THE O’NEIL FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN, Publish#*-.
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O'NEILL. NEBRASKA
A simple method for analyzing lime
stone for relative purity, together wltb
an apparatus for making the tests, has
been designed by Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins,
of the college of agriculture of th*
University of Illinois. The method la
not patented, but is designed and of
fered to the public for the. service it
may render in helping to place Ameri
can agriculture on a more scientillo
and profitable basis.
The Iowa department that buys sup
plies for state institutions 1ms comp
to the decision that rice is the cheap
est food of high nutritive value on the
market today, and consequently haa
bought 44,000 pounds of it. Twenty-two
thousand pounds of cheese will b#
bought during the year at 10.5 cents a
pound, 1 cent a pound more than a
year ago.
Small gasoline engines for starting
larger engines on sea planes and air
ships are now being tried in England.
The engine weighs only 23 pounds, de
velops more than four horse power, and
operates at more than 4.000 revolutions
a minute. A few years ago it would
have been thought impossible to make
a motor of any kind so powerful for It*
■weight.
A prize for the best code of moral*
for teachers end parents in the char
ater education of children In the
school and the home has been offered
by the National Institution for Moral
Instruction. By Invitation of the Insti
tution, educators from various slates
are pieparing codes and they will all
be printed in pamphlet form.
The college of mines at the Univer
sity of Washington is to co-operat*
with the department of chemical engi
neering to determine the efficiency of
wood tar and oils In flotation work.
The experiments will correlate the work
of the chemists in the investigation of
wood products and the miners in the
use of the flotation process.
Assyria, history tells us, was a pure
ly destructive nation, k Hun of the an
cient world, existing merely to ravage
and contributing nothing to civiliza
tion, being therein quite the opposite
of the Babylonians. Isaiah described
Assyria as God's ax and saw to do tire
rougli hewing that providence needed
for tlie shaping of the race.
John H. Brlster and Miss Ermine
Medford, of Central City, Ky„ were
married a short time ago icy the Rev. J.
J. Pogue, who is a blacksmith, and was
so busy when tills couple catne to him
that he would not leave his work; ac
cordingly they were "welded” in the
bonds of matrimony in the blacksmith’s
■hop.
Modern physics explains a comet's
tall as a swiftly moving stream of
atom fragments carried away from
the nucleus by the similar emanations
from the sun. Thus the tail always
points away from the sun and the or
bitul motion of the nucleus causes the
tail to curve like a stream of water
from a moving nozzle.
California's lemon crop in 1915 was
132 per cent more than was raised
there during the previous year. To
prevent a complete waste of‘that part
of the crop not needed In the markets,
the Inferior grades of fruit will lie used '
In making lemon oil, citrate of lime and
other such products
At a meeting of the council of the
Yorkshire Agricultural society, held in
rork, on February 3, it was decided not
to hold the annual Yorkshire show tills
year. The decision was brought ow
ing to the inability of the associated
railway companies to undertake the ad
ditional work Involved.
The world’s largest plate mill will
soon he in operation at Coutesville, Pa.,
whore the rods made use of will be
from 200 to 2(4 inches long, capable of J
rolling a finished plate Hi feet in width
Hie largest mill of this character at i
the present time is In Witkowitz, Hun
gary, which has rolls 17K inches long.
Deep nnd treacherous peat bods en
countered in the construction of Ber
ins new subway system have been
bridged by heavy underground spans
ol concrete ami steel, seemingly bridges !
over the solid earth, though actually
brrdgos over the earth where it Is not
sufficiently solid.
—a .% v-iippn: crock. Eeadvlllfl
and other Colorado towns on tho
fourth of July and other holidays hold
contests in stone drilling. There is
groat rivalry among the miners to woe
who can pound a drill through a gran
ite block in tile quickest time.
Three-quarters of the 1GO.OOO.OOO or
bo acres owned by Czar Nicholas of
Itiissia .s rich tlmberhind, yielding
large rentals, and the rest mining prop
ertles, all of which net him some G0«,
000 eoid dollars a day. the world’s
greatest individual Income.
About IS per cent of the area of
^T7,J\ricr fo,l'st’ whloh <« man
agtJ by the government to prevent
overouttlng and obtain the maximum
timber production.
An Ohio man’s racing automobile hus
a hood so high that a driver cannot
sec »\er It and Is equipped with a se
*Jts of mirrors to enable him to watch
the road ahead. “lLa
By hydraulic mining gravel is ob
tained from a bank in Michigan
screened, washed and loaded on wagons
ready for road building without the use
of hand labor.
English tests with radium to aid plant
growth have shown that it Is most ef
feilne when used in the proportion of
ton or° soH hundrodth °r a gram to a
The latest plan for draining Holland’s
Zuvder Zee contemplates the construc
tion of an embankment 182 miles long
and work that will take 38 years to
complete.
cor drying towels or clothing there
has been Invented a band to be clamped
around a hot water holler, carrying
hooks on which to hang the articles to
be dried.
Sailors in the British navy now uti
lize their spare time in making muni
tions. for which they receive no remu
neration
In an Illinois inventor’s double act
ing churn, turning the handle revolves
the paddles in one direction and the
barrel in the other.
Harness /hat holds chickens’ wings
down and prevents them flying away
from home has been patented by a
Missouri woman.
Cyprus has revived its former native
tobacco industry, producing tobaccos
suitable for clgaiete of Turkish and
Egyptian types.
The world’s proriuctlcn of whale oil
In 1914 amounted to rtV.COv barrel,.
Jo-’. I.-., _
MON HAS NARROW
LEAD OVER M’KELVIE
Official Count on Republican
Governor Shows Winner Has
Margin of Only 721.
Lincoln, Neb.. May S. The complete
official vote shows that Sutton was
made the republican nominee for gov
ernor over McKelvle by the narrow
margin of 721 votes. Neville won from
C. W. Bryan by 13,130, Cummins leads
Ford by 3,400. The t dais so far as
they have been made, with Douglas, th«
hist to come In. are as follows?
Democratic
Wilson . 69,506
Ross . 9,417
Republican—
Cummins . 30,290
Ford . 26,884
Hughes . 15.69#
Kstabrook . 8,132
Ross . 5,508
Roosevelt . 1,764
Democratic Vice President -
Morehoad . 69,469
Marshall . 160
Scattering . 79
Republican Vice President—
Burkett . 61,816
WeliHter . 13,687
Scattering . 44
Democratic Governor -
Nevlll . 46,162
Bryan . 33,032
Republican Governor—
Sutton . 30,918
McKelvle . 30,197
Miles . 20,020
George . 8,426
Madgett . .. . y. 5,039
Republican Railway Commissioner
Clarke . 25,442
Randall . 24,978
Johnson . 22,735
Long . 12,317
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O I M I C LUNVtl'l 1 IUN OANriU I
PREJUDICE PROHIBITION
Lincoln. Neb., May 8.—State political
conventions cannot act with legal au
thority upon the constitutional amend
ment relating to prohibition. This is
the ruling made by Attorney General
Heed in answer to a question from
State Chairman Thompson. The latter
gave no reason for making the request,
but it Is suspected that he desired this
official ruling because of an intima
tion that the "wets," who won the pri
maries so decisively, might seek to
have the state convention bind the
party on the question.
Attorney General Heed suys that the
language of the constitutional amend
ment creating the direct legislation
method is so clear and unequivocal
that It cannot be disputed. This says:
“All propositions submitted in pursu
ance hereof shall be submitted in a
nonpartisan manner ijnd without any
indication or suggestion on the ballot
that they have been approved or en
dorsed by any political party or or
ganization.”
The question arose because before
the adoption of this amendment it was
the practice to strive for party en
dorsement of proposed amendments
because the court permitted all
straight party votes to be counted in
favor of the amendment if it had been
endorsed by the party on the theory
that It was Just, as binding with rela
tion to amendments as to candidates.
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ATTORNEY PRICE DEFENDS
ALLEGED EXORBITANT FEES.
Lincoln. Neb., May 8.—\v. H. Price,
Lincoln lawyer who beat W. .f. Bryan
out of a Job as delegate to the demo
cratic national convention, is defend
ing a suit in court in which the present
legal representatives of a mentally in
competent woman charge that Price
and his partner, Ray J. Abbott, over
charged her $2,600 in getting a divorce
and alimony settlement. The woman
was the wife of John M. Devine, at one
time a prominent populist politician
and congressional candidate in the
Third district. She had been mental
ly incompetent for years and had taken
treatment, facts alleged to have been
fully known to Price and Abbott. Her
divorce suit was uncontested and her
husband voluntarily paid her $17,000
alimony in cash. It is averred the serv
ices were worth but $400. The defend
ants say the negotiations were pro
longed and the financial interests
large and involved, and that $8,000 was
a proper fee.
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COOPERATIVE BUREAU TO
REPLACE TEACHERS’ AGENCY
Lincoln. Neb., May 8.—A cooperative
system of securing positions for edu
cators is to be placed in force at the
state university as a result of a recent
unsuccessful attempt of a teachers'
agency to collect a fee of $125 from
J. II. Frnndsen, head of the depart
ment of dairy husbandry. It is claimed
that It is the practice of teachers’ agen
cies to demand a fee in each instance
where a. man lands In a position In
cluded iu their list of vacancies, the
educator getting the tip and doing the
hustling for the Job himself. The pro
posed bureau will be run in connec
tion with the National Teachers’ asso
ciation.
WILSON REQUESTS THAT
BRANDEIS BE CONFIRMED
.
Washington, D. C„ May 8.—President
Wilson wrote a letter yesterday to Sen
ator Culberson, chairman of the Sen
ate Judiciary committee, supporting
the nomination of Louis D. Brandeis
to the supreme court. The letter prob
ably will bo made public after It has
been read to the committee.
The nomination has been pending for
several weeks und has met with de
termined opposition. The president
has been urged to withdraw it, but has
absolutely refused to do so. In his
letter to Senator Culberson he is un
derstood to set forth his position in de
tail.
Mr. Brandeis’ nomination was first
considered by a sub-committee of the
judiciary committee which finally re
ported it favorably to the full commit
tee by a majority of one vote.
The full committee, has postponed a
final vote several times because of dif
ferences among the members, and it is
considered possible the nomination
may be reported to the Senate without
recommendation.
Rstimates of the United States Steel
earnings for the second quarter, to end
June 30, are running as high as $76.
000,000.
The old time corner stone laying is
about to take its place among the relics
and back number customs, for in so
many of the buildings of the more mod
ern type the corner stone has lost its
significance. Its place is being taken
by the driving of the silver rivet, as
was done recently in 26-story building
being erected at Forty-second street
nnd Madison avenue, in New York city.
The rivet was driven with the cere
mony that usually goes with the plac
ing of the corner stone, and on the
rompletion of the structure it will be
The inhabitants of Cochin China pre
tot ioften to ?i«?Bh outs.
RECLAIMS BABY LEFT
AT HOMEIN LINCOLN
Mother Gould Not Stand Hav
ing Little One Sent to State
Home For Children.
Lincoln, Neb., May 6.—The mother of
the young baby that was abandoned
on un East Lincoln doorstep the other
morning has reclaimed the child. The
baby was deposited on the steps of the
homo of I). Reitz, an acquaintance.
The mother expected that Mrs. Reitz
would take the baby and keep it. When
ahe read in the newspapers that the
child had been turned over to the slate
home for dependent children, she told
her mother and father what she had
done. The families live In a small
town near Lincoln—names and place
being kept from the records and the
reporters—and the grandparents at
once came and got the baby. They j
have returned home with it.
The young mother had hysterics for |
several hours after she saw in the pa- i
pers what had been done with the I
child. Until she told her parents they j
had not known of the child’s birth. The ,
babe was about five weeks old, and was
deposited in a suit case, Into the top
of which a hole had been cut so that
breathing would be possible. The cloth
ing was of the finest make. The mov
ing Impulse of the parents is under
stood to be the birth of the baby within
six months after their marriage.
NEW MILITIA COMPANIES
AUTHORIZED IN NEBRASKA
Lincoln, Neb., May 6.—Four new mi
litia companies-—all In northeastern
Nebraska—have been authorized by the
state military board. They will be lo
cated at Wayne, Wlsner, Osceola and
David City. The vacancies were cre
ated by the failure of existing compa
nies In other towns to come up to the
requirements of the war department,
which furnishes equipment, pays the
expenses of officers and half of the pay
of men while In camp. The military
board considered In secret the reports
made by army Inspectors, hut declined
to discuss with the reporters the extent
or character of the criticisms contained
therein. It was decided that if the gov
ernment ran spare a few troops a joint
camp of regulars and militiamen will
be held at Fort Robinson from the 8th
to the 17th of August,
WAYNE TAKES PART IN
WIRELESS CHESS GAME.
Wayne, Neb., May 6.—What was
probably the tlrst game of chess ever
played by wireless lias just been com
pleted between Wayne Normal (School
and Wesleyan university at University
Place, Neb. Wayne won the game after
two weeks had been spent in maneu
vers amounting to about 25 plays. The
suggestion that such a contest be held
came from Prof. I. H. Britell, of the de
partment of physics in the normal.
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LINCOLN GETTING BACK TO
NORMAL ON THIRST PARLORS.
Lincoln, Neb., May 6.—Lincoln is be
ginning to get back to normal condi
tions as far as alleviating the thirst of
the people Is concerned. Eighteen sa
loons out of the 26 have been author
ized to open and do business. Ben
Floyd, who operated the Lindel hotel
bar, has been unable to lind a loca
tion, the Lincoln management having
decided to go it “dry” from now on, and
Lincoln may have one less saloon this
year.
EDITH LATHROP RESIGNS
RURAL SCHOOLS SUPERVISION
Lincoln, Neb., May 6.—Miss Edith
Lathrop, one of the leading educators
In the state, has resigned as a member
of the state superintendent's staff in
charge of rural schools. .She has also
declined an offer on the faculty of the
Chudron normal, and as soon as she
secures her master's degree at the state
university will go to John Hopkins
university as an instructor in the rural
school department.
PERU MINISTER APPLIES
FOR BANKRUPTCY RELIEF
Lincoln, Neb., May 6.—For the first
time in the history of the bankruptcy
court here a minister of the gospel has
made application to be declared a
bankrupt with all of his debts forgiven
by law. The minister is William W.
Krantzner. of Peru, and he is joined
by his wife. The debts are listed at
$1,726.51, and the assets applicable to
the payment thereof but $30. The
minister lists an insurance policy of
$2,000 and household goods of a value
!>f $37.50. These are on the exempt
list, however.
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RODGERS ARRESTED FOR
TRYING TO DEFRAUD BANK
Lincoln, Neb., May 6.—Henry S.
Rodgers is in custody charged with at
tempting to defraud the Lincoln State
bank. He came to town yesterday with
Henry Lammers, a wealthy farmer of
Pleasant Dale. Knowing Lanmmers
was not returning home for a few days,
he wired the bank to send $500 to th*’
Lincoln bank, and signed Lammers'
name. He presented a check for the
amount, but his actions i caused the
banker to suspect him and he was ar
rested.
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LINDSAY IS REELECTED TO
TWO STATE JOBS—$4,000
Lincoln, Neb.. May 6.—The supreme
!ourt has reelected Harry C. Lindsay
is ®lerk of the court and state librar
ian. The position pays $2,500 for clerk
tnd $1,500 for librarian. The term is
'or four years. Mr. Lindsay has al
ready served 12 years.
SEIZED IN NEUTRAL WATERS.
Stockholm, (via London), May ti.—
Witnesses who testified ut an inquiry
here regarding the capture of the Dan
ish schooner Olga by a German trawler
while en route from llalmstad to Eng
land in March, declared that the vessel
was seized while in Swedish waters.
Be Your Own Butcher.
“Cured meats can he handled by the
farmer Individually," says Farm and
Fireside, "as modern methods of
slaughtering, curing and handling have
been so perfected and simplified that
any average person can have a supply
of choice meat on hand at all times and
thus secure the satisfaction of know
ing whence comes the meat he uses on
his own table.”
Carranza aa Loader.
National Magazine.
That Carranza has been and is a
wealthy, aristocratic landholder, pa
triotic, and high minded, is doubtless,
true, but that he has ever effected any
thing in tile field, or indeed in the civil
and financial branches of his inchoate
government may well be doubted: ex
cept as he has availed himself of the
funds, authority, and prestige earned
by the valor and practical resource
fulness of the fighters of his cause, of
whom Francisco Villa had been chief.
Admiral von Tirpitz of the German
*•>vv always wears elastic boots
RECORD VOTE IN 1916
PRIMARY IN NEBRASKA
Three-Fourths of State Voters
Participated In Making
Party Nominations.
Lincoln, Neb., May 6.—Totals made
at the office of the secretary of state
show that more voters cast ballots at
the late primary than ever before in the
history of the state. More than three
fourths of the total vote of the state
was cast. 102,751 by the republicans
and 86,887 by the democrats. The best
posted politicians in the state had not
gone higher than 80,000 republican and
70,000 democratic in tlieit pre-primary
estimates. The total number cast was
102,027, or 45,069 more than two years
ago and 58,414 more than four years
ago, when a warm race was supposed
to have been staged in both parties
over presidential candidates. The total
includes Douglas county, but the total
vote there is the only return so far re
peived from that district. The figures
show that of the increase over two
years ago Lancaster and Douglas, In
which are located Lincoln and Omaha,
furnished nearly a third or 14,289.
The following is the total vote cast
at the primary elections of 1912, 1914
and 1916:
1912. 1914. 1916.
Republican.... 78,957 74,493 102,751
Democratic_ 51,269 67,299 X6.887
Populist. 1,097 1,396 433
Progressive. 2,364 432
Socialist. 1,707 1,027 1,031
Prohibition_ 583 379 493
Totals.133,613 146,958 192,027
The republican voL at the recent
primary Is 28,258 more than the repub
lican vote two years ago and the demo
cratic vote shows an increase of 19,588.
SPRINGVIEW COMPANY IS
ALLOWED TO RAISE RATES
Lincoln, Neb., May 6.—The Spring
view Telephone company, at Spring
view, Keya Paha county, has been
given permission by the state railway
commission to increase its rates con
siderably. Business phones will lie $2
a month Instead of $1.25, residence $1.50
instead of $1, rural lines $1.50 instead
of $1. The company has had the ex
perience of many other small com
panies. In the first six or eight years
these all pay well, but depreciation be
gins to set in about that time and the
expenses eat up the income. In the
case of the Springview company the
commission experts found the company
received but $1,092 last year, while its
expenses were $1,420.
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RONALD’S BANK ADS ARE
CENSORED IN NEBRASKA
Lincoln, Neb., May a.—W. R. Ron
ald, newspaper publisher at Mitchell,
S. D„ will not be permitted to sell an
advertising scheme he had devised for
the use of Nebraska banks that are
under the guarantee law. Secretary
Royse, of the state banking board, rules
that the advertisement contains state
ments not permitted by the guaranty
law to be used on bank advertisements.
One objection is that the advertise
ment declares the bank to be “fully"
guaranteed by the law, and that it is
impossible for a depositor to lose any
part of money deposited in a state bank.
The guarantee fund contains only
about $1,000,000, while there are $130,
000,000 on deposit, and there is a bare
possibility that a panic might find the
fund insufficient to make good all
losses.
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BLIND WOMAN PUSHING
LIQUOR DAMAGE CLAIMS
Pierce, Neb., May li.—The $35,000
damage suit of Mrs. Estella Glaze, of
Pierce, against 50 saloonkeepers and
their bondsmen in northeast Nebraska
towns is being tried here in district
court, under Judge Oleson. Mrs. Glaze
alleges that the defendants sold liquor
to her husband, who is an habitual
drunkard, to such an extent that he
neglected to contribute to the support
of herself and her four minor children.
Mrs. Glaze is unable to work, being
totally blind.
A large array of legal talent is rep
resented on both sides. Eleven saloon
men settled with the plaintiff out of
court.
PIERCE SALOON MEN HAD
TROUBLE IN GETTING BONDS
Pierce. Neb., May 0.—-Pierce was
"dry” for 24 hours this week, due to
the inability of the saloon men to fur
nish satisfactory bonds for the ensu
ing year. The drouth was broken yes
terday w'hen all but N. H. Neuens
opened for business, and he will be
ready in a few days.
The new city council appointed the
following officials for the coming year:
C. Richardson, chief of police; George
Goff, water commissioner; M. R.
Duteher, street commissioner.
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LINCOLN REMONSTRANCES
ARE OVERRULED BY BOARD
Lincoln. Neb., May 6.—Sixteen sa
loons are now in operation in Lincoln,
no appeal having been taken from the
action of the excise board in over
ruling the remonstrances filed by third
party prohibitionists. Seven are still
closed, while the board hears the pro
tests against them.
WESTINGHOUSE STRIKE
MAY BE SETTLED SOON
Pittsburgh, Pa., May 4.—E. M. Herr,
president of the Westinghouse Electric
& Manufacturing company, whose
plants are closed because of a strike
of 15,000 workers for an eight-hour
day, told a committee of strikers to
day that he would be unable to dis
cuss a settlement with them until to
morrow.
Federal and state officials are en
deavoring to bring the company and the
men together.
While almost 1,000 state troops were
on duty in the Turtle Creek valley and
conditions about the closed plants were
quiet, unrest was manifested in other
parts of Allegheny county. Seven hun
dred Pressed Steel Car company em
ployes Joined the 2.000 already out. The
police were guarding the factory of
the McKinney Manufacturing company,
where several strikers attacked those
■who refused to Join them and ducked
one in a horse trough.
HOOPER IS NOMINATED;
DELEGATE^ UNINSTRUCTED
Nashville, Tenn., May 4.—Former
Gov. Pen W. Hooper was nominated
for United States senator and Senator
John Overall for governor by the state
republican convention here last night.
The convention sends its delegates at
large to the national convention in
structed for Representative W. E.
Humphrey, of Washington, for vice
president. Otherwise the delegates wtl:
go uaiustructed.
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GIRL SHOOTS SELF IN
TRYING TO GET HAWK
Weapon Discharged Accident
ally as She Trips on Stairway
—Seriously Wounded
Alliance. Neb.. May 5.- -Charlotte, 17
year-old daughter of Fred Mollring,
living just outside the city was .‘-hot
and seriously injured Monday after
noon.
The girl saw a hawk in the field near
her home and told her mother she was
going to shoot it. (letting an old
fashioned pistol belonging to her broth
er, she started downstairs and tripped
and fell. The weapon was discharged
and the bullet entered her breast above
the right lung. .She was taken to St.
Joseph's hospital, where she is in a se
rious condition. Miss Mollring grndu- !
ated from Alliance high school last I
year
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SAYS STATE AND FEDERAL
BOARDS CLASH ON RULINGS
Lincoln, Neb., May T». The Union
Pacific railroad tells the state railway
commission that it is caught fast be
tween (he meshes of federal supervis
ion. The secretary of the Nebraska
Cooperative Grain & Live Stock as
sociation has complained to the com
mission that the company is charging
about 10 times as much as rental price
for elevator sites than it has in the
past, and the commission is taking
testimony in the matter. The attorney
for the railroad says that the charge
is true, but that the Interstate Com
merce commission has ordered that it
must not give any service for nothing
and that the policy it is pursuing is to
charge 0 per cent on the value of the
land used. It is doing this with all
elevator companies and owners. It.
has increased one lumberman’s rental
in Omaha from $1 a year to $900, and
he is objecting.
Attorneys for the Missiuri Pacific
nave notified the state commission that
it was all a mistake on tnc part of the
chief clerk at the Falls City headquar
ters, and that the records of the road
are open to the inspection of the repre
sentatives of the commission "whenever
they desire to look at them. The chief
clerk said he had been instructed by
the general attorney to refuse to al
low the rate experts for the commis
sion to look in the books for evidence
to defend against the suit brought by
the road to set aside the 2-cent fare
law.
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STAND FALLS AT GRAND
ISLAND WITH 250 SINGERS
Grand Island, Neb., May 5.—Nearly
200 young men and women were on a
specially built seating stand in final re.
liearsal for the evening program of the
May festival of music, when the sta-.d
gave a warning crack and collapsed.
Director Walter Damroseh, of the New
York Symphony orchestra, surmising
tlie danger, spoke assuredly to the
chorus and asked the members to de
scend, one by one. He had scarcely
concluded the warning when, with a
crash, the supports of the seats col
lapsed with ail of the singers. Luckily
only four persons were slightly in
jured, though one young woman was
buried to her neck in the wreckage.
The most serious injury is a broken or
sprained ankle, and, so far as known,
only one victim has been taken to a
hospital. The singers attribute the fact
that panic was averted and that no
more were injured to the coolness of
Mr. Damroseh and the quick assistance
of the members of the orchestra, who
were on the solid stage in front of the
temporary seating.
WOMAN REJOINS HUSBAND
AND ABANDONS AFFINITY
Lincoln, Neb., May 5.—Mrs. Frank
Leary, who eloped with her husband’s
brother, George, from Joplin, Mo., has
made it all up with her husband and
will return home with him. Frank
Leary will be held on a white slavery
Charge, and taken back to Missouri or
Kansas if the federal authorities here
so decree. The woman admits that
they lived together as husband and
wife, and says the trip was taken on
money belonging to her husband
George Leary boarded with his brother
and the wife says that he kept con
tinually telling her of her husband’s al
leged infidelities that she finally
agreed to fly with him.
VISITS OLD HOME AS
SPECIAL STATE INVESTIGATOR
Lincoln, Neb., May 5.—Attorney Gen
eral Reed has commissioned Judge
Stark, who is the democratic candidate
for congress in the Fourth district, to
go back to Massachusetts and find out
if the persons who claim to be the heirs
of Alton S. Nichols, who recently died
near Aurora, leaving a *50,000 estate
and no will, are entitled to receive the
property. The trip will enable Judge
Stark to visit liis old koine in ronnec
tieut and see the folks he hasn't seen
for years.
The state house reporters are having
fun with the attorney general, claim
ing he has selected a good democratic
friend to find out what might easily he
ascertained from a certified copy of the
pension records. A few years ago Nich
ols applied for a pension, and a gov
ernment agent investigated and set
down all the facts connected with the
life of the man and also ascertained
who were his relatives. The attorney
general hastened to have Judge Stark
named as administrator and claimed
the estate for the state of Nebraska
It was known at the time that Nichols
had heirs In the east, from where he
enlisted In the union army.
DECREASE FOR MONTH IN
STATE’S CASH BALANCE
Lincoln, Neb., May 5.—The monthly
report of State Treasurer Hall shows
a cash balance on hand of $1,303,018. or
a decrease of $79,000 for the month.
Trust funds invested in bonds and the
property of the permanent school and
university funds total $9,665,562. The
cash on hand carries 3 per cent inter
est from the banks wherein it Is de
posited. The uninvested trust funds on
hand amount to $137,000.
5,000 TO BENEFIT.
Denver. Colo., May 3.—Details of the
wage increase, affecting 5,000 men,
which was recently announced, will be
worked out by employes’ representa
tives and company officials at Pueblo,
May 10, according to notices posted to
day at the steel plant of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron company.
kenTTedy tcT'washburn.
Lawrence, Kan.. May 3.—Dr. A. R
Kennedy, a football coach at Haskell
Indian institute, and formerly coach
rt the University of Kansas signed a
contract today to become athletic di
rector of Washburn college at Topeka,
Kan.
HOLD UP MUNITIONS.
Douglas, Ariz., May 3.-—Orders were
received here from the war department
yesterday replacing the embargo on ex
plosives, particularly ammunition des
tined for Mexico. The new order Is
said to be very stringent in Its pro
visions.
42 mu BANDITS
SLAIN IN BATTLE
WITN AMERICANS -
Troop of 230 Cavalrymen of 1
Eleventh Regiment Engage i
and Rout Larger Vil
iista Force.
NO YANKEE CASUALTIES
Number of Outlaws Wounded
In Clash at Ojo Asules—
Final Agreement With
Carranza Near.
Field Headquarters near Namiquipa,
(by wireless to Columbus, N. M.), May
8.—A full squadron of 330 men of tin
11th cavalry surprised and routed a
much larger force of Villistas at Ojo
Asules, 17 miles south of Cuslhuiriaeh
ic, early yesterday.
By actual count 43 Mexicans were
killed and a number wounded, but
there were no American casualties.
The American commander under
Maj. Robert 1*. Howse, had been pur
suing the Villistas under Generals Cruz
Tominguez and Julio Acosta for sev
eral days, when they encountered them
today encamped in the huddled adobe j
jackals Ojo Azules. The Mexicans 1
were utterly surprised and sprang
from their pallets half clothed. After
firing a few wild shots they began a
flight, each man shifting for himself.
Some of them were able to seize their
horses already jaded from a hard ride
previously, hut others made their way
into the hills afoot.
In Major Howe’s report, he said the
rout had been absolute and that he was- \
still pursuing the scattered remanent A
of the band. The band engaged is the W
largest remaining under the Villa ,
standard, and today's decisive victor;*'
gave much satisfaction to military men >
here. i
vv hile the dispatches do not state. t
military men on the border believe
that the band is the same as that de
feated at Temochio, April 12, l»y
Colonel Dodds command.
El Paso, Tex., May 6.—Telegraphic
exchanges between General Obregon
and General Carranza over the tenta
tive agreement for American and Mex
ican cooperation in the scattering of
Villista bandits have been completed.
It is expected General Obregon will
hold his next conference with General
Scott today on the American side of
the Rio Grande and that a protocol
covering the agreement will then be _
drawn up. v
It has been the expectation of Gen- "
erals Scott and Funston that tinal
meeting with General Obregon would
take place yesterday. At the-last mo
ment, however, it was learned that
Carranza still held to the opinion that
the American troops should set a defi
nite and early date for withdrawal. It
was said that a large part of yesterday
was spent by the Mexican officials
here in convincing the first chief that
the tentative agreement should be ad
hered to in the main.
It is said that there are a few de
tails yet to be assented to by General
Carranza and that these will have to
be threshed out at the next meeting
between Generals Scott and Obregon.
Persons in a position to know say that
the matters in dispute are so inconse
quential that they are bound to be ad
justed.
El Paso, Tex., May fi.—General
Pershing's official report of the defeat
of a band of Villa’s men at Ojo Azules
by Major Howse, described the action
as a cavalry charge with pistols, the
first to occur since operations wero
begun. The men had ridden SO miles
from Santo Ojo Azules, 75 miles west
of Cusihuiriachic.
The pursuit of the scattered Mexi- A
cans was continued for two hours. In- ^
formation that the band was near Ojo
Azules had been secured by General
Pershing two days before. It was said
to have attacked and defeated a Car
ranza force a few days before that
The commanders were Cruz Domin
guez, Antonio Angeles and Julio
Acosta.
General Pershing reported that the
counted dead was 42. Seventy-five ,
horses and mules were taken from the
Mexicans and six Carranza prisoners
they had been holding for execution.
Many wounded were reported, hut the
number was not given.
Washington, May 6.—Officials of the
war and state departments have no in
formation on the reported opposition
of General Carranza to features of the
tentative agreement made by Generals
Scott and Obregon. If General Car
ranza insists upon fixing a definite time
for wlthdraway of the American forces
army officials said the border confer
ences probably would go over into next
week.
The friendly attitude of the Carran
za government was reflected in official
dispatches today and it was announced
that more supplies to General Pershing
were moving over the Mexican rail
roads. Consul Letcher at Chihuahua
reported that General Herrera, Car
ranza commander at Parral. had pub
lished a proclamation exhorting the
citizens to avoid any anti-American
demonstrations.
HIGH TEMPERATURES TO
PREVAIL COMING WEEK
Washington, D. C„ May 6.—The A
■weather bureau’s forecast for the week
beginning May 7, shows:
During the coming week tempera
tures above the seasonal average are
indicated for the middle Atlantic, south
and gulf states, the middle plains
states and the great central valleys, in
the northern plains states, the Rocky v
mountain and plateau regions and the
Pacific state, temperatures will aver
age below the seasonal norma!. A \
change to considerably lower tempera- \
ture will overspread the northwestern I
states, the northern Rocky mountain /
region and the north Pacific states '
Tuesday or Wednesday and will be at
tended by local frosts.
An extensive area of low pressure
that now covers the northwestern
states and the western Canadian prov
inces will advance slowly eastward
reaching the middle west by the middle
of the week. It will cause local show
ers in the region of the great lakes. (
the extreme upper Mississippi valley. \
the northwestern states and the north f\
Pacific states. \
By the middle of the week local .
showers and thunderstorms an prob
able over tr.e great central valleys anj
the plains states.