THE O’NEIL FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. O’NEILL. NEBRASKA The first extraction of quinine from the bark of the tropical cinchona tree by two French chemists In 1820 marked an epoch In the medical world, and It was Sir Clements Markham of Eng land, burned to death recently In his 86th year, who In 1852, after a visit to Peru, persuaded the British govern ment to plant and raise the drug in India at a time when malaria was seriously harassing the population there. Prof Roscoe Pound, who has been appointed dean of the law school of Harvard university, is a native of Ne braska. He was admitted to the bar In 1890, and for several years practiced at Lincoln. He is also well known as a botanist, having been director of the botanical survey of Nebraska, 1892 1902. He has written many mono graphs and articles lor European and American botanical journals. William E. Coddlngton. discharged recently from the Minnesota peniten tiary after 12 years, had one most bit ter regret; that the unfeeling wardens should have turned him loose just the ■week before Easter, with a prison hol iday coming on, a ball game, flood Fri day layoff and prison dinner. If the *dea hadn't been done recently for the movies one would do it. Russia and Serbia, also Austria, may allow young women to tight In their armies, but Canada will not, although, according to a recruiting officer In Winnipeg, several have applied, and two could hardly be kept from joining by force in response to a call for “stenographers for the second service unit of the Nineteenth battalion.” The output of copper in Alaska was more than four times as great in 1915 as it was in 1914. Copper mining there began in 1901 and the total output to the close of 1915 is 219,913,375 pounds, valued at $34,919,581. Of this amount, according to the United States geo'ogl cal survey, 86,509,312 pounds, valued at $16,139,129, was produced in 1915. More than 1,000 women are employed In cleaning the streets of Vienna. At least half the men in the streets de partment have left their posts. Most of them are in the army, the others have obtained more lucrative work. The women who take their places re ceive the same rates of pay—from ad cents to 60 cents a day. A New York judge who refused a man a divorce sought because “his wife was imperfect In everything," said to the fellow: "If you are a perfect human being, or think you are, watch your step. A perfect human being,” continued the justice, still bruising the head of the nail, “would be an intol erable nuisance.” Prof. G. G. Hert/.og, of California, Pa., father of Dr. W. S. Ilertzog, prin cipal of the Southwestern State Nor mal school at California, and himself a member of the faculty for 60 years, will retire after this year. He was the guest of honor at a banquet given by the alumni of the institution in Pittsburgh. One of the posthumous awards of the Victoria cress has been lo a soldier at Gallipoli, who let a hand grenade slip from his grasp and fall into Ills own trench, where, for the sake of saving his many nearby companions, he threw himself down on It and was blown to pieces, while no one else was even wounded. A huge bowlder having 10 acres of surface above the ground, from which granite is being taken for building the new Oklahoma state Capitol, is sai. Gardner was named for Kearney, Miss Mattie Ellis for Peru, and Mrs. Kathryn McLean at Chadron. These selections were made at a meeting held at Peru, to which reporters were not invited. The minutes also show that the salary list was revised, but they do not disclose what changes were made. The oh'ice of dean of women will be a separate office. DEARDORFF’S MOTHER DENIES INSANITY STRAIN Lincoln. Neb., Juno 3.—Mrs. Lydia Deardorff, whose son Hubert killed his brother Jerry recently, declares, in an affidavit filed in district court, that there never was any insanity in the family and that she had never heard of any accident to Hubert such as his attorney sets up in his plea as being the origin of his present distressed mental condition, the distress being perfectly apparent to the attorney. The Deardorffs are wealthy farmers living south of the city, and the killing occurred in a dispute over the use ot a small tract of land. The defense is insanity. The wife of the murderer, in an affidavit filed in support of a continuance of the ease, swears that the relatives of her husband have kept ! up an almost continuous nagging of , her since the homicide, in an effort to drive her from the farm. One of their | children has broken a leg since the j murder. WAITE SENTENCED New York Dentist Will Be Ex ecuted Week of July 10 For Murder of Rich Fatherinlaw. New Yolk. June 3.—Dr. Arthur War ren Waite, today was sentenced to die In the electric chair during the week of July 10, the penalty for the murder of his father in law. John E. Feck, of which he was convicted. When Dr. Waite was presented to the liar, his counsel moved that he he | granted a now trial. This was denied by , the court and sentence was then im posed. When Justice Shear concluded tha sentence, Waite delivered a short speech in which he expressed apprecia tion of the manner in which hi« trial was conducted and his thanks to tho court, the prosecutors and to his own attorney. CAPTURE 2,600 MEN. London, June 1.—Some 2,600 riflemen comprising the force of Ali Dinar, sul tan of Darfur, were defeated by the British on May 22, near El Fasher, in the Sudan, according to an official statement issued this nun pin* FORMER LEGISLATOR DIES IN AUTO WRECK Elliott Lowe’s Neck Broken as Car Plunges Off Bridge— In Grain Business. Lincoln, Neb.. June 2.—Klllott Log head of the Lincoln (train company, owner of a number of elevators in the state and a former members of the leg islature, was killed Tuesday in an auto mobile accident 12 miles west of Lin coln. He is a member of an automobile firm at Beaver Crossing and was taking a car from the Lincoln jobbers to Beaver Crossing at the time. He lost controls of the car on a hill and it plunged through a bridge to the creek bottom, 15 feet below. Mr. Lowe’s neck was broken by the fall. A tramp who was sitting on the bridge at the time, reached him just as he gasped his last. Mr. Lowe was a prominent republican, and one of the nominees of that party on the county representative ticket. —♦— BOARD MAY BACK UP ON HIGHER RAILROAD VALUES Lincoln, Neb.. June 2.—The state board of equalization may back up on its proposition to increase the main line assessment of railroads 3% per cent. A meeting will be held in a day or two to consider whether this will not cause the board more trouble than it will help them. At the statehouse the whole pro ceeding is looked upon as a piece of politics, all of the members of the board but one being candidates for re-elec tion. Notwithstanding the showing of the railroads that they arc now taxed about 50 per cent more than is real estate, oased on the proportion of act ual value to that fixed for assessment, the board feared to rouse the farmers by increasing realty values. It is popul ar to bump the railroads, however, and they were bumped, but not too hard to make them resentful. Now the mem bers have a hunch that by confining their increase to the main lines only they w-ill incur the enmity of the farm ers living in branch line territory, and they are talking of backing up and dis tributing the increase over all lines The crux of the matter is that railroad valuations are important factors in many school districts, and the farmers don't object in the least to having the roads bear the most of the tax burden. —*— 100 LINCOLN CADDIES STAGE REGULAR WALKOUT. Lincoln, Neb., June 2.—A hundred caddies employed at the Lincoln Coun try club, staged a real walkout and strike Tuesday. A hundred of them, with banners in their hands and deter mination written on their faces, as sembled outside tiie club grounds. The scale recently adopted by the club pro vided that caddies should receive 40 cents for every IS holes. They de manded 50 cents. The strike was fin ally broken by an offer on the part of the grounds committee to pay the more experienced caddies 50 cents and tiie others 40 cents. Enough of tiie boys agreed to end tiie trouble. SUICIDE PREPARATIONS .ANNULLED BY DISCOVERY Lincoln. Neb., June 2.—The effort of Morris Hidy, of Wilber, to kill him self proved abortive, after he had made all of the traditional prepara tions, including a letter to his father and one to his sweetheart, in a letter left to the Crete bank he confessed to having forged tiie name of his father to a check for $350. He also wrote a letter to the coroner telling him lie had taken six ounces of a six per cent solution of cocaine. He was found in his hotel room before the drug had been able to take full effect and the doctors think that he will pull through. He is 31 years old. CRIMINAL ACTION MAY RESULT FROM TAPPING New York. June 2.—The district at torney probably will decide today whether criminal prosecution will re sult from the tapping of telephone wires and the installation of an elec - tric listening device in the law office of Seymour & Seymour, war munitions brokers. A "John Doe" investigation before Magistrate MeAdoo was suspended last week to await the return to New York of William J. Burns, the detec tive. who was employed by J. P. Mor gan & Co. to find out whether the Sev mnura had anything to do with the al leged leakage of information about war contracts from the Morgan office. De velopments in the case depend upon Mr. Burris’ testimonv today. PAY FINAL RESPECTS TO “EMPIRE BUILDER” St. Paul. Minn.. June 2.—As a mark o' respect to tile memory of James J. Hill, the public schools of St. Paul were closed all day today and practically ev ery commercial and industrial house in the city agreed to suspend operations for five minutes immediately at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Theaters have cancelled today’s matinees and every wheel in the great railroad system con trolled by the late “empire builder” will remain motionless during the first five minutes of the funeral services. The Very Rev. Thomas Gibbons, vi car general, will conduct the funeral rites, both at the Hill residence and at the grave, r Hill’s widow has in vited his friends to attend the burial services, but only relatives and the most intimate friends will be present at the rites in the Hill home at 2 o'clock this afternoon. NEW SUPER-ZEPPELIN GREATEST AIR CRAFT Zurich. Switzerland, June 2, (via Paris). May 31.—Reports have reached Zurich from Rorruinshorn, a Swiss town on Lake Constance, that a new super Zeppelin, 750 feet long, has been mak ing trial flights over the lakes. The total capacity of the airship is 54,000 cubic meters, or about double that of Zeppelins of the earlier type. The new craft Is fitted with seven motors, four armored gondolas, ma chine guns, small cannon and ap paratus for dropping bombs and dis charging aerial torpedoes. It weighs 40 tons, is able to rise 15,000 feet and BRITISH LOSSES FOR MAY THIRD GREATER London. May 31.—British casualties in May were r.iucl* heavier than In either of the two preceding months. The total from all fields of operation as compiled from published lists is 1. 767 officers and 28,470 men. The total in March, including officers and men was 20,424 and in April. 20,511. The rise and fall of the waves on which a new boat rests drives its pro walle REAR ADMIRAL HOOD l IS LOST WITH SHIP Second In Command of British Battle Cruiser Squadron Reported Dead. London. Juno 6. — Rear Admiral Horace Hood probably lost his life when the battle cruiser Invincible was sunk in the North sea battle, according to the Times. Admiral Hood was flying ' his flag on the Invincible as second in W command of the battle cruiser squad- ' ron. Admiral Horace Lambert Alexander Hood was 46 years old, and was naval secretary of the first lord of the admir alty at the outbreak of the war. He was: also naval aide de camp to the king and in 1910. then a captain, served as naval attache to the embassy in Washington. Admiral Hood served in the Sudan and in Somaliland, where he was mentioned In dispatches twice and received the distinguished service order. WILSON HITES Will Put Personal Views In the Democratic Platform on Preparedness and For eign Issue. 1 Bt. Louis. Mo.. June 5.—Prepared- ' ness and foreign policies are to be the principal planks written into the dem ocratic platform that wtl be drafted here when the democratic national convention will be held to nominate standard hearers for the coming presi-/ dential campaign. That president VVilJ| son will sketch these main flanks rfl the party platform is the understand - \ ing of certain members of the sub- \ committee on arrangements, which had 1 another meeting today to discuss ar- i rangements for the convention. ' It was suggested that the president has already drawn the main planks of the platform and that they will he placed before the committee on reso lotions by Senator Stone or someone who has the confidence of President Wilson. The tariff and monetary ques tions have been settled, according to the committee members, and they will he only lightly touched upon in the platform. Speaker Champ Clark will he made permanent chairman of the coming convention if he finds that his duties In congress will permit. That was the understanding of party leaders here to day. * There was a formal opening today of " the headquarters of the national com mittee. AUSTRIANS ADVANCE FURTHER INTO ITALY Several More Positions Are Captured, According to Vienna Reports. Berlin, June u, (wireless to Sayville). —The Austro-Hungarian advance into Italy on the southern Tyrol is continued unchecked, according to Friday's state- \ rnent from the war office at Vienna. In f the district of Arsit.ro, the Austro-Hun garians have captured several more positions of strategic importance. The statement says: "Italian front: Our troops advanced i east of the Mandriello farm, fighting r' their way as far as Grensock. In the district of Arsiero we captured Monte Barco. eas'i of Monte Cengio. We ob tained a firm footing at Fusine and Posina on the southern bank of the Posina rivulet. “Balkan front: On the left bank of V the middle Voyusa, east of Avlona (Al- A bania), we dispersed an Italian detach- / ment by a surprise attack. There were / patrol engagements on the lower Voy- f usa.” rcome, June j, vvut Liunuuip.—An oi ficial announcement by the Italian war office says: “An intense and desperate struggle is taking place along our positions south of the Asia valley, as far as Asi ngo. Our troops are still masters of the lower plateau) of Monte Cengo, where they are resisting vigorous and incessant inf Mi try attacks, supported by a bombardment of violence. “On the part of our front parallel with Asiago and Alio on the Vallodl Campomuto road yesterday, our coun ter offensive, although seriously im peded bv the artillery fire of the ene my, enabled us to make some progress.” WILSON SIGNS ARMY REORGANIZATION ACT Important Military Measure Made Law By President’s Signature. Washington, June 3.—President Wil- , eon today signed the army reorganiza tion bill, first of the important pre paredness measures passed by con gress during the present session, Th< ' president has been studying the bill carefully for more than a week. B( _ used a pen belonging to Senator Smith. ■ of South Carolina, who desired it for ' souvenir. . APACHE SCOUTS IN ) FIGHLWITH BANDITS Columbus, N. M.. June 3. —- Tw-ntv Apfv'he Indian scouts engaged a small ban 1 of Villistas near Las Varas yes terday. wounding one and chasing the others into the hills, according to re ports here today. VOTE HUGE CREDIT. } Stockholm. June 3, (via London*.-- ( The Swedish government has decided '■ to accept a vote of credit of 8,000.000 kroner to cover the immediate- militar** expenses.