THE O’NEIL FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
O’NEILL. NEBRASKA
In the employ of Ralph L. Fuller,
jf Cleveland, is a Japanese butler
named Yamamoto, who is a baron in
his own country. When Mme. Tamakl
Mluri, the Japanese prima donna, was
Binging in Cleveland, Yamamoto soldi
he had gone to school vvitli her in To*
kio, and would introduce her to Mrs.
FuMer, but that she must not know
he was a "servant man." So for one
evening, at a dinner in honor of Ma
dame Mluri, Yamamoto was the guest
of his employer and again a noble of
Japan.
“I want a cake of tho best toilet r.oap
you have,” a shopper in one of the big
New York department stores said to a
saleswoman the other day. "How much
Is it, please?" "Tw# dollurs and ninety
cents," was the staggering reply ns the
clerk brought forth from a case a small,
daintily wrapped package; "and you’re
lucky to get this, for we're not getting
any more of them now.” It was a
Freacii soap, and the high price, it was
said, was due to the exqulsito perfume
used in its manufacture.
The quarterly court of tho Tennessee
county in which Chattanooga is situ
ated. has ordered an appropriation of
*4.000 for widows' pensions, to become
available July 1. This is the maximum
appropriation in counties where Juven
ile courts are hold. The act was passed
by the last legislature and provides
for a pension of *10 a month for tho
eldest cliHd less than 16, and *5
a month for each additional child. Pen
sions will be under the supervision of
Juvenile courts.
An intensive study of the question of
pneumonia will be made by a commis
sion appointed by Director Wilmer
Kruscn, of the department of health
and charities of Philadelphia. The re
cent epidemic of grip and pneumonia
occasioned the appointment. The city
laboratories will bo placed at the dis
posal of the commission. IJr. David
Klesman, professor of clinical medicine
in the University of Pennsylvania, and
the Philadelphia polyclinic, will be
chairman.
The president of the Japanese Citi
zens' association of Hawaii set a good
example to other hyphenated Ameri
cans in these words in a recent ad
dress to hla associates: "You who
were born In Hawaii are not the sons
of tho emperor (of Japan). If trouble
should come with Japan, you must re
member that you are the sons of the
president, not of the emperor. Aim to
work for tho best examples of eitl
xenship and then aim to work for
peace.”
Hudson, Maxim, who has bought a
homo in Colorado, to which he plans
removal of himself and family directly
the brutal powers of Europe login
their American Invasion, Is hardly do
ing that state a favor in advertising it
as least accessible of all from the pros
perous Atlantic seaboard on which he
expects the enemy host to land. What,
too, if Honduras should go loco, land at
Galveston und march north!
Although there is more than one
motorcar for every mile of highway in
tho United States, It was only last year
that annual production practically
caught, up with tlie records established
by tho buggies at the height of their
popularity, when a year's output was
about 1,000,000. In 191C nearly 900,
000 automobiles were gold in this
country and 300,000 orders remained
unfilled.
A droll report comes from Birming
ham., Ala., of tlie success of a cotton
planter in producing a cotton plunt
that smells so slit,ugly of asafetlda
that, all insects avoid it, tlie result was
obtained by sprinkling several genera
tions of tlie plant with mix vomica. It
Is hoped that tile now plunt has solved
tho boil weevil problem, by depriving
the weevil of its l'o«d.
Francis P. Bollly, of Beading, Pa..
Drought equity proceedings in court
against Samuel K. Blau, his partner,
asking for a dissolution for their part
nership, giving as the reason that for
three months Platt had refused to
speak to him ami their only means of
communication during that time had
been through employes.
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"Write poetry by all means," a pro
fessor in the University of Minnesota
has encouruged his class boldly. "But
don't show it to ajty one." he adds, es
tablishing bis right to be called not
only diplomatic but a sincere worker
for the general welfare.
The government of India has suc
ceeded In Improving the quality of tlio
cotton grown in some of its territory
by distributing better seed and induc
ing natives to use modern imple
ments.
Kan brakes, to displace the air be
neath a car and thus retard its motion
and also to keep the hub brakes cool,
have been lltted to some automobiles
used in mountainous portions of Switz
erland.
One of the simplest camp stoves is
the invention of a Nebraska man, run -
aiatttig of a long sheet metal box with
a hinged door at one end and a smoke
pipe, which can be packed Inside, at the
other.
By equipping an orchard heater with
a reservoir to hold additional oil and
feed tt to the burner slowly, a Kansas
fanner invented a device that would
burn all night without attention.
With gelatine as a basis a new mo
tion picture screen has been invented
with which pictures can be shown in
full daylight, being projected from the
back through the screen.
Electrically driven machines with
which stamps can be attached to let
ters and packages at n rate of 400 a
minute are being tested by the Ger
man postal authorities.
Kor several months a Norwegian
sompany has been successfully ex
tracting copper from crude ore by an
sleet roly tic process invented by ati en
gineer in that country.
Earrings made of heavy metal, to bo
worn with negligee attire, have been
Invented by a Philadelphia woman for
Jrawing the lobes of the ears into
more perfect shape.
An electric tow boat on a shallow
Kreneli canal has propellers on both
ends and Is driven either by storage
bat tries or power obtained from an
overhead wire.
The invention of a flame derived
from electric energy that will not give
off heat is claimed by a Krench sci
entist, who is keeping the details
secret.
In Australia there has been launched
a popular movement for the preser
vation of the giant "stringybark" trees
of that country, the tallest in the
world.
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j NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
STATE BOARD REFUSES TO
APPROVE REAPPRAISEMENTS
Lincoln, Neb., March 13.—The state
board of educational lands and funds
will approve no reappraisement of
school lands made by county boards
for the next three years. This was the
decision following the advice of the
attorney general that the law provid
ing for a five-year reappraisement
makes binding the sums fixed upon all
subsequent boards until the time for a
new valuation comes aroupd. The
county board of Howard county and
the county attorney were before the
board today asking that the reap
pralsement they recently mane which
reduces the average value of school
lands In the county from $12 to $'J an
acre be approved.
Land Commissioner Beckman ex
pressed vigorous opposition to the pro
posed reduction. He said that his in
vestigation had convinced him that the
previous appraisement was too low and
that it certainly should not be reduced.
Mr. Beckmann asserted that as a mat
ter of fact, generally speaking, all of
the school land was valued below its
actual worth.
COUNTY TREASURER TO BE
SUED FOR WILLFUL NEGLECT
Lincoln, Not)., March 13.—-Action is
to be begun by the state legal depart
ment to recover from County Treasurer
lire, of Douglas county, the penalty of
$5,000 prescribed by the law for the
failure of county treasurers to obey the
order of the state treasurer to remit
funds. State Treasurer Hall objected
to county treasurers milking remit
tances when they pleased, and ordered
that a monthly settlement be made.
Treasurer Lire refused, and lost a law
suit in supreme court over the legality
of the treasurer's act. The law makes
no provision for collecting a penalty
from a county, and the chances are
that Mr. Lire will be personally called
upon to pay it.
NEW POSITION CREATED
BY UNIVERSITY REGENTS
Lincoln, Neb., March 13.—The board
of state university regents has cre
ated the position of head of tlje de
partment of experimental instructional
agronomy at the state college of agri
culture. and have named VV. W. Hurr,
of the dry land agriculture office of
the federal government, for the place.
Mr. Hurr is a graduate of the state
university, and in the last 10 years
has won his spurs ns an investigator
for the government. The object of the
new move Is to give agronomy a high
er place in the course of study.
H. T. CLARKE WILLING TO
RETAIN OFFICIAL POSITION
Lincoln. Neb., March 13.—H. T.
Clarke, who has been a member of the
state railway commission since it was
first created in 1907, has filed as a
candidate for renomlnatlon as a re
publican. He will be opposed by C. A.
Randall, of Newman drove, a former
banker and state senator and one time
fire warden.
Nels Johnson, of Upland, has filed
as a candidate for the republican nom
ination for senator in the Sixth dis
trict. _ _
TAFT SUPPORTS WILSON
IN CAMPAIGN ON VILLA
Boston. March 13.—Former President
Taft, speaking on the Monroe doctrine
at a dinner of the Unitarian club, said
he was glad a sufficient force of United
States troops was being sent after
Villa.
"The Carranza government's policing
being inadequate, we are entirely Jus
tified in pursuing Villa,” he said, ad
ding: "Tho sooner his fangs are
drawn, the better.”
The possibility of a general interven
tion was deplored by the speaker, “be
cause that would bo u serious matter
and would involve consequences, the
scope of which we cannot measure.’
Professor Taft said he entirely ac
quitted the* administration of any de
sire to involve the United States in war
with Mexico.
ASKS FOR BOWL FOR
WHICH HIS SON DIED
Lisbon, March 11, (via Paris, March
13.)'—After a lengthy interview with
tragic bowl of the University of Penn
sylvania has been made. After the last
unnual class encounter. William Llfson,
freshman, was found smothered to
death.
Albert Llfson, father of the youth,
wants the trophy as a memorial to
his son, who died, Provost Smith said,
"in honor, with his hand on the bowl.”
Llfson’s request probably will be
granted.
GERMAN AMBASSADOR
PERMITTED TO LEAVE
Philadelphia. — A request for the
the Portuguese secretary for foreign
affairs, Herr Rosen, the Herman min
ister to Portugal, left here today on a
special train for Madrid, accompanied
by the other members of the Herman
legation. Their departure was not
marked by any incident.
Parliament has been summoned to
meet in special session tomorrow. The
newspapers have been forbidden to
print any news of a military character.
F. W. Lnnchester, an English aero
nautical expert, says: “Any machine
built expressly for long distance raid
ing will be essentially a relatively
slow machine, since speed means en
gine weight; it must be, comparatively
speaking, a relatively poor climber for
the same reason. Again, it cannot af
ford to carry shield or armor, neither
can weight be spared for a defensive
gun armament. All these facts mean
that as the distance to be raided be
comes greater, defense will become
more and more easy and point to the
conclusion that in actual warfare the
maximum distunce that can be effec
tively raided by aeroplane will be far
less than the theoretical maximum.”
Not long ago in Worcester, Mass., a
call was sent In for the ambulance,
which, by mistake, went to the wrong
place, where, nevertheless, it picked up
a patient. The man for whom the car
was originally sent got up and walked
away.
Frank 1. Reed, of Ourryville, Mo, 72
years of age, bus resided on the farm
where he was born for his entire life.
The house was built of logs 95 years
ago. but it has been weatherboarded.
plastered and otherwise improved dur
ing the time. Mr. Reed came into pos
session of the 120-acre farm at the
death of his father by purchasing the
interest of the other heirs.
To promote agriculture in France,
the government stations a professor of
the science in each department and
awards prizes frequently to the most
prog tv-wive farmers
I ROBERTS INSISTS HE
DIDN'T KILL CONNETT
AND ASKS NEW TRIAL
Says His Stepfather, Clayton,
Was Murderer—Roberts Sold
Dead Man’s Team.
Lincoln, Net)., March 11.—Roy Rob
erts, who Insists that ne was wimig
fully convicted of the murder of Ver
non Connett because the real culprit
in his stepfather, Chari";; Clayton, was
represented before the supreme court
today by an attorney, asking a new
trial.
Connett’s people live in Bird City,
Kan. The doctors told his wife that if
she wanted to live she must get out of
doors. Connett bought a wagon and
started overland with her to Colorado.
He arrived at North Platte on July 1,
1914. The wife took the train to visit
a sister at Mason City, while Connett
accepted the invitation of Roberts,
whose acquaintance had been picked up
in a saloon, to go with him to the Clay
ton ranch some six miles out.
Connet was never seen alive again.
Roberts says that he became involved
in a quarrel with Connett, and that
while the latter had him down and was
beating him up, Clayton lilt Connett
over the head with a hammer. The blow
resulted fatally. Roberts says that he
helped Clayton and his mother to hide
the body for a. day and later throw it
in the river, where it was found six
months afterward.
Clayton und Roberts’ mother swear
that Roy and Connett left the ranch in
the wagon to look for work, and the
state’s theory is that Roberts killed him
in order to get his team. Roberts sold
the team for $240. He says he gave
Clayton half the money under a com
pact. Clayton says he never got a cent
of it, and that he knew nothing of the
murder until he was first arrested on
Robert’s story.
AGREED THAT HEARING ON
RATES WILL BE HELD MAY 1
Lincoln, Neb., March 11.—Not until
May 1 will the state of Nebraska and
the Union Pacific, Burlington and
Northwestern railroads lock horns in
the state supreme court over the ques
tion of whether the injunction secured
by the attorney general tying the cor
porations’ hands in the matter of an
increase of passenger fares shall stand
or be dissolved. The railroads are
anxious to have the matter settled at
an early date, but the attorney general
is too ill to go into the case and a post
ponement from March 20 until May 1
has been agreed upon.
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SAYS SUFFRAGE DEFEAT
MEANS SALOONS IN IOWA
Lincoln, Neb., March 11.—“If suffrage
is defeated in Iowa next June, the state
will go ’wet’ with the next legislature,"
was the declaration made by Mrs. M.
E. Patterson, of Sioux City, superin
tendent of the suffrage organization in
that state at the midcontinent meeting
here of the W. C. T. U. "The ‘wets’ are
pouring money into Iowa in order to
defeat suffrage, and they figure that
if they can do this they will at the same
time be able to control the next legis
lature and thus bar the second pass
age by the legislature of the prohibi
tory constitutional amendment.”
One hundred parades in Nebraska at
strategic points, with an advertising
campaign in behalf of prohibition, are
necessary to carry the amendment in
Nebraska this year, according to dec
laration of several speakers. Poster and
parade work were suggested as effec
tive methods.
THREE DELEGATES PUSHED
TO TIE BRYAN’S HANDS
Lincoln, Neb., March 11.—It has been
determined that VV. D. Oldham, of
Kearney; Douglas Cones, of Pierce and
W. B. Price, of Lincoln, will be three of
the four candidates for delegate at
large that the anti-Bryan democrats
will center on. The fourth man has not
been definitely decided upon. It is
not expected that any of the group will
be able to defeat W. J. Bryan as dele
gate at large, but they say that this
will afford all "the real friends of Wil
son” a chance to vote for a delegation
that will be absolutely loyal to him at
St. Louis.
Reports from northeastern Nebraska
are to the effect that Phil Kohl, of
Wayne, has refused to follow the lead
of Arthur Mullen in getting behind
Keith Neville as the anti-Bryan candi
date for governor, and will lead his fol
lowers to the Berge camp.
PLATTE INDEPENDENT LINE
TO ABSORB BELL PLANT
Lincoln, Neb.,' March 11.—Permis
sion has been given by the state rail
way commission to the Platte County
Independent Telephone company to is
sue $14,000 worth of securities for the
purpose of taking over the Hell ex
change at Columbus. Consolidation of
the two exchanges was favored by the
business men, and practically no pro
test was filed against the increase in
rates made necessary. The company
has averaged about 4 per cent in
dividends under the old rates and con
ditions.
DAN STEPHENS WILLING
TO SERVE ONCE MORE
Lincoln. Neb., March 10.—Congress
man Pan Stephens of the Third con
gressional district has made a per
sonal filing as a candidate for renom
ination. James A. Donohoe, of O'Neill
has filed as a candidate for democratic
presidential elector from the Sixth dis
trict.
The Vienna chamber of commerce
has opened a branch to Petrlkau, Po
land, from which it expects to push
Austro-Hungarian business interests
throughout the district of Russian-Po
land now occupied by Austro-Hun
garian armies.
Australian postal authorities in au
effort to abate the short paid postage
nuisance, are now stamping on the
back of each short paid letter the fol
lowing: "This letter was posted insuf
ficiently prepaid. Please advise your
correspondent to Inquire of local post
master correct rate."
Munition workers are responsible for
a freak fad. It is the "gunpowder
ring.” a finger band carved from solid
powder. The rings are whittled with
penknives by the njillworkers. Some
are set with small stones and chips.
One of the latest architectural court
osities of New York city is an apart
ment hotel. 16 stories in height, which
has been built on a plot of ground 12
feet wide at one end and 50 at the oth
er and 190 feet in length.
Jose Valle-Riestra. a Peruvian com
poser, who was in this country with
the Pan-American scientific congress
delegates, has devoted his life to study
ing melodies of the Incas arid two
operas he has composed. "Ollanta” and
"Atahualpa,” are based entirely on the
musical themes pf that aboriginal and
superseded race.
YOUNG CRYDERMAN IS
SENTENCED TO DEATH
FOR FIENDISH CRIME
Rilled Employer’s Wife and Her
Woman Friend—Told Fake
Story of Motive.
Valentine, Neb.. March 11.—William
W. Cryderman, 18-ye'ar-old murderer
of Mrs. Anna Layport and Mrs. Nellie
Heelan, was sentenced to die in the
electric chair by a jury in the district
court room here last night, following
his detailed confession of the crime.
The jury deliberated two hours.
A reprimand by Mrs. Heelan, Cryder
man said, caused him to commit the
murders.
Ciwderman was employed as a farm
hand on the ranch of John Heelan, near
here. He shot Mrs. Heelan to death,
fatally wounded her companion, Mrs.
Layport, then saturated their bodies
with oil and set fire to the house.
While facing the jury the prisoner
was the picture of dejection, but in the
intermission in a back room he smoked
and laughed and joked with the guards
and said it was not necessary for the
men to retire from the court room:
that they could render their verdict in
their chairs. He invited all present to
attend his funeral and to give him all
the papers containing the account of
his crime and sentence.
A young man named Dunbar testified
that while a fellow prisoner in the Al
liance Jail, Cryderman told him that the
story told by him that the motive for
the crime was a reprimand administ
ered by Mrs. Heelan over driving a
sick horse, was a fake, and that the
real motive was his desire to assault
Mrs. Heelan and that he had ravished
her body after he had killed both
women.
Cryderman has been a vagabond all
his life. He threatened to kill James
Madison, a fellow prisoner, last night.
Ho said that when he went to the
chair he would throw up his hands
and say, “Here goes nothing."
SEEKS TO DISPROVE THOSE
KANSAS BOOSTER CLAIMS
Lincoln, Neb., March 11.—Ralph Bol
ton, director of the greater Des Moines
committee, has asked Governor More
head to Join with him in a protest
against the advertising put out by
Kansas to the effect that the Sunflower
domain leads all other states with a
per capita wealth $1,630 greater than
any other commonwealth. Mr. Bolton
says that this isn’t true, and that out
side of the rich mining state of Nevada,
where the people are few in number
and the wealth large, Iowa is really the
richest state in the union with a per
capita wealth of $3,539. Inasmuch as
the authority which Mr. Bolton relies
upon, the bureau of census report, also
gives Nebraska fourth place with a
per capital of $3,110, while Kansas is
far down the list with a meager $2,652,
he says the governor of Nebraska
should join in protest against this sort
of advertising. Mr. Bolton says he has
presented the matter to Governor Cap
per and to the editors of the publica
tions which have been printing the ad
vertising, as well as to the national
vigilance committee of the associated
advertising elute.
REV. JOHN A. PETERSON,
PIONEER MINISTER, DEAD
Ooakland, Neb., March 11—Rev. John
A. Peterson, pioneer minister and far
mer of Oakland and vicinity, is dead at
his home in this city at the age of 78
years.
Rev. Mr. Peterson fell on a sidewalk
recently, breaking his hip, which, on
account of his weight and physical con
dition, was more of a shock than he
could stand and he failed rapidly.
Rev. Mr. Peterson was well known
in Iowa and Nebraska among the
Swedish Mission church people and he
has been prominent in their confer
ences. He was pastor of the Salem
church, near Oakland, for about 25
years, retiring a few years ago to his
home in Oakland. He leaves a widow
and several grown children.
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WOMAN DECLARES WOMEN
ARE HELD BY FRIVOLITIES
Lincoln, Neb., March 11.—Methods of
securing attendance on the regular
meetings of the W. C. T. U. was the
subject for debate at the opening ses
sion of the midcontinent conference of
that organization, which includes a
half dozen states.
In order to be successful these days,"
declared Mrs. Clara Reeder, of Lincoln,
"a woman's meeting must open with a
vaudeville and end up with a feast of
ice cream and cake. That’s the trouble
that is bothering the woman's clubs
everywhere as well as the W. C. T. I .
Excellent programs which radiate in
spiration and better ideas are passed
by for some trivial entertainment and
time killer." „ , .
The conference was called for the
purpose of devising ways and means
for furthering the work of the organ
ization in the middle west.
HENRY hUHUa inmiyic hvi
WITHDRAWN IN NEBRASKA
Lincoln. Neb.. March 11.—If Henry
Ford doesn't watch out he may get the
republican delegation from Nebraska
to the next national convention. While
he was in Europe some friends of his
placed him in nomination, and up to
date he has not withdrawn his name.
A Detroit newspaper has asked the
secretary of state the latest date for
withdrawal and has been informed that
it is March 18, which is 30 days before
the primary. Every candidate for
president who has not withdrawn by
that time will be denied the privilege
this year.
NEBRASKA HUNTERS GET
OFFICIAL FEDERAL WARNING
Lincoln Neb., March 11.—Warning is
issued by the federal district attorney s
office that Nebraska hunters will he
punished if they shoot water fowl dur
ing the closed season prescribed by the
law passed by the gentlemen down
Washington way. This law is being
tested in the supreme court, but this
will not interfere with the activity of
the federal officials. The closed season
of the federal government extends
from December IB to September 1, and
refers to migratory ducks and geese
particularly. It differs from the state
law. __
Under normal conditions, one-half of
the population of Franco is engaged in
farming. _
By a decree it is declared to be of
public necessity, during the continu
ance of the European war, that no ships
flying the Brazilian flag shall be sold
to foreigners and the entire Brazilian
mercantile marine is declared to he
expropriate! for the benefit of the
federal go .eminent for the period
stated.
Yost e:. uses of grazing land and
immense forests await exploration hi
■hr north, western part of Paraguay,
noun ns the ''.tan t'h.icv. sviueh is
nhilntcd not■■ y Iv. nomaila tribes of
ndiati". tt is • tlm ited rh.it I’ura
yn.ir' lias a population of l.Oli'M.lOO.
HARTINGTON PROTESTS
TO OMAHA OFFICIALS
ABOUT TRAIN SERVICE
Superintendent Blundell Makes
Appearance Before Citizens
to Defend His Line.
Hartington, Neb., March 10. -K. C.
Blundell, of Omaha, division superin
tendent of the Omaha road, met with
the Commercial club of this city last
night to discuss matters pertaining tc
! train service. He came in response
to an invitation from the club, mem
bers of which at their last meeting
in February proposed that the clut
should take up the matter of irregular
service and uncomfortable cars di
rectly with the officials. Attorney B
Ready presented Hartington's side of
the question, explaining in detail the
; inconveniences which people on this
branch had been forced to endure for
several months. In his response, Mr.
Blundell claimed that the irregularity
of train service is caused principally
by the railroads desiring to serve all
of the people to the best advantage.
He said that placing cars for stoek
shipments delayed trains considerably;
also the impractibility of using vesti
bttled cars on mixed trains.
He stated that after two weeks'
thought he had devised 'a system
whereby he could save 18 minutes in
the transfer of stock cars from Sioux
City to Wakefield for the Hartington
branch and said that if any one pres
ent could devise better plans he had
a position open for him. He assured
the people that the head officials of
I the road at St. Paul did not have
horns, and that on their next tour of
inspection he would endeavor to have
them stop at Hartington and meet
with the Commercial club, and that
anything that can consistently be done
to improve the service would be done.
About 100 citizens were present at
the meeting and among the guests were
State Senator Charles Ruden and Rep
resentative John Reifenrath, of Crof
ton, who told of Crofton's grievances.
CRYDERMAN ON TRIAL FOR
MURDER OF TWO WOMEN
Valentine, Neb., March 10.—The trial
of William W. Cryderman, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Anna Lay
I port and Mrs. Nellie Heelan, opened
yesterday afternoon in the district
1 court here before a crowd which taxed
i the capacity of the court house. Bvi
dence at the preliminary hearing of
j Cryderman held several months ago,
! went to show that while working as
! a farm hand on the ranch of John
Helan, and while the owner was in
I Omaha, Cryderman in a fit of anger for
a reprimand from Mrs. Heelan, shot
that woman to death. Her companion,
Mrs. Layport, who had witnessed the
killing, attempted to summon help hy
telephone and was twice shot while
talking to neighbors. The bodies of
both women, Mrs. Layport being prob
ably fatally wounded, but still alive,
I were saturated with oil, and the house
) set on fire. Their remains were later
i found in the burned dwelling. Taking
; one of his employer's horses. Cryder
j man, the evidence shows, rode to a
; railroad station and boarded a freight
[ train. He was captured by Sheriff
I Roseter and kept in hiding for several
i days, as threats had been made to
, lynch him.
FIGHT AGAINST HOWELL
AS NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN
Lincoln. Neb., March 10.—Five thous
and names were appended to a petition
! hied with the secretary of state plac
I ing Charles F. McGrew, an Omaha
} banker, in nomination for republican
I national committeeman. As Com
mitteeman Howell, progressive, had al
ready indicated his intention to ask
for a reelection, the action of McGrew
is taken as a direct challenge of the
standpatters of the party to the pro
gressives McGrew formerly was very
active in politics, but retired when pro
gressivism struck the state.
Judge James R. Hanna, of Grand Is
land has filed as a nonpartisan candi
date for judge in the Eleventh district.
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PATROLMAN OUSTED FOR
OPPOSING QUARANTINE ORDER
Lincoln, N3b., March 10.—C. T. Fairell,
a patrolman, lost his job and got ar
rested because he concealed from the
health officer a case of scarlet fever
in his home, refused admission to in
spec* irs and threatened to fill the city
jail with representatives of the health
department. Fairell’s wife is a
"scientist,” and refused to call a doc
tor or report the case. Neighbors com
plained. and after the inspector who
went to the house was denied admis
sion, Fairell followed him to the health
office and abused and threatened him.
The health officer himself went down
and was allowed to enter. He quar
antined the house at once.
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COLLEGE ATHLETE ARRESTED
ON STATUTORY COMPLAINT
Lincoln. Neb., March 10.—Wiliard
Wiley, prominent as an athlete at the
state university, was arrested Tuesday
on a charge of adultery, filed hy
Robert Scott, a barber, whose resi
dence is located close to the fraternity
house where Wiley rooms. Wiley
pleaded not guilty and was released
on bonds for a hearing 30 days hence.
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RAILROADS ALL SEEKING
HIGHER DEMURRAGE RATES
Lincoln, Neb., March 10.—Representa
tives of all the railroads doing
business in Nebraska are before the
state railway commission attempting
to convince that body that it should
permit them to raise demurrage
charges to the schedule permitted un
der the interstate rates. The present
rates are $1 a day after a period of 48
hours’ free time. What the railroads
want to charge is $1 a day for three
days after free time, $3 a day for the
next three days and $5 a day thereaft
er.
NEW WINNEBAGO P. M.
Washington, D. C„ March 8.—Ella
F. Ayers today was named by the
president as postmaster at Winnebago,
Neb.
The population of the city of Pana
ma increased by 6,000 during the last
year. The total population is now a
little more than 65,000.
KING OF MONTENEGRO
RULES FROM BORDEAUX
Lyons, March 8.—The seat of the
government of Montenegro has been
transferred from Lyons to Bordeaux
The king and the other members of the
royal family with cabinet officers left
here last night to take up their nett
residence in a mansion which has been
prepared for them near the city ot
Bordeaux.
China is shipping meat to the Phitii
! pines.
FRENCH ARE {
HOLDING AT *
ALLJOINTS
Furious Assaults By Crown
Prince Fail to Bend or Break
the Lines Defending
Verdun.
RETAKE CORBEAUX WOODS
Counter Attacks Win Back Lost
Positions — Germans Admit
Loss of Ground Gained
at Vaux.
t PLAN NEW MOVES X
. - ♦
♦ London. March 11.—There are ♦
♦ signs of renewed activity on the ♦
eastern front as ttie spring ap- ♦
♦ proaches. The Russians and >
♦ Germans have been feeling out ♦
each other's lines at various ♦
, points. ♦
j Reports from Saloniki say it ♦
f is believed the allied forces there ♦
there are preparing to launch a 4
great offensive movement about
May 1. ♦
,4- . ..t
Paris, March 11.—The situation at
! Verdun is regarded as much bettel %
from the French viewpoint as a re- ™
, suit of yesterday’s fighting. The pub
.ic is greatly cheered by reports of
successful resistance on the part of
the defenders of the fortress. Notwith
I standing an enormous expenditure of
I ammunition and unstinted sacrifice rjf
life, the Germans have failed to benifl.
nuch less break, the blue line. J
There was no change last night in
the situation before Verdun, either oaslt
j or west of the Meuse, according to a \
semiofficial announcement made here \
j this afternoon. l
) The announcement adds that the vio- j
' tent bombardment continues on botli
' hanks of the Meuse, but that there has
: oeen no infantry attack by the Ger
mans.
French Clear Woods.
Exhausted by three days of violent
efforts the assailants called a half
day’s rest to replenish the depleted
ranks of infantry. The French took ad
vantage of the respite to sweep o>it
the Germans still remaining in Cor
beaux wood, and in this effort were
almost successful.
The renewal of heavy fighting east
of the Meuse, attended by a series
j assaults on Douaumont, has centered^
1 interest once more on this portion of
the front. A good road runs through
the gently sloping ravine up to the pla
teau before Douaumont, possession of
which would enable the attacking
forces to take the defenses in the flank.
Massed infantry, well supported by ar
tillery struggled hard to win com
mand of this easiest approach to the
famous position, but the French were
able to hold off the assailants and at
the same time to deal with attacks on
the village of Douaumont.
In the Woevre the Germans did not
attempt to pursue their actions further.
Ardor in Attack.
Not often in the long battle have the
French infantrymen had the order to
advance. When they did receive _ it.
they showed that their offensive spirit
had lost nothing by being held in. They
had such opportunities on Wednesday
and Thursday in Corbeaux wood. On.
Tuesday night the Germans held vir- u
tually the whole wood. ■
To prevent cutting of communiea- W
tions of the French force on Goose hill. "
French infantrymen were brought out
from the tren-hes shortly before mid
day of Wednesday. They crossed the
Dethineourt-Cumieres road, climbed \
the slope on the opposite side and en-j^
tered the wood. From the southwestern
edge, another strong attack was direct
ed' from Les Caurettes. about a mile
farther down the same road, against
the Germans in Cumieres wood. In
the wood a desperate fight took place.
An oificer of light infantry said: ,y
Take Machine Gun. r
"I had not seen my men go at the 1
enemy with such fury. They cleared I
my section of the wood in less than on t
hour.” , ^ ,
“At one point on the opposite edge of
the wood, a German machine gun was
posted in a ditch, protected by breast
works of felled trees. It poured a dead
ly fire into us. A sergeant and 20 men
volunteered to drive out the enemy.
"Advancing by leaps and bounds
from tree to tree they got in among
the Germans with bayonets. They took
the gun and turned it about, starting a
raking fire on the Germans. This did
not last nog for they soon jammed the
gun in their enthusiasm.’’
By early afternoon virtually the
whole wood was in the hands of the
French. The Germans, however, pre
pared another onslaught. While re
serves were being gathered behind hill
No. 265, artillery lire was concen
trated on the reverse slopes of Goose
hill to prevent the bringing up of
French supports.
The German attack began at dusk
The fighting lasted intermittently all
night and most of Thursday. The Ger
mans steadily lost ground until at
nightfall of yesterday they retained a
bare footing in the wood.
Great Battle At Vaux.
The hottest lighting of yesterday,
however, was around Vaux, northeast
of Verdun. Still intent on getting
Douaumont plateau the German com-,
mander hurled troops against the vil-m
lage. Brigade after brigade dashedp
against the French front along th-»
mile between the villages of V'aux and
Douaumont. On one occasion 10 com
panies reached Vaux, but a French
counter attack soon drove them out.
Time after time German troops were
annihilated by the French artillery, bin
they were replaced Immediately btfg
fresh regiments, V
The text of the communication given \
out by the French war office this aft I
ernoon read as follows: L
“In the Argonne district otir artillery J
has bombarded certain convoys of the f
enemy moving along the road from
Montfaucon to Avoco Court.
FRENCH LOSSES ARE MORE
THAN 70,000, IS BELIEF
Berlin, (by wireless to Sayville).
Marcli 10.—Major Moraht. military ex
pert of the Vossische Zeitung, esti
mates that the French losses in thei
fighting around Verdun today totaled!
between 70,000 and SO,000. Major r
Moraht says that more than 20.inj|i!
French soldiers have been made pris
oner'!.