h ' "C'swirrr ss- ' t -J.' " '" I - .. - . -i l J- It iTW J r T " tl Vi I J ;' J '- x ? ""- , ..-4 r"- 'V' & ' ' -.., -,. P -, ---.. . . w. 9- .,rjrOfci2l RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF X i IKE MISSING LI ROUMANIA MAY DECIDE TO ENTER CONFLICT. STILL PURSUING OFFENSIVE Distress Among the Jews Declared to Be Worse Than That of the Belgians Flour Still Advancing. Western Newspaper Union Nuwu Service. London. Should llouinunlu, now that Iho UuhbIiuis nro on tho border If not uctuully in TruiiBylvanln, docldo to participate In tho war on tho Bldo of tho allloa hor army will provide tho missing link In tho chain of troops winding from tho llaltlc to tho Adri atic, a distance, roughly, of 1,300 miles. This battlo lino would ho composed of Itusslnns, Itoumnnlnns, .Servians and Montenegrins on tho ono Hide and Germans nnd. Austco-Hungarlans on tho other. Whllo Houinanln has not yet taken tho fateful stop, the belief exists in tho countries of tho allies that she soon will do so. Startling Advance In Flour. New York. Eight cent bread Is a possible development of tho stampedo in tho Chicago wheat pit and the startling advance of wheat and Hour prices, according to big Now York bakorios. ' "The present situation Is without precedent in tho history of tho coun try, and It is Impossible to predict Just what will linppon." said a prom luent New York master baker. "We ore now paying about $7 n barrel for flour in carload lots. If tho upward trend continues, wo Bhall first ad vance bread to six cents. If flour goes to ?10, bnkors would bo forced to charge sovon or eight cents to mako a profit." 8TILL PURSUING OFFENSIVE. Storm and Flood No Hindrance to Op. eratlons. London. Tho winter storms and floodB. whllo thoy havo put an end to any military operations on a large scale, havo not been able to prevent the armies in tho oast and west from purulng tho offenslvo nt Isolated points nlong tho two extended fronts. In tho 8Uow-covereil hllln nt n.n nmi. CasUS tho hnrdv Siberians nrn RnnrMi. ing out tho routed Turks, who nro re ported to bo 3urrondorlng by thou sands, while In Flaudors. which Is vir tually all under wator, tho allies assert that thoy havo found it posslblo to ttnko sorao headway. Much Distress Among Jews. Now York. Tho first of n series of public mcotlnga launched by tho American Jewish relief commlttco for ufferors from tho war, tho objoct of which Is to reveal the distress brought to Jews by tho European conflict, will be held in this city shortly. Tho com mlttco declares that reports received during tho last fow weeks' show the condition of moro than 7.000,000 .lows In Russia, Poland and Gallcia to bo far worse than that of tho Dolglan refugees. Nearly 200,000 have fled from Gallcia and Dukowlna into west rn Austria, where they aro suffering from hunger and cold, tho report says. Look for Pacification in Mexico. Washington. An agreement of "all the armod groups" In Mexico, by which "tho problem of pacification is practically solved," has been reported to tho convention in Mexico City by General Gutlorrcz, according to the stato department advices from Consul eilllman. 8lnk German Battleship. Buenos Aires. La Pronza publishes tho report that an engagement has taken placo off Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, between tho British battlo cruiser Invlnclblo nnd tho Gormnn battlo cruiser Von dor Tann, adding that Uio Von dcr Tann has been sunk. An Exchange of Prisoners. Rome. Negotiations nro under way In Homo with tho object of having tho governments of tho belligerent coun tries appoint dologates to discuss with tho holy bco tho details of tho project providing for an exchango of prison ers. Revolution In Paraguay. .Washington. A revolution has broken out in Paraguay, according to information reaching the stato depart ment. Tho prcsldont haB been placed in captivity. In street fighting at As uncion, tho capital, moro than seventy five persons wero killed and wounded. High Price for Holsteln Bull, Syracuse, N. Y. Rag Apple Korn dyko VIII, a Holsteln bull, was sold at auction horo for 525,000. Oliver Oanaba. Jr., of Buffalo, was tho pur o has or. Washington. An effort by Repre sentative Dan V. Stephens to author ize tho enlargement of tho Genoa In dian school to accommodate 400 pupils, instead of 375, was defeated in the house. A second amendment to Mr, Stephons to Incroaso tho, appropriation for tho school from $G,500 to $0,950 was ndoptod. "Tho government would snvo $3,000 annually in trnnsportntlon if this amendment were adopted," said Mr. Stophens. "if indlnn pupils want to attend school in other stntes they should pay their own transporta tlon." BRIEF NEW8 OF NEBRASKA Pet row Bros, hnvo purchased tho Bader block at Fremont for $42,800. Mrs. Carrio Swan, uged forty, fell dead of heart troublo on the street nt Alliance. Hastings will hold an oloctlon to voto upon tho Issue of, bonds for now school buildings. The Lincoln telephone company will havo to pay $500 or moro each month an a federal war tax. S. S. Brink of Fremont Is dead from blood poisoning developing from a Blight scratch on his hand. Tho mica mill nt Crawford, which has been closed down for nomo time, Is again running full capacity. Ernest Galloway, publisher of tho Balcm Standard, has Just been ap pointed postmaster at that placo. Falrbury will mako . an effort to rnlso funds to buy tho Superior fran chise In tho state baseball league. Fremont park commissioners object to flooding tho city park for a skating rink on tho ground that It will kill tho grass. Tho annual convention of tho Loaguo of Nebraska Municipalities will bo held in Lincoln, February 10 and 11. An epidemic of measles in serious form hns broken out at University Place, ovor 200 cases having de veloped. A special ship to carry donations from Nebraska to starving Belgians hns been chartered by tho stato relief commission. Tlic Amorlcnn Yoomnn havo pur chased a lot nt North Platto and It Is expected that tho lodgo will erect a $25,000 building. Tho million-dollar bond of George E. Hall or Franklin, tho now statu treasurer, lias been filed with the sec retary of Btnto. Mrs. 13. A. Scully of Gngo county has just paid Into tho treasury nenrly $10,000 for taxes on her realty hold ings in that county. John Curry, formerly of Lincoln, is putting Firth on tho map through tho columns of tho Advocate which he i's Issuing at that placo. Frank Busier of Lushton, who had his arm and hand bndly mangled In a corn sholler n few woeks ago, died as a result of his Injuries. O. L. Shumwny wns elected post master at Scotts Bluff at a primary hold for that purpose last week. Thero wero threo candidates. Tho finishing touches nro being put on tho A. O. U. W. lodgo hall at An selmo. All tho lodges in tho city will hold meetings in tho now building. An explosion followed tho lighting of a match in a gas-filled room nt Omaha, In which Andy Knox nnd An tony Whlto wero seriously burned. Flro of unknown origin caused a loss of $15,000 to tho Gillesnlo & Phil. Mps bindery nnd tho Western News paper Union printing plant at Lincoln. O. M. Pollard sustained two frac tured ribs and a fractured collar bono whtm an automobllo crashed into a buggy In which ho was riding at Falls City. Dr. Luther P. Ludden of Lincoln. well known throughout tho west, died very suddenly of diabetes while en gaged in church work at Williston, N. D. Bort Bush, n farmer from Newman Grove, wns found in an alloy at Oma ha with both feet so badly frozen that they will probably havo to be amputated. She passing of hypothetical arith metic nnd tho entranco of vocational arithmetic into tho Lincoln grade schools Is announced ns a probability by Superintendent Hunter. W. C. Blackburn, a Union Pacific porter of Omaha, after clinging to tho handrail outsido a closed vestlbulo car until forced by tho cold to let go. fell to his death as tho train passed Richland. Thirty-two million three hundred thousand pounds of sugar beets were grown around Culbortson tho past Beason, which wero '.hipped In 500 cars of thirty-two tons each and netted tho growers something over $80,000. All tho churches at Stella united in a public outdoor Christmas celebra tion. A large tree, lighted up by elec tricity, was placed in the center of tho business section of tho city. Tho family of Policeman Nick Santo of Omaha was overcome by gas fumos escaping from a hard coal Btovo, and only tho prompt and activo work of a physician revived them. Twenty-five thousand dollar bonds for tho proposed bridge over tho Platte east of North Platto have been placed and bids for tho Htcol and con crcto construction will soon be re quested. G. V. Gnhngon, superintendent of tho Methodist Sunday school of Gib bon, dropped dead as ho was on his way homo from his church, whero ho had. beon to ring out the old year. A slight scrotch on tho back of his hand, sustained whllo ho was shaking down tho grate of tho furnace, result ed In tho death of S. S. Brink, Janitor of the Y. M. C. A. building at Fremont. A dnm in Salt creek at Roca was dynamited Saturday night and an other dam washed out by tho suddenly roloased wall of water. No motive for tho blowing up of tho dam has beon discovered. Ninety per cent of all tho hogs in Adams county havo beon vIctlniB of tho cholera epidemic, according to Ira Doty, n Hvo stock man of that county. A Burlington train hit nn auto con taining the family of Ben Wythors at a grado crossing near York, demolish ing tho machine, but fortunately only Bllghtly Injuring tho occupants. Friends of Frank Harrison of Lin coln, who with a party Is touring Guatemala, havo received Christmas cards from tho tourists describing that land of dreams and boasting of a tomperaturo ranging from GO to 72 dogrcos during that weak. 5tf iiVwbRaK'y I . "" IJAMOARV THAWS'. mfWv 'WV r3 ftflr fc f & t sLf m m to JfN HH . S t t 1 " TJ TLT j "'" TW T 'V ft JiLmL Vul 4B(, c TdLmr t wTrri' -f tiii ,fn ji A n y IJtfrf fc. Cm m 9JI9IHBj if ICupyruthU MUST STOP FRATERNIZING CHICAGO BAKERS FEAR FLOUR FAMINE- German Troops Must Cease Visiting With the Allies Denies Selling Rifles in Europe. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Chicago Resolutions calling on con gress to placo un embargo on tho ex port of wheat and flour, ns well as on arms and ammunition, will bo Intro duced at tho next meeting of the Chi cago Retail Grocers' and Butchers' association. S. Wcstorllold, chairman of tho trades relations committee of the national association of tho re tailers, planned to begin in thlB man nor a determined flght against tho high cost of flour and incidentally of home-baked bread. Leaders on 'chango predict in somo Instances that if tho prico of wheat went much higher, thero would bo a general turning to corn In placo of wheat bread, both In this country and In Europe. Not Selling Discarded Rifles. Washington. Widespread rumors that tho war department has been sell ing Its discarded Krag-Jorgensen army rifles to European belligerents are for mally denied by Secretary Garrison. In a statement announcing that tho government had no present intention of changing Its order prohibiting the sale of theso guns, tho accretary says. "Thera' is no intention at present of altering the order refusing to sell theso rifles. Thero Is no truth In any statement that anyone has contracted with the government to buy them, or in any position to deliver them. They will not at present bo either sold or delivered, nnd all rumorB and reports to the contrary are untrue." NO MORE FRATERNIZING. German Troops Must Stop Visiting the Enemy. Berlin. Tho German army authori ties havo issued a general order pro hibiting in future troops in tho field from fraternizing with forces of tho enemy as they did at several points In tho western thenter of tho war at Christmas. To such an extent was thlB fraternizing carried out that at one place whero the Germans and Brit ish played football all Christmas, day, they agreed to suspend hostilities for two days more. Warn Women Away. San Francisco. Wnrning to women not to como to California with the ex pectation of obtaining employment dur ing tho Panama-Pacific exposition, has been issued by tho commission of im migration and housing. Applications for employment havo been received from 10,000 women throughout tho country. Positions aro open for only about 1,000. Between 15,000 and 20, 000 women stenographers and ofllco workers aro now declared to be with out employment in tho state. Plan Exclusive Land Colony. Denver, Colo. Tho most exclusive laud colony In tho United States will bo established in tho mountains of Costilla county, Colo., If tho plans of muUl-mlllionarlea of New York, Den ver and Colorado Springs Just an nounced are carried out. It is planned to mako part of the land ono of the finest game preserves in tho United StatOB and to stock it with deer, oik and buffalo. Tho colonists hope that when their plans aro completed, the placo will bo tho social contor of the woat Lincoln, Neb. On tho order of Gov ernor Morehead, which was Issued up on tho recommendation of tho prison physician, Snlvatoro Franco, who is serving a fifteen year sontence for murder, has been transferred from tho penitentiary to tho Lincoln nsylum, Franco was recolved nt tho stato pris on December 2!), 1011, having been committed from Nuckolls county. What tho doctors term a lesion located In tho motor nrea of tho convict's brain has robbed hlra of tho faculties of speech nnd hearing In addition to disturbing his mental balance. STALLED I HOUSE DECLINES TO CONCUR IN SENATE EXCLUSION. Over Hundred Million Dollars to the Good Last Month Turk No Longer a Menace In War. Western Newspaper Union News Servlco, Washington. Tho immigration bill prescribing a test of literacy for aliens coming into this country watt sent to a conference committee of the house and senate by the house, after a vigor ous debate over tho amendments written into the measure by tho sen nte. Before Bending tho bill to con ference the house registered its disa greement to tho senate amendments excluding "members of tho African or black race" and erempting from tho literacy test and the contract Immi gration provisions of law Belgian ag ricultural immigrants coming to thlB country because of conditions caused by tho European war. Turks No Longer a Menace. London. A completo cnange in the situation in the near east may be brought about by the Russian victory over the Turks in the Caucasus. If tho Turkish defeat is as sweeping as has been officially reported the vir tual destruction of two Turkish army corps and the repulse of a third tho Turkish menace ngalnBt tho Russians in trans-Caucasia has been removed. The loss of so many of their best trained officers and men. It is believed here, will compel the Turks to give up any ambition they had of invading their enemy's territory and force them to concentrate on the defense of theli own country. BALANCE OF TRADE HIGHER. Over Hundred Million Dollars to Good in December. Washington. iA $110,000,000 balance of trade in favor of the United States ori December's foreign business was Wednesday's preliminary estimate of tho department of commerce. Exports during tho week ending Jan uary 2 amounted to $40,848,564, an in crease of moro than $2,000,000 ovor the previous week, but almost $0,000,000 less than tho week ending December 19 and almost $5,000,000 less than that of December 12. Imports for the week ending January 2 amounted to $23,050,831. an Increase of $3,700,000 over the previous week. Duties collected amounted to $2,594, 420, an increase of $4C7,000 over the previous week, but from $COO,000 to $1,000,000 less than any of the first three weeks of December. Rigor Relaxed at Paris. Paris. The military situation is now so satisfactory that the government has begun gradually to relax tho rigors of tho war regime for Parisians. By decree, Aloxnndre Mlllerand, minis ter of war, has declared that the en tronched camps of Paris, with the ex ception of tho district of Pontoise, is no longor Included in the zono of op orations nnd Louis J. Malvy, minister of tho Interior, now permits bakers to mako fancy bread, a practice forbid den slnco August 7. "Buy It Now" Campaign. Omaha, Neb. A nation wido cam paign to assist In tho revival of busi ness under tho slogan "buy It now," hns been launched hero by tho agricul tural publishers' association, a national association of farm papers. The movement proposes to quicken com merce and manufacture by hastening purchases which must be made sooner or later. The nppcal Is directed par ticularly to tho farmers, who are to be urged to buy necessary Implements nnd materials now rather than wait until spring, Labor Union Must Pay Damages. Washington Ending eleven years of litigation, the supremo court holds that somo two hundred Connecticut labor union members must pay $252, 130.09 dnmuges under tho Sherman anti-trust law for a nntlon-wldo boy cott of D. E. Ixjowo Co,, Dnnbury, Conn., hat manufacturers, who refused to unionize tholr shops. Tho bank accounts and homes of many of tho mon already aro under attachment to pay tho Judgment, and tho next step probably will be foreclosure. WITH THE LAWMAKERS WHAT 18 BEING DONE IN HALLS OF CONGRESS. Epitome of the Work of the Dally Sessions of the National Lawmakers. Western Newspaper Union News ficivlce, Saturday. The Senate Met at noon. Eulogies on lato Senator Johnston of Alabama wero delivered. Hearings wero continued on the Philippine bill. Senator Cummins Introduced a sub j.tltuto for tho administration shipping bill. Tho House Met nt 11 a. m Debate was resumed on the Indian bill. Conferees began framing their re port on tho immigration bill. Friday. The Senate Hearings before com mittees were resumed on the Philip pine nnd mineral land leasing bills, Senator Cummins Introduced a reso lution calling for information ns to what tho United States Intends to do with the customs nnd other taxes col lected at Vera Cruz. Senator Fletcher Introduced a new rural credits bill, to put such n sys tem under the federal reserve board. Senntor Walsh's resolution calling for diplomatic correspondence on de tention of American copper shipments was passed. Continued consideration of District of Columbia appropriation bill. Adopted resolution of sorrow nt the death of .Mrs. Thomas S. Martin, wlfo of the senior senator from Virginia. The House Resolutions were adopt ed acknowledging Louisiana's Invita tion to tho celebration of the bnttlo of New Orleans, nnd Representative Dupre spoko on the event. Debate on the Indian bill was re sumed. A bill for six new revenue cutters was reported favorably from tho com merce committee. Representative Willis, governor-elect of Ohio, resigned nnd made a farewell speech. Thursday. The Senate .Met at 11 a. m. Philippine committee continued hearings on the pending bill and de cided to take testimony on the mill tary Importance of tho island. Tho treasury department order sus pending publication of manifests of vessels for thirty days was debated. Hearings on the mineral laud leas ing bill wero begun before the land3 committee. Tho House Met at noon. Tho Senate's nminilmi,nl in ho m. migration bill were discussed. Wednesday. Tho Senate. Discussed Hardwick resolution calling for all papers in case of British declaration of resin ous products as contraband. Unanimously rejected tho nomina tion of Ewlng C. Bland as United States marshal for the western dis trict of Missouri. The House. Considered miscellan eous bills. Agricultural commltteo continued consderation of agricultural appropria tion bill. Naval appropriation bill was dis cussed In naval committee. BUI Introduced by Representative Bruckner of New York to authorizo commissioner of immigration to col lect passports from citizens return ing from abroad. Sunday, February 7, sot asldo for eulogies of tho lato Representatives Payne and Merrltt of Now York. Dr. Ludden Dies In North Dakota. Lincoln, Neb. Dr. Luther P. Lud den, a well known Nobraskan and church worker, died suddenly at Wil liston, North Dakota, Thursday night. A brief message bringing this brief In formation was received by his family. He was on tho road attending to his duties as western field secretary of tho board of homo missions of tho genoral synod of the Lutheran church. Civil Administration. Borlln. Announcement Is niado here that the portion of Russian Pol and occupied by the- Germans has beon provided with a civil administra tion under Herr von Brandensteln. Prisoners Placed on Short Rations. Washington. Baron Zwicdlnelt, counsellor of the Austrian embassy, assorts that Austrian prisoners of war In Siberia wero reported to bo receiv ing food only overy other day, and that many wero suffering from cold. The United States has brought the plight of tho prisoners to tho attention of the Russian government, but the Austrian embassy asks that further representations bo made. A relief committee, composed in part of Amer ican missionaries, has gono to Siberia with medical and other supplies. Washington. President Wilson hoB declined, for tho sixth time nine h entered tho white houso, to support a federal constitutional nmendmont for woman suffrage When a delegation of democratic women who declared Hint thoy had helped to elect him, pre sented tho sixth formal petition, the president repeated his previous declar atlon that he considered suffrage a Btato lBsue. "I am most unaffectedly compll mented, howevor, by this visit that you havo paid me," tho president told tho women. Salter's White Bonanza Oat. Made C. J. Johnson of Lincoln Co, Minn., famous in growing 213 bushels from 2V& buHhels sown last vpring. Can yos beat that in 1015? Wont yea try? 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