Nebraska Newspapers

    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<l
once to have been a favorite bandit
rendezvous. It is a solid mass tower
ing above the tree tops and formed of
an excellent grade of stone.
Speaking of dreamy police forces,
there is that of Montgomery City, Mo.,
where the Warren county jail lias had
no Inmates for two years, although
there are 12 saloons in the county and
where, for more than one year, there
haB been no call for a petit Jury in tlie
circuit court.
One of the choicest "tlneeures" In the
British service Is that of the man who
tastes "K of K’s" food before It is
aerved to the war chief, a process that
has been rigidly followed since It was
discovered some months ago that meals
had been cooked for Kitchener by a
German spy.
Perhaps there Is something in that
atory by the Richmond Times-Dispatch
In which some one asks: "Do you
think Miss Oldgirl will ever change her
mind and marry?” The answer is “No.
If she marries it will be because some
man of her acquaintance has changed
his mind."
More than 200,000 Belgian refugees
are now being cared for in Britain,
many of the skilled artisans having
found ready welcomes and steady em
ployment In the English Industries,
while others are following professions,
though it is much more difficult for
these to fit in.
Siberia produces the best graphite
for lead pencils thus far discovered.
That is the source of supply for the
German pencils. Australia, as well as
Siberia, produces the materials for an
Indelible pencil. America has a fair
amount of lower grade graphite.
Projects for drying the Zuyder Zee
In Holland have been revived. A bill
Is now before the Netherlands parlia
ment to appropriate money for the
work. The cost is estimated at $90,
000,000, part of which Is to cover in
demnity to fishermen.
A missionary asserts that 1,500,000
gallons of rum are sent annually from
this country to Africa, and, “on the nar ,
tlves of those remote regions, wholly
unused to articles of this kind," he adds
naively, “such an amount of liquor has
a most violent effect."
An ordinance enacted in Dawson,
Ga., some time ago reads: “It shall be
unlawful for any cook to take from her
place of employment any victuals In a
pan or bucket without written permis
sion from her employer."
The gold piaster established as the
monetary unit in Turkey, is, as many
will be glad to hear, exactly one-nine
teenth of the silver bejidie.
According to invoices certified at the
American consulate general of Paris,
France, the exports of perfumery and
soap for the United States increased in
value from $1,983,734 for 1914 to $3,
•74,207 for 1915.
Among the recent gifts announced at
the University of Chicago is that of $2,
500 bv an unnamed giver, to enable th*,
department of geography to make a
scientific study in Asia.
Columbus lectured about America at
Salamanca, a sort of European Har
vard. In 1492, when the city contained
10.000 students.
["NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
iEFFERS IS NEW GENERAL
MANAGER UNION PACIFIC
Omaha, Neb., June 5.—-The selection
;f VV. M. Jeffers, general superinten
dent of the Union Pacific railway, to
(iicceeil Charles Ware as general man
leer, was announced by President
Mosler today, the appointment taking
effect at once.
-Mr. Ware resigned shortly after the
icsignatlon of Air. Mohler. It is un
lierslood the appointment of Mr. Jef
fers was made at the request of Presi
dent-elect E. E. Calvin, who succeeds
Jtlr. Mohler July 1.
REED MAKES REPLY IN SUIT
STARTED BY OIL COMPANIES
..incoln. Neh., June it.—As Attorney
Oeneiul Keeil views it the protesting
el1 toinpanies that have sued the state
t tsurer in supreme court to compel
Jiiin to a|iply oil inspection fees he hae
oi liaml to the payment of the expense#
of the Inspection bureau and thus re
lieve them of any further payment till
that money is exhausted are really
suing the state of Nebraska, something
that Is prohibited by the constitution.
The attorney general, therefore, asks
the court to throw out the petition. A
few other defenses have also occurred
to the attorney general, if that one is
not sufficient. That the suit Is an
evasion of the order of the court, in
another ease requiring them to pay
fees to the clerk of that tribunal; that
the legislature husn't appropriated the
*125,000 the treasurer may have; that
the treasurer doesn’t know how mueli
of the money Is Morn ott Inspection and
Show much from food inspection, having
jbeon turned in hv the man who pre
sides over both bureaus; that the com
ipanles have no legal right to maintain
jfhe action; and that the oil commis
sioner has money on hand to pay ex
penses any way—these are a few other
(defenses.
MOREHEAD AND BURKETT
BOTH HOPEFUL OF VICTORY.
Lincoln. Neb., June 5,— Nebraska’s
two vice presidential candidates are in
a hopeful but resigned frame of mind.
Both have promises of support from
delegates to the national convention.
Senator Burkett, who aspires to second
place on the republican ticket, has
promises of votes from 426 delegates
or nearly half of the total number, and
feels that in an open field he has the
best chance of any who are mentioned
for vice president. Governor Morehead,
who would he second to President Wil
son. has fewer delegates hut just as
strong hopes. The governor says that
he will not make an active light for the
Place, but Burkett says he will. Both
candidates realize that the whole mat
ter is in the laps of the gods In this in
stance, of the party leaders. If these
men think the middle went ought to be
represented on the ticket. Burkett and
Morehead believe they stand a good
chance. If the east still thinks Indiana
and Ohio ure the middle west, they will
be out of it. Another dlsqiuilitication
is that neither has a bank roll to pu‘
us campaign expenses in return.
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LINCOLN OFFICERS THINK
•BALD FACED KID” IN PRISON
Lincoln. Neb., June 5.—John W. Bur
ten. whose real name is supposed to be
J. W. Bronson, and known to the police
or the country generally as ’’Bald-Paced
Kid.” is now an Inmate of the Nebraska
penitentiary, having been sent up for
• no to seven yi ars for pocket picking.
The man has been in the Missouri peni
tentiary twice, the federal prison at
Leavenworth and’the state prisons of
Maiyhmd. Minnesota, Kentucky, Ohio
cud Pi nnsylvanhi. besides having in
spe. l" i tite interior of many minor de
1 ntlon houses. He was the ringleader
In an attempt made Thursday night to
• t/ak out of the Lancaster county jail.
M lien he found tlie other prisoners
I ad peached on him he offered to plead
i'u it.v to tt charge pending against him
here, nnil was given the opportunity.
BELIEVED MAN SUICIDED
BECAUSE OF LONELINESS.
Lincoln. Neb.. June 5.—Loneliness is
given as the reason why Henry
Schwartkopp, a cement worker living
In College View, a Lincoln suburb, quit
life. He disappeared from his usual
haunts last Monday, but no one was
left behind to be worried about his go
ing. It was only by accident that a
man came upon hts dead body hanging
to the rafters In the little loft he called
home, about a blacksmith shop. The
cot dition of the remains indicated that
life had been extinct for several days.
The man bad few friends, lived a soli
etary life, and was accustomed to drop
out of public view for a few days. He
was 45 years old, and so fur as known
had not been married.
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IOWA DOES NOT WANT
NEBRASKA CASES OF RABIES
Lincoln. Neb.. June 5.—Director
Henry Albert of the Iowa state bacteri
ological laboratory at Iowa City has
written Director Wild of the Nebraska
bureau that he would much prefer to
huve Nebraska physicians who think
they have uncovered a case of rabies
send their dog heads to Lincoln instead
of to the university capital of Iowa.
He mentions two Instances recently
where this has been done, one doctor
sending u head from Omaha, where the
state of Nebraska maintains a labora
tory at the state medical college. On
account of the condition of the heads.
Dr. Albert made the diagnoses asked
for, but he would rather no more are
sent. Dr. Wild has already sent out
ndtiees and given the papers state
ments asking that these be sent him in
the future.
ALLEN—Christopher. the 15-year-old
son of Mrs. Ena Lockwood, died of scar
let fever after only a four days’ Illness.
The funerul services were held In the
cemetery at Martlnsburg, as the family Is
under quarantine. This boy had three
lingers of his hand cut off In a binder last
year and also hud an uttack of Infantile
paralysis a few years ago.
ALLEN—The Odd Fellow and Rebekah
lodges will hold their annual memorial
services al the Methodist church on June
11. Rev. W. O. Harper, of Laurel, will de
liver the address, after which the mem
bers will go to Eastvtew cemetery, where
the Rebekahs will exemplify the memorial
service.
WATERBURY-The case of the applica
tion for a saloon license at this place was
heard in the district court at Ponca be
fore Judge Guy T. Graves, who decided
against W. H. Rarnhardt on the ground
of not having the required number of
signers. Mr. Rarnhardt has sold his stock
to Dan Graves of South Sioux City.
EMERSON—Thieves pried the lock off
of Herman Stark's garage and stole his
Ford car. The authorities were notilled at
once, but were unable to get a clue us to
the robbers.
PONCA—The T. T. Harris store which
was closed for some time on account of
bankruptcy proceedings was opened again
this week with Harry Engle is charge.
WATERBURY—Tue 5-year-old son of
Mr. ami Mrs. John Marion died at New
castle and burial was made there.
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WOMEN INCORPORATE
FALLS CITY BREWERY
They Inherited Property From
Father and Brother—Just
Holding Company.
Lincoln. Neb.. June 3.—Three Falls
City women filed articles of incorpora
tion with the secretary of state, for the
purpose of going into the brewery busi
ness. They are Sophia Gunn, Mary
Gehling and Celia Gehling, sisters. The
father and brother of the incorporators
operated a brewery at Falls City for a
number of years, but both are now
dead, and the women, who inherited
the property, desired to put it in the
form of an incorporation, the low capi
talization of $2,000 Indicating that it is
a holding company. Falls City is the
home of Governor Morehead, and the
women of that city recently held a ,
mass meeting in which the governor |
and some of his appointees were i
roasted for furnishing the small ma
jority by which the town went wet
again recently.
HOMER BANK ENTERTAINS
IN HONOR OF ANNIVERSARY
Homer, Neb., June 3.—Yesterday was
a fete day in Homor in honor of the
celebration of the 25th anniversary of,
the founding of Homer State bank.
President ('. J. O’Connor and other of
ficers of the bank had provided a large
number of free entertainment features
and their efforts were met by a very
large attendance. Flowers and candy
were distributed to the women, cigars
to the men, and movie tickets to the
children. Collins Bros.’ orchestra, of
Marcus, furnished music for a free
dance held in a large tent. People came
to town from a distance of 12 to 15
miles.
The Homer State bank was started
25 years ago as the first bank in Hom
er. with a capital of $5,000. As busi
ness increased, the capital was also
increased and, ut the present time,
capital, surplus and undivided profits
total $31,000, wit- over $200,000 in de
posits. C. J. O'Connor, now president
of the bank, started with this institu
tion 25 years ago as cashier and has
been interested in the bank ever since.
The present officers are: O. J. O'Con
nor, president; Geo. W. Thacker, vice
president; R. B. Small, cashier; M. R.
Clapp, assistant cashier.
mOKEASED VALUATIONS
NOW SPREAD OVER STATE
Lincoln, Neb., June 3.—Still playing
politics, the state board of assessment
again backed up on its valuation of
railroads for taxing purposes. It had
decided, after some jockeying, to in
crease the taxes 3V* Tier cent on the
main lines, but when it was discovered
that this would leave a third of the
counties without any additional taxes
from the railroads, the board changed
its mind. The increase will now be
distributed over the entire mileage of
each system. This will increase the
valuations of the roads n little over
$1,000,000, with the Union Pacific con
tributing a third and the Burlington
nearly a half. It will mean $33 a mile
increase on the Northwestern. $30 a
mile increase on the St. Joe road, $290
a mile on the Union Pacific, $175 a mile
on the Burlington, $110 for the M. ft
O., $170 for the Rock Island, and $125
a mile for the Missouri Pacific.
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HALL MAKES REPORT ON
STATE'S FISCAL AGENCY.
Lincoln, Neb.. June 3.—After being
jarred by the newspapers for several
months, State Treasurer Hall has
climbed down off his elevated equine
and consented to account for the inter
est due the state on funds in the hands
of the state fiscal agency. He had
previously maintained that while he
would account for the interest if any
was received, it was not a public mat
ter, the funds being held by the agency
not being state funds. Previous treas
urers had accounted for this interest.
Mr. Hall reports that the fund, which
is now in a state bank in Lincoln,
amounts to $8,721 and has earned
$381.80 interest during the last year.
The newspapers had hinted that the
money was largely deposited in banks
in which relatives of Hall owned stock,
but the treasurer makes no statement
as to where the money was during the
last year.
GURNEY AND VOLPP GET
CLOSED BANK AT DECATUR
Lincoln. Neb.. June 3.—E. R. Gurney,
of Fremont, and Fred Volpp, of Scrib
ner, prominent in banking circles of
the state, will take over the Farmers’
State bank of Decatur and place it on
its feet, according to announcement
made by the state banking board.
Gurney and Volpp have asked that
the proceedings for the appointment of
a receiver for the bank, which has been
in the hands of the board for the past
six weeks, be put off until they can as
sume control of the institution.
The hearing on the application for a
receiver was to have been held Thurs
day at Tekamah, but Attorney General
Reed will join in the request that it be
postponed. The two bankers will us
sume all of the liabilities of the bank,
restore i'.3 capital and make it unnec
essary to draw upon the state bank
guaranty fund, and the banking board
is willing to let them do It.
The bank was ordered closed and ta
ken over by the state board because it
sustained a loss of about $25,000, equal
ing its capital, through tad paper it
held. It was announced that in the re
organization, John W. Elliott, former
cashier, will not be with the bank.
POPE SEEKS NOTHING
FOR CHURCH, HE SAYS
Rome. June 2, (via Paris).—Cardinal
Gaspurri, papal secretary of state, in an
interview today with a representative
of the Associated Press, declared that
the pope was influenced in his peace
efforts solely by a desire to stop the
suicide of Europe. “The holy father,”
said the cardinal, “in his most ardent
desire for peace has no particular in
terest in view despite what newspapers
that are enemies of the papacy state to
the contrary. If peace is concluded
through the friendly intervention of the
presidency of the great American re
public, or through his Catholic majes
ty, the king of Spain, the holy father
will equally thank the Almighty God
that an end should have at least been
put to the butchery which is the suicide
of Europe."
HALF MILLION TICKETS
TO ENTENTE BAZAR SOLD
New' York. June 2.—More than 500,- I
000 tickets were sold yesterday in New
York city for the bazar which will open
here tomorrow night for the entente
war relief fund. This sale is said to
establish a world's record for a single
day's sale of tickets. It was conduct
ed by 3,000 w'omen. who covered every
part of the city. The tickets sold for
25 cents each and efforts will be made
to dispose of $1,000,000 of them befor»
the bazar opens. . ,
JOINT RATES ORDERED
IN NORTHEAST REGION
Columbus Grocery Firm Se
cures Adjustment In Sioux
City Trade Territory.
Lincoln, Neb.. June 3.-—Kor the first
time in its history the state railway
commission has established Joint rates
on Nebraska roads. Nearly all of the
points in the order are in northeastern
Nebraska, in Sioux City territory, and
this specific order is directed to the
Union Pacific and Northwestern rail
roads. The ruling was aked for by the
Abts, wholesale grocers of Columbus,
who insisted that the sum of the two
local rates prevented them from doing
business in their proper territory, where
transfers were made from one road to
the other. They proposed a scale of
[rates which were about 57 per cent of
the sum of the locals.
The commission finds that the sum
of the local rates constitutes an unjust
and unreasonably high rate, and that
proposed by the Absts is too low. It !
therefore orders the two roads to place I
into effect joint rates that shall be de
termined on the exclusive mileage basis I
set down in Order No. 19. the schedule j
of intrastate rates promulgated by this
commission relating to class rates, plus
the arbltraries of classes five, four,
three and two as determined the so
called Prouty sente of the Interstate
Commerce commission. In addition,
where there is an actual transfer of
goods a transfer charge not exceeding
5 cents per 100 shall be charged. Where
the companies use the same depot there
shall be no transfer charges.
SUPPOSED MAD DOGS SHOULD
BE HELD FOR INVESTIGATION
Lincoln. Neb.. June 3.—Bacteriologist
Wild, of the state board of health, and
State Veterinarian Anderson have
joined in a warning to Nebraskans not
to kill mad dogs. Confine them and if
they have the rabies they will die in a
week, in this way the bacteriologists
can get hold of the animals head and
examine it for germs. Such delay, they
say, will not endanger the life of any
person bitten because rabies do not
usually develop before the 40th day and
often not until the GOth day.
The warning bulletin says that if the
animal is killed as soon as it bites a
person it may happen that the charac
teristic germs hav^ not developed suf
ficiently for the bacteriologists to find
them. They, therefore, report that no
rabies were present, when the con
trary would have been found if the
animal had been allowed to live longer.
Persons bitten desire to have imme
diate treatment, and if the examina
tion finds no trace of the disease no
treatment is taken. The result may
be that fatalities follow.
SHEER LUCK SAVES LIFE
OF LINCOLN AUTOIST
Lincoln. Nob.. Juno 3.—Tile goddess
of luck rode with Oakland Sender when
his automobile became uncontrollable
and plunged over a bridge in East Lin
coln. The accident was an exact rep
lica of the one the previous day, when
Elliott Lowe, grain man, was killed.
In this case, however, when the ma
chine landed on top of tSe driver it
spanned the ditch into which Snyder
had been thrown. When the car was
pulled away the young man was found
to be unhurt, only a few scratches be
ing carried by him as a reminder of
his escapade. Eye witnesses say ne
was traveling at high speed.
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WAYNE SCHOOL IGNORED
IN FIXING NEW OFFICES
Lincoln, Neb.. June 3.—Wayne nor
mal lost out when the normal board
passed out some new plums for the
state schools in the shape of dean of
women. Miss Gertrude L>. 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.
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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.
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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.