Nebraska Newspapers

    THE O’NEIL FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
NEILL.NEBRASKA
The first president of the American
Colonization society, which founded the
Republic of Liberia, on the west coast
of Africa, was Bushrod Washington,
who was born In Virginia 157 years
•go. in 175S, and who was a nephew
of George Washington. He served as a
private soldier In the revolution, and
•fterward was elevated to the United
States supreme court. While himself
•n owner of many slaves, he was deeply
Interested In the movement for restor
ing the Africans In America to their
native continent. He was one of the
pioneers In the organization of the
American Colonization society, which
was launched Just a century ago. In
the latter part of 1816. Henry Clay.
John Randolph and other men of prom
inence were also prominent In the
movement In 1820 the society sent 38
negroes back to Africa In a govern
ment vessel, and that year a constitu
tion for the colony, which was named
Liberia, was adopted. The colony con
tinued to be In the charge of agents
Mid governors appointed by the society
until 1847, when its rights were volun
tarily surrendered and the independ
»nc« of Liberia was proclaimed and
was recognized by the United States,
Great Britain and France.
Maryland has reason to be proud of
the two artists, Charles and Rembrandt
Peale. The former was born at Ches
tertown, Md„ in 1741. Like Robert Ful
iton, he was both artist and Inventor.
Charles I’eale started life as a saddler,
then silversmith, watchmaker and
earver. Ho went to Boston and studied
under the celebrated Copley, and later
ui Ivondon under Benjamin West. Then
came the honor of painting the first
portrait of Washington as a Virginia
solonel in 1772. I>urlng the revolution he
eommanded a company at the battles of
Trenton and Germantown and was a
member of the Pennsylvania convention
In 1777. He. however, rendered a great
er service to posterity by pointing the
portraits of the lending officers of the
revolution, and was one of the promot
ers of the Academy of Fine Arts In
Philadelphia. This most versatile man,
besides inventing a great variety of
machines, was the first American man
ufacturer of enamel teeth. He died in
Philadelphia in 1827, but his art lived
In the person of his famous son, Rem
brandt Peale.
In addition to Sen. Robert L. Owen, a
Cherokee Indian, the Cherokees have
added to their prestige by sending two
of their nation to the lower house of
congress. T. A. Chandler was chosen in
the First, and William Hastings re
elected In the Fourth district of Okla
homa. Charles Carter, representative
from the Third Oklahoma district, is a
Chlckasha Indian, but connected with
the Cherokees by ties of marriage.
Ten children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Miller, of Ardmore. Pa., and one grand
child wore christened at one time at
the MIHer home by the Rev. H. C.
Geckle, of Gladwyne. The grandchild,
Helen, Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ross Miller. The Miller children
christened were Ross, Blanche. Clyde.
Joseph, Jr.. Foster, Horace, Waiter.
Ruth and the twins, Beatrice and
Bertha.
A log from a tree known to be at least
$20 years old, and cut on an estate In
Olney, Pa., was hauled to the site of the
new Swedenborgian church being
erected at Bryn Athyn. The piece ot
timber—white oak—is so massive that
no saw mill in the east could finish it
for use, so a force of workmen are hew
ing by hand the timber to be used as
the tie beam In the roof of the church.
On the Pennsylvania railroad lines
east of Pittsburgh and Erie there Is a
car that feels Its way along with the
aid of automatic templets. It Is being
run over every division as quickly as
possible In order to get accurate meas
urements tff the distances from the
track to projecting portions of station
buildings, tunnels, bridges and other
objects. _
A 8-year-old child of a South
Denver. Colo., man turned the hose on
an elderly woman next door. Ths
woman sidestepped to avoid the water,
slipped emd fell, and Is now suing the
father of the child fer $10,500 damages
The complaint states that the father la
responsible because he allowed the
youngster to get hold of the hose.
Uncle Sam still has considerable land
to give to the enterprising citizen who
wishes to establish a home. Secretary
of the Interior Lane has announced that
more than 260,000,000 acres of land re
mains In the public domain, according
to official figures lust compiled hy the
general land office. These acres are in
25 different Btates.
The Diamond Protective Union of
America has exactly 420 members, ot
which practically all work in New York
city and more than half live in Brook
lyn. In Brooklyn that is also a diamond
cutting shop, which yearly outs and
polishes approximately $l,000,00c worth
of these precious stones.
Among the old married couples in
Maine are the Rev. and Mrs. Zacchaeua
41. Beal, of Bowdoin Center, who have
Just celebrated their 62m d wedding an
niversary, and Mr. and Mrs. Esmond E.
Weed, of Moulton, and Mr. and Mrs
Benjamin King, of Qremo, who have
been married $0 years.
Unable to obtain men to aid him in
harvesting, Fred Harris, a farmer liv
ing near Pukwana. S. D.. engaged the
services of four of the neighborhood
girls, who shocked ail of his small grain
crops. Harris reports that the girls did
the work as well as men could have
done It.
A Pittsfield woman was born on
April 8, Good Friday. I860. She hasn't
'had a Good Friday birthday since. A
reader's records back to 1805 show that
(Good Friday has fallen on April t in
only three years since then. The years
are 1849. 1864 and 1869.
William Henderson Vance, age 78, a
retired actor of Bayonne. N. J., voted
Cor the first time since he voted In 1869
for Abraham Lincoln. During the 58
years he ilssed voting for presidents
he was c the road and far from his
borne.
A portable generator has been epe
ctally designed to provide electric llghte
to permit farm work to be done at
night. _ _ _
Electric massaging apparatus which
emanates violet raye has been Invent
ed for Imparting a general tonic effect
to the eeajp and face.
The total value of the abrasive ma
terial used In the United States In
creased about 22 per cent In 1916. as
compared with 1914.
The United States nowr has the
greatest number of electric steel fur
»«' *s of any nation, 73, compared with
Germany's 53.
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A device has been invented to be
fsstened to rhears so that they always
•111 be shat at the same bevel.
' UND GRABBERS WANT' ’
LAND SOLD, IS CLAIM
That Is Real Motive Behind
Proposed School Lands Sale,
Official Acserts.
Lincoln. Nob., Dec. 23. --Declaring:
tliat tiu? real motive bdiin l tdc* move
ment to secure legislative consent to
a sale of the school lands of tin* state
is a desire of land grabbers to exploit
the school children of Nebraska, Land
i ‘omniisMlonor Beckmann tells the gov -
ernor. in his biennial report, that the
effort should b* defeated- Mr. Heck
man says that it would be poor judg
ment to sell these lands at this lime
because land values are moving: up
ward and that within a few years most
of these holdings will have doubled in
value. Because the state dissipated a
part of its holdings years ago by sidl
ing them for $7 an acre, when today
they are worth $100 or more, is not a
good reason, he says, for disposing of
thi* remainder in a similar manner. The
big prices cattlemen are receiving is
sited as a reason for believing the
grazing land will be in great demand.
He points out that, as a result of a
systematic effort to secure reappraisals
of land now' under lease $42,2x9 a year
has been added in revenue.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
STOPS LOTTERIES
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. S3.— In an opin
ion supplementing one given H> uuys
igo, Attorney General Reed, today cm
phasizos n warning given merchants ol
Nebraska regarding wlmt constitutes a
lottery. Since giving an opinion regard
ing the offering of an automobile lo
stimulate business at Diaden, Neb., the
itturney general has received many In
quiries from towns where similar pro
positions had been used. One popular
plan Is to give a ticket with each $1
worth of goods purchased, and at the
mid of a certain time ticket holders
draw for a prize.
SUch a method, the attorney general
says, constitutes a lottery and is 11
legal.
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ROCK ISLAND FAILS TO
COMPLY WITH RATE SCHEDULE
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 33.—The federal
court is asked by the attorney general
of Nebraska to enjoin the Rock Island
railroad from declining to comply with
general order No. 19, the Jobbing rate
schedule that bus been attacked by all
of the railroads. The request for an
injunction Is Incorporated in an answer
filed by the state to the railroad’s peti
tion. Mr. Reed asks the court to order
"the Interstate Commerce commission
to appear before it and defend its
usurpation of the power of making
rates wholly within the state of Ne
braska. The court is asked to consider
the entire matter of rates and to re
move any discrimination that may be
found to exist as between points within
the state and points outside the state
by compelling the railroads to lower
the Incoming rates.
This Is the result of the case brought
by Sioux City and other river jobbing
‘.owns, victory for which cities brought
shout a raise In stale rales, instead of
i lowering of Interstate rates by the
ratlroa ds.
THE STATE MUST AID
MANY SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 23. The state leg
islature will have to dig down into Ka
ther Nebraska's Jeans to the tune of
t50,000. to aid weak school districts of
the state to hold aloft the banner of
educational progress. At least that's
what State Superintendent Thomas in
forms the governor. Twenty-three
counties in the state now draw $GI)0 a
week from the state for the purpose of
keeping open the doors of the little old
(tod schoolhouse.
In most of these there are large tracts
af undeeded lands owned by the gov
ernment and the state school fund, all
jntaxahle. and until they can develop
.'he state must help pay for the main
tenance of schools, if they have good
schools, settlers are attracted, and In
'ime thev become self supporting, l-'or
> time, however, ; hey must either re
ceive help from the state treasury or
•lose thilr doors.
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LINCOLN WOMAN WAS
LLOYD-GEORGE’S PLAYMATE
Lincoln. N’eh.. Dec. 23 A very small.
Aright eyed, very Intense and alert
awver was David Lloyd-George, pre
mier of Kngland. according to Mrs.
Annie Jones, of Lincoln, a school play
mate. His Influence over the boys in
Hip school, those of greater age as well
is those who were younger, she says,
was remarkable, and the impressions
site gained of him then have lasted
through the years. Ills father. David
George, died when he was a small lad
and his mother brought him to live
with a bachelor uncle, Richard George.
In later life the lad hyphenated the two
cognomens. He was a nonconformist,
ami defied the orders to make school
children recite the creed and take dart
in Church parades. As a lawyer Ite was
•the Champion of Hie poor against op
pression, and seldom collected any
fees. Mrs. Jones’ opinion of him was
thus tersely expressed: "Germany will
have tu come to terms with him!"
Meteorological.
The weather seer predicts a freeze;
"Tomorrow twill be snowing; and 4(.
kinds of Arctic breeze like blitzen wil'
be blowing." Tomorrow i had planner
to go to visit sundry nieces, out tab
punk prophecy of snow has knocket
my plans to pieces. Tit* day w ill prob
ably he fine, and balmy an I beguiling
soft winds will blow, the sun will shine
all nature will be smiling. I lack Hu
nerve to laugh to scorn the government
forecaster; I will not set forth in tht
morn, for fear 1 meet disaster. Kxpe
rjU uea has shown me tltat tile n eat he.
ever is halt y; lie issues forecast;
through l\i» hat, and must wf them art i
rau.v. A canvas seer, with aawdus
stuffed, would prophesy all 'round him
yei 1 confess lie lea* me bluffed, wit!
Ids old maps, confound hint! So 1 *,t.a;
home sli day and mop*—my heuuplei.
being leather—because the Unhurt
prophet'* dope is threatening hat
weather. A million men are buffaloed
Just like the locoed writer; they veil
tore not front tlteir abole because o
till* old blighter, who threatens storm,
thal do not start—why don't the peel
er* pinch him?—who springs his rust,
map and chart when we go up ti
lyneh him.
I'liable to appreciate the eloquent e o|
the ordinary preacher, .1. A. Ttreedlove
i dr a f mute of Charleston. \Y. Ya., sen
to Romney and asked that a deaf mv
dumb preacher be sent. The mlnlste.
cum ■, delivered a gospel message wit!
his f-nset's, l-o-eedlove professed religioi
and wtet bapUzed ip the Raptist faith.
The krt.ihlishnient of a tmtnii Ipal Jit
P*V bus line between Newbury port
Haverhill and West Newbury, in .Mas
saebusettf as » protect agiittst tin
action of the Huy State street railway
In Increasing passenger fares from u u
G cents, was decided op at u meeting o
citizens of V.rr; Nfw'euiy.
SURGEON WATCHES AS
HE IS OPERATED ON
Dr. E. S. Ryerson, of Lincoln,
Conscious, Coolly Directs
Difficult Operation,
Lincoln. Nob., Dec. 23.—After lying
on the operating table under the in
fluence of a local anaesthetic only, and
coolly watching and directing surgeons
who were performing a difficult oper
ation upon his own bowels, Dr. E. R.
Ryerson, a well known Lincoln phy
sician and surgeon, got off the oper
sting table and walking to his room
in the hospital, calmly went to bed to
await tlie healing of the ghastly cuts
made in his abdomen by his brother
surgeons.
At different phases of the operation
work was suspended temporarily while
pictures were made with which to il
lustrate an article which Dr. Ryerson
will write for a medical journal and in
which he will describe how it feels to
take one's own medicine and to watch
one's own "insides" being cut up and
cut out.
Local physicians declare this the
first case on record where a patient
superintended such a difficult opera
tion upon himself and afterwards
walked in the hospital and went to bed.
ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL
IS BURNED TO DEATH
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 23.—Eleven-year
old Madeline Palmer, of Havelock, is
dead from the effects <>f burns re
ceived Monday morning.
The little girl had remained away
from the morning session of school,
owing to illness. At 11 a. m. her
mother. Mrs. J, E. Palmer, of 701
South Fifteenth street, Havelock, went
Into the hack yard to hang out clothes.
The father, a rural mail carrier, was
out on his route. The child, left alone
In the house, discovered that the kitch
en stove had grown red hot. In climb
ing onto a chair to turn off the dam
per she allowed her clothes to get too
close to the stove, and in an instant
she was enveloped in flames.
Attracted by the screams of the
child, Mrs. Palmer saw her disappear
ing around the corner. The mother
seized a blanket, but was unable to
stop the progress of the flight until
after the child had twice encircled the
house. In the meantime a farmer driv
ing by had joined in the chase, and he
and Mrs. Palmer finally succeeded in
catching up with the girl and putting
out the flames.
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ARCHBISHOP HARTY IS
INSTALLED AT OMAHA
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 23.—Archbishop
Jeremiah J. Harty was installed as
bishop of Omaha at St. Celia’s cathe
dral, today. Ten prelates of the Cath
olic church and 120 priests of Nebraska
and Iowa were present at the ceremony.
Archbishop Glennon, of St. Louis;
Archbishop Keane, of Dubuque, la.;
Bishops McGovern, of Cheyenne; Dow
ling, of Des Moines; Garrigan, of Sioux
City; Muldoon, of Rockford, 111.; Burke,
of St. Joseph, Mo., and Cunningham, of
Concordia, Kan., were among those
present. Bishop Tihen. of Lincoln, de
livered the sermon. A banquet at a
local hotel followed the installation.
Archbishop Harty has been in the
Philippine islands for tile last t2 years.
Although the see of Omaha is only a
bishopric and its head bears the lower
title, Archbishop Harty retains the
rank and title hold previously and will
be known as Archbishop Harty.
WAR HAS RAISED
QUALITY OF HORSES
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 23.—Armed with
«. wealth of data and experience, sev
eral of the most eminent veterinarians
In the Missouri valley are advancing on
stock diseases, the enemy of farmers
and stockmen, ut the 20th annual meet
ing of the Nebraska Veterinary Medical
association, which is being hekl here.
Dr. S. VV. Alford, of the University of
Nebraska farm faculty, secretary
treasurer of the association, points out
lhat tlie European war by drawing
thousands upon thousands of American
horses to the battlefields has only
raised the quality of American horses,
because It took for the most part mere
ly average or inferior animals rather
than higli grade stock.
FARMERS’ CREAMERY TO
HAVE LARGE CAPACITY
Orleans. Neb., Dec. 23.—Construction
work on the Farmers’ Equity Cooper
ntive creamery is weil under way. The
building will he 60x(i0 feet, hulit of ce
ment and brick. President H. Baker
says the machinery is en route, and as
soon as the building is completed will
be installed. The plant will have a
capacity of two tars of butter a week.
It will be a centralizing plant for Ne
braska and Kansas exchanges on the
Burlington. The company is capital
ized for $50,000. witli a paid up capital
of $10,000, and, besides the butter and
ice plant, will do a general produce
business.
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LOW TEMPERATURE RECORDS
FOR SEASON BROKEN
Omaha. Neb., Dec. 23.- Low temper
ature records for the season were again
broken in this vicinity early today. In
Omaha the mercury stood at 14 degrees
below zero: ai Sioux City, .15 below;
at Sioux Falls, S. D., 20 below: while
Norfolk and Long I'!.it*. Neb., reported
23 and 25 below, respectively. There
was no wind and the weather was
clear.
PIONEER SETTLER DEAD.
Allen, Neb.. Dec. 23. Richard Con
nell. aged 71 years and an old settler
of Dixon county, died at his home
northeast of here of hardening of the
arteries, lie leaves a widow and five
children, William T„ R. K.. Keith and
Lillian, at home, and Mrs. Jncobey, re
siding at Norfolk, Neb.
The funeral was held from the Lu
theran church at Allen at 5 o’clock to
day. Tlie sermon was preached by the
Rev. O. V\ . Livers and burial was made
In the Kastview cemetery.
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NEBRASKA GRADUATES.
Chicago. Dec. 23. —I’nivorsitv of
Chicago graduated tlie.se Nebraska stu
dents today: Kdwurd Sokup, A. B..
Fremont; Thomas Blakeslee, Ph. B„
Uncoln; Frank Tori ell, A. It., Omaha;
John Thompson, S. It.. Sutton. I
A time saver ran opener patented by
an Arkansas inventor has a large blade
bo shaped that the top of a can is re
moved oy a single turn of a handle.
POSTPONE BALLOT ON
DISTRICT -‘DRY” BILL
Washington. Dei*. 21.—A final vote <»n
Senator Sheppard’s District of Colum
bia prohibition bill, will be taken in th
Senate on January ti. That date, w i*
agreed upon after plans for a vote yes
terday hail been upset by m tactical
error bi one of the friends o' the
measure. Advocates of the bill fear that
postponement of the vote may endanger
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WANTS $100,000 TO
FIGHT BOOTLEGGERS
Attorney General Reed Also
Asks Power to Discharge
County Attorneys.
Rlncoln, Xeb.. Deo. 22.—The sum of
$100,000 for the purpose of conducting
prosecutions against bootleggers dur
ing the next two years is asked by At
torney General Reed in his response to
the request of the governor for an es
timate of office expenses to include in
the budget the executive is preparing
for tlie legislature. He will also ask
for power to fire every county attorney
who does not do his duty or who throws
obstacles in the way of the attorney
general’s enforcement of prohibition.
Mr. Reed opposed prohibition in the
election, but now has jointed the “dry”
advocates.
The attorney general asks for $15,000
to break up monopolies, and $75,000 to
hire expert accountants and lawyers to
help defend the 2-cent rate case and
*° aid in the fight to retain state con
trol of intrastate rates.
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“ALL YOU HAD TO DO
WAS TO CATCH ’EM”
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Omaha, Neb., Dee. 22.—Four wit
nesses today for the defense in the suit
of the government against the United
States Live Stock and the Omaha Land
& investment corripany, charged with
using the mails to defraud m the sale
of fictitious "wild horses" in Coconino
•ounty, Arizona, testified that they be
lieved there were "sufficient” horses
running on the range, the only prob
lem being to catch them. The govern
ment charges that the defendants have
sold or traded for at least SI,000,000
worth of horses which do not exist.
William Hinkley, real estate dealer,
of Britton, S. D., was the first of the
11 men now facing trial to testify.
lie stated he had "traded about" un
til he owned 125 head of the wild
horses. He said he had never investi
gated whether they were on the range,
'jut he was "satisfied" they were. His
jonnection, he said, with the present
suit was purely accidental. In order to
accommodate one of the defendants, A.
-• Smith, he affixed his signature to
10 bills of sale calling for the transfer
of about 250 Arizona wild horses. He
lid this, he asserted, "merely as an
accommodation,” without knowing
whether the horses existed.
GOES TO 26 BELOW
AT VALENTINE, NEB.
Valentine, Neb., Dec. 22.—The gov
ernment thermometer registered 26 be
low zero here between 5 and 7 o’clock
’.his morning. This is the coldest here
>0 far this season.
Omaha, Neb., Dec. 20.—Record
tweaking temperatures for the present
season were experienced throughout
his section today. Sioux Falls, S. D.
-eported a temperature of 22 degrees
jelow zero early today. Norfolk, Neb
15 below; Sioux City, 15 below; Lin
coln, 6 below, while the Omaha weathei
Dureau gave the thermometer reading
it 9 o’clock as 10 below and still going
Sown. Fortunately there was very lit
tle wind.
AFFAIRS OF WOMAN LODGE
ADJUSTED BY COURT
Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 22.—Mrs. Emma
Manchester is boss of the Woodmen
jf the World Circle, according to a
supreme court decree, and thus is
settled a question that has torn that
society for months. Mrs. Manchester
ias been the supreme guardian of the
circle for years, and all efforts to de
pose her having failed. Certain mem
bers sought to clip her wings by having
* resolution passed at the last meeting
af the executive council giving the
Meld work and certain other duties to
a committee of three, of which she was
but one. As control of the field work
ers means control of the political ma
chine of any order, Mrs. Manchester
refused to bow her head.
Instead, she went to the supreme
iiourt and got a temporary injunction
that has just now been made perma
nent. The court says the language is
too ambiguous to permit of the inter
pretation sought by defendants, and
that anyway the council did not have
the power to act without the approval
af the supreme forest. Judge Fawcett,
who dissented, said the supreme coun
cil had the power it assumed. Dora
Alexander and Mary E. LaRocca were
the othei* women to the controversy.
The court also ordered Ida M. Kelly,
supreme banker of the circle, to give
money and office* to Nora M. DeBolt.
4he latter having been elected on a bal
lot taken after Mrs. Manchester had
declared a tie vote.
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STATE URGED TO SELL
LEASED SCHOOL LANDS
Lincoln. Xeb., Dec. 22.—State Super
intendent Thomas, in his report to the
governor, says that, unless the state
can secure proper appraisals of the 1,
600,000 acres of school lands now under
lease, it should sell them. The lands
are valued at $20,000,000, but the state
gets only $170,000 from the leases, due
to the fact thin local boards make ap
praisals and favor local users. If their
\alue were realized at a salt*, the in
come invested in bond would he $1,000,
000 a year. 'I'he question is one that
v\ill he fought out at the coining elec
tion.
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COURT DECIDES PECULIAR
LIFE INSURANCE CASE
Lincoln Neb.. Dec. 22.— Because her
husband was killed while trying to
demonstrate to a personal enemy that
he was his physical superior in combat,
Mrs. Ida Mulvaney will not he able to
recover on the $3,000 life insurance pol
icy he held in the Modern Woodmen.
The voutroversy was decided by the
supreme court, which holds that under
the provisinn* .if the policy. Mrs. Mul
van*-y lost a.I rights because, when
!;: her husband was engaged in the
viv ..a.' m of law. He was shot.
A French inventor has combined a
elephone, microphone ami phonograph
;o transmit sounds from the last to
distant points or to a number t>f points
at once.
"Daylight saving" was a success in
Austria Hungary, reports United Spates
2 nisul General Albert Halstead from
Vienna. Uomm> nting on the results of
Ihe "daylight saving" experiment,
.vhich began April 3ft and finished Sep
ember 30 hist, lm says that it proved
nost beneficial to the health of the
Viennese, due to the extra sunlight in
.voiking hours, and also did much to
iavc ospensc for lighting. It is tab ular {
■_*d, he : e ports, that in Vienna alone the i
teople tonsuimd laS,O4iO,iM»0 cubic feel
if gas Dss and saved $1-42.000. The t iiy
;>f Vienna required H.oi'O.tMift cubic f- ci .
nX gas lesr for at it el lighilxig.
NEVILLE SOON TO CUT
THE “POLITICAL PIE"
Politicians Assert Governor
elect Has Comjileted List
of Nominations.
I Lincoln, Nob., Dec. 21.-—Governor
! Elect Neville has arrived in Lincoln
from Washington, where lie said he
went to attend a conference of govern
ors. The politicians say that the fact
that National Committeeman Arthur
Mullen and .Senator Hitchcock were
lioth in Washington at the same time
as i he governor is what interests them
most. They expect that the newly
elected executive will shortly announce
his complete list of nominations. Tile
only one he announced while in the city
was that of tnto Murchel. of Ord, to
he state food, dairy and drug commis
sioner. He will succeed Clarence Har
man. This is the place State Chairman
Langhorst thought he was to get for
his services. The food commissioner
has much to do with seeing that under
prohibition beer under other names is
not sold in the state. Murchel is a
"wet;" Langhorst is a “dry."
The governor would neither deny nor
affirm the appointment of J. F. Web
ster, editor of the St. Paul Phonograph,
to be state printer. Webster made the
announcement in his paper a day or
two ago. The governor said he had
heard that Mr. Webster had announced
bis selection.
DOUGLAS COUNTY TREASURER
IS SUED FOR LARGE SUM
Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 21.—Attorney
General Reed began suit in supreme
court to recover $3,S17 from Co. Treas.
urer William G. Ure, of Douglas. The
sum is asked as penalty because the
Douglas county custodian of cash re
fused to make monthly remittances to
tile state treasurer when so ordered.
The two went to the legal mat on the
proposition, the county treasurer ob
jecting because of the expense and in
convenience of making reports so often,
but he lost. The suit is brought under
a clause of the law requiring remit
tances whenever Die state treasurer or
ders them made, which provides a pen
alty of lo per cent.
The suit is in the nature of a test.
Mr. lire’s defense will probably be that
the ambiguity of the law justified his
test of its validity, and that he lias
scrupulously obeyed the state treasur
er's orders. Several other treasurers
are in the same boat with him.
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STOCK ASSOCIATION FIGHTS
BOOST IN CORN PRICES
Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 21.—The North
east Nebraska Live Stock association
lias lodged with the state commission
large petitions protesting against any
increase in the price of corn at the
South Omaha stock yards. The yards
now charge $1 a bushel, and have asked
permission to make it $1.50. The signers
reside in Wayne, Madison, Cedar and
Dixon counties. They say that $1 is
enough, and that to permit the collec
tion of a larger sum would give a large
profit to the yards.
TEACHERS CONTRIBUTED OVER
$25,000 TO THE STATE
Lincoln, Neb., Dee. 21.—Aspiring
school teachers contributed the sum
of $25,006 to the state treasury during
the last two years. That sum represents
money paid for examination and certifi
cate fees. It is made up usually of $1.50,
part of which is taken by the county
superintendent and the remainder goes
to the state. The biennial report of
State Superintendent Thomas, shows
tVat all of this money was expended ex
cepting $1,971. The money goes to men
and women who act as readers, exam
iners and recorders of the examination
papers.
WOULD EXCHANGE SCHOOL
LANDS FOR BIG TRACT
Lincoln. Neb.. Dec. 21.—The state
forestration commission will recom
mend to the state legislature that 10,000
acres of school land in small tracts in
various parts of the state shall be trad
ed to the national government for com
pact bodies of land in government forest
reservations. In this way the state will
be able to control the use of these lands
for the benefit of the state.
Three bills will be introduced bv the
commission. One will authorize counties
and cities and villages to set aside
tracts of land for forest or lumber
tracts to serve as recreation grounds
and a source of wood supply. The sec
ond will co\ er the trading of state
school land for government land, and I
the third will create a state forestrv :
commission to serve without salary and
to be appointed byjthe governor.
HAFtTINGTON—Col. Z. M. Baird, auc
tioneer,, of this city, died after a short
illness. He was one of the oldest resi
dents of Martlngton, and was known all
over northeastern Nebraska as an auc
tioneer. lie was at one time owner of
the Hart mg ton Herald, and about 20 years
ngo est*.r'!»wr the Cedar County News.
He held the t.fice of county sheriff for
two terms, and was very prominent in
the democratic party, being for a number
of years chairman of the county c**piral
committee. The iate Mr. Baird also was
ft prominent Mason, and a few years ago
held the office of grand master of the
state.
CARROLL—The Degree of Honor lodge
has elected the following officers: Mrs.
huella Olmstead. P. c. 11.: Mrs. Florence
Wollam, C. H . Mrs. Ella Belforr, L. n.;
Mrs. Sadie Yong. (V O.; Mrs. Elsie Lar
ion. warden, M.ss Kathwine Williams
treasurer; M.>. Gertrude Hancock, re
dder of finance*?. C. E. NjJelford and
Mrs. Anna Miller were token into the
lodge as new members.
EMERSON—Today, at the home of the
bride's parents. Mr. and Mis. H. B. Smith,
nt Allendorf, la., occurred the marriage
)f Glenn W. Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Evan Jones, living northwest of here, and
Miss Eve Mary Smith. The hride has a
utmber of relatives in this vicinity and it
ivas while Vis-itli g here that she became
icquafnted with Mr. Jones
O’NEILL- The Holt county fair assoeia
"ion eletced the following officers for the
m suing year: J. J. Thomas, president; H
«V. Tomlinson, vice president; FV C. Dono
loe, secretary treasurer; September il to
o have been selected as the dates for the
it xt fair.
EMERSON -The Emerson light and
tower plant has been soM to S. D. Knud
lon, of II#linglon. Neb., who has also
nought ih*- plant at Wakefield.
HAKT1NGTOX—John Vogt. « farmer
•raiding west of here, narrowly escaped
using his life when his arm was caught
n a revolving pulley on a corn *bel>!.
rhe machinery whirled him around in the
lir. breakii g his arm and inflicting s»
ere bruises on his body.
1IA RTINC*TON - The \V. G. Shaddock
md IV A. Shaddmk families, who have
reern residents of this county the past lc
cars, left this week for Timber Like.
*. I).. wh«re they wlil make their future
tome.
I1ARTIN.GTON M. E. Duckett ami G
d. Ale si ister have been elected as .iele
;a les of tile A. O. ft. W. grand lo-lje
viiicii ir. Omaha January
missis foIm .
back ey FURIOUS
EE* ASSAULTS
Another Retreat Began Along
the Entire Dobrudja Front—
Teutons Outnumber Slavs,
Petrcgrad Says.
NEW ACTIVITY IN EGYPT
British Capture El Arish, an
Important Point — Turks
Being Driven Back on
Kut-El-Amara.
Petrograd, (via London), Dec. 23.—
British admiralty wireless press) —
Russian troops in the northern part of
the Rumanian province of Dobrudja
having been attacked yesterday along
tlie whole front by superio*'numerically
Teuton forces says the Russian official
statement issued today, have begun a
further retirement to the northwest.
While winter weather Is causing mil
itary operations on most of the fight
ing fronts to lack features of interest
considerable activity is developing ir
sectors far enough south to admit ol
energetic campaigning.
On the Tigris, the British after a
long period of quiet, have recently
pushed forward close to Kut El Ainara,
on the south and are continuing to at
tack the Turkish forces in that region,
evidently in the hope of resuming then
long delayed march toward Bagdad.
Now another field of aclivitty is de
manding attention with today’s state
ment from London that British forces
have captured El Arish in Egypt on th<
Mediterranean 90 miles east of the Suej
canal.
British Near Palestine.
«
Little has been heard from Egyptian
-peratioris for some time, but the Brit
tsh are known to have been making
somewhat elaborate preparations tc
protect the canal region from furthei
incursions such as that of last summei
and their defensive lines have been
pushed out on the Sinaia peninsula.
Apparently there has been a recent ef
fort for still further to extend the de
fensive zone of which the capture ol
El Arish constitutes an important de
velopment.
The taking of El Arish establishes the
British front at this point well toward
the border of Palestine and marks the
furtherest eastern penetration by Brit
ish forces in this area since the Turkish
raids began. i
El Arish has been the object of num- (
erous attacks by British soldiers and
warships, and last May a combined
naval and air raid on the place was re
ported to have destroyed the fortifica
tions.
On the Franeo-Belgian front the ar
tillery is the only arm of the service that
is displaying activity of moment and
even tlie bombardments such as those
reported in the Somme and Verdun re
gions, are not of pronounced intensity.
HEAVY ARTILLERY BATTLE.
Paris. Dec. 22. -There was lively can
nonading in the region of Louvemont,
north of Verdun, during last night, says
the war office in today's bulletin on the
progress of military events on the
French front.
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BATTLE NEAR MONASTIR.
Baris, Dec. 22.—An artillery duel of
great intensity took place north of
Monastir on Thursday, the war office
announced in today’s statement regard
ing operations on the Macedonian
front. Along the easterly end of the
line on the Struma front encounters
between patrols occurred.
GERMAN U-BOAT SUNK
BY FRENCH DESTROYERS
Paris, Dec. 22.—The German sub
marine U-45 has heen sunk by destroy
ers, according to a Mantes dispatch.
Tiie TT-45 recently sank steamers of'
Santa Nazaire.
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The Katydid Sinqs of Love.
From the Detroit News.
Some prima donnas require milk
baths; others want a stagehand or so
Hreu, some take just a touch, or so, ol
wine: and still others show their tem
perament by tearing up contracts and
managers’ offices. With chorus girls
and queens of burlesque putting on
these stunts so often that they’ve lost
their punch, here's a hunch for artists
Mho are getting low on their varied as
sortment iff temperament indicating
stunts. It is:
Emulate Miss Katydid and sing only
when loit re in love.
A ful! account of Miss Katydid's tem
peramental didoes was given Detroit
ers by Dr. U. 1.. Dltmars of the New
York Zoologli al gardens. Persons who
have spent fine summer nights on oper
country porches may not believe this,
but it took film six weeks’ actual time
and two years' experimenting to make
a katydid sing. He wanted to take a
motion picture of its song—and he did
finally, after getting next to tin- surest
iiikccr of storming Miss Katydid's
be.., t
When Miss Katydid does sing, sin
dues it by rubbing her wings against
curb other.
It's easy to take a cricket’s song pic
ture. When they sing they want to
fight. Put two males within eight id
each other and you can get l.tibO feet
of song in no time.
California has established a soii.il in
suranee commission to make a study ot
the social insurance theory, to examine
European experiments and to multi- e.
survey of conditions in the state, m. as
it- report to the next meeting of tin leg
islature on the advisability of extending
tilt- activities of the state in the field of
social insurance.
New Zealand exported 44.62b gailuns
ef whale oil during 1914.
Ka-e-na-gl-wes, an Indian chief of
Cass Lake. Minn., said to be 124 ani] H
heathen all that century and a quarter
will not be buried in the spirit land of
the Chippewa*' happy hunting ground
He has taken the name John Smith and
turned Christian.
A* illustrating Brazil's financial de- 1
presslon, it is reported that the auto
mobiles imported in 1915 numbered 214
and in 1914, 744. as against 3,218 in
1913 and 3,i85 in 1912. Germany" and
France supplied the bulk before the
Star. American manufacturers are now
•asking considerable galea.