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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-23

I was little, and was going little
ways with papa. He was going down
to the real estate Office, where he
works. Well, as ! was saying, was
going little ways with him, found
little sparrow in front of our house
that had been almost frozen to death
by the snow. ! told papa to wait a
few minutes while I put it in the bot
tom OF basket l had torn up. So
he waited for me while l did it.
The next morning when l went out
doors to look at it the sun had
warmed it and it had flown out on
the bank. l tried to catch the bird,
but could not ! wish many happy
returns of the day to Mr.. Waste
paper Basket. I hope to see my let
ter in print. -
- e=..- Nature.
By Margaret Lorimer, Age IL Years,
Sidney, Ia. Blue Side.
From every meadow and running
brook,
There is so much that nature tells,
From every corner and every nook,
To where the rich man lives and
dwells.+ .,..
0, Nature, from where each sunny
ray, 5 49,
To rich and poor, seems all alike;
From all we bring thee tribute today
From whence the sun shines to
wrong and right.
And with joy still to thee, dear Ma
ture, we look
F From April to May for wild Aow-
ers to bloom;
Yes, in forests and wood, by free
running brook, -....5
We safely may gather to brighten
the home.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-23
Prize Book Splendid.

BY Mildred Burne. $3.50 Chicago St,
Omaha, Neb. Blue Side.
The book ] received for my last
story is splendid.
1t is about Lincoln, in my own pri-
vate opinion, the greatest man that
ever lived. Mightier than Napoleon,
because Lincoln was lover Of peace,
while Napoleon of war.
Busy Bees, the book that / received
10 one worth competing for. l thank
you very much.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-23
Flower Rhymes.


BY Myrtle Peterson, Aged II Years
Kearney, Neb. Blue Side.
am going to write a.poem about
flowers in the alphabet form.
A is for asters, .e.
Which are very tall. +
B is for buttercups, ".
Which are small.
c Is for carnations,
Which are white, pink and red.
D is for dandelions.
Which 60 early to bed.
z is for Easter lilies, y
Which are very bright.
F is for for-get-me-nots,
Which are sometimes white.
G is for geraniums, g.,
Which / like very we'll.
H 10 for hollyhocks,
Which are very small.
] Is for iris, rs
Which are blue. e..-4
] Is for johnny jump-ups, -. .
Which are blue, too. %#
K is for kingrups,
Which are light.
L is for lady slippers,
Flowers that are right.
M 10 for marigolds, lt. Q
Which are yellow.
N Is for nasturtium,
1t is very sweet.
o is for orange blossom,
It looks like wheat.
P is for pansies,
Flowers very small.
Q is for queens night cap,
Flowers very tall.
R is for roses,
Which are red.
S Is for sweet peas,
Which do not like to go to bed.
T is for tulips,
Which are very bright.
u is for umbrella plant,
A plant which is light.
v is for violets,
Which are small.
w is for wild roses,
Which are tall.
Y is for yarrow,
Flowers which are light. Q
z is for zenias,
Which are sometimes white.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-23
INV Experiences In Gardening.

My Experiences in Gardening.
By Vera Deles Dernier, Aged IL
Years, Elmwood, Neb. Blue Side.
l had my first garden when | was
10 years old. My garden came up
good, but it was so dry that sum-
mer that my onions were the only
thing that grew good. In the fall
l had three bushels, which sold for
s.. Last year papa gave me larger
piece Of land. After he had narrowed
and plowed it raked it all over with
the small rake. / then got a piece
of Irvine and two sticks. | tied one
end to each stick. / then got another
stick to measure the distance that |
wanted the rows apart. In that way
| got my rows straight. planted
tomatoes, peas, onions, cabbage and
sweet potatoes. got 50 cents by
selling my early tomato plants and
50 cents for my early cabbage plants.
l got 81 from my tomatoes when they
were ripe, IS off my cabbage and 81
from my onions. That makes $l2 in
all. This year got my ground ready
same as before and planted tomatoes,
onions, peas, cabbage and sweet po-
tatoes, have made $l.50 on my
garden all ready.
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w. N. u, DENVER, NO. s4--1e16.
HOW MOUNTAINS ARE FORMED
Earth Crumples Up and Makes Gieat
Hills Where Plains Once
Lay.

In the region now occupied by the
Wasatch mountains number of par
allel faults were developed close to-
gether and the broken pieces Of the
earth's crust between them were
pushed up, the rocks on one side of
each crack riding up over those on
the other side until a great mountain
range was formed where once lay a
plain. During the long period Of slow
earth movement which made these
mountains, flat-lying parallel beds OF
rock were locally turned on edge,
crumpled up and folded in wondes;-
fully intricate manner. These up
turned and crumpled rocks are well e6-
posed in Ogden canyon. The west face
of the Wasatch range is believed to
mark the place of normal fault at a
nearly vertical crack in the earth's
crust, the rocks on the east side Of
which went down. The forces which
have raised these mountains are still
active, for movement along this fault
has disturbed the surface recently
United States Geological Survey.
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WESTERN.

Wilmer Palmer was hanged at the
state penitentiary at Rawlins, Wyo.,
for the murder of his wife.
John M. Thurston, former senator
from Nebraska and nationally promi-
nent Republican, died in Omaha.
Five persons were injured, two SER
iously and one probably fatally, when
the Capital hotel at Lincoln, Neb.,
collapsed.
If Mayor William Hale Thompson of
Chicago follows his personal inclina-
tion he will retire from politics when
his present term of office expires and
"go back to cowboy life in Mexico"
Announcement was made at Wash
ington of big concession won for the
metalliferous mines by Senators Shat
roth and Thomas in adding to the
pending revenue bill an amendment
granting a reduction from the net in
come of mines for depletion equal to
market value in output sold during
the year.
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SPORT.

Ralph K. Mulford won the Pixies
Peak auto climbing contest at Colo
RADIO Springs in 18 minutes and 24.7
seconds.
Johnny Dundee and Ever Hammer
lightweights, have been matched for a
fifteen-round bout to a decision at
Kansas City on Sept. II.
Capt. Leslie Cheape, noted polo
player, is reported missing on the
British front in France, and it is
feared that he has been killed
Young Denny of New Orleans
knocked out Sailor Jerabek of st.
Louis in the first round of a sched-
uled twelve-round boxing bout at St.
Louis
Rea Lentz, Seattle boy, won the
Pixies Peak auto race at Colorado
Springs Saturday, making the twelve
mile climb in 1924. Ralph Mulford,
Fridays winner, was second.
Jack White of Chicago, brother of
Charlie White who is 70 meet Freddie
Welsh in a championship bout at Col
orado Springs Labor day, was
matched to meet Kid Mex before the
Steel City Athletic Club the night of
Aug. "a.
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RUSS DRIVE AUSTRIANS BACK
Lemburq Defense Contracting as
SIavs Push West.

London.-The Austrians and Ger
mans in Galicia are still falling back
before the advance of the Russians
who, according to Petrograd, have
made additional gains along the Ser
eth and Zlota-Lipa rivers and have
captured the strongly-fortified town OF
Tustobaby, northwest of the Dniester.
On the upper Sereth, however, the
Teutonic allies at some points on
their newly-chosen line are holding
back the Russians with vigorous ar
tillery fire. Berlin says that south OF
Brody, on the Lub and Graberka
sector, Russian attacks were put
down with heavy losses.
Other reports Monday state that the
Italians advanced materially in the
Osonzo front; that the Turks re-
pulsed Slav troops in Persia but in
Turkish Armenia the Russians forced
back the Ottoman troops near Lake
Van, and that the British torpedo
boat destroyer LassOo was sunk by a
German submarine.
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New M Mexico.

Work on a new mill and other addi.
tional buildings has been started by
the Parsons Mining Company of Par
sons, Lincoln county.
Lumber has been delivered for ter
minals of an aerial wire rope tram
way from the Pacific mine, in the Mo-
gollon district, to the plant of the So
corro Mining & Milling Co.
The Empire Zinc Company is plan
ming % start work on some of it's
many claims in the Kingston district
of Sierra county. Company engi-
neers now are in that district.
An option has been taken on a So
000-acre tract of land in the Animas
valley by the A. T. McGee Company
of Ardmore, Okla, mining experts
and biologists. The company is said
to be preparing to prospect the Sec
ton for oil.
The Mogollon Mines Co. has inaug-
urated change in it's system Of
freight delivery from Silver City. A
transfer station, including oil storage
tanks, has been erected at Glenwood,
some twelve miles from Mogollon, and
fuel, oil and other. Supplies are de-
livered there by truck.
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FOREIGN.

The Italian steamship st. Sebastian
has been sunk.
According to telegram from
Bucharest, the number of persons
killed in the explosion in the powder
factory at Dudesti was 115.
The British railway unions have de-
cided to ask for an increase of 10
shillings weekly in the wages of all
employees. The increase is declared
necessary to meet the higher cost of
living.
The Danish steamer Storebelt
bound from New Castle with LOO
casks of butter, 1000 barrels of pork
and large quantity of eggs, has been
captured by the Germans and taken
into Swinemuende.
An official dispatch from Berlin
says that between July 81 and Aug.
one German submarine sank in the
North sea thirteen British steam
trawlers and one British government
coal steamer.
The power schooner Gladiator, one
of the vessels of the Canadian eXplor-
ing expedition commanded by vii
hjalmur Stefansson, arrived from
Herschel Island at Nome, Alaska, but
brought no news of Stefansson, who
is passing the summer north of Banks
land.
An undercurrent of unrest is mani
Testing itself in various cities in Chi
huahua, according to reports at El
Paso, Tex. These reports, emanating
from several apparently reliable
sources, indicated that there has been
no concerted movement anywhere in
the state to overthrow the de facto
government but that numbers of agi-
tators, apparently under no central
organization, have been attempting to
foment revolution.
Reform newspapers in China are
displaying uneasiness about the posi-
BILE movements of Yuan Ko-ting, the
eldest son of the late Yuan Shi Kai.
Yuan Ko-ting returned to Changtehfu,
his fathers ancestral home, together
with all the wives and children of
the late president. While he has re-
mained constantly at Changtehfu, en-
gagged in mourning for his father, it
is reported that he is in secret com
munication with many of the old mill
tary officers who enjoyed the conf
dence of Yuan Shi Kai and is prepar-
ing to assert his rights as heir to the
lost empire.
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Arizona.

ATIZOHds
The shaft of the Jerome Verde is
now enlarged to three compartments.
The Calumet and Arizona will sink
q new shaft near the town of Baker
vile.
The shaft of the Dundee-Arizona
property at Jerome is now down more
than 300 feet
A stringer of yellow sulphide has
been opened in the main shaft on the
Jerome-Portland property.
Commonwealth property at Pearce,
is producing 5000 to 10000 tons Of
gold and silver ore per month.
The Copperosity mine, south of
Casa Grande, is making shipments Of
copper ore running from 121a to 1870
per cent.
During the past quarter the Shat
tuck-Arizona copper had net earnings
of $689,615.94. Dividends amounting
to 121A per cent were paid, totaling
$437.5OO.
With a pay roll of $125,O0O month
the New Cornelia camp at Ajo has
been added to the list of the big
camps of the state. Approximately
1000 men are at work in the Ajo dis
trict.
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Just a TrifIe.

Here is ridiculous little gift which
may come in handy for slipping into
an envelope with a CHEEKY letter for
youngster, an invalid friend or some
one who just naturally appreciates
good laugh. 1t is small bookmark
made with a half-inch colored satin
ribbon and on each end is attached
small doll of wool. 1t may be black
wool or white wool, and it is tied in
tassel style, with colored cotton for
eyes, nose and mouth. The whole
doll" is not an inch long. Try one
of these bookmarkers with bit of
ribbon and some leftover embroidery
silk or cotton.
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REPRESENTATIVES. OF THE RAIL.
ROADS AND BRoTHERHooDs
VISIT THE WHITE HOUSE.
ARBITRATION IS ASKED
EIGHT-HOUR DAY DEMAND PRIN.
CIPAL ISSUE IN CON-
TROVERSY.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, Aug. Is. - Prospects
for averting a nationwide railway
strike or at least for the formulation
of some tentative program which will
be the groundwork for further nego
tiation frightened after President
Wilson had conferred with thirty-five
chiefs of the great brotherhoods.
After the conference the brother
hood men declared the Presidents g
grasp of the situation and of the posi-
ton of the men might result in an
understanding, and others in touch
with the conference said the repre-
sentatives of the men showed a dis
position to cooperate, to avoid a
strike.
After hearing the leaders of the
men for two hours, the President sent
for the managers for a conference.
The President, according to those who
attended the conference, showed IA
miliarity with the situation that sur
prised the men. The President, it
was said, submitted no counter prop
osition to the men, but he held out
hope for an adjustment by legislation
if necessary.
Monday night the President made
brief public statement: II have met
both sides and have gone over the
case with the utmost frankness.
Stall not be able to judge until to-
morrow whether we have found a
feasible basis of settlement"
Today the President will meet with
the committee of railroad managers
for the second time. 1t is expected
he will submit to them the ideas
which occur to him for the settlement
of the dispute without strike. If
the carriers receive these suggestions
fs.vorably the President then will call
in the representatives of the brother
hoods and submit his proposals to
them. If they in turn accept them he
will call joint conference and push
the work of getting employers and
employees together as rapidly as pos,
sihle.
According to high authorities there
is good reason to believe the Presi,
dent will suggest to the carriers the
advisability in the public's interest OF
conceding the mems demand for an
eight-hour day. Then, in turn, he will
propose arbitration of the demand fol-
increased pay for overtime work.
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GEN ERAL.

Candidate Hughes addressed about
$4,000 people in the Coliseum at Chi
cago.
Expectation was expressed in finan-
cial circles in New York that within
a fortnight official announcement
would be made that negotiations had
been completed for a new loan, re-
ported to be $25O,00O,OOO, to Great
Britain.
President Wilson probably will
visit Denver in his swing across the
country. Tentative plans would take
him to Denver about Sept. II or 13.
The route considered would take him
from Denver to Butte thence to Spo-
kane and Seattle.
Mrs. Frank Copeland Page, daugh-
ter-in-law of Walter Hines Page,
United States ambassador to Great
Britain, died of infantile paralysis at
her summer home in South Garden
City, L. I. She was 25 years old and
had been i'll only one day.
DR.. Eva Harding, suffragist candi-
date for the Democratic congressional
nomination in the First Kansas dis
trict, has been defeated by the Rev.
H. K. Corwine by a majority of 327
votes. First returns indicated DR..
Harding had won the nomination.
The worlds people annually con-
sumo more than 2,500,00O,000 pounds
of coffee, three-fourths of which is
grown in Brazil.
Railroad managers and representa-
tives of the four trainmen's brother
hoods held conferences with Presi-
dent Wilson in Washington on Mon
day.
The directors of the Midwest Oil
Company declared a dividend of 2
per cent on it's 100000 preferred
stock, payable on Sept 20 to stock
holders of record on Sept. /, at q
meeting held in Denver
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Colorado.

The Allgrove mill near Cardinal has
installed an oil flotation process.
The Emma mine, in Ice Lake basin,
is rapidly rounding into shape for a
heavy producer.
Large deposits of manganese ore
have been discovered in the Iron
Mask mine at Leadville.
The Gambetta property on Yankee
hill at Leadville is rapidly assuming
the appearance of a mine.
At Silver Plume, Crevette & Co.,
leasing on the Seven Thirty mine,
shipped forty tons of ore which
netted $21O ton.
Near Silverton an additional unit
is being installed at the IowaTiger
mill, which will increase the flotation
capacity fully so per cent.
Sinking operations continue at the
Strong mine, on Battle mountain just
outside the limits of the city of Vic
tor.
The Doodle mine at the head of Eu-
reka street, near Nevadavllle, has
completed a shipment of smelling and
concentrating ore.
L. D. Miller, engaged in mining in
the Westcliffe district, announces the
shipment of mill runs of silver ore
to the Pueblo smelter.
Shipments were loaded out from
four properties of Strattons Cripple
Creek Mining and Development Com
panys properties by lessees of the es-
tate
In the Leadville district, where con-
siderable new work is under way, the
East Tennessee section is again re-
ceiving attention from prospectors and
miners.
Colorado and Wyoming jointly pro-
duced 4,454,OOo barrels of petroleum
in 1915, with market value of $2,4O0,
900, an increase of 670,852 barrels
and $520,417 in value as. compared
with 1914, according to statistics
compiled by J. D. Northrop of the
United States Geological Survey.
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WASHINGTON.

President Wilson signed the agri-
cultural appropriation bill carrying ap-
proximately $27,OO0,OOO, and the mill
tary academy appropriation bill
carrying $1,225,00O.
Paul Lambright of Las Animas,
Colo, passed with honors one year
ahead of time the entrance examina-
tion for the Annapolis naval academy
Congressman Keating appointed him.
Twenty-Five thousand more state
troops were ordered to the border and
all department commanders were di-
rected to send all state troops as soon
as they are equipped and transporta-
tion can be obtained.
President Wilson practically has de-
cided to make a speaking trip across
the continent No details of the tour
have been arranged, but it is under
stood that his itinerary will be
worked out within the next few weeks.
The Democratic Senate caucus ap-
proved a committee amendment to
the revenue bill which would increase
the surtax on incomes in excess of
100000 from 10 per cent to 13 per
cent, making the total tax Is per cent.
John ]. Phillips, master of the navy
tug Pentucket, and the nine men of
his crew were commended by Secre.
tary Daniels for their excellent work
and unhesitating exposure to danger
following the great explosion at New
York." July 80.
Senator Shafroth introduced a bill
repeating the limitation in the exist
ing law which permits only $4,000
a year to be spent on the Rocky
Mountain National park. He says the
park never can be developed as it
should be with such a handicap.
The Benson signal., 1916-08-19
FROM TELEGRAPHIc REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WERk'9
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST lMPO RTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
Western Newspaper Union views servics.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Gen. Letchitsky is continuing his
advance toward Lemberg.
French report taking of Maurepas,
with capture of 1000 Germans.
Austro-Germans forced to surrender
the entire Stripa line from Tarnopol
to Buczacz.
Berlin admits retirement Of Austro-
Germans behind Ottynia line, under
Russian pressure.
The Italians have occupied the en-
tire Doberdo plateau, the Paris war
office announced.
Italians are steadily pressing the
Austrian troops northward from Gori-
zia in the vicinity of Trieste.
German official statement says
strong French infantry attack on the
Thiaumont work was completely re-
pulsed.
Officials at London confirm news
dispatches to the effect that Gorilla
is entirely in the hands of the Italians,
who captured 10000 Austrians.
Italian army under Gen. CadOrna,
following up it's decisive victory over
the Austrians at Goritzia, have ad-
vanced farther and now are in pos
sessian of Boschini.
Important gains for the allies are
reported from both Paris and Petro-
grad. The French stormed German
third line positions in the region of
the Somme, extending their line from
Hardecourt to the village of Buscourt
on the Somme.
1--WE have evacuated Stanislau with
out fighting says the official state
ment from Vienna. The statement
also admits the withdrawal of Aus
trian troops to new positions in the
Stanislau and Monasterzyska regions
owing to the Russian pressure.
Eighty thousand Carranza troops
are now patrolling the northern bor-
der states, rounding up and extermi-
mating bandits as rapidly as possible.
War Minister Obregon said at Mexi-
CO City. He described conditions
along the border as satisfactory"
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Wyoming.

Work has begun on the new re-
finery to be constructed in Greybull
by the Standard Oil Company.
The Goshen Oil Company, with it's
headquarters at Torrington, will en-
gage in general drilling, mining and
prospecting.
The new gas we'll brought in by
the Lamb Drilling Company for the
Big Horn Oil & Gas Co., near Basin,
is estimated to have an output of
about 100000 cubic feet per day.
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BOULDER MAN HELD AS SLAYER
Wanted in Nebraska for Auto Stealing
and in Montana for Murder.

Boulder.-Harry J. Randolph, 27, of
a prominent York, Neb., family was
arrested in Boulder by Deputy Sher
was wanted in Nebraska for auto
stealing and in Montana for murder.
He was standing beside a stolen car
when arrested and admitted taking 1t
from York garage.
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Lone Bandit Robs EngIewood Bank

Denver.-A man, unmasked, identi
fled from rogue's gallery picture as
Norval King, convicted forger re-
leased from the county Jail, entered
the First National Bank at Englewood
held up Harley Patton, assistant cash
ier, obtained probably $500 and es.
capped in an automobile. A woman pat.
ron of the bank ran from the build
ing, frightening the robber to flight
and saving the bank the loss of sew,
eral hundred dollars more in silver
and gold in the cashiers cage.
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WESTERN
MINING AND OIL
NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Metal Market Prices.
Lead, New York-$6.00.
Bar silver-66Ac.
Spelter, Denyer-$8.67R.
Copper, casting-$24.87a.
Boulder, Colo.-Tungsten concen-
trates, $40 to $25 per 60 per cent unit.
Crude ores, 60 per cent, SIS to $3.50;
25 per cent, $9.4O to $12; 10 per cent,
$3.50 to $40 per unit.
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War Department Recalls Guard Order.

Denver.-The order dispatching the
Colorado National Guard to the Mexi
can border has been temporarily re-
voked.
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ARIZONA
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Oct. 3-6-Meeting New Mexico Bank
erS' Association at Grand Canyon.
Nov. 13-18-Arizona State Fair at Phoe
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A thorn in the flesh is more trouble
some than two on the bush.