Nebraska Newspapers

    KEARNEY YOUTH LOSES
LIFE IN SAND PIT
KEARNEY—(UP)—Willis Shields,
14 years old, was drowned Thurs
day when he fell into 12 feet of
water at the Ludington sand pit,
two miles south of here. The fire
department was called to aid in the
finding of the body, which was lo
cated a half hour later. Efforts at
resuscaatation were futile. He was
the son of Mr. and Mrs . A. B
Shields.
KEARNEY WILL
GET GAS LINE
Natural Product to Be
Pumped from Main at
Belleville, Kan.
KEARNEY, NEB—(UP)—Natu
ral gas will replace the artificial
gas here within the next year If
plans being made by the Nebraska
National Gas company materialize
as expected.
O. J. Shaw, vice president of the
company, and C. C. Henriksen, both
of Lincoln, were here Thursday
making preliminary arrangements
and conferring with the company
now supplying Kearney with arti
ficial gas.
The company is ready to build an
extension to its pipe and pump line,
now terminating at Belleville. Kan.,
through Grand Island,, with service
lines operating to Kearney and
Hastings.
II this program materializes It
will involve an expenditure of
around $4,000,000. Xhe work will be
completed within a year.
PIONEER TELLS OF GREAT
SWARMS OF MOSQUITOES
NORFOLK—(Special)— Speaking
at a pioneers meeting here Fred
Dedderman who was one of the
original colony of Wisconsin settlers
who came here 65 years ago de
clared that for many months the
pioneers ate no meat. Fear of In
dians who were lurking in the vi
cinity of Norfolk in these days
kept the pioneers close to their sod
cabins.
“I recollect on one occasion," he
said “when we had the greatest
visit of mosquitoes in our history.
The mosquitoes were of unusual
size and the skies were black with
them. We were eating soup one
evening and my bowl was filled with
it when suddenly a gust of wind
blew a great number of the insects
into my soup which suddenly turned
red as an Indian's face. Upon ex
amining them me found them
looted with blood. Apparently they
had feasted on the Indians lurking
about. A few days later scouts re
ported to us that the Indians had
disappeared."
Mr. Dedderman was one of many
speakers at the pioneers dinner
given by Gene Eppley and John Ole
Olson preliminary to the opening
of a new addition to Hotel Norfolk,
an addition dedicated to the mem
ory of the scouts of German pio
neers who located this community.
Following the arrival of' the
scouts came two parties of Wiscon
sin pioneers in covered wagons
drawn by ox teams. The survivors
of these two parties, their children
and many relatives attended the
dinner.
COMMUTE LIFE TERM
OF OMAHA SLAYER
LINCOLN— (UP) —A commuta
tion of the life sentence of Floyd
Fuller of Douglas county, was grant
ed Wednesday by the state pardon
board. Fuller, charged with second
degree murder, had his sentence
commuted to 25 years with good
time alloted.
Fuller had appeared three times
before the board. He was sentenced
December 10, 1916. for the murder
of Dorothy Rader Carberry, his
common law wife, in Omaha. He
shot her as she stepped off a street
car. He had lived with the woman
believing their marriage was legal,
but later learned he had not been
granted a divorce.
Seven paroles to Inmates of the
penitentiary were granted and eight
applications denied.
Three paroles to reformatory
prisoners were allowed and one com
mutation. Six applications were
turned down by the board.
The application of Ralph Mortice,
crying one to 10 years for break
iug custody, was denied. Mortice,
sentenced for burglary In Lexing
ton county, escaped from offices as
he was being brought to the peni
tentiary. He was recaptured.
The board also denied the appli
cations of Horace Epperson and
Thomas Roskey, of Otoe county,
serving from 1 to 10 years for
larceny of an automobile.
The following reformatory In
mates were granted paroles; Ed
ward Klavona. Hall, auto theft:
Kenneth Williams, Garden, burg
hwy: Edward Huber, Pierce, forgery.
& commutation to two years was
iflven Jerry Nohava, Douglas, rob
bery.
TWO WTNSIDE MEN
WIN IN WORD CONTEST
W 1 N SI D E—(Special*— George
K. Moore, a farmer, won a cash
prize of $100 in the word building
contest Just held by an Omaha
newspaper. The contest consisted
in giving the greatest number of
words of three letters, using only
letters in the word ‘‘consideration.”
Dr. R. E. Gormley, also of Winside.
won the 12th prize of $20.
SECTION FOREMAN HAS
LABOR SAVING INVENTION
CARROLL—(Special)— Jerry
Frahm, section foreman here, has
an invention that promises to
revolutionize weed cutting along
railroad tracks. He took a sickle and
sickle bar from an ordinary nowing
machine, attached it to a gasoline
engine mounted on an ordinary
section flat car and mows the weeds
along the tracks, doing in one day
what it would require two men two I
weeks to do and doing it in better I
shape. He hat not applied for any }
nat**nt.
CHERRY COUNTY
THIEF PAROLED
Cattle Rustler Liberated
3ut Man Convicted of Ar
son Denied His Plea
LINCOLN, NEB—(Special)—Tilt
state board of pardons and paroles
issued 10 paroles and commutations
and denied 11 at Its meeting. It
gave Edison Herron, sent up for
from 5 to 10 years in Cherry coun
ty for cattle stealing a prison pa
role, but denied the applications of
Milan J. Wallingford, 1 to 20 years
for arson, from Cherry county, and
that of Fred Wilson, serving 1 to 10
years for a burglary committed in
Thursten county.
Ewald Huber, sent up from Pierce
county for two to three years for
forgery', was granted a parole from
the reformatory, but that of Al
fred J. Bradley, serving 1 to 20
years for Arson, Cherry county, was
denied.
APPEALS CASE AGAINST
HEAD OF THE W. O. W.
LINCOLN—(UP)—W. A, Fraser,
sovereign commander uT ibe Wood
men of the World company of
Omaha, has again been made de
fendant in a suit In the state su
preme court.
W. B. Price, through his attor
neys, charges that Fraser diverted
*,he association's home office prop
erty to the use of a corporation
formed and officered by himself and
associates.
Fraser pursued a parallel course,
Price said ia a 215 page brief, to
what was done by himself and as
sociates in the use of liquid assets
of the fraternal association in fi
nancing the Globe Life company.
This procedure recently was con
demned by the supreme court.
Two grounds of attack are made
in the brief. One that the leases
and sale were fraadulently made
and the other that it was beyond
the power of the officers to consum
mate either deal. It is charged
that the property was sold much
below its value; that the new rent
als charged to the order are exces
sive and represent an excess cost
to it of $320,000 over the eight-year
lease.
Price lost his case in the district
court of Douglas county, where
Judge Hastings held that the 99
year lease, the 8-year lease of office
room to the order and the sale of
the remainder interest were made
upon adequate consideration and in
?ood faith, and without fraud, and
that neither Fraser nor his asso
ciates profited.
Price insists that the two trans
actions are part of a single scheme,
and while Fraser testified that he
holds but one share of stock in the
Woodmen Building association, in
which the fee title now rests, it is
a fair assumption that others hold
stock lor him.
GIVEN THREE YEARS FOR
WOUNDING BROTHKRINLAW
WEST POINT —(UP)— Frank
Dirschneider, a farmer near here, is
awaiting transportation to the state
penitentiary where he will serve a
ihree-year sentence imposed Wed
nesday for shooting, with intent to
kfll, his brotherlnlaw, Milton Ba
£ara, of Howells.
The shooting occurred a weak
ago during a family quarrel. It
was alleged that Dirschneider had
been drinking heavily, and was in a
quarrelsome mood over family trou
bles, when he got his gun and
threatened to shoot his wife. The
brotherlnlaw interfered and waj
shot. He is recovering at the How
ells hospital.
HOMESTEADER NEAR
WAKEFIELD LAID TO REST
WAKEFIELD — (Special) _Fu
neral services were held Tuesday
for Charles A. Killlon, 75 years old,
a resident of this section since 1884,
at the Methodist church here, con
ducted by Rev. W. T. Taylor.
He was married at Atlantic, la.,
to Miss Tina Chambers, January 29,
1879. They moved to Wakefield in
1884, where they homesteaded nine
miles south of town, and where they
have lived since.
He leaves, besides his widow,
three sons, Paul, Albert and Jewell,
all of Wakefield; three daughters,
Mlrs. W. F. Richardson, Ponca, Neb.;
Mrs. R. A. Bunn, Portland, Ore.,
and Mrs. Fred Tarrant. Sioux City,
la.; three brothers, Joseph of Min
neapolis, Minn.; Frank of Sloan,
Ia„ and Edward of California, and
three sisters, Emily of Omaha, and
Bell P.nd Mary of California.
FREMONT—Announcement that
the 49th annual convention of the
Women's Missionary society of the
Evangellcan Lutheran synod of
Nebraska will be held in Fremont
August 5 to 11, in conjunction with
the annual assembly of church
workers at Midland college is made
by Mrs. Klaas DeFreese. of Omaha,
state society president. More than
150 delegates are expected to at
tend the convention.
Principal addresses during the
convention will be delivered by
Dr. Mary Baer, of Dover. Ohio,
head of the Chirala hospital in
India. Dr. Baer, who is on a leave
of absence, has become nationally
famous during the last year by talks
on conditions in India. Mission
study classes unae" Mrs. John J.
Gent, of Mount Caramel. 111., will
be an additional feature of the con
vention.
HER BACK BROKEN
IN JIMP FROM WINDOW
BEATRICE —(UP)— Mrs. Pat
Lonigan, who Wednesday jumped
from the window of her third story
apartment, is recovering in a hos
pital. She suffered a broken back
and physicians first believed her in
juries might prove fatal.
Lonigan told officers that he had
quarreled with his wife and when
he stepped from the room for a few
minutes his wife plunged from the
window.
On the way to the hospital, Mrs.
Lonigan declared she was sorry she
did ;t and said she wanted to live.
TOWN HAS RIGHT TO
$10,000 BEQUEST
LINCOLN—(UP;—The city of
Friend Ls entitled to retain the $10,
000 bequest made it in 1920 by
Norman E. Warren, wealthy resi
dent, to be used for the erection of
a hospital on his home place, the
supreme court held Tuesday,
The bequest was attacked by Mrs.
Arren Allenbach, niece of Warren,
who received the remainder of his
estate of $150,000.
The question involved was
whether the city had been guilty of
unreasonable delay. It contended
that it had not, that it had re
ceived $9,466 of the legacy in 1922
but the sum was insufficient and
the city had waited for more dona
tions. The fund has now reached
$12,000.
The court warned the city council
it should make immediate steps to
carry out the bequesa.
BANKING PROBE
GROUP AT WAR
Discharged Investigator
Says Shallenberger Denied
Him Access to Records
OMAHA, NEB—(UP)—Why he
was discharged as special investiga
tor by A. C. Shallenberger, in
charge of the state banking invest
igation was explained Tuesday by
R. T. Jones, of Scottsbluff, in a
statement Issued here.
Shallenberger explained at the
time of Jones’ dismissal that “Jones
deals in gossip and my auditors
deal in facts.”
“The sale of the assets of foui
banks were handled in such a man
ner that it cost the depositors
nearly $750,000 loss,” Jones charged,
in telling about his investigations
of the State Bank of Bridgeport,
the Bank of Bridgeport, the Bank
of Hemingford and the American
State Bank of Sidney.
In the statement, Jones declared
that he had been employed by
Governor Weaver and only the lat
ter could dismiss him. He de
clared Shallenberger had resented
him being a special investigator
from the first.
“I was sent to Bridgeport to
check certain records and rumors,"
Jones statement said. "I checked
the State Bank of Bridgeport and
the Bank of Bridgeport. I then was
called in by Shallenberger who told
me to check banks I thought most
Important.
“I selected the defunct Bank ol
Hemingford and the defunct State
Bank of Sidney. After my investi
gation was partly completed, I re
turned to Lincoln to make certain
inquiries to complete my report
Mr. Shallenberger refused me rec
ords and information. He criticized
the report on the Hemingford bank,
informing me that I was absolutely
wrong as to who bought the assets,
the amount paid for the same, and
in the manner sold. I was then
ordered to discontinue any further
investigation of the defunct Hem
ingford State bank. The Sidney re
port met with no approval or dis
approval as I withheld the most im
portant part of the Sidney find
ings."
Complaints had been made
against Jones by Mr. Burke of the
Bridgeport bank and Mr. Jorgenson
of the American State Bank of
Sidney that his Investigations were
hurting their banks, Jones said.
Shallenberger then changed the
plans of the investigation and when
Jones protested, he was dismissed.
COUNTIES GET SLICE
PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND
LINCOLN—(Special)—A total of
$515,000 will be distributed among
the various counties of the state by
the state treasurer, following the
findings of the state superintendent,
the money representing the half
yearly apportionment earned by the
permanent school fund. Among the
counties participating are: Antelope,
$6,967; Boone, $6,658; Boyd, $3,885;
Brown, $3,170; Burt, $5,131; Cedar,
$7,711; Cuming, $5,815; Dakota,
$5,366; Dixon, $5,502; Holt, $8,621;
Keva Paha, $1,968; Knox, $9,304;
Madison, $8,195; Merrick, $4,326;
Nance, $4,339; Pierce, $5,236: Platte,
$8,618; Stanton, $4,705; Thurston,
$3,957; Washington, $4,865, and
Wayne. $4,775.
TO VOTE ON BONDS FOR
REPAIRING DAMAGED BRIDGES
FALLS CITY—(UP)—Meeting in
regular session last night the
Richardson county commissioners
adopted a resolution providing a
special election August 20 on a bond
issue of $250,000 for repairing and
replacing bridges damaged by flood
waters and Ice.
This was an increase of $100,000
over the previous issue which was
to have been voted on August 6.
Estimates made after new ravages
by high waters and torrential rains
in the territory tributary to the
muddy and Nemaha rivers were re
sponsible for the increase. The de
lay of the election date is in con
formity with regal requirements.
SMALL GRAIN CROP
IS BEING HARVESTED
C R O FTO N—(Special)— Small
grains in this community promise
to be the best in years. The harvest
is now in full swing. Com is mak
ing a fine showing.
OLDEST MULE IN U. S.
DIES AT OSCEOLA, NEB
OSCEOLA—(Special)—Kate, prob
ably the oldest mule in the United
States, died here at the farm of ,
her owner, William Hope. She was
39 years old Kate and her mate,
Jack, were bom here shortly after
Mr. and Mrs. Hope came to Nebras
ka. Each mule weighed less than
1000 pounds. Jack died in 1920.
Kate was then retired to the job
of plowing the garden and mowing
the lawn. The last few years she
had not done any work.
POWER CONCERN
LOSES BATTLE
Nebraska Supreme Court
Deciding Case Says Elec
tricity Is a Commodity
LINCOLN, NEB.—(Special)—The
finding of District Judge Ryan that
the Interstate Power company was
guilty of unfair competition in
seeking to drive its competitor, the
Hartington Light and Power com
pany, out of business in that city
was affirmed by the supreme court
Tuesday in an opinion by Judge
Eberly, which also disposes of con
troverted Questions against the pow
er company.
The court holds that electricity is
not a service, but a commodity, and
hence it comes within the purview
of the law that prohibits any cor
poration engaged in the production
manufacture or distribution of any
commodity fryn discriminating
with respect to the price or rate at
which such commodity shall be sold
as between sections, communities or
cities. If a lower rate is made where
a yke situation exists it is unfair
discrimination.
It is further held that where any
attempt or conspiracy to monopo
lize tire sale of electric current,
where such attempts take the form
of trying to drive others out of busi
ness. and where as a part of this
scheme current is sold at less than
its fair value or less than it is ac
customed to demand or receive in
ar.y other place, under like condi
tions, these constitute offenses |
against the statute prohibiting re
straint Li trade. The court says
these are in contravention of public
Dolicv.
The Interstate company operated
a plant at Hartiugton, where it was
charging a top rate of 18 cents. Un
der pressure It reduced to 14 cents,
but this not being satisfactory the
council contracted with the Heber
Hord company to put in a plant
that Is to be that of the city when
profits retire the ccst. This new
company put in a top rate of 9
cents. The Interstate, through a
locally-created subsidiary, cut the
rate to 6 t«..;ts.
Attorney General Spillman
stepped into the picture, and en
joined this low rate, and asked that
the company be ordered to’.charge
the same rate at all towns supplied.
These number in excess of 40 in the
northeastern part of the state. The
supreme court holds that the evi
dence discloses it was the settled
and controlling policy of the com
pany to preserve the monopoly that
it had enjoyed previously at Hart
ington; that its efforts involved a
poPcy of intimidation, diplomatic,
but no less effective, forcible and
efficient in accomplishing the de
sired object; that the 6 cent rate
was a fighting rate, and that the
creation of the local subsidiary was
organized to "get around the Ne
braska anti discrimination statute;”
that rates exceeding that at Hart
ington by 100 per cent were main
tained in other towns under like
situations, and that all the efforts
were with the design and intent to
secure results which the public pol
icy of the state as outlined in the
“restraint of trade” statutes prohib
ited.
The court also finds the 6 cent
rate would yield a deficit. The
trial court had ordered that an 8
cent rate be established. Judge
Eberly hplds that there is no ques-t
tion but that the 6 cent rate is in-'
adequate and noncompensatory to
such a degree that it renders per
manent competition on this basis
wholly impossible and the ultimate
destruction of the Hartington Elec
tric Light and Power com Dan v un
avoidable. He says it is true that
the latter has secured most of the
business of the citizens at the high
er rate, but that they would contin
ue to pay 9 cents for a substantial
period when they could get it at 6
cents is not in accord with the
comman experience of more than
two centuries of competition.
The company had contended that
electrical energy is not a commodity
or product, but a service, but the
court refuses to accept any of its
definitions, holding that it is pro
duced, stored, measured, transport
ed and bought and sold, and thus
in modern life answers the defini
tion of a commodity.
During the course of the litiga
tion the supreme court asked for an
argument on several questions, In
volving the question of whether the
reservation in the constitution of
all waters of natural streams for
public use did not create a public
charity, a legal term meaning a
gift cr dedication for the public
benefit. These are not decided
because not necessary to this case,
and are reserved for further con
sideration.
FISH BRIDGES OFT OF
RIVER—PROFITABLE WORK
F4LLS CITY—(UP)—Fishing for
bridges is a new enterprise that
fishermen here have engaged in
during recent weeks with marked
success.
Hauling the timbers from de
stroyed Richardson county bridges
out of the Missouri river, the fish
ermen build rafts, float them down
to White Cloud and dispose of them
for cash. The biggest “catch” was
one raft which brought $480.
ADVERTISE MIDDLE WEST
TO THE TOURISTS
OMAHA—(UP)—Means by which
the Middle West can get tourists
to regard this section as a “destina
, tion" instead of a "half-way point”
' were discussed at the first mid
west conference of the American
Automobile association. National
publicity, financed by community
advertising funds; distribution of
tourist promotion literature, and
good will tours In this section, were
suggested as methods of exploiting
the attractions of the Middle West
to tourists.
ATTEMPTS TO SHOOT WIFE
BUT WOUNDS HER BROTHER
WEST POINT—Frank Dirkschnei
der, 30 years old, farmer, 14 miles
west of West Point, was arrested by
Sheriff A. G. Sexton for shooting
with intent to kill.
Dirkschneider had been drinking
heavily, it is charged, and in a quar
relsome mood over family troubles
he got his gun and started to shoot
his wife. Her brother, Milton Baza
pa, interfered, and stepped in front
of her to protect her. Bazapa was
shot instead.
Bazapa is about 19 years old. He
was taken to a hospital, where he is
in a serious condition. This is Dirk
schneider’s second offense of shoot
ing with Intent to kill and prob
ably will mean a term in the peni
tentiary,
ONCE BAD BOY
IS EVANGELIST
Son of Norfolk Preacher
Sent Into “Exile” Does
“About Face”
NORFOLK, NEB.—(UP)—Grady
Cantrell, Norfolk’s bad boy Is back
home preaching the gospel. Ten
years ago he was the town’s worst
boy. His father, a minister, finally
told him, ‘‘Son you are going to
hell, and you can leave home right
now before you get there."
So young Cantrell disappeared but
his reputation remained. Now he is
a free lance evangelist. With him
is a trained singer and office force.
‘‘Why I have more calls than I
can fill in a year,” the former bad
boy said. ‘‘I tell the folks what a
bad boy I used to be here and It
gets over big.”
LUTHER LEAGUE MEET
TO BE AT WAKEFIELD
WAKEFIELD—The Nebraska
Luther league conference will be
held in Wakefield July 17 to 21, and
about 150 pastors and delegates will
1 attend.
Officers are: Rev. C. S. Odell, of
Holdredge, president; Rev. Ralph
Peterson, of Kearney, vice president;
Miss Vivian Gulleen. of Fremont,
secretary, and Oliver Olson, of Hold
redge, treasurer.
BANKER FINDS COUNTERFEIT
BILL EASILY PASSED
FREMONT—A Fremont banker
Thursday, with the aid and con
sent of the police department
passed a counterfeit $5 bill at seven
different stores without being
caught. The bill, taken in by the
bank in a consignment of currency
from a Fremont customer, was used
by the banker to prove that per
sons who receive money are not
careful observers.
HOLDER OF BANK STOCK
DENIES HE IS LIABLE
LINCOLN — (Special) — Byron
Clark, general attorney of the Bur
lington Railroad company, has
asked the supreme court for a re
hearing of the case in which that
tribunal ordered that he pay the
$2,000 levied on the stock standing
in his name in a Plattsmouth bank
when it was closed.
The court held that the secretary
of the banking department at that
time, J. E. Hart, had no power to
contract with Clark and if he took
the stock he would not have to as
sume any liability if it were closed.
Clark formerly lived at Platts
mouth, and the argument used by
Hart was that his name and stand
ing would possibly save the bank if
it were known that he was a stock
holder and director. He paid noth
ing for the stock, and it was in his
name when the bank failed.
In his motion for rehearing, Clark
says that the decision is based on
unsound rules of law and that their
application to him in this case de
prives him of his property without
due process of law. He says that
to say that he is estopped from de
nying liability because Hart had no
power to waive the constitutional
liability that attaches to stock
holding is an arbitrary and unjust
application of that right, and that
it was never intended by the con
stitution framers that the person
who happened to hold the stock at
the time the bank closed was pri
marily liable for the assessment
thereon.
OPEN CAMP FOR
4-H BOYS AND GIRLS
MADISON—The fourth annual
4-H club district camp will be held
in Madison Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday. One hundred and fifty
boys and girls and their leaders are
expected to be present from Boone,
Antelope, Madison, Nance, Cuming
and Platte counties.
R. A. Stewart, farm agent of
Madison county, will be general
chairman of the camp. Clay West
cott, boys’ and girls’ club agent of
Cumming county, will be in charge
of boys.
Miss Jessie Greene of the agri
cultural colege, will direct girls’ ac
tivities. James W. Rooney, boys'
and girls’ club agent of Antelope
and Boone counties, will have
charge of the program.
TO VOTE ON SUNDAY
MOVIES AT YORK TUESDAY
YORK—(UP)—The question of
Sunday movies will be submitted to
the York voters at a special elec
tion Tuesday and both the pro
ponents and opponents of the issue
are waging an active campaign.
IIARTINGTON CAT TAKES
YOUNG WOLF TO RAISE
HARTINGTON—(Special)—A cat
has adopted a young wolf here as a
foster son at the Scott Millard home.
The wolf was put with the cat’s
kittens as an experiment. She finally
invited him to share in the family
dinner, but he was rough, since he
had none of the advantages of civi
lization.
Nowr the young cub is being fed by
hand, but the cat cares for him and
becomes jealous if anyone else shows
an interest in him. Her spare time is
spent in washing him
INVENTOR USES
THE CAS ROUTE
Chose Suicide Rather Than
Failure When Backers
Stopped Money
OMAHA, *NEB.-—(UP)—Because
his backers refused him further
money in his perfection of a mys
terious “super-heat and super
power” invention, over which he had
labored for eight years, Alfred Cam
eron, 3t years old, ended his life
Friday by turning on the gas.
"This strain has become intol
erable,” he wrote In a farewell note,
“and this seems the only way out.”
He believed he was near success but
recently his backers who had sup
ported him for years, became dubi
ous and refused further money.
The exact nature of his invention
was shrouded in mystery. He read
numerous books on physics and
electricity and worked day and
night in his intricate calculations
that covered reams of paper.
Before ending his life he burned
most of his papers except a few
which he placed In a safe deposit
vault. The key to the vault was left
wrapped In a note that directed It
be given to Robert Russell, of the
Oornhusker hotel, of Lincoln.
BASEBALL CATCHER HAS
ONE EYE PUT OUT
WINS IDE— (Special) —Henry
Koch, 16 years old, son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. O. Koch, living near here
on a farm, lost his left eye while
catching behind the bat without a
mask, Sunday afternoon. He was
struck by a foul tip. He was taken
to Norfolk and put under the care
of an eye specialist but to no avail.
RACE TRACK GAMBLING
CASE REACHES NEW STAGE
LINCOLN—(UP)—The legal tan
gle which is expected to grow out
of the fight of Attorney General
C. A. Sorenson to stop gambling at
the Ak-Sar-Ben race track at
Omaha began to develop Friday.
Attorneys for the association,
which ic now under restraint from
allowing pari mutuel betting by an
order of the supreme court, al
though the betting was declared
legal by an Omaha judge, were here
Friday asking that the attorney
general be required to make his pe
tition more definite.
The attorneys asked for the
names of the Omaha authorities
who had failed to prosecute the
commission of the offenses and
what the offenses were. They also
sought the names of minors, who
were alleged by Sorensen to have
gambled at the race track.
It also was asked of the attorney
general the names of citizens who
asked that the gambling be stopped
and the ns.mes of persons who gam
bled on the races.
GOVERNMENT LAND IS
OPEN TO HOMESTEAD
ALLIANCE—Opening of eight
tracts of government land In the
North Platte valley of western Ne
braska for homestead entry Is an
nounced by the federal land office
here.
The land was formerly in a re
clamation area. It consists of 20
acres near Bridgeport, 40 acres near
Morrill, three tracts of 20 acres
each, one of 10 and two of 40, near
Scottsbluff and Mitchell.
NUMEROUS ROAD PRO* *CX»
IN NORTHEASTERN NEBRASKA
LINCOLN— (Special) —Northeast
ern Nebraska was well represented
in the state highway aonstructlon
contracts awarded at tha $2,500,000
letting just ended, and which re
sulted in the lowest bids In years.
Grading, for Instance, is 15 cents
a cubic yard where in 1922 it cost
60 cents. The following projects
are included in the awards, the
towns named being the termini and
work being done between points In
the counties named:
NorioiK to Stanton, a oi a mue
connect up of gravel, in Stanton
county. Concrete Engineering com
pany and Western Bridge company
successful bidders.
Laurel to Randolph, in Cedar
county, 8.3 miles of grading, with
culverts and bridges.
Allen to Laurel, Dixon county, 8.6
miles grading, culvert and bridges.
Jackson to Waterbury, Dakota
and Dixon counties, 10.4 miles grad
ing, culverts and bridges.
Norfolk to Wayne, Madison and
Wayne counties, 5.9 miles grading,
culverts and bridge.
Allen to Ponca, in Dixon county,
6-1 miles of gravel.
On Rosalie east, Thurston coun
ty, 8 miles of grading; bids rejected
on grading and action on other
work deferred.
Wakefield to Wayne, in Dixon
county, 8 miles of gravel.
Rosalie to Lyons. Thursday and
Burt counties, and Rosalie to Hom
er, Thurston, gravel patrols were
let to Murphy Sand and Gravel
company.
Norfolk to Columbus, 3 miles pav
ing in Madison county, at $23,000 a
mile.
Schuyler to Columbus. Colfax
county, 10.6 miles of paving, total
$226,000.
Springview to Bassett, Keya Paha
and Rock, 4 miles gravel.
Bassett to Lon| Pine, Rock, 3.2
miles of gravel.
Plainview to Oakland, Burt, 7
miles of gravel.
Creighton south, Knox and Ante
lope counties, culverts.
UPHOLD MANAGEMENT
LINCOLN—No further investiga
tion of charges made against the
present administration of Kearney
normal school will be made, the
state normal board has announced
The board will uphold the admin
istration.
A clandestine love affairs of a for
mer instructor was aired at the
board hearing. Letters were read
from former members of the fac
ulty, one of which told of a secret
romance. Two women members of
the faculty appeared before the
board and told how the affair was
discovered.