THE O’NEIL FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
O’NEILL,NEBRASKA
The best conductors of lightning,
placed In the order of conductivity, are
metals, gns coke, graphite, solutions of)
■alts, acids and water. The best non
conductors, eudlng with the most per
fect insulation, are India rubber, gutta
percha, dry air and gases, wool, ebon
ite, silk, glass, wax, sulphur, resins
and paraffin.
Fishermen who venture beyond the
mouth of the Kennebec river declare
that there is a school of whales off the
coast. One attacked Moses Chandler,
of Popham Beach, struck the boat
twice, lifted it out of the water, un
shipped the rudder, split the skeg, and
loosened some of the planking.
A swarm of bees gained entrance to
the First National bank In Manawa,
Wis., through a crevice, and honey in
wholesale quantities is being deposited
between the ceiling of the first story
and the floor above. This is the fifth
year the bees have made their head
quarters in thi# bank.
A pure white robin, except for two
black feathers on its wings, is nesting
In Madison, Wis. It Is a female and is
mated with a normal robin. Two birds
nested there two years ago that were
almost albinos, and this Is supposed to
be one of their offspring.
Rockville, near Rockport, Me., boasts
of Mrs. H. E. Wotton, aged 84, who
has recently planted eight rows of
1 beans, each row 160 feet long, doing
the work alone in seven hours. She
■ays she will also do the hoeing and
harvesting alone.
Alcohol, used in the manufacture of
hlgti explosives, is now being made
from Louisiana molasses, or blackstrap
\s It is called. So great has been the
all for the sticky commodity that the
price is now about four times what it
was two years ago.
The grand master, at the session of
the grand lodge of Texas, called to
the altar all present who had been
Masons 40 years or more, and 29 re
sponded. One of them had been a
Mason 64 years, another 50 und others
on down to 40.
Although tne war caused a great
■lump in 1915 in the production of ores
of radium and uranium, it caused a
considerable Increase in the production
of ores of vanadium in this country,
according to the United States geolog
ical survey.
American capital, genius and pluck
already have wrested from aridity 15,
000,000 acres, and planted thereon 200,
000 families In independent homes. In
crops alone these lands are each year
returning more than $300,000,000 to the
farmers.
On a recent Sunday afternoon Maur
ice H. Whelan, of Blddeford, Me.,
counted the vehicles which passed his
house between 4 and B o’clock. There
were 92 autos, seven motorcycles, two
bicycles, and only one baby carriage.
America heads the list with 66,662
Jostofflces; Germany Is second, with
9,848; then follow Kngland, with 35,
T88; Russia, with 18,000; Prance, with
18,000, and Italy and Austria, each
with 9,5 Oh_ _ _
Mr. and Mrs. Grant, of Smyrna Mills,
ale.. who have been married 34 years,
are the parents of 21 children, 15 boys
and six girls, 16 of whom are living.
There were two pairs of twins among
them.
John Malmberg, of Manchester, N.
0; has such lHrge strawberries that 16
<111 a box. Some of them are 6% Inches
In circumference, while most of them
are more than four Inches around.
Mortorcycle production in the Uni
ted States In 1914 amounted to 62,793,
valued at $3,015,988. This Is an In
crease of 237.1 per cent In number and
80S per cent In value.
A railway from Petrograd to Soroka,
*n the White sea, a distance of 530
miles, has been completed, giving Rus
sia another outlet to the north In addi
tion to that of Archangel.
Last year live stock valued at $300,
900 was killed on the natural forest
ranges by eating poisonous plants; 85
per cent of the losses of cattle were
Caused by tall larkspur.
So that a horseman’s feet can be
warmed In cold weather, there has been
Invented a stirrup with a receptacle
for charcoal or other heat producing
substance.
Standard clocks In the Paris observa
tory are kept 90 feet underground,
where the variation In temperature has
been less than one degree for several
years.
The production of manganese ore In
the United States last year was more
than three times that of the preceding
year and the greatest since 1901.
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illi
nois and Ohio together produce more
than 40 per cent in value of the mln
eraia found In the United States.
Seventy-five per cent of the woman
workers In Germany work 10 hours a
day or more and their wages vary from
to 18 cents an hour.
Ants have the faculty of crossing
water by means of the surface tension
of the liquid, but they resort to it only
under great necessity.
The United States marketed 1.731
short tons of asbestos of domestic pro
duction last year, a gain of 39 per cent
from the year before.
An Italian Inventor has taken out a
British patent on an .egg holder which
may be fastened to the edge of an or
dinary dinner plate.
Waste paper Is purified by a process
•mploylng celluloid clay and milk of
lime that has been Invented by a
French scientist.
A new Instrument accurately records
the steam pressure at all times during
» vessel's voyage, no matter of how
long duration.
Wings to be strapped to the arms
«nd legs to enable skaters to make use
•f the wind form the subject of a re
cent patent
During the first part of last year
more than *22,000,000 worth of dia
monds were produced In South Africa.
Nearly *,800 women are employed by
one French railways, 800 of them act
ing as station masters.
X-rays are now used by dentists to
determine whether root canals have
boen properly filled.
The government of Chile has author
ised the erection of a technical indus
trial school. _
New Zealand has thus far this year
Imported *40 automobiles. _
OHIO MEN DESIRE TO
; FINANCE INTERURBAN
Ask Permit to Float Securities
Foi Omaha-Lincoln Project
—Capital, $3,820,959.
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Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 28.—The state
railway commission has been asked by
Harvey Musser, representing a group
of Ohio capitalists, for permission to
issue $2 500,000 of bonds, $2,000,000 of
common stock and $500,000 of preferred
stock, to pay the sum of $3,820,959
necessary to construct an interurban
railway between the cities of Omaha
and Lincoln. This is a project that has
i been sleeping for a number of years.
< Several miles of track have been built
and operated from each terminal for
some years, but the money to complete
the gap has never been available. Mr.
Musser has a third of $1,000,000 or
more invested for his clients already,
and has been working for months to
i put the thing across. He now says he
! has the assurance of a market for his
I stocks and bonds if the railway com
! mission will permit them to be dis
posed of at a discount that will average
. between 20 and 30 per cent, the com
mon stock being largely for use as a
bonus.
ATTORNEY GENERAL OUTLINES
EXCESS BAGGAGE TANGLE
I Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 28.—Attorney
[ General Reed has Informed the state
i railway commission by letter that he
j will not prosecute the Rock Island or
| the Missouri Pacific on the charge
| made by traveling men that they have
been overcharging for excess baggage.
| The attorney general says that the rec
, ords of the commission do not disclose
any basis for a prosecution, and that
the new and lower rate published by
the Rock Island, after the commission
j had got after the officials, Is worth
j nothing because never formally ap
proved by the commission. The at
| tornoy general says that the laHt order
| of the commission may be fairly in
terpreted as establishing a rate based
on percentage of railroad fares and not
on mileage distance, and since the road
is now permitted, by reason of a fed
eral court injunction, to charge 3 cents
a mile fare it can collect more for bag
gage In excess of ticket allowance. He
adds that If the commission will revise
its order and put in force a mileage
tariff, the roads will obey it. The com
mission thinks that the attorney gen
eral is trying to favor the roads, which
can be mulcted for a number of thou
sands in fines if they really collected in
excess of the legal tariff, and a court
interpretation may be asked for on the
ground that the attorney general
doesn’t know what he Is talking about.
GOVERNOR GRANTS FURLOUGH
TO MAN WHO SHOT OFFICERS
Lincoln. Nob.. Aug. 28.—Governor
Morehead has been caught again in
the act of ‘'furloughing" a prisoner,
and because he Is a bad man who came
near extinguishing two Lincoln police
men when they sought to arrest him
for the crime for which he has been
serving time, the Lincoln police are
mad about It. Walter Combs is the
man who was furloughed, a process
by which a prisoner can get all the
benefits of a parole before the law can
operate to give him a parole. At the
same time Tom Carr, another member
of the gang, was paroled. One of the
policemen shot came near dying, and
the doctors say lie will never recover.
The governor r ays there were extenu
at'ng circumstances that made him ex
orcise a power the police authorities
i tty docs not exist
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OMAHA AND LINCOLN IN
CLASH OVER LAND DANK
L'ncoln. Ne’>. Au-. i'-i—The rivalry
between Lincoln and Omaha over the
question of which - hoi; id lie chosen as
i location for a fedeial land hank has
reached such Intense proportions that
each sid» Is about willing to concede
tlmt neither w! 1 get it. Aa a result an
attempt is being made to get the rep
resentatives cf the two cities together
before the federal locating board comes
west to hold hearings, in the hope that
one may be induced !o withdraw in fa
vor of the other. Politicians here sir-; ra
to think that Sioux City will ire the
favored city for this location because
of the number of friends it lias on the
land bank board.
ANNUAL REUNION HELD BY
DIXON COUNTY FIONECRS
Allen. Neb., Aug. 28.—Tile Dixon
county pioneers’ und old settlors' picnic
was held at this place Wednesday and
was a great celebration in every wav—
the best ever held in the county. Ideal
weather prevailed. The ball game in
the forenoon between Emerson and
Allen resulted in a score of t7 to 4 in
favor of Allen and the game in the
afternoon between Newcastle and Al
len, also went in fuvor of the Allen
team by a score of 16 to 2. Judge Faw
cett, of Lincoln, and Wm. P. Warner,
of Dakota City, delivered addresses.
Savidge brothers played an exciting
game of auto polo.
DAKOTA STATE NEWS j
OFFICERS ELECTED FOR
DAKOTA “DRY” CAMPAIGN
Mitchell, S. D., Aug. 26.—Officers to
direct the fall campaign for state wide
prohibition were selected at a joint
meeting of the campaign and head
quarters committees of the state Anti
Saloon league, held in this city yes
terday. Charles A. Howard, of Aber
deen, was chosen president; II. E. Ras
mussen. of Canton, vice president; and
Dr. J. S. Hoagland, of Mitchell, secre
tary.
MENNO—Some careless traveler threw
a cigar stub into the dry grass on the
Jim river bottom near here and thus
started a fire which caused heavy losses
to several farmers. Among the losers
were Peter and John Wahl, whose large
area of hay land was burned over. The
hay had not yet been cut, they having
postponed cutting It until after their har
vest of small grain was completed. After
the fire completed its work there was no
hay to cut. and their winter supply of
hay will have to be secured elsewhere.
WENTWORTH — Arrangements have
beeq completed for the opening of a new
banking Institution in this city September
1. It has been incorporated under the
name of the Farmers and Merchants bank
of Wentworth, and will have a capital of
$13,000. The officers are; President, H. O.
Kruschke; vice president, August Abra
ham; cashier, H. H. Dawson; assistant
cushier, Byron Farrell. The stockholders
of the new bank are business men of
Wentworth and farmers of the surround
ing country.
FORT PIERRE—The annual Stanley
county fair will be held in this city, com
mencing September 3 and continuing until
the night of September 7.
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I ERROR IN IDENTIFYING
VICTIMS OF TRAGEDY
Three Men Killed By Auto Were
Ed and James Sweeney and
James Mercure.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 26.—The three
1 men killed 15 miles cast of Lincoln
I Wednesday evening when their fast
running auto ran into a Burlington
passenger train at a grade crossing
have been finally identified as Ed and
James Sweeney, cattlemen, of Whit
man, and N. D. Mercure, a hardware
dealer of Mullen. Neb.
The first identification confused Ed
Sweeney with Fred Mercure, a brother
of the dead Mercure. It was not until
15 hours later that the identification
tangle was unwound.
They were on their way from Oma
ha, where they had purchased a new
car, and intended taking in a circus at
Lincoln. Their machine was going 30
miles an hour. There is a turn in the
road at the point where It crosses the
railroad tracks and the approach is so
steep that a driver must go on high
at a rapid speed In order to negotiate it
without change of gears. This centers
the attention of the driver on the ma
chine and it is presumed that none of
them saw the railroad train. The auto
struck the cab of the engine and broke
the pipe that feeds it water from the
tender. Railroad men claim to have
picked up several beer bottles from
the wreck.
The state railway commissioners vis
ited the scene of the tragedy Thurs
day morning and ordered the railroad
company to regrade the approach so
as to eliminate the hill and give a clear
view of approaching trains.
3TATE TO RESIST $30,000
CLAIMS ON DECATUR BANK
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 26.—The attorney
general has been instructed by the
state banking board to appear on be
half of the state at the hearing and
tight the claim of $30,000 made by four
stockholders of the Farmers’ State
bank at Decatur, Neb. These men bor
rowed $30,000 of a South Omaha bank,
giving first individual collateral and
later certificates of deposit in the De
catur bank as security. The legal
question to be decided is whether this
represented money borrowed for the
bank or is a genuine deposit and there
fore repayable out of the state guaran
tee fund. The state banking board has
been urged by state bankers to fight
the contention that It Is a legal de
posit. They insist that the principle
involved is one upon which the guar
anty law will stand or fall, because if
this is permissible the fund could be
easily depleted.
HEAVY SHORTAGE REPORTED
IN NEBRASKA APPLE CROP.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 26.—The secre
tary of the state board of horticulture
has issued a statement that the apple
crop of Nebraska will be but a third of
what it was last year. Estimates are
based on reports received from the
various districts. While the crop last
year was large, much of it was of poor
duality, the 1916 output will contain a
larger proportion of marketable frult3.
The best yields are in those orchards
where spraying was systematically
done.
Districts No. 3 and 8, comprising
Madison, Antelope, Pierce, Knox, Cedar,
Dixon, Wayne, Stanton, Thurston,
Cuming and Dakota counties, have
171,003 trees, about 8 per cent of the
total in the state. These will yield ap
proximately 25,000 bushels, or 20 per
cent only, of last year’s crop.
NATIONAL FIDELITY COMPANY
GOES OUT OF BUSINESS.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 26.—The state in
surance board, tired of trying to regal
vanize the National Fidelity & Casual
ty company, of Omaha, has ordered the
attorney general to ask the district
court of Douglas to wind up the af
fairs of tho company. The company
went on the ro?ks a year ago, but has
been managed by representatives of tho
Insurance board in the hope that it
could be reorganized and made solvent
Having done the best it could and
saved the stockholders from some
heavy liabilities, the concern will be
wound up.
NEBRASKA TROOPS ARE
GETTING GOOD TREATMENT
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 26.—Sergeant
Major Bailey, of the Fifth Nebraska
regiment, just back from Texas, de
clares that there has been no sickness
among the Nebraska boys, that their
food has been good since the first two
days and that they are in excellent
physical shape. The men have from
four to six hours a day for their recrea
tion and the only hard feature of life
there Is the drilling. Saturday and
Sunday are days of rest. Major Bailey
brought home with him a detachment
of 10 men who have been discharged
because of dependent families. They
are being mustered out at Fort Crook.
MRS. McADOO IS ILL.
Utica, N. Y., Aug. 26.—Secretary of
the Treasuhy William G. McAdoo quit
the federal farm loan board hearings
yesterday to go to Spring Lake, N. J.,
where Mrs. McAdoo is ill of malaria
f^ver contracted in the tropics. Mrs.
lilcAdoo, a daughter of President Wil
son, accompanied the secretary on his
recent South American tour.
PREPARE FOR REUNION.
Kansas City. Aug. 25.—A party oi
executive officers of the G. A. R. ar
rived in Kansas City today prepara
tory to opening the national headquar
ters tomorrow for the annual encamp
ment of the veterans’ organization
Elias R. Monfort, commanderinchic.
and John M. Adams, adjutant general,
b-)th of Cincinnati, were among thos«
reaching here today. Members of th«
local commissions say the reunion wil'
bo attended by about 50,000 persons.
ROWE GIVEN POST.
Washington, D. C„ Aug. 25.—Leo S
Rowe, professor of political economy at
the University of Pennsylvania, ■••ho
was secretary of the recent Pan-Amer
ican financial i ongress, will be secre
tary , f the American group of the joint
coi.it .t-.ion which will seek a solution
of the Mexican difficulties.
The famous Manchester Unity Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, found
ed in 1810, is the largest friendly so
ciety in the world.
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Indians Go on Peyote Jags.
Oklahoma City Dispatch Kansas City
Star,
Indians of the Shawnee agency have a
new religious ceremony that is swiftly be
coming the most -jopular service they
have ever practiced
It consists of chew mg the peyote plant,
which produces an .fleet like that of
opium smoking.
It gives them "wonderful dreams and
visions” and makes them want to read
religious books.
Peyote “jags’’ are so new that the plant
Is not listed in laws as prohibited nar
cotic. it Is so new that federal experts
b*ye not yet declared it harmful
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NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES
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STATE RAILROAD BOARD
STILL IN DEFIANT MOOD
Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 26.—The gnarled
fist of the Nebraska state railway com
mission has again been shaken at the
Interstate Commerce commission. More
properly it might be called the
'mailed” fist, as the shaking was done
by way of the letter route.
It has sent to the federal body a copy
of the order denying the application of
the Burlington for permission to raise
the rate on live stock shipments from
llenry to Omaha. The road desired to
do this because the Interstate Com
merce commission, on a complaint from
Torrington, Wyo„ had held that the
rate from there to Omaha was reason
able but that the one from Henry, a
competing point across the line, was
too low. As the rate from Henry to
Omaha was fixed by the state legis
lature, the state commission cannot
see where any interference by the na
tional rate making body is permissible.
In the letter accompanying the copy
of the order it is stated that the Ne
braska commission never was advised
of the filing of the Torrington com
plaint or of the hearing thereon; that
the object of sending the order is to
advise the commission of the incorrect
premises and mis-statements of fact
upon which the examiner based his re
port and induced the approval of the
commission, and that if the commission
will reopen the case, the Nebraska
commission will present such evidence
as in its judgment will correctly reflect
the facts necessary to determine the
reasonableness of the Nebraska rates.
TED ANTHONY ALSO
LOSES INSURANCE LICENSE
Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 26.—-Ted Anthony,
insurance agent, has joined his brother
Perry in retirement. The state board
revoked the latter’s license a week ago,
and has just issued an order taking
away from Ted the right to solicit in
surance. The young men were em
ployed by a Lincoln company that sells
accident insurance. They were charged
with having represented to a number
of customers that the policies they is
sued covered death frvm ordinary
causes. The life insurance companies
got mad about it, trailed them, com
piled some evidence and then filed com
plaint.
CITY OF MADISON FILES PRO
TEST ON RAILROAD SERVICE
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 2G.—The state
railway commission will soon set a
date for hearing the complaint filed by
the city of Madison against the Union
Pacific railroad, claiming that it is giv
en very poor connections with the out
side world, via Norfolk and the North
western railroad. The commission has
received from the Union Pacific a
statement that hereafter it will absorb
swiicV'ng charges on cars of freight
whei. the charge is $15 or over. This
applies to noncompetitive points, as it
has heretofore applied to competitive
points.
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LINCOLN BAKERS WILL
DROP 5-CENT LOAF
Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 26.—Following
up a victory in the city council, where
the bakers secured the repeal of the
ordinance requiring bread to be sold in
one and two pound loaves, it is an
nounced that the 5 cent loaf will’prob
able be discontinued. It is argued that
the 10 cent loaf can be made better
and more economically, and anyway
th*( bakers find it impractical to make
a loaf small enough to sell for 5 cents.
OMAHA MERCHANT DIES
OF INJURIES IN CYCLONE
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 26.—George L.
Hammer, vice president of the Byrne
Hammer Dry Goods company, died at
his home here early today as the re
sult of injuries received in the tornado
which swept through Omaha on March
23, 1913. Mr. Hammer and his wife
were both injured when their residence
was wrecked. Mrs. Hammer died a
year ago.
NEBRASKA FARMERS ASK
RESTORATION OF SALES AT CARS
Washington, D. C„ Aug. 26.—Com
plaint against the action of western
and northwestern lines in discon
tinuing peddler car service, by which
perishable commodities were sold from
freight cars to consumers, was made to
the Interstate Commerce commission
today by the Nebraska state grange
and the Nebraska Farmers' union.
It is chargfed in the complaint that
in discontinuing the practice the rail
roads have given preference to whole
sale grocers and commission firms to
the disadvantage of the grower and
consumer.
Car peddling has prevailed in Iowa,
Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Wis
consin, North and South Dakota, Il
linois, Nebraska and other states.
EDISON WILL CALL
MEETING OF BOARD
Washington, D. C., Aug. 26.—Thomas
A. Edison, chairman of the navy’s civ
ilian advisory board was asked today
by Secretary Daniels to call a meeting
of the board in Washington September
19 to consider questions of organization
under the new naval appropriation bill
and the construction of the proposed
$1,500,000 experimental laboratory.
HAND IT TO LIEBKNECHT.
Amsterdam, Aug. 24.—(via London.)
—The result of Dr. Karl Liebknecht's
appeal against his sentence for war
treason has been the imposition of a
new and severer sentence of four
years and one month penal servitude
and expulsion from the army, accord
ing to a dispatch from Berlin.
Travel Timo Cut in Two.
From the Springfield Republican.
The Lincoln highway association reports
that $4,000,000 has already been spent, with
state co-operation, uu this great thorough
fare between New York and San Fran
cisco, and that $20,000,000 more will be nec
essary to complete it. It comes nearly 70
years after the first trans ontlnental rail
roads. following the gold discoveries in
California. Already, it is estimated, auto
mobiles can go from coast to coast in from
25 to 30 days as compared with GO or more
before the Lincoln highway was begun.
The road is a substantial contribution to
military preparedness, and the point is
being made effectively by the promoting
association.
Dehyphenizing.
From Judge.
“I Just think it should be stopped h
law,’’ said the good wife, looking up from
her paper.
“What should be stopped by law, my
angel?" asked the kind husband.
“This practice of people hyphenating
their nationalities. There should he no
Gerinan-Americens or Freneh-Amerieans
of Italian-Amerlcaus. They should all be
Just plain Americans.”
“Cut if such a law were passed, my
angel,” meekly suggested the kind hus
band, “would that affect your practice ol
signing your name 'Mrs. Elizabeth Hicks
Mugley?' ”
But her only reply was a hyphenated
sniff.
NEBRASKA BOARD TO
TEST FEDERAL POWER
Disposed to Defy Order Made
By Interstate Commission—
Will Not Approve Raise.
Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 25.—Sioux City
and Council Bluffs will have to wait
awhile before getting the new rates
ordered by the Interstate Commerce
commission to remove the discrimina
tion caused in Nebraska territory
through the adoption by tho Nebraska
commission of a schedule of rates. One
reason is that the railroads cannot
agree on what the new rates shall be,
and have asked for 30 days more time
in which to reach an agreement. Gen
eral freight agents of the Union Pacific
and the Burlington were ordered, while
here today, to proceed to Washington to
show cause why the extension should
he granted.
Two ways are open to the railorads to
remove the discrimination found by the
Interstate Commerce commission to ex
ist. One is to reduce the present inter
state rates between Sioux City and
Council Bluffs and ’he affected territory
in Nebraska. The other is to raise the
state rates. The railroads have not con
sidered the former course, and where
they disagree is in how large the in
crease shall be. Several roads favor a
slight increase, while the others desire
to put into effect the highest rates
authorized under the commission order
What is bothering the railorads, also,
is how they can get the new Ne
braska rates into effect. The state com
mission takes the position that the In
terstate Commerce commission has no
jurisdiction over rates wholly within
the state, and it resents the interfer
ence in this matter by the federal body.
No rate placed into effect by the rail
roads is legal within the state until the
Nebraska commission approves of it.
The commission has indicated that it
will withhold such approval because its
investigation prior to the adoption of
schedule No. 19. which rates are in
volved in this controversy, convinced it
’hat tho :e rales were proper. It declines
even to approve a slight increase be
cause that would be- a recognition of tho
power of the Interstate Commerce com
mission to interfere with state rates.
MAN HELD FOR MURDER OF
FORMER NEBRASKA SHERIFF
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 25.—Governor
Morehead has ,ordered the removal to
Montana on a requisition of James H.
Randolph, of York, Neb., to answer s
charge of having murdered J. K.
Affierbach, in Fergus county. The ob
jection of attorneys that the evidence
to warrant the governor in ordering
the man’s return was insufficient, was
overruled.
Randolph is accused of having stolen
an automobile in Y'ork last March and
having driven it to. Montana. Affier
bach was formerly sheriff of Y'ork
county, but had removed to Montana
three years before. He knew Randolph
and arrested him, and the two started
for Nebraska in the machine. That is
the last ever heard of Affierbach,
whose home was at Grass Range, Mont.
Randolph was picked up in Roulder,
Col., and brought hack for the auto
mobile theft. A decomposed body was
found 200 miles from whei'e Affierbach
was last seen, but Randolph’s at
torneys say it was never identified as
that of Affierbach. They say the latter
is not dead, but off on a fishing trip.
STATE NOT TO PUSH CASE
AGAINST ROCK ISLAND
Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 25. -Attorney
General Reed has refused to follow the
instructions of the state railway com
mission and prosecute the Rock Island
railroad on the charge that it has been
collecting more than the legal tariff on
excess baggage. He says that there has
been no violation, and that he has a
promise from the company that the
tariffs will be strictly followed. The
traveling men who preferred the
charges say that they have evidence
showing that the overcharging con
tinued for a long period of time, and
that if the attorney general will not
prosecute the railroad they will hire
an attorney to do it. Meanwhile they
are explosive in their opinion of At
torney General Reed.
SUNSET ROMANCE.
Wayne. Neb.. Aug. 25.—John H. Ash
ly, aged 76, of Magnet, Neb., and Rachel
M. Black, of Randolph, Neb., aged 65,
were married by Acting County Judge
•Tames E. Britton.
NORFOLK LIQUOR DEALERS
SUED FOR AUTO ACCIDENT
Madison, Neb.. Aug. 25—Mary Louis
berg, formerly Mary Frei, wife of John
Frei, has brought action in the district
court against Emil Koehn, Martin A.
Sporn, Emil Moeller, Ralph L. Bever
idge, saloon keepers of Norfolk, and
Clara Berner, administratrix of YVilliam
Berner, and their surety companies, to
recover damages of $31,600.
Mrs. Louisberg alleges in her petition
that in September, 1913, her former
husband, John Frei, while intoxicated
lost control of his automobile, which
turned over, fatally injuring him; she
further alleges that he became intoxi
cated on liquor purchased from the
above defendant saloon keepers.
CREDIT MEN NOMINATE
WRIGHT AND POINDEXTER
Omaha. Neb., Aug. 25.—H. Victor
Wright, of Los Angeles, and R. H.
Poindexter, of St. Louis, were nomi
nated yesterday for the presidency of
the National Retail Credit Men's as
sociation, which is in convention in
Omaha. The election will be held this
afternoon.
C. P. Jackson, St. Louis, was nomi
nated for vice president; C. E. Corey.
Omaha, treasurer; A. J. Kruse, St.
Louis, secretary. Five directors will be
elected from a candidacy of 12.
The convention went on record in
favor of a system whereby the sender
could find out who signs for a regis
tered letter. Other subjects relating to
credit constituted the papers read in
the session today.
TAKE GERMAN PRIZE.
Stockholm, Aug. 23.—(via London.)
—The capture of the German steamer
Desterro of 2,500 tons gross, with a
cargo of iron ore, off Hernozand,
Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia, is of
ficially announced. She was taken in
to Raumo, Finland.
TENEMENT COLLAPSES;
ONE DEAD; MANY HURT
New "York, Aug. 23.--Six men are
missing, one is dead and several are
dying in hospitals and a dozen others
were injured today as the result of the
sudden collapse of a five story brick
tenement in the course of construction
in the Rronx. Several arrests have been
made including a member of the con
tracting firm, which was constructing
the building.
Big Farce Said to Be Ready
to Sweep Into Hungary
Whenever Rumania
Decides to Aci.
BALKAN SITUATION DARK
Serbians Reported to Have
Driven Rack Bulgarians—
Slavs Making- a Big
Drive In Armenia.
London. Aug. 26.—The Russians have
coneentrtAed a large number of troops
on the Rumanian frontier and on the
banks of the Russian Danube, with
which to invade Bulgai ia by way of
Dubrudja, according to a Budapest dis
patch to the Morning Post, quoting the
A.zest. The Azest also reports power
ful Rumanian forces gathered on tho
lower Danube and the Pruth.
SERB FORTUNES TURNING.
London, Aug. 26.—Successes against
the Bulgarians all along the line of ihe
Serbian front in Macedonia, are re
ported in the Serbian official statement
of August 22. The Statement declares
the Bulgarian center was yielding to
the Serbian pressure and that the po
sition:; Variously designated for Serbian
occupation were being seized and held
by Serbian troops. The statement nays:
“On the right wing there has been tin
artillery duel. Our offensive is develop
ing in the center and the Bulgarians
are being pressed back gradually
toward the frontier. We captured 208
men of the Third Bulgarian division. ]
“All the enemy’s counter attacks in 1
the vicinity of the frontier and on the
left wing were repulsed. The positions
chosen -by our headquarters are being
occupied and held.”
RUSSIANS RETAKE MUSH.
Petrograd, fvia London) Aug. 26.—
Russian forces operating in southern
Armenia have reoccupied Mush, cap
tured by the Turim on August 8. says
an official communication issued by the
war department. The statement adds
the Russians captured 2,300 prisoners.
TURKS GIVE UP EITLIS.
Petrograd. Aug. 26, (by wireless to
London.)—It is announced that the
Russians have resumed their advance
along the entire Asiatic front.
The Turks have evacuated Bitlis.
The new offensive movement of the
Russians in southern Turkish Armenia
is being developed energetically. The
war office report today says:
"Our offensive west of Lake Van Is
continuing. In the direction of Mosul
we are pursuing the remnent of the
dispersed Turkish divisions.”
SLAVS CHECK ATTACKS.
Petroerad. fvia. London), Aug. 26.—
Austro-German force before Kovel in
Volhynia attempted to take the offen
sive yesterday, but the war office re
ports, were repulsed. The statement
says:
"In the region of the village of Sa
bilki, north of the Lida-Molodechnc
railway line, the Germans on Wednes
day evening let loose a cloud of poison
ous gas.”
“At midnight Thursday in the region
south of Tsirin (northwest of Barano
vichi) the enemy after a fierce artillery
bombardment launched an attack on
our trenches. lie was stopped by our
advanced posts.
"In the direction of Kovel, in the re
gion of the village of Velinck, the ene
my made attempts to resume the of
fensive, but was repulsed.”
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WEATHER HALTS STRIFE.
Home, (via London) Aug. 25.—Th«
new attack of the Italians in the Dolo
mites in the northern part of the front
is being hindered by unfavorabb
weather conditions, but some further
progress is reported in the official an
nouncement today.
SENATE WILL RATIFY
WEST IKS TREATY
Rejection By Danish Upper
House Will Not Delay Ac
tion By Congress.
Washington, Aug. 26.—Rejection bj
the Danish upper house of parliament
of the proposal to sell the Danish West
Indies to the United States will not
delay efforts here to ratify, a.s soon as
possible, the trentv providing for the
purchase of the islands. Announcement
to this effect was made last night !>>
Senator Storm, chairman of the foreign
relations committee. A meeting of the
committee was Called today to further
consider the proposed treaty.
HUGHES PLANNING TO
INVADE SOLID SOUTH
Laramie. Wyo„ Aug. 25.—Charles K.
Hughes’ trip across the continent a- ’
back will end at Syracuse, N. Y., Sep -
tember 11, where he will speak at the
state fair, according to plans tentatively
adopted today. Mr. Hughes will then
take a rest of two or three days at
Bridgehampton. N. Y., and start on his
secon dtrtp. The itinerary of this trip
has not been planned. Mr. Hughes is
desirous of going to Texas and making
a number of speeches along the border
and through the south.
Mr. Hughes’ speech at Salt Lake City
last night again was devoted to criti
cism of the alleged democartic raid on
the civil service. He said that thous
ands of Jobs had been created and
others removed from the civil service.
He promised strict adherence to the
merit system if elected. He opposed
freeing the Philippines.
TO DEPART SUNDAY.
Mexico City, Aug. 25.—Members of
the Mexican commission to the con
ference of representatives of the United
States and Mexico for settlement of in
ternational difficulties agreed, after a
conference today, to leav*. for th*
United States on Sunday morning