, THE 8EM1.WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
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BUDGET OF STATE BOARD OF
CONTROL IS LARGER.
BANK DEPOSITS INCREASE
Items of General Interest Gathered
From Reliable Sources Around
the State Houie.
Weitern Newspaper Union News Service.
Tho budget of tho state board of
control presented to Governor More
Aead nnd by him to be submitted to
tho legislature calls for an Increase
in appropriations for tho maintenance
of tho fifteen Btato institutions undor
tho management of this board. An in
crease In the number of Inmates
amounting to nearly 17 per cent Is
expected during tho coding two years.
In addition to this' tho board has
added 10 per cent lncrcaso because of
the advance In prices of supplies over
tho prices formerly paid by the stato.
Tho board of control comprises
Judge Howard Konnody, chairman, ox
Governor S. A. Holcomb and Henry
Gerdes. Two years ago this board
.presented to tho legislature its first
Tequest for appropriations. For tho
first tlmo In tho history of tho stato
tho legislature accepted tho word of
the board as to tho needs of state In
stitutions. It gave the board exactly
what it asked for. This confidence In
tho board was not misplaced, accord
ing to tho views of those who hava
"watched tho management of state in
stitutions. In spite of a big lncrcaso
in tho price of supplies in the past
two yearsf tho amount given by tho
legislature will tide tho Institutions
over until April 1, tho end of tho
blennlum, with scarcely a deficiency.
One or two of tho smaller Institutions
may show a small deficiency.
This year tho board of control asks
for an appropriation of $2,355,770 for
tho ordinary expenses of stato Insti
tutions. This is an increase of $268,-
050 over the amount appropriated for
the same purposes two years ago. In
addition the board aska for $454,800
for permanent improvements or othor
extra items of expense.
Big Increase In State Bank Deposits
Nebraska challenges tho world!
If the world accepts the world may
bo badly beaten In the matter' of In
crease in bank deposits the past
year,
Hero is what Nebraska has dono
in the past year. It is the record
upon which this stato stands.
In twelve months tho deposits in
the 800 banks of the state have in
creased $54,051,845.
An average monthly Increase of
more than $4,554,000 a month.
Figured down finer that would
mean an increase of moro than $1,
150 for every day of the month.
Or tho increase would amount to
moro than $41 for even man, woman
and child In the state.
It Is an Increase of moro than 50
per cent.
Since August 10 deposits have in
creased $14,407,000, and tho loans
nearly $12,560,000.
In the year loans have increased
$27,939,850.
Of total appropriations amounting
to noarly $10,000,000, made by the 1915
cglslature for all state departments
and Institutions during tho blennlum
from April 1, 1915, to tho same date in
1917, there remained on hand In De
comber, a little over one-fourth the
gross sum. Most of this will be expend
ed during the remainder of the blen
nlum. While the legislature of two yoars
ago made $9,849,718 availablo for the
blennlum, $2,000,000 ofthls came from
othor sources than the state treasury
and was not raised by ordinary taxa
tion. Foes collected by departments,
products and labor sold by stato in
stitutions, and miscellaneous other
""items made up this portion of tho
state's rovenuo.
Tho balance In all funds on De
cember 1. aggregated $2,739,217, leav
ing at that tlmo the expenditures of
four months, or one-sixth of tho blen
nlum still to be mot.
Theso figures aro shown In Stato
Auditor Smith's biennial report com
piled as a fiscal guide for tho next
legislature.
Will Fight Health Board.
Dr, Carrol Fox, federal health offi
cial, who Investigated health adminis
tration laws In Nobraska a few years
ago and who rocommended rovloutlon
ary chunges In our laws, will visit tho
legislature and lay before It reasons
why his plans are moBt feasible. It
Is said hero that practltlonors from
all the schools of medicine are pre
paring to fight a reorganization of
tho state health board. Many favor
It, however, and n battlo between tho
factions Is expected.
School Lands Worth Much Money
Stato school lands under leaso,
which would be subject to sale If tho
legislature over took a notion to take
that step, total 1,650,990 acres and aro
worth about $18,000,000 In tho Judg
ment of State Superintendent Thomas.
If the school lands of tho stato had
been kopt Intact and conserved as
have private Investments of Nebraska
Jaey would have brought upward of
$30,000,000 In to the permanent school
fundo of the state.
H1GHG0STHITSSTA
Recommend Exchange of Lands
Tho Stato forostratton commission
will recommond that 10,000 acres of
stato school lands In small tracts
scattered about in government forest
reservations' In Nobraska bo traded
to tho government for compact bodlos
of land In tho government reserva
tions. This would give tho govern
ment control over tho entlro govern
ment reservations which does not ob
tain at this time, and would also glvo
tho stato control over compact bodlos
of stato land which Is now scattered
promiscuously among government
lands. '
Tho commission will recommond
thrco bills for passago by tho legisla
ture. One will authorize counties and
cltios and villages to set aside tracts
of land for forest or lumber tracts to
sorvo as recreation grounds and as a
source of wood supply if carefully
planted and cut. Tho commission also
belloVes this plan would assist In
maintaining tho purity of water sup
plies In many instances. Tho second
bill will rolato to tho trading scat
tered stato lands for single tracts of
govornmont laud.
Tho third bill will embody a plan for
a pormanont stato forestratlon com
mission, to comprlso thrco members
appointed by tho governor for a term
of throe years each, to servo without
salary.
Farmers In Legislature.
Farmers and stockraisers will out
number lawyers In tho lowor branch
of tho Nebraska legislature thlB winter
by four to ono, but In tho sonate thoro
will bo seven attorneys as against only
four farmers and stockmen. A few of
tho farmers aro also Interested in
banks. Thoro will bo two houso mem
bers and one senator who aro retired
farmers, and who havo other interests
at present. The houso will contain
forty-eight members who glvo farming
as their occupation. If tho two retired
ones are included, this will give tho
agriculturists Just one-half tho mem
bership. Thoro aro twolvo lawyers in
tho houso, counting two univorslty
law students who aro proparlng them
selves for tho legal profession.
University Correspondence Cuorscs.
Correspondence coursos offcrod by
tho University of Nobraska extension
department axs reaching 433 men and
women who llvo not only In Nobraska,
but also In various parts of tho United
States from Cambridge, Mass., to San
Francisco, Cal. They represent farm
era, housewives, business men, me
chanics, laborers, professional men
and teachers. A majority of tho 433,
however, are teachers.
The purposo of the department is to
afford tho worker tho opportunity to
study during leisure hours, "all prob
lems artistic, literary, historical, so
cial, Industrial, moral, political, edu
cational problems in sanitation, city
lighting, banking, divorce in fact all
problems that may concern tho citi
zens of Nebraska." It is considered a.
step further in making the university
a peoplo's school.
Wants Money to Enforce Law.
Ona hundred thousand dollars, to be
usod as a special fund for the enforce
ment of prohibition laws and various
other sums for particular purposes,
over and abovo tho rogular depart
mental appropriations, are asked by
Attorney General Reed In his biennial
report to tho governor. The total
amount of such appropriations re
quested is $225,000, as compared with
$28,500 providod by the legislature of
1915 for special activities and main
tenance of tho legal' department.
The attorney general also asks for
two additional stenographers bcBlde
tho two now employed in his office.
This would require an additional ap
propriation of $3,360.
Mr. Ileed says the experience of oth
er states has shown that it is neces
sary, In order to obtain desired re
sults in enforcing prohibition, to make
an appropriation available for investi
gating violations and prosecuting of
fenders. Failure to make such an ap
propriation, ho asserts, will wcakon
tho force and effect of the laws.
Stato Treasurer Georgo B. Hall, in
his biennial report to Governor Moro
head, dwells at much length on tho
result of his order requiring county
treasurers to mako monthly remit
tances to the state. He rocommonds
a change In tho law that will per
mit state funds to bo given to banks
making tho highest bid instead of tho
present regulation which allows tho
treasurer to place the money In such
banks as ho may select, tho banks to
pay 3 per cent Interest
Flies Claim For State Reward.
Ira L. Cooper of St. Louis has, filed
a claim with Stato Auditor Smith
asking for an appropriation of $200
by tho legislature to pay him tho
stato reward offered in a proclamation
by Governor Morehead for the arrest
and return of John Jonos, a negro who
was found guilty of killing Sam Leons
at Omaha in October, 1913. Jones was
afterwards sentenced to be electro
cuted, but the supromo court changed
his sentonco to life imprisonment. Aa
the claim Is a valid ono against tho
state, ,
Tho agricultural activities bill,
which mado Its appearanco last'ses'
slon and which Is ono of the bills like
ly to receive considerable attention
this session, is comprehensive in scopo
and strikes at tho root of matters in
which the stato board of agrlculturo
is keenly Interested. It may bring on
a battle between the "rctentlonlsts"
and the "robolllonlsts" on that board.
Tho rctentlonistB want to continue af
fairs as they are. The robolllonlsts
want to reorganize tho board and take
out of its hands everything but the
munogemcnt of the state fair.
CONDENSED HEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 10-11 Odd Fellows' District Con
vention at Alliance.
January 15-20 Stato Improvod Llvo
Stock association meeting at -Lincoln.
Jan. 15 to 20 Organized Agrlculturo
Annual Mooting at Linpoln.
January 1C Nobraska Association of
Fair Managers' Mooting at Lincoln.
January 10-17-18 Annual convention
of Nobraska Voluntoor Firemen at
Auburn.
January 10-19 Winter Applo, Floral
and Potato Show at Lincoln.
Jan. 19 Northeast Nebraska Editorial
Meeting at Norfolk.
Feb. 7-S-9 Nobraska Retail Lumber
Dealers' Association Convention at
Omaha.
February 15 Stato Volleyball Con
test at York.
Six thousand eight hundred dollars
was tho price paid for the- Wahoo
Mills at an auction salo laBt woek.
The mills woro built ton years ago at
a cost of $25,000. Tho owner of tho
plant suspended business In July,
1915, and slnco that time they havo
stood ldlo. Tho FarmorB Co-Opera-tlvo
'company of Wahoo aro tho now
ownors and oxpect to put tho mills
in operation In tho near futuro.
Farmors who think they havo bet
tor corn than their neighbors will
havo an opportunity to tost their
Judgmont this winter by sending sam
ples to tho Nebraska stato corn show
to bo held at Lincoln January 15 to
18. This show Is an annual affair
conducted by tho Nebraska Corn Im
provers' association. Indications
point to a much larger entry list this
year than over before.
Flro In tho Union station office of
tho American express company at
Omaha destroyed seventy-five out
bound Christmas parcels of valuo un
known. Tho majority of tho pack-j
ages wero consigned to persons In
the state. Silver bullion valued at
$75,000 In tho office at the time, was
removed with difficulty to safety.
Auburn is soon to havo ono of the
best equipped hospitals In this stato.
Tho Institution will accommodate
about twenty patients. Work on tho
structure Is practically completed and
the formal opening Is oxpected to
tako place soon.
Revivalists Hart and Megann havo
Just closed O; five weeks' session at
Falrbury. Forty converts woro se
cured. A free-will offering, aggre
gating nearly $1,000, was raised.
Fire, thought to havo been caused
by spontaneous combustion, destroyed
the WHsonvlllc school building, erect
ed In 1889. Tho loss is placed at $16,
000; insurance, $11,000.
Sugar beet growers of Scotts Bluff
county aro going to get $7.50 a ton
for their siloed beets next fall, it is
said. A now factory in that reglbn Is
stimulating prices.
Tho Messenger is tho name of a
now paper established at Henry,
Scottsbluff county. It Is bolng edited
by Fred Mathlas, formerly of Pino
Bluff, Wyo.
A robber throw a brick through tho
Glldner Bros. Jewelry storo front at
Kearney and stole about $500 worth
of rings, ear drops and stickpins.
LlndBay elevators aro in a congest
ed state, due to the car shortage, all
of them being filled to tho top, with no
more grain being bought at any price
Ninety dollars an aero was the
price paid for a section of land In
Dawson county, situated in Coyoto
precinct
Bonds to tho sum of $15,000 havo
been issued by tho city of Norfolk
for tho purposo of acquiring a public
park.
At tho Connor farm salo near
Adams, milch cows with calvcB by
their sides brought as high as $125
each.
O'Noill has Just opened its munic
ipal skating pond, which covers a
half squaro block.
Flro destroyed tho building of the
Clark Drug company at Fremont, with
a loss of $25,000.
O. E. Wood has organized a county
farmers' union association at Wy
more. It cost the city of Omaha $5,251 to
hold tho recont special election on the
street lighting contract
Contract has been let for a now
$30,000 school building at Walthlll.
A now creamery and cheese fac
tory Is being organized at Beatrice.
The project Is the result of agitation
started by O. H. Llcbers, who was
county agent in chargo of tho work
In Gage county for four yearH. Dai
rying Is being carried on extensively
In tho county and tlilt. new concern
will mako a good market for milk.
The town of Deshlor has ono of the
largest electric lighted skating ponds
In tho whole state, and hundreds of
people from miles around arc enjoying
tho sport.
Tho Ogallala Community club has
completed arrangements for the erec
tion of fifteen five-cluster lights on
tho principal streets of the town
When theso lights are Installed it
Is tho belief that Ogallala will bo ono
of the best lighted towns of Its sizo
in tho Btato.
Tho Hamilton County Advocate,
which hns been published at Aurora
for the past flvo years by F. J.
Sharp, has suspended publication.
Mr, and Mrs. Wm. Young, of Brock,
recently celebrated their sixty-first
wedding anniversary.
Omaha is to bu tho location of tho
now federal farm loan bank for tho
eighth district, which comprises tho
states of Nobraska, Iowa, Wyoming
nntl South Dakota. News that tho
Nobraska motropolls secured tho in
stitution was received with general
satisfaction In Lincoln and Sioux City,
ita noarost rivals. Tho establishment
of tho farm loan banks Is tho first
stop by tho federal board toward put
ting Into effect tho provisions of tho
rural credits act, designed to mako It
posslblo for farmers to borrow money
at a low rate of Interest. According to
tho provisions of the act monoy will
bo loaned on long-ttmo first mortgages
up to 50 per cont of tho valuo of tho
land at a rato not higher than C por
cent. In order to obtain this loan a
farmer must bo a, momber of a loan
association of at least ten persons In
his section. Intorest muBt bo paid
yearly, and after flvo yoarB a small
portion of tho principal must bo paid
each year. Each hank will bo capital
ized at $750,000 and tho local com
munity will ho glvon the first oppor
tunity to buy Uio Btock.
Ono of tho most unlquo engineer
ing feats of modern railroading was
successfully consummated at Omaha
when tho superstructure of tho old
Union Pacific brldgo, which spanB tho
Missouri river, was moved bodily
from tho piers and tho now super
structure, weighing G.50Q tons, was
moved Into place Tho old brldgo was
moved north to temporary piers and
tho now brldgo rolled Jnto Its place.
Traffic over tho brldgo was stopped
only a few hours. Tho actual moving
of tho new superstructure a distance
of somo thirty feot was accomplished
In ton mlnutjes by tho uso of donkey
engines and Immense block and tack
les. Senator Hitchcock nt Washington,
has received a report on tho forest re.
sorvo In Nebraska from District For
ester Riley, stationed at Denver, In
which ho declares that tho most Im
portant needs In this Btato aro: Tho
building of roads for tho protection of
tho national forest; to permit tho salo
of products; and to opon tho forest
for rccrentlon purposes. Tho receipts
from tho Nebraska rosorvo during
1910 woro $6,547, derived 'mostly
from grazing permits. Tho elimina
tion of tho North Platto division Is
believed to havo caused the falling off
In receipts.
Norrls A. Huso, editor and half
owner of tho Norfolk Dally News, has
accoptcd tho position of vlco presldont
of tho American Press Association,
and will leave Norfolk with his fam
ily In a few days to mako hlB homo
In Now York. Ho will bo manager
of tho advertising department of tho
company ho Is to bo associated with,
as well as a stockholder. Tho Omaha,
World-Herald declared Mr. Huso Is to
recelvo a salary of $25,000 a year. His
now work will bo to bring tho big
advortlscr Into touch with tho coun
try newspaper.
Petitions aro In circulation through
out Gago county for tho purposo of
changing tho prcsont supervisor
form of government to a commission
system. In order to secure tho sub
mission of the question it will bo
necessary to securo tho slgnaturo of
ten per cent of tho voters of the
county. Tho proposition, 1ms beeni
agitated1 for soveral months.
Tho Nebraska stato poultry show
will bo staged this year In Kearney,
January 15 to 26, and, according to A.
H. Smith, tho association's secretary,
of Lincoln thoro 1b reason to bollovo
moro than 2,000 representatives of the
aristocratic feathered trlbo wll bo on
hand, striving for tho many prizes, sil
ver trophies and medals which will bo
awarded.
Tho now bridge across tho Platto
river south of Kearney was opened to
travel lastweek. Tho now brldgo is
I, 000 feet long and twenty feet wido,
built entlroly of concrotc, at a cost of
of approximately $00,000,
Rabbits are moro plentiful In south
east Nebraska this winter than In
years. Three hunters at Falls City
wore out a Bhort time tho other day
and came In with over ono hundred of
the llttlo animals.
J. W. Ramaekers, 80, of Lindsay,
who had a needlo removed from Ills
right shoulder a few days ago, does
not know how tho tiny bit of steel
came to bo In his body.
For tno first tlmo In the history of
tho South Omaha stock yards tho cat
tlo receipts for tho month of Decem
ber passed tho 100,000 mark.
Nebraska ranked third among all
the states In tho union In tho amount
of monoy contributed to tho states
by tho Interstate Trap Shooting as
sociation for registered trap shooting
tournaments during 1910. A total of
$975 was contributed to this stato.
Nebraska held nineteen registered
tournamcntH during tho year.
The farmers' unlonH in tho vicinity
of Wayno havo Just organized an olo
vator company with a capital of
$25,000. It will rcstoro an old elo
vator and handle grain and coal.
Tho Dempster company of Beat
rico, remembered their employes
Christmas, who number four hundred
men, with an order of $2 each on tho
stores In the city. The amount given
to tho men was approximately. $800,
Albert Abrams, a wealthy bachelor,
wa found dead at his homo near
Hastings, death resulting, It la
thought, from freezing. Ho was re
ported to he worth $50,000,
Frank Howard of Pawnoo City pur
chased a carload of horses at Beatrico
for which ho paid on an averago of
about $150 per head.
Proclaiming the Slender Silhouette
Hero is a slmplo but quite original
evening or dinner dress worn by ono
of the pretty young women who helped
to make "Tho Boomerang" so great u
success. It almost goes without say
ing thut a piny presented by Bolnsco
'will bo correctly staged In every par
ticular, and that no detail of costum
ling will bo slighted. This gown Is1
.among the cnrllost that proclaimed tho
return of tho slender silhouettes It
inppenrs to hove bowed to tho InevU
'table, but with much reserve.
Tho dress Is mado qf, crepe geor
gette with a plain underskirt trimmed
with bands of silver spangles, gradu
ated In width. Although It consents
!to bo long enough to reach the Instep,
jit refuses to conceal the nnklos and
merely veils them. This Is an nllurlng
'hit of coquetry, for you Just gllinpso
them ono minute, nnd fho next you
(don't. A forerunner of the long tunic
appears In tho drnpery that fulls over
the underskirt.
New Departure in Satin Frocks
By way of vurlcty this plain, simple,
straight-hanging gown of satin Is In
teresting, nnd It Is a new departure.
As shown in the accompanying plcturo
It is developed In black, but It might
!bo tnado with ulmost equul effective
ness In colors. As It Is, a good name
.for It would bo tho "chapel" dress.
With less pretentious collar nnd cuffa
lit Is ono of those dignified nnd quiet
gowns that remind ono of convents,
cloisters nnd churches.
Tho model Is n now departure in
styles and could hardly bo moro
simple, The waist is short nnd plain,
with an easy adjustment to tho figure,
nnd tho skirt Is gathered on to It so
'that It is amply full nnd has liberal
lines. Tho most noteworthy featuro
'which it boasts will ho recognized us
fin Innovation In present styles. It la
Tho b'odlco Is mado with a short pep-
lum nnd could hardly ho moro simply
draped. Tho sleovcs suggest a scarfl
thrown over the arms, nnd are wldo
at tho wrlsto. They uro altogether
ns Irresponsible as to shnpo us the
wldo glrdlo of bends Is to Its duty,
which Is to confine tho waistline. Tho
wnlstllno Is ornamented but not re
stricted, nnd tho model tuny therefore
hold Its own In poiut of stylo with
tho latest of gowns "a la chemise."
Nothing in tho wny of n hat could
look better with this dress than tho
filmy model which supplcmcnta It It
Is a sailor of guileless simplicity and
has n transparent brim of crcpo and a
crown of ribbon. Tjiero in a youthful
rosette-bow of ribbon nt tho front of
tho crown with fishtail onds of ribbon
resting on tho very unsubstantial sup-
port furnished by tho crcpo, brim.
This Is n costumo for tho young mnldj
nnd It becomes her slcnderncss.
the elbow sleeve finished with n rutlic.
Moreover, this model is shown with a
light ribbon girdle, n thing which has
not been In evidence on daytlmo frocksj
for Bomo time. Hut the glrdlo Is a girl
ish accessory and not ' un essential
part of tho composition of tho gown..
The owner of- handsomo Inco in
cape, collar or fichu, or In sots for
nock and sleovcs, may rejotco at a
inodft which makes theso accessories
Imperative. This gown becomes a
background for their display, nnd 1U
Importance is ndvunced according to
tho character of tho neckwear or.
Bleovo llounces used. They should'
match, If possible. But where onq
owns n lino laco collar, net flouncea
for tho sleovcs may bo edged with lace,
to match It, and tho collar mado to
bask In the approval of gentlewomen,
for they ull lovo Inco. .