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WAR NEWS.
The British house of commons de
feated William C. Anderson’s motion
to reject the military service bill by
a vote of 431 to 39.
* * *
Two hundred Montenegrins from
America lost their lives by the sink
ing of an Italian steamship which
Struck a mine in the Adriatic.
• * *
Turkish reserves numbering more
than 1,000,000 will now be fully equip
ped and used by the central powers
wherever needed, Lieutenant General
Zekki Pasha declared.
• * *
Constantinople claims that consid
erable losses were suffered by the en
tente forces in their evacuation of the
Up of the Gallipoli peninsula. Parties
of the retreating troops were wiped
out, the Turkish statement asserts.
• . * •
Austria and Montenegro have ar
ranged an armistice, which is con
strued as meaning that Montenegro
Is passing under Austrian control. It
Is not believed that King Nicholas
will continue the unequal struggle.
* * *
Anglo-French troops front Gallipoli
are being landed at Saloniki accord
ing to Sofia dispatches, which esti
mate that 350,000 allied forces are
now in Greece and that more than
300,000 will be concentrated there
soon.
± * *
Two Italian steamers, the Brindisi
and the Citta di Palermo, have been
sunk in the Adriatic Sea. Half of
the passengers on board the Brindisi
were lost. The Brindisi was sunk
January 0 and the Citta di Palermo
January 8.
* * *
For the second time within 150
years, German soldiers are occupying
the historic old horse artillery bar
racks at Dorchester, England, but the
fortunes of war have made the pres
ent occupiers the enforced guests of
the British government.
* * *
Careful use of bread and com
stocks is necessary, the German gov
ernment announced, warning the peo
ple against food extravagances. The
government abolished the distribution
order of last August and re-establish
ed the original plan of distribution.
* * *
Italy received $400,000,000 from the
allies for signing the London treaty
agreeing not to make a separate
peace, the Swiss newspaper Neue
Zeuercner Zeitung declares. The pa
pare also asserted that one clause of
the treaty is directed against the
Vatican.
* * *
Turkish forces estimated at more
than 200,000 have been released for
use in other theaters of war by the
action of the allies in completely
abandoning the Dardanelles cam
paign. They comprise the prize corps
of the Turkish army, hard fighter;,
seasoned in fierce battles on Gallipoli.
GENERAL.
Trappers arriving in Duluth. Minn.,
with wolf hides for bounty report that
hundreds of northern Minnesota deer
are being slaughtered by wolves.
» * *
Directors of the Nashville, Chatta
nooga & St. Louis railway declared a
semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent,
payable February 2. The action was
due to better business conditions.
* * *
The progressive party has decided
to hold its national convention June
7 in Chicago, concurrently with the
national convention of the republican
party, in the hope that botli may
agree on the same candidate for pres
ident.
* * *
The American Red Cross has appro
priated $4,000 additional, making
$6,000 in all, especially for use in Eu
rope in healing and obliterating facial
wounds to soldiers and for instructing
those blinded by wounds to read and
write by modem methods.
• * •
Rt. Rev. Richard Scannell, Catholic
bishop of the diocese of Omaha, died
at his home in Omaha of pneumonia,
following an attack of la grippe. He
was 70 years old.
• * *
The River of Doubt, which was dis
covered by President Roosevelt, has
been discovered by two Americans,
George and Stephen Gester of Berke
ley. Cal., engineers for the Standard
Oil Co., according to their story told
in San Francisco upon their return
from South America.
* * *
P. Elias Calles, military governor of
Sonora, Mexico, has sent a column of
approximately 5,000 cavalry into
western Chihuahua to aid in running
down the remaining Villa forces, ac
cording to an announcement
* * *
The Panama government has ob
tained a loan of $1,250,000 from a
trust company in Chicago and three
New York banks at 96. The loan is
to draw 5 per cent interest and is for
twelve years. This loan will relieve
the temporary financial difficulties
the national treasury.
* * *
j
* One hundred and ninety-five thou
sand horses have been bought at the
national stockyards at East St. Louis
by the entente allies, it was an
nounced.
i
Mathew A. Schmidt, convicted of
murder in connection with the dyna
miting of the Los Angeles Times
building, five years ago, was sen
tenced to life imprisonment in San
Quentin prison.
* * *
One student was killed and six oth
ers were injured in the annual bowl
fight between the freshmen and soph
omore classes of the University of
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, which
was won by the first-year men.
* * *
Pennies were in such great demand
during 1915 that the Denver mint
coined over 22,000.000 of them. Where
in former years it coined gold pieces
almost exclusively, the mint did
not make anything over 50-cent
pieces.
» * •
More than 100,000 tons of granu
lated sugar have been bought in New
York by Europe within the last month.
Orders just placed total about 25,000
tons for January and February ship
ments at prices ranging 4.25 to 4.50 in
bond.
* * *
Fifteen new flying machines will
be delivered to the aeronautical sta
tion at Pensacola. Fla., within the
next sixty days. Nine of the new
airships are being built by a concern
at Marblehead, Mass., and six by
anotlxer firm at Hyde Park.
» * *
Genera' Victoriano Huerta died at
El Paso, Texas, while virtually a pris
i oner ol the United States govern
. ment, with which he nearly went to
war when, as Mexico's last dictator,
lie refused to salute the American
flag following the historic Tampa in
cident.
* * *
All employes of the American
Smelting and Refining company of
El Paso. Tex., in Chihuahua and Du
| rango, Mexico, and the employees of
I the Alvarado Mining company of Par
! ral have been ordered out of that
country as the result of the recent
American massacre.
SPORTING.
By a vote of 62 to 36 the faculty of
the University of Wisconsin decided
that baseball should be retained.
* * *
An otter of $15,000 for a champion
ship go between Freddie Welsh, light
weight title holder, and Charley
White of Chicago, was made White’s
manager by Joe Golden, who repre
sents San Antonio promoters.
* * *
Heine Wagner, who in his younger
days was regarded as one of the
greatest shortstops in major league
baseball, has been given his uncondi
tional release by the Boston Amer
icans.
* * *
Clarence fiklund, the Canadian
light-heavyweight, lasted eleven min
utes with Joe Stecher at Waterloo,
la. The Dodge wonder dumped Ek
iund three times in eleven minutes.
The event was a handicap affair.
* * *
The proposed ten-round bout be
tween Jess Willard, world’s heavy
weight champion, and Frank Moran,
which it was expected would take
place in New York some time in
March, probably will be postponed un
til Memorial day.
* * *
Johnny Kilbane, featherweight
champion, knocked out Patsy Cline of
New York in the second round in
what was to have been a ten-round
bout at Philadelphia. The result was
a great surprise to the followers of
the New' York boxer.
* * *
Earl Caddock, the Anita, la., wrest
ler, and Youssif Hussane, who was
dumped twice in nine minutes
Thanksgiving day by Joe Stecher,
have been matched by Dan Reardon
for a bout in Council Bluffs on the
night of February 4.
WASHINGTON.
Representative Sabath of Illinois
introduced an inheritance tax bill to
affect all estates above $10,000. The
net revenue, he estimates, would be
$50,000,000 annually.
» * *
President Wilson has named Jan
uary 27 as Jewish relief day, and
has issued a proclamation calling at
tention to the needs of Jewish people
in Europe, as a result of the war.
* * •
A petition bearing 50,000 signatures
asking congress to declare an em
bargo on munitions of war was sub
mitted to the house foreign affairs
committee by Representative Bennett
of New York.
* * *
Congressman Lobeck having learn
ed that the president had an open
mind with reference to a successor to
the late Justice Lamar of the supreme
bench, presented to the attorney gen
eral the nam of John J. Sullivan of
Nebraska. Judge Sullivan as chief
justice of Nebraska, has a most en
viable record.
* * *
President Wilson approved Sena
tor Tillman’s bill providing for a gov
ernment armor plant. Tillman told
the president he thought his bill
would pass the senate, but needed ad
ministration support in the house.
The president promised this.
* * *
Secretary Lane announced the with
drawal of 583,000 acres of land from
entry in Montana and North Dakota.
Of this about 100,000 acres is open to
entry. The remainder has been pat
ented or is included in existing en
tries.
* * *
The department of justice at
Washington directed the dismissal of
indictments returned against twenty
three chief officers of the United
Mine Workers of America at Pueblo,
at the height of the Colorado coal
strike in December, 1913.
• * •
The house passed the Ferris bill,
which would throw open to fifty-year
leases public lands containing more
than three times as much water pow
er as now is under development in
the United States.
10 KEEP HANDS OFF
NO INTERVENING IN MEXICO, AD
MINISTRATION DECIDES.
I 5 LEAVING COUNTRY
Three Hundred Are Still in Colonies
Infested By Bandits; Feared They
May Not Heed Warning.
Washington—General Carranza and
the de facto government of Mexico
are to be given full opportunity, with
out intervention from the United
States, to run to earth the murderers
of American citizens at Santa Ysabel
and to demonstrate ability to restore
order and protect foreign rights in the
southern republic. This was the out
standing fact made public after a
meeting of the cabinet, a conference
between President Wilson and Chair
man Stone of the senate foreign rela
tions committee, and a day of stirring
debate in the senate.
Measures to facilitate the removal
of Americans from district where
their lives might be endangered were
discussed by department officials with
Mr. Arredondo, who later advised
General Carranza that every assistance
be given such Americans and escorts
provided to accompany them into
cities, where strong garrisons are
maintained. He went further than
the State department suggested, re
commending that in cases where for
eigners objected to leaving, that they
be forcibly removed to points of
safety.
That large numbers of Americans
are leaving northern Mexico was re
ported to the department, but it is es
timated that not counting the mem
bers of a Mormon colony at Casas
Grandes, there still are at other
points, the control of which by Car
ranza is doubtful, more than 300. That
the majority of these may remain, in
spite of warnings, is feared.
Senator Stone after his conference
with President Wilson, said interven
tion in Mexico at this time would be
monstrous in the face of the fact that
we had just recognized Carranza.
When Secretary Lansing was asked
whether the United States govern
ment would protect its citizens under
' such circumstances he replied that it
would do so to “the best of its ability,"
but that in such cases the govern
ment would not be obliged to “use
force where people are indiscreet.”
Would Pay for Omaha Riots.
Washington.—The payment of $-11
030 indemnity to Greece, Austria
Hungary and Turkey for damages
sustained by their nationals during
riots in South Omaha February 21,
1909, is urged in a special message
sent to congress by President Wilson.
The riots followed the shooting of Ed
ward Lowry, policeman, by John
Marraurides. a Greek. The preside'nt
asks that congress appropriate and
authorize the payment of the money
“as an act of grace and without refer
ence to the liability of the United
States.”
Of the sum proposed $40,000 is to
be paid Greece. $800 to Austria-Hun
gary and $230 to Turkey.
Secretary Lansing says in his re
port that approximately 1,200 Greeks
were driven from the city during the
riots and prior to the riots there had
been a feeling of hostility to the
Greek subjects residents of South
Omaha, because of their lawlessness
and their manner of living in unsani
tary surroundings.
Will Have Biggest Guns.
Washington.—Main batteries of ten
16-inch guns each and a cruising
radius of at least 10,000 miles are the
general characteristics urged by the
navy general board for the two new
superdreadnoughts congress has been
asked to anthorize this year. It was
learned that the board proposes that
the ships should cost $18,000,000 each,
displace 36,000 tons and have the
highest speed attainable without sac
rificing armament, armor, or fuel
capacity. It would have them repre
sent a 25 per cent increase in gun
power and endurance over any Ameri
can battleship afloat or authorized
and carry the biggest guns ever
placed aboard a fighting ship by any
power.
25,000 Miners Given Raise.
Butte, Mont.—A voluntary wage in
crease of 25 cents a day was granted
to 25,000 mine and smelting employes
in Butte, Anaconda and Great Falls.
The order for the increase in wages,
which the notice states became effect
ive January 1, was received from the
New York office of the Anaconda Cop
per Co. The Butte and Superior Co.,
the W. A. Clark companies and other
concerns, it is announced, have
agreed to the increase.
To Counteract High Prices.
Berlin.—(Via London.)—A great
national organization for the pur
chase of all livestock offered for sale
in Germany is foreshadowed by the
Vossiche Zeitung as a result of recent
conferences among the various min
isters at Berlin.
Two Victims Montana Men.
Butte. Mont.—Thomas W. Evans
and C. R. Watson, two of the men
killed by Mexican bandits, near Santa
YsabeL Chihuahua, formerly were
employed in Montana.
Oil Tank in Chicago Explode-.
Chicago, 111.—An oil tank partly
filled with oil, in the west side yards
of the Chicago & Northwestern rail
road, exploded the other day, killing
four persons an Injuring two. Only
six persons were near the tank at the
time of the explosion.
To Petry Haven Chiefs.
Washington. — Attorney General
Gregory formally announced that the
government would re-try the five for
mer New Haven directors over whom
the federal grand Jury disagreed.
The new Presbyterian church at
Wahoo was dedicated recently.
The dates of the Cedar County
Teachers’ institute have been set for
the week of August 21 at Hartington.
Omaha’s annual Automoible show
will be held February 21 to 86. A big
and successful show is anticipated.
Farmers of Scottsbluff county the
past season harvested the enormous
crop of 278,603 tons of sugar beets.
The Ak-Sar-Ben organization of
Omaha , cleared $9,890.42 in 1915
above the expenses of the year’s fes
tivities.
President Wilson has nominated
Frank M. Broome of Alliance, to be
receiver of public moneys at Valen
tine.
The Grace Lutheran church of
Hooper has purchased a lot and will
build a beautiful new edifice in the
near future.
Judge W. H. Westover of Chadron
has filed as a non-partisan candidate
for re-election to the office of judge of
the Eleventh judicial district.
Levi E. Otto of Aurora, and one of
the wealthiest men in Hamilton
county, was found dead in his garage,
where he had been asphyxiated by
gas formed in working with his new
automobile.
Deposits in the four national banks
of Fremont at the close of business
December 31, last, show an increase
of $565,157.66 over the same period
a year ago, according to the reports
of the four institutions.
A report from Adams is to the ef
fect that the recent fires in that vi
cinity and at Firth are to be investi
gated by the state fire commissioner.
Three fires have occurred in Firth
since June.
Figures compiled by a Fremont
newspaper in its annual review of the
progress of Fremont during the year
1915 shorv that the total improve
ments, including residence and gen
eral, amounted to $577,390.
Automobile pilgrims passing
through Lincoln on the Omaha-Liu
coln-Denver highway next summer
will pass under a magnificent electri
cal arch to be erected in the Capital
City, costing in the neighborhood of
$2,500.
nre destroyed tne u. m. Dean mm
and electric power house at Val
paraiso. The buildings were out of
the district which could be reached
with water from the mains and the
desperate efforts of tire fighters were
unavailing.
Roy R Barnard, editor of the Loup
Valley Queen of Calloway has turned
over the reins to James C. Naylor
and Harry B. Yales. .Mr. Barnard has
been m the newspaper business for
twenty-two years, the last fourteen
being spent in Callaway.
The annual meeting of the Nebras
ka Public Health association will b<'
held in Omaha January 25 and 2fi.
The meeting will be held for the pur
pose of discussing tire jjuestions which
arise over the state in regard to the
public health and to acquaint the offi
cers with the new rules.
The first of the two annual meet
ings of the Nabraska Collegiate Press
association will be held in Omaha,
February 18, Anne M. Johnson, presi
dent of the erganization and editor
of the Bellevue college “Purple and
Gold,” announced in the January
number of that paper.
The Monroe Independent Tele
phone Co will absorb the Albion In
dependent February 1. The company
has made application to raise rates
and tax the upkeep to the patrons,
who are up in arms about it. The Al
bion Commercial club is endeavoring
to stop such proceedings.
county Assessor ueorge xmitn was
the first to set the political ball roll
ing in Richardson county this year by
asking a filing as a candidate in the
coming primaries in April. He tiled
as a democratic candidate for super
visor in District No. 4, comprising
Grant and Liberty townships.
A $15,000 fire visited the town of
Miller recently, completely destroying
the M. E. Cruisenberry general store.
This is the second large fire which
lias visited Miller within comparative
ly short space of time. The entire
north side of Main street was destroy
ed by a conflagration late last fall.
The first step to prepare for the
sixth annual basketball tournament
of the High schools of the state was
taken when Athletic Manager G. E.
Reed of the state university sent in
vitations to every high school in the
state to participate in the big tourna
ment. which is to bp lie’d in Lincoln
March 8. 9. 10 and 11.
Nebraska durum wheat, out of
which the macaroni is made, has com
menced to arrive on the Omaha mar
ket in fairly large quantities. Last
year it sold at a premium over the
other varieties and it is doing the
same thing this year. Prices run 1
to 2 cents higher, it now selling
around $1.12 per bushel.
Otto Zuelow of Schuyler lias filed
an acceptance of a petition nominat
ing him as a republican candidate for
congress in the Third district.
With 3.351 names attached to It,
the Madison county seat removal pe
tition has been filed with the board
of county commissioners at Madison.
The petition asks the county com
missioners to call an election to sub
mit the matter of relocating the
county seat to the voters. The peti
tion contains 97% per cent of the
number of waters who voted at the
last general Section in the county.
The annual meeting of the Gage
County Crop Improvement associa
tion was held in Beatrice recently.
O. H. Liebers, county farm demon
strator, has been re-engaged for the
year.
Announcements have been made of
a change in the name of the Com
mercial State hank at Long Pine to
the American State bank and an in
crease in the capital stock from
$10,000 to $25,000. The announce
ment states that the change in capi
tal is made to meet the increasing
needs of Long Pine and community.
The Elgin Community clv.b is <(is>
cussing the project of erecting a
community building.
The Northwest Nebraska Press as- i
sociation will hold a meeting at I
Wayne January 28 and 29.
Five candidates have filed for the
postofiiee at Leigh and will submit
to an election for the place.
The public school garden contest
will be made a part of the regular
work in the schools at Crawford.
II. E. Burkett of Hartington ha3
announced his candidacy for the of
fice of district judge on the nonpar
tisan ticket.
Tne postoffice revenues at Colum
bus for the past year showed an in
crease of $1,200, reaching a total of
$19,234.
Beatrice is interested in the matter
of the organization of Boy Scouts.
There are fifty juvenile troopers in
the company.
The Democratic State Press asso
ciation at its Lincoln meet and politi
cal banquet decided to meet at Hast
ings in June.
Another mid-summer race meet is
assured at Kearney. The dates lor the
holding of the meet have been set
for July 3, 4 and 5.
A Columbus newspaper says that
city made permanent improvements
in business and residence districts, of
more than $100,000 last year.
Eddie Varner, of Adams, is the
leading trap shot of the state in the
official averages of the Interstate
Trap Shooting association, just is
sued.
The Burlington has commenced cut
ting ice for use on the McCook, Ster
ling and Lincoln divisions at Curtis.
Several hundred men are employed
in the work.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Dodge County Stock Show company
il was decided that the annual exhibit
be held at Hooper September 19, 20,
21 and 22, 1916.
E. L. Brush of Norfolk was chosen
president of the Elkhorn Valley Med
ical association at its meeting in Fre
mont. It was voted to hold the next
meeting in Norfolk next July.
Fire from a defective flue destroyed
the Christian church at North Platte,
with a loss of $4,500. A $600 piano
was ruined by smoke and water, as
was also all the church furniture.
jvepresemauves or tne rveorasna
Jewelers’ association were in Grand
Island recently making arrangements
for their annual convention to be
held in that city February 23 and 24.
Fifty-nine conventions were held in
Omaha during 1915, according to rec
ords kept by the bureau of publicity.
A total of 29,389 delegates from out
of-town were enrolled in these con
ventions.
Owing to the congested condition of
Gering schools, the question of pro
viding additional room for the bal
ance of the present season and the
building of a new school next year :
is being agitated.
February 21 to 25 are the dates set i
for the annual meeting of the Sunday
School Workers of the Christian j
churches of Nebraska, at Hastings. |
It is expected that about 150 toilers
for the purpose will attend.
A ladies’ auxiliary to the United
Spanish War Veterans, Harry E.
Brown camp No. 11, has been formed
at North Platte. This is the third
such organization in the state and
will be atliliated with the national or
ganization.
Falling thirty feet from a windmill
turning a complete somersault, strik
ing his leg on a fence and finally end
ing up by bumping his head on the
ground, is the experience of Harold
Huges at his farm ten miles north
west of Hastings. He suffered only I
slight injurie’s.
Since November 15 nothing has
been heard of Roy Ackley, a farmer,
ten miles northwest of Anselmo.
Ackley left home that day. saying he
was going to his brother’s, a few
miles away. A search has been
made, but no trace of the missing
man has been found.
The athletic board of the state uni
versity announces that Dr. E. J. Stew
art, athletic director at the Oregon '
Agricultural school, had been selected
as all-year athletic coach at Nebras
ka, and that Dick Rutherford will be
his assistant. It also announced that
Jumbo Stiehm’s resignation has been
accepted, and will take effect at once, j
Because the new dairy building at
the state university farm. Lincoln,
will be finished and occupied by Jan
uary of next year, the Nebraska as
sociation of ice cream manufacturers
at its meeting in Omaha decided to
meet in Lincoln in 1917 so that dele
gates may have advantage of many
matters of special interest to them.
Judge Corcoran of Hastings disal
lowed all heirship claims to the
$100,000 estate of John O’Connor, re
cluse and alleged reformed bandit.
He took under advisement the juris
dictional question of whether the
slate’s suit to secure title to the es
tate was prematurely brought, since
a suit over a will is pending in the
supreme court on appeal from a ver
dict finding that the instrument was
forged.
Architect J. C. Pedersen of Goring
has been employed to draw the plans
and superintend the construction of a
new school building at Bridgeport,
which will cost from $20,000 to
$25,000.
Denmark defeated Germany for the !
tournament championship and side j
bet of $500, 2,/i inches in 20 minutes.
America defeated England, ti feet in !
12:24 1-5; Swedes defeated Bohemia.
9 inches in 20 minutes; Ireland de- |
feated Italy 5 inches iu 20 minutes
iu the international tug-of-war con
test held in Omaha.
Less beer was brewed in Omaha
during the year just closed than iu
the year previous by $700,000, and
more macaroni w'as manufactured in
the same period by nearly $375,000.
The Buffalo county declamatory
meet will be held in . Kearney iu
March, Superintendent C. O. Brown,
of Ravenna, acting as president of
the association. Preliminary an
nouncements of the coming meeting
have been sent forward by Superin
tendent Caviness. All schools of the
county are eligible to entry in this
contest.
IDEAS MADE PUBLIC
STATE MILITARY BOARD FAVORS
GUARD DEVELOPMENT.
OPPOSES CONTINENTAL SHY
Body Indorses Hall's Sentiments—
Adopts Resolution Favoring Mi
i>tia Maneuvers This Year.
Lincoln, favoring the development
of the national guard in opposition to
the plan of a continental army for na
tional defense, the military board of
the Nebraska national guard made
public its recommendations on pre
paredness, after a lengthy conference.
The recommendations follow:
A reasonable increase in the stand
ing army.
An increase of regular army offic
ers to be utilized in assisting national
guard instructors.
The utilizing of the national guard
in place of the continental army.
A rifle range to be constructed by
each state for the use of the regular
army, national guard, colleges and ci
vilian rifle clubs.
Government owned munition factor
ies to be prorated to the United
States military districts, eastern,
western, northern, southern and cen
Irak
Military instruction and training ir
all colleges and high schools.
The utilizing of government estab
lishments, army posts, as schools oi
instruction for the national guard ol
states and territories.
The board unanimously indorsed
the sentiments of Adjutant General
Hall in his letter to the newspapers.
It also approved Senator Chamber
lain's bill increasing the efficiency of
arganized militia.
A resolution was adopted favoring
a joint camp for maneuvers this year
to be held in Nebraska or some
neighboring state, where the Nebras
ka national guard may assemble for
instruction, together with the regular
army troops or militia from other
states, or both. When joint camps
are made the federal government al
lots funds liberally to help pay their
;ost.
State Eanks Gam.
Deposits of banks under state
supervision have increased $20,
989,818 during the past year—a
record that is calling for great ela
tion at state banking board head
quarters. The report carrying this
information was givven out recently.
In the same period the number of
state banks has increased from 760
to 803. The number of depositors in
the same length of time lias advanced
from 362,000 to 381,000; loans have
increased $19,023,636, and the reserve
$1,143,545.
There has been an advance, too, in
the amount of capital stock. The to
tal is $17,118,000 now', according to
the report, or $1,320,000 greater than
a year ago.
Total deposits are now above the
$100,000,000 mark—quite a ways
above, in fact, $114,487,652..98, to be
exact.
The aggregate resources of the 802
institutions are given at $144,422,709
—or slightly over $100 for every
man. woman and child in the state.
The guaranty fund, which is an al
luring part of the report and which
has proven a business getter, has
reached the mark of $1,020,104.
Farmers can find solace in the re
port of the notation is made on it
by the banking board officers that of
the total amount of deposit approxi
mately $57,000,000 belongs to farmers
of the state.
Genuchi Will Broken.
The state will not receive the 640
acres of land, most of which is lo
cated in Lancaster county, which was
left by the will to the state orthopedic
hospital by Charles Genuchi about a
year ago. The will, which left noth
ing to the widow, and children, was
refused for probate by County Judge
Risser and the district court sustain
ed the action of the judge, declaring
that the alleged will was not the last
will of the testator. The estate is es
timated to be wortii about $100,000.
Alleged Heirs’ Claims Dismissed.
The attorney general's office be
lieves the state’s hardest fight to es
tablish its claim to the $100,000 es
tate of John O’Connor, Hastings re
cluse. is over. “The decision of the
Adams county district court dismiss
ing the claims of the alleged heirs, we
regard as a practical victory,” the at
torney general said.
"Want to Use Rifle Range.
The Kearney Industrial School for
Boys has written the adjutant general
for permission to use the rifle
range at Kearney. The school is pre
paring to organize a civilian drill
corps, and under such an organization
the government will furnish equip
ment.
Glandered Horses Killed.
Five horses were killed on account
of glanders, belonging to E. J. Youn
kin of Mullen, out of a herd of about
thirty, according to information re
ceived by the state veterinarian. The
horses were killed after an examina
tion by an inspector.
Relieved Pending Hearing.
Superintendent W. D. Guttery of
the Norfolk insane asylum lias been
relieved of the management of that |
institution temporarily pending a
hearing, at his request, which will be
held February 2 at Norfolk.
Fire Loss Is Two Millions.
Fire loss in Nebraska last year
amounted to nearly $2,000,000, ac
cording to a report issued from the
office of Fire Commissioner Ridgell,
and a great deal of it was caused by
carelessness. Commissioner Ridgell
praises the work of ihe firemen of
the towns of the state and says that
extinguishing fires is not all the work
they do. Prevention of fires is a part
of their duties, and it is to their
watchfulness along these lines that
many serious conflagrations are pre
vented.
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j Hopes Women Will ;
[ Adopt This Habit :
j As Well As Men j
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; Glass of hot water each morn- *
\ ing helps us look and feel i
I clean, sweet, fresh. |
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Happy, bright, alert—vigorous and
vivacious—a good clear skin; a nat
ural, rosy complexion and freedom
from illness are assured only by clean,
healthy blood. If only every woman
and likewise every man could realize
the wonders of drinking phosphated
hot water each morning, what a grat
ifying change would take place.
Instead of the thousands of sickly,
anaemic-looking men, women and
girls with pasty or muddy complex
ions; instead of the multitudes of
“nervo wrecks,” “rundowns,” “brain
fags" and pessimists we should see a
virile, optimistic throng of rosy
cheeked people everywhere.
An inside bath is had by drinking,
each morning before breakfast, a glass
of real hot water with a teaspoonful
of limestone phosphate in it to wash
from the stomach, liver, kidneys and
ten yards of bowels the previous day's
indigestible waste, sour fermentations
and poisons, thus cleansing, sweeten
ing and freshening the entire alimen
tary canal before putting more food
into the stomach.
Those subject to sick headache, bil
iousness, nasty breath, rheumatism,
colds; and particularly those who
have a pallid, sallow complexion and
who are constipated very often, are
urged to obtain a quarter pound of
limestone phosphate from any drug
gist or at the store which will cost
but a trifle but is sufficient to demon
strate the quick and remarkable
change in both health and appearance
awaiting those who practice internal
sanitation. We must remember that
inside cleanliness is more important
than outside, because the skin does
not absorb impurities to contaminate
the blood, while the pores in the thir
ty feet of bowels do.—Adv.
Inconstant Figures.
“Do you mean to tell me that star's
salary is a thousand dollars a week?”
“It all depends.” replied the man
ager, “on whether we’re talking to the
income tax collector or merely for pub
lication.”
“California Syrup of Figs” can’t
harm tender stomach,
liver and bowels.
Every mother realizes, after giving
her children “California Syrup of
Figs’’ that this is their ideal laxative,
because they love Its pleasant taste
and it thoroughly cleanses the tender
little stomach, liver and bowels with
out griping.
When cross, irritable, feverish, or
breath ic bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue, mother! If coated, give a
teaspoonful of this harmless "fruit
laxative.” and in a few hours all the
foul, constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the bow
els. and you have a well, playful child
again. When its little system is full
of cold, throat sore, has stomach-ache,
diarrhoea, indigestion, colic—remem
ber, a good “inside cleaning” should
always be the first treatment given.
Millions of mothers keep “California
Syrup of Figs” handy; they know a
teaspoonful today saves a sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for a 50
cent bottle of “California Syrup of
Figs,” which has directions for babies,
children of all ages and grown-ups
printed on the bottle. Adv.
Too Conscientious.
“That policeman is too conscien
tious to be a gardener.”
“What do you mean?”
"He arrested the growth of a vine
on his house when he found it climb
ing through a window.”
ENDS! PSIA,
II ON, GAS
“Pape’s Diapepsin” cures sick,
sour stomachs in five minutes
—Time It!
“Really does” put bad stomachs in
order—“really does” overcome indiges
tion, dyspepfia, gas, heartburn and
sourness in five minutes—that—just
that—makes Pape’s Diapepsin the lar
gest selling stomach regulator in the
world. If what you eat ferments into
stubborn lumps, you belch gas and
eructate sour, undigested food and
acid; head is dizzy and aches; breath
foul; tongue coated; your insides filled
with bile and indigestible waste, re
member the moment “Pape’s Diapep
sin” comes in contact with the stomach
all such distress vanishes. It's truly
astonishing—almost marvelous, and
the joy is its harmlessness.
A large fifty-cent case of Pape’s Dia
pepsin will give you a hundred dollars’
worth of satisfaction.
It’s worth its weight in gold to men
and women who can’t get their stom
achs regulated. It belongs in your
home—should always be kept handy
In case of sick, sour, upset stomach
during the day or at night. It’s the
quickest, surest and most harmless
stomach doctor in the world.—Adv.
Often Does.
“China is going back to an abso
lute monarchy.”
“Then China’s going to smash."
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the
original lutie liver pills put up 40 years
ago. They regulate liver and bowels.—Adv.
Remember that the money you in
tend to save doesn’t draw any inter
est.