TUB NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
MEANS BIG CROP
DEADLY WRECK
CAUSED BY RAIN1
Cloudburst Responsible for
Disaster to Northwestern
Passenger Train
FIVE KILLED MANY INJURED
Wheat in Western Canada Has
Excellent Start.
Qermlnatlon, In tho Rich Soil of That
Country, Is Speedy Farmers
on Road to Wealth.
It was on tho I8U1 ol May that the
writer received u letter from a friend
In Western Couadu dutcd tho 15th of
the sumo month, information was
conveyed In tho letter that Us author
had traveled over n considerable por
tion of Western Canada. Uu bad cov
ered most of tho settled portions, and
from those he had not covered ho had
secured information that amplified
his own observations of conditions
throughout ail the vast urea of thai
country. Uo found seeding of wheat
practically completed, and placed In
a bed of earth that was In a condition
that warranted speedy and healthy
germination. This was borne out by
evidence that ho was u witness of
wheat that had been in the ground
four days that was already breaking
through, and that which had been
seeded for a week was well above tho
ground, tho field being as green as
a new pasture plot. Everywhere this
condition existed. It will be pleasing
Information for those who have
friends In Western Canada In any
part of It, no mattcY where they may
bo to leurn that conditions have
opened up In such n splendid way, and
to bo advised that tho prospects were
never brighter than now. When It
becomes known that conditions aro so
satisfactory, many who were waiting,
uncertain what to do In tho matter of
moving, will doubtless now como to it
decision. With tho opening of thou
sands of homesteads, which took place
on tho 1st of May, thcro was a rush
to take advantage of the opportunity
to secure 100 acres of excellent land
free, within speaking distance of's
railroad. Tho low railwuy rate,
granted by means of n certificate Is
sued by Canadian government agents,
located at different points In th
States, mako It posslhlo to mako h
trip of inspection at small cost.
Oat and barley farming aro brunches
that add considerable to tho wealth
of tho farmer who desires to make
money quickly. That these grains can
bo grown so successfully, and cunlly,
makes It possible to go Into othei
branches of farming Industry, that
glvo stability to It, wherever thoy are
carried on. They aro dairying and
cattlc-rnlslng. There Is an excellent
market for tho product, and tho cli
mate ulds materially In assisting It,
whllo tho natlvo grasses, as well as
cultivated varieties, bring tho cost of
production to u much lower figure than
is possible on lauds that nro much
higher In price, with no better yield
ing qualities. Then, again, it is nmply
shown that fodder corn can be grown
with great success, and that sunflow
ers, which It has been fully proven
uro little behind, If any, In food quali
ty, thrive wonderfully. In fact, these
two fodders, In nddltlon to which may
bo added that of alfalfa and sweet
clover, In which Western Canada
fanners aro well apacoVIth growers
elsewhere, have brought ubout a pe
riod of sllo-bulldlng which promises
to eclipse nny effort In this lino made
anywhere on the continent. In Mani
toba alouo, one firm Is building two
. hundred this year. In Suskatchowan,
many orders linvo been placed ; In one
small district In Alberta, where fifty
wero erected last year, another fifty
will bo built this summer. That there
will be a thousand silos erected lu tho
thrco provinces this year scorns to bu
a conservative estimate. To tho farm
er In the States, who knows the ad
vantage of tho silos, who Is Interested
in the fodder to bo grown to till them,
what does this moan? Advertisement.
Three Cars Plunge Into Swollen
Stream After Engine Passes
in Safety Three of
Dead Salesmen.
Scene In Settled Portion of Guatemala.
(Prepared by the National QeoEraphto So
duty, Waahlngton, D. C.)
Tho creation of a "United States of
Central America," and troubles be
tween Panama and Costa Rica which
almost led to war, have drawn atten
tion to the countries south of tho
Caribbean sea recently more strongly
than at nny time since the completion
of the Panama canal. Nowhere elso
in tho world has Nature been mora
bountiful In her blessings of natural
resources than In tho Caribbean re
gion. Everything that her treasuro
liouso holds has been bestowed with
lavish, nnd also with impartial, hand.
Somcono has observed that If you
ticklo the ground with u hoe It smiles
back with a yam and certain it Is that
In nny one of these countries tho
ground of nntural resources may bo
tickled with the hoe of foreign capital
nnd it smiles back with yams of
wealth.
These countries arc nearly nil fa
vored allko In natural wealth, but
there Is a vast difference In the de
velopment of that wealth n differ
ence Hint may bo attributed almost
wholly to the character of tho govern-
jncifts In tho respective countries.
In some of these lands the milk nnd
honey of plenty flows In n bountiful
stream. Others nro In wretched
poverty, where tho masses never have
enough to keep tho gaunt wolf of
hunger from gnawing at their vltnla
day nnd night and year In nnd year
out. In traveling through these coun
tries, one Is Impressed with tho fact
that prosperity abides with good rulo
and poverty dwells with misrule.
Differences In Development.
Starting out with tho easily demon
strntcd fact that there Is very little
difference between theso countries In
their uatural resources, it Is Interest
Ing to look around and notice what a
vast difference thcro Is In the use that
Is being mndo of this nntural wealth
One need not go out of the confines
of Central America to seo this. It
would requlro six Salvadora to make
one Ilonduras, and yet Salvador has
twlco the population of Honduras and
n liircer foreign commerce. Costa
rtlca Is loss than half as big as
Nlcarugua, and yet Its foreign com
merco Is grentcr thnn that country's.
And yet, when Salvador and Costa
Rica are compared with Porto Rico,
wero of equal density wo would have
a population of 700,000.000 In the con
tinental United States; and, although
nearly half of tho country is moun
tainous, the people aro normally able
to get their living out of what thoy
produce nnd still have a comfortable
balance of trade In their favor.
Tho Salvadorean people aro differ
ent from those of any other Central
American state. They have a mlddlo
class. Thcro aro thousands of llttlo
farms not much larger than a good
sized city block, and yet It Is hero that
tho real prosperity of Salvador la
created. In no other way could a mil
lion and a quarter souls find sub
sistence on 8,000 square miles of ter
ritory, nearly half of it mountains.
Nicaragua and Revolutions.
Nicaragua is In much tho condition ot
Honduras. There havo been revolu
tions there since the memory of tho
inhabitants runneth not to tho con
trary. Hero ono sees a thousand op
portunities for the development of
groat wealth. Virgin forests of all tho
precious woods In the category extend
ing for miles on end; coffee lands
where millions of pounds of splendid
coffeo might bo grown; sugar lands
which might yield hundreds of thou
sands of sacks of sugar; and yot all
stand idle. Why?
Ask tho American coffee growers of
the Mntagalpa district; aBk the
cotton growers of Campo Santo. Tho
revolutions como along and leavo their
coffeo to spoil ungnthered and their
cotton to go to waste unpicked. Ask
the ilnnnclor from New Orleans who
spent 20 years of hardships thero try
ing to gather together a competence,
and who finally found his business
wrecked nnd In tho hands of tho re
ceivers. Given good governments, then, no
countries on tho map would afford
greater opportunities for profitable In
vestments than those of Central Amer
ica. With such governments as some
of them havo had heretofore nil their
natural wealth cannot -offset tho dis
advantages of those governments, and
an Investment at 4 per cent in tho
United Stntes has often been preferred
to ono yielding 100 per cent In somo
of theso countries.
When wo como to Costa Rica, things
nro neginmng to be mncrcnt, ana
Chadron, Neb. A sudden cloudburst
which Hooded an ordinarily "dry" I
creek bed lu northwestern Nebraska is
blamed for tho plunge of the North
western pussenger truln from a treslo
bridge over Big Cottonwood creek
near Chadron, which resulted In tho
death of ilvo persons and the Injury
to thirty-two others, two perhaps
futally.
Tho dead: C. M. Buck, salesman,
Grand Island. Died from Injuries.
Frank Bosmcr, salesmau, Lauder,
Wyo. ; F. M. Stewart, salesman Gor
don, Neb,; R ,C. Scott, baggageman,
Chadron; B. F, Sklles, mall clerk,
Chadron.
Seriously Injured: Dick Arnold,
Chadron, News Agent, Internal In
juries; Walter Goodell, express mes
senger, Chadron, severe body injuries.
Northwestern passenger train No.
COG, bound from Lander, Wyo., to
Omaha, was rolling along the track
on schedule tlrao the locomatlve
pounded ncross tho wooden trestlo
bridge over Cottonwood creek, 15
miles west of here.
The bridge sagged. With a roar
and a crash the supports of the brldgo
gave way and three cars plunged Into
tho creek bed.
Breaking of the connection threw
on the dlr brakes and with a scrccli
of the wheels the Pullman car on the
rear of the train came to a standstill
with tho sleeper perilously hanging
over tho creek bank.
Reports say the train was traveling
between 20 and 25 miles an hour. The
creek, which is about 35 feet wide, is
known as a "dry creek" during sum
mer. An hour before the fatal wreck, a
westbound train crossed tho brldgo
in safety. Then came tho cloudburst
which filled the creek with water and
weakened the supports of the bridge.
Tho chair car was half submerged
In tho water after tho crash, with tho
smoker piled along the creek bank,
the rear half beneath the front half
of the chair car.
Ahead of the 'smoker was the bag
gage car, and up tho creek bank, tele
scoped by the tender of the engine for
15 feet.
Passengers in the chair car were
able to crawl out the windows of
their car, climb to the top of the
coach and make their way along the
tops of tho pllecl coaches to tho top
of tho creek bank.
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Juvpnlle Logic.
Tommy What does LL. D. after a
man's name mean?
Jimmy I guess it means that ho's
a lung and liver doctor. Boston
Transcript.
Missed an Opportunity.
Profiteer One million Is tho price
of a gram of radium.
His Partner And wo never thought
of trying to sell any. Paris Le Rlre.
To Be Exact.
"When does tho last train leavo for
Brooks Junction?" nsked tho fussy old
lady.
"I was reading In a nowspaper this
morning," said tho ticket agent, dream
ily, "where a celebrated soothsayer
predicted that the world would come
to an end In 1050. Barring unforeseen
developments, the Inst train for
Brooks Junction mny leavo here on or
about that date." Birmingham Ago-Ucrald,
they In turn seem to be slow In their Costa Rica does not Uko to bo rcck
dovelomncnt. Porto Rico Is so small oned In tho samo class with Nicaragua,
that seven islands Uko It would bo re- Honduras and Guatemala. Until re
quired to cover an area equal to that cently sho has had scarcely a revolution
of Costa Rica, yet It has a foreign in a generation.
trado more than fifteen times as great Panama which Is geographically a
ns that of tho Bnnnna Kmplre. Porto part of Central America, though It has
Rico Is less than half as largo as not been politically so slnco ludependr
Snlvador, yet it has a foreign trado enco wns gained from Spain, Is blest
over thirteen times as great. with some very tino farming ana rruit-
TMtttn Porto Rico Is so small that It lands In tho region next to Costa
Seize Guns Bound for Ireland.
New York. Custom officials have
seized nearly 500 modern machine
guns alleged to havo been found con
cealed aboard the steamer Kastside,
I tied up Hobobkcn, loading for an
Irish port.
This became known when the Ho-
i boken police clashed with custom men
over possession of the . arms. The
guns finally were taken to Hoboken
police headquarters.
Officials of the department of jus
tice admitted they wero Investigating
a report thnt plans wero afoot for
shipping arms to Ireland. ,
ASPIRIN
Name "Bayer" on Genuine
could bo burled in a slnglo Central
American lako; it would take 57 Is
lands of its size to equal Central
America In area and yet Porto
Rico enjoys about threo times as
much foreign trado as all Central
America together"from Tchunntepcc
to Colombia. Tho reason? Bccnuso
compared to theso Central American
republics Porto Rico has an Ideal gov
Rica; but nearly all of tho Panamans
have gone down to the canal zone re
gion for tho time being. Somo of tho
most beautiful tlerra templada lands
lu America aro to bo found In the
Chlqulrl country, nnd when tho peoplo
of the. United States get acquainted
i with tho possibilities thore, somo of
them aro going to settle in thnt re
gion and mako it a splendid example
Allow Pueblo $100,000.
Pueblo, ColQ, Allotment of $100,000
"or ns much thereof ns deemd neces
sary," by Secretary of War Weeks, to
be used for sanitation nurnoses In
j Pueblo, was announced In a telegram
received from United States Senntors
Lawrence C. Phlpps and Samuel D.
Nicholson nnd Representative Guy U.
Hardy nt Washington.
Red Cross Ball Bluo is tho finest
product of Its kind In tho world. Ev
ery woman who has used it knows
this statement to be true.
NOT RESTING, JUST WAITING
Idiot Boy, According to Judge Gary,
Very Much Like the Rest
of tho World.
Judge Gary was talking at a din
ner about the world's Industrial situa
tion. "All over the world," he said, "labor
is earning more and producing less.
In England, for example thero are
more coal miners employod than ever,
and the production of coal is lower
than ever.
"English labor reminds mo of the
Idiot boy.
"A farmer, out of pity, gave an Idiot
boy a job. Then ono afternoon tho
farmer walked across his farm to seo
how tho boy was doing. He found
him lying on the grass under a treo
smoking a cigarette.
"'Well, Looney,' he said tho boy
was known as Looney in the village
well, Looney, what aro you doing?
Resting?'
"Looney took his cigarette out of
his mouth and answered:
"No,- boss, L aint restin', 'cause
I ain't tired. Pm Just a-layln hero
waltin for tho sun to go down so's
I kin quit work.'"
Largo red-faced men who seek to
get the best of it, do so, nine times
out of ten.
Cutlcura for Pimply Faces.
To remove pimples and blackheads
smear them with Cutlcura Ointment.
Wash off In Ave minutes with Cutl
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keep your skin clear by using them for
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clude Cutlcura Talcum.
INTRODUCED A COMIC SCENE
Player Unwittingly Interjected Comedy
Into Gloomy Tragedy of Shakes,
peare's Julius Caesar.
When I was In high school we gave
an entertainment "Julius Caesar," In
which I had a minor part. Without
coat or collar, sleeves rolled up high,
and a blanket for a toga I was a
Rbman citizen, I was also ono of the
stage managers.
After ono scene the curtain stopped
about two feet from the floor. I
stepped on tho stage to right tho dif
ficulty. Without warning, tho curtain
came down In a wreck on my poor
defenseless head. I was stunned for
a moment Then I began to realize
what a grotesque figure I must be, for
I had discarded my toga while shifting
scenes, and there I was standing alone
on tho stngo amid tho ruins, feeling
the bump on tho top of my head.
But I smljed in spite of myself, gavo
a professional bow, and stalked with
dignity to the wings. It was several
minutes before the audience quieted
down so that the play could go on.
Chicago Tribune.
Good fortune nearly always finds a
man lu a roclptlvo mood.
crnment. The trado of tho Island haft of tho possibilities of tropical Amer-
lncreascd sevenfold since Uncle Sam lcn.
Flood Causes Bank to Close.
Denvor, Colo, Flood losses are be
lieved the cause of the closing of the
Bank of Pueblo, at Pueblo. Its af
fairs wero placed In the hands of the
state bank examiner.
Bewarol Unless you seo tho name
"Bayer" on package or on tablets you
are not getting genuine Aspirin pro
scribed by physicians for twenty-one
years and proved safe by millions.
Take ABplrln only as told in the Bayer
packago for Colds, Headache, Neural
gia, Itheumatlsm, Earache, Toothache,
Lumbago, and for Pain. Handy tin
boxes of twelvo Bayer Tablets of As
took possession thero. Tho number of
children enrolled In tho schools has
increased sixfold. Tho wages of tho
laboring class has multiplied three
fold oven beforo tho wnr.
Honduras U a Laggard.
Honduras in some ways lngs behind
its neighbors. And yet It Is rich In
natural resources almost beyond Im
agination.
With vast deposits of minerals of
all kinds, with untold thousands of
acres of the finest tropical fruit and
vegetable lands In tho world and with
vast areas of magnificent grazing and
coffeo lands, Ilonduras la at our vory
doors, It Is 700 miles nearer to Chi
cago than that city Is to San Fran
cIsco; it Is closer to Washington than
Denver Is; it is farther from Now Or-
It is not improbable that one of the
tesults of the completion of the Pana
ma canal will bo tho realization by
tho people of tho United Stntes that
Its safety depends In no small degrco
upon tho good conduct of tho govern
ments of Central America. That will
mean a demand for a now order of
things in theso countries, which in
turn will mean safe investments for
American capital,
Then will dawn an era of develop
ment in Central America comparable
to that which has taken place In Porto
Rico and in Cuba.
Pool Fund to Aid Stockman.
Washington, D. C. J. P. Morgan
and other eastern financiers havo
agreed to ralso $25,000,000 as half a
pool for making loans to the live stock
Industry, It was stated officially at the
treasury The other $25,000,000, It was
Bald, will bo raised by western bankers.
Dotnlls of the credit relief meas
ures tor live stock raisers so rar
worked out, treasury officials explain
ed, called for a pool of $50,000,000
raised and distributed through private
I channels.
Around the World for a Nickel.
On tho wall of a shop not far from
Fifth avenue, Now York, there is hang
ing in a frame a largo envclopo which
Polish Insurgents Quit
Now York. Korfanty, .the Polish In
surgent leader, has signed agreements
with tho interallied commission at.Op-
plrln cost fow cents. Druggists also leans to Chicago than It is from Puor- has been forwarded from ono point to pclln under which he will retire nnd
sell larger packages. Aspirin is the
trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of
Monoacetlcacldester of Sallcyltcacld.
Tho Animal Tent
. "Then your kid didn't enjoy tho cir
cus?" "No, tho glraffo was getting
Its neck washed."
to Barrios and Livingston to New Or
leans. With a stable government,
Honduras must become a kingdom of
plenty instead of n principality of
poverty.
Across" tho border Is prosperous llt
tlo Salvador. It is as different from
Honduras as night Is from day. It
bus ti population so deno thnt if ours
another nround the world. It reached
as far south as Now Zealand and
north as far as Rus3lo, whero it
touched somo years boforo the dis
turbed conditions of war prevailed.
Tho original inscription was hardly
dlscernlblo at tho end of tho journoy
nud a five-cent stamp carried it all
tho way.
dcmobllzo his troops, It was stated by
tho Polish bureau of Information on
advices received from Warsaw.
"Tho agreements, signed Juno 1(
aro conditional on simultaneous Ger
man disarmament. Korfanty reserved
freedom of action in case tho Germans
did not comply with tho terms.
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