M(fe wmximiaLUJ WftX'wu.CT'V'l1wr TV515KRWtreVfffWfcrWy RED CLOUD, (NEBRASKA, CHIEF 4osacaftjMww fr Pf I? 11' i rl- 11 p Efi VILLA FIND8 TERRAZAS A PROF ITAQLE HOSTAGE. CUSTOMS RECEIPTS REDUCED Internal Revenue Collection! 8how Up Well First Savings Bank at Superior Cloies Its Doors. Western Newspaper Union News Service. El 1'nRo. Tlio case of Luis Torrazas, whoso life, In effect, linn been declared forfeited unless 600,000 pesos nro lm medintcly forthcoming, Is still In stiitus quo. Tho ransom hns not been paid, as Gen. Luis TcrrnznB, father of tho prisoner, claims that out of his vnBt fortnno no such sum Is nvallable. Felix Martinez, prominent politically In this section, Is reported to have telegraphed Secretary IJrynii Inviting him to iiso his Rood ofllccB In behalf of tho vounger Terrains. Many friends of tho latter declared that Villa's thrent of taking his captive south with him, which Is regarded by tho father as a death sentence. Js not empty, as with Lula alive ho may extort money from tho family If any Is left, while Luis dend would no longer bo a wea pon In his hands. Savings Bank at Superior Closes. Superior, Neb. Tho First Savings bank of Superior was closed Friday toy order of tho state banking board which hns practically been In posses sion for two weeks. That tho bank would be closed at tho end of sixty days' notlco from depositors was np parent Immediately after the First Na tional bank of Superior closed less thnn sixty days ago. Notlco from de positors that they would demand their money from tho savings bank at tho end of sixty days tied up at least $50. 000 of tho bank'B funds. Doth banks were conducted by practically tho amo officers nnd same board of direc tors. L088 IN CU8TOM8 RECEIPTS But Internal Revenue Collections Are Coming Up Well. Washington. While- customs re- ? ! ill" HaV. fnIIcn off nndor th0 new larilT, tho Internal rovenuo burenu Is coming to tho rescue with Increased collections from Indirect taxes. The t?. ,,c?"octcd th0 bureau from iji,ja-7S, nn Increase of $2,fi36 39 Zll corrcspondlng period for "the previous year. Tho tax on tobacco brought $47,680,435. an Increase of $?. ,;; 8,,nnd ferncnted liquors $40,276, JSO, an Incrcaso of $1,412,306. Distilled bSLhM,nc,u,,,,nB wh,r. " ofr$MoV,?lSn,y ,M'MMM' a 'J ''Black Tony" Qets Life Sentence. Omaha, Ncb.-Tony Clarletta, tho on t n;y(a0I,, boy wh as been on trial hero for tho murder or Henry ?ho ST f0Un1 BUlI,y of iorS tho nrat degrco and sentenced to lm- lTmT fr llf- 0nl-v th yotl. of rln ""ed him from ho doc- trio chair. liJg avyen w1, t ' Tor a now trial, darlotta confessed to of fright when ho was assisting in th0 holdup of tho McVey resort. Get Pay for Capture of Bandits. Omaha, Neb.-FIve youths who aid ed In tho capture of tho Union Paci c bandits by their discovery of tho ,, Jelts, etc., nor tho Brow Park school received tho money awarded them by tho court Tuesday. Tho rob hory occurred five years ago. Each of them received $1,800. They are John Krulek and Adolph Mornskl. Huerta Jail, six Editors. jz rir to th fortrcs or 2; Juan do Ulna. They wore charged with cremating false news calculate tt.u3SdSS2: nn,mo8Uy aKa,nBt Report on Income Tax. Wash ngton.-More than two-thlnls of tho slxty-thrco Internal revenue I h.Jae,!BP?rt0d theIr ,nco, ta Teturns to tho treasury department. Sydney, N. S. W.-Tho worst bllz wird experienced In fifty years hns de- J2iC? k !S,and nnd Altutakl island, In tho archipelago south of tho Society Islands. A hugo wave swopt over Mauko Island. In tho samo group destroying an ontlro village Tho con dltlon of tho Inhabitants of tho storm atrlckon islands is pitiable. Jefferson City, Mo. The right of ex proas companies to refuse to deliver O. O. D. shipments of liquor into Texas has been upheld by tho Missouri bu promo court. t Justified Killing of Gangster, fit Louis. The grand Jury decided that Henry Znng was Justified in kill ing Wesley "Rod" Simon, threo hours latter Simon wont on trial last Monday Ifor tho murder of another gangster. , Zang, who was to havo been tho chief witness ngalnBt Simon, testified that he ahot the defendant when ho thought Simon was about to kill him. The killing occurred in a saloon ncross the street from the municipal courts build ing during a ten minute court recess fja the Simon trial VALUABLE n EMBARRASSING MOMENTS I JHHSSsHI JL wt1R'5 IH taim mjw q&oi ' LfffiEsHssi j&sk -.:s- -siTasgs IuHbbIbbbbbbI AWTSbA V Vt BMsNKk. KWPHbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb1 SBnPtJ!MLBBW f" J HvCT JCZSD"' J k nSBSlHlBlsBBBBBBl M&9& fzs. TwME6r ( ImpiB KS&mwrCs L I mmm IC.mvrUht t PLAN HOMEMAKING CONTEST VILLA DEMANDS 500,000 PESOS TO SPARE TERRAZAS. Campaign to Enlist Many Kansas Boys and Girls Organizing to Oppose University Removal. Western Newspaper Union Ncwm Service. El Paso, Tex. Luis TerrazaB has ap pealed to Marlon Letcher, American consul at Chihuahua, now in this city awaiting Instructions, to savo his son Luis, whoso life has been declared tho forfeit If 500,000 pesos ransom Is not paid over to General Francisco Villa, the rebel leader. Consul Letcher de clared himself deeply moved by tho appeal of tho octogennrlan head of tho great Mexican family whose wldo pos sessions have been confiscated by tho constitutionalists, but he had to reply thnt ho was helpless in tho matter. "I am eighty years old and neither llfo or money mean much to me," said General Terrazas with a tremor In his voice. "My son LuIb hns thirteen children, nnd they need him. I would gladly return to Chihuahua nnd Villa could kill mo Instead of my son." Oppose University Removal. Lincoln. Neb. Following tho organi zation of forces of tho stato opposing tho removal of tho university to tho stnto farm campus, It is announced thnt tho committee In charge will open headquarters for tho propaga tion of tho cause nnd likely hire n man to tako charge of tho details of the anti-removal campaign. Tho work proper Is to bo dono under charge of former Congressman E. M. Pollard of Nehawka, assisted by n committee comprising A. W. Field nnd Charlotte Worley of this city. Fred Rains and Vnl Keyser of Fairbury, Fred Hawxby of Auburn and C. M. Sidles of David City. PLAN HOME MAKING CONTESTS. Campaign to Enlist 20,000 Kansas Boys and Girls. Manhattnn. Knn. A campaign to enlist 20,000 KnnBns boys and girls In agricultural aud homo-making contests this year has been Inaugurated by the Kansns stato ngrlculturnl college with tho appointment of Miss Emma Skin ner a special organizer to arrange tho contests. Miss Skinner will visit towns throughout tho state, urging boys and girls to tako pnrt In tho growing of vegetables and tlowcr gar dens nnd in village and rural contests. Sho also will nsslst in organizing con tests in baking, cnnnlng and sowing. Tho prlmnry object of tho movement Is to improvo conditions on the fnrm nnd to mnko rural llfo more satisfying nnd attractive. Paris. At a meeting or tho natlonnl council or minors' unions It wnn decid ed to cnll off tho strike or coal miners begun in the southern coal fields Feb ruary 24. Tho national round! re quested tho organizations to have their men resume work nt onre. Tho strike was called aH a protest against tho elimination by tho senate of somo clauses of the underground workers' pension bill. Forty thousand men struck. Colquitt Demands Extradition. Dallas, Tex. Governor O. R Col qultt or Texns has wired tho Mexican redornl authorities In Nuovo Leon, Mexico, for tho extrndltlon of Apolo nlo Rodriguez and tho five Mexicans charged Jointly with him of kidnaping of Clewonto Vergara, an American citl zen. Tho requisition Is based on n charge of horso theft. Vergara was afterwards killed. Governor Colquitt discussing his action, said: "I have Just b(K"n "y "Kht to uphold tho ibuvn vii iuu luuzens or Texns." Claim Detention Is Unwarranted. El Pa80. TOX. Assort Inir ),.. i warrant of international law or troatv under which tho 5,000 Mexicans who fled to tho United States after tho bat tlo of OJInnga nnd who nro Interned nt Fort D1I88, can bo held, representatives of tho Huerta government hero nro proparlng to institute habeas corpus proceedings to obtnin their liberation Harris Wnlthal nnd II. R. Gnmblo, law! yers, are acting for tho Huerta gov ornment under tho immediate direction of Miguel E. Diebold, Mexican consul general at large. PRODUCERS AT MERCY OF GRAIN EXCHANGE. Army of Unemployed to 'tart from San Francisco Nebraska Will Celebrate Centenary of Peace. Western Newspaper Knlnn News ServWo. Washington. "The chamber of com merce of Minneapolis, the largest prl mnry wheat mnrket of the world In a prlvato market. Is a monopoly opposed to the Interests of tho producers It Is supposed to serve." Benjamin Drnke of Minneapolis, counsel for a dozen 'grow ers' associations, asserted before the house rules committee. Mr. Drak? nnd representatives or organizations of northwest wheat growers urged tho'en actment of laws establishing federal control of public terminal grain ware houses, government inspection nnd grading of grain and prohibition of denllngs In grain futures where actual dollvery Is not Intended. To Celebrate Peace Centenary. Lincoln. Neb. Steps were taken at n meeting held here Tucsdny night to orgnnizo the stato of Nebraska for tho celebration of the ono hundredth an niversary of the signing or the treaty of Ghent, nt tho close of tho present year and nt the suitable dates In 1915. Natlonnl committees nre now at work on this project In tho United States, Canada, England and Australia. In each of tho states or this country n commltteo has been or will bo appoint ed by the governor to co-operate with tho nntlonal commltteo In organizing stato and local celebrations of tho first century or pence among Engllsh-speak-Ing peoples. ON TO WASHINGTON IS CRY. Army of Unemployed to Start from San Franclse.o. Snn Francisco. An "nrmy of the un employed" has broken camp on n vacant lot nt Fifth and Hownrd streeta and started on a march- to Washington, D. C. There nre twenty-four compa nies or ninety men each, and the men hnvo nil tho officers or n mllltnry regl mont except n paymaster. "General" C. T. Kelly Is tho commanding oincor. The men marched to tho rerry In two battnllons. lod by buglers and drum mers. Mexico City. Tnlklng to n few news paper correspondents. President Huerta again nsserted that ho has nn nrmy or 250,000 mon, with which he Is determined to fight tho rebels until tnoy nro subjugated or exterminated. Ho added that ho was about ready to begin tho construction nlong tho rail roads of 4.000 block houses, nbout a mllo nnd n hnlf apart. In ench Gf which would bo plnced ten men. Orders hnve been given for wlro strung nlong thf right or wny or the railroad lines. Got but Little of the toot. Omnha. According to testimony given by Tony CInrlettl. who is on trial for the killing or Henry Nlckell In n resort here, while holding up tho place with Joo Williams and C. V. Roa tnond, ho realized only $20.50 as his shnro or the loot. Ho testified that arter tho shooting. Williams gave him $2 and severnl pieces of Jewelry, which ho later turned over to Mrs, Sadlo Walker or Lincoln for $18.50. "Blue Sky" Law Upheld In Kansas. Atchison. Knn. Tho constitutional ity 6r tho Kansas "blue sky" law was upheld In a decision by Jndgo W. A. Jackson In tho district court In tho case or C. A. Lowis or Muscotah. Knn Lewis, who was nn ngent for Don A. Moun Day of Topeka, was charged with violating tho Innd through land Bales amounting to $20,000. Lewis' at torneys sought to quash tho Indict ment on tho ground that tho law was unconstitutional. This Is tho first tost given tho "blue sky" Inw. Chihuahua, Mex. The Benton invoB tlgntlon was halted nt Juarez by orders issued by General Carranza, who has determined to hnndlo nil dip lomatic subjects himself. Porsons In a ponitlon to obtnin rcllablo Informa tion expressed tho opinion that tho body of William S. Benton, If It Is burled hero, will hnvo been too long In tho ground to disclose much to the commission which Is to cxnmlno it. It has been hinted in official circles that tho body hns probably been subjected to somo chemical action to obliterate evidence. NEED A LITTLE TIME 8TANDARD OIL AND TOBACCO COMBINES DISSOLVING. COMING UPT0 EXPECTATIONS Income Tax Returns Satisfactory to Administration Cardinal Gib bons Says No Hope for Prohibition. Western NruriMper L'nlnn News Servlrn. New York. George W. WiekcrHhnm, former attorney general or the United States, In an address before the Nas sau County liar association here, snld that the division or the Standard Oil nnd Tobacco companies under tho Sherman law had been effective, de splto the belief of many to the con trary. Mr. Wlckershnm said that un due confidence In the Immediate re suits or nntl-trust legislation had blind ed tho public, to what had really been accomplished against monopolistic cor porations. , "When the Standard Oil nnd To bacco companies were divided." ho said, "tho fact that the same persons vera stockholders in nil of tho dis tributed corporations was used to sup port tho contention that the dissolu tion was not real, nut these compa nies were sepnrated and forbidden by iho court to combine nnew and In tho ense or the tobacco companies forbid den to have common officers, common directors, or common agents." No Hope for Prohibition. New Orleans. "Prohibition will never be enforced In a Christian coun try." said .Tames. Cardinal Gibbons, In n statement made public here. Card Innl Gibbons is paying his annual visit to his brother. John T. Gibbons, of this city. "While 1 am nn nrdent advocate or temperance. I am Intuitively per suaded that prohibition cannot be en forced In this country," continued Cardinal Gibbons. "It is calculated to make hypocrites and lend to tho manufacture of Illicit whisky, replac ing the good materlnl with tho bad. while at the samo time robbing tho government of tho legitimate tax." COMING UP TO EXPECTATIONS. Income Tax Returns Satisfactory to Administration. Washington. The income tax law bids fair to live up to the expectations of tho administration by producing nbout $50,000,000 annually In revenue paid by close to 425,000 Individuals. Al though treasury officials havo decided not to make publje for the present re ports or Internal r'evenuo collections on tho Income tax, it became known that moro than 400,000 Individuals had mado returns up to Monday night, when the time limit expired. From these Individuals. It was understood, the government probably would collect more thnn 40,000.000. No Trace of Young Meeker. Lincoln. Oll!cer3 from Chicago to tho Pacific coast nre searching for Howard L. Meeker, tho young Lewd Ion. Neb., man who left Chicago on Februnry 1G, last, for his home, was traced to Grand Islnnd and has never slnco been definitely heard of. Lewd len Is In Garden county. In the ex treme western part or the state, and the missing man had been to Chicago with a shipment or livo stock. Ho left that city with several hundred dollars In his possession. Wolves' Devouring Sheep. Rome. Hordes of Btnrving wolves, driven from the Aponnlne mountains by tho heavy snows, descended into the valleys of tho AbruzzI provinces nnd In the vicinity of Rome had de voured hundreds or sheop. The wolvos nrterwnrd tool rerugo in the caves or Mount Soracte, about twenty-five miles north or Rome. Parties of armed peas ants -went to Tiunt them nnd. according to the latest reports, havo killed a large number of tho animals. Health Officers at Lincoln. Lincoln. Tho state nnd local health officers will hold a conference in Lin coln on Wednesday and Thursday, March 11 and 12. A largo reprosentn tlon from many parts of the state will attend tho meotlnc. tho oxnr.nnna r most erf the delegates being met by the municipalities which employ them. Want a Nebraska Building. Beatrice, Nob. Directors or tho Bea trice Commercial club havo unani mously adopted this resolution: "Thnt tho city ot Beatrice, through Its com mercial club, enthusiastically endorses thostato-wide movement to have No braskn represented nt tho pan Amerl enn Pacific exposition. And rurther. thnt It Ib the unanimous opinion or this organization that tho Stato Fed eration or Commercial Clubs should act as sponsor for tho movement to raise tho necessary funds for tho crec tlon of a, Nebraska building." For One Cent Postage. Washington. A commltteo repre scntlng the. nntlonal 1-cont letter pos tage association cnlled on President Wilson with Sonntor Burton or Ohio, who hns a bill for 1-cont postngo. The membors of tho commltteo wore Charles W. Burroughs, president; Georgo T. Mcintosh, secrotary nnd treasurer; William Pattlson and James H. Cassldy, nil or Clevoland. Presi dent Wilson expressed Interest in the subject presented nnd asked the com mlttee to file a brier. BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA March 29 will be "go to church Sun day" at Lincoln. Organization of a farmers' union Is being perfected nt Western. The state college conference will be held nt York, March 13, 14 and 15. The Sunday baseball question will Le voted upon nt Kearney In April. John Cnsscl of Staplcton hnd a leg broken by the kick or n vicious horse. Eight or ten houses nt Ainsworth sre quarantined because or a smallpox icnre. Tho explosion or an incubator lamp Jeatroyed tho homo or John Yockcl at Ueatrlce. Tho Southwest Nebraska Teachers' association meets at McCook, April 1. I nnd .1. The next meeting or the Nebraska Plumbers' nssoclntlon will bo held in Lincoln. ' Fanners around Garrison hnve sub acrlbed $0,400 for tho purposo of build ing an elevator. Tho boys and girls of tho Lincoln high school hnvo organized n civic and Industrial league. Hastings club women hnvo raised a found of $1,500 for un old people's homo nt that place. Beatrice business men have passed resolutions fnvorlng penny postage on first-class matter. Tho Burlington shops nt Havelock are again running full time nnd em ployes are pleased. The Elks lodge at Alllanco Is plan ning to erect n club house, costing from $15,000 to $20,000. The Fremont Ministerial association plans to hold services in the Dodge county Jail each Sunday. Eight cars of hogs, tho largest ship ment ever mado from that plnce, left Dawson ono day last week. An epidemic of mumps is enlarging the facial landscape of a larce nortlon of the Inhabitants of Edgar. Wlllard Butler, the Fremont boy con victed of killing his fnther, was sen tenced to lire Imprisonment. The Methodist church at Tecumsch Is conducting a series or revivals that may continue for some time. The city council nt Kearney has re jected all paving bids because of legal tangles In the bids submitted. The triennial convention of tho Royal Neighbors of America will bo held In Omaha. March 17 to 19 Ex-Governor George L. Sheldon wns tendered a banquet by members of the Masonic fraternity at Tekamnh. An historic homo erected at Ne braska City many yenrs ngo by Judge O. P. Mason has been destroyed by fire. Farmers around St. Llbory will gc Into the business of raising water melons on extensive scales this sum mer. A high school bnsketball tournament under tho nusp'cos of the stnte univer sity will be held at Lincoln March 11 to 14. J. S. Bonebrlght of Cortland had sev oral teeth knocked out by tho "kick" of tho crnnk as he was starting his au tomobile. Efforts nre being mado by the stato board of agriculture to got auto races for the first day or tho fair, Monday, September 7. Gust Anderson, near Craig, was bo badly frozen when ho got lost In tho storm of last week that ho may lose his hands and feet. J. E. Mason, a carpenter, wns at tacked by a wolf In tlio vicinity of Plnttsmouth, but by vigorous use or an nx finally killed It. The general merchandise store of Stumpp & Rounds at' Howe wns broken into nnd n large quantity of clothing and shoes stolen. Farmers In some sections of tho stato who seeded new fields or aKalfa last fall report that nearly the entire stand hns been winter killed. Norfolk hnB purchnsed the Fremont baseball franchise In the Nebraska Stato league. Tho entlro Fremont team was purchased In the deal. The Public Servlco club of Broken Bow gave Its first monthly banquet to tho members nnd their wives, there being Blxty-threo In attendnnce. One of tho young ladles on the sten ographic force at tho stato house at ijincom is getting around on crutches ns tho result of n misstep during tho execution of the tnngo' dnnce. Tho fiddling contest given by the Improved Order of Red Men at the opera honse at Plnttsmouth, was list ened to by n crowded houifc. This was tho fourth annual contest. For the first time In n number of years no nlfaira seed will bo shipped Into Nebraska rrom Germany. This Is on nccmint or tho unusually largt sup ply produced In tho stato this r. Tho big living house on the Lancas ter poor form was totally destroyed by fire, but Its thirty Inmates woro gotten out In safety. Grant Macfarland won over thirteen competitors In tho nnnual contest nnd will represent Stanton In tho district oratorical contest. The town of Eustis, in Frontier county, Is all worked up over a saloon fight. For years tho town has con tinued wet without question. Fred Fncknltz near Hastings was awarded $500 damages for farm prop erty destroyed ny tire originating rrom a spark from a Union Pacific engine. Genevn will vote on a $10,000 bond issue mis spring for tho purposo of building a town hall. Thomns Bdckley, n fcmor Nebras kan, lost his life by tho caving in of a woll near Iowa City, la. O. H. Lienors, Gago county's fnrm demonstrator, has returned from Wis consin, where ho purchnsed forty-flvo high grade Holstoln cattle for Gago county farmers. George Kargcs nnd Mdvlllo Pope, two Fairbury boys, nre In a serious condition ns tho result of colliding with a tree as they wero coasting down a long hill ti '' ma u: i JsV m O soJve KF solved once , , for all by Calumet. For dallv nse In millions of kitchens has proved that Calumet is highest not only in quality but In leavening power a well un failing In results pure to the extreme and wonderfully economical in use. Ask youi grocer. And try Calumet next bake day. Received Highest Awards y.rlJ'.P.r. Fm4 Eipmitlta. Oku., Ill F(ri ExMi Mtrck, 1112. Peace in That Family. A little girl being lost, wns taken to tho police station, where the officers tried to learn her nnmo. At last, after many vain efforts, ono of thorn asked her: "Toll me, dear, what nnmes does your mother call your rather?" "She doesn't call him any name," the child answered. Innocently. "Sh. likes him." Their Breed. "Your rather has a lot or very fine' chickens," observed tho young man. "Hns ho Incubators?" "No," said the sweet young thing Just home from boarding school. "I think they're. Plymouth Rocks." Dallas News. Only One "BROMO QUININE" I?..B.et ,,1B SBMiilnp. call for full name LAXA it. VV. OKOVE. Curcia Cold in Oue Day. JJc. It Was Ever Thus. Rirr What Is your son doing these days? Rnff Mo. Nebraska Awgwan. Constipation mines ninny eerious dis enw. it ia thoroiiKliIy cured by Doctor Pierce'n Pleasant Pe lets. One a laxative three for cathartic. Adv. "" His Way. "Thnt Jockey beat tho record " "Did ho do It with u whip?" BaVf moro American. Your family Doctor can't do more for rour cough than Dcan'H Mentholated Cough Drop,; "they cre"-Cc at DriSfifs. Somo men aro up with tho lark and Z$r protor a Bwa,,ow bofr Anybody enn dyo successfully with Putnnm Fadeless Dyes. Adv. Tho secret of getting a hearing is,; In having llttlo to sny. Nebraska Directory BOILER REPAIRS WILSON STEAM nnn r'unr-""""?e- mmm - .....r u., urnh H Sr m k-4 U SSSBfesw'v' Atos?? I Yn ion't ur Konry whea yea liy tki or llc-cia I C bi'iiii powder. Dsa't I miilej. Bar Cluut. Il' I I aort caonlcl or wholtMai fiw but rt alu. I Ctlomet li fir inptrior to war milk od it. " VpBQEQQigaTHHBi gg taUan. BoHbrDrM,! iff