Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1916)
i X)iefe 2lbteilung ift fur bie j j ^amiltcngltcber, tuclcfye am | liebften r>eutfd? lefen. $om Sdiauutafte fic-5 curojatidien SBolferfricuct'. ©rofee Greigniffe merien ibrc £d)atten Porous. 2Scr iiberroalti genbe 8turmaiigriff ber fircnprin jcn - ?lrmee auf bie norboftlidien £n reniorts pon iBerbun ldf>t ben gall ber groBcn geftung, beS bereftigten Siegers, poit iBerbun in md)t aEsu ferner 3eit ermarten. %n £eutic^ Icmb ersahlt man fid), ber beutfcbe Generalftab Iiabe fur bie Ginnabme Don iBerbun cine 3oit non fiirtf iDio naten fcftgefeist. Xanad) ioEte SBer bun in ben lenten 3uli - £agen fal len. £er midjtigite Zeil bes beutfeben SSeridjtes, in bem non ben lefcten Gr folgen norboftlid) Don iBerbun berid) tet mirb, befall fid) mil ber £>obe Don groibe Jerre. . 2ie Satiacbe, baf$ bie iBanem einen erialgreicben SBorfroB auf biefen£6benfamm mad) len, Idfct bie gortfebritte, meldje bie SSeutfdien in ben lenten SSocben raft unbemerfl gemadjt baben, beutlieb erfennen. 2)ie groibe lerre • $obe fdjmiegl iidi birefi norblidj Don gorl SBeEeniEe, norblicb Don $terbun, bidjt an bie bort ftarf gefriimmte SDtaas. 3mtidien ibr unb ber £bbe fiibrt am Ufer entlang bie Giftiibabn nadj SBras. 3Ser $ern ber groibe Jerre $obe ift ber £iigel 345, birefi meft lid) Don gleurg. Gs ift bte Iebtc §bbe Dor iBerbun. SBon bort ab gebt es lalabrodrts, auf gorl '-Beflepifle. jmei Jhlomeler norb* lid) Don ber Stabt felbil, ju. Gs iit fmdjft fraglid). ob bie granjofen mil ber SRdumung SBerbuns marten mer ben, bis bie 8eutfdjen fid) auf biefer Sbbe cingcniftct unb Don tljr aul ben 2?eft SBerbuns in Sriimmer jdjieBen. 9htr bie bbdjiie SBersmeiflung fonnte fit 3u einem foldjen ©iberftanbe, ber Selbftmorb mare, Dcranlaffen. SSahrenb bet Serbun mit toilidjcr Sidjerbeit bas ©tab ber franjofifcben 9ttilitarmadbt gegraben unb ber tUfei Ier, auf bem bte ganse nbrblidje SBeftfront ber 3IIIiierten ruljt untem toiiblt mirb, feben bie iBriten rubig ju. ^n Derddbilidier Ofmmadtf feben fie £raufreidjS Start batiinidjroin ben, obne aucb nur etnen ernftlicben tyerfucb ?u ©egenmaferegeln su ma cben. Sie etnjige Sofung biefer fonft ganjlid) unoerftanblidbcn Za tcnlofigfeit ift in ber Sdjtttddje ber englifcbcn SIrmae 311 futben. Sie bri tifcbc ©rofemaulfcbaft bat i|3apierar meen gefdbaffen bte im jrclbe alien falls ben geittb in Sdtad) balten, cber aucb nur fo lange btefer feinc emfrlidjen Slnftalten 3um Slngrtff madbt. Sic fleinen fiJationen burd) feige Srobungen gefiigig macfjen, fpoftfctfe ftcblen, in frember Scute Sriefen fdbnitffeln unb ben ebrlicben ©egncr mit SSerleumbungen iiber fdtiitten, bas ift GnglanbS bisberige 3foHe im Srtcge gemefen, tnabrenb man Sranjcfen unb Shtffen narfjfa gcn mufe. Safe fie fidb tanfer gefcfela gett unb ibrcr militdrifdicn Irabi tion feine Sdjanbe gemadbt baben. £ie grofje ruiftfdie Cffenfine ift gdnglid) gufammengebrodjen; fie hat ifjre $auptgroede, hie SDurdjbredjung her ouerreidjifd) • ungarifcben grout ntit her Ginnabnte Don fiemberg all 8iel unh hie Gntlaftung her grango fen unh 3>taliener, nidit erfiiHt. £ie fe beihen negatincn Stefultate finh cffenfiditlid) unh fonnen belbaib nicht in Sbrehe gefteUt inerben. So tttobl Stem roie fPari? geben ibre Gnt tdufdmng bar hie ruffifdje Dffenfine ifjnen feine SSefreiung nom Crude her geinhc gebradd, offen gu, unh hie bilber erfolgreidben Samnfc her fiinfingen - 2frmee unb hal ftide Gin geitdnhnil her ruffifeben giibrung felbft baben in eflatanter ffieife be triefen, hafe her mifitarifebe £aubt gmeef her Cffenfine, hie Uebcrfdjmem mung Storhoftgaligienl, gleidjfaH? ein fdmmerlidjer geblfdjlag tear. Sfaruber fonnen brute feine Stoeifei mrbr befteben. 2er heutfdje ©egenangriff her fiinfingen - Sfrmee bat fid) ingmifeben cuf cine Strecfe non tneit iiber 100 ftilometcm aulgehebnt. Sie um fafd hal gange ©ebiet non Solfi bt? gur gafigifdb - ruffiidjen ©renge bci Stabfiloroo, oSittd) non her galigifd)en ©rengftaht Srohn. Cie heutfebrgront hort giebt im roeiten £albfrei? urn Soncl. ben prominenten Gifenbahn fnotcnounft, obne ben hie Stuffen v.'Mi aue ridden fonnen. Cer fiib lube S(Md)mrt hiefel §albfreifel bat hen grogten Cntd her Stuffcn aulgu balten. Curd) hie Sfngriffe in her ©egenh oon Sifelin, bafbtregl gro'i fdjen SSIahimir - SSoItmSfij unh fiugf, bofften hie Stuffen hie fiinfin gen • Sfrmce hurcb einen fiibnen SSor ftofe nad) Storhen non ftonil abgu hrangen. SBdre cl ihncu gegliidi, fo roare hie fiinfingen - Sfrmee in hie U?rinct - Siimofe gehrangt unh her fubliche gliigel her firing Scooolh Sfrmee feine? Stii&Ounftel beraubt ttorhen. G§ beftebt brute fein 3®ei fel mebr. bafs hie heutfdbe grant im Cften ht febr grofjer ©efabr ffe febroebi bat, hie je^t gliidlidicrroeife el? gdtigli^i befeitigt betrad)tet roct l»r fatrs. Cbgleidj bie Sinfingcn ■ Slrmee be beutcnbe SSerfuirfungen erljalten bat, io ftebt fie bennocb ciner oielfadjen iiberlegenen ruffifdjcn 2nnec gegen iiber. £>eifet es bocb, bag bie Stuffed ntdjt iDcmger ali fed)* iDMionen statin gegen ben fiiblidjen Jeil ber beutfcben f^ront Dorttanen. Job ilj tten ber £urcbbrud) nicfjt gegliicft iff nur bem jdben Slusbalten ber beut fdjen JruDbeit unb bent Umftanbc ju perbanfen, bajj bie Cefterreidver nnb Ungaru fitb nad) 'ben erftcn £d)Iagen mit berounbern§roerier Sdjnclligfeit tricber sufammenraff ten unb ben ruffifdjcn iBormarfaj Sum §alten bradjten. 3m Centrum ber Sinie, am Stri ba, baben bie Stuffen bas 3medIofe ibrer fBemiibungcn eingefeben uiib bie Sfngriffe gegen bie Sotbmer - Sfr mee eingefteHt. 3m Siiben, in ber iBuforoina, baben fie burdj Uebcr rennung eincs faum Perteibigten terrains billigc ^rbeeren ernmgen. £ie iBuforoina ift, bas bat ber Scr fatben - ^elbsug im p#rigm 3riib jabre betriefeu, ein militarifdj un roidjtigeS ($ebiet, unb nur bie name $offnung auf rumanifcbe 'Dtitroir fung, fann bie Stuffen Peranlaffen, bort SBorteile su fudjen. 3o bebau ernsroert bao Jtorbringen ber Stuffen in biefer (refe ift, sur fBeunnibigung gibt ee feinc SSeranlaffung. £ie Stiicfroirfung ber rufiifcbm Offcnfipe auf ben italienifeben fvelb ?.ug bcilt nod) an. Xrob ber gegen tciligen SMelbung ber 3tafiener mus man annebmen, baB bie -Defterreidier Jruppen aue bem terrain stoifeben (Fticb unb iBrenta simidge3ogen ba ben, um bie Cftfront ju Perfiarfcn. 3talienifdje SPtelbungen iiber angeb Hdic ^Yortfcbritte in biefem terrain finb mit ber geroobnlidjen SSorfidit aufjunebmen. ^ofitire Sortjdjritte baben fie nidit gemadit; man barf aber Pon einent StiUftanb ber ofter rcidiifdjcn Cffenfioc fpredien. learning mfolge beS SriegeS. SPon einem ucibtifdjen 3?eamten Piero g)orfi- ift feftgeftcEt, bag ber 2oEar in ber EJtctropoIe jcit a»5 brudj bee 2Pe!rfriege§ tatfiid)iid) 4G ^'ro3ent feiner $aurfraft eingebiifet bat. £as, bemerft bie „Staatvjtg.", bcbeutet alfo mii nnberen Shorten, bag nidit mir bie iPreife aller iPe barfSartifel in bie .5>ofje geben, f/>n bern, bafe aucb bie Cualitat ber SPa ren fid) Perringert. SlaS finb rotrflid) nette 3uftanbe. 2ie §erren ffEeiicb bnrone Iiefern enorme Cuantitalcn tfJIeifd) an bie ?[Eiierten. 2ie Jfofge ift, bafe bier tatfadilidi gleifdimangel berrfcpt, unb bafe bie f\Ieifdjpreife cine gan3 eridiredlidje .^>6bc erreidit baben, non Dualitiit gar nidjt 311 re ben. So iff ee mit S dm ben unb £ebcrtoaren aller ?lrt. 3?ei ?fu«brud) bee ftriege* batten fid) bie Smerifancr and) nidit traumen laffen. bafe fie burd) ben Stieg berart fdjroer bclaftet roerben roiirben. fDiafrfnneiigetoebre fur bie amerifani- j fdje 3!rntec. ©afbington. £riegl - Sef. reldr Jtefer bring! auf ben fofortigcn Stnfauf Don iiber 1000 ERafdjinen gewebren. ^sefet fteben ber Slrmee nur 1077 ERafdjinengewebre jur SBcrfiigting, unb $err 3?afer erflart, bal Wdren nur jwei Trittel ber be ndtigten 3nbl. Tiefe 3abl wiirb? je bem iRegiment fiinf ERafcbincngcweb re belaffen. Ta man aber nad) euro pdiicbem 'IRufter jebem Regiment Wcnigftenl 12 ERafcbinengewebre ju teilen will, fo ift bie 3ab‘ ber beno tigten ERaftfjinengewebre bcbcutepb grdBer. Gl roirb besbalb ndtig fein, bie jefct in ben §dnben amerifanifcber fvabrifanten befinblidjen unb fiir bie SIEiierien beftimmten ERafdjinenge Webre fofort su bclegen. Slebnlid) Derbalt el fid) mil aEen anberen SSaffen. 3apon liefer* angeblid) feme 2J?n nition. X o f i o. Tie IRitfui Go., toeldje mit ber Tafaba Go. unb ber Cfura Go. bal ERunitionlgefcbafi in Jsapan fceberrfcbt, benad)rid)tigte einen $er treter ber „5Iffociateb ifireB", baB fie ben ERerifanern Weber ERunition nodi SSaffen liefert. SSor einiger Sett crbaltcne SInfragcn beantwor trie bie ERitfui Go. ablebnenb, ba fie ten ben S3erbiinbetcn japans mebr ?tuftrage bat, oil fie aulfiibren j fann. Tie §eriteEung Don ERunition if* in £apan Sadje ber iRegierung, unb bie genannten brei OfeieEjdjarien finb bie einjigen, weldje Don bem fRegie* runglarfenal aSaffcn unb ERunition faufen. fianabifrijCT SSerbeoffi^ier oerbaftet. Seattle. Tie S?unbe!-@ranb furp bat gegen 9apt. §. Ibomp“ fon Don ber fanabifdjcn Sfrmee Sin flagcn auf Eterle&ung ber Eieuttali tatlgefepe erboben. Gr batte bier fRefruten fur bte Sfmerifanifdjc 2e gion jum Ticnite im Slullanbc mit ben fanabifdjen Truppcn ange&or* ben. TRIP OF UNDERSEA CRAFT THRILLING Story of Voyage of German U Boat Across Ocean Out rivals Fiction. HOSTILE SHIPS ARE DODGED Submarine, During Hazardous 3,800 Mile Run. Submerged Many Times to Escape Possible Attack From Enemy. Baltimore. Md.—Pictures of adven ture no less thrilling titan those which fill the pages of Jules Verne’s "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” are called up by the amazing story of the trip of the fiermnn U-boat Deutsch land across the Atlantic ocean—a voy age that has been pronounced the most daring in the history of the sea. The story of the remarkable voyage made by this submarine—the first t<> cross the Atlantic ocean'—through a maze of hostile warships, has been told simply by C’apt. Paul Koenig, com mander of the undersea craft. Koenig was modest about it all. He had a few words of praise for his crew and none for himself. When he sj»oke of the fatherland his eyes spar kled and his whole body twitched with eagerness. When he talked of "just dropping down when he saw a de stroyer” his voice was calm. Would He Surrender? Just once did he display real emo tion. That was when toward the end of the interview this question was suddenly shot at him : "Suppose on your way back, just as you left the Virginia capes, you saw a destroyer bearing mercilessly down Upon you. Suppose there wasn't time fo dodge, wasn’t time to submerge, what would you do? Would you sur render?” The undersea skipper's face turned a sudden red that looked queer under his thick weather tan. His hands clenched, his eyes flashed, then slowly each word painfully thought out. came the answer: “Would I surrender? I—couldn’t tell about that—positively I can’t. 1 don't know—surrender? I think the moment would bring the decision. Yes. That moment would carry its own de cision.” That was the spoken reply, but in every bit of the man’s tone, in every set line of his face could he read the real answer—Capt. Paul Koenig has no Intention that the Deutschland shall ever fall into enemy hands. Fears No Enemy Warship. And he lias every confidence that lie will take the Deutschland hack to Bremen loaded with tiie rubber and nickel that the Fatherland so craves for its munition factories. “Six. ten. a dozen, twenty cruisers .uitside will not stop us." he exclaimed. “W'e will go back; we will go hack easy. And we will come again, and others will come and trade will go hack and forth, and the British block ade—that will he a thing to laugh at. “The future of the submarine has now been proved to be unlimited,” he asserted. “There is practically no maximum to their capacity; their mechanism has been perfected: we have shown that they do anything any oilier ship can do, and more besides. “About that I am positive. The coming of the Deutschland. .’{.S<N> miles to America, and her arrival with a range of almost ten thousand miles left, with fuel and water and supplies and everything for that much travel still aboard, shows that you can go with a submarine simply where you want to go.” Koenig is a small man. ordinarily looking until he begins to talk, when his force and personality become at once apparent. First Submarine Trip. One of tiie first questions asked of him brought one of the most surpris ing replies of the interview. Request ed to tell In detail of all the submarine experience he had before being select ed to attempt the crossing, he replied quickly: “But yon see I have not had any. Of course we practiced after we went aboard. We practiced a great deal. Navigation I know. Submarines I think I know now. “Was it fun? Sometimes, yes. Most it was fun in the English channel. Thefe we lay ten hours on the bottom, snug and comfortable. Some of us slept and some of us read, and most of us listened to our graphophone play ing a beautiful song from “Peer Gynt,” while above us raged the destroyers and cruisers that would have thought us the very choicest of prey had they hut known what lay hidden there be low them. It was not a long ten hours. We drank a little champagne, and we ate and attended to the ma chi aery. “No. we didn't submerge because of any cruiser chasing us; not once were we chased.” How They Submerged. Nothing more vivid about adven ture could be drawn from Koenig titan the detailing of these times -we just sank." As far as his words went, that Wits all there was to it. A vessel was sighted; the Deutschland was quickly submerged: she ran along under water for a time, and then—she cante up and opened her hatches for fresh air. while officers and men went al»out their work, tlieir rest, or their play. Industry. i Industry is in itself, and when prop erly chosen, delightful and profitable to the worker; and when your toil has been a pleasure you have not earned money merely, but money, health, de light and moral profit all in one.—Rob ert Louis Stevenson. Just Like Humans. Nipher finds that it is the smaller planets that do not obey the law of gravity. It is the smaller people, too, that do not want to obey anything. “Once each dny we submerged as a practice drill.” he said, “and besides ; we submerged, as I remember, five times in the North sea. six in the Eng lish channel, and three or four in the open water. “Yes,” laughing heartily, “yes, each time there was a reason. "The longest we actually stayed un der was that len hours in the English channel, hut we could stay four days. At the end of that time our batteries would be exhausted, and we would have to rise and recharge them. Dur ing the entire trip we traveled a total of ninety miles under water. “As far as the physical effect on the ship’s company is concerned, we could remain forever. We can submerge fifty fathoms—three hundred feet—but us a matter of fact we never went nearly that deep, and probably never shall.” Liked the Submerging. Those on the Deutsehlnnd besides himself were First Mate Krapuhl,vSee ond Mate Gyring. Chief Engineer Kleis and a crew of 25 men. Kleis. he said, over and over again, was “the most im portant of all.” Then he told how the crew spent the time. “On hoard they busied themselves with the machinery, for practically all of them are mechanics. They played cards, and they ht.d their singing and their sleeping and their sitting about, and the time'passed. "Best of all, they—all of us. in fact— lik«l the submerging. Unpleasant? Indeed it was not. It was just like sinking into a sort of blue nest. We open the portholes, and then through the glass we could see the fish and the formations of the sea. and always we listened, listened, listened. “How do we listen? There are aboard two microphones, and with them we wore able to hear the whis tling of a buoy six miles off when we were under water. And just before we came up about thirty miles from the Virginia capes, we were able to hear the ringing of a bell buoy six miles from us. "The screw of a ship we could hear quite plainly while it was yet a safe distance from us. More than hearing it, we could tell whether it was a cruiser or a destroyer. It was quite fascinating to listen so. Details of the Trip. Captain Koenig did not take the Deutschland around Scotland, as has been conjectured. He came straight through the Channel. he said. “We left Rremerhaven at noon on June 14. We proceeded quietly to Hel-. goland; there we stayed four days. There were three reasons for that: No ship proceeds all the way after start ing. It is too easy to calculate when she may he expected at some given place. So we lay iu wait a while. Then. too. we wanted to train the men. During those four days we drilled and taught them hard, and when once more we proceeded we had a capable suit marine crew. “Again, we had to trim the cargo. That must always be done after a start is made. We must shift things about and stow them away. And every thing needs to be tested. All worked nicely. “We carried ISO tons of fuel oil. Of that we have 05 tons left—more than enough to take us back—and we shall not ship any more here. Then we car ried many tons of oxygen and twenty tons of fresh water, of which we had ten left. “The last time we submerged was as we were nearing the Virginia capes and we saw an American boat ap proaching. We thought it was a fruit boat so we just dipped under for the last time. The men were always glad when we did that—it made such smooth traveling. The Deutschland scarcely rolls at all under water. “And that about completes the story of the voyage. We traveled, we saw ships and submerged, we traveled iigain on the surface and at last we arrived.” The Deutschland, built by the Krnpp Germania works, cost $500,000. This voyage will pay for her, he said. Boat a Mass of Machinery. As described by Dr. John C. Travers, assistant U. S. health officer, who was taken through the boat by Captain Koenig, the Deutschland’s interior ap pears to be mainly a mass of machin ery. She has but one deck below and a seventeen-foot deptli of hold for her cargo. Dr. Travers descended through the forward hatch, where he found the crew’s quarters, bunks on either side of a narrow passageway leading to compartments occupied by the cap tain and his two officers. The cap tain’s room is scarcely six feet square and barely high enough for a man to stand. It is furnished all in metal, with the exception of a small oak desk. Directly beneath the officers' quarters is the dynamo, which stores electrical energy to drive the vessel when sub merged. Next Dr. Travers was taken into the officers’ messroom. scarcely larger than the staterooms, with a galley huilt with all the economy of space of a Pullman dining-car kitchen. Aft the messroom. about one-third the ship’s length from her stern, is the submerging machinery and two peris copes. Calls It Amazing Sight. “I never saw such a mass of ma chinery in ray life.” said Dr. Travers. “It was an amazing sight and I doubt if it would mean much except to the engineer who designed it. There seemed to be 5,000 different pieces, an inexplicable tangle of burnished copper and glistening steel.” Aft of the submerging machinery were the submarine's two powerful Diesel oil engines which propel her on the surface. Captain Koenig told the doctor that while on the surface the noise of the machinery was almost deafening. Reader’s Grave Error. “East Lynne.” which ultimately proved more valuable than a gold mine to those who published and pro duced it in book and play form, is said to have been rejected in manuscript by George Meredith, the author, when he was reader for Chapman ft Wall of London. Daily Thought It Is a sign of a great mind to de spise greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.—Seneca. FORBOBDjR SERVICE ADJUTANT GENERAL HALL MAY GO WITH CAVALRY. HELD UP BY TRAIN WRECK Items of General Interest Gathered From Reliable Sources Around the State House. Western Newspaper Union News Service. That attempts are now being made to organize a troop of Nebraska cav alry for border service is the asser tion of a member of Adjutant General Hall’s staff, who was left behind when the government refused to muster in members of the adjutant general's de partment. General Hall, he says, is determined to go to the border. Twen ty Lincoln men hav® already promised to j$in in case the troop is organized. Ninety are needed. Staff officers left behind will check up the accounts at each company’s home station, after which it is said that they will resign and get to the Nebraska troops on the border in some manner. General Hall presum ably will be made captain of the troop, if organized, as he was deprived of his office as captain of company H of the Fifth regiment by the orders of I the war department. Endeavors will be made, according to the staff mem ber. to recruit for the cavalry when the officers visit the various towns to close up company affairs. He said that little trouble in getting the men [ was expected. Temporary structures at the fair grounds erected for the convenience of the guardsmen during their late encampment are being dismantled, and soon every vestige of their pres ence will have disappeared, with the exception of the grass-worn company streets. Sheep have already been turned back into the grounds. Biggest Camp on the Border. The Fourth Nebraska under Colo nel George Eberly and Lieutenant Colonel William Baehr. detrained at j Llano Grande. Tex., in a terrific ; rainstorm and immediately set about j pitching camp. Many delays were encountered along the last one hundred miles of the journey. Mercedes had been se lected for the concentration camp, but a suitable tract large enough to encamp all the soldiers expected could not he obtained and the camp was moved three miles west. It is expected that this will be one of the biggest concentration camps along the border. Fifth Nebraska Held Up by Wreck. The Fifth Nebraska regiment was held for some time at Muskogee. Okia., because of a freight wreck near Hoff man, Okla.. which blocked the rail road. The third section was held on its arrival, and the first and second brought back for route diversion. The Fifth regiment followed the trail of the Fourth through Oklahoma, and it WE3 common gossip on the train that it will be encamped near the Fourth when it reaches its desti nation at Mercedes. Tex. Railroad officials are said to believe this was a plot to wreck the Fifth regi ment and hospital corps. Bishop Beecher Gets to Go. The special muster blank which would permit Captain George A. Beecher of Hastings to go with the Fifth regiment as chaplain arrived "O. K." and he was mustered in in time to get with the regimental staff in the first section. It was found that under the new federalized act, a chaplain is unassigned, when he Is first mustered in with the regimental staff, and that it is necessary for him to sign a special muster blank and take a separate oath before he can be considered attached to any one regiment. Major John Mr. Birkner, commis sioned chief surgeon of the Fourth Nebraska regiment with the rank of major and the oldest officer of the Nebraska national guard in point of service, was given a farewell recep tion by the German Family society, of Lincoln, on the eve of his departure for the Texas border. Dr. Birkner is ex-president of the society and is & member of its singing club. General Phil Hall was the most heart-broken man in the crowds when the last train left Lincoln for the bor der. It had been his devout wish from the first to go with his men, men with whom he has worked with might and main for three years past, and with such honor to the state and to the guards, but a stern war department ruling forbade. Brushing back the tears when the puffs of the hard worked engines had died down, the general said vey emphatically: “I’ll bet I get down there before they come back. Just see if I don't." Thirty-three Counties Report. Assessments from thirty-three coun ties whose total assessed valuation is 5141.674,304 show a total increase of 56.055.983, or an average increase of 5183,514 per county. This indicates an increase of about 517,000,000 in the total assessed valuation of the state, which is considered small in view of the fact that prices of land have is creased throughout the country during the past five years. Brown county is the third to show a decrease. Its as sessed value is 511.10S less than it was last year. Recommendations for mere advanced preliminary and final qualifications for license to practice osteopathy in Ne braska have been made by the state board of osteopathic examiners, who recommended to the state association a four years' course in osteopathy of nine months each, instead of the pres ent three years of ten months each. Preliminary requirements were recom mended as a four year high school course or a degree from e. college or university, with a non-medical educa tional beard, independent of the exam iners. to pass on these qualifications. CHRONOLOGY OF MOBILIZATION Nebraska Boys Leave for Service on Mexican Border. June 19-—Governor Morehead re ceived orders from war department to mobilize national guard. State military board conferred. Place of mobilization undecided, but Ashland favored by the government. June 20—Wisner supply company, first troops to go into camp, arrived at state fair grounds. June 21—Fair grounds. Lincoln, de cided upon for mobilization site. June 22—Field and staff officers, medical officers, non-commissioned staff, field hospital. K company, Fourth regiment. Osceola; B company. Fifth, from Nebraska City, sanitary-troops from Fremont and Bennet, went into camp. June 23—All organized companies went into camp. June 27—Newly formed companies from Grand Island and North Platte had reached camp. June 23—Eleven members of Gordon company, I of the Fourth, refused to sign muster rolls, but consented after explanations. June 29—Gothenburg company, L of Fifth, delayed in mustering by refusal of several men to sign muster rolls. June 30—Fourth regiment had lost a hundred men by physical examinations. July 1—Captain Herschel Tupes, federal mustering officer, appealed for recruits. July 4—Fifth regiment had lost 140 men by physical tests. July 7—Fourth regiment and signal company entrained for Mexican border service. July 9—Fifth regiment and field hos pital entrained for Mexican border service. Injunction Will Hold. In the injunction case, long pend ing. whereby William Kearney sought to prevent Commandant Walsh from ejecting him and his wife from the Soldier's Home at Grand Island on the ground that they were not dependent, having property and Mr. Kearney conducting an auto mobile line between the city and the home, the court has decided the in junction against the commandant will hold until such time as the state board of control adopts a ruling un der which the commandant would have authority to act. Pay Nebraskans Deserved Tribute. A deserved tribute was paid to the Nebraska troops by the citizens of Denison. Tex., who declared they were the most orderly, the most obedient, and the most manly soldiers who have passed through that town. Guards men from eight or nine states have passed through Denison in the past ten days en route to the border. A committee of business men met the boys at the station and distributed cigars, stamped postal cards and newspapers among them. Waging War on “Near Seer.” State Food Commissioner Harman is conducting a little war of his own against “near beer” shipped into the state. He recently warned dealers that* they must brand the percentage of alcohol in any drink sold by them. He is now turning his machine guns against cider. He has been informed that large quantities of cider have been shipped from St. Louis to Ne braska, the seller representing to dealers that if they buy cider they need not pay a revenue tax to the government which they must pay when they buy “near beer” or beer. Mr. Harman says cider contains from 5 to 10 per cent of alcohol and it must bear a label stating the percent age or the dealer w*i!l be prosecuted under the state food law for misbrand isg goods. Tears came into the eyes of Mose McFarland, one of the best known conductors connected with the Union Pacific lines in Nebraska, when he was told that his son Sidney, had, through a slight physical defection, failed to pass examination at mobiliza tion camp. Mr. McFarland lives in North Platte. When the call for mil itiamen came and a company was be ing organized in that town under R. P. Halligan, Sidney McFarland was one of the first boys to enlist He was un der age. and it was necessary to se cure the consent of his parents. “I would disown a son if he wouldn’t re spond to the call to arms when his na tion needs him,” was the way Mr. Mc Farland gave his consent. An important ruling made by the state legal department will exempt some state banks of Nebraska from paying semi-annual assessments to that state guaranty fund hereafter The holding is that whenever the ac cumulated guaranty fund payments by any individual bank reach li£ per cent of its deposits, it shall not be liable for further assessments until the reserve is depleted below 1 per cent. Heretofore it had been sup posed that the 1% per cent proviso applied to the guaranty fund as a whole rather than to individual banks Department Cannot Act at Once. Because it has not yet adopted a policy covering the manner in which it will deal with aviators in the state militia the war department will not act at once on the request of Adjutant General Hall of Nebraska that a com pany of thirty-nine be mustered into the federal service so that the men can be sent to Newport News for train ing. It is indicated that the most that can be expected at present is the ac ceptance of six novice aviators. State Food Commissioner Harman reports that oil inspection fees far June exceeded those of any previous month in the history of the oil inspection de partment. The fees amounted to $11, 103.55, or $3,333.75 in excess of the fees of the same month lust year. After hearing arguments Judge Stewart of the district court sustained the appeal of the Nebraska dry federa tion and ordered Secretary of State Pool to certify out to the county clerks the ballot title for the prohibition con stitutional amendment contended for by the officers of the dry federation. THE EUROPEAN WAR A YEAR AGOTHIS W EK July 17. 1915. Hindenburg forced Russians back toward the Narew. Russians repulsed Austrians on the Vistula. Cunarder Orduna arrived at New Yorl after escaping from subma rine attack. German foreign office replied to report of Bryce commission. July 13, 1915. Teutons developed immense of fensive along entire Russian front. Mackensen broke Russian line at Krasnostaw. Germans checked French at Sou chez but lost to them on the Meuse heights. Italians began offensive in Ca dore. Austrian submarine sank Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaidi. July 19, 1915. French repulsed repeated Ger man attacks on Meuse heights. Artillery battle near Souchez. Entire Russian line between Vis tula and Bug fell back, fighting hard. Austrians pushed over the Wo licza river. British gained ground in Gal lipoli. Turks attacked by British below Nasiriyeh in Arabia. July 20, 1915. British captured German trenches east of Ypres. Reims again bombarded by Ger mans. Teutons advanced on entire east ern line, taking Ostrolenka, Blonie, Grojec and Radom. Italians made general attack from Tarvis to the Adriatic. Italians advanced five miles in Cadore. Fifty-nine Turkish vessels laden with war supplies sunk near Trebi zond by Russian submarines. French aviators bombarded three German stations. Welsh coal strike ended. July 21, 1915. French started new offensive in the Vosges, capturing heights do minating Fecht valley. Germans gained on east edge of the Argonne. Russians made desperate stand around Warsaw. Great battle south of Ivangorod. Austro-Germans driven across the Bug in Sokol district. Italians gained along the Isonzo and captured approaches to Goritz. July 22, 1915. French took heights west and north of Munster, Alsace. Russians evacuated Windau, and retreated In the Baltic provinces. Teutons attacked Ivangorod. Goritz and Tolmino practically surrounded by Italians. French aviators bombarded Autry station. July 23, 1915. Severe fighting around Munster. Germans massing on the Meuse. Germans crossed the Narew but forts checked their advance on Warsaw. British win in further fighting in southern Arabia. Austrian cruisers bombarded Italian coast towns. Third U. S. Lusitania note to Ger many published. Defends Cat’s Reputation. "My cat does not stay out late nights,” was the defense offered In a Riverside, Cal., court by Mrs. R. S. Allinder against the charge of her neighbors that her black Persian had. corrupted the morals of other cats of the neighborhood. • Many ‘‘character’ witnesses were put on the stand by Mrs. Allinder, who Is suing her neighbor, Mrs. W. G. Far rar, for the disappearance of the ani mal, whose value is placed at $25. Mrs. Farrar protested that the cat ate her chickens and made night hideous with its yowling. In continuing the cas'. Justice Ellis, alluding to the assaults on the Per sian’s reputation, remarked that when a cat of one species is let out of a house and meets cats of another spe cies there is likely to be considerable commotion. The Privileged Classes. A cockney angler, thinking that his Highland boatman was not treating him with the respect due to his sta tion, expostulated thus: "Look here, my good man, you don't seem to grasp who I am. Do you know that my family have been en titled to bear arms for the last two hundred years?” "Hoots, that’s naething!” was the reply. "My ancestors have been en titled to bare legs for the last two thousand years.”—Youth’s Compan ion. Just What He Lack*. “Mr. Grabcoin is a great believer in efficiency.” “Poor old gentleman! He has my sympathy.” "Why so?” "I’m personally acquainted with young Montgomery Grabcoin." A Political Wonder. "He was a great man, won many victories at the polls.” "Yes?” "And even when he got defeated people said he defeated hinuelf.”