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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1913)
""a . ' .."" M a m 'V! "?' 4 at m"mva 'j -" V '4 A , -)-- - J"-- MWMWW" i TrrUT JUJ. PPUHMfl 1 r- f fwjit-'V iiAAjtn'VL. I 1' u M U I if 1 sk Pt I m m V IV l kj I I It 1 SESSION HAS ENDED LONGEST EXTRA SESSION IN HIS TORY OF CONQRE8S. IS UNABLE TO IPAY SALARIES Government of Mexico Unable to Meet Salaries Raw Wool Is Now on Free List. Washington. The lonccst continu ous extr.tordlnnry session In tho his tory of congress is lit n oiitl nml tho regular session began at noon Mon day. Democratic loaders, acting In concert with rresldcnt WIlBon, did not permit an actual finish to be writ ten to the special session. Tho sen ato met again at 10 o'clock .Monday and adjournment did not really como until a few minutes before the regu lar soHHlon convened. Two great projects have held the attention of congress and the country throughout the worK of the year. One of these, tariff revision, crjstnlllzcd Into law In September. The other, currency re form, still Is the chief subject of legislative interest. Free Raw Wool Monday. Washington. On Monday there went Into effect one of the provisions of tho now Underwood tariff law which excited the most heated discus sion while the measure) was pending In congress. This wbh the freo raw wool clause, which exempts from duty all wool of sheep, hair of the camel and of like animals, nil paper twine for binding such products, all wool wastes, Including noils, top, card, slabbing, roving, ring, yarn, bur, thread and garnetted wastes, .nil shoddies, ntungo, flocks, wool extract, carbonized noils and other wastes not specially provided. January first the new rates on wool manufactures pro Tided by the Underwood law will come Into operation. UNABLE TO PAY ITS BILLS. Commonwealth of Mexico Compelled to Scale Salaries. Santa Fe, N. M. For tho first time In thirteen years the commonwealth of New Mexico 1b unable to pay the state officials and clerks of thevarl ous departments in full. The end of tho flBcal year Saturday saw salaries paid on a 70 per cent basis, with no assurances when tho officials will re ceive tho balance due, or In fact any future salary, because of the muddle arising out of tax and assessment liti gation, which has brought about n financial crisis in the state. Won Prices Hurt Canada. Montreal. The Canadian govern ment will shortly create a commission to Inquire into the high' cost of living, according to an Ottawa dispatch to the Montreal Herald. The dispatch states 'that the government had had the subject under consideration for some time, and that statistical ex perts of tho labor department have been making a searching analysis of prices throughout the dominion, and comparing them with those of other countries, especially the United States. Attempt to Kill Governor. Hong Kong. General Chi Kuang Lung, governor of Canton, for tho sec ond time within a fortnight, was, at tacked by an assassin who endeavored to plunge a knife into his heart. Gen eral Lung escaped with n wound in his hand. Ho personally killed four of his guards, fearing treachery nt their hands. Serious trouble in Can ton Is anticipated shortly. Tho pollco have been reinforced. Stores of 'bombs are frequently found In tho city. Kansas City Women to Join Boycott. Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City wo men, aroused over tho high prices be ing asked for eggs and poultry, will Join tho boybott on eggs started re cently by women In eastern cities, ac cording to tho officers of four of the largest women's organizations here. Arctic Explorer Loses Boat. Nome. Alaska. The polnr schooner Mary Sachs, ono of tho boats of VII hjalmar Stefanson, Canadian Arctic explorer, has been wrecked In the ice off the Arctic coast of Alaska. (Nebraska Butter Makers Score High. Chicago. Joseph F. Moscrup of the David Cole creamery, and F. W. Bous ka or tho Beatrice Creamer) company, Lincoln, scored high nt tho National .dairy show here, Mr. Moscrup scoring ,nlnety-flvo and Mr. Bouska ninety three and thlrty-threo hundredths out of 551 entries from twenty-three dif ferent states. This is considered by butter dealers as a big card for Ne braska butter makers, as the highest score made by Minnesota and loSva huttcr makers was ninety-six and fifty hundredths and these butters made from cream of far better average qual ity than was produced In Nebraska this year. Mayor of Nebraska City Recalled. Nebraska City, Neb. With cnlv about half tho normal vote cist, Mayor James D. Houston Wednesday was re called and Paul 8. Topping, an attor ney, elected as mayor, in a recall olec tion here. Houston was recalled by a majority of 1C7 out of 789 votes east. Houston Is tho first mayor to bo re called under the commission form of government, and his recall comes only after a long legal fight. DOINGS IN CONGRESS WHAT LAWMAKERS AT WA8HING TON ARE DOING. Result of Deliberations on Mors Im portant Measures Given In Condensed Form. Saturday. The Senate Democratic conference continued to work on administration currency bill. All Philippine nominations, except ing that of Winfrod T. Uonlson for secretary of the Interior, reported favorably by subcommittee. Con tinned nomination of L. K. I'lnkhnni ns governor of Hawaii by a close ote, but left the appointment of Henry M. Plndoll as ambassador to llussl.i for tho regular session of con gress. Passed resolution for Joint session with the house at 1 p. m. Tuesday to hear President Wilson read his mes sage. Adjourned at 4,:1C p. m. to 10 n. m. Monday. The House A resolution adopted for Joint session at 1 p. in. Tuesday to hear Piesldent Wilson read his mes sage. George W. Loft and Jacob Cantor or New York and Calvin I). Paige of Massachusetts sworn in as rcpre sentathes. Adjourned at 12:fi5 p. in. to noon Monday, when the regulnr session opens. Wednesday. The Senate Democratic senators held a party conference on the cur rency bill. Bronze figure of former Senator Kirkham of Iowa placed in stntuary hall. Adjourned at 4:40 p. m. to 2 p. ni. Saturday. The House Representative Britten introduced his resolution for an inves tigation of the navy's contracts for Australian beef. Representative Charles P. Coady or Maryland, who succeeds tho late Rep resentative Konig, was sworn into or flee. Adjourned at 12:15 p. m. until noon Saturday. Tuesday. Tho Senate Met at noon nnd re turned debate on currency bill. Democratic conrerenco for consid eration or currency bill called for 11 o'clock Wednesday morning. Considered nominations in execu tive session. Adjourned at 5:51 p. m. to 2 p. m. Wednesday. The House Not in session; meets Wednesday. Commission Hold First Meeting. Omaha. Tho first meeting of the agricultural development commission was held In tho Omaha Commercial club rooms Tuesday nrternoon. This commission was created at a conrer enco held here In August ror tho pur pose or aiding In tho agricultural de velopment or tho state. Tho commis sion plans to got behind the university farm In extension work nnd to raise a fund from subscriptions by the big in terests or this stnto to further the work. El Taso, Tex. Ono hundred and eighty-four wounded men are in tho Juarez hospitals as a result or the un successrul rederal attack upon Juarez. Pancho Villa Is also back In Juarez. South or Juarez for eighteen or twenty miles there aro no rebel soldiers. Villa says tho city is well guarded against a reappearance of tho enemy, but he has mndo no effort to pursue them. Six thousand rebel troops nro back In Junrez. -Villa captured a number of federal field pieces and a number of cars. Omaha. A boycott on eggs slmilnr to that called by the Housewives' league In New York city may bo launched by tho household economics department of tho Omalia Woman's club. . "I am going to bring the matter be fore tho department nt tho next meet ing," snld Mrs. F. J. Burnett, head of the department. The best fresh eggs nro now selling nt retail for 50 cents n dozen, tho highest, according to the head of the grocery section in one or the department stores, since 1S05. See ond bcHts are 45 cents and storage eggs 35 and 30 cents. Elam Out on $10,000 Bond. Kansas City, Mo. Dr. W. T. Klam. the wealthy St. Joseph. Mo., physician who shot nnd killed W. Pugnm Cramer of Chicago here, was released on $10, 000 bonds after halng offered a plea or not guilty to a chargo or first de gree murder. His trial was set for January 12. Schenectady. N. V. With more than fourteen thousand employes or tho Oeneral Klectric company volun tarily Idle. thlB city races an Indus trial crisis. Omaha, Neb. Howard Thompson, twenty years old, who was Injured by a Burlington railroad locomotive in St. Joseph. Mo, tour years ago, was awarded $50,000 by a jury In tho Doug last county district court. It is ono or tho largest personal damage nwards ever returned by a Jury in Nehrnskn. Thompson, who was a packing houso employe, was walking nlong by a Bar Ilngton track when n cylinder head on a locomotive blew out. He was struck on the forehead by a nieco of iron nni ;the whole front part of his skull (blown uway. THE CupyrtjchM FEAR FOR THE OIL WELLS HUERTA GOVERNMENT IN FINAN CIAL STRAITS. Interests In Mexico Face New Source of Anxiety Suffragists from Every State Gathering at Washington. Mexico City. Provisional President Huerta has summoned the managers of the Bank of London and Mexico and the National bank before him anil explained to them the necessity of their financial assistance to meet the obligation of the National railway on December 1. Interest payments of the railways, due December 1, aggregate 801,000 pesos, gold. It was to raise this amount and the interest payments maturing January 1, that K. N. Brown, president of National railways, went to New Yoik recently. Failure to meet the payments in December, it Is claimed, would give the right of fore closure, but as such action would liavo to be brought In a Mexican court because the company is a Mex ican corporation, the difficulties to be encountered are obvious. Suffragists Gather at Washington. Washington. To tho call of votes for women suffragists from every state are flocking to the capital for a mammoth convention which will con tinue for a week. Visits to President Wilson, hearings before the congres sional committees on constitutional amendments to enfranchise women, addresses by senators and represent atives and. such leaders of the cause of suffrage as Miss Jano Addauis, Dr. Anna Howard Shiiw, Senator Helen Ring Robinson of Colorado, Mrs. Me dill McCormlck, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Ella S. Stewart and Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCullough will feature a week of meetings. Such or ganizations as the National American Woman's Suffrage association, the Na tional College Women's Suffrage asso ciation, the Congressional union, the Woman's Political Union of New York nnd the Men's League for Suffrage will be represented. FEAR FOR THE OIL WELL8. New Source of Anxiety to Interests In Mexico. Washington. Official dispatches' on the Mexlcun situation are of a routine character, with Immediate interest centered In the oil districts, tho real danger, If any exists, being In Interfer ence with pipe lines running twenty five miles into the Interior rrom Tnm pIco. Naval ofllcorB estlmato that It would require a small nrmy to protect 'the wells and pipe lines. The lining or a cap rrom ono or the gushers and tho Ignition of the rushing streams or oil might carry widespread disaster down to the const. The attitude of the Washington government continues to be ono of patient waiting, and, so far ns Is known, no stops are in contempla tion for the Immediate future. President's Portrait in Silk. Washington. A remarUnhlo like ness of President Wilson, done In rnre silks by un obscure Srlan In the ori ent, has been presented to tho presi dent on behalf of the Buffalo, N. Y., Syrian colony. It was n reproduction from n photograph tho president sent List February In response to a request from Mnnsour Knrain of Buffalo. Kar.im brought it to the White house nnd said tho picture was the re sult of six months' patient work by a Syrian living near Boirut Omaha, Neb. A commission firm In this place lost about $9,000 on a ship ment of turkeys to New York owing to the warm weather and tho condition in which the dressed birds reached there. They were auctioned off and went nt about 11 cents a pound. Ptomaine Danger In Tainted Meat. Chicago. Warning or dnnger or poisoning from tons of meats spoiled by unusually mild weather has been issued by tho city bureau or food In spection. A great quantity of meats iwns distributed in Chicago last week for consumption on Thanksgiving. Tho tempcrnturo rose and remained In tho sixties for sovcral days. No prep aration had been made to keep the .extra stock of meat in tho coolers and considerable percentago of it sDolled. NATIVE THIS YEAR'S THANKSGIVING DIN NER CAME HIGH. Chicago Women Determine to Reduce Price of Eggs Lobby Hearings to Be Reopened at Washington. Washington. Thanksgiving dinner was the most expensive meal the aver age American has eaten In the last twenty-five years. It cost from 35 to 100 per cent more than It did ton years ago and from 15 to 50 per cent more than any Thanksgiving dny in the last six years, according to recent ly gathered government statistics. Thousands of turkeys, spoiled by hav ing been shipped to market In the un seasonably warm spell which over spread the country a week ago; the drouth or last summer, which short ened crop yields, particularly white potatoes; an alleged cold storage com bination which Attorney Mclteynolds Is now Investigating to And If mil lions of dozens or eggs nnd millions or pounds or dairy products have been withheld rrom the market by middle men to force high prices, and the steady soaring prices generally In the Inst decade are among the contribut ing causes to which economists point " Lobby Hearings to Be Reopened. Washington. Lobby hearings will be reopened Tuesdny by the senate In vestigating committee. Plnns ror the completion of the long Investigation have been made by the committee and Include the examination or Samuel GomperB, Frank Morrison nnd other ofllcers of the Amcricnn Federation of Labor, and of representatives of press associations and publicity concerns. Labor leaders will not appear before the convention until January. Court land Smith or New York, manager or tho American Press association, will testiry next Tuesday. ABSTAIN FROM EATING EGGS. Women of Chicago Determined to Bring Down the Price. Chicago. Tho campaign or self-denial regarding tho eating of eggs be gan here in nn effort to reduce the price. It is estimated that 12,000 club women and their families are engaged In the movement which has for its ob ject the reduction or tho price to 32 cents a dozen. Until that point Is reached tho women have pledged themselves to go without eggs. Fresh eggs nre retailing nt rrom 45 to 49 cents and speculators are said to con trol tho market. A year ago the wo men broke the price by selling eggs themselves. Increase Reward for Bandits. Lincoln. Neb. The effort to capture the bandits who held up a Capital Beach street car and shot and killed Frod Weiso a week ago is not being relaxed by Lincoln officers. Chief of Police Malone has issued a large num ber of postal cards hearing an offer of $500 reward In connection with the crime nnd describing its details. The chief has increased his personal offer of reward from $100 to $200. Tho traction company has offered $100 for tho arrest and conviction of the ban dits nnd the state has offered $200 Des Moines Goes Dry. Des .Moines. la Every saloon In Des Moines must close Immediately, ac cording tq a decision by tho Iowa su premo court. Tho decision ends tho appeal of tho liquor interests nnd the saloons nro expected to closo ns soon as notified oftlcinlly of tho court's nctlon. Within nn hour after the su preme court decision had been handed down officers wore sen ing tho saloon keepers with notices to quit business, and by 5:30 o'clock Snturday prac tically every one of the ninety odd saloons In town had closed Its doors. Omaha Arthur W. Bellamy pleaded guilty In federal court to a chargo of using the. mails to defraud nnd was sentenced to six months in the county jail nt North Platte. He was indicted for sending "Black Hand" letters to Fred L. Temple at Lexington, demand ing that $8,000 be placed in a tin box nnd dopositednt a point six miles west of Lexington.' The letters contained a threat that unless tho demand met with prompt compliance Templo nnd members of his family would bo killed. Bellamy is a country boy, nnd the au thorities believe he was the tool BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRA8KA Ord Is worrying over tho water problem in that place. Tho now Christian church at Alli ance was dedicated Sunday. Wolves lire said to be qulto numer ous In the vicinity north of York. ; Gago county fruit growerB will hold a big meeting at Bentrlce, December 11. John Doyle, who was struck by a train nt Hampton, died rrom his in juries. Governor Morehead has become A sustaining member or tho Lincoln Y. M. C. A. A shortage or ninterlal Is delaying operations at the new Fremont high school building. Lightning killed a cow owned by Vaclav Havel, live miles southeast or Clarkson, last week. Quarantine has been declared ngalnst eight or ten' homes in Morrill on account of smallpox. George E. Beckler has received his commission us postmnster at fleshier and taken charge of the office. C. F. Fronzen suicided at his home In Benkelmnn by hanging. No cause for the act lias been discovered. The proposition on water works bonds nt Morrill carried with fifty nine votes for and fifteen ngalnst. Mrs. Sarah Barkshlre, aged 84, died at Lincoln ns a result of accidentally Inhaling gas from an open Jet in her kitchen. The big social function of the sea son nt Fremont was tho annual char ity ball, over 300 couples being In at tendance. Ccorge Le Harris was bound over to the federal district court at Grand Island nn the charge of impersonating n ninal fllcer. Harry Sharp, a 10-year-old Burwell boy. was h.idly c.ut and Injured when a horse he was riding ran Into a bnrhed wire fence. Hebron will light up with twenty four fiveglobe bouIovniM electroliers, nnd will nsk the county commissioners to put n cluster about the court house. An ordinance has been presented to the Omaha city council to prohibit the manufacture, sale, use or storage of the ordinary p: or or snnpplng match. Carl Engelman, a Hastings carpen ter, was taken to a local hospital, threatened with lockjaw as a result of running a rusty nail through his foot. Farm Demonstrator O. H. Llebers has returned from Wisconsin, where ho purchased twenty-eight high grade Holsteln cattle for Gage county farm ers. Scarcity of rainfall in Johnson county has caused most of the creeks to run dry, and tho rivers arc at the lowest stage in the history of tho state. C. E. Adams of Superior has re ceived a shipment of 3,fi00 pounds of civil war projectiles which he pro poses to use to beautify the parks at that place. William J. Grless was instantly kill ed at Sutton when his clothing caught In the flywheel of a gasolino engine and his chest wns crushed before the engine could be stopped. The annual show or the Dodge County County Poultry association will be held at Fremont, December 8 to 12. President Johnson says that 1.200 birds will be entered. The dramatic society or the Ansclmo high school presented "Tho Merchant or Venice Up to Date" In a very cred itable manner to an appreciative au dience ono niRht Inst week. The greatest religious revival in Its history has just closed In the M. B. church atv Stockvllle. Eighty-two per sons professed Christianity, among the business and professional men. Mrs. May Collins, aged 45, was found dead In her bed at the home of Mrs. Martha A. Walto at Lakovlew, near Lincoln, by members of the fam ily who attempted to call her for breakfast. John Tlontek, a 68-year-old German, walked from Fremont to Omaha. 42 miles, carrying a bundle of clothing on a stick over hlB shoulder. He arrived footsore and weary, but otherwise feel ing real "chipper." Mrs. N. A. Kollne, a Lincoln wo man, chased a would-hn burclnr from her home with nn empty revolver, which she skilfully handled. Earl Parmenter, n rormer Hastings boy, now engaged In extensive farm ing in Saskatchewan, Cannda. this sea son raised nnd threshed over 22,000 bushels of oats on his own farm. Tho Wymoro volunteer fire depart ment will hold a fair, December 17 to 20, to ralso money for tho building fund. The firemen huvo about $1,500 In their building fund at present, and plan to erect tho building next spring. Tho Nebraska Veterinary associa tion with n membership of over 100, will hold Its nnnual meeting nt Lin coln, Decomber 9 and 10. Cholera hns beon rnislng havoc In Pierce county, and a number or farm era have lost moro than 100 head. William Bartlett has lost practically his entire herd, about 150 head. George Baiimgardner or Beatrice had a narrow escape rrom death when he was caught In tho shartlng or a machine he was operating. He suc ceeded In throwing the lover to Btop, but lost nearly all his clothing, bo Bldes being badly cut nnd bruiBed. Several persons were seriously in jured when a speeding auto plunged Into a crowd or pedestrians on the walk in front or nn Omaha business house. A religious census taken or tho Sec ond ward or Beatrice shows that thero nre thirty-four residents who have no church preforenco and only ono who is a disbeliever. Tho cornerstone of tho now $20,000 Presbytorinn church In Madison was laid Thllrfidnv in IrlA nrnnnnnn nt n large concourse of citizens and tho Program throughout wnn vnrv Interest. I ing and impressive. 'I BELIEVE PE-RU-NA SAVED MY LIFE." 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