SECOND YEAR OF
THE HR REVIEWED
Germany Holds More Territory in
Europe Than It Did Twelve
Months Ago.
LOSER IN OTHER RESPECTS
Entente Allies Wow Hammering
Teutons Hard on
All Sides.
AUSTRIA SEEMS WEAKENING
British Naval Blockade Still Effective
After Great Battle of Jutland—
Chief Developments of Year
in Terrific World Conflict.
PRESENT MILITARY AND NA
VAL FORCES OF THE WAR
RING POWERS.
Great Britain (Asquith's
statement less losses).4,500,000
France .2.500.000
Russia (little definite known)7,000.000
Italy .1,500,000
Belgium .L.... 150,000
Serbia . 200,000
Montenegro .Practically none
Portugal (little definite
known) . 75,000
Japan (only officers at
front) . 300.000
Total, entente allies.15,225,000
Germany .5,000,000
Austria-Hungary .2,500,000
Turkey .1,600.000
Bulgaria . 700,000
Total, central powers_S.700,000
TOTAL KILLED. WOUNDED
AND PRISONERS.
(In considering the losses it must
be remembered that many listed as
wounded are only slightly hurt and
return to the front. Some are
wounded several successive times
and each time appear in the casu
alties.)
Russia .5.500,000
France (about 900.000 killed!.2.300.000
Great Britain . 800.000
Italy . (00,000
Belgium . 180.000
Serbia . 130,000
Total, entente .9,410,000
Germany, (estimated 700.000
killed) .4.000,000
Austria-Hungary .2.750,000
Turkey . SuO.OOo
Bulgaria . 60,000
Total. Teutonic allies.7.300,000
Grand total, killed, wound
ed, prisoners .16,710,000
In the Napoleonic wars. 1793-1815.
1,900,000 men were killed: In the
American Civil war 494.400; in the
Russo-Japanese war 555.900.
What the War Is Costing.
The war is now costing in direct
governmental expenditure $110,000,
000 a day, $4,580,000 an hour; $76,000
a minute; and $1,270 a second.
The end of the second year of the
great war finds the Germans in posses
sion of more of Europe than they held
on An trust 1, 1915, the first anniversary
of the start of the great conflict.
This is practically the only respect
in which the situation is more favor
able to them. Russia, her vast man
power at last organized and furnished
with implements of destruction in
I'lenty, is battering the Teuton lines
on the east and has already won back
4,500 square miles. Great Britain
boasts five million men in her army
and navy. France fights as strongly as
ever. Italy is increasing her forrni
dableness.
Austria appears to be losing heart
and efficiency. Bulgaria refuses to
send re-enforcements to the west or
Russian fronts. Turkey shows slight
offensive power.
The British navy, following the
much-disputed naval battle of Jutland,
still shuts off Germuny from use of
the seas. One German merchant sub
marine has reached America, but the
supplies which can be carried over
to the besieged nations in U-bouts will
be of little account.
Germany and Austria both feel the
pinch of hunger. Their armies are
sufficiently fed, but their industrial
workers complain of lack of nourish
ment. The present harvest is watched
with anxiety, and if it fails or is only
of fair size, famine will stalk into the
situation next spring, or earlier.
Germany Seeks “Reasonable Peace:"
The German chancellor three times
in the reiehstag has offered peace to
the entente. On account of this, for
midable opposition has arisen to him
at home, although he is the kaiser s
“other self.” His friends are rallying
to his defense, and on August 1 of the
present year begins the curious coun
try-wide lecture campaign to prepare
the minds of the hitherto docile Ger
man people for a “reasonable peace.”
Meanwhile, with the sky brightening,
the entente allies reaffirm their resolu
tion, taken in the dark hours of last
winter, never to cease their efforts till
Germany is crushed. The Teutons not
only must be beaten in war, according
to the allied formula, but must be re
pressed economically for many years
after the signing of a treaty of peace.
On August 1, 1915, the Germans and
Austrians were In the midst of their
brilliant campaign against Russia. The
“pincers” were closing in irresistibly.
That day Lublin, an important city in
southern Poland, fell.
Von Mackensen, with Galicia con
quered, was pressing northward, while
on the north side of the Polish salient
Von Hindenburg bore with his host
of field-gray warriors.
Without guns, without dknmunition,
i with nothing except myriads of Slay
giants, some of whom resisted charges
with sharpened sticks In their hands,
j Russia was forced to fall back rapidly.
Twice it seemed the flower of the
czar's army would be surrounded, once
in the vicinity of Warsaw, and again
in the great battle near Yilna.
The tale of the taking of great towns
grew almost tedious. It seemed the
Germans would never stop. Whether
they did stop of their own accord or
were finally checked by the Russians
is not yet clear. They settled down
for the winter on a long line stretch
ing from the Baltic just west of Riga
southeast along the Dvina river, and
then almost due south through Polies
sie. the I’insk marsh district, to the
Roumanian frontier.
Reawakening of Russia.
On September 8 Czar Nicholas took
command of all his armies In the field,
sending his •cousin, the Grand Duke
Nicholas, to the less important com
mand of the Caucasus operations.
With their “Little Father” at their
head, the Russians forgot their long,
' discouraging retreat. Millions of new
! young soldiers joined them, drawn
from Russia’s great reservoir at hu
man beings, which produces three and
a half million men of military age ev
ery year.
On September 10 the Russians won a
success near Tarnopol and Trembowla,
and two days later they drove the Teu
. tons back 14 miles in Galicia. In other
parts of the front the Germans were
still seizing large slices of territory,
but their enemies were regaining their
energy. On September 20 the Rus
sians recaptured Lutsk, but were driv
en out in a short time. On October 20
they recaptured Czartorysk, hut they
were not able to prevent the Germans
storming Illuxt five days later. Czar
torysk was lost and again taken by
the czar January 8.
Meanwhile the conquest of Serbia,
the greatest tragedy of rife war. ex
cepting only the massacre of 800,000
Armenians, was being enacted.
Invasion of Serbia.
The real invasion of Serbia started
in the lirst days of October. A great
diplomatic battle had been fought in
Sofia, and the allies had lost. On Oc
tober 7 Bulgaria in an ultimatum to
King Peter of Serbia, peremptorily de
manded the immediate cession of the
Macedonian lands in dispute between
the two countries and then in the imis
session of the Serbs.
After a general bombardment the
Teutons crossed the river boundaries
of Serbia in many places on October 8.
Two days later they occupied Bel
grade. On the thirteenth Bulgaria in
vaded her neighbor at three points.
The successes of the Teutons and the
Bulgarians were almost unbroken. The
invading forces consisted of a vast
amount of heavy artillery, with small
infantry supporting forces. They
shelled the Serbians otn of position
after position in an avalanche of steel
to which the Serbians could make no
reply.
Small forces of French and English
landed at Saloniki. a Greek port to
which Serbia had certain entry privi
leges, and did something to cover the
retreat of the Serbians by engaging
the Bulgarians in the South.
At the beginning of winter, Novem
ber I'll, tbe Serbian soldiers crossed
their western border und struck tbe
trails of the dreary, snow-covered
mountains of the coast. Great num
bers perished of cold und hunger on
the way. On November 29 Germany
proudly announced that the Serbian
campaign had ended, having met with
complete success.
Two BIowb to the British.
The winter also saw the humilia
tion of the British in Mesopotamia.
The Indian government recklessly
pushed n small, poorly supplied expe
dition up the Tigris valley and actu
ally penetrated to within seven milcB
of Bagdad. Hpre the Turks, with Ger
man officers directing them, adminis
tered n defeat and the invaders fell
back with the enemy harassing them
to the town of Kut-el-Amarn, where
they were besieged December 10.
Another expedition, also insufficient,
wns sent to relieve the first. It was
beaten off with large losses a few
miles below Kut. a flood of the river
and swamps assisting the Turks, and
on April 30 the 12,000 defenders of
Kut capitulated by order of the Brit-1
ish higher command.
A further British humiliation was
the evacuation of Gallipoli peninsula,
where the British held on doggedly
month after month, losiug perhaps
200,000 men, until they were finally
j withdrawn tn confession of fuilure the
first week of January.
These two British fiascos were what
| was needed to arouse the sluggish
fighting blood of John Bull. They
finally brought England into the war
fully and uncompromisingly, to the
same extent as the other great pow
ers.
On August 10 Great Britain started
her national register, or census of all
men of fighting age. The result showed
a vast reserve of man power. Certain
sections demanded immediate con
scription, but they were not success
ful. Instead the earl of Derby was
commissioned to start a vast recruit
ing campaign. This produced a num
ber of classes of “attested men,” who
bound themselves to come into the
ranks with their age groups. But
there were still hundreds of thousands
unreaclied, and the public began to
see that it was discriminating in favor
of the “slackers” and the cowards.
On December 21 David Lloyd
George, the minister of munitions and
greatest man the war has produced in
Great Britain, declared the country
faced defeat unless greater efforts
were made. A week later he threat
ened to resign front the cabinet un
less conscription was adopted.
Conscription was fiercely fought, but!
on January 6 a bill Introducing tt
passed Its first reading in the house
of commons by a large majority. The
bill was finally signed by King George
May 2G.
Allies Get Together.
Their defeats finally taught the al
lies that their efforts must be co-or
dinated, like their enemies’, if they
were to be effective. A new war
council, with all the allies represented,
met in Paris December 7 and a kind
of international general staff was or
ganized. It is known that General Jo
seph Joffre, French commander in
chief since the beginning of the war,
and the hero of the battle of the
Marne, was the presiding genius. The
effects of the council were not to be
seen for several months, but now they
are being realized in full measure.
To check a simultaneous allied of
fensive. which they clearly saw com
ing, the Teutons decided on two at
tacks of their own. This follows the
well-known axiom of German mili
tary strategy that the best defense is
an energetic attack.
The first of these offensive defen
sives was the attack on the French
fortress of Verdun, where the works
were subjected to a whirlwind of fire
beginning February 21.—The gains of
the first week were great, and German
critics foretold the collapse of the
French. Two of the defending forts,
Vaux and Douaumont, fell, and impor
tant positions were taken west of the
Meuse river as well.
But Joffre rallied his men in splen
did fashion and sold each yard of
ground at an awful cost in German
blood. Step by step the crown prince’s
men pushed forward, but today they
are still more than two miles from the
ruined fortress town and the resist
ance of the French is as strong as
ever.
Austrian Drive Checked.
The second Teutonic offensive wns
organized by the Austrians in the
Trentino, and they struck in the di
rection of Vicenza with the object
of cutting off the northern end of Italy
from the main portion. On May 2G,
as the result of several days’ vio
lent artillery fire followed by infantry
rushes, they were able to announce the
capture of 24,000 Italians.
General Count Cadorna hurried
nbout it hundred thousand men in mo
tor ears to the scene, while many more
arrived on foot or trains. Just when
it seemed the Austrians must reach
the lowlands the counter-attacks were
delivered.
On .1 une 30 Borne announced a splen
did victory. In bloody fighting the
Austrians, perhaps weakened by
drafts to holster up their Russian
front, were driven from peak to peak
almost to where their lines had stood
throughout the winter.
In March the Russians delivered
vast but futile attacks on the Ger
man front at many points, probably to
distract attention from Verdun. The
Germans seemed to have been lulled
into security by these efforts, which
they probably considered the best the
czar could do. But the tens of thou
sands of Muscovite bodies lining the
Germans' barbed wire were but a pat
ter of rain compared with the storm
that was brewing behind the Russian
lines.
At the Itegiuning of June this storm
broke with full force and, following
the principle of attacking the weakest
point, the Austrians holding the line
from the marsh district southward
were forced to bear the brunt of it.
Russia’s Big Push.
Millions of shells, manufactured
largely in British, Japanese and
American factories, blasted away wire,
trenches, dugouts and observation
points. Then the hordes of Sibe
rians, Cossacks and others swept
over the field. The Austrians could
not withstand the impact and they
gave way steadily.
June 6, General Brusiloff announced
the capture of 13,000 Austrians; June
8, the number for the three succeed
ing days alone was 43,000, and the
numbers kept mounting until on July
20 General Shoovaieff, Russian min
ister of war, estimated the number of
Austro-Hungarian prisoners at 270,
000. The killed and wounded are un
told, but the number must be large
enough to bring the total loss well
over half a million.
German support was rushed to the
Austrians, but the foe captured Lutsk
and Dubno, and reached the Stokhod
and Lipa rivers in Volhynin; overran
all Bukowina to the Carpathians and
sent patrols of Cossacks into Hungary
to ravage the country.
That the czar is anticipating further
great gains of territory is seen from
Russia's action in mobilizing the
males of the island of Saghalien, Tur
kestan. and one other district tobnlid
roads, dig trenches and do other work
of organizing the ground won.
Allies’ Drive in Somme Region.
Almost a month to a day following
the beginning of the great Russian of
fensive French and British opened
their drive in the vicinity of the
Somme river. They have gained grad
ually but steadily, and the official re
ports assert the losses of the attack
ers are comparatively small.
It Is also the claim of the allies that
the Franco-British offensive can be
kept up at its present rate indefinite
ly, and will not have to be slackened
for lack of shells, guns or men. The
rate of progress is much greater than
the Germans’ at Verdun, but the coun
try traversed is less difficult On the
other hand, the Verdun assailants
have the advantage of attacking from
the outside of a curve, while the
French and British now attack from
inside the salient they have made in
the line. Meanwhile the Verdun offen
sive of the Germans continues.
Outside of Europe the Germans have
lost their Cameroon colony on the west
coast of Africa, the remaining .defend*
ere having crossed Into Spanish ter
ritory and been interned. The army of
East Africa still resists the converg
ing columns of Belgians, French and
British but, shut off from re-enforce
rnents, its doom would seem to ba
sealed.
On April 25 Sir Roger Casement,
Irish knight, Tried to land from a Ger
man warship on the coast of Ire
land. but was captured. The next day
a revolt in Dublin and other Irish cities
broke out and the center of the Irish
capital was burned. The revolt was
easily quelled, the British announcing
resistance had ceased on May 1.
More successful was the revolt of
the Arabs, led by the grand shereff,
against their Turkish overlords. Mec
ca, Medina and others towns have been
captured and are held still, probably
with British assistance.
Doings in the Air.
Recent months have seen a cessa
tion of Zeppelin raids on undefended
British and French towns. The cause
of this is somewhat of a mystery, as
the Germans have claimed important
military results from their attacks.
On September 7-8 there were two
raids on London, thirty persons being
killed and a proportionate number
wounded. Fifty-five were killed by
Zeppelins in a raid on London October
IS.
On January 20 the German dirigibles
bombarded Fails, killing 23 and on
February 1 Liverpool and other Eng
lish centers were visited and 59 slain.
On April 2 a Zeppelin killed 28 in
England and was destroyed on the
British coast as it returned. On March
6 13 were killed.
On April 6 It was announced that
the fifth Zeppelin mid in six days on
the British coast hnd been made. The
Germans declnred that war munition
factories and supply depots had been
destroyed.
Since then England apparently has
been immune from the Zeppelins. This
may lie due to the large number of
dirigibles lost, or to the outcry against
the inhumanity of the practices of the
Germans which was raised in neutral
countries.
Une other important moral defeat
was sustained by the Germans when
they hurried Edith Cavell, a British
nurse, to execution, as announced by
Brand Whitlock, American minister of
Belgium, on October 22.
The greatest naval engagement of
history In number of men engaged
and number slain was fought June 3
near the Skaggerrak, in the North sea.
The result was inconclusive, each side
claiming a great victory and the re
ports varying widely in estimates of
losses on the two sides.
If the Germans, as they assert, seri
ously crippled the British grand fleet,
we will probably soon see them come
out of Kiel again, to finish their task.
At present, however, the British block
ade is broken only by the merchant
submarine Deutschland, which reached
Baltimore July 9.
Kaiser Yields to America.
The year has also been the culmi
nation of the submarine dispute be
tween the United States and Germany,
which terminated in the kaiser’s capit
ulating and promising to warn mer
chantmen before attacking.
A C-boat sank the liner Arabic Au
gust 20, two Americans being among
the slain. Two more of our nationals
died when the Hesperian was torpe
doed September C. On November 10
several Americans died in the torpe
doing of the Italian liner Ancona. It
is thought two Americans were lost In
the sinking of the Persia in the Medi
terranean January 2. The crisis was
precipitated March 2G. when the Brit
ish channel ferry steamer Sussex was
torpedoed without warning. Two hun
dred and thirty-five persons were
killed and several Americans were In
jured.
This flagrant violation of the rules
of war caused President Wilson to
press Germany for sweeping assur
ances, which were given in a note May
6 on condition that the United States
force Great Britain to conduct her
blockade legally. Mr. Wilson an
swered he would accept the promise,
but without the proviso.
The many times heralded Turco-Ger
man invasion of Egypt has not yet ma
terialized and probably never will. On
the other hand, the Russian grand
dnke has added to his laurels by cap
turing the important Inland city of
Erzerum February 17, Bitlis March 4
and the seaport of Trebizond April
19.
The Turks In counter-attacks
pressed back the Russians in Persia,
but recently the czar’s men have ad
vanced rapidly In the northern part of
Asia Minor and the resistance of the
Turks seems to have been broken.
Exploits of the Moewe.
Only one German commerce raider
net a submarine distinguished Itself
in the year. The fast Moewe sank
many allied ships off the coast of
Africa and reached a home port la
safety March 6. On February 2 a Ger
man prize crew brought the Appam, a
British capture, Into Hampton Roads,
having come all the way across the At
lantic with her. The ownership of this
vessel is still In the American courts.
Two more nations have been drawn
Into the war. The entrance of Bul
garia has been described. On March
10 Germany declared war on Portugal.
Portuguese and German troops had
clashed in Africa some time before
and Portugal had just seized the Ger
man ships in her harbors. The ac
tions of the republic were induced by
a treaty according to which she prom
ises to come to Great Britain’s assist
ance whenever requested to do so.
The British lost the equivalent of
several army corps when Lord Kitch
ener was drowned June 7 In the sink
ing of the cruiser Hampshire by A
mine while on his way to Rossla.
INTERESTING INFORMATION
Panama is rising three feet in each
century.
Iron rings were used as money by
the ancient Britons.
In Asia tusks are possessed only by
the male elephants.
The normal daily consumption of
milk in Paris and its suburbs exceeds
1,000.000 quarts.
More than 3,800 illegal distilleries
■were seized by the United States rev
enue department last year.
Tools kept in damp places can be j
kept from rusting if some unslackened i
lime, which absorbs moisture from the
air, is kept near them.
Among nature's freaks is a tree
from the fruit of which oil and tallow
are extracted. The tree grows in the
Azores, in Sumatra, in Algeria and in
China.
Daniel Miller of Shevers Creek,
Huntingdon county, Pa., is using a
wagon which was built in 1831. The
date is stamped on an iron plate on the
wagon.
Minnesota farmers in four years
have spent about $20,000,000 for new
buildings.
Females of the Australian wild tur
key lay their eggs in common nests
holding half a bushel or more, cover
them with soil and decaying vegetable
matter, and leave them to hatch.
There is an extraordinary echo In
the cathedral at Pisa. If you sing two
notes there is no reverberation, but If
you sing three they are taken up,
swelled and prolonged Into a beautiful
harmony.
Mark Twain.
Mark Twain’s popularity is In no
danger of diminishing to judge by an
order just given by his publishers for
16,000 yards of cloth to be used In
binding his books. If Mark Twain
were still alive and this cloth were
stretched out along the New York
pavement, we might see the family
white-clad figure walking over this
green carpet 40 inches wide all the
way from city hn!l northward to One
Hundred and Fifty-fifth street—New
York Telegram.
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OATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
A'Jg. 21-25—Mo. Valley Photographers’
Association Convention at Lincoln.
Aug. 22 to 23—Great Western Race
Meet at Omaha.
Sept. 4 to r—Nebraska State Fair at
Lincoln.
Sept. 12-10—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.
Sept. 17-22—Women's Christian Tem
perance Union annual convention at
Omaha.
October 2 te 7—National Swine Show
at Omaha.
Oct. 3 to 6—State Federation of Wo
men's Clubs convention at Hastings.
October 11-12—State Meeting Grand
Lodge Degree of Honor at Lincoln.
October 17-20—I. O. O. F. State Con
vention at Lincoln.
Cash receipts on the Omaha mar
ket for the first seven months of this
year are already 94,703 head in the
lead of the receipts of the first seven
months of last year. This means
3,158 cars in the lead. The total re
ceipts of cattle thus far have been
656.764. The hog receipts for the
seven months are already 211,370 in
the lead of the receipts of the first
seven months of last year. The total
hog receipts to date are 2,062.958.
Boring for gas or oil which was
started northeast of Union, Cass coun
ty, several months ago, has been
abandoned. The well is several thou
san feet .deep and no indications of
gas or oil have been found. The well
cost $9,000 and the Plattsmouth and
Union men hnancing it declined to
spend any more money. At Nebraska
City some years ago a similar ttempt
to find oil or gas failed.
A damage suit against Sarpy coun
ty for the death of Harold Larson of
Lincoln, who was killed when an
automobile with six people in it
plunged into the Missouri river near
La Platte, will be started at once. It
is alleged Sarpy county failed to pro
vide protection for the road, which
ended abruptly at the river. Four
others lost their lives.
A new record in high hog prices for
August was made at the South Omaha
stock market, whpn a bunch of light
weight finished hogs was sold by J.
A. Reece of York for $10 a hundred
pounds. The price also equaled the
top price for the present year.
Nine-year-old Otto Griess was
killed instantly and Charles Bauer,
37 years old. died as a result of an
automobile accident a mile east of
Sutton. Gertrude Griess, 7 years old.
and John Griess, father of the child
ren. who was driving, may die.
When Mrs. Anna Towie, postmis
tress at South Bend, opened the office
the other morning she discovered that
$100 had been stolen front a waste
paper basket she used in lieu of a
safe. The thief had not disturbed
the stamps.
A petition signed by 750 voters of
Beatrice has been filed with the city
commissioners asking that the present
ordinance which prohibits Sunday
amusements he so amended that it
will permit Sunday moving picture
shows.
Helen Chimes, champion Nebraska
race horse, owned by the Schinstock
brothers of West Point, has entered
the big $2,000 Hal McKinney purse
2.18 pacing event at the Great West
ern race meet at Omaha. August 22
to 26.
Fort Crook, near Omaha, has been
chosen by the war department as the
central recruiting station for the fed
eralized militia on the border, and all
“rookies” will be sent to the fort
from Nebraska and the Dakotas for
training before being sent south.
This year’s Chautauqua at Holdrege
lias closed with receipts amounting to
$2,843, an ample sum to allow the
Commercial club and Chautauqua
management to come out without a
loss.
Over fifty thousand people from all •
parts of the country attended the an
nual tractor meeting at Fremont last
week.
Pioneers and old settlers of Burt
county will hold their annual re-union
at Tekamah, August 25.
Nebraska hunters, who were eager
ly watching for a month's additional
shooting of game birds in March, may
be doomed to disappointment, Feder
al Game Warden R. P. Holland of
Kansas intimated during a visit at
Lincon recently.
The Jefferson county live stock as
sociation is keeping permanent home
for its annual meetings near Fairbury.
The directors propose to buy a ten
acre tract and plant trees to beautify
it The tract will be secured at this
time.
The safe in the Bradshaw postoffice
was blown open a few nights ago by
yeggmen who carried away about
$100 worth of stamps and $4 in
change. The .damage to the safe is the
largest item in the losses.
Grand Island people are mourning
the loss of Mrs. Christian Joehnck.
the only married woman in the col
ony which was established in 1857,
who died a few days ago.
Thirty-five Nebraska babies are al
ready entered in the better babies
show at the state fair. August 21st
is the closing date of entries.
An automobile ran into a herd of |
hogs being driven to Bradshaw to be j
shipped. Seven fat hogs were killed I
and the car was badly damaged. Only
a short time after this the same herd
was run into by an automobile and
two hogs killed.
Two brothers, yohn 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.
Three rattlesnakes were killed ir
the residence district of Broken Bow
a few days ago. -
For the purpose of creating interest
in one of the most practical course?
offered high school students, the Hoi
drege Commercial club is planning an
elaborate banciuet for members of the
local School Hardeners' club. on
prising sixt.v-one members, w.'o sue
cessfully complete the prescribed
course. Silver and gold medals will
be awerded. Vegetable sales by bpv
j en members of the club total thus far
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| John M. Thurston, former United
1 States senator, and one of Nebraska’s
: most widely known citizens, died at
I his home in Omaha last week. One of
1 Mr. Thurston's greatest achievements,
and one which gave him national
prominence, was his famous speech
on Cuba in 1898 in the senate which,
it is said, brought on the Spanish
American war. Senator Thurston was
69 years old.
I
It now costs Nebraska farmers 74
cents per bushel to produce 800 bush
els of wheat on forty acres of ground,
according to figures given out by W.
J. Bobbitt, Adams county assessor
and practical farmer. He estimates
the actual cost of production from a
flftten-bushel yield is 95 cents per
bushel but that a thirty-bushel yield
reduces production costs to T>3 cents.
Low labor prices are figured.
Secretary Mellor of the Stale Fair
board has engaged the following mu
sical organizations to be present dur
ing the fair: George Green's band of
Omaha, Nebraska State band of Lin
coln, Ainsworth, Scott’s Biuff, Su
perior and Verdon City bands. The
Kilties from Canada and the LeBaron
Wheatley grand opera singers of Lin
coln, also St. Paul oratorio chorus.
Joseph Naverkal, a young farmer
residing near Clarkson, was killed
while attempting to cross a smali
bridge with a threshing machine. The
structure collapsed and Naverkal was
thrown between the engine and sepa
rator and pinned there, his life being
crushed out. TIip accident occurred
near Clarkson.
At c remom last week during uie i
tractor m»t, Henry Ford, the Detroit
auto builder, declared tliai in the near
future from one to four or five tract
ors will be found on every farm. They
will be small tractors, each of v,-hich
will perform about the same capacity
of work as could be expected from a
team of two or three horses.
The Oxford State Bank and the \
Burlington round house were partial
ly demolished by a heavy Windstorm
which swept Oxford and adjacent ter
ritory last week. All wires between
Holbrook and Oxford were blown
down and a number of farm buildings
were swept away by the storm. The
damage is estimated at $10,000.
Richardson county has 104 school
districts, ninety-seven frame school
buildings and seventeen brick, accord
ing to the report of County Superin
tendent Weber, just issued. The i
county lias six parochial schools. The j
teachers numbered 172, nineteen male
and 155 female. Total number of !
pupils enrolled reached nearly 4,500. -j
Improvements that cost about $ti. ;
000 have just been completed at the !
plant of the Atlantic Canning com
pany at Fremont. The 1910 campaign. !
which starts soon, will give employ j
ment to 200 people.
James Boyles, laborer, was instantly
killed and an unknown man injured
when a dump car at the Condon Con
struction Co.'s dump overturned at J
Louisville. Boyles was crushed to i
death.
Joe Stecher of Dodge threw Harold
Christensen. Danish champion wrest
ling champion, at Fremont in straight
fails. The time was 10 minutes and
20 seconds for the first and 4 minutes
for the second fall.
The Nebraska Press association,
during their business session at
Scottsbluff last week, decided to held
the next annual meeting in Omaha.
The vote was Omaha 26. Lincoln 7,
York 2.
Business men of Albion have agreed
to keep their stores closed on Sunday.
They are to do so in recognition cf j
the Christian sentiment now prevail- i
ing in the city.
Extensive preparations are being
made at Hastings for the annual con
vention of the State Federation of
Women’s Clubs to be held in that
city early in October.
Fire completly destroyed the Blake
postoffice, located about twenty miles
north of Burwell, with all its mail
and other contents.
At a special election held last week
Ogallala voted sewer bonds in the
sum of 15.000,
Two men drove up to the Farmers'
State bank of Florence, a suburb of
Omaha, last Saturday noon in an au
tomobile. one of them went inside
“covered” the cashier with a revolver,
took $1,000 and .made his escape with
his companion.
Jesse C. McNish of Omaha has re
signed the chairmanship of the repub
lican state central committee. McNish
was elected chairman of the state
committee at a meeting held after
the state convention at Lincoln
July 25.
Considerable damage was done tc
buildings at Rushville and growing
crops in the vicinity by a terrific wind
and hail storm which swept through
Sheridan county late last week.
David Jones, who taught manual
training and music in the Seward
schools for the past two years, ha?
been elected to teach the same sub
ject in the Kansas City high school.
Work on the new German Lutheran
church at Pender has commenced
The new church will cost about $G,00C
and is expected will be ready for ded
ication this fall.
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.
The price of lambs on the South
Omaha market has increased nearly
$1.60 per hundredweight in the pasl
two weeks. Values for last week
were higher titan erer before in Au
gust.
Work is expected to begin on Fre
mont’s six-story, all modern $20^,000
hotel about August 15.
WESTERN
Co-Operative Creameries Show
Tremendous Increase in
Butter Production.
The Dairy Commissioner, at first an
nual convention of Saskatchewan
Dairymen's association, reviewed pro
gress of 1915 which shows a great in
crease in the butter production of the
co-operative creameries amounting to
1,500,000 lbs. He also said the im
provement in quality is shown by the
preference accorded Saskatchewan
butter in outside markets. Shipments
out of the province for the year to
taled 52 carloads.
According to bulletin just issued by
the Manitoba department of agricul
ture, the dairy industry had a very
successful year in 1915. There was an
increase of over 1 .<¥>0,000 Ihs. of cream
ery butter produced, as against the
previous year, about 260.000 lhs. in
crease in dairy butter and over 25,000
lbs. increase in the cheese output. The
increase of the total value of milk and
milk products was over $427,000. The
production of dairy butter for Mani
toba during the year was 4,150,444 lbs.
and it brought an average price of 23c
per lh.; of creamery butter 5,839,667
lbs. were produced which commanded
29c per lb. on the average: cheese pro
duction was 726,725 lbs. which sold at
an average price of 15c—the total
value of these three products is given
as $2,760,698, in addition to which the
milk produced is valued at $925,659
and the cream at $158,827, the average
price of the milk being reckoned at
2.1c per lb. and of sweet cream at 32c
per lh. butter-fat. In connection with
the dairy industry it is interesting to
note that almost the most important
fodder crop now is corn, of which the
1915 production amounted to 190,132
tons. The biggest cultivated fodder
crop is timothy whicli for last season
produced 193.357 tons and the next
most popular crop was brome grass
with 45.815 tons; of alfalfa and clover
There were produce*] some 3S,000 tons.
The number of cattle In the province
is given as 631.005. which is an in
crease of 130,000 over the previous
vear.
The fact that the Red Deer, Alberta,
cheese factory is handling four times
as much milk this season as last win
ter shows the growing improvement in
the dairy industry. On Feb. 14, it was
announced the factory had Just
shipped two tons of cheese for Calgary
market.
Oardston, Alberta, creamery in 1915
paid its patrons a rate of '27per
lb. for butter fat and had a profit re
maining over all expenses of $5,584.
The creamery during season distrib
uted among farmers $01,117 and manu
factured 256.000 lbs. butter and 13.000
lbs. cheese. Average price realized for
butter was 2814. cents.
The development of the dairy indus
try of Northern Alberta is well indi
cated by the growth of a prominent
dairy business here, which in 1915 pro
duced 2.525,000 lbs. butter, an Increase
of 400.000 lbs. over the previous year.
Tlii« product has found a market In all
parts of Canada and this year will en
ter the export trade Advertisement.
Danger From Mosquitoes.
The most dangerous of the biting in
sects is said by most entomologists to
be tile mosquito, and the species which
is the chief carrier of malaria is found
very widely distributed throughout the
world. As a rule individuals do not
wander far on their own account, but
they can lie blown considerable dis
tances by a wiud, and they have a
habit of traveling about in trains and
ships. The female hibernates through
out tin* winter, and, it is reported, has
been found tinder the frozen snows of
Siberia, mingled with the moss and
snow.
OON’T LOSE HOPE
IN KIDNEY TROUBLE
I wu troubled with what the doctor
uid was Kidney and Bladder trouble and
after trying several doctors, gave up all
hopes of ever being well again, until a
friend of mine told me about Dr. Kilmer’*
Swamp-Boot. Before I had finished the
first bottle I got relief; and after taking
si* bottles was completely restored to
health. T say to one and all that Swamp
Boot is a wonderful medicine.
Very truly yours,
MRS. MARTILE VANDERBECK.
408 ,Tohn»on St. Moberly, Mo.
Personally appeared before me this
4th day of February. 1914, Mrs. Martile
Vanderbeck. who subscribed the above
statement and made oath that the same
is true in substance and in fact.
O. RULICK O'BRIEN,
Notary Public.
Prove What Swamp-Root Win Do For Yon
Send ten eents_ to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton. N. Y., for a sample size bot
tie. It will convince anyone. You will
also receive a booklet of valuable infor
mation, telling about the kidneys and bled
der. When writing, be sure and mention
this paper. Regular fifty-eent and one
dollar size bottles for sale at all drug
stores.—Adv. *
Fliers.
“Do you ever take a flyer in the
market?"
“No,” replied the munitions specu
lator. “Nothing doing with airships.
I’m for submarines.”
RED, ROUGH, SORE HANDS
May Be Soothed and Healed by Use
of Cuticura. Trial Free.
Nothing so soothing and healing for
red, rough and irritated hands as Cuti.
cura Soap and Cuticura Ointment.
Soak hands on retiring in hot Cuticura
soapsuds. Dry, and gently anoint hands
with Cuticura Ointment. A one-night
treatment works wonders.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
The Rassano dam, in Alberta, Can
ada, one of the greatest irrigation
works in the world, has been com
pleted.
Compression of the waist is said to
be harmful, but if the right young man
makes the attempt the average girl Is
willing to take chances.
A girl likes to listen to soft noth
ings—when they mean something.