EWjyjg'ff V' ",'.';'.: TJ'- .J ... ' , 'WWH . MftWW"rWBPWWI'mWM T4 vnniwi JiW H.-4..1i4 -1K . y ' Vir . BED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF !C r P I IK SEE EA5I SOLUTION GERMANY FORESEES EASY 8ET TLEMENT OF TROUBLE FORM LEAGUE TO FIGHT WAR eace Promotora Organize to Prevent Armed Conflicts Severe 8torm In Missouri and Kansas. Western Newspaper Union News Bervlca. Herlln. Dr. Anton Meyer-(Jcrhnrd, who Ib here with messages from the flerman embassy at Washington bear ing on (lit) Herman-American situation, has had a short conference with Dr. Alfred Zlmmermnnn, under Becretary Of foreign affairs and Count 'MontgclaB bead of thu American section of tho otuco. Gottlieb von Jagow, minister of foreign affairs, participated In part of tho deliberations. Tho naturo of Doctor Meyer-Gorhard's report has not been disclosed, but after tho confer enco Doctor Zlmmcrmann expressed hhnBelf as thoroughly satisfied with tho prospects of an nmlcablo settle ment of tho German-American dlfll culty. 8tormt In Kaniai and Missouri. Kansas City. 'Fifteen lives wore lost, a ocoro of persons woro Injured and property damago estimated at a quarter of a million dollars was dono by a terrlnc wind, hall and oloctrlcal atorm which centered In Missouri and Kansas Friday morning. The heavy .fill of rain ranging from two to five inches turned many email creeks In tht affected district Into turbulent streams which extended their waters over lowlands and sent tho rivers to which thoy are tributaries on rapid up .ward spurts. All points in the Kan as river valley and along the Alls jourl river from Kansas City to Jef ferson City are In possession of gov ernment warnings of Impending floods. LEAGUE TO FIGHT ALL WARS ee Promotora Ready to Adopt Any Measure. Philadelphia. Within historic Inde pendence hall on the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill thero was formed an organization whose object It will he to promote tho creation of a leaguo of nations with a view to preventing wars or, at least, to lesson the possibilities of armed conflict. The name adopted by tho organization after somo debato was "Leaguo to En force Peace, American Branch." Form er President Taft who presided ovor the conference for a part of tho time, was elected permanent president and, In addition a long list of representative Amerlcau citizens wero named as per manent vlco presidents. A perman ent oxecutlve committee was selected with instructions to take all measures necessary to promote tho objects of the league. Bulgaria to Remain Neutral. London. Conflicting reports nro afloat concerning Bulgaria's attitude. According to tho Paris Matin, negotia tions between Bulgaria and Turkey under German nusplcos aro about to result In tho cession to Bulgaria of tho wholo right bank of tho lower Marit zau, Including a portion of Adrianoplo, which would give to Bulgaria a rail way from Dedeagatch to Mustapha Pasha. This, or course, If truo. would mean that Bulgaria would remain neu tral. Washington. Tho Ynqul Indians, according to state department advices, have declared war on Germany, Mex ico and the United States. Their dec laration of war on Germany, tho nd. vices said, wns because a German col onist, a crack rifle shot, defended his homo in the last Yaqul raid with re muikablo buccosb and much disaster to tho raiders. San Diego, Cal. Peril of American ettlerB In tho Ynqul valley of Sonora state brought orders for tho dispatch of threo cruisers for tho west coast of Mexico and authorization to Ad miral Thomas B. Howard to land an expeditionary forco If ho thinks best. The flagship Colorado sailed first, un der orders from Washington cnrrylng three companies of tho Fourth regi ment, United States marine corps un dor Major W. N. McKelvy. Former Nebratkan Diet In Denver. Fremont, Nob. A telegram has reached tho firm of May Bros., whole sale grocers, announcing tho death at Denver of Lew May, well known No toraakan. Mr. May was clerk of the last territorial legislature In Nebras ka. Ho was In business In Fremont for many years and then removed to Omaha. From Omaha ho wjyjt to Den ver sixteen years ago. Mr. May wus well known as an ardent student of tho fish Industry nnd wns regarded ns an authority on tho subjoct. Leaves $1,500,000 to Suffrage. New York. An Inventory tiled here of tho property mentioned In tho will of tho lato Mrs. Prank Losllo showml .hat nearly ?1.GOO,000 will bo turntid to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt fur so of the suffrago cniiHo, Tho will . Leslie, who had tho tttlo of the 8 do llazus, left cash and valuod at nearly $1,800,000 jsyAicd that nil hut about 5300, "q Bivon to Mrs. Catt to bo at hor discretion, tho Vlng that tho suffrage c HEROES IN EVERYDAY LIFE (Copyright.) HE SEES PERMANENT PEACE DECLARE8 UNITED 8TATES MAIL POUCHES BROKEN OPEN. Former President Makes Prophecy at College Commencement Brit ish Aviator Killed by Fall. Western Newsparor Union News Service. Washington. Formal notice that tho United States mall pouches des tined for Sweden had been broken open in England and their contents tampered with has been submitted to the state department by W. A. Eken gren, the Swedish minister, with a re quest for appropriate action. Tho minister called at the department and delivered to Secretary Lansing a let ter, written on Instructions from hia government, reciting Instances of In terference with mall from Sweden and pointing out that such acts were In violation of tho provisions of tho world postal convention and of other treaty stipulations. Killed by Aeroplane Fall. Paris. Lieutenant Reginald A. J. Wurneford, who gained fame recently by blowing to pieces a Zeppelin over Belgium, und whose exploit won for him the decoration of the cross of tho Legion of Honor, was killed Thursday by the fall of nn aeroplane at Buc, Franco. Lieutenant Warneford was piloting the machine, which had as a passenger Henry Beach Necdham, tho American writer, who also was killed. Lieutenant Wnrneford and Ncedhara fell from a height of 600 feet. TAFT SEES PERMANENT PEACE Prophecy of Former President at Weltetley Commencement. Wellesley, Mass. Prophecy of n permanent peaco was issued by former President Taft at tho commencement exercises of Wellesley collego nt which 294 sonlors received their degrees. Speaking particularly of a peace meet ing to bo hold next week In Philadel phia, Mr. Taft said It was called for tho purpose of finding some means to make war less profitable. It was not called, he said, for the purpose of try ing to end the present war, but of dis cussing an International treaty which may be made at the conclusion of hos tilities. Being Held for Investigation. Scottsbluff, Nob. Dan Jordan, al leged father-in-law of Joseph Layton, Laytou's wife nnd Mrs. Jordan aro be ing hold for investigation in regard to tho death of Layton, who was shot nnd Instantly killed at his homo Sun day night. Two revolvers have been found, ono nn nutomatlc with which It Is believed tho shot that killed Lay ton was tiled. A number of unused cartridges wero found near the house Mr. Layton'a aged mother and his brother nrrlvcd for tho funeral. Borne. Pope Benedict has sent a formal protest to the Austrian govern ment ngalnst the roportcd arrest of tho Italian bishop of Trlont. Dis patches received here said tho bishop was interned nt Innsbruck. Forty Passengers Were Saved. Winona, Minn. Forty passengers of tho excursion steamer Frontenac from Ijicrosso, Wis,, wero rescued when tho boat collided with tho Burlington bridge over tho Mississippi river. The boat sank In twelvo feet of water. Reservists Going to Italy. Philadelphia. The Italia lino steamer Ancona sailed from hero Monday for Naples with 400 reserv ists of tho Italian army. The Anrona will stop at Now York where uuro reserves will be taken aboard. Must Furnish a Safeguard. Now York. The honor and safety of tho United States have boon jeo pardized by tho fnlluro of "our public Bcrvnnts" to provldo adequately for defense In war, said Charles J. Bona part, fornior attorney general, In nn address before tho national security leaguo hero. "Tho peril against which wo could furnish a safeguard may well becomo Imminent within months," said Mr, Bonnparto, "nnd thero Is tho greater reason to demand nn immediate remedy because so mi" tlnio has been so culpably lost." VILLA'8 PEACE OVERTURE3 ARE TREATED WITH SILENT CONTEMPT. Stories of Conditions In Mexican Cap ital Declared Authentic Street Car Service Returned In Chicago. Western Newspaper Union NewB Service. Washington. General Carranza has declined for the present, nt least, to accept overtures for peaco In Mexico by the Vllla-Zapatu faction. Three such offers have gone unanswered. The latest was transmitted through the me dium of the United States without comment. A few days ago tho conven tion assembled In Mexico City, over which Francisco Lagos Chazaro pre sided, formally presented to the Bra zilian minister, as tho representative of tho American fovernment, for transmission to General Carranza through diplomatic channels n pro posal for a thirty-day armistice, during which arrangements could bo made for establishing a provisional govern ment. Chicago Street Cars Run Again. Chicago. Normal service on Chi cago elevated and surface ear HneB wbb resumed Wednesday after an all night session of railway and labor rep resentatives and a council committee headed by Mayor Thompson had agreed on arbitration . The elevated lines rc8umod service soon after the announcement of the agreement, but It was several hours beforo anything llko a normnl Bchedulo was In operation. Representatives of the unions and of tho companies expressed satisfaction of tho settlement of tho trouble that had lnconvcnlonced the traveling pub lie for sovernl days. STARVATION IN MEXICO CITY. Stories Told of Conditions In Mexican Capital Declared True. Galveston. Tex. Three hundred and ninety refugees, of whom 284 nro Americans, wero brought to Galveston by the United States transport 15 u ford from Vera Cruz, Tair.plco and Tuxpam. They nro comfortably quartered on the flhlp while nho undergoes a five days' quarantine. Information from tho ref ugees brought by a few government of ficials who had charge of the expedi tion nnd were allowed to land to mako their reports Is to tho effect that every story told of the starving population In Moxlco haB been a truo ono and that men, women nnd children nro dying dnlly of starvation, not only In Mexico City but In hundreds of tho smaller towns of tho republic. London. A Central News dispatch from Amsterdam says reports received from Cologne state that tho recruits of tho 191G draft who were ordered last week to preparo for service, will be 'summoned to tho colors nt once In stead of In October, as had been pro. posed. Washington. Ambassador Pngo at London haa forwarded with a complete report of naval exports who examined tho American steamship Nebraskan. fragments of metal found on tho ship which nro Bald to strengthen tho ron elusion that tho ship waB torpedoed and did not strike n mine. Relief for Serbian War Sufferers. New York. Madame Slavko Grou Itch, wlfo of tho Serbian permanent secretary for foreign affairs, who has just returned from a two months' lec ture tour of tho country to raise funds to relieve wnr sufferers lu Serbia, an nounces that sho had raUed between ?GO,000 and $70,000. Madame Garoultch Intends to return to Serbia about July 1 to learn first hand the needs of tho stricken country. She expects to re turn In November nnd will go to Sau Francisco. Nebraskan la Consul to Rome. Washington. William F. Kelley of Lincoln, who wns named as consul to Homo, Is closing up his affairs hero to go to his post. Mr. Kelley will go to Lincoln In n few days to attend to some prlvato business thero and ex pects to sail for Italy in nbout a month. Mr. Kolley camo to Washington ns private secretary to Secretary Bryan nnd later was mndo nsslstant solicitor of tho department. Ono of tho last of llclal acts of Secrotnry Bryan was to sign Mr. Kolloy's commission as con sul to Home. BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA A farmors' union has been organ ized at Murdoch, Wlsner has voted $40,000 for a new high school building. Omaha will have some spectacu lar auto races July fth. Hastings Methodists will erect a new $50,000 church edifice. Over fifty per cent of the farmers around Valparaiso own autos. Work has begun on Kimball's new $20,000 fireproof grade school house Nebraska schools will celebrate the state'B semicentennial March 1, 1017. Monday, September C, will be chil dren's day nt the Nebraska state fair. Norfolk Is making a light on tho punch boards and other gambling de vices. Tho little town of Laurel Is making plans to secure electric light for that place. Ono thousand cases of strawberries were shipped from Brownvillo In ono day recently. HaBtlngB wnnts Billy Sunday to stop off there one day nnd "rasslo" with conditions that exist. Seven farmers of the Dlller vicinity marketed over 4,500 bushels of wheat the first part of last week. The Captain Harris house, at Ord. valued at $10,000, was badly damaged by fire, caused by lightning. The Plymouth school board has en gaged John Ashton of 'Glltner for principal during the coming year. The stato convention of the P. E. O. met at Fullerton laBt week with over a hundred delegntes In attendance. Oscar Hornyak fell down the ele vator shaft of a bululdlng at Fremont and received possibly fatal Injuries. Seven head of horses belonging to E. Myer at Oak were killed by light ning during a sovcro electrical storm last week. A local labor bureau has been In stituted at Humboldt for tho purpose of conserving tho time of employer and laborer. More than iOO members of the State Traveling Men's Association at tended the annual convention at Oma ha last week. The cold, damp weather has cut the prospective watermelon crop to an alarming degree, and growers look for a big shortage. A stratum of the rare earth forming the basis of "Denver mud" has been discovered by laborers digging scwor trenches at Lincoln. Rev. n. W. Taylor, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Osceola, has accepted a call to tho Parkvale Pres byterian church at Omaha. Fanny Gerollck, a 14-year-old Oma ha girl, has tho distinction of being the best writer out of 15,000 children who took the test in that department. Seven hundred automobile receipts have been Issued already by the coun ty treasurer of Polk county. It Is es timated that there are over 900 cars. Mrs. A. C. Bell was perhaps fatally injured and a number of people were hurt when a circus tent blow down in a rain and wind storm nt Erlckson. Glen Welton, 18 years old, sustained a compound fracture of the right leg and minor injuries when ho fell from a Burlington train as It was pulling into tho Lincoln yards. Tho village of Johnson is without adequate flro protection and for this reason and several others the citizens there are agitating the question of in stalling a waterworks system. Tho Dempster Manufacturing com pany of Beatrice, has turned down an order from European allies, refusing to consider a proposition to furnish them with arms and shrapnel. The mill dam of S. F. Gllman at Valentine was swept out In a cloud burst early last Sunday morning. The electric light and pumping stations were wrecked and the city left with out water or light. Marguerite Tharpe, a 16-year-old Omaha girl, is under arrest charged with attempting the life of her father, Ell Tharpe, by closing the doors and windows and turning on the gas while he was sleeping In his room. The National Mail Carriers' associ ation will hold its cessions at Omaha in September. MrB. Nina Workman, whose hus band was electrocuted by a live elec tric wire at Lincoln some months ngo, has been granted a mothers' pension. She has four childron, the youngest being but 15 months eld. Prominent educators In the Sev enth Day Adventtst church from Washington, D. C, and olsuwhero and church workers from the central and western parts of the United States and Canada will meet In convention at Collego View July 9 to 17. Frank Hedge, a young man living nenr Seward was seriously wounded when a rifle ho was cleaning was ac cidentally discharged. Tho bullet passed through his wrist and entered his right lung. A pollco ofllcer nt York, who shot three times at Frank Elliott, a young man of that placo wounding him in the leg, will bo prosecuted by Coun ty Attorney O. S. Gllmore of York county, on the advice of the stato legal department. Over 1,000 tcnnlf. experts are ex pected to attend tho state meet at Lincoln during tho week of July 26. Dr. James R. Haggard, for several years one of Lincoln's prominent phy sicians, was found dead in his bed at tho Central hotel. After two years of labor and ex penditure of some $200,000 the drain ngo ditch along tho Nomnha river n Johnson county has been com pleted. Ono hundred and soventy-two young men nnd young women, repres enting the largest class over turnod out by the Lincoln high school, re oelvcd diplomas at the forty-second annual commencement exercises of the school last week II HOSTILE IB CARRANZA'S CABINET MINISTERS RESIGN. RECRUITING FOR THE ALLIES San Francisco Said to Be Headquar ters for Activity Flood Creates Havoc at Rlverton. Western Newspaper Union News .Service Washington. General VenustJano Carranza, original leader of the Mexi can constitutionalist movement, Is face to faco with a situation that may eliminate him ns a factor In Mexican politics unless ho ylelda to thu dicta tion of his commanding general, Al varu Obregon, und other high officers of his army. Olllclal udvlce reveals that four of Carranza's cabinet min isters had resigned and that General Obregon was insisting on their reten tion ns wjll as the dismissal of tho members to whom they are opposed. Word also came to tho American gov- OREGON TRAIL MONUMENT Which wns unveiled nt the Intersection of the OreKnn trnll nnil the Meridian road near Hebron. Neb., May 24. Tho marker Is of ruby red pinnlte, over elKht feet high anil three and one-half feet wide. The citizens of llelnun i.nd Thayer county made elaborate nrrntiKenicnts for the un veiling and lu splto of the drenching rain; more than 2.000 adults und children tooh part In tho ceremony. ernm'ent that General Jose Maytorena, the Villa commander In Sonora, ob jected vigorously to tho possible land ing of American marines to rescue Americans In the Ynqul valley, Indi cating that he would regard such ac tion as a hostile invasion. Flood Causes Much Damage. Rlverton, Neb. Tho highest water ever known in ltiverton Saturday caused untold daningo and destruc tion hero. Ovor half of tho towns people wero routed from their beds at daybreak, to find Thompson creek entering their homes. A waterspout nt 3 o'clock near hero was tho cause. Tho steel wagon bridge went out at daylight and lodged against the Bur lington bridge, backing water onto the town so fast that tho people wero forced to fly for rescue without even taking their clothes from their homes. Water entered the new school building and stood three feet deep on the school grounds. RECRUITING FOR THE ALLIES. San Francisco Said to Be Headquar ters of Activity. San Francisco. Agents of tho de partment of justice are investigating alleged recruiting In California for tho nllles in tho European war. The main office of tho supposed recruiting agents Is in San Francisco. Franz Bopp, consul general for Germany in San Francisco, Is said to havo sup plied information upon which the in vestigation is based, but Bopp denied this. On good authority It was stated that somo of tho Investigators hai! found no trouble in enlisting. Some Hall at Wilcox. Wilcox, Nob. A heavy hall storm that swept this district Friday night did considerable damage to crops. Hailstones ns largo as baseballs broke out all tho north windows in the town. Scottsbluff, 'Neb. After throe days' search of the Joseph Layton farm n Winchester rlflo was found concealod under the hay In tho upper part of the barn. This was tho missing gun nnd it contained n discharged shell, the bullet from which Is believed to have boon the missile that sent Layton to his denth. Mrs. Jordan, supposed wlfo and accomplice of the accused man, It Is said, threw tho box of unused cart ridges into a vault and this led to the conviction that thero was n rlflo some where about, although nolghbors had nover seen It used. Navigation opens on Missouri. Omaha. Coming up from Its homo at Glasgow Mo., BOO miles, tho power boat Julln, pushing its barge, tied up at the levee at tho foot of Douglas street Wednesday forenoon. Playing by n brass band sent down by tho river navigation commltteo of tho Com mercial club, nnd tooting of tho club's siren whistle groeted tho boat and drew sovorol hundred people through tho rain to tho loveo, Captain Stev. ens, owner of tho hont, n typical Mis souri pilot and skipper, was glvon a great many glad hands. Ancient Artisans In Africa. 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