President Wilson's ultimatum to state guards amid border clashes
Reports from Washington describe U S and Carranza forces in a clash near Carrizal Chihuahua with casualties on both sides as Secretary Lansing and President Wilson issue stern warnings. Nebraska guards mobilize for possible border service while nationwide mobilization plans proceed, awaiting central designation.
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Washington
National Guard
District of Columbia
Wilson
Frederick Funston
Baker
Mexico
Nebraska State News and Local Notes Compilation
Nebraska dates for upcoming events include conventions in Omaha Kearney Hastings and Wayne and a Nebraska State Tennis Tournament in Wayne along with a Mid-Summer Race Meet in Kearney and a dem ocratic convention at Hastings. Local notes cover a 15 acre daisy field near Beatrice rural high school plans Colfax road work Gage county land values and a fatal auto crash near Exeter.
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International Auctioneers’ Association
Omaha
Kearney
Northwestern Hotel Men’s Association
Missouri Valley Veterinary, Association
Nebraska Variety Merchant
Wayne
Nebraska
Hastings
The
Church of Brethren
Beatrice
Fremont
State Press Association
North Platte Valley
Seward
Seventh Day Adventists
Valley Photographers’ Association
Lincoln
Auburn
Fred Parker
Nemaha County
Clifford
Colfax County
Dodge and
Howells
Albion Branch
Mystic Workers of the World
West
John N. O’brien
Creighton University
Nebraska State Pharmaceutical Association
North Platter
Lincoln and
State Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Nebraska Dry Federation
Gage County
Exeter
Genoa
Randolph School Board
Tekamah
Campbell
Tecumseh Chautauqua
John. L
Kennedy
Edgar. Howard
Columbus
Tecumseh
Chautauqua
Fremont Driving Park Association
Glenn Klopping
Henry Klopping
Westerville
Custer County
Arthur Skelton
Elmwood
Alvo
Burlington
Pickpocket Key Missing After Visit in Mentone
A Santa Fe agent, J. Trench, left his overalls hanging on a peg a year ago during a visit. A valuable key tied to a string dangled from his pocket. He later found the string and key after kicking a wrens nest amid cactus in Mentone California.
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Bird
J. Trench
Santa Fe
Wren
San Francisco Chronicle
Scientific notes and inventions in early reports
A collage of brief items notes a 95 percent population claim for China, a 200 per square mile density, chemical signaling in nerves, copper zinc in ammonia combined with benzol as a wood preservative, a Philadelphia engineer's telegraph key for telephone sounds, air tests on warship quarters, and Dutch central bank gold figures through January.
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China
Uruguay and New Zealand support science and beekeeping
Uruguay has formed a government geology institute with a director and U S assistants and runs an experiment farm focused on seed quality. New Zealand backs beekeeping regulation and runs an experimental apiary to train students.
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Uruguay
United States
New Zealand
Capital City Chosen as the Mobilization Point
Lincoln is named the mobilization point for two regiments one signal corps and one field hospital of the Nebraska National Guard. Governor Morehead orders troops to camp at once with two sanitary detachments to the armory at the estate fair grounds. Adjutant General Hall directs expedited transportation on the state’s credit as recruiting proceeds with local business support.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska State Military Board
Nebraska National Guard
Phil Hall
War Department
Ashland
George A. Eberly
Stanton
Union News Service
Signal Corps
Hall
Open School of Instruction at Mobilization Camp
The camp is framed as a school of instruction for troops preparing to muster. Lt. P. G. Wrightson outlines two weeks of courses including health, rifle drills, under fire tactics, with officers learning Spanish and militia hearing talks on U S Mexico relations. Program is tentative, subject to regular officers in charge.
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P. G. Wrightson
United States Army
Paul
Eberly
United States
Mexico
Wrightson
Federal Game Law Allows Early Spring Waterfowl Season
Federal regulations now permit a 30 day early spring shooting season for ducks geese and waterfowl. Open from February 9 to March 10 with reduced fall season from September 16 to November 15. Waterfowl may be shot from Missouri river banks north of Nebraska City during open seasons. Chief Game Warden Rutenbeck reports the change.
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Rutenbeck
Missouri River
Nebraska City
Three defeated candidates named aides-de-camp by acting governor
Acting Governor James Pearson appointed three defeated lieutenant governor primary candidates as aides-de-camp on his staff. Walter Riechel of Johnson Theodore Roosevelt Nordgren of Aurora and William B. Banning of Union received the honor after losing in the Democratic primary, Pearson also losing renomination but continuing on the Populist ticket.
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James Pearson
Walter Riechel
Johnson
Theodore Roosevelt Nordgren
Aurora
William B. Banning
Union
Pearson
Edgar Howard
Bank losses loom as Farmers State bank failure looms
About 75000 of the 110000 loaned by the Farmers State bank of Decatur is labeled doubtful paper. Examiner Riley reports 35342 notes to Indians and 39438 other questionable items. Best loss estimate 50000, with state guarantee funds likely needed to cover deposits. Evangelistic effort warning parallels tenancy issues, as rapid campaigns may hurt long term progress.
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Farmers State Bank of
Decatur
State Banking Board
T. R. Riley
Rouse
Riley
H. N. Morse
Rural Life Conference
College of Agriculture
General L W Colby Offers Services to Governor Morehead
Beatrice resident General L W Colby has offered his services if war is declared. A Civil War veteran, he fought in the Sioux Indian war of 1890 91 and the Spanish American War of 1898 99. Colby held ranks from first lieutenant to colonel in the Nebraska National Guard and commanded brigades divisions and an army corps. He served seven years as colonel nine as brigadier general and two as adjutant general and was commissioned brigadier general by President McKinley. He remains on the retired list as a brigadier general.
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L. W. Colby
Beatrice
Morehead
National Guard
Military Forces
Nebraska
McKinley
Nebraska Survey Director Begins Two Month Field Work
A. E. Sheldon, chairman of the ethnological Survey of Nebraska and director of the state university history seminar, starts a two month field program this Saturday to survey Nebraska history and technology. He will visit major historical sites and gather photographs and motion pictures for future studies. The Nebraska city federation seeks a court ordered ballot title revision for the dry amendment, arguing Reed's title biases voters and asking the court to adopt or draft a fairer exact wording.
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A. E. Sheldon
Nebraska
Sheldon
Ethnological Survey of
Academy of Science
Nebraska History
State University
The
Nebraska City Federation
Reed
Convict James Clark Located in Redfield for Return
James Clark, a Nebraska penitentiary escapee from St Thomas orphanage, was found in Redfield South Carolina and will be brought back on a gubernatorial requisition by Governor Morehead. Clark had been sentenced in Douglas county to one to ten years for breaking and entering and later jailed in Redfield for receiving stolen property.
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James Clark
Nebraska Penitentiary
St.Thomas
Fenton
Redfield
S. C
Morehead
Clark
Douglas County
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Eliseo Arredondo
Nebraska Guard
John H. Morehead
Thomas H. Barry
Chicago
Barry
Reserve Organization
Excelsior Springs
State News
Dodge County
Charles Be, Schaeffer
Arthur Prince
John Prince
Winside
Regiment OF National Guard
Signal -Corps
Postscripts
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Bank of the Netherlands
Capital City
the State House
Rabbi Jacob Singer
Paul H. Grummann
Nebraska College of Agriculture
South
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N. A. Bengtson
J. C. Jensen
University Place
C. C. Carlson
Crete
Louise Pound
J. D. Hoffman
Federal Game Law
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