X>icfe 2lbteilung ift fiir fcie i l 5eutfcfy lefen. $ont Sdjoiiijlabc be? eurofjaifdicu Xie £eutfdjen F»abcn gejeigt, bag fie in bei 2agc filth, bab Poit ben grau3ofen genommcne terrain trot} oft energifdjcr ©c genaugriffe sit Ijaltcn. Sclbft bie granjofen gebeit nad) anfdtigli* djem Strdubeu 311, bag e» iljucii nidjt gelungcit, bie ©egner aus ben cr* rnngenen Stellungen toieber 311 Per brangen. ilian mug bic» unbebingt alo ein 3eid)en ber Sdjtoadje auf frau3bfifd)er Scite anfeben. Gin fol djer 3uftanb todre por ber lefjten gro* gen Dffenjiue unmdglid) getoefeu. 3ubcm bat c-S, nad) ben beutfdjcn 'i'e* ridjten 3u nrteilcn, ben beutfdjen Xruppett gar feinc bebcutenbeu Sdjtoierigfeiten perurfadjt, bie fran gofifdjcn Stellungen 311 neljmen. Sic 3eiteu fdjcinen fid) feit ben Zagen, too grangofeu nub Sentfdje ini per gtoeifelteu slantpfc utn bie Stellun gen nbrblidj pou 8lrra3, urn bas 2a b print unb bao SSalbdjeu pou 2a go lie ftauben, febr geaitbert 311 baben. 2cr beutfdjc ©eucralftabvbcridjt fpridjt Perfdjiebentlidj mit ober olinc flbfidjt Pou „fdjtoiidjlidjen ©cgeuau* griffon ber grar.gofen", bie fid) aB Pergcblid) ertoiefen. gut 3ufammen bang mit ben grogcu Seiniibnngeu ber (fngldnber, cine neue iflrmee in bie SKelt 311 fcfjen, biirfeit biefe I’lu jcidieu ber fraugdfifdjeu Grmattung nid)t auger 2(d)t gelaffen toerben. ■iVan barf fidjer fein, bag Guglanb felPft biefe Ijalbe SBebrpflidjt mdjt eingefiibrt butte, tocnn bie juncbmeii be Grfd)laffuug ber frangdfifdjen diteljrfraft uidjt auSfdjlaggebenb riir feinen Gntjdjlug getoefeu todre. ll’fan Praud)t fein iibertriebcner Cptimift 5u fein, uni biefe Slnfidjt uertreten $u fdnnen. mean roirb |id) erumerii, bag bei ben aSerljanblungcu iiber bie (sinfiib rung ber englifdjen 2M)rpflid)t, be* ren Dorau5|id)tlid)cn iHefnltate an biefer StcIIe jdieu friiber ausfiifjrlid) bebanbelt merben finb, ber grogte' Siiiberftanb auSben Streifen ber $an* bels- unb Subuftrieintereffeu fant. fine Gnglanb ift biefer Sirieg in er fter fiinie ein tQanbcIsfricg, ein Sirieg, ber ibm ben SBcItbaitbel uad) dusmergung 2,cntfd)laubs cinbrin*. gen foil, unb es fanu besfjalb bem englifd)cn sluufmann unb ^nbufiriel ten fcineSmcgS in ben Strain paffen,! menu bie augelernten drbeiter an bie gront gcfdjicft merben, urn nicllcidjti nie micbcr 3uriiif 3u febren. 'dud) fann eS ibm nnmbglicb red)t fein, bafj bie Snbuftrie, bie ben grbfjten £eil ber englifdjenduSfubr bilbet, baninter 311 leiben bobeu foil, bag ibr drbcitSfrdfte burd) bie Stebr pflidjt entsogen merben. 2Bir biirfen alfo annebmen, bag nur bie stoin-j genbficn (Sriinbe ibn 311 bem, maS man in Gnglanb 2ikbrpfiid)t 311 licit nen beliebt, ge3muitgen baben. ;man oary aua) rupig anncpmcn, bag bie gemeinfdjaftlidjen ©eratun gen ber fran3oftftf)en unb englifdjen ©eneralfiabe in ©arid itnb Sonboit toeniger bet SluSarbcitung neuer firiegSplane getoibmet toaren al§ bie StottoeubigFeit, neue SFtittel jitr ©er teibigung 3U fdjaffen. 23ei biefer ©c legenjeit ift e§ ben Gnglanbcrn flar geroorben, bag fie einfpriitgcn mug ten. Sur3 nad) ber lepton bcrarti* gen Sonferens reidjte bie englifdje Stegierung ba§ 2SebrpfIidjt * jpro granun im $aufc ber ©emeinen ein. Greigniffe, bie nidjt auf militari fdjem ©ebiete Iiegen, abet fiir ben ©erlauf be§ ®riege3 Pon grogerSSidj tigfeit finb, fpielten fid) faft unbe merit in Stufjlanb ab. ipremiermi* nifter ©orempfin, ber perfonifoierte 3IutoFrati§mu§ unb StonferPatismuS, fjat einen neuen ©tann, einem ilnbe fannten mit bem beutfdjen Stamen Stiirmer, ©lap gemadjt. !gn ©eiro graber ©epefdjen toirb Fjeroorgejo ben, bajj Stiirmer cine Slrt ©tadjt Fjinter bem Stprone tear, ber in jufeerpolitifdjen SFngelegenjeiten bom Saren gerne 311 State geaogen tourbe. Gr tear ein intimer greunb EBitteS unb Pon ©IebPef, be§ friibe ren ruffifdjen ginanaminifterS, beibe S)eutfc^ * Stuffen. Berlin melbci be jeidjnenbertoeife, bafs man Pon bem SBedjfel feine Slenberung ertoarte. £er ©ebanfe Iiegt nape, bag biefc Berliner ©telbung einen tieferen ©runb bat al§ bie blofcc ©telbung, baf) man nidjtS babon ertoarte. ®ie DKelbung todre iiberfliiffig getoefen. ©ei ber ©etradjtung ruffifdjer ©er paltniffe barf man bie Stem g)orfer ©tcFbung uiebt Pergeffen, bag feine ruffifdjen Sdjiffe meFjr bon anterifanifdjen §afen ab fabren foHen, „toeil bie §afcn auge froren feien". ®a3U fommen 2JteI bungen au» Sapan, bie fiir beutfdje Ojren einen angenebmen SHang ja ben. SDie japanifdje ©reffe, mit bem „§odji ©toimbun", einem bebeuten ben ©ofioer ©Iatt, an ber ©pipe, finb feit einigen SBodjen feFjr Jmergifd) Sr ein beutfd) • ruffifdj • fapanifdjeS ilnbnii eingetreten. Unb bie§, obne bon ber iapanifdjen Stcgierung sen fieri gu toerben. Gine foldje ©djtoen* fung, felbft toenn fte borlaufig nodj jeben offiaiellen STnftridjeB entbebrt, ift bejeidjnenb. ©ie fann nur ber I_ ©rfenntnid cntfpntngcn fein, bit Bulgariett auf bie 2eite ber 3cntral iniid)te gctporfeti bat- Xcr (irfennt nid, baR bie 2adje bee Sttliicrten ucr Iorcn ift. £ofio tjat 3tuar bie Ber liner BJelbung, baR (inglattb ben ^apanern «bie Borberrfdjaft in Mfier eiugerdunu. bat, bemeutiejet, tuontii aber feittedtoegd bemeutiert ift, ba{f Gnglaub uid)t foldje Borfcbliige ge madjt bat. Xic rttglifdj * nincrifnnifrfic Brcfir Bcrbiinbcte bed ilVnttimons unb (itiglnubc-. 3luf einem Banquet ber 9?eft fjorfer Brejj dlifociation crfUirtt ^oljii Stuiiiton, ein lebendlaitger an gefelieiter 3eitiingdmauu Betu port's in einem Xoaft auf bie mmbbditgigt Brcjfe: „(id gibt nid)td berartige; tuic cine uttabbdngige Brcjfc in 91 me rifa, cs fei benn fie crifticrt in fianb ftiibteu. ^5 b r tu i R t e d, it tt i id) tu c i r e d. (id gibt nidjt eincr miter eudj, ber cine cljrlidje 2)iei uung nud3ufprcd)L’it tuagt. 23cm iiir ed bennod) tut, fo trirb fie fidicr lid) nidjt ini Xrucf erfdjetnen. 'Xstf erljalte ein- Xaldr unit $150 pet 23edje, urn meine rbrlidje Bieinunc au§ ber 3t’>tmig 311 balten, ait bet id) angefteUt bin. t'lnbere erbalten iiliniidie Saliire, mu bas gleidje 30 tun. 23cmi id) meine ebrlidje B{ei ming in Xntdf brdd)te, Ijatte id) in nerbalb 24 Stunbeit meiite 2teOe Perloren. (id ift bie 9lufgabc bet Bern 9)orfer Souritaliftcn bie SBaljr licit 311 entftcllen. bireft 3U uigett, 311 nerbeiditigen, 311 fdiiucirnicbein 311 ^ii Ren bed diamond nub fein 2'attb unb Bolt fiir fein taglidjes 'Brat 311 per faufeit, obertuas basfelbc ift. fiir fein Saliir. ^sljr aHe mint bas unb id; Ipcir ed, 100311 benn biefe Barrettfo ntbbic, einen Xoafi auf bie „unab biingige Brcffe" audjubrittgeu. 23it finb Bkrfjeuge nttb Sflanen roidjet Bfdnner, I)inter ben Siuliffcu. 23it finb .'oanstpiirfte; fie jicbeu an Stride unb loir tnujen. Unfcre 3<-‘it. nnfere Xalente, tinfer Scben, unfcre (ibaitccit aUc finb bad (iigentum bed Biamond. 23ir finb geiftige Brofti- ; tuierte! icr Scnbou (iljronicle fdjrcibt: „SSa5 Gnglanb ber yeitungdroel: ?fntcrifa§ fd)iilbct, ift unftbabbar, Tie fltebafteure bcr beftcrt ^citutiger tnarcn furditlofc unb fdilaue 3Scrfccf)* ter bcr Sadie bcr ?Miierten. (is nta ret; bicfe iHcbaftcure — attf Iibberen 2?efefjl, lnie mir and obenftebenbein Seugnid fdien— trddje bad beutfebe llngebeuer fiir bad amerifanifdic ®olf ^itr ©irflidifcit maditen. Itnb fie baben ed rttbig unb mit tbtlidier £ogif getan. Stir baben feine beffe ren i’erbiinbeten in Sftnerifa aid bie fRcbafteure ber „grojjen Scitnngen"! S?ettt bicfe beiben oeitgitiffe bet 93crnfenffen bcr Serttfcnen fcin Sidjt nufflctfen, barf unbcbdligt an feinent Tarutiuifdjcn Stanunbauin feftljal ten! Stcncr auf Stricgsmaterial tuirb ge plant. £er 3Ecrt ber StriegsbepeHungeit in biefcm Sanbe, bie nod) gar nid)j auagefuljrt finb, belaufen fid) auf an* bertbalb Siilliarbeit £oHar«, toie ein fiir3id)er HustoeiS rincr £anbel& ?[gen(ur erfefjen Id|t. £b eg 3u eittem Serbot ber fflaffenauS* ful)r fommen toirb, lafet fid) nidjt mil Seftimmtfjcit fagen. Side Sdtglie ber im Siongrejj finb bafiir, aber aud, oidc bagcgcn, fo bag nidjt fefisuftel Icn ift, ob eine Siaforitdt fur baa Serbot 311 erlangen toare. Stber ei fdjeint eine Stajoritdt fiir ben Slat? oorfjanbeit 3u fein, bie notigen ©el ber fiir ein 3iiifiung3programm burd eine bobe ©teucr auf firieg§materiai aufaubringen. 2a§ tourbe un§ stoat nidjt bon bem Sortourf befreien, bat; toir $oIIar§ bober fdjaben, a!3 2Jten fdbenleben, aber eg toiirbe sum minbe pen sur Grfdjopfung ber Sfauffrap borer, todcben toir ®rieg§borrate lie fern, beitragen. Capital fiir ©anitatl-^unbc. Berlin. giir bie $unbe bet ?trmee • ©anitaiSbienpeS ift in bet Uniberfitdteftabt Sena ein §ofpita! erridbtet toorben, unb eine 2ln3abi bierbeiniger tpatienten, bie SBunben ober anbere Seiben babett, ift bercit^ in Sebanblung genommen toorben. Sa§ ^ofpital tourbe bon ©olbaten, bie fitb auf bem 9Bege ber ©enefung befanben, gebaut SBatfrenb be3 s?riege§ fiaben Me §unbe beint Muffpiiren bon Serttmit* beten borgiiglicEje SDienfte geleipct, unb minbepettS 3000 Sertounbete, bie an abgelegenen ©teCen fonp fidjet umgefotnmen toarett, finb bon ben treuen bierfiifjigen Seglcitern ber ©amtatSmannfdjaften gerettet. ®te Eeutfdfen finb Cotoeit, gefiifjrt bon Sotoen, fagt ber amerifanifdie Cfr finber $iram 2»a?im. Unb er fiigt Mnju: „£ie Xeutfdjen finb ba§ fpar* famfte, ba§ tiidjtigfte, ba§ opfertoil ligfte Solf ber Grbe; e§ ausbungern ju toollen, ift ^orfjeit." 3Benn er trofcbem auf ben ©ieg ©nglanb§ bofft, bann ift ba§ toobl meljr 2tuS brud beg SBunfdfea al» ber Ueber> jeugung. FOR ARMSEMBARGO FOREIGN STEEL ORDERS COST NEBRASKA $900,000. PUBLICITY BUREAU FOR STATE * Items of General Interest Gathered from Reliable Sources Around the State House. Western Newspaper Union News Service. While the gigantic steel industries of the east have been making huge returns out of Europe's misery in the sale of guns and bullets. Nebraska tax payers have gone down into their pockets for about $900,000 more for bridge steel than they would have had to pay, had an embargo been estab lished with the first bloodshed. State Engineer George Johnson em phasizes the need of an arms embargo, in a letter sent to Senator Hitchcock. He doesn't enter into a technical in ternational discussion of the situation but shows conclusively that the rise F. J. RIST of Humboldt, leading agriculturist and president of Nebraska Pure Grain arid Seed Growers' association. in steel, occasioned by the scamper of the steel trust to reap returns while the killing is good in Europe, has cost Nebraska taxpayers $900,000 more than it should have—and there's no know ing how much more it will cost, if an embarge is not put on. Millions in Nebraska Banks. “It is no wonder,” says a bulletin just issued by the Nebraska state board of agriculture, edited by Secre tary W. B. Mellor, “that Nebraska citizens have $240,000,000 deposited in the banks.” The bulletin gives the following sta tistics of 1915 agricultural products to show why the people of this state are prosperous: Crop— Total Value. Corn .$114,047,368 Wheat . 57,144,619 Oats . 20,654,049 Rye and barley . 3,805,134 Potatoes. 4.220,270 Alfalfa . 24,531,588 All other hay. 35,088,800 Dairy (milk) . 37,392,668 Poultry products . 35,000,000 Animal production (1-3 horses, mules and cattle 121,168,266 Fruit and berries . 10,000,000 Garden and miscellaneous. 10,000,000 Total.$473,052,762 Advocates State Publicity Bureau. The production of the rural popula tion of this state is $525 for every man. woman and child who lives in Nebraska and the total money on de posit in Nebraska banks is $240,000, 000, according to the letter of Secre tary Mellor of the state agricultural board to a meeting of state boosters at Hastings. Mr. Mellor points out the need of a state publicity bureau and urges upon the boosters the necessity of seeing that such an institution is provided for at the next session of the state legislature. He points out the wonderful showing that has been made under cramped conditions and insists that a liberal investment along this line would be returned to the peo ple many times over in the course of the next few years. The comptroller of New York state has written urging Nebraska officials to ask their representatives in con gress to vote against«. bill imposing a national tax on inheritances. The let ter was turned over to State Auditor Smith, blit he has taken no further steps. The writer of the letter pro poses that the states be allowed to tax inheritances. He fears the govern ment will take over that privilege and shut New York state out of an income of $11,000,000 derived from this source. Nebraska has an inheritance lax which goes to county road funds. Through Governor Morehead Ezra Meeker of Oregon trail fame has re quested Secretary Paine of the histori cal society and the Oregon trail com mission for a description of all the monuments erected along the trail in Nebraska. The information will be used in compiling a map to be issued by the national highway association. Meeker is now in Washington looking after the work. Meeker in 1952 crossed the country to the Pacific coast Fifty years later he made a trip from the west coast to Washington, D. C., in an old fashioned pioneer wagon. In reversing and remanding a $25, 000 libel suit instituted by Judge Lee Estelle against an Omaha daily news paper, the supreme court by a majority vote, holds that opinions expressed publicly in regard to candidate’s fitness tor office need not be treated as state ment of absolute facts, that a com munication published and signed by the writer was a communication of qualified privilege. Judge Sedgwick wrote the majority opinion of the court. It is concurred in by Judges Fawcett, Letton and Rose. Chief Jus j tice Morrissey, Judges Barnes • and Hamer dissent. NEW HOMESTEADS. Will Add Over a Million Dollars to State’s Tax Roll. Tlie following statement contains a list of the new lands upon which final j proof was made at the various land ' offices in Nebraska the past year, as j certified by State Auditor Smith to the j counties in which the land is located, j for taxation the present year: LINCOLN OFFICE I County Acres i t hase .,. 5,566.65 | Dundy . 4.761.03 j Frontier . 160 Custer . SO ! Franklin . SO I Greeley . 861.06 ' Hayes . 4,838.84 ; Howard . 64.30 i Red Willow . 40 j Valley . 200 Total .16.C51.94 NORTH PLATTE Arthur . 8,992.61 Banner . 1,089.56 Cheyenne . 2,723.79 I Custer . 200 Dawson . 160.66 Deuel . 179.20 Harden .11.988.03 , Keith . S.6S3.16 | Lincoln.11,773.66 • Logan . 6,076.85 McPherson .12.951.34 Morrill . 3,063.52 Perkins . 959.72 , Kimball . 7.037.49 Total .76,479.62 VALENTINE Brown . 15,973.79 Cherry .258,783.37 Keya Paha . 1,810 Rock ..,. 12,096.49 Total .288,705.65 O'NEILL Antelope . 80 Brown . 160.12 Boyd . 240 Boone . 400 Cuming . 51.33 Garfield . 10,211.90 Holt . 3,574.13 Keya Paha . 40 Knox . 407.40 Pierce . 40 Thurston . 83.47 Wheeler . 4,029.83 Rock . 6,237.86 Loup . 26,1 sNA 3 Total . 57,714.87 ALLIANCE Arthur . 1,120 Banner . 5.297 Box Unite. . 7,170 Seotts Bluff. 17.840 Morrill . 43,239 Grant . 6,615 Dawes . 11.514 Garden . 72,512 Sioux . 61.883 Sheridan . 80,198 Total .307.388 BROKEN BOW Arthur . 12.677.50 Brown . 19,828.90 Blaine . 26.833.22 Cherry . 92.577.34 Custer . 6,002.84 Grant . 36,125.81 Hooker. 49,742.16 I l>ogan . 30,311.08 McPherson ..- 25.384.34 Thomas . 52.632.98 Total .352.122.17 WINNEBAGO AGENCY Winnebago Indian Reservation.. 1.136.42 SANTEE Knox . 2,653.22 Lincoln Office . 16.651.94 North Platte . 76.479.62 Valentine . 288.705.65 i O'Neill . 57,744.87 ' Alliance . 307.388 Winnebago Reservation . 1.136.42 ■ Santee . 2.653.22 I Broken Bow . 352,122.17 Grand Total .1.102.SS2.06 Time Deposits in Nebraska Banks What has been rumored for some lime, but never definitely stated from any official source, now receives con firmation in a report filed by State Ac countant DeFrance showing that State Treasurer Hall has $19,000 of state money placed as time deposits in cer tain banks of Nebraska, on which 1 and 5 per cent interst isb eing drawn. The banks and the amounts carried by them, respectively, are: Elba—Farmers State Bank, $5,000; Elba State bank, $5,000. Carroll—Citizens’ tSate bank, $4,000. Leigh—Leigh State bank. ^5,000. Depository banks generally are pay ing the state only 3 per cent interest on the money furnished them by the 1 state treasurer. State Accountant De France thinks it would be a good plan to put out more public funds as time ; deposits, for the sake of the higher in terest collected. He says this could be ■ dcfne just as well as not. because most i of the banks holding regular deposits j keep the money the year round. But Two Mexican Veterans in State. A roster of the veterans of the Mex ican, civil and the Spanish-American wars, issued by Secretary of State Pool, under provisions of an act of the last legislature, shows a total of 4,609 civil war veterans, 1,230 Span ish-American war veterans and two veterans of the Mexican war living in Nebraska. The names were furnished by the counties to the secretary of state and have been published in pamphlet form. W. A. Rawley of Palls City, company F, Third Min nesota regiment, and Robert Wood of Waterbury, Dixon county, Fourteenth Ohio, are the two Mexican war vet erans listed in the roster. It contains the names of a few who served in Indian wars and in the Sioux Indian war. W. E. Thorne, an elevator owner at Bladen, reports to the railway com mission that he has been unable to get cars from the Burlington railroad to ship grain. In consequence of this, his elevator is full and he is unable to buy from farmers. The lack of cars for the grain traffic seems to be as pronounced as it was five weeks ago. The railway commission gets reports twice a week from railroad station agents, showing that the conditions have not been recently bettered to any extent. ___ Members of the Madison County Farmers’ Association have just secured a traveling library of 22 books from the Nebraska Public Library Commis sion and placed them in the office of the county agricultural agent at Battle Creek. These books may remain in the possession of the association for six months. The volumes were chosen from a list selected by the heads of the different departments of the College of Agriculture. Any associ ation in the state may secure a similar library upon application to the Pub lic Library Commission, State House. A request from Tekamah for advice as to the type of construction for bridges within the municipal limits has been received by State Engineer John son. Mr. Johnson is frequently asked by county boards to help out in bridge matters, but this is the first time a city has ever called upon him for such assistance. Under the state road laws, one-half of the road tax collected by counties on property situated within a municipality is turned back to the mu nicipal treasury to be expended on its streets. J NEBRASKA\ | STATE NEWS « ♦ - t 4 « August Heldt, chief agriculturist ol' the Scottsblufi Sugar company, de clared while in Lincoun rounding up German-Russian families to work in the beet fields the coming spring, that nearly one hundred families, repre sent 600 or 700 people, will be em ployed, the greatest exodus of the kind in the history of Lincoln. lie as serted that during the year 1916 mote raw product was used by the Scotis bluff Sugar company than any other factory in the United States. James P. English, district judge, former county attorney and praelic ing attorney in Omaha f^r more than thirty-five years and well known ovtr the state, died at his home in Omaha. It was the trial and conviction of Arthur Hauser, murderer of W. H. Smith, which cost the life cf Judge English, in the opinion of physicians and friends. A second quarantine for small pox has been placed recently on the Soldiers' home at Grand Island by City Physician Phelan. The first quarantine was released after th? outbreak had been kept down to the one victim. The number of victims cannot be ascertained at this time, but is believed to be limited. William West, a farmer residing in the southw’pstern part of Furnas county, unearthed an Indian grave on his farm recently and in it found th" petrified bones of an Indian. The skull shows a deep concussion. There was nothing metallic found, but ther were numerous flint arrowheads and stone battle axes. While operating a gas engine at Al len, Dave W. Johnson got his right arm caught in the ragged edge of a belt twisting him around the flywhec: and whirling him around until his weight .stopped a six horsepower eu gine. Ilia right hand was broken and bis hips, back and ankles were badly bruised. The salcorr question will come to a vote in North Platte at the city election. Thursday. April <». A peti tion bearing 79 names has been filed with the city clerk asking that the li cense question be put to a vote. This number of signers is more than enough to force the issue into the city ballot. Eighty-five new- members were added to the enrollment at the Y. M. C. A. at Fremont, as a result of a four days’ campaign conducted by the membershiup committee. This brings the total membership to 719 and the committee hopes to increase the total to 750. The girls of a club just being or ganized in the Tecumseh High school, entertained their mothers to a ban quet recently. 100 being in attendance. The organization of the club is for the improvement of social conditions with the students. A club lias also been organized by the boys. The Madison county seat removal election will be held March 25. accord ing to a decision of the county com missioners. Madison offered no pro test to the election, having failed in six weeks’ time allotted 1o shake the Norfolk petition. A farmers' union, consisting of seventy members has been organized at Holdrege. The union will either buy or build an elevator in the city, and will confine its operations to the buying of grain and selling coal. The permanent organization of the Farmers' union co-operative grain ele vator at Glenville has been effected. The company has a paid up capital of *5,000, and is organized under the Nebraska co-operative law. Officers of Company G, Nebraska National Guard of Hastings, have launched a campaign of preparedness. It is hoped by those connected with the movement to fill the company to its full quota. The safe in the postoffice at Dodge was blown by robbers and loot to the amount of $600 cash and stamps was obtained. Mail sacks were rifled, but nothing of value was taken from them. The plans and specifications for the steel bridge to be built across the Niobrara river at the Parsliall cross ing, just south of Butte, are ready for bids. Omaha bank clearing for the week, ending February 19th made a gain of over $9,000,000 over the total clear ings for the corresponding week in 1915. Columbus won the state volley ball championship by defeating Fremont in the final round of the tournament at Columbus in three straight games. Omaha, Fremont, Norfolk, Grand Is land, York and Hastings associations were represented. With $40,000 actually subscribed, a new $100,000 building for the Univer sity of Omaha is an assured proposi tion. Ground will be broken by June and the building will be ready for use next September according to plans of the .board of trustees. As the result of experimenting with a dynamite fulminating cap, Frank Schave, aged 22, of Grand Island, em ployed by the Kohler hotel as a fire man, is minus an eye and one finger. Henry Allen, the founder of the vil lage of Allen, and who gave his land for the site of the town, died a few days ago. He was one of the oldest settlers of Dixon county. Ralph R. Clayton, a schoolboy of Homer, has established a wireless station at his father’s place and can pick up wireless messages from Ar lington Station, Va. An advance of 10 per cent in the wholesale price of agricultural ma chinery has been announced by Omaha Implement jobbers to the 1,500 retail implement dealers In this ter ritory. It has been decided to hold the Ad ams county democratic dollar dinner \\t Hastings, March 14. Ex-Senator G. W. Tibbets will preside as toast master. Well founded rumors are afloat that several prominent Neligh men are considering the advisability of es tablishing a fourth bank in the city. The United States department of agriculture has just published a thir ty-eighl-page soil survey of Nemaha county, based on the work of the de partment and the Nebraska soil sur vey. yhe county is a heavy corn pro ducer, one acre of corn being grown for every acre of all other crops com bined. The report contains an analys is of the various soils encountered in the county. Forty-two per cent of the area of the county is made up of Car rington silt loam, which is considered a good agricultural soil. A fourth of the county is made up of Marshall silt loam. w-hich is said to be the best soil for grain farming. A part of the county is mapped as Knox silt loam. This is almost entirely devoid of or ganic matter and is sticky. Near Peru and Browning a number of orchards are supported in this soil and grapes do very well cn the upper slopes. The remainder of the county w-as found to consist of alluvial terrace soils of good quality. County Superintendent A. T. Holt zen, Uditor Mitchell of Deshler. editor of the Poshlor Rustler, and Paul Gru pie are touring Thayer county, adver tising the county fair, which will he held this fall at Deshler This will be tlie third annual county fair, and motion pictures will be taken by Professor Condra and his assistants. The total sugar beet acreage con tracted for 1910 in the North Platte district is fully 3,000 acres This is an increase of 1.200 acres over 1915. The territory in which this acreage is lo cated is between North Platte and Sutherland. Very- few if any- contracts have been made from North Platte east to the county line. The Rev. F. M. Sisson, pastor of the First Methodist church of Fremont, received 272 new members into his church and baptized 131 at a Sunday morning's service recently. This was a record (lay. both for Fremont and for Dr. Sisson's ministry, extending j over a period ot forty-two years. The 1-year-ol(l daughter of Mr and j Mrs. Wetzel Cooper of Scotia was in- j staatly killed v. liiTe her parents were I watching the blasting of. ire at the I Union Pacific bridge there. A large | piece of h-e was thrown high in the j air by an explosion and fell onto the j child, crushing her skid!. Ne-jV national guard companies are likely to be installed at Aurora. Schuyler and David City. All of these places formerly had companies, but gave them up two or three years ago They are anxious now to get the good out of military training and to demon | strate their interest in national de fense. Fifty-flour pupils of the Holdrege schools have enrolled for the school garden work for the coming summer. The schools are also operating a poultry and egg contest Twenty-four pens of chickens have been entered j in tiie egg contest, which began Feb ruary 1. Albert Gerber of Duncan was killed by an explosion of a stick of dynamite held in his band while breaking up ice at the Platte river bridge one mile south of Duncan. Mr. Gerber had i lighted the fuse io the dynamite, but ! it was short and went off in his j hand. Twelve spans of the automobile i bridge across the Platte river af Eouisville were torn out by ice fto^s and the railroad bridge was slightly damaged A petition signed by one hundred Beatrice voters ha? been filed with the city clerk asking the city com missioners to submit the question of j licensing saloons to a vote of the peo ple at the city election in April. Citizens of Sheridan county are making an effort to establish a farm demonstrator in the county. Meetings have teen held at Hay Eprings, Rusli ville and Gordon in support of the proposition. A call has been issued toi a spe cial school election on March 14. at Oakland, to vote bonds for $48,000 to build a new high school building, re placing the one destroyed by fire on December 29. Three hundred quarts of grape juice was used to quench the thirst of Nebraska lawmakers wfien they gathered at the annual banquet of the Nebraska Legislative league in Lin coln just recently. At Brownville about fiftyeight acres of strawberries were raised this season.. No other place in the state has as manv acres in strawberries as this town in Richardson county. That a Phelps county fair will be held in Holdrege next autumn was def initely decided by the board of direc tors of the Phelps County Fair asso ciation. It is reported that Wilkinson & Vandees of Denver, who have bought the Cross & Roberts’ electric light company at Scottsbluff and will build an interurban line tbeewn that city and Gering. They also plan on spend ing $50,000 on the electric lighting plant at Scottsbluff. A $65,000 addition is being planned by the holding company of the Clarke hotel at Hastings. It is expected to have the rooms completed in time for the state democratic convention, July 25. A ferry boat that had been frozen in the Missouri river at Plattsmouth all winter, was carried away when the ice broke up last week. No trace of It has been found. W. A. Rourke, owner of the Omaha Western League baseball club has made arrangements for the team to train at Beatrice for three weeks, starting March 20. Aurora will soon have a wireless telegraph station as a jewelry store at that place is planning to install one in order to obtain correct time from Washington. Six buildings in the business sec tion. of Salem were completely gutted by fire last Saturday morning. The most Important loss was a $12,000 merchandise store. The total loss will amount close to $25,000. Otoe county democrats are to enjoy a big celebration at Nebraska City March 16. Former Senator W. W. Al len is to speak and all democrats are invited to attend. I. W. Funk, county surveyor of Col fax county, was killed while blast ing ice at the wagon bridge over the Platte river near Schuyler. HAVE ROSY CHEEKS AND FEEL FRESH AS A DAISY—TRY THIS! Says glass of hot water with phosphate before breakfast washes out poisons. To see the tinge of healthy bloom in your face, to see your skin get clearer and clearer, to wake up with out a headache, backache, coated tongue or a nasty breath, in fact to feel your best, day in and day out. just try inside-bathing every morning for one week. Before breakfast each day. drink a glass of real hot water with a tea spoonful of limestone phosphate in it as a harmless means of washing from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the previous day’s indigestible waste, sour bile and toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. The action of hot water and limestone phosphate on an empty stomach is wonderfully in vigorating. It cleans out all the sour fermentations, gases and acidity and gives one a splendid appetite for breakfast. A quarter pound of limestone phos phate will cost very little at your drug gist or general store, but is suflici‘-nt to demonstrate that just as soap and hot water cleanses, sweetens and . , freshens the skin, so hot water and limestone phosphate act on the blood and internal organs. Those who aro subject to constipation, bilious attacks, acid stomach, rheumatic twinges, also . those whose skin is sallow and com- > plexion pallid, are assured that one week of inside-bathing will have them both looking and feeling better in ev ery way.—Adv. Frequently a man thinks he is char itabie because he gives advice. To Prevent The Grip Lolds cause Grip — Laxative Bromo Quinine r* rn-.ves the cause. There is only one • Bromo Quinine ” K. \V. UEOY'ES signature on box. ‘J5c. Careless. “What? You refuse lo lend me a measley ten-spot? Many’s the time I’ve tided you over when you were short.” ■'Well, if you hadn’t been so darned reckless with your money you wouldn’t be brrke now." GAS, DYSPEPSIA “Pape’s Diapepsin” settles sour, gassy stomachs in five minutes—Time it! You don't want a slow remedy when your stomach is bad—or an uncertain one—or a harmful one—your stomach is too valuable; you mustn't injure it. Pape's Diapepsin is noted for its speed in giving relief; its harmless ness; its certain unfailing action in regulating sick, sour, gassy stomachs, its millions of cures in indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis and other stomach trouble has made it famous the world over. Keep this perfect stomach doctor in your home—keep it handy—get a large fifty-cent case from any dealer and then if anyone should eat something which doesn’t agree with them; if what they eat lays like lead, ferments and sours and forms gas; causes head ache, dizziness and nausea; eructa tions of acid and undigested food— remember as soon as Pape's Diapepsin ( comes in contact with the stomach all such distress vanishes. Its prompt ness, certainty and ease in overcoming the worst stomach disorders is a reve lation to those who try it.—Adv. Real Harm in Smoking. Scientists at the Paris medical col lege have found by a series of experi ments that, as physiologists have long isserted, tobacco smoke has an injuri 3us. effect on the heart, but that this effect is not dependent on the amount *f nicotine contained in the tobacco; in fact, smoke frem the combustion of materials other than tobacco appeared to be about as harmful. The deleteri ous effects are attributed to the mul tiple products of combustion in the smoke. rHICK,GLOSSY HAIR FREE FROM DANDRUFF > Girls! Beautify Your Hair! Make It ^ Soft, Fluffy and Luxuriant—Try the Moist Cloth. Try as you will, after an application of Danderine, you cannot find a single trace of dandruff or falling hair and your scalp will not Itch, but what will please you most, will be after a few weeks’ use, when you see new hair, fine and downy at first—yes but real ly new hair—growing all over th« scalp. A little Danderine immediately dou bles the beauty of your hair. No differ ecce how dull, faded, brittle and scraggy, just moisten a cloth with Danderine and carefully draw it through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. The effect is im mediate and amazing—your hair will be light, fluffy and wavy, and have an appearance of abundance; an incom parable luster, softness and luxuri ance, the beauty and shimmer of true hair health. Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton’s Danderine from any store and prove that your hair Is as pretty and soft as any—that it has been neglected or Injured by careless treatment—that’? all. Adv. Some Weight. Redd—How much does his au bilo weigh? Greene—You mean with the *a«9? _ Smiles make a better salve for trou ble than do frowns.