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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1916)
THE O'NEIL FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. g:. ■ - ‘J-~ . - O’NEILL.NEBRASKA The dangers of wood alconol are just now attracting much attention, not only on the part of the public, but also of legislative bodies. A note in public health reports records the progress ot the campaign aguinst this substance during the year of 1915. The National Association of Retail Druggists adopt ed a resolution opposing "the use of Wrood alcohol in medicinal preparations to be used by human beings," and in favor of such labeling as would protect the public against its harmful use. Two states, New Hampshire and South Da kota, each enacted a law restricting the sal* of wood alcohol and prescribing a form of label to be used. The South Dakota law debars its use in any food, drink, medicine or toilet preparation Intended for human use, internally or externally. The cities of New York, Chicago, and Montclair, N. .1.. havs adopted regulations or ordinances re stricting its use. Prizes aggregating $2,109 have been offered by the national Americanization committee In a contest for plans for the housing of immigrants in industrial towns. Two groups if prizes are of fered The first covers plans for the housing of workmen .a industrial corn- j munltivs not exceeding a population of 6,000. Entries may include designs for Single family housi s. combined family and lodging houses, which will permit Separation of the family from the lodg ers or boarding houses, or community dwellings for numbers of single men to single women. The first prize in tins group is $1,000, the Second $500, and the third, fourth and fifth, $10o each. The second group of prizes is offered for a satisfactory substitute for the de railed freight and cattle cars now used to house construction gangs on rail ways. In this group the iirst prize is $200 and the second prize $100. A phonograph, recently constructed by a higli school boy Onil described in the Popular Science Monthly, hus as Us reproducing part nothing more preten tious than an ordinary shingle, with the point .if a darning needle securely fastened in one corner. A steel knitting »eedle, clamped in a laboratory ring stand. is thrust through a hole In the shingle to support It as it Is carried over the record. 7 he record Is mount ed on a wooden turntable, constructed as follows: A disk, made of three quarter inch wood, with u groove In the •dge, is mounted on the huh and axle Of an old bicycle wheel, so that it car. turn easily. This is connected with an ordinary battery motor by means of a cord belt. Pressure of the thumb and finger on the shaft of the motor regu lates the speed of the disk. Records ' can he played backwards simply by ' twisting the belt. Dr. Nugao Ariga, the Japanese con- | ■titutSouiU adviser to the Chinese gov ernment, Is practically a man without \ a country. Since Dr. Ariga addressed i Yuan Stdh-y'ai as "your majesty" in a ! document widely printed In the Chinese ! press supporting the morian hial move ment. Dr. Ariga has been ostracised by ills fellow countrymen residing in China, and mercilessly attacked by the press in Japan. This action of the ad viser at a time when his country was opposing the Chinese monarchy has been regarded as little short of treason by his fellow countrymen. • * .e was forced to resign from the Japanese club In Peking, and is no longer welcome In the homes of the leading Japanese In Toltio. In the discussions about prepa:edness ■ It has been prominently suggested that a belt line road ho built around the United States, near the seucoast. Such a road would be of undoubted value: but enthusiasts In this direction ap parently lose sight of the fundamental fact that, either for war or peace, we need good roads everywhere. Another lesson that can he drawn from tho ex Serlence of Europe of late is so to ulld the roads that they will stand up In time of need. If our special war roads were built by the average countv official they would probably not survive actual war conditions over u week. —. ■ <t-« Devout Roman Catholics often enjoy a whimsical Joke on themselves, as this story from a good-humored ecclecias tlc indicates: “Lay readers are some times employed to read aloud to an assembly of the religious in a monas tery. In one such case the reader ' not a learned man) was reading an account of missionary work. He came to this r sentence: ‘So the Jesuit returned from China with his Mss.' He rendered it thus: ‘So the Jesuit returned from China with his missus.’ The hearty roars of laughter from the brothers would have done credit to a group of the worldly minded." Within easy walking distance of tho ; old cathedral town of Chichester, Eng land. Is the Rising Sun, in North Iter ated, a house of interest to all who col lect stamps. This small u.n contains a room avery inch of which is covered with postage stamps. Ceiling, walls, doors, chairs, tables, picture frames! every part of the room, except the floor, is thickly covered, while from the ceiling hang long festoons and ropes, made of bundles of stamps for which there Is no other place. Fully 2,000.000 atamps are pasted up, and 1,0-10.000 more hang in the festoons. Auvucuung ine increased use of paper appliances and utensils in the household, a writer in Good Health , eays that there are now about 30 1 household articles made from vege table parchment paper—among them Ice blankets, dishcloths, bed protec : tors, etc. The house keepers who have learned to us% these articles, the writer avers, say that they could not possibly ■ do their work comfortably without them. The Germans are using at the pres ent time a 104 millimeter anti-air craft Krupp gun, 45 calibers long, which •ends a projectile weighing 15 b, kilo grams, with a muzzle velocity "of SCO ; meters, to to a height of 4,000 meters. It can be fired at the rate of 15 rounds a minute. The shrapnel shell which It fires is said to burst into 625 frag , ments. Guns of this type, as well as i those of 120 millimeters, are the ord | stance which defends Ostent'. Motor driven street cleaning ma chines cleanse about 85.000 square ■ yards of pavement a day as compared ■with 26,000 square yards by horse drawn machines and at about two thirds the cost per square yard. Yearly on February 2 and for 45 <Jays after, a mysterious tire breaks out in Arlyake bay. on the west coast of Kyushu, Japan, burning both on land and sea. the origin of the con flagration being a complete mystery which a recently outfitted scientific exploration party wld make a point • of solving. _ In line with experiments with are lamps in which the expense of trim iming and cleaning Is reduced one has ■been invented in which tungsten elec trodes are enclosed in a crystalline Cham ter. THOMPSON ON SEARCH FOR HAMER PROPERTY Objects to Carrying Burden of $58,000 Judgment In Lin coln Bank Case. Rincoln, Neb.. June 12. - D. K. Thompson does not propose, even though he is a millionaire, to foot all of the $58,000 Judgment returned against himself. C. E. Vates and the estate of E. it Hamer. The three wero directors of the old Capital National bank, and after 23 years of litigation they were “soaked” for large sums deposited there because of the favor aide reports of condition of the bank which they signed without knowing if they were correct. flamer's estate was fotind to have vanished, and so Thompson paid the judgment, and is now utilizing court processes to find out where the wealth of Hamer, estimated at $250,000 when he died, has gone. His representatives charge that the Hamer heirs, one of whom was the nominee for state treas urer on the republican ticket two years ago, have concealed it. They charge that the Hamers organized several companies in which they were the sole stockholders and took over the prop erty. These companies immediately mortgaged the real estate. The mana ger of the company to whom the mort gages were made swore that they were without consideration and that he in dorsed them and the notes to F. C. Hamer, one of the sons. The court thereupon enjoined the Hamers from seeking access to safe deposit vaults where the Thompson representatives think the securities are to be found. The litigation promises to develop into a battle royal with many harsh charges bandied. -A_ EASTERN AD MEN VISIT MANY NEBRASKA CITIES Lincoln, Neb., June 12.—Fifty repre sentatives of eastern advertising agencies who have been guests for the past week of the Nebraska Publishers’ association, spent Friday in Lincoln examining her claims to commercial greatness and to the favor of the east ern advertiser. The men have been visiting various points in the state— Fremont, West Point, Norfolk, Colum bus, Grand Island, Kearney and Hast ings-—and Lincoln was the last stop. They were Bostonians, Philadelphians and New Yorkers. All confessed to having had their eyes opened by 1he solid character of the prosperity of Ne braska. and the fact that none of it is based on war babies, was not the least important factor in impressing them with the state’s buying power. EXPRESS COMPANIES APPLY FOR INCREASE IN RATES. Lincoln, Neb., June 12.—The various express company officials, with an ac countant from New York, presented to the state railway commission yester day afternoon and this morning their request for an increase in schedules in force in Nebraska. They claim that the cost of doing business has in creased greatly in recent years, while the competition of the parcel post has cut into their income. The legislature of 1907 passed a law providing that if the 25 per cent cut in existing express rates made therein was later shown to be unwarranted and unjust the com panies might have the right to ask the commission to grant an increase. The companies made such an appli cation two years ago, but were turned down. The chances are they will fare no better this time, although their showing is much more complete. The rates they propose will increase the schedules to a point in excess of what they were when the 1907 law was passed. The companies assert that the rates proposed are those authorized by the Interstate Commerce commission. —-+ FIRE FROM TAR KET.TLE DESTROYS OMAHA VIADUCT, Omaha, Neb., June 12.- Fire said to have originated in the overturning of a tar kettle, burned out eleven "bents" of the east end of the Locust street viaduct, and gave the entire city fire department a three-hour battle to keep the flames away from the great stores of oil and gusoline in the Standard Oil Co., warehouses, which adjoin the viaduct on both sides. The damage to the new viaduct, which was to have been opened for traffic yesterday, is roughly estimated at $50,000 by M. Loftls, terminal train master of the Missouri Pacific railroad. The opening of the viaduct will be de layed at least a month, he added. RURAL LIFE CONFERENCE BOOKED FOR JUNE 13 TO 23, Lincoln, Neb., June 12. — A state rural life conference will be held in Lincoln from June 13 to 23. One of the big features of the meeting will be the discussion of the causes for the decline in number and influence of the rural churches. Reports are that hundreds of these churches have been closed for lack of putronuge and support in the last live years. LONDON EXPLANATION CLEARS^ SHIP MYSTERY London, June 12.—-The German wti ship Pommern which was sunk In the battle off Jutland w.ts not the battle ship of that name but a recently com pleted battle cruiser, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company quoting a sea cap tain who is a frequent visitor to Ger man ports. The battleship, which was completed in 1905, was torpedoed in the Hal tie* in July, 1915, according to the captain. Admiralty officals here have ex pressed their belief to a representative of the Associated Press that the Pom mern which was sunk in the naval battle, was a new capital ship. They point out that the commander of a British submarine reported that he had torpedoed the old battleship Pom mern in July, 1915, and this report, they claim, was confirmed by survivors of the battleship who were landed, wear ing her cap hand. Cellulose from wood fiber is being used in Europe as a substitute for ab sorbent cotton, which has become rela tively scarce because of the war de mands. Every one who has occasion to use adhesive plaster is familiar with the line of adherent, discolored material that is left on the skin around the edges of the plaster when the strip is removed. This adherent substance re sists scrubbing with soup and all or dinary means of removing. Even scrap ing with a knife fails to remove tlie grime and stickiness completely. Hut a few drops of gasoline, benzine, etla r, or chloroform on a piece of cloth will remove tile stain. The basis of adhe sive plaster is rubber. And the four substances mentioned are rubber sol vents. 100 OMAHA TEACHERS GET RAISE IN S RY Board Takes This Step as Com promise On Request For 10 Months of School. Omaha, Neb., June 10.—An advano of $5 per month in 100 teachers' sal aries was made by the school board. In making this advance the finance com mittee reported that it was in the na ture of a compromise on the 10 months’ school year asked by the Teachers’ club as the teachers were interested more in the extra pay which they would re ceive for an additional month than in teaching the full 10 months. The total increase will be about $4,500 a year. The maximum for grade school teachers was increased from $75 a month to $80 a month. Principals of 'our-room schools were increased to $00 a month, w^h $2.50 for each room In excess of four High school women teachers, who were receiving $100, were increased to $105, and men teachers who were receiving $1,200 a year were raised to $140 a month. About SO teachers, who have not yet attained the maximum, will be entitled to a $5 raise. FRUIT CROP INJURED IN SOME PARTS OF STATE Lincoln, Neb., June 10.—Secretary Duncan, of the state board of horticul ture, says that northern and north central Nebraska will have a small yield of fruit this year owing to the bad weather of last fall and the cold weather of this spring. Only in the bet ter sheltered sections and where hard ier trees are planted will there be any worth while yield. Cold wet weather at blooming time prevented proper fertili zation of the fruU and scab has hit the apples. The condition is thus summar ized : Figures giver as based upon maxi mum amount of fruit that trees are capable of bringing to maturity. Sum mer apples, 45 per cent crop; fall apples, 42 per cent crop; winter apples, 50 per cent crop; cherries, 32 per cent; plums, 30 per cent; grapes, 85 per cent; raspberries, 35 per cent; blackberries, 85 per cent; strawberries, 80 per cent. These figures are for the entire state based upon reports received from each horticultural district in the state. —4— MAN WHO JUMPED BOND CAPTURED IN FLORIDA Lincoln, Neb., June 10.—The state of Nebraska has finally landed Robert Parmalee in state's prison to serve from three to 20 years for ruining a girl on a farm in Lincoln county. Par malee attained some fleeting distinc tion as the only man who ever jumped a bond on the state supreme court. Usually the supreme court, when it affirms the conviction of a man out oiv bond, keep quiet about it until the man is rearrested, and as this is usu ally without the knowledge of the man he is taken unawares when the sheriff comes after him. Parmalee ran off to Florida, but he couldn't do without news from home and his letters be trayed his whereabouts. His bond was for $2,1)00, and a reward of $500 by his bondsmen resulted in his being turned up. Parmalee was foreman of a big ranch and the girl in the case worked at the same place and attended school. —4-— THINKS “UNITED DOCTORS” INCLINED TO EXAGGERATE Lincoln, Neb., June 10.-—Representa tive Hoffmeister, of Imperial, lias filed a complaint with the secretaries of the state board of health against some Omaha physicians who call themselves the United Doctors. Mr. Hoffmeister asks for an investigation first of their right to practice. He said he was un able to find out their names or whether they had a right to practice in Ne braska. He promises to file a formal complaint if the investigation justifies such action. From three to four thou sand dollars was secured by the doctors from the vicinity of Imperial, in the lorm of bankable notes, says the legis lator, and he added that their repre sentatives represented to those whom they called upon that they had spe cialists for all diseases. Dr. Hoff meister went to Omaha and says he found the headquarters located in a small office, with one man in charge. He went there for the purpose of de manding the return of a $250 note given by H. M. F’lory for treatment. Flory was sent to the insane asylum a few days later. The note was returned. ROAD OVERSEERS OVERLOOK KILLING OF PRAIRIE DOGS Lincoln, Neb., June 10.—Complaints are coming to state officials that the law requiring the killing of - rairie dogs is not being enforced in various parts of the state. The officials say that this is not a duty devolving upon them, but that the law specifically says that the road overseer shall do the killing and charge $3 a day and expenses that are to be assessed against the land and collected just as are other taxes. It is said that in some sections of the state where land is owned by nonresi dents a local industry consists of col lecting considerable sums for this sport. Several efforts have been made to repeal the law, but these were un successful. SATO TO REPRESENT JAPAN AT WASHINGTON Will Succeed Viscount Chinda, Who Goes to London— Began as Clerk. Washington, D. C„ June 9.—Amor O. Sato, former Japanese ambassador to Austria, has been selected as ambas sador to tlie United States, to succeed Viscount Chinda, whose transfer to the ambassadorship at London recently was announced. Word of the selection reached Washington last nlgnt. At present Mr. Sato is in Tokio at tached to the foreign office, where he has been stationed since he received his passports from Vienha at the outbreak of the war. He is well known in diplo matic circles here, having spent a con siderable portion of his life in this country. He is a brotherinlaw of the retiring ambassador and was his fel low student at DePauw university, in Indiana. 1916 CROP IS SHORT, SAYS DEPARTMENT REPORT Washington, June 9.—First official inti mations of the size of this year's spring wheat crop and more definite information as to the size of the winter wheat crop now being harvested were given today by the department of agriculture in its June crop report. In addition a forecast was given of the prospective production of oats, barley, rye, apples and peaches. These production forecasts were made by the bureau of crop estimates which based its calculations upon the condition of the HEAVY LOSS IN FIRE ON FARMNEAR ALLEN Farm Buildings and Nine Head Horses Are Destroyed—Esti mate on Loss, $10,000. Allen, Neb., June 10—Fire of unknown origin, at the E. H. Allen farm, three miles northwest of here, yesterday de stroyed about $10,000 worth of build ings and stock. Nine horses were burned to death. One of the horses broke loose and escaped. One barn 66 by 66 feet, another 16 by 24, a large hog house and a double corn crib were burned. There were ,12 tons of hay in the large barn ami 200 bushels of oats and corn and 1,200 bushels of ear corn in the double crib. All of the hogs were saved. The loss is estimated at $10,000. The buildings were insured for $2,000, but none or the other property was in sured. The fire was first seen by one of the boys, but at that time had made too much progress to be checked. The losses in machinery included a new corn sheller, large motor engine, ma nure spreader, top buggy, eight sets of harness, two saddles, tools, anrl many other articles. The large barn was built five years ago and was one of the largest in Dixon county. A moderate breeze was blowing from the west and the resid ence stood in the direct path of the flying embers, but it was saved. Mr. Allen is one of the old settlers here. His father, who died last winter, was the fonder of the town of Allen. He is the republican candidate for sheriff of Dixon county. WORKMEN FIND TRACES OF ANCIENT INDIAN TRAGEDY Valentine, Neb., June 10.—A tragedy centuries old was unearthed here yes terday when a gang of men, while ex cavating on the canal at the Cornell dam, uncovered the skeleton of an In dian warrior who no doubt roamed the plains hundreds of years before Co lumbus made his debut in America. The bones were found 10 feet beneath the surface of the ground and were covered with several stratus of dirt, sand, gravel, shale and rock, indicat ing that the man had been dead for centuries. The find would have been overlooked had not the chief engineer, George \V. Steinmeyer, been there to identify the bones as those of a man. The Indian's teeth were in perfect condition, as were also a few of the larger bones. The supposition Is that the Indian while being on the bank of the Niobrara was killed by his adversary, as a flint ar row he had was found among the chest bones beneath the skull. A string of hand made stone beads were found, which were thrown into the river by a Sioux Indian, Peter Lonebear, who was working on the dam. with the remark that they were not pretty. The action of Lonebear bears out the old Indian superstition as regards ancestral relics. The material covering the skeleton through the entire number of stratas was not disturbed, which proves him to be one of the finds often unearthed in this country of the early Indians. —*— INDICTMENTS RETURNED BY FEDERAL GRAND URY Lincoln, Neb.. June 10.—The federal grand jury returned indictments today against J. J. Ramsey, charged with enticing May Titel to St. Joseph for immoral purposes; F. D. Proctor, charged with violating the Harrison drugs act; George Leary, charged with violating the Mann law in running away from Missouri to Nebraska, and Ora Kelley, charged with scheming to defraud. Kelley was the only one of the quartet who displayed originality. J. Sterling Kelley is a student at the State university whose father resides | at Beaver Crossing. Ora, who is not a relative, knew that the father sent money to Sterling often. When father received a letter asking for $30 in a strange handwriting which purported to come from son Sterling and recited as a reason why he himself could not write that lie had hurt his hand, father called a detective and Ora Kelley was caught in a trap they laid with a dummy let'er. —— SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS TO BOOST PROHIBITION Lincoln, Neb,, June 10.—Next Sun day the prohibitionists propose pulling off a rally with new wrinkles. All the Sunday schools of the city will take part. After a program at the First Christian church the boys and girls, each carrying a bible and each wear ing a button, "Safety First, Vote Dry” emblazoned thereon, will form in a pro cession and parade the principal streets. There will be a band and ban ners and flags, and it is expected that ■1,000 or 3,000 will be in line. KINKAID GETS EXTENSIONS ON NIOBRARA HOMESTEADS Washington, D. C„ Jvino 10.—Repre sentative Kinkaiil secured the passage of his joint resolution providing for one year’s extension of time to make installment payments .>f lands of the former Fort Niobrara military reser vation. As passed the resolution reads: “Resolved, etc., that the secretary of the interior be and he is hereby, au thorized and directed to allow entry men of lands of the former Fort Nio brara military reservation, Nebraska, made under the act entitled, ‘An act to subject lands of the former Fort Niobrara military reservation and other lands to' homestead entry, ap proved January 117. 1 y 1:5, as are re quired to lit* paid for at their appraised values, one year extension of time in which to make each of the two remain- ■ ing unpaid installments of the purchase price.” Representative Mann, of Illinois, at tempted to secure an amendment pro viding that deferred payments should hear interest, but Mr. Ferris, of Okla homa. in charge of the resolution, ex plained that tlie amounts would be too small to consider, and that as the lands are not Indian lands but United States property, it would not follow precedent. COL. J. G. MAHER HEADS SPANISH WAR ASSOCIATION North Platte, Neb., June S.—Col. John G. Maher, of Lincoln, was elected department commander over Leonard Robinson, of North Platte, at the busi ness meeting of the United Spanish War veterans A. W. Shilling. North Platte, was elected senior vice commander. Henry Shrode, Omaha, junior vice commander. Leonard Robinson. North Platte, de partment inspector. Capt. Harry Cline, Omaha, depart ment chaplain. The veterans took a slap at prohibi tion when they passed resolutions recommending that congress reestab lish the army canteen. Further reso lutions were wired to Washington commending President Wilson for hi* stand on preparedness, but advocating still more adequate preparedness far the country for war. -1-'j NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES 1 ........ ONE DEAD, TWO INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Lincoln, Neb., June 7.—Whether George Starforth, one of the three men thrown from an automobile east of town last night, will recover, iB not yet known. Dr. W. A. Charlton, of Palmyra, is dead and Thomas Star forth, father of George, has a broken rib as a result of their machine over turning while going at a high rate of speed. Young Starforth had had his Jaw broken in a tight with a road worker in the evening, and his father and the doctor were hastening to Lin coln with him to put him in a hospital. A defect in the mechanism of the car is supposed to have caused the acci dent. Young Starforth suffered seri ous internal injuries. EDITOR ATLANTIC MONTHLY URGES WORLD ORGANIZATION Lincoln, Neb., June 7.—Bliss Perry, editor of Atlantic Monthly, was the orator at the annual commencement of the Nebraska state university today. He took for his subject "A Text from Carlyle," but wandered far afield. The central thought of the address was that the time had come for a world organization to handle the af fairs of the world. Mr. Perry said on this point: "It is evident that we are not yet clear about our own national purpose and policy, not yet ready for a real solidarity of action. And if the Uni ted States, after 140 years of welding, is not yet. in the truest sense, united, j what shall be said of the tragic inco herence of those mother states of Eu rope from which all of us have sprung? “Is there anyone so blind, after these two years of international agony, as not to see that world organization has ■ become necessary, a world court and a I world legislature and some form if , world executive to see that interna- [ tional law and international judical de- ; eisions shall be obeyed?" —f- 1 BOARD MAKES PROTESTS ON HIGHER PRODUCE RATES Lincoln, Neb.. June 7.—The Nebraska railway commission has filed three ap- j plications with the interstate commerce ! commission asking it to suspend the j proposed rate of western railroads on j butter, eggs, poultry and kindred pro- i ducts until a hearing can be had on the matter. Experts have already been set ; at work gathering evidence in the mat- | ter. Chairman Clarke says that some of . the proposed increases amount to 15 i cents a hundred from Nebraska and South Dakota stations to tlie Missis sippi river and east. All interior points in the state arc interested in the mat ter, the only exceptions being Omaha and stations on the west bank of the Missouri, the ancient fiction of a strong competition from water borne com merce on that river being retained. The Northwestern, however, does not make , the exception. The products named carry a rate of 15 cents less than third class. The proposition is to make them j third class straight. Several of the j roads include buttermilk, frozen rab bits and dried or crystallized eggs. WESTLAND IS PRESIDENT OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Lincoln, Neb., June 7.—In an address to the alumni association of the state 1 university. Chancellor Avery declared ) that scholarship was measurably high- j er, that better standards of conduct ; prevailed and that there were fewer | sporadic exhibitions of discreditable i conduct among the students than ever before in the history of the !nstitution. The association elected tt... following officers: President, Frank H. Westland, Omaha; vice president. Miss Frances Gere, Lincoln; treasurer, Leonard Flansburg, Lincoln. The list of the board of directors an nounced to the association follows: Newton A. Buckley, ’03, North Platte; Miss Bess Smith, '07, Schuyler; H. D. Landis, '99, Seward: E. M. Pollard, ’03, Nehawka; R. M. Tibbets, ’08. Hast ings: AmoS Thomas, ’09, Omaha; F. 51. Hunter, '05, Lincoln; athletic board members. —A— ATTORNEY OTTO W. MILLER CITED FOR DISBARMENT Lincoln. Neb., June 7.—The supreme court has ordered Otto W. Miller, at torney, to appear before it on June 3 6 and show cause why his license to practice should not be canceled. Aliller was indicted some time last winter for aiding and abetting a conspiracy to bilk the Burlington railroad out of some money for a client who pretended to have been injured on the company’s property, fie pleaded guilty and on his promise to leave the state he was allowed to pay a line. Miller’s father is a wealthy land owner near Atlantic, la., and Miller went there for a time. Lately he came back to Lincoln and has appeared in a justice court case or two. Whereupon the Lancaster county attorney tiled disbarment proceedings against him. and is joined in the prose cution by Attorney General Reed. Asia Minor. From the New York Commercial. Geographies only half a century ago showed the “Great American desert' covering th? present corn and wheat fields of Oklahoma. Kansas and Ne braska, and we did not find out the truth until railroads were built across the desert In the same way a general impression prevails that the once fer tile valley of the Tigris and Euphrates is now an arid desert. It, therefore, surprises American newspaper readers to find that the British and Turkish armies are mired in vast swamps and the country seems to suffer from too much water instead of too little. Land in various parts of Asia Minor planted with date palms and other val uable fruit trees is worth more than $1,000 an acre. The people are skilled in the arts of agriculture. From the Turkish possessions in Asia minor come the finest figs and other dried fruits, the most valuable druggists' opium and other agricultural products that require skill and patience. Irri gation and good government are the requisites for a renewal of the prosper ity of 30 centuries ago. One of the dif ficulties Is the law of the koran for bidding the lending of money at in terest. This blocks large commercial and industrial enterprises. Idealism of that kind kills progress. It has been demonstrated that a well constructed brick house will outlast one of granite. The increased cost of blasting pow der, due to the war, is becoming a problem in the mining industry. In 40 years the sugar per capita of this country has increased from 13 to 89 pounds. Chicago authority established a zone of quiet on the street fronting th-> home of its prize boy baby during his illness. Swedish chemists have found a way to remove from coal tar the tineiy di vided carbon which it holds in suspen sion. Among the new educational toys is an outfit for making miniature con crete blocks. STATES ALL ' GET ABOARD BANG WAGON * - / 0 ' Justice Gets 9491/?. Votes Fol lowing the Withdrawal of * Weeks, Sherman, Burton, Cummins and Others. ROOSEVELT BAD SECOND Fairbanks of Indiana Is Named Running Mate — Nominee Later Made ITnan imonn Choice. Washington, June 10—Justice Hughes today sent his resignation from the supremo bench by mes- ♦ merger to President Wilson. Coliseum. June 10.—-Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, was nominated for president by the republican na tional convention on the third ballot. His vote was practically unanimous. The vote wr*s 94fM£. Theodore Roose velt received IS1/^, Dupont 5, Weeks 3 and Lodge 7. One was absent. Before the i oil call had covered half the states Hughes had the necessary 494. { New Jersey *r. vote touched the mark. I Hughes’ nomination was then made i unanimous on motion of A. P. Moore, of * Pennsylvania. How they voted: First Ballot. Hughes .25T/>iBrnmbaugh . 29 Root .101 “il'Vrd ..32 Burton . 77DJ Knox.. ft* Weeks .105 {Borah . 2 Du Pont . 12 iWillis . 4 Sherman . 64 McCall . 1 Fairbanks . 7-1U'Tuft . 14 Cummins . $5 !Noi voting . 2V*> Roosevelt . C5 • - La Follette .... £5 j Total .987 Second Ballot. Hughes .32SUiLa Folloette ....25 I Root . 98i. 1 McCall . i Burton .. 76UjKnr>x . 36 Weeks . 79 j Willis . 1 Du Pont . 13 (Wood . 1 Sherman . 65 |Fording . 1 Fairbanks . Wanamaker .... 5 Cummins . 85 Not voting . 2 Roosevelt _..81 —— Total .9S7 Third Ballot. Hughes .949v,|Wec*ks . 3 La Follette . 5 , Du Pont . 5 Lodge . 7 | Absent . I Roosevelt . 18*3*1 - Total .988 The chair announced the nomination of candidates for vice president wa? next in order of business, and the clerk started tin* roll call. Fairbanks was w elu’sen. i The nomination of Fairbanks was * then, made unanimous. Chairman Hiller* of the national com mittee said; “Six months ago I said the nominee would be born in the convention, and he was.” Senator Penrose said: "I’m too busy to talk.” Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Colonel Roosevelt’s daughter, was on the plat form when the nomination was made. While the demonsti ation on the floor was enthusiastic, it was order! v. Marching delegates choked the aisles bearing rmte standards. Adjournment was agreed upon when the excitement died down. T. R. to Take Hughes. Either through actual fusion or by refusal to take the bull moose nomina tion and his personal indorsement of Hughes, Colonel Roosevelt is expected to give support to the republican nomi nee, always provided he speaks out >n a fashion that meets his approval. The allies opposed to Hughes, * uth such old guard figures as Barnes, Pen rose. McKinley and Hemenway, have vainly conferred since last night fry ing to stem the Hughes tide. Their 1 combinations have failed. A hard jolt ^ was given the opposition to Hughes when the Sherman leaders early this morning decided to go to Hughes on the f*'T**t ballot. Senator Weeks, of Massachusetts, also released his 10f> delegates. Cummins Drops Out. ruuuwum ueeision oi Illinois aeio- t gates to go to Hughes, managers of Senator Cummins* campaign said they would release the Cummins delegates. Outside of Iowa, the most of them will go to Hughes. The lowans. as a trib ute to Cummins will stand by to the last, or until a motion is mode to make the nomination unanimous. Hughes leaders believe there will he a general lining up of delegations for their candidate either on the tirst bal lot or noon thereafter. These were the outstanding features, at an early hour today, of this double lointed gathering held here through this history-mn k ing week. Harmony talk was in the air. The sun nven shone over Lake Michigan when the day broke. Hut under the surface there was a condition far from peace. Moose Disappointed. A most striking tone of bitterness and disappointment of radical bull moose leaders and delegates who for the past -IS hours have had the con viction gradually dawning on them that Roosevelt was not willing to lead a third party ticket in this campaign if the republicans named Hughes and Hughes would speak out on American ism ami preparedness. Many of the progressive party men feel they are surrendering on the very things for which they stood four year's ago if they line up with the republi cans for Hughes or any other man but j the colonel himself. It looks as if the A hull moose were moving inexorably to * a tragic end by inches. A world of meaning was contained in c speech by Governor Johnson to the progressive convention last night in which lie vowed the progressive pari would live on and in which he declares he was opposed to the delay in nomi ^ rating Roosevelt and yielded only at A the hands of the man most concerned m Back of this stood the fact that ’ , Roosevelt yesterday wired Perkins net \ to allow his nomination by the bull f moose until there had been two ballots i at least by the republicans. ORPF.T CASE CONTINUES UNTIL MONDAY SESSION Waukegan, 111., June 10.—The trial, of Will Orpet will be resumed on Mon- w day, Judge Donnelly having adjourned 1 court over today. It is expected that the court will rule Monday on the de mand of the state that letters written ' by Orpet on about February 9, last the time of Marion Lambert's death! to his father and now in possession of attorneys for the defense, be turned, over to the prosecution.