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Brtd d What Is Transpiring
la Var>aus Sections of Our Own
ana Foreign Countries.
• WASHINGTON.
!i.-erticatioa of (he use of senate
aur tarry in the promotion of a
North « aruitna sold mine has been
started before a resale committee.
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Twenty-on* naval offleera were
placed aa t ie retired list, fifteen of
the asmber baling been selected by
the piarkuig hoard, while the other
ail tc.untartly asked retirement,
woo
burgeon • General Blue of the public
health service wiU go to New Orleans
to take marge of the campaign
again*! buhaekr plague, which has
appeareJ there One death has ah
ready been recorded
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A eonierence of democratic senators
was called by Majority Leader Kern
to art aa a resolution announcing to
the country that cuagreas will stay in
Washington until it has disposed of
all trust legislation
one
Ttrick Duviwer. the minister from
Hasu. informed Secretary Bryan that
I* had been recalled by bis govern
meat and that he uuuld be succeed
ed by ffolaa Means, whom be replaced
at W ashing! <m in 1913
An .tecs of IIVMM for the boring
at arte.iau noils u arid districts for
too purpose of discovering the exist
ence of supplies of water available
tor trr.gaiion purposes, has been
dropped tram the- agnrultura! appro
priation hill.
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Pre».<iett tt :iM>u w ill take no action
la the strike situation at Bull", pend
ing further developments. Federal
troops »ill not be muted from Van
cooter barracks to Fort Missoula to
be in nodniMS ta case of trouble, for
the preoent
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Pre» 4ect Wi.ton has signed t'je
tstai appropriation MU. which car
ries a provision for two new dread
noughts and permits the sale of the
Mtttrcsfeips Mississippi and Idaho to
Greece Negotiations now aro being
Conducted lor their sole.
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The administration trade commis
Mon Ml) was further supported by
Bens'.o Cummins, republican, who
continued his discussion of its consti
tutional phrase* He particularly de
fended the provision of 'he bill mak
tng "unfair compel it ion" unlawful.
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Seus’or fiaviJmar Theodore, the
Hatties r*-volii'ijn.et leader has been
killed in n battle with fifty of his fol
lowers near the dominican frontier.
Captain Ebert# of the cruiser Wash
Mfum so reported his information
from swo members of the Maiden
caMact
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Ise’ters of commends':on for con
spicuous gallantry during die occupa
tion of Vera Crux mere written by
Secretary list:tel* to George H. Boyd,
quartermaster and Augustus J. Hall
berg. gunner’s mate, of the cruise”
Chester Both men have been ad
• aa<»-d to the rank >4 petty officers.
DOMESTIC.
There are X railways in tlie
I tilled States, operating 120XU miles
tut track match last year carried
«•»> >'*.<•» passenger* without a sin
gle fatality
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The teaching of sex hygiene In
Sunday schools wan approved jn the
report to tae contention of th<* Inter
national Sunday School association
by E K. Mohr, superintendent of the
purrty department.
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The germ which caused pyorrhea
and a cure for the disease has been
dMcotered by Ur Michael F. Barrett
of Pbiiadelph^u according to an an
pouncement made at the annual meet
ing of the Pennsylvania state dental
•artel y.
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Hope for an early settlement of the
strike of the Wewtinghouse employes
at Pittsburgh man checked by the de
cision of 7.tew of the strikers not to
accept the terms made in signed
aaaiements hy the heads of the affect
ed industry.
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Joseph Burton, the negro who was
recently captured la a spectacular at
tempt la blackmail the Cunard Steam
ship company ia Sew York was sen
CcaceA tu htteeo yearn ia Bing Sing
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Kat.ms es mads baaed on the total
aamai of income assessments paid
lato the office of t'harles W. Ander
son internal tax collector, indicate
that ia this one district, which in
clude* the Wall sir re! financial hous
es 11.M0 persons have a total an
nual income exceeding 91,000.000.
see
Adi tees have reached Galveston
that the schooner Sunshine, which
sailed from here with 2.0H0 rases of
psr.ii arms and ammunition arrived
safely at Tampico The report Bald
the cargo had been discharged.
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The admtaietratioa anti trust pro
gram wan definitely started oa its
n ay to the statute hooka when, the
boose, with the legislative machinery
working under forced draft, complet
ed eeaeidcrnUoa of the Covington
. Trade Commission hill aad laid that
measure aside for final passage.
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>.-a*ar Una If Roberta of Terra
Pan a. lad, charged with conspiracy
le corrupt elections, was found not
gut ty hy a Jury ia the '/errs Haute
prraH court TVs Jury was out thin
mlMtaa
r
Vnited States In 1913 imported
3.267.323 pounds of mica.
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The fourteenth international Sunday
school convention has opened in Chi
cago with 4/K*0 delegates
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Incorporation of the Women's Bar
Association of Illinois has been an
nounced at Chicago by Attorney Net
tie Kothblun. one of the incorpora
tors.
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Major General Leonard Wood haa
assumed con mand of the Eastern de
1 partroent of the army, with head
I quarter* on Governor's island, in New
| York harbor.
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The twenty-first annual convention
'of the Baptist Young People of Ame
rica. meeting jointly with the Young
People'* Vnion of the South, has
; opened at Kansas City.
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Walter W. Davis. Jr., and his
brother, Fred, were found dead in a
field on their farm near Peabody,
Kan. It ia believed they were struck
by lightning in a storm.
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America, the Rodman Wanamaker
, trans-Atlantic flyer, rose from the wa
; ter A recent test, with ten passen
, gera. Establishing another weight-car
' rying record for hydro aeroplanes.
Roosevelt is still taking orders from
his doctor, and for that reason will
make Sagamore HU1 his campaign
seat. He has been warned to curb
j his strenuous program and to display
' less eiertion in public affairs.
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Chief Wallace of the Charlotte, N.
j C. lire department and one fireman
: were killed an<i three others were
seriously injured by a dynamite ex
plosion in a small fire. The dynamite
! stored by a contractor was ignited by
I a fire in a barn.
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Dr Holbrook Curtis, the throat
specialist, has told Colonel Roosevelt
j he would have to rest six weeks. Then
j after the colonel had made a few
j speeches as a test, the doctor said,
he would be able to tell more deti
nitly just what Mr. Roosevelt could
do in the campaign.
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What ia claimed to be a record In
| walking recently from the summit of
Pikes Peak to the cog station in Man
sion was made by Maurice Kubby of
i Omaha. Neb. Kubby walked down
the mountain, according to timers, in
j an hour and thirty minutes. Three
hours were required to walk to the
summit from Manitou.
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An aeroplane will be used by Prof.
David Todd of Amherst college in ob
serving the total eclipse of the sun,
August 21, according to plans an
nounced. Prof Todd will make his
observations at Riga. Russia. With
the aid of the flying machine he hopes
i to be ab e to rise above any clouds
I that may hinder observations from
the earth.
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A carload of beer and whisky billed
as gravel was seized by state and fed
| eraj officers at Bartlesville, Okla. It
was the biggest seizure of intoxicating
| liquors ever made in this section.
Twenty barrels of beer and twenty
1 five cases of whisky were seized. As
no one claimed the shipment, it is to
be destroyed. It was valued at near
1 ly $1.0«h.
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Two battles on the liquor question ;
will Htart in Ohio this week. Wet in- '
terests will start the circulation of
! petitions to Initiate a constitutional
i amendment forbidding state-wide pro
hibition Dry forces, led by the Anti- j
I Saloon leaeue organization, will cir- j
I culate petitions to submit a consaitu- j
| tional amendment establishing abso
lute prohibition in the state,
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The Federal lergue will invoke the
Sherman anti-trust law in its fight for j
;the services of Marsans and Chase, :
according to a statement made by i
i President Gilmore. Charges that Or
| ganlzed Base Ball is a combination op
erating in restraint of trade will be
made by attorneys for the Pederals
when the next stage in the Marsans
case, now in the federal courts, is
reached.
FOREIGN.
Moran was no match for Jack John
son. and the black fighter retained his
title after twenty rounds of easy
i fighting.
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Simon W. Strauss, who has spent
several months n Europe investigat
ing for the American society for the
promotion of thrift, will bring back to
America many suggestions. He has
found much material in Great Britain.
Action of the socialists in remain
ing seated while the reichstag cheer
ed the emperor is regarded in Ger
many as an open insult to that ruler.
The incident will not be forgotten by
! the emperor and moves will be made
at the next session of the reichstag to
prevent a recurrence of such an in
! salt.
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Two hundred coal miners were en
, tombed in the Vielle-Marihaye col
■ liery. near Liege, Belgium, when fire
; broke out. Two hundred of their
! comrades escaped when the alarm
i was given.
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Counsel for the owners of the
Storstad. in his opening arguments
at the inquiry, stated that one of the
! vessels was to blame for the sinking
of the Empress and that the inquiry
! would fix that blame. In other words,
; the catastrophe was an avoidable ac
j ctdent.
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The new French cabinet, of which
I Senator Ribot is premier, was de
feated in the first division taken in
< the new chamber of deputies by a
I tote of 30 to 2t>2. The premier im
mediately resigned.
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Some of the unionists who have
t been the strongest supporters of the
\ l ister volunteers, including Andrew
i l ton a r Uw. Robert Cecil and Leopold
| Charles Amery, attacked the govern
ment iu the British House of Com
mons for its fmilure to suppress the
| rxt ions list volunteers.
TALK TIGS HR
MORGAN CALLS ON PRESIDENT
AT WHITE HOUSE.
OTHER LEADERS WILL FOLLOW
Wilson Will Have a Series of Confer,
ences With Bankers, Manufac
turers and Merchants.
Washington.—For nearly an hour
President Wilson discussed business
conditions with J. P. Morgan at the
first of a series of conferences, which
will bring to the White House men
foremost in industry and finance.
It was one of the very few occa
sions during the sixteen months of his
administration that the president has
received one of the recognized lead
ers of “big business." Officials said
that while the administration's great
est legislative projects were under
way—the tariff act, the currency bill,
and while the trust program was
being perfected—the president felt
there would be no opportunity for a
charge that they were receiving in
spiration from business or financial
centers. Now that two of the admin
istration reforms have been completed
and a third is in a final stage, the
president is said o feel that an ex
change of thought and information
with captains of industry will be con
ducive to the business revival he ex
pects to see along lines, which the ad
ministration holds to be legaL
Ford to see Wilson.
Next Henry Ford, the Detroit mil
lionaire. will confer with the presi
dent. and after that a delegation from
the Chicago Association of Commerce,
including representatives of six cor
porations with nation-wide interests,
will come for a conference.
Out of these exchanges, the presi
dent expects business men to learn
that lawful enterprise has nothing to
fear from the democratic ad ministra
tion; that the trust program, having
reached a point where he forsees its
successful completion, business shall
have the rest many of its leaders
have been asking, and that under the
“constitution of freedom,” as the pres
ident has christened the trust pro
gram. commerce and finance respect
ing the laws \yill not be harassed by
the federal government.
Whether Mr. Morgan came at his
own request or at the invitation of
the president, was not established.
That point often is left in doubt as to
important White House callers. Offic
ials said Mr. Morgan asked for the
engagement. Another version was
that mutual friends arranged for Mr.
Morgan to “talk things over.”
Adjournment Deferred to Sept. 1.
Washington, D. C.—Having formal
ly resolved in party conference to re
main in Washington until the ad
ministration anti-trust program is fin
ally disposed of. democratic leaders
in the senate were determined to
press the proposed legislation to a
conclusion.
Chairman Newlands of the senate in
terstate commerce committee, follow
ing a conference with President Wil
son announcd that the trade commis
sion bill would be passed shortly, and
there should be little trouble over the
remainder of the program. The hope
is now entertained by some of the
leaders that congress can adjourn not
later than September 1, with the trust
program completed.
Mediatiin Conference Over.
Niagara Falls. Ont.—With the de
parture of Ambassador I>a Gama of
Brazil, Minister Naon of Argentina
and the American delegation, consist
ing of Justica Lamar. Frederick W.
Lehmann and H. .Perceval Dodge,
diplomatic secretary, the Pan-Ameri
can mediation conference formally
ended its sessions here.
When and where the next meeting
will be held depends for the present
upon General Carranza, who is now
consulting his subordinate chiefs
about sending delegates to a confer
ence with the Huerta delegates for
the selection of a new provisional
president.
lowans Build Tornado Cavm.
Iowa City, la—Tornado caves at
every school house in Johnson county
is hailed as a probably result of the
action of the Penn township school
board. The board has ordered the
construction of a concrete storm cave,
to guard against injury to children by
a tornado. Other boards are consider
ing the matter.
Martial Law in Two Town*.
Saraveve. Bosnia.—Martial law I)as
. been proc'aitred at Tuzla and Magiaj
because of tlie serious rioting in
those towns, where much Servian
property has been destroyed.
Johnson Does Not Keep Date.
London —Jack Johnson, the negro
heavyweight pugilist, failed to keep
his appointment to sign articles for
a fight with Sam Langford, to take
place in October. The promoters,
however, received an intimaticn that
he would arrive here later.
Fired the First Gun at Gettysburg.
El Paso, Tex.—Colonel James W.
Pender, 83, who as chief of artillery
under General Longstreet, fired the
first gun at the battle of Gettys
burg, died here last night *
Corn From Japan at Seattle.
Seattle, Wash. Three thousand bags
of corn arrived from Japan consign
ed to a local milling company. The
price of the grain landed in Seattle
is the same as that of corn from the
middle states, and the quality is high.
Further importations are expected.
Condition of-Cotton Good.
Washington.—The area planted to
cotton this year is 36,960,000 acres,
the department announced. The con
dition, of the- crop on June 25 was
79.6 per cent of a normal
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
A new theater erected by Louis
Meyers, has been formally opened at
Germantown.
The annual session of the Madison
county institute will be held at Madi
son, August 3-7.
Twenty-two Nebraska counties
which have reported already show
only slight increases in assessments.
An automobile stolen from the
Haynes automobile garage of Omaha,
was found, deserted, north of Fre
mont.
Walter Henry, twenty-two years
old, committed suicide at the family
home near West Point while tempora
rily insane.
The city council of Kearney has
awarded to the United Trust Co. of
Omaha $45,000 5 per cent funding
bonds at par.
J. H. Hale has been elected presi
dent of the Dawson county poultry
and pet stock association for the
coming year.
F. W. Alstadt of Norfolk has begun
action in district court, for divorce
from his wife, Ethel G., and the cus
tody of their child.
The new German Lutheran Zion
church, four miles northwest of El
lis, was dedicated Sunday. Three
services were held.
A committee composed of C. W.
Crawford. Dr. H. E. Potter and E. L.
Simpkins, is organizing a junior
Commercial club at Fairbury.
Oscar Graham sustained serious in
juries when working at the Missouri
Pacific turntable at Falls City. One
of his legs was crushed.
A new mall route starts from Chad
ron July 1, going to Antelope, Pep
per Creek. Esther and Manchester,
making rural free delivery en route.
George Thomas is expected to suc
ceed William Royer as postmaster at
Seward in a short time, having been
recommended by Senator Hitchcock.
Miss Lela Berry of Fairbury has re
signed from the Tecumseh schools,
where she has taught for two years,
and was re-elected for the coming
year.
Christopher Courtright. the la=t sur
viving Mexican war veteran in this
county and possibly the state, died
at the residence of his sister at Mil
ford.
Subscriptions are being given for
the building of a narrow gauge subur
ban railroad to the Table, twenty
miles southwest .of Chadron. Surveys
are being made.
C. W. Hunter died and Dr. I.yon T.
Hall is seriously ill as the result of
high temperatures at Omaha last
week. Other less severe prostrations
have been reported.
Dr. Marie Ames of North Platt0
was acquitted Friday of a charge of
performing a criminal operation
which resulted in the death of Emma
Grieve of Kearney.
Entries for the Better Babies' con
test of the Nebraska state fair close
August 17th. For entry blanks and
information write W. R Mellor,- Secre
tary. Lincoln. Neb.
The Farmers’ State bank of Clarks
has incorporated with a capital of
$20,000. I. J. Wehrman js president:
F. D. Rhodes, vice-president, and J.
R. Chamberlain, cashier.
The report of Superintendent of
Schools Hunter shows that crowded
conditions will continue to prevail in
Lincoln schools in spite of new
buildings and additional grounds.
The body of Albert John Bahr was
brought to Chadron for interment
from Hardesty, Canada, where he had
been killed while on duty as conduc
tor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad
company.
Carey Duncan Hiniber. wife of
George Hiniber, who was recently
sentenced to the state penitentiary,
has brought suit for $10,000 against
Lincoln saloonkeepers, alleging that
they debauched her husband.
W. R. Mansfield. I’nited States im
migration officer, is investigating the
case of Stasia Graileza. who was
brought to this country by an uncle,
who is now in prison for assaulting
her. The girl wishes to return to her
home.
Dr. Leigh S. Krake, of West Point,
is in serious condition from a gan
grene infection. He graduated from
Johns Hopkins university this year
and formerly attended the University
of Nebraska.
Saunders county farmers are busy
harvesting one of the biggest wheat
crops this county has ever seen. The
acreage is larger than nsua.1 and it is
estimated that the yield will be from
thirty to forty bushels.
In an auto accident one mile north
of Ogallala Bruce Reed, aged 27, was
killed when his jugular vein was sev
ered by the broken wind shield. Carl
Simson. Tom Cooney. R. C. YoungaDI
Bruce Stafford were injure I. but not
fatally. Reed leaves a young widow
and two small children.
With one automobile for every
twenty-five of Its inhabitants, Ne
braska heads the list of states In the
number of autos per capita. Iowa is
■ second and California is third. Ac
cording to estimates, 80 per cent of
the Nebraska machines are owned by
farmers. ,
Bruce, son of Ennis Horn of Au
burn, Is in serious condition as a re
sult of injuries sustained some time
ago when he was thrown trom a horse
which he was rising.
Herman Bottger, by Rudolnh Bott
ger. his father, of Emerson. Neb., has
brought action in this district of Mad
ison county to recover $25,000 dam
ages from the Omaha Railway com
pany. Bottger alleges in his petition
that h^ sustained an injury by said
railway company which resulted in
the loss of a foot J. J. McCarthy and
M. F. Harrington are attorneys for the
plaintiff.
The state railway commission
heard complaints of patrons of the
Omaha railway at Dakota City. The
remonstrators objected to passenger
service given. The case wa3 taken
under advisement.
Adjutant General Hall of the Nebras
ka National guar I has gone to Chi
cago to confer with officials from the
war department, relative to where the
annual maneuvers of the Nebraska
guard will be held. It is considered
probable that the maneuvers will be
with other state troops and regular
array troops at Camp Dodge, near
Des Moines, la.
T
LARGE AMOUNT IN FEES RE
CEIVED BY SECRETARY.
GOVERNOR AND AUDITOR DIFFER
Howard Refuses to Approve Voucher
for Rcische Trip West After
Prisoner.
Lincoln.—Several corporations in
the state have reported to the secre
tary oi state boosting the state ex
chequer considerably.
The Union Pacific Railway company
•ent in check for $2,500, being the
maximum fee which can be collected
from any corporation. They base the
fee on a t^pital of $216,216.800.
The Brandeis interests sent in fees
on the following corporations in
Oma'.ta:
Boston Store. $90 on a valuation of
$200,000.
Brandeis Annex Buil ling company,
$180 on a capital of $500,000.
Brandeis Realty company. $475 on a
capital of $1,200,000.
American Realty company. $50 on a
capital of $100,000.
J. L. Brandeis & Sons, $150 on A
capita! of $250,000.
To Push Norfolk Building.
Norfolk people are getting anxious
to know when the State Board of Con
trol is going to begin the erection of
the new hospital building at the asy
lum for the insane, near that city and
Editor Huse of the News was at the
state house in an endeavor to gather
some information which he could take
back to the home folks. The board
was out visiting state institutions
and as the governor has several times
refused to instruct the board what
they should or should not do, it is not
supposed that he got much satisfac
tion out of the executive.
Commissioner Kennedy said that
the board was waiting to get the track
laid to the institution because of the
saving it would make on hauling ma
terial to the place, and that proposi
tion alone would be quite an item in
the matter of submitting bids. When
it was understood that the track
could be completed at some specified
time, and Architect Stitt had the
plans completed, the matter would be
pushed rapidly. Commissioner Ken
nedy thought that August would see
things moving.
Commends the Boys’ Camp Idea.
Lincoln.—Paul Cathcart of Gresh
am is the city delegate from York
county for the state fair boys' school
encampment. Walter M. Barbee, liv
ing near the same town, is the rural
delegate
In sending in the names of the two j
representatives. Alice Florer. super- j
intendent of York county, takes oc- j
casi*i to commend th° boys’ camp •
idea as an important branch of agri
cultural education.
In her letter she says: "The boys
who attended the encampment last
year have been very enthusiastic
over the work they did and the good
time they had and I am sure they get
a great deal of good from the week’s
work.”
Kach county is entitled to one city
and one rural delegate. The boys
must be between the ag°s of 15 and !
21 years. Special representation is j
provided for Lancaster and Douglas '
counties.
Not of One Mind.
Efforts of H. E. Reische of Chadron
to obtain $185 which he expended in
going to the west coast and bringing
back a man wanted in Dawes county
on a criminal charge have thus far
been unavailing. The matter was the
subject of a word encounter between
Governor Morehead and Auditor How
ard.-, The former wanted to pay the
bill because it is one which the state
owes and should meet. The auditor
will not approve the voucher because
the expense was not authorized under
a technical interpretation of the stat
utes. Mr. Reische was delegated to
make the trip because he was one of
the few men who could identify the
man who was wanted.
Complains of Charge.
J. W. Shorthill. secretary of the
Nebraska Farmers’ Co-operative
Grain and Live Stork association of
Hampton, has filed a complaint with
the state railway commission against
the South Omaha Stock Yards asso
ciation. claiming that the stock
yards company makes yarding charge
of 8 cents on hogs when but 6 cents
Is charged by Kansas City and St.
Joseph.
F. C. Niles, E. S. Moser and George
Rogers, of Omaha, have incorporated
under the name of the Niles-Moser
Rogers company, with a capital stock
of $45,000.
Violations Fall After Investigation.
1 'rco'n.—resira of some girls and
a few married women to go direct
lrom their work to places where they
can meet friends and be entertained
fcy them led to the filing of numerous
complaints of female labor law viola
tion with the state labor commission.
The complaints have coma from 'par
ents of the girls and husbands of the
women—because the female laborers
themselves insisted that the delays in
getting home were due to their long
working hours. When investigations
began the complaints fell through.
Twenty-seven Counties Reported.
Linco’n — Twenty-seven counties
which have reported to the state as
sessment board to da*e show a total
assessed *aluation of $111,029,984 for
the present year. That is a gain of
$328,150 over last year. The counties
which have reported are: Antelope,
Arthur Banner. Box Butte, Chase,
Kali, Harlan. Kearney, I/Ogan, Nuck
olls, Phelps, Platte. Polk, Sarpy,
Richardson, Saunders, Scottsbluff
Sioux, Kimball, Re I WlHow, Stantcn
and Frontier. A still better per cent
Is expected on complete returns.
"America will get all the credit
perhaps for completing the Panama
canal, but in giving praise where it
is due, the work of the French engi
neers and tnose engaged in the early
digging of the canal ought not to be
overlooked,” remarked Henri Borgia
of Paris, an engineer, recently. "The
French overlooked the most impor
tant requisite in the Panama canal
zone—that of proper sanitation. Had
our engineers been supported in their
work by a Colonel Gorgas, the 'Amer
ican nation might not have had the
opportunity to buy the canal.
“I think it only justice that some
tribute be paid the French for th«lJ
share in this great project. It is true
they failed, but not through lack ot
funds, as is proved by the beautiful
palace, the magnificent gardens, and
the record of sumptuous living of the
officials. Neither was failure due to
the unwillingness of the French peas
antry to contribute of their brawn,
evidence of which is seen in the overfilled graves.
“The success of the American was not wholly due to his greater knowl
edge of engineering nor to his improved machinery; neither was it due to
his ability to get into his hands large amounts of money, but to the victory
over the humble mosquito. The strength of this tiny enemy the French neg
lected to appreciate. This, then, was the cause of their Ignominious defeat
in the work.
"The Panama canal is one of the greatest engineering undertakings iri
the history of the world. There can be no question of that. 1 fully appre
ciate the difficulties, but far more do I realize that it was a big construction
job.”
BRIGADIER GENERAL SHARPE’S BIG JOB
f
More armies have been destroyed
by starvation than by battles. The
duke of Wellington once said that he
did not consider himself much of a
general, but that he prided himself on
being a first-class commissary officer.
"Many can lead troops," he remarked;
"I can feed them.”
The big job of feeding Uncle
Sam’s fighting men is in the hands
of Brig. Gen. Henry G. Sharpe, com
missary general of the United States
army.
In war there is unavoidable waste
of f#od supplies, and for this reason
it is necessary to furnish much more
than is actually eaten. American sol
diers in the field waste quite as much
as they eat. The waste of our trocps
in the Philippines fed half of Agui
naldo’s insurrectos in a way that sur
passed their wildest dreams of luxury.
The quantity of stores required
for one day’s subsistence of half a
million men in the field is: Hard
Dread, 500,000 pounds; bacon. 262,500 pounds; sugar, 100,000 pounds; desic
cated vegetables (potatoes and onians), 37,500 pounds; coffee (roasted and
ground), 40,000 pounds; beans, 75,000 pounds; tomatoes, 50,000; jam. 33,750
pounds; vinegar, 5,000 gallons; salt, 20,000 pounds; pepper, 1,250 pounds.
These supplies have a total net weight of about 1,300,000 pounds, and to
transport them requires 50 freight cars of 40,000 pounds capacity, or 214
army wagons.
Of course, this dietary may be varied by the substitution of equivalents,
such as canned meat or fresh beef when procurable, for bacon. It goes with
out saying that fresh vegetables and fresh beef cannot be supplied to an
army in the field unless procurable from the local resources of the country in
which the' troops are operating.
Leaving such local resources for a moment out of the question, the busi
ness of obtaining supplies is simple enough. Officers of the subsistence corps
either purchase them in open market or invite bids for supplies, which on ac
ceptance are forwarded by the government to the main supply depots.
ALFONSO’S PRIVATE .BARBER
An undersecretary of the Spanish
legation told at a dinner party a little
story about the king of Spain, accord
ing to the Rehoboth Sunday Herald,
“King Alfonso,” he began, ‘‘is fond
of taking motor trips incog. He mo
tored recently through a wild region
of Castile. He put up with his modest
entourage at a more than modest inn.
“ ‘I am sure,’ he said, laughing,
‘that they won’t know me here!'
“Well, they did not know him
there. They treated him like an ordi
nary traveler. So much so, in fact,
that when he went to shave the next
morning he found there was no mir
ror in his room. So he went down
Into the inn yard in his 6hirt sleeves
and there a chambermaid brought him
a broken piece of mirror, which he set
up beside the well and proceeded to
lather cheeks and chin.
"The girl stood chatting with him.
Finally she said in an odd voice:
“ ‘You are not just an ordinary
traveler. ar£ you?'
""Why do you aek me that?’ laughed the king.
“ ’I don't know,’ said the maid. 'But there’s something about you—per
hap8 you belong to the royal court at .Madrid?’
*“Yes. 1 do,’ he answered.
"'Perhaps you work for his majesty himself?’
•' ’Yes. I do.’ *
“‘And what do you do for him?’ asked the pretty chambermaid.
‘“Oh, lots of things,’ the king replied. Tm shaving him just now.' "
LOVE WINS KAISER’S SON
German nobility, society and offi
eialdom are astonished at the an
nouncement that Prince Oscar of Prus
sia. fifth son of Kaiser Welhelm. is to
marry Countess Ina Marie, daughter
of Count Bassewitz of Mecklenburg.
It is the first instance on record
vhere a man of the reigning branch
if the Hohenzolierns has been mor
,'anatically engaged to wed. While
'he young countess is a woman of
;nnltf she is not of royal blood.
It is assumed that the emperor,
<«ho consented to the engagement,
e* ill confer a higher rank in the nobil
ity on the young countess. The em
peror’s consent is said to have been
granted owing to the lack of an avail
ifcle German princess and to his aver
sion to foreign marriage for his son.
The countess met the prince while
she was a lady in waiting to Empress
\i,gusta Victoria.
By flatly announcing hie intention
to marry the girl of his choice, regard
lew of Hohenzoiiern precedent and family tradition, Prince Oscar won the
Instant admiration of the German public. The revelation of the romance was
s street morsel under the tongues of all Berliners.
Until the prince came forward with his announcement he was not a