TMF fiFMI.WFPKLY TRIRUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
OCEAN AVIATOR
" FALLS INTO SEA
Major Wood, British Flyer, Picked
Up From the Irish
'71. Sea.
LEFT ENGLAND ON FRIDAY
Captain Wylle, Navigator, Also Res
cued Uninjured Wrecked Piano
Towed Into Holyhead by
Destroyer.
Limerick, April 10. MuJ. J. C. P.
Wood, tho British avlntor who left
Eastchurch, England, Frlduy nftcr--noon
In his airplane for this city, a,
tho llrst log of n trnns-Atlnutlc Ulght,
fell .into tho Iflsh sea Inst ulght. Ma
jor Wood and Qupt. C. C. Wylle, hla
unvlgator, were uninjured.
Tho accident occurred near Holy
head, to which place Navigator Wyllo
went for assistance. It Is believed
that tho machine enn bo saved. No de
tails of the accident have been received
hero, the news of Major Wood's fall
ing Into tho sea having been rccclvcu
by telephone from Currngh.
Wood's nmchlno will bo repaired nt
Holyhead, if it is not budly dumnged,
it was stated this morning by w. u
Kemp, manager for the nlrplano com
pany which constructed it. lie had
not yet been advised 06 the extent
of the repairs necessary, but If It was
possible the machine would be brought
to Limerick at onco so that Wood
jnlght start on his transatlantic Ulght
as enrly as Monday,
London, April 10. Major Wood's
airplane, which fell In the Irish sea
Inst night, has been towed Into Holy
liend, according to the Dally Mall. Tho
machine was uninjured and Major
Wood and his navigator are safe.
It was reported In London this morn
ing thnt Lancaster Parker, an aviator
,who flew from Enstchurch Friday soon
after Major Wood left, nnil who had
not been heard from overnight, has
' lauded safely.
Major Wood's machlno was -towed
Into port by tho destroyer Paisley.
Major Wood left Eastchurch, Eng'
land, nt 3:15 o'clock Friday afternoon
During the evening ho was reported to
have passed Sheerness on the Thames,
a short distance from Eastchurch, and
then was lost for several hours. Lato
-at night It was reported that n wire
less message from his airplane had
been received In Liverpool, but this
wjw doubted, as Liverpool wns far to
the norlh of the route he Intended to
follow.
Lancaster Parker, another aviator,
left Eastchurch soon after Major
Wood, but nothing has been heard
from him since ho began his flight.
HUN SETS FIRE TO U. S. SHIP
Transport Patricia, With 3,000 Troops
Periled Foe Agent Is Former
German Officer.
' Boston, April 18. A German agent
allowed on the transport Patricia to
look out for German property, at
tempted to set fire to the vessel as it
wns Hearing Boston with nenily 3,000
American soldiers, according to MaJ
Frank W. Cnvanaugh of the One nun
dred and Second field artillery, one
of the ollicers on board.
Members of tho crew extinguished
the fire and Fisher was placed in
irons. Tho German was one of flvp
of his countrymen placed on board the
I'atricla by consent or tno ameu gov
ernments to watch tho Hamburg
.American lino's proporty. He was
formerly a second officer on a German
merchant ship.
The Patricia, which hails from Hnm
burg, is one of tho first German mer
chant ships turned over to the allies
and wns put into tho transport serv'
Ico at Brest.
HUNS SEIZE PORT OF LIBAU
Lettish Reserves Surprised by Teutons
After Regulars Are Sent
to Front.
Copenhagen, April 10. German nnd
Baltic German troops have seized
JMbnu nnd overthrown the Lettish pro
visional government, according to ad
vices received by the Lettish press bu
reau.
Lettish reserve troops In Llbnu were
surprised by strong Germnn forces
Wednesday which overpowered tho
Letts and disarmed and. Interned them,
Later tho Germans arrested the Let
tlsh minister of tho Interior nnd sev
eral officials, It Is said.
The surprise was possible, according
to report, becauso of tho fact that Let
tlsh troops had been sent to tho front,
while Bnltic-Gcrmnu detachments hnd
heen brought back to Llbau. The city
now Is held and patrolled by tho Ger
mans.
Quiet Restored In Spain.
Madrid, April 21. Tho government
has begun the work of rc-estnbllshing
normal telegrnph communication
throughout Spain, which was inter
rupted by recent strikes. Quiet pre
vails generally.
Broken Neck Kills Athlete.
Richmond. Vn.. April 21. Itlchard
Pnlser, Chlcngo wrestler, died In n
hosnltnl hero Thursday night from In
Juries sustained In n mntcii with
Young Caesar at a local theater. His
neck was broken.
SIR FRANCIS FOX.
Sir Frnncls Fox, lending engineering
authority In Englnnd,.who has been
chosen ns designer and engineer to
build tho English end of the great
channel tunnel.
MAY EXILE EX-KAISER
GERMAN CULPRITS MAY MEET
FATE OF NAPOLEON.
Marshal Foch Prepares to Take Dras-
tic Action If Enemy Balks
at Peace Treaty.
Paris, April 10. Tho plan of tho
council of four to hnvo Belgium prose
cute tho former Germnn emperor on
tho chnrge of responsibility for tho
wnr is meeting with objections which
are ngnln bringing up the whole sub
ject for revision.
Thpso who have the matter In hand
divide tho question of var responsi
bilities Into two" distinct clnsses. Tho
first class Includes mllltnry nnd naval
offenders, like General Ludendorff nnd
Admiral TIrpltz, and those accused of
various excesses against tho usual
rules of warfare.
Tho second class includes former
Emperor William, cx-Chnncellor Beth-mnnn-Hollweg
nnd others whoso of
fense Is chiefly of a political nature.
Concerning tho political offenders it
Is said that a tribunal is not necessary
nnd would be Ineffective, owing to tho
legal immunity of political offenders.
Therefore It Is maintained that the
action against Napoleon I furnishes a
precedent for tho determination of tho
allied courso as a general measure of
policy.
In the case of Napoleon, there wns
no trial, but ho was confined on the
Island of St. Helenn as a general
measure of policy for tho tranquility
of Europe. Some such general policy
is designed to reach ex-Emperor Wil
liam and other political offenders with
Belgium or another country against
which the political offenses charged
were chiefly directed acting for the
purpose of securing the extradition
of the Individual ns a preliminary to
putting the gcnernl policy Into effect.
Paris, April 10. Military experts
under the direction of Marshal Foch
havo been charged with the drafting
of n report on what should bo dono
In tho event thut Germany refuses to
sign tho treaty of pence.
It Is Indicated that tho methods of
coercion which the allies would ndopt
may Include the occupation of more
German territory, the blockade of en
emy ports and tho discontinuance of
the dispatch of food supplies to Ger
many. BARNES NAMED WHEAT CHIEF
Appointed by Wilson to Handle Billion
Fund Will Direct Handling of .
the Entire 1919 Crop.
New York, April 21. Julius n.
Barnes, president of the Federal Grain
corporation, hnn been appointed whent
director of tho United States by Pres
ident Wilson, It was announced at the
oillco of the food administration In this
city.
Mr. Barnes will direct the handling
of tho entire 1010 whent crop and will
administer the $1,000,000,000 fund ap
propriated by congress to tnke care
of the crop undor tho government
guaranteed price. He wns selected for
tho place. It was announced, upon rec
omniendntloh of Herbert Hoover.
Charges by Government.
Washington, April 18. Formal
charges of pro-German activity by cer
tain American missionaries in Bulgnrln
and northern Persia havo been for
warded to tho American bonrd of for
eign missions by tho stntc department,
it was learned from ofllclnl sources.
U. S. Aviators Are Safe.
Washington, April 10. Lteutennnta
Otto nnd Parker and Mechanician
Hornby, army flyers, unofllclnlly re
ported missing with tho big piano
H S.-2 between Blueflclds, Nicaragua,
and Havana, Cuba, are snfe.
Munich Seeks Loan From Italy.
Berlin, April 10. Tho communist
government In Munich Is reported to
hnvo opened negotiations with Italy
by which valuable woodlands belong
ing to Munich would bo pledged for a
loan of 1,000,000,000 marks.
ANARCHY DYING
-LLOYD GEORGE
Premier Says U. S. and Europe
Are Not at Variance Over
Peaco Terms.
WORLD STILL FACING PERILS
Pleads With Commons to Let Alona
"Those Who Aro Trying to Do
Their Best" Work on
League Saved Time.
London, April 18. "Wo do not
despair of tho Russian situation," do
dared Premier Lloyd George in ad
dressing parliament. "Although the
bolshevik forces aro growing, bolshe
vlsm Is waning. We are supplying
tho countries bordering Russia with
means of resisting tho Invasion of
bolshevism."
The allied representatives In Paris
hnvo arrived at a complete under
standing on tho great fundamental
questions thnt would affect pence wljh
Germany, ho declared. Tho allies had
formulated their demands, and ho
hoped that by the end of next week
they would bo presented.
Replying In tho house of commons
to previous criticisms of his activities
at tlio peaco confereuco In Paris, Pre
mier Lloyd George said tho situation
was "still full of perils for all coun
tries." Ho pleaded that "those who
were trying to do their best bo let
alone."
No conference In history, said tho
premier, had been faced with problems
of such variety, complexity, mngnltu'do
und gravity. Tho congress of Vienna,
which was the ncarestltppronch to it,
took 11 months for Its work, but that
congress, Mr. Lloyd, Georgo pointed
out, sank Into Insignificance ns com
pared with what had been settled by
this conference.
Tho time spent by tho pence confer
ence In framing the lenguo of untlous
plan saved time Instead of wasting It,
Lloyd Georgo declared, ns the leaguo
would provido a means of adjustment
of possible errors
"I would rather leave Russia bol
shevik until they see their way out
of it rather than see Great Britain
landed In bankruptcy," was one of tho
premier's declarations
"It is- not true that tho United States
and Europo hnvo been at variance,
the premier declared. Ho deprecated
attempts to sow dissensions nmoug tho
delegates.
Lloyd George said thut It was his
earnest conviction that mllltary'lnter
ventlon in Russia would be the great
est act of stupidity. Tho premier said
reliable information showed that -wlillo
the bolshevik forco was apparently
growing bolshevism Itself was gradu
ally waning breaking down before
the relentless forces of economic facts.
In reference to the league of na
tions deliberations, Mr. Lloyd George j
said tho conferenco might have taken '
more time but for tho fact that It was
sotting up machinery capable of
readjusting und correcting possible
mistakes :
"And that Is why the league of na
tions, instead of wasting time, saved
time," lie added.
The confereuco hnd to shorten its
labors, continued tho premier, becauso eIlIuf of l'0,lce of Berlin, who led tho
while It wns trying to build, In many communist revolution in tho capital
lands tho foundation of society was 1 Jst prior to the deaths of Karl Lleb
tumbllng into tho dust. No body of knecht nnd Rosn Luxemburg,
men worked harder or In better .hnr-1 General Merker, the government
mony than the peace conferenco, lie commander, ousted tho communist
asserted, and ho doubted whether any government, snld a dispatch from Bor
body of men ever worked under great- "'. and replaced the Red banners with
er dlfllcultles. ,
"Stones wero clntterlng on the roof
and wild men wero screaming through
tho keyhole while tho enormous Is
sues depended upon them which re
quired calm deliberation," the premier
said.
Ho asked - for the opportunity
for such deliberations for the rest of
the Journey, which was not nt an cud.
SECRETARY DANIELS ON RHINE
Head of Navy Watches American
Patrol Boats From Fortress
of Ehrenbreitstein.
Coblonz, April 10. From n parapet
of tho fortress Ehrcnbreitsicln, more
than 400 feot nhovc tho Junction of tho
Mosello nnd Rhine, Secretary Joscphus
Daniels of tho United Stntes navy hud
his first glimpse of American marines
on duty. Patrol bontB were darting
back and fortli among the barges and
tugs on the river, the American flag
streaming from fho stern mast of each
llt.tlo boat.
Mr. Daniels wns taken through tho Gondorf, alias Fred Grant of New
underground possages of tho Ehren-1 Y"rk Jnn Connell and William Sllvn,
brcltsteln fortress which were built ,b"ih of Newport, Ky., recently convict
partly by lnbor paid for by $4,000,000 d of using the malls In nn attempt to
which tho Germnns exneted from h'fraud Frank Kaiser of West "Ho
Franco nnd was 'shown the aceommo- j boken, N. ,T out of $2.1,000, were sen
datlons of American artillerymen , fenced to llvo yenrs In tho federal pen
where hut n few months ago thousands ! Hentlnry nt Atlanta, Ga., und each
of German soldiers were quartered.
Reds In Vienna Are Curbed.
Vienna, April 21. Bolshevik sympa
thizers attempted to storm tho Aus
trian parliament building, but were
soon dispersed with a few wounded.
Tho city generally la quiet. Tho nt
tempt caused no special excitement.
Gerard Urges Food for Enemy.
Den Moines, In., April 21. America
must feed Germany to save Itself from
tho menace of bolshevism, In tho opin
ion of James W. Gerard, former am
bassador to Berlin, who spoke hero at
a Victory Liberty lonn meeting..
CAPL ALVIN ALTHOUSE.
Latest portrait of Cnpt. Alvin Alt
house, commander of tho U. S. S.
Brooklyn, which Is tho flagship of tho
Asiatic fleet that is operating with
tho United Stntcs army In Siberia.
The photograph was tak'en In Vladi
vostok. MUNICH IS IN CHAOS
LOOTERS RUN WILD;
JOIN THE REDS.
TROOPS
All Work Ceases, Trains Not Running
German Troops Occupy Magde
burgArchduke Not Slain,
.t -
London, April 17. Completo annr-
chy reigns In Munich, according to a
Copenhagen dispatch to tho Exchnngo
Telegraph company. All work has
ceased, trains ore not running nd
robbers are looting houses' and threat
ening the bnnks, tho dlspntch stotes.
Tho First infantry regiment Is snhl
to hnvo Joined tho Spnrtacans.
Berlin, April 17. The battle In Mu
nich for the central railway station
ended in tho completo defeat of tho
government troops, nccordlng to Nu
rctnburg advices.
At (lie closing session Tuesday of
tho soviet congress a proposal to send
n committee of Investigation to Rus
sia wns referred to tho central coun
cil and a motion condemning Gcr
riinny's foreign policy wns adopted.
German government .troops occupied
the entire town of Magdeburg on
Tuesdny, nccordlng to a Weimar dis
patch to tho Loknl Anzclger. It Is re
ported there was hnrd fighting with
mnny casualties on both sides.
A Vienna dispatch to the Achtuhr
blntt of Berlin says that Herr Boehm,
a member of the soviet ministry, nt
Budapest, has arrived there and has
declnrcdthat Archduke Joseph, Dr.
Alexander Wekerlo, former premier,
and Baron Joseph Szteprenyl, former
minister of commerce, have not heen
executed, ns was reported in Berlin.
TRIES TO FLEE IN AIRPLANE
Robert Eichhorn, Former Berlin Pollco
Chief, Is Captured by Ebert
Troops.
Copenhagen, April 10, Germnn
government troops hnvo occupied
Brunswick without opposition, arrest
ing Robert Emll Eichhorn, former
the' German (lag,
Eichhorn attempted to escape In an
nlrplano but It was forced down.
Ilerr Eichhorn wns overtaken by gov
ernment machines und forced to
hind, lie Is now In Jnll.
I
MIJST STOP WAR TO GET FOOD
1
A,e8 W Send 8uppe8 to Ru88,a
When Bolshevik! End War,
Says "Big Four."
Paris, April 10. The reply of tho
"big four" relative to the suggestion of
Dr. Frldt'jof Nunsen, -that neutral nn
tlm.s be permitted to supervise tho
feeding of the Htnrvlng people of Rub-
! la was mnde public here. The prl
innry condition of the co-operation of
tho allied powers Is that Russia return
to a basis of peace. Otherwise, It Is
contended that desplto the best ha
mnnltarlan promptings, relief to Rus
sia would be Impossible to consider.
Five Years for Mall Fraud.
Covington, Ky April 18. Frederick
were fined $2,000.
To Reopen Price Parley.
Washington, April 21. President
Wilson has directed tho Industrial
board of the department of commerce
nnd the railroad administration to re
open discussion of price stabilization
nnd endeavor to find n common ground
F. J. Gould Granted Divorce.
Paris, April 21, Frank J. Gould
wns granted a decree ofdtvorco from
Edith Kelly Gould, former New York
show girl, whom he married nlno years
ago nfter his first wife divorced him,
naming an actress as co-respondent.
FROM ALL SECTIONS OF
THIS MAJESTIC STATE
Reports of Interesting Happenings
Throughout Nebraska Condensed
to a Few Lines for Quick
Perusal.
B. A. Georgo and W. S. Whltten of
Lincoln wore chosen president nnd
secretary, respectively of tho Persh
ing Historical Highway association,
nt a convention held nt Lincoln ot
delegates from states through which
the highway will pass. Tho route ns
outlined at tho meeting will pass
through the following Nebraska cit
ies: Fnlls City, Auburn, Nebraska
City, Lincoln, Soward, York, Adrorn,
Grand Island, North Platte and Kim
ball. It will extend from Now York
to San Francisco.
Farmers In north Nebraska are be.
ginning to fear, for tho hnrvest of
their crops If men returning from tho
army fall to Interest themselves In
farm work. The employmeut bureau
at Norfolk Is swamped with requests
for farm hands, but It Is, discovered
thpt men out of work who want town
Johs would rathor work for less
money In the city than take Jobs on
farms which pay from $55 to $75,
which Includes board nnd room.
A carload of prairie hay sold on
tho Omnhn Hay Exchange at tho
record carload price of $38 a ton.
Dealers say government buying last
yenr drew so much hay out of Nebras
ka thnt they have heen since and
nro now still shipping liny back In
many hay growing localities of tho
t'at.
Jt. E. Holland, county ngent, lender,
who Just returned to Lincoln from a
series of farm bureau conferences In
tho southwestern part of the state,
declnred that a bumper- crop pros
pects exist throughout that part of
tho state. Old settlers told him that
prospects wore tho best they had
ever seen.
Waller Relsenwcvcro, a 17-year-old
Wyoming youth, Is snld to. have con
fessed to tho murder of Charles F.
Johnson, manager of the Grlcr conv
mlssnry, nt Alliance, with an nxo, tho
motive being robbery. The entire com
munity surrounding Alliance was
shocked by tho cold-bloodedness of tho
crime.
Scores of telephone poles were
broken down and hundreds of win
dow lights were broken In a hall and
wind storm which struck Hastings
nnd vicinity. Hailstones Inrger than
toacuns were nicked un six hours
nfter the storm was over.
Petitions are In circulation in Sn
line county asking the county commis
sioners to make nn nnnunl levy for the
purpose of raising $100,000, to be used
for the erection of a now county court
houso nnd Jail nt Wilbur.
Commission" men nnd live stock
producers nt South Omaha say that
hog prices aro liable to climb, to un
dreamed of prices before long. A
price of $23 a hundred Is predicted
Inside of a few weeks.
Tyson Brothers of Lyons sold a
lond of hogs at the South Omaha
market one day last week for $20.05
per hundred, the highest price ever
paid for hogs at that mnrkot up to
that time.
Jefferson was the llrst Nebraska
county to raise Its quota In tho Vic
tory loan drive. On Friday of last week
sixteen banks of tho county guaran
teed payments of the quota, $300,000.
Sixty-six men registered for the uni
versity school of agriculture snort
course being staged nt Lincoln to help
provide tractor operators for tU,o Ne
braska gooiL roans program.
Ofllclnl figures for Nebraska from
Victory loan headquarters nt Wash
ington mnko the state's quotn $52,-
2(15,750. The quota In tho fourth Lib.
crty loan was $5S,070,050.
Wednesday, April 30, has been
named as tho date for tho big aerlnl
demonstration In Alllnnco, by the
French, English nnd American aces
of tho world war.
Wheat Is In nn excellent condition
nil over Saunders and surrounding
counties, nnd with present molsturo
n luimper crop is inmost n sure ining.
Tho soldlora, sailors nnd marines
of Jefferson county met at Fnirhury,
April 17, and perfected n World War
Veterans' Association.
York- Is looking forward to a mons
ter delegation of Spanish-American
War veterans May 10-21, the dates set
or the state reunion there.
Wahob Is experiencing the most
acute shortage of houses In tho his
tory of tho city.
Even though county commissioners
of Franklin county failed to appro-
pi'lnte funds, tho (arm bureau work
will ho continued by subscription.
The value of Douglas county prop
erty is $280,777,000, according to. an
estimate made by tho county assessor,
now superintending the nnnunl assess
nient.
Totash plants of western Nebraska
are expected to bo In operation by
July 1, If plans which havo been per
f e.oled for tho refining of potnsh salts
are adopted.
Red Cloud, Daykln, Uehllng and
Broken Bow have refused to abhlo by
the daylight saving regulation and
have turned back tho clocks an hour
Municipal authorities assert their ac
tlon Is In deference to wishes of tho
farming conununlly.
Alson B. Cole, sentenced to dlo for
the murder of Mrs. Lulu Vogt of How
nrd county, has been granted a re'
prleve by Governor McKelvio until
Juno 0, so that ho may testify at the
hearing of A. V. Grammer, convicted
of being nn accessory to tho snmo of
fense and sentencod to death.
AURORA WOMAN CHOSEN
FOR BOARD OF CONTROL
Mrs. A. fl. l'ettnon.
Tho election of Mrs. reteraon by dor
rnor McKelvIe aa a member of the State
Hoard of Control, to succeed H. O. May
Held, resigned, la ft recognition of tho vrork
of women along patriotic; line nnd also
meets the demand expressed by women's
ortMnlsatlnna thnt they have a part In the
control of state Institutions, She la the
nrst woman who has ever held nn ofltce ot
this character In Nebraska, and besides
CoiiRresswoman Jeannette Ilankln ot Mon
tana, nnd two or three others. Is the only
American woman to rocelvo appointment ot
aa high an omclat position.
After deliberating but n ' few mln?
utcs, and (he taking of a slnglo bal
lot, a Jury at Nellgh brought In an in
structed verdict awarding 1-ccnt
damages in tho case of Royal V.
Sheets, prominent member of tho
Nonpartisan league, who suod seven
members of the Antclopo, county
council" of defense for $35,000 dam
ages he said he suffered when J10
was called before tho council to an
swer charges of pro-Germanism. ,
Tho will of tho Into W. II. Lcn
nlng, Hastings' broker, filed for pro
halo, provides for a $75,000 hotel for
self-supporting working girls, to ho
built nt Hastings; a maternity hos
pital to cost $10,000 nnd a perpetual
homo for nurses. In addition to
these legacies there is ir sum of
$300,000 set nsldo for tho Lnnnlng
Memorial hospital nnd nurses' dor
mitory, now fin operation. The estate
Is valued nt $750,000.
Scotts Bluff county, nt n special
election, voted to Issue $200,000 worth
of bonds to build a now court houso.
Tho mnln Issuo of tho campaign was
the question of changing v tho county
seat to Scotlsbluff. Tho vote wns
overwhelming In favor of keeping, tho
county sent at Goring, and tho result
Is conceded to mean the final settle
ment of any county seat agitation.
Tho experimental balloon Ulght un
dertaken by nrmy men at Fort Omaha
last week proved a success. Tho hugo
bags and their occupants left tho fort
at the same time, one landing nt Cabot,
Ark., nnd tho other nt Areola, Miss,
They flew at an altitude of' between
5,000 and' 10,000 feet.
The first fatnl nccldcnt resulting
from baseball In Nebraska, occurred
at Dlller wlion the. 12-year-old daugh
ter of S. J. Thompson died from
being struck over tho eye by a ball bat.
which slipped from the hnnds of a
player dining a game.
A new hotel Is nmong the recent im
provements plnnncd for Geneva. A site
will he donated by tho city for the
erection of n modern 40-room structure,
If agreement with tho parties who
have made the community club a pro
position can bo completed.
Erection of an nlfalfa mill at
Pluttsinouth was nssured by action of
tho City council, when It voted to va
cate the necessary ground for tho
structure, which is to cost In tho
neighborhood of $50,000.
Ex-Governor John II. Moorehead Is
named as president of tho Nebraska
State bank of Falls City, which has
been granted a chnrter by tho state
hanking bonrd. The cnpltul slock of
the new Institution Is $40,000.
Tho Lincoln city council has been
presented with a petition containing
1,800 mimes for tho legalizing of n
Sunday theaters. Tho Issue will bo
voted upon at the general city elec
tion, May fl.
Women of Do WJIt plan to contest
the results of the recent election, when
pool balls were permitted to operate
by a single vote.
Among the twenty enemy nllens re
lensed from the war prison barracks at
Fort Douglas, Utnh, were ri number of
NebiaKkaiis. ,
MothodlBts of Omaha plnn to estab
lish a community church to cost
about $240,000.
A canvass Is hotng made to raise
funds for tho erection of a cathedral
at Hastings.
It Is rumored throughout western
Nebraska that oil has heen found In
Banner county In pnylng quantities.
Cattle losses In western Nebraska
from tho recent blizzard wero very
light compnred with losses suffered In
April, 1013, at which time somo ran
up to $30,000 In tho case of one ranch.
Announcement wns made at the Ne
braska department of the G. A. R. at
Lincoln that old soldiers who attend
tho state encampment at York, May
10 to 21, will ho given a reduced rate
of 2 cenjs a mile.
Alliance Is planning to hold a great
"Welcomo Homo" celebration July 4
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for tho men of tho ommunlty who
served, their country In tho great world
war. It will bo the last day of thoN
stockmen's reunion and a very fitting
time for the event.
Dodge county farmers, at'a meeting
nt Scrlbner, adopted a resolution do
nounclng tho new time as a "fad and
wasteful" and calling upon tho mer
chants of tho county to go hnck to"tho
old schedule, Tho resolution nsks tho
school authorities to change back to
th old time,