X>tefe 2lbtci!nn<3 ift fiir bie 5amilienai;,'ber, trdd?e am ltebfcn Deutfcfy Icfen. ta Sdioupinbe beg eiiroiMtfdicu Mferfriep. Wad) ben lefeten SBieuer unb 93er Iiner SBerid)ten ift bie aBaffenftred ung ber flJtontenegriner einc £ai* fadje, teemtgleid) ber eigentlitfje SBorgang beb 9?ieberlegenb ber SBaffen nod) einige Stage in Sinfprud) nebmen fann. SWoitienegro bat feine CEifenbatjnen unb nur ein fet)r biin* neb fcelepbon* unb Sclegrapbenneb, unb eb biirftc nubrere Stage in 9In* jprudj nebmen, bib bic auf ben S3er gen poftierten montenegrinifdjen Sol* baten aHe toon ben 2tbfid)ten ibrcr Stegierung Stenntnib erbalten ba&cn. 3ubem ift eb nitfjt aubgefdjloffen, bafe eingelne ©ruppcn ben Slrieg auf eigene gauft toeiter fiibreu ttolieti. 2>ie Sftontenegriner finb ein toon ber Shiltur nod) ttenig belecfteb Solf; bab §erumfireid)en mit ber glintc iiber ber Sdjulter ift ibre gtteite i>?a* tur, unb bab Staufen mit ibren itbrb lidjen 9?ad)bam bat ibnen toon jcber eine riefige greube bcreiiet. $od felbft tncnn e§ liid)t gum grie ben gmifden Montenegro unb Oeftcr reid-Ungarn fommen fodte, bie Diode Monienegros al§ ntilitarifde Mad)t unb al3 £htbcmi§ fiir bie S3ormad)t ftedung £eftcrreid» ber Sibria ift fiir immer auSgefpielt, feitbem ber $afen con Gatiaro nidt mefir burd) bie montenegrinifdjen ©efdiibe auf ban SoPcen bebrobt mirb. S3om fto* litifden ©efidtspunfte ift biefer ©teg £efterreid» on ber Dlbria Piedeidd ei tier ber meittragenbften ©reigitiffe in ber bisfcerigcn ©ntmidlung bes? £ric* ge§. ©ie mag Stalien perattlaflen, einett ©eparatfriebcn gu fdlieBett. ©3 merben in ben lenten £agen ©tint men in 5talien laut, bie im gredcn 28iberfprud gu bem ©iegeStaumel im Mai Porigett ^af)re§ ftebcn. 2>ie Mi nifter burdgieben im Dluftrage ber Diegierung bas Sanb unb fiinbett bett Sitalienern, bafj gmar nod nidt adeS Perloren fei, bafj ber 8rieg aber lon ger unb fdmieriget gemorbeit fei, al£ man guerft angenommen babe. Man mid gmar nod) nidt gugeben, bafe ba» eigentlidc &rieg§giel Statical, bie SSerbrangung £eftcrreid§ Pon ber Slbria in unerreidbare gerne ent* riidt morben ift, aber ber bettfenbe Sjtaliener ntufj fid fagett, bafe bies ber gad ift. Oie blutigen ©dladtcn am Ssfongo begmedten nidis anberes, ale ben Xurdbrud nad Often, llcber bie Xriimmcr Pon ©or3 uttb Srieft fodten bie italienifden §eere nad fDalmatictt gieben unb bort bieOrunb fteine gu StalienS ^errfdaft an ber Stbria legen. £ie Oefterreidcr Ber* binberten nidt nur ben Surdbrud), fie famen ben $(talicnern fogar gu* Bor.- ©ic marett guerft bort, mo bie Stalieitcr fid feftfeben modten. Xafe e§ jetjt gu fpat bagu ift, gef)t att§ bem ftiden GingeftanbniS beS italienifden j MinifterS obne DJortefeuide Sorjilai berPor, ber in 3>erona bffentlid) er-1 flarte, felbft italiettifde .t>ilfe bcitte ben ^oPcen nirijt mepr rotten fon nen. 2)er Matin fprad im Slufirage ber Diegierung, unb man barf amtebmen, baB feine 2Sortc mol)[ ermogett uttb burdbadt marett. £er nadjfte 2rf)ritt fcer Tcntfdjnt £$erbitnbeten. Siann man ^talicn unb Diufjlanb aid Side bcr nadjften grofjcn £)ffcn» fio - Unternefjniungcn uorldufig aud* fd)alicn, fo bleiben nocf) g r a n f r e i d) unb (J n g I a n b. Xie 2B c fi • front unb ©alonifi biirficn !oof)I in ben nadjften SjBodjeit in 5f3ccf)felbe3icbnngcn su einanber fte l)en. X. b- burcb Slfiionen an bcr flanbrifdjen unb fransofifdjcn gront roerben bieSlfliierten bie .gentralmadj* te unb ibrc IBcrbiinbeten an ber Stus* fiibrung ifjrcc fpiane an bcr griccfjifcf)* ina3ebonifd)Cu gront 311 Ijinbern fu* 4)en, unb umgefebrt burcb bie 58c* broljung Don ^alonifi aud an ber Kudfiibrung ber f^Iane an bcr SBeft* front. Xenn cd fdjeint und mebr aid roabrfdjeinlidj, bafj Xeutfdjlanb unb fcine 58erbiinbetcn nidjt cine Sartc audjufpielen gebenfen, fonbern an bcrfd)iebcnen Stellen ben £ebel an* fcben merben. Xie langcn unb forg* fditig gebiitcten 5Borbereitungcn laf* fen grojje Untfdieibungen crmarten, j» bcnett bie 5BoHenbung ber ©iiube* rung 9llbanien§ bad ©igual geben biirfte. Xantit rcdjnen augcnfdjeinlidj bie i’lUiiertcn, bie mit gerabe3u nerobfer Unrube unb unter 2RiBadjiung ber leptcn fficfte bed 58oIferred)td auf g r i e dj i f dj e ,m ©ebict 3U bem 58er* jrrciflungdfampf ficb ruften, fid) tme Die unbefdjranften §erren auf grie* diifdjcm 58oben benebmen unb felbft baoor nidjt juriicfjufdbrecfen fdjeinen, Wriedjenlanb in eine Oicbolution 3U ftiirjen, in bem toabnioibigen 58eftre* ben, (firiedjenlanb 3ur 58unbedgenof* fenfdjaft ju 3tningen._ eine berartige 58erge»altigung eined „fleincn Staated" ift nod) nidjt bagetnefen. Unferc anglo - amerifanifdje fPreffe oeriiert bariiber fein SBort! ©elbft* ocrftdublicb nidjt; benn fie ift ge* njoftnt, barauf 3U ad)ten, tote @ng* (nnb ben 2fiunb foifet, unb bemgemaB 311 pjrifen. Um bie 2hifmerffamfeit bon bent fdjmadbbollen Sreibcn bet Sliliicrten in ©riedjenlaub nadb iPibg* lidjteii abjulenfen, folportiert fie bie in bonbon aufgetoarmien SRauberge* fdbidjten wbeutfcf)er Oreuel" unb an* geblicfjer beutfdjer SBerfeblungen ge*' gen ba£ iBolferrcdjt unb fdjaint fid) nid)t, Capital au fdjlagen au§ ben an* geblidje® — unb nad) aflem Slnfdjein nadj gefalfdjteit — iPapieren, bie man in Gnglanb bem beutfdjeit i^ilitarat* tadjc bon ip open abgenommen ba* ben toil! — nadjbem man ibnt nad) 9iedjt unb ©itte ftcfjereS ©eleit garan* tiert batte. 2Sie fid) in @ r i e dj e n l a n b bie Singe ettitoicfeln toerbett, ift fdjtoer au fagen. 37?an toirb bielleidbt bainit redbnen miiffcn, bag ein grc&er Set! be§ berbcfcieit ipolfes? bcttt &bnig bie ©efolgfdjaft berfagt, um fo mebr, ba man jefct nitfjt mebr tnit ber Grfitl* lung italienifdjer Slnfpriidje auf ben SPalfan au rcdjnen bat. ?tbcr aUditt Stnfdjeitte nad) toirb ein gctoaltigeS bcutfdj • bftermdjifdj • bulgarifdjcs £eer fonaentriert, fo bag ben SfHiier* ten in ©alonifi felbft bie griedbifdje iPunbesgenoffenfdiaft nidjts niiijen toiirbe, unb mit Siumaniett bat man, tocnn matt Sfnbeutungen au§ (Sofia al» burdbaus auberlaffig betoerten fann, eine ©erftdnbigung er3ielt. ©oUte ba§ tiidEjt ber Sail fein, foHtc 9tumanien immer nodb ein itiifidberer JSantonift fein, toa§ toir itidtjt fiir toabrfdbeinlidj balten, bann fame bett 3tt ertoartenbcit Greigniffen auf bem Salfatt eine iPebeutung con ttnberc* djenbarer Sragtoeitc 3u. SBririfcfje Gcnforen Sffncn nnterif. ©cfdjaftsbrieff. SB o f b i tt g t o it. Senator $itdb cocf Don Stebrasfa ift imSefib ber Sib* fcfjrift eines Xofumeuts, tnorin bie britifebe Stegierung ibren Genfors Sin* tneifung giebt, aUe amerifanifebe @e* febaftsforrefponbeno meldbc ficf> auf ben $anbel mit „teutonifdjen" unb neutralen Staaten be3icf)t, 3U bffnett unb ju priifen. 2>erfdjiebenc ©riinbe bierfiir liegett Dor, barunter audb ber ben britifeben gabrifanten unb Gj> porteuren aSinfe su geben, mie am beften ben amerifanifeben fi’aufleuten [Slonfurrenj gemaebt merben fonitc. Sobann mill man in Grfabrung briit* gen auf meldje SBeife amcrifanifdjc SBarcn iiber neutrale Sanber nad) Xeutfefjlanb gelangen. Xie Grber bat bie gorm eincs'Xanipbletd unb ift alS „im atertrauen" marfiert. SWan nimmt ait, baft ein unborfidfj tiger Genfurbeamter biefes 8>ampblet in cinem iBoftfacf fallen Iiefe al§ er benfelbcn mieber Perfiegelte, unb ber Gmpfangcr ftcUte c§ in Stem 0orf ben: Senator §itd)cocf 3U. 3ucfer unb fDtcfjlnot in fRuplattb. 83 e r I i tt. „Xcr erfte a^aub Don ©raf SCoIftoiS Xagcbud) ift in SJto» fau berausgegeben morben, aber 178 Seiteu finb Dom 3e»M’or geftriefjen morben. „Xie ruffifd)e ffontmiffion fiir bie Sk'rteilung DongeHerungSmitteln bat befd)loffen, ben 3uderfabrifdt fein SStaterial mebr sufotnmen 311 laffen. Xie gabrifsbefifeer liaben erfliirt, bafe in fu^cr 3^'t fein 3ucter mebr in Siufdatib Derfauft teerben mirb. „Xie a$etrograber 83cbbrben • nta cbcn befantit, bag, faUd iticfjt befon* bcrc SDiafjnabmen getroffen merben, bic Stabt in fu^cr 3dt obnc SStebl fein mirb." Gifetognbuftrie iSrutfdjlnnite bfiiljt. ® e r I i n. Sit bcr (Seneraltoer fammlung be3 fHofjeifen • St)nbifat3 tourbe beridjtet, bag ba§ ©efdjdft iin ueueu Sabre iibcraH febr lebbaft ein* gefcbt bat. @roge 9iad)frage bcftctjt nad) SSentatit * (Sifen unb -Stab! unb nad) efiegel * (Sifett. £ic £od)dfen fiitb boHauf befdjaftigt. Mud) ber ®erfanbt bon ©ugeifcn toar gufric benfteflenb. £ie 9?ad)fragett bon ber biinbeten unb neutralen Stdnbcrn naf)* men ju. (S3 tourben bebeutenbe @e fd)dfte gu gufriebenftellenbcn ®reifett abgefdjioffen. Mnfteblcr fcfjren au3 ftnnaba guriid. Slanaba ift fo toetjntoifcig . bitter fo unmenfdjiid) • englifd), bag fie c3 ben bori lebenben jungen Mmerifa*' item, garment, berienfen, tocnn fie, bie nur fatnen, garmen betn Urtoalb abguringcn, fid; nicbt a!3 cnglifdjc Solbatcn atttoerben Iaffcn. So fomint c3, bafe Xaufenbe oott biefen fungcn Mmerifanent toieber guriid* toanbern nad) ben ®cr. Staatcn, ba§ Oeliibbc im Bergen, nie toieber ba3 Sanb bcr ffiilben gu betreten. 9iod) in Sabrfjunbcrten toirb Cana da, ba3 bie Orintoanberung fo not* toenbig fiat, an ben Mnsbriidjen fei ner toilben CSnglanbfnedjterei gu na gen fjaben. Unb Muftralieit aud). gtalicni Snbttololjn. ® e r l i n, bia SatjbiKe. £ie „9teiie giiridier gtg." enttjalt folgen* be ®?itteilung: „®erid)te au§ gutoerlaffiger CueUe Jbefagen, bag al3 Stalien ba3 Ueber einfommen mit ben MHiierten unter geidjnete, bemfelben audj $386,000, 000 bafiir gugefagt tourben." FOR IRE BUST MAN • NEW8 EPITOME THAT CAN SOON BE COMPASSED. ____ "i—i r MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED Home and Foreign Intelligence Con. deneed Into Two and Four Line Paragraphs " WAB NEWS. Reports from Switzerland declare there are eighty Zeppelins now in the German service. • * * Italy is expected to declare war on Germany and to participate in the allied campaign in the Balkans as the result of French Premier Briand’s visit to Rome, Paris dispatches assert. • • • An official Bulgarian report as for warded from Athens says that 470 men were killed and more than 500 wounded during the recent attack by French aeroplanes on Bulgarian camps. • • • A London newspaper is authority for the statement that Earl Kitch ener, British secretary for war, prob ably will leave the war office to un dertake work of a more important character elsewhere. • * • The Koelnische Volks Zeitung, dis cussing peace possibilities, asserts that Germany will never consent to enter a general peace conference, but will only consent to negotiate with each individual enemy. * * * At a meeting of the Red Cross so ciety for the Rhine province, the gov ernor, Baron von Rheinbaben, report ed that more than 200,000 nurses and physicians have volunteered for the German Red Cross service. * * * All eligible British bachelors be tween the ages of 20 and 30 years have been called to report for serv ice beginning March 3. In London alone, 40,000 copies of the king’s proclamation were distributed. The French newspapers announce an offer of 25,000 francs to any avia tor who succeeds in bringing down a Zeppelin within the French lines and an offer of 10,000 francs to any gun ner who obtains the same result with Bhells. * • * It is-reported from the Belgian frontier that 600,000 additional Ger man troops have been sent to that front, and that the Germans are planning to extend the Belgian port of Zeebrugge so that it will shelter more ships. • * • A total of 1,429,171 enemy sol diers to date are prisoners of war in Germany, according to reports from Berlin. This is not inclusive of pris oners made by German troops and left in Austria-Hungary in order to shorten the transport. • * • Tout Paris, which is a combined blue book and directory, gives in its 1516 edition, just issued, a list of Paris notables who have "died for the country.” In this list are names well known in politics, literature, science, the arts. It totals 3,084 persons. • • • Dutch reports state that, the Ger mans are about to begin a great of fensive on the west, and the Parisian editor, Maurice De lValeffe, prints a rumor that the Germans have invent ed a new kind of asphyxiating gas and hope to advance sixty-two miles to the Paris forts behind a screen of death-dealing vapor. GENERAL. Steam pressure from thirty boilers extinguished a sixteen-hour blaze in the Humble oil field in a well near Houston, Tex. The fire consumed about $10,D00 worth of oil. • • * Three men were drowned at the waterworks lake at Porum, Okla., while they were trying to rescue Miss Stella Anderson, one of a skating party who went through the ice. * * * Four Iowa stockmen, riding in a ca boose of a stock train, on* which they were bringing cattle to the South Omaha market, were instantly killed in a rear-end collision with a coal train at Dunlap, la. * * • The leasing by the Head Oil com pany of San Francisco, said to be the largest oil well drilling concern in the world, of 35,000 acres of land adja cent to Cheyenne, Wyo., has started an oil lease boom and scores of peo ple are feverishly negotiating for leases on other privately owned prop erty and on state lands. * * * Three hundred linemen, cable splicers and helpers employed by the Kinloch Telephone company of St. Louis struck to enforce their demands for the restoration of a wage schedule that allowed them time and a half for time consumed in riding on street cars or trains to and from jobs. • » « Gaston Plantiff, financial manager of the Ford peace expedition. Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver, the Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Chicago and | Governor L. B. Hanna have «ailed for New York from Rotterdam, Holland. • * * Twelve hours after he was found hanging in the cell in the county jail at Tulsa. Okla., and pronounced dead, Thomas M. Murphey revived In an undertaker’s shop, and it Is said by physicians he has an excellent chance to live and face a trial of first degree murder. • • • A tabernacle that will seat 20,000 persons is to be built in Kansas City, for the Billy Sunday revival, which will commence in May. The building will cover a block of ground, will be 802 feet long and 215 feet wide. The Carranza government of Mex ico, It is declared, Intends to make Quaretaro the provisional capital. • • • A municipal fishing hole is the ob ject of a movement launched in Dallas, Tex. The city reservoir, from which fishermen are barred now, would be thrown opan, with certain restrictions, to anglers. * * * A mid-summer festival patterned after the Ak-Sar-Ben of Omaha, the Veiled Prophets of St. Louis and the Mardi Gras of New Orleans, is being planned by the Retail Merchants’ asso ciation of Minneapolis. * * * Eleven cases of whisky, shipped from Omaha to Des Moines some weeks ago, were destroyed by Des Moines police. Officers subpoenaed sixteen parties to whom “booze” was addressed, but later denied ownership. * • • Muskogee county republicans in convention at Muskogee, the first po litical gathering of the year in Okla homa, endorsed Theodore Roosevelt for president. The resolution adopted referred to Colonel Roosevelt 'as the greatest living American. * * * A lake, forty miles long and twen ty wide, in southeastern Arkansas, caused by the flood water of the Ar kansas river pouring through broken levees, engulfed twenty towns, drowned sixteen people and left thou sands homeless. * * * Girls in Germany who have beauti ful hair are contributing to the war fund by selling their locks, accord ing to Mrs. Frances Bode of Denver, Colo., who canvassed the county court house to sell the braids of two sisters in Germany. SPORTING. Jim Jeffries, former world’s heavy weight champion, will be asked to re feree the match between Jess Willard and Frank Moran to be held March 8th in New York. * * • Frankie Burns of Oakland, Call., and Ad Wolgast, former lightweight champion, fought a ten-round, no-de cision bout in Kansas City. Newspa per men gave Burns -the match on points. • • • Promoter A1 Hereford offered man agers of Johnny Kilbane and George Chaney a purse of $10,000 if they will stage a fight between the two scrap pers in Baltimore on March 17. The offer is for a fifteen-round bout. * * • Frank Gotch, worlds champion heavyweight wrestler, has signed ar ticles to wrestle Edward Santel in San Francisco on February 22, it was announced in Los Angeles. According to the terms of the contract, it is said, Gotch must throw Santel twice in an hour. • • • Jess Willard, world's heavyweight champion, and Frank Moran will meet in a ten-round bout at Madison Square Garden, New York, on March 8 for a purse of $70,000, it was an nounced by Tex Rickard, promoter of the match. The date originally agreed upon was March 17, but It was changed because Madison Square Garden had been previously engaged for that date. WASHINGTON. The senate adopted a resolution pro posed by Senator Lodge requesting the president, to set apart a day on which the public might contribute to the re lief of distressed Armenians. * « * On objection by Republican Leader Mann, the house declined to consider a resolution discussion by Representa tive Clark of Florida for calling of a peace congress of neutral nations by President Wilson. * * * President Wilsen has given up the idea of making an extended southern trip to speak for preparedness. He told senators and representatives who invited him to various cities. The president has concluded that his pres ence is needed in Washington. * * * Germany and Austria through their embassies have notified the state de partment of their intention to treat armed merchantmen as warships after March 1. That date was fixed to give, the entente allies time to signify their intention toward the recent note of the United States proposing the dis armament of alt merchantmen. * * * Secretary of War Lindley M. Garri son and Assistant Secretary Henry S. Breckenridge have resigned because President Wilson had announced that he was not committed to Garrison’s plan for a “continental army” of 400, 000 men as the only means of national defense, and because the administra tion is in favor of Philippine inde pendence within four years. * * * Under the Shackleford good roads bill, which has passed the house and is now before a senate committee, Nebraska would' receive a maximum of $514,634 a year, Iowa $841,740, South Dakota .$337,406, and Wyoming $125,170. • • • Special pensions of $10 a month each and places on a roll of honor for former soldiers who are holders of medals of honor and are 65 years old, are authorized in a bill introduced by Representative Sherwood of Ohio, and passed by the house. • * * Relative retail prices of the princi pal articles of food in the United States decreased 1 per cent during the first nine months of last year, ac cording to the bureau of labor sta tlstics. * • * The charge that “the greatest lob by ever known to the American peo ple” is seeking to prevent the substi tution of space for the weight pay ment system in the railroad postal service was made in the house by Chairman Moon of the postoffice committee. NEBRASKA STATE NEWS Crawford will have a new post office building, finely equipped. It will be 30x40 feet in dimensions. At a hog sale near Roca a few days ago fifty head of Poland-China sows And gilts brought an average price of $40. The citizens of Trenton are arrang ing to entertain the meeting of the Republican Valley Editorial associa tion on March 6. The Omaha municipal auditorium lost $1,200 in the first six months of its operation, according to figures furnished by the city. The Kearney Country club has filed articles of incorporation with the district clerk. The club is incorporat ed to the sum of $10,000. As the result of injuries sustained when his hand became caught in a cornsheller, Emil E. Musil, a farmer residing near Clarkson, lost his left arm at the elbow. Ambrose C. Epperson of Clay Cen ter has announced that he will be a candidate for delegate-at-large to the republican national convention at Chi cago at the April primary. Miss Anna A. Gordon, national president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance union, will attend the mid-continental conference of the un ion at Lincoln March 8 and 9. Seventh Day Adventists, at the mid-west conference at Lincoln, an nounced that plans are under way to conduct an Adventist evangelistic campaign in Omaha next summer. At a special election held in Crof ton just recently a proposition to ex tend the present water system car ried by a good majority. Work will be started as soon as weather per mits. Health Commissioner Connell of I Omaha announces that there are now 215 houses under quarantine for scar- i let fever and seventy-four additional ! patients at the isolation hospitals, a total of 289. Omaha is the eighteenth city in the United States in postofflce money or der business, leading such cities as New Orleans, Baltimore and Denver, according to figures just issued by Postmaster Wharton. H. H. Pease, editor of the Beemer Times, has announced his candidacy for the nomination for representative of the Twenty-first district, subject, to the will of the republican voters at the primaries, April ISth, 1916. The Nebraska Record, a monthly paper published bv George E. Ben schotter at Loup City, has suspended publication. Mr. Benschotter has moved his plant to Hay Springs, where he expects to publish a paper. C. W. Chambers of Table Rock be came champion checker player of Nebraska when he won two games, lost one and drew three in the finals with I. T. Brooking of Funk at Hast ings, during the state checker tour nament. A movement has been started in Omaha to organize a wireless signal corps. It is said there are over fifty men in the city who understand wire less telegraphy. The use of Fort Omaha will be asked for to carry on operations. E. H. Kyser of Atlanta was winner of the silver loving cup at the second annual show of the Southwest Ne braska Poultry and Pet Stock asso ciation which was held at Holdrege recently. The cup awarded was for the largest and best display in one breed. Perhaps the most unusual funeral in Nebraska’s history^ was conducted in Hastings when nearly 500 people attended the funeral of J. O’Connor, aged recluse whose body had gone un buried for thirty months, while claimants fought for his $100,000 estate. More than seven and a half million bushels of grain were received on the Omaha market in January, accord ing to the monthly report made by Secretary Manchester of the Omaha Grain exchange. The receipts for the same month in 1915 were less than half that amount. Bayard H. Paine, of Grand Island, has prepared his petition for one -of the nominations for district judge and will file the same in the near future. There are at present three candidates fYir the non-partisan nomination, though it is expected there will be others. Word has been received in North Platte that the Union Pacific railroad officials have accepted plans and spe cifications for the construction of a $90,000 station to replace the depot burned some time ago. Syver P-nckey, an old time resident of Brown county, but who died a month ago at North Bend, Ore., and who left no heirs in America, willed his estate, consisting of about $60,000, td the Lutheran church at Drammen, Norway, his old boyhood home church. Wolves are petting so bold in Sarpy county that they, have begun to chase children home from school. Many farmers of late have been losing chickens, lambs, pigs and even young calves. At the annual meeting of the Y. W. C. A. at Grand Island reports show that over 6,000 calls by young and elderly women were made at the headquarters of the association dur ing the past year, and that over 600 girls have been directed to work through the agencies of this associa tion. Several gangs of electrical engi neers are at work at Edgar connect ing residence and business houses with the new electric light circuit. Twenty-four hour service will be given. The Hastings institute, organized to teach religion and social condi tions, was turned down by the Board of Education in a request for the use of the high school building for class es. The institute is non-sectarian and plans to take a social survey of Hastings. The total enrollment of the schools for January was 2,312. Lincoln promoters are planning or ganisation of an amateur baseball league this year. The citizens of Niobrara will soon vote on issuing bonds for a new | school building. Evangelistic meetings will be held in Wymore for the next six weeks. A labernacle has been built. The Boy Scouts at Kearney are agi tating the question of providing a club room for the company. Tlie Leaver City Flouring mills burned to the ground a few days ago with a loss of $15,000. Crawford lias an organization of Seventh Bay Adventists, with a mem bership of thirty-eight. The annual meeting of group one of the Nebraska Bankers' association will be held in Beatrice May 10. Over 100 Eagles, members of aerie No. 147, attended the dedication of their new $75,000 home at Lincoln. The postoltice grounds at Beat rice and Iloldrege are to be improv ed at the expense of the federal gov ernment. W. J. Herbes, formerly publisher of the Cedar Rapids Outlook, has pur chased the Lindsay Post from John M. Hefley. John E. Bartholomew of Columbus was found dead on the Union Pacific right-of-way near Schoeders mill. It is believed heart failure caused his death. Directors of the new Fremont Ho tel company have elected Frank Fow led president. The new hotel is to be built in the spring at a cost of $175,000. The date of the banquet for law makers and former lawmakers of Ne braska scheduled for February 25th at Lincoln has been changed to Febru ary 24th. The petition for a saloon at Crooks ton, which had a remonstrance filed against it. was withdrawn at the hear ing, which permits Crookston to be dry this year. Lincoln, after a lively contest, suc ceeded in landing the 1917 convention of the Nebraska Retail Dealers asso ciation, at their meeting last week in the capita! city. While carrying home a box of live ducks, John Sehipmann, a resident of Fremont, slipped and fell on the icy walk and broke his neck. He died almost instantly. A large number of converts are re ported in the revival meetings which are being held in the Methodist church at Oakdale under the leader ship of Mrs. Mabel Quam Stevens. While soldering a barrel brought to the shop where he is employed for repairs, Elmer Bush of Morse Bluff was quite badly burned when the re ceptacle exploded. He saved himself from a severe burning by rolling in a snowbank. The Nebraska Telephone company has purchased controlling interest in the Edgar Home Telephone company. They have just completed the con struction of a complete outside sys tem, moving all poles to the alleys where possible. Along with paving construction going on in Kearney there is a dis cussion as to the narrowing of the streets in the residence section of that city. The streets as laid out are very wide, and the paving will be heavy unless the streets are narrow ed down. One hundred and fifty-three pleas ure cars, shown by sixty-one manufac turers. twenty-six commercial cars from nineteen firms, and a balcony full of motorcycles will constitute the chief display at the Omaha Auto Show in the Municipal Auditorium, February 21 to 2C. Omaha’s new Grain Exchange build ing, when finished, will have one of the most elaborate systems of wiring in any building in the country. Pres ent wiring plans call for about seven ty-three miles of telephone, electric light and telegraph wires, none of which will be visible. Leonard Nims, who lives near Ta ble Rock, topped the St. Joseph, Mo.. hog market recently with a carload -of porkers of his own raising and feeding. This is the second year in succession in which Mr. Nims* win ter shipment has sold at the top for day on which they were sold. Now that the Nebraska State league has disbanded, there is talk in a number of towns of the defunct cir cuit of organizing independent teams. It is possible an independent league, with two or three games weekly, may be formed with Hastings, Beatrice, Fairbury, Kearney and one or two other towns in the league. A load of lambs from the Leaders Bros.' lots at Richfield, sold for $11 per hundredweight on the South Omaha market a few days ago. This is the top mark of the season and the highest price ever paid this season of the year. The building fever seems to have seized the population of Crete. The new Congregational parsonage was completed a few days ago; the new Methodist church is nearly ready, and several fine new residences are being built. Justice Archer of Plattsmouth sen tenced George Hobsou twenty days in jail for killing quail out of season. Citizens of Beaver Crossing at a meeting at that place recently per fected the organization of a communi ty club. A legislation, civic improve ment, transportation, publicity and en tertainment committee was appointed. The beet sugar company at Scotts bluff paid $2,148,300 to farmers for sugar beets last year and $60,000 to its employees. 246,000 tons of beets were made into 700,000 bags of sugar, each bag weighing 100 pounds. Articles of incorporation have been filed in York for the purpose of build ing a hotel on the site now occupied by the Le Grand. The capital stock is fixed at $100,000. The corporation is known as the York Hotel company . The York Milling company has a large order of flour to be used in the making of matzos, an unleaven bread, which must be eaten by all people of the Jewish faith during the feast of the Passover. The contract calls for 12,000 sacks, which is about one-third of the amount that will be used during the feast. BF