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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1916)
THE O’NEIL FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. c=. 1 , •— .. — O’NEILL. NEBRASKA In Hawaii grows the world’s rarest plant Allied the tilver sword. Its very name Is odd and appropriate to the cac tus like growth and the long, silky gray leaves which give it its peculiar name.. The reason for its rarity is that It Is found only on the moet Inaccessible i •lopes of the volcanoes of this group of Islands. From the earliest times It has been greatly admired by the natives, who call it "ahinahina." gray haired, because they had never before the com ing of the white man seen silver and therefore could not apply to the plant a name which well describes it. Climb-, «rs who have found specimens prize them more highly than do Alpine climb ers the edelweiss, since it is far more beautiful and difficult to obtain than the famous flower of the Swiss. A Canadian soldier in a hospital near Bromley, Kent, has a thin metal splinter from an explosive bullet lodged In his heart. Its presence was dis closed by x-rays, and, for the time be ing no operation Is contemplatedj Whether the metal splinter works in' or out means the difference between life and death for the patient. The pa tient. who gets about as freely as any convalescent, feels the splinter much in the way that a nail in a boot Irritates the foot. He can not sleep on his left •ide, and finds that practically sitting up In bed all night is the easiest way of getting rest. "New York, New Jersey and several other states,” according to Rider and Driver, “have started a movement that Is rapidly becoming general for the provision of strips on the sides of the motor highways suitable for horse drawn vehicles." The Idea is to have a roadway in the center not less than IB feet wide for automobiles, and a sec tion on each side of not less than six feet in width for horses. The motor cars can then spin along their part of the road and give a fair chance to the •lower horsedrawn vehicles on the side. Among economic questions brought to th© for© as a result of the present world conditions is that of fuel. Swe den's fuel supply Is insufficient, hence the import of coal and oil Is consid erable, amounting to more than 100, 000,000 crowns ($26,800,000) annually. The annual consumption of coal amounts to 4,900,000 tons, of which Sweden produces less than 10 per cent and this ratio can not be increased enough to have any perceptible effect on the import as a whole. The Victoria Kails and Transvaal Power company, ltd., of Johannes burg, Is by far the largest power and lighting company in South Africa, and it supplies from its four large stations nearly all the gold mines and reef towns with both power and light, transmission being by three-phase long distance, 40,000 volts overhead. Distribution is by 20,000 volts un der ground and 10,000 overhead. Referring to the German East Afri can campaign the London weekly Times prints this curious dispatch: “Owing to transport difficulties rations were at one time reduced to a cup of rice and a piece of sugar cane. Our cattle have now been successfully pro tected, and a campaign is being waged against giraffes which have been de stroying our telegraphs by scratching their necks on the wire.” "It is wrong to go Into the water for a short time and come out and rest on the warm sand In the hot sun,” says J. H. P. Brown in Modern Swimming. "If you desire a sun bath, take it either be fore or after your swim.” The alternate chilling and roasting practice of the seabeach bather Is declared by this swimming instructor to be enervating and productive of diseases of the heart, circulation, etc. Tables of tidal currents for the Pa cific coast in the vicinity of San .Fran cisco and Puget sound have been pub lished in order to make Immediately available Information relative to cur rents derived from observations by the United States coast and geodetic sur vey. Further information is to bo added as rapidly as observations are available. Commercial Attache Philip R Ken nedy, at Melbourne, Australia, has re ceived a letter from Commander J. M. Poyer, U. S. N., governor of American Samoa, stating that the highest bidder for the copra crop of the islands was John Rothschild & Co., of Sun Fran cisco, who bid $108.6o. This is the high est price In the history of the govern ment. Among the Chinese n particular spe cies of dog Is said to be reared for the table. It is a small dog of a greyhound shape, with a muzzle much more elon gated than In terriers. The flesh of black dogs is preferred to that of ani mals of any other color on account of the greater amount of nutriment the black dogs are supposed to possess. When seals are born they are snow white, which makes them invisible on the Ice. Their eyes and noses are, how ever, black, and when the little ones are suddenly alarmed they close their eyes, bury their noses and lie quite still. It Is only when they begin to seek their own food that they become dark and sleek. Lighting dangerous waters In which abound reefs, rocks and shoals has progressed from wood fires and can dles to oil vapor and electric lamps. The early lighthouses were lighted by wood or coal fires burned in open bras slers and later by candles inclosed ii| lanterns. A well known American writet thinks that the signing of peace will lead to an emigration movement that will amaze the world. After the Fran co-German war In 1870, 200,000 Ger mans settled in three American states —Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa. Under the rule of the United States more than 3,000,000 natives of the Philippines have had some Instruction In the English language and more of them speak and write It than any other tongue. The ratio of color blind people to those of normal sight Is about 65 to 1.164. This does not mean that all of the 86 are absolutely color blind, but that Is the ratio of those who are mora ar less affected. Bam R. Taylor, rural mall carrier on foute 10, East Nashville, Tenn., handles More mail than any other rural carrier M the United States. During the month it April this year he collected and de Ivered 45,817 pieces of mall on his Elite, which serves 628 families. In one y Carrier Taylor haa collected and itributed 6,549 pieces. Commercial Attache Wllilam F. Kontavon reports that, according to areas advices from La Fax, crop con litions In Bolivia are worse even than had been anticipated. Early frosts havb Injured, If not completely ruined, the potato and barley crops, FIVE PERSONS HU ' IN HOTEL COLLAPSE; s ONE SERIOUSLY HURT Lincoln Landmark Erected In 1876, Drops During Early Hours of Morning. Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 14.—Five persons were injured, two seriously and one probably fatally, when the Capital hotel, of this city, collapsed about 3:30 this morning. The injured are: C. F. Rudlcell and H. F. Paylor, both of Broken Bow, Neb. W. F. Davey, H. H. Welnburg and Ouy Slade, all of Palmyra, Neb. Rudlcell will probably die. He has a broken back. The hotel Is an old landmark of the city, and was built in 1876. BURNS THE POSTOFFICE. Burwell, Neb., Aug. 14.—The Blake postoffice, located about 20 miles north of Burwell, was burned to the ground and all mall and other contents com ■ pletely destroyed. The postmistress was temporarily 1 away from the house to take dinner to j the haying hands in the field a few miles away, and while away someone broke Into the house and set fire to It from the Inside. Suspicion led to a young lad who had recently been working in that neighbor hood and who held a grudge against the owner of the house. Search was made ■ for him and he was caught and brought to Burwell and has made full confession to County Attorney Laverty. and is now In Jail awaiting the action j of the court. -4 if EDITOR DIES. X ♦ 4 4 Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 14—-Shirley 4 A. Fossler, assistant city editor + ; 4 of the Nebraska State Journal 4 : 4 and Lincoln Dally News, and son 4 4 of I’rof. L. A. Fossler, of the 4 4 University of Nebraska, died at 4 4 7 o’clock this morning after two 4 4 weeks’ illness with tonsilitis and 4 4 complications resulting from 4 4 diseased tonsils. 4 4 4 444444444444*4444444444444 STOP AUTO THEFTS. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 14—The increas ing number of automobiles stolen has led Sheriff Qus Hyers, of Lancaster county, and Chief Antles, of Lincoln, to work on a plan to organize a vigilance committee of car owners to assist in running down thieves. Sheriff Hyers says that after Lancaster county is or ganized efforts will be made to organize in other counties in the state. Chief Antles says that there should be a law , that garages, repair shops and filling | stations should keep a record of all au tomobile license numbers and engine ) numbers. The chief thinks that this i would soon check the wholesale steal ing of motor cars. GUARDS VOTE7 Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 14.—Attorney i General Reed proposes to lay the blame on congress if the 1,500 Nebraska guardsmen now in service on the Texas border are not allowed To vote this fall I at the state election. The attorney | general says that it will be necessary t to call a special session of the legisla ture to pass such a law, but he thinks the trouble and expense may be saved by congress acting in the matter. At torney General Reed has written a let ter to each of the Nebraska congress men asking them to see that the job is done if the boys are still at the front during election time. Some contend that the attorney general Is wrong in assuming that congress has anything to do with the fixing of the rights of suffrage for Nebraska citizens. -4— ASSESSMENTS. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 14.—The state board of assessment has finished its task. In nine counties the assessed val uation on real estate was raised from 5 to 15 per cent and in 18 counties it i was reduced from S to 10 per cent. The total reduction In the 18 counties ! amounts to $4,042,859. The total in crease in the nine counties is $4,065,590. It will be seen from the figures that the increases do little more than offset the reduction so that the total assessed valuation in the state remains about $501,000,000. The levy of 6.8 mills will be slightly reduce 1. —4— KNIFE IN HEART. Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 14.—Mrs. Eliza beth Luedtke, 50, the mother of eight children, plunged a butcher knife into her heart here after she had locked the children in different rooms in the house. The oldest girl managed to escape by a window and found her mother lying in a pool of blood on the floor. Mrs. Luedtke was suffering from melancholia. She had attempted sui cide once before by slashing her 1hrnn4 —+— FLEGE IN BAD LUCK. Lincoln. Nob.. Aug. 14.—After spend ing a fortune in a series of vain ef forts to gain the freedom of William Flege, serving time in the Nebraska penitentiary on conviction of the mur der of his sister, the brothers of Flege, who are wealthy, have come faco to face with what is believed to be a hos tile pardon board. Lawyers who have interested themselves in tho case say the members of the Flege family have spent approximately $50,000 to secure the convict's freedom. *—4^— LINCOLN—Attorney General Reed to day gave an official opinion that money belonging to a nonresident, but deposited in a bank in this state, is not assessable for taxes In Nebraska, but should be as sessed to the owner at tho place of his residence. The question was presented by County Attorney A. V. Thomas, of But ler county, who wrote that a $25,000 de posit belonging to a California man had been listed for taxation in Butler. VALLEY—Reports that the desperado who last Saturday held up and robbed the hank at Florence was in hiding on an island in the Platte river near Valley caused a posse of men to bo formes! and a hunt started for the stranger. Tho campers saw him swim the river and wander about on the Island seeking a hid ing place. Ills description tallies, it is said, with chat of the Florence bank rob ber. FULLERTON-The park has been n scene of busy activity this week. Men and teams Monday and Tuesday hauled and erected over 100 small tents, the big tent. 30x120, the dining tent, 40x 00, and tho lee cream tent. 20x40 feet. The electric light company has it* wires strung and Die lightning system is better than ever before. Hundreds of lights sparkle all over tlie beautiful grove and In the tents. i2amper* commenced to move tc. the grounds curly Monday morning and have oeen coming all week. The banana takes the place of cereals among the Indians of South America, In the liast Indies and In parts at Africa % p.... NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES RAIN FOLLOWS STORM. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 12.—The wind which rushed through Oxford Wednes day evening had the characteristics of a twister. Two men, one a merchant of the town, and the other a tramp, were hurt. The hobo was resting in the Burlington round house when it was damaged by the storm. The Bur lington round house, the Oxford state bank building, a large store building on the main street and one of the best residences In the place sustained the most damage. Reports of the storm show that the rain was very heavy be :ween Kenesaw and Oxford, with good showers along the Republican valley tine of the Burlington lailroad. The rains came in time to do much good to the corn. THURSTON FUNERAL. Omaha, Neb., Aug. 12.—The funeral 5f Hon. John M. Thurston, former United States senator from Nebraska* jet for today, is under the direction of St. John’s Masonic lodge of which Mr Thurston was a member. The activq '/all bearers designated are Omaha meij xho were members of the legislature which elected Mr. Thurston to the United States Senate. » The honorary pall hearers include United States Senator Hitchcock, Con gressman Lebeck, former Senators Allen and Brown, former Congressmen Uonnell, Mercer and Kennedy, members >f the local federal and state courts and Alters. The body will be cremated and ;he ushes taken to Washington for in ■erment in the Congressional cemetery. JONES RE-ELECTED, Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 12.—I*. O. Jones, who has be^n president of the Nebraska Epworth assembly since it started 20 fears ago, was again named for the jffice by the Nebraska Conference Ep worth league. President Jones was elected over O. J. Fee by the big vote of 12S to 12. Charles Strader, of Lincoln, was named for treasurer, and Rev. C. M. Shepard, of Lincoln, for auditor. Mr. Shepard, like Mr. Jones, has been with Ihe assembly since its birth. The us lembly was voted one of the best in its history. The program was of very high order and the attendance much larger than in 1915. CAR SHORTAGE. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 12.—The state railway commission is aiding Nebraska shippers by getting after the railroads to induce them to furnish more ears to shippers. The transportation com panies promise the commission to do iheir utmost to have loaded cars emp | tlt-ii that they may he placed in service j again. There is a loud wail for grain I cars all over the eastern and central I part of the state. The railroads have extra forces of men employed on the ; repair tracks to get the rolling stock ! quickly into service. The famine is the greatest in many years. —♦— DEMOS TO OPEN. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 12.—Democratic state headquarters will be opened in Lincoln the latter part of next week. Chairman Langhorst has named five persons who, with the elective officers, will constitute the executive committee. They are: J. S. McCarty, Lincoln; Frank Hayeox, Calloway; M. L. Corey, Clay Center: James C. Dahlman, Oma ha, and A. P. Young, Nebraska City. YEGGS OUT OF LUCK. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 12—Yeggs robbed tlie postoffice at South Bend, Wednes day night, but received little booty. They blew open the safe. Sheriff Quin ton, of Cass county, with a posse, is In pursuit of the gang. —*— FREMONT—A crowd estimated at 20,000 visited the tractor demonstration grounds here yesterday. The rain of Wednesday j 'light kept the attendance down, but there I was a large number of farmers on hand ■ and several sales were made. The meet closes today. PROSPERITY PERMANENT FITZGERALD DECLARES Saratoga Springs, N. Y„ Aug. 12.— Unstinted praise or the Wilson admin istration was voiced by Congressman John J. Fitzgerald, of Brooklyn, tem porary chairman of the democratic convention here today. The democratic party in three years, he said, had en acted "more progressive, remedial and beneficial legislation than had been perfected previously in any two de cades. ‘‘Tills included the constitutional amendments for the elections of sen ators and the levying of a tax on in comes, the Underwood tariff law, the federal reserve act, the good roads law, the agricultural co-operative extension act. the Clayton act and the anti-in junction law.” Mr.' Fitzgerald denied the assertion of Charles Id. Hughes, republican candi date for president, that the country is enjoying only temporal y prosperity. Ho declared that exports have virtually doubled since the advent of the Wilson administration and now aggregate $4, 1)00,000,000 annually, of which less than 3 per cent consist of war munitions. He quoted figures to show that new textile mills are under construction, that many wage Increases have been reported and that bank resources and deposits have Increased greatly. This condition, he said, was due chiefly to the belief of the people that the affairs of the na tion were In safe hands and that there was no fear of the country being phinged into war. PUBLISHERS DELAYING PRINT PAPER REPORT Washington, Aug. 11.—The federal trade commission today announced that its investigation Into the price of news print paper la being delayed to some • xtent by failure of newspaper pub lishers to send in answers to the com mission's questions as promptly as ex pected. "Reports have been received," said the commission in a statement, "to the effect >hat some publishers are hesi tating to answer the commission's in quiry. fearing that their complaints will reach the paper manufacturers and they will have their supply cut off. The commission has assured all such pub lishers that their communications will be treated as confidential when re quested and, therefore, they need not have the least hesitation in furnish ing all the information in their posses sion.” The largest railway scale in the world has recently been completed at Wost Albany, N. Y. It la capable of accom modating a load of 1,850,000 pounds. Jt consists of six weighing instruments each having a capacity of 275,000 pounds. It is designed for weighing lo comotives and other heavy rolling stock. Some of the engines used upon ths Pacific coast weight 215 tons each 1ml this giant would be able to weigh four of them at once, if necessary. Th- ac curacy of thio giant instrument is re markable, It does not vary 10 pounds >t its full capacity. EJECT MAIL CARRIER FROM MOVIE THEATER; WORE COLORED SHIRT Nebraska Youth Has Experience Tn Kansas City—Doorman Causes Arrest. Kansas City. Mo., Aug. 12.—Becau "he did not have a white collar on arvi wore a colored shirt,” the management of the Regent motion picture theater, yesterday afternoon refused admit tance to W. M. Kramer, 22 years old, a rural mail carrier from Melford, Neb., and later caused his arrest because he protected against being excluded from the house. According to W. M. Butch er, the doorman, who accompanied the prisoner to police headquarters Kramer tendered a dime and started to pass in, when the doorman stopped him. “You are not presentable,” he said. “You must present a different appear ance if you enter this theater.” Kramer remonstrated. He wanted to see the show, he said. “If he had gone home and dressed up it would have been all right," Butcher declared at the station, “but we don’t allow men with colored ehlrts in our theater. Besides he told me he had more money than I had sense.” Several patrons of the theater fol lowed tho arresting officer and Butch er to the station and demanded hie re lease. They were told, however, that Kramer was being held “for safe keep ing.’ One of the men said he believed the mail carrier’s appearance was suf ficiently conventional, considering the weather, to admit him to any hotel or theater in the city. Kramer had not been drinking, they said, and his conduct was neither loud nor boisterous. Immediately after the departure of Butcher the police re leased Kramer and directed him to the Union station, where he took a train at 9 o'clock last night for Nebraska. "At first I could not understand why the doorman would not let me into the theater,” the young man said. “I thought perhaps he believed I had not paid my dime and V started to explain. 'You are not presentable, so beat it,’ he told me then. ’My clothes are clean, even if they are working clothes. They are the best I’ve got With me. I have not been drinking. I think I’ve got a perfect right to go in, so long as I be have myself,’ I told him. "At that he seized me by the collar and said: 1 guess you are one of those fresh guys that have to be shown,’ and ho kicked me out into tho street. Then he called an officer.” Kramer showed the police a bump as large as an egg on his neck which, he said, came from the kick. -T— NEBRASKA MEN WELL. Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 12.-—According to Sergt. E. B. De Wolfe, of Company D, Fifth regiment, Nebraska troopers, the latter are well treated and are having a good time. He declares that many of the stories of dangers and hardships and trouble with Mexicans are mostly fictitious. Sergent DeWolfe declares that tales of improper actions on the part of Nebraska soldiers at Sinton, Tex., have no real foundation in fact.. He says that the camp has been pro nounced by army officers who have inspected it to be one of the best on the border. The sanitation is good and there is very little sickness. The ser geant states that he has made the statements to one of the Lincoln pa pers to set things right with the peo ple of Nebraska who have been fed with accounts of hardships, dangers and privations which never existed. SAVED FROM DEATH. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 12.—By standing on their tiptoes Charles Desper, of 210 South Eleventh street, and A. Ander son of 2300 South Fifteenth street, saved themselves from death when an elevator lift at the Shurtleff apartment house dropped down nine stories. The men stepped out on the platform when it was unlocked and it shot downward with lightning speed. Instant presence of mind of the two men in standing on their tiptoes saved them. They received nothing worse than sprained ankles. -♦ EPWORTH ASSEMBLY. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 12.—Big crowds at the Nebraska Epworth assembly this year are expected to permit the management to pay off all debts and leave a snug sum as a nest egg for the ensuing year. President Jones reported that over $32,000 are now in vested in the grounds. The attendance for the first eight days of 1916 has far exceeded the same period of 1915 and the receipts are consequently mucl, larger. SPRAGUE RENAMED. Lincoln, Neb., Auk. 12.—Bert Sprague of York was again elected secretary 01 the democratic central committee at its meeting here. Dr. E. C. Webber, o| Wahoo, was named vice chairman: A, V. Johnson of Lincoln was elected treasurer. Sprague has done good worlj nnd no one was nominated against him Chairman Langhorst expressed great confidence in the outcome of the cam paign and predicted harmony and en thusiasm all along the line. Langhorst is considered a Hitchcock man, while Sprague is credited with being a Bryan supporter. On the motion of Arthur Mullen of Omaha, the rules which gov erned the committee during the last two campaigns were adopted. John A. Maguire, candidate for congress front the First district: State Treasurer Hall, Secretary of State Pool and State Au ditor Smith were present. ■ ~i— STORM IN NEBRASKA. lloldridge, Neb.. Aug. 12.—The Ox ford State bank and the Burlington roundhouse were partially demolished tiy a heavy wind storm which swept Oxford and adjacent territory last eve ning. All wires between Holbrook and Oxford are down and reports are mea ger. It Is known that a number of farm buildings were swept away by the storm. A bank employe and a tramp in the roundhoue-e were injured. Telephone lines west of Holdredge were blown down. The storm was accompanied by a heavy rain. Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 10.—County At torney Peterson, of Knox county, re ported to the state board of assessment that his country had followed the In structions of the board and had as sessed lands nt 75 per cent o! their sales value, making a total Increase of $£00,000 in Its assessed valuation. —♦— LIGHTNING HITS AUTO. Denver, Colo., Aug, 10.—L. D. Spald ing, of Omaha, who, with his family, Is making a tour of Colorado In his au tomobile, reports their narrow escape from death on the summit of Pike's peak, Friday afternoon, when their car was struck by lightning. Mr. Spalding nnd his daughter were in the front seat and his wife In the rear. The bolt struck the top Just above the windshield and tore through the cloth, running down the side of the car to the vround. All were stunned and dazed for several minutes. They will continue their trip through »'•*» Rockies. JOHN THURSTON DIES ! | AFTER LONG ILLNESS; | FRIEND OF M'KINLEY Won Fame as An Orator, One ; Speech Being Warlike—Was ij Prominent Politician. Omaha, Neb.. Aug. 11.—John M. J Thurston, former senator from Ne- I braska, and nationally prominent re- | publican, died here at 4 o'clock today. ! He had been critically ill for four j weeks, following a heat prostration, j and his death has been momentarily ■ expected for three days. Thrombo- j phlebitis was the immediate cause ol , death, according to a statement by th< J attending physician, Dr. F. J. Schlier < Mr. Thurston was born at Montpelier ! Vt., August 21, 1847. He was one ol President McKinley’s closest advisers and was regarded by McKinley as on( of the country’s ablest men. During his service in congress Mr, Thurston won national notice as at orator. A speech he made in the Sen ate is claimed to have precipitated th( Spanish-American war. After finishing his term in the Sen ate, Thurston opened offices in Wash- , ington and practiced law until 1315 when hie health failed. He returned tc ’ Omaha and later resumed the practic* of law, but his failing health handit capped him greatly. Mr. Thurston was temporary chair* man of the republican party convention in 18SS and several times served as q delegate at large to the party's con ventions. He was elected to the Sen* ate in 1S94. He was at one time solici tor general of the Union Pacific rail road. On Christmas day, 1872, Mr. Thurston was married to Miss Martha Poland, daughter of Col. Uuther Poland, ol Omaha. She died March 14, 1898, and in November of the next year, Mr Thurston was married to l.ola, daugh ter of William J. Furman, former con gressman from Florida. NO MORE MILEAGE. ' Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 11.—State Pood Commissioner C. E. Harman has made a now rule. Hereafter his inspectors wit. be required to buy railroad tickets and obtain receipts for them and the use ol mileage books w-ill be discontinued in Ids department. Commissioner Hersan says that there has been no scandal in bis department over the employment ol railway mileage books. It has been charged that many departments of the state government buy mileage books with state funds and use them for pri vate trips. Under the present system of purchasing mileage books, it is claimed that there is no way of telling how many trips are made by state offi cials in the interest of the state or in the interest of themselves. The state spends from $40,000 to $60,000 a year lor mileage and traveling expenses. During two months of last fall employes of the food and dairy department epent $4,275 for railroad fare and hotel ex penses. ■ LAND OWNERS PROTEST. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 11—Claiming that the land is too poor to justify the raise a delegation of citizens front Boone county appeared before the Htate board i of assessment to protest against a 10 i per cent increase made by the board. L. G. Brian, of Lincoln, former state treas urer and insurance commissioner, who owns land in Boone county made the prinicpal speech. He declared that the board has increased the valuation in past year when it should not have done so, and the boost was not justified now. In Boone land is valued at $S.73 an acre assessed value. The board proposes to : make it $y.60. NO RECRUITS. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 11.—Because few ' recruits were received the federal re- i cruiting stations at Lincoln and Omaha ; tire to lie closed by an order of the war ; department. The stations are in charge , of officer*; of the Nebraska national guard opened for the purpose of filling ; the gaps in the two-Nebraska regi- ' meats now on the Texas border. About half a dozen recruits were hte total I number received at the stations of the ' two cities. —f— ELECTROCUTED. Norfolk, Neb., Aug. 11.—L. A. Wil liams, manager of the Nebraska Gas & Electric plant at Norfolk, was killed last night at Meadow Grove, a station 20 miles west of Norfolk. He was elec- j trocuted. A helper named Beaumont was somewhat burned. Williams was about 40 years old and a former football star on the Ames, la., agriculture team. He leaves a wife. PUGH MURPHY DIES. Omaha. Neb., Aug. 11—Hugh Murphy, pioneer paving contractor of Omaha, died Tuesday at Oid Orchard, Me., where he had gone early this summer to try to regain his health, which had been failing for the last three years. Mr. Murphy celebrated his 25th wed ding anniversary last Tuesday. Ills home is at 212 South Thirty-fourth street. He is survived hv Ills wife, two sons. Hugh, .ir., and Richard, and two daughters, Mrs. George Adams, of Cheyenne, and Miss Helen Murphy. LINCOLN—'The Nebraska ra'lway com m sslon Is 1 mplored by shippers for rol'ef ) from the i ar shortage situation. The /Train movement now Is very heavy and the car shortage is fast growing more se rious. The Burlington Is the only road In the state which has a fair amount of cars and the chances are that It will not be , long when It will fly signals of distress, j Tl Union Pacific and the Northwestern have a few empties on hand but the Book 1 Pi/wd and the Missouri Pacific have prac- ' llcally none. Grain elevators everywhere ! are full. LINCOLN—The slate normal board Is In session to award coal contracts for the four normal schools and to buy 1.400 opera i chairs for the auditorium of the normal | school at Kearney Before the board ad- i jourr.s several vacancies In normal school I faculties will be filled. i LINCOLN—State Engineer Johnson will 1 attend a big federal good roads meeting which will !«■ held at Washington, D. C„ August Iti. It has been called by Director L. W. I age of the federal government. Engineer Johnson will osk that federal aid be extended, to clay and gravel roadu. The United States, in 1915, produced I 41,581,150 tons of coke._ CYRUS DIXON DIVORCED. Chicago, 111., Aug. 9.—Mrs. Elsie j Steinert Dixon, wife of Cyrus B. Dixon, , of Sioux City, today was granted a dl- ( voree by Judge Jleard, in the Chicago I courts. Mrs. Dixon alleged that two J months after her marriage to Dixon ( she visited her mother in Chicago, and that while there she received a lot ter from her husband saying that he had not been divorcee, from his former wife for one year and, therefore, the last ! ! marriage was illegal. Judge Heard an* : Dulled the Ail Additional Guardsmen In I Ohio, Vermont and Ken tucky Ordered to Mexi- % can Border. WON’T WAIT TO RECRUiT Anarchistic State Throughout Mexico Is Reported to Be Growing Worse as Fam ine Pinches. Washington, Aug. 14.—Twenty-five* thousand more state troops were today ordered to the border by the war de partment. All Kentucky, Ohio and Ver mont troops were ordered to move arid all departmental commanders were in structed to send troops as soon as pos sible. The following announcement was made: "Commanding general, eastern de partment has been directed to send Kentucky troops to the border os soon is they have been equipped and trans portation can be obtained and to see that attention is given to getting Ver- / inont troops to the border as soon as possible. “Commanding general, central de partment, has been directed to send Ohio troops to the border as soon as ;hey are equipped and transportation •an be obtained. "All department commanders have seen directed to send all other national guard troops in their respective de partments to the border as soon as they ire equipped and transportation tan be . obtained.” X Won’t Wait to Recruit. J It was stated at the war department :hat under these orders national guard I 'egimerits now held at state mobiliza- ' lions points would be sent to the lorder without waiting until they were -eeruited to the mobilization strength. War department officials said the purpose of tlie movement was to re ievo the trying situation of regiments lelci at state mobilization camps, dur ng recruiting. The men have been several weeks under canvas w'hile a low recruits necessary to bring each -egiment up to required minimum strength are being sought. The best available informal!' n on :he number of guardsmen on the lorder is in health statistics of last veek which covered 98,000 state troops ill on border service, not including several regiments. It is considered jL ■ertain that more than 140,000 national V guardsmen are in the camp along the * nternational line. Camps Are Available. Thoroughly equipped camps readily •apabie of expansion are waiting tlie .loops, all details of water and food supplies have been worked out on a. lasis that the army is confident, in sures adequate provision for any nun: ier of troops and the addition of 25, 100 troops to tlie border commands are lot expected to create any new diffi ■ulties. —4~ - 5ITIABLE CONDITIONS GROW STEADILY WORSE IN MEXICO El Paso, Tex., Aug. 12.—Conditions n Mexico City are bordering on an irchy becatise of food shoitage, ac cording to arrivals from the capital lere today. The refugees, all of whom were Mexicans, said that rioters had seized the electric lighting and power ilant outside the city ami .that, as a ■esult, the town had been without' iglits or street car service for more ihan a week before their departure. Peons throughout tlie country north of J :he capital are suffering from hunger, I ihey added. ) The situation in Zacatecas was de- ^ icribed as pitiable. At railway stn- m ions In that state, according to reru- a jees, men, women and children would leg travelers for scraps of bread or lits of fruit peel. Garrisons on both the American and Mexican side of the river have been lugmented by the arrival of fresh .roopa today. The First South Carolina nfantry, under Col. Edgewwth Monta gue Blythe, of Greenville, detrained in *11 Paso, while, simultaneously, 250 men ’rom tlie garrison of Chihuahua City, who arrived with Gen. Gabriel Gavira, nspector-general of the de facto forces, went into barracks in Juarez. Manning Paper Shortage 3Tay Render Thousands Idle, Union Ecads Fear. Baltimore. Md„ Aug:. 1 !.—The danger hat thousands of printers may be brown out of work because of the hiffh ost of wiii+r- paper was raid to he a. uesikm seriously concerning the dele •ates to (lie Ct’nd .. nnual convention of he International Typographical union vh'oh begins lu re next Monday. John W. Hays, secretary and trensur r of the union said alarming shortage if white paper is making it difficult for nany newspaper corporations to con inue business. In some cities lie said . hers was talk of consolidating two or ‘m i acre plants to reduce working forces, nd expenses 3ANKRUPT SHIPPING “ CONCERN REORGANIZES New Tork, Aug. It.—Committees *-ep eeentimr the holders of bends and tocka of the International Mercantile ilarine company have agreed to a plan f financial readjustment of that com ■any which was distributed today. It irovldes for a continuance of the «* sting company, for the refunding of bout half of the company’s bonded in ebtednees and the payment of the lalnnc* in eash. The J2 per cent, or back lvldends due on the preferred stock f» eft to be dealt with by the new board ef lirbctors. BLAST KILLS 115. '’T London, Aug. 12.—According to A elegram from Bucharest, the number if persona killed in the explosion in he powder factory at Dudesti was IIS. Earlier reports stated that only 2l> per 10ns had been killed.