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-T1 RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF n ' ii V 1 1' 1 , ) IN ! Ii ' fefissfY r .."& rMUmmSm . .r&SSf swailBf' $64 Ww'eu,www"', UblMSXVM'. , '". . --'W.jaLT?- -fttSMAJKJ?VA?.!?f7,? S-AV MgSSWC-! V, - j ' tfaTiiJHBMMMfei''BKiKVr.iLe: " '' 1 Representatives of tho eoldlors nnd workmen's council conducting their business In the rolehsUg build ing In Ilerlln. 2 Kusslnn men and women being trained ns rllle shots In n free class established by tlio soviet government. 8 Bountiful figure of Liberty in the salon of the French ministry of foreign affairs which was re decorated for tho meetings of the uenre delegates. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS -v. i Ebert, Opwiing German National Assembly, Protests Against Harshness of Allies. Legates shout approval Hun Adopt Unique Attitude for Conquered People -Peace Confer- nee Makae Progreaa With tha m(ju ef Natlona Amerloa May Aakad to Qov- rn Conatantlnopla. By BDWARD W. PICKARD. Ohancallor Ebert, In bla speech at ate opanlng of tha German natlonnl flaMmbly at Walmar, fara expression tha growing resentment of the Qer .aaana which has already been noted Ub6 tommented on. Seemingly not traoognlclng that Germany Is a con- brttd nation, he protested bitterly 'against the "unheard of and ruthloss" terms of tha armistice, and went so far aa to warn the allies not to push the Huns too far. His hearers np fplauded his utterances, nnd shouted their Indignation when ho alluded to tha 800,000 prisoners of war still held by tha allied nntlons. The reply of tho allies was swift and decisive. The supreme council at Paris at once took up the discus (Ion of tho armistice terms with the apparent Intention of putting on the iclamps tighter nnd of compelling Ger many to carry out certain of the terms that ahe has not been complied with yt History does not record another ex ample of a thoroughly whipped people assuming toward tbolr conquerors an attitude compnrnble with tbnt tbo Huns nro taking. Because their op 'ponents announced they were fighting (to wipe out Germnn nutocrney nnd mil itarism and because tho Germnn rer Olntlon, so called, snys It hns done Wway with these evils, the bodies seem to think tbo Issues of the war baTfl been nottled and that they are .ntltled to sit In with tbo victors on an equality In nrrnnglng the "pence of Justice" of which they now prate. Prof. Hnns Dclbmcck predicts that the '(Germans will ngaln plunge the world (into war If their country Is made the '"waga slave" of Its enemies. Though tho pence conference's com mission on tho league of nations Is making very considerable progress with Its task, the drafting of the plnus for the orgnnlrntlon Is not without serious dttllcultles. These Inst week centered In the diversity between the desires of the great powers and the claims of the manlier nntlons ns to representation In the league. Before tho close of tho week It was an nounced the commlvslou hnd ngreud provisionally on the preamble nnd two-thirds of the nrtlcles, but what these are was not revealed. Two general plans were laid be fore the commission. The first, which wns favored by the small nntlons, pro vided for n legislative branch on 'which the large and small nations Svould be equally represented, encb ns a unit; an executive branch consist yng of two members from each of the iflvo great powers nnd nine members (Chosen from the small powers; nnd arbitration of International disputes by three arbitrators. In the second plan the legislative branch wns left unchanged, but the executive branch wns made to consist chiefly of the aent powers, nnd Instead of arbitra tion, there was substituted an execu tive council of the great powers ns u tribunal for Judging International Is sues. In a word, the great powers fear that If all nations nro given equal representation In the league, they will find themselves In the minority though their Interests might be much grenter, and the small powers fear that, If not equally represented, they will be swamped. But tho "big five'' allows signs of yloldlng enough to sat isfy tboni. Concurrently with the work on the (league, the conflicting territorial clnlms of the various nations nre be ing henrd nnd studied but the entnh llshment of u principle on wnlch such claims shall be decided depends so much on the creation of the lengue of nations that nctlon on the report of the territory commission Is not ex pected boforo the other mntter Is set tled. Just where tbo United States Is go ing to "get off" In all this Is n ques tion tbnt Is worrying mnny others be aides our senators, who debate It fre quently. If the ordera of the league are to be backed by force, It might be necessary to land European troops In a South American country, and that Is In direct violation of the Mon roe doctrine. If the former German colonies and parts of the Turkish em pire are to be governed by manda tories of the league, the United States cannot well evade some of the respon sibility nnd might bt called on to ad minister the affairs of Constantinople and the Dardanelles, maintaining military as well as civil forces there. Conceivably, this would arouse the bitter opposition of a considerable portion of our population, but as we, through President Wilson, are taking a leading pnrt In the reconstruction of the world by the nations that defeated Germany, we cannot avoid shoulder ing our share of the resultant labor. Another Interesting angle to tho situation wus disclosed by the state ment by British Foreign Secretnry Balfour that the establishment of the league of nations would not require the abrogation of International alli ances hitherto entered Into. Appar ently Great Britain, France and Japan are not entirely sure of the full elll cacy of the league and would have their offensive and defensive alliances to fall back upon In case of neod. Mr. Balfour's stntement also gave rise to the opinion that the ullled nntlons might decline to abrogate the secret treaties they entered Into for the di vision among them of certuln terri tories of the central powers. Franco Is perhaps especially Interested In this, ns the secret treaties not only gnvo her Alsace-Lorraine, but ulso the entire conl district of the Snur valley, nnd provided that the German ter ritories on the left bank of the Rhine should be freed from all political and economic, depeudonce on Germany. Lenlne'a foreign minister, Tchlt cherln, has sent out a wlreloss messnge saying the soviet government Is willing to participate In the proposed confer ence on the Princes' Islands. He also Intlmntes tbnt his govomment will coase Its propaganda In other countries If the entente powerB will undertake not to Interfere with Russia's Internal affairs. The other Russian factions, ns represented nt Purls, were rather sur prised by Tchltcherln's nctlon and were not nt nil pleased. They are strongly opposed to the conferenco nnd had hoped a refusal by the soviet govern ment would relieve them of the neces sity of rejecting the plan. The bol- shevlsts, or, to give them the more fitting nppellntlou, tho anarchists, In northern Russln, after a series of suc cesses against the American nnd al lied troops which were due to the dif ficulty the latter experienced In get ting supplies, went n bit too far and wero given n stinging defeat by tho Yanks nt VUtnvka on the Vaga river. About tho same time the Siberian troops under General Gnlda practically annihilated two divisions of the an-nrchlsts-at Kungur, GO miles noutheast of Perm, relieving the latter city from tho danger of uttnek. General Gnldn then advanced on Ufn, which the an nrrhlsts took somo time ngo, Tho cen tral soviet of Moscow has called to the colors nil men between tho ages of twenty-nine nnd forty-five years, sny Ing they will be thrown Into the wnr If tbo conferenco on Prlnklpo tslnnd Is a failure. In some directions the successes of the anarchists of Russln were contin ued. They were reported to hnve cap tured WIndnu, Courland's port, and to havo gained control of virtually tho whole of the Ukrnlno. The Polish and Crecho-Slovnk troops that had been fighting on the Slleslan front signed an armistice which, It la presumed, will penult the emissaries of the peaco conference to settle the qunrrol between the two nations. Tho authorities of the allied nations maintain their aloof attitude toward w kw rr-M 'ia&vi 4ZsAtX j Wffinrtrw.,.ii'ri ....nun tho Germnn "revolution," never per mitting themselves to ho quoted con cerning It nor paying the slightest at tention to tho lucubrations of hypo crites such as Bernstorir. But they are watching with Interest the Inter national conferences of Socialists and trades unions that are In session In Berne, Switzerland The former seems to be virtual! dominated by the pro-Teuton element's. The Trades Union conference, In which ure dele gates from the United States and Eng land, Is discussing International labor legislation In coujiuctlon with" the Socialists. Turkey let out n loud wnll recently In protest against the proposition to put Constuntlnoplt,, the Bosporus nnd the Dardanelles under International control. This Idan Is being promul gated In Paris ispeclnlly by the en tente nations, i.nd they assert that the controlling nation should be the United States its the one disinterest ed power thnt could handle tho terri tory. The Ottoman liberal party, which has been anti-German through out the war, asked President Wilson to save Conamntlnoplo to Turkey by giving It a chnnce at self-determination. Severil days later tho sultnn himself sent a secret letter to the lib eral Turks In Franco nnd Switzer land, appealing to them to return home nnd nnve their country from the starvation nnd lawlessness prevalent under tin regime by which the nom inal rulci Is dominated. Many com munities and municipalities under ' Ottoman rule have sent petitions to the American peace delegates asking that they be put under the protec tion of the United States. The labor situation grew better In Grent Britain and worse In the United States last week. The British public apparently awoke to the fact that tho strikes there, unauthorized by the trades union authorities, were being stirred up by nllon anarchist leaders and the men began returning to their work pending peaceful settlement of the disputes. The railway men and electrical workers resumed tholr la bor In London and the city began to get relief from conditions thnt had nearly paralyzed It for days. In Bel fast the strike leaders were arrested on conspiracy charges. The United Stntes was hit hardest last week at points widely separated New York and Seattle. In the metropolis building operations wero virtually tied up by a lockout de clared by the Building Trades Em ployers' association which affected 25,000 workers and which threatened to spread throughout the country nnd Cnnndn. In Seattle the 80,000 shipbuilders who are on strike received the sup port of a general strike which was started on Thursday. Practlcully all union laborers quit work, though the engineers In the municipal lighting plants were exempt. The textllo workers In Lawrence, Mass., struck for a -iS-hnur week with 51 hours' pay. nml some of the big cotton mills In Fnll River wero closed owing to dis putes with the employees. One more "greatest war revenuo bill In the country's history" was pre sented to the hoiiHo Inst week by Chairman Kltchln of the ways and means committee. As fixed up by the conference It provides for tho col lection of nbout 50,000.000,000 In tnxes from the American citizen, and In ad dition It gives a bonus of $00 to each soldier, sailor, marine and womnn nurse In the American forces. Pretty nearly everything ono possesses or does will bo subject to tux. Even tho president and all other federal officials must pay tnx on their io? comes, though stnte ofllclnls do not. The normnl Income tnx for 1018 Is 6 per cent on Incomes up to $4,000 and 12 por cent on higher Incomes. After 1018 the normnl Is 4 per cent on Incomes up to $4,000 nnd 8 per cent on thoso over $1,000. Tho pres ent normnl Is 4 per cent. , The Income surtnx rates begin nt 1 per cent on Incomes of $5,000 to $(!, 000 nnd run to 05 per cent on Incomes of over $1,000,000. Provision Is tnnde for both wnr nnd excess profits taxes In the fiscal year, but .after that the war profits tnx comes off, except In certain specified cases where war contracts run over In later years. NEBRASKA INCIDENTS BOILED TO A FEW LINES Occurrences Over the Cornhusker State Chronicled In Paragraph Form for the Busy Reader. The two big political parties nro tanking plans to win Nebraska women ulnco tlio partial suffrage bill bus been Mistalnod by tbo court In Lincoln. 'J'hoy will lny energetic mid system title siege for tbo woman vole, with organizations throughout tbo entire Unto. If tbo womon of Nebraska take ndviiPtago of their ww prl liege, It will Incron'-o tbo normiil vote of this state from 1!. 0.000 to fiOO.OOO. At tbo Mate potato show at Sioltv. Muff. I'.ov Unite county again won I most prlKos winning tin Nowhorry ouii oor every county In western NV lirnskii for the beit ipmllty exhibit , of sjiinN. and tbo line Mlvor cup given by the Kcottbliilt Commercial club for the best nrnmgeil exhibit, hImi seven teen Indhldiiiil prize". The ItrJO coii M'lilloii goes to Riishvllle. A petition signed by SOU men of the farming community of Cuming couuty was presented to the county board, asking for the abolition of the farm bureau ami discharge of the county iigcnt. The board took nctlon and granled the petition and discontinuing the bureau, consequently letting out V. P.. (ilussburno, the present county iiL'ont. Nebraska'" two United States sena tors, Hitchcock and NorrK split their vote on the suffrage amendment when the senate turned It down for the fourth time, Norrls casting bis vote for the resolution and Hitchcock against It. Both bouses of the state legislature had called upon Senator Hitchcock to support the measure. The Sheldon farm, near Columbus, was selected as the site for the per manent Y. M. C. A. boys' camp, ac cording to unanimous decision of tie; committee which met In Lincoln. C. C. Sheldon gives the boys the land and a building, which Is In memorial to bis father. The .site Is u pictur esque one. Fngland's embargo on American products antlclimted tin embargo the United Stntes will have to declare to protect American Interests and labor against competition with nations where labor standards are lower, Gov ernor McKelvie wired In answer to a query from the New York American. G. It. Sclunelllng, who formerly lived near Norfolk, told friends there Hint his three sons, .Tames, Frank and Richard, were killed In the battle of the Marne. They wero lighting with American units, composed mostly of Iowa men. The Schnielllngs now live ut Shenandoah, la. A niou'inont Is on foot nt West Point to call u special election to vote bonds to take over tho gas and elec tric llsht plant of the city. Many complaints against the service ren dered by the company have been filed with the city council. It took $1,001,711) to run Nebraska In January, 1010, according to war rants issued by State Auditor Marsh. The seiiil-annual apportionment of M(K),1'J.'( In state school funds distrib uted to every .district In the state helped swell the total Governor McKelvie, on his return fiom Washington, asserted nt Lincoln that be Is In favor of a Nebraska state constabulary of sixty men, to patrol the stuio tiirnliist booze runners and auto thieve, u substitute for tho old Nebraska national guard. Up to last Monday, twelve counties: Dodge. Gage, Boone, Butler, Dixon, Dawson. Howard, Nemaha. Polk. Sar py, Valley and Wayne had reached their quotas In the campaign for $:1I20, 000 In Nebraska for relief In tbo near east. Arrangements have been made for ibo construction of state highways front Lodgepole io Dalton, from Potter to Dalton and from Sidney to Bridge port, via Dalton. Clinton Mattocks, Cherry county man, twice reported killed in action has arrived at bis borne from France lie reports be bad never been In front line trenches. Grain dealers over the state predict that corn acreage In Nebraska will bo I kept low this year because of the gov. ! eminent guarantee of n wheat price, Plans hnve been formulated and money pledged for the erection of a modern 'JJS-rooin hotel building to cost $-20,000 nt Dalton. Parties ut Brock refused S.HOO por acre for n half section of land ad joining the Brock townslte. Corn prices at tho Union Stock yards, South Omaha, dropped from ?i.00 to $1.75 tfcr bushel. H is estimated that more than 3,000 persons In Douglas county will lose the right of suffrage as a result of tho "full citizenship" requirement passed nt the last session of tbo legislature. David A. Best of Omaha, who had cbargo of prisoner's savings nt tho Mate penitentiary nt Lincoln, has been charged by tbo stnto board of control with usurping from $250 to $200 of the convicts' money. A very unusual accident occurred nt Lyons when the 1 1-year-old son of Mr nnd Mrs. Scott Robley fell down u corn chuto wbero men wero loading sltcllcil com nnd wns smothered to death. Provost Mnrshnl Crowdor's report to congress shows that Nebraska's reg istered men wero fourth In point of perfection as disclosed by examina tions under tbo draft systems. Okla homa led with 82 per cent, closely followed by Arkansas, Kansas. Ne braska, Wyoming, Texns and North Dakota. The Kemper Dry Goods Co., tho Morrison Dry Goods store, tbo Golden Utile store, nml tbo Farmers' State bank nt Uayard, wore burglarized tbo other night, the thieves taking .$S00 worth of silk from the Morrison storo mid $1,000 worth of tho same class of goods from the Golden little. Very little was taken at the Kemper storo At the bank tho thugs contented them selves with Inking $10 worth of rev enue stamps, and three pistols. nichanl C. Craven of Albany, N. Y., Held director of American lied Star auluial relief, made the abortion re cently that Nebraska lost 811-11 cat tle fioni disease and exposure between March, 1017 and March, 1018. I.iinugh cattle are lost every year In the United States through .starvation and exposure to feed an army of '5,000,000 men, ligiiiod from the regular army rational basis, h said. Carl J Modeilll. heail of the l'olavli lloltncry company at I loll land, has made the prediction that ever, potash plant In tills state, with 2000 "em ployes nml representing Investments of SHMHtO.OOO. will be closed within llilrtv days. "The truth of tin- sit uation Is," he Is quoted as saving, "the bottom has dropped out of the potash market." Henderson, York county, has Jieen the scene of considerable excitement lately as the result of the return to l he community of two conscientious obleclors. Peter Dickson nnd Geo. Kllppeiisielu. fiom the federal prison at Leavenworth. Kan. An attempt to gh'c a public reception to the men lesiilted In one of I hem being "egged." Governor MeKehlo. In a siatenienl to newspaper men at Lincoln, declar ed Nebraska communities nie being demoralled by Hie lullucncc of illegal liquor trafllc. "There was more booze In Nebraska when T assumed ofllce than when the saloons were In oper ation," he said. District Attorney Allen at Lincoln has announced that hereafter patrons of bootleggers in Nebr.isku will face criminal prosecution In the federal court. Anvoue bu.lng liquor will bo Included in the complaint of conspir ing to violate the Reed amendment. The making of brick and tile from pure western Nebraska sand, using large quantities of electrical energy developed by Nebraska streams, may be a reality In the near future, ac cording to a number of Bassett busi ness men. What Is said to be a world record price for a sow at u public sale was made at the John Bailer sale of Duroc Jerseys at Scrilmer. One female sold for S3.000. Thlrly-nine head of sows sold for a total of $20,585, an average of $719. The Madlon county farm bureau has decided to continue Its work this season and has re-employed Noel Rhodes ns the farm demonstrator. An effort Is being made to have every farmer In the county join the organ ization. Richardson county claims to havo established a record In land deals. Just the other day a tract of :I5.'1 acres five miles south of Humboldt sold for SI 5( no acre, or a total sum of S:1!.1)."0. Represcnlatlvo Sloan of Nebraska has Introduced a resolution in the lower bouse of congress to repeal the daylight saving law. Farmers and farm Journals generally protest against the law. More than five hundred expert buy ers from nil over tho United Slates gathered at Stanton, when 51 hogs were sold at an average pileo of $1,150 each. The highest price paid for one hog was $ 1,050. The Rev. J. H. Salsbury, D. D.. pas tor of tho Presbyterian church at Au rora, has been called to Minneapolis to take charge of the "New Era move incut" In die states of Minnesota and North Dakota. Between 2,500 to 3,000 ministers ami laymen from Nebraska and Iowa at tended the Centenary Movement con ference, or world program convention of tho Methodist church at Omaha. The problems of tho rural school will bo discussed In detail at the meeting of the state association of ru ral school patrons, February 27, at University Farm, Lincoln. Smallpox: has made Its appearance among patients at the Insane hospital at Hastings. This Is the first case of smallpox reported In the fifteen state institutions. D. T. Mav. proprietor of a hotel at X'tlca, fell forty feet from a tower of n windmill and died from bis Injuries. John Levaty, 10 living on a farm eight miles noitb of Seward, wits In Miinlly killed when bis gun wns ac cidentally exploded while hunting. Judge Troup In district court nt Omaha, granted a temporary restrain ing order, enjoining the Nebraska Tel ephone company from continuing In forco a new schedule of toll rates, known as "government rates for tele phone toll service" Lower prices for food to tho con- Mimor, lower wages for the laborer, and lower prices for tho farmer's grain was predicted by Governor Mc Kelvlo In nn address before members of tbo Nebraska Retail Hardware association at Omaha. It has been decided by the stand ing cnmmltteo of tho Episcopal dio cese of Nebraska that It will wait until the regular meeting of tbo dio cesan council in May for election of a successor to tho Into Bishop Wil liams, who died recently at Omaha. Lftindor Herron of St. Paul, this state, who was recently nwarded a congressional gold medal for bravery In 1S0S, during tho Indian uprising, wns one of !128 men In tho United Stnto to receive- such a distinguished honor, Mr. Herron is now 70 yenra old. WHY DRUGGISTS RECOMMEND SWAMP-ROOT For many years druggists hsve watolid with much Intcrwt the remarkable record maintained by Dr. Kilmer's Swsmp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder medl ine. It is a physician's prescription. Sffamp-Root Is a strengthening medi cine. It helps the kidneys, liver and blad der do tho work nature intended they should do. Swamp-Root has stood the teat of years. It is sold by nil druggiots ou its merit and it should help you. No other kidney medicine has so many friends. Be mire to get Swamp-Root and start treatment at once. However, if you wih first to test this great preparation end trn cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Ilinghamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mculion this paper. Adv. High Finance. Waller Mother, won't you buy mo a watch? Mother 'What do you want n watch for? Walter I want to swap It with Jim mtie Jones lor one of bis imps. Haiti more Sun. BOSCHEE'S SYRUP ' Why use ordinary cough remedies when Boschee's Syrup has been used bo successfully for llfty-one years 1 nil parts of the United Stntes for coughs, bronchitis, colds settled In tho throat, especially lung troubles? It gives the patient n good night's rest free from coughing, with easy expec toration In the morning, gives nature n chance V soothe tho Inflamed parts, throw oft tho disease, helping tho pa tient to regain his health. Made in America nnd sold for more thnn half centnry. Adv. Concealment. "You never could believe anything a German diplomat Mild." "Believe him!" exclaimed Miss Cayenne. "I couldn't even understund hlra" State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County bs. Frank J. Cheney mnkes oath that he Is senior partner of the Arm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business In the Ctty of To ledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said ttrm will pay the sum of ONE HUN DRED DOLLARS for any cose of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE. FRANK J. CHENET. Sworn to befora mo nnd subscribed la my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1388. (Seal) A. W. Olennon, Notary Public, HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE Is tak en Internally and acts through the DIooiJ on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Druggists, 76c. Testimonials free. F. J. Cheney &. Co., Toledo, Ohio. fi To Hold Him. "Whnt would you do If you wer married to a fast young man?" "I think I'd speed up u little. Shave With Cutlcura Soap And doublo your razor efficiency bs well as promoto skin purity, ekln com fort nnd ekln health. No mug, no Bllmy soap, no germs, no waste, no Irritation even when shaved twice dally. Ono soap for all uses shaving, bathing and shampooing. Adv. The Kind. "The girls use such loud makeup." 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