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THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA, STATE COMMERCIAL CLURS WILL SOON HOLD MEETINC Executive Committee Session Called for Omaha October 5. SHELTON—M. A. Hostetler, presi dent of the State Association of Com mercial Clubs, has called the executive committee of that organization to meet in Omaha at the Commercial club rooms October 5. The question of the next annual meeting of the as sociation to be held in February will be taken up at that time and the place for the meeting selected. The com mittee will be pleased to hear from any clubs that would like to entertain the next state meeting. If you can not meet the committee in person, write to the secretary, W. G. Hirons, Pierce. Neb. Each commercial club organization of the state can join the state asso ciation by paying an annual fee of 52. except organizations in cities of more than 7,000 population shall pay 510 in annual dues. Each club will be entitled to two votes in the asso ciation meeting, but can send as many delegates as it desires. The membership of the executive committee of the state association is as follows: President, M. A. Hostetler, Shelton: vice presidents. W. A. Green wald of Falls City, E. .T. McVann of Omaha. J. T. Hanson, of Fremont, H. A. Graff of Seward. George F. Mil bourn of Minden, G. B. Darr of Lexing ton; secretary, W. G. Hirons of Pierce: treasurer, O. O. Snyder, O’Neill. A NORFOLK MOTHER HEARS OF SON’S DEATH NORFOLK—Today for the first time since the mured at Sacremento, Mrs. Charles Lodge of this city heard the story of the killing of her son, John Lodge, the former Norfolk man, later a wealthy race horse owner, who was shot without provocation on the race track in the California city over a week ago. Charles Lodge and Sam Lodge, father and brother, have returned from California, where they went to bury the dead man. An intoxicated depu tized town marshal murdered John Lodge because the officer believed Lodge had applied an epithet to him which he resented. One of Nebraska’s Old-Timers. NORFOLK—"Uncle Bill” Lamont, said to have been the oldest among Nebraska pioneers, is dead at Nio brara front, disability incident to old age. His patent to land in Nebraska bore the signature of President An drew Jackson, and he came west when the country was filled with Indians and antelope. Every business house in Niobrara was closed during the fun eral of the old settler and his remains were laid to rest in Leau Qui Court cemetery, near that place. During his last illness Lamont was cared for by citizens of the city. School Fund Being Invested. LICOLN—At the close of business "Wednesday Treasurer Mortenson had less than $100,000 uninvested of the permanent school fund having bought up a lot of state warrants. As the taxes will not be coming in before January or February, there is still a chance that the treasury will run low and the buying of warrants will have to be stopped. Kills Wife and Self. NORFOLK—Joseph Howell a Bo hemian farmer near Rogers, commit ter suicide by hanging after beating out the brains of his wife with a ham mer. She will die. They had quar reled over a division of property. Laying of Corner Stone. ST. PAUL—The comer stone of the new Presbyterian church, which is to replace the building burned last February, was laid with appropriate , ceremonies. Governor Mickey has appointed S. F. Nichols of Beatrice and Hon. Peter Jansen of Jansen as members of the delegation to represent this state at the national conference on immigra tion to be held in New York city De cember 6 and 7. MR. AND MRS. BRYAN START ON THEIR TOUR LINCOLN—W. J. Bryan, Mrs. Bryan and son and daughter have left for San Francisco, from which place they will start on their tour of the world. They stop first at Japan, where the party will be met by a young Japanese who formerly made his home with the Bryan family, while he at tended the universsity, but who is now conducting a private school in Japan. This young man will be their guide through the flowery kingdom. Nebraskan Injured in Denver. DENVER, Colo.—Fred Shilling, a stranger in this city, who arrived here a few days ago from Scotia. Neb., was nearly killed by a street car. Shilling was on Welton street and stepped hur riedly to one side while in the center of the thoroughfare in order to avoid a street car. By so doing, he placed himself directly in front of a car com ing from the opposite direction. The car struck him squarely and a blow upon the head rendered him uncon scious. He is badly bruised and in ternal Injuries may develop. Haddix is Allowed Bail. BROKEN BOW—W. S. Haddix, who was sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary last week by Judge Host tetler for. killing Milvin Butler, was allowed bond by the supreme court, the sum being fixed at $7,000. Charged With Horse Stealing. LONG PINB—Marshal McShame ar rested two men here charged with stealing a horse and saddle in Cherry county. One man was driving a horse tad buggy and the other rode the Aorse. OVER THE STATE. Rain greatly interfered with some of the county fairs. Populists of Red Willow county have ^ut a ticket in the field. Hon. W. J. Bryan and a party of hunters bagged 35 prairie chickens. The Shelby school was two weeks late in starting on account of diph theria. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kreinert of Cuming county last week celebrated their golden wedding. The enrollment at the Peru normal on the beginning of the second week, or fourth day of school, was 440. An acetylene gas plant in the hard ware store of R. H. McAllister at Grand Island exploded, causing a damage of probably $1,000. Because his wife was applying for a divorce and refused to live with him, Frank Snear of Beatrice tried to end his life by taking poison. It is said that the Burlington is short of trainmen at Wymore. Twen ty-seven new firemen were on duty on the southern division at last report. Unconscious for six months, Mrs. W. J. Sloan of Pierce, totally para lyzed, has succumbed. She was 60 years of age and had lived in Pierce county for fifteen years. While sitting in his dooryard J. W. Weaver of Buffalo county was acci dentally shot in the arm by Oliver Poore, who was hunting with a small rifle in a nearby corn field. Mrs. George V. Crossland of Wayne was terribly burned about the hands and arms by the explosion of a gaso line stove tank. Her escape from a frightful death was a miracle. A threshing machine on the farm of H. C. Tibbets, near Wauneta, caught fire while the crew was at dinner. The machine was badly damaged and 150 bushels of grain were burned. John Morrissey, anaeronaut from Omaha, made a balloon ascension from the fair grounds at Tecumseh, going up over 1.000 feet. In coming down he landed in the Nemaha river. Wood River mills have increased their working force and have made longer running hours, this being made necessary by the large crop of wheat which was raised in that vicin ity. While playing with some other boys Sunday, Harry Herron, a young son of Thomas Herron, was pushed over the anks of Death Gulch, Frontier county, and seriously injured by the fall. Lightning struck the farm house of Rush Hartzell, four miles east of Pickrell. The building caught fire and burned to the ground with all its contents. Loss $1,500, partially in sured. Six new brick business houses, one cement block, an $8,000 Young Men’s Christian association building, a doz en residences and thousands of feet of cement walks are some of Central City’s improvements for this year. The new First Congregational church, wrhich is being built in Ash lash at a cost of $12,000, will be ready for occupancy about October 1. The main building consists of audito rium with a seating capacity of 400. Bertha Hahn, a 17-year-old daugh ter of Lewis Hahn, a Dodge county farmer, eloped with William Calhoon, a farm hand who had been working near the Hahn farm this summer. The father of the girl is hot on their trail. Kelm & Co. of Tecumseh will go into the manufacturing of cement building block business. They have bought a machine and will buy a suit able building for their shop. They expect to work at the business all winter. Rev. Charles H. Sudbrock of West Point, pastor of the German Metho dist Episcopal church, has been re tained in his present charge for the en suing year to the great satisfaction of his parishioners and the people of the town. The east wall and a portion of the floor of the packing house and can ning factory at Fremont fell in, carry ing with them about 20*000 cans of corn which had been boxed but not la beled. The wall was discovered to be in a shaky condition just before the accident, and several men who had been sent under it to examine its con dition had come out only a few min utes before the collapse or they would have been crushed. The packing sea son will be over next week. Frank S. West of Wood River, a prominent stockman, has just return ed from Europe, where he has been for the purpose of buying horses. He purchased them in Belgium, but dur ing his trip visited in England, France and Holland. He states that a Nebraska farmer could easily make a fortune in France, raising hogs. They sell there at ten cents per pound and corn can be shipped from South America for 68 cents a bushel and alfalfa can be successfully raised. Few people, he says, are engaged In this business. Dr. W. T. Hathaway of Nebraska City is fitting up a boat and will start down the river the first of next month, and may go as far as New Orleans before thinking of returning home. He will go alone. The amendments to the fish and game laws adopted by the last legis lature are to be tested in the courts. The game department has preferred charges against John Willis of Mar quet, under the new section prohibit ing the possession of more than ten prairie chickens by one individual at any one time during the month of September. The Burlington’s shops at Platts mouth are now turning out an aver age of twenty-five coaches and BOO freight cars per month. It Is the In tention to increase the number of coaches to thirty-five per month as soon as a sufficient number of men can be secured. William J. Bryan will donate ten acres of land to Lincoln’s new city park and a number of other promi nent and influential citizens, induced by Mr. Bryan, are seriously consid ering making like contributions of land or money to purchase lota ad joining. fS^SS^’ JAPAN’S RICH SPOILS OF WAR. Concessions Said to Be Worth More Than $600,000,000. When the Marquis Ito persuaded the Mikado of Japan to waive the indem nity and make peace with Russia, he w’as perfectly well aware, it is de clared now, that the concessions which Japan bad gained were worth far more than the $600,000,000. It is also said to have been known that Russia would not pay any money, even if Japan fought for another year or more. Mr. Dennison, in an interview with a Times reporter before he left New York for Seattle, said: “Japan has gained much more than she went to war for. The three essen tial points were the evacuation of Man churia, the return of Port Arthur to China, and the withdrawal of Russia from Korea." “What is the value approximately of the Yentan and Fushan coal mines?" “I cannot say positively,’’ said Mr. Dennison, “but I should think they are worth anything from $250,000,000 upward. The LJao-Tung peninsula, with the ports of Dalny and Port Ar thur, upon which the Russians have expended so many millions, are very valuable, and will be rapidly devel oped by Japanese trade and enter prise. The southern half of Sakhalin contains valuable mines and has very rich seal fisheries on its coasts. In speaking of the value of the fish ing concessions ceded by Russia in the new treaty, E. Yamaza. director of the political bureau in Tokio, said: “The fisheries along the Russian maritime provinces teem with salmon, salmon trout, herring and cod. Three years ago Russia made a provisional regulation by which the fisheries of a large part of the Russian coast were closed to foreign fishermen. A yearly license was granted to Japanese fish ermen which allowed them to fish off the southern end of Sakhalin only, and out of this the trade amounted to $1,000,000. Of the Kamchatka coast the fishing is reported to be phenome nal in its abundance. Under the new concessions the Japanese fishing trade should develop rapidly and be worth $10,000,000 a year in a very short time.” As to the control of the railroads in Korea and the Liao-Tung peninsula, M. Yamaza said: “Japan now operates the Trans-Ko rean railway from Fusan to Wiju, the light military railways from Wiju to Mukden, the Eastern Chinese railway from Kwang-cheng-Tse to Port Arthur and Dalny, branch lines from the main line to the coal mines of Fushun and Yenta. There is a concession for a new line from Mukden to Sing-min Tung, a distance of thirty miles, to join the Chinese Imperial railway from Tien-Tsin, and the concession for the line to Kirin from Kwang cheng-Tse about 100 miles; also the line from Niu-Chwang to the main line to Port Arthur.” The Chinese government nominally operates its own lines, but these will come under Japanese direction, in or der to facilitate the handling of the joint systems and the through traffic. The Japanese government has been backing China up in her attempt to get back the concessions of the Can ton-Hankow and Hankow-Peking rail ways. Originally the Belgians had the con cession to build the Hankow-Peking railway, and the line from Hankow to Canton was to be constructed by the American-China Development company. Finding later that Russian and French capital was at the back of the Belgian concession, Japan wanted the concession returned to China. Re cently the American syndicate sold back its Canton-Hankow concession to China, after building twenty miles of the road.—New York Times. Pointers for Young Lawyers. Several notable members of the British bar have been giving advice to young lawyers. Sir John Bingham says: “Work hard, have noble ambi tions, be bold, have confidence in your selves, get married.” Sir Edward Clarke said much the same thing, but Justice Maule declared that there were only three things essential: “The first is high animal spirits, the second is high animal spirits and the third Is high animal spirits. If, in ‘ addition, the young man will take the trouble to iearn a little law, I do not think It will impede his progress in the pro fession.” Governor May 8ell Library. It is said Gov. Pennypacker of Penn sylvania intends to sell his fine and unusual historical library this fall. He has a fine collection of Franklin im prints, probably 160 volumes, and about 200 old Germantown reprints. This section is valued at $10,000. There is also a long series of presi dential autographs and letters, with other papers ranging from a manu script diary of Washington’s down to Lincoln’s marriage license. LINEVITCH AT OYAMA’S MERCY. American Railway Experts Saw Little Hope for Russians. American railway men are of the opinion that Gen. Linevitch should thank the gods that M. Witte con cluded a treaty of peace at Ports mouth. If he had failed to do so, they believe that Oyama would have over whelmed the Russian forces in Man churia in the great battle that must have followed the breaking off of peace negotiations. The railway men base their conclu I sions on the belief that while Oyama had an army of upward of 600,000 men when the war ended, Linevitch had not been re-enforced. It must be remembered that the Russians, to reach Linevitch, must transport everything about 6,000 miles over a single-track railroad, which has heretofore failed to handle its traffic satisfactorily under even the most fa vorable conditions. To the insuf ficiency of the road add the paralysis due to faulty management, and the Si berian railway would have been whol ly inadequate to keeping an army of 400,000 men in first-class condition— still less to increasing its force and needed supplies. Early in the war, when Viceroy Alexeieff was in command throughout Manchuria, he traveled over the road a great deal. Having a great dislike to night travel the viceroy would in variably have his special train side tracked for about ten hours every night, and as he refused to allow other trains to pass the station where he stopped, because they disturbed his sleep, whenever the viceroy was trav eling the trains loaded with soldiers, provisions and ammunitions were held up during the whole of the. viceroy’s sleeping time. According to Mr. Taburno all of the Russian generals insisted upon having special trains, which not only ab sorbed nearly all the passenger rolling stock and forced the soldiers to travel in ordinary freight and cattle cars, but also caused innumerable delays and blockades. For instance, it is related that Gen. Gripenberg was supplied with a spe cial train in which he spent much of his time. Finding that the special trains of .other generals were fitted with electric lights, the general side tracked his train for two weeks to have the electric lights put in. Later, while sidetracked only eight miles from the headquarters of another general, Gen. Gripenberg refused to travel over the well-paved highway, but made frequent visits to his col league in his special train, in spite of the protests of the railway men against the necessary stoppage of traf fic on the line every time these visits were paid. Among other favored travelers by rail were a number of blooded cows, imported expressly to supply the gen eral officers with milk. One of these cows when far south in Manchuria was ordered to the neighborhood of Harbin; and as the track was filled with trains carrying soldiers south and wounded north, it was found that the switching and hauling of this cow had held up the whole line for the equivalent of twelve hours. And then, owing to some mistake in transporta tion, another six hours was spent in getting this cow to a locality where she could be readily reached by the general’s private servant. In view of these revelations it is al most too much to believe that the sin gle-tracked Siberian railway could be depended upon to keep Linevitch’s army in equal numbers and efficiency to that of Oyama. And if the Ports mouth conference had definitely ad journed without having made a treaty, it is probable there would have been “something doing” in Manchuria. Hard to Understand Japanese. After fourteen years’ residence in Japan Lafcadio Hearn confessed that he was absolutely unable to under stand the oriental mind, which he re gards as an impenetrable mystery. “I can not" he says, “claim to know much about Japan. Long ago the best and dearest Japanese friend I ever had said to me a little before hL death: ‘When you find* in four or five years more, that you can not under stand the Japanese at all then you will begin to know something about them.’ After having realized the truth of my friend’s prediction—after having discovered that I can not un derstand the Japanese at all—I feel better qualified to attempt this essay” —his last book. Oldest American Jockey Killed. Sam Rice, aged 78, the oldest jockey on the American turf, was fatally in jured in the last race at the Corry, Pa., fair. He was riding and was in a bunch at the back stretch, when his horse stumbled and fell on him. His son Charles was killed at Sheepshead Bay some years ago by being thrown from a horse. NAN PATTERSON AGAIN A WIFE. Central Figure of Recent Tragedy Re marries Former Husband. Nan Patterson, who was the central figure in the Caesar Young murder case, has been remarried to her for mer husband, Leon C. Martin. Although she obtained a divorce from him in California at the time she met Young, Martin was one of the first and one of the few to aid her when she was in the Tombs. The tragic death of Young, the ar rest of Miss Patterson, which quickly followed, in June, 1904, and many of the developments which attended the case in its early stages furnished a series of sensations which attracted wide attention. Young was a race track follower, horseman anfl book maker, who had accumulated a for tune in a few’ years. It wa9 declared he had formed a warm attachment for Nan Patterson, a former show girl, and that to put an end to their intimacy Young’s wife had prevailed upon him to go abroad. All arrangements for the trip had been made and Mrs. Young was at the pier awaiting the arrival of her husband when she was informed that he had been shot and killed while riding in a cab with Miss Patterson. Although the tragedy in the cab was witnessed by several persons there was a wide difference of opinion as to whether Young committed suicide or was murdered. The man and woman had been struggling, then followed the report of a pistol, and when bystand ers rushed up to the cab Young was dead, his head resting in Miss Patter son’s lap. According to her story, Young was downcast and despondent and said he would kill himself rather than leave her. The struggle, she said, was for possession of the weapon with which he threatened to take his life, but she • szps-&av-cyz4P7znr'~* was unable to prevent him from car rying out his purpose. Two juries disagreed and a third ended because of the illness of a jur or. The state then dropped the case. NO GREAT FACTOR IN WARFARE Balloons Have Yet to Prove of Value in This Direction. The aeronaut who was illustrating to an Ohio gathering the value of a balloon in time of war as a means of attacking an enemy by dropping dyna mite or some similiar explosive from high up in the air only succeeded in accomplishing the complete demoli tion of his own balloon and the loss of his life. This suggestion for drop ping explosives is as old as balloons. When the first ascensions were made with hot air it was predicted that in the future balloons were to play an extremely important part in warfare. Though that was along ago, they have yet to demonstrate their worth in this direction. They have been used with more or less success, less rather than more, we should say, for observation purposes, but even in the war between Russia and Japan it is admitted that the attempts to accom plish anything with balloons were fail ures. Possibly when airships are built that can be controlled far more com pletely than any yet constructed, they will be used for war purposes. The limited weight they can carry and the great restriction on their navigation make the value of even the dirigible balloon in warfare a question yet to be solved.—Boston Herald. Von Moltke’s Grim Determination. Possibility that the Japanese army might mutiny because peace had been declared recalls an incident of the Franco-Prussian war. After the bat tle of Sedan and the surrender of the French emperor with 84,000 troops, next day many European newspapers thought that France had been hum bled sufficiently. At a council of war Crown Prince Frederick suggested to call a halt. The great strategist list ened in silence, but when pressed for a reply said grimly to Emperor Wil liam, “Sire, I must blood my hounds,’’ and so the war went on. Pageantry to Pneumonia. Chief Justice Nott of the United States Court of Claims puts the case for a later presidential inauguration day in a nutshell when he describes the present arrangement as “a great pageant at the beginning, pneumonia at the end.” So many lives have been sacrificed to the elements at the na tional capital on the 4th of March that the desirability of a postpone ment of the Inauguration ceremonies to a pleasanter month is indisputable, although the great difficulty must be encountered on account of the neces sity of amending the Constitution to effect the change.—Providence Jour nal. To Lay Cable From Horseback. Capt. Edward Molineux of the East Indian service has perfected a device for laying a very fine cable from horseback, and in practice marches it has been found possible to keep in telegraphic communication with other divisions even while on the move. The wire can be paid out while the rro’int proceeds at a hard gallop, and may be reeled in again as rapid’" aa it was pid out. I RAIN-IN-THE-FACE. THE REPUTED I I SLAYER OF GEN. CUSTER. DEAD JSAJjv-uy-the:-face. Rain in the Face, the Sioux Indian chief who is reputed to have Killed Gen. Custer at the battle of the Little Big Horn in June, 1876, died Sept. 18 at the Bullhead station. Standing Rock reservation, N. D., in his sixty-third year. His reputed deeds during the Custer massacre had made Rain in the Face an important historical character. He was declared to have joined Sitting Bull’s hostile band two years be.ore the fight for the purpose of killing Gen. Custer and carrying away the heart of Col. Tom Custer, brother of the general. This hatred of the Custer brothers harked back to the murder of an ar my surgeon and a trader when they stopped to water their horses on the Red river in 1873. A scout in the fall of 1874 brought word that Rain in the Face did the murder to Gen. Custer at Fort Lincoln, and Col. Tom Custer went to the Standing Rock reservation and took the chief a prisoner. The chief was confined to the guard house after having boastfully con fessed the crime. Winter came, and Rain in the Face lay upon the floor, without as much a6 a blanket to cover him, and at times the snow would drift in inches deep. It was in this miserable prison that he first con ceived the intense hatred he bore both the general and his brother. In the spring of 1875 he escaped and at once joined Sitting Bull. Whether he personally secured vengeance on the Custers in the massacre of June 26, 1876, is a disputed question. He THE COUNTRY OF THE CAUCASUS Interesting Facts About Unquiet Ter ritory of Russia. Its area is about 180.000 square miles, constituting the isthmus separ ating the Caspian from the Black sea and the Sea of Azov. Russian Armenia is included in the southern part. The Caucasus range divides the country into northern Caucasia and Trans-Caucasia. The vegetation is extraordinarily di versified, from the forests of northern pine to the luxuriant growths of figs, pomegranates, etc., in the basin of the Rion. Its oil wells are second only to those of the United States, producine annu ally nearly 10,000,000 tons of petro leum. The mineral products are the rich est in Russia, the annual output being over 600,000 tons of manganese ore, 3,000 tons of copper, besides sulphur, cobalt, salt and iron. The northern portion produces one fifth as much wheat as European Rus sia proper and one-tenth as much hay. In Trans-Caucasia cultivation of the vine claims chief attention; much to bacco is also raised, besides tea and cotton. The Caucasus is a very favorable re gion for live stock raising. The na tive horses are held in high repute all over Europe for their speed and en durance. In manufacturing, the Caucasus does not amount to much. Transportation View of the Battlefield of the Little Big Horn. boasted that he had killed them both and had “cut the heart out of Col. Cus ter." In his later years, however, he was not so positive about it. Rain in the Face was one of six brothers, a fullblooded Unkpaha Sioux, and of great physical prowess. Generous Fraternal Orders. There are in America to-day doing untold good to the needy over 200 fraternal beneficiary orders, with a combined membership of over 5.000, 000 who are protected to the extent of about $7,500,000,000 and have dis tributed benefits to disabled members amounting to more than $825,000,000. In 1904 alone they distributed $65,000, 000, or at the rate of $1,250,000 per week, besides paying over 40,000 death claims last year. Sixty-four of the above orders have a membership of over 10,000 and the others from 5,000 to 7,000. Prof. Schurr’s Good Work. Prof. Theodore A. Schurr, who has just died in Baltimore, was a pioneer in the crusade against killing birds for hat adornment. He had a collec tion of birds and butterflies represent ing 50,000 specimens, valued at about $100,000. He had in his possession more than 1,200 personal letters and testimonials from presidents of uni versities and colleges regarding his exhibit. * Thinks Gates Is Backing Durnell. It is rumored in New York that John W. Gates is to be financial back er for Charles E. Durnell, a young turfman who has been purchasing a string of yearlings. His closest friends do not credit the report, but the rumor will not down. There is no doubt that some wealthy man is back ing Durnell to a handsome extent. R->-*and Spending His Wealth. Edmond Rostand has made so much money with the products of his pen that he has been able to engage three popular Parisian artists, Jean Veber, Henri Martin and Caro Delvaille, to decorate his Basque villa at Cambo. facilities are very inadequate. In 1897 the population was 9.248,695, or *4 per square mile. The chi°f cities are Tiflis, the capi tal. and Baku. Nowhere else on earth is there such a confusion of peoples, languages and religions gathered In one area as in the Causasus. The numbc* of dialects is rated at sixty-eight. The Russians entered the region in 1770. Kuban and Terek became theirs in 1774, Derbent, Baku and Kubu in 1796. Shamyi, chief of the flercl mountain tribes, resisted Russia with magnifi cent bravery, but was forced to sur render in 1859, and Russian dominion was assured. The uprising against Russian con trol during the Russo-Turkish war. 1877-78. proved wholly futile despite the active assistance of the Turks. Turban Worries School Authorities. Hira Singh, a high-caste Hindoo who has just been enrolled among the students of East High school, Minne apolis, persists in wearing his turban in class hours and the school authori ties can not decide what to do about the matter. With him the turban is a mark his rank, to be worn at all times. When he roee to recite he still wore his turban, and when asked to remove It by a teacher he politely bn' firmly refused. When the dismissal bell rang Hira still wore his turban, and he is still wearing it, in school and out. While the question is being discussed by the school anthoritie* Singh is fast becoming one of the most popular students in the high school. Brought Watch to Perfection. Duane Herbert Church, the man who revolutionized the watchmaking industry of the world, has jus‘. died at West Newton. Mass. Once an itin erant watch tinker. Mr. Church rose to be an inventor of note, more than 150 devices and improvements of im mense importance to the watch trade among them the present stem-wind! ing watch, standing to his credit