Nebraska Newspapers

    WILSON GIVES OUf
RULES EUR DRAFT
President Insists on Equality in
the New Army.
BE FEARLESS AND IMPARTIAL
Ado an it ion to Exrmqtisn Boards
Askt Greatest Impartiality and
Least Personal Hardship—
Each Case on Its Merits.
Washington. I'. <\—Uegulathms to
govern llu- tutl step toward selecting
a uii' i .il war army from tile tuil
Hot - reg.-refed f..r service on June o.
were »«tie<l at tie- direction of 1'resi
dent WlttuML They leave t<> he pre
M-rtl’ed later the manner of determin
ing tie .-nier iff liability of the men
registered, hut *s-f forth In gr.-at ile
tat J the n<ctbod of-arriving at e\etnp
tiotis and the work generally of the
l.«\ 1 and district hoards already
named to carry <»ut the task.
K\ettt|dlon regulations n>M little to
the terms "f the draft law. the ques
tion of whether a man between the
kg*- of tw••nty-oiie and thirty is en
titl'd to exemption be<uu«e of deiwnd
d.ts the nature of his occupation or
11 - a! ut'fiiness b. ing for thel«mrds
t.. de aft.t prep r investigation. it
l« t a le Hear, h never, that there are
t lie «o class exemptions and that
ea- lt itidiv idual case tmt«t Is- decided
c;- u Its i"-rit*. The l.teal ltonnl*—
< * • r,,r h , innty of less than 4.V
i.«> population or « :•>• of .tti.fMl. with
x :•* -leiia! Inotrds where necessary for
fs ■!> »dd:*i<<utl population—will
I ss uf..n clti!ti - for exemption, ex
cept those bas..<i tifsiti industrial or
igrt- u.'itral -tlprttioli subject to ap
peals to the district boards. All
nss involving agricultural or Indus
trial exemptions will he Jctssed upon
II the district boards—«oe for each
f. ••-- ! ial .ii-tric;—which also
will -l.-i-.de : ip-.il* froi.i decisions of
the Uea! Isanl*
To Fix Date for Bca^d Mootings.
It 'he near fit'ure a <!a'e will he set
tv Prig. <:<-ti < "r.iwd.r provost mar
sh i.’-g. r.crjtl. for the meeting and or
ganization «f the hoards At the same
title r - .\;*-.--e*! that the selection
rcguia* « >1! he promulgated so
that the pr riay lie put underway
without ':.y. Ti e present intention
1* to ■ : Tile then *. leeted to the eol
or* about September 1.
It. a stat.-ta -nt • otuj.ar jing the an
t»»'Ut.< .it.. tit of the regulations, the
f r<• - •l»-nt id up-*n the boards to «h»
th- :r work fearlessly and impartially
at <1 to reti ■ -t.b.-r that “our armies at
t!— fron' « ill b strengthened and sus
Ta r..*t if they t-e cntt)|«.sed of men fri-e
fhf an; *•'.*•• of injustice in their
ISi-rJe of selection "
All Force* cn Equal Footing.
Th. - - a amrat follows:
"The regu ,-ition* wh: -it I am today
01 •;*.!.C be • "igated. pursuant to
the direction of the -elective service
law. ever th- remaining step* of the
| lan for t-t-bring into the service of the
Tt.i-ed State* qualified men from
th -e w ho hate registered; those se
- ‘*-d tis th- r.-s*:1* -»f *!ii* pr*«-.**- to
con-’ • rre. with the regular artny. the
National ctu r-l nvl the navy, the fight
ing force* .,f th. nation, all of which
foto-* are under the terms of the taw
placed :n a position of equal right,
dignity and responsibility with the
Baeti.'—r* of all other military forces.
"The regnla>:<ms have been drawn
with a view p the ueeds and ci rcu ni
si a i.ec* of the whole country and pr<e
Vide a system which it 1» esjiected will
• ••rk with the b: s« inequality and per
■MMl har i A -. - •• ..f ......
tng men of military service, whether
voluntary or involuntary in its opertt
Tioti. ne. .-s-arily sele. .. s..me nien to
hear the burden of danger and sacri
fice for the w hole nation. The system
here provided plae.-* all men of mili
tary age upon at. even plane, ami then,
by a selection which neither favors the
one m-r penalizes tlie other, calls upon
the requisite uomher for service.
Urges Beards to Act Impartially.
"Th*- *ti<-cessful o] a-ration of this
law an-! <-f these regulations depends
necessarily ujcm the loyalty, patriotism
and justice of the nienit*ers of the
hoard* to whom Its operation is com
mitted. and I admonish every memher
'< every local l*«*sird and of every dis
trict tmard **f review that their duty
to their country require* an im|>tirtial
and fearless performance of the deli
cate and difficult duties lntrtist*-*i to
them They should rctnemlter as to
each indivt-iuai case presente*l to them
that they are railed uf*on to adjudicate
the tie*st sacred rights of the individ
ual and to preserve uutt-rn1*hed the
honor of the nation.
~t*ur armies at the front will he
strmgtiieticd and su*taine<l If they be
rMS|o***i *-f men free fr<>tn any sense
of Injustice In the ttKsle of selection,
and thev will l«e inspired to loftior ef
forts in leialf of a country in which
the citizens railed tj;*m to perform
high public functions perform then
with justice, fearlessness and impar
tiality.”
Methods of Waking the Draft.
f>*n organizing -»e- local l«»ards
will take ov*-r from the registration
l**ard* nil reel strut inn cards, which
they will number ** -ialiy and list for
posting to public view. Then, after
having been advised of the method by
which the order of liahtitty for service
shall be determined and of the quota
to be drawn from its territory (minus
credits for enlistments tn *he National
Guard er regular army), each hoard
will prepare a Hat of persona designat
MEN WHO ARE EXEMPT |
* Officers of United States,
*■ states, territories and District of :*•
Columbia. >!
* Ministers of religion and stu- $
♦; dents of divinity. £
* Persons in military or naval
♦: service of United States. '•*]
J Subjects of Germany and ail
* aliens who have not taken out >i
* first papers. >;
* County or municipal officers. *
* Customhouse clerks and work
* men in arsenals and navy yards, t*:
* Pilots, merchant marine sail
:
* Married men with dependent
Jj wives or children. -J
* Sons of dependent widows, $
* sons of dependent, aged or in
* firm parents, or brothers of de
, pendent orphans under sixteen
* years of age.
. Men morally deficient.
Members of recognized relig- :*•
» icus sect existing prior to May
* 18. 1917, whose creed forbids
' • participation in war. >i
«: >.
■ i for service in tin* order of their lia
bility. post the list, give it to the press,
and within three days send notice to
each designated person by mail.
As tin* men so notified appear the
hoard- lirst will make a physical ex
amination In accordance with special
regulations to lie provided, hearing in
raiml that all persons accepted by them
will he re-examined by army surgeons.
If tie* physical examination Is passed
sueeessfully. then comes the question
of exemption.
Those Entitled to Exemption.
IVrsop* who must be exempted or
discharged by the local hoard include:
< tfficers of the United States, of the
*tati * territories and the District of
Columbia: ministers of religion, stu
dents of divinity, persons In the mili
tary or naval service of the United
State*, subjects of Germany, all other
aliens who have not taken out first
paper*, county or municipal officers,
•ustomhoijso clerks, workmen in fed
eral armories, arsenals and navy
yards, persons in the federal service
designated hy the president for ex
e-iiptieii. pilots, merchant marine sail
or* those with a status with respect
•o d« pendents which renders their ex
clusion desirable (a married man with
dependent wife or child, son of a de
p- rab-nt widow , son of dependent, aged
or iiitirm parent, or brother of depend
ent orphan child under sixteen years
of age), those found morally deficient,
and any member of any well-recog
nized religious sect existing May IS.
1:*17. whose creed forbids participation
in war and whose religious convictions
accord with the creed.
Man or Wife May Make Claim.
claims for exemption because of de
pendent' may be made by the man
be *-*!f. his wife or other dependents,
or by a third party who has personally
investigated the case. A claim made
1-y the husband must be accompanied
b\ supporting affidavits signed by the
wife atid by the head of a family re
siding In the same territory. A claim
b; the wife or a third party must he
accompanied hy two supporting affida
vit* signed hy heads of families. Sim
ilar rules govern claims on the grounds
of other dependents when the depend
ents or third parties being authorized
to fib- claims with supporting affidavits.
In each case the board must be satis
fied before it grants exemption or dis
eharge that the dependent or depend
ent* aetuaily are supported mainly by
the fni’t* of the man's mental or phys
ical labor.
Local boards are required, subject to
appeal, to pass upon claims for exemp
tion or discharge within three days af
ter the filing of affidavits.
Must Decide in Five Days.
District hoards must decide appeal
eases within five days after the closing
, of proofs and their decisions are final.
If the ruling of n local board is af
firmed tlte person in question stands
finally accepted for military service.
In passing on claims for exemption
■ in** . i * *>i fiiipim meut in neces
sary industrial and agricultural occu
pation' tin district hoards must he cou
vinci-d that the particular enterprise
affording such employment actually is
ne<-e"ury to the maintenance of the
military establishment of national in
terest during the emergency.
“The evidence must also establish.”
the regulations say, “even if the par
ticular industrial enterprise or particu
lar agricultural enterprise is found nec
— cry for one of the above purposes,
that the continuance of such person
therein i> necessary to the maintenance
theri-of and that he cannot he replaced
by another person without direct, sub
' ■ :i tit in 1 material loss and detriment to
the adequate and effective operation of
tie- particular industrial enterprise ot
agricultural enterprise In which he is
engaged."
May Designate Certain Industries.
I-ater the president may from time
to time designate certain industries oi
1 i-Iji — ' of industries that tire necessary
and tin- district boards will he so no
tified. It will he the duty of each
beard however, to ascertain the avail
able labor supply for such industries
t’- c- tin- men called for military
-i n ice and to take the result into con
sole am in determining such things.
"If. in the opinion of the district
board tld' section of the regulations
I concludes, "the direct, substantial, ran
t- a! I**'' to any such industrial or ag
ricultural enterprise outweighs the loss
that would result from failure to ob
tain the military service of any such
person, a certificate of discharge may
be 1'sued to him X X X.”
• Ynitk-ates of exemption will not
necessarily he permanent. They may
Ik* revolted with changing conditions,
or may be granted only for prescribed
periods.
SOME POSTSCRIPTS
Of Fretwh invention i* a n»l«ber stop
prr with a flexible projection which
ran he folded down around tic- neck
ut a bottle for additional serurtty.
EJerfrt* besid lainjw for tulaers. sup
plied with current hy batteries worn
on the sides of the cap- have been
patented by a Pennsylvania inventor.
Telejtniiih pales have born dispensed
with entirely In one Welsh town in
which the resident* have permitted the
wires to be stmnjr from house to bouse.
mt wasntngio*. I an*1
So that violin music will be Jieard
more clearly by an audience, a tone
reflector has been invented that is fas
tened to the back of an instrument.
In Sweden articles sotd as gold
mu-? contain not less than 75 per cent
of the pure metal, and those sold cs
silver at least 82 per cent of pure
silver.
A specie- of cactus growing prolifi
cally in Algeria has made by
French scientists to yie t * 13 per cent
of sugar and about Co f & coL't of al
cohol. i
Ult*U. i»V «uuitru auu i\A> I
■*.»» I TV
1—French officer and his dog both wearing gas masks while crossing a dangerous zone near tin* Chemin-des
| Dames. 2—Stretcher bearers taking a practice case into Columbia war hospital, the first one built in the United
! States. :{—Sidney D. Walden, former president of a big motorcar company, who is giving all his time and knowl
i edge to aid the aircraft production board. 4—Chinese troops likely to be involved in another civil war; they are
! doing the goosestep taught them by their German drillmasters before the war.
NEWS REVIEW OF
THE PAST WEEK
Kerensky Leads Russia's Army
in Renewed Offensive on
Galician Front.
CHEERING NEWS FOR ALLIES
Work of German Spies in America Re
sulted in Futile Submarine Attack
on Pershing’s Transports—At
tempt to Restore Manchu
Empire in China.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
Second in importance only in the ar
rival of the American army in France,
in the eyes of the allies, is the suc
cessful resumption of tin* offensive hy
the troops of the Russian republic. Led
by the lion-hearted Kerensky himself.
' the Muscovite soldiers on Sunday be
j gnn a tierce attack on tlte Austro-Ger
i man lines in eastern Galicia near
1 Brzezany. In tlte first two days tlie
Russians drove the enemy out of a
triple line of trenches and captured
tlte town of Koniuehy and 1S,31HI men.
this great number of prisoners indi
I eating a breakdown of tlte morale of
tlte Teutonic troops. Tlte tigliting con
tinued all week and the losses on both
; ^ides were very heavy. The wondtT
fully efficient work of the Russian ar
tillery in the preparatory bombard
ment shows this arm of the service is
better equipped titan ever before.
Lemberg Is the immediate objective
of this Russian advance, and at tlte
| same time an attack is in progress
further north which threatens Kovel.
While vast importance attaches to
the result of this battle, it is the re
; newed willingness and even desire of
the Russian troops to tight the Teutons
that is most cheering to the allies. The
! army at least on that front now is well
I in hand and is better supplied with
i munitions than at any previous time.
Ail the regiments that took part in the
tigliting of Sunday and Monday have
been officially designated “ISth of .June
regiments,” that being the old style
J date. Kerensky’s presence inspired
i the men to almost unanimous ac
! tion, the few laggards being punished
by being removed from the ranks and
sent home.
General Scott, American chief of
| staff, was fortunate enough to be at
j the front and to witness the Russian
attack from a vantage point.
A by-product of tin* successful Rus
sian offensive was the granting by Em
peror Charles of Austria of amnesty
to all civilians convicted of high trea
son and other offensives. This attempt
of the emperor to win all parties to
the support of the government, it is
predicted, will not succeed for the
Czechs especially are still obdurate,
and the opposition is becoming strong
er daily.
Work of German Spies in America.
With tlie safe arrival in France last
week of the last transports of the
American expeditionary force, carrying
the horses and ammunition, the gov
ernment let it be known that the previ- J
ous sections, carrying the troops, were
twice attacked by German submarines.
The U-boats were driven off before
they could do any damage, and at
least one of them was sunk by gun
fire. Tlie successful combating of these
attacks enhances tlie feat of the navy
in transporting the expedition without
loss, hut tlie fact that the submarines
waylaid the transports far outside the
war zone lias aYoused the authorities
at Washington to tlie truth that Ger
man spies in this country must have
told Berlin when the expedition was
to sail and by what route. Secretary
I lauiels and Admiral Benson were the
only persons, supposedly, who knew
the route selected. Admiral Gleaves
sailing with sealed orders which "he
did not open until he was out several
days. When the expedition was well
on its way a wireless was sent to Ad
miral Sims, in command in European
waters, to pick t:p the transports at a
; specified rendezvous outside tlie war
! zone. This message was in the navy’s
| most secret and recently revised code. '•
_™__
Many persons on the Atlantic sentwiard
knew when the vessels sailed, and that
infonuation presnniahly was sent the
Berlin by a German agent by wireless
in some roundabout way, hut how the
route was discovered seems to he u
mystery.
President Wilson has given orders
that the German spy system he wiped
out before any more troops sail, and
many a Teuton is likely to be interned
for the period of the war. Until now
the government l as been unexplaina
bly lenient in it' treatment of Ger
mans and their sympathizers, in the
country generally and in the city of
Washington. We are not at war, offi
cially. with Austria-Hungary. Bulgaria
and Turkey, and the diplomatic repre
sentatives and agents of these coun
tries are still fro. to serve their ally
in any way they can. The German
press of America also is still unmo
lested and continues its sinister cam
paign against the successful conduct
of the war. In view of the confiden
tial information from their Washing
ton correspondents available to the
Gernian-American editors, ami despite
their protestation' of loyalty to Amer
ica. it is not beyond the bounds of
reason that some of these editors
should be doing spy work for the
kaiser, to whose cause they have
shown themselves devoted.
German plotters and their friends
also are credited by the government
with devising and in part executing a
plan to cripple shipping on the Great
Lakes by sinking or disabling vessels.
The federal officials, aided by those of
Canada, are getting after these mis
creants.
Having received their munitions.
General Pershing’s troops were j
promptly moved forward to their in- j
te .fcive training camps back of the j
fighting lines, where they can hear ,
the roar of the great guns. The otli- |
cial review of one battalion was the j
chief feature of the Fourth of July cel
ebration in Paris, and the people of
that city went wild with enthusiasm
over the American fighters.
Dniisri Mgam navancc.
Field Marshal Haig again swatted
the Germans on Thursday, beginning
a resumption of the offensive in Bel
gium, where there had been comparn
tive quiet for a week. The British
made a considerable advance south
west of Hollebeke.
The Germans made a tremendous at- j
tack on the French lines east of Corny
Tuesday, hut were repulsed by Petain’s
men with great slaughter. While j
they were demoralized by this defeat j
the French made a clever counter-at- I
tack, capturing a stong salient.
Another slump in the number of U
boat victims was shown in the weekly
report of the British admiralty, and
the naval officials of the allies are con- 1
vinceil that the submarine warfare
has failed. The Germans are sending
'heir U-boats far afield, one of them 1
naving shelled Pontn Delgada, a city
in the Azores. An American trans- ;
port helped drive the submarine away, i
On Wednesday a dozen or more Ger- j
man air raiders appeared over Har- I
wich, a seaport in Essex, and dropped
many bombs, killing 11 persons. They
were driven oft* with gunfire and air
planes. and two of them were brought I
down nhluza.
German Unrest Increases.
On the eve of the meeting of the
reichstag its committees were told by
spokesmen for various groups that j
further proffers of peace such as Ger- 1
many is willing, even anxious, to grant
will he harmful and that all the em
pire can do is to hold out and mean
time “democratize” the country: that
it might have peace this summer if
it were willing to abandon all annexa
tions and indemnities and to drop the
idea of a separate peace with Russia;
and that the peace formula of the
Russian council of deputies was im
possible. The so-called democratizing
of the empire, it appears, will take
the form of reforming the franchise
so far as the reichstag is concerned,
which means mighty little so long as
the German senate, composed of ap
pointed members, has full control over
the lower house, and there is no cabi
net responsible to the parliament.
Meanwhile unrest is increasing
throughout Germany, displaying itself
in food riots in Stettin. Dusseldorff
and other cities, and in other forms
elsewhere. Evey some of the "intel
lectuals," like Professor Iielbrueek
Privy Councilor Harnnck and others, ‘
_ *
Have issued a call for governmental
iefortr. in Prussia. The pan-Germans.
sa\e for a few of the most rabid, are
singing smaller day by day.
Serious ri 's occurred in Amster
dam last wee in which armed women
raided the market places. These dis
tui hnuces wer. due to the exportation
of potatoes to England, to which the
government is . • mniitted under agree
ments to pres, we its trade relations
"itli lioth Ger; my and the entente
nations.
Preparations : r speedy participa
tion in the war . cupied Vetiizelos and
ht-s government n <.recce last week.
Tlie premier has declared that the
treaty with Serb; disregarded by Con
stantine, shall h. faithfully executed.
Senate Discuss-s Taxes and Food.
1 he revised wur tax bill was report
ed to the senate on Tuesday. As it
stands, it will ra.-e a revenue of $1,
(hO.inhmkk)—a r» action of $130,000,
from the house bill. The tax on
war profits was increased so as to
raise $.-.^3,000,000 The discussion of
the food control I 11 continued in the
senate, the prohil ion forces refusing
to accept the plan of eliminating the
provision for the oinmnndeering of
the existing supply .if whisky for the
manufacture of ammunition. The
Southern senators, characteristically,
rushed to the defense of cotton, to pre
vent its inclusion among the articles
to l>e controlled.
The combat between the council of
national defense and certain senators
and representatives who have not dis
tinguished themselves by broad-mind
edness and patriotism, ks deplored by
those who desire to see the war needs
<>f the country supplied in the quickest
and best way. Accusations or hints of
profiteering against members of die
council, unsupported by facts, are foot
less and gain little sympathy from per
sons of intelligence. It is a pity that
so many of our national representa
tives are too petty to be able to grasp
a great occasion
China Going Backward?
W hiie most of the civilized world is
battling for the security of democracy,
the republic of China, which never
was a real republic, is about to relapse
into its old state of monarchy. Out of
the tangle of circumstances in the Ori
ent has cotne a new revolution which
aims to restore the young Manchu em
peror. Hsuan Tung, to the throne he
abdicated. With the guidance and
Mipport of Gen. Chang Hsun. the youth
has established himself in the palace
at Peking and is in a fair way to gain
control of north China. President Li
Yuan Hung took refuge in the Japan
ese embassy and ordered the vice
president to assume the presidency
and establish the government tempo
rarily at Nanking. This was done,
Enron Feng Kwo Chang being named
president, floth sides have assembled
large forces, and the latest advices in
dicate war will break out at any mo
ment.
The general opinion is that Gen.
Chang Hsun is endeavoring to set up
a dictatorship, using the young em
peror as a catspnw. So far Japan
seems inclined not to interfere in this
Chinese embroglio.
Shocking Riots in East St. Louis.
East St. Louis, III., wrote itself on
the roll of disgrace and dishonor last
week with race riots in which more
than 100 negroes were butchered and
the negro quarter of the city was
burned. Several white men met death
in t lie rioting. The National Guard
was culled to suppress the grave disor
der. hut met with little success, and
the brutal murders continued day af
ter day. Thousands of -negroes have
tied from the city. Superficially, the
cause of the riots was the importation
from the South of great numbers of
negroes to work in the packing plants
and other industrial concerns, hut the
real cause lies deeper, in the disgrace
fully corrupt political mismanagement
of the city for many years.
The decent < itizens of East St. Louis
have handed together to redeem the
place, and already have forced the
mayor to dismiss the chief of police,
the fire marshal and other officials.
Death took two prominent men last
week. Sir Herbert Beorbohm Tree,
the eminent British actor, died in Lon
don. and William H. Moody, former
attorney general and former associate
justice of the Supreme court of the
United States, passed away at his
home in Massachusetts.
SEE REUNION OF NATIONS
London Newspapers Join in Rejoicing
Over the Wide Celebration of
Independence Day.
The prominence given Independence
day by the London momipjr newspa
pers suggests a recurrence of a Brit
ish rafhtr tlmn an American anniver
sary. Besides fully reporting :he cel
t' ration, incidents, banquet speecnes
lid '-ill- r things, lire principal papers
I'hnuvmirts. i -
u>tr>r Due ba. sneaking from the Tt
devote the finest editorials thereto,
emphasizing the sentiments expressed
liy Foreign Secretary Ralfour.
The Morning Post, which often in
the past lias been critical of America
rejoices that “the anniversary ofr es.
trnngement has become u festival of
reunion.” and declares: “Not the least
of manifold benefits the Germag un
wittingly conferred on Great Britain
is the liftiug of Anglo-American rela
tions to a plane of more Inti mate and
cordial friendship than a century of
time has been able to achieve.”
e re-establishment of Poland. j of >1
The Times says there are some
Britons “who still do not see American
belligerency for what it is. one of the
miracles of the war and its crowning
mercy.” It contends that American
intervention swept away bickerings
such as over the Mack lists, which at
one time threatened Anglo-American
estrangement. It adds: “It has
stamped th? justice of the allied cause
with the authority of the most power
ful of neutrals and with the prestige
of acknowledgment by the leader of
the western hemtsnhoro ” .
aeedonls.
[minor notes from all
PARTS OF NEBRASKA
Mrs. Ralph Muemullen. 19. resident
of Fontenelle, and John Jackman,
aged 1C, of Fremont, were killed in
! stantly. and Ralph Muemullen was
! badly cut and bruised when a fast
! Northwestern passenger train struck
i ihe a.tioniohile in which they were
j riding, a mile north of Fremont. The
impact v as so great that one of the
1 wheels of the automobile was thrown
more than 200 yards.
Scottshluff county raised $35,000 as
its share in the Red Cross drive. Del
egates from the county at the meet
ing in Denver insisted on raising the
first appropriation from §10,000 to
$17,000. The result of iho campaign
was the raising of practically twice
the sum of the apportionment. Of
; this sum Scottshluff itself raised
, $13,500. tiering. $5,600 and Mitchell.
$.3,200.
Lincoln has a community drying
plant, said to he the lirst of its kind
anywhere in the country. It is locat
ed in the liutler Avenue Presbyterian
church, and people in the district are
charged the nominal sum of 2 cents a
tray for drying their fruits and vege
: tables. The plant was constructed at
a cost of $150, which was met by the
Lincoln Rotary club.
tin- spying oi an oversnoe protruu
1 ing from the sand in the river at
Butte by two small children resulted
in another extensive search for the
hodv of Sylvia Wales, who was lost in
the river near Butte several months
ago. The mother of the dead girl is
; in a serious condition from the effect
of the long strain.
A change is being contemplated in
the pian for the dependents in Sew
ard county. Since the recent fire a;
tlie county farm a large sum of mon
ey will have to lie expended in putting
up buildings and investigations are
being made as to the cottage plan or
a community house that will lie self
I sustaining.
Madison county is to have a woman
! county agent, the second in Nebraska.
A County Homemakers' association
with a membership of more than 200
country women has been formed to
assume local direction of the county
agent's work. Seward is the only
j other county in the state having such
an official.
A large real estate deal was closed
at Neligh when John 11. Rittscher of
Clearwater became owner of the 560
acre farm known as the- Wood broth
ers' farm, tic - miles southeast of
Neligh on A’ • creek. The con
sideration was "..400.
A 3-year-old son of Edgar Garner
| of Platte Center was caught in a belt
attached to a gasoline engine and be
fore the engine could be stopped had
received injuries that caused his
! death.
Mrs. Fred Vogt of Elba was found
shot in the head close to the road
five miles south of St. Paul. An in
vestigation is being made. It Is
thought she was murdered and
thrown from an automobile.
Five people, all of Lincoln, were
seriously injured, when the automo
bile skidded and turned over three
times at the bottom of a bill eleven
| miles west of the capital city.
It is announced that Saunders
county will' undertake now to raise
S35.000 for the Red Cross fund.
Saunders county is one of the rich
est counties in Nebraska.
By a vote of 3.700 to ”00. citizens of
Pender decided for the proposition of
a new drainage district. The needed
improvement, it is said, will greatly
benefit owners of lowlands.
Loans to the amount of $322,660 on
farm land in Nebraska had been ap
proved hy the Omaha farm loan
hank np to July 1.
A movement is on foot at Beatrice
to establish a laundry plant in th«
city. A Kansas capitalist is behind
the project.
The total assessed valuation of
Cuming county is placed at $!>.504.300.
an increase of nearly $2,000,000 over
101(5. Horses in the county number
10.8(14. valued at $00.21 a head. Cat
tle number 40.000. worth a little over
$2.000.(K">. and automobiles number
1.4(53. valued at $437,330. •
A yearling steer ealf donated by
two farmers was auctioned off at Te
cnmseli for S1SS and the proceeds
given to the Red Cross fund. The
j calf was again donated and auctioned
off. bringing nearly $200. which was
also donated to the Red Cross fund.
As a means of providing for Fre
mont's poor next winter, surplus veg
etables from Fremont gardens are
i being canned at the Fremont High
school. High school boys are picking
j the vegetables without pay and school
i teachers •ire canning them.
! The city council of Red Cloud let
! the contract for paving the business
j district to a Lincoln firm on a bid of
j $2.58 per square yard, material to be
I brick. The work is to begin im
! mediately and is to be completed by
1 September 15.
A branch of the Kanssis City Fed
I eral reserve hank will be located iu
! Omaha, according to a dispatch from
Washington. The establishment of a
branch bank in Omaha is almost ns
I good ai' having the parent institution,
it is said.
A -special election has been called
! at Wayne for July 31 for the purpose
of vntirg on the question of issuing
$30,000 in bonds tor improving the
streets and draining the wet land.
The city council at Greeley has j
voted to issue $13,000 in bonds for a
new electric light plant.
Miss Margaret McRae of Lincoln has
been engaged to teach in the Rratton
Fnlon consolidated school, ten miles
northwest of Stella. The school open
ed Ju*t after the holidays this year.
Th.’eo teachers were employed.
The Omaha automobile speedway,
sail to be the fastest one and a quar
l tei vmle tracks in the world, is to be
i tom down. The last race on the
track was held July 4.
Potato blight is causing growers in
the vi -inity of Seward considerable
worry. Fears are expressed that the
crop will be badly damaged.
Ilalph Mulford carried off the )l,,u.
ors and the first prize, $3,200, in the
150-mile auto race at Omaha July
4th. He maintained an average sp- d
"f 101 miles an hour for the distune
despite two stops. Joe Thomas. Wal
i ter Haines. Tommy Milton, Eddie
j Hearne, Dave Lewis, Andy Burk and
Billy Taylor finished in the order
named. Dave Lewis won the 50-mile
event, averaging 103.27 miles an
hour, with no stops. Mulford finish
ed second in this race and Milt--a
third. The race was niajTed by tin
overturning of one car. but fortun
ly, no one was seriously hurt. Nearl
$11,000 was given the winners of tie
two events in prize ...
Completed figures on registration in
Nebraska of men subject to draft
showed that out of the 11 107 men
listed 110,596 are white Am. an cit
izens; 1.434 are colored citiz- »;.!S9
are aliens, and 938 alien w ; ; -s.
More titan half tlie number is d
as having relatives dependent n
them for support. The number
corded as 56.870. The number of :
whose occupations might exempt tb
is shown by the revised figures to !->*
7.392, while those claiming to be to
tally disabled number 1,191. Alto
gether there are 65,577 who have pos
sible grounds of exemption, while
46.641 make no claim of that kind.
IJoy Hilt of Beatrice literally walk
ed into the United States army after
lie had once been rejected on account
of a weak heart. He failed to pass a
physical examination at Fort Logan.
Colo., and was furnished transporta
tion only as far as Lincoln on his
way home. Hitt, being without funds,
walked the forty miles from Lincoln
to Beatrice in one day and applied To
join Company C, Fifth Nebraska.
Captain Brewster decided Hitt's
heart was strong enough and a< pt
ed him.
•John r entroetis. age 20 years, a
farm laborer living near Dunning and
said to be th'e chief of a quint* i
Germans who enticed a young ;
open in his loyalty to America and
German birth, away from home tud
then gagged and poured turpenti: •
over him, burning him severely. -
arrested and taken to Lincoln on an
alien enemy charge ordered by tic*
government authorities. Fentrochs
has been placed in jail, where lie wi 1
remain until the duration of the war.
Decatur citizens flatly deny pub
lished reports that the town is in
danger of being eaten up by the .Mis
souri river. It is said that the river
cut into Mud lake, two miles north of
Decatur, on the Nebraska side. : . •>
weeks ago, thus changing the «•** *■
of the stream and that since it s
not cut into the town. It is min tt *1
that 100 feet of Decatur was
voured in the spring, and it was t..
essary to move the big elevator, I. it
the site still remains.
Nebraska is now included in the
roll of honor of states which have fur
nished their full quota of enlisted
men for the army in compliance with
President Wilson’s call. A total of
2,3516 has been secured, while the
state's quota is placed at 2.351. But
ten other states have furnished tie ir
required number. Recruiting is -till
going on.
Women of Box Butte and Dawes
counties are taking university in
struction in home economies in their
own halites, under Miss Mary Rokahr
I of the Agricultural Extension Service
of the State University. This is vir
tually a woman county agent's work
and there is much talk of placing
such an official In Box Butte comity
permanently.
Omaha-Decntur Missouri Itiver Nav
igation company, which will maintain
a line of boats and barges for passen
ger and freight traffic between the
two cities, has filed articles of incor
poration with the Douglas county
clerk. The company is capitalized at
$10,000.
Venlon. Richardson county, mm a
population of 500. raised $1,750 for
the Red Cross in one night.
June 30 completed the fifth year of
municipal ownership of the Omaha
water works. In the five years water
rates to patrons have been cut 50 per
cent. Resides paying the cost of op
eration tile plant set aside 8500.000
for depreciation and has a surplus of
8503.500 on hand.
Hurled through the windshield of
his father's automobile when a front
wheel came off. the three-year-old ^>n
of Everett McWilliams of Genoa was
cut nearly in two by the broken
glass. The child lived several hours.
M< Williams is a storekeeper in Genoa.
All June records for cattle receipts
and high prices at the South Omaha
stock market were broken this year.
Receipts totaled 100,010 head, which
is 35.500 more than for the same
month last year. Prices soared dur
ing the month and reached the high
level of $13.85 per cwt.
Axtien. a stallion, owned by Sara
Harris of Aurora. 111., set a new
world’s 2:11 trot record for a stallion
in a race con a half-mile dirt track
at Lincoln, covering the distance in
2:09*4.
A $500 fire loss to machinery and *
alfalfa in the granary of " • Toap.
a farmer, residing two miles south
west of Bladen. Is believed to have
been the result of spontaneous com
bustion.
C f. Waldo, a stock raiser of De
Witt. sold twenty-eight head of young
Duroc Jersey gilts recently for $950.
Hogs are in great demand around
DeWitt.
Contract has heen let for York's
new hotel, which is to cost In th -
ncighhnrhood of $150,000. Work on
the structure is to begin at once.
Applications for loans rrnm the fed
eral land bank of Omaha now total
more than $12,000,000, and officials of
tho bank predict that by September
1 the applications will reach a total
of $20,000,000.
After many unfortunate and dis
couraging accidents, the process of
boring for oil in the vicinity of Table
Rock has again been resumed. The
well is down nearly six hundred feet.
Stockholders of the Farmers' Co
operative Elevator at Merna gave 2
per cent of its net dividend. $020. to
the Red Cross.