Nebraska Newspapers

    THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA
EW ARMY DRAFT
TAKES 233,472
STEPHEN BONSALL
BAKER FOR HUGE
ARMY IN FRANCE
Secretary Wants Forces In
creased as Fast as Ships
Can Take-Men Across.
VICE ADMIRAL SCHR0EDER
(Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture.)
WOLVES AND COYOTES OR LIVE STOCK WHICH?
Selects Ordered to Entrain With
n Five Days' Period
Beginning May 25.
QUOTAS BY STATES GIVEN
APPEARS BEFORE HOUSE BODY
I sar t , 1 , , " , r:i
Helping the Meat and Milk Supply
Secretary Baker's Estimate of War
CoBt for Year Believed to Be Too
Low Committee Puts Flauro
at 20 Billion.
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Washington, May 6. State officials
received calls on Friday for men to nil
tho May draft quota. Provost Marshal
-Crowder said 233,472 will be Inducted
,, Into service during the month.
The men were ordered to entrain for
camp within live days' period begin
ning May 25. This brings thv total
number of men called for the month
-of May, Including special classes, to
approximately 305,000.
Among the state quotas, with the
camps to which they are assigned, are
as follows :
Arizona Camp Cody 1,784
Arkansas
Camp Beauregard 300
Campv PIko 4,124
Colorado Camp Cody 2,070
Idaho Camp Lewis 709
Illinois - v t
Camp Wheeler 5,000
Camp Grant .- 5,000
Camp Gordon .' 4,108
Camp Shelby 4,351
Indiana Camp Taylor 3,470
Jowu Camp Dodgo 3,054
ICansns Camp Funston 4,871
Kentucky Camp Taylor .........0,311
Michigan
Camp Wheeler 5,000
Camp Custer 5,149
Minnesota Camp Lewis ...-.....4,714
.Missouri
Camp Port KUey 5,400
, Camp Dodge '. . . . 7,257
IMontana Camp Lewis , 2,103'j
-.Nobniska Camp Dodge 1,5 1 3
SNcw Mexico Camp Cody 9S5
'Now York
Camp Dix .a . 1...'. ..0,800
Camp Ilancock 0,850 ;
Camp Upton 7.G00 !
'Camp Wadsworth 0,700
Camp Sevier 1.3S0
North Dakota Camp Lewis 1,230
(Ohio
, Camp Gordon, 0,800
, Camp Sherman '. 3,000
.Camp Taylor :.. .7,233
Oklahoma
Camp Bowie .....3,400
Camp Fort Riley ..." 2,449
3Pennsylvnnln
Camp Meade 7,700
Camp Lee ' 4,000
. Camp Humphreys 3,000
Camp Greenleaf 2,023
South Dako.ta Camp Lewis 1,848
Tennessee Camp Pike 4,130
Camp Cody 2,200
Camp Bowie 1,124
Camp Travis 5,000
'Utah Cump Lewis 800
"Washington Camp Lewis 518
!Vest Virginia Camp Lee 4,797
Wisconsin Camp Grant 10,007
Wyoming Camp Lee 107
The vast army expansion program
submitted by the administration for
-the liscal year beginning July 1 next
will cost the nation close to $20,000,
O00.000, In the opinion of many mem
Tiers of 'the house committee on mili
tary affairs.
Secretary of War Baker, who was
before the committee again, relternt-1
cd his statement that the program '
calls for actual expenditures totaling
:$1S,000,000,000 for the fiscal year.' ,
The secretary was closely ques- j
tloncd on many of the Items, however,
nd both Republican and Democratic
members of the committee nsserted
afterward that Mr. Baker has under
estimated the cost of the program.
As estimated by committee moni
tors the proposals of the administra
tion, as now shaped, call for appropri
ations aggregating nearly $10,000,000,-
O00,
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$1,000,000 FIRE IN WAUKEGAN l
Eight Hundred Bluejackets From
Great Lakes Station .Help Fire
men Fight Big Blaze.
Waukegan, 111., May 0. Five hun
dred employees were thrown out of
work and property valued at approxi
mately $1,000,000 destroyed when tire
pwept the Waukegan Manufacturers'
Terminal plant. The fire started In a
idle of lumber on the west side of the
plant, and beforo tho arrival of tho
fire department had spread to seven
other buildings.
Eight hundred Jackles from tho na
,val training station and tho fire de
partments of Wnukegan and North
Chicago worked five hours beforo the
fire was under control.
Persia Denounces Treaty.
The Hague, May 0. Persia has In
formed Holland that it regurds as null
void nil treaties Imposed on Persia In
recent years, and especially tho Rus-so-Brltlsh
treaty of 1007 regarding the
spheres of Influence In that country.
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Victor Company Loses Suit.
Now York. May 0. The Victor Talk
ing Machine "company was hold to bo
an Illegal combination In restraint of
(trade In a flnnl decree signed by Fed
eral Judge Hnad. Tho court Issued
dissolution restraining order.
Stophen Bonsnll, veteran war corre
spondent, Is n major nttached to the
general staff in Washington. He has
covered for New York newspapers
wars In almost every country In the
world for the past thirty yenrs. Later
lie hari been In the diplomatic service,
and then was commissioner of public
utilities in the Philippine islunds.
5,000,000 FOR ARMY
SENATOR SMITH INTRODUCES
NEW WAR MEASURE.
War Department Plans Biggest Draft
Since the Initial Call for
Troops. -
Washington, May 2. Measures to
add millions of men to the American
army were Introduced In the senate on
Monday. Senator Hoke Smith of
Georgia Introduced a resolution call
ing upon the military affairs commit
tee to prepare a bill for an army of
5,000,000. Senator Reed of Missouri
Introduced a 1)111 calling for 3,000.000.
The largest drafts yet summoned to
tho colors since the Initial call which
organized the Natlonnl army will be
made by .the war department almost
immediately. Tho lirst call will affect
the May contingent ordered out. The
department made It plain In Its week
ly review that It Intended Increasing
the number of men called into service
at once.
If tho plnns now considered are car
ried out, as believed absolutely neces
sary, the call for May will total 300,
000 men, while the call for June will
reach very nearly 200,000.
9ALL RUSS REVOLT HUN FAKE
French Newspapers Say Reports of
Monarchlal Restoration Ema
nate From Germany.
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Washington, May 2. Reports com
ing from FInlnnd through Copenhagen
that a revolt In Petrogrnd had result
ed In the restoration of the monarchy
emanated from Berlin, In tho opinion
of French newspapers as given In un
official dispatch.
The French puhllc Is ndvlscd to ac
cept tho news with cnutlon, since It
has not been substantiated by later
reports either from Finland or Mos
cow or by the allied ministers in Swe
den. "Tho French papers," said tho dis
patch, "receive with great reserve the
report sent out by German propaganda
that serious troubles appear to have
broken out In Petrogrnd. and that a
monarchlal restoration Is likely to
follow In fnvor of the former czaro
vltch, Alexis Nlkolalcvltch. The Petit
Journal writes:
" 'Prudence should all the more be
followed In this matter, because It Is
to the greatest Interest of the Ger
mans that troubles should arise In
Petrogrnd to justify an Intervention
for which they are ready.' "
MAKES PEACE PLEA TO ITALY
Catholic Press Agency Says Empercr
of Austria Has Made Offer U. S.
Sees Trickery In Move.
Stockholm, May 2, Tho Catholic
International Press agency announces
that Emperor Charles Is . making a
fresh offer, appealing to Italy to ac-
nrt- tn lmfinli P tin,- mm Ininpnutd
Washington, Mny 2. Although It bus
been predicted rrcquentiy tnat ir tne
present German campaign should fall a
"peace offensive" would bo Inaugurated
by the central powers, there has been
no previous Intlmntlon that a new
move of this nature was being made.
HUNS BEAT FINN RED GUARDS
Berlin Claims Capture of 20,000 Pris
oners In Five-Day Battle In the
Southwest.
Berlin, May 0. "In southwestern
Finland we have overwhelinlngly de
feated tho enemy during n five-day
battle near Lakhti and Tavasthaus,
capturing 20,000 prisoners," says the
German official communication Issued
on Friday,
Nagel Given U. S. Post.
St. Louis, May 0. Charles Nagel,
former secretnry of commerco and la
bor In President Taft's cabinet, left
for Washington on Friday afternoon
where. It Is said, ho will tako a fed
eral post.
Hayo to Open G. O, P. Offices,
New Yorlc. May 0. Will n. Hays of
Indlnnn, chalrmnn of tho Republican
national committee, reached New York
Friday and is making arrangements
for the 'opening of tho national head-quurters.
War Chief Asks $13,009,000,000' to
Carry Out Colossal Military Pto
, gram May Amend
Draft Act.
Washington, May 4. A colossal mili
tary program was submitted on Thurs
day by Secretary of War Baker to the
house committee on military affairs.
Here nw tho principal fenturos of the
plan :
1. Expenditures on the army aggrc
" gating $13,000,000,000 in the next fiscal
year, more than twice the total of tills
year's outlay.
2. Manufacture of artillery on a stu
pendous scale, Involving tho Immedi
ate erection of enormous plants, tho
whole outlay representing several bil
lion dollars.
3. Draltlng of at least l.OQO.OOO ad
ditional registrants and as mnny more
ns can bo equipped and transported to
Frnnce, with the prospects favorable
to maintaining an army of 3,000,000
men in tho 'field next year.
lie told tho committee thnt It would
be ill-advised to restrict the number
of men to bo .utilized and that the size
of the army should be increased In tho
discretion of the government, ns trans
portation and equipment fucllltlcs
warrant.
Secretnry Bnker Indicated he would
submit n proposed measure, probably
'as an amendment to tho draft law, to
grant the unlimited authority asked.
Under the existing dnift law, as con
strued by Chairman Dent of tho mili
tary committee and others, there Is au
thority for the uw of only 1,000,000
men under draft. Mr. Dent Introduced
a bill to authorize a Oraft total of -V
000.000 men, which, with volunteers aid
ready In the service, would make an"
ultimnto possible maximum strength
of 5.000,000 men.
The house military committee will
Immediately rosum'p consideration of
'the annual army appropriation bill and
Secreta.ry Baker's Idea Is that It shall
provide onVj.'or the number Immedi
ately foresee-:.
Indications arc that It will carry pro
vision for equipment, transportation,
pay and other expenses of approxi
mately 3,000,u00 men, ns part not of a
specific 'program, but ns a furtherance
of a blanket nutholty plan Involving
the use of all or part of tho funds ap
propriated and supplemental appro
priations later on as their need may
become apparent.
FIVE U. S. FLYERS KILLED
Major Brlndley, Chief Instructor; Col.
Damm and Three Others Lose
Lives In Accident.
Dayton, O., May 4. MaJ. Oscar A.
Brindley and Colonel Damm, two ex
pert aviation men from tho McCoog
federal flying flold here, met death on
Thursday at lhe Moraine City avia
tion field here. Tho machine dropped
400 feet while making a turn in tho
alrv
Colonel Damm and Major Brlndley
hnd started for an experimental trip
and hnd soared to a height of 400 feet
when, witnesses say, in endeavoring
to make a too sudden turn the air
plane went Into a tall spin and drop
ped to tho ground.
Major Brlndley was recently named
chief Instructor of the American aerial
forces.
Fort Worth, Tex., May 4. Falling
150 feet In a straight nose dive, Lieut.
.Tnmos S. Ennls, Jr., of Now York city,
and Cadet Paul Perriott of Oakland,
Cnl., were killed hero on Thursday.
Lawton, Okia., May 4. Llout. Wil
liam Dean Thompson of tho Two Hun
dred and Fifty-third field artillery,
student observer at Pbst field, was
killed and Lieut. Foster Bailey, pilot,
was Injured Seriously on Thursday,
when their airplane fell 30 feet.
BALLOON BLAST KILLS TWO
Eighteen Soldiers Also injured When
Gas Bag Explodes at Field Near
Fort Omaha.
Omaha, Neb., May 4. Two soldiers
wore killed and 18 injured when the
gns bag of n balloon exploded In Its
hangar at Florenco field, near Fort
Omaha. Tho dead and Injured wero
members of the Thirteenth bnlloon
company and all wero In thu hangar
at the -time of the accident The bal
loon and hangnr were destroyed by a
fire which followed. Tho bag had just
been pulled down from u trial ascen
sion. General Kealy Promoted.
Washington, May 4. Brlu'. Gen.
William I. Kealy of the National
army was nominated for promotion to
tho rank of mnjor general. G. S. Allen
of Topoku, Kan., was nominated to bo
register of tho land ofllco at Topekn.
Spy Gets Eighteen Months.
Dubuque, In., May 4. Bernard
Stenzel, Wnvorly, Ia attorney, found
guilty on Thursday of violating .the es
pionage act, was sentenced to 18
.months In tho federal penitentiary at
Fort, Leavenworth and fined $i H).
According to latest dlspatclies, Vice
Admiral Schrocdcr, the German com
mander of Zecbrugge, will lose his
command for being taken by surprlso
by tho British raid.
74 PERISH IN CRASH
STEAMER CITY OF ATHENS
RAMMED BY FRENCH CRUISER.
Twelve U. S. Marines Lose Lives
Many Are Rescued by tho
' Warship.
An Atlantic Port, May 8. Seventy
fpur lives were lost when tho steam
Ship City of Athens of tho Ocean
Steamship company was rammed at
1 :30 Wednesday afternoon by n French
cruiser off the Delaware coast. Sho
sank In seven minutes.
Among tho passengers on the City
of Athens wero 24 members of tho
United States marine corps.'
The first engineer and a tender on
board the steamer expressed tho be
lief that some of tho marines wero
lost.
Fire was discovered in one of tho
holds of tho City of Athens Immedi
ately after tho collision. An nttempt
was made tot lower lifeboats, but the
vessel was sinking too fast.
Most of those on board leaped over
board, and tho survivors wero rescued
by tho boats of the French cruiser.
The City of Athens cnrled a crow of
135 men. Slvty-ono of tho crew wero
brought to this port 1 by the French
cruiser, which was not seriously dam
aged. The vessel was of 2,300 tons and was
engaged In trade between this city and
Snvannnh.
HUN SPY KILLED MRS. KING7
Prosecutor Charges Interned Allen
Murdered Woman While Attempt
ing to Slay Means.
Concord, N. 0 Mny 3. Interest in
tho mysterlouB killing of Mrs. Mnudo
A. King, wealthy widow of Chicago and
New York, on tho night of August 80
last, nt a lonely North Cnrollhnn
spring, wns leuewcd on Wednesday
night when a warrant wns issued for
Otto Schumann, n German alien enemy
and alleged spy of the German govern
ment. Schumann lu alleged to havo fired
tho shot which killed Mrs. King. His
Intention, It is added, was to kill Gas
ton B., Means, who was tried and nc
qultted on a charge of murder In con
nection with the wealthy widow's
death. Menns, it is declared, had un
dertaken newspaper work with" tho
purpose of exposing some of Germany's
work In this country.
Tho warrant for tho arrest of Schu
mann was sworn out by Morrison II.
Caldwell, attorney for the city of Con
cord, Schumnnn is Interned at pres
ent. Tho chargo against him is mur
der. HUNS TAKE BIG RUSS FORT
German Forcus Occupy Sevastopol
Kaiser Establishes Military Rule
In Ukraine.
Berlin, Mny 4. German forces have
occupied Sevastopol, the great Russian
fortres sin tho Crimen. Acordlng to
the official announcement from head
quarters,, tho town was taken without
flghtlns.
London, Mny 4. The Germans have
established military rul'o In Kiev, tho
Ukrainian capital, and havo arrested
a number of the members of the gov
ernment on tho ground that "tho gov
ernment had proved too weak to main
tain Inw and order," according to n
Berlin official statement. The Ukrain
ian government officials arrested In
cluded tho minister of war.
Thirty Killed In Explosion.
An Atlantic Port, May 0. Passen
gors arriving on an American steam
ship from Venezuela told of a terrific
explosion in tho government arsenal
at Caracas. Thirty soldiers, a major
and two cnptalns wero killed.
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Guilty of 8elllng Liquor to 8oldlers.
San Franclscof Mny 0. Harry' P.
Flannery, former police commission
er, wns found guilty by a Jury In tho
United States district court on three
charges of conspiracy to sell liquor
to soldiers.
Coyotes Destroy Thousands of Dollars Worth of Live Stock Every Year Ten
Thousand Were Exterminated by Hunters of tho Department of Agricul
ture During Part of Last Summer and Fall.
WAGING WAR ON
FOOD DESTROYERS
Predatory Animals In Western
States Cause Immense Dam-
age Each Year.
HUNTERS ARE NOW AT WORK
In Two and Half Years 50,000 vWolvcs,
Coyotes, Bobcats, Lions, Bears
and Other Beasts Killed by
Paid Hunters.
The city purchaser of meat docs not
always realize tho really serious diffi
culties to be overcome beforo a choice
cut of steak or a cheaper stewing piece
can be brought to market. Ho buys
what ho wauts or can afford, always
marveling at tho Increasing cost. If
tho supply of food wero Increased by :
$300,000,000 worth, tho cost would bo
correspondingly less, and when tho
purchaser is Informed Unit this value
of meat and other foodstuffs Is wan
tonly destroyed every year in tho Unit
ed States ho Is likely to sit up and take
notice. More, ho Is likely to Investi
gate the cause of tho wasto and to
help stop it, if possible. Foodstuffs
worth these millions of dollars aro de
stroyed every year through tho rav
ages of wild predatory animals and of
small gralu-eatlng and crop-destroying
rodents.
Unllko tho hordes of Injurious In
sects which prey on tin) crops almost
unseen, these unlmnls are large enough
to be coped with singly and at a com
paratively small cost
Yearly Damage by Wolf.
Wolves, for Instance, nro caught one
nt a time, either In tho trap or by
poison or with powder ami shot. Theso
animals do not prowl tho country over
night after night with only an occa
sional meal onco or twice a week, but
like other beasts must obtain their
food inoro or less regularly. As llvo
stock aro especially choice morsels for
them, tho destruction each animal In
flicts on a herd is enormous. It doesJ
not require any stretch of tho lmagl
nation therefore, to grasp tho fact that
each wolf destroys annually an aver
age of $1,000 worth of llvo stock. Tho
growing boy could not bo so voracious.
Therefore, every wolf destroyed means
H year's supply of food for several boys
or grown men. Multiply this $1,000
destruction of good food by thu total
number of wolves in the country anil
wo havo a largo part of tho $300,000.
000 worth of food taken from domesti
cated flocks and herds. -
In the summer and early fall of last
year hunters of tho bureau of biologi
cal survey of the department of ugrl
culture killed nearly 200 wolves, more
than half of them In Texas, ono of tho
greatest meat-producing states of tho
Union. Wyoming, Arizona and Now
Mexico aro tho better off for having
lost In this campaign about GO of theso
marauders.
Damage by Other Culprits.
But wolves nro not tho only culprits
that need to be dispatched If wo ure to
market all tho meat actually produced
on our extensive ranges. It has been
estimated by officials of tho department
of agriculture that aountuln Hons und
stock-killing grizzly bears each destroy
annually $500 worth of live stock,
and that each coyoto and bobent con
sumes a tenth of this amount. Coyotes
and bobcats, however, aro many times
more numerous than tho mountain
Hons and bears, Judging from tho
numbers destroyed by hunters of tho'
biological survey, flurlng purt of tho
last summer and fV?.l eight mountain
Hons and 27 bears paid tho death pen
ulty for their marauding, while In tho
samo tlmo more thnn 1,000 bobcats and
more than 10,000 coyotes wero exter
minated. Had theso animals been allowed to
go about thoir nefarious, work unmq
lested through tho year, and through
tho rest of their natural lives, they
would havo taken tho usual toll of our
meat supply accordingly, Tho pelt of
cnclifiinlmnl secured menns not only
ono less enemy of live-stock opera
tions, but tho gain is continuing, since
not only Is tho career of ono predatory
animal thus ended but also that of all
his possible progeny. Each onq killed
means one predatory animal less to
perpetuate his race.
In two and u half years tho biologi
cal survey hunters have killed mora
than fiO.OOO predatory animals. Fig
uring tho losses theso would havo In
flicted, as mentioned above, tho work
of tho hunters has effected an annual
saving In llvo stock of moro than
$3,810,000. In uddltlon to this tho fed
oral treasury has benefited to tho ex
tent of nearly $50,000 from tho salo of
'skins of tho nnlmals secured. Tho
hunters nro not allowed' to accept
bounties, and all skins taken beeoina
tho property of the government. Soma
of theso aro deposited In tho Natlonul
museum for exhibition and study pur
poses, nnd the rest aro sold and tho
proceeds turned Into tho treasury department.
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SHEEP, NOT DOGS, WILL
WIN.
Tho fleeces of 20 sheep nro,
needed to equip ono American
soldier.
How many sheep havo you on
your farm?
How- many did your father or
grandfather keep?
" If tho dogs stopped you from
sheep raising, thero Is nn answer
Dogs win no wars.
Stories From Hunters.
Wild animals which prey upon llvo
stock aro only "good when dead."
Then they may servo a really useful
purpose, If their skins nro properly
cured, tanned and mado Into fur gar
mcnts. Predatory nnlmals cnuso losses td
Bheep herds In Utah and neighboring
states of 500,00 head annually. Be
sides tho foodstuffs thus destroyed,
this means a loss of about 4,000,000
pounds of wool.
Two wolves nt Ozona, Tex., 'killed
70 head of, sheep In two weeks.
In New Mexico J) per cent of thd
cattle aro destroyed by predatory ani
mals. In addition to about 84,850
head of cattlo thus killed, tho animals
destroy about 105,000 sheep, a loss of
10,000,000 pounds of meat and 1,320,
000 pounds of wool. Tho total loss to
tho stato each yeav from this sourco
amounts to about $2,715,250.
States and live-stock associations
nro co-oporatlntf with tho department
of ngrlculture In Its campaign In the
Western states suffering tho greatest
damage from predatory wild nnlmals,
ty liberal contributions of funds, aa
well us services of additional hunters,
A biological survey hunter in Arizo
na recently killed a mountain Hon, on
the trail of which were found nluo
head of cuttlo It had killed.
Ono stock-killing grizzly henr along
tho Pecos rlvor, In New Mexico, ac
counted for $1,000 worth of cattlo In
llvo months beforo being, dispatched
by a hunter of tho biological survey.
It had killed 32 head of cattlo In this
time, and In tho previous year Is re
ported to have killed 50 head In tho
samo district
Watch Pigs for Ailments.
Don't let ailments got a start In the
war litters. For tho first week at
least after farrowing look the pigs,
ovor carefully beforo each feeding. If
any Indication of scours uppear tho
sow's feed shfruld bo reduced Imme
diately -or possibly cut off entirely. A
heavy feed of rich slop given when
Bcours begin to show possibly may
kill tho entlro litter. A Httlo extra
enro for tho first few days Is very near
cssary to prevent losses.
Coyotes' Toll In Meat.
Three coyotes lu Morgan county,
Utah, attacked u herd of sheep and In
ono hour destroyed $500 worth. Ewes,
worth about $1,000, wero killed by ono
or two coyotes In Colorado; 07 which
had been separated from tho main
herd wero killed, but only ono of tho
carcasses hud been partly eaten.