NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
■NTEll iGENCE here gathered
COVERS WIDE AREA
6REATER SR LESSER IMPORT
Includes What Is Cciitj On at Wash
wgtefl and in Other Sections of
the Country.
WASHINGTON
Brfure co-upietins Us draft of the
Interstate trade cnmmiaajon bill i>
to* kHBtKr of the administrations
trust Irfupu the interstate rom
■oros cwana««ttee mill boor officials of
th«- chambers of commerce.
Attached so an invasion of state
ItCbta. the Lever MU to authorise the
commiamun of education to cooper
atr otth states, educational associa
tion or individual* in plans for
Mimtasrma of adult illiteracy :a
tailed States, met erorwboimJag
fast U the house after axt all day
hate
m?
PatUrM; (ii<a to wcent executive
proc-mditig* .0 the M-ute, so aroused
mw krc.!*r> of that body that a
r*» • ut*on has hart introduced and re
fcrr-d to th* nnotUM on rules di
j*- ’.tig live cueumtiM on torncn re
latMM to lurMUou Into U>« wunrt
from which the wacuut* c formation
la attained
r«d<nra. approval of railroad securi- |
* « prior to laaue. would carry a
moral obligati'* of the rotmmnt
and i&terwatiaUy give a certificate of
gouC rUrarar bo pr eroding .ssues.
Intend* le ('eavasarca < umnusa loner
K*:« declared at a bearing on the
b.ms till* mad offered an entirely
M pat for raguia'ion of railroad
Chau.', .ut
• • m *
<""«mfcreea of the aecate and house
on pointa at «wue in the Alaskan rail
Mad MU tried vamiy to reach an
arrerneM aa to the method of fln
•trud the proposed government en
larpn— Akhaogh it Itaa been under
stood that the eenate member* of the
etMbtnirtee would creep'. he action of
the house in eliminating from the
bt:: the pcov iwlow for a I4o.noti.yo0
bund issue, they are now inclined to
!»*•.»• ret amine this feature
Favorable report on Senator Town
■end’a bill to combine the life-saving
aerv ire and the rev enue cutter ner
vier late a coast guard service has
beet vfrwd on by the senate com
metre cocms'txee The new guard
**iid enaarttnte part of the military
lorcea of the country operating un
der the treasury department in peace '
and a* part of the navy in war.
Oeorge Washington s wish, express- 1
•d *4 his wiQ that a I'niverniiy of the |
I n-'cd Stale* be established in the
Iasot •< of « okumhia. may he fuKfllled
hy a hill introduced by Senator I>ill
toghstr Tha t'ni versity would pro- i
vine the highest possible instruction
to the sciences, arts and letters. The j
Mil would appropriate not more than
IV - hdh lor grounds and btrldingv
nnd a fund of $i.«*W.®tta. the income
of which would be used to maintain
the university.
# • a
Pro* dent Bush of the Missouri Pa
cific railroad and Chairman Trombell
*< the «teaapeahe A Ohio told the
toms svansret committee that in
the proposed railway capitalization
cot'rvi toll congress was attempting
lo deal with a very senastive subject,
that any mentation of security issues
•to- -id he made a federal function
nnd not a duplication of state and
•sderaJ swgMtattoa They contended
that there was no direct relation be
twee* works and bonds and rata tnak
tog
DOMESTIC.
Tie ease against Mrs. Cynthia Buf
fuat ua trial at Little Valley. K. Y..
eharged with having tuurdervJ her
taefaad hy potaon. la non in the
haads of the jury.
At a mass meeting held under the
auspices of the Federation of Rouma
nian Jews of America at New York,
reactjtKiaut against the passing by
the I sited State# senate of the Bur
nett .inmigration bill, now before that
body, in its present form
• • •
!a a declavon Judge Clifford of tha
superior coart sustained Je*»« Thomas
to ka action against the Knights of
the Maccabees of the World to pre
vent the organisation from raising his
to*- ante a sacrament from *u cents
to S3 a month
Charles H. Mojw* deportation
likely «U! be the leaf ef the striking
■urn' gne*sacee presented before
tli* cuagressiimat investigating com
■ante* with Charles H. Tanner ps
an* oai> ettses*
The toi«ra»«ii'i regulations re
garding the manufacture and sale of
oiemargarta* are so strict that the
« .-’•tar teas of the law charged against
lobs V Joke and others sen im
passible. it a as argued at their trial
ta '*• <*hteago federal court by their
attorney John Barton Payne.
• • •
The average output of coal to each
person employed la the Industry in
tl>t l" sited States is a little more than
Cbk tons. Sn the S uited Kingdom 266
tm>. in tiermany. 2«d tons, in Prance
1M tons, and in Helg.utn 1C4 toas.
• • •
ft. ..per* of sand and gravel pro
seated their evidence to the inter
•tale commerce ronmnisalon against
the S per cen! increase rales asked by
the Eastern railroad They told the
commlssioa the rale increases would
mean serious lues to the sand and
gravel men.
* * •
At the close of the ten-day cam
* iiifii of the Young Women's Chris
association of Baltimore to raise
for Its work. It was a inounc
Sd that contributions and pledges
#r that amount had been received.
A new item called heliodor has Deen
found in German South Africa.
A paper overshoe is covered by a
patent recently granted to a New
York inventor.
• • •
The remarriage by a person who
had b*en divorced on the ground of
Infidelity is sought to be made a
felony by a bill introduced in the
New York legislature.
• • •
Max Zimmerman, a horse dealer,
w ho asserts that he met Ralph Lopez,
the Mexican outlaw who took refuge
in a I'tah mine after slaying six men.
told the St, Paul police that he had
seen Lopez in St. Paul.
• • •
The fact was brought out by the
observance of Lincoln day in Oregon
that a sister-in law of Mrs. Abraham
Lincoln. Mrs Sarah Todd, aged 103.
.• living at Eugene She sent a mes
sage to those who were celebrating
at Portland.
• • •
After painting the first Lincoln
highway sign on a street post in San
Francisco. H. Fredrickson, consul
at-large for the highway, left with a
party of pioneers in a path finding
automobile to blaze the highway
through California, painting poles as
they go.
• • •
Advertising commissions to be
compoaed of advertisers which will
pass upon the honesty of the asser
tions in advertising copy before it is
published were urged at the four
teenth annual meeting of the Associa
tion of American Advertisers at Chi
cago by Allen X. Drake of Buffalo,
Revocable paroles for fifty convicts
were signed by Governor O. B. Col
quitt of Texas, and w-ith their de
parture from the Huntsville peniten
tiary the state inatigurated an experi
ment in the management of prisoners
without guards or shackles and a
profit-sharing plan for their work on
public roads.
» • • •
A nurse who volunteered for ser
vice in the isolation ward of a hospi
tal at Champaign. 111., when a Uni
versity of Illinois student afflicted
with scarlet fever received care, died
of the disease. She was Miss Ona
Reno and was believed to have con
tracted the disease from one of the
students who died.
• • •
ft K. Bixby. has resigned as a re
ceiver of the Wabash railroad in a
telegram to Judge Adams of the Uni
ted States circuit court of appeals at
St. Louis. The telegram was sent
from Pasadena. Cal., where Mr. Bix
by is spending the winter. “Contin
ued ill health" is the reason given by
Mr Bixby for resigning.
The Minnesota Railroad and Ware
house commission at St. Paul, ruled
that the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern railroads must pay refunds
to shippers of mixed carloads of stock
within the state for excess charges in
the six years of ra-e legislation which
wa# terminated by the decision of the
Ufilled S.ates supreme court in the
Minnesota rate ease.
• • •
A well dressed young woman walk
rig on the ice in I^ake Michigan, a
few hundred feet from the fashionable
Chicago North Shore, stepped off the
edge of the pack and disappeared.
The body apparently went under the
shore ice and her identity could not
be established by the police. Accord
ing to several men who attempted to
warn the woman of her danger she
refused to heed their cries.
FOREIGN.
The Cuban senate at Havana has
passed a bill appropriating $1,000,000
tor the erection of a Cuban capitol
building.
• • •
The centennial cf the seperation of
Norway from Denmark was com
memorated by services in every
church in Norway.
• • •
The decapitated bodies of two ord
erlies of Major General Boess, com
mander of the infantry brigade at
Neisse. Germany were found on the
railroad tracks. The soldiers had
flea after assaulting the general, who
nad reprimanded ihem for rising late.
• • •
At least twelve men were killed and
eight fatally injured in an explosion
which destroyed an extensive aniline
dye factory in Rummelsburg. a sub
urb of Berlin. There were four hun
dred employes in the building at the
time of the explosion which was
heard all over Berlin.
Every social democrat is synony
mous with enemy of the nation and of
the latherland " The words are from
as official letter of William II, em
peror of Germany. Again and again,
in spirit if not in exact substance, he
has repeated the statement. Nor has
the German emperor, more powet*ful
than any other European monarch,
hesitated to use his enormous power
towards suppression of the party
which he so vigorously denounces.
The streani which has been supply
ing the ancient city of Damascus
with water for nearly forty centuries
| has been harnessed, and will provide
electricity to light the city and oper
ate 100 miles of railway.
• • •
Three life savers were drowned
when they went out from Fethard to
rescue the crew of the Norwegian
bark Mexico, driven on the rocks near
the Saltee islands, Wexford. The
Mexico was bound from Laguna,
Mexico, to Falmouth. Its crew- was
saved.
• • •
The diamond industry of the Nether
lands and in Belgium is in a serious
situation, there being over 5,000 dia
mond workers out of work in Amster
dam, while the situation is said to
, be as bad or worse in Antwerp.
• • •
After a parliamentary wrangle con
tinuing over a year, the pew income
tax bill has been finally passed and
the Austrian taxpayer finds himself
| in sympathy with the American citi
zen in figuring out the worst that can
• befall him under the terms of the new
i tax.
GIVEN A FREE HAND
POSTMASTER GENERAL GIVEN
CONTROL OF PARCEL POST.
SENATE KILLS AMENDMENTS
All Attempt* to Limit Hi* Authority
to Make Change* in Service
Are Defeated.
Washington.—All attempts to limit
the authority of the postmaster gent
eral to change the weight, rates or
zones in the parcel post service were
defeated in the senate during con
sideration of the postoffice appropria
tion bill.
An amendment to the bill as K
passed the house proposed by the
Senate poskoffice committee to pre
vent the postmaster from making
these changes was defeated, 38 to 24.
Then Senator Bankhead, chairman
of the committee, sought to forestall
a proposed increase in maximum
weight of packages to 100 pounds by
an amendment providing that post'!
funds shall not be used to transport
packages of more than fifty pounds.
This was defeated by one vote, the
roll call standing 36 to 27.
Then Senator Bankhead asked for
a limitation of fifty pounds for pack
ages on star routes. Senator Clark
of Wyoming, who had fought for the
original committee amendment, as
serted this would be an unjustifiable
discrimination against rural patrons.
The amendment was voted down, 31
to 18.
Senator Clark attacked a provision
of a bill granting J2.000 to the legal
representatives of specified employes
of the postoffice service killed while
on duty and succeeded in having
striken from the list certain employes
not engaged in the railway service.
He said if the bill as presented was
passed, the government would have
to insure the lives of employes in
every other department of the govern
ment service.
Rebel Leaders at Outs.
Juarez. Mexico.—It is spoken in
whispers here that an alleged j
breach between General Carranza
and General Villa is with difficulty
kept from becoming open rupture. In
General iVilla's public documents,
prepared by subordinates. General
Carranza is referred to as the "su
preme chief.” but there is reason to
believe that General Villa considers |
that merely a title. General Car-1
ranza. it is said, does not pretend to
issue orders to the leader of the |
forces in the field.
Hereafter General Carranza is to
be the sole mouthpiece of the con- i
stitutionalists in foreign matters and
where foreigners are concerned, and
it is pointed out as significant that
General Villa himself makes the an
nouncement which was received here
recently.
Blakeley Escapes From Peril.
San Francisco, Cal.—H. W. Blake
ley, an aviator fought for his life
6,000 feet above San Francisco bay
and won. Blakeley was returning
from a trip to Cloverdale. eighty
four miles distant and when over the
bay his machine turned almost com
pletely over. At the same instant i
bis engine "went dead."
Blakeley managed to maneuver his |
biplane so as to make a spiral de
scent.
When within a few hundred feet
of the water h« unstrapped himself
from his seat, leaped just before his
machine struck the water. A tug
captain rescued him and towed the
aeroplane to shore.
Married Women Barred.
Pittsburg. Pa.—Married women are
barred from appointment to the
Pittsburg police force, according to
regulations issued by Charles S.
Hubbard, director of public safety,
on the ground that single women
will have more time to look after
their official duties.
Twenty applications have been
filed for the four positions to be
filled by women on the local force.
The successful ones will not be re
quired to wear uniforms and will
each be paid $75 a month. They
will be subject to the general rules
governing the police department
Blease Vetoes Medical Bill.
Columbus. S. C.—"Before I would
sign such a bill 1 would resign and go
into eternal oblivion," declared Gover
nor Blease, vetoing a bill for medical
inspection of children attending pub
lic schools in Richland county.
Sharp For Ambassador.
Washington.—That Representati
William G. Sharp, democrat, of Elyria.
O., would be the next American am
bassador to Russia is the belief of
Senator Pomerene.
Opium Smugglera Plead ullty.
Xew York.—Two members of the
notorious Panama opium smuggling
ring pleaded guilty, and the federal
authorities postponed their sentence
in the hope that they would reveal
the whereabouts of the only member
still at large.
G. Lacy Crawford Die*.
St. Louis, Mo.—G. Lacy Crawford,
part owner of the St. Louis National
league baseball club, died at his home
here from a throat affection. He was
43 years old.
May Join Commerce Commission.
Washington, D. C.—Joseph W. Folk,
solicitor of the state department, and
former governor of Missouri, has
been offered and probably will ac
cept the new post of chief counsel
for the interstate commerce commis
sion at a salary of $10,000 a year.
Houses Destroyed By Meteor.
Warsaw, Russia, Poland.—A num
ber of houses were destroyed by &
huge meteor, which descended in the
village of Jendkovitry in the Polish
providence of Kieloe.
METHODS TO CONTROL
BLIND STAGGERS
Department of Agriculture Answers
Request for Advice from Sixteen
States Where Horses Have Been
Affected by the Disease.
■Washington. D. C,—In past
years horses have died by the thou
sands in Texas. Iowa. Kansas and
Nebraska from a disease affecting
the nervous system, popularly known
a^ blind staggers or forage poison
ing. The Department of Agriculture
has received urgent requests for
help against this disease from six
teen different states, and as a result
it is now publishing a bulletin con
taining definite instructions for com
bating this disease.
The bulletin takes notice of the
fact that additional deaths have un
doubtedly been due to the use of
fake "cures," sold by unscrupulous
persons. It is reported that in Ne
braska "blackleg vaccine” waa used
on at least 1,500 unaffected horses,
nearly 1.500 of which are said to
have died as a Idirect result.
Investigators have practically es
tablished that this horse disease can
be controlled effectively only' by a
total change of feed and forage. It j
is quite obvious that there is a direct
connection between the green forage
exposed pasturage and newly-cut
hay or fodder which the horses eat,
and this Cerebro-spinal Meningitis,
as the disease is known to scientists.
In fact, eating of such forage when
contaminated is undoubtedly the most
important canse. Over 95 per cent
of cases of this disease in Kansas
and Nebraska during the outbreak of \
1912 were maintained under such ;
conditions.
Many horses have died from blind
staggers caused by eating moldy \
baled hay As soon as the hay was
eliminated the disease ceased. Other ,
horses in the vicinity not fed upon
this hay failed to contract this dis
ease. Later some of the moldy bales
were opened and exposed to tha aun
for three or four weeks. After thte
the hay was fed to horses without
producing any ill effect. Forage poi
soning. therefore, seems not to be an
infection, but rather what Is called j
"auto-intoxication"—that is, it is due
to certain chemical poisons or tox
ins formed by the activity of Internal
organisms. These poisons may be j
present when the forage is taken
into the body, or may be formed In
the stomach. The nature of this poi
son is still unknown.
Characteristic Symptoms of This
Disease
When the horse is taken with the
blind staggers it usually exhibits a
disturbance of the appetite, depress- j
ion and weakness, while there is
trouble in_ swallowing, dropping of
the head and sleepiness, which may
give way to excitement and attacks
of dizziness. The vision is impaired,
which results in the staggering gait
that gives the disease ita popular
name. Certain muscles of the neck
and flanks are cramped and there is
a grinding of the teeth. Sometimes
the animal has pains as though it
were afflicted with colic. The animal
will walk strangely if in an open
space and will try to push through
any obstacle it encounters. In the
stable be w-ill press his head against
the stall or rest it on the manger.
Sometimes he will crowd into a oor
ner. The temperature at the begin- |
ning of the disease ranges from 103
to 107 degrees F., but within twenty
four hours the temperature falls, and
eventually becomes subnormal. The
animal is often down on the second
or third day and may or may not get
up when urged. Death usually oc
curs in from four to eight days, al
though death may follow within ten
hours of the first symptoms, while
chronic cases have been known to
last for three weeks. About 90 per
cent of the affected animals die.
Medical Treatment Generally Uneat
isrocwy.
While medical treatment in the
vast majority of cases has not i
brought results, nevertheless if it is 1
used at all it must be prompt and be
fore the disease has had time to run.
The digestive tract should be cleans
ed out thoroughly at once. Active
and concentrated remedies should be
given. Afflicted animals, however,
have great difficulty in swallowing
immediately after being taken, so
that these remedies must generally
be given by injection. Arecolin in
one-half grain doses, subcutaneously,
has given good results as a purgative.
Early in the disease urotropin in
doses of 25 grains, dissolved in water
and given by the mouth every two
hours, appears to have been respon
sible for the recovery of some cases
of the malady.
After the animal has been purged,
the treatment varies according to the
symptoms The following measures
have been recommended:
The first and moat important: Peed
only clean, well-cured forage and
grain, and pure water.
Calomel, salol and salicylic acid,
to disenfect intestines.
Mild antiseptic mouth*ashes are
advisable.
Copious cold water injections, ff
the temperature is high, give better
results than antipyretics.
An ice pack applied to the head is
beneficial in the case of marked nerv
ous disorder.
One ounce doses of chloral hydrate
per rectum should be given if the pa
tient is violent or muscular spasms
are severe.
If the temperature becomes sub
normal. the animal should be warmly
blanketed.
If much weakness is shown this
should be combated with stimulants,
such as stryehrine. camphor, alcohol,
atropin or arormtlc spirits of ant
monla.
During convalescence the usual
tonic treatment is recommended.
Toe Department of .Agriculture’s
bulletin (No. 65) is entitled “Cere
brospinal Meningitis (Forage Poison
ing),” and may be bad an application
to the Department of Agriculture,
COUNTY FAIR DATES
NEBRASKA A GREAT NEWSPAPER
FIELD.
GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL
Items of Interest Gathered from R*
liable Sources and Presented in
Condensed Form to Our
Readers.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The board of agriculture has re
ceived the dates of a number of the
county fairs over the state, but a
great many are still lacking. The fol
lowing are the dates so far as known,
together with the name and address
of the secretary:
Antelope—Sept. 1-3. W. W Cole. Neligh.
Box Butte-, J. C. Vaughn. Alli
ance.
Boyd—Sept. 3-5. H. II. Story, Butte.
Boone— Sept. IS-IS. IXivid Craig. Albion.
Brown—Sept. 1S-I9. Geo. Reynolds,
Ainsworth.
Butler—Sept. 33-25. W. H. McGaffin. jr„
David City.
Buffalo—Sepl. 32-25, O. G. Smith. Kear
ney.
Chase-- —fc W. C. Hill. Imperial.
Cheyenne— - —, C. P. Chambers.
Sidney.
Clay—Aug. 23-2S. R. A. Byrkit. Clay
Center.
Cuming-. C. S. Deil.v. Wisner.
Custer—Sept. 15-IS, Emery F. Bush.
Broken Bow.
Dawes-. Geo. C. Snow. Chadron.
Dawson—Sept. 15-1S. E. C. Van Horn.
Lexington.
Dodge—-. Henry Boll. Scribner.
Dodge—Sept. 15-17. F. H. Xluryott.
Douglas-. J. F. MeArdle. Omaha.
Dundy— —— —. J Robidoux. Benkel
man.
Fillmore-—. II. P. Wilson. Geneva.
Franklin— - —. Jesse H. Naden.
Franklin.
Frontier-. L. H. Cheney, Stock
ville.
Furnas—-. B. C. Lumley. Beaver
City.
Gage-. J. C. Emery. Beatrice.
Greeley-. II. J. Harrahill, tlree
ley.
Hall— - —, A. M. Conners. Grand
Island.
Hamilton—Sept 1-4. S. B. Otto. Aurora.
Harlan—Sept. 22-24. C. E. Alter. Alma.
Hayes—-. I*. W. Enyeart. Hayes
Center.
Hitchcock— - —, J. A. Kirk. Cul
bertson.
Holt—Sept. 15-17. J. W. Holden. Cham
bers.
Jefferson—Oct. 13-17. O. H. Sollenber
ger. Fairbury.
Johnson—Sept. 14-17. H. S. Villars. Te
cumseh.
Kearney—Sept. 22-24. E. B. Trough.
Minden.
Keith—Sept. 23-25. I. I,. Woodward,
Ogalalla.
Knox-. R. M. Peyton. Creighton.
Ijmeaster—Sept. 7-11. A H. Smith. Lin
coln.
Lincoln-, M. K. Crosby. North
Platte.
Madison— - —, S. C. Blackman.
Madison.
Merrick—Sept. 1-3. W. D. Abel. Clarks.
Nemaha—Sept. 22-25. D. E. C. Long.
Auburn
Nuckolls—Sept. 21-24. George Jackson.
Nelson.
Pierce—Sept. 1-3. Daniel Duff. Pierce.
Platte—Sept. 23-25. Jerry Carrig. Co
lumbus.
Pawnee—Sept. 13-1S. C. A. Schappel,
Pawnee City.
Poik—Sept. 1-4. F. H. Bail. Osceola.
Saunders-. Henry Pickett. Wa
hoo.
Scotts Bluff-. A. B. Wood. Gor
ing.
Seward-—. Wm. H. Smith. Sew
ard.
Sheridan—Sept. 1-4. N. Cochran. Gor
don.
Sherman—Sept. 22-25. A. E. Chase. Loup
City.
Stanton—Sept. 1-4. A. H. I.oebe. Stan
ton.
Red Willow—Aug. 25-2$. C. S. Thomp
son. Indianola.
Thayer—Sept. 1-4. E. J. Mitchell. I Vs ti
ler.
Valiev—Sept. 1-4. Alvin Blessing. Ord.
Webster-, O. L. I.indgren. Bla
den.
Many Newspapers in Nebraska.
Nebraska has 532 newspapers out
side of Lincoln and Omaha. A can
vass of these publications is now be
ing made, and probably will show al
most 600 publications. During the
year of 1913 the state board of agri
culture paid the country press $1,344
for advertising. To the dailies in Lin
coln and Omaha and other cities in
Nebraska the slate board paid $1,064.
Accounts are opened with each news
paper and a contract is made. The
newspaper industry in the state shows
a steady increase. Some papers have
reported to the deputy labor commis
sioner under the factory law. while a
great many do not care to be classed
as manufacturers as far as their job
plants are concerned.
Secretary of State Wait wilt prob
ably throw out some of the petitions
filed last week, asking to have the
university location question sub
mitted to the voters at the general
election, because they are signed in
discriminately by voters living in
many parts of the state. The petition
blanks, made out as the law requires,
have space for twenty names, and all
of these on one blank are supposed
to be from the same county.
Industrial Building at Asylum.
With the completion of the new in
dustrial building at the Nebraska hos
pital for the insane. Superintendent
B. F. Williams expects to start a sort
of a new epoch in the life of that in
stitution. The industrial building, to
gether with the two modern buildings
occupied for the first time last sum
mer. will provide for the institution
up-to-date spientific curative facilities.
The buildings occupied last summer
have been fitted with equipment for
the use of hydropathy as a curative
method. The industrial building un
der the course of construction will
give room for placing the patients in
a normal healthful environment.
Only five or the eighteen towns that
have become candidates for the loca
tion of the rtew state reformatory
have thus far made their offers specific
and certain, according to the board of
control. The quintet comprises Table
Rock, Holdrege. Superior. Crete and
Kearney. The other towns have failed
to make clear the nature of their bids
for the place and will be asked to do
do before the matter of selection is
taken up by the board.
Bey Shipped as Live Stock.
A boy crated and shipped as live
stock was the discovery made by a
veterinary surgeon at Lincoln when
he was called upon to inspect a car
load of goods billed from Bertrand,
Neb., to Burke, S. D. The way bill on
the shipment included household goods
and “one hog.” value, released, at $10.
Being an Interstate shipment, inspec
tion was required. The veterinarian
found the household goods .but no sign
of a hog. A careful search, however,
revealed a boy curled up in a corner
of the car, none the worse for his trip.
I BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
The Havelock Y. M. C. A. will b<
dedicated about March 1.
The “Made in Nebraska” show wil
be held at Lincoln next week.
A farmers' co-operative companj
has been organized at Greeley.
A new paper will be established al
Fairburv. making three for that place
The new $55,000 high school build
ing at Albion was dedicated Thurs
day.
Conway's band will be one of the
musical attractions of the 1914 state
i air.
Kearney will hold a special elec
tion on the question of Sunday base
bail.
The Fremont midwinter fair scored
a success both in exhibits and attend
ance.
Mrs. Anna Weitcki, aged 84. wan
dered from her home at Omaha and
was found frozen to death in a snow
drift near Florence.
The Nebraska Hotel association will
bold a meeting at the Clarke hotel at
Hastings. March 3.
The triennial convention of the
Royal Neighbors of America will be
held in Omaha. March 17 to 19
Weeping Water was one of the cold
spots during the recent blizzard, the
mercury registering 22 below
During the past year three firms at
Broken Bow bave paid to the farmers
of that vicinity over $155,000 for hogs.
Fire in the electric light plant at
Gibbon damaged machinery somewhat
but did not put the plant out of ser
vice.
A proposed bond sale for $12,500 to
build additions to tbe Loup City high
school was defeated by thirty-one
votes.
The municipal electric light plant at
Wymore will soon give twenty-four
hour service. Meters are now being
installed.
John St. Clair was found lying on
tbe floor of his room at Omaha, nearly
frozen and famished from three days’
; exposure.
The Spanish w ar veterans at Geneva
held their annual campfire Friday
; night. A dance followed the campfire
i celebration.
The Butler county fair will be held
: at David City September 22 to 25. in
' elusive. Arrangements for exhibits
\ are being made.
i. Moving picture shows will be given
! on several Sundays at Wymore. the
proceeds to be devoted to the fire de
partment building fund.
The oldest farm in Nebraska is
said to be located near Blair. It was
: first taken by Jacob Goll in 1847. and
i is now occupied by Patrick Gillespie.
Saloonkeepers of Grand Island have
applied to the city council for permis
: sion to employ a special officer to
guard against infractions of the liquor
! laws.
One of the biggest social events of
York was the annual ball and banquet
by the fire department of that place,
there being nearly 200 plates at the
banquet.
The salooa question will be voted
upon at Wymore at tbe present spring
; election, a petition to submit the ques
! tion having been presented to the city
council.
The board of directors of the Cen
tral Nebraska Agricultural association
is advertising for tracts of not less
! than sixty acres to be leased for fair
grounds. «
Barney Jensen was so badly burned
i that he may not recover when he was
buried in several tons of hot hand that
were dumped into a sand pit at
Omaha. He was warming himself in
: the pit.
The Washington birthday anni
versary banquet, an annual social
function with Fairbury Masons and
; their families, was a decided success,
• several hundred guests being in at
. tendance.
The effects or Sunday s severe buz
, zard were felt more or less in every
I portion of the state, belated trains,
disorganized telegraph and telephone
■ service an'd delayed mail deliveries be
ing much in evidence.
L. D. McKenzie, a Burlington
switchman, is in a serious condition
from injuries received when he fell
from a car in the yards at Lincoln.
A diamond ring worth $200 and a
small sum in change was stolen from
the desk of Miss Charlotte Templeton,
secretary of the state library commis
sion, at the state house Saturday after
I noon.
Petitions are being circulated in
Beatrice asking that the question of
playing baseball on Sunday and open
ing the theaters and amusement parks
be submitted to the voters at the elec
tion in April.
Wilhelm Engle, residing on a farm
near Grand Island, died on his eighty
I second birthday, from injuries re
ceived from a vicious bull.
Hastings is making extensive prep
arations for entertaining the host of
visitors expected at the state conven
tion of Modern Woodmen to be held
there in May.
Fearing that he would be sent to
the industrial school at Kearney, Law
rence Smith, a 16-year-old boy. leaped
five stories to the ground at his home
in Omaha, when Probation Officer
Bernstein sought to take him in cus
tody.
Orville Moritz, who disappeared
from Salem twenty years ago. has
been located in Brazil. He is heir to
the estate of the late Henry Moritz,
and was located by the administrator.
The annual conference of the Ne
braska chapter of the D. A. R. will be
held at Fairbury. March 17, 18 and 19.
The Fairbury Commercial club and the
Quivira chapter will assist in the en
tertainment of delegates.
Over 100 delegates were in attend
ance at the cnnual convention of the
Nebraska Association of Mutual Insur
ance Companies held at Kearney last
week.
William Stimbert of Hastings ran
into a clothesline with such force as
to knock out four teeth.
Mrs. H. H. Joslin and daughter Flor
ence. living near Endicott, were seri
ously injured in a runaway accident
while returning from Fairbury.
The Nebraska federation of retailers
will meet at Lincoln. March 9 to 14.
The Nebraska mercantile show will be
held in connection therewith.
The explosion of a cook stove in the
Calumet cafe at Auburn started a fire,
during which Mr. Van Winkle, the pro
prietor. was slightly burned before he
succeeded in extinguishing the blase.
No sick headache, sour stomach,
biliousness or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box now.
Turn the rascals out—the headache,
biliousness, indigestion, the sick, sour
stomach and foul gases—turn them
out to-night and keep them out with
Cascarets.
Millions of men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by a lazy
liver, clogged bowels or an upset stom
ach.
Don't put in another day of distress.
: Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
remove the sour, fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipated
waste matter and poison in the
bowels. Then you will feel great.
A Cascaret to-night straightens you
out by morning. They work while
you sleep. A 10-cent box from
any drug store means a clear head,
sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver
j and bowel action for months. Chll
dren love Cascarets because they
never gripe or sicken. Adv.
There are more ways than one for a
; woman to have her way.
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If a man doesn't want to be spoiled
by success let him get a job with the
weather bureau.
A GRATEFUL OLD MAN.
Mr. W. D. Smith, Ethel, Ky., writes:
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for ten or twelve years and they have
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not mins 1 wouia De
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(English and German words) and reci
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Adv.
Things Have Improved.
President Wilson, at a dinner in
Washington, said of commercial hon
estv:
“Commercial honesty is improving
i When a man lies to you and cheats
! you, it no longer excuses him to say
‘caveat emptor (it’s business) and
6hrug and smile.
"In fact," the president ended,
“things have now so much Improved
that if some multi-millionaires were to
lose their fortunes the same way they
gained them, they'd insist on some
body going to jail.”
Rebuke.
The big man with the I-know-it-all
expression sneeringly watched the lit
tle man who was eating from a sack of
' peanuts.
i “Down where I come from we use
| peanuts to fatten hogs," remarked the
j big man.
“That so?" asked the little man.
“Here, have some.”
The Proof.
“This trout is short weight, my
dear.”
“There! 1 knew that dealer had
something fishy about his scales!”
The Medium.
“Is there any way of crossing the
social chasm?"
“Sure! Bridge.”
The girl with a broken heart gen
erally manages to save a few pieces.
NO GUSHER
But Tells Facts About Postum.
A Wis. lady found an easy and safe
way out of the ills caused by coffee.
She says:
"We quit coffee and have used Pos
tum for the past eight years, and
drink it nearly every meal. We never
tire of it,
“For several years previous to quit
ting coffee I could scarcely eat any
thing on account of dyspepsia, bloat
1 tng after meals, palpitation, sick head
! ache—in fact was in such misery and
; distress I tried living on hot water
and toast.
"Hearing of Postum I began drink
ing it and found It delicious. My ail
ments disappeared, and now I can eat
anything I want without trouble.
"My parents and husband had about
the same experience. Mother would
often suffer after eating, while yet
drinking coffee. My husband was a
great coffee drinker and suffered from
indigestion and headache.
“After he stopped coffee and began
Postum both ailments left him. He
will not drink anything else now and
we have it three times a day. I could
write more but am no gusher—only
state plain facts.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Write for a copy of the
famous little book, "The Road to Well
ville.”
Postum now comes in two forms:
Regular Postum—must be well
boiled, lac and 25c packages.
Instant Postum—is a soluble pow
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
In a cup of hot water and, with cream
and sugar, makes a delicious beverage
Instantly. 30c and 50c tins.
The cost per cup of both kinds is
about the same.
“There’s a Reason” for Postum.
—sold by Grocers.