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MEXICAN TROUBLE.
Some eighty motor trucks laden
•with supplies for the Pershing expedi
tion. are mired down between Colum
bus, N. M., and Colonia Dublan. Mexi
co, as a result of two cloudbursts.
* • •
Judges of the district courts
throughout the Mexican republic have
been named. Courts in the federal
district were opened. The others will
be opened as soon as possible.
• • •
Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs
Aguilar received the American note
accepting Mexico’s proposal for com
mission settlement of the border prob
lem and declared that the rejoinder
was “satisfactory.”
• • *
Preparation for a quick movement
©f General Pershing’s entire column
in Mexico is seen in the arrival at
Columbus, N. M., of new shipments
of motor truck and of a special train
©f truck drivers.
• • •
General Carranza is to retire as
Erst chief of the de facto government
of Mexico at an early date and will
enter the field as a presidential can
didate at the forthcoming elections,
according to recent advices from
Mexico City.
• • • *
An epidemic or dysentery has
broken out in the national guard
camps at Douglas, Ariz., being partic
ularly severe in the camp of fhe Sec
ond Montana infantry. More than
2h0 cases are said to exist in the reg
iment.
* * *
General Carl Malcotte, who arrived
In Mexico City a few days ago for a
conference with Minister of War Ob
regon to plan concentration of forces
for Villa's capture, declared he is de
termined to make a quick job and to
take the bandit general “at all cost."
* * *
Army officers along the border are
considering the problem of checking
the alarms of militiamen on duty.
That the problem is a serious one Is
admitted, when cavalry, infantry and
motor detachments returned to El
Paso after a wild-goose chase 80
miles down the border. Instead of
running down bandits they ran down
only a footless alarm.
GENERAL.
Fully sixty lives were lost in a flood
that swept down the narrow valley
through which flows Big Barren creek,
in Claiborne county, Tennessee.
* * *
The salaries of 20,000 employes ot
the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain
railroad have been raised an average
of 6 per cent.
* * *
Mayor William Thompson of Chi
cago revoked the licenses of twenty
two saloons in the first step of a new
campaign to enforce the Sunday clos
ing law.
* • *
Estimates of the number of dead in
the forest fires of northern Ontario,
Canada, are put at 500 by refugees ar
riving at Toronto from the various
localities in the fire-swept zone.
* * *
Striking employes of the three large
packing houses in East St. Louis, 111,
voted to accept the concessions made
by the employers and to return to
work. About 4,500 men are involved.
• * •
The total assets of the estate of J.
Pierpont Morgan, the financier, who
died in Rome, Italy, March 31, 1914,
exclusive of property outside New
York state, are fixed at $78,149,024 in
a report which has been filed with
the state comptroller.
The Louisiana state progressive con
vention endorsed the nomination of
John M. Parker for vice president,
but failed to ratify the national com
mittee’s endorsement of Charles E.
Hughes, republican nominee for pres
ident.
* * *
Sir Roger Casement, noted Irish
man, was executed in the Pentonville
prison, London, having been convicted
by the British government of high
treason for his participation in the
recent Irish revolution.
• • •
Publishers of daily newspapers in
Greater New York have decided to
decrease the number of pages in their
morning, evening and Sunday issues
of 121 pages a week. The reduction
of so many pages is a step to relieve
the newspaper situation which is re
garded by the publishers as serious.
* * •
A great conflagration at Petrograd,
Russia, destroyed a bridge across the
river Neva, twelve large steamers in
cluding several trans-Atlantic liners
and the Putiloff gun works and other
establishments.
* * •
Federal Judge Waddiil decided the
libel proceedings for possession of the
captured British liner Appain in j^vor
of the English owners and against the
German prize crew which brought it
to Norfolk, Va., last February. An ap
peal to the supreme court may be
made.
• • •
The Sioux City Daily News, organ
ized ten years ago, and recently dis
posed of at receivers sale to Gover
nor Arthur Capper of Kansas, has
•upended publication.
The first United States army hospi
tal on wheels is under contract to be
built at Pullman, 111.
• • *
A serum for eruptive typhus, the
disease which made such terrible rav
ages in Serbia, has been discovered
at Paris.
* • •
The name of the Progressive party
will go on the national ballot in the
fall election. Fifty members of the
anti-Hughes contingent of the Bull
Moose party, in conference at Indian
apolis, declared unanimously for the
retention of the party solidarity.
» * *
The garment workers strike, which
has virtually paralyzed the women's
suit and cloak industry in New York
City for nearly four months, has been
settled. .
• * *
Five persons lost their lives when
an automobile in which they were
riding plunged over a high embank
ment into the Missouri river near La
! Platte, Neb.
* * •
Charles Evans Hughes, republican
candidate for president, declared him
self in favor of an amendment to the
Constitution granting women the right
to vote. •
• * *
The total membership of the
Knights of Columbus is now reported
to be 386,135, a gain of 141.846 in
seven years. The organization has
$213,862,842 insurance in force, a gain
of $46,410,842 in the same period.
* • * ,
Property loss estimated at $25,000,
000 was caused by a series of explo
sions of ammunition awaiting ship
ment to the entente allies and stored
on Black Tom island, a small strip of
land jutting into New York bay off
Jersey City.
WASHINGTON.
The senate adopted Senator Under
wood's resolution to appropriate
$540,000 for relief of flood sufferers in
Alabama, Florida. Georgia, Mississippi
and North and South Carolina.
• • *
September 9 is the date now being
considered by administration leaders
for adjournment of congress. All hope
of getting through by August 19, the
date fixed by the democratic senate
caucus, has been abandoned.
“The honest grape fruit and berry
basket bill,” by Representative Rea
vis of Nebraska, prescribing dimen
sions for standard baskets for inter
state shipment of grapes, small fruits
and berries, was passed by the house.
* * *
‘ "It is a story of public authority
prostituted to privat* intAests that is
hardly equaled by Colorado,” declared
a report of the committee on indus
trial relations, describing the strike
of Minnesota Mesaba range iron work
ers.
* » *
Democratic senators in caucus vot
i ed to postpone action on the immigra
tion bill to the next session and then
adopted a resolution pledging the
majority to vote down any attempt to
attach it as a rider to the child labor
bill. This action was taken to fore
stall a threatened attempt to defeat
the child labor bill.
WAR NEWS.
Seven thousand and eighty-four of
ficers and 52,591 men was the British
casualty on all fronts for July.
* * *
The German government has sent a
! pledge to Holland not destroy or mo
lest Dutch ships caurying foodstuffs to
! England.
* * *
The Berliner Tageblatt has again
been suppressed by the military aii
thorities. The resumption of pub'ica
tion by the newspaper several weeks
ago was on condition that it refrain
from too vigorous disputes with the
conservatives.
* * *
1 The Italian mail steamer Letimbro
has been sunk by a German subma
rine. It carried a crew of fifty-seven
and the passengers numbered 113. It
is believed that a large number of
them lost their lives. The passengers
included women and children.
* • •
Germany has informed the United
States she has refused on "account of
the impracticable conditions imposed
by Great Britain upon the shipments
of foodstuffs from America into
Poland” to enter into further negotia
tions for co-operation in Polish relief
work.
* m m
According to a statement by Admi
ral Von HolzendorfT of the German
navy, during the second year of the
war the British and their allies lost
twenty-two warships of a total of
266,320 tons and Germany and her
allies ten warships of 82,210 tons. The
total losses for the two years of the
war are: Great Britain and her al
lies forty-nine ships of 562,250 tons,
and Germany and her allies, thirty
ships of 191,321 tons.
• • •
All persons entering or leaving
Germany hereafter must obtain spe
cial permission from the German gov
ernment. Such permission will be
granted only in cases of ineviatable
necessities, in regard to which thor
ough explanation will be required.
, • • *
The capture during the month ot
July of more than 18,000 Russians is
announced by Austro-Hungarian army
headquarters in Its statement of
August 1.
• * *
A German auxiliary cruiser at 1
o’clock on the morning of July 27, af
ter an engagement with the armed
British steamship Eskimo, captured
the vessel and brought it into port,
according to a statement given out
by the German admiralty.
• • •
All of the German and Austrian ar
mies on the eastern front have been
placed under the supreme command
of Field Marshal von Hindenbnrg, ac
cording to a dispatch quoting a Berlin
official announcement.
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JOR RESPONDENTS ON THE BOR
DER VERY IMAGINATIVE.
ro RULE OlT ELIGIBILITY
terns of General Interest Gathered
Prom Reliable Sources Around
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the State House.
Western Newspaper Union News Service, j
Thousands of letters have been sent
from Camp Mano recently. Some of
;hem contain the most imaginative
>its of information that could be j
.bought of. describing conditions of i
he camp as deplorable, when as a ;
natter of fact they are exAllent.
The climate is unsurpassed, the j
lights delightful and cool. In the j
Diddle cf the day the sun is very hot, ;
jut there blows almost constantly a
moling breeze and in the shade and i
jut of the sun It is as comfortable as
jue could wisn.
There are some hardships to be j
sure, as the men drill four hours a [
lay. and those who have violated I
some rules of the camp find police j
luty irksome and inconvenient.
Water is now running through the |
•amp in large mains and plenty of 1
irinking water can be had. It is al- j
ivays first boiled before serving. Show- !
?r baths have been finished.
Mot Enthusiastic Over Report.
Officers of the two Nebraska regi
nents on the border are not particu
larly enthusiastic over the report
from Washington that all college men
ivho want to return to school in the
fall will be released from the army.
It is also reported that General 1
Hugh Scott, aide to General Bliss, !
hief of staff, favors the release of all
Den who have tired of military life ;
uid who are anxious to get out of the
irrny. This also does not appeal to !
he Nebraska officers.
The Fourth regiment will lose a J
arge number of men under the de
pendents provisions. Vet there will
je a lot of men who hope to get out
jf the army on this point and who are
going to be disappointed. Discharges
will be given only to those who have [
nothers. wives or families dependent
jpon them, and who produce ample
proof of this.
State to Rule on Eligibility.
It is up to the siate to rule on the
tligibility of its candidates for the 1
egislature. according to a letter to j
\djutant General Hall from the at-1
orney general of the United States. |
tsking about the eligibility of Major
Douglas, of Tecumseh. now with the
tuard on the border, who is a candi
late for stato repiresntative. This
eaves the matter up to the attor
ley general of the state, who has
•uled that even though Major Douglas
s in the federalized militia he is eli
;ible to run for office, since he was
i member of the guard when he was
lominated. It is up to the legislature,
he atorney general says, to decide
m the merits of the case, if he is
“lec-ted.
Deep Sea Diving Squad.
There is but one company of land
forces in the United States army that
:an boast of a thoroughly equipped,
well-trained, deep sea diving squad,
rhat company is Company C of Om
iha. now’ on the border, ujider Captain
[. E. Todd. Fourth Nebraska regiment.
Die squad commanded by Captain
rodd is composed of Sergeant James
Morrin, Obediah K. Miller, Sergeant
foe Fishburn and C. H. Franek. Every
man has seen service in the navy and
tias had practical experience in deep
tea diving. The equipment includes ]
i rubber diving suit, brass helmet,
lead shoes and weights, rubber gloves, ]
signal outfit and air-pump and tubes.
Scores “Fake” Advertising.
Newspapers accepting the vicious
advertisements of fraudulent patent
"medicines” are vigorously assailed in
a statement issued by Food Commis
sioner Harmon as the result of a Lin
coln investigation of the “remedies.”
"Ethics of journalism should de
mand that papers be not a party to
this graft which winks at violations
of the food and drug laws of the
state,” he said.
An examination of a much-adver
tised "cure-all” in Lincoln revealed
the fact that the principal ingredient
is alcohol.
pair Board Gives Handsome Cups.
Five big silver cups, with gold lin
ing. large enough to be used as punch
bowls, one of which is on exhibition
at Secretary Mellor’s office, have been
purchased by the state board of agri
culture to bo awarded as prizes at
the national swine show in Omaha,
October 2 to 7. The trophies are beau
tifully engraved and mounted with
boar tusks for handles. One each is
to be given for the best boar and three
gilts of the following breeds: Poland
China. Berkshire, Duroc, Hampshire,
and Chester White.
Men for Y. M. C. A. Border Work.
Nebraska has already furnished two
college students to conduct Y. M. C. A.
work among United States troops on
the border and more are ready to en
ter the service if necessary, accord
ing to W. A. Luke, general secretary
of the Y. M. C.sA. One of the state’s
representatives now in the employ of
the international committee of the
“Y,” is enrolled at Wesleyan and the
other at Peru normal. Generous re
sponse has been made by all states to
the call of the committee for ninety
five college men for this work.
"I will use every means within my
power to have the men of this regi
ment returned to their homes in Ne
braska, just as soon as it develops
that their presence here is no longer
necessary,” declared Colonel Herbert
Paul, commanding the Fifth Nebraska
regiment, in an address to the officers
of his organization. Colonel Paul called
his officers together for the purpose
of outlining to them his policies, so
that they in turn might communicate
to the men under their commands. At
the conclusion of his talk Colonel Paul
was loudly applauded.
MRS I PRACTICE MARCH.
I _
Roys on the Border Take Eight Mile
Hike.
The second battalion of the Fifth
regiment now in camp on the border,
had its first practice march last week.
Notification of the tramp was given
before taps, so on the morning of the
march the troops put on new and
seamless socks, and took to the road
leading from camp. Two miles to the
south to the lake, two more iniies
in an easterly direction, two miles
north and back into camp after an
eight mile march, was the morning's
program.
The men enjoyed the interesting
scenery along the line of march, many
cf them glimpsing for the first time
a banana plantation and cotton pick
ers at work.
The daily drills and short morning/
marches are rapidly bringing the mem
into condition to undergo the longer
marches that are to come. Ability to
stand a full day's march with com
plete equipment is what the officers
and men are striving for.
The prevailing spirit to learn to be
a good soldier as quickly as possible,
so evident before leaving Nebraska,
is still felt , by the men.
One Auto to Each Thirteen Persons.
In the number of automobiles owned
and used in Nebraska and in the
southern states. Secretary Melior of
ihe state board of agriculture s.ees an
indication of comparative wealth which
should deter Nebraskans from leav
ing their own state to locate beyond
the Mason and Dixon line. In a bul
letin just issued by the board of agri
culture, he gives these figures:
Nebraska, with 1,200.0.3 population,
had 59,000 autos last yeear. while for
the current annum more than S5.000
have already been registered with the
secretary of state. The total number
of machines credited last year to the
six southern states of Alabama. Ar
kansas. Florida. Ixmisiana, Mississippi
and Tennessee, with 10.000,000 popula
tion. was only 50.715.
This was one machine for every
twenty persons in Nebraska, while in
the southern states named there was
only one auto for every 176, based on
1915 statistics. This year, Nebraska
has an automobile for every thirteen
persons within her borders.
Sanitary Conditions Good
Sanitary conditions about Camp
Llano Grande are all that can be
wished for. according to Major John
M. Birhuer of Lincoln, chief sanitary
inspector of the Fourth Nebraska regi
ment. Discussing conditions he said:
“The food for the men is plenty and
good in quality. Every meal is in
spected by a commissioned officer be
fore it is served to the men. Water
is boiled and aerated and I inspect the
ramp every day from one end to the
other to see that every precaution is
taken.
“Oue of 900 men in this camp there
are only about twenty-four men sick
and none of these is in serious con
dition.”
May See Patrol Service.
The Nebraska boys will soon see
actual patrol service on the Rio Grande
and will be used to relieve the regu
lars who have been stationed along
the border for the past seven or eight
months. ' This information was con
veyed by General Parker, commanding
the Brownsville district in which this
camp is included, to Colonels Eberly
and Paul. He did not specify any date
as to when the Nebraskans would be
ordered on patrol duty, but said it
would be soon, and advised the com
manding officers of the regiments to
waste no time in whipping their men
into shape for this duty.
To Join Nebraska Troops.
Private Ernest P. Smith of Ord and
Private Lilliethrnp of Blair left Satur
day to join their companies in camp at
Llano Grande, Tex. They could not
go with the two regiments. Smith being
operated upon for appendicitis during
the camp at the state fair grounds, and
LiUiethrup being the victim of blood
poisoning at that time. Both remained
in Lincoln under hospital care until
they recovered.
State Treasurer George K. Hall has
added another $242,800 to the perma
nent school fund investment in Ne
braska during July, according to his
monthly statement. There is still
about $85,000 on hand to invest. The
balance of funds on July 31. as a per
manent school investment was $9,774,
398.33 as compared with $9,588,477.65
a month ago.
following action Dy tne railway
commissions of the central west, at a
recent meeting in Topeka, empower
ing three committees to work with the
federal commission in securing the
physical valuation of the United
States railroads, the Nebraska com
mission has made the following ap
pointments: Tom Hall, on land
values: B. E. Forbes, chief engineer,
on unit prices and engineering mat
ters, and U. G. Powell, rate expert,
on original costs. Each commission
has one representative on each of the
three committees.
State Savings Bank Deposits Increase.
Reflecting general prosperity of Ne
braska, over $200,000 has been added
to the savings accounts in twenty-one
savings banks operating in the state,
according to the semi-annual report,of
the Nebraska state banking board
through its secretary. E. R. Royse. The
reports show that deposits in the
twenty-one savings banks of the state
have reached the total of nearly $4,
000,000. At the same time the num
ber of depositors has grown from 21,
G73 to 22,202. The average reserve in
the banks is shown to be 19 per cent.
A delegation of Btate bankers in
terested In protectUg the depositors’
guaranty fund, created by the >tate
hanking law. called »n the state bank
ing board last weel for the purpose
of protesting against using the deposi
tors’ fund to pay $30,000 borrowed by
four directors of the failed state bank
at Decatur. The delegation consider
the matter of vital Importance to the
success of the guaranty law, not on ac
count of the comparatively small sum
now involved, but as a precedent for
the future in the regulation of state
banks.
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STATE NEWS::
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da/fes for coming events.
Auk. 17-27—Seventh Day Adventists’
Conference at Hastings.
Avig. 17 to 20.—Biennial Nebraska
Saengerbund festival at Grand Is
f land.
Aug. 21-25—Mo. Valley Photographers’
/ Association Convention at Lincoln.
Sept. 4 to 7.—Nebraska Slate Fair at
/ Lincoln.
‘ Sept. 12-10—Central Nebraska Fair at
Grand Island.
I Sept. 13.—Annual Convention State
Federation of Labor at Frentont.
Sept. 13 to 15—Old Settlers’ reunion
at Mitchell.
Sept. 17-22—Women's Christian Tem
perance Union annual convention at
Onteha.
October 2 to 7—National Swine Show
at Omaha.
October 11-12—State Meeting Grand
Lodge Degree of Honor at Lincoln.
October 17-20—I. O. O. F. State Cou
veution at Lincoln.
Interstate and transcontinental au
tomobile traffic through Nebraska via
the Qmaha-Lincoln-Denver highway
has .U.icreased more than 200 per cent
recently according to Hastings garage
men who say tourists claim the dusty
eond tion of the Lincoln highway fol
lowing grading work makes it rutty
and almost impassible.
A ierge posse of farmers and peo
ple of Sidney, Sunol and Lodgepolo
j capi.jred two men, following the rob
ber? of the Farmers’ State bank at
Sunul and the killing of two farmers
taking part in the pursuit of the rob
ber The robber secured $1,200, which
was later recovered. One of the men
captured, identified as the bandit by
the cashier of the bank, gave his
name as R. G. Lukens of Iusmont,
Colo.
The largest salary paid any minister
in Polk county, and, in fact, one of
the most substantial salaries paid a
pastor in tiie state outside the larger
cities, has been offered by the Eden
Baptist church of Stromsimrg. and
accepted by the former Baptist min
ister of North Platte, the Rev.
John L. Barton.
Clifford Tuttle, about 30 years of
age, was shot and almost instantly
killed by his divorced wife at Seotts
bluff. When taken into custody, Mrs.
Tuttle showed no remorse and when
interviewed at the jail refused to talk,
except to say that she had good rea
sons for shooting him and would
prove it in court.
A number of dairies in Omaha have
announced an increase in the price of
milk. The Alamito dairy, one of the
largest, lias raised the price from S
to 9 cents a quart for milk, and from
8 to 10 cents for one-half pint of
cream. Practicaly every dairy in
town is expected to follow suit.
Mayor Rawlings of Wymore has an
nounced that he would make the race
for state senator from Gage and Paw
nee counties on the republican tick
et by petition. He expects to cir
culate his petitions for signatures in
both counties soon.
Nebraska hunters, who were eager
ly watching for a month's additional
shooting of game birds in March, may
he doomed to disappointment, Feder
al Game Warden R. P. Holland of
Kansas intimated during a visit at
Lincon recently.
Permission has been granted L. J.
Price of Casper, Wyo., to install and
operate an electric plant at Harri
son by the board of trustees. Work
wi’d begin on the plant at once and
Harrison will be out of darkness be
fore long.
Preliminary plans for what is hop
ed to be the most successful labor day
program ever given in Hastings are
under way by union men of the city.
Organized traveling men have been
invited to participate.
Ogallala will hold its first annual
round-up at the end of the Old Texas
trail, August 24 and 25. Two thou
sand dollars in prizes will be awarded
to riders and others who enter in the
bucking and numerous other contests.
Riley Long, a highly respected and
prosperous farmer, living sixteen
miles southeast of Hay Springs, was
instantly killed by lightning.
i ne driest July ever recorded in
the weather annals of Omaha was the
month just passed. Less than half
an inch of rain fell during the month.
(>age county Breeders of pure bred
live stock met at Beatrice last Fri
day and organized a county breeders’
association. The organizantion of a
county association is expected to add
to the breeding of pure live stock in
that section of the state.
The old settlers of Gage county
will hold their annual picnic at Bea
trice on Thursday, August 24. Gover
nor Morehead and Mrs. Minnie Knox,
acting secretary of the Nebraska
State Historical society, have been
invited to make addresses.
York’s $100,000 hotel is now as
sured. The effort to raise $35,000
bonus has been going on for some
j months. At this time there is less
j than $7,000 to raise and it is thought
that amount will be secured soon.
Secretary Duncan of the Horticul
tural Society says that the fruit ex
hibit at the coming State Fair, Sep
tember 4 to 8. will be the largest dis
play, ever shown.
Plans and specifications are now on
file with Agent McFadden of the
Northwestern for the erection of a
new depot at York.
The automobile races for Labor
Day, September 4th, to be held at the
Nebraska State Fair, Lincoln, from
fc-itries received, will be the best ever
held in Nebraska.
Reports are that the Polk county
wheat crop is possibly the best ever
grown. The average yield is about
thirty bushels per acre and tests out
slxty-two pounds per bushel.
Two brothers, John and Adolph
Buhlmann, aged 22 and 17, were
drowned in the Loup river at Monroe.
The tragedy was witnessed by many
bathers. Neither victim could swim.
tOUniy LUilUiiianiuuc i 0 w*. ---
county disallowed the claim of $15,*
000 of Fred Luff for damages alleged
by him to have resulted from false
imprisonment and malicious prosecu
tion. Luff was arrested and tried for
i alleged assault on Nels Nelson. He
was acquitted by the jury. In pie
senting his claim he declared that
long before his trial he presented
evidence clearly establishing his in
nocence, but that they had ignored it,
employed special counsel to assist the
county attorney and continued his
prosecution.
Thirteen carloads of horses from
all parts of northwest Nebraska were
inspected at Chadron last week by
French officials. The inspection was
; I he fifth one held in Chadron the last
! month by representatives of the dif
fert belligerent nations. It is estimat
ed that five thousand horses have
been shipped from that market dur
ing the last two years for war pur
poses.
Several crews of phone company
laborers are being employed at points
along the Kearney-Stapleton line,
erecting extension lines. The com
pany has already completed a new
line into Amherst and Riverdale, and
others will be constructed as rapidly
as possible. Sumner will be the con
centration point of high line business,
three lines being centered there.
Ezra Meeker, famous as one of the
early travelers on the Oregon trail,
passed through Hebron the other day
in an automobile. He is following
the old trail as closely as possible,
selling books of personal experiences
of pioneer days and trying to interest
! people in a proposed national road to
be controlled by the government.
An investigation of the feasibility
of constructing a hydro-electric plant
1 on the site on the Blue river at
Barnston. controlled by G. \V. Stein
meyer of Beatrice, is being made by
a Chicago engineer. If the plant is
finally constructed the promoters pro
pose to furnish electric current to
adjoining towns.
Reports indicate that elevators are
rapidly filling at all Nebraska points
and that while the car shortage has
not yet hit the Burlington and North
western railroads, cars are getting
scarce. Famine conditions are predict
ed on these roads within two weeks
unless there is a change in condi
tions.
Frank Connell and R. Grange Euk
ens, charged with the murder of Paul
Vacik and Ira Paup and the robbery
of the Farmers’ State bank at Sunol
were committed without bail to the
district court, which meets next Sep
temper at Sidney.
A committee from the Commercial
club of Hartington will meet with
Dan V. Stephens at Fremont in the
near future to urge Mr. Stephens to
help them secure a new government
postoffice building at that place.
Prominent men of Omaha are mak
ing an effort to have Charles E.
Hughes, republican candidate for
president, to visit the metropolis this
fall during the week of the semicen
tennial celebration, October 1 to 8.
Many farmers over Nebraska say
that the recent rains came at just the
right time and that corn has seldom
lcoked better to them. In several
parts of the state they say the corn
crop will be the largest in years.
A proposition is being submitted to
the citizens of Neligh and surround
ing country to build a permanent
pavilion at Riverside park near the
town to be used for all purposes, in
cluding the annual fair, at a cost of
$n.ooo.
Burt county is soon to have a hand
some new court house to be built at
Tekamah. The present one is inade
quate and the county and Tekamah
have long felt the need of a better
building.
The tenth anniversary celebration
of the founding of the village of Polk
will occur on August 17. A big time
is anticipated. On the following day
the Uedpath Chautauqua will open for
a five days’ session.
A new ferry boat has been com
pleted and put into service between
Nebraska and South Dakota near
Wynot.
The merchants and bus;ness men of
Chadron recently celebrated the thir
tv-first anniversary of the founding of
the city.
The Union Pacific has laid more
than 20.000 feet of track at the Ger
ine sugar factories this summer.
Work is expected to begin on Fre
mont’s six-story, all modem $200,000
hotel about August 15.
i ork college campaign to raise an
endowment fund of $300,000 is meet
ing with success everywhere. One
hundred thousand dollars has already
been pledged and now come twenty
business men of the city and pledge
themselves more within one year.
H. Versaw of Ewing was awarded
the contract for building Ewing’s
new school house. Work on the pre
liminaries incident to the commence
ment of actual work on the building
is being pushed. The building when
completed will cost nearly $35,000.
Mrs. Edward Thiel, Omaha, was in
stantly killed when an automobile
turned turtle on Broad street hill, five
miles north of Fremont. Her neck
was broken. Three other occupants
of the car were uninjured.
The new Hokenson hotel at Poll
will be open to the public about Sep
tember 1. The structure is built o'
brick and is modern in every detail
It was erected at a cost, of $18,000.
The total value of asessabie prop
erty in Douglas county, according to
the new assessment, is $257,739,635,
as compared with $240,524,420 in 1915.
A tentative agreement for the sale
of the Oakland electric light plant tc
the Nebraska Gas & Electric Co. was
made recently, and it is expected the
deal will be closed in September.
Rev. Mr. Eggart, pastor of the Ger
man Lutheran church in Ainsworth,
was drowned at the dam of the power
plant of the electric light works at
that place.
P. H. Mella, 30, was killed, and Al
fred Rouse sustained serious injuries,
when the boiler of a threshing ma
chine exploded at the farm of H. C.
Rifhal, six miles south of Gretna.
AGREEMENT IN WEST INDIES
NEGOTIATIONS REACHED.
RATIFICATION IS NECESSARY
Treaty Will Be Submitted at Once to
Senate and Danish Parliament.
Interference Seems Likely.
Washington—Purchase by the Unit
ed States of the islands of St.
Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, lying
to the east of Porto Rico and com
prising an archipelago known as the
Danish West Indies, is provid- d for
in a treaty signed by the United
States and Denmark. It will be sub
mitted to the United States .-'enate
and the Danish Parliament, whose
ratifications are necessary to com
plete the purchase agreement.
No serious opposition is expected
in the senate, where action will be
sought at the present session. Since
the negotiations began several months
ago the foreign relations committee
has been in close touch with develop
ments and its members are under
stood to be virtually unanimous in
their approval.
The outcome in the Danish Parlia
ment is more uncertain, although the
expectation here is that the treaty
will be accepted. European powers
which have wanted possession of the
islands for strategic military reasons
are not expected to look with favor
on the proposed sale to the United
States and they may bring strong
pressure to bear at Copenhagen.
Details of the pact will not be
made public until it is transmitted to
the senate, at least. It is understood,
however, to provide for complete ac
quisition of the islands, but to stipu
late that Danish business interests
there shall be guaranteed protection.
A clause also is included ceding to
Denmark the undefined American
rights of discovery in Greenland, a
Danish possession.
me population ot the islands is
only 33,000, of whom nearly 30,000 are
negroes. There is no possibility cf
any material increase of population,
and annexation would never involve
at any time the troublesome question
of statehood. The Danish islands
could be readily defended from at
tack, It is said, and they occupy a
commanding strategic position and
are of incalculable value to the Unit
ed States.
“In the interest of peace,” said Sen
ator Lodge, the ranking republican
member of the foreign relations com
mittee. “it is of great importance that
these islands pass into the hands of
the United States. From a military
point of view, their value can hardly
be overestimated.”
Robbers Make Way With $34,000.
Detroit. Mich.—Five automobile
bandits held up the paymaster and
armed guards of the Burroughs Add
ing Machine company and made away
with between $33,000 and $:;4,009,
after shooting and slightly injuryfng
one man last Friday afternoon. Rid
ing in a large motor car with part of
the money for the week's payroll in
bags on the lioor, Thomas Sheahan.
paymaster of the company, was within
half a block of the plant when a
smaller car drove alongside and four
men jumped out, demanding surrender
of the money. Within two minutes
after the bandit car drew alongside
the pay car the former was racing
away with the five cash bags. The
robbery, said fo be the boldest in De
troit's history, was committed in full
view of scores of persons. Many of
them, including the passengers in a
sightseeing car. thought a motion pic
ture scenario was being staged
Railroad Revenues Immense.
Washington.—Net revenues of nin»
ty-three large railroads of the United
States for the year ending with June
showed an increase over the sam»
period of 1913, of almost $190,900,000
The figures just made public by tic
interstate Commerce commission
showed operating revenues for 1910
of $1,855,904,227, an Increase of about
$290,000,000 over the previous year. In
net revenue the eastern roads showed
an increase of about $117,000,000
southern roads an increase of about
$30,000,000 and western roads about
$40,000,009. I
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Crops Damaged by Storm. i
Grand Forks, N. D.—A territorj
nearly 200 miles long and from flftj
to 100 miles wide was swept by terrifk
rain and hailstorms late last week
causing a loss of millions of dollar*
to growing crops and buildings. The
storms passed over northeastern
North Dakota and northwestern Min
nesota.
K. C. to Entertain G. A. R.
Kansas City, Mo.—Twenty thousand
veterans of the Grand Army of the
Republic will mobilize here August 2t
for the fiftieth national encampment
The fact that this may be the last
great encampment In many years maj
send the crowd of visitors to 125,000
Giant Biplanes Believed Myth.
Paris.—Giant German biplanes, it
was officially announced by the French
war department are a myth, and ir
any case they have never been met
with on the battle front.
Children Open Market.
Greeley, Colo.—Greeley school chil
dren who started gardens under th*
direction of the city agriculturist, art
selling their produce in the first chil
dren's market ever opened in Colo
rado. The parent home gardeners a!
so are making use of the market.
Air Craft Company May Reorganize,
Grinnell. la.—Stockholders in the k
Grinnell Aeroplane Co., are consider
ing a proposition from an outside con
eern to take over the present organl
zation