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Does the unauthorized removal of property from the premises of the insured by fish or other animals con stitute theft within the meaning of an anti-larceny insurance policy? This is the question Judge Kirwin of Bea ver Flats must decide in a number of suits instituted in his court against an insurance company by a number of farmers residing along the Cala mus River, whose corn piles have been raided by the herds of migratory carp which infest the stream near this point. The contention of the insurance company in resisting the claim is that the erring fish belong to a lower or der of life incapable of thought or power to distinguish between right and wrong and that as a consequence they are not free moral agents cap able of committing theft. The com pany suggests that all wild game and game fish are the property of the State and that the injured farmers should look to the State Fish and [Game Commission for the adjustment of their losses. To this the plaintiffs reply that not even by the wildest [stretch of an insurance man’s im agination may a carp be classified as a game fish or game of any kind and that the fish and game department is no more responsible than it is for a mosquito bite. The migratory carp that are the cause of tfie dispute are of a species inhibitating the shallow lakes of the sandhills west of here during the sum iiner and fall. As these lakes frequent ly become so shallow in dry years that [they freeze solid in winter the carp have gradually adjusted themselves to these conditions and migrate over land through the wet vegetation, after the first early snows, to the streams and deeper bodies of water. During these migrations they are compelled to subsist upon the country and thus have acquired appetite for a vgetarian diet, and particularly for corn. Soon after the ice went out this spring the carp began evincing a de sire to get back to their summer lakes and have been making short practice marches inland to get in shape for the long trek back to the sandhills. It was during the first of these practic mar ches that the fish discovered the corn piles in the farm yards along the river and they since have been hold ing nightly revelry around them. It is no joke for the farmers as an average-size carp can consume several quarts of corn at a sitting and anor dinary school from five to ten bushels a night. Many of the river farmers who thought they would have a little old corn to sell this summer now find, since the fish began raiding them, that their stocks are hardly sufficient to carry them through spring plowing and planting. FOR SALE! One Barn, 16x22—12 ft. high. One Barn, 12x24—9 ft. high. One House, 16x22. 42-2p MRS. MARY A. KELLY, j Date of Next Sale Saturday, March 24 SATURDAY MARCH 24th is our next Big Combination Sale. What have you got to sell? List it. John L. Quig, Mgr. O’Neill, Nebraska Col. James Moore, Auctioneer. O’Neill National Bank. Clerk. 38-3 $ Days ot Super Value J. B. Byars Co. 'I! Hundreds of items bought specially for this value giving event. We urge you to come and save. We are listing a few items: MEN S FANCY WORK SHIRTS 4 pair $1.00 11 WORK SHIRT Blue or Grey 2 for $1.00 ' i i VALTEX RUGS 3x6 feet $1.50 SILK VESTS AND BLOOMERS $1.00 STANDARD OIL CLOTH 4 yards $1.00 A. B. C. PRINTS Ballfast 36 inch V/i yards $1.00 PIQUOT SHEET 81x90 $1.58 I BATH TOWELS 22x44 3 for $1.00 ' i SATIN BLOOMERS 3 pair $1.00 | 11 DRESS GINGHAM 32 inch 0 yards $1.00 i i i i } I SUNNY SUE Dresses 10 to 44 Very Special $1.98 ...-.ii SAMUEL BURGE. Samuel Burge, formerly of this city, died suddenly Wednesday morn ing. Heart trouble is thought to be the cause of his death. At the time cf going to press but little is known of the fact previous to his passing away other than that he died suddenly. As far as is known here Mr. Burge has been in fairly good health this winter since returning to Omaha. 'the deceased was sixty-seven years of r.ge on January 1, 1928. He came to Holt county in June, 1895, and made this his home until about eight years ago when he moved to Omaha. On April 1st of last year he and his wife reiurned to O’Neill and purchased the Ed Tierney house in the eastern part