Nebraska Newspapers

    JKE O’NEILL FBONTER
B. H. CRONIN, Publisher.
O’NEILL. NEBRASKA
One of the things that make New
Tork an Interesting city is the practice
of some shopkeepers of putting In their
windows attractive goods with price
labels. An arresting Instance of this
sort was seen recently In a Broadway
Jeweler's window. Here was a finger
ring of diamonds and an emerald, price
$12,500; a marquise shaped diamond
ring, $4,250; pear shaped diamond pen
dant $2,250; diamond earrings, $5,800,
and a galaxy of other resplendent gems
to appeal to the frequenters of the
“Great White Way.’' At the other ex
treme of the social scale for the buy
ing public are the push carts of New
York's east slde.jsqually Interesting In
their way. On one of these carts In
Canal street an astonishing variety of
things mechanical was found—among
others, clocks and watches, music box
es, all kinds of tools and at least a
■core of second hand cameras of vari
ous makes.
At Ann Arbor, Mich, workmen recent
ly repaired the outside stairs of old
University hall. The building was con
structed In the '70s, and complaint was
made at that time that tho stairway
was too narrow to permit the co-eds to
pass comfortably, as the era of the
noopsklrt was on them. The stairway,
though rebuilt, Is as narrow as the orig
inal passageway.
Mohammedans are supposed neither
to drink wine nor to eat pork, but
Allbed-Hamoun, dethroned sultan of
Zanzibar, who now lives affluently In
Paris, has a bold and original way of
doing both. At the table he places his
Koran beside him, urges “Oh, holy pro
phet, may thy Koran protect me,” and
falls to with a will.
Seventy-eight gold watch fobs have
been awarded employes of the Southern
Pacific railroad who did efficient safety
first work during the last year. The
prizes are won under a point system,
credit of so many units being given for
suggestions which are classified as to
value and the number of prize points
merited by each.
When Mrs. Mary E. Peters, age 66,
of Millville, N. J., becnmo the bride of
James McNeal, age 68, tho bride was
given In marriage by lier mother, Mrs.
June Faceinier, age 99. The maid of
honor was Miss Blanche Hughes,
granddaughter of the bride, and tho
bride’s grandson, Harvey W. Hughes,
'was best man.
Since the beginning of the European
war American diamond buyers have
shown a rlvlval of interest In the dia
mond fields of Brazil, which have at
tracted a considerable number of buy
ers. The Brazilian garimpeiro, or native
diamond miner, has seen prices rising
steadily under tho competition ci tho
foreigners.
Mount Taishan, a famous sacred
mountain of China, which has long boon
denuded of woodland, Is to be refor
ested by tho government. There it was
that Emperor Shun offered sacrifices
to heaven 2,300 years before the Chris
tian era. The feast of the tomb was this
year celebrated as an arbor day In
China.
Emory Anderson, of Syracuse, N. Y„
win weighs 250 pounds, saw a pheasant,
on the ground, pursued it and finally
caught it by making a flying tactile.
After he recovered bis breath friends
told him that the open season on pheas
ants had not beuun and Mr. Andrews
therefore had to give his bird to the
too.
The queen of Norway drosses
economically to tho point of sl\abbiness,
spending only $1,000 a year for her
clothes. The queen of Spain Is the most
extravagant of European royalties for
her wardrobe, which costs more than
$15,000 annually. Both are English prin
cesses and first cousins.
Tho one-mile derby run annually oi:
watermelon day at the Arkansas valley
fair, Rocky Ford, Colo., was this year
won by a woman jockey (or the first
time on record. Jaunltu Edgar rode Ni
Ormondo home ahead, the mile being
covered in 1:48, good time on the Sanut
Fe racing circuit tracks.
Rutebeauf and Jean de Meung were,
the two most noted poets of the Thir
teenth century. The former w*ns an* ex
ponent of every form of poetry and
prose, and is the oldest representative
of personal uoe^y in France. Rute
bealit died In the year 1280.
» fie ru st carload ox suico-mangancse
ever produced in California, nnd as far
us recorded eve" produced in the United
States, has been shipped to London. The
substance takes the place of ferro-siH
con and fprrb-manguneso in the manu
facture of high grade steel.
In order that Mrs. Elizabeth Evans,
age S5, of Pittsburgh, the mother'of
eight children, may share the Edwards
estate without facing possible legal
complications, Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards,
wealthy Mt. Warhington woman, has
adopted her.
Gurdner Miflen, age SS, a veteran
mason, of Washington. X. 11., has lie
gun the mason work of the new house
of i>r. William Snow. He is to build two
fireplaces nnd chimneys and put on
more than dUl) yards of plastering.
The Importation into Australia of ex
plosives containing more than 00 per
cent of nitroglycerine lias been prohib
ited. except after the < unseat, in Wilt
ing. of the minister of state for trade
and customs has been' obtained.
While boring for oil near Port Eliza
beth. South Africa, hot water was en
counter* d in such volume at a depth of
8,ti0o feet Thai drilling operations
ceased. The well developed a never
failing supply of water.
Saco, Me., is now without a hotel, a
manufacturing concern having leased
the only building of the kind for ac
commodations for its employes, who
could not find quarters elsewhere in
the city.
tom panics and corporations doing
business in Turkey are compelled by a
new law to use the Turkish language
foreign corporations must use Turkish
in their cotrespondence with the gov
ernment.
Prof. E. Livingston Harbour, of Rut
gers college, who was the prohibition
candidate Tor United States senator
from New Jersey, was unable to vote,
as he fui.ed to register.
Cottage liorn.-s fur married teachers
are being provided by the school auth
or.ties of Washington state, with the
hope of making the life of the rural
teacher more attractive.
A gray squirrel skipping along the
noth volteee wire which supplies power
to a rubber mill In Rockland, Muss.,
connected with its tail a second wire]
causing an explosion which su.rtled the
residents and set lire in the woods.
A Chicago physician has invented ap
paratus with which he says t.e can tell
•/nether a person really is hungry or
wo»th er v» appetite, a tier wap phe
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RAIL COMMISSIONERS
FEAR LOSS OF POWER
Say Bill Before Congress Would
Rob Them of Rights Given
By State.,
J-incoln, Xeb., March 9> Nebraska
state railway commissioners are (lls
mayed over the discovery In the copy
of the bill now before congress pro
viding for the compensation of rail
roads while in government hands, just
received by them, that if it passes in
that form their jobs so far as regulat
ing Nebraska railroads is at an end
"The bill takes away front all state
commissions," said Commissioner
Taylor, ‘‘all of the worth while powers
they now possess. Section 16, which
seems to have been added somewhere
in the passage between Senate and
House and without any publicity being
given thereto, gives to the railroads
the thing they have been fighting for
for years, the lodging in the federal
commission of sweeping powers over
rates, service and stock and bond is
sues."
The last section of the bill says that
nothing in this act shall be construed
to take away from state commissions
any of the powers of taxation or police
power, with the exception of regulat
ing tiie movement of troops, war ma
tt rials and government supplies, the
regulation of rates, the supervision of
expenditure of revenues, uddttihns and
imnrovements to property and stocks
and bonds.
“When the federal law takes away
from state commissions,” says Commis
sioner Taylor, “the power to regulate
rates, to supervise and direct the ex
penditures of revenues, to supervise and
order the making of additions and Im
provements to property and control of
stocks and bond Issues, as this law
does, there Is nothing left for the com
missions to do."
POTATO SITUATION IS
NOT SO SERIOUS
Lincoln, Nch„ March 9.—The potato
situation In western Nebraska is nol
ns Bloomy as it has been represented,
■according: to Prof. It. F. Howard, of the
state university and secretary of the
Nebraska Potato Improvement asso
ciation, who has Just returned from an
inspection trip throughout the potato
section. The situation in a nutshell is
embraced in the following facts:
There are still 200,000 to 300,000 bush
els of potatoes waiting for shipment.
Seventy-five to 100,000 bushels art
worthless, owing to dry rot, scab, frost
and bruises.
Potato growers who have had good
potatoes will make a profit this year
despite the large crop.
“At I lie present time potatoes are
moving out of the district very fast,"
said Prof. Howard. "Three weeks ago
500,000 bushels wore reported to be held
at Morrill alone. In a talk with grow
ers throughout the entire section and at
several potato meetings 1 learned that,
there a”?1 only between 200,000 and 300,
( 00 bushels that have not as yet been
shipped-."
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FINANCIAL TROUBLE
CAUSE OF SUICIDE
Norfolk, Neb., March 9.—Ed Mar
quard, familiarly known as "Curley," '
committed suicide at ills home on
youth Third street by drinking most
of the contents of an ounce bottle of
■arbolic acid. Trie hody was found in
tlie cellar and the police notified.
Chief Brush immediately investigated
and found that life had been extinct
for about an hour.
Marquard's friends had noticed that
he had not appeared quite well for
some time. He was employed at the
Barrett soft drink place. He leaves
a wife and several children.
Marquard was 39 years old and has
lived in Norfolk most of his life. His
father, Dr. C. F, W. Marquard, form
erly a Jeweler and optician in Norfolk,
lives at Ashton, Id.
EJSTIS PEOPLE ARE
ABLE TO HANDLE GERMANS
Lincoln, Neb., March 9.—The state
council of defense is in receipt of word
from Kustts to the effect that the
newspaper reports of the trouble there
with pro-Germans were overdrawn
and that there is no danger of any up
rising against authority. The local
council announces its ability to handle
the situation without any Help from
outside. The first reports from there
were that the German sympathizers
had armed themselves after one
drafted man hud attacked a member of
the board that did the drafting, and
that the governor would be asked to
. end home guards there.
The county council has begun a
vigorous campaign to stamp out all
disloyalty in the county, where there is
a large settlement of Germans direct
from the fatherland within the last
ten years. The council preposes to
summon the leaders to a conference
and force a
DOCTOR FEARS HE
WILL LOSE PATIENTS
Lincoln, Neb., March 9.—Dr. Hewitt,
of Heaver Crossing, has appealed to the
stale railway commission to save him
from the loss of part of his patients,
due to a recent rale of the Lincoln Tele
phone company, that operates a group
of exchanges in his section of tile state.
The ease is an unusual one. The towns
of Exeter and Heaver Crossing are la
miles apart, with the town of Cordova
half way between. The telephone ex
changes weie formerly owned by dif
ferent companies, hut have all been
taken over by the Lincoln corporation.
Under permission of the state commis
sion it was permitted to offer all of its
rural subscribers the choice of free con
nections with the two market towns. In
making this choice a group of farmers
north of Cordova and within four miles
of Heaver Crossing signed up for serv
ice with Cordova and Exeter. A num
ber of these were former patients of
Dr. Hewitt at Heaver Crossing, and
their choice put them beyond the free
service zone of Beaver Crossing and
makes it necessary for them to pay a
small toll charge to talk to the doctor,
who must also pay to talk to them.
Rather than pay the 10 to 15-cent
charge they transferred their patron
age to Exeter doctors.
Dr. Hewitt insists that the company
oughtn't to he allowed tp make a rule
that deprives him of part of his clients,
but the commission and the company
have not yet been able to figure a way
out unless the farmer clients forego the
pleasure of talking with Exeter and
take Beaver Crossing instead.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
GOOD IN OTHER COUNTY
Croftoa, Neb., March 9.—A few days
ago a wedding party drove to the home
of Rev. ^ . J. Tresidder and a marriage
ceremony was about to be performed,
when it was discovered the license had
been issued in Cedar county, while
' rollon is in Knox county. The part.,
drove a mile across the cour.ty fi:
into Cedar county, wnere the ceremony
was performed in regulation fashion
and the party returned to the parson
age, where thn papers were made out
in proper style.
BEET GROWERS Will
DEMAND MORE MONEY
Commission Named by Food
Administrator to Study Sit
uation in Nebraska.
Lincoln, Neb., March 9.—A commis
sion appointed by the national food
administration to fix the price that the
beet sugar manufacturers of the state
shall pay for beets this year will meet
tomotrow at Grand Island to hear what
both the growers and the manufactur
ers have to offer as to the matter of
costs of seed and production and also
af manufacture.
licet sugar growers in the North
Platte valley, tho principal growing
urea of the state, have declared that
they will not plant their land to beets
but will use it for wheat and corn if
they are not paid a larger sum per
acre, amounting in some cases to a 50
per cent increase. Their complaint Is
that the manufacturers are malting
enormous profits, and can afford to pay
a hotter price and one at which the
growers can make good money.
Tho commission is made up of Dean
Burnett and Professor Filley, of the
state college of agriculture; W. I. Far
ley and A. E. Cady, business men, and
Andrew Weiser, connected with the
government reclamation service.
SOCIAL DISEASE WILL
HAVE CLOSE ATTENTION
Oliama, Neb., March 9.—An ordi
nance requiring the internment or quar
antine of any person with social dis
ease has been passed by the Omaha
city council. The ordinance is to take
effect immediately.
Physicians, nurses, hospital attend
ants and all other persons who have
knowledge of such cases must report
to the health commissioner under pen
alty of not more than $100 fine or more
than 30 days in Jail.
Any person, according to the ordi
nance, who exposes another to social
diseases is liable to a fine of $100 or
a jail sentence of 30 days.
"The health commissioner shall hold
all names and data given him under
this ordinance as confidential and priv
ileged," reads the ordinance, "and shall
disclose the information to no one ex
cepting interested officials and these
In turn shall also be bound to secrecy.”
Cases reported to the health commis
sioner will be considered and the pa
tient isolated. Commissioner A. C.
Kugel introduced the ordinance.
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HORSE MEAT SERVED
AT BIG BANQUET
Fremont, Neb., March 9—When it
leaked out that the roast served at the
Y. M. C. A. volley ball banquet yester
day was horse roast from the Grand
Island horse yards, several Fremont
business men who participated in the
feast experienced all kinds of bad
tastes In their mouths. Harvey Ken
dall ar>d B. W. Hamilton bought the
roast/hnd arranged the banquet. No
body but the cook and the hotel pro
prietor knew about it. Everybody
present considered the meat exception
ally good. Even the presence of many
bottles of horseradish on the tables, and
the serving of ice cream in the shape
of horses, failed to tip oft! to the hun
gry banqueters that they were being
served with “war horse” meat.
WILL SUPPLY CARS
FOR FARMERS MOVING
Lincoln, Neb., March 9.—The state
railway commission has wrested from
the national director of transportation
a concession that will permit emigrants
to move their household goods with
uthem when they change locations this
Umonth. The director recently issued
"orders giving grair. preference over
everything else. To move grain takes
box cars and if box cars are taken at
this time of year nobody can move.
Many changes occur at this time of the
year, particularly on the farms, and the
commission was able to convince the
national officials that this was a de
mand so closely connected with food
production as to make it of equal im
portance. An order has been issued to
the effect that necessary cars suitable
for grain may be provided for emigrant
moveables when destined to points in
grain states as indicated. In one Ne
braska county four farmers were pre
vented from moving on to other farms
leased because a fifth farmer could not
get cars to move his household goods
and farm implements to a distant point.
MAN WHO ATTEMPTED
SUICIDE WILL RECOVER
Fremont, Neb.. March 9.—Will Brink
ley, 30-year-old farmer near Hooper*
who fired a charge of buckshot at Ids
awn head because of “numerous trou
bles,” will recover. Brinkley sat up
today and wrote several letters. Ho
talked freely, declaring he was heartily
ashamed of himself. Brinlfley had
trouble 10 days ago with another young
matt who called on the gill who had
promised to marry Brinkley. Brinkley
had bought, stock and implements tc.
go to farming and then could not gc-t
a farm. He said at the hospital today
that he would “turn over a new leaf."
“Some of these hospital patients are so
sick in my ward that it makes me
ashamed to think my troubles were
troubles.”
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WEEK OF MARCH 9 TO
EE PURE FOOD WEEK
Lincoln, Neb., March 7.—Governor
Neville has Issued a proclamation call
ing upon the people of the state to ob
serve me week of March 9 as pure food
week', for the ournose of impressing
upon everyone the facts connected with
the noed for greater production and
conservation of foodstuffs, to "the end
that the pure food department of the
state will be the better able to pro
tect the health of the people and inci
dentally render more efficient and ef
fective assistance to the government
in the winning of the war." The
proclamation reads in part:
“Never in the history of the nation
has pure food been as essential to our
well being as at the present time. In
this period of national crisis when the
obligation to feed a considerable por
tion of the population of the world rests
upon our country, when our people are
asked to eat less that our allies may
eat more, the question of pure food
takes on an added importance and sig
nificance.”
CONDITIONS AT EUSTIS
TO BE INVESTIGATED
Omaha. Neb., March 9.—The state
council of defense and the federal de
partment of jiMtiec will immediate‘v
investigate conditions at Kusris, NY.,
where pro-Germans are said to he
threatening loyal Americans to such n
extent that a petition is in cirvulati-.n
a -king Governor Neville to son ', nos.'.:
protection to that p’ace.
"he sta:o council of defense fins sent
thr^ men to Fusils, and i pee!::! A;;::::
Eberstein, of Omaha, head of the oe
partment of justice in Nebraska, took
the affair up an 1 said ho \<ouid at or co
send an invertlyator to Eltstia.
CAPITAL TAKES UP
FRENCH WOMAN
( —..——^
Mme. J. Devilder.
Mme. J. Devilder, wife of the French
Aigh commissioner iij the United States,
has taken a Washington residence and
she and her husband are extensiv en
tertainers and pursued guests. She has
entered into war w»rk whole heartedly,
too.
Hardest Possible Bargain Is
Driven by Germany But She
Has Mo Course But to
Accept.
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Jassy. Rumania,. Monday, March 4,
(By Wireless to Saloniki, Tuesday,
March 5.)—Intense indignation is felt
by the army and people of Rumania
over the terms of the preliminary peace
imposed upon Rumania by the central
powers. With its military forces scat
tered and it:; hopeless strategical posi
tion, Rumania had no recourse except
to yield to her powerful and ruthless
Toe.
The Rumanian example is pointed to
as a repetition of the bitter fate suf
fered by Serbia and Belgium.
The royal family is greatly depressed
over the disastrous course of events.
Both the king and queen, through the
Associated Press express the hope that
the American people will have a sym
pathetic appreciation of the tragical
circumstances that forced peace on
Rumania, that the warm friendship
that has always existed between the
two nations will in nowise be impaired.
Hope is felt by the royal family and
the people that when world peace
comes some of the sacrifices now being
made by Rumania will be recognised
and compensated.
The American Red Cross and all
other foreign missions in Rumania are
making plans to leave, their departure
being compelled by the peace terms.
Under the peace terms, Rumania
not only will have to give up Dobrudja,
lose control of the Danube and endure
other great economic sacrifices, but
she will be compelled to yield to Ger
many large wheat, petroleum and salt
concessions. It is understood that
Germany will have control of the Ru
manian railways for a period of 15
years and will have possession of the
fouv principal fortified passes through
the Carpathians. All German goods
arc to enter into Rumania free of duty
while all Rumanian goods will go into
Germany under the old tariff.
Germany served her final ultimatum
on Rumania yesterday, leaving her only
two hours in which to make final de- •
cision. A ero,\vn council was held and
it was decided that Rumania, com
pletely isolated and without outside
support would have to bow to the force
of circumstances and take a course
from which there appeared to be no
escape.
PE
Shipping Board Meets Demand
For Shipping to Supply
U. S. Army.
Washington, D. C., March 9.—Troops
And supplies for General Pershing’s
force.=i now are moving to France on
schedule time, it was learned yesterday
on high authority. While figures may
not ho published, it was stated posi
tively tint transportation requirements
of the • ty are being met by the ship
ping hoard and the immediate situation
as to ships was described as satisfac
tory.
In view of this assurance that the
Unitc:l States will be able to maintain
Its place as a fighting unit on the bat
tle fronts, reports from the western
front are being scanned more eagerly
than ever by officers here for the first
signs of the 1918 campaign. It is felt
strongly that the op,*n:ng of major
operations in what President Wilson
nas predicted will prove the decisive
year of the'great war will not be much
longer delayed.
TWO FIFTHS OF 1917
CORN CROP ON FARMS
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■Washington, D. C„ March 9.—Grain
n farmers' hands on March 1, as an
nouncel today by the department of
agriculture was:
Core. 1,292,905,000 bushels, or 40.9
per coat of the 1917 crop; wheat, 111,
272.000 bushels, or 17.1 per cent; oats.
595.195.000 bushels, or 37.5 per cent;
parley, - ;,404,COO bushels, or 20.S per
cent.
ANOTHER UPHEAVAL.
IN SPANISH CABINET
Madrid. March 9.—The Spanish cab
inet, recently construct 1 by the Mar
quis D? Alhucemus, who in a kktirn to
being' premier held the pertfullj cf for
eign affairs, resigned today
| Great Tank Battle
Soon to Be Fouqht
On the West Front
_
New York, March 9.—Tank against
tank is the new kind of land warfare
predicted by military observers recently
back from France.
, Germany has built ar.d mobilized a
vast fleet of these crawling fortresses
to hurl against the tank squadrons of
the allies in her coming offensive.
A gargantuan trial of strength -will
result.
Dispatches from Germany reveal the
fact that the German high command
is building thousands of monster “tur
tles”—a new type of tank—larger than
the first British tanks and armed with
heavy guns—some reports say 6-inch
and even 8-inch guns. The icaterpillar
treads are entirely hidden by armour
plate and there is a sharp projection
at the front—for ramming.
The allied governments are prepared
to meet the threat.
The British—first to develop the tank
—are building still larger machines.
The French are developing their own
types. Our own government is turning
out a fleet of tanks, the first of which
are now going forward to General Per
shing.
11 KILLED; 46
German Airplanes Again Suo
ceed in Reaching London
Despite Vigorous
Defense.
London, March 9.—Eleven persons
were killed and 46 others were injured
in last night’s airplane raid on Lon- "
don. according to the latest police re
ports, says an official announcement
today. It is feared that an additional
six bodies are in the ruins of houses
wrecked.
Another raider dropped bombs in the
northern district of London,'demolish
ing several houses
The raid demonstrated that Gernjan
aviators no longer depend upon moon
light. It was the first time the enemy
had attempted a night raid over Lon
don when there was no moon. The stars
were out. however, and there was little
wind. Londoners were taken by sur
prise when the warning signals were
sounded. The theaters were just.clos
ing. The streets were soon cleared.
The warning to avoid danger from
shrapnel was generally heeded, every
one taking cover. For a time the gun
fire was heavy
Several persons were killed by the
private houses‘in northeastern London.
The house of a vicar was partially
wrecked, but the clergyman escaped. He
is a constable and had left home for
duty when the warning came a few
minutes before the explosion which
damaged his residence. The vicar
worked throughout the night assisting
the wounded and homeless neighbors.
Last night’s air raid appears to have
been carried out by seven or eight en
emy airplanes, of which two reached
London. The first two raiders, which
approached the Isle of Thanet at about
lrt:D5 p. m.. and proceeded up/the
Thames estuary. Both were turned back
before reaching London.
"Meanwhile the third raider came
across the Essex coast at 11:20 p. m.
and steered west. At 11:45 p. m. it
was reported over East London. A few
minutes later it dropped bombs on the
southeastern and northwestern dis
tricts. At 11:50 p. m. the fourth raider,
which had also come in across Essex,
dropped bombs to the north of Lon
don and then proceeded south across
the capital, dropping its remaining
bombs on the northern district between
12: 20'and 12:30 a. m.
"The remaining enemy machines, all
of which came across the Essex coast,
were turned ba'ck before they reached
London.
! "A certain amount of damage was
1 caused to residential property in Lon
! don. Several houses have been demo!
| ished."
But American Troops Beat Off
German Raiders in Latest
Engagement onTcul
Front.
London. March 0.—A German attack
with liquid fire on tlie American forces
northwest of Toul in the St. Mihiel sec
tor was repulsed Thursday, according
to dispatches received here today.
On the same front it was reported
the American sentries drove off an en
emy patrol of 40 men.
MONTENEGRO REJECTS
ENE _
Formal Proposal Sent King in
France But He Turns
It Down.
London, March !).—Niko Haidouko
viteh, Montenegrian minister of war
and interior, who is now in London, in
a. letter to the Daily Chronicle, in the
name of his king and government, de
nies that Montenegro will make a sep
arate peace with the central powers.
I The letter adds that if Montenegro
! had contemplated a separate peace,
j she could have obtained it. Minister
I Haidoukovitcli asserts that an offer of
I peace reached King Nicholas since he
took up his residence in France. He
adds:
"The offer was put forward formally
by the central powers and was refused
in terms of contempt and indignation."
ADVANCE INTEREST TO ALLIES.
Washington, 1). C., March 8.—The
interest on loans to allies lias been
raised from -1*4 per cent to 5 per cent
' as a result of the recent increase in
, the rates on certificates of indeliter!
, ness from 4 to 4 m pi : cent.
NEBRASKA WOMEN TO
STUDY CONSERVATION
First of Series of Meetings to
Be Held at Fremont—Dis
cuss BaHng Problems.
Fremont. Nob., March 8.—The first,
of a scries of food conservation meet
ings to be Held in country homes over
Dodge county will be held at the resi
dence of Mrs. Joseph Roberts, wife of ^
Joe Roberts, of the state fair hoard, to-^r
morrow afternoon. Tl.i 'loberts’ home
is five miles east of Freemont in Elk
horn township. Those who have been
invited to attend have been asked to
bring along their best recipes f»r mak
ing war bread and for using wheat
flour substitutes. It is expected by
comparisons of results on the part of
housewives who attend the meetings, to
clear up many perplexing problems
that have been confronting country
women.
DISBARMENT OF CHADRON
ATTORNEY IS DEMANDED
Chadron, Neb., March 8.—Permanent
disbarment of Allen G. Fisher, Ohad
ron attorney, and former mayor, on
the grounds of “sharp practices,” and
"irregular, illegal and unprofessional
conduct,’’ and because of “his evfl rep
utation, which reflects on the bar and
tile courts of the state,” is asked for
in a petition filed with the Nebraska
supreme court by Newton Rule, a resi
dent of (’hadron.
The case is brought as an original
proceeding in supreme court and was
filed without special permission. The
information against Fisher is lengthy
and contains seven different counts. It
is accompanied by a motion asking
the court to appoint a commission for
the purpose of taking testimony and re
porting its findings and conclusions.
This motion will be heard at the next
sitting, which starts March 18.
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GERMAN SYMPATHIZERS
ARE BECOMING UGLY
Eustis, Neb., March 8.—Citizens of
Eustis, fearing trouble with pro-Ger
mans, are arming themselves and are
circulating a petition to the state coun
cil of defense, asking for protection
from the pro-Germans. The stale coun
cil has sent three agents to Sustis tc
investigate conditions.
eFnr of possible violence, owing to
Strong German sentiment in the county
is the reason for the precautionary
movements of the loyal citibens. Many
enemy aliens live in Eustis anil the
county, and pro-German sympathizers
are numerous.
Several nights ago James M. Siil, of
the local ex( mption board, was set upon
and badly beaten by Fred Daalhorn. a
draft select, after Sill had participated
in a decision of the exemption board
which made Daalhorn subject to im
mediate draft. Since that event feeling
has been brewing and yesterday a peti
tion to tile governor and the state coun
cil was put in circulation. The state
council is investigating conditions.
PROTECTION ASSURED
AGAINST PRO-GERMANS
Lincoln, Nob., March S.—Assurance
was given at the office of the state
council of defense today that loyal
American citizens at Eustis, Net).,
would be given protection against any
possible trouble from pro-Germans re- '
ported to be numerous there. A report
from Eustie last night said that citi
zens of that place fearing trouble from
pro-Germans were arming themselves,
and were circulating a petition to the
council, asking for protection.
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CERMAN TEXT BOOKS
BURNED AT GRAND ISLAND
Grand Island, Neb., March S.—The
burning of 300 German text books taken
from the local high school, the paint
ing yellow of a lumber company's of
fice and the Liederkranz auditorium is
said to 1,9 the result of resentment over
an alleged remark made by Richard
Goc-hring, jr„ manager of the lumber
company and prominent in the man
agement of the hall. Mr. Goehring de
nies having made ;mj offensive re
marks against American soldiers and
sailors.
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DR. MULLEN IS HEARD
EY OAKLAND PEOPLE
Oakland. Neb., March S.—Dr. W. ZI
Mullen, of Bloomfield, Neb., speaking
under the auspices of the state council
of defense, addressed a mass meeting
at the opera house here Monday night
and created a groat patriotic feeling,
in the community an he is id to dj
wherever ho goes. At the conclusion
of the meeting a resolution pledging
the support of the people of the (im
munity to t o administration in tin
prosecution < the war was adopted and
wired to P; ident Wilson.
INSANE Ci .VICTS
MAKE THEIR ESCAPE
Hastings Neb., March S.—l-Iarr.c
Palmer, sc need to the penitentiary
si:; years > in Hastings for killing
his wife, c ned from Ingle-side. Pal
mer had b . transferred and Was be
ing held - criminally insane. Pm
some mont he had been employed in
the baker\ teorge Bond, another in
sane : : a ■ .ently transferred from
the l imit n'c y, escaped with Palmer
It is 1 clievr ' the men went wc.-t on
a f.eight tr. in.
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STUDENT AVIATORS ARE
MAKING GOOD PROGRESS
Washington. D. li.ech R.—Student
aviators at the various flj ing fields
are so keenly jealous of the records
made by othi r fields that new records
for the day's work are being estab
lished frequently. Officials lure believe
the competition is responsibl for the
splendid morale among the fliers end
the progress being m ule by them, one
if the fields near Fort Worth, Tex.,
recently reported a total of Tfi.eno miles,
or three tints around the world, flown
by the students in one day.
American students are not being1
crowded through their training as fast
as students of the other allies, t very
precaution being taken to o alify the
man before he t ikes the air alone, so
that accidents will b ■ kept to a min
Imuni. A statinrnt showing the large
number of men now in training and
the distances flown by them probably M
will be issued soon.
DISCOURAGING VIEW J
OF SHIP SITUATION 1
bum’on. M:n:'h G.--Sir John F!ler
inun. controlling owner of several 9
.-team.-hip linos-, spoil kin-- ?j Any at & 1
meeting of tbo chamber of ‘-h;;pkng, i
(it dared he I < . • e- v nr rid * in
raying that the v. hole n t t.i :
ping in this Cei.mnr*.- he ou*i •• .ar.
of the war w... l-t ■ n r. h t : r ace
the los-sos 1 y in; . > c nr • acne,
leaving the Josses ’ey enemy .hut yet
to be made up.