IN RACE WITH DEATH AND WON —--- I Grand Island Woman Hur ried to Bedside of Son Fa tally Wounded Omaha, Neb., July » (Special) — Mrs. A- B. Wagner, of Orand Island reached the bedside of her son, Lloyd Henry, before he died from wounds from a bandit’s gun. After the re union with his divorced And re married mother. Henry became un conscious and died, Thursday. The mother, wife of a traveling salesman, was found in Alliance, Neb., and hastened to her son. TWO DISAPPEAR WITHIN A WEE Young Men Leave Commu nuity Under Circumstances Not Quite Usual Newcastle, Neb., July \ (Special) —Two young men havt -...appeared from the Dally Branch tommunlty, southwest of here, this week. Bela Austin, 16 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bela Austin, of Newcastle, who has been working for Tom Blatchford, a farmer of the Dally community, Is alleged to have taken a horse be longing to Mr. Blatchford, Mrs. Blatchford’* gold watch and several dollars of church money that was In the house, and no trace of him has been found. The other young man, John Daugh erty. 23 year* old, who lived with his parents on the home farm In Dally community, left the farm In a car to take the hired man to the depot at Newcastle and was to have been back In the afternoon to cultivate corn. When he failed to return In the afternoon, search was made for him along the road, his parents thlnkiLT he might have met with an accident. Then a telephone commun ication Xlth relatives In Sioux City brought the Information that some one had seen him in the Northwe,,tern depot at Sioux City that evening, and so the police were notified and a wider search begun. It Was learned here that the hired man who was a stranger, being hired at the Daugherty farm about two weeks ago, left Newcastle on the the train, and it is thought that young Daugherty drove his car to the city and left It, Joining the hired man there. It was discovered that the young man drew $76 from hl» father’s bank account here. His folks have received a card saving they might never see him again. Po lice of other cities were notified. < BIG F*GHT IN 8IGHT FOR NEBRASKA DEMOS Lincoln. Neb., July ' ^Special)— Chairman Allen said that he would . call the democratic committee to gether next week to pick a candidate for governor. A hot fight Is certain to develop. Democrats who prior to two years ago fought the governor, are declaring that the nominee must be a 100 per cent, democrat, and they oppose nny man who Is flirting at all with the La Folletteites. This Is directly opposite to the strategy the governor advises. A great deal of resentment Is ex pressed by the candidates and the friends of candidates who were ap parently barred from consideration under the requirements laid down by the governor. Commissioner Hop kins of Omaha has a considerable fol lowing. nnd they object to his con scription because be has a wet record. pioneer business man OF BLOOMFIELD DEAL Bloomfield, Neb., July 'Special! •—After an Illness lasting several months, E. S. Bagley of this city, died at an Omaha hospital, Wednes day. The body was brought here. Me was In business here for many Tears, conducting the Bagley-Renard Lumber Co., and later taking over the Renard interests In the firm. Borne five or six years ago he sold out to the Gaynor Lumber Co., of Bloux City, the business later being acquired by the Weller Bros. He was 65 years old and Is survived by a wife and three children, two of them being small and the third being Mrs. J. H. Matzen of Hawaii, who was called here some time ago by th“ serious illness of her father. SHERIFF UNABLE TO / COPE WITH BANDITS Omaha, Neb., July Sheriff En dres yesterday said was unable to cope w'lth aulo bandits who have been operating on the roads about Omaha, with his present force. Po lice Commissioner Dunn said he was ready to co-operate with the sheriff, but had no authority to go outside the city limits and had not beer asked by the sheriff to aid him. WILL NOT 0PP08E LA FOLLETTE PROGRAk Lincoln, Neb., July Special)— The La Eollette group will have no obstacles thrown in Its way in its efforts to secure an electoral ticket in Nebraska so far as the republi cans are concerned. Chairman Saok ett of the republican committee said that while a number of legal hurdles could be raised, there was no dispo sition on the part of his committee to interfere. Some of the demo cratic lawyers are talking of doing something about it, but this is not worrying the third party men. BRYAN NAMES HIS FAVORITES Nebraska Governor Would Like to See Relative Succeed Him Lincoln, Neb., July —(t. N. S.)— Governor Charles Bryan Tuesday specifically mentioned T. S. Allen, his brotherinlaw; K. C. Knudson, his secretary of trade and commerce; Supreme Court Judge W. H. Thomp son, of Grand Island, and Judge Jef ferson Broady, of the Lancaster, county district court, as men whom he considered "available,” as suc cessor to himself in the democratic race for Governor. There are others, the governor said, but these four men are pre-eminently satisfactory. TEACHERSUES SCHOOL BOARD Was Discharged and Is Now Claiming Balance of Salary Lincoln, Neb., July Special)— Harry F. Maxon, a rural school teacher of Webster county, has ap pealed to the aupreme court from the judgment of a jury that denlect him a claim for $330 salary because the directors of his district t»is charged him after _he had served four rponths. He says that the wife of one of the directors got mad at him because he sent her son home after he hod arrived smelling loudly of his adventure with a skunk. The directors told the Jury that Maxon was Incompetent and that he was not able to maintain discipline, and that the county superintendent had given him up as hopeless. MORE HARVEST HANDS THAN ARE NEEDED. Fremont, Neb., July - -Nebraska has more harvesters from the south than it can take care of. The cooi weather la causing slow ripening of the wheat and the federal employ ment bureau Is unable to place men as fast as they come In. One rea son Is that farmers are giving pref erence to the unemployed men In the towns. At McCook Burlington shopmen, laid off because of no work, have been laboring in the fields. Threshing Is going on In the southern tier of counties, while It will be several days before Lancas ter, Saunders and adjoining counties can use any men. FINE BATHING PLACE FOR BLOOMFIELD PEOPLE. Bloomfield, Neb., July (Spe cial)—No need for residents of this section to long vainly for the Joya of “the ol’ swimming hole.” No occasion for them to swelter In the heat of July days and sigh for the blessed realities of a cooling plunge, O. J. Kemnltz, living on the Star route, northwest of Bloomfield, has provided the opportunity for such Individuals to hark back to the good old days of the past. He has creat ed an artificial lake 80 rods long and 200 feet wide, Its depth ranging from 7 to 8 feet, and fed by spark ling spring water. SPRING WOOL CLIP IS BEING MARKETED Miller, S. D,, July *** Special)— Quite a large wool clip is neing mar keted here. More farmers have gone Into the sheep business lately than for several years. BEGIN HARVEST OF WINTER WHEAT CROP Miller, S. D., July *' .Special)— | Harvesting winter wheat, rye and , early oats is starting here this week. I Robert Kane estimates that his half section of winter wheat will yield 25 1 bushels to the acre and that his quar ter section of spring wheat will go 20 bushels to the acre. "•" 1 e ■ FARMER L08E3 FOOT IN BINDER ACCIDENT Columbus, Neb., July (Special) —The wheat harvest's first casualty occurred Tuesday, when Emil Muel ler, 35 years old, a farmer south of here suffered the loss of his right foot In a binder when the horses ag gravated by flies ran away, throwing Mueller's leg Into the machinery and dragging him across the field finally cittlng off the foot. He may recover. TENANT RAPS HIS LANDLORD ON HEAD Tilden, Neb., July As a result of a quarrel with a lennant, Harry I* inkhouse. Mack Denny, a farmer living In Antelope county, la in a serious condition suffering frotn a crushed skull. Flnkhouse It in Jail at Nellgh. Physicians say there Is no hope for Denny's recovery, lie was hit with the butt of a shotgun. CEMENT SACKS ARE STOLEN FROM BRIDGE ‘ Mitchell, S. D., July Special)— Seventeen hundred empty cement sacks, worth approximately 70c, and weighing nearly a ton have vanished from the bridge site east of Mitchell on the Oin&ha right of way. MUCH GASOLINE IS CONSUMED IN NEBRASKA. Lincoln. Neb., July (Special)— The state oil Inspector's records show that 10,000.000 gallons of gaso line a month are being Inspected In the state, and presumably used. This is 15,000 carloads. Chief Inspector Shumway says that the two cent tax that the highway associations of state are asking the next legislature to levy would bring nearly I1.500. 000 and that It would cost about $75,000 to collect it. Tourlats con sume $ per cent of the total. TOWN FLOODED BY LOUP RIVER Residents of Pleasanton, Neb., Forced to Flee to The Hills Kearney, Neb., July (I. N. S-, —The village of Pleasanton. 19 mtles north of Kearney, was under three feet of water Saturday morning and hundreds of acres of valley land were Inundated by back waters from the I.oup river, which overflowed Its banks following rains the full length of the river bottom varying from three to six Inches. The south ap proach to the Pleasanton bridge has been washed out and telephone com munication is severed. Citizens of Pleasanton anticipating the rise of the river, fled to nearby hills when the overflow developed. This morning with flood waters re ceedlng, they are returning to their homes, watching about salvaging wrecking and taking an Inventory of damage done, which will run Into thousands of dollars. It is feared that heavy losses of livestock have been suffered by farmers In the val ley and hundreds of acres of grain land Inundated were damaged. An unconfirmed report Is that two young farmers were drowned In the vicinity of Sartorla. ARCHITECT’S WORK TO C08T STATE |300,000 Lincoln. Neb., July ». (Special)— Under a contract Just drawn for signature of the Interested parties state will pay a total of $360,000 architect's fees for the new capttol. This is about 5 per cent of the esti mated cost. The usual fee Is 6 per cent., but the commission was able to make tbls deal because of its al Sernatlve contract with Bertram Q. Goodhue, deceased, whose office or ganization and widow are now car rying on his business. The contract with Mr. Goodhue was for $25,000 a year and expenses, or, if the commission found this was costing too much, to make it 6 per cent. Under the terms of the new contract the commission will pay Mrs. Goodhue personally a balance of $32,816, bringing her husband's, compensation up to $247,000. For $80,000 additional the Goodhue organ ization agrees to finish the plans and provide supervision of the remainder of the work. SEEKS TO EVADE PAYMENT OF NOTE Lincoln, Neb., July „ (Special)— The supreme court has neld that Mrs. M. D. Ohmann of Stanton county must pay the $7,500 note to the Farm ers’ National bank of Pilger that she signed for her son, L. D. Ohmann. She said that the note had been ex ecuted by them so that the bank might meet objections of the ex aminer to ovsrdue paper of her son, that it was merely an accommodation for the bank and with the promise that she would- never be called on to pay. The court says that a bank cannot be bound by any such prom ise, which is beyond the power of an officer to make, and that a consid eration for the signing existed in the extension of the notes due from the son. ! MANY COUNTIES REPORT LAND VALUE DECREASES Lincoln, Neb., July (Special)— Thirty-four counties m the state have reported decreases in land val ues for taxation purposes, ranging from 1 per cent, to 20. These are Banner, Saline, Boyd, Burt, Cedar, Cherry, Clay, Cummings, Custer, Dak ota, Dawes, Dundy, Front, Garden, Grant, Greely, Hall, Hayes, Hooker, Holt, Kimball. Lincoln, Loup, Mc Pherson, Perkins, Red Willow, Rich ardson, Seward, Sherman, Sioux, Washington, Webster, Wheeler and York. Increases of 1 to 6 per cent, are reporte* from Bix Butte. Furnas, Morrill, Nuckolls, Otoe, Pierce Scotts buff, Thomas and Thurston. The state board will meet next Wednesday and will make equalization as between these counties. CITIZENS OF NELIGH GET OIL PROSPECTING FEVER Neligh, Neb., July ' (Special)— An oil company of :tu stockholder* ‘ lias been organized here. A test well will be sunk Immediately. A test was made here a few years ago, but fail ed to materialize for lack of funds. Enough money Is provided now for a real try out It is said. BUSINESS MEN IN NELIGH FOR 40 YEARS Neligh, Neb., July ' (Special)— *£. Wolfe, and Wm. Woire, this week celebrated their fortieth year in busi ness In this city. They have all that time been engaged in th« mercantile business. Starting In a small one roomed store, they now occupy half a block. ADMITS FIRING SHOT THAT CAUSED DEATH Ou»aha, Neb., July V (Special)— Phillip Blackwood, a .novie operator, has confessed that be fired the shot which resulted fatally to Tony Ven evlano, who died Friday. The shoot ing followed an argument after Blackwood had been shot by Abe Clrian, Blackwood claims. ARRANGE PAYMENT OF CAPITOL ARCHITECT Lincoln. Neb., July —For $S0, 000 in addition to wnai has been paid to the late B. G. Goodhue, archi tect of the new state cupttol here ani the amcint due his widow under the terms of the contract, the state capi tol commission Is to secure continued services of Mr. Goodbue’e architect ural organization In New York for completion cf the building. Kidnaped Boy Found After Five Years > j lunll Erentt Smith, a nins-ysar-okl boy of North Dlghton, Maaa, shown bars with his slstar, Helen, aged (Ira, was kidnaped from the homo of his parents, Ur. and Mr*. Clarence Smith, fire years ago. He was found recently In Chicago, dased and speechless, after haring wit nessed the murder of a man by a woman who was thought to haro kidnaped him. la America’s Cagle Doomed. From Outdoor America. The Alaska eagle is the American eagle. A bounty has been put on Its head because it occasionally catches a salmon. Man takes ten thousand salmon dally, while the eagle takes two or three. Some kind of a make shift reason always Is ready as an ex cuse for killing the wild birds. It Is as nothing that life has gone from sky line and from the landscape. Some thousands of white-headed eagles have been killed in Alaska by bounty seekers. An attempt Is be ing made by nature lovers to secure the repeal of the bounty law. They are having hard work to get a hear ing. The eagle killers make money In their trade and cash being the base of the evil It will be difficult to up root It. There are comparatively few eagles In the United States proper. Friends of the oirds thought that tne eagie had a safe refuge in Alaska, but per secution has found It out there as elsewhere. If birds of prey were as prolific as the song birds there would be some hope that even after years of perse cution they could come back into their own. The eagle families, how ever, are small. Frequently there Is only one eaglet to a nest. It Is to bs hoped the bounty law of Alaska will bs repealed to save a noble bird from extinction. _ _ The Difference. Motor Age. A garage man In a little Missouri town ons lasy morn*ng was standing In front of the place when a pom pous Individual in a Cataract Eight rolled up and Inquire*! the mileage to St. Louis. “About 140 miles, sir,” said the garage man. suavely. "Very well, give me twenty gal lons of gas and two gallons of oil.” When he had departed, a eecond motorist, driving a Fudgson Snooper six, appeared. "How far Is It to St. Louis?” he inquired. “About 140 miles.” “Better let ms have ten gallons of gas and three quarts of oil.1* No sooner had ths dust of the last comer settled back upon the read when a third motorist arrived on the scene. He was piloting & car ft a well known light and popular brand. With considerable difficulty he brought It to a shuddering, uncer tain pause In front of the garage door. "How far to St. LouisT" ths managed to gasp. “One forty.” “Girmne two quarts o’ water, a bottle o’ Three-ln-One, and say, hold this durn thing while I get some chewin’ tobacco, will ya?’’ Too Much “Crusading.” From the New York Post. The Matteottl affair is Italy’s busi ness. Italians will attend to It as they will and as they can. If the socialist deputy met with foul play at the hands of Fasclstl, the Fascist govern ment will remove the stain or take the consequences. Any meddling from outside is worse than useless and will probably defeat its own ends. British and French socialists voice their protest solely and simply be cause a socialist has been the victim in an Italian political wrangle. They undoubtedly would have rejoiced had Mussolini been assassinated. Italian socialists are Italians before they are socialists, and when an outsider med dles In a family quarrel everybody knows what happens. Such protests from France and Great Britain can only stir up bad blood and resentment In' Italians. The world has had about enough of this crusading spirit that crosees national boundary lines and minds other people's business so much more enthusiastically than that of Us own. _ _ Chicago View of Our Glorious Country. From the Chicago Tribune. This is the land of opportunity, and the gun Jobbers want you to enjoy it, get its thrills, express yourself and live the free life, it is the land of the one-hand gun, with an abounding population and no lack of openings for the emotions. Education for Crime Prevention More Effective Than Punishment From the Los Angles Times. It is good to note that many of our leading phrenologists are stressing the important point that the prevention of crime is more desirable than its punishment. This always has been known, but somehow ii has not been taught in such a way as to make it sink deep into the understanding of those into whose hands is given the inforcement of our laws. If the young fellow tempted to commit a theft could be led to ac quire such concepts ot the conduct of life as would make him see at a glance that he would steal more from himself than from the one he would rob, if he could be made to realize the utter lack of value to himself of anything of which he despoils another and the empti ness, the worthlessness of a career of crime of any sort, his precept or would have done more for him and for society than if he had built around him a prison wall a mile high. August Vollmer urges upon his police students the vital fact that it is better for them to save one child from a l>fe of crime than to capture a notorious criminal. Of course, a policeman always is in a better position to punish crime than to prevent it, but it is good for our law administrators to understand the great value of crim« prevention and to aid in this estimable work. A far more potent factor in such prevention is home influence. There are parents who know that their children are imbibing fab al knowledge as to the “easy life” of a crook, but who take no great paiua to set them right. Crooks rarely teach their children to become criminals, and there are examples, as that of the case of Sophie Lyons, known as “the Queen of the Crooks,” where the mother, herself steeped in crime, taught her children to be honest men and women and, after her own reform, worked that of her husband also. If it could be made plain to all who are tempted to live by crooked means that the same intelligence and pains they would ex ert to carry cut their nefarious enterprises would net them far greater material profit if turned into legitimate channels ther« would be fewer criminals. Aid* to Outdoor Life. Prom tho Chicago News. Between the vacuum bottle, tho cm opener «nd the cheap motor car a life In the open Is easier to attain than It was in former decades. Ouch I Mrs. New'.vwed—I'll take a pair of pajam;,r end charge them, pleas*. . Clerk--Whom are they for? I Mrr. Nev.-lywed (hotly)--My husband, of court*! Need fer Speedy Action. ' The < as* Is desperate. If somebody doesn't car* for the poor Germans i quickly, the rich Germans may have 1 to dt« It. Arts of Persuasion. From ths Washington Star. -‘‘What has become of the old fash ioned spellbinders?*’ “It looks to me.” inswered Senator Sorghum, "as If most it the species had drifted away from politics and gone in for plain every-day salesmanship.” Cheerful Tidings fer Us AIL From ths Brooklyn Eaglsi Small boys will be glad to leiow that the maple-sugar crop sf Vermont la up by 27 per cent, over last year's. And there ace plenty of grownups who are not uninterested In maple sirup for their breakfast cakes. It's nice to know that ttn maple tree la still on ths job TODAY -*Y ARTHUR BRISBANE The first convention day has gonei A nioe lady from the Metropolitan Opem house sang the “Star Spangled Banner” well. Bryan didn't make a speech, but was there, wearing a Florida banner* bright scarlet with the word "Flor ida" in white, reaching from tho lapel of his coat to his knees. He is the best advertisement Florida ever had in this part of the country. Most of his time during the con vention hours are spent shaking: hands with men, literally from every part of the country. Anybody who thinks Bryan's popularity dead 1* badly Informed. When the Convention opened, a beautiful sllWr gavel was broken* with the first two or three slams, Mr. Hull, Introducing Cardinal Hayes, who made the opening prayer, got the cardinal’s name wrong, pre senting him as Cardinal William Gib bons Hayes. Cardinal Hayes' first name Is Patrick. His prayer, read from manuscript* was a good American prayer, wind ing up with the Lord's Prayer iw which delegates fervently joined out loud. \ Who will be nomlj* ied? You can’t McAdoo still lead j^LMr. Brennan of Chicago, speaking our glorious institutions and the necessity at protecting them, seemed almost tearful as he discussed Mr. Mc Adoo’s big crowd, so hard to explain A1 Smith of New York is fighting savagely. On Monday it was de termined to ’’put through an antl Ku Klux plank that would rip tha klan wide open.” Then somebody suggested, “if yon do that, you’ll make it absolutely impossible for hundreds of delegates to vote for A1 Smith, even if they want to. They wouldn’t dare vote for that plank." Now the plank !» "to roar gently, like the lion in Mid summer Night.” Leaving out the leading candi dates, the answer to your questione about the nominee is Senator Rob inson of Arkansas. Write that down. Those that go about quietly, pick ing up real opinions, as a Jack Daw picks up little pieces of bright glass, are convinced that it will bo Robinson when the big men die off. There is George Harvey, who doesn't waste time in conventions. His specialty is getting things, done, in some quiet little room, while convention geese are cackling. He was roaming the Ritz-Carltore corridors yesterday at about 1 o’clock, sinking into the velvet car pets up to his ankles, while Senator Pat Harrison in the hot convention hall was denouncing ‘‘the republiehn saturnalia of corruption" in whici he sees the republican party. Harvey, looking like a fifty-fifty combination of Beau Brummel and Mephistopheles, remarks: ”Getv Briz, nobody knows nothing. But very likely It will be Robinson. You Bee there’s nothing against him and he hasn’t any enemies.” That’s the worst of politics. You fight, tear your hair, denounce, up braid. As the people’s friend you flay this man and skin the other alive. Then they nominate some body else because “he has no enemies.” It’s sickening. The best thing about this con vention is the democratic women. After you have seen them you don’t worry about your beloved country,, about democrats, republicans or help asking that, although you know nobody can answer the question, even about the well advertised cor ruption “saturnalia." The lady in the Montana delega tion dressed from head to foot ire cow girl costume has a well set chin and a firm eye, promising and reassuring. That lady with the white hat, gentle smile and motherly look Ire the Kansas delegation, with the big sunflower pinned to her breast, makes you say to yourself, “don’t worry. The sort of children these mothers are producing will tak» care of the country’s problems.” With such women, such mothers, the human race is bound to get bet ter from one generation to another. Even the cussedness and meanness and selfishness which you see in the faces of men must b-* wiped out eventually by the goodness of the: mothers. And what a change, now that they can vote. Politicians, smother them with kindness. Times change. Near the spot where W. J. Bryan sat yesterday fanning himself, this writer, as young reporter for Charier A. Dana, on the New York Sun, once saw John L. Sullivan fight and beat Charley Mitchell cf England. On the roof above the convention hall, where they had a roof garden and plenty to drink in the olden days, Harry Thaw murdered Stanford White, architect of the building. Barnum and Bailey’s circus drew the children as the political circu® draws the grown-ups today. Where delegates now sit, the tat tooed lady, living skeleton Chan® the Chinese giant, the white ele phant and the trained goose once displayed their charms. It is putting it mildly to say that the present inhabitants of the Gar den are much less Interesting than the material that Barnum used to supply and that his successor, Ring Ung, supplies today. You miss that trained goose. When wolves threaten a herd of musk ox, the attacked animals form a circle of deadly dawn-drooping horns, whtcn proves impregnable. A bull may rush out in an effort to pierce a wolf, but he is never lured too far and soon re turns to the circle, backs into place and resumes his defensive attitude. The printing works of A1 Siassa, the Egyptian opposition newspaper, founded by Adly Pasha Yeghen, a former j/iiine Minister, have been closed by the Egy ptian government, which has confiscat ed the whole of one edition, and is pro secuting the staff. Not a Crime. From Good Hardware. A fisherman who had been angling all morning, savr a man coming his way whom he took to be the owner of the property he was fishing on. ‘Are these private waters?” he said. ’ No.” was the answer. •Then it won’t be a crime if I land a fish?” "No " said the other. “It would be a miracle i”