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U. S. BAREs FOOD "coRNER"
District Attorney at Chicago is Ready
for Grand Jury Probe Into
Hearing.

Chicago, Nov. 22.-Indictment Of
food and coal spectators and prOpri-
etors of warehouses In Chicago be-
came a probability AS the federal
grand jury assembled In the federal
building to hear evidence to be pre-
sented by District Attorney Charles
+. Clyne.
Investigators for the district attor-
ney brought In reports that vast guam
titles of food and coal have been held
In railroad yards, warehouses and re-
mote parts of the city to await the
effect of the shortage on prices.
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Protocol Sent TO Carranxa.

Atlantic City, N. IA protocol pro-
yiding for the conditional withdrawal
Of the American troops now In Chi
huahua, Mexico, and for the military
control of the border, but with the
stipulation that United States troops
shall be sent into Mexico In pursuit
Of bandits at any time the American
government deems it necessary, was
signed here by the members OF the
Mexican-American joint commission.
One Of the official copies was taken
by Alberto j. PAM Of the Mexican
commission to submit to General We
MUSTANG Carranza,
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To Relieve Coal Famine

Washington.-The newly organized
conference committee IN car efficiency
of the American Railway association
has begun its campaign to relieve the
coal shortage by ~instructing all rail-
ways to return coal cars, loaded or
empty, to the wne Immediately.
Members Of the committee said this
action probably would result in dis
patch of enough cars to interior coal
fields from %congested districts with
In two weeks to have a marked effect
on the threatened coal famine in vari.
ous sections.
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Are Importing Chinese.

Washington.-France and Russia,
the American government has learned,
are importing thousands of Chinese
and Indo-C Chinese to work in munition
factories and arsenals to free their
native workmen ior military duty.
The number already put to work In
France plants Is estimated at 209A0,
with 10000 more under contractbV
permission of the Chinese goveYh1
ment for four years. service in France.
Russia has contracted for 10000, OF
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British Capture Biz Diver.

Milan, Nov. 27.--Britlsh naval forces
recently captured a large German SUBJ
marine, according TO the Carriere
Della Sera. The paper says that n
British sweeper landed Is Of the crew
Of the diver ut an italian port.
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Three Mexican Women Executed.

Columbus, N. NJ, Nov. 2.-Three
women, two sisters and their servant
girl, were executed mt El Vale by the
Carranza garrison. The official charge
was conspiracy to assassinate Col.
Gonzales Diaz.
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DEUTSCHLAND ON WAY HOME
German Diver Leaves New London IN
the Afternoon-Thousands See
Submarine.

New London. Conn, Nov. 23.-The
Deutschland has started on its return
voyage. The merchant submarine left
shortly after two o'clock Tuesday af-
ternoon for Bremen with a cargo val
ued at $2,OOO,OOO.
Thousands of people lined the banks
Of the picturesque Thames river to
watch and cheer her departure.
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Old Forces viii Continue

Attorney General Willis E. Reed
has announced the reappointment of
his entire office force. including Dep.
uty Attorney General d. T. Barrett,
Assistant Attorney General Charles
Roe of this city, George w. Ayres OF
Central City. special attorney, and
Miss Josephine Murphy, clerk. Miss
Mabel Estes will be retained in the
Office as stenographer. Secretary of
State Charles Pool has likewise re-
appointed his staff. consisting Of Dep.
uty Hugh Cooper of Tecumseh, Man
Kattleman OF Omaha, William O'Keefe
of Alliance. Kenneth McRae OF Grand
Island. Cecil Snapp of Lincoln and
Park Leidigh OF Nebraska City.
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Get Money for irish Rebels.

Boston, Nov. 27.-Speakers who
asked for funds to support another
revolution In Ireland, asserting that
the dublin rebels are going to fight
again and fight very sOon," obtained
subscriptions at a meeting here.
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Many Pay Election Beta.

New York. Nov. 25.-HOlders of
some Of the largest wagers made In
Wall street on the presidential election
began paying the bets of. Estimates
Of the total sum wagered range from
$1,000 900 to $5.000.000.
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cornhuskers Win Saturdays Game.

Iowa City, lathe Nebraska Corn"
huskers came back Saturday with the
old winning punch and battered n
then buried the Hawkeyes under q
count of "a to II. Six thousand Iowa
homecomers witnessed the overthrow
of the old gold and black. Nebraska
rooters from Lincoln exulted over the
Nebraska triumph. which was achieved
by dint Of the mos slashing attack
the Cornhusker machine displayed
during their 1916 gridiron campaign.
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Baker Names Fire Control Board.

Washington, Nov. 25.-Secretary
Baker appointed Col. II. ii. Davis,
Lieut.. Col. Frank w. Coe and a dis
trict engineer officer at Los Angeles
as n board to study the fire control
project for the coast defenses.
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Fire destroys Church.

Quebec, Que, Nov. 25.-fire that
started In the furnace room of the
Limoilou parish church destroyed the
entire edince with n loss Of $lSO.OOO.
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Priests Must Take Pledge.

Chicago, Nov. 27.-Every priest or
aained in his diocese will be com
PEELED to take a five years abstinence
pledge. according to Archbishop q,
Nundelein Of the Roman Catholic
Church.
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Arthur County Loses Cut.

Arthur County Loses Cut.
Nebraska's baby county," Arthur,
which was set aside and organized by
the Legislature of 1913, has lost its suit
against Garden county involving the
over a strip of land twenty-five miles
long and three miles in width, which
has been in dispute between Arthur
and Garden counties.
In an opinion rendered by the state
supreme court, 1t is held that Garden
county has obtained complete juris-
diction over the terriIory in cOntro.
versy through having exercised such
jurisdiction for more than ten years
without any attempt being made by
anyone to prevent it. Garden county
has levied II collected taxes, organ
lied voting precincts, conducted cleo.
lions. formed school districts and per-
formed other functions of government
within the disputed area.
The Legislature of 1895 undertook to
make Arthur county an independent
division and passed an act fixing its
boundaries. However, the act was re.
garded as unconstitutional and Arthur
county was not organized at that time
but continued to be a part of McPher
son county until 1913. In the mean
time, the state recognized a certain
range line 10 the west boundary Of
what was then Mcpherson county and
Is now Arthur county. This line II
the one which Garden county claimed
in the suit is the correct boundary
Arthur county's contention was thai
the boundary line was located thre,
miles farther west.
The supreme court opinion, writer
by Judge Barnes, affirms the holding
of the district court of Garden county
in favor Of that county. The decision
will practically settle similar litiga
ton pending between Grant and Gar
den counties.
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Problem Of New State House.

The question that Is bothering legis.
lators who propose to give it serious
consideration this winter is the prob
lem Of a new state house for Ne.
braska.
Most Of those who nave expressed
themselves SO far in the matter say
they are for a new building. The
only problem, therefore, is settlement
upon a plan for raising the money.
Two suggested plans are apt to be
the only ones considered by the law.
makers. One Is to provide by law for
the sale Of some Of the $4,000, 900 Of
state bonds and the immediate CONVEX
sion of the proceeds into a state CAPT
toll fund.
The other is to afix a levy upon the
taxpayers of the state and to raise he
money gradually for the new edifce.
probably starting the work after the
first two years fund has been gath
cred.
Clarence r. Hartman, Rwho for the
past four years has been state food
commissioner, states that he is not a
candidate for reappointment to his
position, and that he will retire when
the new administration ONE into
office.
Governor Morehead has received
$5,625 from the government on &C
count of the state home for soldiers
at Grand Island and $2,326 on account
of the Milford home for soldiers. The
money was turned into the state treas.
ury TO become a part of the state gen.
eral fund. 1t forms the government
quarterly contribution for the support
of state homes for soldiers.
The contribution by the government
Is based on the number of members
in the homes. For the quarter ending
September the Grand Island home had
an average Of 226 members and the
home at Milford Is credited with an
average of ninety-three. The govern
ment pays the state on a basis of $10(
! a year for each soldier. ,
A petition to the board of regents
asking for the establishment OF a col
lege of journalism at the state univer
sity, with q four.year course LEADING
UP to a degree has been put In circu
lation among the students.
Nebraska's mortgage statistics To-
the year 1915 have been compiled b!
: Labor Commissioner Corey from n
" ports filed with the state auditor. o
the ninety-three counties in the state
q reports were received from eighty-sil
Q The total number of farm mort
d cages fled was 1855, representing a
n aggregate of $ss,S24,752 Of borrowe
money. The number OF farm NOR
% cages released wal 16.S38, amountin
n to S44,697. 575, No record OF filing
Q and releases vas available in Arthu
u and Hooper counties. according I
"a whom the information was sought.
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Injunction 10 Dismissed

Dismissar of the injunction suit
brought in the name of Governor
Morehead, the state railway commits.
sion and Attorney General Reed
against the seven railroad companies
doing business in Nebraska, to pre-
vent their putting into effect new
rates superseding the old Nebraska
class rates. has been ordered by the
state supreme court.
The court did not its rea'
sons, but presumably it refused to
entertain the suit because the rail
roads have obtained Jurisdiction In
the federal court of Nebraska, in an
injunction suit to restrain the state
officials from interfering with them
in the PRONUNCIATION or charging Of
new rates. This latter order Is nov
in force. and under its protection the
railroads have put their new rate
schedules into effect.
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Discussed Car Shortage.

Car shortage.
"If the railroads of this state could
get all the car they need for trans
pOrtation of grain from Nebraska
towns they would food the Omaha
Market" said Railway Commissioner
Taylor, who Immediately followed It
with another statement-to the effect
that no such food need be looked for,
as there is no danger of any railroad
In the state having enough cars to
handle its traffic for some time to
come.
Mr.. Taylor has returned from the
east, where railway commissioners of
thirty states and the interstate com
merce commissioners sat for days
upon the ultra serious problem OF the
continental car shortage.
Two plans for relief are suggested
One Is to afix an emergency demur'
rage charge Of considerable proper
lions and the other is to increase the
daily rental cost of cars during the
period OF stringency. Both measures
It Is believed, would hasten the un
loading Of cars and would compel rail
roads to turn back other companies
cars to them Just as soon as shipment,
reached their destinations.
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Looking Into Cold Storage Matters.

Looking Into Cold Storage Matters.
Food Commissioner Hartman has
wired cold storage houses to forward
to him at once a report On all goods
held in their possession under the cold
storage act OF this state. Butter and
eggs held for more than sixty days
and intended for saSe here are covered
by the request. Mr.. Hartman stated
that in his knowledge little OF the
produce which will be reported upon
IA owned by concerns in this state
Practically all Of 1t. he stated. wal
purchased weeks ago by out-of-the
state firms and held for orders.
Merging of the state hotel commits
sion with the food, drug, dairy ant
oil commission 10 believed to be T,
possibility at the coming session o
the legislature. This Ia being urges
as a measure which would increas'
the efficiency of the hotel bureau ant
ut the same time make its operation
less expensive than at present.
Those who r advocating tn
change point to what has been done I
cutting down expense and taking car
of more work In the inspection OF ol
since that department was abolishe
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FEDERATION EXPOSITION
GREAT SUCCESS.

Without doubt the most elaborate
affair of the kind ever put on in the
,city was the Iowa Federation EXPOSE
>tion held at theCrocker roller rink on
Tuesday, October 31st, for the benefit
of the Booker T. Washington paint
ing. The doors were swung open
promptly at 2 o'clock and all after
noon and until after midnight large
crowd of members of both races Wis
tied the beautifully decorated booths
and purchased the articles the ladies
had on sale, which included almost
everything from a dish towel to
ladies' party gowns and gentlemen's
full dress suits, and from which they
have cleared to date over two hum
dred and twenty-five dollars, with sew
eral reports yet to be made.
Mesdames Harvey Ingham, H. H.
Dodson and C. H. Morris, all promi-
nent white club women, acted as
judges on decoration and awarded to
Mrs. Ethel Bowmer Smith the i'm
ported hand painted teapot for having
the most artistically decorated booth.
On account of the fact that all mon
eys have not yet been turned in the
prize for the largest amount of money
cleared from one booth has not yet
beenawarded.
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FEDERATION BOARD MEETS.

Pursuant to thecall of Mrs. S. Joe
Brown, state president, the board of
directors for the Federation Home
met at her residence on November l
and discussed ways and means of Sc
curing possession of the property in
this city which is still being held by
the discharged board in open violation
of the resolution passed at the session
of the Federation held at Buxton last
May, and heard the report of the COM
mittee of lawyers to whom the matter
had been preferred, to the effect that
theyhad made several unsuccessful
efforts to get the discharged board to
agree to an amicable settlement of
this difficulty; that the said board ad-
mitted having used 800 of the Fed
eration's money in the purchase Of
said property and the committee gave
it as their opinion that said dis
charged board should either turn said
property over to the Federation board
or refund to the Federation the $500,
both of which they refused to do
without litigation, which would be ex-
pensive and would give to the matter
a degree of publicity that would prob
ably not add to the dignity of the
Negro womanhood of the state. The
board therefore declined to take any
action in the matter for hte present.
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sown, and Long could not remain out
Of school. At the death Of his father
in 1889, leaving his mother and two
sisters, the support of which fell upon
his shoulders, it was question wheth-
er he should stay home and support
them or return to Tuskegee and CON-
plete his education.
He wisely chose the latter course,
and in December. 1891, he entered
Tuskegee, his old home and school.
Since he had no funds and no one to
help him he set about to learn the
printers trade at Tuskegee, which he
did in 1893. He had charge Of the
Tuskegee printing Office during the
summer months and was for several
years business manager Of the Stu
dent, the paper published by the
school. Graduating from Tuskegee
with second honors in 1895, he was
Immediately called to Birmingham,
Ala, to take charge Of the Alabama
Publishing company that had been or
ganized by the late DR.. w. R. Petit
ford.
Mr.. Long was also the assistant
bookkeeper ut the Alabama Penny
Savings bank and private secretary to
DR.. Pettiford. 1t was while serving
in this capacity that the call came to
60 to Christiansburg.
Accepting this position, he entered
upon his duties in the fall of 1897. He
was gratifed to take up his new work
because there were several Tuskegee
graduates there. The principal Of
Christiansbure, the late Charles L.
Marshall, was roommate. classmate
and lifelong friend, and Anna Lee
Patterson, who afterward became his
wife, were classmates, and there were
three other Tuskegee graduates at this
school.
Because of his experience as book
keeper at the bank in Birmingham
Mr.. Long was made treasurer of the
school, which position he held until
upon the death of Mr.. Marshall in
1905 he was elevated to the principal
ship. Mr.. Long says he regards all
work that he had done previously as a
preparation for his life work at Chris
tiansburg. Much of what the school is
today is the result of his own efforts.
When he was made principal the
schools property was valued at $780,
600, including land and buildings and
equipment and IN endowment of S..
500. Today the buildings and equip
ment alone are worth $4,000, and the
endowment is $6sO0O.
Mr.. Long is prominent in educational
circles. He is now and has been Tor
six years president of the Virginia
State Teachers association. He is a
vice president Of the Negro Organiza-
ton society, Of which Major Motion is
and is treasurer Of the Ma
tional Association of Teachers In Col
ored Schools. .,.....~
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FAREWELL.
Farewell, farewell, farewell.

Farewell, farewell, farewell.
Thy labor here is done;
Thy souls at rest in peace,
Alas thy crown is won.
(Chorus)
Farewell, farewell, farewell,
Till we shall meet above,
Where parting is no more,
There is peace, joy and love.
Farewell, farewell, farewell.
Thy passing we deplore.
With love we will cherish
Thy name forever ever more.
Bessie V. Johnson,
TIA Spruce St., Burlington, Iowa.
Dedicated to the students of Tuske-
gee in memory of Booker T. Washing
ton.
The above was especially written to
be read at the recent Booker 7. Wash
ington Memorial Bazaar held in Des
Moines last month.
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jorities, while Wilson, to the surprise
of everybody, carried most all Of the
western states, which, with the solid
south vote, may have elected him. We
are indeed mortified, horrified and
astonished at the election results.
We could not believe that the Ameri-
can people would again be fools
enough to vote for Wilson, especially
as they seem to have done out in the
west. Our prediction is that if Will
SON is reelected we viii see some real
democratic hard times and our race
will see some real Jim crowism, segre-
CATION and discrimination as it has
never yet experienced.
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S. Joe Brown, candidate for judge
Of the district court, seemed to have
only received about 500 votes in the
county, which is not even half of the
Negro votes in the county. We are
surprised that our own colored people
did not take advantage Of this rare
opportunity Of voting for a compe-
tent man of their race for the bench.
We can truthfully say that Atty.
Brown is better qualified legally and
Intellectually than either Of his other
opponents and his character and home
life is ideal. Certainly there could be
no good reason why the colored vot-
ers did not vote for him if they really
mean to help one another. .-
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Insist on Yellow Flour.

Charles Christadoro. an expert OF
aour and grains. SOUNDS the koynof'
81 the new situation brought abou, b,
the bleached -four decision when b.
says in q communication to the editor
commenting on the bleached -four Do
cision: The housewife will now In
sist on yellow tinted or creamy fouc.
and will learn to realize that natural
dour very white can in no manner
compare with the creamy or ye;lov
nour In 20 far as gluteus and muscle
building values are concerned
LAS tim as to 80 pei cent. Of the
large -four h;ills OF the country were
using this bleaching process. the dscs
sion is Observation-Disclosures Fcot
Naga7thA
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A rare and curious mezzot'nt portraN
q George Washington in lie library
u the late Lafayette 8. Richardsca
q Lowell, Mass. was auctioned OF
last year III Boston. 1t is entitled
George Washington. late presiden: o:
he United States Of America, etc"
and was published March II. 1891. BY
I. Hinton Linden. It Is a small folio
and Is colored BY hand. 1t :"oks as
much like George III. as 1t does the
vather Of His Country. Baker. who
wrote the Engraved Portraits 81
Washington says that only one i'm
pression Of this mezzotint hs.: come
under the notice Of the writer. 1t was
IN neither the Clarkson nor the Car
con sale Of Washington portraits.
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Proper Restowai Of Charity.

Dickens: There are not q few amoa,
Tho disciples OF charity who require
n their vocation. scarcely less excite
ment than the votaries q, pleasure II
ths1rs; and hence It is that diseased
sympathy and compassion are ever,
lay expended on out-or.the way Oh
Iscts. when only too many demand,
spon the Legitimate exercise OF thu
same virtues in healthy state ar,
constantly within the sight and hear
ing of the most unobservant perso,
aiive. In short, charity must have ID
romance, - the novels: " The piss
ertght must have hia.
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New York State Results.


New York, Nov. 8.-Hughes car
ried, New York state by upwards of
100, 900, though Wilson won in the
metropolis by about $1,000.
The democrats made gains in sew
eral industrial cities upstate, but
the country districts remained over
whelmingly republican. The most
notable increase in the democratic
vote was in Buffalo, second largest
city in the state, which Hughes car
ried by only 1857, although it was
carried by Whitman for governor
two years ago by more than 10000.
Slight democratic gains also we're
shown in Rochester, Syracuse, Al
bany, the banner republican cities
of the state.
From early returns it was appar-
ent that Charles s. Whitman had
been reelected governor, over Sam
uel Seabury, his democratic oppon-
ent. William NJ. Calder, of Brook
Ign, former congressman, was
elected United States senator over
William s. McCombs, former chair.
man of the democratic national com.
mittee BY z large majority. ...