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NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED COVERS WIDE AREA. GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT Includes What Is Goinj On at Wash ington and In Other Sections of the Country. WAR NEWS. It is reported from Amsterdam that in April ninety mines were cast upon the Dutch coast. • * * One American passenger and five sailors were drowned when the Dutch steamer Batavia V. was blown up by a mine. • * * The pinch of war has caused Italy to put an embargo on the export of macaroni, one of her chief food products. * » * The French budget for the third quarter of 1916 exceeds 11,500,000,000. Minister of Finance Iiibot has asked immediate increase in duties on many commodities to meet heavy war ex penses. • • » An official announcement made in Berlin says that during the month of April, ninety-six hostile merchantmen of 225,000 tons have been sunk by German and Austro-Hungarian sub marines or mines. * • * A rumor has been persistent in Athens that efforts will be made to float a Greek loan of $30,000,000 in the United States, in view of the failure of the government to secure the loan from the entente powers. • * * "The latest peace overtures, said to be of German origin, while not as in solent and impossible as previous statements on the same subject, cer tainly do not yet offer a basis for ne gotiations,” said Lord Robert Cecil, British minister of war trade. • * * Military men in Paris believe the attack launched by the Austrians against the Italian front in southein Tyrol, which has gradually extended to the entire Austro-ltalian frontier, is the great Austrian offensive which has long been expected, has begun. * * * President Poincare of France, in an address at Nancy, responding to Ger many's declaration regarding peace, contained in the German reply to the American note, says: "France does not want Germany to tender peace, but wants her adversary to ask for peace.” GENERAL. A transcontinental aeroplane compe tition for which prizes amounting to $100,000 will be offered has been de cided upon by the Aero Club of Amer ica. * * * An elaborate pageant dramatizing the history of the Dakota region from early days will be presented at Yank ton, S. D., on ttlie afernoons of June 14, 15 and 1(7. * * • The volume of business transacted in New York state during the month of last April required 21 per cent more employes, who received 37 per cent more in wages than in April, 1915. • * * Ten people were killed and nearly a score injured when a building, oc cupied by a restaurant, collapsed at Akron, Ohio, as a result of a blast of dynamite in an adjoining excavation. * « * David Caplan's trial at Los Angeles for murder in connection with the de struction of the Los Angeles Times building ended when the jury reported hopeless disagreement and was dis charged. * • • If American smokers continue smoking through the year at the rate of the first three months, the total consumption of tobacco for 1916 will be more than 21,000,000 pounds, an increase of 5 per cent, according to the Wall Street Journal. • * * Both the United Confederate Veter ans and the Sons of Veterans adopted resolutions at their meetings at Bir mingham pledging unconditional sup port for the government of the United States should it become necessary for defense of the country. • • * There will be representatives of women’s associations from eighteen states at least in the suffrage par ades planned for June 7, the morn ing of the republican national con vention at Chicago. * * » The United States torpedo boat de stroyer Wilkes of an improved type, was launched at Cramps shipyards at Philadelphia. The Wilkes is a com plete steel vessel, certain portions being made of high tensile steel. It is 310 feet long, 1,100 tons displace ment. • * * The preparedness parade planned for Chicago will be held Saturday, June 3. In order to broaden the scope of the parade mayors of other cities have been invited to join in giving the day a national importance. • • * The report of the Board of Lunacy Control, reviewing conditions in Great Britain since the year 1859, shows a steady and alarming increase of in sane persons in all classes. In 1859 there were 36,000 persons under con trol for lunacy; in 1899, 100,000; in 1915, 140,000. • • • Mrs. Allies Haradon, aged 26, con fessed that she killed the baby that was found on the Des Moines city dump six weeks ago. The confession clears up the mystery that has puz zled the police for three months. ’ Eddie Rickenbacher, former Oma han, won the 150-mile race and Met ropolitan trophy at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y. • • • At least fourteen men were killed and about thirty injured in a terrific explosion at the Repauno plant of the Dupont Powder company, near Gibbs town, N. Y. * * * Free trade legislation is a menace to the silk and textile industries, de clared United States Senator Pen rose in an address during the closing session of the National Association of Underwear Manufacturers at Phil adelphia. * • * A sweeping increase in pay, amount ing approximately to 5 per cent has been voluntarily put into effect by the Burlington railroad, applying to em ployes who are not included in union wage schedules. The order applies to the entire Burlington system, where over 48,000 men are employed. The increase affects office men, track and bridge foremen, and employes of the mechanical department, including car repairers, shop men and the like. SPORTING. Mike Gibbons of St. Paul, out fought Ted (Kid) Lewis of England in a ten-round boxing bout at New York. * * * 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. * * • Joe Stecher of Dodge, Neb., defeat ed Yussif Hussane at Louisville, Ky., May 12 in straight falls. Stecher took the first in 12 minutes and 16 seconds, and the second in 3 minutes and 37 seconds. • • • Preliminary articles for a ten-round fight Labor day between Jess Willard, heavyweight champion, and Fred Ful ton. the Minnesota giant, the fight to go to the highest bidder, were signed at Chicago. • • • “Ted” Meredith, University of Penn sylvania track star, broke the world’s record for the half mile run at Phil adelphia during a dual meet between Cornell and Pennsylvania. Meredith ran the distance in 1:52 1-5. • * » George Smith, an American colt, won the forty-second Kentucky Derby at Louisville, Ky., from Star Hawk, the imported English colt. The race carried a purse of $15,000. The time was 2:04, within three-fifths of a sec ond of the derby record hung up in 1914 by Old Rosebud. WASHINGTON. A favorable report on the motion picture censorship bill was presented to the house by the education com mittee. * * • Secretary Lane approved and deliv ered gas leases on about 1,000.000 acres of Osage Indian land in Osage county, Oklahoma. * * • Russia's 1915 cotton crop, according to estimates reaching the Department of Commerce, was about 20 per cent larger than that of the year before. * * * The conference report on the Indian appropriation bill retains an item of $6,500, the reconstruction of one span and the repair of the government bridge over the Niobrara river near * « ♦ A favorable report was made to the senate on a bill which will allow the state of Wyoming to re-locate 100.000 acres of land donated for the support of public institutions. * » * The second punitive expedition, un der the command of Colonel F. W Sibley, is to be withdrawn from Mex ico after penetrating 125 miles in search of the Glenn Springs bandits. * * * Following a conference between Secretary Daniels and President Wil son recently, it was learned the At lantic fleet will be reorganized and a new commander named to succeed Admiral Fletcher. * * * Administration forces in congress lost the first skirmish in the naval preparedness campaign, when the house committee completed the naval appropriation bill, without approving the five-year building program advo cated by President Wilson and Secre tary Daniels. * * * Germany, through Count von Bern-, storff, has instructed all German con suls in the United States to admon ish German citizens in their districts to scrupulously observe American laws. This was done in an effort to end various alleged violations of Am erican neutrality. • • • Progress toward better feeling be tween the United States and Ger many was seen by officials in a dis patch from Berlin. Germany is deter mined. if possible, to squelch Teu tonic propagandists in this country and anti-American propagandists in Germany. * * * A conference committee of progress ives and republicans to met simul taneously with the two conventions in Chicago and to attempt to agree on a candidate and platform, is the latest plan to bring the two parties together. • • • The Glass rural credits bill provid ing for a federal farm loan board and a system of twelve land banks has been passed by the house. A similar measure already has passed the sen ate and the differences will be work ed out soon In conference. • • • President Wilson, talking with con gressional callers recently indicated his gratification at the progress being made on legislation supported by the administration, and expressed the hope congress would be able to ad journ early In the summer. jNEBRASKA| | STATE NEWS * : — :i DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. lune 5 and 6—Pageant of I.incoln, presenting “The Gate City." June 6-7-8—State Undertakers’ Con vention at Hastings. June 5-6—Spanish War Veterans' j 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 13 to 15—Nebraska Pharmaceu tical Convention at Hastings. June 19-20-21-22—American Union of Swedish Singers, West. IJiv., 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 I.incoln. 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. City commissioners of North Platte have let a contract for twenty-five blocks of vertical fiber brick paving to be laid this summer. The contract price totals approximately $104,000. William Jennings Bryan is not going to the democratic national convention as an alternate from Nebraska, nor as a delegate from any other state, ac cording to an announcement made in Lincoln. The encampment of the Grand Ar my of the Republic, held at Lexington, was the greatest affair of the kind ever held in the state. It is estimated that 12,000 visitors were in attend ance. Columbus secured the encamp ment for next year and won out over Hastings and Wayne by a good-sized majority. Another discovery of a technical er ror has just been made at Hooper with the result that another six weeks' de lay will be necessary before the sa loons can legally open. This time it has been found that the new ordinance drafted hurriedly by the Hooper coun cil is defective in several particulars. The biggest Flag day ever attempt ed among the Elks will be the feature of the Nebraska convention, which will be held in Omaha. June 12, 13 and 14. Thursday, the 14th, is the national flag day of the organization. All Elk lodges in Nebraska are urged to send delegations. The farm management association of Dawes county has purchased a load of dairy cattle for the use of the dairy farmers of the county, which consists of forty-one head of high-grade Hol steins to be sold to the farmers with out profit for the betterment of their dairy herds. One hundred thousand yards of dirt are to be removed from the roads of Otoe county during the next twelve months, according to plans of the county commissioners, who have just let a contract for the year's grading. Ralph Conver, formerly of Excel sior Springs, Mo., died at Mitchell as the result of injuries received when he lost control of a motorcycle no which he was riding.. He was thrown on his head. Paving that will cost the city of Lincoln a quarter of a million dollars has already been ordered this spring. A total of 97,000 square yards has been authorized and most of it con tracted for. Ord held a special election just re cently to decide the liquor question. Four hundred and fifty votes were cast, the drys winning by a majority of eighty. The people of Creighton have just voted a liberal bond issue for the purpose of building a city hall that will be a credit to the town. The big lumber sheds of J. Shum way & Son at Lyons, were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated be tween $15,000 and $25,000. A week's campaign against the dan delion at Fairfield brought in a total of 1,200 bushels. An amateur baseball league, which will embrace Kearney, Shelton, Elm Creek, Riverdale and other towns, has been established in Buffalo county. A schedule has been arranged to date from June 1, after which two games per week will be played. It is reported that J. H. Morrison is to remodel his building that has been used for a saloon for years, at Superior, and make an up-to-date mov ing picture and vaudeville theater of it, giving Superior two moving play houses. Marion B. Stahl of West Point won first, Louis Wirt of South High school, Omaha, second, and Nellie M. Schwab of McCook third in the ninth annual contest of the Nebraska High School Debating league at Lincoln. Hastings lost 105 families until No vember, recently, when a special train left for Scottsbluff with those who annually work in the beet fields in that section. The village of Syracuse, in Otoe county, has issued (16,000 in bonds to build a municipal electric light plant. The federal government has a com mittee of five high-grade engineers in Nebraska finding out how many bul lets, shells, high explosives, war shirts, army socks and other supplies needed in time of war, can be made in this state. Two hundred and fifty-three mem bers of the Lincoln Commercial club, voting on the question of national preparedness, stood 210 to 43, in fa vor of the proposition. Mrs. Mary E. McNamara, a profes sional nurse, is having a hospital erected at Hartington. The development of potash and its by-products will soon be one of Ne braska's chief industries, a pure arti cle having been found at Hoffland, near Alliance, which necessitates lit tle else than pumping, boiling and drying to make the best portion ready for the refinery, after which the fin ished article brings the heretofore ♦in known price of nearly $500 per ton. The outlook in the potash lines seems to bid fair to be as important in Nebraska as the oil industry in other states. Nearly 100 men are em ployed in the plant. New residences and business buildings are going up in the little city at a most remarkable rate. In a sweeping decision in the dis trict court at Kearney, Judge James Hanna of Grand Island, sitting in place of Judge Hostetler, denied an injunction against the mayor and city council of Kearney, to restrain them from paving the city streets. He de clared the constitutionality of the law passed bv the last legislature provid ing for paving and assessing in cities of the first class. His decision di rectly affects over $1,000,000 worth of paving improvements to be laid this summer in Kearney, Beatrice, Colum bus, Fairbury, Fremont, Grand Island, Hastings, Nebraska City, North Platte, Plattsmouth and York. If present plans of the state execu tive board of the Seventh Day Ad ventist church are carried out Hast ings will be made the location of one of the most important denomination al schools in the state. The school is preparatory in nature and it is ex pected will start with an enrollment of 100 students. The first building to be erected will probably cost in the neighborhood of $25,000. Nebraska’s crop of winter wheat will total 59,2-11,000 bushels this year, according to the estimate of the Unit ed States department of agriculture, based on the condition of the wheat May 1. Last year the winter wheat crop of Nebraska amounted to 66, 618,000 bushels. The condition May 1 last year was reported as 99 per cent, while May 1 this year it was 89 per cent. Ray Wiggins, veteran engineer of the Rock Island railroad, and his 6 year-old son were drowned a few miles from Fairbury, while attempt ing to cross a creek. The stream, or dinarily nearly dry, was swollen to a torrent by heavy rains. The little boy fell into the water, his father dived after him and both were swept away. A. C. Watson of Plainview was on the South Omaha market a few day? ago with a load of beef steers, aver aging 1,403 pounds, that sold at $9.50, the extreme top of the year to date. This is also the highest priced hunch of cattle ever sold in the month of May at the South Omaha market. The woman’s annual metropolitan golf championship tournament will be staged at Omaha on the links of the Omaha Field club, July 10, 11, 12 and 13. The woman’s tourney will follow immdieately after the Nebraska state event, w-hich will be held at the same links July 5, 6, 7 and 8. In a high school track meet held at Superior, with Superior, Hardy. Edgar. Nelson, Hebron, Scandia and Republic City, Kas.. contesting, Su perior won first place with 3f> points Joe Steelier of Dodge and Strangler Lewis will meet in the wrestling ring in Omaha on July 4. Three carloads of postage stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards were received by the Omaha postal authorities just recently, to fill the needs of the Omaha office for the en suing quarters. This consignment is valued at little less than $500,000. More than fifty crack gunners from all parts of the state will go to Nor folk June 4 and 5. the dates of the first annual registered tournament ct the Norfolk Gun club. Sunday baseball can now be played in all parts of Dodge county as the re suit of action taken by the county board of supervisors at Fremont a few days ago. Fremont was chosen as the meeting place for the Omaha Association of Congregational Churches in 1917, at the closing meeting of the convrnticn at Defiling. Hastings is to have a public market, operated and managed by boys in the agricultural department of the city schools. At a special election held at Hoi brook the electric light issue carried by a majority of twenty-five votes. Talk of secession of five western counties of Nebraska on the grounds that the eastern part of the state is not in sympathy with the west in the fight for water rights, has been brought to Lincoln by a prominent at torney, who is interested in various water cases. Plans are being laid for the ninth annual encampment and reunion of all Spanish War veterans to be held at North Platte June 5 and 6. There will be a camp fire, dance, rifle shoot, auto rides and banquet. The town of Stella in Richardson county will hold a special election Mayr 29th to vote on a proposition to issue $8,000 in bonds to build an elec tric light plant. The Civic improvement League of Columbus is giving prizes every month for the best flowers produced in the gardens and on the lawns of the city. County boards of Platte, Butler and Polk counties are making an effort to secure a state-aid bridge across the Platte river south of Columbus next year. Dodge county will hold a special election on Tuesday, June 20, for the purpose of adoption or rejection of a proposition to issue bonds to the sum of $100,000 for the construction of a new court house at Fremont. The thirty-six singing societies in the western division of the American Union of Swedish Singers will take part in the coming festival at Omaha June 19-22. A special election will be held at Seward, June 27, to decide whether or not moving picture shows shall be operated on Sunday. THE WAR III HOWES GUARDSMEN TO SEE EUROPEAN BATTLE FIELDS WHERE YOU MAY GO FISHING Items of General Interest Gathered from Reliable Sources Around the State House. _ I Western Newspaper Union News Service. The choicest views front European battle fields will be shown members of the Nebraska national guard en campment through the courtesy of Captain Donald G. Thompson, the Kansan who has gained a wide repu tation as a photographer with the armies of the countries engaged in the great war. Thompson, while touring Nebraska, was made a captain in the Nebraska national guard upon order of Governor Morchead and Adjutant General Phil Hall, By reason of his rank he will be able to secure more freedom with the countries at war in securing pictures. In appreciation of the caurtesy of the Nebraska guard officials Thompson has informed Adjutant General Hall he had already sent 7,000 feet of film and would send anw other pictures which General Hall suggested. Did Not Sanction Tax Reduction. Governor Morehead in refusing to sanction a reduction of taxes for com mon carriers doing business in Ne braska, has influenced the state board of equalization to turn down a recom mendation to its secretary, O. E. Ber neckcr, which would have had the ef fect of materially lowering assess ments of the Standard Oil company, the Armour refrigerator car corpora tion and other companies operating private car lines. The board adopted another of Secretary Bernecker’s rec ommendations by voting to assess the rolling stock and intangible property of railroad companies, under the ter minal tax law, for exclusively munici pal purposes on the same basis as a year ago. The members were as-1 sured that this would not bind them later on when they come to assess the railroads in their holdings, both physical and intangible, for general taxation. When One May Go Fishing. In reply to an inquiry, Assistant Attorney General Roe has given an opinion that an owner of land ad joining a stream may forbid others to fish from the bank where it runs through or past his property. He has the right. Mr. Roe finds, to prevent trepassing on the land. An exception to this rule is that on a navigable stream anyone may land from a boat or other vessel if the necessity should arise. As to whether a land owner can keep a fisherman from angling in a stream which runs through the land, where the fishing is done from a boat, there seems to be some ques tion. Running streams are declared by state law to be public waters, and it is possible that an owner could not enforce his order against fishing ex cept on the banks. To Rearrange Freight Classification. The state railway commission will meet June 13 to make the semi-annual freight classification. Changes in the classification of empty iron barrels, bananas, oxygen and hydrogen gas and regulations governing the use of ice are proposed. If a shipper removes ice from a refrigerator car at its des tination after the car has been emptied he will be charged freight on the ice removed. Bananas are now shipped first class. If partially enclosed it is proposed to change to class Dl. The change in classification of gas or air products are asked for by a New York firm. Gas is now shipped first class. It is proposed to ship it third class In less than carloads, and fourth class in carloads and to reduce the mini mum weight from 24,000 pounds to 20,000 pounds. Scrr.i-Annual Conference of Officers. The second semi-annual conference of officers of Nebraska state institu tions with the board of commissioners of state institutions will be held in Lincoln Thursday and Friday. May 25 and 26. The Thursday meeting will be held at the state penitentiary and the Friday meeting at the orthopedic j hospital. Need Not File Acceptances. Delegates to national conventions and national committeemen elected at state primaries are not required to file acceptances with Secretary of State Pool, according to the ruling of that official. Neither are candidates for president or vice president who received the preference vote of their parties. Candidates for office must, as a rule, file acceptances or lose their places on the tickets. Mr. Pool is preparing an elaborate notification document, which he will send to Pres ident Wilson Marion B. Stahl, of West Point, was awarded first place inNebraska High School Debating league at the univer sity Memorial hall Saturday. Louis ■Wirt, representing South high. Oma ha. was given second place, and Miss Nellie M. Schwab, of McCook, was awarded third. The debate was on the question, "Resolved, that congress should substantially adopt the recom mendations of the secretaries of war and navy for increased armament.” The argument was close, and the judges were closeted together for half an hour before their decision. Cultivation of sunflowers called for the use of 4,731 acres of grountV Id • the United States last year, accord ing to a census report. Nebraska was way down the list in spite of the fact that the plants grow better here than any state in the union. Investiga tions as to the uses of the seeds will be made by the state agricultural board and experimental tracts may be put out on a part of the state fair ground to demonstrate their value as a crop. NEBRASKA INDUSTRIES Will Learn What the State Could Sup ply During War. What part Nebraska can do in fur nishing supplies for the army and navy in case of war will soon be known as the result of an inventory of the state’s industries, begun by the Nebraska members of the navy consulting board, authorized by Pres ident Wilson and Secretary of the Navy Daniels. Every industry in the state which can possibly be turned to use for war supplies is to be listed and reported to the navy department. Long lists of questions, answers to which are deemed necessary informa tion for war heads of the country, are being answered. Among the topics covered are these: Nationality of officers and owners of the plants; floor plans; possible additions; possi mility of night work; period of slack production of regular output; mater ials used for regular production and what production is; number of la borers, nationality, etc.; shipping fa cilities; what war munitions or army or navy supplies the factory is best fitted to produce. State To Do Much Building The state board of control has con tracted for or is just completing buildings costing $268,000. At the Beatrice institute for feeble-minded the board is erecting a fireproof building that will cost $38,000. This structure is to include an auditorium. At the Lincoln hospital for the insane the board is completing an addition to a building for the care of male patients at a cost of $28,910. This will house seventy-five patients and a record price on the construction was obtained by the board. It will cost the state at the rate of $400 a bed. Some states pay as high as $1,500 per bed for buildings. A sun corridor and sleeping porch is being built at the Lincoln hospital for the insane to connect two build ings. This will cost $4,250. At the tubercular hospital at Kear ney the board is completing a laundry and boiler house addition, to cost $8,734. A hospital for convalescents has been a long time building. This will cost $23,400. The board is holding back $1,000 on the contract price, awaiting completion of certain por tions of the work. At the industrial home for women at Milford, the board has completed the work of placing stucco on the walls of the old building and is at work on an addition to a nursery. The stucco cost the state $2,693 and the addition will cost $4,703. A home for dependent children is being-built in Lincoln at a cost of $25,765 A fireproof wing addition has been completed at the Norfolk hospital for the insane at a cost of $50,151. It is now in use and is filled to its capa city. At this same institution the board will begin work o:i a cottage to accomodate 100 women patients. It will cost $44,492. The state normal board is building an auditorium at the Kearney state normal that will cost about $55,000. The normal board will soon outline a building program at the four state normal schools. Stock Feeders Elect Officers. Z. F. Leftwieta, of St. Paul, was elected president of the Nebraska live stock feeders' association at the an nual meeting held at the state farm Wednesday afternoon in connection with beef products and live stock feeders' day. The vice presidents chosen were C. N. Beaver, York; Heber Hord, Central City; L. W. Leonard, Pawnee City; Robert Mous el, Cambridge; J. J. Lutz, Papillion; E. B. Gould, Kearney. Charles B. Lee of the university farm was elect ed secretary and treasurer. About 200 live stock men were in attend ance at the day’s program. Dean Burnett gave the address of welcome. Refuses Increase in Rates. The Nebraska state railway com mission has informed the Rock Island Railroad Co. that the commission can not acquiesce in an increase of ex cess baggage rates by reason of the restoration of the 3-cent fare on that road and the application of a percent age basis to the increase. The com mission asks the road to amend its baggage tariff to a basis not exceed ing the baggage rate of 1907, and un less the company does this the com mission will issue an order requiring the company to show cause why it does not do so. I “Nebraska is out of debt, has $10. 000,000 loaned out, owns many thou sand acres of school land and Is proud of its showing." This was the answer Governor Morehead gave F. H. Long, “assistant secretary” to the governor of Massachusetts, who is writing to all of the governors, col lecting their autographs on official sta tionery. Long wrote to Governor Morehead that the Massachusetts of fice boasted of seven rooms, with eight men on the governor’s personal staff. Nebraska holds $24,000 of Massachusetts’ bonds. The monthly report of the activi ties of the state food, drug, dairy and oil commission shows the inspection of 2,028 separate establishments. Of the number 365 were scale and stand ard inspections under the weights and measures law. A total of 739 cars of gasoline were inspected and 269 grocery stored and meat markets. There were only 132 sanitary orders I issued as a result of these investiga tions. The receipts from all these sources totaled $11,852 for the month. “Nebraska has produced good citi zens in spite of her school system rather than because of it,” said State Superintendent A. O. 'Thomas in an address at the meeting of the Nebras ka Academy of Science. "Civilization has grown apace in the last twenty five years, but the little country school remains the same unattractive, bleak, wind-swept institution that it was when first established. The teacher problem in the country school will solve Itself when the situation is made attractive for the country teacher.” SLOW TOJSSEUBLE MOBILIZATION OF MILITIA ON BORDER DISAPPOINTING. GUARD BELOW PAPER MEASURE Ten Days After State Troops Are Called Out, They Are Far From Being Ready for Action. Washington.—General Funston’s re alignment of the border patrol has been delayed. War department offic ials declare, by a slow mobilization of the Arizona and New Mexico National Guard and by the disappointing show ing in numbers and equipment of some of the guard companies that have reported for service. Ten days after President Wilson called out the Texas, Arizona and New Mexico guardsmen for patrol duty along the border their mobiliza tion and assignment was far from complete. The Texas companies responded promptly, but in the other two stabs the call has not met with as quick response as officials expected. In ad dition so many companies in all three states have been found to be below' paper strength that the War depart ment now expects the total guards men provided will not be more than 3,000 and probably a few bundled less. When the call was issued it was depended on to add 3,500 men to the border patrol. Won't Be Recalled. Marathon, Tex.—The order of with drawal. sent to the Sibley-Langhorne expeditionary columns several days ago has been countermanded and the American troops which invaded Mex ico in search of the Glenn Springs bandits will remain there indefinitely, it is reported here. This column probably will be reinforced by troops from General Pershing's army, ac cording to the same sources of infor mation. Major Langhorne when last heard from had established ljis camp at El Pino, 125 miles south of the border. Patrol of North Chihuahua. Columbus, N. M.—Preparations for the policing of northern Chihuahua by approximately 10,000, composing a protective patrol of the Mexican bor der is practically completed. New rumors concerning the where abouts of Villa have reached the bor der. These reports declare that the bandit leader through the connivance of trusted followers had been treated for his wounds in a Chihuahua City hospital and now is recruiting an army. Kill Fifteen Bandits. Field Headquarters, Near Nami quipa.—Twenty-five Mexican cowboys from the Hearst ranch at Badicora broke and scattered a newly formed gang of bandits near Madera, absut a week ago, killing fifteen, wounding cue and capturing six. according to news reaching here. Employes of the ranch surprised the bandits in camp near the Ranch Viejo. The six taken prisoner were delivered to C’arranzista authorities in Madera. Among the dead were Dominguez and Castillo, the toll bringing the number of Villista slain up to nearly 250 since the American punitive expedition was sent across the border about nine weeks ago. Hughes Choice In Oregon. Portland, Ore.—Returns from the primary election held in Oregon just recently show that the parties hau ex pressed their preference for presi dential nominee as follows: Dem ocrats, Woodrow Wilson; republicans, Charles E. Hughes; progressives, Theodore Roosevelt. President Wil son was nominated without opposi tion in his party. Although there was no presidential candidate’s name on the progressive ballot, Theodore Roosevelt was written in almost with out exception. The overwhelming lead which Jus tice Hughes took from the very start over his opponents, Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa, and Former Sen ator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, both of whom had stumped the stale, came as a surprise even to Hughes’ supporters. Have Not Ceased Entirely. Washington, D. C.—American pur chases in Germany, though but a frac tion of what they were before the European nations went to war have not ceased entirely, as shown in im port statistics compiled in the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. Shipments from the German empire to the United States trickling through the allies' blockade, still amount to more than $1,000,000 a month. Convicts Play Ball Game. Columbus, O.—A convict ball team from the Ohio penitentiary played an amateur team at the local American association park recently. It is said to be the first time that a convict team, unguarded, has been permitted to play outside of prison walls. Police Car Kill* Woman. Sioux City, la.—Miss Jennie Jones, former woman’s golf champion of Iowa, was killed here when her auto mobile was hit by the police patrol while dashing to answer a call. Aviators Fall Thousand Feet. London.—Lieutenants Selwyn and Bateman, military aviators, were kill ed instantly at Gosport, in Hamp shire, near Portsmouth. The aero plane in which they were flying dived from a height of 1,000 feet. Both lieu tenants were experienced aviators. Gets 16 Years for Assault. Harlan, la.—John A. Walker, this > county, charged with assault on Ber tha Bickels, a child of 8 years, plead ed guilty and was sentenced to serve 16 years in the state reformatory.