Nebraska Newspapers

    THE O’NEILL FRONTIER
a M. CRONIN. Publisher.
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IP NEILL,_ NEBRASKA
In a plea for faith tn the new
Mexican regime, Manuel de la Pena,
acting commercial agent in New
York, says: "We mean to banish
hatred. We Intend to create love and
friendship through mutual under
standing. We want you to go there.
We want all Mexicans to return. We
have eliminated the word ‘exiles.’ We
have banished the word "amnesty"
because it means pardon. There Is
no need of pardon. We young men of
Mexico have realized that unless for
eign capital and immigration are en
couraged our natural resources are
lost to the world. Therefore the laws
that wc Intend to uphold will protect
foreign capital and 1mm gration so
far as that may be done in accordance
with the eternal principles of justice
an equity.”
The latest feature in the develop
ment of youthful athletics, is the re
vision of the ball diamond and the
shortening of the game to meet the
needs of the youth below 16 years of
age. Many playgrounds have adopted
the smaller diamond which will en
able the boy to develop his muscles
without overtaxing him. That base
bail la a sport into which no boy has
to be urged and Is the best method
for all around evelopment, is the
spinlon of the National and Ameri
can Leagues.
The rapid stride with which women
of England have taken Interest in
political and social questions, is ac
counted for by the fact of their hav
ing to handle many new situations
without the help of their husbands
while the latter were away at war.
Viriage councils have been formed
by the women of many communities
and successful efforts have been
vnndo in hrlncrine' about hotter hnua
Ing conditions and even improving
machinery in many factories.
Philadelphia is to have a new pub
lic comfort station, the cost of which
haH been provided for in bequests of
former citizens. Five thousand dol
lars, left by Benjamin Franklin, in
1790 and $3,000 left by John Scott in
1816 "to make living in town more
convenient and render it more agree
able to strangers," will be used for
this purpose. Tho combined total
now amounts to $6G,323.
The first Sunday in May is called
"Chestnut Sunday” in England and is
considered tho official opening of
spring. The day is usually the occa
sion for carnivals, picnics and other
forms of merry making. In London
the day is observed by large numbers
in making a solemn pilgrimage to
Bushey Park, where an avenue of
blossoming trees a mile long is indeed
a reminder that spring is come.
The nation wide housing situation,
in all its phases, will be the text at
the annual convention of the Na
tional Association of Real Estate
boards, to be held in Kansas City,
June 2 to S. With the aid of able
speakers and debaters they will try
to find the cause as well as a reme
dy for the situation, which is grow
ing more acute each day.
The constitution of the "Irish Re
publican Brotherhood” has Just been
made public In England. There are
32 clauses in the constitution, which
provides for a supreme council in
which is vested the power to levy
taxes, raise loans, make war and de
cide peuce. A secret court is provid
ed for in which members of the broth
erhood accused of treason shall be
tried.
In spite of the new anti-strike law
in Kansas, the time lock on the state
treasurer's office at Topeka, failed to
work. While $31,000,000 in securities,
ledgers and records reposed peaceful
ly within, and the office force stood
idle, the lock resisted the efforts of
expert locksmiths for seven days. A
maker of time locks opened it. Tho
clock had run down, "‘w
It Onie oF the oldest and most pic
turesque structures of the world, la
the Benedictine monastery, situated
on a rock of world old granite, oh tho
bank of the Danube, in lower Austria.
This relic of tho middle ages dates
irum iuoy. me xxuuse ox a ixiousunu
windows, as It is sometimes called, is
a conservative name. Its library con
tains 60,000 volumes.
That the British railways are capi
talized at £1,300,000,000, of which
Bum £260,000,000 pounds are watered
stock, is the charges made by J. H.
Tl^xmas, secretary to the National
Union of Hail way men, of England.
The labor question will never be set
tlcxi he says, Uv a mere grant of high
er wages.
Indian camps are being pitched on
t*i banks of the Columbia river, in
anticipation of the salmon season. The
annua] salmon run is an occasion of
much ceremony and festivity. Large
quantities of fish are caught and
cured for use during the year.
Seve-al substitutes for wood pulp
In the manufacture of newsprint, lava
been found, but so far all new meth
ods have proven too expensive to be
of great vu'ue Straw and fodder
are two of the possible substitutes.
Rail way stations in London are in
fested with gangs of hat snatchers.
In the region of one station 500 com
plaints have been turned in from per
sons whose hats have been snatched
while they were hurrying to catch
*a train.
In Germany the Krupp gun factory
employed 80,000 men before the war,
and 115,00? during the war. The
working force is now 46,000 men.
The price of sugar has dropped in
Tulsa. Okla., from 55 cents to 22 cents
per pound. MUk prices have also tum
bled, it is stated.
Reduction of the Mexican army has
been started at the suggestion of Gen
eral Obregorx. who says the army will
be reorganized and cut to half its
present size.
Ray Gravelle, the Canadian "safe
wizard" has left for Belgium to try
his skill on opening safes in the de»
vasted regions, where combinations
have been lost.
There are 20 American millionaire!
Included hi the passenger list of an
American liner which recently reached
fik'Utluunpton.
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CMIDEMP Mill
Nebraska Supreme Court
Hears Argument of Attor
neys For Alson
8. Cole.
Lincoln, Neb., June 14.—The claim
was made In supreme court Thurs
day by attorneys for Alson B. Cole,
convicted Howard county murderer,
that the law gives a man who pleads
guilty to a murder the same right
to a trial as one who pleads not
guilty. Cole pleaded guilty to murder
I In the first degree, and his then at
torneys did not Insist that evidence
be taken to enable the court, as is the
trial judge's duty, to determine the
degree of guilt. Judge Paine, who
heard the case, based his instructions
to the Jury that they should find him
guilty of first degree murder on Cole's
own stalement and on his confession.
Cole’s present attorneys said that
the law is mandatory that evidence
be taken so that a man ignorant of
the procedure of courts might not
convict himself and that if there are
any mitigating circumstances he be in
a position to take advantage of them.
They said they did not care whether
the plea of guilty was withdrawn or
not, and claimed that if Paine heard
the evidence they have to present he
would disregard that plea.
Attorneys for the state argued that
the judge and the Jury were both suf
ficiently enlightened as to Cole's part
in the crime through having heard the
evidence against Gramme*, who was
tried at the same time and that the
courts could not take cognizance of
claims of newly discovered evidence
unless the application set forth the
names of the witnesses and the char
acter of the testimony.
SCHOOL EXPENSES ARE
TO CONTINUE HIGH
Lincoln, Neb., June 14^—When de
ciding upon a total levy of 80 mills
for school purposes for the coming
year, members of the board of edu
cation stated that the public might
as well understand that there could
be no reduction In the levy for the
next three years. In fact it seemed to
be the general opinion that with the
present salary schedule and building
program, both of which have been
ratified by vote of the people, that
there could be no reduction of the
school tax for many years to come.
The board will raise the bond levy
from 10 to 30 mills, because that is
the only fund which It has power to
Increase without action of the state
legislature. At the next meeting of
the legislature, the board will tusk
that the limit for general purposes be
raised in order that the borrowed
money may be returned to tho bond
fund.
FARM BUREAU 8TATUTE
18 ATTACKED IN COURT
Lincoln, Neb., June 14.—The llgis
latlve act creating rarm bureaus and
providing for county appropriations
in support of them was challenged in
supreme court Friday morning, in a
case from Hall county, whero the
county commissioners refused to ap
propriate any money. They insist
that it is Bpecial legislation designed
to help farmers only, that it is tax
ation without representation because
none of the bureau officers are elected
•by the public, and that the founda
tions of government are threatened
by acts of this kind. It was defended
as In the interest of the public and as
necessary to solve food production
VUIVillO.
NEBRASKA GUARD COMPANIES
TO ASK RECOGNITION
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Lincoln, Neb., June 14.—As soon as
the president signs the national guard
reorganization bill Nebraska will tele
graph the war department for recog
nition for six companies. These have
been formed for some time, and all
are above the minimum strength. The
reduction of the minimum to 50 will
stimulate the formation of guards in
Nebraska, says Adjutant General
Paul.
HELD FOR ASSAULT
ON HIS STEP-DAUGHTER
LeMars, la., June 11.—Phillip J.
McKay, a farmer living in Union
township, was arrested here Wednes
day night on a charge of criminal as
sault filed by Ira Stauffer, also a
Union township farmer. The infor
mation charges McKay with assault,
August 22, 1919, on Hope Noma Mil
ton, 16, daughter of McKay’s wife,
formerly Mrs. Arba Milton. Mr. Stauf
fer, who filed the information is an
uncle of Miss Milton.
McKay was arraigned in Justice
Freeman’s court and waived prelim
inary examination. He was bound
over to the September term of the
grand jury under 17,500 bonds which
were not furnished and he is held
in the county jail. He is expected
to enter a plea of guilty before a dis
trict judge rather titan wait until
the September term of court.
FORMER GOVERNOR BOIES
IS NOW NEARLY BLIND
Waterloo, la., June 11.—Almost
blind and scarcely able to hear, but
clear in mind and in general good
health, Horace Boies, former gover
nor of lowo, has arrived from Long
Beach, Cal., for a visit with his son.
Judge II. B. Boies. He is in his 93d
year. This is his first visit here in
three years and he fears it will be
his last, as he is no longer able to
stand the cross continent jaunt.
Colorado Springs has a bird hospi
tal conducted free of charge out of
pure love and sympathy for the bird
family. Dr. Wm. W. Arnold is known
throughout Colorado Spring and
vicinity as a friend and savior to the
feathered folk.
The Maine Central institute, of
Pittsfield, Me., has adopted the plan
of using one page in the local paper
for the college news instead of the
regular school organ, as formerly. All
the news of the page is collected and
written by the students.
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Former National Guard Store
keeper Explains Mystery
That Worried Peo
ple of Lincoln.
Lincoln, Neb., Juno 12.—Visions of
a plot of the ‘•rods” to some day turn
the guns of revolution upon the capi
tal city of Nebraska vanished into
thin air today when a former state
officer explained the source of the
large amount of ammunition uncov
ered along the banks of a creek the
other day. Officers of the guard who
examined the ammunition said it was
Belgian in origin and this added to
the mystery.
Now comes Mart Howe, former
storekeeper for the national guard,
who says that it is undoubtedly part
of a lot of ammunition that he had
ordered a drayman to dump into the
creek 20 years ago because it no
longer fitted the guns issued to the
guardsmen. He says that the dray
man did not do a good job of it or
else the creek has changed its chan
nels and exposed the shells to view.
The guns that these shells fitted were
all called during the later '90s and
this rendered the ammunition of no
value. The Belgian idea arose from
the fact that they resemble the shells
used by that army in the last war.
BLACK BOOZE BANDIT
KILLED IN CHICAGO
Police Surprise Two Negroes,
Kill One and Run Down
Other.
Chicago, June 11.—Heretofore li
quor thefts have not been classed as
hazardous, leading to open charges
that most of them were prearranged
in order to get the stufT from under
the eyes of the government, but last
night a genuine theft was staged and
one of the thieves was shot to death
and his companion captured after a
thrilling chase in which motorcycle
police outran an elevated train.
Charles Bradford and Grey Effer
son, the latter having recently ar
rived from Omaha, both negroes, were
surprised by detectives, looting the
Leon Gibbs drug store.
One was carrying a large milk can,
used by shippers, and the other a
garbage can. In both cans were sev
eral bottles of stolen whisky. They
were carrying out the entire stock
in this manner, making numerous
trips and hiding the loot under some
piling where they could remove it
later in a truck.
The detectives ordered the negroes
to put up their hands,- but instead
they dropped the cans and opened
Are. After an exchange of shots
Bradford fell dead, shot through the
heart, and the other fled to the ele
vated station. He threw a ring to
the ticket agent as pay for his fare
end dashed through the stile Just in
time to swing on a passing train.
Motorcycle police immediately took
up the chase, traveling 60 miles an
hour. They overtook and passed the
train on which the fugitive was rid
ing and mounted the stairs at the
next station. They found their man
hanging out of a window, utterly ex
hausted by his chase, and he offered
no resistance, having thrown away
Vila rntml vor
STENOGRAPHERS
UNION NEXT, PLAN
Campaign Soon In All Big
Cities—Will Back Striking
Longshoremen.
Montreal, Que.. June 11.—The an
nual meeting of the American Federa
tion of Labor held here, today took
steps to give full support to the strik
ing New York long shoremen fighting
merchants who raised a $5,000,000
fund to break the strike.
A drive to unionize 3,000,000 sten
ographers and office workers will be
gin soon in all large cities in the
United States under authority of the
federation.
The executive council of the federa
tion will be in direct charge of the
drive.
DEMOCRATS WILL INVITE
PERSHING TO RUN TODAY
Washington, June 11.—General John
J. Pershing will today be asked to be
come a "dark horse” candidate for
the democratic presidential nomina
tion.
Edward Goltra, democratic national
committeman from Missouri will ex
tend the offer in shape of an invita
tion to General Pershing to go to San
Francisco on a special train with Mrs
sourt delegates and a number of other
notables, Goltra, arrived here from
New York early today.
STARTS LONG FLIGHT.
l*aris, June 11.—Lieutenant Henri
Uoget, the French ace, who recently
completed a round trip flight across
the Mediterranean, took the air this
morning in an attempt to make a non
stop flight from Paris to Warsaw,
This journey is the first leg of an
"around Europe” trip.
NATURALIZATION DOUBLE
RATE BEFORE BIG WAR
Washington, June li,--The natur
alization rate in this country now is
200,000 annually, or double the num
ber before war, Richard K. Camp
bell, commissioner on naturalization
announced, today.
Mr. Campbell said the report of
the naturalization bureau for the fis
cal year ending this month would
show an increase in the usual number
I of civilian naturalizations. These
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! LABOR SHORTAGE ~
IS IOL WORRTING
Nebraska Farmers Settle
Down to Get Along as Best
They Can Without Suf
ficient Help.
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Lincoln, Neb., June il.—Nebraska
i
farmers are making no caiis upon the
government labor bureau here foi
help, and the labor shortage that is
troubling other sections is not worry
ing them. R. E. Holland, of the
agricultural college, says that they
are going on the theory that they will
do what they can and let the rest
slide. If the harvesters come they
will be welcomed; if they do not, they
will get along as best they can.
Mr. Holland says that western Ne
braska is now as good a winter wheat
yielding section as western Kansas,
and that it will be possible to directly
divert the harvest hands who strike
that section of Kansas first. Many
farmers have given up the idea of
trying to cultivate large acreages,
with the help problem as it is, and
from Buffalo county west he noted or.
a recent trip a number of abandoned
farm homes and many fields into
which a machine had not entered.
The nonchalant attitude of the
farmers is due to the fact that the
best workers have gone to the city
to work in the factories and the sub
stitutes are so Inefficient and so in
sistent upon demanding higher wages
than were ever paid that the farmers
say there is nothing left for them.
FAMOUS GAS RATE CASE
BACK TO NEBRASKA COURTS
Lincoln, Neb., June 11.—Lincoln’s
famous gas case is coming back again
from Washington for a retrial in some
particulars. Fourteen years ago the
council passed a $1 gas ordinance.
The company enjoined its enforce
ment The city won in the federal
court for Nebraska, but the company
secured a remand from the supreme
court The case was tried all over
again, testimony being taken for 60
days. The local federal court held
the ordinance valid, and this time
the supreme court at Washington af
firmed the decision.
It failed however, to say whether
the consumers who have been paying
in excess of $1 a thousand all these
years should have interest on their
claimp. This resulted in another trial
in the federal court for Nebraska.
The court said that interest must be
paid and that the refunds cover the
entire period up to date. The com
pany appealed to the federal supreme
court on this, and that tribunal has
dismissed the appeal as premature,
as no Judgment hod been rendered
here and no final order made.
The company was charging $1.20 at
the time the ordinance was passed. It
voluntarily dropped to $1 in May,
1915, but two and a half years later
increased the price, which is now
$1.40.
DREW GUNS ON OFFICERS,
ARE GIVEN SENTENCES
Fremont, Neb., June 1L—A sen
tence of one to five years in the state
prison has been imposed upon Harry
Scott, Fort Russell, Wyo., soldier,
on the charge of attempted assault,
and his companion, William Adam
son, has been paroled to Sheriff Con
dit. Adamson was wounded May 4
when the two soldiers drew their
guns on police officers attempting
their arrest. They were absent with
out leave from Fort Russell, Wyo.
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FREIGHT CARS ARE
SLOW IN ARRIVING
Lincoln, Neb., June 11.—Data being
secured by the state railway commis
sion from elevator men of the state
and reports received from the rail
roads with respect to car movement
indicate that it will be at least a
month before any cleanup of the old
grain crop can be made in the state.
At that the new grain is likely to beat
some of the old onto the market.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
SEPARATES OLD PAIR
Fremont, Neb., June 11.—Mary W.
and Major H. Hunter, well known
Fremonters, have reached the divorce
court, the wifi? tiling suit after 33
years of married life. Her belief in
Christian Science, and his disbelief,
have featured the case, which, after
two days of testimony, has been con
tinued for a week.
ACCUSED OF PRO-GERMANISM,
PREACHER’S HEALTH BREAKS
Plattsmouth, Neb., June 10.—Rev.
J. H. Steger, for a number ot years
pastor of St. Paul’s Evangelical
church here, has been compelled to
resign, due to broken health, and will
go to Kansas.
During the war the hand of sus
picion pointed to Rev. Mr. Steger as
being pro-German and a large Ameri
can flag was nailed dver the door of
the church, the members of whom
were warned not to remove It. On
the occasion of the arlriistice celebra
tion. members of the Plattsmouth
home guard company performed
armed guard duty throughout the day
and night under orders to fire if nec
essary, when the safety of the pastor
and others under suspicion was in
danger.
Although then In good health, Rev
Mr. Steger braved the elements to
march in a patriotic parade and has
attempted in numerous ways to dis
prove the charge of pro-Germanism.
SILK THIEVES MAKE
HAUL AT CAMPBELL, NEB.
Campbell, Neb., June 10.—Robbers
entered the Peoples department store
of this place early this morning and
stole $10,000 worth of merchandise,
including many bolts of women's and
men’s ready-to-w'edr Vuil'ts, silk shirts,
hose and about 25 suit cases and
traveling hags. The robbers entered
by breaking glass in a back door and
unfastening the latch.
Former National Guard Store
keeper Explains Mystery
That Worried Peo
ple of Lincoln.
Lincoln, Neb., Juno 12.—Visions of
a plot of the "reds” to some day turn
the guns of revolution upon the capi
tal city of Nebraska. vanished into
thin air today when a former state
officer explained the source of the
large amount of ammunition uncov
ered along the banks of a creek the
other day. Officers of the guard who
examined the ammunition said it was
Belgian in origin and this added to
the mystery.
Now ccmes Mart Howe, former
storekeeper for the national guard,
who says that it is undoubtedly part
of a lot of ammunition that he had
ordered a drayman to dump into the
creek 20 years ago because it no
longer fitted the guns issued to the
guardsmen. He says that the dray
man did not do a good Job of it or
else the creek has changed its chan
nels and exposed the shells to view.
The guns that these shells fitted were
all called during the later ’90s and
this rendered the ammunition of no
value. The Belgian idea arose from
the fact that they resemble the shells
used by that army In the last war.
BLACK BOOZE BANDIT
KILLED IN CHICAGO
Police Surprise Two Negroes,
Kill One and Run Down
Other.
Chicago, June 11.—Heretofore li
quor thefts have not been classed as
hazardous, leading to open charges
that most of them were prearranged
in order to get the stuff from under
the eyes of the government, but last
night a genuine theft was staged and
pne of the thieves was shot to death
end his companion captured after a
thrilling chase in which motorcycle
police outran an elevated train.
Charles Bradford and Grey Kffer
eon, the latter having recently ar
rived from Omaha, both negroes, were
surprised by detectives, looting the
Leon Gibbs drug store.
One was carrying a large milk can,
used by shippers, and the other a
garbage can. In both cans were sev
eral bottles of stolen whisky. They
were carrying out the entire stock
in this manner, making numerous
trips and hiding the loot under some
piling where they could remove it
later in a truck.
The detectives ordered the negroes
to put up their hands, but instead
they dropped the cans and opened
fire. After an exchange of shots
Bradford fell dead, shot through the
heart, and the other fled to the ele
vated station. He threw a ring to
the ticket agent as pay for his fare
and dashed through the stile Just in
time to swing on a passing train.
Motorcycle police immediately took
up the chase, traveling 60 miles an
hour. They overtook and passed the
train on which the fugitive was rid
ing and mounted the stairs at the
next station. They found their man
hanging out of a window, utterly ex
hausted by his chase, and he offered
no resistance, having thrown away
his revolver.
STENOGRAPHERS
UNION NEXT, PLAN
Campaign Soon In All Big
Cities—Will Back Striking
Longshoremen.
Jlontreal, Que., June 11.—The an
nual meeting of the American Federa
tion of Labor held here, today took
steps to give full support to the strik
ing New York long shoremen fighting
merchants who raised a $5,000,000
fund to break the strike.
A drive to unionize 3,000,000 sten
ographers and office workers will be
gin soon in all large cities in the
United States under authority of the
federation.
The executive council of the federa
tion will be in direct charge of the
drive.
DEMOCRATS WILL INVITE
PERSHING TO RUN TODAY
Washington, June 11.—General John
J. Pershing will today be asked to be
come a ‘‘dark horse” candidate for
the democratic presidential nomina
tion.
Edward Goltra, democratic national
committeman from Missouri will ex
tend the offer in shape of an invita
tion to General Pershing to go to San
Francisco on a special train with Mrs
souri delegates and a number of other
notables. Goltra, arrived here from
New York early today.
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STARTS LONG FLIGHT.
Paris, June 11.—Lieutenant Henri
Roget, the French ace, who recently
completed a round trip flight across
the Mediterranean, took the air this
morning in an attempt to make a non
stop flight from Paris to Warsaw.
This journey is the first leg of an
"around Europe” trip.
NATURALIZATION DOUBLE
RATE BEFORE BIG WAR
Washington, June 11.—The natur
alization rate in this country now is
200,000 annually, or double the num
ber before war, Richard K. Camp
bell, commissioner on naturalization
announced today.
Mr. Campbell said the report of
the naturalization bureau for the fis
cal year ending this month would
show an increase in the usual number
of civilian naturalizations. These
WiU-^otai^nere than 100,000.
Nebraska Farmers >. Settle.
Down to Get Along as Best
They Gan Without Suf
ficient Help.
Lincoln, Neb., June 11.—Nebraska
farmers are making no caiis upon the
government labor bureau here for
help, and the labor shortage that is
troubling other sections is not worry
ing them. R E. Holland, of the
agricultural college, says that they
are going on the theory that they will
do what they can and let the rest
slide. If the harvesters come they
will be welcomed; if they do not. they
will get along as best they can.
Mr. Holland says that western Ne
braska is now as goott a winter wheat
yielding section as western Kansas,,
and that it will be possible to directly
divert the harvest hands who strike
that section of Kansas first. Many
farmers have given up the idea ot
trying to cultivate large acreages,
with the help problem as it is, and
from Buffalo county west he rioted on
a recent trip a number of abandoned
farm homes and many fields into
which a machine had not entered.
The nonchalant attitude of the
farmers is due to the fact that thes.
best workers have gone to the city
to work in the factories and the sub
stitutes are so Inefficient and so in
sistent upon demanding higher wages
than were ever paid that the farmers
say there is nothing left for them.
FAMOUS GAS RATE CASE
BACK TO NEBRASKA COURTS
Lincoln, Neb., June 11.—Lincoln's,
famous gas case Is coming back again
from Washington for a retrial in some
particulars. Fourteen years ago the
council passed a $1 gas ordinance.
The company enjoined its enforce
ment. The city won in the federal
court for Nebraska, but the company
secured a remand from the supreme
court. The case was tried all over
again, testimony being taken for 60
days. The local federal court held
the ordinance valid, and this tirpe
the supreme court at Washington af
firmed the decision.
It failed however, to say whether
the consumers who have been paying
in excess of $1 a thousand all these
years should have interest on their
claims. This resulted in another trial
in the federal court for Nebraska.
The court said that interest must be
paid and that the refunds cover the
entire period up to date. The com
pany appealed to the federal supreme
court on this, and that tribunal has -
dismissed the appeal as premature,
as no Judgment had been rendered
here and no final order made.
The company was charging $1.20 at
the time the ordinance was passed. It
voluntarily dropped to $1 in May.
1916, but two and a half years later
increased the price, which is now
$1.40.
DREW GUNS ON OFFICERS,
ARE GIVEN SENTENCES
Fremont, Neb., June 11.—A sen -
tence of one to five years In the state
prison has been Imposed upon Harry
Scott, Fort Russell, Wyo., soldier,
on the charge of attempted assault,
and his companion, William Adam
son, has been paroled to Sheriff Con
dit. Adamson was wounded May 4
when the two soldiers drew their
guns on police officers attempting
their arrest They were absent with
out leave from Fort Russell, Wyo.
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FREIGHT CARS ARE
SLOW IN ARRIVING
Lincoln, Neb, June 11.—Data being
secured by the state railway commis
sion from elevator men of the state
and reports received from the rail
roads with respect to car movement
indicate that It will be at least a
month before any cleanup of the old
grain crop can be made in the state.
At that the new grain Is likely to beat
some of the old onto the market.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
SEPARATES OLD PAIR
Fremont, Neb., June 11.—Mary W.
and Major II. Hunter, well known.
Fremonters, have reached the divorco
court, the wife filing suit after 33
years of married life. Her belief in
Christian Science, and his disbelief,
have featured the case, which, after
two days of testimony, has been con
tinued for a week.
ACCUSED OF PRO-GERMANISM,
PREACHER’S HEALTH BREAKS
Plattsmouth, Neb., June 10.—Rev.
J. H. Steger, for a number of years,
pastor of St. Paul's Evangelical
church here, has been compelled to.
resign, due to broken health, and will
go to Kansas.
During the war the hand of sus
picion pointed to Rev. Mr. Steger ns
being pro-German and a large Ameri
can flag was nailed over the door ot
the church, the members of whom
were warned not to remove It. On
the occasion of the armistice celebia
tlon, members of the Platwmonthi
home guard company performed1
armed guard duty throughout the day
and night under orders to fire if nec
essary, when the safety of the pastor
and others under suspicion was ini
danger.
Although then In good health, Rev.
Mr. Steger braved the elements to
march In a patriotic parade and has
attempted in numerous ways to dis
prove the charge of pro-Germanism.
SILK THIEVES MAKE
HAUL AT CAMPBELL, NEB.
Campbell, Neb., June 10.—Roliibi rs
entered the Peoples department store
of this place early this morning; and'
stole $10,000 worth of merchandise,
including many bolts of women’s arm
men’s ready-to-wear suits, silk shirts,
hose and about 25 suit cases and
traveling bags. The robbers entered
by breaking glass in a< Back door and
unfastening the latch..