Nebraska Newspapers

    AMOUNT DRAWN ON
STATE TREASURY
WARRANTS ISSUED DURING THE
MONTH OF AUGUST. 1917
NEWS FROM STATE CAPITAL
ltem« of Varied Interest Gathered
from Reliable Sources
at the State
Houae
We-*cm X«wt| ..per Union News Service.
Stale Auditor W H. Smith's office
issued <J34 (ttlr warrants in August.
The iota! amocnt of money drawn from
the state treasury upon these warrants
was 77 The amount drawn
from the treasury previously this year
aa» 17.79V »2-- <e. making a total of
R2717S> 37. as compared with a total
of S3 3S2.93t 43 drawn from the
treasury In the same period in 1916
From the general fund a total of $212.
912 was drawn in August. $20,963 from
the iestluUon cash fond. $2,124 to pay
tipii« of the registration of aut >nv>
9llr> $432196 for "university activi
ties. ' and |W.<M>4 from the university
special building fund, f'p tc the pres
ent time the auditor's depaeftnent has
issued 37.69*» warrants in 1917. as
compared with 33.013 warrants issued
In the same period last year
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Th« University Y. M. C. A.
With the opening of the schools and
college* tae Young Men's Christian
Association of the I'niversry of Mo
brash* extends a welcome to return
ing student* and particularly to young
mm who plan to enter the un.versity
as freshmen The Y M. C. A exists
to serve the young men. and is pre
pared to aid w» students in securing
employment, a good room, board, a
Chris'ian room mate, and is in a posi
tion to render valuable assistance in
other particulars The a* sedation
* aims to develop Chtrstian fellowship
and service among men students of
tb<- I n)versify Its work is varied in
nature but throughout the interesting
program is the one fundamental ob
jective the development of true man
bocal New student* are invited to
Identify th»mselve* with this Chris
tian organization, that they may feel
its power through four years of uni
versiiy framing
hlreraafca Boys at Fort Derr.lng
The Fourth Nebraska was welcomed
by some typical New Mexican weath
er on its Srst evening in camp at
Iteming when a terrific sandstorm
swept down upon the camp about a
o'clock and threatened to destroy the
tents which had been hastily set up
dur.ng the afternoon The wind was
followed by a rainstorm which set
tled the dust and cooled things off
until some of them were seeking more
blankets by morning
Tbe ramp for a few hours looked
tike a mining camp with most of the
boys wielding axes, shovels and picks
In a grand clean up of company streets
and in a short time these thorough
fares were graded, smoothed and
drained until they would do credit to
aay city
There la no complain: to be heard
regarding the location of the canton
meat and everyone is anxious to start
w|»h the real training. Company C
was 'be only company that drilled the
fir»' morning Captain Kirwhner put
ting bi» men through three hours of
e*er» iae in the manual
Opening cay at the state fair dre w a
crowd of almost lb.U <d people, woo
listened to the band concerts, made
a- una-ntance* and greeted old friends,
last year * Sunday attendance was in
the neighborhood of t.QM, which en
■ wurages the management in the be
lief that tbe HIT atuudance will ex
ceed the average notwithstanding war
and other conditions
Hot shots thrown at Frank U.
Halier, president and member of the
university board of regents. German
textbooks, tbs German press and
acien* featured the meeting of the
chairmen of ibe county councils and
officers of the state council of defense
held Tuesday morning and afternoon
aa Lia<oin One hundred county rep
resentatives were present and. filled
with loyalty and enthusiasm, pledged
the utmost support of Nebraska and
her rtdaen* to this country in the
war All officers of the state council,
made short talks
Trouble for O. L. D. Highway
Because the federal government re
fuse* to spend any of it* good roads
fund on any highway where it is neces
sary to use a toll bridge boosters of
the O L. and I) highway are fearful
It will not be re..,mired for federal
and state aid ia permanent road con
struction. The Ashland owners are
ashing fSS.UU® for the bridge there,
which is now being off. red to the state
and which presents the stumbling
Mock ia the way of improving the O.
L and D highway
It cost $243,127 to make the entire
aseescent for the state of Nebraska
this year, according to figures com
plied by Secretary Bemecker of the
•tale board of equalization, from re
ports of county treasurers. Last rear
the cost was $267,660 and in ISIS.
$211,657 The coM last year was the
highest because real estate was valued
This is done every four years. Five
counties Bade only partial reports
These were Boone. Box Butte. Dakota.
Cage and Nuckolls Secretary Ber
ber'— nude his report on 'bfcse coun
Mb from Inst years figure!
TO WORK WITH STATE BOARD
Federal Food Director and Council of
Defense to Co-operate
Nebraska's state council of defense
will work In harmony with G. W. Wat
ties, of Omaha, whom President Wilson
"has named as the representative of the
federal government for Nebraska in
administering the new food control
law. and with Herbert Hoover, the
national food director. The machin
l cry w hich the council has already
crealed will be placed at the disposal
of the federal authorities, who in turn
will co-operate with the state agencies
working for food conservation and in
creased production.
This arrangement has been mutually
agreed to. and it will therefore be un
necessary to duplicate the machinery
already in existence in applying food
nntrol measures in Nebraska. The
ante plan is being formulated in other
' states.
Mr. Wattles has gone to Washington
for a conference with Food Director
Hoover, in order to find out fully what
i~ exiv . teil of him. Before leaving, he
asked the state council of defense to
obtain estimates of the probable sur
plus crop production of Nebraska for
this year, which will be available for
export, and also what, if any, of the
more common agricultural staples will
have to be imported in order to supply
the state with what it needs.
Wheat, corn. oats. rye. potatoes,
-weet potatoes, onions and beans are
the things on which this information
is desired particularly Vice Chairman
Voupland has called in Professor
Pugsl »>• and Profesror Burr of tha
state college of agriculture and Secre
, tary Danielson of the state fair board
for assistance in compiling the data
As soon as the estimates are arrived
at. the figures will he wired to Wattle#
at Washington.
OFF FOR THE WAR
Hospital Corps Under Major Spealman
Leaves for Long Island
The Nebraska hospital corps, now
in federal service and known as the
second field hospital company of the
117th sanitary train of the forty-sec
ond rainbow- division, left Lincoln
Wednesday for the east. Headed by
I - he Fifth regimental band the hos
pltal boys marched to the depot where
they boarded a special train. The
corps in command of Maor John F.
Spealman of Lincoln, consisted of sev
enty-four enlisted men and five of
• iers The hospital corps Is Nebras
ka's share of the rainbow division.
It is understood that the troops will
go to Long Island, where the other
troops of the rainbow division will
probably be mobilized.
The “Draft Special" left Thursday
night, having on board 409 Nebraskans
who form the first detachment of 5
;.cr cent of the Nebraska draft army
on their way to the training camp
Nebraska has her men all ready.
Some of the states have had trouble
in assembling their 5 per cent but
Nebraska boards have certified
enough men to the local boards to
enable all to select the men to form
the first group.
Standing of Medical Students in Draft
A ruling from Provost General
< rowder with regard to the standing
of medical students when they appear
before the exemption boards has been
received by the governor. The ruling
states that medical students or grad
uates of recognized medical colleges
can enlist in the medical reserve corps
and may claim exemption on that ac
i ount. If the men enlist in the reserve
they are liable to call for active serv
ice The opinion at the governor’s
office is that the student can enlist in
the reserve medical corps after he ha3
been dratted. Only one man claiming
exemption on account of being a med
i< al student has been acted upon by
'he district board to date and in this
ase the claim was denied. It is not
known whether the board will have U
reconsider this case.
A threat by would-be leasers of w~r
ern Nebraska potash lands to bring a
mandamus suit to compel the board of
••ducatiorrai lands and funds to execute
a lease, brought out the suggestion
from the b ani that the federal gov
ernment might be requested to oper
ate the potash beds in supplying ma
terial for ammunition for American
armies.
Frank L. Haller, president of the
university board of regents, declined
to commend on the action of the state
and cotimy councils of defense in ask
ing for his resignation from the board
and his removal as president.
Leased More State Mineral Lands.
The state board of educational lands
and funds has issued a second batch
of mineral leases on state lands. The
i lessees are said to be seeking oil and
nothing else They include the Prairie
Oil A- Gas company of Independence.
Has . which is said to be preparing to
bore for oil in Banner county. The
board has leased one or two tracts of
land in Dawes county to Edw-in D.
('rites of ('hadron and prospecting is
supposed to have already been started,
but no royalties for the state have
yet been reported by the lessees.
Cannot Grant Free Toll Service
Secretary of State Pool has received
a request from federal officers for per
mission to pass government automo
biles over stale owned bridges in Ne
braska. There are no state toll bridges
' in this state so the permission cannot
be granted. Private bridges at Ash
1 land and Louisville charge toll, but the
state has nothing to do with the
bridges. The federal government has
sixty-three automobiles in Nebraska,
most of them at Fort Omaha. The fed
eral signal corps has fifty or more.
Male help for general work at state
Institutions is very hard to get now.
according to members of the board of
control, and in order to secure the
necessary hands the state will take
men up to the age of 45 to 50 years.
It will pay $30 to $35 a month and fur
nish good board, lodging and laundry
service. The war has taken a great
many of the young men formerly em
ployed at institutions, and a great deal
of trouble is found in filling their
places. One man v.'tao was offered a
job demanded $60 a month besides his
living exuenses
1—Quays of the Russian port of Riga, captured by the Germans. 2—Colonel Roosevelt, Charles E. Hughes. Adjt.
Gen. \V. L. Sherrill, Admiral Gleaves and Gen. Eli. D. Hoyle cheering the parade of New York’s draft army. 3—French
hand grenade throwers in a first line trench setting the fuses in their grenades.
NEWS REVIEW GF
THE PAST WEEK
iovernment Finally Closes Down
on Industrial Workers of
the World.
MANY RAIDS AND ARRESTS
Italians Continue Victorious Progress
Toward Trieste—Germans Take
Riga and Great Naval Battle
in the Gulf of Finland
Is Expected.
By EWARD W. PICKARD.
Its war industries hampered, its dig
nity outraged and its patience ex
hausted, the government of the United
States arose in its might last week and
began the process of squashing the dis
reputable and disloyal Industrial
Workers of the World. In more than
a score of cities, mostly in the middle
and far West, their headquarters and
printing offices were raided and great
quantities of material seized. The
department "f justice prepared for this
action secretly and carried it out
swiftly and skillfully, and is now ready
to have the leaders of the organization
indicted if the documents taken war
rant this. In some cities many arrests
were made. Prosecutions may be
started under the new espionage law,
or any one of several other laws.
Two of the things that caused Uncle
Sara to get after the I. W. W. were the
preaching of sabotage—the wilfull de
struction of property—and the use of
“stickerettes” designed to obstruct en
listing, which were plastered all over
the country. They are also accused
of misusing the mails to send out mat
ter advocating treason, insurrection
and forcible resistance to the laws con
cerning the carrying on of the war.
The documents seized show that the
I. W. W. was planning a nation-wide
strike which, it hoped, would tie up
munition plants, railroads and lumber
mills, and the sabotage advocated was
to be practiced in connection with this
strike.
There is a well grounded belief that
the leaders of the I. W. W. are con
stantly supplied with funds from Ger
man sources, hut the great mass of its
members no doubt are merely ignorant
and misled creatures.
The national headquarters of the
Socialist party in Chicago also were
raided and hooks and papers seized.
“Big Bill” in Eclipse.
Another “prominent” opponent of the
government—William Hale Thompson,
the mayor of Chicago—came a cropper
last week. In defiance of the orders of
Governor Lowden, he compelled the
police of Chicago to give protection to
a meeting of the pacifists who had
been burred from Wisconsin, Minneso
ta and other states. Thereupon the
governor sent troops to the city to pre
vent repetition of the offense, the city
council of Chicago formally rebuked
the mayor, the agents of the depart
ment <>f justice began inquiries into
his conduct with a view to his indict
ment. the press and people of the
country denounced him, and his in
fantile boom for the Illinois senator
ship collapsed utterly. He did not go
ito the Kankakee fair, where that boom
was slated to be started. It is difficult
to write of Thompson, Mason and oth
er still more prominent foes of their
country in printable language. Those
j who combat the government’s war ef
| forts "give aid and comfort to the
■ enemy” and exasperated loyalty won
ders why they are not subjected to the
! penalties prescribed by the law against
1 treason.
Great Victory for Italian*.
When the Italian armies on Tuesday
stormed and captured Monte Snn Ga
briele they took the last mountain fort
ress barring their way toward Laibach
and an advance that would separate
the northern and southern Austrian
armies. Such a movement probably
will compel the Austrians to evacuate
Trieste, which has been under shell tire
from the water for days, and also is
likely to resuit In the taking of Toi
mino by Cadorna’s forces. In fact, a
general retirement of the Austrians on
that front was predicted. In the bat
tles on the Bainsir.za plateau the Ital
ians captured immense quantities of
arms and munitions, for the enemy tied
in haste and disorder. Nearer the
coast, the fortress on Monte Hermada
still held out against furious attacks,
keeping the Italians from advancing
on Trieste by that route.
Riga Taken by Germans.
Riga has fallen, the kaiser rejoices
and the war-to-vietory party in Ger
many has a new argument. But this,
like the Galician affair, is rather a
cheap victory over a disorganized
army, and was expected. The Russians
have retired beyond the River Aa,
lighting fairly well as they went, and
the tierce bravery of the Battalion of
Death enabled theta to prepare a new
line of resistance.
The taking of Riga gives Germany
complete command of the Baltic and
the way lies open for an advance on
Petrograd by land, but it is not at all
certain the kaiser will go on to the
Russian capital. The route is long and
through difficult country, and the ad
vantages of possessing Petrograd
might be offset by such an extension
of his lines just as winter is at hand.
At the time of writing, it appears like
ly that the German Baltic fleet will
meet the Russian sea forces in battle
in the Gulf of Finland. It is believed
the fortified island of Osel at the head
of the Gulf of Riga and the port of
Reval, which guards the entrance to
the Gulf of Finland, cannot hold out
long, and the Russian fleet thus is like
ly to be cooped up under The guns of
Kronstadt, the great fortress that pro
tects the port of Petrograd.
Part of the German fleet already has
been sighted at the entrunce to the
Gulf of Finland.
Germany’s offensive against Russia
appears to have been timed to coincide
with an expected counter-revolution
planned to restore autocracy in Russia.
The plot, however, was uncovered and
many arrests of grand dukes and oth
ers have been made.
General Alexieff. former commander
in chief, and General Vassilkovski,
commander of the Petrograd garrison,
agreed Thursday that the fall of Riga
did not threaten Petrograd and was of
moral but not strategic importance.
On the Western Front.
In France and Flanders the week
brought little change in the positions
of the opposing armies, though the
fighting was uninterrupted. The Brit
ish deluged the German lines in Bel
gium with shell fire that indicated an
other drive, and there were reports
that Crown Prince Ituprecht was pre
paring to execute another “strategic
retreat to the Courtrai-Thourout line
and thus give up a strip of territory
east of Ypres from ten to twenty miles
deep. This would help the allies on
their way toward the German subma
rine bases at Zeebrugge and other
ports on the Belgian coast.
The Germans made several air raids
on England, killing a number of per
sons, especially at Chatham, and one
of their U-boats shelled Scarborough.
The British press exhibits some un
easiness lest the Germans have “got
the jump” on the allies in the matter
of increased air forces. The United
States, however, is coming fast in this
respect. building machines as rapidly
as possible and training a big army of
aviators, here and abroad.
Again on Thursday night the Ger
man aviators devoted their attention
to the French hospitals behind the
Verdun lines, bombarding them for six
and a half hours and killing 10 soldiers
who already were severely wounded.
If a cablegram from Shanghai is to
be believed, China is about to enter
into active participation in the war.
The Twenty-fourth army corps, com
posed of 15,000 picked troops from the
northern provinces, is said to be mobil
ized for immediate departure for Eu
rope. probably through Siberia to the
eastern front to assist the Russians
and Roumanians. The corps includes
several companies of engineers offi
cered by Chinese graduates of Ameri
can colleges, and an aviation corps
trained by American and French air
men. These troops would be the first
Mongolians to fight In Europe since the
time of (ienghis Khan, 800 years ago.
Argentina two weeks ago was rejoic
ing over a supposed diplomatic victory
over Germany in the matter of U
boats. Nmv the South American re
public is in till throes of n great rail
way strike whh li is certainly fomented
and financed by Germans. Thousands
of workmen have quit and there lias
been serious destruction of property
and considerable rioting.
From 'an American port” comes ar
exciting story of a concerted attack
by seven German submarines on a
j fleet of 22 allied merchantmen west
j bound. Four of the largest of tht
i steamships were sunk by torpedoes
but the guns of tlie others destroyed
three of tlie U-boats. The battle took
place 30 miles off the coast of Ireland
Organized Labor Loyal.
Organized labor in the Unitec
States, determined to assert its loyal
ty. met hist week in Minneapolis, to
gether with many radicals and Social
; ‘sts- nnd formed tic American Alliance
j Labor and Democracy. Under tht
j leadership of Samuel Gompers, Frank
j P. Walsh, John Spargo and others, tin
delegates declared tlie new organiza
tion firmly back of the armed forces ol
the government in their tight for “a
victory which will mean the coming
of the greatest world democracy evei
dreamed of.” Definite reports hart
been circulated that htliorites are plan
ning to cripple various industries by
strikes, especially tlie fuel industry
i liese reports, Mr. Gompers declares
do not relate to the American Federa
tion of Labor. They are, however, toe
well substantiated to he ignored.
The British trades union congress by
a vote of 2.894,000 to 91.000 declared
itself opposed to participation in the
Stockholm congress, and this, taken
with the refusal of many countries tc
grant passports to delegate's, probably
will result in the entire abandonment
of tlie gathering in the Swedish city.
Pope Preparing Second Note.
Not wholly discouraged by the fail
ure of his peace note. Pope Benedict
is preparing a second proposal for the
ending of the war. Premier Kibot.
speaking on the Marne battlefield, de
clared that a requisite in any peace
treaty acceptable to France was the
restoration of Alsace-Lorraine.
Tlie German press continues to heap
abuse and ridicule on President Wil
son for his reply to the pope's note,
declaiming loudly against his demands
that the government of Germany be
democratized before peace can be
made with it. But the reichstag ma
jority is insistently demanding just
about the reform's the president con
siders essential.
Dispatches from Switzerland say the
central powers have determined on
the partition of Poland. According to
the plan. Germany is to take about
one-tenth of Russian Poland to rectify
her frontier, and Austria will annex
the remainder, unite it to Galicia and
proclaim the territory the united king
dom of Poland, with Emperor Charles
as its king. It is to have its own par
liament. bur its foreign policy, finances
and army are to he controlled by Aus
tria. This plan does not please Hun
gary, because that country thinks its
influence will be lessened if the em
pire becomes a triple kingdom.
I-ed by President Wilson and mem
bers of the senate and house, and es
corted by thousands of soldiers and
sailors, the young men of the District
of Columbia selected for service in the
National army paraded the streets of
Washington on Tuesday, aad similar
parades took place in hundreds of
cities and towns. Next day these men
of the National army began streaming
from all points of the compass into
the 16 cantonment camps built for
their training and instruction. They
are the first 5 per cent of the 687.000
men selected by the draft.
The long wrangle In the senate over
war profits taxation ended in the tie
feat of the high tax group and the
adoption of the finnnce committee’s
provisions for a total levy of $1,286.
000,000, or about a third of this year's
war and normal excess profits. This
would make the bill total $2,522,000,
000.
Thursday night the house passed
unanimously the big war credits bill
authorizing $11,538,045,400 in bonds
and certificates. Every effort of a
group of Republicans to limit Secre
tary McAdoo's control over these is
sues was defeated, but an amendment
by Congressman Cannon was adopted,
exempting from taxes interest on
: bonds not in excess of $5,000.
READY FOR WAR’S HARDSHIPS
Boys of 1917 as Responsive as When
Duty Called the Youth of Both
Sides to the Civil War.
“I can’t get them up, I can’t get
them up, I can’t get them up in the
morning."
If ever a bugler had a harder job
than did the one who blew reveille at
Camp Grant at 5:30 a. m. today he
hasn't been heard from and the fore
going old refrain fits the situation.
There were no alarm clocks in the
barracks where 280 Chicago boys and
252 from northern Illinois and south
ern Wisconsin counties passed their
first night at camp and the hugle
blasts had none of the terrors for these
young Americans that the ordinary
timepiece has for the city sleeper.
Officers had to rout out several who
had turned over for their accustomed
“forty more winks,” but it did not take
long to get them into their clothes,
dressed and washed ready for break
fast. Young America generally has an
! appetite and as physicians have
passed upon these first arrivals in
(•amp and pronounced them physically
| fit the mess officers were prepared to
! satisfy the keenest desires for food.
Each man had a Mack Iron cot with
woven wire springs to himself. Over
this was a bag filled with straw. It
was new straw, and It does not take
a far stretch of the imagination to
realize that there would be sharp ends
that would not be conducive to the
kind of comforts to which a lot ol
these boys have been accustomed.
| The State News of
the Week in Brief
tn Epitome of All the Big and In
teresting Events of the Past Few
Days in Nebraska.
Nebraska millers in the coming year
will mill 12,000,000 bushels of wheat,
' which is more than lias ever been
J milted in this state before in a single
year. This is the careful estimate
made by millers who have taken into
| consideration the new mills being es
: tablislied, particularly the Omaha
Iiollei Mills, which will be the largest
mill in the state. The Nebraska wheat
i crop for this year is estimated at be
tween 30,000,000 and 35.000.0OO bush
els, which will mean that after Ne
braska mills are supplied there will
still be between .8,010,000 and 23,000,
: 000 bushels for export.
The headquarters of the Industrial
\\ orkers of the World in Omaha
was raided by federal authori
ties .as a part of the nation-wide
campaign to end the anti-war propa
ganda being carried on by tin1 organ
ization. Socialistic literature and
other matted was seized.
The first contingent of York coun
ty's quota for the draft army, six in
number, were each presented with a
$10 bill by the Commercial club before
their departure for Fort Riley last
week.
a itilt-acre tarm one nine east ami
one mile north of KIkhorn. Douglas
county, sold recently for $230.50 per
acre. It was a record price for land
in that vicinity.
Six automobiles have been stolen in
Dodge county during the past month
and authorities believe that a band of
auto thieves are operating in the
county.
The Rev. M. D. Berg, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Beaver City,
has announced his resignation to ac
cept the pastorate of the Presbyterian
church at Atkinson.
A farmer near Grafton has been
granted a permit to install a power
paltn on his place. He expects to
furnish electricity to the surrounding
country.
Railroad crop reports of the past
week declare that corn throughout Ne
braska is in a most excellent condi
tion. although rain is needed in some
I sections.
Max Wickers!'..",m, a young Lincoln
county farmer, was almost instantly
1 killed when an automobile which he
; was driving turned over near North
Platte.
Wahoo has two cases of infantile
paralysis, the dread disease that car
ried off thousands of children through
out the country about a year ago.
A strange white bird resembling an
i eagle, with wings six feet from tip to
I tip. has a nest in a barn on the farm
of John Page near York.
At a meeting In Blair preliminary
i plans were laid for employing a coun
ty agent in Washington county.
According to the Thayer County
Council of Defense Thayer county’s
home guards now number about 450.
The Bruning Home Guards, fifty
strong, have just been organized.
The Fremont branch of the Red
! Cross made its first shipment of gar
ments to headquarters in New York a
few days ago. The shipment consisted
of twelve dozen hospital shirts, four
dozen clinic gowns, three dozen hel
: uiets. two dozen towels and three doz
en dusting cloths.
A movement is on foot in Omaha,
backed by city officials and several
improvement clubs, to establish a
municipal coal yard in the city to
furnish coal to consumers at a price
lower than that at which coal can
now be bought at the retail yards.
The government’s wheat price.
Omaha's basis being $2.15 a bushel,
fixed in Washington, will not lower
the price of bread. This is the opin
ion of Jay Burns. Omaha baker, who
is a member of the war emergency
council of the baking industry of the
United States.
More Than 200 women were present
at the organization of the woman's
committee, of the state council of de
fense. for Saunders county, at Wahoo.
Practically every precinct in the coun
ty was represented at the meeting.
Tlie hoard of county commissioners
I of Dakota county passed an appro
j priation of $2,400 for a county agent,
j twenty minutes after the board had
I been called to order. Fifty farmers
| made the request for the levy.
The state law passed by the last
! legislature regulating labor agencies
! in Nebraska was held nneonstitu
; tional by Judge Sears in the district
| court at Omaha.
Canadian casualty lists just pub
lished in Ottawa show that Thomas.
Mitchell of Norfolk was killed in ac
tion in France.
The cornerstone of Randolph’s new
Catholic church, which will cost in
tlie neighborhood of $75,(100 when
completed, was laid a few days ago,
Aehhishop Harty of Omaha conduct
ing the ceremony.
John Stanhury. German laborer of
Beatrice, was arrested on the charge
of sedition. He is alleged to have
said he hoped all American soldiers
sent to France would he killed.
Chadion has a fund, subscribed by
its citizens, giving Company H $400
a month for extras while the war
lasts.
J. W. Shorthill of York, a member
of the fair price committee which
reached an agreement on $2.20 a
bushel for wheat at Washington,
held out until the last few ballots
for a price of $2.50.
Price of wheat on the Omaha mar
ket will be $2.15 a bushel under
President Wilson’s ruling which
fixes the price of the 1017 crop at
$2.20 at Chicago.
Fire of an unknown origin destroyed
the Wheeler county court house at
Bartlett. Ail the county records were
lost
Hints from police headquarters it
Omaha are that authorities believe
their ease against Chaa. Smith, Negro
accused of tlie brutal murder of Mrs.
Xetliuway, who was found liaeked tc
death north of town recently, is weak
ening. A coroner’s jury returned a
stereotyped verdict of “death by a
hunting knife in the hands of an un
known person” after a three days’ in
quest. The verdict contained a recom
mendation that Smith, now in county
jail. lie held for further investigation
O. M. Thompson or Bismarck, S. [>.,
made the assertion in Omaha the
other day that within a short time lot
organizers will lie in Nebraska for
the purpose of enrolling farmers it:
file Nebraska Non-Parti an league.
The league stands for conscription of
money for war as well as m- a. for a
new constitution for this state and
for public ownership of all utilities,
j Fifty thousand farmers are ext -ted
to be enrolled in the organization.
Charles T. Neal, government agent,
is buying all wheat that passe
through the Omaha Grain exchange
The price ranges from $2.01 to $2.15
n bushel. Only No. 1 hard wintet
wheat commanding the latter figure,
Mr. Neal says it will do fanners no
good to hold their wheat, because the
price is not going any higher.
A near riot followed the wrestling
match between .Toe Steelier of 1 lodge
ami Marian Plestina at Omaha. Aftei
two hours of stalling by Plestina the
bout was awarded to Stecher on
points. A crowd of several thousand
left the auditorium where the match
was held thoroughly disguested with
i the game.
The German language has heen
i eliminated from the Fremont schools
| hy order of the school board, after
; being taught in the schools ten years
The hoard acted in compliance with
the recommendation of the State
j Council of Defense without waiting
! for the formal request. The hoard de
i cided to introduce military drill iD
the high school.
Rev. Krauleidis was taken from
Lincoln by United States Marshal
j Flynn to Internment camp in Fort Ri
! ley as an alien enemy. Fred Mitten
dorf of Hyannis and Kurt G. Wick
ons of Bishee. Ariz.. Industrial Work
ers of the World delegates, were ta
ken to Fort Douglas, Utah, at the
same time.
Nebraska's first contingent, about
400 men. five per cent of its quota of
! the new national army, is now at Fort
| Riley. Kan., undergoing training to
; engage in the battle for democracy.
Men from this state were consigned
to the 333th infantry. The next con
tingent of selected men will go into
camp September 10.
The Omaha branch of the Federal
1 Reserve bank of the Tenth district
- has opened for business. The bank
: started with a capital stock of $1,300,
| 000 constituting the reserve deposited
! by the national banks which are in the
i Omaha territory.
Humboldt has organized a company
: of home guards. Protection to home
I industries, water and food supplies.
life and property in the community
| rnd emergency calls are objects of the
home guard.
I
A. M. Friesen of .Tansen was killed
; and his wife seriously injured in aD
auto accident near Lincoln.
Two thousand German Lutherans
i gathered at Tecuinseh in celebration
! of the quadri-centennial of Luther's
1 reformation. The nssemhlege pledged
| its loyalty to America and took up a
i collection which was turned over to
| the mess fund of Company M, Sixth
regiment.
The Nebraska Hotel company which
: Is building new hotels at Seottsbluff
and Table Rock and recently bought
the Evans hotel at Columbus and the
i Franklin at Franklin, has purchased
| the Lincoln hotel, the largest hostelry
i in the capital city.
Fifteen car loads of cattle from the
Crow Indian reservation of Montana
were sold in the South Omaha market
last week. They brought the highest
; price ever paid for cattle from that
; region, the best going at $13.00 per
■ cwt. and others at $10.00.
Six of the first ten men which
T.ineoln sent to the enmp nt Fort
Riley as its contribution to the new
nntlonnl army raised under the draft
: law are University of Nebraska stu
dents or graduates, who waived ex
emption.
Authorities believe that the strike
at the Armour packing plant nt Oma
ha last week was fermented by agents
of the German government In an en
deavor to hamper food production.
The trouble has been virtually settled.
A series of township meetings were
held in Knox county last week for the
purpose of employing a county agent.
Those closely interested in the move
ment believe the county is sure to
have' such an official.
Fremont milk dealers have raised
the price of milk from 9 to 11 cents
a quart.
Resolutions were adopted by the
United Evangelical State Convention
! nt Hastings commending the whole
j state for voting prohibition and con
i gratnln'ing Nebraska officials for the
I rigid enforcement of the law.
Melvin Johnson, Clay county farm
er. was killed when a motor car that
he was driving skidded into a strip of
plowed ground and turned over near
! Edgar.
With hut three dissenting votes oast
| the property owners of Dunbar voted
, to is-m ■ bends for the construction of
. a muipripa! light plant.
Every fool of the Elkliorn river In
Douglts county is to he diked. This
was de-iiled following a conference of
farmers and county officials at Water
loo. The main cost of the project
will ho paid by farmers along the
river.
An army ot 500 chauffeurs are sta
tioned at Fort Crook, near Omaha, un
dergoing preliminary training before
being distributed to the various
branches of the army service.
As a patriotic measure the school
hoard of Tecumseli has decided to
drop the study of German.