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Fierce Battle
With Smugglers
Customs Guard Has Desperate
Fight With Rum Runners on
Mexican Border.
WIFE TELLS OF ENCOUNTER
Knlveo and Plntols Were Uoed In Bat-
tie In Brush on tho Banko of the
Rio Grande Automobile
Is Riddled.
Hidalgo, Tux. Ono of the most des
perate single-handed encounters which
ever took plnco between a United
States customs olllecr and a gang of
Mexican smugglers on tho Itlo Urundu
border fell to tho lot of Dick McCon
nell, a government river guard here, a
few nlghtH ago. McConnell, accom
panied ly his wlfo and two little
daughters, was riding In an automo
bile along the Itlo Ornndc, near Jowi,
Leaving the ear, McConnell Btarted
toward the river hank. He had gone
but a short distance when ho was llred
upon from ambush.
A bullet knocked off his hat. Ho
rushed toward the spot from which
tho bullets were coming, llo returned
tho lire as he ran Into tho brush and
there camo upon tho two Muxlcnns.
On of them grabbed him by tho back
of neck and a sculTIo ensued, during
which ho received knife wounds and
had his pistol holster cut to pieces.
He drew a small gun, which ho carried
In tho holster under his shirt, and
tired at his assailant, whom ho killed,
nnd the body fell Into tho rapidly ris
ing Itlo Grande.
Mrs. McConnell, who was In tho car
at tho tinio of tho attack, gavo the
following account :
Wife's Account.
"I und tho children were In the
back seat of tho car when wo drove
up near tho river bank, near tho small
boat ferry landing. As my husband
got out of tho car and started to go
down tho bank thcro camo a Hash of
a gun, almost In his face, and his hat
Miner Has Three Wives;
Says They All Proposed
Freeland, Pa. Unable to fur
nish $1,000 ball on a bigamy
charge brought by three women
who said Mlchne Mcrko, Sandy
Run miner, had married them,
Mcrko was taken to Jail.
"When u girl asks a fellow to
marry her, what can ho do?" ho
asked.
"No man v.itli red blood In his
volnB .rill refuse to marry a girl
when she asks him to do so."
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lery arriving ut Now York from Germany on tho transport Cambral. In
serted la a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Brovans, their commander.
THIS CURFEW HITS PARENTS ALSO
Held Guilty With Children in
Violation of Ordinance.
City "Dads" of South Dakota City
Believe Parents Are Largely to
Blame for Children Running
About Streets at Night.
Sioux Falls, S. D. Tho city of Lorn
won, S. D., haB ono of tho most unique
curfew ordinances in oxlstenco any
whero In tho United States. Tho par
ents arc held equally guilty with the
children for violations of tho curfew.
The ordinance provides that boys
nnd girls under seventeen years of
age must bo off tho streets and at
homo after 0:30 o'clock each evening.
If they are on the streets or other
public placoB after that hour they
must bo accompanied by their parentB
or bojdo authorized guardian.
The city "Dads" believe that par
ents ore largely to blame for their
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fell oft" and something struck tho car.
Dick Jumped back, pulled his auto
matic and begun to shoot. Again and
again camo the Hash and something
struck tho car again. 'The children and
I could fcoo tho man wtio was shooting
at my hushnnd backing down under
the bank and my husband walking
toward him, shooting.
"They both disappeared under the
hank when wo heard noise like men
lighting or struggling. I was getting
nervous and did not know what to do.
Wo heard three more shots and I
heard some one yell out In Mexican.
Shortly after my husband camo to
the to of the ban.: holding his hand?
to his face and told mo to drive to
Deputy Collector J. It. Clark's house
and bring him and also a lantern. I
drove ns fast as I could and returned
with Clark and the lantern.
"We found my husband's hat near
tho car with a bullet hole In the top
$63,000,000 a Month for
Amusement in America
Washington, D. C Approxi
mately ?a'l,00O,000 Is spent In
America each mouth for amuse
nient, nccordlng to tho Treasury
department. Movies, theaters,
circuses and amusement parks
nro receiving tho money. Last
year It was $70,000,000 n month.
Airplane Search
for Grain Pests
Remarkable Survey Being Con
ducted in Texas by U. S. Ag
ricultural Department.
RUST SPORE REIN6 SOUGHT
Annual Loss In Wheat Alone Due to
Stem Rust Is Estimated at 64,000,-
000 Bushels Mexico Believed to
Be Source of Spore.
San Antonio, Tex. Ono of tho most
rcmarkablo surveys ever made under
tho direction of tho United States De
partment of Agriculture Is now In
progress In Texas. It Is that of search
ing tho air for the sporo that causes
rust on growing wheat nnd oats.
It 1b estimated that tho annual loss
children running nbout tho streets at
unseemly hours of tho night, nnd
therefore placed a provision In the
ordinance making tho parents respon
sible with tho children for violations
of tho provisions of tho ordinance.
Somo of tho pnrents who hnvo been
In tho hnhlt of permitting their chil
dren to remain nwny from homo until
quite late at night have regarded the
ordinance as of no Interest to them,
nnd ns a result when their chlldron
were found running nt large after
0:80 o'clock nt night tho parents
themselves wero required to appear
In court and explain why their chil
dren wore not required by tho pur
ents to bo homo by 9;550 o'clock.
At ono tlmo sovernl parents wero In
court rai tho charge of permitting
their children to vlolnto tho curfew
ordinance, and In each case a small
fine was Imposed, with tho admoni
tion that further violations by their
children would subject thorn to heavier
fines.
of tho crown. On tho river bank wq
picked up a long-bladed knife. Lying
partly in tho water was n felt hut
with three bullets lit It. Near tho boat
was a pack containing seventeen
quarts of tequila.
"Upon returning to tho car wo found
where three bullets had pierced the
cowl, one of which passed through
and hit tho steering wheel, breaking a
part of it off. One of the bullets
piercing the cowl, but spending Its
force against tho Iron dash, was picked
up by Deputy Collector Clark and was
said to bo from a .-15. The other hit
the side of the cowl and glanced off."
WILL BUILD AERIAL HARBOR
Corporation at Gothenburg, Sweden,
Prepares Plans for Joint Mu
nicipal Field.
Gothenburg, Sweden. This city,
with Its extensive- marine shipping fa
cilities and Its new free port, Is now
preparing to build an aerial harbor.
It will have all tho facilities required
by sky pilots, an up-to-date service de
partment and the latest conveniences
for landing and taking off.
A corporation has been formed to
build tho air station and operate It In
conjunction with the city authorities
of Gothenburg. It Is proposed that
tho city shall have the privilege of
buying tho company's shares In the en.
terprlso after ten years and thus tako
over full control of tho air port.
Youth Made a Minister.
Reading. Pa. Converted at eight
years, preaching for tho last two
years at his homo et I'ottstown and
ordained a minister recently at tho
ago of sixteen Is the remnrkable
record of Ira Nechtcl, one of tho new
ministers accepted today at tho an
nual conference of the Holiness Chris
tian church, meeting at Blrdsboro.
In wheat alone duo to stem rust Is ap
proximately 0-1,000,000 bushels. It Is
tho theory of some agricultural scien
tists that the source of tho spore
which causes this enormous loss Is In
Mexico or perhaps South America and.
that It drifts through the nlr to tho
wheat fields of Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas and other states.
Airplane Search In Progress.
During the Inst two weeks an air
plane search for tho spores has boon
made nt high altitudes above San An
tonio. For this purpose an ntrplnnc
from Kelly field Is used, with Lieut.
T. R. Booker ns pilot and Wallace But
ler as scientist.
Armed with a "spore trnp" Mr. But
ler bus made six exposures at varying
altitudes on each aerial Journey. These
plates have been sent to tho otllco
of cereal Investigation for examina
tion. Thus far no reports have been
given out of the findings.
Anyone who walks through nn ont
field In this part of tho state now will
como out with his shoes covered with
n yellowish powder which has brushed
off from tho Innumerable- little yellow
leaves.
This powder any farmer will tell
ono Is rust, In this case the leaf rust
of oats. Every little yellow spot on
the leaf Is a pustule of leaf rust, each
pustule being mnde up of from ono to
several thousand tiny seed bodies or
spores which are pushed up through
tho epidermis pf tho leaf from a sort
of root structure or mass of threads
which nro growing within tho leaf.
These threads are very minute and'
can bo seen only by tho aid of the
microscope. Tho spores which are
borne In such multitudes on tho ends
of little branches from these threads
arc also microscopic In size. The pow
der on tho shoes nfter a trip through
tho oat Held consists of millions of
these spores.
Dew Helps.
When one of these spores falls on a
drop of dew or other moisture on a
leaf of oats It soon sends out a little
root-liko projection which, curling
around this way and that, finds Its'
way Into the breathing pore or open
ing In the epidermis of tho leaf and
so gets Into tho leaf tissues. In duo
ttmo It becomes tho mass of threads
which again send up tho mnss of
spores, and bo the process Is repeated
with favorable weather conditions
about every two weeks.
Tho city authorities now have given
notice that tho curfew ordinance
means Just what It says and that It
will continue to be strictly enforced,,
regardless of whose children may be'
arfectcd and that neglectful pnrents
will bo tnken Into court no matter
how prominent they mny bo In tho
community.
ALBANIA HAS NO, PUBLIC DEBT
Occupies Unique Position Among Eu
ropean Nations Monetary Sys
tem Based on Gold Deposits.
Genoa. Happy Albania Is the term
which has been applied to that coun
try, for It Is stated that It occupies
tho unique position among European
nations of being tho only country
which has no national debt and has a
gold monetary system.
Mehedl Frnshcrl, tho head of tho
Albanian delegation to tho conference
here, In nn Interview Indicated that
all would bo well with his country,
"If only we arc left In peace for a little
while."
NEBRASKA NEWS
IN CONCISE FORM
Stato Occurrences Of Importanco
BoilcoTto a Few Lines for
Quick Perusal.
The city library at University Place
contains over 10,000 volumes,
Bloomtleld has voted to raise ?U7,000
to be expended In local Improvements.
In a recent drive In Omaha, young
women ralhod over 9:1,000 by tho sale
of poppies.
James Mcl'hllllps a fanner near
Lindsay lias Just sold his place for
?275 an acre.
Nearly n,tHK) members attended the
statu Sunday school convention at Its
session In Fremont.
An attendance of 5,000 Is expected
at the Natloinl Walther League which
meets at Omaha in July.
Nebraska Klks are In session at
Columbus. Nineteen lodges nro re
presented at tho meeting.
A tornado struck the neighborhood
of Henry In ScottsblufT county and de
stroyed a number of farm homes.
Thirty-eight Kpworth league chap
ters wero represented at the district
convention at David City last week.
Forest Bartlette, III years old, was
drowned while swimming with some
companions In tho Blue river at Fair
bury. Raymond Stntlh lost his life when
he dived into tho Hlkhorn river at a
shallow point near Valley, breaking
his neck.
A petition is being circulated at
Lodgepolu for tho erection of a $!)(),
. ' i
000 school building. A levy to
?1,000 was voted.
raise 1
Lodgepolu Is becoming t,hc largest
1,ok Kr Joint In IbVe ion of '
the state. Thirty cars have gone out ;
within a few weeks. I
Jefferson county Is to hnvo Its first
rural paved road. It Is belmr con
structed on the federal rond between
Falrbury and Hebron.
First cultivation of corn has begnn
In the vicinity of Norfolk, and farmers
report that In six weeks they will
have th new corn laid by.
The fifteenth annual encampment of
tho United Spanish War veterans Just
ended at' Hastings elected Ilruce New
Ion of Omnhn as commander.
Seventy-threo men and women who
have passed 70 made merry at the sec
ond annual Sunset 'social tendered
them by the Nelson Commercial club.
Harry Jennings Lamb stepped Into a
deep hole while bathing In the Klkhorn
river near Arlington and was drowned
before companions could reach him.
Arrangements have been made to
provide for outdoor meetings of all
the Pawnee City churches combined
on Sunday evenings during the sum
mer. With a membership of 371, the Mc
Cook lodge of the Degree of Honor
claims to bo the banner organization
of the state, In cities of similar popu
lation. Tho proposed community hall for
Nebraska City for which bonds In the
sum of .$100,000 were voted In October,
10120, will not bo built, in the Immediate
future.
Richardson county and surrounding
territory Is suffering tho greatest pig
mortality In years, due to round worms,
according to Joseph L. Worrell, county
agent.
Following a test run the new ninny
power plant at Pawnee City has been
nccepted by the city. The plant sup
, ,. suv.-uu iuw..s in in.s secuon oi
the state.
Fire starting, It Is believed, from a i
holt of lightning during a thunder!
shower, destroyed the machine and
cattlo shed on tho furn of (Jeorge
Luther, near Hooper.
The largest crop of alfalfa grown
In the Franklin vicinity for years is
now being stacked. Wheat, which for
a tlmo looked like a half crop now is
making excellent headway.
a in n'.. im i-ii ,111 tin. rni-ui nf (un.iff4
Spadt, near Friend, occupied hv the 11.
L. Wood family, was destroyed by fire,
together with n fine span of mules,
somo harness, hay and grain.
Wlient In the I'latte valley was
blown down badly In many places by
'the severe wind and ball storm of last
week. Farmers were of the opinion
that much of It would revive.
The diamond Jubilee of the Hvnn
gollcal Lutheran synod of Missouri
and other states was celebrated In
York with nearly -1,000 In attendance.
Seventeen counties were represented.
Cluuies W. Pool, secretary of state
from 10i: to 1018, will file as a demo
cratic ciuidldnto for the same otllco.
Authorities at Broken How are
mystified over the discovery In a high
day bank on Woods Brothers ranch,
five miles from that place, of a human
skeleton. Tho bones Indicated that tho
body had been burled In a sitting po
sition. The Rev. John Albert Williams of
St. Philip's church hns Just celebrated
tho thirty-first anniversary of his
ontranco upon the ministry In Omnlm
all of the time having been spent In
that place.
Hull tore a patch several miles long
and a mile wide near Star, doing ex
tensive damage to growing crops and
fruit trees.
Corn and fruit como In for encourg
Ing remnrks, while wheat, oats and al
falfa are deemed disappointing In the
weekly crop report for Nebraska, Is
sued by G. A. Loveland, United Stutes
meteorologist.
A windstorm of tornado proportions
visited a section of the country north
east of O'Neill. Trees wero blown
down and outbuildings wrecked. The
wlid was preceded and followed by
a heavy rain.
Adams citizens have gone on record
In favor of the Installation of a water
works system to cost between $-'.",000
and ?.U),000. Tho town hoard will
call a special bond election In the near
future.
William Kuhlman, a welt known cat
tleman of Chester, topped the Kansas
City market recently, and with a mixed
load of Ilerefords, secured the top
price of the jear, .l).0." per hundred
weight.
The State Department of Trade and
Commerce announces the reopening
of the F'irniers bank at Crawford
under an entirely new management
and with Its cash reserves fully es
tablished. The Columbus light and power com
pany Is receiving coal from New Mex
ico at a price double that usuall paid,
to augment the fast disappearing up
ply laid In at the outet of the siriko
at it cost of $ll.000.
The .'-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
fiporgo Wenzel, residing near Xehraskn
City, got his hand under a rocking
chair with the result that the hand
was so badly mangled that one linger
had to he amputated.
Miss Nancy I'ennoyer of Central
City, a graduate of the college of busi
ness administration, University of Ne
braska, has been awarded a $Ji00 prlzo
for post-graduate work because of her
excellence In mathematics.
Fremont's new Methodist church was
used for the first time last Sunday.
Regular Sunday school nnd church
services are to be held In the new
auditorium. The church is said to be
one of tho finest In this part of Neb
raska. A resolution has been adopted by
the Columbus board of supervisors
calling a special election to authorize
the sale of the old court house and the
grounds. The election is to be held
with the lirlliini'Ics nn Tnnmlnv Inlv
1Q . t ...
William Oro'ss of WIsner wes elected
f .on'Ti?1 namMro
J""' " 'm T
","" " N,01 fo,k' " wllkl' "Vl'r lltK
breeders from western, eastern and
' i southern parts of the ",tuto weie pre
sent.
10. L. Jenkins, treasurer of Jefferson
county has remitted to D. 15. Cropsey
state treasurer, the state portion of
tax collected In May. The amount was
i?oU,tf41.S0 an unusually large amount
for Nebraska's share of one month's
colectlons.
Probably 'JO0.0OO bens will bo kept
on Johnson county farms this summer,
which, nt an average of thirty eggs
for four months at U cents each, would
return an Income that would equal
.VIU0.000, according to J. F. l'uibaugh,
county extension agent.
Head Track Coach Henry F. Schultc
has been appointed nsslstant director
of athletics at the University of Ne
braska. He has coached teams which,
wearing the Scarlet and Cream, have
won the Missouri Valley track champ
ionship during 1021 and 11)22.
Roy Cruzan, a farmer near North
Loup, was painfully Injured, while re
storing the boxing In a piece of farm
machinery the melted babbit metal be
ing used exploding In the mould, splash
ing the hot metal over his nose, eyes
and face, producing severe burns.
(illbort Swanson living near Llndsey,
owns whnt Is probably the heaviest
bunch of steers over fattened In Ne
braska. The steers will all weigh in
J the neighborhood of 2,.ri00 pounds, and
Mr. swnnson lias laid them on feed
for IS months, buying them in Omaha.
The Shelton Hardware Co. store and
(lUiiiprecht and Merdlnger's grocery
and meat market were broken Into
and goods and money to the amount
nf t lii-i.k nt fnlir 1ilnwllml ftfilliirc tntnr.
A ,l,er of shotguns, shells mid
H1(mll m..-, or jm,.,iWari' were taken.
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.A wlml. rnln and hail storm that
i """ ""nmiwieni uou ci.iimy wir.
the worst of its kind ever seen In that
neighborhood. The hall was a foot
1 deep on the level and drifts averaging
t three ami one-half feet deep could Ins
found. Nearly every farmer In tho
vicinity suffered heavy loss.
j Ord and Valley counties experienced
one of the vfi)tt strins in twenty
(years last week. A four nnd a half-
i l'h rain fell in Ord In forty-five inln-
utes, Hooding the streets and filling
the basements of the business houses
and residences. Old-timers could not
recall on equal to the downpour.
Two young ladles from across tho
sea, Wletsko Wlerstra and Jantzo
Zylstra, arrived In Omnhn a few days
ago, and were married to John nnd
Albert Illnw of that place. The two
couples wero sweethearts In far off
Holland, and will make their home In
this new land.
The Maywood district fair associa
tion will hold the nunual summer race
meet July 4-0. Tho greatest number
of horses In history Is entered.
Miss Kiln Herron last term taught
the grandchildren of some of her first
pupils In the Uurchnrd public schools.
She completed thirty-live years', service
in the primary department with the
termination of the 1022 season.
When tho shell stuck la a shotgun
exploded while his brother was trying
to dislodge It, Albert Klein, of Wol
bacb, received the full charge In his
body, as he wns plowing fifty feet
away. He will recover.
Dr. Robert F. Gilder, archeologlst,
with the aid of a number of trained
assistants, have unearthed for explo
ration a semi-underground prehistoric
dwelling on tho Schwnrtx forty-acro
tract, near South Rend, whero many
rare obJectB of stone, bono and pottery
hnvo been recovered at a depth of
eleven feet from the surface.
After having clutched for several
hours n plpo which ran above her,ln
order to keep her head out of tho
water, Mrs. George Kuhr, 72 years of
ago, of Blair, was released from n
cistern Into which she ha ' fallen. She
' 1 wan nlmoat exhausted when found.
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nervous teellngs and
a weak stomach. I
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about ayear and was
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stand on my foot for
any length of time.
My husbnnd'3 aunt
told mo how much
pood Lydia E. Pinl:
nam'a Vopctablo
Compound nnd dono
her and octrced me to
try it, co I did. All my paina nnd weak
ness are gone, my stomach is nil right
nnd I do my work nt homo and also work
for Swif t'a Pnckinc Company. I recom
mend your Vegotablo Compound to my
friends and you may publish my letter
ns a testimonial." Mrs. Lulu Lucas,
710A Vandevcntcr St., St. Louis, Mo.
Again and again ono woman tells an
other of tho merit of Lydia E. Pink
ham'a Vegotablo Compound.
You who work must keep yourself
Btronjf and well. You can't work if you
nro suffering from such troubles. Mrs.
Lucas couldn't She tried our Vegeta
ble Compound and her letter tells you
what it did for her. Givo Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegotablo Compound a fair trial
now.
Cuticura Soap
Complexions
Are Healthy
Soap 25c. Ointment 25 and 50c, Ttlenm 25c.
LOOK OLD?
Urn j, win, Mrdfplr
hntr mnkcn pop)9
look rery old. It
Jsn't iicry m.
bottl of 0-l!ii Hlr
nor itesiorcr win Drinif Uack original color
qulcklj ktop4 dandruff. At all Rood araggiln,
75c, or direct from Uwii-EHo. alt,, MmU, Tu.
One way to avoid even the appear
nnce of evil Is .to daub the cat's face
with Jam.
Important to all Women
Readers of this Paper
Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney or bladder trouble and never
uspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or tho
result of kidney or bladder diseane.
if the kidneys arc not in a healthy con
dition, they may cause the other organ
to become diseased.
You may sutler pain in the back, head
ache and Iosb of ambition.
Poor health makes you nervous, irrita
blc and may be despondent; it makes any;
one so.
13ut hundreds of women claim that Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, by restoring
health to the kidneys, proved to be just
the remedy needed to overcome such
conditions.
Many send for a sample bottle to see what
Swamp-Root', the great kidney, liver and
bladder medicine, will do for them. By
enclosing ten cents to Dr. Kilmer &. Co.,
Uinghamton, N. Y., you may receive sam
ple size bottle by Parcel Post. You can
purchase medium nnd large size bottles at
all drug stores. Advertisement.
,It wns the dust and prime of cities
that resulted la housccleaulng finding
less house to clean. t
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTOItIA, that famous old remedy
for Infanta and children, and see that It
Bears the
(&Af&Ga&L
Signature
In Ueo for Over 81) 1'ears.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
Full of Bulletb.
"Srrlbson didn't stay long In tho
mountain country."
"I thought ho went there to get somo
ntinosphcro for n story."
"He did, but a feud was going pn
nnd the ntinosphcro was too metallic."
The charm of n bathroom Is Its spot
lessness. By tho uso of Red Cross Ball
Blue, nil cloths and towels retain their
whiteness until worn out. Advertise
ment. , People are often willing to sharo
bread. It Is tho butter und Jam that
they are stingy about.
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