Nebraska Newspapers

    THE SEMIAVEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA,
PRESIDENT BACK
IN PARIS AGAIN
Wilson's Arrival at Frenoh Capital
Will Speed Up Peace
Conference.
CHIEF FACES BUSY WEEK
Germany May Be Required to Pay
$30,000,000,000 In Thirty Yearly
Installments, Largely In Com
moditles of Labor.
Purls, March 17. President Wilson.
returning to the pence conference nfter j
ms trip to tlio united States, arrived
In I'nrls shortly nfter noon. The presi
dent's train wns about an hour late.
Although the time of the president's
arrival had not been tnnde public great
crowds fathered at the Invalldcs sta
tion, The station was decorated with
Mowers and flags and tho Twenty-first
French regiment was on hand to do
ii.llltnry honors to the American presi
dent. President Wilson got to work Im
mediately after his arrival In Paris.
"When ho reached his new residence In
;thc Place des Etnts Unls Premier,
Lloyd George was In waiting nnd tho
two had n long conference.
Tho president attended a conference
at the Hotel Crlllon with Prcmlcr
Clemcnceau, Premier Lloyd George
and Colonel House.
The president Is fully conversant
with the work accomplished by tho
ponce delegates. During his voyage
from tho United Stntes he was con
stantly In communication with Paris
by wireless. Colonel House took to
Brest a large number of papers bear
ing on tho work of the conference dur
ing the president's absence.
The president spent several hours In
going through tho papers and receiv
ing explanations from Colonel Ilouse.
He resumes work with n grasp of the
matters under discussion.
Tho report of the commission of tho
pence conference which has been con
sidering Greek territorial claims Is not
unanimous concerning regions which
should bo apportioned to Greece in tho
Ipence settlement. Tho majority of the
'commission favored giving Smyrna to
Greece.
Tliero is n divergence in tho views
,of the members of the commission in
vestigating tho responsibility for the
.war on several important points, ac
cording to tho Temps. As to whether
the former German emperor nnd other
lieads of enemy states should bo
brought to trial Is a question on which
a division of opinion exists, while tho
matter of an International tribunal or
military tribunals for judging those
charged with violation of tho rights
-of nations during tho wnr has not been
settled.
At a banquet In honor of the Portu
guese delegates to tho pence confer
ence. Kjns Monlz, Portuguese foreign
minister, described Portugal's effort In
the war. lie said that 110,000 men had
been sent to tho front nnd 150,000 tons
o! shipping had been provided.
2 STATES PASS LAND BILLS
Washington and Arizona Vote Funds
for Reclamation Work Relief for
Soldiers and Sailors.
Ol.vmnla. Wash., Marcli 15. Wash
ington's legislature adjourned, hnvlng
appropriated approximately 530,000.000
for land r6clamatlon, permanent road
construction, relief of returned soldiers
and sailors, increase In allowances for
workmen's compensation, establishing
a safety first department, granting le
gal recognition to lnbor unions, doub
ling of automobile license talks.
Phoenix, Ariz., March 15.4ln its
final session the Arizona legVlatnro
repassed u two-yenr $3,000,00(1 high
way bill and $100,000 for surveyig ir
rigation and reclamation projects.
NO "SUB" BASE OFF CUBA
Secretary of Interior Denies German
U-Boats Had Station on Coast
of Island.
nnvnnn, Mnrch 15. Dofal that a
German submarine bos- was main
tained on tho coast Cuba and that
Cuba was a hotbed of Gorman propa
ganda, was made "T J""" fliontalvo,
secretary of tlv Interior, In a state
ment In nnsw-'r to declarations made
In a speech m Now York recently by
Mnximlllr' Tocn n camoulleur cm
ployed 11,0 American government.
J. S. Employment Seivlce Hit.
Washington, Mnrch 14. Because tho
recent congress failed to pass tho ur
gent deficiency bill containing an item
for $1,800,000 for continuing tho Unit
ed States employment service, orders
were sent out by Secretary of Labor
Wilson to cut the service 20 per cent
by March 22.
Ninety Holstelfi's Bring $48,425.
Fond du Lac, Wis., March 17. A
new record was sot at tho state Hoi
stein sale when 90 animals brought
$18,125, an nverago of $5.18 per head,
or $158 abovo the average nt last
yonr's stnte sale at Milwaukee.
123 Michigan U. Men Dead In War.
Ann Arbor, Mich., March 17. One
hundred nnd twenty-three University
of Michigan men lost their lives In tho
-ivar, according to figures compiled by
Doctor Sensoinnnn of tho Unlvorslty of
Michigan alumni.
KLARA BOHM-SCHUCH
Among tho women elected members
of the German national convention nt
Weimar was Frauleln Klara IJohm-
Schuch, who has been n lender In the
feminist movement In Germany.
TO PROVE BIG PLOT
PLANNED REIGN OF TERROR TO
START AT SEATTLE.
Federal Attorney Declareo Industrial
Workers of the World Are Bolshe
vikl of America.
Wichita, Kan., March 13. Evldenco
Intended to show thnt tho Industrial
Workers of tho World arc "tho bol
shevikl of America" will he Introduced
by Fred Robertson, federal prosecutor,
at the trial of 32 alleged members of
the organization for violation of the
espionage act.
In a statement Mr. Robertson de
clared he would produce evldenco to
show 'that a gigantic scheme of de
struction wns being fomented to over
throw organized government In Amer
ica nnd thnt this plot was but n link
In tho chain for a world revolution.
Robertson said that when tho gov
ernment has gone Into tho records "the
public will renllzo that demoralized
Russia was to have been but u stnrtcr
Vn this cnmpnlgn for the ascendency
of ahnrchy.
"We will prove collusion between
tho soviet regime' of Russia and the
I. W. W. of America," he said. "Trotz
ky, the bolshevik leader, went to his
land of plunder from the shores of tho
United States."
The plot, tho government expects to
show, was designed to shackle tho
world and Its trail of intended destruc
tion was to lead from Seattle through
tho oil fields of Kansas and Oklahoma,
and thenco to tho Atlantic seaboard.
Strikes and sabotage were the twin
cudgels the I. W. W.'s were to wield
In their war against orgnnlzed so
ciety. ARMY HEALTH FNE AT HOME
Increase of Deaths From Pneumonia
In Overseas Forces Alarming,
Says Report.
Washington, Mnrch 15. Satisfactory
health conditions In army camps ut
home, with a decided decline in tho
number of Influenza and pneumonia
cases, Is noted in the report of the
surgeon general for the week ending
March 7, mndo public at the war de
partment. The report from France Is not so
satisfactory. There were three times
np many cases of pneumonia In pro
portion as there were among the troops
nt home, and out of n total of 510
deaths in tho expeditionary force dur
ing the week, 414 were due to pneu
monia. WOULD SUSPEND BLOCKADE
Red Cross Asks Peace Envoys to End
Embarno on Food for
Europe.
Rerv March 15. The International
commlKoo of tho Red Cross lias ad
dressed to the peace conference nt
Paris a petition favoring tho suspen
sion of the ljockndo and nsklng prompt
nsslstnnce "fV the starving women nnd
children, the ftostltuto nnd tho hospit
als of middle a fa eastern Europe."
REDS PLAN WORLD REVOLT
Swiss Named Moor Appointed Chief
by the Bolshevlkl of
Russia.
London, March 14. Tho Russian
soviet government with a view to pro
moting a plan for a world-wido com
munist revolution has appointed n new
minister to bo known as "International
commissary," according to a Helslng
fors dispatch to the Mall, quoting ad
vices from Moscow.
Daniels to Paris Today.
Now York, March 17. Secretary
Daniels arrived horo from Washing
ton lo embark on the transport Levia
than for his trip to Paris. Ho attend
ed tho dinner given by the Democratic
national committee.
''Flu" Stops Wisconsin Meets.
Madison, Wis,. March 17. Declaring
that the Influenza epidemic Is as seri
ous as It has ever been and that the
public seems qulto unconcerned, tho
Madison hoard of health announced
restrictions on amusements.
ARLY PEACE TO
SAVE THE WORLD
F. A. Vanderlip, New York Bank
er, Asserts All Europe Is
Facing Chaos.
CALLS SITUATION APPALLING
Declares Great Productive Machine of
Europe Must Be Started to
Prevent Reign of
Terror.
Pails, March 15. "I doubt If Amer
ica has begun to cbmprchond the seri
ousness of the nppr.lllng situation
which confronts Europe and the wreck
which the whole fabric of civilization
Is now facing," Frank A. Vanderlip
said to a correspondent here. He has
been Investigating conditions In Eug
hind nnd France and will continue ins
Inquiry In Switzerland and Itnly.
"America was onco told tliero might
be pence without victory ho said.
"What wo have Is victory without
peace. Production bus. ceased and un
less production enn bo speedily re
sumed ono's ltnnglnntlon cunnot com
prehend the chaos which may ensue.
"There Is nothing to he gained by
stopping to question who Is to blame
or by finding fault with the way events
have been guided. The great pro
ductive machine of Europe must bo
started or tho world will bo confront
ed with a disaster such as no experi
ence has recorded. Here In Franco
everything waits on tho settlement of
the question of Indemnity nnd the
progress of events In Germany. Each
day makes the prospect of Indemnity
less possible.
"I have seen something of tho utter
wreck which the central empires In
flicted throughout the. war zone. It Is
complete no words can picture truly
how complete It Is. Thnt wreck, how
ever, covers only a , strip from the
channel, to tho German border. There
Is possible n wreck that will cover
all Europe. If production Is not re
sumed, the horrors of wnr mny bo ex
ceeded by the horrors of this nfter
period, which Is neither wnr nor pence,
hut n breakdown of the mnchlncry of
clvlllzntlon. In the face of such tip
pnlllng dlsnstcr, every pnrtlsnn consid
eration, every unessential difference of
oplnjon, nnd every personal ambition
should bo Instnntly forgotten.
"Unless terms of pence fan he speed
ily agreed upon and unless these terms
nro such as will permit the resump
tion of something npproarhlng normal
Industrial life, there Is not merely a
chance, there Is n strong probability
of Russian bolshovlsm overrunning
Germany. What bolshovlsm Is can
never bo really pictured by a normal
mind. No description of it has been
overdrawn. One may say that the
temperament nnd psychology of Ger
many Is not such as to load that coun
try to bolshovlsm. nunger enn lead
any country to bolshovlsm nnd hunger
is what ccntrni Europe Is fncing.
"The first cssontinl Is lo look fncts
In the face, and they cojinot be looked
In tho face until the terms of pence
nro known nnd tho available indem
nity measured."
TO SAVE EMPLOYMENT OFFICE
Director General Asks Welfare Bodies
of Country to Take Over
U. S. Agencies.
Washington, Mnrch 35. Steps were
taken to provide a substitute for the
government free employment agencies,
which will become stranded Mnrch 22
through the failure of congress to ap
propriate money for their mainte
nance. Director General Densmore of
I the United States employment service
his Issued n request to business, la
bor and public welfnro Interests to
take over tho work of tho government
employment agencies, which will be
curtailed SO per cent nnd 700 olllces
abandoned March 22, unless the offices
are taken over by the organizations
appealed to.
ITALY GETS $16,500,000
Loans From United States to the Al
lies Now Total $8,
857,157,000. Washington, March 17. Italy's loans
from the United States were Increased
to $1,421,500,000 by a new credit of
$10,500,000. This made total credits
for all allies $8,857,157,000.
FOE MUST GET FOOD SOON
i ,
Germany Facing Literal Starvation,
Dispatches to London From Ber
lin Say.
London, March 17. If Germany does
not get quite large food supplies dur
ing April literal starvation will result,
says n Renter's dispatch from Berlin.
Atlanta Rail Clerks Out.
Atlanta, Ga March 17. About 1,500
railroad clerks employed on nil lines
entering Atlanta walked out In a gen
eral strike In sympathy- with the
striking clerks of tho Nashville, Chat
tiinooga & St. Louis railroad.
Ask Sinn Fein Safe Conduct.
Dublin, March 17. Tho Sinn Felners
nre, "in accord with International cus
tom," nsklng the British government
for safe conduct for their delegates to
the ponco conference, but It Is said
they will not ask for passports.
GEN. JOHN J. 0'RYAN
Gi ml O'Kynn, who has returned
with lils division, was tho only gen
eral ;o go through tho war without
being transferred from his command.
It was the Twenty-seventh division,
led by him, that first broke tho Hln
denhorg line.
BERLIN REDS BEATEN
WAR MINISTER NOSKE SAYS IN
SURRECTION SUPPRESSED.
Spnrtacans Marched Through Streets
to Death, Handcuffed and
Heavily Guarded.
Basle, Switzerland, Mnrch 15. The
Berlin insurrection may be considered
ns suppressed, Gustnve Noskc, the min
ister of defense, announced In the na
tional assembly at Weimar, a German
dispatch reports.
Berlin, March 15. Singing revolu
tionary songs, 230 Spurtuclst prisoners
were marched to their death through
the Untcr Den Linden. They were a
bedraggled crew, with their wrists,
handcuffed together behind their backs.
About them mnrched helmeted sol
diers with rifles and In Tront were
armored cars and lorries tilled with
soldiers supported by machlno guns.
Tho guards constantly shouted nt the
crowds to keep back and kept firing
blank cartridges at windows nnd door
ways to prevent1 any attempt at rescue-.
Twenty-four Spnrtacldcs were re
ported executed in Moabit prison ear
lier In tho day.
London, March 1 1. German women,
fighting with the reds nt Berlin, stab
bed and scalped wounded olllcers and
then held a war danco about tho bod
ies, said a Rotterdam dispatch to tho
Pally Express today.
More than 1,200 Spartaclst prisoners
hnvo been confined in Berlin Jails.
Berlin, March 14. Spartacan forces,
under pressure from government
troops using artillery and mine throw
ers, were abandoning their positions
In Llchtenberg this morning. The gov
ernment forces took a large number of
prisoners, many of whom were exe
j cuted summarily.
' The behavior of the Spnrtacans In
! Llchtenberg, a suburb of Berlin, dur
ing the past three days lighting, was
worse than the bolslievlk cruelties In
: itussln.
I All well-dressed citizens appearing
In the streets were robbed and many
I wore killed. Several. persons were de
capitated nnd tho heads were carried
through the streets by female Sparta
cans. The government troops, It Is ndded,
continue to kill every prisoner they
take. The street fighting in Berlin
hud largely been transferred to tho
traction subways. The mullled roar of
artillery and machine guns was henrd
coming from the tubes.
SETS VICTORY LOAN DATES
Secretary of the Treasury Glass' Cam
palgn Will Open on April 21 and
Close May 10.
Washington, March 14. The Victory
Liberty loan campaign will open Mon
day, April 21, and end Saturday night,
Mny 10, according to nn tinnnmiccmeiit
by Secretnry of Trensury Glnss.
Flve-yenr notes have been decided
upon Instead of long-term bonds. Tho
-hort-term notes will stay at or near
par, where bonds might slump, ofll-
Inls believe. Interest rate on the Vic
tory loan bus not been fixed, nor bus
the total amount of tho Issue. It wns
intlmnted by Secretary Glass thnt tho
notes will bear 46 per cent or upward.
RED ATTACK IS REPULSED
Bolshevlkl Raze Town In Battle With
Americans, British and
Russians."
Archangel, March l.'l. Operating
ten guns, tho bolslievlk forces shelled
the village of Vlslavkn, on the Vugu
river, almost completely destroying
t. Repeated heavy infantry attacks
followed, hut these were repulsed with
heavy losses by the Americans. British
mid Russians.
Four Held as Anarchists,
New York, March 15. Charges of
iiclng "avowed anarchists" were pre
ferred by the police against three men
:nd one woman, the only persons held
nfter a raid on a building In East
1 Fifteenth street,
j .
Caruso Income Tax $153,933.
Now York, Marcli 15. Enrico Cnru
i ,n. tlio tnnmv will imv an Income tnx
ot $153,033.70 for 1018, It was revealed
at the collector's ofllce In the second
Now, York district. Caruso visited tho
cfflco In person.
Jo Wurn Nvtppr Unlonfei
FROM ALL SECTIONS OF
THIS MAJESTIC STATE
Reports of Interesting Happenings
Throughout Nebraska Condensed
to a Few Lines for Quick
Perusal.
Mrs. Ida Bnuman of Murtlnsbiirg,
who brought action for $50,000
against forty different suloonkoepors
of Thurston, Dixon and Knox coun
ties alleging that her husband died of
alcoholism, and that the defendants
furnished tho liquor that caused disp
ense and death, was awarded a ver
dict for $1,500 against three Dlxxm
county saloon keepers by a Jury nt
Norfolk-. All the other were acquit
ted. (Farmers of Box Butte county are
going to make somo real Improve
ments on their places this year, If
loans they nro obtaining from tho
federal fnrni loan batik Is any cri
terion. . During a slnglo week fann
ers of tho county borrowed $11,000
from Uncle Sum, through the county
agent.
A committee from the board of di
rectors of the general synod of the
Lutheran church wns nt Fremont the
other duy making an investigation of
Fremont college with u view to buying
the school and removing Midland col
lege from Atchison. Kuns., to that city.
A niiinlier of patrons of the Arapa
hoe Telephone company sent a petition
to the state railway commission ask
ing If tliero was not some wny to pre
vent Iho uso of German over their
phones. Nebraska at present has, no
law to prevent such a practice.
Nebraska now has n largo over-supply
of beans, says tho home economic
department of the slntu university.
Tho department urges pe opto to eiit
The department urges peoplo to eat
mure beans nnd thereby lessen the cost
or living.
The potato growers of Box Butte,
Dawes, .Sheridan. MorrIll, Scolts RlulT
and Banner counties have agreed to
cooperate In every way possible this
year in an effort to avoid any possible J
labor shortage.
Following a tilt with the state I
railway commission nt Lincoln, Unfon,
Pacific otllclals announced that train
service on seven Inanch lines In No
hnisku. suspended ns u wnr emer
gency measure Is lo ho resumed.
That 100 new houses are badly
needed In Kearney at once Is the con
census of opinion of the real estate
dealers ut the city. Modern houses
ori' Impossible lo procure nt any price
In the I'liy.
Denn Tnneo'it. chaplain of Nebras
ka Universilj base hospital No. 41),
who returned lo Omaha from France
a few days ago, expressed the belief
thnt the IS rent trouble Is due to some
political scheme.
Tho annual Inter-high school stock
Judging contest will bo held nt the
Stale Farm nonr Lincoln, March 29.
High schools from nil pnrts of fiio
stnte are planning to send teams.
Douglas county commissioners nro
considering tho ndvlsiblllty of build
ing an Ice plant to supply Ire to tho
court house, county hospital and
nlhor county Institutions.
Bankers' of Butter county hnvo
agreed to loan money to boys and
girls of the county who wish to en
gage In the business of raising pigs
tills summer.
' Tho people's caucus at Broken Bow
put. up n niutilclpaj ticket, headed by
(!. U. Tooloy for mayor. The resolution
adopted' cnllud for sewerage and
street pining.
Rental property for residence pur
poses In Omnhii Is more scarce now
than ever before In the history of the
city, according to Ouuihn real estate
dealers.
Gage counly Is making an effort to
retain Its tuberculosis- expert even
though congress did not provide funds
for his Hillary and expenses,
Ited Oros workers of Omaha Iinvo
knitted a total of 45,428 garments
since. August 1017, according to load
ers of tho movement.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska
plans n speaking tour over tlio lint inn
us tlio administration's spokesman
for III" li'iiguo of nations.
Imlic.ni Inns are that farmers of Box
Rutin and other northwestern coun
ties will plant tlio UMiiil size potato
crop ililw Ho'uKon.
nnphiln Grilllth A. Demoy of In
dliinoln loin been awarded Iho British
mlllijiry cross for gallantry In the
war.
.1. 10. Ilnuso wns clerled mayor of
Norfolk by a narrow 'margin over
Matt Shaffer, Jr., the women's cantll-
date.
First Bed Cross girl of Superior,
May Dally, who was an ollirer of the
United States largest base hospital at
London, has arrived In tills country
after a year over there and left with
special train of nurses for Denver.
Farmers of Dodge counly are pay
ing Xfiti to $75 a month for single men,
white married men get nf- high ns $S0
nnd In some Instances $100. Wages
for farm hands In the county nre from
1 to 20 per cent lower than hist year,
when the high water mark was
reached.
The present stocks of wheat on
farms In Nebraska are estimated to be
n.WM.OOO bushels Ijy the state board of
agriculture. Nearly 1.000,000 bushels
of Mils will lie required for seed If the
acreage of spring wheat Is to be. as
large as last year.
Only two other slates have a larger
number of banks In proportion to pop
illation Hum Nebraska. They are
North and South Dakota. In North
Dakota lliere Is one bank to every 038
people, lii South Dakota one bank to
every J.I 71 people, and In Nebraska
one bunk lo every J ,ii0.S people.
Mrs. Alvln Bockweller. wlfo of a
farmer, was killed, four other persona
were Injured nnd thousands of dollars'
worth of damage done to fiirtn prop
erty by a tornado that swept a path
a half tulle wide and four miles long
between Colon and Cedar Bluffs, Saun
ders county. The storm was accom
panied by a heavy hall, which done a
great denl of dninngo In several east
ern Nebraska counties.
The death of Mrs. Josef. Blazka, who
was reported by her husband to have
died with Influenza at the home place
In Cherry county, has, upon Investiga
tion by neighbor, been practically
proven a foul murder. The body was
found In a cow shed, terribly muti
lated, with all Indications pointing
towards the husband as perpetrator.
T. C. Byrne, chulrmnn for tho vic
tory lonn In ' Nebraska, has sent In
structions to workers to eliminate use
of the word "bond" In connection
with the lonn. They nro told to uso
tlio word "note," ns the $5,000,000,000
Is to he In short term notes nnd not
In bonds. April 21 Is tho olllclal dato
for the opening of tho drive.
Henlth Commissioner Chapman of
Lincoln claims Omaha has more small
pox cases than any other city in the
United States, regardless of popula
tion, and Nebraska has more enses
than any other state. Lincoln, ho says,
has kept the epidemic down to twenty
six cases since December. He urged a
stntewldo vaccination.
Mrs. Philip Deerlng and two chil
dren, aged 5 nnd 7 were burned to
death at Bayard, and Philip Deerlng
and two other children of tho family
wero terribly burned when Mr. Deer
lng attempted to start a lire at their
homo with kerosene. Deerlng Is a
Russlnn beet tender.
Anders Jensen, wealthy Minden
fnrmer. charged with saying President
Wilson should be killed and the kaiser
substituted In his place, has been or
dered Interned at Fort Douglas, Utnii,
according to Federal District Attor
ney Allen.
State olllclals confiscated 5.000 gal
lons of grape, wine ot an estimated
value or $35,000 at the Walker vine
yard near Omaha. The raid wus said
to he the biggest haul of liquor made
In tho state of Nebraska In Its entire
history.
Since the removal of all ' govern
ment restrictions on the buying and
selling of hogs the price has shot up
with grent rapidity at South Omaha
but predictions firo being made that
the prices will decrease beforCTlong.
Of Nebraska's total population, 03
per cent will live on the proposed
5,000 miles of state roads, and 85 per
cent will live within live miles, Stnte
Engineer George E. Johnson told 200
road boosters at Lincoln.
Farmers of Saline county are plan
ning a vigorous campaign to rid the
county of the gopher pest, which, Ifls
claimed, cost farmers of the county at
least $50,000 during the pnst year.?
Conditions In Nebraska and the en
tire country east of the Rocky -mountains
never looked more prosperous
than now, nccordlhg to General Man
ager Holdrege of the Buiilngtbp.
The final dividend of 2. per cent
on the First National bunk o Super
ior, was paid recently, making 33 V6
per cent In all realized for creditors In
5 years since tho bunk failed.
About 50 per cent more winter
wheat was sown in Deuel county last
fall than ever before. Tliero Is a per
fect stand and will no doubt harvest
a bumper crop.
The Nebraska Cement company at
Superior, which has been n year re
modeling Its plant to the wet process,
expect to start making cement In n
f.iw days.
The Odell bond has been reorgan
ized with sixteen members, several of
the new members being former sol
diers who have recently returned
home.
Gage county citizens plan lo erect
a tneniorlal building In nteniory of hoys
of the county who gave up their lives
In the war for liberty overseas.
John Mentor, near De Witt, closed n
deal for tho sale of his 200-acro Gago
county farm to John Schroeder for
$10,000.
The Kolth County Community club
hns completed contracts for the
fourth annual roundup at Ogallala
July 3, 4 and 5.
Citizens of Humboldt are ugltntlng
tho question of paving u number of
the principal streets of the city.
A conceded campaign Is to be made
by farmers of Buffalo county to rid
tho county of prairie dogs.
An outbreak of hog cholera which
started last month In Box Butto coun
ty, Is now under control. .
Tho March crop report of the Ne
braska board of agriculture states that
2S per cent of last year's corn crop Is
still on farms. This Is the' equivalent
to .11,101,000 hushols compared to 130,
"05,000 bushels on hand a year ngo.
Voters of Scotts BlufC county will
decide on April 15th, by special elec
tion, whether they will authorize the
construction of n'real court house and
jail to take the place or the old ram
shackle affair which now house the
business administration of the county
at Goring.
George A. Lee. who represented tho
Nebraska potash companies at Wash
ington, declared upon his return to
Lincoln, that he was confident the noxt
congress would take tho necessary
steps to provide ndequnto protection
for Nebraska potash companies.
Thousands of bushels of potatoes
aie still stored In warehouses In the
North Platte valley. A few are finding
their wny to market around 75 cents
n bushel, but some growers have ex
pressed n willingness to take' 50 cents
a bushel If only they enn get rid ol
their surplus.