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WAR NEWS.
Austria-Hungary is calling up fif
teen classes of men which heretofore
had been exempt from military serv
ice, says a dispatch from Berne,
Switzerland.
* * *
Total casualties among officers and
men of the Canadian expeditionary
forces were' 52,026 up to October 11,
according to figures compiled by the
casualty record office at Ottawa, Ont.
• • •
Since the start of the war a total of
1,217 mines have been washed on the
coast of Holland. Of these 656 were
British, 62 French, 219 German and
280 of undetermined origin.
• * *
.Word has been received in London
that the German submarine Bremen
Is on its way to German East Africa
and that it was never intended for it
to go to the United States.
* • *
Nearly 650 troops lost their lives
when the cruiser Gallia, carrying 2,000
Serb and French soldiers, was tor
pedoed and sunk in the Mediter
ranean on October' 4.
* » *
Further evidence of the heavy toll
neutral shipping is paying in the
world war is contained in a statement
given out in London, showing that
nineteen Dutch vessels had been sunk
by enemy mines from June 1 and
Sept. 24.
The British official press bureau an
nounces the German losses during the
war up to the end of September as:
Dead, 870,182; prisoners and missing,
428,829, and wounded, 2,237,007—a
total of 3,556,018. The figures were
compiled from German official lists.
. * * *
Casualties among the Russian ar
mies during this year’s offensive on
the eastern front, according to Ger
man calculations, have been 1,250,000
officers and men. According to con
servative Danish calculations, during
the first two years of the war Russia
lost considerably more than 6,000,000
men.
• c •
Latest reports on the situation in
Greece are that the Greek authorities
have yielded to the allies demands
for the turning over of virtually the
entire Greek navy and the dismant
ling or surrender of forts on the sea
coast and control of railroad, mail
and telepragh service.
* * •
Four British freight steamers, the
Strathdene, West Point, Stephano and
the Kingston, also one Dutch freight
er, Bloomesdjk, and a Norwegian craft
were sunk by a German U-boat off the
Massachusetts coast on Sunday, Oct.
8. It is reported all were given warn
ing before being sent to the bottom of
the ocean and no lives were lost.
GENERAL.
During the fiscal year ending with
July, 1916, the population of Berlin,
Germany, declined to 1,790,821 from
the 1915 total of 1,860,484.
• • •
The Spanish government' has given
definite orders prohibiting the revic
tualing of submarines in Spanish wa
ters.
• * *
Nine men lost their lives in a fire
which destroyed the central portion
of the main building of Christian
Brothers’ college at St. Louis.
• • •
A public drinking fountain will be
erected by the Women’s Christian
Temperance union of Kansas as a
memorial to Mrs. Carrie Nation,
militant crusader against saloons, in
Capitol square at Topeka.
* * •
' James Couzens, Detroit’s multi
millionaire police commissioner, an
nounced the establishment of a bonu3
system for members of the Detroit
police force. The bonus provided per
sonally by Mr. Couzens will amount
to about $10,000 annually. It is be
lieved to be the first of its kind ever
established in the United States.
• • •
The Topeka Western League Base
ball club will be moved to some other
city, probably Peoria, 111., or Kansas
City, Kas., or sold soon, according to
an announcement by John Savage,
owner of the club.
• • •
A starvation period is an excellent
substitute for a month’s vacation, ac
cording to Prof. Carlson of the Uni
versity of Chicago physiology depart
ment. He and an assistant went with
out food for five days and claim to
have proved the theory.
* • •
Denver bakers were justified in
their recent proposed increase in the
price of from 5 to 8 cents a loaf, ac
cording to a report by a special com
mittee from the Denver Civic and
jPomercial association.
• • •
Resolutions urging that lynching be
made a federal offense and that per
sons presecuted for it be tried in
another state from their own, were
adopted by the National Equal Rights
league in a convention at Washington,
attended by negro delegates from
twentyflve states.
• • •
Rear Admiral Francis A. Cook, U. S.
N., retired, who was commended for
"eminent and conspicuous conduct in
battle” while in command of the cruis
er Brooklyn at the battle of Santiago
,<• Cuba, died In Northampton, Mass.
Rev. Irl R. Hicks, astronomer anti
"long distance'* weather forecaster
and publisher, died at St. Louis. He
was 71 years old. He is said to have
amassed a fortune through the publi
cation of "Hick’s almanac.”
* * *
A woman was killed, two men
probably mortally wounded and a half
dozen other persons less seriously
hurt when the police tired a volley
into a crowd of Standard Oil strikers
and their sympathizers at Bayonne,
N. J.
Armour Packing company will cut
a 400 per cent melon at the next
meeting of the board of directors. R.
J. Dunham, vice president, in a state
ment at Chicago said an increase of
the capitalization from $20,000,000 to
$100,000,000 also would be considered.
* * *
Former King Otto of Bavaria, who
has been insane for many years, has
died suddenly, according to a Berlin
official announcement. The mad king
died at Fueres^enried castle, near
Munich, where he has been confined
since 1873.
* * *
A cyclone swept over St. Thomas,
D. W. I., with disastrous results. Al
most every building in the city was
damaged. The damage is estimated
at $2,000,000. The island of St. Croix
and the town of Christianstad suffer
ed heavily.
* * *
In reporting to its membership a
ibasebail game between Brooklyn and
Boston during the world-series at
Brooklyn, the Associated Press deliv
ered the descriptive play to 400 of
fices, using a total of 26,000 miles of
telegraph wires, all operated and con
trolled by the sender at the park.
* * *
The Boston American lague base
ball tpam gained the title of world’s
champions when they defeated the
Brooklyn Nationals, in the fifth and
final game of the world’s series of
1916, making four wins for the Red
Socks to one for the Dodgers. The at
tendance for the five games amount
ed to 162,359, and the receipts $385,
590.50.
MEXICAN TROUBLE.
A new element has been injected
into ilie discussions of the American
and Mexican commission at Atlantic
City, N. J., by the inability of the
Carranza government to pay its sol
diers.
* * *
General Carranza may not be a can
didate for the presidency of Mexico
at the election to be held by the de
facto government, J. J. Pesquiera,
Carranza consul at Los Angeles, Cal.,
declared recently.
* * *
Notwithstanding the sufferings of
peons in the district which Villa is
now preying on, they would rise to a
man in his behalf* if the American
expedition were to operate south of
its present base, according to a re
port received in El Paso.
* * *
Nineteen Mexicans who are being
held by the army authorities at Co
lonia Dublan for alleged connection
with the Villa raid on Columbus, N.
M., March 9, have been indicted by
the Luna county grand jury. All are
charged with murder.
• * • •
The Mexican government has pre
pared a decree providing for the death
penalty for robbers, bandits and
those convicted of holdups. The de
cree is similar to the one issued by
Benito Juarez, and is for the purpose
of putting an end to banditry.
* • •
General Carranza has signed a de
cree prohibiting bull fighting through
out Mexico. The decree is the climax
of a campaign waged by the news
paper, El Universal, which attracted
wide attention throughout the repub
lic.
* • •
An official report to Maj. Gen. Fred
erick Funston confirmed reports that
a small band of Villistas is within ten
miles of General Pershing’s column.
Villa himself Is at the head of 1,800
men at Guerrero, on the Mexican
Northwestern line, where Pershing’s
cavalry had a battle last spring.
WASHINGTON.
Further decrease in production
prospects of the country’s principal
farm crops, excepting corn, flax, rice
and kafirs was indicated in the De
partment of Agriculture’s monthly re
port, just issued.
• • •
Submarines of belligerent powers
visiting American waters will be
treated as warships under interna
tional law. This fact was made known
to the allies by the state department
in answer to a memorandum asking
that submarines be prevented from
the use of neutral waters and that
such vessels entering neutral harbors
be interned.
The pension bureau has received
66,000 applications for increases in
widows' pensions under the law pass
ed by congress at the last session. Of
the applications 25,000 already have
been allowed and allowances are being
made at the rate of about 2,000 a day.
• • •
The federal farm loan board has
fixed on 4 per cent as the interest on
farm loan bank bonds. This means
that farmers who patronize the farm
loan banks will pay from 4% to 5 per
cent for loans.
• • •
The war department in making pay
ments to dependent families of Na
tional guardsmen announced disburse
ment in the case of each soldier would
be determined by the amount he con
tributed to the support of his family
prior to his call into federal service.
* * •
Consul General Skinner at London
notified the department of commerce
that Great Britain has extended hei
embargo against importations into
the United Kingdom to include cotton
knit goods.
CONDENSED NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL.
OATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
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.
November 1-4, Second Annual Cours
ing Meet.at Omaha.
November 7—General Election Day
in Nebraska.
Nov. 27 to Dec. 2—Annual Poultry
Show at Omrfha.
Dec. 4 to 9—Annual Poultry and Pet
Live Stock Show at Beatrice.
December 20-21—National Farmers'
Equity Convention at Omaha.
The Hildreth Baseball club claims
the championship of southwestern Ne.
braska. Hildreth has finished a sea
son of six defeats out of thirty-two
games played and bases its bid for
championship on the refusal of Loom
I is, the only other contender for the
title, to play the rubber game of a
! championship series.
Citizens of Chadron and' surround
ing country are greatly excited over
the possibility of the discovery of oil
| in Dawes county. Drilling for the
precious fluid will begin at once by
The Midwest company, nineteen miles
northeast of Chadron. Geologists and
oil experts say the formations an?
ideal for oil.
The pastors of the three Protestant
churches of North Bend have secured
the service of Evangelist Kayburn to
hold a union revival in North Bend
Tune, 1917. Preparations for tliis
meeting will begin at once by the
churches redoubling their efforts to
more successful work.
A case of infantile paralysis in its
advanced stages has been placed un
der quarantine near Hastings. The
district school has been closed and
every other possible precaution taken
to prevent spread.
The First Christian denomination of
Fremont dedicated their remodeled
church last Sunday. Several thousand
dollars were expended on the struc
ture and it is now one of Fremont’s
most, beautiful edifices.
The Farmer’s Institute and the Col
fax county stock show will be held
in Schuyler on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, November 2, 3 and 4. The
officers are now at work arranging
a fine program.
Will Pollard, county surveyor of
Colfax county, was almost instantly
killed near Howells when an auto
mobile in which he was riding turned
turtle, crushing him beneath it.
Maria, the four year old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Washburn of
Grand Island, is in a critical condition
as the result of poisoning from a pen
ny which she swallowed several days
ago.
Charles Daniels, 38, husband and
father of three children, was crushed
to death at the Grand Island sugar
factory by the failure of the brake of
the hoisting engine to work properly.
Mr. and Mrs. I. R. Clayton, old Gage
?ounty residents, celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary at their
home in Wymore last week.
Frank H. Ward, president of the
Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph
company, has been elected president
of the Lincoln Commercial Club.
Elmer Greider of the Diller vicinity
nas purchased a sixty acre farm in
Gage county, for which he paid $8,000,
ot $133.50 per acre.
The new Elgin Community club is
rapidly nearing completion and will
probably be ready for occupancy in
December.
Fairbury has voted $50,000 abends
for paving intersections of streets in
the paving districts throughout the
city.
Home grown celery Is now on the
Grand Island market, it having been
found by the truck growers of that
section of the state that the Pascal
celery is especially adapted for rais
ing there. Plans are being made to
greatly increase the crop for next
year.
Mr. and Mrs. Kerl, residing ten
miles from Pawnee City, had a pair
of twins and set of triplets on exhibi
tion at the Pawnee county fair
Pawnee City. The twins were boy
and girl six years old. The triplets
were girls, five months old.
An agreement has been reached be
tween Bayard and file Intermountain
Electric Light and Power company
whereby a twenty-four-hour service
for all the light and power needed by
the town is to • be furnished by the
company.
Unable to secure a church large
enough, the Omaha Christian Endea
vor union has secured the Brandeis
theater in which to hold the annual
state Christian Endeavor convention,
November 2 to 5, when 2,000 young
people are expected in the city.
| Mrs. Alvina L. Lubke of Pierce has
i Drought suit against eleven saloon
men of that town and Norfolk for
?27,000 damages she claims they did
r her husband by reducing him to his
i death from chronic alcoholism.
| Omaha has again installed the cur
j few, six big manufacturing companies
i being engaged to sound the warning
! at 9 o’clock each night when all Ju
veniles must scurry for home. The
rule is to be rigidly enforced.
Over 100 cars of potatoes have thus
far this season been shipped from
Ainsworth.
Rev. Walter Emstmeyer of Waun
eta is in a serious condition at a Fre
mont hospital. An electric light pole
fell on the minister while he was
passing through the streets of Ar
lington in an automobile.
The Nebraska State Federation of
Women clubs went on record in favor
of the prohibition of the liquor traf
fic in Nebraska during the annual
convention at Hastings.
The National Farmers’ Equity union
is tq hold its convention in Omaha,
December 20 and 21. Some 2&0 dele
l gates are expected.
Corn yield better than expected
oats exceptionally good, one-third oi
spring wheat damaged by black rust,
winter wheat up to estimate with 19.E
bushels an acre; barley yield good
late potato; s low, early potatoes
good; hay, total yield, large; clovei
seed, fair crop; alfalfa seed, crop as
sured; sugar beets, good; forage
crops, fair; tomatoes, cabbages and
onions, low. This sums up the crop
conditions in Nebraska October 1, ac
cording to the survey of A. E. Ander
son, government field agent. He
| further points out corn in east central
and northeastern sections will be ex
! cellent. While some of the drouth
| damaged counties promise less than
! half a crop, well cultivated fields will
! give a t'^ir yield, he says. Winter
! wheat planted under ideal weather
i conditions is in excellent shape, he
! states.
Buttermilk powder making, the
world's newest industry, is to be es
i tablished in Omaha. Fifteen million
; pounds yearly of buttermilk formerly
| thrown away or fed to stock Is to be
converted into a salable product. Bak
! ers, cracker makers and manufactur
! ers of pancake flour will be the chief
buyers. A $100,000 building is being
constructed to house the new factory
The Elgin Community club has em
ployed Walter C. Nye of Ogalalla, as
commissioner at a salary of $1,200 a
j year. Mr. Nye has been with the
! Trans-Mississippi Grain Co. for a num
ber of years, and was secretary of the
Keith County Community club and
Fair association. He will take charge
of the club activities November 1.
In a special election, held at Beem
er, to vote bonds to build a new
school house, 193 votes were cast, 143
for and 50 against, making 43 above
; the two-thirds majority required to
; win. The bonds were for $30,000.
Every woman voter in the district
l turned out. This is the second time
; this question has been voted on.
!
GEORGE A. JOSLYN.
J President of the Western Newspaper
Union, who died at his home in
Omaha, October 4, 191<>.
The Women’s Civic league has
adopted alfalfa * as the Chadron
flower. The color and form blends
well with golden rod. the Nebraska
flower, and because Dawes county
raises the best alfalfa, the seed
bringing the highest price in the
United States.
The Hastings city council has or
dered the salary of every member of
the police and fire departments in
creased $5 a month. Tfiis will place
the salaries of the patrolmen and fire
men at $70 a month and those of the
chiefs of the departments at $90.
Ladies at the “dry” headquarters
which has been established at Grand
Island, report that since their begin
ning to serve free coffee and wafers,
many of the “down and outers” have
visited the place.
The annual meeting of the Royal
Neighbors of America of Cass and
Sarpy counties will be held at South
Bend, October 27.
The directors of the Beatrice Poul
try and Pet Live Stock association
have decided to hold the annual
show in that city, December 4 to 9.
Five silver cups will be given away to
the highest scoring birds. The officers
plan to make this the biggest and
best show ever held in Beatrice.
Rev. W. H. Moore, the past two
years pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Emerson, has tendered his
resignation to take effect at once. He
has been elected professor of English
and public speaking at the Omaha
university.
A double tragedy occurred in Sid
ney in which “Slim” Weisman, an
gered because his wife had complain,
ed against him, shot her several times
and after threatening to shoot Deputy
Sheriff Krueger, shot himself in the
head. Both died.
Word has been received at North
Platte that the case of John G. Porter,
former postmaster of Bridgeport
against W. M. Cable, has been dis
missed. Porter is the postmaster who
fought removal by the postmaster
general.
me Dodge County Board or Super
visors instructed County Attorney S.
Sidner to draft a petition asking for
the authority to expend not to ex
ceed $20,000 for additional ground foE
the new court house at Fremont.
The Lincoln Cleaning and Dye
Works baseball teams, as the result
of the Cleveland Mays refusing to
play them, lays claim to the National
Amateur Baseball association cham
pionship of America.
The Kearney canning factory has
packed 2,000 cases of tomatoes, with
much of the crop still in sight.
A number of farmers in Gage coun
ty are advertising for corn huskers,
and if the weaher remains favorable
will soon begin to gather some* of
their early corn, which has matured
rapidly the last few weeks.
F. D. Parmer, residing on the out
skirts of Omaha, sold to C. E. Saar
of Henderson, la., for $307.50, a pig
which took second prize in the senior
boar class at the National Swine show
in South Omaha last week.
Arrangements are being made at
Winnebago for the erection of a new
Episcopal church building. -
LEASES OIL LANDS
CHADRON MAN WILL SEEK AND
MARKET PRODUCT
Items of General Interest Gathered
From Reliable Sources Around
the State House.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
What 1b thought to be the first oil
land lease ever made by the state 01
Nebraska has been executed between
the state board of educational lands i
and funds and E. D. Crites of Chadron.
It covered a half section of state j
school land, lying twenty miles north
of Chadron, upon which Mr. Crites and
WAYNE HENRY KUSTER
Who made a score of 96.5 at the state
fair Better Babies show. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kuster of
Roca.
his business associates expect to drill
for oil.
Mr. Crites already held ihe land,
which is only two miles from the South
Dakota boundary line, for farming and
grazing purposes, under an old con
tract with the state, whereby he paid
$24 a year for the use of the land, or
7^ cents per acre.
Under the new contract he is given
authority to take whatever oil he may
find and market It as his otfu product, j
the state to receive one-tenth of the i
royalty therefrom. The contract runs !
for five years.
State Historical Publications
“Nebraska History and Pioneer
Days” is the title of a new publica
tion which will appear shortly. It is
the outcome of plans made more than
a year ago. A. E. Sheldon Is the edi
tor-in-chief of the new publication,
with a staff of some thirty well known
Nebraska pioneers and historical writ
ers. The publication is designed to
furnish a means of communication
and information upon Nebraska his
tory and ethnology. It will be both
popular and scientific in its nature,
and aim to reach all persons, old and
young, who are interested in Nebras
ka history and the preservation of its
records and memories. Organization
of the staff for this publication was
begun in 1915 and the preparation of
articles and illustrations for the first
number has been under way for sev- ]
eral months.
State Auditor Smith is refunding to ;
about thirty counties the amounts
they overpaid the state many years
ago In settling with the state for the
care of insane patients. The last leg
islature made appropriations to reim
burse the counties that overpaid. Mer
rick county heads the list with an
overpayment of $201.15. Harlan coun
ty will receive back only 3 cents.
Nebraska soldiers now stationed on
the Mexican border will have a chance
in a few days to break into the movies
and have their first taste of "reel”
action, if the plans of a film company
are carried out. This corporation con
templates taking advantage of the
great number of soldiers at Llano
Grande camp to use in some
“thrillers.”
According to word received from
Secretary Mellor there will be a fund
from the Btate fair this year of about
$25,000 with which to prepare for next
year’s exposition.
State Funds Decreasing
The monthly report of State Treas
urer George E. Hall shows that the
total in the state treasury decreased
during the month of September from
$1,560,933.57 to $1,461,960.70. a de
crease of $98,964.87. The educational
or trust funds invested is now $9,860-,
498.33, an increase of only $5,400. The
amount in the four trust funds at this
time, available for investment, is re
duced to a total of $8,100.
The general fund dropped during
the month from $507,208.11 to $406,
650.05, a reduction of $100,658.06. The
receipts for this fund during the
month amounted to $50,748 and the
disbursements were $151,406. The to
tal receipts for all funds amounted to
$197,643.10 and the disbursements
$*96,607.97.
The Madison county commissioners’
board has asked State Auditor Smith
to go to Madison and meet with it, in
relation to the unpaid insane fund tax
due the state from that county,
amounting to $7,007, plus interest. The
date of October 17 is set by the board
for the proposed meeting.
No Nebraska Rifle Team
Owing to the time being too short
to hold a tournament and qualify a
team of marksmen to represent Ne
braska at the national rifle associa- j
tion shoot at Jacksonville, Fla., no con
testants will go from this state. Not
ice of the national shoot was received
only on September 24. This left bare
ly two weeks’ time to get ready and
pick out the best shots in competitive
events. Civilian rifle clubs are allowed
to compete in the national tournament
National guard members are barred,
except in special cases.
FARMERS INSTITUTES
Short Courses In Agriculture and
Home Economics
The number of short courses in ag
riculture and home economics to ’ce
given this year by the extension
service of the university college of
agriculture i3 to be double the num
ber held last year. Last winter the
service conducted twelve short
courses; this year twnty-four courses
have been signed up, an increase of
100 per cent. Last year the total at
tendance at all sessions of short
courses reached the 15*000 mark. This
year it is expected to exceed 30,000.
The first course for this season was
held at Cozad October 2 to 6. Page
and Tilden were scheduled for the fol
iovfing weeks, and then the short
courses will stop until corn picking
time is past. Giving of courses will
be resumed December 4. and will last
atil March 2. Instruction is given by
a crew of extension specialists con
sisting of two men and two women.
This year two crews are being used
so that two courses can be given simul
taneously at two different points. The
list of courses scheduled this year
follows: October 2 to 6, Cozad; Oc
tober 9 to 13, Page; October 16 to 20.
Tilden; December 4 to 8, Gresham and
Springfield; December 11 to 15, Allen
and Lyons; December 18 to 22, Dakota
City; January 1 to 5, Papillion and
Pleasant Dale; January 8 to 12. Wes
ton and Laurel; January 15 to 19, re
served for organized agriculture; Jan
uary 22 to 26, Wausa and Dixon; Jan
uary 29 to February 2, Polk and Ny
sted; February 5 to 9, Stromsburg
and Western; February 12 to 16. Mor
rill and Xemaha-Richardson consoli
dated school; February 19 to 23. i
Loomis and Wood River; February 26 i
to March 2, Waterloo and Cowles.
Raised Less Bu-t Worth More
A bulletin from the state board of
agriculture, issued by Secretary W. R.
Mellor, shows that Nebraska raised
less winter wheat this year than last
year, but this year’s crop is worth
nearly $20,000,000 more than the crop
of last year. The area planted this
year’s acreage and the yield this year
averaged 1.6 bushels more to the acre,
being an average of 21.3 bushels tc
the acre.
The total acreage this year as 3,- j
063,756 or 352,574 less than last year. !
The total yield this year was 65,365,- !
691 bushels, or 1,954,757 less than last
year's yield, but the crop this year is
valued at $1.20 a bushel, or a total of
$78,438,829 as compared with $58,856,
358 for last year, an increase of $19,
582,471 over the value of last year’s
crop.
No More Spring Shooting
“Spring shooting is gone forever, as
it concerns waterfowl and migratory
game,” says I. A. Lawyer of New York,
a federal game warden, in Lincoln to
confer with State Game Warden Gus
Rutenbeck.
"Treaty provisions, running eighteen
years, have been signed by the United
States and Canada, absolutely elimin- !
ating spring shooting in both coun
tries and this treaty takes precedence
over federal and state laws.”
He says that the United States gov
ernment does not propose to relax its
regulations and allow birds to be
killed before they have batched their
young.
Many Autos In State
Secretary of State Pool issued 3,444
automobile licenses and 100 motor
cycle licenses in September, making a
total of 96,760 automobile licenses is
sued since the first of the year. As
577 of these were issued to replace
alleged lost numbers, the total num
ber of automobiles in operation in
Nebraska is now 96,173. The expense
of the automobile department for Sep
tember was $6,423.84, but $5,560 of
this amount was paid for automobile
number plates for use next year. The
fees of the secretary's office in Sep
tember amounted to $4,113.07, the
greater part of which was for the fil
ing of articles of incorporation and for
corporation permits.
Investigating Car Shortage
Inspectors Adams and Hayes, em
ployed by the interstate commerce
commission, have arrived in Lincoln
to make an investigation of the freight
car shortage situation in this state.
They were sent after the Nebraska
commission wired to the federal body
asking its assistance in meeting the
emergency which is causing heavy
loss to Nebraska farmers and shippers
of grain.
State Wins Test Suit
Suit has been filed in supreme court
by Attorney General Reed to quiet the
title to the six lots in the city of Lin
coln. A mortgage for $6,000 was giv
en the state on this property and a
tract of farm land in 1870, for money
loaned from the permanent school
fund. The mortgage was afterward re
leased as to the farm land but not as
to the city property.
In this suit, brought in the name of
the state, the supreme court is asked
to order an accounting and the sale
of the property under foreclosure.
League of Second Generation
The League of the Second Genera
tion, a university club composed of
students whose parents were once stu
dents, met last week and organized
for the coming year, with 'the election
of Ralph Wagner as president. Other
officers named were LouiBe Peck, vice
president; J. Dwight Davis, secretary,
and Ralph E. Anderson, treasurer. The
league will co-operate with the athletic
authorities in securing a large num
ber of alumni at the homecoming foot
ball game with Kansas, November 18.
The injunction suit of the state rail
way commission against the railroads
was heard before the supreme court
last week anfl the case taken under
advisement. A temporary restraining
order issued by the court expired Mon
day evening, but the court continued
this order in effect until further or
ders. The railroads objected to the
jurisdiction of the court and also re
sisted the railway commission’s appli
cation for a temporary injunction to
prevent the putting into effect of rates
higher and other than rates estab
lished by the commission in order
No. 19.
WHY BREAD IS H
BAKERS GIVE REASON FOR IN
CREASE ANDSMALL LOAF.
COST OF FLOUR CHIEF CHOSE
Increased in Price 37 Per Cent in Five
Months; Bread Raised 11 Per
Cent in Same Period.
\\ asliington.—The extent ot' increase
in the price of br ad or decrease in
weight of loaves during the four
months from May lf> to September
15, is detailed in figures from forty
five of the country’s principal indus
trial centers, just made public by the
Bureau of Labor statistics. Bakers
in reports to the bureau gave as rea
sons the increased cost of materials
and ingredients, especially Hour.
Changes in prices and weights have
been most numerous during the last
two months, which the figures cover.
Of 210 brands of bread that re
tailed for 5 cents and weighed fifteen
ounces or over May 15, only fourteen
remained at the same price and
weight September 15.
Comparative figures on wheat and
Hour gives the retail prices of bread
and show that in September the
wholesale price of wheat was ;11 per
cent greater September 15 than May
15; the wholesale price of flour :17 per
cent higher; the retail price 23 per
cent higher for the same period and
the average retail price of bread 11
per cent higher.
In May, flour was $5.48 a barrel
wholesale and $7.62 letail, leaving a
margin of $2.14 to cover transporta
tion. retailer’s expenses and profits
between the mill and the retailer. In
September the margin was $1.30 a
barrel.
The retail price of bread per pound
before baking in May was $.056, in
September, $.062. The wholesale price
oi 10.45 ounces of flour in one pound
of bread before baking, assuming 300
loaves to the barrel, in May was
$.018, in September, $.025.
In May the wholesale value of
10.45 ounces of flour was 1.8 cents;
the average retail price for sixteen
ounces of bread, before baking being
5.6 cents, making a margin of 3.8
cents between the wholesale price of
flour in a sixteen-ounce loaf of dough
and the retail of the sale loaf baked
The margin figures do not include the
cost of retailing and the retailer's
profits.
Recommends Potato Bread.
Washington.—More general use of
potatoes in making bread is recom
mended by the baking specialists of
the Department of Agriculture. Dread
containing potatoes was found to be
just as nutritious as wheat bread and
to have the quality of remaining fresh
longer. The department believes that
in localities where there is a surplus
of potatoes or where they are cheap,
much economy can be practiced at
this time in this way. in their ex
periments the government experts
baked excellent bread with threp
pounds of potato and two and a half
pounds of flour. Three recipes liavp
been formulated.
Not Coming Home Soon.
San Antonio, Texas.—There is no
immediate •prospect for state troops
on border duty to return home other
than the organization already under
orders. General Funston made this
clear by pointing out that all National
Guard troops remaining in state mo
bilization camps have been ordered
out and are taking the places of an
equivalent number that have been on
duty for several months. Troops not
relieved in this exchange must remain
indefinitely mobilized unless the war
department changes its policy and de
cides to decrease the strength of the
border patrol.
Hundreds Die on Troop Ship.
London.—Carrying 2,000 Serbian
and French soldiers, the auxiliary
cruiser Gallia has been sunk in the
Mediterranean with a loss of 638 men
The torpedo caused the explosion, of
ammunition in the hold of the Gallia
and also destroyed the wireless ap
paratus, making it impossible to send
out calls for help. The crew and
troops took to rafts and small boats,
a number of which were picked up by
the French cruisers. Others reached
the Sardinian shore.
Operating Revenues Increase.
St. Paul—An increase of approxi
mately 21 per cent in operating rev
enu for 1916 over that of 1915 is
shown in the annual report of the
Great Northern railroad issued here.
Victim of the Comics.
Chisholm, Minn.—Because, friends
say, he believed the •‘funny'’ sections
of Sunday newspapers were drawn
for the purpose of waking him a sub'
ject of ridicule, Charles Marita com
mitted suicide by blowing himself up
with dynamite.
, Inhales Steam and Dies.
Chicago—An unusual cause was
assigned for the death of 3-year-old
Gerald Keelin. The boy placed his
mouth over the spout of a teapot and
inhaled the steam, causing death.
Holding Dove Labeled "U-53.”
Degewater, N. J.—The police are
holding prisoner a white dove with a
band of yellow metal on its leg bear
ing the inscription “tT-53,” the num
ber of the German submarine which
made its memorable raid off Man
tucket.
Kingstonian Reported Safe.
Boston—The British steamer Kings
tonian reported as among those tor
pedoed by a German submarine off
Nantucket, is safe in port, according
to word received here. _