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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1916)
""WlfKW JflWI'ijL'W" fft pr RED OLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF imericaf& &iJig Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrnnnuo) l.ontli. iiliotit olKlit anil otie-tinli ImcIich Tim whlto lower surface and whlto-tlppcd tall dlstliiKiilsli this lly catcher. Itnngc IiriM'ds throughout tho Unit -'l Status (uxcopt tho sotitliwrsturn part) ami sotithoin Canada; wlntura ""om Moxlfo to South America. Habits and uronotnic status: Tin; Itllllllllril l.q ii iitiitimtMi'iwI iiiifimv if Intuits and crows, which It vlnoronslW attacl.s at uvcry opportunity there by alTordliiK elllclcnt protection to nenrby poultry yards and youni: chick ons at largo. It loves the open coun try and Is especially fond of orchards iiml ticcs about farm buildings. No less than 85 per cunt of Its food con sists of insects, mostl or a harmful nature. It oats thu common rose chafer or rose bus, and more rumnrltablo Htlll it dovours blister beetles freely Tho bird has been accused of eating 'lonoybces to au Injurious extent, but tlLU!I there Is little ground for the neensn tlon, as appears from tho fact that examination of tilll stomachs showed only CI bees In 22 stomachs. Of these fil wero useless drones On the other hand, It devours robber Hies, which catch and destroy honeybees Grass hoppers and crickets, with n few bugs anil somo cutworms, and a fow other Insects, make up thu rust of the ani mal food. Tho vegetable food con sists of fruit and a few seeds Tho kingbird deserves full protection. Nighthawk (Chordclle3 vlrginlanus) Length, ten Inches. Not to he con fused with the whlppoorwlll. Tho hit tor lives in woodland and Is cbleily nocturnal. The nighthawk often tiles by day. when tho white bar across the wing and its nasal cry ure dis tinguishing. Itungo: Hrceds throughout most of the United States and Canada; win ters in South America. Habits and economic status: Tho skillful evolutions of a company of nlghthawks an the birds gracefully cleave tho air in Intersecting circles Is a sight to bo remembered. So ex pert arc thoy on tho wing thut no In sect is safe from them, even tho swift dragonfly being captured with ease Unfortunately tholr erratic High! tempts mon to uso thorn for targets, and this Inexcusable practice is seri outtly diminishing their numbers, which Is deplorable, sluco no birds arc more useful. This species makes no nest, but lnys Its two-spotted eggs on thu baru ground, sometimes on the gravel roof of tho city house. Tho nighthawk Is a voracious feeder and Is almost exclusively insectivorous Some stomachs contninod from 30 to 60 different kinds of Insects, nnd moro than COO kinds have been identified from tho stomachs thus far examined. From COO to 1,000 ants arc ofton found in a stomach. Several species of inou quitocs, Including Anopheles, tho transmitter of malaria, aro eaten. Oth er well-known pests destroyed by tho nighthawk aro tho Colorado potato beetle, cucumber booties, chestnut, rlco, clovor-leaf and cotton-boll wi-o-vllB, blllbURs, bark beetles, squash bugs, and moths of tho cotton worm. Myrtls Warbler (Oendrolca coronata) length, ilvo and ono-half Inches. The similarly colored Audubon's war- blor has a yellow throat Instead of a white ono. Ilangn: Urecds throughout most of tho forested nrca ot Canada and south v ' raiw 4 ? tn. uhhs.v-1 jm Interesting infor mation about them supplied by th? fiurecu of Biological Survcv of tlic United States 'Department of ACricuiture to Minnesota. Michigan. New York, and Massachusetts; winters In the southern twothluls of the United Stairs anil south lo Panama Habits and economic status This member of our beautiful wood warbler fanill). a family peculiar to America, has tho characteristic voice, colora tion, and habits or Its kind Trim o! form and graceful of motion, when seeking food It combines the methods of the vwciis. cicopois, and flycatch ers It breeds onlv In the northern parts of tho eastern United States, but In migration It occurs In uvery patch of woodland and Is so nutneious that It is familiar to every observer. Its place is taken in tho West 1 Audubon's warbler. Moro than threj fourths of tho food of tho myrtlo war blor consists of insects, practically (.11 of them harmful. It Ib made up of small beetles, including somo weevils, with many ants and wasps. This bird Is so small and nlmblo that It success fully attacks Insects too minute to bo piey for larger birds. Scales and plant lico form n very considerable part of Its diet. FIIcb are tho largest item of food; In fact, only a fow fly catchers and swallows" eat as Many Hies as this bird The vegetable food (-J per cent) is made up of f rule and tho seeds of poison onk or ivy, also tho seeds ot plnu and of tho bu) berry. Yellow-Billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus amerlcnnus) Length, about twelve Inches. Tin yellow lower part of tho bill distin guishes this bird from its near rela live, the blnck-bllled cuckoo Ilango: Uracils generally In the United States and southern Canada; winters In South America Habits nnd economic status: This bird lives on the edges or woodland. In groves, orchards, parks, and even In shaded vllkige streets It Is somo till t-s known as rnln crow, because Its very ' hnraiterlstle notes aro supposed to foretell rain. The cuckoo has sly, fuitlve ways as It moves among the bushes or lilts from trco to tree, nnd Is much moro often heard than seeu. Unlike its European telatlve, It does not lay Its eggs in other blrdB' nests, but builds n nest of Its own This lo, however, a rather crudu and shablry affair hardly moro than a platform of twigs sulllclent to hold tho green ish uggs Thu cuckoo is extremely useful becauso of its insectivorous hab its, especially as it shows a marked preference for tho hairy caterpillars, which fow birds cat. Ono stomnch that was examined contained lifJO American tont caterpillars; another, iM7 fall webworms, In places where tent caterplllnrs are abundant tliey scorn to constltuto n largo portion of tho food of this and thu black billed cuckoo. No Commendation. "You Boom to think a great deal of that candldato." "How do you arrive at that conclu sion?" asked Senator Sorghum. "Why, you hnvo alwnys supported him." "Yob: but a public man's nttitudo toward n candldato may bo that of tho family toward tho head of tho house. You don't necessarily think any moro ot a man becauso you've got to sup port him." w 1 NEBRASKA! f S TATE NEWS j DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. May 2.1-2I2.i Stale Hatncxs and Sad dle Makers' ufiioukillou meeting at Columbus. May 211, 21, 2- Nebraska Medical As soclatlou coinentlon at Omaha. May 2125 State Association of Com mercial Clubs' Convention at Omaha. June 3 ami , Pageant of Lincoln, piesentlng "The tlulo City." Juno G-fi Spanish War Veterann' State Convention at North IMattu. June 12 to 15 Trans Mississippi Mak ers Ass'n con wtit Ion at Omaha. June n-li-ir. Annual convention ol Nebraska I Ilk at Omaha June III to lfi st.ilo P. V. O. Conven tion at Alliance Juno l!Mi r, tiicut Western Handl cap Tournament at Omaha. June Ml 20 21 22 Aiueilc.in Union o! Swedish Singers, West. l)lv con certs and romention at Omaha. Juno 20 to 21 Stale Stockmen's con ontlon at Alliance. June 21 to 23 Kiaiomnl Order of KiiKlcs, slate meeting at Lincoln. July 25 -Nebraska Democratic con vention at I lasting!!. July .l.,-, -Mid Summer Race Meet al Kearney. July G to 8 -State Coif Tournament at Omaha. July 10-11-12-Northwestern Hotol Men's Association Convention al Oiiuilm. Juue 2S-20 Inlei national Auctioneers Association Convention at Omaha, Victor Westcott, employe of a ti ac tion sawmill out lit. met death while moving from one locality to another near ltnvenna. A bridge over n small stream broke down and Wo.st cott wns caught In the machine In such n way that his abdomen was crushed, one arm and one log broken and the lower limbs badly burned. After being released ho was lushed to ltnvenna for medical assistance nnd died just as he reached town. His family home In at Wood Illver. Joo Steelier, tho Dodge county wrestler, whllu in Fremont the other day, declared that ho had no doubt or his ability to take tho measure of Strangler Lewis, who ho In to wrostlo In Omaha July 4, "providing ho will come on and wrestle." Ho added that ho would begin training six weeks In advance of the bout and that ho would bo In tho best of condition. A new union depot for Lincoln Is In sight. Within tho next thirty or sixty days the Hurllngton will submit through the Lincoln Commercial olub a proposition that will embody a big, new union depot for Lincoln with plo sions lor the accommodation of other roads upon terms that It Is be lieved certain will prove acceptable, so say railroad olllelals. Preaching the gospel or better roads, the Omaha - Lincoln - Denver Hlghwny unsocial Ion will start n. campaign during tho stnto commercial club mi cling at Omaha, May 215 and 21, leaving Omaha by automobile nt the close of the meeting and limklni n run over tho Oinaha-Llncoln-Donver load, stopping at every town and con ducting a speaking campaign Nebraska grand lodgo or tho Knights or Pythlnw at tho leoent convention nt Hastings voted to establish a Pyth ian home in tho state. Tho location to bo decldod upon when tho fund has grown large enough to start tho erection or tho building, Tho fund will bo raised by an annual per capita tax of 5 cents on all tnombors. J Corwin Tomple, a young mnn or Utlca, N. Y who Is walking ncross tho continent to Ran Francisco, was In Table Rock the other day. He Is to malto the trip out In ten months and back In threo and ono-half months. If bo succeeds ho Is to ro celvo ?000 In cash A company or Hurllngton olllcl.ils wero in Tocuniseh recently in the In terest or tho proposed new depot. Thoy had a number or blue prints of tho railroad yards and went over tho ground thoroughly. The Indications aio that work will begin shortly. Tho cloth for tho costumes for tho second annual pageant, "Tho Oato City," to bo held in Lincoln Juno 5 nnd C has urrlved and Is being nindo ready Tor tbo occasion. People or Omaha aro considering the proposition of requesting the fed oral government to estnWIsh a ciH-7-cns military training camp at Fort Crook. Business men from severnl towns over the stato havo already signified tholr Intentions to Join If tho project is put through. Ono or tho hugest oventB ever car ried out by th International Auc tioneers' association will bo tho con vention in Omaha Juno 28 nnd 20. Moro than 400 portions nro expected from all parts of tho stato. Hoy scouts of Seward havo com pleted plans for a cross-country hike, tho dato of starting having been set for May 2fi. The boya will mako tho trip to Manhattan, Kan., a distance of 140 miles. As tho result of public Improve ments the city council of Ilnstlngs In creased tho annual mill levy from 2S to .17 mills, of which nearly 1 mill Is for tho upkeep of tbo only municipal band In tho stato. Nebraskn Knights Tomplnrn nt their recent meeting at Columbus, selected Lincoln for tho 1917 conclave W I) l'l.dier, former secretary of the Alliance Coiumcrdul club and sec retary of tho Western Nebtnslu Com mercial clubs and of the Slate Aso elation of Coiniueiclal Clubs, has been engaged as .secretary of the North Platte Chamber of Commerce Fisher Is already at ranging for u visit to North Pintle- by various Commercial clubs and Community clubs or sur rounding towns and counties ami ror tho mat king of 2pu miles of mad in Hie lclully of North Pintle telling Hie ill-tance (o the city With 2.000 students of the Unlvei slty of N'ehinMtit the guests of Omaha nn May 10, Onuihn residents will be i:liii an Idea of the Importance of the uiili-rlly and Its relation to the slate of Ni lirinka I.Ike all Institutions of lis Mini, Nebraska University has never received the recognition It Is en titled to and this trip to Omaha will afford an opportunity for the univer sity olllelals to impress the magnitude of the Institution on tho city. For the fourth lime In as many y ins the Mitchell High i.chool wen the easteiu Nebraska track and Held mi et. The the competing towns were: Scott's llluff. Mitchell. Mlnulnio nnd .Mori 111, and Tonlngti n. Wyo.. The meet wns held at Mitchell Out of the 12i'i points the Mitchell hoys carried away ill. Scott's HIiilT took si cum! place, Mlnatare third and Mor rill fourth. Torrlngton did not get a point. If present conditions are any eilte rlon, the spring meeting of the Ne braska Midway lluclng circuit at Heli con, tin home of the Douglas County Fair association, Is going to set a number of records ror opening events In the middle west. The program will inn three days, Thursday, Filday and Sat in day, June S, ! and 10. Practi cally all of the best horses In IliU part or the country will take pari. The wheels or a spring wagon load ed with reed caused the almost com plete amputation or the nose of ('. J. Itorders, a well known farmer near Fllsworth. He was tiding on a pile of sacks in the rear of the wagon when an unexpected lurch of the front wheel threw him to Hie ground he twis'n the wheels. Ills nose was broken at the bridge and from there down It was nearly severed. Ono of tho biggest advertising schemes ever attempted will he the bringing to Nebraska the llrst week In Juno a special tralnload of the most eminent advertising experts from New York nnd other eastern cities by the Slato Publishers' association. Tho special will visit all important cities In the stato and the visitors will bo shown Nebraska's resources and pos sibilities. Within fifteen minutes after the ac tion was started beforo District Judgo Dungau at Ilnstlngs. representatives of tho St. Joseph & Grand Island rail road paid $1,250 to Miss Lucy Young, 0 years old, for the death of her lato father, Hulas Young, who was killed in an nuto-traln collision north of Hastings, December 1, 1015. All fonner recorfls for high pi Iced sheep and lambs wero broken at I ho South Omaha stock yards, when Ilel mont & Kllnk of Scottsbluff county brought in 7111 fed Mexican lambs Hint averaged 00 pounds and sold at $0.10, the highest ever paid on this or any other market for fed ewes. Tho razing of Dodge county's old flro-ilaningcil court house at Fremont, to make room for a new $110,000 building on tho same site, Is under wny. Tho old building wns sold for $100, with tho understanding that tho buyer would remove It. Tho state convention of Knights of Columbus nt their recent big meet ing in Fremont voted to go to Al liance next year. Alllanco had a big delegation present. Crawford, through Its Chnmher of Commerce, has taken up the prelim inary steps to secure free mall deliv ery service In tho city limits. Kimball has just completed the or ganisation or a Commercial club. Firty business and professional men have Joined. Nr'jraska Knights or Pythias at their state convention in Hastings chose Lincoln ns tho 1017 convention city. Flro destroyed the Woods Hros.' silo manufacturing plant at Lincoln. Tho plant will be rebuilt nt once. PIntsmouth Is working to secure free mull delivery, (loneral receipts at tho postolllee aro Increasing. The annual slate golf tournament will ho hold at Omaha July 5, fi, 7 nnd S. Charley Peters, tho Pap'lllon wt os tler, won over William Damctinl in a Ihely match at Omaha In slra'ght fnlls. It took Peters a total of forty four minutes to enrn both fallK. It took Ootch flfty-nlno minutes to tin a the same trick on Dnmetrnl last Feb mnry out on tho coast. Harold Cotes, 21! yearn old, was In stantly killed when ho wns run over by a trnln In front or the Hurllngton depot at Wymore. Oates was u brakeman and mndo Ills home In Wy moro. Tho promoters of tho Kcnrnoy can ning factory are unable to contract for a sufficient acreage of sweet corn and tomntoos to operate the factory during tho entire season. Tho Commercial club of Wayne has changed Its namo to tho Public Sen' Ico club. In changing the namo the organization hns assumed larger functions. Arrangomnnts have been mndo for Iho annual meeting or tho NobraBka ntato association of Commercial clubs In Omaha, May 24 and 25. Plans for tho moetlng aro being formulated. STATE PUTTING QUARTER MIL LION INTO CONSTRUCTION. CONTRACTS SHOW BIG OUTLAY Items of General Interest Gathered from Reliable Sources Around the State Hoii6c. WmIi'iii Ni'Ukimiht Union News Korvle. The state board of control has con tracted for or Is Just completing buildings costing $2l?S,000. At the Hcatilcc Institute for fccblc-mlndcd the board is erecting a 1 1 re proof building that will cost $:!S.OOO. This Blriiiiiiu Is lo Include mi auditorium. At the l.liiiolu hospital ror the iiisatio tho lio.ml Is completing an addition to n building for the care of initio patients at a cost of $2S,0I0. This will house seventy-llvo patients and a record price on the construction was obtained by the board It will cost the stale at the rate of ?I00 a bed. Some states pay as high as $1,500 pur bed for buildings. A sun corridor and sleeping poich Is being built ut the Lincoln hospital for the Insane to connect two build ings. This will cost $4,250. At the tubercular hospltnl at Kear ney the hoard Is completing a laundry and holler house addition, to cost $8,7:il. A hospital for convalescents bus been a long time building. This will cost $2:1,400. Tho board Is holding back $1,000 on the contract price, awaiting completion of certain por tions of the work. At the Industrial home for womon ut Mllford, the board tins completed the work of placing stucco on the wails of the old building and In at work on an addition to 11 nursery. Tho stucco cost the slate $2,r.y:i and the addition will cost $l,70:t. A home for dependent children In being built in Lincoln nt a cost ot $25,705 A fireproof wing addition has been completed nt the Norfolk hospital for the liisaun nt a cost of $50,151. It In now in use and Is filled to its capa city. At thin samo institution tho board will begin work on a cottago to accomodate 100 women patients. It will cost $44,402. Tho stato normnl bonrd In building an auditorium at the Kearney slnto normal that will cost about $55,000. Tho normnl bonrd will soon outline n building program at tho four stato normnl schools. Cash for Soldiers' Homes. Tho stato of Nebraska has rocolvod a quarterly contribution or $8,500 from tho general government for tho caro of Inmates of soldiers' homes which nro maintained by tho stato. Tho gov ernment pays the stato at tho rato of $100 a yenr for tho support of each member of stato homes for soldiers. This pays about one-hair tho cost of maintaining each member. Tho pay ment by tho government wnn received by Covernor Morehenil and will bo turned Into M10 slnto general fund and bo spent to pay tho current ex penses or tho stato Instead of being expended directly In support or sol diers' homes. The payment Is mado up or $2,725 Tor 100 members or tho Mllford homo for soldiers and $5,875 ror 2.15 members or tbo homo nt Cranil Island. Tho membership of the homes Is mado up or veterans or tho civil war and their wives and soldiers of tho Spanish-American war. Preparedness for N. N. Q. If settlement of tho Mexican prob lem ultimately Involves tho calling out of national guard of all tho states Nebraska would bo to tho forefront in moro ways than ono. Tbo aviation corps will probably bo given Instant servlco In Important Bcoutlng, for Captain McMIIIen nnd Lloutenant llugnoll aro both given high ratings by tho Curtlss Aviation school. And in signal work undonlably ono of tho most Importnn features of tho Moxlcan campaign tho Nebraska slg nnl corps would probably bo given proferonco ovur most or tho states. Dr. F. II. Mlllener. of Omaha, head of tho Union Pacific wireless elec trical department, Is tho probnhlo Blgnal chief who will head this branch or tho service. Ho Is an ox pert or tho hlghost ordor. Summer Camp for NebrasknnB. Fstnbllshtncnt or a business men's milltnry training camp similar to tho Plattsbiirg camp, which wus oporated with such signal benefit last yoar In Now York, will bo posslblo at Fort Crook, ir plana now under headway aro given upprovul or tho war depart ment. C-cncr.il Hall went to Omnha and talked over tho matter with Colo nol Gould Diotz and othor members of tho boosting bodies thero. Ho has been assured or ample Omaha support and lias been given tho word of J. O. Mnhor and Sccretury Whltten, Steps to collect a flno of $3,718 against County Treasurer William Ure, of Douglas county, will bo tnken by State Treasurer Hall nnd the stato legal department. Tho lino Is lovled undor a Btatuto having to do with tho payment or moneys duo tho stnto by counties whenever tho Btnto treaHurnr shall rcqulro It. Treasurer Hall ask ed ror monthly remittances. Treas urer Uro rorused to pay monthly. Tho state supremo court recently dochled In Hall's behalf and now ho proposes to mako Mr. Uro pay tho legal 10 per cunt fine. THANK YOUR GROCER if he asks you to try a can of KC BAKING POWDER He wants to do you a favor he knows what brands to rec ommend from experience. Her Love Hung on n Hair. "I soo whoro a Detroit wlfo loft her husband bocautio ho wore 11 wig." "Pshaw 1 thut was but a bald ox cuso." licMtdtentvti 4 poiiotud tail year tnonly II ttattt Fly Poison Kills More Children Than All Other Poisons Combined For Safety's Sake, UseJB Is there in your home, anywhere within baby's reach, n saucer of arsenic poisoned paper floating In water, or a cun with a sweetened poisoned wlck? Durlnz 1913, 26 cates of fir poisoning weto reported from 11 statei: In 1314. 48 cie from 14 sUtat, J'h foiton killi mor chttdrtn than all othtr poitoiu comtiiud. Yet fly poison still Is left uncuarded eicept la ttie homos wlicro mothers havo learned thut IIia f.fj. fu. hm.4i'iaiuiiii. efficient Oy catcher and destroyer U jp JANGLEFOOT ia IWITWtaEWI-4llraE WcJnfcaCr,! Tho Journal ot the Michigan fitnto Medical Society comments thui In a recent Issue: "Symptoms of arsenical poisoning are very slmllnr to those ot cholera Infantum; un doubtedly a number ot cntosot cholera In fantum ucroreallycaseiot arsenical poison ing, but ctonth, If occurring, was attributed to cholera Infantum. "Wo repent, arsenical fly destroying da vIceHnreilanueroiigiinilfchouUtbonbolished. Ilraltli olllelals should become nrnused to prevent further toss ot lllo from their source. Our Michigan Legislature, this last session. gassed n law regulating tbo sale of poisonous y papers," The O. & W. Thum Co. Grand Raplilt, Mich. PATENTS W 11 1 11011 K.Colmimii.Wnab luituiu.lj (;, iioukx f run. nun em referuuevs. Jlrsl rciulta. Nebraska Directory A&A r. 83MM& COMPLETE NEW FIREPROOF HOSPITAL 1. Metllmll a. Nnrartcult a. nttftatrlnali 4, i.Hlxjrtitorjri 6, X-Hhj Department. Training school fornnrioi InconnecUon. Open 10 nil rrputublo plijilrlans. Kur further liirortuuUun addruu A. A. 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