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NEWS OFTHE WEEK CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR LESSER IMPORTANCE. A BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS National, Political, Personal and Other Matters In Brief Form for All Ctaaaea of Readers. MEXICAN TROUBLE. Manuel Prieto, mayor of Juarez, an nounces his resignation that be may become collector of customs in the Mexican town. Prieto has been one of the prominent Carranza leaders in nothern Mexico. • * • The joint commission that will make an inventory of the Mexican Railway company preparatory to the return of the line to its stockholders by the gov ernment has already begun work. * • » Carranza government officials ex pressed curiosity over the delay by the United States government In nam ing American delegates to the Amer ican-Mexican conference on border difficulties. * * * Five hundred Mexican de facto gov ernment telegraph operators in the state of Sonora went on strike. The de facto government branded the atrike as unpatriotic and informed the strikers that they will be executed if they do not return to work. * * • Special Agent Rodgers reported that two Americans, brothers, named Ham ilton, who own ranches In the state of Oaxaca, have been imprisoned in Mex ico City and that he is seeking their release. One is accused of having killed a Mexican in 1912. • • • General Matias Ramos reported to General Trevino at Chihuahua that he had given battle to Villa’s personal band, inflicting sharp defeats. Ramos bad altogether eight men wounded and a captain killed. His information is that Villa maintains his headquar ters at San Juan Bautista, and has less than 400 followers all told. * • • Charges are being circulated in Mexican official circles, that American mining and other concerns with vast properties in Mexico are refusing to operate in order to help bring about intervention. By refusing to operate, it is charged, the foreign concerns en courage lawlessness and deprive the Carranza government of revenue, in the hope, officials say, that its down fall will ensue, attracting the interfer ence of the United States, GENERAL. Six Hawaiian sugar plantations dis tributed $491,000 in monthly divi dends. Of this amount plantations on the island of Oahu contributed $300, 000. * * • Newspaper publishers of Philadel phia in view of the practical famine in the news print paper situation de cided unanimously to reduce the size of all papers, .daily evening and Sun day so as to effect a saving in excess of eighty pages per week. • * * Following a newspaper crusade against the beer camps and disorderly taxicabs in Des Moines, the taxicab owners have agreed to discharge driv ers who have been introducing their passengers to women and taking them to beer camps. * * * A farmer named Palmer, near Na cona, Texas, a few days ago plowed up silver bars on his farm variously estimated to be worth from $100,000 to $280,000. It is believed the silver bars were left there by Spaniards in the sixteenth or seventeenth century, when they retreated, owing to the as sault of Mexicans against them. • • • The number of cases of infantile paralysis in the United States on Au gsut 16, according to a report sub mitted at a health conference in Washington, is as follows: New Jer sey, 1,800 cases; New Hampshire, 7; Delaware, 2; Massachusetts, 300; Maryland, 66; Michigan, 97; Missouri, 11; Montana, IS; Nebraska, 10; Con necticut, 323; Illinois, 230; Indiana, 37; Iowa, 25; Alabama, 64; Colorado, 4; Maine, 14; District of Columbia, 14. New York had shown 6,653 cases since the outbreak of the epidemic in the metropolis, with 1,497 deaths. • • • Preparations' for starting an avia tion school at which men will be trained for duty in time of war were begun in Chicago by Captain Joseph A. Morrow of the signal corps of the army • • • The Western Union Telegraph com pany notified its customers that its national distribution service for the delivery of packages will be transfer red to another corporation September 1, and thereafter its messengers will collect and deliver telegrams only. * * * John D. Rockefeller has offered a house on the outskirts of his Pocantico Hills estate, Tarrytown, N. Y., as an isolation hospital for infantile paraly sis cases. * * * The national woman’s party in ses sion at Colorado Springs adopted re solutions pleading itself to use its best efforts in the twelve equal suf frage states to defeat the democratic candidate for president and com mended the position of Charles Evans Hughes, the republican nominee. * * * Forty-five provisional regiments, in cluding approximately 50,000 men, have been organized among the vet erans of foreign wars of the United States since the sending of state troops to the border. One in every thirteen Californians has an automobile, according to sta tistics of the state motor vehicle de partment at Sacramento. • * * Fred W. Knapp. Beloit, Kas., won the republican nomination for state auditor over Dan B. Dyer, Smith Cen ter, by a plurality of twenty-two votes. * • • In Colorado Springs, Colo., the con tract for the arena in which the light weight championship twTenty-round bout between Charlie White and Fred die Welsh, to be held Labor day, has been let. * • * Official figures or the strike vote polled June 16, made public by W. G. Lee, chief of the Brotherhood of Rail way Trainmen, in New York, show that 128,812 were cast for a strike and 4,350 against it. • • * France. England and Russia are making inquiries on the condition of the Tungsten market in Colorado, ac cording to Frederick Carroll, state mining commissioner at Denver, and have contracted for 100 tons in the American market. * • • Frank Wylie, 25 years old, a carpen ter of Idaho Falls, Idaho, developed a case of infantile paralysis in Salt Lake City, the first there since the present epidemic began in the coun try. There is much speculation as to where the man contracted the disease. * • * At Grand Junction, Colo., O. J. Trumbo, constable, while attempting to serve a summons on an unwilling v itness fell sixty feet, breaking both legs and suffering internal injuries. Trumbo had climbed to the roof of the union station to serve papers on a painter. WASHINGTON. Formal notification to President Wil son of his nomination will take place September 2. The notification speech will be mad by Senator James. * • * Collections by the internal revenue bureau for the fiscal year ending June 30 reached a total of $512,723,288, an increase of $97,042,264 over those for the fiscal year 1915. * * * President Wilson has signed the ag ricultural appropriation bill carrying approximately $27,000,000 and the mil. itarv academy appropriation bill carry ing $1,225,000. * * * Considering a stumping tour as in compatible with the dignity of his of fice, President Wilson will not make a speechmaking journey, according to Vance McCormick, chairman of the democratic campaign committee. » * * Proposals to authorize President Wilson to lay an embargo upon ex ports of print paper, to relieve present shortage, until the federal trade com mission reports on the paper situation are contained in a resolution intro duced by Representative Hastings of Oklahoma. * • • While exact figures cannot be com puted until the gavel has fallen on the last supply bill of the 64th con gress, the aggregate appropriation bv congress for all purposes probably will approximate $1,700,000,000 as against $1,114,000,000 for the Sixty third congress. * • * The national guard is being kept at the border because of a “national emergency.” It will be recalled as soon as the emergency disappear and there is a "restoration of order and security on the frontier that will per mit their speedy return,” declared Secretary Baker recently. WAR NEWS. Canada is enlisting men for service in the British navy, a departure in pol icy, as it was decided at the begin ning of the war to confine recruiting in Canada to land forces. » * • It is reported in Bucharest that Germany has offered territorial com pensation to Rumania at the expense of Austria in return for Rumanian neutrality in the war. * • • The British steamer Whitgift, pre viously reported missing, now is un derstood to have been torpedoed and sunk April 20, says Lloyds. The sole survivor was a Japanese. • • • The Italian dreadnaught. Leonardi Da Vinci, caught Are and blew up in the harbor of Taranto, Italy, and 300 of its crew were drowned, says a Paris dispatch. The date of the dis aster is not given. * • • British officers’ casualty lists con tinue to show the severity of the fight ing on the western front. The losses for one week, July 1G to 23, were 528 killed, 1,070 wounded and 201 miss ing, a total of 1,799. Since the begin ning of the war (he British army has lost 10,105 officers killed, 21,290 wounded- and 2,402 missing. * « • An official statement issued in Ber lin says that during July seventy-four merchantmen belonging to the en tente allies were sunk by German and Austrian submarines and mines. The ships had a total tonnage of 103,000 tens. * * » German casualties during July, ac cording to a table compiled in Lon don from German casualty lists, to taled 122,540, bringing the grand to tal since the commencement of the war, taken from the same source, to 3,135,177. * * * The Turkish government has re fused to grant the request of the Unit ed States that a neutral committee be permitted to undertake relief work in Syria, where thousands of native Christians are reported to be starv ing. • • * Germany and Austria will soon pub lish a decree, declaring Poland inde pendent, according to advices from Budapest and Vienna. In return, the Poles will be expected to organize a national administration and defend themselves against Russian attacks. f NEBRASKA STATE NEWS : DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. Sept. 4 to 7.—Nebraska State Fair at Lincoln. Sept. 11-15—Southwest Nebraska Dis trict Fair at Maywood. Sept. 12-16—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. Sept. 26-Oct. 7—Ak-Sar-Ben Fall Festi val at Omaha. October 2 to 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—1. O. O. F. State Con vention at Lincoln. Electric light bonds to the sum of $4,000 received almost unanimous en dorsement by the people of Burchard, Pawnee county, at a special election held in the village last week. The bonds will be Issued and sold at once and work begun on the electric light system. The building of the new $20,000 Burlington depot at Columbus has commence!. The structure is to be one of the best in Central Nebraska. Forty floats have been completed for the Ak-Sar-Ben electrical parade during the fall festival, September 2G to Oct. 7, at Omaha. Contract has just been let for a new $20,000 theater in Columbus. It will be a fireproof structure and will be one of the best and most up-to-date theater buildings in this state, 44xlOti' feet. Preliminary work has already begun. Word has been received in Central City that the United States treasury department has accepted the site do nated by Heber Hord for a public building to be erected there, located at the southeast corner of Sixteenth ave nue and Sixteenth street. Miss Dorothy Ellsw’orth, 24 years old, whose fiance, Shirley Fossler, a Lincoln newspaper man, died in that city, ended her life there by swallow ing carbolic acid. Remorse over Foss ler’s death is believed to have been responsible for the act. One of the elevators of the Far mers’ Equity Exchange at Jansen, col lapsed last week, scattering about 4,000 bushels of wheat and about a i thousand bushels of corn over the ground. While the three children of Albert Estler, a rancher residing east of Har rison. were playing on a hay rake the clutch slipped and almost tore two fingers and half of the hand from lit tle Robert. ; A young man of North Platte was | prosecuted for hauling two beef car casses in a wagon without being cov ered to protect them from flies, dust and dirt. He pleaded guilty and was fined $10 and costs. E. T. Griggs, caretaker for the Car ter Lake club, and Frank Musco, Ital ian laborer, were overcome by sewer gas in the club sewer pumping sta tion at Omaha, fell into the water and were drowned. Work is being pushed with vigor on the new Platte river bridge at Kear ney. In an effort to finish the struc ture this year the contractors are keeping up operations twenty-four hours a day. The board of directors of the York Y. M. C. A. has adopted a resolution eliminating from their reading rooms such papers and periodicals as con tain liquor and cigaret advertisements. The new federal land bank board will hold a hearing in Omaha about September 18 to consider this city’s claim to one of the twelve district banks. There are 38,592 children of school age in Omaha. Last year 29,763 pu pils were enrolled in the schools, 1,795 of them being in the night high school. Contract is to be let in the very near future for the construction of a three-story brick school building at Giltner. Work on Havelock’s new $25,000 echool building is expected to begin !n the next few weeks. In spite of adverse conditions and the payment of $1,500 to Madam Schumann-Heinsk for a single pro gram, the Hastings Chautauqua, held Just recently, paid all expenses. The Chautauqua will be continued another year. 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 Union Pacific railroad has de I cided to lay a switch for the purpose | of hauling coal to the Hastings elec j '.ric light and water works plant, for lack of which the city lias paid out about $25,000 in transfer charges. il.^ D. Beach of Lincoln was elected chairman of the republican state cen tral committee to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jesse C. McNish of Omaha. September 7 has been set as ‘Omaha day," at the Nebraska state fair at Lincoln. Several thousand Omahans will attend. Thirty head or horses were burned | and damage estimated at over $10,000 I entailed, in a fire that gutted the sta bles of the Smith Brick Co., at Omaha. The Nebraska Christian Endeavor Colon will hold its annual convention in Omaha this year, the dates being November 2 to 5. An unusually large delegation of members is expected. Two brothers, John and Adolph Buhlmann, aged 22 and 17, were Irewned in the Loup river at Monroe. The tragedy was witnessed by many bathers. Neither victim could swim,. The board of county supervisors of Burt county has let the contract for the erection of the new $75,000 court house to be built at Tekamah. Burt county never had a county building ol its own, as the present shack was do nated to it by a few Tekamah citi zens. Because of strife between the west and east sides of the county nc agreement could ever be reached for a suitable county building, despite the fact that the county valuation is ovei $50,000,000. “Nebraska has the best wiieat in the world, and an abundance of it/’ was the assertion of General Manager Frank Walters of the Northwestern railroad, while discussing business conditions at Omaha recently. “Our freight traffic is heavier than ever be fore, and shows no sign of letting up. The wheat crop is wonderful, and ail eyes are on Nebraska.” Rev. Billy Sunuay, tne tamous evan gelist, delivered anti-liquor addresses last week at Grand Island to an aud ience of 7,000, at North Platte to over 4,500 people, and at Omaha to an as semblage estimated at close to 9,000. His audiences in every case pledged itself to fight to make Nebraska a “dry" state this fall. The Kearney canning factory lias started its machinery and the regular run lias now commenced. Everything is in tip-top shape for the season’s work and a good run is expected. The factory lias over three hundred acres of sweet corn contracted for aud also one hundred acres of tomatoes, but, much more can be handled. One thousand prize-winning Chester White hogs will he shown at the Na tional Swine Show at Omaha, Octobei 2 to 7. F. L. Barber of Harlan, la., a member of the hoard of directors, has reserved space for that many hogs. In addition he made hotel reservations for eighty-five breeders, who will come fiom every state in the union. C. N. Nichols, a farmer residing near Wauneta, threshed ten acres ot wheat that yielded 517 bushels. He has 300 acres in wheat and has just completed threshing 160 acres that averaged: 33 bushels. The ten acres were especially prepared as an ex periment. The automobile display at the Ne braska state fair at Lincoln, Sept. 4 to 7, is going to exceed anything ever before seen in this state, is the opin ion of Secretary Mellor. The largest dealers have engaged all available space and additional facilities are needed. The $1,750,000 “good roads” bond issue voted by the people of Douglas county at the recent primary election was declared invalid by District Judge Leslie in a decision handed down at Omaha. He denied the proposition had received a legal majority of vote? cast. An appeal will be taken. The annual Southwest Nebraska District fair will he held at Maywood September 11 to 1. General Stiper5in tendent W. P. Withrow of the fair as sociation lias made arrangements with several tractor companies to be at Maywood during fair week with ex mbits. Gage county swine breeders have organized the Gage county hog chol era control association, the purpose ot which is to present the spread of the plague In the county. Three young men of North Platte were fined $105 and costs, fine and costs to be split by the trio, by County j Judge French, for shooting prairie chickens out of season. A special election has been called for September 12th by the city coun cil of Chadron to vote on a $15,000 bond proposition for the purpose of erecting and furnishing a city hall. The official government report ot rainfall at Oshkosh for the past four months shows the following: April 1.06; May, 2.69; June, 1.60; July. 2.57 Making a total of nearly eight inches. The York Electric and Gas Co. was transferred to the Public Service Co of Delaware, according to a mortgage filed with the register of deeds in the sum of $1,000,000. Recent rains have so changed sweet corn conditions that the management of a Hastings cannery announced that its factory will soon be opened. The Masonic order of Alliance has just let a contract for the rebuilding of their home in that city. The work will cost about $15,000. Merchants of Pickrell and stock holders of the Farmers’ Elevator of the town will hold a joint picnic on September 14. Work has commenced on the new church building being erected by the newly organized Nazarene congrega tion at Beatrice. When Mrs. Anna Towle, postmis tress at South Bend, opened the office the other morning she discovered that $100 had been stolen from a waste paper basket she used in lieu of a j safe. The thief had not disturbed j the stamps. A petition signed by 750 voters o; I Beatrice has been filed with the city : commissioners asking that the present I ordinance which prohibits Sunday ! amusements be so amended that it ! will permit Sunday moving picture shows. Miss Edna Work, assistant principa of the Hastings high sofcool, has *c cepted the position of assistant prin cipal of the State Normal school at Chadron. The construction on the new $50,00( high school building at Plattsmoutb will be commenced early next week It will be one of the finest school buildings in eastern Nebraska. A pure seed exhibit will be one o) the features of the coming state fair at Lincoln, Sept. 4 to 7. An exhibit ir charge of a competent seed expert will be placed in one of the buildings. Audubon and Humane societies o! Nebraska are protesting to Secretary of Agriculture Houston against th« proposed extension of the open season on game in the middle states from February 9 to March 11. Five persons were injured, two seriously and one probably fatally, when the Capitol hotel of Lincoln col lapsed. The hotel is an old land mark of the city and was built in 1876. Pioneers and old settlers of Dakota county will hold their thirty-fifth an nual reunion at Dakota City on Au gust 31. ^ _ LINE OF MARCH EXTENDED OVER TWO MILES. REFUSES TO DISSOLVE ORDER Items of General Interest Gathered From Reliable Sources Around the State House. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Nine thousand troops of the Ne braska, Indiana and Minnesota Na tional Guards, including all their units, inarched in review before Gen eral Parker, commander of the Browns ville district, at Camp Llano. In the reviewing stand were General Parker, General Lewis, camp commander, and General O'Ryan, commander of the famous Seventy-fourth New York regi ment. It was by far the most impres sive sight that has yet taken place. The line of march extended over two miles. Officers and men of the two Nebras ka regiments are being rapidly whip ped into shape and it is expected that within a few weeks they will be ready to relieve the regulars on patrol duty along the Rio Grande. Under the in structions of Lieutenant Joe Baxter, assigned to the Fourth, and Lieutenant Ritchel, assigned to the Fifth, United 8tates army instructors, the two Ne braska organizations are showing re markable development. Camp Llano Now Has a Laundry. “The Three Lungs—Washing Done at All Times.” This sign appears in the rear of the company street of Com pany C, Omaha, under Captain Todc. It has been difficult to get laundry work done in camp. Prices have been exorbitant. So Sergeant James Morin decided to start a laundry. His two assistants are Perry Howard and Tim M. McCarty. They are known as: Sing One Lung, Sing Two Lung and Sing Three Lung. They do work only foi members of their own company ann officers of the Fourth regiment. Their prices are from 2 to 5 cents cheaper than the prices of the regular' laundry. The men work in the laundry when off duty. They receive 40 per cent of the profits while their company re ceive 60 per cent. Morin stated today that he has averaged about $5 a day since beginning work. Their equip ment consists of a washing machine, three tubs, two washboards, a stove, clothes pins and clothes line. They call for and deliver laundry. Refuses to Dissolve the Order. Holding that the matters involved are of shch importance as to require a regular hearing before the entire bench, the four judges of the Nebras ka supreme court, who recently grant ed a restraining order to prevent op ponents of Mrs. Emma B. Manches ter from interfering with her admin istration as supreme guardian of the Woodmen Circle, have declined to modify the writ so as to permit im peachment proceedings to be brought against her, and acted upon by the executive council, with the object of removing her from office. The court reserves its ruling upon the application of the Manchester fac tion until all the judges are present to hear it. This means that nothing more will be done in the case until some time in the fall. Several of the judges are absent on their vacations, and the regular sittings of supreme court will not be resumed until the middle of September. It was the object of the restraining order, says the written statement filed by the four judges, to preserve the status quo until a regular hearing could be had. They think it would be Improper to allow one contending party to remove the other party from office while the action is pending, es pecially when only a bare majority of the court is here to consider the case. If either party should attempt to violate the restraining order, the court will take such action as may be required to prevent it, the ruling says. White Kherson Oats Yield Well. A new strain of Kherson oats, white In color, recently developed by the Ne braska State Experiment Station at Lincoln, has been found to give *. greater yield than the ordinary yellow Kherson oat. Ten acres of the new strain yielded S5 bushels to the acre Students Allowed to Return Home. All members of the national guard mustered into the service of the United States, who can show a bona fide in tention of entering or returning to colleges or schools at the beginning of the fall term in 1916, will be di* charged as soon as possible, after the first of September, unless the military situation at that time be such as to render their retention in the service necessary. This order from the sec retary of war, has reached Camp Llano Grande. Started a Fund for Old Soldiers. Sergeant Otto Penner, Company B. Fourth, has received a box of fine fudge from four girl friends in Omaha. The box also contained four cents. “These will tide you over until pay day,” the girls wrote. That night Ser geant Penner invited the entire regi ment out for dinner. What remained of the four cents will be turned over to some old soldiers’ home. Sergeant Archie Welton, also Company B, has received a large number of magazine* which are being enjoyed by members of the company. i ■ German Books for University Library Two hundred and forty-two volumes of books on subjects of history, science and philosophy for the Uni versity of Nebraska will arrive in Lin coln within 9 short time from Berlin, Germany, according to a report re ceived by Earl R. Birge, deputy col lector of the United States customs: The new books are to be placed in the university library. According to Mr. Birge the shipment is made to the educational istitution without the customs fee. RECORD FOR SPEED. Nebraska Amongst First to Get to the Front. Nebraska holds the record for be ing one of the first states to get its entire quota of national guardsmen "to the border.” says Adjutant Gen eral Phil Hall in a statement, fol lowing his return from Washington, where he settled accounts fo'- the mobilization camp with the war de partment. “Mobilization was accomplished at less cost than in most other states, too," he points out. The adjutant general is enthusiastic over the chances of this state secur ing an aeroplane for its aviation corps from the war department. The war department ..will spend $800,000 on the western division, of which Ne braska is a member. General Hall says. General Hull is anxious to have this state made a permanent headquarters of one company, with a permanent aero field. There will be three com panies in the division, which com prises Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri and Kansas. Asks Aid in Fire Prevention Work. State Fire Commissioner W. S. Hidgell has issued a bulletin announc ing that the fire losses for the month of July in Nebraska amounted to $114, S37. The amount paid in insurance for these losses was $114,815. He says: “The conserving of life and property from destruction by fire is a worthy progressive movement. When we can get every community in the state to realize these facts, they will help us to convict and mete out proper pun ishment to the 'incendiary,’ and to deal with the criminally careless with out waste of sympathy, and thus aid the state fire commission and the local fire department in their fire preven tion work. If the citizens of each city and town in the state will inter est themselves in eliminating the need less, careless and neglectful fires, in a year our fire losses can be reduced 75 per cent.” But Few Nebraska Students. There are not a great many college men in the two Nebraska regiments. Just across the imaginary line that separates the Nebraska regiments from the Indiana organizations in Camp Llano Grande, however, are a laige number of college students. The college man, generally speaking, makes a good soldier. He is orderly, neat in appearance, is a great fellow to reason out things for himself, sel dom complains about food or condi tions. works when there is work to be 1 done and plays whenever the oppor tunity presents itself. — Several Nebraskans Receive Discharge. Some of the Nebraska men are re criving theie discharges because of dependent relatives, and will return to their homes. The first Nebraskans to be discharged are: John C. Hoff and Emil R. Herman, both of supply department Fourth regiment. Wisner; Artificer Fred Tranmer, Company 1, Fourth: Joseph V. Miller and James W. Pence, both of Company A, Fifth regiment. Other discharges are ex pected to follow soon. Puts Ban on ‘‘Fake’’ News. Soldier boys along the border whr> persist in sending home false or ex aggerated reports of camp conditions will be subject to court-martial and heavy penalty, according to a receni order from General Parker, in com mand of the Brownsville district. The order has been received at ! Camp Llano Grande and sent out to the various companies in the two Ne braska regiments by Captains Poacher and Burmeister. Getting Hardier and Healthier. The men at Llano Grande are getting hardier and healthier every day. There is less sickness, it is said, than in any other concentration camp of its size in the country. It is fine proof of the healthfulness of this valley to see youths who were a hit puny in spite of passing the U. S. examination, developing into brawny, stalwart, chaps, who will surprise the mothers and sweethearts when they go home. Revoked Agent’s License. Perry Anthony's license as an in surance agent has been revoked by the state insurance board after a hearing on charges brought against him that he had misrepresented the terms of the insurance ho was selling in the territory around Sargent. The board held the evidence brought be fore it justified (he cancellation of the license. Will Accept the Abstract. The state board of assessment has decided to accept the second abstract of assessment submitted to it by Coun ty Assessor Philbin of Greeley county. His first abstract was not signed and his second differed slightly from the first and did not contain the usual statement that the assessment had been equalized by the county board. The county board presented an ab stract of its own which was one cent an acre lower than the valuation re ported by the county assessor. State Superintendent Thomas has anonunced that Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Taylor, formerly of Belvidere, have been chosen to have charge of a large consolidated school district formed from territory in Richardson and Ne maha counties. A fine school building to be used as a community center ana another building to be used as a resi dence! for^ teachers have been built. The consolidated district has six acres of land for school gardening and agri cultural work. The school is eight miles from Humboldt. Three or feur teachers will be employed. Edwin J. Murfin, colonel and acting judge advocate general of the Ne braska national guard, prepared an opinion under date of August 3, in which he states that the Nebraska national guardsmen cannot vote at the coming general election if they remain out of the state of Nebraska, because the legislature has failed in the past to pass an act authorizing them to vote. Colonel Murfin believes, however, that congress can enact a law that would permit absent guards men to vote for presidential candi dates and candidates for congress. VETOES ARMY BILL WILSON OBJECTS TO EXEMPTION OF RETIRED OFFICERS. LONG FIGHT IS ANTICIPATED Contest Threatens to Delay Adjourn, ment and Completion of the Pre paredness Program. Washington.—The army appropria tion bill was unexpectedly vetoed by President Wilson because he would not accept certain principles in the revision of the articles of war forced into the bill by the house conferees and commonly said in army circles to be in the interest of certain retired officers “at outs with the army.” Chairman Hay of the house military committee reintroduced the bill with the entire section revising the ar ticles of war stricken out and the declaration that no revisions at all would go through with the bill in this congress. Chairman Chamberlain of the senate military committee an nounced that the senate would rein sert the revision approved by the | A president and the War department, but stricken out in the house and the situation had resolved itself into a contest between the senate and house on one hand and Mr. Hay on I he other. The tangle threatens to delay .4 the adjournment of congress, and in cidentally, completion of the prepar edness program, as well as to hold up appropriations for army increases and all the extra expenditures in volved in the Mexican service. The bill as reintroduced is now in the hands of the house military commit tee and there is an agreement to take it up and expediate the continental army and universal training plans and the substitution of National Guard reorganization, which it op posed. Army officers say certain features of the bill were injected into conference and never were debated on the floor of either house of con gress. The articles of war have not been revised in 100 years and are said to be sadly deficient for dealing with conditions which the growth of the army and the development of the nation requires. The War depart ment is especially anxious for changes to enable army officers to deal adequately with problems- aris ing during the present Mexican service. Included in the revision worked out by congress over the ob jection of the president and the War department was a provision which exempted retired officers from courts martial and army discipline if not actually from army control, and placed them under the jurisdiction of the civil courts. Takes Shot at Commerce Body. Lincoln, Neb.—In denying a request of the Burlington railroad for permis sion to increase certain freight rates, the Nebraska State Railway commis sion severely criticises the Interstate Commerce commission. The Burling ton asked for leave to raise the rate on live stock from Henry. Neb., to Omaha. The state commission declar ed in part: “The federal authorities are undertaking to do by a roundabout, method, i. e.. via the Shreveport meth od, what the federal commerce com mission prohibits, and in their hurried efforts to remove so-called unlawful discriminations between border cities, both of whiclt are located in one state, and by so doing, undertake to fore close the free and independent action of the legally authorized stale au thorities from establishing just, rea sonable and non-discriminatory rates for the transportation of commodities between points located wholly within the state.” House Passes Child Labor Bill. Washington.—Without debate, or record vote, the child labor bill was accepted by the house with the senate amendments and put on its way to become a law, with President Wil son’s signature. As it passed the house, the bill porposed to bar from interstate commerce, products on which child labor actually had been employed. As amended by the senate and now perfected, it prohibits ship ment between the states of all pro ducts of any stablishment which em ployes child labor. It bars products of any mine or quarry employing chil dren under 16 years of age, ami pro ducts of any mflT, cannery, workshop, factory or manufacturing establish ment employing children under 14 years of age. It becomes effective a year after the date of the president’s approval. Held 8-Cent Banquet. San Antonio, Tex.—“That was one of the finest meals I ever had," said Governor Dunne of Illinois at the con clusion of what was called an 8-cent banquet given in his honor by the men of the First Illinois infantry at Camp Wilson. Select Colorado Springs. Baltimore.—By a unanimous vote, the convention here of the Internation al Typographical union selected Col orado Springs. Colo., as the place of the 1917 convention. Probe Horse Poisoning Plot Fort Madison, la.—Investigation of an alleged plot to poison horses con signed to agents of the entente allies, has begun by officials of the Santa Fe railroad. Officers assert they found evidence which tended to show that the hordes had been given poison. Condemn Industrial Commission. Colorado Springs, Colo.—Resolutions condemning the State Industrial com mission and demanding the repeal of the law which created it were adpoted by the State Federation of Labor.