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The Loup City Northwestern X W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. VOUP CITY, . . NEBRASKA NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED COVERS WIDE AREA. MUTER OR LESSER IMPORT Includes What Is Going On at Wash ington and in Other Sections of the Country. CONGRESS. Senator Nelson has introduced a bill introducing a system of asset-se cured currency for national banks. The senate passed the resolution giving the naval committee the pow er to investigate the armor plate con tracts. Education and labor committee of the senate are considering plans for investigation of West Virginia coal mine strike. Senator Smith of South Carolina has demanded an investigation and action against persons who sold cot ton to cotton pools. The House Naval affairs committee deferred action on armor plate fac tory resolution; Admiral Twining tes tified regarding proposed factory. Finance sub-committees of the House have begun the work of revis ing various schedules of the tariff bill to report, to full committee. The banking and currency commit tee has authorized Chairman Owen to draft a list of questions on currency reform to be submitted to all bankers. Senator Overman has introduced a resolution to abrogate former Presi dent Taft's order putting fourth class postmasters under civil service. Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale, appear ed before a ‘senate foreign relations sub-committee urging the passage of a bill creating an international com mission to study the high cost of liv ing. A constitutional amendment to pro vide direct election of the president I and vice president for a single six year term was proposed in a resolu tion by Representative Britten of Illi nois. Senator Lewis has been elected democratic floor manager and assist ant- to Majority Leader Kern by democratic caucus, which also named committee to confer regarding or ganization of democratic congres sional campaign committee. Senator Cummins plans to call up for consideration in the senate his resolution directing the appointment of a subcommittee to investigate the presence of a tariff lobby in Washing ton, as emphasized in the recent de claration against lobbyists by Presi dent Wilson. A new plan for national elections nnd the assembling of congress was proposed by Senator Works in twro bills. He would change election day from November to August and pro vide for annual sessions of congress from the first Monday in October to the first Monday in June. S, # ^ . _ ' __ GENERAL. Maryland expects to complete 500' miles of new state roads system this year. New York is passing the hat for $50 000 to finance a Fourth of July celebration. After a week’s search, the body of Miss Vinnie Colt, a girl of 18, was found in a ravine in the Sierra Ne vadas, twenty miles from Trukee. She tad been killed and partially devoured Former President William H. Taft, In his concluding lecture at Yale on “Some Questions of Modern Govern ment,” declared the United States was , “ludicrously unprepared for war.” The strike at the Mount Hope mine cf the Empire Steel and Iron com pany, at Morristown, N. J., has been settled and some of the miners have gone back to work. The strike began last March. The countess of Aberdeen has been Invited by twenty national women's councils of Europe and America to retain the presidency of the Interna tional Council of women for a further period of five years. Federal laws against the “introduc tion of liquor into Indian country” are held by the supreme court to pro hibit the introduction of liquor from neighboring states into Oklahoma counties occupied by Indians. George Comstock, known among cir cus people as “Babe Caldwell, the fat man,” and who weighed 408 pounds, died suddenly at Venice. It required twelve men to carry Comstofck to the automobile in which he was rushed to a hospital when he became ill. Gaylard M. Saitzgaber of V: t ’ "crt, O, has taken the oath of office as com missioner of pensions. Construction of railroads and open ing of coal mines was asked of con gress in a memorial from the Alaska legislature laid before the senate. General Antonio Rabaga has re signed as military governor of Chi huahua state. He will go to Mexico City. Twenty students of the Central and South high schools of Akron, O, were Injured when a balcony In the audi > torium of the Central high school col lapsed. Dr. Eusebio Morales, the newly ac credited minister from Panama has arrived in Washington. New Jersey has a baby born on the thirteenth pt the month, in 19X3, and is the thirteenth child of Its par ents, O. E. Harder has resigned as state food analyst of Kansas to accept a fellowship at the University of Illi nois. 1 \ Thomas P. Kane, acting controller ©f the currency, has abondoned the compulsory annual meetings of nation al bank examiners at their own ex Fenee. f ' / „ .... V Miss Frances A. Shaw, for thirty years a resident of Minneapolis and widely known as an author, is dead. Joseph R. Wilson, brother of the president, has accepted a position with a leading bonding company with headquarters in Balitmore. The "Frisco” railroad and its sub sidiary road, the Chicago & Eastern Illinois have gone into the hands of a receiver. The Maryland convention of the Protestant Episcopal church voted against the proposition to change the church name. The Hip Sings, On Leongs and the Four Brothers—warring-tongs of New York’s Chinatown—have signed a treaty of peace. Robert Goodwin of Skowhegan, re publican representative to congress from the Third Maine congressional district died at Portland of harden ing of the liver. School children between 8 and 14 years went on a strike in Cambridge, Mass., because the school hours did not 6uit their fancy. Wakana I'tagawa, who entered the Tokio Academy of Fine Arts at 14, is visiting this country. She began her studies at the age of 6. General Lunsford L. Lomax, one of the oldest surviving generals of the confederate calvary, died at Wash ington, he was 79 years old. A flight from Milan to Rome, 41C miles, was made in a monoplane in six hours and seven minutes by the Italian aviators, De Roy and Cevasco Eighteen barrels of ginseng, con taining 1,343 pounds, and worth $8,061, have begun their journey from Wausau, Wis., to China. Former President William H. Taft and president Hadley of Yale will lay the cornerstone of the new Yale coliseum to be built opposite the pres ent Yale field. Walter Hines Page, the new Amer ican ambassador, was received with great cordiality by Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary at the foreign oflicc. For the second time Emma Gold man has been chased cut of San Diego by a marching mob. Emma’s stream of talk convinced the regulators that she needed hiking exercise. Dr. Emery W. Hunt, who resigned the presidency of Denison university at New-ark, O., has accepted the sec retaryship of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary society. Manufactured goods exported from the United States in the first ten months of the fiscal year 1913 exceed ed by $500,000 worth a day the ex ports in the corresponding year. The American Red Cross recently authorized American Consul Miller at Tampico, Mex., to draw $3,000 for the maintenance and transportation of American refugees to Galveston. The Danish premier has informed the party leaders that as a result of the recent elections, the government would resign on June 12, when the Danish parliament will reassemble. Frank A. Roach, train dispatcher for the Missouri Pacific railway af Sedalia, Mo., testified that forgetful ness on his part caused a wreck at Brant, Mo., in which three trainmen were killed. Attorney General Barker has filed in the state supreme court his brief in support of his petition for a quo war ranto writ to prevent the fire insur ance companies from withdrawing from Missouri. In an editorial on the California, situation the London Standard ad vises Japan to deal with the question as a purely business matter rather than to import into it sentiments of offended racial and national pride. Information charging six Univer sity of Missouri students with illegal voting in a municipal election, was filed at Jefferson City recently, by E. C. Anderson, prosecuting attorney. He says he will file against twenty other students. Much apprehension was aroused' at :he discovery that unidentified per sons had defiled the front door of the United States consulate at Naples, Sonora. Counsul Frederick Simpitch sent a note of protest to the town pre fect, and a policeman immediately’ was sent to remove the defacement. Suits to hold C. K. G. Billings, bank er and sportsman 'of New York and Chicago, responsible for approximate ly $5,000,000 due to the failure of the John R. Walsh banks, the Chicago National and the Home Savings harf been filed in the circuit court at Chi cago. Field Marshal Kalmar Vcn Dei Goltz, considered one of the foremost strategists of the age, has presented * request to Emperor William to be allowed to -retire. The field marshal who entered the army in 1861 and 'ought through the Prussian-Austrian and Franco-German wars, would have commanded the main German army m case of the breaking out of a war. 8PORT. Catcher George Gibson, of the Pi rates, wearing a plaster cast on his broken ankle, has gone to his home near London, Ont. George will be out of the game for a couple of tndntfcs at least. Tony Jannus made a hydro-aero plane flight from Paducah to St. Louis, a distance of 250 miles. President "Tip” O’Neil of the West ern league has announced that he had purchased Umpire Jack O’Toole of the International league. “King” Cole, the former Cub pitch er, now twirling for the Columbus team, won the first three games he pitched in the American association. A crack “All-Filipino” baseball team composed of fourteen of the fastest ball players in the Islands have start ed for a tour of Japan and the United States. Manager Holmes of the Sioux City team of the Western League has re leased Third Baseman Bob James. Mayor Charles F. O'Neil of San Diego, Cal., vetoed the prize fight or dinance permitting twenty-round con tests passed by the city council. Pitcher Charles McCoy .of the St. Joseph Western League club has been ordered to join his team in Lincoln to accompany it to Denver. Tommy Ketchall of Chicago was awarded a decision over .Maurice Thompson.cf Butte at the end of twelve rounds of hammer and tong fighting. : VETERANS TO MEET ON MTTLEHELO Big Reunion of Survivors of Civil War at Gettysburg on July 1. 40,000 EXPECTED TO ATTEND - i Men Who Wore the Blue and Gray to Again Gather on Ground Made Memorable by His toric Conflict. By EDWARD B. CLARK. WASHINGTON. — During the first four days of July the battlefield of Gettysburg. Pa., will again be the scene of a meeting of the Blue and the Gray, but this time they will meet in amity and affection. A half-century will have passed since last these men of two great American armies met on this northern field. Then they were face to face in deadly conflict, for the issue, it was well understood to both con tending forces, was the success of the southern cause, or the beginning of its defeat, to be followed by the restora tion of the Union as it had been before the first shot was fired at Fort Sum ter. The United States government and the government of nearly every state in the Union have combined to make the Gettysburg reunion of the soldiers of the north and south one of the great peace events of the century. The state of Pennsylvania some time ago ap pointed a "Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg commission” to make preparations for the four dpys’ reunion, at which Pennsylvania as a state was to act as host to the vet erans of the war between the states and to the thousands of visitors who would follow their march to the field Of battle, and appropriated $150,000 for the purpose of entertaining the vet erans. 40,000 Veterans Expected. It is expected that 40,000 veterans of the war, not all of them, however, survivors of the Gettysburg battle, will be foutyl encamped upon the field when reveille sounds on the morning of July 1. It will be a different re veille than that which the fife and drum corps of the two great armies sounded fifty years ago. The call to awakening will be a call to a peaceful celebration while the call to the awak ening in July, 1863, was a call of armies to conflict and, to thousands of men, a call to death. For years the veterans have been looking forward to this reunion. It is probable that there will be present many thousands of survivors of the battle. The United States government ander an act of congress has appro priated money for the preparation of the camps and for the messing of the soldier visitors. The average age of the men engaged in the Civil war was anly eighteen years, but fifty years have passed since these soldier boys fought at Gettysburg, and so if the computation of age was a true one the average years of the veterans who will meet in Pennsylvania In July will be about sixty-eight years. Many of them. Df course, will be much older and a good many of them, men who entered at ages ranging from fourteen to sev enteen years, will be younger, but all wjdj be old men as the world views Many of the states of the Union, north as well as south, have made ap propriations to send their veterans to the Gettysburg reunion and to pay all Dther expenses. The battle of Gettys burg is recognized as the turning point of the war between the states. It has been called time and again one of the decisive battles of the world. Gener ally it is recognized that Gettysburg decided the great conflict, helped in the decision probably by the fail of Vicksburg on the Mississippi, which ;ook place virtually at the moment that the conflict on the Pennsylvania Held was decided in favor of the north ern arms. The preparations which the govern ment is making to care for the veter ans at Gettysbui^ are Interesting. They have been under the charge of lames B. Aleshire, quartermaster gen eral of the United States army, and Henry G. Sharpe, commissary general of the United States army. Two years ago last March 14,000 regular troops were gathered in camp at Texas. The health of the soldiers throughout the Texas encampment was almost per fect, made so by the plans which had been carefully laid io see that perfect sanitation was maintained. The Unit ed States army was taught a lesson by the Spanish war, when lack of proper sanitary precautions and unpre paredness in other ways cost the gov ernment the lives of more men than were sacrificed to the bullets of the Spaniard. The estimates of the commissary »nd quartermaster authorities are based upon an attendance of 40,000 vet erans. It probably will cost the gov ernment about $360,000 to act in 'part as host to the survivors of the battle and other veterans who attend the Gettysburg reunion. Big Tack to Feed Men. The survivors of the war from the north and south who will be present, being old men, must be cared fer in a way which would not have beer, nec 1 essary fifty years ago. The messing of the veterans will require 400 army ranges, 1 great field bakery, 40,000 mess kits, 800 cooks, 800 kitchen help ers and 130 bakers. This helping per sonnel will be required to be in camp for at least seven days, and many of them for a longer period, for the pur pose of installing the field bakery, the field ranges and in dismantling, clean ing, packing and storing material ofter the encampment is over. The old soldiers are to be supplied with fresh meat directly from refrig erator cars drawn upon the field. They will be given fresh vegetables and spe cial bread with the best coffee and tea which the market affords. For them it will not be a case of hardtack, bootleg and poor bacon. The Battle of Gettysburg commis sion of the state of Pennsylvania has a large sum of money at its disposal for the entertainment of the visiting veterans, and the thousands of persons who will accompany them. Hospital ity Is to mark the days. Fifty years ago Pennsylvania aided in the work of repelling the visitors from the south. In early July next the same state will have its arms wide open in welcome to the men wearing the gray. Enter tainments of various kinds will be of fered the visiting veterans, but it is pretty well understood that their deep interest in revisiting the scenes where they fought. Little Round Top, Oak Ridge, Cemetery Hill, Culp’e Hill, Rock Creek, the Stone Wall and other places will hold them largely to the pleasures and to the sadnesses of per sonal reminiscences. Arm in arm with the Union soldiers the Confederate sol diers will retramp the battleground. They will look over the field of Pick ett’s desperate charge. They will re trace the marching steps of Long street’e corps. They will go to the place where Meade had his headquar ters and to the place from which Lee directed his southern forces in battle. Pennsylvania is going to make a great celebration of peace of this fif tieth anniversary of what probably was the decisive battle of the war, al though it was fought nearly two years before the war ended. Other states will help Pennsylvania in its work, and from every section of the country, north, east, south and west, the vet erans will assemble, most of them probably to see for the last time in life the field upon which they were willing to die for the sake of their re spective causes. The veterans will not be directly en camped in the Gettysburg park, which is dotted with monuments to the vari ous commands which took part in the fight and which is laid out in approved park fashion, with fine drives and beautifully kept lawns. There will be two camps, known as No. 1 and No. 2. No. 1 will cover 149 acres and No. 2 will cover 44 acres. The layouts of these camps are based on the use of conical tents, each of which will, with out crowding, accommodate eight per sons. Inasmuch a* accommodations are to be furnished for 40,000 visitors 5,000 tents will bo required to give quarters to the visiting hosts. The quartermaster general in a re port says: "It is assumed that the meals will be served to the visitors in a manner similar to that used by the regular troops when in camp for short periods; that is, by having each man go to the kitchen with his mess kit to be served there and dining in his tent or other convenient places." Visitors to Be Cared For. Every possible care is to be taken of the visitors. The sanitary arrange ments which have been made are said to be the beet that are possible and they are the result of careful study by medical officers of the service. All the experience of the past has been drawn upon to make it certain that the health of the veterans will be conserved while they are in camp. With so many thousands of old sol diers in attendance, and taking Into consideration th6 probability that the weather will be warm, it is expected that there will be sickness, but the United States government and the state of Pennsylvania are preparing for a hospital service which shall ba adequate to any contingency. Thera will be hospital corps detachments present ‘ ready to render first aid to the injured, and there will be many field hospitals with surgeons in at tendance, where the sick can receive instant attendance. It is eaid that this contemplated re union has induced more Interest among the old soldiers of the north and the south than any event which has happened since the day that the war closed. There is today at Gettys burg a great national park, in which 1b included a cemetery where thou sands of soldier dead are buried. The United States government and the leg islature of Pennsylvania worked to gether to make a park of the battle field and to mark accurately every point in it which hae historic interest. When one goes to the field he car. tell Just where this brigade or that bri gade was engaged, just where this charge or that charge was made and Just where the desperate defenses of positions were maintained until the tide of battle brought either victory or defeat to one of the Immediate com mands engaged. It was in 1895 that congress estab lished a national park at Gettysburg and gave the secretary of war author ity to name a commission "to superin tend the opening of additional roads, mark the boundaries, ascertain and definitely mark the lines of battle of troops engaged, to acquire lands which were occupied by infantry, cavalry and artillery, and such other adjacent lands as the secretary of war may deem necessary to preserve the Impor tant topographical features of the bal tlefield.” When the Union and the Confeder ate veterans reach Gettysburg on June 30 next they will find on the scene oi the old conflict between five and six hundred memorials raised in cominem oration of the deeds of their com mands on the great fields of the Penn sylvania battlefield. There are, more over, 1,000 markers placed to desig nate historic spots. There are great towers built upon the field by the gov ernment so that bird’s-eye views can be obtained of the entire scene of the battle. Pine roads have been con structed and everywhere attention has been paid to every detail of the least importance in setting forth the history of one of the greatest battles ever known to warfare. It is expected that much good wil, come from the reunion of the Blue and the Gray on the battlefield of Gettys burg. Time has healed many wounds. The o d soldiers have forgotten their animosities more readily than have the civilians. It is thought that this great coming together in peace of two once conflicting hosts will mark tht passing of the last trace of the bitter ness of the war between the state; of this great Union. Impatience. Patience—Small panes of glass are set into the side of a new fountain pen 60 the quantity of ink it holds can be seen readily. Patrice—Some people are too impa tient! Why can’t they wait until the Ink comes out on their fingers t' find cut1 BALKAN WAR ENDED “TREATY OF LONDON” SIGNED »Y PEACE DELEGATES. CEREMONIES ARE VERY BRIEF — Montenegro Still Dissatisfied But Yields to Pressure Brought by the Powers. London.—The eights months’ war between Turkey and the allied Balkan states is ended. The “Peace of Lon don” was signed iB the gallery of St. James palace. Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary, presided over the formali ties. The following peace delegates signed the preliminary treaty: Osman Nizami Pasha for Turkey, Dr. Daneff for Bulgaria, Stejan Novakovitch for Servia, Stephanos Skoloudis for Greece and M. Popocitch for Monte negro. The only dramatic feature of the historic occasion was M. Popovitch’s expression of keen disappointment that Montenegro had “been despoiled of its just share of the spoils of a triumphant war" and of the hope that “England, which took the lead in the spoliation,” would taae every step to ! compensate Montenegro for its sacri fice. The actual cei«mony was very brief. The delegates signed the treaty with out reading it, evidently in full con fidence that all the seven articles ; were in such wording as the powers chose to have them. The Bulgarian delegates proposed that peace become immediately effect ive without ratification of the treaty. This proposal was rejected and the delegates then left after having agreed to meet to consider the advis ability of an eventual annexed pro tocol. After informing the ambassadorial conference of the signing of the peace draft, Sir Edward Grey suggested that the conference limit its discussions to three questions: A constitution for Al bania, the delimitation of the southern frontier of Albania and the status of the Aegean islands. — Attempted Lynching Frustrated. Council Bluffs, la.—A mob of nearly ! 300 men, formed for the purpose of i lynching Francisco Guidice, an Ital- j ian accused of murdering Fireman ; Howard Jones Tuesday night,. ; wrecked a half dozen stores in the ; heart of Council Bluffs, when it was ; foiled in an attempt to take the pris oner from the county officers. The mob. armed wth a heavy beam for a battering ram, marched upon the county jail and demanded the pris oner. Sheriff Lindsey had learned of the intention to lynch the Italian and had ordered the prisoner removed by auto to another city. The sheriff and his deputies were on hand when the mob arrived, and threw open the jail to an inspection committee, which visited every cell. Other committees visited the^city jail and searched the courthouse. Angered by its failure to secure the alleged murderer, the mob swept through the business section of Coun cil BluffSj shouting and demolishing property of foreigners. Property demolished probably will not exceed $1,000. The heaviest loss was suffered by John Birbilis. The Palace of Sweets, at 4 Pearl street, owned by Birbilis, was the worst wrecked of any store. A dozen bricks were hurled through the win dows and the stock was badly dam aged. Loss here may exceed $250. Another candy store, at 540 West Broadway, owned by Birbilis, ■was damaged to the extent of $200. Nations Accept Peace Plans. Washington.—Secretary Bryan sig nalized the day commemorative of the country’s hero dead by an nouncing -that eight nations have re sponded favorably to his peace plan asking that suggestions be submitted in regard to details. The nations in the order in whch they have accepted are: Italy, Great Britain, France, Brazil,, Sweden, Norway, Peru and Russia. Cudahy Workers Strike. Sioux City, Iowa.—Three hundred truckers, steam fitters, helpers, hog killers and laborers in all departments cf the Cudahy Packing plant at Sioux City have gone on a strike for higher wages. Most of the men on strike are “19-cent men.” Bulgarians Destroy Town. Saloniki.—A dispatch from a trust worthy source says that the Bulgarian troops have already destroyed the vil lage of Hadji, between Saloniki and Serres and massacred the population. Stilwell Sentenced to Sing Sing. New' York.—Former State Senator Stephen K. Stilwell, convicted of bri bery by a jury after he had been ex onerated by the New York state sen ate, was sentenced to serve not less than four years nor more than eight in Sing Sing prison. Overlooked $3,500 Draft. Salina, Kas.—Several hundred peo ple walked over a negotiable draft for $3,500 that was lest in the post office by H. H. F. Sudendorf, a busi ness man. Special Stamp Abolished. Washington—Postmaster General Burleson has issued an order discon tinuing the use of the special 10-cent registery stamp and providing that no additional registry stamp shall be printed after the present supply shall have been exhausted. Escaped Prisoner Captured Albuquerque, N. M.—James Arthur Baker, who escaped from Sheriff Wil «onN>f Riverside, Cal., by jumping from a train, was captured here by Chief of Police McMillin. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF. Thayer r unty has had a rainfall of about three and one-half inches this week. Dan Hiner, a prominent farmer near Ord, has been taken to a private sanitarium at Lincoln for treatment for a mental disorder. The hospital at Elmwood is quar antined for snjallpox. The little daughter of Dr. E. S. Liston contract ed the disease from a nurse. Judge L. M. Pemberton has appoint ed A. H. Kidd a member of the Beat rice city park commission to succeed R. W. Grant, who recently resigned. The twenty-first annual convention of the Jefferson County Sunday School association was held in the Christian church at Fairbury. Lieutenant-Colonel Waldo E. Ayres of the. War department, formerly sta tioned at Fort Crook, is inspecting the state headquarters cf the National Guard. As the result of complaint by citi zens of North Loup against the slot machines, County Attorney Staple has invoked the state law to abate the nuisance. President Waters of the state aerie of Eagles is making final arrange ments for the state convention of the order to be held at Beatrice June 10, 11 and 12. The little 3-year-old son of Mr. Hansen, a farmer living about seven miles southeast of Newman Grove, fell into the stock ' tank and was drowned. Mrs. Henry Shaffer cf Humboldt, while dlskiDg for her husband, was thrown from the plow as it ran over a stump, and su3tained several se vere cuts. From June 12 to 22 a Chautauqua will be held in Beatrice. The park commissioners have granted permis sion to hold the Chautauqua at the Charles park. The discovery of small insects re sembling lice in the roots of several fields of wheat that have shown symp toms of blight has caused some alarm near Fremont. The baseball fans of Pickerell and Cortland want the Union Pacific com pany to run a motor car to Lincoln on Sunday so they can witness the Western league games there. Wymore dog poisoners have set a new record. They rid the community of twenty-one dogs in three days, sur passing their own record of the past by about fifteen dogs. Edgar Steinhaur, an employe of the Plattsmouth JournaJ, while riding tandem with Leland Briggs on a mo torcycle, was knocked unconscious in j a collision with a farmer's team. The Dempster company has a force j of men working at Zimmerman i Springs, northwest of Beatrice, with j a view of securing an adequate sup- i ply of pure water for the city. The state railway commission in dulged in a little salary raising. U. i G. Powell, rate expert, who has been receiving $200 a month, was given a salary of $250 a month, beginning June 1. new organization. Known as tne public service club, has lately come into existence at Broken Bow. It is composed of leading business men and has a charter membership of twenty-five. Secretary of State Wait and Com missioner Gerdes of the Board of Con trol have gone to Beatrice to super vise the installation of an electric power plant at the state institution in that city. The graduating class of the Fre mont High school has set a limit on tse cost of graduating frocks. The g,rls have agreed to wear sailor suits, of which the cost of making shall not exceed $5 each. Frank H. Krenzberg, who lives near Odell, after voting for thirty years and considering himself a citizen of the United States, has learned that he is still a subject of the Ger man emperor. The streets in the business section of Beatrice are to be flushed every day by the firemen and so do away with the sweeping. The work will be done between the hours of 2 and 3 o’clock in the morning. During a match game between the Grand Island and Cozad High schools Vance Faught, a member of Cozad's team, was struck at the base of the ear by a pitched ball, resulting in in ternal hemorrhage and death. On Tuesday and Wednesday of next week a rousing campaign will be car ried on by the Beatrice Commercial club to raise the $7,600 budget fund. At the present time about $3,000 has been raised with very little effort. Gage county fanners are at present milking about 10,000 cows, each pro ducing on an average 125 pounds of butter fat a year. Farm Demonstrator Liebers says that a great many of these do not produce enough butter fat to pay the cost of feed and care. A contract was made Tuesday morning between the city of Wymore and the Murray Iron works of Bur lington, Iowa, for the purchase of a Corliss steam engine and two boilers. The machinery is to be in Wymore within thirty days. The plant will be used to generate electricity. The inSurgants pf the M. W. A. will open national headquarters at Hast ings. Edward A. Brown, who was editor and proprietor of the Nebraska City Daily News from 1890 to 1908, died at his home in Oskaloosa. Ia. He was married to Miss Belle Sellers of Omaha in 1892. who survives him. The pure food department keeps busy looking after the fruit dealers. Commissioner Harmap has received word from one of his deputies that a man at Havelock was prosecuted for selling a decayed pineapple and was assessed a fine of $10 and costs. J. E. FinfrocK, who recently sold his interest in the Auburn Republican, is now city editor of the Ord Quiz. Peter Tongren, aged 21 years, whose home is in Beatrice, was drowned in Wood river. He was a student in the normal school here and would have graduated this year. At a meeting of the Alliance board of health a resolution was passed ai- j lowing the opening of churches, pie- ( turcs shows and other public buildings j to the public. The number of cases j of small pox has greatly decreased ] and there is no further dangtir of the spread of the disease OFFICIAL REPORTS SHOW THAT BEST OF CONDITIONS PREVAIL ALFALFA IS NOW BEING CUT First Crop of the Forage Is Being Har vested in Western Part of the State—Weather Is.Clear. The Burlington’ Nebraska crop re port has been waited for with consid erable anxiety by grain men and oth ers interested in crop conditions. It has been known that the rains all over the state were the heaviest in years, and consequently it was feared that the report would show possibly heavy damage in many localities. The anxiety is 'now dispelled, for the crop report indicates a most flat tering condition so far as small grain is concerned. On the ten-year basis the condition, of winter wheat is placed at better than 100 per cent and on the several divisions of the road is estimated as follows: Omaha division, 102 per cent. Lincoln division, 104 per cent. Wymore division, 106 per cent. McCook division, 100 per cent. Estimates Too Low. General Superintendent Allen of the Nebraska divisions still maintains that the estimates as made by the agents and other experts and then compiled by divisions is too low. He maintains that after making extensive trips through the wheat growing counties of the state he is justified in putting the condition of the cereal at 120 per cent, as compared with the ten-year average. Oats are reported to be in fine con dition, without any signs of the ap pearance of rust or damaging insects. This is also true of all other kinds of spring small grain. Taking up corn the report goes on to say that while it has been very unfavorable for planting fanners planted between showers, and conse quently got considerable seed into the ground. There are no reports of corn having rotted. On the other hand it is stated that early planted corn is growing fairly well, regardless of the cold and wet weather. On the McCook division it is esti mated that SO per cent of the corn lied been planted, 50 per cent on the Omaha and Lincoln and 30 per cent on the M'vmore division. In the west part of the state where the weather was clear, the first cut ting of alfalfa was commenced. Headright List Taken to Washington. Winnebago, Neb. — Superintendent A. H. Kneale left for Washington, D. C., Sunday, May 25, supposedly for the purpose of having the list of Indi ans to whom he recommends that the long looked for head right be paid in cash, approved at the Indian office. It is understood that the list has been prepared with the idea of being as liberal as possible, as regards the . competent ones. The headright of the 'incompetent Indians and also of the minors, is to be reserved, or still held in trust. Mr. Kneale expects u> return in about one week when the checking' in of the new' agent. Mr. Spear, will take place. In the mean time, the latter is making himself ac quainted with the reservations, and the two offices, Winnebago and Macy. Western Union Appeals Suit. The Western Union Telegraph com pany has appealed to the supreme court from a judgment secured in the Douglas county court against the company by C. B. Nash & Co. of Omaha. The Nash people set out in their case in the district court that the tel egraph comapny failed to deliver a message sent by them to a brokrage firm in New York instructing them to sell 300 shares of American Smelting and Refining company’s common stock at 68 V& cents. As a result the Nash company lost out in the amount of $1,687.50 on the stock. The lower court gave the company a verdict for $799 and the telegraph company ap peals. Lumber Firm Changes Hands. Bradshaw, Neb.—Quite anlmportant business change was made in this town in the sale of the Bradshaw Lumber company to Messrs. J. F. Hinshaw and sen of Tabor, la. The sale includes the fine new residence of F. E. Lloyd, the president and man ager. Mr. Hinshaw is a cousin of ex Congressman E. H. Hinshaw of Fair bury. Wymore will celebrate the Fourth of July. The volunteer fire depart ment will have charge of the expendi ture of, $500 which has been sub scribed for the day’s festivities. Will Have New Court House. Springview, Neb.—Keya Paha county has voted to issue bonds to the amount of $17,000 to build a new court house in Springview, the county seat. The propcsition to vote bonds carried by a majority of 68. Two years ago the same proposition lost by . thirtv-threc votes. The present court house was built in 1885 and is not even an excuse for a court house, but the pounty being forty-eighth miles east and west and only an average of fifteen miles wide it has been im possible to get a bond issue till now. For a National Highway. Fremont, Neb.—The meeting in Fremont of the Platte Valley Good Roads association in connection with the Central transcontinental national highway association resulted *in the Platte Valley official transcontinental association for promoting the nation al highway movement across Nebras ka and Wyoming. Five states were represented at the meeting. Despite the muddy roads over 200 road boost ers attended, from east as far as Chi cago and west as far as Julcsburg.