Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 24, 1916, Page 3

y” Nebraska STATE PAYS MUCH | OUT FOR POSTAGE Report of State Auditor Indicates | that This Bill Runs Into Thousands, ‘fi - | WIRE SERVICE COMES HIGH (From a Staff Correspondent ) ‘ LINCOLN, Jan (Spe The item | of postage Is an important one when it comes to running the state of Nebraska, Judging from the report of State Auditor Smith, just finished for the months of October, November and December. This is shown in the different departments as follows rnor $ 110000 tary of state « 100.00 fecretary of state automobile dept. 500.00 | Auditor .00 T 82,48 Attorney general not given | 129.00 State superintendent | Lan1 commissioner 0 Railway commission 50.00 i department 235,00 State prison board Poard of assessment Board of {rrigation Banking board Board of health . live stock sanitary board Library commission .m! 1 of printing not given | Guard. not given | = | Hotel commission 20.00 | Game and fish commission .00 | Bureau of labor 55.00 | State Historical society 0.0 | 1 0ard of nurses i . 15.0) Sth 2,011.87 | n 23,68 Wayne Normal | adron Normal Normal nal board | d of control | Total $5,415.%0 Nothing from Institutions. Although the Board of Control makes a | 8 owing of posiage spent, it does not re- | cuire the institutions under its control to do likewise apd w0 there is no way of telling just Row much the state pays for postage outside of the departments | shown above, whieh amounts to 5, This is somewhat less than the threo | months preceeding which was $6,137.04. Taking the report of the last six months | s a basls, the state during the blenium | 1yvs out in postage for the above names derartments the sum of over $46,208, v hich d:es not inclnde legislative postage. Mileage and traveling expenses also cut some figure In the expense of the stato, | tHe report for the last three months | showing $10,5%.35 as against $16,430.85 the previous quarter. Taking these two | auarters as a basis, the state pays out in travel'n xpenses Travellng Expenses, of the department’s expen along this line are shown as follows: Ktate auditor.. $ 71601 Some Attorney gencral 47474 | State_superigtendent...... 672,58 Hoard Ed. Lands and Funds..,..,. 16632 Railway commission. . TB26 Insirance department. 93,30 State Prson board 204.31 Eoard of Assessment. 5305 Boa-d of Trrigation 36517 Ranini, board 1,972 oard of Iealt LienSstock. Bl 1,122 | Library commission. Hotel commiss 243, - 8 - ESga3E 28! IR2IAIDS Chadron Normal, Peru Normal Normal board 215 office and the office of the secretary of state show nothing for traveling expenses. According to the report, the telegraph and telephone business picked up con- siderably during the last quarter, the ex- pense being $6,220.20, as against $2,399.79 the previous year. . Total Appears Less. The report shows that there was a con- siderable falling off in the total, the re- capitulation for the twa quarters being given in the following table: Fourth arter. Quarter. 975,12 § 400,114.26 Salaries and wages. . Other services and expenses ....... and printi . and tele- Aid to agriculture.... Afd to school dis- SOUORE <orvc utasinades vk Normal training aid Remodeling room in capitol. ............. Support of national guarés. armory and rifle practice. . State ald bridg State fair repair and tremiums A 7,082.48 270.97 Motion picture fiiins 46141 fsoe Single miscellaneous items 3 9,010.73 University depart- mental expenses 12,408.14 Permanent improve. ments, new build- ihgs and lands, Articles of food Stock feed..... Fuel, light, power Machinery, tools, ete, Ciothing .. landers and dourine ndry claims and miscellaneoug Grand totals 3,94 $1,107,220.68 | DEMOCRATS “TURN OVER” | FUNDS FOR WITNESS FEES (From a Staff Correspondent.) ] LINCOLN, Jan. 2. —(Special vfl)n-mu—l crats took on a little courage yesterday and now belive they have the materia! | 16 go before the people and stand show of winning this fall to be exceedingly happy and at the same | time astonished to discover that two! state of) als have turned into the wstate | treasury the sum of $5.40. | The two officials are State Auditor Smith and Insurance Commisioner East- ham, The money was received for wit-| ness fees for appearing in a case wherein ! they had to use data belonging to the some | They appear | state and make It under oath relative to|tioD to issue bonds to the amount f $4,000 | certain insurance matters Just why these officials should be holsted upon the pinacle of the temple for doing the business of the state for which they were elected to do and which in the natural course of thelr duties it was thelr duty to do, Is not known, unless the act of turning over the state's money was entirely unexpected of a democratic official. Aunyhow, they are “going to turn it over,” and therefore democrats cen once more in their platform ‘“point with pride.” Want-Ads never shirk their work—they will get resuits, if anything will E. Oaks of the state insane asylum were | called by John T. Culivan to testify against the state in the controversy over the validity of a will which Cullvan| claimed gave him the estate of O'Connor, | | which the state was endeavoring to claim | and which the courts have since decided GRAND ISLAND, Neb Jan. 23.—(Spe- fal.)—Silas R. Barton yesterday formally announced his candidacy for congress |from the Fifth Nebraska district, isaued | Washington and attend to the bysiness of |country fairly well prepared for defense 2.7 the biennium about |/ | time Mr. {retired TORMER CONGRESSMAN WHO IS IN RACE FOR RENOMINATION. SILAS R. BARTON. State EmployesA Up as Witnesses Agajnst State (From a Staff Correspondent.) i LINCOLN, Jan. 3.—(Special)—1s it proper for an employe of the state, draw- ing money from the state to appear as a witness against the state, HE Nebraska (CAMPBELL BOOSTS COUNTRY SCHOOLS Clarks Man Declares Rural Patrons Are at Last Coming Into Their Own | ‘ HIGH SCHOOLS ARE ESTABLISHED | (From a Staff Correspondent ) LINCOL? (Special )W, H Campbell of Clarks, who is taking a very active part in the promotion of a better condition in rural schools was here last week attending a meeting of the rural 8chool patrons’ conference and while at the office of the state superintendent favored The Bee with a few ideas on the work that {s being done promoting better education among the puplils of the coun try schools After a Campbell, five woeks' period,” sald Mr. the work has now reached the constructive period with a def tor 2,000 country the elghth gr: has been mad intte policy This year vouth have reached beyond 1o in country schools. It possible to substitute for elgn languago study for mathematics in al school tmprovement the fact that This is brought up by Dr. ¢harles | Superintendent Baxter and against Culivan, Silas R. Barton Is Out for Congress a statement of his position to the public Mr. Barton “absenteelsm” s a and that if elected he will stay in savs curse, { a congressman. He favors the protective tariff policy of the republican party, an income and inheritance tax, believes in a rural credit system that will ald the farm- for irrigation legisiation, | ers, will work will sustain the civil law and seo that post roads are improved. He thinks the and favors manufacture of war matorial y the government. He also favors an em bargo on the shipment of arms and muni- | tions to belligerents, by which war Is pro- | longed. Mr. Barton is also in<avor of peace, and calls attention to the fact that he was a farmer, a school teacher and grand recorder of the Ancient Order of United Workmen for Nebraska. BOETTCHER TO MAKE RACE FOR SHERIFF IN PLATTE COLUMBUS, Neb., Jan. 2.—(Special.)— A lively contest in the race for the demo- cratic nomination for sheriff of Platte county is promised by the informal an- nouncement of the candidacy of W. L, Boettcher, who will oppose the present incumbent, Mark Burke. Mr. Boettcher, who was recently re- elected to the presidency of the Maen- nerchoer socjety, has served his party in the capacity of democratic central com- mitteeman from the first ward in this city and eounty. ~ Mr. Burke held the| positiori of deputy sheriff . for several years preceding his election at the last polls as sherif?. WILLIAM HOLTZ, WILBER | VETERAN, KILLS SELF | tive { scliool lines, effective work. | sehools the stockholders are the taxpayers and Patrons of the school,” is the declslon glven us by State Superintendent Thomas,” said Mr. Campbell, “und it is 8 good one too. He told us farther that the Board of Trustees of the district is the Board of Trustees of the corporation They hold their annual meeting in June as indicated by the law. They are given by the statutes the right to vote their own taxes, to what meney shall be spent for the maintenance of thelr s to establish thelr own courses of study and to direct the teaching of such branches as they may deem advantageous to their schools. The stockholders may also instruct the Board of Trustees rela- 1o any extraordinary advances of the district; they may go farther and even locate the boundaries of their disirict and make it whatever size they wish best adapted to the educational needs of the community. In other words the state superintendent tells us that the school trict is in the hands of the people, a pure democracy, and therefore the people themselves are responsible for the prog ress of the schools. ‘Thers is need of work along rural The rural have been decreasing in at- tendance, also in population, until three- sevenths of the schools of the state were operating last year with from one to twelve children. Many of the districts could not afford a school of proper length under a properly prepared teacher. The co-operative plan was advised. The bringing together of two or more weak districts, having a district of such size as the people of the community deemed most advisable. This would enable the pecple to get 100 conts worth out of every dollar spent In ‘the Interests of the school, say schools, Results Are Vi “The state superintendent's office co- operating with the rural people of the state, became a great promotion bureau promoting the general welfare of the schools of the state. What we most like to mee is results, and these we have at/ the present time. As a result of the werk @ large number of schools have con- solidated and have formed co-operative school districts, These schools are now found In both the eastern and western portions of the state and are a success. But perhaps the most startling fact 18 the large number of rural high schools. The state superintendent’s department WILBER, Neb,, Jan. 23.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Willlam Holtz, a veteran of the civil war and over 80 years old, com- mitted suicide yesterday afternoon at his home hero because of despondency. When his daughter, who is bookkeeper at the mill, came from her work she immedi- ately started search for him and found him henging in the barn. He had been dead several hours. He bought the rope with which he hanged himselt some time | ago, but kept it idden. He is survived by | two daughters, one living in California, and one son who is in Kansas City. DAVID CITY HOTEL BOUGHT | BY COLUMBUS RESIDENT | COLUMBUS, Neb., Jan, 23.—(Special )—-! A deal was consummated yesterday by which Lou G. Zinnecker, a life long resi- | dent of Columbus, becomes owner of the! Perkins hotel at David City, Possession will be given on February 1, at which Zinnecker contemplates mov- ing with his family (o David City and assumipng active management He will i remodel the hostelry and completely re-; furnish it COLUMBUS MAN FOUND AT TARNOV IN STUPOR ULUMBUS, Neb., Jan. 38.—(Special )— Lying on the church steps at Tarnov in a stupor, Wallle Novel, a cook and for- mer resldent of Columbus, was found late last night and brought to this city this noon. He was lodged in the county jall and given medical attention, but his dazed condition remains unchanged. Page County Sells Bonds. SHENANDOAH, Ia., Jan. 2.—(Special.) The board of supervisors of Page county sold $65,000 worth of bonds Thursday afternoon to N. W. Halsley, 11, at $2,275 above par v The first lssue of the bonds are to be in 1928 and the last issue to be taken up in 198. The county warrants which have long remained unpaid will soon be cashed by the treasurer, Will Vote on Court House Honds. TRYON, Neb., Jan. Z.—(Special)—The county board has orderéd a special elec- tion for April 18 to vote on the proposi Chicago, fr the construction of a new court house Whole Town es Dry, led by every business man in town, virtually all the residents of Byers, Kan., have signed the pledge for one year. Not only has everybody promised to stay on the water jon for the year, but-they have taken the pledge not to smoke cigarettes nor chew tobacco. All have promised to renew their pledge at the end of the year. Byers is a new town on a new railroad and until recently was “open,” other towns. Then a young man killet a friend and the revuision of sentiment set in. A committee was appointed and a pledge signing campaign commenced. In the first two days nearly every man in town signed.—Topeka Journal. much like | exact number, but it is estimated that fully 300 districts have felt the foree of the program and that in the neighbor- hood of 3,000 rural students are now pursuing high school subjects who could not have found it possible a year ago. ‘“The state superintendent h part ©of his program for next year the arrange- ment of a course of study adapted to the rural conditions and divided into terms In such a manner that new classes may be formed at the opportune time and reviews carrled such as the larger boys and girls of the country districts may wish to pursu Votes Approval of Bigger Army Plan WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—An en- dorsement of Secretary Garrison's efforts toward enlargement of the | national military forces was voted | yesterday at the National Security \ league meeting with the reservations | that the regular mobile army should | be even greater than that contem- | | plated in the War department plan | and that adequate national defense | would depend ultimately upon “uni- | versal obligatory military training and service,"” ! A greater building program | the navy than has been outlined by {the Navy department was urged as| iessential in another resolution adopted. | Steps to co-ordinate the work of the various organizations seeking greater jarmament were endorsed and it was un- | derstood tonight that definite plans had { been made for general consolidation | of such organizations in a defense league a | with Robert Bacon, former secretary of state, as its president Besides the National Becurity league, socleties expected to enter the new or- | ganization, include the Navy .league, the | Army league, the American Defense so- clety, the Aero Club of America and many others, which have jolned in the movement for preparedness. That Wicked Boy. Mrs. Atherton had tried to fimpress upon her young son Fugens that he |should play only with good boys. |, “Mother.” said Eugene. as he o {in one day, “vou don't want me to play with wicked boys, do you?* “No, indeed,”" sald the mother, pleased that her son had remembered her teach- ings | “'Well, if one little boy kicks another little boy, tsn't it wicked for him to kick back ?' “Yes, indeed is certainly wicked,” was the mother's reply Then 1 don't ylay with Richard Whit- ney any more,” sald Eugene; he's ton wicked 1 kicked him _his morning and he kicked me back,”~Pittsburgh Chronic'e Telegraph. it very the ninth and tenth grades and has re sulted in a forward movement all along the line District as Corporation, The school district s a corporation, will be able in a short time to give the | for | | | { rn passenger bound Chicago & Northwes 600D FRUIT AND €00 MART State Horticultural Experts at Lin- coln Show that This is Essence of Business. FINE DISPLAY FOR THE PUBLIC | (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCO! Jan. 23, —(Special.) forty-seventh annual meeting of the Ne braska State Hortlcuitural soclety, held here last week showed that horticultura: pursuits are becoming of more fmportan-e each year to un ever increasing numbe of Nebraska people. The sesslons opened Tuesday morning with an address by the president of the soclety on Pollard of Nehawka, on the work of the socloty for the last year and the plans for the coming year. The soclety in ita forty-seven years of Active (work, he sald, has done more than any other agepcy to make Nebraska known a e producer of horticultural products that {cannot be excelled by those grown lu any other section. It {s working hand-in {hand with the department of horticulture at the university in disseminating the latest information on the best methods The lof growing horticultural crops, to the | people of the state 7 | In an fllustrated lecture, Dr. G. E | Condra of the State Conservation com | mission showed pictures of wild flowers and wild fruits that are the equal and superior in some instances of tamo fruits and flowers of tho same kinds. Native frults and flowers, he sald, that are in danger of extinction should bé conserved and saved. It was declared that ths Missouri river bluff country was the greatest apple region in the world. The loeas soll is the richest sofl found any- where and is naturally adapted to the production of a high quality fruit. No better opportunities awaited the 'friit grower than those found in the Missouri river valley. Co-operation and its benefits fo the fruit grower was discusded at length by C. G. Marshall, former manager of the Central Fruit Growers' association. Methods of controlling and eradicating canker of the apple tree were outlined and pictures illustrating the methods waa shown. Good care and preventative measures will keep any orchard free of this disease. Market Depe Good Frult, Marketing fruit as well as the growing of it was thoroughly discussed. In being able to market product - for the best price it s essential that the product be grown right in the first place and then graded and packed right before being placed upon the market. The Nebraska grower has everything in his favor and when he adopts the best methods of growing packing and grading his product | he will head the market. Prof. Nicollet of the University of braska enplained how home grounds M |the country should be la'd out &0 as to |get the greatest economic use of build- ings, walks and drives, and the placing of trees, flowers, etc, for the best ef- fects. Pictures f{llustrating the different things mentioned were shown, Following this was a talk by R. Timler of Benson lon the home grounds in the city. Vegetables Necessary. Thursday was vegetable day devofed to | Aiscussing the conserving of gai and lorchards. Lou D. Bweet of Denver, one | un'nured, | xeen by, the accompanying pleture {of the best posted potato growers fa the | United States and president of the Na- tional Potato Growers' assoclation, gave |a very intereeting and instructive talk {on marketing. G. H. Van Houten of Len- nox, la., sald there was no excuse for a man having A few feet of unoccupled ground in his back yard going without a {liberal supply of vegetables. F. P. of Topeka gave an interesting des of potato culture as practiced in the Kaw {valley in Kansas. The potato crop in this | valley will average in vield from seventy |to 200 bushels to the acre and bring an average return of around 0 cents per bushel. Fruits on Display. In addition to the annual me annual apple and iower show was held in the city auditorium In connection with |the corn show. Over 2,000 plates of applés were ondisplay. Marshall Bros. of Arlinston won most {of the first prizes with C. H. Barnard |of Table Rock and Keyser and Robinson |of Nebraska City dividing honors for sec- {ond and third places The officers elected for the ensuing year were: Val Key Nebraska City, | president; Prof. R. Howard, Lincoln, |firse vice president; L. C. Chapin, Lin | coln, second vice pres'dent; Peter Young. |ers, Geneva, treasurer, and A. J W. A. Harrison, York, | ieneva, and rectors Do You Have sour Stomach t If you are troubled with sour stomach | you should eat slowly and masticate your f00d thoroughly, then take one of Cham berlain's Tablets immediately after sup per. Obtainable everywhere.—~Advertise- ment. directions wonderingly returned “What are bottle," the_bot- a Tele- A Skeptie. An esteemed citizen was rambling along when he met a friend wearing & rather doubtful cast of countenance. “Say, Jim," remarked the friend, “I want {o ask you about Dr. Syrup. % really think his medicines are help- ul? ‘No," was the prompt rejoinder of Jim, “not unless you closely follow his in- | variable directions.’ “His invariabl the other, they?” You will find them on every smiled the merry James. “Keel tle tightly corked.”—Philadelpl | &raph. Rude | | tings the and about 165 boxes of Nebraska apples | ¢ o Mr srank Podany and son while driv-(train one mile west of Clarkson. j Be. SRR FUNRY 008 Podany, recelved Internal Injuriea also |1n& to Clarkson, Neb. in a covered auUto- [g o opyrg of the skull, while the son was mobile last Tuesday collided with an east rather a miracle, ‘as can be IVILLA SENDS MAN 10 CLEAR | Major in Bandit's Army Comes to HIS NAME Border with Statement Chief Guiltless of Massacre. | WILL | HUNT DOWN . ASSASSINS EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 23. roe Priéto, who says he is & major in the Villa army, appeared here today and declared that he had been sent in disguise to the border by Villa to | say that Villa had nothing to do with the massacre of eighteen foreigners at Santa Ysabel January 10, Viila did not know of the tragedy for dq’yn afterward,” sald Prleto ‘‘He instructed me to say that he will execute the men responsible even if they prove to be his own men, if they are caught.” Villa was near El Ruico, in the vi- cinity of Pearson, Chihuahua, when Prieto.deft him Beo Want-Ads serve hundreds daily Tedo- | v ———e LOWE PREAGHES A ' PATRIOTI SERMON, Methodist Minister Tells Graduating | Classcs to Be Pro-American | All the Time, | . hit | | | ! | |GRADS WEAR CAP AND GOWNS| The audience at the First Moth- | odlst church yesterday morning burst {nto hearty applause when the | pastor, Rev. Titus Lowe, reached the cl'max of an impassioned patri otic period in his address. He was preaching the baccalau reate sermon to the mid-year grad uates of the Central and Commnrers | elal High, schools The graduates, | more than fifty in number and wear- ing dark gray caps and gowns, ocen pled seats near the front of the au-| ditorium The minister advised the | people to “be American.” | "“Don’t be anti-German or anti- | English or antl-French or antl-Ttal- fan HOUSE SILENT AS . REPORTERS QUERY oung | or anti-any-country,” he ex- | elaimed “But do be pro-Ameri- |can. 8tand up for the country that [ has given you liberty and an oppor- | tunity and an education Unless | you do that you're not worthy to be | Americans, " Rev. Mr. Lowe's theme was “The Power of Principi and he took as a text a ¢lause from Danfel i: & “But Danlel pur- poxed n e heart that he would not de- file himselt " What is Dacealnureate. He gave them a definition f a bacea- laureate sermon, saying it fs “a valedie- | | tory 'plus & salutatory plus a° benedic: tiom, " | His sermon he divided tnto ten parts, glving the graduates ten terse gnomes, ten maxima to use as guiding powers in thelr llves. They were these: big and not little, strong and not weak true and not false. constant and not vacillating. kind and not thoigatiass. real and not artificial coupageous and not fearful aincere and not two-faced American and not something else. Christ-llke and not uny other-like. His sermon was as full of striking il 10strations and dramatic eplsodes and | Aneedotes as one of “Billy" he drove home his points with “pep, pep- perino and tobasco sauce,” as ‘'Billy" 1ed (0 kay | He even drew A lesson from the ple- | \ o < S BN tures of two locomotives 1n a local road ticket offien “Engines have Always had a fascination 1 raile for me”" he sald. “I have often wished that 1 had becowe a locomotive engineer, That's big wotk and fascinating’ work. One of thess pletires has the legend. ‘Let me pull your frelght,’ and the othér.says, Let me pull you' The person who s \ways wailing for someone elss .to_pull hia frefght or carry hia burden s always mirerable and a fallure. ~The pérson who goes bravely and willingly out and pulls his own frelght and perhaps helps spme- one else pull his, that person sucteeds. Ho becomes {ndependent. He grows stronger from the offort.’ Personal Representative of Wilson Keeps His Impressions of Europe to Himself, WILL BE IN BERLIN TUESDA | R | PARIS, Jan. 23.-Colonel K. M. | House, president Wilson's personal representative, had a long talk. with Ameriean Ambassador Willlam Grave Sharp today at the embassy, after which he received the newspaper re- portets, among them several French reporters.. Numerous questions were asked concerning his mission, but Colonel House declined to discuss this situation referring to the state- {'ment given out at the time of his departure, nor would he talkiof his conversations with the ambassador at London and Pari b Keeps Improssions to Self. Colonel House will leave tomorrow for Switzerland, where he will spend a day with the American minister, Pleasant A, Stovall, and will proceed from there to Germany and Austria. On his return to Paris, he will rémain about a week, He expects to sall from Falmouth on Feb- ruary 19, i Avrives in Berlin Tuesday. BERLIN (Via London), Jan. 24.-Am- bassador James W. Gerard recelved word today that Colonel E. M. House, personal represontative of President Wilson, will arrive In Bérlin next Tuesday morning and remain until the following Sunday. My, Gerard is arranging a series of dinners in honér of Colonel Houss, so that he may be Able to meet the most prominent mén of Germany, Including Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg, sott« lieb von, Jagow, minister of forelgn af. fairs; Dr. Walter Rathenau and many others. No Child Is “Naturally Lazy” Y OUR little boy or listless, apathetic, sleepy at the wrong time-naturally. rl isn’t Nujol, medicall, tion, Something is wrong. That something is pation. Constipation is one dangers of childhood—not only in childhood but because it is an in- sidious habit that comes chronic as the years go on. 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