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EPITOME OF EVENTS PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO MANY SUBJECTS. IRE SHURT BUT INTERESTING Brief Mention of What is Transpiring In Various Sections of Our Own and Foreign Countries MEXICAN TROUBLE. Augustin Gomez, a Villa chieftain, and ten followers were captured and executed in Zacatecas by Constitution alists under Captain Rodarte. * * * Reports have reached Terlingua, Tex., that 200 bandits are operating south of the Rio Grande beyond Kan Carlos. • * * The official report on the killing of Colonel M. C. Butler at Alpine, Tex., last week by Harry Spannell, com pletely clears the name of the dead officer. * * • Application for release from service j of guardsmen with persons dependent upon them are pouring into army headquarters at Fort Sam Houston at the rate of 1,500 a week. * * * I Closer and closer are the cordon of Carranzista troops being thrown about Villa and the remnant of his main band in northern Durango, according to dispatches received in El Faso. * * » Preparation for a quick movement of General Pershing’s entire column in Mexico is seen in the arrival at Columbus, N. M., of new shipments j of motor truck and of a special train of truck drivers. • * • Corroboration of the reports that Francisco Villa is personally directing j a campaign that has for its immediate j object the capture of Torreon, was i contained in a report from General j Pershing to General Funston at San j Antonio. * * * Luis Cabrera, minister of finance in the Carranza cabinet, will lieail the Mexican commissioners who will con fer with representatives of the United States in an effort to reach a solution of the difficulties involving ttie two • countries. # * * The full report of Major General | Tasker H. Bliss, assistant chief of j staff, on his inspection of over 30,000 : national guardsmen along the boarder just made public, says reports that have appeared in newspapers about j Inefficiency and bad rations were i found to be wholly false. * * * j All restrictions upon the movement of exports into Mexico, except muni tions of war and machinery for their* manufacture, were' removed by order of the United States government. The munitions embargo probably will be maintained rigidly until conditions in northern Mexico are more settled aud | differences between the United States I and the de facto government have been adjusted. GENERAL. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat has Increased the price of its daily edi tion in St. Louis from 1 cent to 2 cents. The high cost of print paper Is given as the cause. • • * The New York Society for Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals reports j that since the outbreak of infantile j paralysis 73,000 cats and 8,000 dogs j have been killed in New York City. . * . j The opening of the Puehlo-Los An geles automobile highway, via the Grand Canyon of Arizona, will be cele brated August 21 at Wolf Creek Pass, on top of the Continental Divide in Colorado. * * • Drunkenness among women in Colo rado has been slower to decrease un der the state prohibition law than among men. Juvenile court authorities at Denver declare. • • • Styles of shoes, especially for wo men, will be of the "common stock variety instead of the excessive high top kind” next season, according to statements made at the Illinois Shoe Dealers' association meeting at Chi cago. The colors will be dull grays and champagne, due to the shortage in dyestuffs. Dr. Charles E. Aked of San Fran cisco has resigned as chairman of the neutral peace conference In Stockholm, which was established as an outgrowth of the Ford peace ex pedition last year. • * • Combined exports and Imports of the port of New York for the year ending June 30 amounted to 12,169,000,000, ac cording to the annual report of the Chamber of Commerce. During the last fifty years, the report shows, more than 60 per cent of the country’s im ports have come to New York. • a • Freddie Welsh, lightweight cham pion, and Charley White of Chicago, have signed articles for a title bout of twenty rounds to a decision, to take place in Colorado Springs, Colo., La ihor day, September 4. a * a July 24th was Chicagos hottest day in six years. Five died from the heat on that day. It is estimated that the present heat wave in the plain and Pacific coast states has levied, {trectly or indirectly, a toll of 200 ves. a * a Six persons were killed and forty four were injured, thirty-seven serious ly, when an infernal machine was ex jploded in a crowd viewing a great pre i pared ness parade at San Francisco, in jjrklch 60,000 were parching. Twenty-three cases of infantile paralysis in various parts of Iowa ' have been reported to the State Board i of Hegjth a' Des Moine3. * * * S. S. McClure, American publisher, Mho arrived at Liverpool, La gland, ou the American liner Philadelphia, was refused permission to land by British authorities on account of pro-German articles, which have appeared in his American magazine. * * * indications that a well of natural gas was uncovered by the tunnel ex plosion at Cleveland, O., which caused the death of twenty-three mem was reported by the government expert sent there. The tlow of gas may pre vent ihe completion of the tunnel, it is said. WASHINGTON. A joint resolution to extend leaves of absence with credit to homestead ers on public lands M ho are with the National guard in federal service was adopted by the house. * * * Nearly $700,000,000 for national de fense in the fiscal year 1017 is the ag gregate of proposed appropriations reached in the senate with passage of the army appropriation bill carrying in round numbers $314,000,000. * * * Only determination of a few minor details remains to complete negotia tions of a treaty betM-een the United States and Denmark for acquisition of tlie Danish West Indies by this government at a purchase price of $23(000,000. a * * Official word has been sent to the capitol that President Wilson stands behind the construction program of the naval bill as it passed the senate, including four dreadnaughts and four battle cruisers to be built im mediately. • • * Warning lis.s been issued to the pub lic by the Department of Agriculture to look with extreme suspicion upon any preparation put on tlie market and offered for sale as being effective for the treatment of infantile paraly * * * President Wilson nominated Charles E. Lobdell of Great Bend, Kan., Geo. W. Norris of Philadelphia, W. S. A. Smith of Sioux City, !a„ and Herbert | Quick of Berkeley Springs. W. Va.. as members of the farm loan board created under the rural credits bill re cently passed by congress. • * * Prices of meat animals went up-one half of 1 per cent during the month from June 15 to July 15. the Depart ment of Agriculture reports, and were lT.tj per cent higher July 15 than a year ago, 8.7 per cent higher than two years ago and 19.9 per cent higher than the average of the last six years on that date. • * • Texas gets the largest slice—$291, 927—out of the $5,000,000 available be tween n«nv and Ji*ne JO. 1917. in the $85,000,000 good'roads fund voted by the present, congress, to he spent in live years. New York is second with $250,720. Other states' apportionments follow: Iowa. $146,175; Kansas, $143,. 207; Missouri, $169,720; Nebraska, $106,770; South Dakota, $80,946; Wyo ming. $61,196. WAR NEWS. Emperor William of Germany is re ported to have moved his headquar ters from the western to the eastern front, where the Russian menace ap pears to be increasing. * • • The fourth German war loan has been paid fully in cash. Money bor rowed from loan banks on collateral for the war loan totals only 6 percent of the entire amount of the loan. * * * General ChouvaiefT. Russian minis ter of war. declared recently that the war could not end this autumn. He asserted that Germany still has the power to resist and the struggle must go on. • • * Russian armies have battered their way through the German line beiow Riga and have shattered temporarily resistance to further advance toward northeast Galicia and Hungary, Petro grad reports. For the first three weeks of July British casualties among officers were 1,108 killed, 2,834 wounded and 491 missing, a total of 4,433. This brings the aggregate loss since the beginning of the war to 33,857. • • • Tuberculosis has caused the dis charge of 116,000 soldiers from the French army up to April 1 of this year, according to figures by William P. Hollingsworth, vice president of the American War Relief Clearing House for France and Its Allies. • • • A French army aviator has flown across Germany dropping proclama tions on the city of Berlin. The air man, Sub-Lieutenant A. Marchal, was compelled to land within 60 miles of the Russian lines, and was made a prisoner by the Austrians. • * * An indication of the importance the Germans attach to defending their third line on the western front is found in the report of General Haig, that troops have been brought from before Verdun to lend strength to General von Einem. * * * An official statement issued by the Austro-Hungarian general staff says that only 100,000 soldiers were taken prisoners by the Russians during their present offensive. The statement brands as untrue the claim of the Rus sians that they took 266,000. • • • According to a Berlin dispatch by way of Amsterdam, Turkish troops are to be sent to help the Austro Germans against the Russians on the Galician front and in the Carpathian mountains. j Nebraska] istate news; 4 4 I t + DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. Avg. 7 to 11—Tractor Week in Fre niont. Aug. 7 to 10—State Press Association’s . North Platte Valley excursion. August 7 to 12—Merchants’ Market j Week in Omaha. August 7-12— Platte Valley district reunion at Central City. Aug 9 to 12.— Frontier Days Celebra tion at Silver Creek. August 11—Harvest Home festival at Seward. > Aug. 17-27—Seventh Day Adventists’ Conference at Hastings. Aug. 17 to 20—Biennial Nebraska Saengerbund festival at Brand is land. • Aug. 21-25—Mo. Valley Photographers’ Association Convention at Lincoln. Sept. 4 to 7.—Nebraska State Fair at Lincoln. Sept. 12-1C—Central Nebraska Fair at Grand Island. Sept. 13.—Annual Convention State Federation of Labor at Fremont. Sept. 13 to 15- Old Settlers’ reunion at Mitchell. i Douglas county, according to the 19If. assessment report ol' County As sessor Counsman, is more titan $17, 00".him richer than last year. Unim proved lots in Douglas county, as sessed ;n 1915 at an average valua lion of $384. are now listed at an average tigure of $568.12. an increase of 48 per cent. Improved lots in the county, assessed at an average valua tion of $1,572 in 1915, now are listed at $2,005.35 average, an increase of 28 per cent. Acreage, listed a year ago at an average valuation of $81.75 per acre, now goes on the rolls at $88.73 per acre, an 8 per cent increase. The ! total assessed valuation is $257,735,- j 810. According to a report submitted to j the United States League of Local ! Building and Loan associations during j their convention at St. Louis recently Nebraska ranks eighth in building and loan assets among the thirty-three states which were represented, stand ing next to Indiana and leading ali states west of the Mississippi river. For the fiscal year 1914-15 tiie reports showed Nebraska had a total of $41. (160.870 and will exceed $43.00(*,iino in the state report for 1910-16, now being compiled. The itinerary of the big United States government “safety lirst" spe cial train, carrying a dozen cars load- j ed with exhibits for tlte promotion of i industrial safety, lias been announced by the Union Pacific for that part of the trip that applies to Nebraska. This train will he at Sidney August 22; at North Platte August 22; at Grand Island August 24; at Omaha August 26; at Lincoln August 28. and at Bea trice August 29. Nebraska's share of the $5,000,000 just apportioned by the federal gov ernment for public highways under the new good roads act ^mounts to $106,770. To be entitled to its share the state must provide an equal amount to that put up by the govern ment. A campaign Is a start at once by Commercial clubs of the state to create good roads sentiment. Two Nebraska harvest hands, Clar ence Sandquist of Geneva and J. E. Longmore of Lincoln, were killed in a wreck of a Milwaukee freight train on which 200 harvest hands were beating their way to the wheat fields of the Dakotas. The accident happened near Tripp. Judge Bagiev of Papillion handed down a decision at Blair in the Her man saloon case, upholding the action of the Herman village hoard iu grant ing a saloon license to an applicant May 1. to which remonstrance was filed. Bids were opened a few days ago for the proposed new $20,000 mu nicipal building at Creighton. All of them were surprisingly high, running from $2,000 to $6,000 more titan the town officials had expected they would. Norman Peal, the Industrial Worker of the World, who was mortally shot in a fight with bandits in the Rock Island yards at Fairbury several days ago, finally succumbed to his injuries. Work is expected to begin on Fre mont’s six-story, all modern $200,000 hotel about August 15. West Point will have the Redpath Horner Chautauqua for one week, commencing August 4. The city council of Superior turned down the license for a carnival com pany that the lire department had ar ranged to have show there the last of the month after a petition signed by leading business men filed asking them to refuse the license. Doane college at Crete has just re ceived a check for $5,000 from the estate of Edward Whitin, of Whitins ville, Mass., as an endowment for the new Whitin library. The library build ing is virtually a gift of the Whitin family. Tom Taylor, a prominent young far mer, was drowned near his home south of Valley when the horse he was riding threw him off in a lake. Marks on the body indicated that he had been trampled upon by the horse. Fire destroyed the Nye-Schneider elevator at Clarkson together with its entire grain contents, causing a loss of over S15.000. Over 2,000 persons attended the dedication of St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Hastings recently. Work on the new church has been In prog ress a year. It cost $20,000. Mayor C. W. Bryan of Lincoln re ceived by express recently a young American eagle from a former Lin coln girl now living on a ranch in Wyoming. She had captured the bird herself and sent it to the Antelope park zoo. Two brothers, John and Adolph Euhlmann, aged 22 and 17, were drowned in the Loup river at Monroe. The tragedy was witnessed by many ; bathers. Neither victim could swim. Hail did considerable damage to buildings and growing crops in Suther land and vicinity early last week. Sixty Alliance citizens in automo biles responded to a call for help from the Frank Jesse ranch, six miles east of town, one day recently and after two hours of hard fighting they put cut a prairie fire which had burned over a square mile, consuming several haystacks and some small buildings and threatened ranch houses and barns. Pansy, the 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Omar Pickerill, who re side near Syracuse, lost her life in a sad manner. The little girl was play ing about the home and iier mother, missing the child, began to search and discovered her head downward in a targe jar, site having suffocated in the three inches of water. Owing to the seasonable weal iter that has prevailed, contractors on the Burlington’s Cliaico-Yutan cut-off have just .about completet the fifteen miles of grading on the line that will con nect up the Sioux City branch. The work will be finished and ready for the ties and rails within a month. At a special election Shubert voted $l>,500 or electric light bonds, the is sue carrying by a large majority. Stella had carried bonds for $8,000 at an election held in May. A transmis sion line will he built from Stella to Humboldt, which will supply the cur rent to Shubert and Stella. Republican uew-spaper editors of Nebraska to the number of about fifty organized a Republican State Press association at Lincoln recently, the aim of which, it is said, was to form an organization to advance the interests of the party through co operation. Plans for the new county jail arul jailers’ residence will be received by the Gage county board of supervisors Tuesday, September 5. This was de cided on by the county board at a meeting held recently. The new jail i sto be a modern structure and will cost in the neighborhood of $22,000. At Schuyler a few days ago August Kaasch found his wife. Mary Kaasch, lying dead, face downward in four inches of water in a bathtub. How Mrs. Kaasch came to fall into the tub is not known. She had been-apparent ly in good health. Orualm lias ils first case of infantile paralysis since February, the disease which lias been claiming so many vic tims in New York. According to Health Commissioner Connell the pa tient, a littie boy, will recover with out any serious effects. Rev. \V. \V. Whitman, pastor of the Methodist, church at Hooper, has in stalled a moving picture machine in las church, to be used in illustrating hi? termons. This is the first church in Nebraska equipped with moving picture apparatus, it is believed. Two giant stalks of corn, fourteen feet high, with the ears growing ten feet from the ground, were exhibited in a department store at Omaha. The corn was raised by “Uncle Sam" Rou vier of De Soto. There are 78.659 savings accounts in the banks and ,tlie building and loan companies in Omaha. This is ex clusive of the nostal savings accounts. These thousXn? of accounts aggre gate $.15.84.'!,502 in savings. There is a movement on foot in Merrick county to submit to the voters at general election the proposition of abandoning the supervisor form of government and returning to the com missioner form, as in the days of old. The cornerstone of the new St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran church at Falls City was laid last Sunday. This building is to cost $16,000. of hrick veneer and will be completed in No vember. Jesse C. McXish. chairman of the republican statp central committee, plans to open headquarters in Lincoln August 15 and begin active campaign work. Joe Steelier of Dodge and Harold Christenson, the Danish wrestling champion, will meet on the mat at Fremont August 9, during the tractor meet. Herman Riderhagen, au engineer of a threshing outfit, backed his engine in a creek near Springfield and was crushed to death. A case of infantile paralysis has appeared in Fremont. The victim is the 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Roth. Nebraska City is making prepara lions for its annual home-coming week August 14 to 19. Kearney citizens are agitating the question of holding a big fall festival early in November. The Tecumseh Commercial club is making an effort to land a canning factory for the city. A committee has been appointed to communicate with the Lang ('aiming company of Bea trice relative to the company install ing such a plant there. The annual report of F. J. Vogi tance, county superintendent of Col fax county, shows that the county has sixty school districts, with a total of 4.286 school pupils. There are 109 teachers, whose average wage is, for men, $77.64; women, $54.55. A field of corn planted on a piece of alfalfa sod by F. J. Pimper, near How ells, and given three good cultivations, on the 15th day of July many of the stalks measured ten feet in height. A total of 1.926 automobiles and motorcycle licenses have been is sued by County Treasurer Andrew Andersen of Gage county from De cember 1, 1915, to July 20. Nine hundred and ten bushels of oats were threshed from a ten-acre field belonging to Fred Haveman near Avoca, making a yield of ninety-one bushels to the acre. Before a crowd of onlookers at Fre mont Al. Goldsbury, aged 24, drown ed at Park bathing beach. Mrs. John Goldsbury, the mother, was on the bank and saw her son go under. The Northwestern Nebraska Med ical society at their recent meeting at Long Pine selected Wood Lake as the place for holding the next meeting, October 31. Extra rations funds, including $207.50 raised under the supervision of the Hastings Democratic club, have been forwarded to Company G from Hastings, now at Mercedes, Tex. SIGH! SEP MESS; FRESH MEAT. VEGETABLES AND BREAD RECOMMENDED FOR GUARDS. SANITARY CONDITIONS GOOD Items of General Interest Gathered From Reliable Sources Around the State House. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Nebraska guardsmen now stationed on the Texas border are to have bet ter food or in the vernacular of the soldier, better mess. Major General Tasker 11. Bliss, as slstant chief of the staff of the United States army, visited Llano Grande camp last week and was favorably im pressed with all he saw except the quantity and quality of the food given the guardsmen. More fresh meat, vegetables and fresh baked bread daily were some of the recommendations given by the head to the commanding officers here. “There’s no reason at all.” said Gen eral Bliss, “why the commissary of ficers cannot get fresh jeef daily from Brownsville or other Texas cities I i-i J. W. EVANS Editor Fairfield Independent. Second j Lieutenant Co. H, Fifth Nebraska, now stationed near the Mexican border. where large packing plants are oper ated. I cannot see the need why men should be given all canned rations j while in camp. Those kind of rations were meant only for use when the men are called into service. One of I these days if the call is given the officers will be up against it when it comes to traveling rations. "I shall ask that large ovens be erected and bakers from among the ! enlisted men provide fresh bread. ! Hard taek is all right in its place, j but it was never meant for any per- ; manent camp." General Bliss stated that the sani- ! tary conditions of the camp were good. : He continued his inspection tour to | the lower border and departed for Fort Sam Houston. Take Care of Health. Nothing has been overlooked by ! way of safeguarding the bealih of the j men and bringing up to the highest j standard the living conditions around J Camp Llano. At all hours of the day and until the late hours of the night 1 Co lonel Eberly can be seen walking about the camp, stopping here and there, giving fatherly advice to some of the men: instructing others and! ordering others to do this and that. Naval Exhibit at State Fair. Tf the plans of J. B. Zimmerman, navy recruiting officer at Lincoln are carried out, the department will have an interesting exhibit at the state fair this year. A booth has been obtained for the purpose and Zimmerman is waiting for the approval of the depart ment at Washington. He contemplates showing models of dreadnoughts, sub marines. the U. S. S. Nebraska and other types of naval vessels as well as materials and paraphernalia. The ex hibits would come from the depart ment headquarters. An appropriation to allow a thor- I ough investigation into the cause of I the settling of the east wing of the ! capital building will be asked by As- j sistant State Engineer Steckelberg. In ] ▼lew' of the reports that this side of j the building was erected on a sand- j pit, although the foundation was ; , arched, it is said, to overcome the difficulty. Mr. Steckelberg believes that it is not too late to instigate a com- ( prehensive survey to determine the actual cause of the sinking, to enable proper measures to be taken to remedy , the situation. i Col. H. J. Paul of the Fifth Nebraska received a startling shock when he * was bit on the foot by a scorpion at Camp Llano, but he was relieved when ] the doctors assured him that the Texas scorpion is not poisonous. The colonel's 1 foot was swelled for some time, but he ' was not otherwise inconvenienced. i Many of the boys of the Fifth Ne- t braska at Camp Llano are becoming < fluent in the use of the Spanish lan- j guage under the tutelage of Sergeant s Fred Bailey, who is a veteran of the , Spanish-American war, and Private a Nick Megras, who is of Greek descent. , SFEAKS VERY HIGHLY. General Bliss Commends Conditions in Nebraska Camps. Sanitary conditions, appearance of the ramp and the personnel of the officers and meu of the two Nebraska regiments at Camp Llano were "highly satisfactory” and pleasing to General Tasker II. Bliss, chief of staff of the United States army who with General Edward Plaummer in command made a tour of inspection of the entire camp, Colonels Ebe'rlv and Paul were con gratulated by the distinguished visitor. General Bliss suggested to command ing officers of two regiments that they would profit “very materially” by a visit to the Nebraska camps. Sanitary conditions in the Nebraska quarters could not be improved upon said Gen eral Bliss. Captain Herbert Smith of Fremont and Major John Birkner are in charge of sanitation. New General Hospital. A general hospital has been estab lished at Brownsville, forty miles from Camp Llano, and all soldiers from Brownsville to Sam Fordyce who be come ill will be sent to this hospital. Emergency field hospitals will be main tained at all camps along the line, where sick or injured men requiring immediate attention can be eared for. A sanitary train, provided with all hospital facilities, will leave Browns ville every day, stopping at each camp and picking up sick and injured. The Fifth Nebraska regiment field hospital under Major John F. Speal man of Lincoln, was assigned to care for all sick and injured of all the troops encamped here. Under the new erder this unit will care only for those needing immediate attention School of instructions for the hospital men will soon be established. Must Name Specific Gravity. Shipment of naptha into this state to mix with gasoline and thus form low-grade products sold under the name of the latter will not be toler ated. according to Oil Commissioner Harman. The latter has announced that prosecutions would be started at once in the case of parties who have done this. The gravity tested out at less than fifty, according to Harman, and he proposes to prevent the sale of the mixed products. Likewise, he has announced that he will require all dealers to label containers of gasoline with the specific gravity. This pro vision of law. he says, has been wan tonly abused during the past several months. State’s Expenses for Second Quarter. State expenses amounted to $1.0!2. 457 during the months of April, May and June this year. The quarter pre vious the expense amounted to $1, 421.S40, according to the quarterly statement of Auditor William Smith. Of the amount used during the past quarter $335,073 was spent by the board of control for the fifteen state institutions under its charge. The governor's department spent $2. 042, practically all of it for regular salaries of employes. The national guard spent $8,730 of which nearly half was for armory rental, a charge that is not on the books at the present time owing to the absence of the guard on the border. Many Members Ask for Discharge. More than one hundred men of the Fourth Nebraska regiment at Camp Llano have made application for dis charge from further duty under Presi dent Wilson's recommendation that all militiamen who have persons depend ing upon them should be discharged. Each application for release must be accompanied by affidavits from three witnesses substantiating the claims of the soldier. It will be at least ten days before final action can be taken ou these cases. The Fifth regiment will also lose some of its men but the num ber of discharges in this regiment is expected to be much lower than in the Fourth. — Goes Into Reserve. The first Nebraskan at Camp Llano to become a member of the reserves under the new Chamberlain bill is Otto G. Hallgren. Company B. Fourth regi ment. Three years ago Hallgren en listed in Company B. Most of the men who are now officers of the company were privates then. His term of en listment expired July 13 and he is now ready and most eager to start for the northland. Nebraska Ecys Take Daily March. Nebraska troops on the border, prac tising daily marches, have reached an average speed of four miles an hour. \ program has been outlined for the first five weeks of camp prescribing a iailv hike of tea to twelve miles, grad ually increasing in length through the weeks. The first week the march is to be taken wtih canteens full. The sec ond week canteens and haversacks will be carried. The load will be gradually increased until full equip ment is carried. Captain Leedom Celebrated Birthday. Wednesday, July 19, was the birth lav of Capt. J. W. Leedom. As a uirthday gift his company was mount ;d as guard and he was therefore offi cer of the day. To add to the joy of he occasion the canal carrying the vater supply broke down and a trip m foot was made in a hurry out to shut the gates controlling the stream, rhe captain says that it was one of he busiest birthdays he has cele jrated in some years. ioldier Boys Get Pink Underwear. New equipment is arriving at Camp dano daily and is being issued daily imong it being shirts, shoes and un lerwear. Contractors in government upplies seem to have a grudge against he soldier. When this last shipment f underwear was uiicrated, it was ound to be of a delicate pink color— omething not exactly fitted for a war ior of Uncle Sam. However it was 11 to be had, and the boys are now ,caring it. BAHTS SLAT TWO NEBRASKA MEN SHOT DOWN in EFFORT TO HOLD ROBBERS BANK AT SUNOL IS HELD OF S1.2C0 Taken and Cashier Licked ". Vault.—Fosse Capture Men and Recover Stolen Money. Sydney, Neb. —A large por " rf farmers and people of th - p!a<», Sunol and Lodgepole capture! tv, men following the robbery la- Fi day afternoon of the Farmer' St»i> bank at Sunol and the killing of iwu farmers taking pari in the pur-jit of the robber. The robbers secured 41,200. One of the men r.r.'ured, identified as the bandit, b the cashier of the bank, gave h u<mt* as J. W. Cornwall of Denver rhe other gave his name as H. G . e;i of Insmont, Colo. The bandi' Cashier W. C. Smith in the vrj.- ami in making his escape killed ira 1 and Paul .Cacik. who tried to < -;c him. According to the story told • Smith, the man entered the tank dur ing the noon hour. He preset'.1 i r j draft on an Ohio bank and crr>r*.. Smith with guns while he - timed the payer. After taking all curt m in sight the robber ordered Sn. • into the vault and closed the do ! but failed to-turn the bolt. As he of? the bank and entered an autonwl ;• which Lukens was driving. Smith emerged from the vault and g... e «* alarm. An attempt to stop them caused a fusillade of shots, in wine: Paul and Cacik were killeu Th< bandits secured the automob' - oi a traveling man. In response to a telephone nos sage, Sheriff McDaniels led a pos~* pursuit, which surrounded and ,,p tured the robbers about two ,niV* from Sunol. Approximately $1._ was recovered. The coroner's jury Sunol returned a verdict that Cacik and Paul were killed by the bandi*. Frank Cornwall. The two revolvers were found all reloaded and sever; boxes of cartridges. Both prisoner' deny their guilt. Paul had a wife and three children, Cacik had i v. ifi . having been married tut ten it t»11. U. S. Accepts Carranza’s F an. Washington. General Carra:.z> v.; s informed, in a note handed to an. bassador here, that the Wa-i;. government is prepared to submit joint international commission \ • task of seeking a solution of herb problems. The proposal of the de facto govt r ment for a commission is a'•■• t however, with the suggestion tl.i ... power of the commissioners be er larged beyond the limits proposal the Mexican note of July 12. Agreement to this suggestion - - • petted and it, was stated officially tin. the American members would be ap pointed and the commission be as sembled at some point in the ’.'niter States at an early date. Hot Weather Boon to Corn. Washington.—The sustained h-at < * the past two weeks, registering big marks throughout the middle «< was a boon to the corn farmer at cording to the 1'nited States Depar ment of Agriculture. Corn «r p-. the government experts, are preg:,-> ing very satisfactorily and are sash ing as far north as the Ohio valley in the east and Minnesota and North Ik kota in the west. More rain mus: come within the next two or thre, weeks, however, they say, or the cor. crop will suffer. This is the critical period for the crop. The lack of rair says the department, is adversely at fecting vegetation in the central great plains region and in the central va ley states. Tariff Board May Tour Europe Washington.—One of the first task assigned to the tariff commission. t< be created by the pending revenu* bill, may be a tour of European cour tries, including the belligerents, to study the effect of the war on Indu* trial and trade relations of the t nften States, to report particularly inform; tion which might aid in the adjust ment of tariff duties, likely to follow the declaration of peace. Administration officials have •: o . it known that the plan to send the proposed commission abroad was h* Ing seriously considered. Huge Sum to Dependents. Chicago—Nine Protestant denom nations paid In one year $2,500. 'tK> pensions and relief to aged preacher and their families, asserted a comm t tee of churchmen here. Would Oust Memphis Officers. Memphis.—Ouster proceedings were filed in the name of the state again*' \V. T. McLain, vice mayor and fir< and police commissioner, who is charged with wilful negligence of ofl cial duties and violation of the liquor laws. President Signs Waterways Measure Washington.—President Wilson !■„ signed the rivers and harbor* cpp priation bill, carrying approximate $42/00,000. Most of the m >n v . existing improvement project*. Chicago Labor Leaders Sentenced Chicago.—Fourteen labor lea! convicted of conspiracy to extort : . destroy property during a strike. w sentenced to serve penitentiary ter ranging from one to three years ai the others to pay ffnes of from *2,000. Prize Baby Has Infantile Paralys Sioux City, la—Dorothy Glllin. * 2, one of the prize winners in t: - "Better Baby” contest at the inter state fair here, is a victim of infantile paralysis.