THE O’NEILL FRONTIER
D. H. CRONIN. Publisher.
O’NEILL. NEBRASKA
At Lloyd’s, the marine Insurance ex
change in London, a b< 11 is tolled when
a ship Is reported lost, or when a ship
long overdue and considered lost un
expectedly reaches port. The bell used
at Lloyd's belonged to the ship Lutine,
which was wrecked near the Zuyder
Zee In 1799, while taking specie from
English merchants to Hamburg. When
a ship Is posted as lost tho old bell is
tolled once, and on that day the In
surance money Is payable and all who
were<on the ship are considered legally
dead. In the usual event of a vessel
arriving in port after being posted an
lost, the bell is tolled twice, and ths
announcement Is cried aloud by an
official jn uniform.
Nearly $300 a soldier, or a total of
$187,000,000 was the cost of the 16 army
cantonments built last summer and fall
to'fcouse 650,000 men. The original es
timate of the cost was $134,000,000.
This huge construction Job was carried
forward with a speed that is considered
remarkable. By the end of last May,
when congress was still debating tha
project, the engineering corps was fully
organized for work. Within three
months from that time cantonments
capable of housing 300,000 men were
completed, while by December 5 there
were accommodations for tho entire
869,000 men.
Philippine officials are Investigating
the suggestion which has been made
that the Islands supply lubricating oil
for airplanes from tho tangan-tangan
waed, or vine, which grows wild in
abundance throughout the archipelago,
which produces an extremely good oil,
•ultable not only for the lubrication oj
delicate machinery, but which is alsC
used by the natives medicinally. The
plant creeps and has blossoms like tbs
flower of the honeysuckle. It Is thought
that at least 1,000,000 gallons of oil a
year can be obtained from the wild
weed supply, and that this can be
greatly Increased by cultivation.
There Is sentiment In the fact that
California Is to supply northern Prance
with 1,500,000 prune trees. These trees
are expected to convert 15,000 acres In
to shearing orchards In two years. It
was Prance which, in 1856, gave to Cal
ifornia her first prune trees. Tho prune,
which since then has filled many a gap
on the table of tho American boarding
house, and has borne the brunt of
many a Jost, keeps right on proving
Its worth.
It costs the government $5 a head to
draft men for military service. Of this
eum $4.93 represents the expense of tho
draft boards and the state's adjutant
general, and 7 cents represents the
overhead expense at Washington. Tho
expense of Inducting a volunteer into
the service reached an average of
$29.86 during this war. In the civil war
it cost the government $9.48 for every
man called to the service.
A woman to whom space Is allotted
1n a western public market uses her
automobile In making fresh peanut but
ter for her customers. The peanuts
are treated In a grinder mounted on a
trailer, set Just back of the car in the
market. The car Is Jacked up and
power transmitted from its rear axle to
the grinder by a belt. The top of the
trailer serves as a display stand.
At a "frugality dance" In Montclair,
N. J„ recently, those wearing patent
leather shoes, silk stockings or high
collars were fined 6 cents each for each
offense, those wearing marcel waves,
10 cents, while wearers of evening dress
or “costumes," had to pay 25 cents to
the management. A considerable
amount was raised for war relief.
Anna Eva l'ay, a seeress, Is said to
have fortold tho war In a statement
published in the Manchester Guardian
In England, March 17, 1913, when she
named eight of the now warring na
tions. She now comes forward with
another statement that the war will
end in the spring of 1918. “It will all
be over before June 15,” she says.
Although some packers of caviar In
New York report that spoonbill caviar
Is being marketed in bulk as low as 75
cents a pound, the market generally re
mains at $1.25 for prime quality. There
has been a scarcity of lake caviar in
bulk, and packers report that tho pre
vailing price for this glade has been
usually $1.60 a pound.
The term “pocket handkerchief is
one of the queerest in our language. At
first It meant kerchief (vourvrechef), a
covering for the head; then it became
handkerchief, a covering for the head
carried in the hand, and at length pock
et handkerchief, a covering for the head
held in tho hand and kept in the pocket.
A service flag measuring 31x38
feet, bearing 215 stars, indicative of the
fact that us many employes of the
western division of the Southern rail
way system now uro in active military
service of tho country, has been un
furled in front of the Southern railway
building in Louisville.
When J. R, Liskey, of Rockingham
county, la., butchered a hog, he found
It had an apparently carefully tilled
tooth. It is thought the hog had eaten
something containing a piece of lead
which lodged in a hollow tooth and
was squeezed down into the cavity, lin
ing it.
A report upon tho government use of
tractors in England was given at a re
cent session of parliament. In order to
increase the supply of food, tractors
and plows are being purchased bv the
food production department anil let
out to farmers.
The total amount the government
provides the president for clerk hire
and White House expenses, including
his salary. Is $260,000 annually. Of
this, $75,000 is salary, $25,000 traveling
expenses and $160,000 for the other ex
penses.
Four tons of shipping capacity are
required to transport a soldier, and
another ton is necessary for his equip
ment. In addition it takes 50 pounds
of ship capacity a day to keep him sup
plied with food, clothing and ammuni
tion.
Mess officers at the base hospital at
Camp Custer. Mich., have made an ap
peal for dish towels, and some local
people are trying to have a statewide
towel shower for the hospital.
The convicts In the New Jersey state
penitentiary seem to be patriotic. They
bought liberally of Red Cross member
ships, and notified the fuel administra
tor of their willingness to spend light
less nights in their cells to save fuel.
The phonograph and telephone are
employed in a South Carolina inven
tor's automatic fire alarm that calls up
a central operator and tells her just
where the blaze is starting.
Following suggestions made by farm
ers willing to employ high school boys,
the schools of Illinois have arranged to
give the boys an extensive farm course,
from February 1 to May 1.
NEBRASKANS IN GRAVE
CHARGES IN CONGRESS
Assert Government Food Offi
cials Are in Sympathy With
the Packers.
Washington. P. C'., March 16.—In the
hearing before the Senate committee
on agriculture on livestock matters to
day, Senator Norris, of Nebraska, said
the evidence before the committee
showed the food administration had
men in charge of the packing establish
ments who were in sympathy with the
packers and, as between the packers
and producers, leaned to the packers.
E. I*. Burke, of Omaha, a feeder, was
on the stand. Mr. Burke advocated
more rigid government control of the
packers and said the livestock industry
would never get ahead until this was
brought about.
"The testimony before this commit
tee,” said Senator Norris, "indicates
the men whom the food administration
now has in charge of packing matters
ere In sympathy witli the packers. Po
you think if we provide more strict
control and the same men are still kept
in charge we can expect any relief.”
Burke said he wouldn’t say the men
in the food administration were In
sympathy with the packers. "But
speaking from the evidence before this
committee," said Senator Norris, "l say
It.”
Packers Lose on Hides.
Omaha* Neb., March 15.—Omaha'
packers stand to lose $1,250,000 on the
prices of hides they are carrying in
storage. Approximately 250,000 hides
air said to be in storage in South Om
aha and tho loss on each is now fig
ured at $5. Swift & Co., are said to be
the hardest hit and to have on hand
100,000 unsold hides.
Branded cow hides which were held
at 28 and 30 cents a pound some months
ago, are now selling at 16 to 18 cents.
The decline averages anywhere from
20 to 40 per cent.
NEBRASKA TO SUPPLY
BUT 458 MEN NOW
Lincoln, Neb., March 16.—Nebraska is
required to induct 458 men as its quota
of a total of 95,000 men to be sent to
soldiers’ training camps. Governor
Neville hits notified local exemption
boards of the number of men each is
called upon to furnish on this special
call. The Nebraska men are to be sent
to Camp Funston (luring tho five days
beginning March 29. No credits are
allowed by the war department for men
previously sent. The quota of each
county and the cities of Lincoln and
Omaha, according to an announcement
from the governor’s office is as follows:
“Instructions call No. 82 has been an
nounced by the provost marshal general
as follows: Boyd, 2; Burt, 5; Cedar, 6;
Cuming, 6; Dakota, 3; Dixon, 4; Knox,
7; Madison, 7; Bierce, 4; Wayne, 4: city
of Lincoln, 18; city of Omaha, 73; total,
, 458.
“During the five days beginning
March 29 Nebraska will entrain for
Camp Funston a quota equal to 3.3
per cent of the original gross quota of
the first draft. The original gross
quota should not bo confused with the
original net quota. The total number
of men sent from Nebraska under this
call will be 458. No credits are to be
deducted at this time.
"The quota of each county will be de
termined by making a level draft of
3.3 per cent of the gross quota origi
nally allotted to each county. Only
white men and men physically quali
fied for general military service are to
be entrained under this call.”
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MAY SHIP SEED CORN
OUT OF NEBRASKA
Lincoln, Neb., March 15.—The state
council of defense today lifted the em
bargo on shipments of seed corn out of
the state. The embargo has been In
force for some time because of a
threatened shortage in Nebraska.
WILSON URGES BOYS TO
JOIN WORKING RESERVE
Washington, D. C., March 15.—-Presi
dent Wilson today c ailed on all Ameri
can boys of 16 years and over not per
manently employed to enroll in the
United States boys' working reserve.
A national enrollment week, beginning
March 18, has been sot asids by the
department of labor.
CHURCHES UNABLE TO
UNITE ON MERGER PLAN
Atlantic City, N. J„ March 15.-—Tho
commission on union of tho Presbyter
ian church north and the Presbyterian
church south failed to agree upon a
plan for tho proposed, merger of tho
two great church bodies at the final
session of their joint conference hero
last night.
MORE CONCRETE SHIPS
WILL BE CONSTRUCTED
A Pacific Port, March 15.—So com
pletely successful was the launching
here of the world's largest reinforced
concrete ship that the builders an
nounced they immediately would begirt
construction of 54 similar ships of
large size and expected that all would
be completed within 18 months.
FOUR FIRES IN ARSENAL
ENDANGER ARMY STORES
St. Louis. Mo., March 15.—Four fired
Df unknown origin within two months
have threatened the buildings of the
United States arsenal here in which
are stored army supplies valued at more
than $7,000,000 according to Fire Chief
Panzer, who visited the arsenal at each
alarm. The arsenal buildings are now
guarded.
GERMAN IS DOWNED BY
AN AMERICAN FLYER
"With the Lafayette Flying Squadron,
Monday. March 11.—Paul K. Baer, of
Fort Wayne, Ind., this afternoon
downed a German airplane.
Mr. Baer came to France in February
of last year as a member of the Franco
American flying corps.
COURT ROOM CLEARED
WHEN WOMAN TESTIFIES
Atlanta. Ga., March 15.- Mrs. Mar
garet Hirsch charged with attempted
blackmail of Mayor Asa G, Chandler
today teok the witness stand in her own
behalf.
Before starting her statement, the
court room was cleared of spectators
at her request.
The bill pounch of the pelican will
hold fromjjnce to right pounds of fish.
MISS LYDIA M’MAHON
TO HAVE HEARING
Former Head of Girls’ Reform,
atory Will Have Chance to
Vindicate Herself.
Lincoln, Ncb„ March 10.—After hav
ing marched up the hill on its own
orders, the state board of control has
inarched dow.n the hill again on in
structions from Governor Neville.
When Miss Lydia McMahon, deposed
Superintendent of tho state industrial
school for girls, naked the board a '
few days ago for an investigation,
Judge Holcomb, tho lawyer member, re
plied that ns she has resigned upon in
vitation without then asking for an
investigation, the board could not see
that she hnd any right or that any
necessity existed for holding one.
Then Miss McMahon secured the aid
of men who conferred with the gov
ernor. Now tho board announces that
it will grant the application. No date
for the hearing has been announced.
MANY DISLOYAL ONES
FOUND IN NEBRASKA
Omaha, Neb., March 16.—"It is not
true that there is no sedition in Ne
braska; that tho state is without a
widely spread element that is, if not
openly in favor of Germany, at least
adverse to the sentiment of the na
tion,” said Richard X,. Metcalfe, chair
man of the state council of defense, at
a meeting of the Douglas County Har
association at tho Chamber of Com
merce.
"It is true that the loyal Americans oi.
Nebraska have carried every war ac
tivity ahead of the state’s quota, but
this makes all the Idacker the record of
those who have passively, if not indeed
actively, opposed their work.
“Nebraska is to be congratulated
that, except for a few cases of silly
men painting buildings, yellow, the Am
erican element in the state has re
frained from mob law, but there have
been cases of mob violence in the state,
perpetrated by pro-Germans.
"The time has come when we have
got to inculcate a new spirit—a new
idea into the hearts of our foreign born
population, by education, if possible;'
by the iron hand if it is necessary. Ne
braska has sent too many of her
young men to the war to sit by and see
them stabbed in tho back by traitors.”
Mr. Metcalfe said there have been
found many men of German extraction
who are loyal, and the discussion of
tho other kind need tie taken as no
reflection on those whose loyalty is
proved, but the fact that some Germans
are loyal to the country of their adop
tion does not lessen the danger from
those who are not. “It is a case,” he
said, “where every individual must be
measured by his own performances.”
THREE FORT OMAHA
OFFICERS REPRIMANDED
Omaha, Neb., March 16.—-Three Fort
Omaha commissioner! officers, court
martialed on charges of accepting
gratuities in connection with the pur
chase of $890,000 worth of afmy horses
and mules at Superior, Neb., have been
found guilty.
Oapt. Henry L. Casey, quartermas
ter’s reserve corps, has been sentenced
to an official reprimand, and Second
Lieutenants S. L. Ragsdale and O. C.
Alexander to be admonished.
The officials are of the quartermas
ter's corps. It Was alleged they ac
cepted free board and Christmas pres
ents of a character frowned upon by
military authorities from ranchers
where nearly a $1,000,000 worth of
horses and mules were being purchased
by the government.
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FINED FOR KILLING
PRAIRIE CHICKENS
North Platte, Neb., March 16.—By
fining two men $45 and costs for the
killing of prairie chickens out of sea
son, the chief game warden of Ne
braska thinks he has broken up a
traffic whereby dining cars of the Un
ion Pacific were supplied with the
chickens out of season.
John Mcllvain, local passenger di
rector for the railroad, is one of the
men who plead guilty and paid his
fine. He is said to have acted as a go
between buying the birds from hunters
and delivering them to .thq roads. He
said ho bought the birds from hunters
for $1 each and sold them to the rail
roads for $1.25 and "tips.’’ Chief Game
Warden Roster says his men saw Mc
llvain take four chickens from a box
and hand them to the conductor of the
train, His arrest followed.
SPECIAL SESSION
WITHOUT EXPENSE?
Lincoln, Neb., March 14.—To make
possible the holding of the extra legis
lative session without passing any ap
propriation bills for salaries or ex
penses, Governor Neville and , other
state officers have had under discus
sion a proposal that all services neces
sary to perform the work of the session
bo contributed without additional cost
to the state by people employed in the
different departments at the capital.
The idea was talked over at a meet
ing in the governor's office, attended
by Governor Neville, Treasurer Hall,
Auditor Smith, Secretary of State Pool,
Land Commissioner Shumway and At
torney General Reed. Everyone pres
ent agreed that it is desirable from a
patriotic standpoint to avoid making
new drains on the treasury in connec
tion with the special session, if this is
possible.
Governor Neville was urged by his
associates to word his call for the con
vening of tlie legislature so as to omit
therefrom any provision for appropria
tions. His own sentiments were in
harmony with that suggestion, and In
stated Wednesday morning that the
call would be so drawn. The governor
pointed out, however, that if the legis
lature were not minded to cut out the
appropriations it could go ahead and
make them.
STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE;
DIES FROM INJURIES
Osmond, Neb., March 14.—August
Wllle died at his home, southeast of
here, Tuesday from injuries received
the day before by being run over by
a car. A neighbor was going by and
Mr. Wille ran out in front of the car
and threw his hands up for him to stop,
and jumped to one side and the car
turned the same way, and ran over
him. He was a man about 10 years
of age and leaves a wife and family.
PINTO BEANS NOT
IN GREAT DEMAND
Lincoln, Neb., March -6.-—To date the
food alminlstration has received con
tracts from growers for less than 15,
000,000 pounds of pinto beans. This is
far below the response that was antici
pated when it was announced that the
food administration would find a mar
ket for the beans and take the entire
output, at 8 cents a pound. Unless
signed contracts from growers are re
ceived for several times this amount
of beans within the next few days the
plan will r.ot be successful.
FIGURE IT OUT.
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| Must Strike, Hindenhurq Says; !
t Prepared to Lose 300,000 Men |
4 Amsterdam March 15.—According to news received here. Field t
4 Marshal von Hindenburg has stated in an interview in Berlin that the ^
4 entente had shown an unresponsive attitude toward Germany’s peace in- 4
4 tentions and that the great German offensive therefore must go on. 4
4 In well informed neutral quarters recently the Associated Press ^
4 correspondent was told that the Germans were prepared to lose 300,000 4
4 men in an offensive operation. 4
4 The Verdun offensive of the Germans, in which they failed utterly 4
4 to break the French lines, has been estimated in conservative quarters 4
4 as having cost them something like 500,000 men. 4
4 “If the enemy does not want peace, he must fight the most tre- 4
4 mendous battle of the war on the west front," Quartermaster General T
4 Ludendorff declared in an interview with the Cologne Gazette, copies I
4 of which were^ received here tod ay. 4
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All Liberty Purchasers Expected
To Fly Flags to Show Up j
Slackers—New Pub
licity Features.
Washington, D. C„ March 16.—Every j
preparation is being made by Liberty
loan campaigners to get 15.000,000 sub
scribers to the third loan. Subscriptions
to the second loan now are estimated
at 11,000,000 and to the first loan about
4,000,000.
Sixteen million buttons for subscrib
ers have been ordered for the third loan.
The system of honor rolls in each
municipality community or business
organization bearing the names of sub
scribers and of honor flags to be given
to cities exceeding its Quota of sub
scriptions is expected to stimilate the
number of subscriptions. This method
will disclose exactly who subscribes
and who refuses. _
SERBIA REFUSES TO
ENTER PEACE PARLEY:
Every Effort of Austro-Ger
mans to Force Her Into Line
Meets With Rebuffs.
Berne, Switzerland, (Wednesday,)
March 13.—The peace treaties that
have been signed by Russia and Ru
mania have not caused any change in
Serbia’s attitude, M. Gruitsch, Serbia’s
diplomatic representative here, has in- .
formed a Swiss interviewer.
Although Serbia had lost in the war
nnd during the occupation about 1,000,
000 of her inhabitants, added M. Gru
itsch, there were still the men and will
to persevere In Serbia’s former course.
Geneva, Switzerland, March 15.—Ac
cording to unofficial information reach
ing here Austria-Hungary and Rulgaria
in the period since the Russian revolu
tion have brough great pressure to bear
upon Serbia to conclude a separate
peace. Two means are said to have
been employed, one involving oppres
sive measures and deportation in the
occupied territories, while another
means to the end 30 Serbian deputies
of the national party who were Austro
phile and remained in Serbia after the
retreat of the army invited to Vienna
ami lavishly entertained.
Roth plans, the advices declare,
proved a complete failure, the Serbian
people, despite their sufferings remain
ing loyal to their allies and their king.
35 MEMBERS OF I. W. W.
INDICTED AT WICHITA
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Wichita, Ivan., March 16.—Indict
ments were returned here this morning
by a federal grand jury against 35 al
leged members of the I. W. W. With
only one exception the indicted men
are now under arrest and some of them
already has been interned for the dura
tion of the war.
RUMANIANS EVACUATE
HUNGARIAN TERRITORY
London. March 15.—An official state
ment from the Austrian Hungarian
war office received here says:
"The last narrow stretch of Austro
Hungarian territory occupied by the
Rumanians has been evacuated. The
eastern boundry of the monarchy after
two and a half years of the heaviest
war burdens again is cdmp'.etely free.”
RAIL STRIKE
IN AUSTRIA
I -
1 Copenhagen, March 16.—The men in
the workshops of the Austrian railways
' have struck and refused to qbey the
orders of the military to return to
work, the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger states.
The strike it Is added, is spreading to
; other factories.
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FIRST HAND TRUTHS
TO CONVINCE BAKER
Believed He Will Push War With
Greater Vigor After He
Visits Front.
Washington, D. C., March 16.—What
recommendations Secretary of War
Baker will bring back from France With
respect to the conduct of war prepar
ations and the war is something which
is much talked about today at the Capi
1 tal and elsewhere in Washington, now
| that it is officially announced the secre
tary has gone abroad.
In fact, it has been discussed here
a great deal for days, as it has been
known for some time that Mr. Baker
was on his way.
The official statement Indicates that
Mr. Baker’s mission is military and not
diplomatic. It is supposed tills was
made emphatic in order to silence any
speculation as to whether his visit was
for diplomatic reasons.
It is believed here in many quarters
that Secretary Baker will return to this
I country strongly impressed with the
; need of making war preparations on a
■ scale still greater than the present
scale.
LENINE GOVERNMENT
SET UP IN MOSCOW
Capital Transferred to Ancient
Seat of Power After More
Than 200 Years.
Moscow. (Tuesday), March 12.—Mos
cow has again become the official capi
tal of Russia. Peter, the Great, moved
j the seat of government from Moscow to
I Petrograd, which he founded, and af
ter 200 years the government has been
' transferred by its present head, Nikolai
i I-enine, back to the historic capital in
the heart of Russia.
Lenine and virtually all the govern
mental commissioners except 1-eon
Trotzky, arrived here tonight and offi
cially opened the various ministries to
day. Many of the buildings in the an
. otent Kremlin, the leading hotels and
other structures, were requisitioned to
' accommodate the government officials.
The subordinate employes have been in
i process of transfer for weeks, but to
day. the first anniversary of the Rus
sian revolution, marks the actual
transfer of the new government and is
: being celebrated as a national holiday.
KANSAS CITY FACES
SYMPATHETIC STRIKE
Kansas City, Mo. March 15.—Six
hundred delegates, representing more
than half of the unions in Kansas City.
. voted early today to call a general
strike of all labor unions in (lie city
Monday, March 25, in sympathy with
the strike of union laundry workers
| which has been in effect several weeks,
j Only 16 votes were cast against the
| resolution.
ANOTHER HOARDER OF
GRAIN IS IN LIMBO
Wealthy Farmer at Axtel, Neb.r
Has Sold None Since Be
ginning of War.
Kearney, Neb., March 15.-—Nathan
Merryman. a wealthy farmer of this
county, has been summoned to appear
before the state council of defense'and
explain why lie has stored all the grain
raised on his farms since the European
war began In 1914 and refused to sell
it. It is understood that the council
proposes to place the matter in the
hands of the federal authorities. Fed
eral District Attorney Allen recently
filed a charge of hoarding against Louis
Fellwock, a Lancaster county farmer
who had done exactly as Merryman
did.
Merryman has no excuse to offer for
his conduct. In his bins are in excess
of 20,000 bushels of wheat, 12,000 being
of the crops of 1914 and 1915. The
farms are located near Axtell. Samples
of the grain, a part of which rotted,
have been sent to the state council by
the sheriff. Merryman admits that he
has not subscribed a dollar to any bond
issues, although a man of wealth.
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RAILWAY COMMISSION
RETAINS ITS POWER
Lincoln, Neb., March 15.—The state
railway commission’s fear that it had ■
been practically legislated out of a Job
is dissipated in a letter just received
from its Washington representatives.
As the bill to compensate the railroads
passed the house and went into con
ference it took from state commissions
all power to regulate rates, to super
vise Issues of stocks and bonds, dis
position of revenues and control over
additions and betterments. This would
have shorn them of the only power
worth possessing.
The latest information is that these
limitations on their power have been t
stricken out, and all that remains of the
obnoxious section is a proviso that they
have no jurisdiction over movement of
trains carrying troops, war munitions
or government supplies. The commis
sions have not sought to exercise such
powers.
DIFFICULT TO GET
MAN INTO ASYLUM
Hastings, Neb., March 15.—It re
quired the intervention of Attorney
General Heed in order that Ernest H.
Gerdes might be allowed to enter tho
state hospital for the insane at Ingle
side. Gerdes is a 17-year-old youth
arrested a few days ago at Gothenburg
on the charge of having criminally as
saulted a 7-year-old daughter of Ar
thur Evans. He was immediately tried,
and tiie jury found him to be insane.
Sheriff Benton appeared here today
with an order from the court commit
ting him to the asylum. Superintendent
Fast refused on the ground that under
the law he could accept only those
who were committed by a county board
of insanity.
Thq sheriff telephoned the county
attorney and the county attorney tele
phoned the attorney general and tho
attorney general telephoned the super
intendent, and the final result was that
Gerdes was admitted, a section of the
statutes permitting incarceration by a
court where a defendant has been ad
judged insane in a trial being quoted
to the superintendent.
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ASSASSINS ABROAD
NEAR LEIGH, NEB.
Leigh. Neb., March 15.—Two myster
ious attempts to assassinate Nebraska
farmers were made at farm homes in
the central part of Colfax county Mon
day morning.
An urgent call came to Leigh for
fcelp.
The first shooting took place at the
John Vavra farm just after midnight.
F. C. Oltman and family had passed
the evening with the Vavras and when
he and one of the Vavra boys went to
•start Oltman’s car. Oltman was fired
at from ambush and one load of shot
struck him in tho abdomen.
Numerous shots were fired, but it
could not be ascertained how many
men did the shooting.
About 2 o’clock the farm place of
Louis Asche was invaded and when the
hired man went out to see what the
trouble was, he was greeted by volleys
of shots.
When Asche attempted to call help
by phone, he was shot at through the
window, but the load struck the win
dow casing and he was uninjured.
A squad of tho home guard were
rushed to both places and Sheriff Bnr
tunck went out with several deputies.
Members of tho homo guard stated
that the buildings at both farms were
riddled with bullets. Shotguns were
used at the Vavra place and revolvers
at tho Asche place.
801 ASKS
HOW MMimi AID
,<5peaking for American Labor,
He Sends Message of Sym
pathy to Soviets.
Washington, D. C„ March 13.—Sam
uel Gomperp, president ol’ the Aincr- <,
lean Federation of Labor, on behalf of
the American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy, today forwarded to the
Russian soviet congress at Moscow a
message of sympathy to the Russian
people "in their struggle to safeguard
freedom.”
Mr. Gompers' message said:
"We address you in the name of
world liberty. We assure you that the
people of the United States are pained
by every blow at Russian freedom, as
they would by a blow at their own.
The American people desire to be of
service to the Russian people in their
struggle to safeguard freedom and
realize its opportunities. We desire
to be informed as to how we may
help.
“We speak for a great organized
movement of working people, vdio are
devoted to the cause of freedom and
the ideals of democracy. We assure
you also that the whole American na
tion ardently desires to ^jje helpful to
Russia and await* with eagerness an
indication from Russia as to how help
may most effectively be extended.
“To all those who strive for free
dom we say courage and justice must
triumph if all free people stand united
against autocracy. We await your sug
gestions.” _ _
STRIKE IS SETTLED.
Fall River, Mass., March 13.—All the
cotton mills in Fall River opened to
day under normal conditions, firemen
who had been on strike for two days
returning under an agreement by which
the differences with the owners wen
adjusted last night.
