Semi-weekly herald., 1915-03-01
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NEWS.
The Kirchbaum company of Phila-
delphia, employed 1000 extra hands,
and is running its factory both day
and night to complete an order for
100000 uniforms for the British gov
ernment.
Tests have Just been completed by
the dairy department Of the state OF
Iowa which show that Marue Cowan,
a Guernsey COW is the champion dairy
animal. In one year the COW pro-
duced twelve tons Of milk and 400
pounds of butter.
The state senate Of Nebraska has
passed bill providing for the ster-
ilization Of a certain class Of feeble
minded and insane in state institu-
tions. The measure had previously
been amended so as not 10 apply to
criminals.
In order to meet the deficit in the
postoffice department, curtailment of
rural delivery expenses is planned It
seems probable that all routes where
the delivery for six consecutive
months averages less than 756 pieces
per month per mile, viii be abandon
ed. Persons living within n milc Of
the postoffice will not be considered
in 10
Negotiations have been started for
the purchase by the VindicatOr Con-
solidated Gold Mining company Of the
Golden Cycle mine and mill at Grip
pie Creek, at price said to be be-
tween $6,000,000 and $1,000 A. r.
Carlton, a banker of the Cripple Greek
district, is in Denver for the purpose
Of conferring with the Vindicator
management in relation TO the terms
Of the deal.
State Auditor Mulnix has refused to
pay an overdraft contracted by War
den Thomas lyman in the onduct of
two years. The legislature approved
VIC iltfi III llit ailhfl approximation
bill passed last month, but Mulnlx
holds he cannot find any law that au-
thorizes him to pay the claim and re-
fuses to do so unless authorized by
the attorney general that the bill is
legal
Something wrong with the story
coming from Petrograd that the Rus
sian government is preparing Ia take
over cereals now in the hands Of
spectators. The story says the
amount Of the cereals to be taken
over is 50,00O,000 pools (l,s03,500
900 pounds) which in our measure
would be a little more than 100000
bushels, or onc-sixth the wheat crop
Of Kansas for last year. Considering
the immensity Of Russia thirty mil
lion bushel seizure isn't much.
To build an engine with pulling ca
pretty and yet without too healthy
appetite for coal is the problem Of the
locomotive designer Of today. The
Burlington system is just now boast
ing some freight-pullers that seem TO
have come near to solving this prob
lem. They are tremendous engines in
the first place, each weighing with rs
tender and ready for service nearly
goo tons-576,5s0 pounds, TO be exact,
The length over all for each Of these
engines Is SO feet 9Ik inches, which
brings il within the limitations Of
most OF the big 90-foot turntables
along the system.
The United States government Is
the only one that has pensioned not
only It's faithful citizen soldiery, but
its descrters and its dishoaorably dis
cf arged, says the Worlds Work. Like
the sun the American pension laws
shine ipon the good and the wicked
alike. The authorities usually place
dcseriions alike from the Union side
II cur Civil war at about 1875, 900
These men were. for the larger part,
"bouniy jumpers" men, that IS, who
enlisted for the purposc of obtaining