lender of
Austro-Hungarlan socialists. A few
days ago tho Arbelter Zoltung of
Vienna, tho official nowspapor of tho
Austro-Hungarlan socialist party, pub
lished an editorial denouncing Fried
rich Adler's agitation as obnoxious to
tho socialist party and detrimental to
public Interests. Tho editor-ln-chlef
of tho Arbelter Zeltung lsDr. Victor
E. Adler.
Premier Stuergkh wob a firm op
ponent of all progressive trend in
Austrian politics. lie withstood tho
(femand for tho convocation of parlia
ment, Ho was largely responsible for
the stern Austrian press censorship,
hut there was no political feeling had
run high enough in Austria to result
in his assassination.
Tho premier was not regarded as a
man of particular force, but rather as
(he representative of a system.
Will Offer Resignations.
Berlin. A Vienna dispatch to the
Overseas News agency says that tho
Austrian cabinet held a session after
the assassination of Premier Stuergkh,
presided over by the senior member,
Baron GoorgI, minister of national de
fense. In accordanco with prccodent,.
all the ministers will offer their resig
nations. Survivor Tells of Disaster.
Cleveland, O. Storm-swept Lake
Erie has given up another fragment
of the story of its "Black Friday,"
Oct.. 20 anotlu;r vessel pounded to
pieces in the stinging gale and grind
ing waves, carrying twenty-ono men
to their deaths. Tho last vessel is
the Duluth-owned whaloback, James
B. Colgate, Its lono survivor, adrift
thirty and ono-halt hours on a raft,
brought tho story ashore. Ho Is Cap
tain Walter Grashaw of this city,
master of the Colgate, which went
down nt 10 o'clock last Friday night
off Longpolnt, Canada, opposite Erie.
Every ono of tho crew of twenty
ono porlshed, nineteen of them suck
ed down to dieath the Instant tho big
steel boat foundered In tho storm,
and two added to tho roll when, ex
hausted, thoy wore washed off the
raft that carried their captain.
Six men wero lost when tho steam
er Filar sank in Lake Erie, only its
captain being saved.
Belgian Orphans Coming to U. 8.
Now York. Tho Rev. John B. Die
vlllo, American delegate in Belgium
for tho Belgian-American alliance in
.Chicago, sailed on the steamer Ryn-
dam Tor Belgium to arrange for the
sending hero of 300 Belgian boys and
girls under 15 years of age and or
phaned by tho war, who aro to be
cared for by American relatives, The
Rev. Mr. Dovlllo said that since tho
war began 'his organization had ar
ranged for transportation of more
than 800 Belgians to the United
States.
More Demands On Greece.
London. The presentation by tho
'Greece, Including the removal of
Greek troops to tho southern part of
tho country and tho handing over of
Greek war supplies, Is reported by
Reuter's Athcn's correspondent.
Two British Transports 8unk.
Berlin. Tho armed British trans
ports Crossbill nnd Sedek wero sunk
In tho Mediterranean by German sub
marines last wek, says fin official
statement issued by Germany.
Cut Expense of Keeping Insane.
Mlllcdgovillc, Ga. Because of the
high cost of living, many of the 4,200
inmates of tho state hospital for thv
Insane hero who ane not considered
dangerous nre to be returned to tho
caro of friends and relatives or to tho
counties from which thoy came.
Food Prices in Hands of Government.
Ottawa, Ont. Requests for the gov
eminent to take action to control the
prices of food and othor necessaries
wero made by mayors and aldermen
of many Canadian cities here.
WREGK OF
The photograph tdiutta tho w recti of tln ginlu Zippi-Un uroiighi tlmsn . mi-iili-mill guns near London. Thu
gondoln nttachud to the Zeppollu wus barely touched by tho Humes that demolished the rest of tho aircraft.
FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF FAMOUS BRITISH "TANK"
This is tho llrst photograph to reach the I'nlted States of one of thu British armored "tanks," tho great steel
protected monsters that wero used t the battle of tho Somme. They cross streams, climb hills and crawl over
shell holes nnd trenches.
Nine men appointed by the secretary of war, two of whom aro civilians, constitute a board which Is inspecting
nnd testing the existing types of machine guns with a view to tho adoption of ono or more models for use by the
United Stntes army. They will recommend tho typo or types of mnchtno guns oh which $12,000,000, appropriated by
the last congress for tho purchase of machine guns will bo spent. The members of tho board arc, from left to right:
Col. Tracy C. Dickson ; Lieut. Stephen C. Rowan ; Col. Henry D. Todd, Jr., Cupt. Robert II. Willis, Bnscom Llttlo, Cnpt.
Edwurd P. Cole, B. M. W. Hanson, Col. Joseph E. Dlckman, Gcu. Francis II. French, chairman.
sublieutenant Wlllluni Seubroolt ami wife of Atlanta, in photo
graphed on their arrival In New York on the French Unur ISspnguo. Mr. Sen
brook has been in t)o midst of tho allied drive on tho Somme for tho last six
months as a member of the American umbulnnco corps. Mrs. Scabrook dur
ing this period acted us nurse in ono of tho buso hospitals of tho same organisation.
GREAT ZEPPELIN NEAR LONDON
MACHINE GUN BOARD AT WORK
Tin man who has proved a terror to
tho striking employees of tho Standard
Oil company ut Bnyonuo, N. J, In In
spector Daniel Cad,