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INEBRASKAJN BRIEF
JTimcly News Culled Prom All
' . Parts of the State, Reduced
for the Busy.
SCORES OF EVENTS COVERED
The Shite Dcpnrtinpnt of Agrlcul
,ture nt Lincoln hns Just iKsticd n bill
.letln on Nehrnskn weeds, prolmbly the
jflrst bullottri of this sort ever printed.
CopleH linvc been sent to county agents
for distribution nnd probably some
Will be sent to libraries nnd rural
fscbools throughout tlio stnte. A re
serve stock will be bold at tlio stnto
.house for those who Inquire- cither in
(Person or by letter.
Governor McKelvlo has named a
jCommltteo of twelve to raise Ncbrns
tka s share townrd a $250,000 monu
;ment at Mcntix, France, to commeino"
rato the first, battle of the Marnc. The
250,000 school children In Nebraska
,wlll bo called upon to contribute from
lone penny up for Nebraska's $3,500
quota, according to the governor. Tlie
rntnpnlgn will tnke place the last week
In February.
; Heads of tho Nebraska Anti-Saloon
league announced that they would
tight to the last ditch the pro
posed solo of whisky in Nebraska
wn doctors' prescriptions. It Is said
that the league was prepared to oppose
liny setting aside of the Nebraska pro--jilbltlon
amendment.
According to Dr. I. II. Dillon, chief
of the Btate bureau of health, the in
fluenza cpidendc In Nebraska has
reached the crest and n gradual de
crease In the number of new cases In
mo sin to may lie expected soon. The
fatalities continue to be very low, Dr.
Dillon says.
Tho Haxby Miners, a Morrill county
firm, has tiled articles of Incorporation
with the secretary of state at Lincoln.
The company operates a gold mine nt
Broadwater nnd It Is said tho precious
metal has been struck at a depth of
thirty feet In good paying strata.
Threatened damage to winter wheat
from n heavy blanket of sleet which
covered a largo portion of the stnto
for two days during the past week was
relieved by the warm rnln which melt
ad the ice, University of Nebraska ag
riculture authorities state.
February 20, the new date set for
the execution of Colo nnd Grammar at
the state prison at Lincoln for the
murder of Mrs. Vogt In Howard county
tin 1017, is the twelfth date set for the
carrying out of the mandate of the
court.
L. I. Frlsble, Junior extension lead
er of the Nebraska Agricultural Col
lege, estimates that Nebraska boys
and girls who raised hogs last year as
members of pig clubs mnde n prollt of
approximately $15,000.
iceconstructlon of tlio Douglas coun
ty court bouse, partially dest roved
during tho riot of September 28, last,
started this week, with prospects of
finishing tho work In about three
months.
Cedar county raised S.&Kl.SO.'i bush
, els of oats in 1011) nnd 00,087 head of
hogs, topping all counties of the state
,ln oats nnd pork production, nccording
(to tho Nebraska department or agri
culture. Citizens of Gnrtleld county, arc cir
culating petitions for a new $100,000
court house to replace tlio present
structure nt Kurwell, which has be
come obsolete.
Twenty-five prominent Fremont cit
izens were lined each $1 and cost In
police court for failure to remove
-snow from their sidewalks. Later the
court remitted the fines.
Hog prices skidded downward at the
South Omaha market during the past
week one dollar n hundred,, because of
demoralized money conditions In the
east.
Preparations are complete, for staging
the state basketball tournament uf
Lincoln March 4, 5 and 0. Teams from
154 high schools' have entered the con
test. Both the First Nntionnl nnd tho
Farmers Nntionnl banks at Harwell
are planning to erect new homes this
yenr.
Plans aro under way to rebuild tho
Methodist church nt 'Table Hock which
was destroyed by tiro January 4.
Sixty head of pure bred Duroe Jer
sey hogs sold for $100,875 at the Ed.
M. Kern public solo nenr Stanton.
Schools nt Lewiston hnve been
closed because of nn outbrenk of In
fluenza. A "people's university," to give
.thoso lacking a college education, the
advantages of lectures on subjects of
rthe hour by those best qunllfled to
discuss them, hns been organized In
Lincoln by a committee known as tho
Community Scrvlco council.
Alfred Nye, 85, civil war veteran,
who died a few dnys ago nt Lexington,
was a member of the U. S1. slgnnl corps
jfrom Wisconsin, nnd was the man who
'gent the famous message from General
Sherman at Kenesnw Mountnln, to
General Corse nt Altoona Pass, "Hold
tthe f6rt, for I am coming I"
Teachers In Kenrney schools havo
been granted an Increase in salary of
j'ISOO a year, making tho minimum
11,000. ,
Grain men estimate that unless Im
mediate shipments are mado more
,than 15,000,000 bushels of corn will
(rot In Nebraska, Iowu und South Du
'kota. Most of the grain Is on farms.
Hastings Is to be made the distrib
uting point for the South Platte terri
tory by tlie Standard Oil Company.
The company plans to spend $100,000
j)n the city for buildings and equipment.
Figures compiled by tho Omaha
Chnmbor of Commerce show that Ne
braska has lost first position ntnong
nil stntcs In per capita automobile
ownership to California. For 1010
California's per capita figure was 0.2
Nebraska and South Dakota's 0.8. In
1018 Nebraska's figure was 7.8. Nebras
ka s ratio, however, still shows five out
of overy seven families la tlio state
own automobiles.
According to the "War Department nt
Washington, Nebrnsku Is the leading
slate In alrplnne development, with
over 320 planes In actual use. Tho de
partment goes further bv snvlnp thnt-
government nlrplancs nro being adapt
ed for civilian (lying in tills state, whllo
one of our physicians uses a plane In
making tlio rounds of his patients.
Stnto Senator waiter Honglund,
trustee of the Odd Fellows' orphnnngo
nt York, protested before the state
board of prison control nt Lincoln tho
erection of a custodial home for women
on Innd adjoining tlie orplinns' home.
He said the proximity of such women
would endanger the moral health of
the orplinns.
D. O. Hoot of Wood Itlver has been
selected as principal, and Klbcrt A.
Bnugb of Hustings ns. first nltornoto,
for military cadotshlp at West Point,
by Congressman Andrews. He lias al
so selected Clyde H. Whltnev of Mc
Cook, nnd Lysle Short of Nelson ns
principals for naval cadetshlp nt An
nupolls. Japanese residents of Mitchell nnd
vicinity hnve organized n corporation,
with a capital of $10,000, Its purpose
being of a social nature, but provides
for the owning and mnnugement of
iirupuny, including tho building of n
club house, which they propose to
erect In the near future.
A bulletin Issued by tho State De
partment of Agriculture shows thero
are In Nebraska 13,511) more farms oc
cupied by owners than are occupied
by tenants. There nro iinnn ...,
listed; owners live on 00,420 of these
the remainder of which are rented or
leased.
Citizens of both Moorofleld nnd Cur
tis havo filed petitions culling for a
special election to remove the county
sent from Stockvlllo to ench pt the re
spective towns. Stockvlllo hns been
tho county seat of Frontier county
since 1872. '
Itepllcs to Inquiries sent over the
stnto by Mrs. C. O. Itynn, director of
tho economy campaign, asking for quo
tatlons on prices charged by local
dealers show that there Is a great
variation In prices ovor Nebraska for
nil necessities of life.
Enforcement of the provisions of
the new school redisricting law will
be met by opposition, from over 200
farmers of Hall and adjacent counties,
who met nt Grand Island the other
day to organlzo for such purpose.
A California rancher paid $10,000
for a Duroc Jersey sow at the W. M.
Putmnn & Sons auction sale nt Co
lumbus. Flfty-threo bend of sows
and gilts were disposed of at the sale
for $53,7-10.
Tlio state bure.nn nt lmnin. nt n.
coin reported to tlio government that
iNcnrasKa lias Itod 5,750 cases of In
fluenza during the present epidemic.
The report was made February 0.
Two grocery and general merchan
dise stores, a hardware firm, pool hnll,
restaurant nnd u drug storo were de
stroyed by fire at Table Hock, causing
u loss of approximately $150,000.
The Nebraska Clay Products com
pnny, which Is to build n $1,000,000
brick manufacturing plant atTeknmali,
plans to begin construction work on
the project nt once.
A carload of lambs shipped to tlio
South Omaha market by tho Nebraska
University Experimental station at
Lincoln sold for $20.05 a hundred top
ping the mnrket.
West Point has over 100 cases of
Influenza. Although the malady Is In
a mild form, considerable apprehen
sion exists in the city.
Tho citizens of Virginia, Gage coun
ty, hnve decided to start a weekly pa
per. The town hns been without a
newspaper for years- . ' I
Work, has started en a new thref
story liotej at Gothenburg. It Is .ex
pected to bo one of the finest hotels in
tho stnto when finished.
A new $130,000 creamery Is to bo
built at Beatrice by Swift & Co. Tho
concern will also handle poultry and
eggs.
Schools hnve been closed and enter
tainments curtailed nt Auburn because
of the prevnliinco of tho "flu."
Fire destroyed the $15,000 country
home of Mrs. W. A. Keefer on tho
Lincoln hlghwny nenr Kearney.
Tho new $05,000 First Evangelical
Lutheran church nt North Platte was
dedicated February 7.
Nebraska's quota In the United war
work eampnlgn was $2,000,000. and Its
pledges total $2,825,000, " giving this
state third position fn tho drive among
fourteen states In tho central division.
Kansas nnd North Dakota exceeded
Nebraska In over-subscription.
A bulletin Issued by Secretary Stuhr
of tlio State Department of Agricul
ture reminds restaurant nnd boarding
liouHe keepers that milk served for
drinking purposes must be served In
Individual sealed bottles. That's the
law, says the bulletin, and It must be
enforced.
Alliance Is looking forward to a
monster gathering of Elks during the
stnto convention of thnt organization
there on Juno 23, 24 nnd 25,
As u preventive measure against tho
spread of Influenza, the army post of
Fort Crook, near Omaha, litis been put
under quarantine.
State penltentlnry convicts arc to bo
used on Nebrasku road-building pro
Jects, according to a decision reached
by Governor McKelvlo nnd tho board
of control. The men will bo workod
In gangs, under guard, In different parts
of the Btate.
PASADENA
Tlie annual rose festival Is one
shows ono of the prettiest floats In
'Blond Lady' as
Beautiful Woman Who Beguiled
Unwary Into Giving Secrets
to Germans.
RELATIVE OF VON HEINRIGH
At Her Headquarters In Antwerp She
Collected Information Which Waa
Forwarded to German Headquar
ter Had Two Accomplices.
i London. Many details about the
Ilfo of tho "blond-haired lady," who
served as a German chief of spies In
the war, have been given by n colonel
In the French counter esplonnge serv
ice who know her well, according to
a London Times Paris correspondent.
This colonel, who was then n cop
tain, spent somo months during tho
wnr nt Antwerp nnd saw most of tho
people who visited tho lady, for It was
his duty to supply these visitors with
false information or truo Information
when too late to use. The chateau,
phlch tho witnesses at Lille believed
to bo outside Antwerp, was In reality
In tho center of tho city. It was n ho
tel In the boulevurd do la Lol, a ma
jestic building which thoso who were
brought blindfolded In n motor car
wiiu uruwn ouuus niignt well Have
taken for a chateau in the country
side. Related to General von Helnrlch.
The blond-haired lady was certainty
a relative of General von Helnrlch,
though tho exnet relationship still re
mains uncertain. She was n line worn",
nn, being slim nnd unlike the major
ity of her fellow countrywomen. Tho
Frau Doktor, ns shu was uddressed
by her colleagues, spoko French with
out n trace of n foreign accent nnd
showed by her manner nnd dress that
she had lived for n long time In
France, and probably In Pnrls. She
used to address her agents with a
Father Missing, His
Family Lodges in Jail
Los Angeles. Arriving from
Seattle to meet her husband
here, Mrs. Ruth Anderson, thirty
four years old, with her four
young children, spent a night In
tho enro of tho matron nt the
city Jail. Anderson did not meet
her, as she had telegraphed him
to do. '
The only clue to her husband
which tho woman had was that
ho had been working on the Los
Angeles flood control project.
Mrs. Anderson nnd the four
children, ranging In nges from
ten to fourteen, were taken In
chnrge nt tho Southern Pacific
depot by Pollco Olflcer A. A.
Sayles. They had Imd nothing
to eat all day nnd wero without
funds. Sayles gave them a meal
and then took them to Central
station.
Plan War
Germany Said fo Be Preparing
for Next Conflict.
Time Will Bring en Clash, Is Word
of Old, and Young of
the Nation.
Berlin. Germany Is preparing for
Ks next war.
And France Is the Intended victim.
Just when this attack on the French
to to take place has not been settled
In the German mind but every Ger
man, no matter what his age or sta
tion, says that time Is coming maybe
In ten years, mnybe twenty or maybo
thirty.
nut even if there Is doubt ns to tlio
exact time of Germany's effort to
avengo the loss of the world war, there
does not seem to be felt the least
leubt that vengeance will be visited
HAS ITS ANNUAL ROSE
of the great features of the winter season
this yeur's parade. '
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Chief of Spies
French cigarette between her lips,
leaning buck seductively' In n large
armchnlr, She never spoke harshly,
but, on tho contrary, In sweet, even
tones, no doubt gaining much which
her masculine confederates of the Ger
mnn general staff lost through their
air of brutality.
Accomplices of the German Spy.
Two men lived In tho "cliuteau"
with her, n mnn who posed, ns nn Eng
lish fop with a monocle pretending to
bo n Journnllst on n London paper,
and nn officer of the German G. n. Q.
The fop, the French colonel stntcs,
was the proprietor of a hotel In tho
snmo boulcvnrd do In Lol, and the
Gorman ofllcer, Keffer by name, had
as his last duty the control of tho In
formation upon tho nllles' submarine
bases nt Calais and Dunkirk, nnd the
numbers nnd chnnges In the north of
France. Tho blond-haired lady, be
sides using part of her time in bo
gulUng poor unfortunates into betray
ing their countrymen, collated her In
formation before forwarding It to Germany.
Noah, Not Adam,
Ate the Apple
Delver in Ancient Lore Finds Evi
dence Older Than the
Bible.
NO MENTION OF ANY EVE
Records In University of Pennsylvania
Provide Apparent History of Hu
man Race Back to 14,000 Years
Before Christ
Philadelphia, Pa. Whnt the discov
erer claims to bo evidence older thnn
tho Bible by two or three thousand
years, that woman had nothing to do
with the downfall of the human race,
was produced by the museum of tho
University of Pennsylvania In the
form of a new set of translations bv
Dr. Stephen Herbert Lnngdon.
Doctor Lnngdon Is now professor of
Assyrlology at "Oxford unlverftltv. vAe.
land. ,IIe wob forthreo yenrs4c'urqfor,
ui 'win iiiioyionian section at tno uni
versity museum, nnd while there stud
ied nnd translated thousands of an-
dent clay tablets from the ruins of
Nippur, in ancient Bnbylonin.
"Noah Ate the Apple."
Tho now book Is tho fourth In n
scries depicting the religious llfo of
tho yumerlans. a mysterious race, tlie
origin of which Is unknown, which wns
finally swallowed up by tho later Sem
Itlcs. According to one of tho flood sto
ries In tho collection Nonh ntn thn
forbidden fruit nfter ho had been
Raved from the deluge.
This salvation was accompllbhed, ac
on France
upon the French nnd that Germany
will bo successful In tho attempt.
Germany Is not forging arms or
ranking munitions with that end In
vjew Just now, for that would bo Im
possible. ' But through propaganda of
the most poisonous kind the fire of
hatieu is being kindled In the German
n'lnd.
Every German I met yolced to me
Us tatred of France. Every misfor
tune tho Germans have met with has
been laid to tho door of tho French.
Premier Clcmenccnu Is hated In Ger
many ns no other mnn ever was.
The mero mention of his name brings
torch direct thrents of what la to.
harpen to Franc' ,
l?;e evil propagandist Is doing his
wok well. Ho is .reaching not only
the mind of the adult German, but his
poitor. Is sinking deep Into the 'mind
of the rising generation. '
Bven young boys give rlso to their
hatred and tell how, when they grow
FESTIVAL
In Pasadena. Cnl. Tho Illustration
imwinmou
CHILDREN'S CHIMES PLANNED
Every Child In United States to Be
Asked to Glvo Cent for Vic
tory Set
New York. Every child In Amerlcn
will bo nsked to give nt least one cent
toward the erection In New York of a
set of "victory chimes." which will rln-r
out In Oally reminder of the sncrlllces
made ny Americans In tho wnr, It was
announced by the newly orgnnlzed Vic
tory Chimes nnd Carillon association.
The plans call for a scries .of 48
bells ono for ench state In the Union
on which will be played dally a vic
tory nntliem composed for children,
"Tho stnr-Spnnglcd Banner" nnd
"America." A forty-ninth bell, to 'o
the largest bell In the world, would
bo sounded only upon the Inaugura
tion or denth of n president of the
United Stntcs.
Meets Sister After Years.
Chlco, Col. After being parted from
his sister for n period of thirty years,
William Simpson of Vlrden, Manitoba,
Canada, urrlved hero yesterday to lie
the guest of his bister, Mrs. L. F. Eg
gers In Chlco Vecino. Simpson is nc
companlcd by his wife nnd son Gor
don, who wns wounded In nctlon In
France while serving with n Canadian
contingent of the British army In tho
world wnr.
cording to the Sumerlnn version, by a
woman deity. There Is no mention of
nny Evo In the stdry. Clay tablets
from which this nnd other stories nro
token nro said to be at least one thou
snnd yenrs older than Babylonian tab
lets. 14.000 Years Before Christ
After the Sumcrlnns hnd been ex
tinguished In their political power, ac
cording to Doctor Lnngdon. "Ihe Baby
lonians retained the language for eo-,
cleslastlcal purposes for many centu-i
rlcs, Just ns Lntln Is now used in the
Romnn Cnthollc church.
The Sumerlnn records nt tho univer
sity provide an apparent history of.
mankind back to 14.000 years before,
Christ, but this is not considered nb-'
solutcly authentic, because many of
the reigns of kings nro collnteral. The
Sumerlnns believed that tho patrl-'
orchs, corresponding to those of the
Old Testament, ruled before the flood
for 800,000 years. According to their
story It was 35.000 years. after the del-'
ugo when Cyrus of Persia conquered'
Babylonia.. h
Better Late Than Never.
Taunton, Eng. E. A. Bellamy, who
was a prisoner of wnr In Germany
and lately returned to his home here,
pnrtook of4a plum pudding recently
thnt had been sent to him by his wife
In September, 1018. '
The pudding wns part of the con
tents of n lnrgo pnrcel mailed by Mrs.
Bellnmy to her husband In tho prison
camp at Huhlebcn. Germhnv. It he-
came lost In tho malls and wns re
turned to tho sender the day before
Bellamy carao home.
up, they will drive tho Frenchman
from conquered German territory and
dcslioy tho Fronch nation.
"Germany soon will bo stronger than
France, despite our present condition,"
snl'l a German student to me a few
days ago. "Then France had better
watch out."
JAZZ MUSIC NOT A NUISANCE
Los Angeles County Judge Refuses to
Give Relief to Disturbed
, Nerves.
Los Angeles, Cal. Jaza mnslc Is
not a nuisance, according to a decision
by Judgo Lewis R. Works, In the Los
Angeles county superior court. The
city of Pnsadcnn had brought suit
ngnlnst a social club, whose neighbors,
complained Its jnzz music "Jarred on
their nerves."
"Once Jazz music might have been
construed as a nuisance," Judge Works
said. "It Is no longer so construed.
If the music disturbed the residents of
the neighborhood, I am sorry, but this
court cannot give thorn relief,"
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MILLIONS
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.?i!"lor.s ot. People euffer year after year
rrom allmente affecting practically everr
Pn rt, ot, bod,t nevor 'Irenmlnir that their
ill health can be traced directly to acld
itomacn. Here la the reason: poor dlgeatlon
mean poor nourishment of tho different
organs and tissues of the body. Tho blood la
impoverished becomes weak. thin, sluggish.
-Jimie.Vts ot ,m,v,y k,n1" "Prlng from such
conditions. Biliousness, rheumatism, turn
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nervousness, mental depression even moro
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The Seven Seas.
Did Kipling consult Hindu mythol
ogy when choosing the title for his
a ell-known hook, "Tho Seven Sens"?"
According to the Puronns, tho curth Is
circular nnd tint, like the flower of a
.water Illy. Its clrcuniferenco Is 1,000,
000,000 miles. In tho center Is Mount'
Soomeroo,
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