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RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF Russian Nobles , Now Work Hard Rcfugces, Impoverished by the Bolsheviki, Help Each Other in Warsaw. MME. LUBINOFF IS LEADER Conducts Relief and Commands Ad mirals, Generals and Governors Peel Potatoes and Chop Wood In Psland for a Living. Worsow. Driven from pnlnco to Imvcl, some or tlie members or. the aristocracy of old Russia now nre peel ing potatoes or chopping wood here for a living. Five thousand men and women nnd children, boiiic of whoso resounding titles once brought them homage of courtlerM, aro chiHtered here nfter hav InR fled to Poland before the Holslic vlkl. Helping them to help themselves Is Mine. Ludmlln Lublnoff, herself a refuges, though born a princess or one of the oldest Husslan houses and the- wife of the former civil governor of Warsaw. Tbis rcmnrknblo woman Is conduct lug soup kitchens, sewing rooms and workshops for members of her unhnp py class, and taking orders from her nro men wlio once communded the anned forces of the Russian emperor On her staff tiro admirals, generals, governors, mayors and members of the old I'etrogrnd court, while her husband has laid aside his gubernatorial duties to become her secretary. A Woman of Action. ) A beautiful woman, she hides the tragedy of her life under an optimism that Is an example to the unhappy folk to whom she ministers. A woman of fiction, too, for bho escaped from Petro 4rad with her two sons after freeing fcer husband from the fortress of Peter and Paul and arming him with a ficti tious passport that eunbled him to tlec to Warsaw. Here the family was re united. Selling virtually all (the possessed to aid her fellow countrymen, Mine. LublnolT organized the Warsaw branch of the ltusslau Ited Cross, which Is being aided by the American organiza tion. Sparing not herself, Mrue. LublnolT has not spared the colony of refugees which Included many of tho former Husslan nobility. In the soup kitchen and wood yard, which she has estab lished In a Husslan orthodox church nt 5 l'odwal a squalid property placed at her disposal aro working men and women of title at tasks which once servants performed for them. In the dingy littlo courtyard Gen eral Oblonsky, formerly architect nt tho Husslan court, chops wood for a living with several olllcers of tho crack Imperial guards, one of whom lias lost his reason and must he watched. In n small and dirty build ing Prince Meschcisky, who was mas ter of ceremonies nt the Imperial court, peels potatoes for his dally bread. Nobility as Servants. In the crowded rooms the meals are served by women of the Russian nobility Princess Hukoff, widow of Admiral HukolT, who wns executed by rhe llolshevlkl ; Princess Ouchtonisk, whose husband wns reputed one of the richest men In I'etrogrnd and Is now cashier In tho next room n( 4,tXX' Polish marks a month, the equivalent of ?4 today, and Mine. ICoudravatsky, widow of the vice mayor of I'etrogrnd, who was put to death by the Hed rev olutionists. Colonel KesselnefT of the Imperial llusslan Guards runs errands for Mine. LublnolT, and refugees who collapse from exhaustion while waiting for their food are attended by Mile. Car agestolT. a former wealthy resident of Petrograd, now n nurse. Working In an American Hod Cross warehouse are twenty olllcers of the Imperial Guards regiment bended by II. Hlekshensky, n lawyer of Kleff, who arrived In the Polish capital Mississippi Wild Man and His Wife Albert Parsons, tho ','wlld mnn" of tho Loaf river bottoms, Mississippi, bin flfty-yeur-old wife, whom ho says ho caught in u benr trap 23 years ago, nnd ,iils two-yenr-old baby girl, who strayed to civilization, like people of another age. They had been driven out of their home, a shack on a strip of laud in p& isoluted section, by high water. wlthont underclothing or footwear. He said his sister had been killed tills winter by the llolshevlkl and that the capital of the Ukraine hud become a city of the dead. Mine. LublnolT boasts n storehouse about the size of ui American house wife's pantry, which Is In chargo of Michael Shramcheiiko, the son of the governor of Tchernlkoff, who wns killed by tho llolshevlkl. The assist ant storekeeper Is Victor Horseuko, who was governor of Novgorod. 3,700 CHINESE WORK ROADS Employed In Railway Construction, Relief Body Reports own's Girls Sold. Pekln. The engineering department of tho American Hetl Cross famine relief organization rcportB that up to the end of December, 3,700 Chinese had been employed In rullroad con struction. - The men nro In chnrgo of division engineers sergeunts from tho Pekln guard, who have as assistants privates from the guard. Tho line under construction extends from Tcchow to Llntslng on the Chi-hll-Shantung border. In one district u census of families showed that beforo relief urrlved nil girls between nine and fourteen yenrs of age In two villages had been sold. A shipment of foodstuffs brought by the United States transport Mor rltt was moved from Chlngwangtno to Tehchow with little delay. RULER IS VICTIM OF ROYAL FLUSH Amar Alayam, Tribal King of Ar menia, Lands in Jail in Minneapolis. POKER GAME HIS UNDOING Seeks to Rally His Tribesmen to Re gain Heritage of His Fathers Turns to Gambling to Sup ply Necessary Funds. Minneapolis. Amur Aluyum, by right of birth a tribal king of Arme nia, Is a prisoner in the Hennepin county Jail, held there on the charge of giving u worthless ?50 check to redeem his losses at poker and ufrald to summon his clansmen to his aid for fear they would repudiate tho leader ship of a iniui In a felon's cell. At least such was the story told by Alayam to Floyd H. Olson, county at torney, from whom he besought u recommendation of probation that he might once more rally his tribesmen und seek with them to regain the her itage of his fathers. Ten years ago Alayam, according to tho story ho told Mr. Olson, became the king of his tribe In Armenia upon the death of bis father, Abu Alayam. Abu had been a btrong ruler. Ho bad nninsscd hinds and fortune. Dur ing his lifetime ho hud held at bay the emissaries of the Turkish sultans who had sought to despoil his lands. Upon his death tho Turks came. Looted by Turks. Alayam was but u youth of twenty two at thnt time. Marauding Turks, backed by tho power of the Sultan, seized upon tho richest of his Inheri tance. It was useless to resist their strength by force. For money they promised to release tho farms of his fathers, so, gathering about fifty of Ids young men, Alayam came to Amer ica, the Innil of fabled fortunes. After the custom of' the Armenian Immigrants, Alnyam was spokesman for his tribesmen In tho new land. It OIL HAS MADE HER RICH (58 Twenty-ono yenrs ngo Miss Ella Tarrnnts became owner of a 200-ncre fnnn near Howling Green, Ky., willed to her by an old lady whom she had nursed for somo years. For 21 years Miss Tnrrnnt and her family mnde n bare living raising tobacco nnd corn. Not long ngo oil wns discovered on tho fnnn. Today Miss Tarrant's Income from the many wells which have been drilled Is about $100 n duy. - 8 Year's Round of Red Tape All for Six Nuremberg. An automobile carrying the license No. 11 B 488 passed through tho town of Schwabnch Inst November without paying tho toll of 40 pfennigs (normally eight cents, but at the present rato of ex change three-fifths of ono cent). i uiuiuiu to ascertain wnn z owned the enr, the Schwabnch police chief reported to Uio Germnn ministry of the interior, which turned tho matter over to tho Bnvarlan Torelgn minis ter. Then tho report went through Munich polleo depart ment, tho Schwnbach board of nldernien, nnd a score of hands to tho agricultural council of tho Palatinate, which found thnt the automobile belonged to tho state of Ilnvnrln and therefore was not subject to tho Sehwu bach municipal toll. On January 20, Inst, tho Schwabuch town government was informed of the result of an Investigation that had Ins't cd more than ono year. And all about 40 pfennigs. o $$;r55$S$$55$$$$99S!r$$SS$$$$$$$$j wns through him that they hired out for vurlous occupations. A tltho of their wages they gave to Aluyum, who hoarded tho money that ho might go bnck to ransom his kingdom from tho Turks. Almost enough money wus raised to accomplish tho purposo when tho world war came. Upda tho heelB of news of the war came tidings of tho ravishing of Armenia by tho Turks. Tales or tho suffering of his country men caused Alayam to ikbaudnu his dream or going back to his kingdom. The money saved for that purposo he sent overseas, n contribution to tho Armenian relief funds. Many of his colonists returned to enlist as soldiers to tight ngalnst tho Turks. Tho rest were scattered. Still tin who remained continued to give n part of their wages to Ala yam and he stayed on In this country, feeling that tho money he could rnlso here would bo of moro valuo to his countrymen than his presence In Ar menia as a common soldier. Turns to Gambling. Tho end of the vnr was also tho and or Alayain's resources. So many or his colonists had gono back to Arme nia that tho contributions or tho re maining were scarcely enough to nT rord their chieftain a living. Desper ate nt tho thought thnt return to his fatherland might never be realized, Alayam began to gamble, seeking, ho told Mr. Olson, to multiply tho tithes of his colonists luto tho Tprtune ho needed. Hut Instend or winning Alayam lost. With money gono he gave n worthless check Tor $50 for a last stack of chips and those, too, were lost. Alayam was arrested. In his plen to tho county nttornoy Alnynm begged for n recommendation of probation. Ho could call his follow ers together then, ho said, and would depart with them for their old homo In Armenia. Kven without monov Alnynm was confident ho could rally his father's tribesmen and, with tho power of Turkey weakened, regain ugaln IiIb heritage. NEWS OF STATE TERSELY TOLD Recent Happenings in Nobraska Given in Erief Items For Busy Rcadcra. i.m Oinnhn police recently nrrested CO nutomoblle speeders In one day. Tho Onl Retail Dealers' association has designated April (1 as Hargnln duy. The new $00,000 public school build ing at Hlue Springs was dedicated last week. Tlu; state Federation of Women's flubs will meet In Omaha April HI and 14. James S. Ewart, a prominent grain man of Lincoln, Is dead from a stroke of rpoploxy. A lodge of the Brotherhood of American Yoomen hns been organized nt Superior with u charter member ship of 7.r. A Hcbcl-mli lodge has been organized nt Liberty, with a charter membership of forty-two. The census .shows there nro sixteen persons to every square nJllo of terri tory In Nebraska. Tornndlc winds last week caused considerable damnge to a number of towns over the state. The state legislature is making plans to llulsh up Its work and ad Journ nbout April 10. Nearly fifty were baptised and 12T received Into the Methodist church at Sydney Easter Sunday. Hew Charles .Savldge, the Oinnhn "Marrying Parson," has Just perform ed his 5,000th ceremony. Eighty converts were baptized In the river nt Taylor as the result of the revival meetings Just closed by congregational church there. The nineteenth child has Just been born to Mr. nnd Mrs. George Kncppor, living on n farm near Salem. Hev. W. L. Bright, pastor of the First Lutheran church of Nebraska City, has tendered his resignation. Dean J. A. Tnncock, former pallor of Trinity cathedral nt Omaha, Is now pastor of a church at San Franslseo. Odd Fellows of the state will cele brate nt Omaha April .t0, the 102d an niversary of tho founding of that or der. Eggs havo dropped at Callaway from 1!) cents to 11 cents per dozen, nnd local dealers expect them to go lower. A temporary water famine Is feared at Callaway. Mains have burst und It will be several days before repairs can be mnde. The M unlock electric light system has begun serving patrons. The power Is brought from Omaha on a high tension line. Huvenna Is having a siege of sear let Tever, three or four cases having been reported nnd (lunrantlned within the past week. The body of C. Huben, an Omaha grocer, was found lying In u pool m" blood In tho rear of his sto:e. with ltls throat slushed. At the collection taken up at St. Michael's church of Spalding for tl-o relief of the suffering people of Ire land $1,000 was raised. The lSth annual convention of tho Second district. Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs, will meet In Omaha at the Y. W. C. A. April V.l On account of the difference In price of 4 to S cents In favor of Callaway, a large amount of wheat and corn Is being hauled to that point from other towns. With the present plenitude or labor, the Union Stock Yards company of Omaha tells tho railway commission it will niAV bo nblo to provide full ciows on switch engines. Superintendent Fred D. Schneider, who has had charge or the Cedar Haplds school for the last three years, has been elected to head the Loup City Schools for next year. At the Northwestern Nebraska Bas ketball tournnment nt Chudron, nt which sixteen counties were repre sented, Alliance won first place, Chad ron second nnd Long Pine third. Automobile thieves, who hud stolen n mnchlne from Oeorge Hoover or Elk horn, finally abandoned It nenr Fre mont, nfter stripping It of everything' but the engine, body and wheels. The Hev. Louis E. Humphrey, for tjie past three years pastor of the First Presbyterian church nt Litchfield, has resigned to take up work In the presbytery of Boulder, In Colorado Ansley Is to have an open nlr pic ture show this summer. Hoy Patter son, former owner of the Sun Iho utor, which burned to the ground, will bo the promoter. Test borings to determine the mi lure of tho soil structure Tor the new Nebm..ka snpltol havo been made nt the four corners of tho proposed build ing, to a depth of over 100 feet. . Following thu discovery of S."i coun terfeit dolbus In a park nt Oinalin, sicret service operatives and polleo use endeavoring to find u band of counterfeiters believed Lj be operating In that city. Superintendent J. It. Armstrong of the Wayne public schools has tender ed his resignation to tnko effect at the clopo of tho present school year. The Haiidolpb Community club has taken over tho management of thu lo cal band, will hire u competent Instruc tor, nnd expects to hno shortly one of the best musical organizations In north eastenr Nebraska, Leon Clark of tlto McCook Equity Creamery department had a narrow escapo from death when he used u gal lon of gasoline to start a llro thinking It was lubricating oil. He was badly burned on the hands und body. Tccumseh will make efforts to se cure n part or nil of Its water supply fiom artesian wells. Dalton has voted $21,000 bonds for tho erection of a electric transmission lino from Sydney to that place. Joseph Hlrsch, a farmer living near Hnvenna, diopped dead on his front porch. Up had been In uppnrcnt good health. The r0th anniversary of the arrival of the Soldiers' Free Homestead col ony nt (libbon will bo celebrated April 7. The district convention of the I. O. O. F., held ut David CHy hist week, was one of the most successful held In recent years. The ninth annual spring meeting of Nebraska live stock feeders will bo held at the College of Agriculture, ut Lincoln, April l,"i. While winching for n street car, Helen Farr, a Kl-year-old Omaha girl, had two braids of hair clipped from her head by some miscreant. Eluxen of tho corps of sixteen teach ers In the West Point city schools havo declined tho appointment. The pro vnlllng low salaries Is apparently tho cause As a result of the Joint efforts of the community club and the city coun cil. Madison will have a tourist park, equipped to take care of the needs of uutolsts. Hundicds of dollars' worth of feed wus destroyed when the bnrn on the falvln Duncan farm, near Wymorc, wus struck by lightning and totally destroyed. According to figures Just mnde pub lic by the Stnte Department of Trade, bank deposits In the state have fallen off over tfltt.OOO.OOO n the four months ending February 2.1. Two-thirds of the herd of Short horns on the Bowman ranch near Hen trice, have been found to be tiiberculur, us result of an Investigation conducted by n local veterinarian. Otis Hyers, state sheriff, has offered a reward of .f20 for Information lead ing to the arrest of F. H. Clarldge, missing president of the defunct Bank ing House of Cnstottor of Blair. Platte county Is now equipped to do Its own road building, through tho purchase' of one of the big grading outfits operated by the slate depart ment of public works lust year. 11. M. Wells, who has gone Into the poultry business near Auburn, prob ubly has the largest Incubator In the state. The Incuabtor Is built in sec tions und has a total capacity of 7,fi00 eggs. Heductlon of the number of Nolim. ki's Judicial districts from eighteen to nlno with two nddltlonnl Judges u' lowed for each district, bus received the approuil of the lower legislative, branch. Stock to the extent -of S100.000 will be subscribed by Oiimlui Jews for the pin pose of establishing an Omaha colony In the heart of Palestine, under the direction of the .Ion common wealth. Tbeie are nearly 1,000 colonies of bees in Douglas county, according to H. O. Cook, pres.dent of the Douglas County Honey Producers' association, und the number Is constantly on the increase. The Increase In parcel post business lit Wymore lias necessitated the em ployment of nn addltluial carrier for 'Ity delivery, und whoso work will be confined entirely to the delivery of parcel post packages. The fourteenth annual encampment of the United Spanish War veterans, department of Nebraska, will convene at Lincoln, on June 12, 111 and 14. This encampment will be a reunion of nil Spanish war veterans. Will Heed Dunroy, dramatic editor end newspaper man, u former Lincoln boy and university graduate, Is dead In Chicago, supposedly of alcohol poi soning, caused by "inoonhlne" whis ky taken to secure relief fvx a cold. It Is estimated that farmers of Chey enne county spent nearly u million dol lars last year In various kinds of worthless stocks. The county farm bureau will endeavor to protect them against a repetition of the experience. For the tlrst time In the history of Cage county women nssessors will participate In. the annual assessment campaign which opened April 1. Mrs. Vernn Pugsley and Mrs. W. W. Dun can of Beatrice are the first of their sex to be appointed as precinct as sessors. The first carload of cattle and hogs to be sent by u charitable Institution in Nebraska, was received at the South Omaha stock yards last week from the Odd Fellows state home ut York. The hogs, which, with the cattle, bad been raised by thu Institution, topped the market. Tin; Illoomlleld band which has been disorganized for several seasons, is to be iigalu brought to Ufe, with u membership of nbout twenty pieces. A petition with 22." signatures ask ing that the Sunday molu quest'lon be put on the ballot at the spring elec tion has been filed with the city clerk of Huntings. Deputy Sheriff Tolles Wlntersteen or Fremont narrowly escaped death when he sunk In quicksand to his arm pits In the Platti! river, while search ing the liver banks und Islands for Il licit whisky btlls. lie was rescued by companions. The annual encampment of tho State O. A. It. and Its all led organiza tions and auxiliaries, will ho held nt Hastings May 2.'), 21 and 25. The Chudron Hotury club Is plan ning to send n bridal couple to thu In ternational notary meet ut Edinburgh, SciMlaml, this summer If couples with matrimonial Intentions will take mem bers Into their confidence. Nebraska has 427 different varieties of birds, Texas and California alone liming more, according to Dr. Solon Towno of the Omaha Audobon soci ety. Most birds from tho north pass thiough this state on their way soutli. HITATTAXD0DGEB5 NEW LAW PROVIDES HEAVY PEN. ALTY FOR PERSON3 FAILING TO REPORT PROPERTY ABETTORS INJ5AME CLASS Anyone Assisting Taxpayers to Dodge, Payment In Same Class As Evaders and Subject to the Same Penalties Lincoln. Individuals, firms, or cor porations which couiiBcl, aid or abot taxpayers In evading tho proposed tax on Intangibles money, credits, stock, notes or bondB aro to bo raotod out tho prccl3o penalties that tho law provides for tho tax ovadcr himself. This amendment was offered on tho floor of tho senate by Senator John W. Cooper, of Douglas, hcretoforo an antagonist to tho revised rovenuo bill. Tho revenue committee endorsed tho amendment, and tho sonata commit too or tho wholo approved it. This was tho only amendment of consequence thnt tho revenue com mittoo permitted to got Into tho bill, outsldo of committee amendments add ed from day to day. A committee amendment was added: to tho bill making It unluwful for county boards, city councils or other tax-levying bodies, to levy a tax of moro than 20 por cent of the levy on actual valuation. Levies providod In tho statutes prior to 1921 aro on tho basis of assessed' valuation, or ono fifth actual value. This amendment i to make tho lovlcs conform. About tho only reatirro of tho now law that did not stir up protest watt tho soctlon providing for finding the valuo of franchises, and taxing them as tanglblo property. In fixing this, valuo tho assessors miiBt consider market valuo of tho stock, dividends and surplus Indebtedness, cost and porlod of tho rrnnchiso and capitaliza tion ot tho company. Hcretoforo franchises havo not been taxed. In the class subject to this fran chise tax tho proposed law Includes, street railways, water works, electric light and gas plants, mines, express, telephone and telegraph companies, and pipe lines, Including companies, piping steam heat. Approve Antl-Plcketlng Bill Prohibition of picketing by atrlkora. to persuade men at work to quit their Jobs Is favored by the Nobraska hoime of representatives, but it wants no In dustrial commission to handle labor disputes and restrain profiteering practices In trade. Tho Randall bill making it a viola tion of law to Interfere with any per son In tho cxerclso of his right to work, by talking to him against hla will, following him, from pluco to plnco and using abuslvo laugungo or other means or Intimidation, was ap proved for passage. But tho Epperson bill to establish nn Industrial commission was Indef initely postponed. Governor Signs Several Bills Governor McKelvio haa signed tho standard loaf bread bill, also tho fol lowing other bills: S. F. CI-Raising salary of court re porters from ?2.000 to ?2,G090 a year. II. R. 411 Lincoln consolidation bill. H. H. 210 Incorporation of Ameri can Legion and Greek letter sociotles. H. It. 1G1 Raising Interest on f!i, 000,000 Omaha school bonds and per mitting tholr snlo below par II. H. 440 Stato hall Insurance bill,, with emergency clause. II. H. 273 Requiring organizers or Insurance to bo qualified In exporlenco nnd to publish, notices ot incorpora tion. Excavating for New Capitol Base A hugo motorized- shovel foclonglnB to tho state highway department is ex cavating oil tho capital grounds for u test to bo made of tho ability of tho sandstone stratum under tho grounds to bear up tho proposed now stato capital. Tho shovel will dig a hole about fifteen root In diameter and from twenty to thirty foot doop, tho depth at which tho sandstono starts. It is understood to bo tho plan to Imposo on a given area of tho sand stone a weight oqulvalont to tho pro portionate weight of tho now building; on that area, to determine its Blip, porting choracter. To Hasten Adjournment All houso bills not roported out for tho sifting filo In tho lower leglslatlvo chamber aro now dead by vlrtuo ot a motion which Hoprcsontativo Axtell presented nnd tho houso adopted. Whllo approving UiIb plan to huston final adjournment, tho houso refused to overturn its rulca by limiting de bate on bills heroaftor to flvo minute? for each spealtar. Governor's Veto Is Sustained Difforont factional groupB In tho rop refiontativo dlot split up on tho ques tion of passing; over Governor McKel vlo'a veto tho Mosoloy bill governing appointments to fill vacancies for United States senator, stato eonntorH and roprcsontatives. By 70 votes to. 2G, tho voto was sustained. Prohibition Bill Reported Out Tho houso Judiciary covimlftoo has roported out S. F. 185, prohibition en forcement monauro which applies cer tain provisions of tho Volstead act to tho Btato law. Tho net makes it unlawful to ndvortlBO any nnd all de vices, proparntionB and formulas for tho purposo of manufacturing Intoxi cants. It Is declared unlawful to man ufacturer intoxicants or maintain u, ntlll for tho manufacturo of alcohol or whisky or mash. Tho bill provldcB for n fino of from C00 to $5,000 for offenders. rn
