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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1920)
THE NOKTn PLATTE RF,MI WEEKLY TRimTVE CORNHUSKER ITEMS Jiows of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout Nebraska. OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS Private cur couipunlos must pay tlio Jtulu a total of $;!!,27S in tuxes tills year. Notices of tho assessment of wich company have been mulled by Secretary V. II. Osborne of tlie stnto board of taxation.' Lust year the total 7uld by car coiupunies was u little, over -WO.OOO. I'toniulno poisoning, the result of eating tnlntetl cunneil food, caused the death of Mrs. Louise Maack, 7(5, and tlie serious Illness of her husband, -John Mnnek, SO, at Oninlm last week. A touring car containing $.r,000 -worth of whisky was captured at Nor folk by Sheriff lleenan of Hoyd county. 'The whisky was contained in kegs, and uiiuounted to about (!." gallons. Swine plague threatened to become inn epidemic In tlie Duroc herd of Carl 'Orunkennieyer, "near Harwell, but (prompt action saved thct.i. The dls ease csune up the Loup valley. minded by a Hash of lightning, Thomas K. Hnngston was fatally In jured when his automobile turned tur tle while on Ids way from his homo at l'ngu to Syracuse. Chester Hlssell, night engineer of rtho Stnto Journal, was instantly killed at Lincoln by falling Into a belt while turnlg off the power at the end of his night's work. The 10-ycnr sentence of Arlow D. ;Kutter, convicted of the murder of his wife, Nellie, In Lincoln, two years ago, bus been upheld by the state supreme court. Thieves entered the general mer chandise store of the Toutelot llarker company at Adams and carried off merchandise valued at $1,1200. Jacob II. St. Clair, ngod 7,r years, an early settler of Cuming county, died at his residence in West Point from the -effects of a paralytic stroke. The Omahn pure food show, looked upon by manufacturers ns the largest . In the country, will be held ut the aud itorium, October 10 to 2.'1. The Loup Vnlloy Packing Co. nt 'Grand Island, which closed down Its . plant temporarily n few days ago, has 'Ingnin resumed operations. The Pete Edglngton elevator, nt -Paxton, containing 30,000 bushels of wheat, burned one day last week, en tailing a loss of $r0,000. Uusscll II. Peters, ill, son of Mr. nnd Mrs. A. D. Peters of Omaha, has been awarded the Ithodcs scholarship to Oxford university. John G. IJu'.ir, n well known farmer ,nnd stock raiser, purchased the 1'. M. Andersen S0-:.cre farm north of Fllley, . for $1100 nn.acre. John Fugnto, a former Western league ball player, Is dead as the re sult of a tlfteen-foot fall from a stair way, at Omaha. From January 1 to September 1, -.S00 cars were reported stolen In this state. Out of 33 stolen during August, were Kurds. , Central City Is preparing for a great religious revival campaign. A large tabernacle that will seat 2,000 peopie is being built. Charles Nutter of Falls City has been elected pre-journalist president of the University of Missouri at Co lumbia. Nebraska's wheat crop estimate Is r0,500,OCO bushels; oats, 7.r,000,000 bushels, and potatoes, 10,000,000 bush els. The Dally Tribune Is a new venture 'In the newspaper field at Seward. It 'Is well patronized by local merchants. .Tunsen will follow the lead of many Nebraska towns by closing stores at G o'clock except on Saturdav nights. William T. Dudgeon, 72, father of Mayor Dudgeon of Norfolk, Is dead ns u result of a stroke of paralysis. Kev. Charles Snvldge, tlie Omaha ""Marrying Parson," lust week per formed his 4,800th ceremony. Helden Ahdersen, a 111-year-old boy, was caught in n slide at a sandpit ut Norfolk and Instantly killed. Corn sold for less than 1 on the Omahn murket one dny last week for the first time since 11)17. The North Platte valley sugnr beet crop Is estimated to be worth eight million dollars. A national guard company lins been organized at lientrlce witli over fifty members. There are thirty-four applicants for the postmaKtcrshlp nt Lincoln. Twenty-eight pullets entered In the Nntlonnl Kgg Laying Contest being conducted by the Nebraska College of Agriculture, laid twenty-four or more eggs each during August. Klglit have laid more than 200 eggs eacli In ten months mid one has laid 231 eggs since November 1, 1010. Figures compiled by the stnto bank dug bureau for the 1,000 state banks nt the close of business September 10 show loans and discounts of .?25,808, 225.21. Total resources for tills period wen $:i:5!i,S.r7,410.7n. Individual de posits and deposit certificates total $W!),2S:i,027.77. Harry Allen Bralnurd, of Lincoln, nt ono time president of tho State Press Association, and ono of tlie best known newspaper men In Nebraska, who '.tax stricken blind while rending proof two years ago, lias regained his sight through nn oporntlon performed at the University Medical Collego nt Oninlui. The secretary of state's olllco hns re ceived a certificate signed by ollicers of the socialist nntlonnl party, nt test ing the fnct thnt Kiigeno V.JMis mid Seymour Stediunii have been nomi nated for president and vice president by that party, , Iiy direction of tho laws of Nebraska Governor McICelvIe has Issued a proc lamation notifying the people Hint there will be nn election Novembor 3 for the selection of one president;, vice president; governor; lieutenant! governor; secretary of state; auditor of public accounts: commissioner of public lands and buildings; state treas urer; attorney general; superintendent of public Instruction; railway commis sioners; regents of the state univer sity ; member of congress for each con gressional district; thirty-three mem bers of the state senate from twenty eight senatorial districts; one hundred representatives from seventy-seven rejw rosontutlvo districts; one Judge of su premo court ; Judges of all Judicial dis tricts. , The purported will of John O'Con nor, Hastings cobbler anil recluse, who died several years agp, leaving an es tate of over $100,000, which he leaves to a Ifrothcr, Charles, "If he Is living," otherwise to an orphanage In Nebraska, outside of Lincoln or Omaha Is de clared to be a forgery and the judg ment of the district court sustaining the will Is clearly wrong, according to the Nebraska supreme court In an opin ion by Judge Hose. O'Connor's body was held at Hastings for at least two years for the purpose of IdeiiMficatlon. C. A. Somniiir, state accountant, Is compiling a list of old stale taxes charged against the various counties ' on the books of the state auditor. A summarized statement probably will be presented to the state legislature. A large proportion of the unpaid tuxes runs back 20 years or more. Over S.000 people were guests of Wllber at the celebration of the vic tory in the county seat fight. At thu lunch about 1,000 pounds of roast beef, .'100 pounds of boiled ham, 10,000 kolacky, 170 gallons of Ice cream and buns, rye bread and almost 100 pounds of coffee were consumed. I Census returns from a third of tho ' counties oi icnrusi;u nave lieen an nounced by the federal government, and In half of these decreases in pop ulation are shown. Tlie loss In popula tion Is mainly found in rural counties, Indicating a drift from tlie farms to the cities. Nebraskn men who saw service with the Italnbow division have made plans for the first state convention at Lin coln on October 23. Nebraska uni versity will play football there on that date, and the convention expects to attend in n body. The Nebraska supreme court for tho second time has declared '.he reciprocal demurrage law of the 1013 legislature unconstitutional. The law allows ship pers to recover a penalty of $1 a day on cars unnecessarily delayed In transit. A. F. Lad wig, On, was found dead In a moving picture house at Lincoln. He had evidently collapsed .some hours hcfqre an operator of the house, think ing him asleep, attempted to awaken him, nnd discovered he was dead. Charles Nelson was fatally Injured nnd severnl others severely hurt In u wind and hail storm that swept over Knox and Pierce counties. At the town of Crofton the hall, unusual in sl.e, fell to the depth of n foot. Harrison Is preparing to become an oil prospecting supply center, follow ing announcement by the Associated Oil Co. of California thnt drilling oper ations will commence nt once on tho Cnptaln John Cook ranch. Hecauso of the difficulty of securing three United States judges to hear tho injunction suits of the seven iailroads against the Nebraska railway commis sion, the case has been continued un til October 21st. "In all my forty-seven years In Ne braska,," says State Senator Peter Jen sen, "I have never seen such a pros pect for corn, and the best of It Is thnt 90 per cent of the crop is now snfo from frost." ltnilronds doing business In Ne braska are now doing a capacity busi ness. One railway olllchil said that If the road had more curs it could not use them until It received more loco motives. A tract of land near .Tunsen consist ing of less than ten acres, has been sold by F. K. Snwatzky to Henry O. Kroeker for 53,500, which Is believed to be n record price for farm land In this vicinity. Henry Loniini, a farmer neur Pnl niyru, grow two crops of potatoes on a two-acre plot, which Is considered n remarkable achievement and one not known to have been duplicated In tho state. State Fire Commissioner C. E. ITnrt ford reports that 405 buildings In Ne braska hnve been condemned or are In process of condemnation. The state nnd federal bureaus of animal Industry have u new plnn for controlling and suppressing hog chol era In this state. Six local Inspectors are to be stationed nt Lincoln, Colum bus, Auburn, Fremont, Kearney and Norfolk, who will give assistance In combating tho dlsenso wherever It up pears. Oscar Wayhiim was held up nnd robbed of $10 by two highwaymen near Tobias, who ransacked his truck for money he had received from a loud of fruit, but fulled to find $70 which ho had hidden in the canvus top over tho seat. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Mayfleld, aged respectively 83 and 85 years old, held a family rounlon last week at their homo nt Louisville. They have raised eight children, all alive, six of whom were present, nnd are great-grandparents to six sets of fourth generations. They came to Nebraska territory In the early fifties. There hnvo been but three deaths In the families of their children, nil of them being Infants. .1. L. Orottor, fireman employed nt tho Intermountnln Light and Power company plnnt at Scottshluff, was burned to death by an explosion of ono. of the large hollers. MONEY WILL NOT BE TIGHT Thought Credit Situation Will Now Bo Considerably Easier. Base Ball Players Being Indicted for Crookedness. Washington. The startling charge that many millions of dollars In dupli cate numbered Liberty bonds are In circulation was made public here In a letter sent to Secretary of Treasurer Houston by J. V. McCnrter, who recently resigned as assistant registrar of the treasury. Mr. McCnrter also ullogos that mil lions of dollars worth of other Liberty bonds which were paid off by the treasury but were never cancelled are also again In circulation. Many such bonds, he says, hnve been stolen from the treasury. If Mr. McCnrter's allegation are true, then many bonds now held by some of the 21,000,000 Liberty bond subscribers, have already been paid off by the government. It would ap pear, however, that this stupendous loss being due to tho alleged careless ness of the government will fall upon tho treasury and not upon holders of the bonds. Baseball Players Indicted. Chicago, III. Hddle Clcotte bus con fessed that he engineered the deal by which the White Sox lost last year's world series. The details of Clcotte's confession follow closely the story told in Phila delphia by IMlly Muhurg, former prize lighter, It was slated. Clcotte told the grand Jury, R was .announced, that ho received $10,000 for his part In losing the series. Indlcltments were voted against Ed die Clcotte, Arnold (Chick) Gondii, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Oscar (Hap py) Felsh, Charles (Swede) Itlsbery, Claude Williams. "Hack" Weaver and Fred McMiillen, and confessions ob tained from two of them, when the "Old llomun," Charles A. Comlskey, owner of the oft-times champion White Sox, smashed his pennant chasing inn chine to clean up baseball. The con fessions told how ho Sox threw last year's world's championship to Cincin nati for money paid by gamblers. MONEY WILL NOT BE TIGHT. Believed Credit Situation Will Now Be Considerably Eased. New York. Easng of the credit situation to a considerable extent will result from the lower range of prices now prevailing In leading trade lines, according to the opinion expressed by Edmund Piatt, vice governor of the federal reserve board. Mr. Piatt would not undertake to say how far the price recessions would go. but said he regarded as significant the spread of the price drop movement. Public disapproval of profiteering, bringing about lower demand for many articles, and causing factories to slow down for lack of orders, Is at the bot tom of the present downward price trend, Mr. Piatt Indicated. Commenting upon the plen of manu facturers that they cannot sell below cost of production, followed by re quests that the government relax Its credit restrictions, he Indicated that such interests ;nust get out of the habit of relying upon government aid. To Forestall Coal Shortage. Washington. To forestall the pos sibility of a bituminous coal shortage anywhere In the country this winter coul operators are bending every ef fort to attain a weekly output of over 12,000,000 tons of soft coal from now to December first. Deficiency In car supply at the mines had hindered this rate of production during the sum mer, but assurances have been hlid from the railroad executives that they will live up to the requirements put upon them. With production running at over 12,000,000 tons a week, operators calculate that the ex isting deficiency due to under-production can be made up soon after Decem ber 1. More Factories Reduce Price. New York. Action of the Ford and Franklin Motor companies lust week In cutting the price of their products has been followed by announcement of reduction by the Willys-Overland, Hud son and Studebaker concerns. Carpentler-Levinsky Match October 12. New York. The boxing contest be tween Georges Curpentler and Hnttllng Levlnsky will be held In the Jersey City baseball park on October 12. Requested to Leave Switzerland. Heme, Switzerland. The Swiss gov ernment has decided not to open po litical or commercial relations with soviet Hiissla. Lenlne's emissary, who recently arrived hero to Inaugu rate relations, has been asked to leavo Switzerland. Itlgu. The Husso-Pollsh peace con ference, sessions here were suspended Saturday because of the death of Gen eral Alexis Pollvnnoff, military expert of the soviet delegation. His death was due to typhoid fever. American Legion at Cleveland. Cleveland, O. A purado or 20,000 former service men, witnessed by up. proximately 300,0ou people. Including about 50,000 out-of-town visitors, closed tho first day of tho second an nual convention of tho Ainorlcan Legion hero. London. Cork was shaken by a great explosion Monday morning, one of tho Inrgo dry goods stores holng do mollshod. The oxploslou was follow ed by the sound o rlile nnd ninchluo gun tiring. DADDYJ EVENING FAMMtl DOWER AWTtlOA. FAIRY AND QALAGO. "As the Gnlago had nsked the fnlry to come and cnll nRtiln some evening." commenced Dnddy, "the fairy thought she would accept the Invitation, so one evening she went out to call on him. "You know the fnlry wns In a far off land finding out nbout queer nnd Interesting creatine so she could tell the Fairy Queen, and so that then the Fnlry Queen could whisper some of !hee things to me. "The fairy had been In Ea Africa niul she had called once on the Gol ngn. She lind found him ready to talk lit night, and he had told her thnt was the time he wns always awake and Interested In things. "in the day time, ho had said, ho hadn't cared to talk to anyone for the night time was his day time we would hnvo said. "You remember thnt the Gnlago lind n body much like n little fox nnd with bands, or paws, or arms, or whatever you wnnt to cull them, that looked like hands. "He had told the fairy thnt he ate Insects and little snakes mostly and thnt he thought those kinds of foods were delicious, quite delicious. "The fairy had also seen that he wns about the size of a rat and she hud quite n good, clear description of him to tell to the Fairy Queen. "She had already sent word to the Fnlry Queen what the Gnlago was llko nnd hud snld thnt he lind Invited her to cnll again. "She had said she found him quite no Interesting fellow, with his big, wide-awake, keen eyes and she had thought she would llko to pay him another call. "The Fairy Queen had sent her word thnt she should call again by all means when the little unliniil had been so polite to her. "So one evening the fairy went forth again to call on the Gnlago. "'Hello,' said the Galago. 'Glad to soo you again. "'You're most polite,' snld the fai ry. 'And I should think you would feel sleepy.' " 'Gracious no,' said the Galago. 'I told you I didn't feel sleepy nt night, didn't 17' " 'Yes,' snld the fairy, 'you did. Hut then your eyes look so big and some- Becoming Sleepy. times when eyes are so big they seem to bo wide nwnko by force.' " 'Not tho wny with mine,' said the Galago. " 'I sent back word to the children nnd told them whnt you were like, snld the fairy. "TIow did you do that?' nsked the Gnlngo. " 'By wny of the Fnlry Queen.' "'How Interesting,' said the Gala- go. 'ray, tell mo more nbout tho Fnlry Queen.' "So the fnlry told tho Gnlngo more nbout tho Fnlry Queen for she felt thnt on her first visit she lind nsked so many questions, that It might be po lite for her to answer some of the Gnlago's questions this time. "And he asked ever so many, all about the fairyland balls, and till sorts of fnlrylnnd happenings. He wns In terested, too, to hear of tho things they nil did for the children. "Til tell you what you can do,' ho snld, after he lind heard the fairy's story of fairyland. It was only pnrt of the gront, long story she could hnve told, hut she had talked almost nil night to the Gnlngo nnd as It was al most morning lie wns becoming sleepy. "'What?' sho asked. "You can toll them something more nbout me, If you think they will bo In terested.' " 'I nin suro they will be,' said the fnlry. " 'Then you can tell them that I nm of tho same old, old family as the mon key.' " 'Thnt Is Interesting.' said tho fairy. "'Of course, I'm not us lino ns n monkey,' snld the Galngo modestly, 'but It's nice to come from tho snmo old family as the monkeys did.' "Til bo glad to tell them thnt. snld tho fnlry. 'and I'm much obliged tn you for telling me.' " Plenty of Coal In the Earth. Under tho caption, "France Has Conl for the Next Two Hundred Years," n writer In Je Snls Tout scouts tho Idea that ,the world Is facing a coalless age. Ho contends thnt, for tho tl mo being, It Is merely n question of manual labor nnd transportation. There are nt present about eight trillion tons of coal In the known mlnea of tho enrth, MX 2S I DOMESTIC ANIMALS AND POULTRY LISTED IN BETTER-SIRES MOVE Herd of Purebred Jersey Heifers Calves Should Bo Encouraged to Good Roughagn at an Early Age. With 232,322 head of domestic mil-, mills and poultry listed In the bettor slies movement, livestock owners of tho country show noticeable activity In banishing scrub sires and also scrub female stock. Within the hist three months more than 1.0(H) persons noti fied their state agricultural colleges mid the United States department of agriculture that henceforth they, would breed their domestic animals only to purebred sires. This Is In accordance with the nation-wide campaign to In crease elllclency In production. According to quarterly tabulations made by the department of agriculture, there has been a steady decline In tho percentage of scrub female stock kept on farms where purebred sites are used, the present figure being only jit cent. l$y contrast, the percentages of better bred females on farms using purebred sires are: Purebreds. 47.8 J grades, 40.2; and crosshrods, 0.7. A Summary of Progress. Outstanding facts In the progress of the better-sires movement on July 1 were as follows: Livestock owners participating, 2,078; highest state en rollment, Virginia, 802; highest-county enrollment. Pulaski county. Va., 400; states co-operating with the de partment, 40. The campaign has been In progress nine months. The following breeding stock has been listed In the campaign. "Listing" means that nil males are purebred and that femnles nre bred only to puro red males: emtio 42.9U Homes 4,078 ABHta 155 Swlno 15.692 Sheep 41,421 Goats 2.2d Fowls 120.H& Oilier poultry 6.621 Total 232.33 To meet the demand for facts and figures on benefits following the use of better sires, thu department has prepared a collection of fifty short Items. This Information, which In cludes results of experimental tests and other observations, may be had by requesting It from the bureau of ani mal Industry. Poor Cows Entail Loss. Although as organized the better sires movement Is directed by the United Stales department of agricul ture In co-operation with extension divisions of the vurlous agricultural colleges, It Is receiving active support also from breeders' associations, the farm press, business organizations, nnd Individuals. A Middle West farm paper urges that 2,000.000 cows should lie disposed of by dalryuieu of 'the United States because tlie poor cows entail loss In production. It Is pointed SUMMARY OF "BETTER SIRES BETTER STOCK" CAMPAIGN, JULY 1, 1920. Animals and Poultry Enrolled Oct. 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920. Males. 2 s t 3 a Cattle per cont.. I number..) 2,1G3 Horses per cent.. I number.. 2U7 Asses per cent.. number.. 15 Hwlno per cent.. number.. 1.2C0 Hliecp per cent.. number.. 1.0W Goats pur cont.. I number..! 82 Total animals per cent.. nunibor.. 4,fcS7 Fowls per ccnt.. I number.. C,14!i Other poultry per cent..) I number..! BS8 Total poultry per cent.. I number.. 5,73C Tntal animals nml per cent.. poultry number.. 10,D03 Total numbor of perilous enrolled. 2.07R. IllRhoBt Htato enrollment, VlrKlnla, 802. I Ugliest county enrollment, I'uiaslU county, ASSOCIATIONS HELP FARMER Elevator Companies Not Only Handle Grain but Purchase for Members Various Supplies. Co-operntlve marketing associations frequently purchaso supplies needed by their members. Many of the fanners' elevator companies not only bundle grain but purchase for their patrons coul, lumber, twine, brick, Hour, feed, oils, and other supplies. Krult and vegetable marketing organizations In ninny Instances buy co-operutlvoly such supplies as fertilizers, spray materials, ami packages. Marketing associations thus not only assist the fanners in disposing of their products, hut nro also of service In buying farm supplies which are needed by them. Eat out thnt Inferior cows are .Incnpnhlo of returning a profit, no matter how good the market prices may be. Tho disposal of such cattle. It Is believed, would be quickly followed by their replacement with dairy cows of Im proved breeding; Interest In Hawaii. The better-sires movement Is more than an effort to bring about the use of purebred sires, since It provided that the male breeding animals pos sess high Individual quality as well as being purebred. The breadth of In terest In these activities Is shown In a letter received by the department from the agricultural editor of n prominent Hawaiian newspaper. Ile ferrlng to hetter-slros activities In continental United States he points out the need for Improved stock la Hnwall and requests suitable Infer- Standard Bred Barred Plymouth Rock. uiatlon and Illustrations "to get our farmers really Interested In better stock." Service to County Agents. To enable county agents and others who address farmers' gatherings to discuss live stock Improvement ef fectively the department Is distribut ing a typical 20-mluute address en titled "A plan to make the country scrub-free." The address Is one re cently delivered by a representative of the bureau of mutual Industry at a fanners' meeting In Virginia. Tho numerous anecdotes. Illustrations of Incidents In county-agent work, nnd practical breeding suggestions make the remarks especially adapted for communities desiring to Improve live stock hut which have thus far taken no definite action. Copies of the ad dress may be obtained from the bureau of animal Industry. Females i 5 it H 3 5 ba I 24.31 C4.4 14,OOS 22,17il 12.7 72.2 7.2 2,91'JI 9.4 3G) G.4 71 7.4 1,0C2 4.1 100.0 l.CS2 40,7S8 42,911 5.7 100.01 222 3,H.-i1 4.07S 2.7 100.01 3 ll() 155 2.1 iqo.oi 307 14,432 15,692 M 100.01 553 40,334 41.424 4.9 1W).0 107 2,184 2.208 2.8 100.01 2,874 101.6931 100,556 l.K 100.0 2,0921 114,'J97 120,145 1.8 100.0 91 6,0X11 6,621 1.8 100.01 2,1831 120.0301 125,768 2.3 100.01 5,067 221,729 232.322 4Sy 60.J K GU.y 2.7S0I 40.0 29. 4.27S CG.4I 15.C 2fl,ti 6,211 22,7001 10,7331 n.ti n.4 ifj.8 25S 1,4731 34.1 2V.4 S2.C 15.2 G3.G0I 1S,41C C3.& 20.51 5.21 72,9811 33,!U1 6.010j Ul.'JI 32.9 S.0S0J l.OCJ) 03.4 !.6 76,O01 35,570 47.81 40.21 4.1 HXi 5.2 0,2101 9.7 106,9001 8'J,074 2I,C32 Va., 400. Livestock Tzy Notes Serum ami sanitation make tho best preparation for tho warfare ngninst hog cholera. Almost tiny good farmer can suc ceed with sheep during the fall win tor nnd spring mouths. Hogging down corn Is nn economic nl wny to harvest the crop and pre pare hogs for market. It Is very Important thnt both tho ewes nnd lambs hnve plenty of good feed during the summer nud early uu, uutumti.