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 ]
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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.
