THE NORTIT PLATTE SEMT-WERKLY TRTBUE i CORiUSKER ITEMS Ncw3 of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout Nebraska. F INTEREST TO ALL READERS Dospltelumuge by blnck rust nml n reduction lii acreage of upproxlmntcly 10 pt'r com, tho wlntor wheat produc 1 tlon for Nebraska Is nearly as largo fc WS lllSt VlMl!. Hl. AtliMlaf nr.,i. .... of tlw state agricultural department fays. Tho yield was placed at 52,H0G. 000 bushels compared to 51,007,000 In 1010, a decrease of 2,(W1,000 bushels. lnmnge from rust was estimated to be at least 15 per cent and possibly HO per cent. Spring wheat lost twenty flv points during .Inly due to the rnv aigs of black rust, tho report states. Production Is estimated at -1,121.000 as against 0,078,000 last year, a reduction of 1,257,000 bushels. v Dr. I,. M. Fields and Mrs. Minnie leyo, practical nurse, of Omaha, and , F, V. Alexander, 10, of Hays Center, vero bound over to the district court ait Omaha for aliened complicity in the death of Miss Itutb Ayer, 20, who died ut the homo of Mrs. Deyo follow ing an lllegul operation, said to have been performed by Dr. Fields. The death of the girl bos created quite a vvnsatlon In the tnetropolls. One hundred and ten Texas farm toys, together with a number of agri culture specialists and members of tho Texas Chamber of commerce, making ai party of 10.1, spent a day at the Ne braska college of agriculture at Lin coin. The party Is on a tour of 18 -agricultural states and will extend the tour as far as Canada. Nebraska rural mall carriers, at their state convention at Lincoln, .adopted resolutions opposing affilia tion with the American Federation of Labor, declared for creation of a -service court of appeals and petitioned -congress to grant carriers $000 a year Tor upkeep of equipment. Sugar factories of western Nebras ka will start tho 1020 campaign Sep tember 2, two wrecks earlier than in the past, il'lils action, factory ofllclals iuy, is due to the fact 'that the beet crop in tho North Platte valley Is the .kllirgest In tho history of the Industry. Complaint, that action of the Fed , 'oral Iteservo bank In not permitting . Yiankers to assist hi llnancing the' cat lie Industry Is bringing llnancial ruin to cattle raisers throughout the middle west, has been made by stockmen of Nebraska' and adjoining states. Ord has not grown a great deal In the past ten years, federal census figures recently announced, showing ihe city now, has 2,1 -III people, eom pared with 2.0C0 In 1010, a gain of 9.3 per cent. The Holt county board of super visors has asked the tuxpaycrs to vote m additional 5-mlll ' levy for bridge purposes If they desire safe bridges for balding the immense bay and .grain crops to market this fall. Ord's prospects for a new hotel were battered the other day when a repre sentative of the tlrm planning to build .-a new hostelry In the city announced ' that the plan hnd been dropped at least for the present. Douglas county lands were sold for jui average of $207 an acre during the pnstyoar. the highest price In tho jitate", according to figures used by the estate board of' equalization In deter mining assessment values. ' Reports from several southeastern counties are that the sweet potato crop In tho district will be almost a ' failure. Shortage of seed and un favorable weather are tho attributed ' -causes. Twenty-two issues of Nebraska ihonds, amounting In all to $H4S.1S7 have been purchased by the state of Nebraska as Investments for its per manent school and other educatlonnl Irust funds. Many wheat field In northeastern Ne braska are not worth harvesting due to black rust and scab, according to the August crop report Issued by the t.stnte agricultural department A severe ball storm In the vicinity of Hhissett killed many calves and hun dreds of wild ducks and prnlrlo chicken. Grasshoppers and chinch bugs have damaged the second alfalfa crop wiround, Superior, according to farmers. .1. Epsens, farmer near Hostwlck, re ports a wheat yield of fifty bushels -to the acre. The state , railway commission at Lincoln Is being Hooded with coin tplalnts from coal dealers throughout Nebraska- that the railroads are con fiscating coal consigned to them. Judge Dutton handed down nn -opinion, at Nebraska City approving miction of tho Woodmen of the World In levying an Increase In ratos on all members as embodied In the schedule pnssed by the soverign camp In 1010. Several Nebraska City members had petitioned the court to enjoin tho or ganization from putting tho Increased rate Into effect. Announcement has-been inado that Midland college, during Its tlrst year In Fremont, Just eifdeil, enrolled 007 students In all departments. Farmers of Douglas county are ..aroused over the 100 per cent Increase In farm land assessed valuation over that of 1010. Hall county citizens were severely -shocked last week when Frank Teaper, farmer near Wood ltlver. killed him self and his four-year-old son by slash ing their throats with a razor. Poor 'liealtb and financial dltlleultles are aald to be responsible iov Teaper'Bact. Following Is the verdict rendered by the coroner's, Jury at Hebron, nt tho end of tho resumed session of the In quest over the death of Frieda Hostel mann, 10 year old Stoddnrd girl: "That Frieda Uostolmnnn came to her denth at her home near Stoddard on June 7, 1020, by strychnine poisoning, the said strychnine being feloniously administered by her father, Fred Hos tolmann." The Ilostelmann girl died the day before her scheduled wedding to W. F. Hutzke, professor of the Lutheran seminary at Chester. Her father, who has been In Jail since her denth, was known to have opposed tho proposed marriage. Ho Is being hold without ball for trial at the fall term of the district court. The State Hoard of Equalization at Lincoln announced tho general state assessment for 1020 at $778,000, 000, with a reduction of tho levy for last year by 2.01 mills. The reduction was made possible by the Increase In vnluntlon of the state. Levy for tho various state funds follows: Oeneral fund, U.44 mills as compared to 4.80 mills last year: capltnl building fund, l.iu mills; general university fund, 1 mill; university account, .75 mills; special university fund, .75 mills; nor mal school fund, 1 mill ; state aid road fund, 2.21 mills, and the state and bridge fund, 15 mills. The total levy for .1020 Is 10.:U) mills. The fanners' union of Niobrara has issued a wurnlng to Its members to beware of the activity of a Non partisan league organizer Jn that vicinity representing that the union Is co-operating with the league In the lnt ter's program. The association, the statement says, Is In no way connect ed with the Nonpartisan league or any other political organization. State and federnl crop experts esti mate that the Nebraska corn produc tion will be 214,001,000 bushels this year, compared to lS-1,180,000 last year, or an increase of ,'10,778,000 bush els. This forecast is based on condi tion of the crop August 1. The Nebraska Potato Growers' as sociation exchange was organized nt a meeting at Alliance the other day with representatives present from a score of counties, and the decision was readied to market this year's crop col lectlvely. Omaha's daylight parade In honor of the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, will be held Sep lumber 211 Instead of September 21 Postponement was made because of. the special election. Increase in passenger rates effect ivo Auglist 20 will keep many civil war veterans from attending the na tional reunion In Indianapolis In Sep tcinbor, veterans throughout the state declare. After being several months without nn olllcial head, during which time its work was practically discontinued, tho bureau of markets established under the code law Is being reorganized A report of the examiners for tho Woodmen of the Vorld, fraternal or gaulzatlon, submitted to the state in surance department nt Lincoln, shows the society In n nourishing condition Lincoln has inaugurated a campaign against, automobile speeders as the re sult of numerous severe uccidents late ly. Tho city's police force Is to bo double In an effort to curb the menace In spite of tho fact that hall dam aged wheat severely around Arnold nnd Callaway and a greater part of southwestern Custer county the yield Is turning out splendid. Five Stapleton sportsmen were lined $5 and costs each for bunting prairie chicken prior to the opening of tho season October 15. It Is reported that drilling for oil on the Hamilton farm east of lUuo Springs will start as soon as tho neces sary machinery arrives. Hohemlnn Cnthollc Sokols of tho United States will hold thcli" piadron nlnl national convention In Omaha September 2-7. Several buildings were blown down nnd crops damaged somewhat by a ter rific wind and rain storm that swept Seottsblun' and vicinity. James Coleman and his aged moth cr. Mrs. Kntherlne Coleman, wero crushed to denth when a Uurllngton train bit their Ford car at Creston. Arrangements have been made for an automobile show In connection with the fall festival at York September 20 to 20. Omaha ex-service men of Greek origin have formed a branch post o the American legion. A movement is on foot to securo land for a play ground and public park at Pawnee City. Endlcott's new brick plant, with cnpaclty of 100,000 brick a day, began operation the past week. Twelve counties of central Nebrns ka were represented at a monster homecoming celebration nt Mason City Conrad Schneider, founder of tho village of Snyder and its mayor for 25 years, died tho other day at the ago of 75. Explosion of n kerosene stovo caused the fire which destroyed tho Wagner farm home near York and which resulted In the death of Mrs. Wagner and her 10-year-old daughter, i Mela. The young girl was burned to denth In the bouse, while her mother died from Injuries. Methodist churches of Nebraska will hold their annunl state conference In Omaha September 8. Severnl private airplane owners have made application to enter tho Omaha-to-Crawfonl 47H mile nlr race September 10. Western Nebraska counties proved to bo tho leaders In wheat production this year, Cheyenne leading all coun ties with u yield of 2,8:12.000 bushels anil Scotts Muff having the largest av erage yield per acre, twenty-olght bushels. Tho southeastern part of tho stuto showed the second best yield. FORECAST HUGE CORN YIELD August 1 Condition Indicates Produc tion of 3,000,000,000 Bushels, Spring Wheat Less. Washington, D. C. A three billion bushel corn crop for the third time In history was forecast by the department of agriculture on conditions existing August 1. Spring wheat was adversely affected during July, principally by rust, and the production forecast was reduced somewhat. The preliminary estimate f winter wheat was 15.000,000 bushels arger than forecast in July, making the combined wheat crop only 14,- 000,000 bushels smaller than esti mated a month ago. The total of 705.- 000,000 bushels was predicted. Tobacco has shown additional Im provement, and probabilities are that it will exceed the record crop of 1018 by about 200,000,000 pounds. Total production Is forecast at 1,514,000,000 pounds. The prellmlnniV cstlmnlo of wheat production by principal wheat produc ing states follows: Pennsylvania. 25,581,000 bushels. Indiana, 27,010,00) mshels. Illinois, 20,050,000 bushels. Missouri, 20,:50,000 bushels. Nebraska, 52,300,000 bushels. Kansas, 12a,(KK),tXK) bushels. Oklahoma, 30,1110,000 bushels. FATAL ACCIDENTS. Seventeen Persons Killed In Single Day . In Five U. S. Cities. Chicago, III. Fatal accidents seem to be on the Increase In the United States. During a single day, Sunday, ugust 8, reports from live cities chronicled the death of seventeen per sons nnd the Injury of many others. Near Orion, Mich,, live persons were killed when an automobile was struck by an lnterurbnn enr; two persons were killed, five missing and several Injured In a railroad wreck near Huntington, W. Va, ; in tho vicinity of Fast Liverpool, O., fiw men were in stantly killed and another died Inter, when a Pennsylvania passenger train struck an automobile in which they were riding; three boys were drowned in a reservoir near Hutto, Mont., and two boys were drowned In the Missis sippi river nt St. Louis while assist ing In the rescue of three companions who had got beyond their depth In the water while swimming. PONZI'S GAME A FRAUD. Man Who Engineered "Get Rich Quick" Scheme Is Under Arrest. ISoston, Mass. Charles Poazl, who claims to have made millions by oper ating in International postal rejily cou pons, surrendered himself to federal authorities when the state authorities were about to arrest him on a charge of larceny. Ponzl has admitted having served two penlteotlnry terms. The Securities Exchange company, In which his funds are deposited, has been closed by the state bank oxam- Iner. Some 40,000 Investors entrusted n total variously estimated at from $15,- 000,000 to $20,000,000 to Ponzl in a mouey-mnklng scheme which postal olllclals declared impossible of fulfill ment. Auditors who went over tho books of the Securities Exchange company for the federnl authorities, announced that It already had been shown Ponzl owed $7,000,000. Express Workers Get Raise. Chicago, III. The railway labor board handed down a decision in creasing wages of employes of the American Hallway Express company, $110,000,000 yearly. Eighty thousand men not provided for by the recent $000,000,000 railway award, are uf- fected. The award Is retroactive to May 1, 1020. The wage Increase, amounting to 10 cents an hour, will give messen gers nnd other train service employes an Increase of $U8.40 a month. All other employes will receive an Increase of $32.01. Many Newspapers May Quit. New York. Many newspapers will have to suspend publication because production nnd shipment of print pa per must cease, unless tho Interstate commerce commission modules Its priority orders in allocating coal and wood cars, Phillip T. Dodge, president of tho International Paper company, declared here. In u lotter nppcallng to the commission for relief he said that more than 400 newspapers of the Unit ed States directly dependent upon the Intornalonnl Paper company for their paper stocks now uro "living from band to mouth." Dry Candidates Accept Honor. Germantown, O. Hefore an onthus lastlc crowd here Itev. Aaron S. Wat kins, standard-bearer of the prohlbl tlon' jarty, and D. L. Colvtn. his run ning 'mate, accepted their nominations, both asserting enforcement of prohlbl tlon laws, and especially tho Volstead act, are vital Issues. Tennessee Senate Surprises Suffs, Nashville, Tenu. The Tennessee state senate. 25 to -1." adopt oil the re solution providing for nit mention of the suffrage anuuidment. Even the most optimistic of the suffrage forces were surprised at the largo majority. Going After Landlords. Chicago, III. Two petitions request ing Governor Lowden lo call a special session of the legislature to tako some action toward curbing profiteering landlords nre being signed by thou- winds of Chicago tenunts. mm EVENING ART W EM&LA & Mary Grahonx Boiuvcr HOA. THE BUG. "Hello." said tho bug to the grass hopper. "Hollo," said the grasshopper. "I'm going for u fuw hops. Had you any thing jrpoelnl to say to mo? I'd like to know If you had. "If you have anything to sny I'd like It too. If you would say It now, as It Is not far from dinner time." "You seem move anxious to go thnn to stuy," snld the bug. "I don't want to keep you If you wish to leave me, you know. I only thought If you wanted to hnve a little talk I had something to start the ball rolling with." ."What? What? What?" asked the grasshopper. "What ball do you mean to roll. And would It bu a very light one? "I'd prefer to have nothing to do with n ball. It might roll over me. I wouldn't like that so much. 1 would Just as soon you didn't start any ball rolling." "Dear me, denr me," said tho bug. "That doesn't mean anything." Then why did you say It?" asked the grasshopper. "With all the hop ping and eating one has to do In life. It Is silly to waste time with Idle and useless conversation." "It Isn't Idle and useless," said the bug. "You simply don't understand It, that's all." 'Then explain It to me," said tho grasshopper. "I meant," said the bug. "that I would start the conversation with something to say. "The expression of starting the ball rolling means not only to start a ball "Why Did You Say It?" rolling, but to start anything rolling one Is planning to do, like conversa tion or game playing or anything like that." nut," saiu tne grassnopper, "one doesn't roll a conversation or a game or anything like Unit." "It means to start it going, tbnt's all," said the bug. "Then," said the grasshopper, "It means that we must not think of a hall being used or of anything rolling when we say that we can start the hall rolling. Hut Instead, It ineaim the sturtlng of anything that was planned." "Quite right," said the bug, "quite right." "Still it's n foolish saying with but little sense," said the grasshopper. "I wouldn't think up such sayings If I were creatures. That Is, If I were creatures who Old think up things. "I would thuik up things which meant what they said, I would. Hut Hug, you were going to start the ball rolling, und by that you didn't mean any hall at all, nor did you mean any rolling. "Tell me the conversation you meant to start, for that was what you said you had ready to start." "Ah yes," said the bug. "I simply cannot understand why creatures will say 'as snug as a hug In a rug,' when a bug isn't ut its happiest In a rug at all. Maybe a bug is very snug In a rug, but u bug mightn't be able to properly breathe at all, and besides, a bug greatly prefers other things be sides rugs. Moths, on the other bund, are different." "Just whut I said," the grasshopper grinned, a funny green grin. "Just what I said," be repeated, "the crea ture's who make up those sayings have very little sense at all. They don't stop to think. They say tho first thing that cornea Into their heads. "That might be all one would expect of a grasshopper or of a bug, but not of a person. "And so the saying grows people hear It and use It, though In the first place It means but very little." "Well," said the bug. "there Is more sense to the expression about stnrtlng the ball rolling than we thought at first. When a ball starts rolling It goes along so easily, and that Is the way a conversation should go too, und does go when someone starts It off entertainingly." 'I see, I see," said the grasshopper, "well, I'm greatly relieved to think there Is more sense to sayings than one would Imagine at first." Would Spank Herself. Dorothy's mother was very 111. nnd. culling the little miss to her bedside one day, she said : "Dorothy, what would you do If I should die?" "Oil." answered Dorothy. 'who did not realize the gravity of the. situa tion, "I spose Id have to 'punk my self." KEEP YOUNG PIGS f'T'' ' Young Porkers Should Not Be Hised Investigations reported In a recent technical publication of tho bureau of animal Industry, United States depart ment of ngrlculture, disclosed addition al evidence of the Importance of keep ing young pigs In clean pens that have not been contaminated by other swine. A roundworm of pigs, known as Ascarls suum, Is held responsible not only for many deaths among swine but for a large proportion of the runts among these animals. Develop ment nnd perpetuation of the round worms Is fostered by bndly drained and manure-covered hog lots, which are on this account dangerous to young pigs and not good for pigs of any age. Soli May Become Infested. Eggs of' the parasite may remnln alive In soil for live years and oven longer. Places occupied by pigs har boring the adult worms In their In testines will become badly Infested with tho eggs. Pigs farrowed and kept In such places are certain to pick up lnany of thso eggs, nnd even suckling pigs nre liable to swallow eggs present In dirt adhering to the tents of the sows. Investigations by the bureau have proved that after the eggs have been swallowed and have hatched In the Intestine the young worms do not Im mediately settle down, but penetrate tho wall of the Intestine and travel CO-OPERATIVE GRAIN CONCERNS ASSISTED Bureau of Markets Ready to Make Timely Suggestions. Furnishes Specimen Copies of By-Laws and Indicates Proper Methods of Organization and Administra tion of Companies. In the United States there are some 14,000 co-operative marketing associ ations. To ninny of them tho bureau of markets, United Stutes department of agriculture, has given valuable as sistance by furnishing specimen copies of by-laws and by Indicating proper methods of organization and adminis tration. "The Organization of Co-operntivo Grain Elevator Companies" Is tho title of Uulletln No. 800, Issued by tho Uni ted Stutes department of ngrlculture upon this subject. Tho bulletin Is nil- dressed to those who desire assistance In the formation of co-operatlvo grain elevators, but the subject matter Is treated In u manner that makes tho bulletin of Interest to those engnged In other lines of co-operntlve endeavor as well. The scope of the pamphlet Is limited lo matters regarded as funda mental and general, and It Is Intended that the suggestions and recommen dations ho considered with reference to nnd in connection with special co operative laws and tho laws governing corporations In each of the several states of the Union. The bulletin points out that tho suc cess of any organization, whether co- operative or for prlvato profit, rests upon social or economic need, u sound organization plan, nnd elllclcnt management- It then details the various factors that produce these basic con ditions. It dwells upon the organiza tion of Joint stock companies, private corporations of the capital stock form, and co-operative associations In corporated under special co-operative law, the three common forms of organ ization of farmers' elevator enterprises In the United States. Under the chapter of preliminary survey, matters of local conditions, prospective membership, capital, vol- nine of business, nnd methods of sur vey are covered. Then the processes of actual organization nre discussed and a suggested form of by-laws given. The bulletin also contains some gen oral suggestions regarding the solec tlon of the plant, the cholco of dlrec tors and a manager, u maintenance agreement,- emergency capital, and speculative tendencies. Tho pamphlet has been written by experts In matters of co-operative as soclntlons. it Is the composite result of nctual experience, and should prove of valuable assistance to those Inter ested In co-operntlve marketing. The bulletin may bo had upon request of the United States department of ag rlcultuie, Washington, D, C. IN CLEAN PENS In Pens Contaminated by Other Swine. to the liver nnd the lungs. From tho lungs they crawl up the windpipe nnd then down the esophagus and return to tho Intestine. Only nfter they have passed through the lungs do they es tablish themselves In the Intestine anil grow to maturity. May Cause Pneumonia. In passing through the lungs tho young worms cause more or less dam age to these organs. Pneumonia may result and the nnimal tuny die about a week or ten days after Infection. Symptoms of this pneumonia among pigs nre commonly known as "thumps." Not all cases of "thumps" come from this source but the worms are fre quently tho cause. Young !gs ar more susceptible thnn older pigs to Infection nnd nre also more likely to suffer sevorely from migration of the young worms through the lungs. There Is no trentmcnt for the lung stage of tho parasite. If the pig sur vives ho may later be treated with worm remedies to remove the worm from the Intestine. In such cases, however, It commonly happens that the animal has been so seriously In jured by the worms during their mi gration through the lungs that even after their expulsion from the Intes tine the pig is unable to make up for the setback ho has received, although he does better than If allowed to go untreated. SUNDRY ADVANTAGES OF FALL-SOWN OATS Department of Agriculture Gives Timely Hints in Bulletin. Under Climatic Conditions In Many States Crop Usually Yields Better and Matures Earlier Poor Land Can Be Used. Fall seeding of oats has numerous advantages over spring . seeding where tho fnll-sown varieties can be successfully grown, as In the states of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana; In Virginia nnd North Carolina, except In the Piedmont and mountain sections; and In southern and eastern Texas, announce specialists of the' United States department of agriculture, in Farmers' Uulletln 1110, entitled "Fall Sown Oats." Under cllmntlc conditions In those states the fall-sown crop usunHy yields better and matures earlier. The land can usually bo prepnred In better shape In the fall than In the spring. Fall seeding Interferes less with other work. Poorer land and less fertilizer can be used. Tho fall-sown crop fur nishes a cover for the soil during Jhe winter nnu prevents wnsiung. The bulletin sets forth the varieties of oats that can best bo grown In tho Sohtb and details the soils and ferti lizers that should be used. It Is rec4 onimended that, wherever possible, oats should follow u cultivated crop. One of the best rotations for the cot ton-growing sections Is: First year, cotton; secoild year, corn with cow peas planted at the last cultivation; third year, fall-sown oats, followed by cowpoas. Outside the cotton-growing section a good rotation, Including oats. Is: First year, corn with cowpoas In the corn; second yenr, oats, with clo ver or grass seeded In tho oats; third year, meadow or pasture. Other ar rangements nre also suggested. The bulletin details the preparation of tho laud, tho preparation of tho seed, the treatment of the seed for smut, the sowing of the seed, methods of seeding, treatment of the land after seeding, methods of harvesting, and the utilization of the crop. Farmer's Uulletln 1110 can bo had upon request of tho United States de partment of agriculture, Washington, D. O. Wutch the horses nnd see that they do not have sore necks. An acre of alfalfa 'Rr clover, when properly fed, Is snld to nmkuus much pork as un acre of corn. ; ' i The cleaning and disinfection of railroad stock cars Is an ' Important means of preventing the spMad of In fectious diseases of live stock. I LIVE: . STOCifl I