JHEO'KEiLL 0. HCRONIf, Pun ***>«». O'NEILL ‘4 E 0 « A «i»c w CliVaro euroessfully launched her far mer to eonsumcra market last Saturday, and both farmers and housewives were pleased Green goods and eggs sold at the following price*: Potatoes 60c; toma toes. !£>< for two pounds; cabbage. W&c a pound; green peppers, 10c for six; dried onions. 2Coratipn by the agent selling the stock, will bo considered as though made by he applicant, and as this is made a >art of all permits to corporations, which must signify their acceptance of dl the terms before they can get the lght. Commissioner Ikmnrilv stated that hte will ho a standard rule and here iftcr be made a part of all permits fronted. They will contain other stand Lrd rules. One will forbid the sale of >onuB stock nor can any be issued. All dock must he sold at par. That no rreator commission shall be paid for he sale of the stock than herein con ained; that surety bonds will be re lulred of all officers who handle any noney of the corporation, that each ihare of stock must show that It has >een issud under a permit, giving the lumber; that no dividends may be paid hat are not actually earned; that all dock remaining unsold of the author zed issue at the end of the year can lot be disposed of except under a new permit; and that the sale of stock un ler the permit cannot be made until he company has accepted the terms ind conditions of the order. Any jreach of contract will result in Its 'evocation. Exhibit Alt Literature. The bureau proposes to turn the full ifTects of the searchlight on speculative •nterprlses. It will require all of the ltcrature, the permit and the stock it lelf to show exactly whut the proposi ion Is, so nobody will he deceived. No permit to sell stock will be issued to an ■nterprlse where an examination of the proposition shows that there is no ■easonable chance for success. The Lee Broom and Duster company las been granted permission to sell 190,000 w*>rth of preferred stock to nuke some building extensions. It is a Lincoln concern and formerly main lined Its factory ut the state peniten ;iary. -4— NEARER OF FRENCH MEDAL IS FINF.D BY A JUSTICE Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 12.—Wearing the sroix de guerre presented to nim by ;he French government for gallant conduct on the battlefield, Angelo Ara cles, of Havelock, a veteran of the Fourth division, was fined $1 ai d costs n a Justice court here for assaulting 3us Demos In a fight which resulted in the stabbing of Demos. The veteran rigorously dented he had anything to io with the stabbing, but he admitted he had hit the other man following in Bults hurled at him. Another man is under a bond of $500 on the charge of sticking a knife in Demos. Araklos and seven comrades were decorated with the croix de guerre for bagging 60 Huns and killing 100 others In a dugout with hand grenades. Ara kles, at the request of his attorney, gave a dramatic account or the tight In which he had taken such a conspic uous part. He Is employed at the Burlington shops. Arauies enlisted at the beginning of the war. STATE INSTITUTION IS WORST FIRE TRAP Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 12.—State Fire Warden Ed Beach, whose duty it is to see that all buildings are equipped with fire escapes, has discovered one of the worst offenders. He has served notice on the board of control that tt must provide fire es capes for the Girls' Industrial home at Geneva. The building is a four-story affair, with the girls' sleeping quarters on the third floor, and employes on the fourth. The upstairs is accessible by a single stairway. Mr. Beach says that the building, while of brick, is con structed of all wood partitions, and that not a single fire extinguisher is kept on the grounds. There are some 90 girls and 20 teachers and employes at the Institution. Beach also notified the state normal board to place fire escapes on the Kearney normal scdhol, which Is at tended by about 800 students. The board lias made arrangements for their construction. INSURANCE COMPANY IS MADE TO DISGORGE Fremont, Neb., Aug. 12.—A Judg ment for $5,215 in favor of Mrs. Ula W. Echols, widow of Philp Echols, was awarded in district court by Judge Button against tl>e Mutual Life in surance Company, of New York. Mr*. Echols brought suit to recover payment on an insurance policy held by Mr. Echols witii the defendant company for $5,000. The defendant contended that Mr. Echols was In poor health when the policy was delivered. He died dur ing the influenxa epidemic last De cember. Mr*. Echols is the daughter of A. H. Waterhouse, superintended of the Fremont schools. The Vossisebe Zeltung suys that the cits of CarUoptyJ vrl>> rent its eyre hath.-, to an .American concern. Japanese officials in Korea, admit thai tb® old Korean custom of flogging has been continued by Vie Japanese author Itler. One reason given was that th< prisons wcrc^tnsufflcient to lodge tin 'arse number of prisoners arrested In th< revolutionary movement. Japanese offl rials also declared that the Koreans themselves, sometimes preferted flogging to paying a fine One of the official! shoe -d the Associated Press eorrespon dent the instrument with which Hoggin* is done under the orders of the rouit 1 consists of two slender pieces of uooc sughUy bound with hemp twin*. 'COMPEL MUD TO BID BRIDGE County Attorney of Dakota County Protests to the State Railway Commission. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 11—George Leah< mer, county attorney for Dakota county, has filed a protest with the state railway commission against per mitting the Burlington railroad any extension of time in the matter of the order to erect a bridge across Omaha creek on John street, in the town to Homer. The citizens there have been trying for over a year to remove a dangerous condition that exists there, and the commission finally ordered the railroad company to build a bridge. In 1918 the railroad tore out a bridge in Homer for the purpose of changing the location of its tracks, and put in a temporary structure. This has not proved sausiaciory. me cumpiuij given until August 10 to start work, but Mr. Leahroer says it shows no signs of doing so. The railroad company claims that It had a contractor and material on the ground at one time, but the town peo ple got into a row with the county board over the matter, and by the time definite plans were agree on. the con tractor had gone elsewhere and there is nobody now available for the work —— METHODISTS CONTINUE TO OPPOSE DANCING Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 11.—Delegates to the state conference of the Methodist church were instructed by the state Epworth League assembly, in session here, to oppose any change in the church discipline that will permit Methodists to dance and play cards. The conservatives won only after a spirited debate, in which one church leader said that if he could find a minister who would tell the young people of his church that if they danced or played cards he would ex pel them, he would support the resolu tion. None of the liberals had the nerve to defend dancing, but they said that it was foolishi to insist on a church law that was so generally disregarded! and that the effect upon the younger members of witnessing such violations of the discipline by older members was bad for the church and for them. The resolution as finally adopted de clares that "the proposed changes rel ative to amusements and particularly to dancing and. card playing would be detrimental to the best interests of our young people, and we do hereby pe tition the Nebraska conference and the national conference to vote against such proposed changes in our dis ciplinary rules." (Objection was made against instruct ing delegates, and one minister pointed out that if W. J. Bryan had not vio-^ lated instructions the country would not have had Us best president dur ing the trying time of its history. This referred to the democratic na tional convention of 1912, when Mr. Bryan, instructed by the Nebraska democratic primary, to vo*e for Champ Clark, quit Clark late in the balloting and espousing Wilson brought him the nomination. Other delegates rose to denounce Mr. Bryan for his violation of instructions, and ag eneral debate among the ministers followed. — CONVICTED MURDERER IN EFFORT FOR FREEDOM Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 11.—A new way of getting a convicted murderer out of prison is being attempted by attor neys for Arlowe D. Stutter. The man has been three times tried in Lancas ter county on the charge of killing his wife. His story is that she committed suicide after a quarrel over his atten tions to another woman. The iirst time! Stutter drew a life sentence, but the supreme court awarded him a new trial because of errors of the trial court in excluding evidence. On the second trial the jury disagreed. The third time he was convicted of a lesser offense, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Before the case was submitted in the second trial his attorney asked thj court to instruct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty on the ground of Insufficiency of evidence. The couit overruled him. and the jury disagreed! Now comes the attorney and asks tho supreme court for a writ of mandamus compelling the trial judge to submit to the higher court a transcript of tha evidence in the second trial in order that that tribunal may pass upon whether the trial judge did not err in refusing to instruct the jury to free Stutter. The trial judge has refused ta do this because there was no final rul ing in the case from which an appeal may be taken. HOLD MAN AND^WOMAN ON AUTO THEFT CHARGE „ Fremont, Neb., Aug. 11.—A man and woman who gave the names of Adolph Wolf and Mrs. Wolf were arrested yes-! terday on a charge of being the thieves who stole Frank Held’s automobile at the Chautauqua grounds Monday eve ning. Held's car was driven from Fre mont to Hooper and off the Hooper Klkhorn bridge into the river, where it was carried away by the current. The man and woman escaped. Hooper people later identified them when they saw them in Fremont. Wolf and the woman are held in the county Jail. It si saiii that under the name of Frank Smith and wife, the couple were held in jail In Omaha until a few days ago. Their arrest In Omaha was under a charge of ant .mobile thefL TO DECIDE ON LOCATION OF NEW COLLEGE BUILDING ■— ■■ Fremont, Neb.. Aug. 11.—An import ant meeting of Lutherans will be held in Fremont next Tuesday when offi cials of the various college boards to gether with local men connected with the new college undertaking in Fre mont. will assemble to act upon tho sevi ral options for land secured four •iths ago, with the object of ac q :ng a site for the now college build •r ;• -. ■*- > 1 t 1 CiN'T RID SELF OF STIFF OFFICE Insurance Commissioner of Ne braska Is In a Most | Unusual Predica ment. Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 8.—State In surance Commissioner W. B. Eastham wants to quit hie job. but has nobody to whom he can hand his resignation or to whom he can turn over his se curities and records with safety tc himself. It is all because the code law was held up for a few weeks by a referendum that the lower court hat held to be invalid. Secretary Hart of the department of trade and com merce is the head of the department that includes insurance, but he has not yet named anybody to take charge and there is nobody to receipt for the large amount of securities deposited with the commissioner by the insur ance companies, who has a bond put up to cover them. LINCOLN LINEMEN GET HANDSOME WAGE BOOST Lincoln. Neb., Aug. 8.—Rather than have any trouble with its iinemen the city water and light department has in creased their pay to 62 cents an hour. A little while ago linemen in the em ploy of the telephone company found out that the Nebraska Telephone Com pany was paying $5.50 a day to their workers, and they threatened to strike if they did not get It. The Nebraska company said it had been compelled to pay that figure because the high wages of the railroad administration attract ed its men. The local telephone com pany then raised its linemen to $5.50. Whereupon the city linemen said the telephone company linemen w’ere get ting more than they, and they demand ed an increase. They now get it. TELEPHONE COMPANY IS GIVEN A BATE BOOST Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 8.—The Western Union Telegraph company has been given permission by the state railway commission to continue to collect the Burleson schedule of charges for Ne braska business until the end of the year. By that time it must stake a complete showing so that the commis sion may settle upon just and remuner ative rates. The state law limits the charge for 10 word messages within the state to 25 cents, but gives the com mission power to change the rate if it is found unremunerative. The com pany is now charging 30 cents, with 2% cents for each additional word. HOLDREDGE ATTORNEY IS NAMED JUDGE BY GOVERNOR Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 8.—W. A. Dil worth of Holdredge has been named by Governor McKelvie to take the po sition of judge of the 10th district court, relinquished by Judge William C. Dorsey to become a supreme court commissioner. Mr. Dilworth is a son of a former attorney general of the state, and was at one time secretary of the state board of transportation. He is a successful lawyer in practice of years. Judge Dorsey will remove from Bloomington to Franklin, in west central Nebraska for a number DEMPSEY COLLECTS FOR WINNING CHAMPIONSHIP Chicago, Aug. 7.—It’s great to be a heavyweight champion! Jack Dempsey signed a theatrical contract yesterday calling for 15 weeks’ work at $15,000 a week. He is to have his own comapny and show and it will play all of the big cities, opening either here or in St. Louis. Larney Lichenstein, local fistic im pressafio, put it over for the champion and is one of the partners of the men behind the project. Linick and Jacoby, Chicago theaterical men, are furnishing the backing. Dempsey got a taste of the dramatic, or rather the theaterical, at tlie sign ing of the papers. It took place in the Morrison hotel in the presence of box ing critics, a movie camera and the usual frills that go with such a scene. The entire sum for Dempsey's salary is to be posted with a Chicago bank, which will dole him out his weekly golden check. The check will begin arriving August 25, as the champion will start his tour a week earlier than that date. The wise Jack Kearns did not ovet look a bet in closing the deal. A clause was inserted that the length of the contract could be doubled at the wish of the champion. That made it really a $450,000 document. Manager Kearns has planned to h ive a minor operation performed on Demp sey's nose while here, but has delayed it until the champion reaches Phila delphia. A surgeon friend of Jack’s lives there and will take the case. KILBANE ENTERS POLITICS. Cleveland, Aug. 7.—Johnny Kilbane, featherweight champion, today an nounced his candidacy for election as councilman here. Kilbane was said to have the support of the democratic executive committee. Johnny's popu larity was expected to land him in of fice. REFUSE STRIKE CALL. London, Aug, 7-^E-Tho national union of railway men declined today to call & general strike of its members in support of police union which ordered a strike recently over the government’s refusal to withdraw its bill affecting the police organization. GOVERNOR’S WIFE OBJECTS. Salem, Ore.—Governor Olcott, who has won considerable notoriety for making airplane flights, will probably retire from the flying game. His wife objects to It. ATTEMPTED TOO MUCH. Newark. N. J.- Kither drive a car or hug the girl, but not both at once, de crees Commissioner Dill after revok ing the motor license of Kalp Hole man. Holeraar. was wrecked attempt ing both. Senator Kellogg Introduces Li« censing Measure as Restraint Against Profiteer Profits. By Associated Press. Washington, Aug. 12.—Legislator proposing the licensing of corporations having a capital or assets of J10,000,00< or more, engaged in Interstate com merce and authorizing federal supervi sion over the issuance of stock and se curities was introduced today by Sena tor Kellogg, republican, Minnesota. Licenses would be issued by the federal trade commission which would have supervisory jurisdiction over the corporations and in case of illegal com binations in restraint of trade, it would have power to revoke the licenses. President Wilson, in his cost of living speech, recommended a licensing meas ure. To Consult Leaders. Industrial conferences, in which’•Pres ident Wilson will meet representatives of capital and labor for open discussion of economic problems, will be held at the White House before the high cost of living problem is disposed of, ac cording to plans being made here today. The men whom the president will meet will form some sort of unofficial cabinet. The object sought is a free exchange of ideas to clarify the at mosphere and eliminate misunder standings between the workers and em ployers; and the development of con structive suggestions for betterment ol relations between labor and capital. President Wilson's attitude toward the industrial conference's idea was set forth in his last speech to congress, wherein he said he wus willing to meet any groups of his fellow citizens who “know what they’re talking about," tc take steps for improving capital-labor relations. Poindexter’s Plan. Senator Poindexter, .Vashington, is the author of a joint resolution asking the president to call representatives of capital and labor for a face-to-face talk. This measure is pending In the Senate labor committee, and Poindex ter said today he would seek early ac tion on it. Poindexter, in the original resolu tion, named several prominent labor and industrial eMeftains who should be called in, but this aroused protest, especially from Basil Manley, of the war labor board, and others, who said that a broader committee would have to be selected. Poindexter explained today that his list was only a sugges tion to the president and that others should be called. He favors allowing each group to choose its own spokes man. Attorney General Palmer lias started out to ascertain how much of the high cost of living is due to excessive profits of retailers. In a telegram to all state food ad ministrators who worked with Admin istrator Hoover during the war, the at torney general requested the appoint ment of a fair price committee in each county to investigate what is being charged for retail necessities, and if in excess of what the committee consid ers just, to publish a list of fair prices for the guidance of the public. This is the “extra legal" means of reaching profiteering which Mr. Palm er recently indicated was under con sideration. He has frankly admitted from the start that there was no means to prosecute directly a man guilty of extortion in prices. Retailers who are gouging the ultimate consumer will have to be disciplined by public senti ment, which officials have no doubt Is sufficiently alert to the situation now to act vigorously in clear cut cases. Palmer’s Telearam. The attorney general's telegram fol lows: "In order to secure accurate infor mation relative to charges of profiteer ing by dealers in necessary commodi ties it is the desire of the government to ascertain whether or not such deal ers are making more than a fair mar gin of profit. Will you assist in your state by requesting those persons who have been county food administrators under your jurisdiction to appoint fair price committees, including one re tailer of groceries, one of dry goods, a representative of the producers, of or ganized labor, of housewives, two or three representatives of the public generally, also a wholesaler when prac ticable? Please request them to pur sue approximately the same inquiry with reference to food products and the ordinary necessities in dry goods and clothing that were pursued by your fair price committees under the food administration act. This committee will be an extra legal body without power to summon witnesses or fix prices. It is requested, however, to as certain the cost prices, determine a fair margin of profit and if retail prices are in excess of what the com mittee regards a fair price to have pub lished its list of fair prices, reporting to you for review. You are requested to report to the department of justice a general review of the situation in your state. Evidence of Hoarding. “Any evidence, of hoarding or other violations of the food control act which may be developed in the work of such commltees should be turned over tc the United States attorney, who will be instructed to employ all his resources as well as those of the bureau of in vestigation. to co-operate^wlth you and your commifteep in seeking out and punishing all violators of the law. "There is a pressing necessity fot the restoration of normal conditions uifti it is believed that through the same organization which you had af foderul food administrator you anil your county administrators, togethei - with their appointees, can render a valuable service to the country at thh time, and your co-opi ration and thelra v» ithout compensation, will be srextlj appreciated. The widest publicity ol tills movement and the results ob tained by county committee i, it Is be lieved, will be an important factor it: its success. Please wire whether th< government can oount upon your ac tive co-operation.*' I GET HE” PEJCrOOPE” President Refuses Documents Used By American Delegation at Paris—Reticent on Shan tung Matter, Too. Washington, Aug. 12.—Presi dent Wilson wrote to Chairman Lodge, of the Senate foreign rela tions committee, today, that it would not be possible to comply with the committee’s request for the documents used by the Amer ican nc.acc commissioners at Paris in negotiating the peace treaty. “The various data bearing upon, or used in connection with the treaty of peace with Germany,” said the president, “are so miscel laneous and enormous in mass that it would be impossible fox me to supply them without bringing from Payis the whole file of pa pers of the commission itself, ai*d would include many memoranda which it was agreed, on grounds of public policy, it would be un wise to make use of outside the conference.” The president sent Chairman Lodge the informal draft present ed by the American peace commis sioners at Paris and also the for mal report of the committee of the League of Nations. Refuses Bliss Letter. The president to day refused to '-end the Senate a copy of General Bliss' letter concerning the Shantung settle ment, on the ground that it contained confidential refenrences to other gov ernments. Wilson also informed the Senate he has no knowledge of any negotiations with regard to an alliance between Japan and Germany. He stated he knows nothing of an alleged attempt by the Japanese dele gation at Paris to intimidate Chinese envoys. V HID JEMS Lansing Tells Senate Committee U. S. Kept In Dark Regarding Shantung Pacts With Euro pean Powers. Washington, Aug. 12.—Existence cif the secret treaty between Japan and Great Britain regarding the Shantung, China, peninsula was “concealed" from Secretary Lansing b? Viscount Ishii, Japanese ambassador to the United States. Mr. Lansing testified today be fore the Senate foreign relations com mittee. On September 6. 1917, Mr. Lansing said, during the negotiations leading up J to the Lansing-Ishii agreement, Vis count Ishii told him that he bail as sured Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign minister, that Japan would re turn Kiao-Chow to China, “but would have to retain the German Pacific islands because no Japanese govern ment could stand without retaining them.” “Did Viscount Ishii make any further statement regarding the disposition of German claims in China?” asked Sen ator Borah, republican, Idaho. “No,” replied Secretary Lansing. "But, you know that at that time Japan had an understanding with Great Britain for Japanese control of Kiao-Chow and that Ishii concealed that from the secretary of the United States?” m “That’s the truth.” STRIKE SETTLED AND CAR SERVICE NORMAL Brooklyn Transit Lines Oper- - a ting Begularly Today—Em ployes Being Unionized. New York, Aug. 12.—With service on the surface, elevated and subwwy lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com pany back to normal, following Satur day night’s settlement of the four-days’ strike, union officials today were plan ning to organize alt employes of trac tion lines in Manhattan and the Bronx, preparatory to demanding increased wages aifcl improved working condi tions. Several of the national leaders of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Klectric Railway Kmployes of America, were exepcted here to take charge of th$ situation. B. R. T. employes, under terms of the agreement reached Saturday night, will send a delegation to Bindley M. Garrison, receiver, as soon as they prove that more than 50 per cent of the company’s 13,000 employes were mem bers of the union at midnight. August 8. They seek a wage increase from 42 to 75 cents an hour and in eight-hour day. _ ••If we cannot increase production we. \ shall go straight to national bankruptcy Neither Increased production nor reduced expenditures alone will be sufficient. We have got to do both if wo are' to pud through and turn the corner, In the warn ing J. Austin Chamberlain, .-hancelloi ut the exchequer, gave the house of com ioous lust week.