Nebraska Newspapers

    D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
O'NEILL. NEBRASKA
Simple rare Is quite the rule now
»oth at Buckingham palace and at
Sandringham, and this will continue as
long as the war is on. Meals In the
royal household have never been so
elaborate during the present reign as
thcv were In King Edward's time. King
George is not nearly so much of an
epicure as his father was. He has to be
exceedingly careful what he eats, and
he avoids rich foods both for preference
and of necessity, for he occasionally
■uffers from gastritis. Both the king
end queen prefer boiled fish, and meat
cooked quite, plainly, without an abun
dance of cunningly seasoned sauces
which delight the heart of a clever
French diet. A recent dinner menu at
the palace consisted mainly of boiled
turbot, a dish of cutlets, a fruit salad,
send a savory. Champagne Is rarely
drunk except on special occasions, and
when It is the bdttie is not placed in a
silver holder or covered with a napkin.
But the label and everything which
might signify the brand is removed.
New York city is trying the experi
ment of ( losing certain highways to
traffic daily and letting the youngsters
romp in them. Huge signs are placed
across these thoroughfares reading:
Street closed for play.” Miss Ruth Rob
inson. chief play organizer, says: "It
brings an ache to the heart to see how
reluctant some of the babies are to cut
loose and ploy in the open street, Play
seems lnextrieably associated in their
little minds with guilt. No one. after
watching for an hour or two the
healthy spirit that grows among the
children in these alloted play streets
can doubt their benefit to the little peo
ple of New York." Play is the best
constructive factor in child growth.
Even kittens and puppies will not
thrive unless permitted to play.. Play
Is tlie most skilful of physical trainers
and moral teachers.
Judge Robert O. Harris tells of a
rather embarrassing introduction which
former Ambassador Curtis Guild once
received when he went to speak ut a
republican rally In the western part of
Massachusetts. According to Judge
Harris it went something after this
fashion: "The voters decided that the
town committee ought to have a rally
with tlie best speaker it could get. We
. couldn't get Governor Robinson, we
couldn't get Senator Hoar, nor Tom
Reed, but we did the best wo could, and
I now have the honor of introducing1
Mr. Curtis Guild, of Boston."
Charles Hoffbauer. the artist, who
while a student in Parts won a second
medal at the Salon with his first pic
ture, a feat never before or since du
plicated. Is now at the front with his
regiment In Franco. For two years prior
to the w ar breaking out ho was engaged
In making some elaborate decorative
work for the Richmond confederate me
morial. He is, perhaps, best remem
bered by his famous painting In the
Luxembourg, called “War," showing a
dead soldier. In a woodland, on a white
horse.
Kenneth W. Tinker, age 6, son of
Harry Tinker, who Is the owner of an
independent telephone company, largely
of rural subscribers, at Clio, Mich., Is
pne of the youngest telephone opera
tors in Michigan, If not in the United
ptates. Without any assistance he has
mastered the switchboard with such a
degree of proficiency that It Is no longer
necessary to have a more experienced
operator near by to take the more dif
ficult local calls. There are 21 f. sub
scribers to the system on 27 party lines.
The Italian earthquake, coming In
the midst of the great war, recalls one
curious effect of a seismic shock In
)S88. The cables, connecting Australia
with the outer world, were suddenly
firoken by a distant earthquake, and
the government, under the impression,
that an enemy had cut the lints, mo-1
bill zed the naval and military forces In
readiness to repel attack.
A dust-laying compound, the basis of
which Is molasses, has been success
fully made use of In the South African
Mines. The preparation, which con
tains a small quantity of some ll-.ln
fectant, forms a thick coating on 'he
underground walk and surfaces and
closely covers all dangerous noxious
Matter.
A Cairo correspondent writes to the
Manchester Guardian that, owing to the
falling of tho Nile, Egypt will have to
Import nearly all her rleo this year
The Nile has not been so low for nearly
100 years, and tho facilities for water
ptorage have been insufficient to relieve
the distress.
Princess Shakovskayu Is the only
woman aviator In the great war. She Is
laid to be In active service at the front
In east Prussia. At. first her applica
tion was rejected because of her sox
but she demonstrated that she muld
manage a flying machine as well tu a
man and was finally accepted.
The United States of America is bv
far the greatest steel producing coun
try on earth. Germany comes next
With Great Britain thlrJ- The figures
for 1910 (the latest at hand for th.
moment) show this country to beeoual
In steel products to both Germany and
the United Kingdom.
The little town of Subetha, In Kansas
possesses a citizen by the name of H
lUder Haggard. Nor Is this all. Robert
X/OUls Stevenson was reportwl the other
day in the Sabetha Herald as haviny
paid a visit to his grandmother Mrs
Fannie Brannlgan.
The "safety first" idea, which has
recently come into general practice on
most American roads. Is an old one in
Germany and other Euro peon or, tin
tries, where the practice extends to
every form of Industry, as well as the
railroads.
War on rats for the purpose of pre
venting the spread of bubonic plague
Is conducted not because the rats them
selves spread the plague, but rather the
fleas which are carried by the rodents.
Whaling Is now a well established In
dustry off the Portuguese-Afrlenn
coast. The "humpbacked" whale av
erages 45 feet in length and the occa
sional sperm whale about 50 feet.
The witch tree of Nevada is so lu
minous that a persons standing near it
can read ordinary print easily. The
tree Itself can he seen for a mile on
the darkest nights.
Engineers 4n India are trying the
novel experiment of catching that
country’s heavy rainfall in reservoirs
and using it to produce electric power.
Ernest Roume, former governor gen
eral of the French province In east
Africa, has been appointed governor
general of Indo-Chlna by the cabinet.
Oil-fire locomotives in operation at
Ayres have shown an economy
of 20 to 80 per cent over coal.
The omnibuses of Uondon carried the
entire population of the city 100 times
to tht course of last year.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
$60,000 ALLOWANCE
FOR NORFOLK ASYLUM
Fund to Be Used In Erection of
New Building—Governor’s
Road Bill Killed.
Lincoln, Nob., March 22.—The house
}f representatives yesterday recom
mended for passage a series of ap
propriation hills, lrcludlng tfiO.O'OO for
► new building for the Norfolk asylum.
This appropriation had been recom
mended by the board of control, hud
passed the careful scrutiny of the house
finance ways and means committee and
received no opposition in the house. An
other of these hills apropriated $4,00’>
for a septic tank and sewage system at
the Hastings asylum and another $6.d0t)
for furniture to equip the new building
just finished at the Orthopedic hos
pital at Lincoln.
House democrats, with the aid of a
few republicans, fell on a bill for road
building that was backed by the gov
i ernor, and everlastingly kllied it. Th*
' bill provided for oiling, sanding, grading
| and paving, the creation of districts,
| and tlie assessment on the abutting
I property. In this bill the assessment
! district went back two miles on either
I side and a board of viewers were to d« -
terrnine whether the Improvements
were equal to the cost. If not the paving
could not be done unless donations
were made to cover the difference. This
bill was specifically recommended In
the governor’s message, but democrats
all over the house fell on it, with a few
exceptions. They flayetl it from one
end to the other and when the vote was
taken 4.1 votes were found against It
and 32 for it.
The redrafted c ompromise warehouse
bill was reported out of senate standing
committee and will now have to run tins
full gauntlet, sifting committee and all,
of both houses. Its chances are slim
1 The new bill, which Is a product ol
various other bills, and without the
main features of any, provides that »l|
I warehouse or elevators In the state
which store grain over IS days at a
time must become warehouses, undel
(he law and be under supervision of ttnj
railway commission. Other eleva
i tors, etc., have an option of becoming
warehouses. The compulsory ware
house section applies only to those
which are not at terminal points, these
companies coming under the optional
section.
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PLUMBERS OBJECT TO
THEIR STATUS IN MOVIES
Lincoln, Nob,. March 22.—Nebraska
plumbers, In their state association
meeting, called upon the national as
sociation to aid in compelling the mak
ers of movie pictures to quit present
ing the plumber in an obnoxious man
ner, Several speeches were made it!
condemnation of the peculiar idea ol
humor displayed by scenario writers
in depleting the activities of the plum
ber. President Krueger declared tha|
j the plumber was as straight a class
I of workmen as could be found. Yet
a film he saw the other duy makes
the plumber who came to ilx the water
pipe, lap up whisky front a barrel be
found In the cellar, make love to the
hired girl and otherwise disport himself
as a bad character.
After a long debate the association
decided to hold an executive session to
consider what should be done to help
I out the master plumbers recently con
I vlcted In Des Moines. George H.
; Wentz, of Lincoln, one of the master
: plumbers against whom a verdict was
I rendered and who got into the trouble
j because he was president of the Ne
! brnska association, argued against a
| secret session, asserting, that that fact
j was potent In Influencing an unfavor
I able verdict.
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1 CITY ENGINEER PUZZLED
OVER UNPLATTED SEWr
Lincoln, Neb., March 22.—The city
engineer is scratching his head over a
little puzzle. A contractor is putting a
big storm water sewer through the
main retail portion of the town to
carry off surplus water that has caused
great damage in Uie past. In the work
of excavation he has come across six
different sewers that nobody in the de
partment had ever heard about and of
which there Is no official record. The
methods of construction and the ma
terials used have not been employed
for many decades In the making of
sewers. Engineer Dobson is inclined
to think that possibly the Indians or
tuound builders may have built them,
although he never heard of either ever
taking the trouble to put in sewage
plants.
ENTRIES NUMBER 18 FOR
SCHOOL CONTEST AT FREMONT
Fremont. Neb., March 22.—Eighteen
high schools have entered the contest
of the East Central Nebraska Declama
tory association, which will have its an
nuut public event here next Thursday
night. The schools and the contestants
are; Fremont, Hadcssah McGlfftn:
Genoa, Marion Joung; Mead, Alberta
Hhines; Herman, Leo Cameron; Oak
land. Vernie Mossman; Clarkson.
Josephine Zrust; Osceola, Mildred
Crisp; South Omaha. Frank A. Broad
well; Papillion, Ralph Nickerson; Mur
dock. Catherine Tool; Mtahoo, Mildred
Rodgers; Octavia, Barton Johnson
Columbus. Albert Phillips; Ashland.
Ethel King; Schuyler, Caritta Range,
Bellevue, Karl ttarnstad; North Bend.
Katherine Farrel; Sehrihner, Annabelle
Zing-erella.
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WANTS DIVORCE AFTER 48
YEARS OF WEDDED LIFE
Lincoln, Neb., March 22.—After being
married to Clements c. So'hmalzi for 4S
years. Mrs. Henrietta Schtnalzi asks
tlie (11511-114 court for divorce and ali
mony. She alleges that her husband
refuses to furnish her adequate sup
port and that he lias been guilty of
great cruelty, Sehmalzl in a wealthy
farmer. The couple have reared 11
children, the ywmngest of whom is past
20.
HOUSE PASSES BILL TO
MODIFY LIBEL REGULATIONS
Lincoln. Neb.. March 22.—A bill was
passed by ihc house which in pait
nullities the present law regarding libel
ill newspapers. The present bill will al
low a newspaper to retract within a
certain length of time when convinced
that the publication in its former
urticle had worked aja injustice on tip
party- covered in the article.
LONG, ‘SNUG” WINTER
CAUSES FEED SCARCITY
Ainsworth, Neb., March 20.—Feed m
tlie southern part of Brown county is
getting scarce. H. W. Hitchcok brought
up a bunch of cattle Friday and will
teed them here. Many other cases are
reported where cuttle will have to oe
taken to where feed is or they will suf
. fer. Roads are in such a had conditions
ttiat neither hue nor corn can be
hauled any distance.
The waste from two wood pulp mill:
in Sweden that use the sulphite process
ordinarily regarded .is valueless, is be
lug converted into industrial alcohol.
G. W, BRYAN TO MAKE
PLUNGE AS ASPIRANT
FOR BERTHAS MAYOR
Will Make Campaign ?Or Mayor
on Platform of General City
Improvement.
Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—C. W. Bry
an. brother of the secretary of state,
and now publisher of the Commoner,
will probably enter the lists in a few
days as a candidate for mayor. The
present executive, F. <Zehrung, is a
candidate for a second term, bnt then
is considerable sentiment against him
because of his deference to mercantile
interests in every crisis, and particu
larly because he ordered the legal de
partment to withhold the prosecution
of a prominent coal dealer who had
been caught gitdng short weight to
customers In a half dozen different
cases. He also protected several other
business men from prosecution for vio
lation of the weights and measures or
dinance.
Mr. Bryan will make the race on a
platform which pledges the city to a
plan of development along various
lines, for additional parks, strict en
forcement of laws against business
men, and for welfare work. The pres
ent administration was elected by the
“wet" and liberal elements of the city.
Mr. Bryan Is a “dry,” and although the
liquor question is not. at issue. It will
not be kept out of the campaign.
LOS ANGELES ONLY CITY
TO PROFIT FROM EXPO
Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—According
to ('. H. Kudge, Lincoln business man.
just back from the Pacific coast, Los
Angeles is the only California city that
is making any money from the two ex
positions. It had no expenses to pay
for the exposition, but everybody go
ing to Frisco or San Diego stops there.
At San Diego he found a gigantic hotel
that stood vacant because no one would
rent It. Concessionaires there and at
the Frisco exposition are complaining
of poor business. General conditions
there have not been helped much by
the exposition, and business is poorer
than in the middle west. Many vacant
spots were found in the exposition,
buildings at San Francisco, and many
exhibits are only half completed.
FOUNTAIN DENIES KILLING
GIRL AT GRAND ISLAND
Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—Ths
mysterious murder of little Goldie Wil
liams at Grand Island several years
ftgo has not been solved. Some weeks
ngo members of the Williams family
told reporters at Hastings, where they
now live, that word had come to them
that David Fountain, alias Frank Fair
child, now under sentence of death In
the Folsom penitentiary In California,
had confessed to the crime.
Sheriff Hyers wrote at once to the
authorities, and Warden Smith ha«
lust replied to the effect that Fountain
has made no such confession, but on
the contrary denies having been in Ne
braska at the time. Fountain is an Iowa
man with a long criminal record. He
Berved four terms at Fort Madison, five
years at Cherry Hill, one term In the
Marshalltown reformatory and was two
rears at the Clarinda and two years at
the Mount Pleasant insane asylums,
escaping from the former and disap
pearing.
Along with this Information the war
den sent a picture of the man, and It
w ill be submitted to the Grand Island
authorities. Fountain is to die for the
killing of a. 12-year-old girl in Cali
fornia.
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NO EXPENSE ALLOWANCE
FOR CAPTURE OF GONZALES
Fremont, Neb., March 20.—For the
privilege of going out through the tim
ber and getting shot at by a murderer,
Sheriff Condit, of this county, may
have to dig up about $75 out of his
own pocket. It was Sheriff Condit and
his party who last month cornered Juan
Gonzales, murderer of Policeman Itlng,
of Omaha. The deputies will likely get
no pay. When Sheriff Condit put in
1 Lis bill to the county board here yes
J terday, Chairman Flanagan protested
that the Omaha authorities should
stand for it. and not Dodge county. The
burial expense of $25 the Douglas coun
ty board refused to pay, because a
statute forbids taking a corpse outside
the county, unless the remains are ac
companied by relatives or friends. The
Omaha board turned down the bill and
Dodge county will likely have to pay
it, because the law makes it plain. The
sheriff lias already paid out about $20
from his pocket on account of the
chase.
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OMAHA ANNEXATION BILL
PASSED WITH AMENDMENT
Lincoln. Nob., March 20.—In a fight
which spilt up the lorces of both an
nexation and antlannexatlon, covered
In the bill known as the Omaha annexa
tion bill, which proposes to annex South
Omaha, Dundee and one or two other
suburbs, the annexation forces won yes
terday by a vote of 52 to 44.
In order to get sufficient votes to car
ry the bill with the emergency clause
tiie annexationists had an amendment
attached to give the people of the whole
territory a chance to vote on the prop
osition, insteud of being forced Into an
nexation.
This concession is not satisfactory to
the affected suburbs, as they wanted
a separate vote on the question of being
absorbed. Under the plan for a vote
of the whole territory it Is assumed
that the Omaha vote will dominate and
force tiie suburbs into annexation, re
gardless of their personal wishes.
MUNICfPAL WATER SYSTEM
WORKING WELL IN OMAHA
Omaha, Neb., March 20.-A further
reduction in Omaha water rates will
shortly be considered by directors of
the Metropolitan water district. Defi
nite action awaits the report of audi
tors who have been making the semi
annual examination of the books.
While the reduction will not ire as
g^eat as some earlier cuts, it will
probably bring the cost to the small
consumers down to 21 cents per 1,000
gallons, or perhaps even to 20 cents.
These are lire consumers who paid 3,"
cents under private ownership, the
net reduction after 30 months of pub
lic ownership therefore being from 40
to 43 per cent, depending on just how
low the new’ reduction may go.
Present rates are 23 1-3 cents per
1,000 gallons, with an additional 3 per
cent off for prompt payment of bills.
LOSS OF ABOUT $18,000
IN FIRE AT AINSWORTH
Ainsworth, Neb.. March 19.—The busi
ness buildings occupied by the Fannie
Taylor restaurant, the L. D. Bailey
shoe and variety store, and the Foster
barber shop, were burned at an early
lK>ur Thursday morning. The fire orig
inated in the rear of the Taylor res
taurarr. and was discovered between 4
. nd 3 o'clock. The office of Dr. Carter,
just north of the barber shop, was torn
down by tile authorities to prevent a
further spread of the fire. Tile loss
will aesiesrate abput 518,000.
HARK! IT'S THEATER
OWNERS WHO OPPOSE
SUNDAY OPERATIONS
They Think Sunday Opening In
Lincoln Would Cut Trade
During Week.
Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—Petitions
are In circulation submitting to *1, vote
of the people of Lincoln at the May
election the question of whether or not
theaters shall bo allowed to operate on
Sunday. Since frontier days the Sun
day theater has been under the ban in
the capital city, but with the coming
of the movies a strong influence has
been worked up that is demanding Sun
day opening.
The manager of the Oliver, the big
opera house, is mayor of the city, but is
not in favor of Sunday opening. Sev
eral of the moving picture managers
are also opposed. They argue that their
chief patronage comes from persons
who have only a certain amount they
can spend for amusement, and if the
theater is opened Sunday it will simply
be crowded with those who would have
gone some week night, and who will
leave the week nights lo vacant the
aters.
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DR. NAMSYTH SEES
INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION
Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—“The world
is on the threshold of a great intellect
ual revolution second only to that
which followed the reformation and the
renaissance," said Dr. George W. Nam
sytli, speaking at the state university.
“The philosophy of force, which is only
another name for the doctrine thal
might is right, has had its day. It goes
far hack to the days of the ancients,
and is having its Inst try out in the
European arena of war. It rests on two
fundamental errors. One is that it
overlooks the fact that the real struggle
of men is not with each other, but
against their environment and eco
nomic production. The other is that i|
ignores entirely the fact of association;
that men owe their dominant position
in the world to the fact that they are
members of society, working in co-op
eration. The war will be a terrible
! price to pay for freedom from the grip
, of this old philosophy, hut Its benefit?
will lie In striking out on a new path
, of social justice.”
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MRS. JENNIE L. BEVERLY IS
APPLICANT FOR DIVORCE
Madison Neb., March 20.—Mrs. Jen
nie Li. Beverly filed suit in district
j court yesterday for divorce from her
| husband, William B. Beverly, who is
, proprietor of the Oxnard hotel at Nor
folk. Mrs. Beverly states in her peti
! tion that they were married at Sioux
! City In 1003, and charges as cause for
suit that her husband lias become ad
dicted to the use of intoxicants and baa
treated her with extreme cruelty. She
asks in addition to decree of divorce
i the custody of their two children, a
; son and daughter, and temporary am!
permanent alimony. Mr. Beverly has
filed an answer admitting the allega
tions of Mrs. Beverly’s petition touch
j ing the matter of their marriage, that
they have two adopted children, and
; property statement, but enters denial ot
I all other allegations.
FERTILIZING INCREASES
CORN YIELD 30 PER CENT
Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—Data from
the Nebraska experiment station which
, were obtained in co-operation with
j Nebraska farmers in several counties
j show that the average annual yields
' of corn from manured fields during a
period of three years, were 10 bushels
! greater than from adjoining fields
which were not manured. The average
annual yields from the unrnanured
; fields were 26.81 bushels an acre and
j the yields from the manured fields were
I 36.76 bushels an acre. According to
) data from other experiment stations
• the lasting effect of farm manures is
j at least 20 years; that is to say, a
farm may continue to obtain Increased
j annual yields for several years after
a good application of farm manurfl or
: the turning under of organic matter
| in some other form.
RECRUIT’S INITIALS SPELL
OMINOUS WORD. ’’W-A-R"
Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—The last
| man to append his name to an applica
; lion for enlistment in the army, before
the Lincoln recruiting office closed
was W. A. Riley, of Lincoln. He was
born on St. Patrick’s day, and enlisted
on that day as a matter of celebration.
The most significant point to the re
cruiting office was the fact that the
applicant’s Initials spelled W-A-R. The
Lincoln office has been receiving from
30 to 40 applications a month for the
last year, and it was closed because
headquarters reported that the lists
were full.
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SAYS RAILWAY TRAINMEN
NOT PLANNING STRIKE
Lincoln, Neb.. March 20.—Chairman
Frye, of the grievance committee of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, de
clares that there is no immediate pros
pect of a strike on the Burlington, and
that the men are not preparing for any
trouble with the road. There are dif
ficulties and disputes over wages and
working conditions, hut as yet there
lias been no talk of a strike. The claims
of the men have been lodged with the
federal board and after it has report
ed the trainmen will be given a chance
to ballot on what action is to he taken.
Mr. Frye says that this would take 30
days, and that the officers have every
hope of speedy settlement.
D!D NOT WANT CORPSE
CARRIED OUT FRONT DOOR
Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—Relieving
it to bo unlucky to have a dead man's
body taken out of the front door of his
saloon, Frank Splain entered vigorous
objections when the coroner started to
t carry out the corpse of Fred Kapke. a
i German who had died of heart trouble
i while talking with some friends tit the
lair. As the alley was muddy, the
l coroner refused to use the back door,
■ and Air Splain's hunch is still working
! overtime. Kapke was a prominent Grr
1 man, and had just finished a glass of
beer when the attack came. In five
minutes he was dead.
NELIGH—The Jury brought In a verdict ;
for the defendant In tlie suit for $25,0Go
damages brought by W. \V. (’ole against
G. L. Wattles, alleging the alienation of
the affections of the plaintiff's wife.
GOT ROUGH TREATMENT
IN ASKING FOR MONEY
Lincoln. Neb., Mureh 18.—As one
reason why she should have a divorce
and alimony. Airs. Lizzie Hessheimer
told the district court that when site
asked iter son George to give her some I
money for her support, after her hus
I baud ltad refused, the young man
| pushed her against the wall and then
knocked her down, while her husband
stood by smiling. She said she was left
lying on the floor for half an hour,
and after she did get up unassisted site
was forced to go to her bed.
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JURY ACOUfTS VANCE
OF KILLING KRAUSE
IN WESTPOINT CASE
No Controversy As to Facts In
Incident—‘ Unwritten Law”
Plays Part.
West Point. Neb.. March 19.—Evi
dently applying the "unwritten law,”
a jury in district, court here late last
night brought in a verdict of acquittal
tor Joseph Vance, on trial for the mur
der of Amandus Krause. There was no
controversy as to the facts in the case,
as \ a nee shot Krause in the presence
of witnesses.
Mrs. Vance admitted, on the witness
stand, that she had been maintaining
illict relations with Krause. The dis
covery of his wife’s infidelity. Vance
claimed, made him temporarily insane.
The jurors deliberated about six
hours. Some of tnem wanted to bring
in a, verdict for a minor offense, but the
majority held out for absolute acquittal,
to which the entire panel agreed at a
late hour last night.
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LARGE CANADIAN LYNX
KILLED NEAR BASSETT
Bassett. Neb.. March 19.—While
George and Frank Kofton, sons of Jo
seph Kofton, living seven miles north
east of here, were hauling hay they saw
what they supposed was a large wolf
in a grove on the Kofton ranch. The
boys started the bird dog after it and
the supposed wolf instantly went up
one of the largest trees. The boys were
surprised to see such a performance
and while one of them went home to
get a gun the other boy and dog kept
tile animal up the tree. They shot it,
hut did not know what it was. I was
brought to town and proved to be a
very large Canadian lynx. It had tufts
on the ears two and a half inches long
and paws large as a man's hand, and
weighed 60 pounds. Fred Prelle, an
old time hunter and trapper, bought it,
skinned it and will have it mounted.
As far as known here this is the first
Canadian lynx killed or seen in Ne
braska. The supposition is that it came
down the Missouri river and then up
the Niobrara.
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HALL INSISTS COUNTY
TREASURERS MUST REMIT
Lincoln, Neb., March 19. — State
Treasurer Hall has issued a statement
to the press in which he declares that
he will invoke the penalty of the law
against any county treasurer who de
clines to comply with his demand for a
monthly remittance of state taxes col
lected. He declares that the law does
not require hint to send out an exam
iner each month to find out how much
is due the state from each treasurer,
but that it provides for a settlement by
the exhibition of accounts to the state
nuditor and a penalty for refusal to do
so. The treasurer says he is not mak
ing this order to embarrass the county
treasurers, but because the state has
been embarrassed financially in the
past when there was state money in
the hands of treasurers, who were hold
ing it until they chose to let go of it.
or every six months.
“DRY” CONGRESSMAN TO
PUSH SEVERAL PROJECTS
Lincoln, Neb. March 19. — Expert
dall, formerly of Pawnee county, but
who was recently elected in Los An
geles as the first party prohibitionist
ever sent to congress, is in Lincoln on a
visit. Mr. Randall says that recent ob
servations at Washington convinced
him that the big question there is that
relating to liquor. He intends to in
troduce four measures at the next ses
sion, which he believes have a fair
chance to get through. These will pro
hibit the Issuance of any government
liquor license to a person who cannot
show a local license; to deny the use
of the United States mails to liquor
advertising; to prohibit the transpor
tation of liquor in interstate commerce,
and to prohibit the use of food prod
ucts for the manufacture of liquors.
RAILROADS NOT EQUIPPED
ON OPERATING STATISTICS
Lincoln. Neb.. March 19.—Lincoln
Powell, of the state railway cormtiis
sion, writing from Chicago to the mem
bers of that body’, declares that the
state’s experts are accumulating a lot
of valuable evidence to submit at the
rate hearing when it is resumed short
ly. He expresses the belief that the
states will make a strong showing in
opposition to an increase. The railroad
representatives told the Interstate
Commerce commissioners that they
had no data showing the cost of oper
ating trains. The state's experts have,
and will submit it. Mr. Powell has
been studying the operation of !i,000
different trains running from the Mis
souri river to Chicago, and says this
will be an important point in the case.
FEDERAL GARDENER IS
ASSIGNED TO LINCOLN
Lincoln, Neb., March 19.—C. H. Ran
has been officially designated as the.
garden spot of the United States. The
department of agriculture has selected
this city to try out a number of ex
periments in school gardens, and has
sent Expert Farrell here to spend it
week to get them started. It has de
tailed Leo McShane. an expert gar
dener, to remain here all summer and
superintend the work of the schools in
raising both flowers and vegetables.
PRESIDENT SELLS HIS
COTTON FOR CHARITY
Washington, March 19. — 1'resident
Wilson today sold a bale of cotton and
sent the proceeds to charity in Okla
homa.
During the "buy a bale of cotton"
movement, the president bought sev
eral bales and one now is in storage
at Boswell. Okla. H. H. Conway, of
Paris, Tex., offered to buy it at 10
cents a pound and today the president
accepted his offer and directed that the
proceeds bo sent to a charity in Okla
homa. to be selected by Senators Gore
and Owen.
AVIATOR KILLED.
Dos Angeles, Cal., March 17.—Frank
Stites, a local aviator, aged 30, fell 300
feet In tin “air well" at a motion picture
. ity near here, jumped from the aero
plane when 30 feet from the ground,
and died from his injuries shortly aft
erward.
COPPER COMPANY FAILS.
Butte. Mont., March 17.—Charles M.
Everett took charge today as receiver
of the affairs of the Butte-Duluth Cop
per company under appointment of
the T'nited States district court. The
Provident Security company-, of Duluth,
in a petition tiled with the court, al
leged the mining company was unable
to meet interest payments on out
standing bonds and other obligations.
The effort of the war on the herring
fishery on the east coast of England
is indicated by the fact that the total
catch to date this season is 40,000 llsh
fewer Ilian usual.
Ill DCCUPIEO
BK RUSSIAN JW'
Baltic Seaport Has Been Seized
By Invaders — Only Minor
Activities Reported on
Both Battle Fronts. (
London, March 22.—Relative inaction
prevails along both battle fronts in
Europe, the occupation of the German
Baltic seaport of Memel by the Rus
sians being the outstanding feature of
the developments of the war in the past
few days. The Berlin official state
ment today says Memel has been taken.
Austrian reports by way of Berlin
claim that the Russian offensive move
ment in the Carpathians through the
Lupkow pass has resulted in failure,
but direct reports from both Vienna
and Petrograd agree that Austrians as
well as Russians are making attacks
and counter attacks in tiie Carpathians
without any decisive results.
The Germans still are bombarding
Ossowetr. without success according lo
the Russians, who claim to have de
stroyed the advance trenches of their
antagonists. Neither side reports any
important actions on the western front
during the past week.
Berlin, (via wireless to Sayville),
March 20.—The German general staff
today gave out a report on the pro
gress of the fighting as follows:
"On the road between Wystcbaete
and Yjpres, near St. Eloi, German sol
diers captured from British troops a
group of houses on the south slope of
the Lorotto heights.
"In the Champagne district the day
generally was quiet, with the excep
tion that early in the morning Ger
man troops* occupied some French
trenches to the north of Beausjour.
"French attacks to the north of Ver
dun, in the Woevre plain, and at a
point near Combras to the east of the
heights of the Meuse, all were repulsed,
the enemy sustaining heavy losses.
French troops made several advances
against the German positions at Reicli
Aekerkopf and Hartmanns Weilerkopf,
but these attacks soon broke down and
the French sustained heavy losses
under the German fire.
"On the eastern front the day was
comparatively quiet. Memel. the Prus
sian port on the Baltic, has been oeeu
pied by the Russians.”
NOTED WOMAN WRITER
LEAPS TO HER DEATH
Mrs. Ellen Heney, Editor of
Woman’s Magazine, Ends
Life In Delirium. ^
■New York. March 22.—Mrs. EUen
Heney, editor of the Woman's mag
azine. published in Detroit, and writer
of short stories, plunged five stories
from her room to her death at her
home here today. She was delirious
from typhoid fever at the time and
made her way to a window during a
brief interval in whic h her nurse had
left the room for medicine.
Mrs. Heney, who was a sister of W.
W. Farley, state excise commissioner
had been ill since Sunday. She was 22
years old and came to this city 15 years
ago from Binghamton. N. Y.
WOULD EXTEND SCOPE
OF IOWA OUSTER LAW
Amendment Proposed to Make
It Apply to Members c£ City
Commission.
lies Moines, la., March 22.—A groat
saving will be made in cities and
towns that have occasion to bring re
moval proceedings against their of
ficials, if an amendment proposed by
Senator Foster, of Guthrie county, to
the present laws is adopted. This is
the opinion of Attorney General Cos
son. author of the statutes, under
which 26 public ''officials have been
ousted or forced to resign.
Senator Foster proposes to change
the law so that it will apply to " ill
county, township, city and town of
ficers, elected or appointed.” As the
law now reads, it applies to Vie coun
ty attorney, members of the boards of
supervisors, sheriffs, mayors, police of
ficers, marshals or constables.
One of the-objects of the amend
ment, for instance, is to include the
commissioners under the commission
plan of city government. It is not
right, friends of the amendment claim,
to oust a chief of police or other po
lice official under a law that cannot
reach the superintendent of public
safety, who, in many cases, is at the
root of the evil conditions. Under the
present law a recall and election is
necessary to oust any member of tin
city council.
Sioux City is cited as an argument
in favor of the Foster amendment.
Action brought under the Cosson law
brought about the resignation of tin
chief of police. In the case of tin
councilman over him, the expense of
circulating petitions for recall, court
proceedings and possibly a special
election will be large. A conservative
estimate of such an expense is placed
at $5,000.
Attorney General Cosson, in tin in
terview today declared that the total
expense of removing 26 public officers
in Iowa, outside the salary and reg
ular expenses of his office and the
county officers who worked wtih him.
was less than $500. At the same time
it is estimated enough money has been
returned to the public coffers as a re
sult of "graft” exposed in these pro
ceedings to pay the salary of the at
torney general for 10 years.
NEW RECORD IS SET
BY 1914 COTTON CROP
Washington. March 20.—The greatest
cotton crop ever produced in the Uni
ted States was grown in 1914.
Census bureau statistics issued today
giving final ginning figures officially
place the 1914 crop as a record with
16.102.142 hales of 500 pounds each
That is 409.442 equivalent r-00 pound
I ales, or 204.721,000 pounds more titan
Produced in the great crop t-t 1911.