LIBERAL WITH
AID TO NEEDY
Nebraskans Send 94 Car
loads of Food to Drought
Stricken Areas
Lincoln, Neb.—(UP)—Empty cup
boards and feed bins of southern
drought-hit farmers received 94
carloads of foodstuffs and livestock
feed during the last two months
from Nebraska. Some clothing was
included in the shipments.
Tills record of 94 cat load lots
from the state, sent from 48 coun
ties, was recently announced by
William M. Baxter, regional direc
tor of the American Red Cross at
6t. Louis.
The contribution of the people
of this state made up.approximately
one-fifth of the entire total of
food and feed sent into the drought
stricken areas, Baxter said. About
500 carloads of products from dif
ferent sections were sent.
The Nebraska counties sending
carload lots of food, with the
amount sent by each are;
Scottsbluff, 13 carloads; Cheyenne,
C; Custer and Box Buter, 4 each;
Duell, Furnas, Lincoln and Polk, 3
each; Adams, Buffalo, Dawes, Doug
las, Dundy, Fillmore, Franklin,
Hamilton, Keith, Lancaster, Red
Willow, Saline, Sarpy, Sheridan,
Wayne and York, 2 carloads each,
and Antelope, Brown, Butler, Cuss,
Chase, Colfax, Dodge, F.ontier,
Gage, Gosper, Hitchcock, Jefferson,
Kimball, Merrick, Morrill, Nemaha,
Nuckolls, Platte, Saunders, Seward.
Sherman, Thurston, Valley and
Washington, one each.
PRISON TERM FOR
ROBBERY OF WI.VSIDK
Wayne, Neb.—Ralph Frost of
Emerson, charged with theft of
goods from the Herman Fleer store
at Winside, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to serve three years In
the state penitentiary. Harry Grgy
of Emerson Is charged with the
aarne offense. He has not yet been
tried.
ELECTRIC COMPANY ORDERED
TO REMOVE EQUIPMENT
Lincoln, Neb- —The West
ern Public Service corporation, cap
italized at $3,920,000, was ordered by
Federal Judge T. C. Munger here
Monday to remove its power and
electric distributing system from
Broken Bow, Neb,, unless it secures
a new franchise at a special election
to be held within two months.
The city of Broken Bow brought
a mandamus suit against the com
ity. charging it had failed to re
move its equipment after the expi
ration of its franchise. Another
franchise was refused the corpora
tion at an election last February 7.
FARM HOME NEAR
DECATUR, NEB., BURNS
Decatur, Neb.—The home of
James Young, a farmer li ing six
miles northwest of here, was turned
Monday afternoon after . narks
from the chimney had ignite I the
roof. None of the contents of the
house was saved.
The loss was estimated at $3,000,
part of which is covered by insur
ance.
ARMY AIRPLANE FLEET
TO VISIT OMAHA
Omaha, Neb.—The Junior Cham
ber of Commerce air races, an
nounced for May 15, 16 and 17 at
Municipal held, will be ushered in
with the maneuvering of the army
i airplanes which have been ordered
, to Omaha for an overnight stop
May 14, It was announced at Wash
ington Sunday.
• The army fleet will be crossing
, the country for mimic aerial man
euvers scheduled in the east be
tween May 17 and May 30, when
670 military planes will be conCen
I trated at Dayton, Ohio, for expedi
tions to Chicago. Detroit, New York,
.Washington and elsewhere.
The Omaha stop was urged in
Washington last week by Glen B.
East burn, commissioner of the
Chamber of Commerce, and Con
gressman-elect H. Malcolm Bald
rige, who Interviewed F. Trubee Da
vison. assistant secretary of war for
aviation.
The planes stopping In Omaha
will be assembled at Los Angeles
nnd San Francisco. They will join
forces at Salt Lake City and then
come to Omaha for the second
night. Fuel stops will be made at
Hastings, Neb, and Lincoln, Neb.,
during the day.
Davison's order scheduling an
overnight stop at Omaha was hailed
by M. M. Meyers, president of the
Omaha Air Races association, and
Phil Henderson, manager of the
meeting, as positive assurance that
the May races will be a smashing
success.
With 250 airplanes already ex
pected for the races, the visit of the
army fleet will Insure the largest
concentration of aircraft in Omaha
history. Included In the army fleet
will be pursuit, bombardment and |
observation planes.
GIVES WARNING ABOUT
SPREAD TYPHOID FEVER
Lincoln, Neb. — <UP>— Warning
to guard against a spread of ty
phoid fever in Nebraska during the
coming year is given bv Dr. P H
Bartholomew, dir* tor of the state
department of public health. Sea
sonal conditions of the last year
make spread of the disease possi
ble, he claims.
BROGAN GIVEN ANOTHER
TERM AS POSTMASTER
Tilden. Neb.—(Special)—W. E
Brogan has been nouned by Sena
tor R. B. Hovell that he has been
ifappointed postmaster here. Bro
gan has held the place eight years
and is now starting on his third
trim of four years.
The bid of the Tilden National |
bank was accepted by the postof- '
lice department and the Tilden
pccloffice will remain in its pres
ent location. A lease for 10 years
has been signed with p i’nw'uian for |
‘■xienslve imorovements.
PUIWT IRRIGATION WATER
NOT RIVER SEEPAGE
Gibbon, Neb. —(UP)— Theories
that the water used for pump irri
gation purposes in this section of
the Platte ’.'alley came from seepage
water from the river, have received
a setback.
Thomas Lewis, of Gibbon, who
has completed a study of pump wa
ter levels in this section, has found
that the water supply in the Platte
river has little to do with the
amount of sub-flow from which the
Irrigators obtain a supply of water
for irrigation purposes.
Six wells, extending In a straight
line, north and south, from the river
to a point beyond Wood river, were
tested by Lewis. A rise of 20 Inches
in the level of the river had very
little effect on the level of the
water in the irrigation wells, he
found.
One of the answers given to the
findings of Lewis by the irrigators
in this section, was that the flow
of underground water is from the
northwest to the southeast, with in
dications that the flow Is indeper
dent of the river seepage.
COLLEGE SUES
TRUST COMPANY
.Seeks Return of $65 000 in
Securities Held by Oma
ha Concern
Omaha, Neb. —(UP)— Nebraska
Wesleyan university, through its at
torney, Don Stewart of Lincoln, has
filed suit In bankruptcy court
against the defunct Peters Trust
company asking for securities val
ued at $65,900. -«»
The money, Stewart said, Is a
part of the permanent endowment
fund of the college and was In
vested in securities, mostly farm
mortgages, through the trust com
pany when it was a going conoern,
Herbert S. Daniel, trustee for the
trust company, refuses to turn over
the securities until a settlement of
expenses of foreclosure of some of
the mortgages is made, it was al
leged. The university’s contention
Is that It is not responsible for these
expenses.
YOUNG FARMER
SEEKS PAROLE
Wisner, Neb., Man Con
victed of Assault in
Plea to Board
Jncoln, Neb. — (Special) —
—mong the cases heard by the state
board of pardons and paroles at Its
meeting here was that of William
Noonan, Wisner farmer, who was
sentenced to serve five years in the
state penitentiary when convicted
of an assault upon a school teacher.
A change of venue was denied and
Noonan claims that he was convicted
on circumstantial evidence while the
hostility of the residents of the
community was aroused.
It was brought out at the trial
that a man who was one of the
chief witnesses against Noonan lat
er committed suicide.
The teacher did not see the face
of the man who attuckcd her be
cause he wore a mask, but she
identified Noonan as the man while
he was sitting in an automobile.
Father Joseph Rose of Wisner de
scribes Noonan as a model young
man and says that he and his par
ents were highly respected in the
community. He told of a man who
had scratches on his face which he
tried to hide being seen in a Wayne
cafe on the night of the assault and
said peculiar footprints were found
in fields near the schoolhouse.
Noonan expressed a desire to live
on a farm owned by him and his
mother, and his wife who has stood
by him constantly and expressed
her belief in his innocence appeared
before the board and said that
their married life had always been
happy.
The case of Buchanan McEllory,
sentenced in Holt county to serve
from three to 15 years in the peni
tentiary on a charge of robbery, was
heard at this meeting.
GETS REDUCED RATES
ON OIL SHIPMENTS
Lincoln. Neb. — (Special) — The
state railway commission has re
ceived word that its fight for re
duction in rates of gasoline, oil and
petroleum shipped into Nebraska
from Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas
and Wyoming has been successful,
the case being under consideration
of the interstate commerce com
mission since February 14, 1930,
The reduction is statewide in
character, although it does not af
fect rates to all points in Nebraska,
and covers shipments on rate sched
ules that the interstate commerce
commission held to be unreasonable.
It is estimated that this means a
saving to Nebraska consumers of
nearly $50,000 a year, new rates ap
plying on all roods in the state. A
reduction from 64to 52 cents on
carload lot shipments of fuel oil,
gasoline and petroleum from the
southern fields to Ainsworth, is
shown in the list.
SOIL EROSION DAMS
ON EIGHT FARMS
Homer, Neb. — (Special) — Soil
erosion dams will be constructed on
the farms of the following eight
Dakota county land owners this
week: Frank Kennedy, Watcrbury;
Sigurd Jorgensen, Emerson; Chris
Jeppesen, Emerson; Frank Mitchell,
Jackson; Tom Sullivan, Jackson;
Will Heeney, Nacora; Edgar Jones,
Emerson, and Leo Curran, Ponca.
County Agent Spence will bo as
sisted by Ivan Wood of the college
of agriculture. Lincoln.
Fifty Years of Fiddling
Treasuring the fiddle with which <
his father played before him,
this patriarchal Virginian hap
pily manipulates his bow while
nis admiring helpmate looks in
tently on. The old man, who
► has been playing this violin for
fifty years, is one of the pic
turesque characters who will
participate in the Virginia music
festival at Charlottesville.
Dean of Agriculture Says Time
Is Ideal for S. D. Farm Ownership
Low Prices and Good
Terms Offered on Fine
Corn, Alfalfa Land
Brookings, S. D, — — For
the young man of today, the stage
Is Ideally set for farm ownership
In South Dakota, in the opinion of
O. Larsen, dean of agriculture at
South Dakota State college.
The ladder to farm ownership,
Dean Larsen says, is even easier to
climb than formerly. While recog
nizing “that many young people
like to enjoy considerable freedom
from the responsibilities of thrift,
citizenship and ownership,’’ Dean
Larsen said young men possessing
nothing but good health, good judg
ment and a fair education, coupled
with thrift and Industry, may be
come farm owners.
“Many of our best citizens and
farm owners,” the dean declared
have attained their success by the
route of farm hand, renter ar.d own
er. At the present time a good farm
manager and laborer is in demand.
Almost any young man can obtain
a position on a farm at $50 per
month and save as much as $500 in
a year. This can not be done by
working at one place for a time and
then being idle for even a short
time. It can not be done by work
ing in the north during harvest,
Ireland Lowers Tariff
To Help U. S. Tractors
DUBLIN— —All parties in j
the Free State parliament have
ooneurred in the passage of a mea
sure which will facilitate the admis
sion of tractor parts into tire coun
try, in the interest of the Ford trac
tor factory at Cork.
Formerly the import duty on
tractor parts was 33 per cent from
countries outside the British Empire,
and 2 per cent from empire export- j
era.
The Ford factory at Cork is ex
pected to employ shortly 3 000 men,
and later as many as 5.000 men.
Ninety five per cent of the tractor
output will be for export.
“Sissy Stuff *
From Sioux Falls Argus-Leader.
The National Educational associ
ation has gone on record approving
the use in the schools of only se
lected periodicals which do not carry
tobacco advertising.
Next in order, we assume, will be
a resolution commanding school 1
teachers to wear bustles and hoop
skirts.
To the credit of the association, it
must be explained that the tobacco
resolution was not adopted without
vigorous opposition. A vote was tak
en and it was fairly close though
the anti-tobacco advertising advo
cates won.
One would gather from this ac
tion that the majority of the voting
membership of the association is
composed of old fogies who do not
possess the tolerance, vision and un
derstanding that should be a part
of the equipment of those who seek
to extend intelligent instruction to
the young.
In the first place. Its resolution is
more than a little impractical. Few
newspapers and magazines exclude
tobacco advertising. The eiders of
the association will find it extremely
difficult to compile an adequate list
of periodical containing no tobac
co advertising. Such a restriction
will eliminate some of the nation's
finest periodicals.
And, secondly, the resolution ap
pears to be based upon the idea j
that smoking is vicious. Excess
smoking probably comes in that ca
Decadent Days.
From Colliers.
So bitter was the battle between
Senator Simmons and Josiah Bailey
in Lenoir county. North Carolina,
that J. Herman Canady and S. L.
Williams, respectively managers for
the two aspirants, met on the street
and bet each other a box of bon
bons on the result. All of which
moved Lew Chance of Kinstan io
assure us that he was plumb dis
gusted.
•That’s the way it’s got to be
these days,” mourned Mr. Chance.
“’Hain’t an election no more—list
one of these parlor games like clap
in an’ clap out. I come from Soutn
Carolina, where I did my best voting
then shifting to the south for a job
I In the winter. This type of restless
roving, somewhat Irresponsible type
of man can not hope to make much
j progress towards farm ownership
i during that particular stage.”
Increasing farm tenantry In
South Dakota and throughout the
middle west, Is an aid to the man
who wishes to become a farm owner,
the dean said, adding that often the
man who rents a farm fares finan
cially better than the owner. The
young person who Is prepared and
understands farming usually makes
a success of renting. This Is espec
ially true if the owner and renter
co-operate so as to obtain the maxi
mum use of good management, cap
ital and land management.
“In addition,” Dean Larsen adds,
"there probably never will be a time
when good corn and alfalfa land
can be purchased at so low a price
and on as good terms as at the
present time. The money rate Is low
and capital Is anxious to hook up
with deltable farm management.”
Ownership Is desirable, Dean Lar
sen believes.
"Our society,” he says, “ is
grounded on home owning, home
living and home defending instincts.
Property ownership ties a man to
au order. It favors the upbuilding
of a community, and It Is good for
the individual person and family.”
legory. So does excess eating, ex
cess playing, excess reading, excess
teaching and an excess of a lot of
other things.
Tobacco advertising Is not direct
ed at the children. Its appeal is
to adults. High school students fre
quently learn to smoke and many
of them do so with some regularty.
We are not at all ready to admit
that the exercise of this habit, in
moderation, is at all harmful. It
would, very likely, be better if high
school students did not smoke but
we doubt that the advertising car
ried in the periodicals will have
any special influence upon them
Pan American Air Line
Frederick Simpich in the National
Goeographic Magazine
From Maiml to Buenos Aires is
strung a line of American boys in
overalls. Some are seaplane pilots;
some are mechanics, with grease
guns and wrenches; some arc radio
operators, and some are agents and
ticket sellers, stationed at various
ports; lor now an air line ties the
two Americas together, and a
small army, highly trained, is re
quired to fly and care for the planes
of the company which operates this
long-distance secvice.
Flying lias brought a new Amer
ican' type to cities all the way from
Havana and San Juan de Porto
Rico to Para and Pernambuco.
Guests at hotels arc accustomed now
to seeing a crowd of sunburnt,
khaki-clad flying Americans come
trooping in to lunch, just in from
a long flight and too hungry to
stop to change clothes. In a day
the mail plane pilots make any
where from 1.000 to 1,400 miles,
eating breakfast in Miami and din
ner in Haiti, or sleeping one night
in Para and the next in Port of
Spain, Trinidad. Passengers who
ride these planes are up at dawn
and into the air before sunrise.
Agents supply each with a lunch,
and leading matter is put on the
ships. Baggage is limited, but care
ful choice of light wash-clothes and
quick work by seaport laundry wom
en give comfort to travelers.
Good Business.
From Hummel, Hamburg.
‘•Why Is it that you encourage
all of vour clerks to get married?''
•'Well, I find that married men
are not in such an awful rush to
get home early as the single ones.”
for Ben Tillman. Down there those
dais you shot your mark on the
ballot with a revolver. Only women
and children need pencils and they
couldn't vote."
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Q. Were the old Currier and
Ives prints colored by hand? M. E.
C
A. The firm of Currier and Ives,
Inc.. sa\s: “The original firm of
N. Currier and Currier and Ives
was dissolved in 1907. Practically
all of the old prints were pulled
from stones and colored by hand.
Toward the end, the old Currier and
Ives tried some color lithography
but it was not very extensive, net j
satisfactory.” i
WAYNE TO CELEBRATE
ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Wayne, Neb. — (UP) — A cele
bration commemorating the 50th
anniversary of the founding o'.
Wayne is planned for July 2, 3, and
4 next. M L. Ringer will be genera
manager of the festivities. He ha
named a general committee of 10 tc
assist in making arrangements.
FARMERS MUST
APPLY REASON
Head of Nebraska Gra’n
Co-Op Explains Object
of Organization
Kimball, Ne. — (UP) — Artie..,,
of incorporation have been filed foi
the Kimball County Grain co-op
erative, a locally owned marketing
branch of the federal farm board
F. J. Eichenberger, prominent grain
grower in the panhandle, heads the
newly formed co-operative unit.
In announcing the formation ol
the unit, Eichenberger has said that
although grain producers are com
petitors, it is really to their ad
vantage to co-operate in disposing
of the cron to the greatest price
advance. He has explained that the
agency is owned by the producers
themselves and is in no sense a
governmental agency as opponent?
of the federal farm board hav»
charged.
“Success or failure of the federal
farm board co-operative marketing
set-ups will depend on farmers and
producers of agricultural products
themselves, the grower declares
“Farmers should use their own in
telligence, common sense and reason
instead of paying attention to gross
ly unfair. propaganda appearing
from time to time."
“The farmer’s problem is an eco
nomic one and will have to be solved
by economic means. This co-opera
tive will work with the farm board
which is certainly further from ex
piration than its opponents believe",
he claims.
BULLET-PROOF GLASS
IN COUNTY JAIL DOOR
Gering, Neb. — (Special) — The
first use of bullet proof glass in
a jail in western Nebraska was put
into effect here when a piece of
multiple glass, three by seven inch
es, was placed in the steel door lead
ing into the bull pen.
Officials of the jail found several
weapons in the jail on a search
some time ago, persumably passed
in by friends of prisorvrs.
Twenty eight holes were cut
through the several plates of the
door in zig-zag fashion so that
nothing can be passed through the
door, but in a manner to allow
conversation to be carried on.
CEDAR COUNTY CASE
GOES TO HIGH COURT
Lincoln, Neb. — (Special) — An
appeal has been filed with the su
preme court from a finding of the
district court of Cedar county that
C. N. Hertert should pay $5,245 to
Albert Bulowskl. The latter ob
tained a judgment for that amount
in the district court of Knox coun
ty when he sued John Isbaner sev
eral years ago. In the suit against
Hertert Bulowski charges that after
summons had been served, Isbaner
transferred $8,850 in money and
property to Hertert to defraud cred
itors. This was denied by Isbaner,
who said the transfer was made to
settle numerous transactions over
a period of years. The court held
the purpose of the transaction was
to defeat the collection of the judg
ment,
FUNERALS FOR TWO
WOMEN OF SAME NAME
Fremont, Neb — (Special) — It
was regarded a singular coincidence
that funeral services for two pioneer
Dodge county women each having
the name of Anna S. Olsen and each
having passed 80 years of age, were
held Thursday at different churches
Funeral services for Anna S. Olsen
widow of Lars C. Olsen, were held
in the First Lutheran church, the
Rev. N; B. Hansen officiating. Ser
vices for Anna S. Olsen, who died in
Seattle, Wash., where she had been
residing since the death of her hus
band, a farmer, were held at Elim
Lutheran church.
MANY EX-SERVICE MEN
RECEIVE THEIR CHECKS
Omaha, Neb. (UPj — Fifteen
hundred Nebraska and western Iowa
ex-service men have received their
bonus checks to date. Charles O.
Buck, director of the local regional
office of the United States Veterans
bureau announced today. A total of
about $600,000 has been paid out,
Beck said. Eight hundred thousand
dollars has been allotted to this
district so far and Beck expects all
of it will be paid out in the next
few days. He expressed the belief
that 8,000 veterans will take ad
vantage of the new home law.
FOUND GUILTY OF
MERRIAM BANK ROBBERY
Valentine, Neb.— —After 24
hours of deliberating, a district
court jury here Wednesday after
noon convicted HarcJd ' Whitey ’
Westbrook of a charge of partici
pation in the $7,000 robbery of the
Anchor bank of Merriman last Sep
tember. Judge E. L. Meyer sen
tenced Westbrook to 20 years in the
state penitentiary.
THREE MURDERERS ARE
SEEKING CLEMENCY
Lincoln, Neb.—Th ee persons ser
ving terms in the Nebraska peni
tentiary fer murder, two of them
women, w ill appear before the stale
board of pardons and paroles,
March 10. to ask for commutation
of their sentences.
Two of the prisoners, Joe Garcia,
and Mamie Madison, Negro, are ser
ving life terms. The third, Eliza
Winston, Negro, is serving a 10
year term. All are trom Omaha,
where each was convicted or pleaded
guilty to second deg.ee murder
SAYS BANKERS
NOT ENTHUSED
Fail to Put Up Cash for
“Dead” Robber Re
ward Offered
Omaha, Neb.—(UP)—Even the
Sensational bank robbery at Hast
ings has failed to stir up enough
sentiment among bankers to perma
nently establish the big reward for
dead bank robbers which has been
advocated by Nebraska Bankers’ as
sociation offiaials for more than a
year, according to Secretary W. B,
Hughes.
Three hundred Nebraska bankers
have never answered his queries on
the question, Hughes said. Final
decision rests with the association’s
protective committee which has in
effect a temporary offer of a $3,000
reward for dead robbers. While
enough of the banks have approved
the idea, not enough of them have
sent in their deposits to make up a
standing fund. Hughes explained.
“This standing fund,” he said,
“should amount to at least $15,000.
We will then purchase liability in
surance up to $50,000 or $100,000”
FORECAST BIG
CROP OF FRUIT
Growers in Southern Ne
braska Anticipate Heavy
Yields This Year
Nebraska City, Neb.—(UP)—Pros
pects for a big fruit crop in south
eastern Nebraska have been fore
cast by growers in this section. Tire
mild winter weather has protected
the buds formed last year, the grow
ers, recently in annual meeting hern,
claim.
Barring disaster, growers predicte J
that the crop this year would be one
of the largest in the history of th»
section. Representatives of supply
companies here to meet with mem
bers of the Central Fruit Groweri
association of Southeastern Nebras
ka, made the same predictions.
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BLAMED FOR DELINQUENCY
KearneyK Neb.— (UP) —The trinity
of cigarets, automobiles and boot
legging are the three chief causes
of delinquency among boys of to
day.
This is the estimate of R. V. Mil
ler, superintendent of the state in
dustrial school for boys here. Su
perintendent Miller is in direct con
tact with the youths who are sent
to the reformatory from over the
state.
Cigaret smoking, Clark declares,
is an "extravagant, useless habit
that robs youths of their natural
strength.” Clark has observed in
creased physical vigor in the non
smoking boy.
The automobile contributes to de
linquency in that it creates a spirit
of covetousness in boys, leads to ex
travagances and is conducive to
moral laxities, he claims.
Clark makes a staunch defense of
the existing prohibition Jaws. “En
forcement is the only weakness of
our present law,” he said in discuss
ing the liquor problem in its rela
tion to the youth of today.
AMATEUR RADIO PLANT
HEARD IN RUSSIA
Gering, Neb. —(Special)— Arnold
Clarks, amateur radio devotee, has
received word from a station in
Moscow, Russia, that his station was
brought in distinctly December 27,
by Loseff, operator of station EURK
—161. The Clarke station is listed
as W9CZG and has been having
excellent responses from all the
North American continent. The
Russia response is the farthest dis
tant yet acknowledged.
BUILD GAS PIPE LINE
FROM WYOMING FIELD
Scottsbluff, Neb. — (UP) — Con
struction of the 378 mi'e pipe line
fiom the Muskrat field into north
western Nebraska will start at once,
officials of the North Central Gas
company have assured towns in the
North Platte valley.
Eighteen towns in the two states
—nine in Wyoming and nine in Ne
braska—will be served by the line.
Estimated cost of the line is $6,003,
000.
The Muskrat field is about 73
miles west of Casper, Wyo. The
first 227 miles of the line will be
of 14-inch pipe. Ten and eight inch
pipe will be used the remaining dis
tance into Nebraska.
FATHER AND SON TO PEN
FOR THEFT OF ALFALFA SEED
Ponca, Ne'o.—Ecu Richmond and
Blythe Richmond, father and son,,
of Ponca, were b. fore Judge Mark
Ryan, of the district court, on a
charge of grand 1 rceny, preferred
by Warren Mulhall.
Upon a plea of guilty, Ben Rich
mond was sentenced to a year in th2
state penitentiary and Blythe Rich
mond was sentenced to a year in the:
state reformatory at Lincoln.
Alfalfa seed of the value of $36
was stolen from the farm of John
Mulhall of Sioux City, of which his.
son, Warren Mulhall, was in charge.
FORMER RANDOLPH MAN
MAKES RICH GOLD FIND
Randolph, Neb.— (Special)—Wil
liam Brandt, formerly of Randolph,
made the most important strike iu
Oregon in years when he found
high grade quartz ore. heavily laden
with gold, according to a Medford,
Ore., dispatch. The strike is the
rediscovery of the famous Sterling
Mountain diggings on the peak of
that name in the Siskiyou moun
tains. It is covered with snow from
early winter to early summer.