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O'NEILL. NEBRASKA
More than 500 jobless worn n, mors
than half of them with college train
ing. found work in New York through
the agency of the intercollegiate bu
reau of occupations in the year end
ing April 30, 1915, according to tho
third annual report of the bureau, is
sued not long ago. Many of that num
ber became secretaries, companions,
suffrage workers, librarians, settle
ment workers, workers in war relief
and nurses. Others had unusual places
Three became saleswomen and demon
strators for an automobile company.
Two others were employed by a bond
and securities company to sell stocks
among women One became a rent
collector and four took jobs as police
agents and detectives.
Lobsters and shad are becoming in
creasingly source. The decrease of tho
former has aroused such uneasiness
that a conference of fishery experts
was held recently at Woods Hole,
Mass., to devise means for counteract
ing It. The supply of shad is becom- j
lng rapidly depleted because the fish
do not get adequate protection on
their way to the sea from tlio spawn
ing grounds. Tho most serious con
ditions are in the Chesapeake basin,
where last year's shad fishing yielded
the poorest result ever recorded.
It is told of a certain Canadian reg
iment that it set its heart upon a hand
and therefore, in the attack, tried al
ways to make for points in the enemy
trenches from which sounds of music 1
had been audible. Their success can bo
deduced from the fact that, where one
night they had no sign of either brass
or woodwind, eight handsome instru
ments were possessed next morning
and wlfhln 24 hours after they cap
tured the big bass drum.
The letter R was called the "dog let
ter" by the ancients because the man
ner In which they pronounced It re
sembled to a degree the snarling of a
dog. It is the last letter that most
children learn to pronounce. They
use "w" Instead, saying vewy for very,
or Wobert for Robert. The Chinese
invariably use "X" In the place of "r,”
which they can not pronounce.
A Bangor (Me.) woman, who had oc
casion to visit an office in the build
lag in which the poultry show was be
ing held ene afternoon, heard the noise
and innocently remarked: "Why, X
didn't know there was a symphony
concert this afternoon." She thought
the mastcians were tuning up In the
corridor hack of the stage.
A most remarkable ruin in Haiti Is
the great citadel, Ea Ferrlere, built by
the black kin" Christopho, some of the
walls of which, SO feet high and 16 feet
thick, are still guarded by batteries of
antique cannon of huge bore. The cita
del was partiady ruined in the earth
quake of 1842, but Is still a colossal and
inipi esslve mass.
The stomach of a Baltimore man has
been removed, a large area of ..ffected
tissue severed and the remainder put
back In place, leaving an organ smaller
than the ordinary tennis ball, and ca
pable of )adding so little that the pa
tient. in case of his recovery, will have
to be fed ut least 12 times a day.
Traffic census takers In New "York
city have announced that more people
pass the .site of the old Sun building,
corner of X*urk row and FYankfort
street, than any other in Maabuttan.
a condition to which the nearby sub
way exits and Brooklyn bridge ter
minal must contribute materially.
War was ever the breath of life to
the Amerkan Indian, and In a strange
way the present one is reacting great
ly to his advantage, especially in the
case of the Crow tribe in Wyoming,
who have been enriching themselves
at a great ra»e by selling horses to the
allied governments.
One of the most popular dogs in the
world nowadays is the blue chow, a
species which originated In Manchuria
and was jealously guarded by the monks.
The usual chow dog is red, with light
shadings on the fringe of the hindquar
ters and the tail, although many blacks
are to be found.
Spokane, which Is in Washington,
which in turn is one of the newly pro
hibition states, now delights itself with
a beverage called "carbonated ftzz." c
F. looks and tastes like beer, but is free
from alcohol. Also the barrels require
no government proprietary stamp.
A collection of 10,960 bottles, contain
ing specimens of the ocean bottom ob
tained by vessels of the United States
coast and geodetic survey of the At
lantic. gulf and Pacific coasts, has re
cently been transferred to the Smltli
■oniun institution.
Estimates of the expense of bringing
* 2,000-ton freight train, traveling at
x rate of 25 miles a nhour, to a full
Itop, and then regaining the same
ipeed, wore recently made by u south
»rn railway. The expense was 61 cents.
_The silver output for the last year,
17,500,000 ounces, while never exceeded
■n quantity except once in this country,
’alls to below the record of several oth
ir years In value because of low prices
ast year.
me 330 officers of the king's justice
*i England who receive aggregate an
»UI.! salaries of J3,750,000 make one b<
Seve the English law must not he as
'common" as text books would have u
think.
Experiments in New York In moutit
aig incadescent lamps on railroad
trussing signs have enabled the sign
» be read more than a mile, and thrlr
llstlnetlve form noted mych farther.
Without resort to computation, a new
lautical instrument, to be mounted
»ver a ship's compass, enables the di
rections or objects at sea and their dis
amces away to be determined.
When a 12-lnch shell strikes the
water, it throws up a 'splash" higher
than a battleship's mast. This splash
weighs about 2,000 tons—enough to
drown a small ship.
At the age of 18 David is said to have
written Ills first Psalm. Shelley wrote
“Queen Stab” and Mendelssohn i om
fOBvil his music for "A Midsummer
Might's Dream.”
During the Mexican war the United
States soldiers sang a song of the per
iod which started "Green grow the
grasses, oh.” So the greasers calleu
them gringoes.
The Scots In Ulster first established
line manufactories during the reign of 1
James I. and from this beginning has
the business of the present day de
veloped.
To eliminate glare from street lamps,
in English engineer proposes to il- !
luminato streets by the reflection of
lights thrown upon the fronts of build
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NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
WEST J*OINT—News has reached the
city of the death, ut Snohomish, Wash., of
Bernard Gerken, a former resident of
this place ami a native of Cuming county
Mr. Gerken was engaged In the drug
business at Snohomish and contracted ap
pendlcltis about six weeks ago. He was
operated upon but did not rally from the
shock. Ho leaves a widow and three small
children. He was 36 years of age and the
brother of the proprietor of the Gerken
Drug company of this city. Owing to
snow slides and the dangerous condition
of the mountain railways the relatives are
unable to start east with the body at pres
ent, but the remains will eventually be
brought to West Point for interment, The
deceased was a member of a pioneer fam
ily.
WEST POINT—A home wedding was
held ut the home of Mr. and Airs. William
Roth, on North Main street, Thursday af
ternoon. At that time Miss Marie Roth
was united in marriage to William H.
Hinze. Jr., Rev. A. R. E. Oelschlaeger,
pastor of the German Lutheran church
performing the ceremony. The witnesses
were Henry Schroeder of Omaha and Miss
Louise Roth, sister of the bride. Imme
diately after the ceremony the young peo
ple left for their future home at Deshler,
Neb., where the groom owns a fine farm.
LINCOLN—The annual legislative ban
quet of the Legislative league, composed
of present and former members of the
Nebraska legislature, will be held at the
Lindt4!! hotel In Lincoln on February 28.
Governor Morehead will preside as toast
master and Hon. John M. Thurston, Hon.
T. J. Majors and several other ancient
members will essay to "corno back” and
tell how good It Is to be present. Music
by the University band and a perform
ance by Omaha cabaret singers will be a
part of the entertainment.
WEST POINT—The marriage of Albert
J. Kortje and Miss Adele B. Zeplin was
solemnized at St. Paul’s German Lutheran
church by Rev. A. It. E. Oelschlaeger.
pastor. The attendants were Miss Martha
Kortje and Paul Zeplin. The bride is a
member of a prominent West Point fam
ily and the groom a young farmer of the
Norfolk neighborhood, where the newly
married pair will make their future home.
LINCOLN—Physical beauty Is not a true 1
standard for Judging the worth of a young
woman, Is the vote of the senior and
Junior societies of young ladles attending
the Nebraska State university, and they
have refused to select 20 of their number
to enter the beauty contest usually carried
on by the college paper, the victor having
the honor of having her picture appear in
the college annual.
WEST POINT-Peter RIef, a former
resident of Cuming county, arrived here
today from Denver, Colo., from which
place ho drove In a Ford car. The trip
occupied four days and was accomplished
without difficulty. Denver air was In the
tires on his arrival here. Thirty-one gal
lons of gasoline were used during the
trip.
WEST POINT-A big wolf hunt was
held on the west side of the river Thurs
day. The ground covered by the hunters
was approximately 30 sections. A number
of wolves were dislodged and two were
shot.
WEST POINT—William Claussen has
sold his team and auto livery business at
West Point to ltlsse brothers, local men.
Mr. Claussen will devote his time to
handling blooded stock for breeding pur
pOBeB.
WEST POTNT-Prof. L. J. Knoll, super
intendent of the West Point city schools,
has been re-elected to that position, at an
advance of $50 per annum.
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IOWA STATE NEWS.
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I,K MARS—Two nonagenarians died yes- 1
terday in Plymouth county. Mrs. Ger
trude Finsel died at her home In this city,
aged 91 years and 8 months. She was
born 111 Hesse Darmstadt. Germany. May
23, 1821. and came to America In I860. Mr.
and Mrs. Flssel settled in Hungerford
township. February 10. 1871. Mr. Flssel
died on February 10, 1901, and Mrs. Flssel
on February 10. 1910. She was the mother
of Chris Flssel, Will Flssel and P. T. Fis
sel. well known residents of this city.
Michael Knewell died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. J. P. Arens, near Remsen,
aged 90. He was a native of Luxemburg.
Europe. He eamo to this country In 1809.
He leaves four daughters.
ALTA—The First National hank, of
Alta, has been sold by James F. Toy. of
Sioux City, to A. R. llrowne and asso
ciates, of tills place. This Is tile Becond
bank owned by Mr. Toy, and was started
more than 40 years ago. Mr. Browne suc
ceeds Mr. Toy as president. L. C. Ander
son was chosen as vice president, and
Charles Holtz, Nils Anderson. David
Clarkson and ti e executive officers of the
bank will be directors. C. C. Childs, who
has been cashier, and F. A. Olson, who
hns been assistant cashier, have resigned
and will go to Sioux City to enter tho
employ of the Farmers Loan & Trust Co.
CEDAR RAF1DS—A whirlwind finish foi
the campaign started here several week*
ago to build a new coliseum will lie stugeil
next week, starting Monday. It is esti
mated the site and structure will cost be
tween $160,000 and $200,000, and the commer
clal club boosters already have raised In
the neighborhood of $36,000. The shares ol
stock have been placed at $10 each, but
most of the subscriptions so fur received
have been for large amounts.
PAP CITY—The tabernacle for the com
In.g Bromley evangelistic meetings in Sa*
City has been erected by a volunteer corps
of CO workmen. The huge structure. SSxlOf
in size, was built from foundation to roof
and completely Inclosed in the course oi
a day. A big dinner was served the work
men by the ladies’ aid societies of two ol
the churches.
bE MARS-Mr^. Maude McCreery, ol
Green Bay, Wis., state organizer of suf
frage. and Elizabeth Perkins addressed a
meeting of women this afternoon on be
halt of the cause. In the evening the.i
delivered addresses in the high school as
sembly room, at which men and women
were both present.
PACLL1NA—James Mott, who lives in
the Mapleslde community near here, re
ceived word that his brother. Thus. Mott
and wife had lost their lives in Overbroolt
hotel fire at Atlantic City Their son.
Richard, was the proprietor of the hotel,
SHELDON—The farmers of O’Brien
county are shewing considerable interest
in the seed corn campaign that starts on
next Monday with 1-:. L. Scales, of Ames,
as the agent doing the testing.
PAV'LLiXA— Jessie Brown, a student of
Buena Viet a college, whose home is near
Paulli.ia. died in a Sioux City hospital ol
appendicitis. Miss Brown was a eery
fine young lady and was spending her first
year at Buera Vista college, having grau
uated from the Fauilina high school last
spring.
' EDAR RAPIDS—A new record for old
«oin was established at a public auction
mar here when William Maxlield bid $l.lr)
po* bushel fer l.r«(H) bushels contained In a
crib during a sale on the farm of Chris
Fr»dr’ i« ks. This is even higher than
o:* es during the civil war.
HARTLEY —Hartley won over Milford in
hi*sl.* XvAl Ir.rt :.l£ht .. Mill :d by a svwm
Six Suffer Broken Legs and
Arms and Seven More Pain
fully Injured In Omaha
Accident.
Omaha, Neb.. Feb. 12.—Six youthful
wasters suffered fractured arms and
egs and seven more were shaken up
sadly and painfully bruised, last night,
when a big bobsled, traveling down
California street at express train speed,
smashed into a telephone pole.
All members of the party are of
prominent Omaha families.
The injured:
Kay Richardson, broken right leg and
nternal injuries.
Ben Lake, broken leg.
Robert Callahan, right leg broken.
Monty Talbert, right leg broken.
Kugene Oglebay, right leg broken.
Clara Drummy (daughter of Police
woman Brummy), right leg broken.
Warrent Best (son of County Com
missioner Frank Best), torn ligament
and sprains.
BEATRICE CREAMERY
SUED BY SANFORD FOR
$90,000 IN DAMAGES
Investor Charges Conspiracy In
Restraint of Trade—His
Stock Worthless.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 12.—Charles W.
Sanford, a millionaire investor, has
filed suit in district court against the
Beatrice Creamery company, the First
National bank and individual officers
and stockholders of the former cor
poration, charging conspiracy in re
straint of trade. He asks for $90,000
damages, or treble what he suffered by
reason of the failure of the Lincoln
Pure Butter company, in which he
owned $30,000 of stock.
Sanford declares that the bank re
fused credit to the butter company, re
fused to cash checks for sums on de
posit there, and forced the retirement
of its president, W. W. Richardson. He
relates a series of alleged acts of the
various parties, all of which he says
were taken with the object of making
the butter company stock worthless
and gaining control of the corporation
by the creamery corporation. A reor
ganization was effected by which the
Beatrice company furnished a largo
sum of money and took preferred stock.
This was to draw 10 per cent dividends
and if the company earned anything
above that it was to get half of the
surplus' above 10 per cent. Stanford
says the concern has been managed
since then in the interest of the Beat
rice company and his stock made
worthless. 44
FORMER GREAT JOCKEY
DIED TODAY IN OMAHA
Omaha, Neb.. Feb. 12.—Charley
Thorp, once world’s premier jockey,
who won fame and fortune riding win
ners under the wire before Europe’s
crowned heads, died practically penni
less at 1 o’clock this morning in his
rooms.
He died after suffering two weeks
from illness which a day or two ago
developed into pneumonia. He was
about 52 years of age.
When but a lad he removed to Whit
ing, la., with ids parents from Chicago,
where he was born. Ills first turf ap
pearance was at that place, and he won
the first race of a career that was
destined to be a most eventful one. His
last race was in Paris, where he rode
the $20,000 beautv "Yotambian" to
victory for Count Do Harcourt.
Previous to this race he had been
connected with the royal stables of
England at an enormous retaining fee.
Sporting records are replete with
thrilling race statistics in which he
figured.
Surviving besides the widow, are
Frank Thorp, Alonzo Thorp, of Geneva,
Neb.; Alfred P. Thorp, of Whiting, la.,
and his stepmother. Mrs. Josephine
Thorp, ot Lincoln. Mrs. Minnie Har
ris, of Lincoln, is a stepsister and How
ard Thorp, of Haynes, S. D„ is a atep
Li other. •
COST YOST $29,448.90
IN MARSH-BURKE SUIT
Lincoln. Neb., Feb. 12.—J. H. Yost, o
wealthy lumber and coal dealer of Lin
coln and owner of a string of yards out
In the state, paid $29,44; 90 in court
for the pleasure of entering into a con
spiracy to put the Marsh-Burke Coal
company out of business. The su. 1
represented a $23,000 judgment, interest
ami costs. The supreme court upheld
the verdict of the jury. This is the
only judgment ever obtained under the
antitrust law of the state. The attor
neys who proseeuated the case. Strode
& Beghtol, received a third of the judg
ment The charge was that Yost con
spired with others to prevent the
Marsh-Burke company from getting
supplies from jobbers and mine opera
tors. because it was selling direct to
consumers by the carload in a mail or
der business. The company went out
of business, and the defense of Y'ost
was that it was because of mismanage
ment. Liens that will absorb all of
the judgment have been tiled against it.
RETAILERS ELECT OFFICERS:
FORM CREDIT ASSOCIATION
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 12.—The federa
tion of Nebraska retailers elected as
officers for next year: President, W
O Elliott, Mason City: vice president,
Cliff C«ooks, Falrbury; treasurer, M. A.
Hostetler, Shelton: secretary, F. Frank
Barr. Favorable action was taken on
a proposition to organize a state credit
association to run down deadbeats and
careless people who leave unpaid bibs
when they move, and a general debate
lasting the afternoon followed a prop
osition to federate all the retail as
sociations of the state for the purpose
of working out problems common to
all
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WATERBl'RY—The quarterly county
convention of the Dixon County Farmers'
union will be held at this place March 14.
ALLEN—Waller Krause and Miss Alice
Rakow etui Gene Rakow and Mias Go], I a
Foreman, of this place, were married at
Sioux City. la.. Thursday afternoon. Both
couples will make their homes on r.;m.
near Alien.
According to official Italian figures,
the 1915 crop of cereals grown in the
northern hemisphere exceeded the I
averu 'c crop of the ins; fin- ye.tr by i
more than 73,000,000 *J;.o pounds.
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MERCHANTS BANDING
TOGETHER IN NEBRASKA
FOR MUTUAL WELFARE
State Congress of Retailers at.
Lincoln Will Seek Sup
port of Others.
Mneoln. Neb.. Fob. 11.—A state con
gress of retailers, organized to fight for
the rights of merchants of the state
and to band them together in opposi
tion to what are regarded as growing
evils—the mail order house and the
farmers’ cooperative buying associa
tions—Is likely to follow the meetings
of the Nebraska Retailers' association
and the Nebraska Hardware Dealers'
association, now in session here. In
addition to the membership of these
two organizations, other societies hav
ing similar aims in similar problems
will be asked to Join. Trade discussions
will be held in secret.
President. Elliott, in his opt ning ad
dress to the retailers, declared that one
of the best things the merchants of the
state could do would bo to get beiiind
the good roads movement in every sec
tion of the state. He favored a closer
cooperation between Jobbers and re
tailers, and advised his hearers that a
check pinned to an order would have a
highly beneficial effect upon the rela
tions between the two factors in mer
chandising.
Secretary Barr declared in his re
marks that there was no truth in the
story that the retailers of the state
were organizing a cooperative associa
tion that would eliminate the jobbers
and would buy direct from manufac
turers.
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&UTTON IS FOURTH “DRY”
TO ENTER THE LISTS
Lincoln. Neb., Feb. 11—Abraham Lin
coln Hutton, of Omaha, l’or years a dis
trict judge in that county, filed today
as a candidate for the republican
gubernatorial nomination. Mr. Sutton
is the sixth entrant in the race. He
is a “dry,” and is the fourth “dry” to
fi?e‘ has been made to get
the four “drys" to draw lots so that but
one is left in the race, but not all of
them will agree to do this. One of tlie
last gubernatorial booms to blossom on
the democratic side of the fence is that
of O. E. Harmon, state food commis
sioner. Mr. Harmon will neither af
firm nor deny.
John S. McCarty, of Lincoln, a law
partner of George W. Berge, guberna
torial candidate, has filed an accept
ance of the petition naming him as a
democratic candidate for congress in
the First district.
William Scott, of Magnet, Cedar
county, has filed as a democratic can
didate for the state Semite.
ADVENTISTS AT LINCOLN.
Lincoln Neb., Feb. 11.—The sessions
today of the central union conference
it the Seventh Day Adventists’ church
being held at Collegeview, a suburb’
wore devoted to bible study. The meet
ings were in charge of r. N. Evans and
R. B. Thompson, president and secre
tary, respectively, of the North Amer
ican district conference.
"The Victorious Christian Life,” was
the subject of discussion, led by Mr.
Evans, and “Soul Winning,” was the
topic discussed by Mr. Thompson.
LINCOLN—Attorney General Reed was
not attorney general for a few hours
Tuesday. The interval was employed in
appearing before the supreme court in his
capacity as a lawyer, for N. S|>orm, a
Norfolk saloonkeeper, interested in two
cases before that tribunal. In one he had
been lined by a jury $9,000 on the finding
that he was responsible for the death of a
man who was killed by a train while In
toxicated. With other saloonkeepers
Sporm was held liable for $3,115 because
another patron lost an arm by fulling In
front of a train Errors in the instruc
tions of the trial court that deprived the
defendant of his day in court are al
leged.
LINCOLN-'Two hundred and fifty dele
gates representing the five state of Ne
braska, Wyoming, Colorado, Missouri and
Kansas are here attending the central un
ion conferences of the Seventh Day Ad
ventist church. The conference will last
the remainder of the week. A big repoie
ing followed the announcement of Presi
dent Underwood that the money necessary
to remove the debt upon Union college,
tlie western university of the church, lo
cated near Lincoln, had been paid off.
LINCOLN—Fred Gunder, an inmate of
the Lincoln hospital for the Insane, was
found dead In bed Tuesday by an at
tendant. The coroner investigated but
found that death was from natural causes.
Gunder came from Milford, and has been
a patient for 22 years, coming and going
as he desired, his case being known as
a stationary one with no mania apparent.
LINCOLN—Frank Kinney, in the city
jail on the churge of intoxication, died
from heart failure while sitting in his
cell. He came to Lincoln from Atchison
three weeks ago ami had been working
at a local factory.
JUDGE TO RETIRE.
Washington, D. C„ Feb. 9.—Judge
George W. Atkinson, of the court of
claims, today announced that he
would retire with the month. Judge
Atkinson has passed tlie age of 70
years and is eligible to retirement.
He expects to return to his home in
Charleston, W. Va. Many candidates
for the place are under consideration
by the president and the department
of justice.
ARCHBISHOP MUNDELEIN
HEADS RICHEST CHURCH
Chicago Feb. 9.—The Most Rev.
George \V. Mundelein, who today takes
the investiture as archbishop of the
Chicago diocese at Holy Name
cathedral here, becomes head of the
largest and one of the most wealthy
arch dioceses in the United States.
He assumes on behalf of the
bishopric the ownership of property
worth $50,000,000.
He is ecclesiastical ruler of a Ro
man Catholic community of 1,400,000
men, women and children.
He holds religious authority over 700
priests and has executive control of
450 i lurches and missions, 250 colleges,
academies, parochial schools and oth
er educational institutions and nearly
50 hospitals, asylums and similar en
terprises.
Senor Uunzalo Mejia, who has a con
tract to carry the mails in < oloi'ibii,
has designed a boat that, lit- b< lieves .
will be able to sail the Magdalena and
its tiibutarles even when they < oiitain
less than a foot of water. This odd
craft, which has a draft of only thiee
inches. Is propelled by two engines of
150 horse power that drive two aero
plane propellers, and van travel at a
rate of from 15 to 45 miles an hour.
With this flying raft, Senor Mejia ex
pe t■: to make file nip up ttu- Magdal
ena, whim in the drv season lias hith
erto taken CO day , in 20 hours.
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ALASKA RAILROAD
LABORERS STRIKE
Government Employes Demand
Higher Wages—Work Tied
Up—Breakers May
Be Hired.
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 14. A genera!
itrike of laborers employed on the con
struction of the government roads be
tween Anchorage and Matanuska coal
fields in Alaska, has been called, ac
cord to the latest advices received heie
from Seward, Alaska, the Alaska head
quarters of the Alaska engineering
commission.
Dispatches filed at Seward Wednes
day, said a mass meeting at Anchorage,
the principal construction camp of 1,
500 laborers organized a federal labor
union with an enrolled membership of
000 and immediately issued the striki
call.
The men demanded an increase of tne
wages of common laborers to 50 rents
an hour. The minimum provided in the
wage scale issued by the government
was 05 eents an hour, and men on track
laying gangs were receiving 371- cents
an hour.
The strike was precipitated by 00
track layers in tire camp at Peters
Creek, who quit last Sunday, when
their demand for increased pay was re
fused.
Lieutenant Frederick Mears, l'. S. A.,
tire only member of the Alaska engi
neering commission remaining in the
nortl} during the winter, has declined
to discuss the strike, but officials in
the Seward offices of the commission
were quoted as saying that the men
employed by the government were re
ceiving much higher pay with shorter
hours than railroad < '•m- ruction work
men employed by priTfA- interests in
Alaska. They anticipated no trouble in
filling the strikers’ places. W. <’. Edcs,
chairman of the Alaska engineering
commission, and Charles J. Riggs. ,ir..
the other commissioner is in Washing
toil.
WILSON WINS FIGHT
ON PROPOSED TREATY
Nicaragua Convention Expected
to Pass Senate—U. S. to
Get Naval Base,
Washington, D. C„ Feb. 14.—Presi
dent Wilson has practically won his
fight for ratification of the Nicaraguan
treaty in the executive session of the
Senate. Some of its most vigorous op
ponents said the administration had
won enough votes to command the
necessary two-thirds and they pre
dicted its ratification.
The administration opponents, while
tl ey conceded they expected the Nica
raguan convention would go through,
reiterated they would prevent ratifica
tion of the Colombian treaty to pay an
indemnity and express regret for the
partition of Panama.
The Nicaraguan treaty proposed to
pay Nicaragua $3,000,000 for inter
oceanic canal rights and naval bases
in the bay of Fonseca. Protests against
the naval base feature have been made
by Salvador, which contends it would
violate the sovereignity of Honduras.
GERMANS MUST GIST
OUT ALL LUXURIES
Government Importing Concerr
Designed to Bar All Un
necessary Imports.
Perlin. via London. Feb. 14.—The
Berlin newspapers anticipate an early
order of the government designed to
restrict the importation of foreign
luxuries. Semi-official utterances dear
ly indicate that such action is contem
plated. The purpose is to improve the
rates of foreign exchange by reducing
payments abroad, and also to conserve
the financial resources of the people
for the real necessities of life.
It has been observed that many per
sons continue to enjoy foreign luxuries
tlie same ns in peace times. Russian
caviar are arriving steadily through
Sweden. Swiss chocolate is said to have
been imported in even larger quantities
than in the days before the war and
even French wines in considerable
quantities have arrived.
The plan contemplated appears to lie
to organize an importing company un
der government auspices, which will
undertake the importation of given
goods under certain restrictions regard
ing prices and with the right of the
payment of the invoices after the war.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
Dor Moines, la., Feb. 14. — The su
preme court today handed down the
following decisions:
Buck Auto Carriage company vs.
Tietge, appellant, Polk county; af
iirmed: opinion by Preston.
Phelps vs. Finnan, Sioux county; af
firmed; opinion by Preston.
Thompson vs. Romack. administra
tor, Jefferson county; affirmed; opin
ion by Preston.
Parties et al vs. Woodbury county
et al, Woodbury county; affirmed;
opinion by Preston.
Pauly vs. King, Van Buren county;,
affirmed; opinion hv Weaver.
Nelson vs. McMillan et al. Fyon
county; affirmed; opinion by Weaver.
Monarch Coal company vs. Phillips
Coal company,.f Monroe county; af
firmed: opinion by Weaver.
Fewis et ai vs. Fewis et al. Mitchell
county; reversed; opinion by Weaver.
Sioux City Robe & Tanning company
vs. Sears, judge. Woodbury county;
affirmed: opinion by Weaver.
Niclioll. appellant, vs. Wetmore ot al.
Woodbury county: affirmed on defend
ant's appeal, revered on plaintiff's ap
peal: opinion by Weaver
Witt vs. Witt. Sioux county; af
firmed; opinion by Weaver.
City of Bloomfield vs. Stanley et al.
Davis county: affirmed; opinion by
Deemer.
Orr ve. Cornel!, judge Appanoose
county; affirmed: opinion per curiam.
Becker ot al vs. Baker el at. appol
, nts. Fyon: confirmed; opinion by
Deemer.
Sherman vs. Sherman. I. on county;
affirmed: opinion by Deemer.
Warren vs Orahnm, appellant. Sioux
county; modified and ufl’irmo i on iun
uition; opinion by Dr.iw r,
NATIONAL GUARDS
TO BE PUT UNDER
House Military Committee Will
Incorporate a Provision to
Eliminate Exclusive State
Dominance.
PLAN FOR 400,000 MEM
Senate Drafting- Regular Army
Measure Which May In
crease Standing Force to
250,000 Troops.
Washington, Feb. 14.—One resui! of
the resignation of Secretary of War
Garrison .has been to clarify the con
gressional atmosphere and center the
attention of congress upon the one
weak feature in the plan for the reor
ganization and upbuilding of the na
tional guards. When the House mili
tary bill finally :s reported it is ex
pected to contain a provision for the
nationalization of the state militia.
Closer supervision of the national
guards by the war department, greater
uniformity of system and federal pay
also will be features of the plan. It is
Intended to provide for a guard of 400,
000 men and tile regular army, accord
ing to intimations may be increased to
250,000 men.
iii wnuBiaiiw, ii. is ueneveu, me outs
will represent an effort to make effec
tive virtually all of the plans of the
war department with the exception
that federalization of the national
guard will be sought as a substitute
for the continental army plan.
Final steps toward beginning the
drafting of the measures were taken ,
yesterday by both House and Senate j
committees. Both will take up the ■
work Monday, and it is planned to If
hold all day sessions whenever the \
business of the two houses will permit.
Present indications are that the
House bill will lay its stress upon pro
visions designed to federalize the na
tional guard, while the Senate com
mittees’ main effort will be to go into
the regular army angles of prepared
ness plans. The final measures sent
to the president for ins signature will
be a compromise, it is thought, each
house being willing to accept the
judgment of the other to a largo ex
tent in its own particular field.
Plan to Rercruit 400,000.
The House bill, it is expected, will
provide for payment of national
guardsmen who comply with all regu
lations laid down by congress on a
basis sufficiently libera' lo insure the 7
recruiting of approximately 400.00i>
men, the ultimate size of the proposed
continental army. To make certain
tlie availability for federal use m time
of war of great emergency of all men
who participate in this payment, the
plan contemplates authorizing tlie
president to draft them into a volun
teer army.
Members of the committee are vir
tually unanimous in the opinion that
congress lias full constitutional au
thority to enact such a measure, and
that it can be formulated as to with
stand any attack through the. courts.
The system of regulation contem
plated is of a broad character, designed
for the training and discipline of the
guardsmen in peace times in a way
that will insure efficient organization
for volunteer war service. Only (he
administration of the law would be left
with the war department. It is pie
posed to provide under these regula
tions for the coordination of enlist
ment periods, physical standards, and
the examinations which officers ap
pointed by state authorities must pass
for an adequate reserve system for the
guard and for standardized methods
of recruiting to fill up the wastage of
regiments sent to the front.
Provision also will be made under ..
which the quota of troops to lie fur
nished by each state and the proper
tion of artillery, cavalry, engineers,
signal corps and other special service
troops would be determined by tho
war department. Specific federal ap
propriations will be proposed for the
maintenance of these troops.
For 250,000 Regulars.
The sentiment of the Senate commit
tee is not so well crystallized. It is in
dicated, however, that its legislation
for the regular army will include sub
stantially all of tlie plans of the wst
college as to organization, and that it
will be accompanied by a regular army
reserve act designed to build up and
maintain a force more than equal in
numbers to the fence with tin. color:'
Short enlistments with the colors and
the discharge into tin; reservo of ary
man found inefficient by Ids officer;
at the end of a. year’s training, un
Joubtedly will bo among the plana p.o
As to tho size of the standing army,
he men with the colors, it Is indioslid
that the Senate hit! will exceed the in
crease of 40,00b men asked bv sen etar.v
."garrison, an*! many t«vn;itoi.s \•.*i71 nr&>:
the full 250.000 total strength sought 1>.»
the war college. Chairman Chatr.bor
latn has prepar-Ki ;t mil carrying out
the plan of 1012. devis-1 ov tho tv a.
college and which or,id provide a
force with t'.'.e valors t.[ r.nj.roxiaie.toli
’00,000 men.
It was over this plan that Secretary
Harrison and Senator Chamberlain
came into sharp disagreement Iasi year.
The chairman of the Senate commit
tee desired then that the war depart
ment urge a complete rvotganiratioti
of tho army as suggested V.y the plan
of 1012. Secretary Harrison, however, A
presented a series of hills designed to ■
strengthen what he conceive.’ to be the- d
weakest spots tn the army, and held
that these should he • marte.l. to he fol
lowed gradually l.y .a-v Ltils rV .rr y
out ‘he full nlan.
Compromise Is Expected.
It was reported without very definite
authority that the House would he j
witling to accept tile Senate’s regular "'1
array plan even on a basts of yj,fic z
men with the voiorr, provided tin- Na
tional Hoard fc h raliZMi! a plans •••••it.
through.
In addition to plans already outlined
it is thought there will lie provided ill
the bills proposed, or in a , ompanlmi
measure, a definite plan for fedora! mo
bilization in time of war behind the
fighting lines. Reserves of , iviliau
aid03 to militarv operations, such as
railroad men. autoniohil, tuiv. r- a:,,;
meohanlelaus. voiegra pliers, telephone
engineers and operators, and M;« thou- .
and and one men of other civil cm- \
mp..- rj,., »*>SM ry * » ;llt . .rimy. (I.i!
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