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WASHINGTON.
A eportal ACASAjAM appropriitioc
Ml] designed chiefly to pw14» iunds
So asset poet and expected army ex
|« aditure* oa scoeat of Mexico, up
kr Jooo A*. Orel. »as passed by the j
• • •
oe Preside#! Wllooo baa signed ox
•ratito order placing the Panama Car
sal osoaiMlm to charge of the cere- |
monies for the opening of the canal
January I. 1I1L The committer is to
I beaded by C«L George Gueihaia.
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Tto toxsae passed the Rucker re«o
totem, otuch in odeet. exonerates the
Oemc c ra-.ic cjsigrwasiuual committee
of raa-'ges that it *tolated the corrupt
practice* act la assessing senators
ana representatHea idr campaign coo
NtAsnin
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b-c nt pro;e»sai* of a plan for
oetlieasetst of tto labor strife in
soothers Colorado coal Aelds. and an
appeal to President Wilson that fed
r-ai tfssys bo maintained la tto dis
tortod district. Judge Ben 8. 1. cdsey
of lirnser Pas arri»«d at Washington
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Tto frequency with which Ameri
can farmers more from one farm to
doctor, or the instability of occupan
cy if farms. according to the census
bureau. Secy likely form* one of the
chief exaaes for tto decane of rural
proepenty. or a hindrance to greater
pceopssTt y -
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Pa-sage of the interstate trade |
goMMUdiMi MU. the first of three
measure* on tto trust legislation pro
gram apparently was assured when
tto boom adjourned after completing
general debate and agreeing, under
tto "Wee-minute rule" to more tlixn
b»if of the toll without amendment.
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The senate ratified without debate j
agreementa eat end. eg tor five year*
Uw- general arbitration treaties with
Austro Hungary, the Netherlands and
ba-<*dur The treaties all had « ■
fired They are similar to those with j
•thee European powers recently rati
fied by the senate after prolonged de
hale
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That the cosset moving swiftly
above the norths**tern horizon to
ward the bright star Cape!la. may |
bate been whirling through the uni- i
verse for at least 120 year*, was eug- j
gev'ed in a cablegram te tie I'nited ,
but** Naval Observatory- at Wash
It rum from Director Petrine of the (
Argentine observatory at Cordoba
. . .
The renal* has decided to mend ;
Its pace a bit In an effort to arrange j
atyansiest of congress by the mid- ,
die of Inly. A motion was adopted
changing the meeting hour until
further notice from noon to 1 o'clock J
Night session* probably will begin
seat week, and the tolls repeal bill. j
the appropriation hills, and such trust !
W-station aa the leaders decide upon,
wit be pushed to the exclusion of
•Lwr matters .
OOMESTIC.
Voter-men and conductors of the
Cleveland. O. street car lines on a
victory in their fight for better work
lag condition*
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A sent on the New York stock es
change sold for *«;.'"<* a decrease
ot b.m from the last previous sale
and under the highest price
of the year
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Arrival of the steamer Tampico at
Vera Crus with lie refugees from the
Y ucataa const has been reported to
the nsvy department.
• • •
Women delegates sat ia the annual ,
convention of the Olympic diocese of
the Episcopal churcn at Seattle for
the first time in the history of the
tp scupal church
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At tho request of the American
Red (Vasa. Secretary Lane granted
leave at absence to Arthur P. Davis,
chief engineer of the reclamation
aeevvee. to become a member of the
heard at engineers w ort h the Red
Cross is sending to China.
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trader guard of I'nited Stales cav
alry. Ludlow, tho striking coal miners
tent colonv. which wa* destroyed in
the fatal battle between miners, mi
litia and mine guards on April 3b, ha*
been re-established
Tin- Rayburn bill for federal control
at railroad stock and bond issues, one
«f the trie of anti trust measures that
constitute the legislative program for
Che remainder of the session of con
gross, baa been reported favorably to
Ike bonne by tbo interstate commerce
ccnnittsa
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The nary department has sent or
ders to the na*al recruti.ig stations
to accept no morn applications tor an
Itototmt IB the nary except from
thorn s bo bam been honorably din
Cham-L
Henry Since!, under tndictm-nt in
Jte« York charred srith grand lar
<rL, ts rannectloa *'• d«7 sooda
esiab -sbasent* and also for receiving
deposits of money after he had know
ing* That h* prtrnte bank was in
polrent. landed at Plymouth, England.
from New York.
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Mayor Dun It Roberta of Terre
Haste, led- * harped with conspiracy
to corrupt elec lions, was found not
guilty by n JttfT in th» Verre Haute
circuit court The Jury was out thlr*
There are 91,898 organised workers
in Missouri.
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Former al«e of the United States
miat in Philadelphia sold for f31,000
la 1830.
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Iowa farm mortgage dealer* met at
Des Moines to perfect a permanent
state organization
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The clubhouse of ll.e Riverside
golf club at Riverside, a Chicago sub
urb, burned with a los; of $90,000.
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Railroad '.raffle in the Texas pan
handle. southeastern Colorado and
northeastern New Meico is nearly at
a standstill due to floods.
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Australia avoids orptan asylums by
sending parentless children to private
families, which are pai<. for their care
until they are 14 years old.
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It is reported that Marion F. Fletch
er, United States cons 1 at Chihuahua.
Mexico, has requested t.ie state de
partment that he be transferred.
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Life imprisonment as the sentence
imposed at Opelousas. I* . on W. C.
Walter*, recently convicted of kid
naping five; ear-old Lobert Dunbar.
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For a week New lerk will engage
in It* second annual cleanup cam
paign. and each day it is planned to
rid 56<» blocks of rui bish and refuse.
• • •
Forest fires that broke out along
the Tamarack river n Minnesota lum
ber camps out of existence. Rangers
from Robinson and Ely were sum
moned to fight the flames.
• • •
The Pennsylvania railroad last year
paid out $5,143 on account of acci
dents to passengers who tripped over
other passengers' grips pladed in the
aisles of passenger train.
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Formal announcement was made by
former Speaker Joseph G. Cannon of
his candidacy for the congressional
nomination in the Eighteenth Illinois
d k net at a meeting of the republic
an congressional committee.
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After a search of two years, fed
eral officers at Ch cago arrested James
Gruerbaum. accused of embezzling
*25."oO in Nome. Alaska, C.ruenbaum
mas agent for a St. Louis distillery in
Nome. He as he.d on $10,000 bond.
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West Virginia republicans, in state
convention at Charleston, unanimous
ly ratified the lesolution of the na
tional committee changing the rules
for national conventions and cutting
down the repre sentation of southern
states.
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Representatives of five national
hanks at San r'rancisco have signed
the formal papers necessary to estab
lish the federa reserve bank for the
Tme.fth di-tric; .n San Francisco and
have forwarder the papers to Wash
ington.
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Tie Norm eg an steamship Atlantis,
which went ashore on the Mexican
coast north of Tampico, and from
mhich passen ers were rescued by
the Battleship Connecticut, will be
floated with .irtle difficulty, if good
weather prevails.
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Practically every department store
m the country and every trade jour
nal is . meed by New Yorkers, accord
ing to W. J. Piikinton. representing a
trade journal at E>es Moines, la., who
spoke durn-i the journalism week
celebration by the School of Journal
ism of the I'nlversity of Missouri.
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With the election of officers and the
se!*-ciion of San Francisco as the 1S15
meeting place, the seventeenth an
nual convention of the National As
sociation o: Retail Grocers closed at
Louisville. Frank B. Connolly of San
Francisco was elected president. John
H. Schaefer, Davenport. Ia., and
I George S ,hr. Buffalo. N. Y., were
elected vitr president and treasurer.
A resolutb n against rational prohibi
■ tion was adopted.
FOREIGN.
The first bill to become law under
the opeti, tion of the British parlia
ment act mas the Welsh disestablish
■ ment bill
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The L ndon Standard says that the
government mill Invite the duke of
j Connaug it. at present governor gen
oral of Canada, to become the next
viceroy -.»f Ireland.
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Confusion and unproar marked the
closing session of the German im
perial i arliatnent. The members of
the socialist party, instead of retir
ing befjre the usual cheers for the
empero mere called for, remained and
refused to rise. Speaker Johannes
Kaemp, immediately called attention
to this breach cf respect to the em
peror. -pon mhich the socialists shout
ed;’ "That is our affair," and tried to
down the cheers with hoots and hisses.
These were answered by tumultuous
applai se from the other parties.
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Arn.j circles of Honolulu are stir
red o-er the reported theft from army
i headquarters of complete maps and
| information concerning the Island of
, Oahu The theft is said to have been
discovered on the morning of May 9
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The famous yacht. Princess Alice,
formerly owned by the prince of Mo
naco and used by him in his deep sea
researches. has been purchased by
Lord Inverclyde, who will take a
party of friends on it to San Francis
co for the opening of the Panama
Pacific International exposition.
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A part of the riant of the Tecolotes
mires at Santa Barbara, Chihuahua,
owned by the American Smelting &
Kenning company, was destroyed by
fir*-, with a lost estimate at $50,
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Sydney Drew, printer and publishei
of the Suffragette, the newspaper rep
resenting the militant section, has
bj-ea committed for trial at the Old
ffiiley. London, charged with Inciting
n embers of the w oman’s social and
I-Jlltical union to commit malicious
i t a mage to property.
FRANCISCO VILLA,
RIASTEROF GRIME
Bloody Career of Carranza’s
Chief General.
MURDERER AND PLUNDERER
Starting aa a Cattle Thief, He Haa
Run the Criminal G-mut—Mas
sacres of Prisoners and Non
Combatants.
Gen. Francisco Villa, leader of the
constitutional forces in northern Mexi
co, is more frequently in the public
eye than the Spaniard, Carranza,
whom he is presumed to serve. His
press bureau is far more active aud
his dash as a commander gives to him
importance as a news maker, over
shadowing for the time being the trail
of murder, plunder and outrage which
maps his field of operation.
Murder, plunder and outrage are
Villa's specialties. He was reared that
way, and increasing opportunities
have made him a master hand in the
business. To Americans his career is
worth studying in connection with his
published appeal to the United States
to raise the embargo on war material
and the certainty that with constitu
tionalist success he will sit close to if
not actually in the presidential chair
of Mexico.
Villa’s Start In Life.
A biography of Villa compiled by
the Boston Transcript and read by
Senator Lodge in the United States
senate supplies the following facts:
Francisco Villa was born at Las
Nieves in the 6tate of Durango about
the year 186S. He is wholly unedu
cated. being unable to read and barely
able to sign his name. About the
year 1882, when only fourteen years
of age, he was sentenced to a term of
imprisonment for cattle stealing. On
his discharge he settled in the mining
camp of Guanacevi, where a few
months later he underwent another
sentence of imprisonment for homi
cide. When he came out of prison for
the second time he organized a band
of robbers, which had their headquar
ters in the mountainous region of "Pe
ri c6" in the state of Durango, and
were the terror of all that district.
In the year 1907 he was in partner
ship with one Francisco Reza, stealing
cattle in Chihuahua and selling them
In the United States, and then steal
—
Gen. Francisco Villa.
Ing mules aud horses In the United
States, and selling them In Chihuahua.
; In consequence of some disagreement
he shot and killed Reza in broad day
, light, while sitting in the plaza in the
| City of Chihuahua. During the early
part of November, 1910, he attacked
the factory of a Mr. Soto, In Allende,
' state of Chihuahua, and killed the
owner. By threatening the latter's
daughter he forced her to show where
she had hidden a sum of $11,000, which
I he stole and used for arming a consid
erable force. He then Joined Ma
dero's revolution, uniting his band
; with Urbina s column. In January,
I 1911. he was at Casas Grandes, Chi
huahua, where he killed Carlos Ala
j torre and Luis Oritz for refusing to
pay him the money he demanded for
their ransom. At Batopilas, state of
i Chihuahua, in February of the same
; year he tortured a lady named Senora
Maria de la Luz Gomez until he made
her pay him $30,000. She died from
the effects of the barbarous treatment
! she received.
Outrages at Juarez.
When Ciudad Juarez was taken
1 from the federals in May, 1913, he
killed Senor Ignacio Gomez Oyola, a
man of over sixty years of age, under
| the following circumstances: Having
! sent for him. Villa asked whether he
had any arms in bis house, and on
saying he bad not, Villa, “who was
! seated on a table.” drew his revolver
and shot him dead. After rifling the
corpse of money and valuables it was
thrown into the street
After the triumph of the revolution.
Villa, in November, 1911, obtained a
monopoly from the then governor of
; Chihuahua for the sale of meat in the
city of Chihuahua, which he procured
by stealing cattle from the neighbor
ing farms. Suspecting one of his sub
ordinates, Cristobal Juarez, of steal
ing on his own account, he killed him
one night in the latter part of No
vember in the Calle de la Liberadad.
In the early part of May, 1913. Villa,
with 75 men, assaulted a train at
Baeza, state of Chihuahua, that was
carrying bars of gold and silver val
ued at 100,000 pesos, killing the crew
and several passengers, including
Messrs. Caravantes and a Senor Isaac
Herrero of Ciudad Guerrero.
Murders In Cold Blood.
Late in the same month he entered
the town of San Andres, Chihuahua,
and assaulted the house of Senor
Sabas Murga an haciendado, who,
with his two sons, tried to defend
themselves. Two of his nephews
were killed, but the Murgas got away.
Villa than got hold of two sons-ln-law
of Murga who had not taken any part
in the fight, and after torturing them
to say where their father-in-law had
hidden his money, he had them killed.
Towards the end of the month Vil
la's band took the town of Sta. Rosa
lia, Chihuahua, shooting all prisoners
and treating the principal officers with
terrible cruelty. Colonel Pueblecita
was shot and his body dragged along
the streets of the town. The com
mercial houses of Messrs. Visconti,
Sarli. Cia Harinera, Sordo y Blanco
(Spaniards) and many others were
totally sacked. Many private persons
were murdered, one of the worst cases
being that of a Spaniard, Senor Mon
tilla, cashier of the house of Cordo y
Blanco, who was shot over the head of
his wife, who tried to defend him. Vil
la. personally kicked her in the face as
she lay on the dead body of her hus
band. He also himself killed a Senor
Ramos, secretary of the court of first
Instance.
Massacre at Casas Grandes.
In July, 1913, Villa took Casas
Grandes, Chihuahua, and shot more
than SO noncombatants, violating sev
eral young girls, amongst them two
young ladies named Castillo.
He attacked and took the town of
San Andres, which was held by the
federals. in September, 1913, shooting
many peaceable residents and more
than 150 prisoners, many of these be
ing women and children. In shooting
these people, in order to economize
cartridges, he placed one behind the
other up to five at one time, very few
of them being killed outright. The
bodies of the dead and wounded were
then soaked with petroleum and
thrown into bonfires prepared for the
purpose. The prisoners were forced
themselves to make the bon file and
cover with petroleum the rest of the
victims.
After this he went to the small town
of Carretas, where he took prisoner a
man of more than seventy years of
age, named Jose Dolores Moreno, de
manding from him a ransom of $200.
As he could not pay Villa killed him
with his own hand.
All His Prisoners Shot.
On September 29, 1913, Villa, hav
ing overpowered a force of over 500
federals commanded by General Alvi
res at Aviles, fifteen kilometers from
Torreon, had every prisoner shot.
Villa has shot in Chihuahua 150 non
combatants, the greater number being
poor people who could not leave for
want of means or because they
thought they ran no risks, as they took
no part in politics, for all the people
in any way connected with the govern
ment had left before Villa entered the
city. Special mention may be made
of the case of Senor Ignacio Irigoyen
and Senor Jose A. Yanez, who, though
in no way connected with politics,
were taken by Villa and tortured for
several days with threats to shoot
them until they paid ransoms of $20,
000 each. Having obtained from Villa
himself safe conducts to leave by
train for the border, the train in which
they were was caught up at Monte
zuma by a locomotive in which were
several officers in Villa's confidence,
headed by an ex-Maderista deputy
called Miguel Baca Ronquillo, who
took them from the train and shot
them in the presence of the passen
gers.
Broken Hydroplane at Sea.
A broken hydroplane was picked up
at sea off the north coast of Scotland
about a week ago by the trawler Lord
Durham, when outward bound for the
fishing off the Faroe islands. The por
tion is about 16 feet in length, but
there are no identification marks. It
haB been deposited with the receiver
of wrecks at Grimsby. There appears
to be some mystery in connection with
the matter. The admiralty have sta
tions in Orkney and at Cromarty, but
so far as is known publicly there has
been no accident of a kind to leave a
portion of a hydroplane floating in the
water. It will be recollected that
some time ago there was an accident
at Cromarty to a pilot who had taken
the first lord of the admiralty up for
several flights there, but &e machine
was not left in the sea. The exact
place where the part of the hydro
plane was picked up is not given, and
unless there has been an unreported
naval mishap, it is impossible to ac
count for the find. It may be recalled
that at various times, as far north as
'Shetland and south to the Buchan
coast, and especially in Orkney, ru
mors of strange aircraft heard at
night were rife. The stories were
never authenticated, and were gener
ally disbelieved. In any case, they
happened so long ago that the alleged
airships of that time can hardly be
connected with the Lord Durham's
freight >
A Needless Question.
j “Did you have any ancestors on the
Mayflower?”
“What a foolish question to ask.
I You’ve never heard me boasting that
* I had, have you?”
Where He Was Deficient.
"What’s the matter? Don’t I know
how to cut meat!” demanded the dis
charged butcher. “You do,” replied
the proprietor of the meat market.
"But your hand does not weigh enough
to retail it profitably.”—Judge.
Daily Thought.
Life Is short. Let us not throw any
of It away in useless resentment. It
Is best not to be angry. It is best to
be quickly re»-onclle<l.—Samuel John
son.
Necessity for Patience.
Endeavor to be patient in bearing
with the defects and infirmities of
others, of what sort soever they be:
for that thyself also hast many fail
ings which must be borne with by
others.—Thomas a Kempis.
♦ That’s It.
“Somehow you seem to have grown
shorter instead of taller, since 1 last
saw you.”
"Well, I’ve married and settled
down.”—St. Luuis Post-Dispatch. ,
COHGR EBJS TIRED
MAKING EVERY EFFORT TO
CLOSE SESSION.
MUST MEASURES NEAT
Houee Hopes to Turn Program Over
to Senate Within Three
Weeks' Time.
Washington, D. C.—The administra
tion anti-trust program was definitely
started on its way to the statute
books when the house, with the legis
lative machinery working under
forced draft, completed consideration
of the Covington trade commission
bill and laid that measure aside for
final passage.
The final vote on the bill will be
taken after the house has completed
consideration of the Claxtcn trust
bill, which was immediately taken up,
an<j the administration railroad se
curities bill. House leaders plan on
having all three measures out of the
way and up to the senate within
three weeks.
With the house driving the anti
trust measure through under special
rule, administration supporters on
the senate side have prepared for
meeting obstacles to the program in
that body. House leaders hope the
president will be satisfied if the three
measures pass the house and the sen
ate names a definite date for their
; consideration next session.
! Both democrats and republicans in
! senate and house are anxious to get
away and prepare for the fall cam
paign and if the assurances can be
secured that the president will he sat
isfied to let the anti trust bills rest
before the senate until next winter
the present session will be hurried
to a conclusion.
Several senators, however, hold
that congress should put through the
anti-trust bills now\ The first clash
Is expected to come when the senate
interstate commerce committee
meets to plan the handling of the
anti trust program.
Silliman’s Safety Assured.
Washington.—A theatening compli
cation to the mediation conference at
Niagara Falls was removed when de
finite word reached the State depart
ment that Vice Consul John R. Silli
man, arrested at Saltillo and long
sought for, had arrived safely at
Mexico City, accompanied by the
British vice consul at Saltillo, Mr.
MacMillan. He is now at the Brazilian
legation and will leave for the United
States by way of Vera Cruz.
The news of Silliman’s safety be
came known at the moment when
Secretary Bryan was making public
reports received from refugees that
Silliman had been executed on May
18 by the federals at Saltillo.
■While Silliman himself is safe,
there remains several very grave
features connected with his arrest.
Unofficial rports indicated that he was
placed under arrest while acting as a
Unied States consul, was imprisoned
tried as a spy and condemned to
death. Also that the United States
consulate was entered, the official
archives being taken, including the
’ code of the State department.
—
“Visitors” Causs Destruction.
Plattsmouth, Neb.—Orval Kintz and
Fred Hirtz departed from Platts
mouth for a little ‘spin” in the coun
try in their automobile. When near
the residence of John Wehrbein they
discovered that their supply of gaso
line was getting low, so they stopped
for more. They did not find Mr.
Wehrbein at home, but found the
gasoline tank in his new forty-five
horse power Overland full. While
drawing the gasoline, from the tank
some was spilled, which became ignit
ed from the lantern. The flames soon
consumed the Overland, a fine car
riage and the large new garage.
Bribery Charged in Frank Case.
Atlanta, Ga.—Five indictments were
returned by the Fulton county grand
jury here as a result of the investiga
tions into charges of bribery and per
jury growing out of the case of Lee
M. FYank, sentenced to death for the
murder of Mary Phagan. Those in
dicted for alleged bribery were: Can
Lhon, a detective; Arthur Thurman,
a lawyer, and C. C. Tedder. The Hev.
P. C. Ragsdale and R. L, Barber were
indicted.
Paving Bonds at Beatrice.
Beatrice, Neb.—Paving bond 3 in
the sum of $50,00 cajTied in the re
cent election by an overwhelming ma
jority. This will insure four miles of
paving in the residence section.
Prierts Offer Services.
Washington—Seven Catholic priests
have volunteered to President Wilson
to serve as chaplains in the army or
navy in the event of war with Mexico.
They included (Rev. David J. Moran,
St. Peter, Minn., and Rev. F. C. Ren
ier, Ames, la.
Morehead Filing Made.
Falls City, Neb.—A filing has been
made at the county treasurer's office
here by Lincoln parties for John
Morehead for governor. The fee of
$10 was paid by & L Tobin, Lincoln.
Rockefeller Bends to Law.
Cleveland, O.—John D. ockefeller
partly surrendered to the demands of
the deputy state commissioners when
one of his counsel requested the com
missioners to send assessors to For
rest Hill to value the personal prop
erty there.
Ty Cobb’s Rib Broken.
Detroit. Mich.—A dispatch from
Boston says that Ty Cobb, the De
troit outfielder, has a broken Tib and
will be out of the game for a week or
ten days at least
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA
A stockmen’s convention will be
held at Alliance. June 18, 19 and 20.
The postoffice'at Lanham. Nebraska,
has been changed to Lanham. Kansas.
Elbert Vaught has been named by
the president as postmaster at Genoa,
day.
The Y. M. C. A. state convention
was in session at Grand Island last
week.
Joe Estep was robbed and beaten
by a tramp in the railroad yards at
Fremont.
Hastings now has the largest
manual telephone switchboard in the
state, outside of Omaha.
Miss Ada Talkington of Surprise
> was badly bruised when she fell down
a flight of stairs at her home.
The annual tournament of the Ne
braska Sportsmen's association is be
ing held at Columbus this week.
Dean Fordyce of the state university
will deliver the address at the Ohiowa
commencement exercises May 28.
Mrs. A. C. Spencer of Stella re
ceived seven letters from sons and one
from a daughter on Mothers day.
Thomas Thompson, a farmer near
Wahoo. was found dead in a bam on
his place, a victim of heart failure.
George Morris. Richardson county
clerk, paid out a bounty of $231 for
wolf scalps during the month of April.
Burr, a small village in Otoe county,
has taken the lead of most of small
towns by organizing a commercial
club.
Owen Daily and Frank Billiter will
wrestle at Antelope park at Lincoln,
June 4. fcr the world's lightweight
I title.
Henry Fithian lost several fingers
i by getting them caught in the gearing
of a windmill on his farm near Te
cumseh.
Gage county farmers will make a
“silo inspection tour” May 21. Var
; ious types of silos will be visited and
! discussed.
M. L. Friedrich of Plattsmouth was
severely bitten by a rabies-infected
horse, and has gone to Chicago fot
treatment.
The commencement class at Weep
ing Water was the largest ever gradu
ated there, there being twenty-one in
the class.
The Broken Bow city council has
■ passed an ordinancce prohibiting the
; opening of all public pool halls and
| bowling alleys.
Dean Coon, a fourteen-year-old Beat
rice boy. fell from a tree from which
' he was witnessing a ball game and
' fractured his skull.
Fire caused by the explosion of a
gasoline stove damaged the house and
property of Dr. James Millen of Odell
to the extent of $3,000.
Beet growers at North Platte are
relieved by recent rains which have
softened the ground so that the beets
will now have no difficulty in growing
Monday was Peace day throughout
the length and breadth of the United
■ States, so (*»signated by the various
organizations favoring world-wide
| peace.
Over sixty guests attended a recep
tion given in honor of Mrs. Sarah A.
Gilbertson of Weeping Water on the
occasion of her ninety-first birthday
j last week.
Under the auspices of the university
; Y. W. C. A., a special program for
i women is being prepared for the rura’
j betterment institute to be held at the
■ university farm. June 11 to 17.
Eugene Norbeck was electrocuted
at the Cudahy plant at Omaha when
he accidently came in contact with a
high power electric wire carrying
5.000 volts. He- died instantly.
John Clark of Nebraska City made
i a wager with some friends '.hat he
; could ride a fractious mule. The
j mule threw and kicked him in the
•: head, fracturing the skull. He died
Sunday.
Eldon Carr, a five-year-old Lincolr
, boy, miraculously escaped death when
he was thrown from his tricycle ir
front of a moving street car. He was
bruised considerably about the head
and face.
The city council of North Platte has
been petitioned by over a hundred
residents of that town to raise saloon
license from $1,000 to $3,000 per year.
Night Captain James F. Funston oi
the Lincoln police force is a first
cousin of "Fighting Fred" Funston,
brigadier general. United States army
now in command at Vera Cruz.
Nebraska's prospects for a burapei
wheat harvest are already attracting
attention in the east. Secretary W. R.
Mellor. secretary of the state board of
agriculture, has received applications
from a number of college men who
wish to work as harvest hands.
By having her hand caught in the
mechanical wringer at the laundry of
the state school for deaf. Omaha, a 14
year-old girl pupil at the institution, |
Cassie Dyer, lost her right arm.
The congregation of the First Bap
tfst church at Beatrice has extended
a call to Rev. F. B. McAllister oi
Rochester, X. Y. The church has been
without a pastor for some time.
The Hessian fly has appeared in the
southern portion of Richardson county
and is doing much damage to wheat in
that section. Many farmers will plow
up their wheat and replant the ground
In corn.
The call to the beet fields of west
ern Nebraska is not being listened to
by the usual number of German-Rus
sian laborers in'the cities this season.
The 7-year-old son of August Potskl
at Greeley Center was seriously in
jured when he struck a 32-calibre cart
ridge with a hammer, part of the shell
entering his abdomen.
Fred Teeters of Lamoni, la., applied
to the Omaha police for aid in secur
ing possession cf a street car that he
had purchased from an accommodating
stranger. The installment plan was
adopted, and he had made the first
payment of $50.
A district court Jury at Tecumseh
has awarded Mrs. Rachael E. Ander
son $3,000 against the estate of R. M
Akins, for whom she acted as house
keeper for many years.
Colonel George H. Whitney of Wa
deria. Minn., former department com
mander of the Minnesota G. A. R.
died suddenly of heart failure at the
Union station at Omaha Thursday.
The meeting of the state press as
sociation at Epworth I-ake* park a:'
I-incoln. June IS to 25, promises to bo
one of the most interesting and en
tertaining sessions ever held by tha:
body.
PIONEER jEmim
QUESTION VALIDITY OF NEW
HIGH SCHOOL LAW
GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL
Item* of Interest Gathered from R*
liable Sources and Presented In
Condensed Form to Our
Readers.
Western Newspaper Union News Servlow.
The initial observance of Pioneers'
Memorial day, created by the legisla
ture of 1913 and set for the second
Sunday in June, will be observed in
many places in the state by appropri
ate programs and exercises of interest
to eld settlers.
Toe act to establish Pioneers’ Me
morial day was suggested by Dr. Sam
uel W. McGrew of Auburn, introduced
by Senator Walter Kiechel, and reads
as follows: #
“Be it enacted by the people of the
state of Nebraska, that the second
Sunday in June in each year shall be
known as Pioneers' Memorial day, and
the same shall be set apart for hold
ing suitable exercises in the schools
and churches of the state, and when
possible in the cemeteries and over
the graves of departed pioneers, in
recognition of the men and women
who served and sacrificed as pioneers
in the settlement of this great state,
and that the present inhabitants and
future generations may not forget the
spirit and the achievements of the
men and women who settled these
plains and prairies and established
the institutions which we now enjoy.”
Doubtful If Law Is Valid.
Deputy Attorney General Ayres has
given an opinion to County Attorney
William C. Heelan of Hooker county,
stating that it is doubtful if the law
passed by the last legislature relating
to county high schools is valid. The
act does not amend the old law relat
ing to county high schools, but it pro
vides that it shall be the duty of a
county board in any county that does
not have a twelfth grade high school
to call a meeting of all of the directors
of the several school districts to be
held the first Monday in June to elect
a board of regents for county high
schools. The law further says the
' county high school herein provided
shall be located at the county seat
Many county boards refused to call
such a meeting. The attorney gen
eral’s department says it is doubtful
if the law of 1913 is valid and a deci
sion of the supreme court may be
needed to settle it.
Fully 80 per cent of the corn has
been planted, according to reports re
ceived by the state board of agricul
ture. In the eastern and southeastern
section of the state the estimate indi
cates that 90 per cent of the corn i?
in the ground. In the northern and
western sections about 60 per cent ha?
t een planted. Small grain is reported
in excellent condition. Alfalfa is more
than a foot in height at the present
time, with indications pointing to the
best first cutting for years.
State Superintendent Delzell has re
ceived resolutions of thanks from the
G. A. R.. the Woman’s Relief Corps
and the Ladies of the G. A. R.. for
urging teachers to observe patriotic
day and because he prepared a suita
ble program and placed it in a book of
special day programs for use in pub
lie schools. Patriotic day is a day in
stituted by the Grand Army of the
Republic for the instruction of patri
otism in schools. The second Friday
in October is observed.
Word reaches the state military
headpuarters that a consignment of
anti-typhoid serum sufficient to treat
3.000 persons has been forwarded by
the war department. All members of
the Nebraska national guard must be
inoculated with this serum. A card
record system to keep track of the
men who are thus treated is also be
ing sent by the war office. Nobody
will be exempted, from the adjutant
general’s office down, unless he can
show a physician’s certificate that he
has already been vaccinated against
typhoid fever.
The new law permitting voting by
mail will be enforced for the first
time this year.
Paul Stowell of University Place,
Michael D. Nolan of Alliance, and
Emerson Winter of Wymore were
awarded first, second and third places
in the seventh annual contest of the
Nebraska High School Debat ng
league. The contest, which took place
in Memorial hall of the state lymer
sity, was the culmination of the state
wide elimination contest, involving
twelve districts containing sixty-five
high schools in all sections of the
state, that has been in progress since
the opening of the school year.
A
Outing for Boys.
Boys between 15 and 21 years of
age who contemplate a splendid
week’s outing, with valuable instruc
tion, should apply to the county suoer
intendent, chairman of the board of
supervisors or county commissioners,
president of the county fair associa
tion, member of the state board of
agriculture, and county farm demon
strator. or such as are within the
county, for appointment to the boys’
school encampment to be held at the
state! fair. Lincoln, September 5-12.
Apply before it is too late.
Automobile Owners Liable.
In instructing the jury in the carn
age suit of Richard N. Steiner and Al
bert B. Steiner, administrators of the
estate of Samuel Steiner vs. Luraley
E. Evans and Isabelle Slocum, Judge
Cornish laid down the rule that an au
tomobile owner who allows the mem
bers cf the family or servants to use
his car Is liable for any damages aris
ing from the negligence of the driver,
no matter if at the time the acci
dent the larrer Is disobeying the
owner.