THE FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN, PUBLISHER._ w. cTteM P L E TO N, Editor and Business Manager. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA Saloon and cabaret life In Juarez, just across the Rio Grande, has been almost Americanized. That is, it has taken on customs of places of gayety in the Unit ed States of pre-Volstead days, but the Inroads of American jazz have not been sufficient to drive from the Mexican city the better kind of music that has been there always. In a saloon on one Bide an orchestra smashes out the Jazz, while In another is played music by an orchestra of the romantic Latin style, piano, violin and violincello, incapable of producing Jazz. Joe, prize police dog of the Hoboken steamship company, offended Mique, a Binn Fein billy goat, waiting at the pier at Hoboken to sail for Ireland with his master. The goat was being placed in a crate when the dog came along. Mlque broke away and butted Joe a 16-foot Jolt into the Hudson river. Joe was picked up by a tug boat but it was more than an hour before he would go back to the pier, and Mlque had started on the voyage to Ireland. One of the Interesting applications of the self-moving motor is to the lawn mower. This ingenious machine resta on three rollers, which serve both for carrying the engine, the cutter and the driver, and for smoothing and level ing the surface c* the lawn. A four horsepower gasoline engines is employed and all the movements of the machine are controlled by means of two hand wheels placed in front of the driver** seat. Chicago has a family law firm. It is composed of Mrs. Joanna Downes, her daughter, Marlon, and son, Earle. Mrs. Downes has been an attorney for six years, while her daughtdF was admitted t< the bar a year ago. Her son was ad mitted to the bar recently. Her children followed In bar footsteps due to their own inclinations, Mrs. Dojvnes says. Good looks will cut no figure In wom en’s votes, accc.dfug to the Illinois League of Women Voters. Instead of women voting for the handsomest man, the candidates, handsome or not, must answer questions on their policies. One question is, "what has been your ex perience and what is your present busi ^•ess connection?” A bill seeking to compel all registered voters to go to the polls on election day has been Introduced in the house of commons. If no reasonable excuse is offered for not voting a fine not exceed ing 10 shillings (about $2.60) is imposed for the first offense, with £1 (normally about $5) or seven days imprisonment for the second effense. Union labor has taken a stand on many things, but the British Postal Workers’ union has come out with a unique mea sure to* which downtrodden proletariats everywhere may rally. Wear and tear of life awheel presents a problem, bo the union advocates, "a double seat in the '.rousers of those employed on cycle duty." diiivc O yruiB UIU HUU mi Inmate of a county infirmary all his life, Alex Carson, 61, of Logansport, Ind., has received $250 willed him by an uncle. This is the first money of any amount the man has ever possessed. He directed his guardian to buy some "little things and luxuries" he has never been able to enjoy. Making use of their spare time, 84 prisoners of the Wisconsin state prison are taking up the University of Wiscon sin extension work and, according to the prison officials, have been doing excel lent work. Their marks, according to university authorities, are on an average much higher than those of other stu dents taking the work. This, they say, is due to the fact that they are not sub ject to temptations of attending dances, movies, and other social events. A star comedian at a London west end theater went through his paces at a matinee while two policemen waited to take him to Jail for non-payment ©f Income tax. The policeman arrived just as the comedian was going on, and were persuaded to wait. The old Poodle Dog restaurant, a San Francisco institution since the gold days of has succumbed to prohibition and will b* closed. Furniture and fittings of upper rooms where banquets and other celebrations took place, will be sold April 21. "We go to France," said Camille Mailhabeau, One of the proprietors. Palatial marble palaces, erected in the J6th century by Dutch merchants on all but forgotten islands of the South seas, Hre for rent at two pounds 10 shillings a month, approximately $10, according to letters from mariners and itinerant mer chants. A vigorous campaign in favor f birth control is being carried on in Yucatan. Mrs. Margaret Sanger's pamphlets have been translated into Spanish and widely circulated. In New York the American Birth Control League has been legally approved. "She pawned my trousers to have he* hair bobbed, Judge." With this plaintive lament a man in Detroit opposed paying alimony, claiming he had suffered enough. The judge, despite the wife's deniul of the charge, refused the award. Bullfrogs serve as watch dogs at a Winsted, Conn., man’s cottage on High land lake. The cottage Is over the water, and beneath it the army of bullfrogs give nightly concerts. When the frogs sud denly stop, the man knows an intruder It near. Carbonated milk Is a beverage soon to be marketed like soda water. The patent office at Washington has granted a patent on a method of preserving sweet milk by carbonization. Milk treated in this way is said to be palatable and nu tritious. That the middle west will soon be come one of the largest consumers of redwod lumber, was the prediction made by Harrison Hatton, of Minneapolis, secretary of the Northwestern Lumber men’s Association. Pythons or hotdogs. it's all the same to the pretty, fair haired snake cur ator of the London History museum. "It's just like handling uncooked sau sages," she told admirers as she fondled a great 10-foot python in her arms. James Seton Gray. Milwaukee engin eer, wl’.l leave Monday for Rio de Ja neiro, where he will undertake the en gineering feat of removing an Immense hill from the center of the city. He esti mates the project wil take two years. Not a lawyer In Atlantic City wants the job of United 6tates commissioner. The Job pays little and requires much detail work away from the boardwalk. A sweater saved the life of a 2-year-old boy who slipped into a lake near Su perior. Wls. The sweater was of suffi cient buoyancy to keep the lad afloat until bis brother pulled him to safety. Reno and all "divorce centers” In the United States have a dangerous rival. The Yucatan legislature has just changed the country s divorce laws so that foreigners can get a divorce after one day's refV4*nc' Duke Broil 1 Kt^e.an wolf hound such as movi. alters pose with, is said to be the most »Srfect of his kind In America. The P*k-‘ is valued at J3,tOO end belongs L_; £5>.V Harold Ciuxton, of Chicago. 4 IlN DISPENSED LEMilXTRflCT Court Orders Closed Her Gro eery Store in Lincoln Sub urb—She Did a Very Large Business. Lincoln, Neb., May 2 (Special).— Mrs. Goldie Hanley's little gold mine has been closed by Judicial order. Mrs. Hanley operates a grfteery store In the suburbs, and she has been doing a landoffice business in lemon extract, which is 90 per cent, and then some alcohol. Detectives hap pened to notice a man come from the store gingerly protecting a two ounce bottle he had put in his pocket. Investigation disclosed that In the last two months the woman had sold 11 gaPons and 18 dozen of eight ounce bottle^ which netted her close to $200. The court disregarded her plea that she did not know but what the stuff was being used for household pur poses. FARM HAND FACES CHARGE OF FORGERY Emerson, Neb., May 2 (Special).— Henry Rowe, wanted here to answer a charge of forgery, was arrested at Dakota City while on a train bound for Sioux City. Rowe, who had been employed the day previous by Henry Richards, an Emerson farmer, was sent to town with a load of corn. He received a check for the grain. He Is alleged to have forged his em ployer's name and to have cashed the check. —t— CHARGED WITH AIDING THEFT OF OWN CAR McCook, Neb., May 2 (Special).— Charged with aiding to steal his own automobile, John Pappas restaurant proprietor, has been arrested. The car was In a McCook garage. Tap pas had $1,000 Insuranco on the road ster. CONCORD—Ruth Pearson, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. P. Pearson, has been chosen as principal of the Hartlngton senior high school. Miss Pearson has been principal at Pierce for five years. TEKAMAH—Because he had noticed that parents of largo families seldom feel able to take all their children to the movies, the manager of the local pic ture show has Inaugurated Friday night us family night. Admission for an en tire family w that night Is 50 cents. ♦ ENVOYS AT GENOA ♦ l HONOR DAUGHTER ♦ t OF LLOYD GEORGE t !*£*$&*v JAoyd .11 ssssssss: Miss Megan Lloyd George, daugh ter of the British premier, was holl ered by delegates to the Genoa eco nomic conference wlten her birthday was celebrated. She accompanies her distinguished father wherever he goes. Phosphor escent Frocks, L at e s t For Paris Girls Parts, Muy 1. — "Phosphorescent frocks are the'Verv latest style at the race course and Paris dance palaces. Girls are clad in gowns of fringed luminous material, following tlie lines or their figure and bust, while phos phorescent gems arc fastened to their belts, shoes and nair, When the lights are turned off for the "dream land waltz" couples dance In pithy blackness, stabbed by the multitude of ghostly gleams resem bling a fantastic seance in the other \\ orid. Falling to secure the new phos phorescent jewels, many girls string tiny colored electric bulbs about their costumes carrying a battery con cealed in the heel of the shoe. The most daring innovation ' how ever has been launched by MYs. Mil ton Mackey, former London chorus Kiri and now the bride of three months of Peter Oaks, a wealthy dis tiller. "Tessy" Mackey fastened a minature electric torch on her knee just above a circlet ot diamonds, these scintiluting beneath her filmy gown with every movement besides dis playing the graceful contour of her limbs. CRAWLING THROUGH FENCE CHILD 18 STRANGLED Centra] City, Neb., May 2 (Special). —Strangled, while crawling through the yard fence into another yard, the 18-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Covey was dead when found by her mother. The child’s neckband caught on the wire fence shutting off her breath. TBKAMAH—George Hansen’s ear was severed from his head when caught be tween the wagon endgate and shed, as he was driving Into the machine shed. The other ear was also badly cut. ORGANIZED FIGHT State Institutoins in Nebraska File Schedules with Word ing Indicating They Are Not Satisfied. Lincoln, Neb., April 29 (Special).— Word reaches the state tax commis sioner tijat bankers are filing their schedules with protests worded to make clear that there will be an or ganized attack on his ruling that cap ital stock in a bank is not intangible, which would let it off for a fourth of the usual taxes. The state bankers srvy that the nationals %re to be tax ed on a new system that will be dis criminatory against them. —I— REDUCE RATES ON SHIPMENTS OF HAY Lincoln, Neb., April 29 (Special).— Hay rates from 32 towns on the Omaha road in northeastern Nebras ka have been reduced by 30 per cent, by voluntary action of that corpora tion. This was done to meet Burling ton competition. The rates to Omaha points have averaged around 20 ceD'.s and the new ones will average 1 I cents. The shippers have been ask ing this concession, and the new rates have the cordial approval of the hay exchange at Omaha. The Missouri Pacific was allowed to cut rates o:i cordwood to four cents a hundred from LaPlatte to South Omaha There Is a big movement in wood from the Missouri river timber lands to the larger cities of the state, UEHLING VOICES BONDS TO BUILD SCHOOL Uehllng, Neb., April 29 (Special).— At the recent election, bonds in the sum of $25,000 were .voted for the erection of a new school building. U. S. TO DROP SUIT AGAINST POSTAL CO. Washington, April 27.—Attorney General Daugherty announced last night that the government had de cided to dismiss its suit against the Postal Telegraph Company. DEMOS OPPOSE LOANS. Washington, April 27.—Democratic members of the ways and means com mittee in a minority report opposing the Fordne.y resolution for granting the $5,000,000 loan to Liberia, as au thorized in 1918, declared that It was to the best Interests of the United States "to notify all nations of the world that we have ceased to be a 'lady bountiful' and that from henceforth no foreign nation can obtain a loan from the United States treasury.*' TSO-LIN’S FORCES RETREAT. Amoy, China, April 27.—forces under General Chang Tso-LHb mili tary governor of Mukden, are re ported to have retreated after pre liminary skirmishes with General Wu-Pel-Fu's troops south of Tien Tsien in the province of Chili Li. Both sides ara strengthening their positions but there is still hope for mediations. The Horse Has Habits. Whiting Williams, in Scribner’s. “Yes, with us habit is strong—and even with our horses,’ a' fellow miner (in France) was recounting as we walked back to the boarding house to gether. "When we had our last strike here some months ago they took the horses up out of the pits. One of them had for years hauled out its cars to the 'parting' (switch) six times each day—and six times only. The first day and also every day after Mister Horse—yes, m'sleu,' it is quite true as I tell you—refused to mako more than six trips with the plow across the field. “Another had each day pulled a car 60 meters and then turned around for another. And they could not make him go farther than 50 meters without giv ing him a chance to turn around!" FOLLOWS LADY RHONDDA’S LEAD IN HOUSE OF LORDS || Barwvew 5«kwinotvf Baroness Beaumont, peeress in her own right, will get a seat in the Eng lish house of lords. The baroness is the second English woman to hold such an honor. Lady Rhondda be ing the only other woman ever seat ed in the venerable house. BEGIN WORK ON THE NEW CAPITOL Lincoln, Neb., April 29.—Excava tion work for the foundation of Ne braska's new capitol started Thurs day. A caterpillar truck drawing a large steam shovel into the furrow plowed by Governor McKelvie aearly two weeks ago, at the ceremonies at tending the first breaking of ground. Two other shovels soon will be in operation, according to the contrac tor. Self-dumping cars are hauling away the dirt, the first of which Is being used to fill in some new yards made by the Burlington railroad. Bayard, Neb., Woman Admits Using Gun to Recover Dia mond Ring She Laid Claim To. Bayardj ITeb., April 28 (Special).— “I couldn’t kill him although I had the muzzle of the gun pressed against his stomach when he seized me," sob bed Mrs. J. B. Foellmer in an inter view while giving a version of th < shooting In which she and her ex-hus band were involved. Foellmer, she alleges, went to hei rooms uninvited and made advances. Then sh.' noticed a diamond ring on his finger which she declares belong ed to h unions in Kansas City have been tnerged into one organization. In union there is strength. While discussing the lack of lead ership in the republican party, it may be asked whether the democrats are any bi- .'.c.- oil. SOVIET ENVOYS ARE FIST MAKING SEPAHTE PEACE Declare They Want to Be on Good Terms with Whole World and Earnestly Seek Agreement with French. BY LINCOLN STEFFENS Special Cable Dispatch. Genoa, May 2.—The Russians have accepted all the terms imposed on her by the allies. This became known Monday night following publication of the allied pote, which demanded that Russia must unconditionally recognize its war debts. _ The French article requiring the pupreme council's consent to Russian court decisions in foreign cases was. dropped. Bela ium Alone Objects. The amendment offered by Vice Premier Barthou regarding a defini tion of private property was approved by the conference, Belgium alone ob jecting. The plenary session of the confer ence Wednesday, It was announced, will have to do only with transport and finance questions. The Russians are fast making sep arate peace. They said so Monday In a letter to the French, following a tense meeting *bf the leaders of the soviet delegation. The Russian note said that the Rapallo treaty was but one of a series they are making and offered earnestly to make peace with France. — Russia Wants Peace With All. The Russians said that although there was some hostility toward France at home, that this feeling un doubtedly would be overcome. "We want peace with the whole world and we are getting it,” was the keynote of the document sent to Bar thou. Lloyd George is quoted as telling Barthou that the British will deal with the Russian problems If the con ference does not. The Russian delegation has been the busiest of the conference and it will not bolt the conference, no mat ter what happens. D_i a :_pu_ Their aim now, in addition to get ting a loan, is for more agreements for separate peace. The allies are trying hard to agree on peace among themselves and they may succeed. Belgium was the chief obstacle Monday. Lloyd George and Barthou answer ed liharply the Belgian plea that a stiffer definition be given to proper ty rights. Lloyd George said that the British business men were satisfied and that was enough for him, re marking that the Belgian expert who had consented to the definition of property rights at the Cannes con ference was a banker as well as a lawyer. Upyd George Wins Point, But— Lloyd George won his point, but even so the clauses agreed on were unsatisfactory to the Russians who are treating them as a meje basis for negotiation. The final touches on the property clauses were being perfected Monday night and will be presented to the Russians Tuesday. After this is done, Barthou will go to Paris and explain to officials there the dangers of a bolt from the conference and its conse quences. U. S. PLANS TAX COLLECTING CHANGE Decentralization to Be Put In to Effect Aafter Pacific Coast Experiment. Universal Service. Washington, May 2.—A revolution ary change in the government’s meth od of collecting income taxes is plan ned by the treasury department. Decentralization of the whole tax collecting functions will be put into effect after a brief experiment on the Pacific coast. Experts of the treasury depart ment will be transferred to San Fran cisco, Los Angeles, Portland and Ta roma. In these four cities the new plan will he tested, and if found suc cessful will be established in all the f.4 tax sections throughout the coun try. With income tax collections de layed, and the audits nearly four years behind the plan of decentraliza tion was found to be immediately necessary. Elmer Dover, assistant secretary of the treasury, who or iginated the plan, stated Monday that It would be put in operation as soon as it receives the official sanction of Secretary Mellon. It Is expected to end one of the most flagrant evils of the old sys tem—the long delay In adjusting claims. MRS. SKINNER GETS DIVORCE. Paris, May 2.—Mrs. Samuel Terry Skinner, before her marriage, Kath erine Moore Kent, was awarded a final decree of divorce Monday. Mrs. Skinner's address was given as No. 2 East Twelfth street, New York. The grounds on which the de cree was granted were not divulged. That Being the Case— From American legion Weekly. 'private Rooke arrived in the barracks just in time to prevent hie buddy from committing suicide with his rifle. "Holy smoke, old man!" he ejaculated, snatching away the weapon. "You don't want to do that. What's the matter?” "Life won’t be worth living now,” re plied his buddy despairingly. “I Just sold my dog to the major.” “Shucks, old scout! You can always buy a new dog.” "That ain't it. You see, just after I sold it, I found out“the blamed thing be longed to the colonel." _ • - — ^ % / CIVIL WAR INEVITABLE ' IRELAND BY HUGH MARTIN Special Cable Dispatch, IDublin, May 2.—Summing up the —* situation in Ireland, a civil war is In evitable. Failure of the peace conference be tween the republicans and free stat ers has clearly defined the issues on which now the people will exercise the right of franchise. It is not a question of the treaty or otherwise, as the republicans will not allow an election to be held or a plebiscite tak en on either the treaty or the consti tution. Election Means Fighting. It is generally believed that It will be the end of next year before a set tled government is established over the whole country. The provisional government will concentrate now on holding elections in June, which means fighting. It is estimated that 60 per cent, of the army and 80 per cent, of the civl-, lians are in favor of free elections. The republicans will possibly fall back on guerilla tactics as hostility throughout the country increases. Stable Regime Eventually. The provisional government will probably be able to hold sufficient valid elections to enable them to establish and consolidate a stable government gradually throughout Ire land. It is a mistake to imagine that the murders in Cork have anything to do with the rebel army or local feeling in the south. The Cork outrages are almost certainly the work of crazed gunmen who have been operating in Ulster, applying the rule of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” Nothing has so shocked the Catho lics as this policy. Two great organizations, labor and the church, are bending their ener gies to secure free expression of the people’s will, which Is the most hope ful sign of the times. A member of the Royal Irish Con stabulary, fetching a clergyman to conduct a service near Drogheda, was ambushed Monday and shot dead. The automobile in which they were riding was seized. BRITISH TAXES Eorne Announces Reduction in Income Tax from Six to Five Shillings in Pound —Tension Eased. BY ROBERT J. PREW, Special Cable Dispatch. London, May 2.—For the first time since 1914 the British people have gained a remission of a part of the heavy war-time taxation. When the budget' was introduced Monday Chancellor of the Exchequer Horne announced a reduction in the income tax from six to five shillings in the pound. This easement is intended, mainly to appease the middle and upper classes. Lottee ana I ea Duties Less. At the same time the duties on tea, coffee and cocoa were reduced for the benefit of the poorer classes, whose chief complaint now is about the heavy duties on liquor and sugar. Chancellor Horne estimates the country's expenditures for the com ing fiscal year at £910,000,000 ster ling, of which £303,000,000 is for in terest on the national debts. The total, national deadweight debt is £7,654,000,000 which does not in clude £ 1,029,000,000 of floating debts The deadweight debt has been re duced by £88,000,000 in the last year and the floting debt £260,000,000. Since the armistice Britain has re duced her national indebtedness by £322,000,000. U. S. Debt $4,166,000,000. The American debt, said Chancel lor Horne, stands at $4,166,000,000. "We are saddled for the present year with a new burden in the shape of interest on the American debt,’' said Horne. "We shall meet that without question, owing to improve ment in the exchange. “The total interest indebtedness amounts to £946,000,000. When the exchange goes to par, which I hope it will do before long, it will be down to £856,000,000. Chancellor Horne said that a trade revival is now indicated. He declared that it is necessary to ease the ten sion of taxation in order io facili tate the revival and minimize the necessity of paying state doles to the present million and a half unem ployed. German Issue Causes Laugh. Included in the receipts for last year is the sum of £44,000,000 for the Rhine army of occupation, j The Commons merely laughed when t the chair said that he had always treated the possibility of receiving monetary reparation from Germany as a windfall, indicating the treas ury’s disbelief in Germany’s ability to pay cash now. MAN'S BODY FOUND IN MISSOURI RIVER Tender, Neb., May 2 (Special).— W’ho was the elderly man whose body % was found floating down the Missouri river near Macy, a village near here? That question is one which prob ably will not be answered. The body was discovered by a fisherman Sat urday night and brought here Mon day for burial. Tilt arms and legs .were missing and apparently the man had been dead several weeks. y