THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-AVEEKTjY TJiTHUNE. CORNHUSKER ITEMS New3 of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout Nebraska. OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS Tlio State Board of Equalization re ports tliat tlio Union Pacific, with cap ltal stock of $321,835,100, anil' gross earnings fn Nehrnskn of $-!4.10i,l;u;.50 during tlio past year, shows net earn ings of $14,804,744.40, or more than any other road In the state. The C. It. & Q. was second with net earnings of $8,578,158.70, from gross earnings amounting to $38,124.3r0. Its capital stock Is listed at $110,830,100. Tho Missouri Pacltlc Is the only lino to report a deficit, the loss for the year being $044,288.08. Construction of additions to St. Elizabeth's hospital at Lincoln has he gun, which will glye the Institution fifty to seventy-live more rooms, and which It Is conservatively estimated, will cost In the neighborhood of $300,- 000. The new four-story wing to be added on the east of the present build ing will give the hospital a frontage of n block and a half. Staff members say that tlio fifty rooms, If available now, coidd be filled within two weeks. Twenty-one head of fat cattle stolen from the Ditch Camp ranch near O'Neill were recovered from the Saun ders county ranch of Otto II. Sehur num of the Commercial National bunk of Fremont. They were alleged to have been stolen by Otto Smith, a cat tle rustler, during the flood season, driven to Inniun, nine miles east of O'Neill, and shipped to Fremont, ac cording to Fremont olllcials. The Sunday school of the First Pres byterian church, O'Neill, claims to have the two oldest attendants In the stute regularly attending. They are Mrs. Julia Irene Dodge, born May 0, 1820, nnd Andrew Potter, who recently celebrated the 00th anniversary of his birth. Iloth are regular attendants at Sunday school regardless of the weather. Farmers, who have been aiding In restoring Homer to a habitable condi tion since the flood have been compel led to temporarily abandon the work because of pressing duties on their farms, but state they will again take up the task soon. Relief supplies from the Omaha chapter of the Red Cross have reached the stricken city. Sarpy county Is pictured In state ments made recently to the state en gineer nt Lincoln by Cass county cit izens ns declining to join In the build ing of a bridge on the county line near Plnttsmouth. Cass couty says the bridge Is sadly needed and will cost about $100,000. Lieutenant Governor narrows nt Lincoln has been advised that mem bers of the Grand Army. Sons of Veterans and affiliated organizations are to be granted a l-cent per mile railroad fare, to the national encamp ment at Atlantic City, N. J., this year. Hog shippers to the South Omaha market are suffering heavy losses he cause of the heat. One day last week of tho total receipts 100 head of hogs were found deml. Charles Classman of Spalding lost sixteen In a single cnrload. The Farmers Stnte Pnnk of Dix, In the hands of the state bureau of bank ing for the past few weeks, has again opened for business. All difficulties have been overcome and the Institution sold to R. A. Babcoek, of Potter. The body of Oscar Fisher, employe on the farm of Charles G. Keller, north of West Point, who was caught In the fiood waters of Plum Creek, was found In a deep hole In a pasture not for from where he was last seen. A large assemblage attended the dedicatory services connected with the'plnclng of the Pershing Ambulance tablet In the relic room at the state canltol at Lincoln, Flag day. June 14. Alfalfa and hay crops of Holt coun ty nre being cut, nnd Indications are the yield will be tho heaviest In the history of the county. A revival of the gnme of horseshoes Is planned by tho Fremont Y. M. C. A., which will hold n city tournament soon. The Farmers' Telephone company of Dodge county has declared a dividend nf .$11.15 on each share of stock. Plans have been finished for the new $75,000 Methodist Episcopal church to bo erected at Alliance. The balnnce In the stnte treasury at tho close of business May 31 was 4,033,0-13.15, according to a report Is sued by State Treasure.- Cropsy. Tho report of tho month before showed 3,050.855.08, a gain for the last month of $82,778.07. The national prohibition convention, which will meet In Lincoln, July 21, promises to he a huge affair. Twenty six hundred delegates and alternates are listed and a large number of vis itors are expected. It Is expected to be the lust prohibition national con vention. Farmers of southeastern Nehrnskn nre discussing the advisability of es tablishing a co operative elevator on the Hurlington line at Plattsmouth. The Ueatrlce Uotnry club has named a committee to work out plans for prizes to Rentrlce high school stu dents who won honors In debating and athletics. C. T. Klumb. farmer, living near Henderson, signed $10,000 bonds for Charles II. Wentz, vice-president of the American Stuto bank nt Aurora, who Is under Indictment for nlleged embezzlement of more than $00,000. The State Department of Agriculture estimates that Nebraska's 1020 fait wheat crop wl)l reach rrt.l21),000 or 4, r10,(HK) under the 11)10 production. In Its .Tune 1 crop report. The report gives SS per cent as the condition of the winter wheat crop, and estimates it will yield ).8!)0.000 bushels, as com. pared to 5l,l)7,(X)0 bushels last year. Spring wheat production will reach .VJ33.000 bushels compared to 15,078,000 bushels In; 1010. j It. E. Holland, county agricultural agent leader, who hns Just returned to Lincoln from talking with farmers and county agricultural agenls In about every suction of the state, reports there lt no urgent call for laborers among Nebraska fanners. So far this ear farmers have been going on the theory that they will do what they can and let the rest go undone. Two Lincoln street car conductors mode the assertion upon being arrest ed on a lrrceny charge that the Trac tion company has been losing $.".000 a month by a systematic robbing of tho coin boxes by conductors. The rob hlng was accomplished by means of a specially made wrench, said to have been devised by a young man employ ed hy the compnny n year ago. Inability of the Missouri Pacific io rurnisii cars for grain shipments to towns along Its line In Nebraska Is re sponsible for grain being hauled to Plattsmouth for shipment over the Burlington where cars are nvallable, hut there Is no elevator and the grain must be scooped by hand Into (he cars. The Nebraska supreme court has ruled that the four A. O. U. W. lodges In Omnha, which withdrew from thn Jurisdiction of Nebraska and went Into the Iowa Jurisdiction a few years i ago, still have the right to retain the ' shares of stock they held In the A. O. U. W. temple In Omaha. Ouardlans of the law at Lincoln were all In a llutter the other day when word reached the city that con- I vlcts Denson and Barrett, who escaped from a road gang near Tecumseh. were seen In the vicinity of Belleville, Kas. It was a false nlnrin. imunw.r and the men are still at large, Nebraska ranked second among nil states of the union In the recent American Legion membership drive, and this state now has over 270 posts, thirty women's auxiliaries and over 20,000 members. Every county In the stnte with the exception, of two have one or more posts. , Some wild scenes were enacted at the South Omaha stock market tho past week, one In particular being tho sale of a carload of good butcher cat tle to four different speculators Insldo of two hours,' the price starting at 13.00 per hundred and ending at 14.10. Discovery of part of the loot taken from tho Shuck-Mnther hardware store of Mllford at Omaha dispells all suspicion that honor prisoners from the state penitentiary, who are work ing on a road gang near there, were Implicated In the robbery. Word has reached Tecumseh thnt Chief Quartermaster O. F. Alfken of that place, lost his life In a battle with a shark February 18 In Guatanamo bay, Cuba, after making a parachute dive from a balloon. It Is generally believed In Lincoln that General Pershing, who has an-1 nouneed he will retire from army life within the next few months, will en gage In business In the Nebraska capital. The federal census bureau, which announced the population of Rentrlce as a little more than 5,000 has revised the figure to 0,004, n gain of .'10S, or 3.3 per cent, since 1010. The Albion Commercial club voted to change the name to Community club. This action wns taken lo get the farmers Interested in community development. Freda, 10-year-old daughter of Fred Rostlemnnn, of Stoddard, was stricken with death at the home of her pnrents four hours before she was to 'become a bride. Mrs. Mnrle Weekes of Norfolk1 was chosen by members of the Non-pnr-pnrtlsan league, to run by petition for congress from the Third district. WIsner Is to bnve a fast basebnll team on the field this season. The American Legion chapter has chargo of the team. Hundreds of farmers attended tho dedication of the new $00,000 llvo stock sales pavllllon at Norfolk. Plans are under way for the forma tion of two additional posts of tho American Legion at Omaha. The Nebraska state tennis cham pionship tourney will he held nt Omaha, starting August 0. Prospects for good fruit crops In southeastern Nebraska are exception ally favorable, growers report. More than 200 box cars suitable for the moving of grain were unloaded hy orders from the termlnnls committee. In the Omahn yards Just the other day, nnd made avnllnblo for the grain serv ice In Nehrnskn. Jmlge J. P. Hannn, 50. of the Elev enth Judlclnl district, owner of severnl farms In Greeley county and well known In central Nebraska, died sud denly of heart failure at his home at Grand Island. Record price for farm land, around St. Edward was shattered the other day when Mrs. A. E. Amies sold her farm for $000 an acre. The price of Nebraska land Is still soaring. It Is thought a record for eastern Nebraska land wns made when J. P. Tleknor sold his farm, near Firth, for $070 an aero. Reports from Washington nre to tho effect thnt the reduction In the annual agricultural appropriation hill will cause tho abandonment of federal co operating testing work In Nebraska and severnl other states. What's the Matter With Alaska? lii.iin in.,. .., to mitut- a Minn, permanent community. We have all the precious and commercial metals, the coal and oil possibilities, timber In plenty, the world's greatest fisheries, agricultural and grazing lands and a small but prosperous population. "There Is, though, something radically wrong with the management. Tho whole government of the territory Is a crazy quilt. "The discouraged settler pulls his stakes and packs his freight In dlsgimt." Mead: From Office From office boy to bishop In the Methodist Episcopal church Is the rec ord held by the Rev. Dr, Charles L Mead, for the last six years pastor of Trinity MethodJst church, Denver. He was named n bishop at the general conference of the church nt Des Moines. Doctor Mend was born In Vlennn, N. J., In 1808. the son of the Rev. nnd Mrs. Joshua Mead. At the age of six teen, nfter graduating from a prepara tory school, he gained employment with the Merchants' National hank of Ilackettstown, N. J as an office boy. where he remained for three years, when he decided to tnke up the min istry. While attending New York uni versity .lie became a football star. He was also on the university bnsehal nine. Rlshop Mead was graduated from New York university In 1800 nnd Inter from Drew Theological seminary. After being ordained he wns awarded the doctor's degree from Syracuse uni versity. He became pastor at Newark, N. J.; Hoboken. N. J., nnd Raltlmore. Md. Before going to Denver, six years ago, he wnB pastor of Mndlson Avenue church, New York city. He was asked to accept service with the overseas Y. M. C. A. with a promlst; that be would be sent to the front. He sailed for France early In April, 1018, where he remained for six months. As n Y. M. C. A. chaplain he served on nil fronts and traveled throughout France In the Interest of tho soldiers of the A. E. F. Most of his time, however, wiib spent with the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth divisions. Queen Can't Play Second Fiddle IMflH SB '7 to the Cnltcd States The General Federation of Women's clubs hns Invited me io 'je Its guest nnd offers have travel throughout the country." The Macedonian Senator W. II. King of Utah (Dem.), Is active In any debate " matters of economy. He said recently In a debate on the proposed budget system, In part : "We have believed thnt our re sources were limitless and thnt no iin providence nor extravagance could Jeopardize nor endanger our future. We have regarded our country ns vast In aren and unrestricted In powrr. Wo have employed the microscope. We have Insisted upon doing big things In n big way. Wo have op posed conservation nnd economy and thrift and a Jealous regard for the small thlngs'whether they were mate rial or abstract." Thin characteristic Is pre-eminently American and bus found expression In our private lives. In our business af fairs, and In our administration of our municipal, stnte anil national govern ments. This view, which has become a national trait, bus developed n spirit of prodigality and extravagance. We bnve not worked Intensively nor applied ourselves with the scientific and In vestigating spirit to the detallB of life. "There must bo a radical change among the people. "The curriculum of our school should be so modified us to Impress upon the coming generation the Imperative necessity of thrift and the dignity and i BucredncsB of labor." "WimiH the matter with Alaska?" UN fair to take the place of the his- orlc Inquiry regarding Kansas. Gov. I'homas ltlggs, Jr., was asked this luestloti the other day In Washington, hits: "Governor, what's the matter with Alaska? Some people refer to It as :be most bedeviled, harassed and gov-nnnent-peeked possession of the Unit ed States. We have always been un der the Impression that the Alaskan country was rich In gold, silver, cop per, coal, timber, fine agricultural "mids and other vast natural re sources and therefore ought to he mak ng rapid strides In advancement along dl lines. Yet we umjerstnnd It Is neither progriwlng nor even standing still, but Is actually going bneU-wnrd. A'hafs the answer?" "There Is absolutely nothing the natter with Alaska," was his quick and earnest reply. "We have oVory- - Boy to Bishop Queen Marie of Roumnnla Is too clever to play second liddle to a pres idential election In the United States. So she and King Ferdinand have de cided to postpone their visit till next spring. King Ferdinand says- he's too busy to come this year. "After Queen Marie and I visit Bessarabia nnd pay official calls at some European capitals," said tho king, "we will be able to plan our trip to America, to which we are both look ing forwnrd with great pleasure." Queen, Mnrle, however, remarked that the American people "would have no time to receive a queen while busy selecting n president." "I am afraid," she continued, "I should bo In the way If I went to your country In the midst of n national po litical campaign. As practical people you must ho more Interested In presi dents than In queens. I think next spring would be a better time to go been made by railroad olllcials for our Cry for Economy MANY YOUNG PEOPLE COULD AS WELL CARE ' mp Pnw aq JO MANAGE CALF FOR YFA, He lb a boy Scout by Profession, but by Keeping (Prepared by the United Btatcs Depart ment of AKricuttiire.) If you started out to find, nmong Hie boys of today In the United States, the one who Is to become the first man In the world In relation to dairying, the first place you would go would not be a cotton farm In South Cnrollnn, would It? But -that would have been the place to go on that mission 30 years ngo. The present chief of the dairy division, United States depart ment of agriculture, would have been the hoy. You would have found him. probably, chopping cotton or maybe plowing corn dr cutting whent with nn old-fashioned cradle. And you might huve picked hlin for a leader In any one of half a dozen agricultural lines, but not for dairying, because ricre was no market for milk In his com munity. How a Dairyman Was Made. How do you suppose he happened to become a dairy specialist? Well, bis aunt gave him n .heifer one time. He cared for the animal, fed her, milked her, sold her calves and kept the money, and generally felt that tlio cow was his. His Interest In that cow led to his Interest In all cows. That Is one of tho Illustrations thnt the department of agriculture might cite In beginning Its work of encour aging the formation of boys' cow clubs. Fhere nre many calf clubs. Banks have done a great deal toward encour nglng boys to own cnlves. Tile plan, ordlnnrlly, Is to lend a boy money to buy n calf," which he keeps for a year, then sells, and repays the hank. The dairy specialists believe that thero should be cow clubs, also nnd there are a few already. A boy can borrow nifiiey to buy n heifer about1 ready to freshen, nnd make her pay for herself In from one to two years, provided, of course, that there Is an avnllnblo mar kej for his milk or cream. One of the objects sought, of course, Is to Interest the hoy In cows and In dairying, hut the dairy specialists be lieve that they wo a way to use the cow for deepening the boy's Interest In other things. They propose, wher ever It can he done, thnt the cow be come the basis of tho boy's arithmetic nt school. For the average boy, It Is point oil out, arithmetic Is not relnted to life. CROPS PRODUCED IN DIFFERENT SECTIONS Nearly One-Half of Corn Is From Five States. Northwestern States Raise Most of Wheat, While Louisiana Leads With Rice Bulk of Potatoes Come From Northern States. Although most of the crops of this country are produced In many of the states, If not all, It Is not generally realized that a large fraction of the national nop, perhaps most of It, Is the product of a few states. Speak ing for 1010. It may be said that near ly one-half of the great corn crop Is found In the five stntes of Iowa, Illi nois, Texas, Nebraska and Indiana. Kansas contributed one-tlfth of the winter wheat crop; North Dakota, Minnesota and South Dakota nenrly three-fifths of tho spring wheat nnd seven-elKhths of the flax seed; Penn sylvania and New York, nearly two thirds of buckwheat ; Louisiana, nbout one-half of the rice, and that state, California, and Texas nearly seven eighths. Tobfieco Is highly concentrated In Kentucky nnd North Cnrollnn. from which more than one-hnlf of the crop came. Texas, Georgia nnd South Car olina produced more than one-hnlf of the cotton'; Alnbnma, Texas and Vir ginia more than one-hnlf of the pea nuts; Wisconsin and Illinois 42 per cent of the clover seed. Nearly one-hnlf of the oats grew In Iowa. Illinois. Texas. Minnesota and Wisconsin: two-flfth of the potato crop In New York. Michigan, Wiscon sin, Minnesota nnd Pennsylvania: more than one-half of the barley In California. South Dakota. Minnesota. Kanas and North Dakota nnd of the rye, North Dakota, Michigan. Wiscon sin. Mlnnesotn and Nebraska. He Is Building a Business Future a Good Cow. The figures nre not symbols they nro just figures. Every problem Is an nln stract 4 times 4. or 0 per cent of 385. extremely tiresome nnd uninteresting, because It does not connect with nny thlng that the boy knows In his cvery dny life. Making Dead Figures Live. But If multiplication means four pound of cream from tin" boy's own cow thultlplled by 40 cents nt thu creamery door, or If percentage monnw the portion of the milk that, can bo sold as cream, then arithmetic boeomeH related to life, because It deals wltli the things thnt the hoy touches mid I Interested In. It Is possible to haw,, tho whole of the boy's arithmetic out his work with the cow. IIo would; keep track of all the feed she con-, sumes, the cost of the feed, nnd Inter on the nutrition ratios from time to time. He would keep track of thoj milk produced, the fat It contnlns, bow much butter It would make, nnd whntj It would be worth nt varying prlcea for different grades' of butter. Some-! where along the line he would flguroj the cost of raising n calf and bnlnnco It against the price the calf would? bring. Ho would learn nrltlimetlc, get. a basis of huslnews, nnd become n prne tlcal dairyman and cattle husbandman. Think the Idea Over. Not every boy, of course, Is fn ponF tlon to do a thing like that. The big gest limiting factor, It is realized, It tho schoolteacher. There nre n great' many tenchers of rural schools who1 could not tench dairy nrltlimetlc; and there nre a great many others who could tench It If they had time, hut nro no busy thnt they could not give It tho necessary attention. But, all over tho country, there are neighborhoods where the 'scheme would work, and In practically every neighborhood then nre some hoys who cobld Just as well manage a cow as grow a calf for a year nnd then sell It. The department does not expect that the thing will become general all nt once, but suggests It as a matter to bo thought over by boys, pnrents, teach ers, progressive bankers, nnd others. And tho thinking along this line nrod not be confined to boys, either. Thero nre probably nearly as many girls ns there nre boys who could very well tin dertuke the management of a cow. ALL SCRUB SOWS DISCARDED' Florida Farmer Not Satisfied With! Quality of Stock He Was Keep ing Disposes of Females. Two purebred sires nnd 20 head of, scrub female live stock were the prop-' erty of a Florida farmer a short tlmo' ago. Not satisfied, however, with tho quality of stock kept, he disposed of'1 all his scrub sows, nine In number. Likewise, he Is Incubntlng CO eggs of' standard-bred poultry ns-n baslH for? a well-bred flock to replace his scrubs'. These facts, reported to the United' States department of agriculture In connection with the movement for bet ter live stock Indicate that progress ive live stock owners are not satisfied with the ownership of pure-bred mules, but desire to Improve the female stock as well. LIVE . STOCKR Old ewes cannot bo profitably fas tened for market. A good rape pasture should carry 20 pigs to the acre for the season, Horses nnd mules bnve been foil sllngo successfully and economically. Good western merino ewes bred u the Shropshire buck will prove very good. Dipping Is the only practical way to rid sheep of ticks nnd lice, say expe rienced sheep men. I'lgs fed corn on good pasture need about one-half as much skimmed millc for each pound of corn. Too many farmers follow the pvtie tlce of weaning pigs when too young., many being weaned at six und xevtia weeks of age