THE O’NEIL FRONTIER —SSSBBBBSSSBKS I f a M. O WOW IN, Publisher. jndu. NIBRABKJ —1— ■1 11 “• ■ 1 .. The selective draft law In operation reveals some kinks for official Iron ing. A case In New Jersey provoked much adverse comment. .Four of five sons of a widowed mother entered va rious branches of the service as volun teers. The fifth son was drafted and denied exemption. The governor of the state has Interceded In this and similar cases, pleading not only dependency, but the equally strong reason of the families doing more than their bit through volunteering. Women workers who may enter American munitions factories In the near future will save much trouble by taking note of warnings of British doc tors to women In that class of work. Some of the thoughtless used powder at hand to Impart a Titian red color to their looka. In many cases the result was facial Jaundice and other diseases. Eagerness to Improve on nature with dangerous tools usually defeats the ob ject. _ There has been added to the London regiment a new draft of 60 men re markable for their splendid physique. It Is the result of a newspaper paragraph announcing that there were openings for recruits. The average height of the new' recruit is 6 feet 11% inches, but many of them are considerably taller, and one Is 6 feet 6 inches. The aver age age is 24% years. Automobile dealers in Greensburg, Pa., find It more profitable to sell ma chines to coal miners than to opera tors. Since miners are making as much as $200 to $300 a month, they have affected many of the styles of their employers. Never In the history of the mining Industry in Westmore land county htj such prosperity been enjoyed by the miners. While plowing In a field neail Charleston, Mo., men unearthed a num ber of clay pipes of peculiar construc Mon. The pipes are richly ornamented in figures and flowers. All appear to have been used In smoking and are highly colored. It Is supposed that they are relics of the ancient mound builders. A Pittsfield (Mass.) man, who p.'anted a war garden alongside a trol ley line, planted potatoes first, but the quack grass crowded the seed potatoes out of. the ground; then he planted squash seeds, but the vines spread over the track and were ruined by the passing ears, and last he tried cab bages, but the woodchucks got them. Austin, Tex., has a plant which runs at full capacity each day, turning out oakoal, wjjich Is made from the city garbage, waste paper, old shoes, rags, etc. The new fuel sells at $6.50 a ton and is said to burn as long and to give off as much heat as the best bitumin ous lump coal, besides relieving the city of all waste material. Wages In the mills of Bridgeport, Conn., have aviated into the salary class. One manufacturer reports that the average tradesman pulls down $50 a week, while $70 and up a week is not uncommon. Overtime and premiums for quantity of output fattens pay en velopes as never before. A 1,000-pound female grizzly bear was lassoed in the Santa Fe national forest by J. F. McMullen, trapper, of the United States biological survey. The animal was trailed down as she raced through the woods with a 45 pound trap and a six-foot drag hanging to her feet. At the commencement exercises of the University of Minnesota school of agriculture,. Miss Olive Cunningham one of the graduates, wearing an apron and with a dishcloth In her hand, gave the audience a number of valuable suggestions oin the subject of washing dishes. A Minneapolis publication which fea tured the backfire speeches of Senator La Folletto and Congressman Lundeen delivered at St. Paul finds the policy an expensive one. Action by advertisers annulling contracts because of the se ditious matter was sustained by local courts. The site chosen for the final resting placo of the body of James Whitcomb Kiley*4s the highest knoll In Crown Hill cemetery, just outside Indianapolis. Tire location commands a view of the surrounding country and overlooks the city beloved by the poet. A stone inkstand at least 100 years old Is the latest curio to be added to the Memorial building at Hardwick, Vt. It Is about two inches square and two Inches deep. The boring of the stone appears to have all been done by hand. All the “come-downs" that thriii Lon don arc not "made in Germany." Gas companies serving Beveral sections of the big town announce a come-down in price, the new rates averageing about 70 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, f A combined scraper and brush, cpn cealed when not in use in the running board of an automobile, has been in vented for the purpose of preventing people with soiled shoes from carrying dirt into the car. Two pairs of twins form four of the five Strickland boys of Houston, Tex., now troopers in the First Texas cav alry. They are: Tate, 19; Oscar, 25; Gtho, 25; Clenj, 19. and Claude, 21. Four of the IS sons of R. S. Wills, of Oakdale, Pa., are in the United States service, and five others are of military age and subject to the draft. It was by means of their well de veloped organization that the Germans were able to get most of the valuable ■trade of the Caucasus region. In a playground league baseball game mi New Orleans the pitcher of the team was named Liquor while the opposing twirler was named Claret. Bangor, Me., was visited one night by such a flight of moths that the side walks in places wore covered with them to the depth of an inch. —-——’«»»• ■ i . ■ Cooked crabs* ciaws are nibbled by ;'ie people of Seville, Spain, more for pastime than for sustenance. There has been an enormous decrease In the amount of sulphur exported this . ear from Sicily. Thomas Ah Quin is the first Chinese V"lic' v.-m in San Diego. Cal. He was rpp'vii’ed a special policeman to serve >.: compensation.' -- -Ob--**-- . - A n<"v!y invented cigaret holder has ?V attachment which ejects the burned ■1 of a eUa-?t without danger of . u'ning tne fingers. ■r:#e Norwegian In prohibited by Jaw : • tv, ponding- mor- than 0 cents at one visit to a public house. S-ven'y thpufar.d be!is have been receive*} by a bell foundry in Hanover COAL QUESTION IS STILL BOTHERSOME Dealers of Nebraska Wait on Further Instructions From State Administrator. Lincoln, N*b., Nov. 8.—Coal dealer* and members of the state railway com mission ar® of the opinion that State Fuel Administrator Kennedy la due to disappointment In getting all the coal that Nebraska requires. Mr. Kennedy said in his talk to the dealers that he was sure the coal would be forthcom ing and that railroads would be stopped from confiscating fuel. The commis sioners say that all their reports Indi cate a shortage of equipment that is likely to continue all winter and which will be heightened when com begins to move in large quantities. The railroads have not enough coal to operate and the government will have a task on Its hands in supplying them, not to men tion dealers. Lincoln dealers will not put govern ment prices into effect until the expert Mr. Kennedy has promised to send looks over their reports to the etate council of defense and decides what should be the proper basis. Many of the grades of coal are now being sold for less than the government probably will permit the dealers to charge. These prices will be advanced as soon as the government decides what shall be the prices. Hard coal will drop over 11, It is now being sold at $15, due to the fact that dealers had to pay more for it than the government will hereafter permit. The showing of the dealers, when compared with the government prices as determined by the announced for mula, Indicates that the Lincoln con sumers’ aggregate coal bill will he higher than now. The government allows BO cents a ton profit, where the dealers have been taking only 30 cents. MERRY TELEPHONE WAR ON AT RED CLOUD Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 3.—According to filings in the office of the state railway commission a merry war is on at Red Cloud between the Farmers’ Indepen dent Telephone company and the Lin coln Telephone & Telegraph company, which have exchanges at that city, with 300 phones apiece. The former has started a campaign to get the latter's subscribers away from it on the ground that It Is a home-owned company. All the doctors signed up to order out the Lincoln phones, and the company re taliated by hiring messengers to call all the doctors subscribers desire. It has also taken a 10-year lease on a block and Is putting in a new plant. The Lincoln company has filed a mo tion asking the Farmers’ company to elect, in Its case there, whether it will proceed under a contract with the Lin coln company to furnish toll connec tions, which the latter cut when the local war started, or under the statute which requires such connections. If the latter issue Is forced the company will take the matter to the court of last resort, claiming that compulsory con nection lakes their property away with out due compensation or process of law, and therefore violates the constitution. 8EWAGE DISP08AL IS WORRYING FREMONT Fremont, Neb., Nov. 3.—While the criminal complaints filed In Omaha against the Fremont mayor and city council have not yet been pushed to the point of causing the arrest and de tention of the Fremont officials, they have had apparently the effect desired. The counctlmen at a meeting show ed desire to get some immediate ac tion on the proposition of finding a suit able outlet for the Fremont sewer, which at present is dumped into a creek bed near the town of Valley, 14 miles away. The council for three years has been casting about In an effort to find a solution to the problem, but without success. Yesterday it authorized a committee, the city engineer and the board of public works to go to Sedalia, Mo., where an investigation at close range can be made of a successful sep tic system for handling the sewage. NORMAL SCHOOLS ARE BAD OFF FINANCIALLY Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 3.—State Treas urer Hall reports that the normal schools now have an overdraft of nearly $250,000. and that for the second year of the biennial period it will have not to exceed. $75,000 left of the $400,000 appropriated. Most of the money has been spent in finishing buildings at Wayne, Kearney and Chadron normals. The Wayne normal has agreed to waive Its share of the money set aside for the purchase of demonstration farms and equipment therefor. These were to be utilized In training teachers to be in structors In agriculture In public schools, as now required bv law. Wayne wants to spend the money In extend ing Its campus. The legislature refused to make any campus extension appro priations and the normal board pro poses doing this out of money raised by taxes. ALL SUGAR FACTORIES RUNNING FULL BLAST Omaha, Neb., Nov. 3.—Union Pacific and Burlington officials report that all the sugar factories on the two lines are in operation. In western Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming the acreage in beets Is con siderably greater than last year, but it is not thought the yield per acre will be any larger. The yield was cut down to some extent on account of a dry spell during August. It is said that the beet sugar factories of the central west are running at full time and that within the next two weeks their output will be on the mar ket. SENATOR NORRIS SAYS HE IS A CANDIDATE Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 3.—Senator George W. Norris, in Lincoln for a few hours, said that he could not help being a candidate for reelection in view of the fight being made upon him, and that his name would be submitted to the re publicans In the primary of 1918. He proposes to make an extensive tour of the state prior to the primary election j to state his case in person to the people. He said there was no truth in the story I that he was thinking of opening u law I office in New York city and said he proposed remaining in Nebraska. 1 FARMERS SAY MANY OF THEIR POTATOES FREEZE Ainsworth, Neb., New 3.—-As many as j 25,000 bushels of potatoes are estln\atz< i to have frozen in Brown county as : result of the sudden drop in tem'neva turo of the past few days, wh n tli thermometer registered as low as 4 • green below zero. Nearly < v or e . er suffered loss, the Indie J■.< A ■ ranging from a ) j> bushel* : :> 1,500 bushels. Scores of y.nl i been sng&ged hi trying to - r, e - Imaindei of the crops. . li; v. s earliest freeze in this you-tc.v- >. BLOOMFIELD STAGES PATRIOTIC MEETING Former Pro-German Citizens Announce They Have Experi enced Change of Heart. ———— Bloomfield, Neb., Nov. 3.—A thousaii people attended the patriotic meeting held at the Bloomfield opera house. The meeting was called by Mayor W. H. Harm and the feature of the evening was the appearance upon the platform of Messrs. John A. Steffen and Oustaf Eisenhauer who were arrested here Sat urday for seditious utterances and fort obstructing the big Liberty loan drive. Both of these men publicly admitted their guilt and stated that they in the future would be loyal American citi zens. Their resolve was received with tumultuous applause and they were welcomed into the ranks of ksyal sup porters of the old flag. Speeches were made by Mayor Harm, B. Cunningham and Dr. W. H. Mullen and the spirit of the vast crowd was loyal to the highest degrees. Bloomfield is determined to stamp out the lust vetiges of "kaiserlsm, and this is but a starter In the cleanup cam paign. Bloomfield’s quota for the sec ond Liberty loan was $98,000 and the last tally shows that this amount was oversubscribed almost $70,000. SCOTTSBLUFF SCENE OF DOUBLE SHOOTING Scottsbluff, Neb., Nov. 3.—Lyle Bish op, aged 23, shot and dangerously wounded Miss Esther Orites at her apartments In this city and then turned the weapon upon himself. The bullet crashed through his head and he died almost instantly. The attempted murder and suicide are supposed to have been committed while Bishop was suffering from a fit of temporary insanity. Young Bishop, who was employed in the Weller store, was originally from Broken Bow, as is also Miss Crltes. They were schoolmates. Bishop called upon the girl at the apartments, which she shared with an other young woman, who was present and witnessed the tragedy. The wounded girl is a stenographer employed in the First National bank of this city. Physicians say she may recover. The dead man is survived by] his mother, brother and sister, all resi dents of this city. -4 PEOPLE OF CHAMBERS BUY LIBERTY BONDS Chambers, Neb., Nov. 3.:—Though someone with a grudge against this town reported from O’Neill that the people of Chambers had not subscribed for Liberty bonds as they should, it is disclosed that subscriptions for the bonds to the amount of 312,450 were made through the two banks. The peo ple of Chambers are as loyal per capita as the people of any other community In the country. —-4— WAKEFIELD RED CROSS CHAPTER KEEPS BUSY Wakefield, Neb., Nov. 3.—The Wake field Red Cross chapter sent their sec ond consignment to Chicago. The ship ment consisted of 24 pairs of socks, IS pairs of pajamas, 15 sweaters, 15 wrlst ers, 15 ambulance pillows, 9 scarfs, 9 wash cloths, 24 napkins, 36 supply handkerchiefs, 3 packages muslin strips and 9 quilts. Several quilts and ambulance pillows are ready for the third shipment. The largest box that could be obtained would not hold all that was ready for this lime. ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR ALL GERMAN CHURCHES Omaha, Neb., Nov. 3.—Rev. O. D. Baltzly, pastor of Kountze Memorial Lutheran church, who last spring was quoted ;us saying he believed "this to be Mr. Wilson's war,” is leader of a na tional movement in the Lutheran church to substitute English for Ger man and other foreign languages. The movement was begun at the annual convention of the general council of the church which has been in session at Philadelphia. Ur. Baltzley was a spec ial commissioner to the council. NEW MEDICAL MAN AT THE NORFOLK ASYLUM Norfolk, Neb., Nov. 3.—The board of control has named Dr. Beverly A. Finkle, recently of Faribault, Minn., as first assistant physician at the Norfolk state hospital for Insane, to take the place of Dr. H. R. Carson, who resigned to enter the army hospital serv ice. Dr. Finkle will report for service No vember 16, bringing his family with him. He has been doing state institu tion work at Faribault and at St. Joseph, Mo., having about five years’ experience in state ^institution work. FREMONT—Oscar Hornyak/ groom of a day, who was arrested on a charge of being a slacker, Was released when he produced his discharge papers from the national guard. Hornyak served on the border a year ago and with the Fremont signal corps at Lincoln last summer. He was discharged in September, two months after the draft. He misrepresented his age, however, in giving It to the clerk at the county judge’s office, but secured the consent of his parents lat^r. WAKEFIELD—Four Wakefield boys have recently been made officers at Camp Funston. Alva Bowman has been pro moted from company clerk to sergeant, Clifford Carlson was also made sergeant Friedolph Johnson is tt corporal, Carl Swanson, who was chosen as one of the 20 to train the negroes, is also in line for promotion. LYONS—When M. M. Warner prepared to take his flowers in for the winter he discovered the Star of Bethelhem, usually a pure white, had turned a blood red color. Persons of a superstitious nature are inclined to the belief the change of color has something to do writh the en trance of our soldiers Into the great Eu ropean war. ALLIANCE—The 100 Sioux Indian* brought to this county to assist in har vesting the potato crop were given a re ception by the Community club, the In dians in turn put on paint, feathers and beads and did their utmost to show their appreciation. About 1,000,000 bushels of spuds were picked by the Indians in this and adjoining counties. OMAHA—The bank clearings in Omaha for October were $308,149,223, exceeding by nearly $40,000,000 the previous high record made in March of this year and more than $70,000,000 above the clearings for October, 1916. LINCOLN—Some time within the next few days the work of boring for oil in Banner county to begin. The Prairie Oil & Gas company, of Kansas, which is regarded as one of the subsidiaries of the Standard. Is spending $100,000 in experi menting in that section, where the experts say a dome has been found. LINCOLN—Nebraska state institutions : under the state board of control are fac | lug a coal famine, all because- railroads | have commenced confiscating coal ; destined to state institution*. Whether I there is to be any real nuffering at state institutions on account o’ luck of coal wilt toon develop. “SLACKER" BANKS TO BE ASKED TO EXPLAIN Nebraska Council of Defense tc Quiz Those Who Hindered Liberty Loan. Lincoln. Neb., Nov. 2.—The state council of defense proposes to call be fore it for explanations a number ol bankers in the state who are reported to it as having not only refused to sub. scribe for Liberty bonds, but whq placed obstacles in the way of solicitor* and indulged in criticisms of the gov ernment that were disloyal. The quit will also include other citizens who talked too freely and too critically to Individuals who were soliciting sub scriptions. The council proposes tc take drastic steps against any who actually offended against this law. It.) principal difficulties heretofore have been to secure evidence to justify prosecutions, and it is expected that U these bankers and others have th« courage of their convictions they will repeat their criticisms where witnesses who will not be deterred by social or financial reasons from testifying will hear what they have to say. NEBRASKA UNIVERSITY TO HONOR ANDREWS’ MEMORY Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 2.—The Univer sity of Nebraska will honor the memory of its former chancellor, E. Benjamin Andrews, whose death occurred Tues day at his home in Florida, by holding services of a memorial character at the hour of his interment in Grantville, Ohio. A member of the faculty will at tend the funeral as the representative of the institution. Mr. Andrews came to the university from Chicago, where he had been super intendent of schools, in August, 1900, and retired because of failing health on January 1, 1909. He was formerly president of Brown university, but left there because of his espousal of the cause of free silver and the consequent ruction among the trustees. It was be cause of this action in Brown that he was tendered the chancellorship of Ne braska. He was named by President Harrison in 1892 as a member of the international monetary conference that met that year in Belgium. —♦— NEBRASKANS TO STUDY CONSERVATION PLANS Lincoln. Neb., Nov. 2.—Gurdon W. Wattles, Omaha millionaire, in charge of the food conservation work in Ne braska, is here organizing the various actvities in support of the task in hand. He says his principal work is to con vince people of the necessity that exists for the conserving of food in order that allies may be supplied. John L. Kennedy, state fuel adminis trator, met today with the coal men to talk over the organization of a coal committee to fix prices for Lincoln. Mr. Kennedy has secured the promise of 100 cars of hard coal to relieve the situa tion in the small towns where the base burner flourishes. ALIMONY PROBLEM TO THE SUPREME COURT Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 2.—John E. Van Dorn, of Omaha, has asked the Ne braska supreme court to set aside a judgment directing him to pay his former wife $40 per month for the sup port of herself And son and to furnish them with a home. Mrs. Van Dorn ob tained a divorce some years ago, and her husband wras directed to pay her $1,500 alimony and $150 a month there after. There was a reconciliation and Mrs. Van Dorn signed an agreement re leasing him from this obligation. Later she sought to have the judgment re vived and the agreement set aside. In the meantime Van Dorn had remarried. The lower court found he had a right to do so, and in consideration of that fact it reduced the amount of alimony. YOUNG ELOPERS WIN OVER ALL OBJECTIONS Fremont. Neb.. Nov. 2.—Herbert Ma son, of Pender, and Miss Myrtle Nj»son ger, of Omaha, secured a marriage li cense and Judgef Wintersteen had just finished tying the nuptial knot when a telegram reached him from the sheriff at Pender, instructing him not to marry the couple. An hour later the father of the groom called up by telephone from Blair to assert that his son was under age and that the judge, therefore, should not grant him a permit to wed. Judge Wintersteen was forced to con fess to both protestors that they had j been heard from too late. CUPID GETS THIS MAN INTO TROUBLE Fremont, Neb., Nov. 2.—Oscar Horn yak, aged 21, applied for a marriage li cense to wed Bessie Walker, of Oconto, a music student at the college. He told Judge Wintersteen that his birthday was April 21. Court house officials as certained later that Hornyak did not register for the selective draft be cause “he was under 21.” Warrant was issued for the arrest of Hornyak on a “slacker” charge. LINCOLN—Sixty students of the school of agriculture have signified their inten tion of leaving school to help with farm work during the next few weeks. Sev eral boys left Saturday. Fifteen will go next Saturday and other contingents dur ing the succeeding two wreeks. All must return to school not later than Decem ber 3. Free tutoring will be offered and some extra classes will probably be opened to enable them to make up their work. LINCOLN—The Lincoln city commis sioners will not grant the Lincoln Gas & Electric company permission to charge $1.25 per thousand feet for gas it fur nishes its patrons during the period of war prices for fear that any such action would ruin all chances of winning the dollar gas case which is now pending in the United States supreme court. PAPILLION—Fire which destroyed the old log house on the Sam Gramich farm, southeast of town, took away one of the oldest landmarks in Sarpy county. The log house W'as built by Louie Gramich in 1856 and was still in good condition, it being used for storage of edibles for winter, all of which were destroyed with the build ing. PROVIDENCE-The death at Inter lachen, Fla., of Dr. Elisha Benjamin An drews, formerly president of Brown uni versity and later chancellor of the Uni versity of Nebraska, was announced in telegrams received here. LINCOLN—1Twenty-two school land leases for oil and potash development were issued Tuesday by Land Commis sioner Shumway, where only one appli cation for the same tract had been re ceived. The lands are located in Sheri dan, Banner, Scotts Bluff, Morrill, Cherry and Garden counties. GRAND ISLAND—Mr?. Richard West phai was fatally burned, her mother, Mrs. Fred Rlckert was seriously burned, and Wauneta, 3-year-old daughter of Mrs. j Westphal, was painfully injured -*vlu*n a ' can of gasoline, mistaken for kerosene, j exploded in the kitchen of the We^tjjJjal ' home. HEMP GROWING MAY BECOME PROFITABLE Laurel, Neb., Parmer's Experi- ! mental Crop Is Satisfactory ! in Every Resp.ict. Colertdgg, Neb., Nov. 1.—J. J. Champ lin, of Laurel, recently completed the harvest of the first crop of hemp ever grown in the state of Nebraska and Indications are the returns will be such as to make that one of the profitable crops of the state in years to come. At the instance of the International Harvester company and as an experi ment on the part of that great concern, Mr. Champlin last spring seeded 80 acres of land to that crop. The company supplied the seed and implements for doing the seeding, also the harvesting machinery, its object being to free it self and the American farmers from the robber prices demanded by the Panama twine monoply which supplies the bulk of"the twine for binding the grain crops of America. At the time of seeding this experi ment farm in Nebraska the company also caused similar tracts to be seed ed with hemp in widely separated parts of the country. This was done to as certain where the crop will grew to tho best advantage. A representative of the company was here recently anti pronounced the crop grown by Mr. Champlin the best in quantity and quality lie has ever seen Special machinery was shipped hers for the harvesting of the crop. An en j gine runs the machine which cuts the hemp and a revolving platform dumps it in swathr. The harvester is drawr by four horses. After being cut the hemp must lay on the ground until the pulp and body of the stalk have decayed. Then it is gathered and broken and baled by spec ial machinery. The crop grown by Mr. Champlin is an exceptionally heavy one. it being es timated it will yield la to 16 tons on an average to the acre. As it is now worth 19VL cents per pound it is seen this crop is a. valuable or.c, and will yield the grower handsome profit, though the seed, the harvesting and the process ot preparing the hemp for the market are al; expensive. It. is expected other fields of tills new crop will be planted in the sfiving. that it will be a great crop hjy'c in tho future. —*•— NEBRASKA WILL REAP BIG POTASH ROYALTIES Lincoln. Neb., Nov. 1.—The Nebras ka Refining & Pipe Line company, which threatens to make the state ot Nebraska rich thsough the royalties it Is willing to pay for the potash lakes on school land, has compiled with the order of the state board of educational lands and funds and selected the five sections of state lands for members of its company. The- state contracted with the company tfi allow it to pick five sections out of 59, and to give it mineral leases thereon. The original contract gave them three years in which to make the selection, but as this barred anybody else from taking any lakes the c ompany acted quickly and ordered it done in 30 days. The company has no potash plant, but will build one if it cun get enough potash water to iustify the large ex penditure necessary for a plant. Four factories that turn out 5.00 tons of pot- ! ash rails a day are now in operation and making $70 a ton on it: another is in process of construction and four ether companies, with leases, are be ing organized. The business is a big -amble as the cost of manufacturing potash at these figures is three times what Germany formerly laid potash down for in New Yyk. DES MOINES BOYS END JOY RIDE AT LINCOLN Lincoln. Neb., Nov. 1.—Three Des Moines youths, Paul O’Reillv. i.'""' Fiala and Charles Ramsay, West high school lads, arc anxiously awau.ng m. arrival of J. V. Hast, stepfather of O’Reilly, whose car they took and joy rided west. The hoys say they did not intend to run away when they left, but the going was so good that they kept on going. They left with $50, but spent so much of it for repairs that they had but 50 cents when they reached Lincoln, and had been getting handouts from generous farmers for a day. They said they never allowed any other car to pass them while on the Journey. THREE POTASH TOWNS ARE GROWING RAPIDLY Lincoln, Neb., Nov. L—The potash industry ol' northwestern Nebraska has caused three new towns to be horn. The new town of Hpffland, 12 miles from Alliance, has now a popu lation of 600 and is growing rapidly. Antioch has been on the map longer, but a year ago all it contained was a store and two house1' It now con tains a population of l.yeij. Lakeside is another potash made town. It is a yellow cement town. It is 'located on the eastern edge of the pot ash area. It was originally the head quarters of the T. B. Hurt cattle ranch, which covers two entire townships. GOVERNOR'S REGIMENT 13 FAST FILLING UP Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 1.—The govern or’s regiment, the Seventh Nebraska, is rapidly filling up. Every one of the companies now has more than the min imum number required, and three ure very close to their maximum strength As soon as tile minimum number had been reached, the governor common! rated with the war department, and is expecting any day to secure the recog nition of it promised him personally when lie was in Washington. EVIDENCE FAVORABLE TO MAN NOW ON TRIAL Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 1.—That George Miller, the barber, killed by a street car conductor during the strike rioting last May, hud been drinking and had encagei with others in stoning the cars of the company, was brought out at ti e trial of Conductor Calvin Lambert, charged with the murder. Two com panion;! of Miller so testified and also declared that they were running away after stoning the cur when the con ductor opened fire on them. ■—— ALLIANCE—The first annual potato show and convention will bo held at Al liance, November 15 and 16. There will be county as well as individual exhibits from the principal potato producing sec tions of the state. LINCOLN—Land Commissioner Shuni way is devoting Ills energies to increasing the Income of the state by having school lands reappraised for leasing purposes. The commissioner has contended that 1 much stab land hn« been leased below , a fair valuation. Lessees must in the fu- I turn pay the state rental ;;t the rate of 1 6 per cent on the gppraisid valvttion. LINCOLN — Supposing that George j Whitmcv. i’ meat cutter, was a highway man, R. 12. BothweU. who was starting i on a hunting trip with li.s brother, shot at Wilitmer and the bullet struck the j I butcher in the calf of the right leg. The , victim of the accidental shooting is not ; I seriwiigiy hurt. 1 1 444»»MMfM ♦♦♦♦4444444444 > X EXPLOSION ON SHIP Y X DESTROYS PLUNGER X X THAT FIRED TORPEDO: + •4 By Associated Prggg. 4 4 American Flotilla Base in the 4 4 British Isles, (by mall), October 4 4 16.—One submarine which will 4 4 never sail to Germany again was 4 i 4 sunk under peculiar cireum- 4 1 4 stances a short time ago. This 4 1 4 U-boat torpedoed a ship bound 4 , 4 from the United States. It is ex- 4 | 4 tremely unwise and unsafe tQ + 4 fire a torpedo at such close 4 4 range, but the U-boats must 4 4 take their targets as they get 4 4 them these days. The torpedoed 4 4 ship was loaded with a cargo of 4 4 heavy war material, and the ex- 4 4 plosion was so forcible that it 4 4 blew a large piece of heavy ma- 4 4 terial through the deck of the 4 4 ship and dropped it on the sub- 4 4 marine as the latter was sub- 4 4 merging. The hull of the sub- 4 4 marine was crushed like an egg 4 4 shell and she sank with all on 4 4 board. linHIMMMItMIttttmt OFBTQpiES Meeting Today Held With That in View Because the Steel i and Nickel Used Are < Needed in War. Washington, D. C., Nov. 3.—With the prospect that war requirements goon will necessitate curtailment of production in all nonessential indus tries, conferences with manufacturers of automobiles and automobile acees- J sories began today at the council of ^ national defense. The question of curtailing produc- I tion of automobiles was said to have | been precipitated because of the short- ’ age in steel and nickel, both of which are used extensively in the manufac ture of automobiles and are also neces sary in the production of war muni tions. _ FAKERS TRY TO OBTAIN FOOD CANNED BY WOMEN ‘Washington, D. C., Nov. 2.—The food administration today branded as im postors men in various parts of the country who have attempted to buy home canned products put up by house wives, representing themselv'es as food administration agents. At the same time the food administration took oc casion again to deny that the govern ment contemplates commandeering home canned goods. NEW YORK GOES INTO FUEL AND FOOD TRADE New York, N