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NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED COVERS WIDE AREA. GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT Includes What Is Going On at Wash ington and In Other Sections of the Country. WAR NEWS. British casualities in March, as com piled from the published lists, in Lon don, amounted to 1,107 officers and 19,317 men. » * * Paris reports that a German sub marine has been sunk by a squadron of French and British warships. Tho crew of the submarine was captured. * * * The British government's contribu tion for the relief of Belgium and Nor thern France is about £500,000 month ly, Sir Edward Grey, the foreign secre tary said in the* house of commons. * * * Nine groups of British married men who attested for service under the Derby plans are to join the colors on May 5. The groups concerned are numbers 33 to 41, consisting of men from 27 to 35 years of age. • • * Germany is ready to make peace, and the chancellor has said officially that any reasonable peace proposal will be considered, says Dr. Mchahel les, the new German ambassador to Norway, in a statement at Christiana, e » * Of 30,000 Serbian refugees, who, following the invasion of their country by the Teutonic allies, headed south ward, only 8,000 succeeded in reach ing Saloniki, all the others having perished of cold and hunger on the way, according to a report. • * * German Fokker fighting planes have arrived on the Austro-ltalian front and one of them took part in the recent raid on Venice. Artillery du els are erported near the Toleman bridgehead on the Fella sector and on the Dolinetes front. • • • The Swiss government is consider ing the marking of the frontiers with signs, visible at long distance by day light and illuminated at night, so as to' avoid such mistakes as German aviators recently made in bombard ing a Swiss village. * * * Chancellor of the Exchequer Mc Kenna declared recently in the Brit ish house of commons that England’s national debt has increased from $3,580,000,000 in 1914 to nearly $11, 700,000,000. England is spending $25,000,000 daily for war purposes. * * • With the exception of the big air raid of January 31, when the casual ties were sixty-seven persons killed and 117 injured, the Zeppelin raids March 31 and April 1 caused greater loss of life than any previous aerial attack this year. The total casual ties were fifty-nine killed and 166 wounded. GENERAL. Holland is reported as about to buy 100,000 tons of wheat in America, in addition to the normal 60,000 tons monthly. Reserves of wheat practi cally have been exhausted. * * » The total of funds distributed by the Rockefeller foundation during 1915 was $3,643,377, of which $582,339 was for war relief, according to announce ment in New York. * * * Four American soldiers have died of illness or accidental injuries suffered in Mexico, pursuing Villa, and more than 300 are being treated in Fort Bliss hospital in El Paso. • * » Detroit newspapers which compiled returns of the presidential preference primary held in Michigan agree that Henry Ford of Detroit defeated Unit ed States Senator William Alden Smith of Grand Rapids for the repub lican nomination bya majority of from 2,500 to 4,500. • * • Returns of the local option elections held in various Illinois towns and townships show that between 350 and 400 saloons will be eliminated in the near future and that former dry terri tory which before the prohibition vic tories in 1912 sheltered about 250 sa loons. again will permit the sale of al coholics. * * • Daniel A. Hoan, socialist democrat, will be the next mayor of Milwaukee, having defeated Mayor G. A. Badling, non-partisan, in the recent election by a majority estimated between 1,000 and 1,500 votes. ' • * * Billy Sunday declared before a crowd of 19,000 people in the taber nacle at Baltimore, Md., that he would be one of those caught up in the air to meet the Lord on his second coming to the earth and that he. would return with Christ to reign during the millennium. • • • Twenty-two persons were killed by automobiles in New York City streets in March, according to a report made public by the National Highways Pro tective society. * * * Aviator Steve MacGordon recently flew from Newport News, Va., to Washington and back, carrying Lieu tenant Vivian Hewitt of the British navy. The round trip is 300 miles. The fliers were in the air five hours and five minutes, a new American re cord. * * * Engineer Herman Hess has been dismissed by the Illinois Central rail road as a result of the recent wreck at Amherst. Ohio, which cost 28 lives. He is held responsible for the disaster by the railroad. The Iowa supreme court has order ed advanced to the May term the Davenport saloon case testing the con stitutionality of the mulct repeal law which closed the saloons January 1. * * * Colonel Daniel E. McCarthy of the quartermasters’ office, central depart ment, in Chicago, issued an order for 108 automobile trucks, costing ap proximately $324,000. The trucks will be sent to El Paso, Tex. * * * Thirty Mexicans were killed and a like number wounded when a force of 200 Americans under Colonel W. C. Brown routed a band of outlaws in the neighborhood of Guerrero. No Americans were killed, according to the brief reports. » * * * Former State Treasurer Walter J. Smith of Minnesota, was given an in determinate sentence of one to five years in prison after he had pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree larceny. Smith turned $18,000 of state school funds to his own use. * * * Chang-Chow Fu, one of the largest cities of China, has declared its inde pendence of the government of Yuan Shi Kai. The officials at Amoy have sent a request to the American con sul asking that an American warship be sent to that port. * * * During a recent blizzard between forty and forty-five bluejackets be longing to the British light cruiser Conquest lost their lives while at tempting to return to their ship. The men were being towed out in a large cutter when the hawser broke. * * * The number of universities, colleges and normal schools which have adopt ed simplified spelling now is 144, a gain of fifty-seven in the last year, ac cording to a report made to the sim plified spelling board at its annual meeting at New York. SPORTING. Charley White, the Chicago light weight, was awarded a decision ovei Matt Wells, English lightweight cham pion, in a fifteen-round bout in New York. * * * Duke Kahanamoku of Hawaii equal led the world’s record in the 100-yard invitation swimming event in the II linois athletic club tank at Chicago He made the distance in 54 seconds * * * The manager of every Western league ball club now has his candi dates hard at work at spring practice in preparation for the opening of the season, April 29, in Des Moines, Lin coln, Wichita and Topeka. * * * The athletic council of Cornell uni versity at Ithaca, N. Y., has abolished three minor sports, hockey, swimming and fencing, the first two temporarily because the facilities for them are slight, and the third fa- good because of lack of interest by students. • * * Joe Stecher of Dodge, Neb., won from Fred Beell of Marsfield, Wis., at Butte, Mont., in straight falls. Both falls came at the end of eight min utes of wrestling. Beell's speed was unavailing against the marvelous work of the Nebrask-an. * * * The New York state boxing com mission has been notified that Fred Fulton, the Minneapolis heavyweight, has been signed to meet three men in New York City. Fulton is to fight A1 Reich April 28. Jim Coffey on or about June 1 and Frank Moran on or about July 1. * * * The Denver Western League Base ball club has been sold to H. L. Jones, former owner of the Lincoln club. James C. McGill, former owner, will devote his entire time to the af fairs of his Indianapolis American Association club. > WASHINGTON. The United States senate has con firmed the nomination of Joseph W. Woodrough of Omaha, as federal judge for the district of Nebraska, to succeed the late William II. Munger. * * * Wheat of the 1915 crop unfit for milling purposes is estimated at 146, 000,000 bushels as a result of inquiry made by the departments of agricul ture from flour mills and grain ele vators. » * * It costs the government approxi j mately $14,000 each year for the care and maintenance of the Washington monument. Eleven men are employ ed there continually. Care of the grounds costs $7,000 more annually. * * * The senate retained the federal vol unteer provision in the army bill by a vote of 36 to 34, rejecting Senator Lee’s amendment to strike the sec tion from the bill. The vote ended a four-day debate on the section. * * * The house naval affairs committee voted 15 to 6 to report out favorably the $11,000,000 government armor plate plant bill passed a few days ago by the senate. • * * Charges that a number of deputy internal revenue collectors in New York City are involved in tobacco frauds through which the government is believed to have lost $20,000,000 in uncollected internal revenue, have been held by Carl E. Whitney, a New York lawyer, according to a state ment by treasury officials. * * * » Speaker Clark in reply to clrtic isms that congress had been dawdling in their work denounced such a crit icism as a “bald and malicious lie,” outlined what had been accomplished and asserted that the present house had worked more steadily than any within his service of 22 years. • • • Live stock growers have asked a house judiciary sub-committee to in vestigate the packing Industry, with special reference to price firing, through a special Jury with unlimited powers to subpoena wltr esses. OATS SMUT COSTLY MADISON FARMERS LOST $100,000 LAST YEAR, SAYS EXPERT. CO-OPERATION IS NECESSARY Asserts Smut Will Only Be Controlled By Each Farmer Preventing it On His Own Land. 3 COMING EVENTS. 3 3 State T. P. A. Convention, Al- 3 3 liance, April 28-29. 3 3 State Primary Election, ► < Tuesday, April 18. 3 3 Savannah to Seattle Highway 3 4 Convention, Omaha, April 24 4 3 and 25 3 3 Annual Encampment of the 3 4 Nebraska G. A. R., Lexington, 4 3 May 16 to 18. 3 3 Convention of State Associa- 3 4 tion of Commercial Clubs, 4 3 Omaha, May 24.25. 3 ^ State P. E. 0. convention, Al- 3 3 liance, June 13 to 16. 4 3 Great Western Handicap tour- J 4 nament, Omaha, June 13-14-15. 3 3 State Convention of Spanish ► 3 War Veterans, North Platte, 3 3 June 5-6. 3 3 State Letter Carriers’ Conven- 4 4 tion, Grand Island, April 22. 3 3 State Stockmen’s Convention. ► 3 Alliance, June 20 to 24. 3 4 State Bankers’ convention, 3 3 Group One, Beatrice, May 17. 4 a Omaha - Lincoln - Denver Good 1 3 Roads Ass’n meeting, Lincolm 4 3 May 2. 3 ] Annual meeting, State Dental 3 1 < Society, Lincoln, May 15-18. 4 3 Fraternal Order of Eagles, 3 4 state meeting Lincoln, Jure 21- 4 3 22-23. 3 J American Union of Swedish 3 4 Singers, West. Div., concerts and , ] convention, Omaha, June 19-22. 3 4 “The Gate City” Pageant, Lin- 4 3 coin, June 5 and 6. 3 4 Trans-Mississippi Bakers’ as- 4 3 sociation convention, Omaha, 3 ( 3 June 12 to 15. 3 ..... Battle Creek.—In a letter to the County Farmers’ association of Madi son county, Arthur G. George, county agricultural agent, brings up the mat ter of treating oats for smut. “Last year,” says the agent, “seventy-twc Madison county oat fields selected from all over the county, there was an average of 5 per cent smutted heads. If 1 per cent of smut decreased the yield one bushel per acre, as was the case in Gage county two years ago, the oat yield had been decreased five bushels per acre in Madison cour | ty last year. The total oat acreage in Madison county last year was 59,000 acres, which, if the yield had been in creased five bushels per acre, would have been 259,000 bushels. This, valued at 35 cents per bushel, would have been $103,250 saved on the oat crop alone.” More smut was round in the north ern half of the county than in the southern half, so it was more import ant that seed produced in the north ern half of the county be given treat ment. Demonstrations on treating oats will be held on different farms and it is hoped that the members will attend one of these demonstrations. The county agricultural agent con eludes with a statement that oat e-mu' will only be controlled by every farm er co-operating in this movement to prevent it on his own farm. New Church for Bridgeport. Bridgeport. — The Catholics of Bridgeport have purchased a site for a new church building and will erec' a handsome edifice at once. Although the Catholics have held services here ever since the town was established this is the first effort which has been made to erect a church building. New Bank at Bridgeport. Bridgeport.—The Nebraska State bank, with a capital stock of $25,000, has opened for business here. This is Bridgeport’s third bank and in it3 di rectorate afe leading financiers. New Passenger Station. Grand Island.—Secretary Conners of the commercial club has received word that Grand Island is to have a new Union Pacific depot at once. The news was contained in a letter from Manager Mohler, of the Union Pacific declaring that an appropria tion for the same had been authorized and that the architect was completing plans and details of them at Omaha. The present Union Pacific depot has become entirely too small for the town. Postal Receipts Pass $1,500,000. Omaha.—Omaha passed the $1,500, 000 mark in postal receipts for the year, March, 1915, to March, 1916, plac ing the city in the same class with Kansas City, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Wants Sunday Movies. Beatrice.—Citizens of this city are agitating the question of calling a special election to vote on the open ing of picture shows and other amuse ments on Sunday. The present law prohibits such. Stecher Beats Ordeman. Lincoln.—Joe Stecher added to his long string of laurels by taking straight falls from Hdnrv Ordemau last week. The victory was accom plished in a trifle less than seventeen and one-half minutes. In both in stances the scissors hold was used. $100,000 Mill Sells for $16,500. Fremont.—The plant of the Brown Milling Co., sold at trustee’s sale here brought only $16,500. It originally cost close to $100,000. The purchase prices Includes the plant and stock. MAY BE SECOND UNIVERSAL CITY Movie Concern Said to Be After Site at Ralston, Near Omaha. Ralston.—This town may become the scene of one of the largest mov ing picture enterprises in the country, if plans which have been carried on quietly for some time crystalize. The Rialto Amusement company is said to be behind the movement which if it materializes will establish in Ralston a motion picture producing city, similar to Universal City in Cali fornia. It is hinted that the movie city will start with 2,000 inhabitants and will probably grow to from 15,000 to 20,000 persons. Those in close touch with the pro ject believe that the Rialto concern is a part of the $40,000,000 motion pic ture combine recently formed in New York. It is understood that the improve ments may involve the use of forty or fifty acres of the timbered section of the town, including Seymour lake, a large body of water adjoining the city. Ralston has about three hundred in habitants and is about ten miles from Omaha. Best Hogs Will Be Shown. So Omaha.—Two thousand prize hogs, the pick of the United States, with an estimated value of $200,000, will be on display at the National Swine Show which will be held here October 2 to 7. These estimates were made by W. M. McFadden of Chicago, President of the National Swine Asso ciation, who with Secretary Doty was here recently making preliminary arrangements. The dates selected makes it possible for all the prize winners at the vari ous state fairs to be on exhibition. The show will be held in the horse barns of the Union Stock Yards com pany, an ideal place for the affair, during Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben week. Without doubt, the show will be the blue ribbon event among swine grow ers and buyers. It will be the fiist time the pick of hogs of the United States have been in competition. Ne braska is very fortunate that Omaha was selected for the show because it will give buyers of this state an op portunity to see the best in the coun try. — Bank Clearings Reach Million. Omaha.—The month of March was a history maker for the city of Omaha. During that month the bank clearings, for the first time in Oma ha’s existence, passed the million dol lar mark, being $114,298,714. This was an increase of 31 per cent over March, 1915. The previous high bank clear ing mark was in October, 1915, when the amount was $98,352,313. Another i item of special moment is the fact ! that in January, February and March of this year the bank clearings in Omaha reached the enormous aggre gate of $298,633,714, an increase of 27% per cent over the first three months of last year. This is a won derful record, and shows that Omaha is fast becoming a city of vast pro portions in the business world. Thousands of Acres. Beatrice.—An inventory of the e.->- | tate of the late John W. Rookwalter, j filed in county court here, relates to that part of the estate located in Ne- ; braska. The Nebraska estate con sists of thousands of acres of land and some grain and notes. The inven tory gives the estimated value of the 1 estate, real and personal in the vari ous counties as follows: Gage, $481, 527; Pawnee, $848,658: Thayer. $128, 043; Valley, $263,950: Greeley, $275,- I 419. No action has been taking in ; this county looking to the appraisal of the property in Nebraska for- in heritance tax purposes. - Pender Votes Sev.er Bonds. Pender.—By a vote of 12 to 17, Pen der voted sewer bonds at the recent j election. Pender continues wet, there | being no fight on the proposition. Milk at 6 Cents a Quart. Fremont.—Over COO farmers wete j present at the farmers’ union banquet given here in celebration of the open ing of the new co-operative creamery. The farmers have placed milk on sale at 6 cents a quart and have reduced the price of cream and butter below the prevailing market price. The new creamery is pronounced a mode! of its kind. C. & N. W. to Build at York. York.—The Northwestern railway officials have announced that work will soon start on a $20,000 passenger station. They have also announced that several grade crossings which have been considered dangerous, boTli by city and railway officials, will be attended to at once. Surveyors are now on the ground outlining prelimi nary plans. When the station is com pleted it will be one of the finest on the Northwestern system in a city the size of Y'ork. New Lines in Use. Holdrege.—The new power lines which the Intennountain Railway, Light & Power Co. of this city have been constructing out of Holdrege tc the neighboring towns were put intc use early last wreek when light and rower was supplied to Wilcox, sixteen miles from here. Other towns will be supplied as soon as the company re ceived more transformers from the factory. Work on the new lines was delayed several months on account of the difficulty of getting wire and supplies from eastern factories. Settle for Court House. Fremont.—At a meeting of the Dodge county Board of Supervisors $38,000 was accepted from insurance firms as a settlement for the loss tc the county in the fire which destroy ed the court house December 5, 1915. The board had asked for $40,000. New Bank at Waco. Waco.—This village is to have a new bank. It will be known as the Waco state bank, and will be opened as soon as suitable quarters can be secured. DEGREASE IN WHEAT WINTER CROP ESTIMATED AT 495,000,000 Bushels. ACREAGE MUCH LESS THAH1915 Forecast by Agricultural Department Shows 160,045,000 Less Bushels Than Harvested Last Year. Washington.—A total production oi 495,000,000 bushels of winter wheat is forecasted by the Department oi Agriculture, basing its estimate on the condition of the crop April 1 and an assumption of average abandon ment of acreage and average influ ences on the crop to harvest, That compares with 655,015,000 bushels, the estimated production in 1915, and 684,990,000 bushels in 1914. Condition of winter wheat on April 1 was 78.3 per cent of a normal, against 88.8 last year, 95.fi in 1914, and 87.3, the average for the last ten years. There was a decrease in con dition from December 1 to April 1 of 9.4 points, compared with an average decline of 3.5 points between those dates in the last ten years. The average condition of rye on April 1 was 87.8 per cent of a normal, against 89.5 on April l last year, 91.3 in 1914 and 89.9 the average for the last ten years. The Department of Agriculture in a statement analyzing the report said: “The small production forecast is due partly to a reduction of about 11 per cent from the acreage of the pre ceding year and to a low condition of growth, namely 78.3 per cent of nor mal, which is lower than the condi tion on April 1, in any year since 1904; it is 10 per cent poorer than the ten-year average on April 7. "The cause of the low condition | was a wet, cold fall, causing poor seed beds and poor start for winter ing. Much as the crop was sown late, partly from necessity of the season and partly to avoid Hessian fly. “The Hessian fly is reported pres ent and active in many section of the southern part of the belt. ■’Climatic conditions were harder on late than on early seeded wheat. The winter snow covering was lighter than usual, often lacking; sleet dam aged fields bare of snow; considerable grain on low lands was destroyed by flooding and the injuring from freez ing and thawing was greater than usual. The southern parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and portions of Missouri were worst affected. The relatively best sections are the most eastern and far western states. The season is late and the real extent of damage is problematical in the north ern portion of the belt.” Vote Victory For Peace. Detroit, Mich.—Henry Ford de clared the result of the recent presi dential preference primary, in which he defeated United Stales Senator William A. Smith by more than 5,000 votes, was a victory for peace rather than for himself. He interpreted it as meaning that a majority of Michi gan voters endorsed his views on pre paredness. He also reiterated his as sertion that he is not in politics. ‘ I am glad,” said Mr. Ford, “be cause I interpret the honor as an ex pression of a majority of the voters that they believe as I do against mili tary preparedness and the exploita tion of the workingman by the moneyed munitions interests. Kill Officers; Kidnap Another. St. Louis, Mo.—One policeman was shot to death and another kidnaped by four daring automobile bandits here. Motorcycle Patrolman John Mc Kenna was killed after he bad arrest ed the bandits. Patrolman William A. Dillon followed an automobile in which the bandits were riding into an alley. He has not been seen since. McKenna died before lie could teil why he had made the arrest. Abandon Heps for Lost Ship. Seattie, Wash. — The American steamer Rio Passig, which sailed from Puget sound late in December with cotton and other merchandise for the Russitfn government, has been given up for lost. She was under charter to the Robert Dollar Co. She was never heard of after she left Cape Flattery. Told to Go to Training Camp. New York.—Mayor Mitchel has sent to the heads of all city departments a letter in which he declared it the duty of every man in the city govern ment whose services can be spared to obtain military training at summer camps. Challenge to Fight Duel. Boston.—For the first time in many years an arrest was made here recent ly on the charge of challenging to a duel. Xenophon Karharopoulos was arrested on the complaint that he had sent G. Iatropoulos a challenge to fight with pistols to settle a rivalry. Rob Bank in Afternoon. Pittsburg, Pa.—Automoble bandits entered the First National bank of Houston, near here, in broad daylight the other day, held up the cashier and escaped with $15,000. Allies Buy Much Wheat. London.—A Melbourne, dispatch re ceived here states that 150,000 tons of Australian wheat has been sold to the entente allies, principally to Italy, for April, May and June shipment. It is computed that farmers will receive 1,500,000 pounds sterling for the grain To Fight Lynch Law. Birmingham, Ala.—Eighteen col leges were represented at the organ ization here of_ the Association of Southern Church Colleges, which will take up the work of fighting lynching. GOSSIP FROM STATE HOUSE The agriculture college at Lincoln has ready for distribution a bulletin for bird study, including resident birds, winter residents, early spring migratory arrivals, etc. The board of control will expend probably only about $100,000 for new buildings to be erected this year and for other permanent improvements at various state institutions. According to a report from the office of the state board of equalization, six railroads in Nebraska own over 100,000 acres of land in the state, in use by them for right-of-way purposes. The stock yards interests of South Omaha offer $750 to members of the Nebraska boys’ corn club, to be used to pay expenses for attending a corn club congress to be held at the col lege of agriculture. In a suit from Sarpy county, in volving the taxing of funds in a fra ternal organization, the supreme court, finds that a beneficiary society is not exempt from taxation on the money it loans for profits. In the long continued litigation re garding the Capital National bank failure at Lincoln in 1893, the United States supreme court has decided that directors must pay. The amount in volved is about $70,000. Lieutenant Joe Lillie of Omaha, who is on the regimental staff, has been recommended to succeed Captain H. F. Kramer of Lincoln, inspector of small arms practice for the Fifth regi ment, who recently resigned. State Treasurer Hall would recom mend the apportionment of temporary school funds for support of public schools whenever the fund reached $100,000—which would mean eight ap portionments instead of two each year, as at present. Collections In the auto license de partment of the secretary of state's office show an enormous increase for March over those of a year ago, and on the basis established, it is thought there will be nearly 80,000 licenses issued this season. Henry Ford’s name is on the Ne braska primary ballot to stay as a republican candidate for president. The time for withdrawals ended at midnight Monday and no request came from him to Secretary o- State Pool to have his name left off. Secretary O. E. Bernecker of the state board of assessment is requiring county assessors to make a special re port on the number of automobiles assessed April 1. Saunders county, the first to report, assessed 1.126 automo biles last year and 1,629 this year, an increase of 503 in one year. The conception of the late Ralph Northrup of Omaha, brilliant student journalist of the state university, to embody Coronado's vision in a pageant dedicated to his home city, was not in vain. Announcement has been made by Prof. H. B. Alexander of the state university that young Northrup’s conception still lives and that the i theme for the second part of the I pageant to be held at Lincoln June 3 | and 6 will be based upon it. The monthly report of Warden Fen- I ton of the state penitentiary says 215 j convicts, of whom two are women, are out on parole, furlough or vacation. The board of control explains that the word “vacation” does not apply to con victs, that no prisoners at the peni tentiary are allowed spring or summer vacations. The printed blank on which the warden made his report is a blank intended for use at fifteen different in stitutions. and the word “vacation” does not apply to convicts. When the Rock Island railroad furnished to William Atchison at Alvo two single deck cars for sheep instead of one double deck car which he had ordered, it should have charged him the rate specified in its tariff for a double deck car. with a minimum weight of 22,000 pounds. Tn assessing a higher rate and collect ing for 24,000 pounds the road ex acted an excessive amount and should refund to Atchison the sum of $7.38 as overcharge, the railway commis sion finds. _ In an effort to further relieve the car shortage in Nebraska the state railway commission has increased de murrage rates to correspond with the interstate rates fixed by the interstate commerce commission. The new rates will remain in effect until June 15 when the former rates will be re sumed. The demurrage rate has been $1 per car per day after a forty-eight hour free period. The new' rate is $1 per car for each of the first three days after the forty-eight hour period and there after is $2 a day. As president of the league to en force peace, William H. Taft has sent letters to Governor John H, More head and Mayor C. W. Bryan, urging them to represent the state and city at the first annual assemblage of the league at Washington May 26 and 27. Mr. Taft also asks them to appoint delegates to the conference, in addi tion to coming themselves. The league professes to have no connection with the preparedness campaign or its op ponents, but to be "an earnest effort of practical business men to bring about peace, after the close of the European war.” No rehearing will be allowed by the Nebraska supreme court in the test suit from Nebraska City involving the Mockett law, which makes the teach ing of foreign languages above the fourth grade in public schools compul sory upon the filing of a petition signed by fifty patrons. A motion for rehearing has been overruled, thus registering a final victory for the German-American state alliance in its campaign to secure the enforce ment of this law. So far no foreign nationality except the German has sought to take advantage of this measure. DRYS SCORE VICTORY TWENTY-TWO WET TOWNS VOTE TO ABOLISH SALOONS. 7 CHANGE FROM DRY TO WET North Platte and Fairbury, Both Big Railroad Centers, Switch to the Prohibition Columns. A large number of Nebraska cities voted on the wet and dry issue in the local option elections held recently over the state. It was by far one of the fiercest contests in Nebraska's history. North Platte went dry for the first time in the history of the city by a majority of 90 votes. Fairbury, in Jefferson county, went dry by a majority of 100 votes, changing over from the wet column. Of the 160 towns reporting seven changes were recorded from dry to wet and twenty-two changes from wet to dry. The wet forces won among other towns Falls City, DeVVitt, Newcastle, Hildreth, Tilden and St. Paul, which previously had been dry, while the dry forces have a big string of large cities of Nebraska hanging to their belt. Among these are North Platte, Fairbury, Wahoo, Sutton, Orleans, Valentine, Hebron, Superior, McCook, Beatrice, Bloomington, Sidney, Rush ville. A feature of the contests in many places was that the vote was by an extremely narrow margin, one and two votes often settling the policy cf a town for a whole year. Prohibition carried at Beatrice after one of the heaviest votes in the his tory of the city had been polled, the drys winning by a majority of 14. After one of the most strenuous battles in the history of Fairbury be tween the wet and dry factions, that city reversed its policy and switched to the dry column by an estimated plurality of 100 votes. One vote de cided the issue at Sidney In favor ot the drys. Following is a list of towns that voted on the saloon license issue: Dry—Allen, Auburn, Aurora, Albion, Alma, Ashland, Arapahoe, Ainsworth, Boelus, Belgrade, Blair, ‘Bladen, Ber trand, ‘Bridgeport, Benkeleman, ‘Bloomington, ‘Beatrice, ‘Campbell, Central City, ‘Chadron, Cozad, Cur tiss, Clarks, Cotesfield, Culbertson. Clay Center, David City Dannebrog, “Dakota City, ‘Dawson, ‘Fairbury, Edgar, Exeter, Farnam, Fullerton, Franklin, Friend, Giltner, Gordon, Guide Rock, Gothenburg, Geneva, Ge noa, Gibbon, Harvard, Holdrege, Hum boldt, ‘Hebron, Juanita,Kenesaw, Loup City, Lexington, Laurel, Lyons, Louis ville, Mitchell, Milford, ‘M’Cook. Min den, Mullen, Nelson, Newman Grove, North Bend, ‘North Platte, Ord, ‘Or leans, Oxford, Ogallala, Overton. ‘Odell, Ponca, Primrose, Peru, Red Cloud, ‘Rushville, Springfield, Sar gent, St. Edwards, ‘Sutton, ‘Shickley, Sumner, Stockville, ‘Superior, Stella, ♦Sidney, Taylor, Tecumseh, Tekamah, Fpland, Fnion. ‘Valentine, ‘Verdon, Valley, Wayne, ‘Wahoo, Wymore, York, Weeping Water, Wolbach. Wet—Amherst, Avoca, ‘Bassett, Brady Island. Barnston. Battle Creek, Bancroft, Benson, Bennington. Blue Hill. Bruning, Callaway, Coleridge, Columbus. Crete. Cook. Deshler, *De Witt, Dodge, Elba. Elkhom, Farwell, •Falls City, Florence, Grafton. Gree ley Center, Fremont. Grand Island, Herman. Hartington, Hastings, ‘Hil dreth, Harrison. Hooper, H°artwelL Leigh, Lindsay, Madison, Milligan, Niobrara, Neligh, ‘Newcastle, Oconto, Obert, Oshkosh, Papillion. Pender, Plattsmouth, Pilger, Pickrell. Prosser, Ravenna. Scotia, Silver Creek, Schuy ler, Shelton, ‘St. Paul. Stapleton, Sterling. Seward. Table Rock. ‘Til den. Waterloo. West Point, Wilber, Wisner, Wcod River. ♦Indicates change. **Tndicates tie vote. Sunday baseball wen at the follow ing towns: Silver Creek, Ord, Farnent and Eustis. A $50,000 bond Issue for a new high school building carried at Platts mouth. Th? issuance of $40,000 inter section paving bonds carried at Fre mont. 1.000 to 432. To Improve Lincoln Highway. Grand Island—Advocates for the ex penditure by the city of $1,500 for surfacing more of the Lincoln high way immediately west of the city and for giving financial support for the band to the extent of $2,500, both car ried. Manager Plan Defeated. Beatrice.—The manager plan re ceived a decided defeat at the polls, a two to one vote being cast against the proposition. Votes Bonds for Light Plant Syracuse.—The main issue hers was on the voting of $1(1,000 bonds to erect an electric light plant. The result on this proposition was 134 for and 79 against. Brown County Goes Dry. Ainsworth.—Ainsworth voted dry by 22 majority. This is its eighth dry year. Long Pine voted dry by 9 ma jority. This makes Brown county en tirely dry for the first time in its history. Chadron Goes Dry. Chadron —On recount of votes here ten more dry votes were found in the Second ward. This changes the ma jority from two wet to eight dry. The town was wet last year. Coloring Nets Big Profit. Fort Dodge, la—Large amount at German made coloring matter in the Iowa Paint Manufacturing company's warehouse, forgotten till the stock was invoiced, is netting 150 per cent on tha investment