The lonp City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA EPITOIEOF HE® PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO MANY SUBJECTS. ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING Brief Mention of What is Tranapirlng in Various Sections of Our Own and Foreign Countries. CONGRESS. President-elect Wilson has not yet decided what legislation he will recom mend to the extra session of congress besides the tariff. George P. McCabe, solicitor of the Department of Agriculture, has pre sented to Secretary Wilson his resig nation. It has been accepted. The soaring price of crude oil is be ing nvestigated by the department of justice in connection with its inquiry to determine whether the decree dis solving the Standard Oil company had been violated. Opponents of the bill to appropriate $2,000,000 for government participa tion in the Panama-Pacific Internation al exposition practically forestalled ac tion at this session by a filibuster in ^ie house. The supreme court of the United States held in effect for the first time tiat the Sherman anti-trust act does hot forbid the mere combining of non tompetitors in an industry. The de cision was given in the shoe machin ery trust case. President-elect Wilson's attitude on Panama canal tolls and free passage for American coastwise ships is ex pected to have an important bearing upon the senate’s action on the Root amendment proposing the repeal of the free ships provision passed last August. President Taft signed the resolu tion providing for the erection in Washington of a memorial to Presi dent Lincoln in Potomac park. The plan approved by congress will re quire a $2,000,000 appropriation which will be made later. Federal officeholders and employes who have been solicited to contribute to the national campaign funds are to be summoned as witnesses by the sen ate campaign expenditures committee when it opens its investigation into the campaign expenses’ of the general election of 1912. A constitutional amendment which would restrict the president of the United States to a single term of six years and would bar Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft from again seeking election was approved by the senate by a ma jority of one vote. After a three-day fight, in which the progressives joined with many republicans in opposing the restricted presidential term, the senate adopted the original Works resolution by a vote of 47 to 23. The measure now' goes to the house. SPORT. Jack Johnson will meet A1 Palzer in Paris on June 25. The preliminary baseball season has already opened in California. Johnny Kilbane of Cleveland, feath erweight champion, outpointed Young Driscoll of Brooklyn in a ten-round bout in New York. Manager Kellogg of Iowa has made arrangements with Nebraska authori ties for a foot ball game between Iowa and the Comhuskers next sea son. A new rule prohibiting bouts be tween white persons and negroes, otherwise known as “mixed bouts,” has been adopted by the New York State Athletic commission, which con trols boxing In that state. Bombadier Wells, the English heavyweight champion, and Luther McCarty have been matched to box ten rounds in Madison Square Gar den. New York, the latter part of March or early in April, according to cable reports from Ixmdon. Athletes from Japan and China and other oriental nations, gathering in Manilla for the far eastern Olympic, were welcomed by Governor General William Cameron for the United States. There are sixteen Chinese and sixteen Japanese entered, as well as representatives of Siam and many sections of the Philippine islands. Tbe organizers of the proposed new Western association to include Okla homa City, Tulsa, Muskogee, Joplin. Shreveport, Little Rock, Fort Smith and Springfield, will ask Judge Kav anaogh of the Southern league to ac cept the presidency. An organization meeting will be held early in Febru ary. Eastern railway firemen have voted to go on strike. GENERAL. Interstate Commerce Commission Pass Inspector Boyd is in Omaha test lag tiie -free transportation market. A report of Illinois some time ago stated that in the last twenty years 30,000 country churches in Illinois had closed their doors. A great many of the farmers of western Iowa are turning away from the raising of corn, —norting that it is injurious to the land, according to Lewis Abbott of Ctarlnda, la. Cleveland expects to completely equip its fire department with auto mobile apparatus. Taking of testimony has started a second time in the third trial of Dr. B. Clarke Hyde for the murder of Col. Thomas H. Swope in Kansas City. A voluntary advance of 10 per cent tn wages has been granted to all em ployes of the Interborongh Rapid Transit company of New Yerk. Probable abandonment of Fort Mac kenzie. Wyo., in pursuance of the con centration policy of the War depart ment, is a topic of current interest in that state. St. Louis street cars in 1912 killed forty-one persons. Newton, Mass., rs to have a dental clinic for pupils of public schools. In McComb City, Miss., high school boys work in railroad shops on alter nate days. Both houses of the Missouri legislat ure took a recess of thirty minutes while Dr. Anna Shaw spoke on woman suffrage. Both houses of the Iowa legislature passed a concurrent resolution to in vestigate the Iowa state board of agri culture and the state fair board. W. B. Hogan, accused of swinding, who escaped from the detention hos pital at Sioux City, la., while suffer ing with a virulent case of smallpox, was canght at Sac City, la., by Sheriff J. \V. Criss of Sac county. Frances E. Warren of Wyoming was elected to the U. S. senate at Cheyenne for the fifth time, he hav ing already served twenty-four years, by seven majority over his demo cratic opponent. A bill to discourage divorce seek ers frotn going to Nevada, by extend ing the period of residence from six months to one year passed the as sembly by a vote of 30 to 26. It is made effective January 1, 1914. Details of the wreck of the schooner Granada on the bar at the entrance to Colorado river, received at Bluefields, Nic., say that twenty persons were drowned. Of the fifteen passengers who perished, several were among the most important citizens of the repub lic. A definite line of action to do away with the middleman and build up a co-operative system whereby farm products may be sold and de livered by the producer to the con sumer was adopted at a recent ses sion of the fortieth annual convention of the New York state grange. About $3,000,000 was spent last year by fraternal organizations, labor un ions and insurance companies in spe cial funds for the treatment of their tuberculosis members and policyhold ers, according to a statement issued by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. A boy's cry of "fire,” and the smoke from an exploded reel of a motion picture machine in a New York thea ter resulted in a panic among the audience of 400 persons and a rush for the exits in which two women were killed and eleven other persons so badly injured that they had to he sent to hospitals. uiiirs ui wuc leading from the powe74,396, the government's loss on this project appears to be $0,747,390. Mexican Army Revolts. Mexico City.—Following a revolt jf the army in Mexico City when the insurgents took possession of federal buildings, shot down federal adhe •ents in the streets, and released General Felix Diaz from prison. Pres ident Francisco Madero, with his ministers and a strong detachment of foval troops, i& fortified in the na tional palace. General Diaz, leader of the Vera Cruz revolt, with a large majority of the regulars behind him, aas practical control of the capital. Argument Has Been Reached. Washington. — Attorney General Wickersham announces that he has reached an agreement with the repre sentatives of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads for the dis solution of the great Harriman mer ger as decreed by the supreme court. Nine Indictments Found. New York.—Nine indictments, and possibly ten, are expected to be re turned by the grand jury in the police graft investigations. Two of these indictments will be against members of the police department, one of whom he said to be an inspector. King Nicolas Directs Fighting. Podgoritza, Montenegro.—A general attack by the combined Montenegrin and Servian armies has been opened Dn the Turkish fortress of Scutari. King Nicolas of Montenegro is per sonally directing the operations. Salvador’s President Dies. San Salvador.—Dr. Manuel El Arau jo, president of the republic af Sal vador, who was wounded by the bul lets of an assassin on February 4, is dead. Don Carlos Melendez will suc ceed to the office of chief executive, He was the first designate. Bryan in Havana. Havana.—William J. Bryan, who has arrived here, called on President Comez. He dined at the American legation this evening and later de livered a lecture. Mn Bryan will leave for Isle of Pines later. Must Protect Hat Pins. Stockholm.—Under a new law street ;ar conductors throughout Sweden are provided with rubber tipB to give to women not complying with the new law against unprotected hat pins. Dry State Measure Passed. Washington.—The Webb bill to pro hibit the interestate shipment of Squor into dry states for purposes of sale “or in any manner used’’ in violation of the state laws was passed by the house, 240 to 65. The bill now goes to the senate. Thirty Million “Strap Hangers’’ Chicago.—It was learned in connec tion with the introductionn of a “no seat, no fare” ordinance, that 30,000, 000 perrons annually qualify as “strap hangers” in this city. Board May Provide Pool. Lincoln.—Superintendent Hunter ol the Lincoln schools has been asked by the school board to investigate swim ming pools in high schools to see whether or not one should be included in the new building to be started there this spring. Attorney General to Take Tour. Washington.—Arrangements for the world-giriding trip of Attorney Gener al Wlckersham on his retirement from office next nonth have been finally settled. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF Coming Events In Nebraska. Feb. 19 to 21—Fourth Annual Con servation Congress. Lincoln. February 20-21-22.—Loyal Order of Moose Fair and Bazar, Omaha. Feb. 24 to March 1.—Omaha Auto mobile Show, Omaha. March 5 to 15—“Made-in-Nebraska’* Show, Omaha. Dodge is to have a ball team next season. A new theater has been opened at Silver Creek. Chadron is soon to have a new mon ument works. North Platte is to soon have a new office building. A good roads meeting was held in McCook, Feb. 4. Merrick county's new court house is nearing completion. Madison's new $«,000 Carnegie li brary has been opened. Building improvements in Scribner in 1912 reached $55,975. North Platte Chamber of Commerce has started a boosting campaign. An effort is being made to secure a sugar beet factory for Lisco. Peru's Commercial club recently held Its third annual banquet. Ainsworth Monks of McCook was killed at Wray, Colo., in a train ac cident. In Fremont during the month of January there were twelve deaths and nine births. A bill has been introduced in the legislature providing for a division of Custer county. The authorities of Norfolk are mak ing a light against the cigarette evil in the schools. The Cudahy soap factory will not move to Kansas City from Omaha, as has been rumored. Logan Creek Farmers’ club, near Scribner, in 1912, spent $1,800 in building improvements. Mrs. Sarah Hinitt, one of the oldest inhabitants of that county and a pio neer, passed a way at her home at Fairbury. Twenty-five expert checker players entered the contest given by the Ne braska State Crecker association at MrTook To trade Manawa and adjacent ter ritory for Carter lake and adjacent territory is the object of a bill intro duced in the legislature. Parcel post has been seized by uni versity students a9 a cheap way of sending their laundry home and cut ting down expenses. Senator J. M. McFarland has intro duced a bill to permit the sale of liquor by restaurants and hotels with each 50-cent meal after 8 p. m. The State Association of Treasurers and the Nebraska Association of Charities and Conferences will hold their 1914 meetings in Omaha. Water users of the Keith and Lin coln County Irrigation district are considering the proposition of buying a perpetual water right from the gov ernment. Word has been received of a $400 theft of automobile tires, two fur overcoats and other automobile sup plies from the John Butler garage at Hampton. Omaha lodge No. 90, Loyal Order of Moose, will introduce a novelty shortly in the shape of a fair and ba zar to be held at its club house, Feb ruary 20, 21 and 22. from Tangier temple, Omaha, of the Ancient Arabic order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine to go to the im perial council at Dallas, Tex., May 10 is now' being effected. At a special election held at Ox ford for the purpose of voting bonds to install a municipall electric lighting plant, the pooposition carried by a vote of more than 2 to 1. A system of organizing county school districts in Nebraska for econo my and efficiency and equal distribu tion of school taxes is now being con templated by a great many school men of the state. Thirty dollars a month is the amount provided by Douglas county for the supervision of its tuberculosis patients at the county hospital. The number varies from thirteen to twenty. A fataf outbreak of what veterinar ians say they believe to be an apo plectic form of anthrax is killing cat tle by scores in western Nebraska. Andrew Tuckson, a ranchman living twenty-five miles north of Ogallala, has lost fifty-two head of his herd of 300. George Mayo or .\ortn go up nas i .been apponted oil inspector in the pixth district. This appointment fills the list of food and oil inspectors and will permit the consolidated depart ments, of which C. E. Harman is the head, to begin immediate work in all sections of the state. Henry T. Clarke, one of the oldest citizens of Nebraska, a pioneer of Omaha and Bellevue, died at Excel sior Springs, Mo., aged 79'years. Mr. Clarke was instrumental in the up building of the state as well as being identified in church work. He came to the state in 1835. He was the first Master Mason of Nebraska lodge No. 1, Bellevue. One hundred and twenty-five people attended the Mason City farmers’ in stitute. The receipts at the Femont post office for the month of January show an increase over the corresponding period of a year ago of $454.53. The senate has passed the bill pro viding that legal voters absent from their homes on election, may cast their votes by mail. Several Nebraskans will take part in the program of the department of superintendents of the National Educa tion asociation. at its meeting in Phi ladelphia, February 24 to March 1. There is a movement on foot in Chappell to organize a Commercial club. The Nebraska bank guarantee fund Is now $447,000, and there has not been a bank failure since the law went into effect. At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Nebraska Editorial as sociation, held in Omaha January 31, it was decided to hold the 1913 edi torial copvention in Omaha June 2, 3 and 4. Headquarters, while the news paper men are in that city, will be at the Rome hotel. A complete pro gram will be prepared later. FAVOR FARM BUREAU NEW PLAN PRESENTED FOR COUNTY DEVELOPMENT. MOVEMENT IS STATEWIDE Work to Be Done Under Direction of United States Department of Agriculture^ Omaha.—A state-wide plan for county development was presented at the Public Affairs luncheon of the Commercial club of Omaha, at a joint meeting of the club members and the Omaha Grain exchange. The plan was presented by Bert Ball, secretary of the Crop Improvement committee of the Council of Grain exchanges, composed of the leading grain ex changes of the United States. The plan has been placed in the budget of (the Grain and Agricultural commit tee of the Commercial club for con sideration and will be discussed at length by that body in the near fu ture. It is proposed to form a farm bu reau in each county of Nebraska, which will hire a county agent who shall work under the direction of Prof. Pugsley. sta'e lender, representing the United States Department of Agricul ture and the Agricultural College at Lincoln. The county organizations are to be formed in connection with the local commercial clubs and farmers' organi zations, treating the county as a unit to encourage not only greater produc tion but to see that the marketing conditions are so perfected that the citizens of each county shall be able to collect every dollar which is com ing to that county. The work will be conducted locally hv special committees of those most j r.uallitied in the county to encourage crop improvement, road building, agri culture in the schools, live stock, dairying, home economics, farm ac counting, marketing etc. The agriculture committee of the club consists of millers, grain men. railroad men, bankers, jobbers and manufacturers of which Mr. M. C i Peters, of the M. C. Peters Mill Co., is chairman. The state-wide Nebraska plan will he made with no individual member ship, but each county as rapidly as organized will be affiliated and repre sented by its president on the State Advisory Committee. The commit* tee is not scientific, and will not of for any advice whatever as to agri cultural methods, such owrk now be- i ing in the hands of Prof. Pugsley, the State leader. 6710 counties in all parts of the United States have undertaken this work, and 102 county associations have already been incorporated and : have employed county agents under j this plan. 7 Nebraska counties have j practically completed organizations up to this time. Position of Turks Hopeless. London.—The Daily Telegram pub lishes a long uncensored dispatch from its correspondent, Ellis Ashamed Bart let, at Constantinople, in which he says the Turkish people are in such a state of misery and destitution as a result of the war, that they are com pletely indifferent as to the fate of Adrianople. “The cabinet is in a quandary,” says j the correspondent. “It knows that it ^ will be compelled to cede Adrianople ; and is only seeking some means to save its face. “There is not a cent in the treasury and there are no means of getting money until peace is concluded. Mean while, the country is drifting to ruin and bankruptcy. “A great anti-war demonstration oc curred recently in front of the war office, at which the Young Turk® were publicluy denounced as murderers and thieves. Mthmound Shefket Pasha appeared on the balcony and tried to make a speech, but was greeted with opprobrious epithets. “The misery in the Turkish carries is indescribable. It has been bitterly cold, with a heavy snow; the soldiers are ill fed and badly sheltered. Small pox, enteric fever, dysentery and pneu monia have replaced Asiatic cholera. N. Y. Gambling Houses Raided. New York.—The higher-up circles of the gambling fraternity were upset by the raids which wee made simultan eously upon eight big alleged gamb ling establishments in the Fifth avenue and other theatrical districts. As the police in eight taxicab parties, under command of Inspector John F. Dywer, swooped down upon the sus pected places, firemen ga'ning entrance by either pretending to be inspecting the buildings or by shouting "fire.” Bartholdt Is Peace President. St Louis.—Congressman Richard Bartholdt of St Louis has accepted the presidency of the Fourth annual peace congress held here May 1-3. Suffragetes Sent to Jail. Ix>ndon.—Sylvia. Pankhurst. the militant snffragete leader, was sen tenced to two weeks imprisonment or a fine of ?10 at Bow street police court. The same punishment was meted out to nineteen other women who participated in the raid on the House of Commons. Mid-West Cement Show. Omaha.—A trip through the aisles of the Auditorium, when the Mid-West Cement show opened, revealed some exceedingy interesting sights to the layman as well as to those versed in cement machinery and construction. To Use Moving Pictures. Omaha.—Executive committee of the Omaha Commercial club has adopted a resolution favoring a small appropria tion for advertising Nebraska at the San Francisco exposition. A moving picture exhibit is contemplated. INDIAN DEVIL’S WAR CLUB Rocks in the Black Hills of South Dakota Said to Have Been Made by His Satanic Majesty. Sioux Falls, S. D.—In the Black Hills of South Dakota, the region in cluded in the hunting grounds of the great and warlike Sioux Indian na tion, two huge columnar stones of very hard pegmatite are apparently 6tuck in the rocky apex of a low mountain, 1,000 feet or so above the Dakota plains. An old Indian legend has it that these columns were orig inally a single rock, the head of the devil’s club or tomahawk. His Sa tanic majesty, in crossing over one day from the Stony mountains (Rocky mountains) to the Father of Waters (the Mississippi river), to get a drink, rested for a moment with one foot on this mountain and the other on an adjoining mountain, and feeling particularly hot and thirsty he vi ciously drove his stone tomahawk L Devil’s War Club. point down into the top of the moun tain nearest his right hand. The tomahawk split a great rock apart, but being a part of the mountain it closed together tightly around the tomahawk and whey the devil started to pull out the weapon, try as he would, he could not get it loose. In his angry efforts he broke off the han dle. which was made from an im mense mountain fir tree, and further succeeded only in splitting the head of the tomahawk itself. At this he left in disgust, and strode on to the Mississippi. Since then the split tomahawk has stood as it is today, and the top of the mountain has ever since been a place to be shunned by all but the most daredevil of Indian warriors. How ever. it is told that at various times certain Indian medicine men, not themselves taking much stock in the terrors of the region, during pe riods when their prestige in the tribes was at a low ebb due to their false prognostications concerning the 'outcome of certain battles, have found a safe refuge in the darksome sha dows of the Devil's War Club. DIVORCE COSTS HIM POST Confirmation of Appointment as Coad jutor of Kansas Diocese Defeated When Marital Tangle Is Revealed. St. Louis. Mo.—Rev. H. Percy Silver lacked two bishopric votes of enough to confirm his appointment as bishop coadjutor of Kansas, it was announced by Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church of America, and the diocese of Kansas may now call the election null and proceed to a new choice. The objection of the bishops to Dr. Silver is said to have been that he has been divorced from his wife. Dr. Silver is a former chaplain of the regular army. For a year he was connected with the cathedral at Oma ha. He is secretary of the seventh missionary district, with headquarters at Topeka, Kan. The Kansas diocese elected him bishop coadjutor of Kansas, see of Topeka, and the election was confirm ed by the standing committee, but when the necessary consent of the bishop was asked, the story that he had been legally separated from a wife in Nebraska some years ago pro voked opposition. The three months allowed for the gathering of votes expired recently. MEN MAY END OWN LIVES Utah Judge Shows Advantages of Custom of Allowing Doomed Crimi nals to Commit Suicide. Salt Lake City, T’tah.—The method to be used hereafter In executing crim inals in the state of ITtah has become a topic widely discussed since the leg islature convened. The latest idea expressed is thpt condemned criminals be allowed to take their own lives, after they have exhausted t very means to have the death sentence set aside. The state law now provides that condemned criminals be executed either by shooting or hanging, the choice to be made by the person to be executed. Judge Thomas Marioneaux has is sued a statement in which he sets forth the advantages of the Chinese custom permitting a condemned crim Inal to commit suicide. Spears a Cowfish. New York.—That big herd of cow fish which grazes in the Algae fields ofT the coast of Florida, lost one of its finest members on Jan. 19, when the steamer Saratoga came along on her way north. The steamer ran into the fish and held it fast on her stem. George Dollar, the chief officer, was lowered over the side to dislodge its body, but he did not succeed. Finally the Saratoga's engines were reversed and she backed clear of the fish. 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In another part of this paper you will find a large ad of the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co.. Omaha, Neb. They offer to send to any reader a box of assort ed biscuits absolutely free. Don’t miss this opportunity. Cut out the coupon from their ad and mail it today. Sure. ‘‘Don't you think that, we should have a more elastic currency?” asked the Old Fogy. ‘Tt’s elastic enough,” replied the Grouch. “Why don’t they make it more adhesive?” Compromise. Senator Fletcher of Jacksonville, apropos of t he recent peace confer ence in London, said: “Such conferences usually end in a compromise, and the people con cerned depart homeward with sour smiles. “A compromise, you know, has been accurately described as an agreement whereby both parties get what they don’t want.” Incompetent Georgie. Little George was six years old and the family was much interested in having him start to school, but he in sisted that he was not going. One day his grandmother said to him: “Georgfe, you are going to school with sister this winter, aren't you?" “No, grandma, I’h not going to school at all. 1 can’t read, nor I can't write, nor I can’t sing, and I'd like to know what good I’d be at school?” At the Studio. A motor stopped in front of the photographer’s, and a woman lack ing none of the artificial accessories deemed necessary to “looks,” entered the studio. A couple of days later the photogra pher submitted proofs for her ap proval. “Not one of these pictures looks anything like me,” the woman in sisted. The photographer tried in every way to pacify her, but finding this an impossibility, lost control of his temper. "Madam!” he exclaimed, "did you read my sign?” v “Yes.” "Well! It doe not say ‘cleaning, dyeing and remodeling.’ It says ’por traits.’ ” Shivery Mornings You can have a taste of the summer sunshine of the com fields by serving a dish of Post Toasties These crisp Savoury bits of toasted white com make an appetizing dish at any time of year. Try them in February and taste the delicate true maize flavour. A dish of Toasties served either with cream or milk, or fruit, is surprisingly good. **The Memory Lingers** Grocers everywhere sell Toasties Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich. J