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♦ GREATEST OF WAR LOANS £
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♦ the call J th« Liberty loan at
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U S -Teutonic War News.
Knur American lo*t their lives as
the result Ilf the toTtiedoeillg <>f tin*
standard «»il tanker Jehu l*. Areh
IkiIiI. uff the Kreach n«»t.
• • •
Mar registration return-, virtually
o*ni|4et- —Inill ti,6C*!(tV men between
the ages uf 21 and 3M years, enrelled
f<-r the cwuutry's service »*u ri-gi-tra
Uus day. June 6.
• V •
A |uni|.hu-t entitled “Hu" the War
(*a>iH- tu Auierteu. and intended a
an an-uer t«* the question. "Why did
the I lilted Slate- go tu war*;" i- to
I*- |rtilili-ti--d -uuti hy the government
at-d emulated l.re:id* u-t.
o • •
In greeting Heigiuui s war mission,
ahull arrived in Washington u few
day. ago WiNou KXproHil
* MflfUih «kff*-nuiiM»lion that
Old Tl.. «lri> id victory. IW^iUtu >hall
l»r rmtorrd !•* h«r |* **111011 Uiort? ttuf
mar.
m m »
t V«t*M nKTi«»n of *ixteen war army
caii!«»tUiA**ti!v •:;« b to lioiisi* 4*U***»
bu** •'•I *u< h ah eiionnou^
tn*>k; t'uit ml* «b» u«*t now
It * iti t*» oHu|ti«l«il in turn* to |«eruiit
moldtmatliHj «*f Tbt* br*t full «iu«»la of
<&».«■«» ui#-*j by Srf«f«*nb**r l.
• • •
Kl t'i.iver*nl. tin- Most prominent
new sj.: j~ r ri recently |.rint*-<I
a statement fr**tn twentypromi
n*-ni ••f/Me\i< e asserting that
Mexico's J»li|rr 111 the War is • •*! the
aide of th*- t'nited States ate! tile al
li«-» and advocating a !*rcak in rela
tions with dmuanjr.
a a •
Fee*; the allies .,r fight th** great
war aiooe i« wtiat America must <h>.
IteHiert ll.soer. food administrator.
t*.|*l s,-f!;,t..r- in explaining th** pttr
j«*s<- of the administration food inn
«r**l Mil f«*w i*etnHng in *-*.ngr*-s- He
de- ;:.r*-*l f*«**l manipulators have tak
en KSO.iiiillwi from tli«- jieople of tills
country In tie* last five months and
that unless a*-* ;.i;i was taken at once
to pr*-- lit such s|> cuiat!oti a great In
dustrial disturbance would occur.
9 9 9
llerts-rt <*. H*s*v*-r. new f**od admin
istrator - :d*-*l to tin- Ams-rlean
wornci to : 1 film in the fight for the
eonaervr lion of th*- country's food
supply and the elimination of waste.
I5»-fwecf> July t and 11. tin- women of
th*.uritry will f*c enrolled through
tt- nsitidl of national defens** and
th* sfUtc d*-f*-ns»* coun*-fls. Mr. Hoo
ver ;.s directed by the president, is
pruc— shag v *h orgnnlaatioci of th**
f.«»‘ adit* *ii*Tati**n so far as It enn
te-. te« " ■ 1 'mg volunteer •■ff*<rt«.
General News.
Hoy •./ the I'nited States
during <li»- l.ilsftv hood drive secured
nearly individual subscrip
ti<ii> rli . .gr-vaiing upproXi
• • •
TTeat-ands «f dollar- damage to
property and two lives Is the tol! ex
acted t. ..f t: e Grand and North
Fori rivers in I tie Grand valley. Colo..
Bear Grand Junction.
• • •
W.«rd t- being -cat to men In I'Tah
Kh»o 1. the are- of Is and inform
ing llsu Tha' under a State law they
Bre -Ilhie t to draft for service in the
1'tah national guard, if a sufficient
BUmlx-r do not volunteer.
• • •
Three women Were killed the resi
dence sectiou of ojai. Cal., wiped out.
rro|e> over a with- area destroyed, and
about !«■» pei-stm- have heen made
bomele-- as the result of a forest lire
In Ojai Valley.
• • •
property valued at $7(«MMSMKI0.
from which Nicholas Itomanoff. for
Brrl) i Bfrrnr of Itussia. eujoyed the
revenues for life only, have been tak
en from him by the provi-ioual gov
ernment
■ • •
The city of Yonezawa. Japan, one
of the most iw|tonant silk wearing
renter* la the country. Is scarcely
more than a {die of ruins as a result
of a fire which destroyed 3.0WJ build
ing* caused fourteen deaths and made
thousands homeless The loss Is
placed at $5.000.000.
• • •
The III,oo»s leg stature adopted n
resolution directing Attorney Genera!
Brundage ta take Immediate steps to
puamn the railroad companies which
have increased tha passenger fare in
wimo ta 2.4 cents per mile.
Ten dead and a property loss of
resulted from the lire at
the American Sugar Refining com
pany's plant in Brooklyn. X. Y.
* * *
• Ivor L!oo persons have been arrest
ed in St. I.ouis county, Minnesota,
for alleged neglect to register June f>
and the jail in Buluth is overcrowded.
* * *
Six hours after he had been re
moved io the hospital at Kemmerer.
Wyo. I'hillip Buddendick, who was
thought to have been drowned, was
resuscitated. lie laid been pinned to
the bottom of a river beneath his
automobile, which had fallen from a
bridge. The water completely cover
ed him.
* * *
Sensational allegations of a wide
spread traffic in girls in New York
city resulted in the ordering of a rigid
Investigation <*f the charges. The ac
tion followed the announcement that
between "no and son girls have disap
peared from their homes in the city
since January' L This was the re
sult of the discovery of the murder
of Ruth t'niger. IS years old high
school student, months after the po
ll-e had ended a search for her.
Washington Notes.
A force of from tiO.000 to SO.OKI
workmen will be required in the con- j
-t ruction of the sixteen great canton- :
incuts for the new national army.
* • *
Congress must pass food legislation
by July 1 to protect the people of the
Cnitcd Stat.-> from speculators. This
was the message sent to congress by
President Wilson.
President Wilson has signed the
s^{.(hm« «mmi war budget bill, which car
rier appropriations for the new army
and other war propositions. It is the
largest single appropriation measure
ever emo ted by any government.
* * *
Government pools of coal produc
tion and distribution were reconi
mendi-d to congress by the federal
•rude eomtiiission as the only means
of avoiding a disastrous coal shortage
next winter.
* * *
President Wilson has proclaimed
the week of June 23-30 recruiting
wool; for tin- regular army and urges :
, unmarried men without dependents to
I enroll fur war service in order that
tlie ranks of the regulars might be ,
! tilled promptly.
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Retail food prices in the United
States jumped on an average 9 per
• eat between March 1." and April 16.
as shown in statistics compiled by the
Iiopartment of Labor. It was the
Miarpcst advance in any one month
since the beginning of the war.
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Revenu- s of $.'{.< «m. non annually
• from the increase in postage rates to
11« cents a pound, and about $9,000.
ooo from the profits tax are expected
a> a result of the senate finance com
mittee's action on the postal section
of the war tax hill.
• • •
Secretary McAdoo announced that J
no part of the great oversubscription
j to the Liberty loan would be accepted,
and that the issue would be limited to
S'j.nniii««i.nnn. It is possible that all
subscribers up to $10,000 will receive
their allotment In full. The total suh
seription to the lean is $3,035,226,810.
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European War News.
It is authentically reported that
more than :kU»"> citizens of Poland,
who were in sympathy with the
cause of the allies, have been hanged
by order of the German authorities.
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Twenty-seven British ships of more
I than 1 tv "I tons were sunk during the
j week ending June 1<i. according to the
■ British summary. Five British ves
Isels under l.ivst tons were sent to the
bottom. The report for the previous
week shower 22 vessels of over 1,600
; tons sttnk. ten of under 1,600 tons and
six fishing vessels.
* * *
Official admission of food difficulties
in Germany, resulting from a shortage
• of potatoes and the inadequacy of
grain stocks to afford a sttpplemen
■ titry bread ration, is made in an an
nouncement of the Berlin food control
! department.
• * *
The allies have lifted the long
standing blockade of Greece. This, it
is believed, means that the allies tire
satisfied with the Greek situation
since Constantine abdicated, and there
is no further need to apply repressive
or punitive measures.
• • •
The Russian dunia passed a resolu
tion for nn immediate offensive by
Russian troops. The resolution de
clares a separate peace with Germany
or prolonged Inactivity on the battle
front to be ignoble treason toward
Russia's allies.
• • •
The congress of soldiers and work
men's delegates of all Russia have
voted confidence in the provisional
government and gone on record as de
manding a reorganization of the army
and an immediate offensive warfare
against the Teutonic allies.
• • •
The German submarine toll of Brit
ish merchant shipping since February
17. ns shown in official British figures
N 322 vessels of more than 1,000 tons
and 135 of less than 1.600 tons and 78
stenm fishing vessels.
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1—Striking close-up view of tli S . iim.:u:u u.:iu, uucst u. in iicncu ..... m. ionic.- -s, >li.cn in.s resolv
ing turrets. 2—(’apt. Geoffrey Harper Bunnell, an American member of the Royal British (lying corps, who
brought to death Captain Boelke, the famous German aviator, and is now in America helping recruit Britons. 3—
Sentries In the Alps on the Swiss border. 4—New photograph of King Alfonso of Spain and his staff at military
maneuvers; internal disorders threaten the king’s throne.
NEWS REVIEW OF
THE PAST WEEK
Government Is Now Going After
the Food. Munition and
Fuel Pirates.
CONTROL BILL IN CONGRESS
Other Agencies Attacking he Profit
eers—Plans Pushed for Huge Amer
ican Air Army—Russia Deter
mined to Continue the
War Against German
Absolutism.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
Uncle Sam lust week began paying
more special attention to the pirates
that infest the lnml—the food pirates,
the munition pirates, the fuel pirates
and all the obnoxious brood of prof
iteers whose greed for money obliter
ates their patriotism, if they ever had
any of the latter quality. The warfare
against these men and corporations is
being carried on in the way of judicial
investigations that will result in in
dictments and in proposed legislation
by congress. The latter, of course, is
the administration food control bill,
which the president has been urging
toward passage with the forceful as
sistance of Herbert C. Hoover. Mr.
Hoover told a bunch of senators on
Tuesday why the measure should be
passed, and answered all the objec
tions of its opponents, headed by Vard
anian. Gore and Reed.
In the house on Thursday Represen
tatives Madden and Cannon of Illinois
made an attempt to have cotton in
cluded among the articles to be put
under control, but the Southern Dem
ocrats rushed to the rescue of the cot
ton planter and defeated the plan. The
majority also voted down a proposition
by Haugen of Iowa to include cloth
ing. shoes and implements in the meas
ure. The opposition to the Mil in the
house was weaker than in the senate.
Senator Sherman of Illinois fiercely
attacked the measure as one designed
to favor the city dweller nnd union la
bor and to injure the farmer, and he
took the opportunity to say some very
severe things a^out the administration,
asserting it had been asleep for two
years and now had waked up into hys
teria.
Daniels Jolts the Extortionists.
Secretary Daniels became weary of
the extortions of the fuel magnates,
and on Monday announced that the
coal and oil the navy needed would be
taken by the government and paid for
at prices to be fixed by the govern
ment.. Producers of steel found them
selves facing the prospect of the same
action.
Organized labor also took a hand in
the fight on the food extortionists and
notified the administration, through
the American Federation of Labor,
that unless the prices of the necessi
ties of life are brought down to rea
sonable figures, there probably will be
an epidemic of strikes, possibly even
a national tie-up in many industries.
The federal trade commission an
nounced it was ready to begin its in
vestigation of food conditions on July
1 ; the Information obtained will be
turned over to the food administrator
and the department of justice.
Why should not the press of the
country print prominently the names
of tlie despicable creatures who are
taking advantage of the nation's
needs? Decent motives being lacking,
fear of the public wrath might oper
ate to induce them to cease their ne
farious work.
Planning Great Air Army.
More and more the government is
becoming convinced that America’s
first big play in the war must be in
in the air, and the plans for speedily
sending many thousands of airplanes
and aviators to the front from this
country are being pushed with vigor.
Congress is asked to make an aero
nautic appropriation of $600,000,000
to start with, and already hundreds of
young men are being selected for the
| work ami put Into training. For a
long time Admiral I'eary lias been urg
ing the building up of a powerful air
service for our army and navy, and
Brigadier General Squier has done all
an active officer is permitted to do to
forward such a plan, and now the gov
ernment realizes that an immense fleet
of airplanes is tin- quickest effective
aid it can give to its allies in Eu
rope.
The aviation bill contemplates the
establishment of 2-1 training camps and
instruction in many technical schools;
the construction of about 2,000 planes
a month at the end of six months, with
the number constantly increasing until
it reaches 5,000 a month; the building
at first mainly of training and obser
vation machines and later of larger
number of battle planes.
To fill up the ranks of the regular
army. President Wilson Issued a call
for 70,000 volunteers between the ages
of eighteen and forty years. Through
out the army the recruiting officers
especially emphasized the fact that
men who registered are welcome as
volunteers and will have some advan
tages over those who wait to be
drafted.
Registration slackers began getting
what Is coming to them last week.
Their days of grace having expired,
they were arrested wherever found
and chucked into Jail. Several of them
already have been given prison sen
tences. Though the number of arrests
may seem large, it really is insignifi
cant when compared with the total
registration.
War department officials seem to be
having a hard time settling on the
plans for the training camps for the
National army. Over anil over again
the specifications are changed, and not
much headway is being made. Instead
of leaving the details to the regular
army officers, who are experts in 'hut
line, the council of national defense
has taken a hand and put “experts” of
its own choosing in charge of various
parts of the work, and the result so
far has been confusion and delay. The
council has been doing great work in
tnnn.v ways, but this looks like a case
of too many cooks. The whole mat
ter of getting the eonseriptive army
and the National Guard into training
only emphasizes the wisdom of a uni
versal service policy and law.
bubmannes Very Active.
Germany’s submarines put in an
other busy week, many reports of the
sinking of allied and neutral vessels
coming in. Among the ships sent down
was tilt* American oil tank steamship
John I*. Archbold, live of whose crew
were lost. The vessel was armed and
carried a gun crew from an American
warship, but the gunners had not been
supplied with range finders by the
navy department.
Vice Admiral Sims, during the tem
porary absence of the British com
mander in chief, was appointed to take
general charge of the operations of the
allied naval forces In Irish waters,
where the U-boats find most of their
victims. The giving of this great re
sponsibility to the American admiral
shows the confidence the allies have
In his ability and wisdom.
Two feats of the American destroy
ers in British waters were told dur
ing the week. One of these vessels
came upon a submarine and promptly
rammed it. probably sending it to the
bottom. Two others, responding to
wireless calls, rescued SO survivors of
two British ships that were torpedoed
100 miles away, the farthest point west
in the Atlantic the U-boats have oper
ated since the ruthless campaign be
gan.
There was violent fighting In France
throughout the week, hut neither side
made Important gains. The Germans
won fit**t-Iine trenches from the Brit
ish east of Monchy-Ie-Prieux and from
the French east of Vauxntllon, hut
later were driven hack again with
heavy losses. The Canadian troops
captured some i>osltions in front of
Bens, paving the way for a drive on
that center of the coal fields.
Townrd the end of the week the
Germans yielded to the heavy pressure
of the British in the territory domi
nated by the Messines ridge and aban
doned the ground they had held on the
western side of the bend of the Lys
river, between Wameton and Armen
tieres.
Another German Fiasco.
Germany’s clumsy diplomacy came
to grief again in the developments fol
lowing tlie attempt of Robert Grinnn,
Socialist, to induce Russia to conclude
a separate peace. When the intrigue
was exposed, Grimm was driven from
Russia, and last week Dr. Arthur Hoff
man. a member of the Swiss federal
council, who had a prominent part in
tile plot, resigned his office. The dis
closures led to an excited mass meet
ing of protest and a pro-ally demon
stration in Geneva. Grimm was de
nounced for trying to pusli Switzerland
into the war for tiie purpose of serv
ing Germany, and the crowds stoned
the residences of pro-Germans.
Elihu Root and Ids colleagues spent
the week getting acquainted with the
true state of affairs in Russia, and
were assured by the government offi
cials that nothing would he concealed
front them. Commander in Chief
Rrussiloff sent to General Robertson
Wednesday a telegram assuring him
that, “in honor bound, free Russia’s
armies will not fail to do their duty.”
Boris Bakhmetieff. special Russian
envoy, and his colleagues arrived in
\\ ashlngton and almost immediately
gave out a statement of the program
of the provisional government. This
includes the absolute rejection of all
thought of ;i separate peace and the
achievement of universal peace with
out annexations or contributions and
presuming no dominion over other na
tions. The provisional government
will take preparatory steps for an
agreement with its allies founded on
its declaration of March 27. and its
chief aim is stated to be to fortify the
Democratic foundations of the army
and organize and consolidate the
army’s fighting power for its defensive
as well as offensive purposes.
In Petrograd the all-Russian con
gress of workmen and soldiers unani
mously resolved upon an immediate
offensive, and the same sentiment was
expressed in a manifesto issued by the
military union of woman volunteers,
which said “the workers are appealing
for an unrelenting struggle against an
enemy who is moved solely by impe
rialistic and slaving tendencies.”
The provisional government has be
gun proceedings for the severe punish
ment of various high officials of the
old regime, who are accused of
breaches of the laws of the empire.
Several former cabinet members and
army commanders. Including Protopop
off and General Rennenknmpf, have
been indicted.
crisis in Austria-Hungary.
Not much news was allowed to come
out of Austria-Hungary, but what did
emerge indicates that the situation
there becomes more critical daily. The
Poles of the dual kingdom are virtual
ly in revolt, demanding at least au
tonomy for their land, and nearly all
the people are insistent for pence.
The Austrian cabinet, headed by Clam
Martinic, resigned.
Conditions due mainly to the war
have brought on a crisis in Spain that
threatens to result in the deposition of
King Alfonso, despite his personal pop
ularity, and the establishment of yet
another new republic in Europe. The
censor, however is as busy there as in
other countries, and the reports may
be misleading.
Over in China matters seemed to be
settling down peacefully, possibly in
part the result of President Wilson’s
suggestion that the internal troubles
there be brought to a pacific and
speedy end. Several of the seceding
provinces have said they would come
back into the federal fold, and the
president hns called a new parliament
ary election.
Certain notoriously pro-German
newspapers in Chicago, Milwaukee and
elsewhere, some of them printed in
the Germnn language, are attracting
the attention of the government agents
by their continuous and vicious attacks
on the allies of the United States and
their thinly-veiled opposition to this
country's course in the war. With the
skill of trained writers they may avoid
suppression for treasonable utterance,
hut their sentiment and intent are evi
dent. and if they cannot be reached by
legal procedure, they may yet be
squelched by the people without the
aid of the authorities.
MAKE USE OF SHELL HOLES
Soldiers Abandon Trench Lines for
Shelter That Cannot Easily Be Die- o
cerned by the Enemy.
British Headquarters In France.—
The western front nowadays Is marked
by many changing phases. East of
the bloody Monchy le Preux. on the Ar
ras battlefield, und west of Wameton,
on the Messlnes battlefield, trench lines
have been forsaken and fighting is be
ing carried on day and night between
large bodies of opposing troops lying
out In the shell holes.
Some of these holes, blown by heavy
callbered guns, are really enormous
craters. In which twoseore of men can
establish nnd fortify themselves.
Shell holes lend themselves to quick
conversion Into machine-gun emplace
ments, and those ghastly weapons form
the chief means of defense.
The offensive weapons In shell-hole
warfare generally are hand grenades.
Shell holes naturally are not easy tar
gets for artillery, whereas fixed
trenches can easily be photographed
from airplanes and the heavy guns can
almost at once be registered on them
without any great difficulty.
The Germans In the last few days
of fighting have shown a particular de
sire to cling to the shell holes as long
as possible before retiring to their
fixed lines In the rear. This is quite
a change from their ordinary habits,
for heretofore they have loved their
deep dugouts In the trenches with a
love that seldom brooks separation.
MINOR NOTES FROM ALE
PARTS OF NEBRASKA
—
Dr. Deuell, government hog cholera
expert, who has had charge of the
work in Richardson county the past
year, has been notified to take up the
work in Lancaster, Otoe. Saline and
Cass counties. The investigation in
j Richardson county will be discon*
' tinned so far as furnishing a man is
concerned.
The new $20,000 home for boys, be
ing tlie second unit in the building
program on the orphanage site of the
Masons of Nebraska north of Fre
! mont, was formally dedicated just
recently. Frederick L. Temple, grand
master of Lexington, was in charge.
; Masons from all parts of Nebraska
j were present.
Disloyal and unpatriotic acts are no
j longer to he'countenanced in Madison
county. Officers and heads of com
mittees of the county council of de
fense meeting at Norfolk have de
nounced pro-German talk and planned
to give federal authorities prompt
notice of disloyalty in any form.
Preparations are being completed
for the second annual roundup at
OgallaJa July 3, 4 and 5. Profession
al riders from Montana, Arizona and
New Mexico have entered the contest
for $2,000 in prizes. The affair is
under the auspices of the Keith Coun
j ty Community club.
Harry Van Horn. 3-year-old son of
Editor A. C. Van Horn of the Meadow
Grove News is probably the youngest
Nebraskan to “do his bit" in the great
war. He purchased a $."0 Liberty bond
with saving given him by his parents,
relatives and friends.
Logan, Franklin. Custer. Kearney
j and Buffalo counties are considering
tiling application for road aid under
the federal provision. A co-operative
movement is now on foot to that end,
the Kearney Commercial club insti
gating it.
Rev. F. A. High, for many years
superintendent of the Omaha district
of the anti-saloon league, hits been ap
pointed to the Methodist pastorate at
Randolph to succeed Rev. Mr. Trump,
who died very suddenly a few weeks
ago.
The Fremont city council passed a
dog ordinance, requiring that canines
be kept penned up from April 15 to
September 15. It is believed Fremont
in the first town in Nebraska to put
the ban on the dog nuisance.
Charles Ely of Madison received
$15.50 per hundred pounds for three
carloads of dehorned heifers on the
South Omaha market the other day,
it being the highest price ever paid
! for cattle on that market,
i R. W. Johnston, past president of
the Northwestern Hotel Men's asso
j ciation. and one of the most widely
known hotel men in the middle west,
will manage the Evans hotel at Co
lumbus.
McCook has undertaken to raise a
company of men for the Sixth regi
ment. A mass meeting to that end
was held at which much enthusiasm
was manifested.
The Lutheran synod meeting at Mil
waukee. Wis.. voted $100,000 to be
used in building additions to Luth
eran schools. The school at Seward
is to have a new addition.
The Beatrice board of education
has fixed the levy for school purposes
for the ensuing year at $09,000. a sub
stantial increase over last year.
A movement is on foot in Beatrice
to bond the city to the sum of $50,000
for the purpose of constructing a
municipal lighting plant.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
two buildings and damaged a third at
Ayr. near Hastings, causing a loss of
$2,000.
Eddyville has taken a hand in Red
Cross work by organizing an auxiliary
to the society. The auxiliary has fifty
four members.
Nebraska lumbermen, and all retail j
| merchants for that matter, will watch !
with interest the battle scheduled to
! begin in Washington July 31, when
lumbermen recently charged by the
federal trade commission with anti
trust law violations have their inning
before that body.
Omaha took first place among re
cruiting offices of the Central division
of the United States army for the
week ending June 14. Enlistments for
the week in Omaha totalled 1S4; in
Chicago 173: Pes Moines 80 and Kan
sas City 174.
Ed Hickey, a stockman, living three
miles south of Gretna, went west not
( long ago and surprised his neighbors
I by coming bnck with some long-legged,
razor-backed hogs, with snouts so
long they could almost drink from
jugs.
Richardson county is carrying on
various activities to nid in the war.
Young men are enlisting, plans are
under way to organize Red Cross
chapters in a number of towns and
subscriptions are being taken for the
Y. M. C. A. war work.
Sports win not be abandoned by
Omaha educational institutions on ac
count of the war. Creighton univer
sity. Omaha university. Bellevue and
the three high schools intend to main
tain full activities in all athletics.
The Omaha-Lincoln-Denver highway
leading to the Ashland bridge over the
Platte river, damaged by the flood,
has been repaired and travel along
this road Is now good.
Bonds for $25,000 for a new city
hall carried at Chadron by a majority
far in excess of the necessary two
thirds vote.
Fifty-seven per cent of the men who
registered in Nebraska under the se
lective draft law claim exemption.
There were 118,123 persons registered,
amounting to 90.9 per cent of the
census estimate.
Judge Reese of Broken Bow recent
ly sold 7,000 pounds of wool at 56
cents a pound. Five years ago the
wool would have brought 16 cents a
pound.
During the fiscal year, now closing.
Individuals and corporations in Ne
braska paid the government $1,435,442
in income tax.
Hastings was selected as tin next
meeting place of the State s m : .y
School association at the closing - --
sion of the golden jubilee he'd .it
Omaha. Otoe county won the An. i
can tlag for having the largest alt"i.d
auee at the convention. Richard-m
county the conquest tlag for traveling
tlie most miles. Officers elected were
as follows; President. E. R. Mathers,
Falls City; vice president. C. \\ est
cott. Plattsnionth; recording secre
tary, Mrs. Abma C. Little, Lincoln;
treasurers L. c. Oherlies, Lin ■ u;
hoard of directors: Prof. F. M. Grerg.
Peru; H. S. VVestlirook, Dunbar; .1. I..
Duff, Omaha; A. .1. Alford. Genoa: H.
Lomax, Broken Bow; L. Kraus
North Bend. Reports submitted at the
convention show that tin- 7 leading
Protestant denominations in Nebras
ka have a total of I.H70 Sunday
schools with a membership . ; ’ v. >;sd.
Praise for their “American.: was
bestowed upon former Mayor ! ;t
Evans of North Platte and All u
dall, merchant of Nortli l’la: v
Secretary of the Navy Daniels 1,
they enlisted in the navy us so
The men desired to enlist as -1 a
but were told they were too old to
enlist as anything else than stokers.
Secretary Daniels promised to watch
the career of the men. Evans and
Sundall are both of tine families and
are capable of making big money in
other walks of life.
Actual cost to the federal govern
ment for securing the names, ov-upa
tion, etc., of Nebraska youths under
the selective draft act will total ap
proximately $300. The county filing
the largest expense is Lincoln, 110,
which is the largest in the state.
Most counties filed no expense while
a few put a little expense. Governor
Neville is confident that Nebrask- put
into effect the registration of men un
der the conscription act with les- > x
pense than most of the western stares.
South Omaha police are investigat
ing a statement made by an arrest *.
I. W. \V. member that I. \V. W. t > n
were on their way to harvest fields to
stop the harvest. “We aren't looking
for work,” the man said. “We’re .n
our way to the harvest fields, and we
are going to stop the harvests un ■ ss
we are paid $5 a day. Police < in
throw a few hundred of us in the
coop, hut they can't stop us." Ten
! I. W. W. men are in jail there,
i Labor troubles in Omaha which
i have kept building operations at a
, standstill for the past two months
. are expected to be cleared up in the
near future. Every business concern
in the city, all labor unions and every
individual workman is enjoined fruit
interfering with business and ordered
to restore it to its condition previous
to the war by an injunction issued by
Judge Leslie of the district court.
Crops in Nebraska as estimated by
Burlington officials on June 10 are as
follows: Winter wheat. l”.<Mj<MMi<>
bushels, as against (i4.000.imMI last
year; spring wheat. 6.000.000 bushels,
as against 3.000,000 last year: oats.
05,000.000 bushels, as against so.oun.
0U0 last year, and barley 4.5(M>.0tKt
bushels, as against 3.000.000 last year.
Lucy Richardson. 15 years old. was
instantly killed and seven other young
girls and boys were injured when an
automobile in which they were riding
turned over near Hadar in Pierce
county. The car was being driven at
high speed when it went over a newly
graded road and turned over in a
ditch.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the Nebraska Portland Cement Co. at
Superior the company was reorgan
ized and renamed the Nebraska Ce
ment Co., with headquarters in Su
perior. It is planned to put the plant
in good running order.
Nebraska snowed Kansas under on
subscriptions to the Liberty loan, the
total in this state being $18,706,750 to
$13,535,500 for the old Jayhawk rival.
At a special election held at Avoca
warrants were voted on to the
amount of $5,000 for the establishing
of an electric light system for Avoca.
Gage county farmers are opposing
the removal of the United States bu
reau of animal industry from Beatrice
to the state farm at Lincoln. The bu
reau was established in Beatrice in
1913 as an experiment and has proven
successful in hog cholera eradication
work in this section of the state.
A boost of approximately $200,900 is
made in the personal property of
Dodge county in figures compiled by
the county assessor. The total as
sessed value of the county is almost
$10,000,000. Last year it was $9,773,
000.
Nebraska Liberty bond subscrip
tions as announced by the Kansas
City Federal Reserve bank, totals
$17,800,700. Omaha's total is $8,
685.950; Lincoln, $1,871,700; county
hanks, $7,235,050. This state’s quota,
figured in advance, was $16,500,000.
John and .Tames Rowen. farmers
living near Stella, are getting $30 a
day from oil leases on land owned by
them near Bixby. Okla. They have
owned the land for ten years, but it
is only lately that they have received
returns.
Henry Brenner, grain dealer at
Stella, shipped 1.800 bushels of wheat
last week and is getting his bins ready
to receive the new crop. He is of the
opinion that new wheat will sell on
the local market for at least $2.
Active work has begun in Madison
county to recruit a battalion for the
Sixth Nebraska national guard, which
is to consist of four companies of 150
men each.
Omaha hank clearings for the week
ending June 16 marked tip a Stain of
60 per cent over the corresponding
week last year.
Cold storage eggs held in five states,
of which Nebraska is one. decreased
in number from 768.000 cases to 707.
000 cases between May, 1916, and
May, 1917, according to Washington
reports.
Alex Daily. 20 years old. Anselmo
man. accidentally killed himself
while loading a gun during his recent
visit to his father's farm near Mil
burn.
Myrtle Alden, 17-year-old Papillion
girl has been missing from her home
since June 9. It is believed she was
kidnaped.