THE O’NEIL FRONTIER
0, H. CRONIN, Ptiblishar.
#NEILL- NEBRASKA
The grille in the house of commons
Which impedes the view of occupants
of the women's gallery, probably will
be removed in tho near future. The
question was considered by members
recently, one describing the grille as a
discreditable and medieval anachron
ism. During the discussion it wan
Stated that for many years women
were allowed to go into the house and
at times there was such throngs that
they pressed into the seats occupied
by members. On one occasion they
were so interested in the debate that
they took possession of several seats
and it required two hours to remove
them. This resulted in the exclusion
of women for 50 years. The present
grille was erected to prevent a repeti
tion of such scenes and to prevent
women from talking to members.
Progress in aviation in Japan has
again been attended with tragedy. Re
cently two men lost their lives by the
fall of a machine—one, F*if. Seitaro
Tamai, of the Nippon flying school, and
the other, Reizo Yukawa, a photog
rapher on the staff of the Nichl-NIchi.
who had been taken up as a passenger.
Professor Taraai was a capable
aviator and had made several previous
flights yesterday near Tokio, with pas
aengers, on one occasion having suc
cessfully looped the loop. But when ho
ascended with the photographer, con
necting wires broke and the aeroplane
crashed to the ground. The petroleum
tank exploded, and the two men, al
ready bady Injured, were suffocated
and charred in the flames.
, Two young men at Belview, Ky., have
designed and constructed a type of mo
tor boat which they call a "hydroglide."
The boat ia built along the lines of a
hydroplane. Unlike the hydroplane,
however, it does not have wings. It
rests on two wooden glides. The rear
glide measures six feet square, and the
front one, four by five feet. The hydro
glide Itself is 14 feet long, and though
possessing only an old automobile mo
tor and steering wheel, makes a speed
of 30 miles an hour. The propeller,
which pushes Instead of pulls, makes
3,300 revolutions a minute.
In the supplementary budget estimate
Which ia to be introduced in the com
ing speecial session of the diet is an
item of 3,000,000 yen or $1,500,000 as ex
penditure for the establishment of an
army arsenal In Korea. This is a new
undertaking necessitated by the crea
atlon of two army divisions in Korea
which were authorised in 1915. In case
•t emergency In the future, the Korean
divisions and the garrisons in Man
churia will be enabled to have a quick
supply of guns and munitions and
other ordnance without relying upon
Supplies from Japan._
The Italian war department states
that 240 miles of narrow gauge railway
lines have been completed on the Ital
ian army front. The soldiers and sail
ors In Albania have laid 60 miles of
narrow gauge lines, this being the first
railway system in that country, and
have further built 180 miles of ma
cadam or dirt wagon roads within tho
past year. These roads, running over
mountains and through swamps, are
also the first good roads known In this
region since the days of the ancient
Roman empire.
Gretna Green is a village of Dumfries,
a border county of Scotland and near
the border line between Scotland and
Kngland. Formerly a common resort
jof runaway couples from England, the
practice was broken up by an act of
1856, which provides that no marriage
should be valid in Scotland unless one
of the parties had lived in Scotland for
the 21 days next preceding the mar
riage, or had his or her usual residence
there at the tima
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Documents written on paper made
from asbestos fiber, with Inks prepared
Croat the nitrates of Iron and cobalt,
have withstood a red heat for two hours
without being damaged in any way. No
damage resulted until the intensity of
the heat was Increased considerably and -
the document was exposed In It for 10
hours. It is expected that further ex
perimentation and study will result in
the perfection of a paper and Ink prac
tically Indestructible by fire.
A part of the important menagerie
of the city of Paris In the Jardln des
Plantes Is to be sacrificed to economic
necessities. Every animal feeding on
hay or grain, excepting rare specimens
that cannot be easily replaced. Is to be
killed to save fodder for horses and
cattle and bread for the people. Cer
tain species of bear and other animals,
such as the wild sheep of Algiers and
wild horses of prehistoric origin, will
„ be spared.
The United States breau of fisheries
is attempting to. Introduce into the Pa
cific ocean, fish that are natives of the
' Atlantic, and vice versa. The shifting*
and the changes that are going on are
not merely scientific experiments, hut
are meant to effect extensions of the
food supply, the' creation of new in
dustries, and the putting of money Into
the purpose of thousands of fishermen
on both coasts.
A shallow water motor boat, bought
by the members of an exploring party
bound for South America, has a draft
of but seven Inches. When carrying 15
passengers, the craft draws approxi
mately 10 Inches The boat Is 28 feet
in length and has an eight foot beam.
The owners of the boat expect to use
It In exploring shallow streams.
Model houses constructed of cement,
•and and rice husks are being erected
by the Philippine heath service. These
houses can be built for 2250 and will
outlast the unsanitary nipa houses now
in general use.
The power contained In the waterfalls
of Norway has been estimated at from
26.000.000 to 10,000,000-horse power Un
til recently the development of these
tails had been largely brought about
with the aid of foreign capital.
The world's tin smelting capacity Is
placed at 137,600 tons. Asia is credited
With 89,000 tons. England with 28,000
t tons, Germany with lt,200 tons, the
i United States with 11,200 tons, and Aus
| tralia with 3,400 tons.
The Epicureans derived .their name
from Epicurus (S42-271 B. C.), who was
' • philosopher of Attic descent, wtiose
s "garden’* at Athens rivaled In popu
larity the "porch" and the "academy.**
| Since the European war t>esun one
third of the Armenian race has been
S massacred or died from starvation and
■ «ne-half of those remaining are liome
■ less and dying in exile.
Japan’s last rice crop broke all ro
ll cords for that empire, having amounted
■A to 298,466,706 bushels, which beat the
■ former official high record (1014) by
■ 1,630,270 bushels,
9 The mineral resources of the far east
B kre to be made the subject of a thor
■ ough Study this year by tl:*i USited
tj States bureau of foreign Mad domestia
•V kommerco. «».
REED WOULD ENJOIN 1
NEBRASKA RAILWAYS
Would Put Burden of Stopping
Liquor Imports Upon the
Transport Lines.
Lincoln. Nob., July 9.—Attorney Gen
eral Reed lias in mind the commence
ment of an action to enjoin the rail
road companies from carrying liquor
into the state. The idea is that this
would lx> the easiest way of stopping
any shipments of liquor into the state
by train, since It would place on the
railroads the burden of watching what
was offered them. The railroads havo
not shown any disposition to help law
violators. At the governor's office it
was stated that the railroads have been
assisting greatly in the enforcement of
the law. A number of tips have been
given the law enforcement bureau of
the office.
The prohibition leaders insist that the
attorney general has no particular In
terest in enforcing the law, and claim
Jo have tried ineffectively to get him
to'get after some whom they think are
law violators. The law prohibits any
liquor from being sold that has any
malt in It. Many of the soft drinks or
beer substitutes are suspected of having
rnadt in them, and the state chemist has
been analyzing a lot of them. The at
torney general thinks that unless they
have more than the lawful amount of
alcohol In them there should be nn
proaecutions. Tho satisfactory methoq
in which tho law is working has pre
vented any showdown being made be
tween the attorney general and the pro
hibitionists.
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UNION JACK TORN DOWN
BY ENRAGED PAGE MAN
Page, Neb., July 9.—-On Tuesday both
the American and British flags were
hoisted on the same pole at Page, Neb.,
pver a tent specially erected for July
4. The American flag floated above tho
British. A certain citizen, whose name
Is withheld at present, approached the
owner of the union jack, who had
loaned his flag to the city for the spe
cial occasion, and Informed him that
If the flag were not lowered within a
limited time it would not be recogniz
able. Within half an hour of this In
terview the British flag was torn from
the staff. This offense has been re
ported to Gov. Keith Neville.
INSANE PATIENT DIES
UNDER WHEELS OF TRAIN
Norfolk, Nob., July 9.—Buzzl Gueta
lo, aged 29, patient at the state Insane
hospital since February 7, this year,
threw himself In front of the incoming
train from Sioux City and was cut to
pieces. The man had been working In
the laundry department of the institu
tion, and had been missing only about
16 minutes when Supervisor Regan was
notified of his absence and started to
search for him. Noticing that the train
had stopped the other side of the in
stitution, Regan hastened to the track
and found that the man was an escaped
Inmate. The man was sent here from
Douglas county.
FREMONT MELON CROP IS
ALMOST TOTAL FAILURE
Fremont, Neb., July 9—Fremont in re-,
cent years has gained the reputation of
being one of the best watermelon cen
ters in the west, but Fremont Is not go
ing to live up to its reputation thla
year. Visitors at Fremont’s tractor,
shows have good reason to remember
the “watenfielon days” of the show. But
the watermelon crop in and around Fre-,
mont this season Is proving to be a
tninus quantity. Owing to the cold, late
Spring growers found It almost impos
sible to get the seed started. What did
sprout give promise only of small, late
melons. Several leading growers plowed
up their watermelon vines and put tho
ground In corn.
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CAT AFRAID OF BIRDS
DUE TO LONG TRAINING
Norfolk, July 9.—The W. R. Hoffman
family, of Norfolk, lost a pet cat this
morning which had been with them for
11M years. Its name was “Commo
dore,” and with its companion "Fritz,”
came into the possession of the Hoff
man's when a kitten. The two cats
were trained never to touch a bird,
and all the birds of tho neighborhood
had to do was to scold shrilly and the
cats would hurry to shelter.
NO CLUE TO MURDERER OF
RICH NEBRASKA WIDOW
St. Paul, Neb., July 9—No light has
yet been shed on the mystery that sur
rounds the death of Mrs. Fred Voight,
a widow who lived on a farm between
Elba and this city. Her dead body was
found by the roadside covered with
weeds and grass. Tracks of an auto
mobile indicated that ,she may have
been killed in her borne and trans
ported to the place where her body was
found In a machine. One was seen
standing near there the night she was
last seen alive. She went home at
midnight on the Fourth of July. She
was 70 years old. and while worth con
siderable money, was not in the habit
of carrying any sums with her. The
authorities have not the slightest clue.
FREMONT DOG ORDINANCE
SHOWS EFFECTIVE RESULTS
Fremont, Neb., July 9.—Since Fre
mont's new dog ordinance became effec
tive, requiring owners to keep their
dogs penned up In summer, the police
have rounded up 1! stray canines and
forced the penalty of death in the,
chloroform room at the city hall on
them for “being at large." The new
ordinance went into effect July 2. Cap
tive canines are kept three davs, so that
owners may have a right to claim and
Identify them, before they are sent to
the death chamber. It will take the
price of a minimum polk,* court fine, $1
and costs amounting to $5.80, to secure
the release of a jail dog.
LINCOLN—The Burlington Railroad
company would like to change its rates
for special trains and has filed with tha
state commission a formal request. At the
present time the charge is regular tare, 2
cents a mile, with a minimum of net less
than *60 and not less than 75 fares. It
wants to change this to a minimum of *75
for the service and a minimum of 100
fares.
NORTH BEND—Early yesterday light
ning struck the home of C. L Kelly,
wrecking a corner of the house and stun
ning four members of tile family. Balls
of fire played through the rooms just
after the bolt hit.
NORFOLK—Joseph II. Oxnatn, mail
dork on the Union Pacific h ’tween here
and Columbus, sustained a b.yken wrist
wh,en the freight train to which the mall
car was attached was switching and was
crashed into by the engine, throwing Ox
nam's weight against his right arm, which
lay on the iron standard of the mail car.
FREMONT—Robbers secured *220 in
cash from the till at the Fidelity phar
ma'ey, in the First National bank Mock,
yesterday morning. It is believed the rob
bery was perpetrated by someone who
secreted himself in a corridor or the build
in* till after the door*were locked,* *■
TURPENTINE APPLIED
DY GANG OF ALIENS
American Beaten and Stripped
—One German in Jail. Three
Others Are Sought.
Lincoln, Neb., July 7.—John Fentrohs
at Dunning county Is in the Lancaster
county Jail, Interned as an alien enemy.
He is accused, with three others not
yet in custody, of having beaten up
Walter Blake, of German descent, for
having hung out an American flag in
front of his home. He was stripped
and turpentine painted on his body.
The Blakes live in a German district in
Blaine county, where the sentiment
against the government for entering
the war is said to be very strong, Fqn
trohs had been fined $2 by the local
magistrate for the assault.
PAIRBURY FARMERS LOSE
TELEPHONE CASE APPEAL
Falrbury, Neb., July 7.—The state
railway commission has dismissed the
complaint of a number of farmers at
tached to the Falrbury Telephone com
pany, who charged that the Lincoln
Telephone and Telegraph company,
.Which operates It, had fraudulently
claimed, In order to get them to agree
jo a 25 per cent Increase in rates, that
It would put in a new switchboard and
rebuild the pole lines. The commission
finds that the complaint was not sup
ported by evidence. It says that while
{he company’s agents overstated what
was necessary in order to give good
lervice, the subscriber to a telephone
Is not interested in the character of the
equipment used, but only the character
of the serlvce given.
PATE REDUCTION PLEA
GIV&S COMMISSION SHOCK
Creighton, Neb., July 7.—The North
wn Telephone company at Creighton
wants the state commission to be al
lowed to reduce its rates. When the
commissioners recovered from the
Bhock, they Investigated and found that
the rates the company desires to estab
lish are the rates it is now charging.
Six years ago the company complained
that its rates were too low, and after a
hearing the commission ordered a 25
cent increase in business and residence
rates and $1 a year for switching
charges. When the management start
ed to collect the new rates the subscrib
ers raised such a row that the attempt
was abandoned. Recently the manager
learned that it was against the law to
collect lower rates than the schedule on
file with the commission carries, and
now he has asked for the validation of
existing rates to conform to the prac
tice.
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WOMEN OF NEBRASKA TO
REGISTER FOR WAR DUTY
Grand Islapd, Neb., July 7.—A gen
eral precinct registration will be
made of the women of Nebraska
for the purpose of listing all who
desire to assist in the various
netlvities for women in connection with
Ihe war. At a meeting of the women’s
flivision of the state council of defense
|t was decided to ask the government
to recognize a registration movement
for women.
Governor Neville has agreed to issue
a proclamation recognizing the regis
tration of all women over 21 years of
xge in the state at ’ the polling pre
cincts the same as men. These are to
># registered and afterwards drafted
for service. This is the first state to
take up the plan.
NEVILLE DENIES HE WILL
SEEK COLONELSHIP IN ARMY
Lincoln, Neb., July 7. — Governor
Neville has gone to Washington to
get first hand information about the
Iraft system, and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Howard will be overlord of the
state for a week. The governor took
pains to tell the newspaper reporters
before he left that he was not going
Tor the purpose of making arrange
ments to become a colonel of the Sixth
Nebraska. The governor says he Is not
trying for a commission and that the
war department Is not likely to offer
him one. tie has refused, however,
to say what he would do if the honor
came to him. Some of his friends want
him to take it for the glory that will
come to a colonel in a political way,
but his closest friends are against it.
VISIT OF CARNIVAL OUTFIT
STARTS RUMPUS AT FREMONT
Fremont. Neb., July 7. — Announce
ment of the Fremont Driving Park as
sociation that it has engaged the
World’s Fair Carnival company for
shows in Fremont next week as a fea
ture of the race meet, is expected to
arouse a storm of protest. Carnival
companies have been barred from Fre
mont for several years by approval of
the Commercial club and several church
and civic societies. Residents of the
vicinity where the carnival company
will pitch its tents have announced that
they will protest to the city council.
SAUNDERS COUNTY PLANS
$25,000 RED CROSS FUND
Wahoo, Neb., July 7.—Saunders coun
ty will make a belated response to the
appeal for Red Cross funds. A move
ment has just been launched to raise
a fund of *25,000. Frank Kirchroan, of
Wahoo, who has been put in charge of
the campaign, has issued a statement
calling on Saunders county people to
help him. He says that Saunders coun
ty is the richest county in Nebraska
and cannot afford to be outdone byits
neighbors. In the Initial work of tho
campaign yesterday at Cedar Bluffs
aver *1,300 was secured.
WENT Tb SELL HOUSE, LEFT
CHILDREN, CAN’T RECOVER ’EM
Lincoln, Neb., July 7. — Mrs. Burt
Surney, who deserted her six children
tin Monday, leaving but a quarter with
them for the purchase of food, has re
turned. She says .that she went to
Beatrice to see about the sale of a
small house she owned there, and had
been detained longer than she expected.
In the meantime her children were
:ared for by the authorities, and they
decline to turn them back until the
juvenile court has sat upon the case.
WAYNE—Prof. John R. Armstrong, of
Oakland, has been chosen superintendent
of the city schools of Wayne to succeed
Prof. O. R. Bowen, who has been chosen
to the department of mathematics in the
state normal school in this place.
WAYNE—The livery barn of Simon
Ooeman was burned to the ground last
night. The fire, of unknown origin, was
seen at 1:30 a. m. A fine Utah Ion that
had been left ir. the barn by C. M. Madden
was burned to death. With a high wind
blowing, the blaze was exceedingly fieree
and the fire department was unable to
extinguish it.
FREMONT—Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bar
nett, of Waverly, accompanied by then
four children, were thrown from their
automobile. on the brick yard hill south
of Fremont yesterday when, the automo
bile turned turtle) .Roth .Mr, and Mrs.
Barnett and one daughter, Anna, suf
fered severe cuts ppd br.qlse*.
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HARDINGE BLAMED
FOR KUT FIASCO
✓-S.
Lord Hardinge.
Lord Hardinge, viceroy of India at
the outbreak of the war, is blamed
by the British government for the
fiasco in Mesopotamia which result
ed in the capture of a British army
by the Turks at Kut-el-Amara.
There is a sharp demand on the part
of the British public and press that
Hardinge be removed from any posi
tion of authority which he may oc
cupy at the foreign office.
MOTHER DISAPPEARS;
CHILDREN DESTITDTE
Lincoln Police Seek Woman
Who Ran Away Leaving
* Family Only Quarter.
Lincoln, Neb., July 5.—Lincoln police
e,re hunting for Mrs. Burt Gurney, who
stepped out of her home Monday after
noon with her baby in her arms and has
not since been seen. Behind her she
left six small children. When the quar
ter she left them to buy food with ran
out they told a policeman of their trou
bles. Their father is located at some
small town in the state, working on a
job as a carpenter. The oldest child, a
boy, is working with the father. The
mother said she was going to a hospital
to see a sister, but she never reached
there.
SEfeKS TO PREVENT PHONE
ADVANCE AT HARTINGTON
Hartington, Neb., July 5.—Commis
sioner Wilson is preparing a dissenting
opinion in the application of the Hart
ington Telephone company for an in
crease in rates. When he was a plain
lawyer Mr. Wilson fought a case
through the courts in which he claimed
that the state railway commission
could not raise rates in a city or town
where the franchise ordinance fixed the
rates. He lost in the supreme court,
which said the commission had fqji
power. The same principle is involved
in the Hartington case. The majority
opinion has not yet been filed, but Mr.
Wilson, on the theory that the power
the state commission exercises is the
police power of the state it can be
used only to reduce rates and never
against the interest of the public, i3
preparing to dissent, despite what the
supreme court has said.
TO IMPOSE RESTRICTIONS
ON ISSUANCE OF -STOCKS
i Lincoln, Neb., July 5.—The state rail
way commission declines to permit the
sale of stock in Nebraska by companies
that under the law must secure its ap
proval, and which deny to preferred
stockholders the right to vote. This
policy has not been formally adopted
by the commission, but Chairman Hqll
says that the time has come to'put a
stop to a practice by which vast sums
have been gathered in by manipulators.
He says that; the constitution requires
that every stockholder have as many
votes in the conduct of the business as
he holds shares, and that it makes no
distinction between preferred and com
mon shares. Mr. Hall says that the
practice results in borrowing money on
preferred share security only by men
who may have few assets of their own,
but who control entirely the expendi
ture or distribution of the money thus
obtained.
RED CROSS HAS CHARGE
OF LYONS CELEBRATION
Lyons, Neb., July 5.—The Red Cross
took charge of the Fourth of July cele
bration at this place. The crowd was
estimated at 5,000. The orator of the
day was Hon. John E. Farmer, vice
president of Hastings college. He gave
a stirring patriotic address, pointing
out the duties of the American people
in the great war against Germany.
The ball game drew an immense
crowd. The "Murphy Did It” team de
feated the T. B. O.’s by a score of
9 to 4. __
SUPPLIES FOR NEW ARMY
T0 BE READY SEPT- 1
Washington, July 5.—Clothing and
camp equipment for the first 1,000,000
men of the new armies will be delivered
by September 1, the tentative date of
the mobilization of tte first increment
of the national army.” A statement is
sued by the war department says that
adequate supplies for all the national
guard and national army will be avail
able by the time the troops are called
out.
The department already lias equipped
300,000 men, national guards and regu
lars and the troops In France have wltl
them stores to last six months.
YOUNG FARMER KILLED
BY BOLT OF LIGHTNING
Council Bluffs, la.. July 5.—During a
violent thunderstorm about 0
o'clock this morning. Fred R. Flanagan,
a young farmer in Garner township,
about three miles north of this city,
was instantly killed by lightning. He
had been picking cherries ajjd his body
was found by h(s; wife 30 feat from
the trees where-he had started for the
house.
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OMAHA LINO BANK IS
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
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Books Now Open for Bond Sub- j
scriptions—$100,000 Al
ready Taken.
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Omaha. Neb., July .1.—The federal j
land bank has open.ee its books for sub- |
scriptions for federal farm loan bonds.
The first bond issue will be approxi
mately $250,000.
Loans have already been arranged to
tak<f every dollar of the $750,000 capital
ization of the bank. All excess loans
will be cared for by bond issues.
Bonds will be issued during the next
30 days as fast as loans are arranged.
Applications for $100,000 of the bonds
have already been received at the Om
aha land bank.
The security offered as a basis for the
bond issue is unsurpassed. Loans are
made oh first real estate mortgages
conservatively appraised with a limit
of 50 per cent upon the appraised value
of the real estate and 20 per cent of the
improvements.
Before a bond issue is permitted, the
securities, either in cash, United States
bonds, farm loan bonds or first mortg
age upon real estate, must be tendered
to the local registrar of the federal land
bank.
As additional security, the 12 federal
land banks of the entire country have,
by resolution, pledged the entire .as
sets of each of the banks for the pay
ment of the entire issue of farm loan
bonds of the country.
The bonds will be optional at five
to 20 years, interest at 4% per cent,
payable semi-annually, and they are ex
empt from all taxes of every nature,
save and except inheritance taxes. They
will be issued in denominations of $1,
000, $500, $100, $50 and $25. They are
redeemable at par and accrued interest
on any interest date after five years
from date of issue.
The bonds will be marketed at 101%.
Braft or certified checks should accom
pany subscriptions to the federal land
bank.
The bond sale in this district is under
the charge of E. B.,Morcom. treasurer
of the federal land bank of Omaha, rep
resenting the bank, and M. L. Corey,
registrar-attorney, representing the fed
eral farm loan board.
ASK COURT TO MAKE
NEW LIBEL RULING
Omaha News Checks Broad
Proposal Up to State Su
preme Court.
Omaha, Neb., July 5.—The supreme
Court is asked, in the appeal to Benja
min F. Fellman and the Omaha News
trom a $10,000 libel judgement obtained
by Dist. Judge Estelle of Douglas coun
ty, to lay down the broad rule that a
citizen has a right to write and a news
paper the right to publish any state
ment about a man who has voluntarily
offered himself as a candidate for of
fice and thereby tendered the issue of
his personal fitness for public service,
If he believes it to be true and has
probable ground for such belief, even
though it is not true.
Thie case has drawn into it a number
af big lawyers, since it involves the
question of whether the narrow rule
laid down by Judge Taft, afterwards
president, or the broad rule laid
down by Justice Cooley, shall obtain
legal recognition in Nebraska. Thous
ands of political articles, communica
tions and editorials appear each cam
paign in the newspapers, and the Ne
braska supreme court is asked to lay
down the rule.
The case was before the court once
before, when Judge Estelle secured a
$25,000 verdict. This was set aside
and the case remanded. The second
time it went to trial was in Dodge
county. It is claimed by the attorneys
that the verdict represents the punish
ment given a preacher for engaging in
politics, and as proof it is shown that
nine Germans were on each jury. The
Germans object strenuously to a min
ister taking part in civic affairs.
The narrow rule laid down by Judge
Taft is that criticism is permissible,
but false statements cannot be made
without rendering the writer liable in
damages. A letter was written by Fell
man and printed in the News, charging
Estelle with being backed by the Tom
Dennison machine.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL RULES
AGAINST NEBRASKA SUFFS
Lincoln, Neb., July 5.—In a verbal
opinion Attorney General Reed holds
that Secretary of State Pool, as an ex
ecutive ‘officer of the state, is charged
with the responsibility of the safe keep
ing of all documents filed with him, and
that he is apparently within his rights
when he insists that he won’t allow the
suffragists to copy the names on the'
suffrage law referendum that is sched
uled to be filed with him before the
24th. The suffragists want to print the
names in the papers of each signer’s
home town. Mr. pool thinks this a form
of brow beating that ought not to be
permitted. The attorney general says
that all documents filed with the secre
tary of state are open for the inspection
of the public, but that the secretary, as
custodian, has the right t* forbid such
use of the documentc as might imperil
them or their safety.
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THREE NEW STATE BANKS
CHARTERED IN NEBRASKA
Lincoln, Neb., July 3—Three new
state banks were chartered Monday by
the state banking board. One is the
Securities Savings bank of Omaha, with
W. V. Mathews as president, L. B. Ful
ler, of Lincoln, vice president, and John
M. Andrews. Cashier. Matthews is the
head of an instalment investmeht com
pany that had some difficulty getting
the approval of the board some years
ago because it does not look with favor
upon them.
The new bank has a capital of $75,000
and is the fourth state bank now lo
cated in that city. The other two new
banks are: Farmers’ Security State
bank of Rhors, Nemaha county, capital,
$10,000, and the Farmers State bank, of
Culbertson, with a capital of $20,000.
WAITS A—J. P. Johnson and Guy Bart
lett each lost a cow killed by lightning
last week. Both animals were insured.
NEBRASKA TO PURCHASE
NEW LAND BANK BONDS
Lincoln, Neb., July 5.—The- state
board of educational lands and funds
having its $500,000 Liberty bond sub
scription cut to $150,000. now proposes
"to invest $100,000 of state sehopl funds
in the bonds of federal land banks. The
last legislature gave it permission. It
also has $300,000 which it will use to
buy securities of Nebraska cities, coun
ties and school districts. Land Com.
mlsstoner Shumway is championing the
purchase of federal land bank bonda
0s halping out .western Nebraska. .. .
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Lt
Writes Letter to Defeat Amend*
merit to Prevent Council of
Defense Members Selling
Wares to Uncle Sam.
THREATENS WAR PLANS
Machinery Evolved to Aid in
Conflict Would Be Disrupt
ed—Declares Graft Pre
vented by Safeguards.
Washington, D. C., July 9.—President
Wilson, it was learned today, has writ
ten a letter in which he asks that the
Kenyon amendment to the food control
bill to prohibit persons acting in an
advisory capacity for the government
from making contracts with the gov
ernment be withdrawn.
The letter Is understood to have been
sent to Senator Kenyon. The president
takes the position that the passage of
the amendment would disrupt the busi
ness machinery which has been organ
ized to assist the government.
A great stir has been caused by the
letter. ,,
Will Insist on Check. f
Senator Kenyon said that if such a
letter had been written to him he was
not yet aware of it. as he had not re
ceived it.. He said that though he was
the author of the amendment it now
was in the bill by authority of the com
mittee on agriculture and no one had
any authority to withdraw it. He made
it clear he intended to press for it3
adoption.
Washington, I). C„ July 9.—President
Wilson has thrown the weight of his
personal influence against a provision
attached to the food bill which, it is
said, practically would disrupt the J_
machinery of the council of national
defense. The provision in question
would forbid any person connected with
the government from selling to it any
thing in which he has an interest.
Would Upset Plans.
Inasmuch as the greatest business
interests of the country are represented
on the advisory committees of the
council, the enactment of the provision,
the president thinks, would disrupt all
the machinery set up for an efficient,
economical conduct of the war by mar
shalling the country’s best brains and
resources.
President Wilson has written a letter 1
saying such legislation would be a (
calamity. He pointed out that business
men on the committees have not the
pdwer to demand the price they shall
receive for commodities sold the gov
ernment whether or not they are in
terested in them. All sorts of safe
guards, the president stated, have been
taken to prevent advantage being taken
of the government.
DANES COMPLAIN
ABOUT U. S. POLICY
Say Tliey Must Suffer Fate of
Belgium, or Join Germany
and Starve.
Copenhagen, July 9.—The Ekstra
bladet and the government organ, Poll
tiken, commenting on the proposals to
limit supplies to Scandinavia and Hol
land, complain that the entente powers,
with America at the head, lack appre- ’
ciation of the difficult position of small
neutrals and that proposed measures
of the great powers fighting ir. the
name of liberty, justice and civilization
are calculated to crush these smaU
states whose whole desire is to main
tain true neutrality toward both camps.
1 The Politiken says, that articles from
Influential American papers indicated
the United States intends to force Den
mark either to join Germany and
?' tarve, or join the entente and share
he fate of Belgium.
The American policy, which from the
outbreak of the war until the breach
with Germany was never neutral, the
paper continues, but English, and now
has become American, is to be still
more ruthless toward neutrals than wag
the English.
VALUES OF EXPLOSIVES
MADE IN U. S. JUMP
Washington, July 9.—The remarkable
growth of the country’s explosives
manufacturing industry since the Eu
ropean war started in shown in figures
made public by the federal bureau of
mines today, showing a production of
explosives last year, exclusive of ex
ports, totalling more than 300,000,000
pounds.
Exports of explosives which in 1914.
the first year of the war. were valued
at $10,037,587, reached a total value in
1916 of $717,144.699._
POTATO SUPPLY GONE,
GERMANS LACK FOOD
London, July 7.—Hamburg and pre
sumably most of the other German
cities will again have no potatoes in the
coming week, nor will any be available
until the new potatoes begin to come in.
It is almost impossible to obtain ade
quate supplies of fresh vegetables, ac
cording to advices reaching London
today from the continent. This is
blamed on the continued drought which
has delayed and injured crops. The
meat ration in Bavaria has been cut to
375 grams weekly per capita.
PERSHING APPROVES OF
AMERICAN BATTLE SECTOR
Paris, July 7.—Training bases for
American troops in France are ready
for occupancy. They include aviation
artillery, infantry and medical bases ’
The section of the battle front event- 1
ually to be occupied by the Americans '
has been approved by Major General
Pershing. The location is a military
secret and no actual time has been
specified for American participation in
the lighting.
