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FROM MANY POINTS EVENTS OF THE DAY HELD TO A FEW LINES. _______ LATE EVENTS BOILED DOWN Ftnrtul. Pc!-t cal. Foreign and Other Intel! gerce Interesting to the General Reader*. WAR NEWS I'aUOuui nruiiirv from the open j it( of (tie war to December !1. a pei Jod of ’went? mouth*, total eW, . . . A German admiralty etatciuent j »v that a German submersible, num ber not given. baa sunk eleven entente dewater* >u eleven day* • • • The total *.eimar. rasnaiUe* since Ibe beginning of the war * ere placed at t • !<• it*, in an official summary tor i' ‘ hi the British poiernment • • • tWd*r and cereals are to be grown to Khhmund and Bushy park*. la>n to: ibe fin* step in the new food campaign London's park' are royal property and the step ha* the sanction of K (J*-<»rre • • • The »;siLg; of 'he British warship CorcwaUi' by a submarine in the Medtierranean was announced by the •dm.rally Thirteen men from tbe foresall;* are missing nn*l are be hmti to have been ktiled by *he eg • as German Field Marshal von Market] sew * army, operating in -outhern Mol ds * a* < rresed the PsHu river •orth <f hok-Irani and be'ween Fok pbaiii and Fondest lias farced the Ku^ star, and Kaman-ar* aero** 'he Se retii river, taking, in the latfer ope-r*. tton. Si*• prisoner* s • • “Tb submarine menace to the ni*-r chant **rvice i* far greater now (bar at may period of the war and it r*wc:re* ail of our ernergy 10 combat It” said Admiral Sit John R Jelli j roe £**,! lUtti in a *p»eth ai a iBtelatc given in hi* honor in Inn • • • The ettente allies, replying to Presides' W.'eon's peace note in a Joint (SDiWMi rauoti. e*pr*~* ih* be bef that i* inapo-*!bie nt the pres as' moment to attain peace That will *a*a-e them reparation, rest ittit ion and sti h guarantee' a* they < ensider gre ee'entiai GENERAL Tli'*- Sm'hjhu) Farmers associa - .on vtil bat# *’* ert.ua! meeting in Kan icy Ho February 21. 22, 23. • • • Kigb' men were killed and nine oili er* wout.dcd in ibe hunt for 12>" Beer slaughtered in California in 1S16. according to a report submitted to the stale bsti and game ct-mmisMoii. • • • Tfce upper bonne of the South lw kola •« gtaiature after a heated discus. J mu. pe-sed a bill providing for the resjlra- - on of the equal suffrage IB1> iidai-B' i» the stale constitution 1 Bt tbe ne*: general election • • • The plant at tlie'Canadian Car and Four.ur Co i.*ar Kings iiid X J. te which were stored hundreds of thousand - of shells destined for the Kussian government, was destroyed h> Bre The loss, it is thought, may reach M.VWi.bpo • • • The first bill introduced in the T*tah legislature was a state wide pres hrbiuon Mil ft would prohibit tbe l nmnufai. t ur* and sal* of intoxicating ■kgoor is (''all after August 1. 1917. ; and make- the possession of intoxi cants . misdemeanor • • • A ft*e* OOP commission for obtain leg a war munition contract calling for an expenditure of S37.raMl.MIO hy fbe f:as*ian lorertimen: was award ed bjr Ibe X Y. supreme court to [Charles Fuller, a New York City law P« m • • Floyd Fuller of Lexington. Neb, It* o on Deceit, her zl -ho! and kilN-d » sweetheart. Dorothy Rad* r Car »i i n when she met him by apt>olnt i«eti on a crowded street in Omaha. I Blea.-l.~d guilty to second decree mur Aer sr l waa sentenced to life Impris MBMl • 00 | Colonel William Frederick Cody dftaffalo B'lli. soldier, hunter and •root the idol of jo *nlle America, died Denver William F. Cody war SI year* old and mas bora In Scon (Mi < loon • • • I Harry K Thaw who was released (fires month* ago from an asylum bar the insane where he wa- sent after be had killed Stanford White. ■ as indicted *■ New York, charged wiili kidnaping Fred (lump jr . l<t. of Kansa* City. **o . and assaulting him pith a »b*p • • • The iacreaae of Dj cents per 1M. aatgbt oo lomber rate* from the gmtbrrn pioducirg Held to Omaha. Jrl Hotaes and 1-incoln will not go a o effect until Febrnary 15. • • • Effttrt* are to be made to hare a using bill pasted in the Iowa state snfslaiare It l* proposed to hare be .port ttmir.-tbsl by a commission aJ that 1* per <*•< of xrot>s r** aapt* of all boxinc show- shall go B the support of the state tuberru life Uamt # • • Frans Bopp German consul refill t Han riiPbtti and four of hts at .. )t mB<1 employes were found guilty , a jary tB the I'nited State* district our! of haring rioUied this country ■" A twoniile board automobile speed way. costing $500,000, will be built at Sail Lake City. Utah, this summer. • * * Only enough eggs sufficient for one breakfast for all Indiana were found in the state, in a survey made by the State Food and Drug commission. • • • Twenty-four cases of infantile par alysis have been reported in Monte video. Uruguay. Specialists are care fully studying the disease and the au thorities have decided to consult New York medical men on steps to stamp it out • • • Mrs. Maude Allen of Fort Madison, la., who was married November 11 last 10 her -eventh husband, has filed a petition for divorce in the Lee county district court, alleging cruel and inhuman treatment. * * • Judges Elans. Carpenter and Lan dis of the United States district • ourt. denied the petition of twenty • igbt railroads oiterating in Illinois lo re-train the state public utilities com mission from enforceing the Illinois 2-cent fare law. • • • Wishing to have a live subject to work with, the girl students of the domestic science department of the \pph-ton. Wisconsin, high school have , adopted a 2-months-old baby and the ! girls are now kept busy feeding it -i lentlflcally and dressing it accord ing to the best health hints. • • • Evereit Cioiier, a farmer living near Greeley, Colo, on returning to ! ms home found the bodies of five of his children shot to dealh and his I w ife was found in a ditch not far i ftom the house nearly dead. She had ;< pistol in her hand I* is thought j -•he killed the children and then shot ■ herself. • • • Every foot of the Dixie highway | rough the state of Georgia will be | tieautified by shade trees, according ; t plans announced by the Savannah Automobile club. If contemplated i olans sre carried out there will be a • ioubie row of trees reaching from ! the Tennessee line to St. Mary's rlv- i er. in Florida. MEXICAN TROUBLE. Xiiifero Zambrano, treasurer of the de facto government in Mexico, re cently sent to Washington by General Carranza as his personal representa tive. issued a statement in which he : predicted an early settlement of the ^ border difficulties. • • • In an army of more than 150.000 National guardsmen and regulars on the Mexican border only 271 death .ave occurred in the last seven months Of the deaths 108 were clas - tied a- caused b> violence, while 166 were caused by disease. • • • Villa forces were defeated at Jimi nex by General Francisco Murguia. with a tons of IJM n !>• 1 dead, wound- j r-r\ and captured, with the noted rebel leader. Martin l-opez. and another V'lla genera! among the slain, ac ■rding to an official report from the ; Carranza commander. WASHINGTON. Transmission in ihe mails of liquor advertisements. in circulars, newspa pers or otherwise, into states which prohibi' such advertising or solicita tion. is hatred by a bill passed by the senate. • • . Final agreement on the annual riv- ; i-rs and harbors appropriation bill was ; reported by the house committee. The measure carries $38,155,399, of which U.llf'.OoO is for Missouri river improvements. • • • By a vote of 55 to 32 the senate ; passed the Sheppard prohibition bill forbidding the sale of intoxicating i liquors in the District of Columbia, but allowiug small importations for personal use. • • • The entente reply to President Wilson's peace note is regarded in i Washington official circles as putting j an early pe-ce practically out of the question, but still leaving an open I door for the president to make fur- \ ther efforts. • • • The WeblsKenyon law, designed to ; lirevent liquor shipments from “wet" 'o “dry" states was declared consti ttt'ional by the stipreme court, which also upheld West Virginia's prohibi tion amendment prohibiting citizens from receiving liquor for personal 1 use. shipped by 'common carrier in in | ter-tate commerce. * * • A new issue of the one and two dollar greenbacks of civil war days, : di-con' need more than thirty years . a^o. well be put into circulation prob- 1 ably about February 1. the treasury , department announced. • • • The International Harvester Co. and other American manufacturers of ' binder twine have been exonerated -of responsibility for its increased . price in the report of the senate committee which investigated the j Yucatan monopoly. • • • Secretary Daniels appealed to con j grep- for $12,000,000 to add to navy yard construction facilities because of the failure of the private builders to submit bids for the battle cruisers ! and scout cruisers. • • • \ Ordnance and air craft innovations designed from lines developed by Eu ropean belligerents have been au thorized by both war and navy de partments. They include Zeppelin type airships, large caliber mobile ri fles and howitzers to be mounted on i railroad trucks. • « • At the conclusion of three days of stirring debate, the senate voted to ndorse President Wilson’s note re questing a statement of peace terms from the warring powers of Europe OATES FOR COMING EVENTS. Jan. 2-1-25—Nebraska League of Muni icipalities convention at Hastings. Feb. 7-8-9—Nebraska Retail Lumber Dealers' Association Convention at Omaha. February 15—State Volleyball Con test at York. February 20-21—Nebraska Clothiers Association Meeting at Omaha. Feb. 26 to March 3—Omaha Automo bile Show. March 5 to 10—First Annual Auto Show at Lincoln. March 6 to 10—Mid-West Cement Show and Convention at Omaha. It was decided by the committee in charge of the national swine show, which is to be held in Omaha October 3 to 10, to give $10,000 In cash prizes this year. This will be divided be tween the Chester Whites, Durocs, Berkshires, Poland-Chinas and Hamp shires. P. F. Peterson, president of the U. P. Steam Baking company, at Omaha, declared the war has caused more than 1.500 bakeries throughout the I'nited States to suspend business, aid he estimated that fully as many more are on the verge of bankruptcy now. The Dodge county board of supervis ors cut the total estimates for the ex pense of running the business of the •ounty for the coming year $26,000 as ' ompared with last year's figures. The decrease is in the general bridge and Irainage funds. The total estimate is fl 45.000. A teacher-parents’ club has been organized at Neligh. The purpose or he club is to attain closer co-oper ition between parents and teachers, which is expected to materially aid the pupils in every line of study. Word has been received at Beatrice from Liana Grande. Tex., to the effect that the Fifth Nebraska regiment, tow doing duty on the border, had been quarantined for diphtheria at ’amp headquarters. r iruiuiu untrue iur a^naiu^ tuv question of a new union depot for the •ity. Efforts will be made to induce (he Union Pacific to spend a part of the 1917 budget in improving its sys em and property in Fremont. Nearly twice as many miles of road were graded in Lancaster county last vear than during the previous twelve months. The total was 412, while dur ing the year 1915 ii was only 270. Over a million and a half dollars in sales was made by the Dempster Mill company of Beatrice during 1910. more tliati $100,000 above the previous year. An embargo on freight shipments over the Union Pacific Hues which has tied up more than 500 cars in the Omaha and Council Bluffs yards since December 20, has been lifted. Wolves have been doing consider able damage in Gage county and the farmers are making plans to hold a big circle hunt. Many chickens and pigs have been killed by the wolves. The Deshler Coffee Mills company nas been organized at Deshler with a capital stock of $100,000. A two-storv building to house the concern is to be constructed. Bonds to the sunt of $25,000 will probably be voted upon by the people of Fremont at the spring election for Hie purpose of building a new auditor ium. Lincoln is soon to have a new man ufacturing concern. Gooch Food Prod ucts company has filed articles of in corporation, with a capital stock of $300,000. At a primary to select a popular candidate for postmaster at Peters, burg Emil H. Mack got 222; John B. Cameron, 155, and George Probst, 81. Richardson county, after being un der the township form of government for ihirty years, is now' back to the old system of commissioner form. Two hundred and seventy-one mar riage licenses were granted in Adams county during 1910 as compared with 245 tlie previous year. Eleven thousand dollars was the price paid for 82 acres of land in. Fil more county recently. The old Peter Jansen ranch of 040 acres near Jansen, was sold recently for $86,000. Two Woltach women were ordered by Judge Wood rough of Grand Island to pay to the United States funds loaned them shortly after the begin ning of the European war. The la dles in question were in Germany when aided by the government. Mrs. Myrtle McClellen and James Urskine were fined jointly the sum of $2,325.20 by District Judge Grimes at North Platte for the violation of Ne braska liquor laws. This is said to be j the heaviest fine ever administered in Lincoln county for such an offense. General Joseph R. Webster, attor ney general of Nebraska in pioneer days, and former resident of Lincoln, died in Washington. D. C., a few days ago. Gen. Webster had a wide ac quaintance throughout the state. Jerry Kean, a farmer living south west of Stella, has lost nine head of horses recently, death being due, it is thought, to some form of acute pois oning. Charles W. Kaley. a well known cit izen of Red Cloud, prominent in polit ical circles and world-wide traveler, died in Los Angeles, Cal. The first car of hard coal to be de livered at Schuyler since before the holidays arrived a few days ago. Hard coal had been an almost un known quantity at Schuyler since the summer supply was exhausted. The city council of Red Cloud ■ has accepted from W. T Auld. head of the Corn Exchange bank in Omaha,1 a gift of $20,000 for a library site, building and equipment for the city. Fremont Methodists will bnlld a new $40,000 church in the immediate future. The sum of $30,000 has ai reaAv Iiom S'"-V'ii™ I to stand by it and pw Through a co-operative plan, man aged by Miss Esther Warner, Sewarti county agent, the members of the ' Seward County Home-Makers’ asso- j elation realized 30 oer cent more than : regular market price for dressed poul- . try during the Christmas trade- ; Names of purchasers were secured b> . Miss Warner in Omaha, Lincoln and other large towns in the state and th« produce was sent direct to the con sumer by parcel post. C. O. D. from a convenient marketing place in the county. Plans are under way for a series of poultry meetings through; out the county in the near future. The official figures just compiled bj the several live stock markets of the country for the year 1916 show thai Omaha is unquestionably the second market in the country. Chicago is still at the head of the list. It is con tended from time to time in Kansas City that the market there is the sec ond largest in the country. The fig ures show that in 1916 Omaha rece.lv cd 7,722,032 head of stock and Kansas City received 7,067,575. These figures show that Omaha received 654,457 head of stock more than the contend er for second place. Chicago stands j firmly in first place with 16.729.048. It has been definitely decided that the 1917 National Swine Show foil be held at Omaha, the dates being Octo ! her 3 to 10. The show will again be staged in the big barn at the South Omaha stock yards. A new feature will be added to the show this year There will be iffght exhibitions. This was one of the few defects of last year’s show. Four hundred and fifty farmers and business men of Gage county have lodged a protest with the County Board of Superivaors against paying the salary of the farm demonstrator. Nearly aK many favor the county pay ing the demonstrator and January 23 has been set as the date for hearing boC* sides of the case Falls City A. G. V. W. members are greatly agitated over the in crease in rates voted at the grand lodge meeting at Omaha. Many of the older men will be compelled to drop their membership and many of the younger men will drop out through sympathy for the older men. The Fremont Milling plant is work ing on a 5.060-barrcl order of flour that will be shipped to Chicago for use in making unleavened bread. It will require over three weeks, with the plant running night and day. to com plete the order. The bread is eaten by Jewish people during the feast of the passover. The farmers of Dodge county plan on doing considerable ditching the coming season. Two new ditching machines eostine $2,000 and $2,300 each, have been purchased, one by Lewis Bros., the other by Leo Merley Both parties have large contracts for work, beginning in the spring. The Hastings Chamber of Com merce has advised State Senator Wal ter E Hager that Hastings will give twenty acres of well located ground for a building site fbr a new state . rapitol on the condition that the cap ital of Nebraska shall be moved from Lincoln to Hastings. Val Peters, publisher of the Omaha Tribune, has purchased the Platte River Zeitung. the only German news paper in Dodge county. The paper was published at Fremont and was established in 1885. Mr. Peters will consolidate the Zeitung with his Omaha journal. The cost of running Lancaster county for 1917 will be $74,500 higher than last year, according to the esti mate adopted hv the county commis sioners providing for expenditures of $460,000. The 1916 budget was $386,000. A campaign has been launched to increase the Hastings college endow ment fund to $500,000. The Nebraska grand lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen adopted the national fraternal con gress schedule of rates, which will mean a general increase on all mem bers. at a meeting in Omaha. The new rates will be even higher than those imposed in 1915. which were found inadequate. Provision has been made for a reduction from $2,000 to a $1,500 policy. Seventy-eight heaa ot came were sold for an average of $775 a head at the Mousel Brothers sale near Cambridge. * Coal at cost is being sold to the people of Falls City by city authori ties. * * The new Masonic building at Al liance is nearing completion. Alliance Masons declare they will have one of the finest lodge buildings in western Nebraska when this work is finished. The structure represents an outlay of $3*,000. According to figures compiled by a Lincoln newspaper the Capital City's valuation has doubled in the last twelve years. In the year 1905 the total valuation was J3S.600.000; in the year just closed it jumped to $70,000,000. Frank A. Anderson, grand master workman, has appointed R. O. Mar nell, cashier of the Merchants’ Na tional bank of Nebraska City, grand treasurer of the A. O. U. W. of Ne braska to fill the vacancy caused bj the death of E. L. Dodder of Omaha. The mortgage record for the past year in Gage county shows that a to tal of 314 farm mortgages were filed aggreeating $995,256.09, and 343 re leased. aggregating $895,614.37. Mr. and Mrs. Wm Young, of Brock, recently celebrated their sixty-first wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. E. Edwards of Omaha are the owners of a Plymouth Rock hen that is seven years old and lays an egg nearly every day. She is be lieved to be the oldest hen in the United States. Mrs. Hannah Johanson dropped dead at her home near Beaver Cross ing. She was the mother of five chil dren, all of whom are seriously ill with pneumonia. The petition signed by forty teach ers of the grade schools of Fremont for an increase in salary was rejected *e taiqSSLTPhSne^o. $221. FIGHT “PORK” BILL -,— OPPONENTS OF PUBLIC BUILD ING MEASURE SAY MANY PROJ ECTS ARE NEEDLESS. Congress Wants to Make Big Appro- ; pi iations but Has Trouble Getting ' Its Courage Screwed Up to the Sticking PoinL By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington.—Congress dares one day and does not dare the next. The majority gets its courage screwed up apparently to the sticking point and then something coines to make it re cede rapidly. Congress wants to pass the omnibus buildings bill while the president, it is said, does not want it to pass, and one day it makes up its mind to pass it and the next day it changes its mind. Tears ago the name "pork” was giv en to each of two measures which come yearly before congress, the pub lic buildings bill and the rivers and harbors b.ii. It is needless, of course, to say that many of the buildings for j whose erection provisions have been made, and many of the rivers and har bors for whose improvement money has been voted, have been necessary ! for the good of the country. The charge, however, from both Democrats and Republicans ail over the United States is that proper dis crimination is not made by congress between the good and bad propositions contained in these measures. The friends of such legislation always spring to its defense. The row has been going on for years. It has been pretty well understood this year that President Wilson does not want his party in congress to pass the public buildings bill as it is at pres ent written. It calls for $38,000,000 for the erection of federal buildings in I different parts of the country. The i necessity of economy is urg«*d by some j members of both parties in house and ; senate as a reason for withholding con- i sideration from the bill as it has been j presented. Its proponents declare that ■ every item in the bill is justifiable. : The struggle is on. If the bill passes it is said that the president stands ready to veto it, but this, of course, is a matter for future consideration. 417 Projects in Bill. The total number of projects pro vided for in the measure is 417 with j authorizations amouuting to $38,794, 7tX\ Public buildings and their con struction are under the control of the treasury department, the secretary of which in his estimates asks for au thorizations of money for building pur poses. In the present public building bill the names of 61 towns and vil lages appear of which the treasury de partment made no mention in its re port. In other words, congress, acting on its own behalf, has gone far beyond the estimates submitted by Secretary McAdoo. The officials of the government this year have said that nearly one-fourth of the entire building appropriation is needless, unwise and extravagant. On the other hand, the members of congress who desire that these build ings shall be erected say that it is due to the people of the smaller towns in the country that Uncle Sam should be represented throughout the land by proper buildings and by adequate facil ities for all his purposes and that if the building is too big the needs of tlie places will grow to meet it. The basis of the argument really is. however, that as all the people are taxed for all the federal buildings that the smaller places should be given recognition and that Uncle Sam loses nothing by keep ing his nephews and nieces satisfied. Want Parks Made Accessible. A conference has just closed in Washington which brought together a surpassingly interesting group of meu and women. It was the National Parks conference. There are many congresses or con ferences, call them what you will, in Washington every year, but perhaps more than all the others there at taches to the National Parks Confer ence what may be called the higher human interest. The object of this conference is to Influence public opin ion in favor of national parks, and to urge the necessary legislation to make the parks accessible to the people of the country, to maintain them in all their original beauty and' gran deur and to endeavor to find ways ami means to secure an "eco nomic hospitality” within their limits for Americans who are not blessed with great riches. In other words, the effort is to make the national parks truly national playgrounds. Let us take one of the meetings of this and enter the doors. It is even ing and on the walls of the great hall In the National Museum are hanging the wonderful pictures painted by American artists and sotting forth the glories of color, of sky, mountain, tree and valley of the national parks of America. The most famous of our ar tists here are represented. Gathered to look at the pictures and :o listen to the addresses from scien tists, educators and nature lovers on lie value of the parks to the people, ire men and women whose names are bnown in scientific, art and educa tional circles generally throughout the world. In addition here are men in terested in the outdoor life, in the preservation of the big game, of birds, tmd of the fish of the country in order that the people may benefit economic ally and that the wild life may be pre served within the limits of its natural ranges. Here Is Charles D. Walcott, secre tury of the Smithsonian institution, one of the best-known geologists of the world, and a scholar of high stand ing in other branches of the sciences. When he was a boy Charles D. Wal cdtt used to take a little hammer and wander through the gorges and ravines of the foothills of the Adirondacks in Centra! New York, chipping off speci mens of rock to add to the little cabi net which he kept in his home. He was a boy enthusiast, and his enthus iasm lasting, he persevered in his stu dies and his writings and finally he became one of the world’s noted sci entists. Here is Enos Mills who lives either in or at the edge of the Rocky Mountain National park in Colorado. His writ ings are known throughout the land. Here is Mrs. John Dickinson Sher man. conservation chairman of the General Federation of Women's clubs, a great organization of women which is working for the establishment of national parks and for their mainte nance forever for the people of the country. Here is Stephen T. Mather standing by the side of Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. I-ane who is his immediate chief. Ever since he came into office Mr. Mather has given his entire time and energy to the development of the parks and to the furtherance of plans to make them accessible to the people. Here is Orville Wright, the aviator, who is to talk on air routes to the na tional parks, and here are dozens of others, all keenly interested in the great works of nature. The men and women who are gath ered at this National Parks Confer ence are the men and women who do things in this world. Gossips Busy Over Leak. A leak ordinarily is understood to be a small thing, but the recent leak in this capital city actually inundated the town with excitement. The charge that somebody In ad vance of the president's peace note told stock speculators that it was to be expected, has been exploited pretty thoroughly in the press. Washington is a gossipy place, and within 24 hours stories were afloat that this man or that man, the names being given, was responsible for giving away the admin istration's secrets and for making some millions in Wall street for one set of speculators and losing them for an other. In the senate of the United States the chairman of the committee on for eign relations said flatly that he be lieved that the leak had come from the state department and he intimated that he thought it came from employees holding high and confidential positions. This statement of Senator Stone set the gossins’ tongues wagging once more, but it relieved the anxieties of certain innocent persons not in the state department whom scandal-loving Washington had charged by word of mouth from one person to another with being responsible for the betrayal of state secrets. It is criminal for one charged with news gathering to jump at couelusious in this town. Men gossip and women gossip, and you can hear anything that you want to or do not want to about this man or that man, and even about this woman or that woman, and the more prominent in official or social life the person is the more certain it is that things that ought not to be said will be said. Gossips Are Busy. Take the leak case. One heard at every street corner and in every hotel corridor in the city of Washington that a certain man of high official position, whose name was given, had met anoth er man whose name was given, at a certain place and at a certain time, one located definitely, and the other given to the minute, and had tipped him the peace note secret. A little inquiry showed that the offi cial of the government had not met the man and had not been at the place mentioned at any time, let alone at the hour set for the meeting when a trust was said to have been betrayed. It seems to be generally admitted that there was a leak somewhere along the pii*e line of information. There have been leaks before in the history of the United States government. Cer tain parts of the presidents’ messnges have been knowu in places where they ought not to be known prior to the date of release. A foreshadowing of what the president was going to say in his message on some matter of mo ment has affected stocks in W all street. SENT SOUND THROUGH EARTH New Underground Wireless Carried Clock's Ring a Distance of Forty Miles. The same electric power employed in the ringing of a door bell lias tntns mltted sound through space a distance of *10 miles, in an experiment con ducted by Dr. H. Barrington Cox. the ringing of an ordiuary alarm clock at Los Olivos ha:* been faintly recorded at his station just outside Santa Bar bara Cal. According to Doctor Cox. the instru ments were not “pointing” right, and after certain corrections have been made at Los Olivos the experiments will be renewed. But the results are highly satisfactory. It is wireless, without the use of wires, and the power used is the ordi '• nary dry battery which Doctor Cox in vented years ago. I Instead of passing through the air, I the sound travels through the ground. • His station in Santa Barbara shows but two metal standards about fifteen feet high and 200 feet apart. The prin ciple involved is still Doctor Cox's se cret, hilt he claims that when it has b«»en perfected the economy of wire less will have been solved for both telegraph and telephone. — Fresno (Cal.) Republican. Quite Simple. “Can you make anything out of the news from Europe?" “Easiest thing in the world. I only road the newspapers every other day. In this way I get a connected story of one side or the other and avoid the denials.”—Puck. Would Brook no Rival. Store Clerk—Now, here's a piece of goods that speaks for itself. Cncle Si—Wal. that wouldn’t do for Mnndy: she likes to do all the talkin’. —Boston Evening Transcript. Progreso. “Did you have a happy Christmas?” “It’s beginning to turn out all right. My wife has exchanged most of her GOOD HOADS PARLEY MUCH INTEREST SHOWN IN CON FERENCE AT LINCOLN. SYSTEM OF HIGHWAYS PIANNEO — Each County in Nebraska to Benefit According to Mileage.—Reed Says Co-Operation Essential. Lincoln. -A great deal of interest was shown in a meeting in the gover nor’s office last Friday which was at tended by the roads committees of the legislature, the highway commis sion and many members of the legis lature. A discussion resulted of the pi.<u for a 5,000-mile system of roads in i • state built with the $1,600,000 app; priation from the government. The plan includes a system of north and south, cast and west roads in each county,' according to State Engin-ei Johnson, who. speaking for the board, proposed to distribute the appropr.a ; tion according to the mileage in each | county. The roads may be merely dirt roads. I surfaced with gravel or clay and n j counties where no gravel or clay is | available, the government will acre ■ plain dirt roads. The cost will not exceed $1,000 a mile. Attorney General Reed, a mcnib ■ of the board, emphasized the impo: : ranee of the counties co-operating i wdth the commission in order tha’ the whole system might not be blocked • and the opportunity lost. A levy * should be made for the full five years. Several of the members of tie* legislature did not approve of th-> board’s distribution of the fund- :< t suggested other plans. Two Killed as Automobile Upsets. Grand Island. Neb.—Charles Sfaer j man, aged 40, and his father. Saturn I Sherman, were instantly killed and two other men were injured when an automobile in which they were riding turned over near here. Powder Mill Wrecked. New York—Four hundred thousand pounds of powder was destroyed h fire and explosion at the Hav-kell I (N. J.) plant of the Dupont Powd* Company last Friday nigiit. official of the company declared after ch*-ck : ing up the employes at the works tha only two men were missing. The shock of the explosion was —> great that many persons in New i York. Brooklyn and New Jersey cit ies twenty miles front Haskell 1> lieved there had been an earthquak* . Strangely enough, the concussion s« emed to be less severe a short dis tance from Haskell. See Plot to Assassinate Johnson San Francisco.— Anarchist plots to i assassinate Governor Hiram W Johnson. United States senator-elec' from California, were revealed in let i ters seized in the office of Alexander Berkman several weeks ago. Assist ant District Attorney Edward A I Cunha told Judge Franklin A. Grffin | in the Mooney murder trial. “I* ! found evidence in those letters, j Cunha declared, “to prove that Berk i man and others conspired to destroy ; the government, blow up California's capitol'and kill Governor Johnson ' Six Perish in Storm. Fargo, N. D.—Three persons lor«; their lives in the terrific blizzatd which swept over this state late Ihst week. Several sections reported < gale of from forty-two to fifty inii*** an hour, with the mercury registering all the way from 10 to 15 below zero. Sections of Montana suffered heavily as the result of the storm. Wilbauz, a town in the eastern part of the state, reports the death of two children and a school teacher as the result of the j blizzard. U-Boat Menace Continues. Berlin. — An admiralty statement published in connection with the an i nouncement of the safe return of tin German submarine U-45, which had been reported sunk in the Bay of Bis cay, says that a German submersible (number not given) has sunk eleven entente steamers In eleven days. Of this number five vessels, totalling 15, 000 tons, were laden with coal an.4 bound for France and Italy. Thaw Attempts Suicide. Philadelphia, Pa.—Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, wanted in New York to answer an indictmen' charging that he mistreated Frm! Gump Jr„ 19-vear-old Kansas City school boy, cat his throat in a West Philadelphia apartment. He is in a | hospital here, and his early recovery I is expected. Name Additional Units. Washington.—Additional units of ; the reserve officers training* corpa, i the war department announced have I been authorized for introduction i at tj,e troop college of technology, j pasadcna. Cal., and the Leavenworth ! hjgj, school, Leavenworth, Kas. Operating Income Increases. WTashington.—The net operating I income of the 185 large railroads o! the country jumped $63,000,000 during the four-month period ending Novem ber 1, over the same period of 1915. Famine in Alat/ama. Montgomery, Ala.—Famine is stalk ing through the central part of Ala | bama, where the cotton and corn 1 crops were failures on account of ! Hoods and the boll weevils this year 1 White landlords are mortgaging their plantations to get enough money to exist, while the negroes are catching rabbits, gathering wild nuts and re sorting to other unusual means to ob tain food. There are whole settle ments in which every member needs