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FOR IRE BUSY MAN NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN COON BE COMPASSED. MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED Home and Foreign Intelligence Con densed! Into Two and Four • Line Paragraphs, WAR NEWS. The French war office announces that General Robert George Nivelle has been appointed to command at Verdun. He will succeed Henri Phil lepe Petain. * * * Berlin announces that more than j 1,000,000 men are now engaged on j both sides in the renewal of heavy j fighting around the fortress of Ver- j dun. The Italians have lost 3,G0u officers since the beginning of the war, ac cording to private statistics compiled in Germany. This includes killed, wounded or missing. • * * The White Star liner Cymric, a 13, 999 ton vessel, laden with war muni tions for Liverpool, has been sunk by a submarine. All the 110 officers and crew were saved. • * » The sinking of an allied transport i in the Mediteranian late in April with j the loss of nearly all the GOO Russian j troops who were on board, is reported in advices from Berlin. * * » An uprising against the British In the Sudan is reported in dispatches from Constantinople. Alf Dinar, the Imam of Darfour, with a force of 8,000 camels, is said to be marching against the British forces in northern Sudan. * • * BritiSki aeroplanes dropped 18,000 pounds of food, in addition to mail and military and other stores in Kut El-Amara between April 11 and 29, in an effort to relieve the hunger of the besieged garrison, which subsequently surrendered to the Turks. * * * The second installment of the Russian contingent for France were landed recently after a land and sea journey of approximately 17,500 miles, from Moscow to Port Dalny, Manchuria, overland, and thence by water transport. There are 25,000 Russians now on the French front. • * * All marripd Englishmen eligible for military service who are living abroad, but who are ordinarily resi dents of Great Britain, must return to England and report for military duty. This announcement was made in the house of commons by Sir George Cave, the solicitor general. • * * Herbert Hoover, chairman of the commission for relief in Belgium, in a report made public in New York, states that in northern France, a ter ritory comprising 1,250,000 people, he found the meat shops closed, dealers selling dog moat and the soup shops unable to operate because of food shortage. GENERAL. Two lieutenants of the Fifth field artillery were killed and two other officers were injured in an automobile wreck at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. • * » The Irish parliamentary party has issued a manifesto to the people of Ireland calling upon them to support the constitutional movement as the only one by which their aspirations for self-government possibly can be realized. * * * Fourteen persons have been exe cuted in Ireland as a result of the re cent uprising. Seventy-two have re ceived sentences of penal servitude, and six to imprisonment at hard labor. The number of casualties among civil ians is given as ISO killed and G14 wounded. * * * The first prison sentences imposed upon principals in German plots were pronounced by Federal Judge Howe at New York when he sentenced Lieu tenant Robert Fay to eight years in prison, Paul Daeche, two years, and Walter Scholz, four years, for con spiracy to blow up ships carrying mu nitions. * * * Immigration commissioner White, at Seattle, has received a second com munication from the chief of the di vision of information bureau of immi gration, warning Americans against going to Canada in quest of employ ment. The letter says there are more than 1,000 men unemployed in Van couver, B. C. * * * After almost two weeks of discus sion the conference of Generals Scott, Funston and Obregon over American troops disposition in Mexico, ended without any agreement being reached. The whole matter was referred back to the two governments to be settled through diplomatic channels. * * • The progressive party of Connecti cut in convention at New Haven, in structed its delegation to the national convention to vote "first, last and all the time” for Theodore Roosevelt for his party nomination of president. • * • The Methodist Episcopal church expended for foreign missionary work last year a total of over $2, 600,000, according to a report made at Saratoga, N. Y., by Dr. Earl S. Taylor, corresponding secretary of the board of foreign missions. * * * A full squadron of the Eleventh TT S. cavalry surprised and routed a much largr force of Villistas at OJo Azules, and by actual count forty-two Mexicans were killed and a number were wounded. Massachusetts will **r<«3euvcu In the republican national convention by an unpledged delegation, according to the recent primary results. * * * James M. Sullivan, former United States minister to Santo Domingo, who was arrested following the recent uprising in Ireland, has been re leased. » * * Three American soldiers and a 10 } ear-old boy lost their lives and two American citizens were kidnapped in a raid on Glenn Springs, Texas, by Mexican bandits. * * * The movement to equip the national guard with aeroplanes through public subscriptions has been extended to Indiana. Massachusetts, West Vir ginia and Oklahoma. • • * Supplies forwarded by the American Red Cross for war relief in Europe reached a total value of more than $1,000,000 during the first nineteen months of hostilities. * * * All collection records were broken for a single meeting at a “Billy Sun day revival, when Kansas City peo ple dropped $5,275 into the collection pans the evening of May 5th. * * * Mayor John MacVicar of Des Moines has signed an application blank to attend the citizens’ military training camp at Fort Benjamin Har ris. near Indianapolis, this summer. * * » William L. Carlisle, the Union Pa cific train bandit, was convicted of the robbery of passengers on the Overland Limited April 4. at Chey enne, Wyo., the jury fixing his pun ishment at imprisonment for life. SPORTING. Ad Wolgast, former lightweight champion pugilist, will meet Johnny Dundee in a fifteen-round bout Deco ration day, at Denver. * * * Chick Hayes of Indianapolis fought twelve rounds to a draw witn Benny Chaves of Colorado at Kansas City. They are featherweights. * * * Joe Stecher and Ed (Strangler) Lewis have signed articles for a fin ish match to be wrestled in Omaha on the afternoon of July 4. * * • Third Baseman Zimmerman of the Chicago Nationals was fined $50 as punishment for an altercation he had with Umpire Byron during a Chicago Boston game at Chicago. * * * Freddie Welsh and Challenger Char ley White are practically matched to meet at Buenos Ayres, Argentina, some time in late July or August. Fans there have offered $20,000 for the bout. * * * The baseball team of Waseda uni versity. Japan, arrived in San Fran cisco to tour America. The players were met by Fred Steinbeeker and “Skee" Sauer, former diamond and gridiron stars at the University of Chicago. • * » The Omaha baseball club of the Western league, has secured from the Columbus American association club Marty O’Toole, who a few years ago was sold by the St. Paul American as sociation team to the Pittsburgh Pi rates for $22,500—the highest price ever paid at that time for a baseball player. WASHINGTON. Democratic leaders in !he house, it is said, are hopeful of disposing of the army conferees’ disagreement, and report the rural credits and ship pings bills within the next ten days. • * * Various administration shipping bills, combined into one measure and amended so that democratic leade/s believe it will enlist the united sup port of their party members, has been introduced in the house by Chairman Alexander of the merchant marine committee. Secretary Daniels and Baker and the Panama canal authorities have joined in a recommendation to con gress for an appropriation of $2, 955,306 for submarine bases at the Panama canal, to be immediately available. * * • The rural credits bill has been amended in the house to permit the treasury, under certain conditions, to deposit a maximum of $500,000 in each of the twelve proposed land banks, to meet interest payment on bonds. The wreck on the New York Cen tral lines near Cleveland, O., March 29, in which twenty-seven persons were killed and forty-seven injured was due, the interstate commission re ports, to the failure of Engineer Hess to see the signals on account of a dense fog. * * » Henry Lane Wilson, former ambas sador to Mexico, has brought a $350, 000 libel suit in Washington courts against Norman Hapgood, the pub lisher. Mr. Wilson bases his suit on publications regarding the Mexican situation. * * » The federal trade commission an nounced that if there was any further raise in the price of anthracite coal the commission would take up with the department of justice the question of an investigation of the anthracite industry. • * * The Navy league of the United States has filed suit in the district su preme court against Henry Ford for $100,000 damages. The league charges Ford with having published in advertisements in a local news paper statements of “a libelous and defamatory character.” • • • President Wilson has called out the militia of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and in addition three regi ments of regular infantry and eleven companies to patrol the Mexican bor der as a result of the recent raid. |NEBRASKA j j STATE NEWS* DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. ' * May 23-24-25—State Harness and Sad dle Makers’ association meeting at Columbus. May 23, 24, 25—Nebraska Medical As sociation convention at Omaha. May 24-25—State Association of Com mercial Clubs’ Convention at Omaha. June 5 and b—Pageant of Lincoln, presenting “The Gate City.” June 5-6—Spanish War Veterans’ State Convention at North Platte. June 12 to 15—Trans-Mississippi Bak ers’ Ass’n convention at Omaha. June 13-14-15—Annual convention of Nebraska Elks at Omaha. June 13 to 16—State P. E. O. Conven tion at Alliance. June 13-14-15—Great Western Handi cap Tournament at Omaha. June 19-20-21-22—American Hnion of Swedish Singers, West. Div., con certs and convention at Omaha. June 20 to 24—State Stockmen’s con vention at Alliance. June 21 to 23—Fraternal Order of Eagles, state meeting at Lincoln. July 25—Nebraska Democratic con vention at Hastings. July 3-4-5—Mid-Summer Race Meet at Kearney. July 5 to 8—State Golf Tournament at Omaha. July 10-11-12—Northwestern Hotel Men’s Association Convention at Omaha. June 28-29—International Auctioneers’ Association Convention at Omaha, Victor Westcott, emplove of a trac tion sawmill outfit, met death while moving from one locality to another near Ravenna. A bridge over a small stream broke down and West cott was caught in the machine in such a way that his abdomen was crushed, one arnr and one leg broken and the lower limbs badly burned. After being released he was rushed to Ravenna for medical assistance and died just as he reached town. His family home is at Wood River. Joe Stecher, the Hodge county wrestler, while in Fremont the other day, declared that he had no doubt of his ability to take the measure of Strangler Lewis, who he is to wrestle in Omaha July 4, “providing he will come on and wrestle.” He added that he would begin training six weeks in advance of the bout and that he would be in the best of condition. A new union depot for Lincoln is in sight. Within the next thirty or sixty days the Burlington will submit through the Lincoln Commercial club a proposition that will embody a big, new union depot for Lincoln with pro visions for the accommodation of other roads upon terms that it is be lieved certain will prove acceptable, so say railroad officials. Preaching the gospel of better roads', the Omaha-Lincoln-Denver Highway association will start a campaign during the state commercial club meeting at Omaha. May 21! and 24, leaving Omaha by automobile at the close of the meeting and making a run over the Omaha-Lincoln-Denver road, stopping at every town and con ducting a speaking campaign. Nebraska grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias at the recent convention at Hastings voted to establish a Pyth ian home in the state. The location to be decided upon when the futid has grown large enough to start the erection of the building. The fund will be raised by an annual per capita tax of 5 cents on all members. J. Corwin Temple, a young man of Utica, N. Y., who is walking across the continent to San Francisco, was in Table Rock the other day. He is to make the trip out in ten months and back in three and one-half months. If he succeeds he is to re ceive $600 in cash. A company of Burlington officials were in Tecumseh recently in the in terest of the proposed new depot., They had a number of blue prints of the railroad yards and went over the ground thoroughly. The indications are that work will begin shortly. The cloth for the costumes for the second annual pageant, “The Gate City,” to be held in Lincoln June 5 and 6 has arrived and is being made ready for the occasion. People of Omaha are considering the proposition of requesting the fed eral government to establish a citi zens’ military training camp at Fort. Crook. Business men from several towns over the state have already signified their intentions to join if the project is put through. One of the largest events ever car ried out by the International Auc tioneers’ association will be the con vention in Omaha June 28 and 29. More than 400 persons are expected from all parts of the state. Boy scouts of Seward have com pleted plans for a cross-country hike, the date of starting having been set for May 26. The boys will make the trip to Manhattan, Kan., a distance of 140 miles. As the result of public improve ments the city council of Hastings in creased the annual mill levy from 21-’ to 37 mills, of which nearly 1 mill i for the upkeep of the only municipal band in the state. Nebraska Knights Templars at their recent meeting at Columbus, selected Lincoln for the 1917 conclave. The banks of Omaha gained $18. 818,000 in deposits in the last year, as shown by the statements issued in re sponse to the call of the comptroller of currency for the condition of busi ness at the close of May 1. McCook was selected as the Sep tember convention city by the Repub lican Valley Medical association at thir semi-annual convention in Hast ings. The campaign for $5,000 for a two year budget for the Young Men’s Christian association at Seward ended successfully. W. D. Fisher, former secretary of the Alliance Commercial club and sec retary of the Western Nebraska Com mercial clubs and of the State Asso ciation of Commercial Clubs, has been engaged as secretary of the North Platte Chamber of Commerce. Fisher is already arranging for a visit to North Platte by various Commercial clubs and Community clubs of sur rounding towns and counties and for the marking of 250 miles of road in the vicinity of North Platte telling the distance to the city. With 2,000 students of the Univer sity of Nebraska the guests of Omaha on May 19, Omaha residents will be given an idea of the importance of the university and its relation to the state of Nebraska. Like all institutions of its kind, Nebraska University has never received the recognition it is en titled to and this trip to Omaha will afford an opportunity for the univer sity officials to impress the magnitude of the institution on the city. For the fourth time in as many years the Mitchell High school won the eastern Nebraska track and field meet. The five competing towns were: Scott’s Bluff, Mitchell, Minatare and Morrill, and Torrington, Wyo„ The meet was held at Mitchell. Out of the 126 points the Mitchell boys carried away 64. Scott’s Bluff took second place. Minatare third and Mor rill fourth. Torrington did not get a point. If present conditions are any crite rion, the spring meeting of the Ne braska Midway Racing circuit at Ben son, the home of the Douglas County Fair association, is going to set a number of records for opening events in the middle west. The program will run three days, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 8, 9 and 10. Practi cally all of the best horses in this part of the country will take part. The wheels of a spring wagon load ed with feed caused the almost com plete amputation of the nose of C. J. Borders, a well known farmer near Ellsworth. He was riding on a pile of sacks in the rear of the wagon when an unexpected lurch of the front wheel threw him to the ground be tween the wheels. His nose was broken at the bridge and from there down It was nearly severed. One of the biggest advertising schemes ever attempted will be the bringing to Nebraska the first week in June a special trainload of the most eminent advertising experts from New York and other eastern cities by the State Publishers’ association. The special will visit all important cities in the state and the visitors will be shown Nebraska's resources and pos sibilities. Within fifteen minuter after the ac tion was started before tlistrict Judge Dungan at Hastings, representatives of the St. Joseph & Grand Island rail road paid $1,250 to Miss Lucy Young, 9 years old, for the dfVh of her late father, Balas Young, who was killed in an auto-train collision north of Hastings, December 1, *915. All former records for high priced sheep and lambs were broken at the South Omaha stock yards, when Bel mont & Klink of Scotfsbluff county brought in 743 fpd Mexican Iambs that averaged 96 pounds anti sold at $9.40, the highest ever paid c*i this or any other market for fed ewes. The razing of Dodge county's old fire-damaged court house at Fremont, to make room for a new $140,000 building on the same site, is under way. The old building was sold for $100, with the understanding that the buyer would remove it. The state convention of Knights of Columbus at their recent big meet ing n Fremont voted to go to Al liance next year. Alliance had a big delegation present. Crawford, through its Chamber of Commerce, has taken up the prelim inary steps to secure free mail deliv ery service in the city limits. Kimball has just completed the or ganization of a Commercial club. Fifty business and professional men have joined. Nebraska Knights of Pythias at their state convention in Hastings chose Lincoln as the 1917 convention , city. Fire destroyed the Woods Bros.’ silo manufacturing plant at Lincoln. The plant will be rebuilt at once. Plattsmoutli is working to secure free mall delivery, (Seneral receipts at the postoffice are increasing. The annual state golf tournament will be held at Omt-ha July 5, 6, 7 and 8. Charley Peters, the Papillion wres tler, won over William Dametral in a lively match at Omaha in straight falls. It took Peters a total of forty four minutes to earn both falls. It took Gotch fifty-nine minutes to turn l he same trick on Dametral last Feb ruary out on the coast. Harold Cates, 23 years old, was in stantly killed when he was run over by a train in front of the Burlington depot at Wymore. Gates was a brakeman and made his home in Wy more. The promoters of the Kearney can ning factory are unable to contract for a sufficient acreage of sweet corn and tomatoes to operate the factory during the entire season. The Commercial club of Wayne has changed its name to the Public Serv ice Club. In changing the name the organization has assumed larger functions. Arrangements have been made for the annual meeting of the Nebraska state association of Commercial clubs in Omaha, May 24 and 25. Plans for the meeting are being formulated. President Wilson has sent to the United States senate the names of the following Nebraska postmasters: W. L. Urich, Stuart; Calvin L. Dem urest, Bethany; and George McCaw ley, Seneca. Citizens of Wilsonville, in Furnas county, which town has a population of between 600 and 700, are selling $6,500 bonds with which to construct a municipal electric light plant. Norfolk Masons are considering the proposition of constructing a Ma sonic temple to cost*~between $27,000 and $35,000. TOMAKETHEROUNOS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE WILL TOUR COUNTY FAIRS REDUCED STATED EXPENSES Items of General Interest Gathered from Reliable Sources Around the State House. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Two exhibit tents of the college of agriculture will make the rounds ct county fairs in the state this fair sea son so far as possible. They will con tain information on Nebraska agri culture and the work that is being done at the college and the experi ment station. The following is a list of the towns at which fairs will be held, together with the date: Osceola, August 29 to September 1; State Fair at Lincoln, September 4 to 8; Lexington, Septem ber 12 to 15; Kearney, September 21 to 23; North Platte, September 26 to 29; Ogallala, October 3 to 4, and Kim ball, providing proper dates can be ar ranged for; Stanton, August 29 to Sep tember 1; Harrison, September 7, 8, 9; Ohadron, September 12 to 15; Tri-State District fair, at Crawford, September 20, 21, and 22; Madison, September 26 to 29; Walthill, October 4 to 6. The county fair exhibit was first put out three years ago this fall. County fairs making application this year and not receiving the exhibit, the com mittee says, will be given preference next season. Reduced State's Expenditures. It was worth $130,000 to the state of Nebraska not to have a legislature in session during the past winter and early spring. The state saved that sum of money by getting along this year without a gathering of the law makers. Its expeditures for the first four months of 1916 aggregated $1, 69S,658. as compared with $1,830,238 a year ago. when the legislature was sitting. The outgo during April this year was smaller than in any preceding month of the annum, amounting to $278,977. The state auditor’s office drew warrants for a total equal to that sum. In March the warrants ran to $389,207; in February, when the state school funds were appor tioned, they ran up to $741,9S2, and in January the aggregate was $288,493. The state treasury usually has just about time to recover from one ses sion of the legislature when the next one comes along and begins piling up the expenses again. Besides the $130, 000 of extra cost for the first four months in 1915, which went for leg islative salaries and expenses, the ap propriations which were made over and above the cost of maintaining state institutions and departments amounted to several hundred thou sand dollars, most of which had to be paid out in 1915. State Auditor Smith, who makes up a financial statement at the end of every month, is watching the balance on hand in each appropriation, with a view to seeing that no deficiencies are incurred for the next legislature to make good. He believes that each department should stay within its ap propriation. and unless some extraor dinary emergency should arise, lie will not O. K. any claims of that kind which may be filed. Cash for Soldiers’ Homes. The state of Nebraska has received a quarterly contribution of $8,590 from the general government for the care of inmates of soldiers’ homes which are maintained by the state. The gov ernment pays the state at the rate of $100 a year for the support of each member of state homes for soldiers. This pays about one-half the cost of maintaining each member. The pay ment by the government was received by Governor Morehead and will be turned into the state general fund and he spent to pay the current ex penses of the state instead of being expended directly in support of sol diers' homes. The payment is made up of $2,725 for 109 members of the Milford home for soldiers and $5,875 for 235 members of the home at Grand Island. The membership of the homes is made up of veterans of the civil war and their wives and soldiers of the Spanish-Ameriean war. Steps to collect a fine of $3,718 against County Treasurer William Ure, of Douglas county, will be taken by State Treasurer Hall and the state legal department. The fine is levied 1 under a statute having to do with the payment of moneys due the state by counties whenever the state treasurer shall require it. Treasurer Hall ask ed for monthly remittances. Treas urer Ure refused to pay monthly. The state supreme court recently decided in Hall's behalf and now he proposes to make Mr. Ure pay the legal 10 per cent fine. The fourth annual beef producers’ day at the agricultural experiment sta tion at Lincoln will be held Wednes day. May 17. The different lots of cattle which have been on experiment- I al rations will be on exhibit at that | time. The experiment which has been conducted this year, takes up among ■ other interesting problems, the use of cottonseed meal and Tarkio molasses feed for finishing fattening steers. Further experimentation has been done in reg ird to the value of corn silage in » ration of economi cal beef production. Nearly 3,700 warrants totaling $279, 000 were made out by Auditor Smith’s staff during the month of April. The total number since January 1 reached 14,854 and the money carried by them $1,698, 658, as compared to $1, 830,238 worth of warrants written during the first four months of the previous year. The fact that there was no ses sion of the legislature this past win ter saved the state $130,000, accord ing to figures given out by the state auditor’s offlc. i MISLEADING STATEMENTS. State Banking Board Puts Ban on South Dakota Pamphlet. Secretary E Royse. of the state banking board, is notifying state banks that they cannot under the law circulate an advertisement in the form of a pmaphlet copyrighted by W. R. Ronald. The pamphlet is printed by a publishing company of Mitchell. S. D. It is offered for sale to Nebras ka bankers, and is entitled “Guar anteed Deposits—What They Mean to You.” Mr. Royse has ruled against the pamphlet because it contains statements not permitted by the guar anty law to be used on advertise ments. He has ruled that some of the statements are contrary to the law, which permits banks to use a statement that “deposits are protect ed by the depositors’ guarantee fund.” Auditor’s Monthly Report. The monthly report of State Auditor W. H. Smith shows that his office is sued state warrants amounting to $278,977 06 in April, making a total of $1,698,658.22 spent by the state in four months. The following is a list of the state warrants issued on the different state funds in April: General .$149,844.45 University . 22,514.36 University cash . 14,707.78 Morrill . 100.00 U. S. Experiment Station.. 932.02 State library . 141.50 Peru normal school library 52.37 Wayne normal school li brary . 340.0S Kearney normal school li brary . 764.66 Chadron normal school li brary . 4.00 State aid bridge . 812.44 Smith-Lever . 944.44 Fire commission . 1,338.74 University income . 3,842.17 Special motor vehicle regis tration . 1.019.17 Institution cash . 9,847.62 Normal school . 39,184.18 Special university building 32,496.08 Total .$ 2,78,977.06 Issued in March . 389,206.98 Issued in February . 741.981.51 Issued in January . 288,492.67 Total four months.. .S1.69S,658.22 Protest Was Overruled. The state insurance board has re fused to consider a protest filed by D. L. Manning against the licensing of the United States Guaranty & Fidelity company. The board has issued a new license to the company. The protest ant is the son of Chapman S. Manning of Lincoln, who was employed by a contractor who installed plumbing in he Lincoln high school. The workman was injured and the guaranty com pany which had insured the workmen under the workmen’s compensation law paid Manning benefits for several months but ceased to*pay him after he removed to New York The state in surance board holds that the protest is of a private matter and should be settled privately or in court, and that it is not a complaint of which the board can take cognizance. Range Finders for National Guards. Two of the latest model range tind ers for military purposes have been received from the war department by Adjutant General Hall and will be as- ; signed to the two regiments of the Ne braska national guard. The instru ments are reflecting telescopes mounted on tripods and delicately ad justed so that distances of remote buildings or topographical points can be calculated by applying the princi ples of triangulation. Range finders of this type have been in constant use in the European war. It is due largely to them that armies have found it necessary to live under ground and conceal their heavy ar tillery under screens of tree boughs Summer Camp for Nebraskans. Establishment of a business men's military training camp similar to the Plattsbuig camp, which was operated with such signal benefit last year in New York, will be possible at Fort Crook, if plans now under headway are given approval of the war depart ment. General Hall went to Omaha and talked over the matter with Colo nel Gould Dietz and other members of the boosting bodies there. He has been assured of ample Omaha support and has been given the word of J. G. Maher and Secretary Whitten, of the Commercial club at Lincoln, that Lincoln men will join with their brethren of the metropolis in making the affair a success. Members of the board of examiners for pharmaceutical certificates in Ne braska will again divide up the big amount of money which they collect every year in the form of fees from registered pharmacists and persons who take the examination in order to get into that class. The state board of pharmacy, consisting of the state auditor, treasurer, attorney gen eral, secretary of state and land com missioner, have voted to let the ex aminers draw this money when they have filed vouchers showing how much time they have put in. National Guards Say Badly Treated. Raw treatment of the national guard by high officials of the regular army and by regular army officers connected with the war department threatens to work a hardship upon the guard and to end in its virtual disruption in many, if not all of the states. The matter has become so acute that the Nebraska state mili tary board had it under advisement and although no official word has been given out by that body it is known 1 that the guard officers are un in arms ] _. i For the second time since the de- * positors’ guarantee law went into ef fect in 1909 the state banking board will be obliged to call on state banks to pay depositors of a failed bank. The banking board has taken charge i of the State Farmers batik of Deca- < tur. There is $1,000,000 in the guar- 1 anty fund to pay the depositors of t the failed bank. When the bank filed r its last report February 24, it had $96,465 in deposits. The state bank ing board, comprising Governor Morehead, Attorney General Reed and c State Auditor Smith, ordered it closed, j BROUGHT NQ CHANGE FAILURE OF BORDER PARLEY HAS NO EFFECT ON U. S. TROOPS TO STAY IN MEXICO Congress Not in Favor of Taking Sol diers, Out Until Mexican Assas sins Arc Punished. Washington, I). C.—Failure of the military conference at El Paso to reach a definite agreement has brought no change in the policy toward Mex ico of ihe Washington administration. Pending new orders from the pres ident it has been made plain by the War department t'-at General Persh ing’s expedition would remain in Mex ico watching dev dopments beyond the border. Meanwhile mobilization of national guardsmen from the bor der states and of additional regulars to strengthen the border patrol at points along the 1,800-mile stretch not protected by the expedition, will go forward. Should raiding be renewed addi tional state troops will be called out for border duty, and wherever the bandits leave a hot trail the army will not hesitate to pursue them into Mexico. An indication of the attitude of some members of congress toward the suggestion of General Carranza that the American expedition be re called came in the senate when Sen ator Lewis declared he believed the majority of the senate never would vote for withdrawal until the murder ers of Americans had been punished. While General Pershing now is con centrating his forces along a short ened line, it was stated positively that he would hurry south again immed iately if he received definite informa tion that Villa or any considerable number of his hand had gathered at a point within striking range. The most advanced post of the ex pedition is in the region of San An tonio. Mexico, 216 miles south of the border. Connolly and McDermott Executed. Dublin, Ireland. — James Connolly and John McDermott, two prominent leaders of the recent rebellion whose names were appended to the procla mation issued by the so-called provi sional government, were executed on May 9. Connolly was styled by his associates commandant general of Irish republican army. He lived for several years in New York, where he was active as a socialist and writer on labor topics. He returned to Ire land about five years ago to assist in organizing the Irish labor party. He was about 50 years old. John McDer mott was known to Irishmen in the United States as one of the most bril liant orators in Ireland and as one of the so-called inner circle of revolu tionists in the recent uprising. Au thorities in this country on Irish af fairs say that he was one of the original organizers of the Irish Volun teers in November, 1913, in Dublin. At the outbreak of the war, Mc Dermott was editor of Irish Freedom, a Dublin journal, ardently opposed to recruiting. The paper was suppressed. Hussane Easy for Stecher. Louisville, Ky. — Joe Stecher of Dodge, Neb., defeated Yussif I-Iussane here May 12th in straight falls. Stecher took the first in 12 minutes and 16 seconds, and the second in 3 minutes and 37 seconds. Stecher came near losing a fall in the second period when Hussane slammed him to the mat, pinning both shoulders, but he wriggled free before Referee Mechling could slap the Turk's back. U. P. Shopmen Get Raise. Omaha, Neb.—Raises in pay for alt Union Pacific machinists of the first and second class, amounting to near ly 5 per cent, were announced here, to take effect at once. There are 1,550 employes in the Union Pacific shops here, and this big increase means an addition of nearly $10,000 a month to the payroll in Omaha. This remarkable increase in pay ap plies to machinists over the entire system, and the payroll at Cheyenne, where 800 men are employed, will be increased monthly by about $3,000. Counting the machinists of both classes over the entire line, the new tcale will add over $20,000 to the nonthly payroll of the company. Many Ships From Portland Sunk. Portland, Ore.—Thirteen vessels 'rom Portland have been destroyed in Ite war zone by mines or submarines since the European conflict begun, with about 1,500.000 bushels of grain. Perishes Rescuing Children. Kingman. Ariz.—Mrs. George B. Davis, and two of her eight children were burned to death in a fire that de stroyed her home at Hackberry. Mrs. Davis had rescued six of the children tnd returned into the house for the jtiier two when the roof collapsed. Lauds Wilson Administration. Baltimore, Md.—The democratic tate convention here lauded the ad ninistration of President Wilson and nstructed the Maryland delegation to he national convention for him. New Scheme to Detect Prisoners. Copenhagen.—A frontier correspond nt says the Germans are now paint ng the clothes of Russian prisoners ngaged in work in the fields with road canary colored stripes to pre ent escapes, which recently have isen to serious proportions. Shave Yourself Barber Shops. Chicago.—A barber shop where you an shave yourself has been started 1 the downtown district.