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Includes What Is Going On at Wash*
Ington and In Other Sections of
the Country.
WAR NEWS.
Turkish Authorities in Hodeida,
Arabia, have saluted the flag over
the Italian consulate and thereby
ended the incident caused by the re
moval of the British consul from the
consulate.
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British Foreign office, in a state
ment bearing on the flying of Amer
ican flag by Lusitania, declares that
the use of a neutral flag is, within
certain limits, well established in i
practice.
I-'amine faces war-swept Serbia un
less the people can obtain grain for
seed In the spring and farm tools to
work with, according to a statement
by a committee newly organized to
seek aid in the United States for the
destitute Serbian women and chil
dren.
In a note to the Britisli government
with respect to the use of the Amer
ican flag by British ships the United
States government calls attention to
"serious consequences which may re
sult to American vessels and Ameri
can citizens if this practice is con
tinued.”
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The United States government has
sent a friendly note to Great Britain
respecting the use on British ships
ot neutral flags. The government has
sent a note to Germany inquiring as
to what steps are to be taken to veri
fy the identity of ships flying neutral
flags in the sea war zones around
England and Ireland.
From Berlin comes the. announce
ment that the naval measures of Ger
many against British commerce are
In no sense a blockade; that no hos
tile action against neutral shipping is
contemplated, and that Germany’s
warships will endeavor to avoid sink
ing American or neutral ships, taking
ever precaution to that end.
OBNBRAL.
Work on Chicago’s new $63,000,000
Union Passenger terminal will begin
within thirty days.
Jose Caro, Spanish minister to Mex
ico, has been summarily expelled from
Mexico by General Carranza.
Flames that raged two days in the
hold of the British steamer Grindon
hall, at Norfolk, sugar laden, have
been extinguished.
• • •
The price of G-cent loaves of breau
have raised up to 6 cents in New
York City. The high price of tiour is
given as the cause.
• • •
The Florence Crittenton home, a
Ixts Angeles institution for unfor
tunate girls, which cost O. T. John
son, a lars Angeles philanthropist,
$100,000, was as a gift to that city by
Mr. Johnson.
• • •
The directors of the Pennsylvania
Itaiiroud company at a meting at Phi
„ ladelphia decided to request the stock
holders for authority to increase the
j» > h'cilne-s of the company at the
next annual meeting to the extent of
$4U, boo.uou.
• • •
There will be no strike of the
Yorkshire coal miners as had been
feared. At a conference attended by
the mine workers and representatives
of the men, the owners conceded the
men’s demands for an advance in
wages until the end of the war.
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Telephonic communication between
Philadelphia and Snn Francisco, for
mally was inaugurated over the Bell
system by three taps on the Liberty
Bell, the sound of which over the* win*
was the signal to a bugler in the far
western city to play "The Star Span
gled Banner.”
A twenty-six hour mail train from
New York to St. Louis will be rees
tablished by the Pennsylvania rail
road, February Id. The train will ar
rive in St. Louis at 6:41! a. m. The
change was necessary in order to
make mail connections at St. Louis
for the Pacific coast.
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As preliminary to a general cam
paign for a national prohibition in
1916, the national committee of the
prohlhltou party has decided to con
centrate its activities upon Massa
chusetts this year.
Robert Harrett, merchnnt. filed suit
against the city of Atlanta for the
reward it offered for the arrest
of Mary Phagan's murderer Hurrett
says he discovered strands of hair
and blood spots in the Nutional Pen
cil factory, which he claims led to
Leo M. Frank's arrest and conlvction.
Investigation of increased freight
rates on all commodities on all rail
ways we|t of the Missouri river will
be opened in Chicago on March 4 he
lore Interstate Commerce Commis
sioner Clements.
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George E. Neuhardt. president, and
four other former officers, of the
Chickasaw Bank and Trust company,
were found guilty in federal court at
Memphis, of conspiracy and fraudu
lent use of the mails lu connection
with the hank's failure two years
A bill to appropriate lf.0.000 for an
Alabama building at the San Fran
cisco exposition virtually failed in the
lceslature at Montgomery when the
senate finance committee reported i|
adversely.
Detective Ring, for many a years a
member of the Omaha detective force,
was shot and killed when he tried to
arrest two Mexicans in that city.
• • •
A six months’ residence bill for the
benefit of persons seeking divorces
was introduced in the house of the
Wyoming legislature at Cheyenne.
• • •
Washington's birthday, February 22,
was selected as Chicago's bundle day
when packages of clothing and neces
saries will be given to the poor of the
city,
• • •
The four weeks of Billy Sunday’s
campaign in Philadelphia have re
sulted in the conversion of 16,453 peo
ple. This figure is the total of those
who have actually signed cards.
• • •
The plant or the Tapp Clothing
company, manufacturers of clothing
for men and boys at Louisville, Ky.,
has been closed. Assets approximately
are $47,000 and the liabilities $63,000.
• • •
J. P. Morgan announced that he had
sold the famous Morgan collection of
Chinese porcelains, now on exhibi
tion in the south w indow of the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art at New
York.
• • •
Old age pensions and widows' and
orphans’ endowments will be consid
ered at Chicago during the last week
in April at a national conference of
Methodist clergymen. It is desired
to raise $10,000,000 for these bene
fits.
* • •
in a decision affecting the relations
between union labor and all Califor
nia cities, the state supreme court
held that the Sau Francisco Hoard of
Supervisors had no right to resolve
that all city printing be done by union
shops.
• • •
Twenty-one uncharted dangerous
pinnacle rocks have been discovered
by the coast survey in forty-two miles
of the inside passage used by all
steamers going up and down the Alas
ka coast. One is 600 feet high and
comes within seventeen feet of the
surface.
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Measures to protect Nebraska cat
ile against the hoof and mouth dis
ease were adopted by the Nebraska
Live .Stock Sanitary board, which, at
a meeting held in Omaha, decided that
from February 10 until March 10 a
state of quarantine will be in effect
against all states east of the Missouri
river.
* • *
The constitutionality of the income
tax as applied to mining companies
was attacked in the Boston federal
court by John U. Stanton, a stockhold
er in the Baltic Mining company, in
an application for an injunction to
prevent the company's officers front
complying with the provisions of the
tax law.
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Subscriptions for a fund of $500,
000, to he used in supply work to the
unemployed, were called for at Chi
cago, by Mayor Carter Harrison. The
money is to be spent in beautifying
the city, and only persons wlto have
jived in Chicago a year will he em
ployed. There are 200,000 unemploy
ed persons in Chicago, according to
an official estimate.
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Fines aggregating $125,000 were
levied by the Missouri supreme court
at Jefferson City on five large pack
Ing firms, and under the decree of
tlie court, the right of the companies
to continue business in Missouri is
conditioned on the payment of the
fines by March 11. Otherwise, or it
they violate the antitrust law, they
must, leave the state.
WASHINGTON.
Omaha ranks among the cities of
over 100.000 population which have
low death rates. The rate in Omaha
per 1,000, in 1913, was 13.9. accord
ing to figures by the census bureau.
The percentages range, 8.4 for Seat
tle, to 20.8 for Memphis.
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The senate appropriations commit
tee reported the legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill, carry
ing $39,537,303.50, an increase of $3,
082,670 over the total as it passed the
house. Of this $2,286,100 was added
for an ngrlculiural census.
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February 6, as reported to the IV
partment of Commerce by the thlr
teen principal customs ports, showed
a balance of $37,134,226 In favor of
the United States, the largest weekly
balance on record. Kxports for the
week totaled $50,581,106 and Imports
$22,446,880.
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Itcpresentatlve llohson of Alabama
Introduced a resolution calling upon
the State department for any infor
■nation it. might have concerning the
demands Japan is reported to have
made upon China, and asking whether
these demands if enforced would im
peril the open door policy or the In
tegrity of China.
Over a strenuous protest from Ma
jority I-eader Underwood, the house
iu passing the naval appropriation
bill retained provision for the con
struction of two dreadnoughts, six
torpedo boat destroyers, one sea
going submarine torpedo boat, eleven
submarines and one oil fuel ship.
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Secretary McAdoo's activity in
connection with the ship purchase
bill was criticised in the house by
Representative Humphrey of Wash
ington and Representative Moore of
Pennsylvania. .
• • •
President Wilson received the mem
bers of the National Council of the
Boy Scouts of America and presented
medals to several scouts, one of them
for life saving. The president ad
dressed the boy scouts expressing his
interest in the organization and his
belief in its objects.
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President Wilson has received an
invitation to speak in Omaha during
his western tour in March. He has
accepted the invitation to address the
New Citizens' allegiance celebration
in Chicago.
ARE WAITING ON U.S.
AMERICA EXPECTED TO MAKE
FIRST MOVE TO END WAR.
LA FOLLETTE TELLS SENATE
Urges Adoption of Resolution Author
izing President to Call Confer
ence of Neutral Powers.
Washington, 1). C.—"The balance
of the world at peace waits upon this
government,’’ Senator ha Follette told
the senate, speaking on his resolu
tion to authorize the president to
call a conference of all neutral pow
ers to co-operate in restoring peace
in Europe.
‘‘.Neutral rights demand a clearer
definition. Delay is tilled with men
ace,” lie said.
"Shall we wait until other nations
are drawn into the struggle?” de
manded Senator I.a Follette in urging
passage of iiis mediation resolution,
"or shall we and neutral nations ar
ticulate the protest of the peaceful
half of the world a protest tempered
by affection and reason, and yet so
strong that it shall finally be heard
above the roar and crash of the
world's greatest war?”
“We do not want to see Europe
changed by conquest, to see any na
tion wiped off tlie earth.
Who Can Say When?
“Who can say at what moment the
dark curtain that veils so much ot
the struggle may be swept aside by
uncontrolled forces that will fasten
upon the peaceful nations and draw
the whole world into the vortex of
war?
“Great Britain assumes the right to
fly our flag for self-protection. We
are warned that Germany may not be
able to determine whether our flag
designates a neutral or an enemy.
Who can say what moment uncon
trolled forces will draw the whole
world into war?
“Kngland from day to day enlarges
her list of contraband and imposes
conditions and exactions which well
might paralyze commerce. Germany
declares ‘war zones’ to blockade
lCnglish ports.
“There are two or three proposi
tions which the highest authorities
agree are fundamental to permanent
peace. The first, perhaps, is the lim
itation of armaments, and the nation
alization of the manufacture of all
equipment and is the prohibition of
the exportation of arms and muni
tions. It is revolting that we should
encourage or permit traffic in arms
and ammunition by private capital for
profit with other governments.
“It is folly to pretend that the
mere calling of the proposed confer
ence will end hostilities. But It Is
little short of an international crime
for congress to wlihhold from the
president the authority and the nec
essary appropriation enabling him to
act as the occasion shall commend
itself to his expressed desire to init
iate such proceeding as may. in the
providence of God, aid in bringing
peace to the nations now at war.”
Fatal Railroad Accident.
Lexington, Neb.—Charles Johnston,
superintendent of the Third district
Union Pacific railroad, and fondue*
! tor II. Akeyson were killed at Goth
enburg while testing a new mail
catching device to receive and dis
charge mail. They were using a
mail car on the local freight and were
going about forty miles an hour
when the accident occurred. The
crane on which the pouch was fas
tened was driven through the car by
the force of the compact, killing
Akeyson immediately and fatally in
juring Johnston, who died later.
Germane Capture 26.000 Russians.
London.—All eyes now are turned
upon east Prussia, where the German
admirality under the observation of.
not the command, of Emperor Wil
liam, has taken the offensive and com
pelled the Russians to evacuate their
positions east of the Mazeurian lakes
and retire to their own territory. The
German official communicaaion inti
mates that the appearance in this dis
trict of a strong new German force
was it surprise to the Russians and
that the Germans captured 26,000
prisoners, 1,200 cannon and thiray
machine guns, and a lot of war
material.
Kansas Peace Organization.
Topeka, Has.—"War will cease only
when people of the earth--the com
mon people-—determine in ttieir hearts
and minds that war shall be no more."
declared Arthur Capper, governor of
Kansas, in an address to the senate
wide peace conference here. Two hun
dred delegates attended.
Fifteen Students Dismissed.
Champaign. 111.—Fifteen students of
the University of Illinois have been
dismissed, twelve of them having been
detected cheating in the midwinter
examinations. One young woman was
suspended for presenting false state
ments to prolong her Xmas holiday.
To Raise Fund for Pensions.
Chicago. 111.—A campaign for a
fund of $11,600,060 to provide for re
tired ministers and for widows and
orphans of ministers of the Methodist
Episcopal church has been started.
Witness Looting of a Bank.
Antelope. Mont.—Bound fast to
chairs with their suspenders, the
cashier and his assistant of the Far
mers' State bank at Medicine Lake,
Mont., were compelled to witness the
looting of the hank by two masked
robbers, who escaped with $2,500.
Bomb Kills Thirty-five Men.
London.—It is learned that thirty
five German soldiers were killed in
one of the Antwerp forts recently by
a bomb dropped by British alp
men.
ALL OVER NEBRASKA
SHORT NEWS ITEMS
Omaha will vote on Sunday base
ball next spring.
Nehawka's new electric light plant
is in operation.
A new opera house will soon be
erected at Gordon.
Hastings will vote on a $130,000
school building fund.
A new high school building has
been completed at Cedar Bluffs.
The Potter State bank will erect a
new bank building at that place.
A “Better Farming" meeting is
being hdd in Sidney this week.
The Falls City chorus has reorgan
ized and work has been resumed.
The population of Norfolk has in
creased two thousand in four years.
Railroad men along the Platte riv
er expect high water this spring.
State county treasurers held their
convention in Hastings last wrek.
A charter has been issued to State
Bank of Minatare. Capital $15,000.
Several Wood River schools were
closed last week on account of small
pox.
The new $30,000 public school build
ing at Cedar Bluffs has been dedi
cated.
Range horses are selling as high as
$160 and cattle at $S4 in Cheyenne
county.
Clarkson was cut off from train
service four days during the recent
storm.
The next meeting of the Nebraska
Hotelmen’s association will be held
in Omaha.
George Klein, who sued Hastings
Tribune for $10,000, was awarded a
verdict for $5.
Mr. and Mrs. George Watkins of
Stella celebrated their golden wed
ding recently.
Seward county is planning a new
jail which will probably cost the
county $12,000
Hall county will spend $2,000 in
heritance tax to pave a mile of Lin
coln highway.
J. H. Brady, Lincoln, is seeking ap
pointment as secretary of interstate
trade commission.
r.rastus incKnian. an aged resident
of Seward, fell on the sdewalk and
broke one of bis hips.
The First National bank of Hebron
has disposed of its interests to the
Hebron State bank.
I)r. and Mrs. B. F. Farley. York,
celebrated llieir golden wedding an
niversary February 8.
The C. E. societies of the Christian
and Presbyterian churches at Falls
City held socials last week.
Mrs. Belle Stoddard who died in
Windfall, Ind., February 6, was buried
from her former home near Surprise.
County Judge Barr at Ainsworth
reports that he issued only one mar
riage license during the month of
January.
The Slate Board of Education
Lands and Funds has purchased $1?.,
000 worth of the sewer bonds of the
city of Genoa.
R. E. McIntosh has been named
president of Nebraska^ County Treas
urers’ association to succeed W. G.
lire of Omaha.
Bader Bros. have, sold their Main,
street block at Fremont to Joe Verldn
of the Omaha store. The considera
tion was $14,000.
Grandpa Thomason of Gibbon, aged
101 years, died at his home. He was
apparently in good health up to with
in a few Hours’ of his death.
William Huffschneider of Seward,
while grinding sausage, caught his
fingers in the machine, tearing one
finger from the hand and crushing
another.
Harry, the three-months-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Staehs of Has.
tings, was found dead in its cradle. It
is believed the child smothered to
death.
An audience of farmers in Brock,
after listening to addresses by C E
Beekoff, Seward county agent, passed
resolutions favoring county unit sys
tem of schools.
After entering into an agreement to
advance the price of bread from 5 to
C cents a loaf. Lincoln bakers, with
one exception, rescinded their action
and will return to the original prica
When Mrs. Clark Young of Hastings
returned to house after few minutes
in yard she found 6-month-old son
nearly choked on metal buttons. She
held him face down and the buttons
came out.
i ire urw i i
of the Dodge comity court house at
Frpmont will be formally opened Sat
urday. A matron, employed by the
business men of Fremont, will be in
charge of the room.
Bernice, IS-monuiS-old baby of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles A. Manning of
Omaha, sat down in a bucket of
scalding lyewater her mother was go.
ing to scrub the floor with, and was
so badly burned she died.
Miss Sadie Carr, known throughout
the literary world as Polly Josephine
Skimmer, the author of “Golden Red"
has purchased the 1). B. Hart resi
dence in Edgar and will make it the
future home of herself and mother.
At a Commercial club meeting in
Gordon it was decided to ask the
council for a special election on the
proposition of incorporating as a city
of the second class.
Mayor Zehrung and the Lincoln po
lice department are defendant in a
$10,000 damage suit, brought by Da
vid O. Brown, who alleges cruelty and
unlawful imprisonment
At a meeting of members of the
Fremont lodge of Elks plans were
laid for entertaining the annual con
vention of Elks of Nebraska, which
is to be held in Fremont May 11
and 12.
R. A. Blake of Sidney is working
out a co-operative plan for the com
mercial clubs of western Nebraska.
The state banking board has ap
proved articles of incorporation of
three new state banks. The German
American State bank of Chaleo, Tie
Security State Bank of Ansley. and
the First State Bank of Dickens.
Nebraska national banks, exclusive
of reserve cities, had a reserve of
26.15 per cent at ciose of business
January 31. Total deposits, $49,
797,448; loans and discounts, $50,
228,374; gold coin. $1,074,617; lawful
money reserve, $2,798,228.
JOINT ENTERPRISE
HUNTER SUGGESTS PIPE LINE
BUILT BY TWO STATES.
TRANSPORT OIL TO NEBRASKA
Would Draw Supply From Wyomir.g
Field Without Depending On the
Railroad Companies.
Lincoln.—The building of a pipe
line from Casper, Wyo., to Omaha as
a joint enterprise by the states of Ne
braska and Wyoming for the purpose
of transporting oil to this state, is pro
posed in the legislature in a resolu
tion offered by Representative Hunter
of Douglas county. It calls for a line
600 miles long and two feet in dia
meter'and capable of transporting 10,
000,000 gallons every twenty-four
hours, at an estimated cost of $5,000
per mile.
- The resolution suggested that the
governors of the two states arrange
for a joint delegate convention to for
ward this project in order that Ne
braska may be enabled to draw sup
plies of oil from the Wyoming fields
without depending on railroad com
panies for its transportation and mak
ing this state independent of the
Standard Oil company.
Interest in Agricultural Bill.
Interest appears to be growing on
the Beal agricultural activities bill
now pending in the senate. The
measure will likely provoke a fight
as sentiment is pronounced in both di
rections. for and against it. The bill
assembles all agricultural activities
under one head—a board of nine
members—and includes everything
from collection of statistics to super
vision of the state agricultural col
lege and its allied activities. The
plan was broached years ago by J.
D. Ream of Broken Bow. It has been
worked for steadily since by him and
other prominent farmers, it is said.
Cities Suggest Changes.
The League of Nebraska Munici
palities has recommended changes in
several bills before the legislature,
chief among which is H. R. No. 207,
requiring a certificate of necessity
and public convenience from the
State Railway commission, before a
corporal ion can set up business. It
was recommended that after the word
“corporation," in this bill, the words
“not municipality or publicly” owned,
be inserted and that the following be
added: “Nothing in this act shall af
fect or apply to municipality or pub
licly owned corporations."
May Kill Garnishment Law.
Repeal of the law passed by the
191:5 legislature permitting garnish
ment of 1" per cent of wages, is to
be secured at this session, according
to representatives of labor organiza
tions. They assert that under the
constitution wages are personal prop
erty, and as such may be held ex
empt from garnishment up to the
amount of exemption allowed each
person by law. Retail merchants
generally are opposed to repeal of the
law, because they assert it will make
them easier victims of persons who
secure credit and fail to pay their
bills.
Risener Pushing Serum Bill.
Representative Risener of Thomas
county is fearful that his serum bill
will meet with opposition when it
comes up in the house. The bill is
known as H. R. 158, and it provides
that all serum used in the state shall
be manufactured at the state farm.
Considerable opposition is being
raised to the bill, but Mr. Risener
claims to have affidavits from promi
nent cattlemen which will make the
measure win.
Corn Stalk Disease Worst Yet.
The ravages of the corn stalk dis
ease among horses this winter are
the worst in the history of Nebraska,
according to Or. Charles M. Day. state
field veterinarian, in a report. Accord
ing to word received by the state
veterinarian’s department from one
of its field men, over 200 horses have
died in one county alone as a result
of the disease.
Senate Passes Merger Bill.
The senate by a vote of 24 to 8
passed the Omaha consolidation bih
with the emergency clause. It will
now go to the house, where much op
position is expected. The Douglas
county delegation voted solid’y for
the measure.
Must Brand Imitation Jellies.
House Koll 204. providing for brand
ing containers of mitation jellies and
preserves in such a manner that the
ingredients would be shown, has
been recommended for passage.
Prosecution is Directed.
On the advice of Attorney General
Reed, State Food Commissioner Har
man directed one of his inspectors to
prosecute a farmer and a butcher at
Ord for offering for sale the meat of
a calf that had been examined by a
veterinarian and declared to be af
flicted with spinal meningitis. On re
commendation of Food Commissioner
Harman Representative Fries has
introduced a bill to declare the sale
of meat from a diseased animal a
felony.
Petitions for Hail Bill.
Petitions signed by several hun
dred business men at Archer and
farmers in the surrounding country,
were filed in the house, asking for the
passage of the Osterman hill, H. R.
No. 629 for the creation of a state hail
insurance fund. The measure pro
poses a state levy of one-fourth of one
mill for xhe purpose of creating the
fund. The governor is to appoint
three commissioners for each county,
who shall pass on all claims for loss,
and award the same acording to their
best judgment.
GIVE FARMERS TIME TO VOTE
Measure Favored by House that Ex
tends the Hour Polls Are Open
Until 8 O’clock in Evening.
If house roil No. 200 by Smith
meets with the same favor in the sen
ate that it did in the house the polls
will open at 8 o'clock in the morning
and close at 8 o'clock at night. An at
tempt to make the closing hour 7
o'clock failed.
Messrs. Stebbins and Van Deusen
objected to running as late as 8
o'clock in the evening on the ground
that election boards are already re
quired to work too long hours and
that this bill would delay the account
and make the boards more careless.
The opposite argument was made
by Mr. Norton that farmers can vote
more conveniently af^er the day’s
is over and inasmuch as the present
law provides for closing primaries at
9 o'clock, he thought that general
elections should run not later than 6
o’clock.
Mr. Meredith said that in Ashland
precinct last year fifty-six railroad
men lost their votes by being unable
to reach home before 6 o’clock. Mr.
Regan said that nineteen voters lost
cm; in his precinct in Platte county.
Mr. Neff said that farmers in his
countv (Knox), had requested him to
introduce a bill of this kind.
Village^ in Thurston county com
pete from year to year for the loca
tion of the annual county corn show.
The show is held at that village or In
that community winning the largest
number of points at the show the pre
ceding year. This year the show was
held at Thurston, and next year it
will be held at Emerson. The com
petitors for next year's contest were
Emerson, Rosalie. Thurston. Walthill
and Render. The exhibition is held
under the auspices of the Thurston
County Farmers’ association.
A plea to leave the Nebraska work
ingmen's compensation act as it is
for at least two years has been made
to the senate committee on labor by
big employers of labor in the state.
They oppose the Mallery bill, raising
the percentage of compensation to in
jured men from 50 per cent of the
wages to 66 2-3 per cent and increas
ing special compensations. Among
the employers who presented the
plea were several members of the
Omaha and Nebraska Manufacturers’
association.
Further limitation of the powers of
ihe normal school board probably will
be made by the senate when the bill
treating a new board arrives from the
house. The house placed the buying
of all supplies in the hands of the
board of control, through which the
normal board is directed. The senate
probably will also include in the du
ties of the board of control the erec
tion of all normal school buildings.
Three bills of interest to all stock
food manufacturers and seed growers
and dealers were recommended for
passage by the senate committee of
the whole. One provides a yearly tax
of $25 on each brand of stock food
on the market. Another regulates the
sale and quality of concentrated food
stuffs. The third is a pure seed bill.
Repeal of the nine-hour law affect
ing female labor in towns of less than
5,000 population lias been recommend
ed for passage. The bill as favored
by the house removes any limit as to
the number of hours a woman may
work in towns under 5,000 population
and also removes the eight-hour lim
it for night telephone operators.
H. R. 129, by Krumbach. regulating
the sale of stock foods, was recom
mended for passage this afternoon in
committee of the whole in the senate.
According to Senator Qulnby of Doug
las. if the bill goes through and be
comes a law' it will put several
Omaha firms dealing in this kind of
food out of business.
Reports from twenty-nine farmers'
institutes this season up to February
1 show an average attendance of over
a thousand at all sessions, or an ag
gregate of 29.292. The highest number
present up to February 1 at any far
mers’ institute this season is Ray
mond, with over 2,300 persons pres
ent.
The house has passed, by a vote
of 71 to 25. the bill prohibiting quail
shooting for five years, permanently
forbidding the shooting of doves and
plover and limiting the open season
on chickens to one month. September
15 to October 15.
The Chambers bill, permitting box
ing exhibitions in the state of Ne
braska under supervision of a commis
sion has been recommended for pass
age by the house committee upon mis
cellaneous affairs.
Secretary of State Pool has dis
covered that there are about seventy
insurance companies doing business
in the state who have failed to incor
porate and are therefore working in
defiance of law and are liable to pros
ecution. Many of tiese companies
are mutnals and according to the at
torney general the members thereof
are assuming unlimited responsibility
and liability because it is a partner
ship pure and single. The attention
of the attorney general has been call
ed to the matter.
Amendment to the constitution re
ducing the legislature to half its pres
ent size and lengthening the terms of
members from two to four years is
being discussed among legislators.
Labor Commissioner Frank M. Cof.
fey is strongly opposing any changes
in the present nine-hour day for wo
men He said he doubted very se
riously if the proposed changes would
be constitutional and expressed fear
that the amendments to the present
jaw would result in the entire act be
ing thrown out of the courts.
The
gfa£i General
Says:
Why accept a doubtful
guarantee on roofing when you can
get one signed by the largest man
ufacturer of roofing and building
papers in the world, with a saving
in cost in the long run?
Certamteed
is guaranteed in writing 5 years for ! : v.
10 years for 2-ply, and 15 years for 3 ; !y,
and the responsibility of our big it Is
stands behind this guarantee. Its c . ■ •
is the highest and its pn e :he most r«
able. For sale by dealers everywhere
General Roofing Mfg. Company
World's largest manufaof JK
and Building Paper*
New York City Boitoo Cb cage Ptttshnrfk
Philadelphia At.'an U Cleveland Detroit
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Roofing
Beauty
Is Only Skin Peer
It is vitally nec
essary there
fore, that yon
take good car*
oi your Snio.
ZONA POMADE
if used regularly will beautify arc
preserve your complexion and fr ;
you retain the bloom of early you;:s
for many years. Try it for 30
days. If not more than satisfied
you get your money back, fee
at druggists or mailed direct
Zona Company, Wichita, Kan.
“87“ _
KOW-ICURE is a scientific cow m*'i:wv -h
has a direct and lasting tonic effect on
of digestion. For over twenty yinr-> it * . -}
the standard medicine for the prevention a t t* la
ment of such common cow ailmerta as rr*on.
Retained Afterbirth, Rarrennes*, M*Ia row
Scouring and Lost Appetite.
You cannot afford to let a cow get dwTi in haa’ - P t
• ter keep K w-Kure constantly on hand SaW by f.-r
dealers and druggists in 60c and 11.00 p ». aagea.
I Valuable treatise, "Tha Cow Doctor. ’ ’
I is your* for the asking. 1
DAIRY ASSOCIATION CO. ^
i L/ndonvilte. VL
Trying to Forget.
He—Don't you remember me'.
She—Why', should 1?
"We were engaged to be n ‘
last summer at the beach."
"Yes; but don't you recollect ■■
told me to forgive and forge' y.
In tne Trenches.
"No blankets, captain."
"Well, boys, we'll just have to c. u'
ourselves with glory.”
The Reason.
"Your new clerk appears to b >
blue about his work.”
“That's only because he's .ret:
Always n«e Red CYoss Ball Blue. IV! _ *
the laundress. At all good growers A >
Some men are good because they
find it cheaper than being bad
the list
for the grocer—to
day—write Van
Houten’s Rona Cocoa
—and you’ll never
use any other. Half
pound can—red—
25c
DEFIANCE STARCH
is constantly growing in favor because it
Does Not Stick to the Iron
ind it will not injure the finest fabric b\.r
laundry purposes it has no equal. 16 m.
package 10c. 1 -3 more starch for same money
DEFIANCE STARCH CO.. Omaha. Nebraska
CLOVER
BEST
ON
EARTH
Wisconsin grown seed recognized the world over .*
tardiest, most vigorous. Bsii BIKI> Catalog t i.t*
lohn A. Salzer Seed Co.. Bos 704. La Crease, k i.
WAMTPTT to hear from owner of g. -st tarn,
t" All t t.L/ fur saie. Send desrr:;. .-n , nd
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Nebraska Directory
THE PAXTON
HOTEL
Omah*. Nebraska
„-_ _-EUROPEAN PLAN
oooma from $1.00 up single, 75 eeut* up double.
CAFE PRICES REASONABLE
BUSS & nCLLHAil
Live Stock Commission Merchants
254-356 fcxchanjce Buudiiip South Omaha
All stock consigned to as is sola bv members of in*
arm. and all employees bare been selectee and
trained for tfce work w hick they do. Wrtu ■
W. N. U„ OMAHA. NO. 7-1915.