Dtefe 2tbteilung ift fiir btc j
^amilienglieber, uvlcbe am ;
liebften Deutfcf? lefen. !
t
$om Sdifliiulatic
be$ europaifclicii
SijlfcrfricdC‘5.
trine parifer palbanttlidfe Pc
famitmacpung, tuddje Den ignpalt ci
ne* Pagesbefepls an bie franjbfifepcn
Sruppen por Pgrbmt tpiebergiebt,
fepliefit mit folgcnben SBortcn: „Xer
Seutfcpe Slaifcr befidjtigte Dor eini
gett Sagen eine ginifepen Souamnout
uni Pour fdmpfenbe SiDifion unb
fagte bei biefer QJdcgcnpcit: ,,'Ier
Slrieg Pott 1870/71 nmrbc Por pari*
entfdjiebcn. Ser gcgentpdrtige Slrieg
mufs bei Pcrbun enben."
3Rit biefett ffiortcn pat ber Slaifer
— finb fie tpirflidj Poit ipm nub in
foldicr ivaffung gefprodjen toorben
— lebiglidj bent allgemein perrfepen*
bett Wefiipi SluSbnicf gegeben. SaR
bie franidfifdpc Diegierung fidj Perait
lafet gefepen bat, biefe SlcitRcrung in
eine Ijalbamtlidje Mttnbgcbung aufjtt
ttepmen unb ipr baburaj bie tociteftc
Serbreiiung audj uttter ben Slfliierten
5U geben, bemeift, baR man audj in
Paris bie Pcbeuhittg ber Sdntpfe
um Pcrbim in biefent Siitnc auffafjt.
Soli aber ber Slrieg Por Perbtut fein
tfnbc finben, fo ift bamit fdjon bie
langc Sauer ber bortigen Cperatio
iten erfldrt uub gereeptfertigt. Pen
Ijeute nut morgen faint ficp bie mili
tdrifaie Situation uiepi fotueit ent
tuicfeln, baR fie jum griebensfaftor
toirb. 2iid)t in einjeluctt Siplaeijten
fonbern in gelbjiigen tuirb ber slrieg
entfepieben. Hub bie Porgdnge Dor
Perbttn finb, iprer I’lftion unb iprer
Sebeutung naep, ein geibjug.
®a-3 grofje SRatfel an ber Sea
front, etne-3 ber grofecu Sh'dtfel be3
jtrtegea fogar, bleibt uad) icie nor bic
llntdtigfeit ber Gngldnbcr auf bem
norblicben gliigel ber Seftfront. tile
mig baben fie nor eittigenSodjen iljrc
gront non 9IeuniHe bi§ in bie OJe
genb non iperonne nerlangert, abcr
ber crmartete Slngriff erfolgte uid)t.
SSiefleidjt gerabe bealjalb md)t, ba
e-3 nid)t au*gcfdjloifeu ift, baf) bie
Slerldngerung ber englifd)eu gront
and) cine Serbiinnung obcr ©djma
dbuug bcrfclben sur golge Oattc- ®a3
cine biirfte fidjer fein, bie engliid)c
Slrmee in Gnglanb ift nid)t fo ftarf,
tnie fie in ber ipreffe bingefteflt mirb.
gn frnutdfifcbcn 3cttuugeu mndjt i
man fcboit fsit Iangem ncrftoblenej
imb bdmifd)c Semerfuttgen iibcr bie j
„englifd)e ,'pilfe" im Slorben, nnb
man redinet au§, bafj bic Gngldnbcr
im gangen nidjt mchr ale- cine SAii
lion itrieger Im gelbe baben. ©a-1
non geben bem „2Ratin" 3ttfoIge!
100.000 auf bic groiit bci ©alonifi,
50.000 fallen auf Slegnpteit, 20,000
auf 'JiYfonctamien, 20,000 auf gu*:
bicn unb 25,000 auf flcinerc ilrieg-3* i
fdbaupldtje, 3. 2J. Slfrifa. Slbjiigiid; j
biefer ncrbliebeu alfo fiir bic Seft
front 7S5,000 englifd)C ©olbatcn.!
Ginfdiliefjlid) ber 60,000 .ftanabicr
imb nicllcid)t 10,000 gnbicr tndre!
bie ©cfamt3abl bddptens 855,000
SWaitn. SlitdjcneS „3tneite SDJillion" j
— fie biirfte nid)t grofeer fein a!§ bic j
„erfte SA'iliion" — ift nod) nidjt felb- ■
bicnftfdbig. ©ic mirb fiir bie au3 j
bem SSorjabre binreidjenb befannte
grofje „griu'4abri'Offeniioe" mtfgebo
ben. ©b c§ je baju fommen mirb,
ift fraglidj, ba bie ^auptuorbebiug
ung eine§ englifdjen Slngriffe-3, bic
SNitmirfung ber frait3ofifd)cn Slrmee,
biesmal angefiebtd ber iidmpfc bei
SSerbutt babinftebt.
Sin ber dfilidjett grout ift es mic
ber iebbafter gemorben. Shi ©ubett
ben non ipmtfteu ber langen gront
baben bic Stuffcn angefebt, Ijicr gn
fanterie, b#*t Slrtillerie. G3 banbclt
fid) anfdjeinenb um ein Slbtaftcit ber
beutfd) - dfterreid)ifd) - ungarifdjcn
grout, ein ©ud)eu uad) fd)tnad)en
ipnnften. ©ie biirfteit nergebenS fu»
d)en. 2?efoubet3 fd)arfe Slrtillerie
fdmpfe merben non ber gali3ifd)eit
gront gemelbet. ©ie 'Jluffen fefeett
bort mit SBorlicfee am* ©ie baben fid)
anfd)ciuenb nod) nid)t baratt gembl)
nen fomten, bag bie ©age ber erjtcn
ruffifebeu Sffenfine, ba fie in 9?orb*
galisien aHe3 nor fid) ber treiben
fonnten, auf 9fijrmermieberfeben ba
bin finb.
Sin ber italienifdtcn gront befdjdf
tigt man fid) italimifdjerfcita mieber
febr angclegentlid) mit ben Siegen
fdjirmen, b. I)- man fd)iebi bie llntd
tigfeit an ber gront auf ba-3 fd)led)te
Setter. Semerfcnslncrt ift nur eitte
©teigerung ber artitlcriftifcben ©a
tigfeit gegen bie ofterreidjifd) - tin*
garifdie gront im ©ugatta - ©ale,
dftlid) non ©irol.
3nr ©ee babett bie beutidjen
©audjboote cine fiir Gnglaub fidjer
Iid) unbeimlid)e ©dtigfeit entmidelt.
Sdbrettb bc§ 2Aonat§ SDidrs finb SO
$anbel3fd)iffe mit 207,000 ©ontten
gcbalt in ben @ntnb geboljrt mor
ben. ®a-3 ©tcigen ber ©eenerfidie
rungSraten unb ber ungcbcure
©rucf, ber non ettglifdjer ©cite auf
Slmerifa auSgeiibt mirb, 3eigt mic
febtner Gnglanb burdi ben bentfdjen
©audjbootfrieg getroffen mirb. ©eli
te c§ anf biefe Seife nod) ciuige SA'o
nate fortgebett, fo tniiffeit fid) bic
golgcn balb jeigen, ba Gnglanb in
jeber S?e3iebung non ber 3nfubt auS
bcr.t Slualanbe abbaitgig ift.
I
•Japan bat ante ©eliifte.
Japan modftc gent Jana unb
Sumatra, 3toei boJlanbifcbe SSefcun
geu im Stiilen Cjcan, beftfccn. Gin
barauf bejuglidjer, in ber gefaniten
japanifeben ijkeffe pcroffentlicbter
SCrtifel an 3 ber geber bc» friiberen
japanifdbeu Unternd)t§miniiter3 2)u
faburo Xafefofbt, ber geroaltigcg
Stuffcben in §ollanb erregt bat, lau
tet folgenbermaBeit:
„9Sir Japaner miifi'en uttfere SXuf
merffamfeit ben Jnfetn be§ Stiilen
CjeanS 3utuenben. Uttfere glotte
bat, alo Ih'cfiiitat bc3 ftrieges niit
Xeutfdjlanb, non oerfdjiebenett Jnfcl
grnppen, barunter ben Starolincn
unb bett iliarfdjall - Jttfeln, tDefig
ergriffeu. Xiefe Jnfcltt finb aber
ttur gelfen. SBir fottnett auf uttfere
iiefibuitgett im Stiilen Sjean tiidjt
ftolj fein, fo lattge tuir nidjt Jaoa
unb Sumatra babett.
Xie Sunba Shape, treldje biefe
gnfeltt trenitt, ift eitte natiirlidjc ge>
ftung. SBiirbe cine ©ropmadjt bort
'-Befeftigungen anlegen unb iiber eitte
Jlnjabl llnterfceboote pcrfitgeit, fbnn
te feine glotte, tnie immer ftarf fie
aud) fein ntag, bieXmrdjfabrt e ran in
gen. gall-5 Japan biefe beiben Jn«
fein befept, bie Sunba Shape bc
feftigt ttttb fie bttrd) feine glotte
fcbiipt, tuirb e£ feiner curopdifdjctt
glotte tnoglid) fein, fid) bett 9Seg in
bie afiatifdjen SWeere 3U babtten. Jcb
rege baber bie ©efefcung ber beiben
Jnfeltt an, iit erfter SteiXje pom ftra
tegifdjen Stanbpunfte.
©ritenurgnnc luibcrfprcdjca fid).
Grft tteiilid) -beftiied" bie „33orlb",
ber gan^e itaudjbootfrieg Xentfd)
latibd fci ein Jn’blfdjlag, benn
bie britifdjc Upanbeldflotte fei fjcute
groger aid bei Sludbrud) bed Jlrieged.
Sie ©riten batten feit ©eginn bed
•ftrieged mef)t ,SjanbeIdfd)iffe gebaut,
aid non beutfdjcn Untcrfcebooten unb
.'jjiiidfrcujcru nerfenft ruorben feien.
©alb barauf bracbte bie Siciu S)or
fer „iimeo". Sir Spring Stice’d of*
fijietled Crgait, bie Sladjvidjt aud
iioitbon, ban -ber ©cduft bee See*
banbeld Gnglaub beunrubige", bafj
| bie britifcben „SampferIinicn auf>er
| Stanbe finb, itcue Sdjiffe su befom*
j men, tueil in ben englifdjen Sdjiffd
t toerftcn nur firiegdfdjiffe gebaut
merbeu", bafj „bie Sieutralen infolge
beffen meljr £ianbc! an fidi reinen"
unb ban bie englifdjen „3iceber fid;
iiber 311 geringe ©rofite beflagen, ob
roobl fie bone Jyradjtraten beredjuen".
Go ift bie bodjfte 3<-'it, ban in ben
©ereinigten Staaten bie britifdjc
3enfnr eingefiibrt wirb, bamit bie
pro-britifdjen 3dtungcn fid; nicljt
fortnuifireub itt iljrcr „©eteeidfiib*
rung" niberlcgen.
Srutfdilnnb’d £ciftiuigdfdf)igfcit.
SSeldj bennntberndtnerte Sluftrcn
i biingen Sentfdjlanb 311 (Suuften ber
I Aamilieu feiner im Relbe ftebenbeu
! ©iirger madjt, gebt aud ben pon ber
Stabt ©erlin fiir biefen 3>vect uer*
audgabten Summen fjei'bor
©ion at Sanuar finb non ber genanu
ten Stabt 9,S 16,450 ©iarf an
Oricgdunterftiienngen gc3afjlt ntor
ben; banon an ©iictbeibilfen 1,855,
500 ©iarf. Sic bidljer gelcifteten
Untcrftiibnngen an Jiriegcrfamilien
belaufeit fid) auf indgefamt faft 100
i ©iiltioneu ©iarf, geuau 98,516,685
©Iarf. Slit ©iictbeibilfen Iebiglid)
an ftriegerfamilien finb bid Gnbc $a
nuar 16,122,898 ©iarf geiualjrt
tnorbeu. ijMcrbei finb bie ©iitunter*
ftiibnngen, bie ©iietern in ftiiblifcben
©runbftiicfcn geiudbrt finb, uidjt ein*
j geredmet. 5So ift bie amerifanifdjc
j Stabt, bie berartige fieiftungen auf
fid; nebtuen fbmtte!
Shiblofed Siebtdiuerben ber Slllitcr
tcn.
S)ad Siebcdtperben ber Sllliierten
um Siumdnien fdjeiut cnbgiiltig febl
gcfcblagen 311 fein. ©or einigen 23o*
djeit baben bie Gentralmnd)te mit Siu
mcinien einett .^anbeldnertrag abge
fdiloffen, ber im gaujen £anbe grofee
©efriebigung perurfadjt bat. Slud)
inii Sdjcseben, ber Sdjmeis unb §oI
lanb fteben bie Gentralmacfjte unb
ionberlid) 2eutfdblanb auf reebt gu*
tern gune. Sdppeben bat Dffiaiere
natb Xeutfcblanb gefcfjicft, um bad
beutfebe Stefernefpftem eingebenb 3U
ftnbieren, bie Sdjtneia bat fcdjdaollige
$aubifeen in Xeutfdjlanb beftedt unb
xjollanb bat Scutfdjlanb um ©iitar
bcit erfudjt bei ber SeftfteBung bed
Ifefprungd bed auf bem untergegan
geneu ©radjtbampfcrd „2ubantia"
norgefunbenen Xorpeboftiided. Sil
led bad finb fraglod ©etueife fiir and
ge3eidmete ©Coieljungen 3tcifcben bie
fen Smtbern unb Seutfdjlanb.
„Slppnm’d" £abmig ticrfnuft.
£ic Sabimg bed fDampfcrd Stp*
pam, ber non bem beutfdjcn ©eute
fdger ©ibue gefapert unb non £eut
nant ©erg nadt Siempori Sieted gc
bradit tiuirbc, ift jebt fiir cine balbe
©iillion 2oHard bier nerfauft toor
ben. Slid Wrttnb innrbe angegeben,
ban bie £abung aud Slrtifelu beftanb,
bie leidjt nerberben fbnncn.
EPITOME OF EVENTS!
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
— i
Brief Mention of What is Transpiring 1
In Various Sections of Our Own
and Foreign Countries
WAR NEWS.
The Belgian government has re
ceived through the French ministry a
declaration through which the French
and Russians guarantee the integrity
of the Belgians.
* * *
The British battleship Russell, re
cently sunk in the Mediterranean sea,
with a loss of 124 lives, is the eleventh
British battleship which has been lost
during the war.
* » •
The recent Zeppelin air raid on the
northeast coast of England and south
east coast of Scotland resulted in
thirty-six casualties. One hundred
bombs were dropped.
* • *
The three Irish revolutionary lead
ers, Patrick H. Pearse. the "provis
ion president of Ireland,” Thomas J.
Clark and Thomas MacDonagh, were
executed in London.
. * * *
British estimates of the European
war's toll of merchant ships, put. the
number of 736, with a tonnage of more
than 2,000,000. Allied vessels lost
number 538 and neutral 198.
• * *
Verdun, the scene of the recent ter
rific fighting between the French and
Germans, was the last place held by
the Prussians after the Franco-Prus
sian war. the city being restored to
the French, September 16, 1S73.
* * *
The British garrison of Kut-El-Am
ara, 105 miles southeast of Bagdad,
has surrendered to the Turks after a
siege of more than 140 days. The
forces surrendering were composed of
2,970 British and 6,000 Indian troops.
* * *
The chief of the fire department,
Dublin. Ireland, estimates the damage
to buildings in the Irish capital as the
result of tile recent revolt, at £1,
000.000 and to stocks at £750,000. The
number of buildings destroyed or dam
aged is 179.
* * »
Fifteen thousand Armenians were
killed by Turks at Mamakhatum
prior to the evacuation of Erzerum,
according to a statement hv Richard 1
Hill, a local representative of the
American committee for Armenian
and Syrian relief, of New York.
GENERAL.
Eight republican delegates to the
national convention at Chicago, elect
ed at Pueblo recently, will go unin
structed.
* * *
Mexican military mpn believe that
the withdrawal of the American troops
from Mexico will take place in about
two months.
* * *
Wage concessions which would in
crease the anthracite mine workers’
pay roll by approximately $9,000,000
in the next four years, are offered in
an agreement reached by a joint sub
committee of operators and miners at
New York.
* * *
Revenue from carrying war muni
tions and barbed wire for shipment
to Vladivostok, Russia, has broken all
previous Northern Pacific railway rec
ords. Net income for March totals
$2,594,727, an increase of 50 per cent
over the same month last year.
* * *
Tn a compilation issued by the for
eign trade department of the National
City hank of New York City it shows
that exports from the United States
to the Philippine Islands for the last
sixteen years amounted to $2(11.000,000
and the United States imported from
the islands products to the value of
$218,000,000.
* * *
Not an undertaker in New York
City had a casket large enough for the
body of Baptiste Hugo, giant of the
Barnum & Bailey circus, who died re
cently of heart trouble. He is said to
have been the tallest (man in the
world. Hugo, who was an Italian, was
eight feet, four inches tall, and weigh
ed 536 pounds.
* * *
No names of presidential candidates
may he written on the ballot at the
South Dakota state primary election
on May 23, according to the ruling
made by Attorney General C. Cald
well.
* * *
Two men were killed, four prob
ably fatally wounded and a score of
others seriously hurt when a mob,
composed principally of foreigners,
attacked the Edgar Thompson works
of the Carnegie Steel company at
Pittsurgh, Pa.
* • *
Twenty-five thousand applications
for tickets for the national republican
convention at Chicago June 7, have
already been received. Not more than
10,000 of these requests can be
grantd.
• * •
A policeman, armed with a rifle and
seized "Pth a mania to commit mur
der, in Shanghai. China, killed a
young Chinese woman, a Chinese
postman, a Portuguese clerk, a Japan
ese merchant and wounded fourteen
others, including four women.
• * * '»
Rev. Benjamin Fay Mills, evangel
ist and lecturer of national reputation,
died in a hospital recently at Grand
Rapids, Mich. For several years he
was engaged in evangelistic work, and
is said to have made 500,000 converts.
The strike of workmen on the An
chorage division, of the United States
raiiroad in Alaska for higher wages
has been declared off,
* * •
Massachusetts will be represented
in the republican national convention
bv an unpledged delegation, according
to the recent primary results.
* * *
James M. Sullivan of New York, for
merly American minister to Santo Do
mingo, has been arrested in Ireland
on the charge of complicity in the
Irish rebellion.
* * *
Six unrestricted delegates and six
alternates to the national convention
of the progressive party at Reno, Nev.,
were selected by the progressive state
central committee.
* * »
It is announced that the Ford Mo
tor company of Detroit will at once
commence the erection of a plant at
Des Moines to chst $500,000 and will
employ 1,000 men.
* * *
More than $1,200,000 was paid by
the Methodist Episcopal church dur
ing 1915 toward the support of super
annuated and retired ministers and
widows of ministers.
* * «
From Mexican sources it is learned
that upon the immediate withdrawal
of the American troops General Car
ranza has offered through his two rep
resentatives to place an active army
of 25,000 men in northern Mexico.
SPORTING.
Eighteen cars have been nominated
to start in the international sweep
stakes at the Independent Motor
speedway, Indianapolis.
* * *
Ad Wolgast, former lightweight
champion, won the referee's decision
over Joe Flynn at the end of a fifteen
round contest in Denver.
» » »
The Lincoln baseball club of the
Western league announces the signing
of two new pitchers, Gardner from
Kansas City, and Willetts of St. Louis.
* * *
i
“Strangler" Lewis of Louisville, Ky.,
defeated Mort Henderson, known as
the “Masked Marvel' of Altoona, Pa.,
at catch-as-catch-can wrestling at Mad
ison Square Garden, New York.
• * •
It took Joe Stecher of Nebraska 21
minutes and 40 seconds to pin Henry
Ordeman's shoulders to the mat twice,
at Minneapolis, just recently. Both
falls were secured on combination
scissors holds.
Joe Steoher of Nebraska, before a
crowd of 8,000 spectators at Baltimore,
Md., threw Gus Sboenltn, known
| throughout the wrestling world as
i “Americus.” twice in exactly four
minutes and fifteen seconds.
* • *
If Denver promoters will agree to
pay him $13,000, with an option on 50
per cent of the receipts, Freddie
Welsh, lightweight champion, will sign
to box Ad Wolgast in the Colorado
capital May 30, it is reported.
* * *
Frank Gotch, champion wrestler,
has cancelled his circus engagements
because of stomach trouble, which has
forced him to remain in the care of a
j specialist in Chicago. He lias fallen
off in weight to 185 pounds, it is said.
» • *
A new collegiate strength record of
1,965 points was made at Philadelphia
by Edward C. Russell, tackle on the
University of Pennsylvania football
team. The former record of 1,770
points was made two years ago by M.
Dorizas.
WASHINGTON.
Senator O'Gorman of New York has
announced that he would retire from I
the senate next March.
• * *
The Hollis farm loan bill, embody
ing the administration plan fcr estab
lishing a system of rural credits, pass
ed the senate by a vote of 58 to 5.
* * *
President Wilson, according to offic
ials close to the chief executive, has
not altered his purpose to keep Amer
ican troops in the border region of
Mexico until brigandage has come to
an end.
* * *
A bill providing for the classifica
tion of employes of the bureau of ani
mal industry, which Congressman Lo
beck has been pressing, will probably
be favorably reported to the full com
mittee on agriculture from a sub-com
mittee in the near future.
* * *
The interstate commerce commis
sion has ordered cancelled proposed
increased rates on fresh meat and
packing house products between
points in the middle west, but held
the interested railroads may file new
tariffs proposing minor increases on
these commodities.
* * •
T'ae house passed a bill appropriat
ing $200,000 to permit the field artil
lery and sanitary troops of the organ
ized militia to take part in the camps
for field training this summer at To
byhanna, Pa., Sparta, Wis., and Fort
Riley, Kans.
* * •
The house has passed a bill which
will open to homestead entry lands
within the national forest in Lawrence
and Pennington counties. South Da
kota. The bill was introduced and re
ported by Congressman Gandy of
South Dakota.
• • •
The Russian railway Just extended
to Tabriz, Persia, probably will be
pushed into Baluchistan, to link Pe
trograd with British Indian cities, ac
cording to a communication to the
Department of Commerce.
• • •
The administration’s fight for the
senate Philippine bill with its Clarke
amendment authorizing independence
for the Islands within four years, was
lost in the house. The bill is now In
conference between the two houses,
and is dead at least for this session of
congress.
SECRETARY BERNECKER GIVES
STATEMENT OF RAILROAD
AND FARM VALUES
THE RURAL JOH SCHOOLS
Items cf General Interest Gathered
from Reliable Sources Around
the Stats House.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
While the railroad assessment in
Nebraska has just about doubled in |
the last thirteen years, the assessed j
valuation of farm lands in the state
has gone up relatively twice as much, i
according to a tabulation laid before '
the state board of equalization by Sec- I
retary O. E. Bernecker, at the board’s j
first meeting to consider assessment
and equalization matters for the cur
rent year. The railroads were mate
rially raised in 1904. when the state
board of equalization boosted their av
erage valuation from $4.COS per mile
to $7,976 (one-fifth basis). This re
sulted in an increase of their total
valuation from $27,077,353 to $46,0S2,
852. In 1907 they came in for an
other boost of $5,000,000. the mileage
rate being shoved up to $8,888.
Since then, the taxable valuations
of railroad property have remained al
most stationary, and whatever in
KEITH NEVILLE
Of North Platte. Democratic Nominee
for Governor of Nebraska.
crease has been recorded was due to
the building of new mileage. Last
year the roads were assessed on an
average basis of $9,050 per mile, their
total assessment being $55,074. This
was exactly the same as in 1914.
Meanwhile, farm lands have been
raised as follows:
In 1904, from $2.60 to $4.22 per acre
(one-fifth basis); total valuation, from
$37,070,883 to $140,117,537.
In 1908. to $5.92 per acre; total valu
ation, $201,766,130.
In 1912, to $6.30 per acre; total valu
ation, $249,269,045.
In 1915 the assessment per acre was
10 cents lower than in 1912, but by
reason of more acreage listed the ag
gregate assessment of from lands was
$6,000,000 greater, the total standing
at $255,219,230.
The comparative exhibit prepared
by Secretary Bernecker thus shows
that, whereas, in 1904 farm lands were
valued for taxation at three and one
third times as much as railroad prop
erty, in 1915 they were assessed four
and one-half times as much.
Rural High Schools.
A great impetus is being given to
rural high schools by the present pub
lic school administration. During the
past year 191 such schools have
been organized. Many more are ex
pected during the coming year. Super
intendent Thomas is concerned about
the welfare of the public schools of
Nebraska and realizes that something
must be done to lighten the burden of
taxation for school purposes in many
of the districts. The rural high school
promises to assist in materially low
ering taxation which will be appreci
ated by those who are paying more
than one-half of the total amount
taxed for schools. For the year 1915
more than 38 per cent of the state tax
was levied for university and normal
school purposes.
A. A. Reed, head of the university
extension department, makes the
statement that fewer persons are avail
able at the present time for teaching
positions, both inside and outside the
state, than ever before in his experi
ence as extension director.
A bill to take the regulation of tele
phone companies out of the hands of
the state railway commission and to
put this power into the hands of each
locality in the state is being prepared
to be introduced at the next session of
the legislature.
To Organize Machine Gun Company.
Organization of a machine gun com
pany will be undertaken at Lincoln.
Enough men are now enrolled to make
it a success and to bring the govern
ment to the aid of the guard at once.
General Hall is planning to make it
one of the crack companies of the en
tire west and ultimately to become
one of the best drilled in the nation.
The men have enlisted with that end
in view and they propose to devote
enough time to drill to perfect them
selves in the work.
Information on the total amount
of state money expended last year,
the expenses as between the various
departments, the amounts for educa
tion purposes, the revenues derived
from direct taxation and from all
other sources, are being asked for by
Auditor Smith in letters sent to the
auditors of every state in the union.
He will compile the data when it
reaches him and will make compari
sons with similar data gathered in
this state.
TO BE RELIED UPON
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Militia Trying to Demonstrate Its
Readiness.
Adjutant General P. L. Hall, follow
ing the example of officers of the na
| tional guard in other states, is com
plying strictly with government regu
lations applicable to the guard and
is sending out printed blanks to each
; militia company in Nebraska. The
blanks are to be used in the event
the guard Is called upon to mobilize.
A large package goes to each com
pany commander. Each package is
labeled “To be opened only on order."
Company commanders have in the
past been supplied with instructions
how to mobilize their men in the
event they receive orders. Recruit
ing up to strength is also authorized
JUDGE A. L. SUTTON
Of Omaha, Nominee of the Republican
Party for Governor of Nebraska.
| and company commanders are con
stantly being tested in the reading of
code messages. All these steps are
taken, not on account of any pros
pect of the guard being called into
the service of the United States, but
more for the purpose of complying
with the requirements of the war de
partment and for the purpose of
demonstrating that the guard of the
several states can be relied upon as
the first reserve strength of the na
tion and to influence legislation by
congress in favor of the guard.
Will Fight Increased Passenger Rates
Collection of information from the
records of the Missouri Pacific rail
road will be made by the state rail
way commission without the necessity
of having to resort to a display of
legal force.
That is the statement of Chairman
Henry Clark, of the commission, fol
lowing the announcement by experts
of the commission that it had been
refused such information by division
officers of the road.
The officers who called at the Falls
City headquarters of the road wanted
to dig into the books for the purpose
of learning what they couid about the
road’s Nebraska receipts and expen
ditures. The commission is going to
fight the Missouri Pacific’s attempt to
continue its increased passenger fares
and the road’s own figures are neces
sary to the conduct of the legal fray.
it is understood that the higher
officials told their subordinates to ac
commodate the Nebraska commission
in every possible way.
Announces Change in Dates
Adjutant General P. L. Hall of the
Nebraska national guard has an
nounced changes in the dates of sum
mer encampments and school of in
struction. The field hospital which
was to have been sent to Fort Riley
will go to Sparta. Wis., August 25 to
September 2. The officers and nen
; commissioned officers and sanitary
troops will attend a school of instruc
1 tion at Sparta from June 19 to 29. The
j state military board will meet at Lin
coln Wednesday to discuss plans for a
1 camp of instruction for the infantry to
| be held at Fort Robinson, Neb., and
1 plans for a rifle range at Ashland. The
] range and camp grounds will soon be
! purchased by the government. The
medical board will meet Saturday to
examine officers of the medical corps
who have not received commissions
j and civilians who desire to join the
! corps.
Successful efforts are being made
j at Lincoln to organize a machine gun
| company, which it is hoped to make
one of the best drilled in the west.
The state railway commission is
taking testimony on the complaint of
citizens living on the Imperial branch
of the Burlington road, A three
months' trial period of a passenger
train three times a week and a freight
train the other three days in the week
has expired and the commission has
reopened the case.
N. C. Abbott, of Nebraska City, has
been chosen to deliver the annual
alumni oration as a part of the alum
ni day festivities during commence
ment week at the state university.
Orders Transfers of Convicts.
The state board of control has or
dered the transfer of two convicts
from the penitentiary to state asylums
for the insane. The prisoners have
been examined by a board and pro
nounced insane. They are Charles
Dilley of Dawes county, serving a sen
tence of from one to seven years for
shooting with intent to wound, and
Joe Garcia of DouglaB, a Mexican who
killed a fellow Mexican laborer. Gar
cia is serving a life sentence. Te
law permits the transfer of convicts
found to be insane.
The initiative petition for a consti
tutional amendment prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of intoxicants
will be presented to Secretary of
State Tool at noon May 19, when the
Nebraska Dry Federation will file the
names of the voters who csk for its
submission at the November election.
The executive committee of the fed
eration will hold a regular meeting
on the same day, and Chairman W.
T. Thompson has issued invitations
to county chairmen and other work
ers to be present at a conference and
dinner in the evening. The plates will
not exceed a dollar each.
RECIPES WORTH WHILE
FIVE DELICIOUS DISHES THAT
ARE EASY TO PREPARE.
Egg Noodles With Anchovies May Be
Recommended—Vermicelli Sweet
Custard Excellent—Proper Prep
aration of Macaroni Soup.
Egg Noodles With Anchovies.—Fry
a small onion, sliced, in butter with a
teaspoonful of chopped parsley; add
six boned anchovies, cut in four pieces
each; stir In three quarters of a cupful
of white wine and a cupful of cooked
egg noodles and simmer gently for 20
minutes. Serve with grated cheese.
Egg Noodie Sweet Souffle.—Add half
a package of cooked egg noodles to
two cupfuls of hot milk, and let stand
on back of stove until milk is mostly
absorbed, then l^t it cocl and add a
teaspoonful of salt, half a cupful of
sugar, the beaten yolks of two eggs,
and whites beaten to a stiff froth.
Turn into a buttered souffle mold, set
it in a pan of hot water and bake in
moderate oven 25 minutes. Serve im
mediately alone or with sweetened
cream.
Vermicelli Sweet Custard.—To half
a package of cooked vermicelli add
two cupfuls hot milk, a teaspoonful of
salt, half a cupful of sugar, two eggs
well beaten and half a teaspoonful of
vanilla. Turn into a buttered baking
dish, set dish in a pan of hot water in
oven and bake until the custard is set.
Macaroni Soup.—To one quart of
boiling water, salted, add a large hand
ful of macaroni, boil 20 minutes, drain
and blanch. Add two cupfuls of
strained stowed tomatoes, season
highly and just before serving add a
cupfCil of cream.
Soup Spanish With Rings.—Simmer
in three quarts of water two pounds
of lean meat for two hours. Skim well
as it boils, then add ono cupful of
cookei white beans, four onions
chopped line, two cloves of garlic, four
red peppers chopped, and two slices
of lemon, salt to taste; allow this to
cook thoroughly until soft, strain
through a colander, rub through the
pulp, place on the fire again and boil;
add lastly one-fourth package of soup
rings, one tablespoonful of butter and
one of milk rubbed in two ounces of
flour. When rings are tender the soup
is ready.
New Apple Salad.
Beal half a cupful of double cream,
a tabiespoonful of lemon juice and
a quaiter teaspoonful of salt until firm
throughout. Cook two apples, cored
and pared, in a sirup of equal meas
ures of sugar and water (two or three
cloves or an inch of cinnamon bark
may be added) and set them aside to
become thoroughly chilled. Chop fine
four maraschino or candied cherries
and eight or ten pecan nuts or
blanched almonds. Carefully wash
three small heads of tender lettuce,
first r< moving the ragged outer leaves
and cvtting the stalks that the heads
may stand. Dispose the heads on in
dividual plates with an apple in tho
center of each. Mix the cherries and
put through the prepared cream and
turn it over the apples.
Rhubarb Jelly.
Allow one pound of sugar to a
pound of rhubarb. Peel and cut up
rhubarb into small pieces, put into a
dish u layer of rhubarb and a layer
of sugar until all is used. Do this in
tho evening, then in the morning pour
off all the liquid you can into a
saucepan and boil hard for 30 min
utes. Then add the rhubarb, let
come to the boiling point and simmer
for ten minutes. Do not stir at all.
Stand your Jars in boiling water to
prevent breaking, and then pour jelly
j into tl.em while hot. After jars are
j secured turn them upside down to
i cool, and when cool keep in a dark
I place. Strawberries may be put away
! in the same way, using less sugar.
Apple and Honey Pudding.
Four cupfuls raw apple cut in small
pieces, two cupfuls bread crumbs, one
half cupful hot water, two teaspoonfuls
butter, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon and
one-haif cupful honey. Put a layer of
the apple in a well buttered pudding
dish; then a layer of crumbs. Mix the
honey und hot water. Pour part of this
over the crumbs, sprinkle with cinna
mon and dot with a few bits of butter.
Fill the dish with alternate layers of
apples, crumbs, honey, etc., having a
layer of crumbs on top. Cover and
hake 45 minutes. Serve with cream.
—Mother’s Magazine.
To Launder Fringed Cloths.
Fringed cloths are often quite
ruined in appearance at the laundry.
They may be made to look like new
for an indefinite period if when they
are starched a little care Is taken not
to starch the fringe. Fold each cloth
in four, like a handkerchief, and then
gather the fringe of each part into
the hand and hold it firmly while you
dip the middle into the starch. When
the cloth Is dry shake the fringe well
and comb it with a comb and it will
fall as softly and prettily as when
new.
Cauliflower and Cabbage.
To keep cauliflower white and free
| from scum when cooking; before plac
ing the cauliflower in the saucepan tie
it up in a piece of clean muslin. When
ready, it can be easily lifted from the
pot into the colander to drain. Untie
the muslin and you will find the vege
table beautifully whole.
When boiling cabbage, to prevent
the unpleasant smell that It always
makes, it will be found very good to
place a small piece of bread tied up
in muslin in the saucepan.
Mutton Cecils.
To one pint chopped cold mutton
allow the yolks of two eggs, two table
spoonfuls butter, ore tablespoonful
bread crumbs, one tablespoonful
ehopped parsley, salt and pepper to
taste. Mix all the ingredients together
and stir over the fire in a saucepan
until heated through. When cold form
into small round balls, dip in egg and
bread crumbs and fry in 3moking bot
fat.