THE O'NEILL FRONTIER 1 D. H. CRONIN. Publisher._ VNEILU NEBHABKA Hr —r. , . ,i - » End of Hunger Striking. From the New York Herald. Shortly after her recent arrest on a charge of attempting to provoke sedition la the British navy, Slyvla Pankhurst wrote as follows to Lenin: "X expect six months Imprisonment. 1 consider a hunger strike, but I am afraid the weapon is destroyed now since the government is letting the Irish hunger strikers die.” Probably Miss Pankhurst meant that things are not as they were In the per iod wtien a hunger striker was released after a few days and went out glorying In a victory over the government and listening to the cheers of admirers. 1 u hunger briefly end win wes one thing: to hunger for 10 weeks arid die is quite different Hunger striking la no longer a novelty. At last men have died of It. And in the case of MacSwtaey. the first hunger striker to attract the world’s serious a. tentlon, the novelty of the means was Anally overshadowed by the personal ity of the striker. If at first the maj or of Cork wraa regardei simply as a pris oner who was trying to force his jail ors to release him, at the last he was viewed as a man who, utterly beyond hope of a living victory, was striving for a triumph in death itself. As Sylvia Pankhurst says, hunger striking is no longer a weapon—unless the striker is prepared to go the whole fatal way; and even then there will never be a parallel, In public Interest, to the MacSwlney case. G. O. P. Campaign. From the Omaha World-Herald. Republican campaign was masterful after its kind. It achieved wonders. It confounded logic and reason, it allied hosts of diverse and antagonistic ele ments under a single banner and held them—till election day. It cemented to gether ‘‘Wall street" power and non partisan league votes. It wrapped rad icals and reactionaries In close embrace. It appealed aliko to anti-league republi cans, pro-league republicans and anti league democrats—even to some pro league democrats. Chamelon like, among a host of conflicting interests and classes and races and creeds and hates, It took on In each instance the color ot Its immediate environment. It agr-ed wlth everybody, disagreed with nobody. It put Bryan to bed with Penrose and cavalier with covenanter, bestowing Its benignant blessing on all alike. It prom ised all things to all men -and today awakens to Its morning of solemn res ponsibility. Its notes of hand, flung like leaves to the wind, tomorrow will be coming due. The Kansas supreme court, in a 1 decision handed down Saturday up- I held the contention of a life insurance company that it cannot be held liable for the full amount of a policy bear ing a military service waiver; fn case ; the Insured died while engaged in such service. The court ruled that . “military service” could not be re- | ■trlcted to actual lighting, but that such service begins with enlistment. | The names of live millionaires j are among the 100 names on the jury j panel of the New York city sheriff’s Jury for the coming year. They are: John D. Rockefeller, jr.. Chauncey M. Depew, Jr, Frederick W. Vanderbilt, Bernard M. Baruch and Howard El liot. Because Mrs: Louise Peete can not provide the funds necessary to defend herself against the charge of murder ing J. C. Denton, a wealthy California mining broker, the county of Los Angeles finds itself obliged to both prosecute her, and defend her in the same case. Because of the spectacular rush of hundreds of oil prospectors to the far north, the Ottawa government has found It necessary to revive the old grub stakes law of Yukon days, and require that only those In physical condition to stand an arctic winter or have enough "grub" to keep them, will be permuted to go. Miss Fannie Reid, of Hancock, N. Jf., left a self imposed seclusion of 59 years last week to attend her broth j er’s funeral. In 1861 her father Is said to have broken her engagement to a national guard officer, and she vowed never to leave her room again. Sinco then, not more than half a dozen per slns outside her family, have o her. She is still vigorous. Two army trucks surrounded by a large guard of troops recently passed through the streets of Portland, Ore., and the general belief was that gold was being shipped to Japan. It turned out that the trucks contained 2,000 quarts of whisky for military hospitals in California. The first news of the world for two sears will soon reach the island of Rapa with the arrival olf a Fr.n.h schooner now on Its way there. Tin island is populated by 150 l’c’j. nesians and one French official. . .. inhabitants have not yet heard of tir• close of the war. The Irish peace conference, which Is an association of moderate Irish men of all parties seeking to solve the homo rule problem, has written to Premier Lloyd George, expressing the view that parliament should os tablish a constituent assembly elected on the parliamentary basis of proportional representation and that Ireland be given complete linaneial independence. The town of Tralee, Ireland, is fast approaching starvation in conse quence of tlie recent polled order for bidding carrying on of business un til two missing policemen are re turned by the townspeople. • Although her name was not on the ballot, Mrs. Grace B. L&mphirc was elected mayor of Burns, Ore., last Tuesday, her name being written in. Her first knowledge that she was be ing considered for the offlce came ' when she was notified of her elec tion. New York City egg eaters so much prefer white eggs that the price of 1 them is considerably higher than that ■ of the brown egg. while In Boston, the white are considered inferior to the - brown, and are therefore considerably cheaper in price. After a careful investigation the ■ government has decided that 6,000 f lobsters which were transplanted . from the Atlantic coast to Pacific * waters were evicted ty pSetous crabs, ! and arc no'/ conducting the world's ' laas-Mit retreat yto.the Puijgpia canal, j Minneapolis Man Finds Wife and Daughter in Omaha Held With Alleged Bank Robbers. Omaha, Neb./ Nov. 29.—His little family decamped with suspected bank bandits, was the sight that greeted H. J. Ryan, railroad man, of Fort Worth, Tex., when he returned to his home in St. Paul, Minn., to spend the Thanksgiving holidays. Ryan was taken into custody by po lice when he arrived in Omaha to search for his wife and daughter, who had been arrested with five alleged safeblowers Monday evening by police detectives. Mrs. Dessie Ryan and her 16-year old daughter, Lucille, wife and daughter of H, J. Ryan, were regis tered at the Flatiron hotel Monday with a man giving his name as H. Ryan, but whose true name is said to be Frank Daly. Daly and his four companions are said to have been I identified as the men that robbed a hank in Superior, Wis., November 16, of $7,000 in currency. "For six months I have been down south trying to make a living," said H. J. Ryan. “I had saved enough money to take my family with me to Texas in the meantime. They seemed to suffer with the cold so much in St. Paul. “For weeks I had prepared for Thanksgiving and after the holidays I was going to take them to Fort Worth where we were to make our future home.” When asked if he would take his wife and daughter hack to St. Paul, Ryan said, “I don’t know. This af fair upsets me so I seem to have lost what little reason I had. Perhaps they are not guilty. I should not have left them so long.” A. STUDENTS EXCAVATE FOR NEW COLLEGE BUILDING Hastings, Neb., Nov. 29.—As a sub stitute for the Thanksgiving day football game, called off by an elev enth hour cancellation, students of Hastings college commandeered the equipment of a construction com pany and celebrated the day by dig ging the excavation for a new quar ter million dollar college building. The construction company head do nated- his service as boss and the co eds took charge of the kitchen, serv ing meals to the boys. President French was called home from Chi cago and was here to witness the completion of the work. BANKERS PLAN PROBE OF RYAN'S AFFAIRS Deflation of Market Said to Have Caused Big Reduction in Values of Securities. New York, Nov. 27.—Plans for the formation of a committee of bankers to inquire into the affairs of Allan A. Hyan, capitalist, whose corner in Stutx .Motor stock startled Wall street I last April and resulted eventually in his expulsion from the stock ex change, after he had himself an nounced ills resignation, were consid ered today at a conference of bankers and attorneys at the offices of the Guaranty Trust Company. Tlie recent depression of the stock market is reported to have eon trail ed the values of securities on which i Mr. Ryan’s extensive loans were I based. Liabilities involved are reported to approximate $19,000,000, wild- .Mr. I Ryan's assets are given as Pen . \ I $20,000,000 and $25,000,000. He contlned to his home by nine s. The banking interests Inc’ude the ! Guaranty Trust Company and >ther large banks. The Ryan Interns:a in clude, in addition to the Stui- Motor Car Company of America, the S:rm berg Carburetor Company, Continen tal Candy Company. Chicago Pneu matic Tool Company and Hayden Chemical Company. GIRL HELD FOR JEWEL THEFT Omaha. Neb.. Nov. 27 (H;:tcinl> Miss Elise Bowman, 18-yoar old u mestlo arrested for stealing $1,500 in jewelry and clothing, told police- she was to be married Christmas and wanted the stolen things for 1- : trousseau. Miss Bowman said her fiance is a wealthy St. Paul, .Minn., mart, but refused to give his name. The girl recently came here from Norfolk, Neb. Since the start of the "dry” era it has become exceedingly difficult t i persuade men not under the influence of ulcohol to go into the silence of the forests for a winter's stay. In the "good old days," the lumbermen say, the loggers would work all winter for enough money to buy booze all summer. The Austrian government admits an estimated deficit this year of about 1J,000,000,000 crowns hut allied inves tigators and some of the newspapers place it nearer 20,000,000,000 Turkish tax collectors spare noth ing from levies except schoolbooks and the assessments run so high that 10 cents a pound is exacted on ail sugar while a tax of $229 recently was demanded on an automiblo that sells for $595 in the United States. Thirty-two persons in the army were sentenced to death by courts martial duriag the last fiscal year, but in no case was the sentence car ried into effect, says MaJ. Gen. E. H. Crowder. Twelve of the death sen tences were disapproved. 19 reduced to imprisonment ranging from life terms to five years and one case was pending on review wnen the report was compiled. Only nine of the cases were for military offenses. Eight were found guilty of misbehavior in the face of the enemy and one was sen tenced a spy. O'Neill, Nebraska, Merchant Asserts Goods Sold Him Contrary to Lasw of Country. O'Neil, Neb., Nov. 26—Special: The John Brennan store has been closed by Deputy U. S. Marshal W. A. Mor gan who served a warrant of seizure which was Issued by the federal court after Brennan’s creditors had filed an involuntary petition in bankruptcy. The petitioners are O. Sommers & Company, a wholesale house of St. Paul, Minn.; Hicks, Fuller, Pierson Company, of Sioux City, la.; Foote Schulze Company, St. Paul, Minn., and Warfield, Pratt Company’ of Sioux City, la. In his answer, Brennan declares that he is not indebted to the petition ers in any sum, that they sold him goods of all kinds in violation of the laws of the United. States and all transactions between him and the pe titioners were in violation of the laws of the United States and “which vio lation was committed by the petition ers and not by the defendant, that they are guilty of profiteering under the laws of the United States in the sale of each and all of the articles and goods for which claim is made.’’ _A_ PORTABLE STILL USED BY NEBRASKA MOONSHINERS Pierce, Neb., Nov. 26.—Special: Ir vin Yates, of Norfolk was arrested in connection with the operation of an illicit booze still on the Peter Pellet farm three miles west of Pierce. He was brought to Pierce and later pa rolled. Pellett is out on bonds, so is W. E. Cochrane who was artosted in connection with the case. G. W. and N. Emery, of Norfolk, are being held in the Pierce county jail pending trial. The-police say that they have infor mation which will show that the 150 gallons of mash which they found on the Pellett farm is the second batch of moonshine material which was manufactured there during the past few weeks. These details develop the fact that a portuble still is being used in the manufacture of liquor and that it is being transported about the country in automobiles. When the mash is ready the still is loaded into an auto mobile,- transported to the farm, the mush turned into whisky and the still removed to some other place of operation. ENRAGED MOTHER SOUGHT TO GET VENGEANCE < ivauhu. Neb., Nov. 26.—Armed with a long butcher knife, Mrs. Alice Ross threatened to kill W. E. Cage, coal salesman, in the Monarch garden, for the alleged seduction of her daughter Holiie, IS, who is said to have .been missing from her home for several days, -according to police reports. Following a continuous search for her daughter, Mrs. Ross, after fre quenting a number of questionable resorts, entered the Monarch garden. "They whirled past me locked in a close embrace,” Mrs. Ross reported to the police. “When 1 saw my girl there 1 became almost insane. I don't know what I said or tried to do.” The frantic efforts of Mrs. Ross to secure possession of her daughter and wreak vengeance on Cage were stopped by Police Patrolman Joe Zicli, who disarmed the mother, and sent the daughter and Cage to jail. -4 — ANOTHER APPEAL MADE TO RESERVE BOARD Norfolk, Neb., Nov. 20.—Declaring that fanners hi Madison county, Ne braska, are facing bankruptcy if they are forced to sell their products at present prices, the Norfolk chamber of commerce after consultation with leading bankers and farmers have j sent a telegram to the governor of the federal reserve hoard at Wash ington asking that an emergency be declared and that credit extensions be furnished farmers of Nebraska. ‘ The county is full of corn, oats, im mature pigs, young cattle and feeder stock Is only partially fattened, the telegram states. , —♦— CONVICTED BANKER IN PTHETIC APPEAL — I Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 26. — (By the ' l'nltcd Press.)—District Attorney T. S. Alien is in receipt of a pathetic letter from M. L. Luebben, former president of the Sutton, Neb., First i National hank, now serving a term in Leavenworth prison for violation of the federal banking laws. Luebben asks a pardon declaring it to be a matter of life and death that he be with his wife. He says she is suffer ing intensely because of the tragic death of their daughter in an auto , accident at Long Beach, Calif. —♦— FIRE MARSHAL SAYS INCENDIARY RESPONSIBLE Columbus, Nob., Nov. 26.—Special: j State Fire Marshal Charles Id. Hart ford has completed an investigation into the mysterious destruction by tire of the Kozlowski general mer chandise store at Duncan, Neb., Oc tober 11. The fire marshal in a state ni"nt following examination of wit ness's says that he Is satislied that the store was purposely destroyed. MOB SEEKS MEXICAN’S LIFE. • Eagle Pass. Tex., Nov. 24.—An at t- mpt was made by n mob in Piedras Negros, Mel., opposite Eagle Pass, <;srly today to storm the Jail and lynch Idl Pldio Ategraza, held on a inunler charge. The military com mandant, after promising that the law would quickly take its course, ilnall prevailed upon the mob to dis rs Aiigraza was arrested ' ' . death of dose Maria De I. who was stabbed l>■ '. in MMtii Federal Court in Nebraska Sends Confessed Culprit to the Leavenworth Prison. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 23.—The federal courts continue to “soak” automobile thieves found guilty of having trans ported cars from one state to an other In violation of interstate com merce. United States Judge Munger has sentenced Jess Young and James Black to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, the former to three years and the latter to one year and a day. At least a dozen auto thieves have been sent to the federal peni tenitary in the past six months by federal courts in Nebraska. Young admitted that he had “bor rowed” a car from a neighbor when he lived in Santa Rosa, Cal. He told Judge Munger that he had no notion of stealing, but he kept it going until he reached Salt Lake City, when he sold it. But this was not the car for which Young was sent to Leaven worth. He pleaded guilty to stealing a Hudson car from in front of a moving picture show, in Cheyenne, and he drove it to Kearney, Neb. Jatnai Black said that Young told him that he was the owner of the automobile, but he had learned dif ferently after the two young men left Cheyenne headed for Nebraska. Young took the blame for stealing the machine. A letter from Sheriff James A. Pe tray, of Sonoma, county, Cal., to United States Attorney T. S. Allen, stated that Jess Young was wanted at Santa Rosa for stealing an auto mobile, for embezzlii g funds from an employer and for wife desertion. Armed with the letter of the sheriff Judge Munger quizzed Young about his former record. It was then that he stated that he h^d borrowed a car when he left Santa Rosa and had gone away without bidding his wifo farewell. He was asked if he had ever written to his wife. He had not, because he felt ashamed to do so. —A— ALLEGED MURDERER FINALLY RETURNED TO KANSAS CITY Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 23.—Den nle Chester, charged with the murder of Miss Florence Barton, a society girl here and who was re-captured near Oconto, Neb., Friday, after a sensational escape from a train near Broken Bow, Neb., was returned to Kansas City Sunday. Chester at first refused to eat food given him at police headquarters. However, while no one was present in the cell with him, the food left with him disappeared. —f~ NEBRASKA FARMER IN BATTLE WITH COYOTE Burwell, Neb., Nov. 23.—A few days ago Fred Meyer had an exciting ex perience with a coyote. The first shot from Meyer’s gun wounded th