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STATE VETERINARIAN FEARS FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. RAGING IN EASTERN STATES Horse Malady Also Makes Appear ance in Nebraska and Five Coun ties Quarantined. Lincoln.—A warning to Nebraska live stock men to be on guard against the dreaded foot and mouth disease in cattle, which has made its appear ance in several ot the eastern and central westedn states, has been is sued by State Veterinarian L. C. Ki gin. He states that dourine. a disease that spreads among horses used for breeding purposes, has appeared in northwestern Nebraska, and that the railroads have beeu notified by him not to ship horses out of Grant, Hooker. Thomas. Blaine or Cherry counties without a special pernn: from the state veterinarian's office. A dis ease know as dourine, which is pecu liar to stallions and mares, has made its appearance in the vicinity of Neo in- Neb. This disease was imported by some horses shipped in from Wyom ing. The government notified this department of this shipment of sus picious animals after they had test ed several of the remaining animals in Wyoming. The test they made In Wyoming showed that several were affected with this disease. They detailed a man to assist Dr. Kigin to take blood from 113 head in the vic inity of Neola and same was sent to Washington for test. The result of this test showed that five mares were affected writh the disease and five mares and one stal lion suspicious. The railroad com panies have been notified not to ac cept any horses for shipment out of Grant. Hooker. Thomas, Blaine and Cherry counties unless they receive a special permit from this depart ment. May Abolish State Superintendent. Abolition of the office of state su perintendent of public instruction by constitutional amendment is recom mended by the commission on revi sion of school laws, appointed by Governor Morehead. in its report rec ently made public. The commission has been at work on the study of school condition in Nebraska since September. 1913, and is composed of James E. Delzell, state superintend ent; N. M. Graham of South Omaha, William Ritchie of Lincoln, Charles Arnot of Schuyler, Earl Cline of Geneva. Edith A. Lothrop of Clay Center, and P. M. Whitehead of Gothenburg. The commission recom mends a state board of education to appoint a commissioner of education to exercise the duties of a superin tendent, thus removing the superin tendency from politics as much as possible, and providing a chance for the securing of an expert in educa- ; tional matters. An amendment pre- | venting the further sale of school land also is recommended. Sweet Clover Valuable. More and more the opinion is grow ing among farmers and agricultural experts that a new epoch in Nebras ka farming and farm values is dawn ing with the development of sweet clover farming. This plant, known also as ‘lucerne,” was long rejected by the farmers of Nebraska, as well as all over the world. By farmers generally it was practically classed v with the weed group. It was regarded as a weed. Farm demonstrators in the several counties where such demon strators are now working are looking favorably on the sweet clover plant. Dozens of farmers in the state who for years have lain awake nights fear ing the sweet clover “weed” would kill the native grass or the bluegrass in their pastures are now paying fancy prices for sweet clover seed to seed pastures. Students Visit Stock Yards. Fifteen students of the Nebraska College of Agriculture at Lincoln were in Omaha and South Omaha last week and were shown cattle and horses at the stock yards and visited other points of interest in the two cities. The visit was incident to several trips being made to different parts of Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Illinois, where the stu dents are reciving practice in this work previous to the selection of a stock judging team to be sent to Chi cago at the International Live Stock exposition. The party was in charge of Howard J. Gramlich, professor of animal husbandry at the university farm. Historical Society Marking Trail. Secretary Pain, of the state his torical society, is in Thayer county looking after the erection of monu ments marking the Oregon trail through that section. He has with him his ancient documents from the archives of the society for the pur pose of tracing from Kearney to North Platte, the route pioneers took In reaching the northwest. This part of the trail has never been marked. The Daughters of the American socie ty and private citizens are furn ishing funds for marking this trail. Heirs Can Recover Damages. Heirs of John Hughes of Sarpy county can recover from that county the amount of $1,070, given him in the district court of that county for dam ages sustained by reason of a road lo cated along his land. A claim for damages was filed by him against the county amounting to $2,500. Apprais ers allowed him $211. This was cut by the county commissioners to $121.25. Hughes later died and his estate appealed. Claim was made by Hughes that a hedge destroyed was worth $1,0 0 and the land $1,500. The new Courier building at Gering is nearly completed. A school house will be erected in the early spring at Glen. Frank A. Hilihouse has been ap pointed postmaster at Sumner. Harry Meradith of Holdrege was killed by the overturning of an auto mobile. The VV. O. W. of Glen are planning a new hall with a storeroom and basement. * For the second successive year there is no delinquent tax list in Grant county. The annual banquet of the men's in terdenominational league was held at Superior last week. George Reeve of Guide Rock, eigh ty-two years old, suffered a partial stroke of paralysis. Miss Amanda Groth of Neligh town ship. near West Poirtt, has undergone a serious operation. William J. Temple who lives near Normal, has harvested seventy tons of alfalfa from ten acres of ground. Chances of the foot and mouth dis ease striking Nebraska are remote, according to State Veterinarian Kigin. Albert Noble, aged 23. of Valpa raiso, was accidentally killed with a shotgun in the hands of his younger brother. A series of twenty-six electoliers has been purchased by the Plainview Commercial club and has just been installed. The Lutheran hospital association at York has secured an old residence to be used as a hospita^ until the new building is completed. Dr. E. R. Van der Slice has taken charge of the state tuberculosis hospi tal at Kearney. He was recently ap pointed by the state board of control. Corn husking in the vicinity of Ar lington is in full force and many fields are making fifty bushels per acre, hut the average is about forty bushels. Lincoln natianal banks have sent to Kansas City their first installments of subscriptions to the federal regional bank, which is to open in two weeks in the city. The Association of Special Agent* and Railway Police of the Central West will hold its first annual ban quet at Omaha on the evening of December 5. Clarence Ward, fourteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ward, of Fairbury. was fataly wounded in the riight hip. while hunting with several companions. i ne contract ior tne erection ot a farmers' co-operative association ele vator at Valley has been awarded. The elevator will have a capacity of 15,000 bushels. Clyde Calvert of Durant, Okla., who has been working on a farm east of Arlington, has received a patent for a car door. He also has a patent on a corn planter. Construction of the new $12,000 Presbyterian church at Fairburv will start within a week to two. The building will probably be completed by the first of the year. Mrs. E. H. Hollister of Ashland has returned from Europe where she was traveling when the war started. She encountered great difficulty in return ing to the United States. Six cars of storage eggs have been bought in Omaha by brokers in New York for Europe and five or six more cars are expected to go within a week or so, says J. A. Gafford, broker. Fremont bank clearings continue to show better than a year ago. The clearings for the past month were $1,708,223, an increase of $239,000 over the same period a year ago. Rev. S. R. Jamieson who has been pastor of the First United Presbyte rian church at Pawnee City for several years has resigned and has accepted a call to a pastorate at Oxford, Ohio. The National Petroleum Co., and the Marshall Oil Co. of Lincoln have attacked freight rates on oil in Ne braska. and the state railway commis sion has set a hearing for Novem ber 24. An increase of 245 students over that of last year is shown by the registtration of the state university, according to the registration statis tics compiled by Registrar Greer. The total for 1913 was 3,752. For this year the total is 3,81)7. The Interstate Commerce commis sion has further suspended from No vember 30 until May 30, 1915, the operation of tariffs containing pro posed increased rates on flour in car loads from Omaha and points taking the same rates to Brookhaven, Miss., and various other points located on the Illinois Central lines. The new Safe Deposit block of Fre mont, which is to be the home of the Safe Deposit Co. and the First Na tional bank, was formally thrown open to the public last week. A short program of dedication was given and some fifty real estate and profession al men have moved into the new building. Officers of the Nebraska Farmers congress, whose annual convention will be held in Omaha, are attempting to get Dominquez, the famous Mexi can agriculturist, to address the meet ing. The Nebraska oats crop for 1914 is valued at $28,445,7(19, according tc figures compiled by the State Board of Agriculture. The production is es timated at 71.114.4,12 bushels. The average price throughout the state was estimated at 40 cents a bushel. This is the largest yield since 1910, when the production was 71,562,877 bushels. Miss Maud Parks of Hastings was so badly burned with gasoline that it may be necessary to amputate both hands. Representatives of the different branches of organized agriculture met at the office of Secretary Mellor of the state board of agriculture and se lected January 18 to 23 as the time for the meetings this winter. The election of a committee to have in charge the sessions resulted in the election of W. R. Mellor. Dean E. A. Burnett. J. R. Duncan, C. W. Pugsley, W. B. Whiten, George E. Condra and Secretary George W. K line. AMID SHRAPNEL HUE WRITER SEES FIERCE CONFLICT DR THEYSER RIVER By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. i (Correspondent Chicago Daily News.) West Flanders, Belgium.—For more than a week I have been at the head quarters of the Belgian army behind the line of the River Yser from Xieu port to Dixmude. I have seen how the remnants of the army from Ant werp retreating on the way to Ostend were sent to northern France to rest and reorganize and how the rfest of the Belgian forces, being asked to hold the lines 42 hoars, have actually held It for six days, thus preventing a siege of Dunkirk and saving the French coast from invasion. Stick to Antwerp to Last. . Contrary to what was at first report ed, the Belgian array left Antwerp only after all the forts except four had been destroyed, and these four the defend ers blew up as they hastily evacuated the town, the heroic Belgian, General de Guisel remaining to the last. What part of the retreating Belgians en tered Holland and are held by Dutch authorities is not known here. It is certain that the others never would have escaped the Germans but for the heroic stand made by a mixed force of English, Belgians and French marines in the village of Nelle, south west of Ghent, wherein two Belgian regiments—the Sixth volunteers and the Ninth of the Rue—particularly dis tinguished themselves. Walks From Dunkirk to France. I reached Fumes October 16, hav ing walked from Dunkirk, I crossed a bridge, reached a village street and after two turnings emerged on the quaint old market place of Fumes, the home and present seat of the general headquarters of the Belgian army. 1 went at once to the headquarters In the town hall, made known my Iden tity and secured a pass. Standing before the headquarters was an automobile containing three British soldiers. I approached and asked the nearest one where the Ger mans were. He looked at me with astonishment and before replying or letting me explain Who I was and why I had come, he exclaimed: “Good Lord! Have they let you come this far? Well, since you are here, It can do no harm to tell you where they are.” He drew a map from his pocket. “Here they are,” he said, laying a bnger on the village of Middlekirke. “Our line extends from Nieuport to Dixmude. The Belgians are intrench ing themselves all along the line.” Starts Out for Nieuport. I thanked the soldiers and set out to walk to Nieuport. On the outskirts of Furnes I passed a regiment of Bel gians starting for Dixmude. I turned to the left in the direction of Nieuport, but at the village of Wulpun I was turned back by an overpolite Belgian sergeant. That night I heard a terrible can nonading, and Saturday morning. Oc tober 17, I learned that the battle of the Yser had begun. This battle, which has not yet come to an end, it self is only a part of the greater bat tle of which it is likely to be the center. Small though It is in the num ber of troops engaged, the battle of the Yser presents three distinct phases, according to the nature of the ground. About eight miles east of Furnes lies the town of Dixmude, w here the attack began. The Belgians here had been re-enforced by 5,000 French marine in fantry, these marines forming the first line of defense, 400 yards beyond the town and on the -right bank of the Yser. The Germans attacked with great violence about nine o’clock Fri day evening. Marines who figured in the battle estimate their opponents’ strength at 20,000. The attack contin ued until daybreak on Saturday, when the marines, ably assisted by French and Belgian batteries placed behind the town, drove back the onslaught with considerable loss. Reaches the Belgian Trenches. When I reached the Belgian bat teries and trenches about eleven a. m. Saturday the form vere keeping up a steady fire. Some of the Belgians lying in the trenches which had been the second line of defense tried to de ter me from continuing farther, as the shrapnel fire was rather heavy at this point, but I proceeded until 1 reached about one kilometer (six tenth of a mile) on this side of the town. A Belgian lieutenant previous ly had given me permission to go one kilometer beyond the town to a po sition which, as I learned later, would have put me exactly between the op posing forces and in full line with the rifle fire. Escapes Shrapnel of Germans. I turned aside and approached a church in the midst of a small village. All the morning the booming of the far away German cannon had been audible, but it seemed without impor tance. Now I had my first experience of being under fire. As I was about to enter the church, intending to mount into the belfry, I heard an unnerving whir, of a somewhat lower pitch than that produced by projectiles from the Belgian guns. It grew louder, louder and louder. 1 felt as if a devil's fly ing machine was looking about hunt ing for me, and for a brief second I wished that 1 had never come. Then, with a loud report, the German shrap nel burst harmlessly beyond the church and 100 feet up in the air. Since that day I have heard and seen perhaps 20 shells burst nearly over me, but never without the same aw ful sensation, which, I believe, is not fear of death, but the result of the unearthly sound. Entering the church, I found it full of straw, the place evidently having been used as a dormitory for soldiers, but nothing had been touched, though chairs were scattered everywhere. Af ter mounting a rickety ladder a long time in the dark I reached the very tip of the steeple above the bell. Sees Battle From Steeple. Looking through my spyglasses over the flat country in the direction of the town, 1 was able to distinguish the very spots and buildings beyond which the Belgian shells were bursting. Flames were leaping high, but owing to a row of trees screening the Ger man batteries I was unable to see what was burning. At that time the town itself was intact. To the left stretched the poplar bor dered Yser. I could see men shel tered in trenches along the roadside— trenches so cut as to provide a skel eton covering, upon which was heaped straw making a watertight roof. In front, about six hundred yards dis tant, & regiment was drawn up, but I was unable to learn the reason why. In company with an English corre spondent, at that time the only other correspondent with the Belgians, I saw the battle of Nieuport at close range. Long before we reached the village of Nieuport Baines we saw part of the naval squadron lying just off the coast occasionally firing at some unseen mark and heard field artillery boom ing ahead. Hear Batteries In the Dunes. We heard the Belgian batteries fir ing in the dunes on our right toward Nieuport and only when we reached the south pier at the mouth of the Yser could we obtain any idea of the general situation, the lines at this point being held by the Sixth and Seventh Belgian infantry. The day was cloudy and the wind was driving the mist of rain inland. Accordingly, we sought a high, deserted building that stood nearest the river. When we finally stuck our heads through the skylight, by the aid of our glasses we sawT an unforgettable sight. At our ieet lay tne railroad station at the mouth of the River Yser, which stretched away right to the town of Nieuport, then bent southward and was hidden from view by the building in which we were. Behind the river, hidden in a grove of scrubby trees growing on the dunes, were three Bel gian batteries of four guns each, which were firing incessantly straight across before us. The shells were striking beyond the village of Lombaertzyde. Thirteen Warships in Sight. To the left, beyond Lombaertzyde, was the village of Westende, which the Germans had retaken that morn ing. Still farther away the church spire of Middlekerque was faintly visi ble. Lombaertzyde seemed quiet, but German shells bursting over it pres ently located the Belgian trenches be fore us and a few soldiers came run ning over the dunes. But it was on the left that the spec tacle was most impressive. There, ly ing out from the coast at varying dis tances, were 13 vessels of war. There were tw-o cruisers, one of which fired occasionally from about three miles; the other lay silent somewhat farther from the coast and south of eight de stroyers, four French and four Eng lish and three monitors. Great Flashes Bare Batteries. For a long time we watched the Ger man shells bursting over Lombaert zyde. The Belgian shrapnel and the shells of the monitors were directed against Westende. I saw the Belgian batteries lying on our side of the Yser, but, though their thunder made our building tremble, we were able to lo cate the batteries only by the terrific flashes amid the trees through an occasional rift in the smoke. So well were they concealed that the Germans must have been unable to locate them, since the only shells which fell in our direction seemed to be aimed at the lighthouse, which the Germans prob ably imagined to be a wireless station. Each time a message was sent more shells came whirling toward the light house. Many fell into the river. Tells English Officer’s Bravery. We were joined in our skylight by a Belgian captain who asked us for the loan of our glasses and when he had seen all that he desired he told us the story of the English lieu tenant who had landed that morn ing, the particulars of which he had just learned. This officer came ashore from the monitor Severn with 20 men ana tnree macmne guns to prevent the Belgian retreat. Reaching Nieuport, he saw that in losing Groote Bamberghe farm that morning the Belgians had weakened their position. Accordingly, he start ed with his 20 men across the bullet swept area right to the Belgian trenches. The men who were there say he walked as calmly as if on a tour of inspection, calling orders to his men and signaling with his hands. In vain the Belgian officers shouted that the position was already occupied by the Germans. Either he did not hear or he was determined to accom plish the task at all costs. Destiny broods and is silent over matters of this kind. When 50 yards from the coveted goal the young offi cer fell dead, a bullet having struck him between the eyes. The men re treated, still carrying the guns with them and with the memory of a hero in their minds. OPERA SINGER MAKES SHOES WHILE PRISONER New York.—After having cracked Btone and made shoes for eight weeks bs a German prisoner in a French de tention camp near Paris, Albert R. Reiss, tenor of the Metropolitan Op era company, arrived here from Havre, a passenger on1 the liner Chicago. Mr. Reiss, -although a German, had lived in Paris 30 years. When the j French government moved to Bor deaux, he said, he was arrested and sent to a camp six miles from Paris, where he lived in a slaughter house for eight weeks on a diet of codfish and, mussels. He was made to crack stone for concrete, he asserted, until his hands became sore; then he was set to making shoes. He was re leased through the efforts of the Amer ican state department. Mr. Reiss said he had no ill feeling againt the French, but regarded his detention as a precaution, necessitated by condi tions. % GHASTLY SCENE IN THE FOREST OF MESNEL Gruesome photograph, showing an entire regiment of French infantry, which was surprised by the Germans ia the Forest of Mesnel, near Peronne, and completely annihilated. ELUSIVE DESTROYER OF BRITISH COMMERCE — ———— — — — — — m mm mm mm mmmmm mm This is the German cruiser Karlsruhe, one of four fast warships that have been destroying British merchant ! vessels on the high seas. Nearly a hundred cruisers of the allies are on the lookout for these terrors. BUILDING A GERMAN ZEPPELIN Scene In one of Count Zeppelin's workshops, where a giant dirigible is being constructed. ^ JAPANESE TROOPS IN FLOODED CITY tm ■■■iniI'ffi .. Y .v -—lOt---"tt.. .. ... Just before the arrival of the Japanese troops in the leased territory of Kiauchau there were heavy rains that inundated the country. The picture shows Japanese soldiers pulling a light field gun through the flooded streets of a Chinese towrn. BRITISH COOLLY DRINK TEA ON BATTLEFIELD Paris.—The Liberte publishes some interesting impressions of the British troops fuTaiahed by a French soldier who was attached to the English as in tei-preter. He was particularly struck by their amazing coolness in battle. As an instance he tells of a section of Highlanders who defended a vil lage under terrible fire as a forlorn hope to enable the rest of the regi ment to withdraw. When the sergeant in command per ceived a number of packages of choco late in a wrecked grocery, he cried out: “Every one who gets his man will have a piece of chocolate.” He then proceeded forthwith to dis tribute prizes to the men. Even in the midst of war's alarms the Englisn decline to abandon the tea habit. The interpreter heard an officer say in an interval between two desperate attacks: "Come, gentlemen, lpt's take tea.” FATE OF FRENCH TRAITOR French soldier, who, for 100 francs, signaled to the Germans of a Trench battery near Reims. Ho was caught in the act and summarily shot, his body being left tied to the stake as a warning to others. ALONE IN THEIR MISERY MzL - An old woman and child who were unable to get away from Ontend, pho tographed sitting disconsolate on the pier. This his comrades proceeded to do. The English are equally particular about shaving, and the soldiers' take ad vantage of the smallest respite to pro duce a razor, brush, soap and pocket mirror. The Liberte s informant sayp he was also tremendously impressed by Eng lish catch-words, shouted often at most desperate moments. A soldier would cry: “Are we downhearted?" Immediately a stentorian roar, "So," would follow from every one present.