Nebraska Newspapers

    THE O’NEIL FRONtSeT
D, H. CRONIN. Publisher.
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|milL NEBRASKA
There have been several more or less *
Successful experiments tried In coop
erative housekeeping. In each different
experiment there has usually been such
ft serious flaw that It lias been aban
doned. In a course in household man
agement. given by the University of
Wisconsin, through its extension di
vision. there are found some Interesting
hints for the collective use of utilities.
In Minnesota it is stated, cooperative
laundries have been successfully run.
The first one, operated In connection
with a creamery, was a signal success.
There are many possibilities open In
this line of large cooperative laundries
iconducted on a business basis. In many
towns one housekeeper who has a well
supplied laundry, will rent it out to a
taw friends when it would otherwise
be Idle. Often two or more families
club together and buy an electric wash
ing machine.
The richest dog in the world is said
to be Billy, belonging to an American
mining magnate. Billy Is a dog, and
on one occasion he was piloting his
master and his mate to their cabin on
£he mountains, when the latter was so
sure that a certain turning was the
right one that he left Billy and his mas
ter to go their way and he took his,
giving the dog ft parting kick to show
his contempt for his intelligence. But
the dog was right, and presently con
ducted his master to the cabin, and
then, in spite of the kick, set out to
find the other man. He found him
utterly lost and at his last gasp almost,
and, led him back. So grateful was he
that he presented the dog, after he hod
“struck It rich,” with a gold-studded
collar, and opened a banking account
in his name, which will only be dis
turbed to give him a fitting funeral.
Search for graphite deposits In the
United States since the war started has
brought to light the largest known de
posit of high grade mineral on the con
tinent, says the New York state depart
ment of labor. It Is between Lake
George and Lake Champlain, in the vi
cinity of Black mountain. The famous
mine opened by the Joseph Dixon
Crucible company in 1878 Is in this sec
tion, and In the same geological horl
son. This mine is still being operated,
but the new one is said to be several
times as large as the Dixon deposit.
The veins crop out for nearly a mile
with a thickness of 60 feet. The graph
Ste content indicates a variation of 6 to
.0 per cent of the large flake variety
desired by crucible makers, while a 8
foot layer assays more than 16 per cent
high grade graphite.
Tne star with the greatest proper
motion so far discovered Is one In
Orphlnchus, of magnitude 9.6, which Is
drifting northward 10 seconds a year—
perhaps some hundreds of miles each
second of time, says an exchange. This
was lately revealed to Professor Bar
nard on a comparison, with the blink
microscope, of a recent stellar photo
graph and one made 18 years ago. An
eighth magnitude star in the southern
heavens has a proper motion of 8.7 sec
onds, and the seventh magnitude
■ Groombridge, 1830, of Ursa Major, the
original “runaway star," has a yearly
drift of seven seconds,
Js tneie aSytfting stranger than the
undisputed fact that In Morocco pigs
Climb trees In search of nuts? Not only
pigs but goats. The puzzle Is not in
the pigs and goats, however, for they
are of the common variety that we see
here. It Is the tree that Is strange. It
is called the organ nut tree and It
grows near Agadir. Usually it shoots
out from a steep hillside. The trunk Is
, broad and flat and almost horizontal,
and so are the main branches, forming
ample and solid foothold for any ani
mal that may be tempered by the ollve
•haped nuts growing within easy reach
or the main branches.
! The state of South Australia has
since 1891 erected 29,148 miles of "ver
min fences," enough to encircle the
globe and with the remnant build a
double line of fence along the southern
border of the United States. When
contracts now running are completed
the mileage will be much Increased.
«™,50/!it/.h.Wale8 has sPent more than
827,000,000 for rabbit extermination and
has within Its borders 98,000 miles of
lance,
* Chemists returning from Cuba's al
leged potash field decloro that rook sup
posed to have potash either contained
none or when It was found, quantities
' wero less than 1 per cent. However
•ome geologists believe valuable potash
may be discovered by deeper borings
and Armour & Co„ of Chicago, who
have an option on a large tract, have
made arrangements to continue explore
tlons.
, Tt»e new glant lVlnch guns of the
United States, defending the Panama
canal and New York at Sandy Hook
f.hK,0lP.r0jectIle8 weighing 2,370 pounds'
Which Is more than a ton. These Im
mense steel guns can sink a ship be
fore it has really come Into sight on
- the horizon, the location of the battle
ghlp having been determined by air
plane or tower.
Consul O. G. _ March, at Progreso,
Mexico, reports that there Is a possible
$F*.mn!ln Yuc*l*n tor American water
distilleries, as the water found In the
wells of that district Is saline or black
ish, and at the present time rain water
la caught and stored in a primitive
fashion for drinking purposes.
Lofty trees once grew in Greenland
and nearly all of the Inhospitable
northern lands. Trees of the same
•orts as are growing today are found
as fossil remains In countries where
the climate is now so harsh that
K?Unhy tre*w,u *row
Many of the kings of Spain accorded
to the finest swordmakers of Toledo
certain privileges, such as exemption
from certain imposts and duties apper
taining to the sale of swords, the pur
chase of Iron and steel and other pri
mary material.
Louis Hansen, of New York, fearing
hie daughter, aged 16, might get lost
when she arrived from Florida at the
Pennsylvania station, hired an army of
bell boys to page her when her train
got In.
A personal check of Abraham Lin
coln, drawn to his private secretary,
John Hay, la owned In Paterson, N. J.
Without stopping his train an engi
neer can move a lever in his cab and
open a recently patented switch to en
able him to enter a siding, the switch
closing when the last car lias passed
over It
An electric floor waxer described In
1 Illustrated World may be connected
with any convenient electric light
socket. The current is controlled by a
•witch In tiie handle of the me-chlne.
In order to prevent oil waste a frame
which will hold a heavy oil can and
permit It to be tipped Cor pouring has
ween Invented.
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NEBRASKANS HUSTLE
FOR POTASH LEASES
Great Profits Being Realized
Prompts Others to Engage
in the Business.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. IS.—1The big
profits In the potash industry In Ne
braska, running Into the thousands per
month In each of the plants now oper
ating, has caused a big scramble for the
remaining alkali lakes In western Ne
braska. Thursday seven different men
and companies applied for mineral
right leases on big lakes on state school
land. Some of his land is under lease
but part of It Is not The courts will
yet have to decide whether the state or
the lessee gets the potash royalty.
Snow Jake, in Sheridan, county is
claimed by both the state and Haber
IHord, of Central City, who is building
a pipe line to It from his potash plant
at Lakeside. Filings have been made
on it, but before action is taken a sur
vey will be made. The state is also
making claim to all meander lakes, that
is those which, in their winding course
cross section lines or run upon several
tracts of land.
GIVE CHILDREN CHANCE
IN THE CORN FIELDS
Lincoln. Neb, Oct 13.—Because of
the bigr corn crop and the departure
for the training camps of so many boys
from the farms. Governor Neville has
Issued a proclamation calling upon the
state university regents, the heads of
state normals and boards of education
In all parts of the state to devise some
method by which boys and young men
now In the schools may be turned loose
as huskers. The regents are meeting
today and considering a proposition
suggested by the state council of de
fense to have a three weeks’ recess to
permit the youths In college to go home
and husk. \
Governor Neville, In his proclama
tion, says that because of the different
conditions In different localities, there
Is no one plan that can be devised, but
he urges upon the educators that they
choose some one plan. He says he has
no power to compel students thus re
leased by wholesale to go into the corn
fields, but he believes effective work
along this line can be socured by local
boards.
LEMON EXTRACT AMONG
THE DRUGS PROHIBITED
Lincoln, Neb. Oct. 13.—County At
torney Peters, on holding that lemon ex
tract and tincture of Jamaica ginger are
Intoxicants In that they contain more
than the lawful amount of alcohol, has
ordered the sheriff to raid all whole
sale and retail groceries and drug
stores and confiscate the stocks. Sev
eral cases have recently turned up
where men got drunk on.either the ex
tract or the ginger mixture. The laW
says that all mixtures or preparations
which .produce intoxication and which
contain over % of 1 per cent of al
cohol are Interdicted. The county at
torney says that he regards these on
tho same plane as whisky, and that he
will close up all places that persist in
their sale.
to PREPARE plans for
STATE INSTITUTIONS
Lincoln, Neb, Oct. 13.—J. C. Stitt, of
Norfolk, has been awarded the contract
for drawing plans for a $12,000 hos
pital bulldtng at the state industrial
school for boys at Kearney, and R. W.
Grant, of Beatrice, that for a $40,000
cottage and a $10,000 addition to the
state schol for feeble minded children
at Beatrice. The state board of con
trol proposes to buy material for these
structures and store it on the grounds,
on the theory that the cost will be
much greater In the spring. The build
ings were authorised by the last legis
lature, but there Isn’t enough money
on hand from taxes paid this year to
do any of the work.
FAIRBURY—Three operating officials
of the Rock Island railroad at this point
have tendered their services to go to
Russia to work on the railroads back of
the eastern front. These men comprise
General Foreman Bert Smith, Night
Roundhouse Foreman Kavanangh and
Engineer J. E. Odey. They have sent In
their applications to the company.
HASTINGS—Hastings United Dairy
men’s association, which recently boosted
milk prices to 13 cents, met with club
women who were serving protest for poor
people. The dairymen agreed to sell In
charitable tnstancos at 6 cents, tf tho 13<
cent general price Is unmolested.
CHANGES IN HUNTING
SEASON ANNOUNCED
Open Season Regulations Per.
mit Some Privileges Hereto
fore Denied Hunters.
Washington, D. C., OcL 12.—The de
partment c! agriculture today an
nounced the amended migratory bird
regulations, effective October 15.
One change permits hunting from
half an hour before sunrise to sunset
during the open season, subject to state
laws.
Other changes Include:
“In states with open season, Sep
tember 7 to December 20—Wisconsin,
Minnesota, North Dakota, South Da
kota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and
Idaho—open seasonLs changed to Sep
tember 15 to December 31, both days
inclusive, except in South Dakota and
Wisconsin, where the season closes on
December 20. In eastern Oregon. Wash -
ington, Nevada and Pennsylvania, the
open season also is September 16 to
December $1.
"Open season October 1 to January 15
Is unchanged In Rhode Island, Connec
ticut, Long Island, New York, New
Jersey, Utah, Oregon and Washington,
west of the Cascade mountains.”
The department announces that the
regulations do not permit hunting of
migratory birds, when It is unlawful
under state laws.
WAKELIN KILLED DAUGHTER.
Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 12.—Joseph
Wakelin, of Melrose, was found gifilty
of manslaughter on account of the
death of his daughter, Loretta. 7 years
of age.
His wife. Sarah, was acquitted. The
state contended that when Loretta was
sent home from school on the morning
of June 1. 1916, for a book she had for
gotten, she objected to returning to
school, and that In a fit of anger Wake
lln seized her more forcibly than he
intended and choked her to death. Then
he mutilated the child’s body and con
cealed It in the wooing.
REPORTER REQUIRED
TO GIVE INFORMATION
Federal Court Judge Holds His
Source of Knowledge Is i
Not Privileged.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 13.—E. E. Wolfe,
hewspaper reporter, wits ordered by
Federal Judge Munger to appear before
the grand Jury now in session and
there give the name of ,the man upon
whose information he leased four ar
ticles charging that District Attorney
Allen was not diligent In prosecuting
offenders against the law. That was
at a time when there were many stories
floating about that pro-Germans were
active in resisting the draft, calling the
president names and threatening var
ious things because of the war.
When summoned before the grand
fury the day before, Mr. Wolfe said
that the information was given him in
confidence under his pledge that he
would not disclose the name of the
man who gave him the information. The
Jury Issued an attachment ordering
him to appear befdre the court and
show cause why he should not be cited
for contempt. Before the court Mr.
Wolfe urged that, it was a comon prac
tice among newspaper men to pledge
secrecy In such matters, and cited the
cases of doctors, lawyers and priests
as examples of where the confidential
relations protected them. He .also in
sisted that he had no information him
self of any crime having been com
mitted. and urged this as a reason.
The court held that the federal courts
acted under the common law except as
modified by congress, and that It had j
not seen fit to pass a law exempting .
Journalists. It was not for a witness to .
say whether he had knowledge of a
crime. That was for the grand Jury, I
since while one witness might not have j
such knowledge, his Information, with [
that of others, might piece out a case.
Mr. Wolfe had no desire to go to Jail,
and promised to obey the order. Luter
in the day he went before the grand
jury. In his statement to the court he
intimated that a public official gave
him the Information.
CONSERVATION OF FUEL
BEING PRACTICED HERE
O’Neill, Neb., Oct 13.—A movement
has been started by pioneers to con
serve the fuel supply of this region by
gathering dead cotton wood trees, 1
which may be found in abundance in I
the groves planted years ago. Many
large tracts of these trees are found [
on the prairies where homesteaders
planted them. Most of these groves
have attained a rank growth and prairie
fires have killed them, leaving a good
supply of dry wood that is flree for
the cutting.
Some of the mort adventuresome old
timers advocate the harvesting of buf
falo chips, a fuel unknown to the ris
ing generation, but one that saved the
day for thousands when the hard times
of ’94 were upon us.
DECATUR, NEB., BANKER
CHARGED WITH FELONY
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 13.—Charged with
felony in the alleged irregular conduct I
of his hank, John E. Elliott, cashier of
the defunct Farmers State bank, of
Decatur, which went to the wall May 6,
1916, owing depositors $80,000, has been
bound over to the Burt county district
court under $1,000 bonds after waiving
preliminary hearing.
Attorney General Willis E. Reed
drew up the complaint on the author
ization of the state banking "board a
month ago to proceed against the for
mer cashier. He wired the result of the
preliminary action from Tekamah.
Neb., where he is in personal charge of
the case.
One count charges Elliott with mak
ing fraudulent statements of the con
dition of the bank in listing real estate
in the assets which the bank Is alleged
not to have owned, and to have added
$2,000 to the statement as funds in
other banks, which the Decatur bank
did not have.
A second count charges him with re
ceiving deposits when he knew the
bank was insolvent. He is charged in a
third count with borrowing money from
the bank while an officer of It—strictly
forbidden under the law.
POTASH LAND LEASES
IN NEBRASKA AWARDED
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 13.—The state
board of educational funds has awarded
a few small school land leases for pot
ash purposes on bids submitted.
Roswell H. Johnson, of Pittsburgh,
gets a part of a section in Frontier
county, paying $520 bonus, with the
usual royalty of 12% per cent.
J. C. Scott, of Stockvllle, pays a
bonus of $75 in addition to the royalty
for a part of a section in the same
county.
Emery T. Honnuld, of Casper, Wyo.,
pays $100 royalty in addition to the
required percentage for a section of
land in Frontier county.
Florence Honnuld. of Casper, pays $1
for a section with the usual percentage,
while Edna Ford, of Scottsbluff, does
the same for another section.
LINCOLN PEOPLE FEEL
THEY WERE BADLY DOPED
Lincoln. Neb.. Oct. 13.—Lincoln peo
ple are under considerable embarras
ment because of the charge made in
New York papers that Mme. Rosika
Schwimmer, an Austrian woman, whom
they dined and feted while in Lincoln
in 1915, is a German spy. Mme.
Schwimmer made a public address in
favor of peace in one of the churches,
spoke before a joint session of the
legislature by invitation of both houses
uid was a guest at luncheon of the
equal suffrage association.
While here she became so much im
pressed with Rev. A. L. Weatherly,
Unitarian pastor and leading member j
of the peace society, and upon her
recommendation he was made a mem
ber of the Ford peace expedition. She
lold of the atrocities of war, and urged
America to intervene and stop the
llai liter. She was frankly pro-Ger
man in her talk and sympathies.
WILD WATERFOWL ARE
REPORTED PLENTIFUL
O’Neill, Neb., OcL 13.—The annual
southern migration of wild fowl is on.
iccording to sportsmen who have re
turned from the sand hill country. The
boys report that huge strings of brant
ind other species of the goose family
ire leisurely wending their way south.
Sportsmen here are jubilant over the
rich prospect of full bags this autumn.
DBSERVANT OFFICER IS
WELL PAID FOR EFFORT
O’Neill. Neb., Oct. 13.—A few nights
pigo Chief of Police Kirwin noticed two
stringers in a restaurant. Next day
cards came from Lincoln bearing the
pictures of the two. They were wanted
for the theft of a big motor car. Kir
win was so sure the lads were crooks
he had taken the number of the car.
As soon as he received the bills from
the police at Lincoln he scattered tips
up the line as far west as Ohudron.
The sheriff at Ainsworth nailed the
tiookfi A Lincoln officer came up and
took the boys back to that city.
THE OIL WELL FEVER
IN FRONTIER COUNTY
State Giving Leases On School
Lands—Experts Say Pay
ing Wells Snre.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 10.—A mild oil ex
citement has seized upon Frontier coun
ty, Nebraska, and as a result the state
of Nebraska has issued oil leases on
state school lands in that section to
several different persons hi the last
few days. The Midwest Oil company,
of Casper, Wyo., secured leases to sev
eral sections on a one-eighth royalty,
and Rosewell H. Johnson, of Pitts
burgh, got a section by paying $500
bonus above the royalty.
Prospecting for oil has been in prog
ress in that section for some time, and
It is said the experts believe paying
wells will be found. Oil prospecting is
going on in Dawes. Banner and Webster
counties,
CASE OF GRAND ISLAND
BANKER STILL AUVE
Grand Island, Neb., Oct 12—J. D.
Whitmore, federal agent at this point,
was summoned to Lincoln by District
Attorney Allen yesterday and told that
any new facts in connection with the
exemption of L. R. Brininger, bank
cashier, should be at once presented to
the board. Mr. Whitmore is accused
by J. D. Martin, head of a big depart
ment store, with aiding in blocking him
in his effort to secure a rehearing.
Martin has a son who has gone to
war who occupies relatively the same
position in his stare as Brininger does
In the bank. He insisted that Whit
more should accompany him to Lin
coln and present his protest in the in
terest of the government. Whitmore
eld that was no part of his duty, and
id Martin to go get a lawyer. Mr.
Allen told Whitmore that no lawyer
|vas necessary to present a protest.
Although a number of those who
have been warm in their protest object
to a retrial of the case before a board
of which F. W. Ashton, attorney for
the Brininger bank is chairman, It is
rely a committee will visit Lincoln
a day or two to present a protest
it.
NEBRASKA WILL RAISE
MORE THAN ITS QUOTA
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 12.—A vigorous
campaign for subscription to the second
Liberty loan in Omaha was inaugurat
ed at a meeting of business men and
capitalists at the commercial club. John
L. Kennedy, former congressman and
fchairman of the state committee on
Liberty loan, presided. Subscriptions
totalling $7,753,550 were taken at the
meeting, including $3,000,000 irom tne
banks of the city. This is estimated
to be a little more than half the sum
that will be subscribed in Omaha by
the end of the campaign, October 31,
Thirty millions is the amount of the
Second loan tentatively apportioned to
Nebraska, of which Omaha was expect
ed to raise one-third. It is expected that
the amount apportioned to Nebraska
will be largely exceeded.
, A feature of the program of the
opening of the campaign was a mass
meeting at the municipal auditorium
|ast night addressed by W. J. Bryan.
NEVILLE'S REGIMENT
- RECRUITING RAPIDLY
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 12.—The an
nouncement that Governor Neville
would be colonel of the Seventh regi
ment has resulted In a rapid Increase
in the recruiting and the adjutant gen
eral’s department is of the opinion that
It will soon be ready for federal recog
nition. Reports received are that with
fhe exception of two companies the new
regiment is up to the minimum strength
—which Is 100 men. Several have over
piat number.
Federal recognition is only one step
on the road to active service. It means
that if a federal military officer, upon
Inspection, recommends it as properly
filled and officered, it will receive its
pquipment Then it must wait until the
government calls It Into service. Not
until tnen will Governor Neville trans
form himself Into Colonel Neville and
Invite Lieutenant Governor Howard to
^ssume the duties of governor.
NEBRASKA MEN HELD
BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 12.—On orders is
sued by Federal District Attorney
Thomas Allen, Paul Luebke and Ed
ward Martin, of Norfolk, and Blair,
Neb., respectively, have been arrested
and ordered interned as alien enemies.
Both are alleged to have committed
acts of disloyalty by using violent lan
guage In denunciation of the United
states government.
Luebke. who is a wealthy merchant
of Norfolk, Is said to have turned all
his property into money to escape
taxation and thus avoid indirectly help
ing the United States In its prosecution
of the war against Germany.
FIX PRICE TO BE PAID
FOR HUSKING CORN
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 12.—The state
council of defense has fixed a price of
6 cents a bushel for husking corn in
Nebraska this year, acting in conjunc
tion with a committee from the food
administration department of the gov
ernment. Where the work Is in pool
corn the price will be increased. The
plan is to have the schools and col
leges declare a three weeks’ vacation
and turn the boys and girls loose m
the com fields.
HE HAD FIERCE BATTLE
WITH A VICIOUS DOG
Hartlngton, Neb., Oct. 12.—J. M.
Lammers, of this city, has his hands
bandaged on account of a fight with a
savage dog in his cornfield. The dog
attacked him without warning, and,
after a desperate struggle, Lammers
succeeded in getting the animal down
and choking it to death.
KILLED WHlLI MAKING
NEW SAFETY DEVICE
Independence, la., Oct. 10.—B. H.
Davis, a carpenter, aged 28 years, was
Instantly killed when he lost his bal
ance and fell onto a conveyer belt,
which carried him around a pulley.
Davis was constructing a safety device
to prevent Just such an accident as
caused his death.
TO DISCUSS STORE EFFICIENCY..
Washington, D. C„ Oct. 10.—Effici
ency In the retail store field and econ
omy in methods of food distribution
will be discussed October 15 and 16 at
conferences between the president and
executive committee of the National
Retail Grocers’ association and mem
bers of the food administration staff.
By pulling out a pin the handle of
a new motion picture camera can be
turned without operating ihe film
when an operator wishes to make a
person think he is being photographed
when he Is not.
DITCH TO DRAIN -
WIDE TERRITORY
—
Valley Between Wakefield and
Fender, Neb., to Have Less
Flood Troubles.
Emerson, Netx, Oct. 11.—What la
known as the Wakefield drainage ditch
is a project which is regarded as of
great importance by land owners in
the Logan valley. It starts Just north
of Wakefield in .Dixon county and runs
Southeast to Penner in Thurston -county.
It is intended to be the center of a great
drainage system for the whole Logan
valley, in which spring floods have
been very disastrous In the yearn of
the past. It is the culmination of more
than 10 years of work on the part of
p. P. Shamway and his associates.
The estimated cost of the ditch in
$75,000. This will be paid by assess
ment on the land." in the drainage dis
trict and according to benefits derived.
For instance, one 40 acres may be as
sessed as one unit while other 40s are
(assessed as high as 100 units.
Here is where the originators, of the
drainage scheme met their greatest dif
ficulty in getting started, for much of
the benefited land Is Indian land. The
passage of two bills by congress was
secured and an appeal was made to
the department of the interior before
authority could be had to either invade
or assess this Indian land. Altogether
there are about 18,000 benefit units, and
the average assessment will be $27 to
the unit.
To Make Creek 100 Miles Shorter.
This ditch when completed will be
but about 11 miles long, but when
taken in conjunction with what is to be
done in other districts, will drain a dis
trict 65 miles in length—from Concord
to the Elkhorn river. The Logan is a
very crooked stream, is approximately
160 miles long. By straightening it out
in this manner the entire length will be
shortened fully 100 miles.
The work of digging the ditch was
started about six weeks ago, and at
the present time about three miles of
it has been completed. It is being dug
an average depth of 14 feet, is 25 feet
wide at the top and 15 at the bottom,
so has capacity for carrying away a
large volume of water.
The 11 miles contracted for by the
present contractors will drain about
6,000 acres of deeded land and 4,000
acres of Indian land. It is not ex
pected the ditch will be complete be
fore early next spring.
The great dredging machine which is
making the ditch is being worked full
24 hours each day. It is equipped with
electric lights and other modern de
vices.
SECURES COAL FOR
STATE INSTITUTIONS
Lincoln, Neb., OcL 11.—Coal for nine
state institutions will be purchased by
the board of control from a single Oma
ha firm during the next eight months,
on the basis of 5 cents a ton profit over
the mine price fixed by the United
States government, plus freight charg
es and actual cost of delivery.
The institutions which will receive
coal are the penitentiary, insane hos
pital and orthopedic hospital in Lincoln,
school for deal at Omaha, school for the
blind at Nebraska City, institute for
feeble minded at Beatrice, Boldiers’
home and women’s industrial home at
Milford and the girls’ industrial school
at Geneva.
It is expected that 20,000 to 25,000
tons of coal will be delivered under the
contract, which runs until June 1. The
board considers it made an excellent
bargain in the purchase of its fuel.
ALL TRAIN SERVICE
SUSPENDED FOR DAY
Emerson, Neb., OcL 11.—The Chicago,
SL Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha rail
road held up most of its trains west
of this place from Saturday night until
Sunday afternoon in order to give the
contractors for the digging of the
Wakefield drainage ditch opportunity
to cross the company’s right of way,
about two and one-half miles west of
here. The construction of the ditch the
company believes will be a great bene
fit to it, as In times of freshets in the
past the company’s tracks and bridges
have suffered heavily.
A steel span 53 feet long and weigh
ing over 27 tons has been placed over
tlie ditch, while the tracks on either
side have been raised about 30 inches.
■~4—
MAY DISMISS NEBRASKA
SCHOOLS TO PICK CORN
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 11.—A plan to dis
miss all Nebraska schools, including the
state university, for a period of three
weeks during corn husking time, was
discussed in a meeting called by W.
H. Gustafson, president of the Nebras
ka Farmers’ union. It was proposed to
start the recess the last Friday in
October and to eliminate the holiday
vacations.
The boys would be able to go into the
fields and husk Nebraska’s great corn
crop, which exceeds last year’s by
about 2.000.000 acres, and the girls
could do patriotic work, or fill the va
cancies left in the cities by men at
tracted to the fields by the large wages
offered.
HORSE KICK FATAL TO
O’NEILL YOUNG MAN
O’Neill, Neb., OcL 11— Michael Kelly,
youngest son of John J. Kelly, a pio
neer resident of this city, died at Verdi
gree from the effects of a kick from a
horse. The young man had been em
ployed on the farm of his brotheriniaw
who resides close to that town. He was
severely Injured in the abdomen. Blood
poisoning set in and caused bis demise.
HOW LINCOLN WILL
RAISE ITS LOAN SHARE
Lincoln, Neb.. Oct. 11.—Lincoln busi
ness interests will underwrite the 32,
614.000 worth of Liberty loan bonds,
the maximum apportionment for the
city, and afterward will conduct a cam
paign for the purpose of distributing
these among persons who desire them
for investmenL
The apportionment is as follows:
Banks. 31.000,000: insurance companies,
3500,000; building and loan associa
tions. 3200,000; business men, 3700.000:
individuals. 3200,000. The apportion
ment represents 5 per cent of the de
posits in the banks; 3 per cent of in
surance companies’ resources; 4 per
cent of the building and loan associa
tion assets, and 3 per cent of the in
vested capital of business men.
ATTORNEYS ARE REAPING
BIG HARVEST IN FEES
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 11.—Reports have
come to the appellate board that a
number of Nebraska lawyers out in the
state have been reaping a harvest rep
resenting farmers and others who have
taken appeals to the district board
from orders of local boards holding
their sons for service. One attorney is
said to be charging from 3100 to 3150
for affidavits in each case. The vic
tims have been foreigners who have
been unable to read or write and are
uninformed as to what procedure is
necessary. Each case requires only
two or three easily prepared affidavits
EXPECT OFFER
London Believes Any Propo
sition, Short of Abdication
of Hohenzolierns, May
Be Made Soon.
TEUTON PEOPLE PREPARED
Proposal to Restore Conquered
Provinces to France Intended
to Sway U. S. Sentiment
* and Save Scepter.
By United Press.
London, Oct 18.—Following the fail
ure of the Germans to sow discord
erwfmg the allies as to Alsace-Lorraine,
there was speculation in official circles
tills afternoon as to the character of
Germany's next move toward peace.
The general belief was that a sweep
tog offer to evacuate Belgium and other
German occupied territory, was not at
aB unlikely. Such a policy. It was said,
would likely be relied upon to influence
American public opinion.
Any such scheme is believed doomed
to advance, so far as Its effect here la
concerned, because the war issues
have gone far beyond the Belgium
question. The indications of German
desperation, in a military sense, are
such that almost any move, short of
the kaiser’s voluntary retirement, would
not come as a great surprise.
By J. W. T. MASON.
Written for the United Prees.
New York, Oct. 13.—The kaiser’s gov
ernment is continuing the pursuit of
peace by attempting to create discord
among the allies about the future stat
us of Alsace-Lorraine and at the same
time is sounding the German people
as to their sentiment on the subject.
The kaiser is telling his people that all
the allies are now contending for ia
restitution to France of Alsace-Lor
raine. He is seeking to lead his people
to believe that after all it might be
better in the end to surrender that ter
ritory, if by so doing peace could be
restored.
However, the main question is not
one of territory, but that of continuing
the kaiser in power. It is felt by the
allied powers that, even though Alsace
Lorraine should be surrendered, along
with other German occupied territory,
a peace could not be declared by the
allies, for they would eventually have
to fight another war with the Hohen*
zollerns.
SWEDES EXPECT
GERMAN FOODS
Grain, Sugar and Potatoes to Be
Sought—Socialists Exclud
ed in Forming New
Cabinet.
London, Oct. 13.—M. Widen, who lias
been asked by King Gustave, of Swe
den, to form a cabinet, will attempt to
construct a ministry solely of liberals,
says the Stockholm correspondent of
the Daily Mail. Hjalmar ’Brantlng and
his associates in the socialist party will
be excluded by M. Widen, who is a
moderate liberal. It is the correspond
ent's opinion that M. Bran ting will not
be sorry to be excluded, as popular dis
content Is likely to increase during the
winter.
As to the effect of the American
blockade, the correspondent says the
manner in whicn the policy of the
United States is to be answered is indi
cated by the government’s announce
ment that Germany will supply to Swe
den grain, potatoes and sugar, which
the allies have refused. This announce
ment, if realized, will naturally stimu
late the pro-German trend of public
opinion developed by the Washington
news of the last few days, the dispatch
says.
It says that particular resentment
h^s been provoked in the press by the
statement that the Swedish delegates
to the United States had suppressed
the facts in relation to Sweden’s expor
tation of iron ore to Germany.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
FIGHT MILITARY DRILL
Six Hundred Strike and 4,000
Others in New York Plan
to Follow.
New York, Oct. 13.—An increase this
year of from 40 to 80 minutes in the
school day here for military training,
was given as the' cause of a strike to
day of a number of high school stu
dents.
Miss Anna Lederer, as head of a stu
dents’ committee, told an aldermanic
committee on public welfare that 600
students had struck and that 4.000
would follow unless military training
were discontinued.
REID-M00RE CONTROL
ROCK ISLAND AGAIN
Chicago, Oct. 12.-—The Reid-Moore in
terests wrested control of the board of
directors of the Chicago, Rock Island
ft Pacific railroad from Nathan Amster,
of Boston who, as spokesman of a
stockholders' committee at a previous
meeting had named himself chairman
of the executive committee of the road.
Nine of the 13 directors elected today
were Reld-Moore men, the other four
lncludlng Amster, were with him as in
■urgeants.
SIR WALLACE GRAHAM DIES.
Halifax, N. S., Oct. 12.—Sir Wallace
Graham, chief Justice of Nova Scotia,
died here today at the age of 69. H»
was associate counsel in preparing the
British case for the fisheries commis
sion at Washington, D. C, In 1887-88.