UwaW KkmMimm?WB&XlES& mm&imiXMw & RED OLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF DIED IN 6011 FIGHT SLAYER OF DETECTIVE RING IS SHOT IN BATTLE WITH OFFICERS. PROHIBITION MUCH IN FAVOR French Government Returnee Fight en 8ale of Alcohol Justifies Uee of the American Flag. Western Newspaper Union New 8rvlo Fremont, Nob. Juan Gonzales, Mex ican murderer of Detective King In Onialia, waa shot a mllo cast of Scrlb ncr about 4:30 Friday nftcrnoon. Boys who wore with hunting party saw what they took to bo a skunk on a partly submerged haystack In the river. They began shooting at the stack. The Mexican emerged from the stack and run. A party composed of Sheriff Condlt, Joe Gregg, Charles VandUHcn, Wil liam Dlneon, Clarence ICIdam and Charles HnsmiiBscn found Gonzales' tracks along the creek and followed them a quarter of a mile. Suddenly at u sharp bond In the creek tho Mex ican pee ml up ovor the creek bank and commenced firing nt hlB pursucrB, who were eight or ten rods away. Everybody In tho party commenced shooting and probably seventy-five Bhots were fired. Officers say that the killing of Con talcs will mako It impossible to con vict Joe Cantono, who was captured U Norfolk. British Office Justifies Flag Raising. London. Tho British foreign ofllcc has issued a note In reply to tho rep resentations of tho United States gov ernment concerning the uso of the American flag by British vessels. Tho note says that the Cunard lino steamer iLusltnnla on hor recent voyngu from Now York to Liverpool "raised tho (American flag to save tho lives of non combatants, crows and passengors." It adds that in splto or tho fact that American passongers ombarklng on tho Lusltnnld on her outward voyage from Now York usked that tho Ameri can flag bo hoisted, "tho British gov ernment did not give any ndvlco to the company as how to meet this request and it Is understood tho Lusitanla left Liverpool under tho British flag." FIQHT AGAIN8T ALCOHOL. French Government Begins Crusade Against Liquor Traffic. Paris. Tho fight ngalnBt alcohol was resumed in tho chamber of depu ties when tho question of prohibiting the opening of new barrooms or of any establishment whero liquor Is sold waa considered. A motion to postpono tho dobato becauso of the absonco nt tho front of mnny of tho deputies wns votod down. Minlstor of tho Interior Malvy insisting on behalf of tho gov ernment on tho Immediate discussion of tho bills. Tho majority by which the motion was voted down apparent ly showed tho sentiment In tho cham ber in favor of prohibition. Have 8ettled Down.tolJuslness. Washington. Confronted with the necessity of appropriating $90,000,000 a day for tho Inst eleven legislative days, congress has settled down to hurry through tho measures which will supply tho billion dollars needed to run tho government during tho next fiscal year. In tho senate tho entire day wns devoted to the ?n9,000,000 legislative, executive and Judicial ap propriation bill. Tho houso pnssed the pension bill, cnrrylng $164,000,000, and took up tbo diplomatic and consular measure, appropriating $4,r00,000. Death of Former Chancellor Manatt. Lincoln -Nob. Word has JUBt been received hero of the death of Prof. James Irving Manatt. of tho chair of Greek In Brown university, formerly chancellor of tho University of Ne braska. Tho cause of death Is given as pneumonia. Ho was seventy years of age and had held his position at Brown for twenty-two years. Laramio, Wyo. A strlko of fabulous .richness is reported from tho North-,rup-Nast mlno, in tho Douglas creek district, south of Laramio. A cavern of or running high in gold and plat Unum values waa recently penetrated, "but the find waa kept quloL Gas Explosion Costs Eight Lives. Wllkcsbarre. Pa. Eight mine work era were killed nnd six others serious ly injured by an explosion of gas at the Prospect colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal company here. Two of tho injured probably will dlo. The accident occurred In tho Red Ash mine nt a point noarly two miles from tho shaft. Tho heavy pocket of feod gaB that had accumulated behind a wall of coal forced tho coal out and Its ex posure to tho naked lights of the min ers caused a terrific explosion. Alfalfa a Leading Crop. Lincoln, Nob. Tho valuo of No oraskn's 1914 crop of alfalfa at an av erage price of $7 per ton was ?22,46G, 355, which entitles It to bo classed as one of our leading crops, as It Is fourth in valuo within tho stato. In a tabu luted statement the stato agricultural hoard Includes tlin rural population of the various statea in order to arrlvo at the per capita wenlth of produc tlvity basod on tho figures na given y the department of agriculture BREAD GOES UP AGAIN (Copyright.) EXTERMINATION ONLY CURE MADE ILL AT EASE BY GERMAN ANSWER. Live Stock Men Offer Solution of Foot and Mouth Disease Extra Session Not Desired. Western Newspaper Union News Service, Washington. Germany's reply to the American note of warning ngnlnst uny attacks on American vessels or lives in tho new sea zones of war served to Increase rather than dimin ish tho concern of oflicials of tho United States over possible complica tions, though tho friendly tone of tho communication made a friendly Im pression nnd gnvo some hopo that an understanding for the protection of neutrals might yet bo obtained. Officials were apprebcnslvo over tho formal statement in tho noto "that Germany disclaimed any responsibil ity for what might happen to neutral vessels venturing in the danger zone. Trying to Avoid Extra Session. Washington. Blocked in their ef forts to get tho houso ship purchase bill to a vote, democratic senators agreed to take up appropriation bills and sent the shipping measure to con ference until February 28, when It must tnko its chances of being fili bustered to its death on March 4. Re publican senators entered into a "gen tleman's ngrcement" with democratic leaders to let the houso bill go to con ference on condition that appropria tion bills bo pnssed within tho next ton days in order to avoid an extra Besslon of congress. EXTERMINATION IS ONLY CURE. Solution of Foot and Mouth Disease, Live Stosk Men Say. Chicago. Delegates to tho United States Llvo Stock Sanitary association convention agreed that extermination is tho only solution of the foot und mouth disease problem. Speakers from eighteen states told of tho means utilized to wipe out the epidemic In their localities. "There Is hut one nnswer to the problem," said J. J. Ferguson, secre tary of tho association." and thnt is tho prompt slaughter of infected cat tie. There is danger In temporizing with such n terrible disease and there Is no uso trying to dodgo the Issue." Frank James Dead. Excelsior Springs, Mo. Frank James, ono of tho last surviving mem bers of tho James gang, died on his farm near hero Thursday afternoon., James, who wns seventy-four years old,' and who hnd been In III health sev eral months, wns stricken with apo plexy. Suffragists Win InJVIassachusetts. Boston. Tho proposed woman suf frage amendment to tho stato consti tution was passed by tho houso by a vote of 19G to 33. It will bo acted on by tho voters at the election next November, having alrendy passed the senato. Robbed a Church. Nebraska City. Some time Inst week tho Lntter Day Saints church in this city was visited by burglars and two secret drawers in the pulpit broken into and tho contents, consist ing of tho Christmas and birthday of ferings, stolen. Tho exact amount taken Is not known. Entrnnco to tho church was gained by breaking the lock on the front door. Tho altar was also badly mutilated. This was tho second tlmo tho church had been burglarized within tho past year. To Ask Non-combatants to Leave. Copenhagen The report is In clr filiation horo that owing to tho neces sity of restricting food consumption, tho (icrmnn government intends order ing llvo million Germans who possess Independent Incomes and are In eligible for military service to lcavo Germnny for neiltrnl countries and re main there until tho war Is ovor It Is plauned, according to the report, that 3,000,000 of Uipbo persons shall go to tho Scandinavian countries, 1,000,000 to Holland and 1,000,000 to Switzerland. i GERMAN SUBMARINE DESTROYS FRENCH STEAMSHIP. Agricultural Department Finds Robins Lead, With English Sparrows Next Abandoning Lega tions In Mexico. Western Newspaper Uhloti Ncwu Service. Paris. The Fronch steamer Vllle do Lille, bolonging to tho Compagnle Navigation dos Bateaux u Vapeur Du Nord, sailing from Crebourg to Dun kirk, sighted the German submarine U-IU near tho lighthouse at Barfleur, and endeavored to escape, but was out-speeded by tho submarine, men from which boarded her and gave the crow ten minutes to leave In the ship's boats. They then sank the Vllle do Lille by bombs placed In her interior. The U-K! headed for a Norwegian steamer, but sank "but of sight when a division of French torpedo boats from Cherbourg appeared on tho horl hon. Abandoning Legations In Mexico. Washington. American attaches of the United States embassy In Mexico City, lately attached to the Brazilian legation, will leave Mexico City If all other diplomatic representatives de part. The state department has Informed the Brazilian minister, who hnB been In charge of American diplomatic In terests, that it presumes ho will be guided by Instructions from his own government, with respect to leaving, but asks him to advise tho American attaches that they may leave if others do. All the diplomatic representatives thoro havo asked tholr home govern ments Tor authority to abandon the t legations if the situation warrants. CENSUS TAKEN OF THE BIRDS. Robin Most Numerous, With English Sparrow Next. Washington. A census of birds of the United States, nnnounceil by the department or agriculture shows on average of sixty pairs of English spar rows to tho square mile or .even to i every 100 native birds throughout tho country. The robin is shown to bo tho most numerous bird, with the English sparrow a close second, in tho northeast robins averaged six pairs to each farm of llfty-olght acres, while English sparrows averaged five pairs per farm. Taking 100 robins ns a unit other birds were noted in the following proportions: Catbirds, 49; brown thrashers, 37; houso wrens, 28; kingbirds, 27, and bluebirds. 2tJ. Twelve Horses Cremated. Lincoln, Nob. Twelve horses were burned to death, a large barn and a lnrgo shop building wore destroyed and other property was imperiled by a flro that started at 2 o'clock Friday morning at tho plnnt of the Lincoln Transfer & Storago company at Tenth and Vine streets. Water pressure was low and firemen found much trouble In getting apparatus into service In thl' sea of mud that surrounded the fire. The loss was estimated at near $10,000. Education as an Asset. Lincoln, Nob. Thirty graduates re ceived dogrees at tho mid-year com mencement exercises held at tho Temple theater Monday evonlng. Dean E. A. Burnett of tho college of agriculture- dollvored tho commencement ad drebs on "Agricultural Education, n National Asset," in which he reviewed tho advance of agricultural education during tho last few years and the work Unit has been accomplished through education. Chancellor Avery conferred tho degrees Rioting In Panama. Panamti A careful investigation by tho Panami police and tho American military authorities reveals that only ono Pnnamati civilian was killed In tho riot lug hero Sunday; hut four persons were dangerously wounded and It Is believed that tho total number of wounded will reach forty-five. This list of casualties resulted from an en counter between Panaman police. American soldiers and Panama and American civilians in Cocon grove, known ss the tenderloin district. ATTACK THE FORTS ENGLISH AND FRENCH BEGIN BOMBARDMENT OF DAR DANELLES. IN PLOT TO INVADE MEXICO Recruiting Men In California to Oc cupy Mexican Territory Expo sition at San Francisco Opened Saturday. Western Ncwopaper Union News Service ixjiidon. The first serioiiB attacks by tho British and French .Mediter ranean Meets, nsslsted by aeroplanes und seaplanes on the Dardanelles forts, which commenced Saturday, has met with considerable success, ac cording to the British ofllclal account and unolilclnl reports received at Ath ens from the Islands of Tenedos, at the entrance to the Btralts. The Turk ish olllclal report, however, stated that no damage had been done to the forts nnd that the casualties of these defenders consisted of one killed and ono wounded, but that three of tho warships were damaged by shots from the forts. Opening of Exposition, , San Francisco. This city Saturday caw the noisiest day in Its history. It was planned by tho olllclal noise com mittee of the Panama exposition that the big fair might open with a bang. Stalling nt :30 n. m with tho noise continuing for an hour, here are some of tho things that happened: Big guns In all the forts around San Fran cisco boomed a salute. All church bells rang for an hour. Conductors and motormen on street cars clanged their bells Incessantly. All policemen blow their whistles as loudly ns they could and beat at Intervals with batons on trolley' poles. All sirens and steam whistles on flro apparatus on fire houses sounded continuously. All factories blew their whistles. Jit ney busses and other nutos honked their horns, engineers of steamers and locomotives sounded their wliistles. Carriers of morning news papers rang the doorbells of sub scribers If they hadn't ypt been roused to tho fact that they ought to be up and participating In the fair opening. IN PLOT TO INVADE MEXICO. Millionaire Assistant Manager of the Los Angeles Times Indicted by Federal Grand Judy. Lob Angeles. Cnl. Hurry Chandler, assistant general manager of the Ios Angeles Times, and millionaire land owner, was indicted by the fedoral grand Jury here In connection with an alleged conspiracy which had for Its object a military occupation of the Mexican territory of Ixwer Califor nia. Walter Bowker, hanager of tho California-Mexican I.and & Cattle company, in which Chnndler is heav ily Interested; General B. J. Vlljoen, a former Boer commander In the war with tho British In South Africa, and Baltazar Avllez, n former governor of Lower California, were Indicted sev eral weeks ago. Tho charge Is that Chnndler and the others engaged In a conspiracy to violate the neutrality or the United States by recruiting men nnd gather ing supplies on American soil for a campaign in Lower California. British Steamer Torpedoed. London. A German submnrlno made its appearance in the Irish sea Saturday morning und torpedoed with out notice the British steamer Cham back, of 1,990 tons register. Three of the crow were killed, and a fourth wns drowned while tho men wero tak ing to the boats. This Incident was the only ono connected with the Ger man submarine blockade of tho Brit ish isles reported during the day. It came about tho same time that tho Anglo-French fleets wero bombarding tho Dardanelles forts and while tho RiiEBlans, according to n telegram re ceived from Petrograd, were admin istering a defeat to tho Germans at Ossowetz, Polnnd, nnd driving back to the frontier tho troops who had aU tacked that fortress. Carrying Food to Belgium. New York. Carrying 6,848 tons of food donations from nearly thirty states in the union, tho steamer Batls can, under charter to tho commission for relief In Belgium, has sailed for Rotterdam. The largest single Item In tho cargo was 1,000 tons of flour and shelled corn in bulk from Iown. There wero donations also from Porto Rico and Honolulu. The ship carried tho largest number of single package donations that has yet been sent by tho commission in one cargo. There wero 20,000 in nil. German Blockade Begun. London. Thursday morning there went Into offect the Gorman notlco warning neutral shipping to nvold British waters. What will bo tho of fect of this declaration will tako sev eral days to demonstrate. British shipping Intorests profess to feel no nlarm, nevertheless nil passenger traffic from Englnnd to Holland haH been tied up. In the meantlmo tho British public Is perusing tho Gorman noto answering the Amerlcnn com munication concerning the war zone blockade BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA A camp of boy scouts hns been or Sunlzcd nt Wymoro. A state camp of the Sons of Voter mis has heon organized nt Lincoln. Tho old Day elevator nt Weeping Water, erected in 1882, Is being torn down. Tho Nebraska League of Municipali ties will hold its next meetings at Kearney. The government has decided to pur chase a sito for a federal building at Superior. Sarah Wright, aged 105 years, a ploncor of that section, Is dead nt her home at Hyannls. Mrs. Margaret Cuming, wife of tho first governor of Nebraska, is dead at hor home in Omaha. Fire from an ovehonted stove de stroyed ono of tho cottages nt the old soldiers' home at Grand Island. Rev. Kllmershue of Xenln, O., has nccepted the pastorate of the United Presbyterian church nt Pawnee City. John F. Walsh of Humboldt has been appointed commander of the old soldiers' nnd sailors' home at Burkott. "Billy" Hnrcld, nn Omaha ex-pol!ce-man, shot his wife, but not fatnlly, nnd then hlmsolf, dying a few hours later. John D. Evcrs Is the champion boy corn raiser of Otoe county, having gotten 78.4 bushels from an acre of ground. J. W. Cutright." Jr.. n Nebraska boy who served ns vice consul In Ger mnny, has returned to his home al Lincoln, Hnvelock Y. M. C. A. celebrated He first anniversary last week with a banquet at which over 200 were in attendance. Forty persons wero poisoned at Alma when some arsenic wns acci dentally spilled into a flour bin at a eating house. The Omaha board of trade will re build Its homo that suffered n quarter million fire loss with a strictly mod ern structure. Tho widow of the murdered Omaha detective, Tom Ring, has received a check for $1,000 from tho U. P. Rail road company. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Delsman ob served their fiftieth wedding annl versary at their home In Nebraska. City last week. George Folkerts, a farmer living eight miles east of Beatrice, lost three head of horses last week from the cornstnlk disease. Lincoln Is making extensive prepar ations to entertain the State Federa tion of Retailers when It meets there, February 22 to 25. The Mnsonlc bodies of the state will erect a couple of cottages on n tract of lnnd adjoining Fremont recently purchased by them. Henry Schuett of Omaha will estab lish a Jitney service nt Hastings. Ho will run twelve pnssenger cars on a fifteen minute schedule. A property loss of over $70,000 was caused by the burning up of the Lin coln Transfer and Storage Company's warehouses at Lincoln. John Llndlor, nn Omaha business man, was Instantly killed when he fell down an open elevator shaft at his es tablishment In that place. A team of horses attached to a de livery wagon was electrocuted when It ran Into a tanglo of electric wires at a street crossing nt Lincoln. A fire In the Bartley clothing store it Ord threatened tho entire business lection of town, Inck of water imped ing tho work of the flro department. Mondny, February 15, was the sev enteenth anniversary of the sinking of tho battleship Maine, in which 248 sailors nnd marines lost their lives. Professor James I. Manatt, a former chnncelfor of tho Nebraska university In tho latter '80's, Is dead at his homo at Providence. R. I., at the age of Beventy. Charles Kelley, an inmato of the in dustrial school for boya at Kearney, while kneeling on tho floor ran a large needlo into his knee, penetrating far Into the joint and breaking off. He was sent to Lincoln for treatment. Roy Snvldgo and Will Golden, Ne braska City boys, were probably seri ously injured when they went over a twenty-foot embankment while const lng. Mrs. N. Kelso, near North Platte, was Berlously Injured when a gun In tho hands of n son wns accidentally discharged, the load striking her in the side. Mr. nnd Mrs. H. A. Bragg of Elm wood are deeply concerned for tho nnfety of their daughter, Miss Jessie, who has gono as a missionary to India. Tho last letter received from hor was from Nova Scotia a month ago. Over n thousand retailers and man ufacturers are attending tho annual meeting nt Lincoln. Methodists at Elmwood nre com pleting their new $14,000 church, which will be fitted with league rooms, gallery, kitchen, and a lnrgo dining room, to bo used also as n gymnasium, R. F. Rambo of Blue Springs, the oldest Mason in Nebraska, is ownor of n relic in tho shape of a Masonic apron worn by his father, Richard Rambo, at n reception hold at Wil mington, Del., in honor of General Lafayette on his second visit to Amer ica, in 1825. Burglars entered tho Latter Day Saints church nt Nebraska City and stolo tho contribution box containing quite a sum in blrthdny nnd Christ mas offerings. Following nro tho winners In the old fiddlers' contest nt Auburn: First prize, ton dollars, J. A. Tiff, Auburn; second prize, six dollars, .J. 13. Arnold, Sommors, Iown; third prize, throe dollars, William Balfour, Nehawka. W. R. ("Billy") Adams, a widely known United PreBB telegrapher, died in St. Elizabeth's hospital at Lincoln Inst week, after a lingering illness from cancer. Catarrh oi Kidneys Cured By Pemna "I had Ca- gV tarrn ot we Kidneys and Bladder. 1 Am Very Thankful For Peruna. I Feel Well, My tongue is clear. I have no bitter taste in my mouth. I am glad to say I do not need Peruna any longer, I am perfectly well. I have Peruna in the house all the time. When I have a cold or when I do not feel well I take Peruna. We were all sick with the grip last winter. We took Peru na and it helped us. Peruna is the best medicine for grip or colds." Mr. Go a. H. Carlaam. n.i flfll. flh . .... ... - - looviiir, ParKCR'S HAIR BALSAM A tnllt t preparation of intrtt. ll.lp. to eradicate dandruff. Beauty to Cray or Faded HakJ wc auq ilwm uroiriftiUL That Cured Him". You should havo Been tho way Wuf ties' moaned over his petty ailments. He wns one of those chaps who were always bewailing their ill stato of health, when nil thnt Is really the mat ter with them 1b the need of a littlo lecturing "Oh. my chest, doctor!" ho walled to his physician ono evening. "My lungs feel bo compressed. Somo peo plo tell me to inhale sulphur fumes. Others recommend a seasldo holiday. What would you advise me to do?" "Try .fresh air," said tho doctor shortly. "Five dollars, please." MEAT CLOGS KIDNEYS THEN YOUR BACK HURTS Take a Glass of Salts to Flush Kid neys If Bladder Bothers Yon Drink Lots of Water. No man or woman who eats meat regularly can make a mistake by flush ing tho kidneys occasionally, says a well-known nuthority. Meat forms uric acid which excites tho kidneys, they become overworked from the Btraln, get sluggish and fall to filter tho wasto and poisons from the blood, then we get sick. Nearly all rheu matism, headaches, liver trouble, ner vousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and urinary disorders como from sluggish kidneys. Tho moment you feel a dull acho la tho kidneys or your back hurts or if tho urine 1b cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, irregular of passago or at tended by a sensation of scalding, stop eating meat and get about four ounces of .lad Salts from any pharmacy; take a tablcspoonful in a glass of water before breakfast and in a fow days your kidneys will net flno. This fa mous salts is mado from tho acid o? grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithla, nnd has been used for generations to flush and stlmulato tho kldnoys, also to neutralize tho acids in urlnn bo it no longer causes irrita tion, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot injuro; makes a delightful efferves cent Uthla-wnter drink which everyone' should tako now nnd then to keep the. kidneys clean nnd nctive and tho blood pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney complications. Adv. in After Years. "Beauty," remarked tho poetic youth, "may draw us with a alnglo hair." "During tho courtship, yes," 're joined the bald-headed man with a Blgh, "but after mnrrlage Bho is raoro likely to grab n handful." They stop the tickle. Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops top coughs quickly. A pleas ant remedy 5c nt nil good Druggists. It's easier for a young man to raiso a row than a mustache. sizzling cups of delicious Van Houten's Rona Cocoa for a quarter. Cheaper than coffee and healthier. Half pound red can 25c POTATO p& Haiti. on tiiH li t a : 1'Mllarflo 1'i.Uto.a helped put Wlsoontln war tlin tup w lit) It cnoriuoun uutau jlnid. Wn cn samo lor you. UlU HtSUlT UATAIWO VHUll du samo Jsbn A. Salter Satd Co., Sea 703, La Crow, wit. F1I w HEPI HKgXMi UaK r aVi a V "a.i MW . . "Kf-.. i"WJaW4 WO Z. ,-7!ryf9 a fMW ., , MSBgtartttlg ii iig anmilli i&mamwnmumm 'KV Jr- "M'THil, MM