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S—tndn West la Going On at Waste
NgtM and In Other auctions af
the Country.
WAR NEWS.
ta formal not'* to aK th«- bell.ger
Wti. Brwaadest Wtison. am boat pro
ven- t paac* or offering mediation,
ha- appealed to them to discuss
lorn.: which may end the war
• • •
The British adm rally announces
that - « j destroyer* were sunk <n a
onttittua ia the North sea on Decem
ber ;i during very bad areaiher. Six
•Coer* and forty-nine men Were lost.
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A ! -raa dispatrii from Berne gays
It is le-Keved in certain circle* there
that the British government is about
do approach the belligerents no the
mmbyt t of peace in :he *am* aray as
•be <1 .** president.
• • a
Sine, the beginning of the war, ac
•ord • g to calculi rions b\ a l-ondon
nSttpr-ug paper. Great Britain has lost
!«' • ana vessels, representing
teas When the war started
Crest Britain had 3.CO" resaels.
• • •
r pe Benedict in speaking to Car
4it.. (Iasparri. papal »er>-'anr of
State r garding I’resident Wi'F<*'s
Bote to the belligerent*. said: "It I*
• d< a meat *h owing ’he honesty. Jus
tice and far * ght*d:i*«* of the Amer
ican j*re»>dent "
• • •
Fw rh-nd has s*n’ a rote to all
the wa-ring powers announcing Its
•epp- r’ of President Wilson’* appeal
for a discussion of peace terms, say.
hr t "would consider itself happy f
tt could art In any way. for the reap
pros-’c:< rt of the peoples now enga
ge ■n ■! e struggle. and for a lasting
peace ”
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Oerma* * and her allies—Austria.
Hungary Bulgaria and Turkey—re
plies: to the not* of President Wilson
Is which he asked that the belligerent
Bation* state the aims for which they
were fighting The proi»o*al 1* made
fcy the centra! power* that a confer
ence of tfee delegate* ©f all the bel
IpTmt' be held immediately in a
Beu’ra! city
GENERAL
Prat • 1! Rob. r*on. 46. noted trav
aler and lec-urer died at a Denver
ho*;.' a! of appendicitis
• • •
Ft* j asaeug.-rs w. re killed and ser
eral others were injured in a railroad
wreck at St Palycarpe jyrct on. Can
ada.
e • •
< -t. land's mi.k er bargo was lift
ed n+en dealers and producer* com
pi > d on a flat wholesale rate of
g3’, ms a gallon commencing Jac
Bary l.
• • •
M.lttary training In elementary
t’j| secondary sjfiool* wa* voted
down by the eaecutive committee of
the American Peace lea cue at a meet
ing ta New York City
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A tornado in Atkins a - caused the
4e»tv „f twelve persons, the Injury to
twe ty'hree and an estimated prap
erty damage of Four coun
ties were in the path of the tornado
("Wear Kgg. of Sweden and Marcel
Due y of France, the "hard boiled
Mr team, won the annual six-day
tifk« *»ce at Madison Square Garden.
Xew York They covered a dl-tanee
•f 2.623 miles tn 143 h-ur- and car
ried away the first pm* of $3.69'*.
• • •
Although the entire force* of ’he
•tterifi chief of police and Tailed
State* marshal at Salt I*ake City
base sorted unc< uvngjr for day« no
«V« ba* been obtained of the person
Who planted a bomb. at the hotue of
Cot-’t'" apry of Vtah
• • •
John X Reeve* lit- trlfe and thr“e
eti'dr two toy ar»d 2 and 11
and a t*hy 12 month' eld. were fumd
dead n their home near Vfnden I^a.
The Ix-die* were battered and chop
ped. app'.rcrtje from ate strokes,
•obberr watt ’be motive, p i« t!?o,je),t
• as
In ’! • r a~«wer to »«*ie-»t 1 card'*
ferldsi n not g/arinir a «';r •fn:t«
tt'a on of one we- k. IS • school
ri v f the JS.fc'VO -..h-d in ’he
publk ihiri of Ser.nt'tn. Pa., re
els-tied away from session*-.
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An increase of n'-ar’y f.vr ar.d a
fca,f million dol'.a' *- in Sotrh Dakota
state bank deposit* cor the two
tnortl- • frtitc September 1* to Xovern
bee IT is shouti ir *he report of the
State bank examiner* The state
fcbltV how ’’tsl PA*’ tree* of
tM.27T.Si.
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Fisc persons lost their live* and
pnpurty .1**) ee to the extent of
$2Z>- *:■ u.'-'aloed when fire
•o-_u,-''C->-5v deMrryed the Kansas
bn < IkiIS’ at IV hita
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Tse: -rt-c fore « of FSe* Moire
bave been ad* < rd tba; brewery in
terest* of Iowa will ask the next leg
M*ti.r‘ pass t hill giving them the
right t® b anofacturt beer and ship it
tn the state on an even ba'is with
br. -<ri<t located outside of the
■Lat*.
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It ii said the 8.nclai- Cudahy Pipe
tl»e Co- a Maine corporation, is con
traipUiinf tbu construe;ion of a pipe
F*- from tbu Katsa oil fields to
Cb.< ago.
Three thousand five hundred dol
lars’ worth of cattle were killed or
crippled by a Burlington passenger
train when they broke through the
right-of-way near Lingle, Wye.
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An analysis on c-ime conditions in
Chicago, show? that there i? a hold
up there every six hours, a murder
every second day. two suicides a day
and au arrest every seven and a half
minutes.
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Nearly *2.500.000 for the relief of
Jetr’fii war sufferer? in Europe was
pledged at a great mass meeting in
Carnegie Hall. New York. Jacob H.
Schiff of New York and Julius S. Ros
enwald of Chicago headed the list
with *100.000 each.
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More than one billion dollars net
income from operations was made by !
the railroads of the country during ;
the year now closing. Statistics
gathered bv the interstate commerce
commission complete for nine months
indicate that the total net income
from operation? will be approximately
*l.OaS.enn OO-1 for the entire year.
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The year just passing saw the com
pletion o? more titan 275 tennis tour
nament'. according to information
made public by Paul William?, field
secretary of the T’nited States Na
tional lawn tennis association. Fig
ures show that about 500.00b dozen
ball? were smashed over the net dur
ing the playing season, which amounts
to 6.000.000 halls
MEXICAN TROUBLE.
A repor; was received at El Paso.
Tex . by sources known to be close
to Francisco Villa, and by govern
ment agents, saying that Villa's
torces captured San Luis Potosi.
• • •
Confirmation was received at Mex
ico City of the report that General
Luis Herrera, in command of a gov
ern . nt force, had been killed in bat
t.- w.t': Villa adherents near Torreon.
• • •
Three hundred recruits for the reg
ular army or. the border and in Mex
ico were quarantined in tents on the
parade ground at Fort Bliss because
five of the recruits were found to
have measles.
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The appearance of a band of Villa
troops south of Chhuahua Cty. Mex
ico. was reported to have caused
General Francisco Murguia to order
General Gonzales south with his com
mand.
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Puebla and Orizaba. Mexico, have
fallen into the hands of followers of
Felix P.az. and Jalapa is in the hands
of other revoluticnary forces, accord
ing to reports received by United
States government agents.
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That Villista forces are holding Tor
reon. an Important railway center,
while th" bandit chief with the main
l>ody of hi« army is moving rapidly
' northward to trike a deadly blow at
the only formidable force of govern
1 merit troops now in northern Mexico,
under General Murguia in Chihuahua
< i y. is the substance of reports made
to United States authorities at El
Paso
WASHINGTON.
Money in circulation in the United
F'ates on November 1 amounted to
i $L241.KMSr.. treasury officials re
1 port. Th< per capita circulation was
$41.18 on tha* date.
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Fis-ures published by the bureau of
I foreign and domestic commerce show
that in the first e ght months of this
' year foodstuffs shipped to Europe
reached a value of about $f.70,OO0.OtK>.
i or at the rate of more than $00,0"n,000
i a month.
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The country's foreign trade this
year probably will reach a total of
$7Aonft '.OOO. A bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce statement
show - that for the eleven months
ending with November exports and
imports combined totalled $7,148,
000.000.
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Omaha. Neb.; Berkeley. Cal ; Spo
kan-. Wash.; Springfield. Mass.; Bal
| .1 re. Md.; Columbia. S. C.; Louis
vi’l, Ky : New Orleans. La.; St. Louis,
Mo.: St. Paul. Minn.: Wichita. Kans.;
Houston. Tex have been "chosen as
locations for twelve fede-al farm lo^n
banks The banks will be established
•'s ‘-o-.n a- nraetlcable Fnder the law
• arh w !1 have a capital of $750,000.
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Resources of national banks of the
T'nit-d P';.‘es. Comptr.il'er YX’.li lms
n > ». aggregate $15 520.000,000,
exceeding by about $1,000,000,000 th»
- ri resources of the Bank or Fng
land. ibe Br.nk of France, the Bank
■r Rim-' rl German Reiclishank.
the Bank of Paly. th° Bank of Spain,
the Bari- of The Nett;-rl nis, t**e
•tank of rv nmark. the ;?wir.s National
hank, -ii.rt the Imp .-rial Bank of Ja
i nan corubined.
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The r t K>0 natlcual banks of the
rr; ■ try in s>e formerly congested In
a fee- Premia! eent"rs but now scat
ter 1 ancrg thirty-three cities in
tv nty-two s’ate , increased their re
c.rc f between the bank calls of
September 12 and Xovmbor 17 by
$5«en$,ooo. o- abi lit f) per cent.
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Leo Stevens, a balloonist of inter
.a'lonal reputation, has been engaged
by »!-,• war department as instructor
at the army be’’, on school which will
oon be reopened at Fort Omaha.
• • *
President Wilson nominated the
• :;ok,: : to be members of the gov
• rprr -n’ l ipping boa id: William
‘Denman of San FraneDco. Rernanl
N Baker of Baltimore, John A.
11 raid of New York. John Barber
Whit.- of Kansas City, Mo., and Theo
dore Brc nt of New Orleans.
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Cost of hauling produce to and from
the farms of the country is reduced
as much as 25 cents per ton-mile by
good roads, according to calculations
of experts of the Department of Agri
I mltnrp
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 10-11—Odd Fellows’ District Con
vention at Alliance.
January 15-20—State Improved Live
Stock association meeting at Lin
coln.
Jan. 15 to 20—Organized Agriculture
Annual Meeting at Lincoln.
January 16—Nebraska Association of
Fair Managers' Meeting at Lincoln.
January 16-17-18—Annual convention
of Nebraska Volunteer Firemen at
Auburn.
January 16-19—Winter Apple, Floral
and Potato Show at Lincoln.
Jan. 19—Northeast Nebraska Editorial
Meeting at Norfolk.
Feb. 7-8-9—Nebraska Retail Lumber
Dealers’ Association Convention at
Omaha.
February 15—State Volleyball Con
test at York.
Six thousand eight hundred dollars
was the price paid for the Wahoo
Mills at an auction sale last week.
The mills were built ten years ago at
a cost of 125.000. The owner of the
plant suspended business in July,
1915. and since that time they have
stood, idle. The Farmers’ Co-Opera
tive company of Wahoo are the new
owners and expect to put the mills
in operation in the near future.
Farmers who think they have bet
ter corn than their neighbors will
have an opportunity to test their
judgment this winter by sending sam
ples to the Nebraska state corn show
to be held at Lincoln January 15 to
18. This show is an annual affair
conducted by the Nebraska Corn Im
I'luvci? aspuvmuuu. muiiauuu?
point to a much larger entry list this
year than ever before.
Fire in the Union station office of
the American express company at
Omaha destroyed seventy-five out
bound Christmas parcels of value un
'khown. The majority of the pack
ages were consigned to persons in
the state. Silver bullion valued at
$75,000 in the office at the time, was
removed with difficulty to safety.
Auburn is soon to have one of the
best equipped hospitals in this state.
The institution will accommodate
about twenty patients. Work on the
structure is practically completed and
the formal opening is expected to
take place soon.
Revivalists Hart and Megann have
just closed a five weeks' session at
Fairburv. Forty converts were se
cured. A free-will offering, aggre
gating nearly $1,000. was raised.
Fire, thought to have been caused
by spontaneous combustion, destroyed
the Wilsonville school building, erect
ed in 1889. The loss is placed at $16.
000; insurance, $11,000.
Sugar beet growers of Scotts Bluff
county are going to get $7.50 a ton
for their siloed beets next fall, it is
said. A new factory in that region is
stimulating prices.
The Messenger is the name of a
new paper established at Henry.
Scottsbluff county. It is being edited
by Fred Mathias, formerly of Pine
Bluff. Wvo.
A robber threw a brick through the
Gildner Bros, jewelry store front at
Kearney and stole about $500 worth
of rings, ear drops and stickpins.
Kind say elevators are in a congest
ed state, due to the car shortage, ^all
of them being filled to the top, with no
more grain being bought at any price.
Ninety dollars an acre was the
price paid for a section of land in
Dawson county, situated in Coyote
precinct.
Bonds to the suin of $15,000 have
been issued by the city of Norfolk
for the purpose of acquiring a public
park.
At the Connor farm sale near
Adams, milch cows with calves by
their sides brought as high as $125
each.
O'Neill has just opened its munic
ipal skating pond, which covers a
half square block.
Fire destroyed the building of the
Clark Drug company at Fremont, with
a loss of $25,000.
O. E. Wood has organized a countv
farmers’ union association at Wy
more.
It cost the city of Omaha $5,251 to
hold the recent special election on the
street lighting contract.
Contract has been let for a new
$30,000 school building at Walthill.
A new cloamery and cheese fac
tory is being organized at Beatrice.
The project is the result of agitation
started by O. H. Liebers. who was
county agent in charge of the work
in Gage county for four years. Dai
rying is being carried on extensively
in the county and this new concern
will make a good market for milk.
The town of Deshler has one of the
largest electric lighted skating ponds
In the whole state, and hundreds of
people from miles around are enjoying
the sport.
The Ogallala Community club has
completed arrangements for the erec
tion of fifteen five-cluster lights on
the principal streets of the town
When these lights are installed it
is the belief that Ogalfala will be one
of the best lighted towns of its size
in the state.
The Hamilton County Advocate,
which has been published at Aurora
for the past five years by F. J.
Sharp, has suspended publication.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Young, of Brock,
recently celebrated their sixty-first
wedding anniversary.
H. H. Zieme acted as Santa Claus
for Beaver City in making the an
nouncement that he will erect a fifty
barrel flouring mill in the city. Work
will be commenced as soon as weath
er will permit.
Four members of the Nebraska Au
i dubon society took the bird census
of Omaha, finding twenty-one different
! varieties of birds in the vicinity of
the city, totaling 497 In number.
Dr. G. J. Collins of West Point was
elected president of the Nebraska
Veterinarians’ association at its an
nual meeting at Lincoln.
Omaha is to be the location of tha
new federal farm loan bank for the
eighth district, which comprises the
' states of Nebraska. Iowa. Wyoming
and South Dakota. News that the <
, Nebraska metropolis secured the in
stitution was received with general j
i satisfaction in Lincoln and Sioux City,
its nearest rivals. The establishment
of the farm loan banks is the first !
step by the federal board toward put
ting into effect the provisions of the !
rural credits act, designed to make it
possible for farmers to borrow money
at a low rate of interest. According to
the provisions of the act money will
be loaned on long-time first mortgagea
up to 50 per cent of the value of the
land at a rate not higher than 6 per
cent. In order to obtain this loan a
farmer must be a member of a loon
association of at least ten persons in |
his section. Interest must be paid j
yearly, and after five years a small
portion of the principal must be paid
each year. Each bank will be capital- '
ized at $750,000 and the local com
munity will be given the first oppor
tunity to buy the stock.
One of the most unique engineer
ing feats of modern railroading was
successfully consummated at Omaha
when the superstructure of the old
Union Pacific bridge, which spans the
Missouri river, was moved bodily
from the piers and the new super- j
structure, weighing 6,500 tons, was
moved into place. The old bridge was
moved north to temporary piers and
the new bridge rolled into its place.
Traffie over the bridge was stopped :
only a few hours. The actual moving
of the new superstructure a distance
of some thirty feet was accomplished
in ten minutes by the use of donkey
engines and immense block and tack
les.
Senator Hitchcock at Washington,
has received a report on the forest re.
serve in Nebraska from District For
ester Riley, stationed at Denver, in
which he declares that the most im
portant needs in this state are: The
building of roads for the protection of
the national forest: to permit the sale
of products: and to open the forest
for recreation purposes The receipts
from the Nebraska reserve during
i 1916 were $6,547, derived mostly
from grazing permits. The elimina
tion of the North Platte division is
believed to have caused the falling off
in receipts.
Norris A. Huse. editor and half
owner of the Norfolk Daily News, has
accepted the position of vice president
of the American Press Association,
and will leave Norfolk with his fam
ily in a few days to make his home
in New York. He will be manager
of the advertising department of the
company he is to be associated with,
as well as a stockholder. The Omaha
World-Herald declared Mr. Huse is to
receive a salary of $25,000 a year. His
new work will be to bring the big
advertiser into touch with the coun
try newspaper.
Petitions are in circulation through
out Gage county for the purpose of
changing the present supervisor
form of government^ y a commission
system. In order to secure the sub
mission of the question it will be
necessary' to secure the signature of
ten per cent of the voters of the
county. The proposition has been
agitated for several months.
The Nebraska state poultry show
will be staged this year in Kearney.
January 15 to 26, and, according to A.
H. Smith, the association’s secretary,
of Lincoln there is reason to believe
more than 2,000 representatives of the
aristocratic feathered tribe will be on
hand, striving for the many prizes, sil
ver trophies and medals which will be
awarded.
The new bridge across the Platie
river south of Kearney was opened to
travel last week. The new bridge is
I. 000 feet long and twenty feet wide,
built entirely of concrete, at a cost of
of approximately $60,000.
Rabbits are more plentiful in south
east Nebraska this winter than in
years. Three hunters at Falls City
were out a short time the other day
and came in with over one hundred of
the little animals.
J. W. Ramaekers. SO, of Lindsay,
who had a needle removed from his
right shoulder a few days ago. does
not know how the tiny bit of steel
I came to be in his body.
For the first time in the history of
' the South Omaha stock yards the cat
tle receipts for the month of Decem
ber passed the 100.000 mark.
NecrasKj ransea uuru auiuus an
| the states in the union in the amount
| of money contributed to the states
by the Interstate Trap Shooting as
sociation for registered trap snooting
tournaments during 1916. A total of
$975 was contributed to this state.
Nebraska held nineteen registered
tournaments during the year.
The farmers' unions in the vicinity
of Wayne have just organized an “le
vator company with a capital of
$25,009. It will restore an old ele
vator and handle grain and coal.
The Dempster company of Beat
rice remembered their employes
Christmas, who number four hundred
men. with an order of $2 each on the
stores in the city. The amount given
to the men was approximately $800.
Albert Ahrapis, a wealthy bachelor,
wa< found dead at his homo near
Hastings. death resulting, it Is
thought, from freezing. He was re
ported to be worth $50,000.
Frank Howard of Pawnee City pur
chased a carload of horses at Beatrice
for which he paid on an average of
about. $150 per head.
Fred Thompson, 35; Mrs. Thomp
son. 22, and their baby, 4 months,
were found dead Sunday morning in
their farm house three miles from
Dalton. There was no apparent
cause for the deaths.
A special excursion of Gage coun
ty farmers to Lincoln to attend the
annual meetings of organized agricul-,
ture of the state, is being arranged
by L, Boyd Rist, county agent.
Because of her refusal to resume
relations with him, Floyd W. Fuller
of Lexington, shot and killed Effie
Dorothy Rader, at Omaha.
HIGHCOSTHITSSTATE
BUDGET OF STATE BOARD OF
CONTROL IS LARGER.
BANK DEPOSITS INCREASE
Items of General Interest Gatnered
From Reliable Sources Around
the State House.
^retern Newspaper Union News Service.
The budget of the state board of
control presented to Governor More
head and by him to be submitted to
the. legislature calls for an increase
in appropriations for the maintenance
of the fifteen state institutions under
the management of this board. An in
crease in the number of inmates
amounting to nearly 17 per cent is
expected during the coming two years.
In addition to this the board has
added 10 per cent increase because of
the advance in prices of supplies over
the prices formerly paid by the state.
The board of control comprises
Judge Howard Kennedy, chairman, ex
Governor S. A. Holcomb and Henry
Gerdes. Two years ago this board
presented to the legislature its first
request for appropriations. For the
first time in the history of the state
the legislature accepted the word of
the board as to the needs of state In
stitutions. It gave the board exactly
what it asked for. This confidence in
the board was not misplaced, accord
ing to the views of those who have
watched the management of state in
stitutions. In spite of a big increase
in the price of supplies in the past
two years, the amount given by the
legislature will tide the institutions
over until April 1, the end of the
biennium, with scarcely a deficiency.
One or two of the smaller institutions
may show a small deficiency.
This year the board of control asks
for an appropriation of $2,355,770 for
the ordinary expenses of state insti
tutions. This is an increase of $268,
060 over the amount appropriated for
the same purposes two years ago. In
addition the board asks for $454,800
for permanent improvements or other
extra items of expense.
Big increase in State Bank Deposits
Nebraska challenges the world!
If the world accepts the world may
be badly beiten in the matter of in
crease in bank deposits the past
year,
Here Is what Nebraska has done
in the past year. It is the record
upon which this state stands.
In twelve months the deposits in
the 800 banks of the state have in
creased $54,651,845.
An average monthly increase of
more than $4,554,000 a month.
Figured down finer that would
mean an increase of more than $1,
150 for every day of the month.
Or the increase would amount to
more than $41 tor even man, woman
and child in the state.
It is an increase of more than 50
per cent.
Since August 10 deposits have in
creased $14,407,000, and the loans
nearly $12,560,000.
In the year loans have increased
$27.939,S50.
Of total appropriations amounting
to nearly $10,000,000. made by the 1915
egislature for all state departments
and institutions during the biennium
from April 1. 1915. to the same date in
1917, there remained on hand in De
cember. a little over one-fourth the
gross sum. Most of this will be expend
ed during the remainder of the bien
nium.
While the legislature of two years
ago made $9.S49.71S available for the
biennium. $2,000,000 ofthis came from
other sources than the state treasury
and was not raised by ordinary taxa
tion. Fees collected by departments,
products and Ijjbor sold by state in
stitutions. and miscellaneous other
items made up this portion of the
state’s revenue.
The balance in all funds on De
cember 1. aggregated $2,739,217. leav
ing at that time the expenditures of
four months, or one-sixth of the bien
nium still to be met.
These figures are shown in State
Auditor Smith’s biennial report com
piled as a fiscal guide for the next
legislature.
Will Fight Health Eoard.
Dr. Carrol Fox. federal health offi
cial. who investigated health adminis
tration laws in Nebraska a few years
ago and who recommended revloution
ary changes in our laws, will visit the
legislature and lay before it reasons
■why his plans are most feasible. It
is said here that practitioners from
all the schools of medicine are pre
paring to fight a reorganization of
the state health board. Many favor
it. however, and a battle between the
factions is expected.
School Lands Worth Much Money
State school lands under lease,
which would be subject to sale if the
legislature ever took a notion to take
that step, total 1.650.P90 acres and are
worth about $18,000,000 in the judg
ment of Slate Superintendent Thomas.
If the school lands of the state had
been kept intact and conserved as
have private investments of Nebraska
Niey would have brought upward of
$30,000,000 in to the permanent school
funde of the state.
The St. Joe & Grand Island railroad
has applied to the railway commission
for permission to take off the motor
car that runs between Fairbury and
Hastings, making one round trip a day.
Thg car was put in service on a ninety
dajts’ trial, and the road claims it does
not pay. The business men of Hast
ings hold that if the car had been run
on time it would have been granted
a bigger patronage. It ts understood
business men in the towns between
Fairbury and Hastings want it taken
off because it pulls business to Hast
ings and Fairbury.
Recommend Exchange of Lands
The State forestration commission
will recommend that 10.000 acres of
state school lands in small tracts
scattered about in government forest
reservations in Nebraska be traded j
to the government for compact bodies j
of iand in the government reserva- ,
tions. This would give the govern
ment control over the entire govern
ment reservations which does not ob
tain at this time, and would also give
the state control over compact bodies !
of state land which is now scattered ;
promiscuously among government j
lands.
1 he commission will recommend |
three bills tor passage by the legisla- i
ture. One will authorise counties and j
cities and villages to set aside tracts j
of land for forest or lumber tracts to i
serve as recreation grounds and as a 1
source of wood supply if carefully j
planted and cut. The commission also
believes this plan would assist in
maintaining the purity of water sup
plies in many instances. The second
bill will relate to the trading scat
tered state lands for single tracts of
government land.
The third bill will embody a plan for
a permanent state forestration com
mission. to comprise three members
appointed by the governor for a term
of three years each, to serve without
salary.
Farmers in Legislature.
Farmers and stockraiserB will out
number lawyers in the lower branch
of the Nebraska legislature this winter I
by four to one, but in the senate there :
will be seven attorneys as against only j
four farmers and stockmen. A few of j
the farmers are also interested in '
banks. There will be two house mem
bers and one senator who are retired
farmers, and who have other interests
at present. The house will contain
forty-eight members who give farming j
as their occupation. If the two retired
ones are included, this will give the i
agriculturists. just one-half the mem- !
bership. There are twelve lawyers in i
the house, counting two university
law students who are preparing them
selves for the legal profession.
University Correspondence Cuorses.
Correspondence courses offered by
the University of Nebraska extension
department are reaching 433 men and
women who live not only in Nebraska,
but also in various parts of the United
States from Cambridge. Mass., to San
Francisco. Cal. They represent farm
ers, housewives, business men. me
chanics, laborers, professional men I
and teachers. A majority of the 433.
however, are teachers.
The purpose of the department is to
afford the worker the opportunity to j
study during leisure hours, “all prob
lems—artistic, literary, historical, so- !
cial. industrial, moral, political, edu
cational—problems in sanitation, city :
lighting, banking, divorce—in fact all
problems that may concern the citi- t
zens of Nebraska." It is considered a 1
step further in making the university j
a people's school.
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Wants Money to Enforce Law.
One hundred thousand dollars, to be
used as a special fund for the enforce
ment of prohibition laws and various
other ffums for particular purposes,
over and above the regular depart
mental appropriations, are asked by
Attorney General Reed in his biennial
report to the governor. The total
amount of such appropriations re
quested is $225,000. as compared with
S2S.500 provided by the legislature of
1915 for special activities and main
tenance of the legal department.
The attorney general also asks for
two additional stenographers beside
the two now employed in his office.
This would require an additional ap
propriation of $3,360.
Mr. Reed says the experience of oth
eV states has shown that it is neces
sary. in order to obtain desired re
sults in enforcing prohibition, to make
an appropriation available for investi
gating violations and prosecuting of
fenders. Failure to make such an ap
propriation. he asserts, will weaken
the force and effect of the laws.
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State Treasurer George E. Hall, in j
his biennial report to Governor More
head. dwells at much length on the
result of his order requiring county
treasurers to make monthly remit
tances to the state. He recommends
a change in the law that will per
mit state funds to be given to banks
making the highest bid instead of the
present regulation which allows the
treasurer to place the money in such
: banks as he may select, the banks to
pay 3 per cent interest.
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Files Claim For State Reward.
Ira L. Cooper of St. Louis has filed |
a claim with State Auditor Smith
asking for an appropriation of $200
by the legislature to pay him tlm J
state reward offered in a proclamation
by Governor Morehead for the arrest
and return of John Jones, a negro who
was found guilty of killing Sam Leons ;
at Omaha in October. 1013. Jones was
afterwards sentenced to be electro
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cuted. but the supreme court changed
his sentence to life imprisonment. As ;
the claim is a valid one against the j
state, w'^wl
The agricultural activities bill, ,
which made its appearance last ses
sion and which is one of the bills like- .
j ly to receive considerable attention
, this session, is comprehensive in scope
| and strikes at the root of matters in
j which the state board of agriculture
j is keenly interested. It may bring on
a battle between the “retentionists” j
: and the “rebellionists” on that board. 1
The retentionists want to continue af- j
fairs as they are. The rebellionists
want to reorganize the board and take
out 6f its hands everything but the
management of the state fair.
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State Superintendent Thomas shows
i in his biennial report that during the J
; biennium from December 1, 1914.
to November 30, 1916. his office col
lected $23,353 in fees of which $12,
1 714 came from county registrations J
and $2,185 from city registrations.
Life certificates and registrations
yielded $1,756 and state certificates |
$492. while $211 come from miscel- (
laneous sources. This money has
been used for various purposes, be- j
ing expended under authority of the
legislature as a cash fund of the de
partment.
NINE FOUND GUILTY
VERDICT AGAINST DEFENDANTS
IN “WILD HORSE” CASE.
TWO EXONERATED BY JURY 1
Trial gne of the Longest and Cost
liest on Record.—Over Hundred
Witnesses Heard.
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Omaha, Neb.—The famous Arizona
wild horse case, which has been on
trial in United States court for the
last three weeks, ended when the
Jury returned a verdict finding nine
of the eleven defendants guilty and
two not guilty. Four of those found
guilty were recommended to the
mercy of the court. Indictnif nts are
yet outstanding against suh'mii
others, some of whom will be t : ;ght
to trial while others of the sev- • • r,tt
will be dismissed Those found gud y
were: J. S. Smith, Omaha; C. A.
Smith, Omaha; J. P. Shircliff, Sauk
Center, Minn.; R. B. Burwinkle. Des
Moines, Iowa; W. Hinklev, Brayfon,
S. D.
The following were suggested to
the mercy of the court: John Bolecy,
Omaha; Albert A. Hostings, Silver )
Creek, Neb.; C. M. Thompson, Oma
ha; Charles W. West. Not guilty
were: F. V. Guildinger, Northvood.
Ia.; and L. R. West. Osceola, la. Dis
charged by order of the court after
the evidence was all in.
In 1914 the federal grand jur> in
dicted forty two persons for having a
hand in the selling of phantom and
imaginary wild horses which the
United States Live Stock company
claimed were running the range in Co
conino county. Since the first indict
ment was returned' a number of the
defendants have died and others have
been released from the charge, while
several others have been granted
separate trials.
After the verdict of the jury was
read, Judge Woodrough granted th
defendants thirty days in which to
make motions for new trials, take ap
peals and make such motions as their
attorneys think best. The bonds un
der which the defendants were at
liberty before the trial were ali al
lowed to stand and no new bonds
were asked.
The case was one of the costliest
and longest ever tried at the federal
court here. The government sub|>oe
naed nearly 100 witnesses from all
parts of the country, while witm-sses
for the defense totaled half thi - num
ber.
The technical charge upon which
the indictments were returned is that
of conspiring to use the mails t. de
fraud. the' penalty, upon conviction,
being a fine up to SI0.000, or impris
onment for two years, or both, at the ^
discretion of the court.
Every Man Liable for Service.
Washington. — Every able-bodied
male citizen of the United States be
tween the ages of 18 and 45 years is
held liable for service in the national
guard in war time, without further
act of congress by war department
regulations for the government of
the guard issued under the national
defense act. In a circular prepared
nearly two months ago. but made
public Just recently, the militia bureau
directs that where a national guard
regiment Is called out for war serv
ice. a reserve training battalion to
fill vacancies at the front shall be
organized out of the national guard
reserve and by voluntary enlistment.
“If for any reason,” the order con
tinues, "there shall not be enough
reservists or enough voluntary enlist
ments to organize or to keep the re
serve battalions at prescribed
strength a sufficient number of the un
organized militia shall be drafted by
the president to maintain such bat
talions or lesser unit at the prescrib
ed strength.”
Policy of Silence Adopted.
Washington.—A policy of absolute
silence regarding the peace negotia
tions has been adopted by President
Wilson and / Secretary Lansing. It
was stated officially that all steps
henceforth will be regarded as confi
dential. that no comment will he
made on any development and that
rumors will not be discussed in any
way. The decision to pursue this
course was made known after the l
state department had received the
official texts of the German and A os- ^
trian replies to President Wilson's
identical notes to the belligerents
proposing a discussion of peace
terms. In many quarters the official
attitude was construed as indicating
that secret exchanges were expcC'd
to follow if they did not precede the
formal answers of the entente na
tions to the notes of President Wil
son and the central powers.
50.000 Armenians Starving.
Xew York.—Fifty thousand deported
Armenians are starving in the vicin
ity of Aleplio. Asiatic Turkey, as a
result of a recent temporary suspen
sion of relief appropriations, accord
ing to a cablegram from American
Ambassador Elkus. received here.
Boy Killed Coasting.
Des Moines, la.—Delbert Collins, 17
years old, was killed and five hoys
seriously injured, one fatally, when
two bobsleds collided here on a steep
hill.
Sixth Snow in Forty Years.
Los Angeles. Cal.—Snow fell tho
other day over part of the city for
the sixth time in the forty years the
weather bureau has been established
here. It melted almost as rapidly as
it fell. Foothills in this section w'-re
tipped with white. ^ I
Two Boys Die When Home Burns.
Aspen, Colo.—Two boys, aged 10 fl
and 12, respectively, sons of Mr. end
Mrs. John Boscello, were burned to ||
death in the destruction of their ■
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