' THE O'NEIL FRONTIER, D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA Victor Hugo was born in Hesancon, Prance, in 1802. He was the son of a polonel In the French army, and re ceived a classical education. After the revolution of 1830 his plays of “Marlon Ce Lorme” and "The King Amuse* Himself,” were performed at the The ater Francals. He was created by Louis Philippe a peer of France, with the title of viscount, but he arose above this honor in being the author of ‘‘Lee Mlserables.” He opposed Napoleon III, and was banished from France, but he returned on the fall of the empire. He died in Paris in 1886, and was burled In the Panthpon. Cotonge’s toilet water industry, which Is being so seriously affected by the war was established in the beginning •f the 17th century. Tire inventors of toilet water (eau-de-Cologne) were Paul Keminls and Maria Clementine, a Catholic nun. They began on a small scale, with few persons employed whom they did not initiate Into the secrets •f the whole process, the last and most Important mixture being made by the Inventors themselves. Paul Femlnls left the secret with the Farina family, while the nun bequeathed the secret to one Peter Schaeben, who had been her assistant for many years. Michigan Is said to have the deepest mines In the world, but ore Is being mined at the depth of 6,000 feet In the Catlln shaft, the deepest gold mine of the Wltwatersrand In South Africa. Considering the small and uniform in crease In temperatures in this shaft and the fact that there are apparently no mechanical barriers. It is believed that tnlning can be carried on at a profit at a depth as great as 8.000. pome of the Canadian regiment brought their pets to England with them. In front of one detachment during the march through Plymouth was a young trooper with the neck and shoulders of a wrestler, and on his shoulder, playing w.,h his ear, was a \ame white rat. Another batulion In tends to take to the front a small black bear captured In the Canadian woods. The wonderful eaves of Bellamar, CuDa, to the east of Havana, attract the attention of the ambitious tourist They are on a plateau as level as a table top which presents no signs of tho existence of such caves After descend ing Into the earth, however, a picture unfolds Itself. Then come many pas sages, and at last the great "Gothic temple," 250 feet long and 80 feet wide. It Is reported that the British war office has received from his highness the Aga Kahn, an application 1o be al lowed to serve as a private In the In dian contingent for the front. His fligh tless is the head of the Khoja Moham medans, and holds sway over 50.000,000 of the Inhabitants of India. He te about 80 years of age. Of the 107 ranking officers of tho Pennsylvania railroad system, 163—In cluding the president—started at the bottom, sweeping out ears, carrying water for laborers and other like Jobs vf the very commonest kind. One hun dred and forty-two of the 170 have been In the service more than 20 years. According to a notice Issued at Rowestoft, England, by the captain In charge of the naval base, a reward not exceeding £1,000 will be paid to fisher men for Information which leads to the actual capture or destruction of an enemy's vessel down to and Including a mine layer or submarine. King George and Queen Mary, at England, did not use the state coach and the cream colored horses on the occasion of the opening of parliament. This departure from the usual 'Custom was rendered necessary by the absence at the front of 89 of the royal servants. Grown Princess Gecille of Germany po longer claims as her chum heir cous in, Grand Duchess Olga, of Russia, or as her little friend, her cousin. Prin cess Mary, of England. War bus sev ered the ties that hound In friendship most of the royal folk of Europe. A Greek law of July 30, 1914. prohibits the Importation, manufacture and salo »f certain weapons, Including stilettos, daggers and spring or double edged • knives. The Importation of firearms of all kinds without government permis sion is likewise prohibited. About 350 English barristers are now ■serving In tho British army. Arrange ments have been made by the bar coun cil by which briefs Intended for them will be attended to by substitutes, so that their practice will not suffer In their absence. •On the Minnestota farms, says a careful statistician, speaking of the fecundity of the different races in America, only one Polish-Ameriean wife out of 13, and one Engllsh-Amer lean wife out or 12 have no children. 'In the schools of Australia boxing has been Introduced as regular exer cise for school boys. In Sydney 107 boys responded to the call for those desiring It. and In Melbourne the plan has proved even more successful. Starlings are not liked In Australia according to reports from the Ameri can consul at Melbourne. Besides be ing destructive to fruit, they are charged with turning valuable Insect eating birds out of their nests. A ton of water from the Atlantic ocean, when evaporated, yields 81 pounds of salt; a ton of Pacific water 79 pounds; a ton of Arctic or Antarc tic water, 86 pounds; a ton of water from the Dead sea, 187 pounds. Of the total world production of commercial cotton in 1913 the United States contributed 60.9 per cent. Next to corn, cotton Is the most valuable crop grown here, and It is the largest ■Ingle item of export. Owing to the number of doctors whe have left for the war, Lambeth guardi ans have decided to give each dcctor a jfratutty of £60 at the end of the year to encourage him to remain In the poor law service. The health commissioner of Milwau kee Is planning to establish free dispen saries and clinics In school buildings at regular hours, not only for service to tile children, hut to the general pub lic. Twenty-five dollars “for scrubbing of the tomstones of my neighbors in the graveyard" was one of the peculiar be quests in the will of Mrs. Margaretha H. Schmjdt. of Belleville. 111. A rancher has applied for rental of St9 acres of the Pike national forest, Colorado, to be used in connection with private land for raising elk as a com tnercial venture. Last season the average wheat yield in western Australia was 12.2 bushels amore than the average for the 10 sea boom ending in 1913. BANUIT GONZALES IS KILLED BY OFFICERS IN RESISTING ARRES1 Bad Mexican Chased to Covet Near Scribner—Killed an Omaha Detective. Scribner. Neb. Feb. 22.—Juan Gon zales, the Mexican, who la believed to have killed Thomas Fling, city detec tlve. In Omaha, February 10, was killed by a posse near here late yesterday. Three days ago Gonzales was at Nor folk. but escaped after shooting at Of ficer Pllger, one bullet shattering the butt of the officer's revolver. No one was Injured in the gun fight at Nor folk. Gonzales' companion, Joe Con tano, was captured. He was traced to Scribner and yes terday a farmer boy brought in the news of his whereabouts. Four Omaha policemen, with the sheriff of Dodge county, went to the place. Gonzales at once opened fire, but fell riddled with rlfte halls None of the officers was hurt. Detective Ring, of Omaha, was killed while trying to arrest a party of Mex icans for box car robberies. It Is claimed the three men were Gonzales, now dead; Contana, captured at Nor folk, and <’ontM80, captured at Kansas 'City. TAYLOR FAILS TO GET COLLEGES TO ITEMIZE Business Suggestion Creates Regular Rumpus Among Nebraska Solons. I Lincoln. Net).. Feb. 22.—The house o'f representatives yesterday afternoon was the scene of one of the liveliest talk feats in the history of Nebraskn. Some members lost their temper. It was all over a demand made by Representative Taylor, of Custer, chairman of a com mittee to investigate methods used by the State university In spending appro priations. Taylor could not agree with the rest of the committee as to whether the committee should oring in a report calling for itemized appropriations or a blanket appropriation, as has been the custom. Taylor insisted that the house should instruct the committee, and the majority of the committee said It want ed no Instructions. Taylor charged the members of the committee with being Influenced by university suroundlngs and they burled a defiance back. Thumbell, of Sherman, shook his fist at Mockett. of Lancaster, and wanted to know by what right the university could spend money year after year without making the people an Itemized statement, the same as any other class of business. On a roll call Taylor was sat upon by a vote of 59 to 25, and Taylor then announced that he would do no further work on the committee. ATTORNEY GENERAL BACK IN GRACES OF MUTUALS Lincoln. Neb. Feb. 22.- Attorney Gen eral Reed has succeeded In making his peace with the farmers' mutual Insur ance companies. He appeared before them at the meeting yesterday after noon and explained that he was not listing any of them as doing business Illegally, but pointing out that their own safety lay In strict compliance with the law. If they will file a copy of their original articles of lncorpora tion ho will be satisfied. Secretary of State Pool, who started the trouble, got a severs hazing, while the dele gates to the convention got no satis faction from Pool, who contented him self with saying that the companies should blame the newspapers for print ing the ItHtR of companies he had listed as wanting *ln legality. The association went on record as being in favor of a state hall Insur ance company, despite a fight made by representatives of hull Insurance com panies. who declared the state could not lawfully go Into the business because It would have to tax all of the people for the benefit of a few, the hull belt in Nebraska being well defined. BROTHERS POOR WITNESSES FOR DIVORCE APPLICANT Lincoln, Neh., Feb. 22.—Elizabeth Muller made a serious mistake when she called her two brothers as wit nesses in support of her petition for a divorce from her husband, Frederick. She said that she had married Muller In Russia seven years ago, and preceded him to this country. Stic sent him the money with which to come to Amer ica, but they did not get along well to gether, and when he located in Colorado she refused to join him. One of her brothers said that in ills opinion his sister ought to return to her husband, and the other said iherc was "unother guy" in the case. He said this fellow had given his sister money with which to pay for an operation, und he had seen them together several times. The court gave Mrs. Muller K chance to call “the other guy," to provg she had to borrow the money from liln' after her husband and brothers had re fused to help her. rftrtn SUSSLY SHUKI t-KUlVl DESTRUCTION OF WAREHOUSE IJncoln, Neb., Feb. 22.—Three Lin coln newspapers had to make a mad scramble yesterday- to secure enough paper to keep their perfecting presses going. The reason was that a big storage warehouse in which they sept their reserves, burned during the light. The loss with amount to JSO.OOO, the chief losers being the Lincoln Trans fer and Storage company, the Indepen dent Harvester company and the Ne braska Material company. The ,osses were largely covered by Insurance. The Lincoln mills, near by, were saved af ter a desperate struggle. Fifteen horses were burned. Nansemond. the name of a river In Virginia, is from the Indian word Nawnschlmund, “the place from which we were driven away." The Flint, in Michigan, was called by the Indiana f’erwonigo, “the river of the flint," from the abundance of this stone on its banks. Humboldt river, in Nevada, was named by Fremont in honor of Baron Humboldt. FORMER UNIVERSITY HEAD DIES AT PROVIDENCE, R. I. Lincoln, Neb.. Feb. 20.—J. Irving Ma natt. wlio was chancellor of the Ne braska State university from 1885 to 1SSS. died tile other day at his home in Providence, according to word received in tile city. For the last 22 years Mr. Manatt has been professor of Greek in Brown university. After lie left Ne braska. lie was named consul at Ath ens. Mr. Manatt was the author of a number of books. Mere of a scholar than an executive, iio still did much to put Nebraska university, after a period of factionalism, soundly on Its fact. SCHOOLMASTER CLUB INDIGNANT AT CLAIM OF“TRUST”TENDENCY Head of Organization Disputes Alleged Desire to Control All Teachers. Omaha. Neb. Feb. 20.—"There is no school teachers’ trust in this state, nor is the Schoolmasters’ club of Nebras ka in any way concerned in the mat ter of maintaining an embargo against any particular teacher or teachers,” de clared E. U. Graff, president of the Schoolmasters’ club of Nebraska, when told of the bill introduced in the legis lature by Senator Henry, of Colfax. While the bill itself makes no refer ence to the Schoolmasters’ club, that organization has been mentioned in this connection and the ire of various educators of the state has been aroused. Proponents of the bill maintain there is a teachers’ trust in this state and that “sharp politics" are played by members of the club. It is alleged that the club holds the whip hand in mat ters educational and that it bodes ill for any teacher to work at cross pur poses in school politics or to take any stand which may be regarded as inimi cal by the club. HARLAN COUNTY COUPLE ELOPES TO BLOOMINGTON Alma, Neb.. Feb. 20.—Word has been received here that S. A. Scott, a young farmer living near Alma, was married at Bloomington to Miss Minnie Ascfce, the daughter of a prominent farmer living near Republican City. The father of the bride had refused to consent to the wedding, whereupon the young cou ple eloped, via automobile. The reports are that the road was exceedingly bad and that at places the prospective bride and groom had to assist the chauffeur in extracting the car from the mud. After several minor mishaps they ar rived in Bloomington Just as the court house was being locked for the eve ning. They persuaded the judge to re main long enough to perform the cere mony. after which they departed on a brief honeymoon. The young people are members of prominent families and expect to make their future home near Alma. ▼ DEAN BESSEY URGES NO SEPARATION OF COLLEGES Lincoln. Neb., Feb. 20.—Dean Bessey of the State university, from his sick bed, has addressed an appeal to the stute legislature not to take the ad vice of those who would separate the state agricultural college from the Uni versity of Nebraska. Representative Taylor of Custer county is leading a movement In th.e legislature with that object in mind. Dr. Bessey is prob ably on his death bed. the physicans having given him but a few months of life, and he wrote: "After serving thelUniversity of Ne braska and the College of Agriculture as a united institution for more than 30 years I greatly deplore any attempt in the legislature to weaken the connec tion between th.e university farm and the mother institution at the city campus. It has been my duty to study the development of such institutions as this, and I hope that there will be no change in the direction of the policy that financial or otherwise has charac terized it for all these years of Its development." Representative Taylor and Regent Hall had a run-in at a meeting of the board of regents, In which the legislator came out second best. In the course of their exchunge of remarks Hall told Taylor that while he knew he was ec centric, he had always supposed him to be honest, but he was beginning to doubt that. Taylor had appeared at the regents’ meeting with a stenogra pher and had proceeded to question the regents in what they term a rough and rude manner. Taylor thinks that the money raised for the support of The university should be divided equally be tween the two institutions, instead of two-thirds downtown and one-third to the farm. MUTUAL INSURANCE MEN SCORE STATE OFFICIALS Lincoln. Neb. Feb. 20.—Loud voiced indignation marked the opening ses sion of the Nebraska Association of Mutual Insurance companies. At one time practically every delegate was on his feet demanding recognition so that he might tell what he thinks of Attor ney General Reed and Secretary of State Pool. These two officials have ruled that under the insurance code passed two years ago, all mutual com panies must file their original articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. As most of the companies have lost their original articles and the sec retary of state won’t accept amended ones, the managers are ’ firmly con vinced that this is a scheme of the old line companies to put them out of business, or at least in the position of doing business Illegally. A motion was passed asking both officials to come down to the conven tion and explain this action. "They won’t come,” declared many of the del egates. When the attorney general heard of the racket he sent in a let ter to Pool telling him that it will be all right to accept copies of the orig inals. Interest was added to the meeting by the declaration of Fire Marshal Rid gell that any man who would Insure $2,000 worth of property for $7,000 ought to be in the penitentiary, and lie was finally forced, by criticism, to include in his condemnation, the agent who wrote such a policy. WEAK BRIDGES MAKE MORE BUSINESS FOR CONTRACTORS Lincoln, Neb.. Feb. 20.—Charging that the bridge builders were backing the bill to reduce the minimum carry ing capacity of bridges below 20 tons, because thereby they would get more bridges to build, the Nebraska Tliresh erman association went on record as opposed to any change in the law. The following officers were elected: Preside**, C. H. Gustafson, Mead; vice presidenT/L. A. Knderle, Aurora; treas urer and secretary, J. W. McHarry, Juniata: executive committee. C. H. Gustafson, F. E. Shannon, of Hastings; J. G. Cole, of Roseland. and Henry Peterson, of Colon; legislative commit tee, M. H. O'Malley, of Alda; L. A. En derle, of Aurora, and \Y. W. Grown, of Falls City. POLICEMAN DIES FROM SELF INFLICTED WOUNDS Omaha. Neb., Feb. 19.—William Har eld, former policeman and watchman at the Omaha Field club, who shot his wife and then turned the gun on him self Tuesday, at his home, 1142 South Thirty-second street, died at St. Jo seph hospital at 2:20 yesterday morn ing. Mrs. Hareld, who was shot in the face, is also at the hospital, but she will recover. An investigation to find a motive lias been started by thy coroner. SENATE COMMITTEE j GIVES APPROVAL TO SHORT BALLOT BILL Provides For Making Minor Of ficers Appointive—In Form of Amendment. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 20.—Senator Dodge's bill for the snort ballot has been recommended for passage by the standing committee In the senate. It provides that the executive department shall consist of the governor and lieu tenant governor, for two-year terms, and that the governor shall appoint the secretary of state, auditor of public ac counts, treasurer, state superintendent, attorney general and commissioner of public lands and buildings, at terms of two years each. This is in line with the short ballot reform advocated at a re cent meeting of the short ballot league. The Dodge bill is in the form of a reso lution submitting the constitutional amendment to a vote of the people at the next general election. A bill, designed as another slap at W. J. Bryan, was killed by standing committee in the senate, and the sen ate consented to the assassination. It was introduced by A. D. Spencer, of Cage county, and provided that dele gates to the national convention must not swerve, under any consideration, from the choice for president expressed by vote of the people at the primary election. This means that if Nebraska democrats voted for Champ Clarke, aS at the last presidential primary in this state, Bryan and his delegation would have to stick to Clark at the conven tion, no matter what happened. LEFT ABSORBENT GAUZE IN HIS PATIENT’S ABDOMEN Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 19.—Dr. John W. Greenman is charged in district court with having negligently allowed a ball of absorbent gauze to remain In the body of Mary E. Plette. after he had operated upon her for appendicitis and gall stones. Mrs. Plette says that she suffered great pain for about five months after the operation. She called in another surgeon and he removed the foreign substance. She says her health was permanently injured by reason oi the doctor’s negligence and that she was compelled to pay large hospital and medical fees. She asks $10,650 dam ages. The case is now on trial. —♦— peace advocate says NATIONS SHOULD BE DEHORNED Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 20.—“The United States had better wait a while before building any more new battleships foi the exclusive use of the junk pile,!’ de clared Dr. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, poted peace advocate, here to make a speech before the State Peace society, which Is celebrating the 100 years of peace be tween English-speaking nations. “So far the war has shown that the dreadnaughts do not amount to much. One or two little torpedoes and down they go to Davy Jones’ locker. What's the use of spending money for ships that may be of no use when we get them. I believe in evolution, and evo lution shows that the necessity for fighting Is dying out. The fanged, horned and clawed animals are being weeded out. The farmer grows horn less stock and the Texas steer doesn't amount to 'much any more. If the farmer doesn’t breed the horns out ho dehorns the animals. We are trying to dehorn the nations.” THRESHERMEN WOULD LIKE TO CHARGE HIGHER PRICES Lincoln, Neb., eFb. 20.—But two things stand in the way of the Thresh ermen's association adopting a stand ard scale of prices for work. One is the anti-trust law and the other the com petition of the farmers. The members think they ought to charge no less than 5 cents a bushel for threshing wheat and 3 cents for threshing oats, which is a half cent more than they now receive. Most of the speeches made at the an nual convention here were on the sub ject of getting a remunerative price for their work. The specter of the anti-trust law has so far deterred them from taking action. Then they took up the subject of insisting on a thresh ermen’s lien law, making the charge for their services a lien on the grain threshed. The principal stumbling block in the way of a price agreement is the existence of a number of farm ers’ combinations, where each helps the other get rid of his wheat. If the threshermen raise prices, they fear this movement may be given such impetus that it will put them all out of business. —♦— CONFESSES FRAUD AFTER LAPSE OF 10 YEARS Lincoln. Neb., Feb. 20.—Remorse has come to Thomas Jefferson Lincoln, after 10 years. Lincoln walked into the police station yesterday and told the captain that he had come to give him self up. Ten years ago, at Abingdon, III., he had made out a bogus check for $30. signed it and passed it. He Bllpped away from town and has never been back since. He said remorse bad gripped him and he wanted to be sent back to face the charge. The police locked him up and will wire Abingdon to know if he is wanted. LINCOLN UOMMLKUIAL CLUB URGES LANDSCAPE GARDENER Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 20.—If the oCm merclal club has its way about it the city will employ a landscape gardener who will employ his time in securing the beautification of vacant lots and to assist citizens in making their lawns and flower gardens visions of art. The directors have secured lantern slides showing what is being done in other cities along this line and giving pic tures of "before and after" in the hope that the city commissioners may be Impressed. FARMER NEAR ALLEN HANGS SELF IN HAYMOW Allen. Neb., Feb. 20.—Perry W. Har per, a farmer living on his father's place about five miles east of here, hung himself in the haymow Wednes day morning. He fed the horses, tied a hitching strap to one of the rafters, stood on a cream can to fasten the Btrap around his neck, and then kicked over the can. He was about 43 years old and leaves a wife and three chil dren. The cause Is a mystery to all. He has a sister. Mrs. Harry Hemstreet, living at Morningside. WASHINGTON REFUSES TO COMMENT ON GERMAN REPLY Washington. I). O., Feb. 18.—Ger many's reply to the American note on :he naval war zone around the British ales had not been received today at .he state department. Dispatches on tther matters from Ambassador Ge ■ard, filed in Berlin yesterday, said he lad delivered the American note, but :hat the German reply had not then teen delivered to him. The outline of the Gerard reply con ained in news dispatches, however, ?ommanded close attention in official tnd diplomatic quarters, but comments vere heing reserved until after the text tas been received RUSH OF GERMANS' RELIEVED CRECKEO ON RIVER NIEMEN Teutonic and Russian Armies Again Locked In Combat— , Von Hindenburg Trying to Flank Warsaw. CZAR’S ARMY REINFORCED Both Sides Have Sustained Heavy Losses In Galicia— Kaiser’s Forces Harass ing British In Belgium. Geneva, (via Paris), Feb. 22.—A dispatch from Cracow says the Russians have begun to bombard Przemysl with new heavy artil lery and that they have driven the Austrians back along the line Krosno - Jaslo - Gorliee. The Aus trians are reported to have suf fered heavy losses in the last three days at Wyszkow, near Dukla pass. Petrograd, (via London), Feb. 22.—The Russian minister to Ru mania, M. Poklevsky-Kozelle, in a report to the Russian foreign min ister, M. Sazanoff, says that ac cording to such information as he has been able to gather, Rumania will continue her present policy of armed and watchful waiting, tak ing sides neither for nor against Russia and her allies. uviiuuil, J- CU, id id.-VJC1 llldll 1JIUVC1UCULO on the northern extremity of the east ern battle front hold first place in the military situation, particularly so as Petrograd believes that Field Mar shal Von Hindenburg is trying to flank Warsaw from the north, a task which the Russians think is rather daring and fraught with great risks unless the German commander's forces are over whelming. The first rush of the Germans over the east Prussian frontier seems to have spent itself. The Germans now are reported to be locked with Russian reinforcements at many points, from the Nlemen river, below- Kovno, down to the right bank of the lower Vistula, and military experts in London say it is difficult to visualize this position. The campaign in the Austrian crown land of Bukowina continues with pros pects of developing into a decisive bat tle on the banks of the river Pruth. In Galicia the repeated violent Aus trian attacks against the Russian po sitions in the Carpathian passes have been costly to both sides, but they have left the alignment little changed. In the west the Germans are ham mering away in an endeavor to recov er lost ground and are reported to be keeping the British troops especially busy to the southeast of Ypres In Bel gium and elsewhere along their com paratively extended front, but. accord ing to French and British claims, with out appreciable gains. SITUATION IS EVERYWHERE FAVORING KAISER, HE SAYS Berlin, (via London), Feb. 22.—Ex plaining the situation in the east Ma jor Moraht, military expert of the Tageblatt, points out that reports from general headquarters show the pursuit of the Russians Is proceeding in three directions. The northernmost has re sulted in the capture of Tauroggen, but not without fighting along the line from Tilsit to Tauroggen. The Russians, however, soon were forced to retreat again, major Moraht says and it ap pears that no reinforcements have been sent them from Kovno. He continues: "There also has .been fighting north west of Grodno, probably against the fortress garrison sent ahead against the Germans. The situation is just as favorable in the district of the Narew river near Lomza, where the Germans still are contending with apparently fresh Russian troops from the fortress at Lomza. "This whole movement is the result of the Mazurian Lake victory. It was well prepared and splendidly carried out to cover the right flank of the fort ified line north of Tarsain.” • Major Moraht declares the western situation shows daily the hopelessness of the allies’ offensive and adds: 1 "Our procedure there stands in a certain degree under the pressure of general conditions. We must, like Gen eral Lee, abandon for the time our bold warfare and restrain ourselves to a steady holding on.” RUSSIA DENIES REPORTED HEAVY LOSSES IN BUKOWINA Petrograd. (via London). Feb. 22.— The Russian headquarter’s staff, in a statement referring to a recent Aus trian official statement declared that the Austrian assertions that they cap- i tured 29,000 Russian prisoners are not true. As an example the headquarter’s staff cites the Austrian claim that they captured 12,000 Russians during the re treat in Bukowina. This number it is stated, exceeds the total number of Russians engaged on this front and the actual Russian losses were seven of- * ficers and 1,000 killed, wounded and missing. ' GERMANS SUFFER LOSS IN ! AN ASSAULT NEAR YPRES Paris, (via London). Feb. 22.—The < official statement issued this afternoon t by the French war department says: i "In Belgium—The enems* bombard'd Nieuport and the dunes. His batteries I were effectively countered by ours. The f Germans appear to have employed !m- ( portant forces in yesterday’s attack against our trenches to the east if t Ypres. After a heavy bombardment i f t our positions the Germans attacked , with the bayonet but were repulsed and , our artillery held by its fire the re serves which were to have supported the first line attack. The German losses were very high. , "From the Lys to the Oise, and the Aisne. in the region of Berry-au-Bac, n great artillery activity prevailed." , FUNERAL SERVICES FOR EX-BANDIT JAMES HELD f _ V Excelsior Springs. Mo,. Feb. 20.—Fun v eral services for Frank James, the for mer outlaw, who died last Thursday, ^ were held today on his farm near here. r John F. Phillips, a former federal 1 Judge, who defended James when he I was tried for murder and acquitted in p Gallatin. Mo., delivered the funeral ad dress. b After the services today the body was 11 taken to St Louis, where it will be b cremated and the ashes returned to a 1 ■ale deposit vault in this city. HOLD RAILWAYS MUST PROVIDE EQUIPMENT Commerce Court Kuies They Must Furnish Cars or Be Liable to Damages. Washington, Feb. 22.—The Interstatt Commerce commission held today, in a divided opinion, that it and not the courts has original Jurisdiction in a case where there is an alleged failure on the part of a railroad to furnish cars to the extent requested by a ship per. The Illinois Central had denied the Jurisdiction of the commission in a case involving two coal companies and argued that the question was one for court determination. The opinion held that a carrier must do more than provide itself with suf ficient equipment for the slack period of coal production and must assume the burden of explaining or excusing its failure to furnish cars. Commissioner Clark wrote a dissent ing opinion, in which Chairman Harlan and Commissioner Clements concurred, holding that the question of requiring a carrier to provide Itself with addi tional facilities or respond in damages for failure to do so, was essentially a Judicial one and not within the powtf of- the commission. REBEL PLOT STIRS TEXAS Government Unearths Scheme to Murder All Whites and Establish Republic of Ne groes and Mexicans. Corpus Christ 1, Tex., Feb. 22.—The preliminary inquiry into the alleged conspiracy to form a republic of Mexi cans and negroes in south Texas by an uprising on Washington's birthday, was postponed today until next Satur day by U. S. Commissioner Southgate because of absence of witnesses. It was charged that circulars, print ed in Spanish, were distributed throughout south Texas to incite the murder of all white American males over 16 years old. The postponed hear ing was on charges against Anotoilo Gonzales and Manuel Flores of sedi tious conspiracy. Federal and state officials in south Texas are prepared for emergencies next Monday. STATE OFFICE IS Deputy Secretary of State In South Dakota Testifies to Mysterious Losses From Drawer. Pierre, S. D., Peb. 20.—That a large Bum of money belonging to the state eras stolen from the drawer of his desk In the secretary of state’s office, was Siven by John T. Nelson, deputy, as ’he reason there was not sufficient ’unds to make the December remit lances to the state treasurer, and ac counting largely for the shortage in the iffice. The sum of $1,500 was deposited >y Mr. Nelson on January 23 and on hat same date $1,000 was‘deposited in he American Exchange bank to make sufficient funds to pay the state treas jrer the $1,500 In the examination leading up to this statement, Mr. Nelson, when asked to 'xplain about the $1,000 prior to the ime it was deposited on January 23 ;aid he would not like to answer if le did. he would not want it given publicity. Finally he asked if com piled to answer, and doubted the uu hority of the committee. He was given >ver an hour to look up authority then •eturned to the stand and said he had lot had sufficient time. On an opin on of the attorney general, read to dm, that the committee had full au hority. Nelson said the money had men stolen and that he had personally nade up the amount by the deposit o'r lanuarv 23 Not Sure of Amount. Nelson testified that he had no idea low much money was stolen from the 'rawer, but he thought as much as 2,000. Later he said he was unable to Itate the amount stolen. The drawer lad been pried open. There was no in iication that the door or window had leen broken into. He had in mind nine one who might have taken the noney. but did not want to make harges. He did not know whether it tas stolen during the first half or see md half of the year 1914. He was asked as to the receipts for he months of July. August. Septem icr. October and November which cere paid over to the treasurer bv hecks, and if it was not a fact that lie money could not have been stolen n those months. Mr. Nelson answered that he did not now. The witness took full respon ibility for all the transactions of the (lice and said the loss was his own nd he has made it up. He had carried he less at first by taking current fees hat came in the next month and ro !onth d tHe fUn