RED OLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF H Tlio fltnrt of the inntigural parade Left to right In tlio lend nro Generals West Is Magnet : For Immigrants tf- i Majority of Ellis Island Arrivals Drawn to Industrial Centers . by Higher Wages. IRISH GO TO NORTHWEST Women and Children Predominate Work Increased by New Laws Gov. rnlng Aliens Europe Loath U Let Them Qo. New York. Tlio Htienin of Immigra tion flowing through Ellis iNlnnd hns jteen notlcenbly deflected from Now Tori: city to Inland centers during the last twelvo months, nnd nfllclnls give this ns ono explanation for tlio fnct ithnt tlio city's 1020 census wns only B.021,121 Instend of tho 0,100,000 ex 'pected. Ofllclnl statistics regarding tlio desti nation of arriving nllens nro sent to (Washington to ho tabulated and digest- led. For this reason destination figures tfor the last twelvo months were not invallahle. Ono who most closely watches nllen "nrrlvnls Is J. F. Howe, (Official money chnnger. Ho Is quick to notlco nny unusual movement In the tflow of Immigration. To the Manufacturing Centers. Mr. Howe asserted that money ex ichnnged for Immigrants whose destina tion Is Now York city does not amount to 1 per cent of tho amount exchanged for those giving other parts ns their destination. "In former yenrs," snld Mr. Howe, ("Immigrants poured Into New- York jclty by the hundreds of thousnnds. 'They nre now going to manufacturing centers such ns Pittsburgh, Detroit ind Akron, Ohio, or to the coul nnd iron mining regions. "For tho most part those nrrlvlng Ihero now wero In Amerlcn before the war, nnd nro acquainted with the conn ttry nnd nttrncted to sections where tho (best wnges nre pnld. Hefore tho wnr in mnjorlty of tho nrrlvnls had only Ihniiy Idens ns to where they were go lng or whnt wnges they were to re- icelve. "Another Interesting fnct Is the ichnngo of location of some of the irnces. Not bo mnny yenrs ngo most lot the Irish nrrlvnls flowed Into Mas jeachusetts or scattered nloug the North Atlantic penbonrd. Now they nre going jlnto Oregon. It Is notlcenble, too, thnt inoro aliens nre going to Cnllfoniln Mlinn ever before." In Jnnunry 24,000 nllens arrived here; Februnry, 22,000; March, 20,000; i April, 80,000 ; May, 40,000, and In Juno lup to nnd Including the 10th, 31,000. (Superintendent linker of Kills Islnnd lentil this Immigration wns made up mostly of women, children nnd return ling reservists. These Intter nre most jly Italian's, nnd tho figures for this month will show that most of those I who left America to light for Italy Jhnvo returned. Tho fnct thnt no great number of Imnlb ullens Is arriving hero does not' WAR HEROES ROBBED Conspiracy in the War Risk In surance Bureau Unearthed. Men Involved Were Handling Claims of Crippled Soldiers for Compensation. Washington. A conspiracy of em ployees In the war risk Insurance bu ireau to defraud voterans of compen sation tluo them for disabilities sus Itnlned during tho wnr hns been un i earthed by tho United States secret ! service, according 6 announcement by I tho trehsury department. Three arrests hnvo been mnde, Tho j names of the men a r res tod were not j rondo public. "All thoso concerned In this out trngo will bo prosecuted to the limit of 'the Inw," snld Secretary of tho Trens ttiry Houston, In a statement Ismied ylicre. Inaugural Parade in Mexico In lliu cnpltnl of Mexico nt the Inaugural Jacinto Ticvlno, Obrogon nnd Hcnjiiuiln menu n luck of desire to come to Amer ica, the Immigration olllclnls say. Huth er It menus thnt European govern ments nro not willing to further de plete the male adult population by nl lowing It to emigrate. Tiro Intending emigrant Is finding It dltllcult to get passports 'under the new Immigration laws. Also ship accommodations nro harder to obtnln. Ift'foro tho wnr from four to flvo thousand nllens arrived nt this port ench dny, or ubotit 1150,000 n mouth. Notwithstanding the' falling off In ar rivals, however, Superintendent linker snld tho work probably Increased. This Is because of the changes In the law. Not only do nrrlvlng nllens have to pass examinations ns to moral nnd physical fitness, hut they must pass n literacy test and be armed with pass ports vised by tho Ainerlcnn consulnr ngent nenrest their homo nnd Indorsed fjy the American authority nt the port of embnrkntlon. Under amendments to tho Inw cer tain persons nre now exempt from the literacy test nnd nil of these must be detained to prove thnt they nro en titled to exemption. Again, many wom en nnd children are coming to relntlves here, nnd these must bo detained until siuii relntlonshlp Is proved. TURKISH WOMEN BREAK CUSTOMS No Longer Shy, Veiled Creatures, but Work With Men in Many Lines. SPECIAL SEATS FOR WOMEN Only the Very Old Men Rash Enough to Sit Down In the Same Car Seat With a Turkish Woman Leaders Educated. Constantinople. Turkish women nro no longer tho shy, veiled crentures who passed their time In tho seclusion of the hnrem nnd wero never seen by foreign men. They still cling to the veil. But tho streets In Constantinople nnd other Inrgcr Turkish cities nro filled with women who have tlielr veils thrown back from tlielr faces. They nre highly ornamental and becoming. Most Turkish women don't want to abandon them In favor of hats. Hut there nre many sorts of veils nnd the smart, black bilk veils which some of tho women wenr nre very fetching when draped nrtlstlcully over tlielr hair. Car Seats for Women. In the railway and street cars thero are spoclal seats fqr women, but the flimsy curtains which nro supposed to screen them from the gaze of men nro usually drawn back and It Is not un common to sec men standing In tho The men Involved In these crimes wore engaged In the task of handling clulms of ex-sold lers for compensation. Tho method employed, as reported by tho secret service, was substantially as follows: A soldier, presenting his claim In per son, was ndvjsed by one of the con splrntors who handled It thnt he wns entitled to $200 or $100. At the same nine the employee denounced the fact that tho award was so small. Taking tho mutter under further consideration, he told tho claimant that ho thought ho would bo able-to put through an award for u greater amount, hut tint, of course, ho would wunt to shnre In tho excess payment. Tho clnlmnnt agreeing, n check for tho larger amount wns mndo out. Tho truth wns thnt tho soldier was enti tled to tho larger amount and to the full proceeds of tho check. The cottnge Is a palace to tho poor. City of President D. Adolfo tie In Hucrtn. Hill. Mother Found Two Children Playing With Blacksnake Missing her two children, Mrs. George Mend of Susquehanna, I'd., located them In a Held near by. Her four-year-old son wns astride n blncksniiku more than three feet In length, nnd his sis ter, Olndys, three years old, wns striking tho snake on tho head with a switch. The youngsters were laughing, nnd the womnn snld 'the snake seemed to be contented. Tlio reptile glided away nt sight of tho mother. RAIDS NET FORTUNE IN BOOZE 35,000 Gallons, Worth $1,000,000, Seized In New England Slnco January 1. linston. Federal prohibition agents In New Knglnnd have seized more thnn .15,000 gnlltvttfr of liquor nnd alco hol, vnlued at $1,000,000, In raids con ducted since Jnnunry 1, according to William .1. McCarthy, federal prohthl tlon enforcement ngent for this sec tion. In addition, thousnnds of gallons of beer containing more thnn half of 1 per cent olcohol have been conn's cutcd. The liquor Is stored In eight ware houses here awaiting removal to Washington. - compartments for women. Only very old men, However, nro rush enough to sit down In the same sent with n Turk ish womnn. Turkish women seldom go to a theater where there are men. Special matinees and evening perform ances are nrranged for women only. The war has done much to break down tho burrler between Turkish men and women. The women were noedpd so bndly us nurses nnd relief workers thnt the government had to avail It self of tlielr services. Anil now It Is regarded ns quite proper for men nnd. women to be associated In nil sorts of charitable nnd educational works. Consequently ninny women who were formerly forced to content themserves with seclusion In n homo where fancy work nnd French novels were the only diversions nre devoting their time to hospitals, nrphnnnges and other phil anthropic Institutions. Educated Women Leaders. Women who have been educated abroad or In the foreign schools In Turkey nrt tho leaders In thli move ment for grentcr freedom for their sex. Their broad experience In win work hns Interested many women In politics, and they have openly played n great part In the nationalist move ment. In tho Constantinople American Woman's college the Turkish girls lake great Interest In basketball nnd other nthletlo gnmes, and tho effect upon women who have come under for eign Influence Is making the old life of seclusion nnd Inactivity unattrac tive to younger Turkish women. CHEROKEE BILL'S AGE 123 Fought With Bow and Arrow Against British In 1812 Enlisted at Fifteen. Grand Junction, Col. Cherokee Hill, veteran' of the plains nnd sol. dler In the wnr of 1812, hns Just cele brated his ono hundred mid twenty third birthday nt the county homo here. Cherokee Hill Is the only niimo ho knows. In the enrly dnyn ho fought with bow ami arrow with the aborig ines and even useii unit primitive weapon, ho says, when he fought do llrltlsh In 1812. Ho enllsfcil In tho army when he was fifteen yars old. lie was born .luiie 0, 1707, nnd was twice listed -In tiro United States census as tho oldest native of Amer ica. The nget Indian recently made a cap for himself out-of the down of cattails, and wears this proudly when he hobbles along the streets Villi the aid of a cano ho has o.vned since tin Civil war. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF:; Timely News Culled From All Part3 of the State, Reduced for tho Busy. v SCORES OF EVENTS COVERED Sntistlcs s'fiow that Nebraska lm l,:t."S farms of less than twenty acres, l,r."i8 farms of from twenty to fifty acres, 12,(518 fiirins of from fifty to 100 ncres; 1:1,01(1 farms of from 10(1 to 171 acres: -I l,2:i:i farms of from 17" to of funnels petition to form n county Mm acres: 1.'1.128 farms of from WW) (o flin11 reati mid Employ n county !)!)!) acres, jind :i,8(17 farms over 1,000 "Kent, the counly board Is required to acres In area. The total number irf Provide funds for the work. This the farms In the state Is 12i),7S. K has HH counly hoard refused to .do. A more farms of between f()() and 1.0(H) I Wl,t f mandamus to compel the board acres than any other state In the union H" (1 so "'as secured by the farm hu mid Is second to Texas In number of I mi,, nniWthe county board appealed farms of fiOO acres or more. It ranks third In farms of,, more than 1,000 acres In size. The now, railroad that Is being con sidered north and south from Oil hertsou through Wallace, will end on the north at North Platte, total of 01 miles. The railroad will open up some of the best farming territory In the stale. Fanners now have to haul their wheat 2." to 110 miles to n railroad. The estimated cost of the road Is ?20.000 per mile, Including one engine and two cars. There are !!)." prisoners In the state penitentiary lit Lincoln. Since the first of .Inn miry, 1020, 1-11 have been sentenced to the Institution, from which It Is concluded that crime is In deed on the Increase. The pen's regis ter shows thnt most of the lately con victed are between the nges of 17 and 2."i. wllh an average of 21. Three young girls, Ilerthn I.lndkugle, 1.", and Kdiui I.lndkugle, l.'l, of Tier shey, nnd I.lln Mason, l.'l, of North I'lntte, were drowned while wading In the Platte river south of Norh I'lntte. Miss Laurel Masqn, 29, In an nttcmptt to rescue the girls almost lost her life. The river Is from ten, to thirty feet deep where the accident occurred. Nebraska hns 78,000 ncres of sugar beets this year, us compared to 04,800 acres last year. The present acreage Is nearly nineteen times greater thnn that In 1010. The state ranks fifth, being exceeded by Colorado, Michigan, California ami Utah In the order named. The State Itouril of Equalization has ordered the county boards of Nuckolls and Holt counties to rescind tlielr ac tion In cutting down the valuation of the two counties us reported by their county nnd precinct assessors. Tho state capltol cnniinls.slnn Is op posed to nny attempt to bring plans for the new state capital into politics, and hns deferred ull action on the (apltol plans until lifter the November election. A neur tornado swept over Nellgh, damnged a carnival company showing In the city to the extent of nearly $10, 000, unroofed several houses, uprooted trees and injured crops In the district quite badly. Petitions are In circulation In Kear ney county requesting the county board to place before tlio voters 11 proposition to raise funds for resuming the annual county fair. Crop conditions In Valley county and In the sand hills of Carfleld and Greeley counties are the best ever known, according to a Mirvey Just completed. A hydro-electric plant Is to be built nt Hebron In the immediate future nnd it Is thought It will mean cheaper light and power for people of the city. Preliminary work for paving several streets at Ord has been completed iid It Is expected the work will be entirely llnlsheil in a few weeks. A sixty-three mile an hour wind"! swept Vnlentlno nnd vlclnltyjho other dny resulting In some damage to city property and crops. Business men of Wahoo hnve orgnn Ized n country club. A trnct of hind east of the city hns been purchased for club grounds. Virtually nil nrrnngoinentH have been made for holding a harvest fes tival at Shelton, August 17 and 18. A terrltlc hall storm stripped corn In an area of about ten miles square southwest of .luulntn. Fire caused' by lightning destroyed the AVhltuker's opera house building at Harvard. Pluns are under way for the con struction of a new up-to-date hotel at Pawnee City. Plans to make the livestock exhibi tion ono of tho lnrgcsriii the stnte are being made by the ofllclnls in charge of the 1020 Thayer' county fair, which will be held at Deshler, August 111 to September 3. Josef lilnzkii, sentenced to life Im prisonment for beating his wife to death with a harness tug In Cherry county, March 0, 1010, must servo his term, according to 11 decision of the ituto supremo court upholding the ac tion of tho Cherry county district court. Ulazka had applied for a new trial. Farmers between Urady Island nnd ICearno' report heavy dnifiago to crops us the resuU of the hall storms last- week. Fire destroyed tho electric light plant at Clatonla, entailing a loss of $10,000 and leaving the village In dark ness. It will be rebuilt. A list of stockholders of the Union 1'ncltlc railroad, deposited with the State Hallway Commission nt Lincoln, In accordance with the state law, con tains 117,000 names and weighs eight pounds. The list Is on thin pnper ond closely typewritten. " ' I fiOVernnr MfTCnlvIn line laann.l o urn. cliiiiiathrt, designating Tuesday, Sep- (inner ji, ns n special election day, , on which the constitutional amend- l incuts, proposed by the constitutional convention, will be voted on. There nro forty-one proposed nniendnients. All amendment adopted Will become ef fective In 11)21. One exception to tills Is the equal sull'rage iinieiidiiient which Is to be operative immediately upon proclamation of Its pnssngi This should permit women In Nebraska full suffrage regardless of federal ratifica tion by one more state. The state supreme court upheld tho county farm bureau' net passed by tho 1010 legislature In the J tall county case. Under the law, when a number l0 UIP supremo court In a reply to tho Standard Trade Service of New York, the state labor department at Lincoln declared there Is ut present .suillelent farm help to meet all demands In Nebraska, and thnt there will be a surplus of labor for construction work, after the harvest. That publication states that It Is making 11 survey of labor condi tions throughout the country. In order to repair Cedar county bridges damnged by unprecedented Hoods' this spring and to replace tlioso entirely swept away the county board has voted to draw on any fund allow able to meet the emergency. The task confronting the county since enrly spring exhausted the bridge fund some time ago and prompt action was neces sary to meet he crisis. The secretary of state nt Lincoln Is sending county clerks copies of the ballot for the special election Septem ber 21. Knch county will have to sup ply the ballots for the election on the adoption of the constitutional amend ments as prepared by the constitution al convenlon and bear the expense of the same. At a special election held In school district No. 41, embracing the village of Hubbell, the proposition to Issue bonds In the amount of ?2r,000 for tho erection of n new school house carried by a vote of 00 to ".". During n severe electrical storm nt Hastings lightning struck the Ingle side state hospital horse barn result ing in 11 fire which destroyed the build ing together with eighteen head of stock. The loss totals about .$7,000. Holt county boasts of having the old est democrat In Nebraska and, per haps In the entire middle west. He Is John Jasper IMvl, 10S years old, halo and hearty and anxious to vote for Cox and Itoosevelt at the fall election. The llnnl day's admission of tho Chautauqua at Plattsmouth were re quired to tide guarantors over from having to stnnd a deficit, nnd It Is quite likely tlio city will not have n Chautauqua next year. After cousTderlng ti proposition to Install a sewer system at Chappell It was decided the- venture would place too heavy a burden on the tax payers and the project was abandoned for the time being. x Chase county again promises to lead the state In wheat production per acre as It did In 101(1. Many farmers nro predicting that the average yield this yenr will be forty bushels per acre. Hetween fiOO and 700 persons are expected to attend the annual encamp ment of the Patriarchs Militant of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at West Point, beginning August 1.". All" Nebraska railroads have petition ed the State Hallway coiunils'don for Increased freight and passenger rates to become effective September 1. The iimomit was not specified. The greatest wheat crop In the his tory of Scotts HlufT county Is being harvested this week. The yield prom ises from 10 to 2."i bushels to the ncre. The; first load of Hnll canity wheat was uinrKeteti at .urana isinuii nisi week, ond brought $2.07 per bushel. It tested 01 pounds. Old-time residents of Furnns county predict thnt the whent yield this yenr will be the heaviest ever known In tho district. Work on the stnte-nld -road south of Greeley Is progressing, three miles of new rondwny hnvlng already been rnmtiliitml The Methodist Episcopal church nt Puwnee City which was badly dnni nged by fire recently Is being rebuilt. The cornerstone for the new Method ist church nt Nellgh wns laid Sunday, July 11. A Inrge crowd attended. Work on the new M. E. church at Lodge Pole Is proceeding without a hitch. The' lnylng of tho cornerstono for the structure Just recently by the Masonic order of ChuppelL. was n grand nlTalr and will long be remem bered by the congregation. Fred .lunge, living near Niobrara, Is probably tho first 'farmer to enter the aircraft field In Nebraska. Ho has purchnsed an nlrplauo from tho Ne braska Aircraft company at Lincoln. He purchased the nlrplnne for pleasuro and nlso for expediting business be tween his fnrm and town. Tho baseball championship of south western Nebraska will be ..decided at n tournament nt Holdrogq September 1 to fi. Twelvo teams nre entered. The hnll storm which swept por tions of Lincoln nnd Custer counties the past week destroyed approximately, $100,000 worth of crops, It Is said. Hemlngford was visited by a disas trous fire July 11, resulting In the de struction of n hotel, roller mills and several other buildings, and for n tlmo threatened to wipeyout tho busi ness district. .The loss IS 'placed nt. $.-0,000. OLD BATTLE LINES Evidences of War Thick in Vicinity of Ypres. Shell Holes Beginning to Grow Green, but Battered Twiks Are Every- , where In Evidence on the j Scenes of Slaughter. ' -j Leaving Zeebnigge.the first dnys Journey by motor takes the visitor something more thnn a hundred mile", with Ypres as the turning point and every variety of war-stricken lands and recovering countryside on the way there and back. It .vas 11 point moot ed with wearisome frequency in tho real days of the phAe when it wag "functioning," as ono would have said and among front-line troops. In tho salient, whether tley would ever cure to come buck mid see that foul place under a peaceful aspect. Agreed, there were thfte at home who might he tiiken, not without profit to them selves and the world In general, over tlio low ground under Kemuiel, or where Passcliendaele looked dowu on the swunips, unil there were not a few of tho nruichiilr gentry whose Instunt presence would hnve been wel comed. Hut, for himself, It was tho common verdict of the uiiiti In tho niudhole thnt, once out of It, Wipers and he could be the best of friends nt a distance, snys u writer In the Manchester Guardian. Hiding Into the plnce from which rises the battered tower of tho Cloth hall, li tho high dny and under a burning sun; coming, too, unscathed nnd unfenrful from what was unmls takably the direction of "No Miiii'h Land," ono had to question such it verdict, and finally, under the stimu lation of a hundred quickening memo ries, nllow the appeal. For tho In terest or Ypres nnd of nil tho ground In front of It would not be denied. The plnce wns like Itself In n degree, hnrd to credit.' And If only some mimic hud been there to reproduce the shrllt crescendo of nn nppronch Ing shell one would undoubtedly have taken cover. Going out 'by the .way of the Menln gate and turning up into- the high rond to Poelcnpelle, with first Uooge and then St. Jullcn, with Pns schcndnclc rolling up to the skyline as 1 background, Is to pnss Into the field of nn endless bnttle from which noth ing hns been clenred but the dend; mil though elsewhere something hna already been done of thnt "concentra Uon" of graves which Is to give our :lcod an orderly nnd Instlng memorial,, they still lie here, for the most part In the 8cattej:cd resting places to which the hurried hands of their com rades consigned them. The shell boles begin to-grow green, Dtit It Is only n beginning, .nnd If the trenches are almost unseen ns one joes down the rond, were -they ever rery clearly defined here? It Is n long time before n plnce Is reached from which no bnttered tanks can bo seen, jnd now nnd agnln Uiey stnnd three or four deep on the very edge of tho road ditched In their first nttcnipt at the mud. To look bnck on wnr nt Its worst, with nlmost nil Its evidences out present slnughter, one could scarcely better tho viewpoint of this rond. A few miles -farther, and the murdered forest of Ilouthulst, with. Its ncres of stricken trees and not a live one. gives n now edge to terror. There Is something" sound "'In the notion thnt ono enn see the hnttlo fields In n dny; the repetition would give no new tone, but Intrlnsicnlly the snme Impression. As n lesson Ypres nnd Its province could not bo sur pnssed. Coming out at Dlxmude, be nlnd whnt wns nn nlmost permanent boche, line, the enr returning to Zee bruggo comes ngnln Into n country tvhlch Is olive. For the hlntcrlnnd of Helglum has returned quickly to It self. The army huts which servo la the broken nrens as shelter for those tvho have returned to the shnttcredN Tillages, give pjnee hero to cottages ilrendy substantially repaired, and the frugal cultivation fef the soil goes forward with" nn energy nnd resource fulness typlcnl of no cluss In the world m much ns the Helglnn or French, peasantry. Avoiding Lily Embargo. A new and curious Industry, It Ibh predicted, Is soon to bo born In Van 'Oliver, H. C, because of the embargo- ' ulaced this year by the United States department of agriculture on nil Jnp nneso nursery stock packed In Jnp inictfe soli. This decree wns Intended to stop the Importation from the Is land of Formosa of lily bulbs, ordi narily brought Into this country nt the rate of $25,000,000 worth n yenr. Hut the trade Vlll not be suspended, nurserymen of Vancouver declare. The bulb trofllc will bo deflected, north ward to this seaport, Just nlTove the boundary; and hero the bulbs will -bo removed frofy the soil In wlTlch they crossed the Pacific. They will then be repacked In Canadian loam, and 10, free from "Japanese soil," will be qualified for entrance Into the United States, Populnr Mechanics Magazine. Oxygen Device Tested. .Because of the possible disastrous failure of iln ulmnun's oxygen supply apparatus at great altitudes, tho United States bureamof standards has devised a rellnblp method of testing tho equipment In the laboratory. All the conditions of high-altitude flights nro accurately- reproduced, says Pop ulr.r Mechanics Magazine In un Illus trated nrtlcle Appearing In Its July is sue. Decreased pressuro Is obtained; .'iy Inclosing the equipment In a bell Inr conno.Ued to nn air pump. I A