EPITOIOF EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention of What Is Transpiring
In Various Sections of Our Own
and Foreign Countries.
WAR NEWS.
Greece, according to a Berlin dis
patch. has agreed to prevent the
movement of Russian ammunition by
way of Saloniki.
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American steamer Evelyn, with a
cargo of cotton from New York for
Bremen, lias been sunk by a mine
near Borkum island, in the North Sea.
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Austria will follow Germany's lead
in its treatment of neutral shipping in
the Adriatic, although possessing few
submarines, says a dispatch from
Innsbruck.
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A decree prohibiting the exportation
of copper, copper wire, driving belts
and leather for belts, is expected to
be promulgated by the Netherlands
government.
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A German submarine has made its
way into the Irish sea and torpedoed
a British coasting steamer near the
route tpken by trans-Atlantic steam
ers to and from Liverpool.
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The British admiralty announces
that the Irish channel and the north
channel waters lying between Eng
land and Scotland and Ireland have
been restricted for navigation.
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The American steamer Carib has
been sunk off the German coast in the
North sea as a result of running on a
mine. At the time of this disaster
to the Carib the vessel was not using
the route laid down in the German
mine instructions.
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The Scandinavian powers, accord
ing to a news agency dispatch, will
reopen negotiations with London and
Berlin with a view to obtaining the
British and German consent to
neutrsj merchant ships of the Scan
dinavian countries being convoyed by
warships.
Preceded by mine sweepers, the
allied fleet under Vice Admiral Car
den has movtd past tht destroyed
Turkish forts at the entrance to the
Dardenelles and has begun shelling
land fortifications on both sides of
the strait, according to Athens dis
patches.
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Emperor William has conferred the
decoration of the order "Pour le Mer
ite” upon Field Marshal ifcins Von
Buelow, commander of the Eighth
German army, defending east Prus
sia, for his services in the recent
battle of the Mazurian Lakes, in
which the Russians were defeated.
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Since the end of January the Teu
tonic allies, according to official re
ports from Berlin and Vienna, have
captured 140,800 men, including sev
enty-one officers. Among these are
seven generals. These prisoners in
clude those made in the last German
drive of the Russians through East
Prussia and in the fighting in the
Carpathians. In addition, 193 guns
are said to have been taken.
GENERAL.
Three men entered the Bank of
Stuart (Fla.), held up the cashier and
secured approximately $4,000.
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The Liberty Bell of Philadelphia
■was rung the second time in three
quarters of a century, and telephones
conveyed the sound to the exposition
grounds at San Francisco when the
fair opened, February 20.
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The Nebraska state railway commis
sion. in a statement issued at Lin
coln, declares that an organized at
tempt is being made to enlist the
commercial clubs of the state in a
movement for increased railroad rates.
A new treatmena for tetanus
(lockjaw), consisting of the injection
of an Epson salts solution into the
membranes of the spinal cord, and a
newly-invented machine to induce res
piration by artificial means, has been
completed -by the Rockefeller insti
tute.
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Contrary to expectations counsel for
Charles Becker, former New York po
lice lieutenant, twice convicted for
the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the
gambler, refused to make an applica
tion for a new trial.
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-M. F. Kearney, former first vice
president of the Texas & Pacific Rail
way company, and recently appointed
co-receiver of the Wabash Railroad
company, was elected president and
director of the Wabash at a meeting
of the road’s board of directors at
New York.
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As preliminary to a general cam
paign for a national prohibition in
1916, the national committee of the
prohibiton party has decided to con
centrate its activities upon Massa
chusetts this year.
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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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All records for exposition first day
attendance were broken at the open
ing of the Panama-Pacific internation
al exposition. It is said a total of
more than 300,000 passed through the
gates.
Forty jitney buses are now operating
in Omaha. Four are trucks, three
ror ten passengers and one for twen
ty. Another, equipped with eleetric
lights and having a capacity of
twenty, will start soon.
The cornerstone of the $2,000,000
Lincoln memorial structure has been
laid in Washington. A copper box
I containing a history of Lincoln, sign
[ ed by his living son. Robert Lincoln,
and other historical data, was placed
in the cornerstone.
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The first counterfeit of a federal,re
serve note has appeared. It is a $5
note of the Dallas federal reserve
bank, printed from poorly executed
etched plates, the secret service says,
on two pieces of paper with silk
threads between.
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Bread is selling in Russia for
cents a pound, meat is retailing at 40c
a pound and potatoes are selling for
$1.50 per third-of-a-bushel, according
to a letter received by Jacques Rieur
of the University of Omaha from his
mother at Viazin, Russia.
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Harlow N. Higginbotham, who was
president of the World’s Columbian
exposition in 1803, ardse from a sick
bed at Chicago to telegraph his good
wishes to Charles C. Moor**, president
of the Panama-Pacific exposition at
San Francisco, the opening day.
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The atnouna of Nebraska land
going to waste along railroad tracks
and public roads is as great as that
under cultivation, Prof. C. W. Pugs
!ey, superintendent of the farm ex
tension department of the University
of Nebraska, to’d an audience at
Omaha.
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The Colorado house by a vote of 63
to-0, passed the tempo'ince bill for
the enforcement of state-wide prohi
tion constitutional amendment. The
bill differs from the measure passed
by the senate in that it would pro
hibit the sale of liquor by drug stores
or by any other agency or individuals.
Mrs. W. F. Cockrell of Delray. Va..
jumped into the elevator shaft of the
Washington monument at Washingon.
D. C., at a landing near the top and
fell to the bottom, more than 500 feet
below. Her body was crushed by
striking the sides of the shaft on the
way down and she was dead before
reaching the ground.
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In accordance with a resolution
adopted- by the Arkansas senate at
Little Rock, a committee began its in
vestigation of charges made on the
senate floor by Senator Toler, that
senators had been bribed to support
the racing bill now before the upper
house. He charged certain senators
had received $10,0^0 each.
WASnimu i urv
The house committee refuses to
recommend reimbursing pf Danbury,
Conn., union hatters for $-90,000 lines
for violating anti-trust law.
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Secretary of the Navy Daniels or
ders court-martial of live men on the
charge of responsibility for the ex
plosion aboard the cruiser San Diego,
due to low water in boilers.
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Representative Bartholdt denounc
ed militarism as European war’s
cause. He admitted writing a letter
saying that “German-Americans stood
as a single man with the fatherland.”
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The government war risk bureau
has temporarily suspended the rates
to German ports, pending receipt of
further information on the losses of
the American steamers Evelyn and
Carib.
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Without a dissenting vote the sen
ate passed the army appropriation
bill carrying approximaaely $103,000,
000, while the house aided in cleaning
up legislation for the session nearing
the close by passing the $6,000,000
fortifications bill.
The trade balance as shown by ex
cess of exports over imports touched
a new high mark in the history of the
country last month with a total ot
$145,536,103, according to complete
tigures for January given out by the
Department of Commerce.
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President Wilson met rumblings of
a senate fight on his nominations for
the new federal trade commission by
the announcement that he intended tc
stand by them. W. H. Parry of
Seattle, the president said had been
appointed as a republican. Parry
hitherto had been described as a
progressive republican.
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The senate passed the post office ap
propriation bill virtually as it passed
the house, carrying a total of approx
imately $323,000,000. A recommenda
tion of the senate committee to elim
iuate the house provision fixing the
salary of rural mail carriers on stand
ard routes at $1,200 a year was over
ruled, 63 to 10, adding $2,700 to the
bill as reported from the committee.
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Proposals to remove the tax on
mixed com and wheat flour in the
hope of reducing the price of bread
stuffs were abandoned by the house
ways and means committee, which de
cided there was not time in the re
maining days of the sixty-third con
gress to enact them into a law.
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Reports of Japan's demands on
China still are so conflicting that the
American government has not been
able to outline a policy. President
Wilson told callers he w’as not cer
tain what the exact demands Were.
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President Wilson told callers that
Attorney General Gregory's investi
gation of whther unlawful com
binations have caused the recent
rise in breadstuffs prices, has so far
uncovered no evidence, upon which
criminal prosecutions could be found,
ed. ,
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Although United States mail is con
stantly going directly or indirectly to
every country in the world, so far not
one bag has been lost through the
activity of the war fleets of the Euro
pean belligerents.
OUTER FORTS RAZED
REPORTS SAY FORTS IN STRAITS
OF DARDANELLES DESTROYED.
PICK UP THREE THOUSAND DEAD
Russians and Austrians Fighting in
the Carpathian Mountains Mak
ing Little Headway.
London.—The allied fleet has bom
barded inner forts in the straits of
the Dardanelles, according to an
Athens dispatch to Reuter's Tele
gram company. The fire directed
upon Fort Dardanos is said to have
been particularly severe and the
Turkish reply feeble. The lighthouse
at the entrance to the Dardanelles
has been destroyed. The fort of Dar
danos is the first to be passed after
those which guarded the entrance of
the straits.
France Confirms Report.
Paris.—An official communication
issued by the French minister of
marine confirms the announcement
of the demolition of the forts guard
ing the entrance to the Dardanelles
and says that mine dragging opera
tions are now proceeding in the
straits.
Allies Warships Damaged.
Constantinople (Via London) —
Three warships of the allies were
damaged in the bombardment of the
Dardanelles forts February 25, accord
ing to an announcement given out at
the headquarters of the Turkish army.
“Ten high armored vessels on Feb
ruary 25 again bombarded the Turk
ish forts at the Dardanelles for a per
iod of seven and a half hours. At the
conclusion of this operation they re
tired in the direction of the Island of
Tenedos.
“One ship of the Agamemnon type
and two other armored vessels were
damaged by the fire from the forts on
the Asiatic side of the straits.”
Like Siege Warfare.
Geneva, via Paris.-—The" fighting in
the Carpathian mountains between
Russians and Germans and Austrians
is becoming rapidly much like siege
warfare, according to dispatches
reaching Geneva from points near
the line of battle.
These messages declare that since
February 18 over 200,000 men have
been fighting hand to hand in the
Carpathian trenches without making
any material advance. The wound
ed are pouring into Ungvar and Epe
ries in Hungary.
During the night of Friday, Febru
ary 10, taking advantage of a lull in
the hostilities the Austrians picked
up at Svidnik 8,600 wounded men and
over .3,000 dead. The wounded had
been lying on the ground, some of
them for eighteen hours without food
or succor. A chief officer of the Aus
trian medical department is authority
for the estimate that 70 per cent of
them will be invalids for life. A ma
jority of the wounded at Svidnik
were injured in the head by blows
from rifle butts and 20 per cent of
them will be either partially or total
ly blind.
Labor Scarce in Austria.
London. — Vienna dispatches for
warded from Venice to the Reuter
Telegram company state the Austrian
minister of education has authorized
the employment of school children in
the fields where labor is scarce, clos
ing the schools if necessary. It is ah
so said that all of the schools will
be closed for the summer holidays at
the end of may, a month earlier than
usual.
Submarine Meets Disaster.
Christiana (Via London)—Wreck
age picked up near Christiania ap
pears to indicate a disaster to the
German submarine U-9.
The German submarine U-9 has
played an important part in the naval
activities of the war. It sank the
British cruisers Hogue, Aboukir and
Cressy in the North Sea on Septem
ber 23. and eluded pursuit. October
25. it sank the British cruiser Hawk.
A Hutch steam trawler reported No
vember 1, that it had met the U-9 in
a disabled condition off Haaks light
ship near Helder, on the north coast
of Holland. (ts trouble had been
caused by becoming entangled with
fishing nets. There have'been no re
ports regarding the U-9 since that
date.
Strike Costs Company a Million.
New York.—it is said the recent
strike at the mines of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company, cost the com
pany, directly and indirectly, approx
imately $1,250,OOt).
Prohibition for Idaho.
Boise, Idaho.—The senate of the
Idaho legislature passed the state
wide prohibition bill, which makes
the manufacaure, sale and transpor
tation for sale of intoxicating liquors
unlawful after January 1, 1916. The
vote was 20 to 6 in favor of the bill
War On Chicago Saloore.
Chicago.—Temperance workers who
led the fight in making Arizona a
prohibition state last fall have been
engaged to manage a similar cam
paign in Chicago.
Alleged Junk Trust.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Elias M. Blan
ford, special agent of the department
of justice, has received instructions
from the departmena at Washington
to begin an investigation in various
cities throughout the country of the
so-called “junk trust.”
Bernhardt’s Condition Favorable.
Bordeaux, France.—A report on the
condition of Sara Bernhardt, whose
lag was amputated recently, says that
she continues to make satisfactory
progress.
CONDENSED NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
The Otoe county jail is empty.
The Jitney buss fever has hit Grand
Island.
The first Has • ..s jitney the first
day made $10.50.
A new business block will soon bt
erected at Scribner.
The price of electricity has been
reduced in Beatrice.
Hastings is figuring on a municpal
ly-owned heating plant.
Jay Palmer heads the jitney bus
service in Grand Island.
Omaha's new million dollar hotel is
now open to the public.
Sarah Wright. 105 years old. died
at her home at Hyannis.
Dr. H. L. Wells has been appointed
physician of Cuming county.
Dean C. Bessey of the University
of Nebraska died at Lincoln.
A commercial club has been formed
in Wood Lake, Cherry county.
A move is on foot at Fremont tc
establish a jitney buss line.
Henry S.aats of near Fremont got
$0,000 for his 1914 wheat crop.
Nebraska retailers selected Lincoln
for its meeting place next year.
Germantown is organizing a Far
mers’ Grain and Elevator company.
Ice gorges in Blue river did great
damage to bridges in Seward county.
The basball club of Grand Island
got $1,000 from a fair held in that
city.
The merchandise firm of Killian &
Stuehrk of Cedar Bluffs has been dis
solved,
A stock company is being formed at
Greenwood for building a telephone
system.
Hastings high school students are
preparing to manage a lecture course
next year.
Dr. C. A. Phillips is president of the
newly organized Adams County Den
tist society.
Henry Krueger, a farmer living
southwest of Weeping Water, is still
husking corn.
G. A. Geil recommended in Wash |
ington for appointment as postmaster I
of Grand Island.
An eagle, measuring eight, feet and
two inches from tip to tip, was killed
near Kearney.
John G. Kyi of Wisner has been ad
judged a dipsomaniac by the insanity
board at West Point.
Nearly $3,000 have already been
subscribed for the 19X5 State league
baseball team at Rastings.
Nebraska is twenty-fifth in point
of school efficiency, according to
figures in superintendent's office.
The North Platte Valley Teachers'
association will hold their annual
meeting at Alliance March 25 to 27.
After Guy Martin of Hastings was
operated on for appendicitis it was
discovered he had smallpox instead.
Five hundred women of Hastings
Methodist church have pledged them
selves to raise $5,000 for a new build
ing.
William Eck, sentenced to Adams
county jail for ten days, can’t get out
because of a quarantine of the jail for
smallpox.
A two-year-old son of Charles Hran
nac of Geneva was severely scalded
when he overturned a basin contain
ing boiling water.
Hastings citizens are planning a
mass meeting to select a candidate
for mayor to oppose present incum
bent and three others.
The forty-first carload of relief sup
plies for Belgian war sufferers has
been sent by the Nebraska commis
sion for Belgian relief.
The re-appoin.ment of Clarence
Harman as deputy commissioner of
the food, drug and oil bureau, has
been announced by Governor John R.
Morehead.
State Treasurer Hall has purchas
ed $19,662.89 worth of the bonds of
drainage district No. 1. of Johnson
county; also $5,500 worth of the water
bonds of the village of Spingview.
Two tons of dynamite were used in
blasting a hill of lime rock in Supe
rior. Pieces of stone were thrown
half a mile high. The Portland Ce
ment company is to use the rock.
Nine Hastings cigar factories have
a total output of three and half mil
lion cigars, annually, according to in
ventories completed and turned over
to G. N. R. Browne, internal revenu
collector. i
Breakers of the law in Grand Island
are sent to the “coal pile,” according
to a Grand Island newspaper. “Seven
dollars and seven days on the coal
pile,” reads one police court sentence.
One person is dead, and thirty were
made seriouslyr ill as a result of eat
ing rolls sold aa a church festival at
Alma. Rat poison is believed to have
been accidentally mixed with the
flour.
Assessments paid into the state
bank guaranty fund may be deducted
by Nebraska banks from their state
ments of income under income tax
'aw. according to a ruling announced
by the treasury department at Wash
ington. •
Fear is expressed in some sections
of the state that sleet may have in
jured wheat and alfalfa
F. A. Kimbrough of Grand Island,
chartered a special train to go to
Hastings when he learned his daugh
ter, ther ■ in school, was ill with ap
pendicitis.
In per capita of rural population.
Nebraska is second of all the states
in the union in production swine, ac
cording to figures received by Secre
•ary Mellor of tbo State Board of Ag
riculture from the United States Board
cf Agriculture.
Traces of rabies were found in the
bead of the pet wolf which bit Leon
ard Doty of Weeping Water.
In view of the fact that the Ne
braska experiment station has found
that rolling wheat increases the yield
over five bushels an acre when roots
are exposed through the surface
cracking, farmers are considering
this a profitable practice this spring.
.The experiment station has found
that harrowing after rolling was not
s good as rolling alone and that
rolling alone may profitably be done
after the frost 1b out.
URGED TO GO SLOW
COMMERCIAL CLUBS OF STATE
CAUTIONED IN RATE MATTER.
ADVISED TO AWAIT INQUIRY
Railway Commission Says Attempt Is
Being Made to Line Up Clubs
for Increased Rates.
Lincoln.—A campaign among the
commercial clubs of the state is being
conducted for the purpose of induct
ing these organizations to adopt res
olutions favoring increased railroad
rates according to the railway com
mission. William Hirth, president of
the Federated Clubs of Missouri, is
said to be soliciting speaking engage
ments before the clubs through J. B.
Haynes of Omaha. His address is on
the subject, “Trade Conditions, Pres
ent and Prospective,” and is said to
be an able discussion of commercial
conditions. During the course of it
he makes a strong plea for the rail
roads and urges the adoption of a res
olution approving their efforts to se
cure increased rates, according to the
commission.
The Nebraska commission, with
some twelve or fifteen other state
commissions, is engaged in an inves
tigation to determine whether the
railroads are justified in raising their
freight and passenger rates in this
territory. The attitude of the com
mission is that if the investigation de
velops the need of more revenue by
the carriers that they should have it
without further protest. The com
mission does not believe the rates
should be advanced until the fact has
been thoroughly established and is of
the opinion that the commercial in
terests of the state should be slow
in taking any action that might em
barrass or interfere with such inves
tigation.
School Lad Bill Put Through.
Sale of school lands in this state
—something which legislatures from
time immemorial have debated—was
up again in the lower house last
week and the committee of the whole,
representatives from the smaller
counties of the state battling ener
getically, sent the measure through.
In the debate it was shown that
Douglas county school land leases net
the state less than $3,500 a year, yet
that county on present school appor
tionment plan receives over $149,000
i year in return. Smaller counties of
the state pay more than they get
back.
Bill to Hide Children.
After six or seven senators had op
posed the Beal bill providing that
where societies find homes for
children their whereabouts should
never be revealed to the parents only
five votes were cas. for the measure.
Senators Howell. Grace. Lahners and
others voiced disapproval of the
measure, terming it inhuman and un
kind. It was introduced at the re
quest of societies which make a prac
tice of finding homes for children.
Blauser Bill Killed.
The Blauser bill giving the railawv
commission the right to assume con
trol of all local public utilities in the
state has been Indefinitely postponed
by the house. The measure was
strongly backed by Governor More
head at the outset of the session, but
since the first roar over the principle
Involved there has ben no disposition
on the part of the executive to push
the bill.
Harman Gets Old Job.
The reappointment by Governor
Morehead of C. E. Harman as deputy
food, drug, dairy, oil and weights and
measures commissioner has been an
nounced. Mr. Harman has served in
the office for the last two years, hav
ing been appointed by Governor
Morehead in his first administration.
Gust Rutenbeok has also been re-ap
pointed as deputy game commis
sioner.
Won’t Narrow Platte.
Wink's bill having in mind the side
boarding of the Platte fell by the sen
ate wayside and the plan will have
to wait a couple of years anyway for
consummation. The measure was in
definitely postponed on a standing
committee report
Senate Favors Farmer.
The senate came to the rescue of
the farmer and killed Dodge's bill,
senate file No. 1*2. which makes it a
misdemeanor to remove buildings
from mortgaged land.
Anti-Dope and Cigaret Bills.
The Brookley anti-dope bills. In
dorsed by the commercials clubs of
the state and the state druggists’ as
sociation, has been reported out of
the house judiciary committee. The
measure promises to go by the house
as it did the senate and will likely be
In the governor's hands for signature
within the next three weeks. At the
same time the Peterson anti-cfgaret
bill, discarding the present uninforce
able law and setting up an act that
will meet actual conditions, was a.so
reported out.
Farmers Oppose Bank Bill.
Opposition of the Nebraska Farm
ers’ union to House Roll No. 4S8. by
Nutzman. has hung up that measure
temporarily at least in the house
committee on hanks and banking. The
purpose of the Nutzman bill is to give
the state banking board power to re
fuse a charter for a new bank in any
community where the board considers
that the banking facilities are alrarty
sufficient. It applies to banks the
same principle which would govern
public utilities under the provisions
of Tom Hall’s bill.
APPROPRIATION BILLS CUT
Measure for Maintenance and Sal
aries Alone Have Been Reduced
Considerably.
Appropriations for , maintenance
and salaries as called for by the
i bills which were introduced in the
house by Chairman Norton of the
finance ways and means committee
for the entire state, have been cut
considerably, the total cut on these
two items alone being $710,000. The
maintenance appropriation, if it
meets with the approval of the house,
will be $2,600,000, as against $3,200,
000 at tlie last session. Salaries are
placed at $750,000, as against $060,000.
The judiciary committee of the
house has sorted to clear the legisla.
tive decks by killing a lot of small
bills which had been referred to it.
Seven of these have been reported
out for indefinite postponement.
Among the number was House Roll
i N'o. 230 by Pruesdow, increasing the
; penalty for selling liquor without a
i license to a fine of $500 to $1,000 or
a jail imprisonment from six months
to one year. This is in pursuance
of the general understanding that no
liquor legislation shall be enacted at
•this session.
Senator Mallory’s bill, Senate File
No. 81, providing that anyone who
employs one or more persons shall
come under the workmen's compensa
tion law unless he elects in writing
not to do so. was recommended by
the judiciary committee for passage.
The law that now stands does not
cover anyone employing fewer than
five persons.
Resolutions asking compliance with
the federal regulations for the control
and eradication of the foot and mouth
disease were passed by the United
States Live Stock Sanitary Board as
sociation. from a meeting of which at
Chicago. Dr. L. C. Kigin, recently re
signed state veterinarian, has just re
turned. Although the foot and mouth
disease occupied the center of the
stage, according to Dr. Kigin, other
subjects came in for their share of
I discussion by some of the most noted
I experts in the country. The motion
pictures taken by Dr. L. C. Kigin on
the subject of “Bovine Tuberculosis
and Milk Sanitation,” bid fair to be
come famous.
The state senate passed the bill
providing for the sterilization of a cer
tain class of feeble-minded and insane
in state institutions, it had previous
ly been amended so as not to apply
to criminals. The intent of the bill
is to parole from state institutions
a type of inmates if they will submit
to operations. The bill was drawn at
the behest of the State Board of Con
trol, and provides that a board of
phvsicians is to pass on each case,
and none is to submit unless parents
or guardians consent.
Teachers are forbidden to belong to
any organization attempting to con
trol employment of their kind, by
terms of the Wilson-Ruden bill passed
by the senate. The measure results
from the school row that followed the
dismissal of Dr. A. O. Thomas as
head of the Kearney normal school. It
may have been prompted by some of
his friends but the charge was not
answered when it was made a few
days ago.
After rejecting all amendments to
the huge Torrens land registration
bill the house recommended it far pas
sage after having spent one entire
day in its consideration. The amend
ment making it compulsory for coun
ties to keep the necessary books, and
optional on the individual land owner
whether he takes his title under the
new system or the present system
was retained.
Upon request from numerous coro
ners over the state the house passed
the bill prohibiting the use of em
balming fluids containing arsenic and
strychnine. Undertakers of several
cities likewise urged passage of the
measure. It is claimed by them that
the use of these poisons in the fluids
make it impossible to detJoi them
where they have been used to pro
duce death.
The Saunders municipal light bill
passed the senate. If the measure is
passed by the house and signed by
the governor, it will give the people
of the nmaha metropolitan water
district the right to vote on the
question of manufacturing electricity
and selling it in competition with the
privately owned plant.
The house committee on cities and
towns postponed the Gates bill to
permit the sal- of liquor by licensed
saloons at Fort Crook. Neh.
More than $25,000 was appropriated
in four bills passed by the house to
buy additional land at the Norfolk
hospital for the insane. Beatrice
school for the deaf. Hastings hospital
for the insane and the state ortho
pedic hospital, Lincoln.
By a vote of 41 to 51, the house
refused to support Representative
Taylor in his request that the univer
sity committee be given instructions
as to itemizing appropriation' fer the
university's activities.
Baseball games and moving picture
shows will be among the amusements
of the inmates of the Nebraska state
prison when plans of Warden Fenton
and the state board of control are
carried out. The motion picture ma
chine already has been purchased.
Hells will he secured from one of the
film companies and will present edu
cational subjects, standard plays,
tragedies and comedies, according to
the wishes of the inmates. The ma
chine was purchased by the men
from proceeds of concerts.
TRADE PROSPECTS
ARE ENCOURAGING
Improvement in business since depres
sion reached low tide several months
has been gradual. Confidence has been
restored and unless all signs fail, the coun
try is scheduled for a boom almost un
parallelled.
In order to overcome the depression that
attacks a person in poor health it is neces
sary that particular attention be paid to
the Stomach, Liver and Bowels. These or
gans are the controlling power in all mat
ters pertaining to health and there is noth
ing will make you feel “so blue’’ and ctis
couraged as to l»e without appetite—to be
subject co Spells of headache, indigestion,
dyspepsia and biliousness—or to have con
stipated bowels.
Nature never intended anyone to be in.
such a condition and the only way to im
prove matters is to give necessary aid
promptly. This suggests a trial of Hostet
ter’s Stomach Bitters, because it has an
established reputation as a tonic and appe
tizer, and will be found very helpful in s ay
Stomach, Liver or Bowel ailment.
It is well known as a real “first aid,’’ end
for over 60 years has held a permanent
place in thousands of homes. You will
make no mistake in purchasing a bottle to
day. but be careful to see that the Private
Stamp over the neck is unbroken. This ir
your protection against imitations.
More Meat Next Season.
Authorization has been secured from
the secretary of agriculture to graze
on the national forests of California
for the season of 1915, 212,2S'i cattlr*
and horses, 505,750 sheep and goats
and 7,950 swine. Compared with th»
grazing season of 1914, these numbers
constitute a considerable net increase
During the year approximately S35>
acres in the national forest permit
were eliminated from the forests.
MEAT CLOGS KIDNEYS
THEN YOUR BACK HURTS
Take a Glass of Salts to Flush Kid
neys If Bladder Bothers You—
Drink Lots of Water.
No man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make a mistake bj flush
ing the kidneys occasionally, says a
well-known authority. Meat forms
uric acid which excites the kidneys,
they become overworked from the
strain, get sluggish and fail to filter
the waste and poisons from the blood,
then we get sick. Nearly all rheu
matism, headaches, liver trouble, ner
vousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and
urinary disorders come from sluggish
kidneys.
The moment you feel a dull ache in
the kidneys or your back hurts or if
tho urine is cloudy, offensive, full of
sediment, irregular of passage or at
tended by a sensation of scalding, stop
eating meat and get about four ounces
of Jad Salts from any pharmacy : take
a tablespoonful in a glass of water
before''breakfast and in a few days
your kidneys will act fine. This fa
mous salts i3 made from the acid of
grapes and lemon juice, combined
with lithia, and has been used for
generations to flush and stimulate the
kidneys, also to neutralize the acids
in urine so it no longer causes irrita
tion, thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
injure; makes a delightful efferves
cent lithia-water drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active and the blood
pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney
complications.—Adv.
The Reason.
Belle—The pomp that woman as
sumes is very unbecoming to her
style.
Nell—Sure. Her “rats" are too
large.
Switzerland uses a greater propor
tion of its water power than any other
country.
P^6r >3
sizzling
cups of delicious
Van Houten’s Rona
Cocoa for a quarter.
Cheaper than coffee
—and healthier. Half
pound—red—can
25c
Beauty
Is Only Skii Deep
It is vitally nec
essary there
fore, that you
take good care
of your skm.
ZONA POMADE
if used regularly will beautify and
preserve your complexion an.! hr-ip
you retain the bloom ot early youiti
for many years. Try it for
days. If not more than aatuheJ
you get your money back, mk
at druggists or mailed ilue.i.
Zona Company, Wichita. Kan.
POTATO 48*
Salmr'ii PndlONW I'ouiow holiml pulJWtMttu n»»»
on tho top with lu rnnruiou. poutt.. .lr>ul It
do snuio for juu mu ttunri t'ATAUJO tun>
John A. Saltor Sr«d Co.. Bo* 704. Lt Crt u*. wu.
PARKER d
HAIR BALSAM
A toilet |*r«'m»rmtlnn of inrnk
lloip* to «<r*ilirat«* (tMdrutT.
ForKeitonng Color and
Beauty to Grey or Faded Heir.
6O0. and tl-00 at fcggge
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