EDITORS OF NEBRASKA TO
HAVE UNIQUE EXCURSION
Will Tour Western Part of
State During Week of
August Seventh
PLANS ARE IN PREPARATION
Committees Named Are All Working
Hard to Perfect Various Details
—Nothing to Be Left Undone
fq» Comfort and Pleasure
of the Party.
OVER 200 RESERVATIONS MADE.
(By J. O. Goodwin)
The forthcoming annual meeting of
the Nebraska Press Association will
be an unique occasion. At the last
meeting of the association in Omaha
»n invitation was extended by Scotts
bluff and Gering, two sister towns in
the irrigated valley of the North
Platte river, in the extreme western
part of the state, to hold the 1916
meeting at those places. A substan
tial bonus was offered to help defray
the expense in taking a special train
of editors to that distant part of the
state. In an unofficial way it was
thought that the two transportation
companies that pass through the Nile
valley of Nebraska would be interest
ed In the excursion of the scribes and
would assist in the matter of trans
portation. The invitation was accept
ed In a tentative way and it was left
for the executive committee to consid
er the matter from every angle and
finally to fix the time and place. Later
the towns of Chadron, Crawford, Sid
ney, Alliance, Bridgeport, Broken
Bow, Kearney and North Platte asked
for stops and offered to feed the vis
itors and furnish entertainment and,
in some cases, give small cash boni.
The fact that Nebraska has a strict
anti-pass law finally made it impossi
ble for the railroad companies to do
other than to charge the regular fare
of 2 cents per mile. From assur
ances already received it seems cer
tain that about three hundred bona
fide newspaper men and women of Ne
braska will start from Grand Island
Monday, August 7, in a special train
of Pullman cars for a week’s trip into
the western part of Nebraska. The
train is scheduled to reach Broken
Bow about G o'clock, where supper
will be served by the good people of
that town. The visitors will spend
the most of the evening there and
will leave in time to reach Crawford
at an early hour the next morning,
where breakfast will be served. The
train will be parked for the day and
a trip across country will be made by
automobiles to Chadron, where lunch
eon will be served on the grounds of
the new state normal school. A stop
will be made at Crawford again on
the return trip and it is planned to
reach Alliance in time for supper. The
evening will be spent at Alliance and
a short night run will take the train
to Sidney by early morning. It Is
possible that a few of the newspaper
men will avail themselves of the in
vitation of the Kimball Commercial
club to leave the special train at Sid
ney and take a side trip to Kimball
and from there auto across to Gpring
in time to meet the train upon its ar
rival there.
The party will breakfast at Sidney,
take a look at the town and country
and leave In time to reach Bridge
port about noon. While the train is
being transferred from the Burling
ton to the Union Pacific tracks the
jditore will be the guests of Bridge
port hosts for luncheon. Gering will
be reached by mid-afternoon and the
train will be parked until 11 o'clock
the next night. In the meantime the
principal meetings will be held at
Scottsbiuff and Gering and side trips
will include Mitchell and Minitare.
On the return trip stops will be
.rtade at North Platte and Kearney
Tor breakfast and luncheon and the
train is scheduled to reach Grand
Grand Island in time to permit a large
part of the association members to
get trains to their homes Friday even
ing. It is estimated that the local
purses that are offered by the towns
visited will pay for the hire of the
Pullman cars, probably five or six,
aside from the parlor-observation and
cafe car, the baggage-dynamo car and
the car for railroad officials that will
accompany the party.
To work out the details to a point
that assures reasonable satisfaction
to all concerned is not a light task,
and has kept the executive committee
thinking hard. Several meetings have
been held and on nearly every occa
sion there has been a full attendance
of the committee which is made up
of such representative men as: Vice
President Clark Perkins of the Au
rora Republican; Will C. Israel
Havelock Post; N. J. Ludi, Wahoc
Democrat; Don C. Van Deusen, Blaii
Pilot; B. K. Schaeffer, Curtis Enter
prise; A. H. Backhaus, Pierce Leader;
A. B. Wood, Gering Courier, and Sec
retary C. C. Johns of Omaha.
President Horace M. Davis, Ord
Journal, has made the call general foi
all newspaper men to attend the meet
ings of the executive committee and
the meetings have been called at such
places that it has been convenient foi
many local editors to attend and con
fer with the committee. The plan has
worked out successfully and has re
suited in a wider spread interest in
the good of the association than was
contemplated by its author.
A committee consisting of Ross L
Hammond, Fremont Tribune; Don C
Van Deusen, Blair Pilot; Henry C
Richmond, Omaha World-Herald; J. D
Scott, Edgar Printer; and Secretary
Johns have been appointed to arrange
for the program and this feature will
not be overlooked in the festivities
that will bo enjoyed on the trip. Will
M. Maupin, York Democrat; John M
Tanner, Omaha Democrat; and Geo. S.
Fox worthy have been named as e
“stunts” committee and it is under
stood that it will be the business ol
these gentlemen to arrange for origi
nal songs and cabaret performances
that will insure the party against a
dull moment. Governor Howard, Co
lumbus Telegram, has promised to
serve as interlocutor for the minstrel
show that will be worked out. Frank
Harrison of Lincoln and Adam Breede
of Hastings will have charge of the
band that they are organizing for the
occasion. It will be uniquely costum
ed and the instrumentation is said tc
be unique.
President Davis, Vice-Presidenl
Perkins and Editor Buechler of the
Grand Island Independent, have direct
charge of the train and trip and are
undertaking the details with the rail
reads, the towns to be visited and the
general ccmfort of all concerned.
Members of supply firms doing bus
iness in Nebraska may accompany the
train, but may not enjoy any rebate
from the local guarantees. Any active
newspaper man or woman or anyone
who has been active in the business
and has printers’ ink still sticking to
his finger nails may go. But it is
only fair to serve notice to ail com
ers that an edict has gone out against
eny liquor on the editors’ train. There
is no prohibition against cob pipes.
One of the features of the associa
tion meeting this year will be the
consideration of the report of the leg
islative committee. President Davis
has been in close touch with several
legislative sessions and knows how
sadly neglected are the interests of
the country newspapers. He has ap
pointed a strong legislative commit
tee that will serve through his admin
istration and the one following: J. W
Outright, Lincoln Star; M. A. Brown.
Kearney Hub; Frank E. Heivey, Lin
coin News Bureau; F. O. Edgecombe
Geneva Signal; and G. S. Foxworthy.
Lincoln W. N. U. To save each edi
tor having to work up individual copy
for his newspaper while on the trip
an official reporter will be named and
his copy will be furnished in plate
form, properly illustrated, for every
paper represented on the excursion.
When a week’s camping party was
held near Lincoln for the annual meet
ing of the Nebraska Press association
two years ago, it was not only novel
hut a tremendous success. That inno
vation suggested this one, perhaps,
and rf present plans do not miscarry
the Nebraska printers will hold th«
record for originality in the way of
annual meetings.
Some time the association is going
to accept the invitation o' the regents
of the State University to spend a
week in session at the State Agricul
tural College near Lincoln, ar.d while
the husbands are talking shop and
spinning yarns, the wives will be tak
ing lessons in domestic science, mu
sic and fine arts under the Instruction
«f the college faculty.
His Verdict.
At the meeting of the Afro-American
Debating club the question of capital
punishment for murder occupied the
attention of the orators for the even
ing. One speaker had a great deal tc
say about the sanity of persons who
thus took the law into their own
hands. The last speaker, however,
after a stirring harangue, concluded
with great feeling; “Ah disagrees wlf
cap’tal punishment an’ all dis heah
talk ’bout sanity. Any pusson ’al
c’mits murdeh ain’t In a sanitary c’n
dition.”
Door Bumpers.
An efficient bumper to prevent doors
rrom marring woodwork can be made
from a large spooi. First get a screw
with a head about the size of the bore
of the spool. This should be screwed
into the baseboard to within half an
Inch of the head. The spool can then
be pushed over the screwhead, and if
necessary wedged to hold it securely.
Into the open end of the spool can be
screwed one of the rubber tips used
on crutches and chair legs. A con
venient door stop may be made by us
ing seven empty tin milk cans of
small size, filling them with crushed
rock, then covering them with blue
serge. Fasten them together and put
a cover of fancy design on top. This
is serviceable and a welcome change
'rom the ordinary covered brick.
What Mist Is.
Mist is just one of the ways that we
see the water in the air. It is some
thing like a cloud only near the
ground.—From Boys and Girls’ Ask-at
Home Questions.
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Human Victims of Crocodile.
Villagers living near a crocodile-in
fested river in India protect them
selves from man-eaters by fencing
their bathing places with bamboo
poles • but yet they are sometimes
billed within these inclosures, if not
devoured. The brutes are not alto
gether devoid of intelligence. They
tiU enter the inclosures at night by
the overland route and lie still. Som^
times they manage, by their claws,
££ch are very powerful to make an
Ip^ing in the fence, and secure an
entrance. After this they will remain
quiet, and catch the first bather as
soon as he enters the water. The
crocodile, however, cajmot carry away
the body of Its victim on account of
the fence, and it has to risk its own
life, as the villagers will try to kill
it within the inclosure.
Dire Japanese Prophecy.
An old Japanese prophecy says:
"When men fly like birds ten great
kings will go to war against one an
other.”
LIST OF THE STATE
PRIMARYNOMINEES
CLASSIFIED ROSTER OF PROS
PECTIVE CANDIDATES.
SOME ARE ONJjOTH TICKETS
Secretary of State Gathers Names of
Political Aspirants for Leg
islative Honors at
Fall Election.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Secretary of State Pool has just
completed a list of all the democratic
and republican candidates for the two
branches of the state legislature. In
order to get some of the names
it was necessary to write to county
clerks and ask them who the candi
dates were in their respective dis
tricts.
One republican nominee for state
senator, H. H. Meyer of Fontanelle,
died, and it will devolve upon the
party committees of Dodge and
Washington counties to select some
one else for this place on the ticket.
Two candidates for the state senate
—Phil Kohl of Wayne and D. M.
Douthett of Overton—have been nom
inated on both the democratic and
republican tickets. The same is true
of three candidates for the lower
house—R. C. Regan of Platte Center,
H. J. White of Ainsworth and W. L.
Bates of Lodgepole.
In a few districts there are va
cancies on one ticket or the other,
but these may be filled before the
ballots are printed.
The following are the democratic
legislative candidates, with the dis
trict, the name and the home ad
dress:
uemocrais tot ocnais
1— L. C. Edwards. Falls City.
2— John Mattes, Nebraska City.
3— J. M. Gates. Fort Crook.
4— John M. Tanner, Omaha; John F.
Moriarity, Omaha; R. C. Strehlow, Om
aha: Edward E. Howell. Omaha; J. H.
Bennett. Omaha.
5— Wallace H. Wilson. Fremont.
6— Thos Conlev, Winnebago.
7— Philip H. Kohl, Wayne.
9— A. F. Dare, Clearwater.
10— John R. Henry, Howells.
11— I. L. Albert, Columbus.
12— C. W. Doty, Beaver Crossing.
IS—A. J. Sawyer, Lincoln; L. C. Ober
lles, Lincoln.
14— Julius Neumann. Wvmore.
15— William Grueber. Byron.
16— F. Skipton. Shickley.
17— J. R. Davidson, Aurora.
18— J. H. Buhrman. St. Libory.
19— Walter E. Hager, Hastings.
20— C. E. Samuelson, Hildreth.
21— J. M. Grace, Mascot.
22— Charles A. Chappell, Minden.
23— Charles W. Beal. Broken Bow.
24— J. A. Robertson, Joy.
25— D. M. Douthett, Overton.
26— Willis Wilson. Curtis.
27— Charles J. Collins. Collins.
28— George M. Adams. Crawford.
Republicans for Senate
1— Richard F. Neal, Auburn.
2— Andrew F. Sturm. Nehawka.
3— Frank J. Polak, Wahoo.
4— Charles L. Saunders, Omaha; John
M. MacFarland, Omaha; Franklin A.
Shotwell, Omaha; Bert C. Miner, Omaha;
H. J. Hackett. Omaha.
5— H. H. Meyer, Fontanelle.
6— Frank F. Haase. Emerson.
7— Philip H. Kohl, Wayne.
8— Chas. Ruden, Crofton.
9— W. L. McAllister, Neligh.
10— Virgil L. Horton, Stanton.
11— Albert Hedbloom. Stromsburg.
12— John P. Stolz, Milford.
13— Edwin Jeary, Lincoln; Chas. War
ner, Lincoln.
14— Adam McMullen. Wymore.
15— Thomas Lehners, Beividere.
16— E. J. Spirk, Wilber.
17— C. E. Sandall, York.
18— W. F. Krembe, Grand Island.
19— Isaiah D. Evans. Hastings.
20— J. S. Butler, Superior.
21— James W. Hammond, Cambridge.
22— O. G. Smith, Kearney.
23— H. S. Waterburk, Berwyn.
24— Joseph Mathousek, Atkinson.
25— D. M. Douthett, Overton.
26— Charles W. Meeker, Imperial.
27— B. K. Bushee. Kimball.
28— D. H. Griswold, Gordon.
Democratic Representatives
1— W. F. Reischick, Falls City.
2— John T. Swan, Auburn.
3— Ben T. Skeen, Brownvllle.
4— Charles K. Anderson, Table Rock.
5— A1 N. Dafoe, Tecumseh.
6— G. W. Leidlgh, Nebraska City.
7— John Murty, Alvo.
8— L. G. Todd. Union.
9— Jacob Sass, Chaleo.
10— James H. Craddock. Omaha; Jens
Nielsen. Omaha; Jerry Howard, Omaha;
J. H. Bulla, Omaha; John H. Hopkins.
Omaha; Francis Goodall, Omaha; Jerry
Jelen, Omaha; Henry C. Richmond. Om
aha; John J. Shannon. Omaha: Frank R.
Keegan, Omaha; Joseph M. Lovely, Om
aha; R. A. Schneider, Omaha.
11— J. P. Jensen, Biair.
12— Charles W. Orr, Craig.
Will Change Railroad System.
Tokio.—Japan will probably decide
to change her main railroad system
from a narrow to a broad gauge. The
present gauge of three feet and six
inches waB adopted when the first line
was built in Japan, but experience
has demonstrated the wisdom of wid
ening it to the standard broad gauge
such as obtains in the United States.
For one thing it will permit of greater
speed, and for another it will be more
useful as a means of communication In
connection with national defense in
time of war.
France Awards Many War Crosses.
Paris.—The French government has
awarded 120,000 war crosses since the
creation of the decoration. Of these,
16,000 have been given in the course of
the present war. Now the chamber of
deputies has decided to create a dis
tinctive sign to be worn by those who
have won the cross while facing death.
The fact that thousands of non-com
bantants have received the coveted bit
of metal and ribbon is considered un
fair to the others.
Horses Shown to Avoid Battle.
France.—Shamming by war horses
to avoid the battle front, discredited at
first, seems now well established.
French army veterinarles have
found from close observation that cer
tain horses fall most unaccountably
til when in bombarded regions. They
11a down and seem too weak and nerv
ous to move, or go lame.
When they are sent back to the vet
erinary camp in th* rear in a day or
two they are all right again.
13— James J. McAllister, Dakota City.
14— Leonard Titus Fleetwood, Wake«
field.
15— Frank C. Radke, Wynot.
Neff, Bloomfield.
17— John H. Reifenrath, Crofton* ■ v
18— Crinklow, Neligh. •' £
19— Flo Fuchs, Pierce.
20— C. J. Rundell, Wavni.
21— Ferdinand Koch. West Point.
22— Lincoln Riley, Wisner.
22—James Anten, Albion.
24— John J. Hughes, Battle Creek.
25— Chas., F. Segelke. Columbus.
26— R. C. Regan, Platte Center.
27— J. B. Sindelar, HoWells.
28— Wm. G. J. Dau. Hooper; Norman
E. Shaffer, Hooper.
29— Geo. W. Meredith, Ashland; C. M.
Lemar, Wahoo.
30— Geo. G. Waite, Lincoln; Frank
Mills, Lincoln; E. c. Kemble, Lincoln;
Paul Goss, Lincoln; William Foster, Lin
coln; Roy A. Bickford, Lincoln.
31— Chas. W. Burrows, Adams; J. W.
McKissick, Beatrice.
32— C. L. E. Blauser, Diller.
33— C. F. Knutzen, Bruning.
34— James A. McGuire, Wymore.
35— Geo. A. Hunt, Crete.
36— Paul Mauser, Beaver Crossing.
37— Nicholas Meysenburg, David City
38— Geo. W. Fuller, Seward.
39— J. N. Norton, Polk.
40— Herman Diers, Gresham.
41— Walter Howarth, Friend.
42— H. A. Swanson, Clay Center.
43— Oliver C. Bedford, Geneva.
44— J. T. Voorhees, Aurora.
45— Geo. Jackson, Nelson.
46— George W. Lindsey, Red Cloud.
47— J. C. Snyder, Hastings; A. J. Van
Every, Hastings.
48— H. H. O'Malley. Alda; C. E. Ellis,
Alda.
49— Thos. M. Osterman. Central City. -
50— Albert Thompson, Fullerton.
51— Soren M. Fries, Dannebrog.
52— John C. Harris, Greeley.
53—
54— Christ Andersen, Bristow.
55— H. J. White, Ainsworth.
56— J. A. Ollis, Ord.
57— C. W. Trumbie, Hazard.
58— W. J. Taylor. Merna; Geo. W.
Green wait. Broken Bow.
59— Wm. H. Arnold, Kearney; Gene
Loomis, Kearney.
60— Wm. Gormly, Lowell.
61— David McCracken, Macon.
63— P. C. Funk, Funk.
64— J. W. Kelly, Beaver City.
65— D. F. Schwab, Lebanon.
66— Albert LaBounty, Moorefield.
67— John E. Jacobsen, Lexington.
68— Butler Buchanan, North Platte.
69— 2>. M. Ewing, Benkleman.
70— Fred Hoffmeister, Imperial.
71— Jay Oliver, Seneca.
72— Thomas C. Hornby, Valentine.
J3—Lloyd C. Thomas. Alliance.
"4—Charles Naylor, Chadron.
75— Charles D. Green. Bayard.
76— William L. Bates, Lodgepols.
77— Eugene Beal, Ogallala.
Republican Representatives
1— Harry Ford, Falls City.
2— Ellis E. Good, Peru.
3— Geo. W. Reneker, Falls City.
4— W. T. Parkinson, Pawnee City.
5— J. H. Melville, Sterling.
6— Patrick Roddy, Nebraska City.
7— L. A. Tyson, Elmwood.
8— Edwin Zimrnerer, Nebraska City.
9— Fred Lftie. La Platte.
10— Harry A. Foster, Omaha; John Lar
sen, Omaha; J. Frank Burgess. Omaha;
Robt. C. Druesdow. Omaha; Nels A.
Lundgren, Omaha; James Walsh, Omaha;
O. R. Young, Omaha; Joseph* Shermar.,
Omaha; P. J. Trainor. Omaha; John W.
Cooper, Omaha; James Allen, Omaha:
8am G. Hoff, Omaha
11— Albert H. Miller, Kennard.
12— John F. Nesbit, Tekamah.
13— A. M. Chambers, Walthill.
14— H. J. Neurnberger, Wakefliekl.
15— S. O. Reese, Randolph.
16— T. A. Anthony, Wausa.
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18— J- T. Lindberg, Elgin.
19— C. E. Manzer, Pierce.
20— Grant S. Mears, Wayne.
21— H. H. Pease, Beemer.
22— Henry Behrens, Beemer.
23— Jud C. Wilson, St. Edwards.
24— T. T. McDonald. Tilden.
2o—Henry Clayburn, Platte Center.
26— R. C. Regan, Platte Center.
27—
28— Frank Myers, Snyder; Wm. Eidam,
Ames.
29— Chas. A. Cook, Wahoo; J. M. Lam
bert, Wahoo.
30— C. M. Parker. Lincoln: Leonard A.
Flansburg. Lincoln; A. H. Hutton. Lin
coln; Ralph 8. Moseley, Lincoln; C.
Petrus Peterson, Lincoln.
31— Dwight S. Dal bey. Beatrice; G. W,
Steinmeyer. Holmesville.
32— J. A. Axtell, Fairburv.
33— B. F. Willis, Hebron.
34— Thomas E. Conley, Fairbury.
35— Frank Ptak, Friend.
36— Geo. Liggett. Jr., Utica.
37— L. E. Ludden, Surprise.
38— A. Campbell. Seward.
39— Robert G. Douglas. Osceola.
40— --Mahlon B. Stream. York.
41— James S. Foulon, Fairmont.
42— H. E. McDowell. Clay Center.
43— John M. Ward. Geneva.
44— Perry Reed. Henderson.
4:»—William K. Moore, Nelson.
46— M. F. Rickard. Guide Rock.
47— Erick Johnson. Hastings; Fred G.
Johnson. Hastings.
48— Leo Stuhr. Grand Island: A. L*
Scudder, Grand Island.
49— F. E. Morrow, Central City.
50— R. J. Ainley, Belgrade.
51— E. H. Sorenson, St. Paul.
o2—
53— Dennis H. Cronin. O’Neill.
54— John R. Reattv. Butte.
55— H. J. White, Ainsworth.
56— John G. Bremer, Ord.
57— Alonzo Daddow, Austin.
r,S—Tra P. Mills. Arnold; E. N. Bishop,
Gates.
59— M. A. Hostetler, Shelton; J. a
Harris. Amherst.
60— John BJorklund. Mlnden.
61— W. C. Dorsey. Bloomington.
62— H. T. Moore. Alma.
63— O. T. Anderson, Holdrege.
64— J. F. Fults. Beaver Cltv.
65— S. W. Clark Bartley.
66— Geo. C. Junkin, Smithfleld.
67— W. M. Stebblns. Gothenburg.
68— Scott Reynolds. North Platte.
69— H. E. Tweedy, Trenton.
70— Joseph Osier, Elsie.
71— F. A. Reisner. Thedford.
72— Oeoree E. Tracewell, Valenttne.
■ 3—W. H. Harper. Alliance.
74— James W. Good, Chadron.
75— F E. Stearns. Scottsbluff.
76— William L. Bates. Lodge pole.
77— 'Wm. H. C. Woodhurst. North
Platte.
Government Land Drawing
Spokane, Wash.—Land offices have
been thrown open for those who want
to participate in one of Uncle Sam’s
last great land raffles. Approximately
360,000 acres, comprising the south
half of the Colville Indian reservation,
will bo divided into 160 acre ranches
and turned over to settlers who hold
the lucky numbers after the drawing,
July 27. Registration books have been
spened in Spokane, Wenatchee, Wilbur,
Republic, Omak and Colville, Wash.
The estimated total value of all the
property of the University of Ne
braska, not including endowment
funds and lands, is $2,700,000, of which
$1,850,000 is lands and buildings and
$850,000 is general movable equipment.
The board of regents at their last meet
ing, directed that a system of control
be devised so that the central office
would know at all times what the uni
versity owns, where every item is and
the present value of every item is. A.
O. Johnson, the university efficiency
exjert, has Just installed such a sys
tem.
This has happened in so many cases
that it has become a matter beyond
dispute that the animals sham sick
ness to get away from a spot whers
they have to do strange work under
strange conditions and where con
stantly horrible things make terrify'
ing noises.
One veterinary who has trained raca
horses says that malingering among
blooded animals is fairly common and
that horses have b*en known to sham
lameness to be left in the stable or
to start a cough to avoid going out t»
practice.
NEWS OFTHE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
II BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
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National, Political, Personal and Other
Matters In Brief Form for All
Classes of Readers.
MEXICAN TROUBLE.
The embargo on shipments to Mex
ico has been lifted on everything ex
cept munitions of war.
• • *
In the collision between a train
filled with Nebraska National Guards
men and a switch engine at Houston,
Texas, three guardsmen were most
painfully injured.
* • •
General Calles has demobilized 4,000
Mexican cavalrymen, who had been
encamped in Fronteras, Cuchuta and
Nacozari, to the south of Douglas,
for several weeks.
• * *
From 200 to 300 Carranza soldiers
and camp followers were massacred
by broncho Yaquis early last week in
lower Sonora, according to stories told
In Nogales, Ariz., by arrivals from that
part of Mexico.
• • *
The Cedile brothers, heading a band
of 2,000 rebels in the state of San Luis
Potcsi, unconditionally surrendered to
the Carranza government with their
followers. No more rebels are now
operating in San Luis Potosi.
• * »
General Pershing has made the dec
laration that he believes the trouble
between the United States and Mexico
is settled. He asserts that Mexicans
in the vicinity of his column along the
Mexican railroad, are very friendly.
* • •
The Mexico Northwestern railroad
again has been opened for the ship
ment of supplies to American troops
in Mexico. This action follows the
lifting of the embargo on food and
other exportations to Mexicans.
* • *
Large Carranza forces, better organ
ized and more completely equipped
than any other units of the de facto
government troops, are closing in on
the bandits of southern Chihuahua
and northern Durango, intent on wip
ing them out.
GENERAL.
More than 14,000,000 damage was
done in Mississippi and Alabama by
a terrific storm which swept that sec
tion of the country recently.
* * •
Iowa democrats for the first time in
the memory of any of the leaders
went on record in the state platform
as favoring prohibition at the state
convention at Des Moines.
* • *
The largest single wool sale made
lr. America this year was completed at
Cheyenne. Wyo., when the Swan Land
and Cattle Co. sold its 191b' clip ol
600,000 pounds to W. R. Adams of Fre
mont, Neb. The price was 25 cents
a pound.
* • •
An attempt to assassinate President
L LaPlaza of Brazil was made at
Buenos Aires. The president was re
viewing troops when a man in the
crowd of spectators suddenly drew a
revolver and fired at him. The shot
went wild.
That more people in the city of Chi
cago go to moving picture theaters
than attend churches was the state
ment made by Mrs. Harriett Stokes
Thompson, in a report to delegates of
the convention of the Motion Picture
Exhibitors’ League of America.
• • •
John Redmond, leader of the Irish
nationalists, issued a statement char
acterizing the speech of the Marquis
of Lansdowne in the British house of
lords as a declaration of war on the
Irish people. Among other sugges
tions made by Lord Lansdowne was
the maintenance of a garrison in Ire
land strong enough to preserve order.
* * *
A conference of representative pro
gressives from all parts of tlie coun
try soon will be held in Chicago, ac
cording to an announcement by Bain
brldge Colby, to consider “the wide
spread and bitter revolt within the
party’’ against the action of the na
tional committee in endorsing Charles
E. Hughes.
• • •
Two children have died of infantile
paralysis in 5'' 'hell. So. Dak.,, ac
cording to a sulenient by the city
health officer. Children have been
prohibited from attending public gath
erings.
• • •
District Judge Frey of Boone, la.,
held that beef cannot be shipped any
where within the state of Iowa and
that other-intoxicating liquors can be
shipped only to druggists having per
mits to sell them for medicinal pur
poses.
• • •
August Heckscher, New York cap
italist, presented a check for $10,900
to Captain Paul Koenig for the mem
bers of the crew of the Deutschland
In recognition of the submarine’s feat.
* * *
The development of 2,000,000 horse
power of electric energy below the
Niagara Falls, without disturbing the
Horse Shoe Falls and American Falls,
and the expenditure of $100,000,000 in
the work, are proposed in a scheme
tjjat has been submitted to the Cana
dian government
• * *
The unfilled orders of the United
Btates Steel corporation on June 30
stood at 9,640,468 tons, a decrease of
297,340 tons as compared with those
of May 31, according to the monthly
statement issued at New York.
Chicago’s population, based upon of
ficial school population is 2,550,000.
• * •
The city and the province of Mad
rid, Spain, have been declared by the
Spanish government in a state of
siege on account of the strike of rail
way employes.
• * *
The bodies of six negro troopers
killed at Carrizal in the battle with
Carranza troops, were buried with full
military honors in Arlington cemetery,
Arlington, Va.
» * *
Dan Patch, pacing king, owned by
M. W. Savage, Minneapolis, died of
athletic heart at Savage farm. Savage,
Minn. In 1906 the champion pacer
went a mile over the St. Paul track
in 1:55 flat, the premier sulky record
of the world.
• * •
Terror has seized the multitudes
who have bathed at beaches along the
New York and .New Jersey coasts
by the appearance of man-eating
sharks, which have caused the death
of four swimmers in the past two
weeks and comparatively few persons
are now venturing into the water. At
several resorts wire nets have been
strung around the bathing areas.
WASHINGTON.
The McGillicuddy and Kern bill pro
viding a system of . workmen's com
pensation for federal employes passed
passed house by a vote of 286 to 3.
* * *
Democrats unanimously agreed in
caucus to support the general princi
ples of a ship purchase bill and to
begin the fight for its passage as soon
as the general naval appropriations
bill is disposed of.
* • •
Formal appeal has been made to all
the warring powers by the United
States through American ambassa
dors, the state department announced
to make mutual concessions for ship
ment of relief supplies into Poland.
• • *
President Wilson signed the good
roads bill recently passed by con
gress, authorizing the expenditure of
$85,000,000 in five years by the fed
eral government on condition that
states expend amounts similar to
those apportioned by the bill.
Rear Admiral W. B. Caperton, now
commanding the cruiser squadron in
Haiti and Santo Dominican waters,
has been selected to succeed Admiral
Winslow as commander of the Pacific
fleet when the latter retires July 29
on account of age.
* • *
The administration omnibus rev
enue bill, creating a tariff commission,
imposing a protective tariff on dye
stuffs, repealing present stamp taxes
and providing for new taxes on in
comes, inheritances and war muni
tions profits passed the house b7 a
vote of 240 to 140.
» • •
The German super-submersible
Deutcshland, which made a 4,000
rcile trip across the Atlantic is not a
warship. She is not even an armed
merchantman. She has no guns or
armament of any kind aboard her.
This was the report made to the
treasury department by custom offi
cials.
* * »
War's increase of food prices in Eu
rope. as shown by the bureau of labor
statistics, has touched neutrals almost
as heavily as belligerents. The big
gest food price advance is in Austria,
where meats are 500 per cent higher
than before the war. Meat prices
in Germany have risen from 45 to 500
per cent. The British public is paying
55 per cent more for food than it did
two years ago. In France prices are
23 per cent above ®he pre-war aver
age; in Italy 30 per cent. Prices in
Norway for necessities are 63 per cent
more than in 1914. Denmark workmen
pay 34 per cent more for food than
two years ago; in Sweden prices are
21 per cent higher; in Switzerland 3
to 175 per cent.
WAR NEWS.
The British steamship Pendennis,
2,183 tons gross, with a cargo of tim
ber from Gothenburg for Hull, has
been captured by a German warship
off the Norwegian coast and brought
to a German port. ■%
* * *
The entente allied offensive on the
western front is only in its beginning
declared Premier Asquith in announc
ing in the House of Commons that the
government had decided to ask work
ers to forego their August holidays be
cause of the demand for munitions.
• * •
The Germans, since the beginning
of the war, have destroyed in France,
2,554 villages, 428 cities, 16,669 houses,
.331 churches, 379 schools, 201 city
halls, 300 important buildings. 330 fac
tories, fdxty important bridges, and
fifty-sex structures of historical im
portance. This is a statement made in
a French newspaper.
* * •
The next German commerce sub
marine to go to America will bring
back foodstuffs, particularly con
densed milk, according to reports re
ceived in Amsterdam from Bremen.
Condensed milk also will form the
bulk of the return cargo of other sub
marines to cross the Atlantic.
• * •
German newspapers received in Am
sterdam assert that eighty submarines
of the Deutschland class are now be
ing built and that twenty will be com
pleted in August.
* * *
The British gains in the battle of
the Somme, after ten days’ continu
ous fighting, cover a front of nearly
eight miles and include the entire
German first system of defense, ac
cording to the official report forward
ed bv General Haig, the British corn
mander-in-chief on the French front.
• * *
The list of casualties among British
officers issued in the past four day3,
apparently composed almost altogether
of losses suffered in the past week’s
advance, give a total of ninety-four
killed, 504 wounded, thirty missing.
MAY SETTLE ISSUES
NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN U. S.
AND MEXICO PROMISING.
OUTLOOK PLEASES CARRANZA
Head of De Facto Government of
Mexico Certain Danger of War i*
Averted. Talks of Election.
Washington.—The informal nego
tiations for the settlement of issues
between the United, States and Gen
eral Carranza being carried on by
Acting Secretary Polk and Eliseo Ar
redondon, Mexican ambassador-desig
aate, are understood to be proceeding
very favorably and the outlook for a
complete adjustment of all differences
between the two countries are prom
ising. It has become known that
specific questions were being for
mulated for probable submission to a
joint international commission.
The commission plan of settling dif
ferences between the two countries is
provided for in the treaty of 1848.
Unofficial advices from Mexico City
have indicated that General Carranza
favored resort to it in the present
case, and Mr. Polk is believed to
have acceded to the suggestion de
spite the belief of the state depart
ment officials that more could be ac
complished through continuance of
i he informal conference with Mr. Ar
redondo.
President Wilson is said to be sat
isfied with the trend of the negotia
tions.
Both Mr. Polk and the ambassador
are confident that an agreement wili
be reached in the near future. ' It is
not known whether the powers of the
negotiators finally decided upon will
include authority to fix the time and
condition under which the American
troops will be withdrawn.
Carranza Well Pleased.
Mexico City.—General Carranza is
quoted as saying that the status of
the negotiations with the Washington
government are very satisfactory.
"Thanks to this feeling of good
will,” the first chief continued, “we
will be able to avoid, war. War is
something I do not desire, but if
there were no other remedy for the
situation I would enter upon it.”
Within a short time, the first chief
said, there would be incorporated in
the constitution of Mexico all the re
forms which now find a place in the
program of the constitutionalists.
As to the holding of a presidential
election. General Carranza said it
would take place as soon as the work
of reconstructing the constitution
had been completed and when the
country was completely at peace.
The de facto government, the first
chief said, contemplates a law of
amnesty, so that all Mexicans who
have left the country for one reason
or another can return if they desire.
Place Ban On N. Y. Children.
New York.—Medical experts bat
tling against the epidemic of infan
tile paralysis, which has cost 342 lives
in this city, express divergent views
upon the efficacy of injections of adre
linine in the spine as a remedy for
the disedse recommended by Dr. S. J.
Meltzer of the Rockefeller institute.
Dr. Louis C. Ager, referring to the
work being done in hospitals, declared
the percentage of total recoveries
from infantile paralysis will be larger
than was expected at first. Parents
eager to take their children out of the
city are finding it increasingly diffi
cult. Many tried to do so and failed
because the quarantine against the
city is growing more strict. Health
officials in towns adjacent to New
York are using the utmosi vigilance.
Wilson Names Hughes’ Successor.
Washington.—J. H. Clarke. United
States district Judge at Cleveland. O..
lias been nominated by President Wil
son as an associate judge of the su
preme court to succeed former Justice
Hughes, the republican nominee for
the presidency. Judge Clarke was ap
pointed federal district judge about
two years ago by President Wilson.
He is a bachelor and has devoted most
of his leisure hours of his life to read
ing. He was bom at Lisbon. O.. and
will be 59 years old in September. In
politics he has been 3 life-long demo
crat and ran against Mark Ilanna for
the United States senate in 1903.
Morster Meteor Falls.
Hot Springs, Ark.—A meteor, the
unburied part of which is as large as
a five-room house, fell on the farm of
J. W. Skipes, twenty miles west of
Hot Springs. Farmers of the vicinity
were afraid to approach the meteor
because of gases and smoke which
were arising from it.
Boy of 12 Kills Mother.
New Orleans, La.—William Zimmer,
aged 12, was arrested here charged
with killing his mother, Mrs. Harry
Zimmer. The boy. according to the
police, said he shot his mother be
cause she threatened to beat hiui when
he returned home from hunting work.
Stubble Wound Results in Lockjaw.
Sioux City. Ia.—Arthur Kurrer, 10
years old. cut his foot on stubble in
a cornfield last week. The wound was
not thought serious. He developed
lockjaw and died at his home here.
Off to Rescue Companions.
Punta Arenas, Chile.—Sir Ernest
Shackelton, the British Antarctic ex
plorer, who on returning from the
south polar zone last April left twenty
one of his companions on Elephant
island, has sailed from this port on a
small schooner to rescue them.
Ammonia Tank Burts, Killing 5.
New York.—Five persons were kill
ed, and at least thirty others were
injured when an ammonia tank in a.
Brooklyn butcher shop exploded, com
pletely wrecking the building.