THE O'NEIL FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. ■- ■ - - -— O’NEILL. NEBRASKA Spain has sent & commercial com mission to study business conditions in Sweden, with the special end in view «f placing ordors for goods formerly obtained by Spain from Germany, Eng land and France, but unobtainable now from those countries on account of the war. The commission visited some of The most Important Swedish electrical and gas machinery manufacturing plants and ship building yards and placed orders amounting to over $1,300,000. Tloumania, it Is said, will follow suit by sending a similar com mission to Sweden with the object of studying trade routes from England via Russia to Roumania. Report comes from Germany that the town of Mitten Wald, whose inhabitants arc renowned all over the world as makers of violins, is suffering greatly from the war. In times of peace fully four-fifths of the output of Instruments wont to the United States, but the dif ficulties of export nowadays have al most entirely cut off this trade. Never theless, the violin makers continue to produce the instruments and store them away in expectation of better days. Another link In the now tremend ously strong chains holding the friend ship of north and south In this coun try is riveted by the return by the state of Illinois of the famous Jackson battle flag, captured from a New Orleans regiment during the civil war. The flag was given to the general by New Orleans women soon after the battle and remained in that city after hie death until the Illinois regiment laid hands on It. Inmates of the county jail In Super ior, Wis., are conducting a checker tournament and matches aro played dally despite the fact some of the men are confined to their cells. One man holde the board on his lap and the other makes his moves by poking a stick through the bars. Although his domain, which consists of two seperate portions, lying 30 miles npart in northern Germany, and having an area of only 433 square miles. Prlnoe Frederick of Waldeck Pyrmont rules with all the pomp and ceremony Which characterizes the courts of the great powers. Swedish business men are apparently working hard to take advantage of war conditions for establishing themselves firmly In Russia. A Swedish chamber of commerce and a newspaper printed in Swedish will be started, it is said, in Petrograd. Women are to bo employed as tram car conductors in Bradford, England. Wages and hours will be the same ns for men. In the city of Sheffield, Eng land, it Is reported that there are al ready 250 women car conductors out of a totul of 520 employed. The skeleton of a prehistoric man, beautifully green, has been dug up in the Arizona copper district and the na tives, who Insist no true Arizonian could be yf such a hue, assert the tint is due to a contact with that mineral. So extensive are the precautions tak en on the railroads that climb the Andes and link Argentina and Chile, which have the steepest grades in the world, that not a fatal accident has oc curred since they were opened in 1810. Experiments in England with n new bacterized peat fertiliser have resulted in rouinrkuble Increases in plant growth and productivity, while plants believed to bo dying have been restored to better than normal condition. In a new desk telephone set which obviates the necessity of holding the Instruments in the hands the transmit ter and receiver are mounted at oppo site ends of a rod which is held in any position desired by a ratchet. That shooting is a most popular sport among the foreign residents of .Shang hai Is shown by the fact that out of a total foreign imputation of about 15,000 there are seven shooting clubs with 754 members. The historic dm tree which the late King Edward VII planted In Independ ence square, Philadelphia, when he vis ited this country as Prince of Wales in 1861 haw died and been out down. It is definitely known that Ceylon's pearl fisheries have been in existence since :i06 B. C„ and tradition savs they yielded gems before that time. A Russian scientist begun experi ments in the investigation of lightning with apparatus resembling a wireless receiver as far back as 1895. Concrete culverts, made In sections that can he assembled at the places where they are to remain, have been Invented by a Chicago man. m‘Ty, Dutch and towns the chief door of the house Is never opened except on the occasion of a funeral or a marriage. Henry C. Erick, the steel magnate. Is an enthusiastic golfer, and never miss es an opportunity to spend a few hours on the links. An attachment for hand pumps has been invented in which springs are used to equalize the load and help lift the weight of water. Because it lacks accessible quarries 'i " rh t0i *** |,avi'“t materials, trorn'Portugal** l° 'mP°n ' ”ble ■*>»*• About 100,000 tons of the more th,.„ 30.000.000 tons of Steel made™™;? in the l nlted States are produced in electric furnaces. “ • fa5SS«5 Anemone is meant for "windflower" a* it is so delicately poised that it SSpgS."* '"-Ion •t^uefVor^empZfto'lhake3^1"^ with any one who is not of royal rank. Electrical apparatus for permanently curling women's hair lias been .,, tented by a German scientist Eoru Dalkeith, eldest son of the Duke of Buccleueh, is heir t,, more Engrand tha" any in Over 81 per cent of the mrle stu dents in the universities and colleges service”"*"1’ arP 1,1 the military Oculists have found that a peculiar form of eye strain is due to persons reading while lying down. The government of Venezuela will add an institute of modern language m iu school of commerce. STATE DAIRY JOB IS PEDDLED BY AGENCY Suit For $100 Filed Against J. H. Frandsen, Claimed as Unpaid Commission. Lincoln, Neb., March 20.— Educa tional circles are simmering over a lit tle socalled scandal brought to light by the Illing of suit In Justice court by a techers’ agency against J. H. Frandsen, head of the dairy husbandry depart ment of the state agricultural college. The agency munagers want $100. claiming this as the balance due from Frandsen under a contract he signed whereby they were to get 5 per cent of his first year's salary If they aided In finding him a position as teacher. Documents are tiled In the case to show that Frandsen filed with the agency, that he was informed of the vacancy In Nebraska and thnt he aft erward [laid $20 on the claim and promised to pay the rest In monthly In stallments. Ills position pays $2,000 a year. —f JANITORS HAVE HARD TIME IN ARRANGING FLAG DISPLAY Lincoln, Neb., March 20. The state house janitors had a busy time of it Friday, satisfying the populnnce In the mailer of a flag display. In honor of St. Patrick they hoisted a green flag over the west wing and a United States flag over the east wing. A tangle in the ropes permitted the stars und stripes to be run only half way, and complaints began to pour In because It was at half mast on that day. The Janitors toiled up to the roof and straightened that out. Then com plaints began to come in because the United States flag was not floated above the green one, the objectors holding It to he treason to thus place Ireland on an equality with the United States on a public building. , Finally the secretary of state had the stars and stripes taken from the east flag pole and flung to the breeze above the green flag. Then a man who said he was an orangeman, called up to pro test against the presence of "the owld green rag” there as an Insult to a part of the Irish race. —▼— FILINGS CLOSE TODAY FOR STATE PRIMARY OF APRIL 18 Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—This is the last duy of the filing of nominations (or the state-wide primaries on the 18th of April, but the secretary of state an nounces that he will accept any that lire postmarked today, even if reaching tile office later. Among the later fil ings are these: J. H. Sweet, editor of a Nebraska City paper, a former pro gressive, for republican delegate from the First district to the national con vention: D. W. Livingston, a lawyer of Nebraska City, as a democratic can didate for congress in the First dis trict; J. J. McAllister of Dakota City, democratic candidate for representa. tive in the Thirteenth district; J. M. Woodcock, of South Sioux City, as a socialist candidate for congress in the Third district; T. ,1. Cummings, of Crab Orchard, progressive candidate for state railway commissioner; I. A. Ren aux. Broken Bow, late secretary of the progressive state committee, as a re publican delegate to the national con vention from the Sixth district. STOECKER PRECIPITATES ROW AT DEMOCRATIC MEETING Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—Democrats who attended the harmony banquet at Nebraska City, say that W. F. Stoecker. I tin* Omaha candidate for governor, who is running on a platform that favors the saloon but wants graduated prices for licenses, came near to precipitating a real fuss. Stoecker charged, in ef fect, that the candidacy of Keith Ne ville was being backed by the Union Pacific railroad and the harvester trust and that Ids platform and his speeches were written for him by a co terie of Omaha professional men who were responsible for bringing him out. Stoecker followed Neville and Bryan an the toast list, and Neville had no opportunity to reply. Others wanted to reply, hut the leaders counselled si lence. PIERCE WOMAN AND SON HELD AS COUNTERFEITERS I’lorce, Neb., March 20. Mrs. Kath erine Rogers, aged tit) years, a widow, of Pierce and her son, Alonzo Rogers, aged 25 years, are in custody of fed eral authorities here charged with counterfeiting at Pierce. Deputy Uni ted State Marshal Morgan made the arrests Wednesday following an In vestigation which has lasted about a week by H. H. Mills, a federal secret service operative. Mrs. Rogers and her son are charged by Mills with mak ing two *10 bank notes out of one $10 and one $1 note. He charges that they tore the notes lengthwise, patched the halves of the $1 note and by skillful obliteration of one side of the patched notes were able to collect $20 for an investment of $11. —— LINCOLN—Mayor Jim Duhlman and \V. J. Bryan will speak from the same plat form In Lincoln next Monday. Mr. Dahl >nun and the former secretary were once lmsom friends, but when the mayor ran for governor on a wide open "wet" plat form in 1910. Mr. Bryan took the stump against him. They have burieo the hatchet and ure running on the same fac tional ticket at the primary. Mr. Bryan Is to speak on the prohibition question. What Mayor Jim will speak about Is u matter that Is Interesting the politicians. HART1NGTON—The democratic county convention Was neld in this city yesterday, and was followed by a banquet at the Midwest hotel. Henry Korff was elected chairman of the county central commit tee; P. F. O'Gara. secretary, and L. B. Htrschmun, treasurer. Fifteen delegates were chosen to th. state convention, at Hu-stings. Hon 1. J. Dunn delivered an address on national Issues In the evening. WYNOT—Joseph Reyter, one of the pio neers of Cedar county, died suddenly at his home of heart failure. He was born In Westphalia. Germany, June 13. 1830, and came to America In 1871, and was married to Louisa Gerka in 1373 at St. Helena. Neb. His wife died April 7, 1914. HOMER—Miss Emma Wilkins, a mem ber of one of the pioneer families of this section died, of stomach trouble at her home neoir Homer. Miss Wilkins was very well known, having been assistant cushler of the Security State bank at Homer. She also had taught school in this vicinity. WEST POINT—At the declamatory con test just held here. In which 12 students of the high scnuot tooa part. Miss Beatta Krause won the first place. She will rep resent the West Point high school in the contest at Norfolk. PONCA—Late tilings arc: A. N. Porter, county clerk: F. I>. Fall's, county judge; J. M. Hurley, clerk of the district court; A II Maskell. sheriff: C. A. Kingsbury, count- attorney; Robe t Mttcheltree. state represt illative. WEST POINT—A call has been issued lor u mass meeting to be held here on March 23 to organize thi "dry" societies uf this ounty. ["NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES OFFICIALS SUSPICIOUS OF RAILROAD PROTESTATIONS Lincoln, Neb., March 18.—Alleging that It la a good railroad and never has had any intention of raising pas senger rates in Nebraska, the Union Pacific company has filed a motion In federal court to have dismissed the case begun by the state enjoining the road from violating the law. N. H. Loomis, general solicitor, makes affi davit that he has never advised the of ficers of the road to disobey the 2-cent fare law, nor assisted the Rock Island and Missouri Pacific in securing their injunctions against its enforcement. W. H. Basinger, the general passen ger agent, avers that the road has al ways recognized the law and has sold tickets in compliance with it. The state will contest the motion to dismiss. There is nothing in the wa> of the Union Pacific, should the in junction be dismissed, applying for a 3-eent fare, and neither of ttH general officers, in their affidavits, declare that there is no intention of attacking the 2-cent fare law. The attorney general will contend that, if the facts are as stated by tile road, they do not apply in this case, and that if it has no in tention of asking for an increase in the future, the injunction will not tie its hands. —.*■— DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE WILL WELCOME BRYAN Lincoln, Neb., March 18.—A com mitee of 131 Lincoln democrats has been appointed to receive W. J. Bryan when he arrives in Lincoln next Mon day to speak before a democratic mass meeting in the evening. The rabid anti-Bryanites were not included in the list. Mr. Bryan has made no on nouncement of when he will begin campaigning in Nebraska, but it will not be before the 27th. He has dates in Kansas and Nebraska for lectures and speeches that will keep him busy all next week. He will not arrive in Lincoln in time to defend himself from the charge brought by R. W. Whited, of Omaha, that he is not a democrat and that his filing as a democratic candidate for national delegate cannot be received. Secretary Pool has set the hearing for Saturday afternon, but it is expected a continuance will be granted. It is un derstood that Whited bases his allega tion that Mr. Bryan is not a democrat on the fact that he is not supporting the president on his preparedness pro gram. COMMERCIAL CLUB NEIGHBOR IS SHACK ON CAR WHEELS Lincoln, Neb., March 18.—Commer cial club directors, Indignant over the erection, next to their building, of a frame structure on a set of car wheels, the whole designed for use as a lunch car, ran up against a queer kink in the law today when they sought to have the city authorities stop the work. They were informed that the courts had heid that such a structure, when upon wheels, was not a building in the eye of the law, and that there was no ordinance against the erection of such a building. The lunch car is designed to permanently remain in the spot picked out for it, and the owner placed the wheel foundation instead of brick or stone in order to evade the city law against frame buildings in the fire district. ATTORNEY GENERAL TRIES PECULIAR FILING KINK Lincoln, Neb., March 18.—Attorney General Reed Is making a determined effort to get on the primary ballot as a republican candidate for the position. He has already been nominated by the democrats and populists, and three pe titions purporting to be signed by re publicans have been received by the secretary of state placing him on the republican ballot. Mr. Pool says that he must be shown if this can be done, as it would, if legal, make the closed primary a farce. Mr. Reed says that it can be done and that he need not lile an acceptance. Those who have looked up the law say that it is directly against Mr. Reed’s contention. SHIELDS WITHDRAWS AS CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR Lincoln, Neb., March 18.—F. P. Shields, editor of the Orleans Isser, a candidate for governor on the demo cratic ticket, withdrew his name Thursday, setting forth that he did it in the interest of the “dry" cause. Shields was supposed to be one of the numerous candidates who find filing for office a neat and pleasant method of obtaining free publicity. FOUNDER OF LYONS FIXED “DRY” ISSUE FOR ALL TIME Lyons, Neb., March 18.- The citizens' party met at te city hall and nominated the following village trustees: Paul Karo, Harry S. White and Roy Shum way. This is supposed to be a “dry" ticket, although that issue is not raised here because of a clause in every deed for lots prohibiting the sale of intoxi cating liquors on said lots, under pen alty of the lots reverting back to the heirs of Waldo Lyon, founder of the town. IOWA STATE NEWS. IOWA CITY—The annual convention of the Iowa State Pharmaceutical association will be held In Iowa City June 20-22. To aid In the entertainment of the delegates Johnson county’s 33 druggists are forming a local pharmaceutical association. The Iowa State association is the second larg est In the United States. KINGSLEY—A petition for the names of the following candidates to be placed on the ballot for the spring election has been tiled with the city clerk: For mayor, W. H. Creasy; for treasurer, J. A. Inghalls; for assessor. William Gllmour; for coun cilman, John Hall. M. C. Lurson. J. W. Campbell, Charles Guth, J. M. Wormley; for park commissioners. J. T. Shaw for two years and C. C. Bowers for six years. ONAWA—At the annual school election here ISO votes were cast, the largest vote In years C. R. Nixon, present members of the board, received 175 votes, and A. H. Hoffman, recently appointed, received 167 votes to till the vacancy. A rumor that there was opposition to the present mem bers and the superintendent caused a large, number of their friends to roll up a big vote as an Indorsement of the present ad ministration. OSKALOOSA—Fire of unknown origin damaged the First Presbyteriun church. The lirse started In the furnace In the basement, burned through to the roof, destroyed the pipe organ, library, minis ter's study and all church and private rec ords. The damage to the building and or gan la $10,000 to $12,000. The loss Is insured. COUNCIL BLUFFS—Industrial Com missioner A. B. Funk presided at the Iowa school for the deaf here In a hearing un der the employers' liability act, In the case of M. G. Kuhl against the state Kuht. while employed at the school, was injured by falling glass and be, au-»e of infection suffered an amputation. Damages wets dented him, hence the suit BOYD AND HOLT HAVE SETTLED LONG FIGHT ON STATE AID BRIDGE Structure Will Be Located on County Line, Five Miles South of Butte. Lincoln, Neb., March 18.—A five-year luarrel between the counties of Boyd and Holt has just been ended. It was all about where a bridge that the state agreed to build for the counties should be located. The law was secured through the efforts of Representative Cronin, whose interest lay in getting this bridge through. While the two county boards have been fighting, 19 other counties have taken advantage of the Cronin law and secured bridges. Boyd county was insistent that the bridge be built so as to serve the town of Butte. Holt county insisted on hav ing it near one of its towns. As final ly agreed, the bridge will be built five miles south of Butte, which is a victory for Boyd county folks, as no Holt county town is in the neighbor hood. The objections to this, or any other site near Butte, came from the business men of a number of Holt county interior towns, who were afraid that they would lose trade from Holt county farmers who could reach Butte easier after a bridge was built. —4— "BINDING BANDIT" ADMITS ACTIVE CAREER IN OMAHA Omaha, Neb., March 18.—Adam Moore, alias Frank White, alias Frank Alexander, 28 years old, paroled con vict, and by his own statement the perpetrator of more than a score of robberies, burglaries and sneak thefts during the several months the police have been looking for him, was cap tured by citizens near Twenty-sixth and Ohio streets, nearly yesterday morning after he had been chased three blocks, following an unsuccessful holdup. So many were the jobs which Moore has done in Omaha that the police did r.ot. know until yesterday that but one man had done all of them. They did know that one man staged a long series of stickups in which the outstanding feature was his custom of trussing up bis victim before the robbery by means of a short rope or heavy cord with which he was always supplied. But the various burglaries and sneak thefts were not attributed to him. Moore's downfall came when he at tempted to hold up a grocery store at Twenty-eighth and Binney streets. —4— "ARMED NEUTRALITY" WAS CONVENTION TEMPERAMENT Lincoln, Neb., March 18.—Armed neutrality prevailed at the democratic harmony meeting at Hastings, accord ing to the Lincoln men who were present. Outside of the banquet halls the "wets" and “drys” debated the question very vociferously, and it was freely declared that if C. W. Bryan won the democratic nomination he would not have the support of the "w’ots" and that if C. J. Miles, repub lican “wet.” won, he would defeat Bryan. In the banquet halls the speak ers were supposed to eschew anything that would cause friction. Keith Ne ville and W. F. Stoec.ker, the two “wet" democratic candidates for governor, broke the rule. Neville said that he was against prohibition, had no desire to straddle the question and wanted the public to know where he stood. Stoecker said he thought the demo crats ought to declare against prohibi tion. — + IVIUSUSAUK SKULL hUUNU IN NORTHERN NEBRASKA. Lincoln, Neb., March IS.—J. S. Brown, of Verdigre, Knox county, has sent to the state university museum, the skull of a mososaur, one of the largest water reptiles of the days when Nebraska was an inland sea. The skull is about five feet long and both the up per and lower Jaws are studded with powerful teeth several inches in length. The specimen is embedded in hard rook which will have to be chipped away with carefully tempered steel chisels. It is the finest one yet found in tile state, and belongs to the cretaceous period. The mososaur was a powerful swimming reptile, and is presumed to have been fairly numerous in the an cient days. The skull weighs four hun dred pounds. —f— FORMAL FILING MADE FOR VICE PRESIDENT MARSHALL. Lincoln, Neb., March IS.—The name of Vice President Thomas R. Marshall has been tiled as a candidate for the democratic vice presidential nomina tion before the Nebraska primaries. Governor John H. Morehead is the op posing candidate for the preferential nomination in this state on the demo cratic ticket. Former United States Senator Elmer J. Burkett is a candi date for the nomination on the repub lican ticket. —♦— SCHOOL BOOK SALESMAN DIES AFTER MEMORY LAPSE. Lincoln, Neb., March IS.—Hiram YV . Monical. who covered Soutli Dakota and Nebraska for the last four years for the school hook publishing house of D. C. Heatli & Co., died a few days ago in New Harmony, ind. He was !><> years of age. A few months ago Mr. Monical suffered a severe nervous col lapse which resulted in a complete loss of memory and a gradual failing of his physical forces. POLITICAL FILINGS. Lincoln, Neb., March IS.—W. L. Stark, of Aurora, former populist con gressman. drafted by the democratic date committee to uphold the standard of democracy in the hopelessly repub lican Fourth district, has filed a per sonal nomination blank with the secre tary of state. Judge J. B. Barnes, of Norfolk, for the past 12 years a mem ber of the state supreme court, having been twice elected as a republican, lias filed as a candidate for reolection, this t ine as a nonpartisan. Other state wide filings made Wednesday include: Walter Johnson, republican. North Loup, for railway commissioner: R. W. Ralston, democrat, Omaha, railway : ommissioner; Anthony T. Monahan, lemocrat, Omaha, congress; C. C. Crowell, Jr., Omaha, and W. A. Bald win. Bethany, prohibition candidates for presidential electors, and G. E. Ba ker, York, and J. W. Hollander, Omaha, socialist candidates for electors. REQU ISIT’CN HONORED FOR SOUTH DAKOTA OFFICIALS. Lincoln, Neb., March ;i?.—Governor Morehead has honored the requisition of the governor of South Dakota for the return to that state o' Mike Egan, a Dawes county man who is charged with cattle stealing in the state to the north. The charge is that Egan stole several head from a ranchman named lessen and delivered them to one Tyra E. Campbell. The latter was convicted. Egan fought extradition, claiming that he was elsewhere when the thefts were committed. MOREHEAD WANTS TO KNOW WHAT’S WRONG WITH HEALTH BOARD Gets Government Inspector to Make Research to Locate Source of Bickering, Lincoln, Neb., March 17.—In order to lay the ghost of dissension that has been stalking through the corridors of the state board of health Dr. Fox, a government inspector, has been se cured by Governor Morehead. The chief executive desires to know who :s responsible for the continually row ing The board is made up of state of ficers, jvith the governor at the head. This board appoints secretaries to ths number of four and also a health in spector. Some lime ago the secre taries recommended that the inspector. Dr. Wild, be fired because he was not toeing the chalk line they had laid down, but the board refused to decapi tate Wild. The federal inspector is to find out whether the various branches of the service are doing their duty or not. The governor wants to know be cause responsibility is shifted from one department to the other. If any changes are recommended the gover nor will seek to secure legislative aid to get them made. ROAD SUES 14 COUNTIES TO RESIST $16.40 IN CAR TAXES Lincoln, Neb., March 17.—Fourteen Nebraska counties—Blaine, Box Butte, Buffalo, Custer, Hall, Hooker, Johnson. Lancaster, Steward, Sheridan, Sher man, Sioux, Thomas and York—are made defendants in a suit filed in fed eral court by the Great Northern Rail way company. The amount of money involved is exactly $16.40, but it is the principle of the tax and not the cash that is grieving the railroad company. The sum represents the amount of the tax levied by the counties on sleeping cars owned by the Great Northern which were in use in the Burlington lines during 1914. These were used from the junction point of the two roads in Montana, as far as Lincoln. The company says it paid full taxes on these in its own territory, and the tax levied by the state board and dis tributed among the counties named is illegal and In violation of the constitu tion of the United States. The court issued an order temporarily restraining the collection of the tax. CONFLICTING STATEMENTS IN SUIT AGAINST SALOON MEN Lincoln, Neb., March 17.—A small sized sensation was created in district court when Leslie Wickline, a youth whose parents are suing Lincoln sa loonkeepers for alleged debaueher of him, declared that Attorney Doyle, rep resenting the liquor dealers, had bribed him to sign certain papers. These papers were affidavits in which he set forth that he had never obtained liquor from the defendants, that he was not a drunkard and that his health had never been impaired from the use of liquor. He said that Doyle bad promised to give him $25 to sign each of two af fidavits, but that his brother had col lected the money and given him only half. This made him sore. Mr. Doyle told the court that young Wickline had come to him and said he was sore be cause his parents had advertised him as a drunkard in the same way they had a brother in another city, and had desired to make an affidavit as to the facts. Wickline said lie was two thirds drunk when he was in the lawyer’s office. PROHIBITIONISTS TO FILE CANDIDATES IN NEBRASKA Lincoln, Neb., March 17.—Petitions will be tiled in a few days placing Eugene N. Foss, of Massachusetts ami Robert Patton, of Springfield, 111., in nomination as prohibition candidates for president and vice president re spectively. Filings were made with the secre tary of state today for James R. Dean, of Broken Row, and Edward Falloon, of Falls City for judges of the supreme court; O. R. Thompson, of Wisner, as a republican candidate for delegate to the national convention, with Thomas Kirk, of Neligh as alternate. - STATE ENGINEER PRO iOTES BIG ROAD BUILDING PLAN Lincoln, Neb., March 17.—State En gine! Johnson is to head a movement to ask federal aid for the building of good roads in Nebraska. He says that his plan also contemplates the raising of funds from cities, towns and farm ing communities and also by levying a tax of 50 cents per horsepower an nually upon automobiles. The various sources he believes it is possible to tap would yield a fund of $1,500,000 a year and he urges that the money be spent in building permanent roads between county seats first, and a road clear across the state from east to west as an alternative. MOTION ADOPTED FOR DOLLAR LICENSE iF TOWN GOES “WET." Upland, Neb., March 17.—The “dry” forces captured the citizens’ caucus and carried a motion to make the Up land saloon license $1 if the town goes “wet.” This was done to prevent those who were voting “wet,” for the sake of the $1,500 license money which the town formerly received, from carrying the election this year. As a result, if Upland goes “wet,” and appearances at present indicate that it will, it will probably be the wettest town in this part of the country. Peter Youngson, Jens lversen, Nels Ostergaard. Albert Austerman, Martin Nielsen and Louis Seberg were nomi nated to fill the vacancies on the town board. It was decided to vote “for” and “against” license, pool halls and Sun ady baseball. 1 DR. CHARLTON NEW HEAD NORFOLK INSANITY HOSPITAL ! Lincoln, Neh., March 17.—Late Tues day afternoon the state board of con- ; trol selected Dr. G. E. Uharlton, second physician at the Hastings hospital for the insane, to be superintendent of the hospital at Norfolk, succeeding Dr. , Guttery, recently removed. Dr. C. A. Oakes, third physician at Hastings, ; will succeed Dr. Charlton. Clarence ’ Emerson was made consulting patholo gist at the Lincoln hospital to fill a ' vacancy. 1 BLISTER CANKER THREATENS , ORCHARDS IN NEBRASKA Lincoln. Neb., March 15.—The hor ticultural department of the college of agriculture has issued the following warning bulletin: ] “Illinois blister ranker is threatening to wipe out the orchard industry in Nebraska. Thousands of apple'trees < are being killed each year by this dis- i ease, and it is more than likely that it , las gain-d a foothold in your orchard. “For information on the methods of treat'ng this disease, write to the hor- 1 ticultural department college of agri culture, Lincoln." TIRPITZ POLICIES . TO BE MADE ISSUE BEFORE REICHSTAG r National Liberal Group to Of- r fer Measure Demanding the / Carrying on of Sub- \ marine War. KAISER IS FACING CRISIS Feared U-Boat Campaign Would Alienate Neutrals — Grand Admiral Seems to Have Big Following. Berlin, March 18.— (Delayed).—The National Liberal group in the reichstag, decided today to introduce at this ses sion its measure calling for the carry ing on of submarine war. The National Liberals sent the fol lowing message to Admiral von Tirpitz: “We are deeply moved by the news of the retirement of your excellency in the present difficult time. We send j to the creator of our navy and the father of the German naval spirit as surance of the trust and most thank ful devotion." ' Berlin, March 18. (by wireless to Sayville).—The national liberty party * has introduced the following measure T in the reichstag: \ Considering that Great Britain not only ’ makes war on the armed forces of Ger many. but has taken measures in order to impede the providing of Germany with food supplies and raw material, so as to compel Germany to submit through hun ger. for which purpose Great Britain brutally violates International law and employs force against neutral countries; considering further that Germany is Able through unlimited and restrained siLb marine warfare to increase the Bri».li lack of tonnage so that it can be rrJade extraordinarily difficult and perhaps im possible for the British nation to obtain sufficient supplies of food and raw mate\ rials, considering that such warfare would \ bring more speedily a victorious end of 1 the war. the imperial chancellor is re- V quired to enter into no arrangements with * other countries which would hinder us in the unlimited use of the sumbarine wea pon and to permit in the war zone, against the enemy’s traders with the exception ol passenger ships, such use of submarines as arises from the peculiarity of said weapons Similar bills were brought forward by the conservative and center par ties. STRONG POLITICAL GROUP BACKS TIRPITZ’ POLICIES Berlin, (via London), March is.—The retirement of Admiral Von Tirpitz minister of marine occasioned a muilw smaller sensation than might .1 vA been expected in view of the long ser vice of the creator of the German navy. A great majority of tlie Germans ob viously have full confidence in the gov ernment’s course despite the fact that no reasons have been made public for the grand admiral's resignation and no mention was even made of his : 1 In a s in the official announcement. The onlv criticism comes from the small but in fluential group whose adherents are mainly found in the eonservativ< fre» conservative and national liberal’par ties. The national liberals and conserva tives in the reichstag both sent tele grams of condolence to Admiral Von Tirpitz. as also did the conservatives in the lower house of the Saxon par liament. The Saxons in their tob-ram expressed the hope that Von Tirnitx might again take part in (he h-,-: let ship *>f Germany's forces after the present grievous state of affairs has been done away with." Praise Von Tirritc. The Tagllsche Rundisehau regrets its Inability to comment on the resigna tion of the grand admiral, hut says this will only he possible after the w.-trv Count Von Reventlow, in llte Tatrtw Zeitung. speaks 06 the tendency h►da anti there to "deal out to the depart ing minister the well known kick of the not unbroken gray animal." He defends Admiral Von Tirpitz against the charge of neglecting the subma rines and declares that Von Tirpitz wa* the first to see that Germany's ind< \ pendent e of Great Britain depended .ml her sea power. Count Reventlow firths | comfort in the reflection that eveii without Von Tirpitz. this—his great idea—is still alive in the German people and will remain so. Die Post publishes a review of the life of Themistocles. his creation of the Athenian fleet and his banishment after he had saved the country. The •: article does not mention Von Tirpitz's I name nor Germany, but the implica tion is plain. —,♦—. FIRED BECAUSE HE WANTED GREAT SEA BATTLE. REPORT London, March 18.—A wireless dis patch from Rome says that the re Arement of Admiral Von Tirpitz, as Aerman minister of marine, was oc casioned by his intention to attack Areat Britain with the entire German lavy. This plan was vetoed, accord - ng to these advices, by Emperor Wili am and Prince Henry.