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RED OLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF Cobbler to Town Shoo Repairer, "Friend, Philosopher and Guide" of Vice President. HELPS TO SHAPE HIS CAREER Friendship Begun In College Days Contlnueo Through Early Strug gles and Subsequent Proml. nence In Politics. Northampton, Mass. James Lucey, bender of shoes, Is pegging away in Ills shop hero with one eye on the Newspapers for word of how the nu (lonul capital treats Calvin Coolldge, his one-time associate In local politics, end now vice president. When Vice President Coolldge, Just before departing for Washington re cently, grasped the cobbler's hand as the photographers snapped their cam eras, ho gave him a distinction thnt lio was asked to explain. "1'ut Mr. Lucey down as my guide, philosopher und friend," he said. And so the cobbler Is now nationally known. What the vice president meant wna uiori or less well known to Northamp ton olk. The story goes back to thu ilium when Calvin Coolldge was a soph nworo ut Amherst college. With shoes to be repaired ho sought Luccy's shop tin Gothic street In this city, and then remained to listen to the cobbler's comely comments on the topics of Uio lay. Helped to Shapo Career. The student found the shoemaker! jhllosophy so engaging thnt during thu remainder of his college course he went frequently to see him. As n lawyer later young Coolldge opened olllccs here, nnd while he waited for clients, continued his acquaintance) with the cobbler. Throughout his en- feer In the politics of tho city und Mute, Mr. Coolldge dropped In ut the shoo shop from time to tlmo to ex change Ideas with his friend nnd hnva the bencllt of the lntter's pointed po litical observations. Tho youthful Coolldge took nwny lessons from the cobbler counsellor; Coolldge, tho candldntc, received tho bencllt of his lnllucnce, which was considerable In city politics, und when lie rose to a position ot state nnd national prominence he still received tho loyal support of the shoo mnn. Mr. Lucey, modestly explaining that Mr. Coolldge long since passed out of his range of Influence, admits thnt lie may have been of some help when the ylco president was on tho first vungs of the political ladder. Cement Closer Friendship. The cobbler says that the only tlmo Ac ever crossed Calvin Coolldge seemed to make tinner the friendship between them. Mr. Coolldgo bad sought tho electron of u friend us mnyor, and nsked Mr. Lucey ns a dclegato to tho party caucus to stand In his behalf, Russian Mystery fkV a ffi ' -l Hero Is more Kussliin mystery. Since KerensUy's fall valuable railway machinery consigned by American manufacturers to the Itiisslun government, 'lias been lying In Seattle railway yards. No one appears to know Its owner ship. It was originally Intended for export to Siberia. A congressional In vestigation now in progress may solve the mystery. If Kercnsky should get on top again, ns now seems quite possible, doubtless the mystery will bo quickly solved. The goods are valuable, though they hau buffered from exposure. Diamond Only One on Western Hemisphere Is Located in Arkansas. Gems Are Found In the Crater of an Extinct Volcano In Plko County First Found In 1906. Murphreesboro, Ark. The only dia mond mine thus fur discovered on tho western hemisphere Is located In Plko county, Arkansas, In which this ham let Is situated. The mine Is two and half miles south of here The diamonds arc found In n "pipe," the crater of on extinct volca no which nges ago boiled up through "the surface, had Its terrific heat chilled by the water of an Inland sea, and Heft bits of carbon scattered through tout tho perldotlto which now fills tho crater, to bo pressed Into diamonds by ithe contraction of the rock. Tho perl ilotlte form? tho orlglanl matrix of tho Close Coolidge but the cobbler, already bound to tno opposing candidate, refused. This evidence of loyalty to a prior al Icglunce'sorvcd to heighten their mu tual respect. The shoemaker, n nntlvc of Ireland, cnnie to Northampton forty years ago at the age of twelve. A family of eight children, seven of whom nre now living, has mado dcinirijd" ! earn ing ability. Five are girls, one Is n stenographer, two nre teachers, a fourth, who was formerly a teacher, Is now married and one Is n clerk. Of the two boys one Is n graduate of Holy Cross college, and the other Is n student In the Northampton Commer cial college. REPORTS ON SELF-OPERATION Philadelphia Surgeon Who Removed Own Appendix Back at Work In Two Weeks. Philadelphia.- Evan O'Neill Kane, sixty-year-old Jefferson Medical college graduate, who on February 15 removed Ills own appendix with a local anes thetic at the hospital nt Kane, Pa., Now Tap Air to Get Music Radio Amateurs Enjoy "Concord of Sweet Music Sounds" From 60 Miles Away. CONCERTS A NIGHTLY AFFAIR Development of Radio Equipment Has Brought Price of Apparatus Down Wire and Broom Handlo Enough for Aerial. New York. Rnpld development of tho radio telephone has made possible for thousands of persons In New York nnd other parts of the country fulfill ment' of Longfellow's prophecy that "tho night shall be filled with music." Enterprising nnmteur wireless oper ators, us well ns many commercial sta tions, now put out through the nlr ench night concerts created by attach ing to Bending sets phonographs und player pianos. Others, moro enter prising, sing or play tho violin nnd other Instruments for the benefit of ull who will "listen In." Receiving Apparatus Cheap. Approximately one-hnlf the amnteurs In the New York district are licensed, permitting them to send. The others are content with receiving sets. Development of tho radio equipment in Seattle Yards Mine Found - diamond, and thus far the only dia monds found In the western hemis phere In their matrices aru those of Pike county. Diamonds have been found In some twenty-five stutes, In Canada and South America, but always In river beds where, geologists surmise, they havo been washed by the waters, or la places where It Is presumed they have been deposited hy glacial action. Tho first Arkansas diamond was found In 11HX1 hy John Iluddleston, then owner of the farm on which tho slxty-ncro "pipe" Is loented, hy acci dent. JluddleMon observed outcrop pings of the gray-green rock, since classed us perldotlto, and enmo to tho conclusion thnt Ill's hillsides contained valuable mineral, perhaps copper. Af ter pecking around without finding nnythlng which looked to him like mineral, ho picked up a crystal, and then ono day, ehowed It to some fricnri In Murphreesboro. A Little two weeks Inter performed a mnjor operation on another pntlent Dr. Kane will not discuss his exploit other than to say "the experiment will bo worth while," but his surgical assistant, Dr. D. K. Vogan, said of If. "Dr. Kane's operation establishes these things: First Fuse with which local op erations can be performed. "Second Can bo done without se vere pain. "Third Pnln more due to traction and rough handling ot pnrts than to Incision. "Fourth Any surgeon with a fair degree of skill can perform such nn operation on himself." Income Tax Four Cents; He Pays in Installments Augustn, (5a. A tnxpnyer whoso total tax Is 4 cents and who Insists on his right to pay In four Installments and who bought n 1-cent money order for which he pnld a cents was re vealed here today. The taxpay er, a tall, lanky farmer, who gave his address as Lincoln coun ty, but whose name was not di vulged, personally submitted his return to the deputy collector of Internal revenue, using the 1-cent money order to pay the ilrpt In stallment. - has been such that a practical receiv ing nppurntus can be purchased for n very few dollars the prices range up ward In accurdanco with the equip ment Great stretches of aerials are no longer necessary. A few feet of wire, looped over the end of n broom and hung out over the fire escape, nnd u ground wire attached to n rndlator or water pipe answer. Some do not even cnll on the family broom, but nttnch a wire to the spring of a be! or a couch nnd excellent results fol low. On n recent evening ono amateur residing In New York city heard seven concerts at one time coming from dis tances varying from two to 100 miles. By mentis of "tuners" these concerts were easily separated so that each ono stood out clear and distinct from the others ns desired. Music From Sixty Miles. The Press club of Juckson Heights, a suburban residential district of New York, recently feutured a radiophone demonstration nt u meeting of the members. Hy tho nld of n "loud speaker" tho members were enabled to dance from 0 p. m. until midnight to music which come In from varying dlstnnces. In a medley dnnce tho members of the club started with a waltz, played at Woodslde, Long Is land, five miles away; swung Into n fox-trot, played nt Brighton Peach, 15 miles distant; to n one-step, which came from Pntcrson, N. J., lo dies nwny, then back to n fox-trot, emanat ing from n phonograph about sixty miles up state. At 10 o'clock nil watches were set by the time signals which were sent out from the United States navy station nt Arlington, Vn. So numerous have their amnturs be come and so united their Interests by being able to talk with each other at will thnt they formed an association. They held a convention at a New York hotel. They exhibited not only their latest possessions In modern sets, but also brought with them tho home made apparatus of their pioneer C.nyn. During the convention lectures were given und nightly concerts from dls- I taut stations featured. Big Coon Played Bear. Falmouth, O. Frank Rider and Fru zler Tatton bad u coon almost ns large as a bear, and one day they de cided to have n "bear" hunt. Thoy turned the coon loose at the south border of town and after giving him a half-hour's start, they turned their pack of charging bear dogs on thu trail. Tho dogs put tho "bear" up a tree about two miles up the river. The boys shook him out of tl.e treo and the dogs did the rest. I Rock leweler nronoiincoil It n (llnmnml. and made sure by verifications by Jewel experts In New York. The mining operations la Arkansas for several years, at least, will bo far different from those of tho South African fields, although the formations nre the same. In Africa deep shafts are sunk, tho perldotlto Is brought to the surface and spread on drying floors for periods ranging from six to eighteen months. The rock has the peculiar quality of disintegrating when exposed to the nlr. In Arkansas, however, except for a few places, the perldotlto already has disintegrated to a depth of about twenty feet, nnd mixed with vegetable mntter, formed n sticky clay, called "gumbo" locally. This overburden of "gumbo" will be worked before blast ing operations nro started. Ex-Admlral Sixty.Elght, Cobbler's Aid. Vienna. With former officers of tho nrmy and nnvy as pupils, a shoemuk Ing school has been opened hero. Among tho students Is a former vice admiral, sixty-eight years old, who Is curolled as u cobbler's apprentice NEWS OF STATE TERSELY TOLD Recent Happenings in Nebraska Given in Erief Items For Busy Readers. A brass baud will shortly bo or- ganlzed at Pierre. Omaha Is working to secure national headquarters of the Elks. Madison has decided to hold no Fourth of July celebration. Lincoln stieet car men have accepted a 10 per cent reduction In wages. The Civic club of Nellgh realized .$121 on Its flower sale, held recently. The grand council of the Royal Ar canum will meet in Omaha April 'JO. Thu commercial club nt Pierce has decided to celebrate Independence day. Twenty children were baptized Into the Episcopal church at Calloway last week". Work on Omaha's new $2,000,000 High School of Commerce will begin shortly. The legislature has appropriated $2,000 to pruvldtifor u state fish pond near Peru. Women of Conistock have formed an organization called "The Ladles Community Circle." A class of thirty-five were initiated last Sunday by l'.eatrlco council, Knights of Columbus. The IUuu Springs Community club has more than doubled its membership In the last three weeks. Imperial women are making plans to form an auxiliary to the American Legion post of that place. lloldrege will hold an airplane meet 'May !, (I and 7 the first assemblage of the kind held in the state. A class of about 125 was Initiated Into the order of Deuiolay at Masonic temple at Hastings recently. Adams county will furnish twenty five markers for the graves of ex service men within her borders. A volunteer fire department with twenty-eight charter members hns been organized nt 151 ue Springs. Scottshluff sugar companies have contracted for nearly 200,000 acres of sugar beets for the coming season. Fifteen thousand bushels of wheat wns purchased by u Gage county Hour mill at a price of $1.28 per bushel. Valparaiso's new modern school building, to replace the one destroyed by fire in 1010, Is Hearing completion. County Agent Scott Is soon to stnrt a drive against prairie dogs, which have done thousands of dollars of dam ago In Cheyenne county each year. Alfred Stevens, 00 years old, dropped dead of apoplexy while shav ing a customer In an Otimhu barber shop. Beatrice defeated a proposition to return to the council system nt a spe cial election last week by u vote of 3.'M to 1,102. Over 100 conversions resulted from the revival meetings Just closed nt Columbus. Nearly $S00 was raised for the evangelist. During the week of April 11 the Nebraska Farm Korean federation will conduct a membership campaign in Thayer county. Kilwurd Matthewson of Wakefield was seriously Injured when the car he was driving, ran into un embankment near that place. Mrs. Jessie (lossard died at her home In Columbus of blood poisoning caused by a scratch on the linger while making garden. James C. Daliliaan nt Omaha and Charles V. Ilryan, beaded the list of nominees in those two cities at tho primaries Tuesday. The six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wlll Mueller, living near Nelson, was burned to dentil In a fire started while playing with matches. The Wuuueln flour mills which were burned a few weeks ago will be re built with a larger output, from a 100-baiTol to a 'tOObanol. The Rev. A. M. Iloran, formerly pas tor of the Baptist church at Cedar Plan's, has been elected pastor of the First Haptlst church at Wnhoo. The Omaha Y. M. C. A. opened a drive to rais-e $50,000. Within twenty four hours one-half of the same had been subscribed, the total being raised inside a week. Illooinfleld citizens who protested before the stale railway commission against the Increase In telephone rales were told the raise wns Justifiable and no relief was possible. Seward lias extended an Invitation to members of the AmerU'im Legion in Nebraska to establish a summer camp at that place. The new 500,000-gallon city water reservoir at Sidney Is located on the site of thu first fort In western Ne braska, built In IStJT while construc tion of the Union Pacific was In pro gress. At it recent meeting of the flage county farm bureau, F. O. Crocker of Fllley was named to assist County Agent Rlst In arranging for the col lection of corn for people who nre starving In foreign lands. A llro occurred at thu Nebraska Con solidated mills plant ut Ravenna, when a short circuit in one of tho electric motors on tho second floor started :i blaze. The damage was not serious. Charles P. Durlnnd, u pioneer busi nessman of Norfolk and ono of the most prominent building and loan men In Nebraska, died at his home In that place following un Illness of many months. Omaha police are making strenuous efforts to capture tho person who has been cutting strands of hnlr from the beads of school girls on the streets there. Elmwood hns,nn epidemic of measles nnd several very serious enses. Plnns arc being made to have tho Loup vnlley track meet nt Ord on or ubout May 0. Sixty-two of the rural school dis tricts In Cage county have contributed .$H0.;i0 toward the China famine fund. Leo Porter, a 15-yenr-old Ilralnerd Ind, will lose the sight of his left eyo fiotn a Hit shot fired by a comrade during their piny. Tlu warden has notified sheriffs In the J),'l counties of the state to send no more prisoners to the penitentiary un til present crowded condition:) nre re lieved. , Guh Linn of Kimball, who has served oiv the village hoard of education for thirty-one consecutive years, has de clined to bu u candidate for re-election this spring. Several hundred delegates from var ious parts of the state attended tho celebration and banquet of the North Platte Kluanls club, which received its charter last week. Stephen J. Taylor, the oldest settler of Franklin county, Is dead at his home nt Rlverton. He came to Frank lin county with thu first company of actual settlers In 1870. A class of nearly ono hundred, ono of the largest In. the hlstc-y. of the Heatrice high school, will receive di plomas nt the annual commencement exercises to be held in May. Superintendent E. L. Rouse of tho Peru Normal school has been elected superintendent of the public schools of Scootsblutr for a term of three yenrs, succeeding c. M. Muthenoy. Mrs. Clarissa Lloyd, who died near Falrbury recently, was burled within 200 feet of the site of the sod houso erected by herself and husband in Jef ferson county fifty-one years ago. A goat ranch Is to be established by Dr. S. II. Vlers, who has lately bought an elgliteen-acre tract near Dlller, which he is stocking up with some of the best bred goats In the country. The northwestern section of the Ne braska state teachers' association, comprising tho counties In the Sixth district, has Just closed a successful three-day convention In Alliance. Marvin, 8-year-old son of County Treasurer and Mrs. Mike Tritsch, Is In a hospital at Plattsniouth, suffering from burns which may prove fatal as a result of being scalded by boiling water. April 1 marked the opening of tho fishing season in Nebraska, but fish ermen ure cautioned by George W. Koster, chief of the state division of fish and game, not to take bass or trout until Mny 1. With both legs practically severed from his body, William Praul, repre sentative for the lloldrege llottllng works, was found lying beside the Ilurlington tracks at Cambridge, dying u few hours Inter. York high school won the highest team honors, and Murvnl Thompson of Friend the highest individual honors at the seventh annual state high school livestock Judging contest nt the col lege of agriculture last week. A baby boy weighing but one pound und six ounces was horn to Mr. nnd Mrs. Fred .7. Illedemau on their farm near Rig Springs, March 11. He now weighs one pound twelve and one-half ounces, and Is perfectly normal and in fine health. A team of horses, seventeen tons of hay and four hundred bushels of corn were burned when u fire of unknown origin destroyed the barn and .orii crib of Gone Miller near Pawnee City. A large amount of harness was also burned up. Fire completely destroyed every building except the house on the Ira Mathews farm, near Imperial. Eight een work horses, tun cows, seveli calves, all harness, -1,000 bushels of corn and twenty-eight loads of hay were destroyed In the blaze. Receipts for hogs at the South Omaha slock yards In March fell 00,000 short of a year ago at the same time, but the average weight was six pounds heavier than In March, 1020. Cheaper and more corn explains tho Increase in the weight of the hogs. C. C. Leach, a produce dealer, has maintained since January 1 a truck delivery from Reaver City and nearby towns to Alma, hauling poultry and eggs, with one commercial car and a trailer he has bnuleil $ 111,277.22 worth of eggs and .$:,&() 1.S7 worth of poultry. "Cadet" and "Topsy," owned by George W. Alnsworth of Ilaveloek, a member of the Omaha Kennel club, re cently won first prizes at the Chicago dog show. Cadet Is an airedale and Topsy took first female puppy prize and the first novice prize In the Amer ican bred class Fire destroyed the general store and postollice at Huntsman. It was not discovered until it hud made such headway that tho loss was total. Miss Iva Powell, 14 years old, a member of the Knox county pig dub, was winner of a1 big bunch of first prizes at the county fair last fall, nnd will have a herd on exhibition at the coming state fal.'. Of Nebraska's 00 million bushels of wheat 20 millions were still on tho farms on March 1. Of 255 million bush els of corn there were 101 millions left, and of SJI million bushels of oats there were -18 millions left. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Jackett of Glltner celebrated their golden wed ding last week. Guests from five states attended. Sixty-seven boys and girls will graduate- at tho nineteenth nnnual com mencement of the university school of agriculture April 15. One of the largest, If not the lurg est, electric motors In tho state was started at tho Nebraska cement plant at Superior, when n GOO-horse power machine for the tube mill at tho fin ishing end took tho plnce of four of the mills, giving double capacity for vrwdlnc clinkers into the cement. PASS UMHE BiLli HOUSE VOTES FAVORABLY ON MEASURE GOVERNING USE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE ' EXPECT GOVERNOR TO SIGN Opponcntc Of Bill Ertdcavorlrig to De lay Final Action To Mnko It a Lav; Carries the Emcr- ' gency Clauso Lincoln Two votes moro than tho number neceasnry to carry tho emer gency clauso woro cast in tho repre sentative assembly for tho Recd-Nor-vul language bill on Us final passage. This nhsurcs the taking effect of tho now' act Immediately upon Its appro val by tho governor, and Its oppononts will be unable to suspend Us operation by resorting to a referendum. , It now goes back to tho senate, tho houso having cut out u proviso Hint permitted the teaching of pupil In h. forolgu language by a tutor on tho ground that it would bo discrimination since the bill itself prohibited it In groups. When tho scnato concurs, ns It Is expected to do, tho bill will go to tho governor. As Boon as ho slgiiB It, It becomes a law . Tho bill, which was opposed' by a strong segment of tho German Luth eran church, prohibits teaching In any school of any kind, In tho common school branches, In any foreign lang uage. It permits this for religious In struction, but only on Sunday, font does not Interforo with such teaching In the homo nt any tlmo. On tho ground that Interests op posed to tho Recd-Norvnl foreign lang uago bill, which passed tho house and Is ready for tho governor's signature, did not got n hearing before tho houso committee, they are preparing to ask Governor McKolvIo for a hoarlng be fore ho signs tho bill. No formal request has been mado to tho governor, but Rev. Matthew Herr mann, district superintendent of tho German M. E. church, has Indicated that this request will bo made. Investigating Committee Reports Tho Reed Investigating commltteo appointed by tho senate to ascertain If there was nny truth In tho repoated stories thnt tho adoptlor of tho codo system had created duplication nnd waste and that thero was need for remodeling tho state governmont to do away with overlapping nnd Ineffi ciency, hnnded In n ton page report. It vindicated tho codo system as a means of hnndllns public affairs, niwl makes a number of recommendations, Including one for better co-operation of tho old executive departments -with tho code departments. It shows that the state collects In fees $125,000 a year more than tho administrative de partments cost, nnd that tho costB In Nebraska compares favorably witV those in adjoining statcB. Watching "Ambulance Chasing" Bill lawyers of tho stato generally aro watching with keen Intorest tho pro gress of the bill which Is intended to prohibit tho solicitation of personal Injury oults for tho purposo of prose cuting thorn in Minnesota nnd other states. Tho bill already has passed tho senate nnd hns been reported out by tho sifting committee In the house, whore It Is expected to como up for consideration in tho next few days. Lawyers supporting tho moasuro nnnio thnt tho business being taken Into other states rightfully belong? In Nebraska. , Advance Scale of Occupation Tax A new scnlo of occupation tax on domestic and foreign corporations, raising thn maximum for largo con cerns from $2.(500 to Sn.CiO, Is fixed by tho Rocd-Monrn bill, which tho lower" "branch of tho legislature passed on third reading. For concerns hav ing nt' moro than $1,000,000 of capi tal not employed In Nebraska, thero Is llttlo or no Increase, but abovo that amount tho hax Is rajscd from 10 to 40 per cent. Refuse to Talk Adjournment Not only dees tho Nobranka stato senate continue to rcfuso any talk of adjournment, hut many senators nro convinced that thn presold kcbbIoii can not be concluded beforo tho weak ending April 23. A motion by Senator Coonor of Douglas that tho senntn appoint a commjUro to confor wIMi a llko com mltteo of tho houso on ndtniirnmoTit, received less than a handful of votes. Water Scarce nt Soldiers' Home Tho stato board of control Is wor ried over tho water supply at tho Mil ford I'omo for Rnldlnrn. It bnn not been nblo to find sufficient writor with in ono mllo of tho institution. It ninv bo driven to filtering tho nmnll crook near tho homo or piping water from tho Industrial homo for women, situ ated a mllo or moro away on the op ppslto Bldo of tho niuo river. Annexation QUI Sidetracked With tho aid qt tho Douglas county dolegatlon, except Ropreaontatlvo IlrueBedow, tho bill providing for an nexation of Sarpy county to Douglas ub a moans of onaiiding Douglas coun ty to pnvo tho road hotwoon Omaha mid Fort Crook without a stato ap propriation was killed In tho houno. Cigarette Bill Is Killed An effort to repeal tho present antl. cigarette law and to restore tho old law, which was In force before tho 191! leglslaturo wiped It from tho sta tuto books, waa dofoated hy tho No braska houeo by a voto of CO to 28. Tho old law was repealed two years ago bocaiiBO It could not bo enforced. RoprcBcntntlvo Byrum testified that tho now law iwub bolng onrorcod and that It has had a great effect on tho smoking public by prohibiting tho salo of tobacco to minors und forbidding smoking in public eating places. m -yVJ.: . S""" "-'. v - - A