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r
r r WAR NEWS.
The Dutch government has prohib
ited the export of cattle. All pre
serves containing meat also will come
ender the prohibition.
• * •
Sixty persons were killed and a
large number wounded in Bucharest,
Humanla, by bombs dropped from a
squadron of aeroplanes of the Teutons.
• » •
A recapitulation of the.prisoners and
booty taken by the Russians shows a
total since the odensive began of 420,
000 officers and men taken prisoners
end the capture of 2,500 machine guns
end mine throwers and 600 cannon.
• • •
It is announced officially in Paris
that the number of prisoners taken by
the Anglo-French forces on the
Somme from July 1 to September 18,
amounted to more than 55,800. Of
these, 34,050 fell into the hands of the
French.
• • •
Germany will yield to the demands
of the Greek government for the re
turn of the 6,000 Greek soldiers remov
ed from Kavala, if the allies agree
not to impede the progress of the re
turn and not to punish the Greek offi
cers.
• * *
Paris newspapers declare that
another winter campaign is unavoid
able, and that France is making all
necessary arrangements for supplying
the troops with garments, blankets
and other essentials for winter war
fare.
• * •
The salaries of all German officers
have been reduced. The salary of the
minister of war and the chief army
commanders is cut 1,000 marks a
month and lieutenants 60 marks. Mar
ried officers and those who have par
ents depending upon them are allowed
special indemnities.
• • •
The Amsterdam correspondent of
the Exchange Telegraph says travelers
who have arrived from Bremen report
that a third German commercial sub
marine will be ready to sail within a
month for American waters, to be
known as the Kaiser, is said to be
larger than the Deutschland.
* * *
The Australian senate passed by a
vote of 17 to 9 the bill calling for a
referendum on the question of con
scription, which had already passed
the house. Women will vote at the
election, registering their decision on
the question of sending their men to
war, for probably the first time in his
tory.
• • •
Combles, the pivotal point in the
German line guarding the approach to
Bapaume on the north and Peronne on
the south of the Somme front, has
fallen before attacks of French and
British. At the end of the fighting the
town was filled with the bodies of Ger
mans, the French official statement
says.
• • •
Two Zeppelin airships were brought
down by British gunners in the re
cent raid on London. The entire
crew of one perished in the fire which
destroyed the dirigible, while those
aboard the other landed safely and
were made prisoners. Forty Britons
were killed during the raid. Twelve
Zeppelins accompanied by many aero
planes, took part in the attack.
GENERAL.
Increases in the price of flour to the
highest point since the civil war
' caused Chicago bread-making concerns
to increase the price of bread from
6 to 6 cents a loaf with a correspond
ing increase in the price of other
baked goods.
• * *
Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio
will begin a speaking trip through the
west in . behalf of Hughes and Fair
banks early this month. He will visit
Montana, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Ne
braska, Missouri, Indiana and Ken
tucky.
• • •
The widely exploited sympathetic
"walkout” of trades unionists in Great
er New York in aid of the striking
carmen, which was supposed to have
darted last Wednesday, has failed to
materialize, according to the police.
• • •
More people have been killed and
injured by automobiles on the streets
of American cities during this year
than in all the Zeppelin raids on
England. Chicago and New York lead
in the number of deaths with more
than 200 each between January 1 and
September 1.
• * •
Exports from the port of New York
for August, 1916, totalled $271,357,862,
as compared with $141,971,554 for the
same month in 1915, according to a
compilation issued by the custom
}iouse.
• • • .
Edward Beck, managing editor of
the Winnipeg Telegram, and Knox
Madee, editor of the Winnipeg Post,
•were committed to Jail for one month
and lined $500 each for criticism of
the agricultural college royal commis
sion.
• • •
Billy Sunday had a total of 697 con
certs to his credit in Detroit after
two nights of trail-hitting. Nearly
200,000 persons heard the evangelist
in the first week and a half of meet
ings. Collections totaled $14,873.12.
Minneapolis millers declare that
flour may retail at $10 a barrel in the
near future if wheat prices continue to
rise.
• * •
The private bank of Campbell. Du
bia & Co., the tenth to fail In Chicago
within the last month, closed its
doors on September the 22nd.
• • *
Korty members of the Industrial
Workers of the World were locked in
refrigerator cars at North Yakima,
Wash., by 150 citizens, and railroaded
out of town.
* * *
A large hotel for working girls and
women is to be constructed in Chicage
and conducted under Catholic aus
pices, Archbishop George W. Munde
lein announced.
• • *
The Sioux City Journal (evening)
and Sioux City Tribune (evening)
have advanced the price from 1 to 2
cents. The raise, it is announced, is
due to the increased cost of paper.
• * *
Standard Oil stocks advanced to
the highest levels in history on the
curb market on Sept. 28. The aggre
gate quotation of Standard Oil sub
sidiaries was $2,000, the highest in his
tory. Before the dissolution Standard
Oil was quoted at $600.
* * *
Congressional investigation of the
livestock industry, including produc
tion. marketing, slaughter and distri
bution and sale of all cattle, was ask
ed in a resolution presented to the.
American Bankers’ association at their
convention in Kansas City.
MEXICAN TROUBLE.
The Mexican finance department has
issued a circular giving the National
bank and the Bank of London and
Mexico permission to reopen.
• • •
Dispatches reaching Juarez from
Casus Grandes stated that Villa’s ban
dit army is approaching the outposts
of the Pershing expedition near El
Valle.
* * *
The return of the national guard j
regiments to their state camps from
El Paso has been temporarily held up
because of recent developments in
Mexico.
• • •
Bandits are robbing passenger trains •
in the interior of Mexico and are tak !
ing even the shoes from the feet ot t
the passengrs. a Mexican refugee i
who reached Juarez reported.
» • *
Wholesale executions are taking
place in Chihuahua City foliowing the
Villa attack. Five hundred Villa ad
herents have been executed since the
fight, and many other prisoners have
been taken.
• • •
Two British subjects and thirty-six
Carranza soldiers were killed when
Villistas raided an oil camp near
Tuxpam, September 16, according tc
officers of the tank steamer Topila,
which arrived at Galveston a few days
ago.
• • •
Telegraphic communication west of
Chihuahua City on the Mexico North
western has been interrupted and
more bridges are reported to have
been burnd near Santa Ysabel. This
is believed to be the work of Villa
soldiers.
* • •
Over 100 Villa followers were killed,
the bandit leader, Baudelio Uribe, was
taken prisoner and heavy casualties
suffered by Carranza forces in a terri
fic fight at Cusihuiriachic, an impor
tant mining center about fifty miles
southwest of Chihuahua City.
• * *
Agents have been sent into every
de facto garrison in Chihuahua state
by Pancho Villa in an attempt to un
dermine the garrisons and stir up re
volts against First Chief Carranza. By
Carranza officials it is feared this Is
the first step by the bandit chief to
ward a threatened attack upon border
towns.
WASHINGTON.
Japan’s purpose to renew at the
end of the European war her conten
tion for the right of her people to emi
grate to and own land in the United
States, was admitted at the Japanese
embassy.
• * •
Secretary Lansing announced offici
ally that James W. Gerrard, American
ambassador to Germany, was en route
home for a belated vacation, probably
to stay about two months. Secretary
Grew of the embassy will be in charge
at Berlin.
• • •
American exports passed the half
billion dollar a month, mark during
the month of August. Figures show
that goods sent abroad during the
month were valued at $510,000,000, a
record not only for this country but
for the world. The total is $35,000,000
above the previous high record estab
lished in May.
* * *
Six thousand National guardsmen
from thirteen states were ordered tc
the Mexican border by the War de
partment and Major-General Funston
was directed to select 10,000 troops
now on the border for return to their
home states, to be mustered out ol
the federal service.
• * *
Word has reached the State depart
ment that Great Britain has with
drawn regulations for the importation
of cigar tobacco which American
growers have declared would ruin
their business.
• • •
Deposits in postal savings banks
during August increased nearly $5,
000,000, the largest monthly gain since
the system was established. On Sep
tember 1, a total of 621,000 depositors
had accounts aggregating more than
$94,000,000 to their credit.
• • •
The Department of Agriculture has
issued a warning to dealers against in
terstate shipment of oysters which are
polluted or soaked to increase their
bulk. Prosecutions will be pressed
against violators of the law forbidding
adulteration of oysters.
CONDENSED NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
October 11-12—State Meeting Grand
Lodge Degree of Honor at Lincoln.
October 11-22—Coursing Meet at
Grand Island.
October 17-20—1. O. O. F. State Con
vention at Lincoln.
October 20—Annual Meeting Luther
Synod of Nebraska at Omaha.
Oct. 31—Northwestern Nebraska Med
ical Society meeting. Long Pine.
Nov. 2-5—Nebraska Christian En
deavor Union state convention at
Omaha.
Nov. 8 9-10—Nebraska State Teach
ers’ association meeting at Omaha.
T. O. C. Harrison, former chief jus
tice of the Nebraska supreme court,
was fined $10 and costs at Grand
Island in the county cour* for the al
leged shooting of two Chinese pheas
ants. The offense was really commit,
ted by Mp. Harrison’s two grandsons,
who were with him at the time.
Assessed valuations of Lincoln
property have been increased $748,097
over last year’s figures according to
a summary compiled by Tax Commis
sioner C. R. Mawe. The summary in
cludes real estate, personal property,
insurance companies, street car lines,
public utilities, banks, investment
concerns and railroads. The total for
1916 is $11,385,320 as against $10,637,
223 for last year.
Tom Pickrell, chief of police of
Kearney, died from the effects of
drinking carbolic acid. He had don
ned his coat and hat preparatory to
leave his office but before doing so
unlocked a cupboard and took a drink
from a flask. It is supposed he picked
up the wrong bottle and drank the
*cid by mistake. Death was almost
instantaneous.
The Elk \ alley school house in
Dakota county was entirely destroyed
by fire when small boys, attempting
to capture a swarm of bees in the bel
fry set fire to the roof. The building
was insured for $1,000 and the con
lens, which were entirely destroyed,
were insured for $250. Emory Austin
if Ponca is the teacher.
E. J. Kessler, who resides near
Beatrice, believes that apples can be
made to pay well if properly cared for.
He has a ten-acre orchard at his place
ind sprays his fruit four times a year.
Last season he sold $2,150 worth of
fruit, and the crop this year promises
to be about as large as on the pre
ceding year.
The Rotary club of Omaha has en
raged the service of an experienced
boy scout organizer to conduct a
months campaign in the city. It is
the ambition of the Rotarians to see
a boy scout troop in every neighbor
hood in Omaha. The expense of the
movement is to be paid for by the
club.
Yeggmen entered the postoffice at
Milford last Thursday morning, blew
the safe and made away with $139 in
stamps, $110 in currency and a large
amount of postal savings bank credits.
Entrance to the building was gained
by breaking a glass in the rear door.
Nitroglycerine was used to blow the
safe.
The postal carrier census of Lin
coln shows that a population of 60,000
is served from the Lincoln office. The
figures were obtained for administra
tive purposes by the U. S. postoffice
department to determine how many
carriers are needed at the Lincoln
office.
Without a dissenting vote, the
Omaha city commission passed the 6
cent electric light ordinance, giving
Omaha consumers electric current at
the rate of 6 cents per kilowatt hour,
instead of 8 cents, on a basis of 150
hours instead of 125 hours, effective
January 1.
i he Gage County Crop improvement
association has unanimously decided
to continue another year £id the
county board will be petitioned to levy
a tax to support a farm demonstrator.
Gage county, after four years of trial,
pronounces it a very profitable enter
prise.
Beatrice city commissioners in
structed the city engineer to submit
an estimate of the cost of paving
East Grant street district. It is pro
posed to get the paving to the city
limits and then ask the state to pave
to the feeble minded institute.
Many farmers of this state and oth
ers interested in the location of the
Federal Land banks gathered in
Omaha last week to urge Nebraska’s
and Omaha’s claims fo ra land bank,
and Omaha’s claims for a land bank,
will be of great force in the develop
ing of Nebraska was presented.
The Beatrice incinerator, the first
plant to be installed in the state, has
been completed and is in operation.
The city has also purchased a sanitary
garbage wagon to gather it up for
burning.
Gus Sauler, a farmer, living five
miles north of Tilden, died while try
ing to take honey from bee hives. He
sought to stupify the bees with sul
phur fumes by burning sulphur on a
rag. He inhaled the sulphur fumes
and died almost instantly.
Bonds for the purpose of construct
ing a city sewer system at Oxford
carried at a special election by a vote
af 122 to 12.
The safe of the Avoca postoffice was
blown by yeggmen a few days ago and
515 in cash and $35 in stamps were
taken.
Vice-President Marshall will visit
Nebraska in the interest of the dem
ocratic - party, speaking at Columbus,
Fremont and Omaha on October 9;
Plattsmouth, Nebraska City, Auburn
and Falls City October 10.
Charles Williams, who said his
home was in Kansas, was scalded so
badly in an exhaust box in a car in
the Burlington yards at Lincoln that
he died. The skin over his entire
body and even his tongue, peeled off.
By a vote of 235 to 205, Norfolk car.
ried a $15,000 public park bond issue
at a special election.
Twelve thousand cans of pork and
beans and 5,000 cans of tomato pulp
were ordered confiscated in federal
court at Norfolk as unfit for consump
tion under the pure food act The
canned goods were the product of a
Norfolk canning company. The tomato
pulp, it seems, had been made from
over-ripe tomatoes, while the pork and
beans was reported by government in
spectors as being adulterat'd- Twen
ty-three sacks of beans belonging to a
store at Norfolk were also ordered
confiscated as being wormy.
A post-season series between the
Omaha baseball club, champions of
the Western league, and the Louis
ville club, winners of the American
association pennant, has been closed.
Seven games will be played between
the two teams, the dates being Octo
ber 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. On October 7
and 8, Saturday and Sunday, double
headers will be played, thus making
the series seven games. All the games
will be playd in Omaha.
Not only did the Nebraska State
Fair break all records for attendance
193,174—but it took in more money
than ever before. The net profit will
not be known until all the bills are
in, but it will be in the neighborhood
of $25,000. The receipts at the gates
were $58,000; from concessions,
$17,000; grand stand and bleachers,
$15,600; miscellaneous, $3,220; speed
entries, $1,800; state appropriation.
$2,000. Total, $101,679.58.
Classes are now being held in North
Platte’s new parochial school build
ing, just completed, the first enroll
ment consisting of 120 pupils. The
structure is one of the largest and
best equipped institutions in western
Nebraska. Nine Ursuline sisters from
the Ursuline seminary of Louisville,
Kv., are in charge of the school.
During a severe electrical storm at
Randoph lightning struck the Method
ist church, causing its complete de
struction by fire. The church was built
at a cost of $17,080 and was insured
for $12,500. The library of the pastor,
valued at $2,000, was a total loss.
Other property damaged during the
storm entailed a loss of $3,000.
Prices on laundry work m Omaha
have increased ten per cent in the
last ten days. Increased cost of ma
terial is the reason given for the
raise. Similar action has been taken
by many other cities over the coun
try. The plan is to add 10 per cent to
the total of each bill under the pres
ent rate of charge.
Gothenburg will hold its third Colt
Show and Harvest Festival on Octo
ber 12 and 13. Fifteen hundred dol
lars has been donated by business
men for prizes and a big barbecue is
to be held on the 13th. The festival
last year was attended by 10,000 peo
ple and a larger crowd is looked for
this year.
Brigadier General John J. Pershing,
well known to Nebraskans because of
his, services at the state university
long before he attained prominence in
Mexican border affairs, has been pro
moted to be a major general, filling the
vacancy in that grade caused by the
death of Major General A. L. Mills.
Nebraska stands third in the states
of the union in crop production this
year, according to statistics prepared
by the department of agriculture and
printed in the department’s monthly
crop report which is just out.
The hitching post problem was the
principal discussion at a “get-togeth
er” meeting of Platte county farmers
and business men at Columbus. All
hitching posts in Columbus have been
removed on account of paving. A
committee was named to recommend
a substitute.
One hundred converts resulted
from the evangelistic meetings at
Nickerson. Evangelist Charles Gray
of Winona Lake, Ind., had charge of
the meetings.
A fifty thousand dollar sewer bond
issue passed upon by the citizens of
Kearney at a special election was de
feated by a vote of two to one against
the proposition.
Over one hundred ^candidates will
be initiated at Beatrice on October
12 at a county class adoption to be
conducted by the local M. W. A. lodge.
The head officers of the organization
will be present and each camp in the
county is expected to bring candi
dates.
Matches having been placed in
grain before threshing caused the de
struction by fire of a large amount of
straw on the farm of M. J. Murphy
near Friend. Four distinct fires were
started by these matches during the
threshing.
Nebraska troops on the Mexican
border expect orders for their return
home about October 10, according to
word reaching Hastings. Because they
did not put up precautionary nets, sev
eral Nebraska soldiers are in the hos
pital from disease following mosquitq
bites.
The Rev. J. S. Budlong, of Oshkosh,
Wis., who has been rising rapidly in
fame in middle western church circles
the last few years, has become dean
of the Episcopal cathedral at Hast
ings.
An association composed of some of
Lincoln’s heaviest taxpayers is pre
paring to launch a movement to vote
$1,000,000 paving bonds for the Lan
caster county roads at the coming
election.
Fremont barbers have rais'ed the
price of hair cuts from 25 to 35 cents.
Barbers in a great many towns over
the state are contemplating the same
acticyi.
One Hastings bank, the First Na
tional, shows deposits of $2,000,000,
being the largest of any bank in Ne
braska outside of Omaha and Lincoln,
The Nebraska Conference of Congre
gational churches will be held at the
Plymouth Congregational church in
Lincoln October 16 to 20. An attend
ance of 250 to 275 ministers is antici
pated.
The religious organization »f
Friends at Spring Band, a village near
Allen, is constructing a new church
building to cost in the neighborhood
of $6,000.
John Ricci was killed and Wilber
Moore severely injured in a motorcy
cle headon collision between Axtell
i and Minden. 1
STATE FOOD COMMISSION PROSE
CUTES ILLEGAL-DEALERS.
HAVE SETTLED DIFFERENCES
Items of General Interest Gathered
From Reliable Sources Around
the State House.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
What is declared to be the biggest
campaign ever made by the Nebraska
food commission along the line of test
ing milk and cream sold in the cities,
for the purpose of determining the per
centage of butter fat contents, has been
in progress during the past week or
two. State Chemist Frisbie and a num
ber of inspectors have been doing this
work quietly and have covered a great
deal of ground.
Hastings, Grand Island, Kearney,
Columbus. Norfolk, Fremont and Fair
bury were visited. At Grand Island
four dealers and at Norfolk three were
prosecuted for selling milk and cream
having less than the required amount
of butter fat, which is 8 and 18 per
MARY JEAN RUSSELL
Who made a score of 99.5 at the Stats
Fair Better Babies show. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W.
Russell of Lincoln.
cent, respectively. At the other places
the milk and cream were found to be
up to the legal standard.
The inspectors and the state chemist
were at Omaha several days, and re
sults obtained there indicate that con
ditions have been considerably im
proved since the last time that city
was visited a month or more ago. At
this time, fifty-three prosecutions were
filed, in all of which fines were col
lected.
Settled Their Differences.
The Gibbon Telephone Co. and the
Kearney Power Co. settled their dif
ferences before the railway commis
sion over the vexed question of the
latter extending transmission lines
over the wires of the telephone com
pany.
The question has been before the
railway commission several times late
ly, owing to the rapid long-distance
transmission of power.
In the Gibbon-Kearney case, the
power company agreed to stand sev
eral hundred dollars’ expense neces
sary for a canvas of the patrons of
the telephone company to secure con
sent to a change in the service. The
Gibbon company had asked the com
mission to force the Kearney company
to stand all of the expense connected
with the change, but later withdrew it.
This settlement does not alTect other
similar cases pending before the com
mission.
New State Banks.
The state banking board has granted
charters to three new state banks, as
follows: Farmers State bank of
Baird, capital stock. $25,000, president.
J. A. Abbott; Farmers State bank of
Lexington, capital stock, $35,000, pres
ident, L. K. Grantham: Ranchers State
bank of Cody, capital stock, $75,000,
president, Edgar C. Cole.
Says Railroads "Play Game of Grab.”
The state railway commission ex
pects soon to issue an order directing
the railroads to turn over empty
freight cars to the roads that own
them as soon as service on the receiv
ing road’s line is ended. The com
mission had a hearing on the practice
of the roads making use of the other
companies’ cars last week. One offi
cial recently declared the roads played
. a “game of grab” in the matter, getting
and retaining as many cars as possi
ble.
Military Dentists In Sight.
Two applications for the positions of
dental surgeons In the Nebraska regi
ments now on the border have been
received at the adjutant general’s
office. The applicants are C. S.
Remy, of Curtis and Fred C. Malony
of DeWitt. The colonels of two regi
ments recently sent an S. O. S. cal!
for dentists, saying they are badly
needed. It is probable. that commis
sions as dental surgeons will be issued
to the two applicants by Governor
Morehead, and they will then leave to
Join the troops.
Confiscate Batch of Pork and Beans.
Twelve thousand cans of pork and
beans and 6.000 cans of tomato pulp
were ordered confiscated in federal
court at Norfolk as unfit for consump- 1
tion under the pure food act, accord-1
Ing to District Attorney Allen. The j
canned goods were the product of a i
Norfolk canning company. The tomato
pulp, it seems, had been made from
over-ripe tomatoes, while the pork
and beans was reported by govern
ment inspectors as being adulterated.
The confiscation of the property was j
not contested
WILL STENGTHEN BUILDING
Regents Take Precautionary Measures
in University Structure.
As a measure of precaution and pru
dence, the state board of university
regents will take measures at once to
prevent any possible collapse of the
main building known as University
Hall, the oldest structure on the cam
pus. This building was erected in the
days when brick were not of the best
quality and when the science of mor
tar-mixing had not reached its present
development. Years ago, when a new
foundation was put under it, a crack
appeared, and as the years have gone
i by deterioration has been noticeable
in other parts of the structure.
While there is nothing mensfbing
about its present condition and a care
ful examination conducted recent
ly by the board, together with Archi
tect Hodgdon, Dean Stout of the en
gineering department and Superintend
ent of Buildings, Chowins. disclosed
nothing that indicated present danger,
in order to safeguard against the pos
sibility of any such happening as at
the Capital hotel last month, it was
ordered that braces be at once put in.
Trained Farmers a Great Need
Dr. P. L. Hall, university regent, in
an address at Lincoln put forth in
strong terms, the argument that the
school of agriculture should serve a
two-fold purpose; first, it should train
young men and young women from
the farms of the state to go back upon
the farms and get better results than
would be possible without such train
ing; second, the school of agriculture
should be a common school for boys
and girls on the farms to prepare them
for the college of agruculture. ‘‘What
we need in Nebraska are trained men
from the school of agriculture,” said
Dr. Hall, "and trained men who have
equipped themselves by a course in
the college of agriculture to go out
into every county in the state of Ne
braska and engage in farming and
serve as county agents and farm dem
onstrators in every community.” That
is what is being done, according to
Dr. Hall, in Minnesota. Nebraska, he
claimed, has a better agricultural foun
dation than most any other state, and
he said that he wanted to see from
three to five thousand boys and girls
from the Nebraska farms upon the uni
versity farm campus. He did not
want to have the school of agriculture
segregated from the university, and
he did not think that a separation of
the industrial and academic schools of j
the university would ever take place,
although the work of the different de
partments could best be carried on
upon a separate campus.
Cornhuskers Getting Under Way
Fall track workouts at the univer
sity started last week with thirty-five
men on the cinder paths, coached by
Manager of Athletics Guy E. Reed.
The mild weather has given the track
men a fine opportunity to get under
way, and Reed, who still holds the
university records in the 100-yard
dash. 220 and quarter mile, has been
working the men two hours a night.
The squad is headed by Captain
Overman, distance runner, who made
points for the varsity in the mile and
two-mile events last year, Grau, a half
miler from Fremont, and Gribble, a
middle distance man with lots of
promise, started well. Two of the
team’s standbys, Corey and Shaw in
the weight events, are working out on
the football squad. Reed promises to 1
stage an interclass meet in a few
weeks with a nifty lot of medals for
the point winners.
Renewed Clamor for Empty Cars
A fresh deluge of complaints of j
shortage of cars for the shipping of
grain, and complaints of discrimina
tion between stations in the distribu
tion of cars, has come upon the Ne
braska railway commission. The com
plaints are from both farmers’ eleva
tors and line elevator companies. In
many places elevators are full of grain
that cannot be shipped. In some com
munities farmers still have their grain
on the ground without protection,
awaiting a chance to sell. That farm
ers still grow wheat and have no place
to house the crop after it is threshed
is a surprise to many people who are
not farmers, but it appears from let
ters that this method of farming is
still pursued.
The state of Nebraska has received
from the federal government 11,637 as
its onfe-fourth interest of the proceeds
of the forest lands in this state. The
money goes to the three counties
where the forest reserves are located.
New Phase of Car Shortage.
A new phase of the car shortage has
reached the state railway commission
in the form of a complaint from Gor
don that the Northwestern road re
fused to furnish cars for the shipping
of potatoes unless the shipments were
billed to points on the Northwestern
road. The commission was informed
fcy the railroad officials that such a
rule applying to grain had been in
force for some time and no one had
objected because this gave shippers a
chance to ship to two good grain
markets, Minneapolis or Omaha.
Typhoid Report from Winnebago.
The state health inspector’s office
has heard from Winnebago to the ef
fect that fifteen cases of typhoid fever
have developed there, of which thir
teen are in the town and two at the
Indian agency a mile and a half away.
Water from the public well at Winne
bago and also from the agency well
will be tested for typhoid germs. Some
of the Indians recently visited Tama.
Ia., where an epidemic of the disease
was experienced, and it is thought
they may have brought it back with
them.
The Nebraska university cadet band,
declared by some to be the best col
lege band in the United States, will
probably make the trip to Portland,
Ore., during the week of October 21,
with the football team. The band
would ~o with the special cars for the
team and the Nebraska rooters, and
play coqrerts en route at Denver, Salt
Lake City and Portland. The ex
penses of the trip will he borne partly
by the university athletic board, part
ly by the band and partly by commer
cial ortr^izations at Lincoln. Forty
of beet musicians would be taken
atone'.
ALLIES’ GRAINS ON SOMME DON’T
AFFECT GERMAN FAITH.
ASSERTS PRINCE RUPRECHT
Declares Germany Prepared for Long
Offensive.—Believes Foe Will
Have to Fight Another Year.
Berlin.—The latest fighting on the
Somme evidently has not shaken the
confidence of German military lead
ers in their ability to prevent the
breach of their line. The Berliner
Tageblatt’s special war correspondent
inteviewed Crown Prince Ruprecht of
Bavaria, commander of the German
forces on the Somme a few days ago.
The crown prince is quoted as hav
ing said that since the offensive be
gan the entente allies had gained
some ground, but there could b« no
thought of this decisively changing
the situation.
“It is impossible to predict how
things will go hereafter,” said Prince
Ruprecht, but one thing is certain,
namely, that we have everything set
thoroughly prepared that we are able
to contemplate the situation with
equanimity whatever comes. The of
fensive will certainly not reach an
early end.
“We can reckon upon an offensive
of great persistence and with heavy
attacks, accompanied by an enormous
expenditure of ammunition. But we
have taken precautions.
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“Our artillery has been reinforced
and likewise our aeroplane corps and
our fliers have had fine successes in
the last few days, although they had
hard fighting against increased num
bers. Our artillery derives ad
vantages from the successful work of
the aeroplanes after having formerly
been much exposed to observation by
hostile aviators.
“Our troops have been striking
with the utmost strength and the
enemy has found the nut too hard to
crack. It is my distinct opinion that
the enemy is trying to force a deci
sion at this spot, and during this
year, and he has not yet succeeded.
He will have to put up with a winter
campaign and continue his fighting
next year.”
Mob Hangs Two Negroes.
Nowata, Okla.—Two negroes, ac
cused of being implicated in the kill
ing of Deputy Sheriff James Gibson,
during a jail delivery here, were taken
from the jail by a mob and lynched in
front of the court house. A first at
tempt to lynch one of the negroes.
immediately after their capture, was f
frustrated by the Rev. Perry Pierce,
a Methodist minister, who pleaded
■with the mob until the suspended ne
gro was cut down unconscious, but
alive. The mob dispersed, but public
feeling was not allayed and the mob
reformed later with the announced in
tention of lynching the two men who
had been returned to Jail.
When the prisoners had been taken
from the jail, short work was made of
putting them to death.
Events culminating in the double
lynching moved with dramatic swift
ness. Three negro prisoners had ef
fected an escape from the county jail.
They were discovered in the act by
Sheriff James May, who was knocked
down and robbed of his pistol. Gibson
went to his aid and was shot, to death.
It was but a few minutes %ft.er the
nagroes had gained their freedom that
a posse was formed and the negroes
re-arrested.
Find Bremen Life Belt.
Portland, Me.—A life preserver
marker “Bremen,” the name of the
German submarine freighter, which
has been generally expected to arrive
at some Atlantic coast port for the
past week or more, was picked up on
the ocean side of Cape Elizabeth. The
name “Bremen” was stencilled in
black letters two inches high on both
sides of the buoy. On one side of the
canvas covering was printed a small
crown.
The preserver seemed to be new
and apparently had not been in the
water a great length of time.. It was
stained with oil. An officer of the
coast guard cutter service, who exam
ined the buoy, said that if the pre
server had been thrown overboard by
some one who thought to play a prac
tical joke, he had .done a very good
job. ,
German Stock Grows.
Berlin.—A census of Prussian live
announces, shows an increase of two
million hogs during the period from
June 1 to Sept. 1 of the current year.
Pen Points Save Man’s Life.
Knoxville, la.—A few steel pen
points in Carlyle Crane’s vest pocket
saved his life when he accidentally
shot himself as he picked up a rifle by
the open end of the barrel. The bul
let struck the pen points near his
heart and was deflected.
Roosevelt Will Speak in West.
Chicago, 111.—Colonel Roosevelt will
make at least five speeches in western
states for Hughes this month, accord
ing to reports received at republican
national headquarters.
Many Crimes in Michigan.
Detroit, Mich.—No trace of the rob.
bers who held up the New York
Chicago express, ten miles west of
here has been found. More than a
dozen robberies and seeravl murders
have been committed by bandits in
Michigan during the last three months,
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Two Negroes Lynched. '
Nashville, Tenn.—Two negroes, ar
rested in connection with the murder
of Burns of Gardonsburg, were taken
from the Hohenwald Jail by a mob and
■hot to death.