Nebraska Newspapers

    THE O'NEIL FRONTIER
R H. CRONIN. I»tibll>h«r.
#NBILL,NEBRASKA
In certain district* of Holland news
at a domestic sort, is .fluently an
Bounced by the windmills. When, for
Instance, a miller gets married, he stops
his mill with the arms of the wheel in
oblique position and with the nulls un
furled. Ills friends and guests do like
wise with their mills. In celebration of
the ceremony. To announce a birth the
wheel 1s stopped with the arms in a
slanting position, but at a more acute
angle than for a marriage, and with
the two upper sails unfurled. In the
•vent of a miller’s death, his family
cause the sails of the mill to be ail
furled, and the wheel is turned round
until the arms assume an upright cross,
in which position they are left untP
after the funeral has taken place.
F. J. Haskin tells what has become
of some of the breweries In states that
have gone “dry". They are used for
canning clams, making vinegar, hand
ling dairy products, cold storage ware
houses, making artificial Ice, meat
packing, making yeust, dry cells,' soap,
chemicals, moving picture films, paints,
varnish and everything from ice to lo
ganberry juice. One ha* become a hos
pital and another a church. The Coors
brewery at Golden, Colo., was famous
for Its size and Its beer, but nothing
could save It against the "dry” wave.
Bo one of the Coors brothers took over
the plant and Is now doing a thriving
business in malted milk.
Newspaper men, real estate dealers
and bankers of north central North
Dakota, recently effected an organiza
tion which has a* its object the bring
ing of more people to the furms. As
one of the boosters says, the *cheme is
“to get more quarter and haJf section
BOW, corn, hog and silo farmers on
farms In North Dakota.” County units
will be organized soon for the purpose
of promoting this plan. It la explained
that the day of intensive farming is not
Car distant for the state, and that more
“small farmers” ore needed rather than
those owning thousands of acres and
, cultivating only a small portion of this
t. .1.
General Salvador Alvarado, gover
Bor of Yucatan, who was called to
Maxlco City some time ago for u con
ference with President Carranza, has
returned to Yucatan to assume full
charge of military operations for the
extermination of bandits In the states
ot Yucatan, Tabasco und Campeche.
It was generally rumored when Gen
eral Alvarado arrived here that he waa
to assume a place In Carranza's cabi
net, but his departure seems to have
put an end to such rumors.
In Mexico, the hat Is the symbol of a
man's standing In-the community. The
grandees of old Spain enjoyed the priv
ilege of standing covered in the royal
presence. The result was that they
vied with one another in the size and
splendor of their hats; and the common
people followed this example as best
they might. In time, therefore, the hat
became as distinctive on the heads of
the men as the mantilla on those of the
women.
Looping the loop In a seaplane was
done for the first time In the United
States recently by Capt Francis T.
Evans, of the United States marine
corps, at Pensacola. Kla. The hyjyy
pontoons of the seaplane, with 'them
great head resistance, have in the past
prevented looping in seaplanes. Captain
Evans turned two loops before he de
scended.
The tax on 10 centavos on each elec
tric light globe throughout Mexico has
been rescinded by President Carranza
and replaced by a tax of 10 per cent of
the cost of current to the consumer for
lighting purposes. On current con
sumed for power purposes a tax of 3
per cent on the prices paid by the con
sumer la imposed.
Impartially speaking, the entente
aviators on the western front were
beyond doubt in control of the air
during the numerous battles on the
Somme; but it appears to be equally
evident that this marked superiority
no longer exists. The German air ser
vice has greatly improved.
Shipping companies continue to re
cord great prosperity during 1916. The
Indo-Chlna Steam Navigation company
last year made a net profit of 312,293
po.’nds against 16,929 pounds in 1914,
and Increased Its dividend from 3 per
cent In 1914 to 60 per cent in 1916.
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The American consul, general at Co
penhagen says that the floating AmerV
lean population In Denmark, nearly all
has left for home. The only American
citizens here are those whose business
requires their presence and no tourists
are to be found.
- The black rat, which was the common
house rat' until driven off by the Nor
way rat, came originally from central
Asia, whence It made Its way into Eu
rope, and. about 1644, to America. White
rats of this species are not uncommon.
A new Mexican coin wlll.be put Into
circulation shortly. It ,1s a gold 20-peso
picco, the design having the Mexican
ragle on one side and a reproduction of
the Aztec calendar stone on the other
They will be known as "calendarlos.”
The Italians have a way or preserving
butter by coating it with milk curd.
The butter, unsalted, Is covered with
the curd, which hardens, and Is Bald to
keep the butter sweet and fresh for
tears.
Amelia E. Barr, who celebrated her
tfth birthday last spring, has been
writing for almost 60 years, and in that
time has written 77 books, though the
, first was not published until she wan so.
The value of wood as a food is being
studied. Q. Haberlandt, the German
who has made extensive experiments in
this connection, says that the wood of
tho birch possesses nutritive properties.
A Russian newspaper is now being
published at Triblxond, in Armenia, one
of the cities conquered by the Russians
In their advance against the Turks last
year.
According to the official bulletin of
the New York city subway, it has car
ried 2,915.200,205 passengers in the last
10 years, with the loss of only one Ufa
The Japanese government which is in
charge of the country’s telephone sys
tem, is unable to keep up with the de
mand for phone service.
Two-passenger airplanes are now for
sale at 12,000 each. It is said that the
manufacturers expect to sell 2,500 ma
chines within the year.
Nettles, regarded useless weeds be
fore the w*r, are now being collected
in Germany in large quantities for tex
tile purposes.
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All the common house rats belonged
priglnft/ly to the old world from which
they came to this continent in ships.
The legion, the t'Jilef subdivision of
the Roman army, contained about 0.000
__Jgga conthgeat of cavalry,
'spies poison hogs,
NEBRASKANS BELIEVE
Scores of Animals Dying—Ar
senical Poisoning Indicated
—Inquiry Begun.
Lincoln. Neb., Ads. 1*.—Stories have
been pouring Into the office of the
state veterinarian for the past few days
to the effect that many bogs are dying
off mysteriously, and ascribing their,
demise to the machinations of agents
of the kaiser. Dr. Andefson has lnvestj
igated reports from Grand Island and
Seward, two strong German coramuni-j
ties, and now has one under investiga
tion from Washington county, where
one farmer loot 23 hogs in a few days.
In this case the farmer had admlnlst
ered a patent hog cholera remedy that
he had used with good results before.
This time the hogs died In convulsions,
with every symptom of arsenical poi
soning. A postmortem Indicated no
cholera existed. The medicine Is being
investigated and analyzed.
FINDS PEARL IN ELKHORN
VALUED AT MOKE THAN $300
O’Neill, Neb., Aug. 13.—"Buttermilk”
Scroggins, pearl hunter, found a 10
grain fresh water pearl in the Elkhorn
here this forenoon. It Is said a local
Jeweler has offered him $300 for the
gem, In years past many queen of
gems have been obtained from the mol
lusks of the Elkhorn, but nothing equal
ing In brilliancy, sheen, contour or in
trinsic value of young Scroggins’ piece
has ever come to light. Several years
ago a perfect specimen was taken out
of the stream bed and disposed of for
an even $100.
Lapidaries say the streams of this
state offer good fields for pearl pros
pectors, since the water usually may
be waded and the bivalves obtained
. with small effort. ^
DOUGLA8 COUNTY OBJECTS
TO VALUATION INCREASE
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 13.—A largo dele
gation of taxpayers from Douglas
county, largely business men, with
Arthur F. Mullen as their special at
torney, presented a petition and pro
test to the state board of equalization
Friday. They demanded a reduction
of assessed valuation of the county as
fixed by the county officials. The
total valuation is $53,659,000, an in
crease of a little over $2,000,000. The
delegation presented figures to show
that Douglas county was paying an
undue proportion of the state's taxes,
based on population. County officers
were present to defend their valuations.
Omaha has pursued for years the prac
tice of holding out as an Inducement
for corporations to enter business there
that they would be given low valua
tions for tax purposes, and the business
interests resent the efforts of the as
sessor to raise the taxable values.
VALUATION OF NEBRASKA
RAISED BY 928,000,000
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 13.—The total as
sessed valuation of ull property in Ne
braska, as totaled by the state board of
equalization, is $28,000,000 higher than
last year. Most of the increase is due
to Increase in the value of live stock,
grain, automobile, moneys on deposit,
and personal property. The number of
horses -in the state have decreased 899,
696 to 892,787, a decrease of nearly
7,000 head, but their value has in
creased $400,000. Mules number 3.000
less than a year ago, but their value is
$13,207 higher. Cattle increased from
2,443,412 to 2,732,412, and increased in
value ftom $16,000,000 to $22,000,000.
The state added 7,302 to the number of
pianos In use, the total now being
nearly 70,000, and their value over
$1,250,000. The number of automo
biles increased from 54,476 in 1916 to
102,220 In 1917, an increase of 37,745.
Tlie total investment is placed at
$9,000,000.
PONCA—R. C. Hall has resigned as
foreman of the Journal-Leader and will
leave next week for Salem, Va.. to enter
the mercantile business with his father.
The Ponca Odd Fellows will give him a
farewell reception at their hall Monday
evening.
O'NBILL—A contract has been closed
with the World’s Fair shows for a three
days' stand here during the fair, Septem
ber 11-13. The local fair association is in
good shape financially, having paid for
its buildings from last year's receipts.
PAGH—Rains here this week havs great
ly Improved the -crop prospects in this
part of Nebraska. The harvesting is well
along. Corn has not suffered greatly from
the drought.
Can you spare another furnished
room? Affirmative answer to the ques
tion should be printed in the classified
columns.
SHIPPING BOARD STAFF
OF LEGAL EXPERTS QUITS
Washington, D. C., Aug. 11.—The en
tire legal staff of the emergency fleet
corporation has quit in a body because
of sympathy, it is said, with Maj. Gen.
George W. Goethals, whose resignation
as general manager of the corporation
was accepted recently by President
Wilson.
On the staff are some of the coun
try's best known lawyers. They are
George Rubles, a former member of
the federal trade commission; Joseph
P. Cotton, George H. Savage and
Charles P. Howland, of New York, and
Edward B. Burling, of Chlcagog All
except Mr. Savage were serving with
out pay.
The attorneys resigned several days
ago, but their action became known
only yesterday. If was learned the
lawyers felt they should go out with
General Goethals and that Rear Ad
miral Capps, now general manager,
should be left free to choose his own
associates.
KANSAS CITY WALKS TO WORK.
Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 11.—Kansas
City got to work us best it could again
today, the fourth day of the complete
tieup of all street car traffic which has
resulted. from a strike of employes of
the Kansas City railway company. The
men have struck because, it was al
leged, their demands for the right to
organize had been ignored.
CAPTAIN McVICKAR IS
ORDERED TO DEMING
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Dee Moines, m., Aug. 11.—Capt. John
MacVlckar mayor of Des Moines, has
been ordered to report for active duty
to the construction quartermaster at
Doming, N. M„ at once, and will leave
Sunday or Monday Tor that post. He
will thus leave again to Councilman
Tom Fairweuther the position of act- i
lng mayor of the city, and must leave
many undone things he had outlined.
DISLOYAL NEBRASKAN
FACES DEPORTATION
Man Who Said He Would Kill
U. S. Officers May Be
Sent to Sweden.
Aurora, Neb., Aug. 11.—Adin Ferdlg,
a Swede, and an I. W. W., whose home
Is in Aurora, Is in a peck of trouble,
which Includes Incarceration in the
county Jail. He was arrested by gov
ernment officers on the charge of be
ing a slacker. He claimed to have
registered, but could produce no card.
In addition to dodging service, he is
accused of threatening and treasonable
utterances. Residents of Glltner say
that he declared that he hoped all the
American soldiers would be killed or
crippled, and declared that if he was
forced into the war he would kill all
the American officers he was able to
slay and then Join the German army.
He is a citizen of Sweden, he claims,
and may be deported.
ANOTHER REGIMENT MAY
BE RAISED IN NEBRASKA
Lincoln, Neb„ Aug. 11.—Officers of
the Nebraska national guard are hope
ful that the proposed reorganization of
the American army into units of two
brigades of two regiments each in
stead of three brigades with three regi
ments each, to correspond to the
French system of manning the trenches,
will go through. They say that it
means Nebraska will have two brigades
Instead of one, which would mean an
additional regiment. Recruiting for
the Sixth was so comparatively easy a
task that they think it would not be
difficult to get another regiment of
volunteers. This would place two Ne
braska units in the fighting front in
stead of one.
Adjutant General Steele thinks that
within three weeks it would be possible
to organize and equip the additional
regiment4, and is laying his wires to se
cure the men in the belief that the plan
will go through.
NEBRASKA TRUST CONCERNS
IN FOLLOWING CONDITION
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 11.—According to
reports filed for the year ending June
JO, 1917, the 16 trust companies now
doing business in the state have total
resources of $5,750,656.58. Nearly $3,
000,000 are invested in mortgage and
bonds and $500,000 is represented by
Dash. The capital stock of these 16
institutions totals $1,823,000, and the
trust funds in their possession amount
to $2,067,000.
CHILDREN OF EMERSON
HOLD GARDEN CONTEST
Emerson, Neb., Aug. 11—Recent rains
have revived interest in a garden con
test started by the Mothers’ club earlier
In the season. The prizes range from
$3 to 50 cents, and the contestants are
20 children. Competition is very spirit
ed at the present time among the fol
lowing:
Earl Jensen, Walter Jensen, Ruth
Schindler, May Stark, Emma Gadke,
Mary and Anthony Temple, Willie
Stolze, Elmer Roe. Paul Lewis, Dole
Schootey, Leone Gordon, Ruth Prouse,
Leonard Lovell, Myma Booth, Chester
Stewart, Gwendolyn Douglass, E1M
Coughtry and Emma Wallwey.
COLERIDGE YOUNG MAN IS
KILLED BY FALLING ROCK
Coleridge, Neb.. Aug. 11.—John*Have.
kost, aged 21, of Coleridge, was struck;
by a falling rock while traveling in Yel
lowstone park. Death followed almost
Instantly. His body will be brought
back to Coleridge and the funeral will
take places either Saturday or Sunday.
Young Havekost had been a student at
the Wayne normal for several years.
OMAHA—When Dars Jensen was asked
to pay the costs of his wife’s divorce suit
Tuesday he fainted. The shocked husband
fell Into the arms of Mrs. Rose Ohaus,
Just outside the office of the welfare
board In the city hall. After he had re
vived he announced that he would pay the
costs of the suit.
O’NEILL— Kelley Martin, son of Adam
Mart|n. wealthy agriculturist of the
Blackbird valley, has made three trips to
Omaha In vain endeavors to enlist for
Uncle Sam as a soldier of the air, land or
water. Mr. Martin Is afflicted with flat
foot.
ANTIOCH—The average output from
the American Potash company for the
week of July 2ft was 100 tons per day. The
Nebraska Potash works are installing new
driers to replace their experimental ones
put in when the plant was first started.
FRKMONT-The farm of the C. A.
Smith estate, of 104 acres, located north
west of Fremond adjoining the tractor
grounds, was sold at auction Wednesday
for J225 an acre. William Mlddaugh, of
Ames, was the purchaser.
WATTERS GETS COMMISSION.
Des Moines, la., Aug. 10.—Thomas
Watters, Jr., valuation counsel of the
slate railway commission, has been as
signed to the officers’ training camp at
Fort Snelling. Watters was former
prosecuting attorney of this city and
has twice served as secretary of the
state senate.
ANOTHER SLACKER ARRESTED.
St. Paul, Aug. 10.—Department of
justice officials announced that J. O.
Bent&ll, late socialist candidate for gov
ernor is held In the Hennepin county
jail, charged with anti-draft activities.
He was removed to that Jail from Litch
field where he was arrested. He was
given a preliminary hearing, but unable
to secure an attorney, his case was
postponed until tomorrow.
The arrest of Bentall is the third im
portant one made by the federal au
thorities.
NOT OUT OF DANGER.
The decision to give nourishment to
the former president was made after
he himself had asked for food. He will
be given an egg and toast. Dr. Morgan
said, that being his patient’s wish.
“I don’t want to say the danger mark
is passed." Dr. Morgan declared, after
having visited Mr. Toft for the first
time since last night, when he was
sleeping easily; "that would not be en
tirely correct. However, I do not think
at any time there has been any imme
diate danger. I was a little afraid of
conditions that might develop.”
Westerners assert that the jnck rab
bit may be found, happy and fat. spend
ing the day under a scrap of bush that
makes little more shade than a fishnet.
His skin is as pourous as a piece of
buckskin, and the heat is sufficient to
evaporite every drop of blood in his
body, yet he seems to get on very nicely.
A liee community includes a single
queen, a few hundred drones or fertile
males and 10,000 to 40,000 workers, all
Infertile females. The queen lays the
eggs by which the race is perpetuated
and is the mother of the whole eom
j inanity.
MUCH DAMAGE DONE
BY NEBRASKA STORM
Cops Badly Damaged, Towns
Torn Up, ar.d Wire Serv
ice Crippled.
Hastings. Neb., Aug, 11. — Damage
which may mount into hundreds of
thousands of dollars was caused to
property and crops by a severe hall and
wind storm which swept a patch from
four to 10 miles wide and over 100 miles
long, over nine counties of eastern cen
tral Nebraska yesterday afternoon, ac
cording to reports. Telephone and tele
graph lines to the e„orm swept district
are down and authentic information as
to the actual extent of the damage is
lacking.
Growing crops through the storm's
path were driven into the ground am}
entire fields of com were destroyed, ac
cording to information reaching local
telephone and railroad companies
Heavy damage from hail is reported in
the vicinity of Friend, Exeter, Brad
shaw, York, Crete and Swanton. Prac
tically every window in the towns ol
Exeter, Friend, York. Polk, Charleston
and Cordove was broken, the postofficq
and court house at York and the school
house^at Polk being badly damaged. A
Burlington railroad train was caught in
the path of the storm and damaged.
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NON-PARTISAN ORGANIZER
REFUSES TO QUIT FIELD
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 11—O. M. Thomas
on, lecturer for the nonpartisan league
and a North Dakota farmer, has come
to Nebraska to speed up the organiza
tion of that body, which the Farmers’
union has agreed that it will fight in
its efforts to get a foothold in the
state. Mr. Thomason insists that the
league has no desire for a flgtliL He
insists that it occupies a distinct field
and does not supplant the union and
grange. It simply ordinates these or
ganizations with the thousands ol
farmers who don’t belong to any of
them, and puts their undivided strength
behind candidates for office who are
pledged to provide state owned mar
keting facilities for the farmers. He
argue® that if it is a good thing in war
time for the government to take over
industries, it is a good thing for the
people in times of peace.
CHIPPED HIS TEETH TO
EVADE SERVICE IN ARMY
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 11.—With every
tooth in both jaws except two chipped
off short, a young man appeared before
the Third district exemption board for
physical examination.
"t claim exemption for physical dis
ability,” the toothless man announced
to Chairman McCombs. “I have no
teeth.”
Mr. McCombs, C. C. Redwood and
three physicians peered into the man’s
mouth.
"His teeth were newly chipped off, as
If someone had taken a hammer and
chisel and deliberately detoothed the
plan,” said Mr. McCombs afterwards.
“His teeth could not possibly have
been so injured in any sort of an acci
dent. Besides, he refused to tell us
how he came to lose his teeth, simply
insisting that he could not go to war
with such teeth.”
Mr. McCombs said that the board
would pass the man and certify him to
the district board. He said the army
officers probably would have the man’s
teeth recrowned or send the man to
prison.
MENNONITE SEEKING
EXEMPTION FROM WAR
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 11.—Rev. J. J.
Klewer, a Mennonite minister, of Hen
derson, called upon Governor Neville
Wednesday to ask for exemption of
members of that church who are called
as soldiers, because of their conscien
tious belief in the doctrine of nonre
sistance. He told the governor that
his people are willing to do all they
can, but they feel that they cannot
fight, work in munitions factories, hos
pitals or in the Red Cross service.
There are 2,500 Mennonites in Nebras
ka, and several hundred of these are
eligible for the draft. Mr. Klewer is
a Hollander, but speaks German and
Dutch. He said that some of the
young men were anxious to go to war,
and'if these desired the church would
put no obstacles in their way. It was’
for the others that he spoke.
Governor Neville said that he had
no power to exempt any one, but that
the government had furnished blanks
and would doubtless exempt from duty
all who made proof of their member
ship in a church holding to the doc
trines of nonresistance.
mioouum mKCAibNlnu
TO CHANGE ITS COURSE
Hartington, Neb., Aug, 11.—The old
Missouri river is taking another slice
out of some of the farms in Brooke's
bottom, the Reifenrath farm being the
one suffering most at present. On the
Theodore Best place, adjoining the
Reifenrath place 80 acres have been
eaten up by the river in the past year,
and at the present cutting 10 acres
were washed away. The cutting started
about four weeks ago and has been ac
tive ever since. Ail the buildings near
the stream have been moved away to
higher ground and some were carried
away before they could be moved the
second time. A few huildings are now
being moved for the third time. The
river is also doing some cutting on the
Dakota side. It is thought by many that
if the river keeps on cutting it will
soon occupy the old river bed and flow
near Vermilion as it did before the big
flood in 1881.
MANY FAIL TO RESPOND
WHEN CALLED TO FLAG
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 11.—Thirty-two
men failed to respond to the call to ap
pear for examination, and have been
posted by the county board of inquiry
ils deserters, which carries a death pen
alty during war times if enforced.
These men registered, but they did not
get the , >tiees sent to report, these be
ing returned. The board says this does
not excuse their negligence, since they
are required to keep posted as to the
draft. Some of the men are believed
to have enlisted, and were unaware
that they had to notify the board.
More than 75 per cent of the men who
passed have filed exemption claims.
FREMONT—J. T. Smith, near Fremont,
harvested 2,160 bushels of oats from a
field of 24 acres, making a yield of 90
bushels to the acre.
STATE DEFENSE^COUNCIL
CALLS GENERAL MEETING
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 11.—The state
council of defense has issued a call for
a meeting at Lincoln on September 4,
of all of the ftfst four officers of each
council of defense. The state body is
anxious to get first hand information
of conditions in the state and to secure
advice from county council members on
how to handle the various problems that
are constantly arising. The council is oi
the opinion that the time for leniency
towards citizens who dec-line to get be
hind the government in the war has
about passed, and action is necessary.
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NEBRASKANS REVIVE
IRRIGATION PROJECT
Discussing Feasibility of Canal
Connecting Niobrara and
Elkhorn Rivers.
O’Neill, Neb., Aug. 10.—Current gos
sip to the effect that the one time pro
posed irrigation canal to run from the
Niobrara river at a point close to the
city of Valentine across the arid hills
and fiats between Sioux Cit- and Nor
folk is to be revived. M'ue proposed
canal would connect with the Elkhorn
river at Norfolk.
This great irrigation project was
first broached back in the early ’90s.
Then the country suffered greatly
from the lack of rain. A survey of the
proposed irrigation canal was made
and water rights procured, but eventu
ally the whole project was dropped
after farmers in the vicinity had been
led to hope that a solution of the mois
ture problem was at hand.
The uncertainty of an adequate rain
fall in northern Nebraska has revived
interest in this project. Several
Nebraska business men and capital
ists are reported to have interested
themselves in the project and are now
Investigating the feasibility of the
plans outlined years ago.
It is proposed to Induce the state to
permit the tapping of the. Niobrara
river to divert water into an artificial
channel to carry It to the whole of the
great Elkhorn farming plat Between
the Elkhorn and the Eagle lies a ridge.
Rain falling on this ridge divides, part
going to each stream. The promoters
believe it possible to run a main water
channel along the crest of this ridge
which would act as a feeder to irriga
tion ditches along either side of the
high ridge. *
The topography and terrain are said
by engineers to be ideal for the pro
posed venture. The soil is a black,
waxy loam and, given sufficient mois
ture at regular intervals, will produce
crops the equal of any in the world.
3,000.000 ACRES WILL
BE PLANTED TO WHEAT
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 10.—George E,
Coupland of the state council of de
fense was in Omaha Monday, looking
after some matters of the council’s rou
tine. He was asked about the seed
wheat situation.
“We are taking care of every appli
cation for seed that comes to us," he
answered, “and everybody so far is well
provided for. Plenty of seed is going
into the ground, and we will do what we
can to keep the loaf of bread from be
coming smaller.
"Farmers are doing what they can to
help one another on the seed question
I know of one man who has just finished
planting a 100-acre field. He got his
seed from a neighbor, who told him to
take it along, and they would settle
about the price later.
‘‘I do not know of any effort on the
part of anyone to hold up the farmer
on seed. A few isolated cases may ex
ist, but I do not know of any.
“About 3,000,000 acres will be planted
to winter wheat. This is about the
normal acreage, and scarcely can be
greatly increased. Nebraska needs
about 20,000,000 bushels of wheat for
home consumption, and will have to im
port some.”
STATE BOARD FINDS WAGE
DEMANDS NOT UNREASONABLE
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 10.—The state
board of mediation has filed with the
governor its findings following an
Investigation of the strike In Omaha,
which at one time involved 5,000 men
in the building trades. The board re
grets that owing to the attitude of the
employers in refusing to submit their
side to the board, the report must be
one-sided, but from such information
as it has the board finds that under the
circumstances the demands of the
workers were not unreasonable or ex
cessive.
Notwithstanding the favorable re
port, attorneys for the men have filled
objections, claiming that the board
should, in default of the appearance of
tlie other side, make a direct finding in
favor of the men.
NORTHEASTERN NEBRASKA
IS THOROUGHLY DRENCHED
Crofton, Neb., Aug. 10.—Northern
Knox and Elder counties have received
214 inches of rainfall in the past 10
days, which assures a bumper com
crop. This in addition to the certainty
of the biggest yield of oats ever had
here spells the most prosperous year
in the whole history of this section. All
crops are near perfect. The only dam
age of dry weather was to early gar
dens. The wild and tame hay crop is
splendid and there will be a prolific
WAYNE BOY IS HURT
IN JUMP FROM TRAIN
Wayne, Neb., Aug. 10—Bonnie Moran,
of Wayne, was badly bruised about the
head and neck and suffered a badly cut
ear when he fell from a caboose of an
extra freight train going west through
Winside. The boy was about 13 years
old. He was brought to his home from
Winside by two Winside doctors. His
injuries were reported not serious ex
cept for a cracked rib. The injured lad
is the son of Station Agent T. W.
Moran, of Wayne.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE FOR
EACH COUNTY IS SELECTED
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 10.—Governor Ne
ville has appointed a representative of
the government in each county in the
state whose duty it will be to examine
all exemptions granted by local boards
to drafted men, and to take an appeal
where he believes this justified. For
northeastern Nebraska the men named
are:
Antelope—L. E. Jackson. Neligh.
Boone—Dr. G. G. Barns, Albion.
Boyd—S. S. Parsons, Spencer.
Burt—A. M. Anderson. Tekamah.
Cedar—W. F. Bryant. Hurtington.
Cuming—J. C. Elliott, West Point.
Dakota—Thomas Ashford, Homer.
Dixon—H. P. Shumway, Wakefield.
Dodge—Kay Nye, Fremont.
Holt—r—J. C. Dona hoe, O’Neill.
Madison—John R. Hays, Norfolk.
Nance—Albert Thompson, Fullerton.
Pierce—M. II. Leamy, Fierce.
Stanton—W. P. (Iowan, Stanton.
Platte—C. .1. Garlow. Columbus.
Thurston—Guy T. Graves, Walthill.
Washington -N. T Lund. Blair.
Wayne—John T. Dressier. Wayne.
Colfax—W. 1. Allen, Schuyler.
Key a Paha—R. C. McCulley, Spring
view.
RAIN CUTS ATTENDANCE
AT BIG TRACTOR SHOW
Fremont, Nc'o.. Aug. 10—With 00 man
ufacturers demonstrating nearly joo
tractors of ill! sixes anil Ivi es the fiftli
i nntml national power farming demon
stration opened here yesterday. The
in. el will fcont’nue through the week.
This is the only demonstration to i n
•e! i th:>; surpmec anj a record break
in'- - row 1 is look far.
THbnt,‘ningweather cut down the ut
•ldare.s yesterday, the crowd being
- imatel at lO.OUO. During the five
< dccicR** ration 3,000 acres will be
tviawed.'
ON TEUTONS ON
1LDJMOBI
Check Von Mackensen's Drive,
Although Yielding Ground
After Battle, But Repulse
Other German Drives.
HAIG MAKES LINE SECURE
Heavy Attacks Thrown Against
the French and English in
West Broken Up
by Fire.
London, Aug. 13.—British naval
airplanes on Thursday night
dropped several tons of bombs on
the German airdome in the Belgian
town of Ghistelles, on the Zuid
wede railway sidings, and on the
Thourout railway junction, the
British admiralty announced to
day. On Friday afternoon British
airmen dropped bombs on the Ger
man airdrome at Sparaphelhoek.
(By Associated Press.)
In the eastern war theater things
seem to be going better for the Rus
sians, except in southern Moldavia,
where Field Marshal von Mackensen is
pushing an attack that threatens tho
important branch railway north of
Fokshani, connecting the two lateral
lines along the western Moldavian
front. Even there the Russian report
today announces Russo-Rumanians, al
lhough forced back across the Suchitza
west of the Fokshani-Ocna railway,
held their ground to the east of that
line, where the menace to the connect
ing road is greatest.
The most signal Russian success was
scored in the vicinity of Brody, where
the Teutonic command launched an at
tack on Thursday in an apparent ef
fort to break the Russian line in north
ern. Galicia and clear the Russians
from the small remainder of Galician
soil they held. Petrograd announces
that this heavy assault, after a pro
longed battle, failed completely, with
neavv losses to the Austra-German
forces.
Other successes were won by, the
Russians on the Russo-Rumanian fron
tier, where the town of Lukowvica was
filtered by the Russians and a height
vas captured, together with some 400
prisoners. The Teutonic forces also
ivere forced across the Putna river on
Ihe north Rumanian front.
Field Marshal Ilaig clinched his hold
ast night on the ground won in Fri
lay's attack on the Flanders front, east
)f Vpres.
The Germans made their inevitable
leavv counter attacks, no less than six
if them during the night, but all with
iut success. Not only did the British
naintain their positions, but gained
lome additional ground at their right
ring, near the Ypres-Menin road.
Ail _T_s
These new gains are particularly im
portant to the success of the British
general's plans, for it was in just this
lector that the British had failed to
make all the progress expected of them,
[n the remainder of the two-mile front
running north of the Ypres-Roulers
•ailway, all the objectives were
achieved in yesterday’s assauR and
have since been held.
The German resistance was especially
itubborn in the British right, but the
result of the night's fighting, as re
flected in the London official account,
bhows that despite this the British
forces were able to forge ahead.
Fighting Near St. Quentin.
While the British and French have
oeen making another forward thrust
In the process of driving a wedge into
the German lines in Belgium, the
French forces have been heavily en
gaged on their own soil to the south—
near St. Quentin on the Aisne front,
and In the Champagne.
In therSt. Quentin area General Pe
tain’s troops regained nearly all the sec
tion of line which the Germans had
penetrated in their sudden thrust of
Thursday night.
North of the Aisne they carried out
a brilliant attack and recaptured and
held- the whole of an important trench
which the Germans had recently taken
south of Allies.
Heavy Attack Launched.
The fighting in the Champagne was
of German initiative.
An attack launched over a front of
nearly, two miles was broken up by the
French, except at one point to the north
of Camillet and eyen here the Germans
were afterward ejected from the ele
ments they had penetrated, with the
exception of a stretch of some 50 yards.
London, Aug. 13.—The military crit
ics here are watching the German at
tack in Rumania with anxious inter
est. The greater part of Moldavia,
the only section of the country remain
ing in Rumanian hands, is being at
tacked, as shown in official dispatches
from the north, west and south and
the Russians and Rumanians, who until
recently conducted a victorious offen
sive, are now losing ground at all
points.
Field Marshal von Mackensen’s
thrust in the neighborhood of Fokshani
is the most serious of the operations
being carried out by the German troops
ind the furious resistance of the allies
is not meeting with success. The
snerny’s passage of the Suchitaa, re
ported yesterday, is regarded as placing
in immediate jeopardy the Maria Sesti
tunctlon railroad, the possession of
which is of immense importance to the
Russians and Rumanians.
Attention is called here to the ab
sence of the Russian official statement
yesterday, while it is remarked that
the Russian report does not appear
to deal with the ’ — t events.
GERMANS DESCRIBE ATTACK.
Copenhagen, Aug. 11.—A special dis
patch from Flanders to the Vossisehe
Zeltung, of Berlin, under date of August
b, describes three heavy British attacks
an that day, resulting in the forcing
»nd crossing of the Steenbeek river
at a point where the railroad from Boe
singhe and Langemarck crossed the
r-reek. It says that in consequence of
better weather the artillery bombard
ment flamed up along the whole army
front. This and other preparations in
dicate that a renewal- of the general
attack is Impending.
In some parts of Germany, according
to the bulletin of the Chicago section
af the American Chemical society, oleo
margarine is quoted at higher prices
than butter.